Chicago Bulls’ Alex Caruso, The A’s Moving To Sacramento, Stefon Diggs Traded And Tiger Stopped Having Sex

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The Huskies were delayed on the tarmac. they had a plane issue or not on the tarmac. There was a plane that was coming in from Kansas City. Yes, it got delayed.

Uconn didn't get out to Arizona until early this morning. 3-4 in the morning. Yeah, so they're doing it. Mayor Pete, he's an Indiana guy, maybe he's thinking, throw the Huskies off Purdue, they beat him in the Championship, I don't know. There's a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff going on with the NCAA going after UConn. But fortunately for Danny Hurley, he now has the fuel.

It wouldn't shock me if Danny Hurley actually delayed that flight. Yeah, false flag. So therefore he could complain about this. But whatever it is, they've got motivation. They fucked with the Huskies. I know people are like, Oh well, it's two days ahead, that's when that's most important sleep.

This is the sleep before, the most important sleep, isn't it? I think it's, I think it's so. Jack Mack, our colleague, talked to a sleep expert and said that when you go through time zones, it's a day per time zone. So three days to get feeling good. And they got there Thursday morning, so they won't feel good until probably Sunday. Okay, because Jim Harbaugh's stance is that it's the night before, the night before, right?

Right, so, this would be the night before, the night before, the night before. But you can't get a good night's sleep the night before, the night before. If you got all fucked up in your head the night before, the night before, the night before, it's messed up. Yeah, it's messed up.

They're trying to take down the Huskies, but yeah, we're getting ready for the final four. We're going to be there in Arizona, so we will be on location. We'll be at the game on Saturday night, We're going to be doing a watch party on Monday night. You excited, hank?

Super excited. How many golf games you got planned? Just one? Just playing tomorrow? just one.

We're going to Topgolf too, that's for work, though. Yep, have to do that, have to do that.

And we were talking about maybe squeezing in the Tiger Woods putt-putt thing that he has out there. That's more like location scout, yeah, or maybe something in the future, who knows?

Oh, and we were also talking about.

I wasn't invited to that. When is that? We haven't locked it in? Jeff Delo hit me up.

Oh, okay, we were also talking about maybe doing a par 3, but that's not golf, no, and it's not locked in. well, neither is TopGolf.

It's golf, but it's not golf. It's not golf, but it is golf, it is golf. Yeah, so we're going to be excited.

We'll be out there, we'll get to our picks in a minute. Let's talk about some other things. The Oakland Athletics have officially announced that they are moving to Sacramento temporarily. Yeah.

For I think, what is it, three years and then a fourth year option, something like that? Yeah, so we got all types of scumbags we got to go through for this. You guys have heard us talk about how much we hate John Fisher, that fucking idiot.

John Fisher got in front of the people of Sacramento and said that he is very excited to be able to watch some of the greatest players in baseball, whether they be athletics players or Aaron Judge and others, this fucking dude doesn't know anyone on his team. No, he doesn't, he's selling the idea of good baseball. Players will play here, also the athletics that I own will play here.

And it's what a 10,000 seat Stadium, 15, I think, he said. It's the most intimate environment in baseball. Yeah, so it's it's official.

The the grounds crew, I think in in the coliseum, didn't find, they found out via Twitter. This was obviously like it felt like it was going to happen, and then it happened officially on Thursday. We also had Vivek, the owner of the Kings Total scumbag, as well, because he bought the Kings to keep the Kings in Sacramento, which was an admirable move.

And now he's just basically laundering the A's for them and being like, Yeah, we'll take you for a few years to halfway home before you go to Vegas. He also had a quote Uh, Vivek. When I bought the Kings, I said that Sacramento would never play second fiddle to any other city. That makes no sense. You're literally playing second fiddle to Las Vegas and Oakland, and Oakland, he's playing a temporary fiddle.

Yeah, you're you, just. It's just all a who's who cast of characters of people that you should all hate. And it's ridiculous the way this has been handled from start to finish, obviously, it's been a clusterfuck. But the fact that they have to find a stadium to move to before they move to their new stadium is absurd. To like, just find a place that you can crash at, essentially. And it's not just for a season.

That's what's crazy is like, they're going to be doing, they're going to be doing this. For multiple years, staying in Sacramento, all the while trying to design a stadium which actually hasn't been designed yet in Las Vegas. It's it's a bad look for baseball, I'm going to, I'm going to say it, bad look for baseball. Bad look for Rob Manford, bad look for Rob Manford, bad look for Vivek. The owner of the Kings. Who? Again, like the hypocrisy of being like, we're not going to let someone come in and take the Kings. And then just being the handoff for the A's total bullshit. So unfortunately, it feels like there's all going to happen, whether we make a stink.

I mean, we're small, a small, small piece of all this. It's obviously the city of Oakland. Our goal should just be for the rest of time is just to remind people that John Fisher is a fucking coward, scumbag, loser. Yeah, I'm okay with doing that.

And they also, they have locked their, uh, their tweets so you can't reply. They did that a while ago. But to tweet out being like, we're going to Sacramento and no one can reply. You're cowards, you're cowards and you're losers, and you know what, John Fisher, you're rich dude.

Why don't you have hair? That's a good point. You fucking idiot is very, very boring. Like. This is where we got to take it. I think we just got to take it to the personal level. And just be like, John Fisher bro, you, you can't fucking you, you can't get money for a new stadium and you can't get hair.

Yeah, John Fisher, Uh, your, your family owned the gap. Uh, then it looks like your your teeth on the gap right now, bro, get it, oh shit.

Why don't you go to Aaron? judges his favorite player? Seen Ortho The. I also didn't realize I was reading up more about John Fisher, he was. He bought a piece of the Giants back in the nineties to keep the Giants in San Francisco. Yeah, he bought the Giants.

And then he said, You know what, I'm going to buy the A's so that I can make money. It's a. It's a classic case of a guy wanting to prove that he can make money. But the only way he knows how to make money on his own, without mom and dad holding his hand, is to take mom and dad's money and then buy a guaranteed asset. That's going to increase, no matter how bad. You fuck it up, and then you can say, Look, I did so, I made something to myself.

It's a classic fail, fucking loser, and I guarantee you, like he should. He should have to be quizzed on his entire roster, cause there's no way he knows his entire roster. And I wouldn't be shocked if he also thinks Brad Pitt works at his in his facility, yeah.

Where's Jonah Hill? Why I haven't seen him in a while? Yeah, it's it's a sad state of affairs, major league baseball right now.

And there's nothing you can do about it except say, John Fisher's a fucking loser and has no hair. From now until the end of time, you can remind him that he's bald. Cause, guess what, that ain't coming back? Come on the podcast, though.

We won't ask any bald questions. I'll ask one, actually, you know what, John Fisher? Cause you're such a broke boy.

I will pay for your hair restoration if you come on the podcast, so make that a quote card. JOHN FISHer It should say John Fisher, because you're a bald fuck, big cat will pay for your hair restoration for one appearance. On part of my take, I think that's a fair deal. that's a fair deal because he's bald.

Take it because he's bald. you bald, bitch, you alopecia, no hair having bitch. How much does that cost?

A lot like 50 grand. He's really bald, so probably a lot, yeah.

But all that money's tied up, and his suit wasn't even that good. You own the gap. He's got to do a security deposit. It's kind of like, baggy.

It looked like, shit, the collar was bad. Yeah, the collar was bad all time.

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Um, Stefan Diggs was traded from Buffalo. Yeah, I think that this, uh, probably something that had to happen. I would say, so, so he was not happy at the end of last season.

He was not happy during last season, or really ever. It feels like Buffalo. I think he started not being happy. It was like the playoff loss to the Bengals, yeah.

It was like, basically an entire year of not being happy. Yeah, so he's unhappy, he had to leave town. He's making a bunch of money.

So they trade him to the Texans. The Texans gave up a second round pick in next year's draft. Yep, but they also took three years off his contract. I believe, yep.

So he's going to be a free agent. It's a one year rental for Stefan Diggs. Maybe maybe it's coming home. I do love this move for the Texans. I think it's genius move for the Texans.

They are basically going all in under C.J. Stroud's rookie contract, this is what a team should do. Yeah, like, if you're a Texans fans, you should be really pumped, especially because C.J. Stroud's not. Like if if they were drafting a quarterback, like, do you really want Stefan Diggs with a rookie quarterback?

That feels like a problem, because let's just be honest, Stefan Diggs is an awesome football player. But if you get traded twice in your prime, there might be it might be you. Yeah, it might be you. This is also a great business. Move on on, uh, Stefan Diggs's part.

Cause he's going to get to be a free agent again, he's going to get paid again, and it's. It's good if you're a Texans fan, too, cause going into this off season, you were probably thinking, like, best case scenario, we get maybe T Higgins. Yeah, if he doesn't get tagged, T Higgins gets tagged and you're like, Well, fuck, that was kind of the big name that was out there.

Now you've got a better player than T. Higgins and they have an awesome receiving court, they're all in. I mean, the I just love that a team is being proactive. With the fact that, like C.J. Stroud, outside of my homes is probably the most valuable quarterback in the NFL next year. The guy that you would want to build around the most?

Well, not even, not even. Like talent wise, my homes is my homes, because he's my homes, like you can just win with my homes, no matter what. But I'm saying, like, C.J. Stroud, Talent plus contract is is is probably number two. If you had to pick a quarterback in all contracts matter, you'd still take my homes. One, even though he's getting a lot of money. I think you probably take C.J. Stroud too, cause you're like, Oh, I can build everything else up.

And we have three years, four years here where he's not going to get paid this max money. It also marks a very big change in the Houston Texans philosophy for years. They were great at drafting, They've always drafted great players, but then they trade their players or they let them go.

Yeah, they never really bring in big name outside free agents. This is now like a complete a one 80 turnaround from what the Texans have done. It feels like for the last 10 years, yeah.

So they're actually going out there, they are being proactive. They got um mixed net running back, right? Yep, who?

I guess that's fine. Yeah, I think he's a pretty good running back. Uh, and then you got Nico Collins, Nico Collins, Tank, Dell, Dell, and you got a good defense. It's young and getting better. Credit to a Nick Casario.

Good job, Nick, I'm talking myself into the Texans. Yeah, well, that's the other thing is now we have. We know who the team is going to be this off season, where it's the trendy pick of a team. That, uh, they're going to say, like, who's your dark horse? the Texans, they shouldn't be a dark horse.

They should be, they should be a pale horse, they should be like the team that everybody should be focusing on. But everyone's going to talk this off season, like, my surprise pick for next year is the Houston, Texas. Yeah, and now for the bills, um, the bills are not better without Stefan Diggs.

That's just a fact. Like, they're not a better football team when Stefan Diggs is not on their team, but they had to do something. Not only because Stefan Diggs. But they've been in a cap hell where they went all in the last few years. And you know, even that chief, like the Chiefs, have rebuilt on the fly with Mahomes and got younger. The bills were very old, roster had to make some tough decisions, had to cut, some players, had to trade Stefan Diggs.

I know people will get upset about this, but I still think that if you have Josh Allen, you still have a shot. Yeah, I know, and people like this is so stupid, but like the that they. When you have a franchise quarterback, you have to reset and overturn your roster a couple of times over. The Bills should be criticized for going all in with this older team that wasn't able to win a Super Bowl. But now this is the reality.

They have to, they have to hit their hard reset, they have to make some tough decisions. They can't miss on the draft. But that's just the reality of it. And even still, if you're a Bills fan, as doom and gloom as it might seem to trade Stefan Diggs, you have Josh Allen, and if you draft well, you'll still have a shot.

Yeah, so with Josh Allen, he's probably going to be running the ball a lot at the start of next year. Until he can, like, establish who his receivers are, who he trusts. Maybe Gabe Davis, maybe he plays every game like he's not on the bills, not on the bills anymore, fuck.

Okay, so I didn't know that, but he basically wasn't on the bills for 75 of the game. Yeah, that's true, too, yeah.

I think it's Shakir is their number one right now. Okay, so they, and they also have. They still have Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox. That's true, they've got a Samuel and Matt Collins, Curtis Collins, Curtis, Samuel's nice.

If you like doing pop passes and reverses and shit like that, they draft 28th. Uh, so I don't know if they're going to look to add a wide receiver, it is a wide receiver class. Yeah, Polk, from Washington.

He'll be there, I don't know, it's just like it's one of those. It's a hard reality. It sucks if you're a Bills fan because Stefan Diggs didn't work out. But I think you had to move on because it was not tenable and now you have to be like, all right. Here comes the hard reset.

Here comes a couple of years where Josh is going to have to be superhero. And hopefully they're able to nail some draft picks and get a young roster around. Josh Allen, who will still play for a long time and getting a second round pick next year is not bad. No, like, that's a decent haul, there's. There's not very many players outside of quarterbacks that we were at the first, like first round pick.

The only issue is they probably waited to a point where it was clear that they needed to get rid of Stefan Diggs. So their hands were tied a little bit, like it was clear they had. Like, you never want to be in a negotiating spot where everyone's like, Oh, they really don't want him on the team anymore. Maybe maybe a deal that should have been done last year.

Yeah, one year too late when you still had a Gabe Davis on your team. Yeah, yeah, maybe bring Cole Beasley back.

I don't know, I feel like Bills fans understand the reality of it. That, like you, just this is what happens when you have to pay your all world quarterback. Yep, and now you. Now you got to start making some good moves and some cheap moves and and hopefully guys step up.

I'd say it's a it's a win-win for both teams. I just, I just think Stefan Diggs was like he was causing like, we talked about the diva receivers. He's number one right now. Yeah, the Instagram king, the Instagram complete.

There's so many players, I'd never understand why players do this. Why they like, post something extremely inflammatory on social media, on Instagram, on like their story, and then they delete it after like an hour, yeah, and then they act like it didn't happen.

Oh, yeah, I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, I didn't know my phone got hacked, yeah.

It was good, though, to see a big N.FL trade. Yeah, never happened, flowing never happened.

They did, they did the bills, did sign a little Collins, so that was nice, okay?

Cool, cool someone to protect jet, cool, cool.

Yeah, good, good, but you know what I'm saying, like, Josh is probably over the course of last year. He started to run the ball more and their offense, they started to win games when they kind of played into those strengths.

I think he's going to go back to that at the start of next year, especially if he doesn't have these dynamic downfield receivers. So it is funny, though, watching some fan bases be like, That's the death of the bills. I think that it's as long as you have a if you have a top five quarterback on your team, you're never dead. And I think the because my homes is so great, everyone behind my homes gets diminished to a point where you're like. I think a lot of teams would still want Josh Allen. I want to start keep keeping track to of all the teams that go all in and still end up losing to my homes.

Yeah, it's the thief of joy. There are going to be so many teams that go all in. They're like, now's our chance, that's the last.

Homes just keeps beating them. Yeah, that's the last level of greatness, like being great is one thing, but then when you get to that last level of greatness. Brady Mahomes You know, M.J. in the nineties, where it's like, you can actually point and be like, he took at least a couple of Superbowls from this guy.

Yeah, like Peyton Manning would probably have three Superbowls if it wasn't for four Superbowls, if it wasn't for Tom Brady. Yeah, the Niners, they were all in, yeah.

Stole their joy. Texans are going to try to go all in, seems like there's a lot of teams out there. The Ravens, Dolphins, the Ravens have been all in, although they lost a lot in free agencies.

Yeah, they'll go all in again, yeah, they'll figure out a way to go, all in, the chargers, all in.

The bears are going to go all in. Do you see Caleb Williams was in Chicago? Bears are kind of all in. He went out to dinner.

He went out to dinner with some players, he stopped by the facility. I heard, Yup, so it'd be funny if they didn't draft them.

If they're like, we didn't like his order, I mean, I'm going to paint my nails for draft night. So if he doesn't, if we don't draft him, that's going to be a problem. Yeah, no, you guys are going to draft him.

It's going to be a real problem for your boy. It's going to go Williams number one and then who knows? Now we're in the thick of mock draft season where people are doing new mock drafts just so that they can have a different quarterback going at number two. Yeah, so people will click on it and then they'll change it again right before the draft.

Are you a little worried about Jaden Daniels? Uh, elbow. Uh, it's he's got a freaky fucking elbow. That thing is weird.

He's got a he's got like a three inch protrusion on his elbow. Is it elbow important for a quarterback? Uh, no, not the bursitis that he has. So obviously I did a deep dive on what the fuck is on his elbow cause.

If that, if I'm going to be rooting for that elbow, I want to know what's going on. You're going to have to get intimate with that elbow. I might have to just hit my my elbow like you're painting your nails, yeah.

I might just bash my elbow against the table until I get a dick that grows out of the arm. No, you can't, you can't be nervous. I'm not nervous, he said. He's fine, yeah.

Everyone says, it's fine, it's fine, it's completely normal elbow. It's fine. it's a fine looking elbow.

It's a good elbow hank, so it's a coincidence that it's it's throwing arm. You might end up with. Jaden Daniels. Yeah, it's bursitis. I'm trying to find out more.

I didn't understand, like it seems, read a book, Hank, it's bursitis, dude. How does one acquire bursitis?

By being too good at quarterback and winning a high school, throwing too much. But it's not a concern. By dominating people, yeah.

You got to get rid of it by throwing less. What happens if it gets worse? Oh, wait, so wait, Hank, So, uh, the other quarterbacks in this draft, the one that you're looking at right now, we're looking at Drake, Drake.

May all you're looking at, do they do? They have bursitis? No, it sounds like they don't throw footballs that much. Jaden Daniels has bursitis because he practices so hard, yeah.

That's a guy I wanted my team back. Yeah, I'm not going to bash him. I hope we get him. So the new money ball is drafting a quarterback with a fucked up elbow.

That looks like a modern art sculpture. Mm-hmm. Did you guys see, Uh, Harbaugh strength and conditioning coach who is a badger? Ben Herbert Yeah, see his, uh, his pre or introductory press conference.

No, oh my god, I'll just play one little clip from it because it, it, it made me want. I actually think that we should hire a strength and conditioning coach here. Like, I kind of want someone to come and like, kick my ass. But let me let me play this one clip on a get back guy that just holds Mincy off from stepping in front of cameras.

Yeah, all right here it is. This is philosophy from having conversations in the office. This fire you up.

Training is that I don't know if there's two people that view it the same. Uh, there are concepts that different people believe in that may match up, but I view training in this way. And this is how I told it to the guys. Uh, my first goal is to make you harder to break. Yep.

That's it. People often may just make you harder to break. This was also a great quote from, Uh, from Harbaugh today. So he said, the back is just an untapped gold mine of lean muscle mass. Ooh, I liked it.

I love that, too. Uh, it does sound like he's looking at players like he wants to eat them, like he's evaluating a cut of venison. Yeah, like, that's, that's such a gold mine.

I'd like to sink my teeth into that. But his whole point is that, uh, if you have a strong back, it supports your neck, that's what, and then your neck supports your brain. Ben Herbert said. That we're like, we're. The first thing I showed them was trap exercises to support their brain.

He also talked about emotional, uh, like intelligence, and I just love this is the most like, intense dude ever. Here's what he said.

Oh, coach, I've got the juice today, he's feeling good, he's happy, he's excited.

Well, then it rains and I feel a certain type of way. Or I told the guys, I have a wife, two boys, two dogs. I have a car with four tires. if I get a flat tire, I'm not going to take it out on you. If something happens, I don't change emotionally.

When I walk in the facility, who you know me to be is who I am. Same guy all the time. Yeah, doesn't matter if his wife's mad at him, yeah.

And just so we're clear. He's got two dogs, two kids, wife, four tires, right, the same level, all those matter, just the same exact, and he's also tougher than the weather.

Yeah, he's like, if it rains, I'm not gonna. I don't know anyone who. Who's tougher than the weather? If it's, if it's shitty out, you're, you feel shitty, he's tougher than the weather. I like that.

Uh, he's going to be a force. I can't wait for Harbaugh to just do his press conferences, just we get all Harbaugh NFL content all the time. Cause he doesn't have to be as careful, too, he doesn't.

Uh, I hope he cheats, too, I hope he brings some of that extra spy shit to the NFL. Yeah, um, all right. Last thing I had was Tiger Woods isn't having sex.

Isn't that what you'd say if you were having a lot of sex? Well, at first, the headline was like, Tiger, What was the actual headline? Cause it looked like from his friend? It looked like Tiger. Woods penis actually wrote the story. So he's focusing on winning the masters by not having sex.

Tiger Woods has eliminated sex while training for the Masters. It's until only recently that golfers have even started having sex. Back in the nineties, golfers were nerds, isn't this? But didn't Tiger win when he was having sex?

That was when he was tiger, Tiger was at his best, when his. When he hurt his back. Yeah, that was also cause he tried to be a Navy seal, but he also got his back blown out.

That too. But Tiger was winning championships, he was winning majors when his when, like the, uh, the grip of his putter smelled like absolute shit from those hands. Perkins waitresses. The dirtier Tiger was, the better he was getting it in the hole.

Now he's going to not do, maybe he just can't have sex, cause he like, he can't walk, maybe. Uh. There's always, like, before the World Cup, there's always one like Brazilian soccer manager that says, like, I've had my guys not having sex for three months now, yeah.

They're ready to go. I feel like I don't know if Tiger, I want Tiger to be competitive, but if he doesn't play well. After he spent the entire like month not having sex, he's going to have so much sex. Yeah, next masters eliminating sex, so it just feels like the wrong thing for Tiger to do.

He needs to, he needs to be having sex. I had the tiger, I want my tiger fucking. yeah, I want him just loose.

Yeah, and the more he fucks, the more Charlie Woods as we have, who's next up, next up, next up, all right, do we have anything else before we talk?

Maybe a little picks on a final four, any other, any other stories going around? Uh, congrats to the Celtics for winning the Eastern Conference. That officially happened now that the Knicks have, uh, yeah, we clinched the best record in the N.BA, nice?

Yeah, Julius Randall not going to play anymore this year. So I think there were about 50, there were about 500 with him out of the lineup. But people were saying if he comes back, they could be the ones that could threaten the Celtics in the East. So who is this exactly Julius Randall? Maybe also just was like, I don't want to, like, last year went so bad.

Yeah, maybe I just don't want to deal with this. Yeah, there's just nobody in the East at all. Am I? Am I forgetting you?

Oh, somebody else came. What do you think about Joel Embiid wearing skechers? Max, who cares, they're sneakers?

Okay, all right, you want your guy wearing the best gear. I want my guy well supported from whatever company will support him the best, okay.

Skechers just doesn't seem like that's a skateboarding brand. No, yeah, you can think that I will, you can think that you're entitled to your own opinion.

He came back sixers without Maxi, beat the Thunder. They were. They go to Alexander, but six years are back, okay.

Uh, by the way, Max, I forgot to say congratulations to the Villanova women for finishing third and then second. WBI Oh.

So what? It actually doesn't count as a real second because it was not even the second tournament that we had a debate. There's a WNIt and a WBIT, Yes, we do. the WBIT is better in the second place.

Yes, you fit a second in the second place tournament, correct? Wow.

Like, this is what? Yes, you're just a walk, yeah, you're just. It's kind of like, when you buy a car and then all of a sudden you see your car everywhere. You're like, Oh man, I didn't know how many people had this car. As soon as Max finished second once, we just started noticing it's like he finishes second everywhere, all the time, everywhere.

Anywhere you look, he's finishing second. That's a bad example. Because when you buy a car and you notice that car everywhere, it's not like there's a ton of those cars we, it's just that you notice some more. It's like the con, whatever kind of bias that is with Max, it really just opened our eyes to it, yeah.

And then people were all like the Little League video we put out the other day. I finished second in that. Oh no, I didn't know, so people were reminding me of that the other day. Yeah, oh man.

Dave and Buster's commercial We did second, yeah, the Science Fair finished second.

Hey memes, do we have excited for that? Second, do we have an update on Mr. Pear?

People want the Mr. We want Mr. Pear. Bad, yeah.

I'm going to try to get it next week. Okay, him, get him, not it. I'm either getting a tortoise that we're just going to call a turtle.

Here's what I'm worried about with the tortoise, though memes. I'm told that tortoises can live like 20, 30 years. I would feel bad if a turtle tortoise, excuse me, died after like, six months, if its lifespan was supposed to be 30. That was my number one worry about this from the start.

Yeah, now if it's just a turtle and it does bad, we'll we'll rip that shit up, like, Uh, what was the turtle that was at Florida State? turtle? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we'll tear that turtle in half if he stinks. Turtle got ripped in half by, Uh, what was it? Aguayo aguayo brothers?

Yeah, yeah, one of the aguayos. So you're going to get it next week? I'm going to try to get it next week.

Maybe make a mess. So that means we're not going to get it next week. Um, but yeah, wait, so you're going to get a tortoise, or what's the other option? Uh, I was speaking to a zoo keeper, he said, Uh, get a box turtle.

They're easier to take care of. And will he? Will a box turtle actually make picks for us? I think so. It eats pears, it does eat pears.

Mr. Pear, Oh, Mr. Pear, Mr.

Pear, You could just make the longest videos of him, like walking around the studio. Yeah, where are you going? He's going to be a superstar.

Yeah, I just love the idea of us just doing the entire weekend preview. And Mr. Pear is like, Oh, he just made his second pick after 45 minutes. That's what we should do, too.

With Mr. Pears, we shouldn't, we shouldn't be like Mr. Pear has to do five pick Mr.

Pear should just get to do as many picks as he can do. You know what I mean? Let's not put so much pressure on Mr. Pear. Maybe he just likes one game.

Yeah, we'll just give him the option. Yeah, Mr. Pear's game of the week.

Yeah, Mr. Pear, and what are we going to put? We're going to put pears out for him to eat, or remotes.

Uh, I think pears. Okay, maybe one pear, Mr. Pear.

No chewing gum, Mr. Pear? No, okay.

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Who gets you? What are we guys feeling, what are we guys feeling? I love, I love Uconn. I already there will be no bet on that game for me because I have Uconn and I want so much.

I want to elect to abstain from from betting on Purdue, N.C. State. I'll put it that way, the DJ Burns shirts we just put on sale are so fire that I have to bet N.C. state money line. I have no choice. You know what fuck it?

And rooting for Purdue is just so so it's so fun to root against them. I just have to do it. So, the reason why I wanted to abstain was because I'm so convinced that Zack Eadie is just going to have his way. With N.C. State. But I'm also very stupid. So since I'm so sure that Purdue is going to dominate, I should just bet on N.C. State. Yeah, I just don't know how you can't like if you're impartial. If you don't have a team or bet on these this final four, the answer has to be N.C. State.

Like, you have to, and they're perfect because the 83 title run is so similar to this run, where you're like, maybe it just is destined. Yeah, maybe this is just what's going to happen and they're going to shock the world. And this is going to be the craziest three week, four week run in history.

That's what I said before the Duke came. I was like, Are you a little worried? If N.C. State wins at their No. You come with, smash them, but smash them, they can be purdue.

I am a little worried about Alabama, though, because Alabama could just go nuclear from three. You want to know what? I'm betting that game, what?

Alabama Bama Moneyline. Oh, of course he is. No, I'm not, uh, Uconn to win by one to two.

Oh, oh, exactly, just for chaos. That's crazy, that would. We're going, we're going to be with with Dave and Big Cat, who have huge, huge futures. Bets on Uconn. Rico Diehard, Alabama fan That would be the best content if it ended up with that scenario.

Yeah, because if it's a blowout, it would lose its luster, but if it's close to the end, be it be quite, a, quite a scene. I am enjoying watching the Alabama fans like game plan for this game. And I saw one guy was like, they're like, we got to just, uh, force the ball to cling in and caravan and let Caravan shoot threes.

Caravan shooting 40 from three. Yeah, force the ball to 40 to two. Great players. yeah, like they have just great players everywhere.

And I don't really know what the answer is to Uconn, other than the stress. Sleeping schedule is fucked up. The strategy in this game for Alabama is just be Alabama and then hope you have the best Alabama night that you can. Because if they do play their best basketball, they definitely can win this game. Shoot 60 from three.

Yeah, like, that's the thing is, I'm not, I don't give. I'm not saying that Alabama has zero chance. They definitely have a chance because of the style they play and if they hit all their threes, anyone could lose to them on any night. But, uh, UConn is just a kind of A. There's levels, and they're just at a different level right now.

If they come out and play like UConn would have to play, what a C minus game to give Alabama a chance. Like if I think about if UConn plays a B game, they beat everyone. Yeah, I, I. I'm going to take Connecticut minus 11 and a half, and then I'm going to take N.C. State Money Line. And we'll let the chips fall where they may. I I, Uh, I want to just shout out the women's game too, real quick.

I kind of like Uconn on Sunday, Okay, I, I scouted, I scouted that UConn USC game. They had a very good plan for Juju Watkins, I think they'll have a very good plan for Caitlin Clark.

Let everyone else beat them except Clayton Clark. So yeah, I think that's, I think that's what my plan is for Sunday, I think that that the powers that be, or no. Friday, that's Friday. sorry, that's Friday.

Sunday is the championship game. I think the powers that be really want Caitlin Clark South Carolina Championship. Yeah, they really want that star player against a perfect team. That would ratings higher, lower.

Then what then? LSU Iowa lower in that Championship game?

Yeah, you think so, yeah. I just think LSU Iowa is going to always have the highest ratings of the tournament just because of last year.

It was the highest rated women's college basketball game ever. I think highest rated women's game ever. Yeah, Sunday is ABC.

Yeah, that's true, I think it'd be higher, I think I think Clark against undefeated USC would be higher. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, South Carolina, yeah, yep, and they got what?

12 point. What 4 million, 12.4 million, something like that?

Yeah, and Rosillo only watched a half. The funniest was when everybody was talking about the, uh, the LSU Iowa game. And then Rosillo tweeted something out about, like some N.B.A. player not getting the rebounds, he gets people so angry.

I like it because it breaks up the timeline. Yeah, and he gets, he does that every now and then, where there'll be like a big football game. And he'll. And he'll just randomly tweet like, Yeah, Blue Jays. Like, like, Manoa shouldn't have left that one hanging. Nah, people should be able to tweet about what they want to tweet about. I was tweeting about the Phillies during that game and every single comment was like, Read the room.

It's everyone's talking about college. Agreed, we're we're defending Rosillo. He just makes everyone so mad, I know.

Like he had, he makes people so mad, it's like, like, what you like, who cares? But he only watched half. Yeah, uh. Who scored 50 points in the NBA yesterday?

Was it Malachi? Yeah, Malachi Flynn, Malachi Flynn scored. That might be the moment where we all realize like scoring is is out of control in the NBA right now.

Scoring is pretty crazy, it is. Hank, you're, you feel you were saying before that there's a 0 chance you don't make it to the finals.

I don't know that I said, 0 chance, but it would be. It would be heartbreaking if they don't. Big Cat put a future on the Nuggets, and I was like, that's a little, well, No, I put, you're like, Well, it's different. Uh, hold on, I put a future on Scottie Scheffler and the Nuggets. So it might not even be a thing.

Yeah, it was, it was. It was Scottie. I put a future on Brooks and the Celtics. It was Scottie. Well, I also put a future on Brooks, but it was a Scottie. Scheffler and nuggets.

You left that part out, you left that part out. So he's not even gonna be rooting for the Nuggets unless Scottie wins, correct, and I don't want Scottie to win.

I want someone else to win, but I think Scottie's playing so well that he's going to win, but I don't want him to win. I'm only that makes sense, yeah, but you could have just done Scottie and the Celtics.

Why? Everything you've done? He doesn't think the Celtics and everything you've done, No, I think they absolutely could win, but for everything you've done to me, let's get a reason to root against the Celtics. Boom got it.

Oh my God, I got Uconn. This is why Nuggets Why I should have seen formatted MVP, so I fair warning Hank, but again, I am a long time Nuggets podcast.

It's fun, he's a Nugs guy. Been through it before, I'll go through it again. What are you going to say, Max?

I'll be rooting against the Celtics, for sure. Um, I won't feel bad about it, and I want your pain like, bad, that's fine. You'd taste it on your lips, yeah.

Yeah, so I'm okay with that. You're not fake, you're not fake, you're a real one.

I mean, this is, this is setting up for Hank to defeat Max. Wait, how am I fake for not betting on your team? No, you just like to be like, Oh, it's a coincidence. I bet on the Nuggets. No, I think they're going to win.

Then why would I bet on something I don't think it's going to happen? How do you solve the Yo-Kits riddle? Yeah, I think that's going to happen.

So that's what I bet that's fine, so what you want me to? I'm looking forward to it. I don't know how that's. That's what I think is going to happen. You do that all the time.

I also don't think you're looking forward to it. I think you're scared of the nuggets. No, the nuggets are good. The nuggets will be. Nuggets will be a worthy test if the Celtics can make it that far, and the nuggets do as well. But I'm super excited.

I think it's what is April 22nd Playoff start. Can't wait. Yeah, very excited. Don't sleep on the Sixers.

Sixers No, we're sleeping on the sixers, don't sleep on the heat. Flip the switch. Maybe not.

Yeah, maybe not. Also be at Sixers game next week. Oh yeah, what are you doing? We'll talk about that next week.

Okay, I was, I was thinking about setting it up as my Fyre fest, but yeah, next week, all right, well, let's talk more NBA.

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Com Okay, here he is. Alex Crusoe, Okay.

We now welcome on a very special guest, long time coming. It is the Man, the Myth, the legend, Alex Crusoe. Chicago Bull. Uh, should we do the hard part first? Yeah, sure.

Okay, cause I was going to say NBA champion, but we don't, uh, think that we don't recognize it. Let's just do the hard part first, let's just get out of the way. Bubble Championship.

Didn't count low bubble, what? How do you?

So actually, we're fine with letting.

Congratulations, he's got a couple that.

Yeah, yeah, I don't.

Yes, but no, you know, like it was kind of like, I've seen like, multiple takes, right? There's like both sides of the spectrum. Some people were like, it's the hardest thing ever, and then some people were just like, Yeah, like, it was, you know, a hotel and we stayed there. I don't have kids, you know, at the time, I wasn't in a relationship.

So, like, for me, it was like college again, like I was just like going to practice. I go back, get some food, play, call a duty and then wake up and go play basketball the next day. Like, for me, it was like, this is not not terrible, pretty good life.

Yeah, like, yeah, I think people would. Some people would would take playing call of duty golf and then go on to play in the N.B.A. playoffs like some people would like that. But yeah, what was the vibe?

Some people like turn their meeting rooms into like players lounges, like had ping pong tables and stuff. But for the most part, we were a pretty close group all year, like we. We hung out, you know, one through 15 on the roster, so it was easy for us to hang out once we got there.

No, I'm. I'm always like, just take a shower and go kind of guy, but recently coffee, uh, I don't think he would have sold it to us. You would have poisoned it. Probably, yeah, he would have done something to it. He would have, like, put some eye drops, the little, yeah.

Easier question, do you?

Smart answer Uh, so yeah, I'm pumped that you're here. Like I said, it'd been a long time coming, got a million questions, but I I was just going back through. Like your career, and it's incredible, like seeing that you, you know, four years of college and then the G League. And then getting to a point where you sign a huge deal, win a championship, sign a huge deal. Become like a very impactful part of, like an N.B.A. roster. Was there any part of like that journey where you're, like, fuck? I was pretty close to, like, not making it to where I wanted to do.

Cause not a lot of guys do that journey, you know what I mean, a lot of guys are on that same path. Yeah, I don't know if there was any.

Or professional? Um, so it was always kind of like I was. I was almost like a like a racehorse, like I had blinders on, but at the same time, like, understood, you know what, what the stakes were.

I mean, that's.

Or, you know, throw away the the work that I've put in. I just. I just really enjoy being competitive with myself and that's kind of like the best part about it. Like, I'm just constantly chasing.

That's gotta feel good, though, to be loved. Yeah, no, that's cool, I mean, cause, like, like you said, there's a time where, you know, people didn't know who I was at all. And then, you know, we're to the point now where he's talked about being an asset. Um, probably just over the last couple of years, you know, once I signed the contract in Chicago, that was kind of like, all right, cool.

Like, this, one team really believes in me. And that was that was, uh, that was a big step for me. Just to be able to, like, like you said, keep taking another step, keep chasing something. Uh. And then the last couple of years, you know, every year at the trade deadline, there's rumors of, you know, one to two to 10 teams that are interested in me. So I know that there's some type of, yeah, and I know there's some type of, um, like you said, want for me to to to be on their team.

And I think that, I mean, that's, that's the goal, you know, that's, that's leverage. That's power in the league is is, you know, being able to say that multiple teams want you on their team.

I was on the road the last two trade deadlines and it's like, I'm getting ready like we have a we have a game both days. I'm like getting ready to lay down for my nap at like 1230 or one, and it's like, deadlines at three is just all right. Text my agent.

I'm like, Hey, I'm just going to leave my phone on loud, like, if you need me, just call me. But I'm going to go take a nap, like, I gotta take a nap so I can get ready for the game tonight.

So I think that's where the loyalty kind of lies. Yeah, but I mean, you know, it's a it's a time game, like Shams. Eventually, you know, just the years is going to have to take over.

Yeah, I just wonder if most players find out the right way, or if they find out the wrong way. I don't think most do. I would, I would, I would be willing to bet that most find out, you know, through their agent, or through, you know. You've heard social media like nightmares, where like they see someone tweet that they've gotten traded or something crazy like that. I don't think most of the time.

Yeah, I, I just you don't hear about it, so maybe maybe that's the thing. It's like, when it happens, right? People just don't talk about it.

But like you always hear about the ones where it's like the agent calls, he's like, Hey, they just traded you. Or like, dude finds out on Twitter. Or one of their family members text them. And that's probably not a good feeling.

Right, like, he's not someone. You could just be like, Hey, can I just get a few minutes with you, just wondering what your plan is? Hey, when you have a few, can I put you on my calendar real quick?

No, I don't think, yeah, that's probably not the way.

You know, at the end of the day.

Thank you. Um, no, you say, thank you to me. I know I was repeating.

And we're playing at Toronto and I'm running a pick and roll with him on the side. And they like, this was when I figured out that, oh, when I'm playing with him, people are just going to pay attention to him. And I can just go shoot layups, yeah, and I just go straight downhill and shoot the layup and one, um, nice and one.

Yeah, and one, and he comes over to me and he's like, talking very intently and directly. And it was the first time, like within a game, where I like, it was just like, Oh, we're on the same team playing basketball. It's not like, Oh, that's LeBron, I'm Alex.

And we're just happened to be here. It was like he's talking to me, like teammate, like, Hey, we got to figure this out to try and win this game. Yeah, like peers. And so that was. That was probably the first time, looking back on it, where I was just like, Oh, okay.

Like, this guy's competitive, like, that's what I do, this is going to be.

And then from there, learn what to do, what not to do. You know what I can get away with, how I can be useful when playing with him, and from there, I just I'm, I'm a learner. So, like, the more opportunity, the more reps I get. Like, I use that stored up here and then just take it to the next game.

Yeah, no, he has not hit me up for LeBron.

Yeah, I mean, the year we won the championship.

Yeah, or he's you're going to throw it so far up, like, you know, you're going to clank it off. Trying to trying to get around him. And then, I mean, he's six, 10, six, 11, seven, something wingspan like, he's guarding guys with links, moving his feet on the perimeter.

Like, literally when he, when people switched onto him late in the clock, we were just all right. Find your guy like, we're going to get the ball back here. Yeah. And then for me, you know, I was just pressure the hell out of everybody. Send them into the room.

When you got Dwight Javale and then you got Anthony Davis, you know, two of the three of them are always on the court together. Like, Yeah, just feed them that way. Easy for me, yeah.

It's like, Yeah, he was, he was a monster, he. He should've won DP a while a year. I think they gave it to Giannis, um, and he gave him MVP too. But like, literally, that was, that was, that was our defense, like, we're just be super aggressive.

And then when 80 got on somebody, it's like, just let them guard him, yeah, when he, when he's on.

I mean, you're all up in everyone's face.

And they're just, you know, if they get mad, it's. It's almost amusing for me, cause I'm like, yeah, contact sport, what do you want me to do? Yeah, we're playing a sport.

I'll let you score. Yeah, um, I don't know if any one person.

And like, obviously, yeah. I'm trying to be all defense again and I'm trying to make sure that I'm like, creating more value for myself in the league. I'm not going to just keep letting you score, right? You do things.

Um, and then they start, like, you know, they get mad, they get pissed off and start yelling at the ref, or like that. That's when, that's when, you know, you got them. That's going to feel like the best feeling. Yeah, that's the best.

Yeah, then you can kind of, like, you can kind of troll them in the moment, too, you know, like you do the indirect, like, really aggressive clap or like, you know, yell at the crowd right? With them next to you, that's when you can kind of, like, get under their skin a little bit. Have you ever slopped the floor?

Nah, not without being like, not without being a troll or something. I don't think in a game, I hate that. Yeah, that's the.

You can't do that. Speaking of college, though, uh, you had a great career at Texas A&M, you went to the Sweet 16, your senior year. Uh, are you still like, do you still watch college ball like in our fan?

I can't watch too much college basketball. Why? It's just it's, it's slow. Yeah, you know, it's a little too methodical, and it's just, I mean, once you played like night in, night out, I'm playing against the best players in the world.

Like, the talent level there is just so different, like the skill level in college varies. Yeah, it's nice, you know, the good teams, you know, have a couple of players that are really elite that are going to be pros. But even at the same time, it's it's hard to watch. But yeah, I'm still, I'm still, you know, Maroon, kool-aid, A&M through and through.

They're big buzz guys, yeah.

Yeah, that's the stuff where it's just like, how awesome was it?

Well.

And then we went to a sweet 16 and got smacked by Oklahoma, but that comeback was awesome.

Yeah, and it was. We beat every Big 12 team. We played like four or five Big 12 teams, but it went like a couple of games over 500 against everybody else.

So you've never had a chance to be outside the cult?

I don't really have a professional sports team that I love outside of, uh, Premier League soccer team Manchester City.

All right, that's fine. Like, we can go with that like I, I will, I will admit to being able to recognize that it doesn't lower.

Yeah, it's strange. Are you? Are you allowed?

Here we go, I mean, you are.

Yeah, it was the best crime to get busted for. you're the last person in America, I think, to get arrested for weed. Yeah, at least in Texas.

Yeah, yeah, it was.

Was it? It was just a grinder, right?

I was like, I hope this doesn't mess up, you know, anything with me. Signing a contract didn't? Nobody, nobody in the league cared, right? We know why.

Yeah, yeah, um. And then, while it was happening, it was just since, since the airport is on. Technically, it's on Texas A&M campus. It was campus police that came out. They didn't give you what you did you.

Like, up and comers, they were trying, Yeah, dude, remember Northern Iowa fresh stashes?

You know they, there's one of those they just wanted their big you. Remember Northern Iowa? Yeah, 12 12 points in 44 seconds. Anything to you?

Yeah, that would have rocked, they might've.

Yeah, it was. It was kind of funny because at the time me and Big Cats reaction was the same, which was like, why, why are they getting it? Yeah, we were free. Alex Cruz and then there was a, Uh, it just always makes me think back to the Laramie Tunsell draft in the NFL.

Oh yeah, we're like four teams, five teams passed on the guy. That was the night of the draft. It was like minutes before the draft started and teams panicked.

And they're like, this guy smokes weed, he can't play in the NFL. What year was that? That was like, 2016, yeah.

Yeah, that might've been like the second month apart of my take. Yeah, the gas mask, that was crazy.

Um, so Alex, I actually, I own a piece of Alex Cruz. So history, I'm not sure. If you're familiar with this, I don't know if I am. Um, he has the grinder, you remember?

I would buy the probably does probably bump. Yeah, I own a I own an N.B.A. top shot. Oh yeah.

I remember that the only one that I bought was your chase down.

Yeah, no, yeah, super rare, you know? It'd be even rarer if you were to autograph my NBA top shot for me and then I could try to sell that. Can you do that?

I'll print out like a still frame, okay, I'll have you sign it. Okay, yeah.

But do you remember that block? I do, I do, I turned it.

There's like the ribbon board and the NBA, NBA arenas. Yeah, it's just kind of like there. But pregame and like warmups, you're like looking, and there's like people's faces and these fish bowls, just like staring at you.

It wasn't normal, it wasn't normal, but like, once the game started, I think it was pretty normal. Yeah, yeah, um, I also pretty sure Little Wayne was in one of them for.

They're like, don't let this guy back on, don't let him in the zoom again. No joke. I think I might have a cane sauce problem. I was at raising canes the other day, getting my box combo with extra sauce on the side.

Like usual, I have an order when I eat my canes, it goes. Crinkle cut fries, chicken fingers, the Texas toast and finish strong with the slaw. So I start eating and before I know it, I'm scraping the bottom of my sauce and I wasn't even done with my fries.

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Like, I was, I was coming out, I was bobbing my head like music was phenomenal. I was making everything at warm-ups. I was like, all right, probably going to be a good night, sure enough. And then the guy tweeted and was like, make sure it's sandstorm.

I was just like, Okay, gave all the credit to Sandstorm. Yeah, yeah, and then Sandstorm didn't, didn't deserve it, but you know?

I was like, Embiid just went for 70.

Cat has 53 and Caruso has nine in the first quarter. It's like, everyone's going off right now. It could be one of those nights.

So who else is going to take the shots? Yeah, I can't wait for the 40 Alex Russo 40 night. I'll make sure whenever I get the 40 ball, I'll give you the shout out for it.

Yeah, just have you ever gotten the green light for an entire game?

I don't think I have a like, a red light, like I don't have like if when the when I'm open, I'm allowed to shoot, like I'm allowed to be aggressive. It's not like a yield sign. Yeah, Billy, do you ever?

What's Billy D like as a head coach? Billy D's got, uh, you know, y'all say y'all like, buzz, he's, he's got a little bit of buzz charisma into him, you know? With the leadership and like, making sure that, you know, the team's kind of focused on. And big storyteller guy, big big, big metaphor analogy guy. So that that's always fine, cause he'll come out of left field with some of these things. But then it, you know, somehow it always correlates back to basketball.

Um, I like playing for Billy, he's competitive. Uh, you know, he's got some of that, you know, he played in Providence back in the day. I don't know if they were Big East or what they were, but he's got some of that, yeah.

Billy Dee Metaphor dude, he just he. He'll come up with stories. And like, he knows at this point that, like, you know, whenever he tells a story, we like, you know, I roll. But it's just like, Ah, okay, here we go, another story. So like, he'll start it off and be like, Vuj, I know you love stories, Here's another story.

It'll like, go into it before, and it'll just, you know, whatever we need during the season, whether it's like, you know, refocus on, you know. We talked about that, that using the old pictures from high school. Like finding the love for the game and stuff like, get out of your own head and thinking about circumstances presently. You know, yeah, when you had hair.

Yeah, being being, being more involved in your love for the game rather than focusing yourself kind of thing.

Cause that's gotta be. I mean, that guy was a unique character. I heard, I heard he was. I heard. He was a unique character. He basically was like a pop Warner coach playing coaching N.B.A. basketball. I love that, yeah.

But he's, I mean, credit to him, he keeps finding jobs. Yeah, I know he's a basketball lifer, he coached, he coached USA basketball, even World Cup qualifiers.

Uh, he was head coach there, I think he's in Indian, I think he's in Indiana right now with the Pacers. So like, Uh, maybe he's just a wizard in these meetings with the office guys, or he's just like, or he's got blackmail on everybody, yeah.

I don't know he's.

And this was like when they were first coming on and like, I ended up shooting a commercial with them and it was on TNT or something. And it was like, this cheesy little like me, flying through the air. Kind of like their whole, you know, their whole mind is like, kind of like, goofy and sarcastic. Um, and they were like, Yeah, we'll give you a bunch of money and do this commercial and like, shave your head.

I was like, All right, sure, like I'm gonna have to do this anyway, like, I might as well, you know, get some.

So, like the headbands are.

Yeah, I.

It was.

I can show you, yeah.

Easy.

Just stay away from that, I'll find and show you.

See what the young guys do like you come back a couple of weeks before, in September and start working out, get in front of, like, everybody again. And you know, our the PR people just taking pictures coming back. And this was like, still after, like, you know, the hype was still building and somebody just photo, excuse me, they photoshopped and made me look like Miles Garrett.

And then all of a sudden, like within a week, I got a drug test and I was just like, Well, welcome to the welcome to the big leagues. Oh, that's so good.

How many players do you think right now could go from the N.B.A. If you were to take one guy? Put them on the worst roster in college basketball? That's in the tournament. So, like, one of the 16 seeds, yeah, how many? How many players are there in the N.BA? Where they could take that roster and then win a championship with it? When? when the tournament, when the team, like, put them on the one of the worst teams.

Like, I was saying that it would be more than we think. yeah, more than you think, for sure, yeah.

I thought about it. I think my number is probably around 10..

Cause, like anybody that's like, dude, I mean, guys in the N.B.A. are so good, man. Yeah, yeah, like, you got to automatically think bigs have an advantage because it's college, so like, the big is right.

Yeah, you know, so like that brings in a whole nother couple group of people. I think probably 30 to 40. I'd say 30 30 safe, cause you never know the last 10 they might not.

Yeah, yeah, he's dunking on grown men. Yeah, it wouldn't be fair.

Yeah, um, the the the best way, I think.

That's a good answer. It makes it sound like you really thought about it. The best way to, like, describe the difference. I think Wind Horse said it a few years ago where he was like, the worst shooter on the N.B.A. team would be the best shooter on a college team.

Like, that's even including big men, yeah, like they would be better than like the three-point.

Like, you know, like first one to miss and they both make like four or five in a row. Yeah, and y'all would never trust them to shoot like outside in the game. You'd be like, No, no, no, don't do that, like, set the screen roll.

We'll throw you the lob. But I've seen, yeah, like I've seen, I've seen a number of big men that just they can shoot in practice. But yeah, they're not asked to do it.

Yeah, and now he's playing like 17 years in NBA. Yeah, like, that's one of the things he he should. He should get a lot of respect and and admiration for that cause, like he figured it out.

He figured it out how to be a pro. Fun fact Javale was the one that convinced me to wear the headband. Oh, really, yep, so he was started doing that.

Yeah, he was, he was, he was an inspiration, he was a nice friend, yeah.

He was, it was high school.

Right, um, my, I had a couple of people send me that TikTok where this guy was like, basically talking about, like, Yeah, I thought I was good, like, I thought our team was good. Coach comes in and he tells him like, Hey, there's one guy on the other team.

You gotta worry about, like, make sure that we're locked in and focus on him. And like, we had some decent athletes, you know, in Texas, five, eight, five, eight schools like Big School, 3000 students. Um, a couple of football players, uh, like, you know, first off the bus kind of guys. And then like, I come in and the coach points at me, it's like, that's the guy to worry about. And this is when we talked about, like, I had the floppy hair, like I had bangs. And he tells a story.

And it's like, Yeah, I'm just like stealing the ball, dunking and like doing a windmill and warmups. I was like, Yeah, that was me in high school, like I was. I was different in high school. I was dunking on people and basically just playing like, you know how, college players.

And then House Crusoe showed up and I was like, Oh fuck, I stink. There are levels to this thing. Yeah, that was, I remember the tournament.

My senior year, like we, we lost like five or six games. Does this still shock you every now and?

Maybe it hosted here, maybe we should dominate people.

Like, you understand the people that I have to guard every night and night, and you think that you can just walk in here and do this. Yeah, I think we need to do.

Eventually, yeah, I think I would just like, once I get up to 500. I was like, I'll just catch my breath for five points and go score the other hundred in a row, and I would.

Pretty often, cause that's it's always so funny, cause like even Steph, like, you know, he looks. People like, Oh, he's so small, it's like he's six, three, six, four.

A couple of guys that are six, 10 can't chew gum and ride a bike at the same time. Like these dudes in here, like they're monsters, like they fill up a room, yeah, and they're smart too.

They're, they're, they're smart, they're coordinated, they're strong. Like, I'm a I'm a big human being, average like human being, just on that scale. Once I get to the N.BA, I'm a little guy.

Yeah, like, I'm, I'm small, yeah, but even a dude like.

You know, just not getting upset when the refs call something that you think is bullshit. Yeah, like that's the biggest thing is like, they're going to call some bad fouls, that it's a product, right? We want to score points, we want to entertain people.

So, like, the offense is always going to have the advantage. Yeah, so at that point it's just like, all right, don't, don't get.

Sometimes the points.

Yeah, and that's always an interesting dynamic to see how, like, the guys who do get those calls during the year have to adjust. And that's what we're talking about earlier. Where, like, guys get pissed and they start yelling at the refs. It's like, No, I know that I can get away with this now, or vice versa.

Practically thinking, Right, why would that not be if he's, if he's legitimately, legitimately shooting the ball? Yeah, right from there.

Like, it's like the, it's like the, it's like the people who talk about. Like, if it's a foul in the first minute of the game, it should be a foul on the.

Swallow your whistle, like if the dude's.