Gil's Arena - Gil's Arena Talks Steph, KAT & The Laker's Bad Loss

Episode Date: March 7, 2024

Gil's Arena Reacts To Steph Curry Cooking The Milwaukee Bucks & Karl Anthony Town's Tough Injury as Gilbert Arenas and The Gil's Arena Crew end the week breaking down Chef Curry and the Golden State Warriors bouncing back in a big way after their beatdown against the Celtics and analyzing how KAT's meniscus injury changing things up for the Minnesota Timberwolves as they sit atop the NBA's Western Conference. They also react to Udonis Haslem saying Chris Bosh was more important than LeBron and D-Wade to the Miami Heat's championship runs and call fact or cap on Paul Pierce saying he never heard Draymond's trash talk. Finally, they dive into Jordan Poole's resurgence this year after switching to a bench role and diagnose why the switch up turned his season around. 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 Use code GIL for $20 off your first SeatGeek order https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/GIL 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 0:03:57 How Long Could You Go Without S*x? 0:06:39 Karl Anthony Towns Torn Meniscus 0:11:25 John Collins vs Bulls Assistants 0:19:48 Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul 0:23:32 DeAaron Fox & Kings Cook The Lakers 0:32:22 Are People Sleeping On The Kings? 0:39:43 Any Concern With LeBron's Workload? 0:43:55 Chef Curry Cooks The Bucks 0:57:58 Steph's Viral Golf Celly 1:06:42 Jordan Poole's Season Revival 1:07:49 SeatGeek Lakers Game Recap 1:21:26 1 Ticket To Any Event In History...Where You Going? 1:26:37 Bosh Was More Important Than LeBron - Facts or Cap 1:32:28 Paul Pierce Didnt Hear Draymond's Trash Talk 1:41:37 Are Players Too Buddy Buddy These Days? 1:47:49 The Biggest Problem With AAU Basketball 1:59:42 MostlyFans 2:20:26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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chair is here you got to bring the rings and flex on these are easy back I'm just fun no niggas now thank the truth is time game right now here's was cracking in the arena today. Wolves all-star Carl Anthony Towns has a meniscus injury. But what does this mean for the top seed in the West? The Warriors bounce back from their 52-point loss to the Celtics by smacking the Bucs by 35. But what does this win say about the Warriors?

And what does it say about the Bucs? Udonis Haslam says Bosh was the most important heedle. And Paul Pierce says he couldn't hear Draymond's farewell to our trash talk. But is it that fax or cap? We've got a lot to get into. But before we do, as always, this show is brought to you by Underdog Fantasy. If you haven't done so already, download the app. Use promo code GILL.

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with a difficult question that I saw circulating around the internet. So, no sex for two years and you get $700 million. Could you do it? Sex. Hell yeah. Easy. Gil, no sex for two years for $700 million. Yes!

Yes. What's wrong with you, man? Not me. I'm merely host. I'm a conduit to what's buzzing around the internet. Women drain pockets, brother. You keep it in, you get 270 million. You get 700 million for... Come on, man.

Where the money at? Can you believe Gil could last for two years? All right, that man said it, so, hey, shit. Where the money at? Can you believe Gil could last for two years? Alright, that man said it so... Hey, shit. Listen, listen. I do it two years right now. They try to take me off child support. The court say no sex for two years, you off child support. What? That's seven grand right there. I'm saving that a bunch.

You crazy? Shit, where... I'm with you. Off child... shit. Fellas out there, all you fellas out there. She went Off Jackson Fellas out there all you fellas out this morning. Thank you all for child support. No sex for two years Put that in the chat watch this number You abstain from having sexual relations for two years you not have to pay child support ever for the rest of eternity You mean that I would about four seven million dollars for two years I just say for seven thousand Ever. For the rest of eternity. Give me that.

All right, what about for $7 million for two years? I just said for $7,000. That's $7,000 a month, though, with interest. Yes. Stop the cap. Stop the cap, Bill. Y'all don't know how much child... Listen, that child support check, everyone's like, ah, damn, dawg.

You ain't getting nothing with it either. Yeah. Elisa, thank you. I'll take it. You take it. Thank you Well shit that it goes I thought that's the man man Understand Damn so several but you said my yes, I could do that. Give for 750 a year 700. For damn sure. 700? How about you? 700. Yes, I could do that, Gil. For $700 million.

$350 a year? $350 a year? What? That's like a million a day. You just heard that? A million a day. Baby, did you hear that? Man, listen.

For sure. You could do it, North? Absolutely. Easy? Yeah. Man, what are you talking about? You said, Mahana? After two years, you know what I'm doing? What? After two years. You know how much I hate you? North absolutely easy

You said you would do it for basically 168 thousand dollars seven grand a month child support over for all eternity though To your I ain't got to pay no more child support her child or collective? Just period. Boy, I'm out there slinging it, boy. That's the only thing that keep me at bay is that courtroom. Like, ah, yeah, I'm in California. I just can't be slinging it like that. Yeah.

I was up in Memphis somewhere, Idaho. Boy, I mean, boy, I be trying to get my chance somewhere Idaho I'll be trying to get my chance of them league boys in a minute boy Getting a new cannon. Oh, yeah. I don't know what Nick Canada. Oh, that's California tax. Oh, that's different. That's say that's a little different. That's a disso master Damn that word. Yeah, that's the worst's that's the worst word going but it helps Yeah, you know you're doing your favor. Yeah, it can go and it can go against you. Well, we hit this so massive What man who is this? Goddamn, that's a computer. Yeah goddamn computer and they type it in which which you make what she made

The algorithm is not in your face not at all Has no for that computer has no feeling no She's got a number then you might get some people that spit they spit the number out you they'd be like How that ain't good enough Damn just gonna just go ignore what the machine spit out, huh? So you smarter than the machine, okay. So your math better than that calculator. Yup.

So we asked the chat, would you abstain from sex for two years for $700 million? 95% yes. I feel like a lot of y'all are capping. But a lot of y'all don't have to worry about that anyway. It's $750 million anyway you do that anyway yeah that's most of it like yeah I can keep going only two years only two more shit continue it my wife don't like me anyway. I do for another 10, shit. Throw another 10 on there.

But let's keep this thing moving, get into some basketball. The Wolves may be without all-star forward Carl Anthony Towns for the foreseeable future as the big man suffered a meniscus injury in his left knee. Now, according to Shams, who tweeted this at about 6 in the morning Pacific time, Cat has a torn meniscus and will be out indefinitely. That's what Shams was saying. And then Woj, about 26 minutes later, after Shams broke the news, tweeted that Kat is evaluating whether to have immediate surgery or if there are rehab options available, still unclear how much time he'll be required to miss. Because truly, like,

you don't have to operate on your meniscus. So it's not... If he tore it, it's still true. It could be true. What he's saying could be true. So he just didn't want to jump out there and say, like, so he got beat to the punch. Punch, yeah. Right?

So he's trying to find a different way to counter what he's saying. But, like, a meniscus injury, like, you don't need, really need surgery. Like, you can operate on it, yeah, if you're trying to get right, but you can rehab it and be out the same amount of time. Yeah, I had in my right knee when I was in Orlando, I had a meniscus tear, but it was called like a button hook. You ever heard of that? You ever heard of a button hook? Never heard of that.

Which means it was flapping, so it was flapping, but because it wasn wasn't open that it didn't affect me So as long as it was down it was cool, right? So even though it was torn it didn't bother me for me to go get surgery So they said eventually over time it'll come out in a year sure enough I'm sitting there bowling a couple years later and then all of a sudden It's One is my goofy ass. You know how you got the lane right here and lane right there,

and then you got the middle thing just like this? Whenever I wanted to go to that lane, for some reason, my foot kept hitting the machine, right? Hitting it on the side. Yeah. Two times, three times, and then eventually, yeah. Just some stupid, I'm stupid. I don't know how I keep hitting the machine.

I thought the machine was a little bit back. No, the machine, when I'm stupid. Yeah, I don't know how I keep The machines a little bit back knowing the machine when I go when I'm trying to go to that lane, okay Oh, you can come from this lane and I kept somehow clipping it. Oh, oh, I'm getting the house stupid. Am I? Just walk this way walk around Walk around I'm gonna be her my thing So cat is after 22 points a rebound decedents shooting 42% from three had played in 60 of the Timberwolves 62 games to this point You only have 22 points. Mm-hmm. Listen as aggressive as he is and many shot. Yo, I know He'd be fine that bitch I Was shocked yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right like yeah, no damn Okay, no, I got a 60 carry on Yeah, that's what they're gonna have a 20. Oh, never mind go ahead man

By contrast if the Edwards averaging 26 a game this season What does this mean for aunt and the Timberwolves moving forward if Cat does have to miss some extended time? Nas Reed. They do. Nas Reed. I mean, you guys have talked about their, you know, rolling into the playoffs, being able to roll that two-big lineup,

the issues it presents. They're only taking 15 shots a game though. That's good though, because Ant-Man, you know, seemed like way more than... It do, right? It do seem like he's shooting, he's chucking. Dude, my bad, Cat, shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He only shooting 15. And shooting better percentage, 50% than my shot.

Yeah, my bad. Damn, this dude, it seems like he be putting that bitch up. He didn't really get to the free throw line, that's why. So it's all shots. He's a shooter now. Yeah, he's a shooter. Floor spacer now. I think for the regular season, they can sustain it.

For the playoffs, though, I think for them to be a championship contender, I think they need Cat out there. Yeah. To space the floor, to have more options with the lineup. Nas Reed is nice, so they can sustain regular season. out there to space the floor to have more options with the lineup Nas Reid is nice so they can see regular season but cat is the ultimate floor spacer and when you want to take Rudy go bear off he's also a seven-footer who can you know block shot so I think for playoffs they don't need him if they want to make

some real noise if you ever have meniscus issue injury I know you have the micro fracture yeah you had a meniscus injury? I know you have the micro fracture. I had other shit going on. I never had meniscus. Yeah, you had a meniscus. I knew about it. That same one, after I got surgery, I still, like I'm limp, I can't drive. So it still hurts? That's why I wear a lot of sandals. That's why I wear sandals most of the time. Okay. With no socks?

Yeah, it still bothers me. Meniscus is like, you can walk straight and do stuff, but you can't like cut or do something stuff with money This is yeah, my joints feel hurts and this is like a couple years ago and I'm like I rehabbing for free I'm gonna do my job J.r. Toe it on a shirt was out and came back in record time. I was to start calling any Wolverine Oh, yeah, but nigga you heal fast What about two three weeks? Yeah, yeah. It was like, yeah.

It was like, this nigga back off. It was like three weeks. Like, he's hooping again. I'm like, yo, what are you... You all right? You all right? What's got going on? What do you expect to see from Anthony Edwards now with Cat out?

Cat's already previously said that it's Ant's team now. But this seems like an opportunity for Ant. No, he's going to turn up. I mean, you know, he's going to take on that scoring load. So, you know, with him being out, if he's averaging, what, 26? Mm-hmm.

He's going to average about 30. The problem right now, you know, across the board is they're one, but they're in front by, what, half a game? Yeah. One and a half.

So, you know, they can go from one to five in a week. Yeah. Right? So, you know, for... It might to five like in a week yeah it's right so you know for that might be better for them though that might be better for them in the play like going to play all this right hell yeah yeah that's the goal they go stay that having one of them team that either Lakers or Golden State

or somebody down at who yeah you might not want to play them yeah especially not awful be honest as be honest man the west is so loaded right now I mean the only team you really want is fucking Dallas that's the only team you're looking at like if you any team like yeah let me go ahead see where I can line up yeah I mean you have a rough one because Luca Luca's about that business yeah but. But the rest of us, as a team win, yeah, we're going to do this. This is going to be a team win right here. Yeah. You're going to get embarrassed.

That's a fact. Yeah, like, I mean, right now that's the only team that seems like, you know, that they don't have their shit together. Other than that, you know, that bottom looks like they're playing some shit that we can't see coming. They're sitting there looking looking so my ankle hurt Right lose this game when the next with ankle hurt when this game losing You know what the fuck going on with the look at that whole bottom four and then the top

They probably sitting there doing the same thing, too I got won't one but I don't want this team first. I won't two, you know what I mean three I like three. Three, six. You sound better than me. Four, five. I mean, this is one of those like, this could be like, I know last year we was like, yo, this is going to be some good first round. This year's first

round might be epic for the West. Right. The four or five matchup in the West is going to be great. That's Clippers. That's Clippers' son. That's Clippers' Pelicans right now. That could be Clippers' Pelicans or Clippers Pelicans right now. That could be Clippers Pelicans or Clippers side. Only two and a half games to separate the top four teams in the West. The Timberwolves and Thunder right now are tied for the top spot, followed by the Nuggets and the Clippers. Then you got Pelicans at five, Suns at six, Kings at seven, Mavs at eight, Warriors nine, Lakers ten right now.

It seems like it'll be some mixture of those ten teams. The Jazz are, I want to say five and a half games out of that 10th spot right now. What's their strength of schedule though? Who? They got a week's schedule coming up, Minnesota. Let me see. I think that'll determine where they land and how well they can do.

So their next games are Pacers, Cavs, Lakers, Clippers, then they got the Jazz twice, then Nuggets and Cavs again so it's just one of those I can go either way they can go anyway yeah so things got turnt up during the Jazz Bulls game between John Collins and Bulls assistant Chris Fleming we got the video so DeMar DeRozan appears to get into with Torrey Craig on the sideline then some other players come over there. You can see right there Collins. Oh yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Wasn't with the shenanigans. Players and coaches from both sides had to be separated. Bulls went on to win that game. But let's take another look. Got a little bit closer so for me give him a little arm shows John Collins doesn't take too kindly to it

it's close to the neck how to get a year that point because I realize he a man not coach a coach at that point. Yeah, that's... Is that Drummond over there? Yeah. Drummond's over there. That's his playoff time. Torrey Craig not even playing. Can't even be our resident expert on... All things physical.

Physicality of the NBA. Big deal, not a big deal, what you think? Nah, I just think the assistant coach needs to keep his goddamn hands to himself first and foremost. Like, he started the whole shit, like, don't, why you touching another, like, the other, like, he wasn't, from the whole video, John Collins wasn't the aggressor in none of it. Mm-hmm. So, even after it all went down he was the only one standing on the back. I looked at it a couple times. He was the only one standing on the outside of it.

He wasn't even involved in the whole thing after. So he wasn't even an aggressor. So why you feel the need to put your forearm in his chest so but um, yeah, no is You in street clothes you over the run in your mouth Just the Tory Craig do you over the run your mouth in street clothes and that was section right who went over there? Yeah so it's Yeah, that's what like guys in street clothes talk the most shit yeah All right, that's facts. Yeah, you ain't popping your ass on the court, too I get on your nerves when you on the court. Yeah, you on the court in street clothes talk the most shit. Yeah. That's facts. Yeah, you ain't playing. That's on the court, too. That get on your nerves when you on the court. Yeah.

You on the court, you in street clothes, and you talking. Talking shit, and guys talk the most shit, so. Or guys who ain't go get in the game got the most say, like most to say. Like, you ain't got a chance in hell to get in unless this motherfucker's out of control. Yeah, I've done that plenty of times. Yeah just yeah, yeah ain't got shit else to do This is my I'm at work over there getting texts like the masses ass like Over there getting texts and shit like running your mouth too much. Yeah, I got a tech attack on the bench? I got a tech that kicked me off the bench. So I sat in the stands.

And then they said, no, you got to get out of the arena. I was like, I'm a civilian now. I'm a civilian now. I get two more texts now. But something happened with Larry, and I'm over there. That's a fucking foul.

That's a foul. And then it kept going. Heck. And then another one. Get out. I bet. And you came back. I said, right there.

Boom. You kicked me off as a player. I still got seats in this building. I'm a season ticket holder. I'm trying to find a loophole. That shit didn't work. Not at all. Nope.

And speaking of fighting, Mike Tyson announced on his IG that he will fight Jake Paul July 20th at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The fight will be broadcast on Netflix. Mike Tyson, 57 years old. Jake Paul, 27 years old. Does Jake Paul stand a chance? Depends if it's scripted or not. I don't know if Jake been hit yet.

Right. Listen, this is the true story. You remember when Tyson Tyson Holyfield was uh About the fight Y'all don't remember what happened, right? There was a viral video of what Tyson looked like Holy for the year. Yeah Holyfield was like yeah yeah yeah I'm out he went out and that's where Roy Jones came in from

then Roy someone like yo Roy are you not watching what he's doing Roy backed out and then they came to terms and terms was basically don't knock me out yeah so like I think it was like 10 million dollars you can't knock me out and you can't punch through me

so you know how Mike Tyson he's trying to punch to the back of your head. So basically, every time he punched you in the face, he got to basically stop his punch. Can't knock him out. And in California, there's no winner, there's no knockouts, everybody wins. It's for charity. That's where that came in at. So that's why it was a split decision. There was no winner because there was rules in play that Mike Tyson can't punch.

Because it was like, well, when Mike is fighting, we don't know what's going to happen. So they put, you lose your bag if you knock him out or you punch through it. Roy said, I wasn't going to punch the shit that went by him. He said he felt the wind like, oh, shit. Like, listen, Jake, hey, I understand who you've been fighting, Jake Paul. It went by him. You say he felt the wind like oh shit like listen Jake hey, I understand who you've been fighting Jake ball. I really do If y'all don't put stipulations in this motherfucker like Gil just mentioned the Michael hey man, you can't punch me Mike Mike Tyson don't kill him Klaus if you don't put that in there Just because literally like let's just think about it. He is a

Professional fighter with the probably the most power we've unseen right in boxing itself Just an accidental Right hook or something you did Right. You are not you're not built for the type of hits it So if you even last we already know is scripted one round what 30 seconds even even just a quick just boom Yeah, I'm good. I still got dead We can literally see who might when he's punching with his trainer, right, we've seen you punch. Eyes closed

half the time. Half your knockouts, your eyes is closed. You just throwing a haymaker. That shit ain't working on Mike Tyson, man. He gonna slip that and he gonna have to hold back that. You put your hand out here with Mike. Yep. That's what I said. He's gonna have to try to, and that's the problem. He's gonna

sit there. We gonna see, it was like McGregor and Mayweatherather right with me with that for me where there's like Throwing punches at his shoulder blade like his whole face ready Okay We understand if Jake Paul lasts longer than Hurricane McNeely we know it was fake He gonna last because he's younger than Mike. He's going to run around. He's almost 30 years younger than Mike.

So that's his only really chance. If there's no stipulation, it is to move around. Yeah. Unless you run around that motherfucker just... Ah! Yeah. Because if he gets cut off in the corner and Tyson gets a TNO on him, I don't see how... So earlier we asked no

sex for two years for 700 million about two minutes with Mike Tyson for 700 million you cannot fall taking me you gotta you gotta fight two minutes two minutes with Tyson for how much seven hundred minutes hell yeah wait no no if he knocks me out before the two minutes I still get my fucking money right he gets to pick you back up you You can't just take the needle. You can't just go down. You got to stand there fighting. For $750?

Nah, egg, nah. I ain't doing it. My life is... Man, boxing. You don't play boxing? Wait, he ain't killed nobody yet, right? That we know. That we know of. That we know of.

Now, on his street fights, he's been known to some cats in New York. Ding, ding, ding. All right. known some cats in New York is seeing ding ding Shit cuz if we've done seen Dean Dean Dean to miss a long time to be rumbling somebody no no no I know it's if we not even a full round. Oh, yeah, I'm two-thirds over you it would be you little yeah Small for sure. I'm not doing that you're underdog. Yeah for, for sure. Hoo! Boom, six, nine. You different, hey. I got jabbed. I know how to keep niggas. OK. I'm going to keep you out here.

OK. I'm not doing that. To me, that sounds like death. I'm trying to count. To me, that sounds like death. You running for dear life with that jab. Like,. Because he don't do what he used to do.

You know, like when he used to come out of the corner, he used to charge like a bull. He don't do what he used to do, you know, I used to come out of the color corner He used to charge like a bull. You don't do that. So that least that's at least 15 seconds. That's a good for 4.5 seconds Oh, no So now I got about go to his 50 seconds not any other way I got about nine seconds cuz he got to pick me up and then we go back to our corners right in there Now I'll be hit about what ten good times I'm not to maybe no he's gonna pick me back up so but every time he touched you with the glove you gonna go down that's what I got about ten good hits the time frame CTE bro see I don't want 750 million

with CTE bro or with lacerated ribs and lungs I don't want 750 million with CTE, bro. Or with lacerated ribs and lungs. I don't want none of that. Like I said, you... Yeah, I'm only 175, 180 pounds. Because I know one thing I'm not going to do. I'm not going to swing back. Why not? Hell no. That's the real knockout. What?

That's the counter knockout. What? Might get lucky. Like, no. Lucky to do what? Piss them off. Piss them off. Do you see us?

Right. Do we look like we knocking motherf about but you six four. Yeah He 511 510 5 he's 230 pounds. Yeah, he's a real head. I'm about the same right? I've seen his fights You're about the same right now. No, no, no, I seen his fights. It don't look like they power was doing much to him Right, so I'll see there. Yeah. Yeah, boom Did So I'm doing like you can't even kill me So we asked the check could you laugh you know two minutes with Tyson was no you didn't say last Last means like somehow like we don't ran around. No, you didn't say laughs Yes, they do it like as long as I soon as ding just two minutes whatever happens in two minutes

Revive whatever bring it back to life. Oh hey gone We have to chat two minutes first Tyson for 700 million 56 percent said now 44 44 percent of y'all is full of shit. No, no, 44%, we trying to get money. Man, it sound good to y'all in there with me. No, I know, look, look. Everybody got a plan. I might have a shit bag after. I'm about to say, what?

Yeah, I might have a little thing rolling with the little, the little, what is that? The little air pocket shit? Oxygen tank? Cool, cool. I was going to get that at some point anyway in life. Just expedited the process. I got $750, though.

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It went the way that others did. What about last night? Huh? What about last night? Why you talking about old shit? We still riding the wave. We still riding the wave. Why you bringing up old shit? So speaking of the wave. We still riding the... Why you bringing up old shit?

So speaking of... Technically, last night is old shit too, but speaking of old shit, last night the Lakers were looking to get some momentum after their win over the Thunder, but De'Aaron Fox and the Kings had other plans. Did he? So after the Lakers jumped out to a 19-point lead

in the first quarter, the Kings responded with a 54-20 run. You heard that right. 54 to 20. Take a 15 point lead in the break. Look at it with 44 in the second. There were 44 points in the fourth. It was an unfortunate evening.

Fox tied his career high with 44 points. Giving the Lakers guards an array of buckets. Whoever wanted it was getting it. As well as AD. And don't leave some bonus out Malik monk out of 26 points and Domantas a bonus Mester on it dropped another triple-double his league-leading 22nd of the season finishing with 16 points 20 boards and 12 dimes

Just just FY I ain't gonna beat nobody. I'll give up 130. I just want y'all to know that I think that's the best fact I know top before we talk about anything else They got to do with players on the team. No offense defense give 130 angle beat a motherfucker I think that is the sort of because we can't score You're not scoring under 30 points as a team. So I just want y'all know that shit like so I think that's a fair says Now now get to I scored 130 points as a team, so I just want y'all to know that shit. I think that's a fair assessment. All right. Now. Now.

Get to the real. Get to the real. The floor is yours, guys. I mean, I don't really have much to say in this situation. No, you always have something to say about the Lakers, so don't be fucking quiet now. Don't be shy now. Yeah, don't be shy now. Protect your integrity.

Stand on it. Stand on it. Yeah, stand on business. Stand on business right now. Let me hear it. Ref was cheating, first and foremost. Now, stand on business. Let me hear it. Refs was cheating. First and foremost. Now, why is that always the go-to?

That's all we know. What's the easiest? Yeah, the refs. Feeling good in the first quarter. Whistling. Everybody smiling. Scoring 37. Thought they'd shoot.

Nah, you know what's so funny? We had some good, during that 10-0, they had, like, an amazing 10-0 run. And in that 10-0 run, you know, AR just didn't do it for us. It was one of those 0-5 out of the last five shots. We should have called a timeout plenty of times. But no self-awareness on the court for the most part. Like, you know, like they're making a run. You know, we got to make a play inside, give a little post up.

I mean, Anthony Davis, I mean, you got somebody that is thinner than you. He's posting you up. Yeah. Return the favor. Just return the favor. Like, return the favor. Hey, hey, big fella. They done scored six in a row.

Give us some free throws, some something, and then go from there. And the fact that they didn't just. Yeah. So earlier. Bonus I played Anthony Davis. Yeah. So bonus. Big time. Nine and 0. What? Nine and 0 in his career against Eddie. Didn't just so earlier bonus. I play Anthony Davis Sabonis me nine and oh

What nine and oh in his career against a D? hmm Barbecue that's called foot to ass Eddie struggled against other big centers as well I believe Joker seven and oh so what did you bet you just basically just say it you roll the euro bigs is kicking Americans I was waiting for you to say girl. No, man. The Davis is he says not five so he won't so he's not a big technically in this so Okay, so

So far The bonus in no five either. Shit. I mean, you know. I know this. I'm just. That's tough, bro. Your matchup is whooping your ass.

Absolutely. That's what he's saying as a defensive player. Yeah. And, you know. You need to go to AD. A team that's playing fast and you know you can't score that way, controlling tempo, playing through AD in the post would kind of slow that down. I don't know what their strategy was, but if they was to throw the ball to AD down there,

you can't run when you're playing through the post and drawing fouls. That gives them a better chance. How many free throws did AD shoot? Four. That's what I'm saying. Made four. Four for five from the free throw line. Finished with 14 points, 11 rebounds.

Took 13 shots in the game. We had, as a team, three offensive rebounds. What is going on? Like, what? A grand total of three. Sabonis had 20. So he didn't, I mean, shit, just him alone didn't give up no offensive rebounds. Sabonis had more offensive rebounds than the entire Lakers team.

Finished with four. So if this pick up with Spencer, is it working? Is it not working? Not yet. What's going on? It's still, it's still, it's still. Still is still still still still cooking workshop and we're still working slow roast When those two hour 24 hour joints that we waiting for to meet cuz he was like Thanksgiving dinner Who's for the help with shot creation right offensive creation, you know other than LeBron like create shots create tempo for other people right now

He's just he's just in the corner Figuring it. Oh, he's just in the corner playbook as you mean we put him's just in the corner. It's just a playbook as you know. We ain't put him in the, as a point guard yet. We ain't figured that part out yet. Okay. Because y'all got a point guard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He wear number 23. Unfortunately.

I mean late in the game. I mean it's, and then once it got ugly, it got ugly. Oh, we saw. They had, dog, they had 70 points in the paint. There's no office for that. To combat that. To combat that. There's no office to combat that.

Two guards, two light guards. There's not even like Luka or Shea. Two little guards. I mean, they fast as fuck. I was about to say Foxes. They fast as shit. Athletic in yeah Mr. Martin

Back to what I just said like When moves are being made right? Trade deadline went by guys and being but I love I would love to see Spencer with Spencer didn't way to get a job. Absolutely But what was the thought like like y'all needed a point guard? No, we needed a playmaker. Someone who can hit shots and create his own shots and create shots for others. That's what he's for. Like a version of AR.

So him and AR can play the one-two type. Give us more of a... When the guy's not on the floor? When LeBron? Yeah, the guy is not on the floor when LeBron probably yeah when he's not on the floor even when he's in the floor instead of having somebody like Van or Cam out there he's going to play defense

he can like when shit breaks down if he has the ball he can make a play that's what I think. Because that's what I would have done. That's what I'm which. I hear you. How to use you.

No, it's too different. I got it. I hear you. I'm which. So let's talk about the Kings a little bit. Third seed last year. Struggled to replicate that this season. De'Aaron Fox is a bonus.

Both got all-star snubbed. But are people sleeping on the Kings? Can they make any noise in the Western Conference? You know, the Kings is cool as a group. I mean, the fact that Sabonis is leading the league in triple-doubles, and we don't even know that. I mean, the fact that he is a dominant big, and, you know, we really ain't paying attention to him.

He's not talked about it kind of i mean you know you feel bad for it because you know it's like you get all this noise and you hear all these players and no one realized that yeah luca and joker but this is the guy who leads the league in triple doubles and no one says that um I think we in wait-and-see mode with them, like wait-and-see. Last year they had some good hype, and then they lost. You saw, you know, it was a competitive series, but then they lost early. So it's like now it's like, ah, let's just wait and see.

But he's still dominating. Yeah, he's still dominating. He's not. He's a dog. He's a dog. Sabonis, Fox, they're a match-up nightmare depending on on who they play. I think I think the experience from last year gonna help Like I think they've been a three seed last year was a lot of pressure like they ran and had a bad matchup with a team that's Used to that time here. Yeah, right. So it comes to seven

50 piece from stuff. I mean, that's a general Therefore I think that some games got to go, like, to the wire, like, go down, like, a dominant performance like that from a guy, like, I think going to help him this year. So, whoever they get in the first round better be aware, you know what I'm saying? Like, be wary of that.

They got a dude. They got two. They got a starter that's at least coming off the bench that's... He's erratic behavior with Monk. Malik Monk? Yeah, it's like there's no scouting report for that. Right.

He's high octane. Yeah, and those are the guys in the playoffs you need because when everything is locked down, you put him in a game and you don't know what he's going to do. They can just break a defense down and get some questioning. I didn't want to change it. Yeah, that's, he's that type of player. I a defense down and get some questioning. I didn't want to change it. Yeah, that's Yeah, obviously everything still in flux for them here but yeah the former Laker Malik monk You know another sin of the franchise letting him go Take a discount LA you're like you always say under the time when you young man, you know man. You ain't no black of them. When you can go live in Sacramento.

Much cheaper. Much cheaper. Yeah, much cheaper. But you got to live in Sacramento. I mean, from studies, the women in there, the people there ain't the... The scientific studies, dude. Yeah, the scientific studies. The human behavior around that motherfucker ain't good looking like. You know what I mean?

Lock in on basketball. That's why they got road games. You can lock in your focus on I mean America rank that like this Ugliest cities in America That is a fair do they would just walk around the? I'm trying to figure out like did they think that Got people on the bus stop just People that walk this people watches went into a database just checking everybody IDs like yeah these some ugly motherfuckers over here I got today one for that two marks for that. I found me one

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Gil Zerino presented by Fantasy Woo Woo. If the playoffs started today, and this is obviously all in flux, but we need stuff to talk about, because the season is getting to that point. The Kings will play the Thunder. They could also potentially play the Timberwolves. Thunder right now are the two seed, Kings are the seven seed. It just seems like that matchup at the top spot, as long as you can avoid the Thunder, or the Nuggets, the Nuggets are surging. As long as you can avoid the nuggets, the nuggets are surging. As long as you can avoid the nuggets, do you feel like the Kings would have a chance or any of those teams in that spot?

You don't think the Kings have no shot against the Timberwolves? They don't have no shot against star players. Even though they're stars, they're not global stars, superstars, league stars. Stars that's going to get the benefit of the doubt in the playoffs, right? So it's one of those things where, you know, you don't want to play LeBron James and Anthony Davis in the fucking playoffs knowing what the league wants, right? You don't want to play KD, Booker, and Beal in the playoffs

knowing what the league wants. You want to play someone who who fits your criteria? Yeah, you want to play New Orleans and ain't really feeling Zion right now. Yeah, we can get there You want to play someone that's like superstar matched up? Okay to yours like we we we got two all-stars y'all got two all-stars Y'all didn't make it last year. We didn't make it either Right the battle of what ifs, right? Could you know the league want to see Brian Katie Steph

Harding and them they do but that doesn't know the lead of a ESP Disney does that damn trust me? Yeah, there's their partners with our turn Disney internal got there. Yeah. Disney and Turner. Disney and Turner goddamn want to see it. Disney, Turner, Nike, all that shit. That's who want to see them names that y'all naming. They call him the Mickey for a reason. So LeBron dropped 31 points, 13 assists, but left the game in the fourth quarter.

Grimason, we've got the video for you right here. I don't know if he was hurt or he was just tired of watching his team getting cooked by their neighbors to the north. But said it was an ankle injury that's been bothering him for months. He also said that he'll be all right. LeBron averaging 35 minutes a game. What? I mean, we can't take his foot off until playoff time.

We got his playoff time. You know, he got his regular... Y'all already know the record. He got his regular feet going on, his regular season feet after All-Star feet. Probably a little damaged a little bit, and then when the playoffs start, he going, doop, doop, put the new ones on, and boy... He got new... Hey, Shawty, how that happen?

Shawty will tell you how that be happening. Huh? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We'll be the Swiss. You know what? We don't want black suburbans pulling up to kill the neighborhood, so... Man.

You got to save it for the playoffs, baby. We talk about this all the time. Any concern just for the workload that LeBron is still being asked to carry it. 39 years old, 21 years in the league. Saw it last year, the foot issue. Was able to get the leg to the Western Conference Finals. Got a lot of mouths, man. Who gonna help him, man? Come on, man. Lot of tread on them tires.

Somebody do something. I mean, you know, just the fact that he's still going at a high level. Um... He makes it look easy, but when you see him I mean, you know, just the fact that he's still going at a high level. He makes it look easy, but when you see him just walk off like, then age kicks in. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, motherfucker, I know how I feel. Shit, I know how I felt at 32, okay?

Right. So let alone 39. So, you know, I mean, it it's one of those things where you know There's gonna be games like that and you know if we're gonna make the playoffs and Get into the play-in game and try to get deep in the playoffs. We really can't expect him to do much We shouldn't be expecting him to play 35 averaging 26 for the last month if we are I mean goddamn Yeah, hmm for the last month. If we are, I mean, God damn. Yeah. That's the only chance y'all have.

I'm about to say it. That's still the chance. That's the only chance y'all have at getting in. He has to play this way and a little better at times. We already know Anthony Aikman's going to do something. So we sorry. So, yeah. Y'all intent for a reason, man. So we sorry.

This is why early and regular season matters. Y'all intent for a reason. This is why early season matters. And then in the playoffs, at 35, it's 39. Minutes a night. Yeah, but that 39 years old is 44 in the playoffs. Yeah. Yeah. Because you got to play more minutes, you start, so it's...

Can't rest him as long? No. Them spurts is... Yeah, them rests is shorter, man. You're right. It's just so... And we've been saying it, and they said it ain't happen,

and so it's going to be hard to believe that it's going to happen. Until it happens. That Anthony Davis is going not come in every other night and have 16? Like, that's just... And shooting

five free throws. What happened to the coaches that try to prove points? What happened to the coaches that's just like, yo, I'm playing chess. Right here, right? R.A that's just like, yo, like, I'm playing chess right here, right? Like, R.A.D., man, we need you to rank, you know, crank this shit up. Like, the first fucking 15 plays going to you.

I don't give a fuck about, I do not care about the score of this game. You're going to get the ball, and you're going to do what you're going to do. Hey, everybody, no. Reeves, sit. You, sit. gonna do what you're gonna do hey everybody no reeves sit you sit like i'm gonna literally put you out there with nobody and you go out there and try to carry us what happened to those days i don't know that's a great question because that's sometimes you need to do that but you gotta do that early in the season that's why the early games matter you can't really do that now but i'm like what happened to those like where you ain't really do that now. But I'm like, what happened to those, like, where you... Ain't never too late, God damn it.

True. I'm talking about for his mentality. For him, he clicked into that. Like, I need to see, like, I need to, I need to, you need to, here, no, no, there's no, you got no help. We're going to either lose by 75 or whatever, and I'm not taking you out. Or you're going to step up. We have three days before the next game. I'll, you can miss the next game. But today, I want to see if you can score. I we have three days before the next game. I'll

You can miss the next game. But today I want to see if you can score I want to see if you can score 80. I want to see it personally to see what type of do we actually have under the hood Yeah, see what's in that ticker without Like like y'all said that would have been happened. Yeah, but yeah, so we kind of know what's under the hood. I don't. They're going to need him to average. If LeBron is not 100%, which it looks like he's not, he's going to need to average like 30 and 15.

He has to. For the rest of the duration. You have to be dominant. Yeah. But it runs to the same problem. Now he has to expend all this energy just to get cool to the postseason. Who? LeBron. Then now elevate it and ramp it up. Yeah. up Yeah, like come on. So that's what I'm saying. So Anthony Davis management all y'all are at fault

Right for not making moves for not getting them another score for not going to get out and like another guy that could take Some of their load off Right Go get you a offensively aggressively wing mm-hmm you ain't gotta worry about night in night out if he gonna get his 17 shots up right it's my you ain't got worry about and if he got it going good luck like you need somebody like that but they didn't do that so LeBron is stuck with this load that he has to carry at 39 years old.

And it's unfortunate, but it is what it is. That's why, like, you know, when you're talking about coaching, there's just certain things that... that player coaches, certain type of player coaches. Like, you have to be put in situations like... Darvin Ham's never been put into the game

and said, hey, I need you to do this Like I remember the time when we was playing against Tracy McGrady and Tracy McGrady was scoring 60 cultures like yo He looked at all the score like he got the score sheet. He said you need to score 40 at least get the 40 I got 32. He said get the 40 after you get the 40 I can sub you out where's like the time I got the coach you have to you you can you can take confidence away you can't instill confidence in a player the game does that but you can put them in position to get that confidence right you know dilo i'm not subbing you out today i need you to go out there and get 50 all right i just need you to do that for me right

you know i i got a bet going on that you you can't do it you can't right so he can go out there be on demon time put these dudes in demon time mode just so they can get the confidence that they need. These guys are still questioning their talent. It's been two fucking years, and they still don't know what the fuck they're doing out there? On top of the defense. I told my son, I said, listen, the team you're playing

in, they're going to box in one, box in two, triangle in three. Whatever the fuck they're going to do. You had 53. You're not having 53 tonight. This next game, I I said for y'all to win this game You have to rebound this game offensive rebound defense rebound collect every possession right if you get 18 to 25 Rebounds y'all are gonna win and you're going to Sacramento. Yeah, you see yet 18 21 18 was seven times Oh, man, as I said you you said, it ain't about you scoring 50.

I said, if you try to score 50, y'all losing. Because that means you're trying to go one on five and you missing all your other teammates. Go for 18 rebounds. That means they're not getting no offensive rebounds.

That means you getting no offensive rebounds because that means you're going down there purposely knowing that they're small. Give me 18 rebounds, y'all win. You have to be able to tell a player that. Give them a job.

This is your job. AD, I need you to go out there and give me 35 at night. Sometimes you just got to relay that message so the guy can just instill it. When he's sitting there floating around,

he done took three jumpers, and then he knows you done told him to get 35. Oh, shit. OK. Next play. All right, let's go. You have to be able to do that as a coach. You don't think he's tried that?

Mm-mm. Hell no. I don't know. The 40 and 20 that we saw in the play-in, we saw A.D. get 40 and 20. We saw that. How can we simulate that again? You got to reassure me and listen. Because he looked like 40 and 20, we saw that. How can we simulate that again? You got to reassure me and listen. Because he looked like, you know, 40 and 20, you know, for the play-in championship.

I mean, not to play in the end-season tournament. He had 40 and 20 in that game. It looked like, oh, that's the AD LeBron been needing all year. But now it's like... You married? You married? No. You got a what? A girl? Yeah.

They make you feel good to do things, right? Sometimes they'll say some certain things that make you feel good, like, well, you look good today. Can you take out the trash? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Take the trash out. Like, same thing you got to do to a player. You got to make him feel good about the job that he has to do anyway.

When he's not a killer. When he's not a killer. Killers, you don't do that to him. But we know he's not a killer. When you got a killer, you ain't got to do that. When you got, yeah. You got to finesse some players. So I don't mean to call him an animal, but I got two dogs, right?

So it's different kind of dogs right what they do like when you train them like some dogs respond to food some dogs respond to this like so you he responds to Positive reinforcement so he has to be Gotta gotta Gibbs. Hey I did that but I had to do that with um Yeah, Quran and Antoine fine like what would um Nick young swanky. Yep. That's why you pee. Hey, man. We're gonna need you tonight, man I stay focused man. When you come in soon as you come in man first five plays coming to you

For yeah first five plays forget what cross in first All right, we're gonna put some pin downs. We're going to do that. Like, I'm sitting there telling, you know, got to tell that because, you know, Karan. Karan, I'm like, hey, hey, hey. Nigga being a wide open shot. Hey, hey, hey. But that's what I said. So, Karan, what's it go?

What's it go? He don't care. That ball coming to me. So, you know, I got to sit there and feed him. Hey, big fella, we're going to come down to coming to me. So, you know, I gotta sit there and feed him a big fella We don't come down to you first three plays, you know, you know, he would he said, you know, foe no, no No, it says five. I got you right because I need you to play defense So I got to feed you a couple times coming in I got the wide open layup and sit here and do one of these you know what I mean?

So he can score get his points. He get two points Now he gonna play at least three possessions good on the defensive end, right? You know what I mean? So he can score get his points. He get two points now He gonna play at least three possessions good on the defensive end, right? So there's just little things you have to do as players and as coaches Right should I need the defense back there? So I'll have to give up a couple points, you know So you can get the Western that you don't those are role players though. You know star players You don't have to you shouldn't have to do that too. Depends on who they are. That's your star player though.

Depends on who they are. Show his highlight take before we end the game. Depends on who they are. You're supposed to be watching film as a team, we watching AD highlights. AD highlights, yeah, yeah. Boy, you're nice. And going to a meeting, hey, I need y'all to compliment him. Oh, so this is what he needed, right?

So this is what he needed. Y'all been around boxers before, right? You the best, champ. Go get him, champ. It's all about you, champ. Champ. Champ. Oh, come on, champ. You got him, champ. Everything, champ. Champ. Champ is

everything. Go get him. Champ, go out there, motherfucker. Knock the fuck out. Somebody said, you did good, champ. Yeah, champ. You almost had him, champ. We'll get him next time, champ. Don't worry about it, champ. It's all about you, champ.

Let's go to the bar, champ. Got the ladies waiting, champ. You got it, champ. Y'all, hey, y'all making that up. Don't worry about it, champ. You done lost your last seven, champ. You still my champ. You the champ.

Don't matter about it, champ. That last seven champ. You steal my champ. You know, no matter by the champ That's what I need in Laker nation who doesn't need who doesn't need some positive affirmation No matter where you go Yeah at home and his sleep, you know, you remember shit when you sleep, right? You fall right behind the bed. What, no matter where he go? Everybody needs a high bed. He at home in his sleep. You know you remember shit when you sleep, right? You never get the REM sleep. You need that nigga sitting by his bed.

You got it, champ. You the best, champ. It's all about you, champ. Don't worry about it, champ. AD step up, big dog. Hey, champ, you look good while you're sleeping. AD, you look good while you're sleeping, champ. Hey, champ, you the best sleeper ever, champ.

You got this, champ. I ain't never seen a sleeper like you champ What's your dream? Please tell me dream about basketball champ. You got a champ Only in America, let's keep it moving after a four-point performance and a 52-point loss against the Celtics this weekend Jeff Curry had no choice but to cook the Bucks in in the bay and end their six-game winning streak. And he had venison? They thought it was venison, for those who have seen the last of us. That was some human.

28 points. 10 for 18 from the field, 6 for 10 from three. Let me see it. Boop, and hit him with the golf salad. Getting his stroke back. You got to love this. Pause. Oh, man.

The Bucks came in with that six-game win streak. Gil, you said it with Fugazi. Dance champ. Everybody was giving him that work. Dance champ. Uh-oh. Back up, dude. Oh, too far. Uh-oh.

What the hell? You're back. Curry knocked him down. Not an appropriate strategy. Just, he only Steph Curry. Yeah, he only. Both of y'all going to back up. Let's let him shoot in between.

So Bucks closed the gap to six in the third quarter, then proceeded to get smacked. He hit him with the golf swing. You know, you got to love this dude, man. Perfect form, too. Yep. Perfect form. Babyface assassin, man.

He showed he's a leader, though, and they got championship pedigree. They come back from a 50-point, you know, beatdown, though. They showed their maturity. Man, both ready to get home. Which one? Both? No, Golden State was ready to get home. Which one? Both? No, Golden State was ready to get home. When they lost by 50.

Last game of the trip, they won the first three on the road trip. Of course we would like to get four. For sure. They got going a little sideways, like, we'll take three and one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shit, man, that's a great road trip. Facts. Of course we're trying to do better. We're trying to get in the playoffs, all that. Of course, yes.

She got out of control early. 3-1, a great road trip. We're going home. Let's go rest our guys up. Let's go home and we're going to smack them. We're going to smack them for sure. So that was in Milwaukee, right? No, that was in home state. Bay Area. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back.

We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back.

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We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. We gonna go back. schedule. Man. Ain't been playing well. Four, five teams under 100? Like in the NBA, that's, hey. Four teams under 100? Four teams under 100, hey. Over 500. Four for sure, yeah, because... What does this win say about the Warriors? What does this say about the Bucs?

The Warriors, I mean, it says exactly what they've been saying the whole time, don't count us out. Because, you know, sometimes we look rusty, sometimes we look great. We look horrible a couple nights ago, and they look amazing last night. What does it say about the Bucs, though? I see you left that part out. You're wearing your Bucs

green. Yeah, I know you got something good to say about the Bucs. I mean, it looks the same way that it's been looking when he got there. And this is what I really don't like. False narratives, right? Talk to me. And I'll say the false narrative is this.

When he got there, right, they were second. They talked about the defense, right, trying to make it seem like it was a defensive problem. They were 19th in defense, but they were second they talked about the defense right trying to make it seem like it was a defensive problem they were 19th in defense but they were second in offense as a team as a whole collective team they were better than last year right um plus two or something like that they were plus three yeah for a group yep right so now they're saying, well, since Doc has been there, their defense went from 19 to 5th. Look, he's doing a great job. So I'm like, all right, where's your offense? Oh, yeah, they're 20th. Since he's been there, they've been ranked 20th in offense.

So as a player, oh, so all he did was just slow the game down. So he just slows the possessions down. So that means all the offensive teams get less possession. Less possessions means less scoring. Less scoring looks like he's playing more defense. But what's wrong with that when you got a closer? That keeps the game close and you got somebody like Dame that can close the show. Allows you to compete better?

Yeah, but the problem is it's not real. You're not sustaining. It's not like you're second in offense and then you went from 19 to 10 or 19. You're jeopardizing. You're messing up the offense to make your defensive rating look good. So you can say, hey, since I've been here, the defense has been getting better. Then make it seem like you've actually done something, but you didn't. All you're doing is just instead of, hey, every seven seconds don't shoot, make it 20 seconds. So your narrative can look a little bit better on the stat sheet, right?

And that's like, nah, don't do that, dog. Is that smart to do that, though, with the makeup of this team? Yeah, no, it's smart to do that with the social media today, because you can run that narrative. I'm talking about on the court. Is it smart for them to slow it down? No, because when we look at your record, your record proves that whatever you're saying is not making sense.

So those four wins they just had... Six, but they're all well. Yeah, yeah, the four wins. I mean, there's six wins, but four against teams that are below average. You know, you guys were averaging 120

before you got there. Out of the 15, 16, 17 games you've been there, you've only went over 120 once or twice. You had 129, 123. Other than that, you've been under. They beat Minnesota during that time, and they beat Philly during that time.

Yeah, they beat. No Embiid. No Embiid, yeah. No Embiid, Charlotte twice, Chicago once. I went to that game to watch. And the Clippers, too. I had to see with my own eyes. And the Clippers.

Yeah. I still like Milwaukee, though. I mean, I like them, but what I'm saying is the reason I can't say you guys are going to be good because it's false advertisement. You're not doing anything better to make the team better. Your defense is not better. You're just changing on how you play. So the fact that you're giving up a lot of offense, right? I'm going to sacrifice my offense.

I'm going to sacrifice 10 points. To slow them down on defense. To slow them down on defense. You're not better, though. You're not getting better, though. Right? So what happens in the playoffs, you get exposed because you're not scoring more and you haven't changed your actual defense. Change the fucking defense to make it better

So it's real. I Think in the playoffs it will work because you know the game slow down in the playoffs Yeah, but you're Jim and you got I'm telling you that I said in that same time frame You know Dame when it goes from 26 to 21 and we're like, why is that you struggling? Tough to play what he have him and the honest haven't figured it out yet Well Well, Giannis have, but Dame hasn't been able to figure it out yet. So Bucks are 9-8 overall in the Doc Rivers era. Don't forget though, when Dwyane Wade and LeBron first got together, they was 9-9. They first... But that's what I'm saying. So you're 9-8, but your defense has gotten better?

Do you see what i mean you're doing hey sometimes hey i think you gotta do it not 17 and one nine and eight but your defense has gotten better i understand the false narrative but i think for their team you gotta do whatever you gotta do to help that defense so if you know they're not that good defensively let's take better shots so that we can set up our defense and And I think you got to do that until you figure it out. And if that means taking away some of your offensive pace, I mean, as long as the game is close,

I believe as long as the game is close and I got two closers out there, I'm okay with that. It'd be different if it was just Giannis and no Dame in the games and you ain't have no closers. Then you're like, ah, I don't know about this strategy.

So we will see. I'm a believer in Milwaukee. The nine will be feared. Remember, nine and eight on the six game winning streak. I get all that. Nine and eight on the play. Six game winning streak. And their defense has been ranked fifth since then.

You see what I'm saying? Yeah, I do. That's a false narrative for sure. Yeah, yeah. Like, damn, boy, y'all balling. Yeah, we 9 and 8. Like, damn, y'all. This math ain't math, this motherfucking doc. The math is not math-y currently. We will see how it plays out for the rest of the season.

So we showed you how Steph hit the golf shot, Sele, last night. And here's the image that the NBA used. Right here. Nice shot. That's an amazing... But here's the photo they decided not to. Yeah, that's a better photo. That's a better photo.

Look at the dad with the kids in the front. Them things are thangin'. Which one did the NBA use? Not that one. Let's go back to the NBA. Come on, Lee. You want clicks? Yeah, you want clicks.

We clicking that. It's all about entertainment, aren't you? Yeah. It's entertainment, ain't it? That dad broke his neck. Is that his boot in between him and the kid or that another kid I cannot tell another look is I could somebody look at him like damn. That's how he looking back. He looks back like Them things are thangin as the young kisser

Yeah, that's what to show you guys that. So, Gil, let's talk about one of your favorite subjects, the Washington Wizards. It was Gilbert Arenas, hat night. They did not win the game. No, no, they didn't win the game. They won a hat. But they did win a free hat designed by Gilbert Arenas with Hibachi underneath the brim. Let's talk about Jordan Poole. In 52

games at the start of this season, Poole was averaging 16 points, 4 assists, 2 rebounds, shooting 40% from the field. He has since been moved to the bench. In his last 8 games coming off the bench, Poole is averaging 24 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, shooting 47% from the field.

We've been saying it. What's the biggest reason for Poole's turnaround? He gets to play against the second unit. Rocket science. It ain't rocket science. Man, that's not deep theology right there. It ain't, it ain't no game plan. It was not meant to be, D.

I'm merely a conduit to tell you things that are going on around the basketball world. It's horrible, though, because he done sealed his fate. You forever... You forever bench player. You done sealed it. Like, you would have...

Shit, I wish I would have talked to you, give you some chess moves. Look, I know what you're thinking. You about to go in there and kill these second units, but you might want to just Look, I know what you're thinking. You might have gone in and killed these second units, but you might want to just not, because if it looks like what they did was correct,

and you go out there and prove, that's your fate. You're never going to be a starter again. You can't go from 16 to 24. You better go to 16 to 10. Embrace your inner Jamal. Listen, your contract is for a few years, so you might have to 16 to 10 embrace your energy more. Yeah, you're kind of your contract is for a few years So you might have to sacrifice this year to prove that yeah, you're better starting your bench player You didn't prove that. Oh your your role your impact is bitch

What's wrong with that? Who will get no shit insert your inner little will? What's wrong with that is I won't do you I won't do you have a million What role do you playing Golden State right man Championship level six man championship championship level six man championship level squad playoff playoff bounce squad we got the call-up though, but is But if you if you being honest, right, hmm and Just if you watched him play in that role. Mm-hmm While they were winning

There's a few games he started when a couple guys were out. He still played the exact same way. There was no difference. So I just don't understand what people expected, right? James Harden. So you look at guys who flourished in that role throughout their career. Jamal Crawford or Lou Will. Not to say they didn't have starter talent.

They closed games when they were on the floor with other guys. But the role that they had was that. And they were never forced into this role that they tried to force Jordan Poole in. And it was unfair to him. Because that's not like, this is what I do. I score buckets. I don't want no responsibility. I don't want to think.

I don't want to have to think. Damn. Put me in. So as management, you failed him. Agent, whoever it is, failed him. Because you've got to look at what you have and what the product is. This is what he does.

Okay, he's... When he's starting with Golden State, you're still on the championship players around you. You go to Washington. You ain't never won nothing. Right. What about it? And no banners up there.

Right. I'm still the same player that I was coming off the but now it's all this pressure for me to come out and try to lead somebody and do this and do what I ain't never had that so why would y'all put me in this situation it sounds good like I want to be a start all that's just sound great you have to be one until you and now it's like oh oh, nah, this ain't cool. Now you're thinking too much. Now you're average 16 when they expect you to be the...

Like, damn, what's wrong with him? The fuck you mean, what's wrong with him? He is who he is. He is who he is. And now you put him back in his natural environment. Just what it is. These are facts. People chose to ignore

them from the beginning of this season. He hasn't played well from October. November, whenever he hasn't played at all. He has not played well as a starter from 52 games as a starter.

He didn't play well in those 52 games as a starter. So it took y'all 52 fucking games to be like, you know what? Hmm. Let's go try this. Ouch. That hurts, though. I ain't even going to lie. That hurts, though. I ain't even gonna lie. Man, that hurts, man. That do hurt.

That hurts. The truth hurts. The truth is the truth, though. I know, like, man, I be sitting there like, I mean, I want to be a star. I want to be a star. I ain't gonna never make no all-star game coming off this motherfucking bitch. I ain't gonna be all NBA. Like, it just... I can keep getting paid in this role.

I can keep stacking these M's These 70 80 90 me whatever they want to keep giving me to play this role to put this ball in this basket And you look that differently right your peers look at you differently as a bad starter versus an elite role player Because he was looked at as elite as a role as a six-man come back score You look at like hey, he's Disney's that then you look as elite as a six-man coming in pack scorer. You looked at him like, hey, he's this, he's that. And then you look at him as a starter, you're like... No matter... To your point, no matter where Jamal went, no matter where Lou Will went...

They had the ultimate respect. When they checked in, you knew what it was. Facts. Like, shit, hey, man, they on the scouting report. Yes, sir. Nigga, you got your starters, one, two, and this motherfucker's third. Uh-huh. Facts.

Like, he's an impact. Yeah, thanks like he's impact When he check in he got it his shit highlighted different colors on it all the rest everybody else shit black and white He's you got colors on it. That's right. That's the fact but is it different you talk about pools impact with those warrior squads winning the chip a winning program versus a 953 wizard squad a winning program versus a 9-53 Wizards squad. There was there was 9-53 when the season started. I understand

but I'm saying now. The fuck like no Josiah they fucked him from the beginning of the season you're not like

you're missing it. They fucked him from the beginning of the season putting him in his role as a starter. I think he wanted that challenge though OG

I ain't gonna lie he wanted to try to take his level to the next he wanted to try. Do you think he came in like nah man he should have been but he came in thinking I got't gonna lie. He wanted to try to take his level to the next. He wanted to try. Do you think he came in like, nah, man, keep me in the seat? He should've been. But he came in thinking, I got the keys now.

Yeah, let me try. And as this shit gets started, when you realize, I'm two months in this, bitch. Hey, coach, coach, let me go back to my... Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They just put him in the role because he went, oh, cool. Let's experiment with this shit. You ain't never been in this. Okay, I i get it small sample size all right there's a month preseason all right cool

a month all right cool we got we've 25 games all right december hit all right now we started 40 games now you have like is that something you would have done though as a player would you have been able to say you know what i need to go back To ain't never been a bench player No, I will review reverse in the road me being a bitch, but now I'm gonna start a goddammit like no I'm not a bench player like no I tell you I've started some games It's much different going against the starting lineup versus coming in playing your natural off the bench especially if you thrive in that role and so

To try it sure you want to try it I started a few games of my fourth year in the league before I got traded from Miami I was enjoying it but like 10 or 15 games in I'm like It's different than when I can just come off and, you know, play a certain way. So just for your point, right? When I was with the Knicks, Tyson went out, right? I was back in Tyson, and Tyson went out. We didn't miss a beat.

I'm starting now. We don't miss a beat. I'm a starter, right? Your whole career. My whole career. But that's what you were into. First time coming off the bench, so it's like, like, really, really comfortable. So it's like, all right, but now we don't lose anything.

No, for sure. Right? Then it be in the other way, right? But like you said, Harden, right? If he's coming in, seeing what James did did not to say he's gonna replicate it like what idea when you're trying to be when you're a six man and you're trying to like you want that knock on the door to say we're gonna give you this uh starting opportunity like some people just ain't built for it i remember this was this is how my career got started golden state it was game 42 or game 41 larry hurt larry got his ankle hurt in game 42 we're playing san antonio spurs and i walk into the gym you know i walk into the locker

room and my name's starting so i'm thinking you know looking around over here like right and what happened was Bobby sure said he doesn't want to start right he says I don't want to start I want to keep doing I'm I'm in a role right now I'm playing very well right now right I'm you know I got my rhythm going you're not gonna mess my rhythm up by putting me as a starter so put the young boy as a starter which is me first five minutes he can come at a six minute mark and i didn't understand until you were saying it like once he comes in there's three or four five fouls already on on the thing that somebody subbed a little bit you know everybody's a little bit of tired right so now when he comes in he don't have he gets to play a certain way

The style he developed is for a certain time in the game come in get a little foul now He can start the game off shooting free throws get his rhythm like that yeah, and I didn't understand like why would you you got the chance to be a starter and That's what got me as a starter. I came in played very well when Larry got back I was playing so well that it was like nah we're gonna we're gonna just keep the young boy in and you know you come off the bench and it was like yo that was your position you didn't give it up because he was feeling comfortable as a six man yeah and the And the situation with James, though.

Yeah, he did. He lasted long in the league for that. But the situation with James and the difference is with Jordan Poole and James, when James went to Houston, everything was about James Harden. Like, this is your team. We're going to run everything for you. This is this. He go to Washington.

No, he got go become it like It's not his skill set James had that will say but I think that was his I think you remember when we watched that Nick joint Right and he did that step back and hit that shot had 40 something and his teammate was over there like that And that shit went viral. I I think that fucked with him Yeah, you said it in viral i i think that fucked with him yeah you said it then man i think that like it's like one of those when the uh a reporter asks you some shit in the locker room like yeah you know your teammates is you know they're saying you you ain't passing the ball you start like you, you start looking around which one, right? And then it makes you conscious of your game now.

And I think that visual of his teammate having his hands up and everybody's reacting on it. I think he tried to recorrect it by saying, all right, I'm going to just pass the ball and make sure I look for everybody. And I think he just It kind of corrupted his game. That's pretty soon. I think Danny. I'll do it right. No, no, no early Calibre he ain't been he ain't been but he ain't been right in the garden He ain't never been right since that game though Yeah I mean, well look you don't go to 46 and then you didn't go to 46 and you shooting the shots you shooting to then

Take a spiral after that unless you really And you know once a motherfucker see some blood in the water, you know, who's missing that next game like oh Yeah, oh I thought he was I thought he had that, but I ain't get a ball up. Yeah, okay I guarantee you Kuzma the number one option now, right? Kuzma seen that blood in the water like yeah. Yeah. Whoa. You want to trade me to Dallas? No, no, no, I got everything over here taken care of. I'm good. You know what? I got everything taken care of. I'm going to go. I'm going to stay over. That's great.

You want me to go play with Luke? Sit tight. Sit tight. I need that ruck. But last week, we used our SeatGeek plug to pull up to the Staples Center for the Battle of LA, Lakers Clippers. It was an enjoyable night for our pro Lakers contingent, but not so much for the non-believers. Duh.

Damn. Damn. Damn. What's good? The Gills Arena crew is out here at Staples Center for the Lakers-Clippers Battle of LA. Lakers better win, baby. We'll be right back. I think it's a good one. Look at this Laker game! Look at this Laker game! Look at this Laker game!

Look at this Laker game! We got a rebound and a foul. Now Gil can't fuck with him. Let's go defense. Come on. It's a road game that feel like a home game. Yeah. That's what comes out when you throw it. Go baby.

That's what comes out when you throw it. That's what comes out when you throw it. That's what comes out when you throw it. That's what comes out when you throw it. That's what comes out when you throw it. That's what comes out when you throw it. That's what comes out when you throw it. That's what comes out when you throw it. That's what comes out when you throw it. That's what comes out when you throw it. It's a real game that feel like a home game. Yeah! Let's go, baby!

Come on! Come on, dog! Come on, man! Man, it's tough! Yeah, yeah! Y'all say there was no defense? There it is! Let's go, broad!

That's right, he the is. Let's go, Bron. That's why he the king. Let's go. Once again. Yeah. Let's go, Laker. All right. Yeah. We got to give a big shout out to SeatGeek for plugging us in.

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Don't do that. They had lobster mac and cheese in the building. They paid for the good stuff. Try to. We're different, Nagle. We'll see you during the playoffs, baby. Keep the good times, right? Will we see them during the playoffs?

That is a question that we will find out in the near future. I'll go to Clipper game for some free seats. I thought you said... I thought you were talking about another team in LA. I go to Clipper Games for some free seats. I thought you said you were talking about another team in LA. I ain't selfish. That was your first time seeing the recently unveiled

Kobe statue. So what was it like for you to be able to see that Kobe statue for the first time? It was amazing, man. You know, especially as a kid growing up

and when you idolize someone just to see that you picked the right idol as a kid, this is the guy that I look up to and then to see as an adult, to see the finished product and see the statue out there, seeing his accolades and you know one thing

that's that I Knew he would have wanted his statue bigger than everybody else It was a He's standing above a ball right prominently featured. Yeah, the biggest statue most prominently featured I mean, it's just amazing. It's just amazing. Well done.

And, you know, just to see that. It's the first one you see when you're coming. It's there. And that's who he was, right? You know, he's, him and Magic were, you know, the Lakers, I'll say, just children. They were here. They were children. They were young men when they came here You know Kobe was a child, you know, Matt magic was a almost a young adult night. He was night So he you know, these these are the babies, you know magic and you know Kobe were the babies of Los Angeles

so watching them grow and you know watching them grow into men and adults and fathers and father figures is when you look at that statue, you look at the history of that person. So those are the two, you know, main statues there. It's, you know, Los Angeles's, you know, children that grew up to be immortalized. The first of what's supposed to be three Kobe statues. He's got two more coming. I feel like it's only fitting. But now it's time for our Seat Geek question of the day.

You get one ticket to any event in history. Where are you going? Think about it for a second. Any event in history don't need to be a sporting event, could be literally anything. One game in history. One ticket to any event.

I'll say for me, a Michael Jackson event. Damn, I was going to think the same. Right, you know, like, you know, Jackson concert. Yeah,, a Michael Jackson event. Damn, I was going to think the same thing. Right. You know, like, you know. Jackson concert. Yeah, just a Michael Jackson concert just to see, right, just the atmosphere, who he was, how he was loved. You got motherfuckers out there, you know, saying and, you know, passing out. Like, you know, I wouldn't mind going there to just to, you know, just experience now, like, you know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't mind going there to

just to, you know, just experience that, man. People talk about impact in the music game, but like you said, if you watch old school videos of MJ concerts, 50, 60 people minimum. Man, I watched one, he was standing there for 12 minutes, he didn't move. Yeah. To start his concert, and they was going crazy, and his second, his second movement was just a head turn like this, and they went even crazier I said Oh

Hey, man It ain't minutes start biggest that he stood there literally for 12 minutes looking one way and after 12 minutes Turn his head the other way they went nuts after another five minutes Took his glasses off. They went nuts again. I was like, hey man This dude is different mm-hmm so Norris you get one ticket to any event history where you going I was gonna say in Michael Jackson but since he already said it though I say I'm going to see Mike that last shot since he already took Michael Jackson I gotta go see MJ

game six you talk I got to see the last one girl Airs musty up there solid just so you know, I'm telling you turn a humidifier on This shot was like perfection. There's something that summed up everything. No, yeah Kenyon you get one take to any event history Anything in history don't got to be a sporting event. Where are you going? Yes, I'm gonna go boxing hmm Muhammad Ali who in Africa the rumble in the jungle It's a good one

Yeah, I'm gonna go that one. Minus the flies. Yeah, it might be. Yeah. Get all your shots. It was hot out there too. But yeah, I would, yeah. Was that in the 80s too? That might have been before that.

70s. 70s. It was a better time. I'll probably go 34. I see you got that man on your side, though. P.B.A.? I see you got that man on there.

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Y'all say y'all like to go sporting events y'all say y'all like to go to concert My mom got a basketball at the house still that I had when I was in high school Mm-hmm Like I wrote like baby Kemp on it. Uh-, like I had number 40 like I was just right. No, no, she still got it like to this day Like I was yeah, I couldn't tell me I wouldn't Tell me I wouldn't then we end up end up getting some kamikazes And I you know, I color uniforms and high school was green are you can tell me that mmm can tell me jack shit I would every dog did I saw him doing I was in mother trying on somebody to step up so you can get kicked out the game in high school the 100 game since it ain't no film. The Hershey, Pennsylvania?

The 100. The Will Chamberlain? Yeah, that 100. It did happen. I mean, we know there's going to be some bullshit because it's... White dudes just hitting elbows and they fly under there. Stop, man. Stop doing that, man.

I'm just saying, we know what... Stop, man. I mean, come on. We know what's going on. You played 48 minutes, though. You, stop, man. I know it's here. Stop doing that, man. I'm just saying, we know what it's going to be. Come on, we know what it's going to be. You played 48 minutes, though. We could play 48 minutes. That's too... All right, I didn't even see any of that. I don't know.

Y'all would have liked to see... Who was going to stop... You know he never fouled out a game? I believe it. He never actually... He never fouled out a game. Because he getting them in foul trouble. Because he getting them in foul trouble.

I believe it. I said, because he getting them in foul trouble. I mean, it's... They can't guard him. What? Why would he have to file anybody? Let me plan against cash Okay, my son

Why you should use it was key or is it a Godzilla to Japan? Get out of here Maybe I guess it like that's what that's the but he never actually fouled out a game that is crazy Yeah, I would like to see you at that game and see you try to make it to the parking lot afterwards Gil Letting you know. Oh, no I'm black so I probably was a player I Was a player or help right But let's move on time Time to play some facts or cap.

Cap. Oh, no, my. You can see the future. You can see the future. During a recent episode of the OG's podcast with Udonis Haslam and Mike Miller, UD talked about how important Chris Bosh was to the Heatles championship squads. Everybody think that our most important player was Braun. Our most important player. Not our best player, but our most important player was CB. Yeah. think that our most important player was braun our most

important player not our best player but our most important player was cb yeah and he was our most important player because if braun if braun went down you could bring in d-way and it's not the same player but you're gonna get similar results of what you're gonna get out of the player making plays he can go for 30 we couldn't we couldn't simulate it we ain't have another cb if that went down and he got hurt we didn't have another one of those and the way spose started using him too was impossible to guard like he was shooting threes like he was that's why that man was cold brother he closed it out on threes as a big that's what I'm saying and that was back so shout out to you Donis Haslam with the I like dogs hat uh Norris Cole you played on

those heatle squad so Bosh was more important to the Heatles than LeBron. Facts or cap? It's not like a black and white answer, because obviously LeBron, you know, everything started with LeBron. But what UD said was correct. We ain't had nobody else like CB. You know, if LeBron went out, you know, nobody is LeBron, but D-Wade can put on a clinic and put 35-40

up, get eight assists for a couple series if we needed him to. If CB was out for too long, we had nobody else like him to create those mismatches. So in the context of what he's talking about, it's fact. It is a fact. Bryan was our best player. But, you know, without CB, you know, we don't win those champs because he's the only model like him on our team. You know, no one was 6'9", 6'10", who could pick and pop, who could pick a short roll, who can also iso, who can guard multiple positions, who can lead our small ball lineup. We had nobody else like that.

We just didn't, you and if bra obviously you know like i said we all know who brown is but d-way that's used to it's easy for d-way to step up and do more you know if you know god forbid something would have happened to brown during the series or whatever you know when we lost cb we sustained as long as we could, but when he came back, we became unbeatable. When he tore his lower abdominal muscle, he was out for a stretch of games. We struggled. We made it happen, but we struggled.

But when he came back, he came back to playoff, we became unbeatable when he came back. Okay. So Kenya, Bosh was more important to the Beatles than LeBron. Facts or cap? Keep it in context. I don't like how you keep saying it like that.

He ain't saying it like how you keep saying it. How do you want me to say it? Yeah, you keep saying it like facts or cap. Like, is he more important than LeBron? Just, you articulate your point.

Okay, okay. Do you hear how he said it? Don't get us. Yeah, he's a trickster, man. We all saw the clip. I can see what they're saying. I understand it. Like, I'm, yeah, I get it.

Like, yeah, he was, a lot of people, he did create match-up problems because the way the game was going. Yeah, so no, I could, I think it's fact, so I'm not going. Because they were in it So how can I dispute some? Morris was there and you're Donis was there like and I'm not can I how can I dispute anything when somebody else in real time?

So now I'm not challenging you Donna's has one. He has my respect not cuz you know It's Brian sexuals out there that every time you I'm big I'm just curious. Just why I asked you or you were there were there. Yeah, we got to be able to keep it real. I'm a reasonable LeBron fan. Now, you are, but I'm just saying there's others out there that's, you know. A lot of people got upset. They pointed out that Bosh missed, I think, nearly the entire Pacers series, first four games of the Eastern Conference Finals in 2012.

We mentioned that. Yeah, and the team was still able to win. Yeah, but we had a series after that that we needed to win. Exactly. That we don't win without CB1. But you got to talk about the game six Yeah number the block on Danny trying to tell you to preserve that that championship in clutch moment. So Gil style of play was different. So I worded differently Bosch is the most important part of the heat big three

Facts are kept I play for the Wizards Okay You are astute basketball fan scholar of the game and some would say You played on the Miami Heat What team did you D play Miami Heat? They also remember the Miami Heat They all said that CB So that's what you're rolling with. Yeah, I'm a roll with the motherfuckers. I was on the

Game with him I'm not gonna be somebody from the outside trying to convince the dudes that played on the game with him Like nah, he was important. Like, motherfucker, did you see our scout report? We know who was important. I'm not, no. I think in the context of how he presented it and how he framed it. Listen, I don't care what context.

He could have said it any way he wanted to. He was there. He was there. He was there. Right? So, whatever the chat say they wrong also This is the problem we have in anyway with the the the media we having a hard time How the fuck you gonna tell me who was harder to guard while I'm standing in front of the mother? Oh, yeah, I'm the one sitting there guarding. I'm telling you

Who was harder to guard. You're not going to convince me the motherfucker who gave me 60 versus the dude who gave me 22. Yeah. Every game. So, yeah, whatever he said. Yeah. So I agree. We asked to chat 64 percent of the chat call cap on Haslam. And just so you know, that's 64 percent. We will be forwarding over your IP addresses to you Donis Haslam and you will deal with that accordingly but when it comes to Bosch being more important to the Heedles than LeBron

facts so now let's move on you were talking about first person and questioning people who were there you remember when that little thing came out and it said it was CP3 and D-Wade having a conversation. Right?

And they were talking about D-Wade coming in and creating a big three and everyone just assumed the big three was going to be Bosh. I mean, there was going to be CP3, Wade, and Braun.

And I was like yeah Now my research had told me that uh after that series They lost the Dallas and everybody was talking about brawn they made brawn Scottie Pippen It didn't look well Bosch played well the Wayne Wade played well And I was trying to figure out if they can do this with Braun. And him and, you know, they were having a big debate on power. And they reached out. And it was open ears if there was going to be some trades. And that trade was not Bosch at the time.

It was going to be for Braun. It was either going to go get Dwight Howard, because what's-his-name loved Dwight, and having Bosh and Dwight back there with Wade or CP3, Bosh and Wade, and everybody thought I was stupid. Now you hear players over there like, yeah, you know, Bosh is way more important. You can see what everybody was thinking at that time. Even though, you know, sometimes it's kind of hard to really quantify what players brings. But sometimes even when we're playing, we're like that. You know, just like I'd rather be on the court with dude because it makes it look easier for me versus that happens too.

You know, when you have Braun and Russell. Like, I want to AR like, I want to AR. I don't want Russell on, you know, me and Russell ain't, we ain't. The style don't match. Our styles don't match. Right. You know, give me AR, and we over here looking like, you know, he averaging triple W, Hall of Famer. But certain players have different, different things when they're out there together.

Exactly. That's all. I'm merely a a host I will take these gentlemen out there that's why that's why it's amazing that's why you know you know fans you know these you know player podcasts or you know very important to you know history itself because you get the players perspective you what the player said how the player felt in that moment you get his real emotions you you get what he was thinking in real time or i mean it's still a reflection but you get to hear from their standpoint like especially like with the george carl like y'all you didn't do nothing for us you actually hurt our chances because we we envied you the whole time so you know we come in the game You know thinking about like dog this nigga just leave and let everybody open up we win Right you know so when you hear from the players perspective you really get a real feel of how the game was During that time versus what media was saying absolutely and and that's why you the player's voice is very important today in real time.

So you can really get a sense of how the game was playing, how we reflected on the stories we tell. So shout out to all the player podcasts, but especially Gil's Arena presented by Underdog Fantasy. If you have not downloaded the Underdog Fantasy app yet, go ahead and do it. Use promo code Gil. Get your hundred dollar deposit. So we're going to talk about another First-person situation Paul Pierce didn't get a farewell tour in his final season back in 2017 But he did get clowned by Draymond For all the world to see the truth pulled up the Draymond podcast to squash the beef and give his side of the story. Chasing that farewell tour. They don't allow you like that. By 17. You can't get no farewell tour. They don't allow you like that.

We go into the game and I'm just seeing how you guard Blake. And I'm like, damn, he be hella physical and he pushing on and I'm like, you know,

what the fuck going on, man? Hold on. Blake, bust his ass, man. Hell no. You can't let him do that because everybody know you the head of the snake. And if you go at the head

of the snake, you got a shot. And I'm woofing at you like, no, fuck that man. Fuck him. I'm shooting. I want everybody to know this is what we own this year. You know, damn, come on. This is the class of the league right now.

You said what you said, right? And everybody, the camera on me, so when I, and to be honest, I didn't hear what you said. People don't know this, but the microphone underneath the basket pick up everything. It make it look like you shot something to me, but honestly, I didn't even hear what you said until after the game. I'm looking at my Twitter like, oh damn. He went back at me because I couldn't really see

I'm on the bench. You're on the other side, but I love the fact that you stayed true to who you are because even before you won, you was like that. So for those who don't remember or want to just refresh their memory, here's the full exchange between Draymond and Paul Pierce. Straight.

Chasing that farewell tour. They don't allow you like that. You can't get no farewell tour. They don't allow you like that. He's at 144.98. He can't even hear him. Yeah, I'm sorry. The fact that the score won nothing. Can we play it one more time?

One more time, please. Where's Paul? Sitting on the bench. 46. It was like Less than one minute into one minute into the game the basketball game Scores one nothing one What whole point oh

That man is funny. That's no hey He was waiting for that. Well, you went what? Right, I'm going to get him. If Paul Pierce say one thing today, I'm going after him. Let's do some facts or cap. Paul Pierce couldn't hear Draymond chasing that farewell to her trash talk. Facts or cap? To be honest,

I mean, I didn't even know where Paul Pierce was sitting. That does sound like more Mike than it is, you know, player to player. I mean, if Paul Pierce

says he ain't hear it, he ain't hear it. I mean, it's not like he holds his tongue for shit. Right, right. Right. I think it's facts. So in that clip, Draymond starts, I believe, facing Paul Pierce, who's about, let's say, 20 feet away from him.

I think later on in the game, Draymond kept repeating himself, and I'm pretty sure Paul had to hear something, though. 41 seconds into the basketball game. That's crazy. Okay, pause it. Where's Paul? Where's he at? Right. He's standing up. Oh, that's him standing up? That's him standing up.

The headband, yeah. Yeah, he's standing up. Oh, I... He hear that, man. He hear that. Where is it? Is the brooder filming this? That's him with the headband?

That's him with the headband? Yes. It sound good to us because... The mic is right there. The mic is right above Draymond. Now, but you hear stuff on the bench now. Now that I know that that's him, I'm like, oh, that's him. That's him. That's him. That's him. That's him. That's him. The headband it's out it sound good to us because the mic is right there the mic is right above Draymond

Now but you hear stuff on the bench now Now that I know that that's him Go back look at day nobody else is reacting I'm gonna say I mean I day well who is that with the tile tucked inside his shirt? It does about to sit down right now David. What I don't know ball here, dude Yeah, no, no, cuz if you look at his face That's about to sit down right now. David what? I don't know. Ball head dude? Yeah. I don't know. Because if you look at his face...

Or Moe's face. No. That's Clippers. That's Clippers. He didn't play for this club. So if you look at his face when he's sitting... Because that's Allen Anderson. That's double. So... Play it one more time from the beginning. Maybe Moe Spades?

Could be him. Yeah, that's who that is. Yeah, then nobody reacts. So, yeah, I believe him. I think he laughed. Did he? All right, he did. He waved and did one of these.

Like, all right, get out of here. Watch. Watch Paul Pierce. No, no, he heard that. Oh, cat cat Rex we can't we trade it cap cat he heard that you know one thing about K Mario did he watch everything yeah detail a 1 to nothing he said oh rewind that who is he wrote right 41 seconds into the game. But when it comes to Paul Pierce not hearing Draymond's trash talk. Stop the cap.

All right, so let's move on. There was no love lost between Dirk DeWhiskey and D-Wade during their time in the league. The pair faced off twice in the NBA Finals. Wade went into the Chip and Finals MVP in 2006. Dirk went into the Chip and Finals MVP in 2006. Dirk went into the Chip and Finals MVP in 2011. Dirk pulled up to D-Wade's podcast recently to talk about their rivalry

and why friendship and competition doesn't always mix. But honestly, I say this all the time. There can't always be friendships during the highest level of competition.

I mean, that's just not how it works. I'm old school. I always wanted to win. But there was no love lost there at the beginning. And I remember in the 07, the All-Star game was in Vegas. I think we were the only two All-Stars ever on record to not shake hands pregame. So there was definitely some cold times.

And mind you, we've never had a conversation to this point. Exactly. We've never talked. Yeah. Okay. They definitely didn't. Okay, man, what's up with you? Do you feel like players are too buddy-buddy nowadays?

Shit, yeah. Good or bad for the game? Horrible. Horrible. Speak on it, OG. Stand on it. This... Nah, it's just too... I get it, man, but it's... Not when we cross some lines, man.

And I just... I compete against you, man. I'm not hanging out with you. Like, we're not going to... I just... Unless we had prior relationship, friendship, some type of...

to us getting into the NBA, and we don't separate teams, I just... Yeah, I just... Two is too nice, man. Like, I understand that we don't want guys out there fighting and doing all this shit. I get that. But that's where, like, the competition that I always talk about, like, the level of pride.

It's, you can't have that, don't think if you if I like you Are you lose some of that if I if I don't look at you as the like you might You might enemy if I don't look at you as that I Lose some of that competitive edge like this is a pride thing for me I just can't follow him as hard as you want to or... Well, not even that. No, no, no. It ain't even about fouling you hard.

It's about... I'm not going to compete as hard against somebody who I like. Who you might like. I know people say it's the other way around. I think it's the total opposite of that. Especially, they've proven in this day and age. I... They respected each other, right?

That's a level of respect. I ain't got to be your friend or for us to have conversations and all that, but I respect you enough to go out and I want your scalp, like, wipe me every time we play. I never wanted for it to be a chance,

a time where you say, I got the best of you. They didn't want for that ever to be a thing. You didn't want that. You didn't want for somebody to be able to sit on this couch and be like, I bust your ass every time I saw you.

Like, no. Every time I saw you, we battled. That's the conversation and that's what they talking about here it's that like it's our first time ever sitting down and had us it was in two different conferences and like they played each other four times a year year in year out year in year out like no they played so for this to be that that just says a lot about their competitive drive and nature and the pride that they carry about the game and competing so you said you approached it different if they were your friends

but how was that approach with guys you respected versus guys you didn't you didn't care about actually they're about the same okay so. So you respect them never getting... Yeah, don't get this work. Okay. That's why I respect... Don't get this work. Norris, how do you feel about players nowadays being too buddy-buddy, good or bad for the league?

I think it's too buddy-buddy. You know, and I grew up more in this time, so I understand players... Back then, you would never come across each other. Like, Dirk players back then, you would never come across each other. Like Dirk and D-Way would never come across each other as teenagers because one is from Germany, one is from Southside Chicago. So now guys with AAU, they see each other and they get, you know, friendships earlier than, you know, the old school guys. But I think, like Ken said, it's hard to play your hardest and give everything against a guy that you have some sort of feel for, feeling for. And it just is what it is.

And I remember some of my high school rivals, we knew everybody in the city. We all knew each other. And those were some of the most heated rivalries. But we wasn't buddy- during the season you know that's off season stuff during the season it's like because i can't talk to you every day i can't be cool with you and then go out there and have the type of attitude that i have for competition because i'm a maniac when it comes to competition like so i can't look at you like y'all gill like i you know i'm saying i mess with you and then i gotta play against you and give my absolute best.

It's just, so I think that it's kind of, it is ruining the game. Like, we see a bunch of offense, but you score, I score, you score, I score. To me, it ain't competition. It's you score and I'm trying to limit you from scoring. You know, that's competition. That's what OG talking about. And so now it's like, well, if you get 30 and I get 30, we go out and hang out together and that's cool. That's what that's what you talking about And so now it's like well if you get 30 I get 30 huh we go out hang out together in this cool That ain't cool. You know so I think it is too buddy, buddy

He talks about a you a little bit, you know back in the old school days You might see guys three or four times a year right we've seen that the big tournaments at a camp other than that Now you see them every week now every weekend that but just how many times in the league over the last let's call it decade, right? That you've seen guys from other team attending people's wedding Not the teammates other guys from other team pictures that they post on Instagram just think like over time right mm-hmm? It's a thing. You can't do that. Huh? You can't, you can't.

You're not going to no weddings. It's the same thing. In your most intimate moment. Right. Right? My most intimate moment. The wedding. You and besides the birth of your children. My most intimate moment is the wedding. Besides the birth of your children, that's the most intimate moment you can have, right?

Is getting married, right? Sharing vows, like that. And you got a guy who you... That's just me. Right? Some guys can do it. Maybe I'm warped. Maybe my way of competition is warped, but think that's just me.

Right? I think it's an individual thing because some guys can do it, some guys can't. I think as a whole, it is ruining our league. As a whole, I think. As a whole, yeah. But there are some guys,

obviously, that can do it. Because I know when KD and Brian, they lace them up, they going at it. I don't even know if they are really friends, but I know they cool, but they going at it. I know Draymond and Brian, when they play against each other, they going at it. I don't even know if they are really friends, but I know they cool, but they going at it. I know Draymond and Brian, when they play

against each other, they going at it. But there's some other friendships out there where it's buddy-buddy ball out there. I get mine, you get yours, and it's cool. And that's the part I don't like. NBA players too buddy-buddy nowadays. I mean, as a whole, yes. And I think sometimes

we see certain personalities. We see certain type of men like Jordan and Barkley. You know, Magic and Bird, Magic and Isaiah, right? When they're friends and, you know, they enjoy each other. But when we watch the games, they look like real enemies. So we see those and we think that everyone can do it

when it's just certain personalities that can do it. True. And I think that's why I said, when you said as a whole, Draymond's going to fuck his best friends up. He don't care. So he's not the type of dude that we have to worry about. as a whole. Like, Draymond is going to fuck his best friends up, right? He don't care. So he's not the type of dude that we have to worry about. He's trying to win for his

team. So if he's got to throw a grenade at LeBron James, he's throwing his grenade at LeBron James to protect Steph Curry and then be at LeBron James' party after. Like, yeah, I know you lost two legs. I'm going to walk you around, God damn it. We're going to enjoy this.

He's that type of person. I don't think everyone... Pat Bev, he's not one of those dudes that y'all going to go to dinner, and then later on, he's going to fuck you up. Just like Paul George. You know what I mean? Right?

He's one of those. I think as a group, collectively, I don't see Joker and Luka dialing it down when they play against each other. They both trying to get the MVP. You know what I mean? But still buddy-buddy when they see each other. You know, you got about what? It's a few guys that can do it. But for the most? By and large? Yeah. Yeah. No, he can't do that. He can't trust them all. You got about what? It's a few guys to do it. But for the most? By and large?

Yeah. Yeah. No, you can't do that. You can't trust them all. You talked about MJ, one of the greatest competitors in the history of sports, but you also hear the stories about them playing cards with the Knicks till 4 or 5, 6 in the morning. But now as I hear those things, it wasn't as much friendship as like, I'ma use whatever competitive advantage I can,

because I'm a dog, I can stay up till 8 in the morning play a noon game and still give you all this work but I know you guys can't do the same thing it's just like you know I mean you it's on that court you know how do you how does your brain switch we get in between the lines and that's like you can see it from your teammates man like you know they best friends or they brothers but you know you can see the difference when they step in that line and that facial expression changes. Like, oh, shit, he in war mode. You think about Kobe 2008 Olympics.

I'm running right through Pau's chest. I don't care. That's his brother for real. That's his brother for real. That's his brother for real. He ran right through him. But I don't see that as much nowadays. So do you guys ever have to call out a teammate for being too friendly

during a game? Mm-hmm. Or even just watching it and thinking like, come on, man, like... I don't know. Nah, because I would have said something in real time, so it ain't nothing like holding on to. Yeah, and it ain't nothing like hold on to. And you don't remember saying it, right?

Yeah, and it ain't nothing like I'm going to hold on to. It wasn't a big deal if something was said or if there was a situation. No, I don't. So we asked the chat, are players too buddy-buddy? 80% said yes. And I do feel like it diminishes the product. But like like we talked about these dudes see each other every week now they play on three four different you know aau squad they bouncing around like again we were regional we came up okay you might read about you you know we might hear stories but we weren't seeing you week in and week out and if we did see you nobody

was talking to each other Obviously we were on our side you on your side It was what it was like like like I think about like what like mellow and brawn, you know They on the boat together when Nick's play Miami ash Miller going at his dome top Elbow and hand you fuck about none of that cuz LeBron in his way Right, you know that small forward first team LeBron's in his way right you know when he when he talked about I need first team right no matter

how many how best friends they are this dude is in my way from getting first team that means I have to I have to accept second nah that's not nah I'm not just going second second. So whenever time I see him I'm trying to score 30 every single time, you know, Melo was getting 30 every time he played bra you can just Everything else is just extra And people don't realize that too when I like what is in the same position You remember there's an end result, right? Katie LeBron, right? Only one can make first team.

So when they battle, that's the thing that they're thinking about. So we talked about at the NBA level. Now let's shift over to AAU and talk about another issue that's going on on that side. So this past weekend, NBA vet Jamal Crawford went to social media to discuss the current state of AAU basketball and the biggest problem, in his opinion, saying, quote,

being in the gym over these last few months in national games, watching, listening, talking to, hearing, there's a lot wrong with AAU, but the parents are near the top of the list. It's sickening. The delusion that exists is crazy. If we're always making excuses for our children's behavior, or it has to be someone else's fault, Parents are near the top of the list. It's sickening, the delusion that exists is crazy.

If we're always making excuses for our children's behavior or it has to be someone else's fault and we're not teaching them accountability, we're setting them up to fail. If we're always criticizing a coach or program who has given their own time to benefit your child's development and well-being and that's not enough, you should coach them

to give them all you want them to have. As parents, we have to be better. Looking back, when I played at AAU, the thing I take the most pride in is my mom or dad never complained to one coach I ever played for from eight years old on. They said, you want all the things you say you want? Figure it out. Go get better. Looking back, I wear that pride. So you guys have both been in the AAU scene in recent years.

You agree with Jamal saying? No, yeah. I mean, you know, we're parents, right? So we're parents first. So our duty is to, what, protect our children, right? You know, for the most part, we want to protect our children from just the elements of life, not realizing sometimes our protection, you know, handicaps them. Right. So, you know, we we sometimes have to be, you know, aware of. OK, maybe he just needs to go through this a little bit for him to really understand, because the more I can, the more I take him from this situation and put him over here okay this this coach yelling and put him over here this coach business you you you

you create an entitlement right you you create an entitlement for that child and that child's really not gonna have been you know his self right he thinks he's gonna always be he or she because you know I have I have a daughter too too, so, you know, you can't protect them from fate, right, you know, sometimes they just have to sit there and go through it and, you know, work a little bit harder, work a little bit harder, work a little bit harder, and if after you finish putting that work and you've changed and the coach still hasn't seen your worth, then maybe we can leave, but, you know, just, you know, I've seen parents, man, like, they say, oh, my child is this, and they go here and come here,

and now they back here, and go there and go. Like, dog, it's been two months in AAU, and you're on 12 teams. That's a problem, man. Yeah. Okay, what are your thoughts just about the culture of AAU and just the problem, too, on the parent side? Oh, yeah, what are your thoughts just about the culture au and just the problem too on the parent side oh yeah parents are the biggest yeah i agree with jamal 100 percent um yeah because it's

living vicariously through your kids um thinking you know more about whatever the sport it is your kid is playing than the coach that's coaching it. Because you might have played it years back when you probably was only mediocre at best at whatever it is. Whatever it is that you, the sport it is that you were playing. So there's a little resentment towards the sport and the people that was around so now you want to Be at games and Talking to people running these programs on what you think is best when you don't know because you've never done it or been in this But yeah, no, it's a it's a problem and then

like to Gil's point you do that to him you this team that team that team this team that team this team and Now the way the NCAA is is now it's the transfer portal. I mean, right So it's so we just don't stop with that. It creates that. And that's the same kids that he's speaking of and the parents of these kids. He's been around it for a while, been watching it,

and some of them kids in college now, so it's the same thing, right? But yeah, no, it's sad that parents can't allow the kids to have fun and enjoy it. But you know, it's it's sad that Parents can't allow the kids to have fun and enjoy That's what it should be about. Yeah, like I was talking about do that Sierra can like should be about having fun and getting the best out of the kids teaching them and and Developing them and that's what it should be about and he fits that aau criteria of of that thought process right it's that so but no jamal is spot on man and he has a son that's coming up

in it he coaches too right yeah so he has so yeah that shit right he sees it right and then yeah dealing with it i'm pretty he has his own program So dealing with it and just hearing all the gripes and from parents. Right. And who knows better than Jamal Crawford. Right. On what it takes to be successful in basketball. And like he said, what his parents did, how his parents stayed out of it and didn't let him change teams or complain and didn't always pacify that right, that's what that's all they do there is pacified and then they pass it on and It's not doing the kids in his service. Yeah, when you're always bitching and complaining about the coach because then what they gonna do Bitch complain about the coach no matter what dad he's every every coach every coach is the same way once the parents start with the kid in the car right you can have these

conversations but we as adults we don't know not to have this conversation in front of the nine year old like or the 10 year old or the 13 year old like we don't know these things so now Anything that looks like that What they was hearing for the last two and a half year how bad the coach is anything that resembles that mm-hmm jump ship Or and it's the coach fault that It creates a bad habit for life for the kids not even her basketball like, like for life. If it's always somebody else's fault, you're always making excuses. You create a scary situation, especially for young black kids, always making excuses for them. It's tough out here. And sometimes if you work your way through it, you will get to the other side. But if you always create a way of escape for them, then when they get to real life

and there's no way of escape You know, that's when you have a lot of mental health issues things happen People need therapists as they become an adult because they've been pacified they hold it not seriously That's why they hold life. That's not even the best, but that's in life and then for basketball big word He said was delusion. Yeah, but you know some of these like Jamal Crawford played in the NBA You know, I had a team before, like, kids. No, he has children. Like, we played in the NBA and played when it was college All-Americans.

And so we know what a talented kid looks like. We know what an All-American looks like. And so when a delusional parent says something, it's like, it's the craziest thing ever. Like, who you talking to? Like, I walked in the All-American shoes. I played with an All-American. parent says something it's like it's the craziest thing ever like who you talking to like i walked into all american shoes i played with all of me i had all world teammates that was all nba all usa team like so the delusional part is kind of crazy because then you create a child to become delusional absolutely and that's the and that's the scariest thing ever a delusional person who's

not living in reality yeah because that that... That fall is a steep fall. It's a steep fall. Why do you think you got some of these kids that's number one in the nation and all this, and then you don't hear about them anymore? Because your ass was delusional, and then his ass was delusional when he got his feelings hurt.

He didn't know how to handle it at 18, 19. See, if he would have got his fucking feelings hurt at 8 and 9, he could have recovered. He can't recover now. It's over, right? So he's going to be overseas for the next, and in the G League, D League for the next 15 years.

And he was the number one player in the country at one point. But he got his feelings hurt, set his ass on the bench at 18, 19, and he don't know what the fuck to do. Or he teaching them lessons like my daughter we talk about coaching kids yeah I told y'all we didn't win the game right we get our doors blew off and they gave all the kids a trophy at the end of it participation Participation trophy? And we got in the car. I looked back and told my baby girl, baby,

and before I could say it, she like, yeah, we didn't earn these. There's no delusion there. Yeah, you're right. There's no delusion. Didn't earn these. I'm explaining, I'm like, baby, this trophy,

did you see everybody got it? And my daughter dying already she yeah We didn't play well enough getting no trophy I'm gonna let you keep it. Mm-hmm cuz you played your ass off and you tried and you care and This is your got your name on it. But just so you know This is not the way it goes. Yes She's nine. Set the record early.

Yes, there's no delusion that this is acceptable. Like, we're going to do it this way. I want you to enjoy it first and foremost. Have fun first and foremost. That's what I tell you. Have fun first and foremost. If you're not having fun, we're not going to... But there's... Some parents get in the car baby you did

great and we they gave you a trophy and we it's like no you know the problem with that in sports is and i think that there's too many losers having say-sos Yes. Oh, we're playing soccer. There's six and seven. There should be no score. Yet a fuck there should be. Okay, good. Yes. Yes, there should be. Right?

This is a sport. It's a competition. There's a winner and a loser. Yes. Right? If you don't want your child to have the cry after, don't put them in this sport. The fucker can be a cheerleader. This is dual now.

Dual cheerleaders now. Right? Let your child be a cheerleader. This is dual now. Dual cheerleaders now. Right. Let your child be a cheerleader with his fucking Jordans on. Right. But this is a sport that needs a winner and a loser because the winner needs to know what it takes to win. The loser needs to know what it takes and how it fucking feels. Right. My son is going to the national, whatever that is. State championship. The state championship. The same team, right?

One night. The same team beat him three fucking times before that game. That means he lost to the same team. He felt the pain. He fouled out one game. He fouled out. Hit the game and to go to overtime First play the game charge about a sister goofy ass down. I told you to pull up

Told you not to get that silly ass foul number four And you know, I said don't reach your reach got your full file. They kept you in the game fouled out loss Now y'all didn't win the division championship. Now you're the same team what did you learn i'm gonna pull up i'm gonna take some pull-up jumpers there you go right he has to they have to learn in real time if there's no penalty they don't feel no fucking pain because they get ice cream at the end the fuck are you teaching them then nothing because the problem is what you're protecting them for He gonna get that shit no matter what in real life that he that he don't know how to recover from it I don't do this Life is gone. The life is gonna teach him and if he don't know how to adjust to that life teaching you ruined him

Yeah, there's a one and he spent two days on pull-up jumpers in the gym. Learn it. Hey, they're going to try to take charges on you. They're going to take charges on you. That little dude is going to try to take charges on you. You better be ready for him. All right, I'm going to go ahead and work on it. Full speed pull-up. Getting ready for the game. That's what happens when there's a result. If you take away the result, how does it...

It's like taking away film. You're taking away the kid's film for life. How are you supposed to know what he's doing right or wrong if you're taking it away? It made no sense. In every aspect of life. That's what you touched on before. If I qualify, if I'm better prepared

to be a doctor and I get the higher scores than you, guess what? I'm going to probably get the job in business. If my business structure is set up more than you and I got everything set up, my business is going to profit more than you. It's in everything, you know? You're trying to get you a woman? Hey, if I'm better than this, that,

she's going to probably choose. It's competition. They are choosing. What's that game called? This is how people play life. What's that game called? Was it doctor? Operation.

Operation. Hey, remember, everybody did operation Right. Let them do that shit in real life Yeah, let him do it in real life on you, right you ain't gonna lie that huh? Yeah, cuz there was no penalty in operation a little buzzer Right got, motherfucker. Yeah, I'm going to keep going through that buzzer because there's no repercussion on me going through there.

Just a little bit of noise. Right? In real life, that's your day. So, like, I don't even like, well, this is how much. So we got the five- and six-year-old team, and they start to score over halftime. I got a problem with that. Yeah.

Oh, I'm not feeling it. Right? Hey, you know me. I'm keeping the score. They ask me, Dad, we up two nothing. No, we up 17 to nine. We scored 15 in the first half. The kids be laughing. I be like, yeah, no, we have final score

with 34 to 15. Yeah. Y'all had 15. Yeah, we had 34. Yeah, but they say we had 16. No, we had 16 in the half. We had, so yeah, we had 34. Yeah, but it say we had 16. No, we had 16. It had, we had, so yeah, we, yeah, they be like, oh. Okay, the same boat as you.

One of the leagues, they don't keep scoring. Like, no, we know what the score is. Yeah, they keep scoring. Y'all did not. We started that shit over. How do we do? Not well. We got smacked today.

Or not. Yeah, we smacked them. But, Norris, like you pointed out, it goes so much further than just basketball. And it's sad when you can see it happening You know, there's really no recourse to stop it and but 10 15 years down the road You see what the ramifications are because most of them not going pro most of them Matter of fact almost all of them ain't going pros less than 1% that make it pro. So we ain't teaching on basketball Life like yeah. So I see certain things, this is horrible of me to think,

but I see certain age of boy at the school, right? And parents walk them on campus daily, this, that, and the other. Got no problem with it. But when a child, when little boys hit a certain age, for men and women, you need to stop holding their hand. Right? And when I see it, my wife say, you need to stop holding a hand. Mm-hmm, right? Yeah, and when I see it my wife So you gotta stop it. I'd like see he gonna be a serial killer She like stop it I'm like, yo, why are you holding this sixth graders hand?

Yeah, like this fifth like you got like this is real shit man Yes, they walking these kids on dads holding a son hand in a certain age and I'm like No, I want to go up there and not stop stop What are you doing this? Wait, man? You got this why you still holding his hand man? You might have confidence for himself Yeah, like you okay? When the safest schools on Planet you own campus You didn't made it past security. You own campus and you still holding his hand.

Like no. Not, let him go. Let him go. Like this is okay here. This is fine. Right? That's crazy. So question for you guys.

Can AAU culture be fixed or it is what it is? At this point it is what it is. For me it is what it is because it's a business now. So much money has went into it. You know, you can, right? It seems for the business itself, you want parents to be delusional. Because they're delusional. They're going to create a team. That team is going to create more money, more revenue, because that's more teams checking into these tournaments.

And that's just the way it is. Some of these tournaments, you'd be having 300, 400 teams. With no shoe sponsors. And don't need them. Not talking about the three major ones. This is like regular, every weekend tournaments. With no major shoot spawns. I think you can fix it the parents not the actual structure itself parents can fix it why by not putting their kids in bad programs or realizing

if my kid is not actual pro or that good I can just get him a trainer and we can work out he can go to the YMCA and learn the love for the game natural without me having to pay money to put them in some Rinky-dink tournament just to be saying he play a you like now we can work on your skills and do all that That's where the play of course. I saw some shit last year. Do you tend to support like I want to say the program These couple kids on their team look like they only play at PE No, you like you look like they only play basketball when they go to PE at school.

Man. And if you in high school still, you in the 11th grade, you still taking PE. Yeah. Like you got... But what do we do? That's why I don't coach. Because everybody's like, yeah, you know, I'm going to try for your team. I seen your son.

No. We're not doing... Because, no, you supposed to let him know he's not gonna be a pro because That bitch I don't know what sport y'all think that everybody should play. I know you give me your check But he ain't getting in the game He ain't getting in the game. So I just won't eat. I don't want 1215 cuz I'm letting you know Yo, we're gonna treat it just like the nba right it's different level tournaments though like cheer right that's your job cheer be happy you on the bench and if we get up by 45

i can put you that's your magic number yeah other than that like so i want you to be angry when they up and they fucking off like come on man y'all gotta play harder so you can get in the game that's your job right so now you intense got to play harder so you can get in the game. That's your job. Right? So now you intense on how they play. So you checking them too. Yeah. Yeah. Because if we're not up by a lot, you can't get in. And I know if you don't get in, your mama gonna get mad at you. But parents shouldn't

even put their kids in high competitive teams. Like, you want to coach high competitive, like, high level players, which is cool. If your kid ain't that, parents, it's okay. Like, don't put them out there with a team like that. But it all goes back to the delusion, right? They still think, like I've seen a youth league, like a rec league that had a high school division

during the high school season. For the people that didn't make their varsity and JV team. But if you ain't on a JV or varsity team in the high school, it's time to shut it down. No disrespect. Now they can play for fun's time to shut it down. No disrespect. Now they can play for fun. Go to college and play intramural. Get your intramural right.

Play intramural. Play intramural team. And even now, obviously people still love the game and want to play, but there comes a point when it's like, and we all deal with that. Obviously you guys got much further than me. It came a point where like, all right, this is not going to be my career. I got to figure it out. Hey, Timmy want to play?

Timmy going to play. Timmy going out. Hey Timmy want to play Timmy goes like Timmy's own play. That's hit me wanna try be seeing some trainers and ABC and then training them kids and I'd be like He blind shit. Hey mama mama keep giving me the $300. I'm gonna keep taking it You charge a 300 She offered 300 in a session. No trust shit me. Shit, I need to be a trainer. What are you saying? Man, I'd be sitting at the light watching cones out here. I was like, yeah, you should be like... Sometimes you got to think though, some of the trainers are teaching coordination.

The kids might not be basketball players, but basketball training could be a form of them learning coordination. Man, bonding, networking. Because everything ain't got to be about form of them learning coordination. Man, man. Binding, networking. Because everything ain't got to be about being a pro. And so is Pilates. Yeah. Yeah, but they may not, you know. And yoga.

Throw that rock. They might have more fun learning the basketball way. So even though they're not going to be a pro basketball player, they're like, listen, I know you ain't going to be a pro but, you know, you're learning how to, you know, footwork, conditioning. They're going to be the agent. You know, we need jerseys The transportation cover we need hotel rooms a whole lot of sports. I'm thankful

I'm already a fee so I don't have to sit them nowhere I know if my kid is good or not I'll be able to make the judgment call he got a chance or now that ain't so sport But we can do basketball I drew it you in the driveway, but I ain't taking you way across town. Yeah, that's something we not ready yet The daughter we not ready yet, so we're not gonna do that Time now for mostly fans Presented by underdog fantasy if you have not done so Trying to reduce the time for y'all okay, we've heard the complaints

Took myself out yesterday stepped off the porch, some house shoes on, nigga running, trying to take my wife a jacket, trying to be a good husband. Uh-huh. Ran out the door, house shoes on, here you go baby! Stepped off the porch, nigga, and my shit went. My foot swole, nigga, that's why I ain't got, you know, I've been there tied up most of the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ain't tied this bitch up today, Jack. Got to let it breathe our first underdog questions from Lucas me 59 Says there's a movie called down to earth with Chris Rock He gets switched into another comedian's body if you could switch into any players body right now and play who would it be? I love these long pauses when you're all in deep thought.

That's weird, ain't it? Who the highest paid? Jalen Brown. Him. Well, right now, today, he the highest paid, right? Contractually, LeBron's the highest paid. Well, yeah, but who under contract right now now Jalen Brown just signed the biggest country on history Yeah, he just got the biggest one ago Jalen Brown

I think Steph Curry whoever signed this summer then I'm gonna transfer over to him to coming up this summer but He said player Which is anybody? Player but this is gills arena presented by underdog fantasy you are gilbert arenas as we know you would do what you want to do so it can be anybody if you want it to be anybody no i just want you know i just you know uh i just you know i just want to jump into meek mill body just to see if the rumors is true how do i feel

i'm sorry i couldn't help wow Wow Wow That was puppies. This is what you've been waiting for is you ready? Dreams and nightmares they I really enjoyed doing this show Hold up wait a minute Media said I ain't saying he is but he's doing the the worst job I've ever seen to convince the people that he's not. Yeah. Yeah. I pass. There's a lot of problems wrong with that.

I cannot even go one by one down the list. Yeah. Just want to know. The chat is pointing some of those things out. No, I just want to know if it's true. Just zoom. Okay. Oh, shit. I really enjoy doing this job. I just want to know if it's true. Just zoom. Okay. Oh, shit.

I really enjoy doing this job. I don't know how long it's going to last. But if I don't get to see y'all again, I really appreciate it. Doing Gilderina presented my underdog fantasy. Woof, woof. You bring me into entanglements and situations. I go places solo, and I get ran up on now

and ask what you were thinking. I don't know. I just want to see, man, like the president, man. I want to know. I want to know you see. I want to know the secrets. I want to be zoom zoom like, oh, shit. Next question is from underdog user Speffy. He says, are you taking an ex back that's flirting with you while she has a fiance? Would you take an ex back that's flirting with you when she is already engaged to be married this is what's known as an entanglement me now I'm telling you to she was cheating on me and then she did

nah can i tell if it was the animal or promiscuous promiscuous variety nor are you taking an ex back that's flirting with you while she has a fiance? I don't know. That's tough. Depends why we broke up. That's fair. It depends why we broke up. Kenyon, are you taking an X?

If we broke up because of me or whatever and then she ended up trying to move on but then she realized she got another chance with me and she wanted me, nah, I don't know. That's tough because why are you committed to that other person to move on but then she realized like she got another chance with me you know she want me i

nah i don't know that's tough because why are you committed to the other person if you ain't fully committed so uh no i say no what if this person has abstained from sex for two years and won 700 million dollars as a result of that it's nice to have nice things, okay, ladies and gentlemen? Kenya, are you taking an ex back that's flirting with you while she has a fiancé? Not doing it, a man or a princess? Nah. You can't do that, because then what if, you know, what if she had an ex and she's with me, and now she's flirting with somebody else? Can't trust her.

Fair. Can't trust her. Can't trust her. Fair. Can't trust her? Can't trust. How? She got a man she laying with, and then she got a fiance. Fiance, yeah. That nigga, she's dating.

And she on the book to get married. Scheduled to be married. So, can't trust her. So how can you... And then now, if you... And if you don't start thinking like, damn, what was she doing when she was with me before? Then, yeah, you damn fool.

Can I argue with that? So our last question was emailed in from underdog user... E-mailed. People use e-mail. Mostlyfansgill at Gmail apparently did not send the video as requested. Sent an e-mail. Send a video. Send the video. Send the video, as the young kids say.

The username is handmeajek, which I think is a check but with a J. Not 100% sure. I've been assured by our producers that they tried to see if this is offensive somehow, but the results were inconclusive. Pancakes or waffles are your only two choices for the rest of your life. Which one are you picking? Pancakes or waffles? It's all you two choices for the rest of your life. Which one are you picking? Pancakes or waffles? It's all you can eat for the rest of your life.

I'm going to go pancakes. I love pancakes. Pancakes are delicious. Pancakes for sure. French toast. Yes, sir. I would not debate mixing both. That's French toast. Half and half. As your only meal. I would not debate with both

As your only meal for first over there say you can't cannot eat anything else It's just one of these two options for the rest of your life and cake pancakes and pancakes. Yeah Pancake did not say if you can get syrup or not, which I don't know if that changes anything Just said I just said pancake or waffle did Did not say accessories included. We're still saying pancakes. All right. Well, that's a good place to end this show. We appreciate you guys as always, and we appreciate you to Underdog Fantasy.

Ain't this what you've been waiting for? Hey, man. People think I want to jump into his body and feel what happened. That is what you said. The chat was like, whoa. It was like, whoa. It already had happened.

I just want to be like, hey, y'all, it's true. He's guilty. That's previously framed, Gil. I think that's what the chat was alluding to. Again, I have nothing to do with this. I am merely a host of Kanye. I want to go to Kanye to see if he really crazy. Like, now he tricking y'all.

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