(K)NICKED AND BRUISED: Spurs Save Their Season

[00:00:03] Sports Reports No Gimmicks No Clowns 2-5 Mr. Loddickle We Run This Town Real Talk Only No Chasing No Doubt From The East To The West It's The Order We Shout Mic Check Lights Flash Game Time Stay Ready Two Vets In The Zone Keep The Pressure Real Heavy Big Hits Big Plays Yeah We Breaking It Down Truth Rings In Your Speakers Every Word Is The Crown From The North Side Hustle To That Southern Flame Midwest Grind West Coast In The Game Sports Talk Kings Yeah We Wear That Crown Turn It Up Let Them Know It's About To Go Down

[00:00:33] Sports Reports No Gimmicks No Clowns 2-5 Mr. Lodicle We Run This Town Real Talk Only No Chasing No Doubt From The East To The West It's The Order We Shout Yes And Some Would Say That It's Already Gone Down Because Regardless Of What Mr. Logical Tries To Tell You We Got Ourselves A Series In The Big Apple You Know What I'm Saying We Are In The Big Apple

[00:01:18] The Build In Sports Reports Is The Build In Sports Reports Is Order Like Review Subscribe Share Break Do All The Free Things Do All The Good Things Do All The Good Things Liquid Death In Hand But It Doesn't Just Stop There You Know We Gotta Get Into This Texas Text Oh There It Is Look At That Y'all You Know What I'm Saying We Gotta Get Into This Texas Text Texas Tech Thing You Know What I'm Saying And Mr. Logical I Have It On Good Authority Still Got Some Beef With The One And Only Mr. Saban Oh Yeah

[00:01:47] So We Gonna Get In The Big Apple You Know What I'm Saying So We Gonna Get All Up In That Chili You Know What I'm Saying So You Know What I'm Saying Let's Not Be Immature No More Pause For The Month Of June You Know What I'm Saying Let's Get Right To It Mr. Logical You're Go Ahead Man Go Ahead Go Ahead Complain About Them Refs Go Ahead All Right Check It Out I Thought About This Last Night All Right I Had A Little Whiskey Last Night So I Was Like Complain

[00:02:17] I Was Playing More Than Normal I Know What I'm Saying It More Than Normal The Knicks Played The Knicks Played Terrible They Came Out They Two Of The First Three Possessions Bad Turnovers Like Just Throwing The Ball On The Back Court Throwing The Ball Over OJ At Nobody's Head It Was 6'7 6'8 It's Kind Of Hard To Do Not A Lot Of Pressure On The Ball So They Played Poorly The Thing With The Refs Is Just The Consistency And I Think Mike Brown Pointed Out A Few Times It's Like Listen

[00:02:49] Listen If You Gonna Call That Down There You Gotta Call It Down Here And We Talk About This With Minnesota A Lot The More Physical Defense Does Seam To Get A Little Bit Of Leway Because Like That's Their Style We Talked About That Back In The Day With The Seattle Seahawks And Their Football Style I Was Like Because They Had A Reputation Of Being Extra Aggressive The Refs Kind Of Called It That Way But These Are Just Fouls Like The Pitch I Sent To Our Group The

[00:03:19] The Brunson Play When Wembanyama Grabs About The Back Of The Back Of The Back Of The Neck And Little Boisom To The Floor Brunson's Maturity And Restraint Save That Old Situation From Getting Out Of Hand And At The Same Time What's The Boy Name To Come Off The Bench Kendall Johnson He Got A Shoulder And Catch Chess At The Same Time And Shaman Has The Ball So Like I Always Say Like I See If Something's Happened On The Back Side And The Refs Doesn't See It But The Ball

[00:03:49] It's Like The Triangle Offense You Got Brunson Here You Got Brunson Here Cat Here So The Two MVP Favorites For The Knicks Probably Wembanyama MVP Favorite And The Ball So All The Attention In The Arena Should Be Focused In That Little You Know That 8 By 8 Foot Box It Is Like Y'all Didn't See Any Of This Either You Call A Hold On Cat You Call A Hold On Brunson You Call A Shove On Wembanyama Or You Call A Push On Like

[00:04:18] Somebody Was Doing Something In The Basketball Game That Was Way More Contact But They Don't Call Any Of That But Then They Say Brunson's Clothes Out Was Reckless His Back Was Turned When His Foot Landed On The Ground He Was Looking Up At The Rim And Champagny Jumped From Outside The Three Point Line And Stuck One Foot Inside Of The Three Point Line And Then Smiled When He Got The Whistle He Was Like Ah And Then Got Up And It's Like Y'all Getting Played

[00:04:48] And Then They Said It Was Reckless How Was It Reckless For A 5'10 Guy To Close Out On The Shooter And Land Before The Shooter Landed Away From Him So Like I Just Thought Like I Thought The Reviewed Calls Were Bad And It's Like You're Watching The Slow Motion And Still Getting It Wrong It's Like Okay Then This Is Like If You're Gonna Get Every Single Call Wrong When You Review It That Was My Problem

[00:05:15] So I Try To Pride Myself On Being Sympathetic Some Might Even Say That I Have A Little Empathetic Streak But What I Am Not Gonna Do Is Sit Here And Hear All The Things That You Just Said Not That You Were Wrong Not That You Were Wrong But I'm Not Gonna Sit Up Here And Listen To This When I Literally Said The Same Thing Two Weeks Ago When It Was Happening In The Oklahoma City

[00:05:42] And Nobody Cared It Was Oh Oklahoma City Is Getting What They Deserve That's What They Get For Flopping Oh This Is The NBA This Is The NBA This Is

[00:06:12] But If I Do Something Six Times Bad And You Do Something Eight Times Bad I Can't Say Well At Least I Didn't Do It As Much As You Did Yo Okay Check It Out If I Don't Pay My Cell Phone Bill On Time A Few Times That's Way Different Than Not Paying My Rent And My Mortgage A Lot On Time Like That's So It's A Big Difference They're Both Wrong They're Both Late Bills But It's Like Yo One's More Impactful One Has More Credits But Oklahoma City Were Faking They Weren't Even Flopping Off

[00:06:42] Contact Isaiah Joe Ran To A Screen And Jumped Sideways Chet Jumping Sideways Jalen Williams Ran Into Stuff Like Of A Cell And Fell Down Like Bro You Are 610 You Can't You Shouldn't Run In The Shack And Fall Down That Vemently Like That Was A Different Story With The Knicks Are Doing I Don't Think The Knicks I Think It's Physical Defense I'm Good With That I'm Good With The Physical Defense I'm Good But If You're Gonna Call My Problem Are The Replays

[00:07:12] When You're Seeing In The Slow Motion And It's Like You Didn't See It Live I'm Anti That Rule Anyway I Think There's Some Nuance To It That That Needs To Be Changed If You Don't See They Called The One On Mitchell Robinson But He Got Pushed By Johnson In The Back My Opinion You Didn't Call That File On Johnson You Can Resend What You Called And Keep It Moving

[00:07:41] I Think That The Their Impact On The Game Is Already I Mean Too Much We Gotta Go Each Team Each Team Gets 30% The Refs Get 40% If You Had To Figure If You Had To Like Give A Like A Impact Pie Cause Like The Refs Can Do So Much Like Josh Hart Had Three Points In The Series Until Last Night Cause He Was In Constant Foul Trouble In Games Games One And Two But It's The Same Contact And Out The End Vassell Has Been Nowhere Near Five Fouls And See Like So That's My

[00:08:11] Problem Right Because The Spurs Have Attempted 23 More Free Throws In This Series Than The Knicks And Like I Said I Don't Want To Sound Like A Broken Record But As Much As OKC Was Flopping San Antonio Was Flopping In That Series Too And That's Why When This Series Started I Said San Antonio Is The New OKC San Antonio But But And Also Even With All That Being Said To Your Point Though There Were A Lot Of Times Last Night That Castle

[00:08:40] Wasn't Getting Calls He Was Getting Beat Up Every Time He Got Near The Basket It Was A Couple That He Didn't Get Called And And You Know So So My Overall Problem Isn't Necessarily Within A Game So Like In That One Game Let's Call It Consistency My Consistent My Problem Is Night To Night You Just Don't Know What You're Going To Get This Is Like The Forrest Gump Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates Like One Night No Seriously Tomorrow Night Oh Yeah

[00:09:10] It Would Not Just It Would Not Shock Me Tomorrow Night If The Knicks Take 34 Free Throws And The Spurs Only Take 19 That Would Not Surprise Me Tomorrow You Know What I Mean And The Spurs Gonna Get The Whistle Again Tomorrow I'm Not A Conspiracy Theory Guy But Like I Used To Listen To You Talk About This A Lot This Might Be The Most Exciting Finals We've Had In A While As Far As Like I Mean Granted The New York Fan Base Is Rabbit Already Right

[00:09:39] Wimby Being A Potential New Face Of The League And Just A Couple Of Teams That You Can Root For Like I Think I Think The Eyes Of The NBA And I Think They're Enjoying Like You Know What A We're Gonna Watch Whatever They're Doing To Wimby Whatever He Was Complaining About Because That's Whenever They're Chipping Them But It's Like Yo Bro You're 7 For 5 Alvarado Is 5'11 Anytime He Does Anything Defensively Near You It's Going To Be

[00:10:09] From Your Hip Bone Then Your Thigh Bone Like That Dog There's Nothing Else He Can Do That's All He Can Do Defensively To Box You Out That's All He Can Do If They Have A Set A Brush Green Whatever It Is That's All Most Of These Guys Can We Didn't Keep That Energy When LeBron Was Getting These Calls When Kobe Was Getting These Calls When Michael Was Getting These Calls

[00:10:39] We Weren't Sitting Up Here Getting Those Calls And Don't Get A Lot Going To The Hoop If We Want To Be Technical

[00:11:08] To I Don't Want To Be That Guy But You Know Let Me Send A Quick Shout To The One And Only Amari Stoddermeyer Hey A Couple Of Knicks Ran Off That Bitch You Know Josh Hart And Cornette Had That Little Get Together You Degree Obviously I'm Not Like I'm Being Serious But I Don't Think We'll Get Here But What I'm Afraid

[00:11:38] Of Is Game Six Or So Maybe Game Five Wimby Elbows Somebody And Now The NBA Is In This Position Of Shit What We Do That's What What Do We Do Because They Didn't It's The Same Thing Right They Didn't They Didn't Do Anything For The Nas Reed Thing You Know I Mean And Then Last Night When He Did The Brunson Was Unacceptable Like You Know Choking Alvarado Right You Know But

[00:12:08] At Some Point I Would I On McCain And That That I Saying So I Would Think That At Some Point In The Man In But Literally Every Time Cat Puts The Ball In A Basket You Know Saying He Acts Like He Hit The Game Buzzer Beater In Game Seven

[00:12:37] You Know Saying I What That All Good And Dank until somebody knocks somebody on their ass. And I'm not talking about a punch. I'm not talking about a punch. But that's the thing. If you already know, they let us flex. If they letting us flex, because Dylan Harper had a dunk. He got his flex on. Castle got a couple of flexes. Flex.

[00:13:06] Like, yo, we letting that go. If you see it clearly. And if a ref calls to check on it, then that's where the coaches tell me, like, yo, we have three games worth of that exact play. No one's throwing any punches, anything crazy. It's a high motion time. These guys are competing for the world championship. A lot of these guys are going to be first-time champions. OG has a ring, but he was injured. Then you got the Villanova guys have like two or three,

[00:13:35] like two, one or two championships each for those guys. You know, so it's like, these are the first time for these guys to hoist this trophy. Young coach, Mike Brown being able to do it after he's been kind of cycled around the league. So it's like, it's a lot into this. And the city in and of itself, the magnitude of the game, it's New York, everything's bigger in New York. So I understand. The only thing I don't like about it. The only thing I don't like about it. I don't want this series to be a conversation about refs either,

[00:14:04] because they've been playing great defense. I don't think it was, so we had 115, 111. I think the Knicks scored 105 and 105. So it's been a great defensive game. There's no blowouts. Two or three minutes left in the game. It's anybody's game. Even teams have been down double digits. I wish we, in retrospect, started our conversation off about how well the finals is going.

[00:14:30] But the last night, the refs were pretty abhorrent. Well, I think the problem is, though, is that we, as a society, we tend to react. So this stuff is happening. And our reaction, your reaction is like, hey, ain't nobody fighting. Ain't nobody doing this. And then when they do, people are going to say, why didn't the refs have control of the game? You know what I'm saying?

[00:14:58] Like, we can't have it both ways. We can't have it both ways. I think we're looking at it on TV, and I don't know what it's like to compete at that level. So the level of intensity you have to continuously buy into every morning as an athlete to get to this level and then to be essentially at the mountaintop fighting to plant your flag at the top, that's a lot. On top of the fact, these are giant human beings.

[00:15:29] Like, check your friend group. It's not many of them 6'7", 6'8", 6'11". So it's a lot of, like, just size and mass and energy and just – it's so much the refs can do. The refs are our size. The refs, 5'10", 5'11", 40-year-olds. Hey, Mark Davis will yoke somebody up. But it's like, he can't control all these dudes. All the assistant coaches, small dudes, the photographers getting stepped on.

[00:15:55] Like, it's a powder keg because of the magnitude of the situation. You just got to address it if it happens. Because a hard foul can make dudes blow up. I think if you got a dude flexing on you because he dunked on you and that makes you fight, that means you're not in it for the championship if that makes you react to the point where you want to fight. All right. But if you see your face on a dunk, then I'm like, maybe. Draw blood. So let's get to the game. Take your legs out, definitely. Yeah.

[00:16:24] All right, let's get to the game. So this is a weird series, right? So Jalen Brunson, you know, is 30 of 81 in this series. But the Knicks are up 2-1. Last night, Harper and Fox went a combined 9 for 32. And they won the game. You know, this is the first finals since that Bulls-Phoenix Sun series back in 93

[00:16:53] that the road team has won the first three games of a series. So, Mr. Logical, I'm going to ask you the most hyperbole of the hyperbole. Was last night an example of the pressure cooker and subset, did the president have anything to do with that?

[00:17:17] I do believe in there's a level of superstition and vibe and energy that I do believe exists. Okay. I think the players not having the fans, the real fans in the building, and then all the security outside of the building. I saw a couple of social media influencers.

[00:17:47] They're kind of young guys, guys who made their money through streaming. So, you know, they got a nice little check. So they were able to buy tickets to get inside. And he was like, yo, Mindani, you got to figure out something to get some $10 tickets so we can get some energy in the building because the building felt corporate. He was like, people were telling us to sit down. Like, at the garden, people were like, yo, sit down. They ain't coming across that way on TV. That's because that's the angles they show. They show the only people standing up.

[00:18:15] How many real fans do you think paid $9,000 for a ticket? I don't know, but all I know is I was sitting in the living room and I heard. That was the cheapest ticket in the 17,000, 18,000 seats. So I think the vibe was off. The president, I think the president being there created like a conversation. And I'm not saying that he. That just kind of got him. Yeah, no, no, no. I'm not saying. I think the conversation that the players were having and people talking to them, I think that might have created a space where like now I'm trying to lock in.

[00:18:44] I'm trying to do this press conference, but then people throw a mic in my face asking what I feel about Trump. Your friends texting you asking what you feel about Trump. And I think you're trying to lock into a space because we talk about, because Rich Paul says something like, oh, that has nothing to do with it. And while he was talking, I was thinking to myself, well, then why LeBron get off social media every April? Because it does like when outside influences do affect you on the court. So like the whole time he was talking saying like Trump was invited and, you know, I don't really think that had anything to do with it.

[00:19:14] And I'm like, yo, your biggest client literally doesn't talk to people. Right. And I'm not asking that. And I'm not asking that from the standpoint of Trump himself or just Trump, but I'm just meaning like the routines and the, you know, just getting ready pregame and all that kind of stuff like that. I imagine the way they had to get to the game was just combined. I imagine guys probably who normally drive probably had to get some other kind of means of transportation.

[00:19:44] Maybe that drive in, you know, some guys probably live in Jersey. Some guys probably live, you know, somewhere in Manhattan. So maybe guys really lock in on their drive to work for home games. Maybe that was thrown off. Like, I mean, it's a lot of things happen. Like my son every week for his football game, I know he wears, there's a couple of items that he wears every single week. They're clean, obviously, but he wears exact same thing every single week.

[00:20:11] And when he, his routine is locked in, I don't bother him on that day. Even his head coach is like, listen, don't ask me questions on Friday. So even at a high school level, just having any kind of disruption to your schedule can throw you off. So I know how the professional is the same thing. So I imagine guys couldn't drive to the stadium. They couldn't just walk around freely. They probably couldn't do their normal shoot around, you know, just little things that they were probably used to being able to do. So for me,

[00:20:38] So for me looking at this series from the macro, just as a series analyzing a series. Yeah. I thought the Knicks losing game three was the best bet you could have made. Like regardless of Trump, regardless of any of that, because you know what I mean? Like this is the NBA finals. And then they came down here to the Alamo and got two. And I knew that place was going to be rabid. You were talking about it the other night.

[00:21:08] I got to go down to the city. I got to do like the pressure was on. Like these people have not won a title since 1972. So like game three. The reception was the reception that the players were probably expecting upon when they were walking to the locker room. And after that one Oh five, one Oh four win when San Antonio charged back and they still were able to win. And San Antonio's best player made the mistake. People thought the series was over. They were probably thinking, yo,

[00:21:38] the garden's going to be crazy. It's going to be nuts. It's going to be crazy. It's going to be crazy. And then they get it. And it's not there. Well, not even, I don't even care about that part. I'm just saying that coming there up to, Oh, a lot of people was like, yo, DOA, this is over. Like we're going to the garden. This shit is wrapping up real quickly. So, so I think coming into last night, there was a certain expectation that like, whenever we talked about Wimby as far as, Hey,

[00:22:05] they beat Oklahoma city in game seven and he's going nuts right now. So I feel like going to the garden last night, regardless of the circumstances around the garden, I think Knicks fans was like, this is our coronation. This is our chance to put this away, to bring, you know, the title back to the city, even though they, I think that's what happened. Yeah. But unfortunately,

[00:22:30] I don't know how many Knicks fans were in the building versus people who can afford Knicks tickets. Like even a celebrity role didn't make any sense. The cop, like a, like somebody from Trump's cabinet was sitting courtside DJ Khaled, Miami heat bandwagon fan. He's sitting courtside. And every time the camera paying to him, I swear he was looking down at his phone. Yeah. It wasn't no free Palestine.

[00:23:00] Everything a white, red, black, and green. He was with fat Joe. And it just was like, it just felt even the celebrity sections of that game just didn't have the same vibe. Didn't have the same energy. Like I said, they had Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson there. They did. She had a Brunson Jersey. You know what I'm saying? Ben Stiller, Spike. They were all there. Yeah. But that's, that's your normal guys.

[00:23:29] But then it had like people who don't, I want to say don't, but the fuck it don't belong. Like there's people who just don't belong there. Like no one on a presidential cabinet should be sitting courtside. And the time where gas was cost me $50 to fill up my Kia. Adam Silver was there. He's supposed to be there, but he knows like most commissioners sit like a few rows up, which is standard. I just, I, I think the energy, I think they wanted to party.

[00:23:56] I think the energy in San Antonio was probably, first of all, I saw something the other day real quick. It's four times cheaper for a Nick fan to fly from New York to San Antonio, get a hotel and get a ticket. Then it's for one ticket at the garden. You could fly down to San Antonio for like $2,800 flight room ticket to the

[00:24:22] game for like 2,800 bucks and get a ticket inside of was it Frostbank center? Frostbank. Yep. And it's $8,000 to get one. So I think when they go back to San Antonio, it'll be a lot of Knicks fans and you'll see the energy in game five. I think game four, the Knicks are still going to win. Well, you know, I'm just putting it out there. I'm going to go double digits. I'm going to like one, one 14, one Oh two. I'm going first, but okay. Yeah.

[00:24:52] One 14, one Oh two. I'm going to take the 12. Just because even, even with the, the, the Knicks plan as bad as they were playing in all three games, they haven't been playing great. We talk about the somewhat disparity in calls as far as like, at least the flagrant. I don't think San Antonio has gotten a flagrant yet. And I believe New York has two or three and a technical, like even that technical that Mitchell Robinson got in game two, where we be pushed them back with both arms fully extended. They still, so it was like,

[00:25:21] they got rescinded by the NBA. So at least they're even looking and saying like, yo, y'all are doing this wrong. So for the three games, I don't think they got a favorable whistle whistle. And last night, Darren Foxes and hit that jumper. He misses that mix coming back down the court. Opportunity to talk. Right. But see, but see, this is what I don't like, but see, this is what I don't like all of that. Like, cause the whole series, like the whole series has been slanted as far as like the technical files, the no, it has,

[00:25:50] but I think that Nick still won two out of three. So I know, but I think, I think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. Like in every, in every game, in every game, San Antonio has had a double digit lead for, no, no, we forget all that. We talking about the game now, forget the reps. The intensity is the same way, both ways, but yet one team is getting more. Okay. That's fine. We already established that, but we, we talking about the game.

[00:26:20] So that's, I'm talking about the game. I'm talking about. Okay. But, but what I'm saying is the Spurs have had a double digit lead in each game. You know what I mean? We are one shot away from this series being two, one, the other way. You know what I mean? Game, game one. When you look at the, like, when you look at the score of game one, you see that the Knicks won by 10. That was about a two point game with about a minute and a half left. That was free throws. Like, you don't know what I mean. That's what I'm saying.

[00:26:50] I think that Nick supporters, I think people thought this series is over. No, I don't think the Knicks have been playing that well. No, I know. They've been playing that well. But they've been winning. And, and, and, and I think that the, and we can see clearly the second half yesterday, San Antonio shot 24 free throws. I'm saying. So it's like, you have a team like the Knicks. They don't shoot a lot of threes. It's mainly Shannon. Josh Hart with four seconds left in the shot. McBride.

[00:27:19] Who didn't play a lot. Cause it's three. He's not falling. So they don't shoot a ton of threes. So they're in the paint. They're at the rim. And they didn't get the free throw call. So like, I'm saying over the course of these three games, we can look at and say the, the, the whistle for some other reasons has been in favor of San Antonio. Yeah. I can say that. And the Knicks still came out up to a back here at home, played a terrible game. And they were, I know this hypothetical is what.

[00:27:49] Dan Fox misses that jumper. The Knicks have a real opportunity to tie the game up with time. Like, I think it would have gone in. I think they would have got the rebound about 14 seconds left to come back up with the opportunity to tie after playing poorly, not getting, you know, the, the, that's kind of what I'm getting at though. The, the calls they got. Yeah. A lot of the calls. That's kind of what I'm getting at is that the Knicks have been, the Knicks have been playing bad in general. It's just that Jalen Brunson,

[00:28:19] for whatever reason is what people think Kobe is in the fourth quarter. Like that's just whatever's been happening. So like each game of this series, San Antonio has been in control and Brunson's been hitting tough shots. Or is going to look like one of those Cleveland game three, game four scenarios. I think this is going to be, because you got, you have three games and I figured Mike Brown, cause he mentioned the rest again too.

[00:28:47] And someone talked about Shaq talked about Phil Jackson, put his hand on his shoulder when he said, Oh, I'm not getting any calls. And he said, he's put his hand on my shoulder and said, champions don't worry about calls. That's a goddamn lie. Cause every single time Phil Jackson was in a series and he felt like a call wasn't being made. He go to the press conference and he would say, you know, it'd be nice if we could kind of get some of these calls with Shaq is going to hit. And then the next day, next thing they shooting 37 free throws. So like check cut that shit out. Like we don't have memories too.

[00:29:17] Like I know it all. That's why he told him the fucking Zen master. He did that all the time. So he didn't come in a locker room to a moment. Don't worry about the rest. He planted that seed at the press conference, the same way Mike Brown did. So I think this game, it'll be a little bit more even game four, but I just have a feeling that the jitters are out. Uh, the barricades hopefully aren't around the building and guys can come to the game in our routine and head back to San Antonio up three, one with the two, three,

[00:29:46] 4,000 Knicks fans that they going to fly out from Teterboro and Newark and JFK to San Antonio. And all, and all Charles Barkley cared about was those Cardi D's. Cardi D's. But I think, but I think that, uh, I want to be like Charles Barkley when I grew up, but, but, but I think, I think that there's things that just make patterns. Right. You know what I mean? Because like, okay, it's like everybody has a bad game, you know, Jalen Brunson hasn't had a good game yet.

[00:30:15] So theoretically you would think to yourself, he has to have one of those games, but maybe not. Maybe, maybe the Spurs just have his number, you know, then you look at it. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on, hold on. You know what I'm saying? This is a Knicks jersey. This is not a Knicks jersey. It's a Cardi jersey. So then when you look at Wimby, so then when you look at Wembanyama last night, I think they made a better effort at going at Cat.

[00:30:44] Because I think what San Antonio discovered, he can't guard Wimby unless the refs are letting him get away with being physical. So that's why when you sent the picture earlier, I was like, let's talk about Cat and those bear hugs. Because every time Wimby got near 18 feet, Cat was great. No, they didn't call a lot of them. Like Cat could have filed out that game. Like if he was an offensive lineman, he would have got benched last night. You know what I mean? But that's what I'm saying.

[00:31:10] Like the Spurs figured out that if the refs are not going to like call, I mean, if the refs are going to hold him accountable or whatever on the bump, because Cat, you know, he's not athletic enough to keep up with Wimby. He's just wide and stronger than Wimby. So he can keep them at bay. But if, but if Wimby gets that open space to get by Cat, Cat ain't doing nothing with him. So we might need more Mitchell Robinson. You know what I mean? But that's, that's,

[00:31:38] that's to be expected when you have a guy with the skillset that Wimby has. The problem is Wimby can't guard Cat and he should be able to. He can't guard, but he can't close out. Right. I think, but you got, but you pull Cat out. He's tall and he can block shots. He gets out of position and dudes under, like are shorter than him bump him out of the way and get dunks. We saw it in every level before he got,

[00:32:07] even got drafted. It was guys. What's the boy named the lights can do. Kenny Lofton jr. Bodied him. He's just tall and he goes for the block. Right. But the other part of that asset to have, but as far as like when you have cat, cat beats him baseline. Every time he falls to the pump fake OG beats him and dunks every guys are getting dunked on with me. I'm not saying he's just this, you know, like he's like old lady, but it's like his defensive power is the ability to block. You put him on the head. definitely.

[00:32:38] 100%. 100%. But the other part of that is. And he does all this other shit. And it was like, yo dog, you're a superstar. You can't be out there acting like you want to be a bully, but then as soon as someone bumps you, you crying to the rest. Like. But the other part of that is cat. A lot of times they're initiating cat at the top of the key or on the wing. So that way when he's not there to block the shot. So, so I think, so I think what happens. Dangerous thing. He provides you.

[00:33:07] You won't let me get my point out. Why are you so hyper? Why are you so hyper today? Because like, like, like, like, like this is a two man show. I know, but this is a two man show. I got stuff to say too. Like, so, so no, I ain't nobody glazing nothing. No, I'm just talking about like when I, the pundits, but no, but like what I'm saying though, is that, so you're pulling, you're pulling Wimby out of the paint. You know what I mean? So you're getting rid of that threat. So cat is starting at the top,

[00:33:37] but I think what happens to some degree against normal side, dude, normal sized dudes, cat can still get to the bucket or he can post up or do whatever, but they're exclusively like you start here and you initiate offense a little bit. So I think it takes cat out of rhythm just a little bit. Cause last night he only had, I think it was 11 points on 10 shots and he should be bodying up with me. He should be, you know,

[00:34:03] saying not saying post up every time or any of this ain't David Robinson or something, but just, but, but show a different look like you, you're making it easy on with me because now he can cheat off. And then that way, when he does cheat off, you got castle or somebody on cat, but you still got them at the top of the key instead of maybe in that mid range where he can push castle to the basket. And that's what the mix aren't doing. I expect that to change, but, but that's what's happening right now. Three next game. He didn't shoot the three.

[00:34:33] I don't think he shot at all. Cause I had a parlay on. I think he shot one or two. I think he shot a parlay on the make two. And like he was getting it. He wasn't shooting that shot games one and two. He was letting it go. And I think if they look at the film and say, yo, when Wimby's out there, we get it, but he's not going to commit to 20. Like what's that? That's like 22 and some change on like that, on the curve, on that three around. Like I think probably 23, two by 22 and some change.

[00:35:04] If cat catch, you get the ball at 25 feet. Wait, Wimby's not coming out further than like 18. Cause I think he thinks he can still much. So jab, step them, give them the rock back, give them in the air. Yeah. And just get them to shoot the three, get them either rock back or to commit to the pump fake. And then you get somebody on the backside, but he just didn't do that. And it allowed Wimby to just kind of wait. Cause they just kept, and that's why they had so many turnovers. I think they were passing the ball too much. They were taking,

[00:35:33] they were taking way too much. They looked like OKC. They looked like OKC at points last night, especially in the fourth quarter. There was one possession where the ball literally went around the world and they still didn't shoot. And, you know, so I think one thing that I do have my eye on in this series though, you know, Wimby so far to date has played the most minutes in this series. You know, he's played 117 minutes. Brunson's at about 110. Shamit, you know,

[00:36:01] we talked about him in the Eastern Conference finals and what he was doing back to the mean, right? He went one for seven last night, 35% from three in the series. Jalen Brunson in this series, he's Mr. 13, 13 turnovers, 13 assists, 13 rebounds. So unless he, you know, finds a way to distribute in, you know, cause like right now, what I'm, what I'm seeing, and I don't know if you agree with this or not, but,

[00:36:28] but what I'm seeing is last year's Jalen Brunson at times where he's just getting the ball. There's a lot of dribbling. There's not a lot of movement as it was against Cleveland, as it was against Billy. It's like almost. Frustration. He's frustrated. That's what it is. He's frustrated. And a guy that you called out pre game two, I think he is going to be the difference maker game for Mikkel. Bridges. Bridges. Josh Hart.

[00:36:57] The way people talk about Josh Hart is like the guy is just, I think he was like an Eagle scout. I think he just like just a good hearty dude. And I think he always has the right energy. I think he always brings it. And I think them being college teammates and that relationship, I just feel the camaraderie of the Knicks being at home, having the stinker of a game three, whole routines kind of thrown off. I think game four,

[00:37:27] they come out, shoot the rock. Like don't wait till seven seconds in the shot clock to get it to Brunson. And now they're trapping them. Shoot the shot. Like Shannon, you said he was one for seven. I think Alvarado got like four or five shots up. He even shot a couple over Wendy. Like you see come in Jordan Clarkson, knock down a couple of threes. He's one of those dudes that if other players on that team had his heart, they would be unstoppable. Yeah. That's why I,

[00:37:55] and I think Mike Brown recognized like, you know, if I put Clarkson and Alvarado in here, it's instant offense. Like those guys, they can handle the ball. I think Alvarado is a good backup point guard. Most teams don't have a starting point guard. I think having a backup point guard, it comes off the bench. A guy like Clarkson with that level of confidence that he continues to play with. I think that's the difference because the, the, the Spurs bench, we talk, we can talk about this. We blew in the face. Cornette.

[00:38:24] If the Knicks don't keep it simple when he's in the game, I'm driving up there. I'm a beater by halftime. And I'm slapping the shit out of all the assistant coach. Like, yo, go at this dude's chest. So either you could score or you get him in foul trouble. So now when women needs a breather, it's like, well, Cornette got three fouls. That breather might get extended. Like, you know what? We were going to take you out at the six 50 at the first TV timeout. Now we got to get you at the next one.

[00:38:54] Cause we got to get you to four minutes and 50 seconds left in the third before we can get you out. Cause Cornette got three fouls. We can't put him in now. Cause if he gets four, we got to put him right back in like that, that kind of chess match has to happen as well. I'm still nervous. You know what I mean? From that standpoint of, I was talking about the energy going into game three, as far as New York feeling like this is our moment. You know what I mean? Now, now you get the reverse of that where a couple of people are, a little nervous, you know what I'm saying?

[00:39:23] Like we can't go down to, to like, we can't feel that way. If the, sorry, this is somebody else on the Spurs, like really caught fire. Like a Dylan Harper went for 26. Well, I think that, well, I think that the problem is, is that so, so let's, so walking this out, right. Um, when we took 18 shots last night, you know, and, you know, 13 of them were within the paint. So his three point shots went down, which needed to happen. Right.

[00:39:53] He had the eight points. I'm sorry. Eight boards and six assists. Now I would imagine in game four, it's like, if you're the Knicks, it's kind of like, all right, now when we show, now this is my question now about Wimby, you know, since I'll, I'll stop the glazing that you were talking about. Right. Right. So we, we haven't, we against OKC. And you brought this up. Really. We never saw Wimby really bring it in back to back games. Like it would kind of go ebb and flow. Like, Oh,

[00:40:22] he's going to come out and look like an all timer tonight. And then tomorrow he's going to look haphazard. You know what I mean? So like, are we going to get aggressive Wimby two games in a row? First of all, second of all, you know, if the Knicks do, because I imagine they're going to adjust now, this is where, you know, Vassell has to hit his shots. You know what I mean? This is where Harper or Fox, one of the two can't have a game like they had last night. You know what I mean? Somebody's got to hit the shots.

[00:40:51] And it goes back to game two, where we were talking to Chris in the comments about, well, these other guys have to do their job for Wimby to be able to do the things that he does. So that's what I think the game rests on tomorrow. It's like, who's going to join Wimby or, who's going to loosen it up for him a little bit. I think back-to-back games, I believe he'll do well. Cause me, he does at a minimum, like, I mean, I always, he likes the villain role at least.

[00:41:21] He likes the villain role. I like that, but he also whines. So like, it's like a bratty kid. It was like a bratty rich kid, real tough at school. But then when you meet him in front of his house, he run and kill his parents. He has that kind of like demeanor on the court. Like, yo, be the bad guy, be the bad guy all the way. Rock with it. Like you are an anomaly on the basketball court. Like I said, I think if, if there was a guy on the Spurs,

[00:41:51] that played so well yesterday, outside of Wimby, that's going to carry it in the game for, I'd be a little concerned. Maybe Castle. Castle plays well, but he also is like very aggressive defensively. So if you think like your estimation, you think the whistle is going to be a little different. He's going to be victim. Number one. It's going to be him. Definitely. And then Vassell. I think Wimby is going to be off the hook because Wimby doesn't, Wimby could just go for blocks. Like,

[00:42:21] I don't think he really contends for steals. I don't think he reaches for anyone. I don't think he like goes for swipes. I think he just looks at, I'm going to just go for this block. And I think that allows him to not get into foul trouble. Unless you get them in the air, which I think OG might be able to do. Cause he's such a big body, but yeah, cause cat, like I said, castle is probably going to be a guy that gets the two early files. So he's out of rhythm. Darren Fox is probably hobbled, but he's playing through it.

[00:42:49] I have yet to see him. Really like breakout. So I think the Knicks being at home, settle in that same energy that they needed around the building. Cause I imagine you can hear it. I imagine you can hear the fans surrounding the stadium sharing. Cause like Madison square guards, like literally the right dead center man.

[00:43:18] So I imagine that the sound from all the fans screaming outside can kind of maybe echo off the certain parts or just, but just like that, that, that energy is available. So yeah, Castle, Castle, Castle scares me. You know what I'm saying? I see a lot of Adrian Peterson and Jalen Brown and him. And I feel like he's an injury at any given moment waiting to happen. Um, you know, but, but I think I'm gonna go with the Spurs. Um, I, I just,

[00:43:48] I just feel like, and maybe some of this is wishful thinking, I'll admit, but, but I just think that some of that New York energy, you know, this is our moment. Like we can't go down. I mean, we can't let it get to, to like the puckering, the butt puckering of like, Oh shit. Like, are we going to choke this? I think that's real. You know what I mean? Um, as a Florida state fan, you know, the curses and all that kind of stuff. I think that's real. I'm an Atlanta Falcons fan. Yeah. I know all about. I think it's real. And, and, and, and, and, you know,

[00:44:17] and if Brunson, you know what I mean? Like he's cause, cause I don't know if OG is going to have another game like he had last night. Like he was just, you know, all over the place. You know what I mean? Josh Hart is going to bring the energy. No, another guy will. Yeah. Yeah. Another guy will do that. You know, and, and, you know, and I think that the refs will be, I think that the refs will call it closer. And that's why 9am tomorrow, Eastern time,

[00:44:46] I'm going to be on my phone trying to figure out if Scott Foster is reffing this game tomorrow. Cause that's usually when they make the announcements, but I will say Mr. Logical to wrap this up. He's a series extender though, right? That's what I'm saying. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like I'm going to see if he's reffing tomorrow. Cause if he is, you know, all bets are off, but, because I don't think we've seen him in this series. I don't think we've seen him yet. Game one. Oh, was he? Okay. So game one. And then we got brothers game two. And then to do Davis game three. Yeah. Yeah. Now I know his name.

[00:45:15] Cause he was awful. Yeah. So, so what I, what I do know is as much as I hate everything, New York, besides the rappers, you know what I mean? Like there is nothing. And I mean, nothing like those organs in a playoff game. When those organs are going off in the Knicks fans, chanting defense, that is one of the greatest things in sports. I have to admit. Um, but Mr. Logical craziness. You want to talk about craziness in sports.

[00:45:46] So we found us a judge down here in the Lone Star State that decided that Brendan Swordsby can play this season. When in turn, what ended up happening, as you saw, as I was spamming you, you know, all these conferences and different schools are like, we're done with Texas tech. So here's the real question. I'm not going to ask you, are these schools serious about not playing Texas tech?

[00:46:16] Cause I don't know the legality of it. So I'm not going to go there, but what I am going to ask you is, are they just posturing? The people that say they're not going to play them. Yeah. Like, like, like, are they, are they really, are they really? Okay. Yeah. Like you have to either figure the home game revenue for Texas tech, if they're playing at home or the home game revenue for the team that says, we're not going to play them.

[00:46:43] No one's the greedy, the greedy hands in the pot. Aren't going to let that go because you want to exercise some level of fraudulent integrity. So just cut the cap. You're not doing it. Just like how Texas is not going to change their schedule to play Texas tech week one, cut the cap. So it's all fairy dust. It's all this stuff that make people think there's going to be some level of integrity in college sports. It is not, it is too much money. It is essentially unregulated money.

[00:47:13] It's money that can come from any source. As long as that money is delivered, it doesn't matter. It can show up in a Brinks truck. It could show up in a Range Rover. It could show up in a duffel bag. Longs of money gets delivered to campus headquarters, the AB, the head coach, the quarterback, the defensive tackle, all the, whoever gets this magical bag of unregulated cash. That's all that matters. So until you can get a grip on where the cash is coming from and how to regulate it,

[00:47:42] then everything is fugazi. It's a fairy tale. Like, uh, Matthew McConaughey. Like, yeah, that part. It's all this fugazi. So even the judge saying is injunction. They don't care. Yeah. Injunction. I want them to see plays. I want them to play football. Maybe they know somebody at tech. Maybe they golf with someone to graduate from tech. Maybe their mentor went to tech and they owe them a favor. Just watch this. Watch pony excess. Just watch.

[00:48:13] Shout out to the Mustangs. It's like, just watch it. It's the same thing. It's like all these people started in Texas. Businessmen going into these meetings, getting sick of other schools, bragging about how these schools are doing so well. So they look out for each other. You know what? It's funny that you bring that up. Because I have a list. Oh, here we go. So, uh, this was something I was sitting at my desk thinking about today. All right. So, so the first, so the couple of things that I thought about, right.

[00:48:42] The first one was Jameis Winston. Then I thought Bobby Petrino. Then I thought, uh, North Carolina and the academic scandal, people like Julius Peppers and all that kind of stuff like that. then I thought of, yep. Then I thought about LSU, you know, um, they had that booster plea guilty to embezzling from a foundation for a local hospital,

[00:49:12] you know, to be sports promoting gambling. Right. Then I thought about Connor Stallions, you know, then I thought about, Hey, where's the pack 12. Why is it not like it was? So I say all that to say, they're nothing but hypocrites. You know what I mean? This is just a chance for them to flex their muscles, if you will, or try to at least, because we have learned that if nothing else, these college teams will do whatever it takes to win.

[00:49:42] They will do anything by any means necessary, you know, to put a good football team out on that field because football, as we talked about the other day, the revenue, you know, everything else that it brings to the school, you know, you have a good football team, your enrollment goes up, you know, more money. So, so from that standpoint, I don't want to hear any of this, but the one thing that I will say, you know what I mean? To a certain degree is take heed, Notre Dame.

[00:50:12] because every so often, you know, we get these comments about how schools aren't going to play Notre Dame. If they don't join a conference, you know, if they, if they get their easy access to the playoffs, there's going to be issues and all that kind of stuff, which will never happen because playing Notre Dame makes absolutely too much money for, for schools to ever try to actually boycott. And it elevates your, your status, even if you, right, right. And so, so the big 12,

[00:50:42] so the big 12 does have a couple of actions of recourse here. So first, as a part of this, I guess, and I guess, you know, this is that new world. We let you pick your punishment. So Brendan Sorsby apparently is going to miss the first two games. You know, that was what his legal team came up with. He's going to sit the first two games, but, uh, why? If you have an injunction, because you have to have the appearance that you're, that you're trying to be fair, I guess. But that's the thing. You're,

[00:51:12] you're, you don't, I wouldn't even do that. I'm like, no, I'm not, I wouldn't do it either. Why am I punishing myself? So that I can play, right? I'm playing. What's the difference with me playing 10 games versus 12? Yeah. So the other part of that is, um, you know, Texas Tech, their backup, Will Hammond, you know, from last season, he came in against Utah, you know, um, he, he lost their only game against Arizona state. Uh, he's recovering from ACL.

[00:51:40] So we'll see if he'll even be ready week one, you know, so they may be stuck with Kirk Francis, a transfer from Tulsa is their starting quarterback, but the big 12 has bylaws that says that if they have a super majority, so that's 12 out of 16 teams that they can do certain things to Texas Tech. But I don't think any of it matters because of what? Because they don't want the people to vote against them because it's going to happen to them too. Well, well, no, I wasn't even going to go there, but I was just going to say, um, so, so like they could do something like,

[00:52:10] Hey, you know what? We're not going to put any of your games on TV, but then you're punishing the other team too. You know, that had nothing to do with it. So you're not going to do that. You could tell them no post season. Guess what? You're not going to do that. Cause they're the favorite to win your conference. They're the favorite to get to the playoffs. So you're not going to do that. Then recruiting penalties. Guess what? You're not going to do that because they got Cody Campbell. You don't say who will go out here and buy whoever he wants.

[00:52:40] The million dollar man. Everybody's got a price. You can't put them on scholarship. Just make a preferred walk on and pay them anyway. Right. Because even if. Enroll in our liberal arts program. So you can come play football and I'll give you $500,000. So let's say hypothetically. So let's say hypothetically, right. Um, the, the FBS schools have an 85 scholarship rule. You know that, you know, so let's just say the big 12 says, you know what?

[00:53:10] You can't get more than 70 scholarships this year. That doesn't stop the quality of player that he's going to up the ante to get there. They might not have any depth, but they don't have depth, but this is what they'll do. If they have, so 85 scholarship players. And they say, you can only have 70 scholarship players. All right. Well, our top 15 guys are making a million each. That's what I'm saying. We'll take them off scholarship.

[00:53:40] And we'll get them a Pell grant to pay their scholarship from this foundation that I also run. Whatever. There's no rules. It is not real. It's fugazi. It's just posturing so he can stuff up football. Because the NCAA discovered that he had bet about $90,000. And this was, and this was on professional and collegiate sports. The problem is they found,

[00:54:10] I don't know, but this is the real problem. They found at least 40 of those bets that he placed was on his own team when he was at Indiana. Now, this is the other, this is the other issue, Mr. Logical. Where did Brendan Storbsby play last year? He played at Cincinnati, which, oh, guess what? They're in the big 12 too. So, so, so now, you know what I mean? Now, like, I don't know whether he actually bet on Cincinnati games or not,

[00:54:39] or didn't he bet it while he was there. But if he did that Indiana, why wouldn't I think he did it? And if they levy punishment against him at Texas Tech and an investigation ensues, hey, well, 36 grand of these bets were made while he was, playing in Cincinnati. Now, Cincinnati's going to be like, oh, we don't want to lose. Like I said, as long as there's no rules, they could keep going to Congress and begging for rules and begging to stop young black athletes from making money all they want.

[00:55:07] But when it boils down to it, man, when it comes to money, when there's no regulation and there's so much ambiguity involved, I mean, the level of, we don't know what the fuck is going on with college football money is ridiculous. Like I tell you, like my son was, he met with a college coach and he said, one kid transferred for money and another kid stayed. And he said, the other guy that transferred,

[00:55:37] he didn't even say the kid's name. He kept saying, oh, the kid that transferred, the kid that transferred. So it's like, you mad at this kid for transfer for some money, but there's no rules. And he, and he said, the coach told him like, honestly, he's like, it's really, there's no real rules to enforce. It's just, are you going to honor this handshake deal? And then if you talk to someone else, it's like, well, how far is this handshake deal going to get you? Like if you come to me and say, Hey man, I got a handshake deal with this school. I'm like, all right, that's cool.

[00:56:08] Can we sue him for the handshake? Can we sue him to get your money? Can we sue him to get you medical coverage for longer than whatever, if you get injured? Can we sue him up? None of that. Now we need to get some more paper then, but if you're not going to put anything on paper, then at least give me some paper so I can take care of myself. So it was like the fact that there's no regulation, because people are just lying. They're lying up front. They know all they want to see is good football. Because like you said, if you have a good football program,

[00:56:37] your everything increases. Kurt Signetti is on the cover of NCAA 27. He was coaching. Is that right? He's, he's, he was part of like, like the intro videos, like him, Malachi, Tony, as a few guys, like are part of like the, the videos and like, they did like the photo shoot. So he is there because Indiana has gone with 20, with 20, it's like 20, 20, something like that.

[00:57:07] 21 in the last couple of years. I think it's, I think it's like 22, maybe. Cause I know they lost to Ohio state last year. And yeah. Yeah. So maybe two. Yeah. They would have defeated this year. Yeah. Undefeated. He had the number one pick in a draft who was a transfer. He had like three or four guys of like 23 to 24, 25 years old on his team because of the transfer portal. So everything that people say they don't like about college football, he is being rewarded for.

[00:57:34] And it's not to knock him because like he's playing by the rules as they're laid out in front of him, but you're going to Congress saying like, Oh my God, this isn't working. This isn't working, but he's getting perks because of it. He got a hundred million dollar contract. His agent has nine other coaches. All of them are getting a hundred million dollar contracts because they're able to get Oregon boosters, Alabama boosters, Tennessee boosters.

[00:58:00] Like he has all the top tier coaches and all of them are connected to money. So not letting this kid play because he gambled, unless you can prove that he threw a game, then I think you can probably get them with some kind of honor code or some kind of integrity. I don't know. I think we need to go back. I think we need to go back to that opening night game against Nebraska last year, where he threw for 75 yards and they lost on his interception. That was too short.

[00:58:30] Remember that movie blue chips? Yes. With Shaq and everybody. And it was like, go back. We got your boy for point shaving. I think in football is that would be hard to do because like guys are throwing their bodies around for you. Basketball guys are just doing cardio. If guys not want to get involved, they're just doing cardio. But like you can't go out there and sell out your team when guys are literally risking. I mean, risking everything. Permanent finger damage. Yeah. Brains. Just like the figures with deformities.

[00:58:59] Like you see all these NFL players and hands look like this when they go to say hands. It's like, so I think you, you, you can't do that. But as far as like the injunction, we knew what was coming. You know, Nick Saban. So we won't talk about that. He went to, he went to Congress and he referenced Trinidad Chambliss, you know, trying to get his extra year eligibility. Meanwhile, there's other guys getting seven and seventh and eighth year eligibility at other schools. So you calling him out is only because.

[00:59:28] It could negatively affect Alabama. It could, it could affect Alabama. And it was something that he didn't do. And Alabama lost their starting quarterback. Cause he went to the draft. So now I'm pretty sure he has a big affinity for Alabama because when nobody was getting paid over top of the table, he made sure those guys got paid on the table. Cause Jimbo Fisher said, so he was like, go back and see how God does his business. When he mentioned to the boosters that Texas A&M bought their team,

[00:59:57] but he was asking for more money. So then he goes to Congress. So this is getting out of control. You are out of control. So that's why Texas tech quarterback, you're out of control. Yeah. So it's like, it's a secular thing of people just lying. Instead of just coming out and saying, I want control. So, so before I let you lose all the players. So before I let you lose so far, Georgia and Nebraska have committed,

[01:00:25] go Huskers have committed to not playing Texas tech. And the big 10 at large is supposed to be having a meeting this week to decide what they're going to do as a conference. So as a, okay, before we get into this Nick thing, because I don't know if we really addressed it. What is there? What is there beef with him being able to play? I think the thought is, you know, just from what I've been reading,

[01:00:53] I think the thought is what he did directly affected the integrity of the game. So, so like to the, so the stuff that you were bringing up, 25 dudes that got speeding tickets and chargers that they got from NIO money. Yes. So people stop giving them NIO money. Cause that's the right. I say yes. I say yes, but no, like a Georgia employee died in a car crash. This is true. Unfortunately, a young woman died in a car crash, but yet Georgia,

[01:01:23] even the dudes that go to the NFL from Georgia are still getting speeding tickets and chargers. Right. No one stopped playing Georgia. Someone died and they just kept playing football. The guy, people involved in the crash got drafted in the top 10. People got hired. A woman, a young woman died, but yet they, these guys still getting guards. And now you want to try to jump on this integrity plat plateau talking about, Oh, we're not playing this guy.

[01:01:51] Cause he gambled like, yo, somebody got arrested two weeks ago through two or three weeks ago when we talked about, man, you know, Georgia doesn't have a guy get arrested. It happened the next day. Hey, remember when you drive onto the base and there's like the little sign that they change every day, like this many days without DUI or whatever. Like, like, I was in the 52nd prior to wing. We couldn't get that. I saw,

[01:02:20] I get the 37 and they just stopped doing it. We couldn't get 52 days without DUI. 13,000 people couldn't go 52 days without one. Georgia can't go two months, but yet they got this integrity now. Like, well, so, so like, I think the difference is I don't disagree per se, but, but I think the difference is, is if he was betting on his own team, you know,

[01:02:49] betting on actual games that he was participating in. And now you have to question, like you said, did he point shave? Did he do this? Did he do that? I think, you know, you're talking about the direct, a direct result coming from his actions potentially versus the stuff that you're referencing happened off the field. And even though it does have an impact on the university at large, it doesn't determine a winner or a loser of a game. You know what I mean? So,

[01:03:18] so let's hypothetically say Indiana won some of those games. They don't get Kurt Signetti. They don't get that chip. You think they care if you bet on them games? No. Doubted. Cause they got the golden goose. No. And, and that's why I think that. So, Oh, one thing real quick. Sorry. I forgot to mention this. Um, so a part of the judge's ruling, uh,

[01:03:46] why he ruled in Sorsby's favor was because I guess the NCAA has language that talks about mental health. And the judge is attributing. Oh, it says something like it would destroy him. Yes. Yes. If you wouldn't let him play. Yes. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to just call you that. You know what? I'm going to call that. I'm going to call that the white boy rule.

[01:04:16] Um, you know what I mean? Because, because mental health where I come from is just like, Hey, go talk to somebody. We're going to try to help you live the best life you can and overcome your demons. It's somewhere else. Hey, yeah. It's like, Hey, you know what? Like I have, yeah. It's like, Hey, Hey, Hey, no, no, no, no, no. You can't earn more millions. You got to go figure out your life first. You know what I mean? You got to go to Blaine community college. Like right. And that's why, and that's why I brought up. Come back.

[01:04:44] And that's why I brought up some of the things that I brought up initially. Like when you were talking about the, um, the Georgia thing, that's why I brought up stuff like, um, like the LSU thing. And, you know, as far as they were literally embezzling money from a hospital and using it to pay the national title team, Joe Burrow and them, you know what I mean? Like booster that was paying those guys all those years. Now he has a podcast talking about how much he used to do it. Yeah. And then you got, uh, I brought up, um,

[01:05:14] I don't even think I brought up St. Bonaventure where they, they brought a guy in to play basketball and he only had a welding certificate. You know, that was all he had. Like he didn't have a high school diploma. He just had a welding certificate. The coach got fired and everything, but they still did it. Like, you know what I mean? Like, you know what I mean? And that doesn't even get you to talking about all the other things like Reggie Bush and so on and so forth. This is how ridiculous,

[01:05:41] this is how ridiculous when we go on and we're kind of tied into Nick Saban. Cause I was talking about this. Cause I went and did a, uh, my son had a football camp at this university here in Jersey. We went to the camp and then we left and we kind of talked about some of the particulars and he kind of gave me the rundown. Cause like, he's doing, he's doing a lot of this. He's doing the front of a lot of his recruits, having his conversations. I'm getting the back end conversation, going to school and talk to the coaches, but he's handling it. Cause I'm listening. You got to be where you want to be. I'm here.

[01:06:10] That's the support role. So when I was talking about how, like, it's just, it feels odd the way that they go out, pick players. And, and they like, you know what they want to pick on players. And I was talking to Rachel's mother and Rachel's mother, two women, 75 years old, no, nothing about college football. So I'm talking to them about how Nick Saban went to Congress and said, this needs to change. This needs to change. This needs to change. But I'm like, yo,

[01:06:40] five years ago when he was still coaching, he had a press conference. He had a banquet with some boosters that was being recorded. And he said, he needed more money essentially because another team bought all their players. And they were like, so who's going to tell them to stop? I'm like, they want to blame the players. They want the players to stop doing it. And they were like, how the players going to stop? I'm like, I don't know. And I was like, they're like, who's giving them the money? I'm like, exactly. The school is introducing them to a guy with money.

[01:07:10] We'll call him Tom. Tom meets with the kid and the parents says, Hey, I'm Tom. I got a million dollars for you to go to this school. They agree on that million dollars. And they go back to the coach and coach, Tom says, he's going to give me a million dollars. I'm coming to your school. And they're like, great. Cause my, like my son's a high school kid trying to get recruited. And they were like, well, how I'm like, is he going to be able to get into college? I'm like, well, maybe not for a couple of years to get to the school he wants to,

[01:07:37] because that school is going to go get another school's 22 year old player who is same position as my son, but he has three years as a grown man in the weight room to come here and help me win games. It's because when I win games, then this guy named Tom shows up with a bag of money and he gets me more players. And they were like, so who's going to tell him to stop? I'm like, no,

[01:08:03] one's going to tell him to stop because Tom has the money and this guy wants to keep his job as coach. So he's going to let this guy pay for this guy. And then he's going to go recruit this guy. Who's 24 years old. Who's been in college for six years. So he can come help him win. He was like, so what are the high school kids going to do? He was like, we don't know yet to help high school kids get a spot.

[01:08:28] So these are two 75 year old women having a conversation with me by the pool. And they are just as God smacking flabbergasted about this process as I am, as Congress probably is. But as these coaches are trying to gloss over it, like you can't convince 75 year old women that your process makes any sense, but yet you want to go to Congress and have them regulate it. It doesn't make any sense. That's a real, that was a real conversation. I had two days ago. And,

[01:08:58] and, and, you know, and that's the thing about it, right? Is that most people don't care about things unless it directly affects them. So Nick save is out of the game now, you know, he's 73, 74 years old. So he's not coming back to coaching, you know, he's made all his money, you know, he's got people buying his houses for him because his money is no good in Tuscaloosa, you know what I mean? So, so this is stuff that doesn't affect him day to day. You know what I mean? So now that he's out of the game,

[01:09:28] now you go back and correct the game and say like, well, Hey, like this is a little out of control, but you know, but when you benefited from it and that was, and that's why I always say like, you know, people can't, people don't understand that two things can be true at once. You know, Nick Saban is arguably the greatest, coach in college football history, potentially college sports history. You know what I mean? And you know what I mean?

[01:09:55] But when the field started evening out just a little bit, he got up out of there. You know what I mean? Now, granted, like I said, he was 72 when he left 72 or 73 when he left. So I'll give him a light pass on that. Cause he's old, but you know what I'm saying? But at the same time, if there was no NIL, Nick Saban would have been on that sideline last year.

[01:10:21] George Bush was president up until 2008. Yes. He's still relevant politics, but wherever he does his chilling, he's chilling. He's, he hasn't come back and talk to Congress, the Senate. I don't think he campaigned for anybody. And he was the president of the United States. So Nick Saban was a football coach. He could go right off into the sunset, but he won't.

[01:10:49] And the reason he won't is because speculation. This is what I think is happening. I think his circle of friends and his vast network of coaches and assistants that are now assisting coaches, they're having conversations. I think the conversations are, I don't want to go race space, but I'm a, I'm a start just coach player relationship. Okay.

[01:11:18] There's a leverage to college coaching, high school coaches, college coaches, high school coaches, the leverage. Isn't that great? Because if you got a guy that's a high school football player, who probably doesn't think he's going to be a top tier college football player, he probably won't give a shit. If the coach says, I'll cut you from this team. He's like, dog, I'm five, nine, one 47.

[01:11:47] And I play safety. I am not going anywhere after this. I'm 17 years old. This is what I got. I just like football. So if you cut me, it is what it is. I'm going to school for economics anyway. But if I get you to Alabama and you're Derek Henry, you're Alvin Kavara, you're Mark Ingram, you have a shot to make the league. I know you have that shot and I can hang it. I can hold it over your head like the sword of Damocles. But now that's gone.

[01:12:18] Oh, you want to talk, you want to talk shit to me? I'll go to Toledo and rest the 1700 yards and go right in the second round next year. Or I'll go to hell. I'll go to Tulane. I'll go, I'll stay right in the state. I'll go right down. Oh, go next. I'll go to Louisiana. I'll go to hell. I'll leave right here. I'll leave Alabama and this rivalry. She can go right to LSU. Change my school colors. Go Tigers. Go, go Tigers. Go and come back here to brand any and whoop your ass next year. I do not care.

[01:12:46] I got $117,000 to come here. I'm going to take it and leave. So I think coaches are having conversations with him. Like, yo, I can't control these guys because they're all getting paid. Right. Secondly, on the, you know, the racial space. I think a lot of times in America, we don't like it when young black men are getting money. We don't. They don't. Historically, they haven't liked when black neighborhoods got a lot of money. People would seem to always knock it.

[01:13:14] They always want to get mad at guys for a whole not to get their contract. But yet, you know, Kirk cousins get all his money does nothing. But you say Lamar Jackson can't get anything. Cause he's done nothing. Like he has a couple of VPs and Kirk doesn't complain about how much money he's been paid. Even my homes, but two goals, MVPs, he gets all his money. People still complain about that. So I think that's another element to it where it's like, I now can't, I can't tell these guys. I'm going to send you back to the hood. Like now we already moved out the hood. My mom has been in the suburbs for a long time. Every since they,

[01:13:44] every since Tom came with that jet. I got my D love department in the sky. Yeah. And now you're talking to that shit. I'm going to UAB. Trent difficult. Let me play whatever position I want. And I'm out. And I think that's what, I think those are the conversations that he's been having with his former assistants and he's going to Congress and he's trying to filter that information. Like, yo, don't piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining. Keep it real. We can't control these guys because they're all getting paid. We can't keep them at school because the transfer rules, we can't make one,

[01:14:14] we can't make it. It makes sense. And we can't keep them coming to practice on time because you know, he got a brand new charger. He got Lambo. He had a Range Rover and he shows them whenever he wants to show up. You know, I need him here. Cause I got a win because I got a hundred million dollar contract myself. I've been trying not to piss people off, but you know, saying them UAB fans going to come for you for still thinking Trent Dilfer's their coach. When those conversations were happening,

[01:14:44] I know I'm just messing around the last couple of seasons. Yeah. Cause like the Alabama school, like I can go right up to Trent Dilfer. He'll ESPN all the time. Like, like my, like, like my guy, JJ Evans used to say, just jiving, just jiving, you know what I'm saying? But don't forget about Troy. You know what I'm saying? Don't forget about South Alabama. And that's the thing. Troy, South Alabama, UAB, Auburn, all these schools can take your player. If you, as a coach,

[01:15:12] don't treat them with the respect that they deserve. Granted cut coaching is tough. Right. But we see some videos of pre NIL Nick Saban at practice. We seen him and will must jump on the sideline, cussing somebody out when they broke the LSU. It's like, dog, you don't cuss a guy out who gets arrested that bad. You definitely can't be cussing out. Both of you at the same time, screaming at them. You can't do that now.

[01:15:40] Cause these guys have leverage until you can control how the money comes in, which you don't want to do because you need to keep the boosters happy. Cause the boosters just like having the money and the access. Like Drake said, you know, sports and raps are so synonymous. We want to be them. They want to be us. Now the dudes with money. I want to be, I want to be the guy. What's the guy named Texas tech Campbell. Yeah. Cody Campbell. Yeah. Right.

[01:16:12] So until you have it, just get away. Then you lead the players alone. Keep cutting their checks. You have it. You know, so there you have it. Cut the checks. You know what I'm saying? You hear that CBS? You hear that box? Cut the checks. You know what I'm saying? But Hey, he is the one and only world famous. We're over now. Cool. Calm and collected. Representing everything. New Jeruse,

[01:16:39] even though he was born in Texas and raised in Virginia, he might be rocking the nets right now, but watch what he'd be wearing tomorrow night. He is. Point pleasant. Mr. Logical. Do not bring feelings to a fat fight. Don't do it. And then of course, down here in the Alamo, keeping hope alive. You know what I'm saying? Hoping that last night was not a fluke. Going left so much. You thought I was Southpaw. Oh, I just realized you get a parade too. If they win.

[01:17:10] Yeah. I want a parade. I just locked it. I was like, Oh, why is he so? I'm like, he's trying to get his own parade. And you know, the crazy thing is, I actually be way safer. But you know, the crazy thing is, I actually hate parades. You put all those guns in Texas. I hate parades, but you know what I mean? But I would go to this one. Just in general, but I would go to this one. You know what I mean? But I am two five. This is sports reports is ordered. We will be back on Friday night. And of course, game three is tomorrow.

[01:17:39] Keep your eye out. 9 a.m. Eastern to see if we got to deal with Scott Foster tomorrow. You know what I mean? We'll see, right? It's gotta be. It's gotta be on some kind of short rotation. How many rotations do you have? How many crews can you have for a seven game series? Yeah. I mean, all right. You wouldn't pay four. You wouldn't pay seven. That's deep. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, we'll find out. We'll find out, you know, but, you know, go Spurs, go, you know what I'm saying?

[01:18:08] And it's almost, almost, you know, if I remember correctly, we're about 15 days, 16 days away from the NBA draft. So, you know, so we'll be talking a little more about that next week. And then of course, you know, it comes after that. It's preview season. football is on the way, but we love y'all so much.

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