Latest / You Don't Know Ball Podcast / Episode 103: Raptor RED for Kawhi? Warrior WHITE for Lebron? 76er BLUE for Brown? HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!
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- Isaac Rowe: What's going on, you don't know ball podcast Welcome back to the show. Down Alex today, but we got Jack and Caleb, so we're good. ⁓ lots kinda gotta a lot's gotta happen the last days, I guess. Again, NBA trades are starting to heat up. Yeah. Definitely. I would say they have heated up already. ⁓ and also I did wanna say ⁓ Shout out or not shout out to the viewers, but y'all almost got lucky today. I almost came in sockless. So I I was thinking about it. You know, I was looking at my sock bin and I was like, nah, today's not the day. It's so hot out in Michigan right now, but today is not the day. Not the day. But dogs concealed. Hundred thousand subscribers. We'll do a barefoot episode. That's dude, I'd say I'd say a thousand. I'd say a thousand at this point. A thousand. Let's get a thousand first and then we'll see what happens. Maybe maybe I'll wear like tipless gl or tipless socks. Yeah, there you go. Hol holy socks. Or maybe I'll just cut a hole and have one piggy poking out or something like that. You're edging them. Crazy work board. ⁓ all right. Let's get on the ⁓ back to our main topic of being like sports and shit. But we got NBA's heat tree f off season starting to heat up. And then we got NFL. Some NFL news here and there. That's pretty interesting. Some? NFL news? Some might say ⁓ I don't even know where I was gonna go with that. And then ⁓ cops football obviously is starting to heat up. We got Media Days right around the corner for all the big ⁓ big power four schools. So it's gonna get interesting. We can talk about golf today. Sheffler choked. Sheffler did choke. On a three footer. Dude, who is it? Who is he playing against? Uhland. ⁓ yeah. He had a farther putting and he sunk it and then Sheffield, I like, ⁓ Sheffield's gonna make this and he misses it to the left. Rimmed it, dude. I was like, what are you doing? Hey man, you act like you're gonna make that in front of all those people. No. ⁓ could have made it. But he's the number one r ranked golfer in the world. True. So and he hasn't won I don't think he's won an an event this year, has he? I think he has. I don't know. I don't know. I I think Sheffler's one. Maybe he has. Maybe I'm just blanking on which one, but I don't think he has. but no, it was definitely interesting to see him miss that putt that he normally hits. And he should hit if he's the number one. Every everybody in the comments was like, Scheffler, what was that putt, man? What was that? And ⁓ it was just all I was I was shocked too. I didn't even wa I watched it, but I I didn't watch it, but I saw it on Instagram. I was like, dude, damn. I think I made one like that out of Hogshead. Crestview and I were yeah, there you go. Yeah, I make those at Grand Prairie all the time. Those are harder greens. Yeah, harder greens, man. No, have y'all ever seen red arrows greens? Those are those are tough to put up. The yellow grass, bro. Cow spotted. Yeah. Not because it's like ⁓ the pins placed hard. It's just like shitty grass. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. Very bad grass. I would say I will say Crestview's greens are a lot better than. they have been in the past this year. So shout out to the Green Screw there. Home course. Yeah, literally it's like in your backyard, which is kinda cool. But ⁓ yeah, no, I ⁓ I need to watch some more golf I guess. I think ⁓ just throwing it on like was it on yesterday? Was that what is it started on Thursday but there was a rain delay. ⁓ there was a rain delay. on Sunday that caused him to play today, I think. ⁓ it was just a playoff today. ⁓ gotcha. 'Cause they tied. Dang. Dude, yeah, I'll have to toss like some golf on at when I'm at work 'cause I bet they're playing at work, so that'd be nice. I will say I I had the one time I put it on at w work, I it was the US Open and I was really wanting to like ⁓ no, it's a PJ Championship, sorry. And I really want Jordan Speave to win it because he would have gotten his grand slam and he didn't even he didn't play well. Didn't you also place a bet on him? ⁓ yeah, I did. Are you using Calgy? No. Okay. Never did Kalgy. Never again. What's what sports betting app are you? ⁓ I like using DraftKings for my college football and stuff, but I'll use DraftKings, Fanatics, NGM, and then ⁓ damn, what's the other num? FanDuel? Fan yeah, FanDuel. I think FanDuel's probably the best one. You got a problem, dude. I don't you do I don't use him at all. Eighteen freaking sports betting. I got all the sports. You know why that you know why he has eighteen? Because they always offer free shit. Yeah, but ⁓ What's the free shit? ⁓ you just missed it. What's the free shit's done, I don't use the app. Like I I can tell you I haven't put a bet on since PJ Championship, but for football, I didn't put one on after Notre Dame lost to Texas A and ⁓ until like The Super Bowl. You should have just thrown like a hundred bucks on Notre Dame to win every game after that. Like I wonder if I wonder how much profit you would have made. ⁓ probably not crazy. No, honestly, I probably would have made some good money I would have I would have made over a hundred bucks that I put in. So Right. Yeah, exactly. 'Cause But it's not like Notre Dame was ever an underdog in the rest of the games for the season. ⁓ right, but over ten weeks though, you're making you're putting a hundred in to win ten. I mean the only real game we had was USC after that Texas AB. yeah. Because we started the season in Miami and A ⁓ So Dude, our defense is falling apart. What is going on? Joe, get on Joe, get on your players. ⁓ all right, so what's starting the NBA? Obviously, Caleb, this is your ⁓ area to area to talk, so let's hear it. There's been a lot. I'm just trying to really jack. There's been a there's been a lot. I'm just really decid trying to decide where I want to start with. I think I'll start with ⁓ the Pistons recently, as of today, have some stuff going on. I'll start with the one that happened last week that really kind of threw me for a loop, which, you know, hearing the news of today makes it even worse. But we traded Isaiah Stewart away. I don't think we got to talk about this last week. Isaiah Stewart? Yeah. We talked about it a little bit. We talked about it last week? Okay. Well, today, Basically it's all but confirmed that Jalen Duran won't be on the team next year either. What? We couldn't reach ⁓ we're not willing to give him his ma like max extension or whatever, because of how bad he played in the playoffs. Which you know, now he's in talks with the Sacramento Kings to make a sign and trade happen. So, you know, King got King's got some guys that we could definitely use. Get brook get Russell Westbrook. No. Can you imagine? I mean we don't need Westbrook though. You need a dribbler. I think Westbrook's probably not even on their payroll anymore, so they can't really trade him, but I think the Kings got some young guys that we could definitely use who are kind of just rotting away on that team or some vets, but it You know, for me, like, if Jalen Duran does not end up on the Pistons anymore, will I be a little upset? Yeah, probably. He's a great regular season center. But when we needed him most, he didn't show up in the playoffs. And the last thing I want for this team is another Andre Drummond situation where we give him that max extension and then he just stops trying. Like there was a visible thing with Andre Drummond back in the 2017 season after his payday where he he just looked like way more unathletic. w he didn't look like he was trying as hard. He looked like he was mosing mosing around. And I was saying this all in high school. Like I was saying all this as he was still on the team. And ⁓ you know that's that's what I dun that's what this team doesn't need right now. And I like that the I like that, you know, we're kind of sticking close to our guns here and Trajan Langdon is saying, you know what, like we saw what we saw in the playoffs. We think you're worth this. Still a shit ton of money. Mm-hmm. But Jalen Duran thinks he's worth more. I mean, I get it. He's only twenty two, still a lot of room to grow. But You know, if we gotta part ways with him, then we gotta part ways with him. And that's that's all right. We still got Cade, we still got the rest of the crew. We just re-signed Kevin Herter for twenty seven million over three years. Yeah. Which for Kevin Herter, that's kind of a lot in my opinion. ⁓ but who knows, maybe he finds a shooting stroke again. Kevin Herter has been a really good scorer over time in his career. He's been a good shooter. So, ⁓ you know, that's that's been good. ⁓ And then yeah, that's about it for the Pistons. I mean, that's gonna suck for not having Jalen Dunn anymore. Who do we have as like a big for the Pistons right now? Paul Reed. That's it? Yep. Who? D you don't know B-ball Paul? No. Dude, he's like the a fan favorite for the Pistons right now. But he's he was our third string center. Big energy guy, but he's only like six foot eight. So is Tobias coming back at least? Yeah, we I think we we're planning on getting Tobias back, hopefully on a cheaper deal so we can sign some other guys. But ⁓ other than that, for the Pistons right now, not much going on. I think we're still in talks of trying to get Norman Powell from the Heat or some other star. Maybe the star comes from the Kings now who honestly Zach Zach Levine or DeRozan wouldn't be too bad. I wouldn't mind it, but we'd need to get, you know, some draft picks in there as well. I wouldn't mind Zach Levine. I would not mind Zach Levine. I think that would be Zach Levine would be sweet. Zach Levine in a Pistons jersey, I think makes sense. So that's kind of my prediction I got. Did we draft anyone? We drafted a point guard from Stanford. I can't pronounce his name, but he's basically like Jamal Crawford, pretty much. ⁓ with the dribbling. ⁓ if you watch some of his tape, great dribbler. And then we also picked up vr a Virginia guy. ⁓ that's my team. So we okay. We do have two centers and we did watch him play that one night when we were rage baiting the hell out of this dude. But my God. Did he have a weird last name? Probably something. It wasn't the white guy. ⁓ it wasn't a white guy. It wasn't it wasn't that big white guy. But and It so he's like a seven foot shot blocker. So he's basically Beef Stew's replacement is what it is. So we do have two centers now. We got three actually. We just picked up the ⁓ rest could be worse. It could be worse. You're right. And I think as long as we get a good haul for Durin, you know, we're not letting him walk for nothing, which is the I think the best thing for this situation. So sign and trade with Sacramento. If we get Zach Levine, a couple picks, maybe Zach Levine a good bench player. ⁓ you know, up I'll be really happy with that deal. So ⁓ other than that, we had John Morant traded to the Trailblazers today for Jeremy Grant. And, you know, basically you're trading a diamond for, you know, ⁓ a copper. ⁓ there we go. Good pass, Dermot. Let's go. That we needed that bad. That's so bad. ⁓ what do y'all think about John Morant going to the Blazers? Now the Blazers have Damian Lillard. Scoot Henderson, Drew Holiday, and Ja. Whole lot of guards. I think they're planning on starting Ja and Damien Lillard together. That's pretty sweet. So Damien's gonna play shooting guard? Probably. Honestly, that might work out for Damien. You never know. Small ball, dude. Yeah, they're gonna be really small, but we'll see if it works out. I just think it's an interesting trade. There's definitely a better trade out there that honestly I think I don't know what either team is doing. I don't know what the Grizzlies are doing, and I don't know what the Blazers are doing. So I don't know. Weird trade on both sides. What are the Hornets doing? Yeah. ⁓ my God. They're re ⁓ they're just retooling around Con Kanipple and Brandon Miller, I guess. ⁓ I didn't think they had to get rid of Miles, but to be honest, Miles Bridges and Lamello, they played six years together. No playoff appearances. Damn. ⁓ Miles Bridges stayed healthy the whole time, but Lamello, I understand trading him because he couldn't stay healthy. They got a good haul for him. They got a really good haul for Miles Bridges, too. Yeah. Did Connor text you that day saying he's still he's he's more sad about Miles because he's been there longer and he's an MSU guy, obviously. So you know, I don't really know what the Phoenix Suns are planning to do with Miles Bridges, but the Hornets, I think They're doing what they need to do. It's kind of like a pist piston situation too. It's like I'm I'm happy they're making a move and not just sticking with, you know, something that got them to the play in play in game from last year. Cause you never know. Health is always the X factor with them. Yeah. And I think they're making it more damn, they try to run a trick play there. ⁓ the Hornets are kind of make trying to control their own destiny now. They're not really keeping LaMelo's health at like, you know, the forefront of their team's success. So ⁓ I like their moves. Let's see what else has happened. NBA. ⁓ the draft happened. ⁓ so I think we maybe talked about that last week. We talked about a little bit. I have something. ⁓ Draymond Green Draymond Green declined his player option. He's gonna become a free agent. So doors open for LeBron and Anthony Davis to go to the Warriors. Eighty two and ⁓ I'm just gonna 'cause they took Yaxel. They took Yaxel. So doors open for LeBron and Anthony Davis to go to the Warriors. Eighty two and ⁓ I'm just gonna 'cause they took Yaxel. They took Yaxel. Dude, I I would be I'm really intrigued to see where Draymond goes then because I mean that Pistons, man. Pistons. He's going back home. Come on over. Nah. Nah. I I think I don't want to waste our money on a 36, 37 year old Draymond. Yeah, man. We can use Draymond. Dude, I I would be I'm really intrigued to see where Draymond goes then because I mean that Pistons, man. Pistons. He's going back home. Come on over. Nah. Nah. I I think I don't want to waste our money on a 36, 37 year old Draymond. Yeah, man. We can use Draymond. No, we don't. We don't need him. No, we don't. We don't need him. We really just use Draymond. For what? Gritty power forward, man. He fits the pistons definitely. Gritty power forward. I guess he yeah, he does fit the pistons, but I just don't see it. I don't see it happening. I think LeBron or I think Draymond wants nothing more than to play with LeBron James. I think th there's that picture of him at I think it's a picture of LeBron ⁓ And Draymond at Draymond's wedding, and Draymond looks like he's having more fun with LeBron than his own wife. So I think I think Draymond wants nothing more than to play with Le King. Le King to go LeBron's. So wait, so he declined his player option so he could get like a cheaper contract. So decline. Well now he's a free agent, so he can go wherever he wants. So obviously the contract's probably not gonna be too crazy. Maybe it will be. I'm not sure, just with how old You know, Draymond is. I don't know how much money will get thrown at him, but if the Lakers well, LeBron still has to sign somewhere. I mean, the Lakers haven't offered him a contract. So who knows? We could have seen LeBron play his last game. We don't know. We don't know what's gonna happen with him. Nah, he ain't done. But he's got one. I don't believe it. We'll see where dude's forty two, bro. Let him retire. He loves ball, dude. He does love ball, but I mean And he's still doing good. Obviously he wants to play with Steph. I don't know what dude, I this where ever LeBron goes is gonna be crazy. Yeah, he wants to come to Detroit. Yeah, let's ⁓ let's get LeBron and Draymond in Detroit, man. That'd be LeBron can play center. He's done it before. Ship Cade off. We don't need him. No, but I I'd be really I'm really excited to see where LeBron ends up. You know, the Draymond news will also be exciting if he ends up in a different jersey that's not Golden State. I think when players do that, it's always Interesting, like the first time Russell Westbrook wasn't in like Thunder Jersey. That was that was weird to see. Yeah. ⁓ but yeah, I'm looking forward to see where the rest of it goes. ⁓ and Summer League should be coming up soon too. So we'll see how all these guys do against each other that just got drafted. I'm excited to see the Pistons, you know, youth players and everything. We th we just threw it to our line. Yeah. I think the Pistons should pick up Russell Westgoat. So that's crazy. West goat West Goat is actually like crazy cope. Goat. West goat, man. We got we gotta get up there. Yeah, it's first now. ⁓ god. We need a green goat more than the West Goat. We know we need all the goats. Yeah, we'll just be like the Clippers of last year. Yeah, let's just get a team full of 40 year olds. The Kawhi there there is talks of Golden State trying to get Kawhi. That is crazy. What are we doing? I thought Kawhi might go to the Raptors. ⁓ there is talks of that too. Really? I think he'll retire, dude. It'll be like I ain't going over there. He's been there once, dude. He already knows. Yeah, I don't know. I personally, me as a player, I'm not trying to play anywhere north 'cause I hate the snow. ⁓ you know, if I'm a player like Kawhi, it's like I got enough aura to kind of choose where I want to play and go. I mean, what team what team would you guys not want to, you know, sign player play to? You would? Okay. He just missed another kick. No way, bro. If I was in the NBA, what team would I not want to play for? I guess it'd be Toronto because they're not in the fifty states. Yeah, yeah. ⁓ That's fair. you ain't playing basketball in July though. You have a house in the States, man. yeah. ⁓ You be where Drake's from. ⁓ Ice mean Iceman. Six. You mean Iceman. ⁓ Dude, the perps. I will say ⁓ so made a two K my League with me and a lot of my a bunch of my friends. So you guys are in it. And I in the my league, like we're we were all part of the same draft class. So you got drafted to the Denver Nuggets. So your teammates with Jokic, Jamal Murray and all them. You got drafted to the heat. Thank God. Yeah. Thank God. I got drafted to the magic. So we're we're rivals. Nice. And Dunham and Joe are both on my team as well. We all got drafted by the magic. We're just Alexander Gideon, isn't he? Yeah. Alex and Gideon are on the Celtics together. Of course. Of course. How's that going? I we haven't really talked about that much. ⁓ I'm halfway through all of our rookie years. all of our yeah, all of our rookie year. And you're now starting. Nice. You were you were just not playing at all. You were you're sitting at the end of the bench, but you know, you've been training, your overall went up a couple of points. But you're the starting you're the starting power forward. You're also like six foot eight and like two hundred fifty something pounds. ⁓ hell yeah. I'm I'm okay. I made you six three and you're like a lights out shooter. Hey you're averaging when you do play, you average like fifteen a game. When you do play. So You're just a beast on the board. We gotta we gotta we gotta schedule another summer series here. ⁓ I'm down. We got to. ⁓ we do. Let's do it this week. 94 degree weather. No. ⁓ way. ⁓ thought we were dying in 60 degree weather. Yeah, there's no way we're doing it in 94 degree weather. It's crazy. Yeah, I was try I was trying today and I like, nah, fam. ⁓ Nah fam. Can't shoot the ball when I got sweat in my eyes. No, for real. Can't grab Yeah, I'm gonna need another haircut before we do another one. I probably should go. I'll probably get a haircut next week. Come in with the fresh mullet. Fresh mullet. Buzz cut. Faded mullet. There we go. Buzz cut. Nah. Buzz season. I mean, yeah, it is buzz season, but I don't know I don't think I got the head shape for it. You only do that in the winter arc. That'd be like opposite. CJ Carr has that shit year long. Year round. I mean. That's why he sucks. All right, here we go. Chill out. ⁓ speaking of CJ Carr, let's talk about a little bit of college football, news. Not a great transition, but whatever. ⁓ good enough. That good. Nice. Nice. ⁓ my god. ⁓ thank God. ⁓ Dude. ⁓ what news is gone on? I mean, obviously the whole Brandon Soresby issue is behind us now. He actually got banned from the CFL. So he's he's not even able to play there. So we'll see him potentially next year in the NFL, which is crazy. I mean not. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ he he if depending on what this season would have had for him, he would probably his ceiling was like a first round quarterback. So it was ⁓ It was a pretty huge blow for Texas Tech, but still they'll be pretty solid without gosh. Meaty Day is right around the corner, and Indiana was like the only people that didn't bring a skill position for like their three players. They bought like an in a defensive lineman, a low lineman, and then a linebacker. Hell yeah, dude. That's like that's hell yeah. That's American. That's a that's that's awesome. So that was cool. It's just what Signetti does, right? Yeah. He's just best best coach in the college football. We gotta get that episode out, the top college football coaches for this year. I'm down, but Signetti ain't going at twelve like he was. ⁓ I agree. We'll we'll figure out and Franklin ain't going at five. ⁓ No, we we got We do have some regrets. Do we wanna do that next week or do we wanna do that ⁓ the week after? 'Cause I think we should try to do a chat GPT episode next week. Yeah, probably. Just for just so whoever the listens to those episodes exclusively could have it. But I'm excited for that too. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to see what nonsense happens this year. ⁓ especially with the coaches we chose. in the college football world really there's not much else happening. I mean camp is right around the corner. It starts in starts in August, I ⁓ end of July almost so that'll be interesting to see. ⁓ Yeah, I mean I wish I had more news, but I don't. Yeah, I was just looking at UCLA to see if they had any news, but no. I would just say I'm proud of their recruiting that they've done for the class of twenty twenty seven. Got hella four stars, which is I is great to see 'cause that only leads to the five stars for hopefully next year. But it sucks 'cause we're not gonna see any of that production until at least another two years, so it's like All these JMU transfers gotta gotta do their thing, man. I'm I I will say the blueprint is there for for ⁓ for UCLA. Obviously the blueprint is Signetti came in, brought his into a new house, brought all his furniture with them, and instantly started winning. So I mean maybe Signeti. Yeah. He he came into came into Indiana with from JMU, brought all of his furniture with him as players. I thought you were mixing up the coaches. No, no, I was like Chesney. UCLA. God, I freaking wish he did. Is it is it Chesney or ⁓ my god. Yeah, I think it's Chesney. Kenny Chesney. Yeah, Kenny Chesney. Hell yeah, man. No, ⁓ UCLA coaches, also from J J ⁓ U, is bringing a lot of players from that JMU team, and I think I think the the blueprint is there for them to succeed year one. And I don't feel like their schedule's all that bad. I mean there's there's their good. There's definitely some tough games. I think if you play in the Big Ten though, you're gonna have four tough games regardless. ⁓ yeah. I just watched this ⁓ the do you guys watch the Gridiron Expert on YouTube? No, but I've heard of him. But anyway, he he just he just started his ⁓ prediction season or whatever. So he came out with his Indiana episode today and I was like, Yeah, you know what, I'll watch that. So, you know, we he was going over their schedule. And I think no matter what, even though they're Indiana and they're probably favorites to win the Big Ten again, ⁓ unless you're Ohio State or Oregon, but ⁓ no matter what team you are in the Big Ten, you're gonna have at least four tough games. Like they play Ohio State, Michigan. ⁓ USC and who's the last one? Washington. Yeah, they might be eight and four. Eight and five. No. ⁓ he was saying eleven and one at worst. Whoa. So UCLA or Indiana. Sorry, Indiana. Yes, you're right. No, UCLA probably plays more like six tough really hard games, you know, like 'cause I think they're playing ⁓ they got USC. They definitely got USC. They got Michigan, USC I think they they play Oregon. They might have another out west game. Yep, of course. Okay, wait. So we got Do you just want to do what's let's just predict UCLA's record right now? Okay. Let's do that. ⁓ geez. UCLA, California, game one. And I think one and no, baby. One and no. Do we seriously think that Cal. The spread right now is at minus one and a half. California's at home. Who's minus one? I don't think Cal really has that much, so I'm thinking UCLA. Dude, we were saying that last year, but they pulled off some tough games, man. Who's favorite? Cal. Are they? Yeah. I got UCLA. I know c I know Cal has a really good quarterback, but I still think UCLA is just based off of conference, I guess. Conference bias. UCLA is gonna win that game. UCLA gonna win that game. So one and ⁓ Caleb. All right, I guess yeah, my vote doesn't really matter for that one. ⁓ and then we got San Diego State at UCLA. There's no spread for this one. Two and ⁓ I don't know much about San Diego State, but they are probably atop the Mountain West. Yeah, they're all right usually every year. They're a good program. They're a tough defensive school. But give me Usail. Let's say they do win week one. I can see the momentum carrying them into a 2-0 start. I think they start 2-0. And then I also think we can beat Purdue at home. Yeah. Barry Odom's Purdue team was. ⁓ they were better than they were the year before. But they're just stuck in purgatory. Yeah, dude. I don't know. Barry Odom's a really good coach. He was a good coach for ⁓ what team was it? It was New it wasn't New Mexico. Maybe it was. But he's trying to rebuild that Purdue team and it's just not going well. Not the spoiler makers that we grew up with. Yeah, right. The the last like notable thing Purdue has done was basically ruin MSU's season like four years ago. That was God, I was so upset when MSU lost to them too. Cause I I really did. I really wanted MSU to like do something special that year with K9. ⁓ but you know, it is what it is. And then UCLA's at Maryland. We beat Maryland last year with a way worse team, but Maryland's got a Maryland's pretty good program. They are. I I do think this could probably be like a s where are they at? Like a sneaky loss for UCLA. They're at Maryland. Three and one. Yeah. I'm I'm okay with that 'cause I think they're probably either losing to Cal or Maryland, but I can see them starting three and one. I think they would lose in Maryland 'cause they got Maryland's got a really good young quarterback too. I forget what his name is. I do too. I can't remember. He he was cooking UCLA last year. ⁓ my god dermit. Dude, we're shooting ourselves in the foot this game. And then we got UCLA at Oregon. I mean, we're getting smacked. Three and two. ⁓ we could whoop with that ass. Yeah. And then Wisconsin at UCLA. I can see that being a classic, honestly. I think that's a classic mid Big Ten matchup. I think they have a real shot of going four and two. I don't think Luke Fickle's Wisconsin teams really got that much talent. this year, so I think I think they'll be four and two. Feel free to clip that if I'm wrong, 'cause Nerdane plays in week one. So I bet they'll beat Wisconsin. Yeah. Loki ⁓ these two teams are probably really evenly matched, but I think UCLA being at home might give ⁓ an advantage. So yeah. We'll do that. I'm okay with four and two. And then I do think UCLA can beat Michigan State the next week. So I think so. Happened last year. Michigan State lost a shit ton. I think UCLA gained more than U C Michigan State gained. Yeah. ⁓ so give me five and two. Is that against party? Yeah. Yeah, five and two. And then for some reason they play Nevada the week after that at home. They win that game. ⁓ so I do they're six and two, that's bull eligible. Yeah. So in terms of our universe that we're making up here, U C L A six and two, and then we go to Minnesota, which Low key, that's probably like a sneaky like loss, honestly. I was gonna say six and three, BJ Fleck at home at Minnesota, right? Yeah. What is this in October, I'm guessing? November at this November. ⁓ it's getting chilly. Yeah, six and three. It's getting chilly. We're going to have cold hands, cold feet. Six and three. Now I okay, there's a real possibility where I think UCLA can pull off a tough win at home against Illinois, but they're losing the next two games. After that 'cause Illinois lost a lot. this year so they were supposed to be good too last year. I mean they were good. They won like I beat them. They lost they lost Altmire, their quarterback. Illinois didn't that he was like the heart and soul of that team. So they still got Bielema though. They still got Bielema. I think I think Illinois a year out from being really good again. So really solid. But that's it's a night game at the Rose Bowl though. I think this is probably like UCLA's last winnable game of the year. So I think they go all out and they beat Illinois this time. So to get to seven wins. Seven win seven and three right now, and they're finish who and they play at the big house in at Michigan. Seven and four. Seven and four. And then USC comes to town. So that's like our Super Bowl. Ass kicking. You know what? Probably honestly, probably like a close loss. I would say a close loss. I think they had potential to be a spoiler in this one. Yeah, they do have potential to spread's at ten and a half or use USC though. USC's gonna be really good. They got Mayava coming back. And yeah. Link Lincoln Riley always got. Have a offense but zero defense. So all right. Well, we got seven and five for the Bruins, which would be a huge step up. Huge. They went bowling. Yeah. I would love to go bowling. Yeah. So they'll go bowling. Yeah, that's UCLA season, everybody. All right. Bocket. There's our first prediction of the prediction season for the you don't know ball podcast. Seven and five UCLA Bruins. So we'll see what Nico can do as a dual threat quarterback. I think we saw a lot of flashes last year with what he can do with his legs. He just didn't have much of a line, but I think with what Chesney's brought in, ⁓ got much more of a line, got much more of a culture this year. Last year they kinda had to make up their own culture halfway through the year and God, let me tell you, that was a magical three weeks, man. It actually was a magical That was so fun, dude. That was like the most fun I've had being a college football fan. Like going into that Indiana game, dude, was like magical. Yeah. Like, ⁓ what? The week of that Maryland game like made like breathed some life into me, dude. Like gave me so much serotonin to see us beat Maryland and get to three and four. Like that was that was awesome. I remember talking to you guys like, hey, I would put I could put some money on ⁓ Indiana co no UCLA covering the spread against Indiana. I could see it. And then they got their doors blown off. It's like damn the storybook's over. But it was still fun. Yeah, that was a fun time. It was fun it was fun seeing Nico look, you know, like all that he was supposed to be for a couple weeks. ⁓ yeah. It was it was a bull. I think Nico'll have a better season this year. ⁓ yeah. He's got more space. We know what he's got. He's beat he beat Bama at Tennessee. He's a good quarterback. I think he's got more support around him now and like a better coaching staff because Deshaun Foster was ass. Yeah, Deshaun Foster was not great. And you know, UCLA's getting back to their their old days of the days of old when they were, you know, constantly atop of the pack packet 10, pac twelve, whatever it was. ⁓ so who's ⁓ who was the coach that you guys had? It was Jerry something. No. Jerry Newheisel. Is that what his name is? Yeah, he was the play caller. He was the play caller. I know I would have loved to keep him. He was low-key cooking some stuff up. He was. Started calling the same thing on Madden. Ooh. Yeah. Ooh. Giving you bum. Well. Well guys, it looks like a ball. Yeah, we lost this one. All right, Kayle, let's do your game right now. All right. ⁓ wait, wait. Let's talk about Terry and Arnold real quick. All right, bet. But onto the NFL now. What has happened? Back to Batman and Robin. Darren Arnold was released on a one million dollar bail and he doesn't have to wear a Ankle bracelet. He can only go into work and home, but now he's released from the Lions, so he doesn't have a work, so he's just staying his ass at home. So he's gonna be Ubering and DoorDash. Yeah. Get ready to learn. ⁓ I don't I don't even know when his next trial is or what the next step is for him, but it sure is not going back to play for the Lions, that's for sure. Which is kind of sad, but because Lions really have zero people in the secondary. Yeah. Which will be rough, dude. Be helpful. See, like that's been our problem for the past how many. seasons now and we still haven't adjusted. Yeah. That's the tough part about football, man. It's like you're gonna have an Achilles heel no matter what. Like even those Patriots teams back in the day like had an Achilles heel. And like part of sports is you have to get lucky. Mm-hmm. And the lucky team this past season, Seahawks. I mean, in terms of who they ran into in the playoffs, what, they had to go play the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Yeah. Could have easily been the Broncos, who I would have loved to see in the Super Bowl, or The Bills. Bills. Bonex. That was the real Super Bowl. That game. Dude, yeah. Bonex broke his ankle, bro. Against the Bills. That screwed the whole Broncos up. Damn. And the Bills just got hoeded. The Bills should have won that game, too. Bills got hoeed, dude. God. I was at a par I was at like a house party, like watching that game. We were all so like, we were all just like Like buzz drunk or whatever. And they showed the replay of that interception. It was so obviously a catch. Yes. We were all like, ⁓ my God. ⁓ my god. I was at Allen's party too. I like, what? Like, dude, the fact that they didn't review that is like still like God, that's gotta haunt Josh Allen. Like that whole team. Like, it's just another heartbreaking loss. Yeah. God, we're gonna lose to Iowa. ⁓ all right, Cal, let's do your game. Okay. I Explain the game. Okay. So a Alex and I or sorry, not Alex, Jack and Isaac get ten questions. And a final guess to narrow down what college football team I'm thinking of. And because they being little boys, I gotta pick a power four team. So I have the power four team in my head. Good luck. We get ten questions, right? Mm-hmm. All right, what do you want to start? I gotta actually look up what conference. What conference is that? Yes or no questions, right? Yeah. What color are they? What color are they? Yes or no questions, Isaac. you wanna ask if their mascots an animal? Or it has a ⁓ has an animal in it? If you want to, go ahead. Does their mask gotta have an animal in it? Yes. Okay. Doesn't really help me, but gotta start somewhere, so that's one question. Can eliminate Notre Dame, all right? This guy, bro. I don't know, that guy kinda looks like an animal. You got he's he is an animal. Hey, we could score right here. All Jack, you come on with the next question. I don't wanna I don't wanna steal your thunder. Come on. To Jelly Bean, bro. Are they in the ACC? Yes. Cool. There we go. What a cute what a huge guess. I was like, you're not probably not gonna pick the Big Ten, probably not gonna pick the SEC, so is their mascot Hold on, Isaac. ⁓ I I I took up the teams in the I know I know there's one in the there's one I I feel like Caleb would pick this one. Does this team have a horse as their mascot? No. Damn. All right. So that's ACC has Clemson, they have Boston College. Okay, here we go. He's gonna do something interesting. He wouldn't do like the Miami's or Are you sure about that? Yeah, I'm sure. He wouldn't do Boston College because he doesn't know there's no animal in there. Magic does Florida State. Get was an animal. All right, we're at how many questions? Three? Yeah. Well, since y'all got the conference already, I'm gonna take it down to five questions. No. Yeah. Y'all gotta be smart with your guesses here. It's down to five and you get a final guess. We get five more questions. No, you get two more questions and a final guess. What the hell's that? Sorry. Dude, you guessed the conference on the side. We were good at gu guessing. All right. Animal, animal. Animal. That's not an animal. Nope. Animal. Yep. Animal. Which one did you say that's not an animal for? Duke. Florida State. Blue Devil's an animal. No, it's not. Neither's Florida State. ⁓ Miami's not an animal. Y'all got Do you count Stanford as an animal? 'Cause they're a tree. No, yeah, they're not an animal. Okay, okay, cool, cool. That's an animal, that's a living thing. Get the out. What the hell's a hokey? It's a That's not an animal. No, ⁓ we're not counting it. Keep it on the list. We No, we taking that off the list. That's cheating. All right, y'all got two more questions. These three are off the list. Four. Some that's speaking for this one. Could ask him if it's in the state of Carolina. Is in the state of Carolina. Which Carolina? North Carolina. It is. Alright. ⁓ we get one more question, don't we? Yeah. And then a final guess. These two are the only ones in North Carolina, right? Dukes in there, but they're not animals. Right. I think the obvious option is this one. Is their color red? Yeah. Is it the NC State Wolf pad? Let's go, girl. Let's go. Good work, good work. Let's go. You got it. Dude, that ACC guess was crazy. That was clutch. Good stuff. My the other team I was gonna pick was gonna be I was thinking SMU, but I figure you would be. I don't know. I had something about the Mustang. If if I was allowed if I was allowed group of five teams, I was gonna go Marshall. Or the big ten team I was thinking of picking was Rutgers. Nice. Rutgers So Rutgers money line. Well boys, we lost Iowa. That's awesome. Yeah. ⁓ Macer Gun is not doing great. So we suck without our kids. We s yeah, we're ass. ⁓ all right. I think that's gonna do it for this episode. It's good a little ep. Got ⁓ got a record prediction in here. We got fun little game and then a whole bunch of MBA talk. So I think it would call it right there. Any final thoughts from you guys? you know I just hope the Pistons make a smart move when it comes to Jalen Duran. Should be knowing what's gonna happen soon with the siding trade and everything. And I'm excited to see our boys that we drafted in the summer league. Should be fun. And ⁓ happy July fourth. Jack. Brown and Draymond to the Pistons. If ⁓ clock it. If that happens, that's fine. Ball Brothers to Minnesota. Count it. All right, that's gonna do it for this episode of the You Don't Know Ball podcast. Remember, we don't know ball, you don't know ball, we all don't know ball. We'll see you in the next one. Peace. See ya.