Speaker 1: We're back and it's a new year, and we're just
Speaker 1: about halfway through the NBA season and players are putting
Speaker 1: up numbers that come straight off the PlayStation Second Genesis,
Speaker 1: what have you. He's on fire, quite literally in some instances.
Speaker 1: It's the only video game right now. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into the state of the Bucks, Lucas brilliance and
Speaker 1: Brooklyn's huge Leap with comedian and podcaster and overall legiond
Speaker 1: on today's episode. I'm Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien
Speaker 1: and this is Jack. Let's not delay. We got none
Speaker 1: other the Mr Gareth Reynolds in the Building's got a
Speaker 1: new special England Weed and the rest on YouTube. Big
Speaker 1: Bucks fan, but you haven't been able to watch too
Speaker 1: much because you've been on the road. Gareth, welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. Thank you for having me co host of
Speaker 1: the Dollar. I think that goes without saying for those
Speaker 1: who are not literate in the way of podcasts, that
Speaker 1: alap and you can watch my especially you can go
Speaker 1: to my website and there's a special button Gareth Reynolds
Speaker 1: dot com. I hate being that promote, but that's what
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to do. But yeah, I haven't been able
Speaker 1: to watch that much, but everything every I think, I'm
Speaker 1: like most games that I've watched, the Honest is not
Speaker 1: played for Middleton hasn't played, so I haven't really even
Speaker 1: seen them like you know, full steam yet. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the Bucks. Wait, so explain your fandom. You
Speaker 1: are you Milwaukee of Milwaukee? Of Milwaukee is the Game
Speaker 1: of Thrones way of putting it of British parents and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I was. I mean I'm from a place
Speaker 1: called Brown Deer, so originally in Milwaukee, and um yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I just grew up fully ingratiated into Wisconsin sports,
Speaker 1: mainly the mainly the Bucks and mainly the Packers. But
Speaker 1: uh but baseball a little bit like the Brewers. But
Speaker 1: really the Bucks and Packers where my team's growing up
Speaker 1: kind still are those like the two I paid. It
Speaker 1: was great when the Bucks started, when the Bucks got you, honest,
Speaker 1: because all of a sudden, I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: really will be honest that with my fair weatherness. But
Speaker 1: it's hard to watch if you live in California and
Speaker 1: you're a Bucks fan for a long time. Like nobody
Speaker 1: was like, let's see, there's not a lot of like
Speaker 1: what Sam Cassell was like the guy You're like, this
Speaker 1: is going great. They're like, hey, Glenn Robinson is doing
Speaker 1: all right? Hummed man. Really that was my childhood, was
Speaker 1: hitching my hopes and dreams to Glenn Robinson, Glenn Robinson
Speaker 1: and Ben Baker. Yeah, but yeah, so, I mean I
Speaker 1: just kind of, you know, like there's not much going
Speaker 1: on in milwaukee' Jack Sikma, you remember Jack Sikma. Of course.
Speaker 1: I used to see him at the ground Round like
Speaker 1: once a week, which is just like a pay what
Speaker 1: you weay restaurant. And I used to see Jackson, Who's
Speaker 1: like enormous, and I'd be a little kid. He would
Speaker 1: be like so he was like so warm and nice
Speaker 1: to me as a little kid. Dude, that guy always
Speaker 1: look like a like a die hard bad guy to me. Yeah, totally,
Speaker 1: like yeah, either second to die or the guy who
Speaker 1: comes back at the end, right, yeah, his brother the
Speaker 1: guy second Yeah, who's got feet smaller than Bruce willis sist. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that's why sick. But I couldn't play that far. He's
Speaker 1: gonna buy that you have a size Seva. This is podcasting,
Speaker 1: not again. I do think he is the best player
Speaker 1: with my name as far as I can tell, I
Speaker 1: think I think I tried to do research for into that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not not a ton of like dominant Jack's check or no. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do we call it John havelet check Jack? Yeah? Do
Speaker 1: they did they call Do we stretch it a little bit? Yeah? John?
Speaker 1: I call him Jack. So we do have to talk
Speaker 1: about Donovan Mitchell putting seventy one on him. My main
Speaker 1: thing that I've taken away from this because like you
Speaker 1: hear people talk about him and refer to him as
Speaker 1: don me and that's just I think he needs to
Speaker 1: outlaw that. I think he just needs to be Downovan Mitchell.
Speaker 1: But you gotta be careful because that's like when Big
Speaker 1: Baby was like, don't call me big Baby. Everyone was like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna stick with it. Honestly, we're gonna ignore that
Speaker 1: you drooled twice. You're a big baby. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: fight it. On my podcast, everyone calls me Gary, and
Speaker 1: it's like sometimes fighting and makes it all works. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's like I'll do shows sometimes and people will
Speaker 1: chant Gary and I'm like, it's really, this is like
Speaker 1: a fire. You can't really blank it out easily because
Speaker 1: it's only getting encourage the more seven one points. This
Speaker 1: is I don't know the whole the last what day,
Speaker 1: three days, there's just been obscene amounts of scoring. We
Speaker 1: were talking about the amounts of high scoring gay or
Speaker 1: you know, individual performance that there have been. I just
Speaker 1: want to read a stat just to kind of set
Speaker 1: the backdrop to, you know, on top of everything we've
Speaker 1: seen like with Luca or uh have been Lebron, you
Speaker 1: know Joker. Okay, So in the two thousands, the entirety
Speaker 1: of the two thousands, there were only nine sixty point
Speaker 1: games from players. In the twenty tens, in the twenty tens,
Speaker 1: there were eleven sixty point plus games from players. So far,
Speaker 1: we've already had nine sixty point games in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenties and we're in two or just entering and we've
Speaker 1: had nine already. What is that from? Is that just
Speaker 1: from the three point shot becoming such a so much
Speaker 1: more relevant. What my take on this is so dumb.
Speaker 1: It's just like, yeah, they're really good at making shots.
Speaker 1: Shot make it like that you hear like NBA, like
Speaker 1: Zach Low people be like the shot making is really
Speaker 1: off the charts, Like, yeah, they're they're good at shooting.
Speaker 1: They're good at making the ball in the basket and
Speaker 1: they're getting bar points. It turns out when you add
Speaker 1: him up, the numbers are a lot higher than last time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's like I think also too
Speaker 1: we're talking with Jabbar are super producer. You know, as
Speaker 1: the game evolves and you know, the refereeing tends to
Speaker 1: benefit higher scoring. I think we're just kind of seeing
Speaker 1: like the byproduct of those sort of small tweaks, you know, well,
Speaker 1: more more threes and then more people being able to
Speaker 1: draw that extra free throw. I mean not that that
Speaker 1: like that just maybe has a cumulative effect, but I
Speaker 1: mean that that's been one of the harder things to
Speaker 1: like to officiate, to get cleaned up, is just that
Speaker 1: foul on the three. The way that they like Steph
Speaker 1: Curry for like that, the way that he's always able
Speaker 1: to draw that, um those three free throws. I mean
Speaker 1: that's adds up, you know, you know how it is
Speaker 1: the three has been around since the eighties. I mean
Speaker 1: they're they're just they figured out, oh, that's that's a
Speaker 1: lot of points. We should we should do that, and
Speaker 1: the efficiency the people are doing it, Like Donovan Mitchell's
Speaker 1: seventy one came on thirty like low thirties field goal attempts,
Speaker 1: and it was like the least of anyone in the
Speaker 1: top thirty five. And didn't he assist on like ninety
Speaker 1: four of the point Yeah, yeah, ninety nine of the
Speaker 1: points He was either direct he was directly responsible. I
Speaker 1: mean that is absolutely Who's had a better game than that,
Speaker 1: like Will Chamberlain, Kobe, but this was this was the
Speaker 1: like the highest scoring game since Kobe. Oh yeah, really wow.
Speaker 1: I remember when the Kobe game happened. I didn't watch it,
Speaker 1: but I was at the gym Bally's humble brag the
Speaker 1: following day. Things were good. It was the seventies. Things
Speaker 1: were fine. They're not many, that's a loggoes fun. But
Speaker 1: I mean I remember heard of guys say it, and
Speaker 1: I was like, now you have something wrong, like there's
Speaker 1: there's a detail you have wrong in how many points
Speaker 1: he scored? Right, yeah? Yeah, it seems like it seems
Speaker 1: like an error. And same yesterday. Yeah, and then what
Speaker 1: Luca sixty fifty another fifty on the last ten days
Speaker 1: as of this recording, Like uh sure, yeah, Lucas was
Speaker 1: historic because he had twenty something boards where we keep
Speaker 1: seeing that like the in the Donovan Mitchell game also
Speaker 1: there was like an intentionally missed free throw that like
Speaker 1: saved the game for them. Like it does feel like
Speaker 1: there's a glitch in the matrix, like the whatever video
Speaker 1: game we're watching them play that it's just stuck on
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah or whatever. Yeah, someone's putting in the
Speaker 1: code that before that the loading screen before the game starts,
Speaker 1: and they figured out how to make it constantly on fire.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I think it also you know,
Speaker 1: goes to your point Jack like in Jabari's in the
Speaker 1: chat saying like it is a you know, a confluence
Speaker 1: of things, just like the game's progressive. People's skill sets
Speaker 1: are just getting more and more like next level and
Speaker 1: people have are just so multifaceted now, and shooting is
Speaker 1: just like we're seeing like I remember the you know,
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, We're like, why is everyone shooting
Speaker 1: so well this year already? I still have the same question.
Speaker 1: It's it's wild they I think they've been I don't, like,
Speaker 1: I don't I will not allow it. And then what
Speaker 1: then the Warriors went to double overtime and play put
Speaker 1: up fifty and the final was like one whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was ye, I mean that is absolutely crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: By the way, the Wilt Chamberlain, because we were talking
Speaker 1: before we started, like, are we going to see another
Speaker 1: hundred point game like it? It feels possible Now it
Speaker 1: just feels like the shooting is so next level of
Speaker 1: the shot making trademark is just so next level. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, like Luca, Luca feels like a good
Speaker 1: candidate for it. But Wilt Chamberlain's hundred point game, his
Speaker 1: team put up a hundred and sixty nine points. So
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's not a lot of teams doing
Speaker 1: that these days. But and here's a dumb question. I
Speaker 1: I have no clue, but was that Where was that
Speaker 1: game in overtime at all? No? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: That is just what do you? I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: go to another game if you go to that one? Like,
Speaker 1: I'm done put by jacking up in the round. I'm
Speaker 1: out of here. I'm not doing this again. Why I
Speaker 1: tried to take my wife to another game? She said,
Speaker 1: I think I score a hundred points again, Let's get
Speaker 1: our money back. It is terrible. Uh yeah. Also, to
Speaker 1: like the other thing before we take a break, the
Speaker 1: nets also have been on an absolute tear since December four,
Speaker 1: twelve straight and they're sixteen and one going back to
Speaker 1: late November, and I just said, man, the highlights of
Speaker 1: last night we're also, oh, man, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: didn't have as much faith. I don't know if to
Speaker 1: go back to the predictions up, so maybe I did
Speaker 1: predict this. We should go back to the predictions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did a predictions episode and then we revised it
Speaker 1: every week does something happened? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the only other option. Yeah, and all for all you,
Speaker 1: for all you listen, go back to the episodes. We
Speaker 1: actually changed every single episode if you go back. So
Speaker 1: that's that is what Skip Bayless does. Skip Bayless has
Speaker 1: said everything once and so he was always like I've
Speaker 1: been telling you forever. Like now he's like a Lebrond fan.
Speaker 1: I'm like, how are you pivoted? How have you been
Speaker 1: able to pull this off? Pull the tape up from
Speaker 1: two thousand and two for not Stop Can't Win. But
Speaker 1: the league's were definitely more fun when the nets are
Speaker 1: good and the nets are absolutely on a tear. I
Speaker 1: was wondering, like, because this does feel like are we
Speaker 1: seeing the same thing? That we saw with the Celtics
Speaker 1: last year where they were like kind of subpar for
Speaker 1: a little bit of the season and then put it together.
Speaker 1: But I was like, how many What was the most
Speaker 1: the Celtics won last year? And nine was the most
Speaker 1: they won in a row, So twelve twelve is pretty
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's that's pretty crazy. I know the
Speaker 1: Sun's did it at one point seventeen I think last year,
Speaker 1: but the next that's just fun. I don't know. Katie
Speaker 1: is so fun to watch, yeah, I mean even killing him.
Speaker 1: Pope was in the house watching and being like, oh
Speaker 1: macne feak at le basket balls. There's this one shot
Speaker 1: where like Katie just you know, hitting the easy jump
Speaker 1: shot or whatever, and like the way killing him. Bob
Speaker 1: the soccer players on the sidelines, he was like rubbing
Speaker 1: his mits. He's like, who yeah, maybe he just like
Speaker 1: doesn't know that scoring is much more common. You know,
Speaker 1: It's just crazy. Every time he had he had tricks,
Speaker 1: Chamberlain stats, his head just popped at the confetio. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll come back right after
Speaker 1: this to talk about some other outstanding performances right after this,
Speaker 1: and we're back, and I mean, I don't want to
Speaker 1: give the Luca stuff short change, but demand has been
Speaker 1: kind of out of his mind. But also he is
Speaker 1: who we thought he was, you know. He he came
Speaker 1: in as the m v P favorite and is now
Speaker 1: currently the MVP favorite. But I think the big criticism
Speaker 1: that people had was that they weren't winning, and now
Speaker 1: they're the fourth seed in the West. The West just
Speaker 1: looks wild. Yeah, the wild West. Some say exactly wild
Speaker 1: wild West. Yeah, wow, okay, so down Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: even looking at his last five games, I mean, it
Speaker 1: is ludicrous. Luke decris um Luca de Chris. But I
Speaker 1: don't I also understand like how I always it's always
Speaker 1: astounding when like I mean, obviously there I always think
Speaker 1: it's so funny, Like I feel like the coaches in
Speaker 1: the NBA for the most part, are just there for
Speaker 1: scale but obviously, but but I mean, the amount of
Speaker 1: rebounding you get when you're it's just it really is
Speaker 1: like amazing. Those are just amazing stats for the five games.
Speaker 1: When thirty two points, nine rebounds of nine assists is
Speaker 1: your worst game in the last five games, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean Western Conference top so Denver number one Memphis number two,
Speaker 1: New Orleans number three, Dallas four, Sacramento Kings number five. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think any I'm in the upside down right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what, I'm rooting for them. I
Speaker 1: want to see the Kings in the playoffs. It's been decades, right,
Speaker 1: I think I will only route for them if Donnaghy
Speaker 1: will come back and referee their playoff games, that will
Speaker 1: be it. Yeah. Um, and bead has been pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And Beads like, I don't think he's even on the
Speaker 1: top like six for like odds for m v P
Speaker 1: and he's just putting up crazy numbers. Uh and and
Speaker 1: the sixers look pretty good. He's at exactly six for
Speaker 1: m v P O right, Yeah, he's just outside the
Speaker 1: top five because what that's Jason Tatum, Luca Janice, uh,
Speaker 1: Joker k D. Yeah, and I mean Donovan Mitchell's name
Speaker 1: is probably gonna start getting mentioned to you know. The
Speaker 1: Calves are up there, but yeah, MB put up at
Speaker 1: twelve five assists in a win over the Pelicans, and
Speaker 1: Philly is eight and two and the last ten tied
Speaker 1: in the lost column with the Calves. So, um, what
Speaker 1: do you think in second round. Still, the top five
Speaker 1: in the East is legit. So the four or five round,
Speaker 1: which is where the sixers would be. The first round
Speaker 1: is going to be like, I don't know, a really
Speaker 1: good team is going to go home, so we'll see
Speaker 1: if they get to the second round. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It looked really and yet I was confident they were
Speaker 1: gonna lose the Wizards in my bone as a sixer
Speaker 1: span yeah, I mean yeah, that the win over the Pelicans,
Speaker 1: I would we we got to also just mentioned that
Speaker 1: Zion is going to be out for several weeks due
Speaker 1: to a hamstring strain, and for lack of a better phrase,
Speaker 1: you hate to see it, really do, because that was man,
Speaker 1: But that was you know, we were really starting to
Speaker 1: cook or watch them really get going. Um. It feels
Speaker 1: like every time there's a setback like that, it's amazing
Speaker 1: to watch him when he's healthy and be like, wow,
Speaker 1: there is like this is unreal, what's going on right now?
Speaker 1: It's always crazy too when you have like you know,
Speaker 1: someone who doesn't stay healthy that much and then and
Speaker 1: there's all that hype and then you kind of let
Speaker 1: go of it for a minute and then you actually
Speaker 1: see him come out and you're just like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is insanity. Yeah. I mean it's like a new
Speaker 1: it's like a new player every time when you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, he's good. And then I remember that offseason
Speaker 1: he did like that windmill and street clothes, and I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: This guy. We've pitched that he should play every game
Speaker 1: in overalls, or at least like come out and overall
Speaker 1: or like on a fan boat. Yeah, he should be
Speaker 1: allowed to kind of come up with like a wrestling
Speaker 1: character a season, That's what we're saying. Yeah, like you know,
Speaker 1: like he's got like a junkyard dog vibe or you know,
Speaker 1: you got a macho but whatever it is. I like
Speaker 1: the overall Yeah, yeah. I just like those like, you know,
Speaker 1: forgive me those who are you know, versed in fishing stuff,
Speaker 1: but those like you know, protective coveralls that you wear
Speaker 1: so you can be like knee deep in it and
Speaker 1: just playing in that just doesn't breathe all your sweats
Speaker 1: collected in it. Yet he's still just moving across the court.
Speaker 1: I think that he's just waiting at his own sweat essentially,
Speaker 1: or like lost that you wouldn't sweat as much. It's
Speaker 1: like good, like every time you go for a shot,
Speaker 1: your body is displacing the water inside your coveralls and
Speaker 1: it's splashing into your face, like just came out of
Speaker 1: your pants. Just happened out there. He caught it with
Speaker 1: one hand before and then he could have a pelican. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: Jabar said. He said he finally came up with his
Speaker 1: ion comp because there's like, what who is he a
Speaker 1: combination of he said, Dominique and Barkley's body. Wow, wow,
Speaker 1: I like that's a weird one. Even a picture that
Speaker 1: is weird. Yeah. I loved Dr b Rose stuff like
Speaker 1: you cannot do this but trying. You get the sense
Speaker 1: you're watching something happen with like not just basketball, but
Speaker 1: like physics. When he's out there, like there's just like
Speaker 1: something physically strange and Joh I feel like it's the
Speaker 1: same way and they were drafted one too, but John
Speaker 1: just feels like he is operating with different laws of physics.
Speaker 1: Well he's spider Man. Yeah yeah yeah. Also with Memphis,
Speaker 1: Steven add Stephen Adams head love him twenty one boards
Speaker 1: to Anyone, Rebound, doubled up one. I just love it.
Speaker 1: I just love his enter g he seems like the
Speaker 1: best guy to how on your team. He does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he always say yeah, you could just tell like he
Speaker 1: I remember when I go to Alright, not anymore, but
Speaker 1: he used to go to Australia like once a year
Speaker 1: for comedy stuff. These guys who ran a comedy club.
Speaker 1: Their daughter was married to Andrew Bogett. And the was
Speaker 1: right when, you know, right when the Warriors were starting
Speaker 1: to get really good, and I was just like, Bogan man,
Speaker 1: he's you know, and they were like quiet, and someone
Speaker 1: was like sight outlaw Andrew, Oh wow, okay, that's interesting wow,
Speaker 1: And turns out they were onto something. Yeah. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I always that's what I always think about Steven Adams.
Speaker 1: You can just kind of tell, like it seems like
Speaker 1: a good dude. He's a key Wei right yeah yeah, right,
Speaker 1: Zeland Zealand. I mean, we're gonna talk about it later.
Speaker 1: Like Josiah put up his like all right, give me
Speaker 1: your candidates for the best moments of the NBA season
Speaker 1: on Twitter, and so somebody nominated. You know, there was
Speaker 1: the ap pearl dunk and then immediately followed by Steven
Speaker 1: Adams full full court pass to John falling out of
Speaker 1: bounds that passes underrated. Yeah, straight out of the land. Man,
Speaker 1: should we talk about ruly? Oh, thank you Jack. I
Speaker 1: gotta shot out my fellow Blaze and Rui Hachimura. It's
Speaker 1: so good to see you mat twenty six points off
Speaker 1: the bench against the bucks, sadly, and then thirty off
Speaker 1: the bench over the Sungs. I've been I've been worried
Speaker 1: about Mr Hachimura, um, but it's good. It's good to
Speaker 1: see that there's some life in him yet, although it's
Speaker 1: very hard to get your shoes. Ruy and I met
Speaker 1: you that one time, and you were so impressed that
Speaker 1: I spoke Japanese and I was like, broad, we're the
Speaker 1: same guy, except you and you are the same except
Speaker 1: I am older in freaking you out because I have
Speaker 1: tears in my eyes saying I look up to you
Speaker 1: streaming down your face. I'm the sad version of you.
Speaker 1: Don't hatch up off of him. Now they hunting and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh my god, please keep saying this phrase
Speaker 1: over and over to him. Remember so Japanese. Really, what
Speaker 1: did you say to him in Japanese? Oh? Well, the
Speaker 1: first I mean when I saw him, this was like
Speaker 1: this is when I went to All Star in Chicago
Speaker 1: and I got a chance to interview him for something,
Speaker 1: and I just pulled him aside and I just first
Speaker 1: I was like, I just told him straight up. I
Speaker 1: was like, hey, man, it's really good to meet you. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm also black knees like, and it's great to have
Speaker 1: people like you out there, because they're really there's nothing
Speaker 1: like that except for like you and Naomi. Uh. And
Speaker 1: he was like, oh yeah, He's like, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: He's just so he was so nice. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: when but also it's this funny thing whenever I speak
Speaker 1: Japanese two Japanese people, it's just this very Japanese thing
Speaker 1: where like, because I'm half, I don't look like someone
Speaker 1: who should speak Japanese and it freaks people out. And
Speaker 1: it's funny because really is also half and he goes
Speaker 1: through the exact same thing with Japanese people. But it's
Speaker 1: just funny. This like interaction where I was like the
Speaker 1: American dude who was also Japanese trying to speak dam
Speaker 1: in Japanese. He was like, at first he thought he
Speaker 1: was tripping or something. Um, and then very much once
Speaker 1: I verified that and wiped the tears from my face.
Speaker 1: He knew I was. I wish he was the tear
Speaker 1: from your face. You had to ask. You gotta ask
Speaker 1: him next time, please to please, and not like embarrassed
Speaker 1: for you because like I know some people who like
Speaker 1: speak Korean or something and it sounds really good to me,
Speaker 1: but then they speak in front of a Korean person there,
Speaker 1: like you said, you sound like a four year old.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can get hit with some real backhanded
Speaker 1: comments went up with your foreign language skills. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he was very nice. And yes, Rory, one day, please
Speaker 1: wipe the tears from my eyes. You know, you just
Speaker 1: gotta cry harder. Yeah, that's more opportunities. I think that's
Speaker 1: what it is. Yeah, the next time, you guys, I'm
Speaker 1: getting court side seats. NBA helped me out so I
Speaker 1: can have tears streamed down my face and rue slips
Speaker 1: here it's his ankles. How could he's crying more because
Speaker 1: he heard him? This guy? What stop crying? I think
Speaker 1: I just need to find an artist to make one
Speaker 1: of those posters, you know, like Jesus, like the one
Speaker 1: set of footsteps in the sand kind of thing with
Speaker 1: Ruey holding me. Yeah you know about you? Yeah, bood
Speaker 1: set off weep print ye weep trail and the sands
Speaker 1: and puddling on some footsteps walking away. Yeah exactly, Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: real quick. So Yokich just put up thirty, twelve and
Speaker 1: twelve on ten of thirteen field goals to or two
Speaker 1: from deep first the Celtics. A lot of people are
Speaker 1: starting to say, like, you gotta actually consider him for
Speaker 1: m v P at this point, for three in a row,
Speaker 1: which is kind of unheard of. Probably won't happen, but
Speaker 1: they're at the top of the West Lebron one four
Speaker 1: out of five. But it hasn't evidence Larry Bird, and
Speaker 1: he does it with such style too. We can't keep
Speaker 1: talking about how Yokis is lit. He's playing people like
Speaker 1: like an old man in a driveway. His great man
Speaker 1: game is Yeah, he's never made sense. It's never like,
Speaker 1: it's just never seemed right. He seems to be moving slowly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like there should be an inspector, there should be somebody's like,
Speaker 1: this is this man? This is impossible. How's he doing that?
Speaker 1: It's not real. He's a shared vision. He just tricked
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard into thinking the basketball came from behind his ear.
Speaker 1: How no, that's against the rules and the defender is
Speaker 1: actually charmed by it. That was my ball. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: T see that. He's like, what that open three, Lebron?
Speaker 1: You know, we this is a little bit back, but
Speaker 1: you're dis grunted Lakers fans. Sure whatever, Fine, let's fourth day. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just went off and then immediately after forty
Speaker 1: three eleven and six and it went over the Hornets.
Speaker 1: On Monday, the Lakers are sixteen twenty one, but they're
Speaker 1: just one game back from the plan and he is
Speaker 1: since a d went out. I think he's averaging thirty
Speaker 1: four and a half points in his past ten appearances
Speaker 1: and then like seven and seven as he always does
Speaker 1: so right and the end it is the hardest part
Speaker 1: of the schedule. They're coming home. Now, what's that? Upsurds
Speaker 1: that I know Jabari Parin knows, but like that, Lebron
Speaker 1: wasn't like when was the last time he was averaging
Speaker 1: thirty points, like over thirty point It was like in
Speaker 1: his like early twenties or something, wasn't it. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: hasn't had to for a little and then now he's like, fine,
Speaker 1: put it on my back and here we go, which
Speaker 1: is amazing to still be able to do it though,
Speaker 1: Like to have that I mean it's not I guess,
Speaker 1: but it is like to still be able to just
Speaker 1: it really And also, I mean that was always the
Speaker 1: thing was like when people would knock Lebron, they would
Speaker 1: be like, he is afraid. I mean, I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: to skip Bayliss mainly again, but you know they would
Speaker 1: just be like he's afraid of the big shot, and
Speaker 1: it was like, no, the student, he's just like way
Speaker 1: more like his game is just it can be that
Speaker 1: Like I mean remember the first time you saw him
Speaker 1: score like fifty points against the Pistons and that, like
Speaker 1: it was crazy. So you're like, oh, he can do it.
Speaker 1: But to still be able to at this age, even
Speaker 1: though he's like younger than his years, to still be
Speaker 1: able to just turn it on like that, you are
Speaker 1: still like, wow, he just he can still do that, yeah,
Speaker 1: at this age after going to that because people always
Speaker 1: talk about like the you know, playoffs, if you're going
Speaker 1: to the playoffs and you're you're making deep runs. He
Speaker 1: was in the finals like every year, like he's like
Speaker 1: the NBA Brady Yeah, and then you get the spoiled
Speaker 1: like he can't win the Big Game every year, like
Speaker 1: he's going every year, but the Big Game every year
Speaker 1: every year? Uh yeah, did you see? Oh man, did
Speaker 1: you see that reverse alp that he caught? And then
Speaker 1: the game gets the hornets. It's really good. But he's
Speaker 1: now five points away from Kareem. Kareem gave it up
Speaker 1: for him after the birthday game. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's I mean, how much longer will he play? I
Speaker 1: mean there's no I mean, I feel like he has
Speaker 1: the will to play until you know, Brawnie gets in
Speaker 1: the league. I could I could potentially see that even
Speaker 1: weird to even think about that would be very strange,
Speaker 1: but that feels like a thing that he would like
Speaker 1: his his like, you know, his willpower is so strong.
Speaker 1: I feel like you could somehow be like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: going to play with my son, Like with reg little
Speaker 1: video can detention took his head off. But yeah, like this,
Speaker 1: this this allub was really uh something. That's that's someone
Speaker 1: who's also thirty eight years old. I'm wondering why I
Speaker 1: can't do that. That's tough. Coum a shrewder throws it
Speaker 1: up just to die come behind? Yeah what that was
Speaker 1: that casual man? Like what he said, the yeah highlight
Speaker 1: where like somebody involved is just like she's amazed, as
Speaker 1: I would be. Really is crazy. He just really like
Speaker 1: you could have just put that back. But he's like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I got a little air time still,
Speaker 1: how about that? Wow? Shrewder was like, man, I threw
Speaker 1: the worst ellue for you and he still did that
Speaker 1: somehow made a highlight out of it. Oh yeah, fantastic
Speaker 1: Lebron long mante last. That's why I'm happy that Tom
Speaker 1: Brady still plays and is like considered decent at least
Speaker 1: is because he's like the besides me, a long snapper,
Speaker 1: the only player older than me, and and so it's
Speaker 1: just like there's something like whenever you compare yourself to
Speaker 1: the actual athlete, you're just like, this is so, what's
Speaker 1: a weird thing you do when you're younger? You know,
Speaker 1: when you're like I would always do it, like when
Speaker 1: I was a sport I liked, I'm like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: only fourteen and that dude's eighteen. That's why it's so good.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm only eighteen and this dude's twenty five.
Speaker 1: That's why he's doing this. I'm like, well, I'm twenty three.
Speaker 1: Playing inner murals. Still even though I've graduated from this
Speaker 1: college and this You're like, you start the comparison is
Speaker 1: what you picked like a twenty eight year old as
Speaker 1: when you're like thirteen, as to when you're like forty.
Speaker 1: You're like, you're like four. That is an old man.
Speaker 1: If I would eat I would eat a man skin
Speaker 1: to yeah, please please Yeah. And then somehow just for
Speaker 1: one day, rights just a moment, for twenty sweet minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you get it. You're like, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: watch the TV. You just yeah, three A. I love
Speaker 1: this movie. Like, I'm not gonna go to the gym, Dude,
Speaker 1: I'm twenty four. What I need to work out for
Speaker 1: you know that? That's why I'm gonna get some Grubhub celebrate.
Speaker 1: Just feel the calories burn off of me. By the way,
Speaker 1: we talked about Jack Sikma being the best Jack, what's
Speaker 1: the best? Because your new comedy special, which is hilarious.
Speaker 1: By the way, you talk a lot about the British accent.
Speaker 1: Who's Who's the best NBA player of all time with
Speaker 1: a British accent? I don't know the answer to this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm trying to answer to this. Hey,
Speaker 1: we might need to get suproducer Jabari to look it
Speaker 1: up for us. By the Yeah, did Lull then come
Speaker 1: up in the UK before he came over? I need
Speaker 1: I need like real Britain like he's because like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: because that's my The closest thing I could think of
Speaker 1: is like I feel like lu all Dang, Like I
Speaker 1: know he he grew up in the UK. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't know you're you're looking for Ben Gordon lul Dang,
Speaker 1: Oh right, hannonobi uh Gordon, but you want someone named
Speaker 1: like Winston Jefferson was like pretty difficult to grab every
Speaker 1: one of those really mean to going it? Didn't we
Speaker 1: going to it? Didn't win like one of the regional accents.
Speaker 1: That sounds fake. You're like, yeah, yeah, we got a
Speaker 1: proper Yorkshireman. But we were out there a bit longer
Speaker 1: than we fulled, you know, bit longer than we wanted
Speaker 1: the bab but that they figured it out. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: haven't played like that since I We're eight years old,
Speaker 1: so too. Then you're like, you are the refereation pocket watch.
Speaker 1: The referee doesn't know what he's doing, mate, didn't he
Speaker 1: give it? And then defends giving me Peltless afterimize uh,
Speaker 1: there you go? And what else? Jack? Who else? Every
Speaker 1: Cane Massive Man is crossover episode. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll come back to put Gareth
Speaker 1: through the rapid fire round of Candy Man Michael Candy,
Speaker 1: and we're back. I guess what got it? You're in
Speaker 1: the hot seat and it's time for the rapid Fire
Speaker 1: Round questioning, the fastest questioning segment in all of sports podcasting.
Speaker 1: We're gonna ask you a question. You just respond, I
Speaker 1: don't think about it, don't expound upon. I have to
Speaker 1: think about it a little. Answers can be bad. We
Speaker 1: would prefer a quick answer that one should well be bad. Good.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to be answers to the questions
Speaker 1: we asked. Words about your mouth? Ye, you're like, yes,
Speaker 1: what is Candy? The candy Man? Speaking of the candy Man? Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go, Garrett, buckle up. Bryan start the clock?
Speaker 1: Did you start the clock? I think he did. I
Speaker 1: just know he asked it be a lit kinder when
Speaker 1: asked him to start the clock. Well, he's just a
Speaker 1: rapid fire treatment. Yeah, Well, if you'd start the clock
Speaker 1: on time, I wouldn't have to break him on the
Speaker 1: chat started on time when I just go all caps?
Speaker 1: Where are you with the clock anyway? Started back up? Um,
Speaker 1: do you want to go first? Yeah? Yeah, I'll go
Speaker 1: first with this one. Uh okay, Gareth, you have the
Speaker 1: chance to win ten thousand dollars to make a layup
Speaker 1: with each hand, dollars to make five or five free throws,
Speaker 1: or one thousand dollars to make at least four or
Speaker 1: five from deep. Which challenge you taken? I'll go lay
Speaker 1: up with each hand? And why that dollar amount? I
Speaker 1: feel like I could. I feel like that one I
Speaker 1: could do. I feel like the rest I would not
Speaker 1: be able to do. And I want the money. I
Speaker 1: want to share thing because by the way, all this
Speaker 1: money is going to the Boys and Girls Club, because
Speaker 1: that's kind of guy. I'm a sympathetic figure. Wow, well
Speaker 1: you're not worried about missing a layup and front because
Speaker 1: this isn't a pack stadium. I can see every one
Speaker 1: of these will go south for me. So but I
Speaker 1: feel like that one I could probably pull off. I've
Speaker 1: pulled off right handed or left handed, right handed, left foot,
Speaker 1: so that's a huge that's good. So what I'm saying
Speaker 1: from the left side. Yeah, you're going up with your
Speaker 1: left hand off the right foot too. That would be
Speaker 1: off the right foot. No, that would be off the
Speaker 1: that'll be I'll be coming off the left foot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm just trying. I'm saying, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna use both hands, how you're gonna go up. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do the awkward thing where you since your left hand,
Speaker 1: you jump with your left leg. You go up with
Speaker 1: your left leg and left hand. Look. I again, I'm
Speaker 1: not confident I could see an A. C. L popping. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: more on that later. Man, we gotta keep this segment going.
Speaker 1: You know, the money's gonna go if I get it today.
Speaker 1: I know, I know. But here's the next question that
Speaker 1: you have to answer, and it's really pressing. What are
Speaker 1: your top three basketball movies of all time? I would go, um, Hoosiers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, a bit hacky, but you know it's it's
Speaker 1: really it's just for for a tiny English white man.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, there is something nice about that
Speaker 1: insulated environment. Yeah, blue Chips, who's your favorite character? And
Speaker 1: Blue Chips? I mean Nick Nolty is great, but like Shock,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like shock when you were like
Speaker 1: he was a beata and then number three teen Wolf.
Speaker 1: This is the first mentioned of teen Wolf that we've
Speaker 1: had other than me Wolf movie. But to me, that's
Speaker 1: a basketball one of my favorite. I always say, like
Speaker 1: that movie still when I watch it, I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: that's a good movie. So it mean it means like
Speaker 1: I have a teen Wolf shaped lens through which I
Speaker 1: watch all movies, so like my movie opinions are broken.
Speaker 1: I also like movies where there's no where like you're
Speaker 1: allowed to let a wolfman play, and there's no like
Speaker 1: nobody's like, hey, I don't think that's legal basketball that
Speaker 1: the wolf play. Yeah, he's a wolf man and let him.
Speaker 1: Let him, let him get a few shots. Plus one
Speaker 1: of the craziest perform this is by an extra. Ever,
Speaker 1: I probably can't get in too deep to what it
Speaker 1: is on this, but let's just say if if there
Speaker 1: were oscars for extras the last scene and team will
Speaker 1: have one, this guy would be arrested. I'm not a man,
Speaker 1: I'm a wolf man. Had my business. What is a
Speaker 1: new rule Gareth you'd like to see implemented or altered
Speaker 1: effective immediately in the national basket You know when we
Speaker 1: were talking earlier about the scoring, remember the Rock and
Speaker 1: Jack games back. I think we're ready for the ten
Speaker 1: point spot. We don't need to have it, they're all game,
Speaker 1: but maybe, you know, I think you could mix it
Speaker 1: up a couple like have the ten point shot maybe
Speaker 1: for the third quarter, something like that. Okay, where do
Speaker 1: you put it? Is it fixed or is it like
Speaker 1: dynamically like it just shows up like a video game,
Speaker 1: and you gotta be ready for it. Now that I
Speaker 1: hear that pitch, it's got to be that. It's gotta be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what. You can have it just intermittent, like
Speaker 1: throughout the game, and it can just be this little
Speaker 1: hologram that pops up every now and then and you've
Speaker 1: got ten point shop for a little while, no substitutions
Speaker 1: when the ten pointers out there. I like that. I
Speaker 1: like that. M m okay. How about this, Gareth Wilder,
Speaker 1: crowds or fans pick one, sports fans or the patrons
Speaker 1: the comedy shows. Um, I would say, I would say
Speaker 1: sports fans. Sports fans are Wilder, Uh there are I
Speaker 1: don't think like I don't. I feel like if you
Speaker 1: go to a sporting event, you know what you're going
Speaker 1: to and you're excited to see something. I would say
Speaker 1: thirty percent of shows I do, there's someone who looks
Speaker 1: like they just kind of got transported there against their will,
Speaker 1: and they're like, the hell is that the whole time,
Speaker 1: And while even if you're killing, yeah, you can, you
Speaker 1: just fixate on this one to two people are just
Speaker 1: sitting there, what is this man doing this? Bright um?
Speaker 1: Why did the accent keep changing? My favorite one is
Speaker 1: you know, I'll granted, sometimes you'll take creative liberties with
Speaker 1: a story or a bit and you'll add a little
Speaker 1: something to it, but I feel like you're being pretty
Speaker 1: clear with it. There there are things that I'll say
Speaker 1: that obviously are our stories based on reality, and people
Speaker 1: will be like, was that really true? And you're like
Speaker 1: the idea that A I make up a whole story
Speaker 1: and the b if I did, this is the best
Speaker 1: story I can make up, Like right, So that happens.
Speaker 1: So I think sports fans just get what they're going
Speaker 1: to make more and there's no one trying to do
Speaker 1: what the people you're paying to see do, trying to
Speaker 1: go up there with themselves exactly, which would be funny though,
Speaker 1: Like every now and then I was like, Hi, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: can I can I have the ball in the in
Speaker 1: the huddle? Yeah, honestly, I'm gonna I'm actually gonna sneak
Speaker 1: in for this one. I'm sorry, who are you? I'm
Speaker 1: in like the eighth row, so try I'm not even
Speaker 1: gonna shoot it. I just did get me out there.
Speaker 1: I want to pass it a little bit. There's a
Speaker 1: thing that happens now more than I had seen like
Speaker 1: when I was growing up, where like a player will
Speaker 1: point someone out who's being like particularly brutal like in there,
Speaker 1: like they should instead of kicking them out, they should
Speaker 1: be able to bring them in as a sub for
Speaker 1: the opposing team, and they have to play like three minutes.
Speaker 1: You know. It's like at a NFL games are soccer
Speaker 1: mainly NFL, where like there'll be a streaker or someone
Speaker 1: will run on and the players will tackle the person,
Speaker 1: and you're like, there's there's a little bit more. There's
Speaker 1: something else going on here than they're just trying to
Speaker 1: stop the person. They're like, right, what you're doing? They're
Speaker 1: like freeb yeah, yeah, yeah, like just straight up bile
Speaker 1: drive a fan and everyone's like yeah, yes, twound six
Speaker 1: ft five guys, just crushed the hundred thirty pound five
Speaker 1: person who random the fields. Yeah, and they'll cut away.
Speaker 1: They'll be like, well, we're not gonna show it to you.
Speaker 1: It's like, come on and finally, uh, the question we
Speaker 1: close out with every time, Jacker Miles. This is tough.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have a comedy crush on Miles just
Speaker 1: from doing some shows with him. Me too, ma'am. But
Speaker 1: but Jack, you're so understanding to how I feel about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're really empathizing with me in a way that's
Speaker 1: just I think I'm owen thirty. I actually I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say that. Wait, hold on, you You're never getting me. No,
Speaker 1: why are you making an emotional appeal right? This I'm
Speaker 1: not trying. This is sweat sweating because I'm nervous because
Speaker 1: it just would really make my year. Uh well it's
Speaker 1: early for me to be able to make someone's year.
Speaker 1: January third is big. So Jack got good news. I'm
Speaker 1: picking you Jack Sickma, It's just I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Man's pushed me over the edge. Absolute legend, legend, legend, mate.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, oh gosh, Garett Man, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for coming on on fantastic podcast. It's right. I
Speaker 1: will say it's a fantastic podcast and you heard that
Speaker 1: and that's that's Gareth Reynolds of The Dollar, which is right.
Speaker 1: So podcast how certified? No one I'm talking? So where
Speaker 1: can people find you and follow you, listen to you
Speaker 1: and again we'll check out your special You can find
Speaker 1: me on social media at Reynolds Gareth. This is how
Speaker 1: Welsh guy beat me to it on Twitter. So now
Speaker 1: I go do a decimal style backwards Reynolds, Gareth one
Speaker 1: R and Gareth one are and Reynolds. But that's figured.
Speaker 1: Uh then I specially you can go to Gareth Reynolds
Speaker 1: dot com. There's a little special tab like that, or
Speaker 1: you can go on YouTube go to all Things Comedy
Speaker 1: page and just search my specials called England Weed and
Speaker 1: the rest. Tell people about it. And then my two
Speaker 1: podcasts that I have. One is The Dollar which is
Speaker 1: American history, and then with the same guy, we have
Speaker 1: a similar one where we go through old weird newspapers
Speaker 1: that it's called The Past Times. And both those are
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. So I'll give those a list podcast. Yeah yeah, yah, yeah.
Speaker 1: We gotta shout out of a couple of tweets. Kareem
Speaker 1: showing Lebron love on his birthday was a fantastic tweet.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw that one. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love Josiah shout out the best tweets of the
Speaker 1: NBA year and bringing attention to uh the Pistons game
Speaker 1: where the dude came for Lebron and just kept coming.
Speaker 1: I don't know if let us put that in there,
Speaker 1: but it is one of the great comedy performances of
Speaker 1: all time US. I don't know if you saw that
Speaker 1: the guy there's a guy last year. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say that this. Yeah, I remember Yea from Relentless. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just the most relentless, like going back to the tunnel,
Speaker 1: flying out of the other entrance and just NonStop. One
Speaker 1: of the great things I've ever seen in basketball or
Speaker 1: anywhere else. Well, it's great because it's like when you
Speaker 1: actually I've when you can actually like break through that barrier. Yah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty incredible. And he does like kind of at
Speaker 1: one point breakthrough a little bit and then stop himself,
Speaker 1: just like a dog that cut the car. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't want that one. And also we asked for an
Speaker 1: immediate rule change from our bad boost these listeners and
Speaker 1: we got look a lot of people are feeling the
Speaker 1: rock and Jock. You know what I mean. I think
Speaker 1: it was a very cra like when Rick Mhorne hit
Speaker 1: I think he hit a fifty point basket. Uh. They
Speaker 1: used to have the game I used to go to.
Speaker 1: I went to so many rocking Jocks because it was
Speaker 1: like the cheapest basketball game I could afford to go
Speaker 1: to because the tickets were like three bucks. And you
Speaker 1: see Irvine. But anyway, at Respecting Service said every half
Speaker 1: court shot to be worth sixty nine points. All a
Speaker 1: rock and Jock at Dad, Sham Dad and the you
Speaker 1: know what I love that? I love uh. And then
Speaker 1: a friend of the show former guests at Roger Chapalu
Speaker 1: said every team should be oh and oh once the
Speaker 1: new year starts. See why not? I'll take that Lakers.
Speaker 1: Why is that relevant? Is that relevant? But yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: at Winduster says, if a team is down more than
Speaker 1: ten at halftime, that team can choose one opposing player
Speaker 1: to bench for two minutes to start the second half.
Speaker 1: Either they sit or they were weighted down with clown
Speaker 1: shoes for those two minutes. I like that. And also
Speaker 1: at Paul care event. He went wild for the first
Speaker 1: three minutes of each quarter, team's rotate, being able to
Speaker 1: play five on four. The overtime period is played three
Speaker 1: on three. I like that wasn't a legit think they
Speaker 1: were floating at one point. I feel like maybe I'm crazy.
Speaker 1: I'll take it. That would be done. Well, Well, that's
Speaker 1: gonna do it for this episode of Miles and Jack
Speaker 1: got mad Boosts. Follow us on Twitter at mad Boosti's
Speaker 1: m A D B O O S T I E
Speaker 1: s uh and we'll see you next week. I hope
Speaker 1: you guys have a happy New Year, and thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. And we'll see you next time.
Speaker 1: Bye bye,