Final Thoughts on MVP Criteria

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Hoopin' and Hollerin. Another episode. Uh Jay Will running into TSA problems all week. It's nasty. Yes, nasty. uh the the government needs to get they shit together and get this shit squared away so a motherfucker like me can come to work. Yeah, the government's lacking. Monday you're supposed to fly up. Tuesday you're supposed to fly up. Wednesday we're trying to figure it out and then like bro, we're just doing it remote. We'll be back in the studio uh next Monday. But we have to bring the hooping and hollering to the people. Always as as as as um as many times as we can, we need to be on the on the air. Um it would be a disservice if we didn't talk about what everybody wants us to talk about. So let's get into the Pat Bev situation, if that's cool. Yeah, that's cool. I mean, yeah, yeah, I guess we yeah, we I get yeah, let's go ahead, I guess. All I have to say about it is I know that Pat Bev is misrepresenting what happened and he knows that he's not telling the full truth about this situation, but like I said to him personally when I reached out to him, I wish him nothing but the best. Yeah, that's that's that's as short and as sweet as you can be. Right? I mean I don't I like the is dragging it like I I don't know. I I I don't think 'cause I had like a seven minute video. I like, dude, I deleted that, threw it in the trash, like it's like I don't want to be doing this by big back and forth. Uh uh what your thing I don't really think it's no need to to be a big back and forth because one I think y'all y'all were homies. Y'all definitely were homies and and I th hopefully at the end of this, you'll still be some sort of homie. Like I don't know about y'all kick it on the couch or anything like that, but at least, you know what I'm say ing, still be some sort of homies, if you know what I'm saying. But but what I got to say on it is like I think I think I never really knew Pat Bear from really a can of paint, just other than hooping, right? Just hooping against him and and what I've heard and read and things like that. Never never knew anything about him until I really sat down on that couch with him the first time. So I didn't know how it was gonna I didn't go. I I just knew a little bit about his personality. I know my personality. I thought I thought it might work out. And I thought, yeah, we we had some good vibes going a little bit, but then he just kind of then he just up and left us and went on over there overseas to play ball. And still to this day, I don't I reached out to Buddy to check on him after the shit went down, and I got a response saying he was cool, da da da. And then we got word about what what whatever happened happened. Um but but the only thing only issue I had with Pat was the trust issue. Like he just up and left us when when I thought we had something rocking. Didn't tell me. I don't I don't I'm not his boss. He's not obligated to tell me. But I I I could just speak on what I know. If if I was finna do something after we started the podcast like we did, I'm gonna let all y'all know. Like look, I got this in the works it might happen it might not just so y'all can get y'all shit together if you need to but but yeah that's what I'm on um the the the dishonesty I should say maybe I don't wanna say he lied to us because he just didn't really tell me So he didn't lie. He just didn't he wasn't truth truthful. And and I told I told Mr. Portnoy, uh he's a he's a pretty big figurehead there at Barstool from day one that that I'm a guy that's that's big on trust. And I don't care if you tell me something that you know that I'm not gonna like, I need you to say that to me. Don't don't sugarcoat that shit. So I just feel like in this situation, Pat Bev kinda let us down in in a in a way and and and and he went and did his thing and I wish it could have been more successful or whatever you want to do but now he wants to get back in the fold and I'm just not I'm just not about that and I'm not you know you can't just and he did mention something about some teammates of he signed a contract and he wanted to leave his teammates or something one day. He he ain't allowed to do that. Well, in in in retrospect, he that's what he kind of did right here to us. So so he gotta watch what he says with that a little bit, but but yeah, I got nothing, nothing bad against Pat Bev other than he just didn't tell me the truth. Um, I wish him nothing but the best. I hope he rocks out on his no show. Whatever he does, bomb. That's all I got to say about it. One, this was not my decision. I did not make the call. I'm not the boss in this situation. Two, as far as my and his relationship, I feel like there's some stuff that's being misrepresented about the communication going back and forth. Kind of like what you said. When Pat left our show and our show about the NBA to go to Israel, and left the NBA to go to Israel, he didn't call me or tell me. I found out via a tweet. When he left to go to Greece, I found out via a tweet. When he got arrested, he didn't call me, I found out via a tweet. When the police report came out, I found out via a tweet. So it almost seems like I'm supposed to tell him about stuff that I didn't know about what's going on with this show, but he wasn't telling me stuff about he what he knew was going on. Um which I felt like is not a two-way friendship. And I think that my best suggestion with all of this, because I don't enjoy this type of content, I think is is to just keep it basketball and to just uh talk about basketball going forward. I think that's the best way for everybody uh to to go forward. And I just, yeah, it's been a tough week because I'm seeing like lots of uh misinformation kind of being spread about me. And uh that's a little bit frustrating. And you try to have a good perspective about it. Um but that's why I really just like I think the best way to move forward is just like just like that's just talk about basketball. Is that not what people want? Like or is it like Bravo? Like after this yeah after this one we'll talk. Yeah but we got some shit we need to talk about here but like it's it's it's it has nothing to do with with with you know I mean you ain't hiring nobody a bar stool I'm not hiring nobody a bar stool and I'm not putting it all on Dave either. Well, who does all the hiring? You know, yeah, we had conversations. And and and when Dave asked me what I thought, I told him what I just told y'all. I'm a big on trust. So he said, What do you think? Does Pat Bev, you would you like Pat Bev to be back on the bar on the hooping and hollering? And I told Dave, look, it ain't gonna work. I won't be the same if you want me and Pat Bev on the hoop and holler. So it's not gonna be the same because I ain't gonna feel the same about buddy because he's already been dishonest to me once. And who's to say he won't do it again? I'm not saying he would, but I'm just saying, what you hiring me for, Dave, to set me with Pat Bev again, you ain't getting what you need. Or what you want. That's all I have to say about it. Me to o. Okay, let's get into the actual show. Hoopin' and hollering. Uh what a blessing to be able to have your job be talking about basketball . Yeah, what a blessing it is. March madness. Yeah, March Madness is going down. Uh what I they the Gators, I I mean coming into this year, I was like, I think it's a repeat. I think that the Gators had the easiest path. They had the easiest path. They had uh Iowa. They didn't have the easiest path. They had to play Houston in the final four at or something like that. Compared compared to the East region though. Like compared to other regions. It don't matter what path they had. defense that they they would that they'd played on the last play, it didn't matter who they played, they were gonna get beat with that type of defense. I don't understand why Buddy was chasing from behind. I wonder if that was the the the the the game plan or he just did it on his own. Yeah. Uh Florida got knocked out in the second round and man, devastating way to go out. Uh uh last second shot. And it really seemed like it was a big collapse. Jordan, you had like a a video about it just being like, hey, like what what are we doing full court pressing on in a situation like someone uh deny or on ball on the press were up to and then he went in the press conference and said they wanted to foul. So I could just imagine if that actually happened. We'll be like, why are you intentionally fouling right now? We're up you're up too. I agree with you. Just go get a stop. Go go get a stop or also like the the closeout on the uh on the dude initiating, leaving the the corner wide open, leaving a spot up shooter wide open in the corners like yeah, like I totally agree that like the momentum of a guy who's coming downhill with all that adrenaline and the stakes like crazy stuff. Unless he's going to the rim, but that's a tough three to make no matter what. That's why that Nova shot works so well. It's like somebody's coming down the shot and you kind of you can leave it for somebody behind you. Whereas like I think Jameer Nelson had this in like a second round or maybe against Xavier a million years ago, but he just is coming downhill the entire time and just trying to get that momentum going forward and then just smoking it is like that's a harder shot than being able to get a uh thirty four percent shooter uh in the corner. Jay Will, did you did you shed a tear after the Gators lost? No tears at all. I got I got no skin in the game whatsoever, but but but I just don't understand in that poss in that in that possession, they gotta catch the ball in front of you, bro. They can't let the bru get a a a a head start. And he was a white boy too. Yeah, he yeah, like I mean, yeah, some of us white boys are kinda quick, but you gotta make the motherfuckers step. And plus, if the in today's game, if there's a white boy out there, it's one thing he probably can do. And tell me if I'm wrong, and that's shoot. Right or wrong. Yeah, that's probably most of the time. Yeah, yeah, mm-hmm. Yeah, so you damn sure can't be a take a charge. Damn sure can't lead a ballside corner, bro. You cannot with a white boy sitting there. No, I just I don't know. I can't I can't I can't put no blame on on anybody 'cause I don't know who was told what. You know what I'm saying? Maybe that's the way they were told to guard it or maybe they weren't. What did you how did you drown your sorrows? Is it like when you a big loss like that happens, you're sick to your stomach, you like roll one up like a extra extra fat like uh like you know what I mean, an extra fat one, or is it like you take a break for a little bit and really sit in it or just uh business as usual? Yeah, it's it's never no break. Let's get that out there. It's it's it's business as usual. Never breaks. And it's it's the I Maybe them boys will all come back and run it back one more year. So that I think that'd be good for everybody involved. Anything else stand out to you at the NCAA tournament? Nah, but you know what up? Are we ready to switch gears? I'm trying to give a shout out to them WNBA girls. Shout out to them girls for getting some bread, man. They deserve that, right ? I thought you hated the WNBA. No, I don't really hate that. I don't, yeah, I think me and my homie was talking about that earlier. I don't, it ain't really that I hate the WNBA. It's just that that I get kind of tired about how people compare women's sports to men's sports. Cause some of them women's great at all sports, you know, but but shout out to them for getting their money, getting their bread, and maybe getting a fly on the private Delta Junts and all that and getting the nicer buses, nicer hotels. But with all that being said, me and Billy Gilmore are still digging in the ass, y'all. I promise you. New salary caps at seven million dollars up from 1. 5 million average revenue share uh twenty percent across the deal super max at one point four and the average salary is gonna be about six hundred thousand with a minimum over three hundred thousand so nobody yeah nobody has to work at the you know what I mean Great minds think alike. Exactly. How many how many supermaxes per team? Yeah, I think isn't it depend on how they're 'cause you could trade for somebody who has a supermax already. Um but I I don't know. I I'm not sure exactly what the stipulations for them for Supermax is because I know Supermaxes are different across the board because it's like how many uh all MBAs do you have, how many uh you know, how much experience do you have? So I'm not sure what what their stipulations are gonna be. Um you still think that they can't compete with the fellows though, even though they're breaded now? No, I don't I don't I don't think so. I I'll take that to my grave. But uh did you see the I think I I think my what happened. Do y'all think they could beat with the beat the DuPont Panthers? Any of y'all got want any of that smoke too? They had Jay Woo. Yeah, they had Moss. They had Billy Gilmore. They had Keith Fout. They had Timmy Floyd. They had Scott Mullins. Yeah. That didn't you guys lose in the in the state final though? Yeah, we did lost to some boys. Oh boys. Okay. I didn't know if it was a girls' team. But I didn't did you see the video of the uh Olympic weightlifter? Uh I think that a lot of people were trying to use this as uh women trying to compete in men's spaces. There was a video of an Olympic weightlifter that kind of came up and uh she had a huge lift, but I think that just the way that she was built and how how wide her grip was, it was probably only like a one-inch type of uh she probably had a one-inch range of range of motion on that thing. And I think it's people are taking videos like that and being like this is what women in men's spaces are where I think that the WMBA is the apex women's league in the world. Like any sport like that this is what like so you know there should be a W MLB or you know I don't know about a WNFL because of the physicality but like I know there's women's hockey leagues. I think that if other leagues can aspire to doing things with the visibility and the money, then it'll completely wipe away some of those other convers ations. Yeah, yeah, you know how I feel about it. Yeah. How do you feel? I feel like I'm I'm a I'm a yeah, I'm is there an option for for women's softball after after college? There is like a little one. A little like a little a little pro league, but I don't they can't they can't buy gas right now the way that shit how expensive that shit is. But I think like Ron said, the MLB should should be able to put something in like build a little softball stadium right next to their major league stadium and use the parking, the concessions and all that shit for uh for like a WNBA but for the uh softball league. Yeah, for like youth softball and college, high school is pretty big, so should be a pro little pro league for that. Women's softball has their own stadiums in college or are they using the men's stadium and just kinda they have their own fields usually? Yeah, they got yeah, they got their own field s. At least at least at least the good Texas Tech. I know I know they have their own fields. Um what's your a lot of shit. Before we pivot off of uh completely off of women's sports in college, before we go to the men's NBA. Do you have a pick? Do either of you have a pick for the uh the entire championship or the the the bracket march madness? Who do you who do you have winning? I I d I didn't fill out a bracket, but if I were to fill out a bracket, I would have picked Michigan State to win the whole thing. I d I'm just a big Tom Ezo fan. Old school guy that is hold guys accountable and don't really care if you're the best player or the last player, you're gonna set your ass down if you do some wrong shit. So so I rock with Tom Izzo. I probably wouldn't have been able to play for him. We'd have gotten a lot of fights probably uh arguments. But but at the end of the day we probably would have rocked with each other. But so yeah, that's why I went with Michigan State. Yeah, I'm going I think I'm going Michigan or St John's. St. John's would be like a movie. That would be very exciting. Yeah, that'd be that'd be great. Yeah, that'd be great, but how can you pick a team, St. John in St. John? I love Rick Patino. I love everything about him, but them boys miss like twenty-four, twenty-seven shots in a row against somebody late in the season. Oh yeah. If you can't hit sand if you fell off a camel, Shorty, you're gonna have a tough time winning March Madness. They said the last team that won after shooting under thirty three percent was Rick Patino's team, uh Louisville. They don't need to make shots. That's a big one against Kansas. They beat Kansas? Yeah, they beat Kansas. They're playing um they who who who did Rick Batino's team beat that year they shot. Oh, I don't I don't know who they beat that year. That was like 2012 or something like that. Let me look it up. Yeah, he was at Kentucky? Nah, that was when he was at Louis ville. That's when he was that's when he was he he that's when he was doing the NILs before NILs was a thing. Repertino I take him to strip clubs and casinos. Yeah, for sure, bro. He definitely had something bad, bro, and some steak and lobster too. They beat Michigan. They beat Michigan. Michigan. 2013 . Wow. So you got St. John. You want St. John. That's your heart. Yeah, that's in your head, say Michigan. Yeah, my yeah, facts. That's that's that's that's fair. That's fair. I fuck with Dustin May. Dusty May, uh uh he used to be with the Gators back in a couple uh with Mike White before he was an FAU. There is a bet going on within Barstool. I don't know if you saw it, Jay Will. Rico Bosco against Dave Portnoy. Rico Bosco, if Alabama wins against Michigan outright, he will get his salary doubled for ten years. If he loses, if Michigan wins outright, that means that Rico's gonna have to do a show with his arch nemesis, Jeff N do uh through through football and uh college basketball with an option for a second year. You think that's a good bet for Rico? I think it's a great bet for Rico. That's a great bet for Rico because I think I think if I know Dave, uh huh, Dave's heart is really big and he's gonna take care of Rico no matter what, but he gonna have to pay for it. Rico's gonna have to pay for what he gets now. But but yeah, I I I'll I'd like to be the first guest on their show that if if Rico beef That's love men of honor I mean do you have any idea how hard Rico beefs when he gets into a beef? Yeah Yeah like when we was playing ball the other day up there I kind of that's not even it. He gets he'll fight with every ounce of his being. Do not like each other to the point where like we might even be able to splice in the clip at Ruffin'Rowdy where uh Rico tries to, he's like on his ear. Jeff Nadu's about to have a fight at Ruffin'Rowdy. I think Dave offered them a he might have offered them a million to fight each other or something This entire time, and I don't know. I've been following it very closely about everything that happens, and I still don't know. Maybe we could also put in a clip of uh Rico screaming at Nedu at the poker tournament this year uh in uh September. It's just every time they see each other R Rico will you know get under Nadu's skin and then Nadu will get under Rico's skin and Rico will erupt and it would make a great show. It will make it though. How how how Nadu had nothing to do with this bet, and he just gets thrown in there? Does he not get any extra money to do it or anything like that? Well, Nadoo had worked for Barstool and then he stopped working for Barstool. Then he worked for Barstool again, then he stopped working for Barsto And I saw recently there was a like uh maybe a tweet saying, like, hey, let's figure something out. He wants to work for Barstool a third time. So maybe this is his foot in the door. So he gets a Barcel Contract and the show with Rico and then uh Dave gets to create chaos and then watch it. Does now how long is that show gotta go for? Like a year? He said uh through f next football season, through basketball season with uh uh option for another year after that. Wow make it all the way through, bro. I mean they're just gonna sit there. Why would they talk to one another? Well they hate each other, but if they I mean this that's what the stakes of the bed are. Michigan is that's like for ten years. Not just like double salary, a ten year contract of double salary. That's a that's hitting the lottery. And they're ten point favorite. It's like why okay, you don't make that bet. And maybe Dave just really wants this show to happen. But the upside of it, like we've seen crazier things happen. It's not like Alabama's a bad team. Free aid in Halloween. Some of 'em got that good dope and they aid in Holloway. I think that that's yeah, like that's that's bullshit. It's just like a little pack. I mean two point one pounds, but like come on, it's some weed, bro. It's 2026, bro. Yeah, yeah, but look, bro, look, look, I'm on I'm gonna play both sides. I I'm I'm for the players always. Yeah, it's some bullshit . But why you don't need two over two pounds in your in your apartment. And and you you so sell in the dope? You gotta be selling that ain't personal. Bro, I get down. I get busy. I ain't never had two pounds at the crib. Never mind. But then it was like two point two. I'm like, all right. So he's selling dope and getting the inner yeah, he yeah, he needed he I almost think it's a good thing that he got caught 'cause it's gonna straighten him out. Hopefully. I mean they try to throw the book at you for sure. Especially in Alabama. Yeah. Yeah. Especially any college campus. A college campus immediately takes you back forty years. Like you're back in like a different era at any college campus. I remember people would get caught with like two O's or something and can't and they'll be like, out of there, you're you're cooked. My college roommate uh they they I came back from uh I forget what I was doing, but I came back with a subway sub and I walked into the house and it was the middle of a raid. And I was like, I just had my five dollar phone bone. Yeah. And they got my roommate, he had uh five he had five pounds in paint cans and they fucking tried to deport him. Dude they tried to send him out of the country. Yeah, it was fucking I mean it w it was preposterous. They were like they tried to throw the book at him for I mean if he was selling weed, but it was very bad weed. I don't know if that makes it any better. Like it was terrible weed. Like we were putting like uh like a ounce in like a in like a sandwich container and then you put orange slices in it and so it like fluffs it up and like we were trying to cut in the weed. We were cutting the weed, bro. We were trying to fluff it up with like orange slices and banana peels because when you put it in a sealed container, it like naturally fluffs up. Uh never know. Yeah, I really thought they would never know. It was truly ass terrible weed. I don't know how they even fucking could tell that it was weed. But they I'm my point is it was Penn State. It's the middle of nowhere. It's a college campus. They take that shit very seriously. All those cops think they're fucking hero es. Listen , you was a dope dealer at one point, Ron? No . But you just already told on yourself. You're guilty already. So like was y'all selling dime bags and shit or what what like ounces? Yeah. Uh shit. Which I was selling. Shitty eights. Shitty eights. Sticks and stems and all that shit. Holes in your teeth. Well the problem was this weed was so bad that the sticks were like, it wasn't like a normal like stick. It was like a fucking wide ass fucking stem. So if you break it down and try to weigh it off of the stem, it's like dude, we just lost half the fucking value because all the fucking weight was in the in the unsmokable part, it was uh atrocious. Where was the dope from, you know? Like Mexico? Must have been bro. Somewhere worse than that, bro. It's fucking it was probably from Pennsylvania, bro. It was probably like from the mountains of Pennsylvania. But don' dont' dont't Gilly got some good weed up there in Pennsylvania? Yeah, now I mean now it's like everything's legal. This is back in the day, bro. This is 2000 whatever. Yeah, I gotta ask you guys I wasn't here last week. That had to be just like content. Like, no way they had 15 players on the co urt and couldn't win . It was a bro. I'm texting Tyler during it. I'm like, bro, put 10 players in a zone on the defensive end. Make make them hit half court shots, get the rebound, throw it up and make a layup. Like they were like it was crazy. It was the it was the least organized basketball I've ever seen. Almost. Fifteen guys. Yeah, there's there's there's no way like, but they didn't have the 15 best though, Jordan. Thank God. I don't know who did the picking. But yeah, they they didn't do the right. You could put anybody out there. Just yo, ten of you stay on this side of the court. Five of you on this side. Throw it up when four of y'all just circle around me. Four of you circle around random.'s a Th thereere's coachinges challeng around other buddy left. Yeah, I think that they're like uh I I legitimately think that uh if you just put put fifteen blind people in the right spot and told them don't move, you're you're winning that game. Yeah, not not against me because uh yeah fifteen Stevie Wonders against me, yeah, he getting beat. I'm saying they're standing uh like uh around the circle at like uh at at you know, seven of 'em are around the circle and then seven of them at are at the free throw line, eight of them at the free throw line. Uh and they're just taking a charge every single time you come through. I think that that's the best I mean they they they have fifteen people out there bro and they couldn't even get a ball across half court sometimes. Like just pass it to each other. Who who's why are you dribbling for? That's insane. to me Like they some I think that was the first time some of those people ever been on a basketball court. Like even when they come to work at Chicago office, they don't walk across the court. They walk around that bitch. That's the first time they was on that bitch the other night.. Where to God You saw Mincy uh he I feel like he was just trying to chop it up. I feel like he was just trying to have a good conversation, use it as a networking opportunity. Yeah, he didn't he when he was out there he was just talk like you said, talking, he didn't even want to be out there. Yeah. Who do you think was their like worst worst three? You know, was it w obviously Mincy had to be in there unfortunately? Yeah, Mince Mincy's in there, but but Mincy's so athletic he gets away with a lot of shit, you know what I mean? Of course. Yeah. I always thought that about him. Yeah. The fact that it was a fifteen on three and a win too, like it took it to two. And they only and they only beat us eight to six. Yeah, it was bad. Uh who else? W elhose who who are your other in in the worst three? Don't say Z . Nikki Smokes is in the in the one of the worst three, but yeah, he just yeah, he just yeah he in the he's in error by his worst three worst three, dog. I think he's still shook right now, bro. Like he's like, whoa. I could tell, bruh. And I I I pray, I I pray on people like that when I'm playing basketball because I know like he's inferior. You know what I'm saying? And and and it's no way, like some people can hoop and and talk shit like that and and some can't. And and in that kind of situation, I'm one of those ones that can talk shit. I can't really hoop no more, but I can hold my own against Nikki Smokes. Um so yeah. This maybe that was a lesson learned by Nikki Smokes. He just won't he he'll pick and choose who he can say some shit to when they hooping. That ain't I'm not just no normal dude. Well I think in their normal runs, like he is that guy. He's the man up there. Yeah, like he in their runs, like he's like talking shit or like he'll just like sit down in the court for like a four on five. Like he can really do whatever he wants. Like he's I mean, it's where's Nikki Smokes from, bro? Florida. What do you mean? He jumped off the porch when you were fourteen. Miami ? Broward County. Broward. Broward County, yeah. When did you been in barstool? Uh three years. And nobody got into him with him like that before? So his girl did. His girl used to they they had some like fights You think Nikki Smoke's ever been punched in the throat? Throat? Yeah. No, bro. He probably uh had uh uh had had some fisty cuffs before, but uh probably not his throat. He he looks like he's had a protected throat. Yeah, he yeah yeah, Nikki smoked, bro. Is that what you're going for? You're you're j judo chopping him in the fucking throat? Well I'm just saying uh a throat, you know, it wouldn't hurt my hand at all. If I you know I'm saying you hit him in the nose or the chin or some shit, that might fuck your knuckles up. Oh, you're saying I'm not a fighter first of all I'm not no fighter. I ain't trying to fight nobody. I'm just yeah. But now if I got that i if I gotta fight, I'm gonna fight, but yeah Uh or whatever. Uh let's let's uh let's lock in uh on some NBA. Uh we got some crazy shit going on in the NBA and if we want let's keep it on shit talk right off the rip because uh this week we had I I thought one of the most ridiculous uh shit talks that both dudes got technicals for, but it proved to be a very consequential technical for Luka Doncic. 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Yeah, that I think that's for well, I mean I guess that's who you are. Who whoever you are is where you're gonna take it. I think if you say that per to the wrong person, they just swinging on you and hitting you in your throat right off the rip. Um but but I don't think you know, there's always three sides to every story. So I'm sure they were talking shit to one another and and really go go should never say anything to Luca. E ver. What do you think the what do you think the line is uh when guys are talking and do they get a pass if they're doing it in a different language? I was about to say how do the refs even take control of that? You don't even know what what what's being said. I th I I think they definitely get a pass because they like you said they don't know what they're saying and I would love to know a different language to be able to do that. But I don't know I don't I wonder if the ref the ref sometimes just sees your energy and thinks that you're saying some shit and cause the technical. Do you think they do that? The way that I think Luca like bitched though, like he was like, hey, he can't say that about my family. Like he brought it back to English I don't know. I think that Luca can get away with more stuff because he's a better player, but I thought that he kinda looked a little bit like starting a fight and then be like, hey, like he he did this to me. I don't know. I thought it was kinda weird. Well, I mean, it's it's stupid to be talking about each other's family during the basketball game any way. Right? Yeah. So I don't I don't know where they're going with that. No one ever hit you with that when you were in the league? No No, I didn't talk no shit to them motherfuckers that whooped my ass, bro. Like, yeah. Not to anybody? I mean, no, I wasn't talking shit, no, nothing, nothing, nothing like that kind of energy, maybe like if I crossed you over something, it might have been like, ooh, something like that. In your ear, some shit, but never like, nah. Never. No, sir. U h did you ever hear that from anybody else? Was there ever any like oh my god, that's fucking shit. I got some shit early on in my career, you know what I mean? Some you know, white boy shit this, white you know I mean, a little bit of that. Little you know, just this the shit I was supposed to get. That's just why I feel like I feel like every player goes through that. Every rookie, you know what I mean? And let alone if the rookie's getting a little bit of shine, it's gonna be even more. You know what I'm saying? So I was getting a little bit of shine my rookie year and um The uh nastiest thing that people try to to put on a white guy, especially a white guy from uh the country, they'll be like cousin fucker. Yeah . Like, like, first off, first of all, I would never fuck my cousin. Second of all, I ain't got no cousins that's looks worth fucking. Um and three, that just ain't what it is, daughter, you know what I'm saying? So what if two is different? Like would three be different? Yeah, but just two will be factory. Yeah. And and and and and and it's a it's some it's some family fucking going on elsewhere than other than the country. Yeah, exactly. Don't you agree? Of course, bro. That's it's just an unfair, it's an unfair narrative that they would try to put on somebody. Well, that's just what it is. You know, this world is so unfair right now, Ron, you just gotta yeah tak,e that and laugh and keep it moving. Like I just tell somebody a joke about some shit like that or something when they say some shit like that to you. I don't know. Yeah, totally. I think being able to joke about it is is the only way through. Um and then there was uh almost shit talk situation if we want to take it back to college basketball. Uh it looked like if you just watched pantomiming, if you didn't see a the coach kind of being like, Hey, you got this, I believe in you, you'd be like, that coach is being so mean to in the game plan or something like that and the coach is is I don't think that coach was trying to embarrass that girl. So as long as the coach is not trying to embarrass you as a player, I think the coach's got excuse me, every right to say whatever you gotta say or she. Yeah, I think you just have a different relationship with everyone on your team. You know who could take what, and some people need that type of motivation instead of like the softer motivation. So yeah, but I'm like I I belie I I'm with you there, but I'm from the old school as as a player. You know you're going to play for Tom Izzo. You know what Tom Izzo is about. Yeah, you know. So you've got to be prepared to get your ass chewed out from by Tom Izzo over over any little thing. You know that's what he do. So so I think it's more so on the player to adjust than the coach be able to adjust and talk to the players. Is that fair? Yeah. I'll get to the soft ass kids nowadays. That's what it is. So I don't say kids. I think it's more so the parents. Another coach, I think it was Villanova's coach maybe, who was uh during a halftime uh uh what did he say? He's uh he said, I'm firing my entire squad. We haven't got a offensive rebound and eight possessions or something like that, or I'm gonna fire my staff. They keep scoring on the inbound plays. He was like, I'm firing He like said it with a straight face. That's that's crazy to me because his staff didn't wasn't able to box out one time, so what they got to do with anything. Yeah, it can't be everybody else's fault. And you the ultimate decision maker, no matter what. So it's crazy. You put those five ducks out there and they the ones not boxing out. That's on you. Yeah, he he looked uh like he was passing the blame a little bit. Not the best look for my guy. But I mean it's it's funny to say if he's If you're one of the assistants, you gotta just take it. That's what people sign up for for I guess you could you I guess proven at the end of your career that you really They hired somebody else, bro. They went in a different direction. Did you see that? Nah, I didn't even see, bro. You know why? You know why I didn't get the g ig? Because I ain't got no college degree, dog. Damn. That's educationist. I was just about to say go for the North Carolina job. Oh yeah, no, that's a little yeah, that's too much. Only reason I take that Carolina job, I take it for like a first month and quit just to get the gear. You think b uh bro from Carolina's a top five pick? Actually, better yet, let's go our way too early. Give me just give me your top five, Jordan, right now. I know that you're the most tapped in with like this kind of freshman class. I think it's a historic freshman class. Give me the top five, most likely top five picks in this uh upcoming NBA draft. I'm going AJ DeMansa, Darius A. Cu ff, Darren Peterson , Caleb Wilson, then uh Boozer. Boozer. In that order. Yeah, that's the that's the draft order this year. Wow. I think if you pass on A Cuff, you're bug ging. Yeah . I agree with you there. Who was trying to say maybe it was Stanford Steve or something? He's like he's like Acuff is already better than Allen Iverson as a prospect. Who said that? You think Stanford Steve? Yeah, Stanford Steve. He know what he's doing. You know what he doing? No Stanford trees. He on that Kenny Akis and that mellow with that fentanyl in there. Better than Iverson, I thought was bold, but I mean he has it all offensively, like his offense and he is stronger, but it's like Allen Irison was uh touched by a nature. As a prospect, he's say ing years the AI do two? Two. I think was he defensive player of the year in the uh Big East Big East at that time. I know he was leading them in steals, but I don't I don't remember if he actually got that 'cause it's like people will say like people mistake that because he's an undersized guard that he just played no defen se. Yeah well they're just just jealous of Allen Iverson. That's all that is. But have you watched A cuff play a lot, Jay Will? I've watched A cuff play a lot. I think A Cup's great. I think I personally take him over Peterson just because I I like Acuff better than Peterson. I think Peterson's great. I think A Cuff just got, you know what I'm saying, when shit could get get hard, Acuff ain't going, he's crawling up in that motherfucker. I don't know if Peterson crawling up in that motherfucker. You know what I mean? I think that Peterson uh I think you take the player that you think is best, but I think Peterson and Debanza fit on more teams in the NBA right now just because like ACUF it's like if well if you have a point guard are you gonna take Acuff and put him next to one of the like I agree with that seventeen really good point guards in the NBA? Like who? Like who? Like I mean uh so who who's the like uh obvious like Indiana you take you probably take him, but like because Hallibur C nah, like I I I wouldn't take a cuff if I'm Indiana. You know you got Halliburton. Yeah, like we have to do that. How about this question? Well, if you're the magic, do you take A Cuff? In sports w,inning takes more than talent. It takes strength, reliability, and the drive to go the distance. Sound familiar? That's the same DNA you'll find in a Chevy Silverado. As capable and dependable as a winning team, Chevy Silverado shows up and gets the job done. It won't flinch when the pressure's on. It doesn't take plays off. When it comes to trucks, Chevy Silverado is football guy approved. To learn more about Silverado, visit Chevy.com . But they have no chance though. I mean, yes, yes, yes. If you're the magic, the magic, you fucking kill you, you trade like uh uh everybody outside of Paulo to get a cuff, I think. I'm cool with that. I I'd like to keep black. I think I'd hate to give up Sugs. I would hate to give up Sugs. Like Washington, I don't think you go get um Darius A. Cuff. I agree. Like we have you have Trey Young. I think you go get like a Darren Peterson, like someone on the wing. Yeah, and I and and and and I think I want Caleb Wilson to come back to school, dog. I I know he got the got the what it looks like he got it to take to get there. But I think he he like in that same same boat as them gator boys. He come back, he'll be a lot better. He's out of there. And it's just supposed to be one of those classes. Yeah, DeBanceranza. Deb Debanza to me is the number one. I think Debanza, you put him on any on any roster and he he gonna get get two. Right, it's any roster. Where it's like Brooklyn, I mean, you take A cuff if you have the if you have the two pick, if you have the uh Sacramento take him probably show stopper. So I think but like Dallas, would you take him? Dallas, you don't take ACUF. Because you know you have Kyrie coming back, and it's like you could you could do more things. Um I just think it's interesting. I also think that this year's and uh people are saying that this year's top five is like damn near perfect and I know that Ace Bailey is benefiting from playing more minutes and like his team's not trying to win, same with Edgecombe's playing like a lot of minutes because everybody's heard ahead of him. But I think that this top five is is all in the right spot and they f they all look awesome. Yeah it all worked out honestly for most of them. Sometimes you like I feel like Ace Bailey started off a little like but it's like it might take a few a year or two for you to get your feet under you a few games. So I yeah, I watched Ace Bailey highlights la uh a little bit last week, and I think, yeah, he's gonna be fine. Anybody that athletic and and he I was seeing comparisons. I forgot where I seen it. It said AJ and Ace Bailey would be the next Jalen Brown and Tatum. How you feel about that? If they got drafted there. Yeah, that's another fentanyl subject. Yes, sir. Jalen Brown and J that's like A Cuff and Allen. Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum are like, whoa, yeah. Mac, you already know what it is, Mac? I don't know, bro. Did did uh Tatum change his shooting form? I feel like he's like all arms now. Because he's so jacked or he has no legs. He's gotta get his feet under him. He's putting no putt no legs into the shot. It's just not I mean it's not there yet. It's not going in. He's recovering. He's recovering. He's recovering. I totally think but what is it like ten months, something like that''ss it it what ten months yeah yeah what what's their record since he's been back what's we need another record since he's been back I I need to know it he's shooting twenty nine from three thirty eight from the field yeah he got get his feet under him yeah, he'll be fine. That's hard. That's hard. That's hard. Yeah, that's impossible. I'd never be able to come back. Six and two. Yeah. Six and two since he came back. Six and two. Okay, that's great then. Who who said the Banson Ace Bailey the next Tatum and Brown? You know, you just scrolling and you see some stuff. I didn't I wonder I wanted to speak about it. Uh I think that you need to see more from uh Ace Bailey. I seen a lot of uh fans saying that Con Kanouple, if he had wound up on the Spurs, that they're definitely getting the ship this year. Uh I think that it'd be interesting. I think he kind of fits a little bit. He was also a bigger question mark, but I think that he answered all those questions. He's fucking sick. Yeah, but but you know, with that being said, if Kanippal was on the Spurs, that's taking So it it ain't it ain't just that easy just putting a a good player on a good team, but that's taking opportunities away from these other dudes like Wemby and them dudes. So it I'm not saying it wouldn't happen, but but it ain't just that easy, bro. This week and I want to see how all of them fit into the narrative about smaller players. One, Cam Thomas. Cam Thomas , bucket getter, guaranteed, incredible bucket getter. But he I think he what did he want? 30 million, 20 million, or something like that? He passed up on a two-year thirty and passed up on a one-year nine point five. Wound up with the one year six, got cut by the Nets, and then just this week got cut by the Bucks. L ike at what point is just being a absolute bucket get ter not en ough? Yeah, at the NBA level. Yeah. Everybody's gonna even even even high D1 level. It don't matter if you can get buckets, bruh. If you're not a good team player and you don't know do what the team needs you to do, just because you can get forty a night, if you're not there weak side to block out that big guy and he gets twenty-five that night, then what the fuck? You're forty two goes down to whatever half of that. So yeah. Especially that six three. Yeah, bro. You're not yeah, like a bucket getter. I try to tell my son, I'm like I argue with my son all the time, well I'll he'll beat you one on one. He'll be yeah, they'll beat the shit out of me one- onon one-one, but we're getting a team oriented thing and they ain't not shit, dog. So it's it's it's not about just getting buckets. It's only one ball. It's only one guy that can shoot the ball each possession. So it don't matter. You gotta figure some other shit out. It's not just about getting buckets. Especially on the bucks. I think if yeah when Giannis is playing. It's young like that's we have Giannis bro. Like what do you gotta get in where you fit in. You gotta pick your spots. I feel like at this point it's like you kinda gotta look in the mirror. Do you wanna go get buckets? You might have to go cross that water or something like we see players like that all the time. Like 'cause NBA, it's hard to build your team around a six three shooting guard that no assists, no nothing else, no defensive for real. It's just like he tried to bet on himself though . It's like it's a shame when someone tries to bet on themselves and it's like they obviously he can obviously play basketball and it's like the bat the game of basketball, yeah, I guess you just have to learn different skill sets. Especially in MBA. Especially in the NBA. And so the other story this week that I think like points to that is did you see the bro Mac McClung put up like uh si he's like the all-time leading scorer in the G League or something. Yeah, what? And he's averaging 31.8 or something. They put up six six maybe sixty-nine or something like that, sixty sixty was something. And then the question around him is there's not a spot in the NBA for a guy who can put up 60 plus points against guys who are fringe NBA players? That proves the point. That's what we just talking about. Just because you can get buckets, bro, don't don't don't mean you can play in the So let's so let then let's let me wrap it all back up with A cuff. What is A and I I don't disagree with that he'll be different from both those situations vastly because his uh body type and his mental composition I think is different from all those dudes. But what do you guys think is the difference between Acuff and why isn't he gonna be uh why isn't there gonna be a spot for him? 'Cause an undersized uh quote unquote undersized bucket getter. But Acuff is like a real point guard bucket getter though. Like he could come up, come off the screen, get in the paint, read the defense, lob, lob, find my shooters, find my shooters. It's different than oh I'm coming off the screen, I'm shooting every single time. I don't ha I have blinders on. That's what A cuff could go 17 straight games with with two perts, four perts, and and and fifty-five assists, and he's gonna be happy. And then that that next game and they need him to get thirty five perts, he gonna get thirty five perts and be just as happy, bro. I think I think Cam Thomas is more like I need my it. We won the game. I w I only had five points, I'm mad. Like I had a bad game, like but So it's all mental ity. So I'm not sure for the most part. For for guys like Cam Thomas and and the I'm not I'm not degrading Cam Thomas at all the motherfucking who Yeah, he's but but but guys like he's a role player just like I was in the NBA. So I that's what I'm speaking on. Role players got to figure out like Jordan was just talking about. You playing with Giannis. Giannis ain't got time to figure out what you doing. You gotta figure out what I'm doing and go from there, bro. So Yeah. Role players gotta figure it out. I think it's just uh especially come the playoffs. All this is gonna be more important. All this is gonna like the the size and who's on the court. And then like uh maybe you could finally be right about the Jeremy Cain stuff, you know, if he's a good thing we gon we gonna see. And then and then and in the playoffs, then possessions gonna go from like eighty to sixty possessions a a game. So we're gonna see how motherfuckers do, you know, see what color nails for the playoffs are gonna be yeah. See keep knocking that shit down and keep painting them bitches, that's all I'm saying. Right exactly. If he's like if if he hits a game winning shot in the final, would you pay you paint What if Dave was like I'll double your sa your salary for ten years if Jerry to pay your nails. Pay the double the double salary. The the finals. Oh just for the seven games or four games or whatever? Yeah, seven games, but in between in between too. You can't chip it off or have press on it. You know what I'm going to say? I'm gonna say Dave, whatever that number equaled up to, I'm gonna give that to you if you paint your shit. He do it in a fucking second. You think he cares? Yeah, I don't know about Dave. I I yeah I guarantee you if you're like Dave I'll double what you make this year, paint your nails for the NBA Finals. No no we not doubling what what Dave makes. We greon g'onna double what I make. Yeah, we're not doubling what they make. I mean he might do it for that amount too though. I no chance. Guys, let's take a second and talk about Shopify. Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and ten percent of all e-commerce in the U.S. Get started with your own design studio with hundreds of ready to use templates. 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But the weirder thing is like he's right under the threshold for all the awards, which is also the Supermax stuff that we were talking about earlier, but like all MBA, MVP, all these things that he uh the players association just put out something. They were like we need to get rid of that the sixty-f giveame th ing. Well then some that ain't that ain't gonna work, bro, cause the the the pla the NBA wants these guys to play with setting out. Yeah, but I mean they feel like should be like stipulations or something. You know, like well, how you can't control that. Like he was having a great year. Now he's not gonna be all NBA because of it. Yeah, I think you I think you still she should be able to be like all NBA or whatever. Yeah, maybe like not MVP or D Poy, yeah, but like about just play half the season? Just half the season. That that that that should be sufficient. It changed everything. It was like a sneakily very impactful rule because the guys who didn't get like there was like a couple years of guys not being able to be in the conversation because they didn't hit this arbitrary threshold. Then we're just gonna change it again. Like this I mean it's I'm not crying about millionaire money, but like it it affects people's pockets for sure. Are you guys against just not having an MB MVP this year? It might not be a one this ye ar. You can't give an MVP to a guy that ain't MVP. You feel me? Like Kenny Atkinson. He's gonna give it to Derek White. You can't give it to Derek White if the other guys can't meet the criteria. You don't like sixteen four and one? I love sixteen four. I'll take Derek White on my team every time. Every motherfucking day. I'll take that. Wimby is hooping. Yeah, he does, but yeah, you can't you can't give somebody the MVP just because the the guys that won MVP didn't make the threshold. Or am I am I wrong on that? Yeah, like I think somebody played sixty-three games. They were the best player all year. We can't give 'em M VP. Like I think we gotta So what so what is it? Sixty-three now? No, the game it's sixty five games. But no, I'm saying like what would you make it? Oh what I what would I make it? I think it's just different. Like you get in a situation like Cade, it's like, damn, bro. But people lie on injury reports. You don't think Luke is gonna lie? I got I got the fix. Just let real ones vote it instead of the uh puss ass media. And then they'll they' aint got enough yeah, we just ain't got enough votes. Nobody got an MVP this year. How are we uh how are we picking who the real ones are? Real media? No, I'm saying who you say let real ones vote. Who what's the criteria for that? Yeah, you gotta have a select few like Michael Jordan. But then you're not Michael Jordan really watching games though? That's what I'm saying. They not watching games. Michael Jordan probably don't give a fuck about the NBA. No, he don't. No, he don't give a fuck. Maybe do it like the Heisman, so guys who have already won it are the only ones that could vote on it or some shit. Well that might be fair too, but I don't yeah, some of them folks ain't watching that shit either. Some of them folks don't even like to watch the way the basketball's played today, so they're like they off the NBA's totally. Who had a better game winner this week? Luke uh Luke Connard, Joker, or Wem by? Man, I'm going Luke Connard, man. That was sick. That was a good shot. Great shot. Uh magic I mean they called the ball Lakers ball when it clearly hit Braun' legs . And then LeBron goes down there and JJ Reddick drew up a great play. I don't know if y'all saw the play, but it was great. Braun got fouled. They didn't call it on Paulo and then y'all and then the old left handed cracker with the nail in the coffin. What's your relationship with JJ Reddick? JJ Reddick, I got a pretty good relationship with JJ Redd ick. What a but you guys were in Orlando together. He's feisty. Yeah, he's feisty fuck. He wanted to be a rapper. He he would fuck with you a little bit with the battle rap and shit because he and Ryan Anderson used to sit on the plane together and try to write rhymes and shit. What were they talking about? Uh never asked and you never heard, so you already know what time it is. That shit was slow. Damn, I would have loved to see what they were trying to cook up out there. Yeah, that'd be sick. Just them cooking up some some raps. Was anybody on the team discouraging them? Was someone like, hey, you don't have it, bro, fucking focus on basketball. I'm sure every bruh that walked by their seat probably probably mentioned something about it, but yeah. You didn't gas me up. Like anybody that I've been around that's writing rhymes, like Brandon Bass was one of my teammates that used to write rhymes and shit like that. But he would always have some type of music or some some kind of beat going. But them boys are just sitting back there talking to each other, writing shit down. So you already know what time it was. They ain't getting no no record labels looking for JJ and Ryan. Who had one a couple weeks ago that was like, hey, this is kinda good? Oh, um Wiseman, I think. Yeah, James Wiseman. Jonathan Wiseman. James Wiseman. James Wiseman was in the front yard. Like he was and he was like he was kind of going. I kinda it was it was my kind of uh Is he is he is he this official rapper now? He no more a hooper? He was he just played, you know like they send like a USA team, like a random USA team. I don't know where they go play, but they just they lost to like Dominican Republic or something like recently. It was like hand. Uh I don't know. Was he the number one pick? Two. Two, I think, yeah. But yeah, it's fucking it that is not a a talented guy. Kerr Kerr wasn't really good with those top picks. Yeah. Kerr worried about other shit, bro. Steve Kerr, he ain't really worried about basketball. He worried about politics too much. He he needs to stay over there this coach, bro. Don't worry about the politics situation. If he worried about he ain't talking about the motherfucking four hour lines at TSA now Yeah, you wanna pick and choose when he wanna when he wanna talk about that shit, old puss ass Steve Kerr. He can shoot that bitch, though. Hell yeah, he can shoot that bitch. Yeah, bro. Light his ass up. The politics minute. Well, shit. I mean, you know what I'm saying? Y'all know what I'm talking about. He be on uh I've it's a politically charged city. Yeah, I don't know nothing about San Francisco. I like San Francisco. They got that good thing. That's a fact. When you're you're playing pro in San Francisco, what are you doing? Just go walking to a park or some shit and smoking? Not really, man. I'm not smoking at all if I hadn't had my fourth drug test during the season. True. Yeah, we had to get four in, but yeah, I just, you know, I'm looking for a balcony, man. Like I said, I I like to read my books on my balcony and shit like that, look at the sun and shit. So yeah, I ain't I can't take no walk. San Francisco, you'll get murked walking down the street. And that's been the politics minute. Uh the uh so Moses Moody, bro, he had a fucking his knee. That was nasty. Yeah, that was nasty. That look, I felt so bad for him. Honestly, I would have been screaming and crying like a woman, if that had happened to me. It's so weird to me. Like non-contact injuries are so sev ere. Yeah, what is that? I mean, that's just bad luck. One half of step different. I like he just went up for a a dunk, he' probabdly do every single day. He walked it in. Yeah. He wasn't even trying to like go crazy either. He was just gonna put it in and then knee sneak man. His kneecap his kneecap was up on his shoulder, wasn't it? Yeah, that's that looked so terrible. But he also was like kind of okay on that on the shock. Yeah, he must have been in shock. He had no I mean that's fucking horrifying to even see. Uh but get get well soon to him, dude. That sucks. Uh KD passed MJ on the scoring list. He's a bad boy. Is he gonna catch uh who's next on the list? Carl Mal one? Uh I think there's somebody else befor e. Or maybe it's not. I thought they were someone else before Carl Malone. I think he's gonna cat he's gonna get to at least at least fo ur. That's sick. Yeah. Is it Jordan before Malone? Jordan, yeah, Malone is more than oh so so it goes. It's Braun, Kareem, Carl Malone, Kobe, uh KD. Yeah, I think he I think he's gonna catch Kobe. I don't know. He's probably gonna catch Kobe this year. Yeah, I don't know if he'll catch uh next guy. Oh no, not this year. Kobey's uh yeah not this year he just that once close do do do playoff points count when it comes to that uh all time scoring I don't think sure it does oh does it no I thought it did not but that could be wrong. That could be d umb. If we're talking Pernst uh while he's looking that up, Luca 40 and 60. I mean he is fucking. Luca's being balling. Yeah, he he could say whatever he wants, honestly. He could be an asshole on the bench. He can fucking He ain't even gotta come to the game tomorrow if he don't want to. We'll see you at the next game. That's how good he is. Right or wrong. Yeah, he's playing incredible. And I mean if if the playoffs is gonna be so fucking fun if he's doing this shit in the playoffs. When it's finally everybody really locked in on NBA, it's gonna be sick if Luca has sixty points in a fucking playoff game. That's gonna be such like that'll be so exciting and good for basketb all. Anything Luca does is exciting for basketball to me, bro. And like Austin Reeves been hooping too. We can't we can't forget about him now. Hey, ever since um that little clip with um JJ Reddick and Luca, Luca's kind of been chillin' a little more. If like J.J. Reddick kinda stood up. He did a good job. Yeah, like, come on, dog. Get back. You know, he came into the locker room and rap battled him right after that. That's right. He came in and fucking gave him a 16. They gave him as with a Slovenian 16. Fucking put him in his place. I mean, that's what you need to do. It takes different types of coaching. You have to know what your player needs . This is a what would Jay Will do in this situation. And and uh I don't know if you saw this Gator uh running up on LeBron trying to uh nip the Lakers playoff hopes in the bud. What what are you doing if you see the gator out there? You're a gator, you're in gator land and you're playing golf a lot. Like this is you coded. I'll keep it I'll keep it straight with y'all. I ain't my ball is in the middle of the fairway. My shit ain't over there where the ragley golfers hit it over there near the swamp shit. What if it's a windy day, you know? It's I know how to play the wind and it's breezy swing easy, George. You know what I'm saying? I seen plenty of gators like P, you know, it I tell people all the time, you down in Florida, you you see some water, it's a gator in there. You can't, it's it's just what it is. You're not going for just random swims at the golf course. No, never. Like, I'm not uh I'll jump in the lake or whatever, like if I'm jet skiing or whatever, but I'm not taking my time to get back on the jet ski. But uh yeah. This one says W mom, Tari Easton's mom wants lethal shooter to help her son's jumper. Is that a W or is that like making a public story about something that could be done behind closed doors? No she was like adamant on helping him shoot better. Letho shooter tweeted she said, when are you gonna be in Houston? I might need a favor, brother. Hey W mom. Twenty I mean can is lethal shooters fixing guys shots on the on the weekend like he's a chiropractor? Nah. I No, I don't think so. These guys done made it to the NBA, the way they shoot, they don't need to change shit, bruh. Just keep practicing what you got here with. Mac, you hear that tell Tatum that. Just keep on doing what he did, bro. He doesn't have to switch to all this this hitch with the arm stuff that he's doing now. Um do you see stick Scotty Barnes get slapped in the back of his head by a kid and then he took it personally maybe? I did.