Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bryan the editor.
Speaker 2: Now I know what you guys are thinking with this
Speaker 2: guy again, but where's Miles, Where's Jack?
Speaker 3: Where's my boostes? Well, if you just calm down for
Speaker 3: a second, I will tell you. Okay.
Speaker 2: So what happened was that Miles, Jack and Jabbari did
Speaker 2: so good at basketball camp that they got invited to
Speaker 2: Lebron James's birthday slash New Year's party. And uh, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be honest, they're still recovering. So in the meantime,
Speaker 2: I compiled the greatest hits.
Speaker 3: If you will, from the past year.
Speaker 4: And don't you dare call it a clip show.
Speaker 2: Okay, these are treasure memories that we all share.
Speaker 5: Enjoy watching his workouts, like you really do get to
Speaker 5: get a feeling that you're like getting to watch him
Speaker 5: build his game like brick by brick and watching his workouts.
Speaker 5: I mean that that's something that people like show up
Speaker 5: hours early for the game to watch. But like that
Speaker 5: was something I could have used more workout footage, like
Speaker 5: just like watching him like do that thing where he
Speaker 5: like bounces off one foot and does like a step
Speaker 5: back that covers five feet and then like nails of
Speaker 5: three Like that was so fun. I could watched that
Speaker 5: for hours like that. I could have used more just
Speaker 5: him casually making like three quarter court shots, just because
Speaker 5: that's a unique superpower that he has.
Speaker 6: Did you notice at one point they he was just
Speaker 6: casually shooting a half court left handed three pointers, like.
Speaker 3: Just just to do it and sink in them.
Speaker 6: But during that workout, at one point in the footage,
Speaker 6: he's just like, Okay, let me just shoot a couple lefties.
Speaker 1: Just ridiculous.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think part of the trick of the movie
Speaker 5: is covering up the fact that this this man has
Speaker 5: an actual superpower and has since he was a child, Like, yeah,
Speaker 5: being able to make threes with your left is no joke.
Speaker 5: Have you seen his golf swing? Like it's just the
Speaker 5: most perfect, Like it's better looking than any golf swing
Speaker 5: that you've seen on the PGA Tour. It's so beautiful.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, that's that's just until Chuck.
Speaker 7: What's really crazy too?
Speaker 8: And I was talking to this, I was talking to
Speaker 8: my boy about this, And to be clear before I
Speaker 8: said this, I'm not a Lebron hater. There's a lot
Speaker 8: of Lebron haters out there. I am not a Lebron hate,
Speaker 8: but you could argue that Steph changed the game in
Speaker 8: a way that Lebron did not. Le Bron is amazing,
Speaker 8: but it's not like he's the first tall point guard,
Speaker 8: you know, like we've seen magic before. He's an elite
Speaker 8: athlete to the level that we've never seen. But when
Speaker 8: Lebron started playing, I wasn't like, oh, I've never seen this,
Speaker 8: Like he reminded me of Scottie.
Speaker 7: Pippen, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: It was like, Okay, big point forward, athlete, two way player,
Speaker 8: elite defender. But I've seen that, not on Lebron's level,
Speaker 8: but I've seen it Steph Like he there's a reason
Speaker 8: the NBA has played the way it is now, and
Speaker 8: it was because the Warriors showed teams what spacing can do.
Speaker 8: And that's when now everybody has to shoot threes, everybody
Speaker 8: has to clear out. To me, that's traced back to
Speaker 8: step and like, oh, we have to guard this guy
Speaker 8: as soon as across his half court and then the
Speaker 8: space that creates everybody else. And yeah, it's insane that
Speaker 8: he started off as this, Like could he even make
Speaker 8: a team?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Exactly, it's yeah, he I feel like he changed the
Speaker 5: game more than anyone since like luel Center, like whoever,
Speaker 5: Like like everything changed, and then you know Kream comes in,
Speaker 5: everybody is like being center oriented and then for all
Speaker 5: like decades, that's the that's the plan. You got to
Speaker 5: do that, and like he's completely reoriented everything. I will say,
Speaker 5: as as a Lebron lover, when he went against Detroit
Speaker 5: early on, I forget what year was in his career.
Speaker 5: I think it was like second or third year and
Speaker 5: then like was just getting to the rim on the
Speaker 5: best defensive team in the league every single time. That
Speaker 5: to me felt like, oh, we are witnessing something that
Speaker 5: is different than I've I've seen anyone do at this level,
Speaker 5: Like in like I've seen people go to the rim
Speaker 5: and dunk, I've not seen it be like this consistently.
Speaker 5: Just he can get to the rim and dunk with
Speaker 5: both hands like every time. Was one of the craziest things.
Speaker 5: But it didn't reorient how people played the game and
Speaker 5: like game planned for the next season, right, And that's
Speaker 5: all I.
Speaker 8: Mean, Like, yeah, totally, I'm tired of the Lebron hat takes.
Speaker 7: The guy has earned our respect.
Speaker 10: If you're a.
Speaker 8: Hoophead, yeah you can critique him all you want. That's
Speaker 8: what it comes with the territory being an all time great.
Speaker 8: But yeah, enough, the guy. The guy's unbelievable. But again,
Speaker 8: I just and you already said it. I just think
Speaker 8: Steph changed the way the game is played.
Speaker 7: It's remarkable. It really is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you think about it, I mean, we can
Speaker 6: look at Lebron and you know, as much as we want,
Speaker 6: we can't duplicate that. The belief that comes with you know,
Speaker 6: like if you're a kid watching the game, you might
Speaker 6: you'll think Lebron is incredible. You might think these, you know,
Speaker 6: the big guys are incredible. But all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: you see this little guy, whether he's six two or
Speaker 6: nine six two and three quarters or whatever the case
Speaker 6: may be, you see this little guy out there just
Speaker 6: flinging it up and you'll, you know, dipping in and
Speaker 6: somehow you'll you'll you'll finding his way like all over
Speaker 6: the court, and it's like and it's like, hey, I
Speaker 6: could probably do that, or I could possibly do that
Speaker 6: even if I can't.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I totally understand that.
Speaker 8: And also the idea that you can add to your
Speaker 8: game r just because you come into the league.
Speaker 7: Because of your one skill, which is shooting.
Speaker 8: I mean I remember early in his career they were like,
Speaker 8: STEP's not a point guard, he's a shooting guard. And
Speaker 8: you watch him now, Franking Ankles no look passes. I mean,
Speaker 8: he's not going to lead the league in assists, but
Speaker 8: he doesn't have to. Yeah, but he's a legitimate point guard.
Speaker 8: He's a legitimate three level score and he came into
Speaker 8: the league as a three point specialist.
Speaker 7: That's it. You know, you can add to your game.
Speaker 8: It also makes you wonder, like some of these guys
Speaker 8: that come up with more talent, It's like, is it
Speaker 8: a work ethic thing because you have access to the
Speaker 8: same shooting coaches like to me working on your jumper.
Speaker 8: Like guys that come to the NBA and never get
Speaker 8: better at shooting, I'm like, what have you been doing?
Speaker 8: Or like your free throw percentage doesn't increase at all
Speaker 8: throughout your career. I'm like, how is that even possible?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, at the end of practice, you just you know,
Speaker 7: shoot one hundred free throws or whatever. It's like it's inconceivable, honestly.
Speaker 5: But I think there is a piece of steath that
Speaker 5: is missing from this that is, like you know Katie.
Speaker 5: There's a good scene where Kadi comes to is the
Speaker 5: celebration party they throw after like he breaks the all
Speaker 5: time you know. It opens with him breaking the all
Speaker 5: time three point shooting record, you know, halfway through his career,
Speaker 5: and then there's a party afterwards. Katie shows up and
Speaker 5: he's like, I thought you were this little white kid
Speaker 5: when I met you, like ten years ago. I walked
Speaker 5: into a gym and there's this little white kid, Like,
Speaker 5: but he's making threes from half court at that point,
Speaker 5: So I really think that there is a like it's
Speaker 5: not it's like having touch from sixty feet is like
Speaker 5: a weird thing that we're just like, man, he must
Speaker 5: have practiced that a lot, but it does feel like
Speaker 5: that is something that we don't necessarily think about as
Speaker 5: like a inherent ability, but it is like something that
Speaker 5: he has and has had, like from early on.
Speaker 8: He's got to have, like he's got to have like
Speaker 8: the most elite depth perception true and hand coordination. That's
Speaker 8: and that's that people don't talk about that hand that
Speaker 8: coordination is a big one.
Speaker 7: You can be an elite ask have that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well that one workout that they showed, you know, right,
Speaker 6: before the shooting where he's doing like the two tennis balls,
Speaker 6: he's catching it, he's crossing over, catching the tennis ball,
Speaker 6: throwing it with the other hand, all of that type
Speaker 6: of stuff where while I get it, like there are
Speaker 6: people that can do that, he's doing it. He's doing
Speaker 6: it with such ease it it makes sense that he
Speaker 6: can do these things really.
Speaker 8: And those are that those are the skill that I think,
Speaker 8: you know, your average fan doesn't notice, right, It's the
Speaker 8: same thing with Lebron. It's like you look at Lebron,
Speaker 8: you see this elite athlete. You know, the quickness, the jump, thing,
Speaker 8: the strength, but it's the mental processing. Like everyone who's
Speaker 8: ever played with Lebron, it's like the guy just sees
Speaker 8: the game differently.
Speaker 7: I think Steph is Steph is.
Speaker 8: It's it's one thing to be able to stretch the
Speaker 8: floor like that, it's another to be able to say, Okay,
Speaker 8: guys have to guard me at half court. So here's
Speaker 8: what that does to the defense. So I'm thinking two
Speaker 8: steps ahead, I'm gonna whip it to Draymond and.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna cut and I'm gonna come out the other side.
Speaker 8: Because they're so spaced out I'm gonna get a shot
Speaker 8: on this wing, like he sees the game and that
Speaker 8: Lebron level.
Speaker 7: I'm a couple of steps.
Speaker 8: Ahead of all of you, and I'm aware of what
Speaker 8: me being on the floor does.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know how to use it, and that's like
Speaker 7: that's like the next step, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's cool. Uh Like basically no notes for
Speaker 5: this documentary, though, I think people should go check it out,
Speaker 5: especially if you're Steph skeptic.
Speaker 8: Or even other example, if you'll indulge me with another example,
Speaker 8: It's like when Shack added passing. It's like once Shack
Speaker 8: became aware every time I touched the ball, three guys
Speaker 8: are gonna come running at me, and Shack started being
Speaker 8: able to hit those no look passes that you know,
Speaker 8: our vetus was like that, Like it's just like a
Speaker 8: different obviously. Now it's like being aware of your impact
Speaker 8: on the defense and then what to do about that,
Speaker 8: I think is a different evolution.
Speaker 7: Yes, I agree, this documentary is unreal so good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, hey, speaking of things that people should go watch,
Speaker 5: that's wild that the Sun's Verse Spurs is a one
Speaker 5: of the big matchups we were looking forward to. But
Speaker 5: I will know I was checking for it.
Speaker 3: Of course, we want to see Wemby, we want to
Speaker 3: see KD.
Speaker 9: We want to see just something.
Speaker 11: We just want to see what it looks like, what
Speaker 11: these sort of matchups begin to look like.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 11: And it did not disappoint. I mean at least in like,
Speaker 11: there were some great moments. It was a thrilling end
Speaker 11: to the game. I think I think the Neutrals definitely.
Speaker 3: Won that one.
Speaker 5: Watching along, Yeah, James, and I do want to just
Speaker 5: note because one of the other things I pointed out
Speaker 5: or I put out there was wembing Yama for deepoy
Speaker 5: as a possibility deep in the summer when he was
Speaker 5: like in the twenties, like he was, you know, the
Speaker 5: twentieth best odds for that year. He is now seventh
Speaker 5: for defensive Player of the Year, even though it does
Speaker 5: like his numbers haven't been gaudy, but it does feel
Speaker 5: like there is a gravitational force and teams are having
Speaker 5: to play, you know, do drills with a person who
Speaker 5: has stilts on and broomsticks on their arms in order
Speaker 5: to just like get their mind around what it's like
Speaker 5: to play basketball when he's on the court. So I
Speaker 5: am excited about that. I'm excited, first of all just
Speaker 5: all around about webbing Yama, but the second of all
Speaker 5: about him potentially making me look smart and his name
Speaker 5: starting to get involved in the deepoy race.
Speaker 12: I mean, it's not necessarily with him, it wasna impact.
Speaker 12: That's why we have to watch the basketball games. That's
Speaker 12: why I impressed that you know, everyone watched the Suns
Speaker 12: Furs last night because Suns are up like twenty plus
Speaker 12: at the time.
Speaker 13: I think in a third quarter, I'm not a sakend.
Speaker 12: And then the first guys came back and end up
Speaker 12: stealing a game that they're probably should be a foul call,
Speaker 12: but it wasn't.
Speaker 7: But it is what it is that you know who
Speaker 7: cares at this point.
Speaker 12: That being said, though, you have to watch them be
Speaker 12: And the reason why is because there's certain things he
Speaker 12: makes players do that normal people cannot.
Speaker 13: Don't have the same effect.
Speaker 12: People make Guys either pass it early or try to
Speaker 12: make plays they normally don't make, so when that happens,
Speaker 12: it's usually an error of some sort. So that's where
Speaker 12: it's like, man, he may not get the block or
Speaker 12: the steel, but he's causing players.
Speaker 13: To do things that are not comfortable and doing or.
Speaker 12: He's causing guys to rush and get out of their
Speaker 12: own pace, and there's a lot to that. And when
Speaker 12: they get better players and when they get better defensive system,
Speaker 12: he's gonna win top the player of the year because
Speaker 12: the stats will come. But he's amazing, He's really amazing.
Speaker 12: He's nowhere close to scratching the surface season. That's the
Speaker 12: beautiful people why he's so far away. But defensively, I
Speaker 12: know we talked about the summer. I think was like
Speaker 12: forty to one or thirty someone that range, which is
Speaker 12: really high. I think I was like, what ten to
Speaker 12: one or fourteen to one, So yeah, yeah, it's in
Speaker 12: that range. So yeah, you just had an equity in
Speaker 12: your bet from two months ago. Was huge And there's
Speaker 12: a there's a legit possibility he played sixty five games
Speaker 12: when they were there's a lot, honest pathway that happening.
Speaker 12: Say it's gonna happen, but there is a.
Speaker 13: Way of it happening.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good value and I'm glad that I did
Speaker 5: not take that bet, but I know people who did,
Speaker 5: so I'm happy if if anybody makes money off of
Speaker 5: my lucky guess, some of them being I'm a stats
Speaker 5: though like that. So hees twenty nine points on twelve
Speaker 5: of fifteen shooting. So we we've talked a lot about
Speaker 5: it as a defense, and you know, there are these
Speaker 5: flashes of brilliance on offense, but I didn't realize like
Speaker 5: he was really closing games strong. He's twenty nine points
Speaker 5: on twelve to fifteen shooting in the fourth quarter through
Speaker 5: the first four games of his NBA career, which makes
Speaker 5: him the most efficient scorer of the eighty four players
Speaker 5: who have at least ten field goal attempts in the
Speaker 5: final frame this season.
Speaker 3: It's very impressive, and.
Speaker 9: They're going to him like.
Speaker 12: The only thing I don't like is that at times
Speaker 12: it feels like his teammates are freezing him out, which
Speaker 12: is wild because he's the best player on the team already.
Speaker 13: Yeah, but.
Speaker 12: Basically featuring him every time down before quarter, like every
Speaker 12: time he should get in the ball wherever he wants to,
Speaker 12: because he is the best option was the jumper, whether
Speaker 12: it the dunk orlea, whatever it is, he should least
Speaker 12: touch the ball before anyone else gets a touch. But
Speaker 12: with that being said, he's delivered this first week been
Speaker 12: very impressive. Outside of the Clipper game, because they got
Speaker 12: blown out. Well, every other game he's been very impressive,
Speaker 12: and again he's not even close to being what he's
Speaker 12: going to be, which is very scary because right now
Speaker 12: he's a huge problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Kevin Durant said the same thing.
Speaker 11: Basically, he was like, it's like this guy's just getting
Speaker 11: started and it's only going it's going to going straight
Speaker 11: up from here.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The point you made about like looking like he's getting
Speaker 5: like frozen out or something. I don't think it's like
Speaker 5: getting frozen out, but like it just feels like people
Speaker 5: aren't ready to defer to him at all on that
Speaker 5: team and where maybe they should be. And it's hard
Speaker 5: for me to determine. Is it because I just want
Speaker 5: to see him have the ball every time?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 5: Like it like I'm a parent watching their kid and
Speaker 5: be like, get him the ball. Yeah, yeah, but it does.
Speaker 5: I don't know, it does feel like they could be
Speaker 5: looking for him a little bit more.
Speaker 3: I mean, like there's plenty of game.
Speaker 11: I'm sure maybe on some level psychologically it's like you
Speaker 11: can slowly increase the burden. But yeah, I mean, every
Speaker 11: time you see him with the bar, like I think
Speaker 11: it's gonna.
Speaker 3: Okay, the jump shot is wet.
Speaker 5: Okay, you should be could also be a conspicuous decision
Speaker 5: on the Spurs part to be like, if you're not
Speaker 5: putting him putting him in any but the best of
Speaker 5: positions to score in crunch time, like then he's going
Speaker 5: to shoot twelve to fifteen. And so they're you know,
Speaker 5: trying to build his confidence and create ease for him
Speaker 5: where he can like kind of step in uh and
Speaker 5: feel the flow as opposed to you know, so maybe
Speaker 5: that's a conscious decision by Poppins and their staff there.
Speaker 12: If another monitoring ad minutes, I'm just glad they're not
Speaker 12: just playing them in the first and third quarter and
Speaker 12: let him sit the bench.
Speaker 3: In the fourth.
Speaker 12: I'm glad they're actually letting them play the last six
Speaker 12: statements in the fourth quarter, where the big game actually matters,
Speaker 12: because a lot of times he'll see got in a
Speaker 12: minute in restriction and they're playing in the third quarter
Speaker 12: and they'll just set up the whole court and they're like,
Speaker 12: what as good as that? But I know what they're doing.
Speaker 11: This is I don't know the whole The last what day,
Speaker 11: three days, there's just been obscene amounts of scoring and
Speaker 11: we were talking about the amounts of high scoring gay
Speaker 11: or you know, individu performance, there have been I just
Speaker 11: want to read a stat just to kind of set
Speaker 11: the backdrop to, you know, on top of everything we've seen,
Speaker 11: like with Luca or Donovan Lebron, you know, a joker
Speaker 11: in Okay. So in the two thousands, the entirety of
Speaker 11: the two thousands, there were only nine sixty.
Speaker 3: Point games from players.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 11: In the twenty tens, in the twenty tens, there were
Speaker 11: eleven sixty point plus games from players. So far, we've
Speaker 11: already had nine sixty point games in the twenty twenties.
Speaker 11: And we're in twenty twenty two or just entering twenty
Speaker 11: twenty three and we've had nine already.
Speaker 4: Well, what is that from? Is that just from Pete?
Speaker 14: The three point shot becoming such a so much more relevant.
Speaker 5: My take on this is so dumb. It's just like, yeah,
Speaker 5: they're really good at making shots. Yeah, shot take it
Speaker 5: like that. You hear like NBA, like Zach Low people
Speaker 5: be like the shot makings really off the charts. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 5: they're they're good at shooting. They're good at making the
Speaker 5: ball in the basket.
Speaker 4: They're getting bar points.
Speaker 11: It turns out when you add them up, the numbers
Speaker 11: are a lot higher than last time. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 11: know if it's like I think also too, we were
Speaker 11: talking with Jabbari, our super producer. You know, as the
Speaker 11: game evolves and you know, the refereeing tends to benefit
Speaker 11: higher scoring, I think we're just kind of seeing like
Speaker 11: the byproduct of those sort of small tweaks, you know.
Speaker 14: Well, more more threes and then more people being able
Speaker 14: to draw that extra free throw. I mean not that
Speaker 14: that like that just maybe has a cumulative effect, but
Speaker 14: I mean that that's been one of the harder things
Speaker 14: to like to officiate, to get cleaned up. Is just
Speaker 14: that foul on the three. The way that they like
Speaker 14: Steph Curry for it like that, the way that he's
Speaker 14: always able to draw that those three free throws.
Speaker 4: I mean that's adds up, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know it is. The three has been around
Speaker 5: since the eighties. I mean they're just they figured out, oh,
Speaker 5: that's that's a lot of points, we should do that.
Speaker 5: And the efficiency that people are doing it, like Donovan
Speaker 5: Mitchell's seventy one came on thirty, like low thirties field
Speaker 5: goal attempts and it was like the least of anyone
Speaker 5: in the top thirty five.
Speaker 4: And didn't he assist on like ninety four of the point.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, ninety nine of the points he was either
Speaker 5: direct he was directly responsible.
Speaker 14: I mean that is absolutely Who's had a better game
Speaker 14: than that, Like Will Chamberlain.
Speaker 5: Made Toby, yeah, Chamberlain, any one?
Speaker 11: Yeah, right, Kobe, but this was this was the like
Speaker 11: the highest scoring game since Kobe.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah really wow?
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I remember when the Kobe game happened. I didn't watch it,
Speaker 14: but I was at the gym Bally's humble brag the
Speaker 14: following day.
Speaker 4: Things were good, things.
Speaker 5: Were real flats. It was the seventies.
Speaker 4: Things were fine.
Speaker 14: There's not many that's a long ago fust but I
Speaker 14: mean I remember I heard a guys say it, and
Speaker 14: I was like, now you have something wrong, Like there's
Speaker 14: there's a detail you have wrong in how many points
Speaker 14: he scored?
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, yeah, it seems like it seems like an error.
Speaker 5: And same yesterday it's ninety nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then what.
Speaker 11: Let Luca sixty fifty another fifty on the last ten
Speaker 11: days as of this recording.
Speaker 15: Like.
Speaker 5: Sure, yeah, yeah, Luca's was historic because he had twenty
Speaker 5: something boards where we keep seeing that like in the
Speaker 5: Donovan Mitchell game also there was like an intentionally missed
Speaker 5: free throw that like saved the game for them. Like
Speaker 5: it does feel like there's a glitch in the matrix,
Speaker 5: like said the whatever video game where we're watching them play,
Speaker 5: it's just stuck on like yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: On demo mode or whatever.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah, someone's putting in the code that before
Speaker 11: at the loading screen before the game starts, and they
Speaker 11: figured out how to make it constantly on fire. But yeah,
Speaker 11: I mean I think it also you know, goes to
Speaker 11: your point, Jack, Like Jabari's in the chat saying like
Speaker 11: it is a you know, a confluence of things, just
Speaker 11: like the game's progressive. People's skill sets are just getting
Speaker 11: more and more like next level and people have are
Speaker 11: just so multifaceted now, and shooting is just like we're
Speaker 11: seeing like I remember the you know, a few weeks ago,
Speaker 11: We're like.
Speaker 3: Why is everyone shooting so well this year already?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I still have the same question. It's yeah, it's
Speaker 5: wild they I think they've been I don't like, I
Speaker 5: don't like, I will not allow it.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and then what what didn't the the Warriors went
Speaker 14: to double overtime and Clay put up fifty and fifty
Speaker 14: and what was the final was like one fifty to whatever?
Speaker 3: Yeah, include it was. Yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 4: Is absolutely crazy.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: By the way, the Wilt Chamberlain, because we were talking
Speaker 5: before we started, like, are we going to see another
Speaker 5: one hundred point game? Like it feels possible Now it
Speaker 5: feels like the shooting is so next level of the
Speaker 5: shot making trademark is just so next level. And I
Speaker 5: don't know, like Luca, Luca feels like a good candidate
Speaker 5: for it. But Wilt Chamberlain's hundred point game, his team
Speaker 5: put up one hundred and sixty nine points. So that's
Speaker 5: you know, not a lot of teams doing that these days.
Speaker 14: But and here's a dumb question. I have no clue,
Speaker 14: but was that Where was that game an overtime at all?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: I think that. I mean, that is.
Speaker 14: Just what do you I mean, you can't go to
Speaker 14: another game if you go to that one? Like, I'm done,
Speaker 14: I'm put my jacket up in the round.
Speaker 4: I'm out of here. I'm not doing this again.
Speaker 11: Why I tried to take my wife to another game?
Speaker 11: She said, the guy they score one hundred points again
Speaker 11: twenty let's get our money back. This is terrible. Oh yeah,
Speaker 11: I mean also too, like the other thing before we
Speaker 11: take a break. The Nets also have been on an
Speaker 11: absolute tear since December fourth, twelve straight. Yeah, and they're
Speaker 11: sixteen and one going back to late November. And I
Speaker 11: just said, man, the highlights of last night. We're also
Speaker 11: Oh man, I don't know. I didn't have as much faith.
Speaker 3: I don't know. LEO have to go back to the
Speaker 3: predictions episode.
Speaker 5: Maybe I did predict this, Yeah, well we should prediction EPI. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we did a predictions episode and then we revise it
Speaker 5: every week. Yes, to do that something? Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 5: how Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the only other option.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and I'll for all you, for all you listen,
Speaker 11: go back to the episodes. We actually changed every single
Speaker 11: episode if you go back.
Speaker 5: So that's that is.
Speaker 4: What Skip Bayless does.
Speaker 14: Skip Bayless has said everything once and so he was
Speaker 14: always like I've been telling you forever.
Speaker 4: Like now he's like a lebron fan. I'm like, how
Speaker 4: have you pivoted? How have you been able to pull
Speaker 4: this off?
Speaker 11: Pull the tape up from two thousand and two, not
Speaker 11: stop can't win.
Speaker 5: But the league's definitely more fun when the nets are
Speaker 5: good and the nets are absolutely on a tear. I
Speaker 5: was wondering, like, because this does feel like are we
Speaker 5: seeing the same thing that we saw with the Celtics
Speaker 5: last year where they were like kind of subpar for
Speaker 5: a little bit of the season and then put it together.
Speaker 5: But I was like, how many What was the most
Speaker 5: the Celtics won last year? And nine was the most
Speaker 5: they want in a row, So twelve twelve is pretty
Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's that's pretty crazy. I know the
Speaker 5: Suns did at one point seventeen I think last year,
Speaker 5: but that's are just fun. I don't know. Katie is
Speaker 5: so fun to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean even killing him. Pope was in the
Speaker 3: house watching being like, oh, little basket balls.
Speaker 11: There's this one shot where like Katie just you know,
Speaker 11: hitting the easy jump shot or whatever, and like the
Speaker 11: way killing him. Bope, the soccer players on the sidelines,
Speaker 11: he was like rubbing his mids.
Speaker 5: He's like, whoa, yeah, maybe he just like doesn't know
Speaker 5: that scoring is much more common. You know, it's just crazy.
Speaker 5: Every time.
Speaker 4: Guess good sick he had just he had had.
Speaker 14: Tricks held Chamberlain stats had just popped in at.
Speaker 4: Pope.
Speaker 3: All right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 11: We'll come back right after this to talk about some
Speaker 11: other outstanding performances right after this.
Speaker 5: And we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back.
Speaker 5: Does everybody just want to take a turn saying it
Speaker 5: as Trump Miles, I think you had the best one
Speaker 5: before we start a recording.
Speaker 3: Well, we love them, tony folks. Victor Wembright, I think
Speaker 3: I did a better one in the warm up, but
Speaker 3: I was better in the warm up. But hey, it
Speaker 3: is what it is.
Speaker 7: This.
Speaker 5: Uh So, this is Miami game, Like every every preseason
Speaker 5: game feels like an event, unlike anything I've ever I'm
Speaker 5: typically kind of a don't get too excited by the
Speaker 5: preseason person just because I've because my team just for
Speaker 5: the past few years have been the seventy six ers,
Speaker 5: and so it's just like I can only take so much,
Speaker 5: you know, I can only invest so much of myself
Speaker 5: into that team. But this is like, I can't think
Speaker 5: of a time when I've ever been this excited about
Speaker 5: every preseason game. And so the Miami Heat, like I
Speaker 5: don't know, I feel like I know all of these
Speaker 5: highlights now, like by heart, like I all the all
Speaker 5: the blocks, like some of the like where you can
Speaker 5: test with one.
Speaker 16: Step from the like basically the three.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, what Yeah that one was wild.
Speaker 5: He's not shooting great from three. He is blocking. I
Speaker 5: really think he's whether they give him Defensive Player of
Speaker 5: the Year or not, I think he is going to
Speaker 5: affect more shots than any And this is crazy, Like
Speaker 5: I've gone from being like I've got this crazy idea
Speaker 5: that he could be defensive Player of the Year to
Speaker 5: be like, it's a given, this guy can be defensive
Speaker 5: player of the year.
Speaker 11: And I was saying, like, even without maybe the stats
Speaker 11: I have, Like it looks like what everyone's been saying
Speaker 11: even when we first saw him. And at some it's
Speaker 11: like he's just going to change the subconscious of offensive players.
Speaker 5: You could just see it. Every time the other team
Speaker 5: has the ball and he's in there, like they're just
Speaker 5: like you can see that they're worried about where he
Speaker 5: is and like not taking shots they normally would take.
Speaker 5: And like even in that first preseason game win he
Speaker 5: only had one block. It was like the one the
Speaker 5: one time that somebody was willing to shoot with him
Speaker 5: around was when they thought they had beat him by
Speaker 5: like five steps, and they had to beat him by
Speaker 5: five steps and he still blocked them.
Speaker 16: Yeah, so like that okay, Yeah, Jalen literally put him
Speaker 16: in a spence CC Like there's a point when Wimby's
Speaker 16: back is turned to a driving Jalen Williams and he
Speaker 16: takes like two strides and punches it out of him.
Speaker 5: And it seems like it seems like Miami, you know,
Speaker 5: in a couple of ways were like, all right, guys,
Speaker 5: like don't don't let it get in your head, like
Speaker 5: he's not going to block everything. You're just like and
Speaker 5: they were taking shots that they normally would have taken
Speaker 5: if there was a seven footer on the court, and
Speaker 5: he was blocking them at like like one of them
Speaker 5: was kind of like a floater that he blocked at
Speaker 5: the peak of the balls like arc in the air.
Speaker 5: Like I was like, is that goaltending? I don't know,
Speaker 5: Like I've.
Speaker 3: Never seen someone block it at that point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's how what's his wingspan eight feet? His wingspan
Speaker 5: is eight feet?
Speaker 9: Is eight eight feet?
Speaker 5: Like I guess, I guess I had heard that, but
Speaker 5: like to see it in motion is a whole other thing.
Speaker 16: And hands straight up it looks like he's like got
Speaker 16: a nine to seven nine eight reach when you didn't
Speaker 16: measure it that way, or it.
Speaker 11: Looks like when someone's yeah, working with like a shooting
Speaker 11: coach and they have to they use like a broom
Speaker 11: to simulate like a like a defender, except he's like
Speaker 11: holding two.
Speaker 3: Brooms, Like that's what the length looks like. I'm like,
Speaker 3: is that serious?
Speaker 5: I feel like he's gonna First of all, the Cornet
Speaker 5: contest is now a legitimate like you know the thing
Speaker 5: we alway talked about last year that Luke Cornette from
Speaker 5: the Celtics would like stand in the lane and just
Speaker 5: jump while someone was taking a three and it would
Speaker 5: be distracting and like people, you know, it's the same
Speaker 5: like Shane Batier used to cover people's eyes as they
Speaker 5: were shooting, and like it affected their shooting percentage more
Speaker 5: than like you might expect. Like I feel like like
Speaker 5: accidentally blocked some of those shots just from doesn't make sense,
Speaker 5: but like that's the feeling you get.
Speaker 11: Yeah, completely, I mean, are you are You're I'm guessing
Speaker 11: you seem excited dragonfly, like are you? I know a
Speaker 11: lot of people again, other people are doing this with Wemby.
Speaker 9: It's preseason, man.
Speaker 3: That's there's the preseason right there, Come on, preseason man, guy.
Speaker 5: It is actually a lot of people don't know that.
Speaker 5: But his cousin is the defense guy. Yeah, exactly, can tell.
Speaker 5: You can tell that they've been a lot of time
Speaker 5: talking to each other.
Speaker 11: With the hater kingdoms what about defense? And it only preseason, man,
Speaker 11: got it great?
Speaker 16: I am super excited about this because the one play
Speaker 16: that made me literally drop my phone in disbelief, like
Speaker 16: what I was watching my bed, Yes, and I got
Speaker 16: my phone and this like what did I just watch?
Speaker 16: When he dunked on Thomas Bryant from outside the restricted area?
Speaker 16: And I want to be clearing for the listeners. He
Speaker 16: didn't jump from outside the restrict area.
Speaker 11: His entire body was outside when he dunk.
Speaker 5: When he dunked on somebody who is also standing outside
Speaker 5: of the restricted area, like Thomas Bryant's feet are like
Speaker 5: right at the edge of the restricted area and he
Speaker 5: dunks on him.
Speaker 16: Like so he's what And Brian NBA player is like,
Speaker 16: what just happened? What what do y'all expect me to
Speaker 16: do with that? And b we're with you. What can
Speaker 16: you do with that it's the shell walking.
Speaker 17: It down the way everything with a less him handed
Speaker 17: right over the shoulder of Thomas right now, thank you.
Speaker 11: It's like a it was like a like an old
Speaker 11: Looney Tunes cartoon, like it was a space damn dunk
Speaker 11: Man the dunk when when the game with those.
Speaker 5: Brian's performance in this moment is one of my favorite performances.
Speaker 5: Like just like if you could give an Academy Award
Speaker 5: to somebody, like not that he's acting, but just like
Speaker 5: everything about his what he's doing with his body and
Speaker 5: faith is so perfect. And he didn't even have like
Speaker 5: the opportunity to act, like, you know, have his ego
Speaker 5: be like okay, let's just shake it off. Shake it off,
Speaker 5: you know like.
Speaker 11: Most play players and they get absolutely posterized.
Speaker 18: They're like, okay, keep it moving, don't don't acknowledge the
Speaker 18: l you just he is so sincerely confused, Like it's
Speaker 18: almost like it's half like looking at his teammates like hey,
Speaker 18: why do y'all let him do that to me kind
Speaker 18: of thing, and then also him fully just like like he's.
Speaker 16: Like a human should not be able to do this. Yeah,
Speaker 16: there's that element of it too. It's like the best
Speaker 16: breaking up the fourth wall since Andrew buying him. Laugh
Speaker 16: at us, laugh with us when Blake dunked, remember that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Yeah, he's gonna like he.
Speaker 5: Spikes the camera like Jim in the office, Like, uh,
Speaker 5: it's really amazing.
Speaker 3: Shell shocked.
Speaker 11: Like it's like it's remind me like Tom Tom Hanks
Speaker 11: in the beginning Private Ryan where he's like, yeah, even
Speaker 11: hearing the crowd, it's like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah that like high pitched wine. I do like,
Speaker 5: I think we need to think, uh seriously about making
Speaker 5: Thomas Bryant our patron saying of the business decision because
Speaker 5: not that not that he like really had an option there,
Speaker 5: Like yeah, he didn't have a chance to make a
Speaker 5: business decision, but his reaction to being posterized was like
Speaker 5: he was martyred so that others could live.
Speaker 3: So that others could learn. Maybe this ain't this might
Speaker 3: not be the guy to try it, but what.
Speaker 5: Do you do?
Speaker 3: Like he stopped them outside the restrictory.
Speaker 16: You're like it was supposed to be jump hook time, not.
Speaker 3: Watch this young man just put that in over your head.
Speaker 3: It was like, let me get right by your thank you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, going the way, It's like it's truly. Yeah, his
Speaker 11: confusion I think embodies everyone. That's why I'm like when
Speaker 11: people are trying to throw cold water on I'm like, y'all,
Speaker 11: he's leaving players on the court confused and just oriented
Speaker 11: by his size and what he's doing like that, to
Speaker 11: me is the greatest indicator of like everyone, like.
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is a problem. Yeah this is not
Speaker 3: what do we do now?
Speaker 11: Because I don't even know, like where is this going?
Speaker 11: But yeah, not everyone. You know, when they get those,
Speaker 11: it's time to decide do I get out the way
Speaker 11: or maybe jump up with somebody and can test is dunk?
Speaker 11: I think there there could be a plenty of poor
Speaker 11: business decisions this season.
Speaker 5: The mid range game is suproducer Jabari was calling out
Speaker 5: the mid range game is like really crazy right now,
Speaker 5: Like and by the way he can dunk from the
Speaker 5: mid range like that, I'm including that, but like his
Speaker 5: mid range jumpers and like just beautiful footwork. It really
Speaker 5: is beautiful.
Speaker 16: Like it's like like we haven't seen a seven foot
Speaker 16: guy you know, moved away like that with the in
Speaker 16: the mid range, with the with the mid range you
Speaker 16: know jumpers and all that, like KD like that's what
Speaker 16: he reminds me of when I see that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, except seven to five, right, unbelievable, Bro, It's un Yeah,
Speaker 11: I can't I mean, I just can't wait to just
Speaker 11: see every single game now because.
Speaker 3: I'm just feel like I'm seeing new kinds.
Speaker 11: We're seeing the sport evolve in like it's minor ways,
Speaker 11: but we're definitely at the dawn of something very new.
Speaker 3: And that's the That's all we.
Speaker 11: Want is fans, you know what I mean, Keep it
Speaker 11: exciting and keep elevating.
Speaker 3: And here we are.
Speaker 5: The ant Man came with forty four, six and four
Speaker 5: versus the Rockets, and this brings us to our best
Speaker 5: and worst business decision of the way the week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some real business decisions were made.
Speaker 11: We also have to go back in December to analyze
Speaker 11: another poor business decision or great business decision.
Speaker 3: But who would you like to start with? Mister Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 5: We are he uh he dunked on al Shngoon in
Speaker 5: a way that seemed premeditated. I think I think it
Speaker 5: would qualify as a first degree I.
Speaker 11: Gotta say, Schengers, my man, you gotta jump a little
Speaker 11: bit more than that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just a little bit more.
Speaker 11: You're going You're trying to you're trying to rise up
Speaker 11: with Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 3: You've got to give me a little more.
Speaker 11: Than like a very light, like volleyball block type elevation.
Speaker 3: But I get it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well you know what I like his attempt at verticality. Yeah,
Speaker 5: basically it was that, and he got used Anthony Iwarys
Speaker 5: used him to like, you know, he was like it
Speaker 5: was like a pommel horse a little bit, you know,
Speaker 5: and just pushed up a little bit. Because when you
Speaker 5: see like the start of his jump, he's jumping from
Speaker 5: like inside the circle, like a under the free throw line,
Speaker 5: and then just like kind of grabs him and like
Speaker 5: pushes a little bit and then violence ensues.
Speaker 19: Yeah, it's just yeah, when you slow it down like that, No,
Speaker 19: just that, like right when it's about to go in,
Speaker 19: you're like, schengers, my man, poor business decision there.
Speaker 3: It's not caught twice?
Speaker 5: Right, it was twice yeah yeah yeah, And then the
Speaker 5: second one was with both hands and it just seemed Yeah,
Speaker 5: it was just like he was like, oh, I now
Speaker 5: recognize that this man is not functionally, this man is
Speaker 5: not here, so I can just do this. I can
Speaker 5: to go through him with the ball and dunk on
Speaker 5: him and sure enough at.
Speaker 9: As sharp as to be defensively.
Speaker 11: Shanger, big shanky, my man, sir, you got you gotta
Speaker 11: look out below.
Speaker 3: You know this man is it combo though he floated
Speaker 3: on that. Yeah, yeah, two hands, look at that it's.
Speaker 11: Body and yeah shanngers, you gotta get up, my man.
Speaker 5: And he's looking back like, yeah, wait did he make that?
Speaker 5: Did it go in? Ah? Man, that's that's gonna oh man,
Speaker 5: good highlight for him.
Speaker 11: And look at Anthony Edward's body position in the rim
Speaker 11: with his leg all up.
Speaker 3: He's like he just had a party at your in
Speaker 3: your house right there.
Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, but you know again, but you love to
Speaker 11: see it, like you know, he wasn't shying away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I do love to see it, miles.
Speaker 9: I am.
Speaker 5: Also, we're still looking for nominations for the person who
Speaker 5: could be known as business decision, the way that like
Speaker 5: you know, some people street clothes with this is somebody
Speaker 5: we want to call business decision because they're very smart
Speaker 5: about the way they get out of the way when
Speaker 5: someone's about to dunk on them. Who has the best
Speaker 5: moves when it comes to making a smart business decision?
Speaker 5: We have the opposite of that in a from last month.
Speaker 11: Yeah, with dry Sham Landry. Look, it was a tough go.
Speaker 11: He goes for a game winner, it's not to be.
Speaker 11: And then Aaron Gordon he's coming, He's he's coming for you, sir,
Speaker 11: and you got to decide. You got to make a
Speaker 11: business decision. Do you want to be on a poster?
Speaker 11: Do you go up possibly injure yourself terribly. We'll just
Speaker 11: see how this one played out.
Speaker 5: Miss here he does Gor's coming and oh.
Speaker 11: Shammit, you could have got real hurt there and calling off.
Speaker 3: There's but they didn't. It ended up counting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they it got challenged and reversed. My man, he
Speaker 5: got dunked on then landed on twice somehow like a
Speaker 5: wrestling move like off the top roof. That was just
Speaker 5: like whole Colgan leg dropped him or that was wow.
Speaker 5: I mean, look at the way he tries it. He
Speaker 5: tries to absorb this, He's like, you know what, this
Speaker 5: is a screen. But the way his spine curves when
Speaker 5: it makes contact with Aaron Gordon, I thought he was
Speaker 5: high jumping right here.
Speaker 3: The way he's arching that back Aaron is yeah.
Speaker 5: Yes, he is horizontal to the court.
Speaker 3: Then on the way down, his head is right underneath
Speaker 3: Aaron Gordon's feet, where like he could have arrently just
Speaker 3: landed and I used that pun very intentionally, uh like
Speaker 3: straight on man's skull.
Speaker 11: But he, like luckily, was like, oh gosh, He's like,
Speaker 11: young man, you gotta be careful.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 9: When I go up like that, I could have really
Speaker 9: hurt you.
Speaker 3: It's a poor business decision.
Speaker 5: He had to do it right. So the context of
Speaker 5: the game is there's less than a minute left and
Speaker 5: over time there's mere seconds. Chammit had just missed a
Speaker 5: shot down one. Then he comes down and it's a breakaway.
Speaker 5: You have to put your body on the line. What
Speaker 5: we are looking for from our candidate for the NBA
Speaker 5: Award of Business Decision uh nickname award winner is somebody
Speaker 5: who in a moment like that, was like, nah, it's
Speaker 5: not worth we're out, Like you know, the ultimate business
Speaker 5: decision games on the line, and he's like, I mean
Speaker 5: he's gonna dunk on me. I don't want I don't
Speaker 5: want that.
Speaker 20: So do you want them to run away or is
Speaker 20: it when they jump and they're like no, when they
Speaker 20: kind of just turn yeah and just do.
Speaker 3: What is more what would be more like I guess
Speaker 3: the beholder.
Speaker 5: You know, you'll know when you see the the ultimate
Speaker 5: business decision, like the Supreme Court says.
Speaker 3: More is it is it just a back turn to
Speaker 3: be like I never.
Speaker 11: I never wanted part of this, or is it a
Speaker 11: full on vacating the premises.
Speaker 5: It's not theatricality like if they build an excuse in
Speaker 5: where they like go down to tie their shoe, you know,
Speaker 5: oh wow, they're like, oh no, I've slipped right or
Speaker 5: something like that.
Speaker 20: I mean, I think you're going to get somebody who's
Speaker 20: going to pull on for at gump out of that
Speaker 20: point and out of the pain, like yeah, just keeps running.
Speaker 11: The total right right right, or someone's just going to
Speaker 11: pretend to like you know when you see sprinters and
Speaker 11: like qualifying heats and stuff like sometimes they pull up
Speaker 11: lame when they know they're not going to have race
Speaker 11: this is ahead and be like no, I'm not gonna
Speaker 11: get cooked right now. Someone's goes ah no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 11: it's just like limps away to be.
Speaker 5: Like have clear the second hamstring pool.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but again, let us know if you have a
Speaker 11: famous business decision from years past, please put that on
Speaker 11: our radar because these are the kinds of things, These
Speaker 11: are kinds of issues we tackle on.
Speaker 5: This show, important issues. To your point about adrenaline. My
Speaker 5: dad was an NBA coach and one time I had
Speaker 5: a friend come with me to a game and he
Speaker 5: came back to the locker room after it was a win,
Speaker 5: and Tony Batti was on my dad's team, and he
Speaker 5: went by Batman and my friend was wearing a Batman
Speaker 5: shirt and he was like, oh, hi, Ryan, I see
Speaker 5: you my dad And my friend was like, look, I
Speaker 5: wore the Batman shirt, like you know Tony Batti Batman.
Speaker 5: What do you think. My dad said, I hate it.
Speaker 5: I think it stinks. And it was like he'd never
Speaker 5: really like met this guy before. It was just and
Speaker 5: like he I don't think he meant it, Like I
Speaker 5: don't know what he meant. I guess it's something that
Speaker 5: my friend that I like still talk about. But it's like,
Speaker 5: I just don't think you are in your right mind
Speaker 5: after a game, like the fact that I think about that,
Speaker 5: I'll often like what the fact that like players have
Speaker 5: to go out there and like just answer questions that
Speaker 5: are then analyzed, like the Zapruder film exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 11: I mean, like, the last thing I'll say is like
Speaker 11: if the most cynical reading of it is like it
Speaker 11: was spot on, it was that simple. And suppose answer
Speaker 11: is like you got caught serving like a store bock
Speaker 11: cake at a dinner, like as if you baked it.
Speaker 3: Is this a store box? Oh my gosh, you think
Speaker 3: this is a store bock cake.
Speaker 11: Wow, that's something who doesn't know anything about baking would say, yeah,
Speaker 11: because no, this.
Speaker 21: Is funny, Like that's obviously the funniest possibility there, but
Speaker 21: sadly the most likely it's probably just like he was
Speaker 21: agitated and he went a little I mean, he went
Speaker 21: a little too little.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know how things are.
Speaker 21: I work for bleacher Whore. You know you watch those
Speaker 21: press conference take clips out like not that like in
Speaker 21: my job, you know, I purposely make sure I'm not
Speaker 21: taking things out of context. But like you can't just
Speaker 21: get embarrassed in press conferences anymore, and like no one
Speaker 21: hears about it. You know it's like, yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 21: kind of embarrassing someone like that and then making those
Speaker 21: rounds online when like you know that it's not the best,
Speaker 21: but I mean, it's nothing to like, it's not a
Speaker 21: judgment on his character. I mean, like we've said, it's
Speaker 21: a weird, a weird situation.
Speaker 5: Especially as she opened up saying this is probably oversimplifying it.
Speaker 5: Oh oh gosh, maybe maybe that made him feel comfortable
Speaker 5: to just be like, yeah, it is oversimplifying it. And
Speaker 5: we we did talk about a clip earlier in the
Speaker 5: playoffs where somebody asks Spoe like, so, how do you
Speaker 5: plan on like covering Randall? And he had kind of
Speaker 5: a similar response, but like with you know, probably thirty
Speaker 5: degrees less stress and anxiety and adrenaline, where he was
Speaker 5: just like, first of all, like he is an incredible player,
Speaker 5: and like you can't just figure him out right. Second
Speaker 5: of all, if I had a solution, I definitely wouldn't
Speaker 5: tell you. I love that answer, so I mean, taken
Speaker 5: in that context, like I don't know, maybe maybe he
Speaker 5: should have said that.
Speaker 21: Yeah, but you know that's why, like your point about
Speaker 21: your dad and the story and everything, like, that's why
Speaker 21: I personally have never been someone who like is mad
Speaker 21: when a player skips press availability. That being said, if
Speaker 21: they're doing it every single game, like at that point,
Speaker 21: it's you know a problem or even frequently, but like
Speaker 21: after like a high intense to your high stress like situation,
Speaker 21: it is okay in my opinion to be like I
Speaker 21: I can't do this right now. I don't want to
Speaker 21: do this right now, like to take the fine. I mean, who,
Speaker 21: like what does that really affect me? I wouldn't want
Speaker 21: to sit up there and answer questions after being embarrassed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, especially when the questions are sometimes like so that
Speaker 5: bad thing that happened where you like, did your job
Speaker 5: bad like happen? What was going on for your mind?
Speaker 9: And like.
Speaker 5: You know, this is how you feed your family. A
Speaker 5: lot of people saw that. Man, Well your thoughts? Does
Speaker 5: that make you panic? Does that make you panic?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: I think you don't be messing it up?
Speaker 20: No?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, let's reach if you take
Speaker 3: a break.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's take a break. We'll come back, finish up
Speaker 5: talking about just strategy in this series and then talk
Speaker 5: about Wemba Yama when Bama wo. We're enjoying the French,
Speaker 5: the French commentators for sure. And we're back and it
Speaker 5: is time for the fastest segment in podcasting. This is
Speaker 5: the rapid fire segment of Miles and Jack got mad
Speaker 5: boosties with Jabari Davis.
Speaker 15: Uh, oh no, who got the most boosties of the
Speaker 15: crew before we get to this rapper fire? And what
Speaker 15: is that cumulative boosty? Is it over forty in just
Speaker 15: combined combined?
Speaker 9: Maybe? Okay forty five? What do we got?
Speaker 5: I could get net the last time I tried, which
Speaker 5: was like ten years ago.
Speaker 9: So I add my fifteen to it. I'm add my fifteen.
Speaker 5: There we go.
Speaker 9: I got well, get us over the hunk.
Speaker 3: I think I can still get the back.
Speaker 5: Wow, Okay, it's sad.
Speaker 15: My sixty seven year old dad is going to do
Speaker 15: his birthday dunk next week and uh he could jump
Speaker 15: higher than me.
Speaker 6: So wow, y'all shouldn't feel bad. Hey, you know Pop
Speaker 6: still got it though. I actually look forward to those
Speaker 6: birthday dunk posts each year.
Speaker 9: So every year it's the same thing.
Speaker 15: Around this time, it's oh man, this year, I talked
Speaker 15: him a couple weeks so like, look, you're gonna do it.
Speaker 9: All my hips are JANKI I can't do it.
Speaker 15: I've been I've been working with the Buck staff though,
Speaker 15: the medical team to try and get him right. Then
Speaker 15: I saw him on his birthday last week. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 15: we're doing the dunk like I'm ready, I'm locked in.
Speaker 15: I'm like, we're gonna see like, you know, be humble,
Speaker 15: all right, just be humble.
Speaker 9: Get it in.
Speaker 5: I do have to admit that the net that I
Speaker 5: could reach was extremely long.
Speaker 9: It was.
Speaker 5: It was one of the longest nets. Basket, Yeah, but
Speaker 5: you know I made sure of it.
Speaker 9: I'm banging out on the eighth foot though, I don't even.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my kids at my kid's school, they have a
Speaker 5: little a low basket that I just go there. I'm
Speaker 5: goal tending dunking on kids. Yeah, absolutely, all right, Josiah,
Speaker 5: you've been here before. It's the fastest moment and podcasting.
Speaker 5: Uh no thought whatsoever given to these just your instinct.
Speaker 5: We're going off instinct here.
Speaker 15: Trying to get me packed up. But I'm ready, you know,
Speaker 15: go what do you mean? It's like, dude, okay, I
Speaker 15: didn't have time to think about all that.
Speaker 9: Let's just get it.
Speaker 6: All right, Jabari, you start off all right, Josiah, if
Speaker 6: you wait, are you sure you want me to go first?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I desperately want you to go first.
Speaker 3: Joe, who would you like to go first?
Speaker 9: We just have to make sure you know you got it, Jai,
Speaker 9: go ahead, all right, let's do.
Speaker 3: It, Josiah.
Speaker 6: If you can bet on any fan base to make
Speaker 6: the in Arena challenge shots, you know, the lay up,
Speaker 6: the free throw, the three pointer, and a half court,
Speaker 6: which fan base or fan bases would you bet on.
Speaker 15: I'm gonna go with the Lakers because I've seen it
Speaker 15: happen several times.
Speaker 9: Now, you know why is that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're so good.
Speaker 15: Every time you can see Janie's face and it's like, oh,
Speaker 15: we don't have this bag to give y'all up though
Speaker 15: he's like, oh damn, matt Ryang gonna get booted. Or
Speaker 15: every time you know, somebody somebody like no, you know,
Speaker 15: he's smiling, but he's like, damn, all right, there's my
Speaker 15: walking papers. But I think the Lakers fan base I
Speaker 15: probably seen the most hit the half quarters. And I
Speaker 15: forget what team it was, but they had the Jank
Speaker 15: one where like they hit a half quarter and won like.
Speaker 9: Five hundred bucks.
Speaker 5: Those the Indiana Pacers. That's what made us come up
Speaker 5: with this question. For that was our questions like is
Speaker 5: it so commonplace? Is everybody just so pure born with
Speaker 5: a basketball in their hand? In Indiana that like it's
Speaker 5: They're just like, yeah, we'll give you five hundred bucks whatever,
Speaker 5: that's fair.
Speaker 9: It is the HOOI state.
Speaker 5: It is all right, dreams scripted basketball movie to commit.
Speaker 5: You know, we just found out about Air, the movie
Speaker 5: starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck somehow about the invention
Speaker 5: of the Air Jordan shoe, that they didn't even cast
Speaker 5: anyone as Michael Jordan. He's just like a presence, a
Speaker 5: gravitational black hole in the yeah.
Speaker 9: The back of a fort, like the back of the head, at.
Speaker 5: Least the back of the head. Yeah. Like there's a
Speaker 5: shot in the trailer of the back of the head
Speaker 5: with him walking into the Nike offices. And then I so,
Speaker 5: I was like, who they get to play Jordan? Because
Speaker 5: you that that seems impossible, right, He's just like so iconic,
Speaker 5: you can't get anybody, You can't cast anybody to play him.
Speaker 5: And they said they specifically didn't cast anyone. He's just
Speaker 5: this presence.
Speaker 9: But they should have got never started to play Larry Jordan.
Speaker 9: It's going to be flex Alexander.
Speaker 15: Hey, the Michael Jordan Lifetime movie was one of the
Speaker 15: greatest things. No no names on the jer I mean,
Speaker 15: come on how do you how do you not appreciate
Speaker 15: that beautifulness?
Speaker 5: Do you have a dreamscripted basketball movie you want? You
Speaker 5: want to pitch?
Speaker 9: I would love to see a movie on Uh.
Speaker 15: He's my favorite basketball player in the league right now,
Speaker 15: representing the South Sudan, A man who is gone through
Speaker 15: trying to tribulations, walking in the shadow of his father.
Speaker 9: Was another great baller, none of it them Bowl Bull.
Speaker 9: I'd love to see a Bowl Bull movie.
Speaker 5: Yo, this is a yeah or the I mean the
Speaker 5: minut Ball store, like you could use the perspective like
Speaker 5: stuff that they use for the Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 5: So you know, that would be very cinematic, very amazing.
Speaker 15: Flashbacks to Bowl Bull like that latest screen movie, but
Speaker 15: obviously done in a tasteful way.
Speaker 3: Right, are all right?
Speaker 9: Keeping it going?
Speaker 3: We're gonna play getting in or headed home? In mid April,
Speaker 3: the Brooklyn Nets, the team is still nine games over
Speaker 3: five hundred.
Speaker 6: They hold a seven game lead in the lost column
Speaker 6: over the current ten seed with under twenty five games left.
Speaker 3: Are they getting in or they going home?
Speaker 9: Yeahst they're getting it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're getting it fair enough.
Speaker 6: All right, here's one the Pelicans because many of us
Speaker 6: you know, we anticipated a big year for New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Some were a little bit higher on them than the others.
Speaker 6: But the team finds itself currently just a game and
Speaker 6: a half up on the eleven seed out West, and
Speaker 6: reports are that Zion could miss a good chunk in
Speaker 6: the Remainian schedule due to reaggravating the samstring.
Speaker 15: Are they getting in or they going home? Well, they
Speaker 15: might be at the crib. But you know, I love Zion,
Speaker 15: love be I love that crew, love CJ. McCollum, and uh,
Speaker 15: you know, even what they did last year trying to
Speaker 15: you know, sneaking into too the plane. But I might
Speaker 15: I think I might be at the crib because the
Speaker 15: Lakers are getting in.
Speaker 5: Someone's gotta go. Someone's gotta you know, look around, look
Speaker 5: to your left, look to your right. One of one
Speaker 5: of them can't be there, maybe both of them. So
Speaker 5: they gotta They gotta leaf frog the Thunder, the Blazers,
Speaker 5: the Jazz, which I think the Jazz are probably on
Speaker 5: their way out, The Warriors, the Wolves, New Orleans. I mean,
Speaker 5: who who's gone? I can't figure it out. Like it's
Speaker 5: gonna be tough. He speaking of the Wolves. Anthony Edwards
Speaker 5: recently acknowledged a three bag per day habit of hot
Speaker 5: cheetos fries. What was your wildest eating habit when you
Speaker 5: were a young athlete like myself?
Speaker 15: So I think about this often and uh and just
Speaker 15: what we were able to accomplish back in those days.
Speaker 15: But a bag of chili cheese free dos. And this
Speaker 15: is a regional thing. They do it like in the South.
Speaker 15: They do it, but they turn the bag the wrong way.
Speaker 15: We like to bag straight up. But you can eat
Speaker 15: do it with doritos too, But take the free dos.
Speaker 15: You actually put some cheddar cheese, some chili in there.
Speaker 15: If it's a nice snack snack check throw some onions
Speaker 15: in there too, But you could you could eat one
Speaker 15: of those in a tiki punch and have enough energy
Speaker 15: to play like four or five games.
Speaker 3: You were doing that before tournaments?
Speaker 5: Yeah, the amount of basketball I played with just hot dogs?
Speaker 5: Am I sister? Just nothing? But like you know those
Speaker 5: concession stand hot dogs, like the.
Speaker 15: No water rental jankie. You know you get like the
Speaker 15: hundred bucks of hot dogs. Yeah, five bucks, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no water, drinking soda all day?
Speaker 9: Yeah, chips.
Speaker 5: What was the wildest thing you witnessed diet wise? Did
Speaker 5: you ever like play with someone who was just like,
Speaker 5: you know, an amazing athlete despite the fact that they
Speaker 5: were surviving off of gummy candies.
Speaker 15: So my college teammate TJ Cummings, uh, sanitary Cummings. But
Speaker 15: TJ could eat like a whole BJ's pizza. And I'm
Speaker 15: talking about like the bigger like you know, big hole pizza,
Speaker 15: like two big pazukis, you.
Speaker 9: Know what I mean, within like.
Speaker 15: The pazuki with like the big you know, we used
Speaker 15: to finish Bja's in Westwood back in the day. It's
Speaker 15: my birthday today, Like you know, my birthday probably sixty
Speaker 15: five times every time you go into bj because they
Speaker 15: had to give you a free pazuki.
Speaker 9: Then he would put a pazuki on top of that.
Speaker 15: But he could take that down and still you know,
Speaker 15: go out and drop twenty.
Speaker 5: Like like it was wow, amazing.
Speaker 6: I'm impressed by that of that alone, two pazukis beyond
Speaker 6: before the even without the pizza, the two pazukis would
Speaker 6: have me done.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Like you know, I've never seen him be able
Speaker 15: to eat like that. Like if I ate those two pazukis,
Speaker 15: you know what I mean, if I looked at those
Speaker 15: two pazukis, I was gaining five pounds.
Speaker 6: So all right, Josiah, we ask everybody. I think I
Speaker 6: believe you've been here for one of these questions.
Speaker 9: In the past.
Speaker 3: But Jack or Jabari one on one, you gotta pick.
Speaker 5: It's it's up to your interpretation.
Speaker 9: Jack got the NBA, len Is Jabari, so I'm gonna
Speaker 9: be be.
Speaker 22: Wow, Yes, yes, great, A couple of he's getting okay,
Speaker 22: he was reading.
Speaker 15: He was reading the Almanacs back in the day, looking
Speaker 15: at place. She's making correction. But if you slide him
Speaker 15: over here like you know what.
Speaker 3: I mean, so it be your own.
Speaker 9: I forgot, I forgot.
Speaker 4: My Oh wow, wow, I got to give it.
Speaker 9: I got. I'm sorry. I can't. You know, I gotta.
Speaker 9: I gotta be able to keep the car. You already know.
Speaker 15: But March first. You ask me again March first, and
Speaker 15: the answer may be different.
Speaker 3: There we go, all right, we'll have to as I
Speaker 3: appreciate the reparations.
Speaker 5: Also, I was as a kid, I skipped Doctor J's
Speaker 5: last game playing against uh my grandfather Jack Ramsey. I
Speaker 5: skipped his last game because Jaws two was on TV.
Speaker 5: So you had me wrong, by the way, that was
Speaker 5: stolen valor when I was like six or seven years old.
Speaker 5: That's that's what I was about. I was just a
Speaker 5: I was not I was not a basketball head on
Speaker 5: Josh just two on cable his last game.
Speaker 9: But back in the day, though, we didn't really have
Speaker 9: access like that.
Speaker 15: We didn't have streaming and all that, so we had
Speaker 15: to get it when we could get it.
Speaker 5: And I mean the electric the dang shark. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Keep it quick, keep it right, keep it tight. Are
Speaker 3: you ready? Brian?
Speaker 1: Start the clock bright? I'm sorry he yelled at you.
Speaker 3: Me too.
Speaker 11: Brian's okay, he's he played in a lot of bands,
Speaker 11: so his hearing isn't great.
Speaker 3: That's why I do. It's not it's not anger. It's
Speaker 3: a volume thing. Okay for a rapid round.
Speaker 23: You sure are wading into this, Swowa. We're gonna get
Speaker 23: to that at some point. Lord, what is happening?
Speaker 9: You know what? Okay?
Speaker 5: No, you know what.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. I respect, I respect your game. I
Speaker 3: wasn't familiar with your game. I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 7: Huh.
Speaker 3: Okay, here we go. Question number the first, Why you go?
Speaker 7: Actually?
Speaker 9: Are you all right?
Speaker 21: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah? Yeah? Lake?
Speaker 1: Are you ready?
Speaker 9: I just want to make sure.
Speaker 3: Already that you asking Brian.
Speaker 11: You're ready, Brian, let's hold, let's get a confirmation, gonna
Speaker 11: make are you with us?
Speaker 3: Can you just put in the chat?
Speaker 1: Sorry? Sorry sorry sorry? Okay, Blake coming up first.
Speaker 3: I don't know if Brian's ready.
Speaker 9: Hold on?
Speaker 3: Oh, please keep this Okay, this is the whole show,
Speaker 3: This has always been the show. All right, So we're good,
Speaker 3: We're good, We're good. Let's go all right, Lake, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Give us your best hot take for this NBA season.
Speaker 6: I know it's already started, and you can kind of
Speaker 6: get away with cheating and acting like you made it
Speaker 6: at the beginning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, give it to us. Fire it off. The Wemby
Speaker 3: will not win Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 23: Oh oh, I like that. I don't think that body
Speaker 23: is gonna hold up. I think he's gonna miss some game.
Speaker 23: I hope he doesn't. I hope he's healthy the whole season.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think who's winning?
Speaker 23: I'm not going to be chat Uh it's I can't
Speaker 23: I can't think because a lot of people are pitty
Speaker 23: picking Ice. I guess Chet Homeroom is probably the second
Speaker 23: most favored, but the kid not Barn Scott. Yeah, yeah
Speaker 23: yah yah yeah yah, yeah yeah yeah, I got you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, you here is winning. Okay, Like you
Speaker 3: know Philadelphia pretty well, don't you. I do? Why why
Speaker 3: I'm from, I'm from. I'm also living here currently.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, fine, fine, I guess I'll take that as
Speaker 11: I guess I'll take that as evidence that you know,
Speaker 11: something's kind of of you.
Speaker 3: How about this one of these gotta go?
Speaker 11: The Philly cheese Steak, Tasty Cakes, Barrita's water ice.
Speaker 23: He stuck the landing on the water too. I want
Speaker 23: tasty cakes out.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, you don't like to take for me.
Speaker 23: I just think it's it's just what they almost killed
Speaker 23: Bill Clinton and that's why. And I don't want to elaborate,
Speaker 23: but I will. He had I think he would have
Speaker 23: them flown into uh DC, and that's obviously not why.
Speaker 3: I just like the other things a lot more.
Speaker 9: For me.
Speaker 3: It's cheese steaks, Rita's, and then Tasty Cakes.
Speaker 11: I was gonna say, like, I didn't know what else
Speaker 11: to put, to be honest, if I was, if I
Speaker 11: just can be transparent about how I was forming this question,
Speaker 11: I didn't.
Speaker 3: Know if to put like a HOGI also because obviously
Speaker 3: that's all.
Speaker 11: That's a staple thing or like like one of like
Speaker 11: a roast pork, you know, I know that's another that's
Speaker 11: another thing you guys like out there.
Speaker 3: But I okay, I'm glad unwarranted aggression if you want,
Speaker 3: I wanted to go, or.
Speaker 11: Hostility towards the members of your sports teams, one of
Speaker 11: the one of these Philadelphia staples has to go.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, Like I really appreciate your thorough answer there,
Speaker 6: but I gotta be honest with this is the rapid
Speaker 6: that's right.
Speaker 23: Yes, I'm sorry, it's weird. It's not Blake's breaking Sorry, okay, not.
Speaker 1: The breakdown, even though that's you know what. Let's pitch that.
Speaker 3: That's happening off Mike. I'm an.
Speaker 6: You can go back in time. You can permit either
Speaker 6: A there's a there's one right answer here.
Speaker 24: Okay, yeah, you can permit either AI for Philly Chuck
Speaker 24: to make a run with this particular squad, which one
Speaker 24: are you choosing to take that ride?
Speaker 1: And don't get this.
Speaker 3: Wrong, it has to the AI. That has to Brian.
Speaker 1: Brian cut his Mike, Let's get the hell out of here.
Speaker 3: You're going with Barkley.
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a Barkley stand, so.
Speaker 11: That I'm telling you, I'm I'm with you.
Speaker 23: Blake, I'm a Barkley stand. That's just no one can
Speaker 23: touch a. I Also, Bubba Chuck is one of AI's
Speaker 23: many nicknames, so I thought, I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, wait, it's Philly Chuck.
Speaker 23: Do you want to call him Billy Chuck for aid.
Speaker 1: Of Chuck when he was in field the round bound rebound?
Speaker 1: If you will?
Speaker 23: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and I will right and and.
Speaker 3: And why Ai?
Speaker 9: Why this?
Speaker 3: I believe his name is Alan iver Person. Sure for sure?
Speaker 23: Sure to me he is, Yeah, he's now Yes, the
Speaker 23: vice president of rebok Basketball, Allen Iverson. Congratulations to him,
Speaker 23: Which that is a cool story. I really like that
Speaker 23: a lot. But Ai is one of the most I
Speaker 23: would say it's hard to find a more interesting athlete,
Speaker 23: not even just in basketball than he is. Where what
Speaker 23: he did bringing like like to the culture in the
Speaker 23: NBA and how people hold him on a pedestal where
Speaker 23: I've never seen when you see him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got to really keep this moving, Blake.
Speaker 23: So the next question, so if you go back in history, no,
Speaker 23: I believe the genesis of this was.
Speaker 11: We have to keep this moving because you are You're
Speaker 11: putting this.
Speaker 3: The lawyers are calling you right now. They're like, this
Speaker 3: is not I don't want to get you in trouble. Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 3: the next one.
Speaker 9: Next one.
Speaker 3: If an alien came down.
Speaker 11: Right up to your door, knock knocked, yes, who you
Speaker 11: open the door, and the aliens like, you need to
Speaker 11: prove you are a Sixers fan. I don't know how
Speaker 11: you prove this to me, But prove to me you
Speaker 11: are a Sixers fan, or I am taking you away
Speaker 11: in this yere spaceship. What do you do or say
Speaker 11: to show them, prove to them that you are in
Speaker 11: fact a.
Speaker 3: Philadelphia six Ers fan.
Speaker 23: And they go, okay, I like you flip the off.
Speaker 23: I would open my robe to reveal the fact that
Speaker 23: I'm wearing an Eric snow jersey, and then I'd say
Speaker 23: good day, sir, and I'd shut the door that you
Speaker 23: want to see.
Speaker 16: The alien would say, all right, you got it, Yeah,
Speaker 16: I have a trip to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Second thought, the Philly freezer. Second thought, you.
Speaker 9: Want my spaceship.
Speaker 3: I realized I'm not built for any of this anymore.
Speaker 3: Ship to my core, it tosses me the keys. They
Speaker 3: have keys. Yeah, it's the Mazda. Wait what.
Speaker 1: All right? You're doing?
Speaker 6: You can take two players from all of history to
Speaker 6: create your special edition mad Boosti's NBA Jam team.
Speaker 1: Which two players are you taking? Beyond you know, Charles Barkley.
Speaker 23: Of course, beyond Barkley. I'm taking the glove, Gary Paide
Speaker 23: because he will get you the ball back, the swipe,
Speaker 23: his ability to get steals.
Speaker 3: From half court.
Speaker 5: They called him the glove. I called him the swipe.
Speaker 23: Of I would go iverson and then wait, is there
Speaker 23: an I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I meant, I meant Gary paid,
Speaker 23: Gary paid. And you know what, I'm going camp too.
Speaker 23: I'm going to keep it in the family. I'm going
Speaker 23: to keep it on the nineties. They were so much
Speaker 23: fun to play with. What if I was like a
Speaker 23: debt left Shrimp and Dirk Navitski to be.
Speaker 1: I would say, oh, I see what I see? What
Speaker 1: time it is?
Speaker 3: Rig Smithmarcas?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yes, oh man okay? And last question, Yeah, this is important, man.
Speaker 11: I want you to look us dead in our eyes
Speaker 11: when you answer this. Pick one, Jabbari or Miles, go
Speaker 11: right now, go John Miles.
Speaker 3: What does that mean? I'm going to I'm going Jabbari
Speaker 3: because he books this.
Speaker 1: Here it is I mean, it makes this to me.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Jack still catches strays out here. Look,
Speaker 3: look how replaceable this show is.
Speaker 23: Like people on the shirt Jack, you can just have
Speaker 23: anyone come in, you know, whereas like, wow, yeah, anyway.
Speaker 3: It straight everybody's yeah, no one's safe. When the street
Speaker 3: sweepers out, Miles was just available. Yeah wow.
Speaker 5: And I think I saw you say that the detail
Speaker 5: of you know, your character and white man can't jump
Speaker 5: Raymond sticking people up, but being you know, so somebody
Speaker 5: who hangs around there and is like sixty eight, uh's
Speaker 5: seven right, yeah, And he was so and they're like,
Speaker 5: not again, you're the same foot person I know.
Speaker 13: Right, He's like, no, this ain't me, This ain't me,
Speaker 13: This ain't me.
Speaker 3: So you really did pull that sneme directly from his life.
Speaker 13: Yes, they pulled that directly.
Speaker 10: For that was one of the first folklore tales that
Speaker 10: they would tell you back in the seventies when you
Speaker 10: got to the league.
Speaker 13: Take the story about Reggie Hardigan and the and.
Speaker 10: The ski mask robbing the liquor store seven feet and
Speaker 10: the you know this ain't me. And so that was
Speaker 10: one of the first things that you heard, and it
Speaker 10: was funny back in the day. It's a funny story,
Speaker 10: but when you look at the background and do a
Speaker 10: little bit more digging in terms of his history, it's
Speaker 10: actually a sad story. He wound up getting shot on
Speaker 10: the streets of Detroit, I think at about thirty years old,
Speaker 10: nineteen seventy two, and so the same same streets that
Speaker 10: he couldn't get away from that that derailed his career
Speaker 10: went up leading to his undoing. Spent time in prison
Speaker 10: Jackson Prison in Michigan for two or three years for
Speaker 10: armed robbery and a bunch he was robbing a bunch
Speaker 10: of dope house where he would buy.
Speaker 3: Dope, and they got to.
Speaker 10: The point where they got so pissed off at it
Speaker 10: because the knew it was him seven feet with a
Speaker 10: ski mask that he came up to a dope hop
Speaker 10: the house to rob it and two shotgun blasts hit.
Speaker 13: Him in both legs and he was hospital. Just a crazy,
Speaker 13: crazy light that.
Speaker 10: Wow, colorful crazy life that crossed passed a lot of
Speaker 10: great great NBA all timers.
Speaker 13: So it's really a fascinating story.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it sounds amazing. Somebody needs to buy that screenplay
Speaker 5: post haste. Yeah, I mean it's appropriate like that that
Speaker 5: you were on our anniversary episode. You are somebody who
Speaker 5: still condunk, and you know, so you still have the
Speaker 5: mad boosties that you had in your career. I still
Speaker 5: have the same ability to dunk that I had in
Speaker 5: my career, which is which is none I was, but
Speaker 5: I can still I think, touch the bottom of the net.
Speaker 5: Uh So in that way we are similar. You can
Speaker 5: you talk about that like you you dunk?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 5: Every every year? On your birthday?
Speaker 13: You get my son Josiah thinking of NBA Twitter.
Speaker 5: Yes, we said that, James.
Speaker 10: He he brought the idea to me the year that
Speaker 10: Blake Griffin jumped.
Speaker 1: Over the Kia.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
Speaker 13: I was about fifty four.
Speaker 10: Fifty five years old at the time, and you know,
Speaker 10: could dunk really easily back then, and so we get
Speaker 10: we got some matchbox cards or something. Judge, you know,
Speaker 10: jumped over one to you know, I'm doing the same thing, Blake.
Speaker 7: I'm a jump over a car.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and that kind of that created a monsters every
Speaker 10: year after that. I'm sixty seven now, so for the
Speaker 10: last thirteen years, every year he's like, come on, damn,
Speaker 10: we gotta do it?
Speaker 7: Got to do it about Joe? Joe, I don't know.
Speaker 10: I only I only dunk once a year on my birthday,
Speaker 10: around my birthday. I never tried any other time, so
Speaker 10: I don't know if I could do it or not.
Speaker 10: And got some hip issues. So this year was a little,
Speaker 10: you know a little challenging, but I was able to
Speaker 10: pull it off and we got it done. So but
Speaker 10: next year, I'm not sure. I may have a hip
Speaker 10: replacement done by that time, so may this may have
Speaker 10: been the last one.
Speaker 13: But it's been fun.
Speaker 10: What it does is, man, it keeps me in shape,
Speaker 10: keeps me working out, gives me something to shoot for,
Speaker 10: a goal to shoot for, to stay stay in reasonably
Speaker 10: good shape. At sixty seven years old, I work out
Speaker 10: six times a week, six days a week, and I
Speaker 10: mean nothing, you know, like an hour and ten minutes,
Speaker 10: nothing crazy, but just enough to stay in reasonably good shape.
Speaker 10: So it's been the impetus for that. So that's been
Speaker 10: a good thing, good positive behind it.
Speaker 6: Hey, well I give you credit because you're doing something
Speaker 6: at sixty six. I wasn't able to do it thirty six,
Speaker 6: so yeah, I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So I mean, let's talk about the current NBA,
Speaker 5: the purported subject of the of this podcast. You get
Speaker 5: an close and personal look at the Bucks, and I
Speaker 5: feel like they are a lot of smart people's pick
Speaker 5: for the title this year. There's actually an interesting conversation
Speaker 5: happening around Jannie with Isaiah this week. I'm not sure
Speaker 5: if you if you saw this, no.
Speaker 13: I haven't tell me about it.
Speaker 3: Well, actually it's from earlier in the year.
Speaker 6: It was basically it was surrounding the conversation with Giannis
Speaker 6: where people were saying he might struggle in the eighties,
Speaker 6: he would come off the bench in the eighties or nineties, whatnot.
Speaker 5: Charles Oakley in particularly Charles.
Speaker 6: Oakley in particular and Zeke you know the to his credit,
Speaker 6: I'll paraphrase, and he basically was saying, hey, guys, you
Speaker 6: guys need to be quiet because you would.
Speaker 3: Dominate in the eighties.
Speaker 6: We've never seen anything like him come into our league, uh,
Speaker 6: you know, and and and basically he's one of he's
Speaker 6: one of the quote unquote old heads that definitely shows love.
Speaker 3: So I'm interested, where do you you see him up close?
Speaker 6: And personally you've seen him, you know, for the bulk
Speaker 6: of his career, definitely the great moments.
Speaker 3: How do you think Giannish would fare?
Speaker 10: You know, man, I mean, greatness transcends eras and traits
Speaker 10: will figure out how to excel in different eras and
Speaker 10: it goes both ways. And so you know, people talk
Speaker 10: about how we couldn't have played in today's NBA from
Speaker 10: the eighties and nineties and then cash them from even seventies.
Speaker 10: I mean, but the great players would figure things that
Speaker 10: would me. They'd like to point to my three point
Speaker 10: field goal percentage. Well, that's why I like cleaning the
Speaker 10: glass because they they don't count heaves and.
Speaker 13: In the corner shots and all that.
Speaker 10: Both of my stuff was in the shot clock, in
Speaker 10: the quarters, those types of threes, and so you know,
Speaker 10: but if I'd have worked on a three point shots,
Speaker 10: I'd shoot thirty seven, thirty eight percent. I know that
Speaker 10: hands down. But when Janni's yeah, that buzz mean now
Speaker 10: now people are coming around, Charles Barkley calls them the
Speaker 10: greatest player on the planet, So that that's a definite
Speaker 10: feather in Giannie's cap to have that happened.
Speaker 13: I mean, I remember James Harden coming out and Sandy
Speaker 13: we should see was seven feet and all the he was.
Speaker 13: Jannis is an acquired taste, and you know, watching him when.
Speaker 10: I first got to the Bucks eight years ago, he
Speaker 10: was coming off a season where averaged about sixteen a game,
Speaker 10: seven eight rebounds. I didn't know if he would be
Speaker 10: a solid NBA player for the next ten years at
Speaker 10: that time eighteen nineteen topping out at that or would
Speaker 10: he be an All Star. I certainly didn't think he
Speaker 10: would be this, this, this transcendent player who would be
Speaker 10: a two time MVP that would drop as piece in.
Speaker 13: A close out finals game. I didn't think that. I didn't.
Speaker 13: It just didn't look like he was on that trajectory in.
Speaker 10: Terms of his his skill package, and just didn't look
Speaker 10: like he was going to be that kind of a guy.
Speaker 13: But that's where his background, his motivation, his inspiration, his.
Speaker 10: Diligence to working out, his desire to be the best,
Speaker 10: that's where all.
Speaker 13: That comes into play. And I saw that early.
Speaker 10: I saw him have great games and I'd see a
Speaker 10: shadow we figure after he had a great game and
Speaker 10: we won, running through a crowd of people that right after.
Speaker 13: The game, and then ten degrees below weather in Milwaukee, and.
Speaker 10: I'm thinking to myself, who is that crazy brother right
Speaker 10: there with the with the T shirt and the cutoff sweats.
Speaker 3: What is he doing then?
Speaker 13: A look closer, man, that's Shiannas. Where the hell is
Speaker 13: he going?
Speaker 7: Watch him?
Speaker 10: He's going to the practice facility across the street to
Speaker 10: work with the street throws and its tinuing. That's just
Speaker 10: forty plus point games. We have a flight to another
Speaker 10: city that night on a team plane. He's sitting in
Speaker 10: the back of the plane with Sean Sweeney, the assistant
Speaker 10: coach at the time for the Bucks, going over film
Speaker 10: and video in terms of what he could have done
Speaker 10: better even though he just dropped forty points on that
Speaker 10: opponent that night.
Speaker 13: That's Siannas, I mean, and so he could have played
Speaker 13: in any era.
Speaker 10: He is such a unicorn, as the popular way of
Speaker 10: describing a guy like him.
Speaker 9: Think about it.
Speaker 10: He's seven feet two point fifty, so he's strong enough
Speaker 10: to kind of with handle with standard pounding back in
Speaker 10: the day, but he's also got this His separator is
Speaker 10: this handle. He's able to get to where he wants
Speaker 10: to go with his ball handling like no other seventh footer.
Speaker 10: I'm trying to run my mind through the course of
Speaker 10: history to think if there's been a seventh futter that
Speaker 10: could handle like he could. Now that's also he's been
Speaker 10: a product of his era because it's been encouraged for
Speaker 10: and it's the European kind of influence in the in
Speaker 10: the NBA and the American game.
Speaker 13: Big men shooting outside shots.
Speaker 10: Back in the day, if you were a Jim McDaniels
Speaker 10: from Western Kentucky who averaged thirty a game in college,
Speaker 10: you get to the pros, you're saft because you shoot
Speaker 10: jumpers to seven feet. My teammate at UCLA, Richard Washington,
Speaker 10: the most outstanding player in the NCAA Tournament nineteen seventy five,
Speaker 10: twenty eight against the Louisville twenty eight against.
Speaker 13: Kentucky, great jump shooter six to eleven. He got to
Speaker 13: the league.
Speaker 9: You're saft.
Speaker 10: Get your bigs inside, pounding, pounded inside. That's for the
Speaker 10: small boards and guards to shoot the jump shots. So
Speaker 10: it's a different era, and so there is a more
Speaker 10: more of a premium put on big men, the stretch
Speaker 10: forward that can knock down jumper.
Speaker 13: So that helps him, but you know, he just knows
Speaker 13: how to play.
Speaker 3: How to score.
Speaker 10: This finishing is so much better than I've ever seen
Speaker 10: it before. This year, but his ability to handle the
Speaker 10: ball to get to his spots, and he studied defenders
Speaker 10: and knows how to attack angles and body positions to
Speaker 10: draw files.
Speaker 13: And even though he's shooting.
Speaker 10: Sixty five sixty percent from Freako line, a lot of
Speaker 10: guys would back off and get into the Freekro line
Speaker 10: because of that, he embraces the challenge and gets to
Speaker 10: the freak A line even more, probably shooting more goes
Speaker 10: this season than he's ever shot. So that's his mindset.
Speaker 10: It's just different, which I think would transcend any error
Speaker 10: and then lead to success.
Speaker 2: Oh right, that has been our Mad Boosti's Best of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three wrapped.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we'll be back next week with
Speaker 2: All new episodes and happy twenty twenty four