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Is Cameron Boozer or A.J. Dybantsa the better NBA Draft prospect? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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the East General Regional of the 2000 26 NCAA Tournament, the
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number one seed Duke blew out TCU 81 to 58 and will now face
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the number 5 seed Saint John's who beat Kansas on a buzzer
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beater by Dylan Darling. Yes, it was fantastic. 6765 and
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they'll now face off in the Sweet 16 #3 Michigan State beat
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Louisville 7769 and Yukon #2 Yukon beat #7 UCLA 73 57 in the
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other Easter East Regional and now they will face off in the
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Sweet 16 In the South region #3 Illinois blew out the number 11
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VCU 76 to 55 and #2 Houston blew out the number 10 seed Texas A&M
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88 to 57 and will now face off again in the Sweet 16.
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In the other South regional #4 Nebraska moves on after beating
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#5 Vanderbilt on a game-winning shot by Braden Fringer with 2.2
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seconds with two points 2 seconds left of the game.
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They will take on number #9 Iowa, who defeated defending
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champion #1 Florida 73 to 72 on a game-winning three pointer by
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Al Figaris with a 4.5 with 4.5 seconds left of the game.
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In the Midwest regional number one seed Michigan beat #9 Saint
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Louis and #4 seed Alabama to beat #5 seed Texas Tech in a
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blowout fashion and will now face off in the Sweet 16 #6
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Tennessee upset #3 Virginia 79 to 72 and #2 Iowa State blew out
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number seven Kentucky 82 to 63 and they will face off in the
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Midwest. Other Midwest.
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Other Sweet 16 matchup in the West #1 Arizona beat #9 Utah,
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Utah State 78 to 66 and will take on #4 Arkansas after they
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beat high point in a high scoring thriller 94 to 88.
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And the other W Sweet 16 matchup will feature the number 11 Texas
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who is who is the the only double digit seed in the Sweet
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16. After they beat Gonzaga 74 to
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68, they will take on #2 Purdue who beat #7 seed Miami 79 to 69.
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You guys are crazy when you put this and post this up.
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I, I think the Sweet 16 has been fun to watch.
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There's been a lot of blowouts that the game that really stuck
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out to me because we're here in New York is the St.
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John's game. The St.
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John's game really, and, and, and the Nebraska game was very
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fun. And it, it, it exposed a lot
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about what Nebraska has done this year and why Nebraska is
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here and why Nebraska is heading to their first Sweet 16 in in
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best in their basketball history.
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Because if you look at Nebraska, Nebraska is known for their
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football. They're not known for their
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basketball. But here's the thing, St.
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John's had a sensational game. They had a sensational game
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plan. Rick Pitino couldn't get a lot
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from Dylan Darling all game. He couldn't hit a lick.
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He missed almost every single shot and he was not confident I
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as far as getting getting to the basket and shooting in a sweet
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spot all game long. And at the end of the game, when
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Pitino needed to call a time out and he was trying to figure out
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who's going to get the ball, who's going to shoot the final
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shot. Dilling Darling, who has been a
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darling for this team all season long, one of the better point
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guard defenders in the league in the in the in his conference, in
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East Conference and throughout the NCAA.
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He was he was a guy that put his hand up and said, coach, give me
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a chance. I'm I'm, I'm going to take the
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play. And coach thought Pitino thought
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that he was out of his mind that he had no shot.
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And and I, I wouldn't have gone to the non hot hand.
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But what's crazy about college basket?
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What's crazy about basketball is when a team doesn't expect the
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non hot hand to get the ball. You want to give that kid the
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ball. And Dylan Darling has been good
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all season long. He's been a good team leader.
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He is a lefty, usually goes up most of the time with his layups
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with his left hand. But he drove to the hole and he
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he had an opening. Nobody was back really defending
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him on the backside and he went up for a layup and hit the shot
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and and shot the world. Because Kansas all game long was
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playing chase. They were playing chase the
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whole game from the first half all the way into the
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second-half. Then he went on A164 run.
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Peterson started playing decent basketball.
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Was Peterson good? No, Peterson was not a guy that
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you would expect to be a number one talent, the number one pick
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in this year's draft after what we saw against Saint John's.
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Now, that doesn't mean that Dylan that Darren Peterson is
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not going to be the the number one pick in this year's draft
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because he has the talent, he has the ability, he can shoot
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the three. He can do a lot of those things
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that you want an elite player to do as your number one pick.
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But after what AG Tabanza did, even though they got knocked
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out, BYU got knocked out in the first round.
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He played very well in that game, even though we couldn't
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hit a lick at the three-point line.
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And then Camp Boozer, he's been up and down in this tournament,
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but guess what? Duke is still going to the Sweet
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16 and one of the main reasons why they're going to the Sweet
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16 is because of camp Boozer. Now it all takes.
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You need a team to take you all the way to the championship, to
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the promised land. We all know that.
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But guess what? Who was the number one pick last
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year? Cooper flag.
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Cooper Flegg played as well as I'll say this, Cooper Flegg was
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a little bit better in certain in in the round, in the round of
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what was it 64 and 32, He played better than Kambusa.
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What what's going to sell us Kambusa?
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What's going to make Kambusa a top end pick, maybe the number
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one pick in this class is he's going to have to show up in
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these big games. He's got Saint John's, he's
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going to have to show up in that game.
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He's going to have to put up a 25 spot.
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He's going to have to rebound. He's got to be a big player in
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that game if they expect to be Pitino's team.
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Pitino came out and said after the game, pretty much said we're
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going, we're playing Duke now and I don't want, we're going
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to. I owe, I owe, I owe him
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something after what Christian Leitner did to me in the 90s.
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Now, I don't know if anybody remembers in Kentucky, Pitino
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was coaching Kentucky. He was coaching the Wildcats and
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Coach K was coaching the Duke Blue Devils.
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And this was the time where you had Bobby Hurley, Grant Hill,
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and and obviously Christian Leitner, who is one of the
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greatest college basketball players of all time.
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And you heard what Pitino said at the press conference.
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He says, well, I've got, I've got, I owe them.
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I owe them a favor and and that to me says a lot about this game
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for St. John's.
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Now, a lot of the experts have St.
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John's knocking off the Duke Blue Devils.
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A lot of them do. But Duke to me from top to
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bottom, even with the injuries that they have, have the talent,
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they have the number one guy. And if you're going to, you're
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going to counteract what the Saint, what the Saint John Storm
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have compared to the Duke Blue Devils.
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If if their top five plays against a Duke top five, I still
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think Duke is the they have the advantage in this game.
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But to go back, go ahead. I know you.
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You got something. To say no, terrible.
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That was terrible. No, no way.
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They have a better top five than St.
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John's. Yes they do.
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Wow, Based off what school? What?
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Do you mean based on school? Like what are you just Duke
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Heavy or Duke Privy, you know, Duke Bias?
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I'm not. I'm not Duke bias at all, and I
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am a Duke fan, but that has nothing to do with bias.
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You're going to tell me you're going to tell.
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Me. So you're going to tell me right
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now that the Duke Blue Devils with their lives?
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As of right now, As of right now.
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As of right now, As of right now, you're going to tell me
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Saint John's has a better five than Duke does?
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This is the reason why the all the all the experts are picking
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St. John's.
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I don't care what the expert. Experts are always.
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Wrong. I'm an expert too that.
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Oh, yeah, you're an expert. Mel Kiper's an expert, too.
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How many times has he got him wrong on the as far as the NFL
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draft? So let's not get into what Mel.
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Kiper has done. All right, so So give me your
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take. What makes you think that the
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Saint John's or the Johnnies have a better starting five than
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the Duke Blue Devils? Just based off the tournament
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play now we looked at it and we've seen that they that the
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Duke Blue Devils are very stagnant on offense.
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They have potential to be scores or whatnot, but I think from St.
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John's perspective, they're way more athletic in regards to the
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half court sets. They're more athletic and able
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to actually rebound the ball better than Duke.
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Now stats may not say that I'm talking about in game.
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I didn't check the stats by the way.
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So that's why I don't know if I'm actually wrong about the
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rebounding, but based off the rebounding which is the reason
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why they St. John's was able to beat Kansas
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was their rebounding. If you go back and look at the
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game. Here's the thing.
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And I you could go back and and, and St.
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John's is a big team. They're older roster.
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Pitino is a great coach, but, and I'm not a big Shire fan.
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As a matter of fact, anybody that knows me, I have attacked
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Shire over and over and over again week after week.
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I don't think John Shire's a really good coach, but he's got
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a great roster. Even with the injuries that they
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have, the Duke Blue Devils have the best player in this game.
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Cam Boozer is by far the best player in this game and you
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can't even argue. What?
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What do you mean out of out of rebounding?
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How are you doing? Yes, out of St.
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John's. I give you that, Yeah.
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Talent wise, he also went off the rail while ago and said he
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was the number one pick, so which is another.
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Oh, hold on one second, hold on one second.
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How do you know he's not the number one pick?
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Oh, here's the thing. And I, we could get into that at
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another time because we got to go through these games.
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But for you to say that Cambusa can't be the number one pick,
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that's fine. If you if everybody thinks that
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he's the 3rd or 4th pick, that's fine.
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You're going to make a mistake. Because if you, it's very
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simple. Peterson can't be controlled.
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AJ Debansa can't shoot a three pointer and we've seen Camp
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Boozer do all of that. He doesn't.
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He doesn't go out there and throw his team under the bus.
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He plays hard every single game no matter what.
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He plays hurt. He goes out there and he plays
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at a top level. That's the guy I want to draft.
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I want to go. I want to go with a guy that I
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know is going to be healthy. He's going to go out there and
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play his heart out like his father did.
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Now, I'm not saying he's Carlos Boozer.
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What you're you're you're not in GM They so it's it's it's.
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A bias? So what I'm?
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Trying to tell you is that they're the NBA is not picking
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based off reliability, they're picking up potential, OK.
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Does he have the potential to be XYZ?
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Does he meet the metrics of XYZ? So you're saying that he need to
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develop a three portion agent need to develop a three.
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That can happen. They can do that.
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You know they pay coaches to develop players in the NBA.
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Yeah. Quite so he could very much
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develop that. They don't have to come in with
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that. OK, so Kwame Brown remember him?
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Yes, I remember him. He was a great athlete and high
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school phenomenon. He didn't have a three-point
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shot and Michael Jordan drafted him, took a whim on him and
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said, yeah, you know what, I like him.
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I I think he I can, I can build my roster around him.
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I can build. He'll figure it out.
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He'll figure out a shoot a three.
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How long was he in the NBA? How long was he in with the NBA
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team? Short term compared to what he
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was supposed to be. Exactly.
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And and to me, you need to develop a three-point shot
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before you get into the NBA. It's very hard to figure it out
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when you're playing in an NBA. Pace, the speed of the game,
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it's different. And we have seen him enough and
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I've watched him enough and AJ Dabanza that he is going to have
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a problem shooting the three in the NBA.
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He's going to he's going to work on athletic ability and that
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doesn't always work. Now there is guys like Giannis
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that have built his game on athletic ability, but the game
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is changing. Now these big men are shooting
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the three at a very high clip. And if you don't have that shot
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and you haven't developed a shot yet going into the NBA, what
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makes you think in a 5 or 6 year span he's just going to be a
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good three-point shooter shooter in the NBAI just.
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Would you take Giannis? Would you take Giannis as the
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number one pick? Right now.
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Yeah, what you with Giannis talent?
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No. What are you laughing at?
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No, what are you laughing at? No.
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Listen, listen, listen. Listen.
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Giannis. There's a lot of Giannis now.
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That's why. I'm saying that.
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There are a lot of Giannis now, athletically gifted guys that
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are long. There are guys.
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What do you mean who? Nikola Yokich?
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Nikola Yokich? Webbiyama.
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What are you talking about? Webbiyama, He's another one.
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These these guys are athletically gifted.
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How are they different? How are they different?
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They're both big men, right? Stop plays.
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Giannis is downhill, Webby is. He's working on being a
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three-point shooter and a defender.
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Working, he has a three-point shot.
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As a as a pass first but can't score center.
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And shoots the three almost at 40%.
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Yeah, but they play at, Again, we're looking at athletically
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gifted players. Kevin Garnett was athletically
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gifted when he came out of high school.
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Absolutely. OK.
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And if you want to compare the Banza to somebody, you would
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compare him and I would compare him somewhere around Kevin
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Garnett. That's the kind of player that I
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would compare him to. But here's the thing, Kevin
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Garnett's strength was his defense.
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Is the bands strength his defense?
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No. And in a game, in the NBA, in
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the transition of the NBA game, if you can't defend a specific
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position and you can't shoot the three, you're limited.
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And that's what AJ Dabanza is. I'm not saying AJ Dabanza is not
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going to be a great player in the league.
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I think he's going to be great. I think Peterson's going to be
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great. I think Wilson's going to be
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great. I think Cam Boozer's going to be
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great. All four of these guys, even
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Flemings, if he get, if he gets put or he gets drafted by the
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right team and the right coach and the right development,
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Fleming develops a shot. No question.
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That kid could be a star in a league just like the Spider is.
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Right. So you give him development, but
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you won't give AJ development. It's very hard to develop a
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three-point shot at his size in the NBA when one.
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Offseason away What? Do you mean 1 offseason?
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111 development. He don't have to be great at the
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three-point shooter. Now you do.
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Now you do. No, you do.
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Yes, because if you become one-dimensional, teams are going
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to figure. You out, Giannis won the
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championship. Here's Here's the problem with
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Giannis when teams started to figure him out like the Celtics.
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Win. Like yeah, team started with
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Miami. Yes.
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When you become a one-dimensional player when it
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comes to the big game, especially throughout the
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playoffs, you're not the same player.
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OK, now tell me how many defenders we have in the league.
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How many defenders? I don't know.
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You want me to count them? Yeah.
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I can't count them on the head. I.
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I not a lot of people defending. The Knicks have about 3 guys on
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the team that could defend multiple positions.
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Josh Hart. Mikhail Bridges, OJ and an Obi,
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Those three guys could defend multiple positions.
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OB I give you. What are you you're going to
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tell me Mikhail Bridges is not an all around defender?
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He's a great defender. He could defend multiple
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positions. He's a good defender.
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I would say he's a top 15 defender in the league.
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That tells you a lot. That's what I'm trying to tell.
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You, but that's what I'm telling you about it, AJ Dependzo.
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So you, you need AJ, you said AJ needed to defend.
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I'm. Saying I'm saying if you don't
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have it, he still gets his numbers.
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Why are? All that matters.
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My argument here is when teams, especially NBA coaches, figure
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out his strengths and his weaknesses, they're going to
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take the game over against him. They're going to defend him in
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ways where he is uncomfortable in certain positions.
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He is a athletically gifted kid. There's no question that he is.
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So are half these NBA players. But when you come into the NBA
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with the best of the best guys that can jump like a deer and
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kangaroo, whatever the hell you want, and I can run up and down
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the court within 7 or 8 steps, there are guys.
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Russell Westbrook, I mean, when he was a young player, he was
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one of the fastest guys in the NBA.
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They're athletically gifted. But did I make Russell Westbrook
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the best player in the NBA at his position?
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No, it didn't. Now that's what I'm looking at.
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You look at Camp Boozer, you're looking at Camp Boozer and
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everybody looking out Camp Boozer, they say, well, he's a
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little overweight. He's 6 foot 8.
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He's undersized. How does this work?
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Depending on where he goes, it works a lot.
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You're telling me right now if he went to?
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Indiana and he played with Halliburton.
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If he went, If he goes, he's Utah's not drafting him.
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Utah's not drafting. They're already.
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They're already. Taking.
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Danny Ainge always drafts the athletically guys, the athletic
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guys. He always does plus.
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The NBA is going to punish them for.
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Taking if if Utah goes #1 Utah's drafting to Bansa.
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Why not booze it though? Because he's not according.
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To you, yes he is. The better all around talent he
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does he's got the better I think.
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He's got you saying that they not saying.
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First of all, who do you think has a better post game, him or
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Debanza? Post game.
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Post game. I don't get booze it that.
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OK, who's got a better 1718 foot jumper?
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I get AJ that. AJ does not have a better 17. 18
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foot jumper. He doesn't.
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He doesn't. He, he, he, he's not.
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That's not his go to. But that's not his.
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That's not his game. That's Boozer's game.
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Yeah, Floater, you know. Yeah, well, that's.
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He uses his again, that goes back to athletic gifts.
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To me, Peterson has the most. That got to be considered.
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Are we not going to consider athletic gifts?
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No. Because that's one.
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Gift. That's one gift.
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That's not everything. You're going to tell me who's a
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better defender, Boozer and Dubanza.
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Better defender. Better defender?
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Boozer Debanza, I'm asking, I'm asking.
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It was a one O 1. I'll take AJ over there.
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So wait a second, So. You're going to tell me that?
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Has nothing. One O 1 doesn't mean anything.
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It's 10 basketball. Q This isn't football.
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You're not out there. Come on.
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Q And I just want to send a double to you on every time.
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What are we talking about? They haven't earned that right.
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Q If you're going to tell me right now, when you look at all
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these guys gifts, Peterson has the most.
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Peterson has the most. But is teams going to teams are
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teams are going to actually have to deal with that kid on and off
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the court. He doesn't get along with
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people. He he's proven that he didn't
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get along with some of his teammates coaching at the
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coaching staff. How many times did we we hear
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that the coaching staff wanted him to go into the game and he
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says there's no need for me to go into the game.
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Is he going to do that into the NBA?
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Is he going to do that in the NBA?
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No, he wouldn't do that in the NBA.
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Why not? There's a reason to play.
22:27
He thinks he's the best player on that roster.
22:30
Right when you get paid to play, all right.
22:32
So you're telling me, So you're telling. 2nd, 2nd.
22:35
It's a job in the profession, so you can't walk out and think
22:38
that you're better than everybody now.
22:40
James Harden did. You wouldn't have no data.
22:42
James Harden did. James Harden also averaged 54 a
22:45
month. 50. Four a month.
22:49
When James Harden When James. Harden.
22:53
When James Harden came into the League, he was the he wasn't
22:57
even Batman or Robin. He was like Supergirl, OK, he
23:01
was Supergirl, he was Supergirl, but he thought he was the number
23:04
one guy. He said I was a number one guy.
23:07
No, he didn't. He was a six man.
23:09
He didn't prove it until he went to Houston and it took him a
23:12
year to prove it. OK, but at the time, At the
23:15
time, but again, but James Harden had a great shot.
23:20
He played for Arizona State. James Harden was a good shooter.
23:25
Yes. Dabanza is not.
23:27
He's not a good shooter. He's not.
23:29
I'm not saying he is. I, I, I think he gets his
23:32
numbers. He gets his.
23:32
Points. That's fine.
23:33
Because he's playing even though the game has developed.
23:38
Conference. Did he play?
23:39
A good shooter. OK, how?
23:42
How good is the big? The best conference this year
23:44
for sure. OK, And who did he play that
23:46
they beat? That was so so something to brag
23:50
about. Who did he?
23:51
Beat Iowa State was his biggest performance and they are a good
23:53
team. They're still in the tournament.
23:54
They're a two seed right now. They're one of the best
23:56
defensive teams. And what did he score in that
23:57
game? I believe it was 42 if I
23:59
remember correctly, and he had close to 10 rebounds in that
24:02
game, which against a defense that good, is impressive.
24:05
So because of one game, Iowa State, because of one game?
24:11
No, because of one game. And Iowa State, that's that's,
24:16
that's impressive. Because of one game.
24:19
Here's here's here's what's even more impressive.
24:21
Versus the 2 seeds. You're you're that great of a
24:24
player and, and great players find ways to win, like LeBron
24:27
James took at the Cavaliers all the way to the Finals against
24:30
the Spurs. Did he take his team to the next
24:32
round? Did he take his team to the
24:34
round of 32? No, he didn't.
24:36
It doesn't matter. What do you mean it doesn't
24:37
matter? It means a lot.
24:38
If you lose in the fighters or you lose in the first round.
24:41
Well, I remember when Fish came on the show quite a few times
24:44
and I want to get into these games first because I we could
24:47
talk about this all show, but Fish came on this show.
24:51
Fish has been on the show, you know, me and him have been
24:53
arguing about this take. And he said Carlos Boozer
24:57
because of his his game and in the way he's played in the round
25:01
of 64, right, and the round of 32 that he might hurt himself
25:06
when it comes to the draft. And I said, how do you figure?
25:09
Cam Boozer right now to me is player of the year.
25:12
Cam Boozer was the best all around player in all of college
25:16
basketball all season long. When you look at what he has
25:19
done, when you look at the pie, there's a pizza.
25:22
How many slices are in a pie? There's 8, OK, not one game,
25:27
Iowa State where everybody says, oh, he scored 42 and dead.
25:30
Very impressive. Cam Boozer was doing it all year
25:34
round against great. 42 and 10 all year in Earth.
25:37
He no, I'm saying he's if you're going to tell me right now Cam
25:40
Boozer wasn't a better player than AJ Debanter all season
25:42
long, then you weren't watching college basketball.
25:44
Because he walks. He walks.
25:47
What makes a Shire's system? John Shire as I could have
25:50
assisted. You're going to tell me that
25:51
John Shire's system is better? Is that what you're trying to
25:55
say? Because it's not.
25:56
You said it's a better system. It's not a better system.
25:58
It's not a good system, even if it's a little better than BYU's
26:01
coach, which it probably is, but not by much.
26:04
Thank you. That's it's better.
26:05
It's not better, it's better. It doesn't matter if it's a by
26:08
inch or a mile, it's better. It's better, correct?
26:10
It's not better and and. You don't think Duke is in a has
26:13
a better system? Than no, I don't.
26:15
No, I don't. I think.
26:16
I think Duke has better talent. That's what I think.
26:20
It's only ran by a system over. There no, it's talent.
26:24
They're recruiting class. They're no, no, no, no, no come.
26:28
On OK, come on, tell me. Where's John Shire ranked among
26:31
your best coaches in college? The fact that they had John
26:33
Shire, a top five coach in college basketball going into
26:36
this tournament made me want to throw up.
26:39
OK, because he's not. He's not.
26:42
He really isn't. And you're going to tell me
26:44
right now it's the system. OK, So you're going to tell me
26:47
that John Shire, there is recruiting class this year,
26:50
which three of the top three of the five top guys that he had
26:55
that he recruited, I think they were top 10 or top 12 players in
27:00
the whole country. And you're going to tell me it's
27:02
the system that has drawn these guys out to be a good team.
27:06
It's not. It's talent.
27:07
Talent wins ball games, does it not?
27:09
And if you're if you go. To but this is the whole point
27:13
about March Madness is because you're sometimes your talent
27:17
isn't enough. Indicated by a lot.
27:19
Of coach that got the right system and you can position
27:21
players to be successful, then you can win a you actually wear
27:25
games. OK.
27:26
You know any sport? You know, Q and I got a comment
27:29
what you said, Errol, because you mentioned my comments on
27:31
about Boozer and I love Boozer too, and I'm pretty sure he's
27:34
going to win National Player of the year.
27:35
He is the National Player of the Year.
27:37
But so is Tyler Hansborough Once Upon a time, and he didn't have
27:40
an NBA career and he plays the same position.
27:42
Tyler Hansborough wasn't a top prospect coming out going into
27:46
college. Why?
27:46
Wasn't he? So he he was a lottery pick.
27:49
He wasn't like a North. Carolina, he was.
27:52
North Carolina. I remember Tyler Hansborough.
27:54
I remember when he he went to the national championship.
27:57
I remember Tyler and and Tyler was nowhere close to the talent
28:01
Cambuser was coming out of kind of coming out of high school,
28:04
winning national state championships, being one of the
28:07
most renowned players, being that his father is Carlos
28:11
Booster. By the way, you mentioned Carlos
28:13
Boozer before we came into the show.
28:14
Q We've argued this, he's a way better player than Carlos Boozer
28:18
was in college. That's.
28:21
Hot Carlos. He tries to play like that
28:24
though, you know, And against Sienna.
28:26
Against Sienna. We're going to.
28:29
Go into accolades. We're going into one game.
28:31
We're going into one game. It was around the 64 that I was
28:35
talking about because, I mean, they obviously dominated the
28:37
next game, but Boozer had a couple of moments in that game
28:41
that were like Ben Simmons, esque as he was.
28:44
So does Luca, so does the NC. AA tournaments.
28:48
So does I like like 2 out of 3 possessions down court where it
28:51
was like what's going on with this guy?
28:53
That's weird. Luca that's.
28:55
What I'm just saying. You watch.
28:56
You watch professional basketball.
28:59
Jalen Bronson doesn't look against teams.
29:01
Certain teams, he doesn't play well against them.
29:03
The Celtics are one of those teams that play very well, play
29:07
very well. Hold on, let me, let me, let me
29:09
finish what I have to say. Let me finish what I have to
29:11
say. You mention that what Sienna did
29:14
to Cambuser was incredible. That's great.
29:17
Cambuser still scored 24 points, he still averaged 13 rebounds,
29:21
and he still hit 8 free throws at the tail end of the game to
29:25
help his team win. So no matter what they did to
29:27
him, he was a big part of the reason why they won that game.
29:31
Now you mention what they did against him, that's fine.
29:34
So let's go through all these different teams that some of
29:37
these great players have played against.
29:38
LeBron James has always had problems against the San Antonio
29:41
Spurs. Go look at his numbers.
29:43
He never played well against Greg Popovich's teams.
29:45
Why? Because Greg Popovich had a good
29:48
game plan on that, good game plan on him.
29:51
And the same thing I would say about Sienna.
29:53
You watch tape, you watch the way he plays, you're going to
29:56
defend him on his strengths and try to beat him on his
29:59
weaknesses. Now he is only going to develop
30:01
that game part of his game because he already has a shot.
30:04
He could still shoot a three-point shot, which he hit a
30:07
a few of them in this tournament tournament and he could still
30:10
shoot those 1817 and post game and dominate on the boards,
30:14
which he's done in this tournament.
30:16
So to sit here and I, this is what I hate about the the press
30:21
in the media, Everybody goes back and forth.
30:23
Well, he doesn't have the athletic gifts that Peterson
30:26
has. He doesn't have the athletic
30:28
gifts that the Banza has. Well, guess what?
30:31
You could be the most athletically gifted player.
30:33
Who's the best player in the NBA right now?
30:36
Nicola Yokich. Is he the most athletic player
30:39
in the NBA? Please.
30:41
He's probably the least athletic player in the NBA.
30:43
He's the best passer. He's one of the best shooters.
30:46
He's 1 of this. He's one of that.
30:47
He's that. So to sit here and tell me.
30:52
But here's the thing, He's in a system that allows that.
30:56
You put Nicola Yokich and on the Utah Jazz.
30:59
Is he doing the same numbers? No, but it doesn't mean he's.
31:02
Individual, no, wait, hold on, hold on one second.
31:05
Hold on one second. Hold on one second, hold on one
31:07
second. So what did you say?
31:08
What was that question? If you put Nicola Yokies at the
31:12
Utah Jazz or the Washington Wizards, OK, does he have the
31:16
same number? Absolutely.
31:18
Absolutely. No way.
31:20
Absolutely, Absolutely. Alright, alright, I'm gonna tell
31:24
you why. Missing shots.
31:25
I'm gonna tell you why. Exposed at a high level.
31:27
I'm gonna tell you why they. Have Eric Gordon and they have
31:30
that system around him. Benefits.
31:33
OK, OK, so let me let me give you some throws that you don't
31:38
maybe you don't watch when when I watch the Nuggets play, I have
31:41
watched him play without Jamal Murray.
31:44
I've seen him many, many times play without Porter and Aaron
31:47
Gordon, all these guys, and he's still putting up a triple
31:50
double. So you're going to tell me right
31:51
now if you went to Utah where he's going to get more shots,
31:54
more passes, more rebounds, he's not going to have a better a
31:59
better number chart. Those those things don't happen
32:02
like that no more. What are you?
32:03
Talking about it happens all the time.
32:05
Around you, you don't have Jamal Murray, you don't have Gordon,
32:09
you don't have these things. They're attributes.
32:11
So can he do it when they're the guys get hurt or they step
32:15
outside of a game? Yes, absolutely.
32:17
That's what he's a superstar. So yes, he can do that.
32:19
He can have a game or two. You just said it.
32:22
Could he do it in the? System.
32:24
So you're telling me, who is Jamal Murray on the Washington
32:28
Wizards right now? What do you what do you mean?
32:31
Who is Jamal Murray? On what talent, What level of
32:33
talent do we have on the Washington Wizards right now?
32:36
What talent I. Mean, I guess it's, you know.
32:38
Anybody Trey, Yon, Davis, I mean Davis, OK, they they have, they
32:45
have some good talent. They're just not playing this
32:47
year because they want a high draft pick.
32:49
But they Got Talent. The other *.
32:52
Got it. So who do you beat that they
32:53
could beat if they didn't want a high draft pick?
32:56
If they get, if they get one, if they get Cam Boozer or AJ the
33:01
Banzer, you're talking about the Wizards.
33:04
You asked me. You're asking me if they got one
33:06
of these three guys, could they win?
33:08
Could they automatically be a playoff team?
33:10
Absolutely, 100%, a hundred percent, 100%.
33:15
If if they get one of these three guys, they're
33:17
automatically a playoff team. Based off what metric?
33:21
What metric? Davis is a good all around big
33:24
man. He is if he stays healthy.
33:26
Anthony Davis is a good player, yeah.
33:28
He's going to give you 20 and 10 and Trey Young is going to give
33:31
you 23 and probably 8 assists and seven rebounds with that
33:37
team. And you have to.
33:38
Who fits better for the Wizards? Who fits better?
33:40
Who fits better for the Wizards? Who fits better for the Wizards?
33:45
I would. I would think AJ Dabanza would
33:47
fit better with the Wizards. With the Wizards, yeah, I do.
33:51
I'll tell you. Do you want me Because Trey
33:52
Young is a three-point shooter, Anthony Davis is a rebounder.
33:56
He's a perimeter guy that goes in and you need an athletically
33:59
got an athletic guy that you can you can put him on the three,
34:02
you can put him on the four. You can move him around because
34:04
he's so athletic. He could do a lot of things
34:06
around the perimeter that you want a star to do and and and be
34:10
a good rebounder, which he's a good rebounder.
34:12
Him and Anthony Davis would be dominant under the basket.
34:16
So I would think the Banzer would fit better with the
34:18
Wizards. I with Boozer, Boozer fits
34:22
better with a lot of teams. He would fit very well.
34:26
And I'm I'm being serious. If if you look at Indiana,
34:29
they're they're and he would fit very well with them.
34:31
The Pelicans. He would fit very well over
34:33
there too. No, why not?
34:36
He would fit well with Indiana for sure.
34:37
Pelicans. No.
34:38
Why not? It's.
34:39
A graveyard site. Why not?
34:40
It's a graveyard site, him and Zion.
34:45
Zion will. They'll trade Zion.
34:48
They were trade Zion. They're going to trade Zion.
34:50
Franchise Player. They're going to trade him.
34:53
They they tried to trade him last year, they tried to trade
34:57
him last year. They're going to move him.
34:59
Well, until we see different, then we got to go.
35:01
They're going to move him for a point guard, they're going to
35:03
bring a point guard in that's going to be able to play with
35:06
Cam. And if not, what they'll do,
35:08
especially if Kaden goes into the draft this year, he'll be a
35:12
second round draft pick. They'll just draft his brother.
35:14
That's what they'll do. That's what the Pelicans are
35:17
going to do if whoever drafts Cam Boozer and if Kaden goes
35:20
into the draft, he's not a first round talent.
35:22
Whoever drafts Cam is drafting Kaden.
35:25
If he goes into this year's draft, you could book it that
35:29
there's no doubt in my mind that's the route they're going.
35:33
To go the inside is that they wore 2 ends on the team on the
35:37
roster. I just I'm telling you that's
35:39
what's. Going to happen just the same
35:41
for all all all teams. Well, I want to go through the
35:44
tournament. I, I, we, we made an argument.
35:46
I want to go through these games because that's why we're here.
35:48
And the St. John's game, the St.
35:50
John's game was Dylan darling was the darling.
35:53
And he's really been the darling of this team all season long.
35:56
He's been the backbone of this team.
35:57
You saw when he hit that layup at the end of the game, how the
36:00
players came to him. And, and even when they
36:03
interviewed him, he said, I knew I had it in me.
36:05
I knew I had it in me. I haven't been hitting a shot
36:07
all game long, but I knew when I when we were out there and the
36:11
coach was asking us who wants the shot, he says I want to take
36:14
the shot. And the coach looked at Rick or
36:17
whatever coach looked at me and said you haven't had a shot all
36:19
game. And he says I, I, I believe I
36:22
have the ability to get that shot off.
36:24
And he did. He got the shot off with his
36:25
right hand. That was what was so impressive
36:27
about Dylan Darling. He's a left-handed shooter.
36:30
He usually goes up with his left hand.
36:32
And Pitino said at the end of the game, he says he never goes
36:35
up with his right. So when he went up with his
36:36
right, I was, you know, I was shocked.
36:39
But when it went in, I was like, you know, I was ecstatic.
36:43
So it was it was fun to watch Pitino and his reaction.
36:48
I have never seen Rick Pitino over the years, the coaching
36:51
with Louisville and Kentucky, all the great things that he has
36:55
done, national championships that he's won.
36:57
I've never seen him react like that.
37:00
Never, never see him jump high and, and smile and laugh and,
37:04
and, and it was just so exciting.
37:06
And they just, they just got into the Sweet 16.
37:08
This is the first sweet, Sweet 16.
37:12
What was it? Appearance.
37:13
No, not even appearance. What's the word?
37:15
I had it stuck in my head. But I, I, I'll figure it out.
37:19
But this is the first time they've been in the Sweet 16 for
37:22
almost it's almost been 20 years, maybe more than that.
37:25
It's been a long, long time since St.
37:27
John's. St.
37:28
John's has had an opportunity to play for a national championship
37:31
because usually you got to get into the Sweet 16 to get into
37:34
the lead 8 and lead 8 to the Final four and to that
37:36
championship and now they have their spot.
37:38
Last year, Pitino thought that that team was good enough to at
37:41
least get into the Sweet 16. Arkansas was the team that beat
37:45
St. John's last year, and now
37:47
Arkansas has an opportunity to move on and and who they matched
37:51
up against. Arizona.
37:53
Arizona and Arizona, which is Fish's favorite and a lot of
37:56
people's favorite to win the tournament.
37:58
Arkansas to me and I, I'll say this, this is the first game
38:03
Arkansas played. I'm sorry, who did Arkansas
38:07
play? They just played high points.
38:08
High Point Martin And who's the other kid from Arkansas?
38:12
Acuff. This is the first time that two
38:16
players scored 30 points on opposing teams in the same game
38:21
since 1980. Seven, 1987 was that was This is
38:26
the first time that's ever happened.
38:29
Whatever happened in an NCAA March Madness game.
38:33
Think about that. That's over 30 years ago, 30
38:37
years ago. And Darius Acuff, if he decides
38:43
to come out of this year's draft, is moving up in the
38:46
lottery. He he could he could get into
38:48
the lottery for the if he continues to play this way and
38:52
if Arkansas could move on against Arizona and he's the
38:56
reason why you're talking about. And we've seen players move up
39:00
in the draft now, right now going into this year's class, he
39:03
wasn't a top ten pick. He's probably in the teens, I
39:08
would say 1516. But after the game that he just
39:11
had against high point and high point's a good defending team.
39:15
They're a good team. And and Arkansas looked very,
39:18
very tired in the game. They were very, very tired.
39:21
It looked like what they were playing on fumes and that maybe
39:25
because of their championship run and all that other stuff.
39:29
Arkansas and you got to give John Calipari a little bit of
39:32
credit because John Calipari for years has always gotten the top
39:38
recruits from Kentucky, always been favored to go into the
39:42
Final Four or a national championship.
39:44
Nerlens know well, we go through it.
39:46
Anthony Davis, all these guys that he has coached and Matt,
39:50
you know, and obviously Cousins or John Wall, all these guys,
39:56
these guys became superstars in the NBA, great players in the
39:59
NBA. He coached these guys and he got
40:02
them to the promised land. He got them to the championship
40:04
game and they had to win it. John Calipari, what he's done in
40:08
the last two years, taking this team, Arkansas, not just once
40:13
but twice to the Sweet 16 is absolutely incredible.
40:19
This is a This was a bad program.
40:22
This was a program that barely got into the tournament over the
40:25
last couple of years and now back-to-back years and they just
40:29
snuck into the tournament last year.
40:32
What were they, Ten seed? I believe they were 9.
40:35
They, they, and I thought they were valued higher than they
40:38
should have been last year. And the way they and they beat
40:42
St. John's, one of the better teams
40:45
all season long, defensively sound and they completely
40:47
crushed him on the boards offensively in that game.
40:51
This game, High Point had a chance.
40:55
They had a chance. And that's the thing.
40:58
Now everybody says, well, High Point's not Arizona.
41:01
Well, what does that mean? If a cuff has a game like that
41:04
and they're getting timely shooting and they can hit their
41:07
free throws, there's no doubt in my mind.
41:10
And they're a good rebounding team.
41:11
Arkansas, they're a big, strong team.
41:14
Arizona's had problems against big teams.
41:17
They've always had problems against big teams.
41:21
So you're going against Arkansas, a very, very respected
41:26
coach in college basketball and even in the NBA.
41:29
New York native. I'll tell you this about John
41:32
Calipari. He's not going to go in this go
41:35
into a game where he's looking at Arizona and he's scared of
41:38
him. He's going to go into this game.
41:40
They've got time. They got four games.
41:42
They have four days off before they have to play.
41:44
I think they play on Thursday. That's more than enough time to
41:49
get this team healthy and ready to play against an Arizona team.
41:53
Yeah, they look they it's really been an easy run all the way to
41:56
the Sweet 16 for them. But now it's going to get hard.
41:59
They got to play Arkansas and then they might have to play
42:02
Purdue. And Purdue is playing great
42:04
basketball right now. Arkansas is playing good
42:07
basketball right now. And I'm going to tell you right
42:09
now, if there's any team that I believe speedy Arizona should be
42:13
afraid of, it is Arkansas. And.
42:15
I had that upset with Arkansas and because I know Jean Kalapari
42:19
can slow that pace down if he has to, he could play fast with
42:22
this team. This is not a traditional
42:24
Kentucky type team that Arkansas has.
42:25
They're they're playing a lot faster.
42:27
They had to do that to play high point because high point plays a
42:28
very fast-paced game. They shoot a lot of threes and
42:31
they had to keep up with them for a while and he conf was
42:33
obviously the challenge. He's going to be a top ten pick
42:34
for a reason as well. You think he's a top ten pick?
42:37
He looks like he's going to be and.
42:38
Because before the tournament they said there was no
42:40
guarantees. Yes, he was a teen type.
42:42
He was. A fringe 1, I think he's really
42:44
elevating his stock a little more.
42:45
I think Tennessee's K with a Mint got a little more hype at
42:48
the time. Obviously the kid, the kids on
42:49
Arizona, they're going to get a lot of hype.
42:51
And like you said, the international ones are going to
42:52
get a lot of hype. So there wasn't.
42:53
They're saying the first international player in this
42:56
year's class could fall all the way to 16 or 17.
42:59
Yeah, it's. It's definitely possible.
43:01
And. Performances like this are going
43:02
to are going to highlight that and I'm curious if Arkansas's
43:05
defense will be able to adjust because there Arizona's going to
43:08
play a lot of different types of paces because they have great
43:10
size and depth with everything. And obviously Barry's the kid
43:13
they have it because he's really good at shooting the three ball
43:14
as well. And they showed that in the
43:16
second-half against Utah State. They struggled in the beginning
43:18
of that game with Utah State because Utah State had a defense
43:21
that was playing well and contesting a lot of those shots,
43:24
but Arizona eventually pulled away.
43:25
But like you said, Arkansas can definitely play that type of
43:28
style as well and do what makes them scary as well is they're
43:32
finding that defense they had in previous year.
43:34
This is a more offensive centric Purdue team and they held Miami
43:37
to just 69 points, forcing a lot of bad shots.
43:39
They had one big run at the end of the first half of Miami and
43:41
that was really it. And Purdue, this is the best
43:44
offensive team that they've had in Matt Painter's time there.
43:47
And that's a scary thing. I had Gonzaga, I was wrong on
43:50
that. They were just terrible the
43:51
whole game. Texas, I told you about Gonzaga.
43:54
I told you about Gonzaga. I don't trust that team.
43:57
They don't play well as they go deeper into the tournament.
44:00
Yeah, this was their first time out of the Sweet 16 since 2014.
44:04
And, and to me, and that, that says a lot about the team and,
44:07
and the way they recruit players.
44:08
They like to keep players for a significant amount of time and
44:11
they work themselves in as, as they become juniors and
44:15
sophomores into juniors and then into seniors.
44:18
The Gonzaga is a team. And, and again going into that
44:21
game, and I'll say this about Gonzaga, I, I, I like Gonzaga.
44:25
I, I do. But Texas, what they did in the
44:27
game and in Texas throughout the tournament, especially in the
44:30
first round, I was worried about Texas.
44:32
Texas did not play well in the first round.
44:34
They did not, but really at the tail end of the season,
44:38
especially their season, Ted, there was a lot of questions.
44:41
Could they get enough offense? That's why they were ranked.
44:43
They were eleven seed Texas early in the season.
44:46
They were playing good basketball and they kind of fell
44:48
off. They lost a lot of bad games and
44:51
they have a tremendous amount of offensive talent on that team.
44:54
And what they needed to do against Gonzaga is they needed
44:57
to control the boards and they needed to shoot and that's what
45:00
they did against Gonzaga. Gonzaga had no answers, no
45:03
answers for Texas in that game. I watched bits and pieces that
45:06
game and I knew that Texas was going to run away with the game
45:09
and and they did. Even though the game looked
45:11
close, it wasn't even close. Yeah, because I always take a
45:13
lot of bad shots. Texas was forcing them very
45:15
well. Like you said, I was worried
45:17
about Texas size against Gonzaga.
45:18
There's a lot of size and a good experience, but they definitely
45:21
out rebounded him and that's a big thing for them if they're
45:23
going to have to play Purdue because Purdue has cloughed that
45:26
big man. It's 7 foot one I.
45:29
Believe they always have a big. Yeah, they always do, but it's
45:31
weird. Again, it's more offensive,
45:33
efficient team for Purdue this year.
45:34
So it might be a good formula of everything.
45:36
Now, now that being said, they still can't take it for granted
45:38
the way the Texas played. And they got a good coach too.
45:39
And Sean Miller, like obviously Calipari is the best coach in
45:42
that region. Then you're looking at probably
45:43
2 next similar level coaches right there with Sean Miller and
45:46
Matt Painter, who's been pretty good for a while, but both of
45:48
them have trouble getting to the Final Four.
45:50
That's where they're stuck. And obviously Purdue did two
45:51
years. Coaching is the most important
45:53
when it comes to this tournament.
45:54
Everybody says it's talent and it's not.
45:57
It's coaching. Look at John Shire.
45:59
Look what happened last year in the Final Four.
46:01
There was 2 minutes left. He couldn't get the ball in.
46:04
He could not get the ball in. How many timeouts he couldn't
46:07
get that ball in and that cost them.
46:09
Remember, they were up by 10 points with a minute and 30
46:12
seconds left. How does the team come back?
46:14
How does the Houston team that really is not known for their
46:17
offense come back the way they did against the Duke Blue
46:20
Devils, who absolutely outplayed them that whole game?
46:23
Absolutely. So again, it comes to coaching,
46:27
especially in these important games.
46:28
Calipari, Pitino, Hurley, all these guys that we mentioned,
46:33
not John Shire, guys, I'm not putting him there until John
46:36
Shire tells me he can win the big game and shows me that he
46:38
can win the big game. I don't believe and I'm going to
46:41
sell. I'm going to tell everybody out
46:42
there that watches college basketball religiously more than
46:45
I do. I will say this, you could be a
46:48
Duke Blue Devil fan. You could be a North Carolina
46:49
fan. It, you can't lie to yourself,
46:53
Hubert Davis is going to lose his job.
46:56
He doesn't belong there at North Carolina.
46:58
He got the job because he was a North Carolina native and the
47:03
the committee loved him and they thought, hey, this guy was an
47:06
NBA player, successful NBA player.
47:08
He worked on, he worked as an assistant coach on North
47:12
Carolina for many, many years and he deserved the opportunity.
47:16
Same thing with John Shire. But here's the problem.
47:18
And I have a story that I put out today.
47:21
Well, Speedy put it out for me on comparing John Shire to JJ
47:24
Redick. And how did JJ Reddick get his
47:27
job, LeBron James? And how did Shire get his job,
47:31
Coach K? And if you compare what these
47:34
guys have done in professional in the NBA and the NCAA, they're
47:39
both failures. What has in two years, what has
47:43
JJ Reddick done? What has he produced?
47:45
Nothing. And what is he producing?
47:47
What, He's on a 10 game-winning streak and Luka Doncic is hot
47:50
and LeBron James and him are playing well.
47:52
That's what's going to sell that.
47:53
That's going to tell me that they're going to be an NBA
47:55
champion this year. I'm not trusting JJ Redick.
47:58
And as far as coach Shire, it don't matter if they get to the
48:01
Elite 8 like I think they are. Shire is not a good play in
48:06
coach. He's not X's and O's.
48:09
I'm betting against Shire if he's playing UConn and Danny
48:12
Hurley. If Danny Hurley moves out and so
48:15
does Shire and Duke move on and they match up in the Elite Eight
48:18
against UConn, they don't have a chance.
48:21
And you're seeing that kind of thing with adjustments with
48:22
these veteran coaches in other regions as well.
48:24
When I was worried about Houston with their offense.
48:26
And I think I think match up wise when they play Texas AM
48:29
they care to everything Texas A&M did in the last game and
48:31
their coach didn't adjust. Calvin Sampson was the complete
48:34
opposite. Made sure that they were
48:35
comfortable with the offense that they played too.
48:37
And same kind of thing with Michigan State.
48:38
I had Louisville winning that game because I like the way that
48:41
their depth was in that. And Qi know you're being a North
48:43
Carolina fan, you've probably seen some of Louisville and
48:46
their new style in the ACC and Michigan State had a style that
48:49
seemed very old school. But Tom Izzo was able to adjust
48:51
and get them comfortable in terms of shooting.
48:53
Freeze getting the free throw line enough in that game and now
48:56
they'll be taking on, like you said, UConn in that next round
48:58
who played, didn't play great. That whole game struggled.
49:01
That was a back and forth game until really the end, but a big
49:03
takeover I'm not. Worried about UConn?
49:06
I'm really not. I'm.
49:06
Not worried about UConn? I'm not.
49:09
UConn it's weird because it was Reid that dominated all in the
49:12
first game. It was really lopsided
49:14
comparatively. Like it's a little more talents
49:15
ever you see with Hurley teams, but Hurley is one of those
49:17
coaches you can trust to be able to get that we've seen.
49:20
This before when they won national championships, when
49:22
they won back-to-back national championships, there were games
49:25
that the games were so close you were biting your nails all the
49:28
way to the end of the game. I trust Danny Hurley on the way
49:31
he coaches and the way he has built his teams to find a way to
49:35
win. Pitino still has to prove that
49:37
with St. John's.
49:39
He did it. He did it in the last round with
49:41
Darling and that was to me, it was very impressive what Darling
49:45
did because he couldn't have shot the whole game.
49:48
Dylan Darling did not have shot the whole game.
49:50
I think he was O for like 8 OK. 1:00 and 5:00.
49:54
Well, one and five, whatever. So he was O and he was O for
49:57
five or O for four. And then he, he, he decides to
50:00
take the shot at the end of the game.
50:02
Well, Pintino obviously say, OK, take the shot because there's no
50:06
way he would have, he would have went up and and took the shot if
50:08
Pitino didn't say that he could. So I to me that was impressive.
50:13
But I want to see him do it against an elite team, do it
50:16
against Duke, if you could do it against Duke.
50:18
I. Think he going to do?
50:19
It OK how much you want to bet? What happened?
50:23
He's bet all right. Let's bet you I don't know why.
50:26
How you a Duke fan but still hate the coach?
50:27
No, everybody asked me that same question and it's it's a it's a
50:31
very it's a very easy question. And I'm going to give you an
50:35
easy answer. John Shire has always been the
50:39
other guy on that roster. Even when he won a national
50:41
championship, everyone's like, well, he was a good shooter.
50:43
He did he did it. So was JJ Redick and what did he
50:46
win? OK, I don't want to hear it.
50:48
That's why I made AI had a story about behind both of these guys.
50:51
They're all coach gay guys and and both of them were handed the
50:55
keys to a a nice Lamborghini. OK, that's what it is.
50:59
The Lakers are are the probably the most respected NBA team in
51:04
NBA history. And right now you can argue your
51:06
point. The Duke Blue Devils are
51:08
probably the biggest in college basketball in the last 40 years.
51:12
So and probably the most hated, just like the Lakers.
51:15
Now you have two Duke Blue Devils running those those
51:17
teams, 11 that's running a college team, the other one's
51:21
running an NBA team and they're both failures.
51:23
They have one nothing. Nothing everybody brags about.
51:26
Well, look what JJ Redick's doing right now.
51:28
And look at LeBron. The only reason why he has his
51:30
job because of LeBron James. That's the facts.
51:33
So you telling me he didn't go through the hiring process at
51:36
all? No, not really, no.
51:39
No, what evidence you having that?
51:41
I I don't need evidence. I'm telling you what happened.
51:43
You got to have some evidence. What?
51:45
Do you want So you're going to tell me right now?
51:47
You're going to tell me right now first.
51:48
Of all LeBron stabbed him, but he.
51:50
Would no. Danny Hurley was going to get
51:52
the job. Danny Hurley was going to get
51:55
the job, but they didn't want to pay him 20 something,
51:56
$1,000,000. He wanted 20 something,
51:58
$1,000,000 to leave UConn. He was not going to leave.
52:02
He was not going to leave UConn unless he was getting that kind
52:04
of money and be the highest paid coach in the NBA.
52:07
They weren't giving it to him. So then they were, they were
52:10
they put all. Their.
52:12
They put all their eggs in that basket.
52:14
They thought they were getting Danny Hurley because Danny
52:16
Hurley went to visit them not once but twice, and they thought
52:20
he was going, they were going to seal the deal and they were
52:21
going to close in on a contract. He said no.
52:24
OK. Then all the coaches were hired.
52:27
After that, everybody went somewhere.
52:29
So who did they had the lead to? They went to LeBron James.
52:32
Who do you want to be coached by?
52:33
Because there was nobody. There was no Luca on that team.
52:36
Luca wasn't on that team. Mark Jackson hasn't been hired
52:40
since he got fired from Golden State.
52:44
Jeff Gundy has never been hired since he left Houston.
52:48
Since he's left Houston. But it just shows.
52:51
There was no process. He was the only one available
52:55
that LeBron James wanted to be coached by there again, if it
52:58
was Luca, if Luca was there at on that roster, no way in hell
53:01
JJ Reddick gets hired. And I'm going to tell you this
53:04
right now, no matter how good, no matter how good they play
53:07
throughout the playoffs, when LeBron leaves next year, so will
53:10
JJ Reddick. You could book it.
53:12
You could sell that and wrap it up like a nice Christmas gift.
53:15
Who are they going to get? I don't know, but it's not going
53:18
to be JJ Reddick. It's going to be what Luka
53:19
Doncic wants. Maybe Jason Kennedy gets fired.
53:22
From Dallas, no doubt about it. I'm telling you right now, you
53:26
can book it. They're they're taking
53:29
everything right now besides flag.
53:30
And how about how about the Nebraska game?
53:32
Oh yeah. How about the Nebraska game?
53:34
I I haven't reached out to Jabba.
53:36
I have not reached out to Jabba yet because I know his son's
53:39
best friend plays for Nebraska and I call him the Cornholes.
53:46
Well, they were shooting a lot like that in that.
53:48
Game. Oh boy, oh boy, were they
53:50
putting on a clinic. They really were.
53:52
And Vanderbilt, they had a chance at the end of the game to
53:55
hit that shot and it looked like it was going in.
53:57
It looked like it was going to roll right in.
53:59
And it reminds me of a team Coach Stevens was coaching.
54:05
Remember that? And it was against Duke in a
54:06
national championship. Do you remember who shot that
54:09
ball? Gordon Hayward.
54:10
Gordon Hayward. Hayward, who was The Who is
54:13
another Celtic, if you remember failure over there with the
54:18
Celtics because it can stay healthy.
54:19
Yeah, got hurt his first game. Yeah, but I mean, that's what it
54:22
reminded me as. And and that came failure.
54:28
He he was a failure with the the Celtics.
54:31
They paid him a lot of money. What did he do?
54:32
He got hurt. He got hurt and he got a lot of
54:35
money, got $140 million. Hey listen, if I could get hurt
54:39
and win, win myself a lottery of 140. $1,000,000.
54:43
They're paid, period. This isn't.
54:46
That paid off. This isn't the NFL.
54:49
This is not the NFL, buddy. You're guaranteed you can't
54:53
predict the feature you think they want to get hurt so you get
54:57
paid based off your production, what you already proving to them
55:00
and what they expect you. To do so, he produced over there
55:03
in what was it, Utah. OK, so he produced in Utah.
55:07
So you know what? Danny Ainges loved him so much
55:10
he gave him $148 million. Get out of here.
55:13
You're on drugs. Yeah.
55:16
You know what the hell it goes? It goes that Danny Ainge is a
55:18
complete moron. He made a mistake and just paid
55:21
some somebody $148 million for nothing.
55:23
That's what he did. I can't stand Danny Ainge so.
55:27
No. No way.
55:27
No. It's written all over your face.
55:29
Yeah, well, thank you. If you want me, if you want me
55:31
to be a clown, I can do that too.
55:33
Anyways, the go back to the Nebraska game.
55:36
I, I was so impressed with Nebraska throughout this game
55:39
and throughout the tournament. A team that was a number four
55:42
seed. Some people thought they were
55:44
ranked a little too high. I was one of them.
55:46
I thought they were more of a, a six seed.
55:48
That's where I thought they were.
55:50
They played sensational basketball all season long, but
55:52
at the tail end of the season, they were up and down there.
55:56
There were games that they should have pulled off and they
55:58
didn't pull off. And then going against
56:00
Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt was a, a favorite team, a team that a lot
56:03
of people thought could have gotten into the Elite 8, maybe
56:06
beat Houston, maybe get into the Final four.
56:08
I mean, they have all the, they have everything to, to, to win.
56:12
I mean, as far as defense is concerned and rebounding and
56:16
scoring, they got it and they're very well coached, very well
56:19
coached. But to watch Nebraska put on a
56:21
clinic, especially in the second-half, the way they shot
56:23
the ball was very, very impressive.
56:26
It really was. And the game was back and forth.
56:28
It it was just this was probably besides the Saint John games
56:31
because everybody in New York was watching a Saint John's
56:34
game, but the the Saint John's game.
56:36
But this game was probably the best all around game so far this
56:41
tournament. Yeah, it's battle tested that
56:43
the big a lot of these Big 10 teams are showing.
56:45
Then Nebraska, the reason why they kind of slipped at the end
56:48
of the season was a lot of their conference play.
56:50
They struggled in and that's why I think they were projected 3
56:52
seed for a while then fell to a four seed.
56:54
I agree with you. I was thinking they're going to
56:55
be a five seed originally, but they still lived up to a
56:58
Vanderbilt started slow and I think they're offensive.
57:01
Steven, in the first game they struggled with McNeese.
57:03
They really started slow and they had to get a big run even
57:05
to get back into the game. Nebraska played a very complete
57:07
game the whole time and they have a coach and Fred Hoiberg
57:09
that has a lot of tournament experience, a lot of negative
57:11
experience with Iowa State, but tournament experiences.
57:13
You're getting your second wind, I guess, getting that team to go
57:16
and they played with a lot of three-point shooting.
57:18
They hit a lot of tough shots. This is a really good team that
57:20
is playing like they did at the beginning of the season.
57:22
Vanderbilt, I thought they I had them in the Final Four because
57:25
they've experienced good size and played good competition.
57:27
I was just beating Florida and then they just got.
57:29
Caught. How about How about the story of
57:31
Hoiberg and his son? Yeah, going to the Sweet 16.
57:34
He's a great passer. Like they really, they moved
57:36
that offense really effectively against a team in Vanderbilt has
57:39
a good perimeter defense. A lot of people were questioning
57:41
his son and why he made this team and why he made this
57:44
roster. And he has proved himself
57:46
throughout this tournament to be a very important factor to this
57:50
team success. And, and Hoiberg, who I, I think
57:53
is, is still a coach that's figuring things out and, and
57:57
slowly but surely getting this team to play the game that he
58:00
wanted them to play last year and, and kind of fell short for
58:04
the tournament. Now you're seeing all the, all
58:07
the ability that this team has in the, the, the perception is,
58:10
is that this team going in and moving into the next round and
58:13
who they're matched up against in the next round, which is Iowa
58:18
and Iowa, who is is been, and I'll say this, Iowa was
58:21
sensational. They were sensational throughout
58:25
their game and they can def, they could defend, they can
58:27
score, they can do everything. Iowa sensational watch and Iowa
58:31
might be one of the most dangerous teams in this
58:33
tournament. Still, they, they, I, I, I could
58:36
see Iowa going to the Final Four if they can, if they can
58:39
continue to play at this pace and the way they're playing,
58:41
they could beat any team in this tournament.
58:45
And I and I, I love the way that some of these games really have
58:49
gone, even though they're a lot of them have been blowouts, like
58:51
the Kentucky game, that was an absolute Iowa State.
58:54
What Iowa State did against Kentucky was just absolutely
58:58
appalling. And Kentucky, who's been always
59:01
a good recruiting school and ever since John Calipari left
59:03
them, I don't know what's going on with that program.
59:05
That program is not. Good.
59:06
Yet they're still one of the highest funded teams in the SEC.
59:09
Well, of course, because they've been one of the most known
59:13
commodities over here in college basketball.
59:15
When you think of college basketball, who do you think of?
59:18
You think of Duke, North Carolina and Kentucky.
59:21
Those are the three schools. Those are the three basketball
59:25
schools that have been on top of the world.
59:27
And those are the teams. And then you have the Indiana
59:29
Hoosiers. I mean, there are teams that
59:32
they're not a football school even though they won a national
59:34
championship, but they're more they're more known for their
59:37
basketball. Wisconsin is also a very good
59:40
basketball school. Kansas, too, is another good
59:42
school with Bob Sells, Bill Sells or Bob Sell Self.
59:46
Bill Self. I'm sorry, Bill Self, but I
59:49
think that obviously what we watch, and also Alabama, it's
59:53
been very impressive what Alabama has done.
59:54
Yeah. I was going to say their coach
59:56
in Nate Oates is probably the best one left, maybe that maybe
59:59
besides Calvin Sampson that hasn't won a championship yet.
1:00:02
The Alabama had like the 11th highest budget in the SEC for
1:00:06
basketball and they're a Sweet 16 team and kind of thought of
1:00:09
as a team in transition this year.
1:00:10
Still good, but not the same level of the powerhouses that
1:00:12
you saw with Florida and Vanderbilt.
1:00:15
Even Tennessee and down here too, and they were very
1:00:16
impressive against Virginia had more money than them and they
1:00:20
put together a team that went to the Sweet 16 and they look scary
1:00:23
too on offense. They're the number one scoring
1:00:25
team in the country. Now they can play defense too.
1:00:27
To go along with that. They're definitely a scary one.
1:00:29
Iowa State, like you said, a scary one that now they play
1:00:31
face Tennessee, two really good defensive teams in that battle
1:00:34
and they played dominating on Kentucky the whole game in
1:00:37
Kentucky's budget. Yeah, it looks really bad.
1:00:39
Right now, I'm telling you right now, you watch out for Iowa.
1:00:41
They they hit that game-winning shot against Florida.
1:00:43
They knocked off the number one seed.
1:00:45
They can be very, very dangerous.
1:00:46
They are confident. They believe that they can beat
1:00:49
anybody in this tournament. You heard after the game,
1:00:52
especially when they were speaking to the media, how
1:00:54
confident they are. I'm telling you this, that's all
1:00:56
you need. You not you not go for number
1:00:58
one seed. You, you have the confidence all
1:01:00
the way to a national championship.
1:01:02
So that's all you need is that little, little kick in the ass.
1:01:05
And and that's what we've seen in this tournament.
1:01:07
It's been a lot of blowouts and, and by the way, Virginia, that
1:01:11
was embarrassing. Virginia has been a good
1:01:14
basketball school and and a great defensive school for many,
1:01:18
many years. Really didn't have offense.
1:01:19
This year was the first year that I could say they, they had
1:01:22
a dual type of team. They can shoot, they can score,
1:01:25
they can defend, they could do everything and rebound and do
1:01:28
what. But after losing against Duke in
1:01:31
the ACC championship with the two injuries that Duke had, the
1:01:35
two major injuries that Duke had and losing that way, I, I just
1:01:39
think they lost a lot of confidence.
1:01:41
Virginia was not confident going into this tournament.
1:01:44
And, and you saw it, Virginia playing a Tennessee team that
1:01:47
they were better than they're better than Tennessee.
1:01:50
And Tennessee scored. They were they were playing
1:01:54
above the game the whole game. They and then Virginia came back
1:01:58
at the tail end of the game. They they, they they fought back
1:02:01
into the game and finally got the lead.
1:02:03
They got a one point lead and then what happens?
1:02:05
They choked again. They could not defend and it
1:02:07
could not rebound. The offensive rebounding from
1:02:12
just completely from Tennessee would just dominate.
1:02:15
They just dominated the boards. They did everything they needed
1:02:18
to do to win that game, and Tennessee isn't.
1:02:20
Who do they match up against next?
1:02:21
Now that now gets Iowa State. Those are two really.
1:02:23
Good. I think Iowa State's going to
1:02:26
blow them out. I think Iowa State's going to
1:02:28
blow Tennessee out. I just you watch.
1:02:32
Iowa State's going to blow Tennessee out.
1:02:34
Tennessee is a team. How much?
1:02:35
Let's mark it down right now. How?
1:02:37
Much you want to bet, how much you want to bet?
1:02:39
No, how much they're going to beat, they're going to blow them
1:02:42
out. Seven or 878 points.
1:02:46
All right, All right. Well, when St.
1:02:47
John's loses against Duke, when St.
1:02:49
John's loses against Duke and Iowa State beats Tennessee, I'm
1:02:53
going to tell you. I told you.
1:02:54
Something No, you said blowout. You didn't say beat.
1:02:57
It depends on who's making shots.
1:02:58
Mark Marks. All right, all right.
1:03:00
I'm going to say Iowa State beats them by 7 or 8 points.
1:03:04
That's a blowout. That's a blowout in college
1:03:06
basketball in in Sweet 16, yes, that's a blowout.
1:03:11
OK, that's a blowout. So you got 7 to 8, we're going
1:03:13
to clip it and we're going to bring that to bring that back
1:03:16
up. Well, who do you have?
1:03:18
Who do you have winning Iowa State?
1:03:20
I got Tennessee winning that one.
1:03:22
OK. All right.
1:03:23
And you have St. John's winning the other one.
1:03:25
For sure. OK.
1:03:26
So just the opposite, you know, I'm usually right.
1:03:28
You usually. Yeah.
1:03:29
OK, OK. Makes sense.
1:03:31
I'll remember you said that. I'll remember, I remember you
1:03:34
said that. So I'll be throwing curve balls
1:03:36
at you after Thursday and Friday, my friend.
1:03:39
But I, I, I will say this, Arizona has the has had the
1:03:43
easiest, easiest way to the the Sweet 16 and they got it.
1:03:48
They're going to, they have Arkansas and if they beat
1:03:51
Arkansas, they still have to play it.
1:03:52
Whoever wins the Purdue game, but I think Purdue should win.
1:03:56
I think they're matched up against Texas.
1:03:57
They're matching with Texas now. Here's the thing though.
1:03:59
If Texas does beat Purdue, it would be funny to see Sean
1:04:01
Miller versus Arizona. Yeah, that's not going.
1:04:03
To happen, I don't think so either, but.
1:04:05
I, I, I think it's going to be Purdue and whoever else comes
1:04:09
out of the Arkansas and Arizona game.
1:04:11
And I have the, I have the Boilers winning everything.
1:04:14
I, I, I really do I, I, I think, I think they match up very well
1:04:19
against Arizona. I think they match up very well
1:04:21
against Arkansas. I and what they have done in
1:04:24
this tournament, they've played consistent.
1:04:26
They have been the most consistent team in this
1:04:29
tournament. If you, if you're watching the
1:04:30
tournament right now, what Smith is doing right now and he's
1:04:34
going to be, he's going to be a first round draft pick.
1:04:36
He's not going to be a high first round draft pick.
1:04:38
He'll be a late first round draft pick.
1:04:40
But I think Braden has proven himself to be an asset for an
1:04:44
NBA team to look at him and, and, and be John Stockton type
1:04:49
of player. I, I think he's that kind of
1:04:50
player. I think he could play that type
1:04:52
of game in the NBA. He's not going to score a lot of
1:04:54
points, but if he gives you 12 and 14.
1:04:57
So what, So what? He might not be 6 foot tall
1:05:00
though he. He's 6 foot.
1:05:03
He's considered 6 foot. He's considered 6 foot.
1:05:06
There's a lot of guys who were considered 6 foot over the
1:05:08
years, but they have to have elitist athleticism.
1:05:11
The last though, don't you think?
1:05:12
Mugsy Bogues, remember him? He had a lead 5 three guy.
1:05:18
Mugsy Bogues is one of them. I can name Alan Iverson.
1:05:21
Was 6. Alan Iverson was six.
1:05:24
What do you mean we're not in that era?
1:05:26
Alan Iverson? Jaylen Bronson.
1:05:28
Jaylen Bronson is probably like 6-1 when I saw him.
1:05:31
He's not that big. There's other guys.
1:05:34
So he's saying Brunson 6162 and he doesn't play, you know, a
1:05:38
super athletic game. He's a very crafty guy.
1:05:41
You're right that you don't. Need to be athletic.
1:05:42
If you're playing the point guard position, you don't need
1:05:45
to be. But this guy's pass first, you
1:05:47
know, like it would be like you're saying like a more like a
1:05:50
Stockton, more like a speedy, what would be like a modern
1:05:52
he's. A great defender too, like.
1:05:54
A pass first defense, first point guard like a mark is smart
1:05:58
almost that just can't shoot or yeah, I think like it's a little
1:06:01
better. Shoot because of the night than
1:06:03
John stock. Yeah, well, I mean, if that's
1:06:05
the range, that's still a usable player in the NBA.
1:06:08
He is going to be in NBA. At six foot I don't know if he
1:06:10
goes in the first round even. Even if he has a great
1:06:13
tournament, you know I can't teach size.
1:06:16
They they thought Zach Edie shouldn't be a first round draft
1:06:19
pick and he was drafted pretty high so.
1:06:21
Yeah, but he's 72, you know? Right.
1:06:23
It's potential, I keep telling you that.
1:06:26
Potential So I just like this football thing and you'll know
1:06:29
this like every college coach that ever lives.
1:06:32
Oh, this guy's how big I can coach him.
1:06:35
I'm going to turn him into whatever.
1:06:36
Yet there's a guy who's like got really good athleticism,
1:06:39
probably a million times better that they're ignoring because
1:06:42
they think they could turn anybody into something just
1:06:44
because they see raw size. If you have this 6 foot guy,
1:06:48
they just overlook this guy all the time.
1:06:49
So you might be right, but I think he's going to go second
1:06:52
round. If who?
1:06:53
Cares where it goes, He's going to be an NBA player.
1:06:57
It doesn't matter. I think he's going to be an NBA
1:06:58
player. Is going to be a good one.
1:07:00
That's I don't care if he's a first round trip, it don't
1:07:02
matter if you're DRIP after the top 10, all those it's all a
1:07:05
crap shoot. After that, it's all a crap
1:07:07
shoot. So if he's drafted at 11 or if
1:07:11
he's drafted in the second round at #3 or 4, it's a crap shoot
1:07:15
after. The top, if we get to Arizona,
1:07:17
that, that defensive perimeter defense that he's going to go
1:07:21
against, that's going to be a real test.
1:07:22
And if he could break that defense, he's he's got me sold.
1:07:26
Like I, I'm watching berries right now.
1:07:28
That guy's going top 10 like that.
1:07:30
They weren't talking about him that high before the tournament.
1:07:33
He is awesome out there right now.
1:07:35
He's dominating. His shooting percentage is
1:07:36
really high too and like. Arizona doesn't like to be
1:07:40
pushed around, They don't like to be pushed around.
1:07:42
And I'm going to tell you right now, the boiler man are going to
1:07:45
push them around. If they match up against one
1:07:48
another, they're going to push them.
1:07:49
Around they're a little, I think it's a little different group.
1:07:51
I mean, they're really tough inside.
1:07:54
They got the 72 center, they got a couple other bigs they could
1:07:56
throw at you. They got enough size compared to
1:07:59
previous Arizona teams. I don't know, like, I really
1:08:01
think this is the best chance they've ever had, you know,
1:08:04
dating back I guess, what, almost 30 years now.
1:08:06
We could we could talk about this over and over and again.
1:08:08
And I remember so many Arizona teams that everybody, this is
1:08:11
their time, this is the deer. And it never happened, Never
1:08:16
happened. And I'm going to tell you this,
1:08:18
it's not happening this year. I don't care how much talent
1:08:21
they have on that roster, it's not happening.
1:08:23
They're not winning a national championship.
1:08:25
They're just they're not, you can book it.
1:08:28
They're not winning a national championship this.
1:08:30
Year How? Are we going to do, I'm even
1:08:32
going to predict that Arkansas is going to beat them.
1:08:34
I think Arkansas is going to. Beat that original.
1:08:37
I think they're going to beat him.
1:08:38
I think it's going to be Arkansas and Purdue in the Elite
1:08:42
8. That's what I think is going to
1:08:43
happen and I and it's going to be John Caliber.
1:08:46
I love Purdue. I loved him all the way into the
1:08:48
I, I told Speed what I said in the beginning of the season, I
1:08:51
had Purdue winning the national championship.
1:08:53
I didn't even have to watch. I watched like two or three
1:08:55
games of Purdue. I said that went in the national
1:08:57
championship and and it's just and the last time I said it,
1:09:00
they went to the national championship and they lost to
1:09:02
get to UConn. You were on the you were on the
1:09:04
redemption story like. And now I have the redemption
1:09:06
story. I have UConn going to the
1:09:07
national championship versus Purdue and for Purdue to win
1:09:11
their first national championship so.
1:09:13
Q It's funny because I actually took the opposite theory.
1:09:15
I went for the regular season redemption story with your Tar
1:09:18
Heels because they missed the tournament the year before.
1:09:19
It's the number one overall rank team at the.
1:09:22
Beginning of the. Year, this year, I said in 2024.
1:09:29
They lost to. Alabama, I had them win.
1:09:30
I picked them win at all because the year before they were the
1:09:33
number one overall see at the start of the year and they
1:09:34
missed the tournament completely.
1:09:35
And then go back to UConn and I, we didn't really speak much
1:09:38
about UConn and Michigan State because that's the match up.
1:09:41
That's the match up. Tom Izzo, one of the greatest
1:09:44
coaches of all time, versus Danny Hurley, probably the best
1:09:48
coach right now in college basketball.
1:09:50
You can argue he is the most successful one in the last five
1:09:53
years and you got 2 powerhouses, UConn and Michigan State.
1:09:57
A lot of people think that UConn has the advantage.
1:10:00
I think Michigan State for years have always played against good,
1:10:04
good competition if they move on and we've seen Tom Izzo get into
1:10:07
the Sweet 16 and then lead aid and one win national, win a
1:10:10
national championships. So to say that Tom Izzo can't do
1:10:13
it this year, that's crazy. Tom Izo is one of the most
1:10:15
respected coaches in college and very light too.
1:10:19
I met Tom Izzo at the SPSP Awards a couple of years ago and
1:10:23
Tom Izzo is not a big guy, but one of the nicest people.
1:10:26
He laughs, he smiles, he likes to talk.
1:10:28
He's a big football fan too. He watches a lot of college
1:10:31
football. So Tom Izzo is a good guy and,
1:10:35
and you want to root for him, but I'm not rooting against
1:10:37
Danny Hurley. I'm a Hurley fan and I'm going
1:10:40
all Hurley this year, man. I think Danny Hurley is going to
1:10:44
surprise a lot of people because a lot of people don't think
1:10:47
Danny Hurley has enough to get into the Final Four and win a
1:10:51
national championship. I beg to differ.
1:10:53
I think UConn has an opportunity to share.
1:10:55
They have two big guys that can rebound, they can score.
1:10:59
They're good offense and defensive rebounding teams and
1:11:02
they have enough on the perimeter, shooting on the
1:11:05
perimeter and they have guys that can do everything.
1:11:07
So, and Danny Hurley is one of the meanest, God forsaking
1:11:12
people on a basketball court. He will get into your head early
1:11:15
in the game. He'll be yelling at teams.
1:11:18
He'll be yelling at players, yelling at referees, yelling at
1:11:21
other coaches on the other sidelines.
1:11:23
This is the guy. This is Bobby Knight.
1:11:25
This is the new Bobby Knight. And that's what I love about
1:11:27
Danny Hurley is he doesn't give a crap.
1:11:29
He's going to go out there, he's going to coach the hell out of
1:11:31
the game and he's going to make sure that he is on top at the
1:11:34
tail end with what what, what one or two seconds left of the
1:11:37
game. He's going to make sure that he
1:11:38
is in the lead. And I'm telling you right now,
1:11:41
as good as Michigan State is and, and a lot of people, a lot
1:11:44
of people have Michigan State going to the Final Four.
1:11:46
A lot of people do. If Michigan State beats UConn,
1:11:50
who they matched up, Duke or Saint John's, I, I think they
1:11:54
have a very, I think they have a very good chance of getting into
1:11:56
the Final Four because I think the hardest, the hardest team
1:11:58
they're going to have to play is Yuka.
1:11:59
I'm telling you right now, out of all these four teams in East,
1:12:02
Yukon's the best one. Yeah, they're the most balanced
1:12:04
one right now and Saint John's, they still have to rely a lot on
1:12:07
their length in order to be able to win even two games in a row
1:12:11
too. Now they're a better offensive
1:12:12
team than they were last year. Obviously, like we were saying,
1:12:14
they have enough 3 point shooting scoring, but they still
1:12:16
rely on their length the most and they show, they showed in
1:12:18
the beginning of that, say that Kansas game that they did that,
1:12:21
but they're have to do it a lot more, especially if they played
1:12:23
Michigan State down the road and Duke and UConn, all of them have
1:12:26
length inside to be able to make that kind of thing work out.
1:12:28
That's a we talked about the coaching gauntlet in that
1:12:30
region. Hurley's the best one in the
1:12:32
modern identity. Izzo did a great job adjusting
1:12:34
though, and that's going to be something that it'll be
1:12:35
interesting to see what the days off now because they have three
1:12:37
days off, how the counter attacks going to be with that
1:12:39
coaching battle. Hey Errol, before we move into
1:12:43
Speedy's talking more about the elite aid and Sweet 16, can I,
1:12:47
can I raise you a Danny Hurley and give you your other favorite
1:12:52
Hurley, the one that played that you loved in Duke?
1:12:55
Bobby Hurley and his assistant Nate Oates when they were at
1:12:59
Buffalo with my alma mater bringing them to their only
1:13:04
relevancy there ever was Nate Oates eventually getting the
1:13:06
first ever win for Buffalo against ironically, Bobby Hurley
1:13:10
at Arizona State. Nate Oates is an amazing
1:13:15
basketball coach and they're going up against Michigan and I
1:13:19
don't believe in this Michigan team.
1:13:21
Errol I really don't, and I really think there's a big upset
1:13:25
coming this weekend. I don't.
1:13:27
I think Michigan is going all the way to the Final Four.
1:13:30
I think Michigan, Houston has the best bracket.
1:13:33
Houston to me now, and now that Vanderbilt has been knocked out,
1:13:37
Houston is is a clear favorite to go into Final Four.
1:13:40
They're a clear favorite. Florida's out.
1:13:43
They're all out. So it there.
1:13:46
To me, there's nobody that's going to be as long as Houston
1:13:49
plays at a mediocre level, There's no way Nebraska or any
1:13:52
of those teams are going to knock them off.
1:13:54
So I expect them to get into the the Elite 8 and I expect them to
1:13:58
go to the Final Four. As I predicted.
1:14:01
As far as Michigan's concerned, I think Michigan's in the
1:14:04
easiest bracket. They they we argued that that
1:14:07
that was the easiest bracket. Alabama is a very interesting
1:14:10
team and Alabama, if they're matched up against them, they
1:14:13
could beat Michigan the way they're shooting the ball
1:14:15
because Alabama hit the shots like they've been shooting at a
1:14:19
clip throughout this tournament. They're they're on a all time
1:14:23
high. How many 3 pointers have they
1:14:24
hit? I mean, it's crazy how many 3
1:14:27
pointers they've hit in back-to-back games.
1:14:29
Can they continue to play this way?
1:14:30
I don't think so. I, I, I, I don't think I am very
1:14:34
interested to see how Alabama is going to continue to play at a
1:14:38
high level of scoring if they expect to beat teams like
1:14:41
Michigan, who's very good defensively, know how to defend
1:14:43
the three ball and they're going to force them to get
1:14:46
uncomfortable when they get inside.
1:14:48
So, and they have great size too.
1:14:50
Michigan has great size. So I disagree with you.
1:14:53
I think Michigan, unless some catastrophical, catastrophic
1:14:57
thing happens, I think Michigan, it's AI, think Michigan and
1:15:01
Houston, you could book it. Both those teams are heading to
1:15:04
the Final Four. That's my prediction.
1:15:07
As far as Yukon, I mean, there's a lot of questions over there on
1:15:10
the East side and in Arizona with the Purdue, you got to go
1:15:14
through Arkansas, you got to go through Purdue.
1:15:16
It's going to be if Arizona gets to the Final Four, they deserve
1:15:20
it. They deserve it because that's
1:15:23
not an easy bracket to get through.
1:15:25
It really is in Arkansas to me, very, very tired.
1:15:28
They look very, very tired. And but a cuff he he, he was
1:15:32
playing unbelievable. And if he plays at a high level
1:15:35
like this, I don't know if if teams like Arizona is going to
1:15:39
be able to score as many points because you like all these
1:15:43
players that they have and it they got two guys that could be
1:15:46
top 10 talents. But can they do it in the big
1:15:49
game? Arizona has proven they've had
1:15:51
top 10 talents over the years. One of them is playing for Utah.
1:15:55
And how did that work out? They got eliminated pretty quick
1:15:58
in the tournament. It doesn't always mean because
1:16:01
you're the better team or you've been the most dominant team
1:16:04
throughout the the year that you're going to win and you're
1:16:06
going to get into the Final Four.
1:16:07
I, I don't, I don't trust Arizona.
1:16:09
I I really until Arizona proves to me they can get there, I
1:16:13
don't believe it. Yeah, and that's another one you
1:16:15
could question coaching wise, like you did with Shire.
1:16:17
Like Tommy Lloyd's been stuck at the Sweet 16.
1:16:19
He hasn't gotten over the hump yet.
1:16:20
Meanwhile, you talk about somebody else, like Michigan and
1:16:22
Alabama, two young coaches that have made the Final Four
1:16:25
already. I thought you were Dusty May.
1:16:26
Michigan's dangerous. Michigan's dangerous.
1:16:29
And I'm telling you right now, it's whoever comes out of the
1:16:34
the region with Purdue and Arizona and Arkansas.
1:16:37
I I still think Michigan is going to be a heavy favorite in
1:16:41
that game. My brackets are cursed or
1:16:44
favored better or not because I watched that Houston Arizona Big
1:16:48
12 championship game and. How many?
1:16:50
Arizona handled Houston. How many Elite 8 guys, How many
1:16:54
Elite 8 teams do you still have in this?
1:16:57
I have a lot actually. You know what, let's bring up
1:17:00
the standings of our bracket here that we're doing who's at
1:17:05
first I'll bring. Up the one that's laughing right
1:17:07
now I believe is at first. Right now Q is in first. 00.
1:17:14
But he actually isn't in first with like the total amount of
1:17:18
points he can get. That goes to me sitting in
1:17:21
fourth. Errol, you are only four points
1:17:25
behind. QQ's actually got a pretty big
1:17:27
lead after that. Nathan is sitting there.
1:17:31
I've got. Q I'm catching up to you, man.
1:17:33
You're only four points ahead of me.
1:17:36
I'm telling you and I and I started this show with this.
1:17:38
Just listen to me, OK? Listen, you're beating.
1:17:41
You're beating me by 4 points. I will.
1:17:43
Give you You're beating me by 4 points.
1:17:45
Don't worry Q, don't worry, Q, you're not going to win.
1:17:50
I'm going to win. I'm winning, I'm winning.
1:17:53
I'm going to make sure. That I'm out of trouble right
1:17:54
here, though Speedy lost three of his final four.
1:17:58
Is that right? That's.
1:17:59
Correct. Because I went for one sleeper
1:18:01
and Vanderbilt and Gonzaga. I was high on the other scenario
1:18:03
I was considering. Who does Q have in the final
1:18:05
four? All right, let's take a look.
1:18:08
Who? Does he have in the final four
1:18:09
Hugh? Hugh's bracket has Saint John's,
1:18:13
Connecticut, Arizona, Purdue. Not chance.
1:18:17
Not chance. No.
1:18:19
No, that's the elite 8. That's the Elite 8.
1:18:21
That's the elite. 8 That's the elite 8.
1:18:22
Yeah, Arizona. Purdue would play each other in
1:18:24
the Elite 8, if that. Happened there.
1:18:25
He is Connecticut, Houston, Arizona and he had Kentucky.
1:18:30
He copied me. That's funny.
1:18:37
This one's Errol's. Errol's got the Final Four.
1:18:41
Yukon, Houston, Purdue. Michigan can be going after.
1:18:45
The day you want to bet on that, you want to bet on that one.
1:18:50
That I heard him. That's not going to hurt me.
1:18:53
I'm sitting there with Saint John's and Houston and Arizona
1:18:57
and Iowa State. I love that Big 12 this year,
1:19:01
man, and I love Saint John's. That's all I got to say.
1:19:03
Any. Bad.
1:19:04
That's better than Aaron you. Have three, you have three.
1:19:06
That's. Not better than Big 12.
1:19:08
Final four first. Get out of here.
1:19:09
I do, I do. Like I said, I watched a lot of
1:19:12
that tournament speedy it. It definitely shaped my.
1:19:15
Opinion. He's going on the one game
1:19:16
theory all. Right, let's move on.
1:19:19
Let's move on before I get angry.
1:19:22
Thank you to all the fans that follow us on all the platforms,
1:19:25
including Spotify and Apple, which we were ranked today 72nd
1:19:29
in the country. We're in the top 100 for a week.
1:19:32
So we'd like to thank all the fans, all the downloaders and
1:19:36
the subscribers, everybody that's been really dedicated in
1:19:39
keeping us on top on, you know, on the charts.
1:19:42
So thank you to all the fans on that on TikTok, Instagram and X
1:19:48
now New York sports loudmouth. So for all the fans out there,
1:19:51
it is called now the New York sports loudmouth.
1:19:53
We will continue moving forward with the name new show.
1:19:57
It's the same show but kind of new content.
1:19:59
We got a new Co host on the show and Quinton Coppols and Q is
1:20:03
going to add a different. Type of personality to the show
1:20:06
and obviously arguing and debating and pissing me off,
1:20:09
which he's done quite a few times.
1:20:11
He's taken on the Mikey C role very well so far.
1:20:14
You know, you know, somebody needs, do you want to jerk me
1:20:18
off or something of that magnitude?
1:20:20
Hopefully they stay away from that or a lot of hot ladies.
1:20:23
Well, there's somebody that likes give me that chicken
1:20:25
Curry, chicken Curry. Anyways, that's it for our show.
1:20:28
So thank you to all the fans. Who do we have on Thursdays?
1:20:31
All right, returning to the show, you wanted to come back on
1:20:32
during March Madness? I tried to get him on last week.
1:20:34
He couldn't to do it, but our friend Dan Purcell will be back
1:20:36
on president of Scout Central and a former Pelicans executive.
1:20:39
He'll be coming on at 8:30. This guy knows everything about
1:20:43
the talent that's coming out of this year's draft class.
1:20:46
As a matter of fact, four years ago he came on the show and he
1:20:49
told us about this draft class and he told us watch out for
1:20:52
2026 and 2027 on the talent that's coming out.
1:20:57
And he said 2026 is the best class since LeBron James's
1:21:01
class. So, and I would love to hear his
1:21:04
take on Cambuser, Peterson and the Beza where he thinks these
1:21:09
guys are going to fall and who does he think is going to be the
1:21:14
better player in the NBA. So very interesting.
1:21:18
It'll be fun to get into that conversation with him on
1:21:21
Thursday. Well, we've got three days
1:21:24
before Thursday, or actually 2, and we got a lot of news, ladies
1:21:29
and gentlemen, and a lot more to get into.
1:21:31
And we have the Sweet 16 starting Thursday.
1:21:33
So eventually everybody's going to see my number and my name on
1:21:37
top of the board because Quinton Coppols is going to dip and I
1:21:42
will rise and I will. Tell you I told him before it
1:21:45
happened, man. I told you it wasn't better.
1:21:46
I just want to let you know who won.
1:21:49
I just want you to know who won the bracket last year, buddy.
1:21:52
I did, I did, and I'm going to win this year too, so you can
1:21:56
kiss my rear. Just so you know, there's
1:21:59
nothing to do with, well, actually, it's all lock.
1:22:02
But you're right. Good luck to me.
1:22:03
Even though I don't believe in luck, I believe in butt plug.
1:22:07
Anyways, that's it for our show, ladies and gentlemen.
1:22:10
We'll talk to you Thursday. Good night.
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