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Episode 152: Everybody's Better Than Brunson Until It's Time To Be Brunson · Play 4 Keeps Podcast

• Jax: yeah, here's a here's another angle of the tip. I like I think if OG didn't get, I think Kat probably could have got it, but that's just a insane way to to win a game. And then there was still there was still a couple seconds left. And ⁓ unlike the inbounds play, Kat was able to deflect the pass, so the Spurs weren't able to score. So that's how they end up winning that game. Greg: I do remember back when I was in the dated realm. I feel like one of one of the worst things I ever saw was somebody so fine. And I looked at her bio like on IG and it was too many Too many long lives in that bio. That shit fucked me up. I say, ⁓ you see, maybe maybe the call calling inside that. Like, why do you have so many long lives? I'm scared. Six? Jax: Jalen, he went crazy this game. He had 36. OG had 33. And one thing about OG, like, he was, granted, he's much shorter than Wimby, because everybody's much shorter than Wimby. But he's actually strong enough and physical enough to like cause him problems and get by him and dunk on him. So I was just real I've been I was impressed with his performance the entire postseason. But that was that was how game four was. You said what? This nigga She's a liability. Greg: Hell no, we finna have a KD efficiency part K I've been I've been impressed. I was impressed. I said I was also impressed with the overall team because Kat was in foul like early foul trouble for like at least the l the last two games for sure. And like it's not it's night and day when Kat when Kat's in there, it's like, ⁓ my god, okay. It the the fucking Knicks are rolling. Like y'all, y'all can't y'all, y'all really can't stop the Knicks. But when Carl be having like foul trouble, that's when Man, welcome back to another episode of the Play for Keys Podcast, the only podcast where we do something different every single day. Not an hour, not an episode. This is a daily thing. It's a marathon for the marathon for me and Jax, man. These niggas have no idea what's going on for the rest of the day. ⁓ but before we get into the obvious things we have to get into. Jax: Yeah. Yeah. Greg: Them niggas start a little bit slower than what needs to be happening, but it's just the fact that it does not matter. These niggas will get a fucking lead and walk ⁓ down Brunson. We'll fucking find a way. Like they'll crazy. We got bills to pay y'all. Donations. Donations. Here comes the money. Jax: Yeah. Greg: Here comes Jax: But every single game, like, if they can keep it with that cause grant, game four, they was getting blown out by like thirty or whatever. And then they end up like they end up getting the lead down to like fifty. If they can keep it into like fifteen, bro, like th they can come back. Greg: Yeah man, y'all ⁓ y'all click that link below, man. Y'all been y'all been generous over the over the months. I was about to say over the years. But specifically it's been years. ⁓ actually. Yeah, we're we're approaching we're approaching year three. It's crazy. Two thirty points, yeah. Jax: ⁓ it has been years, technically. Greg: That's why that's why I wasn't nervous. I that's why I wasn't even nervous for n game five. I know we're gonna talk about game five right now. It's just like that's why I wasn't nervous about game five. When niggas was up ten, I was like, I've seen this before. I I'm not saying shit until the clock hit zero, nigga, because you never know. You never know when it comes with these nicks, nigga. Jax: What month do we start? Do we start in June or July? Greg: June. Late June. Late June. I think it was like June twenty second or something. June twenty-first when we like did our first ⁓ our first episode officially. You know how we did. Shit. But ⁓ man, make sure y'all y'all like, comment, subscribe. More stuff is coming to y'all very, very, very, very soon. We only have one we do not care. Jax: This in game, this was the moment ⁓ this was the moment I knew the Knicks were gonna win because I was like, ⁓ this Jalen Brunson all all six feet, nothing of him, scoring on Wendy in the paint. Yeah. And they were down ⁓ seventy seven, eighty three at that time. Then he made it so it was seventy nine. But like once he did that, I was like, ⁓ he can just score like 'cause before when he wanted to score on Wimby, it'd be like a deep shot that he just splashed. But now he's just going inside and like pushing him around and scoring. I was like, Okay, there's nothing anyone can do to stop him on this court. And there was lit there was nothing anybody could do to stop him in the court 'cause he dropped forty five in a win. Greg: We do not care. So we get it out the way. UFC is fighting at the White House. This is news to me. I had no clue this was happening. Jax: Yeah, they're they're fighting at the White House. Apparently it's going to happen today as we record. And they're saying it's gonna be terrible because it's apparent they didn't plan well or whatever for any of this shit. ⁓ supposed to be bad weather. And this is be an outside event as well. Sixty percent chance of rain, thirty mile per hour wind, triple digit heat, mosquitoes. Greg: Mm-hmm. Literally. It was it was cr it was crazy. It was Jax: And they did it without Cat because he was in foul trouble for literally the he fouled out. He only had like I think he only had two points, but that's 'cause he had he had four fouls in like the second quarter, bro. So he sat he sat pretty much the entire game. Greg: Any file out in game file. Jax: And then all this going on. And then also since it's outside, if lightning happens, they're gonna have to delay the event and all this other stuff. So I'm personally not gonna watch it 'cause I don't even give a fuck in the slightest. So I'm like I'm not gonna watch it, but it will be funny if it goes all wrong. So that's all I really gotta say about that. Greg: Yeah, it was it was ⁓ Yeah, man, it was it was just like 'cause even even in other games, it was just like when they bowl people out just 'cause their bench their benches scoring like crazy, Deuce McBride, Shaman. You didn't even get a lot of that ⁓ bench help like you normally got these last couple games. It's really just been a a just keeping it striking distance, nigga. Just keeping in striking distance. Get us get us down at least by ten. Anything can happen. You know, where were you on June fourteenth? That's sh like we started with January sixth. What if something really pop off? What if something really pop off around round around a they not scared of that? Jax: ⁓ no, they're doing it today 'cause this is that nigga's birthday, bro. I forgot about this his birthday party. Greg: It was the fourth quarter and it was like five minutes left and I was just like, It was the fourth quarter and it was like five minutes left and I was just like, ⁓ this is a lot this is a lot of time. I'm starting I'm starting to treat this nigga like Brady. I'm like, I have too much time on the clock, nigga. Brunson can walk this bitch down. Brunson walked. Ooh. Jax: The nigga who needs a Yes. Eighty. He turned eighty. Greg: Him? How old is he? ⁓ fuck. Why is this nigga defined the odds? I'm starting to treat this nigga like Brady. I'm like, I have too much time on the clock, nigga. Brunson can walk this bitch down. Jax: Hey, Hey, that's exact that's exactly what he did too. Greg: Brunson walked. Jax: that's exactly what he did too. All the time, bro. I'd be thinking that all the time. I'm like, why? And then but like Loki to talk about the Spurs of it all, like it's been we we went we t ⁓ we didn't really talk too much about the Spurs or De'Aaron Fox's mishap at the end of game four, but he ⁓ they ended up getting a turnover. There was a couple of seconds left. He instead of dribbling the clock out, he went to try to score OG and an Obi blocked it, and then it ended up, you know Greg: This thing Why the why this nigga moving like 2012 2012 Adrian Peterson, nigga? Why we battle why we bouncing back so quickly? Jax: Bro. He not even bouncing. He he asleep every he gonna be asleep at this game too, like, or at this fight too. Like he asleep everywhere, bro. Why he still here, bro? Greg: Mm-hmm. Jax: It ended up how it ended with the Knicks winning that game. And I've just I've seen a lot of De'Aaron Fox hate, bro. Like Yes, he didn't have his best series, but like, you can't blame this whole thing on De'Aaron Fox. Like people Greg: Hey yo, pleading pleading to God why this nigga is still here is crazy. Valid though. Valid. Jax: I think it's flag day as well. Greg: Really? Jax: Pretty sure. That was a name. When is Flag Day? You know it's Flag yeah, it's Flag Day today. Greg: ⁓ yeah, you for sure can't. You can't like just b you can't just for sure just blame everything on Dear. That's they're just trying to do that 'cause he's like a a veteran like a veteran guard, which I kinda hate when people say stuff like that 'cause it it lacks context. Because how how veteran is your veteran guard if this is his second postseason ever? You know what I mean? Like nigga only went to the playoffs one time. He was that nigga was in I didn't know niggas. Niggas niggas was really doing that shit? How do you commemorate that? You just you just raise a flag? Jax: Mm. I don't know. I mean, I guess they're gonna have a have a UFC fight to commemorate it. Fuck it. Shit. Greg: Whole bunch patriotic niggas. Yeah, count me out. I'ma be busy anyway, and I got content to do, nigga. What the fuck? ⁓ yeah, that's all we got. That's all we got. Jackson last word. I'm playing. Anyway. ⁓ let's get into ⁓ something. ⁓ My bad. We do not care. Jax: How veteran is your veteran guard if many of those years were spent wasting way in Sacramento? Yeah. Greg: Ax absolutely. You wasn't playing meaningful basketball for at least the first six seasons of your life, like of of your NBA career. So at this point in the finals, you wet behind the ears just as much as Wimby and Dylan. Like anybody, 'cause they y'all lol in the finals for the first time. Jax: Yeah. Anybody. Well don't don't don't say Dylan. Don't say Dylan 'cause he he he dropped twenty five. He was the he was the best player on the Spurs. Greg: Yeah, ⁓ Henry Ruggs didn't make that he didn't make that bond, y'all. He didn't make parole, y'all. He d he didn't. ⁓ for sure. I mean. And and then and then on and then when and yeah, when we gotta get that smoke too, cause ⁓ look, at the end of the day, I'm ti I'm I'm ti I I'm I'm not here. I'm not one of them niggas that's gonna be like, ⁓ my god, he's the best in the world and then when he when he doesn't do something crazy, it's like, ⁓ my god, he's only twenty one though. Like y'all y'all doing too much. I don't give a fuck, bro. You missed two free throws back to back when I know you're a good free throw shooter. It's not like Jax: ⁓ yeah, he did. The way people talked about it, I thought he was for sure getting like people were talking about it like it was like a done deal that he would get bailed. So I thought he was gonna get built. Yeah, he he was ready for the Yeah. Seven for nineteen, nineteen points. Greg: Nah, dead ass. I ain't gonna lie, for somebody th the kill somebody, that nigga show got some some decent representation. Like he that nigga still got like some NFL niggas behind him. ⁓ No, it's cool, yeah, for sure. Jax: No, 'cause they like it. Like that's still their homie. He's just stupid. Like he just made a terrible decision and it ruined everybody's life. So Greg: Nah, for sure, but like we we all got, you know, we all got homies. So like I knew like NFL players. But it it seemed like some NFL corporate niggas is is is is good with this nigga too. So that was that was a little ⁓ that was a little surprising for me, but hey man. There's like three other things he he could be thankful for, versus having parole, my nigga. You could have lost your long life. You know what I mean? You could have you could have had a career altering injury where we're not even talking about you even make it a comeback. It's not like we're putting Steven Adams up there or Mitchell or Mitchell Robinson. I know them niggas is bad shooters. You're a good free throw shooter. And you missed both in the same game where you got into another nigga's head and said, I'm in your head. Like, come on. You I I gotta, bro, we have to have critiques, nigga. I can't just let you say, ⁓ my God, he's just 21. No, you was talking crazy on the court. No. Jax: Yeah. But I I respect Wimby for it though. Like talk to talk talk to these niggas bro. Talk to I'm in your head, talk to these niggas, bro. But Greg: I respect it, but you gotta you gotta get the heat. Yeah. Yeah, talk to them. Talk to them. But when it goes south, hey, you gotta take it on the chin. I'm I'm not here to talk to people that are defending Wimby to to the depths in on on his age. Fuck his age. I don't care. Niggas generational. Yeah. So ⁓ it's only so much I can kind of feel bad for. ⁓ you made that sandwich, but you still gonna live you still gonna live a life, man. Like what he's like twenty twenty five or some shit? Jax: I'm pretty sure he's our age, maybe slightly younger. I don't let me see. Greg: Really? Maybe so. Okay. Hey, he might be. But like at at bare minimum, he'll probably be out in his thirties at the latest. ⁓ still still with a chance ⁓ you know, be a contributing member of society, so ⁓ yeah. Football may not be in his in his cards, but Jax: got there now it's time to win yeah if he is generation but people are gonna be like ⁓ this is this is ⁓ his whatch this is his ⁓ seven or whatever you want to call it like the same thing LeBron went Greg: Man, fuck no. I disagree, but ⁓ I get Jax: It's not, but I guess you wanna you wanna say that although 'cause like the Spurs were like the Spurs were favored to win this series, I believe. Like I feel like Yeah, niggas thought niggas like the Greg: No, that ain't no believe. It was a fact. Niggas niggas was on some. No matter who comes out the west, it's it's West in four, West in five. Jax: Yeah, he he's twenty seven. He's twenty seven. Greg: Yeah, so like he was he was had to be what, five more years anyway? Jax: Yeah. It's me. I w I was saying these things as well. And then the game started and I was like, ⁓ shit, maybe the Knicks got it. And the Knicks in fact did have it. So like I truthfully, I never thought I'd see the day the Knicks win any type of championship. Granted, like they won the ⁓ not the bubble, but what's it called? The ⁓ Yeah, they won the end season tournament, they won the cup and all, but like the actual chip, I didn't think that would happen. And I'm I don't know how long his ac ⁓ he's in three he's in between three and ten years. So he probably got five more years in. Unless he gets out early or Greg: It's his his shit was like ten years. Yeah, so he'll get out at what thirty two or early. Yeah. He can get out at thirty. Who knows? But you know, that's that's that's enough with the We do not care. We do not care. Now somebody that did lose his life, ⁓ Alden Smith. ⁓ he was he was defensive player, right? Absolutely. Nothing. They won an NBA Cup. Jax: I like Jalen Brunson, but I even he said it in the interview, he was like, I didn't really he was like being honest, I didn't see this coming either, but it happened. And like that's real. Cause shoot, who would have thought Jalen Brunson, Carl Anthony Towns would get you a championship? Greg: Also the first T Jax: Yeah, he's a former linebacker, pass rusher, extraordinaire for the forty niners. That n like he ended up like falling out of the NFL because he had a whole lot of just like off the field issues and stuff like that going on. But like that nigga was not like he was 'cause he was part of the ⁓ that twenty eleven draft that had everybody like Cam Newton, Julio Jones, all then. But he was the he was the seventh overall pick, so like that's how you know he was good. And then he was actually worth it 'cause Greg: Yeah. Yeah And on top of that, they're the first team to get the cup in the in the championship in the same in the same season. You know what I mean? Honestly, both in general. Yeah. Jax: No see. Greg: ⁓ wow. Jax: Don't see yeah. Greg: Yeah, just just in general, 'cause yeah. 'Cause it's it it's only been what, the the Lakers, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Knicks, I think that's what Jax: I think he was like the fastest in NFL history to get like thirty sacks. Cause it took him, I think like twenty five games or something like that. Like, let me see. Is yeah, his fur his rookie year he had fourteen sacks. His second year he had nineteen and a half sacks. And then his third year he got hurt, but he still had eight and a half sacks. And then he started going through a whole bunch of like legal troubles and he got suspended. Did the patients get it? Or no? I'm tripping. Do the patients get it or I'm tripping? Greg: No, the Pacers lost to the Lakers. So the Lakers won that one. Then the Bucks won. ⁓ and I think that was the year where they didn't touch any of the the champagne or anything like that. And then the Knicks the Knicks won it this year. It's only been three years, so the Knicks won it. So the Knicks being the only team to get both of them Jax: From the league. We came back. His last season he played with Dallas. He had five sacks. But like Arden Smith, when he was healthy and had everything right about him, he was a monster. Yeah. Can't can't be mattered. It can't be Greg: You know what I mean? Put some respect, put some respect. And I can't be mad. Put put some respect on that shit. You know what I mean? I I I feel it. I think ⁓ also when it comes to also when it comes to the Spurs, yeah, they got a lot of ⁓ internal situations that they need to ⁓ talk about specifically with ⁓ DeAaron Fox. 'Cause is is ⁓ Viz ⁓ Devin Vazell was just talking a little bit too much when it came to ⁓ saying that Dylan Harper was ⁓ Jax: They just had a lot of stuff going on and he ended up flying out the NFL 'cause he died. He's o he was only thirty six as well, so he's pretty young. Greg: Yeah, fucking crazy. There's extremely young. ⁓ rest in peace to him, ⁓ press to the family and all that stuff. It was crazy because I was actually having a conversation with somebody, ⁓ and it was really more around like the 49ers and how much talent these niggas hadn't had over the decades and still just couldn't get a championship due to injuries or whatever the case may be. Even like their their coaching staff was like Hall of Fame star-studded with just the amount of Not ha yeah, one and more minute. That was def that ⁓ that definitely wasn't that definitely didn't need to be said. ⁓ at this point. ⁓ but now everybody knows in the cats out the back. So Spurs do need to address that shit. ⁓ and I think they will. I think they're a competent organization. I think they'll make the right decision on how to do that. And as far as Wimby, I think when it comes to Wimby, me me and you have this conversation all the time about ⁓ he needs to pick, he needs to either be Jax: Yeah, no. Greg: niggas you had there and the fact that they just couldn't ⁓ get over that hump was crazy. But Alden Smith was a part of one of those. I forgot which year it was. But ⁓ yeah one of the yeah yeah it had to be. Yeah, one of the cap Super Bowl years or whatever. So like I said, tragedy. ⁓ but I think that's that's all the NFL that we have, but resting power to that young man. Now Jax: One of the caveaters. Right. Me ha me haven't been one of the caveat yet. Greg: The K he need to go the KG route or the KD route. And honestly, after going through this finals and and looking at this nigga's first playoff series, I'm gonna be honest with you. I think I think he's not going either of those routes. I think he's going the wimby route. All right. And I think I think he I think he's going I think he's going the Wimby route. And it's only the Wimby route because nobody knows like Next, we do have the World Cup. The World Cup is finally here. We finally started. I'm gonna be honest with you, Jax. ⁓ didn't know USA was good. First of all, I didn't even know USA qualified. I'll say, ⁓ we I just thought we was hosting. Jax: Unfortunately, I I I believe you I believe you are true. I believe you're right. I didn't know the USA was good until you told me just now. I thought they were bad. I was asked. Greg: what Wimby can be capable of. Like we're gonna see the Wimby route in real time. Like this nigga's finna make a whole new shit that we've never seen before. I grew up always believing they were bad, except for like the women. I like I knew the women was kind of like cool. Yeah. But this year I was just like, you know, I started talking to like my ⁓ my Africans. Shout out to my Africans that watch the sport for real. And I was just like, damn, we USA won? I was like, they're good? I didn't I didn't even know they were good. He was like, Yeah. They were I was like, when they start being good. He was like, This year. Like, this month actually. Jax: ⁓ yeah the women were called, yeah. I knew there was I feel like I feel like what he's doing now is the wimbi route. Like I I think yes he's gonna get stronger, but I think he's still gonna I think his game will probably always be how it is right. Greg: Yeah. Yeah. And I and I think Yeah, and I think but I think also he understands and I think the people around him kind of like understand his development. So like when we talk about what he needs to do, I'm not finna be here s beating a dead horse because everybody go, ⁓ yeah, he just needs to get stronger. Well, no shit, Sherlock. That nigga's been putting on weight since he got in the league. Every year he done put on some more muscle. Jax: I think that's just how he wants to play. Mm. Shoot. Good as good a time as any to be good. Like shoot. Greg: Nigga just started turning up. Every everybody's shocked. Because at first, ⁓ the only reason why I even had like this kind of conversation was it was just a whole bunch of, you know, Europeans been talking crazy. And most of the time I ignore it because I don't care. It's soccer. But like there was some like there's like a whole bunch of Europeans that was just like, the USA y'all the USA really thinks y'all can y'all can really win for real, for real? Like y'all y'all y'all think y'all like that for real? Jax: He he's not done getting stronger. Yeah. Greg: He's not done getting stronger. It's debatable if he's even in his man body yet. So it's just, yes, he's getting stronger. And as he's getting stronger, you see him attacking more and more because he's stronger. Like people talk about KD all the time. I kind of forgot or didn't recognize KD was playing shooting guard his first year because he was just that goddamn small. He just had to get stronger. And it doesn't happen in the offseason. And I was just like, who the fuck is saying that? We're trash. I was like, who is saying this dumbass shit? We don't the nigga the finals is on. Leave me alone, bitch. Leave me alone, bitch ass nigga. I'm watching Jalen Brunson right now. Who cares? And then I had to look back, I was like, ⁓ shit. We be we beat a team 4-1. Let me shut the fuck up. I say, Y'all look, y'all look at ice. Yeah, they. Yeah, yeah, they pay they they beat Paraguay. Honestly, the group that they're in. Jax: No. Yeah, he At the ⁓ NBA combine he couldn't they he couldn't do any of the bench press I think they did like one eighty five. He wasn't able to do any of the bench press reps because he wasn't strong enough. Ain't they beat like what's name like Paraguay or well let me like never mind, I don't even know who's good or not, so never mind. Greg: Yeah. Not now this nigga plays power forward at the age of thirty eight sometimes. And it's just like that's a that's a crazy, that's a that's a crazy progression. And he's not like the strongest athlete ever, but it is one of those things where it's like, yo, ⁓ progression isn't always linear, true. But stuff progression doesn't see a noticeable difference in just one offseason or every offseason. So in this offseason, he's gonna address it. And Jax: Yeah. Greg: They might be able sweep them bitches 'cause I think Turkey is in there and I think ⁓ one of them one of them Britain, Scotland, what one of them one of them other teams, one of them white countries is in there. And I'm just like, ⁓ okay, like we might need we we may not have no decent comp until ⁓ competitive play happens. But ⁓ yeah, that's all I know about it. ⁓ Jax, I know you were in the city for all that going down. Is the traffic been different? Has it You might see a small tick, but that doesn't mean he's not working on it. Like I just think people are just trying to, ⁓ my God, he just he he needs to nigga, don't you think he's doing it? These are all professional athletes. I'm saying, like, you it's like when they keep talking about ⁓ my god, ⁓ Amin Thompson just needs to be working on shooting all year. Duh. He knows that. And I was like, you you're like you making it seem like he don't know that. Like Been worse? Yeah, it's you know. Jax: Tra traffic is always bad. I mean, I seen a couple of cars that like had like the German flags like hanging off and I like, ⁓ maybe they're German or whatever, I guess, you know. But like the only thing like the only thing I know about the World Cup, I've just been seeing like all them people on social media post, ⁓ my gosh, America. I didn't know. And they're trying all the foods and going off to all these different places. And I'm like, wow and they're like, ⁓ my gosh, they have guns in the stores. I didn't know you could do that. Like 'cause I went to like Don't you think he knows what he needs to do? He knows he I promise you, he knows he can't sue. We all everybody knows he can't suit. He's gonna get better. Or he might get better. Yeah. Greg: It's it's one thing if he was playing like he don't know what he needs to be working on. No, he knows what he needs to be working on. That's why his free throw percentage looked better this year than last season. But of course, he's not finna just jump up 10%. This is still the league, nigga. This is still the league. So ⁓ when it comes to Wibby, I think he's in great hands ⁓ for any Spurs fan. ⁓ treating this loss nonchalantly or on some, don't worry, Wimby will be back. Hey, these niggas don't these niggas didn't even know like about thunderstorms like that. Like they don't, like when there was like a delay for whatever, I guess for like a lightning strike or whatever in one of the, I don't know if it was LA, I forgot which one of the arenas. And they were just like, lightning strike. What the fuck? Like, they don't be really seeing lightning like that in like these other countries. Not as not as frequent. Not as frequent. So like they'll be. Jax: What do you mean? What do you mean you don't see lightning? What? Greg: He's gonna be back. Wimby will. No, I I will. Wimby will. I don't know if the Spurs will, but I know Wimby will. And and if I had a time like I for Spurs fans, if I had a time portal, if I had like a time traveling device, I'd crank it back to 2012 and go to go to Kleene, Texas and talk to a young man in Kaleen, Texas in 2012 and tell that nigga, hey, ⁓ your favorite team won't be back into the finals. Jax: Don't do that. Greg: Going in and then like they'll hear thunder and it'll be like, What the fuck is that? Like then they're not used to that. They're not used to that. And I'm just like, I thought they were trolling, but there's too many of these niggas having the same reaction to thunderstorms and why why a light why light why do we have a lightning strike warning? They don't know what a lightning strike warning is. They never experienced that. And I was just Jax: Ha ha ha. Turn it. I mean maybe they get like maybe they just don't get the warning. Like 'cause you have like you have to get like everybody gets light. If it rains you get lightning, bro. Like they might not they just might not be used to the delays or whatever. Maybe they're just like, you know what? Lightning strike happened, we keep playing. I don't know. There's no Greg: Into another 14 years. That nigga, first of all, won't believe that our time travel. So he'll be ⁓ this nigga's bullshitting. This team right here, these three niggas right here, ain't no fucking way we wouldn't come back. You saying we're not gonna make the finals? You're bullshitting. And then he'll call like a light-skinned man or some shit like that. But besides that's besides the point. Like on paper, yeah. You're supposed to make it back to the finals. This is supposed to be a team that you continue to build up, and this is young talent, but shit happens. No, but it I guess I guess it's for us, it's like it's not at the same magnitude. They not getting thunderstorms. Like that's not that's not that's a rare occurrence. Rain, yes. Thunderstorm and ⁓ yaga. They just not they just don't they don't be hearing that shit. Which my that mind boggled me, but at the same time, the way these niggas been eating fried chicken like crazy. Look, anything's possible. These niggas don't Jax: Absolutely. That feels crazy. Greg: That's why you have to capitalize the times you make it to the finals 'cause you do not know when you're gonna come back. You do not know when you're gonna make it back. Everybody's not destined for a dynasty. We haven't had a dynasty in over a decade. So Jax: Yeah. Bro, I seen I seen a tweet. It was some ⁓ some random like Swedish woman or whatever, and she took she took a picture of some golden corral and they were like, ⁓ my gosh, this is the best tweet I've ever had. I was like, Golden Corral, bro Golden Corral like There's been ten straight different ⁓ winners for the championship, right? Is it ten or eight? I can't. Greg: Absolutely. Yeah. And ⁓ and we gonna keep it and we're gonna keep it real. We're gonna keep it honest. It's been a coin flip. West one year, east the other. West one year, east the other. For as strong as the West is, the East always finds a way to get the get the one the next year. So it's one of those things where ain't n niggas not dominating to the to the to the nth degree. So like I said, for the Spurs fans, hey, the future is bright. And y'all do have good management, but shit does happen. Them niggas not beat the allegations. Your food is nasty. Jax: Like I've had I've had my fair share of Golden Corral before. Like if I have to, I will. But like Golden Corral, bro? Like come on, man. Greg: ⁓ shit, you said go you said golden corral. Hey, I don't know why in my mind I thought you were saying crackle barrel this whole time. Like I was imagining crackle barrel when you said this. So I'm just like, ⁓ you know, good east. Yeah, good yeah, good east. But golden corral? All right, nigga. This is ⁓ they get they get crazy. Jax, you ⁓ you've been out the country though. Like you've been you've been to London, right? Jax: Wait. Greg: Shit does happen. So ⁓ just hope. Just hope that it can it's in your favor or it's in your best interest. Who knows? But I just wanted to put that caveat there because niggas niggas is talking too easy. Like, ⁓ don't hey, they're young. This is what's supposed to. We'll be back. Okay. You better go ask an OKC fair from 2012. You better go ask them niggas. Shit. Yeah, that's all I got though. Jax: I mean shoot, same thing with cracker. I do the same thing with Cracker Bell, bro. Like Yeah. Exactly, bro. Fuck are we doing here? We'll do that. Okay. ⁓ Ha ha ha ha. Yeah. Yeah, the food wasn't good. ⁓ It was terrible. Greg: You know what I'm saying? I was like, is it is the is the gap that wide to the point where it's just like, ⁓ my God, like are they going are they going over the top or is this genuine it's genuine? Jax: think it I think it might be that time, great. Greg: ⁓ for sure. It might it might finally be that ⁓ top three efficient part of year. To get into it. Jax: Personally, I feel like Personally, I feel like just the places that we went to, it was poor choices. Cause I don't think like 'cause that's was when my brother he had just moved, so they weren't like familiar with all the stuff. But I think like with British people, Europeans or whatever, like the white people that be in them countries, like I think all their food is probably horrible. Greg: Jax, do you have a hot take? Jax: I do in fact have my hot take. My hot take is I don't care what no I don't care what none of y'all say. OG and an OB should have been finals MVP. Yes, Jalen Brunson dropped 45 in a very in the closeout game. Yes, I understand that. Yes, I think he averaged, what, 32 points. I understand that as well. I don't care. OG, he had a col he had the major series. He was ⁓ he stepped up his ⁓ he stepped up for cat slack because cat. Greg: Absolutely. Ha ha. Jax: But like once you get like the ethnic foods, like whether it be Indian or Jamaican or I think those types of like the ethnic foods are good. Like the ones made by people with melanin in their skin is good. The the white people food, I think that's terrible. And they're probably used to eating like freaking I don't even know what they eat, like beans. I don't even know what they eat over there. They probably used to that. So they're not used to Yeah, they're not used to seasonings and stuff like that. So but I don't But Golden Corral is Had a lot of foul trouble and things like that. Although Kat did have a couple of games, but OG had for twenty po or twenty one points. He shot fifty for fifty percent from the three, fifty two percent from the field, and he was locking down everybody. Like even Wimby, he was giving Wimby trouble. And also he was d he dunked on Wimby like three times this series. Like I think and of course he had that insane tip and the iconic tip. I forget. They're trying to get I don't think they've settled on a nickname for it, but they need to. So I think they Greg: Bean bean toast. Trumpets. Jax: If it's the best chicken you ever had, brother, I I will I will pray for you. I I hope that's not true. ⁓ Greg: Now there's a nigga that went that went like he did like a trifecta type thing. Like he went somewhere, I forgot the first place he went to, then he went to Canes and then went to Chili's all in one day. I was like, ooh. Jax: Talking about like the hand of OG or something like that. Like that's sort of lame to me. It's a lame nickname for sure, but they're gonna figure it out. I don't know what it's gonna be. But I truly think OG should have got that ⁓ finals MVP because he just every every question they asked of him or every time they needed him, he he answered that call. He answered the question. Like he he was there, he was that second star for them. And no, I I don't think anybody really saw this coming from him. Like, yes, we knew OG Ananobi is a great player. Greg: Gut, your guts is crazy. You're cook hey, you're cooked for the rest of the night. You're you're good. That's that's Yeah. Jax: I get like that. All that stuff is so regul. Like all that stuff is like canes and gym is so regular here. What do they be eating? I just I don't know. Greg: I'm scared. I'm scared to ask I'm at I'm at I'm scared to ask one of them Europeans what they be eating. It's crazy. Yeah, shout out and shout out to the ⁓ shout out to the Brazilians. ⁓ Brazil was playing ⁓ I think Morocco. I think so. Yeah, they were playing Morocco yesterday. But it was being held at MetLife. ⁓ these niggas are in New York. I was like, you got mad Brazilians in New York. Jax: We thought it'd be cat, you know. We thought maybe even Mikhail Bridges, to be completely honest, cause OG, he's never been like an all-star or anything like that. He's been a solid player, but I don't know, man. I just think he should have been finals MVP because he played his heart out. He locked up. He shot insane from three. Like fifty like fifty percent is absolutely crazy. Cause literally every single three he shot, I was like, there's no way he's gonna make it, especially the ones with Wimby on him. I like, there's no way he's gonna make it. Greg: And the Knicks is about to win the finals. This city is about to go crazy. We'll talk about that later. But one of the main things I wanted to say was that these niggas put real grass in the stadium. All the Jax: This flash every single time. I'm like nigger. Greg: And then pop that bitch. It's like you can turn into a corner specialist. I'm like, God damn, nigga. Jax: Yeah, I didn't I knew he could shoot. I didn't know he could shoot like that, but that's just when the lights was the brightest he was his best. So I do think O. G. should have won that finals MVP. That's what they did for all that's what they're doing for all the World Cup stadiums. They're putting real they're taking off the turf if you have turf and putting in real grass. Greg: Yeah. So it is possible. It was always possible. And I'm pretty sure they're gonna take that real grass out when it's done. When they could just they could just simply just keep it. Jax: Yeah, that was Greg: Way that nigga hooped, I was like, Damn, that's I started seeing Masayu Jury's vision. I was like, Okay, I I I see where you was going. Like the this and a prime Pascal and a prime Scotty Barn, I see what you was trying to go with. Jax: Exactly what they're gonna do. Imagine if the rapist Like I don't know, you can't you can never tell me something's too expensive for a billionaire or something's not cost effective for like you have a billion dollars. I don't care what I don't care about anything you're saying. You have a b you can afford whatever you d whatever you're talking about. You can afford it. So like no, they don't wanna put in they don't wanna put in real grass 'cause they still wanna host whatever like different 'cause whatever different events they have that are not football over there. And it's I guess it's easier to remove turf or it's easier to like Imagine if the Raptors had OG, Pascal, and Kawhi still. Like that's a that's a good three. Like that's a nice three, bro. Greg: Yeah, all you all you need is just a competent guard. Even Fred, even just keeping Fred would have been even keeping Fred would have been quiet. You just you just slide Malik Beasley at the two. Like you can you can make some shit shake. Find find you a Ivaka Zubak, you be alright, nigga, or Steven Adams. You be alright, nigga. These niggas that's yeah, man. Look, ⁓ I know it didn't work, but damn it. Jax: Shit, man. Greg: Yeah, I don't know why I don't know. Yeah, that you're y'all tripping. Jax: That's a nice team, bro. That's a nice team. Just use turf 'cause like real grass can get muddy and stuff like that. Turf won't do that. So it's a whole I don't know. I think it's this whole thing is stupid. They owners fake care about the players. So it it is what it is, man. We he ha he had to be there. Let's see what he got for Cooper, man. Let's see what we can do with Malay. Greg: It it made me rebelieve in Messiah again. I was like, okay. I got faith he gonna be all right. He's gonna be all right in Dallas. Okay. I'm not mad at that hot take. I think that hot take is ⁓ It is what it is, man. ⁓ speaking of money, it's time to move on to Texas Tech. Now, originally we talked about this last podcast, but you didn't hear it because we edited it out. Cause we thought we had the final verdict with Brandon Soresby. We thought this nigga would never be playing collegiate or collegiate football ever again. We're starting to talk about Jax: Ha ha. Greg: Is it's a hot take that no New York fan has cause they just don't give a fuck. They just in the city. We just want the chip. I don't care. I don't care who the fuck. I don't care who the fuck that finals MVP go to. It could have gone to the other team. It could have gone to Wimby. Don't care. Them niggas got them niggas got the championship. Them niggas still party him. All right. ⁓ my hot take is ⁓ simple and to the point. ⁓ the Eastern Conference is not as weak as niggas wanna make it out to be. Jax: Yeah, they just have it. Somebody won, we're destroying the city. Yeah. Greg: certain type of supplementary, ⁓ complementary drafts and shit, what what what his likelihood was, all for that to not matter because Texas Tech found a judge that said, Hey nigga, maybe you can't play. Jax: Drafts and stuff, yeah. No. Now, like you said, we both we filmed that because we were like, there's there's no way he's gonna be able to play football. This is clearly breaking the rules. But like you said, they found a judge in ⁓ Lubbock County that granted them an injunction. This whole thing, like it means that he's not ⁓ clear of everything. They just wanted an injunction to like postpone the ⁓ the lawsuit or the court proceedings or whatever you wanna call it. Greg: Jackson Breaking Dow for us. ⁓ this stem from a conversation I had with Jax last part on trying to figure out how weak the East actually is. And I'm not here to say that the East is stronger than the West. I know that the East is weaker. But I think I'll I think where the disconnect happened between me and Jax, I think the people that think like Jax are also people, I'm not saying Jax is in the same category, but I think people feel the same way. No way. Jax: until after the season. Cause like an injunction typically postpones things for around like nine months or whatever. And in nine months, season gonna be over. So it don't even matter. He's gonna be in the NFL draft. So so that's why people are really upset about this. Cause they're not they're just like postponing everything until this end of the season, which isn't fair. And because of that, there's been like there's been a lot from like schools that are playing them from the big 12 from Greg: Because they they view it as a sense of they look at the Eastern conference and they don't see like a a big ass improvement. Like, okay, like what are you seeing that makes it seem like the East is just that much stronger? And my defense was always, or I didn't articulate it, but I think we're coming to this point of I'm not really talking about the East when I say the East is not as weak. The West is just not as strong as it used to be. ⁓ just Absolutely. Jax: politicians, like it's I know, ⁓ who were I believe I wanna say it was Georgia Tech and Nebraska. There are two schools that were supposed to play A not AM, but p supposed to play Texas Tech and they're like, you what? We're not if you guys l allow Source B to play, he broke the rules, we're not gonna play ⁓ other big twelve teams are also sort of taking that same stance. They even were like, hey, if you have Texas Tech on your schedule at all for any sports, take them off. Don't play them. Greg: We don't have dynasties. There's no super teams like there used to be. ⁓ there's no Golden State Warrior dynasty. ⁓ there there's not even Western Conference teams that are repeatedly going back to the finals ever since 2019. It's a different Western Conference team in the finals every year. ⁓ if you if you put an Eastern Conference team from the 2010s and you put them in the 2020s, ⁓ I don't think they get swept by the twenty twenty East. Like I think they stay competitive. Like I'm not saying that they're gonna win it all the way, but Jax: And because of that, Texas Tech, ⁓ they went, or if you don't know about Texas Tech, they also have a new booster. His name is Cody Campbell. He's a oil, oil and gas billionaire. So he's the one who's financing a whole lot of this other stuff. And since people are like, ⁓ no, we don't want to play play Texas Tech, they went up to ⁓ Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, and he said, Hey, if these Big 12 coaches are ⁓ or he's threatening legal action against Big Twelve coaches. Greg: You you put you put a prime a prime Eastern team in the 2010s, they'll be fine. You put one of these 2010 Western conference teams back against these 2020 Western teams. Yeah, I I think I think the Golden State Warriors still clean up, nigga. I I still think with some of your prime and best e even the 2018 Rockets, the you had some teams where it's just like, ⁓ my God, you got superstars and you have superstars in them. Superstars and whoever the fuck you gonna pick. Jax: Of course. If they if the Big 12 tried to sanction Texas Tech for playing Source B. And then because of that, Oklahoma, their attorney general, went and said, Hey, if you ⁓ sue them, we're gonna sue you. So it's just all these politicians are beefing with each other now. And all of this is because Cody Campbell has enough money because he's a billionaire to pay all these people to do this stuff. And I'm just like. Greg: as as your bench, basically. ⁓ the the West is just not as strong as it used to be. And when the West is not as strong, okay, yet the gap starts to get closer. ⁓ the only team that's been at least back to the East ⁓ been been back to the finals twice in this last what nine or ten year span was fucking ⁓ fucking Celtics. Jax: What happened? What happened to rules, bro? Like you get caught gambling, and we already talked about like he was gambling like $60,000 and $90,000, doing thousands of bets and blah blah blah. Yes, he had an addiction. Yes, it's bad, but what happened to rules, bro? You can you just can't gamble. It's not even hard, bro. Like, I don't fucking get it, bro. Is it doors or I'm tripping? Greg: The Celtics went in 2022 and then came back in 2024 and one. ⁓ that's like the only team that made it back to the finals. And niggas are not even going to the finals in in consecutive years. So that's where I come from, where it's like, okay, yeah, is the is the East weak? Yes. ⁓ the West is strong. And it's notoriously historically been that way. The West has always kind of been better than the East. That's not that's nothing new. But I will stand on it. My mind you, mind you, it goes back to ⁓ even in the NFL, I remember when Calvin Ridley got caught up in that and he deadass was just like, No, I'm not an addict. I only gambled a thousand dollars. Now, I actually believe this nigga. I don't think he's an addict. I I genuinely do not think Calvin Ridley's an addict. He just got caught up, didn't know, and I don't even think it was ⁓ Jax: Just 'cause it was like that 'cause I was trying to avoid LeBron. Greg: The way that's what I'm saying. The way people talk about the the way people talk about the East, they talk about it like we're still living in the 2010s. The way we have these conversations right now, where when the Knicks won, ⁓ going into the finals, niggas was just like, damn, they really finna have a week rest before they get swept by whoever's coming out the west. They they have these same conversations. Last year it was with ⁓ the Pacers. Like, ⁓ that's a cool story. Jax: Yeah. Yeah. Greg: I don't know what he actually betted on, so I'm not gonna speak on it, but it was just it didn't it didn't seem like he was betting unders on some shit. It you know, it i it it was just on some r regular gambling of the NFL sport or whatever the case may be while he wasn't Jax: Yeah, I wanna say he actually did like bet on his team to win one time. Yeah. Greg: I can't wait for them niggas to get sweeped. They forced the game seven. And Lord knows what would have happened if Tyrese would have just kept his fucking Achilles. That's what I'm saying. So it's just one of those things where I'm just like, okay, how, how maybe I need to change it to how good the, you know, how good is the East really? Maybe I need to reword it and say, ⁓ is the West as is the West as strong as I really think it is, or as the the conception is. He just wasn't playing or whatever. Like he wasn't playing at the time or or whatever the case may be. Yeah, it was hurt. ⁓ so yeah, he was just being dumb. He was just, you know, had a had a had a dumb moment and it cost him a whole fucking year. We're talking about $40,000, like $40,000 bet, 60K, and y'all out here saying shit like, yo, like, we need to support him during this time. Like, you know what I mean? Like. Jax: Yeah. He was like hurt or something. My hey man, Tyrese would have played, I think they would have won, bro. I think they could Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Greg: But that's that's pretty much been my hot take. That gap is not that crazy because every year a different conference is winning the championship. I would respect it more if it's a different Western Conference team and for five years straight we're getting a Western Conference ⁓ team winning the championship for five consecutive years. It just hasn't happened. ⁓ so I I will continue to stand on that. ⁓ and it's only gonna take more Eastern Conference teams to to like I guess win and and beat To rob him of football right now was just just crazy for his mental health. That was crazy. Jax: ⁓ yeah, not to not to cut you off, but like that was the that was the a reason why that judge he went with the that's why he ⁓ approved the injunction because he was like, ⁓ since the NCAA, one of their like core values or whatever is that you must protect the players at all costs. And he was the judge he was like, Well, if you take him away from this safe environment that keeps him with his teammates and can help him with his gambling recovery and also help him, you know, prepare for the NFL draft and future employment. If you do that, it harms the player. And it's just like, nigga, it's not harm. It's it's consequences for his actions. Like Greg: Safe. Champions, but I should I I I stand on it. The East is not that damn weak. It is not. And even if you don't think they are, the Knicks, the Nick, the Knicks was not, this was a different type of Knicks team. Because if you want to compare them to the Eastern, they was blowing them niggas out in the East. Like they swept everybody. They damn near swept everybody in the East. So like you can call them weak ass East all you want. They beat a Western conference team in five. Walked them down. it this this was this was a crazy, a crazy year. I just want to give the Knicks their credit. This nigga said this nigga said harm and it was just like he said a safe environment in football in the same sentence. I was like, nigga, football not even safe. Nigga, what are you talking about? And if you have a real problem, ⁓ I don't think football is the answer. Like if he truly did have a problem, he might just need to step away from football to begin with. This is also the same school that kicked out ⁓ Dakota Allen for some shit off the field. Jax: That's the crazy part. Greg: ⁓ and in the midst of that, ⁓ put some respect on the East just a tad bit. Just a little bit. I'm not saying that they're better than West, but that is my hot take. ⁓ turned into one of those ⁓ what would you call it? Last chance last chance you Yeah, bro, it reminded me of that was just like this same university kicked the player out and gave that nigga a consequence for some actions off the field or whatever, or whenever the block got too hot for him off the field, it was like, Hey yo, look, we might be able to bring you back, but hey, like you just need to step away. You just need to step away from this and and and go do something else and Jax: I haven't heard the name Dakota Allen in so long, bro. I'm not mad at it. Well I mean, I'm not yeah, I'm not mad at that, Hate. I'm not mad at it. The East has gotten better, but I'm still ⁓ still think the West got it, but it's not terrible. Greg: Yeah. Absolutely. ⁓ that'll be it. Jax, any last words? Jax: ⁓ Greg: He he made a name for himself and ultimately I think ⁓ I don't know if he went back to AM. Not AM. I don't know if he went back to tech or if he went ⁓ to another school like Arkansas or I kinda forgot the the lore. But y'all know what consequences are, nigga. Like this is this is this is nothing new for this university. Y'all know what the fuck y'all are doing. ⁓ y'all are not oblivious. And on top of that, that weak ass university dropped a twenty minute video on Twitter. Jax: Go outside, you know, go touch some grass if you need it. Also, actually no, free Carmelo Anthony. He was a 17-year-old who was convicted of, I believe they called it first degree murder in Texas because he was at a track meet and he got into a fight with some of the other people at the track meet that were jumping him. He stabbed one of them, dude passed away. I forg I forgot what happened too, honestly. Probably should have been manslaughter. If anything, he had an all white jury. They gave him they sentenced him in like I feel like it was like three days maybe, maybe faster than that. Or three hours rather. Like the whole thing took like three hours. Not three days, three hours. But they sent him to thirty five years in prison. ⁓ he definitely does not deserve that. I saw that video and I was like, I I knew it was gonna explain it and I I was gonna press play and then I saw like 21 minutes, I was like, you know what? Y'all got it. Y'all got it. I'm I'm okay. Y'all, y'all got it. Greg: I did not watch that. Yeah, it was ⁓ it was quick it was quick as fuck. Yeah, three hours. It was a three hour deliberation. Nothing crazy, yeah. I don't care. I don't want no parts of this. I promise I don't want no parts. Jax: Cause you need 20 minute explanation for your bullshit. Cause you know you wrong. That's why they cause they know they wrong, bro. That's why they're doing it, bro. Actually, no, the ⁓ the Cody Campbell dude, the billionaire that's like financing all this, ⁓ cause he's rich, so he just be doing shit. He was on like a podcast or whatever, and he was like, Nobody went crazy when Penn State got caught up and all that stuff. And I'm like, nigga, yes they did. Like, nigga went to jail. Joe Paterno got fired and then he died because he was sad. Like, there was consequences. Crazy this is happening after that Asian dude got off of killing the other guy. So it's just But yeah, free him and that's all I gotta say. Hopefully, you know, I believe they're filing an appeal. So hopefully that goes through. But yeah, it's Greg: Rick Child, yeah. They are. Yeah. First murder in the first degree I I heard was like one of the hardest to prove and the fact that you could just get that done in three hours is crazy. Jax: Yeah, 'cause when it's murder in the first three, you have to prove like intent to do it and like you've planned and all that. And none of that none of that was none of that was that. So Greg: Nick took that nigga they took his fuck ass statue off too. What are we What are we talking about? Intent premeditation. Yeah, that's that's crazy. Jax: You just saying shit now, bro. Like you lying to my face. Like I'm stupid, bro. Like Greg: Niggas niggas get too comfortable disrespecting me in my face, bro. Bro, y'all lying. Stop all that goddamn lying. Hell no. it it's just I I'm speechless because this nigga's gonna be playing football. Now I need the rest of the NCAA to do their job and to stand on business and to alienate these niggas and stop it and don't even schedule this nigga. Don't don't even schedule this team. And on top of that, if he like y'all need to double down so hard that it never happens again. Like, yes, this year I know niggas is gonna boycott, but this shit needs to be like, hey, we not putting tech on our schedule for another two. Three sea like y'all need to feel this if y'all gonna let Soresby play the duration of this season. Like nah, bro. Like y'all y'all wanna be big and bad. Y'all and and second of all, Texas Tech just got good. This not no notorious as this not no notorious as prestigious school. Jax: Literally. They got good because they can they got good because now you can pay their players. That's literally what happened. They just bought all their players. Greg: I'm saying if you Big Ten, if you if you Ohio State, Michigan, all that, don't schedule them niggas. ⁓ Big Twelve, y'all y'all keep y'all can probably get away with not doing it this year and y'all probably have no choice but to, you know, schedule them niggas ⁓ you know, next season and stuff. But all you out out of conference, big schools, hell no. Don't e and what and yeah, hell no. Whatever. Jax: Actually, I have a question. I had a question for what would what do you think would be most like detrimental or harmful or like the biggest like consequence of Texas Tech? Like would you rather would it be like just not take them off their schedule completely or like have Texas Tech play like a full schedule and everything, but then just even if they're good, just don't include them in like the the play out like the top twenty five. Just don't include because all that is voted for by people. Greg: and as far as me, hey man, do the knowledge. Touch grass. Touch to touch that grass, man. And I ain't got nothing else to say because ⁓ we got some other shit going on in a few hours, y'all. ⁓ we'll catch y'all niggas next week. ⁓ be on the lookout. We're gonna have a lot of shit drop in very, very soon. And we'll we'll catch y'all niggas next week. Jax: So like the committee could just like, you know what, we're not even gonna we're not even gonna consider y'all for any single thing. Like what do you think would be the most like effective punishment if they're not gonna, you know, ban Soresby? Greg: ⁓ you know what? I'll I'll say this. I think giving them taking them niggas off the schedule completely, I think it's more effective because I just don't trust college football ⁓ pole people. Like I don't I don't trust them niggas to be on one accord about something and at some point there'll be that one random nigga, ⁓ my god, okay, they they they they've had they've had enough. If if they Jax: Mm-hmm. Greg: Take them off the schedule and you know they excel in the schedule that they have. They can always go back and say, Well, this strength of schedule fucking sucks. ⁓ we're not competing. You're not, you're not, you don't have an Alabama on your schedule, you don't have a LSU on your schedule, you don't have Ohio State, you have, you know, respectfully, like, I need to see Grambling on your shit. I need I need to start seeing some squag schools on your shit. ⁓ just so I know. Jax: That's true. Greg: you you not getting no type of real compet we don't know how good your team is. And on top and because of that, that affects the recruits. That affects the players that are already there. Because when it's time to do, you know, player evaluations and these draft combines and stuff, like it makes shit real murky because it's just like, okay, like you haven't played against top end talent or anybody. I can't tell how good you are and and Jax: Anybody. Yeah. Greg: Now ⁓ an obvious first round pick turns into a second or third. That high school recruit now looks at that like, ⁓ hell no, I gotta go somewhere else. You need to feel the repercussions of doing dumbass shit like this. This I'm not saying that like, ⁓ that's probably like I'm the idea that I'm going with that's probably gonna be like ⁓ a lower tier level of like the death penalty at some point if you like did it correctly. ⁓ Jax: Mm-hmm. Greg: And I'm not even saying the call, I'm not even calling for the death penalty, but I think that would be the most effective. And it would tell other niggas around, like, hey, we not playing this shit. Like, well, like, you can do this if you want to. You can do all this extra shit. But at the end of the day, I think this all still falls on the NCAA. Like, the fact that this could still be a thing, the fact that somebody can go and get a judge and find another judge to get the right ruling that they want to have or the injunction. Like, it's all the NCAA's fault. You Jax: August is All this though is really because like it's or it's just not even because it's like a symbol, like the NCAA doesn't really have no power anymore. Cause you can pay whoever you want now, however they want to get paid. ⁓ if somebody gets if the NCAA deems somebody ineligible, you just need to find a judge to say you can play like Texas Tech did, like ⁓ All Miss did with Chambliss. Like it's you can get away with what if you can find a judge to do it, you can get away with it now. Greg: I don't know. Yeah. Jax: So I don't and then you were talking about how like taking them off the schedule. The only thing I see that could might could possibly be a problem trying to take them off the schedule is cause like excuse me. I know a lot of ⁓ these conferences have like T V contracts and all that. So I don't know how taking them off the schedule would like affect the money around those T V contracts and everything. So it'd probably be a little bit like taking them off the schedule probably sounds better in like like saying it was probably like harder to actually like do it. So that's Greg: Yeah, they don't they they don't have no they don't have no power. Jax: Another sort of question I have about that. But regardless, like somebody, I don't know who, I don't know what, but somebody needs to do something. Cause it's just like, dog, what happened to consequences for your actions? Cause I think they paid Soresby like five, six million dollars or whatever. Like, I so I don't even blame Soresby for real. Cause like, nigga, you y'all pay me six million, okay. And y'all say I can play. Cool, I'll still play, but it's just like. Greg: Yeah, sure. I really am. Jax: Man, but the only thing though, what if he's terrible? That would be the funniest outcome of all this. Like he just ass. Now you wasted all that money, all that goodwill to go four and eight or whatever. Greg: ⁓ how ass does he has to be before he gets benched though? You know what I mean? Jax: That's a great question. Also, if I'm the backup quarterback, no, if I'm the backup quarterback, I'm a little I'm a little upset because it niggas doing all this shit not to just not play me. Like I'm that bad, bro. Like these niggas going to the courts and all that just to not play me, bro. Like I can't be that bad. Greg: 'Cause it's just like, yeah, you paid that nigga six mil, but I didn't think about that. Saying if you had a comp that that's that's what goes to show you, if you had a competent backup quarterback that you trusted in, this is a non-issue. This is a non-issue. Jax: That backup was probably like a five star recruit too. Like Greg: Like Texas Tech, at the end of the day, that's a that's a ⁓ school still in Texas. They are not ⁓ they are not poor where five million really hurts a nigga pockets. Like if they really had somebody behind him that was Arch Manning level, they'd say Soresby Hey, get the fuck out the way, yo. Some w we'll we'll pay for some mental health classes or some other shit. But yeah, you got to go. It's just the fact that they they don't have no real room to pivot. Jax: Yeah. Greg: And they think they actually have a chance this year to make some real noise this year in the college football playoffs. ⁓ mind you, you these the same niggas that got clapped ⁓ by Oregon, I think. ⁓ didn't didn't have a good showing out to to begin with anyway. ⁓ and your fans throw tortillas on the field for fun. ⁓ y'all have always confused me. Never never been a fan. But Jax: Yeah, yeah. Greg: Yeah, damn. If I'm a backup quarterback, nigga, maybe I do hit the maybe I do hit the transfer portal, cause what the fuck? Jax: I'm trying to find out this I'm looking at the rock there's a whole lot of quarterbacks, so I don't know which one exactly is the backup. But like these niggas was high profile recruits and stuff, bro. And like y'all just don't want I'm just that bad to y'all, bro? I'd be sick. Greg: Well, I mean, in time out, was Brand is Brandon Soresby just i is he like that? Jax: I don't even know. Greg: Is he is he like that? For us to be talking the way we talking, you would think we're dealing with the Arch Manning or or or that Bryce Underwood dude from fucking Michigan or I don't know where he's at now, but Jax: And and Bryce Underwood wasn't even good for real. He was just they just paid him a lot of money. Greg: Yeah. So I'm just like, I'm I'm trying to figure out like I I wouldn't have I wouldn't have agreed if ⁓ Arch Manny was in this situation, but at least I'd have a better understanding of okay, yeah, I I see why these niggas is going going to bat for these ⁓ for this nigga. But I learned about Brandon Soresby as soon as he started gambling. I I did not know him before. And I figured I I I figure I won't know too much about this nigga. ⁓ Jax: Yeah. Greg: Once it's NFL time. I I I'm Jax: So last year he played as last year he played at Cincinnati, threw twenty seven touchdowns, five picks. I guess. Like it's not terrible, but it's not like it's not blowing anybody out the water. But it's he's it's he's up solid stats, but like that's it, just solid, bro. Like Let me see what he yeah. Let's see what he did the year before or the years before 15 testing on five picks, 18, 7, 27, 5. Like he's he seemed all right, but like that's it. Like I like doing all this for cool eye quarterback. Greg: And he's a junior. Hey, what if hey, what if all of a sudden that nigga hoops his ass off this season? Like this whole season he just hoop his li just go crazy. Like he's high like he's in Heisman considerations. Jax: I mean people are at like some people have said he's supposed to be like a first round quarterback, he's supposed to be one of the first quarterbacks to come out or to get drafted. Like I said, I don't personally know for real, so we will have to see if he does play, we'll have to see. But Greg: I don't even know this nigga playstyle. I bro, this should've pissed me off if I actually like how this nigga play for real. Like, I I would hate for this nigga to actually be cold. And I'm like, damn, I can't even roof you the way out I really would like to. Jax: Hey, watch watching be cold, bro. Watch him be cold. Even if he is called that no matter what they're not he's not getting no type of award, no matter what. They wouldn't give him the highest. Greg: Yeah. Like it's the principle, my nigga. I can't. I wanna I wanna respect you, but I can't. I can, bro. It is what it is though. ⁓ we'll keep we'll keep y'all updated because this will be a ⁓ a story that this is a evergreen story, nigga. This shit not going nowhere, bro. Like I think I think his third week or something like that, he's supposed to ⁓ week three. Jax: It's gonna be it this story not over there. Yeah. ⁓ yeah, 'cause he he they did suspend him for two games. That's the only punishment he gets. He gets suspended for two games. So just suspend Greg: Yeah, his week three is aga his week three is against Houston, by the way. Jax: Take him off the schedule, Houston. They won't, but they need to, but they won't. Greg: You think you think they you think they go ⁓ twenty ten's ⁓ Saints defense on him? Jax: I don't honestly I don't think the players care for real for real that much, to be honest with you. Cause like Grant, he didn't like he didn't do anything bad to like them, like the players personally. Especially like he didn't do nothing bad to like the any type any of the schools he played against. It's just Yeah, it's just the principle of it. Like it's some whole shit. So I don't think they'll I don't think they'd want to take him out. Greg: Yeah, he actually didn't harm anybody, but it's just it's just a principle. You trying to gamble, nigga? Whoa. ⁓ Jax: Yeah, I'm like they're probably like, damn, how you do that and not get like you could do that and not get arrested. Let me t teach me the method. So Greg: Yo put me on game. Big bro. Now all of a sudden he he he running shit like Forex. Yeah, it's crazy. But nah. next up, ⁓ the moment we've all been waiting for. Let's get into these goddamn NBA playoffs and let's talk about our new NBA champions, the New York Knickerboggles, or whatever the fuck you call them niggas. The New York Knicks. The Knickerbockers. Jax: Yeah. Knicker box. I'm like what the hell you call? Greg: I forgot. I don't know what the fuck I called them. They are your ⁓ your NBA champions, ⁓ their first championship in 53 years. ⁓ fucking nuts. Fucking crazy. Knicks in five. They won it in five games. Every game was to the wire in competitive. One of my favorite, one of my favorite NBA finals that I've watched. ⁓ Jax: Crazy. Greg: In the twenty twenties, I can say. I I can't go back all the way. I don't remember all the integrals. But in at least the twenty twenties, in my twenty twenties memory, this has been the best finals ⁓ I've seen from start to finish. No blowouts. ⁓ lockdowns. ⁓ man. Yeah, bro. So until this time. Jax: Yeah. It was a while ago. I don't remember. All walk downs, every single game, every single game was a walk down. Everybody's better than Jalen Brunson until it's time to be better than Jalen Brunson. That's the shit, man. That's the that's the most perfect thing. That's the perfect thing you can ever say about his game. Like I think you had said it as well. Like Jalen Brunson, he doesn't really get outperformed like that. Greg: That's a quote, nigga. ⁓ Yeah. It's it's hard it's hard. It's hard to get outperformed like by J like he's such a constant. Cause even even in game five, when it looked like, ⁓ my God, like OG and Onobi, he he finna he finna get the the finals MVP and it's just like, hey man, 45 points in a close out. And it's like I said, they were down double digits. They were down double digits in every single game. Every single game. And first and before I even before I even get Jax: Yeah. Greg: Into like the the meat and potatoes of like Spurs and Knicks. One thing I have to say is I am so tired of niggas just not giving credit where credit is due. Bro, just give credit to the New York Knicks, bro. I'm not trying to hear niggas talk about the the Spurs being the better team, but they they just end the like nigga. I'm not trying to bro, if they was so better, they would have won. They would've won. It's very hard for you. Jax: Playing. Greg: It's it's hard. It's very hard for this type of NBA setting where it's not a one game elimination. It is the best of seven. You got to win four times. For a nigga to beat you four times, it is very hard for you to just get lucky all four times, nigga. Like, give them niggas their credit. Jalen Brunson was that guy. It was a team victory. ⁓ shout out to Mike Brown. That coaching change was night and day, I will admit. I will admit, I do believe if Tom Thibodeau was coaching this team, it wouldn't have played out the way it played out. I'm gonna be honest with you. ⁓ that's something I did. Yeah. Jax: Yeah. And I I think Tiz is a good coach as well, but like Mike Brown is just But think Mike Brown, he's never been a bad coach ever. He just get he's just been getting fired, bro, for no reason. Like honestly, like the ⁓ who was it? The I remember he was with LeBron. They were good. Fired him for whatever reason. ⁓ when he was just with the Kings before he got here or before he got to the next, like they were good. He brought them to the playoff, light the beam and everything. And then Boom, fired him for no reason. Like Greg: Never. Scapegoated. Yeah. He was with the Lakers. ⁓ yeah, he he's had he's had a couple stints where it's just like that's what I'm saying. Like everything can be so sugarcoated into ⁓ we just need a just need a new a new voice in the locker room, a different voice in the locker room. That's why I be on that's why I be on niggas' heads when I'm just like, okay, y'all just don't want to follow directions, nigga. Like y'all just y'all tired of hearing the same point. Like another nigga's supposed to come in and all of a sudden, ⁓ I'm gonna play harder now. Jax: Mm. Ha ha Greg: That sounds crazy, like when you put it in that standpoint, but it's just like I get the concept. I get the concept, but it's just like it feels even more crazier when you see a nigga like Mike Brown. It's like you know he's good. Like you know he's good. Like they they would not like I like I said, I wouldn't put Mike Brown in the same I'm not saying that he's better than like Greg Popovich, but you would never just say, Hey, we finna fire Greg Popovich because we just need a different voice in the locker room. Nigga, get with the program, nigga. Jax: But it worked, shit, man. Yeah. Yeah. Greg: Get with the fucking program. But that's what happens when you win a championship. You get a little bit more cash in and more caliber, even though even even champions, even champions be getting the boo. Shout out to Mike Malone. But man, man, that that was crazy. I'm not gonna lie. The city is up right now over here. It's fucking it's fucking crazy. ⁓ man, I I just I don't even know where to start with this. You you wanna go Knicks or you wanna go Spurs? Jax: That's very true. ⁓ huh. Let's start. ⁓ I was gonna say we should we could start at game four because we talked we I mean we talked about games one through three, but we weren't recording for game four. But game four was probably the craziest game in the series, I feel like. Well game seven was also crazy or not game seven, but game five was also crazy, but Greg: Yes. But game four was some game four with some euphoric shit, bro. Like it was just that was insane. Jax: Yeah. Yeah. Game four, the Knicks and the and they won in Madison Square Garden too. They had ⁓ SVU and all them courtside and everything, but no ⁓ game six, the ⁓ Knicks won yeah, the Knicks won that game one ⁓ seven, one ⁓ six, and they won off of OG Anobi tip that I don't even know. Like he came from ⁓ out of nowhere, it felt like, and he just Greg: Yeah. Jax: Jalen Brunson, he shot a deep three. He missed. OG came through and just managed to get his finger on it. Absolutely insane. Greg: Nigga, Lady, Lady Liberty, that bitch, bro. Like, shit was fucking crazy. That was, ⁓ man. Jax: Mega. Well, you see it right here, Jalen. He shoots a deep three. I don't blame Jalen for that shot. They need the quick shot. Then OG came flying out of nowhere. I'm not gonna hold you. Another thing, or if I can find another view of it, like if OG was not there, I think Kat would have got the tip. Greg: Damn, that nigga got up high too.