Playoff Predictions and Final Thoughts

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I'm so excited about the matchups for the playoffs. I'm I'm down I'm downright giddy, bro. You're giddy for for the the Sixers being in the playing game? I mean, the Sixers are gonna win the playing game, and then they're gonna get smacked around so badly by the Celtics that like it it might like they might have to like trade someone or fire Nick Nurse in the offseason. What if they lose to the magic ? Then accelerates the p the process. Like don't even let uh nurse come in the locker room after the game? I mean I don't even think it's fully his fault, but like somebody's gotta heads are gonna roll. People are scared that Max is gonna ask for a uh a trade in the offseason. No, they ain't gonna do that. He's gonna say that they gotta bring him up. People are scared. They gotta bring him players. They gotta bring him players. Yes, exactly. Build around him. But yeah, I mean there's so much to get into for the playoffs what you're about to say, Jordan. Build around him. Build around Maxie. Yeah, that's the future, Maxie has gone. Yeah, I like them. Paul George. Yeah. He got I mean he he could be How many more years is Paul George a starter in this league? How old is he? Okay, okay then my qu uh it that that really doesn't even matter. The question is what I'm getting to is will he be able to be like a six man at some point at some point in his career. I think he could, but I think he's like do you know that Harrison Barnes' role on the uh on on the Spurs right now? Yeah. It's like been his role everywhere he went. Yeah, that's true. But I think he could like gracefully age into that type of role. Um I I I I I I I love Harrison's bar and game, but I think Paul George can be could uh uh be an elevated version of that. Yeah. Yeah, I think he could. I think that there's a couple more years of it. But does that mean that if we're just on the Sixers? And I didn't bring up the Sixers like that. Well I did. Yeah, yeah. But I'm excited. Yeah. I'm excited about them. So but are they going to get rid of off and beat in the offseason if he can' What's his what's his contract look like? It's expensive. There's a lot more years to do that. No, no, tr try to trade him. Who's taking that, dog? Not for what they would want from him, too. But then you keep on building around Embiid and then hoping that he's No no that that that that ship sailed. You can't build around Embiid no more. Can you? No, I feel like even he knows that like yeah, I'm not even not it's not that type of party anymore. Yeah, like like I I'm thinking he's thinking about just playing like let's just try to get fifty games a year now for the rest of my career. Yeah, I think that he's uh he's it's so unfortunate what's happening to him. It's not his fault. Right before playoffs is crazy to have that. But people are like sucking their teeth. Like that's y'allill Phy fans. Y'all puss ass Philly fans. That's what y'all do, man. But then there's other people being like, yeah, MB could get like robbed and like shot and people be like, man, see, here he goes again. I know what he goes again with his bullshit. No one wants to be hurt . Right. Especially the way he's been hurt. I mean he's like like he could be arguably he could have been talked about as one of the greatest to ever play the game. He could have been if he'd have stayed healthy. Yeah. Some people could have, you know what I'm saying? He had that potential. Now they wouldn't ever know that because he got hurt, but but shit, he's still a monster. And I also don't think the whole story's written, but every year you kind of hope that there's like a championship run in there. And I think people wrote them off this year to start the year. So maybe they've overachieved, but at the same time, they're not making it pass the Celtics. Am I crazy for being that definitive about that? The Celtics are so good. They are. I don't think who no one's really making it pass the Celtics on the East. Yeah. I think it could go uh I mean I think the Pistons have a chance. They do have a chance just because they're in the playoffs. I think the Cavs have a chance too. Yeah, they got a chance for the Calvin. I was on the dark horse. Yeah. I like the Cavs. Why? I just feel like one of those years Harden gotta get over the hump. Like something gotta happen. I thought you got a good supporting cast, D Mitch, Mobley, Jared Allen. You got the guys that it works with. Hey, look, I love my man James Harden, great player, Hall of Famer, one of the best to ever do it. Even if he wins the championship, he ain't better than Flash. See, I've never even thought about that question before. That's crazy. Um , so what's your criteria for that? Um that you that you know Flash better? Well I I'm a little biased. Yeah. Yeah, I'll keep it a little bit biased. But but but at the same time, James Harden, if if I c if if if I was born today and I could be a basketball player, James Harden would be one that I might pick to be. You know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm. I would rather I would rather be a basketball player the way James Harden plays than the way Dwayne Wade played. Cause he's more skilled and uh less rugged or what's that? No, not more skilled. Okay, what is it? Just I like the way ye yee and all that. Dwayne Wade is just Dwayne Wade. Downhill. Dwayne Wade. Yeah, yeah. Uh so why would why so you said Flash is definitely better? Yeah, to me. So then I mean you just basically made a case for Harden right there. Well, just if if I I could become a player, but to if I could pick to become a player like the way James Harden played and the way Dwayne Wade played, I'm picking James Harden. But but that that that' doesnt then I just wouldn't be as uh a goodest player as well. So why do you like flash better? You're just making more cases for James Harden. I think the one uh Dwayne Wade's a better basketball player than James Harden. But you would never try to be that kind of player. I yeah, I I had no chance to being what Dwayne Wade was. Got it. I don't have no chance. Let's yeah, time out. I had no chance to be what James Harden is either. But it's more attainable. But I think I got a little bit James Harden. Yeah. This that wiggle. Yeah, that. I got nothing of what Dwayne Wade has. And what how would you characterize what he has other than Dwayne Wade? Yeah, he's just got just just it's just different, man. He's just whatever needs to be done , he got done. Is it fair to call him long? Uh it's not. It is not. Uh he's I think his wingspan was pretty good. Yeah, he was like six four, six. But his wingspan, I'm saying his hype. He was so fast, bruh. Okay. Yeah. Uh but yeah. Who who you taking? Dwayne Wade or James Harden to both of y'all. Never thought about it, bro. Who do you think, Jordan ? I mean , uh I I grew up more. I mean, I was I was a little kid with Wade. Can I can I interrupt? Can I just interrupt real quick? The question, who's a better basketball player? Dwayne Wade or James Hart? So you just said, oh Harden. No, I said I pick Wade. No, no, I didn't say Harden was the better player. I said it's Harden would be the guy that I I like his game better than Dwayne Wade's game. You made no case for Dwayne Wade. Yeah. You just said, oh, hard Harden got the wiggle. Harden got this. The case. Harden got that, but I'm gonna go with D Wade. Dwayne Wade's a better basketball player. Okay, how ? Um he wins more . Um it seems to me that that he cared more about the g you know I'm saying the game. Right, James Harden doesn't care. I got it. No, he does care, but uh he's got he's got you know he lik he likes the off the court shit too. He likes to he likes to, you know what I mean, do his thing. And does that make you care less about basketball? It seems to me. Yeah. Are you saying that just he has other interests or the fact that he maybe misses a flight or something for a party or something? No, I'm talking about like if you go to the club and and and you know James Harden might be in the club or whatever., that's what he likes to do Dwayne Wade's in the gym shooting jump shots jump shots that night. But if Harden comes out and has thirty-five and thirteen that next day, does it does that matter to you or no? It does it no, no. Like going going to the club. Like he went to the save, they both were playing. Harden was at the club popping bottles, bottle signs. D. Wade was in the gym. Yeah. But Harden comes out the next night. Right. And has 35 and 13. Right. But D. Wade came out the next night and won a chip . Yeah, we won a chip . All right. But but no, I'm not that I'm not mad at that the hard and chip thing, because in the playoffs, sometimes he does disappear a little bit.. Yeah, me neither Just because you got a chip don't make you better than somebody. That that's the furthest from the truth to me. Because I mean that that's that's that's like John Stockton is a better point guard than me. He don't have a ring. I do. Don't make me better than him. That's stupid. If you talk about rings, another thing comes to Jordan and LeBron. They talk about rings. Okay, this is another case for James Harden then. What this is the same case that rings don't matter like that because a ring doesn't make you better. You just said that. So it's like you're you're saying that's the Okay, well let's just put it all the bullshit to the side. Dwayne Wade is a better basketball player than James Hart . That's what I'm keeping at. Okay. I like that. I think do you think that if James Harden stayed out of the club he would have a championship? Uh no, no, because he gotta have better better better luck. Yeah, but what if it's just luck then? How's that make it? I fuck a lot of that shit is luck, bro. Situations you gotta be. Yeah. Like we are going on a run. Are there like it's just a lot of luck. He also clicked up with like two of the five best players of all time in his James Hardy Wayne Wade. In his two championship runs, he would play with two of the five best players ever in Shaq and LeBron . That's pretty good looking. Harden's click-ups just didn't work. Yeah. And I mean, he, I mean, Harden definitely did try to click up like with uh embiid I think that that was a good chance but like KD Kyrie Yeah those are great Russell Westbrook those are great those these are all great additions to like Kawhi Yeah like he had played with some great players, but are any of them better than are any of those players better than Shaq and LeBron on the all time? Not to me. None of them. Not KD? No. Not better than Shaq. KD's not better than Shaq. Shaquille O'Neal's the most dominant player to ever walk the earth. Yeah. They had to change the rules for this dude. I totally agree. But different types of players, one's more skilled. Maybe that's our that that's our debate. One's more skilled. Shaq or Kevin KD. Kevin Durant's more skilled than Shaquille or no, but I'm saying, like, who's a better player all the time ? Shaq or or KD? Yeah. That's a tough one. How can you say one's better? Seriously. Well, you're saying that Dwayne Wade and I mean it's the same thing with any all-time debate of guys who will never player. How can you say one's better? It's just opinion. Yeah, it's just opinion. Yeah, give me Shaq. Who do you like? KD. Really? Skill wise, like you said. Both seven footers, but both just different types of seven footers. Shaq was Shaq was dominant though. Like you said, most dominant ever. But KD? Yeah. KD is just like of just just d dominant too. Yeah, right. Just a different way. Watch what Braun does does it is uh I'm excited for it. That and that's a per a perfect first round matchup. It is. But before we get on to that matchup, because I think that that's made in a lab. That's why you get so fucking excited about the playoffs. That's sick. Rockets, Lakers. But before we get to that, my last question on this is: is there any current player that you wouldn't take over the old player in any type of debate are you ever gonna put on the cape for like uh, you know, Kareem Abdul Jabbar was better or Michael Jordan was better, a player that you didn't always go with the player you watched. Give me Dwight hired over Kareem Abdul Jabbar. How about that statement? Wait, you said I would keep the old player. You're saying that I think you both are just like every debate, you're just the taking the player from your era. Right, and that's what he's seen. That's what he's saying. No, like Will asked me a question. You know what I mean? I mean I never seen Wilt, but I think Wilt was nasty. Will was playing against us, dog. What do you mean? Like, all right, so I watch Will some old Wilt highlights and some Bill Russell highlights and I'm like I don't think Bill Russell was uh like what's Bill Russell gonna do on the wing with Kevin Durant? Not a damn thing but he's a ring protector but Wilt had the he was move he had the moves back then. They probably was like, oh shimmy . Like like the m like yeah, well well there's gotta be a cutoff. Oh like a year like a year? Yeah of when it got official. Like these guys when Bill Russell and the 80s. I think it's the 80s. I was about to say, should we do like magic and b ird on magic and bird? They would struggle in today's game too. Magic? Magic would cook. I don't think so. You don't think so? But still, so he could just do all the all the passing shit. He could just be like and he he could probably develop a job. Ben Simmons was successful at first. Yeah, totally. He's a happier Ben Simmons. He's like a way happier Ben Simmons. He's a more smiley Ben Simmons . He was an all-star. Telling you, and uh, you don't think Bird would thrive? Con Canupple's thriving. Con Kanoople just hit 300 threes. You like he listen, Ben Simmons, with all due respect, in an all-star game, will be could be the MVP. What do you mean? The way he hoops and I just skis D D. But he can't shoot. It's the pressure. The pressure? I think so. Really? Do you think like when he like like when he plays horse or something like that? He he can just shoot it like, you know what I mean? Because my man Bo Outlaw, do y'all remember Bo Outlaw? You probably don't. Of course. Like people he can't shoot for shit, right? But but you get him a pre-practice and shit, he'll beat everybody in here horse, strictly jump shots. Really? He'll beat all y'all in horse jump shots. It's different when the lights come on. Yeah, you smell that popcorn. But he had some crazy shoulders, bro. He bro is all shoulders. Bo outlaw? Yeah, look at those fucking shoulders. Scroll up a little bit, look at those out the boat lay. Look at those on the left. Jesus Christ. He didn't never drink cold water. He had to have damn near boiling water to drink. I don't know what was wrong with Bo . But he kept water up in the top of his locker. Like what you doing, dog? Shout out to Bo Outlaw. He would have like some tea in a Gatorade squeeze bottle. Bo outlaw is different. What like he would have it on the bench? He would have hot water? No, just room temperature water. Got it, got it, got it. Gotta have that. Yeah, he ain't got no body fat. He's got all b all his body fat's in his ear lobes, Charlie. That's the only spot he got body fat. Bo outlaw? Yeah. That's my dog. That's hilarious, dude. I haven't even thought about it. But he could shoot so you're saying that Ben Simmons, if it wasn't all the pressure of playing in Philadelphia for the pussy ass Philly fans, as you say it, that he he'd be fine? Like No, I don't know. Ben Simmons wouldn't have been able to shoot anywhere he played, I don't think. I think that was like a mental block, dog. You you've been playing hooping your whole life. It's definitely a mental block. Has to be. Yeah, meant like if he like you said, if he walked in a gym and started working out, he probably would knock down some threes. Yeah. Is it like a dozen love basketball thing or s or something else than that? Because I see he he smiles like Magic Johnson when he's out fishing. He's out fishing and he's having the time of his life. Yeah, I would too if my bank account looked like his. He just might enjoy fishing more. But yo, let's get to that Lakers uh Rocket series. I think that this is Taylor made in the f uh like this is I hope it goes seven games. I hope the basketball gods reward us with a seven game series. But you seem positive that LeBron is gonna take care of business in the first round. Why? I'm a big LeBron fan. Yeah. First and foremost. I'm a big KD fan though too. It's it's I'm I'm kinda stuck because I want them both to advance 'cause I don't like watching them both play. They both averaged thirty plus points, like thirty one point eight, thirty one point seven playing against each other. You saw that in the first round ? Longest streak of two players playing against each other in the playoffs, averaging more than thirty. It's like, yeah, fuck yeah. Is Luca playing in the first round? That's a huge part of it. That's a good thing. I think Houston's a better team, probably, right? Top to bottom. Yeah. And they're probably supposed to win. They're supposed to win for sure. Yeah, but it's LeBron James. Yeah, I can never count LeBron out, but just without AR or Luca. I don't look it up. I don't know if they're playing right now, but without them, you don't have enough, bro. I'm sorry. Why ? Who not it's not even KD, it's like Amin Thompson, like Sengoon, who's gonna help like Braun, of course, we see him getting these 30 balls and stuff, but he needs some help at this age right now. Yeah, Houston. Especially the Bronx. Bronny's been solid. Yeah, exactly. Let Bronny fucking ball. He's not Austin Reeves. He's like a 20-minute kind of guy, 15, 20 minute kind of guy. So this gate, this series goes six, the series goes five . I'm gonna go ahead and say it goes uh five Lakers. What? Yeah. Five Lakers? Yeah, Bron. What do you say to you? That's that fentanyl . What the fuck? No fentanyl for me, Braun. Let's go, dawg. So what do you you what are not seeing the rock rockets? Like what are the rockets not having? I'm just seeing, I'm just seeing Braun. Gonna take over. So Bronn is like 40, 10, and 10 every night. Yeah, sir. Going back to that. This is it. This is what this is Luca will be back the series though, right? Luca will be back at some point this series. Not at all the series, not at the not even at the end of the series. After getting that grass called, he's out in the room. Coming back . He should be good. Or I don't know. He's out on definitely right now. That's what he's listed at. He's gonna come out like Willis Reed. He's gonna limp down the tunnel and fucking go hoop. But if I mean if it's five games without him, it should be no problem. He limps every day anyway, don't matter. Yeah, that's true. I think Braun gonna do something. You don't think Amen Thompson, Sangoon, the the rest of the I mean, okay, who's a better coach? Jabari Smith. Jamari Smith or deep. Who's a better coach though? They are deep, man. Emay or JJ? Well, I don't I think I think the better coach is is depends on how good your team is. It's not the motherfucking X's and the O's, it's the Jimmies and the Joes. Okay, so you think that even without AR, without Luca, that they'll steal Jimmies and Joes them away? It's Braun James. They got two of them nothing now. They got two of 'em. That's just me. That's wishful thinking, I think. I think Houston's probably gonna win the series. No, no, no. Wishful thinking for the Lakers. Stick with it. I am sticking with it. I think that uh I I'm more likely if it's a four-five matchup to go five games. I think that the Cavs are gonna smack around the Raptors. Do you really? Yeah. No, going to Toronto's not easy, bro. They play some D up there. I got the Cavs in sixx. Si . I honestly think it'll be five. But uh those those Drake seats, the Iceman seats, those will win them one game. You think? One home game. Drake's gonna go crazy in those Ice Man.'s tough to play in Toronto. They got they got good fans up there. They do. They do. It's not. I'm not. Drake got to drop Iceman, so then they can win. Will Drake be in the seat before the game starts? Uh yeah, he'll probably be there. Usually pop up before the playoffs.. Yeah I mean when the playoffs starts. What's up? Well y'all y'all like the playing games? I'm not a fan of playing games. Just not to change the subject real quick. But yeah. No, no. I don't like the playing games. It should be the top eight teams. Get in, bruh. I think it was a good addition. Do you? As a fan? As a f as a fan. Well if you're a player. Player, you're probably like, damn, like we a seventh seed, we won game back and now I gotta go play these extra games. That's probably ass. Right. But if you the 10th seed, you're like, all right, bet, we got a chance.. Yeah, yeah The Heat don't have a chance. They don't play in chance. The Heat. They don't? I could see them win. You been watching them play? I love the Heat. Don't get me wrong but they just won last night. Yeah, who they play? Somebody tanking Or somebody that wasn't starting their starters. Uh but the uh I l I like the playing. Yeah, they smacked around the Hawaii the Hawks weren't playing anybody. But I like the playing but Lil Boosie play for the Hawks . I think that there's more players that care later into the season because of that. I think it's a good way to stave off tanking. But then I saw like the NBA announces their 2 te0am playoff field. It's like, damn, 20 teams in the playoff field? That's too many. I'm not a fan, bro, the play-in, man. That's not that's not right, bro. And it is already determined by the end, like who's tanking? Like the play in like you knew the ten teams on both sides like for weeks. Like there's no surprise about who these ten teams are because everybody who's tanking wants nothing to do with it and everybody who's locked in is locked in. But you think the heat they they got no no chance ? Yeah, but they got a chance, but I just don't I think Charlotte. Charlotte's playing too good, bro. They're too young, athletic, well coached. Um and they got that boy con Knipple. Knipple and Lamelo. Dude, what? Lamelo's shooting the fucking skin off the ball too. They're I mean, yeah, I I love what they're doing down there. I think that they're the team that is easiest to get excited about. But uh bring that playoff bracket up uh one more time. Oh yeah, they they're both in the three point. But uh I want you to look at that bracket right there. Yeah. What team I want to hear this from both of you that is not a top four seed on either side is most likely to win the champ ionship. So what team that doesn't have home court in the first round, what team that's outside of the top four, and maybe even in the play-in, has the best chance to win a championship? You want to take it first? You want me to go? So not top four? Not top four. So five through ten seed on either side, which one of those is most likely? Well, can can you agree with me real quick? Nobody in a play-in has got a chance. Stell blue coffee's new can lattes are here, crafted with a hundred percent Colombian coffee. 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I uh I think that honestly, I think the Hornets honestly would be the most exciting, but they don't have the exciting, but I think there's one other team like, oh yeah, we were. Or the Sixers, like people were excited, but like watching the Sixers play recently. Like if B wasn't dealing with the the appendix thing, I it would be a different story, but I feel like damn bro. Yeah, every play in team is getting beat in the first round. Correct? Suns Suns are gonna give a little bit of a. None of them will make the championship. Suns could give somebody a hard time for sure. Who the Suns gonna who's who they're gonna be? I don't think they're gonna win, but they'll they're gonna put up a fight. If they play the Spurs, what they get murked . I think it's like I think there's yeah, yeah, probably probably played and who else would they play ? The Suns would play the Spurs or the OKC. Yeah, well yeah, yeah. You yeah. Either one of the teams in the playing in the West is cooked because of that. Everyone in the East is cooked. Best chance is the Rockets. Yes. I think I agree with that. As a five seed are are likely. Don't sleep on Ant-Man either. It's one team in the East that's coming out that's got a chance. The Celtics, you're saying. Correct. But I think there's other, I think there's other series that are worth talking about. I think there's other series that are going to be super interesting, and I think that the Hawks have a good chance of beating the Knicks. Is that crazy? No, I don't know. That'll be a good series. It'll be a great series. The Hawks have that the the Hawks transformation this season? Yeah. Sick. But now it's playoff time. How many of the other guys been in this situation? Not many. CJ McCollum will be a good vet eran. Yeah, what's he gonna do with Big Body Brunson? Oh, I mean, I'm just saying as a vet, but I think that the way that they match up and their ability to play defense is tough. And I think that they're kind of hot in ways that the Knicks haven't been hot this season, like in far as far as wing play, youth play, people elevating, but I don't know if they're equipped to deal with cat if cat goes crazy. Knicks are good, bro. Knicks are good. But I think that the Hawks are exciting and they're hot right now and they have young talent and it's just the blend. And I think that the fact that Riesar Shea's not getting any minutes shows that they don't give a fuck about anything except for winning. They don't care about politics. They don't care about top picks stuff. All they care about is getting the right people out there. I think that they could be like a hot team in this year's playoff. Maybe not the extent that the Pacers were, but they're young. They have star power. They have defense , and I I think they could definitely win this first round. What's their bench looking like? You know? I don't know anything I've come uh let's see. Let's see. I think that they have a decent bench, dude. I think that they have a lot of you taking the heat. I mean the um Nikhil Alexander Walker's been balling. He has. He's been balling. He's giving you 20 every night, no problem. And he can play defense. What a great situation for him to wind up in. Dyson Daniels is gonna bring incredible defense. Jalen Johnson is a star. They don't necessarily have the size and the rim protection if Cat wants to go crazy or if Cat wants to stretch you, but Kuminga could be that X factor if you want to go bench. Yeah, it seems like to me you trying your hardest to put the uh I just hate the fucking Knicks, dude. I just that's fair. I I actually don't even hate them. I I love their success, but the way that they smacked around the Sixers a couple years ago, I'm like another season of the fucking Knicks. Man, let that shit go, dog. It's that shit happening I can't be a fan? No, I mean yeah, you can be a fan, but that shit's over with. You're right. No, I I mean I just uh I I think that the Hawks are interesting. They I agree with you, but I just don't think they're better than the Knicks. You don't know. Knicks and five. Five? Yeah, Knicks will be a Knicks and five. Knicks will lose that first game down there in Atlanta. What? Or lose one game down there. Well, based on what? That just like Brunson's uh playoff performer? Just yeah, Brunson. Brunson's a playoff performer. Last year you get They got they're their rosters back. Hawks are I feel like Hawks might be happy to be there. We'll see. But they give me that right now. Oh yeah, we didn't even expect this. I think in the playoffs, like you need a step up from Bridges if they're actually gonna succeed. I I don't think you've gotten that from him this year, but I think that a guy like Josh Hart is going to elevate his game in the playoffs. He'll give you one of those dumb nights where he's like 10 points, 14 rebounds, nine assists, or some shit. Some huge shots. But I I think that uh the Hawks are a problem. I just want to give the Hawks a little bit of respect. Well, that's fair. You can you can give him some respect, but yeah, they're in and out and one. Yep. Can I give another team some some fucking respect? Absolutely. The what the Clippers were able to do this season, even if they you know, if it's gonna be a short week for them 'cause they're gonna run into one of these great seeds even if they won one two seeds if they make it into the playoffs or into the the actual field, they turned it around this year. And they have some young dudes that balled out. Like they could have easily gone into tank mode. I guess they know they don't have their picks in the next couple years, but respect to them that they you know, that they wanna win. You think they beat Golden State? Yeah, I do. I think they'll be Golden State. But you never know with Wardell, he could go crazy. Wardell could, but at the same time, I think that Kawhi easily could, and I think that things they've gotten from like Benedict Matherin, I think, has been has been nice. Yeah, I think the support and cast for the Clippers has been better. It's fair. They made a good they they bought on the like the highest or like the lowest point for Matherin and they sold on the highest point for Zubak. I think that that wound up helping them the same way that I think the Hawks were helped by getting off Poor Zingis. Like the the transfer of power. Yeah, Trey Young, like that transfer of power in seas on and enabling yourself to stay strong and not tank, that is impressive. But you know, Batoom's gonna catch some of the corner. Go back to the top of that for me. Oh yeah, is Bradley Bill still on their roster ? Yeah, he offered a year. Did it was ACL? Nah, he um He had some Ur right in the beginning of the season, right? Yeah. His hip. His fucking hip, hip fracture. How do you fracture your hip? Giving birth, bro. It's brutal out there, but yeah, I just wanted to give the clippers a little bit of respect. You never answer the question of the five seat or lower to to that has the best. Well the only one yeah the that means it's only yeah it's gotta be Houston be the pick, right? I'm not mad at the T wolves pick. I went back and thought about that. I'm not mad at that. Not a lot of people are thinking about them. And it could go nuclear. Yeah. Like when you have a star of that caliber, he c you don't know what what could happen. He has like a Joe Burrow thing going for him though, where he had that one crazy playoff run and now it's like, okay, people expect it. People acknowledge his greatness, but like when it is he gonna be able to have that long run? Is he gonna be able to take him past And Edwards? Yeah, like he gotta give some help, right? They got him help. What are you talking about? Who? Like help to win a championship? They Julius Randall, Rudy Gobert, that's not help. No. Not to win a championship. Then he's gonna have to. Those are great pieces. Let's read. No, it's Reed, bro. I know what I know what you're saying though. You need another pairing with star another star. Even uh the redhead boy, uh yeah, that boy can play too now. Yeah, especially in the playoffs. He's really in a playoff elevator. I'll take him on my team any day. But ain't like he should he should be the the guy that takes you there. Ain't that easy, Shawden . Realize you gotta realize that. Yeah, and they have a tough first round matchup. I mean, is there a team that's hotter than the the Nuggets right now? Nuggets, what are they? 12 straight? Spurs is pretty hot. Spurs are hot, but they've Spurs haven't they've only lost twice in the last two months or four times in the last two months. But three of those losses are to the fucking Nuggets, dude. The Nuggets are hot right now. 12-game winning streak. They're fucking burning it up. Joker is playing insane. They were even sitting dudes last night and he's just They had to win last night to get the three seed, right? At the same time, they probably don't want to see the case , I wouldn't who I played. Come on. Lace him up, goddamn it. Right? Yeah, he is as good of a chance to take you there. Yeah. As anybody. Um man, being able to see him go against uh Wemby oh that that that's that's that's that's worth every dime. Yeah, that's amazing for sure. Uh what'd you think of that little highlight package of of Wemby fucking flopping around? I tried to pull it up, but I didn't get no uh Delta was tripping today. It was two things I had the Delta Wi-Fi was tripping, and and whoever was behind me, no no they shit their pants, sorry. I swear to God. That shit was so bad. Like, bro, I was I was dead slept, woke me up right out of my slept. That shit smelled so bad. I couldn't black how does a grown man smell that bad? You got woken up by the park. What? That was the worst, bro. What was the wake up like? I mean it's like a hot lip, Charlie . Like yeah, here goes Wemby . They're saying that Wemby against the Pistons, the everybody had a foul on him. They're saying that he's Oh, damn, he hit him in the dome. They're saying that he's the least sturdy player, though. That he's out there like a little bit of a toothpick tall. Yeah, it look likeed a toothpick with a napkin wrapped around him out there. How many foul look at all the yeah, he's has a foul by everybody. Dern fouled him five times. Paul Reed, LeVert, Cunningham just I mean See what people ain't taking into consideration them ragged referees done made some bad calls too now, so they shouldn't be fouls. You think that that's the only way to defend him? You have to be physical with him. To defend Wimby? Yeah. Definitely gotta be physical with him. can't You you can't reach up to him. No, you sh yeah. I just I what I would try to do is just soon as soon as we score the basket, and if I'm guarding Wimby, I'm I'm I'm bumping him right from the jump from from baseline to baseline. Even if he ain't got the ball. Always leaning on him. You got to. But that's how all those fouls are getting called. But I think that uh Joker will be able to play that'll be a master class. He'll be like Wemby, it's not your time yet. Oh, but but but I think it might be . Really? Well, it's two raggly ass Europeans anyway, so it's not like you're picking a European against an American. You think it's his time? Uh it's close. If it ain't. I think that people it's so boring and unsexy but What Wimby? No, no. To take Joker. Oh. It's people are just like bored of of Just like LeBron. Just like we got b bored of LeBron.. Probably No, not probably. But he should have been one MVP damn near every year he's been in the motherfucking NBA. Joker? No, LeBron . See, Joker's, I mean, Joker's insane. He's incredible. I'm not saying he isn't. Yeah, I think that there's a polarizing nature of LeBron that Joker is even more boring than that. He's just like, yeah, he just goes out and ethically just gets insane buckets. Triple doubles. Yeah. But just buckets. Yeah. Triple doubles. Yeah. Leads and we take that shit for granted, bro. We take we take these athletes that we get to see in our lifetime for granted, bro. Like they're so good and we're so lucky to see this caliber of athleticism . People are gonna disrespect Joker historically. When we're having these like generational debates, they're gonna forget about him. They're not gonna be respecting him. There's no highlight reel, like uh He was playing against plumbers. Yeah, there's gonna be some bullshit like that. Like he needs to have like a hundred point game for people to even respect him. And I disagree with it. I think he's boring. I think that he beats Wemby this year, for sure. I disagree with them too. He's he's he's great. He's amazing. Yeah, and I don't know if they beat Wimby this year. Interesting. I think that uh it's just not time yet. I think it's just not Wimby's time. That's what I thought earlier on too now. You think it's his time? I'm telling you the spur . They're good. They're got a good team. Team wise, they deep. They don't care about if you get fifty, you get they don't care. They just want to win. I thought that too, and then you look up and the nuggets are up by twenty But I I think that the it's there's just something automatic about the Nuggets. There's just something so sick and consistent about the Nuggets that's just like, well, they're fucking doing it. Personally I think the Nuggets have a dogfight against the T-Wolves. I think they come into that series like maybe they go six or seven or something like that, and then you gotta go face the Spurs who might win in five. So are we are we sleeping on the one seeds? I feel like we don't we haven't talked about the the Thunder or or pistons like that. I think again a thunder we take it from granted. Yeah, thunder we're definitely taking for granted. Yeah, brother. They're gonna be there in the end. From the creator of John Wick and Nobody comes the new movie Normal, a double barrel ed shotgun blast of pure mayhem, my words, not theirs, but also their words, coincidentally. 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Why do you think the people are reticent to give them their success or have optimism about them? They have the best records. I think it's the same way you feel about Wimmy. It's not his time. It's just not their time yet. Boston Boston is Boston, bruh. Yeah. Boston, I think Boston's got the best coach in the East too, right? I said this in the text last night. The best team in the East is Boston. And the second best team in the East is Boston when they have Luka Garza starting for them. All them crackers. They had a bunch of crackers out there. Yeah, dude. The premium cracker factory, dude. They got the writs up. The one boy fifty five though can shoot though. Yeah. Sharman. Sharman. Sharman's amazing. Dude, Sharman has a complete game. Not just shooting. Like he has effort. Like he's he's playing defense. He's I mean he he Shireman is just like they have Peyton Pitcher and now they have Baylor Shireman. Yeah, I bet I bet Shireman could play in the MLB and the NFL if he wanted to probably like Jeff Samarja. Shireman's sick.. Look at the shot Look look look look at Garza. Ski. They're sick. I mean it's it's infuriating. I'm fucking tired of it. Of the Celtics? Yes. Or that they just have a conveyor belt of good whites. They just have whites. Nah, go get people that fit the team. Or do you think it has something to do with Boston? That's just what color they like to draft . Not even drafting. But I think well, I think it's the front office into the development pipeline. It's not just the front office, it's like they coach these dudes up, they pick the right kinds of guys. Brad Stevens is a fucking genius. Danny Ainge too. Well he's in uh Utah. But he he he uh he started this he started the tone yeah and but then you know the coaching is insane. He is and the fact that they had Ime into Missoula is like that maybe it is the front office, but it's all the process the same way. Just the way they do it right from top to bottom is fucking infuriating. It's just the way it should be done. I think Sam Cassell's next in line too for a head coaching job I think he'd be a great head coaching job. Yeah, I don't know what it is. Maybe the fucking Bucks could use them. Uh no, yeah, the Bucks gonna be jobs open. Well, there Bucks job is already open. They got rid of Doc uh Doc immediately. But how excited do you think Shams was to fucking hit that send Doc Ri Yeah, I bet he was excited about that. Why do you think those two are going back and forth so much? Why do they hate each other? I'm not sure. I think it's because all the information used to come from Woe, who was a coach, front office guy, organization guy, and now it's coming from Shams, who's a players guy. And so that changes the narrative where the coaches can now get shitted on and hat ed on. Well, why don't we just have two guys? One player, one coach. Well they used to. And now then then the coach guy got out of the game. We don't have Woad like that anymore. Maybe I should be the coach guy. Talk to these coach . Facts. You know what I mean? You have any sources? Hit up some sources. That's not you. You're not gonna be hitting up the sources. I won't be no sources. There'll be like it'll be who who I heard it from. No, not a source. Like Roan told me this. Yeah, but Jordan told me this. They want to sneak that shit out. No fuck a sneak. But that's not how they do it. They go through the wraggly ass media. That's what's wrong with our society today. Motherfuckers don't want to put the shit out there in front of everybody. You see that there was like a leak or something Doc was saying? He was saying uh remember the media he said he uh check his resume. He said like a player told somebody on the outside. Yeah, I saw that. Well, let's check his resume. You want let's check it right here on hooping and hollering. Can we check his res ume? His playoff record record resume? Yeah. Recently is like is there how many coaches have lost three one leads or three oh leads? I think that he was a pioneer in the championship He has a championship, but that was in 08. Yeah, yeah, you know why he had a championship? Because them Joes, Rondo, Garnett, Ray Allen, and the truth, Kendrick Perk ins. Let's not forget Big Baby. Yeah, Big Baby too. Who's now free? Kenrik Perkins gets slept on a lot too. A as a basketball player. You think? Yeah, bro. Because he was on Shaq and a fool or whatever. Just because no, no, I yeah, Shackling the Fool, that's something different but I'm talking about Kenny Perkins who's a good basketball player. Don't get the credit he deserves, in my opinion. But anyway, back to Doc Rivers. What do y'all think of Doc Rivers' quote about saying check my resume . Uh six all-time and career wins. That's sick. But at the same time, he's just not getting results anymore. That's all it's all it's all about th.ough. Great person Doc Rivers is a great dude. Totally. You ain't got the players, bro. He's not and then they they wanted to play and they talk about he what he they wasn't letting him play. Yeah. Is that true? Type of shit is that? I saw his bros at the hotel this weekend in Philly. Oh yeah? And all they had to say about it was that's all they said. Really? I asked them about it. They said like the NASA's in them? Yeah. That's all I'm getting off the elevator. And uh they it uh yeah, I think that that situation is obviously a lot of friction and some crazy shit's about to happen. But Doc had to be the first one to to fall. But I don't even know if he's uh is it they haven't even really said he's fired. No, it's a like he's stepping away, but yeah, but now they're talking about moving him into a different role, like a front office role. AKA we don't want to pay you to leave. Yeah, so yeah, stay in coach. Well they're paying all these other coaches. They're paying like three coaches. They're paying everybody else. Like you might as well get some work out of it. Like actually you have to keep coming to work, but you're just not the But see I if I uh if I own a team and I tell you, yeah, go on step aside as the coach, I don't want Well it co uh there's confusion. That causes a lot of confusion if there's two voices and like doc's like yeah you gotta actually do this fucking yeah you know like you want a new voice if you're gonna have a new voice you want somebody young somebody with some innovation yeah, the bucks are in trouble. Yeah, they and then Giannis wants to leave. Who who's going there to Milwaukee to play as a free agent? Nam . That's a fact. Miles Turner. Yeah, he's gotta be pissed now. He went there to play with Giannis. Now he's gone. Well, he could have helped himself a little bit more this season. Yeah, is have we seen the last days of Giannis in Milwaukee? Absolutely. Yes. Don't you think? The writing's on the wall food. Oh yeah. Of course, bro. I talked to the guys. They said they they should have traded buddy this year. I think that's what they have to do because you don't want to give Giannis of what does he have one more year on his contract, right? Yeah, but now teams know that know that he wants out, they're not gonna give up shit for him. They're it's it's definitely hurting the price and they're acting like they're gonna hold him hostage. Yeah, right. They're acting like, well, if you don't get a buddy hostage what he's done for them . They gotta do everything they can to help buddy out. So how many firsts are you giving up for him though? If you know the price is like low, you gotta what four? Well, I don't know. Three? I mean, how many like the magic ? The magic couldn't do nothing because they gave up the uh their first rounds for Bain . Yeah . Some questionable decisions out there. So he has extension. Like I'd like to see a a list of all the general managers in the NBA. Uh-huh. How many of them averaged over five points in high school basketball? That's what I'd like to see one day. Because the the some of the general managers that I know or that I came across in my time, that don't mean they're not good general managers, but no chance of playing no sports. Yeah, but that has nothing to do with it. It does. No it then let Michael Jordan build a team and then see who he picks . Because I guarantee it's going to be Sean May and Raymond Felton and shit like that. Guys who are sick in college. But just because you played well doesn't mean you're a good talent evaluator. I agree with that. Brad Stevens, you'd rather have Michael Jordan than Brad Stevens as your general manager? Um, no. Exactly. Did Brad Stevens play ball growing up? He might mean he must have played. He's I bet Brad Stevens averaged more than fucking five in high school . We gotta see that. Daryl Morey? Daryl Morey? Yeah, I don't know. D three legend. D three legend. Brad Stevens was? Yeah. Four-year division three player at DePaul. I knew it had to be somewhere. See what I'm saying? Indiana shit. Yeah, see he Yep, Indiana, yeah. See . He's got Indiana written all over that. Yeah, he's the valedictorian Indiana. He'll beat ninety five percent of humans in horse today. But what about Daryl Morey then? Daryl Morey, n no . Yeah. Well yeah, what the fuck's he done? Yeah, learns business. No , no. Lied lie to James Harden? Yeah. Puss ass liar. Why you gonna lie to the best player on your team ? Do you think you would have lied to D. Wade? Think you would have lied to the Flash? Can't lie to the Flash like that. Daryl Morey would have lied. If he lied to James Harden, he's gonna lie to anybody, yes. Daryl Moore must be a motherfucking snake. To lie to James Har den. Yeah. Why would you do that ? I think I don't know, being a people pleaser or maybe wanting to get business leverage. I bet it's more like a people pleaser is aka puss ass. That's what a people pleaser is. Don't give me that. Could be. Don't give me that. It definitely could be. What other storylines are we missing this week? We gotta be. JJ Reddick hollering at Buddy? Oh yeah, he hollered at Band Yeah what was what what was what was he mad at? He took Vando out Yeah what was Vando mad at Vando felt the way but JJ in the presser was like yo he's fucking up like what you want me to do well see I don't know if you can say that because Braun don't get back all the time on defense, and Luca don't get back all the time on defense. You know it's different for players. But I'm just I'm just speaking for the folks out there, the normal folks. I feel like JJ's been getting into it, but maybe he's just not gonna take shit. Yeah, Ayton . Aiden couldn't catch the ball for shit. They said A iden was shocked to find out what was going on with uh their playoff matchup. He didn't know he found out live in the media . Uh I just yeah about who they were gonna match up with. Yeah, I guess about who they're gonna match up with. He said they they ruined the surprise for him. But I I I don't know if they have the supporting cast out there in LA to do it. Yeah. Yeah. Who who steps up in if in the absence of Luca and Austin Reeves? Who helps Brown out? It should be Aiden. It should Aiden was doing Oh, I'm not Clink Capella. Let's see. Yeah, you're right. I thought Aiden would be a lot better than he was when he came out of college, man. Let's see. Who's the best high school player that you guys ever watched live? Oh man. Hmm I I 'd just probably be older for me . But like, shoot . I watched them boys of Montver, Ben Simmons and them boys, D'Angelo Russell, uhh who uh Scotty Barnes was down there. They had all kinds of jits down there, bro. Who is the best? I'm going Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons. K. Cunningham was down there too, now he was different. He's sick. Different. But Ben Simm ons at that age. RJ Barrett. Yeah, he was amazing. In high school, he wasted four years. All these guys that I just named, yeah, wasted four years of their life playing in high school. They should have gone straight to the NBA. From from eighth grade. Ben Simmons did. Swear to God. The farm system. Ben Simmons and baseball. These dudes here are so different, bro. Like, like, watch some of this shit that they do, man. Ben Simmons probably could have done that. Ben Simmons did whatever. I thought Ben was the next LeBron out of high school, bro. Me too. They should let him do it like Brit British soccer players, where you're like 16. I was gonna say, like MLB. I feel like they drive like 15-year-olds. But they have to stay in the minors. There'll be a dude on Arsenal or Manchester United that's sixteen years old. Yeah, like the young Jit from uh uh Spain. Yeah. What's his name? Which one? Young Jit. Yeah, Lignignonol? La Lam Minha. Laminha. Mignon. Mignon. Lamin. Mignon . Yeah, that boy right there. Laminha Ma. Oh yeah, he's sick. What? He's the future? I saw some highlights of him. I haven't watched him play. Check him out, bro. You tapped in? You tapped in on a World Cup? Yeah, I'm tapped in a little bit of soccer. Are you? I like a little soccer. Oh shit. You a messy or Ronaldo guy? Messy. Yeah, that's a good answer. I mean they're both sick. Yeah, but Messi's the great. He's a a little bit more wee. A little bit more wee than me. I saw Ronaldo get pissed off that he didn't get that goal a couple times where Messi would hit him with the ski. Oh yeah, Messi would do he'd get the dub, but Ronaldo's a bad boy too now. What's we talking about before this soccer shit? Best high school player in the middle of I told you mine. Kate kind of who about you? Oh man. I saw I was watching K Kyle Lowry playing high school. He was pretty good. I didn't see it on this national scale. Yeah. Maurice Rice played against LeBron in Philly, I think that was. Philly Catholic League is lit though, right? Yeah, Philly Catholic League. Were you like Jameer Nelson? Was he the He was he played at Chester, or I think that he wasn't in the Catholic League, but he I mean St. Joe's U. But yeah, we were St. Joe's Prep. Um I didn't No, we had we had bras. On the basketball team? Yeah, yeah. What do you mean? What do you mean what I mean? PCO. Yeah, we uh had some Reggie Redding went there. He was our he he played on Villanova, Chris Clark, he played on Temple. We had some we had some uh talented players at the time. But it wasn't that national scale. That class had J.R. Smith and Josh Smith and stuff like that. Those are they were really good, but just watching them at the McDonald's game and stuff like that. Jordan, who's your answer? Who's the best high school? Juju Watkins, bro. UFC's Juju Watkins. And I watch high school basketball all day. Yeah. Every day. She's the best high school basketball player you've ever seen ? Yes. Playing against uh girls though. Not if she was going to play against Well that wasn't the question. You just question the question wasn't who was the best high school basketball player you ever seen play against girls? No, but no against who she's playing against, who she's lining up against? That was the most dominant performance I've ever seen. So she's she's but if I gotta go someone else, I'm gonna go Cooper Flag or Shaden Sharp on um what's it called on Portland. Yeah where'd he go to high school at? Where was he from? Uh he's from Canada. Okay. What was played, I forgot what high school he went to though. You think Canada ? He got dra he got drafted out of like playing high school. Like he w he did a prep year and then just went to the draft. Went to Kentucky. Yeah, he didn't play at Kentucky. Yeah, he didn't play at Kentucky. He then went down there and got that bag. You think Canada's bullshit? You're against the like uh foreign basketball. You think Canada's bullshit? Nah, Canada's got some hoopers. Yeah, what? But they're Americans. They're all bros . Nam whites. MK, what are you talking about, bro wn on one what are you talking about MK I can't I can't believe he hasn't gotten in more fights right I think he got in a fight in Canada yeah I think someone I don't see how he doesn't get in fights like I think that's what you sign up for. He probably has some bodyguards there too. I saw somebody saying uh there was a skit, like what if MK put was playing chess? He was like flipping the board, grabbing somebody over the but I'm saying though, like some of the shit that he does is it' its's uh automatic. Even if you know he's gonna whoop your ass, you gotta fire off one. Yo, there's a uh big argument online right now. So there's this one-on-one dude, his name is Nas. Nas. And then he he's calling out Austin Rivers . Yeah. Austin Rivers is like, bro, I'm not playing you. Like, that'll be a waste of my time. If you want me to play somebody, go get somebody I competed against. Like, it'll be a waste of my time. I'm not playing you for $50,000. But the whole internet is like, oh, you scare, you scare, you sc ared but no you didn't see what uh uh Mike Beasley's on there now is talking about oh he's yeah he's like yeah you call out some yeah I'm yeah I'll get you 75 or 100 racks Mike Beasley said yeah I like the one on one stuff but I also think that the guys who play one on one, it's a different game. Totally different. That's what Austin Rivers was basic. He's like, bro, you put you went to fam you and didn't play. Like I'm I'm different. Totally different game, one on one and stuff like that. Yeah, I agree. Like, but the Austin Rivers ain't nobody to be fucking around with now. And that but that's Austin I was a number one player in the country. Brother Bruck can go. Still can go. Yeah. So how do you think he beats him in a one on the I don't I don't know buddy I don't know Nas Nas or Nas, however you say Buddy's name. I I'm sure he can hoop. But I don't, I mean like one-on-one's different call . Officiated different. It's everything's different. Like in a one-on-one, if Austin and Nas were to play one-on-one, it would take forever because there'd be fouls called down near every missed shot. That would sell. You feel me? But they think they get a free throw though, like if I'm not mistaken after like two afternoon , like I'm I'm not calling mine. No, no, there's when they play these type of one on ones they're like there's a ref. Okay. So then I think you get like a foul, then the next one is like a free throw. So you can't really keep hacking or you're just gonna lose by the free throw line. Yeah. That's that's b that would be brutal though. Like oh he they played one on one and it's free throws. Yeah, yeah, that's stupid. Play defense. Yeah. You can't don't f just like in a real game. Yeah, I guess you have to play defense. But I also think that a one on one player could beat some level of former pros, just because that's all they do. Oh, I agree with that too. I agree with that. Like, like, like me. Fuck me. My man Joe Ingalls. I just say Joe Ingalls because I just watched Minnesota play the Magic the other day. These Jets would kill Joe Ingalls one-on-one. Right? Uh yeah, I guess. Like this NAS dude or whoever? Wow, isn't Joe Ingall was like how tall is he? He's like six nine. That's what I'm saying. It might be But no they're going, you know they're gonna get into him. Yeah. But but you put him in they like Joe Eng Joe Engles is a is a a 15-year NBA vet, bro. Like it's Brian Scalabrini or something like that. Them kind of guys have been in the league forever. They would they would bust anybody's ass . And Scalabrini did that one time. He had somebody pull up on him, was like, Oh, you think you could beat an NBA player even if I'm a bench guy? Yeah, he did that out over here at um West Forth. Yeah, but I do think I do think that's a one-on-one guys street dudes that can beat guys old MBA guys. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Not not George the Messiah. Now this guy, George, yeah. He's hilarious though. Like I see him all the time. And he does I mean he works people. Oh yeah. So you're not you're not working the white mamba. Yeah, and and white mama said, How you wanna play? You wanna play that way or you wanna play this way? And he'll play the one-on-one . And he just fell in the house . And he's like, what ? Yeah, that's a that's a fucking tell him . That's his only way. He just can't get dunked on four times. This is literally his court. Yeah, how old is George, bro? Uh sixty they said? I don't know. Here's the one shot. Can you pull up the shot where the guy uh the guy or no the guy hits him with like the soccer pass and he yeets it from over the fence and they sprints out in the traffic? I mean you could he's probably there today. Really? He's gonna be there this week. It's seventy all week in New York. Oh yeah, he's definitely walking around with his ball. Yeah, he's definitely and he plays for money, so it's a you know, a little hustle. Play Tommy smokes for money for 20. Well one who do you think? George. Of course. Against Tommy Smokes. George the Messiah. There's it's almost under like this. Is the most New York shit ever. I don't think this is it. Whatever, it's not a big deal. Uh yeah. Street ball in the summertime is it's becoming like a secondary league for people to be able to watch one on one ball in the summer. You know, you don't have you could actually make money off by the bigger one good organizer and see Mac and them got a one-on-one league or something like that? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Is there like rules to one-on-one like three dribbles or no dribble limits? They either do three dribbles or four, depending on the organ is uh who's organiz ing it. And you can only make a finger gun to someone's forehead like four times. I think is that's part of it. You can only pull someone's he uh shirt over their head like four or five times per game. Yeah, one on one is it's a totally different game. Especially when George the M Look here, sk i. Yeah . Yeah. Look at it. Runs in the trap. You gotta run. Does he just play strictly one on one or does he play like five on five? I think just once. He does look like he sweats too much. I wouldn't even want him to back down. You know what I'm saying? I wouldn't want to be near that. Yeah, he's definitely has a perspiration You guys gotta pull up, come play in the the West Forth this summer. Play? Yeah. That's him ones. No, well I'll ref . I'll be the ref. You keep on wanting the ref . Yeah, I'll need to be a ref. Have all the power. You think Wemby's MVP? No, too early. Anthony Davis said Wemby, Joker, Jalen Brown, Shea, and then Luca. You like that list? No. I think Shay going back to back. I think Jalen Brown deserves it. Okay. But I think Shay gonna get it. Okay. Luca kind of deserves it too now . I thought you were a LeBron guy. I think I thought LeBron can do it without Luca. He's going to do it without Luca. So then how can he be the person had to do it without Luca? So what of these other guys could the team do it without? Oh, the Spurs could still do it without Wimby. Be good without Wimby . What?? You know why Because they got this jit from uh Boston. Luke Cornette would hold hold it down. You know, I mean Carter he would hold it down. Carter Bryant is the one who's getting those center minutes. Carter Bryant's playing his ass off. Yeah, that Carter Bryant ain't gonna play the center minutes in the in when the popcorn I bet he uh I bet he's trending towards that. That's a good st I mean the fact that he was in the G League to start. I don't know, bro. I think that Carter Bryan is that exact type of player that you want having not I I don't want him playing thirty minutes in the playoffs, but like a little eighteen minute run. That's like him saying he wants Juju Watkins to guard uh Shea. See, see you spinning you spin you spending. You know what I'm saying? Juju Juju's now, weren't you? Yeah, yeah. She might be the greatest girls basketball player ever before we're done. Juju. Maybe. Well with that the end. And I'm not taking anything away from her. But You think that she could get that? Yeah. You think that she could get that nine hundred ninety-nine thousand dollar contract? Juju ? Yeah. She could have got that two years ago out of high school probably. You saw uh Kelsey Plum got that nine hundred. Yeah, what's the deal with the nine ninety nine ninety nine? What's that mean? I don't know if it was I was just getting sent held, but is it because of like the tax bracket? You staying out of the millionaire as well i think i think that once you're there you already in there because she got a sneaker deal and all that stuff right she definitely has a million it's probably some like what kind of sneak take away one dollar less yeah millionaire tax bracket yeah, yeah, she's in there. And to to oh maximize team cap space . She was eligible for the one point four supermax. Who leaves three hundred four hundred thousand on the table? Jack's uh Jackie Young signed the one point four on the uh Vegas Aces . Congrats, Queen. What's Juju Watkins gonna sign for? They better give Juju the brinch truck. Yeah she's gonna sign well she gonna do all her years in college though for sure. Why would you even leave college? Yeah so she could get way more than WNB You could make more at USC. What you mean? You don't want to get to the WNBA. Ain't that ain't that their goal in life? I mean, after I maximize this college, Brad. Yeah. Do you think that she's gonna be able to bounce back like that? Yeah, girls do that. Juju Watkins do that. Um ACL? Yeah, girl, I feel like that's more common for girls. Especially nowadays, people bounce back. How much is ju Juju Watking' maksing 700 racks, it's definitely more than that. Yeah, definitely more than that for sure. Definitely won't she about to get her own shoe. She probably has like LeBron James, right? Yeah, she she I yeah, though. They probably gave it to her . Yeah. Rico Rico Bosco texted me asking he uh he wanted me to ask you a question, uh a shoe question. Rico Bosco? Yeah. Yeah, how how you feel curry? Curry was were were two colorways of you. How about that? That was dope for me. I wish he would have hooped in him. That'd have been that would have been sweet. Um he said uh that he Rico loved the shocks back in day the day. And I know that you were a Nike Schoks Stunners . Uh I gotta send Tyler this pick. Actually, the shock, the shocks, I wore the shocks because You look stocky in this pick, bro. What are you eating that Memphis I was a grown man, but how much were you weighing at that time, bro? What were you? You look like fucking Daron Williams, bro. Kyle Lowry in this picture don't Ron Williams had a cross for the colour like Eric Snow, bro. Yeah. Eric Snow. Now come on, dog. Bro, look how fucking big you look in this picture. Is that just the way the jersey's bowing, or are you I think you just have room in the jersey? You just had the flowing jersey here. That's not a pop belly. Bro, when I had them things on my knees, I will I'll put I put them on my knees because Vince Carter used to wear them, the little little straps. I thought they were gonna make me jump higher. It didn't work for that. It didn't no So you had the Osgood slider you know. Yeah, that's right. But then I got used to wearing 'em, I couldn't play without 'em. What about the shocks? The shocks they uh they look better than they felt. Like my They looked sick. 'Cause you probably thought you were gonna jump higher in those. You're like, oh, there's a spring in it. I was as athletic as I was, bro. I was oozing athleticism, but I wasn't looking to jump higher. But that my orthotics put in a shock, it just didn't work well. It looked good. Shocks look good, but it didn't feel good. It looked cool, yeah. For Wardell to where it all hyperflights, yeah, that's pretty dope for me. That's sick. I I I I was with uh uh with my homie that's good buddies with his dad okay when this came out. Okay, and I told his my buddy to text his dad, Hey, don't don't you tell Steph, don't turn into a pass first guard wearing those shoes. And he said he sent back and said, Yeah, don't worry 'cause he's my son, he won't. Yeah, he'll be all right. Yeah. Keep chucking it. You like the outfit with them? Like how's the how's he supposed to style them? Oh I mean you're asking the wrong dude when it comes to style clothes and shit like that. Now I might wear this for seven straight days, but yeah, I don't I don't know. Nothing nothing about style. I think it I think those are stylish. They look stylish. Um but yeah, Rico was loving those shoes. Yeah, he said he rocked the shocks back in the day. He said he loved the shocks, but knowing what we know now and how heavy these fucking things were compared to the shoes now. Like you think they ever make a comeback or you think that it's just a little back but why were the shoes as heavy as you what do you think Rico's body fat is talking about heavy with shoes. The fuck? Like you got don't just blame the shoes. Rico is a football player, bro. He's strong. No, he's a jump shooter. He jumps like over he can't jump over a nickel . Set shooter.. Yeah Yeah, he's a set shooter. Some guys don't even have to jump anymore. There's some guys whose whose jumper was I just watching the other day that he they don't give a fuck about jumping. Jokic don't really jump. Yeah, he barely jumps. Lamello doesn't give a fuck. He kinda jumps backwards. Yeah, he's just you think that he was trying to beat Khan's record? Do you think that he was trying to chase down Khan and be like fuck that? I'm getting the fucking record. You saw he gave he skipped the two. He did, but it looked like somebody stepped on it. Uh somebody stepped on his heel. No, maybe. He still could have went up though. Yeah, but I think his shit would have got beat up . I think he just doesn't care. I think he just wants the three. Yeah, I like, yeah. There's not too many people that I would pay uh He's one of 'em. Lamello's one of 'em. Why? Just I like the way he plays. He just plays for fun, man. I mean it looks like he wants to win. I know he wants to win. He has the same kind of style of play as you, a little bit . You think? It's like big balls just to try some shit. Is that how you 're you guys both have the imagination? I'll say that. I see that. I'll say he would like he's more of a willing, like he'll take crazy shots. I don't think you would take that many crazy shots compared to him. But the imagination of seeing the floor and stuff. Like I would never take a one legged three. Yeah. However, I wanna two like a mother . When? Every day of my life. Every day of my life. Oh he and he come down and pull up one legged bro. So that was like that is a modern shot that it's just something people will pull in a game. Oh I think it's a lot easier. If you go out on the court right now and just shoot like a one-legged from the top of the key, you're gonna have a better percentage of shooting 10 of them one legged as better than just regular two legged shit. Why? I just think you will because you ain't gonna be short. You feel me on that? Yeah. And momentum. Yeah. It's like you're getting it up. Cause you're going off one leg, you kinda uh you gotta jump. Pat Riley would've been on you. I wouldn't even no thought of taking a one legged three with Pat Riley over there. He might have had a motherfucking uh uh uh slingshot. Scott with a dart in my neck. Yeah. What the fuck? Yeah, that's right. Wait, Pat, what? Yeah . Yeah, bro. That would have been sick that I mean you can play way different, but he has a joy to his game and he's got kind of just like a fuck it. That's right. Hey fuck it. Like we're balling out here. Let me just try something. That's right. If it doesn't work, you just like he would try that fucking bounce pass shot. If your bank account looked like that too, you'd just say fuck it too. No, but there's other rich dudes that aren't just like fuck it. He was like fuck it at Chino Hills. Half court. He's played the same way his whole life. His whole life. Just half court to start a game. Fuck it. I like that. Yeah it's fuck with him. 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I think that they could be a great team without SGA and I think that Joker puts up the stats to back it up and I think that taking him off of the Nuggets does way more than taking SGA off of the Thunder. SGA scored 30 or 27 points in 900 million games in a row. I didn't realize it was 900. Ever since he's been alive, he scored 20. That is fucking crazy. Yeah. I think that you can't go wrong with either one of those two players, but I don't think you can go wrong with any of the dudes on that list. So Luca plays sixty-four games, so he's he's not eligible. And and then Yoke uh played sixty-five last night. That was his sixty fifth. So he Wemby can't win it either, can he ? Or can he ? Uh I'm not sure. But I think that Jokic is the most valuable player to any of those teams. That's fair. I Wimby played exactly sixty five. See there . And he didn't even play last night. They're just trying to avoid it. Yeah, I think that he did you see the pants that Wimby had on last night? I thought you didn't care about fashion, bro. Uh well, the inseam in that pant, bruh. Like I wear like a like a 34 32. What about you? 33 30. Yeah, buddy gotta be buddy gotta be a 28. Look, buddy gotta be a twenty-eight ninety-six. Look at that shit, dawg. His table. That's Louis too, bro. You know how much Louis material that is? Does them Louis pants cost more than your Louis pants? Of course. Like how much more? That's two Louis pants. That's the twoies, bro. That's insane. You know his tailor was on a ladder for those. Golly, bruh. That's like fucking building up bookcase. That's a fucking long ass pair of pants. Those are drapes. Terrible. Put some sweats on, Charter. But I mean, he's got to be able to live it up. He's French. You gotta wear some fly shit. He's fucking French. What's that mean? I'm from West Virginia. Don't mean I gotta wear fly shit. Exactly, bro. They got the they're the fashion capital of the world. He from gay paris. Speaking of gay, uh yeah, buddy. Did y'all yeah. What do you mean? Which one? The Oklahoma City Thunder. Buddy with gra J the J the Williams kid. Was it Jalen Williams? Doing the interview. Pull it up. Buddy grabbing him and sticking his finger up his That's crazy. Pull it up, Charlotte. That's crazy. Did you see it? I didn't see it. I didn't see it. Yeah, like. No, Jalen, Jalen's doing the he's getting asked the questions . Oh, you said uh And McCain is behind him. And he said make your hand a little bit lower, put your hand lower. Something like that, and I don't know what was happening back there. But we didn't see that that was happening. You're thinking of the Knicks. The Knicks were were . No, no. There was heart got there. Hart had a Jordan? He touched his back. He thanks . He said, yo, get your hand on my head. Right there. See there? Look. I don't think that was hand and booty hole, bro. I think that the Josh Hart, Jalen Brunson, that was digging an ass, bro. That's that's equally foul and disgusting. You talking about Josh Hart and Brunson? Yeah. Was their fingernails painted? You think that Was their fingernails painted when they stuck that up the ass? Wait a second. You think it's gayer to paint your fingernails than to stick your hand in a man's ass? But what if you got both? That's not what I'm saying. Yeah, bro, look, you put the while they're blitzing the trophy. No, no, no. Stand on it, Jake. Ain't nothing wrong with that to me. What? Nah, what? That's a joke, bro. What's the joke? Everybody knows that's a joke. Nobody's got a joke. My youngest daughter done stuck her thumb up my ass the other day in the kitchen, bro. So yeah, that's a joke. I get that. This right, yeah, but buddy with the fingernail painting, if you got your motherfucking fingernails painted orange, blue, and white and you trying to touch my ass, nah bruh, that ain't that's that's that's not a nose. Hey bro, I don't care what what color you paint your fingernails, keep your hands away from my ass with it. Nah bruh, nah. What do you mean no? What do you mean now? No, bro. They're comos, bro. No, they're not. No, they're not. No, they're not. No, they're not. Well then why is his hand by his asshole? What's happening in his asshole? Wibes are high in OKC, man That's Shay recording right there I know but that ain't Shay dancing Shay was they was all back there vibes uh vibes is high you need Shay ain't got his thumb halfway up buddy's ass you just yeah, Josh. It was Josh Hart. Now that's different. Y'all too young for that. Y'all yeah look too young, bro. What age do they start doing that? Look at the vibe. Josh Hart shit was okay. This shit look. It was okay. Never had a teammate that dance all the film? Never had a teammate with painted fingernails touching my ass. Never we'd have problems. I think Flash Flash be painting his nails, bro. Yeah, but not when he was my teammate, he didn't. It's different. The head snap, you didn't like the head snap that he was doing? He was really snapping his head . Hugging . Nah, man. Look, bro, just keep on hooping doing what you've been doing, bro. Yeah, you think vibes is high OKC man? He found he found a h ome. Yeah. Don't hey bro. He they need a vet on their team to be like, bro, like don't fucking paint your fingernails. Stick your hand up someone's ass. Bro, come on, bro. We need you to be a pro. Hey what? What do you mean? I think that that that time has to have passed. We have to leave that in the in in the past, putting fingers in in dudes assholes. That's gotta be it. We have to leave that behind,. bro You're saying it like he's like you gotta stuck his finger up in the ass, bro. Just keep. Just like that. Ain't no difference in the motherfucker just pinching your arm. I bet there is. There isn't. I bet there is. Not in that situation. Not in that but buddy buddy I I we need to get Jay Will the other that Jay Will on this show to ask him what type of what what what's going on down there bro There's no way his hand was in his ass like that. Well you think he stopped mid-interview and said, bruh. I think he was had his hand on his back and he was trolling him. It was probably lower, lower back. He was trolling him, bro. Yeah, all right. Yeah You don't think it's a difference in a motherfucker with painted fingernails smiling and dancing likedy Bud does, touching your ass, as opposed to what Josh Hart did to Jalen Brunson. It's no difference. Is that what you finna tell me? I'm saying it's he didn't. No, I'm asking you a question. Is there a difference in what we just saw? I think it was lower lower back and back. I'd rather have. I don't want an explanation, Ron. I don't want an explanation. I want to know: do you think it was a difference in those two videos? Yes. Okay. Was one worse than the other? The next one is worse. Yeah, well, I think you might be starting to paint your fingernails now. Bro , I'm happily unpainted fingernails, dude. I I have I've never, you know , um I just can't I can't believe you're defending what the Knicks had going on. That was just a ski, real no, that wasn't ski ski. What you mean? Buddy was genuinely rubbing buddy's backside. Type of shit you doing? They can't take shires with buddy in the same share, bruh. Ain't no way. Ain't no way. Y'all, y'all. Yo, one is locker room. The other one is staying. Stay away. Yeah, that's just this ain't yeah, it's just different. Oh my god. Different, but it's just different. It's out the muff with you. Ain't no way. Ain't no way. It's out the muff with . Ain't no way . Yo, that's funny, Jay Wolf. Uh you said the uh the Nicks are ass, Mac? Why why'd you say the Nicks are ass ? What? I didn't say that. M Rory won the Masters, you watched that? Of course. The Masters? You'd never miss the Masters, would you? Uh I didn't watch the Masters, to be honest with you. Wait . I found out what happened though. You were why you were locked in on the masters? Locked in. I got I got I either got softball on on the T V and Masters on the computer screen. Are you scrolling your phone watching that or are you just watching 'em? No, I watched no I watched Masters on TV. You you were dialed in on it or you're like you got it on the No, I don't uh the the T the covers didn't come on till three. I'm not watching the the little featured groups and shit like that, couple holes. No, I'm not doing that. Just Rory . Just when it comes on TV, whatever they whoever they show. If you got uh could you hit fifty could you go fifteen over at Augusta, do you think? Fifteen over? From their T the T's that T box they played? Yeah. Nope. Really? How about from the ladies' Ts? Well I think they only have two Ts. Members T's and Juju Watkins T's. Yeah, or or or they might have one too where you got if you got your fingernails painted different colours, you tee up over here or waiting. They got the finger popping tee. Yeah. But no, no, you have to play right from the rough view in the f like them they don't have rough there, they have the second cut. Got other than it's not even s yeah. Uh if I played from like sixty four, sixty five hundred yards, I think I could I could beat fifteen over. Okay . We got a that's a' whats a fifteen that's a ninety seven, right? Dude, I was talking we were talking to Frankie this week about trying to set you up against those. I was on the text and I was you know what I mean? Uh I think I think there's we have some dates. Uh that those uh June . Oh yeah, the June when I think that's ten. You think Battier will be down for those dates? I'm not so sure, but it was Frankie and him trying to set me up. Y'all trying to set me up to get my ass whooped in golf? Why would you how to do it Is Frankie good? He's good. Like what's his handicap you reckon? I I''m notm not sure. sure. But Trent is Trent Trent's their Trent's he's building up. So he had breaking a hundred, then he had breaking eighty or ninety, now he's doing breaking eighty five. Okay. So he's getting better. Yeah. He's trying to break eighty five for the first time. Yeah, I'm ready. Me and Badier is ready. What do they bet? They gamble money? What the type of shit they'd betin? I think that they uh it's loser paints their nails, I think they were saying. Oh shit, I don't even want to put them through that. How hard would you be golfing if it was loser paints or nails? You'd be hitting the happy Gilmore shots where it's like bouncing off of everything. I wouldn't even bet someone like that. I wouldn't no . 'Cause I I'm thinking I'm thinking you're soft from the get go proposing that You think that Michael Jordan, the guy who would gamble anything, you think he would bet for some painted nails? Never. Really? Never. Too straight. Definitely. I think that guys who paint their nails, some of them are too straight that they're just like, yeah, I don't give a fuck that it's not gonna make me gay to paint my nails. Yeah straight like eight yeah oh my god I'm not against motherfucker painting nails do your thing do your thing . Not against it. Don't put your hand on. Just not around me. Don't put your hand on my ass during a live interview. Just don't put that painted hand around my ass. Like , yeah, yeah, yeah. We gotta have a different shower and everything. Would you guys be open to Doc Rivers if he's available to join via Zoom ? Right now? I don't know. Probably not right now . Pull up Doc. Pull up and tell me about that resume, doc. I got some questions about it. Yeah. You know what I mean? You watch the horse racing too? You watch everything? I watch the Kentucky Derby. Yeah. Just to keep an eye on it. I watch Dave's Dave's little shit on his uh on his page about his forces. How about hockey? You ever watch hockey? I do watch hockey. I like hockey. Hockey's nice. I like hockey. Playoff hockey's where it's at. Florida Panthers, Philadelphia Flyers? Yeah. Yeah, I'm dialed in on that. I'll I'll watch some hockey this year. Why not? The world's mad at us now too. We're taking over the hockey now. Exactly. And we ain't got no bras out there yet. Wait till we get brush out there . That will be game changing. Yes, sir. That's what you dominate hockey. You dominate it all. Look imagine like lacrosse. Until the ice starts melting. Yeah, we can just fight. Like, yeah, just pay a motherfucker, bruh, we gotta just skate ski. There are it, there's black lacrosse players. But I'm saying like we like put the resources into it. Honestly get into uh soccer first. So we could use soccer. Soccer? If we had some uh some some bro some representation in the game of soccer, no that I don't know the bros ain't gonna be good at that. It can't use their hands. Soccer. Nah, we'll be nice in soccer, bro. I don't think so. If you start from when you three instead of playing uh football basketball you could you could learn. Nah yeah court all the coordination. Bros ain't good into soccer. Yeah they not we're not because you'll run for 90 minutes and never touch the ball. Nah yeah. What type of shit is that? Nah soccer's because you could be dominating the whole game and end up losing one zero. But then you can you can play for a straight month and be zero to zero at the end of the game. Right. What type of shit is that? Yeah, I don't fuck with that. At least have a penalty kick at at the end of every soccer game. Yeah. Each period. Let's get a point. Bro, look at this. Look at this dude, Malik Sparrow. Bro playing uh You typed in black hollow. No, no, this is a liked post I had from last week. I was like, this dude is fucking sick. He's a long stick defenseman who uh he can he just lays people out. He's a fucking beast. Mal ik Sparrow. I'll give some credit to a lacrosse player dude. I don't mind. You wanna see somebody who's what do you know about lacrosse? Play lacrosse? Nah, I play lacrosse. I went to Catholic school in my life though, so they said Jim Brown was one of the best uh lacrosse players of all time. What? Jim Brown? What about it? He was one of the best lacrosse players ever. He played at Syracuse. Sweet. Lacrosse is terrible. Who watches lacrosse? I mean, nobody's watching that shit. I mean I'm taking anything away. That's just like it ain't it ain't where it's. I mean it It's like hockey on uh grass. Uh huh. You get to hit, you get to fight. I think hockey stick. I think hockey's tougher. You gotta skate, you know what I mean? Yeah, that is tough to escape. Skees. Yeah. I'm just not a lacrosse guy. Yeah, fair enough. I'm not taking anything away from him. Francis, Francis play lacrosse. Yeah, I'm not taking his ass. Yeah, the lacrosse dudes will whoop your ass. You talk shit to him probab Fuck you say about us, bro. That's right. That's right, dude. You got a fucking problem? Come on, dude. Brown chad. Dude . Yeah, they don't like those uh Francis yeah Francis is put together though. I could tell when I saw him playing ball up there the the the velocity of his chess pass . I could tell Francis works out. Yeah, he definitely he's all chess. Look at Francis. Oh he played black at Harvard. Har Atv ard. He was an all-American. Was he really? Maybe going in. Smart and strong. Hopkins, Duke . Classic, bro. Could have gone anywhere. Harvard man though. The utmost respect . That's right. They don't like the fucking stereotypes, okay? So don't you know watch it when you talk shit about lacrosse players. I don't give a fuck about Harvard or the lacrosse player at Harvard. Fuck 'em all. I'm just telling you what I think . I mean I I fuck with Francis. You know what I mean? I you know, but I don't know nothing. Okay, well you're gonna be getting a call from somebody's lawyer, bro. That's cool. So show some fucking respect. I'm saying Somebody's hedge fund is gonna rain down hell on you. Yeah. Go get 'em. You would have been sick at lacrosse. Ski . No way that ball's getting hit with that ball one. Two, they just whacking you with a stick. Yeah, that is physical. Yeah, I'm not I'm just hitting you on their fucking forearms. Yeah, I don't want I want you got past that, you would have been elite at la cross. Yeah, you would have been just your moves, you would have been you would have because there's that's the most behind-the-back sport that there is . Lacrosse, everybody's always going, fa . Yeah, fa , and just hit with a stick across the temple. That's great. Those sticks are light. Yeah, you got the helmet. Yeah, look. I'm good. I'm glad I did what I did. You know what I mean? I'm another lacrosse guy. You played in a tough period where people fouled, where men were men. You boys sticking by your finals picks right now? I got the Boston Celtics winning it all. Yeah, they're gonna be sick. Who you got? I don't know. I'm really starting to the more I I just look at the the nuggets, I think that that'd be fun. But I I like the I don't know that that minister. You're just trying to puss ass European is what you're trying to do. I just like how they play, man. I like the cut of their gym. The Celtics though you think Spurs? Spurs. Spurs beating OKC, huh? That's gonna be a good one. That's going to seven. I think the winner of that will win the championship. I think that nobody last year would have thought that the Pacers would take the finals to seven games. I think you could have maybe said, okay, see, the way they were playing last year, but the way the Pacers came out of nowhere, the heat that they had coming in, I think that there's that accounts for something in the playoffs and that's doable. And I think the team that's that could have a crazy out of nowhere run like that is the Hawks, but just because they have the heat and the the the youth, I don't think that they're a chalk pick , but I think that they could run fucking crazy. OKC is just it's hard to repeat. Like even we seen that with the Celtics last year. That's why I think the Celtics can make it. They got vendetta, they weren't supposed to lose last year. My dark horse team is definitely the Cavs though. I think they can make some noise. How many teams on there realistically can win it ? Six . Yeah, OKC Den,ver , Spurs, Boston. So the Hornets can't win it? I mean, not the Hornets, my fault. Rockets ? I'm asking. The four are definite, right? Boston, Spurs, OKC, and Denver. Those are four defin ites that can win it. Pistons aren't definite? I don't think so . I don't think so . They could have a youthful run too, but it's like not it's like uh as a one season like you kind of would expect that. But they are disrespected though. I agree. They are disrespected. Like we're doing right now. Like we're doing right now. Yeah. Right. How many guys on that roster been in the playoffs? Won a series? One a series. He's won a series with the Sixers? Yeah . Fucking barely. He gets shit on too. He's a hell of a player. Yeah, he's good. Uh Duncan Robinson. Okay. Duncan Robinson definitely uh not many though. That's what I'm saying. Not many. Herder, probably. Paul Reed, come on, B ball Paul. They got winners on that team. All right . But I think that if you're gonna think that the Spurs have a chance, then you have to say that they have a chance. The Pistons and the Spurs? No. Why you say that? Because they have the same level of experience and inexperience. Whose best player is better, Wemby or Kate ? Probably Wemby, but you know, Cade has slept on. I think that we were I think we were beating the drum for Cade early on in the season and they stayed consistent and they kept the one seat and then all the noise about Cade kind of fell silent. It's like well, does anybody get the credit for them being good? Or is it just lucky that the whole fucking team is good? If you put De'Aaron, not to change the subject, you put De'Aaron Fox over there on the Pistons, does he do pretty much the same thing that Kay Cunningham's doing over there? I don't think so. I think they're different types of players to o. I think that the size that Cade has lets them play defensively differently and offensively differently. You have so many more matchup advantages when that's your guard, that's your point guard, you can match up with anybody and put anybody at the two Not as complete as San Antonio. Yeah, I mean San Antonio is deeper, but