Bracket Picks with Eamonn Brennan, Plus Do We Buy the Surging Lakers?

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Far more educated.

“Look, I think it's kind of a national holiday now.”

And if the brackets come out, but then for everybody to get upset. But we knew this bubble was incredibly weak. So before we get to Lex and Final Four picks, and some of the thoughts that I had, because I was pretty locked in. I was watching way more college troops this past week than NBA.

I love the conference tournaments. But I don't know. It's kind of nice sometimes, and it feels like, hey, it looks like the committee got it right. Yeah, that was kind of the thing really the last few weeks, but especially leading into

the selection show after VCU won in the A10 title game. That was kind of the last bubble team that might miss. And you kind of thought like, oh, they're close enough to the bubble at a VCU. Like, I think they should be in over the Auburns and Oklahoma's and Texas's of the world, whatever. But if they lost with the committee, just say,

ah, they're a bubble team. We'll just slide in, date and instead. And that removed kind of that potential scenario for people to get upset about. And then by the time you got to the selection show, there was so much consensus around the bubble.

And so many of these bubble teams like we talked about it for a couple of weeks. Now, the gap between the very best teams in the country. If you look at efficiency ratings and Evan Mia Kawa on his site, Evan Mia put this out a couple of weeks ago. If you look at just like historical efficiency ratings, the gap between the number one seeds and the bubble this year is as wide as it's ever been.

And so that's, you know, a function of a larger conversation about the sport and how talent and resources are kind of constantly filtering upwards now with NAL and and the, you know, the biggest most resource programs in the country. Kind of being able to plot guys from from every which place lower in the in the totem pole. But it also just produced kind of a night of watching, you know, I saw a couple of people commenting like, you know, there's not a whole lot to talk about with this bracket.

Like, what, you know, where's the outrage? Just kind of like, yeah, it's kind of nice. Honestly, I, you know, in my experience writing about this stuff for a long time, people kind of stop caring like an hour after the selection show anyway. Like, oh, yeah, team didn't get in okay, whatever.

Like, you get angry about it for half an hour and then everyone starts putting their brackets together. So it was kind of nice to just like immediately turn to the most exciting month in sport. At least in my view. Yeah, that used to be the thing. I, it maybe was because we had less, but it would just be you watch selection show on CBS.

Then you go right to ESPN and then you have the four coaches and it was usually from major programs. We've come on and then complain, right. And as much as I love Dickie V like he would that was the whole faller thing like over 20 years ago. I've even interviewed Fowler about it.

“I think it was an O2 maybe because I just remember like by tell it was just so mad that”

different teams and then finally, Fowler is like, who, who are you replacing with, man?

Like, we, we have a, we have a defined number of teams that are going to be in this. So, um, yeah, we didn't really have much of of that stuff.

but it imagines like if you have a pulse, it can make a couple of threes in year or a mid major, then

a power five school is just going to say, hey, come to us now, where I imagine the movement upwards. It has a lot to do with that as well, too, because they're just just stripping these teams of anybody that shows any talent whatsoever, less couple years. Yeah, and I mean, we have it. It goes in multiple directions. You know, like a guy like Penn, TJ Power had 44 points in the Ivy League title game.

He started off at Duke, and he's kind of gradually worked his way back in the sport as things have not worked out at the high-migilest. So, like multiple levels can benefit anecdotally from the NIHL stuff, but it does feel like, yeah, I mean, the combination of the very top teams, your Arizona's, your Duke's, uh, you know, et cetera, Florida, being able to not only recruit all the best guys, and you've got this crazy freshman class coming in and Duke's got a handful of them, and Arizona,

obviously, as well. But you can combine that with the international guys that those programs have a better chance of recruiting and having a pulse on, because they have the resources to go scout the Adriatic League, right? They can keep in touch with players in their agents. There's just more capacity for different kinds of staffs at the very high level of sport to do that,

“plus the money. And so, yeah, the team sort of, even I think you're your”

more mediocre, high mid-major programs are having a tougher time. And you throw in, I think, too, you know, a guy like Todd Golden at Florida, incredibly smart coach, and it's kind of push the game in different directions, right? Like going super big in college basketball. I think you look

two, three years ago, he was like, oh, college basketball's all past in space. Now, it's finally

cut up to the NBA, you know, the tempos faster, guys are shooting more threes. It's more efficient. That's still true. But, you know, you look at the top programs in the country now, and the rim pressure on both ends of the floor is the common denominator among all of them. It's just like Michigan's super dominant on both ends of the floor, offensive rebounding, rim protection scoring easy buckets, Duke, same deal, Arizona, same deal, Florida, to like the extreme.

So, all of that stuff kind of combines to a level where yeah, it just feels like things are getting pressured upward, you know, in one direction and really separating, you know, historically, really, really high level elite teams in terms of their efficiency metrics from even like the 30th best team in the country. And then you go down to like the 150th, and it's just wider than it's

ever been. All right. So, we're trying to figure out the final four part of this, and we know that last

two with four one seeds in like we're usually, I don't know if you call it luckier, not luckier, but

“I think a lot of us always said like everybody loves Cinderella until the final four shows up and you go like,”

oh wait, this team's favorite by 11 against this team, like I just want North Carolina and Arizona or whatever, I mean pick whatever blue bloods that you want to plug in there. Is you're trying to map out your final four pass? Like, are you, I mean, is there any way to ignore what we saw last year and realizing that we have four one seeds that all fit those profiles of these massive efficiency ratings historically, because the aim of something tight is when I were talking about just last

week that I didn't know until I was doing a little bit of research on it, but if you look at the Ken Palm stuff like the differential and where the ratings are for these one seeds, it kind of matches what it was last year, even if there's probably two of the teams that I think last year's teams were better than this year's. Yeah, I mean, I think that's true. I think, you know, like you think about a team like Duke and they've got a little, you know, some injury

stuff and availability of Caleb Foster is a big like once you get to the sweet 16 elite, might show up. You know, they've been hammering pretty good teams generally, but they may be quite haven't been at the level that they were at full strength, so maybe that throws a little bit of uncertainty

“just into there overall perspective. But, I mean, I think another thing to consider too is like the”

two seeds, this is the strongest batch of two seeds ever. You know, there's like a, you know, will warn my colleague at Baskin review or I do the podcast wrote about just like all the seed lines and kind of where they rank historically. And, you know, this is a plus 31 adjust the efficiency margin per Ken Palm average number two seed line. And I think that checks out, you know, I have my doubts about UConn, I have my doubts about Purdue deep into the tournament, but I was state for most of

the years a team that you look at and say, why can't they win a national title? Great guard play, elite defense, Jefferson is probably a pro, Mom Solova, which is the best shooter in the country, like that's a national title container right up in the mix with, with some of the, you know, with the Duke's and the Michigan's and the Arizona's and Florida. And Houston is, is kind of in that mix as well. And Houston is not what they were last year. You know, they, they had a lot

easier time with J1 Roberts last year, you know, getting easy buckets and not needing to just hammer the offensive glass and their offense gets a little stagnant. But the difference is this year is they've got Kingston Flimings, who is a lottery-pick guard, who can bail you out of a lot of possessions, particularly when it gets tight down the stretch in NCAA tournament games. And so I

really good defense play like crazy hard and and rebound the ball. So I think the two seeds,

you know, last year's one seeds were amazing. The two seeds were pretty good, but not like

“kind of in the mix with them. And I think there's a little bit more parity this year because like”

we talked about everything is is getting pulled up word. And so the, you know, the Houston's of the world or the Iowa State to the world or whatever can benefit from that as well. So that introduces a little uncertainty where, you know, I don't know if Yukon is the team to take down Duke in the elite eight, but Kansas might be, you know, St. John's might be on the four and five line. And so there's, there's good enough teams at some of these slightly lower seed lines that it might

not be quite as the, you know, as much of a walkthrough as it felt like a point last season. I'm glad you brought up Iowa State because watching Big East tournament games and then watching Big 12 tournament games was incredibly jarring. There might have been when the SEC was awesome at football where you watch like Tennessee and even Mississippi State or something and you just go like, all right, now I'm going to watch Purdue against Nebraska. But now I can't say that anymore

because the Big Ten's are on the last couple years. It was from a basketball standpoint, it was really jarring and I'm still a bit, and I look, I even like TCU and they're big 12 times. I was like, watching them going, dude, I kind of like this team. I like what they run. I like punch. I like their size, maybe not like their guards as much, but I don't know if, yeah, if this is as simple as the

“committee is looking at it going, yeah, you're absolutely right. That's why I was State to”

considering some of the non-conference losses Michigan State Duke Houston having Kansas is a four and having St. John's as a five in there as well. The Big East was now that I've watched a bunch of it. It's like this league is not the big 12. It's not the big 10. It's not even the ACC, which was obviously a top heavy league this year. But do you think that reflected that? Like a BYU uses six and St. John's as a five, the committee's saying, hey, we just don't like these big

East teams. Yeah, look, I mean, I think Rick Petino talks about it today. I think there was a little bit of St. John's, you know, I, hey, we're five seed. We've lost, you know, whatever, one game

since January and we just won the Big East title and BYU come for the second time. And underlying

metrics wise, St. John's hasn't really kind of been at that elite level all season. Maybe five's a little low for them, but I think Petino kind of said like, yeah, I mean, we got to get the Big East better because we'd have a lot more, you know, quality wins. And the Big East was a three team league

“this year. And I think even, you know, you can despite the the excellent season that it's had”

is not you kind of two years ago or three years ago, right? Like they're a very good team with some clear flaws and a weird form of talent standpoint. Even like, I, I can't believe there are two. I can't believe they have this good at the season. Yeah. Well, that's coaching. I mean, look, the thing that doesn't get talk, well, I guess it does get talked about in college tutorials, but like those, you know, don't have been clinging and the the level of talent,

they were able to roll out three years ago and two years ago when they went back to back titles,

but particularly the second year was kind of crazy. And the the part of the reason they were so

dominant in that run is not only did they have great talent, but they ran the best stuff in the country. And they continue to run really, really good stuff. It's just the players aren't as dynamic and and aren't as like diverse in their skill sets. And so it's a little bit less impressive to watch. And I think it's interesting to watch with Yukon and we'll see if this this follows in the tournament. Because, you know, they've lost one tournament game in the last three years and they

lost last year by a bucket to the national title to the team at one of the national title in Florida. And I think within the program and they've talked about it, they talked about it post game after the same John's game. They're kind of eager to get out of the biggest because in addition to the Biggie's not being high level, you know, through the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth teams in the league this season. It's also super physical league. And St. John's is happy to play that way and,

you know, value a gazillion times a game and force the rest to call it. And so I think Yukon wants to get out of that and be able to run it stuff a little bit more flow and see if they can kind of get into a rhythm in the NCAA tournament. I'll be interested to see if it holds up. But yeah, I don't, Yukon to me was not at their level of, you know, despite their seed of what they have been and, you know, the title seasons. And St. John's is like really good team, great defense,

patino's obviously a genius, but the core problem with that team that's existed all year in terms of guard play is still kind of there. And so they kind of have to muddy it up a little bit more. Even as they play up tempo, like they really have to guard and play hard for them to get to their max outcome. Even though they've got a big on Yukon and Yukon had a little bit of run there in the second half here, like wondering if the faucet is going to shut up offensively for St. John's,

because you've seen it before, but the physicality of, of that game, you know, part of it,

Arizona later at night going, this is way more fun. Right. Yeah. So much more fun. And I'm,

“I'm blown away by Arizona's depth. I mean, when you think about depending on which night that you've”

watched them, if, if you were, and again, I'm admitting that not super locked in all season long, but depending on the night, you could have like four or five different guys, but like, well, that must be their best player. And Bradley wins player the year despite not having like overwhelming stats, but then you see how much he settles them. And there's so much about them that I like and not to compare them to the thunder necessarily, but like the thunder's whole thing here is

everybody can chew, pass and dribble. And it feels like Arizona can attack you with four or five different guys and then has the size to match up with some of the other guys as they get deeper in this tournament. I, you know, look, I mean, Michigan's enormous, um, Doosca player the year, Florida's huge as well, but at least like Arizona has somebody that's in the fight and Creeva lost, if you need another body to match up with some of those other teams, but I can't,

look, I'm picking Arizona to win the whole thing just because I'm so impressed with how many different ways they can attack you with guys that are comfortable with the ball their hands. Yeah, for sure. I mean, Arizona has been fascinating all year, because we kind of got to a point where you started to take them for granted a little bit. It's like, oh, this Michigan team

“might be historically good. And what a job Dusty made did sort of piecing this together. And I think”

if you looked at Michigan's and I all spend and like what they, you know, I don't have any like firm numbers, but just through the grapevine, I think if if you looked at what they spent on certain

guys and the value they got, like they did the best job of basically any program in the portal

this past season. And are, and are, you know, doing a lot of analysis to try and understand the market in an IL that I don't think a lot of coaching staff would caught up with yet. Do obviously with with Boozer and the freshman and John Shire, maturing as a coach and looking like one of the best coaches in the country now after kind of just running like the best practices playbook for his first couple seasons. It has been a fascinating story, but yeah, I mean Arizona has just

chugged along the whole season. They started off and co-opete looked like their best player, you know, the first night against Florida this freshman and you're like, oh my god, like, I had no idea. I knew this kid was good. I had no idea was this good. You know, I'm Braden Burrie's struggled

“early in the year and has been great since. Obviously Bradley was there. Was there player the year”

in the league? Doloresso is awesome and played great in the big 12 tournament. He looks like they're best player for like ten minutes stretches. I mean, he's just a brother. Yeah, he's excellent. Yeah, and and you know, another guy is Toby Awaka who was, you know, this was talked about during the big 12 tournament a couple ways, but looking at early and earlier in the year, was they're starting big last season. You know, co-opete comes in like maybe he'll start next

to catching up to Krivas and maybe not this season. But co-opete comes in much more dynamic player can play away from the rim a little bit more. And so Awaka goes to the bench and he comes in and he's the best rebounder in the country, rate wise. He's number one in offensive rebound rate. It's like up by like 21% really, really good defensively. So they throw him in and he just gobbles up everything at the rim for for five minutes at a time. Then comes back out of the game. They put Karchankov

or whomever back in and and give you a different look. So yeah, they're there. I'm I'm leaning a bit toward Arizona because of like you mentioned their depth and and the different guys they can throw at you and the fact that, you know, Bradley can have an off-night. It's not a huge deal. They've got Delaware. So they've got buries. They can, you know, they can do lots of different stuff. And they are, they've been so good all year with the, you know, they lost two games. One of

them was at Kansas on a Monday night, which, you know, Bill Self's like 41 and 0 and his last, you know, big 12 Monday night games. So just chalk that one up as an L, but otherwise they've been

incredible and, and they're, it's, it's hard to see them anywhere, but very deep into the

bracket, unless, you know, they just have a brain fart at some point, which, which has happened at time you're living in recent tournaments. Which region would you want to be? And if you were one seed. I'm looking at it now. I mean, I, I, I probably Arizona is probably the most fairable. I mean, I'm a little bit, if I'm, if I'm any tournament team, I'm a little bit scared about seeing Arkansas. Because of the way they can score and because the ball is going to be in acos hands so much

and we've seen it a gazillion times with guards in the tournament that are that good of just running the game, right? It's just like, this guy's going to have a 40% usage rate this game. He's going to take every shot. He's going to run the gym and Arizona's guys they can throw it at that. But that would, you know, he goes for 40, which he's, you know, he's done in the past, you know, a couple times this season and you're just, you're looking at it like a, you're going to fight all of a sudden.

But, you know, looking up and down there, their potential, like Villanova Utah State in the second

round, you know, Villanova hasn't beaten a good team all year. They were the third best team in the big East and beat either of the good teams beat everybody else. They're kind of, they kind of are what they are. Wisconsin has beaten good teams that if they got that far, but I, you know, I wouldn't be

breaking off that's a tough matchup and Purdue, look, I like Purdue. I've liked them all year. They came in as the number one team, but they are a little limited and they're a little bit, you know, in terms, particularly in terms of physicality in the back court, that would not, you know, if I'm Arizona, I'm looking at that. Like we can probably handle these guys. They'll, they're good,

they'll do lots of tricky stuff in that painter. I thought had an incredible big 10 title game in

terms of the tactics that he used against Michigan and the way he was able to get Mara out on an island and picking roles and stuff and Michigan didn't really adapt as quickly as they could have. But, look, Arizona, for the reasons we discussed, you sort of look at their bracket and it's hard to find too many teams that we keep you up at night with the possible exception of a dairy say cuff,

“you know, 50 burger that ends your season. Does the lack of death for Arkansas, bothering you?”

A little bit, but I mean, I think death, that's a little overrated, other than foul trouble, you know, and, and they're not a particularly aggressive team, defensively, is their biggest problem. You know, they just, they go up and down. They don't guard super well. A cuff defensively, I think, now we've got a little closer to the draft and more people are tuning in or seeing some of the things he does defensively, which aren't great. But that's kind of the whole team. The death thing

doesn't bother me because I think, you know, we have a lot of past evidence of teams that, that

basically goes six or seven deep once they get to the tournament. Even if they're a little deeper than

that early in the year, a lot of coaches like to refine that and everybody's got clear roles, everybody comes on for their, their usual rotations. You can switch things around a little bit. I think if you're a team like Arizona and you have the juice to play different guys and match up in different situations, great. But, you know, John Calaparry is more than happy to roll out six seven guys and just kind of hope that, you know, A, everybody's healthy, which it seems,

you know, to be the case. Obviously, and then you just don't hack you guys and they don't guard that way anyway, so it kind of doesn't matter for them. For the tournament, would you rather have

“A-Coffe for Kingston Flomings? I would rather have A-Coffe. I think Flomings is a tough one.”

I think this week to pick somebody else, the week that I just had. Yeah, I mean, he's sensational,

dude. Like he's, and not only is he effective, but he's just like my favorite player in college basketball to watch. You know, just a classic like, if I was 10 years old being obsessed with college basketball, the way it was, he'd be like, I'd have his jersey. You know what I mean? Like I'd have his poster on my wall, and I'd be begging my parents to, you know, tape on the VCR, every Arkansas game. That's on national television, whatever. He's just, he's so fun to watch. He's a classic ballhandling

scoring guard that, you know, like, look, Kim Bozer's the best player in the country. This Kim Bozer moved me in a aesthetic way? No. Like he's just a battering ram who's super effective and that's, that's great, but I'd give me the A-Coffe, like, as an entertainment experience for sure. Bozer moved me when I sorted through synergy possessions. Oh, it was great. It wasn't the video. I just looked through it. I thought something was wrong. I thought I was on like Tim Duncan. I was like,

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even though cloth, I was like, shocked. He was only 24 years old. I mean, that guy was just beasted. And then you have Brandon Smith who's just running the game. So like, when he is running the game at point guard with pain or you just think like, this is just classic Purdue, like everything seems to have a plan and against that front line for Michigan, which I think I want to spend some time on them here a little bit. I can see anybody falling in love with Purdue after their big

10 week. But is there anything here, especially with tech missing their best player on the five line here, Alabama is the four. It feels impossible that Michigan's not in the elite eight. Yeah. No, look, I think the thing with Michigan and and the Purdue game exposed a little bit of this

which Purdue was able to do in ball screens because of the way, trick often run plays in the short roll and and the things that they can throw at you. They're pretty, you know, Purdue is pretty unique in that way. And TKR has got that little, like, shove shot from the, you know,

from the 15 feet in in that basically nobody else takes or attempts these days. So they're,

they're a unique challenge. But yeah, Michigan is their purpose built to not get upset. You know, that they are designed to so thoroughly dominate the rim at both ends of the floor that they have a really high floor or kind of no matter what. Like, they haven't needed to make three is really all season. You know, that, that was the thing about the Duke game when they played Duke late in the season here in DC that really stuck out is for the first time I had Michigan fans of my

life being like, oh, well, we didn't shoot it well. That's like, yeah, but you guys don't need to shoot it well. You can shoot 22% from three and still win by 20 because you have 40 layups in the game or whatever. And that's the thing about Michigan that that makes them, you know, kind of impossible to see getting upset, particularly in that region. And you're right, like Texas Tech is missing JT top and they've been really good without him. Impressively so, you know, BYU is obviously taking a dip

without Richie Saunders, those are the two big injuries and Caleb Wilson at North Carolina. That's, that's hurt these teams, noticeably. And we thought the same thing would happen with tech.

“I think they're ceilings limited without top and but Christian Anderson's been so good that”

they've been able to kind of sustain. It's hard to imagine them though against Michigan unless Anderson just goes crazy, you know, in terms of ball screen efficiency, keeping up with them. And Alabama is the same. Alabama's like the anti Michigan in a lot of ways. You know, they will shoot a ton of threes. They'll get up and down the floor, but they are the ultimate variance team. And if they go 18 of 35 from three or above, you know, you're you're in for a difficult game because they'll shoot them

from 25 feet. And that's that, you know, they'll just shoot over the top of Michigan as much as they can. But Michigan will get dunks and layups and offensive rebounds and put backs. And they'll

kind of block everything at the rim or or, you know, dissuade it in the first place. And so yeah,

that that's the thing with Michigan. And it's kind of the thing with Florida as well as just like we're so big. We're so physical at the rim. We prevent easy shots. You don't get layups. We can extend our guys on the perimeter because our interior guys can, you know, still affect shots eight nine feet away from the rim. So there's really nowhere for you to go. And it gives them a super high floor where even if they have a crazy night or they get nervous and, you know, start turning

the ball over, they're kind of probably going to be okay. If it shocks out here where Illinois gets past Penn and then the winner of North Carolina VCU granted with Kailabal here. And then on the other side, you get the 710 St. Mary's A&M, the winner of Houston, Idaho. Do you like Illinois's chances against Houston? In theory, the wrong way to ask it, but yeah, in theory I do

“because I think Illinois might be a better team than Houston, you know, like they have more”

certainly more offensive weapons and they have, you know, they're bigger and they do a lot of things really, really well. But I think, you know, the Michigan game at Champaign a few weeks ago for myself and I think for Illinois fans, I talked to kind of, it kind of put me off them a little bit because it's just like they just didn't, they just weren't at the level. And that's probably fine in the first couple rounds of the tournament here. But I think that's the sneaking suspicion

for Illinois fans that they're just like just a tier below. And I don't really know how to quantify that because numerically, you look at them like this is the best defensive team Brad on the road as had at least in a very long time. They have every sort of piece offensively,

vloggers been incredible all year although, you know, in the Michigan game in particular,

you know, got bullied by a 23-year-old grown man in the axle. Then the bird was like picking them up from court and just like, all right, come on dude, this guy's like barely 18. Can you leave this kid alone, please? So there's a little bit of that with them where he's so young and still kind of like, he kind of can look like Bambi a little bit sometimes despite how good he is, where good teams like a veteran team like Houston will really get into him. So that but I just,

you know, I don't know. I don't have a good way to quantify it. It's just kind of a vibe with Illinois where I feel like what I what I bet any significant amount of money to to them being Houston, even if I think they're maybe better. No, and I don't, I really can't tell you why other than

“I just that's how I feel. Yeah, when you look at the emglogy brought the two seats here too,”

but like if I'm, if I'm going through it and I'm thinking about the number ones, I'd rather be Duke, scaring it, you can on the other side of this than Houston than Iowa State and even Purdue. And when the East gets brought up, I think a lot of it becomes like, oh, well, look at the names. Okay. Well, yeah, you're right. It's Duke at St. John's. It's Kansas.

Michigan State's your three seed. You see, LA's been on a bit of a run here, and then you

“kind of the other side of it. But yeah, just kind of dropping in, it was like, I think you're just putting”

together like teams that have been awesome over decades, as opposed to like who are they right now. And Michigan State's like an interesting one, because I think there's a time there when you're looking at them against ranked teams and you're going, all right, so you're going to beat everybody, but then you're not going to beat these teams, but then they get Illinois, they get Purdue, and then they lose to a UCLA team. Then again, it's been been finished and strong here.

So, is Michigan State potentially overlooked as we, they have a better seed than that so many of these other teams. Yeah, I don't know if they're overlooked. I mean, I think the, I think two of the panelists on the ESPN show last night, as I was kind of casually had it on in the background,

picked them to go to the final four, which feels like a very, well, it's Tom Iso and it's Michigan

State, so why not kind of feeling to me? I mean, look, I like this Michigan State team. They are also one of the low variance teams that grab a ton of rebounds and guard really well, so they give themselves so floor and every game and Jeremy fears, you know, I think it's a bit of a bummer because most of the discussion about him when he has popped up in discussion and college basketball this year has about been about like, is he a dirty player? Is he kicking

guys? Is he tripping guys? And because there've been a number of incidents that look pretty, you know, pretty sketchy. It's overshadowed how insanely good he's been. I mean, he's got a, he's got a 53% assist rate. Like, if you took Jeremy fears off this team, Michigan State would not score the ball ever. Like, they, they, everything runs through, like, ever, they have nobody

else who can create a shot, you know, Cohen Carr is the best dunker in college basketball,

but on offense, he kind of stands. Like, he can't shoot and he's the guy that, that teams play off of, and he's there for his athleticism and his defense and the occasional fast break dunk, which just, you know, or lob dunk, which kind of blows your mind, but in terms of like a possession by possession, usefulness on the offensive end. Like, you know, he's, he's several levels below what a lot of other teams at Michigan States sort of tier and in the sport or what other

three seats have available to them. So they're kind of a weird one in that. I, I do feel like there's a, there's a, there's a limiter on UK, you've got one guy who creates shots for everybody else,

“and that's, that's how the offense gets it done, and then we guard like crazy on the other end.”

I feel like there's a ceiling there, but like, I look at them and gets a team like Louisville, which doesn't guard anybody and just likes to get up and down and shoot a bunch of threes and hasn't beaten any good teams really all season. And I feel like that's the kind of game that Michigan State will be looking at, be like, we are going to punk these guys. You know, that they are not ready for for the intensity of what this game is going to be. But beyond that, you start to get into,

you know, I mean, look, I'm not super high on UK on UCLA had a nice finish to the season. UCF is a tricky team that that could maybe, you know, get into the to the elite A to the sweet 16. But I can see why people might want to pick Michigan State at least deep into the field. If not, if not beating Duke, I don't think they have the minerals for, for a Duke win, but they are, they are a low variance team with one incredibly good guard. So, you know, who knows?

I can't help but think did Mick Kronen pissing everyone off. Rally this team. I think Michigan State game, right? Because I mean, no sense. He threw his own player out. Then he admitted that it was a mistake. But then after player yelled at the reporters, it don't raise your voice. I mean, like the dude couldn't have been like less raised. His integer is like right in there, your perfect heaven. But I'm just, I mean, just when you

were like, all right, I can't do it, Mick Kronen anymore. You're like, guys, the culture setter, man. Yeah. I think I honestly, I wonder, I kind of have joked about this. I kind of wonder how much truth there is to it. Him doing all of that, but then apologizing and like apologizing to the player, admitting he got it wrong, apologizing to the media, and the kidded transfer from Michigan State, right? Right. And he was like, so, I don't know. He was like,

his intent was like, I thought he made a dirty play. So I was mad at him in the moment. You know what I mean? Like I thought he was trying to turn to hurt somebody. And he just clearly lost his head. In the moment, but then I think coming back out and apologizing, he surely did it like in front of the team, too. Like, because if you're going to do it in the media, obviously, you're going to you're going to go back to your locker and be like, guys, look, I had a long thing. I sat down,

you know, I had a whiskey or whatever on Sunday night, and I realized I was completely lost my mind. I need a deep breath, and I need to be less mean to you and to the rest of the world. And I honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the team was like, okay, sweet, this is thank you coach,

“like that's awesome. We'll lock in because that's what they've done. They've been great, and it's”

coincided really, too. I mean, if you want to dig into it, it's coincided with Donovan Dent

You know, he has his flaws, particularly in that he's a, you know, six foot two, ball dominant,

point guard who can't shoot, and so everything has to get at the rim, but his assist numbers in the past, you know, in their run really, since the Michigan State game, when they beat in Illinois, beat Nebraska, obviously beat Michigan State and the tournament have been elite. And so he's had a

“little bit of an injury concern at the big ten tournament, but I think it's going to be fine,”

and so that's, that's really what to watch with them because if he continues to play the way, he's been playing. They've shown they can be just about anybody. Five, 12s. We've got Wisconsin high point, St. John's Northern Iowa. We've got Vanity, McNeese, and then Texas Tech and Akron. Do you have one you like? You know, it's interesting because this is, as we mentioned earlier, the gap between the five

seats and the 12 seats is historically large in terms of efficiency numbers. Like we've never had

a five, 12 set of games that are less likely to be upset, even though that's the one that that everyone picks every year and rightly so because there's always one. You know, I took Vanderbilt to go to the final four at the beginning of the year, just kind of as a fun larke because like you get asked to do your preseason predictions and they asked for a final four, and it's always kind of inherently silly to me. This is like, well, what seat are they going to

be? Like who are they going to be? Who are they going to play? Like we have no idea just throwing

“names out, but I threw Vanderbilt. I was just kind of like, I think this team's going to be better”

than people expect and they have been. So I won't pick them even though I'm a little bit, I'm a little bit worried about them. We were kind of looking for a 12 maybe? No, I'm talking, yeah, I'm saying like a 12 to like a five I can get getting upset. You know what I'm saying? So, I don't know. Let's go with high point, just because I think they're pretty good and Wisconsin is just so up and down. Like has beaten the best teams in the country has had some

questionable performances while I'll just throw high point in there. Rapp looked like Steph Curry out there. That was, yeah, that was like an all-time half. All right, well let's close on this and as silly as it is at least we have the bracket in front of us here. If we were workshopping, you know, you're just sitting there whiteboarding it out. Like where are you leaning and I'm with you on like the bracket stuff. Like if I had to do one,

it's better to win the office pool by going chalk historically. I don't think there's much debate there. But it's just not very much fun, you know. It's like meeting somebody and it's like, hey, you know, what do you these like sports? We're like, yeah, I'm a cowboy's, like there's Yankee's and Duke basketball fan. Awesome. So if you're like, yeah, I've got I've got the four one seeds. If you were getting creative here, how do you think you think, you know, look, this isn't your final

work. Let's give us a first draft version of what you think your final four may be.

Yeah, you know, if I was getting creative, I would, I would look at Virginia as a potential final 14 because like you're really worried about Iowa State and your hope in Michigan gets an knocked off somewhere else in the bracket, which I don't think is going to happen. But in terms of size and rim protection and the ability to throw multiple bigs at a team like Michigan, Virginia is, is that team, you know, they've got, you've gone on the end, so coming off the bench,

who's the best shop blocker in the country and like he's a luxury for them. A little bit of the way to be a walk is for Arizona, you know, they just bring them on for five, six-minute stretches and have absolutely no fall off on their backline because they're they're starting center, uh, grunlo is, is that good as well and they've got an elite sort of, uh, all ACC guy and ties to Ritter. So, um, I mean, Virginia doesn't have too many flaws and they're, they're a team

that they can somehow get past and I was 18 that we talked about earlier. I really like, um, elsewhere in the bracket to get a little bit creative with it and, and non-one seeds. I mean, uh, mentioned Vanderbilt, maybe Vanderbilt. Uh, they've played really well like particularly early in the year in, in neutral core formats for whatever reason. They just like ran everybody out of the gym.

“I think, one now that they're out of the SEC, churn a little bit, they could get back to”

to some of that and we've seen them beat Florida, you know, they just did it on a neutral floor and they beat them handily. So there's a, you know, there's proof there. Um, I don't really like anyone in the East besides to do. Okay. I can't get there with the UConn. Uh, you know, UConn is a kind of team. I don't think it's going to happen, but because they've had so many games where they've let bad teams hang around. Uh, they're, they're the type, they're the type of team that you could see

getting upset earlier than they should based on their, their talent, their level. Maybe Kansas, you know, like, their impetus and just goes nuts and they are Kansas now, like, we taught the last time was on where you're talking about the weirdness with, but their impetus and that's kind of gone away. You know, he's been doing more interviews. He's been talking about how he had like these crazy full body cramps and that was what the problem was and he seems like super well integrated with

the game, he takes 40% of our shots and everybody kind of stands around. So that's an interesting thing to develop because we, you know, Kansas is a foreseed. They lost a bunch of games, but they haven't really been whole except for the last, you know, seven eight games of the season. And so maybe they're they're better than their numbers and their seed and their seed look. And then, uh, I'm sticking with Arizona. That's not fun, but the West Regional, Arizona is probably my title team and, you know,

like we said at the top of the head. Like I, it's really hard to see them, um, even being in too much

of a close game until they get to the second weekend at the very least. Sounds like we're both going

“with Arizona too. I think we might be. Yeah, uh, make sure that you check out even bread and”

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“This segment is presented by Microsoft. Are you ready for Lakers Week?”

The momentum is going to happen. We are in it. They're winning games, the three seed in the West, and I'll admit throughout the year, every time I watch a Lakers game and the graphic comes up,

I always feel like, man, that record feels so much better than how I feel about the team.

I've talked about their record against teams that are 500 or better, that's below 500, it's not necessarily like an eliminator, the absurd clutch record where they're winning like 80% of their games. I was like, is there something that's actually a little misleading about that? Sure, they can argue about injuries, but so can almost every other team other than maybe Minnesota. So, if you look at where they're at right now in the three seed in the West,

because this is going to start. If they keep playing like this, and we'll see what happens with the next couple of games here. But they keep playing like this, then it starts turning into like, are they a contender in the West? Like, I'll just, I'll say this, first and foremost,

“I think Oklahoma City and San Antonio are so much better than every other team in the NBA,”

including these. I'd be shocked if the spurs are not playing with thunder and the Western Conference Finals. But because we have a three next to the Lakers, then it kind of changes a little bit of like, hey, if there are three seed, like seeding can be really misleading at times, and how you'll feel about a team. Like, hey, we were the two seed. Hey, we were the three seed. Okay, but what were the rest of the records like? Because if you look at three through seven in the West,

they're separated by only three games in the lost column. But even if you are still a little

lukewarm on the Lakers, who behind them in the West that they could be playing in the first round?

Who do you actually like right now? Let's go through these three teams and sorry in advance to Phoenix. Denver, who they beat over time, and it was a terrific win by the Lakers, because they're up big, they blow the lead, you know, look at it blow the lead, Denver comes back and you're like, I, Denver's going to pull this off. Maybe write the ship here a little bit, and then the Lakers

22nd. They have the eighth most clutch losses in the NBA this season. They're 17 and 18 is a

“clutch team. We're normally they're terrific in the clutch, because he just trusts their execution”

as much as any team in the league. If you look at February 1st on against these good teams, they lost against OKC, they lost it destroyed, they lost it over time to the next, they lost it Cleveland, they lost it the clippers, there's a golden state loss in there, they lost it OKC in overtime, when SGA didn't even play in the overtime, they lost him in a soda, they had that awful nix game, or they lost by 39 points. I know Murray left with the ankle injury, but still,

because I don't know if this nix team is like wow on us right now, then they lose the OKC again, and LA in overtime. That's 11 losses against good teams since February 1st. Like it's some point the switch has to go on for me to trust that you could actually get through the West and right now I do not trust them. Yes, they did beat the Lakers earlier during the stretch and they beat Boston. You could argue Boston's ending a road trip in there, it felt like a pretty good win at that time,

and then they beat San Antonio, but Wemin Yamah did not play in that game. So Denver is a team that I can't do it right now with them. Granted, Houston's right behind the Lakers in the seating, the Lakers are going to play Houston twice this week, both in Houston, it's Monday and then it's Wednesday. You'd imagine that they probably just split them, but if the Lakers win both of those, considering Houston has been foreign foreign their last eight, they're 22nd on an offense

since January 1st. There's eight teams worse than Houston, on offense since January 1,

“all of those teams are tanking or should be tanking. Minnesota, what the fuck was that yesterday?”

Okay, C's using their 28th different starting lineup against the most stable five man lineup that we have in the NBA with a terrible talk about that with Finch. It's an overwhelming number. How many minutes that you've had their five guys play together, right? So let's go bear. It's Randall. It's McDaniels. He actually did play yesterday. You may have missed it. David Chenzoo and then Ant, they're up 53.47 at the half at OKC. SJ has 4 points with

0 free throw attempts at the half. OKC shooting 32% to like, wait, how are you, how are you not up 20 in this spot? Because Minnesota refuses to take the game seriously against the same opponent or

superior opponents. This is the second time in a week where they start the game with this lazy,

ball maintenance. I don't even know if that's really a term, but just incredibly casual. Handoff say, here you go, man. Let's see if you get open. And SGA and all these other dudes grin and SGA is not even close to being their best defense player, but whether it's Wallace, whether it's door, whether it's Caruso getting in there, every single guy in the perimeter, if there's a big

“that's extended out, they get their hands in there, they'll get physical with you. You have to play”

to match the intensity when you have the ball against OKC. And the Timberwolves didn't do it against the Clippers when they turned it over five straight positions seven times in the first quarter. They turned it over 25 times yesterday. Ant got stripped by Wallace just bringing the ball up. He had another turnover in transition. Randall drives in the paint. He gets tied up. Rudy had a stretch in the third quarter where there was a lob that SGA kind of gets in there. It's a bad lob. There's another

block on Rudy where it was a foul on SGA. Then there's two other plays, Rudy. It's like, are you seven one or not? So even if I wanted to have his side on a bad lob or a foul that wasn't called, it's still like, man, this is why no one passes to you. We've covered all this stuff again.

Ant started the game with five turnovers against five field goal mates. I never seen him get stripped

one on one, bringing the ball up like he did against Wallace. And then he had another turnover in transition two. So it's like, even you're getting a game or okay C is gifting it to you here. All right. SGA's a complete non-factor. We know that they're dapped in the double bigs and then they decide, like, hey, let's do some non-SGA minutes to start the fourth quarter and let's not have any of the bigs out there and then see what happens. And then they gain eight points on the lead. So it's like,

whatever okay C does, it seems to just work. But it's incredibly frustrating to watch the stimulants team based on the expectations of making a two straight Western conference finals. And then I see this week. You weren't ready against the clippers. You weren't ready against the thunder. You're not matching their intensity. And just as a side in J.D. McDaniels, he played 16 invisible minutes yesterday. I don't, it seems like as soon as he's not getting touches and maybe that's just on everybody,

kind of the old rule of get the big man a couple of touches early. So he's engaged. Because J.D. McDaniel's life should be simple on offense. All the attention is on aunt. Everything the timber wheels are running in their half core possessions is trying to find a way to get door off of aunt and then start the offense. And then you have like Randall's been struggling for shooting, but he was actually getting it going a little bit yesterday. And J.D. stepping out

first quarter, but he, he's a really frustrating player. Because even if it's like, all right, look, you're not going to touch the ball. You're not going to create off the dribble. I don't even know that you necessarily could be able to do that. But he should be with all the attention on aunt or even Randall and their playmaking ability. There should be just easy drives for him, two dribbles, his size, his touch. And it's almost like he checks himself out of the game mentally and then

finished it officially by taking that of the game. So you've got all of these issues there. Those are the three teams that I'm supposed to take serious right now.

I think I like using the least out of all these teams. So look, Minnesota has always turned

the basketball over, they turned it over a lot last two years, but yesterday was was a gross. So I want to start looking at some line up stuff that I was doing on NBA's stat page this morning. Because I'm wondering as I look at like the best five-man lineups,

“which I think is an important thing to think about. Like we get caught in seating,”

certainly matchups on matter, because even if Minnesota's matched up with the makers in the first round, it's kind of hard to ignore like how overwhelming it felt. The size difference in it is eight and solve all of that now. I mean, at least there's a body to throw out there. And eight was terrific in the overtime. I thought defensively against Yokech. Like I watched the positions again, one for four against him. Poor eight, no. I know. Like I actually felt bad for him. He blocks

Yokech in overtime. And then the ball is just kind of like there. And he easily could have grabbed it. And then he doesn't. It's like head in his hands. It's like he just blocked the best player in the world. And overtime stayed down. It was terrific. And it's like, if you had a wife, I don't. But if you had a wife and you made a breakfast and bed, and she'd just like give her a root beer. She's like, there's, there was no juice. You know, like, ah, you know, he did everything

“right yet. There's still some part of it where it's like, how could you not grab that? So, you know,”

look, that's something to think about if it's Minnesota and LA in the first round here. But looking

at some of these five man lineups, we know that like Minnesota is a plus 10 with their five guys, Detroit's a plus 13 with their five guys. The next are plus 3.7 in over 400 minutes with the five guys. And it's like, that might be alarming. The Brooklyn nets are plus 2 points in 307 minutes with their five best players. Dio Man doesn't plan anymore. Charlotte is plus 28 net rating with their five best players. And these are the lineups of like legitimate minutes, hundreds and hundreds

of minutes played by these five guys. Right. So, Charlotte is really easy. Diobody bridges Miller, Knipple and Lemellaball. Plus 28, their offense is 1.34.7, which is the best of any of the 25 offenses sorted by minutes, most minutes, behind only Denver, which is 1.36.7. So, you're kind of like, well, you know, just Denver, if it's those five guys that they still so unstoppable with those five,

“that that's what you need to look at for the playoffs. Because then it's been it back to the”

lakers and you're going, all right, they have this momentum. I've just dogged all the teams behind them, you know, Phoenix is an injury thing on top, everything else. But again, they're only three games behind the lakers in the seven spot. But then I look at the lakers five man units, 226 minutes played with LeBron, Luca Reeves, eight and and smart. And it's a negative 5.5 on the seas. All right, what if we sort it from January 1st, you know, kind of do the pacers thing from last year.

It's like, you know, sometimes you're just going to wake up and realize like these teams are completely different. Well, since January 1st, it's negative 4.8. So that's the group that's going to be run out there that I'm going to pick against other teams in the west now because they have this momentum. If you do it month by month in February, it was a dominant group plus 17, but then back in March, it's like negative 9 points. So I'm like, what am I supposed to do with this? Now, I would say

smart hitting threes completely changes who they are. He is open all the time because defensively, you could just see it whether it's teams. It's too to Luca. Sometimes it's too to Reeves. LeBron's still going to take a ton of attention. I don't know what Marcus smarts

uncontested shot rate is right now. It's probably never been hired as an entire career,

even playing with great players in Boston. He is wide open all the time. And that is one of the things that defenses are going to just go into games saying we can live with that. If he gets hot, it changes everything for them because there's so much of it that's been, you know, really good. When I looked at the five men lineups and went back to last year, I was like, is there anything from last year that warned us about teams that were going to be great in the playoffs or

disappointing the playoffs? I mean, there's a Boston one in here, we're with Porzingus, the most Porzingus played lineup, which is all the regulars in Porzingus, basically. That was an even

Porzingus was terrible in the playoffs, and look, they ended up losing the next. They were going to

lose the next event. Tame was healthy. I feel pretty certain of that. Okay, see, had a heart and Stein lineup with no chat that was plus 16. The Pacers had two different lineups. One was with Turner, Siocca, Neesmith, Nemhart, Haliburt, and it was plus 11. And then if you replaced Neesmith with Mathurne, it was plus 12. And like established, like hundreds of minutes. She's like, that's a really good number. The lakeers had an awesome lineup with Luca,

“but it only played like, I think, a hundred minutes. But it had Bruey and DFS in there, and that”

number. So some of these numbers can be like a little like, hey, you know, but usually what you'd like to see is who you're established five, and is that lineup with 200, 300 minutes? Has that shown that that's a pretty awesome number? Because I've had even, like, marginal teams, tell me, hey, you know, when we have our five out there, like, look at our net rating or whatever it is kind of like, I roll. But if you're talking about teams like getting out of their conference

and getting through multiple rounds of the playoffs, or just even, you know, playing it in an Eastern or Western conference finals, it's like, can I see something there? And even if the lakeers thing doesn't necessarily shout at me right now that there is this five man group that is really scary. And I'm not even trying to compare it to the thunder or the spurs. I'm comparing

to everybody else with the problem is I'm comparing it to all these teams behind them that even if

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“Your sector. No, I don't want to do it anymore. Are you talking about the text this week?”

Yeah. All right. You know, certain times of the night and the weekend things feel like bigger deals than they are and then you get a little bit further back and they don't seem like such a big deal anymore. Anyway, I was a big big Saturday for me. Was that a local bar town? The owner was like a retired Johnny's guy. But since I've been coming in, he was like getting a little closer and closer and I came in on the Big East tournament title game and

brought him a hat that I got from the Korean St. John's game. And I was really excited and I figured, you know, Ryan has even been hit me with some text on Johnny's game days. And I was like, I think we are like, you know, coming to this crescendo moment. And I, I faced time you guys. I step out for smoke. I think it was after the win. I don't know. Again, it's a little foggy. I step out for smoke and I'm like, I'm going to call my guys. I was just me alone out front for some reason.

No one else was around. So I'm going to call my guys and nobody answered. And then I sent you guys a little what for in the text. And that's it. And now, and then, you know, Sunday morning, I went to do like a regular adult sort of kids birthday party. Like, do like adult activities. And I was just like, man, I really don't care as much as I did. And I think we're still going to have to talk about this. I was like, I'm going to ask this out with you boys on Monday.

The juices were flowing outside of the day. And I just just needed my guys. It was a nice win. It was dominant. You know, there was that little glimmer of of Yukon hope in there for a moment. But it wasn't a ritual. I responded nice. I've had the embarrassing embarrassing night in Hartford. I don't have, I face time. I think I face time the group 10 minutes after that. Because I felt bad. I was on my father. Yeah. All right. That's it. No one takes my mind.

Yeah. I thought Ryan's was a mistake. So I didn't pick it up. If the guy on one, I, the guy on one, I felt bad about because I was, I was in, I was trying to put my daughter to sleep. She's just not, you know, she goes with a big girl bed. She just likes to get out all the time. It's a problem. We bought her this like panda squishy light things. She can kind of like do that. But she gets out of bed all the time. So I, I try to figure that out. And I get back.

“And I see the mid face time and the tax. And I was like, oh, no, I'm not. And here's the thing.”

My wife went to Yukon. She, I let her watch the game. It was kind of blown anyway. So it didn't really matter. So I, I feel like my excuse is valid for Ryan. I just, I just ran up and pick up. I figured it was a mistake. I just, you know, my Saturday night brain thought you guys looked at that and what Jesus Christ.

of course, not man. What's wrong with you? It's like, why did you commit to talking about this on my face? Anyway, no, my dad and I renowned them. But like there's a big big East game. We'll watch it together. And just be on the phone. Speak of phone. Hell yeah, do speak of phone. But then usually, within the first five minutes, he starts pitching that like Derek White, Tatum didn't play in a game. And I'm just like, yeah, I know. I know man, you know, I get it buddy.

All right. So we have, they don't lay some up the way they used to. So because that game was a blowout, like there was a lot of other discussions,

a lot of other topics. We hit a million segments. So then then when I got off the phone,

I saw the miss call and I called immediately and I felt bad because I was like, uh, you know, but again, so Rudy's more of a UCON guy though. So, you know, I'm not a UCON. No, I mean, you know, my wife went to UCON. I grew up kind of a UCON babe, but I didn't go there. So I don't really like claim UCON is the thing. And I, you know, she's witnessed a ton of national championships. I like you guys being happy. So I was kind of like secretly. Yeah, I figured you would take up for that reason. But yeah,

I almost worked tank, St. John's tank today. Well, we had to do the bar stool draft things. So I was like, all right, you know, maybe we don't wear a tank top, although it would have fit in on that, but I don't know. I probably would have come out. I'm for sure. Yeah, I don't know when that's coming out, but we,

“we got host a little bit in that draft. That's a tough, it's a tough spot. You have to”

just want to take after us. Maybe two, like a nine seed or worse to see how they got and we want,

we had to be one of the last picks. If you go that way, I don't know. But in another, so the randomness of competitiveness, who knows? Okay. Uh, a couple emails here. I think I may just read this one because it's six, seven, two, sixty and be a com Daniel Tyson. We have huge listeners. Was it a family get together a few weeks ago at an abortion basketball? My 90-year-old grandmother, Nick's are playing. I asked my grandmother, she could name five current basketball players and we didn't

get past LeBron. That's pretty good one though. She's watching the game. Did somebody see that tweet where it was like, hey, a couple of years, we have a actor named LeBron. What was it? Michael B. James. We may have ourselves at debate. LeBron P. James. LeBron. Yeah. Michael B. Jordan LeBron. No, Michael B. James. Yeah. Michael B. Jordan. I could have delivered that a little bit better, but I thought that was, I thought it was clever enough. Yeah, it was clever enough that I, you know,

plays in it. First take. Happy for Michael B. Jordan. Yeah. I love Michael B. Jordan. He has

my TVP trophy from the flag football game, though, to Super Bowl. Fucking bullshit. Thank you,

“son. Is it? Where do you think you remember that? Did he move the one thing was like,”

fuck this? I saw him at the Soho House and like debated going up to him, be like, hey, you still got my MVP trophy. I didn't. There's zero pants he knew. Good move by yeah. Who knows, it may be it was the wrong move. Yeah. You should have told you should have tweeted out last night. Like, you know, this is the best, you know, in this finally beats that the MVP trophy from the flag football. That's really funny. You

finally top that accomplishment. Yeah. Fine. It took you long enough. Yeah. That man was happy for him. I like, I think everybody likes him. You know, yeah. All right. Moving on, sham at face. Um, so she's watching the game pretty into it, making comments about different players, et cetera, then suddenly there's a quick kind of way to landry sham it on the bench. She lets up a lot of shriek I'd ever heard from her and girls geek. Look at that guy.

He doesn't even look like a basketball player. At this point, I start dying of laughter. She has no idea why. I spent the next few minutes explaining the concept of sham at face to her. There's now a 90 year old lady walking the earth with sham at face and her lexicon. I hope you are proud. I got to be honest with you. It kind of started to suck. Like, I brought it up years ago, because I was just like if he looked, the people, the nice, yeah. Yeah. He had a stretch

where he was balling. And by the way, he's back to it. And the irony of ironies is just last week. I worked out with his trainer. And I'm like, man, he is cooking. And he's like, look, his shoulders are healthy. He's like, you have no, he's like, his shoulders were messed up. He's like, he's healthy.

“And he's playing awesome hoops again. I was watching the game last night. I think Brown went”

with him over bridges and let's do something I'm missing from last night's gaming at some warriors. Where man, the Warriors, just every time you're like, there's no way they have a chance in this game. They've done an awesome job of being competitive to the Warriors. And then it's like, okay, now we're running Gi Santos under a minute. I so sighed like, go, go, cook, buddy. Even though he's been terrific. So that was a little nicks warriors for you. So I could have mistakenly

of taping this morning, forgot to bridge us back. But the point is, the shammot has been terrific. And I was like, if he looked like Michael B. Jordan, I think he'd make more money. Honestly,

shammot on the pot because of the relationship of the trainer. So I kind of have to be like, hey, so I don't even know how the fuck I'm gonna ask that question. Yeah, you definitely do.

“What would that be more awkward than having like the Marcus Cousins on?”

Well, I knew the Cousins thing was gonna go bad. But I knew that I also wasn't going to not ask him. About totally different vibes. Yeah. Right. I think Cousins seems like a little more, you know, I don't know. I expect that Cousins not have a good time before the thing started. Right. So I don't know what you say, like, you just go to shammot and you say, like, hey, there's like the chance that you could have been like an allure, the rings thing and you just look a little different. You just like an

elephant. I'm kind of, I'm gonna stop talking about this. Yeah. Because that is going to give. I mean, his trainer probably already knows. His trainer couldn't be a nicer guy to long, sinewy, jack. That was cool. That guy's grandma knows now two NBA players and one of his landership. Yeah. But like I do think I think there's we're such visual people. We, yeah, the context really helps. If Alex Caruso looked different, like other than what's going on with his guys, you have a

rash, whysy, he's only balding. Like I'm going to draft a guy in the first round is already

fucking balding. I can't do that. You know, like you just, you start to think like, and then it's like,

“hey, Caruso's awesome. So, you know, be careful. All right. I think we've covered it. Yep.”

I think we've covered all that. Do we need more? No. I don't think we need anything. Sorry. I should just get to the next one. Probably. Yeah. Probably should. Ready guy. Caruso and one fire. Guess I'm probably. We get to the next one here. My engineer said that I shouldn't read this email, but I'm going to read it. 5, 11, 185, 25, 25 years old. Jim Stats, a heart condition, Casey from Maxing Al, more of a high

rip guy, low weight guy. All right. Fair. NBA caught my friends have affectionately compared me to George Neang during pickup. Well, I, that's one of the best compliments you can see because Neang come out there and fucking dime you up all day post you uphill hit three so make the right rotations. Everyone could use a little bit more Neang. I got married to my now wife about a month and a half ago after dating for two years. She had some issues with the parents over the last few years.

Essentially, she's been growing and changing as a person while our parents have stayed the same. They live in a different state of the US so I can imagine seeing their daughter change with each visit could be quite jarring. This will be helpful. Contester later by my wife is wrapping up school. We're currently living off of my income alone. I'm paid well, but not killing it by any stretch of the imagination and we're saving to be able to buy a house in a few years. Anyway,

this past weekend we were driving out to dinner with one of my wife's cousins that lives in the state when she gets a call from her dad will call him Tony. This is an uncommon as Tony will call her often check in. My wife usually has these calls play over the car speaker so I can join in this time Tony leads with hey. I know you guys pay for YouTube TV since you watch a lot of sports. We were wondering

if you could add us to your account so I can use it as well and quote. At first, I thought this

is fine. I was expecting some sort of offer to split the cost. It became apparent as the conversation went on. This was not the case. Tony mentions that paying almost $90 a month was getting two steep for him to keep paying, especially with all the other subscriptions he pays for and that'll save him a ton of money if he's able to just jump on my subscription. Again, zero mention of splitting the bill. My mother-in-law, let's call her Denise. Chimes in and says, "Tell them it's because

we're still paying for her phone bill and Netflix." All right. While true, the phone bill is cheaper with my wife on their plan and the Netflix sub was a Christmas gift requested by my wife. It was back at the only gift she got from her mom for Christmas. The combine costs for both of those sort of a month is not even close to the $80 dollars I would pay per month. Denise grew up in

“hard circumstances, but will often use the co-I do X for you. You should do X for me, manipulation”

tactic on her kids. It happens several times during wedding planning and drove my wife up the wall. Anyway, I mentioned that I was planning a reducing to just the cheaper sports plan because it's all I use. It's just a sports to which my father-in-law asked me to get the news and sports package since he wants to watch the news on my sub. So now he's making demands and has made no offer to pay. All he said is that it'd be nice to have some money back in his pocket, which I know damn well

will just be spent on Amazon. Oh, she's this is pocket-watching everyone's pocket-watching each

other in his family. Both my wife and I are silently seeding at this point in the car. He always

offers to pay for things. So the fact that he didn't makes me think they're really just wanting us to pay none of extra whatever a month for my in-laws to have TV for free. This is this not an insane

overreach. If they were in financial hardship, I mean we're willing to do this as a favor.

It really makes over twice my salary. I gave him a non-committal answer to buy myself some time to think I'm going to figure this out. Do I just ask him to pay his half particularly when I will not be touching the new stations? They did pay for half our wedding. Okay, there you go. Which has me worried they'll push back and hold that overhead for the rest of our lives. You kind of owe us for this. I do not want my married life relationship with my in-laws to start on a sour note. Any advice

would be appreciated. This is like the stuff I do for my parents anyway. I'm trying to get them to do this stuff. I'm trying to hear. Look, I logged into this. You don't have to watch this with commercials. It's here. It's there. I think when you get older, you're looking for ways to give back. And now it sounds like he's newly married and she just finished school. So I'm thinking mid-20s. So maybe you're not at that point yet where you're trying to find ways to pay

your parents back. And especially these are your in-laws. So it's a little different. But

I mean, if you're counting the dollar for dollar, I mean, you just met these people a couple years ago. I mean, they've supported their child through everything. And they probably put her through school or that's some, you know, they were supporting somehow. They're still paying or Goddamn cell phone. So I think like doing the dollar to dollars thing isn't going to match. And this is just part

“of kind of being a good family. I think that's what younger people usually set up to older people”

with stuff of this nature. And now it's a little strange that he's making requests. But you're just going to be things about your in-laws that are strange. And I think you're you're blowing this one up a little bit. I think it's, I think it's totally fine. We're talking about half the wedding. I don't know how many years of YouTube TV. By the way, you can just threaten to cancel YouTube TV. They'll give you a promo right for three months. I just did it.

So you can't, but I mean, I'm the wedding thing like if you're this guy, I didn't realize it's a fucking tab. I'm going to work off the rest of my life. Well, it's not. I thought it was because it was your daughter. He also said half the wedding, by the way. So it sounds like, hey, that's exactly 15 grand. It could mean 60 grand. I don't know what kind of wedding that is. Yeah, but it doesn't mean all the grand is what I mean. It could mean his parents pay for their

half to you. Right. No. Yeah. That's what I think I'm saying here. I think there's a bad go ahead, so Rudy, because you're married as well. So I'd rather not fight in this. I'm just, I'm not really. Yeah. It's not cool. And it's, I would be annoyed, but I would be annoyed like to my wife and other people. But yeah, you guys bond with it. It would be like a year of Netflix. It's like, how much did you spend on her Christmas gift versus how much I'm going to do just for

being nice? It's like, it's on the wrong foot to say the least. The system will be an argue with each other about. I don't even know of all the subscriptions that we have to like, you know, the HBO's in Netflix. No, I don't even know which family member even has them. We just all kind of, yeah, I don't know. We have to clean the wash. Yeah. I don't just like do you know, I know we don't have the HBO one because it keeps asking me if I move. So that's a bummer. But all the other ones, I honestly,

I know I have YouTube TV because my buddy kind of mooches off a bit a little bit and I let it slide a little bit because he claims that it's like for soccer, even though it's, you know, who'll pay me like, you know, 50 bucks a year, which is probably more than that. He's probably listening to spot right now. So it's up. But I, you know, I just kind of let it slide. I don't know, with the, with the, with the, and the fact that she is paying for the cell phone thing, even if it's not even. I,

I think you just kind of got to take me over here. It's not that much money. Yeah, I get what you're saying. And normally it's just kind of like, hey, it's not that much. But he's supporting this guy's daughter while she's studying. So there's no income coming in there. It sounds like both parties involved here

are, and I don't even mean this to be like critical. But there's people who just completely

“lose with money and don't even think about it. And that's probably not the best way to go. And there's”

other people that are incredibly tight about everything. And that can be like kind of stressful and not at least the greatest. And so it sounds like, you know, if we're talking about, pull people involved here, like our guy email and in, there's not a ton of money coming in. The whole wedding thing, like, did you not want to do that for your daughter that I married? So my problem with this is, generally, I go like, ah, it's not that big of a deal. Like, you're going to have YouTube anyway.

Just have them on the sub avoid the hassle over just a few dollars. It's not that big of a deal. But he said that their manipulative, that the mother will be like, if I've done this for you, you need to do it's like, she's keeping score. There's a fucking spreadsheet apparently in these parents heads the entire time. But was that for planning the wedding, though, did she bring that shoot up because like the mom wanted the wedding to go one way? And she's like, well, I'm paying

for half of this because I mean, that comes. What email are you talking about? Then she said that what she brought up the, uh, the, I did this for you. It's because they were planning the wedding or is it for something else? No, I think that was just a general, because that comes out. Like, when you're doing wedding stuff sometimes. Right. Like, well, we're paying for half the fucking thing. Can't have a zalias. All right. You say, no, no, she was saying, I do X for you.

“You should do X for me manipulation tactics on her kids. Okay. It's just part of the general”

upbringing and the entire thing here. So like, that's a ballsy thing. Because like on one side, when you look at this and you go, okay, it's not that big of a deal. I can have you on YouTube.

hey, why don't we just call them up and ask them to pay for our YouTube subscription? You know,

“wouldn't that be awesome? Yeah. And then, hey, we have our Netflix thing for getting that it was”

a Christmas gift. And yeah, she's still on the family plan for the phone. So if that money's coming out, we need to recoup that somehow. Like, this shit gets really annoying. And it may be worth it. It may be worth it. Even though it's very new, seeing how they respond to a little defensive tactics being like, hey, hand them back to what they see what's up. Yeah, just be like, hey, look, if you want, if you want me to pay for YouTube and then you're telling me which package you want,

right? But if you want the package, I don't want, then we're going to split it. Just see, throw it out in the air. See how he responds. Yeah, that package, too, is probably only like 10 bucks. It's actually, I feel like this, you know, not that much. Maybe you just say, I'll pay for the base package. You just kick in for that and we're even try to work at deal with them. I don't know. Maybe he'll respect you more for that. I'm just saying, coming on from a perspective of

like, I don't want to live like that. And if it's not like dire financially, I just don't, I don't want it even be in that mode. But he might be living like that. So if he gives into this, is what I'm saying. Like it may be more beneficial for him, the rest of the relationship. If it's like, hey, you know what I may just do, push back here once. See how it goes. Tell me, test. Yeah, these are early stages. You're right. You may be, maybe this is a set to tone moment. I

forgot that he got married less than two months ago. This could be a set to tone moment. Does he like you? I guess is the question too. You know, if he does like you, maybe you have a little bit more leeway. If he doesn't like you, maybe it doesn't really matter. Maybe this will make him respect you more. I don't know. Look at the big balls on Brad. Or you can be like, you know, I've been really interested in paramount. So why don't you just get the parent, like think about something you want and

see how he can have it. How he's survived. It's like, you know, what I really been, what's tossaking all about. So maybe, yeah, I'll do this and then you go ahead and you get paramount. I heard maybe you want to wait for the merger with HBO. Because that'd be great. Then we can have this. And see how he responds to that. Or what you could do is, since the mom got the Netflix thing for Christmas, next Christmas, you can be like, well, we didn't get you a gift because, you know, we're

paying for your YouTube. So you're a long game car that has to be just right YouTube all. Yeah, I argue that you give me. Yeah. Then your library is all messed up. You're like, cross fire. How's going on in here? Crossfire. Wow. Yeah, maybe you're right. Because I think all the I, yes, I think maybe, yeah, if you don't set the tone here, you could end up like our guy who's from last week who's supposed to be going down to Orlando pretty soon for the world championships

of dance. Did you get any follow-up? So I was going to ask a million. I was really worried about it.

It was 99. If it looks seriously, if we got 100 emails on people following up on the guy in the

“dance thing, it was 99%. You have to go. That's what being in a relationship is. But I just don't think,”

I don't think people are fully understanding what those meets are. Have you ever watched like five minutes of those on the SPN? Yeah, I have. I think I've gotten YouTube links to various family members. Like, hey, to a clock or start time, here's the link. All right. Yeah, again, a lot of it was just like the general theme was grow up during a relationship. This is something we're supposed to do. One guy emailed in was like, hey, technically driving in a car is more dangerous than it's like,

hey, you've been with anybody who's afraid that has anxiety and just, you know, yeah, now the time to talk to yourself and to being nervous on a flight. No, is it kind of fun? Is it fun? No, it is. If you like really start going like what I have noticed, I don't know how what this makes me, because I've been flying a lot recently. I have noticed that like I'm landing and take off.

I was never worried at all. Honestly, sometimes I'm like a sleeper in the take off most of the

times. And since I've, Ron's going to laugh at me and maybe think I'm a huge loser, since I've had two kids, it's in the back of my mind. I'm like, hmm, a little jumbled up on the, this one's up. Yeah. Wow. We're never, like, and not even, there's not even really other parts of my life that

“impacts it's just what I'm flying. It's so strange. I can't believe you think I think you're,”

you're a loser because you care about your kids. No, no, I just think it's an odd place to think of like, that's like, it doesn't, I don't think about that really in any other part of my life, other than when I'm on a plane. I just wild man, what you can convince yourself of. I just did a breaking bad rewatch, and I just finished the plane crash scene yesterday. Gotta say, I'm feeling a little different about the whole thing. Just one guy. Well, all the DHS stuff going on. I mean,

the traffic controllers, the same people that, uh, with affected by the TSA guys, like, I don't know,

one little slip up. Make sure thing. Yeah. I got it. I got to say because I was always my wife

gets a little nervous around traveling or whatever. And I would always just throw the stat like planes don't crash. Like planes, like they just don't crash unless like something hits them or something crazy

about the one every couple of years when they're millions of fights. Never know. I'm going to have

a solely in there or not. But I kept, I kept hitting that. Like when those things were happen, like a couple months ago, I'm like, man, this is maybe I'm taking the out here. Like now, if sudden is safe to fly, I don't know. But, uh, but that's the things. Like planes don't just crash on purpose. Like they, or it's not something that happens. It happens like one side of a blue moon, and something really ridiculous has to happen for that to go down. Yeah. So that turned into

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So here's the situation and it's mostly perceived. It seems I've got myself a new daycare beef and I'm looking for advice on what I should do going forward. On my dad at two girls, one who used to go to the daycare from 20, 21 onwards and is now in kindergarten. And another who just started their last year will be there for another three years. Last Friday, I could drop you off my daughter while holding the door open for another dad. We're both

black for context since everyone online is a white guy until proven otherwise, right? That. So black dad's a really good guy. Yep. There you go. Uh, so another dad in his son holding the door open for him. I say to the dad, who I've been seeing on a regular basis for the past few years, quote, what's up boss? He pauses and I think he's just going to say higher something light instead. He says, quote, it's not boss. That's not my name. If you don't know

my name, they don't say shit to me and quote. That was right by the front desk with the administrators around, not sure they heard dumbfounded and kind of stunned. I just kept him moving, got outside and continued to process this and just could do nothing but laugh about it. And my punk for not saying something back and what should I do all the other times I'm going to see him ignore him,

“call him out, anything else. Probably don't start with chief. I was going to say you should start with”

chief. He's just going to go through the role of X of nicknames and just, because that's not that me as an insane reaction. You don't know his name. I don't know, I don't know any of the parents names. There I see them every single day. I don't know any of their names. So like the idea that I would just know this guy's name, random ways and saying, maybe he was in a bad mood, possibly. I wouldn't advocate for like, you know, getting into a confrontation at the check-in desk at your kids'

daycare, probably not the place for it. But the subtle little like, what's up chief, what's up dude, what's up my guy, just keep throwing those at him after a while. And I mean, he's bigger than

you two. I guess that's always the bigger question too. But what's he going to do fight you with a

daycare parking lot? Probably not. So I don't know. I feel like that's the move. Unless you guys disagree. I'll say my black friends will stop me when I call them bud guy, pal. And I don't know where I pick this up, but sometimes it just feels right at the end of a sentence phone call. I'm like, what's up bud? They're like, oh, really bud? Like, I don't know. It's just just a black friends that really don't stand a couple of Dominican guys will follow me out too. But yeah, my white guys,

you know, also they don't even hear you're saying. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We, well, we were talking recently because, you know, the baseball thing. But yeah, it's like bud guy, pal. Like, you know, they like, we have a relationship conversation and that's just something I've had. Yeah, this is a knowledge just to have, I guess. That's a relationship friends and issues there. I don't even want to say, I just don't, I don't think I can put my finger on one. So you're saying, is the white guy is a white

“we like nicknames? Is that it? Just kind of like the pet? Is it all from pet names? Well, I think it's”

the weird problems. Like, like, bud, pal guy. They kind of seem like they're in a certain class.

wine that's like different than the other types. I don't know. It's just like, boss. It seems like

harm, boss. But it's like, I, depending on how you say it is disrespectful, can be disrespectful. I don't think so. But I guess, I guess you and my buddies are right. I can say, Guy, way worse than I can say boss. Surgery is right. Right. Okay. All right. Boss is like, you can say, boss is somewhere in the pentagram. I don't know where, but it, it touches that group. We should do this. Like the quadrant. Boss could almost seem to say each other. Boss, like you say, like,

you know, we'll say it's like a, like a gas station attendant in New Jersey or something. Like, you're, I'm going to run in and just fill her up. You know what I mean? Like, it could seem like,

I don't know. It seems remotely disrespectful to me. I don't know. Could just seem paid for you say,

hey, pal. A lot of patronizing stuff doesn't as my dad's house. My dad's house. My dad loves the gal guy. My dad loves power. I got to say I love your dad. If your dad's an age back and he's saying, hey, pal, there's automatic buying. Okay. All right. He's a good company guy. Yeah. Yeah. He's gone

“the job site. Different guys. But pal can be delivered a little with a little sting to it. I think,”

but his tough. I think guys brutal, but I had a really good news. But he called everybody guy. When he did it was really endearing. Yeah. I think I have to do a good cadence with it. Yeah. What's up guy? I mean, that's the point where his nickname was guy. Shout out to a guy. I usually go

my man. Just hey, thanks, my man. What's up, man? So no chief. I never used chief. I don't know that.

I don't know that. I don't think we're allowed out. I don't know how to work. Yeah. Can you even do it? Yeah. I got it. The one thing I was saying is it sounds like this guy was having a really rough day and maybe you don't hold it against him. That whole don't say shit. Yeah. Who knows what he's going through. But that's like that math is adding up to like, you know, shit, morning and he knew I shit afternoon and store for him. And maybe shit. Yeah. Could be. Right.

Maybe. But especially fuck that guy. Because if you're going to get that, if you're going to escalate at that point in your kids entrance to their daycare, like cool. Like, are you had a bad day? And it's my fault now. Because I just like have friendly, you're like pretty, you know, I was greeting to you. No, I'm not buying that. You guys do just both did a great job here.

“Because I think the ending point of Kyle, like, I'll never forget. Well, the first bartending”

jobs I had. I was not even 21. So now I'm like, kind of seeing how things work. I've got access to this lifestyle. Everybody's so much older than me. And it's just kind of wild. I'm even in this position. And there is so much to work there. Well, yes, so much to learn. So many lessons. It was like taking a summer course on just being older. Yeah. Um, totally. Like, I'm going to be here. How many hours every day? Um, and there was a guy that we worked with who's older, weathered, seen some shit. Yeah.

Tell me a story guy. And another guy came up and called him dude. And he lost his mind. And then actually said calling a white guy dude is like calling a black guy. No way. He used to work. Like, as you're setting up. And they was all, like, some of the door guys were black and people were just like, he was so unhinged. That I don't even know that anybody was mad. They were just like a spectacle. What is wrong with that fucking guy? And then he's, you've got

the, I slowly like got more access to him. I'm like something like this guy's fucked. Like he is in a fight every single day with the world. And so, um, this is not the same thing. Because I mean, that was ridiculous. Like, but you wouldn't argue the mere fire of dude. Yeah. Yeah. He was people just like, what? Who? I mean, you want to talk about the delivery where it's like the whole, you know, setting up. And he's like, whoa, like, what? And keep people just looking to be like,

did he just say that? And then it was like the further debate of like, that's also not even close. Yeah. But then it's like, I don't, you don't argue the merits of that argument with that guy. So that's the thing. You're like, are we too far? He stormed out. He stormed it. He didn't stick around.

“Because I think he knew, like, yeah, he knocked down here. And everyone else is just like in shock for”

half an hour going, it's one thing to do everything that he did. But, but then on top of that, like, that's the conclusion that you've come to in life. Yeah. And then guys were like, you have to next time somebody sees it. They have to call them dude. They have to call them dude. And I was like, I'm about what it. I don't, what would be, keep you like, what's up, King? That's not my world. You see, that's not my world. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Just asking.

I might even be like next time. It's like, hey, I'm Kyle. Nice to meet you. Oh, you don't want to be

friendly with this guy, though. I don't, I'm not trying to be friendly with this guy. Now, as you just leave it, you just totally leave it with him. I think you go into it with excitement.

“I can't wait. Like, if you're the email, you should be looking forward to the next transaction”

with so much anticipation. You should just be like, I can't, like, I'm not going to say anything.

I'm not going to try a different nickname. I'm not going to do anything. I may even if I'm stuck in a door shuffle however it works. And I've got to open the door for him again. I may just give him like a smile, not like a condescending smile. But like, this is going to be fun. You know, the drop-off, you're going to do it all the time. Rarely do you have something to look forward to. So I hear,

“I think in this spot, it would be, it's going to be like something to look forward to. Because”

this guy clearly has a lot of shit that he's carrying around for you. It's one thing that he got that mad at it. But then actually ends with, don't say shit to me. If you don't know my name, who the fuck says that? And a lot of that here. Do another person.

“Yeah, there's a lot of Adam here. You don't think friends with it. I think there's a lot of”

avenues to go. But absolutely. Yeah. All right. Well done. Well done. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks to Kyle. Thanks to Kevin. Thanks to Tom. I'm sorry to Kyle. That's Saturday. Let's

start. Oh, man. Oh, you got me. Let me make you up after the first round. When do they play

Thursday or Friday Friday Friday? These some time too. Like no one. Yeah, a real nice time. 7 o'clock your time for my time. Hmm. Good for you. So, Malah, we'll get suited up. I may even wear a tank top that day. Just a round. Look out. All right. They'll do it for the show. Bye. Result a show. Please subscribe. Our story supports. To you.