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You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio. I hope you had a great weekend, everybody's here, Minister of humor, fritzy, don't call him shorty, uh, seat and sear more of Pauli years truly, and the backroom guys as well. National title game coming up tonight, I and Eagle will be on the call, he'll be on the show coming up in 20 minutes from now.

Michigan is favored by six and a half. Last week, I gave you the hypothetical lines, depending on the matchup. This is before the final four, and Michigan was going to be favored by five and a half over UConn.

“Now it's up to six and a half, I think in some places, one up to seven and a half.”

Keep this in mind, UConn has now covered 17 of its last 18 tournament games, and no one's giving UConn much of a chance as a six and a half point underdog. But this is a team, they lost to Arizona by four to start the year, and they didn't have two of their best players, terrorists read, junior, and Raylan Mullins, but they've sort of defied the odds, and that's the great part of this time of the year.

More on that coming up in a moment, we'll have a play of the day, poll question, "Stat of

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Good morning, if you're watching on peacock, thank you for downloading the app, and we say good morning to our radio affiliates, I heart radio, Fox Sports Radio, as well. Being a number two seed in the tournament, using means you're going to get respect, but that's not the case going into tonight's national title game, because Yukon is a clear underdog, Michigan looked dominating, and Yukon has had to grind out everything so far

“in the tournament, but the stage is different tonight, because you have to give Yukon a chance.”

It's not the NBA No. 7 game series, it's 40 minutes. That's it. And you do have Dan Hurley on your side, and that is an advantage. I don't think that this is a great Yukon team, even a very good team, but I think it is a, now I'm talking about the individuals, the sum of the parts, that's what makes Yukon

great. They just seem to know what to do when to do it, and they rely on a variety of people in doing that. So the odds are certainly in Michigan's favorite, but all takes is one night, one moment, and one decision, and maybe Connecticut, maybe one shining moment.

Yeah, exactly what type of moment are you talking about? The shining moment, or a dining moment. Marvin is flying the colors with his Yukon Husky's, how nervous are you, Marvin?

After watching the second game, I was like, oh, this is about to be a real tough matchup,

“but I believe in my boys though, I mean, look, it's J or February, Yukon April.”

We're here. OK. Ray Allen, former Yukon Husky, come on now. Come on. Oh, where's your paddle?

Hi, Ray. Shoot some jumpers. This is almost like if Walter Payton was on the show. All right, the age seven, seven, three D.P. show operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your phone calls, and once again, play the day, pull question, sad of the

day. D.P at dampatric.com, Twitter handle the D.P. show. So gone out, all the requirements here, ready to set sales. So I need going to be on the call coming up here in a little bit, but Michigan rolling over Arizona, everybody wanted that to be the National title game.

Oh, this is, this is now going into that game.

“These were two of the highest ranked teams in NCAA history, but I didn't look that way.”

This is one of those. If they played seven games, Michigan probably winning four, five, the way they looked. And I mean, they're just an older team, but they're dominating. Now, there are things to keep an eye on tonight, and when you look at, and these, this is Manusha here, but it fascinates me.

Michigan is open to this season with 63 possessions or less. They want to play up tempo. They want to get the game into the upper 70s into the 80s, but keep this in mind. And this, this is what you comes, method to the madness of pulling office surprises. They want this game in the 60s.

They want to slow this game down the best they can. Purdue got Michigan. That was a 63 possession game, Duke beat Michigan, 62 possession game, and they won that one. If you're going to beat Michigan, slow it down, and make sure every possession matters.

And this is what happens against a great offense. You want to make sure that when they get the ball, they feel like they have to score. If it's running up and down, you don't have that pressure on each possession. But this is what Connecticut is going to try to do. They're going to try to make you slow it down the best they can.

Dusty made did a great thing. And if you've ever shot in a big, super dome, big arena where there's 70,000 depth perception is real. Having done it once before, and I'm like, whoa. And it took a little while before you're like trying because the seats are way behind

the basket. And all of a sudden, you're shooting.

And when you shoot, you're always looking for something.

And sometimes it feels like the basket's in illusion. It's either closer or further away because of the background. So Dusty may took his team to the football field, so they could shoot hoops, so they could shoot threes, so you would have a cavernous background here. It's just a little thing.

Now, I don't know how much it mattered. Michigan shot 44% from three point range, Arizona shot 35% Illinois shot 23% Yukon shot 36%. So these are real numbers. I don't know if his team shooting in the big house helped them, but it didn't hurt them. But you see that video where they're out there shooting hoops.

You know, there's a gold post there, and there's a basketball hoop, but if you shot something that has that background, that gives you a little bit of illusion, it takes you a little bit of a while, a little bit of time to get used to that background. But it's the small things here, and Dusty may have done a wonderful job, and he'll go toe to toe with Dan Hurley.

But it's fun to see those little things. And for as much as I thought Arizona was my pick, because I thought start to finish, they were the best team I saw, but I thought Michigan was the second best team I saw. Play, it didn't look like that over the weekend. All right, seat, let's pull question today.

Don't call us always welcome best and worse to the weekend, what you saw that you liked

you didn't like. Well, Dan, we got to get America on record. Who are you rooting for tonight? Connecticut or Michigan? Rooting for.

Yes. Rooting. Who do you want to win tonight? Todd? Start with you.

“I want Michigan to win, and I think they will win.”

No offense to Marvin Prinsel, just mix it up a little bit, have a different winner. Seems like you were hesitant in giving me your. I was hesitant because I don't want to hurt Marvin's feelings, but they've had a lot of winning. You kind of am a little upset with you, kind of some of the heavier of the men's and

the coaches or the men's and women's team. So, say it. We're going to get it. Who were you rooting for?

I don't rule for Michigan ever.

Not for anything. Marvin, especially not in this tournament, not in this game. Hell, no. Okay. Marvin.

It's a tough one, but I'm going to go. You kind. Okay. Paul? Yeah, Connecticut.

Can I get to the better story?

“Oh, you guys think Michigan winning is a better story?”

Yeah, Dusty May is saucy, new on the scene, raising up their program after a couple down years. Yeah.

But Danny Hurley is must see TV.

Yeah. I just say, I guess the new story, not the better story. Yeah. Yeah. New count is more of a story than if, I mean, Michigan's favorite by six and a half.

Yeah. See, the huge turnaround though, but for Michigan. That. That should be more of a story. Yes.

Yeah. When you look at where they were with you on how, I mean, look at Michigan here recently, certainly what happened with the football program, but with the basketball program, with you on Howard and Dusty May quietly comes in there and it's all of a sudden you go, they're good team.

And he's done a great job, but it'll be fun, you know, coaches going toe to toe. Maybe like the women's tournament with a Gino or AMA, Don Stanley. That was wild. You know, I'm watching the game and I found myself rooting for South Carolina because of the way they played.

They were playing great. They were playing hard, but if you can't want and continue to win, you know, and then matched up with UCLA, I would have been fine with that. But once again, I'm rooting for the story and I thought Don Stanley's team put on a defensive clinic.

This is where you have a team that is not in tight games the entire year. They're probably not roughed up the entire year. They're not pushed. Nobody ripped anybody's jersey. That was Sarah Stronger did that to herself.

But Gino, when he did that interview with Holly Row, I go, oh, he knows he's in trouble. And I thought South Carolina's going to win this game.

“In fact, Paulie goes, I got Connecticut winning by three, I think, I go, I go, "Py to the”

face." And Paulie goes, "I don't feel that confident." And I go, you know, South Carolina was the better team that night. Now if they play seven games, you come to better team. You come, got surprised.

And I think Gino knew, Gino's mad because he lost, but he's, I think, really mad because he lost to Don Stanley. And Don Stanley is not afraid. Gino, greatest women's coach of all time, Don Stanley doesn't take a back seat to anybody. And her style, the players, they played hard.

That was a team effort. And they were beating Connecticut to spaces on the floor. They were being physical. And that's one of those where you roll the dice, where you go, will they, will they let us play, or are they going to call this?

Because if they call it tick attack, that game would be different. They allowed South Carolina to play the way, South Carolina wanted to play. It's almost like the Legion of Boom with the Seattle Seahawks. If you let Richard Sherman Earl Thomas play this way, they will play this way and they'll beat you.

But if you call it, now all of a sudden, it's different. But here is Gino or I'm talking about why he was upset with Don Stanley. For 41 years, I've been coaching and I've been out on a 30, 25 final force. And the protocol is, before the game, you need that F-coar. Anybody ever see that before?

“Two coaches need that F-coar and they stay hands, correct?”

They're sick. They didn't ask them on the last week or then I waited there for like three minutes, so it is what it is. All right. Here is Don Stanley post game with the interaction with Gino or I'm a.

Come along. You can ask Gino the question, you know, he's the one that is initiated the conversation. I don't want, you know, what happened there to dampen, what we were able to accomplish today. Yeah, I wasn't quite sure what was going on, what was said. But then in his interview with Holly Row, he was talking about the language Don Stanley

was using towards the official. Somebody ripped Sarah Strong's jersey, talking about the fouls. He was a double standard. So there was a lot going on in that moment and I thought, man, he is losing composure here and you could tell them because I think he was, I don't know why he would say this

to Holly Row in the moment, she can't do anything, she can't change anything, that's where you got to talk to the officials to try to get them to understand what's going on. But hey, Gino should be criticized.

I always say, these head coaches always are preaching composure.

They want their players to be cool under fire.

The coaches, they're the ones you got to watch out for, they don't do well under pressure.

And that happened to Gino. He melted down right there in front of us, greatest coach, women's basketball history. And Staley, that's who she is, Gino in a freight of anybody.

“But I think South Carolina played their national title game against Connecticut and then”

all of a sudden UCLA said, oh, by the way, you got to play us for the national title. And they demolished him. I mean, give credit, UCLA, hey, the big 10 wins another national championship. They long standing UCLA Bruins of the big 10. I was like, when I saw all the big 10 with the national title, I go, oh, that's right.

UCLA, long standing member of the big 10. Yes, Paul. It felt on Sunday like UCLA had seven players on the court.

It was just a swarm the whole game, yeah, fun game, it was never a game and that was a disappointing

part. Yeah, because you want that national title game like tonight, I think this tournament has been great. I think there've been great moments here. Now we haven't had Cinderella, they're talking about expanding to 76 teams next year, maybe

as early as next year, and I get that.

“And I want to talk to I and Eagle about this because NIL has worked as in it.”

I know we don't like guys transferring and you know, the transfer portal and all of that, but it feels like college football gave us Indiana this year. College basketball is going to give us a great championship game coming up tonight. We've had great stories here. And I'm curious, our college athletics in that bad of a condition that the president of

the United States is issuing an executive order to help clean this up. I would probably be on the side of college athletics seem to have had a pretty good year. We'll take a break, we'll come up with a poll question, we'll get to phone calls coming up, 8773DP shell, I and Eagle calling the national title game. He'll join us next year, Dan Patrick show.

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I'm trying to keep you informed through my college basketball source and he's been giving me information with their Tommy Lloyd chances that he could go, decided to stay at Arizona, they're going to make him a top five paid coach. Also, he wanted total autonomy, I told you that there was maybe a disconnect in the administration.

Well, Arizona fixed that that he doesn't have to report to the athletic director. So he's going to stay at Arizona. I was told all along that Dusty May is not going anywhere. Michigan's athletic director is not going to let him go anywhere. So you might have Scott Drew's name coming up.

You also have Billy Donovan's name, and my source said, hey, here's something to keep an eye on. The Chicago Bulls travel to DC and they're there through Thursday. North Carolina has Billy Donovan there for four days in one location. Bill Bellachack also reported well, I'm reported as involved.

He's tight with Donovan. So he's going to be there for four days. They want to see if they can get a deal with Billy Donovan by tomorrow. Yes, Paul. Does this North Carolina basketball coaching situation feel a little bit like Penn State

five months? Yeah, that's great, Paul. Great, Paul.

Also, some people want to know why I didn't bring up the chain smokers in the first segment.

I want to stay in my lane on the chain smokers. People want it to know why you are.

“No, I think they were mocking that the chain smokers were performing.”

And I kept thinking when I'm watching them like, who asked for this? Correct. What happened here? What's chain smokers were they scheduled for the building and then they had a basketball game that and so we just combined both of them.

Yes, Paul. To be clear, you could not be anti chain smoker and just anti having a concert. They're fine, Ban. I'm sure they do good work in a nice people. It's just a placement of any band at that juncture.

Stay in your lane, Paul. Okay. With the chain smokers. Yes. Then Eagle or Ian Igle.

He is the play by play voice for the national title game and he joins us now. What did you think of the chain smokers? What an opening question.

“Do I stay in my lane or do I just give you my genuine thoughts?”

The shocker for me in all of it, Bill Raffterry was in the mosh pit. Wouldn't believe that. Where's Bill? I didn't see that. But you knew the chain smokers were going to be performing.

You had to be ready for that moment, correct? The crazy part of this is not shocking, considering just the timing of everything. We have a green room in between game. So I go to the green room, you know, you fresh it up, you grab a slider. It's a little bit of food, have a bite, move on.

I now walk out of the green room and the area in which to get back to our seats is roped off.

the chain smokers. So I get around the roped off area and I start walking and someone is freaking out running towards me. And I look up and the chain smokers are standing there with a camera facing it.

I was this close to being the third chain smoker, walking out onto the floor.

I was so discombobulated and disoriented and man, that would have been a career highlight. Well, you already had it. You had the call in the Yukon game, like, have you had anything that compared to that moment?

“Yeah, that was wild, I think the fact that it was such a frenzy makes it different.”

Then, you know, a normal buzzer, beater or lassic in clutch shot because when they're triggering the inbound, you just assume foul game, it's going to be two or three more possessions and for it to turn as quickly as it did. And for mollins, for it to end up in his hands, to get it done, to advance to Indianapolis and his hometown, to come back from 19 down, to do it against Duke, to have wrath and

grant in a state of shock next to me. I know that that seemed to get a lot of attention the next day. And that's cool that you get this behind the scenes look.

I said, it might be the first time in his life that he's a meme and Raph said, "What's

a meme?" No, but are you watching the monitor or the game in a moment like that? I was watching the game and then what I tend to do is the second the play ends, I go to the monitor to try to match whatever pictures are being shown. So that's just muscle memory and I was lifted out of my chair when the ball went in.

Grant, if you look very closely because the way the camera was set up, a ball hit the camera late in the second half and shifted it over. So it made it a two shot, which is normally a three shot with all three of us in there. So I was right on the periphery. As the steel takes place, Grant digs his arm into my rib cage.

“I think unknowingly, lifted me a bit and as it all developed, I went up and made the call”

and then sat back down and it really is one of those slow motion type of situations where you're processing in real time that this is going to go down as an all-timeer. But here's the crazy thing we were talking about this down. There have been buzzer beaters and incredible ones prior to the championship round. I think they're only really remembered, truly remembered in history and to live on forever

if you win the title.

They're highlights and their moments and he'll always be remembered in stores, remembered

in his home state, put to resonate and get to that other level, I think you got to win it. And then that thing just lives on in perpetuity. I knew you'd go beyond the call with Grant Hill, Bill Rafftree, Tracy Wolvesson, and tip on his eight, fifty Eastern.

Yep.

“When did it change from nine, twenty to eight, fifty?”

This is a college basketball history that I can't answer. I'd like to phone a friend. Get one to change. When did it change? Okay.

There needs to know. Okay. Yeah. Get on it. Few years ago.

Okay. Thank you. A great research staff there that you had. Thank you. This happened.

Calling a game in a dome, or in a arena, or at a school, university, biggest difference. Huge, huge, uh, cyclines completely different, you're not at your normal level of watching the game. So the action is actually above you, and certain things that you just know based on where your eyes go from to and game after game after game, you've got to retrain your brain in

the first five minutes, cyclines in the corners, I can tell you and it'll probably happen again. Anything in the far corners, I can't tell if it's a three pointer or not, I have to wait, I have to pause, I have to be patient and not commit normally, you know, right away. So that it's a little disconcerting because it's the biggest game of the year and you can't

go through the normal mode of your brain.

The fans are far away, you can't see the fans faces normally and college basketball set up.

“They're really close, regular NBA arenas, they're close enough.”

So everything's just a little bit detached and it feels like it's on a bit of a one second

delay. I can't hear the crowd burst through like I would in an intimate setting. You know, there were 70,000 plus people there and it's cavernous and I do think it's real, I know we say it every year, I do think they have a problem the players do in the first few minutes of getting adjusted, making shots, feeling comfortable, getting acclimated,

but it's the same for both teams and it's part of the deal, it's the biggest stage possible in college basketball and it's obviously working. How much were you here Danny Hurley tonight, zero, zero. We are so far away, it is impossible to hear what's happening on the other side of the court.

So interesting, NBA, local broadcast, you are normally, normally, they've changed this a bit, but in the good old days, you were court side on the benches side, national, you

were on the other side, which was an adjustment for me that first couple of years of doing

it because there were things you would pick up small little nuances, facial expressions, body language between coach, player between coach official that you just don't see on the other side and now obviously with this broadcast setup, you are on the other side, there's also a roving camera that looks like one of those robots that would deliver your food for door dash, which I don't know if you've had that yet, I had a game in Dallas this year

and I ended up ordering out and then they inform you that the robot is coming to deliver your food. So I go downstairs to meet the robot and I see it from two blocks away and now I'm concerned

“for the robot because I don't know how he's going to negotiate the sidewalk and I think”

now should I go meet him, do I wait, do I stop and get there a little earlier and knock on the door, I don't know what to do.

So finally it comes up and two people that just happen to be walking by as I'm now

performing with my phone right, what's going on here? It's a delivery robot and I hit the button on my phone and it opens the hatch and it was as if I was walking on the moon, they were astounded at what took place and not my chicken sandwich like rises up. So that that's also happening, it's going back and forth in front of me during game match and you can hear like shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh shhh sh

and blowing people out, and, of course, you got to win this, but how do you encapsulate what he's done at Michigan?

“Well, I think his ability to build the program so quickly to identify talent, to figure”

up which pieces would work together, look, there's a financial aspect to this, you can't ignore it, it's there, but they've done it correctly. They've really had an architect and a rusty may that knew what to do and how to do it quickly. And that is one thing now in the way the college basketball is set up for these major programs because of the money. If you evaluate talent, well, identify it and then develop it in one season, you can be right here playing

for a championship. There are other teams that have the same money if not more money and they identify the wrong talent or they didn't evaluate correctly or they didn't develop correctly and they're not here. So credit has to be given to dusty mate, basically now as a head coach in my mind in college basketball, you are a GM, you are a scout, you are a coach, you are a dad, you are a teacher, you are a mentor, you're all of those things rolled into one and when

ADs are looking for someone to be the face of their program, they have to take that into a

right, they want eight games, two seasons ago, they want eight games and now they're playing for

“a chip. College athletics, if we look at NIL and transfer portal, I think this has been a great”

year for college athletics. Maybe that's not a popular opinion, but you know, you have Indiana winning the football championship, you get transfer, now I would like for them to sign contracts. I have it a little more uniformity here, but the NIL transfer portal, the president with an executive order, kind of wants to limit this stuff, but I think if you sign a contract, you want to transfer, why can't there be a buyout to that, you know, make a transactional,

everything's above board. Yeah, it is transactional right now. It does feel that way. I do agree that it's been a banner year, you're getting highly competitive games, you're getting a deeper pool of talent because players are staying longer based on the fact that they can make money and

“they don't just take their chances to go to the NBA and start the clock. That's a term I heard”

quite a bit for a number of years for players that were certainly going to be NBA stars. If you're Cooper Flag, yes, you're going to the pros. You're starting the clock for your next contract. It makes perfect sense from a financial standpoint, but for someone that was a borderline first round pick or a second round pick, I don't know if the logic was there for that same approach. Now you stay, you develop your skills, you may be have a shining moment or two in your college career,

you get paid for it, and maybe just maybe you come out on the other side of better player. Yaxel Lendoborg is a more complete player now than he would have been a year ago if he came out of UAB right

to the NBA and instead he gets this incredible experience and maybe he caps it off with a championship.

“Look, it's not perfect. I recognize that. I think a lot of us, though, jump the gun and thought,”

man, this is going to be rough. This is going to be a really chaotic time in college athletics. It's worked out from a competitive point of view. And yes, I'm saying this, I recognize that the mid-major is still left out of it, but the reality was the mid-major's were outliers in this to begin with. Now, at the very least, you hope that you're getting a higher quality of play when you get to the biggest stages of the season.

Well, I look at Braille and Mullins and he's going to be projected to be a first round draft pick.

Now, he's not ready, but teams are going to say, hey, we'll take him and let him develop for two years and like Reed Shepherd with Houston. Yes. Took him high and then we're like, all right, we'll bring him along. Now, all of a sudden, you see, you know, Reed was some highlights there, and that might be the case for Braille and Mullins. Do I stay and make a little bit of money or do I go and get started on that first contract in the NBA? And it feels like that's

you're either ready to go, you jump in, or maybe you're not even ready to go, but you go because you're going to be a long time NBA player, or you stay because you might not be that long-term player. Yeah. There was a stretch of time. Obviously, working both college hoops and NBA, I was privy to a lot of conversations and got to ask questions to people that do this for a living, that evaluate talent and make these decisions, that teams have to

live by when you use a first round pick. Those are serious pieces of valuable merchandise because you're trying to change the whole culture of your team. There were players that I look back on and it's just how it is. They stayed in college because they thought they were doing the right thing. They may have been a first round draft pick after their freshman or sophomore year. It was not a guarantee. And because they stayed their junior and senior year before they were getting paid,

their flaws came out and they dropped in the draft because it actually gave scouts more time to see some of the faults that they had. So, there's no right answer here.

I've never ever said, emphatically, to any kid, that has to make a decision to come out and

be available for the draft. Hit, that's a bad call on your part. I don't know their financial

it does occur where people have very strong opinions about it. You got to do what's best for you.

“I just think now, there are at least some options for kids out there to make a more”

prudent decision. By the way, I'm going to give you credit if you're watching on peacock or NBC Sports Network. You did give almost a presidential backdrop. I mean, great lighting here. Yeah, Dan, I didn't want to tell you, but I am in a vestibule of a Vegas hotel. I flew there last night to do the interview and then I board in 15 minutes. I would be fine, but I just wanted to make sure the backdrop look good. I'm a big earth tones guy. Very, very, very earthy. Yes, you are.

All right, we're counting on you tonight. Thanks. Thanks. I'm going to go through my normal routine game day and have some nutter butters and what's some more info which you are the father. You are not the father. Every time it gets me every time it's injury. It's like

“March Madness. It's so unpredictable. Save your voice. Save your voice, okay. Thank you, Ian.”

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“director. They say, well, now we're going to take care of you at Arizona. We'll take care of you at”

Alabama. Maybe take care of you at Illinois. So this is where you got coach it will take care of you at Baylor. But from what I'm told North Carolina had a bag waiting for Tommy Floyd. They had a bag waiting for him and he got what he wanted and decided to stay at Arizona. And look, I'd never think that I would say Arizona was on par with North Carolina, but it is. I mean, I don't know what I'm getting at North Carolina. I'm always going to be compared to Duke. Arizona, if you're compared

to Arizona State, you'll take that. Arizona is always good. And you know, he spent all that time

at Gonzaga, got the head coaching job. He's done a great job and he got paid. But I don't know what's going to happen. You know, with some of these other coaches, if Billy Donovan is going to take it, it feels like he's not going to be coaching the bulls next year. I don't know what that means. But if I'm North Carolina, you've been handed out bags like it's trick or treat. And nobody is taking it. Maybe Billy Donovan is your guy. All righty. I did watch a little bit of the, well,

I watched a lot of the lakers and the mabs. I watched a lot of Cooper flag last night. You know, you're dropping bars right now. And now bags like it's trick or treat. That's okay. And then I'm right there for you. Big daddy. Big daddy came. Snoop put that together for you. Something to hand in our bags like it's trick or treat.

I don't, maybe somebody picks that up. You know, I'll hand that up. You know, I'll just have him bar. Hey, I'll co-sign on the story's DP. You know me. You know me. You know me. I'm sorry. Do you know me? I'm ODP. Don't step to me. I just crush a lot.

Cooper flag played really well last night. So watching LeBron. I wanted to see LeBron on Cooper flag and vice versa. They got switched on each other a couple of times. But Cooper flag. He, uh, that's his team. He does whatever he wants. He 19, he won't be 20 till next December. Oh boy. And here's another thing that'll come up. And I'm not a voter anymore with the NBA Awards. Actually, I'm not sure why I'm not. But that's for another day. I should ask next time

the commissioner is on like what do what did I do? I lose my NBA scholarship here. Um, and I did vote when Grant Hill and Jason kid died for rookie of the year. And I actually changed my vote

the year. But Conconyples been great. And his team has been really good. Cooper flags numbers are

“incredible. You normally don't base the rookie of the year off of what your team did. I don't think”

history is proven that. Uh, Cooper flag is the rookie of the year in my opinion. He's doing some

incredible things. Conconyples surprised us. Therefore, people are going, wow. Whereas Cooper flag,

I'm not surprised anymore. Conconyples had an unbelievable year and they have been a competitive team this year. Dallas is not. But I would say Cooper flag. Oh, by the way, I didn't even talk about Joker or Wemby. Oh, I didn't know who I was rooting for. Yes, Marvin. Why was that game when Saturday afternoon? Oh, it's not up on me. I'm like, whoa. And then it was great TV. Ray Allen's

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