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- 0:37Speaker 1: Multiple teams are strongly pursuing LaMelo Ball right now. The
- 0:41Speaker 1: Hornets are engaged, I'm told, and Ball had a strong
- 0:44Speaker 1: finish to the season that mirrord the Hornets rise. Over
- 0:48Speaker 1: the course of the last calendar year, both sides have
- 0:50Speaker 1: been in a good place. Baal does want to be
- 0:53Speaker 1: in Charlotte. I'm told that this is an organization fielding
- 0:55Speaker 1: some aggressive offers, so the price has met.
- 0:58Speaker 2: He could very well be on the move.
- 1:00Speaker 1: This is a developing story potentially over the next twenty
- 1:03Speaker 1: four to forty eight hours.
- 1:06Speaker 2: That is Sean Sherani.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Last night on Sports Center, he broke that exact same
- 1:11Speaker 3: report on LaMelo Ball, multiple teams, something could happen in
- 1:15Speaker 3: the next twenty four forty eight hours. At the end
- 1:18Speaker 3: of their draft coverage earlier in the night, set Hornets
- 1:21Speaker 3: fans on Twitter to panic stations. We are trying to
- 1:24Speaker 3: cope today.
- 1:26Speaker 2: We are basically bone WCP today Coke, that's actually cop
- 1:31Speaker 2: But anyway, you get the point. You get the point, WCPE,
- 1:35Speaker 2: that's who we are today. Bone, where'd you go? All
- 1:38Speaker 2: right here? I'll laughing at me.
- 1:39Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out what's station on right now.
- 1:41Speaker 4: I think the most important words in there is not
- 1:44Speaker 4: just the shock of Mellow on the block. And I
- 1:47Speaker 4: think Colin Hoggard alluded to this in a tweet last
- 1:50Speaker 4: night as well, because people will say, well, maybe maybe
- 1:53Speaker 4: they're calling the Hornets and just just listening in on
- 1:55Speaker 4: every deal. The twenty four to forty eight hours timeline
- 2:01Speaker 4: should tell you that this isn't just Jeff Peterson picking
- 2:04Speaker 4: up the phone. If there's an actual timeline of when
- 2:07Speaker 4: it may go down that Chams is reporting on like
- 2:10Speaker 4: he did for Your Honest a few days ago, that
- 2:13Speaker 4: tells you that goes beyond hey, let's go check in
- 2:16Speaker 4: on Mellow. That means talks that progressed to the point
- 2:18Speaker 4: where the finish line is near. When there's that actual
- 2:21Speaker 4: timeline of a day or two on it.
- 2:24Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you would think, Yeah, you would think they
- 2:26Speaker 3: didn't just start them, They didn't get the phone call
- 2:28Speaker 3: just yesterday. No, and now all of a sudden Champ
- 2:31Speaker 3: says it could be in twenty four or forty eight
- 2:32Speaker 3: hours a trade is done.
- 2:34Speaker 4: I just and that goes back to my thoughts earlier
- 2:38Speaker 4: in the show about last week when the Hornets got
- 2:40Speaker 4: linked to seven, was that to try to find not
- 2:43Speaker 4: that Christian Anderson was ever going to be the mellow replacement,
- 2:46Speaker 4: but were they trying to get into that mix while
- 2:48Speaker 4: to get into that five guard and group their acoff
- 2:51Speaker 4: where they were they trying to get in there and
- 2:54Speaker 4: no one does want to move off those guys.
- 2:55Speaker 3: Yeah, that's an interesting point too. I think there might
- 2:57Speaker 3: be a link there between the two things. I mean,
- 2:59Speaker 3: we want to know your reaction today. Like I said
- 3:02Speaker 3: seven twenty five, I want to open up the phones.
- 3:04Speaker 3: I want to do an emergency pulse of Hornets Nation,
- 3:07Speaker 3: and I want y'all because now we are starting to
- 3:09Speaker 3: get people now that are like I'm shocked, but hear
- 3:13Speaker 3: me out, like we're starting to get the counterpoint on
- 3:16Speaker 3: this where initially when we came on the air and
- 3:19Speaker 3: we're ranting about we don't understand this. With how improved
- 3:22Speaker 3: he was, how healthy he was, the direction of the team,
- 3:25Speaker 3: we just don't understand this. The team's mentioned by various
- 3:28Speaker 3: reporters as the teams that the Hornets are talking to.
- 3:32Speaker 3: Our Minnesota, Toronto, Milwaukee has been thrown in by Mark
- 3:35Speaker 3: Stein as well. I just am so comfortable for the
- 3:38Speaker 3: first time bone in a long time, or maybe ever,
- 3:41Speaker 3: with where the Charlotte Hornets are headed. I am so comfortable.
- 3:45Speaker 3: So this is upsetting my apple cart, right I had
- 3:49Speaker 3: a beautiful apple cart of comfort, and this is throwing
- 3:53Speaker 3: it all off.
- 3:54Speaker 2: Right now. We were stressed last night at all. It
- 3:57Speaker 2: was peace.
- 3:58Speaker 3: It's like the tranquility we were stressed about the you know,
- 4:03Speaker 3: the Kobe White thing and all that sort of thing.
- 4:05Speaker 3: Detroit's rumored to be interested or whatever. But other than that,
- 4:08Speaker 3: just the general direction of this team, the way we
- 4:11Speaker 3: saw them play last year. I gotta be honest, I've
- 4:13Speaker 3: been here for twenty years. I hadn't seen the Horns
- 4:15Speaker 3: play basketball like that. And I understand what happened in
- 4:17Speaker 3: the playing game, and I understand they got to get
- 4:19Speaker 3: more physical, they got to get more guys up front.
- 4:21Speaker 3: But you said it earlier like you were looking for
- 4:25Speaker 3: the next move. That feels like we're adding to the core.
- 4:29Speaker 3: We're adding on to the core to try to build
- 4:32Speaker 3: off a team that won forty four, because I think
- 4:34Speaker 3: we're all saying, get us fifty. This team can win
- 4:37Speaker 3: fifty if they don't start in a hole like they
- 4:39Speaker 3: did last year. This thing just throws those good vibes
- 4:43Speaker 3: and that feeling of Hornet's comfort. It just throws it
- 4:47Speaker 3: for a loop. It's just it's you're.
- 4:49Speaker 2: Trying to figure it out.
- 4:50Speaker 3: And then the thing, and I said this earlier Bone,
- 4:52Speaker 3: the thing that really blows your mind, but just blows
- 4:56Speaker 3: it efect it is the fact that this is Jeff Peterson.
- 5:02Speaker 3: This is the guy that Hornet fans trusts more than
- 5:05Speaker 3: their significant other, trust more than the mothers and the
- 5:09Speaker 3: fathers of their children.
- 5:11Speaker 2: And now we're trying to figure out Jeff. You're pretty
- 5:13Speaker 2: smooth with the trades. So is there something to this
- 5:16Speaker 2: that we're missing?
- 5:17Speaker 3: Because I loved last year's version of LaMelo It was
- 5:20Speaker 3: the best version of LaMelo bone.
- 5:22Speaker 4: Real quick back before I give you a thought on Mellow,
- 5:24Speaker 4: I need to clean some up here. I mentioned the
- 5:26Speaker 4: last segment Malik Brown was a net. Molik Brown is
- 5:29Speaker 4: a Spur. I completely say no better than what you said.
- 5:35Speaker 4: Hand up my first heir of the why did you
- 5:37Speaker 4: think nets? Was there a trade to throw you off?
- 5:40Speaker 2: Or no? Or did you just mess up?
- 5:41Speaker 4: I know Isaiah Evans was a net for a few minutes,
- 5:43Speaker 4: and then we went to Minnesota. Uh mac maweek Brown
- 5:47Speaker 4: Uh went to the Spurs from Miami via Indiana.
- 5:50Speaker 2: So the Mets shouldn't have been involved at all in that.
- 5:52Speaker 4: It's okay, here's the thing that that that is concerning
- 5:58Speaker 4: to me about the mellow stuff. If the rumors were
- 6:01Speaker 4: or it was going to be mellow for a star,
- 6:06Speaker 4: to me, that's a different discussion. If it's mellow hypothetically
- 6:11Speaker 4: for Ant, if it's mellow for Jaylen Brown, if it's
- 6:14Speaker 4: an All Star player for a guy who has been
- 6:17Speaker 4: an All Star before in Melo, then we can have
- 6:20Speaker 4: that discussion. But it feels like to me, Minnesota is
- 6:23Speaker 4: not trade Ant for mellow. They wouldn't even trade Jade
- 6:25Speaker 4: McDaniels for Melow. We don't know if Jaylen Brown would.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Go for Melo.
- 6:29Speaker 4: Toronto has barns but not They have a bunch of
- 6:31Speaker 4: okay and pretty good guys. Milwaukee's got a bunch of dudes,
- 6:35Speaker 4: but not a star. So to me, are you trading
- 6:38Speaker 4: mellow for a star or a grouping of players to
- 6:42Speaker 4: match the salary of Melos? Isn't a star for star deal?
- 6:45Speaker 4: It appears by what we see right now. So how
- 6:49Speaker 4: do we that bothers me? How do we benefit from this?
- 6:51Speaker 3: Like when the exactly when the report's about Minnesota, say,
- 6:54Speaker 3: and I guess there's a report saying that they don't
- 6:56Speaker 3: want to trade Jade McDaniels for.
- 6:57Speaker 4: That for anybody. That's like, they're not trading for any
- 7:00Speaker 4: of these guys. When the reports say that Rudy Gobert
- 7:06Speaker 4: is the key piece, It's like, what are we doing?
- 7:08Speaker 5: Like?
- 7:08Speaker 2: What are we doing there? I just is this the
- 7:12Speaker 2: move before another move?
- 7:14Speaker 6: Like?
- 7:14Speaker 3: I just trying to give Jeff Peterson the benefit of
- 7:16Speaker 3: the doubt and not just scream about this. If this
- 7:19Speaker 3: was Rich chow On on the case, I'd be screaming
- 7:22Speaker 3: about this one. There's no doubt about it. But I'm
- 7:26Speaker 3: trying to give Jeff Peterson benefit of the doubt. Surely
- 7:28Speaker 3: he can't. He wins every trade, doesn't he. I guess
- 7:32Speaker 3: has he lost the trade yet?
- 7:33Speaker 2: No?
- 7:33Speaker 3: I don't think so. So what is he thinking where
- 7:36Speaker 3: he is entertaining this? Wouldn't you do it? Because one
- 7:39Speaker 3: of the things we need to trade metal for. If
- 7:41Speaker 3: you're gonna trade Melow, trade him for a nice car,
- 7:43Speaker 3: not a collection of parts that's old hornets thinking We're
- 7:47Speaker 3: not We're not trying to just acquire three or four
- 7:50Speaker 3: dudes in three or four picks. If you're gonna move them,
- 7:53Speaker 3: make sure you're moving them for another star level player.
- 7:56Speaker 3: And that doesn't appear like that's on the table. What
- 7:59Speaker 3: are we getting draft picks? Like, is Jeff Peterson trying
- 8:02Speaker 3: to add because LaMelo Ball should be worth a bunch
- 8:05Speaker 3: of first round picks, shouldn't he?
- 8:07Speaker 2: Yes?
- 8:08Speaker 4: Like so, I mean Michale Bridges went for five. He's
- 8:11Speaker 4: great in his role. He went for five five first rounders,
- 8:15Speaker 4: which is absurd, But so is that what we're trying
- 8:17Speaker 4: to do?
- 8:18Speaker 3: And then are we then trying to trade those picks
- 8:20Speaker 3: for an impact Like I just I'm trying to make
- 8:22Speaker 3: sense of it because on the surface, it doesn't really
- 8:25Speaker 3: make sense to me. If you want us this dude says,
- 8:29Speaker 3: y'all said it before. Trust in Jeff Peterson, there goes
- 8:32Speaker 3: your trust. He's he will handle this. He will only
- 8:36Speaker 3: trade him if he gets a godfather type offer. But
- 8:40Speaker 3: to Bone's point, what are these teams giving us where
- 8:43Speaker 3: it's a godfather offer? Like, do we want more assets?
- 8:46Speaker 3: I thought we were. Obert's not the godfather here. Look
- 8:51Speaker 3: Stifle Tower, the French rejection whatever we're calling him. He's
- 8:54Speaker 3: got a role. But to me, at thirty four. He
- 8:58Speaker 3: if he was a part of it, that's one thing.
- 9:01Speaker 2: But I don't.
- 9:01Speaker 4: I don't need Rudy Gobert and Mellow being like the
- 9:04Speaker 4: centerpiece of a deal here.
- 9:05Speaker 3: Listen, would I care if they traded for Rudy Gobert,
- 9:07Speaker 3: if we if Miles Bridges was the key part in
- 9:09Speaker 3: the trade Miles Bridges of Josh Green, No, I'd understand it. Yeah,
- 9:13Speaker 3: you bring up his age, you know which it would
- 9:17Speaker 3: be at the terment. But I understand that right we're
- 9:19Speaker 3: starving for rim protection. I just don't that's the key
- 9:24Speaker 3: part like his And by the way, he makes like
- 9:27Speaker 3: thirty six million dollars a year for the next two years.
- 9:31Speaker 3: Is that how we want to spend our thirty six
- 9:33Speaker 3: plus and Lamello's forty plus? Then we'd probably add to
- 9:37Speaker 3: the Vincenzo was mentioned, Like, I just I don't understand.
- 9:41Speaker 3: I thought we were past the let's go get a
- 9:44Speaker 3: bunch of picks phase, especially when it comes to the
- 9:48Speaker 3: guy bone that is the most important person on this franchise.
- 9:52Speaker 3: Like I love kan Kin Nipple, I love Brandon Miller.
- 9:55Speaker 3: You think they will be the same level of players
- 9:57Speaker 3: without LaMelo ball hard to see right now? Like just
- 10:01Speaker 3: point blank period. Man, I'm the no shade at those guys.
- 10:04Speaker 3: Any player in the league Bone that plays on the
- 10:06Speaker 3: wing that depends on getting the getting you know, dimes
- 10:12Speaker 3: from their point guard, like is going to drop with
- 10:15Speaker 3: LaMelo ball.
- 10:16Speaker 2: He makes everybody better around him.
- 10:18Speaker 3: That has been proven every year Bone, even when he's
- 10:20Speaker 3: playing with complete you know, gobbly goop garbage right because
- 10:24Speaker 3: everybody else is injured. It's been proven that he makes
- 10:27Speaker 3: his teammates better on the offensive end. I saw somebody
- 10:30Speaker 3: tweet out last night Kank Nipple ninety two percent of
- 10:33Speaker 3: his made threes last year were assisted.
- 10:36Speaker 2: Ninety two. He's catching it, he's catching it, and he's
- 10:42Speaker 2: shooting it. And we think, I like Kobe White a lot.
- 10:46Speaker 3: We think he's going to hit con In in the
- 10:48Speaker 3: shooting pocket as much as LaMelo is. Or how many
- 10:52Speaker 3: times Bone does Lamello create kick and then it's a
- 10:56Speaker 3: swing or a swing swing and then CON's open. Yeah,
- 11:00Speaker 3: but it starts with Lamello, you know, So I just
- 11:04Speaker 3: this is not what I want to do.
- 11:05Speaker 4: Our friend, not a Edwards back, had a theory last night,
- 11:08Speaker 4: but I'm NASCAR brawl textau s in here. What if
- 11:11Speaker 4: this is not all Jeff Peterson's decision. What if this
- 11:14Speaker 4: is coming down from up top and it's more about
- 11:17Speaker 4: ownership wanting to move Mellow than Jeff Peterson.
- 11:20Speaker 2: So why would ownership want to I don't know.
- 11:22Speaker 7: That's that would be the lamo. If you're a Hornets fan.
- 11:25Speaker 3: Lamello sells tickets, right, ownershould like that. Yeah, Lamello sells
- 11:30Speaker 3: merchandise in Jerseys. Ownershould like that. So I'm trying to
- 11:34Speaker 3: figure out why they would. I don't know.
- 11:37Speaker 8: Mac.
- 11:37Speaker 6: If that's the case, we have to rethink how we
- 11:39Speaker 6: think about Schlockton.
- 11:42Speaker 2: But that's just a theory, I know.
- 11:44Speaker 6: But I'm just saying, like, if if that was was
- 11:46Speaker 6: proven to be true, you you have you have meddaling
- 11:51Speaker 6: owners but and that would be the last thing that
- 11:54Speaker 6: you would want if you're a Hornets fan. But I
- 11:56Speaker 6: as someone that has a lot of teams that has
- 11:58Speaker 6: meddaling owners.
- 12:00Speaker 7: It took James Dolan twenty five years to figure it out.
- 12:03Speaker 2: Let me repeat, that was not a series. I'm just
- 12:07Speaker 2: fam He's.
- 12:09Speaker 7: I don't bother people when on an international vacacy.
- 12:11Speaker 2: He is not. It's not a willy what's up of
- 12:13Speaker 2: these people on European vacations and still having to text
- 12:16Speaker 2: and tweet all kinds of different like just enjoy Europe, y'all.
- 12:19Speaker 2: This is spoke. You couldn't get a hold of the back
- 12:21Speaker 2: in San Antonio. I don't want I don't want anything.
- 12:23Speaker 2: I don't want very much to do with y'all.
- 12:25Speaker 6: Speaking of Willie, got a text from him. Breac and Gabe.
- 12:28Speaker 6: We're scheduled to speak at a charity event at ten
- 12:31Speaker 6: o'clock today.
- 12:32Speaker 7: We'll have boots on the ground, William, Eugene Balochi, we'll.
- 12:35Speaker 2: Be there, Willy Gonna Grilla. What's this show?
- 12:38Speaker 7: Didn't you to tell?
- 12:39Speaker 2: Jeff Pater said, you're trying to pull him fast on Sally.
- 12:44Speaker 3: Don't get you and if you do, yell my goodness.
- 12:48Speaker 3: Grease Missile says, let's see what do you know? Okay,
- 12:53Speaker 3: I'm not reading Grease Missile from I thought Grease Missiles
- 12:57Speaker 3: was the good one it was. That's not right, this
- 13:01Speaker 3: Texter says. Could it not be that they think, based
- 13:04Speaker 3: on the salaries what Kobe would get what LaMelo has,
- 13:08Speaker 3: they think Kobe is better value. Clearly they'd save money there.
- 13:14Speaker 3: We mentioned this the first hour. Like they do, they
- 13:18Speaker 3: just trust Kobe enough. We mentioned bone. My Lord knows
- 13:22Speaker 3: we said it over and over again. I've heard Walker
- 13:24Speaker 3: say it over and over again one hundred and twenty
- 13:26Speaker 3: five points per one hundred possessions offensively when Kobe was
- 13:30Speaker 3: on the floor. So do they view it like we
- 13:32Speaker 3: finally found someone that has the same sort of impact
- 13:35Speaker 3: as LaMelo on this offense. He will come cheaper, Let's
- 13:39Speaker 3: sign him and get rid of Lamello. Do they not
- 13:41Speaker 3: trust his health?
- 13:42Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just trying to figure this damn thing.
- 13:44Speaker 4: We're all We've all got our reasons, our speculation, and
- 13:48Speaker 4: that is accurate. The Hornets are rookies. Do speak today
- 13:51Speaker 4: at one o'clock introductory presser? So interesting Mac for those
- 13:55Speaker 4: guys answer questions already, like how does Christian Anderson back
- 13:58Speaker 4: talk to the media and not already be questioned about
- 14:01Speaker 4: his potential role with this whole tire thing.
- 14:03Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, You've got to be asked.
- 14:06Speaker 3: Interesting for that though, I mean, he can just say
- 14:08Speaker 3: that's above my pay ground, you know what I mean?
- 14:09Speaker 3: What's he gonna say? Au Josh says, I think this
- 14:14Speaker 3: is coming from LaMelo's camp. I think he wants to
- 14:16Speaker 3: go to a big market. All the reports indicate.
- 14:20Speaker 2: Like Minnesota or Milwaukee or Toronto, all.
- 14:23Speaker 3: The Yeah, all the reports indicate LaMelo Ball wants to
- 14:27Speaker 3: say here LaMelo Ball is energized essentially by the way
- 14:30Speaker 3: they finish. And Jake Fisher said he's he he wants
- 14:33Speaker 3: to be a part of this, like he's he's working
- 14:35Speaker 3: this offseason with the Boys because they want to build
- 14:38Speaker 3: off last year. So this doesn't sound like a LaMelo thing.
- 14:41Speaker 3: I that's another question you got to ask is where
- 14:43Speaker 3: the reports came from. I think the Hornets leaked.
- 14:46Speaker 2: Them because you're trying to think who would benefit from
- 14:49Speaker 2: this getting out like this? Are the Hornets trying to
- 14:52Speaker 2: let the teams that you know, Are they trying to
- 14:55Speaker 2: get more teams involved? Are the trying to let them know, hey,
- 14:59Speaker 2: we're willing to talk about LaMelo. Are they trying to
- 15:01Speaker 2: get the teams that are involved in a bidding war
- 15:03Speaker 2: with each other to get more like I can't imagine
- 15:07Speaker 2: if you believe the reports that say LaMelo doesn't want out,
- 15:12Speaker 2: then only the Hornets are the only ones to stand
- 15:15Speaker 2: a benefit from this report getting out there right, trying
- 15:17Speaker 2: to drive the price up, trying to bring in more suitors.
- 15:19Speaker 4: There is, And I do wonder though, is there three
- 15:25Speaker 4: teams involved? Could this be a three team deal? Does
- 15:29Speaker 4: this somehow and again we are we are taking a
- 15:32Speaker 4: back and throwing things out there and trying to see
- 15:34Speaker 4: what sticks. Is there any way, mag this would be
- 15:36Speaker 4: a three team deal, and somehow it does involve Jalen
- 15:40Speaker 4: Brown his salary because I'm not even saying directly here,
- 15:44Speaker 4: maybe maybe Mellow and Jalen Brown are part of a
- 15:47Speaker 4: bigger deal that involves a third team. I don't know.
- 15:49Speaker 4: That could be something here, don'tka. You're so right though,
- 15:51Speaker 4: Like I thank you for that. I appreciate that you
- 15:53Speaker 4: have heard me. You let me get that back down.
- 15:57Speaker 3: He's tap that back forty two the You are so
- 16:01Speaker 3: right though about like I have screamed about the disrespect
- 16:06Speaker 3: to Brandon Miller that I feel from some of our
- 16:08Speaker 3: fan base. It feels like there's always let's try trade
- 16:11Speaker 3: Brandon Miller. But if you were going to trade Brandon
- 16:14Speaker 3: Miller in a deal that gets you Jaylen Brown, that
- 16:18Speaker 3: would make way more sense to me than trading Lamello.
- 16:22Speaker 3: And like somebody said, get John Morant back. Three way deal,
- 16:25Speaker 3: Get John Morant back It's like why, like some of
- 16:28Speaker 3: y'all complain about Lamello's immaturity and I understand it, but like,
- 16:31Speaker 3: what do we how much sure we think Jahn Moran is?
- 16:33Speaker 3: How reliable we think John Moran is?
- 16:36Speaker 2: I have no dread?
- 16:37Speaker 3: Put your point about a three team and do we
- 16:39Speaker 3: get a star somehow?
- 16:41Speaker 2: Cause it just doesn't make sense.
- 16:42Speaker 3: It's like, are we still rebuilding Rachel's textas hilarious?
- 16:47Speaker 4: Zion's also always out there as well. No, please please know,
- 16:50Speaker 4: please know? And Trey Murphy you're out there.
- 16:52Speaker 3: Oh and I wanted to come on to day Bone
- 16:54Speaker 3: and talk about how a Miles Turner trade post draft
- 16:57Speaker 3: makes a ton of sense.
- 16:58Speaker 2: I wanted to do that Bone. He comes over from Milwaukee.
- 17:03Speaker 2: There you go.
- 17:04Speaker 3: I forgot Milwaukee was involved. Let's see here, Rachel hilarious text.
- 17:09Speaker 3: We made it to the promised land of Summer League
- 17:11Speaker 3: championships and one play and win and we're just gonna
- 17:13Speaker 3: throw it all the way.
- 17:17Speaker 4: Oh god, some one says maybe Mellow wasn't willing to
- 17:19Speaker 4: play for the Summer League team to repeat his champions.
- 17:24Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
- 17:26Speaker 3: Anyway, would y'all be good if Jayalen Brown came here
- 17:29Speaker 3: and we re signed Kobe. Yeah, but then you have
- 17:32Speaker 3: Jalen Brown, Miller and khn At that seems won too
- 17:37Speaker 3: many wings.
- 17:38Speaker 2: Jaleen Brown Brown plays the four sometimes, got't he.
- 17:40Speaker 6: He's also a ball stopper, like like the ball gets
- 17:44Speaker 6: in his hands, you know where, you know where it
- 17:45Speaker 6: stays in his hands, Mack. When this team was playing,
- 17:49Speaker 6: when they were the number one net offic team in
- 17:51Speaker 6: the NBA after January.
- 17:52Speaker 2: First ball was poppable.
- 17:54Speaker 6: Melow had his moments where he'd going to takeover mode,
- 17:57Speaker 6: but that ball was inside out, was switching the floor.
- 18:01Speaker 6: All that goes away if you trade for Jaylen Brown
- 18:04Speaker 6: and guess what when he gets mad you heard on
- 18:06Speaker 6: his Twitch show and complain for.
- 18:08Speaker 4: Three You would love Jaylen Brown though, would be his
- 18:10Speaker 4: guy Charles Lee though, yeah, there's there's a relationship, is
- 18:13Speaker 4: a connection there. He does play mac to two, the three,
- 18:16Speaker 4: sometimes the four in small ball wide if needed. So
- 18:20Speaker 4: I'm not even saying that's a rumor. I'm just I'm
- 18:21Speaker 4: trying to think of what other guy is out there.
- 18:24Speaker 4: He's getting moved with a huge contract, that might be
- 18:26Speaker 4: moving Bridges plays undersize four, but I don't it doesn't
- 18:30Speaker 4: feel natural to me, I love the way Fiddy is
- 18:32Speaker 4: complaining about Jalen Brown as a player.
- 18:34Speaker 3: He's terrible, Fitty, absolutely horrible. Make argument to.
- 18:38Speaker 7: Not trade Labello ball and the dude gets mad.
- 18:41Speaker 3: No, I'm not saying trade Lamello for him. I'm saying
- 18:43Speaker 3: it would be a brand in trade if you were
- 18:45Speaker 3: going to try to trade, and that would make more
- 18:47Speaker 3: sense to me, Bone, because that would be that would
- 18:49Speaker 3: be your big move that Jeff Peterson has always said,
- 18:52Speaker 3: well know when it's.
- 18:52Speaker 4: Time to make that problem would be the salaries, though,
- 18:56Speaker 4: with Jaylen Brown making a boat load, you'd have to
- 18:59Speaker 4: really match that bad boy.
- 19:00Speaker 2: That's true.
- 19:00Speaker 4: Miller's not making to match the salary of Why so
- 19:04Speaker 4: that would make more sense, wouldn't it. Yeah, But again
- 19:06Speaker 4: it doesn't make sense from me unless you yeah, unless,
- 19:09Speaker 4: unless you're trying to play all three of those wings,
- 19:10Speaker 4: unless there's another trade where you trade Miller.
- 19:12Speaker 2: I don't know, man, My head hurts. Boston hurts from this.
- 19:15Speaker 4: Boston would also love Cod and just name him Larry Bird,
- 19:18Speaker 4: but he's up there.
- 19:21Speaker 2: You think Boston were like a white star? Yeah?
- 19:23Speaker 3: Anybody you think I would go overwhelm in Boston? All
- 19:25Speaker 3: the Scots would come back. For God's sakes. I I
- 19:31Speaker 3: was in happy Hornetsville, happy hornets Homerville. I was in
- 19:35Speaker 3: a place Bone that no one had inhabited for years,
- 19:38Speaker 3: and I was so happy with the direction of this team.
- 19:41Speaker 3: And I was waiting, Hey, maybe a Miles Bridges Josh
- 19:43Speaker 3: Green trade. Maybe they go after Myles Term, Maybe they
- 19:46Speaker 3: do this a bonus trade. I wanted to add to
- 19:49Speaker 3: the three player corps that I thought we were moving
- 19:52Speaker 3: forward with. Now we've got Lamello trades being discussed. Seam
- 19:56Speaker 3: said it could happen in the next twenty four or
- 19:58Speaker 3: forty eight hours. And then win Horse comes in with, yeah,
- 20:01Speaker 3: they're pivoting from a team that was built around LaMelo
- 20:03Speaker 3: and Bridges to a team built around Miller and con
- 20:06Speaker 3: I thought this team was built around was gonna be
- 20:08Speaker 3: built around Ball Miller and con I just it's hard, man.
- 20:12Speaker 4: We're not gonna do it. We're not in the mood
- 20:14Speaker 4: for a Ross Gell or pivot. All right, We're not
- 20:16Speaker 4: doing that right now. No, man, No we could. Any
- 20:19Speaker 4: other year, Bone pivoting would be fine. Pivot, any other
- 20:23Speaker 4: year pavot would be fine.
- 20:24Speaker 2: Ross.
- 20:25Speaker 3: But I feel like now we take a step forward
- 20:28Speaker 3: I thought, we finally don't need to go to Pivotville.
- 20:32Speaker 2: Jays have gotten so crazy.
- 20:33Speaker 4: When we come back, we're gonna do an emergency pulse
- 20:36Speaker 4: of Hornets Nation.
- 20:37Speaker 2: Yeah, we gotta hear from y'all.
- 20:38Speaker 4: We want fans and how they're feeling about the Wamelo
- 20:41Speaker 4: trade rumor seven oh four, five, seven h nine, six ten,
- 20:44Speaker 4: Get in now, give us your takes on the Mackin
- 20:46Speaker 4: Boat Show Sports Radio ninety two seven.
- 21:15Speaker 9: Basically, what Charlotte is looking at it they're looking at
- 21:18Speaker 9: a player who plays seventy two games this year and
- 21:20Speaker 9: it's got three years left. And is he part of
- 21:22Speaker 9: the future or are we going to capitalize on a
- 21:25Speaker 9: really strong year for us Charlotte team, which was one
- 21:28Speaker 9: of the best success stories after the second year the
- 21:31Speaker 9: second half of the season. Now, the interesting part is
- 21:34Speaker 9: we've talked about John Morant and now we're talking about
- 21:37Speaker 9: LaMelo Ball. Two potential point guards out there that are
- 21:41Speaker 9: going to be in play.
- 21:42Speaker 3: That is Bobby Marx. That was at the end of
- 21:45Speaker 3: the Draft show last night. Seam Sharania breaks the news
- 21:48Speaker 3: that we can't stop talking about. Many of us are
- 21:51Speaker 3: stressed about LaMelo Ball. Trade talks underway, Hornets are engaging,
- 21:57Speaker 3: and Sean says, hey, a deal could happen as soon
- 22:01Speaker 3: as the next twenty four to forty eight hours. Minnesota, Toronto,
- 22:04Speaker 3: Milwaukee all named in different reports as suitors, and we're
- 22:08Speaker 3: trying to come to terms with us right now. It's
- 22:10Speaker 3: not sitting well with us and a lot of y'all,
- 22:13Speaker 3: But that's Bobby Mark's winging in their bone. They have
- 22:16Speaker 3: to decide if he's part of their future. Listen, if
- 22:18Speaker 3: this happened a year ago, I would get it right.
- 22:22Speaker 3: He was injury ravaged. We finally have had a healthy season.
- 22:26Speaker 3: We've also seen him make improvements to his game where
- 22:29Speaker 3: it seemed like he was taken to coaching. Even defensively,
- 22:31Speaker 3: there were improvements to his game.
- 22:33Speaker 2: So are you just.
- 22:34Speaker 3: Trying to sell now that his value is higher, like
- 22:38Speaker 3: cause he was healthy?
- 22:39Speaker 2: I just I can't. Oh, man, I don't like this
- 22:42Speaker 2: at all.
- 22:42Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. The timing of it's weird. It
- 22:44Speaker 4: doesn't feel like a move forward move. You mentioned John
- 22:49Speaker 4: Moran in there. Maybe maybe there's part of this Again.
- 22:52Speaker 4: I mentioned three team trade ideas because sometimes we don't
- 22:55Speaker 4: always factor in three teams. Maybe maybe there's a world
- 22:58Speaker 4: where Moran and Mellow move in the same deal in
- 23:00Speaker 4: different places. Maybe there's a three teamer where Morant goes somewhere,
- 23:04Speaker 4: Mellow goes some That's possible too, I guess. And by
- 23:06Speaker 4: the way, stop people are texting in man, let's go
- 23:08Speaker 4: get jam Barant baby.
- 23:10Speaker 2: It's like, why is that exciting getting a hold of
- 23:12Speaker 2: that chucklehead? What the heck is that exciting? Y'all think
- 23:15Speaker 2: LaMelo's immature and dangerous.
- 23:17Speaker 3: I've been talking about the driving nothing serious, you know,
- 23:19Speaker 3: but I guess that is serious. Actually yeah, but the
- 23:22Speaker 3: Jam Barrett, you want him, count on him.
- 23:25Speaker 4: I was ready, just I was ready mac, just to
- 23:28Speaker 4: go in off season mode, focus on the summer league,
- 23:30Speaker 4: back to back, Taylor and Travis's wedding. I was not
- 23:33Speaker 4: for I was not prepared for all that. I need
- 23:35Speaker 4: a chicken biscuit desperately, bro. I was trying to hold
- 23:37Speaker 4: my US men's national team pepper rally.
- 23:39Speaker 3: Man.
- 23:40Speaker 2: All that stuff gone. The whole show plan is gone.
- 23:42Speaker 2: We had a random crap segment with the silliest news
- 23:44Speaker 2: yet it's gone.
- 23:46Speaker 3: What are you doing, Jeff Peterson? We finally were getting good,
- 23:49Speaker 3: We finally were getting somewhere. Man, Now is a mammoth port.
- 23:52Speaker 4: When are we gonna have time for random crap now
- 23:54Speaker 4: on the show? Oh my goodness? All right, anyway, yeah,
- 23:58Speaker 4: how we gonna fit that in? All right, let's go
- 24:00Speaker 4: to Mac with Sleep and then we'll back up again.
- 24:02Speaker 4: Let's go to the phones.
- 24:03Speaker 3: This dude said, if you actually want to talk to
- 24:05Speaker 3: us fans, this must be sirians. That's funny, but no,
- 24:08Speaker 3: we really want to talk to y'all. This is an
- 24:11Speaker 3: emergency Pulse of Hornets Nation segment jump in here.
- 24:15Speaker 2: Does this upset you?
- 24:17Speaker 3: Does this feel to you like something that doesn't make
- 24:20Speaker 3: sense with the direction of the franchise, or is there
- 24:23Speaker 3: a way you could tell us, Hey, this makes sense
- 24:25Speaker 3: to me, Like, is there anybody out there that can
- 24:27Speaker 3: try to help make sense of it? Seven o four
- 24:30Speaker 3: five seven nine sixteen.
- 24:31Speaker 4: API says that as soon as the red light cameras
- 24:34Speaker 4: came back, mellow want it out of here.
- 24:40Speaker 3: To figure in last week again. Oh no, okay, well
- 24:44Speaker 3: now I understand. All right, let's go to the phones.
- 24:47Speaker 3: Let's see what you guys are saying about this one.
- 24:50Speaker 3: Let's go to Royal, who is first up in the
- 24:53Speaker 3: Pulse of Hornets Nation.
- 24:54Speaker 2: Royal does this make sense to you at all.
- 24:57Speaker 5: This makes perfect sense, guys. But I'm gonna you what
- 25:00Speaker 5: don't make sense to me. It's listening to YouTube, guys.
- 25:04Speaker 5: But come hipocrits about LaMelo Ball for what you wanted
- 25:08Speaker 5: LaMelo Ball out of Charlie the last two or three years.
- 25:12Speaker 5: You guys, run your mouth.
- 25:14Speaker 8: But change LaMelo Ball. Hold on, you run your mouth
- 25:17Speaker 8: about what LaMelo Ball does bad. But you get on
- 25:20Speaker 8: here and you're screaming about please don't trade them. You're
- 25:24Speaker 8: calling John Morin a chucklehead and all this other crap.
- 25:27Speaker 8: You two guys are airheads and need to be off
- 25:30Speaker 8: of the air talking about no.
- 25:32Speaker 4: Hold on, hey, no no, no, no, no, no no no, you're gonnaide.
- 25:35Speaker 2: Let me call you out.
- 25:37Speaker 8: You guys make stuff personal, and now you want to
- 25:40Speaker 8: hold on to La Mellow Ball after you didn't want
- 25:42Speaker 8: them here. You're getting your mouth by the ways, were
- 25:48Speaker 8: tired of hear you talk about it. Hold on, hold on,
- 25:52Speaker 8: We're tired.
- 25:53Speaker 2: No no apeak.
- 25:56Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like the calls has run
- 25:58Speaker 3: its correspond I feel like you and him are not
- 26:00Speaker 3: going to Roy. We appreciate the call, and that is
- 26:02Speaker 3: a humpdown of royal pain in the ass.
- 26:04Speaker 2: What you are? What a way to return to phone calls? Baby?
- 26:07Speaker 2: What a way to return with.
- 26:08Speaker 4: Why don't we turn? Why don't we take more of these?
- 26:10Speaker 4: What I was going to try to tell them was
- 26:12Speaker 4: the thought of trading mellow.
- 26:14Speaker 2: It was amazing.
- 26:15Speaker 4: It would make sense if you got the timing of
- 26:18Speaker 4: it and you got something back that was equal. From
- 26:22Speaker 4: what we understand now, it doesn't feel like there'd be
- 26:26Speaker 4: fair compensation coming back. And that's part of the angst
- 26:29Speaker 4: here as well. If it was mellow for a guy
- 26:31Speaker 4: like Brown or a star, that's one thing. Mellow for
- 26:35Speaker 4: Nase Reed or Rudy Gobert or RJ. Barrett or Tyler
- 26:39Speaker 4: Hero or any of these other dudes doesn't really move
- 26:42Speaker 4: the needle, And that's part of the problem.
- 26:43Speaker 3: I was trying to tell Royle, and it became a
- 26:45Speaker 3: parent that it became the Royal Show. And that's fine.
- 26:47Speaker 3: We put you on the air, say your piece, go
- 26:50Speaker 3: after us, it's good radio, go after us, whatever. But
- 26:53Speaker 3: there wasn't going to be a back and forth on
- 26:54Speaker 3: that call. So what I was trying to say is
- 26:57Speaker 3: bone like, yes, last year at this time, would I
- 27:01Speaker 3: have been open to a Lamello trade yes, because he
- 27:03Speaker 3: could not stay healthy and he wasn't dependable, and I
- 27:06Speaker 3: did think there were parts of his game that he
- 27:08Speaker 3: needed more floor time in order to keep improving. I
- 27:12Speaker 3: don't understand how Royal can't acknowledge that things have changed
- 27:14Speaker 3: now and why we can't change our opinion. Says make
- 27:17Speaker 3: up your mind. LaMelo made up my mind with the
- 27:20Speaker 3: season he had, he stayed healthy, The Hornets had a
- 27:22Speaker 3: great plan for him minutes wise, to stay healthy. Bone
- 27:25Speaker 3: the new training staff has been a godsend, and I
- 27:28Speaker 3: thought he improved his game astronomically. It really appeared like
- 27:31Speaker 3: Charles Lee and the coaching staff had gotten to him. Defensively,
- 27:35Speaker 3: he was working. It wasn't as much you know, crazy stuff.
- 27:40Speaker 3: It was a lot more sound point guard. His efficiency
- 27:42Speaker 3: numbers for this team, our offensishing numbs with than we were amazing.
- 27:45Speaker 3: So I don't understand why it's such an unreasonable thing
- 27:48Speaker 3: to in the past be open to a trade and
- 27:51Speaker 3: now say he's too important. And also I'll say another
- 27:54Speaker 3: thing too, The team stunk a year ago. At this
- 27:56Speaker 3: time they were coming off a nineteen one season. We
- 27:59Speaker 3: have improved by two only five wins and LaMelo was
- 28:01Speaker 3: a huge part of that, so things have changed. That
- 28:03Speaker 3: would be my response to Royal that, well, that isn't
- 28:08Speaker 3: that hilarious.
- 28:09Speaker 2: People are like, I can't believe you want to talk
- 28:10Speaker 2: to us, and then Royal comes in. Guns. Roy been
- 28:12Speaker 2: waiting in the weeds bone but like I know, one
- 28:14Speaker 2: of these months he don't take calls, I will go
- 28:16Speaker 2: get him.
- 28:17Speaker 4: Did he say to retire? Because I think that's the
- 28:19Speaker 4: guy that retired, guy that text in all the time,
- 28:21Speaker 4: but this time he wanted you too.
- 28:22Speaker 2: Fiddy? Who's next on the phone lines?
- 28:24Speaker 3: Because Fiddy's computer when he tries to type in is
- 28:27Speaker 3: apparently not working.
- 28:28Speaker 7: All right, Mac, we're going to go to Will online too.
- 28:31Speaker 2: All right, Will? What Will? Where are you at on
- 28:34Speaker 2: this with LaMelo? What do you think?
- 28:35Speaker 10: Oh my guesh Well, first of all, my ears are bleeding.
- 28:38Speaker 10: That was unbelievable but exciting. But listen, here's how I feel.
- 28:44Speaker 10: I am really, I'm back and forth. I'm really, really
- 28:47Speaker 10: really torn because I felt, like I think everybody when
- 28:51Speaker 10: LaMelo has been hurt over these last few years, you're
- 28:55Speaker 10: thinking this guy is like the Macaffery story. You know,
- 28:58Speaker 10: it's like, maybe we do get rid of him, But
- 29:01Speaker 10: then you're thinking, Okay, we've got Con, We've got Brandon,
- 29:05Speaker 10: We've got Moose. I mean, it's just it's clicking, and
- 29:08Speaker 10: he's playing so well and it was so exciting, and
- 29:11Speaker 10: I felt like even at the end of the year,
- 29:13Speaker 10: Lamela was making plays. I mean, he hit that shot,
- 29:16Speaker 10: but Kobe White hit a shot. And so I'm wondering,
- 29:19Speaker 10: I'm wondering, deep down, is it is management? Is oders?
- 29:23Speaker 10: Is oders management thinking? Are they thinking, okay, maybe this
- 29:27Speaker 10: is like a Breton thing, you know how how jam
- 29:29Speaker 10: Brunson was playing for the Mavericks then he went to
- 29:31Speaker 10: New York. Are are they thinking, maybe this is the
- 29:34Speaker 10: time that we just give the keys to Kobe White
- 29:36Speaker 10: and say hey, Kobe, we got you here. Now we're
- 29:40Speaker 10: giving you the keys to the car to say, okay,
- 29:42Speaker 10: let's go, man. This is this is this is your
- 29:44Speaker 10: time to shine, and we're giving you the front seat
- 29:47Speaker 10: and saying go. And we've got these younger guys with
- 29:50Speaker 10: Anderson and Steinbach and we're like yeah, really, I mean,
- 29:53Speaker 10: it's almost like, my gosh, are we going to bring
- 29:55Speaker 10: in two rookies every year? Or I mean we got
- 29:58Speaker 10: total of six rookies that have come in in the last.
- 30:00Speaker 3: Two No, you bring up the Kobe White piece of this.
- 30:03Speaker 3: And by the way, I appreciate the call man, appreciate
- 30:05Speaker 3: the call. You also did not try to say we
- 30:08Speaker 3: should be off the air as well. So that's that's
- 30:10Speaker 3: one caller that doesn't want us off the air. The
- 30:12Speaker 3: other collar does. It's fifty to fifty right now.
- 30:14Speaker 4: There is the Kobe White element of all this that
- 30:16Speaker 4: does factor in here as well. That's a good point
- 30:19Speaker 4: by Well.
- 30:19Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, they do.
- 30:20Speaker 3: They just feel like Kobe showed us enough the impact
- 30:23Speaker 3: he had offensively when he was on the floor. It's like, hey,
- 30:26Speaker 3: maybe we can do this. Maybe we Maybe they don't,
- 30:29Speaker 3: deep down the side trust his health and they somebody
- 30:33Speaker 3: else just texted in and said, Mac, I can't believe
- 30:36Speaker 3: you don't understand the concept of selling high. You were
- 30:40Speaker 3: sitting here saying that last year you wanted to trade him.
- 30:43Speaker 3: Last year, the league didn't want him. This year, the
- 30:45Speaker 3: league now has an appetite for him. Now is when
- 30:48Speaker 3: you trade him. So I don't know, do they feel
- 30:52Speaker 3: like we can sell high now? Bone and they're worried
- 30:55Speaker 3: it's gonna stay this high? I don't they feel they
- 30:57Speaker 3: don't know? Do they feel the to support that theory?
- 31:02Speaker 3: Do they now feel they can move mellow because they
- 31:06Speaker 3: have an established guy in the folding Kobe, as opposed
- 31:09Speaker 3: to before when there's nothing, when they were trying to
- 31:10Speaker 3: figure out kJ Simpson and all these other guys they're
- 31:13Speaker 3: thrown there. Do they feel now, Hey, we've waited a
- 31:16Speaker 3: while for this, he's healthy, there's a guy here in place,
- 31:19Speaker 3: we trust the timing would be right.
- 31:21Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that's possible. But look how good
- 31:23Speaker 2: offensively you were with the Bobs.
- 31:24Speaker 4: What if Kobe White signed somewhere else though? Yeah, yeah,
- 31:28Speaker 4: it's a nightmare.
- 31:29Speaker 3: I can't imagine, Like, would you trade LaMelo without knowing
- 31:31Speaker 3: we are re signing Kobe?
- 31:32Speaker 2: Absolutely? Oh my god.
- 31:34Speaker 3: But yeah, anyway, all right, let's go back to the phones.
- 31:36Speaker 3: Jamal is next up? Jamal, what do you think about this?
- 31:40Speaker 11: Hey, guys, Well, I want to even out the vote.
- 31:44Speaker 11: I do want you guys still to be on the air.
- 31:47Speaker 2: Okay.
- 31:49Speaker 11: I have been a fan of this franchise since Melvin
- 31:52Speaker 11: Eli in primost BRESI.
- 31:54Speaker 2: No choice the course of God, bless you.
- 31:57Speaker 11: I have suffered through that call turning in the number
- 32:01Speaker 11: two pigres seat of the one bit. I have suffered
- 32:03Speaker 11: a lot with this franchise. If they trade mellow Ball,
- 32:07Speaker 11: I can I can finally let myself out the door.
- 32:10Speaker 11: That would be it for me. This makes I don't
- 32:13Speaker 11: care about selling high. You finally, you, finally in this
- 32:18Speaker 11: twenty something year franchise, have a little bit of continuity
- 32:21Speaker 11: going in the right direction. And you say, you know what,
- 32:25Speaker 11: let's pivot now. That does not make any sense. Hey, guys,
- 32:30Speaker 11: I thought that you want more good players on your
- 32:32Speaker 11: basketball team than you want mediocre players on your team.
- 32:35Speaker 11: Trading LaMelo ball let me, let me, let me come
- 32:37Speaker 11: down a big and provides you an example. You're you
- 32:40Speaker 11: know how crappy franchises make some trade to make a
- 32:44Speaker 11: contending team even better and it puts them over the hump.
- 32:47Speaker 11: This is what this feels like. If you remember the
- 32:49Speaker 11: Palcasol trade with Memphis, just gave donated the Lakers Parcasos
- 32:54Speaker 11: and any won the title. That's how this feels. Don't
- 32:57Speaker 11: be the crappy franchise that gives another team star player
- 33:01Speaker 11: that puts them over the hut. But I want to
- 33:03Speaker 11: say one more thing. I want to say one more
- 33:06Speaker 11: big If Rudy Gobert on this team. I want to
- 33:10Speaker 11: I want to propose w f ZI to send me
- 33:14Speaker 11: bail money. Y'all. Y'all have to bail me out of
- 33:16Speaker 11: jail if LaMelo Ball is not on this team and
- 33:19Speaker 11: Rudy Gobert ends upon his team not taking up there.
- 33:21Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, thank you.
- 33:23Speaker 4: We've had a roller coaster ride with the French players
- 33:25Speaker 4: also back before, have we not? That is your your
- 33:29Speaker 4: dis your AGENTSA is your batombs? Uh t, John's there
- 33:32Speaker 4: now we've we've not exactly struck gold with France.
- 33:35Speaker 2: Unbelievable and Rudy Gobert.
- 33:37Speaker 3: All I can think of with Rudy Gobert, yeah, the
- 33:39Speaker 3: shot blocking the four Defensive Player of the Year awards.
- 33:42Speaker 3: But all I can think of right now is the
- 33:44Speaker 3: Chappelle ship Chappelle skit. Let me rephrase this here because
- 33:49Speaker 3: Fitty has had to dump me. The see them disheveled,
- 33:53Speaker 3: maybe disheveled, y'all. The Chapelle skit esque scene where Rudy
- 33:59Speaker 3: Gobert was touching all the microphone's bone and he actually
- 34:02Speaker 3: had COVID.
- 34:03Speaker 2: You remember that he caused the pandemic. This guy's a
- 34:07Speaker 2: health risk man. Yeah, damn health risk. All right, Andy,
- 34:12Speaker 2: that was an inadvertent slip of the time.
- 34:13Speaker 4: Though, Yeah, no, I mean yeah, you got tongue tied there,
- 34:16Speaker 4: you got tongue tiding.
- 34:17Speaker 3: Cuss got These callers are good, man, don't blay all
- 34:21Speaker 3: are good. Don't blame moth wame shops report came out.
- 34:24Speaker 3: Blame chef Jeff Man. And that's the thing that that
- 34:26Speaker 3: has me all messed up. Is I believe in like
- 34:29Speaker 3: in the past. If you're telling me rich Show would
- 34:31Speaker 3: do something that doesn't make sense right when we have
- 34:33Speaker 3: all this momentum finally, Okay, yeah, the old the old
- 34:37Speaker 3: brass of the hornets makes sense.
- 34:39Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense because we believe in this man
- 34:41Speaker 2: so much so.
- 34:42Speaker 4: Anyway, Jeff has not made a bad meal yet, but
- 34:45Speaker 4: this one we're thinking about. Hey, put this back in
- 34:46Speaker 4: the kitchen, the.
- 34:47Speaker 3: Man, I know, all right, anyway, I'll try not to cuss. Also,
- 34:50Speaker 3: like I say, it's a dry brisk but we might
- 34:53Speaker 3: need to open the phones up again. Y'all are on
- 34:54Speaker 3: fire man, I love it. Are you sure you want
- 34:56Speaker 3: to do that again? They were They weren't the ones
- 34:58Speaker 3: that cuss, though, although that guy he did give us
- 35:00Speaker 3: a dressing down, didn't he Oh?
- 35:02Speaker 4: Royal Old Royal Royal, late President of Royal has been
- 35:06Speaker 4: waiting for years to that. I was just laying in
- 35:08Speaker 4: the weeds, baby, just laying there. Oh man, I know
- 35:10Speaker 4: it's fitty. Didn't get our back of that guy when
- 35:12Speaker 4: we come back. He was he was smiling, he was enjoying.
- 35:14Speaker 4: The captain of FC joined us for a few minutes,
- 35:17Speaker 4: actually Westwood for a World Cup West segment of Sports
- 35:20Speaker 4: Radio ninety two seven w F and D.
- 35:39Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 35:39Speaker 2: I'm feeling great. I think the team's feeling great. I've
- 35:41Speaker 2: been able to join the team in the last few
- 35:42Speaker 2: days and I'm feeling healthy and yeah and ready to
- 35:46Speaker 2: go for this game.
- 35:47Speaker 5: Would you say you've been one hundred percent in training
- 35:49Speaker 5: the last couple of.
- 35:49Speaker 2: Days, Yeah, I would say so.
- 35:51Speaker 10: I would say definitely.
- 35:52Speaker 2: Yesterday I felt very close and I would say one
- 35:56Speaker 2: hundred percent. Yeah.
- 35:58Speaker 3: That's Christian polistic with Jenny Taft on Fox says definitely
- 36:02Speaker 3: one hundred percent. Wants to play tonight, but does Patchettino
- 36:07Speaker 3: risk it. I'd like to see him get a little
- 36:10Speaker 3: run out bone, even if it's thirty minutes a half,
- 36:13Speaker 3: not more than that. Then we've got the whole problem
- 36:16Speaker 3: of you got Tyler Adams, Richards Robinson and Flow Balligan
- 36:23Speaker 3: all on yellow cards. I'm not sure you should play
- 36:26Speaker 3: them at all tonight because the US has clinched the group.
- 36:30Speaker 3: But we're engaged, man, We're very much into this US
- 36:33Speaker 3: team and what they have done to start this tournament
- 36:36Speaker 3: two and oh and what might happen to it against
- 36:38Speaker 3: Turkey A And it's time to bring on our World
- 36:43Speaker 3: Cup guru. You know him as the captain of Charlotte FC.
- 36:47Speaker 3: He is Ashley Westwood and Westy joins us on the
- 36:51Speaker 3: Mac and Bone show.
- 36:52Speaker 2: Westy, we are a soccer nation, my friend.
- 36:56Speaker 10: It's so nice to hear that.
- 36:58Speaker 2: This is amazing Wes and the and the viewership. They've
- 37:02Speaker 2: averaged over twenty three million viewers in this country for
- 37:06Speaker 2: each of these two matches. I mean, so you your reaction,
- 37:10Speaker 2: you I would assume you love this anything that gets
- 37:13Speaker 2: the country you're living in right now more into your sport,
- 37:16Speaker 2: right yeah.
- 37:17Speaker 12: And I'll be honest, I was worried. I was worried, mate,
- 37:20Speaker 12: But they've done They've done an incredible job. Everyone coming
- 37:24Speaker 12: over from across the pond as says how amazing the
- 37:26Speaker 12: stadiums are. The pictures have been fantastic, the football has
- 37:30Speaker 12: been amazing, and the big boys have turned look so
- 37:31Speaker 12: you couldn't have asked for a better start to it.
- 37:34Speaker 2: No doubt. Absolutely. What have you thought of the expanded
- 37:37Speaker 2: field for this one?
- 37:40Speaker 10: Different?
- 37:40Speaker 12: It's different, but it gives it gives it more of
- 37:44Speaker 12: an edge, Like you're seeing more teams, there's more upsets,
- 37:48Speaker 12: so it's I think it's great.
- 37:49Speaker 10: I think it's great.
- 37:50Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it.
- 37:51Speaker 3: I thought you would have like so many routes right
- 37:54Speaker 3: because you were adding, you know, more countries, but we've
- 37:57Speaker 3: only seen a few. And like you said, some of
- 38:00Speaker 3: the upset like some of the results like last night
- 38:03Speaker 3: South Africa beating South Korea advance, like there's the Cape
- 38:06Speaker 3: Verde Spain tie, like there have been some moments where
- 38:10Speaker 3: you know the teams you're not expecting much from have
- 38:14Speaker 3: risen up. I want to ask you Westy about the
- 38:17Speaker 3: dilemmas that Pachettino. Last time we had John, you were
- 38:20Speaker 3: waxing poetic about why this dude has just flat out
- 38:22Speaker 3: one of the best managers in the sport right worldwide. Today,
- 38:26Speaker 3: I want to ask you what you would do if
- 38:27Speaker 3: you were Pach. You have Polisic, who now is healthy
- 38:31Speaker 3: as trained with the team again in the last couple
- 38:33Speaker 3: of days, says hey, I'm a hundred percent I want
- 38:34Speaker 3: to play, but the game doesn't mean anything, right, you
- 38:38Speaker 3: already clinched the group and you're through to the knockouts.
- 38:41Speaker 3: Do you play him at all to get him kind
- 38:43Speaker 3: of back in rhythm? And then you have the four
- 38:46Speaker 3: key guys in Adams, Balagun, Robinson and Richards with yellow cards,
- 38:51Speaker 3: but if they get another one, they can't play in
- 38:53Speaker 3: the first group stage match. If you're the manager, what
- 38:57Speaker 3: are you doing in these situations?
- 39:00Speaker 12: I think the yellow cards ones obvious. I don't think
- 39:03Speaker 12: you can risk that.
- 39:04Speaker 11: It's not worth it.
- 39:05Speaker 12: You've topped the group. It's it's an unbelievable start. But
- 39:09Speaker 12: again it's it's hard because I know a lot of
- 39:12Speaker 12: a lot of people say, oh, there's a lot of
- 39:13Speaker 12: games in so many days, But sometimes you need momentum
- 39:17Speaker 12: and when you stop, when you don't well, when you
- 39:19Speaker 12: miss a game, you lose that momentum. So it's a
- 39:21Speaker 12: tough one. I'd rather Potch of it than me.
- 39:25Speaker 3: Yeah, we just can sit back, watch our beer, sit
- 39:27Speaker 3: on the couch. West you know, can we do it?
- 39:30Speaker 4: What do you think of the uh not tonight's matchup obviously,
- 39:33Speaker 4: but the one that matters the most, the Bosnia game
- 39:37Speaker 4: we assume coming up next week. Is that any cause
- 39:40Speaker 4: for concern or should that be a one where the
- 39:42Speaker 4: US taste care business?
- 39:44Speaker 12: Listen, they're a good team.
- 39:45Speaker 10: They're a good team.
- 39:46Speaker 12: They've they've surprised a few people. But I said it
- 39:50Speaker 12: on the first chat we had. I think USA, the
- 39:53Speaker 12: team they've got, they are, they should be up there
- 39:58Speaker 12: with the They should be talked about with one of
- 40:00Speaker 12: the top the top teams in Europe. The players I've
- 40:04Speaker 12: got is phenomenon. I just worry about the squad depths,
- 40:06Speaker 12: So injuries, suspensions, that's going to be the biggest thing
- 40:09Speaker 12: for the USA.
- 40:10Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe tonight if you sit out the four
- 40:12Speaker 3: yellow car guys, that gets your depth out there a
- 40:15Speaker 3: little bit more. Yeah, that that can only help those
- 40:17Speaker 3: guys if they're needed. Like you're saying, a Texter, west
- 40:21Speaker 3: this is not for me, all right. This is from
- 40:23Speaker 3: a Texter that says Mac. Can you ask Westy if
- 40:27Speaker 3: Tyler Adams and these guys can play on a yellow
- 40:30Speaker 3: card and be disciplined enough to not get one. Then again,
- 40:33Speaker 3: don't ask Westy because he always gets yellow cars.
- 40:36Speaker 2: That's called well.
- 40:40Speaker 12: The text team's got a valid point. Listen, never when
- 40:44Speaker 12: you when you're in and Tyler is very similar to me.
- 40:47Speaker 12: It's all actually position to get around the field. Yeah,
- 40:50Speaker 12: so midfield. It's hard in midfield because all it takes
- 40:54Speaker 12: is one counter attack and you you have to make
- 40:56Speaker 12: a foul. So it's it becomes second nature. I wouldn't
- 40:59Speaker 12: risk him, I wouldn't list him, not for not when
- 41:01Speaker 12: you've topped the group.
- 41:02Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I definitely see your point on that. Now, England,
- 41:05Speaker 3: we got to ask you about you your country. England
- 41:08Speaker 3: had that that which got that? Which doctor got you?
- 41:11Speaker 3: Which doctor said Jakes Terry Kane? But what did you think?
- 41:16Speaker 3: Clearly Ghana had the strategy of let's just sit everybody back,
- 41:19Speaker 3: everybody behind the ball, low black, and we're gonna make
- 41:22Speaker 3: it really hard for you, and it earned them a
- 41:24Speaker 3: nil nil draw. You could argue maybe gonna should have
- 41:27Speaker 3: a penalty late. Like does that does that game concern
- 41:31Speaker 3: you as an England fan? Or was it just hey,
- 41:33Speaker 3: most teams aren't gonna play so dramatically defensive like that?
- 41:37Speaker 12: Like what do you think, Yeah, I fully expected that
- 41:41Speaker 12: to be like that. It was just we just looked,
- 41:44Speaker 12: we looked slow and methodical. That was that was the
- 41:46Speaker 12: only problem. But again, you're gonna they've gone. Aren't a
- 41:51Speaker 12: bad team. We've got some We've got some good players.
- 41:53Speaker 12: They've they know how to these teams, these teams know
- 41:56Speaker 12: how to defend. It's and you see it in the
- 41:58Speaker 12: Premier League sometimes you can't don't break teams down. It's
- 42:01Speaker 12: the it's the hardest thing to do when they've got
- 42:03Speaker 12: ten men behind the ball. But no, it's it's it
- 42:06Speaker 12: was disappointing, but listen, that's that's what England does. It's
- 42:10Speaker 12: it's not about hitting your stride now, it's I would
- 42:12Speaker 12: expect us to go deep and that's when we need
- 42:15Speaker 12: to be performing. So we're not.
- 42:16Speaker 11: We're not.
- 42:16Speaker 10: We're not worried toy, all.
- 42:19Speaker 4: Right, Wessy, I've been so into this World Cup. I
- 42:21Speaker 4: picked a Premier League team to follow now too, I'm
- 42:23Speaker 4: wearing a I'm wearing Chelsea gear today.
- 42:25Speaker 2: May you jumped on that wagon? Any problems with me
- 42:28Speaker 2: picking out Chelsea, Wessy.
- 42:30Speaker 12: You could have picked Burnley. Mate said that in the Championship. Now,
- 42:33Speaker 12: so but no, I'm going to send you on. I'm
- 42:35Speaker 12: going to send you on.
- 42:36Speaker 2: Okay, you're gonna say, oh, so you are going to
- 42:39Speaker 2: what are you sending him?
- 42:39Speaker 10: So?
- 42:39Speaker 12: Now I'm a Birdley guy. Y, I'm going to send
- 42:41Speaker 12: you one of my Burnley ships.
- 42:42Speaker 2: Oh shoot a Birdley bone. Now, I guess take off
- 42:47Speaker 2: this Chelsea gear. Whatever. Whatever the captain wants it. I'm
- 42:51Speaker 2: not gonna argue. I don't know any better. Aren't you
- 42:54Speaker 2: a Villa man too? Do you got any villa loyaltieser?
- 42:57Speaker 8: Now I have thought I got booed out the club.
- 43:05Speaker 2: Way to go back.
- 43:05Speaker 3: I shouldn't have brought that up. We shouldn't have brought
- 43:08Speaker 3: that up. Westy Uh. You know we talked last week
- 43:11Speaker 3: or or or two weeks ago, I forget what it was,
- 43:13Speaker 3: or maybe both. We just talked about how so many
- 43:16Speaker 3: fans from Europe have come here and just had a
- 43:20Speaker 3: blast United States. I mean, the Scottish folks, we talked
- 43:22Speaker 3: about them last week. They hadn't stopped drinking. They went
- 43:24Speaker 3: to Miami this week. The Norway fans, I mean, but
- 43:28Speaker 3: they're they're rowing everywhere across the Northeast. But I think
- 43:32Speaker 3: what we're seeing is I think we're seeing the best
- 43:35Speaker 3: of and hopefully that continues the best of these European
- 43:38Speaker 3: soccer fans, right, like the passion, the fun stuff that
- 43:42Speaker 3: they do. Like there's the and you grew up in
- 43:45Speaker 3: this the European I've all you know. I have often said,
- 43:48Speaker 3: like the European soccer fans and like the SEC college
- 43:51Speaker 3: football fans, Like I think, like that's the that's the
- 43:55Speaker 3: one thing I can compare it to here in the
- 43:57Speaker 3: United States, like speak to the passion over there in
- 44:00Speaker 3: your country, but also in all of Europe about this sport.
- 44:05Speaker 8: Man.
- 44:05Speaker 2: They really can make it fun.
- 44:07Speaker 12: Yeah, then I would say that's probably the one thing
- 44:10Speaker 12: I miss is some of the atmospheres. And we we're lucky.
- 44:14Speaker 12: We we've got a great atmosphere at the Bank. We've
- 44:16Speaker 12: got passionate supporters. They don't stop singing. And that's what
- 44:19Speaker 12: it's like in Europe. They go to the game and
- 44:21Speaker 12: they they feel like they're involved in the game. They
- 44:25Speaker 12: feel like they can have a have a impact on
- 44:30Speaker 12: the result. And that's it. You're you go there and
- 44:33Speaker 12: you support the hell out of your team, and when
- 44:36Speaker 12: you when your team wins, it feels like you've won
- 44:38Speaker 12: as well. That's that's the biggest thing I can say.
- 44:41Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool, man, no doubt about it. That's cool,
- 44:43Speaker 2: all right, Westy.
- 44:44Speaker 3: Well, hey, we appreciate, we appreciate you being flexible to Westy.
- 44:48Speaker 3: We had interviews with the Hornets two draft picks yesterday,
- 44:52Speaker 3: so we had to move you back a day. And
- 44:54Speaker 3: I will say this, your people were not happy about this.
- 44:56Speaker 3: It seemed like your people thought it was a little
- 44:58Speaker 3: disrespectful to the cap But we but we tried to
- 45:05Speaker 3: fight for you, Westy. I try to tell these guys
- 45:07Speaker 3: we don't do this to the captain. Oh, I love it, man,
- 45:14Speaker 3: all right, man, we hey, enjoy the World Cup, have
- 45:16Speaker 3: a couple of pints to watch this stuff, and we'll
- 45:19Speaker 3: talk to you about it next week.
- 45:20Speaker 2: We will.
- 45:20Speaker 3: There'll be no changing Westy from his Wednesday routine next week,
- 45:24Speaker 3: all right, we promise you.
- 45:27Speaker 12: Good look tonight.
- 45:28Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, brother, appreciate you. Man U U sa
- 45:35Speaker 2: U USA. There you go.
- 45:36Speaker 3: West They do call him mister America the locker room.
- 45:39Speaker 3: All right, Westy, be good, brother.
- 45:42Speaker 2: I did not see that coming, Westy starting the US
- 45:45Speaker 2: a champ bro. I got goosebumps over that.
- 45:48Speaker 4: One question back about Burnley, any good relegated, so they're
- 45:52Speaker 4: down the second division. Maybe you're gonna have a second
- 45:55Speaker 4: division team and a first division team.
- 45:57Speaker 2: That would be having multiple teams, though I can imagine that.
- 46:00Speaker 4: I have a little bit of an update here from
- 46:03Speaker 4: Mark Stein on what Minnesota is willing to give up
- 46:06Speaker 4: for Mellow and you ready for this?
- 46:08Speaker 8: Yeah?
- 46:08Speaker 4: Yeah, So obviously Anthony Edwards off limits. JAD McDaniel's off limits.
- 46:13Speaker 4: They do not want to part with Evencenda or nos
- 46:15Speaker 4: Read either.
- 46:16Speaker 2: What they all need to do? You're trying to get
- 46:18Speaker 2: this star player away for They also don't have their
- 46:21Speaker 2: own first and two of the next three drafts, Like
- 46:23Speaker 2: what get Jeff? Hang up on him, fools, Like, seriously,
- 46:26Speaker 2: hang up on those.
- 46:26Speaker 4: It's Rudy Gobert and I don't know what else is
- 46:29Speaker 4: going to go Bert and Nikas Harrot's Shannon Jr.
- 46:31Speaker 3: I think, and they can give us three first round
- 46:34Speaker 3: picks bone in the twenty forties.
- 46:36Speaker 4: I mean, come on, man, you would partner with nas
- 46:39Speaker 4: Reed or big Ragu for Mellow Wall I'm not saying
- 46:42Speaker 4: I would want that, but like, what what are we doing?
- 46:44Speaker 2: How do you think you're going to get him?
- 46:46Speaker 8: Like?
- 46:46Speaker 2: This is it said? It said like something about they're
- 46:50Speaker 2: trying to fleece the Hornets, And I don't think Jeff
- 46:52Speaker 2: Peters said fleets. I don't think he's going for it.
- 46:54Speaker 3: Said one of the reports from SEAM said something about,
- 46:57Speaker 3: you know, the Hornets, you know, want an aggressive deal
- 46:59Speaker 3: that ain't aggressive, you know what I mean, Like that's
- 47:02Speaker 3: that's come on, You've got to come with better than that.
- 47:04Speaker 3: But like I said, maybe the Hornets leaked this out
- 47:06Speaker 3: bone because they're getting offers, but they don't really love any.
- 47:09Speaker 2: Of the offers.
- 47:10Speaker 3: Maybe they're trying to stir up more teams or more offers,
- 47:13Speaker 3: trying to get the teams involved to raise their offers
- 47:15Speaker 3: because now they know they're competing with others.
- 47:17Speaker 4: Seems to part with the Star maybe rather than just
- 47:20Speaker 4: serious a collection of parts here. When we come back,
- 47:23Speaker 4: we're gonna reset more on the latest of mellow trade reports.
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