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Simulating a NBA March Madness Bracket plus more NBA & NFL topics! · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to another episode of the so called Sports Analysts,
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Episode number thirty eight. Josh, how you doing doing pretty good?
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Man? So a couple of good moves from the Chiefs that I thought one
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okay move. You know, Spurs keep losing. So it's it's been a
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it's been it's been the same, been about the same, same mood for
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me. How about you? I'm doing good man. Uh, went to
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go see Drake and j Cole during the spring break and then this whole beef
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we talk for like Kendrick's about to get sunned. No, no, okay,
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you know we're gonna turning this into a music podcast. Nah, but
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it to anybody who likes sports. But okay, before before we get into
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it, I didn't we didn't talk about this before. Okay, who who's
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the top three? Kendrick, Drake and J Cole. If you had to
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put it in the order, yeah, if you had to put it on
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J Cole. Number two's Drake and number three is Kendrick K Dot's three.
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K Dot took five years off because he couldn't think I'm nothing to make.
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So that's why J Cole and Kendrick, J Cole and Drake are one and
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two. You know, Nah and J Cole drops nothing but banger after banger
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after banger. He doesn't need Rihanna on a song to be popping, you
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know, So that's crazy. It's just it's just facts, bro, It's
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just facts. He doesn't need Kodak to carry an album. No, we're
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not gonna start. We're not gonna start. J Cole. J Cole's four
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time multi time platinum with no features seventeen for Kendrick Lamar seventeen. Sometimes when
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you sell your soul, you win some ship. You know what I'm saying.
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So all I'm saying is one Kendrick, two Cole, three Drake.
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But they're all grow rappers. But all right, let's go to Bro's.
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He even wraps about watching Okay Yea zalel One at Freaking Grammy. Zala has
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a rap rap Grammy. Bro Megan the Stallion has a rap Grammy Grammys do
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not fucking matter, bro, Like, no, they don't matter. All
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right, let's talk numbers. Well, actually, let's talk some we're talking
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numbers. Drake. Drake is clearly number one. We're talking numbers. Yeah,
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purely numbers. Yeah, no, it's got to go to Drake.
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But yeah, no, let's talk let's talk some football here. So free
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agency it officially wrapped up. Let's I'm just kidding, and now it's going
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into full NFL draft. And there was a couple of signings that happened.
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And Josh, do you want to list a couple of the signings that happened.
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Yeah, let me flip through it, okay? Or my are we
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gonna like talk about them individually as I named them? Or do you want
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me to like you can just we'll talk, you can just name Yeah,
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all right? Hollywood Brown to the reigning defending two tot back to back Super
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Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs. The Justin Fields got traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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The Jerius need Legend got traded to the Tennessee Titans. Mike Williams,
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mediocre player, got traded to the Jets. Chase Young went to the New
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Orleans Saints. Can you pick it? Got traded to the Eagles, Tyron
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Smith got signed with the Jets. Keenan Allen traded to the Bears. That
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was really surprising. I didn't see that. Yeah, foreseeing that Devin White
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signed with the Eagles, Eric Armstead signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Sam Howe
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gets traded to the Seahawks. So it looks like the Commanders are in quarterback
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on a quarterback move quarterback market right now. Calvin Ridley signs with the Titans,
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and where the Tennessee Titans look even dumber for not signing a J.
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Brown to a contract when they've in d Howk, Calvin Ridley and drafting Traylon
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Burks all just to have a J. Brown on another team. So yep,
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those were the moves that happened. So the one that I want to
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take away here is uh is a Justin Fields one Justin Fields to the Stillers
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And I know Russell Wilson, he is there, and we talked about,
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oh, who's going to be the starter? Is it going to be Russell
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Wilson or Justin Fields? And Mike Tomlin said, Russell Wilson's going to be
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the starter. I don't think it's gonna be like that the entire year.
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I think at least one of the games or during the back half, Justin
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Fields he's gonna play. What do you think about that? I think as
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soon as Russell Wilson messes up, I think that's when Justin Field is going
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to take over for this football team. M did you hear me? Yeah?
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For me? Okay, yeah, yeah? I think I don't know.
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You just don't trade for Justin Fields while having Russell Wilson and expect him
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not to play, you know, yeah. And I understand Justin Field is
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agent and himself had it probably give the okay to get traded there. I
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think that's just a confidence thing to Justin Field. I think he knows at
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this point in their careers he's better than Russell Wilson, and I do think
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he is. I just think freaking Justin Field's playing with three offensive coordinators and
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two head coaches in the span of three years already really has to help them
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show. And that's why I think the Bears are making a mistake here in
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my full honest opinion. I said it on the last podcast. So I
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think it's gonna be cool to see them battle it out. I will just
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see who comes out on top. Uh, the Stellers right now going in,
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who's their receivers, George Pickens, Calvin Austin And that's pretty much it
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there. But they're they're drafting receivers. Yeah, they are ones with egos,
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but they're good at drafting receivers. Yeah. Yeah, I know you're
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right. But I even if justin fields, even if even if he does
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start, how good is this offense really gonna be? Like you mentioned,
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you have Jayden Warren, Nachi Harris, that's a good run game, and
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Arthur Smith, he's your coordinator, and we kind of saw how suspect it
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was. So I really I don't know about you, but I don't see
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this offense getting much better here, even with justin fields. All I know
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is that they're probably gonna split carries even more because Arthur Smith is there.
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So early fantasy talk, Najie Harris, big drop, Jenn Warren, big
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drop. So don't draft those guys. But I can see the run game
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probably rising getting utilized quite a bit. Yeah, if it's justin fields starting
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only because in Atlanta, Desmond Ritter did get a lot of designed runs and
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he did take off from the pocket quite a bit with a lot of freedom.
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He just has really terrible, a really terrible problem with holding on to
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the football. Yeah, Desmond Ritter, but I don't think Justin Fields has
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that problem. So maybe we'll see a different player, Like maybe we'll see
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Justin Fields, not from this year, but the year before where he was
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doing those insane games rushing for like one hundred and like sixty yards some games.
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Yeah. But the thing is, let's see where he develops into the
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passing game, because I feel like the scheme probably in Chicago didn't fit his
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play style, especially last season. Taking away his design runs was kind of
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take away one of his biggest weapons. So it really forced him to find
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situations to make a pass. And let's see going with the Stellers what they
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can do, what they can do in like let's say, a good ratio
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between running and passing for him. Mm hmm yeah, yeah, No,
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I agree with you, lou Getzy. He definitely he definitely took away his
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strength there. But that's that's always been the thing for Justin Fields. Can
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he develop as a passer? Can he? And yes, he'll be able
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to run the ball in this type of offense. Whenever he gets to play,
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I think Arthur Smith, he'll be there for several years because you're not
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going to sign him to a multi year deal then let him go the next
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year. But I just I just can't see it happening, especially in this
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division where you play the Bengals twice, you play the Stellers twy were not
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the Steelers of Ravens, and the Browns twice. Those are hard those defenses,
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not to mention all the other AFC teams you're going to play, So
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I think the competition it's going even even further up for Justin Fields. And
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before the season, Justin Field, you could argue in the NFC he was
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a top six quarterback somewhere around there. In the AFC, he's nowhere close.
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He's probably one of the worst quarterbacks in the AFC because obviously you have
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my Homes, then you have Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen,
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all the names. I don't even have to mention there. But let's go
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and get onto some bold predictions. So we each have three bold predictions.
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Josh, did you want to go first or do you want me to go
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first? Here, you can go first Okay, So once again, these
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are bold predictions. It's something where it stands out, it's something that's crazy.
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So one of my first crazy takes is that after the Tennessee Titans have
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made all these moves, I believe that they'll make the playoffs. And what
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that's That's one of Again it's a bold prediction. But let me get to
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it. So those a couple of things that I liked from this offseason.
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I know that obviously they could have had aj Brown, but you still have
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DeAndre Hopkins. You signed Calvin Ridley. Maybe it was a little bit more
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than you're asking for, but you have two wide receivers. You're really trusting
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that Will Levis he could take the next level in which towards or the last
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part of the year, it looked like he had some development. And Brian
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Callahan, he was an offensive coordinator for the Bengals, he's now the head
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coach for the Titans. He made Joe Burrow look pretty damn good. So
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I'm not saying he's going to be Joe Burrow, but something along those lines.
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And what's something the Bengals have never had an offensive line. That's something
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that the Titans. That's been their struggle, and they try to solidify that.
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They got Lloyd Cushionberry. Then they got another guard. As far as
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a swing guard, you have Peter Skoronski who was in his rookie year last
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year and he showed some flashes. He had an appendix injury, and you
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have the seventh overall pick. You could get a Joe alt or Alu Fashanu
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and you could end up having three good offensive linemen. And then you have
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those pieces around. You got Tony Potter, you have Taj Spears, you
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still have some players on defense. So and another thing is that I feel
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like the Colts as far as with Anthony Richardson, I don't know if he'll
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take that step yet. The Jags they I don't know if they'll take the
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step further. It looks like they're kind of going down. Only one is
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a Texans they have to compete with. I know it's a AFC AFC and
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it's gonna be tough, but I feel like if Will Levis he can progress,
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you could see something like a Joe Burrow or a Bengals type of move.
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Were not saying super Bowl, but a deep playoff front. So that's
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one of my first Bowl predictions right there? Would you say, I'm sorry
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you cut out on that on the last part, yeah, where you say
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it is my turn, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's
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your turn. Okay, Yeah, that was my first Bowl prediction. The
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Atlanta Falcons will be in the NNC Championship next season going on. That's my
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bold prediction. Kirk Cousins is gonna unlock this offense to a different level because
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last season their defense wasn't really a problem. Like there was some games where
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this Falcons defense helped some teams in check. But I think having the ability
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to have a quarterback that can spread the football around, especially to weapons like
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Drake London and Kyle Pitts and even b John Robinson, I think it's going
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to unlock this offense to a whole different level and it's gonna give a lot
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of confidence to those young guys there. And I think it's gonna be Detroit
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Line versus Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Championship. Ooh ooh, so over over
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the Packers over the Niners. Ram the Packers, the Packers, and Falcon.
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For me, I don't know who to pick between those two. I
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don't know. I think They're both gonna make big moves. I just like
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the Falcons a little bit more. Mm hmm. Okay, well we're both
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starting off with some pretty damn good ball predictions. All Right, This next
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one, so I've kind of mentioned it before, but I'm gonna reiterate this.
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The Chicago Bears, they're gonna make the playoffs next year. They're gonna
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make the playoffs next year. You're after after trading away Justin Fields, you
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have Caleb Williams. They added Keenan Allen, and they added DeAndre Swift,
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Kevin Byron, and they have the ninth overall pick two. They could get
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an offensive lineman. They could get Rock Bouwers, so I think he's a
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boatload of injuries to me. Nah no, no, no, no,
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nah. So I think I think that if they draft either Kevin or Brock
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Bauers, or they draft one of the other offensive linemen that falls to them,
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I feel like they could make some noise, even though they're in a
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tough division. I've been really high on Caleb Williams, so I think he'll
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make that big of a difference and they'll end up making the playoffs. That's
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my second bolt prediction. All right, going off that topic that you just
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said, Drake may will have the better career than Caleb Williams when it's all
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said and done. I really believe that. I think Caleb Williams will be
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a good quarterback, but that's all he's gonna be. I think I don't
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know if they're both gonna be winners, because you know, there's a guy
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never wearing number fifteen in red. But but I think Kayler Williams is going
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to go in with the expectations to do exactly what that guy does. He's
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not gonna be able to give to the same level. And so I think
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Drake May, with less pressure, probably gonna go to a better situation long
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term wise. Maybe it just depends. I don't really those teams are drafting
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at the top for a reason. Well, I kind of like him going
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to the commanders a little bit. If he were to go to the commanders,
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I can I like that a little bit a little bit more. So
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we'll see. I think you're gonna have a better rookie season and pray,
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probably better career. Oo. Please anybody listen to this, please just bookmark
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that. I want to trans that transitions perfectly. Man Okay, I'm ready.
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I'm already ready for next season. I'm already ready. But all right,
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my last bold prediction is, even after all of the Eagles moves,
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it will not matter. It will not matter, and they won't make it
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far in the playoffs at best wild card round. So I know they made
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the splash and moves. They got sa On Barkley, obviously, they got
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Bryce Huff and then they got some other pieces there, Chauncey Gardner, Johnson,
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Devin White, like you mentioned. So even though they have those players
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there, I feel like it still comes down to Jalen Hurts and as far
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as he regressed last year, and we never we never seen as far as
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him be consistently a good to great quarterback. It's always been up and down,
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up and down. Maybe he'll have that up here, but I'm not
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buying it. I think that the NFC East in general got better. I'm
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not even talking about my Cowboys alone, but the Giants they got a little
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bit better. The Commanders they got a little bit better. So I don't
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think that even after all of these great moves or quote unquote great moves that
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they made, I just don't think it'll matter. And you know what I'm
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gonna say, They're not even gonna win the division. They're not They're not
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gonna win the division, point blank period. And that's my last Bowl prediction.
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All right, my last Bolt prediction. The Kansas City Chiefs will not
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lose a single game in the year of twenty twenty twenty four to twenty twenty
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five, and they will three peat as the Super Bowl champions. Are you
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are you turning to Nick right? Am? I am? I doing a
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podcast with Nick Right? They have they have nothing else, They have nothing
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else to prove. The only thing that they can do is not lose a
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single game. Wait, they might lose one game if we set out all
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the starters in the last week of the season, that will be the one
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game I will give them. But every other game will be a win.
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All right, all right, what a shocker the Chiefs fan here with the
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Chiefs had on. So they're gonna go and go at three peaks, go
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undefeated. I can say that. I can say that. Can you say
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this? No you can't. Hey, hey, I'm not talking about my
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cowboys here. I'm not talking about my cowboys here. But all right,
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okay, which one out of those three bold predictions. Which one are you
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most confident in the Chiefs going on defeated? All right, I think the
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one that I'm most confident in is the Chicago Bears one. I'm just really
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damn confident in that one. I'm telling you think they're gonna make the playoffs
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above the Lions. With the Lions and the Packers both in that division,
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Yeah, I really do think so. I don't think so. I'm telling
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you, I think there's gonna be one. There's gonna be one NFC East
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team to be in the playoffs, because that's gonna be a bloodbath. NFC
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South, NFC South, I think it's just gonna be one team. I
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agree with the Falcons. Then NFC West. I could see the Rams.
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I could see the Rams making it so it would be Rams, Rams are
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Niners, whoever you have, and then okay, both the Rams and Niners
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make the playoffs. Okay, so Rams, So I have Rams Niners,
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and then you could have Packers or Lions in your wild card, and then
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I'm gonna have the Bears for the last one I have for sure. Okay,
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I'm gonna go buy division first and card just so I don't get lost
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I'll go Okay, Lions, Cowboys, Niners, Falcons, Rams, Rams,
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Packers, and my last team will be the Eagles, the Eagles or
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the Buccaneers. He was a Buccaneers. You don't think that the Bears could
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compete with them? No, the Bears. The remember the Bears, they
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had seven seven wins last year and there were one game away from from being
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in playoff contention. You can't tell me with all those moves, and Caleb
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Williams go a little bit up. The Packers are gonna have another year with
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Jordan Love with Marks, with experience. They're gonna have Jaden Reid with experience,
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bow Melton with experienced, Dontavian Wicks with experienced, Christian Watson maybe getting
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healthier but he doesn't have to do too much because all these other guys.
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Then you still got Romeo Dobbs there, Luke Musks. I think it's gonna
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make a big jump, and then we're gonna go to the Rams. Pookin
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Akua and Cooper Cooper Cup gets healthier, Pookakua steps up. Yeah. Kyron
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Williams was a dog last year. Arguably could be could have been Offensive Player
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of the Year if he played the whole season. Yeah, matt it all
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comes down to Matthew Staffords health. Of course, everything does. But they
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got Jimmy g So that guy. He's a solid quarterback. It's not gonna
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these brock pretty guys coming through and trigging stop game managers and riding the weapons.
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Okay, letting Jawan Jennings take over some goals and ship, but you
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know, so that the Rams will be good. I think the Rams will
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have that. And then we look at the the Buccaneers. Who's they They
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took it to the Eagles. They had a good season. Baker Mayfield another
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another year underneath this offense with Mike Evans. Chris Godwin did take a step
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back, but he was also recover. I don't know, he just looked
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a little he was injured. I also don't know if that was just more
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of a rapport between Mike Evans and Baker Mayfield where he just picked up a
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receiver and was like, hey, you're getting the ball. Rashad White getting
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another experience as starting running back in the NFL, but running back to our
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place. We'll they'll see what they do, you know. But the thing
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is they did they resigned Levonte David but they don't have Devin White no more.
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So that's gonna be something to monitor right there, because that would tandem
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for a while. They don't have them together no more. Yeah, I
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just don't. And also those those four teams above them for me, and
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then the Eagles. Of course, I think the Eagles will make the playoffs
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in some way. I mean they have getting Saquan Is going to do a
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lot for that team. Their offensive line, their offense is still a good
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offense. It's a really good offense. I don't know what happened to them
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to end that season. It was like pretty drastic of a drop, Like
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I understand me, and you even said they shouldn't have won some games,
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but to lose what was that seven out of eight? Seven out of your
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last eight games, it's just unheard of, Like I did not see that
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happening. I don't think it will happen two years in a row. I
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still think they're gonna be a good football team, and I just don't think
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they have what it takes to compete with a team like that. So okay,
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the main reason, so I agree with you on that, but I
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get what you're saying. I get what you're saying with the Bears from on
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paper, you look at Keenan Allen, you look at DJ Moore, you
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look at whatever Will and yeah DeAndre and DeAndre Swipt. But then you have
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Roshan Johnson, and then they still have Khalil Herbert, right, yeah,
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so that's a good running back room. And then you have on the other
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side Jalen Johnson, Kevin Byern Montes Sweat and Tremaine Edmonds. So yeah,
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is it Tremaine, it's a good team. I just don't I don't know
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until I see it put together. With the Bears, I will not sit
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here and like crown them yet, and especially when Calebles isn'tven gonna better than
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Drake May, I don't see it, you know, so well, Okay,
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so I'm I'm not gonna disagree with you right there. I say that
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last one it's gonna come down to the Eagles, Bucks and then the Bears
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there and like like I'm saying, if anything, that SATs will be right
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there. I think the Saints have a chance to be right there too,
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like like they were Chris Alves missus missed a couple of games. Derek Carr,
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I think he kind of picked it up towards the end of the season.
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I'm not gonna he did. The Saints went on a run to end
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the season. They just were too little, too late, you know.
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Yeah, and they the defense. The defense is never the problem for the
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Saints. It's never really the problem. It's their offense that just came master
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energy sometimes and Ak is getting older. So I think I still think they'll
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be in the mix of like a like towards the end of the season.
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But I think that's still a team they have to compete with. Yeah,
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so again, all of them, they have a tough test, obviously.
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I think the Bears they have a tougher division out of the Eagles, Eagles
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themselves and and the Buccaneers. I agree with that, but I think they
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could get one of those games. I think they could get one of those
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games there. But yeah, but are good bro, No, No,
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I agree with you. I say the Rams and be a big loss.
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Yeah, that is a big loss, but I think the offense it'll make
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up for it. They're gonna be in some high scoring games. So okay,
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I'll say this. I'll say this. It's gonna be Niners, Cowboys.
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I think I think Lions again They're one of the teams that I expect
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to be in the Super Bowl. And then last one I say Falcons,
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and I say Rams Packers, and then the Bears. The Bears, they
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make the last set right there. Well, since we did NFC, we
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might as well do AFC. We might as well do AFC. A quick
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prediction. I'll do mine real quick games. Okay, Chiefs for sure.
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Crap. The other divisions are so tight, like they're like they're not back
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with each other. I'm gonna get the Texans. Texans win their division.
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Mm hmm. I think that one's like a kind of It's not like an
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easy, say, because the Jaguars could get their ship together and then and
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then the Titans are looking better. You know, I think the Titans are
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looking better, like I do think they are, but I still think they
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need a lot more help. I do think there's a lot more they need
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that needs to be done there. As far as the the North, I'll
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go that's tough. The North is tough. Honestly, give me the Browns.
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I think the Browns win division next year. Yeah, I think the
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Browns will win the division next year. Mm hmmm. I don't think that's
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crazy. To say, I really don't think that's crazy. That's not too
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crazy. Yeah, no, that's not too crazy. And then Jerry Judy
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as your three three or as you're three as compared to it. Yeah,
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because Amark Cooper Cedric Tillman played good to end the season. Who knows if
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Nick Chubb's gonna come back the same if is he even gonna be able to
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come back next season? Yeah, he's gonna be able to come back.
25:15
Like not not good thing, but it was week two when you got hurt,
25:19
so he had. He has the whole year basically to recover even if
25:25
he comes back late. Are just down as a flowers now mm hmm.
25:30
I don't know. It's gonna be a tough division, but okay, so
25:33
I'll just go Browns for right now. AFC East, I'm going Jets,
25:37
yeah, okay, okay, we could agree on that one. Yeah,
25:41
and then I'm gonna go for my I'm gonna go Bengals for sure in my
25:45
five spot, and I'll go Bills mm hmm. Dolphins. There's Dolphins and
25:52
another a FC South. There's the AFC West Ravens. Okay, so Bengals
26:00
Ravens or gohead on Yeah, you said Bengals. You said Bengals fives,
26:11
Ravens are dolphins, So all right, I say mine, so many?
26:18
Yeah, there's there is too many damn good teams. Okay. Might have
26:22
said could get their crop together? Yeah, no, they they can't.
26:26
I could see that there were what it was week eleven, and they were
26:30
at the top of the A f C. So they had Yeah, they
26:33
were eight and two. They just had a damn big drop off. And
26:37
even though I said the Titans will make the playoffs, that's a bold prediction
26:41
here, Okay, So I'm going to give my real predictions for the playoffs.
26:45
So Chiefs I would have, Texans, I'd have I would I'm going
26:52
to say the Ravens again, and then I'm going to say the Jets.
26:56
Then I'll say the Bengals as the five seed. Then I'll say Miami as
27:03
a six seed, and then Cleveland as a seven. So yeah, those
27:10
Bengals making it. Yeah, I put the Bengals as a five. Okay,
27:15
I guess I'm just not hearing it. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't
27:17
put the Bills in the playoffs, so I don't think they'll make it.
27:21
Too too many moves or too many too many people they lost. I don't
27:25
think Raiders or Chargers make the playoffs the game, Yeah no, I don't
27:29
see that. And I think the Chargers they took a big step back.
27:32
So there's because they lost plenty of people. Keenan Allen, Mike Williams,
27:37
Austin Eckler. Yeah no, but anything else. You want to talk about
27:45
a losing season next season? Oh really? Yeah? Oh is that one
27:51
of your other bold predictions in I guess, yeah, I guess we can
27:53
swap my Chiefs one for that one. Still losing season. You know which
27:59
one I want to put. But I felt like it was between the Titans
28:02
and the Panthers or it was a Panthers bol prediction. I said, Bryce
28:07
Young becomes a statistically top ten quarterback. I mean I couldn't. I could
28:11
see it. They just had to put some good stuff around him, bro,
28:15
like Deontay Johnson's a good move. I think, Adam they started with
28:19
the two guards they got, they got to the guard. Yes, it's
28:23
got a quiet, they'd have a quiet. They've had a quiet good offseason.
28:27
Yeah, yeah, they have just sucks they don't have their first first
28:30
round pick this year. Yeah. The Texans freaking not Texans, the Bears.
28:36
The Bears freaking stole. Yeah, but Anthony Richardson could come back and
28:41
play really good. The Cult were still in the mix last year and then
28:45
they were. Yeah, it came down to the last game. Yeah,
28:48
between the Texas was playing good, like he was playing to C. J.
28:51
Stroud level, not like not like where he was turning the ball.
28:53
No, he was playing really good to start the season and then he just
28:56
could doesn't know how to stay away from getting hit, you know, like
29:00
he needs to go down you know. Yeah, he but that's the thing
29:03
about bigger quarterbacks, say they don't know how to not take contact, if
29:07
that makes sense. But yeah, but running, for all I care,
29:17
get hit, bro Dude, that's crazy. That's crazy. But okay,
29:22
so we talked. We talked football. Here do you do you want to
29:26
say anything else before we move on to basketball? Mm hm, I kind
29:32
of want to talk about with the Chiefs. But it's all right, we
29:33
come on. No, let's talk about the Chiefs. Let's talk about the
29:37
Chiefs. The signing Hollywood Brown, I feel like, oh I could predicted
29:42
it on the last part. I think you didn't think it's a perfect fit.
29:45
I think it's a perfect fit for the Chiefs to sign Hollywood Brown.
29:48
He does a lot of the things that Andy really likes, and especially if
29:52
you look at his college tape, I don't think he's been utilized correctly in
29:55
the NFL. The one year that he was kind of going crazy, he
29:59
got injured in the Cliff Kingsbury, who kind of runs the same type of
30:03
offense, got fired, and then you look at him he takes a drop
30:04
back again the next season because to start the season before he got injured,
30:11
not this last season, but the season before that, he was kind of
30:12
going crazy, like he was. He was up there every statistical and then
30:15
he got injured with Cliff with Cliff Kingsbury, then he came back, Kyler
30:21
Murray was hurt already, and then the next season fast forward, he is
30:26
just not the same type of offense. I mean, Johnathan didn't coach bad
30:29
by any means, but it just wasn't the same type of offense, especially
30:32
with Kyler Murray not coming back towards the end of the season and then and
30:34
then they just haven't. In college, he was doing a lot of motions,
30:38
a lot of runs with the ball draft like he was doing everything you
30:41
could possibly think he was doing. And I think that's what any read's gonna
30:45
unlock from Hollywood Brown. It's gonna be pretty scary because I think the Chiefs
30:48
do draft another receiver in the draft and that to pair along where she Rice
30:52
and Hollywood Brown. They're just reloading this offense, and I think it's gonna
30:55
it's gonna be it's gonna go back to his dynamic level like it was two
30:57
seasons to go where it was like like basically all time, all time offense
31:03
with Juju Smith Schuster. So do you think that they still draft a wide
31:08
receiver in the first round because I think they kind of feel their wide receiver
31:12
need. Here. You have Rashid Rice, he's supposed, he's supposed to
31:17
develop, and he's gonna be the number two because Kelsey's one. Then I
31:21
think it's Rashid Rice and Marquise Brown. So you don't need a draft your
31:23
receiver in the first round here. See, the thing is that I think
31:27
they're gonna they're gonna make sure they address that position unless they think Kadarius Tony
31:33
can get back to what they thought he was gonna be, which I still
31:36
think Darius Tony is talented enough. No one's denying him when he has the
31:40
ball in his hands. Just can you can you catch? I don't know,
31:42
can you catch the football? Dude? Yeah? So if if they,
31:47
if they, But the thing is, we can't go into another season
31:49
hoping and expecting that guy's pan out, you know. Yeah, Like,
31:52
I don't think Rashid Rice takes any type of drop off. I think he's
31:55
only gonna elevate. I think he is potential, is a lot more Hollywood
31:59
Brown. But the thing is, are we gonna draft a receiver in the
32:01
second round. I would rather wait to the third round. It's draft like
32:05
a Malakai Corley or a Malik Washington instead of drafting the last the last pickings.
32:13
Yeah. See, in the first round, we'd have the pickings of
32:15
maybe Exavier Worthy, maybe Keyon Coleman, Ladd McConkie, and at an Mitchell.
32:20
You gotta go with one of those guys if they're available at thirty two.
32:22
I feel like, and then and then if you think about that,
32:25
we're gonna get the last pickings of all the tackles. I think that's the
32:29
other position that they would only get. We're gonna get the last pickings of
32:31
the tackles and then another need that we may have its defensive end. I
32:36
don't really a lot of those guys. This isn't really screaming to me defensive
32:39
outside of Dallas Turner and Lato, Yeah, they're not. I don't really
32:45
see a lot. I think they're gonna go receiver unless someone named brock Bauers
32:47
can fall a little bit and then we trade up. I think that might
32:51
be a little undersized, So we'll see with that. It's just I think
32:55
we have to go receiver in the first round. Yeah, I think you
33:00
you guys have to too. Because Mark, he's Brown. It was just
33:04
a one year deal, so he's not a long term answer. Because if
33:07
he doesn't, if he goes crazy next season, which I kind of expect
33:10
him to go, like he's gonna go pretty he's gonna go pretty insane.
33:14
If he stays healthy, he's gonna get a big contract somewhere else, and
33:16
the Chiefs just won't have the money for that. So why are you going
33:20
to risk another season of not having someone with Rashid Rice paired up that you
33:23
can't that you can't build around, you know. So that's where I think
33:27
you have to go receiver, and people are I kind of would want key
33:30
On Coleman even like, but he just doesn't fit the style of play that
33:34
the Chiefs play. I think you'd have to lean towards like Alad mcconky or
33:38
at a nine Mitchell at a nine Mitchell like like, they would fit the
33:43
more of the chief style of play. Yeah, I think that too,
33:47
And I think it's more of a necessity because Travis Kelcey, how he's he's
33:54
on the back nine. He's on the back nine. If Travis Kelcey he
33:58
was in the middle of his prime, you could kind of get away with
34:00
this. You could say we don't need a draft your receiver because he is
34:04
a receiver. But you did see a see a decline, so I think
34:07
it's going to be important for them to do that. So. See,
34:09
the thing is people are saying that we have to find the Kelsey replacement,
34:14
But if you just load up with good receivers, you don't need to replace
34:15
Kelsey. Just feed receivers and then get an Okay becomes more receiver dominant.
34:21
Yeah yeah, So I kind of do think you need to start getting ready
34:24
for that possibility because he's not going to stick around a lot longer. I
34:28
guarantee you if we threepeat, he's gone, Like I guarantee you, Like,
34:30
he's not going to stay another season. So and then, so that's
34:37
just something you have to look for, like you have to think, sure,
34:40
we're going all we're not really going all in. We would have kept
34:43
sneed, but we're also being smart with money at the same time. We'll
34:46
get into that in a second. But if you hold on for more seasons,
34:52
hoping Travis Kelce stays and even this year, like he still was pretty
34:57
good, but he wasn't the same, Like there's a lot of players where
34:59
he he felt like, dang, he just looks gassed, He looks he
35:01
doesn't look the same as he usually does until the playoffs come around, and
35:06
he just turned into freaking yeah turn out animal. Yeah yeah, yeah,
35:09
So you can't rely on him too much like you used to, because it's
35:15
gonna take a toll on his body after a while. Yeah, yeah,
35:17
no question. But all right, anything else you want to talk about before
35:22
we hit NBA. Here, now we can jump into it, all right.
35:27
So again, uh, that was just a quick summary of the NFL,
35:32
and now we're gonna jump into NBA and there's been some movement in the
35:37
standings. And first we're gonna start with the Eastern Conference, in which the
35:40
Boston Celtics are the one seed Bucks, two seed Calves, three seed Knicks,
35:45
four seed Magic, five Pacers, six Heat seven, six Ors,
35:50
eight Bulls, nine Hawks, ten kind of the same at the bottom.
35:53
And then in the Western Conference you have the Denver Nuggets being the one seed,
35:59
a fish under, two seed Timberwolves, three seed Clippers, four seed
36:04
Pelicans, five seed, the six seed is the Suns, seventh seed is
36:07
a Kings, eight seed MAVs, nine seed Lakers. Ten seed is the
36:13
Golden State Warriors. And then this is the first team that we're gonna show
36:20
outside of the top ten, is the Houston Rockets. They're eleven right now,
36:23
but they're only one game back of the Golden State Warriors and and only
36:30
three games back of the Lakers. So, before we get into our games
36:34
of the week, do you think that the Rockets they have a realistic shot
36:37
here of getting into the playoffs. You'll never get me to say the Rockets
36:44
have a realistic shot of making anything. No, I like singum, so
36:46
I'll say yes, Yeah, That's all you'll get from me on the Rockets
36:52
of hyping anything up about the Rockets. I like emy Doko Spurs legend,
36:57
Spurs legend, but I don't know, Like I don't want to say shot.
37:04
Yeah, hey, you gotta do what you gotta do when you're on
37:06
the downtime. Let me tell you. Well, I'll say this just just
37:12
a quick props to Jayalen Green because Jalen Green lately, so yeah, he's
37:16
been balling. So I got some stats for these past twelve games, twenty
37:21
eight point three points per game, five or almost six rebounds, three point
37:24
three assists, fifty percent from the field, forty two percent from three,
37:28
eighty two percent from the free throw line, and they're ten and two in
37:30
those games and on an eight game win streak, so they're definitely heading in
37:35
the right direction here. And this without alburn Sengoon because how Singoon he got
37:39
hurt. So maybe they just elevating Jalen Green's play right here, but it's
37:45
forcing him to kind of play, Yeah it is. And this is something
37:49
that you wanted to see because this is year three, right yep. So
37:54
yeah, but he's something the hell of a player. Yeah, Like he
37:58
has the talent and the athleticism to be a good player, it's just can
38:01
you do it on a consistent basis? And what he's done over the last
38:04
twelve games, last ten games, he's really balled out. Yeah, no,
38:08
he definitely has. But all right, let's go ahead and get into
38:12
our games of the week. So, oh we're not We're either talk more
38:15
of these standings or no, oh yeah no we no we can. So
38:17
which one did you want to which standings did you want to talk about?
38:22
The six ers? Like, have you heard anything about Joel Embid's injury?
38:27
Like, so what they say is that Joel Embiid he's going to return late
38:30
April. So there's only seven eight games for the for teams in April and
38:38
he's going to return either the last five or four games. So it's pushing
38:44
it, dude. They're gonna fall into play in territory and you're gonna make
38:46
him run it up mostly when the most important time with basketball comes. Like,
38:52
I get it. But if they're falling, bro, they're they're four
38:55
and six in their last game, last ten games, their drop to the
39:00
eighth seed right now, they're in the smack dad middle of the playing.
39:04
Yeah, it looks they're the big The fall from Grace for the seventy six
39:07
ers is insane right now, and like, so, well, yeah,
39:12
I can't. I was wondering when Joela bet Is gonna come back because I
39:15
have them on fantasy team and I need them for my freaking playoffs. But
39:19
dude definitely gonna Yeah. No, it's okay. I got full of Spurs
39:24
players and I'm still winning. You have Malachi Brown or Devin Started I have.
39:30
I have Devinsel, Jeremi Sohan, Keldon Johnson, victor Wimbinama on my
39:37
team. Oh yeah, I didn't even tell you. So I saw Malachai
39:40
Brand and Jeremy Sohann out that concert there they cut in line up for us.
39:45
Yeah, could you? Ye know you do? You don't realize how
39:49
tall the NBA player is to you actually see them in person. No,
39:52
I don't like those guys are like tall dudes, bro, Like yeah,
39:57
no, it like when they're okay, you know what, I'll stop myself
40:00
because I already know I would to just walk into a joke here. So,
40:04
yes, so the dude is tall. Yes, that's all I'm gonna
40:07
say. That's all I'm gonna say. We're gonna no no, no,
40:14
okay, yeah, the Sixers. Okay, yeah, let's talk about the
40:16
Sixers here. So I'm just more surprised that, honestly, they've been able
40:21
to hold the ship because the Pacers they're out of the playing or they're out
40:27
of the playing right now, and they're only one game out, so they
40:30
could make they can make a quick move. I could pull up the Sixers
40:35
schedule right here and see who they have coming up. So they have the
40:39
Kings, Clippers, Calves, and Raptors. Those are those are tough games
40:44
right there they have coming up. But it's it's not crazy to say that
40:47
the Sixers they could win this, win these games here, so they're they're
40:53
not out of that territory there. But I'm just really surprised. If we're
41:00
gonna talk about the Eastern Conference still the Magic Calves, Oh, you're in
41:04
Sae of the Magic. I'm gonna say the Calves. Okay, what do
41:07
you think about the Calves. They're a lot. They're on a three game
41:10
losing streak and they're three and seven in the last ten games. I get
41:15
there comfortable in the third place, but that's not a good that's not good.
41:17
You know, you're kind of on the downhill spiral going to going into
41:21
the playoffs, so they're gonna have to They're gonna have to figure out a
41:24
way. I I haven't watched much basketball like of them. I just haven't
41:29
had that much time for to watch the Calves. I just kind of feel
41:31
like the Devin Mobley injury is kind of hurting them quite a bit. Yeah,
41:36
and then even Donovan Mitchell, he's been in and out of the lineup
41:38
lately. So yeah, it's just a scorer like that to take over games.
41:44
Yeah, and Jarry Adam isn't a dominant scorer either, so they're having
41:47
other guys needing to step up. But when your two main guys on offense
41:52
are kind of out kind of makes it hard. Yeah, yeah, no
41:55
question. And let's be real, if it wasn't for Max was hitting that
42:00
sixty foot three and them coming back from twenty two points against the Celtics,
42:05
do yeah, no, Max Shruth come playoff time, he steps up.
42:09
I don't know what it is. Maybe he's on some Jimmy Butler type of
42:12
stuff, but no, and speak speaking of Jimmy Butler. So I really
42:20
want the heat to get out of the playing here. I really want them
42:22
to be a top six seed here because I think this is where they could
42:27
really make some noise. If you put them against the Cavs, then they'd
42:31
be playing the winner of New York and Orlando, and I think they could
42:36
really make some noise here. So on this Western Conference side, like I
42:43
mentioned the Nuggets, they finally got the one seed there and it looks like
42:47
they're not turning back. The Denver Nuggets. I believe they've only lost two
42:52
two three games since the All Star breaks, so they're on a roll right
42:58
here. But as as far as with these Clippers here, I know I
43:04
trusted them at first before the All Star Break, but they've really been losing
43:07
a lot lately. I don't know the record as of late, but it
43:10
has not been good. I believe they're like five and twelve or five five
43:15
and thirteen in their past eighteen games. So yeah, it's it's definitely not
43:21
looking good here. So do you think this Do you think the Clippers they
43:24
could find any way to turn it around here? I mean we can say
43:30
easily, we can say yes, just only because the players that they have,
43:34
but their record over the last what you say, twenty three games is
43:39
not Yeah, eighteen games. It doesn't seem like thirteen. Yeah, it
43:43
doesn't seem like they're going to turn it around. So yeah, I don't
43:46
know what it is. I think players in and out of lineups not finding
43:50
the right bench pieces to step up when they need them the most. It's
43:53
just not helping them out. Because losing Russ Westbrook. People say a lot
43:59
about what but having that guy come off the bench when your other when you're
44:04
start and having being that spark and losing that type of guy that still puts
44:07
fear into some people. You know, losing to a guy like that goes
44:12
a long way, like because when you when you're when you're starting unit is
44:16
either playing great and you need someone to carry it over, or your starting
44:19
units playing bad and you need someone to take over. Losing that, losing
44:22
that star is not doesn't doesn't help any team. Yeah, and they they
44:29
better be careful because all the way from the four seed to the eight seed
44:32
there's only a three game difference here. Yeah, I was, I was
44:36
just looking at that. It's it's it's closed and the Kings. The Kings
44:39
are seven and three in the last Suns seven and three, Pelicans eight and
44:44
two, Mavericks seven and three, Lakers six and four. So every team
44:49
is yeah, every it's just every team is on the rise. Yeah,
44:53
it's it's not looking good. And I know we're not going to talk about
44:57
the game that happened tonight as of this record, and I think they played
45:00
the Hawks, but so campaign tonight had twenty three points, five rebounds,
45:07
five three points made or five three pointers made. He outscored Kawhi PG and
45:12
Harden by himself, by himself. And that's just say everything. You have
45:16
your big three here and they're not stepping up. This was supposed to be
45:21
one of the most dominant offensive trios in the league outside of the Cunt.
45:27
Yeah no. But as far as one last question here before we get into
45:35
the games here, so do you think as far as with this top three
45:40
seed right here, so it's the Timberwolves, Thunder and the Nuggets, there's
45:49
only a one game difference between all three of these teams, who would you
45:53
like to see the or who would you like for the one seed to be?
45:58
Just in your opinion? Would I like it to be not Thunder?
46:05
For sure? But I would go where as of right now they would play
46:13
Oh no, that's not how it works no more so, I can't say
46:15
the Maverags. So mmm, based off who they would probably play Between Kings,
46:24
MAVs, Lakers and Warriors, I probably have to go. I don't
46:30
know, because I like I like every all these teams in their own way.
46:34
Yeah, mm hmm uh. I kind of would want to see the
46:42
It wouldn't be easy for any team to play. Honestly, I don't know
46:44
who I would want to see as a number one seed. I think it
46:45
is. It's good the way it is right now, having the Nuggets at
46:47
the top. They're hitting their stride like at the right moments, finally getting
46:52
healthier a little bit, and then Joki is starting to play out of his
46:55
mind. As far as the Timberwolves, I'm still surprised that they're keeping keeping
47:00
pace. Anthony Edwards is jumping out of buildings right now, and even with
47:05
Kat even with the cat injury, which I thought was gonna be a major,
47:08
major loss, they really have kept the same. They've kept the same
47:13
the same trajectory even from before he got injured. So and the Thunder,
47:17
they continue to be a good defensive team. Interior wise, they're they're a
47:22
little iffy, but they're they're one of they're one of the best three point
47:24
shooting teams in the NBA, and the SGA is playing like an MVP.
47:30
So I think all three of these teams are just right there. I think
47:34
they all deserve to either be number one, but they're good where they're at
47:36
right now. I feel. Yeah, it's again, like like you mentioned
47:40
the Mavericks, Lakers, and Warriors. I don't care who it is,
47:44
they all have three players or a player on their team that can take over
47:49
a series. I don't care if you're the defending champs. If they just
47:52
get hot at the right moment, then it could be scary. So but
47:57
yeah, I know. And the Kings just have a good team. M
48:00
hm. Yeah, they have a damn good team there. And Darren Fox,
48:02
what is like the most clutch player in the NBA statistically, I think
48:07
I've seen, like I think in crunch time he's like has the highest field
48:09
goal percentage or something like that. Yeah, for over these past two years.
48:14
Yeah, yeah, he has Lebron's number one this year if you're just
48:16
saying this year, that's why he's a go anyways. Anyways, anyways,
48:21
Yeah, let's let's go ahead and get into the games, the games of
48:27
the week. So first, the first game that we're gonna go over is
48:31
between the Dallas Mavericks and the Denver Nuggets, in which Kyrie Irving hit that
48:37
left hook shot and it was a buzzer beater, one of the best buzzer
48:40
beaters I've seen, and they won one oh seven to one oh five.
48:44
But just a question I have to ask you, is Kyrie Irving, because
48:50
that was his whole debate whenever this happened, is Kyrie Irving the most skilled
48:53
player ever? In your opinion, Victor Winbinama would easily be the most skilled
49:00
player of all time. But if we have to pick another player, uh,
49:06
he's up there. Okay. Are we talking just offensively but with defense
49:10
also, or we're just talking straight up offense, offense, just straight offense,
49:15
straight up offense. Most skilled? You have to go. Kobe's up
49:25
there, Lebron. We'll put that old guy up there, you know what
49:31
I'm talking about, product of his time. But we'll go James harden Kde
49:43
Kyrie, he's in the top, you know, Like I will say this,
49:47
his bag, his handle is probably the greatest ball handler of all time
49:51
and better than Ai I don't care what no one says. He's the greatest
49:54
ball handler of all time. I think three point shoot, clutch clutch,
50:01
three point shooting, but getting to the rim and finishing with all different angles
50:07
and hands. He has to he has to be up there, dude,
50:10
because if you put on the tape and watch him Kyrie Irving get into the
50:14
rim highlights, bro, it's like watchingtry in motion. No, no,
50:19
for real, you know who? I what he's able to do at his
50:22
size, being a smaller guard but still being able to get to the rack
50:24
like he does. H. But Steph is so skilled at being a three
50:30
point shooter. I think Steph is kind of mixed up for a lot,
50:36
but then ball handling is close. He's the greatest point guarder I ever lived.
50:43
So I don't arguably with Magic Johnson. But I don't know. Crap,
50:49
that's a hard question. Let me think, what do you who do
50:51
you think? Do you think he is? So I'm gonna say this,
50:54
I think Steph he's the most skilled player ever. Then it's Kyrie Irving.
51:00
And the reason the reason why I have to say that is because they're smaller
51:04
players like you mentioned, like you mentioned, and it's much harder for them
51:09
compared to a Lebron James Kobe Bryant uh nineties product. Jalen Brown, I'm
51:16
just kidding, Michael Jordan. No, but they're. All I'm saying is
51:25
turn on the highlights. Turn on the highlights, put them side by side.
51:29
That's all I'm saying. Trust me, trust me, they're crazy.
51:35
In the chat after hearing this, yeah, no, he's gonna he's gonna
51:38
just be flaming, flaming you. But no, they're They're all skilled,
51:44
don't get me wrong. But them being six six six seven and and taller,
51:50
that's a plus right there, compared to Kyrie and Steph Curry, who
51:52
are what six two six three, So you need either they're not even that,
51:57
they're not even the new age size of point guard. There's yeah,
52:00
exactly, So I would have to say I would have to say Steph one
52:07
because shooting shooting, nobody's close, and as far as ball handling and even
52:13
layups, they might not be as flashy as Kyrie's, but they're up there,
52:17
So I would say Steph one than Kyrie two. Well, I was
52:22
having this argument the barbershop, who would win one on one Kyrie or Stephan
52:25
Curry, and I think if they're playing one on one, I kind of
52:29
want to say Kyrie Irving wins. So a lot of Stephan Curry. Stephan
52:31
Curry off ball is one of the best players of all time, Like he
52:36
was able to run around, catch and shoot. Whatever we're talking about.
52:38
Starting from one on one basketball, it has to go to Kyrie Irving.
52:42
I think I think Krry Irving's able to do a lot more in one on
52:45
one play than Steph. Not a lot more there, it's nit picking.
52:50
It's just nit Yeah, I mean, I can see why Steph Curry wins.
52:52
I'm not mad at something, but I just feel like I don't know.
52:57
Yeah, that's a hard question. Even James Hard James Harden doesn't get
53:00
talked about as one of the most skilled offensive players of all time, and
53:04
he is. I think he's out there. Yeah, I think it would
53:07
have to be Steph Kyrie. Then I then I'd have to say k D
53:16
James Harden, and then and then I would say Lebron. Then I'd put
53:23
Kobe MJ. I know that's going to get a lot of old heads mad,
53:27
but but facts are facts. That that's what I have to say.
53:32
Yeah, but as far as one on one, I would have to lean
53:37
towards Steph because of shooting, even if he is guarded. That's why.
53:42
Yeah, I honestly think it's who gets the ball first. Yeah, wheeah,
53:50
yeah, whoever gets the ball? Yeah? Yeah, pretty much because
53:54
they really can't guard him. You put wing defenders on these players and they
53:59
still can't guard them, let alone players their own size. No, but
54:02
all right, let's let's really get into this game right here. So again
54:07
the MAVs Nuggets one o seven, one oh five. Kyrie, he hit
54:10
that game winner. Did you have anything important that you wanted to take away
54:15
from this game here? I just want to I think I think with the
54:28
I think it's good to see. Uh. Okay, honestly, do you
54:32
think the Mavericks can play going into the playoffs only relying on Luca and Kyrie?
54:38
Yes? I think so, because if if it was one player,
54:45
then I'd say probably not. But since it's two players who can get hot
54:50
at any moment, then I say it's possible. Because you've seen they will
54:57
themselves. Mm hmm. Okay, I see that, but you also have
55:02
to look at it. The MAVs. They were nine for thirty five in
55:06
this game, they shot twenty five percent from three. Shot terrible from three.
55:10
So yeah, how often do you think the MAVs they're gonna shoot like
55:14
this from three? And one thing that I wanted to take away, First
55:19
off Derek Lively in this game. He was an absolute monster in this game
55:23
coming off the bench. And twenty two offensive rebounds from the Mavericks. Here
55:30
if they can, if they can play with that toughness, they could play
55:32
with that grit and they they show at times that they could play defense.
55:37
If they could do that, I promise you they could win multiple series just
55:40
off of Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic on offense because they're gonna get their buckets.
55:46
They are. They're gonna go anywhere from fifty to sometimes eighty points and
55:52
that's more than enough. But one thing that I want to say, as
55:57
far as with this nugget side, you have to play a perfect game against
56:00
the Denver Nuggets in order to just barely beat the Nuggets. Like twenty two
56:06
offensive rebounds. I know they didn't shoot great from three, the Mavericks,
56:10
but again, twenty two offensive rebounds, that's plenty of possessions. And the
56:15
Mavericks they were up thirteen. Then the Nuggets they just basically pulled up their
56:19
shorts, pulled up their sleeves, they are all right, let's play some
56:22
basketball now, and they end up leading in the game. Here they were
56:25
up, they were up one oh five to one oh two. So I
56:29
just think the Nuggets, in order to beat them, you have to play
56:32
perfect basketball. And this just shows how good the Nuggets they are and how
56:37
scary they're going to be in the playoffs because the only two games that they've
56:40
lost is against the Suns where Grayson Allen he made nine threes, which how
56:47
much or how often are we going to see that? And then this game
56:50
right here where it took Kyrie Irving hitting the left hook shot here? So
56:54
how often are you going to see this? Here? But did you want
56:58
to go ahead and move on to your game? Yeah, we can move
57:00
on to the next game. Okay, okay, we could mention one of
57:05
your games here. All right, I'll just do spurs versus nets for this
57:12
one. Next. Okay, just a brief one, just brief talk about
57:15
you know, it's not nothing, none of these have playoff applications. I
57:20
want to talk about my guy win Be for a second. You know,
57:22
almost listen these thirty three points, fifteen rebounds, seven blocks, and seven
57:29
assists. You know, that's just filling up stat That's just the worst we're
57:34
ever gonna see Wimby play in his career. Just wanted to let y'all know,
57:38
but and this game is what the heck? Bro, These ads in
57:45
the background of these websites just keep freaking Oh is it playing out loud for
57:50
you? Yeah? Bro, I just like lost my train of thoughts just
57:52
now. I think I think wm bin Yama deserves to win Defitsive Player of
57:59
the Year after these performances he's been having on the defensive end. It's just
58:04
too many nights in a row where he's having seven blocks, like three stills
58:08
dominating on defense when he's on the court. It's just too many games in
58:13
a row. And honestly, his offense is getting better throughout towards the end
58:19
of the season when every other scary. When he's hitting his second year jump
58:23
in the second half of his rookie year, Yeah, that's scary. That's
58:29
scary. I think this This is gonna sound crazy, but I think this
58:34
is the worst that Winby's gonna play offensively from here on out, because he's
58:37
finally getting comfortable as far as actually playing in the NBA now, and that's
58:44
that's scary. He did you see something. He's hard. He's like shooting
58:49
forty three from like pull up threes or something like that. That's crazy.
58:54
That's that's crazy. I think. I think think he's gonna develop as a
59:00
shooter. And he's already flirting with triple triple double numbers, so that that's
59:06
scary. I think group double numbers. Yeah, you're right, this it's
59:12
some two case stuff that we're seeing here. I think, honestly, if
59:16
they build the right team around him, you just I think next year,
59:20
if you just get a wing and a point guard, not saying they have
59:22
to be flashy, name somebody who's just good, just a role player here,
59:27
it's gonna be a big jump. And I'm not gonna lie Devin Vacel.
59:30
Lately he's been impressing me because for the first half of the season,
59:36
it would be good game, bad game, good game, bad game,
59:37
good game, bad game. But now it's like he's finally starting to find
59:42
his rhythm as far as in this offense, being number two behind Wimby.
59:45
So I'm really liking what I'm seeing here, and as far as from the
59:51
NETS, I don't know if any NETS fans listen to this. I'm sorry,
59:55
y'all are in a tough situation. Y'all have no first round picks for
59:59
a while. Mckel bridges, he was expected to take this jump. We
1:00:02
really haven't expected him to take a jump. Yeah, yeah, we all
1:00:06
expected this. Nothing has really happened. Cam Thomas does Cam Thomas things,
1:00:10
but I feel like it's obviously scoring. It's tough, but I feel like
1:00:15
it's kind of empty calories. Somebody has to score on this team, and
1:00:19
it's just Cam Thomas here. But I just really believe it's just a bunch
1:00:22
of role players on this team. Yeah, there's no real clear star MHM
1:00:29
for the Nets, and it shows because when you're I get Dennis Schroeder,
1:00:34
he's a good player. But when you rely on Dennis Schroeder to make some
1:00:37
place when it's supposed to be mckel bridges or like when mccobridge is supposed to
1:00:43
be that guy, it's kind of gonna hurt your team because I don't know
1:00:45
you have they and they run a small ball lineup outside of Nicholas Claxton everyone
1:00:51
else on this team. They really don't have a really big man on the
1:00:55
team. Mm hmm. Yeah, So anything else you want to go into
1:01:02
detail about this game before we move on to the next one. Uh,
1:01:07
let's get Dominic Barlow some minutes over. Zach Collins. I would love to
1:01:10
see that. He's a lot He's a lot better of a player. You
1:01:15
know, he averages like he has games where he scores like thirty eight points
1:01:19
and like sixteen rebounds in the G League. So we can get that guy
1:01:22
to play in the NBA. It'd probably be pretty good for this first basketball
1:01:24
team. That's the only thing I gotta say. So, do you think
1:01:29
now, because obviously y'all have been eliminated for a while, but do you
1:01:32
think it's time to kind of sit wellby here towards these last few games,
1:01:38
just as injury. The game criteria for the Rookie of the Year and Defensive
1:01:44
Player of the Year awards, how many are that right now? Let me
1:01:49
see or I think I think I could check right now. Let me let
1:01:52
me check on my computer because I've thought I thought the it's sixty five right
1:02:01
criteria? You need to have sixty five games fifty eight games this season.
1:02:07
Okay, so remember he was just playing. He wasn't playing back to backs
1:02:10
for a while. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I completely forgot
1:02:15
about that. Well okay, well okay, because he hits that sixty five
1:02:22
mark, he's hitting him yeah yeah, or they're gonna drop his minutes back
1:02:25
down to underneath, because in this game, it was good to see him
1:02:29
actually go above. This was the most minutes he's played his whole career.
1:02:34
Wow. But I think he's a smart thing. Yeah, he hasn't.
1:02:37
He's averaging like twenty nine minutes, twenty eight minutes per game right now,
1:02:40
and he's doing these things. So imagine when he's a consistent thirty five minute
1:02:45
per game, even close to four. No, he probably won't ever get
1:02:47
to forty minutes per game, but like thirty eight minute per game, because
1:02:51
it's Spurs just don't play like that. But like thirty five minutes per game,
1:02:53
thirty six minutes per game, he's gonna be a dog bro. Yeah,
1:02:58
no, he already is. And so it's like imagined, dis imagine.
1:03:05
No, it's he's already having a bright future and he's definitely exceeded all
1:03:10
expectations. As far as for a rookie, if you would have told me
1:03:14
Wimby would have thirty three, fifteen, seven and seven blocks late in the
1:03:20
late in the season on March of seventeenth, that that's crazy. That's crazy
1:03:24
to me. I would have never I would have never guessed that right there.
1:03:28
That's that's something Wimby was going to average like sixteen points or fourteen points
1:03:32
per game this season. Yeah, and he's already averaging in the twenties if
1:03:37
I'm not mistaken, twenty one points per game now. Yeah, So yeah,
1:03:40
let's go ahead and move on to this next game right here, which
1:03:45
I'll mention one of my games that I wanted to bring up, and it's
1:03:47
between the Kings and the Knicks here and which the Knicks they won ninety eight
1:03:52
ninety one. This is the closest we've seen the Knicks to being healthy.
1:03:55
That Oji Anobi in this game obviously, Julius Randall, he wasn't play and
1:04:00
they won so in this game, or I just want to talk about it
1:04:05
in general here, Josh, before I let you go, so, Adam
1:04:10
Silver, he made it a point to let the defense start playing a little
1:04:14
bit more physical, not calling as many fouls. How do you like that?
1:04:17
Because I feel like this was shown throughout this game. This is a
1:04:20
really rough, rough game right here, So how do you like that?
1:04:25
As far as just from a fan's perspective, I really don't care about high
1:04:30
scoring basketball, Like it's cool to see. But even when it comes to
1:04:34
the NFL, and I give your talk about NBA right now, I love
1:04:38
seeing defensive battles and if we can see this, but also we gotta be
1:04:42
careful along the lines of the defense, the defenses, because we also don't
1:04:46
want to see bad offense either, you know. So I think it's cool
1:04:50
that they're putting, really putting back into the back in the the putting defense
1:04:59
kind of back into in basketball, i'd say, But also like I love
1:05:03
me some offense. But also didn't matter for a player in this game how
1:05:06
hard the defense was playing, because he dropped forty two on them boys.
1:05:11
So it's gonna be I like, I like what, I like the initiative
1:05:15
he's taking because it's and it's also gonna get the old heads off our back
1:05:18
when we see these players start going crazy even if there's freaking defense playing.
1:05:23
So so bring it all, Adam Silver, Let's du Yeah, no,
1:05:28
shout out to Jalen Brunson in this game. Yeah, like you mentioned,
1:05:30
dude was balling. But as far as with this game right here, I
1:05:34
feel like this just shows with the Knicks that they can they fit the mold
1:05:41
as far as a playoff basketball team, and the Kings, like like you
1:05:45
mentioned earlier, they they don't have anything that's crazy about him. They just
1:05:48
have good pieces all around. And even though the score looks close, it
1:05:55
really wasn't close. Throughout this game. The Knicks they dominated from start to
1:05:58
finish. And I just think that Jalen Brunson, he's he's clearly a number
1:06:03
one now. If there was any hesitation last year after a fluky playoff run
1:06:09
or whatever, it's clear this year, and especially in this game, a
1:06:14
hard game where shots are hard to come by, he was the only one
1:06:17
that scored a lot in this game in forty two half almost half of the
1:06:21
team's points here. So yeah, no, I think this is what shows
1:06:28
that if the Knicks they could do this, they could be legit. I
1:06:30
don't know about you, I've I've stood on this as far as I'm thinking
1:06:34
the Knicks they could be legit. Do you think they could be legit as
1:06:38
far as a deep playoff run, they can. But if there's no Brunson,
1:06:42
there's nothing. Mm hm. And I get that's that's gonna say a
1:06:46
lot because he is the star of this team, and that's for every team.
1:06:49
If there's no other star player, there's nothing. But really for the
1:06:53
Knicks, they don't have another real star on their basketball team. Everyone else
1:06:58
just fills their roles and plays Jaalen Brunson is the is the motor of this
1:07:02
team. He's everything for this team. So if he's not playing, if
1:07:05
or if he has an off night, I really don't. I don't see
1:07:09
the Knicks putting it completely together unless someone else can step up or a Julius
1:07:14
or No, I don't know when he's coming back. It's not it's not
1:07:18
Jalen Brunson. It's not. It's nothing, you know, mm hmm.
1:07:21
Yeah. Also, I just want to say, with Mitchell Robinson and Julius
1:07:27
Roundal being out some role players, they've really stepped up here. Dante DiVincenzo,
1:07:30
he's played a little bit nice here. Isaiah Isaiah Harvenstein, He's really
1:07:36
filled the Mitchell Robinson role here and just being just as grimy, grimy player
1:07:43
and the tom first one in, last one out type of guy. Yeah,
1:07:48
but let's go ahead and move on to your second game here. Yeah,
1:07:55
let's move on to your second game here. We'll go with the it's
1:08:02
because we'll do heat versus calves and for today. Yeah, well, like
1:08:15
we talked about earlier, the calves are kind of on the downwards firal right
1:08:18
now, and in this game it showed quite a bit. The Miami Heat
1:08:21
defeat them one twenty one to eighty four. Is this the Heat picking it
1:08:28
up for you like they usually do towards the end of the season, or
1:08:31
the calves downward spiral right now? I think it's a heat honestly, the
1:08:38
Heat again, they kind of they were kind of a little bit fishy for
1:08:42
a little bit where they only had three wins I believe, I don't know
1:08:45
who one of them was against, but they beat the Pistons twice. But
1:08:49
now they're finally to get back getting back to normal and this is just what
1:08:54
the Heat do. And nobody really stood out here. Jimmy Butler fifteen Bam
1:08:58
fifteen uh Haywood high Smith. He was a leadion scorer. He had eighteen
1:09:02
points, but it's just heat basketball here playing tough defense, and once again,
1:09:09
they've been a top five defense ever since the All Star break. So
1:09:13
this is what they do. And they put the cows away early. By
1:09:16
the third quarter, this game was over and they let everybody else just get
1:09:20
some playing time here. So yeah, no, I really think it's just
1:09:24
the heat. They're stepping it up here. And do you think so this
1:09:30
was Evan Mobley's first game back here or one of yeah, one of his
1:09:34
first games back here. I don't know about Donovan Mitchell, but do you
1:09:39
think Evan Mobley now with this stretch they play the Hornets twice, and they
1:09:43
play the Sixers and Nuggets. Do you think that they're gonna start turning around
1:09:47
now that they got one of their offensive players back. Well, you would
1:09:51
hope that they do, because if they don't, they're just gonna slowly work
1:09:55
down these standings in the East in the season and it's not gonna do good
1:09:58
for their confidence. So we can give a little bit of a spark to
1:10:00
this team. It better happened now, because if they can go in a
1:10:03
little bit of a couple runs, it could really get this team confidence back
1:10:09
to where it was and then with Donovan Mitchell getting healthier, whenever he comes
1:10:12
back that they'll be right back into the full swing. But what you were
1:10:15
saying about the Heat, that it's more about the Heat in this game,
1:10:18
the Heat were really just playing like even basketball all the way around from all
1:10:23
their players. No one really showed out in this game. Everyone just did
1:10:26
their role. Everyone scored, scored within the teams. They they they kept
1:10:31
fundamental basketball, good defense like they usually play. And it's good to see
1:10:36
this team. They they do it every year. They show up when it
1:10:40
matters the most, and they're getting to that to that form right now.
1:10:44
M hm. Yeah. And so about five days ago, how Donovan Mitchell
1:10:48
he had a nasal fracture, so he's out a week, so I don't
1:10:53
know if he'll be back for that Nuggets game or the game after that.
1:10:57
So he should be coming back soon, but I don't know. Evan Mobley
1:11:01
he's missed some time since this All Star break, so was Donovan Mitchell.
1:11:05
So there's gonna be the Russ factor compared to the sixth seed, which can
1:11:10
be the Miami Heat, so they can be a one and done team again.
1:11:15
But yeah, let's move on to this next game here. So I
1:11:18
know I talked to I know we talked about this these two teams already,
1:11:21
but I was just really interested in this matchup. It was the Nuggets versus
1:11:27
the Knicks, in which, of course the Nuggets they won this game here
1:11:31
they won one thirteen to one hundred. But I just think the thing that
1:11:36
stood out here is that, again, the Nuggets, they just find a
1:11:42
way to win these tough games. The Knicks, they are a tough,
1:11:44
gritty team, but they just find they just find a way to win.
1:11:48
And just a quick stat that I want to give you, Josh before you
1:11:51
go, So, Nicola Jokic, when he wasn't on the floor, the
1:11:57
Nuggets were minus seventeen. When they were on the court, they were plus
1:12:01
thirteen. So that just shows how big of a difference Nicola Jokic is on
1:12:06
this team, and it doesn't matter who they're playing here. So was there
1:12:12
anything in particular that stood out to you, Josh here? Mm hmm,
1:12:21
okay, did you Mike mess up for a second? Mike mess up for
1:12:30
a second. Yeah, again, it's it's not a normal podcast if your
1:12:38
mic doesn't mess up. But yeah, no, you're back. Yeah,
1:12:40
you're freaking freakings. Let's talk about Michael Porter Jr. Having that that game
1:12:50
that he usually has, every every little bit. If he can do these,
1:12:55
if he can have these when it matters the most, and Mike Jr.
1:12:58
So far has and his career, when the Nuggets have needed him to
1:13:00
step up, he steps up. And in this game he stepped up in
1:13:02
a big way. He scored thirty one points. Sharpshooter. Crazy to me
1:13:08
that he had zero assists. It's not crazy. Michael Porter never passed catching
1:13:13
his shoot. Yeah, full of effect. In this game he scored thirty
1:13:15
one. He's always been a good rebounder. But the thing is he shot
1:13:20
pretty pretty well from the field. He went thirteen for sixteen a three for
1:13:25
six from three, so he was on fire in this game. If they
1:13:29
can have him step up like that, it's going to help this team treminously
1:13:31
offensively. Yeah. And one last thing I want to take away from this
1:13:36
is that if the Knicks they are fully healthy, because I'd mentioned it with
1:13:42
the Kings and next one because I knew we're going to talk about this one.
1:13:45
But old Jiananoby he didn't even play in this game. So if the
1:13:49
Knicks, there's they're somewhat healthy. I'm not even saying, oh, Jiananoby
1:13:55
has to be one hundred percent, Julius Randall, he doesn't have to be
1:13:58
one hundred percent. But if they have their players out there, they're competing
1:14:01
with the Denver Nuggets, who who's who have been steamrolling pretty much everybody this
1:14:06
year, if or since All Star Break. If they just have players healthy,
1:14:12
I just think that they're really gonna make this run here. And that's
1:14:15
just a one big thing that I wanted to take away. But we go
1:14:17
ahead and move on to your last game here, Josh. We'll do the
1:14:21
Bucks versus the Thunder. Okay, all right, so yeah, and go
1:14:31
ahead. The Milwaukee Bucks won this game one eighteen to ninety three and chit
1:14:38
home agreement one for ten. Why I know you're going to bring up that
1:14:44
step there. Yeah, Yeah, they got whooped in this game. The
1:14:49
Bucks showed up. Uh Yiannis went insane for thirty points, thirteen for eighteen,
1:14:57
nineteen rebounds. This is this is where the this is this is the
1:15:00
game where it shows where I've been saying the Thunder lack interior and interior presence,
1:15:04
and when you don't have an interior presence, Joannice is gonna take advent.
1:15:08
Players like Jannis are gonna take advantage of that. And it wasn't full
1:15:11
of effect. Nineteen rebounds to thirty points in Johannis didn't shoot a single three
1:15:15
in this game, so that's how you know he was working on the inside.
1:15:17
So, yeah, the Thunder need to figure out a way that because
1:15:20
they do play a lot of a lot of wide out, a lot of
1:15:24
man man, a lot of and a lot of what's it called freaking tribute
1:15:29
right now? Five white out my space? Yeah, yeah, five wide
1:15:31
out basketball. They're gonna have to figure out a way to get into the
1:15:34
interior defensively and offensively to get rebounds. If not, a lot of a
1:15:39
lot of games like this against good teams are gonna end up happening in the
1:15:42
playoffs. Yeah. And so this game, it was close at half,
1:15:45
It was a one point game at half, and then the Milwaukee Bucks they
1:15:48
just steamrolled them in the second half, just their defense. It was it
1:15:54
was just relent relentless. And this is the first game I've seen in a
1:15:58
while where Shade gilgis Alexander. He didn't look like himself, and that's the
1:16:01
biggest thing as far as with the Bucks wise, can you defend guys on
1:16:06
the perimeter because you have Malik Beasley, you have Damian Lillard there guarding your
1:16:13
best, best perimeter player, and they were able to do that. And
1:16:17
I think a mixture of that is Chris Middleton coming back because he's been back
1:16:21
for about three or four games, so him being back, him being another
1:16:26
perimeter defender there, it's brought this Bucks defense to another level and even their
1:16:30
offense. So the Bucks, I've been right about this so far. I
1:16:36
said the Bucks are going to take off from the All Star break, and
1:16:40
they've been doing that by far. And Chris Middleton this is already his third
1:16:45
game with the triple double ever since he's been back. So it's looking really
1:16:48
nice. And you don't even have to have Damian Lillard have this monster game
1:16:53
here. Obviously, every once in a while you'll need it. But having
1:16:57
Chris Middleton back, it just makes this offense so much more dynamic. It
1:17:01
does. But anything else you want to take away before we get into our
1:17:09
next topic here, Now we can get into our next topic. Okay,
1:17:15
So next topic we have here, it's it's something to play along as far
1:17:20
as with this March madness that's going on right now. Oh yeah, by
1:17:24
the way, who'd you pick as your champ? Your March madness bracket champ?
1:17:28
I don't want to talk about it. Did you really pick tech Of
1:17:31
course I did. I didn't think you did. But you know who's gonna
1:17:40
be Who's gonna win who I'm two days into college and I'm three lectures behind
1:17:46
jere McCain. Dog Blue Devils are gonna win the natty Bro They're gonna win.
1:17:53
Nah, I got to pick Tech Bro. They got, they destroyed,
1:17:57
They destroyed all the love I had. Like I was watching game and
1:18:00
I was like, they're really lay in this big old, freaking big baby
1:18:04
Glenn Davis and what's another big player, freaking Vince wolfork baby dude in the
1:18:13
freaking paint just destroy us. Bro. Like it was bad. It was
1:18:18
funny because we're actually getting it. Made it worse. Bro. They put
1:18:23
like a mic on the freaking ram Dog and every time we break, you
1:18:30
know, it's terrible. No, So, when when I was getting my
1:18:32
notes ready, I was actually calling Josh and he was cutting hair and then
1:18:38
he's like, fucking techts losing right now? This is bullshit, bro,
1:18:44
Bro was pissed, but no, okay, like I was mentioning. So
1:18:48
we're gonna do a little bit of a March Madness bracket here as far as
1:18:53
with the NBA teams as far as the team's one through thirty here. So
1:18:58
this is gonna be once again, Josh. It's a one game series,
1:19:02
and whoever's whoever's healthy right now is healthy. Whoever's hurt is hurt right now.
1:19:09
So that's how we're gonna go. We're not gonna say if this player
1:19:12
is healthy, if this player is healthy, it's just a matter of how
1:19:14
this team is playing right now. So the first two teams, which is
1:19:18
the teams who have the best records right now, is the Boston Celtics and
1:19:21
Denver Nuggets. They both have the buys because that's the only way that it
1:19:27
was gonna work. So first we're gonna start off with the Minnesota timber Wolves
1:19:32
and the Pistons here. So we both have to agree to move a team
1:19:36
on here. I think this one. It's pretty easy, right. We
1:19:40
both have the Timberoves here. Oh yeah, we do, kidd yeah,
1:19:45
I would say, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on,
1:19:48
Okay, So we have the Wolves advancing over the Pistons. This next one
1:19:54
here, it's a seven to ten matchup. It's the Pacers versus the Bulls
1:19:57
here. I'll let you go first here because I have my opinions here.
1:20:03
I'll go with Tyre's Halliburton and Miles Turner and the boys. But we have
1:20:08
both have to come to an agreement. So who you going with? You're
1:20:12
going with the Bulls, aren't you? So I want? I want to
1:20:15
go with the Bulls here, but or because I'll assume Whu and DeMar DeRozan.
1:20:21
That's a nice tandem there. But I just think the Pacers offense is
1:20:26
just too much. I'm a realistic fans pretty good if he gets hot,
1:20:30
he's pretty good on offense. I'm a realistic Bulls fan here I think I
1:20:34
think they'll just score too many points for us. But all right, speaking
1:20:39
of our teams, this next one right here at three verses fourteen, the
1:20:43
Clippers are not a real fan and I'm going with the Spurs. But no,
1:20:47
in our reality, I think the way this person have been playing has
1:20:50
been a lot better. I get what you got her asking for the Suns
1:20:53
the other night, but the Clippers have just been playing terrible basketball, and
1:20:58
at this moment, after the All Star Break, the Spurs have been in
1:21:01
games and they won more games they won I think they won. Yeah,
1:21:06
So I'm gonna go with the Spurs in this one. So as much as
1:21:13
I don't want to agree right here, I'm gonna say the Spurs here too,
1:21:15
because winby in a one game, in a one game sample you have
1:21:20
him playing, you haven't played forty forty five minutes just in this hypothetical here,
1:21:26
because it's just a one game. One game you win, you win,
1:21:29
and you keep going that long. So so I'm gonna go with the
1:21:33
Spurs here because the Clippers they've been playing terrible lately. So we're gonna have
1:21:38
the of who's gonna play who next? Y? Yeah, yeah, I
1:21:41
I got track of it. This next one is the Kings and the Jazz
1:21:45
here. I think this one's pretty simple. Yeah, I'm gonna go with
1:21:49
the Kings in this one. Isn't enough? Yeah, No, the Kings
1:21:55
right here. He's nice though, marketing, Yeah, shout out to him.
1:22:00
Former bull Bulls Legend Bulls d the Spurson trade for him when he was
1:22:03
available but didn't happen. No, that would be crazy having him and Laurie
1:22:10
markn and next to each other. All right, Next one, four and
1:22:13
thirteen seed, the Cavs versus the Blazers, Calves, Calves, I agree,
1:22:18
Yeah, next one, I would damn Scoot, Scoot just hasn't.
1:22:25
Yeah. No, I'm really disappointed with Scoot Henderson this year because I thought
1:22:30
I thought he was going to be the best player in the draft, or
1:22:32
not best player, best player outside of Wimby. Does that mean I was
1:22:36
okay? I was kind of okay if we got the second pick, like,
1:22:41
we'll just get scooped. No, like, no, that's yeah.
1:22:46
I even wanted us to trade up for the second pick. I was like,
1:22:49
we got the capitol to give up to get the second pick and we
1:22:53
could get scooped and Wimby. But I was like, I feel like would
1:22:56
be playing different, though he would be playing different alongside Winby, though I
1:23:00
would say that though he wouldn't have to be the main guy because they was.
1:23:03
I don't know if Devin Vessel would have been in it. I think
1:23:05
Kevin Johnson would have been traded if we had to get to say, yeah,
1:23:09
yeah, I think so, Yeah, I do think it would have
1:23:12
been him. I think having Devin Vessel as a scorer and Wimby wouldn't It
1:23:17
would take a lot off his shoulders. For sure, he could be I
1:23:20
know it, it definitely would. So all right, next one right here,
1:23:25
Magic and Grizzly for the five and twelve seeds here Magic Magic had been
1:23:30
too hot. I don't know. I just can't go with the I can't
1:23:32
go with the Grizzlies in this one. Yeah, no, me neither.
1:23:35
Next one right here, This one's interesting in the eight and nine seed it's
1:23:39
the Sixers versus the Warriors here. I already know who I who I want
1:23:44
here or who I think is gonna win here? This was this was a
1:23:48
good one. Crap, you go first, Who are you taking? I'm
1:23:56
taking the Warriors? Here are you taking? I'm taking the Warriors here.
1:24:00
I think that even though the Sixers they have been playing alright, I just
1:24:04
think you put Steph Curry in a win or lose situation. I think he's
1:24:10
gonna ball out. I think he will. He would be the one to
1:24:13
have a Cinderella type of story. So give me Warriors. Yeah, you
1:24:19
like broke up that whole way for me. I don't know if sounding it
1:24:23
on the pod, but I'm gonna go with the Warriors also, and Warriors
1:24:28
only because if we're talking about one one game sample sides to move on,
1:24:30
I think Davidson Stephen Curry is gonna pull up and he's gonna get the job
1:24:35
done. Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, okay. So the Warriors
1:24:40
they advance here. Okay, So next we're gonna move on to the next
1:24:45
side here, which we're gonna start with the two and fifteen. So the
1:24:49
Oklahoma City Thunder versus the Wizards here. This one's pretty simple, right the
1:24:57
little Calallby is gonna leave the Wizards above Chet Holmgren and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
1:25:02
I'm just kidding. I'll go with the thunder SGA. Yeah, no,
1:25:06
Thunder They're they're whooping them here. Next one, seven and ten seed
1:25:11
MAVs and Rockets. This one is a sneaky one right here. This one's
1:25:15
a sneaky one right here because how good the Rockets save him playing lately.
1:25:20
Yeah, m I hate the Rockets still more than the mass I'm gonna go
1:25:28
with the MAVs in this one. I still think I think Daniel Gafford on
1:25:30
the interior, especially with sing gooon out right now, it's gonna be it's
1:25:34
gonna be pretty the defense, the defense wise on the interior, swapping between
1:25:40
Derek Lively and Daniel Gafford is too much. Plus the plus Luca and Kyrie
1:25:44
is gonna be too much. Yeah, okay, yeah, no, I
1:25:46
agree with you. I think again, one game's series you have Luca and
1:25:51
Kyrie over just Jalen Green right now. Next one, this one's pretty easy
1:25:57
in my opinion. The three seeded Bucks versus the fourteenth seed Hornets. Yeah,
1:26:01
I will go with the Bucks in this one. LaMelo is a future
1:26:03
Spurs, so we'll we'll just keep it moving right there, Yeah, the
1:26:08
Bucks. So next one, Sons versus Hawks, the six versus the eleven.
1:26:13
Right here, I think this one, I'm going with the Hawks.
1:26:16
It's upset potential here, it's upset. Yeah, I'm going with the Hawks.
1:26:19
I think Trey Young, I get to have KD and Devin Booker.
1:26:24
But I don't know. I just feel like I just get the feeling right
1:26:27
now that the Hawks would win this one. I just think they would win
1:26:30
this one. Okay. I've seen Trey Young with my own eyes drop forty
1:26:33
nine to fifty on my team. Bro with my own eyes in person,
1:26:36
I'm going with the freaking Hawks in this one. Okay, So I'm gonna
1:26:41
have to convince you here about the Suns because this is where we're in our
1:26:44
first disagreement here, KD, Devin Booker, Bradley Bell, one game series
1:26:51
on the line. I trust KD way more than I trust Trey Young de
1:26:58
Jontay Murray, and I feel like they could hold up better defensively than the
1:27:02
Hawks here. That's my argument there. I don't know, Bro, I
1:27:11
just feel like we can go with the Suns, but I just think the
1:27:14
Hawks could upset them. Bro. Okay, so you're you're good with the
1:27:17
Suns here, You're good with the Suns here, frozen. Yeah, we'll
1:27:27
go with the Suns, all right. The next one we have is a
1:27:30
four seeded Pelicans versus the thirteen seed Raptors. This is another upset potential.
1:27:36
Really you think, actually, no, the Raptors aren't the same no more.
1:27:41
We'll just go with the Pelicans in this one. Yeah, not giving
1:27:44
the Pelicans in this one. Next one the battle of the New York teams,
1:27:48
the Knicks versus the Nets. The five and twelve Right here, this
1:27:53
could be upset, though. I think I think the Nets can find a
1:27:56
way to get one good game out of their guys. I think think so
1:28:00
too. I honestly think so too. Because no, no Ojiannaobi right now,
1:28:04
No Julius Randall, like you said, it's all on jail or Mitchell
1:28:10
Robinson. Yeah, yeah, I'm going with the Nets too. In a
1:28:15
one game, one game do or die, I'm going with the Nets.
1:28:18
Yeah. Give me Cam Thomas here, all right. Next one, we
1:28:23
have the eight versus nine seed, the Heat versus the Lakers here. Oh,
1:28:28
this one's too tough. They've been playing good too. Yeah, I
1:28:34
know. You know what I'm gonna say this, Lebron James and Anthony Davis
1:28:40
in a one game series. That's all I need. Yeah, I'm taking.
1:28:45
I'm taking. I'm taking Lebron in this one. Okay, Lebron,
1:28:50
Lebron. All right. So now we're in the Sweet sixteen here, I'm
1:28:57
gonna start from the left side. So we have the Boston Celtics versus the
1:29:02
Warriors here, one game series on the line. Give me the Warriors.
1:29:09
I see, I thought we were gonna disagree here. I think the Warriors
1:29:14
are gonna win this too. I think again, Steph Curry. He'll do
1:29:18
do to what he did or do what he did in game? What was
1:29:21
it game for in Boston twenty twenty two finals? What he dropped like forty
1:29:26
something forty six? That's gonna go instane on these boys, all right,
1:29:30
So next one we have is a Magic and Calves here. I'll go with
1:29:35
the Magic in this one as of right now. Only yeah I like the
1:29:39
Mats and yeah, yeah, I agree with you here. Next one we
1:29:45
have right here is a Sacramento Kings versus the San Antonio Spurs. I'm gonna
1:29:51
have to go with the Kings in this one. We've we've we've had some
1:29:56
close games with the Kings. Do we beat the Kings? We beat the
1:30:00
Kings? We did beat the Kings? Did we Was it the Kings?
1:30:04
I don't think it was the Kings. I think the last time y'all played
1:30:09
the Kings, that's when Winby almost had that uh what was it the five
1:30:13
by five? I think that was the last we lost in crunch time.
1:30:15
We lost at the end of that game, like yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:30:19
yeah, oh yeah. The Kings have dominated us, they beat us
1:30:24
in close games. I'm gonna have to go with the Kings in this one.
1:30:30
I don't know why this one's tough for me. It is tough.
1:30:32
I think we could I think not. I think we could win, like
1:30:35
we have a chance. But Devin vessel like everything would have to follow the
1:30:40
correct way, Like I get Winby is gonna do his thing. But we
1:30:43
have to have like Devin Vaselle step up, Jeremi Selle and step up.
1:30:46
But that's what it is. It's just a one game series. Are honestly
1:30:50
the Furs to be our Cinderella team right now? Because I'm all for it.
1:30:54
If we're gonna do it. No, I have another Cinderella team in
1:30:58
mind right here. I I think Papovich in a one in a series,
1:31:03
do or die. I'm sticking with the Spurs here. I really think he
1:31:10
could turn. Convince you convinced me. It'd take much convincing, But no,
1:31:15
it doesn't. But all right, the next one we have right here
1:31:19
is the Pacers and the Timberwolves. Here. I'm gonna go with the Timberwolves
1:31:24
in this one. I still think even without cat Anthony Edwards has been bawling
1:31:27
at a different level. Defensively, they're still great. I'm gonna have to
1:31:30
go with the Timberwolves in that one. Yeah. No, I'm gonna have
1:31:31
to go with the Timberwolves here too. Hey, does that mean let's let's
1:31:39
not get into that. Let's not get into that. Let's go into the
1:31:41
next side. First. I think I think someone might make it to the
1:31:44
Elite eight. I think someone might make it to the Elite eight. So
1:31:47
all right. Next one we have is the Denver Nuggets versus the Los Angeles
1:31:58
Lakers. Here, one game on the line. The Nuggets are freaking eight
1:32:01
and zero in their last eight games versus versus the Lakers. I don't think
1:32:05
it ends here. I think the Nuggets win this one pretty decisively. Yeah,
1:32:10
even even though I would want the Lakers to win, I don't think
1:32:15
it's gonna happen. Give me the give me the Denver Nuggets here, all
1:32:20
right? So next game, I'm trying to write this down all at the
1:32:25
same time. Here. Next one we have is the Brooklyn Nets versus the
1:32:30
Pelicans. Give me, I know this one. This one's sneaky. This
1:32:36
one's a sneaky one right here. I'll go with the Pelicans. Pelicans have
1:32:41
good defense, they have eat brandon ingram Zion Williamson Jones. Well, Brandon
1:32:45
Ingram's out right now. Oh true, Jose Alvarado is gonna take over this
1:32:51
basketball game, Herb Jones. Yeah, that's that's true, Herb Jones.
1:32:57
He can lock up Cam Thomas, Trey Murphy. I'll go with the Repelicans
1:33:02
in this one. Yeah, no, give me, give me the Pelicans
1:33:05
in this one. This next one. I feel like this one is gonna
1:33:09
be really good or these next two. Actually. The Phoenix Suns versus the
1:33:15
Milwaukee Bucks here, Milwaukee Bucks, that easy, I think. I you
1:33:23
know, I'm not a believer in the Suns. You know I'm not a
1:33:25
believer in the Stuns. So I think I'm gonna have to go. I'm
1:33:28
gonna go with the Bucks that especially how they've been playing as of late.
1:33:31
The Bucks Bucks have been balling. I get the Sons have been playing really
1:33:35
well too, but uh, Joannis is playing at a different level. Damian
1:33:39
Lillard has been playing different in punch time, Chris Middleton's getting healthier. I
1:33:43
think give me the Bucks in that one. I don't know how you're feeling.
1:33:46
So if the Bucks were on a downturn, I would say I would
1:33:53
say the Sun's here just because of Trio. But the Bucks they have been
1:33:56
playing really nice and Chris Middleton got back, So yeah, no, give
1:33:59
me the Bucks here. And in this last one, I feel like this
1:34:02
one's gonna be real interesting. The Dallas Mavericks versus the Oklahoma City Thunder here
1:34:10
this one, I feel like we're gonna be conflicted here. So who do
1:34:13
you think? Who do you think advances? I hate both these teams.
1:34:19
Give me the Mavericks. Go with the Dallas Mavericks in this game. Okay,
1:34:30
I don't know. I think Daniel Gafford body chet. So okay,
1:34:38
I'll say this, the Thunder. They have the better team here, the
1:34:43
better the star. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna say the MAVs
1:34:50
here because Kyrie are I'm gonna go with the MAVs. I'm gonna go with
1:34:54
the MAVs in this one. I'm gonna go with the MAVs in this one.
1:34:57
Okay. So we're officially in our Elite eight here, so I'm gonna
1:35:02
go ahead and start with the very the very top here. The Golden State
1:35:08
Warriors versus the Orlando Magic. I think this is uh. I think this
1:35:17
is where the Warriors end. I think the Magic really really I don't know.
1:35:21
I just feel like I feel like Steph. Steph can only hold it
1:35:25
together for so long. I just don't think he has the guys next to
1:35:29
him anymore that can just keep that can match his energy in some games.
1:35:33
Oh, I say, I say, the Warriors, they keep this going.
1:35:38
Honestly, do you think why do you think they're gonna keep it going?
1:35:42
I think it's gonna keep going because or actually, maln more than I'm
1:35:46
thinking about it. Jalen Suggs. He's an All He's an All defensive type
1:35:50
of player or first Team All defensive type of player, and he could bother.
1:35:58
You're kind of convinced me on magic here. It has I think it's
1:36:00
the magic. I think the Warriors, the Warriors Cinderella streak ins here.
1:36:05
Yeah, it has to be the magic, even the magic making it this
1:36:09
far. This is a Cinderella running itself. Yeah. But they have been
1:36:13
playing They've been playing good this season. Yeah, So all right, we
1:36:15
have the magic. Moving on to the Final four. Next one we have
1:36:19
is the San Antonio Spurs versus the Minnesota Timberwolves. Here, so I'm gonna
1:36:27
go ahead and give Okay, I'm gonna give my answer here I'm gonna give
1:36:31
my answer here. This is the perfect matchup for the Spurs. It's the
1:36:34
perfect don't think so, honestly, don't think so. They have They've had
1:36:39
the Timberwolves number of this season. Bro. The reason the reason why I
1:36:44
say this, I know Cat is out, but Anthony Edwards, he has
1:36:46
been balling. I feel like he can match the fire power of Wimby and
1:36:50
then you could throw bodies at Winby here. Nas and Rudy Goberts haven't been
1:36:56
able to guard Winby at all this season. They have not been able to
1:36:59
guard Winby, even with both Cat and Rudy Gobert playing. I saw them
1:37:02
beat the Wolves with my own eyes. And then the first game they've ever
1:37:05
played, Winby dropped thirty one and they only beat the and they came down
1:37:10
to a last second shot and they lost in another game, it was close
1:37:15
to like it was this close game. I'm taking the Spurs in this one.
1:37:17
I'm not. I'm sticking with the Spurs too, Like I am not
1:37:20
moving off from this. I think they beat the Wolves. I think they
1:37:24
beat the Wolves, Bro. And you know they can beat the Wolves because
1:37:28
they have I know, I know there's a chance they could beat the Wolves
1:37:31
here. I just feel like Anthony Edwards is on a different level. But
1:37:34
you know what, I was waiting for this matchup, Like, if it's
1:37:40
just round one matchup, I'm still going with the Spurs like no, I
1:37:43
was. That's why when I saw the matchup, I was like, I
1:37:45
don't know, they haven't been able to guard winby at all. I feel
1:37:50
like people they're gonna think we're biased here, were leaning towards one. They're
1:37:56
just getting the matchups, baby, But I'm gonna I'm gonna say the Spurs
1:38:00
here too. I'm wanna say the Spurs here. I'm gonna trust you.
1:38:02
I've seen them beat the Timberleves before. And the Spurs are moving on to
1:38:06
the final four. And don't let let's know what it winby go against his
1:38:11
fellow Frenchman dog. You think he's gonna he's gonna he's gonna let him beat
1:38:15
him. Bro. No, So all right, let's move on to this
1:38:18
other side of the bracket, and which is the Denver Nuggets versus the Pelicans.
1:38:24
Here the Pelicans, I'm going with the Nuggets in this one. Yeah,
1:38:29
No, give me the Nuggets in this one too. This one's pretty
1:38:31
easy. They're moving on to the final four. Then this next one right
1:38:36
here, this one, I feel like this is gonna be really interesting.
1:38:41
The Milwaukee Bucks versus the Dallas Mavericks. Here, I'm going with the Mavericks
1:38:48
in this one. Okay. I'm glad we're on the same page here because
1:38:56
I again or you know, they massed the star power though, and I
1:39:03
don't feel like nobody could guard Giannis. I'm not saying he can guard him,
1:39:11
but I think they can throw bodies at him. Who win the other
1:39:19
night. That's kind of what they did to Winby the other night, Like
1:39:23
Winby went two for eleven, Like they just kept they just kept a fresh
1:39:27
person on him, like the entire game. Yeah, well, but I
1:39:30
understand. I understand Giannie is waved deeper into his career and it's gonna score
1:39:35
probably no matter what. But it's it's doable. So I'm gonna try to
1:39:42
convince you right here for the Bucks because we're conflicted. So I feel like
1:39:46
as far as perimeter wise, obviously the Mavericks they have that there, but
1:39:54
they have a mixture of both. The the Milwaukee Bucks they have Damian Leonard,
1:39:59
you have Chris Middleton back who gives another perimeter defense aspect, and you
1:40:03
have somebody who get points in the paint at ease, and they've been better
1:40:08
defensively than the Mavericks. That's my reasoning for why I think the Bucks would
1:40:13
beat the Mavericks. So I don't know if you have a reasoning or anything
1:40:16
to try to convince me, no, we can go with the Bucks.
1:40:19
I don't think it's gonna be like a catastrophic win. I think it's gonna
1:40:23
be close. But they have been playing good defense since Dark Rivers got there.
1:40:26
You know, your pick of the year got fired. Hey hey hey,
1:40:29
hey, hey hey hey, No need to throw a shot right there,
1:40:31
No need to throw shot right there. But all right, so this
1:40:36
is just crazy to see one side of the bracket here. So we're officially
1:40:41
in our final four here, and we have the Orlando Magic versus the San
1:40:45
Antonio Spurs here. What the hell? How do we get here? Bro?
1:40:50
I'm going with the Spurs. No, I'm skidding. The Magic have
1:40:54
beaten us pretty bad the two times we played them, So I'm gonna go
1:40:58
with the Magic. Yeah. No, I think the Magic they make it
1:41:01
here. They they continue their Cinderella run. They're the five seed. Yeah,
1:41:05
they're the five seed on the left side of the bracket. I think
1:41:09
the magic they win here and they move on to the championship. Finally,
1:41:16
I was like, because I was looking at the bracket from the beginning before
1:41:19
we started, I'm like, I really think the Spurs they can make a
1:41:23
run here. I really think they can make a run. I'm like,
1:41:27
man, they're gonna think we're so biased on this, damn p not for
1:41:32
real. No, And the next one we have is the Denver Nuggets versus
1:41:38
the Milwaukee Bucks. Here, this one is gonna be a blood bath here.
1:41:42
This is the finals, the finals on the other side. Yeah,
1:41:45
pretty much. Yeah, I'm gonna go with the Denver Nuggets. I'm thinking,
1:41:57
I'm just thinking, right now, what did this be, like the
1:42:00
play in tournament, not the playing tournament, the not that, not the
1:42:03
playing tournament, the what's it called the nd season tournament? Yeah, like
1:42:10
I was ending up, Yeah, it pretty much is Nuggets Bucks, Nuggets
1:42:15
Bucks. I'm going with the Nuggets. Bro. I feel like, just
1:42:20
the Jamal Murray, you know he's gonna show up when it matters the most.
1:42:28
I'm gonna have to say Nuggets here too. Okay, so we officially
1:42:31
got down to our final two teams here, which it's the Orlando Magic versus
1:42:39
the Denver Nuggets. You know what, I'm gonna try to convince you as
1:42:44
far as why the Magic they're winning this game here, No, they're not.
1:42:46
Bro j gonna go crazy in this game. Michael Porteron Jr. Is
1:42:50
gonna go crazy. And Jalen Suggs is almost or a first team caliber all
1:42:57
defensive type of player, First defense all cal type of player. And they
1:43:00
don't depend on one player. You have Paulo, I think twenty four something
1:43:05
like that, Franz Wagner, Jalen Suggs, Cole Anthony Wendell, Carter uh
1:43:13
Maurice Wagner. I think they all averaged ten points a game. Then John
1:43:16
Isaac, he just got back. He's been he's been balling or not just
1:43:20
got back, but he's he's been balling. So that's why I think that's
1:43:27
the only reason I have that I think the Okay, yeah, yeah,
1:43:35
no, okay, I agree with you here. I think the Nuggets end
1:43:39
up winning. So the numbers win are in NCAA march man Is Tournament,
1:43:44
our NBA march man Is Tournament, congratulations to the Nuggets and the Spurs almost
1:43:49
got it, Baby Spurs almost got there. If it was Spurs Nuggets,
1:43:56
I already knew you would have been rooting for the Spurs already. Yeah,
1:44:00
they would have won, They would won. No, but all right,
1:44:04
let's go ahead and get into our last topic, at which it's oh,
1:44:09
let me not drop my mic. Now, holy crap. Hey, but
1:44:12
if we were to play the Bucks, I'm not gonna lie. No,
1:44:15
y'all get I think we might have we might have won. What we almost
1:44:20
beat them the last time we played. Yeah, but you have Brook Lopez
1:44:26
and Giannister and Bobby Porter. You could throw bodies. Nah, Like you
1:44:32
said, that was the game where where Winby freaking We're Yanna tried testing his
1:44:41
gangster and Winby sent that ship to the moon. Yeah no, okay,
1:44:54
how did Okay I'm still looking back at that. Yeah. No, the
1:44:59
Spurs, they just have gonna get the perfect Cinderella run. They would have
1:45:01
run into the bull they got. They got up against teams if they have
1:45:04
like been close to beating or they beaten, like that's they got. They
1:45:10
got this first games, most of their wins. I bet it's good teams
1:45:14
then I think about it. They just don't put it together like on a
1:45:18
game in game on basis. Yeah, and just a one game sample size.
1:45:23
I think they could do that. So all right, let's go ahead
1:45:26
and get into our fantasy draft here. So this one is gonna be a
1:45:30
little bit different here. So this one is gonna be a ten man rotation.
1:45:34
And I know you're players. Yeah, so it's gonna it's gonna be
1:45:43
a random it's gonna be a spin the wheel. I know you guys won't
1:45:45
see the spin the wheel, but trust me, it's we're We're not making
1:45:50
up any of this. So it's gonna be a spin the wheel of all
1:45:53
the teams, and you could pick any player all time from from it.
1:45:57
It doesn't matter sixty seventies, eighty nineties, two thousand, thousands, twenty
1:46:00
tens to current. So, okay, Josh heads or tells you know I'm
1:46:10
gonna get the head. Baby Siri flip a coid. Okay, it's heads,
1:46:19
So let me go ahead and spin. Let me go ahead and spin
1:46:24
the wheel for you. So the first team you're gonna get is from the
1:46:29
Atlanta Hawks, right, any any team all time? I know, I
1:46:44
feel like I gotta go with Ooh, Dominie Wilkins or Moses Malone. Dominie
1:46:51
Wilkins or Moses Malone or Vince Smith. Wait, they're in their primes or
1:47:02
like how they played for that team, and you like even if they played
1:47:06
for that team. Oh, and I'll go with the Hawks. I mean
1:47:11
go, I'll get the Hawks. I go to Vince Carter, but he's
1:47:13
gonna go on my bench. He's been my states man. He's gonna be
1:47:16
your six man. All right. Yeah, that's a good sticks man.
1:47:21
All right, So spin Joe Johnson mm hmm. Okay, So this one,
1:47:29
I got the Los Angeles Clippers here. Okay, so that's not that
1:47:33
that's not as good. God we're talking about in their primes. Yeah,
1:47:42
I'm lamorrow, I'm torn right now. I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have
1:47:48
to say Kawhi, but put him at my two too. Yeah that's wild.
1:47:58
Okay, me go ahead and spin right here for you. See which
1:48:02
team you get from the Memphis Grizzlies. Fuck, I'll put Mark Gasol as
1:48:27
my on my bench? What as your seventh man? Yeah? Or however
1:48:36
the game's going okay, all right, next one and I promise you.
1:48:42
I'm not making any of this up here. It's literally the will here.
1:48:46
Okay, So who I got here is a Dallas Mavericks. I think this
1:48:50
is pretty simple for me. Okay, technical difficulties. I'm picking Dirk Nowitzki.
1:48:57
We're gonna just leave it at that. I'm picking Dereck Nolitzky here,
1:49:00
Josh. Nobody needs to know the behind the seeds of what happens only close
1:49:09
friends with family. All right, spin the wheel? Who is Josh gonna
1:49:14
get the wheel? No? I know I'm saying, like, spin the
1:49:17
wheel? Who is it gonna get? Was like, I don't have a
1:49:19
will? Mhm Okay, I don't know why it's glitching right now? That
1:49:29
was my fault. The Houston Rockets, what I'll go a haackeen and give
1:49:35
me at my five. I thought you're gonna go with Jalen Greening, But
1:49:41
all right, singoon, yeah, James Harden. The Minnesota Templewolves. Minnesota
1:49:55
Templewolves. I know there's Kevin Garnett, but I don't want to put him
1:49:58
at my five, So put him on my bench. Kevin Garnett, What
1:50:04
I would put him on my five? Nah? I can't. It's a
1:50:15
different versatility for the four. So from the Phoenix Suns here for you,
1:50:19
Josh, mm hmmm, why am I? Hey, he's Dean bro I'm
1:50:24
not taking that white guy. Think you're forgetting Kevin Durant three. I was
1:50:30
gonna say, I think you're forgetting somebody. All right, spind the wheel.
1:50:36
Let's see. Oh this is the simplest answer right here, Cleveland Cavaliers.
1:50:45
Give me Lebron James here. I really thought you were gonna go to
1:50:48
Lawnte West. I was thinking him or ils Awskis. So yeah, but
1:50:56
put Lebron right here as my one. All right? The will right now
1:51:06
as of right now? No way, the San Antonio Spurs. Tim Duncan
1:51:13
at my four, never mind my teams winning. I thought, I thought
1:51:18
you're gonna say, gimme Wimby Easy. I thought about it. I thought
1:51:21
about it, but I was like, no, I'm gonna go with Tim
1:51:25
Duncan. Okay, see who I'll get the Utah Jazz, my big my
1:51:35
big man are kind of set. Darren Williams. I don't know if I
1:51:43
should mention his name on the podcast. Yeah, do that fourteen year old
1:51:47
lover dude, Josh, don't make me have to edit out another portion of
1:51:56
Yeah, you're right, don't make me have to edit out portion of this.
1:52:00
So Jazz, we don't commend him. We don't commend him. I'm
1:52:08
thinking right now, Yeah, bookmark that probably just in case. Yeah,
1:52:15
okay, there's okay, there's nobody that's been relevant that's played for the Jazz,
1:52:21
no disrespect outside of Andre Pete Merovich, Donovan Mitchell. When I started
1:52:30
getting the current players, that's how you know, it's kind of bad.
1:52:34
You know what. Give me the mailman as my seventh he was making a
1:52:42
lot of deliveries. Let me tell you. Oh my god. All right,
1:52:48
let's go ahead and move once. Your next team here, Josh,
1:52:54
that's so crazy. All right, next team here is Oklahoma City thun for
1:53:00
you. Okay, so I already got I'm gonna go with James Harden at
1:53:09
my one. Okay. I wanted to go Rust, but James Hardens a
1:53:15
little bit more mm hmm versustilely. Yeah. Yeah, take everybody out to
1:53:21
the Strip club. Yep, get him some wings. Okay, Portland trul
1:53:29
Blazers here, put Dame as my eighth as my eighth man here. Oh,
1:53:35
you're already in your eight. Well, it's because I don't have my
1:53:40
three or five right now? Okay, yeah, all right, let's see,
1:53:45
and my Luisa to Pop as my head coach the Denver Nuggets for me.
1:53:55
Yeah crap. How about so many big men? I don't know,
1:54:01
man, I guess I'll have the greatest big man rotation of all time.
1:54:06
Give me Joic old school basketball right here? All right, let's see,
1:54:15
I really need when I take Carmelo, like, you have to go with
1:54:20
Jokic. You have to, No, you have to. I got the
1:54:24
trail Blazers again, trou I'm not going. I don't want to go with
1:54:32
LaMarcus Aldridge, Robin Lopez, Clyde Drexeler, Bill Walton. Yikes, I
1:54:42
like this pick Rashid Wallace, greg Odin, Brandon Roy. Wait, I
1:54:57
just had an all time for right here. Give me Scottie Pippen as my
1:55:00
three. Oh you're so cool, dude, whatever, Bro, big brain
1:55:06
Broth probably gonna be bi Bro's probably gonna complain about his teammates, Big brain
1:55:12
Scottie Pippen. I'm like, damn, there has to be some all time
1:55:15
great wife. His ex probably gonna sleep with his with his whole team right
1:55:19
now or something like that. Crazy, that's crazy. You got the Washington
1:55:25
Wizards here. Your team has a lot of dysfunction. Nah, Lebron,
1:55:30
He'll make sure all of it goes together. I got the Wizards, Yeah,
1:55:34
Wizards. Give me Michael Jordan up my two. God damn it,
1:55:43
I'm winning, bro, There's no way I'm not winning. Let's see.
1:55:49
I really need a good pool here. Let's see, dude. I was
1:55:54
literally about to like say, like John wall I was hoping. That's why
1:55:59
I stayed. I was like, please please, damn it. I got
1:56:02
the Wizards, now, what the hell? But you know what saved it?
1:56:06
What saved you can't take mj You can't take Yeah, I know even
1:56:12
if I do get take damn damn. There has to be have been an
1:56:21
atrocious franchise. There has to be somebody that's there is somebody, but I'm
1:56:29
not gonna say until you find it. I'm looking right now. I'm looking.
1:56:33
But he's also not like crazy, like moving the needle type of guy
1:56:36
in this situation. But he's good. Oh, Karen Butler, I'm just
1:56:45
kidding. There's this Gilbert of Reenas, who's thinking you're thinking of Gilbert Arenas
1:57:00
yeah, I'm looky at taking jump ball though, because I have no big
1:57:08
man. I just well I have Dirtnett and the guy that we don't speak
1:57:13
of bowl. You know what, I'm gonna just have to take John Wall
1:57:19
here. Okay, next spin, Let's see who you got if it loads?
1:57:39
All right? You got the Mavericks. Oh give me Luca. God
1:57:47
damn, it looks good. It looks so good for me at first.
1:57:54
Now it's looking shaky. It's looking shaky right now. I really need a
1:58:01
center here, dude. I just got rotations for everything right now? Bro,
1:58:08
No, no, for real, you do okay? I got the
1:58:12
oh the Sixers. Oh man, I'm so scared. Are you gonna get
1:58:20
that that Ai who's a detriment to his team? Or Julius Nding or Joel
1:58:30
Embiids I was thinking about. Yeah, I'm with the big man. Yeah
1:58:38
no, this is no question here, Kyle Court. Now give me Joel
1:58:42
Embiid. Dude, your team does not look like they would get along.
1:58:49
Yeh. I like my team. First. You got Lebron, who's gonna
1:58:58
try running everything. You've got Kawhi who's not gonna say ship, probably get
1:59:01
his uncle to do it for him, Scottie Pippen, we know what's wrong
1:59:05
with his with him, Dirk's cool, Joel Embiid, Kevin every star that
1:59:12
he plays with leaves you know, KG. We know KG. Yeah,
1:59:19
we don't have to talk about that. That this one guy. Dame's cool.
1:59:25
He's he'll stay loyal. John Wall watch him, you know. But
1:59:32
right, okay, let me go down your team. Then Harden gonna be
1:59:36
at the Strip Club half the time. MJ gonna be gambling. KD you
1:59:41
know what he does on super teams? He chokes. Tim Duncan Nah,
1:59:44
he's cool. The team, he's all right. Vince Carter never won ship,
1:59:47
Marcasol never one ship, Kic Nah, he's pretty cool. Luca hasn't
1:59:53
won ship. So well, why don't we count your team's rings versus my
1:59:58
team's rings? He hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
2:00:02
I have I have five, six, twelve, fourteen, sixteen,
2:00:11
seventeen rings on my team? I got fourteen? How do you have?
2:00:15
Fourteen? Oh? Three? Five? Okay, I forgot guess two for
2:00:23
Scotti? Yeah, alright, seventeen. So let's see who your tenth man.
2:00:29
We's got our last two spins here Orlando magic for me? Yes,
2:00:39
this is. This is crazy, Bro, This will does not like me.
2:00:42
This will does be like. This will does not like me. Bro,
2:00:46
Bro, my team is not running the court. I have Orlando fast
2:00:51
pace, fast paced. I need fast. I need a fast paced offense
2:00:58
here which I think I can run. That's gonna be my only chance.
2:01:03
The Charlotte Hornets am I really gonna have to go with Alneso Morning, Larry
2:01:13
Johnson, Alonzo Mourning, Kimba, Walker, Del Kurt LaMelo Ball. There's
2:01:24
half bobcats count. You can go Boords Dal wait if no, damn,
2:01:35
their best all time player has been Kimba or Glenn Rice, whoever. This
2:01:43
is crazy. You know what? You want to put Kimba down? Bro?
2:01:48
You want to give me a Lonzo Morning. I have more than enough.
2:01:58
I have more than enough guards. Okay, spinning for coach here,
2:02:06
Okay, the Suns give me Rick Carlisle. No is it Rick Carlyle or
2:02:17
Mike D'Antoni, Mi d'antonike d'on monte, Frank, Mike D'Antoni, Frank.
2:02:31
If Frank Vogel is good, you do some research real quick. It's definitely
2:02:38
not going to be seven seconds or less offense. Definitely that's why he doesn't
2:02:43
fit. Okay, I'm spinning for my coach. Mike D'Antoni was James Harden's
2:02:47
coach at one point. He's my point guard. So yeah, but what
2:02:51
about your sinners? Okay, Okay, I swear to you, I'm not
2:02:56
making this up. I got the Spurs, I'll take them. You know
2:03:00
he might save you. Give me pop that's kind of clutch. I have
2:03:09
a coach here, coach us up. Yeah, know who's another son's head
2:03:19
coach? Alvin Gentry? Alvin Gentry? Hell yeah, who's the son's coach
2:03:29
in ninety three in ninety three when they made the finals. But my team,
2:03:45
am I starting five or my one through six? They're gonna have to
2:03:49
play a bunch of minutes here. So I got Lebron Kawhi, Scottie Dirk,
2:03:54
Joel Embiid, Kevin Garnett, No mel Man, That's all I'm gonna
2:03:59
say. Dame John Wall, Lonzo Morning, and I got Popovich as my
2:04:03
coach here. And you're trying to find your coach here as far as for
2:04:10
your team, But you got James Harden, MJ kd, Tim Duncan,
2:04:15
Hakeem, Vince Carter Mark, Gasol, Jokic, Luca and Shaq Man.
2:04:23
This spend the Whill did not like me in this one at all. Bro,
2:04:28
this one it may have to be Monti Williams. I'm not gonna lie
2:04:33
to you. Yeah, either way, you're getting out Paul Westfall, Yeah
2:04:47
it sucks sor right, Well, Manti Williams came from the Furst system,
2:04:54
so I'll go with mont Williams. Okay, well, family, whoa,
2:05:03
Okay, we're not gonna we're not gonna talk about that. But yeah,
2:05:06
gotta do what you gotta do. Okay. So, yeah, I have
2:05:11
the coaching advantage. That's that's it. That's that's all I have. Because
2:05:16
if you happen, if you happen to throw out a line up there of
2:05:21
Luca, m J, KD. But honestly, you could say Luca m
2:05:29
J then you could put Jokig, Hakeem and Tim Duncan out there. That's
2:05:35
crazy. Yeah, No, you're your team went easily. I'm not even
2:05:39
gonna cap Yeah. Yeah, sorry, buddy, just fell my way.
2:05:43
The car just fell my way. Sometimes I'm gonna get my game. Pop
2:05:48
Pop is great, but the greatest of all time, But after a while
2:05:53
he can only take so much. You know you can only he can only
2:05:56
he can only scheme up, scheme up. All these guys that lived Alonzo
2:06:00
morning get in a fight with one of his teammates too, Hey, yes
2:06:05
he did. But your team is dysfunctional. Your team is dysfunctional. My
2:06:14
team doesn't have the chemistry, but we have the coach. We have the
2:06:16
coach for it. No, but he probably make them freaking do some military
2:06:21
workouts to get them straight. And the Kawhi is probably gonna want to get
2:06:24
a trade out of there like he did for Little Girl. The only player
2:06:29
that's gonna ride for Pop is probably Dirk and then Ron. Yeah, I
2:06:34
think Kevin Garnett would respect Papovich. No he would, Yeah, no,
2:06:40
but yeah, Dame would. But I'm telling someone else has problems. My
2:06:47
team's gonna have to be very fast paced here compared to your Even then,
2:06:53
if y'all wanted to throw hands, do you think you could beat my team?
2:06:56
I don't think so. Like just one on one or just like everybody's
2:07:00
scrapping at the same time everybody scrapped. No, y'all would win. I
2:07:05
was about to say, nah, I don't think you know who I have
2:07:09
on my team. No. I mean when I got Shock Marcusol from Spain,
2:07:16
Mike Paalgasol on the Daily KG, that's all I really got to say.
2:07:27
Never mind, I can't. I'm not going to say it again.
2:07:30
Yeah, yeah, No, we got Nika jok his brothers would pull up
2:07:32
bro. You wait, no, I'll just say m j owes some money,
2:07:42
Yeah, owed some money. I just want to say it. Hey,
2:07:50
somebody had to say it. No, But okay, let's go and
2:07:54
get our so called m vps out of the way. So like we do,
2:07:58
we do our so called MVP every single week. Josh, who's your
2:08:01
so called MVP this week? He's not basketball related. Tim USA just defeated
2:08:09
Mexico today too, to zero in the Conker Calf Championships. So Giovanni rain
2:08:16
Up boys played seventy two minutes in this game, scored a goal, played
2:08:22
some of the best football I've ever seen him play soccer. Sorry, we're
2:08:26
in America, We're not gonna start that. Yeah. He played all over
2:08:31
the pitch, all over the pitch, he played defense, ran up the
2:08:33
field, scored scored an amazing goal. I'm gonna go with Giovanni Rainer in
2:08:37
this one. So I was gonna go Jayleen Green here, but I'm gonna
2:08:43
have to go Jaylen Brown. Jaylen Brown, he's been on a tear lately.
2:08:48
Twenty seven points, thirty seven points, thirty one points, twenty eight
2:08:52
points, thirty three, thirty three points. This dude, he's just been
2:08:56
balling. He's been shooting minimum forty percent from three, and he's arguably been
2:09:01
the best player on the Celtics so far, and they easily have the best
2:09:05
record in the league. But before we get out of here, we actually
2:09:09
have some Q and a's for this week, so we're gonna go ahead and
2:09:13
start it off with the first one. So hold on, you know,
2:09:16
low key on the draft, I thought about going Grant Hill or Chasey McGrady
2:09:22
for who It still would have made my team. It would have made my
2:09:24
team freaking probably would have helped my team out more having one of those players
2:09:28
and going with shack Man. It's just so unfair, Like, how do
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you happen to get all the all the big men like I couldn't happen to
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get the Lakers, the Spurs or not the Spurs the Celtic goals. Yeah,
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my number one. You should have went with Anderson vers are when you
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had the chance, I know I should have. Yeah, I'm in love.
2:09:58
No, but you took are you all the sinners? Because the Lakers?
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I would at I would have needed Kareem then after that Selters Bill Russell.
2:10:07
No, I'm saying I wouldn't. I would have needed the Lakers so
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I could have a chance. Maybe the Bucks for Giannis. That that would
2:10:18
have pretty much been it right there, because you got you got good big
2:10:24
man, but I got the best great, Yeah, you got great.
2:10:28
Yeah, like like number one and two had Kem and Shack or Kareem.
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If you would have got Kareem, yeah, power forwards. I had Tim
2:10:37
Duncan, Marcasol, you had Dirk and KG. I mean, Tim Duncan's
2:10:41
better than both those guys, and Marcasol is like he's not like like in
2:10:46
the same like argument with them, but he's up. Yeah you know,
2:10:50
so, yeah, it would have been it would have been more competitive if
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you didn't get MJ. If you wouldn't have got MJ, then I could
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have said, okay, well my backcourt, it could dominate your back court.
2:11:05
So we'll just have to say threes are greater than two. But no,
2:11:09
we can't even do that. We probably should have said if they were
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playing in their primes on that team. Yeah, but yeah, it's it's
2:11:16
for another day. But yeah, let's get to these q and as.
2:11:20
So this first Q and A here is if the Lakers have a bad fall
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the rest of the season and miss the playoffs, should Lebron leave the Lakers?
2:11:30
And word too. I kind of feel like he would have to leave
2:11:33
the Lakers. Hm, I don't know. I just feel like that's where
2:11:37
the tables would fall. I kind of feel like they would just blow it
2:11:39
up to rebuild. But the Lakers aren't very good at rebuilding, so it
2:11:43
would have to be I don't where he would go. Yeah, I have
2:11:48
an idea in mind, but I'll let you say yours first. You don't
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think he would go back to the Cavs. I can see that? Or
2:11:58
do you think that's over Do you think that's over with? I can see
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that. I could see him going back to the Caves. I can ending
2:12:05
his career in Cleveland or would he go play for Pop m Now if anything,
2:12:13
he's trying to go win somewhere. Yeah, so what are you trying
2:12:18
to say? See, he's definitely not going to the Spurs. No,
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but I think that Lebron he would realistically leave. And I think a good
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place is the New York Knicks. You think because because that's a big market.
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He's even said he wanted to go to a big market. Look where
2:12:39
he's been outside of Cleveland. He's been to Miami, he's been to La
2:12:45
Yeah. No, he's definitely not going to San Antonio. And I think
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the Knicks that's a place where he could compete. You just put him right
2:12:52
there at the three. But the Calves, I like that. I like
2:12:54
that move too. But all right, this next one, if everybody is
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healthy, who is going to be in the NBA Finals? The Nuggets,
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the Denver Nuggets versus the We'll go with the Milwaukee Bucks. So I do
2:13:22
agree with the Denver Nuggets here, and I'm gonna have to say I'm gonna
2:13:28
have to say the Boston Celtics. I'm gonna have to say that, yeah,
2:13:31
they're closed. Like, I don't know, it was kind of too
2:13:33
to that cipher. I wouldn't. I'm not disagreeing. Yeah, I just
2:13:37
think the Celtics, if there's no injury, then it's gonna be really hard
2:13:41
to beat them in a seven game series. But all right, this next
2:13:45
one, do you think Zion how he's been playing lately is sustainable in the
2:13:50
playoffs? So for people who may not know Zion, he's been on a
2:13:54
tear recently, I think, averaging over thirty points a game. So I'll
2:14:01
go ahead and go first. I think it is sustainable in the playoffs,
2:14:05
but I don't think it's a good enough team around him to actually make some
2:14:09
noise in the playoffs. That's what I believe. I think he'll have a
2:14:13
good postseason run if nothing falls fall short. But yeah, no, I
2:14:18
think it is sustainable. It just won't be going that far. No,
2:14:22
I think it's sustainable. Also, this is what we expected from him coming
2:14:26
into his career to play like this, and he's a dominating player in the
2:14:31
interior. It's just can his Is he conditioned to go that deep into the
2:14:37
into an NBA season. He's never done it before, so that's something to
2:14:41
see. But can he play like this on a night and night out basis?
2:14:45
Yes, he can? Mm hmm. And all right, this last
2:14:48
one, which I already know, I already know your answer to this one,
2:14:54
so I don't even know why I'm asking, But who would you rather
2:14:58
build your team around Wimby or Luca easily Victor winbin Yama. He does it
2:15:05
on the offensive side of the ball. He's only gonna get better, and
2:15:07
his defense is already the best in the NBA. I think that's who you
2:15:11
want to build your team around. And plus he's seven foot four, and
2:15:13
you just put shooters around him and defensive players and you'll be all right in
2:15:18
a point guard. Yeah, I as much as we've been, we've talked
2:15:24
about the Spurs a lot on this pod, from the March Madness to but
2:15:28
yeah, no, I'm out to agree with you here, Josh. I
2:15:31
think Luca, even if he does get better, it's not gonna be it's
2:15:35
not gonna be something that's crazier. He's already in the top three level.
2:15:41
Wimby, he's already a top twenty player, and he's barely in his first
2:15:45
year, and he still hasn't developed a three point shot. And still he's
2:15:50
other than blocking shots, he's still learning on the defensive side. So I'm
2:15:54
gonna have to say Wimby here easily. But all right, that's the end
2:15:58
of the Q and A's right there. Gosh, do you have any last
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words? Before we get out of here real quick, do you think it's
2:16:05
easier to build around a big man or a or a point guard shooting guard.
2:16:09
I think a big man's easier. Mmm. I would say if it
2:16:16
was twenty tens, I would have said point guard because that's the way it
2:16:20
was leaning. But now it seems like it's leaning more back towards a big
2:16:24
man with Nicola Yogic, Joel Embiid and now Wimby. Now, so I'm
2:16:28
gonna have to say that a big man it's easier to build around him because
2:16:35
you could find a solid point guard. I would say that it's hard to
2:16:39
find big men who could do or who could do the roles or be a
2:16:43
role player. Yeah that's what I say, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
2:16:48
m hm for sure that's what I'm thinking too, mm hmm. Anything else
2:16:50
you want to say before we get out of here? No, I really
2:16:58
really drained. All this first talk is just making me happy, getting ready
2:17:03
to me for getting ready for bed. So you know, I just hope
2:17:07
everyone has a great week. I have a good resurrection Sunday. I don't
2:17:11
care what christ is real, so you'll get ready for that, Yes,
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Sarah, good Friday or bad Friday, and if you if you're religious but
2:17:22
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2:17:28
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