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EP23 | UNRIVALED WEEK 1, WNBA FREE AGENCY STARTS, JUJU VISIT ASSEMBLY HALL, SC VS LSU PREVIEW & MORE · THE BEST DAMN W SHOW

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Portland beating the shit
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out of Miami right now.
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They beating the dog shit out of them.
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By like twenty-something points.
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That shit honestly don't surprise me,
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to be honest.
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It don't.
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It don't because that shit with Jimmy,
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that shit over with, man.
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They ready to move on.
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They ready to get up out of there.
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That gotta be just a
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toxic-ass environment to go
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into every day, knowing...
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the person who run the squad
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don't want your ass though
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he's sick of you right oh
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man pat raleigh is sick of
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jimmy but last man straight
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up I heard like all like
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the heat legends are like
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mad at jimmy right now like
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tim hardaway I don't know
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about lonzo yeah I mean
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that's what I heard I don't
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know what's true it's not true
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I can see Alonzo more than
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being – I can see him being
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mad at Jimmy Butler for sure.
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I can definitely see that.
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I can definitely see Tim Hardaway because,
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like, man, they live and die for, like,
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that heat wave.
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Yeah, they live for that shit, bro.
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Like, they – whenever I see, like,
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Tim Hardaway on podcasts, man,
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he always – even though he
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played other places,
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he played in Golden State first.
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I feel like that's what, like,
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most people remember him for, like,
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run TMC.
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man he was cold like he was
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good with the heat but man
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he was with he was with
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golden state man he was
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really that really that
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dude for real oh yeah um
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the elephant in the room
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wally the producer of the
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show first of all wally is
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welcome wally to the saint
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create media media family
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let's start there first uh
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I was gonna announce that
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today but do it on here but
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Wally's on both shows on the network.
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He's on Uncommon Commentators.
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That's our NBA show,
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and he's on this show as well.
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But Lo is sick.
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A little guy got her sick,
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so she's under the weather this evening,
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so Wally is filling in for her.
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This will still be a great show, Wally.
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If you come to our playbacks,
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Wally's in our playbacks as well,
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so this is going to be a great show.
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But...
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I don't know what I was saying before.
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I saw your question.
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I don't even know what I was
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talking about before that.
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But, yes, welcome, Wally, man.
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Wally is a good dude.
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He's a great addition to the
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team for sure.
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Now, Wally, let the people know, man,
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where you came from.
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We haven't talked about this enough.
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Introduce you.
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Do your own introduction.
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Do your thing.
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Yes, I am...
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I am producer Wiley,
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as I will call myself on this show.
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Um, man, I thought first off,
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I appreciate it because
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freaking stumbling upon y'all show, man.
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I, of course, Twitter being Twitter, like,
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you know,
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looking for more content and
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just people to connect with and not,
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you know, Jay popped up.
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I do not know how Jay popped
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up on my timeline.
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Jay popped up on my timeline
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and it was promoting this show.
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And I was like, cool.
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Cause my thing was I wanted to,
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I wanted to find, you know,
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someone who was talking about, uh, more,
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more so about the W just
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trying to help myself out with,
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with the podcast that I've
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been doing for the last
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couple of years with, uh, with my cohost.
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Uh, and that's Aries talking sports, but,
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uh,
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you know, for, of course,
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God works in mysterious ways.
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Jay pops up on the timeline
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promoting the show.
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I hop in the live show and I was like, oh,
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okay, bet.
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You know,
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I see y'all in low doing y'all
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thing and me being me, I'm just, you know,
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just commenting, just commenting,
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supporting the show.
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And it just became a thing after that.
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And so what got me here was
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Jay mentioned about, Jay had posted about
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the uncommon commentators at
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the time and was looking for podcasters,
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but I guess not knowing if
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Antoine and Garrett, shout out to them,
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if they were coming back.
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So I commented, you know,
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he didn't necessarily respond,
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so I DM him.
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Hey, man,
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you still looking for podcasters?
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No, but do you want to produce?
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I mean,
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I never really produced outside of
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my own stuff.
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But, you know, my thing is,
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if you help me along the way,
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I got you out.
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You know, I do what I know.
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I do what I do.
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And here I am.
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So, again,
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it's just grateful to come across Jay,
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come across Nick, you and Lo,
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be able to just be me.
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And that's really how I got here.
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It was just me,
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me and me being in the comments.
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I think y'all making me the
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moderator for the live shows that like,
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that was cool.
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Cause I was like,
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I didn't expect it again.
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It was just me being me and having fun.
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Oh yeah, man.
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When I, yeah.
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Like,
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Today,
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I just realized today when you said
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it that you met me through
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playback or you met me through internet,
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like through playback and
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through Twitter like that.
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And I forget that's how we even met,
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but it's like just being yourself.
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I've been trying to tell people, man,
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just being yourself and
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just being a true person.
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Don't be trying to be
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something you're not.
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Good things gonna happen.
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Like you gonna meet good people.
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You gonna come across good people.
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You just be yourself.
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's how I met Nick.
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That's how I met Lowe.
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That's how I met you.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Garrett, Antoine,
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like when you just be
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genuine and you don't be
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looking for stuff in return.
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you're going to meet good
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people regardless.
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I'm glad I met you, man.
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It's just like another brother I ain't got,
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man.
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You know what I'm saying?
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It makes it easier.
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It makes it easier to talk about sports.
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We have a goal.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I've told y'all this, not live,
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just in text messages,
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but the fact that y'all...
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It's one thing that Raina,
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and who don't know, Raina's my wife,
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but she believe in me and
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what I'm trying to do.
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That's one thing when it's your wife,
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but then it's like
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I got more people.
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I got y'all, Nick, Wiley, Lowe, Garrett,
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and Antoine.
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Like, to believe in me,
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that's going to make me even keep going.
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Like, because y'all here,
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that lets me know because
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ain't nobody getting paid yet.
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You know what I'm saying?
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But we here like we are.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So that makes me feel good.
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That makes it easier for me
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to do whatever I have to do
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to keep growing this
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company and keep getting to
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the next level.
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So I appreciate y'all, man.
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For real.
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So it's...
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What up, man?
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What up, Jazzy?
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What's good with you?
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But, like you see, Lo ain't here tonight.
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Lo not here, man.
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I've been not believing
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because Lo not here now.
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Goddamn.
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I know a lot of
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motherfuckers be here just for Lo.
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And I ain't gonna lie, Lo is great.
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Lo is great.
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You know what I'm saying?
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We ain't gonna take that away from her.
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But we got to do her thing, man.
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We got to do her thing.
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Yeah, no, for sure.
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No, dead ass.
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But we got to – and Raina
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said she appreciates y'all too, man.
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She appreciates y'all.
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Shout out, Raina.
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Have not – have yet to meet – look,
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have yet to meet Raina.
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But shout out to Raina.
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I'll tell you,
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Raina – Raina talks shit to you too,
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but Raina – Hey, listen.
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I'm here for it.
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Nah, she talks cash shit, but man, man,
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she sweet as pie though, for real.
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We came for David Ruffer and we still,
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but we will stay for Otis.
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I like that.
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I like that.
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Low Jordan, she David Ruffer.
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She got David Ruffer.
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She Michael Jackson and shit.
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You're right, she Mike,
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you know what I'm saying?
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She Michael Jackson and shit.
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I'll be the name, fuck it.
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You going to be Jermaine?
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I'll be Jermaine.
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Shit.
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I feel you, man.
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I would go snatch Jermaine while you can,
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for real.
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But, man, even though she here, man,
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prayers to her, man.
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She ain't like – I don't
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want to say prayers like
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she on her deathbed, but, you know,
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little kid germs is the worst, man.
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When she told me he was sneezing,
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when he was sneezing,
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you can't escape the sneezing.
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Like anything else you can –
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when they sneeze on you,
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It's a wrap.
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It's coming.
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In a matter of time,
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you're going to get sick.
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And when she said that, I'm like, yeah,
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it's a wrap.
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But we still have a great show.
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We got a lot of stuff we're
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going to go over.
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We got college basketball
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stuff coming up this weekend.
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We're going to talk about, we got,
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I'm going to talk to y'all
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about my experience in
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Bloomington going to cover USC, Indiana.
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but at first uh but at first
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we're going we also got
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wmba free agency starting
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today we got our rival
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we're going to talk about
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but uh man welcome but
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everybody who's coming in
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welcome to episode of the
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best damn w show and y'all
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uh y'all fans I'm gonna
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call y'all fans because
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that's how y'all been
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acting man like y'all
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really be supporting that's
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what fans do y'all support
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man so it's like I love
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that man people will be on
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twitter talking about top five podcasts
9:29
the best crew out there, man.
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That's love.
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That means y'all really locked in with us.
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Y'all really be here with us.
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And we're not even a year old.
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We only got twenty three episodes.
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We started in August.
9:39
And there's a lot of stuff
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that's happening.
9:41
We got a lot of stuff going on.
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Like,
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it's just coming in in the future
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that we're going to be
9:45
doing different things,
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interactions with y'all.
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So it's just, man, I appreciate it.
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More playbacks.
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We're going to do it.
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I'm going to have playbacks
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going all the time.
9:53
Regardless if we up there or not,
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playbacks are going to be going.
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Because women hoops still
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are just hard to watch.
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It's places people don't have.
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So, man, if I can't help out,
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I'm going to do that.
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If we're going to help out,
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we're going to do that.
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So, like I said on the playback yesterday,
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we got a March Madness thing coming up.
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We're going to do that, a challenge.
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The top three are going to win prizes.
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We got playback on this Thursday for –
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U.S., not U.S.C., South Carolina, LSU.
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Yeah, we got that.
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It's going to be some shit
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talking in the group chat.
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It's going to be some shit
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talking in the group chat.
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Well, not the group chat, but in the chat.
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In the chat, not the group chat, but...
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What else we got going?
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On arrival,
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we're going to be played every
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time on Monday, Friday, and Saturday.
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I think we're going to pull
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up on Friday or Saturday.
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I don't know which one,
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even though we're going to
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be there on Thursday.
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But just stay tuned, man.
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We're going to be all over the place.
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So we out here grinding, working,
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and giving you all this good content,
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this stuff we want to talk about in hoops,
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man.
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So we're going to get this
10:58
shit started with... Before
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we get started... Oh, go ahead, go ahead,
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go ahead.
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Real quick.
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For the people that pull up
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to the unrivaled,
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especially unrivaled and stuff like that,
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don't be afraid to chat it up.
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Shout out to Kid.
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Kid, when I did the one by myself,
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Kid kept going, kept commenting.
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So we encourage that.
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So please, like, if you come,
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you come and you watching, you know,
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you watching the lives, hit us, you know,
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comment, man.
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We, we gonna, we gonna chat.
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Hey, we gonna talk to you.
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Yeah.
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We gonna talk to y'all.
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Like y'all see, no.
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As Thomas.
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Oh yeah.
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Shout out Tom.
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Yeah.
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Shout out Tom, man.
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Our Australian friend, man.
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Shout out to him.
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Shout out to him big time.
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No, yeah.
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No, we're not going to Australia no more.
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That's his fault.
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If y'all in the playback, y'all know why.
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Y'all know why we ain't
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going to Australia no more.
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Well, it's not on my list.
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It was high up.
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But talking to Tom, it's very low now.
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It's down the rankings.
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I ain't got time for that shit no more.
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The shit he was talking about.
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You got to trust the locals of places.
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When a local tell you what's going on,
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you got to trust them.
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You can't think they lying at all.
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But, yeah, you know Tom.
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See, yeah,
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if you're in the women's hoop
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community and you're on Twitter,
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you know Tom.
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You definitely know Tom.
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Tom is a very interesting character.
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I'll say that.
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But he's our guy.
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He's one of our biggest fans.
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So, no, we appreciate him.
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For real.
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No, dead ass.
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Straight up.
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But, man, let's get into it, man.
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We're going to week one of Unrivaled.
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It was fun.
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It was a lot.
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It was successful to us.
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Um, a lot of numbers came out, but man, um,
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it was so much hype going
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into like the media week and everything.
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Like people was at first,
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everybody was like overall,
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like the announcements,
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We didn't want to see that shit no more.
12:54
We was done with it.
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But once everybody started
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flying down there, they were setting up,
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all the content and shit was going up.
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It was Nick first.
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I was like, man,
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I'm kind of excited for this shit now.
13:05
And then after he said it, I'm like, damn,
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this shit is kind of lit now.
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But once it started, man, it was fun.
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Y'all was coming out for the playbacks,
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man.
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Y'all was showing out for those.
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But, man, Nick, man,
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how you feeling about the
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first week so far, man?
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I mean, I'll say this, man, you know,
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especially over the past, like,
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two to three weeks, man, you know,
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with all the content that
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they've been posting,
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they've been building up
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the anticipation for this
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league because it was really a dry spell,
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like, last summer because it was, like,
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they were posting a new
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player that was entering the league, like,
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every day or every other day.
13:37
And then it was this and that.
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So, like, during the summertime,
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I remember we were talking, like, man,
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like, a route was all over the place,
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man.
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I don't know to really trust this league.
13:45
But, like I say, you know,
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when they start posting –
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like, just pictures in a locker room.
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They're posting, like,
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practices and stuff.
13:51
We were like, okay, cool,
13:52
this might be something.
13:53
And I got to say, week one delivered.
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Like, the first game delivered.
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Like,
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the first game between the Luma Owls
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and the Mists, like,
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that was what showed me, like, okay,
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now this league is going to be for real,
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honestly.
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And since then, you know,
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we've seen every team pretty much,
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pretty much, you know,
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perform at a high level.
14:08
I know that there's some
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undefeated teams and
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there's some teams that
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haven't won a game yet,
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but through the first three
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days of arrival, or four days,
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whatever it is,
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It's been just absolutely amazing to me,
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man.
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You know,
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probably my two standout teams
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that I've enjoyed.
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First, I'll start with the Laces,
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who are two and oh without Jackie Young.
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Like,
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Jackie Young is such an important
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piece of this team.
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We all predicted that she
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was going to have a really strong season.
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I don't know how significant her injury is,
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but her missing the first two games,
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I hope that she does get back soon.
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But it really hasn't been a
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problem for them because a
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lot of people don't know.
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Like,
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they're winning games by a
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twenty-nine point margin.
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I went to go check it today.
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And they haven't allowed any
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team to score fifty points
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as of yet this season.
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So it shows how great they
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are defensively.
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Kayla McBride offensively
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has just been cooking,
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averaging twenty-four and a half a game.
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Tip Hayes has been just an
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orchestrator on the offensive end,
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just being able to create
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for herself and for others.
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And then you got other players as well,
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like A.T., honestly.
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Like, to me,
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I still don't know why people
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get in the way whenever A.T.
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runs downhill.
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Alyssa Thomas, I'm talking about.
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Man, yo.
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He ran over Jewel last night, bro.
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Exactly.
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But no, I was...
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But that's the thing.
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When I was watching their
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first game against the –
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who did they play?
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They played the – I think
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they played Rose.
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Or no, excuse me.
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I think they played Phantom.
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They played Rose.
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Who?
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The Laces.
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Who, Vinyl?
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Or Laces?
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Who did they play first?
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Phantom.
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I think they played Phantom, yeah.
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It was Phantom.
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They beat the shit out of them.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, that was the blowout.
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But I was watching his team, and I'm like,
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This team could really be
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like one of the top teams in the league,
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honestly,
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like just the way that they play.
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You know,
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they play a fun style of basketball.
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They shoot the ball really well.
15:48
All their players scored in
15:49
double figures in that game.
15:50
Like all six players came
15:52
off the bench and had like twelve,
15:53
thirteen points.
15:54
So they they have a lot of
15:57
offensive weapons on the
15:57
team and on top of that,
15:58
they're getting after defensively.
15:59
And I think that's probably
16:00
the most important thing.
16:02
And then the next team that
16:02
I've been really impressed
16:03
with is the Lunar Owls,
16:06
who are also two and oh.
16:07
I mean,
16:07
obviously Schuyler had the two game
16:09
winners.
16:09
The first game winner was really,
16:11
was really special to watch, man.
16:12
You know,
16:12
especially with everything that's
16:14
been going on, you know,
16:15
with Schuyler and Seattle and everything,
16:16
you know, it's good to see her strong,
16:20
but I got to give it to them.
16:21
Like Nafisa Collier is
16:22
playing at a different level, honestly.
16:24
And it's kind of crazy
16:25
because you see one of the
16:26
owners playing at a high
16:27
level and Nafisa Collier,
16:28
then the other owner,
16:29
Brianna Stewart has kind of
16:30
gone off to a slow start.
16:31
I don't know if we'll dive
16:32
into a little bit of that later,
16:33
but fees average at twenty
16:34
nine points and eight and a
16:35
half rebounds throughout
16:36
the first two games.
16:37
Like, I don't know, like, if there's, like,
16:40
an MVP list so far
16:41
throughout the first week,
16:41
but it's got to be by far a
16:43
defeat to Collier, honestly.
16:44
I mean, like I said, I mean,
16:44
Skyler's averaging around fifteen a game.
16:46
Alicia Gray has been a
16:47
really great contributor, you know,
16:48
on both ends of the floor.
16:49
She's averaging around eighteen points.
16:51
So,
16:51
the Lunar Owls getting off to a hot
16:52
start was actually really impressive.
16:53
And even heading into that first game,
16:55
I mean, you know,
16:56
I want to say they were
16:57
down in that matchup, like,
16:58
throughout most of the game
17:00
against the Mists because
17:02
Jewel got off to a really strong start.
17:04
Dejanay had really good defensive moments.
17:08
So just for them to just be
17:09
able to show resiliency and
17:10
just be able to come back
17:11
in that game was just really impressive.
17:13
And then that momentum
17:13
continued into the next day as well.
17:16
And then, I mean,
17:16
there's some other teams as well.
17:17
I mean, obviously,
17:17
Vinyl's been playing at a
17:18
really high level.
17:20
Vinyl might be one of the
17:22
most talented teams, honestly.
17:23
When you talk about Enrique Agumov,
17:25
you talk about Ryan Howard,
17:26
you talk about De'Arica Hamby,
17:28
who has been cooking in the
17:29
pick and roll for them.
17:30
Um,
17:30
same thing with players like Aliyah
17:32
Boston as well.
17:32
Like vinyl is super talented, honestly.
17:34
I mean, and they're, they're,
17:35
they're going to be another one.
17:36
One of those teams is going
17:37
to be competing for a title
17:38
this year as well.
17:39
Um, I mean, I know that there's, yeah,
17:41
I know there's a couple of
17:42
teams that are owing to right now.
17:43
Like Rose is owing to, honestly,
17:45
even though they're owing to,
17:46
I do give them some credit
17:47
because they were down in
17:48
double digits in both of their games.
17:49
It still found a way to make a comeback.
17:51
So, I mean,
17:52
obviously when you have Chelsea ground,
17:53
your team,
17:54
you have Kalia copper and then
17:55
you have angel Reese.
17:57
Like, obviously, you know,
17:57
when you look at that roster,
17:58
they should be fine.
17:59
Honestly.
18:00
I'm also just – I'm
18:01
expecting Aja Reese to cook this year.
18:02
I'm sorry.
18:03
Like,
18:03
when you're playing with great
18:04
playmakers like Chelsea Gray, you know,
18:06
Kaz, a really great ball handler,
18:08
a playmaker,
18:09
Brittany Sykes coming off the bench,
18:11
there should be no reason
18:12
why Aja Reese is not averaging at least,
18:14
like, a good amount of points, maybe,
18:15
like, at least, sixteen, eighteen a game,
18:17
honestly.
18:17
I mean, and it's pretty much – I mean,
18:19
she can pretty much get her
18:19
points off of pick and roll,
18:21
off of rim runs.
18:22
All she has to do is find a
18:22
way to get open because
18:24
Chelsea Gray is so dynamic
18:25
where she's going to drop
18:26
multiple bodies.
18:26
Kalia Cobber the same way,
18:28
especially when she penetrates.
18:29
Like,
18:30
there should be no reason why Angel
18:31
Reese is not dominating, honestly.
18:32
I mean, look,
18:32
she's averaging a
18:33
double-double throughout
18:34
the first two games,
18:35
but we should definitely
18:36
expect a better Angel Reese
18:37
if you ask me moving forward, honestly.
18:38
But, I mean,
18:39
that's just going to come with time,
18:40
honestly.
18:40
But overall thoughts on
18:42
rivaled is week one is not disappointing.
18:45
I mean, there's been great teams,
18:46
great players, honestly.
18:47
And I'll be real, man.
18:49
I mean,
18:50
I'm blown away throughout this
18:51
first weekend of a rival, I must say.
18:55
I am too, man.
18:55
How about you, Wiley?
18:57
No, I'm, of course, shoot, I've been,
19:00
as much as we, like you said earlier,
19:02
as much as they hyped it up,
19:04
as much as we hyped it up, like,
19:06
I'm sitting here like, yo, I am,
19:08
I'm ready for it, like,
19:10
to see all of the players that, you know,
19:14
that agreed to play the teams that
19:17
how they were although some
19:19
of these teams that the way
19:20
they were built I'm sure
19:21
they wish especially the
19:24
trades I'm sure those
19:25
trades that happened right
19:26
before the right before it
19:27
started I'm pretty sure
19:29
they kind of have some uh
19:30
buyer's remorse but uh
19:33
overall like yeah for sure
19:35
yeah yeah but uh week one
19:40
week one's been nothing but
19:42
but good ball outside of
19:45
Outside of the one game that we watched,
19:48
man, that was rough.
19:50
Freaking smoke layup after smoke layup,
19:53
bad shot after bad shot.
19:54
But also, again,
19:57
if you were there for the
20:00
game and for the live, of course,
20:02
you know we got the jokes off.
20:05
And we came up with our
20:07
so-called theory as to why
20:12
so much bad shooting may
20:13
have possibly been going on.
20:15
Oh, yes.
20:16
We think they went out last
20:18
night or the night before, boy.
20:19
Isn't it lit, boy?
20:20
Because it was.
20:21
They were looking tight.
20:22
They were looking gas a
20:23
little bit out there, man.
20:24
I mean, that's why I told people, like,
20:26
three-on-three is different.
20:28
Like, it's constant movement.
20:29
Like, your condition has to be top tier.
20:31
Like, if you watch, like, honestly,
20:32
I think what made me realize it was,
20:34
I don't know if people remember,
20:35
but during the WNBA
20:36
All-Star Weekend at Phoenix
20:37
this past year, they had, like,
20:38
a little three-on-three
20:38
tournament with the Team USA players.
20:41
And I just saw how they were
20:42
constantly moving.
20:43
Like,
20:43
it was pretty much like sticking with
20:44
your defender.
20:45
Like, even after a bugger,
20:47
they had to continue to move on.
20:48
There was no inbound in the basketball.
20:49
So...
20:50
And that was different.
20:52
Exactly.
20:52
Yeah, that's half court.
20:53
Now they got a full court.
20:54
I mean, I know it's not a full court.
20:55
You know, it's condensed, but still.
20:57
Man,
20:58
that's still full court three on three,
20:59
boy.
20:59
That shit,
21:00
I can imagine doing no shit like that.
21:02
And I think that's the best
21:03
part about this league,
21:05
the fact that it's three on three,
21:07
it's full court.
21:08
And like they've been saying before,
21:10
even Brendan, when he came on,
21:12
you can't hide on defense.
21:14
You have to,
21:16
you got to be able to move your feet.
21:18
It's
21:19
Like,
21:19
who was it that said she had never
21:22
done so much backpedaling?
21:24
Oh, Big Steph.
21:25
Big Steph said that.
21:26
Mama Steph, boy.
21:27
She said,
21:28
I ain't never done this much
21:29
backpedaling before.
21:30
And you can just see it out there, man.
21:33
Like Jazzy said,
21:34
BG had to regret in full court.
21:38
Oh, boy.
21:39
You know, she runs slow already.
21:43
She tall, tall, long, all of the above.
21:46
And trying to get up and down that floor,
21:49
BG,
21:50
I know she's regretting every bit of it.
21:52
I agree with that comment, honestly.
21:53
But I'll say this, too, though.
21:55
Like, you know,
21:55
them continuing to build
21:56
the conditioning here in Unrivaled,
21:58
they're going to be ready for the W. Oh,
22:00
yeah.
22:00
It comes around.
22:01
That ain't going to be nothing to them.
22:03
Yeah.
22:04
No, it's not.
22:05
It's not because, like,
22:07
you could just tell.
22:07
Because you could tell Angel
22:08
would look gassed out there a little bit.
22:10
Like, the bigs are gassed.
22:11
The guards that they find.
22:12
I ain't seen too many guards
22:14
that look like they are gassed.
22:15
Like, they ready for this.
22:16
But the bigs look like.
22:17
And on top of that, honestly,
22:18
and on top of that,
22:19
some teams play back-to-back.
22:20
I can only imagine.
22:21
Yeah.
22:22
Yeah.
22:23
People are like,
22:24
that's less than twenty four hours, too,
22:25
because they play Friday
22:26
night and Saturday afternoon.
22:27
So that's less than twenty four hours.
22:28
You have to play another game.
22:29
Yeah.
22:29
Yeah.
22:29
That was crazy.
22:31
Yeah.
22:31
Rose did have to play at
22:32
night and then in the afternoon.
22:34
Yo,
22:34
that's a crazy night day back to back
22:37
like that.
22:38
So I think week four really
22:40
things really heat up.
22:41
Like,
22:41
I really think people don't get their
22:43
legs under them.
22:44
And we're really going to see,
22:46
I think like in this next, when is it,
22:48
when is it in, in March?
22:49
So we got like the next couple of weeks,
22:51
man.
22:52
I think people needed this
22:54
first week because I know during like the,
22:57
during the media weekend of
22:58
pressers availability and
23:00
people was asking players like,
23:02
How does it feel being like
23:03
– but all they had was like a scrimmage.
23:05
All they had was practice.
23:06
You know what I'm saying?
23:07
But now,
23:08
listen to some of the pressers
23:10
since the games have started.
23:11
They're like, okay,
23:11
now we know what to expect.
23:12
They know how to adjust.
23:14
Pull that comment back up, Wally.
23:18
Huh?
23:18
I was going to say,
23:18
pull that comment back up,
23:19
the one that was about Stewie.
23:21
Stewie said she ain't
23:23
touched the ball since the championship.
23:24
They definitely got to get – See,
23:26
that's an issue to me.
23:27
I get it.
23:28
You know what I'm saying?
23:28
Yeah.
23:29
I get that.
23:32
But when you know, like,
23:33
when it's your league and
23:34
you know that it's going to start over,
23:35
like, another couple months,
23:37
you got to be ready.
23:38
Like, you know what I'm saying?
23:39
I did not know she said no shit like that.
23:41
I had no idea she said some
23:43
shit like that.
23:43
That makes sense because
23:45
it's like I mentioned earlier.
23:45
It looked like it.
23:47
Fia's cooking.
23:48
Stewie is still trying to find herself.
23:50
Yeah.
23:50
Yeah, Stewie look, and she look tired.
23:53
Her lateral movement looks
23:54
very slow out there.
23:55
Like she getting bodied and shit.
23:57
So it is, but they are getting used to it.
24:00
I hear,
24:01
I see a lot of them talking about
24:02
the minutes.
24:02
Like there's some of them
24:03
used to playing so many X
24:04
amount of minutes, but now it's like,
24:06
you're only playing eight minutes.
24:07
You only got so much time to
24:09
make an impact.
24:09
So they trying to,
24:11
Figure out different things.
24:12
The coaches are trying to figure out.
24:13
You got coaches.
24:14
Dwayne never coached.
24:15
You got coaches who are just
24:17
developmental coaches.
24:19
You know what I'm saying?
24:19
So,
24:20
Handy was trying to – he already talked
24:22
about that.
24:22
He's trying to get that stigma off of him.
24:24
And one thing I did – I had
24:26
in my notes that I did want
24:27
to watch was seeing how the
24:29
first-time coaches was going to look.
24:30
And last night,
24:32
you kind of see a little
24:33
bit like Teaspoon was going against –
24:37
who's the coach by Phantom?
24:39
I think it's DJ Sackman.
24:40
I think that's who it is,
24:41
but whoever it was,
24:42
was getting coach circles around them.
24:45
You know what I'm saying?
24:46
So you could just, you could just see it,
24:48
but everybody's, but like you said,
24:50
I think it was jazz.
24:51
You would say,
24:51
I think in the next couple of weeks,
24:53
you're going to see stuff
24:53
coming together.
24:54
People got their legs under them.
24:55
some of them will probably realize, hey,
24:57
we can't be going out like
24:58
we think we can in Miami
25:00
like this and going back.
25:01
You better use them days off
25:02
to go out and kick it.
25:03
You know what I'm saying?
25:04
If you got to play on Monday,
25:06
Sunday night is not your night to go out.
25:07
You got to play on Friday,
25:09
Thursday night is not your
25:10
night to go out.
25:11
You know what I'm saying?
25:12
Like,
25:13
you got to wait until Saturday night.
25:14
You know what I'm saying?
25:16
The bottles that you popping,
25:18
they better be bottles of
25:19
water and not liquid.
25:20
I swear.
25:20
Yeah, you can't be going.
25:21
All that, man.
25:28
I be seeing they TikToks and
25:31
they reels and shit.
25:32
They be out there.
25:33
They out there.
25:34
They kicking.
25:35
They be at the water.
25:36
They be doing this and that.
25:36
They ain't going to show
25:38
everything because they
25:39
don't want us on their ass.
25:40
You know what I'm saying?
25:40
But we can definitely tell.
25:43
We know Russ versus I've
25:44
been out all night and drinking.
25:46
We know.
25:47
We know what that shit was like, yo.
25:49
It was probably smelling
25:50
like tequila in that damn
25:51
arena last night, boy.
25:53
Coming out of that pool.
25:57
I didn't know what it was, but man.
26:00
How do y'all feel about Phantom, man?
26:02
That's the team.
26:03
We know Rose is the one too.
26:04
Phantom is the squad.
26:06
I feel like there's nothing being said.
26:08
What up, King?
26:09
Is it King?
26:10
Rob, what's good?
26:13
What's happening with you?
26:14
I feel like
26:16
there's nothing good being
26:18
said about phantom right
26:19
now like rose like we have
26:21
like if rose do this and
26:22
that they can get it's not
26:24
like if rose can do this
26:25
they can do this they got
26:26
they got good spots phantom
26:28
ain't had a good spot yet I
26:30
was gonna say I don't know
26:31
go ahead marina well no
26:34
yeah it's missing uh marina
26:36
mabry is that like like is
26:39
it that bad to the point where
26:42
Like,
26:42
is her after school that effective
26:45
for them?
26:45
Because I'm like, you look at the squad,
26:47
Brittany Griner, Satu, Sabrina,
26:50
Natasha Cloud, Katie, and Natisha Hyman.
26:58
Oh, yeah, the shoot was a replacement.
27:00
Because the Phantom was
27:01
already off to a bad start, right?
27:03
Because they lost Kelsey.
27:04
They lost Kelsey Plum.
27:06
It was already off to a bad start there.
27:08
Then you trade away Courtney Williams.
27:09
So that's another one.
27:11
You get Sabrina.
27:12
But Sabrina is not even
27:13
going to be there all the time, I think,
27:14
because she got prior engagement.
27:16
So she's like in and out.
27:17
So I don't think she really
27:18
that damn focused.
27:20
She's not even that damn focused on that.
27:21
Satu looking like she still
27:23
might be injured.
27:25
But he out there just slow as hell.
27:26
So, I don't know.
27:28
I don't know, man.
27:29
They got a coach that never
27:31
been a coach before, like a head coach.
27:33
You know what I'm saying?
27:34
So, it's just – I don't know.
27:35
I don't know what Phantom going to do.
27:37
Like,
27:38
I don't even know who their next game
27:39
is against.
27:43
I need to go look.
27:45
I got to schedule it.
27:47
Oh, shit.
27:47
They played a miss on Friday.
27:49
I mean, the miss, oh, and two.
27:51
Yeah, oh, and three.
27:53
Oh, yeah.
27:53
So they put me on.
27:54
I think the Mets are going
27:55
to beat them for sure.
27:56
I'm going to give Phantom
28:00
some leniency because even
28:01
the game against Vano yesterday,
28:03
I thought they had a much
28:03
better showing than what
28:04
they had against the Laces on Saturday.
28:07
They did.
28:08
You're right about that.
28:08
I will give them that.
28:10
They lost it in that third quarter.
28:12
That's what it was.
28:14
From the third quarter on,
28:15
it was just like, all right.
28:17
exactly I just think they
28:18
got to get better
28:19
defensively um honestly
28:21
like I think the chemistry
28:22
just still isn't there for
28:23
them like I mean I think I
28:24
think the only chemistry
28:25
that chemistry that I
28:25
really see is really
28:26
between satu and sabrina
28:27
but that's because they
28:28
play together in college
28:29
but they got to find a way
28:31
to get others going like I
28:32
mean they got katie lou
28:32
samuels on the team they
28:33
got like quality scores and
28:35
quality shooters on the
28:36
team that they got to get
28:37
going and especially with
28:38
sabrina being the primary
28:39
playmaker like that's her
28:40
that's her job to make sure
28:41
that everyone else gets
28:42
going as well britney
28:43
grinder so I'll do saboli
28:44
and everything else and
28:45
I don't know.
28:46
I was watching the game earlier today,
28:48
and I don't know if people
28:50
noticed it either,
28:50
but it looks to me like
28:51
Sabrina had lost weight
28:53
since the championship win.
28:54
I don't know.
28:55
Maybe it's just the uniform.
28:57
It might be that, but I was like,
28:59
she looks a little skinnier
29:00
than what she normally has been.
29:02
Maybe I'm just seeing things.
29:03
I don't know.
29:04
It might have been just the uniform.
29:05
Back and look, no.
29:07
Anybody in chat,
29:08
anybody in chat seeing that?
29:09
I got to go back and look at that.
29:10
That could be something.
29:12
You never know.
29:12
People will be trying to get leaner,
29:14
you know what I'm saying?
29:14
Injury.
29:15
Maybe that might be the case.
29:15
That might be the case.
29:17
You know what I'm saying?
29:18
It could be.
29:19
Like,
29:19
you feel like you're getting too many
29:20
injuries.
29:21
People start, like,
29:21
they start leaning out
29:22
because they've got too
29:23
much weight on their body
29:24
as they get older.
29:25
So.
29:25
That could be something, too.
29:26
And one thing about yesterday,
29:27
they shot fifty one percent
29:29
from the field yesterday.
29:30
And even though they shot twenty two,
29:32
three,
29:33
they were still they shot thirty
29:34
six percent from three.
29:36
Eight for twenty two.
29:37
They only went to the line five times.
29:39
They shot five free throws
29:41
because they were shooting
29:41
so many threes.
29:42
But I mean, they had a better day.
29:45
They were shooting right with vinyl.
29:46
Is this that?
29:48
I don't know.
29:49
They have fourteen turnover.
29:50
That's the game right there.
29:52
Yeah.
29:53
Yeah,
29:53
taking better care of the basketball.
29:54
I think their defense has to get better.
29:56
But, I mean,
29:56
it's hard to stop a team like
29:57
Vinyl who has so many offensive weapons.
29:59
Also,
30:00
De'Erica was eating off the pick and
30:02
roll every time.
30:03
It was a high ball game with Arike or Ryan,
30:06
and then she just rolled to the basket.
30:07
Nobody contesting the basket
30:09
or nobody's protecting the rim.
30:10
That's a three-on-three
30:13
experience that she has,
30:14
especially from the Olympics.
30:14
Right.
30:15
Yeah, that's true.
30:16
Yeah.
30:17
And then all the people
30:19
forget her and Ryan were on that team too,
30:20
so that's already chemistry
30:21
built right there.
30:22
Yep.
30:23
My thing with the,
30:25
speaking of the pick and roll,
30:26
when Brittany Griner pick and roll,
30:28
that shit be so slow after she picked.
30:31
I'd be like, yo, at this point,
30:33
you got to slip that shit.
30:35
You got to just start
30:35
slipping those picks.
30:37
Because you're wide enough
30:39
to make an impact where
30:41
they got to figure out if
30:43
they want to go over or under.
30:45
And as soon as they make that move, slip.
30:47
Just go ahead and slip to
30:48
the basket at this point.
30:49
Because I'm like, you wait until
30:52
they, you know,
30:53
you set that pick and then
30:54
your roll be so fucking slow.
30:56
I'm like, girl,
30:57
you got to get to the basket.
30:58
Because God damn.
31:01
No, that is.
31:02
No, no, no.
31:03
Seriously,
31:03
you can't be that slow in
31:04
three-on-three full court for sure.
31:06
No three-on-three you can.
31:08
I don't think she has the quickness,
31:10
honestly,
31:10
to be able to really do it effectively.
31:14
You know what?
31:16
No, you are correct, Megan.
31:19
Vinyl looking real solid.
31:20
And De'Erica is out there,
31:21
like they were saying last
31:22
night on playback, mama hand beat.
31:24
Vinyl might have the best
31:26
offense right now in the league.
31:29
Yeah, man.
31:30
And you got Teaspoon
31:31
coaching her ass off over there, bro.
31:33
And she got something to prove.
31:37
Yeah, she got something to prove, bro.
31:39
She really do.
31:39
Like, she coaching her ass off.
31:41
Like, Vinyl really –
31:43
Really look like they want some of that,
31:44
too.
31:44
Like, they want, like, yeah,
31:45
we want some of this.
31:46
Like, they, we here for this.
31:48
So, they like, they ready.
31:49
They really want to.
31:50
Like, their chemistry is good.
31:51
Looking at them, like, at practice,
31:53
they be always dancing together.
31:54
They always doing shit.
31:55
So, you know,
31:56
that stuff translates to the court.
31:58
And you can definitely see it.
31:58
They having fun.
32:00
But they definitely locked in.
32:01
Like,
32:01
Bjerka is knowing where all the balls
32:03
are going.
32:04
All the rebounds, she's there.
32:06
You know, and she's very strong.
32:08
That's what I'm saying.
32:09
I was going to say,
32:10
people don't realize how strong she is.
32:12
She real strong.
32:13
She strong as hell, bro.
32:14
Last night, she really showed me, like, oh,
32:16
shit, she strong as shit, boy.
32:18
Like, okay, all right, yeah.
32:20
Like, she locked in.
32:21
And you know what?
32:23
I'm sure she heard people, you know,
32:24
people was probably talking
32:25
shit about her, too.
32:26
She heard people,
32:27
because all the stuff with, you know,
32:28
the aces,
32:29
but also people was saying she
32:30
was too old to be the most improved.
32:33
You know what I'm saying?
32:33
Like, what age I do?
32:35
If you improve, you improve.
32:36
Yeah, I mean, if you...
32:37
If you had a better season
32:39
than you did the previous
32:40
year and you stood out,
32:40
you should be the most
32:41
improved candidate.
32:42
That's just me.
32:42
Exactly.
32:43
I don't care.
32:44
Yeah, like, who cares about that?
32:45
Like, the only time that shit, like,
32:47
most improved bothered me is when, like,
32:49
shit, like, when somebody, like,
32:50
jogged at it.
32:53
What?
32:53
Like, why he get that?
32:55
But I got it, though.
32:56
I understood.
32:57
Like, I wasn't going to be mad about, like,
32:58
go too far.
32:59
I'm like, damn, why he get that shit?
33:00
Somebody else could have got it.
33:01
We knew Ja was going to be that.
33:02
But you know what I'm saying?
33:03
But outside of that, like, I get it.
33:05
Like,
33:05
people was mad about him beginning it,
33:06
but she balled out,
33:08
and she really improved.
33:09
Damn the age.
33:10
You know what I'm saying?
33:11
And she's showing it,
33:12
and she's showing that
33:13
she's going to be ready for
33:14
– is she a free agent?
33:15
Who?
33:17
De'Arica?
33:17
De'Arica.
33:18
I don't think so.
33:18
I don't think so.
33:21
Okay, I didn't think she was.
33:21
Okay, so she's really going to be ready.
33:23
It's going to be fun to see
33:24
her again this season
33:27
coming up with the Sparks.
33:29
And you got – she got Rakia
33:32
down there too.
33:32
I know they're on the same team,
33:34
but I feel like all this is
33:35
going to help them,
33:36
help that team going
33:37
forward because you're
33:38
still developing like this.
33:40
Then when Cam Brink comes back.
33:42
Yes,
33:43
I don't even know if she's going to
33:44
come back.
33:44
You know how people with ACLs these days,
33:46
it'd be like two years
33:47
before you see a player again.
33:48
So hopefully it ain't that
33:50
long since they start back in the summer,
33:52
but we'll see.
33:54
I want to see Arike step up the D, though,
33:58
start leading the Steelers.
33:59
Like, hey, I feel that.
34:01
I feel that.
34:01
I feel that.
34:02
Go back and watch Rose
34:03
versus Vinyl Hamby with Storm Angel, bro.
34:05
Yo,
34:05
I definitely got to go back and watch
34:07
that.
34:08
Angel ain't ready for De'Arica like that.
34:10
Yeah, that's the big issue with Angel.
34:13
She's going to get stronger.
34:19
Nah, offense is a fact.
34:19
That's why I was looking up front.
34:23
If you really watch Angel in college,
34:26
go ahead, my fault.
34:28
No, I was saying,
34:29
that was part of the reason
34:31
why I was looking into that
34:32
game on Friday.
34:33
I was like, dang,
34:33
Angel got to go up against
34:34
De'Arica and Aaliyah Boston?
34:36
Yeah, that's rough, bro.
34:39
No, that's tough.
34:40
That's real tough.
34:40
But you also,
34:42
if you watch Angel in college,
34:43
stuff like that, she's good,
34:45
but she's just,
34:46
anytime with somebody bigger,
34:47
she struggled with that strength, man.
34:48
Her legs aren't as strong,
34:50
and so she's definitely
34:51
going to have to do that in the W to up.
34:54
That's why she missed a lot of layups,
34:55
too.
34:56
She's not that strong like that,
34:57
so you bounce, you hit her,
34:59
she's going to miss that shit.
35:01
And that's the thing, too.
35:03
The W is a big league.
35:05
So, I mean, you got to be strong.
35:06
You got to be ready for
35:07
those battles every single game.
35:10
You do.
35:12
I mean, hell, I mean, you got to think.
35:13
She ain't even playing.
35:14
I play like Asia Wilson in this league.
35:16
You know what I'm saying?
35:17
Exactly.
35:19
Exactly.
35:20
So,
35:22
you better take advantage of this shit
35:23
for real.
35:24
Man, anything else?
35:25
The Erica extension is
35:26
through the twenty twenty
35:29
five season also.
35:30
Oh, OK.
35:30
OK.
35:30
OK.
35:31
OK.
35:31
Thank you.
35:33
Appreciate you.
35:35
Just one more thing before
35:37
we move on about the Mets.
35:38
I think they'll be fine.
35:39
I know that they're owing too.
35:40
I just think that they got
35:41
to really figure out how to
35:42
really utilize their players.
35:43
I mean,
35:43
they got so many offensive talents
35:46
like Brianna Stewart, Jewel Lloyd,
35:48
but then off the bench,
35:49
you got to play like Rekia
35:51
Jackson as well.
35:51
So it's just all about
35:53
utilizing your players and
35:54
just really understanding
35:55
just certain situations.
35:56
But I feel like, I mean,
35:56
with the talent alone,
35:58
I feel like the Mets will
35:59
find a way to turn things around.
36:00
I mean, you know,
36:01
the first game against the Lunar Owls,
36:02
that was a close one.
36:03
And then they lost the last one as well.
36:05
But
36:05
To me, even though they're only two,
36:06
I think they're another
36:07
team that will turn it around.
36:08
So I'm expecting both the
36:10
missed and Rose to be able
36:12
to turn it around.
36:13
I'm with you on that.
36:14
I'm with you, definitely.
36:18
We're going to say a prayer.
36:20
Yeah, we're going to say a prayer.
36:21
We're going to say a prayer
36:22
for the Phantom.
36:24
Yeah, we are.
36:24
We're going to say a prayer.
36:25
Speaking of the Phantom, man,
36:26
that's a nice segue, man.
36:28
Satu, man, free agency started.
36:31
And is she going to be in Dallas?
36:33
Is she going to be able to leave Dallas?
36:35
I don't even know how this shit work, man.
36:38
I thought she got core, didn't she?
36:39
I thought she did.
36:40
Does that mean she's not
36:41
going back like Kelsey Plum?
36:44
Who else?
36:47
Mitchell from the Fever.
36:51
Kelsey Mitchell got core.
36:53
Satu did.
36:55
I'm still... We need Ella
36:58
Dawn to go somewhere, too.
36:59
I need her to go to the Aces.
37:00
I think she's freed from the Mystics.
37:03
I think she's freed from there.
37:04
I need her to go somewhere, but
37:07
Where do you think Satu going to land?
37:09
I don't know.
37:10
I've been thinking about this.
37:12
I haven't been able to
37:12
really explore teams, honestly,
37:14
but it does seem like, I mean,
37:16
once you announce it in the
37:16
press that you're not
37:17
coming back to the team,
37:18
that's pretty much the
37:19
writing on the wall.
37:20
She did it in a press conference, bro.
37:22
I don't know what else.
37:24
That's the writing on the
37:25
wall right there.
37:25
You know what I'm saying?
37:28
That's a crazy thing, too.
37:30
As far as teams,
37:32
it just really all depends
37:32
on the situation.
37:33
I could potentially see Atlanta
37:36
I could see her playing next to Ryan,
37:38
playing next to Alicia.
37:40
I think it would definitely
37:42
create more off-ball
37:43
opportunities for both of
37:44
them because I think Ryan
37:44
is a really great player off the ball.
37:47
She'll probably have to
37:48
share the ball a little bit
37:49
with Jordan Canada,
37:50
but it's also about health, too,
37:51
because Atlanta was not
37:52
healthy at all last year.
37:53
Jordan Canada was in and out
37:54
of the lineup.
37:55
Same thing with Ryan.
37:56
I think Ryan missed close to a month.
37:59
Even other players as well
38:00
was missing time, so
38:02
atlanta just got to stay
38:03
healthy and I think sato
38:04
especially looking at sato
38:06
you know who has injury
38:07
history and who missed like
38:09
more than half the season
38:10
last year I mean which you
38:11
know which was out of her
38:11
control um I mean I mean
38:14
it's something to look at I
38:15
mean I saw people say veil
38:16
everybody always want to
38:17
say vegas bro it's so funny
38:19
it's like anytime
38:19
somebody's a free agent or
38:21
somebody paid everyone to
38:21
stay in vegas it's just
38:22
funny yeah they do they do
38:25
honestly I don't might be
38:26
good too depending on
38:28
what the whole Jewel Lloyd situation is.
38:30
I was predicting that she might stay, but,
38:31
I mean,
38:31
a lot of people are projecting
38:32
Chicago's going to be her
38:33
next destination,
38:34
which I wouldn't be mad at that,
38:35
honestly.
38:36
I would love that.
38:36
Come on home, Jewel.
38:38
We got the money, man.
38:39
Chicago got, like,
38:40
over nine hundred K in cap space.
38:42
They third on the list in cap space.
38:45
Yeah, I saw that, yeah.
38:49
So, it's like, I don't know.
38:50
So, I think Seattle will work.
38:51
So, I think Seattle will really work,
38:52
honestly.
38:53
Also, Yeah, they got seven,
38:54
they got seven hundred K or
38:55
some shit like that Seattle do, so.
38:58
Yeah, but what's up with the Satu slander?
39:00
Like, it's kind of a back-and-forth thing.
39:02
Like, at first she was getting praised,
39:04
and now she was getting slandered.
39:06
I was like – What's slandered?
39:09
There's no – I see a lot of
39:10
– I know what he's talking about.
39:11
Like, on Twitter, there's no in-between.
39:14
Yeah.
39:15
Either Satu is in that
39:17
Stewie Asia fee realm –
39:21
And then there's people who are saying,
39:23
but then there's people
39:24
saying they don't want her
39:25
on their team at all.
39:26
So I'm like, come on, man.
39:28
There's no middle ground
39:30
when it comes to Satu.
39:32
Yeah,
39:32
all the conversations I've been
39:33
seeing lately.
39:33
So it's like, come on, man.
39:35
You know you want to take
39:36
her on your team.
39:37
If you're putting Satu on
39:38
the same tier as Asia, Fee, and Stewie,
39:41
please don't talk about it.
39:42
I mean, respectfully, I like Satu.
39:44
Satu's a great player.
39:45
But just respectfully, nah.
39:47
But, I mean, you know, I agree with Meg.
39:48
I mean, I think Satu is very talented,
39:50
honestly.
39:50
I mean, hell,
39:51
even when she won most
39:52
improved player last year.
39:52
Definitely injuries.
39:54
I feel like we were just
39:55
waiting on that moment
39:56
because her career got off
39:57
to a slow start just
39:57
because of her injuries.
39:58
And, you know,
40:00
injuries have been just a
40:01
big pivotal role in her
40:02
career and why she's been held back,
40:04
honestly.
40:05
So, Satu in a new situation could work.
40:07
And, I mean, I've been saying, you know,
40:08
Dallas –
40:09
Dallas just seems like
40:10
they've just been in the
40:10
same place for so long.
40:12
I mean, look,
40:12
I know that they have the number one pick,
40:14
and obviously they're going
40:15
to get paid back or something.
40:15
That could potentially change things.
40:17
But, you know,
40:18
Seattle's a team that could
40:20
be back in championship contention,
40:22
you know, if they get a play like Sato.
40:24
I mean, you pair it with Skyler.
40:25
You could pair it with Nneka.
40:26
You could pair it with Ezzie Magbogor.
40:28
Ezzie doesn't get talked about a lot,
40:30
honestly.
40:32
But, I mean,
40:33
Seattle could be right back there.
40:35
I mean, maybe not top three in the league,
40:37
but I could definitely see them, like,
40:39
get a playoff seed with Satu
40:40
on the lineup.
40:42
No, that is.
40:43
The real question is,
40:44
why are former Ducks so injury prone?
40:48
What they doing out there in Eugene?
40:50
What they doing out there?
40:51
They got all that big-ass facility,
40:53
and they ain't got the
40:54
proper training going on out there.
40:55
What's going on out there in Eugene?
40:56
You ain't lying.
40:57
I ain't even thinking about that.
40:59
I've never even thought about that.
41:02
Also, with Jazzy, she said, I think,
41:04
when Satu played for Germany,
41:08
In the Olympics,
41:09
people were upset because
41:10
she sat out most of the
41:10
season for Dallas.
41:11
Oh, yeah, I did see that.
41:15
I think we actually talked about that,
41:16
too.
41:16
But she did.
41:17
I don't know.
41:18
What was her injuries?
41:19
I don't even know what she's battling.
41:20
What does she hurt?
41:22
Nick, do you know?
41:23
Anybody?
41:24
Meg, you know Jazzy?
41:25
What she hurt?
41:26
I don't know what she did.
41:28
Yeah, I know Meg.
41:29
Meg will come with the
41:30
information real quick.
41:32
Well, she was a former Wings fan.
41:34
Now she's a Valkyrie, apparently.
41:36
Yeah, yeah, she's a Valkyrie.
41:38
You're a Valkyrie fan, boy.
41:39
You don't even know how good
41:40
they're going to be.
41:41
Y'all getting paid.
41:42
Hey, she's buying stock early.
41:46
What, isn't her injury?
41:47
Oh, she's like one of those players.
41:48
She's like a... It is, I will say.
41:52
She's like an NBA...
41:54
She always hurt type shit?
41:57
Even despite the injuries,
41:59
Satu's still an all-star caliber player,
42:01
so I feel like any team
42:02
should want to do whatever
42:03
it takes to get her, honestly.
42:06
How much you would pay for her?
42:09
How much I would pay?
42:11
Yeah, how much you paying for Satu?
42:12
Depends on the organization, honestly.
42:16
Yeah, it really does.
42:18
And where you...
42:21
Is she a person you can
42:21
build your team around?
42:22
Like,
42:23
this is who we're going to build
42:24
around and win a championship.
42:26
It's hard to say, really, right?
42:28
If she wasn't injury-prone, I'd say yes.
42:30
Talent-wise,
42:31
I would say she is a player
42:32
that you can build around.
42:33
But you look at the injury-prone type,
42:36
it's just tough to, like,
42:37
really invest in a player like that.
42:39
I mean, hell,
42:40
you look at what's happening
42:40
in New Orleans with Zion
42:42
and how that's turned out, like,
42:43
the past six, seven years.
42:44
Good God.
42:45
Where they put all their
42:46
stock on this guy because
42:47
he was the biggest star out of college.
42:52
He was supposed to take
42:53
Brian's spot when he left.
42:55
That's not happening.
42:59
Yeah, he was.
42:59
I think she had solid two as well.
43:02
She does hang with Jimmy Butler.
43:04
Yeah, you hanging out with Jimmy Butler.
43:06
I know you on bullshit.
43:09
I don't even know.
43:10
That's crazy.
43:10
If you was in my playback last night,
43:11
you saw my rant about Jimmy Butler,
43:13
so you already know how I feel.
43:15
Yeah, she do be working out with him.
43:18
Oh, yeah, you did, Mitch.
43:19
You weren't there yet.
43:20
But, like,
43:22
when he was suspended for those
43:24
seven games,
43:24
he was working out with her over there.
43:27
But they always be hanging out.
43:28
So, yeah, that's – it's hard.
43:32
But you just don't know what
43:33
you're going to get when
43:33
she's coming there.
43:35
And I forgot, since Nick did mention that,
43:37
that she did mention her
43:38
leaving in the press conference.
43:39
So it was like, yeah, you are gone.
43:41
It's just a matter of how
43:43
this is going to work.
43:44
Yeah.
43:45
um what y'all think what do
43:46
you think uh kp gonna land
43:50
honestly see this the thing
43:52
like I feel like if she
43:54
does leave vegas she's
43:56
probably gonna have to take
43:57
a lesser role than me
43:58
because I don't know where
44:00
I mean like I mean it's not
44:01
like she's one of the top
44:02
two options in vegas but I
44:04
just I don't know it just
44:05
it just all depends on the
44:06
situation to me
44:08
To me,
44:08
I would love to see her stay in Vegas,
44:10
honestly, especially, you know, because,
44:12
I mean, I'll just be real.
44:12
I mean,
44:12
the A's is championship running over you.
44:14
I don't care if they lost this past year.
44:15
It's not.
44:16
No, it's not.
44:18
I saw a lot of people trying
44:18
to write them off after that loss,
44:19
and I'm like, yo, like, Aja Wilson,
44:22
she just turned, what, twenty-seven,
44:23
twenty-eight?
44:24
Yeah, bro.
44:25
That's prime.
44:26
That's your prime right there.
44:28
Like, literally, honestly, man,
44:29
but I think the best situation,
44:32
for me at least, would
44:34
be for her to probably stay
44:35
in vegas I see meg says
44:36
chicago I wouldn't be mad
44:37
at chicago honestly it's
44:40
just kp is just so weird
44:41
it's like it's like she's
44:42
high and she's low at the
44:43
same time it's like it's
44:44
like she can be a great
44:45
player but then she can
44:46
also make some crazy
44:47
decisions that make you
44:48
think like yo what the fuck
44:49
was that like you know what
44:50
I mean like kb is that type
44:51
of player to me but I mean
44:52
but I'll be real I mean
44:53
she's great honestly I mean
44:54
and also also you know by
44:55
the way congrats to her for
44:57
getting her her jersey
44:58
retired at washington
45:00
oh yeah was that saturday
45:01
that happened I believe I
45:02
think that happened on
45:03
saturday um I see jessie
45:06
said she thinks she's gonna
45:07
resign okay okay okay okay
45:11
I wouldn't be mad at her
45:12
resigning just because of
45:13
the fact of the uh the
45:16
chemistry that she has with
45:17
with vegas but also the
45:19
thing about it is that like
45:20
okay so let's let's say
45:22
hypothetically she does leave like
45:24
I feel like the one player
45:26
that could potentially
45:26
replace her that the Aces
45:28
could get is Kelsey
45:29
Mitchell out in Indiana.
45:31
But if Kelsey is forward in Indiana,
45:33
which I'm projecting that
45:33
she's going to stay in Indiana too,
45:35
especially with the year
45:35
that she just had.
45:36
And I feel like they're
45:37
building something finally there,
45:39
you know, because I mean,
45:39
she's been there for so
45:40
long and it's like, you know,
45:40
she had to make the playoffs to this year,
45:42
to this past year, I believe.
45:43
So where they're building
45:44
there with Caitlin,
45:45
with Aaliyah and all of them,
45:46
I feel like that's probably
45:46
the best place for her.
45:48
But honestly,
45:50
I don't know who the Aces
45:51
will replace KP with.
45:53
you know, outside of like Kelsey Mitchell.
45:56
No, I don't.
45:57
I really don't know, man.
46:00
I'm still thinking about
46:00
what Meg said about her going to Chicago.
46:02
It's about KP, man.
46:03
I didn't even think about that.
46:05
I didn't think about that shit at all.
46:08
I mean, it, it, I don't,
46:09
I feel like we can't really like, yeah,
46:11
she going to start there.
46:12
Right.
46:13
I mean, probably, but it's like,
46:14
I can't really like really
46:16
look at Chicago until after
46:17
the draft to me.
46:18
Like once they get there, honestly,
46:21
I think that'll really
46:22
determine what team we're
46:22
going to be looking at this
46:23
upcoming year.
46:25
Okay.
46:29
Since you said that,
46:29
we can talk about Jewel
46:31
because everybody got her
46:32
connected to Chicago for that third pick.
46:36
If you're Chicago,
46:37
either one of y'all can answer.
46:37
If you're Chicago,
46:38
do you offer the tenth pick
46:39
first just to see where the
46:41
conversation goes?
46:42
Yep.
46:43
That's what I'm doing.
46:44
I'm offering that tenth
46:45
first because if I offer that tenth...
46:49
Chicago's not in that
46:50
position yet where they
46:51
need to risk getting rid of
46:53
the third pick to me.
46:55
No, seriously.
46:57
I mean, Jewel is a great player,
46:58
but respectfully,
46:59
Jewel is not Asia or Fee.
47:01
You know what I'm saying?
47:03
Yeah, you give up everything.
47:04
You give up the house, shit.
47:09
You start with the pick and
47:10
let them try and talk you into the third.
47:16
Oh, I can see.
47:18
Okay, okay.
47:19
So let's say Chicago really wants Jewel.
47:24
I'm going to give you this
47:25
tenth and let Seattle be like, okay, well,
47:30
how about this?
47:32
It's going to have to be a
47:33
back and forth in order for
47:37
Seattle to get that third pick.
47:39
It's going to have to be
47:40
some wheeling and dealing.
47:41
It's definitely going to have to be.
47:44
Um,
47:44
just about the Chicago home real quick.
47:47
And she talked about the
47:48
Chicago facility rackets
47:49
facility wise for people
47:50
that play in Vegas.
47:51
Yeah, it is.
47:52
And the fact that,
47:53
and the fact that Chicago
47:54
haven't even broke ground on,
47:57
on building a facility yet.
47:58
I don't even know what's
47:59
taking them so long to do that.
48:01
So if you don't start now,
48:03
you damn sure not going to
48:04
have it done by next season.
48:06
ain't even started you know
48:07
what I'm saying like you
48:08
should have been started
48:09
this so I don't know what's
48:10
going on there they go
48:15
ahead yeah I don't know
48:17
what's going on over there
48:18
so but man it's like I
48:20
don't know I would love
48:21
some I've seen some people
48:22
say they think uh I don't
48:23
know nick nick I don't know
48:24
if you said this but
48:25
somebody said they feel
48:26
like jewel going back to
48:27
seattle I don't know if
48:28
that was you I said that you think so
48:33
To me, it's like, I mean, I get it.
48:35
Chicago, you know,
48:36
that's close to home for Jewel.
48:37
So I get it.
48:38
You know what I'm saying?
48:39
You're right next to the crib.
48:40
I get that.
48:40
But Jewel, to me,
48:42
I feel like she should be
48:43
better off putting herself
48:44
in position to where she
48:45
can be in win-now mode.
48:47
Chicago is not in that
48:48
position whatsoever.
48:49
And I don't know if they're
48:50
going to be in that
48:50
position for at least another, like,
48:51
maybe couple years, honestly.
48:53
But if she does want to go
48:54
based off of just being close to home,
48:56
then I'm fine with that.
48:56
Or if she just wants to stay
48:57
for the development of that franchise,
48:59
then cool.
49:00
But...
49:01
two-time champ like you know
49:02
what I'm saying like I
49:03
don't think she needs to be
49:04
waiting around to like try
49:05
to put herself in position
49:06
when another one in I feel
49:08
like at least to me I mean
49:09
we don't know the ins and
49:10
outs of the whole seattle
49:11
situation but I'm hoping
49:13
that it's not that bad at
49:13
the point where you're
49:14
willing to leave a team
49:15
where you do have a better
49:17
chance of winning a title
49:18
with going to another team
49:19
who's still young and in
49:20
the rebuilding process me
49:21
personally I feel like
49:23
I feel like a lot of this
49:24
whole situation with Skylar and Jewel,
49:27
it really could just be
49:28
solved off with just one conversation,
49:29
honestly.
49:30
I don't know if it's that bad, honestly.
49:33
I know that we heard some
49:34
things about Skylar cussing
49:35
people out in the locker
49:36
room or calling people
49:37
names and all that stuff,
49:40
but that's your franchise.
49:41
You spent your whole career in Seattle.
49:44
They look to you as a franchise player,
49:46
especially after Stewie
49:47
left and after Sue Bird had retired.
49:50
They look to you as the next
49:52
superstar of this team
49:54
yeah honestly I'm not
49:55
letting that go honestly
49:56
especially when this team
49:57
is actually in position to
49:59
be a title contender I mean
50:00
and even last year as I was
50:01
looking at them you know
50:02
they had their ups and
50:03
downs about things like man
50:04
like if they bring this all
50:05
together like to me they
50:06
got they got one more year
50:07
before they really
50:09
established themselves as
50:09
true title contenders you
50:11
got jewel who I know had a
50:13
very I mean honestly I mean
50:17
we look at jewel honestly I
50:18
mean jewel definitely had a
50:19
very underwhelming season
50:22
I mean, especially, you know,
50:22
when you look at the upside down,
50:23
especially after like in
50:24
the twenty twenty three
50:25
season when she led the league in scoring,
50:28
it was very underwhelming
50:28
to say the least.
50:29
But then you still have
50:31
Skyler who had a pretty,
50:32
pretty solid season,
50:33
especially as a playmaker.
50:33
I thought Nega had a really good year.
50:35
I thought that I thought it
50:36
was probably one of her
50:36
best shooting years, if you ask me.
50:38
And then you still got a young rising star,
50:40
Inezi Maguibor.
50:41
That was just me, honestly.
50:42
I mean, I mean, especially with Jewel.
50:43
I mean, Jewel's not young.
50:44
I want to say she's like in
50:45
her early thirties.
50:46
I would want to see her in a
50:47
in a position where she can
50:48
win at this moment.
50:49
I don't want to see her go
50:50
to an organization where.
50:52
they're about two,
50:53
three years away from
50:53
really being playoff contenders,
50:55
honestly.
50:56
I definitely understand that take,
50:58
and I definitely hear you there.
50:59
That was my first thing when
51:01
people were first bringing up Drew.
51:02
I'm like, man,
51:02
does Drew actually want to come here?
51:03
Because Chicago's not ready
51:05
to win right now.
51:07
They're a fringe playoff team,
51:09
and we still don't know
51:10
what's going to happen
51:10
without the draft and all that stuff,
51:12
too.
51:12
So it's like, man, but like you said,
51:15
it is her squad.
51:16
It could be just one conversation.
51:18
They're both down there in Miami.
51:20
So it was like,
51:21
it could just be one conversation.
51:23
I told you we need that one-on-one.
51:25
That one-on-one could
51:25
possibly solve everything, man.
51:27
I'm telling y'all.
51:29
You ain't lying, though.
51:30
That's box office.
51:31
That one-on-one could probably solve it.
51:33
It could.
51:35
That block that you had on Scholar?
51:38
Oh, my God.
51:40
You felt it.
51:41
It was more to that block.
51:42
Heard that block.
51:44
You heard the block.
51:45
It was more to that block
51:46
and everything like that.
51:47
So that's going to be interesting to see.
51:50
Man,
51:50
who's some – y'all got any sleeper
51:52
free agents that people are
51:54
not going to be talking about?
51:55
I wanted to touch on this, too,
51:56
because the news just broke.
51:58
Brittany Griner is going to
51:58
test free agency.
51:59
Oh, yeah, yeah.
52:01
I've been trying to think of
52:02
places where she could go.
52:03
I don't see her going nowhere else.
52:04
I think, to me,
52:05
I think Phoenix has got to
52:07
– you've got to stay in Phoenix.
52:11
I think you just got to stay.
52:13
Hold on.
52:13
Let me tell, let me,
52:14
let me address this shit real quick.
52:19
I'm just saying, I just,
52:21
I just can't see any other team where,
52:23
I mean, look, I mean, Brittany Gratter,
52:25
Brittany Gratter, you know,
52:25
we all know that,
52:27
but it's just hard for me
52:28
to really see her like go
52:30
to another team and still
52:31
be like as effective, honestly.
52:36
I don't know.
52:37
Honestly, who's going to fit her?
52:39
You think about the rosters
52:41
and everything like that.
52:42
Who has a need for BG?
52:44
Is she going to come off the bench?
52:48
I don't know.
52:50
If it's Indiana,
52:50
she's coming off the bench
52:51
because she ain't starting
52:51
ahead of Leah Boston.
52:55
I think she's so far from
52:56
her prime to the point.
52:59
I can't bring you in and
53:00
have you starting over
53:01
somebody who's young and
53:02
who's really doing their thing.
53:03
Honestly,
53:04
Phoenix is still a contender, though.
53:06
That's the thing.
53:07
They are.
53:07
They're in the playoffs.
53:09
Yeah,
53:10
I don't know if she's going to leave.
53:12
I think she just wants to
53:13
see what her value is.
53:14
I think this is just a –
53:16
this is probably a money
53:16
play to get more money.
53:17
Yeah, I think that's probably what it is.
53:22
That's probably what it is.
53:23
Like,
53:23
let me just go see what people are
53:24
talking about.
53:25
She's going to probably go
53:25
out there and she's probably like, hey,
53:27
man, BG, you ain't –
53:29
You still BG.
53:31
We're going to respect you,
53:31
but you're not like that,
53:32
that we're going to move
53:34
heaven and earth for you to
53:35
come to this team and have
53:37
you start over.
53:37
Like, yeah, Indiana, like,
53:38
you're not starting over
53:39
with Leah Boston.
53:40
That's dead.
53:41
You know what I'm saying?
53:41
Like,
53:42
that's not – that's really not happening.
53:44
So, I don't – that's –
53:46
I think she's going back.
53:47
I definitely think she's
53:48
going back for sure.
53:49
I mean,
53:49
her name is going to – her name
53:52
pulls in stuff.
53:53
Like, people is going to bring – oh,
53:54
you see the headline,
53:55
BG going to test free
53:56
agency for the first time.
53:58
But when you sit back and zoom out, like,
54:00
damn, that ain't BG that we thought.
54:02
Like, that ain't the same BG from Baylor.
54:04
You know,
54:04
when she first came to the league,
54:06
you know, that's not the same one.
54:07
So, I think she stays.
54:09
And they also were saying
54:11
this is a DT last season.
54:14
As well, I saw a report or something.
54:15
I think, Nick, you put it in there.
54:17
Didn't you put it in the group chat?
54:19
Yeah, yeah.
54:19
I sent it to you on low, yeah.
54:20
Yeah, yeah.
54:21
So DT going to be, I guess,
54:23
he's going to be retiring.
54:24
But it's time.
54:25
Well, I mean, allegedly.
54:28
I don't know it's true.
54:29
Yeah, allegedly.
54:31
DT might just wake up in April and say,
54:33
all right, I'm back.
54:34
Yeah,
54:35
so if she comes back for this one
54:37
last season,
54:39
Make sure if you've never seen her play,
54:42
go see her, man.
54:43
She's still a legend in the game for sure.
54:46
She actually had a really
54:46
good year last year.
54:47
I'll give it to her.
54:49
She did.
54:49
No, she did.
54:51
But she's still averaging what?
54:52
She's still averaging .Nineteen,
54:53
.Twenty a game, right?
54:54
Yeah, around .Eighteen, .Nineteen, yeah.
54:57
Yeah, I think she's still doing that.
55:00
Yeah,
55:00
so I think she's going to come back
55:03
one more season.
55:03
I think it's a wrap for that.
55:05
You get older, man.
55:05
You start having kids and shit, man.
55:08
You got other shit you focusing on.
55:10
Like, what, she's forty-three?
55:11
Goddamn.
55:13
Is that how old she is?
55:13
I think she is.
55:16
Damn, I didn't know she was that.
55:18
I thought she was, like, right at forty,
55:20
like, forty-one.
55:20
But, damn.
55:22
Well, but still,
55:22
when you start having children and shit,
55:24
man, like,
55:25
your priorities start changing.
55:27
And she accomplished so much.
55:28
She's done everything from UConn.
55:29
You got high school.
55:30
You got UConn.
55:31
You got the league.
55:32
The Olympics.
55:33
I mean,
55:34
what the hell else is it for her
55:36
and LeBron to do at forty?
55:37
Nothing.
55:40
Take your ass home.
55:42
Her and LeBron,
55:43
they the old motherfuckers in the club.
55:45
Hey, go home, old niggas.
55:47
Fuck y'all.
55:47
Hang with us for it.
55:53
color answers all man
55:53
they're coming they're
55:54
coming to um friday night
55:55
lights at the high school
55:56
and like y'all still here
55:56
why are y'all coming here
56:00
bro why are you here go
56:01
home dog imagine brownie
56:02
brownie trying to go to the
56:02
club now I gotta bring my
56:03
daddy my teammate all right
56:07
what are you stealing the
56:07
league for so man but shout
56:09
out to dt man so we don't
56:10
know that you're true I go
56:12
wood yeah and tiger woods
56:14
man stop man y'all done
56:16
y'all y'all accomplished everything
56:18
Seriously.
56:19
So, but I do think it's, I think,
56:20
I think Bron and DT giving
56:22
us one more each season.
56:23
So, um, yes, it's a rabbit.
56:27
He definitely next year is
56:28
his last season for sure.
56:30
Um, but man, if DT does retire,
56:32
it's going to be her last season.
56:33
Make sure y'all go out and
56:34
watch her play for sure.
56:36
I mean,
56:36
it's going to probably be hail this
56:37
year to get tickets for the W, but,
56:40
Try to give her some packages,
56:42
see if Phoenix can be in that package,
56:44
and, you know, that saves you some money,
56:45
but it's going to be hard.
56:47
Honestly, like,
56:48
if DT announced it is her
56:49
last year before the season,
56:50
you know them prices are about to go up.
56:52
Yeah, they are,
56:52
especially when she comes to town.
56:54
Like,
56:54
them Phoenix games are going to be
56:56
crazy when they come to town for sure.
56:57
Man, what do you think, real quick,
56:59
I got a couple more.
57:00
We're about AT, man.
57:01
You think Alyssa Thomas is
57:02
going to stay in Connecticut?
57:06
I don't know honestly I mean
57:07
they they just hired their
57:08
new coach um I was there it
57:11
seemed like you know it
57:11
seemed like he's on a good
57:12
page as far as really
57:14
trying to help build that
57:14
team but I don't know
57:16
connecticut is just it's
57:19
it's really tough to see
57:20
honestly I mean I saw
57:21
people like saying that
57:22
they could explore like
57:23
other things but obviously
57:24
if at is going to be going
57:25
to one is going to like
57:26
that's that's my prediction
57:27
yeah yeah so it was both of
57:29
them you know that's
57:30
definitely a big loss honestly but
57:32
really just all depends
57:33
honestly I mean I'll say
57:34
more than not they'll
57:35
probably stay but I still
57:38
question you know where I
57:38
mean israel because
57:39
connecticut actually had a
57:40
really good year last year
57:41
you know they got up to a
57:42
really hot start last year
57:43
to begin the season but I
57:46
still just don't have them
57:47
like ahead of new york or
57:48
vegas honestly so no no
57:51
seriously I'm with you on
57:52
that oh yeah yeah yeah um man before
57:58
It's always some shit in the
58:00
women's hoops community, man.
58:02
Before we even move on.
58:04
I already know what you're talking about.
58:06
Man, this Kennedy Carter shit is crazy,
58:09
man.
58:09
I don't even know what happened.
58:11
Make your layups, man.
58:14
She wasn't even talking crazy.
58:15
Just make your layups, man.
58:17
It goes into some extra shit, bro.
58:20
People shading her and shit.
58:22
Oh, man.
58:22
Like, what y'all take on this shit, man?
58:24
I had to start reading on this shit, man.
58:26
I just know she was talking about them.
58:27
It shouldn't even got this far.
58:28
It shouldn't even got this far.
58:30
You see all this stuff, Wally?
58:31
What you take on this, man?
58:32
I mean, I saw a little bit.
58:35
Like, it came across my timeline.
58:38
I haven't been on.
58:39
I've been busy today.
58:40
So, the little bit I did.
58:44
Look, the little bit I did see.
58:45
Like you said, to me, it wasn't no shade.
58:49
Like, she...
58:50
She made her statement.
58:51
The statement is... It's a
58:53
factual statement.
58:54
Hey, make your fucking layups.
58:57
That's it.
58:58
Right.
58:58
You got to worry about your layups, man.
58:59
What the fuck is going on?
59:01
Also,
59:02
that's somebody that she's hooped with.
59:06
Like, in the trenches with.
59:08
So what she...
59:10
So was she particularly
59:11
talking about Angel or was
59:11
she just talking about just
59:12
players in the league
59:13
overall that was just missing late?
59:15
I think last night she was
59:17
just talking about last
59:17
night and Angel didn't even
59:18
play last night.
59:19
Right, I was going to say,
59:20
because if that's the case,
59:22
you can take that statement
59:23
and put it to the entire
59:25
league for that part because, again,
59:28
the game last night, what, three,
59:31
four smoke layups back to back to back?
59:35
Man,
59:35
they missed like seven shots in one
59:37
position.
59:38
Oh, my God.
59:40
Like, it was bad.
59:40
Like, you know what I'm saying?
59:42
So, like, all that shit about,
59:43
I think it's just more so, like,
59:45
I feel like Kennedy has always had,
59:47
I mean, it's Kennedy Carter.
59:48
It's been that drama,
59:49
the stuff she had with
59:50
Caitlyn Clark last year.
59:52
So that shit just boils over.
59:54
And, like, but hit dogs holler, man.
59:57
Man.
59:59
Every time, like.
1:00:02
she's talking about layups.
1:00:02
She didn't say nobody's name.
1:00:04
We all watching the same thing.
1:00:05
You think she's not watching
1:00:06
Unrivaled like we are?
1:00:07
Right.
1:00:08
Like, come on now.
1:00:09
Like,
1:00:10
everybody in the world seeing all
1:00:11
them missed layups.
1:00:12
Everybody in the world was
1:00:12
seeing that shit last night.
1:00:14
everything.
1:00:15
We saw it.
1:00:17
It'll come back up during the season,
1:00:19
during the next, the incoming season.
1:00:22
Trust me.
1:00:23
It's going to come back up.
1:00:24
And it's not just going to be her.
1:00:25
It's going to be the rest of the league.
1:00:27
And I want to hear what
1:00:29
people are going to have to say then.
1:00:32
That is.
1:00:32
What you think, Nick?
1:00:36
I was about to ask you, man.
1:00:37
I don't know where she's going next year,
1:00:38
man, at all.
1:00:40
I don't know.
1:00:41
But this whole situation, I didn't really
1:00:43
dive into it too much,
1:00:44
but people just shut up, honestly.
1:00:47
Everybody just got something to say.
1:00:48
I'm not talking about Kennedy.
1:00:49
I'm talking about everybody
1:00:50
attacking Kennedy.
1:00:53
She has a right to express how she feels.
1:00:55
If she's watching the game
1:00:56
and she sees something she don't like,
1:00:57
she can do just like us.
1:00:58
If we see something we don't like,
1:00:59
we're going to talk about it.
1:01:00
so she has the right to play
1:01:02
basketball she knows what
1:01:03
she's talking about right
1:01:04
exactly overseas now
1:01:08
getting buckets overseas
1:01:09
that's what I'm saying like
1:01:11
I saw I saw I saw one of
1:01:12
these guys man and I'll be
1:01:13
real he's a he's like a
1:01:14
youtuber I don't like this
1:01:15
guy man you know he was
1:01:16
talking about uh about
1:01:18
angel like you know about
1:01:20
how she like can't make
1:01:21
threes and all that I'm
1:01:22
like bro like like
1:01:24
Kennedy is one of, to me,
1:01:25
like one of the more
1:01:26
talented offensive players
1:01:28
in the league today.
1:01:28
Like I know that her name
1:01:30
category is like others, honestly.
1:01:32
But when you look at what
1:01:33
she was able to do last year in Chicago,
1:01:35
to me,
1:01:36
I think she was like one of the top
1:01:37
ten best offensive players in the game.
1:01:39
And her game is honestly like expanded too,
1:01:42
honestly, when you look at it.
1:01:43
I mean,
1:01:43
she's a better playmaker than what
1:01:45
she was to the league.
1:01:47
She's also gotten better on
1:01:49
defense as well.
1:01:49
So, I mean,
1:01:51
I know that there's been rumblings about,
1:01:52
you know,
1:01:53
drama locker room drama
1:01:55
stuff like that you know
1:01:55
with kennedy and everything
1:01:57
but you can't deny like
1:01:59
what she does on the court
1:02:00
honestly kennedy's one of
1:02:01
the most talented players
1:02:02
in the league if you ask me
1:02:03
honestly so whether it's in
1:02:04
chicago this upcoming year
1:02:05
whether somewhere else best
1:02:07
believe with the right
1:02:07
opportunity kennedy's going
1:02:08
to produce just as she did
1:02:09
this last year when she
1:02:10
played in chicago yeah can
1:02:13
before we move on can
1:02:14
chicago still resign her if
1:02:15
they wanted to
1:02:19
They didn't do the qualifying offer,
1:02:20
but can they still double
1:02:22
back and go grab her if they wanted to?
1:02:24
I don't know how that works.
1:02:25
I don't know, honestly.
1:02:30
That relationship might be dead,
1:02:33
to be honest.
1:02:34
I think what people don't realize,
1:02:36
Angel and Kennedy were both
1:02:37
very close to Teaspoon.
1:02:39
Yes, they were.
1:02:42
That was the reason why she
1:02:43
got to Chicago.
1:02:45
Teaspoon signed her to a
1:02:46
training camp contract,
1:02:47
and then she ended up making the roster.
1:02:49
So it might be a different
1:02:50
situation now with Tyler there.
1:02:51
I don't know if she's talked
1:02:53
to Tyler Marsh ever since
1:02:54
he got hired or anything, but who knows,
1:02:58
man.
1:02:58
I mean, they saying Tyler won't shoot her,
1:03:01
so we're going to see, man.
1:03:02
But you definitely need guards.
1:03:04
You definitely need guards,
1:03:05
and they should be able to shoot.
1:03:06
But I would love to have
1:03:07
Kennedy back here in Chicago, man.
1:03:09
But I don't know what
1:03:10
direction we're going in.
1:03:11
We're just going to see.
1:03:12
But, man, before we do move on,
1:03:15
Just stop.
1:03:17
Let these people say what they want to say,
1:03:19
man.
1:03:19
If we can critique and we're
1:03:20
not in the pros,
1:03:21
let them critique and be in the pros.
1:03:23
Ain't no shot at nobody, man.
1:03:25
Honestly, even if it was directed at Angel,
1:03:30
I'm sure she's probably
1:03:30
told Angel that probably a
1:03:31
couple times in practice.
1:03:35
Who knows?
1:03:36
Make your goddamn layups, man.
1:03:38
What the fuck are you doing?
1:03:40
That's what I was saying.
1:03:42
They have that relationship.
1:03:43
They've been in the trenches.
1:03:46
So,
1:03:47
if anybody can say something to the
1:03:49
damn Angel, it should be Kennedy.
1:03:52
Yeah,
1:03:52
and I'm pretty sure Kennedy probably
1:03:53
got Angel's number.
1:03:55
Yeah.
1:03:56
She's not going to be on Twitter talking,
1:03:57
because from what I can see,
1:03:59
they never had no beef.
1:04:00
So, it's like,
1:04:01
I don't feel like she would have been,
1:04:02
and Kennedy seemed like she
1:04:03
was the type of person,
1:04:03
she would just probably say Angel's name.
1:04:09
Yeah, probably, yeah.
1:04:09
You know what I'm saying?
1:04:10
Like, that's her energy.
1:04:10
I feel like that's her personality anyway.
1:04:13
So, like, man, I know she's like,
1:04:14
I got to be arguing about some shit.
1:04:16
I'm the one who's a pro in this shit.
1:04:17
Y'all talking to me about this bullshit.
1:04:19
But, man, hopefully she gets somewhere,
1:04:22
gets another chance
1:04:23
somewhere in the league, man,
1:04:23
because she can't hoop like Nick said.
1:04:25
And she definitely, she's good.
1:04:28
So,
1:04:28
I'm disappointed we're not going to
1:04:30
bring her back.
1:04:30
But shout out to her,
1:04:32
and she's going to land somewhere.
1:04:33
And I forget the name of her team overseas,
1:04:34
but she is hooping.
1:04:36
He is definitely open for sure.
1:04:39
On to this college stuff, man.
1:04:42
College has been... Since
1:04:45
Unrivaled came out, Nick said it today,
1:04:46
man.
1:04:47
I've been watching it,
1:04:48
but I've been really ready for Unrivaled.
1:04:52
You got Unrivaled game and
1:04:54
there's a college.
1:04:58
If we're not doing playback,
1:04:59
I'm going to have both up.
1:05:01
You know what I'm saying?
1:05:04
We really want to know what's going on,
1:05:05
but
1:05:06
There's a lot of shit going
1:05:07
on in college this week,
1:05:07
but before we get there,
1:05:09
I know if you follow me,
1:05:12
I covered the USC-Indiana game.
1:05:15
First of all, before I get into that, man,
1:05:18
shoot your shot.
1:05:19
Whatever your dream is,
1:05:23
whatever you're doing,
1:05:25
whatever you're building, man,
1:05:26
shoot your shot.
1:05:27
You're going to miss.
1:05:28
People are going to say no.
1:05:30
That shit is going to happen,
1:05:31
especially when you're
1:05:32
building that shit the right way,
1:05:33
brick by brick.
1:05:34
But you're going to get some yeses.
1:05:36
So I did that.
1:05:36
That's how I ended up getting to Indiana.
1:05:39
I shot them an email.
1:05:40
They got it back to me fast.
1:05:42
And I didn't think it was
1:05:42
going to happen because it was Juju.
1:05:44
That was USC first time
1:05:46
going to Assembly Hall because, of course,
1:05:48
they're not in the Big Ten and shit.
1:05:49
So I was...
1:05:51
shocked to even get that but
1:05:53
I forgot that that shit was
1:05:55
three and a half hours away
1:05:56
so that made it just an
1:05:57
adventure in itself but I
1:05:58
was gonna make it happen so
1:06:00
I made that shit happen man
1:06:01
but um it was like
1:06:04
It was beautiful because a
1:06:05
lot of people don't know,
1:06:06
I am an Isaiah Thomas fan.
1:06:08
He went to Indiana.
1:06:09
And just the fact that going
1:06:12
there... And I like when I work games,
1:06:13
this is my first time being
1:06:15
a journalist at the game.
1:06:16
I'm always a photographer.
1:06:17
But anytime I'm working a game,
1:06:19
I get there early.
1:06:20
I want to take the shit in.
1:06:21
I want to take the court in, the field,
1:06:23
whatever it is.
1:06:24
Go into the tunnels,
1:06:25
take pictures and stuff, walk around.
1:06:27
You meet people.
1:06:28
You get to network and stuff like that.
1:06:30
So...
1:06:32
I got there early, man.
1:06:33
I got to experience that on
1:06:35
the floor and just take that shit in.
1:06:37
It was just like surreal,
1:06:38
like Assembly Hall.
1:06:39
You see it all the time.
1:06:40
Like you watch these games.
1:06:42
And now I'm here covering this game.
1:06:44
And one of my favorite
1:06:45
players in the game of
1:06:47
hoops is here tonight.
1:06:48
And it was like it was empty.
1:06:50
It was people lined up.
1:06:52
I got to the stadium like at nine thirty.
1:06:55
There's people lined up
1:06:56
there outside already.
1:06:58
It was cold as hell outside,
1:06:59
but it was lined up.
1:07:00
I got in there, got my stuff.
1:07:03
You could just feel it.
1:07:05
You know USC is in town, right?
1:07:07
But it's like no one has seen her yet.
1:07:11
No one ain't seen her.
1:07:13
The bus ain't pulled up yet
1:07:14
and nothing like that.
1:07:16
But then the crowd start
1:07:18
pulling up in there.
1:07:20
seen the juju shirts little
1:07:22
girls got juju jerseys on
1:07:24
you feel the energy you
1:07:25
feel the buzz like no one
1:07:27
ain't seen her yet though
1:07:28
you know what I'm saying
1:07:29
but I got this I got this
1:07:31
story I had a moment with
1:07:32
juju um in the tunnel and
1:07:35
it's it's these photos
1:07:36
right here I'm gonna show
1:07:37
y'all these photos this is
1:07:39
the story here so I'm doing
1:07:40
my thing I got my
1:07:41
photography hat on at this
1:07:42
point so I'm going around I'm getting uh
1:07:46
Shots of the stadium.
1:07:49
And I'm in a tunnel.
1:07:50
So the tunnel she's coming out is her side,
1:07:52
where they come, their locker room,
1:07:53
everything like that.
1:07:54
So the shot of the
1:07:55
basketballs is not too far
1:07:58
from their locker room.
1:07:58
So I was just walking back there.
1:08:00
I took photos of this.
1:08:02
The young lady behind Juju
1:08:04
in that photo came out first,
1:08:05
and then Juju came out.
1:08:06
I'm right there.
1:08:09
So I can see them walking out.
1:08:11
I speak.
1:08:11
She spoke.
1:08:12
You know what I'm saying?
1:08:12
I said, what up, yada, yada.
1:08:13
Tell her about having a good game,
1:08:15
all that.
1:08:16
told her my name, all that shit.
1:08:18
So as we walking, I'm like, oh shit,
1:08:19
my photography hat is still on.
1:08:21
So I'm walking out.
1:08:22
I ran out of there with them,
1:08:24
the two ladies, with Juju and the lady.
1:08:26
I ran out to set up so I
1:08:28
could get this shot of her walking out.
1:08:30
And then I could have easily got,
1:08:32
and I always think,
1:08:33
I never ask for autographs
1:08:34
when I work and doing media
1:08:35
because it's like, man, they working,
1:08:36
I'm working,
1:08:36
but I never think about that shit,
1:08:38
trying to get photos with people.
1:08:39
But it was like, I think it was funny that,
1:08:42
this is a funny ass story.
1:08:43
I took this photo of these basketballs.
1:08:44
Juju walked out.
1:08:46
She's right there.
1:08:47
And she's tall.
1:08:48
She's six two.
1:08:48
If anybody, she's legit six two.
1:08:50
But it was just that it was
1:08:51
like a surreal moment.
1:08:52
And I caught this moment and
1:08:54
she looked up at his girls,
1:08:55
the little girls.
1:08:56
They scream her name and she walked out.
1:08:59
And when she walked out,
1:09:01
it was like it was the
1:09:02
first time everybody in the
1:09:03
building saw her.
1:09:05
The energy went up like ten notches.
1:09:09
You felt it.
1:09:09
It was like, oh, shit.
1:09:11
It was like this big Jew was
1:09:13
in the building.
1:09:14
She came out.
1:09:14
She was the first one.
1:09:15
You had some of the Indiana
1:09:17
players on the court right there,
1:09:18
but she went to her side.
1:09:20
She was the first one for USC to come out.
1:09:22
Yo, let me tell you something.
1:09:25
You just felt it was like, oh, yeah.
1:09:27
And it was like everybody
1:09:29
went to that side when she
1:09:30
was shooting around and
1:09:30
everybody else came out.
1:09:31
Like Kennedy came out and
1:09:32
everybody came out.
1:09:33
But she was going through
1:09:34
her drills and just seeing
1:09:35
her go through her drills.
1:09:37
And she was locked in.
1:09:38
You know what I'm saying?
1:09:39
And then after that,
1:09:39
she went and did her
1:09:40
autographs before she went back in.
1:09:42
But the experience was nice, man.
1:09:44
I feel like anybody who's a Hoops fan,
1:09:46
you can get to Indiana to
1:09:47
check a game out.
1:09:48
to do so um but I enjoyed it
1:09:50
I got to I got to interview
1:09:52
her this is my first time
1:09:53
ever asking a question and
1:09:55
I want to shout out nick
1:09:56
low and k dot man because
1:09:58
listen I've asked them all
1:10:00
questions I've all listened
1:10:01
to them ask questions even
1:10:03
when we have guests on our
1:10:04
show I've listened to them
1:10:06
I listened to their their
1:10:07
their pods and they've had
1:10:09
guests on so it's like
1:10:10
I've asked them privately about things.
1:10:12
So it's shout out to y'all that I even,
1:10:14
it was like, I want to say I was nervous.
1:10:16
Cause I'm a very personal person.
1:10:17
I can talk to anybody.
1:10:18
I ain't like met a stranger,
1:10:19
but it was like,
1:10:21
I don't want to fuck this up, man.
1:10:22
I'm going to ask you this question.
1:10:24
She's looking dead at me.
1:10:25
Like, like,
1:10:25
I just didn't talk to her
1:10:26
early in the tunnel.
1:10:27
You know what I'm saying?
1:10:28
But it was like, now this can be anywhere.
1:10:30
I got to answer this question.
1:10:31
She gave me a real answer.
1:10:33
And then the rest of the
1:10:34
press room piggybacked off my question.
1:10:36
I basically asked her how
1:10:38
she got her shit going.
1:10:39
Like,
1:10:40
she was kind of clamped up in the
1:10:41
first half.
1:10:41
She only had eight points.
1:10:43
And then she ended up with twenty-two.
1:10:44
But it was like,
1:10:45
just to see it in action is like,
1:10:47
I can tell Juju has improved.
1:10:51
Because she couldn't score.
1:10:53
She only had eight.
1:10:54
But she was playing defense.
1:10:56
She was making the right passes.
1:10:58
She was doing everything she needed to do,
1:10:59
and she let the game get to her.
1:11:00
Like,
1:11:01
when that five-minute mark got in the
1:11:02
fourth quarter,
1:11:03
when she hit the
1:11:03
three-pointer at the end of the third,
1:11:06
and she let the game get to her, man,
1:11:08
the last five minutes was her game.
1:11:10
She could do what she wanted to do.
1:11:11
She could get to the lane.
1:11:12
She could get her middie going.
1:11:14
She could get everything.
1:11:15
So it was just amazing to
1:11:16
see that she was alive.
1:11:18
And for her to only be, like, what,
1:11:22
It was a dream come true, for real.
1:11:25
It was like, this is what I worked for.
1:11:26
This is what I wanted to do.
1:11:27
I wanted to start being a journalist.
1:11:29
And this is why I started
1:11:29
this pod and doing this stuff.
1:11:31
So it all came together.
1:11:33
So I say,
1:11:34
shoot your shot and keep shooting it.
1:11:36
Because people are going to say no,
1:11:37
but it was just, it was fun.
1:11:39
And I could have easily been like, man,
1:11:42
I'm not going to drive no
1:11:43
three and a half hours.
1:11:44
Fuck that.
1:11:45
I did that shit.
1:11:46
So it was fun, man.
1:11:48
It was exciting.
1:11:49
I'm going to see Juju again at some point.
1:11:51
I'm going to keep asking for
1:11:54
requests and access for sure.
1:11:56
I'm just waiting on my turn
1:11:58
to see her now.
1:11:58
You've seen her.
1:11:59
Lo has seen her.
1:12:00
I've both had a chance to talk to her.
1:12:02
I ain't seen her yet.
1:12:04
I ain't never had a
1:12:05
conversation with Juju at all.
1:12:06
So I'm waiting on my turn, man.
1:12:08
Oh, man.
1:12:09
That shit is amazing, man.
1:12:11
Like, you can feel it.
1:12:12
Like,
1:12:13
it's like it's like one of
1:12:14
those like the top players
1:12:16
you can feel that energy
1:12:17
like everybody's level is
1:12:18
going to be heightened
1:12:19
today like everybody
1:12:20
brought their phones out
1:12:22
everybody was just like oh
1:12:22
my gosh she's right here
1:12:24
she's here now you know I
1:12:25
mean I keep telling people
1:12:27
like she's the next star of
1:12:28
women's basketball if she's
1:12:29
not there already I mean I
1:12:30
know that caitlyn's
1:12:31
probably the biggest
1:12:32
superstar right now but
1:12:33
you're just right we're
1:12:34
gonna be right there
1:12:35
honestly especially once
1:12:36
her once her college career
1:12:37
is done and she goes straight to the wmba
1:12:39
Man, like, she's, you could just,
1:12:42
and I was just talking to parents,
1:12:44
like fathers bringing their daughters.
1:12:46
I mean, I did, I had a moment, man,
1:12:48
I ain't going to keep too long on this.
1:12:49
We got other shit to talk about.
1:12:50
But I had a moment where
1:12:51
before Juju came out, the tunnel,
1:12:54
it was some girls looking
1:12:55
for who wanted her autograph.
1:12:56
And it was like between the
1:12:58
age of fourteen and sixteen.
1:12:59
And after the game, I knew, like,
1:13:01
after the game, after the presser,
1:13:03
I knew where they would be
1:13:04
going for the bus.
1:13:05
So these girls was back there,
1:13:06
that same tunnel,
1:13:07
trying to get her autograph.
1:13:09
When I came from the other side,
1:13:10
from the press room, I was like,
1:13:12
they were still looking for them.
1:13:13
I'm like, listen,
1:13:14
their bus is on the other side.
1:13:16
That's where y'all going to try to go.
1:13:17
She's going to come out over
1:13:18
there and try to get the autograph.
1:13:19
And, man,
1:13:20
they end up getting a damn autograph.
1:13:22
That shit felt good because
1:13:23
I was on the court talking to people,
1:13:24
everybody packing up, and they came out.
1:13:26
I did the excitement on
1:13:27
their face because I knew
1:13:29
the only reason they was in
1:13:30
this game was for Juju.
1:13:32
They wanted to see her and
1:13:33
they wanted to meet her.
1:13:35
They had their sharpie.
1:13:36
They had their picture ready.
1:13:37
So that felt good to do that.
1:13:39
I just wanted to help them out.
1:13:40
It wasn't like I'm trying to
1:13:41
get some shit in return.
1:13:42
Like, this is what I want.
1:13:43
Like, you want to help out people.
1:13:44
When this was all about, like,
1:13:46
he just wanted to see these people.
1:13:48
Yeah, they're not supposed to be, you know,
1:13:50
they're not supposed to be role models.
1:13:51
But listen, you look up to athletes, man.
1:13:54
We all did growing up.
1:13:57
We all did.
1:13:58
So it felt good for me to
1:14:00
help them young ladies out
1:14:01
to get Juju autographed.
1:14:02
They'll never forget that shit.
1:14:03
They were smiling from ear to ear.
1:14:07
That's a different moment for them.
1:14:08
Yeah, dead ass, you know what I'm saying?
1:14:12
And I'm glad I got some photos.
1:14:14
I took a juju I can hang up
1:14:15
at my house now.
1:14:16
That shit might work,
1:14:17
you know what I'm saying?
1:14:19
But, yeah, man,
1:14:19
let's get into these games.
1:14:20
Man, that shit was fun.
1:14:21
I ain't going to hold you.
1:14:22
I could talk about that shit all day.
1:14:24
I could keep talking about it.
1:14:25
It was so much shit that I
1:14:26
experienced on Sunday.
1:14:27
But let's talk about this LSU thing.
1:14:32
South Carolina matchup we
1:14:33
got going on on Thursday, man,
1:14:35
which we will be live on Playback for.
1:14:36
Everybody pulled up and
1:14:38
started mentioning as soon
1:14:39
as we started the pod.
1:14:40
Yes.
1:14:41
So if you're still in here,
1:14:42
you wanted to hear about this game,
1:14:44
we're talking about it now.
1:14:45
I know Felicia,
1:14:46
I know you a South Carolina fan, but man,
1:14:49
it's been some crazy shit
1:14:51
already on Twitter about this game, man.
1:14:53
I forget the name of this Twitter page,
1:14:56
but it's the worst women's hoops.
1:14:58
Forget it.
1:14:58
That's the worst hoops page on Twitter.
1:15:02
I sent it to y'all earlier.
1:15:03
I can't remember what it is.
1:15:05
He's the one that was
1:15:07
comparing LSU and South Carolina to Duke.
1:15:10
Yes, man.
1:15:11
You both have to win games.
1:15:13
You both have to win games, man.
1:15:15
That's like the Bears-Packers.
1:15:18
We don't beat them.
1:15:19
That's not a rivalry no more, man.
1:15:21
We don't beat them, dude.
1:15:22
You got to go back and forth
1:15:24
for it to be a rivalry.
1:15:26
Angel Reese was there for
1:15:27
two years and never won a
1:15:28
game against South Carolina.
1:15:30
Right.
1:15:33
Just being real.
1:15:35
The year they won the
1:15:36
national championship,
1:15:36
they didn't even beat them.
1:15:38
Yes.
1:15:39
The page is ninety-four feet WBB.
1:15:43
Yeah.
1:15:43
If you see anything about that, man,
1:15:44
that's one of the worst
1:15:45
pages on Twitter when it comes to hoops.
1:15:48
When it comes to hoops.
1:15:48
Oh, my God.
1:15:49
I'm surprised I didn't get blocked.
1:15:50
I definitely said that.
1:15:51
I quote tweeted him and said that shit.
1:15:53
I'm surprised I didn't get
1:15:53
blocked for that.
1:15:54
But, man,
1:15:55
how y'all feel about this matchup?
1:15:56
I'm going to go with you, Wally.
1:15:57
How you feel about this
1:15:58
matchup on Thursday?
1:16:00
I can't wait because especially with the,
1:16:05
with the discourse that LSU
1:16:07
fans have been giving y'all
1:16:08
before I even became a part of this.
1:16:10
Oh my God.
1:16:12
Yeah.
1:16:12
That's what I was going to say too.
1:16:13
Yo, for all the LSU haters, bro,
1:16:15
come tap in with us on playback, man.
1:16:20
But, you know, to see it,
1:16:22
to see it from the outside
1:16:24
looking at it and now being on the inside,
1:16:26
like,
1:16:29
I'm interested to see how
1:16:31
this is going to play out.
1:16:33
I think South Carolina is
1:16:35
the best team in the country.
1:16:39
Even with that loss to UCLA.
1:16:40
We're going to talk about them too.
1:16:44
That showed Don Staley what
1:16:46
she needed to work on with her team.
1:16:50
They have not looked back since.
1:16:52
They've been blowing teams out
1:16:55
Even the best teams,
1:17:00
they made Texas look like
1:17:02
they didn't know what they were doing.
1:17:04
They made your team look
1:17:05
like they shouldn't even be ranked, bro.
1:17:06
For real.
1:17:09
And we all thought that
1:17:10
Texas was a decent team,
1:17:12
and they went and fucking
1:17:14
put the clamps on Texas.
1:17:16
They did.
1:17:18
They did.
1:17:19
And now we get to LSU,
1:17:21
and for a majority of LSU's schedule,
1:17:26
again, you guys made it known, and hell,
1:17:30
we all could see it.
1:17:31
Hey, y'all ain't played nobody.
1:17:33
Nobody.
1:17:34
Y'all wasn't playing nobody
1:17:35
early in the season.
1:17:36
Compared to South Carolina,
1:17:37
y'all wasn't playing nobody.
1:17:39
And we're struggling.
1:17:42
And we're struggling.
1:17:43
Yeah,
1:17:43
and I have South Carolina beating LSU
1:17:46
yet again.
1:17:47
and it's on the strength of
1:17:48
they're already
1:17:50
battle-tested from all your top teams.
1:17:53
They're already battle-tested.
1:17:55
So whatever Kim Mulkey is
1:17:58
going to try and throw at them,
1:17:59
I don't think it's going to matter.
1:18:01
She's going to get outcoached yet again,
1:18:04
and we're going to see what happens.
1:18:08
We're going to see what happens.
1:18:10
What you got to say, Nick?
1:18:11
What you got, Nick, laughing?
1:18:12
What you got, Nick?
1:18:15
I agree.
1:18:15
I think South Carolina
1:18:16
beating the shit out of them.
1:18:17
I'm just going to be real.
1:18:18
Like,
1:18:18
I don't think it's going to be close
1:18:19
on it.
1:18:21
It's like everything Wiley said.
1:18:23
I mean,
1:18:23
I don't think they're ready for
1:18:24
this type of matchup.
1:18:25
I mean, I get it.
1:18:26
They're undefeated.
1:18:27
You know what I'm saying?
1:18:28
I mean, it looks good.
1:18:29
It looks good on the record
1:18:30
and everything.
1:18:31
But when you look at the
1:18:31
level of competition,
1:18:32
it hasn't been up to par.
1:18:33
I mean, you know, I mean,
1:18:34
SEC plays been a little bit different.
1:18:36
Um, they were able to get that,
1:18:37
that big one against Tennessee.
1:18:38
I think they,
1:18:39
I think they won by like two
1:18:40
or three points.
1:18:41
Um,
1:18:42
South Carolina is a different beast.
1:18:44
While they talked about it,
1:18:44
since that loss against UCLA,
1:18:47
that motivated them.
1:18:48
I think they needed that loss, honestly,
1:18:50
because there's so much pressure.
1:18:51
At the time, they won like forty-three,
1:18:52
forty-four in a row.
1:18:54
It's pressure to continue to keep winning.
1:18:56
Now everybody's looking at you like,
1:18:57
oh my God,
1:18:58
are they going to keep winning?
1:18:59
Are they going to stay
1:18:59
undefeated and everything?
1:19:01
Finally getting that loss out of the way,
1:19:03
I know that people wanted
1:19:03
to clown them after that loss.
1:19:05
Give credit to UCLA.
1:19:06
They're a very exceptional team, but
1:19:10
I knew after that loss, I was like, yeah,
1:19:11
South Carolina is going to
1:19:12
come back even better.
1:19:14
They've been better ever since.
1:19:16
It's crazy, too,
1:19:16
because even a couple weeks ago,
1:19:18
we were talking, Jay,
1:19:19
about them losing Ashlyn Watkins.
1:19:20
I think, dang,
1:19:21
how are they going to match
1:19:22
up a lot of these teams?
1:19:24
Especially with big front courts.
1:19:27
They beat the shit out of Texas.
1:19:29
They just beat the shit out of Oklahoma.
1:19:32
They're about to play LSU.
1:19:34
Don't get me wrong.
1:19:35
Anissa Ma is having a really
1:19:36
great year for them.
1:19:37
I would definitely give her her credit,
1:19:38
but
1:19:39
I think Don's going to have
1:19:40
a great game plan for them.
1:19:41
I think they're going to
1:19:42
really try to slow down the offense.
1:19:43
I mean, like I said, Nisa Morrow,
1:19:44
Mikayla Williams, Flage Johnson, you know,
1:19:47
all of them, all three of them, you know,
1:19:48
can, you know,
1:19:49
provide on the offensive end.
1:19:51
But I think Don's going to
1:19:51
have a game plan, honestly, man.
1:19:53
And, you know,
1:19:54
expect a big game out of Tahina Pau Pau,
1:19:55
expect a big game out of
1:19:57
Malaysia Fulwiley, Tessa Johnson.
1:20:01
South Carolina is going to
1:20:03
obliterate them.
1:20:03
That's my opinion.
1:20:06
Do you think it's going to
1:20:06
be about between,
1:20:07
do you think they're going
1:20:08
to double them?
1:20:11
Oh, yeah.
1:20:15
I'm going there.
1:20:16
I might be wrong because I
1:20:17
ain't going to lie.
1:20:18
I'll be wrong with the predictions,
1:20:19
but I'm going to stick with mine.
1:20:21
No,
1:20:22
I do think South Carolina is going to
1:20:24
win.
1:20:24
I had South Carolina win by
1:20:26
like fifteen or something like that,
1:20:27
but thirty is crazy, but I'm with you,
1:20:28
though.
1:20:29
I ain't playing nobody.
1:20:30
I got them at like twenty.
1:20:34
And it's going to be... I
1:20:35
feel like it's going to be where...
1:20:39
South Carolina,
1:20:40
they're just going to walk.
1:20:43
It's like they're going to
1:20:43
walk them through.
1:20:44
It's like football.
1:20:47
So when you have an
1:20:49
offensive team that's
1:20:49
running the ball and they
1:20:52
get to control in that line,
1:20:54
that offensive line get control,
1:20:56
that's how it's going to be.
1:20:57
They're just going to overbear them.
1:21:00
from quarter to quarter to
1:21:01
the point where by the time
1:21:03
we get to the fourth quarter,
1:21:04
we're going to look at,
1:21:05
we're going to look and be like,
1:21:06
they're up by twenty or twenty plus.
1:21:09
They got too much to throw at them.
1:21:10
Yes.
1:21:11
But I'll say this too though, like,
1:21:13
if they want to make it a
1:21:14
respectable margin, LSU I'm talking about,
1:21:17
you got to keep it within
1:21:19
single digits at the end of
1:21:20
the first half.
1:21:20
Like, if you let them go up by like,
1:21:22
even like twelve, thirteen points,
1:21:24
they're going to come out
1:21:25
in the third quarter and
1:21:26
they're going to fire, right?
1:21:27
Because like,
1:21:28
South Carolina's a really
1:21:29
good third quarter team.
1:21:30
They're a really good third quarter team.
1:21:31
And I don't – yeah, Jazzy said it too.
1:21:34
I mean,
1:21:35
I don't think people talk about
1:21:36
that enough.
1:21:36
It's like they get a lot of
1:21:37
momentum to end the first half,
1:21:38
and then they come out of
1:21:39
the locker room with just a
1:21:40
different energy.
1:21:42
That third quarter,
1:21:42
that third quarter blitz, boy.
1:21:44
You don't know what the fuck going on.
1:21:45
You look up, you down by twenty-five.
1:21:46
You're like, what?
1:21:47
That's how it was with the
1:21:48
Warriors and shit.
1:21:49
You come up, like, what the fuck?
1:21:50
I was just down by five.
1:21:51
Yeah.
1:21:54
Yeah.
1:21:55
Like, oh, shit,
1:21:56
we got to get time out there.
1:21:58
Yeah,
1:21:59
South Carolina is a different team
1:22:00
right now.
1:22:01
Man,
1:22:02
do y'all actually think they should be
1:22:03
number one in the country?
1:22:04
Yes, I do.
1:22:05
I do, personally.
1:22:07
Again,
1:22:07
the way that they played since that loss.
1:22:09
I think it's time.
1:22:12
The way that they played
1:22:14
since taking that loss to UCLA, to me,
1:22:18
it's a no-brainer.
1:22:21
It definitely is no-brainer
1:22:22
because South Carolina,
1:22:24
they are ranked number one.
1:22:25
They just ain't been looking
1:22:26
the best as number one.
1:22:28
Like, yeah, you beat South Carolina,
1:22:30
and I guess that's why you
1:22:30
got the nod at one.
1:22:31
But I'm okay with putting
1:22:33
South Carolina back at one
1:22:34
with the one loss to UCLA.
1:22:36
I'm okay with that.
1:22:38
Yeah, they won't do it, unfortunately.
1:22:39
But also, I mean,
1:22:40
you look at the late-one competition,
1:22:41
too.
1:22:42
Like,
1:22:43
South Carolina's played tougher
1:22:44
competition recently than UCLA has,
1:22:46
respectfully.
1:22:49
They played Baylor.
1:22:51
I know Baylor was ranked
1:22:52
twenty twenty five.
1:22:56
But you talk about South
1:22:58
Carolina playing Texas, playing Oklahoma.
1:23:00
They about to play LSU when
1:23:02
that was your competition.
1:23:05
And even honestly, before that, too,
1:23:06
I mean,
1:23:06
they played they played Iowa State.
1:23:08
They beat them.
1:23:09
They face a couple of the
1:23:10
teams to like Duke.
1:23:11
Like Duke was like top ten
1:23:12
at the time whenever they beat Duke.
1:23:13
They were.
1:23:14
They were.
1:23:16
And TCU as well.
1:23:16
TCU was top ten as well.
1:23:18
They were.
1:23:19
And I think they still top ten.
1:23:22
Number nine still.
1:23:24
I mean, but that's what I'm saying.
1:23:27
I mean,
1:23:27
I know that they have that one loss.
1:23:29
I mean,
1:23:29
when you look at how well South
1:23:31
Carolina has played since that UCLA game,
1:23:33
to me,
1:23:33
they've been playing much better
1:23:34
basketball.
1:23:37
they have they really have
1:23:39
um I didn't watch a lot of
1:23:40
the ucla I mean I had it on
1:23:43
but I wasn't like really
1:23:43
locked in with the ucla
1:23:44
baylor game it just never
1:23:46
felt like ucla was being
1:23:47
challenged so it was just
1:23:49
you know I'm saying but I
1:23:50
will ask you this though
1:23:52
how y'all feel about lauren
1:23:52
betts she's probably going
1:23:56
with national player of the
1:23:56
year I mean she's just
1:23:57
playing just phenomenal
1:23:59
basketball on both ends of
1:24:00
the floor honestly I mean
1:24:01
you know I think I think
1:24:03
that's really what she
1:24:03
needed like I think that um
1:24:06
I think that, you know,
1:24:07
they needed to utilize her a lot more,
1:24:08
especially on a low block.
1:24:09
And I think that she's been able to eat,
1:24:12
honestly.
1:24:13
I mean, not even just offensively,
1:24:14
but defensively as well.
1:24:15
I mean,
1:24:15
I want to say she's averaging
1:24:16
around a double-double,
1:24:17
but she's just been
1:24:18
dominating both from a
1:24:18
scoring perspective and a
1:24:19
rebound perspective.
1:24:21
And it's been consistent all year long,
1:24:22
honestly.
1:24:23
And on top of that, I mean,
1:24:24
they're still undefeated.
1:24:25
So, I mean,
1:24:25
like when you look at her
1:24:26
numbers and then you look
1:24:27
at UCLA still being number
1:24:29
one in the country,
1:24:30
I think she's probably
1:24:30
going to come away with the
1:24:31
National Player of the Year, honestly.
1:24:33
It may not be everybody's favorite.
1:24:35
I'm sure people,
1:24:36
they'll probably
1:24:37
automatically go Juju or honestly,
1:24:39
I should take that back.
1:24:40
My bad.
1:24:41
No, I'm not going Lauren Betts.
1:24:42
Change my mind.
1:24:43
I'm going to hand that dog
1:24:44
over to my player.
1:24:45
I was about to say, man,
1:24:46
you ain't even said hand yet, boy.
1:24:48
Oh, my God.
1:24:50
I thought about it.
1:24:51
I was like, hang on a minute.
1:24:52
Wait, I didn't even think about it.
1:24:54
Yeah, I'm about to say.
1:24:54
I'm like, oh, shit, boy.
1:24:57
Betts is going to be, I mean,
1:24:59
she's going to definitely
1:25:00
be in the running.
1:25:01
She's the reason.
1:25:02
She's definitely in the conversation.
1:25:04
Yeah,
1:25:05
she's doing twenty ten and like
1:25:07
almost three blocks a game.
1:25:09
Yep.
1:25:10
And we'll we'll get to see
1:25:11
we'll really get to see
1:25:14
them being battle tested as
1:25:16
their next one, two, three, four, five,
1:25:19
six, seven games.
1:25:20
They play one, two, three.
1:25:23
USC twice.
1:25:25
One, two, three.
1:25:27
four, five-ranked teams.
1:25:29
They got Maryland, who's number eight,
1:25:32
Minnesota, twenty-three, Ohio State,
1:25:33
that's twelve, USC, who's four,
1:25:36
and then Michigan State,
1:25:37
who's twenty-one.
1:25:39
They got USC twice, too, in that span,
1:25:42
don't they?
1:25:47
Because they ain't played until yet.
1:25:50
They got USC on February thirteenth,
1:25:53
and then again on March first.
1:25:56
Oh, shit.
1:25:56
So one of them games,
1:25:57
there's going to be a playback.
1:26:00
Definitely going to do one of them games.
1:26:02
Definitely going to be a
1:26:02
playback for sure.
1:26:03
Definitely going to be a
1:26:04
playback for sure.
1:26:06
We'll get to see what not
1:26:08
only UCLA is made of,
1:26:10
but how Lauren bets.
1:26:11
That's what I was going to ask, too.
1:26:13
Like,
1:26:13
do y'all think that USC is prepared
1:26:16
to match up with a team
1:26:17
like UCLA at this point?
1:26:19
I mean, I'll give it to them.
1:26:20
I mean,
1:26:21
they've definitely improved
1:26:22
throughout the season.
1:26:23
But, I mean,
1:26:24
there's still some issues with the team,
1:26:25
honestly, especially, you know,
1:26:26
finishing around the rim, honestly.
1:26:28
And then, of course, no turnovers as well.
1:26:30
But I don't know.
1:26:31
I mean, that'll be a good test for them,
1:26:33
too.
1:26:34
It will be.
1:26:35
I will say this.
1:26:36
I will say,
1:26:37
after seeing them Sunday in person,
1:26:39
they are very fucking fast.
1:26:41
They are very fast.
1:26:42
And it's like,
1:26:43
if you don't prepare for that,
1:26:44
it's like you don't know
1:26:45
what to do because everybody's so fast,
1:26:47
and they're very tall.
1:26:48
They're a lot taller than
1:26:49
what they look like on TV.
1:26:50
Everybody is, you know what I'm saying?
1:26:51
Like, from Juju to Kennedy.
1:26:53
Like I said on playback, like, she...
1:26:56
She likes six, one, six, two, but she,
1:26:57
she got beast on both sides.
1:26:59
So it's going to be a test
1:27:00
for both of them.
1:27:01
You know what I'm saying?
1:27:02
And the big tan is just, the big tan is a,
1:27:06
it's a deep, it's a deep,
1:27:07
deep conference as well.
1:27:08
So we will see.
1:27:10
That's a,
1:27:10
that's a tough stretch for them
1:27:12
from the play.
1:27:12
You know,
1:27:13
they got an easy one with Rutgers
1:27:15
tomorrow, UCLA,
1:27:16
then Maryland and Minnesota.
1:27:18
That is crazy.
1:27:19
Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio state,
1:27:20
like in that next four,
1:27:22
you think they're going to
1:27:23
lose one of them games?
1:27:25
Yes.
1:27:27
Who are they going to lose to?
1:27:33
I got them losing to
1:27:33
Maryland because that's a
1:27:34
Sunday game in Maryland at one o'clock.
1:27:40
Yeah.
1:27:40
Yeah.
1:27:40
Even though they travel
1:27:41
across the country first,
1:27:42
they play against – they play Rutgers –
1:27:45
that Thursday,
1:27:46
and then they played
1:27:47
Maryland that Sunday.
1:27:48
But still, that travel, that travel sucks,
1:27:52
man.
1:27:53
Like, I even saw it on USC on Sunday.
1:27:55
Like, in that first half,
1:27:57
you could tell they back on
1:27:58
another East Coast trip or, you know,
1:28:00
to come this way,
1:28:01
Midwest East Coast trip.
1:28:03
It's like you could see the travel.
1:28:05
And Pac-Tan team's not used to that.
1:28:07
You know what I'm saying?
1:28:08
So,
1:28:08
I think – I don't understand why these –
1:28:11
I don't understand why these
1:28:12
teams in the West are
1:28:13
joining teams or
1:28:14
conferences that are on the East.
1:28:15
It just doesn't make sense to me.
1:28:17
I get it for money purposes.
1:28:19
I get it for Pac-Twelve
1:28:20
because Big Ten got more
1:28:21
exposure than the Pac-Twelve, but, man,
1:28:23
it sucks for the kids.
1:28:24
The travel just sucks.
1:28:27
You know what I'm saying?
1:28:28
And they stay.
1:28:30
I talked – Coach, what's her name?
1:28:32
Coach Gottlieb, like,
1:28:33
they just stay because they got to play –
1:28:35
They got to pay Purdue on tomorrow.
1:28:38
So they just stayed out there.
1:28:39
They flew out there like Saturday.
1:28:41
And they just out there now.
1:28:42
So it was like, damn,
1:28:44
they ain't used to that shit.
1:28:45
It's cold as fuck, too.
1:28:46
Yeah.
1:28:47
You know what I'm saying?
1:28:50
It makes sense.
1:28:51
Because, I mean, that travel.
1:28:54
Hell, traveling is wear and tear.
1:28:57
It is.
1:28:59
It definitely is.
1:29:00
That's something that people
1:29:02
don't think about.
1:29:04
they don't, they don't,
1:29:05
they definitely don't think
1:29:06
about that shit.
1:29:06
And that's the first thing I
1:29:07
thought about when I saw
1:29:08
these schools going to the,
1:29:10
to the big team.
1:29:10
And I'm like, God damn,
1:29:11
you going over there.
1:29:12
Okay.
1:29:14
All right.
1:29:14
So, um,
1:29:16
but I know like somebody tend to
1:29:17
keep having a couple,
1:29:18
cause you got to have a couple of them,
1:29:20
um,
1:29:21
road trips to the east coast
1:29:23
when you got all these
1:29:24
teams in the big ten that's
1:29:26
over there that shouldn't
1:29:26
even be in the big ten but
1:29:28
money when money come call
1:29:29
hollering I understand so
1:29:30
um I get it so um man we
1:29:34
already we rocking the road
1:29:35
we already already an hour
1:29:37
thirty I knew it was gonna
1:29:37
be a long one but um real
1:29:40
quick into the top twenty
1:29:41
five when we move on and
1:29:42
get up out of here man uh
1:29:44
I'm sorry we ain't been
1:29:45
keeping up on our
1:29:46
top-twenty-five rankings for y'all, man.
1:29:48
It just ain't been – it's
1:29:49
hard when there ain't no
1:29:49
real movement for me all the time.
1:29:51
Like,
1:29:52
people who stay up to beat with the
1:29:53
top-twenty-five rankings
1:29:54
and write on this shit every week, man,
1:29:56
more power to y'all for doing that shit.
1:29:58
But, man, real quick,
1:30:00
the top – I'm going to do a
1:30:02
top ten right now is UCLA –
1:30:06
At one, South Carolina, Notre Dame, USC,
1:30:10
LSU, UConn at six.
1:30:13
Seven is Texas, Maryland, TCU,
1:30:17
and Kansas State round out
1:30:18
of the top ten.
1:30:19
Yo, Kansas State.
1:30:25
Man, I haven't watched it.
1:30:26
I ain't going to lie, man.
1:30:26
Big twelve basketball just ain't my thing.
1:30:29
I ain't going to hold it.
1:30:30
Especially not since Texas
1:30:33
ain't there no more.
1:30:35
It's a good conference.
1:30:36
It's not as strong as like
1:30:37
the SEC or the Big Ten or
1:30:39
the ACC or whatever it is.
1:30:41
Yeah.
1:30:43
No, I'm with you on that.
1:30:44
No, definitely.
1:30:45
It's just not as strong.
1:30:46
But that top ten, man,
1:30:48
that's pretty much – I can see that.
1:30:50
I mean,
1:30:50
Ohio State dropped because I think
1:30:52
they just lost to –
1:30:53
They just got upset,
1:30:54
so they fell out of the top ten,
1:30:57
but it's pretty much self.
1:31:01
There's no team that I'm like,
1:31:02
they shouldn't be there.
1:31:03
This team shouldn't be there.
1:31:06
LSU is crazy, but they're number five.
1:31:08
I think they're definitely going to drop.
1:31:10
They're going to lose that game.
1:31:14
I will say UConn,
1:31:15
ever since they lost to USC,
1:31:19
no one's really been
1:31:20
talking about them as much,
1:31:21
but they're definitely –
1:31:23
they're still a good team, of course.
1:31:25
Anything that stands out to
1:31:26
you all about top-twenty-five?
1:31:28
I don't know.
1:31:30
How y'all feel about Maryland, honestly?
1:31:32
Because, I mean,
1:31:32
I think some news that came
1:31:33
out that they just lost.
1:31:34
Who was it?
1:31:34
Cheyenne Sellers that got hurt?
1:31:35
I think that was.
1:31:36
Oh, she definitely got hurt yesterday.
1:31:37
They got the doors blown off
1:31:40
by Texas yesterday.
1:31:42
And then she definitely got hurt.
1:31:43
So, damn,
1:31:43
I ain't know that she's going to be out.
1:31:44
So, that really sucks for them.
1:31:48
I mean, because this AP poll came out,
1:31:49
I want to say, before that game.
1:31:51
So, yeah,
1:31:53
they're definitely going to drop
1:31:53
after this week.
1:31:55
Shout out to Kansas State.
1:31:56
Ioka Lee still playing at a
1:31:58
very high level out there.
1:31:59
Shout out to Kansas State.
1:32:01
LSU, I agree.
1:32:03
After Thursday,
1:32:04
they're definitely going to drop,
1:32:05
especially losing their
1:32:06
first game of the year.
1:32:10
Just looking at the overall
1:32:11
top twenty five.
1:32:11
I mean, I see Duke still at fourteen.
1:32:13
Oklahoma is now fifteen.
1:32:16
Oh, my God.
1:32:18
Why the fuck is NC?
1:32:18
Why the fuck is NC State
1:32:21
twenty at fourteen and four?
1:32:22
What is going on?
1:32:26
Did Tennessee lose?
1:32:29
to Vandy before the rankings came out.
1:32:31
Yeah, because that game was on Sunday.
1:32:35
Yeah, because I did not expect that.
1:32:37
And shout out to Vanderbilt,
1:32:39
both men and women,
1:32:40
because they both beat Tennessee.
1:32:41
Yeah.
1:32:43
They definitely did.
1:32:45
They did.
1:32:46
They did.
1:32:47
Who got hurt?
1:32:50
Oh, yeah, she did.
1:32:51
I didn't know that, man.
1:32:55
She really one of the best
1:32:55
bigs in the country, honestly.
1:32:56
I mean, healthy.
1:32:57
Yeah, I
1:33:01
I had no idea she got hurt.
1:33:02
Oh, shit.
1:33:03
Oh, wow.
1:33:04
But yeah, outside of NC State,
1:33:06
I didn't realize they were
1:33:07
still ranked having four losses.
1:33:09
In front of... They're
1:33:11
better than... I mean,
1:33:13
they're not better than... Who?
1:33:16
Seventeen and two?
1:33:18
Minnesota,
1:33:18
seventeen and two and they're
1:33:19
ranked twenty three.
1:33:20
Minnesota.
1:33:20
Oh, yeah.
1:33:21
That shocked me, too.
1:33:22
Yeah, that shocked that shocked me.
1:33:23
Like you got you have you
1:33:26
have NC State in front of teams like Cal.
1:33:28
I mean, I know Cal just lost.
1:33:30
They dropped four spots.
1:33:30
But you got in front of Cal, Minnesota.
1:33:33
Like what is going on?
1:33:34
I don't I don't understand that.
1:33:36
But I know I know cry too
1:33:39
much about that far back in
1:33:40
the top twenty five.
1:33:41
It is what it is at that point.
1:33:44
Y'all got a player of the week.
1:33:47
um I'm gonna go scholar
1:33:49
diggin smith man you know
1:33:50
two game winners to the
1:33:51
first two games for the
1:33:52
lunar owl especially that
1:33:53
first game to kick off the
1:33:55
unrivaled league man shout
1:33:56
out to scholar man you know
1:33:57
glad that she's back
1:33:58
definitely that back and
1:33:59
forth that she had with
1:34:00
jewel was impressive too
1:34:01
even though jewel got that
1:34:02
block on her but hey she
1:34:04
got the final she got the last so
1:34:08
Shout out to Scotland.
1:34:09
That shit happens, man.
1:34:09
That's hoops, man.
1:34:10
And real quick,
1:34:11
I've been seeing y'all be –
1:34:11
people be talking about
1:34:12
that shit on Twitter, man.
1:34:13
Look, if you play hoops long enough,
1:34:15
you're going to get dunked on.
1:34:16
You're going to get blocked.
1:34:17
You're going to get – you
1:34:18
might touch the ground a couple times.
1:34:20
If you play basketball long enough,
1:34:22
you're going to have a
1:34:23
basket scored on you.
1:34:24
So, I don't care, man.
1:34:26
Yeah, she blocked it.
1:34:28
That happens in battle.
1:34:28
That happens.
1:34:29
You're going to lose some
1:34:30
shit when you're in a battle like this.
1:34:32
It was great to see.
1:34:33
We love that type of shit.
1:34:34
So shout out to Skylar, man.
1:34:36
Shout out to Skylar for sure.
1:34:36
You got a player of the week, Wiley?
1:34:38
I do.
1:34:39
Miss Harmony Turner.
1:34:41
Excuse me.
1:34:41
Harmony Turner.
1:34:42
Harvard's own.
1:34:44
Yep.
1:34:45
Yeah.
1:34:47
So it stands out to me for her.
1:34:49
She's leading Harvard in
1:34:51
everything but blocks.
1:34:52
Points, rebounds, assists, steals.
1:34:55
Twenty-one points.
1:34:56
Five point three rebounds,
1:34:57
three point six assists,
1:34:58
three point four steals.
1:35:01
Like she's doing it all for
1:35:03
for Harvard and and their records.
1:35:08
Their record is fourteen and two.
1:35:11
I would love to see them
1:35:12
make the tournament.
1:35:14
So keep doing your thing.
1:35:18
Keep doing your thing, Miss Turner.
1:35:19
Like that's dope to see it
1:35:22
like she's come up in Harvard.
1:35:24
Yeah.
1:35:24
And she's at Harvard.
1:35:26
She's come up on my timeline
1:35:27
on Twitter like two or
1:35:28
three times and I'm like, oh yeah,
1:35:30
gotta show her some love.
1:35:32
No, yeah, she definitely, she definitely,
1:35:33
those are good player of the week.
1:35:35
Mine is, I'm gonna go with Kennedy Smith,
1:35:38
man.
1:35:40
After watching her live,
1:35:42
and Lo always said she was
1:35:43
one of them ones, but watching her live,
1:35:46
and I made sure I focused on her a lot,
1:35:48
is that her height and her
1:35:50
size shocked me in person.
1:35:52
But then just to see the moves she had,
1:35:54
she had some moves in her, man.
1:35:55
She grabbed one ball on the baseline.
1:35:57
She grabbed a rebound.
1:35:59
Came down with it, did a spin,
1:36:00
went back up with it.
1:36:02
She had one move when she got to the lane.
1:36:03
She did some spin moves.
1:36:05
And she got handles because
1:36:07
there was bracketing and
1:36:08
juju so much that she had to do stuff.
1:36:11
So she was showing everything.
1:36:14
She was showing everything.
1:36:15
She missed some shots.
1:36:17
That shit happens, but she can shoot.
1:36:19
She's a men's zone defense.
1:36:20
Yeah, Hannah is that one,
1:36:24
a men's zone defense.
1:36:25
But if you had to go for another one,
1:36:27
Kenny is next.
1:36:29
Kenny had them,
1:36:30
and she had them in a fucking blender,
1:36:31
bro.
1:36:32
Like, she didn't know what,
1:36:33
they were just stuck.
1:36:33
They didn't know what to do.
1:36:35
Like, she was just all over the place,
1:36:36
just active hands.
1:36:38
So, man, that's my player of the week,
1:36:39
man.
1:36:40
She really, she really,
1:36:41
outside of the big dogs,
1:36:43
that's my favorite player
1:36:44
to watch in college basketball right now,
1:36:45
for sure.
1:36:46
Definitely.
1:36:48
Pull up that comment, bro.
1:36:49
Pull up that question.
1:36:53
I was trying to hold my laugh.
1:36:56
Oh, shit.
1:36:56
I didn't even see that, yo.
1:36:58
I was wondering what y'all
1:36:59
was laughing at.
1:37:01
Oh, I had a little THC.
1:37:05
I don't even know who... I
1:37:06
don't even know who's on her team.
1:37:08
Yeah.
1:37:08
I don't even know when that
1:37:08
team... I'm picking Cheryl
1:37:15
Miller because Cheryl
1:37:16
Miller's team because of Cheryl Miller.
1:37:18
We know... Yeah, seriously.
1:37:20
You put Ray March on Cheryl Miller?
1:37:27
Yeah, last year, you know what I'm saying?
1:37:28
Last year,
1:37:28
USC team probably had a better
1:37:30
chance for some reason,
1:37:31
but then this team, like,
1:37:32
they wasn't missing lays and shit,
1:37:33
but still, like,
1:37:35
I don't know the players on
1:37:36
USC and this big Jew forever over here,
1:37:39
but, man, that's Shura Miller.
1:37:41
For real.
1:37:42
I'm just going to keep it safe,
1:37:43
and I'm going to say Shura
1:37:44
Miller's team because I
1:37:45
don't really need my
1:37:46
mentions blowing up for some bullshit.
1:37:47
Shut up.
1:37:47
That's my boy.
1:37:49
Shut up.
1:37:56
Well, when my man say hi, little TAC, man,
1:37:59
it's all good, bro.
1:38:02
What a way to end the show, man.
1:38:04
That was a hell of a question.
1:38:06
I wasn't expecting that shit at all.
1:38:08
Wow.
1:38:09
Now, after we get on,
1:38:10
I definitely have to go
1:38:11
look at that team that Shermella was on.
1:38:13
Now I really have to go see now.
1:38:14
I don't know.
1:38:14
I got to see now, bro.
1:38:15
Or maybe she might be a little later.
1:38:20
We got to see now.
1:38:24
We're definitely going to
1:38:25
have to check now.
1:38:26
I'm going to check back.
1:38:28
Follow me on Twitter.
1:38:29
Y'all see my name.
1:38:30
I'm going to check back,
1:38:31
and I'm going to give y'all
1:38:31
my for real answer on Twitter for sure.
1:38:34
For sure.
1:38:35
It still might be Cheryl,
1:38:36
but I got to see that squad.
1:38:37
I'm going to find the squad.
1:38:38
I'm going to post the squads.
1:38:40
We're going to see what happens.
1:38:42
I know if I do this or that with that team,
1:38:45
I know it's going to be
1:38:45
some new Hooper fans that's
1:38:47
going to pick Juju's squad.
1:38:49
know that I know that for
1:38:51
for a show that's gonna
1:38:52
happen so oh man uh real
1:38:55
quick man man it's been a
1:38:56
great show man wally man
1:38:57
thank you for uh filling in
1:38:59
I know you're gonna do this
1:39:01
anytime we ask you man
1:39:02
you're gonna do it man it's
1:39:03
been it's been a joy doing
1:39:04
this I knew it was gonna
1:39:05
soon as low told us nick
1:39:06
was like man ask wally I
1:39:08
know you're gonna want to
1:39:10
do it man this is fun this
1:39:12
is really fun um
1:39:14
Real quick, before we get up out of here,
1:39:15
like I said,
1:39:16
we got playback going to be
1:39:17
happening on Thursday for
1:39:20
South Carolina LSU.
1:39:23
I think I'm going to just
1:39:25
play certain college games
1:39:29
or women games on playback,
1:39:30
even if we can't make it.
1:39:31
So Juju play Purdue tomorrow.
1:39:33
I might just throw that shit
1:39:33
up tomorrow because I think
1:39:34
it's going to be on Peacock.
1:39:35
Everybody ain't even got Peacock.
1:39:36
So I'm probably just going
1:39:38
to throw that shit up.
1:39:38
I think the game starts at
1:39:39
like six thirty or something like that.
1:39:42
um we got on arrival coming
1:39:43
back this on friday and
1:39:45
then saturday and so um
1:39:47
stay in tune for that
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1:40:08
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1:40:09
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1:40:13
Man, also, man,
1:40:14
show some love if y'all
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like me and basketball.
1:40:18
I know some of y'all be on
1:40:20
our ass when we start
1:40:21
talking about me and basketball over here,
1:40:23
but if y'all do,
1:40:25
I'm going to put the other show,
1:40:27
The Network, in the chat as well.
1:40:29
Y'all can go check them out,
1:40:31
show them some love, follow them as well.
1:40:33
They go live on Thursday.
1:40:35
Wally is also...
1:40:37
the producer for that as
1:40:38
well on the ones and twos,
1:40:39
as Antoine would say.
1:40:40
And guess what?
1:40:43
We will have some crossover episodes where,
1:40:45
you know,
1:40:45
Nick might be over there sometimes.
1:40:47
You might see me over there talking.
1:40:48
I watch NBA as well.
1:40:50
So it's all intertwined.
1:40:52
So follow us everywhere.
1:40:55
Shout out to you, Nick, again.
1:40:57
Shout out to you, Wally, for this.
1:40:59
Man, that's episode twenty three.
1:41:01
Oh, go ahead.
1:41:02
Just real quick, Jay.
1:41:03
My bad.
1:41:03
So I'm looking at I'm
1:41:04
looking at the USC roster
1:41:05
from nineteen eighty three,
1:41:06
the year that they won the title.
1:41:07
They had Cheryl Miller, Cynthia Cooper,
1:41:09
Paula McGee and Pam McGee.
1:41:10
Oh, yeah.
1:41:10
Yeah.
1:41:13
Yeah.
1:41:16
Well,
1:41:16
I'm still I'm still I'm still post
1:41:17
this question.
1:41:18
I don't know if I'm doing
1:41:18
tonight or tomorrow.
1:41:19
I might do tonight.
1:41:20
But yeah,
1:41:21
I think I know who I'm going to go with.
1:41:23
No.
1:41:26
Yeah, yeah.
1:41:28
I love Juju.
1:41:28
It's big Juju forever over here.
1:41:30
But, yeah, I don't know.
1:41:33
I don't know if you – I
1:41:35
don't know if Juju and
1:41:36
Kennedy and Kiki is going
1:41:39
to deal with Cynthia Cooper
1:41:40
and Cheryl Miller like that.
1:41:42
I don't know if that's going
1:41:43
to – I don't know how that will go.
1:41:46
Okay, real quick,
1:41:46
if it's a seven-game series, man,
1:41:48
who wins?
1:41:49
Cheryl Miller.
1:41:49
Cheryl Miller.
1:41:52
Is it going to be a sweep?
1:41:53
I think it's going to be.
1:41:54
It might be just one.
1:41:56
I'll give him one because
1:41:57
Juju might just go off in one game.
1:41:58
Juju might be good enough to get you one.
1:42:00
Outside of that, no.
1:42:03
outside of that that's I'm
1:42:05
with y'all on that but uh
1:42:06
man man appreciate y'all
1:42:08
again everybody who came
1:42:09
through all the new
1:42:10
listeners and future fans
1:42:12
that came in and the ones
1:42:14
that come in every week
1:42:14
from uh twitter uh
1:42:17
instagram when I didn't do
1:42:18
instagram twitter youtube
1:42:20
um we on twitch so
1:42:21
appreciate all y'all y'all
1:42:22
should do a retro versus
1:42:24
hey man you know what
1:42:26
I got some stuff I do forgot
1:42:27
to talk to the team about.
1:42:29
We definitely going to do some things.
1:42:30
I like that idea.
1:42:31
I do like that idea.
1:42:33
But, man, yeah,
1:42:33
shout out to everybody
1:42:34
being here the whole time, man.
1:42:36
So the show will be out
1:42:38
tonight on audio at twelve Eastern.
1:42:42
Eleventh Central.
1:42:43
The show will be on everywhere.
1:42:45
Well,
1:42:45
YouTube tomorrow morning at nine Eastern.
1:42:50
It might be nine Eastern,
1:42:51
depending on how I feel.
1:42:52
But until then, man, peace, man.
1:42:53
Love y'all.
1:42:54
Appreciate y'all.
1:42:55
Have a good one.
1:42:56
Good night.