Gil's Arena - Gil's Arena Breaks Down LeBron & Wemby's Weekend Domination

Episode Date: April 1, 2024

Gil's Arena Breaks Down LeBron James' & Victor Wembanyama's Best Games This Season as Gilbert Arenas & The Gil's Arena Crew react to LeBron & Wemby each dropping 40 points this weekend and discuss if LeBron is already in playoff mode as his Los Angeles Lakers fight for a spot in the play in. They also react to Wemby chucking the game ball into the stands after taking down the New York Knicks despite Jalen Brunson's 60 points and debate if this was the correct move for the savage French phenom. Next they discuss a wild weekend in both the men's & women's NCAA Tournament, breaking down what they saw from NCAA sensations Zach Edey & DJ Burns before previewing another showdown between LSU and Iowa and a rematch of Angel Reese vs Caitlin Clark. Please consider giving us a like and subscribe!!! Gil’s Arena premieres every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET. Sign up for Underdog Fantasy HERE with promo code GIL and get a $100 first deposit match: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-gil's-arena SUBSCRIBE: / @gilsarena APPAREL PARTNERS TUFF CROWD: https://www.tuffcrowd.com/ ADIDAS: https://www.adidas.com/us/agent-gil-restomod-basketball-shoes/ Gr8ness: https://www.gr8nss.store/ Order Rashad's Book Here - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CD9ZQ3HD?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420 CHAPTERS: Intro 0:00:00 Show Start 0:02:55 Kool-Aid Wings 0:08:22 Zavier Simpson's Unstoppable Move 0:11:31 Zach Edey Tears Up NCAA Tournament 0:15:41 DJ Burns Takes Over March Madness 0:27:53 Predictions for Final Four 0:32:31 3 Point Line Mishap 0:43:26 LSU vs Iowa Preview 0:46:51 Hot Sauce vs Milk & Cookies 1:00:27 Wemby Doesnt Care About Your Game Ball 1:13:42 Wemby For DPOY 1:21:35 LeBron Drops 40 On The Nets 1:31:10 LeBron Says He's Almost Done 1:39:07 Luka's Spot In The MVP Race 1:57:01 MostlyFans 2:13:29 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Yeah. Always. Got reinstated on the dating apps. You back? I'm back. You back up? You went under a new name? Under a new name?

What dating app did you use? New pictures. New pictures. Can't fade me. I'm back. Wait, how many apps do you be on? All of them. Farmers only? All of them.

Christian Mingle? Coffee and bagels. All of them. Oh, wow. What is coffee and bagels? It's a new one. Are those coffee dates? They're called coffee dates.

That's cute. Coffee and a bagel. Or a bagel. That's very cute. Farmers. Farmers dating. The farmers dating app too. All of them. Farmers only. Farmers only. People who farm? Yes. Mm-hmm. It's very cute farmers farmers dating the farmers dating absolutely

Who farm yes a little backyard garden and backyard garden Looking for a particular gardening Raya? Raya? I'm trying. That's the only one I'm not on. Oh, they won't let you in there? Yeah, I had a conversation with her. I'm at Delilah.

They're telling me, you ain't on Raya? I said, they won't let me in. I've been on the wait list for a year. They're fighting a good fight. How about gettothepoint.com?

We just get right to the point. I'm trying to create that out. You got everything. I mean, it's all the same thing. Right? Getting to know each other. What happens to the people who just want to get to the point?

They used to call it back page. They got rid of it. Yeah, they got rid of it. Just make it classier. Get to the point.com. Party after dark. We might build that app. Get to the point.

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It's on record. The Dittler. No diddy. We're partying these extreme. Here's what's cracking in the arena today. Wimpy had the internet going nuts after tossing the game ball in the crowd after the best game of his rookie season while jalen brunson dropped a career high 61 points but who really deserved that game ball the rematch we've all been waiting for is

finally here iowa lsu angel reese versus kaylin clark we prove you would assure to be one of the biggest games in college basketball history. And LeBron delivered one of his best games of the season Sunday. But just how much does he have left in the tank? But before we get into all that, as always, this show is brought to you by Underdog Fantasy. Do yourself a favor. Download the Underdog Fantasy app. Use promo code GIL and they will give you a $100 deposit match for your first time deposit.

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and we would love to have you there with us for the last day of the NBA season, where we will celebrate the Lakers... Making the play-in. Getting the six-seed. Oh. Getting the six-seed. Play-in. Alright, let's get into it. So, last week, we talked about candied watermelon. This week we have a new challenger in the most unnecessary food category.

So I introduce you to Kool-Aid wings. What? Kool-Aid wings. Oh, no. Photos making around on social media this weekend. Three different Kool-Aid options. We have red, blue, orange. I don't know what the dipping

sauce is. Cherry? What is that? Cherry? What? I just call it red. Stop the math. Yeah, red Kool-Aid? Red Kool-Aid, blue Kool-Aid. But it is cherry. Oh, yeah! Yes! The flavor is the color.

That's it. So are y'all rolling with Kool-Aid flavored? No way. What if Applebee's added it to the menu? Hey. Hey. Hey. Or Cheesecake Factory, you rolling with it then?

No. Applebee's or nothing. Applebee's or nothing. I do like Cheesecake Factory though. But I would not like them if they added that to their menu. Seems like an unnecessary item. Gil, are you rocking with Kool-Aid wings? No, I don't like wet wings.

Like dry joints? They have to be dry, and I dip them into the sauce so I can keep my fingertips. Because then it becomes a hassle. Too messy? Every dip, I got to clean it to get the next one. I don't like my fingertips wet. That is chestnut checkers, ladies and gentlemen. So I can get the dip.

So you dip it in the Kool-Aid sauce? Yeah. You would dip it in the Kool-Aid sauce? I mean, is it with honey mustard, barbecue, spicy, whatever? So I just have a whole bunch of sauces that I'd like to dip. I understand.

So I'm plain or lemon pepper? Lemon pepper, fire. So you would try the Kool-Aid sauce? If it's cherry. That's disgusting. You ever taste cherry barbecue sauce? No. It snaps.

It snaps. It snaps. But it's not cherry. This is not cherry barbecue sauce. We don't know that. This is Kool-Aid. Kool-Aid. Oh.

This is Kool-Aid. It's Kool-Aid. Have you ever had Kool-Aid? I've had Kool-Aid. Yeah. This is different. So you dip your wings in the Kool-Aid? I mean, I've had food fall in the Kool-Aid before. Yeah ever had Kool-Aid? I've had Kool-Aid. Yeah. This different. So you dip your wings in the Kool-Aid? I mean, I've had food fall in the Kool-Aid before.

Yeah, how is it any different than getting your wings in and drinking some Kool-Aid? Yeah, you know, hot dog and drinking the Kool-Aid. I mean, we got to see. Not the same, man. Not the same. Not the same at all. Hot dog for every food.

Little hot dog with little horns. You just got to wash it down. That's not the same. Not the same. The blue Kool-Aid? Mm-mm. The raspberry. Something else. Blue raspberry Kool-Aid? Mm-mm. Something else.

Blue raspberry Kool-Aid with the dipping sauce? What? Well, how is it different than eating a wing with the Kool-Aid and taking a sip? Different. It is different. It's like, what you call it, the dipstick, the little shit we used to have when we was kids? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the same shit.

It was crack for kids. Do we know where that was from? Is that also from Atlanta? I do not know, but I would have to take a good gander and guess that. Atlanta, come on. Somewhere in that region. Somewhere in the south. Somewhere in the south.

Somewhere where them niggas be at. Gold teeth, silver fronts. It's embarrassing at this point. Silver fronts, you know what I mean? Whole front gone. Enough is enough. It's illegal for white people to sell some shit like that. Y'all are going to jail.

Y'all sell some shit like that. Eat the wings, boy. All right, well, let's keep it moving. Former Michigan guard Xavier Simpson has been cooking in the G League with the Motor City Crews, embarrassing defenders with this signature move. So we got to make a little bit of a clip. It was his slow steps. It was me.

Oh, this is something he does often? Yeah, he does it. So we gotta take a look at the clip. Those are slow steps. It was me. Reason. Oh, this is something he does often? Yeah, he does it. Oh! Gotcha. That is embarrassing. This is my move.

Oh, wow. So he drives to the hoop full speed. Oh, yeah. Wow. He also gained some notoriety. Oh, he hits that. Last season with his story. Oh, yeah, that was from last year. A cream-ass hook shot.

I remember that. Yeah, with the janky foot. That's tough. So how tough is this move to pull off, and what would you call it? Wait, which one? The slow step one? The slow step. Yeah, the first one.

Okay, so there was a trainer by the name of Slow Mo. He used to, this is, we're talking about 98, 99. He used to train Kevin Gaines. Oh, the legend. He used to train Kevin Gaines, and he created this move. I remember him coming into the gym and said, I got a new move called a slow-mo That's what his name was the slow-mo. Okay come in it. Boom. Are you running real fast and then just?

Stop and I'm a Baron Davis like the first one trying it but never really did it in the NBA So the first time I really seen it was like 98 99. So the actual see it being used is like crazy I see you ever games who also went to Michigan play with Crawford Michigan it was that it was that yeah, it was that crew. Mm-hmm think he moved to Vegas, but he was a legend It's like a little euro. I like it like a little it's like a little Oh, got you. Ooh. Is he like, OK, so are you allowed to step down? No. If you step down, is it a? One more step is a travel.

One, two, boop. One, two, is a travel. OK. There's no gather or zero steps or negative zeros or whatever you all know this should try to be doing? Third step is a travel. One, two, travel. Three.

OK. Yeah, so that's why I used to stop. That takes a lot of body control. Yeah. Very impressive. That's the difference. Very impressive. Very impressive. To slow all the way down and just. Yeah, that's why I used to stop it takes a lot of body control. Yeah, that's the difference very very Slow all the way down and yeah, that's I say yeah How would you how would you try to guard that? You gotta hit the ball out his hand. Yeah

Yeah, I mean, yeah, you just can't fly by him, but he got that hook shot too so It's one of the other is nice. I mean, I mean, you know when you're small like that, you have to be as crafty as he is. So, nice. You got to have some craft in your game. He's the only one really pulling it off, right? Mm-hmm. That we've seen so far. Where is he from?

So, he went to Michigan. Hold on. Man, Michigan too, huh? Yeah. It's a Michigan thing. Shit, is it his son? No, I'm just saying. Is that where he learned that?

He played with Jordan Poole? Hmm? He played with Jordan Poole? Hmm? He played with Jordan Poole? No, I think he... He might have, actually. Yeah, he... He was in Michigan 2016 to 2020, so... He played with Jordan Poole?

All right. Most definitely. Well, shout out Xavier Simpson. He's from Ohio originally. How tall is he? Six feet. 190's from Ohio originally. How tall is he? Six feet. 190. A little crafty.

Six feet, 190. You didn't have to say his weight. A little crafty one. We figure six foot has to be anywhere from 160 to one. Okay. Well, I'm letting you know. A little crafty. I like that.

All right. Well, let's keep this moving. We had a bunch of great games on both sides of the NCAA tournament this weekend. Let's start on the men's side What did you do? Some rule someone wrote Flint Warner and it just made me think that might be the reason he stopped That bacteria got him. The stomach hurt. The stomach hurt. Ah. He did it on accident once, and he's like, oh, this works. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. Ah.

There you go. Then you got to take a shit. Me and Leah. Uh-huh. That's a little water got us. Ass backwards out there. Got it. The chat is hell.

The chat, y'all going to hell for that one. There are a lot of people in the chat who are not going to see heaven. We will just say that. But let's talk about NCAA tournament. This week, I'm going to hell for that one. There are a lot of people in the chat who are not going to see heaven. We will just say that. But let's talk about NCAA tournament. This week I'm starting with the men's side. Let's start with Zach Eadie on a legendary run this tournament. Sunday he put up a career-high 40 points, going along with 16 rebounds and Purdue's win over Tennessee.

So Eadie's averaging 30 points and 16.3 rebounds per game and is the fourth player in the past 70 years. In the tournament? In the NCAA tournament. Fourth player in the past 70 years in the NCAA tournament. Fourth player in the past 70 years to average at least 30 and 15 through his first four tournament games, joining Wilt, who literally is on every single list and on demand, Jerry West, Elvin Hayes. So 7'4", 300 pounds.

Edie is projected to be a lottery pick in this year's draft, but a lot of people think that he will struggle to make the transition to the league. So Gil, I think you are one of those people. You rolling with Zach Eady? Listen, I don't want to, you know, mess a kid's hopes up, right? Because, you know, you know, he's playing a hell of a basketball, but I'm pretty sure whoever drives him in the lottery is probably going to get fired within a few years after that draft pick. How he plays the game is not how the game is being played today.

So that same player you can find in the second round, so I'm pretty sure he will slip because how is he going to play defense in the NBA now? You only really have two matchups, which is Joker, Embiid, and they're going to pull you on the outside. It's a different game, so unless he can develop a defensive strategy of moving around the perimeter, being switched on, he's just going to be picked on. So to waste a lottery pick on that, I don't see it happening. But, you know, there's stupid general managers out there,

so, you know, it could happen. I don't think Gil's giving the NBA too much credit and all the stupid-ass coaches. Even though the game has changed, the way he he's y'all mean he's what the I mean would look like if he went to college Right. So yeah, I mean transition when he when he did transition It was a type of game where we wasn't pulling y'all being out the guard the threes and fours and switches and stuff like that, right? So the only thing he didn't need to really be able to do is be able to say, okay, man, he gonna hit this shot on me every now and again.

So if you a guard and you get switched out on Edie, you gotta hit that shit. If not, nigga, it's a good switch. I'm gonna drive by. He's slow. You don't think he's still like an asset? He's definitely an asset. Pick and roll asset. You look at Rudy Gobert, you look at

Joker, you look at all the other bigs that's out there. They ain't really that much faster than that nigga like that. It's a big body. You can't teach height. As a lottery. A lottery guy that you probably can't use is a waste of a lottery. He's the best college player out there. Facts.

So you got to pick him. They don't even matter about ability at this point. It's potential and who's the best on the board. Get the best nigga on the board. Especially if you need it. If you need size, you got to take him. Lexi, how do you think Zack Eady would translate? I mean, I haven't watched him a ton, but you said he's 7'4"?

7'4", 300 pounds. Rudy's 210 pounds. I mean, he's not 300. Yeah. I mean, I just feel like you should give him the opportunity, the chance to be around other NBA players, see NBA coaches with development, depending on where he goes, because some teams have better development coaches than others. But I don't know how many teams are going to pass on 7'4", who's averaging 25 and 12

for the season. That's very impressive. At his size, I mean, he is big and slow, but there's a lot of big and slow people not putting up 25 and 12. And he goes to the boards. He gets the rebounds. He's got a nice little jump hook.

He's got a little game. It ain't Joker game, but... But in the right system, who knows what he could turn into. So people passing up. The ones that pass up on him might be the ones getting fired We're piece of man liars gonna get fired. I

Think it depends on what he's gonna be in he's gonna be in switch. They're gonna pick and roll them to death He's gonna be in every pick and roll scenario. That's known to offense That's like he switches take him off the dribble take him off the dribble take him off there You got a seven foot four dude sitting at the three-point line getting taken off the dribble. Take him off the dribble. Take him off the dribble. You got a seven-foot-four dude sitting at the three-point line getting taken off the dribble. There's nobody back there blocking shots. So it's like if Shaq played today, yeah, we see you on offense, but on defense, it's pick and roll, hoping you switch. You don't think that there's a defensive scheme that they could put together to prevent that from happening? In today's game, that's all they're doing is pick and roll.

It wouldn't even matter because we get what we want to get on the other end. No, he not going to play what? We get what we need. 10, 15 minutes a game? So why are you, again, 10, 15 minutes a game, why are you picking him in the lottery? The lottery is supposed to be your game changer. No, it's not. Not for every team.

No, it's not. No, it's not. Not for every team. No, because you know who wasn't a game changer? Brandon Miller wasn't a game changer. Brandon Miller. Scoot Henderson wasn't a game changer. They thought he was and they wasn't they thought he was he's 18, but they wasn't he hasn't He's 18

21 okay, not that much older but regardless Regardless when you pick a motherfucker that can give you some type of advantage 18 is different than 21 But seven four is different from 6-2. You think he's going to go lottery? You going to put something on it? I know he'll go lottery. What would y'all put on it? You don't think he's going to go lottery? I've talked to three general managers. Just say I'm capping. There's 14 spots.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a gentleman's agreement. Man, listen. If Edie don't go fucking lottery, they need to blow the whole damn organization up. What are you talking about? Edie, 40 and 16? And if they happen to win the national championship,

he's definitely going lottery. They got him looking like Bobo, that he was projected as a top five pick and might slip into the second round. What was Bobo picked at? Second round. 46? But they had him as a... Who are you going to pick in front of Edie? That's the question. Same people they picked in front

of Bobo. So Bobo 44th. 43 people. Who was in Bobo's draft? In the 2019 draft. 43 people. It don't matter. There's my 30. Out of this class of people How many people in Bobo's draft? In the 2019 draft. 43 people. It don't matter. There's my 30. Out of this class of people who plan. How many people in the first round? 30? A bunch of 18.

30 picks in the first round. Lottery's top 14. I can't see 30 picks going by. There's not 13 better players than him. No, it's true. There ain't nothing about doing better. Like, if I can't use you, I can't use you. You're going to use me.

I'm 7'4", 300 pounds. All right. So let's talk about an interesting conversation I saw on social from my guy, I can't use you. You going to use me? I'm 7'4", 300 pounds. All right. So let's talk about an interesting conversation I saw on social from my guy Nate Jones that you brought up as well. Yao Ming, not to compare them to apples to apples, but how would Yao Ming's game translate in this modern NBA? Very well. He can pass. He can shoot. He can shoot free throws.

And he's fucking 7'7". Free throws. You can shoot free throws. you got a foul on me or I'm dunking this bitch. Throw it up, give it to me. Wimby, if Wimby was 300 pounds what's the difference? Wimby had a handle, he could shoot it. 300 pounds, you can't move. I mean, the only team that can probably use him would probably be

what? Grizzlies? Where's Grizzlies going to be your pick? Utah, Charlotte, Atlanta. They're moving too fast for him. Moving too fast. Do you think he can work on, you know, drop some weight and work on that foot? That's what he's going to have to do. Or they're going to slow the game down for him.

Slow it down. If y'all sorry already moving fast, what the fuck are we talking about? Y'all moving fast, you suck. Slow the fucking game down so we can get this big movie. Switch it up. Yeah, what the fuck you mean? What y'all are doing is clearly not working, so you might as well be open-minded to bringing in someone like him and I understand what he's saying about certain guys saying I will Pass on them, but those are certain GM's the other motherfuckers getting fought y'all dumb. What is y'all talking about?

You're saying if a GM takes it I was saying he's gonna write their general manager would be fired because it's a safe pick. Whoever he is, whoever picks him will be a safe pick. Like when Shane Batty was coming out, there was a safe pick. Like okay, he has the name accolades, I don't know who to draft right now, so I don't want to take a chance, I'm going to go with the safe pick. So he's a safe pick, but in the lottery, if someone takes him eight and under, and now he's sitting at the age of 21, we're not talking about Scoot. Scoot is three years from being 21, right? We're talking about 21 right now. But by the time he's

done with his rookie deal, he'll be 25, right? So that means he has to be ready to perform today. So if he's not ready to perform today and you got to give him two, three years, that would be considered a bad draft pick because most of everybody who's going to be drafted in that time is going to all be 18, 19, 20 maybe. But you think with this new CBA, I think it's putting emphasis on teams

building through the draft. Should they be prioritizing older players? It all depends. It all depends on what you have in the system, what your system is. I wouldn't be surprised if a team like Miami picked them. I wouldn't. They if a team like Miami picked him. I wouldn't. They'll get him right.

I don't see Spurs. They will definitely get him right. I don't see Spurs. Twin Towers? Can you imagine Wemby and him in the same team? Think about it. I don't see Dallas trying to get some height. But for the most part, if you don't think you can play him 30-something minutes,

then it will be a bad draft pick. If you got a draft pick, you got a draft pick for a reason. Y'all trash. Everybody got a draft pick. Y'all trash. Lottery pick. If y'all got a lottery pick, you trash. Ain't even no question I'm picking a nigga that can come in

and give me some hope. Give me some hope. Give me some hope. Give me something, like give me some kind of bright spot. And think about it. What risk are you taking with Edie to say that I'm going to regret this pick? Who is around after him or before him that you're like, oh, we should have picked him instead of him?

Nobody. It'll be some 18 or 19 rule. Next year, maybe. No, this year. Even then, who? We can't even say. But as I said, some 18 or 19 row. Next year, maybe. No, this year. Even then, who? We can't even say. But as I said, any 18, 19 row, you got three years.

Some guy got three, two years. Like, he's a senior. You know what he is. There's nothing for four. If you pick the young one, he doesn't have to be ready to play. But if you pick him, the older one, he got to be ready to play. He's ready to play. That doesn't make sense.

Because by the time the- Because you're a lottery pick. I feel like if you were a lottery pick, you should be ready to play no matter what. Period. But think about it. When Wimby's deal is up, right, when his rookie deal is up, he'll be 21. Right. He's already played three, four years

and turned 21. This guy is 21 right now, so by the time he's over with, he's 25. You see, there's this big gap of learning. But you're talking about Wimby in comparison to everybody else in the draft that ain't no Wimby. I'm just talking about the age. It's the age. I get it. 21.

Name all the 21-year-olds right now. Paulo, Benchero. That's where I... Those are the guys. So he has to be able to come in and perform today. And what if he does? What if he does? Then we... But he don't, though. just cuz it's a age thing I get like you facts you fixated on the age thing that shit don't fucking matter

Cuz the nigga could be out of the league in two years because he was 18 and 20 he get to 20 and it's like Yo, we gave you two years to pan out you didn't edie 21 come in four years of college, man We're gonna give you a chance right away Right away. If you don't give us nothing in the first two years, send your ass to the D-League. Boom, boom, boom. But if not... Now you've raised a lottery pick that's 23-year-olds sending them to the G-League. You're getting fired.

They're all doing it. They should be fired. All of them should be fired. There should only be two teams in the NBA then. How many 23-year-olds in the G-League that was drafted? A lot of 23-year-olds that was drafted in the lottery? Probably, if you look it up. In the lottery?

If you look it up, you'll find a lot of them now. Not in the lottery. All right, well, let's keep it moving. Let's talk about the man who will be tasked with stopping Edie in the Final Four. A little over three weeks ago, NC State was 17-14, looking like they were headed for the NIT. Now they've rattled off nine straight wins to reach their first Final Four since 1983. Damn. Big man DJ Burns Jr.

Affectionately dubbed Snack Randolph for his game's resemblance to Z-Bo. Jen Z-Bo is better. You like Jen Z-Bo? Yeah, that one's way better. Has been a big reason for the Wolfpack success. So Burns gave Duke a 29-piece in the win on Sunday, his second 20-point performance in tournament.

So he is a super-duper senior. Yeah, I saw that. Started at Tennessee, went to Winthrop, ended up at NC State, 23 years old. But he's getting a lot of love, especially from Nikola Jokic, who was so impressed with his game that he was late to his post-game press conference. I think he's supposed to go pressurey-out on the lefty. I mean, it seems like he's going to do his micro-program, so he's got to do a good job.

So what does praise from Jokic say about DJ Burns' game? I don't know. I guess a lot. He don't know. I guess a lot. He don't say much. Yo, I see you over there. I see the phone out. I see what you say about big dudes who do things. I see the phone out, girl.

What's going on? Huh? What's going on right now? No, I was just looking at the top, the lottery picks and looking at the age. Okay, so let me go. 19, 19, 19, 19, 20. Okay, you got the, 21 is not that old. You know, he's. Oh no, Brandon Miller was 21. Yeah. I feel like. The chat is calling him Shaquille O'Neal. I don't know how you guys feel about that. Oh my gosh Nah, Jim Z-Bo is the best one. He got an unorthodox game. We'll just call him. What is his name? DJ Burns Jr. Why don't you just call him DJ B?

DJ B? DJ... Or let's call him DJ. Let's call him DJ. Let's call him his name. Why are we calling him by somebody else's name? Because it's funny, dude. Why are we calling him by somebody else's name? Dragon Ball Z? Because it's April Fool's. No, I'm just kidding. Rashad, what do you think about DJ Byrne's game? Unorthodox. He fucked me over on the higher-lower the other day.

I didn't really think he was going to do this last game. I was kind of off him. I think he had like four or six a game before that or whatever. Four and four. Yeah, I was off him, off him him like, yo, he's overrated type shit. It's going to be tough for him to translate in the league, I think.

List it at 6-9, I want to say 275. I would imagine he's a little bit north of that. He, you know, he take advantage of what he need to take advantage of. Guys who he know can't guard him and they feed him, he can pass it. Solid player, for sure.

Man, the college game is great, man. Right, this is great for college. Right, you know, two guys, you know, playing very well, you know. You know, what they've been doing in the tournament is, you know, has caught everyone's eyes. So let's just leave it there. You know what I mean? Like, you know, I guess we can just wait until they declare to really give our opinion. But, I mean, they got no choice.

They have to. No, I know that. You know what I mean? You know, it's the final four, man. We don't want, I don't want to go in on, you know.

Be positive. It's April Fool's Day. You know what I'm saying? I don't want to go, you know, April, you know. I feel the same way. He is 23, though. Huh?

He is 23. I know. I know how old he is. Wait, what's his name? I know they said he was a kid. He got one for you, though, right? Don't ask me. The Purdue kid. I think he's his name? I know they said he was a kid. He got one year though, right? Technically.

The Purdue kid. I think because he got that COVID joint. Yeah. So he technically is there. Where is he? This is his fourth season.

Oh, it's his fourth? Yeah. But he has a COVID one more year? Mm-hmm. That COVID year. So Gil, you talked about players being assigned

to the G League earlier. 14 of the 31st round picks in 2023 have been assigned to the G League earlier. 14 of the 30 first-round picks in 2023 have been assigned to the G League at some point this season. Damn. Them stats don't lie, do they? Yeah, all y'all kids. Stats be statting, don't they?

Is that high? 14 of the what? 30? Of 30. That's high. Stat man, stat man. All right, well, let's keep it college-centric. How do you think that the matchup will go down this Saturday?

And we will be in attendance, allegedly. That's the matchup? NC State, Purdue? NC State, Purdue. Oh, it's going to be nasty. Bloodbath. Yeah, it's going to be nasty. I think he's going to have, like, 40 again.

Yeah. Purdue. He's going to have 40 again. You think he's going to have 40 again? Bloodbath. It's pick and roll. It's pick and roll. They're showing, and he rolls.

Do it for Jimmy V. Bloodbath. And nobody on the other side going, what? I mean, yeah, DJ had a great game, but he's averaging 13 points for the season compared to Edie, who's averaging 25 and 12. All bets are off when you get the 13 on every time. It's not even the 13 points. That's whatever, because it's a team thing.

But for 6'9", 6'10", he's only averaging 4 or 5 rebounds. That's it. That's bad. That's horrible. That's really bad for... You're a big guy that can't rebound. But he can't get off the floor. he he's just big and it's weird cuz Very interested to see how they came. I mean Zack Randolph wasn't a German, but he knew how to get a rebound 10

He knew how to get bored He bowed, you know, so the fact that he doesn't use his body, you know to push off and hold and get the rebound It's on You know, I will take... He probably would get dominated. But, I mean, you know, it's still one game. He's probably more amped up about the matchup than, you know... What's the dude's name?

Zach? Yeah, this is Zach. Yeah, DJ's a career four rebound per game player. Yeah, four rebound per game. That's not... Yeah, this's a career four rebound per game player. Yeah, four rebound against, like, yeah. That's not... So then one of them... Yeah, this is one of them games where he got to have 20 rebounds. Yeah. Like, this is a...

He has to play out of pocket. Yeah, he just... You have to. This is the time where you need, like... You've been averaging four, man. You've been averaging... You've been averaging rebounds like you're fucking Steph Curry. Okay?

Now you got to get in there with the big dogs. You got to go get some rebounds. This is fight for your life. This is 23. This is your fucking Steph Curry. Okay? Now you gotta get in there with the big dogs. This is fight for your life. This is 23. This is your NBA tryout. This is your NBA tryout. You're too old to worry about the NBA tryout, that regular one, because

you're aged. You done aged out in a sense. Right now, this dude right here, this is your NBA tryout. You whoop his ass, you don't need to try out with no, you don't need to go against nobody in training and in pre-draft camp. Facts. Just focus on your body.

Just focus, yeah. Get in shape. Get in shape. You're ready. Now, the only way he going to win this matchup is if you get him in foul trouble. Mm-hmm. Which is possible. That's it.

NC State, 11 seed, coming in with nothing to lose. He got nothing to lose. They're going to be turned up for that game. They can go one of two ways. They're either going to get smacked or they're going to keep the Cinderella story going.

Because Purdue, you know, Big Ten basketball, not a fan. But E.D. ain't no punk, man. He's not. He got a little greed. He's talking his shit.

I said, okay. Okay. Ling Ling done taught her little son how to talk. Talk that shit, boy. People say I act like 21 is 35. Yes, you do. It is.

It's not. It's not. Have y'all ever... You are an ageist, Gil. Hold on. Have y'all ever actually did money from an 18-year-old to a 21-year-old and then made them all max players? No. But what does it have to do with... It requires a lot of... As a 21-year-old,

you're the number one pick. As an 18-year-old, you're the number one pick. And then go from there, right? The 18-year-old, think about it, he's three years in front with the same money. So when they stop maxing, he's three years in front, so his last max would be at 35.

You can max him at 38. You're not going to max him. You see what I'm saying? So the young kid would make at least three years, just three years difference, would make in today's game $200 million to $400 million more than a 21-year-old. Well, when you're talking from that perspective, which is the player's perspective, yes, that makes sense. But we were talking about from...

General managers. General managers have... General managers... But wouldn't you want to pick the older player to get more out of him and then not have to pay... No, what I'm saying is a general manager has this. He has height, weight, age, hand span. That's it.

He don't care about how much you average. They have your age there. Right. That's it. He don't care about how much you average. They have your age there. That's because I can build my future off of this person this long. When you look about Michael Carter Williams, rookie of the year,

he came in at 21. Rookie of the year, following year, we're going to go younger. I'd rather get an eighth. You're 21. You're not competing to the age of where everyone else is competing. Yeah, you won rookie of the year. It's not his fault. You won rookie of the year. Cool.

But everybody you're competing with is 18. Thanks. So if you're not 21, we're going to move on. So they traded him and went younger. All of these GMs he's giving credit to. Passed on Joker. Passed on Luka. Passed on Greek. How'd he pass on Luka? Luka was the third pick. All of these GMs he's given credit to passed on Joker passed on Luca Passed on Greek how to pass on Luca Luca was a third pick second pick what right? No, he's a third pick in the draft

It's just bloody Ladder all of this metrics that they're using The metric they thought it was slow, but he was 18 years old. Yeah, but the metrics you're using is the metrics they've been going by for all these years. And that's why the league is in shambles of where it's at right now. Because they've been making all these badass picks based on these metrics of age and width. Instead of just picking the guy, is he good enough to play in the NBA right now? That's what they did. They picked the guy who was good enough to play, Aiden and Bagley.

They thought them was the dude. Obviously they wasn't good enough to play if they got picked by the wrong team and the team didn't want to play them. Who was coming out, who was the best player in college, the two best players in college? Wiseman didn't play with the fucking Golden State Warriors. Who was the two best players in college? When? Aiden and Bag college when Aiden and

Bagley bag we was up there. What's wrong those two players and Trey young what's wrong with Dallas Dallas metrics Dallas metrics seeing Luca And said oh shit. We need him what we've seen from him his age. We want him And I had nothing to do with all the shit you were talking about. Yes, his height. And it hasn't led to any championship. It ain't led to nothing. It's led to Luka being amazing, but it hasn't led. I get to sell tickets. Well, exactly. So what is your measurement of success? Because Edie can sell tickets, too.

He's 7'4". He got a whole fan base. He got an Asian community. So his Aiden, the problem is his Aiden is the two dudes that went before Luka. Yeah. His Aiden is the two dudes that went before Luka. What you mean, Mike? What you mean?

The Aiden. The Aiden, the best college player. Oh, Edie. Edie. Zach. I'm thinking, I'm like, who the fuck is Aiden? Luka. Luka is the-

You said Eddy is who? Edy is Bagley and the Western. They're the best two players in college. Okay, but there you go. And you see how they're considered bust. Right? No, they're not considered bust. They're old.

Bagley was a freshman. One and done, right? Yes. He was a double holdback. He did reclass. He reclassed back to one holdback. So how old was he 21? It was 21 and then how old was a 21 gotta get move on the stats man cuz you know this man just cap all day man. I mean, let this man Can I see our canyons right here bro? Come on. No, I know the real age. Oh, I can tell you that he went

He came from Arizona. They paid him 200,000 to come here and then Allegedly them 200 allegedly paid him 200,000 It was a beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful, but I'm saying you should pay they get packed up by Bishop my good age. They got packed up by Bishop Montgomery. I don't know. I think this whole age talk is... It's nonsense. It's nonsense. All right, well, let's keep it... Then you're making the league younger and unexperienced. And then you complain about it.

Based on money and bags and shit. No, who's complaining? They just stopped the whole G League at night. But who's... Is the owners complaining? The fucking attitude. It's the owners. It's like, no, this shit is some bullshit.

You keep flip-flopping point of views have interviews can they are the owners complaining about the age is the owner's interview sometimes? They you talk about it. Oh what I'm saying is the gentleman the general manager and the owners Have you heard them complain about anything? No, they are media complain They pockets complaining cuz they convert in poor cuz the motherfuckers don't you think it's so young ain't selling tickets cuz they ain't got no fucking family you came from Dallas don't play no defense right a sorry in a man Amen, but I'm sorry, but I have a fan base a minute. It's hard. I don't know they came from OTE Mm-hmm, they don't have people coming to see them. Nope. You know why why cuz they don't have a fucking fan base

Oh, I don't have a fan base and they didn't go to college They didn't nobody knows them Nobody knows the 80 with four years of Purdue's like we are familiar with this Every kid that came out of high school back in the day had a fan base from all high school It has to convert the mellow had a fan base. He never went to college So what it has to cuz he was one and one of one that That's his name. He says, I'm one of one. Yeah, we got to stop using these. Kobe. Shout out to the ball.

Kevin Durant. Kobe. Kevin Garnett. The unicorn. He's using the unicorn. I'm using every number one pick. No. If you're the biggest thing in high school and you get drafted, you have all of high school. I'm talking about the other guys, not the number one pick. I'm talking about the other guys that didn did have the

Amen in a star school all of these guys didn't have the fan base to convert over That's why they struggling that's why the league is all they're struggling because they don't have a fan base I thought it was because they thought you said I thought about the basketball though. You just About tickets. I thought it was the basketball game changing your hat. You keep changing moving the goalposts legs He moves make points for my honors perspective. Sometimes you okay? I thought it was the basketball game. You keep changing your hat. You keep changing your hat. That's called moving the goalposts, Lex. He moves it. Sometimes you make points from an owner's perspective. Sometimes you make points from a player's perspective.

Okay, what am I switching on? I've said as the owner and the general manager, I want younger. Why? Now, what have I changed? When have I said anything different? Because you're talking about how when you have to max them out, you don't make as much money if you come in older, right? Yes.

But that's from the perspective of the player. So obviously I want to go younger because I want to make more money. But if you get a good player at an old age, wouldn't you want them to come in older so you don't have to pay them all that money? You don't have to pay them more money. See, that's you.

You're saying that. That means, so I'm not flip-flopping. That's just, that's what you're, that's the narrative. That's the that's that's what you're that's the very point. She's that's the narrative She what I'm saying as a it's easier to sell Kids to kids. So if I get a guy that's 18 19 years old I can sell the shit out of this kid, you know considered 20 and 21

But she but that's not accurate you because you're not selling school kids Scoots not being sold to kids cuz Because he's not performing. But he's still... You just said trying to sell kids to kids. It's not working. But we still have more years because he's young. What are you talking about? Ticket sales are not converting. We're losing. We're in the red right now because we made a dumbass investment. So trade

him at 20 years old. Why not? Or send his ass back to the fucking G League at night. And on that note, let's keep this thing moving and shaking. Let's keep it moving. Before we deep dive into the big matchups on the women's side, we got to talk about a controversy for the Portland Regionals this weekend. So before the NC State-Texas game Sunday,

the teams were notified that the three-point lines on each side of the court were different distances. We've got the side-by-side comparison right there. One was standard. The other one was shorter at the top of the key. So the teams were given the option of playing with the court as is or waiting more than an hour for the error to be fixed. They said, no thanks, let's just play the game.

With NC State getting the win in advance of the Final Four. So there were a total of five games played on the court from Friday to Sunday. Teams actually shot better on the standard three-point line compared to the shorter one. They made 33% of those attempts compared to 29% from the shorter line. The court will be fixed in time for the UConn-USC game tonight. So did every team before complain?

Nobody noticed. The first game that they noticed. It's the first game that they noticed. It's crazy. Crazy. It's so crazy. Because once they pointed it out, it was so glaring. And I'm like, how did we, nobody peeped it. Not a single person.

Uh-uh. No. Yikes. Did you change something? You changed, like, the outcome of the game? How can you change the outcome of the game? You can't. I'm just saying, like, what do you... Can you complain about it?

Oh, I'm complaining. You can't complain. Why not? You better call... Both got the same fair advantage. What is there to complain about? We both were doing it... We're both playing the same game.

He's out of the court. One way I get to go against a long one, one way you get to go against a long one. Nothing changes. Yeah. We both have the same advantage or disadvantage. Both of us. Okay, but nobody should have a disadvantage at all.

But we both. So we both have the same. If one rim is 11 feet, one rim is 9, and we switching that half, we are both going through the same thing. Yeah. It has no... Yeah, I don't think it really... You can't lose and then complain. I don't think it really has a real outcome

of how the game would have panned out, but I'm just like, you can't play on a court like this. You can't say yeah and then lose and then blah, oh. I don't know why they didn't let them... You know, the hoops at Crenshaw, one was like 10-2. The other one was regular. They had the opportunity to fix it, and the coach was like, nah, it's cool.

And then he went and complained after the game for that one they lost there because he After the game they offered to fix it you said no we good we know because he thought it was gonna be an advantage Anyway and the girl that up shooting the shit out the ball from the long side yeah, mmm So yeah for him to go on the podium and complain was kind of odd. I just wonder how it took Friday, Saturday. Like, y'all not looking? It had to be someone

in the stands that's looking at it. Well, they was checking it out in pregame warm-ups. One of the coaches did a little. They was stepping. I know, but before they did that, someone had to be coming in. You can see it, like, looking at, like. You can see it on the game angle.

It don't look the same. Yeah. Yeah, that's nutty. So someone must have been coming down, looking at it like, yo. Those three-point lines are not equal. Hmm. Yeah, no. Lexi, would it make a difference for your jumper, either one of those three-point lines?

No. Still wet? I mean, the line doesn't really, I don't really play at the line anyway. But as far as like spacing and stuff, like, there's a clear advantage

versus disadvantage of having a bigger 3.1 line, I think. Well, at least it will be corrected in time for the USC-UConn game tonight so we can watch

Juju and Paige Beckers go head-to-head the final four bid on the line. Let's talk about the other game tonight, a moment the college basketball world has been waiting for. LSU-Iowa rematch. Kaitlyn Clark in them versus Angel Reese in them.

The last time these squads faced off was in the Natty game last year when this happened. Angel, got a lot of heated criticism for being a competitor letting her know look at the ring finger what a time let them know it's crazy that that was almost a year ago 365 four days whatever it was happened on April 2nd last year so before what should be historic night for the women's college game Angel Reese had this to say about going against Kaitlyn Clark. Me and Kaitlyn Clark don't hate each other. Like, I want everybody to understand that it's just a super competitive game.

And, like, I just wish people realized that. Like, once I get between those lines, there's no friends. I have plenty of friends on the court that I talk to outside of the game. But, like, when I get between those lines, like, we're not friends. We're not buddies. I'm going to outside of the game. But, like, we're not getting between those lines. Like, we're not friends. We're not buddies. I'm going to talk trash to you. I'm going to do whatever it takes to get in your head the whole entire game. But after the game, we can kick it.

Like, I don't think people really realize that. And that's fine. I'll take the villain role. I'll take the hit for it. But I know we're going women's basketball. And if this is the way we're going to do it, then this is the way we're going to do it. You like it or you don't. So before we talk about the matchup, I'll just touch on what Angel said. Embracing the

villain role. What is villainous about talking shit and playing basketball at a high level? Yeah, people think basketball and sports is played with class. I think they think this shit is like tennis and golf. Everything is... Serve. No. Football and basketball is a shit-talking sport. That's what it is. So anyone who's sitting there yapping and scoring, you kind of don't like them.

Yeah, I don't know. I've never looked at Angel as a villain. So I don't like that she feels that way, but I'm very happy that she's continued to just be herself. And they win. She won Player of the Year. They're back in the Elite Eight.

Has she won Player of the Year? SEC Player of the Year. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Wait, where's Kaylin Clark? Big Ten. Oh. Yeah, different conferences.

Different conferences. Different conferences. Yeah, I mean, but she's completely right. They are growing women's basketball. So- It's been exciting to watch. I appreciate the pettiness. I think it's very interesting. Can they all go back to school?

Yeah, right? Well, Kaylin's not. Kaylin's already announced that she is- Kaylin's already declared. It is going out of ingratitude. They went back one more year. Do it again. It's perfect. No, because one more year would have been like, all right, overkill.

You think Paige should have stayed? She should have came out, right? I don't think so. No? So look. What? I love the villain shit. You know, there's heroes and then there's villains.

So who's the hero? Villains are heroes right now. Caitlyn's the hero right now. I think South Carolina's the heroes. But wasn't Caitlyn the villain before? That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. She was a villain before. Last year, Caitlynlyn the villain? That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. She was a villain before.

Last year, Caitlyn was the villain. She was the villain until that last moment of the last game. LeBron and Steph are the superheroes. Who's the villain? And you got, like, Dylan Brooks. That doesn't count. That doesn't make me cool. There has to be another superstar.

Yeah, you can't have a Dylan Brooks type player. LeBron is viewed as a villain by a lot of people. Okay, Draymond's not a superstar. Yeah, LeBron is the villain. Steph is the hero, in a sense. No, because LeBron doesn't play villain. He doesn't play bad guy. But in a lot of people's heads, he's the villain.

He looks like the villain, but he doesn't play bad guy. I don't think there is a superstar that plays bad. She doesn't play bad. She just talks her shit't think there is a superstar that plays bad. I don't think Angel plays bad guy either. She just talks her shit. That's it. She's more of a Draymond to me. Like, she's a star Draymond. Oh, yeah.

She makes very important plays. She's the enforcer. And I'll talk shit and back it up type shit. Like, if... Like, villain would be KG. I would consider KG a villain superstar. Like, Rasheed wasn't as much of a superstar as the rest of them, but he would be a villain.

Like, Angel not out there getting texts, like... No, but she's talking her shit. She's talking shit, but a lot of players are talking shit. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. It was Caitlyn Clark was the villain because she was doing this to everybody, talking her... She's a shit-talker herself, right?

So she's like the Larry Bird. She's a big shit-talker. Yeah, Caitlyn be talking her shit, too. What ended up happening is she got hit with her own medicine, and because she got hit with her own medicine, everybody was like, oh, no, you can't do that to our... And then that's how she turned into the villain. To me, it was like the Joker beating Batman for the first time.

And everybody looked at it, everybody watched it. Angel wasn't Batman, I mean, Joker at the time. And also, the crazy thing about last season, though, was neither one of them was supposed to win last year. South Carolina was supposed to win last year. Like they are supposed to win this year as well. So heroes, South Carolina right now to me. But who was the main hero of South Carolina?

I think depending on what side you're on, the villain is Kaylin or Angel. They were villains. They're like co-villains. That's what I said, Angel wasn't actually a villain, she was just a player. They're like co-villains. And she just, at the end of the game, when she did this, that made her the villain. You done Thanos, you done Thanos to Thanos. Like you said, South Carolina can be like, to me, they're X-Men. They're the X-Men. They know.

No, they're the Avengers. Or the Avengers. One or the other, right? They're fucking Avengers. But then you got Magneto, and then you got fucking Lex Luthor. Like, that's Caitlyn and Angel. They on the outside. They on the outside like, man, fuck South Carolina.

You know what I'm saying? Right. South Carolina sitting pretty, undefeated. They play the right way. Dawn's amazing. Heroes. Yeah. Can they be beat? I don't think so.

What is their weakness? Because I know the guard who couldn't shoot last year, she can shoot now. She can shoot now. I think it's the big girl. Their weakness, sometimes I think their weakness is like they get bored sometimes in games. You can tell.

They'll get a little lead. They start doing some goofy shit on the floor. Like last game, they started doing the Macarena during a free throw or a timeout. And then they came back a little bit.

And then they had to lock in and tighten up. So I think, like, Dawn, the way that she's... Because she talks about them all the time, that they're very silly. They're, like, very goofy. She calls them the daycare. The way that she's been able to keep them very locked in and composed

and go undefeated has been, like, very impressive because you can tell their game slippage is mental. Yeah. Trae Young is the villain. Yeah. That's a villain. That's a good one. We call him the superstar guy. Yeah, that's the villain. But to me, I'm... Hero to Hawks fans. I'm Young is the villain. Yeah. That's a villain. Ooh, that's a good one.

We call him the superstar guy. Yeah, that's the villain. But to me, I'm- Hero to Hawks fans. I'm looking at the guy. I think Ant Edwards- Ant Edwards is the villain guy. Nah.

Because he talks shit to the Kawhis. He don't back down. Nah, but he's too likable. But he don't back down. Young nigga versus the old nigga Kawhi. Yeah, I like that. The whole arena is basically saying, fuck you. Right. That's the villain. You ain't even in the playoff

series and they chanting. Which is why Kaylin is not a villain because she got the whole opponent's arenas going crazy for her. I'm looking at it from a standpoint of like We love you. I'm looking at it from a player challenging player perspective not necessarily the fans considering

you the villain like a Lance Stevenson type. Like, Lance was a villain to LeBron. I'm going to stand up and blow in your ear type shit and don't give a fuck. Like, I'm looking at it from that perspective. So I'm like, all right, if it's Angel and Caitlyn, Angel's like, I don't give a fuck about you, man. What's so funny is I know if Caitlyn wins,

she's going to hit her back with it. Ooh, that'd be, ooh, that'd be. You think she will? That'd be, oh my God, that'd be so iconic. Why not? Yeah, so funny is I know if if Caitlin wins she's gonna hit her back with it. Let me Oh my god, I'm iconic why not X you have dog so you have she already cocky with it I have to and she's so if you look at her back. She is so competitive that of course Soon as I do that though because soon as I'm so new in a championship don't matter Oh We can't do that, though, because they didn't win a championship. It don't matter. We beat y'all. Yeah, we can't do that. But we beat y'all, though. Not the ring, but she can do the main thing.

Have you done it this year? Not really. So Iowa currently favorite in the game. Lexi, give us your prediction. Is Iowa going to win in advance of the Final Four? I just want it to be a great game. That's all I'm saying about that. So how should LSU guard Kaitlyn Clark tonight

if they want to repeat her last season? If I am LSU, full court pressure Kaitlyn, right? When she's on the right side of the floor, you ice the ball screens and keep her on the right side. She's on the left side of the floor, you force her into the ball screen, the right hand and trap her. That's side. She's on the left side of the floor, you force her into the ball screen, the right hand, and trap her. That's a simple way of guarding her.

But she does so much for that team. I don't know if, like, there's a way to, like, stop her, but as far as, like, schemes, that's what I would do. I see a lot of discrepancies in her game when I watch the full game. I think a lot of people give her credit because the highlights that we see

when you watch her highlights, they look incredible. I've seen a lot of discrepancies. And even what you say with that breakdown, she had 15 assists. Right. So it's clear she can find the open man. But I think wearing her down early, I would even consider the trap early. Not even just full court pressure. Like trap her, get it out of her hands.

She loves to run around. She got a lot of energy. But if you don't put pressure on her on the defensive end, that's where you lose. You got to get her in foul trouble. You got to make her guard. Who do you think wins tonight? LSU. LSU?

But isn't it hard for them, hard to get her in foul trouble because she sits in the zone? You're not getting killed. Well, last year they got her in foul trouble. Yeah. I don't think that's going to happen this year. I don't think they can play zone against her. But I don't think that the, well, now they have, because last season with the ball screen coverages I was just talking about, I don't, I didn't think they had the personnel to do that.

But with their transfer player, Morrow, playing in that ball screen defense, I think she can really give Kaitlyn trouble as the post defender. She gets a lot of steals, and she's real active. I think Mauro and Fajé are the X-Factors for LSU. Gil, who do you got winning the game tonight, LSU or Iowa? I don't give a shit, bro.

Gil, can you just... No, I don't give a shit about... I'm not watching the game. You're not watching? Why not? Juju, I'm watching Juju. He's after. Comes on after. Yeah, I'm't give a shit about that. I'm not watching the game. You know why not? Jojo, I'm watching Jojo that comes on after yeah I'm not watching the girls They don't even touch the backboard It's happening on people. I thought we were growing. Get one, Gil. Get one. You remember tap did not even tap.

Y'all don't even tap. I thought we were growing. Desi, y'all don't even tap. We was watching men's. But you going to watch. She going to watch. I thought we were fast. We're growing.

She is definitely going to make you guys that game. Yo, man, I'm doing ESPN. I'm watching the highlights like everybody else. Nobody's watching the full game. Stop it. You ain't watch the full game here. Thank you. Security.

I know you're listening. I'm just like everybody in the chat. Security. We watch the highlights, and we go from there. Other than that. Can you just watch one half? Gil, most people in the chat don't have cable. You have a Supreme.

I need you to watch one half so when I come tomorrow, we can actually have an intelligent, normal conversation. Yes, about the game. Actually about the game. Gil, it's your job. It's your birthright. It's a challenge, man. This is Gil Zerina presented by Underdog Fantasy. Watch the first quarter and the fourth quarter. You know, I'll watch the last five

minutes of the game. No! Okay, first five minutes and the last five minutes. Man, you're just going to see a whole bunch of misleads, a whole bunch of travels. You know what everybody should do before watching the game? A whole bunch of jump stops. I just let it, I just let it. Bro, stop.

I can't wait to see you. I can't wait to see you at Louisville. Being a fan. Yo. Hey, man, I hate you, man. A whole bunch of great passes. Thumbs down. Executing.

Proper basketball, man. Come on, man. Let the proper basketball. Proper basketball. We got you, Lexi. I'll be watching. I'm watching full game. I'm watching full game.

I got you, Lexi. I'll be watching. I'm watching full game. I'm watching full game. I got you, Lexi. I got you. I thought we were growing. I got you, Lexi. I thought we were growing. We were headed in the right direction. We're headed in the right direction. God.

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My sister said you're hilarious. This is what Santa Jumpstart. You're hilarious, man. Some people like watching high-quality basketball. But let's talk a little bit more about that LSU and that kind of villain side. So we got to touch on an unfortunate situation the LSU squad dealt with prior to their Elite Eight matchup with UCLA. On Friday, a column in the LA Times caused a stir

after describing UCLA as America's sweethearts and LSU as basketball's villains. UCLA was called Milk and Cookies. LSU was called Louisiana Hot Sauce. What else did he call it? They were also referred to as Dirty Debutantes. Nasty work.

Google search will link you to a several volume series of dirty debutant videos. What is that? That is some of your favorite content, Gil. Some of your favorite. Oh. So after the game, Kim Mulkey addressed the article. It was good versus evil in that game today.

Evil? Called us dirty debutantes? Take your phone out right now and Google dirty debutantes and tell me what it says. Dirty debutantes? Are you kidding me? I'm not going to let you talk

about 18 to 21 year old kids in that tone. It was even sexist for this reporter to say UCLA was milk and cookies. Now, you women sit there and you keep your mouth shut if you won't. I'm in the last third of my career, but I'm not going to let sexism continue. And if you don't think that's sexism, then you're in denial. How dare people attack kids like that? You don't have to like the way we play.

You don't have to like the way we trash talk. You don't have to like any of that. We're good with that. But I can't sit up here as a mother and a grandmother and a leader of young people and allow somebody to say that. So LSU guard... Huh? Nasty work. You Googled it?

Yeah. We don't know what that means. I don't know how that's like a direct opposite of hot sauce. I mean, I'm a Louisiana hot sauce fan. No, I'm just saying, what is sexist about milk and cookies? I mean, is there something we don't know? I think dumbing down the women's game to those. Milk and cookies and hot sauce?

That's how you... No, I'm just saying... I mean, we're talking about sports, so why would, like... No, I'm just saying, what is the sexist part? It's being compartmentalized to sexism when it just should be, like, either you hate it or you love it. No, with the right... Just hate it or love it.

I think we start separating words and phrases, and, like, it shouldn't be sexism. I guess a milk and cookie... Milk and cookie is supposed to be, like, sweet versus something that's hot. Isn't Oreo, like, America's cookie on the wrapper or something? It is a well-respected cookie. I mean, I think cookie was resorting. I don't know.

I don't know what the... Like something we like. Good versus evil was the general tone of it. That's what I'm saying. It's just supposed to be like, oh, milk and cookies, we love it. And we hate hot sauce, but I love... Louisiana hot sauce is too hot. Too hot.

I love both. A delicious hot sauce, mind you. Most people love both. Oh, it's a difference. Spicy versus... Spicy versus milk. Louisiana hot sauce is too hot Delicious hot sauce mind you No, it's a difference spicy versus Things that stops the spice dessert versus the milk condiment Yeah, he just he just it just kept getting worse so Which time you rephrase it worse and worse and worse okay well lsu guard hayley van lith also discussed the article while pointing out how she gets treated as a white player in comparison

to her black teammates i think you know we do have a lot of black women on this team we do have a lot of people that are from different areas and, you know, that bias does exist still today. And a lot of the people that are making those comments are being racist towards my teammates. And, you know, I'm in a unique situation where I see with myself, you know, I'll talk trash and I'll get a different reaction than if Angel talks trash. And so it's really up to me to, you know, it's not up to me, but I have a duty to my teammates to have their back.

I know that's right, Haley. Hmm? And on the milk and cookie subject, usually, I think you used to have Diddy Reese. The cookies were ass, but they were 25 cents a cookie. So people would come from far and wide to buy cookies to buy mediocre cookies Yeah, I don't I just I'm not really sure where he was going with So question for you, let's talk So this open up a bigger discussion on how black women are covered not only in women's basketball, but across all sports. I

Mean I think we've been having this conversation for a while now. So just to see it here at the college level, like now we were dealing with it like as adults, professionals, and now you're just attacking kids, like Kim said. So I guess it's hitting people a little harder because these are 18, 19, 20-year-olds that you're talking crazy about, acting like they're not people.

But whoever he wrote, who was writing, I thought the article was poorly written overall. Like, I don't really know what UCLA's never been looked at as America's anything, respectfully. I didn't even know the women's team was actually good. They were good this year? They were very good this year. Top five. Top five for the rest of the year. Advanced farther than

Arizona men's basketball team. Our former conference foe. I just hate that we're here a year later and we're still doing this race stuff. This wasn't the hotel one? That was, what team was that? Utah. Utah.

Yeah, Utah. When they were in Idaho? Yeah, they played in Spokane. Gonzaga was hosting the. Wait, were they in Idaho? So they stayed in Idaho, though. So anybody who knows, Gil, you know when we used to take those Washington trips. We played Washington State.

I don't remember. Moscow, Idaho, Gil, the janky. So they were playing in Spokane and stayed in Idaho? Stayed in Idaho. It was like 30 minutes away. So it's right on the border on that side. Yeah, we played in Spokane. We were not in Idaho.

Usually you stay at the Doubletree. I think right over there, good cookies. I'm pretty sure we were. But when you play Washington State, you stay in Moscow, Idaho. It's like a heavy neo-Nazi area, so they basically instruct you, like, don't fucking leave the hotel, like, you know, or go in a group. Why would they put... Yeah, okay, so my question was, when it said the team, Utah, being chased... They were harassed by some people in those...

Utah? No, in Idaho. The Utah women's team. The Utah women's team. Utah, right? Yes, Utah has Several black play. Oh, they got black people on the team. They don't have any white players Utah don't have no one there Not how you're probably oh, I'm thinking like when it was like you told me you thinking like BYU types And shit like yeah, no, okay, they're pretty diverse group. Oh, we've expanded all over

They just only chase the negros Player is I don't know what she's not black, but I don't want to Say the wrong thing, but she's not a lender. Yeah, and then in regards to la times Our food was edited that line was removed referring. They still said it I just wonder how many people read that and we're like yeah, that's good. That sounds good Ali so after the game injuries did a little trolling on her IG story. She probably got some of those. The milk and cookies. You'll notice that's Frank's Red Hot, which delicious hot sauce in its own right.

We love milk and cookies. They taste so good, huh? Oh, man. So, Alexa, are the criticisms of Angel Reese unfair? I mean, it seems like she gets a lot of heat for her style of play, talking trash, all the things that I love that make the game even more entertaining. Yeah, it's definitely unfair. I think it's a little much, but she plays right into it.

So, again, she's embraced it, and she's performed well in spite of it, I think. But, yeah, people are definitely doing a lot. But I see it on the other side, too. There's a lot of people that love her and love what she's doing for the game. And then you see Caitlyn getting a lot of criticism, but also a lot of love. So it's really on what you focus on.

And we will all be watching the game, the entire Gills Arena crew, including Gilbert Arenas, the full game from opening to... I'm not even going to eat my foods, y'all. I'm not even going to eat my foods. Okay, well, if you don't watch the game, then you don't get to say anything tomorrow about it. But I'm going to watch the highlights. No.

Because I'm going to be watching the whole game. I know, but you're not going to be able to trick me. Don't be a what? Trick you. That man said, don't be a fucking casual, bro. We're all casuals. Okay, well, don't be one today. There's only one that's not. Me. all casuals. No. Okay, well don't be one today. There's only one that's not. Me.

Yeah, duh. I know y'all are all casuals. Alright, we gonna watch. I mean, you don't, I just said, you don't have to watch. Do you know Martin came out on Netflix? Martin came out on Netflix, y'all. You don't have to watch, but tomorrow you don't get to say nothing about the game. But I'm saying, Martin came out on Netflix. What does Martin come out on Netflix have to do? Right, what? You can binge watch old episodes of Martin at any point for the rest of the week.

You're right. Tuesday to Friday. There's no Lakers game today. So I don't have no excuse. You have nothing? That was not a good excuse either. Ain't no casual. I watched this shit.

Okay, good. I had to watch this shit all my life. My sister played games. He just watches. I watch it. Sister gives him the clip. No. Oh, I like watching basketball. I'm a watch this shit all my life. My sister played games. He just watches. I watch it. Your sister gives him the clip. No. Oh, I like watching basketball.

I'm a fucking student in this fucking game. I watch both sides. Do you believe that? Yes. Wow! All I'm saying, you don't have to watch. But when we get here tomorrow talking about it, you don't get to say anything.

Unless I watch it. Unless you watch it. Okay. And I'm going to ask you very specific questions about the game that you could not see in highlights. So like this. Were the three-point lines the same distance? I'm going to make notes of certain things that happened throughout the game and be like, what happened at this time? Okay.

When they say. Hey, chat. All that chat. Watch the game. When she asks, just throw it in the chat and I'll read it. What points did they make at the timeout at this time seven Where the three-point lines the same distance most importantly, but now let's get into some hibachi time Your AC broke don't know

It's a little toasty it's a little toasty in here I appreciate we got a little fan going though. Oh, you better check your water I'm gonna check your water. You know, that's how they get you you be drinking regular water next thing. You know you sleep There's somebody sitting it take that take that No Diddy, no Diddy, no Diddy. Leaving him alone. Y'all done? Did y'all hear the recording? Stop. I'm just saying, do y'all believe it?

Do you believe? Do you believe that? Do you believe? Do you believe? Do you believe? It's supposed to be Meek Mills and Diddy. I'm not interested. Yeah.

I'm thinking it's AI. I'm just saying. I don't know. That is good. Everybody going to blame AI. I would. I would. Blame AI. Hey, but the nigga said he was on the door.

I know. How? Outside the hotel? Inside the... He was inside the... Like, you're going to blackmail me? I'm going to blackmail you. I don't know. I'm like, y'all have all this evidence

and videos and recordings and all of a sudden you're going to release them? Just give it time. So you've been holding that for what, years? Yeah, for what? Like, y'all are weirdos. To this time. What you mean for what? For this particular moment right here? When all this shit hit the fan is like but if wrong is wrong

If you see I'm doing some weird shit. Why are you just not expose it at that moment? You just doing it for yourself. I don't know business worship for a long time You can't go expose some shit when you've been doing some shit. You didn't see shit because you were doing shit I don't know if it's a hour now whoever it was It's hurting for squirting. Stop. And on to basketball on Gil's Arena presented by... Thank you.

She didn't listen to it. She didn't listen to it. That's why. I'm not going to either. You better not listen to it. I'm not. Gil, we're close to hitting you with a flag or two.

Don't. Flag or two. We'll return to Lexi's Arena presented by Underdog Fetters. There's one part where it's like, ouchie, and I'm just playing. Go. All right. Come on, Joe. Go $100. At one point, he's like, ouchie, and I'm just playing. Go. All right.

Come on, Joe. Go, Joe. Do your job, Joe. You make it extremely difficult, Gil. I try with all my might. You got to be more aggressive. I know, man. God dang.

You got to be aggressive like you want. You're a big man. You're supposed to be boxing out and rebounding the seat. You just let him just. He writes the check. You got to be aggressive. He writes the check Just like he was on a

Now moving on to basketball Friday night Friday night the Knicks first game turned into a bucket-getting bonanza Jalen Brunson dropped a career-high 61 points, second most in Knicks history behind Melo 62 back in 2014. But it wasn't enough to get the Knicks to win. Winby came through with the best game of his rookie season, dropping a career-high 40 points, going on with 20 rebounds, 7 assists. Winby is the first rookie with a 40-20 game since Shaq in 1993. Let's just enjoy some Bucky Gidding. Gil's favorite player, Jalen Brunson.

I'm glad to see this shit. And your mentality. But like we said, Wimby came through an OT. The alien, as you will. And after the OT win, Wimby celebrated by chucking the game ball into the stands. Wimby was fined $25,000 by the league for throwing the ball into the stands.

What? $25,000. Why? Who knows? That's the standard fine. Standard fine for throwing a ball? Throwing a ball? The game ball.

Adam Silver's game ball. Okay. Yes. Give me 25 for them things. But question for Jalen Brunson. Obviously, Nick's lost the game. Would you want the game ball if you dropped a 60 piece and a loss? Me?

Yeah. No. No. 61 career high. They didn't lose because of me. They lost because of y'all. We're back. Think like a real selfish man.

No. Y'all keep going. I dropped 61. What else y'all want me to do? Win the fucking game, bro. Okay. Y'all got to help me. If you scored 40, they would have won.

Y'all got to help me. Rashad, if you dropped 61 in a game. If you scored 40, they would have won. If I dropped what? 61. If you dropped 61 in a game. Your career high., they would have won. If I dropped what? 61. If you dropped 61 in the game. You're high. What about it?

Do you want the ball? Is that loss on you? No, I don't give a fuck about the ball. What the fuck I give a fuck about the ball for? And you lost to the Spurs. And you lost to the fucking Spurs. I know they got alien on there, but come on. It's San Antonio.

It's still the Spurs. Listen, I'm not a sentimental, material nigga like that. I don't give a fuck about no ball. Where's the win at? Where's the win? Listen, I had a conversation last night. We play the game.

The game. Any game you play, what's the purpose of playing? To win. Any game. Checkers. Monopoly. Whatever.

We're going to race down the street. We're going to play this game. Win the game. So if you're not fucking winning, what the fuck is the point? I Don't get it, but I'm different. I'm a different Specialist to come a team if it's a team thing and we like all together like we all win if we win Yeah, you keep no obviously it's a sentimental day, but they lost you don't get

20-30 years from now Don't ding dude. I do have memory of is I scored 60 points. That's a... So you should take That's a club. 60 points is a club. My 60-point jersey.

Usually everybody who scored 60 usually have their ball, and they, you know, they get to look back on it in life. Get a little negative ball back. Trust me.

When you get older and all you have left is memories of when you played, you're not thinking about no way. So if you don't get the ball, the memory doesn't exist anymore? I can't tell you if I won that game with Kevin Garnett or what's the name, or the D. Wade or the... You don't remember.

So there's nothing else you could use to commemorate you scoring six deep other than having the game ball in a game that you lost? I don't know. Your jersey? I mean, I don't know. You got to use that jersey for the next game. The highlights? The memory itself. Listen, I'm definitely not walking around like, man, I need the symbol

of that memory. I need to see this ball, these shoes, and none of that. Man, I remember. I remember when I whooped y'all ass. I remember that day I got that autograph. I remember that day that man scored. I don't need that. I'm about to remember.

You see that right there? I get to turn around and say, Obama sat right there in that chair. That was his first and only NBA game ever as a president. That's cool. I mean, that's just me, so. I'm taking my 60. Would you go retrieve it from the stands? Hell that. I mean, that's just me. So I'm taking my 60 Yeah

Hey player yeah you you and you give me that down thing they're not giving you that give me that down here What's your cash? Wendy's 4020 ball I'm gonna be paying a fan who caught that How much would you pay for that? How much would you pay for that? If you're Jalen Brunson, how much would you pay in the fan who caught that? If it means something. $60? I'm just talking about $60 for him.

I don't know if he's that type of dude. I don't know if he's that type of dude. I'm asking you. You are Jalen Brunson. You're you. You are Jalen Brunson. You're not pretending to be Jalen Brunson. You are you. I'll switch my jersey for the ball. They don't want it.

You lost. They want Wemby's 41 ball. A fan don't give a... I mean, that's true. That's a 40 and 20 from Wemby, too. So how much you paying to get the ball back? That's an important... That's an important ball.

So how much you paying to get that ball back? If you Jalen. If you're Jalen. Because you can sell it as the Wimby 40-20 ball. You got a fan in a Wimby jersey holding the ball. I'm going to tell you right now, if I'm the fan in the Wimby jersey, I'm not selling it. You know why? Because if I can get Jalen Brunson one day, I'll drive out of San Antonio So he don't think it's the San Antonio ball. I'll drive like down to Houston outside the hotel get him to sign that ball and

Then kid win me to sign the ball. Then I got both dudes ball on that. That's cracking I don't know. I don't know nobody's damn question. I don't know. I don't know. Because I don't know. Then you answer the question if he was the fan. No. I'd probably give him 10 racks. Wow.

Really? How about I give him 10 racks for the ball? He's not taking that 10. I know. That's what I'm saying. Big more? You got two. You got two.

Ain't nobody scored. Nobody scored 40-20 since 93. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You got two people that... I'm going to do got two people that... And I'm going to do everything I can to get Wimby to sign that ball. And it's Wimby.

And it's a generation we never seen a motherfucker like this. And he threw it too. So, hey, I'm the one who signed the ball. Can you sign it for me? What if he's like, nah, let me get that back. Yeah, let me give you $20,000. So how much funnier is it that Wimby chucked a ball he had 40-20 games?

Right. He don't care. He don't care. He said, this life, I'm doing it again. I do. 20,000 so how much funnier is it that when be chucked a ball he had 40 and 20 right? You know Respective doing it again. I'm pretty sure for him. He gonna score 40 and 20 that's just another but you know You never forget your first time. I would think scoring 40 and 20 on that man When you when you like that you don't give a fuck about no first time second time third time We don't fucking operate in those type of sceneries, man. We used to this shit, man. I'm coming from that type of blood.

I don't have my first 40. Do you have the 60-point Laker ball? You know what you need to do. I got it. I end up getting it

because I had to take the air out because it's their ball. So it's one of their game balls so I had to take the air out of it and sneak it out but I think I lost it or someone else stole it from me. So I stole the ball

and someone stole it from me. Okay. Yeah. But let's talk about the win-be side now. Conclusion. Jalen Brunson should not want that 60-point ball because he'll just lose it or something. How do you know what he's going to do? He might hold

on to a tight. He might not be, like, careless like I am. I'm pretty sure some BM took it. Let me just be honest. So Spurs have already been eliminated from the playoffs. I think they're looking to strengthen their roster with another high lottery pick. But how important is it for Wimby to learn how to win in the league this season?

How much of a big deal is a game like that with all the adversity they've suffered this year for your franchise player, the future of this franchise? At this point, he's just got to hoop. So even if they lost that game, it's still like Wimby is Wimby so if he decides to like water his game down this last few weeks of the season to get some wins together

like I'm going to say he has to water it down even the game against the Warriors that they lost I think he had like 32 in that game I think for him now I think at this point he should just be like

F y'all clearly what y'all got going on will be not even a playoff, so. Y'all have not been passing me the rock all season, so get it up in that. Right. I'm sure how important

is it for Wimby to learn how to win in the league this season? This season? This season to build to his future. I mean, like, it's clear, man. Like I said, Pop Pop the infamous jigsaw

killer is not fucking with Wimby to the extent of playing him a certain amount of minutes for him to actually have an impact on the team's winning and then having the team adjust to making him a focal point and then defensive schemes like doubling Jalen Brunson when he has fucking 40 50 and then get him to 60 certain shit just I'm just seeing a decline of air over there where if they don't make no adjustments they're not gonna be winning in the next four five six years so it's important for him to want to win and learn how to win but but this season, that's out the window. It's just about stat padding at this point to make him look good and going into next

season, which is unfortunate because I know he don't like playing like that. He just likes to hoop. Yeah. And then just for everybody on the couch, how impressed, before the season started, we gave our best case scenarios for how Wimby would look this season, but how impressed have you been now that you've actually got to see when we play The bulk of his first At least once a game. I'm like what the

How did he do that? Like what did I say? He's an average? I think that's somewhere in the 20s Right 18 to 20 range. He not going every every fee. He not going to win rookie of the year because they're so bad? No, I think he's got that. He's going to win that, right? He should have that and defensive player of the year. You think he should get the defensive player of the year? Because they're ranked one when he's on the court, and they're ranked last when he's off the court.

Really? Yeah. Which tells you how great he is defensively. First to last is crazy. You know what I mean? So it's not like there's this steady hold. Like when he's on the court, they're ranked one. When he leaves, last place,

which means him by himself is dictating the defense. Rudy, if he's not on the court, they're not dropping all the way to last because they have other defensive players. So you can't reward a guy who doesn't have that type of impact. Rudy on the court or off the court doesn't impact the game defensively. You can see one is impacting the game, right? Like he is literally ranked, they're ranked one when he's on the court last when he's off the court let you know his impact by himself is defensive player that's a rookie one that before defensive player of the

year and i don't know that i don't think maybe dwight did the white win it oh i don't the only person i could have won him from like tim duncan maybe that's what i was thinking about I don't know. The only person I could have won a point with, like Tim Duncan, maybe. That's who I was thinking about. I don't know, like somebody like that. That's very impressive. Because that's usually the part where young players struggle, is the defensive side of the ball. Yeah. He's super young.

So no, Ricky's ever won the award, according to a quick Google search. I think this should be the first time. This should be the first. That would be so fire. He deserves it. That's what be so fire. He deserves it. That's what he deserves. He can't help that he's only playing 28, 29. He can't help that.

But when he's on the court, they're the best defensive team in the league. If he played 40-something minutes, they would be ranked one. It says that. You think the Spurs record will ultimately hurt him? It has nothing to do with this. He's a defensive player. I understand that. But I think from a square perspective, when you look at that record and say,

oh, it doesn't equate to wins or whatever, but look at that team. Their record in Utah wasn't equating to no fucking thing. That's what I'm saying. When you look at it. Look, I understand the argument of it's not equating to wins. I get that. But how can Rudy say he's the best

defensive player when Ant-Man is a defensive player, Conley's a defensive player, when Nas is a defensive player. When Rudy's coming, his teammates, what are they ranked? One? They got a defender almost at every position. So they're ranked one.

When Wendy's playing, they're ranked one. You see the difference? Yeah. Now when Rudy's going off, when he's out of the game, they don't go to last place. So that means if they're still ranked one or go to two when he's out of the game, it lets you know they're structurally a better defensive all-around team. So obviously they're going to win because they have offense,

they have better defensive, other players on the team. He's just one person. Yeah, for sure. He's just one person. So it's no different than the scoring title, right? It's the same thing, right? If someone averages 36 and they win zero games, 36 points a game, he gets that award.

This is an award. It has nothing to do with wins. When you look at the history of defensive players of the year, it's about what it looked like the totality of that year. Like Ben Wallace, when he won multiple player of the years. Dwight Howard, when he won them. I think Dikembe won a couple. It's like how it looks when you're out there playing defense

and how it affects the other team's ability to score the ball. Even when he's on the perimeter, he's blocking perimeter shots. He's changing shots. That shit look different. He's young and athletic. Rudy don't have – he's getting older. So it's looking a little rusty for him. So for him to even think that he can get it over this dude, it's absurd.

Just because if he wasn't there, would we give it to Rudy, hands down? No. Who would be in the running? If Wimby wasn't here, who would be in the running with Rudy to be like, all right, we're going to give it between you two? So he's used to being able to get it based on the fact that he's Rudy. But that's what I'm saying. You're getting a benefit of the doubt because you're using team wins in this isolated thing, right?

Assist leader, an assist leader has no win total on it. Right. The block leader, the total rebounds leader, none of those are impacted by wins and losses. Right? A defensive player

of the year, it's his metrics by himself. That is the point of it. It's not a team thing. But Rudy is hiding behind other team defenses. So that's kind of,

it's a hard thing to do. Like when Kawhi won it, like when Ron Artest won it, when Ron won it, it wasn't hard thing to do. I went Kawhi wanted like Ron our test wanted Ron wanted it wouldn't know there was no no team thing that I said, there's there's just guys sometimes in the league They are just great at defense. Yep They're single-handedly great at defense. So you can't you can't you know, you have to reward them for what they're doing You can't penalize them because it's not leading the wins. That's not his fault. Yeah, that's like every matchup.

Gobert and Wimby are two frontrunners right now. AD is in the mix as well. But I think AD is in front of Rudy. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what AD is. These are individual guys. You don't have, I mean, who's another defensive player on Lakers? Prince, maybe.

They say Prince. Prince. Probably there. Because he used to play in D. Yeah. I mean, like, I just said, like, the Tony Allens, those Tony Allens, they stand alone. There's just some guys who can affect the game by themselves. Yep.

Yep. And Wimby is that dude. For sure. Speaking of AD, let's talk about these Lakers a little bit. Woo! Who can affect the game by themselves? Yeah. Yeah, and and and Wimby is that dude for sure I'm speaking to a Dean's talk about these Lakers a little bit. Oh You know the smoke you see it working now it work it work now the smoke machine work doesn't work for the Work for the women you press the other button. You see? You see? You see? The other button? Don't fool the people. I'm sick of those people. I'm sick of that.

You call that? Just out his way. The time is making it. I don't see it. Don't work it out. It ain't working for the women. You go out your way. Shut up.

Hey, this motherfucker right here. My bad. My bad. My bad. Thank you. He is different. Like, he's not a monocle over here. He was being a villain in his sick,abolical over here. Gil's being a villain

in his sick, twisted way of getting more people to watch a women's game. He's shouldering that burden. Jeez. Appreciate you. Got a whole daughter. I know how Gil's mind works.

A whole daughter will want to go play. He knows if he goes that route, he'll get a ton of backlash and he'll help grow the game. What's good is there's two French guys, you know, going at it.

You know what I mean? That was good there. Two Frenchies. No ditty. Two Frenchies. Have a little French slap off. French slap off? French slap off? French slap off.

Please. It's hard to do a show every day. I wish y'all out there really understood what I have to go through every day just to bring y'all Gills Arena to present about it. Our fantasy. Woof, woof. Woof, woof. So, Lakers are holding down the ninth seed but looking to move up the standings.

LeBron is doing his best to keep them trending in the right direction. So, LeBron gave the Nets a 40-piece, going 9 for 10 from 3. Crazy. Which matches his career high makes from long range. This is wild, man. Look at, this man's 39 years old. 39. Damn.

What the hell? Hairline holding on for dear life. Janky ankles. Jesus. Still cooking. Where's the move? So like I said, he dropped 40 in the game to go along with seven boards, five dives, and the Lakers win.

It's Braun's second 40-point game since turning 39. Who? Second most- Wow. Wow. That was crazy. Who feet he got? 39. So Braun's second 40-point game since turning 39,

was second most in NBA history behind MJ's three. He's also shooting a career-high 41.6% from three, up nearly 7% from last season. Lakers are 3-1. Damn. I know, that's right, Braun. I mean, that shit is wild. Lakers are 3-1 on this six-game road trip

with a back-to-back against the Raptors and Wizards left on the schedule. Is LeBron officially in playoff mode? Gil, you predicted 5-1 on the road trip. They're currently 3-1 with two games remaining. 5-1, 4-2. Right now we're handling business. Playoff mode? I-1, 4-2. Right now we're handling business. Playoff mode?

I'm proud. Right? I mean, you know. Can't ask him to do any more than what he's doing. I mean, it's not about, listen, it's not about is he in playoff mode, right? Is everybody else in playoff mode? It's everybody else. Like, we know what LeBron's gonna give us. That's not ever been

an issue, right? he's gonna show up um we just need everybody else to be dialed in um everybody's confidence is high this is not when we need relapses trying to figure out where we stand with the team like if you don't know where you are

on the team as of now then they shouldn't be put in the game. They had two bench points. How much? Two. We didn't need them. Did they play?

Yes. How many minutes? The whole bench almost got, everybody from the bench got in. See, that's right there. Two points. Right there. They shouldn't get in. That's right there.

We don't need that in the playoffs. We don't need you to come in for cardio. We don't need cardio players in the playoffs. We do not need nobody in here just doing exercising. All right? You can do that shit on the treadmill or the little bike behind the bench. Two points off the bench. And you're not going to win any playoff series that thanks you playing against

Brooklyn that's what you have 30 bench points to and who scored it Gabe gave you a visit the one who hasn't played in months. Is the only one who's back in the house. Is he on the team still? He has risen, Gil. We didn't send his ass back to Southampton. He has risen. Oh, I thought we said- He's back to help.

He has risen. Shit, he helped more than anybody else off the bench. He had two points. Probably two free throws. And the rest of them had zero. Did he have a basket or a free throw? A basket. Oh, he had a basket?

Okay. A powerful basket, Gil. Nah, that's crazy. Powerful. Two points off the bench. So Gabe Vincent now. All right, okay. That's unheard of that's crazy. Powerful. Two points off the bench. So Gabe Vincent now. All right, okay. That's unheard of. I'm sorry, are you ready to...

Two points... Hey, is Wood still... Is he still outside with the shovel? He's still outside with the shovel. Where the fuck is he at? He's still outside. He's still outside with the shovel trying to... Absolutely.

I get in. He's still out here trying to serve the goddamn baby mama? Mm-hmm. Yeah, he's hurt. He's hurt about other things. Oh, damn. All right, because I ain't seen him lately.

Is he hurt? He is hurt, yeah. His feelings? No, his body. Oh, his body hurts? And Jackson Hayes is hurt too, right? How the hell you can't find your bitch?

I don't know what kind of P.I. you got, God damn. That's bad P.I. Hit the fire alarm, motherfucker. Shit. Do something. Come. I Hit the fire alarm. I fuck this Come on Throw some mice or some all up in the house some break a window throw the roads in it come out. Oh

Hey, man, they ain't really dedicated to that serving They don't know serving like I know serving. I got nothing to say about the Lakers, so you can go ahead. We need your student opinion. Nothing. You're not getting to the sixth, though. Anything positive to say about LeBron dropping a 40-piece at 39? Y'all know it's the Lakers. We talking about the Lakers.

That's all I hear is... The basketball team in the National League. That's all I just keep hearing. Basketball is so late. I'll just keep hearing... When you was a Laker fan, that's all you heard is... The basketball team in the national. That's all I just keep hearing. When you was a Laker fan, that's all you heard. You didn't care? Yeah, but I'm not a Laker fan anymore. What will it take to bring you back? What will it take to bring you back?

I'm just saying. When we gonna get you back as a Laker fan? I don't know, man. Once he retire. Once he retire, you gonna come back? I might. In the middle, you pick up. I'm not a fan? I don't know, man. Once he retires. Once he retires, are you going to come back? I might. In the middle, you pick up. I'm not a fan anymore. You pick up, man.

Once this stage is over. I don't know that Lakers fan. Don't get this stage over with. You know what I'm saying? So speaking of this stage, after the game, you know, speaking of that,

when LeBron retires, who are you going to be a fan of? I'm just going to travel to the universe. You're going back to Milwaukee? Are you going to be a Bucs fan? I'm just going to travel the globe. Oh, yeah, okay. Okay. Just enjoy the universe. You're going back to the middle of the world? Are you going to be a Bucks fan? I'm just going to travel the globe. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Okay. Just enjoy the game. Oh, man. He's going to be like Justin LeBoy. He's going to be with LeBron. He's going to be with LeBron. He's going to go to the Vegas. What post?

What will we post? He's going to be at Vegas, D? He's going to be at Vegas, D? No, good enough. He's going to be on the Vegas side? I'm a fan of Los Angeles. Okay. He's going to join the pod.

He's going to go to the conference. I know what's coming, but it's still crazy to think about. What? That would be good news. I'm dead. Hey, come on, Josiah. Come on, join the pod, man. Me, you, JJ.

What's the nail, Brian? What's the nail? Okay. Oh, wait. What's the nail? There's a definition. I know there's a lot of people listening to that, and they were like, what the fuck is a nail? Like, so many people.

But if we start breaking this shit down a little bit more, they will be prepared for them comments. No, but you guys, I mean. Because we do be breaking it down, but they don't understand what we be saying either. This is what I've always been curious. Is there a nail on the NBA course? Yes. Okay. The nail is the middle. If you're any type

of basketball player, if you're right-handed, your right foot and toe should be on the nail. Every time. It is the nail that goes even down the middle of the rim.

It splits. It's right in the middle. Every basketball court around the field. Besides outside basketball. They need the nail, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just spray paint.

But the nail is where you, when someone says, get to the nail, that's where they're telling to get to. It's the middle of the floor. So when someone's trying to drive, it's the middle of the floor. Yeah. Right foot on the nail. I like what, listen, listen. I like what they're doing.

I think they need to show, that's what free game is for, that we're going to be showing exactly what we're doing. They kind of beat us to the punch. I even texted him and said, you're doing the same thing that we were doing. We've had this in the work for many months now. But the problem is he can probably get licensed footage so it's one of those things where we would have to do steel.

And we should, like I was saying last season, if we just go upstairs and be like, alright, let's give this scenario down here. They played a little clip, freeze it, if we just go upstairs and be like, all right, let's give this scenario down here. They play the little clip, freeze it, but we wouldn't be able to do it simultaneously

upstairs and downstairs. No, it's something we'll have to do a tape, tape to show. Tape to show it. That would be cool. But we have been working

on this for a while. As you know, at Gills Arena, we're always innovating, trying to raise the bar, stay employed, most importantly but uh so let's talk a little bit more about lebron so after the game lebron was asked how much time in the league he thinks he has left and had this to say not very long not very long um i'm on the other side obviously at a hill so i'm not gonna play another 21 years that's for damn sure. But not very long. I don't know when that door will close as far as when I retire,

but I don't have much time left. So it seems like we talk about this a lot. He said nothing. Because duh. He said the obvious. He said the obvious. Not a lot of time. We know, Brian, you're 21.

Not a lot of time. But we know. Hey, he said, I know it's not going to be another 21 years. It could be. Anything is possible. Not a lot of time, but we don't and he said I know it's not gonna be another 21 years It could be Anything possible when you put your faith our Lord said now so LeBron's averaging more than 25 points per game for the 20th straight season of his career 20 straight seasons is that impressive Rashad? Excuse me. Is that impressive? Nice question shot. Excuse me? Is that impressive? Next question.

God, admit it. Listen, 25 points per game for 20 straight seasons? My knees hurt, man. Okay. My knees hurt as well. I get it. I don't understand how this is still happening. Why are we still talking about this? Because. My knees hurt. Just like any player,

Brady, when you're done, the one thing that we always are thinking about is I had one more, two more years. Because most people who retired, they didn't retire on their own terms. They trained that summer and no one picked their ass up, right? That's how 97% of athletes figured out they was done, right? When the game didn't call you no more. So in most of all those players still had more in the tank and they wish they could have finished the way they wanted to. So it's a real privilege to be out to travel and to see different places. finished the way they wanted to. So.

It's a real privilege to be out to travel and to see different places. Taking yourself out in comfortable positions and challenging yourself. No one builds a legacy by standing still. Start your journey at Remova.com. Let him be done when he's done, right? You know, because there's a bunch of us that still wish we played, right? You got Dwight Howard, you got cousins that still wish they had one more year.

Let me get one more year out of it. So they mentally can be satisfied. Because when you're done and you feel like you still have something left in the game, you're eating up inside. That's still have something left to the game, you're eating up inside. That's the fucked up part about it. What you just said, those dudes don't have a choice, but to have that type of mentality of saying, I got a couple more years, but they won't let me fucking play. But this nigga don't got that opportunity. It's LeBron. We're going to let you play because it's you, not because you can play or you can't affect the game. I feel like the game should have elevated and evolved to the point where the competitiveness should have pushed him out.

Right. Because we discompetitive. We hacking you. We fouling you. You older. Like the game is moving at a pace and we're jumping and moving where you just like, yo, do you think this is really out here moving at a pace? I don't really want to. But I feel like they are.

They not. He's just matching it. They not. Like Jeff Teague, when Jeff Teague said, yeah, I'm sitting there chasing DeAndre Fox and he blew past me

and I'm like, yeah, I'm done. Yeah, I'm done. When, I know in reality, did he ever get hurt hurt? Who? LeBron? Jeff.

No. See, so someone like that, if he really mentally wanted to, he could log back in. He would have still been playing. Hell yeah. But probably not in the role that he would have been happy in maybe.

Yeah, but those roles is to be something else, we have to do something else. And I'm pretty sure mentally and physically, I don't know if he was ready to really, really do something that he probably didn't do. I remember when we listened to JJ Reddick, JJ Reddick was talking about he has a certain routine he does every day in the summer. And he says when it was time for him to do it, he said, yeah, I don't want to do this this he didn't want to go through his summer routine he said yeah I could have said yeah worked out and did normal workout and then went back to the he said but I wouldn't have been happy with myself

this is the routine that got me prepared for every season and I didn't want to do it say nothing else didn't kg did the same thing it was like kg or Sam Casale they went into the summer was like I don't feel to do it. I think, didn't KG do the same thing? It was like KG or Sam Cassell. They went into the summer. I was like, I don't feel like doing no beach runs. I don't feel like doing parachute shit, man. I'm going to be done. You know what I mean? So I would like everybody to finish when they're done.

So they can, when they're done playing, they can have a better retirement. But when you're chasing something, it pushes you. All right? So to me, Brian was obviously chasing something. And when you're chasing something at that level, there's nothing that's going to stop you from getting there. Because it's going to set you so far apart from everybody that there's no more conversation. So that push alone is like, yeah, man, if I could get to 22, 23, and y'all not in my way, this is smooth fucking sailing.

There's no one in his way. And that's the problem I have is that no one wants to be in his way. I think Ant-Man could want to be in his way if he actually said, like, I can be in his way from stopping him from getting this type of stuff or slowing him down. Cool. Someone should have tried to get in his way a few years ago. But do you think that's the key, though, for everyone, right? Set a goal for yourselves, right?

Set a goal for yourselves, right? Like, okay, LeBron's goal was to break this record. We can just assume, we don't know. But yeah, his goal was to break this record or get 40,000. Maybe his goal right now is 45,000. So that's gonna push him to stay- Motivated. Wouldn't that, that should be for all of us then.

Even though 40,000 might not be in our future, if we're at 8,000, I want to get to 20,000. So every summer I'm going into 20,000 points is in my reach which makes me go an extra couple years I guess that's what we should I think that's what we're probably missing that we don't but think about Dwight and his like if he was chasing the rebound record that's cut short because it's out of his control or Rondo chasing an assist record that's cut short because oh I can't find a. Or Rondo chasing an assist record. That's cut short because oh, I can't find a team that wants me to play. Like you just said, Jeff Teague.

Knowing you can play another couple years, four or five years, but the J.J. Redick shit, I don't want to wake up and go through my regimen. That's a discipline thing. But that's what I'm saying. Do you think because they wasn't chasing none and they wasn't disciplined? 100%. Okay, so that's more the player himself.

Yes. Because Kobe, when he got hurt with the Achilles thing, he made the Facebook post like, damn, this shit, should I sit out? Should I do this? But the one thing that pushed him was like, nah, I'm not going to let this take me out. Yeah. I'm not going to let this injury take me out. I'm going to actually push back.

I'm going to come back to try to be another shell of myself. And finish. To prove that. That's another push for you, just to going to actually push back. I'm going to come back to try to be another shell of myself to prove that that's another push for you, just to prove I can get back. But a lot of guys don't got their mentality, where it's like, I got something to prove. If you wake up and you say I don't want to do some shit that you're used to doing, that's

a passion of yours, you've given up. And it's going to feel different because you do wake up some morning and you're like, man, I don't want to do it. But probably the feeling that JJ had was like, man, I don't want to do it. Yeah. But probably the feeling that JJ had was like, he probably just felt it. This is a different type of, I don't feel like doing this. This is what we've been doing all our lives. Yeah. We've had days like that, like, I'm fucking tired.

I'm going. But I got to go. You know what I'm saying? But when you're like, I don't really got to go today, that's when you start realizing, like, hmm. That's the thing. Is it time? I don't got got to go today, that's when you start realizing, hmm. That's the thing. Is it time? I don't got to go. I got the bread.

I got the house. My family's cool. What's really pushing me? That's what I said. It has to be a goal that's set for us individually. We have to keep regoling ourselves so we can keep going into the summer with the preparation. Because once you get out of shape a little bit, having fun, and then that time is coming, you'll be like... And your goals can change, too.

Yeah, yeah. As long as you want to get them. Like last year. People can apply that to their everyday life, too, though. I'm not saying like... But people have goals. I'm going to do this, that, whatever. But anybody can do the work when they feel like doing the work, right?

Anybody can work. That's always been the key. Your goals can change. They're still your goals. At seven days a week, you want to do stuff three days a week. Yes. You don't want to do it three days a week, and one day is

like 50-50. If you started, you would do it. But there's three days out of the week that you don't want to do something. So those are the days that's the most important. The days you don't want to do something is the most important days to gaining stuff yeah that's like Mondays through Thursdays for me from 11 30 a.m. six a.m. or what are you sleep no problem is you hit me and I can't call you back oh yeah we gotta i gotta text

you but i'm by the phone now because i know i can't call you because you don't take incoming phone calls i'd be for i'd be forgetting that i wake up so early that i'd be up for a while and i'm like okay everybody's up that's why i texted i said yeah i texted this morning like rishai gonna be mad and then i looked at the time. Like, oh, these motherfuckers ain't gonna play now. And I've seen that. It's like that self-motivation thing, though. It's New Year. I mean, to me, it's New Year's.

Today's New Year's to me. April 1st is a whole new element of goal setting. Remember I told you, I didn't set goals after the NBA because there was nothing else that I feel like I needed to achieve Cool now is all right 500 push-ups sit-ups When I wake up go to bed, I'm gonna eat this for the rest of the month I'm gonna see if I can accomplish this thing and discipline myself to do this for 30 days. Hmm

And if I can I know I can do it. I'm setting my mind to say, all right I'm mentally prepared to make these next moves with discipline and goal setting and I think when you're trying to prepare the next generation you got to be an example of something that can be you know of discipline and if I'm going to give jewels to the next generation I got to be an example of that. So I want to set myself up to accomplish goals. And teaching, you know, my nephew, my younger sister, whoever it is around me, like, no, you can do it. I just did it. I just lost a certain amount of pounds.

I just gained a certain amount of muscle. You know, I only eat this and I feel this type of way. So I think being an example of that, LeBron, is being an example of that, LeBron is being an example of that. Goal setting, pushing yourself to the limits, regardless of how we feel about how he's doing it. You know, it's being done. And he's showing the resilience of father time, which is impressive. I think that's highly fucking impressive. 40 years old. Like I said, my knees hurt watching this nigga jumping And not show any kind of you just you I'm icing all night all day You after coming up some steps

Like she's boy you do you this 82 games how many he didn't play so we talked about self-discipline a lot, right? You know you got the LeBron's the MJ's the Kobe's those guys that can stick to a routine I would see the Kobe video. I'm working out four or five times a day cuz I know everybody else only working out twice So after five years you won't be able to catch me, but for you guys in particular What was the moment when you had that kind of JJ ready moment was like I? Just I don't feel like doing the shit anymore, and I can't cheat the game I was so funny as I Know I was I was I was disciplined when I played.

I wasn't disciplined in rehab. I didn't know. It was your first time? Yeah, it was my first time. I didn't know how serious injuries were. When I broke my hand, I cut the cast off two weeks early to play. You know what I mean? hand I cut the cast off you know two weeks early to play and I didn't give you know what I mean so like I thought it was the same since even now I don't have

enough discipline to sit 30 I don't I don't even have enough discipline for my injury to stretch for 30 minutes right sit just man going to sit, and that's what it is. Detail is about being boring. You can't be, like I can sit there and shoot for hours all the time. Dribble for hours. That's not boring. Right? Stretching?

I hate stretching. 15 minutes or, I'm like, oh my God. ADD kicks in. For sure. I hate stretching. You know what I mean? Like even with the bike, right? You know I have the Peloton.

I can't do the Peloton. 30 minutes is probably my max, right? Now, if you put me on a road bike, I can go 20 miles and 20 miles back. Yeah. Because I got my music. I'm seeing different shit. I'm going, moving, right? You're forced to.

Then I'm stopped. And then when I get there, then I'm forced to come back. So I double the time. Peloton, sitting there, I'm like, man, what's on TV then I'm forced to come back so I doubled as a peloton send their life What's on TV? I'm watching TV right? What's on TV up see? And now I want to go upstairs Fucking so discipline is the most important thing with anything so you need discipline in every piece of your life I'm like so you starting today. Yeah, what Yeah. That's good. What's your discipline?

Come on. I've been very disciplined since I've been a kid. So like my parents, I've like always had goals. Like weekly goals. What's your goals this season? My goals this season? Yeah. Well, one is... Yeah. My first goal is to stay healthy.

Uh-huh. And for me, that kind of goes against how I usually prepare and exercise and train because I can't overwork myself as much anymore. So now it's like listening to my body but still getting all the work that I need to feel prepared to play at a high level. So finding that balance is going to be difficult, but I'm like, I'm prepared for it. I played well in Dallas, like balancing rest and extra work. I want to be an all-star, one of the best three-point shooters in the league.

Yeah, and get the sparks to the playoffs. I mean, championship obviously is something that you want to do, but we haven't been to the playoffs in like four years or something, even before I got there. What do you think the biggest obstacle for reaching that goal is? Because we always see that the goal is there, but like there's the obstacles. It's like, all right, playing time. There's somebody's in front of me. Like you say, the injury, like whatever the injury was, is it going to be a reoccurring thing?

You don't want to think about those things, but those are the roadblocks that are here. For me personally, just my health, just not really knowing how my body's going to respond to the grind of a season. It doesn't concern me, but it's something that's in the back of my mind that I'm going to have to handle

throughout the summer. As far as playoffs, from the organization standpoint, we don't have our own practice spot. We don't have the gym when we need it. So y'all like the Clippers or the WNBA?

I mean, we're not the only team like that, but yeah, basically. And that's not shitting on the Sparks organization because they're working on it, and I appreciate the work that they have been doing. But you look at a bunch of other teams around the league

having their own practice spots. It matters. Because you can go in anytime you want. You can go in whenever you want. You can call up your coaches and be like,

yo, we need to go get this workout in real quick. I need to come in early. I can stay late. I can go lift whenever I want. Yeah. Big difference.

So that's, I mean, that's a huge difference in my opinion for someone that is a gym rat. Yeah. Big difference. So that's, I mean, that's a huge difference, in my opinion, for someone that is a gym rat. So if you don't have that access, where is your access? Is you got to find your own gym? Yeah. That's fucking crazy. It's just hard to find. So if you're restless at night, like 2, 3 in the morning, usually you would just go to the gym as a hooper.

Yeah. I mean, that's what I did in college. Sometimes I would go out and go find myself in the gym after being out. Yeah. Now, I'm just like, dang, maybe I'll go to the gym in the apartment and maybe go on the elliptical or treadmill or do a workout like that. But as far as just going to get 200 shots, that takes, what, 30 minutes maybe? And you by yourself. By yourself, blasting music.

That's why I played so well in college, I thought. Like, I just was able to go to the gym whenever I felt like it. And I don't have that much. Get on the gun. But it's coming. I know it is. I'm going to have abs this year. This summer, I'm going to have abs.

You're going to have abs? Yep. OK. That's my goal. I'm going to have abs. You trimmed down a lot from last year. Yeah, I'm going to have abs. Surgery, I'm going to get surgery.

I'm going to get surgery next surgery. I'm gonna get surgery like You can still be fat big Sean with him I'm getting the big Sean joins. Yeah. Yeah always ruin and I'm I have Already Out of shape with the abs. Love handles all right here. It's just bounce. Look at the cow. Fat Albert. You crazy? Yes, that's my goal. Have abs. It's by any means.

Please. Joe, Joe. Joe, me and you, me and you get the same abs. Yeah, you come home. She'll be like, big shot and drink. She'll be like, ooh, you been working?

Ooh. Touch the front, not the sides. Touch the front. And if you walk in with some plastic surgery abs, Gil. I did three sit-ups this week. Trust me, I don't care. Yuck.

Yuck. Everything can be seen through. If you sit right here, I'd be holding it just like this, just so you can see this part. My bad, six points. Yeah, just six points. Don't see the sides. You got to get the angles.

If you just get the angles. If you get the angles, I'm sure you guys are seeing the angles it was like wait a minute those angles were angling the light you gotta shoot them from the top or something like that two weeks ago the story though is everybody have goals but don't be lazy actually execute them right riding them down helps too i went to the gym. Because that self-discipline is very difficult. But keep it good. See? You already know. But let's keep it moving.

I got to talk a little bit about Luka. Before the Mavs-Rockets game even started, there was some Luka magic. I don't know if you guys have seen this trick shot. He threw it off the jumbotron, off the glass. Oh, that's crazy. Wow. Bucket. Stupid.

What arena was that in? The Houston? Oh, yeah, Toyota Center in Houston. Watch it one more time. Boop. How many tries? Who gonna pay for that jumbotron? Hey, y'all, to cut his ass out, don't be shooting at my goddamn jumbotron.

My friend ain't shooting. He just walks back to the line casually. Yeah, he was doing that before the game. He was practicing that shit. Who thinks of that shit? So, Luka followed that up by cooking the Rockets in the actual game. So, Luka dropped 22 points in the first quarter. Bam.

Damn. Finished the game with 47 points. Jesus. 12 rebounds. Seven assists. Jacquelin down the torture chamber. Oh, my God. Good.

See, if he can move like that on offense, he can move like that on defense. Where are we going? So, Luca, with that 47 feet. Oh, wow. Oh, hell no. Oh you did. Oh, yeah No, oh no What how do you guard that on the three-point line you can't guard that that's a tough shot do hit that or you got a fight That's the rules and I'm fouling you for no

So the Mavs win snap the Rockets have been loving every street You this era so fun, bro. I've been trying some me getting this. I don't gotta pass it My mom work work work work work work work work, but whatever Like I was you know, I'm not gonna I was still trying to figure out how to throw it off the backboard But because I't as tall as everybody else and throwing it to someone still out of it Mag I thought I could just shot that you Not passing to the team who's not saying that no coach not saying nothing would you go say how what you mean? Right mark you I need a sub head coach. Sub after that shot? Sub head coach.

Oh yeah. And he would have air balled that. Nah, they're up 30. I would have air balled that. Because that wouldn't have been something I practiced. That looked like he practiced that. What points did he have at that point in the game? Somebody in the chat said Luka's racist for that.

Yeah. Racist for a lot of things. He definitely said, nigga get off me. He said, nigga get off me. Nigga get off me nigga. But yeah, that would have been some shit he said. So, get off me. He said, nigga, get off me. Nigga, get off me, nigga. Yeah, that would have been some shit he said. So, get off me.

How old is Luca? Man, that's 24, 25. Hold on a second. Hold on. That's nice. I'm not even going to lie. Keep the Google. It ain't.

Yeah, he didn't even care what his course. Yeah, that's just nice. So Luca may have been mentioned heavily in the MVP race. Seems like it's Joker's award to lose. But does Luka have any? Joker's award. I thought it was SGA's. Definitely not Joker's.

I was literally thinking about it last night. I was like, I don't know who's going to win MVP. Based on how they be voting, it don't really make any sense. So, like, there's no metric, Steven. Now, you guys have been heavy on the SGA train long before conventional media jumped aboard. Yeah. So you think it's still SGA to lose? Yes.

Hell yeah. I'm sorry. Where they at? They're right above Denver. Second? If Denver happens to... The youngest team in the NBA, they're the age of a college team.

They're first right now. What I'm saying is they're the age of a college team. Yeah, I'm like, why would you not give it to SGA? Age of a college team. They're first right now. What I'm saying is they're the age of a college team. Yeah, I'm like, why would you not give it to SGA? Age of a college team. No other NBA all-star on the team. Not even a capable all-star on the team. Right? Everybody is still immature playing-wise.

No one has any experience in their second or first in the NBA because of one man and one man only. That is the MVP. The most valuable player to his team and right now in the league. Joker, I'm sorry. You've won two. Right? You've won two.

You've won a championship. What have you done this year that stood out? Nothing. You haven't done you won a championship. What have you done this year that stood out nothing? You haven't done anything to stand out because you haven't even you haven't even taken over the NBA like you you're not It's not like you you lost it last year and you came back and you did it in bead Yeah, you're putting up in bead numbers right right in bead wanted last year. Everybody said Yeah, he can have a Sony Luke's it flu shit, and he came back Destroying yes, right you just playing normal basketball

So y'all could you average of 26 12 and 9 assists which is crazy that that's normal What I'm saying is what has he what has stood out this right for they just playing great basketball the team They've been playing great team basketball. That's it. And then SGA averaging 30.6 assists, six rebounds. Yeah, like, it's SGA's award. Shooting 54% from the field. What I'm saying is, what stat is holding Joker over?

What part of the stat? Nothing. He's the only defensive player in. The SGA's in top 10, top 15 in defense. player in the SGA. SGA is in top 10, top 15 in defense. None of the other ones. What's Joker's shooting percentage? So SGA, 54% from the field, 37 from three, 87 from the free throw line. Jokic is at 58% field goal percentage, 35 from three, 82%.

Almost 60%. He's a big man. He wants a guard. 60% for a big man. 35 from three guard. 60% for a big man. 35 from three wants 37 from seven. 54% from a guard. Oh, this is dumb. That's insane.

54% from a guard? No, it's 56. And how much? Yo, give me 57. How much for three-pointer from SGA? I think 36. 37. 37?

Wait, so 54 is his overall field goal percentage? So he's shooting, again, 54% from the field, close to 37% from three. How high is his two-point percentage? He's got to be high. That's what I'm saying. He's high as shit. And he's shooting 87% from the free throw line. Yeah, so if he's shooting 37% from three, then his two-point percentage is mad high.

Like, they have to. Hmm? Shade? Yeah. 58 from two. 58 from two. That's Tony have to. Hmm? Yeah. 58 from two. 58 from two. 58 from two. That's Tony Parker. Crazy.

But what I'm saying is they have to factor in the team. Right. The team is not champions. This year. This year they're not champions. They're last year champions.

What's his name? Williams is a future all-star? Every year the category changes. Williams. He's a future all-star team. Jayden Williams? Yes. Maybe. He has the potential. I think he's a future all-star? Every year the category says. Williams. He's a future all-star, T. Jayden Williams? Yes. Maybe.

He has the potential. I think he's a future all-star. Scotty Mahomes can get there. And so is Chet. But what I'm saying is. But not right now. But what I'm saying is they are the most inexperienced out of the group. Like if we said experience, the starting five for Denver will be first.

It'll be them five and then, what, Shea? But even all of these arguments, OKC's still number one. And if we are prioritized winning, like it's been an important part of the category in previous years. I got Shea, Shea, Luka, shade, shade Luka, shade Luka, then Jokic. Jokic wouldn't be

in the top three. What's LeBron's numbers? LeBron this season. Last. Think you would put him last? I feel like if MB was healthy still, Jokic would be in the top three. LeBron's averaging 25, eight assists,

seven rebounds, shooting 53% from the field, 42% from three, 75% from three. Listen. Listen to me very carefully. The fact that he has those numbers and then Joker's numbers are 25, 26, 12, and yeah.

And we're talking records. If the Lakers were 4-5 right now. If the Lakers was like 2-1, they'd be giving to LeBron. But I'm saying if he was 4-5, you would have to put him in the conversation. You would have to put him in the conversation. You know what I'm saying? Just because of those numbers are crazy. And he had.

Where's Tatum at? Let's just look at Luka. Luka's averaging 34 points. 10 assists, 9 rebounds. 10 assists, 9 rebounds. Wait. Wait. That's Luka's numbers? Luka's number 34-, 10 assists, 9 rebounds. Mm-hmm. 10 assists, 9 rebounds. Wait. Wait, that's Luka's numbers? Luka's number 34 and 10.

So he's doing the same thing as Jokic, but they have Jokic in front. He's doing more like Embiid. 34, 10, and 9. He's got more points. So, yeah. So it's SGA, Luka, Jokic. If they don't give it to SGA, I will get rid of everyone who's voting because obviously they're not countering, they're not factoring anything

because the defensive side too, SGA is the only one on the list. Yeah, he's playing both sides of the floor. He's playing both sides of the floor. What's Tatum's numbers? So Tatum, glad you asked for sure I Said he was gonna win MVP and these fingers 27 8 rebounds 5 assists shooting 47% from the field But I would to me it would be it I would take those as before I would put Tatum 3 I put a SJ Luca Yeah

Tatum gets ding cuz he's got the best Ross. He has the best roster I mean, oh, yeah, that is the best roster, but they their roster is showing that they're the best frother They're not like them, right? Yeah, it's not like they're playing. It's not like they're under under me exactly But it's kind of a no-win situation in that regard. I mean, Denver should be the same. They should have the same record as... I mean, they should be treating Yogesh how they treat Tatum. No, how they treated Steph when he was number one team.

Right? When he won back-to-back MVP. He won an MVP, won a championship. That very next year, he dominated the game. Yeah. He dominated. It was not a close debate. He was out there.

Just before he was sleeping with the handshake, he was sleeping on the bench. Just... So he says, Yogi should be getting treatment. He should get the treatment of who

they were last year, beating people. They got the same starting five back. What are they doing this year? And they should have been doing the same. How Steph was treated. They came back 73-9. That's how Denver should have looked this year. The fact that they can play the same type of basketball, nobody pays attention,

and he puts up the same numbers with the same media not mediocre, but same Technical dominance. Yeah, but you didn't give us no Yeah in your poor your performance or your team dominance, but do you think I mean he's kind of said this repeatedly Do you think he cares? It don't matter if he don't say but Okay, you don't care neither should the voters Fair point Right the voters. Yeah, that's no hand. That should be the difference the fact that he don't care. Neither should the voters. Fair point. Right, the voters don't care anymore. That should be the difference. The fact that he don't care, the voters should look at that metric as like,

all right, we can see in your performances. That you don't care. And not to say they don't care, obviously. No, I mean he don't care like that. But you don't care about the awards. Cool. That's not, we don't give a fuck either. What I'm saying is,

your team won the championship last year. You dominated in the playoffs. Boston has dominated the regular season, and you're playing the same as you did last year. OKC technically is dominating. Yep, the West. They're dominating the West. For that age group,

this is not even a fucking discussion. These are... This college team teams older than this team, and they're dominating pros. And if Cat don't get hurt, Minnesota's number two. Damn near, yeah. And Denver moves to three. And we looking at a whole different dynamic. Well, if Cat don't get hurt, Minnesota might be number one. But as I said so like for a

team that's supposed to be the favorites you guys are the favorites but you have not dominated the game this year right you can guys can go on and win when the bulls was dominated they dominated from the beginning people were afraid of them people are afraid of denver but not really they are because we don't want to match up with these motherfuckers right because they know who you guys are when you play hard and i'll say this if mb was playing the way that he was playing before the injury and he didn't get hurt i think philly would be giving boston a run for that number one spot with the consistent play and i think that the bucks haven't stepped up to the plate in the East to give Boston a run for their money at all. So to seeing

that Boston is over there by they self just dominating like that, and we look at the West and we say, all right, OKC, Minnesota with a cat, healthy cat. You're looking at Denver at third. I think the same dynamic happens in the East, right? If you got a healthy fucking Embiid, you're looking at a whole different East. It's not. It wasn't dominating when he was. It was. No, it wasn't. It was dominating.

Who? Philly. Did they have the easy schedule, though, at the beginning? Yeah, he was dominating. That's what I'm saying. They looked good. They were playing well. They looked like they could be a force until he got hurt.

And once that happened, they dwindled. I felt like Embiid just looked like they could be a force until he got hurt. And once that happened, they dwindled. I don't know. I felt like Embiid just looked like a force. I think their team was. And then Maxie stepped up. Maxie stepped up now, but I'm thinking like... Well, he stepped up. I mean, he was balling. He was balling. 27 again? He was like 27 again? I just thought that

when you're talking about great teams and you're talking about MVP, there should be some type of dominance. And that's what you did for the past. Those guys had to be dominant. This is a champion. They won. They dominated and then they came back during the season.

They're just one of three teams. They're not standing above yeah right um every team that that came back as a champion and that person was mvp his team was way above everybody else that's all i'm saying and we talk about prioritizing value and winning it's hard not to look at what the thunder nobody expected them yeah Yeah, that's what I'm saying You wasn't a top ten. He wasn't a top eight pick Going into the playoffs. Oh You know what I mean? So the fact that you are one or two and you're fighting for that and that really shows you how dominant this player is

and I gotta give the Mavs a little bit of credit for Coming back from a potential 10th not thinking about them being in the playoffs. A couple weeks ago, it was a different conversation. We had them missing. I think we did a thing about them missing. I mean, we talked about them. We weren't thinking about them moving up. I know I think I chose that there'd be a team that missed the playoffs.

And now they what? They're 6th? They're 5th seed right now. Yeah. There may be a reason behind that. So Mavs and Rockets were both locked into March. Some have argued that Texas banning Pornhub may have something to do with it. Both teams are a combined 14-1 since the state of Texas outlived the adult video site on March 14th.

The Rockets' only loss coming to the Mavs Sunday. I didn't know that was a thing. I heard the young kids do it. Yeah, I'm a positive. You just got know that was a thing. I heard the young kids do it. Yeah, I apologize. You just got to go to Red Tube. To what? Transition.

To what? Got to transition. Stay one step ahead. Transition. Red Tube. No, nothing about these places. Red Tube? Don't.

Don't. I'm not. Y'all know I'm not. I prefer Bible.com. I just wanted you to repeat it for the listeners. No, you want to do it. You want them motherfuckers to go look it up. Yeah, go look it up. Go check it out.

Bible.com for all your needs, all your internet stuff. Yeah, yeah. We back. We back. He has risen. We back. Go to churchbible.com, people. Is that a site?

Church Bible? Church Bible. Church Bible. No, buy it? Church Bible. Holymoly.com Let's just put two words together and try to figure out if that's a website. No, Church Bible. Somebody has a site parked there but does not have a

Oh, you checked this? I'm on it right now. Church Bible. Churchbible.com Get your Holy Spirit in, people. And then on Bible.com you can get a free Bible for your phone or tablet. That's a long-ass book. A lot of words.

A lot of words. Cliff Noteley. A lot of good words. Amen. All right, now let's move on to Mostly Fans. Another productive day in Gil's arena. Appreciate you to Underdog Fantasy as always. Fan in the room.

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Ticket plugs. I can't get all of our teams lost. I can. Everyone on this couch. Come on. There was a lot of talk last week Damn Sounded great

Sounded great It did Bear down It was unfortunate Fuck It was in the building We seen it I know

I know you guys were there That's what happens When you don't invite The entire crew You always invite it No Gil said he had a suite For himself

No Like there's not 18 seats in there Plus bar crew. You know I wasn't invited? No. Gil said he had a suite for himself. There's not 18 seats in there. Plus bar stools. Thought you lost. I'm sorry. Got all the good snacks in there. Only enough seats for three. Kool-Aid flavored wings. That's possible. Kool-Aid flavored wings. Get a suite just for yourself.

And watch your team take it out. So first question from underdog user Free Game wants to know what's the most money you spent on a bad meal?

On a bad meal? Most money you spent on a bad meal. I haven't had very many bad meals. I'm very good at picking good places to eat. I pride myself on that actually.

So I don't know. Applebee's. Not Applebee's. The cheesecakes. Bad meal? The factory of cheesecakes. Oh, maybe Boa. Went to Boa.

Oh, you ain't fuck with Boa? No, because it was the Wagyu. They ordered the Wagyu steak. That's this big? Yeah, and it was like the real Wagyu. Like it was just the fat. Oh, shit. It wasn't like, I don't know.

I thought like it was like. You got like the whole, all of them to try? I thought it was meat. They're like little. Yeah, they are. Not the hell. Like I was doing the real steak, but I thought it was like more meaty and felt like this some might taste it was more actually meaty than fatty this was just like it was just like all fat just like

is this me is this tofu that'll be $300 yeah take this shit I see that because I guess I had that and it can go either way. Yeah, I don't like that rich taste. Hit the sizzle. Yeah, I don't like that melt in my mouth taste. Hit the sizzle, they'll never betray you. I need the skirt, skirt. I need that skirt steak. Steak it with the New York time.

Most money you spent on a bad meal? I can't say, man. Was there an Applebee's skillet that wasn't hitting? Oh, man. Probably wasting some money on some bad work, probably. I knew you was going to say that. I'm just thinking. I'm trying to think of the food. I'm like, nah. Okay. What's the most money you wasted on a good meal? Okay

Money you wasted on a good Work was the most she's oh Man it's the money on some bad work now. $500. $650. That's kind of high. They be taxing now. To-go box or not?

Man. Nothing? No trinkets of the meal to remember? Bad box and some bad work. Uh-oh. Got to do a screening process. Get on Ryan. Uh-oh. Gotta do a screening process. Get on Raya. Yeah, man. I'm trying.

I'm trying. Raya, if you're watching this, let me in. Please let me in. Let me in. You have anybody that... I don't got no referrals. I'm trying to get on. Where? It's a Raya. It's like an exclusive dating app. It's only for athletes and niggas with money. Oh. I done upgraded. Niggas with money. Oh. I done upgraded it.

NiggasWithMoney.com. What are you doing on that? You know you got Instagram, right? It ain't working like it's supposed to be. Oh. Algorithm. They don't be answering back. Blue checks don't be blue checking no more.

Yeah, they put you in the request. Everyone got one. They put you in the request, Si. Oh. Blue checks don't mean shit no more. Just say I'm paying $250. Trust me. They got to see it.

They don't need to look at the bio. They put it in your bio. They put the cash apps in the bio. Like, I pay cash apps. I pay rent. What? Yeah, they going, oh, I'm not trying to fall for that. You got to know.

It's game. That's game. Hey, you say you need your rent. They all need rent at some point. That's game. Because most of the, most of the, most of the, what? Is that game? Paying people's rent.

What is it? Gettothepoint.com. Gettothepoint.com. Payyourrent.com. Every day. That's game, girl. That's a different level. That's game right there.

Every day is an experience. All right, our next question is a video question from underdog user purplehippo99. Hey, what's up? Give us a ring of three things, man. The ocean, the earth, and the universe. Which one y'all choosing to know all the secrets of?

Would you rather know the secrets of the ocean, the earth, or the universe? This is an aptitude test as well to see how in tune you are. All the secrets of the ocean, the earth, or the universe. This is an aptitude test as well to see how in tune you are. All the secrets? All the secrets. All the secrets.

The secrets down there? Don't want to know what's going on in the ocean. See the Titanic? The ocean. The ocean is terrifying. The earth. Definitely the universe. Got to see if people, there's other people living out there.

Other things. Like aliens and. Well. I'm thinking. If you know, you know. There ain't no universe. The earth is flat. Oh, I knew that was coming too.

It's not the cap. The earth is flat for sure. It's flat. And why do you think it's flat? Because it's this thing called the plane, right? You know what a plane is, right? And you drop the T off a plane, or you add the T. It's called what?

Planet? All right. Bleed the T out, and you just got planes, right? It's just flat. You got different planes. There ain't no fucking skies and stars and all that other shit. It's just a plane. That's why they won't let you on Ryan.

Yeah. Stars, moons, quasars. I go with the water. I go with... I want to know the secrets of the water. Why? Water. Why? Hmm?

Why? It's just phenomenon. There's King Kong down there. Phenomenon's like squirting and all different kinds of shit. You want to know how it works. I want to know land. I want to know what's buried under this, around it. Water. I want to know what's buried under this

Around it water. I want to know what's inside the mountains water is a gold is a diamonds. I want to know it all Water yeah, cool. I'm weird. I want to know like when I be looking at mountains. I'm like who's living in those Is there humans in people got nice habitats? Have you seen a movie Hills have eyes? No, I that movie? Have you seen that movie, Hills Have Eyes? No. It's scary. I can't do scary. Oh, well, it's people living in mountains. Mountains.

Like, I just want to, like, if they can just x-ray, like, are there machines that can x-ray inside the mountains? There are people that do underground. Look, I know underground. I'm just talking about them big hoop-a-hoop mountains. I'll be like, what's in those? You know what's in there. What's in there? You know what's in there. Like, the animals. I know animals got to, like, I'd be like, what's in those? You know what's in there. What's in there? You know what's in there.

Like the animals. I know animals got to, like I'd be wanting to just, just animals be traveling. King Konging them in there. Yeah. I'd be really thinking about that. Yeah, like.

What's in those mountains? King Kong, Godzilla, Titan, Star Wars, whatever. You think they're making these movies telling us what is going on? Did you, they just, the new King Kong just came out.

I can't... I saw it yesterday. Can't keep up. I'm trying to figure out, but it's racist somehow. Big-ass gorillas living in the center of the Earth. In the center of the Earth. I'm just trying to... It is Earth in the center of the Earth.

There's portals and shit. That's called planes. Okay. You see, they didn't go out of space to show you that shit, right? It ain't another planet. If we here, it is different levels to this shit Go to the third plane. I'm not going in the water open that third No, no, no possible water Aquaman them down there I'd be really a listen the fact that they said

What's the percentage of they seen they got in the water, 5%, something like that? Of what? 10% of the water? That they've just heard. You can't even go deep enough because you'll like. We don't got no machines that's big enough down there? We have one. Oh, there's some niggas down there. Oh, Aquaman, oh, they got to be.

They cannot be that deep underwater. The Galane Wise Pirates of the Caribbean. OK. Yeah. Yeah. That's why. You got to guess why. OK.

You get too far. You. Yeah, see, when you get closer down there, you probably just got to go upside down and bloop, bloop. And you can breathe. Nobody's tried it yet. I'm telling you. So we've only explored.

Only Johnny Depp know. We've only explored 5% of our world oceans. That's crazy. Tell you, the abyss. And they got no machine. The a new triangle and they have no machines as they haven't even built that can get that far Now what people in it? They try things up you did now That's how they became rich that's how Elon Musk begin all this money he got all that pirate gold Well, you think that damn it? So you think that submarine went that submarine it just disappeared

all these people died the niggas got out and went to the mall all that treasure down there all that treasure Atlantis and them is down there alright let's flip that motherfucker up move on to our last question

I'm going to get down there as soon as I'm going to go down to like 10 feet and I'm going to go upside down see if it opens up another portal Big ass guru your world you never know until you try Aerial on them I'm telling you a real fine Little Nemo and them, they talk. And them. Nemo and them. I'm good. I'm good. I'm part of them, part of them, emperor gold, they somewhere, y'all. They down there. Don't you go fucking around.

Great movies. They got hoods, too. They be like, what you doing around here, nigga? Remember this earth? Hey, this earth was built way before us, right? Before us, and some of this shit that we don't know how it was built, somebody did back then. For sure. It has to

be aliens. Our third question, video question for mostly fan user Zedarian. You know what, Gilzering? A quick question. Since the playoffs are on the horizon, I just want to ask, what did you guys do to prepare to get ready for playoff season, whether it was getting more reps, taking more reps, less reps?

What did you guys do to get more in ready for playoff shape? Producer, I just want you guys to know, if you want your question featured on the show, have the show on in the background when you ask a question. That generally helps bump you up to the top because we know you're a real supporter. So what did you guys do to prepare for the playoffs? Them. They did. I ain't never been.

Never been? Leave me out of this. Would it have been the same as college? You're a college pre-game. No, no. Okay. All right. Different front of the work.

Preparation. For the most part, it's preparing your body. It's not in shape. It's not in shape. You're already in shape. The game actually slows down to get more physical. So from there, you're going to do a lot more stretching. You're going to get massages, ice cold tub, cold tub, steam room. You might change how you eat.

You're not going to eat a lot of sugar. You're not gonna eat a lot of sugar, not gonna drink much when you're getting ready to get ready for the playoffs, not partying as much. Because it all depends. I remember when we was in Ohio, we didn't want to stay in Ohio, so we'll stay in D.C. longer. So it's like two games there, two games back,

but let's say we play on a Tuesday, Friday, right after the Tuesday game. We might go back home Because back home we we have our our facility to ourselves. So we have to coordinate with like Cavs and they might pull any kind of schedule on you So you might not be able to get in there like you want to. So you'll go back home. So we're there Wednesday and Thursday, leave Thursday after. So we can get our treatment. We can get our shooting up. We can get to our facility.

So it's all part of a strategy too. Yeah. Alexi, what do you do to prepare for the playoffs? The one season I made the playoffs when I was actually playing, we were still in single elimination So we lost we ended up losing in Seattle So like there wasn't really much prep for that for the one game because we weren't in a series yet when I was in Chicago I wasn't really playing at all. So

For me my preparation and from what I saw Yeah, I agree with Gil like from what I saw from the players who were logging heavy minutes, like, lots of rest, treatment. You know, they wasn't going out and doing anything extra. But as far as, like, the bench players, like, we had to, like, I was watching a ton of film. You know, I was trying to help the starting group stay locked in. We didn't have practice players because we were still dealing with COVID stuff. So we just had to be locked in and practice, you know, helping them prepare with the scouting and stuff like that. So I think

mentally, obviously physically, you got to take care of your body, but you really got to lock in mentally, figure out what's working, what's not working, because then it becomes a game of chess in the playoffs and the series. Yeah. When it comes to the basketball part of it,

it's you doing a lot of overthinking, right? Let's say I scored 40. Now, Mike, going into the next game is, how would I stop myself? How would I stop myself? What are they going to throw at me? Because I know they're going to try to do that. Because I know they're going to do this at me,

I got to have a plan and do this. It's a lot of playing chess, trying to think what they're going to do, what you need to do. If you do this, what they're going to do. So it's chess game out there, and you're moving in real time. First quarter don't look like the second quarter. Second quarter don't look like the fourth quarter. Right. What you did in the first half probably won't work in the second half.

Because at that halftime, they done changed some whole shit up. And they went to an alternate playbook that you probably ain't seen. They probably did a play in November that they done pulled out their November playbook for you in the playoffs. And you sitting there sitting on their April playbook. Like, oh, April, May, this is what they doing. And they done changed all that shit up. How much did you guys do that type of stuff? Like, work on stuff super early in the season that you know you're gonna bank Yes, we did it. We did we did a lot of changing of

Like some of our our sets like if we ran a lot of in April We did a lot of chins early right and we got in with the chance We might start off the first game with a lot of forwards out Okay, we might throw the forwards out work work like Caron and Antoine in, and then they're like... To see if it's working. To see if it's working, to see if they're going to key in on that, to go back to the chins,

and then we might not do the chin plays we did against them that time. We might do something else. You remember like Steve Antman and Steve Curry was having a little talk. It wasn't a talk, but they said something. Ant-Man said, yeah, we knew they were going to do this play, and they ended up running it. We said, watch out for this play.

They might do this play, and they ended up doing it. Steve Curry was like, shit, we ain't ran that play since November. Wow. Preparation is key. But that's the shit in the playoffs. They might throw a play that you ain't seen since. So it's really about scouting and trying to figure out what they'll throw at you. So it's more about the mentality.

That's probably my biggest regret is not being able to be in a playoff setting because I'm a very detailed player. So I love film. I love when we're actually going through scout in practice. I always would get on the coaches, and they used to hate me for this because I always was like, all right, are we going to run it and guard it like this? Let's guard all the scenarios. Let's black it.

Let's red it. Let's white it. Let's switch it. Let's turn it down. Let's see it, right, because a lot of coaches don't like to go through all of those scenarios, especially when it's regular season because it's like, oh, we might not. They might not even go through those processes. So it's like I can only imagine in playoffs when you have to be detailed.

See, that's where you would have excelled at in the playoffs because it's detailed. I love it. What if they do this? What if they do that? Yeah, I love it. And even as a scout team, like if I'm a role player on the scout team, I'm taking the challenge to make sure that our team is prepared. Like, look, bro, they might not even run the play. Let's go back to, like you said, November and see how Washington was running the chin action.

They ain't been running it for two and a half months. Well, game one, they ran it. And they killed us on it. Because we ain't been running it for two and a half months. Well, game one, they ran it and they killed us on it because we ain't prepared for it. Coach, what are we doing? Like, let's prepare for all of their plays. What are the best things that they was doing in the beginning of the season? Now let's look at this. Let's look at this. And even in college, that's how it was. And Coach Williams didn't like me challenging certain things when it came to our offense. Like, let's go all the way through the process of our offense. Like, let's execute the whole thing all the way down to the last option. And when you don't do that, you are only setting

yourself up for failure because you're relying on the first two options. We don't have to pick a row here and then we kick it back. And he don't got it then. It's freelance. We still got four other options. Let's make them play defense the whole way through. And I think that that was the biggest regret. It's wanting to play playoff ball.

Because I was always used to getting to that level of the last step. You know what I'm saying? And I hear Gilbert talk about it all the time because I've seen in real time y'all playing against Cleveland and certain teams and not being able to get over the hump and it's like you have certain guys that's not locked in to play off basketball where it's like this detail bro like you go all the way through things and you didn't even have that guy call you uh who you said uh Scotty Scotty call be like, nah, you got to decoy this. To have someone like Karan or somebody else on the team like, nah, yeah, it's time for me to step

up because they not expecting me to step up. They expecting you to, let's switch it up. You know what I'm saying? That's just to me, high IQ basketball. And I love that shit. Another exhilarating day inside the arena. Happy April Fools to everybody who celebrates

No pranks in the show. I'm very very Proud of you. How am I gonna be I'm surprised y'all ain't try to prank me. I even think about it. Wait a minute Easter was I told you it was them. See, they said we. You see, they said we. You see, they said we. I told you it was them. They said we. It was Steve and them got you, man. They said we. We had to spend a lot of money to get those cake stains out of the carpet.

It was not in the budget. We had to let some people go as a result of it. Melly, Melly. That was funny. Uh-huh. I wish I was there. I wish I was there for that. Melly Mel came. That was funny. Uh-huh. I wish I was there. I wish I was there for that. Melly Mel.

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