Bobby Hurley, Final Four From Houston, Women’s National Title And Who’s Back Of The Week

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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Monday, April 3rd and then there were two championship game.

Yukon is a wagon, and that might be the kiss of death because I'm the minus sign king and I'm about to lay a brick. I'm about to lay a brick on Yukon. And it's given me vibes of how sure I was that there were going to be no doings. I'm essentially betting on no doings tonight.

Okay, so let's set the scene, let's set the scene for the people. If you watch the intro, you saw us in a different place. We care so much about the listeners.

Straight up, Lake Charles, Louisiana, is my favorite place on earth, it is, I love this place.

Um, so it's, yeah, it's fantastic place. Thank you to everyone who, uh, accommodates us here. Where should we start with the game, should we go with the the the first game, the Buzzer Beater and then get to Yukon?

Let's get chronological with it. It was the most tan fan base that I've ever seen in the history of a basketball game. Um, a lot of Bros. from San Diego, a lot of bros from FAU, very attractive people just in general.

This was the bro-iest final four ever, cause Miami Bros. go hard as well. Yep, like there was a few times where I would. I turned around in the concourse and there was just a bunch of Miami fans. And I was like, You guys look like you're having a fucking awesome time.

Watching a bunch of dudes roll around, just slugging, tall boys wearing, wearing Sean Taylor and Ray Lewis football jerseys. Yep, that's how basketball should be played.

Saw some Tony Gwynn jerseys, uh, which was sick. That's just a nice wrinkle. I actually saw a baseball San Diego State Tony Gwynn jersey that was cool. Um, did he play at San Diego State?

Uh, yeah, he did, I think he did, yeah, and he was a basketball player too. He's a damn good basketball player.

Those as well, so the vibes were cool. We went into the arena memes and I sat, Uh, I mean, it is Space City, we were basically sitting in orbit, we went and we sat at the top row.

You were up high enough. That's like where Jeff Bezos goes when he says he's going to outer space, and it's just in, like, near Earth orbit. That's where you were. It's a knock against the whole idea of playing basketball in a football stadium, which I understand why they do it.

And simply, tournament is such bullshit. They basically take an entire half of the state of the first, uh section and and right by the court side and just give it to the press.

Well, there's three rows center court.

Yeah.

That's ridiculous for the elite press, right?

So who gets like, but does any other event do that? No, they don't do that for the N.B.A. finals, no chance.

No, they don't.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, all like the national publications, get the center court ones and then everyone else gets the end zone.

Well, the New York Times doesn't even have a check mark. But anyway, so the uh, up upstairs, I will admit there was a few times memes can maybe chime in. There was a few times where a shot was made and I didn't know if it was made or not. And I just reacted off of the crowd like there was a couple of even swishes where I was like, did that? did that go in?

That means the gym dance was in hell. Court side. He got a standing ovation from everybody. I want to hear, I want to hear. He was pointing, he was, he was tipping his invisible hat to everybody in the arena. We gave him a standing oh, shout out.

Did you, uh, have a little tear tear during that moment?

It was a really nice moment. Uh, I don't know if you saw on Twitter. I got to catch up with Jim on Friday's practice day. Oh, you did. I interviewed him.

What?

You didn't see this?

Yeah.

I do not. You didn't see it. Best part, best part by far. Jim Nance told Jake that he was proud of it.

Wait, can you? Can you play it on your phone real quick? I listen, I apologize. Whenever we're on the road, there's a lot that happens, there's a lot that happens, there's just like things are moving.

It's okay, yeah. So I had the media, No. He seems like a groper.

Not, that's not accusatory, like, more like a friendly girl.

Yeah, right, like, gradually, Jim Nance is a little older.

So, like, they used to grope back.

Yeah, it's like, when an old man grabs your butt, it's not creepy, right?

It's not like he's assaulting anyone, it's just like he just gropes.

I've had my butt grabbed by more people over the age of 70 than anybody else on this planet.

He's like, he's like a Biden hair sniffer.

This is like a two minute interview. You can watch it in its entirety on my Twitter feed. I'll fast forward to the last 30 seconds, the first like minute, a minute and a half. It was me asking him about Jim Nance week, going straight from the final four to Augusta, things like that and talking about the Games. But yeah, the mini fire vest the band started playing in the middle of the interview for the full interview.

Oh, yeah, we can't hear anything.

It'll get better.

I'm proud of you, Jake.

Well, have a great call this weekend. Adam, you keep doing it, man. I'm proud of you for your career.

Oh, okay, did he know who you were? So it sounded like he just sees like a guy in his twenties in a suit. He's like, you're just doing it right.

Well, he's on, he's proud of you because you finished in the top 10.

Yes, yes, the Jim Nance Award Top 10, you finished ninth.

I finished ninth. There's a bunch of people who apply.

Yeah, yeah.

I have over nine pieces of African American memorabilia Top 10..

That is top 10.

They rank the top 20 collegiate sportscasters in the country every year. I was just happy to be on the list. So you finished in the.

In the first half.

In the top 10 of the ranked people.

Yeah, 20..

But it's like, it's like in college basketball, there's a top 25, right? There's a bunch of other, I mean, tons of them.

Okay, got it, everybody.

We're talking 25.

Top 10.

Glad to be on the list.

Fly forever. You're like the Indianapolis colts.

In other words, Jim Nance was like, I'm very proud of you for being the ninth most like me person in college. Broadcast in 2018.

Did you say I went from Top 10 to a job at the reputable Barstool Sports?

I said, I work at Barstool Sports, all right.

Good job Jim Nance. I like that. Yeah, I mean, I'm a big Jim Nance.

We'd love we would love to have him on the show. Absolutely love to, Yes, yeah.

I'd love to be groped by Jim Nance, No.

Well, I would.

All right, so you don't get the grope.

You wouldn't, you wouldn't let Jim Nance grab your butthole.

No, no, no.

I'm going to touch your butt cheek, I'm accidentally one pinky into the crack.

He's going to cup a cheek.

He told me he was proud of me. I'll leave it, I'll leave it up.

We found a good way to ruin this moment.

Nance is hanging up. Maybe that means that he's stepping into his like, nice, uh, like, post woke after career, where where he can now, like, finally let loose. And he's going to start a podcast doing golf and NFL.

Okay, yeah, true, true. So he's wow.

Maybe that's why, maybe that's why Tony Romo was always like, Yeah, because Jim Nance is just getting up there, yeah.

He's got his hands, like Jeff Dunham, yeah, he's got his hand up.

This will be his final travel from the final four to the Masters. Wow, end of an era.

Uh, who's taking over?

I an eagle, okay?

Well, I know wild fact here who finished number one in the gym, Nance?

Broadcast finished number two the next year.

Cause he's no, no, not wait.

His son, his son, No. I was going to say, Noah from Syracuse, that's wild because I an eagle. His son, Noah Eagle, is also a broadcaster, yeah.

All right, so I an eagle, that's a good replacement. Yeah, uh, all right. So we got a little sidetracked, but the moment for Jim Nance was special.

Yeah, okay, okay.

Uh, the game, let's talk about the game. I wish Dusty May had paid more attention to our interview when I told him that when San Diego State gets down by like seven to 10, you haven't won yet.

Yeah, they were down by more than that, they're down by 14..

Yeah.

So San Diego State, well, they got out hot, San Diego State came out strong and it looked like nobody was going to miss a shot on San Diego State.

And same with FAA. So Fau San Diego State, uh, their last lead in the game until the buzzer beater was at 11. Oh, five in the first half. That's when when Fau had tied the game. I think it's 17, and from that point on till the last second, Fau was in control of the game.

That was a great block that sucked.

But San Diego State credit to them because they're tough as nails. And we get the first, uh, ever, buzzer beater in the final four when the team shooting the ball was trailing, yeah.

That's, it's crazy that it's taken this long, cause there's so many iconic buzzer beaters. That happened in the final four, we think happened, but it's usually with a tie game, or to tie the game at the end of regulation.

They only had two losses.

They had two losses, so they were going to be I don't know what seed they would have been, probably a one seed, so they canceled the tournament for Covid. This is San Diego State's redemption arc.

Bradley's their best score, Bradley.

So, uh, they're both too jacked up because they live on the beach in San Diego. So they're like, I got to have guns. Swole when I go outside all the time. They're too strong and they don't have any touch on their foul.

And that was the craziest part about the end of the game. So the the the final, uh, sequence. Fau I don't know, I guess you probably don't have this play in your playbook, but if Fau, if Dusty May, can learn anything from it. It's like, figure out a play where if there's a six second differential in the shot clock, shoot right before the shot clock. And hope, like, and hope, the rebound just gets batted around a bunch. Because what ended up happening is they get the ball back with 36 seconds, they're up by one, they shoot with like 10 seconds left in the game.

Yeah, I thought he wasn't aware of the time they didn't do anything until like two seconds.

It felt like when watching that, that they weren't going to get a shot. And then he, he, he hits that buzzer. Beater you have, um, did you hear the call afterwards?

I haven't watched it in depth yet.

Okay, because, uh, maybe one of uh. Hall of Fame Orgasm in our Ears by Bill Raftery.

Oh, yes, I did hear that.

I want to play it for you, he laid out after that, though, Yeah, but it was, it was. Here's, here's the final sequence.

Yeah.

Let's play that part again.

Just a beautiful orgasm. I love raftery, he's the best.

Well, I wish those moments. I know that it's not. It's like uncouth and broadcasting to have the second guy making noise there. But that was what it was like. That's March, like it was a final four buzzer beater.

You need that guy in the threesome, though, cause you've got Nance again class personified, Grant Hill class personified, and then you need raftery to be like, Oh yeah, oh man.

It also, I have some wild stuff for you, ready for it. Brian Dutcher didn't call a timeout. Now he had a timeout. Brian Dutcher was also on the coaching staff for the most famous timeout ever.

It would have been crazy.

And now they're in the Steve Fisher's there. I think his son has ALS, who he's, he's part of the coaching staff. Like, great story, it's just all of it.

It's so. It's so funny to think about what used to be recruiting violations and how heavily they were punished, like they were breaking the law at Michigan. When you think back to Bruce Pearl getting fired because he, he cooked a burger for one of his kids, pretty much. And now it's like, Well, that's that's nothing, that's nothing.

Yes, very, I mean, it was. It was an incredible comeback, incredible moment. I can't believe that it was the first. We've had buzzer beaters in the final four. We've never had a buzzer beater where the team that was trailing hit the buzzer beater.

What was the Christian Laitner one?

Christian Laitner was a tie game as well. um, so they're all like they were all tie games. I don't know if Laitner that wasn't final four.

I don't think that was to get to the final four over Kentucky.

Yeah, there was another one I think Marquette in like 77, I believe, is the other 92 Elite eight.

Yeah, also, I will say this is back to back games in that venue. Yes, Buzzer Beaters, because Chris Jenkins 2016 ended that tournament.

I don't think I played in NRG Stadium yet, yeah.

That's, that's a wild. 17. San Antonio 18, Minneapolis 19. Nothing in 2021 does. The bubble in 22 was, Uh, it's also cool walking in NRG Stadium because it's right next to the Astrodome, yes.

I understand why they tear down old stadiums, but I wish they kept up, yeah.

Sign a waiver, yeah.

Like the Silverdome has, I think, has now been fully taken down, but that should have stayed up and they should have. I know it's doesn't make sense, cause it's tax money, all that shit. Don't tell me that I don't care. That should, like the the the Michigan High School football champions, should be played at Silverdome every year. Yep.

It is crazy. That was a great game, though it was a fantastic. well, it wasn't a great game, but the ending was fantastic. It was a good first in the first half.

Yeah, so Fau and they could all be back, yes, so Dusty May signed an extension, which was cool. I think they invested some more money in the program.

I think all their guys, all five starters, are eligible to come back. Uh, the first guy recruited for us, I think we talked about him last week, he was the only senior, so yeah.

Yeah.

What else would you want to be besides Boca? Like, I understand there's bigger programs like, you're not going to be in a better place to live, yeah.

And they won what was their final, uh, 35 and four insane season. Dusty May, hell of a coach.

Well, is there a play that you can possibly run? That's kind of like when players try to get their own triple double at the end of the game? Where, where? You? You drive to the hole and somehow you lay it up off the rim and intentionally catch it and then kick it out. Yeah, you don't even try to score.

Just throw it as hard as you can off the rim.

Yeah.

And just hope the ball bounces around enough. That time expired.

Just slam it against the rim. Yeah, this is a great idea. We should be basketball coaches.

We should be basketball coaches. Uh, all right, so, uh, Jake, oh, I'll get your, I'll get your full March madness. Take after. After we talk about the next game, let's talk about the next game.

13, but they were never in the game. if they were nine. Nothing to start. Miami never had a lead.

There was a couple spurts that Miami had, where, you know, it was like, Oh, watch out for Miami and Yukon completely squashed. That they are on a dominant, dominant run. So couple stats one is they're 16 and O against non-conference opponents.

Crazy, yeah, and he did it on Ramadan.

He's, yeah.

He's he was with the late sunset in central time.

They have so many options on offense and defense, and like they, they can play inside, they can play outside. They hit all their big shots. It's they're on just an absolute tear of a run. They also are going for the point differential crown, so they're plus one.

Editors note in 2016, Villanova had a point differential of plus one 21, which is also higher than UConn's point differential in 2023. So it might be a foregone conclusion that UConn is going to win this. I think most people are saying that they're going to win. I'll just say, I'll count this, I won't use the mickey mouse word.

It, and I know that people will be like, well, Uconn's path has not been as difficult because Miami did play the toughest path. Going to you play who you.

Play right, you play who you don't apologize.

Also, this is revisionist history, because everyone said Gonzaga, they're playing lights out. Arkansas had just beaten Kansas, St. Mary's was one of those teams everyone was looking out for and you beat them all by double digits.

Even a little. What was the score at halftime in that game?

I think they were down to one or two, but that's that's how dominant they have been. Um, and it's been incredible to watch. And I actually read an article. I think it was in the athletic, it was like, this Uconn team is so good.

He's wearing his lucky underwear every game. His wife was like, Yeah, I don't know, I can't. I can't convince him not to wear it. But he's putting on the same pair of underwear for every single game. And and he's definitely, he's definitely washing it right.

Yeah, I would hope so. And then it didn't use it, wasn't that the ref that he had.

Jeff Anderson, which we talked about, what you guys talked about in the interview, and Clown called him that December 28th against Villanova and they paired a fucking club. But so piggyback off what you guys were talking about. Andrew Hurley. To put it in perspective, the walk-ons. He has played in all five tournament games, right? he played in two Big East games, right? he's played in five straight games. Because they've all been blown up.

It's been, I think, that, as chaotic as this tournament has been, and there's been a lot of hand wringing. Like college basketball sucks now. Because FAU and San Diego State got there, which shut up that. We had hit Butler and VCU in 2011. Everyone remembers that fondly, so I don't really understand the difference. But if they can finish this run, we will remember it as Yukon's tournament. And how, like how much, they just absolutely crushed everyone.

I think, I think, in a weird way, that's very good for the sport to have, like a dominant team one year. Yeah, because then you think back and you, just like you said, it's Yukon.

That was the year of Yukon and 16, you know, against non-conference opponents, Dan Hurley has said it like, once they got out of the biggie schedule, it was everything became a lot easier. And that has proven to be correct so far.

And we're officially crowning Yukon a blue blood if they win this championship, right? Yes, I think I, I don't know how you can argue otherwise.

They'd have five, they'd have five championships in the last 24 years. Um, we are Hurley podcast, we have Bobby Hurley coming up, which was a great interview. And then as for Miami, I mean, incredible season, yeah.

We had shoegate in the middle of the game, the manager awl who ran and got the shoes.

Are we saying ran? It was like a brisk walk.

Yeah, he did like an acceptable hustle.

He hustled, he hustled.

He did an acceptable walk for somewhere or run. Who's someone that's not an athlete, right?

It's like, when someone says, like, run over here to me, I'll like, move my arms really fast, but you don't want to look like I'm running. But I'm not, he hustled. And I, I still don't understand how Nigel Pack had one pair of shoes.

Yeah, it was, uh, it was. I don't know. I don't know how many pairs of shoes college kids travel with, I don't know how many they have in the locker room.

At least two, I'd hope.

Yeah, it was, I need to. I need somebody to tell me how much it hit. Uh, was it Nike? was it a pair of Nike Adidas? what stock hit hit?

I don't. It was, I mean, that Miami was never winning that game. But to have him on the on the the sideline because he didn't have a pair of shoes is just an insane thing. To have happen. During this national semifinal game, yeah.

And a game like that, you keep, you keep hoping and waiting for a run. You keep hoping that Miami's going to really get it close and that we'll have something root for going down the stretch. But that's just Uconn's not going to give that up, Uconn's too good.

Nope, nope. Uh, Jake, are you finding it? It's Adidas.

I'm trying to confirm.

I believe it's Adidas.

Uh, you're really going hard on UConn here, where's right? But I, I honestly, I don't see a way that San Diego State beats them. If they do, would this be the most shocking upset in NCAA tournament history?

You'd probably have to go with, Yeah, I think they're sponsored by Adidas.

Besides, fairly Dickinson.

I mean, you'd probably have to go with the, uh, Villanova versus Georgetown, right? Like that was, that was, I think that was like a 10 point point spread. Yeah, I mean, that was, but yes, it would be up there, it would absolutely be up there.

So I just need, you know, what I would like is just to have, like, some doubt in my head going into it. I would like if, even if it was a fake report came out, that said Uconn's players. I'll have the flu today. I just want somebody to say that. Hawkins, who, by the way, had a.

Wedgie interviewed him about that by the way, kind of putting us all at risk because you did interview him.

Yeah, sorry.

That was the first thing that came to my head. Did you wear a mask? It was like six inches from his face.

And you had to get the answers that people wanted.

You weren't masked up flu.

I put, I'm putting myself at risk for the answers. So he was sick, but he then wasn't sick during the game, it was non Covid illness.

Yeah, no, he was fine. I mean, everyone's like, Is he going to play? Oh my god.

It's like, Dude, it's fun for my entire, my entire life is a non Covid illness. He said that wedgies are more embarrassing than air balls. Oh wow, I was surprised by. That's a big. I disagree.

The only reason that you could say you could make the argument that it is is because the game stops. So everyone's like, What the fuck, dude?

Well, if the crowd comes up with a wedgie chant that they all yell simultaneous. That you like to do for an air ball, then I'll start to believe it. But until that happens, I think the air ball is the worst thing you can do.

Yeah.

Also, air balls can go out of bounds.

Air balls can go out of bounds, that's true, it's a fact. Um, all right, so Jake.

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What do you got for? Do you think? Yeah, go ahead?

Today, this obviously being recorded before the champion is crowd. But like the three big takeaways from this, if you can't finish it off, their dominant performance will be remembered forever. This tournament had an all-time upset, this tournament had an all-time shot or two with Furman and last night with SDSU. So you have the small moments, you have the big upset, and if you can't win, it's total dominance. Like, there's plenty of takeaways from this tournament, no matter how it ends.

Okay.

I'll make it audible, though, and then, yes, it'll totally be edible, for sure.

We have the tech.

So we'll give you an edible chip, a super edible microchip, uh, that you'll then have to swallow and pass. If SDSU wins. Yes, okay, all right.

Yeah.

You guys will be upset too, so.

Yeah, no, I'll be very.

I will be very, very upset now, yeah.

Nothing against San Diego State personally, it's just business. Yeah, you guys would like to write a future at some point in my life.

This tournament you had small moments, you had big moments.

No, I I think it's been fantastic every year and and it, I just never understand. Like, people just show up in March and they're like, this product sucks, go go watch some else and I don't care.

I don't, honestly, I don't think that San Diego is going to be that upset. I don't think they listed a podcast in San Diego.

Uh, we had some memes and I. When we were up top, we had some San Diego State fans saying, What's up to us?

And shout out to Coach Velasquez, assistant coach of San Diego State Yes.

He said he does listen.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I don't know what was more likely, SDSU making the final four or Hank hitting the lottery ball. And he said, Well, here we are in the final four. Some of us predicted San Diego State to go to the final four.

Also true. Um, all right, should we talk a little? Women's Championship game? So LSU congrats to them.

Yeah, no, she looked great. I when I was looking at her, I was like, that looks like if Amy Poehler played Adriana from the Sopranos, yes.

I like that.

All right, wood. yeah, just hand up wood.

Kim Mulkey.

Yeah.

LSU LSU was fantastic by the way they were. They dominated that game. I know there was some ref stuff, which one of them was the Katelyn Clark technical foul was absolutely bullshit.

It was, it was insane. She threw the ball behind her back, it went out of bounds. Nobody tuned into that game to watch the refs. We tuned in to watch Kim Mulkey's outfits, but no, Kim Kim was, like, on the court, getting in the way of the refs.

Well, they, they basically Iowa on Friday night beat, uh, you know, South Carolina by daring them to take threes, yeah.

It was undefeated.

Yeah, and packing the paint. And it seemed like that was kind of what they were doing again. And LSU was like, No, we'll take these threes.

Yeah, we need to figure out a way. Cause, I mean, the LSU was going to win regardless of what the refs were going to do because they were that good. But the refs were awful they called. I think it was 10 more personal fouls in this championship game than any other women's championship game in history. It was, it was, it was bad.

And it felt like one of the biggest, uh, championship games in the women's tournament. We also get the after effect of people arguing class online. So Angela Reese is that Angel Reese? Uh, for LSU. As clock was expiring, went and did the John Cena You can't see me and then pointed to a ring finger in Caitlin Clark's face.

Yeah, if you say stay classy in the year 2023, you go back to 2009 and then use that phrase. It's sports. You just won the championship, you're allowed to show as little class as you want. That's the one time when you can do anything you can. You can dump a Gatorade bucket on your coach and you can ruin their clothes. That's still very. There's no such thing as classless and classy. At that time, you're allowed to celebrate however you want, because, guess what?

It's if you shit talk and you have something that you're doing to someone else, and then the. And then it turns on you and you lose a game. You have to expect it coming back to you now. ANGELA Reese It was a little weird how she, like, stalked Caitlin Clark around in. Here's why. Because it was as the clock was ticking down and her teammates were all celebrating that. Like, go celebrate with your team, don't, you know? Follow a play around. But in terms of classy, who the fuck cares?

Yeah.

And so there, and if they're upset, their team lost, they cared enough, and that's good for women's basketball. Because at the end of the day it's kind of like, what was the other one we were talking about? Oh, Creighton fans like, we know how this game works.

Listen, we are a very pro woman podcast on this show. We love women. I love women, yes, and over the years, my favorite child is a woman.

Yes.

Which I actually think is good because we're having the debate about it like we would about men's sports.

It was the moment that I hit me was Friday night. When I read the tweet of someone saying, Uh, I was a bunch of pussies for packing the paint on South Carolina. And I was like, Yes, this is good.

Yeah.

We're just calling, we're calling random people, pussies, just because we're mad. How they're playing defense like this is. This is the next step. Some of the ways are rationally angry online about the women's tournament, that's great.

Yes, one of the best ways to truly support women's sports is by hating women that are playing on a team that's playing against your favorite.

Yes, yes, be exactly so get very upset about your team losing, yeah.

It's called fandom, and having rivalries like that is great for the sport.

Agreed, agreed. So shout out to women. Caitlin Clark was incredible. I mean that that that tournament run, I saw the stat.

That's, that's an unbelievable stat, yeah.

Back to back forties, uh, what'd she have today? Like, 30, 30, 30 all time record.

She was awesome.

And she's got two more years, right? she might go to the WNBA.

I think so, I don't, I don't know. She might make more money having Nil at Iowa.

Okay, but maybe two more years.

Yeah, so, uh, she, uh. Credit to Kim Mulkey for I'm sure. She pointed out to the refs before the game because they were calling it very strictly. Uh, her little, her pushoff move that she does to get open for three, sometimes off the dribble. They were calling that against her, they call it. I think she got two of those called in the first half.

Yeah, yeah, um, okay, let's do Who's back of the week? Then we got Bobby Hurley.

All right, um, my, who's back of the week is a peace Labor piece. The N.B.A. has a new Labor deal and a CBA, and there's some things that are notable shit.

That was my who's back? God damn it.

I'll take another one.

No, no, go for it, go for it, go go, go, go go, I'll add onto it.

Uh, so things we need to be paying attention to. Games played for minimum for awards, players have to play 65 games to be eligible to win MVP. I like it. So load management, we might not be seeing that as much.

BOO But okay, I don't like change as a person, just point blank. don't like change anything that changes like day to day. I'm like, Oh, this sucks, like when I have to get on a flight, I'm like, Fuck this.

So what are the benefits? They're going to count as regular season games, right? So there's so the winning team gets a half a million per player, so that's the incentive.

So half a million per player. It's pool play in November and December, and then they get to a final eight.

And then they play a tournament for a neutral site in Vegas.

Yeah, so finally, in the final four, it was the winner would only have to play one extra game. Um, it will. It. Essentially, the NBA was like, how can we make it so that LeBron gets more rings?

It's kind of like the MAUI or Battle for Atlantis. Yeah, you get a trophy.

Yeah, I think you're probably the same with me. PFT. We're like, this is stupid.

I don't, I don't like it, I don't like it. Now. However, if if a team that I'm rooting for wins that tournament, then I'm going to be like, hang the banner up. Some would say that it's harder to win the mid-season tournament than the end season.

Right, and and essentially like, don't like change. But when it starts happening, the N.B.A. season, regular season is long. It's boring at times, it means nothing at times. So this will be something in the middle of the season where you're like, Oh, this means something a little different.

Well, that's that's exactly what this is. It's the N.B.A. admitting that their regular season is way too long, correct? It's like, why don't we have two playoffs? That's two seasons.

They have admitted that and then added an extra game.

Yeah, yeah, free agent spending changes. And also, uh. Marijuana is no longer prohibited.

Yes, no more. Okay, yeah, you said one and done one and done states.

Yeah.

It's like the NB.A. rule.

Isn't it also a rule now that that players can do advertisements for cannabis companies and for gambling companies? Or did I get April fooled on that?

I think you got April fool, I don't know.

It's from Shams, I don't. I feel like Shams is not Shams. Not an April fool guy, right? If you're Shams. Or if you're Schefter and you put out a semi believable report like that, yeah, I think it might be a real report.

It might maybe that'd be cool.

I've always said the NBA needs more weed in it. Yeah, now that you're in Wisconsin, I see some gambling talk, but yeah, shams, uh. League's new CBA will give players ability to invest in NBA and WNBA teams, as well as promote and or invest in sports betting. Cannabis companies. Okay?

Wow, that's real shams.

That seems like a big deal to me that they'll be able to promote gambling, yeah.

Um, okay, uh, pft, your who's back?

My who's back to the week is Brooks Kipka.

Yes.

Brooks, shout out, Brooks, he won, he's hot, he's the hottest golfer in the world.

If Phil Mickelson misses the cut, he'll be there. No, they're bouncing, yeah, they're bouncing, yeah.

I'm rooting for Brooks.

We're rooting for him, we're not only rooting for him, we were actually going to have him on. We have a Master's preview coming Wednesday with Shane Bacon, like PFD said, and also a pump up for Max Homo, who's going to be on the show.

It would be good for golf. Yeah, Brooks, one of the final group. that'd be amazing. Well, I don't know.

So Dennis Hernandez, the one that sold a play sheet.

I'm not sure if he did or not. That doesn't sound like the Dennis.

I know one, the sole play sheet that, like, kind of ruled, like they left their play sheet and he just took it.

Yeah, you should do that. yeah, you should do that. Don't leave your play sheet out.

I'll just counterpoint real quick.

Multiple murder.

Yes, multiple murders.

Allegedly, Yeah, actually, no, he was never, wasn't it overturned?

I'm pretty sure he was convicted.

Yeah, but I think it gets overturned. Cause he was in the process of appealing. Oh so, the fact that he offed himself means that his trial was never concluded.

Got it?

It was a hung jury, got it, got it.

Oh yeah.

So the Hernandez family is back at long last.

Um, all right, I don't have a who's back cause Jake stole mine. No, that's okay, stop apologizing, but I have more.

The Lakers?

Oh, what are they?

Oh, yeah, they are climbing up the west.

This is a very ESPN thing to do. If the Lakers win a game, are the Lakers a threat?

My Timberwolves choked to 17.

Damn.

And Lakers are right there at eight.

Are the Lakers back?

They have LeBron in ad dating.

Listen, they get out there.

It's rigged, it's rigged against Minnesota. Can you imagine if if the Lakers take your spot in the playoff, the fucking Lakers who took your name take your spot in the playoffs is rigged against Minnesota?

I know my who's back, uh, Elon being a master troll, so, uh, there was like, Elon basically with Twitter, and I respect the hell out of it. Every like, two months, he announces a big change, and then a bunch of people on Twitter complain that Twitter is dying.

Where do they complain about it on Twitter?

And, uh, they're like, I met some of my best friends here and like this, this app has changed my life. If if this is truly the end, come, come, follow my sub stack. Um, and then the next day they wake up and they just tweet again, Uh, so the latest one was, he said, that all legacy blue check marks are getting taken away.

I think that, yeah, I think it's basically, uh, kind of an April fool's joke on everybody. Yeah, it was on April. And then. And then if you start complaining about it, then he's like, manually taking away people that don't like his check, yes, that's.

It's it's kind of a genius business plan. Like, what if we said this is the last episode of Part of my take ever? So, uh, go buy a t-shirt, yeah, and there'll be gone forever.

It's like a boxer fake retiring.

We just keep saying it every week.

Our Kiss does a reunion tour every like, two years. some bands call it just a tour because it's like, this is the last one. Guys, never, you'll never paint your faces again.

Let's not make fun of that. Because, uh. I actually was talking to Hank a couple of weeks ago and I was like, you know, someday, like, like, 20 years. We should just do like a money grab and just do a tour, so we will do that. Yeah, so everyone be ready.

Billy killed one of us, yeah.

Billy killed one of us. So, um, we'll have hologram PFT or hologram Big Cat on the tour. Come on out, it'll be sick.

Also a hand up. I took the bait on Twitter.

Oh, you bought it.

I thought I was losing my check.

I wanted it for Twitter.

I wanted to keep my check mark. I'm a big J, got me.

Yeah.

I'm not going to, I'm not going to hide from it.

Big, big Jake.

I have to keep my check for Twitter Blue.

Yeah.

Everyone can pay for it, it doesn't mean anything anymore.

I know you get that part, right. Yeah, but when it's still blue, check in high school, like I always wanted to, check mark. Yeah, I don't want to lose it.

Yeah, no, he made a lot of money, I'm sure. Yep, it was genius. Uh, okay.

Yeah, let's, uh, let's start with the other game here. The first game, right? It was at Fau, and uh, and San Diego State. FAu is like one of those great stories. Like that, the term it's built on, right?

And then the and then obviously your brother's game, um, how nervous are you? cause like you can't control anything, are you? Is it feel like a game day for you?

Yeah, like it's starting to kick in now, the reality of it and stuff. Yesterday, we I was really busy doing things here for the final four and got to see Dan last night and spend time with him. And just, he was already a bundle of nervous energy. But yeah, it's starting to really resonate now. You know what's at stake for him and for, you know, for the family to see him do this on this stage.

You reached out to him at all with any, uh, like, actual basketball advice, anything you've seen on tape? Or is that just like an understanding like this is your team? You got it, like, if you saw something, would you let them know?

No, I don't want to cloud his mind and his judgment, and I trust it. Um, we watch each other's teams like every game. So I think I know Uconn as well as anybody in the country, what they do, how they're built, what they're trying to do out there. Um, but as far as trying to give him any advice in that in that direction, No, I, I haven't.

So what about your dad, though? cause I would imagine, obviously your dad, a legendary high school basketball coach, probably the best of all time. Does he have like one play that he's been holding for?

Well, I mean, I, I, that's a good idea, but I didn't really think of that. Um, you know, for me to present that to Dan? I have a few in my pocket that I use only for special occasions. Um, but yeah, that's, uh, I didn't hear anything, uh, regarding that with with.

My dad blows the dust off the play, takes it off the high shelf, it's the, it's the pick and roll, yeah.

And the and also here, here's a little tip media tip from our side. Like, if they go on to win the national title, either you or Dan should say, Oh, yeah. Our dad gave us this play. And just pick the best play of the game and just be like, Yeah, that he gave it to us. And then they'll just write stories and everyone be like, Oh my God.

Yeah, just to pay tribute to our dad.

Yeah, I read that, uh, that Dan's rocking the same underwear every game in this tournament is his lucky underwear. I guess, yeah, it's got cartoons on it. Is that. Is he a superstitious guy when it comes to stuff like that?

Yeah, I mean, he had stuff he was doing when I coached with him at Wagner and Rhode Island, where he would eat m&ms every day. You just have to have a pack of m&ms. Uh, I don't know. He would always go rest right before the game.

He told us when we had him on, UH, on Monday. He said that. It's good that there isn't like a lot of tape of you guys at Wagner together, because you guys were just give the refs. Like everything was, there was there ever a moment where, like, would you do like a tag team, like wrestling? It's like, No, you get them, you get them, like, or he'd get kicked out and you'd be like, Well, now you got to deal with the other hurley.

Yeah, like, I got like three T's there as an assistant coach, so like. And then he would like give me like a death stare, like, Are you serious, man?

Right?

I was just working towards the future because I knew I'd be a head coach soon, so I had to make sure I get my game right.

Well, so that, like those years Wagner and then Uri, obviously, you guys had, uh, the first year, Uri wasn't easy, was it? When you decide I want to go into coaching and I'm going to be my little brother's assistant coach. Was there like a little humble pie that you had to eat, or was it? You guys are tight enough that this is this is going to work.

It was big time. Humble, yeah, and I just. It was all about Dan. And, you know, we talked quite a bit. And, uh, about him taking the job. And I don't even think he was a hundred percent sure he was going to take it, you know, he was had a great situation at St.