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March Madness recap and preview: Who will advance to the Final Four? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have sounded out say roll
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here. Jake Wallin.
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Where's Jake Wallin at? No Jake Wallin here.
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Do you mean Jacqueline? Let's sound it out.
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What you call me? Sound it out out.
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Out all right let's get the music on and for some reason I
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guess we don't have the rundown in front of Errol let's get that
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in front of them boys welcome back just.
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Sound it out. Everyone's favorite phonics
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shamanics type of segment. Errol's going to pronounce some
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of the stars of this year's NCAA Tournament.
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Errol, you ready? Yeah, let's go.
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Here it is, right before we get into it, here's our first
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player. He's a Local 1.
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Errol sounded. Oh.
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Zubi I Jio 4, Jio 4, Jio 4. Oh, let's get the buzzer.
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Wrong answer. You don't need the.
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Close E GO-4 E GO-4, not I E GO-4. close though.
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Oh, for one chance to make up for it on the next one, play it
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again. Here it is, our next guy, Errol
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Sound. It out.
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Milan Monsilovich. Monsilovich.
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Oh, oh, you were so close. You should have went with the
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first way you were going to say it.
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It's Chilovich. Chilovich.
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Milan, Mom, Chilovich. Clearly we all know that
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whatever Eastern European is says chill with that one, guys,
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we got one more left. Here we go before we get into it
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and show all our bracket knowledge.
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Errol, last one. Big Z sounded out Vladimir
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Evitovich. No, but it was.
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That was actually not as bad as I thought it was going to be.
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That's a good job, Zvonimir Evisic.
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Evisic. These stupid names man.
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Ridiculous. That's the time of the year for
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stupid names, though, because it's Errol as you know.
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March Madness time. Speaking of March Madness, the
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number 12 high point upsets the number 5 Wisconsin 83 to 82.
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In the most notable upset in the first round at #9 TCO beat #8
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Ohio State 66 to 64 on a game-winning floater by Xavier
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Edmonds with four seconds left. They will now play face off
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against Duke, who struggled against the number 16 Sienna,
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who barely won 7165 after trailing by 11 at halftime.
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The number six Louisville #5 Vanderbilt #4 Nebraska and #3
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Michigan State and #4 Arkansas are all our other favorites that
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won their games. I, I don't know why we have to
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put all that up and it, it really, honestly, we shouldn't
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even be speaking about this until probably after the first
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round. That's, that's what I would say
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that the high point was an upset.
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Everybody expected Wisconsin to move on.
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They're a good team. They're very well built.
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They're a good three-point shooting team.
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And, and Wisconsin had the lead really throughout the game,
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except the last 7 minutes as high point came back, they
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started shooting the ball very well and Wisconsin couldn't hit
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a lick. I watched that game in itsy
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bitsy, you know, times, you know, throughout, you know,
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popping from one game to another.
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I see the problem here is I today we were working on going
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to this event. So I'm watching that and I'm
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taking care of all the other stuff that I'm doing at the
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event. So I didn't really really scope
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out what was going on in all these games.
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I watched the tail end of the Duke game and I saw I heard that
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Duke was down by 11 points going into the second-half.
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Cam Boozer did not look good, but again, Kambusa still put up
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a 2020 spot. He still had 1314 rebounds.
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Right now, teams are going to obviously make him shoot the
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ball. This is the same thing.
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I'll I'll say this about Yannis. Every Nick fan wants Yannis.
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They love Yannis. Giannis's problem in the
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playoffs is teams know how to defend against them.
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We watched what Boston did against Milwaukee a couple of
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years ago and what did Boston do?
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They challenged Giannis. They made Giannis shoot from the
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outside. Giannis is not a great shooter
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when it comes to 1819 foot jumper.
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He's not a three-point shooter. That's not Giannis game.
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Giannis strength is using his athletic ability to get into the
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paint and dominate and use his length to rebound and get those
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offensive rebounds. You know, you play teams that
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know how to defend against you. What are they going to do?
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They're going to shut you down. Cam Boozer, his strength is
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getting in the paint. He gets those 1012 foot jumpers,
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gets to the gets to the line. He's a good free throw shooter.
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He proved that he's a good free throw shooter in this game and
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it paid dividends in the second-half of the game because
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if Cam Boozer was not hitting his free throws, I think Duke
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loses the game. When Duke needs Cambusa to take
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over game, he does. It's just the problem here.
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Throughout this tournament, you we're going to see, and that's
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why I didn't pick Duke to go to my Final Four.
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I actually have UConn coming out of the East and one of the main
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reasons why is losing a significant amount of players at
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the tail end of the NCAA season going into the tournament.
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Guys that can rebound, guys that could defend.
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It hurts you. Now you have you're depending
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more on Kambusa to do more stuff.
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And, and, and, and that's something that I've learned that
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Shire has done and has been doing over the last couple of
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games is he has Kambusa taking the ball up.
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He's making him a point guard forward.
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The same thing he was using Cooper flag throughout the
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tournament last year because of the lack of point guard play.
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Now, Kaden played well in the game and Kaden has played well
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over the last week, week and a half since the injuries, and
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they're going to need him to play at a top level if they
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expect to win a championship this year.
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But Shire, and I've said this many, many times, Shire in the
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tournament has not been good. And I don't care.
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I had this argument with Jeff. Yeah, we've gone back and forth
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and he says they made the right choice.
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This guy's a great, He's a winner.
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He's a great coach. He's a great.
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He's a great leader of men. Really.
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Shire almost got knocked out by #16 seed Shire had a 12 point
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lead with a minute and 40 seconds left in the final four
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last year with Cooper flag and he lost.
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Lost. Probably wins the national
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championship. If they come out of that, maybe
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Florida. They're better than Florida and
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we're going to see a lot of that in this story.
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As a matter of fact, for for the last year, 2 years, we've seen a
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lot of number ones make it make it to the Final four.
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Except in 2023. I think that maybe one number
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one makes it to the Final Four this year.
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Maybe Michigan, maybe. I think there's a lot of number
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twos that can make it. Yukon is a #2 that I I'd watch
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out for, especially in the bracket where everything falls
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for them. Purdue, who I have winning the
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whole thing. How about this, everybody that
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has Houston counted out. Houston is in probably the
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easiest part of the bracket. Who do they have to worry about?
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Next up Texas A&M. They'll run right through Texas
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A and MI know Houston's not a good offensive team.
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Don't be surprised if Houston makes it to the Final Four.
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Don't be surprised. So we're going to see upsets.
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I didn't expect high point to be Wisconsin, Wisconsin and, and we
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might see one or two more upsets.
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We might see another team at 14 or 12 knockout one of these 5 or
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6 seeds, because that's what usually happens in these
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tournaments and it's usually a 5 or 6 seed.
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The knockout, I mean a 12 knocking out a 5 or 6 seed, or
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you know, a seven seed knocking out an 8 seed or something like
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that. 7 seeds have been a common Final Four run in previous year.
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8 seeds have been won recently too.
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You saw that with North Carolina.
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They went all the national championship.
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It's an 8 seed. And 11 seeds in power
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conferences are the other trend too.
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UCLA made a Final 4. NC State another team.
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That's probably the one that makes John Shire look the worst
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as a coach at 11 seed beating you in the Elite 8 after you
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just beat Houston the round before that.
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That's the one that might have the biggest, obviously, besides
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almost this game. BYUBYU is going to get
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eliminated. Right now, they're losing
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against Texas. Texas is an 11th seed, BYU is a
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six seed, and they have arguably the number one pick in this
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year's draft class. And that's the that's what you
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look at a lot of these teams, AJ Dipenza, younger teams that
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haven't done as well. Texas.
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I'm not saying I saw Miller's this great coach for Texas, but
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he hasn't been great for a while since he was with Arizona.
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And let me ask you a question because I know Fish reached out
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to me and said Kambusa didn't look good in game one.
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And does that hurt his draft stock?
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Well, AJ Deberza, is he playing well right now in this game?
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Yeah, he's like pretty Dom, and he's like 35 and eight right
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now. Yeah, well, he's not winning.
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He's not taking his team out of the first round.
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You know what, when we talked about him the other day, I was
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saying reminds me of Kevin Durant and Kevin Durant had that
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one and done when he was in the draft too.
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He's I kind of like. It's what happened to a lot of
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Flashy. Freshmen, it's a common thing,
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especially in today's game that ends up happening so.
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Yeah, look, I watched the entire game because I I actually got a
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chance to get home early and I actually, we were kind of like
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not supposed to watch it. Found a way to watch a little
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bit, but I'll just say this, like Boozer, they were doing
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things that scared me. If I'm taking him as a top pick,
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it's not like the numbers weren't great.
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He's going to put up numbers. His dad always put up numbers,
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right? But his dad had that beautiful
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rainbow jumper. You remember he used to have
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this high arcing jumper. It was like his signature thing.
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You couldn't leave him open inside the perimeter.
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They were leaving him open and he just wanted to pass.
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Or he would just put his head down and die and drive to the
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lane and try to get fouled or, you know, try to do something.
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That's all he did. And there were a bunch of times
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he was wide open and it was obvious, like take the 10 foot.
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Shot All right, so wide open. I want to say something.
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AJ Debenza has played 39 minutes.
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He has 35 points. He's 11 for 24.
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That's not good. That's not good.
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I don't care what you say. That's not good.
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You're going to tell me right now.
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And. Dude, when you're when you're
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shooting 24 shots, you're going to score 35 points.
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Well, you know why he has. You know why, though?
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He's he's got that many. He's got 12 foul shots and he's
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12 for 12 from the line. That's why he's shooting
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percent. He has not played well in this
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game. You're going to tell me you're.
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Wrong. Well, he's turned the ball over
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a little bit. He's turned the.
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Ball, 11 for 24 is not good. I'm sorry if you're expected to
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be the number one pick in the draft because if you look at Cam
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Boozer, Cam Boozer was 4 for 11. You said he was bad, but he's
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still had 22 points and he had 13 rebounds, 3 assists and his
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free throws. He was 13 for 14, so yeah.
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He was really good too. Look, he was good.
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I'm just saying. And he's winning, he's winning.
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He's moving on. He's moving on.
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I. I get it, I get it, but they
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beat a 16 seed with a bunch of guys that he should have
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dominated more than he did. I'm just saying, but you're
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right. And then I just don't think the
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bands is playing with all that much and he's trying to carry a
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team and maybe it's just not the right place.
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We all have some suspicions why he decided to go there that have
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to do with green money, you know, so.
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And I help boosters as the crumble cookies.
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Crumble cookies. Man, they were actually really
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good crumble cookies. So Patty at Penn State, I love
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it. But.
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I'm not going. To listen, I'm not going to take
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shots at the kid, all right, but 11 for 24 is not a great game.
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You're scoring, you're shooting 24 shots and you're 11 for 24
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and you're going to be. Possibly the number one pick, if
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you're 12 for 24, that's 50%. Eleven for 24 is like 47% or
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something like that. That's not good.
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That's normal. That's that's that's pretty
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good. If you're taking outside shots,
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that's like normal. And he had, he got fouled.
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Six of those shots were fouls because he had 12 for 12 under
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the line. So really, you know, the true
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shooting percentage is going to be over 50%.
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No one's going to snap at that. What I think they're going to be
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worried about is some of the things like he's going to try to
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do too much. He's going to turn the ball
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over. He's going to be a ball hog when
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he has offense because that's what he did because he went to a
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place that wasn't going to play team basketball and that's what
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he's about. Most of his points in the game
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were in the paint. So does does he have an outside
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game? Does he really have an outside
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game where he can dominate in in the in in the NBA?
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And that's the thing you go to Cambusia.
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I I'm not I'm not sticking up for Cam, but for you to say that
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it hurt his draft stock, why they still won the game.
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He still had a pretty good game. He was.
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I know, I know. You're, you're not wrong.
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He did have a pretty good game. The stats are going to say 22
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and 13. He was 13 or 14 from the line.
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You take that every single time. I'm just telling you when it got
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tough and they were down, he'd passed the ball when he had a
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10. He was not confident in the game
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and that's fine. There are players that they
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still won the game and he was a big reason why they won the
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game. Is BYU winning this game?
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No, they're not. They're.
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Getting knocked out. So let me remind you of a guy
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that was taken number one overall Once Upon a time.
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His name was Ben Simmons and he was very afraid of trying to
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make shot to take layups at the hoop and it was ended up ruining
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his career. I don't even know how you I
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don't know how you aren't taking wide open 8 footers against
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frickin Sienna. I'm sorry.
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It's weird that he didn't. I'm just saying.
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I am not attacking Cambuser for the game that he had.
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He played well. He needed to do things at the
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tail end of the game, especially hit his free throws, and he hit
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every one of them except one. I think he missed one out of all
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of them. I saw one.
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It was late too, actually. It was like, I mean, look, he
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was really great. I'm not going to.
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I don't want to take. Shots.
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I'm not. You're going to tell me this is
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going to hurt his draft stock. It's not.
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I I just think in a year where you have those three guys, you
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have that he had to have a flawless, you know.
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And what if Candace loses tomorrow too?
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I I, But that's the thing. Like I think he's so far behind
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the two of them. It has to be flawed.
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Well, good. Let let them think that and
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he'll go into the NBA and become a star in the league and and
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he'll go to Indiana, which is going to make me sick because
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that's I have this feeling. I have this feeling that
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Indiana's going to get the number three pick and they're
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going to get Cam Boozer. I just have this bad feeling
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that that's what's going to happen.
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I I'm predicting it. I'm predicting it on the show
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right now. Cam Boozer is going to be
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drafted by Indiana. That's my prediction.
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And that's what the Knicks are going to have to deal with for
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the next 15 years. Hal Burton and Cambuser, that's
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what we're going to have to deal with.
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And everybody's, I'm going to tell everybody.
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I told you, I told you about this kid.
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I told you he's going to be special.
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And what's going to happen is what's going to happen is Kaden
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is going to go back and play one more year college basketball
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because he wants to be higher. He wants to be a first round
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talent. Right now he's a second round
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talent. Even if he has a great
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tournament and he's played well since, he's gotten an
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opportunity to be a starter because after losing 2 guys,
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he's getting more touches on the ball.
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He's scoring more by a clip and he was to me as as impressive as
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Cam was in this in this game. He made some quality shots at
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the tail end of the game and you could see that Shire is trusting
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in the kid to make those shots, make those layups and it was
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very impressive. Kaden is a guy that I think he
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needs a one more year in college basketball and I think that's
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where he's going to go. I don't know if he's going to
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even next year he'll be a top ten pick because next year's
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class is going to be pretty damn good, but it's.
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Worth the risk for him to get the upside up.
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Right, so he might go to the teams.
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Don't be surprised if he goes to Indiana too, to play with his
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brother. I'd argue he's the reason they
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won that game. It was his on ball pressure
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against their ball handling at the end of the game when they
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were tired. He turned them over a few times
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in a row and it really changed the momentum.
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And then he hit his shots too. His shot is kind of off like I,
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I he's like throws like a knuckleball.
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There's not a lot of spin on the ball when he shoots.
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It was kind of weird, but it goes in, you know what I mean?
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Like, yeah, the guy. The guy is pretty precise.
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It wasn't like, it wasn't like it might have been an awkward
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looking shot, but it was still very precise.
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It wasn't like there was a lot of added motion.
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So I don't think. That's his big problem for him.
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He's I think his ceiling is really high.
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Like I really like what I saw out of him.
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But Errol, before we move on from Duke, I you had I know you
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didn't hear the post game with John Shire where he said he got
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out coached. By the 16 seed you.
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Know no, I don't I don't listen to that I don't listen to that
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you know because I. Really know it was Jerry
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McNamara, Syracuse legend. And they were running like a
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bastardized 2-3 Syracuse type of thing.
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And the guys were just running that he didn't take a single
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starter off the court until like 20 seconds left in the game and
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they were running into walls, jumping into the stands.
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It was crazy. It was so much fun to watch
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Jerry McNamara basketball. But the fact that the number one
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seed guy. He played with Carmeloanz.
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Getting out, coach. He did, I did, I remember.
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Yes, he did. He was a three-point.
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He was the point guard with Carmelo that year and he was
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there for like 5. It felt like six years or
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something like that, but. I've told you guys player back
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then, I've told you about Shire. I don't think Shire is any good
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as a head coach for the I'm stuttering tonight, Duke Blue
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Devils. My question here is for all the
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fans out there, is Duke going to be able to continue playing at a
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top level in this tournament or play at a top level in this
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tournament as the tournament starts to move on?
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Because you're going to be matched up possibly against
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Kansas or Saint Johns and then in the Elite 8, you might be
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matched up against UConn. And Yukon to me is the best team
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in this in this division, Not because I don't think Duke is
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great and then my favorite team. It's just because of the
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injuries that Duke has. And they're going to depend a
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lot on Cam Boozer and Cam Boozer when pressure teams are going to
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pressure him to make shots that he's uncomfortable making.
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And and you can see it when he was uncomfortable, he was
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forcing shots and he was forcing the ball out of his own hands.
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And we've seen this Giannis did the same thing.
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We've seen Giannis at a top level in the playoffs where
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teams were forcing him to do things he was uncomfortable
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doing. That's what happened to Cam.
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Cam's going to have to figure it out now moving on in this
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tournament. Well, he's not going to have to
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worry about people boxing out or keeping them on the outside.
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And if they do, he needs to hit his shots.
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He needs to be confident and make those shots, which all
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season long he has. I he's he's a pretty good 3
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point shooter for a guy his size too.
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He's he's a pretty good all around player.
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I I think he's just as good as Peterson and AJ, but obviously
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they're looking at AJ because of these athletic gifts and
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Peterson, who a lot of people believe is the best one out of
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all of them. And we were talking about it
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too, with the coaches in that region on the on the last show
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too. And I'm not going to say that
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I'm going to pick them to lose against their next opponent in
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TCU. But Jamie Dixon comes from that
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Jim Bayheim tree with Syracuse. And they're going to do the same
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kind of concepts. You saw that McNamara did.
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We're playing a lot of zone. And is John Shire, if he's going
22:36
to claim he's going to adjust that, actually be a better coach
22:39
in this game? Yeah, That's going to be enough
22:41
to look like Duke is going to get those guys because you have
22:44
to get those that confidence back.
22:45
You should be TCU by double digits.
22:47
I think they're a good team. TCU.
22:48
I don't think they're a powerhouse by any means.
22:50
And then you're like you said, you're looking at Saint John's,
22:52
you're looking at you're looking at Kansas, who has the upside if
22:56
they can stay healthy and that kind of thing.
22:57
And even some of the teams on the other end of the drive, UCLA
23:00
is a veteran team. They went to a Final Four.
23:02
Mick Cronin's a good coach. And UConn, like you said, in two
23:04
time national champions like there's enough in that region
23:07
that's going to make it very. This tournament is, is so wide
23:11
open, there's no predictions. You can't predict this
23:13
tournament. I wrote a story that's posted up
23:16
on the Worldwide Sports Radio Network and my thoughts of the
23:19
bracket, It's, it's, it's anybody's guess.
23:22
You cannot look at usually all the number ones don't make it to
23:25
the Final Four. Now, last year they did.
23:28
It happens, but it doesn't happen every single year.
23:32
And, and to me, even looking at this year, the number ones are
23:35
so overrated. I, I, I don't think Arizona as
23:39
good as they've been all season long.
23:40
Am I going to trust that Arizona's going to go all the
23:42
way to the final floor? No, because they got to walk
23:44
into a, a jigsaw of Purdue. And I think Purdue to me, with
23:48
the size that they have and the rebounding they have, I think
23:51
they could dominate the boards and take the ball away from
23:54
Arizona and make Arizona play the game and play uncomfortable
23:57
the game that they want to play in this tournament.
24:00
They're also there are teams that we've talked about, VCU is
24:04
a team going into this tournament that a lot of people
24:06
think could surprise. Vanderbilt is another team that
24:09
could surprise a lot of people. So Alabama who lost their one of
24:13
their second best player. Alabama, the way everything's
24:17
set up for them, they might not be if they get, they're playing
24:20
Hofstra I think tomorrow, right? Yeah.
24:22
So if they get out of the Hofstra game, I think all the
24:25
way to the Sweet 16 or maybe even Elite 8:00, they have the
24:29
easiest way to get there. They have.
24:31
That until the Sweet 16 where they have to get to Michigan at
24:34
that yeah and they'll play the winner of the Texas Tech, which
24:38
has their best player hurt for the season 2 or Akron if they
24:40
win that game as the 12 seed as the.
24:42
Next I have Texas Tech winning a game I had, I didn't have.
24:46
I didn't. I couldn't believe BYU lost the
24:47
1st. Here, let me bring up your
24:50
brackets from our from our thing.
24:51
I'll do that right now and we could take a look at it and I do
24:54
have it right here. Yeah, I actually had VCU in that
24:56
one. I had VCU in the Sweet Six team.
24:58
We'll see if that continues. It's interesting and, and again,
25:02
it's wide open. You don't know what to predict,
25:05
how this thing is going to fall together and who's going to move
25:08
on in the tournament. But my, my prediction is I think
25:12
Connecticut is going to run away in the East.
25:16
And, and again, there, there's there's my final four right
25:18
there, right there. I have Michigan getting out of
25:22
their their bracket. I have Purdue coming out of
25:25
their bracket. I had UConn coming out of their
25:28
bracket and I had Houston because Houston.
25:31
I mean, besides, I, I don't know how who they're matched up
25:34
against in the Sweet 16, who I had them reach out.
25:38
Who did I have them match up against?
25:39
Vanderbilt looks. Like it's Illinois and
25:41
Vanderbilt would be the elite 8 if it gets.
25:43
Yes. So I had them against Vanderbilt
25:45
in the Elite 8 and then beating Vanderbilt because I think
25:48
they're better than Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt is going to make it
25:50
to the Elite 8 there. A lot of people surprise that
25:53
could move on because of experience.
25:55
Yes, they have a bunch of good young, They have a bunch of good
25:58
veteran players on that team and they have a couple of good young
26:00
guys too. Speedy, do we all have that
26:03
exact same Elite 8? Because I have that too.
26:05
No, I don't. And that and Houston coming.
26:07
I actually have a little more vulnerability with Houston
26:10
because I don't trust their offense as much.
26:12
I actually had VCU running that point and I think I had because
26:16
I remember I said I don't call your shot too.
26:18
I had Florida losing too, so I've that region.
26:20
That's the crazy region for me. I do have Michigan and Virginia.
26:23
I do like Iowa State too. It was tough picking against
26:25
them, but I think Virginia has been a little better in the
26:28
second-half of the season. Iowa State, kind of like what I
26:30
was mentioning with Nebraska kind of got iffy in conference
26:33
play a little more in that Big 12 company petition.
26:35
So I think Virginia I had a little, little higher even
26:38
though I like all that team in that cluster fish.
26:40
It's interesting because that right side, I have a like all
26:43
the top heavy teams. I was mentioning with Alabama,
26:45
like there's still a lot of run that they can make with Texas
26:47
Tech having the injuries that they have.
26:49
Michigan, I just think it's too much size for a team like that.
26:52
And I think Virginia has a lot of good offensive balance
26:56
overall that can make them dangerous too.
26:57
That's going to be a tough match up too if that ends up being the
27:00
1/3. And then the Arizona region too,
27:02
you have a top four. That's all very good.
27:04
It was tough for me to pick Gonzaga or Purdue because I
27:06
think they're both very good as well, veteran teams as well.
27:08
I will say this and I, I, I watched AJ play throughout the
27:13
year and he's gifted. He's athletically gifted, but I
27:16
don't know if he has a great shot and coming into the NBA you
27:19
need a three-point shot. If you watch this game, he hit
27:22
13 pointer and he I think he shot like four or five of them
27:26
if he's not consistent at. The I think it was worst,
27:28
actually. You're that that's what they
27:30
worry about with him. Meryl, you're 100% right.
27:33
It's always, is this guy going to shoot?
27:36
Enough. He's one for seven.
27:37
He was. One, it was like 1 for 6/1 for
27:39
seven. I think it was late in the game.
27:40
They tried to Chuck a few up when they were it was over.
27:42
But he's a high usage player right now.
27:46
But here's the thing, Peterson isn't being used like that.
27:49
And I am so fascinated to watch Peterson and what I think's
27:52
going to be an amazing basketball game.
27:54
That St. John's Kansas matchup I think
27:57
will happen the second round. So if if we get that over the
28:01
weekend, I'm I think that's going to be great basketball.
28:04
But the thing that really confuses me about Kansas is I
28:08
feel like they're better without Peterson.
28:11
And that doesn't make sense because he's one of the best
28:13
players in the in the world and at that age, right in that.
28:16
And he's the best player they think coming out or one of the
28:19
top three. Why is that happening?
28:21
And it's like he's not a part of their offense.
28:23
He doesn't fit into their scheme as much.
28:26
And they're they're having him play off ball.
28:28
Everything I heard about him coming out Speedy was this is an
28:32
on ball guard that he's just like a big point guard and
28:35
they're not using him that way. And I don't like teams that do
28:39
that. I don't.
28:40
I think they're real really like kind of risky pick.
28:45
Yeah, I was, I was at a vulnerability angle with Kansas.
28:48
I I didn't think there was enough good upset candidates
28:50
with the 13 seeds as much this year as I would have seen.
28:53
Maybe if it was one of the twelves, if one of the fourteens
28:56
that I like to rise into that maybe if Yale wanted to got the
28:58
Ivy League upset or something like that.
29:00
I just didn't see it with. This that I've heard over the
29:04
last couple weeks about Peterson that Peterson didn't get his NIL
29:08
deal that was offered to him. He was missing $100,000.
29:11
That pissed him off and that's why he didn't play hard all
29:14
season long. Kansas should have been a one
29:16
seed with the with the ability that Peterson has.
29:20
Peterson and Kansas recruited a pretty good class.
29:22
This is not a bad team, but Peterson is the best recruit if
29:26
you look at all three players. As much as they said at AJ was
29:30
the bona fide number one pick, Peterson has the best game.
29:34
He can shoot, he can get into the paint, he has the athletic
29:38
gifts, he can shoot the free throws, he can do everything and
29:41
he's a good rebounder at his size.
29:43
But because he doesn't show up game after game and there's a
29:46
lot of people say that he gives up.
29:48
He doesn't want to go back into the game in certain parts of the
29:51
game when he feels like the team doesn't need him.
29:53
So that's the problem with Peterson.
29:55
I think that would scare me to draft him at #1 or maybe even #2
30:00
maybe you, you look at him at #3 or maybe fall out of #4 Wilson
30:05
to me and now North Carolina's Wilson.
30:09
He's got some game, he's a great offensive gifted player and he's
30:14
this guy's going to be a 2530 point scorer in the NBA.
30:16
He's that good. He's long, he's got all the
30:19
gifts as an offensive player and he could shoot the ball.
30:22
So do you look at Peterson and you look at Wilson and say, you
30:25
know what, I I might, I might take a flyer with Wilson because
30:30
at least I know he's going to play hard.
30:31
I know he's going to score and he's going to give me what I
30:34
need for him from him at a high level every single game.
30:38
Peterson, if he's not getting his contract, he's not happy
30:41
with the players on his roster. He doesn't play hard.
30:44
Who's the kid that they said he fell in the draft last year and
30:47
he went to Utah. Who's the kid?
30:50
Ace Bailey. Bailey, Ace.
30:51
Bailey and Ace, barely a lot of people thought was a top five
30:55
talent. I did.
30:56
Everybody thought that. But there were things off the
30:59
court that people didn't like and some of his some of his work
31:03
ethics, they said that he didn't work very hard when he was on
31:07
the basketball court. He could have played at a high
31:09
level in certain games and sometimes he doesn't look like
31:12
he's playing at a high level. And that's the same thing.
31:14
I worry about Peterson. Peterson's a much more talented
31:18
player than Bailey is. But if you're not going to get
31:21
older, Peterson, why were you? Why would you give up a top
31:23
three pick and take a flyer? And instead of taking a flyer on
31:27
a guy like Wilson, he is coming off an injury to his finger.
31:30
But this guy is a predominant 2530 point scorer in the NBA.
31:35
That's a superstar in the league.
31:36
Yeah. And you look at the type of
31:38
mindset for these players now that in this NIL era that you're
31:42
trying to get these bigger schools, especially on board
31:45
these different schools, if especially on board that aren't
31:47
the bigger schools. Obviously North Carolina is one
31:48
of them. But you look at BYU, you're
31:50
looking at you're looking at Rutgers last year with Harper
31:53
and Ace Bailey on that team. And they didn't even make the
31:56
tournament last year with a coach and Steve Pikel that we
31:59
know is good. Errol that has been a good
32:00
defensive minded coach that's made the tournament with teams
32:03
not nearly as talented with them.
32:04
And they just got eaten up alive in that tough Big 10.
32:06
And that kind of thing you want to see carry over.
32:10
And somebody like Sean Miller coached the bonds against the
32:13
Bonds and let him do his thing but wear him out, I guess
32:15
enough. And you saw they just didn't
32:17
have enough at the end against the Texas team that has good
32:19
talent, but it's not there's the level of somebody like and.
32:22
And another thing, Flemings is a guy that everybody likes.
32:25
He get a great defensive player. I think he's a shooting guard.
32:29
Again, I'm going to kind of compare him to Donovan Mitchell.
32:32
He's that type of player. He's not Donovan Mitchell's not
32:35
as tall as him. He's 66, but he's very long and
32:38
he could play the shooting guard position because to me, you have
32:41
to be an average of 6/6 now in the NBA if you want to be at the
32:44
shooting guard position. He's got that ability.
32:47
He could defend multiple positions.
32:48
I've seen him defend the three. I've seen him defend the two and
32:51
I've seen defend the one, and I think he's going to develop a
32:54
shot in the NBA just like Donovan Mitchell.
32:57
As a matter of fact, he's got a better shot right now in college
33:00
basketball than Donovan Mitchell did.
33:02
So if he works and uses his athletic gifts that he has,
33:05
Flemish could be an absolute steal.
33:08
At #5 or #6 some people quote him at at #8 That's where he
33:13
he's somewhere going to fall because there are guys a little
33:16
bit better than him or more high quality of a pick than he is.
33:20
But I still think if I'm a team I'm reaching, I draft them at
33:24
six. Why not?
33:26
I know you say that, but like, I still I've, I'm look, I took
33:29
Arizona to win it all. I'm really, I got really into
33:32
that Big 12 championship game and they shot Flemings down in
33:37
that game in the second-half. And I was shocked at how well,
33:41
how well they played. Like I thought Buries was
33:43
playing defense like Klay Thompson play defense on the
33:47
perimeter the way that he plays, if he could be, you know, have
33:50
his shot be a little bit better. Like he he's got a crazy two way
33:54
game. That kid.
33:55
I'm really interested in who he is.
33:57
I think he's the big X Factor in this tournament if he comes into
33:59
his own, the top ten pick. But the guy that I wanted to
34:02
mention was Wilson, the UNC or while you were doing the WBCUNC
34:07
lost a double digit lead and then blew the game to VCU.
34:12
They were up about 15 or something like that.
34:15
Very Duke like, very Duke like. The answer?
34:18
Assemble the rivals. It was it was ugly.
34:20
And then they started turning him over on the inbound pass and
34:23
they. Duke lined up.
34:25
Another Duke thing. UNC steals it, almost gets it,
34:28
gets like a clean shot to take, get the winner at in overtime
34:32
and then they blow it in overtime.
34:33
And it was, it was just remarkable what a guy like
34:37
Wilson would have done. They wouldn't have been a six
34:39
seed. They would have been a three
34:40
seed if he didn't get hurt, you know, and who knows what would
34:44
have happened in this tournament.
34:45
I wouldn't think they were better than Virginia anyway
34:47
though. I will say this 6. 10.
34:49
I will say this, if you were to ask me right now, who would I
34:53
take a flyer on, Peterson or Wilson?
34:56
I'm probably taking Wilson not because of the talent that
35:00
Peterson brings to the table. Darren Peterson is as good as
35:03
anybody in this draft. Darren Peterson could be a super
35:07
superstar in the NBA. He really could and whoever
35:10
sitting at four or five, if he falls that far, which I don't
35:13
believe he will, but if he does fall to four or five, they might
35:17
get a great player. But Wilson, to me, he's a, he's
35:21
a guy that could score. You need those guys.
35:23
Teams like the Nets. If the Nets are sitting there at
35:25
4, are you going to bring in Peterson who's not going to like
35:28
playing with Brooklyn cuz there's no stars playing with
35:31
him. And honestly, if you look at who
35:33
Darren Peterson is and what he has done this past year with
35:37
Kansas, do you want to play with Darren Peterson?
35:40
Probably not. Probably not.
35:42
No matter how good he is. I'm staying the I'm staying far,
35:45
far away from Darren Peterson. If I'm Yanis right now and I'm,
35:49
I become a free agent in a year if I don't get traded in the
35:53
offseason or if I do, I talked to the Nets and the Nets have
35:57
enough to trade me to the Nets. Am I going to want to play with
36:00
Darren Peterson knowing his background and and the back end
36:03
of what we've heard over the last couple of weeks, last
36:05
couple of months on him not really playing hard?
36:08
Because I've heard stories through a player that I know
36:12
from Kansas saying that Peterson pretty much told the coaching
36:15
staff in one of the one of the games, one of the college games
36:18
this year that he doesn't want to go back in.
36:21
I mean, you're telling a coach that's telling you to get into
36:23
the game. I don't want to get back into
36:25
the game. I don't need to.
36:27
You want that player. You're an NBA team and you're
36:30
going to pay this guy a rookie contract worth about twelve, $13
36:34
million. That's what you're going to give
36:36
your rookie sensation that you're going to bet on a
36:39
franchise player of that magnitude.
36:43
Knowing that this guy didn't want to go and play in a college
36:45
basketball game when you can help your team win.
36:48
That to me is alarming. Wilson wouldn't do that.
36:51
Cam Boozer wouldn't do that. As a matter of fact, one of the
36:54
things that I've heard about Cam Boozer is the the way he plays
36:58
under pressure. This guy is one of the best
37:00
players. When he played in high school,
37:02
he won a state championship. He was he was the best player on
37:05
the court and he played against some of the best players in the
37:08
country and he went out and won a state championship and he put
37:11
it all on his back. What you want those kind of
37:14
players when he wants the ball at the end of the game to try to
37:16
hit it. That was one thing that Melo
37:19
Anthony was great at. That was one thing at Kyrie
37:21
Irving, even though he never really got a chance to perform
37:23
in Duke because he broke his foot.
37:25
These are the guys you want. Allen Iverson, he wanted the
37:28
ball. Those guys want the ball.
37:31
So that's my opinion. I don't know if I trust Darren
37:34
Peterson. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
37:36
this is my deuce of the day. The deuce of the day.
37:40
You log, not a log. I don't have a log but.
37:49
Well, ladies and gentlemen, Rob Gronkowski is back in the
37:53
tabloids. Why are we not surprised, ladies
37:56
and gentlemen, during Cover 19 pandemic?
37:58
And now Rob Gronkowski has said this numerous amount of times on
38:02
different podcasts. Well, he said it this week again
38:05
on a podcast that he that during the COVID-19 pandemic,
38:10
specifically in 2020 NFL offseason, Rob Gronkowski
38:15
admitted that he bypassed mandatory virtual workouts
38:19
requirements while he was with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
38:23
And here's another thing I the one thing that I could say about
38:27
Rob Gronkowski is he also faked workouts to comply with the
38:32
team's virtual conditioning program.
38:34
Players had to film themselves during doing sprints and send
38:40
them to the coaches. Gronkowski recorded multiple
38:43
days worth of running and in one session changing his shirt to
38:48
make it appear as though he was doing it multiple days.
38:54
So interesting story for Rob Gronkowski.
38:58
I don't know Rob Gronkowski personally.
39:00
I'm I'm sure he's a good person. We had Chris on our show.
39:04
Chris says he's a funny and, and he's great brother.
39:07
And it's it's a great story on how Gronkowski became a
39:11
superstar in the league. And he also had Tom Brady
39:12
throwing the ball and he had Bill Belichick coaching him.
39:15
But when you hear a story like this, and the same thing
39:17
happened with Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers did not want to
39:21
take the shot. He was actually against taking
39:24
the shot, which caused a lot of problems during the pandemic
39:28
because he lied about taking the shot.
39:31
And eventually the NFL guy got wind on it and they were very
39:35
upset that he lied about not taking that shot.
39:38
So the problem here is, is Rob Gronkowski it it's not like not
39:43
taking a shot and playing in a football game, But to know that
39:46
he was not training and working out for the contract that the
39:49
Tampa Bay Buccaneers gave him says the type of person that he
39:53
is is that he took advantage of who he was as a superstar play
39:56
with the the Patriots. And he said, you know what, I
39:58
don't need to, I don't need to go to offseason workouts.
40:02
I don't need to do mandatory virtual workouts and
40:04
requirements because I'm Rob Gronkowski.
40:06
So. My deuce of the day is, is that
40:09
players need to work a little bit higher, harder.
40:11
No matter how big of a superstar you are, if the other players
40:14
are doing it, you should be doing it too.
40:16
So shame on Rob Gronkowski, but guess what?
40:18
He's laughing about it. And by the way, he's laughing to
40:21
the bank cuz he still made his money over there in Tampa as
40:24
every player does, especially superstar players like Rob
40:27
Gronkowski. And by the way, they did win a
40:30
Super Bowl and he was a part of that as well.
40:32
So. And was he not the one that
40:34
almost threw the trophy into the ocean?
40:38
It was not not him. It's into Tampa Bay, literally.
40:41
Yeah, so typical Rob Gronkowski fashion.
40:44
So yeah, that's Rob Gronkowski, ladies and gentlemen.
40:47
And I love Rob. I think he's a great, I don't
40:50
think he's a great analyst, but I love his personality.
40:52
I love his who he is and his just everything about him on the
40:56
back end. I like him.
40:58
His podcasts are funny. I don't like him doing
41:01
broadcasting or play by play. He's really, really bad at it.
41:04
Fox needs to get rid of him. Julian Edelman is a has a good
41:07
podcast too. I like his podcast, but when
41:10
he's doing anything with analyzing what happened in
41:12
games, I don't want to hear what he has to say.
41:14
I don't care if he played in the NFL.
41:16
It's it's like asking a guy that is trying to pretend that he's a
41:20
head coach explain what he sees on a television.
41:24
OK, He is not a quarterback. These guys are not quarterbacks.
41:27
Tight ends are not quarterbacks. Wide receivers are not going to.
41:30
Even though Julian Edelman when he played college football, he
41:33
was a quarterback, but his whole career in the NFL he was a wide
41:37
receiver. So I don't want to hear what he
41:39
has to say. I'd rather hear what Tom Brady
41:41
has to say. And he's been pretty good at it.
41:43
But guess what? The NFL has found ways for Tom
41:46
Brady to get away with things too, because he gets to own a
41:48
team and he gets to make 3635 million dollars and get the
41:52
highest paid contract and analyze as an analyst in NFL
41:55
history and sports history. Why?
41:57
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understands when you go to an event and then have to come home
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and do a three hour show, it it it's definitely training.
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Speedy was running around. I was in the cold.
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I had a list because when we came in, my whole jaw froze.
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That's how cold it was outside here, especially when it when
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the the sun went down, whatever sun we had today.
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So it wasn't. Yeah, we didn't have sun there.
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Yeah, it was. It got cold.
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It got really cold on a on the football field, but we came back
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and we finished the show and that's all we can do.
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And we made sure that there's content out there for everybody
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Everything's going to be transitioned.
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going in and out of our website. Speedy, do we have anything
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lined up next? Week not not for Monday, but
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Thursday. Our friend Dan Purcell will be
43:54
returning to us. Say he said he wanted to come
43:56
back on during March Madness. He couldn't join tonight, but he
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is. He's going to be able to come on
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at 8:30 next week on Thursday. Dan is one of the best in the
44:03
business when it comes to studying and he works.
44:07
He works with the NBA. He's one of the best at looking
44:11
at data and and looking at who's going to be good and in the
44:16
future where these guys are going to be as NBA players,
44:18
college players. And he is one of the best.
44:20
So I'm excited to have him on. I'd love to hear his take on AJ
44:25
and Peterson and Boozer and where he sees how the NBA is
44:30
going to look at these guys as the top three prospects coming
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out of this year's draft and his Wilson moving up even with not
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playing in this tournament and breaking his finger.
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So and I think he is moving up. I I think he's as good as any
44:43
one of these guys as well. So very, very interesting.
44:46
Anyways, that's it for a show, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy your
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