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Mac & Bone Hour 1: RETURN OF THE MAC · Mac & Bone Podcast

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Speaker 1: What's some party? People when I'll come off sigh.
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Speaker 2: Oh is Mack and Bowl. This is my friend.
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Speaker 1: I never realized on how long his stick was. This
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Speaker 1: my friend the bone on this esday, I'm a swinger.
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Speaker 2: You guys are the best.
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Speaker 1: Will they bust or will they not bust?
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Speaker 2: They're the best, those guys, Swanky. You're listening to the
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Speaker 2: Mack and Bow Show on Mac and Bow Radio.
0:45
Speaker 1: The fellows here on the Mack and Bone Show. So
0:47
Speaker 1: nice to be back with all of you. It is
0:50
Speaker 1: Mac and Bone the fit dog in the house as well,
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Speaker 1: with a nice musical tribute. They're very nice, heartwarming musical tributes. Uh,
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Speaker 1: we got a week of sports to recap, ladies and gentlemen.
1:02
Speaker 1: We got a NASCAR race that finished about six minutes ago,
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Speaker 1: actually four hours ago. It finished right before two am Atlanta.
1:10
Speaker 1: Please don't spoil the ending, guy, I still have to
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Speaker 1: see the finish. Oh okay, might have to cover your ears,
1:15
Speaker 1: might have to earmuff you bony during this segment. But yeah,
1:19
Speaker 1: we'll tell you what happened last night, assuming many of
1:22
Speaker 1: you might have gone to sleep. Something has happened to
1:26
Speaker 1: the Hornets Summer League. Repeat dreams, Ladies, and gentlemen. Over
1:31
Speaker 1: the weekend, I get back in town. They lose two games.
1:34
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Matt Curse already working Jeff Peterson this weekend.
1:39
Speaker 1: Finally was able to discuss the LaMelo ball trade. That
1:42
Speaker 1: trade finally became official. We're still waiting on that Miles
1:46
Speaker 1: Bridges one to become official, but the mill of Mellow
1:49
Speaker 1: ball trade became official a near half hour presser with
1:53
Speaker 1: Jeff Peterson. You'll hear a bunch of that today, and
1:55
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of what he said will probably
1:57
Speaker 1: continue to pitch y'all off. We got that going on.
2:00
Speaker 1: We had a final four in the World Cup. We
2:02
Speaker 1: got a All Star break here. Brayce finally won a
2:05
Speaker 1: game against the Cardinals yesterday. So we got a lot
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Speaker 1: of things going on. Caleb Wilson. How about Caleb Wilson's
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Speaker 1: summer league debut. I mean, Boozer was pretty good too,
2:14
Speaker 1: but Caleb Wilson, Oh my god. So anyway, we got
2:17
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about here on the show. The
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Speaker 1: bone Man in the house, the fit dog in the
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Speaker 1: house as well. What's up boning? What's missed my guy man?
2:26
Speaker 1: I said it last week on the air. I didn't
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Speaker 1: have my man, my partner, my dog, my day one
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Speaker 1: on the air or a text messages. Last week, I
2:34
Speaker 1: didn't know what to do last week. It was basically
2:37
Speaker 1: me talking to Fiddy and Murphy all last week. And
2:39
Speaker 1: let me tell you what those are, two uncontrollable wild
2:41
Speaker 1: things to talk to bon both bite and slabber. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot going on there. It sounds like Murphy's made
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Speaker 1: some progress though since I last last Since you said
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Speaker 1: that tax and I appreciate you said, how's Murphy doing?
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Speaker 1: He did great last week, made some progress we had.
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Speaker 1: We had a little bit of a rough weekend. This weekend,
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Speaker 1: we have now gone backwards. We have now gone where
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Speaker 1: he he got loose at one point chased me down
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Speaker 1: the street. Most times dogs will go the other way.
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Speaker 1: This guy said, oh I'm free. I'm gonna try to
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Speaker 1: kill this guy while I'm free. Also, he doesn't know
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Speaker 1: how to walk on a leash properly, because I don't
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Speaker 1: think he's ever had to do it before dogs. But
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Speaker 1: he still hadn't figured out chokes himself. That I had
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Speaker 1: to get a new leash. And then I said, well,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go hardest on this hole. And you would
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Speaker 1: have thought I was trying to put this guy in.
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Speaker 1: I mean, just that's the way Rocket acts. And he's
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Speaker 1: like six years old. He still acts like I end
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Speaker 1: up in a Greco Roman, uh near rear naked chokehold
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Speaker 1: on this guy trying to get this hardest on. That
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Speaker 1: was just this morning. By the way, that was late.
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Speaker 1: Some dogs, some dogs never go to grow completely out
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Speaker 1: of their puppy. I mean, but besides that, he's fine. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: It's that's that's gonna be. It's like a young rookie.
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Speaker 1: It's like a young rookie. Bone. Progress is not always linear,
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Speaker 1: all right. He gets to stay in the fight. He
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Speaker 1: gets to zoomies once a day, kind of like Fiddy
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Speaker 1: does on the air. Sometimes he zooms around. You'd say,
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Speaker 1: when is this guy get to stop? Oh man, anyway,
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Speaker 1: I miss you two bone as I was cruising and
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Speaker 1: uh eating buffets for every meal. Oh my god, did
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Speaker 1: you see I was really stopping at tropical locations. I
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Speaker 1: was really I was really missing this. You missed a lot.
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Speaker 1: You miss Fitty and I trying to pick up the
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Speaker 1: pieces of a fall in America last Tuesday. You left
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Speaker 1: us here to try to pick up the fallen soccer World,
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Speaker 1: and we did some lists last most season last week,
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Speaker 1: and then we did more West and more West and
4:30
Speaker 1: more West, more football previews. You miss a lot of
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Speaker 1: lists and a lot of football previews. But you need
4:36
Speaker 1: to ask you did you see Christian Publistic on your
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Speaker 1: cruise last week? Because you kind of missed it. We
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Speaker 1: have a rare thing coming up to in the first
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Speaker 1: hour of this show. We have a media member defending
4:47
Speaker 1: Christian Polistic. I believe he's the only one in the
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Speaker 1: entire country that has done so since Carli Woyd. I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing since the guest she is she's she is the
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Speaker 1: female Alexi, isn't she so? I said, I said she's
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Speaker 1: pregnant at Lexi last week. She loves like It's amazing
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Speaker 1: the way they were all cheerleaders when the US was
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Speaker 1: doing well and the performance was terrible. Don't get me wrong,
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Speaker 1: it was extremely disappointing in light of how they played
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Speaker 1: up to that point. But it just feels like that
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Speaker 1: old guard of media members from US Soccer. It just
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Speaker 1: seems like they love to give it. Though it does,
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Speaker 1: they just really love to give it. But anyway, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about stuff that happened this weekend. Shall we, And
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Speaker 1: let's start with a NASCAR race, just because that's the freshest.
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Speaker 1: They restarted this race Bone at twelve oh two last
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Speaker 1: night at Atlanta. I call it Atlanta. I guess Echo
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Speaker 1: Park Speedway, but they don't pay me. It's Atlanta Motor
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Speaker 1: Speedway to me. And I just have to say, and
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Speaker 1: I feel like we say this every time they race there.
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Speaker 1: This is old super speedway racing. This is amazing racing.
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Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. This is runs, this is this
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Speaker 1: is the way super speedway race is supposed to be.
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Speaker 1: Instead now they're just fuel mileage manager. From lap one
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Speaker 1: at the big super Speedways, I thought the racer was tremendous.
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Speaker 1: The finish was tremendous. I did Bone, hit pause on
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Speaker 1: the TV at one point at about twelve twenty, sleep
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Speaker 1: for about an hour, and then watch the end of
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Speaker 1: the race. But I did watch the end of this race.
6:20
Speaker 1: Ryan Blaney, who had the best car for most of
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Speaker 1: the night, ends up winning Bone, but they were three
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Speaker 1: wide on a final lap. Host of R, the new
6:30
Speaker 1: mister Excitement all apologies to Jimmy Spencer. Hoos of R,
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Speaker 1: was one of the cars three wide. Bubba Wallace made
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Speaker 1: it three wide, although he went below the yellow line
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Speaker 1: to do so and was penalized after the fact. But
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Speaker 1: it was a great I don't you know. I'm not
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Speaker 1: expecting too many people bone to have stayed up to
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Speaker 1: watch this, but it was a great finish man, and
6:50
Speaker 1: I love the race in Atlanta now, I really do.
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Speaker 1: Sounds like a great race, sounds like a great finish back.
6:55
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see it later on today when
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Speaker 1: I get home. Because that one hug man I tried
6:59
Speaker 1: to to fight through the delay. It got too late.
7:02
Speaker 1: It got too late for old Bonesy last night. It's
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Speaker 1: not considered a crown jewel race, right, so Daytona Coke
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Speaker 1: six hundred, Southern five hundred Brickyard are what they consider
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Speaker 1: their crown jewels. Am I not wrong that Atlanta delivers
7:17
Speaker 1: more often than say, the Brickyard does, though, oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: waite for viewership wise, to me, the excitement for Atlanta
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Speaker 1: is much bigger than the Brickyard. Oh yeah, We've said
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Speaker 1: it for years. The Brickyard not necessarily made for stock cars.
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Speaker 1: It's not the best show that that track or this
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Speaker 1: series can put on. But Atlanta with this draft element,
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Speaker 1: with these cars on that super speedway, It produces a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun racing, man, it really does, and it
7:42
Speaker 1: just it reminds me of how the super speedways used
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Speaker 1: to race. So they put on a really good show.
7:50
Speaker 1: It was a little more balanced with the manufacturers too,
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Speaker 1: like a Ford one. The Toyotas are still really strong,
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Speaker 1: but you had Larsen up there before he and ended
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Speaker 1: up being involved in two Rex late. You had Chase
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Speaker 1: Elliot up there, so it was a little more balanced
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Speaker 1: at a track like that than the other tracks have
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Speaker 1: been with the Toyota dominance. But I thought a pretty
8:11
Speaker 1: good show. Smoke. Ludwig Bone has sent me heyn of
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Speaker 1: text Bony from midnight on last night, some of which
8:21
Speaker 1: I was awake for, some of which I was not
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Speaker 1: awake For Bone he wanted to make sure that I
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Speaker 1: knew that this is the latest Cup race to ended
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Speaker 1: Atlanta ever, topping the nineteen ninety eight and ap of
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Speaker 1: five hundred, which was it attendance for he wanted to
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Speaker 1: point out, though still nothing compared to the twenty fifteen
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Speaker 1: Coke zero four hundred Daytona that ended at three forty
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Speaker 1: in the morning. I forgot all about that, and then
8:47
Speaker 1: he went on Bone to go off on the yellow
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Speaker 1: line rule at super Speedways. That got his guy, Bubba Wa.
8:55
Speaker 1: He maintains it's not about it that happened to this guy, Bubba,
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Speaker 1: but it got Bubba. Wallace died. I don't know about
9:01
Speaker 1: twenty five or so points, as he had to be
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Speaker 1: placed at the end of the lead lap and thee
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Speaker 1: to finish and to finish twenty ninth I say second
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Speaker 1: to twenty ninth because he went below the yellow line,
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Speaker 1: and Smoke is going off on that with examples bone
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Speaker 1: of when he also was upset. It's not just because
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Speaker 1: it was Bubba. He was upset when it happened to
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Speaker 1: Christopher Bell into people still listening us in twenty twenty two.
9:26
Speaker 1: Reagan Smith in two thousand and eight against his guys
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Speaker 1: Tony Stewart, Smoke and Kenny Wallace in two thousand and two.
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Speaker 1: Smoke is a piece of war. This is our new feature.
9:36
Speaker 1: Mac Reid Smoke NASCAR tags who could wite through in
9:40
Speaker 1: the morning and he's got that kind of ray. You
9:42
Speaker 1: next next Sunday night, You and Smoke are at the
9:45
Speaker 1: race right north Wilkesborough. That is correct. Nice, Oh, that's
9:48
Speaker 1: cool that you're gonna make it back in here. Are
9:51
Speaker 1: you off the next day, I'll be here. Fitty, dude,
9:54
Speaker 1: don't miss man Fitty. He doesn't miss man Fitty is.
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Speaker 3: Gone fun, which means I'm co hosting with Mac. You
10:02
Speaker 3: think I'm giving up airtime? You think I'm letting some
10:04
Speaker 3: boob come in here and get my four hours.
10:07
Speaker 1: This dude fit doog, that's a good point. Wouldn't even
10:09
Speaker 1: give up airtime on Memorial Day Bone after he got
10:13
Speaker 1: slamba bammed at the six hundred and was throwing up
10:15
Speaker 1: in his own shirt, he still made it towards it next.
10:18
Speaker 1: Does there a chance you get the heaves again here? No,
10:22
Speaker 1: you're not leaving till you're.
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Speaker 3: Even I'm not gonna make like it's one thing to
10:25
Speaker 3: make flounder beat like to take care of me.
10:28
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put.
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Speaker 3: That on poor Smoke who bought my ticket that's driving me.
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Speaker 3: He's gonna be my personal chaperone because he told me,
10:34
Speaker 3: you're gonna need to sleep on the way back because
10:36
Speaker 3: you're gonna be up at four o'clock in the morning.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, Yeah, there you go, smokes too, Yeah, smoke, Smoke
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Speaker 1: doesn't desire. There's a great when I'm gone next Monday,
10:44
Speaker 1: that smoke's running your board because fast you don't even
10:48
Speaker 1: read smokes text. Next week, just talk to Smoke next week.
10:50
Speaker 1: That is gonna be cool, North Wilkesborough. We'll talk more
10:53
Speaker 1: about the race and the Bubba penalty and Bubba's reaction.
10:56
Speaker 1: I mean he went below the yellow line. You smoke, right,
10:59
Speaker 1: ther We'll talk about all that stuff coming up. Hornet
11:03
Speaker 1: Summer League Team Bone two l so we'll get into
11:06
Speaker 1: it more. We'll do a whole Hornets weekend in Vegas,
11:10
Speaker 1: you know, conversation coming up, which includes a bunch of
11:13
Speaker 1: Jeff Peterson's press conference on Saturday right before the game
11:17
Speaker 1: on Saturday. This Hornet Summer League Team Bone, I think
11:21
Speaker 1: you were saying to this to me downstairs before the show.
11:24
Speaker 1: Not exactly as fun as the twenty twenty five champion edition. No,
11:30
Speaker 1: it's tough being the hunted. Right when you've got that
11:32
Speaker 1: that ring, that you've got that T shirt, everybody wants
11:35
Speaker 1: to everyone and you bring a lot of the same
11:37
Speaker 1: guys back, it's uh, it's tough, man, and it's uh.
11:42
Speaker 1: Mackett's feeling like we're back to the Hornet Summer League
11:45
Speaker 1: games where they're a little bit of a fight to
11:47
Speaker 1: get through some of these. Now back to summer league reality. Ope,
11:52
Speaker 1: there goes gravity the Hornets. First of all, you got
11:56
Speaker 1: to start with the ridiculous turnover situation. I I mean
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Speaker 1: twenty five last night and the loss to the Celtics
12:04
Speaker 1: and twenty two in the ridiculous blown lead game against
12:10
Speaker 1: New Orleans on Saturday. And yes, I probably care way
12:13
Speaker 1: too much about summer league basketball, but bone and Bone
12:16
Speaker 1: said it. We got a history here to uphold, baby,
12:19
Speaker 1: and they're not doing it. We can't get talked a
12:21
Speaker 1: by h dude. We just can't talk about them during
12:23
Speaker 1: the good times, right, we got talked about during the downtimes.
12:25
Speaker 1: It's ugly with the it's ugly with the basketball. It
12:28
Speaker 1: is really that at this level here. And maybe that
12:32
Speaker 1: extends into the regular season. I don't know, because they
12:36
Speaker 1: did trade away a point guard. Point Guard depth a
12:39
Speaker 1: little bit of an issue here. I'd say with this
12:41
Speaker 1: roster right now, we'll bit. We'll bit, oh definitely, because
12:43
Speaker 1: see on James, you cat he cannot initiate the offense.
12:46
Speaker 1: He's a certain type of player. It's not an offensive generator.
12:49
Speaker 4: No.
12:50
Speaker 1: Remember, remember he did okay at Duke until the last game.
12:52
Speaker 1: Against Houston when they needed someone to set the table. Wait,
12:55
Speaker 1: and he completely thought a part and he recreated Houston
12:57
Speaker 1: against New Orleans on Saturday that lead man seventeen point
13:01
Speaker 1: lead mid third quarter, thirteen point lead. You knew it
13:05
Speaker 1: con was there. I knew it look familiar. But yeah
13:09
Speaker 1: that and then Christian Anderson had some moments, hit some shots,
13:14
Speaker 1: especially yesterday. Christian Heerson had one assist this weekend in
13:18
Speaker 1: two games, one assist. So anyway, we got to talk
13:21
Speaker 1: through some of this stuff. Does it even matter? I
13:23
Speaker 1: don't know, does it even matter? Some of y'all might
13:25
Speaker 1: say it doesn't matter, but we will discuss it. Leam
13:30
Speaker 1: mcneely's high usage rate I'd like to discuss as well.
13:34
Speaker 1: They are basically treating him like peek lebron, go take
13:37
Speaker 1: the ball and create everything. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
13:42
Speaker 1: And then will t John ever Ley Vegas or is
13:44
Speaker 1: he there like Wayne Newton Bow text me this weekend
13:48
Speaker 1: said he's gonna have a Seleine da On like residency
13:50
Speaker 1: in Vegas, just be there for like ten years straight.
13:53
Speaker 1: He's now in year three and I and look, there
13:55
Speaker 1: are moments before he looks better, But shouldn't you in
13:58
Speaker 1: year three, kind of a couple of games, get in,
14:01
Speaker 1: get out, and get ready for the regular season. Shouldn't
14:04
Speaker 1: you be like dominating your three? Yes, this this competition, Yes,
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Speaker 1: I just have any There's no ability to dominate anything?
14:14
Speaker 1: Is there? Anyway? What's what's? What is that noise? Challenge?
14:18
Speaker 1: I've been away for so long. I think it means fit.
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Speaker 1: He's got a challenge?
14:21
Speaker 3: Oh shoot, what's wrong, Fitty Mac? You're coming under fire?
14:26
Speaker 3: Why what happened on my personal cell phone?
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Speaker 1: Back here?
14:28
Speaker 3: You've referenced a texting bone back multiple times, and you
14:34
Speaker 3: were able to stay awake into the wee hours of
14:36
Speaker 3: the night watching the NASCAR race. But our dear concert
14:40
Speaker 3: friend big Text gave you a call. You have not
14:43
Speaker 3: returned the phone call.
14:45
Speaker 1: Oh I forgot about that. My bad texting? He said.
14:48
Speaker 1: Quote was he have some chocoulets he's trying to sell.
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Speaker 3: He said that jackass can stay up and watch NASCAR,
14:53
Speaker 3: but can't call me back when he said he was
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Speaker 3: what's going on.
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Speaker 1: Mack, big Text? Excuse me for a second. Do you
15:00
Speaker 1: I think you're on the priority list? Over Mack and
15:01
Speaker 1: I texta during Summer League baball games. That's one of
15:04
Speaker 1: our great joys? Have you ever given mac chocolates? Totally?
15:07
Speaker 1: The Hornets blew that Summer League game, and I just
15:09
Speaker 1: I just I loft you know what I mean. I
15:11
Speaker 1: was in a different place then Norway America's team, well,
15:16
Speaker 1: the second America's team. The first American team lost four
15:18
Speaker 1: one to Belgium. America's team bony part two. Norway lost
15:23
Speaker 1: to England. So it was a taxi. It was a
15:25
Speaker 1: dramatic Saturday night for me. Man. The last thing, the
15:29
Speaker 1: first thing I want to do when I land back
15:30
Speaker 1: in the States is called big texts. It's the first
15:33
Speaker 1: thing I want to do, Honey, I need to step aside.
15:35
Speaker 1: I know we just landed big text called big text.
15:38
Speaker 1: What we got now? Man? We got some like laughy
15:41
Speaker 1: taffy that'll make you, that will make you lose your
15:44
Speaker 1: mind instead of the chocolates. Have we changed types of
15:47
Speaker 1: candy that is spiked anyway? All right, Yeah, I gotta
15:50
Speaker 1: get around to that. I gotta hit text back. All right,
15:54
Speaker 1: let's uh what else I want to get into, Boney.
15:56
Speaker 1: We do have a final four. We'll talk more about
15:58
Speaker 1: the Summer League. We'll definitely hit with some Jeff Peterson quotes.
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Speaker 1: Does his explanation make it any better? I guess this
16:04
Speaker 1: is the question for Hornets fans. Down to the final four.
16:08
Speaker 1: What a what an awesome final four? The four top
16:12
Speaker 1: ranked FIFA teams are the final four bone in the
16:16
Speaker 1: World Cup, Spain and France. What a remarkable matchup that
16:21
Speaker 1: is going to be on Tuesday at three o'clock and
16:24
Speaker 1: then on Wednesday at three o'clock Argentina and England the
16:29
Speaker 1: big dogs. Guess what we say about the NCAA tournament.
16:32
Speaker 1: Upsets are nice, but if you get to although I
16:35
Speaker 1: wanted Argentina lose very badly and they got lucky yet
16:37
Speaker 1: again for the young team time in this tournament. But
16:40
Speaker 1: when you get to the final four of a tournament
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Speaker 1: like this, I like having a big dog stand in. Yeah.
16:45
Speaker 1: A lot of talk about Messi and Mbope and Harry
16:48
Speaker 1: Kane and rightfully so and all these top tier plots.
16:52
Speaker 1: Your guy Holland became just a worldwide sensation, even more
16:56
Speaker 1: than he was before. But Mac, every time I look up,
16:59
Speaker 1: Jude belling Ham England is doing something to win games
17:01
Speaker 1: for his club like he is. He's my favorite Jude.
17:04
Speaker 1: He may he's making the name Jude he doesn't get
17:09
Speaker 1: the attention of even his teammate, but my god, that
17:11
Speaker 1: guy's been sensational during to start. He's been the best
17:13
Speaker 1: player for England Sea there, There's absolutely no doubt about it.
17:16
Speaker 1: He's been so clutched. Four goals in the last two
17:18
Speaker 1: games and I can't wait to watch these matches. They're
17:21
Speaker 1: gonna be great. Of course, there was controversy over the weekend.
17:27
Speaker 1: You can't have it without official you can't have you
17:29
Speaker 1: can't have the World Cup without officiating controversies. And you
17:34
Speaker 1: had the whole cable situation, the whole spider cam cable
17:40
Speaker 1: where the ball clearly, the kick from the keeper from
17:43
Speaker 1: Norway clearly looked like it hit that FIFA though, by
17:48
Speaker 1: the way, has everybody finally figured out that FIFA is
17:52
Speaker 1: right up there with the IOC in terms of the
17:55
Speaker 1: least trustworthy entities in sports? I mean, listen, I was,
17:59
Speaker 1: I was. We had that flow balligin back. That was
18:01
Speaker 1: the shadiest crap to go down in sports in a minute,
18:06
Speaker 1: and then bone they just put out a statement saying no,
18:09
Speaker 1: it didn't hit the cable, Oh it did. We saw it,
18:11
Speaker 1: and it's like everybody can see it. Well you see
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Speaker 1: the all the Norway players and coaches react in real time.
18:16
Speaker 1: They wouldn't do that unless the ball change trajectory because
18:19
Speaker 1: you have a camera cable up there above the above
18:23
Speaker 1: the field, and England goes and scores that way. Then
18:26
Speaker 1: you had the foul on Holland, which I did think
18:30
Speaker 1: was a foul. I thought he pushed him twice. There
18:32
Speaker 1: was a little bit of a sales job from Ellie
18:34
Speaker 1: Anderson too. But so yeah, you've got FIFA controversy, and
18:39
Speaker 1: you've also got Gianni Infantino from the head of FIFA saying, yeah,
18:45
Speaker 1: twenty thirty, we might have another expanded World Cup. We
18:48
Speaker 1: might go to sixty four teams. How long is that
18:51
Speaker 1: qualifying get to take by the way, eight years, Like
18:54
Speaker 1: the qualifying might not take long and they might just
18:56
Speaker 1: take every country in the world. They may just take
18:58
Speaker 1: you soccer, your team's to get it back to this thing. Also, Mackers,
19:03
Speaker 1: I now think you know, when they go to v
19:04
Speaker 1: R then they call the ref over a few minutes later.
19:07
Speaker 1: I now assume when they call the refover and they're
19:09
Speaker 1: talking to Donald Trump on the phone lines, Now that's
19:11
Speaker 1: what they're doing. Yeah, they're like they're like sir ninety
19:15
Speaker 1: two is ready to talk to you? Ninety two, You're ready.
19:17
Speaker 1: I'm always ready.
19:18
Speaker 3: When they need the big dog to step in and
19:21
Speaker 3: get something done, they'll get the straight out.
19:24
Speaker 1: You see daughter, You seeing cables or no cables man
19:30
Speaker 1: when we come back. More on the Hornets Weekend in Vegas,
19:33
Speaker 1: including clips from Jeff Peterson's much away to press conference
19:37
Speaker 1: about the LaMelo Ball trade. Sports Radio ninety two seven
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Speaker 1: w fn Z. All Right, we're here, everybody. We're here,
20:33
Speaker 1: all right. In case you thought I hit the cruise
20:36
Speaker 1: ship again and just rolled out after one segment. Back
20:39
Speaker 1: together with these boys, we are here. We are ready
20:42
Speaker 1: at rock and what we saw. We'd wake you up
20:43
Speaker 1: a little bit with a little rock and roll. A
20:45
Speaker 1: little disturbed here, ladies and gentlemen, which fits this show,
20:48
Speaker 1: fits this show. We've gone with the sickness, so turky
20:53
Speaker 1: bout bone, try to be a rock and roll guy.
20:55
Speaker 1: That was I like that one. I like that one.
20:56
Speaker 1: All right, change he's been gone here anyway, became more
20:59
Speaker 1: of a alpha male. We got to talk about the
21:02
Speaker 1: weekend in Vegas, but it was a Jason in Concord.
21:06
Speaker 1: What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and t John
21:09
Speaker 1: also stays in Vegas apparently as well. I see you,
21:12
Speaker 1: Jason on that one. A lot of good Texters early
21:15
Speaker 1: this morning. We appreciate you. Bone already might have a
21:19
Speaker 1: back and forth going here with Richie as well. So
21:23
Speaker 1: it feels good to be bad sometimes. I don't know.
21:26
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, I don't really know what Richie's
21:28
Speaker 1: talking about. I don't really know, but I think we
21:30
Speaker 1: were Richie free last week. Buck, I tell great, I
21:33
Speaker 1: bring out Richie Buck Guye. Dave says FIFA makes the
21:36
Speaker 1: NCAA look great. That's sad, but I think it might
21:41
Speaker 1: be true. Actually, I really think it might be true. Anyway.
21:46
Speaker 1: All right, so let's talk about the Hornets weekend in Vegas, Bone,
21:51
Speaker 1: which included the two Summer League losses, and it's something
21:56
Speaker 1: that we've got to recap, even though it is painful
21:59
Speaker 1: y'all to see a champion d throned right there in
22:02
Speaker 1: front of your faces. I mean, we mentioned a few
22:05
Speaker 1: of the things Bone, the turnovers. We heard Walker Males
22:08
Speaker 1: promo for his show today, how they looking at point
22:11
Speaker 1: Guard in the Summer League. Walker about that not good?
22:15
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the whole world right, they're playing
22:17
Speaker 1: dizzy bat and they spin them out there and say,
22:19
Speaker 1: now go make a play. I think the whole world knows.
22:21
Speaker 1: Like se On James, that's not not his it shouldn't
22:25
Speaker 1: be his role. But to your point, though, bone and
22:28
Speaker 1: probably the walker's point of the promo, either se On
22:31
Speaker 1: James or Christian Anderson unless they make another move, is
22:34
Speaker 1: the backup point guard on this basketball team? And what
22:39
Speaker 1: did you think of Christian Anderson? Because he hit some shots.
22:43
Speaker 1: The form is beautiful. I mean, I know he wasn't
22:45
Speaker 1: making them the first two games necessarily, but he hit
22:48
Speaker 1: some more yesterday. The form is beautiful, like that's how
22:53
Speaker 1: you would teach your kid to shoot a jumper. I mean,
22:54
Speaker 1: straight up elbow under. I mean, it's a beautiful thing
22:57
Speaker 1: and you can see the shots good. But I mentioned
23:00
Speaker 1: the most alarming thing about his weekend. One assist in
23:04
Speaker 1: two games this weekend. That's alarming, man, because he averaged
23:08
Speaker 1: seven and a half of Texas Tech and it was
23:10
Speaker 1: just shooting playmaking combo that really caught your eye. He
23:14
Speaker 1: does come across and you were accurate. At this level.
23:18
Speaker 1: He does look very small. That's that's undeniable. So that
23:21
Speaker 1: leads me to my question of ultimately, when he's in
23:25
Speaker 1: the game, you're really gonna have to figure out who
23:27
Speaker 1: will he defend of those one when he's taking on
23:30
Speaker 1: bigger guards. Mac if he ends up getting matched up
23:33
Speaker 1: in a game with San Antonio and he's taking on
23:35
Speaker 1: those big guards, well they're going to attack them. There's
23:38
Speaker 1: a lot of scheming with him and a lot of
23:41
Speaker 1: how do you put them out there and who does
23:42
Speaker 1: he defend situation. But just in terms of the playmaking,
23:45
Speaker 1: I will say this bone, I found myself wanting them
23:48
Speaker 1: to put the ball in his hands more to initiate
23:50
Speaker 1: the offense with pick and rolls. Right. He ran the
23:52
Speaker 1: pick and roll so well at Texas Tech last season,
23:55
Speaker 1: and I felt like they didn't they Liam mcneely's usage
24:00
Speaker 1: at times, like the first half yesterday for example, Oh
24:04
Speaker 1: my god, it was like it was like he was
24:05
Speaker 1: being used like like Pete lebron I said it earlier.
24:08
Speaker 1: They put the ball in their forwards hands and he
24:11
Speaker 1: just had to create everything and sometimes it went great.
24:15
Speaker 1: My god. He gets foul calls, he get they the
24:18
Speaker 1: referees love putting him on the line. I hate the
24:21
Speaker 1: stupid foul call rule by the way the free throw
24:23
Speaker 1: roll's ridiculous, but uh and then and sometimes he'll drive
24:27
Speaker 1: and finish. They seem to be kind of taking the
24:30
Speaker 1: three away as as the weekend went on, bone and
24:32
Speaker 1: he had to create more off the back. I would
24:34
Speaker 1: have liked to see because I don't feel like that's
24:36
Speaker 1: gonna be mcneelily's role. Like if mcneli ends up getting
24:39
Speaker 1: a rotation on this team, I feel like he's gonna
24:41
Speaker 1: be a floor spacer and a guy that plays off
24:44
Speaker 1: ball and right you drive, he gets a kick to
24:46
Speaker 1: him and maybe he attacks the clothes out. But they
24:48
Speaker 1: had him like doing everything. I wanted to see more
24:52
Speaker 1: Christian Anderson running the pick and roll personally, Why why
24:56
Speaker 1: are you working on uh? See on James at that
24:59
Speaker 1: spot went ultimately in the NBA in the regular season.
25:03
Speaker 1: He's a lou door type, a physical guard. He can
25:06
Speaker 1: hit the open three if he's open, but he's not
25:08
Speaker 1: going to be an offensive creator. Why don't you work
25:11
Speaker 1: on Christian Anderson in that role because he's more of
25:15
Speaker 1: a viable option than Seon playing that role in the
25:19
Speaker 1: NBA level. You know what Seon is, Christian Anderson has
25:22
Speaker 1: to learn at this level. I think you're spotting on
25:27
Speaker 1: with that role, And is McNeely going to be in
25:29
Speaker 1: an offense initiated real? No, he's a backup. I mean
25:31
Speaker 1: he did a decent job of it this weekend, but
25:34
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't know, he's a backup to con
25:36
Speaker 1: and Miller on the wings. But it has been a
25:39
Speaker 1: don't forget about me weekend by Leam McNeely. A guy
25:42
Speaker 1: who was a lottery talent entering college fell to us.
25:45
Speaker 1: I feel like mac we and us included have kind
25:49
Speaker 1: of not rostered him a lot. When we talk about
25:52
Speaker 1: this team's depth, Liam McNeely said, guys, there's there's a
25:55
Speaker 1: spot for me coming off this bench to shoot the basketball,
25:58
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Yeah it was, and he got
26:01
Speaker 1: Really the second half of the two games this weekend
26:04
Speaker 1: were really different than the first half when he was
26:07
Speaker 1: going off this weekend, but there were definitely there was
26:10
Speaker 1: some good there and he did make you think, hey,
26:12
Speaker 1: hold on now, remember this guy was one of the
26:14
Speaker 1: most bally hooed high school kids of his class. Yes, right,
26:17
Speaker 1: like so, remember there's talent. The year was a reminder
26:20
Speaker 1: that there's talented. I just think they were there asking
26:22
Speaker 1: him to do so much in their asking call, and
26:24
Speaker 1: it kind of fell to us he was thought to
26:26
Speaker 1: be potential watery pick. I'm wigging to see they've got
26:30
Speaker 1: to add. They've got to add a veteran point guard
26:33
Speaker 1: in some way. There's no way to enter the season.
26:35
Speaker 1: Gave Vincent a free somebody that had some experience to
26:40
Speaker 1: back up Kobe White, because even Kobe White back is
26:42
Speaker 1: more of a combo. Like they may, they can't enter
26:45
Speaker 1: the season. Kobe White's the dude, but they can't enter
26:48
Speaker 1: the season with no other pure point guards on the
26:50
Speaker 1: roster whatsoever. Someone's got to play the point guard spot. Yeah,
26:53
Speaker 1: I mean we thought that going into free agency, and
26:56
Speaker 1: I think we're still I think we're still just in case.
26:59
Speaker 1: Listen and I do world if you're worried about the future,
27:01
Speaker 1: and then that brings us. We got to get to
27:03
Speaker 1: this Jeff Peterson presser instead of obsessing over these summer
27:05
Speaker 1: league games. But it's hard to see a champ fall Bony.
27:08
Speaker 1: It's hard. But if you're thinking about the future, you know,
27:12
Speaker 1: i'd like to see Christiani. I don't know if that's
27:14
Speaker 1: their thinking. Again, it's hard to tell how much they
27:17
Speaker 1: care about this upcoming season. Honestly, and that brings us
27:21
Speaker 1: bone to Jeff Peterson's presser from the weekend, and I
27:26
Speaker 1: want to start with this one because he was asked about, like,
27:30
Speaker 1: are you guys basically conceding it because he talked about
27:34
Speaker 1: the LaMelo trade, didn't talk about the Miles trade that one,
27:36
Speaker 1: believe it or not, is still not official. But finally
27:39
Speaker 1: he was able to talk about the Melo trade. He's
27:41
Speaker 1: had some weird six minute availability last week where he
27:44
Speaker 1: talked about Kobe and then one answer was like, oh,
27:46
Speaker 1: every move is about the future. So he finally could
27:48
Speaker 1: talk about the LaMelo trade. Bone, and he was asked about, Hey,
27:52
Speaker 1: were you guys kind of conceding We'll take a step
27:54
Speaker 1: back this year to be better long term.
27:57
Speaker 5: Again, it all goes back to my job is to
28:00
Speaker 5: sess the team, not just last season, do it every
28:03
Speaker 5: day right since I've since I've gotten the job. And
28:07
Speaker 5: there's no doubt in mind that that we had a
28:09
Speaker 5: successful season last year by by a lot of people's standards,
28:12
Speaker 5: and of course Lamela was a huge part of it.
28:15
Speaker 5: But again, sometimes these decisions they can be challenging, but ultimately,
28:19
Speaker 5: you know, I do feel a responsibility to the organization
28:22
Speaker 5: and to the fans across the really across the world
28:25
Speaker 5: of the Hornets to do what's best for the long
28:29
Speaker 5: term of the franchise. And again wish you know, Lamela
28:32
Speaker 5: nothing but the best, because he's again a great person,
28:35
Speaker 5: a great player. But ultimately we felt like again receiving
28:38
Speaker 5: nasried and uh and of course the draft capital that
28:40
Speaker 5: we were able to receive is going to offer more
28:43
Speaker 5: flexibility for us moving forward.
28:45
Speaker 1: Flexibility was a buzzword in this press conference. I heard
28:49
Speaker 1: it a couple times, and it does. It does like
28:52
Speaker 1: that's they care a lot about that, right, like having
28:56
Speaker 1: all the draft collateral, having the trade exception, and you
29:01
Speaker 1: know the contract situation like you know, not being committed,
29:07
Speaker 1: you know, for too much money for too long. Right,
29:09
Speaker 1: they want that flexibility. And as I listened to this
29:13
Speaker 1: press or, it really becomes a parent that they are
29:17
Speaker 1: nowhere near in the hurry that we are as Hornets
29:21
Speaker 1: fans who have struggled through it for a year after
29:23
Speaker 1: year after year. I don't think they looked at I
29:25
Speaker 1: think they looked at the year as special in a
29:28
Speaker 1: certain way. Well, I don't think they looked as that
29:30
Speaker 1: win total as the ultimate goal. And I do wonder
29:34
Speaker 1: the trust factor with Melo and his health and durability.
29:39
Speaker 1: And it'll be interesting Mac to watch Melow in Minnesota,
29:43
Speaker 1: because the very first thing you said when this trade
29:46
Speaker 1: went down from the flip side of this was Minnesota wins,
29:50
Speaker 1: they get to series, and they win series. Well, Melow
29:53
Speaker 1: will be asked to play into series next year, Mac,
29:56
Speaker 1: later in the season that he's ever played before. Is
29:59
Speaker 1: he going to be rrible enough to do that? I
30:01
Speaker 1: wonder if they just ultimately thought, if we don't strike now,
30:05
Speaker 1: whether or not we get what we think is proper
30:07
Speaker 1: return and whatever the fan base takes. If we don't
30:10
Speaker 1: strike now, if he gets injured again, are we ever
30:13
Speaker 1: going to get anything back from this guy? He never
30:15
Speaker 1: He was never asked about LaMelo's health. I was very surprised.
30:19
Speaker 1: That's one of the big things I would ask about
30:21
Speaker 1: it. I was never asked, Hey, how much a role it is?
30:23
Speaker 1: The durability of my big reason why he's gone. He
30:25
Speaker 1: was asked about salary, you know, is his salary a
30:29
Speaker 1: reason why? And he said, no, you know these owners
30:31
Speaker 1: will pay you know, our owners will pay anything. There
30:35
Speaker 1: was there is an interesting one here on LaMelo. How
30:38
Speaker 1: much did he have to like sell himself on trading
30:41
Speaker 1: a star player, face it, a franchise player, a player
30:44
Speaker 1: that sells tickets, Like, how much did he have to
30:47
Speaker 1: like convince himself that, man, this may stink in the
30:50
Speaker 1: short term, but you've got to do this for the franchise.
30:53
Speaker 1: Listen to this.
30:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, I never I never look at these decisions in
30:59
Speaker 5: terms of, you know, is this going to help me
31:02
Speaker 5: preserve my job? Like, that's not That's not what I
31:04
Speaker 5: what I do this for. Again, at the highest level,
31:08
Speaker 5: I feel like I have a responsibility and the duty
31:10
Speaker 5: to do what's best for the Charlotte Hornets and the
31:12
Speaker 5: fan base and the organization. So not one time will
31:16
Speaker 5: you ever see me again make a decision, whether it's draft, trade,
31:19
Speaker 5: free agency, you know, and look at it through the
31:23
Speaker 5: lens of like, you know, if you know, if this
31:25
Speaker 5: goes well, I'm saying, and if it doesn't, I'm going
31:27
Speaker 5: to get fired. That's not why I do it. That's
31:29
Speaker 5: not why I will ever do it again. Ultimately, it
31:33
Speaker 5: was a very challenging decision from the standpoint of what
31:35
Speaker 5: you just said, Like, you know, love LaMelo and everything
31:37
Speaker 5: that he's been able to do for the franchise, but
31:40
Speaker 5: you know, at the same time, you have to have
31:41
Speaker 5: some conviction with these types of decisions. And again, fortunately, uh,
31:46
Speaker 5: I think we're we're in a really good place in
31:48
Speaker 5: terms of how we will continue to build the roster
31:51
Speaker 5: going forward.
31:52
Speaker 1: He also talks back like a guy that's got conviction
31:54
Speaker 1: whether or not we understand what's going on. Fully, I
31:58
Speaker 1: feel like he's coming from a place of length in
32:00
Speaker 1: terms of how he feels about his position. You could
32:03
Speaker 1: tell when guys are doing stuff because they know they
32:06
Speaker 1: have the backing of ownership and they've done a good
32:08
Speaker 1: job so far, as opposed to some guys who make
32:11
Speaker 1: moves because they're pressed up against it and they kind
32:14
Speaker 1: of panic. There's no panic sounding whatsoever in his an. Well,
32:18
Speaker 1: somebody texted in, so he's very chill man. Someone texted
32:20
Speaker 1: in said they have no plan. No, I think finally
32:22
Speaker 1: the Hornets have a plan. I just think the plan
32:25
Speaker 1: isn't the accelerated version that we would want as fans.
32:30
Speaker 1: We all watched the second half of the season and
32:32
Speaker 1: the way they played and wanted them to build off
32:35
Speaker 1: of that. Right, let's add to that roster they and
32:41
Speaker 1: we'll get into this as show goes on. They really
32:43
Speaker 1: seem like they didn't give two squads. Maybe I'm being
32:47
Speaker 1: too strong with this, it really appears they were very
32:50
Speaker 1: unfazed by what happened in the second half of the
32:52
Speaker 1: year last year, like they had it. Sounds like they
32:55
Speaker 1: had a plan bone and getting it did not matter.
33:00
Speaker 1: It did not matter what happened down the stretch. I mean,
33:03
Speaker 1: I guess you could say, hey, if they start winning
33:05
Speaker 1: a couple of playoff series, but they the He's layoffs again.
33:11
Speaker 1: I don't think they expected that success. And ultimately, I
33:15
Speaker 1: don't think they cared about it near as much as
33:17
Speaker 1: we did. I thought we thought right away they got
33:21
Speaker 1: Kobe White to help them last season, that was their plan.
33:24
Speaker 1: Was not about that. Their plan was, We're going to
33:27
Speaker 1: get a guard right now in the fold, in the system.
33:30
Speaker 1: If he helps right now, that's fine. But ultimately, because
33:33
Speaker 1: immediately they started talking about Kobe White in the future,
33:37
Speaker 1: that was kind of like, really because I would think
33:39
Speaker 1: that maybe he was just a rental. When they started
33:41
Speaker 1: talking about him in terms of the future, That's what
33:44
Speaker 1: my mind was like, Man, there, I mean, they they
33:48
Speaker 1: really feel like Kobe White's a part of this future.
33:50
Speaker 1: What does that mean, it turns out they might have
33:52
Speaker 1: had this thing playing the whole entire time. Yeah, at once.
33:55
Speaker 1: Once LaMelo got traded, it was like, oh, maybe that's
33:59
Speaker 1: why you want to go be white. You know when
34:01
Speaker 1: you were gone last week, we had a great Wovar
34:03
Speaker 1: clip I played. I don't know if you heard this
34:04
Speaker 1: one or not because you were on the cruise. It
34:06
Speaker 1: was him and all the all the it was Loonzo,
34:09
Speaker 1: Wamelo and Wavar on the Big Baller podcast and LaMelo
34:13
Speaker 1: announced he's now hired a driver. He's now hired a driver.
34:17
Speaker 1: LaVar says, well, I'm glad son. They said, they said
34:22
Speaker 1: you hit everybody. They said, you hitting everybody. Why Why
34:28
Speaker 1: did Charlotte never get the benefit of Lamello's driver? How
34:31
Speaker 1: do you get a driver already? Was he worried about
34:33
Speaker 1: the icy conditions and winters in Minnesota? They like, seriously,
34:37
Speaker 1: they said, you hitting everything. Charlotte folks out here bone
34:42
Speaker 1: scare for their life in uptown Charlotte, Minnesota will never
34:46
Speaker 1: know the world of LaMelo ball driver was that I'll
34:50
Speaker 1: never know. That was that part of the trade that
34:53
Speaker 1: they won't trade for LaMelo unless he gets a driver.
34:56
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, all right, anyway, we'll get to more
34:59
Speaker 1: of this as a goes on. I think it's interesting.
35:02
Speaker 1: It's just they're not in the hurry that we want
35:06
Speaker 1: them to be. And it might end up greate bone.
35:10
Speaker 1: It really might. It's a disconnect. We'll talk about it more,
35:13
Speaker 1: but there's a real disconnect right between them coming in
35:16
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the owners. He said, it didn't take
35:20
Speaker 1: much selling of the owners. He says. We talk, we
35:23
Speaker 1: talk constantly, but the direction is from the owners, as
35:26
Speaker 1: we have said. You know when fans say, oh, he's
35:29
Speaker 1: gonna get fired, No, they are all about the way
35:33
Speaker 1: that they are rebuilding. We're interesting. You know. We got
35:36
Speaker 1: textors that wanted me to give them Chris Paul the hornet,
35:38
Speaker 1: Chris Paul's number. Oh, now you want me to call
35:40
Speaker 1: it Chris Paul. Now you need a point guard. Now
35:42
Speaker 1: you want me to use friendship? What's had his numbers?
35:45
Speaker 1: Tell when we come back. Sounds of the weekend Caleb
35:47
Speaker 1: Wilson with some interesting comments on not shooting threes that
35:51
Speaker 1: un see, Dana White on the Connor McGregor injury, and
35:55
Speaker 1: someone in the media finally stands up for Christian Pools
35:58
Speaker 1: say it finally happened Radio seven w f n Z.
36:26
Speaker 4: No.
36:26
Speaker 6: I could shoot in college. I just just wasn't my role.
36:29
Speaker 6: I mean, and I'm sure you guys will watch college basketball.
36:32
Speaker 6: It's you ran in Carolina, break remember on or get
36:35
Speaker 6: the top of the keys. Nothing wrong with it. And
36:37
Speaker 6: I appreciate my coach for allowing me to do what
36:40
Speaker 6: I did in college. I mean, it's no, it's no
36:42
Speaker 6: hard feelings or I'm glad I didn't shoot threes in
36:44
Speaker 6: college because if I did, I wouldn't be here. I
36:49
Speaker 6: don't know what i'd view and I don't think I'll
36:50
Speaker 6: be a boy. So you know, I'm just I'm just
36:52
Speaker 6: excited for everything that's happened. It's all been in my.
36:53
Speaker 1: Favorite there you go. That is Caleb Wilson. That got
36:59
Speaker 1: people talking about Hubert Davis, including Caroline Brinks on the
37:04
Speaker 1: text line that says it is clear Hubert was holding
37:07
Speaker 1: Caleb Wilson back. There was a lot of that from
37:10
Speaker 1: media members. He came out and hit seven trays the
37:14
Speaker 1: other night in his summer league debut scores thirty five.
37:18
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about like the whole Caleb Wilson boozer
37:21
Speaker 1: matchup and the Caleb Wilson hype train that has taken
37:24
Speaker 1: off Bone since that game on Friday. But just this
37:28
Speaker 1: notion like, does Hubert deserve definitely want to know what
37:31
Speaker 1: Fitty thinks about this? I'll start with you Bone. Does
37:33
Speaker 1: Hubert deserve to be bash when you hear Caleb Wilson
37:37
Speaker 1: say I had this in my bag, it just wasn't
37:40
Speaker 1: my role, Like, how do you feel about that?
37:43
Speaker 2: Well?
37:43
Speaker 1: What did Hubert tell him his role was? Then? What
37:47
Speaker 1: exactly was the role? Because if that's there and you
37:51
Speaker 1: didn't exploit that fully, yeah, then no wonder why Hubert
37:55
Speaker 1: is no longer with the job. If that is there
37:57
Speaker 1: in full, then yeah, why was does that not use
38:00
Speaker 1: more in his time with Carolina? Now, listen, this happens
38:03
Speaker 1: a lot. Remember Karl Anthony Towns shoot the bleep out
38:06
Speaker 1: of the ball, didn't shoot it at Kentucky? What's down
38:11
Speaker 1: on the block. This does happen a lot where you
38:13
Speaker 1: have a freshman won and done and Anthony Davis was
38:17
Speaker 1: kind of that way too. Yeah, ended it out further
38:19
Speaker 1: and the coach wants them to play a certain role.
38:22
Speaker 1: Here's what I don't get about this, Fitty is you
38:26
Speaker 1: have asar, you have a big It's not like he
38:29
Speaker 1: had to be the one big inside. I feel like
38:32
Speaker 1: you could have let him float outside a little more. Maybe, yeah,
38:36
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, because you had that big
38:37
Speaker 1: hoss inside. Does Hubert deserve any criticism, Fitty or do
38:41
Speaker 1: you want to bite back at the critics.
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Speaker 3: We talked about this on the Four Corners podcast on Saturday,
38:47
Speaker 3: check it out anywhere you get your podcast.
38:48
Speaker 1: Answer is no. Mac.
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Speaker 3: He averaged nineteen point eight points per game, over nine
38:56
Speaker 3: rebounds per game, shot fifty eight percent from the field,
39:00
Speaker 3: twenty six percent from three. You mentioned they had Vassar
39:03
Speaker 3: the big haas the seventh footer. He shot over forty
39:06
Speaker 3: percent from behind the three point line.
39:09
Speaker 1: Why why would you ask Kayler.
39:10
Speaker 3: Wilson to shoot threes when he could pretty much get
39:13
Speaker 3: to the rim and dunk it whenever he wanted to.
39:16
Speaker 3: And he had a mid range game that I thought was,
39:19
Speaker 3: you know something that's kind of a lost art in
39:21
Speaker 3: the modern college basketball. I would have liked, maybe they're
39:27
Speaker 3: ties aream to shoot the three more often? Like there
39:30
Speaker 3: were ties were that he definitely got the ball and
39:31
Speaker 3: there was a three that could have been taken, But
39:34
Speaker 3: was it the most efficient shot for him? For the
39:37
Speaker 3: team last year. That answer was no. And if you
39:40
Speaker 3: look at a lot of his threes at Carolina, they
39:42
Speaker 3: were catching shoot threes.
39:44
Speaker 1: So those threes he took in his.
39:45
Speaker 3: Debut, he's putting the ball on the floor and he's
39:48
Speaker 3: kind of relocating, stepping back. We didn't see that version
39:52
Speaker 3: of Caleb with the ball in his hand.
39:53
Speaker 1: I gotta feel like that version muld have could have
39:57
Speaker 1: helped Carolina. Again, he got hurt. It's a damn shame,
40:01
Speaker 1: but he just hasn't played in five months. You're right,
40:04
Speaker 1: they let Vasar float out and shoot the threes a lot. Yeah,
40:07
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, So that that is true.
40:09
Speaker 1: Wasn't like they told Daysar to be inside. I don't know.
40:11
Speaker 1: I think it's definitely notable.
40:13
Speaker 2: Man.
40:13
Speaker 1: It's like you can do all that, bro. But anyway,
40:16
Speaker 1: we'll get into it more during the weekend recap at
40:19
Speaker 1: seven o'clock we'll get into Caleb Wilson also doesn't matter
40:21
Speaker 1: what game he's playing, and that dude just wants to
40:24
Speaker 1: That dude just has an attackment. So likable, dude, This
40:27
Speaker 1: dude's so likable. I just I love this kid. I
40:29
Speaker 1: want so much success for him. Man, I hate that
40:32
Speaker 1: he had the injury situation of Carolina. All right, let's
40:35
Speaker 1: move on, because Connor McGregor bone fought in the UFC
40:38
Speaker 1: for the first time in five years, and the exact
40:43
Speaker 1: same thing happened as what happened the last time he
40:45
Speaker 1: fought Dustin Poorier in twenty twenty one. First round injury
40:50
Speaker 1: and the fight ended. It was a broken leg against Porier.
40:53
Speaker 1: Now it was whatever this knee injury is, Dana White says,
40:56
Speaker 1: we suspect it's torn ACL but I had broke his uh,
41:01
Speaker 1: broke his toe with twenty twenty one. It's three times
41:03
Speaker 1: in the last five years this has happened. Oh well,
41:06
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one was his last fight, so there were
41:08
Speaker 1: two fights in a row. You're saying there's a third one,
41:12
Speaker 1: period of yeah, there's a third one in there as well.
41:14
Speaker 1: I'm on that. I tried to bony on Saturday night
41:18
Speaker 1: flip over because I have paramount plus and I'm like, oh, shoot,
41:22
Speaker 1: you know these fights aren't pay per view anymore. Let
41:23
Speaker 1: me see Conor McGray. The fight was over. The fight
41:25
Speaker 1: was already over because of this. Dana White grilled by
41:30
Speaker 1: the media afterwards because on the broadcast they mentioned did
41:33
Speaker 1: he have a limp coming into the ring? Is there
41:36
Speaker 1: a preexisting injury? Dana White answering those questions.
41:40
Speaker 4: Could he have be injured before the fight?
41:42
Speaker 7: Oh, I have no idea. I mean that, I don't know.
41:46
Speaker 7: I mean, the day of the press conference, he came
41:48
Speaker 7: running out of the back and ran right up to
41:50
Speaker 7: him and stopped abruptly, and you know, squared off of them.
41:53
Speaker 7: They were pushing foreheads.
41:54
Speaker 4: And I'm just wondering if something happened within the last
41:57
Speaker 4: twenty four hours, I don't I don't see it on
41:59
Speaker 4: the the lending the actual landing of that flame.
42:02
Speaker 7: Yeah, I wouldn't know that, but I didn't see. You know,
42:05
Speaker 7: the doctors checked him out before they fight, and he
42:08
Speaker 7: looked damn good at the press conference, and he looked
42:10
Speaker 7: fine at the wayans.
42:11
Speaker 4: It's just a question of getting paid if you step
42:13
Speaker 4: in the cages.
42:14
Speaker 7: What's that?
42:15
Speaker 1: The question of getting paid as you step in.
42:16
Speaker 7: The cage was well, listen, if anybody saw anything that
42:22
Speaker 7: could have possibly made him look weak or injured leading
42:26
Speaker 7: up to this five, I mean, what the face off do?
42:28
Speaker 7: Forty four million and twenty four hours more more than
42:32
Speaker 7: forty four million views somebody would have saw something. Anybody
42:36
Speaker 7: sees something. No, if they did, they didn't say it,
42:39
Speaker 7: which is impossible. Nobody would do that.
42:41
Speaker 1: We saw it right before the fight, with his leg
42:43
Speaker 1: buckled before he entered the cage. So after the press
42:47
Speaker 1: conference or the press conference is one thing. Clearly something
42:50
Speaker 1: was wrong with him before he entered the cage. There
42:52
Speaker 1: was anything going on there. So whatever, whatever it happened,
42:55
Speaker 1: I don't know, but there was something not right before
42:57
Speaker 1: he entered that cage. Yeah, somethink that. I think a
43:00
Speaker 1: lot of people don't. I mean, I don't know. I
43:01
Speaker 1: don't know. But and like I said, I turned it on.
43:03
Speaker 1: Fight was over. The fight was so I didn't even
43:06
Speaker 1: see as the US versus Belgium. I didn't even see
43:09
Speaker 1: that whole thing. I just know this man, Like, how
43:14
Speaker 1: can you count on him ever again? To fight, be
43:17
Speaker 1: this big main event, drawl, be healthy? You know, any
43:20
Speaker 1: of that stuff feels like it's I mean, I'm sure
43:23
Speaker 1: they'll put him somewhere, but it just feels like it's
43:26
Speaker 1: it's well, they're they're talking about maybe And I heard
43:29
Speaker 1: a fight personality on before we came on. You know,
43:32
Speaker 1: Dana White back as the zoopha boxing. Is that better
43:36
Speaker 1: for him now where he doesn't have to use his
43:37
Speaker 1: legs anymore, because I mean, he's got his kick and
43:40
Speaker 1: he was done. He's got the most brittle legs of
43:42
Speaker 1: UH of An history here. Now, let's focus on the
43:45
Speaker 1: real headline from that fight card is that Sophie Cunningham
43:49
Speaker 1: got to be a ring girl. All right, Let's talk
43:51
Speaker 1: about Dana White's big victory from UH from that night.
43:56
Speaker 1: And by the way, Dana White was their last night
44:00
Speaker 1: fever beat. They beat the Brakes off the defending champion
44:03
Speaker 1: aces last night. By thirty four, Kaylyn Clark was back
44:06
Speaker 1: from injury. I was glad to see that Dana White
44:08
Speaker 1: showed up in a Sophie Cunningham shirt. About that, and
44:11
Speaker 1: they they they wapped it up after the game. So anyway,
44:14
Speaker 1: but could you imagine, though you mentioned it being on
44:17
Speaker 1: Paramount Plus and you don't have to pay the fight
44:20
Speaker 1: fee anymore, you that's better? Yeah, could you imagine if
44:22
Speaker 1: you did pay the god, they're way better off than
44:26
Speaker 1: if it was a pay per view thing. No doubt
44:28
Speaker 1: they could screw you. What's not having to feel bad
44:30
Speaker 1: about it? No doubt about it.
44:32
Speaker 2: Man.
44:33
Speaker 1: So anyway, all right, let's move along here. Bone. Let's
44:37
Speaker 1: move along to the fact that it apparently took almost
44:42
Speaker 1: a full week to find someone defending Christian Polisic. Fitty
44:45
Speaker 1: was talking to before the show about open season on
44:48
Speaker 1: Christian Polisic. I definitely caught a lot of that bone.
44:51
Speaker 1: When we got back to the Mainland on Friday, I realized,
44:55
Speaker 1: oh crap. I wasn't surprised then the word came late
45:00
Speaker 1: in the week Christian Polisic suffered a microfacture, pretty serious injury,
45:06
Speaker 1: and that's why he came out of the game. I mean,
45:08
Speaker 1: Landa Donovan was going off on him for coming out
45:10
Speaker 1: of the game. It was ugly. Former US men's national
45:13
Speaker 1: team player Hercules Gomez, Hercules Hercules, he said it was
45:20
Speaker 1: embarrassing the way a lot of his colleagues were going
45:23
Speaker 1: off on Policic.
45:25
Speaker 4: It doesn't change my view because I know the type
45:27
Speaker 4: of player Christian Politici is, and I know the type
45:29
Speaker 4: of person he is. There are many ex colleagues, maybe fans,
45:33
Speaker 4: who have watched this game and have embarrassed themselves with
45:37
Speaker 4: certain takes, have embarrassed themselves in questioning a player's commitment.
45:41
Speaker 4: I've labeled this generation soft in the past. But they
45:44
Speaker 4: didn't lose the game because they didn't want to be there.
45:48
Speaker 4: They lost it because they couldn't perform on the night.
45:50
Speaker 4: In questioning the best player they have his commitment. When
45:52
Speaker 4: he comes out with a fractured leg, it's beyond me.
45:55
Speaker 4: It's embarrassing.
45:56
Speaker 1: So you show someone finally stood upon for polistic I
46:01
Speaker 1: will say I'll play much audio of that because that's
46:03
Speaker 1: the one that we found. That's so yeah, that's notable.
46:06
Speaker 1: I thought that was notable for everybody listen. Man, was
46:09
Speaker 1: Polisic good?
46:10
Speaker 4: No?
46:11
Speaker 1: Was anybody good? Probably not. Defensively, it was a bleep show.
46:15
Speaker 1: We finally saw what it was like when a team
46:18
Speaker 1: can possess the ball and pin us back and we
46:20
Speaker 1: have to defend. It was ugly. I wanted to hug
46:23
Speaker 1: Tim ream after the game. I felt horrible for him,
46:26
Speaker 1: but he finally was like whoa, Yeah, that thirty eight
46:30
Speaker 1: year old Tim Reim playing against a side like that
46:35
Speaker 1: was not good. He was moving like Willie P and
46:38
Speaker 1: Goalie wars oh Man, Willie P, I heard Willi P
46:40
Speaker 1: did better. Meth he did better. Matth Freees though he
46:47
Speaker 1: play lost one. He's a stillball. He'd beat. There's so
46:55
Speaker 1: many drops. He beat Danielle Steine of W C and C,
46:58
Speaker 1: which that can't be good for the resume, right Stein?
47:01
Speaker 1: That that kid when we see her at Panthers training camp,
47:04
Speaker 1: we got to ask it what happened? How did will
47:06
Speaker 1: he gets you out of his house? The one thing
47:10
Speaker 1: you don't want in the resume, Fitty, you don't want
47:12
Speaker 1: a loss with the p man? Right, absolutely not. By
47:15
Speaker 1: the way, shitty, where did your where did your ten
47:17
Speaker 1: wind stuff?
47:17
Speaker 2: Go?
47:18
Speaker 1: Here? They all fell off the wall? What happened here?
47:19
Speaker 1: This is a bad As soon as back walk back in,
47:23
Speaker 1: they all fell off the wall. It's a bad, omen,
47:25
Speaker 1: isn't it? Training camp starts in nine days. We're missing
47:27
Speaker 1: we're missing a whole sheet over here.
47:29
Speaker 3: Yeah that that that paper is the same place in
47:31
Speaker 3: Jerry Richmond's statue is nowhere to be found.
47:34
Speaker 1: Miss We had three up on the wolf who stole
47:40
Speaker 1: the ten win sheet? Oh my god?
47:43
Speaker 3: Do you think maybe Smoke took it back to his
47:45
Speaker 3: house so and he'd has something to look at? Because
47:47
Speaker 3: I'm still convinced after I went looking for the blow
47:50
Speaker 3: up doll that Smoke took her home.
47:52
Speaker 1: You think Smoke is now decorating and find it that's
47:55
Speaker 1: gonna find in his house. You had her there last week.
47:57
Speaker 1: When we come back weekend into recamp, we're gonna talk
47:59
Speaker 1: more the performance of both Caleb Wilson and Boozer in
48:03
Speaker 1: their Summer League debuts. A lot of World Cup stuff
48:06
Speaker 1: to go over. The NASCAR race last night or this morning,
48:10
Speaker 1: will recap what happened, all that and more. It's the
48:13
Speaker 1: weekend Recap. The mag is back on Sports Radio seven