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Is A.J. Dybantsa, Darryn Peterson, or Cameron Boozer the best player in the 2026 NBA Draft? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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www.worldwidesportsradio.com. Saturday was a big day in
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college basketball as the top 4 ranked teams squared off AT and
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it started with the number 4 Arizona beating the number 2
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Houston in Houston 7366, the first time Houston has lost at
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home this season and the first time Houston has lost
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back-to-back games since January 2024.
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Arizona was missing second leading scorer.
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How do you pronounce? This coopete.
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Coopete and had many other starters in foul trouble, yet
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was still able to beat another top five team, their fourth win
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this season after beating Florida, Alabama and UConn when
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they were ranked in the top five.
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Houston's offense continues to be question a question mark
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despite having projected top ten pick Kingston Flemings and
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veteran guard Emmanuel Sharp scoring 16 points per game.
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No other player averages more than 11 a game.
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Coverage then went to the other marquee match up of the day at
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then I'm sorry as then #3 Duke beat #1 Michigan at home 6863,
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giving Michigan only their second loss of the season.
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Duke gets their ninth win against a top 25 team and in the
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today's Poles with Houston also losing.
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The Blue Devils are back at #1 this week after Michigan cut the
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deficit to three points with just under 2 minutes to go.
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The National Player of the year favorite Cameron Boozer was a
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clutch hitting a clutch, hitting a mid range jumper and a two and
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hitting two free throws down the stretch and finishing with a
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double double. With 18 points, 10 rebounds and
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seven assists, Michigan has the third tallest starting lineup as
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far as average size, but their starting lineup combined to only
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hit 2-3 point. I'm sorry, 23 pointers and were
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outscored by Duke in the paint 3424.
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All right, Arizona to me is one of the best offensive teams in
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the nation. They always are, they always
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are, but they to me, what makes Arizona so good and so dangerous
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is the way they can shoot the three and the way they can
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rebound with the size that they have.
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Yes, when you look at Michigan and how big they are, they're
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going to be a problem in this tournament, especially if they
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go to the Final four of the Elite. 8I expect Michigan to be
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a real solid team throughout this tournament.
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But solid doesn't win your championships.
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But Houston, to me, their big problem going into the
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tournament, we all know they're going to be either be a number
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one or #2 seed, probably now possibly a number two seed.
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We'll see how how it falls in in their favor as a one or two
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seed. Houston's problem is scoring.
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They've had a problem last year. Maybe that's why they didn't win
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the national championship. I think that, but Houston didn't
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win the National. Champion.
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No. Yeah, they lost to Florida.
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That's what I'm saying. I'm trying to remember
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everything that happened last year because I remember Auburn
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and I just, I, I think, I think honestly when you look at
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Houston and, and, and the ability that they have, they
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have one of the best coaches in the nation.
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Yes, he's very good, very good defensive minded coach.
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You saw what they did throughout the tournament.
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They shut down Duke, especially the final 2 1/2 minutes of the
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game. And I think Shire has no answer
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and has had no answer for what happened in that game and still
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to this day have no answer to that game.
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How about North Carolina? Surprising Duke that a couple of
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weeks ago and Shire still has no answers of falling short after
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having such a big lead against North Carolina.
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Houston is still a dangerous team because of their defensive
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prowess, but if they can't score more than 7580 points in a game
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in this tournament against some of the elite teams, they're not
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beating the Blue, the Blue Devils, they're not beating
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North Carolina. If they're going to go into
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these games and not be able to put a 78 or 80 points on the
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board, they're defensively, defensively sound.
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We've seen them last year they shut down teams.
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They kept teams to under 70 points in some of the games.
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They can do that. Houston's that good of a
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defensive team that they can shut you down.
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Arizona. Arizona is good all around, but
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Arizona has shown me in the tournament that they don't know
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how to show up in those big games.
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They don't. And until Arizona proves to me
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that they can show up in the big game, I don't care where they're
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ranked. They could be a number one seed,
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they could be a number two seed, they could be a number three
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seed. It doesn't matter.
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They got to show up in those big games and make their shots year
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in and year out with the talent that they've had and NBA
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talented players that they've had, they've fallen short.
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And that that to me says a lot about the program and what the
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program is. Michigan and and the Blue
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Devils, that was the game everybody couldn't wait for
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because you got a chance to see Kambuser.
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I believe Kambuser is as good as anybody going into this year's
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draft. Everybody looks at, you know,
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obviously Peterson and and and the talented players that they
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are coming out to Benza from BYU and we're going to get into that
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in just a few moments. We all know who the three best
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guys coming out of this year's draft class and there's a lot of
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good. Flemings is going to be a good
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player too in the NBA. Wilson's going to be a good
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player from North Carolina. There's a lot of good players in
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this year's class. How many times have we had
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specialist draft, you know, draft guys, NBA draft guys on
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the show and telling us this is the draft class you want to be
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in because you could find somebody in the second round.
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You could find somebody in the late first round and land
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yourself a nice player. Now obviously these three guys
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are game changing players, but what we saw, what Cam Boozer did
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at the tail end of the game to seal the deal for the Blue
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Devils is he took over as the star of this team.
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Everybody knows who his father is.
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We all know the Boozer brothers. We all know the back story
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behind who they are and what they could be.
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I don't know what the, you know, the young point guards going to
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be and we'll see how how everything works out for him.
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Does he go back to college and play one more year with Duke or
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does he go into the NBA draft and see where everything falls?
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Whether it's his cards full, I don't know.
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But we know that Cam is going into this year's draft class and
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Cam is proving time and time again that he is absolutely
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worth that number one pick. His ability to put the ball in
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the net, his ability to score on the perimeter.
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He's better than any one of these two guys in front of him
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that a lot of people put him. Now we're going to go into that
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and we're going to look at that and we can argue that.
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But this game tells me one thing about Cam Boozer.
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He's ready for the big day. He's ready for that big game.
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He's ready to take this team to a championship, something that,
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let's be honest, Cooper Flagg couldn't do, and I love Cooper.
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Cooper Flagg's a star in this league, Might be the face of
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United States basketball. Or is he?
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This class could be the future of United States basketball.
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Think about it. Flemings, Wilson, the Banza,
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Peterson, Boozer. This could be the starting 5 for
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Team US, Team USA basketball in about five to seven years.
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And when we watch Michigan, Michigan's got some NBA players
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on this roster. They do.
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I don't know if they're top ten players, but they're players.
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And Michigan's dangerous because of their size.
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But we've seen big teams, Perdue for years have some of the
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biggest teams in the nation and fall short.
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Doesn't matter how big your team is.
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It matters if you can score in the big parts of those games, in
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the big, you know, final 5 minutes of those games.
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That was the problem with Duke with two minutes left.
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That gets used in in the tournament.
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And they couldn't inbound to save their.
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Life. They couldn't inbound and the
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last five minutes they couldn't score.
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I don't think they scored a field goal in 6 minutes, 7
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minutes of that game. And that's what cost them
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possibly playing in the championship game and maybe
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winning a national championship because we see they're two young
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studs are in the NBA right now up for rookie of the year.
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So we know how talented that Duke Blue Devil team was.
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And you can see Shire, his face turned red.
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He has no answers, especially speaking to the media.
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The man doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
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But Duke gave him an extension, A5 year extension after the
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fact. The fact here is Duke is going
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to be the team to beat in this tournament.
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They are. They're built to win a
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championship. They're they're really good off
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the bench. As good as they are with their
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starting five, they've got size. They got offense coming off the
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bench. They're two guys coming off the
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bench, could put the ball in the net.
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They got two really good defenders off the.
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Bench, they have great defenders off the bench and that's and I
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that's why I think Coach K's behind obviously recruiting
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these players. It's not Shire, he's behind this
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because if you know anything about Coach K's teams, they're
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all good defensive teams. Always.
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Coach K is a defensive minded coach, but watching these two
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games, it only tells me one thing.
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But all four of these teams are going to be in the Elite 8
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unless one of these teams choke. They're that good.
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All four of these teams, I don't care where Houston lands as a
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number two seed or a number one seed, they're going to make the
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Elite 8 unless they match up against any of these teams.
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I know a lot of people like the Bands and BYUBYU will make the
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tournament just because of who he is.
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I don't think they're any good. I like the team that they just
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beat and actually a lot more. And Kansas?
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They're up and down. They got a great coach and they
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got some great players and and obviously one of the best
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players in the nation right now at Peterson.
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We know where the elite team's coming.
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If you're watching March Madness, you're not betting for
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the elite guys. If you're a betting man, you're
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betting for the guy that is an 8 seed or a ten seed because those
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are the guys. Those are the teams going into
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those games not expected to win and they're going to play harder
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defensively and they're going to try to win off the boards.
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Especially this was last year. Usually when you have a year
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with all #1 seeds, it's going to be something weirder this year.
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I think it's wide open, wide open and, and watching these two
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games and this is great for the NCAA because there's nothing to
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watch on television, nothing. So watching it after the fact
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and let's be honest, after the fact of Team USA winning a
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champion, winning the gold medal, there was nothing but
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this watching and, and what you're going to watch on
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national television. Seriously, there's no NBA.
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There's nothing good right now in the NBA.
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There's nothing with the NHL now.
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We're obviously with the East Coast being like flooded with
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snow. The NHL starts in probably a
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couple of a couple of days or something of that magnitude, I
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think at the end of the week, Thursday or Friday.
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Yeah, I think Thursday. And baseball?
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We don't. Pitchers and catches don't start
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for another week, and nobody's going to care until spring
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training starts. So as much as you can't wait as
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a Yankee fan or a Mets fan or anywhere in the country, nobody
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gives a crap until the season starts.
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And even then, the baseball season doesn't really begin
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until after the All Star. Break The baseball season
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doesn't really begin until we could trust the Mets to hold the
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lead over 20 games over 500. So this is a boring time for
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sports, So what are you going to be speaking about now?
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That's why Fish says it's very light when it comes to sports.
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And we find the biggest stories. You're going to talk about the
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gold medal championship game, when you got a chance to watch
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United, the USA win their first gold medal in 46 years.
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And you're going to talk about this story because these are the
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four best teams, teams right now in the country.
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And they played off, they matched up against one another
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in a time where there's nothing to talk about with sports.
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So obviously, Cam Boozer is the big name out of all these four
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teams. And that is why we're going to
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get into the next subject in just a few moments.
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Yeah, I was going to mention because Duke is definitely the
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best team when it comes to talent.
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They're actually in defensive and offensive efficiency.
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They're #2 defense, number one off or number one offense #2
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defense. And they have on paper 6, I
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think 4 defenders in the top 15 that are the most 6 for the most
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defensive players in the country.
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And that should be a championship Calor team
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automatically. Now you question the experience.
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That's one thing that's not winning as much in college
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basketball nowadays. I think after their Dukes win in
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2015, it's kind of shifted to a lot of veteran teams.
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Like you're more seeing more of those types of transfer type
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teams now. Obviously Florida winning it
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last year, which I was still surprised that I'll admit I was
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wrong on them. I picked them out on the Sweet
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16. But a lot of the teams,
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Villanova, veteran team that won, Baylor was a veteran team
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that they won. So like, that's the only thing
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that worries me with Duke. And obviously, like you said,
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Shire, like could he actually coach competently and not have
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droughts and not know when to call timeouts like he did
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against Houston, too? Michigan, it'll depend on if
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they can get enough scoring from their perimeter, if they can get
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enough scoring early in games. Now they've played a tough
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schedule. The Big 10 up the top is very
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tough with Purdue, A-Team, you mentioned they're very good.
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Michigan State's good. Illinois is good.
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They have a tough gauntlet and they play a really tough out of
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conference. Michigan, Michigan doesn't have
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a big bench. I mean, they have a big bench
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when it comes to size, but they don't have a bench that's going
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to give you a lot of offense. They need that offense from
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Johnson and Mara and Burnett. They they need these guys and
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Burnett did not have a good game in this particular game, but
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Leonidborg, he actually played as good as anybody.
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Yeah, he's the best player, I think.
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That's where is he a is he a first round talent?
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He might be I again, tough to tell if he'll he'll declare.
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It's one of those things where because he wasn't like a higher
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end prospect, I think he was another one that was a transfer
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or a red shirt freshman. I forget offhand.
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He might still have a little more raw traits to go on, but he
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definitely is a prolific scorer that if Michigan can get that
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level of like shooting prowess like you saw with Florida, with
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having a couple players like that last year, they can
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definitely still win it because of their size and their defense.
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And they have a coach in Dusty May that went to a final.
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Forward Duke. The thing about Duke, what makes
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Duke so dangerous, is they spread out their offense.
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Foster gave you 12. Boozer gave you 18.
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Evans gave you 14, Sarah, Sarah gave you 5 points.
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So they spread out their offense so very well.
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Duke and I don't know if they're very well coached because it's
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just they're very well boiled together.
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Their their defensive prowess is as good as anybody right now in
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the nation. And they they can score in many
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different ways. And like I said, Boozer is
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probably one of the best perimeter players, if not the
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best perimeter player in college basketball.
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And that's why, ladies and gentlemen, my argument will
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stand in the next subject, I told me to say.
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I wanted to get to the other side first before you go fish.
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I wanted to mention the Arizona and Houston side and what you
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brought up. Being skeptical with Arizona.
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I've been skeptical of them all the last three tournaments.
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Believe me. They have one of these flashy
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teams on paper that always play the same way and it doesn't
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work. And they've played down to teams
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a lot of times, even when they've won and Houston do.
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They got a good bench. They they have a good bench and
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I think now you're seeing in games this year where there's a
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lot of injuries that they've had.
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They've had a little more of a sense of adversity.
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Will it continue? I don't know.
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Again, the top of the Big 12 is tough, like the top of the Big
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10 is very tough. Will it be able to work going
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forward? I I still don't know if I trust
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Arizona at the same level. The team I like the most with
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the Big 12, oddly enough, is Iowa State, who we'll talk about
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later. They lost to BYU recently and
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then Houston, like you said, I think last year was their best
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chance and they blew it. I don't know if they have enough
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offense this year to do it and they.
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Didn't have enough offense last year to do it, yeah.
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But see, last year was like, at least they had a hyper efficient
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offense. They didn't turn the ball over a
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lot and they still could score with the threes, which if they
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play good enough defense and just didn't have those super
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cold spells like you saw when Duke beat Houston the year
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before when Houston scored 49 points or something.
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Like they don't do that like they should win last year, but
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they didn't, obviously. And then the problem I have with
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Arizona and Houston is they're out of conference schedule.
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They're not playing a lot of tough games compared to Michigan
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and Duke and even some of the SEC teams like that.
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That's the only thing that scares me about those two.
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That's a Big 12 thing, Speedy. They don't.
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They don't go as competitive outside because they have enough
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to deal with here. Look Arizona, Houston at the top
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of the Big 12. Just want to show you guys some
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of the standings. Behind them it's Iowa State and
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then Kansas. We'll talk about Kansas in a
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minute, Texas Tech and then BYU kind of distant after that with
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an 8 in six Big 12 record. But as far as I'm concerned,
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that Big 12 tournament is the tournament to watch in the
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conference tournament season, which starts in just nine days.
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Guys, it's going to be it's next week and then a couple of days
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into next week we get to those conference tournaments.
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Obviously the small schools will start speedy probably this
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weekend. Oh yeah.
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I'm sure, I'm sure we'll be getting some great bets from
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Reno Johnny, he loves those small conference.
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Yeah, on our Let's Parlay segment on Thursday.
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Let's definitely see if we get Johnny on for that.
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I'm sure he'd love to cut the bet on some of those.
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But that's that's what I'm seeing in Arizona.
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They got like 6 guys that can put up 20 on you if they if they
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really wanted. Bury's is, I mean, I don't know
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where they're putting him as far as draft stock Speedy, but he's
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got to be a lottery pick the way he's played this year.
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And and then they have the veteran, the senior point guard.
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I was talking to you about it earlier.
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I love that formula for March Madness when you have the senior
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point guard and you have the athletic freshman wings and the
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point guard can put them in a good spot offensively and then
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you have enough. And because of that, they have
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this great defense because they're so athletic and I I
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really think there's a lot to that.
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But that Big 12 tournament, you got the bands, you got berries
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in Arizona with all their depth. Coopete, another really good
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player, just they're really good and Houston's all about defense.
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If they can figure out the offense.
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We all, we know who Houston is. We saw them last year go almost
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all the way. They don't have as much offense
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as they had last year. They still haven't really
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figured out where they're going to get it in some of these games
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against the lead competition. That's Houston.
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I think it's I think it's going to be real great going to the
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ACC Duke is the king of the ACC. Virginia, really good squad this
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year, 12:00 and 2:00 in the ACC, they're in second.
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And then you have two teams tied at 10 and four, Miami in the NC
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State, Clemson, North Carolina and Louisville.
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Louisville is probably. Overall, the third team after
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Duke in Virginia. Though, and be careful because
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North Carolina has surprised a lot of people in some of their
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wins this year. They knocked off Duke coming
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back the way they did. So I there's no sure thing when
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you're playing. If North Carolina makes this
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tournament, which they probably will because of who they are,
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don't. I mean, I'm not a Herb Davis fan
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as far as what he's done as far as as I mean, I remember him as
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a nick. He was a great number.
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He was a 6th or 7th man off the bench for four years for the New
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York Knicks and he was a three-point quote on quote
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specialist if he was that. But as far as as a coach, I
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don't know if I would bet on him as the as a coach that's going
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to take this team all the way to a national championship.
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But he did take him to a final four.
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So it's not like he can't find a way to get this team to play
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well. He's got a great, great player
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on Wilson who's going to be a lottery pick, there's no
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question a top five pick. So he's got a superstar, he's
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got a stud that he can really put all, you know, put all the
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pressure on to to try to take over games.
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Yeah, he that's one of those teams too.
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I think you look at the depth of the ACC as well.
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North Carolina gives the Duke the other level of battle test.
23:05
I was worried about that last year with Duke, like they
23:07
weren't battle tested enough and now you're seeing them schedule
23:10
these tougher out of conference schedule.
23:11
I think the the advanced metrics were saying they were top 17th
23:15
in out of conference schedule. Duke which they've done more in
23:19
the beginning of the season as well in the past but never to
23:21
this level. Overall And finally, the Big 10.
23:24
Michigan, despite the law, still 3 game lead for first place in
23:29
the Big 10. They're going to be the Big 10
23:30
regular Caesar champions and then favorites in the Big 10
23:34
tournament. Yet Illinois, who just lost, is
23:37
the next team tied. After that is a three-way tie
23:41
between Michigan State. Jabba's Nebraska teams falling
23:44
on a little bit of hard times recently.
23:46
They're 12 and four in the. Conference, paying attention to
23:49
them and watching them. Put the kibosh on them and
23:53
Purdue's had a really good year, as as usual, 22 and five
23:58
overall. Very well coached, they always
24:01
are. So you have 5, you have 5,
24:03
really, really elite. Then you got Wisconsin and UCLA,
24:06
who I love that. I still don't really understand
24:09
the LA being in the Big 10 part of it.
24:10
But that's all another thing that has nothing to do with it.
24:13
And you got Iowa with the upset the other day.
24:15
So still a lot going on in that Big 10.
24:18
Any game, any teams that you think we should look out for in
24:21
that Big 10? You said Purdue, speedy.
24:23
I think Purdue, definitely, I think they're the second best
24:25
team. I worry Illinois a little bit
24:27
with their defense that they've always been more of an offensive
24:29
juggernaut. Those teams, except for the one
24:31
year two years ago where they got blown up by UConn later in
24:34
the tournament, they're usually an early exit.
24:36
Nebraska. I'm still not sure what their
24:37
offense yet. UCLA is interesting though as
24:39
like maybe a 5 or 6 seed. They can definitely make noise
24:42
because Cronin went to the Final Four with them as an 11 seed
24:45
four years ago and they lost on that insane buzzer metered by
24:49
Gonzaga. And so I would say they're a
24:51
sleeper. But I think Michigan is
24:52
definitely the best, followed by Purdue.
24:54
And I mentioned when I call your shot a few weeks ago, I think
24:56
Michigan states overrated a little still so.
24:58
Speaking of overrated, BYU forward AJ Debanza after their
25:04
upset win over then over then number six Iowa State told
25:09
reporters he is willing to play a heavy workload to help BYU win
25:14
a national championship. AJ mentioned how he would play
25:19
40 minutes every night and has a motor that that's high or higher
25:25
than any star player in the country.
25:28
This was perceived by some in the media to be a jab at Kansas
25:34
guard Darren Peterson, who has had multiple injury issues this
25:40
season. The Ringer's Bill Simmons said
25:44
that he couldn't imagine Peterson, who many had a as a
25:48
lock, as the number one pick early in this season, being the
25:53
top pick anymore. While Peterson has excellent has
25:57
been excellent for Kansas, he has missed a lot of games and
26:02
has had his minutes limited all season, lending Simmons and
26:07
others like ESPN Jay Williams to question the drive and work
26:12
ethic of Peterson. Will he be able to play at the
26:17
NBA level? AJ has played 33.7 minutes per
26:23
game, averaging 24.9 points per game, 6.7 rebounds and four
26:28
assists, and played 40 plus minutes in three of his last
26:33
four games for BYU. Peterson has played only 27.6
26:38
minutes per game and has missed 11 of Kansas 27 games.
26:42
ESP NS Dick Fatel Vitale Vitale I'm sorry, believes that Kansas
26:47
needs a divorce from Peterson person calling it a soap opera
26:52
and a nightmare that needs to end if Kansas wants to win a
26:58
title. Kansas coach Bill Self has
27:01
called all the injury narratives with Peterson BS, saying it's
27:07
just a bunch of people on social media that want to be fake
27:12
doctors. There's a lot.
27:16
Of fake doctors with football. Let's not get him in college.
27:18
You love Bill's self. I, I actually really, really
27:22
enjoy what Bill's self has to say.
27:24
And I'm, I'm, I'm not going to take shots at Bill's self
27:26
because the guy knows championship basketball, OK?
27:29
He, he knows he's won a championship with Kansas.
27:32
This guy's a winner. But he's had his own problems
27:36
when it comes to health, heart problems.
27:38
He's been sick. He last year, he, I, I think
27:41
Kansas got knocked out when he wasn't even on the bench.
27:43
Yeah. He's had to step away during the
27:44
Big 12 tournament all together. So we all know that Bill S has
27:49
really not been there, but he knows how to recruit players and
27:52
I, he's sticking up first player as far as Peterson's concerned
27:55
now, Dick Fatale, Vitali who who's supposed to be on a show
27:58
and we'll get him on the show. I'd love to hear his thoughts on
28:01
these three top dogs. Obviously Debenza and Peterson
28:06
and Boozer, where would he break these guys and where would he
28:09
put them? Interesting thing with both
28:12
these guys is the devil development of all these guys.
28:16
Now we all know what the bands it gives.
28:18
He's raw, athletically gifted, physical upside, high ceiling to
28:23
develop, likely to be refining technically.
28:26
So we know what he is. He's a development prospect.
28:30
He is that kind of player. He's athletically gifted.
28:32
Remember, he's 6 foot 9. The problem with the bands are
28:35
that I would say going into the NBA is not his athletic ability.
28:38
I think his his outside shooting, his perimeter game,
28:43
which needs to be cleaned up. But everything else about the
28:47
bands as far as defense is concerned and controlling, you
28:50
know, dominating in the band, you know, to the basket is
28:52
ability to dunk and all that other stuff.
28:54
This guy is as gifted as any player we've seen come out of
28:57
the draft in the last 15 to 20 years.
29:00
We all know what he is. We all know what he rates.
29:03
We all know how much he scores. He's really a dominant player
29:06
and coming out of going into this year's class, as far as
29:10
talent, a lot of people out to bands has the most talented one.
29:13
And they said that BYU has the number one guy in the whole
29:17
class. But Peterson, his his technical
29:21
ability, his his ability to get into the paint and dominating
29:25
the pain, he's great defensively.
29:28
Obviously he's the problem with him is staying healthy and being
29:32
there and his upside is still there to really develop into
29:37
with his skills. He's got the ability to be a
29:40
superstar in the NBA. He really does.
29:42
But a lot of these Kansas players, as we seen in the past,
29:47
one of them that's playing for the 76ers, you know what I'm
29:49
talking about. Yeah, the The Dirty 1.
29:52
Joel Embiid, remember him? He was a Kansas player.
29:56
He's had knee injuries ever since he's come out of Kansas.
29:59
And the same thing can go for a guy like, you know, Peterson.
30:03
Peterson can't stay healthy. And the same thing with Joel
30:06
Embiid when he was playing College in it, you know, the
30:09
year that they were going to make a run for a national
30:11
championship. What did they say about Joel
30:13
Embiid? Can he stay healthy?
30:15
Can he stay healthy? And that's why he fell the way
30:18
he did. He wasn't a he wasn't the number
30:20
one pick in the draft. No, his teammate was Andrew
30:22
Wiggins. Andrew Wiggins was and the
30:24
reason why is, is his health problems and the health concerns
30:28
and that's why the 76ers took a chance with him.
30:30
Now, I wouldn't say take a chance because he won an MVP or
30:32
did he because he cried a bit. But the fact here is, is when
30:37
you look at both of these players, they're very
30:39
comparable. Now, a lot of people would say
30:42
AG Dabanza has more skill and and probably has more upside to
30:46
Peterson. And Dabanza can stay healthy.
30:48
He can play 40 plus minutes, something that Peterson hasn't
30:51
done all season long for Kansas. So if that's what you want to
30:55
sell and that's what you're selling to NBA teams, then
30:58
Dabanza would be ahead of him. But it is so very small on how
31:04
you can compare both these guys and who would you pick in front
31:07
of one or the other. And that's my opinion.
31:11
But there is one guy that I would pick in front of both of
31:14
these guys and that's Kambuser. And I know everybody's going to
31:19
say, well, you're a Duke fan, that's why you're saying it.
31:23
Here's the thing, I said this about Cooper Flagg and I'll say
31:27
it about Kambuser. Kambuser is a better all around
31:30
player than Cooper Flagg is. He is a better all around player
31:36
than Cooper Flagg. That says a lot.
31:39
And we all know his pedigree. We know who his father was.
31:42
His father played for Team USA Basketball.
31:45
His father was a star in the NBA, wasn't a superstar, but he
31:48
was a star player. He was a good player.
31:50
He's way better than his father was, longer than his father was,
31:56
athletically gifted than his father was, better shooter than
32:00
his father was. That's the type of player Camp
32:03
Boozer is. And when you look at father and
32:06
son combinations, it doesn't usually work out.
32:09
This, ladies and gentlemen, will work out.
32:11
This might be the the best father and son comparison as far
32:16
as players and star players that go from, you know, NBA players
32:20
to from from college to the NBA. And remember, where did Carlos
32:25
Boozer play speedy in college? Duke.
32:28
Where is his son play Duke exactly?
32:33
Carlos Boozer was a high draft pick.
32:35
By who was it the Cavs? I think it was, I don't
32:39
remember. I think it was the Cavs if I'm
32:41
not mistaken. I'm going to tell you guys this
32:45
right now. Cam Boozer might be not only
32:51
better than his dad, not only probably the best player in this
32:56
class, he is going to be one of the top five NBA players in the
33:01
next 5 to 6 years. That's how good of a player he
33:05
is. This guy could score 30 points.
33:07
This guy could as far as dominant force on the perimeter.
33:11
Now, I'm not saying the bands that can't do that.
33:12
I'm not saying Peterson can't do that.
33:14
All of these guys are going to be the future of United States
33:17
basketball. All three of these guys are
33:18
going to be a big part of USA Basketball and they're going to
33:22
need it because USA Basketball is going to lose a a huge amount
33:26
of talent. LeBron James, Kevin Durant,
33:29
Steph Curry all gone in the next 5 years.
33:33
They're going to need guys like the Banza and Peterson and
33:37
Boozer to be the faces with Cooper flag.
33:41
And I'm going to tell you this right now, what I've watched we
33:44
call a guy like camp Boozer and what I've seen watching him play
33:47
high school ball all the way to college and what everybody has
33:50
said about him. Not only has he's developed into
33:53
a a man, but he has so much more ability and and and transition
33:58
of a player to become the superstar, the face of United
34:02
States basketball over the Banza over Peterson.
34:06
His skills are not limited. And I'll say that about Peterson
34:10
and to Banza. Both guys are not great
34:13
perimeter shooters. They're not.
34:15
You could say whatever you want. Most of their scoring goes in
34:18
the paint. If you look at Peterson and what
34:22
he does, they're athletically gifted.
34:23
Both of these guys are much more athletic than Boozer is.
34:27
If that's what sells you athletic ability.
34:29
How about this? Is Luka Doncic that much that
34:33
athletic as a player? How about Nicola Yokich?
34:37
Is he that athletic of a player? No.
34:41
The two best players you can argue in the NBA and Nicola
34:45
Jokic and Luka Dodgic, their strength is not athletic
34:50
ability. So what does that tell you about
34:53
the NBA? Athletically gifted players like
34:57
Anthony Edwards don't win championships.
35:01
They don't. Now I'm not saying again, I'm
35:05
not taking shots at AJ Dubanza. I'm not taking shots.
35:10
Darren Peterson. I I'm not taking shots at any of
35:13
these guys. I think they're all ultra
35:15
talented. These guys are going to be great
35:18
players in the NBA if they can stay healthy.
35:21
That's what I worry about. Darren Peterson, I don't know if
35:23
he's going to stay healthy. And that's why teams might
35:27
question on drafting this kid in the top three.
35:31
Yes, I said it. I don't know.
35:33
If I draft Darren Peterson in my top three, I take Wilson over
35:38
him. I would I would take Wilson over
35:41
him from North Carolina. Why?
35:45
Because one thing I could say about Wilson is not only the
35:48
size, his ability to shoot, he could shoot around the
35:52
perimeter. He's a better shooter than the
35:54
Banza and Peterson. I've watched North Carolina play
35:58
this year. I saw what they did to Duke.
36:01
I saw what happened at the end of the game, at the end of the
36:03
game against Duke, even though one of the fans punched out one
36:07
of the coaches at Duke, which is pretty funny actually, I had to
36:10
laugh at that. But I remember that very well.
36:12
You said. If that was me, I would have
36:14
faved for John. Shire.
36:15
Damn right. If I'm running on the court, I'm
36:17
punching out John Shire. I'm not.
36:19
I'm not going after anybody but John Shire.
36:22
I, I, I take my licks out of him.
36:24
I mean, seriously. But here's the facts.
36:28
All three of these guys are going to be great players.
36:31
I think this class is as good as any class we've seen in a very
36:34
long time. And I know a lot of people in
36:36
the past would say, hey, we've said that before.
36:39
We've said it before. Remember the Lonzo Ball draft?
36:43
Remember that? That was a horrible draft.
36:45
Yeah, I I wasn't dazed down on Lonzo as some other people were
36:49
at the network at the time. I still liked him, but I didn't
36:50
love him as much as the National.
36:51
I hate him. I liked the Aaron Fox and Lori
36:54
marketed in that draft mainly. And both guys are pretty good
36:58
players. Lori Marketing is a good player
37:00
and D Aaron Fox, but Lori Marketing can't stay healthy and
37:02
D Aaron Fox is up and down. We don't know that.
37:06
We haven't seen the best of D Aaron Fox yet, even with the
37:08
Spurs. But this class is way better
37:12
than that class. You're talking about probably 7
37:15
or 8 players that can be super superstars in the NBA.
37:20
And we're not even talking about the foreign players.
37:22
And they're saying that some of these these foreign players are
37:25
falling to the teens, the late teens that I'm watching and I'm
37:30
seeing right now on some people's draft boards, which is
37:33
crazy. There are three foreign players
37:35
right now that some people say have Luka Doncic talent and
37:40
they're falling into the 20s and.
37:42
Luka fell. Luka fell.
37:43
Even though he got trusted at 5, he fell.
37:44
A lot of people thought he would go 3.
37:46
Well, the Hawks probably regret what they did.
37:48
Sure. They they definitely regret what
37:50
they. Did well.
37:51
The Mavericks will regret it more.
37:52
And it was the one move that we can say that somebody who wants
37:55
his team back made the right choice.
37:57
Oh yeah. Good luck.
37:59
We all know Mark Cuban who wants to buy back the Dallas Mavericks
38:03
and he made the right choice as far as the Trey Young and Luka
38:07
Doncic. He he did what he did to
38:10
obviously move up to get Luca and he made a great trade with
38:13
the New York Knicks to get, you know, poor Zingis.
38:16
Even though it didn't work out over there.
38:18
I mean, he didn't give up much. What 2 second round traffic for
38:21
Howard? Poor Zingis.
38:22
Howard did out here. He made all those great moves
38:24
that they hired Nico Harrison. And Nico Harrison came in and
38:27
then a new ownership group, and they're obviously not getting
38:30
their casino, so they don't want the team anymore.
38:32
So now you see Mark Cuban smelling blood, as we all know.
38:36
Remember Dave Portnoy, he sold Barstool.
38:39
Does anybody know that story? He sold Barstool for a
38:43
significant amount of money. A significant, I don't know how
38:45
much it was, but over 100, a hundred, some odd billion.
38:48
You know, it was, it was a lot of money.
38:50
He made a lot of money off of it, off of it.
38:53
He sold it and then the, the company was going down the
38:56
drain. So you know what he did?
38:57
He bought the company back for 50 million.
39:00
So he made like $500 million on the, on selling the company just
39:04
to buy it back for 50 million. Then I heard that he didn't even
39:07
have to pay them the 50 million. He just had to do something or,
39:10
you know, give them something back that obviously benefited
39:13
the organization that bought them.
39:15
And he got the, practically got the name back.
39:17
So who, who do you think won on that deal?
39:19
And, and Mark Cuban's going to do the same thing with the
39:22
Dollar's Maverick. He's going to spin the wheel.
39:24
Maybe he'll he'll, he'll buy them with dog coin.
39:27
What? What's that?
39:28
You know those Bitcoin? Companies I remember off, that's
39:30
Wes on that. One no, I mean dodge dodge coin
39:33
or whatever the hell it was that he was sold on.
39:35
Maybe he just buys a team with with one of those Bitcoin
39:38
companies as a Bitcoin has gone down from 120,000 to like 63,000
39:44
in like less than three or four months.
39:46
Oh yeah, just have to lay. Back they dip.
39:48
So I don't know if you know these, these, what they call
39:53
them crypto, those crypto currencies are working out
39:55
anymore as far as I'm concerned. We had to invent the name for
39:59
one for Wes. We forgot to do that for a
40:00
while. What would name him?
40:02
What would we? I don't remember what we were
40:03
thinking about at the time, but we had to because Wes is into
40:06
all. That Wesleys joint that's could
40:10
you imagine Wes getting high or something like that?
40:13
I, I couldn't imagine. I've seen Wes get drunk but I I
40:16
couldn't imagine Wes get high, could you?
40:19
You're right, I never really think of that because he talks
40:21
about all his college football trips that he makes.
40:23
I wonder which one would be the most likely word of.
40:25
Game I would love to see him get high on marijuana some trees and
40:30
watch this guy just completely just go crazy on a on a you
40:33
know, on the sidelines because he gets really, really close to
40:35
the sidelines and he's a big Buckeyes fans and he's like now
40:39
he's a roll tie. He's an Alabama fan.
40:41
And he inherited inherited Mississippi State with the
40:44
cowboy. That's true that he had to have
40:47
his son was playing that one time.
40:48
Then he came on the cell. That's right.
40:50
This is going to be a wider whoever passes up on Cam Boozer,
40:53
and if he falls to three and let's say the Nets are sitting
40:56
there or Dallas is sitting there, whoever's sitting there
40:59
with the Wizards are sitting there at 3:00, best believe
41:03
they're getting the best player in this class.
41:05
I'll tell you this right now. Remember I said this.
41:07
Book it, book it that Cam Boozer is the best player in this
41:13
class. Not by a little, by a lot.
41:15
Yeah, I had Cam Boozer ahead of Darren Peterson as it was now
41:18
the obviously with these reports of all these injuries now too, I
41:21
was worried about that when he had the first injury, Darren
41:23
Peterson and it took him a month for him to come back.
41:25
This is the beginning of the season too, and we've I've
41:28
criticized Kansas the last couple years.
41:29
I've had trouble keeping their players healthy the last two
41:32
years going into the conference tournament.
41:33
And that's a big reason they haven't made it out of the the
41:36
first round since or the first weekend since they won the
41:38
national championship in 2022. And a lot of that had to do with
41:42
the the way they're managing their team.
41:43
But that early in the season, I don't know if you could justify
41:45
that same kind of case. And then he has a cramping and
41:48
literally a week later another ankle injury and then cramping
41:51
again. So is he being rushed back?
41:53
Is he being mismanaged that way? Or is it what Jay Williams is
41:56
saying? Is he deliberately saying I'm
41:57
going to protect myself because you guys are winning without me?
42:00
And how much is that a good work ethic for the BA standards?
42:03
Now, I'm not saying A-Team that's so far down like the Nets
42:06
wouldn't take him. If let's say the Nets even get
42:08
unlucky in the draft and he falls to five or something, I
42:10
would still probably take him. But still you do question that
42:13
kind of you would. Absolutely question where if he
42:16
should fall out of the top three to five.
42:17
You would, you would think, and that's where I'm going to put
42:20
you. Like you said, the 2017 draft.
42:21
Remember the number one pick in that draft?
42:23
Markel Fultz, a guy that barely played in college as well.
42:25
Couldn't hit a shoot, he couldn't shoot a foul shot.
42:27
Yeah, I know. And there were already
42:29
deficiencies in his game as it was.
42:30
He was very raw and I was questioned when he was.
42:33
Going roll was being nice, I know.
42:35
Remember Maddie Capps? Oh, I know.
42:38
That was my first year at the net.
42:40
I remember it very. Well, Bucket, he's our best
42:42
player in this class, and I was like, get the hell out.
42:44
Yeah, I had the best. Player.
42:46
Did I ever think he would be as bad as he was?
42:48
No, but I did. Think I did.
42:49
I did. I did think that he was not
42:51
number one pick worthy. I thought he was a middle of the
42:53
first round type pick and. So highly overrated.
42:55
And same that same draft, the number four pick, another Kansas
42:59
guy, Josh Jackson, a guy that got a lot of hype and Phoenix
43:01
took him. He never went anywhere.
43:02
I think he played like three years in the NBA and that's.
43:05
How about the Cavs after the fact?
43:07
When LeBron James left, who did they try?
43:09
Anthony Bennett. Anthony Bennett How bad was?
43:11
He that was, I think everyone knew that was a disaster because
43:14
he was supposed to be like, no worse than like drafting at
43:16
7:00. How about Kwame Brown?
43:18
Remember that. That was a little before my
43:19
time, but I know how bad it. Was it was bad and I remember
43:22
Michael. Jordan, they say Jordan like
43:23
bullied him, his confidence out of like just he couldn't stand
43:28
how he was on the court. And that's the kind of feeling I
43:31
get from this Peterson guy. Guys, I I can't, I just don't
43:36
see it. There was a clip of him.
43:37
I was looking up as I was showing some videos of his
43:40
playing. Obviously he's a really good
43:42
player. No one's saying he's not, but
43:44
there's clips of him like signaling to the bench.
43:46
Hey, Take Me Out. I, I, I'm sorry, this is D1
43:52
basketball. You're trying to get, you know,
43:54
position your team for seating in the Big 12 tournament.
43:58
You're trying to like gel with your team, which The thing is,
44:02
you know, as you say, Dick Vital says.
44:05
Then he's not gelling with the team.
44:06
It's just ugly over there. And why do you want to die like
44:10
that? And Candace tends to do better
44:11
with a more organic core, not with the flashy freshman as much
44:14
when it comes to winning championships, which Bill
44:17
self-made that work for some Final Four teams.
44:19
But they've also had their blunders of the first weekend.
44:22
So where they have these flashy freshmen like the Wiggins NBT
44:25
was out in the second round. So why did he go to Kansas?
44:28
Like did they really offer him something like he just couldn't
44:31
refuse? It just doesn't make any sense
44:33
why he's on that squad. It doesn't.
44:35
He just doesn't fit and they play better without him
44:38
sometimes, you know, like, but if there's someone like the
44:40
bands that he has to go against, you probably want a guy of his
44:44
caliber out there. And they've they've matched up.
44:46
They were very even in their matchup earlier this year.
44:49
But I don't know, Errol, I'm with you.
44:51
Like for me, I look at Boozer and I'm like, if Kevin Love was
44:56
athletic, he'd be this guy. And that's, I think the ceiling.
45:00
Like, what would an athletic Kevin Love look like?
45:02
Because he can pass like Kevin Love.
45:04
He could shoot like Kevin Love, he could rebound like Kevin
45:06
Love. But we can do more with his body
45:09
than Kevin Love was ever able to do.
45:12
And it's exciting as a player. I I would love to have that
45:15
player on my team. It's like, like better than what
45:17
Julius Randle would give you at the power forward.
45:20
It's some it's someone you could build around.
45:22
It's like almost like a Weber type of a deal.
45:24
Like you can get out of him. And I would love to have that.
45:28
Please fall. But if I feel like he's going to
45:30
go top 2 now for sure with the way Peterson's handling this
45:34
season. Yeah, and the other thing too,
45:36
Fish, is the work ethic. Him taking out of games, it
45:39
reminds me of a lot of 1/3 great Philadelphia 76ers draft pick
45:43
that did the same thing at LSU, Ben Simmons.
45:45
And he barely played at the end of that season as well.
45:47
Granted LSU was not going to the tournament like this Kansas team
45:49
will, but you wonder if those kinds of work ethic things could
45:52
carry. I mean.
45:53
I mean, how many, you know, strikeouts of the Philadelphia
45:57
76ers have, I mean, nerlings? Noel, remember him?
46:00
I mean, he was an absolute bomb and everybody was like, oh, this
46:03
guy is a must, must player in the NBA.
46:05
Yeah, he was a must player, all right.
46:07
He was all right with the Knicks.
46:08
That was all right. Remember, the Knicks were before
46:10
they hired Leon Rosewal to hire Elton Brand.
46:12
Thank God they died. He was all right, I'm not going
46:14
to say Nerlens Noel was a bad player, but he was not a star in
46:17
the NBA. He he was a top three pick.
46:20
I remember, I think he was #2 and some people thought he was
46:23
the best player in that class. And I was like, no, way too
46:27
skinny, too doofy. I want to, I want to say this, I
46:30
took shots at Webiyama over the last couple of years and I'll go
46:35
back and I'll protect that. I think Webiyama is a special
46:39
player, Michael Jordan, no, but a special player.
46:43
Can he stay healthy for the next 10 years to become a guy like
46:49
Nicola Yokich or of that magnitude, that kind of star?
46:52
Now he's shown that he can be that type of player.
46:55
He could take over games, rebound, block, do everything
46:58
because he's so long and and he has an ability to ball handle
47:01
and shoot. I'll say this about Cam Boozer,
47:05
whoever drafts him, and I don't know where he goes.
47:09
Who are the top three teams right now if their season were
47:12
to end? It'll be the Kings, I the
47:14
Hornets. I forget who the third one is
47:16
offhand. You hope he doesn't go to
47:18
Sacramento because everybody dies in Sacramento.
47:20
Nobody, nobody wants to go to Sacramento.
47:23
Halliburton was very lucky to get out of Sacramento.
47:27
Obviously Fox is very lucky to get out of there.
47:30
It didn't work out over there with him, the two point guards,
47:33
and so Bonus definitely wants to get out of there.
47:35
There's no doubt, no doubt in my mind.
47:37
Kings, Pacers, Nets, Pelicans, Wizards.
47:40
Could you imagine? Could you imagine Cam Boozer to
47:43
the Pacers? Could you imagine that?
47:46
Could you imagine if you're a Knick fan, to have to contend
47:49
with Halliburton and Cam Boozer for the next couple of years?
47:53
That would be absolutely sickening.
47:55
Sickening if you're you're a Knick fan.
47:58
So and that could happen and and you see Indiana, that's what
48:01
they're doing they're doing everything they can to lose
48:03
because they know they have Halliburton coming back next
48:06
year and you get you get one of these top three guys, you're
48:09
sitting pretty next year going into a season.
48:12
I'm not saying Indiana's going to win a lottery pick.
48:15
I'm sorry, a top three pick, Because the chances of that
48:18
happening the way the NBA works is very slim to none.
48:21
But knowing the NBA and how the NBA works, they'll probably give
48:26
Indiana one of these top three picks and Cambuser will fall to
48:28
them. And I will hurl because I do not
48:31
want to see Cambuser playing my Knicks for the next 15 years and
48:35
watching them completely demolish him, especially when he
48:38
develops, because he will. Could you imagine him and Hal
48:40
Burton? Oh my God, it would make me sick
48:43
to my stomach. It's enough that I watched
48:45
Indiana this year every time. Indiana's a bad team, but when
48:49
they play the Knicks, they're a great team.
48:50
They always seem to play better against the Knicks out of
48:53
everybody. And Speaking of the Knicks, I'm
48:55
I'm going to be working on something.
48:56
I'll be working on a Knicks show moving forward in the next
48:59
couple of months. So shout out to Maxine and
49:02
Quran. I'm going to be working with
49:03
them and I'm excited because it's going to help us.
49:06
It's going to help them. And I think Quran is one of the
49:09
most knowledgeable Nick guys in the business.
49:12
I watch his show religiously now and he's so talented.
49:16
He really is so excited to to to move forward with them and and
49:20
help, you know, both products. So I'm very excited.
49:23
So very, I don't know what we're going to call it, ladies and
49:25
gentlemen, but it's going to be a Nick show.
49:27
We're going to talk a little boxing too, because he knows his
49:30
boxing. I know my boxing.
49:31
So if you're a boxing fan, TuneIn, I'm sure it's going to
49:34
be to be a crazy one because we actually disagree on a lot of
49:37
things. Thank you to all the fans tuning
49:39
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country today. So that's a huge, huge jump from
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49:54
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49:56
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50:00
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50:02
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Instagram, Facebook, all the the platforms, YouTube, we have a
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new YouTube channel, YouTube New York.
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I'm sorry, YouTube New York, a job in the mouth New York.
50:19
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50:22
All our New York takes will be up there moving forward.
50:24
And also we still have the job in the mouth, you know, channel.
50:28
We also have worldwide Sports Radio Network channel if you
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want to check that out as well. Who do we have on on Thursday?
50:35
Nobody yet. Nothing yet.
50:36
And if it's working on something I should.
50:38
I'm going to reach out to Neil Smith as well, try to get him
50:40
on. Yeah, I definitely like to hear
50:42
Neil Smith's take on Team USA hockey.
50:44
And Neil Smith is a Canadian, so I'm sure he didn't like the fact
50:48
that you're not. USA won the Olympic gold medal.
50:52
But by the way, what Team USA did with Goudreau and Johnny
50:57
Goudreau and his family for him and his brother was sensational.
51:00
It shows the heart and soul of this a United States hockey team
51:05
and how how much and how important the Goudreau family
51:08
meant to every single player from, you know, from top to
51:11
bottom, the youth and and and the future of Team USA Hockey
51:15
stands for something. When you see Johnny Goudreau's
51:18
United States 15 jersey being held up while they're skating
51:23
around the ice and celebrating. So it was sensational.
51:26
It really was. And seeing his kids get a chance
51:28
to be on there it is speedy. I mean, not speedy Fish is
51:33
posting up on a social media. All the kids are on the ice, but
51:36
the players taking pictures with the team.
51:38
So it was nice to see and shout out to Bill Karin, John Van
51:42
Beeasbrook and Team USA Hockey for doing and, and really doing
51:48
something special like that and inviting the Goudreau family to
51:51
celebrate this unbelievable feat, which took 46 years to do.
51:56
So a long, long time. And hopefully it doesn't take
51:59
that long again because we do remember 1994 for the New York
52:03
Rangers and it's been a long 1A long one for you Ranger fans.
52:07
Neil Smith knows all about it, yes.
52:08
He does. Because he's the one that built
52:11
that team and the Rangers pretty much threw the Wolves, threw
52:15
them to the Wolves and he was the one that traded John Van
52:17
Biesburg. And we had our conversation.
52:19
So I love Neil now. He kind of made me feel good
52:22
about why he traded John Van Biesburg and he gave me his his
52:25
take on it. So thank you to Neil.
52:26
Thank you to all the fans. We will be back on Thursday.
52:30
Until then, this is Arrow and the the clan of job in the mouth
52:34
saying good night and we'll talk to you then.
52:36
Good night everybody. You're you're, you're listening
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