Gil's Arena - Why Opposing Players LOVE the GARDEN

Episode Date: March 2, 2023

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Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! still getting prepped up. Get them but the shoes look nice. First of all, I don't even know why I was putting my shoes. I can just hide my feet. I didn't think about that. You know, you might bring your toe up like that. So, I'm back with Gilbert Arenas, of course, and we got Brandon Jennings and Rashad

McCants in the building for our final show of the week. We got a lot to get into. So, let's get it going but Gil, we're gonna start with our new favorite segment. Your favorite phrase. You got to remember. We weren't going to do a drinking game. We weren't going to tell you about it. But every time you say you got to remember everybody had to take a sip. But if you're watching that, you're all going to be tore up.

You want to know every time you got to remember, you got to sip your favorite beverage, whatever that is, we're gonna go all the way back to 1962 March 2nd, you know what happened that day 1962. Will Chamberlain dropped a hundred points in the NBA game. He's with the Philadelphia Warriors on the New York Knicks. Okay game took place in Hershey, Pennsylvania in front of only 4,000 fans. It's crazy to think how the game has exploded. Only 4,000 people were in the building to watch Will Chamberlain in that day.

But he averaged a record 50.4 points per game that season. Still stands, I think, like 25 rebounds, too, which is crazy. Had 15 60-point games that year. But my question for you, we hear about this 100-point game, but we know old people love to put extras on shit they love to lie. Do you really believe that Wilt scored 100 points or is that some grade A classic cap? No, actually I do.

I mean, you know, if they were drafting 260 people in the 80s. They had 10 rounds in the 70s. I'm pretty sure the talent in the 60s was horrible for him to just basically dominate. If you were a super athlete back in that time, I'm pretty sure getting bucks was pretty easy. I remember looking at that box score. Like, on the other team, three people had 30-something. So they were scoring a lot of points. If you're on that other squad, though, you drop 30, are you going to say, I'm just going to be like, y'all dropped 30.

I don't remember what else happened in that game, man. If I had 39, I had 39. He ain't going to take away from what happened. But he gave me 100. Wait, part of this 100, since there's no real film was the free-throw ruling yet? What free throw wasn't a free-throw rule because he would jump from the free throw line to make oh he would he would Was that rule in yet or was he doing it in that game? No, not that game and I think this will bring that back. Oh, it's way beat

Yeah, okay If you got boosted you should be able to take off from that Remember they had to make a rule on the free throw line because of him. So I was trying to figure out if that was after the hundred point. Performance. But have you never played with little kids before? You never played a little kid when you just score anytime you want to. Yeah.

That's what it was like. It was like it was playing with little kids. Like thank you. These are grown-ass men though. Look, but look, they're not. Like, get that shit out of here. But I mean, you're talking about a high jumper, track runner. I mean, obviously, he was the most.

Yeah, he was playing against the Milkman and Postman. And everybody was getting jobs. Everybody. He might have really launched that whole civil rights movement with that game. Like, oh, you see what we're doing here, y'all? I mean, still, 100 is 100. I mean, still a hundred is a hundred. I mean, yeah. You know, is that the most impressive hundred? No. No. We got the most

impressive hundred. Lisa Leslie. Easy. Because because that hundred and Leslie. Yeah. I never knew that. What? You mean Cheryl's? I mean, Cheryl Miller. Cheryl. No. Lisa Leslie, bro. Don't do that. When did she have? You're not from here. When she had Kelly? Yeah. Okay. Hundred and one. Okay. Was it her? I think it was at the half time. The other Don't do that. When does she have you're not from here. Where's she not Kelly? Yeah, okay 101 At the half time the other team quit Which which messed it up because her wreck it would have been further right?

101 at the half Morningside, I couldn't get the ball past. Have you ever played with little kids? They couldn't get the ball past them. Get that shit out of here. Give me this half-court. Give me the ball. But you know how, think about it, you know how hard it is to score a hundred points in the half if you're playing 16 minutes? No. In high school, don't even

make sense. 16 minutes. Morning side high. Where's the film, though? I want to see the footage. Yeah, why we never have footage? There should be footage. Where's the film? team? I want to see the footage. Why we never have film of this? There should be footage. What's the film? I need evidence. You know there's no film back then.

At least at Leslie, yes there is. There's VHS. But what about the other team? Daddy had VHS. But they quit at halftime. They said, fuck it, we going home. We good. We good.

We are. All right, so let's get into 0 to 100. One of my favorite segments on Gil's Arena. So we had something like Kevin Durant on the show yesterday. Played amazingly by Rashad McKay. KD made his debut with the Suns Wednesday. Went over to

Hornets. 23.6 rebounds. He played 27 minutes on that minutes restriction. Devin Booker though. 37 piece. Aiden was 16 to 16 CB three only had two points but 11 assists. Hey, what I tell him I told you no. Well, I think you're going to average under

10. Yeah, I said 1515 by 1560. We both said it. We started them all. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You're getting them giving it up. Yeah. So but here's the after the game, KD had a message for his haters telling Yahoo Sports at this point, they're saying go play with Scoot Henderson and win a championship. And then we'll give you credit. I don't need no credit from y'all. He also added, y'all don't ever have to watch me play ever again.

Don't talk about me if you don't rock with me. I'm not going to stop doing what I do. Everybody has their opinions, man. It's not going to stop me in how I approach the game. Woo! So, 0-100. Chances KD haters won't watch him play. It's not going to stop me and how I approach the game. Whoo. So zero to 100 chances. Katie haters won't watch him play negative 100 negative.

How can you not know what he doing? You know what he doing? It's it's it's it's funny because I've never seen I've never seen a star player win the championship. On a bad team. It's never happened. That's actually never happened. A star player winning with a horrible team, it's just never happened. You know, you got to have other good players to win.

I mean, there's a legend who has three rings. Well, he has 11 total. But three his first three rings his team was under 500 when he won those championships Bill Russell. Then I know that girl. I did not know that. Yeah, I know a lot of stuff about do you you understand basketball. Yeah, because you know, it's

only it was only it was only basically 18. So I mean if you were a good team, it was hard to really like beat that team because there was no free agency. It was just trades and basically just trade. There was a free agency at the time. Trades and drafts. So if you know Boston you couldn't beat them. So you just traded your best player to him, but it was only 18. So yeah, like that's common sense though.

That's not, that's, that's what you got to research. You got to research. I'm about to say, yeah. Yeah. I'm about to say, I didn't know none of that. I want to know about all the grades. Like his first championship when he, he didn't even start that season. Another rookie was, another rookie was made the all-star game.

And I think by the time Bill Russell got in there were like 12 or 16 games in front of first place in their division Who they were already good? Hmm? basketball IQ Okay, so when you look at a KD in this Sun Squad, though, do you believe yet? I mean, I know we were waiting to see if you could play. But who's waiting?

Hmm. You not us. I needed to know. We was good. We were fine. Y'all. We know. But how scary is it though to look at this Suns team and know that you have to play a whole game with KD

or Devin Booker on the court. If not both of them together for at least half of it. It's a lot of buckets, a lot of buckets on the wings. You're going to figure out, you know, to go to bed early. A lot of buckets. One thing about them to they can score and I think it's like I said before the pressure was on Devin Booker because he's going to be able to is going to free him up a lot. He's going to have a lot of more open

shots. A lot of shots that he should be able to knock down. So the pressure is going to be able to he's going to free him up a lot. He's going to have a lot of more open shots a lot of shots that he should be able to knock down. So the pressure is going to be on him. So I know you're not the biggest fan of dudes requesting trade. You got to earn those stripes. I feel like KD got to those level. Yeah, like Thomas Bryant. He came, you know, he can but KD can't because KD can do what

he want to do. So as a hoops fan, are you happy KD asked for a trade out of Brooklyn? Yes. Yes, I am. I am because the situation I mean, what do you want to do? Leave leave Katie there with Ben Simmons. So we'll talk about it. Then I mean, it's just I mean, you

know, Kyrie's gone. I mean, you know, Ben doesn't want to shoot. Don't want to play. I mean, they should have sent Ben home first. I mean, if I'm the owner since we're going to just blow this whole thing up, I would have sent Ben home first. I mean, if I'm the owner, since we're going to just blow this whole thing up, I would have sent Ben home first, just to set an example for the league. Let the league know and players know, like, you know, if you don't want to play, you can go home.

I mean, I'm already blowing this whole thing up, so I might as well just pay this. You can go home too, and we'll just figure it out later. That's a lot of bread. You rolling with that? I'm rolling with that. Just because it's sending the message, right? Let's shake the league up.

KD can ask out, right? And then LeBron and other players have asked out as well, right? So the responsibility now is out of the owner's hands to try to please the player. It's the player trying to please himself. Where do I want to go? I don't want to be here no more. I want to go here, here, here, right? So if the owners are saying, like, hey a band, you don't want to play. We had to chill at the crib. Like they did John Wall.

Hey, go chill bro. You don't will you don't like the way we running things here. Cool. Now, don't think that we're going to send you where you want to go. Yeah, don't think just like it don't work like that. Yeah, right. You don't want to be on our squad, but you know our plans. You think I'm just gonna send you to the championship right. You want to be on our squad, but you know, our plans. You think I'm just going to send you to the championship squad. You can still a business.

Like wrong and rolling. We're forgetting right? We're forgetting. He reminded us. It's the Nets bro. All right, it's the next change the name and move location. It's still still that Just because you changed your name and moved location, it's still the Knicks. They're still that shit. They have one job. One job when they got to New York.

Do not be worse than the Knicks. That's it. And they fucked that up. They're worse than the Knicks. Like, it's... Like, the Knicks is like It's like the bad news bears when you think about like when you make every wrong decision True or false. They got them all wrong. That was next like Nick's got one, right? Yeah I'm not even gonna call them Brooklyn Like how are you in a worse position than the damn New York Knicks?

You brought up the Knicks. We got to talk about them though. Okay. They cooking right now. The Knicks are red hot. They won seven straight games. I was watching ESPN last night. I was going to steal this and just say it, but I was watching ESPN.

During the seven-game win streak. They've dropped 866 points, which is the most in a seven game win streak in Nick's history. I think it's happened like a hundred times. I'm sure killing it. I'm sure one point five games behind the Cavs for the four seed Jalen Brussels been balling out Julius Randle been doing his thing Russell drop what 39 on the Nets. These same Brooklyn Nets. We were just speaking of got the dad from Thibs. Came through with

the Patrick Kane jersey. Really showing love to his community. But let's talk about that Josh Hart trade. It's looking pretty good right now. Josh Hart has never lost

as a New York Knick. He's 7-0. 12.4 points per game. Five rebounds. He's averaging that with the Knicks? With the Knicks. He's averaging 12

with the Knicks? Mm-hmm. Oh, okay. So I need a 0-100 Knicks chance to Knicks. He's ever been 12 with the Knicks. Mm-hmm. Okay, I need a 0-100 Nick's chance to winning a playoff series Listen I don't trust I trust the Knicks. I don't trust the garden Hmm. I've never trusted the garden because the Garden hates their Knicks players if they're performing badly or not performing at the level that they are delusional with.

They still think this is rough and tough basketball. So when they get the booing five minutes into the game because the game is zero to four, right? And it then favors the road team, and then they're going to cheer for the road star. I do not trust them in the playoffs. I trust the team. Like, I trust the team because, you know, they want to win. And it's just them fans are just,

they're the worst fans in just sports history when it comes to supporting their actual team. Spike Lee is coming for you. Yeah, yeah. Do you want that fake? Do you want Spike Lee's fake? Listen, all you do is just turn on the Knicks game and then it goes down 0-10.

They'll start booing them and not pay attention. I'm calling all Knicks fans. Where y'all at? We're going to win a series. I'm going on it with them. Are you a Knicks? You're a Knicks guy. I'm not a nice guy. You know, I'm rocking with the Knicks as I seen the development of the fans other team not the 50% I'm picking up for I'm picking up up another reason just because if they catch somebody in the East like like who would they can't clean the way right now. She's in the day.

There'd be calves next in that four or five calves. I'm going with the Knicks like like but they might be able to get the calves. They can go out with the name. But the only thing that I don't like is them home games. I do not trust the whole if it was all in what are you going that what era are you stuck in? This is a new Nick.

Thank you. Is this a this is the new Nick fan. Big ball. Where are you stuck? Where you stuck at? You know, Julius Randle just had to boot him. He did. You remember he had to do this to them because I like trash just last year. He was all the fans booed the trash play. It was I've never seen Clay. they were booing. Just last year, he was booing. All the fans booed the trash play. They was booing Russ. They was booing Russ in LA. I've never seen Klay Thompson being booed

when he plays bad. I've never seen different organizations, though. Different fans. But it's also a winning culture. It's also a winning culture. You're not going to boo Klay. Exactly. I think, listen, what was his name?

Dolan? Dolan Dolan. Dolan. Listen, don't be dead. If you get in the playoffs, I need you to do this. You know that that sound system they had during the bubble. You might want to use that to drown out the crowd when they start booing you just hit the button didn't start cheering. You know, I mean keep it positive in there.

That's keep it positive. You know, that's that's what they need. So other than that, you think they got a chance? Other than that, I actually like the team. They'll win a series. I've never not liked the Knicks. I just don't like fan base. Come on, we rolling.

It's an opponent star fan base. So you guys have all come in as a road team and played in the Garden. What's that atmosphere like for you? Gil, you said... Amazing. Amazing for me. That's what I like for you? Good. You said you amazing. Yeah amazing for me. Yeah, I was up in 30s.

Yeah. Yeah. You got there. What I already do. Once I got it going. It was gonna start cheering for me. So you know, bro, they do. Yeah, I know a couple in a row because they're basketball fans.

Yeah, which means they just want to see great basketball. That's it. So now think about the guy who has to guard him that has the Knicks Jersey on and they're cheering for him. How you think he feels that's what the players mentally go through. You better tell you getting your ass cooked bro. You ain't getting no tears for getting cooked every night. You better put them.

You better put them gloves on every night. Every night. Look about you coming out there every night. We not cheering for you for getting roasted by Mr. Herb. I don't want to be these roasted because y'all are cheering for him. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, he's not real. Literally, he's already gone. You already gone. Yeah, we not rolling.

Are we going to try like this? You have a girlfriend, right? Uh-uh. Late night. Yeah. Every time y'all start performing, she get the booing when she don't like your stroke game. Boo!

Does that actually make you pump harder? Absolutely. What do you think? How else am I going to get her to shut up? How else am I going to get her to shut up? How else am I going to get her to shut up? You start getting deflated. No. For sure.

Like every time you walk in the bedroom, you be like, ah. For sure, because she told everybody. I got to bring the monster out. It makes me more upset. And then the boo. I wish y'all home could see everybody's face. Like, no, I'm serious. Hey, she get the boo and boo.

The tag bro, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You I know I'm serious.

Hey, she get the boy boo. That bro. You know, we got to get up and fix the license. We got to get up and move some shit around. I don't know if they want to see a high look. Look Lakers are notorious Lakers fans and torches were bullying their their players to greatness. I don't care who is LeBron. You can't boo for bullying their players to greatness. I don't care who it is. LeBron, Tasty Pete. You can't boo no one to greatness.

But when you're performing, we're going to give you those cheers. You got to deliver. This is New York. What I'm saying is, it's sports, right? Like, think about, we watch concerts, right? Fans get the booing. Does the rapper get the going harder? Or does he be like, oh, man, fuck y'all.

Throw the mic. Get the fuck out of there. He threw the mic. Get the fuck out of there. He throws the mic. Get the fuck out of here. Start doing that. But that's everybody. No one throws in no... It's like they gotta change the song. They're not holding... You don't just walk off.

You can't change that. They don't like that one. Change it. Hurry up. If they boo you, you gotta go off the stage. You're getting off the stage. So can't get off the stage, bro. So it's like when you go out there and you got all this energy and you're about to play and then they, like, you start booing, it eventually eats at you. It does. It eats at you.

Eventually. Not right away, though. And they have not realized that that's why they don't have real great free agents coming because everyone who plays there, they see the atmosphere like we're realistic. I know if we want 82 games or 40 41 games this building to be on fire. Yes. That's unrealistic. That's why most Knicks teams most Knicks teams for probably this last one their role their road record was better than their home

record. But wouldn't you think that the fans would be willing to cheer more because we now are in the playoffs in the first round. We got an opportunity to get to the second round. We don't actually change the way we cheer for our guys this time around. Never. That would never happen. I play for the Knicks. I know. Yeah, I played. Yeah, when we had that D Rose Rose team, me, D. Rose, Joe Kim, Mello last year. I remember when Mello was

on the trade thing with Phil. Yeah, I was on that team. It was a circus every day. Every day. Every day. Like, you didn't know who they was cheering for. I mean, so, like, in the beginning, yeah, because we had the new team, you know, but once we started, it was like, yo, anybody came here?

I remember when Bronnan was playing with the cup on the side and you know, it's like like all that every day. He was coming here clowning us. It was love at first. It was like it looked like I was losing but then we started losing that we became the Knicks again. Then it was like those are the Philly sports in New York sports and New England sports all together.

We need it. Whoopi Goldberg to come coach us. Eddie. Eddie. Yeah. We need Eddie. We need Eddie. Like when I was at Golden State, when I was at Golden State and we was trash, them Oakland fans were still rocking. Yes. Yeah. They were still rocking no matter what. Nah, this is before we believe. Before that? Cuz I remember When when they went to the playoff that we believe team.

I told my team because we was in the playoffs. I said a watch the Golden State game because they were crazy when we were there and we were okay. That TV is about to be loud. Them fans is crazy over there and sure enough. You can hear the fans the Oakland fans San Francisco fans. Yeah, I gotta stop hating on San Francisco though. San Francisco's turnt up to

San Francisco have this sections that you I'm just saying it was lit bro. You gotta remember the Oakland Raider fan. Yeah, right there. It was lit bro. 49ers fans go hard like a Raiders 49ers game. Probably the scariest thing. I think I've ever seen in Oakland. Yeah

Yeah, but that candlestick back in the day Bro, look that the Warriors fan row that we believe that six men wouldn't that might but that's that But that's what the Knicks have. No, they have a six man. They look they have a six man. They just use it. They work together. They were just working to get you just hype up the like it would be hard. Imagine imagine if they all twenty something thousand because they all show up drunk. Yeah, ready to go. New York is angry all the time. So they can start off the game destroying the opponent. Making it a scary event. Nope, not them.

Hey, y'all. I'm just going to hit cook. So what we're saying, look, I need Mero, Spike Lee, Ben Stiller. Y'all got to talk to the Knicks fans. Get it together. And help change this shit. Joe Bud. Joe Bud got to get in the mix.

Joey Crack. Joey Crack. Joe Crack. Joe Crack. J the mix. Joey crack. Joey crack. Joe crack. Joe crack. Kiss all of them. Yeah, we need kids in there. Y'all gotta y'all gotta get together and really uplift and elevate this squad to greatness. So, now, let's take it from the east to my favorite coast, LA. Paul George was on JJ Reddick's podcast and he had the following to say. I had to be honest to myself that like in order for me to win at the highest level or get to where I want to get to.

I don't think I'm the one guy. I don't think I can I can score with the best I can, you know, take over games with the best but I don't honestly think that's what my my game is if I want to win a championship. I don't think that's where my place is if I want to win a championship. I don't think that's where my place is if I want to win a championship. So Brandon, I'm going to ask you first.

Zero to 100, chances PG-13, co-pilots the Clippers to a ring with this newfound perspective. Can he do it? Yeah. Will it happen? I don't know. Because there's just certain things you don't put in the universe as a basketball player while you're hooping. And I would never say being a franchise guy, you know, in Milwaukee that, you know, I can't be one of the best players on a championship team because you just don't know what's going to happen in the finals.

Like, you know, you could actually be the best player in the front. And I think he's just downplaying himself. Like he's trying to downplay himself and not put the pressure on him. But that's the thing about the league today. Like, a lot of players that are currently playing are talking about things, and you have to go out there and perform. And then when you don't do it, now what? Boom. So it's like, to me, I don't know. I mean, it's kind of like, I kind of, I don't know.

I kind of feel a way about what PG said. Yeah. Do we feel like this is PG's real feelings or just a pump fake because he knows it's going out to the media? It don't matter if it's a pump fake. It's in the air. Like when the bubble happened, right, Pat Bev didn't want to go. Pat Bev didn't want to go.

PG also came out and said he wasn't feeling the bubble. He's feeling homesick. And, you know, he has to call his friends every night. I said, they can't win. They already beat themselves. They don't want to be there. They're not locked in. They cannot win.

They're mentally not there yet. With something like this, it's like you don't say it out loud. There's opponents. Those opponents are like, oh, he's not the guy. He don't want it out loud because you got them there's opponents those opponents are like, oh, he's not the guy. He don't want to be the guy we need to take him out mentally early then right? So we're if we're going to shut down. So now forget Paul George. We're going to focus on shutting down Kawhi because he don't want it anyway.

And all we got to do is keep talking. Yeah, just keep talking. I'm a chirp at him now every time on a car You know, are you soft he with us? But we know he's it but we know what he can do right right so it's not about the skill It's it's it's the mentality, right? So we know mentally he doesn't think he can carry this team and he put that in a universe We just got to make it happen at that point double kawwhi every single time and then let his brain let his mindset

Mess with him. Mm-hmm. Well in PG's defense though. I think he was saying it's more just an ego thing He doesn't have to come in now and feel that way He knows that I got I can I can believe in Kawai to do this too. He said I can do I can't do it still I can Reverse psychology man He said I can do I can't do it still I can reverse psychology man. He pumps. I get listen. I understand where he's willing to take a backseat or verbally do it and say Kawhi. This is Kawhi's team. I'm taking a backseat just doing my part. I

get it kind of puts a little bit of order in but but smarter players when you're playing in the playoffs. If they know you are mentally trying to be an option two, then we're just going to take away option one and let you fight yourself with it. So, question for all y'all. Do y'all feel like it seems like ever since he left the Pacers, he's been that one B guy. We with Russ and the Thunder. This is Russ's team. He's a star. It was Russ's team but Russ Russ that's all that reverse. I said this is your team. I'm gonna go ahead drop this 28

Has he ever been on it, but he's never actually been on a team where he even really had a chance to really Hey, what do you mean the Pacers? Let's talk about it Pacers When I went to Eastern Conference finals. Yes. Let's remember last year. They had a squad over there. They didn't have a championship squad, but they had a yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He got hurt. Elephant in the room, right? What's the elephant in the room? PG. You knew that you was this type of player from the start, right? So you put yourself in the position now to have to take pressure off yourself in order to perform. We all say that this mental health thing is a real thing, right? You've obviously been going through that with the power struggle between whether I'm a franchise player or not. Not whether we consider him that, whether he considers himself. That's a mirror fight, right?

Damn, am I that guy? Because when you say you play off P and then you don't, you don't push them P's when it's in the playoff, right? Now you looking at yourself because you oversold it. And then we call you out on it. Like, where the fuck is playoff P? Now it's like, yo, I'm at a stage in my life where I don't want to wake up from nightmares about what I can't do or what I'm expected to do. So let me get this pressure off me. Now, like y'all said, it shouldn't be verbalized out loud, but it's the ultimate pressure pressure release when you talking about I can be here tell you you is your team and still hit my 28 still hit my 30 and ain't got to really worry about losing and getting the blame because

you're not the number one guy. Now a lot of them they don't like the I thought I was the number one guy when I was number 14 number 14 when I was number 14. Number 14? When I was 14th on the bench. Yeah. In Golden State. Golden State. I still thought I was the number one option.

Number one option. I go and practice. If they did, let me practice. But we was delusional back then when we thought those guys. But it's not delusion. If you're telling yourself this over and over and over and over. But you're 14. it don't matter. They just ain't seen me yet.

Exactly. I'm not going to tell myself I don't belong in the NBA. Because what happens is you start believing it. Listen, your body doesn't know the difference between sarcasm and realness. You tell it something negative, that's what it's going to be. So if you're going around saying you're a number two option or you're this your body is gonna React I've been telling everybody in the world. I'm the greatest ever from day one that never panned out That never panned and I ain't never stopped where the crown cuz I'm the greatest ever and ain't nobody can tell me different

Okay, right, but it never converted over to being the greatest of no matter how much I told myself I'm the greatest I'm the PG he told his so finally, you know what? This is not my lane This ain't my lane. That's tough in it. Hey, you're gonna have to beat me one on one. Yeah, yeah That's beating you one on one why is gonna Kawhi is going to have... No, he won two finals. He won two championships and two finals. That don't got nothing to do with who's number one. It has everything to do with it. It's my team.

Who bowed out? Who bowed out? I know who bowed out. Kawhi is my team. But Kawhi didn't say it was his team. He didn't have to. Because everybody know. I made $400,000 But Kawhi didn't say it was his team. He didn't have to. Yeah, because the other one bowed out. Because everybody know. No, don't know.

No, don't know. Everybody know. I made 400,000. 400. 400. Antoine Jamerson is max player. He handed it to you. He didn't hand it. No one handed me nothing.

One, four, flat. I took it. Three down. I can't do it. One, four, flat. I can't do what he do. Four down. One, four, flat. Three down. One, four, flat. I can't do what he do. Four down. One, four, flat. Jameson can't do what you do.

One, four, flat. What we going to do? Give it to him. One, four, no, give it to me. Slow down. No, catch up. Give it to him. I was hard-headed.

Of course. Take him out. After a while, what did he have to do? What did he have to do after a while? Bow down. Bow down. Give it to him. But that's the me. I'm not bowing but he got some Jameson about George.

You were Kawhi. No. Yes. No, all of them was Paul George. Hey, Paul George verbally said it listen. Yeah, they didn't that's what y'all saying. Y'all saying do what Jameson them did with you. Don't say don't do this. Just give it to him. If do what Jameis and them did with you. Don't say it. Just give it

to them. If you want the ball, stop me. You can't, bro. I know. But that's the point. We're on the same team. We're on the same team. Now you see the problem. Right, right, right. Now you see why. Now you see the problem. I'm just saying, right? Look, there's a level

of saying, I am the best and I can prove it and this is my team, right? And then there's the level of, hey, man, I'm back. I'm robbing, right? Look, there's a level of saying, I am the best, and I can prove it, and this is my team, right? And then there's the level of, hey, man, I'm back. I'm Robin on this team, and I'm cool with that. I'm not. And I'm cool because if I'm not, I'm clashing, and we not winning. He's saying, I'm going to take Robin to win,

not just to take Robin just to take Robin. I'm taking Robin to win because if I don't we clashing and we never going to win. But what if they both but what if they both Robbins? They not though. He's top 75. That's bad. He's in the first of all that's top 75. We got to live with it. No, we don't. Yes, we do. No, we don't. I don't. No, we don't. I don't. You think Dwight Howard's in my top 75?

I know. We all got different team. And T-Mac. And Kyrie. So don't use that. But he's in it. But he's in it, right? With the least amount of points.

We talking about how the fans view this, right? They in there. So Kawhi is above and you are below. So take your below run That doesn't happen. That's not how I was at the main player on that championship team with the Spurs I know he was like the what third third fourth option But he was finals in the brain with the man just like it go dollar. Yeah, so what what makes him the Alpha nothing?

the last championship. The Toronto championship. Going to Toronto. Oh, the team. Doing all that. The team that was number one, one, two the year before he got there. Yeah. That team? That team.

That team. The team that was. That team was already there. The team that was first place, first place, second place. Yes. Before Kawhi got there. Yes. So they kept getting.

Netflix, Netflix, Netflix. Jamie Foxx movie. LeBron. Netflix, Netflix. We get money. We get get money Jamie Foxx. Come on over. Toronto is the regular season team, but no, they can't get it. They kept getting beat by one man and they were bound down. They kept getting beat by one man. Once the one man left they won. They didn't go why do you blame? Do you blame Kawhi for that?

He don't give a fuck about who's leaving, who's staying. Beat me. But what I'm saying is, what has he done to say he is the alpha? He made Paul George say you the alpha. No, Paul George said that himself. No, he said that himself. You don't have to play me one-on-one. I'm just saying, bro.

Listen, listen. When you got somebody saying, like, you know what I mean to play me one-on-one. I'm just saying bro. He said that himself. When you got somebody saying, hey you got it bro, it's yours. Right now you're going to have to play me one-on-one. He's from Cali too. That's why I don't like them. They from Cali. Let's go.

How is this any different from when LeBron came through the heat, D-Wade deferred. Exactly. Get him Joe. Get him Joe. It wasn't deferred. They just played. You're option one today. I'm option two today. D-Wade came out. I'm option one today. Get him Joe. It wasn't deferred. They just played your your option one today I'm out the Wayne way came out wanted a you option to go. No, no

No Wayne came out said we got to let Brian be him. So I'm giving I'm handing over the kingdom to LeBron He said that the shit everybody up Same thing. This is what Paul George is doing to say Take the pressure off me man. Listen, it's Kawhi. They both did better. Y'all blame him if we fuck up. But Dwyane Wade was in a position of being a big brother, though.

I already got one. How? They came in at the same time. Got one. Right, because I already got one. I came in three years, and I got one. So oh, you want to learn how to win? All right, well then, come on.

Here you go. We're supposed to be competitors. Here you go. We came in the same. We not doing that, come over here, little brother. Man, here you go, little bro. Get your little ass up out of here, bro. Get your own cereal.

No, they didn't. Wade County. This is Wade County. Get your own cereal. Welcome to my city. Yeah, Wade County. I'm going to teach you how to win. Get your own cereal.

You got to remember, but that was in Wade's best interest. Get your own cereal. That was in Wade's best interest. Like, y'all are coming here. And we got Bosh. Y'all are coming here. Y'all take the front seat. I'll figure it out.

Nah. You got to remember, they started the season 8-9. What happened to the resumes after that? 8-9. What happened to what? 8-9. 8-9. And then they said, all right, Bron, you're the point guard.

Maybe you go to the two. Bron, we're going to do it your way. 23 games straight. What happened to resumes after that? The Hall of Famers. Top 75. Top 75.

Top 75. Let's keep it moving. LeBron D-Wade. LeBron was D-Wade? LeBron was here before? It was D-Wade was the way LeBron was here before Was the way way it was the way wait first then brawn so we have a we put it whenever

LeBron came to Miami the Wayne Wade went down. No, that's I mean, I mean wait, I'm gonna say the same thing Katie never recovered after LeBron left either. He didn't recover He never went back. being Dwyane Wade. Hold on. Wait. Wait, wait, wait. You said, wait. I'm just saying LeBron and D-Wade was right here bubbling,

and then he went to Miami, and that decreased Dwyane Wade's value because he had to hand over the throne. He had to give it to LeBron. But look, D-Wade was still D-Wade. He's still D-Wade. But I'm saying it diminished D-Wade's legacy because after that he didn't go back to being D-Wade. Wait, legacy?

His legacy. His legacy would've went way higher. No, it wouldn't. Because he wouldn't have won anymore. Yeah. What do you mean? He had to still go through. He would have had to go through Braun. Boston.

What's wrong with that? He wasn't going through Braun. He would have been able to make different decisions than having LeBron come to this team. Somebody else would have came to this team. Dwayne has already proved that he can win with certain people on his team. He's never had a team that challenged actual LeBron. The teams he had before LeBron was trash after after that that championship team so if you bring some players down there to play with him they challenge LeBron and them so he coming to Miami diminishes his legacy because he could have probably won another

championship or went to a finals by himself or with some other guys we don't know we don't know LeBron put that thing on him. And then he went to Cleveland and followed him? What are we talking about, man? He didn't follow. He didn't follow. He didn't follow him? You said nobody

wants to go to Cleveland. You said nobody wants to go to Cleveland. Didn't you say that? You said nobody wants to. So why would you go to Cleveland? He didn't go to Cleveland. Do that the way. The only reason. Didn't you say that? Huh? You said nobody wants to. No one did. So why would you go to Cleveland? He didn't go to Cleveland. What happened? Huh?

He didn't free agent to go to Cleveland? No. He got traded? No. Huh? Oh, no. Hold on.

He volunteered. He's trying to remember. He's trying to remember. He's trying to remember. He's trying to remember. He's trying to remember. Because he definitely volunteered. No, you remember. Let me trying to remember. Because he definitely volunteered.

Let me come over here. You remember they were the Banana Boat crew, right? It was the Banana Boat crew. Isaiah Thomas, D-Wade, it was D-Rose. All of them was on the same team. Everybody was on that boat. Wade, Carmelo. Wade, they were all Wade, Carmelo.

You know, they're all in France. Remember, having fun. On the Banana Boat. Right? So they asked for D-Wade, right? D-Wade wanted to come. And they said no, and they went and got Dunleavy. Yeah, yeah, you don't know about that.

They got Dunleavy because they didn't want to pay D-Wade's price. The only reason D-Wade had to leave is because Mickey didn't want to pay him. And that's what upset him. And he ended up in Cleveland and then had to go to him, right? Yeah, but he didn't want to go there He didn't want to get him on the boat. I believe it might want to go to Cleveland He definitely wanted that because his brother was there he want to go to Cleveland You think Gabrielle Union wanted to be in Cleveland after leaving Miami?

Before he had control it didn't it wasn't up to her you crazy what not to her baby. We going to Cleveland That Cleveland team was Miami. It's just crazy. Before she had control, it wasn't up to her. You crazy. Wasn't up to her. Baby, we going to Cleveland. That Cleveland team was nasty. My brother called it. It was a nice team. It was cool. They just didn't know how to play.

That team was nasty. It was disgusting. That team was nasty. I mean, on paper, they were nice. They just didn't. It was all the same. That looked like our Knick team. Yes.

Exactly. That looked like our Knick team. That team was, they didn't know what to. They didn't know how to play. They didn't know how to play. They didn't know how to play. They didn't even own the court long enough to even jail as two units. I don't think no one took anything away from each other. Come on, man.

Come on. I think they boosted each other's career. Oh, hell no, man. Yeah, because you got to remember. D-Wade is definitely more, he's so much more than what we've seen. D-Wade gives LeBron his first ring, right? You give him a chance to get his first ring by teaming up. D-Wade's his second.

And then they get their second and third. And then Bron leaves and says, I'm going to get my own one. Are we giving D-Wade more credit because he helped LeBron get the first ring? If we're giving him more credit for that, I don't know. It's the credit. because he helped LeBron get the first ring? If we're giving him more credit for that, I'll accept it. It's the credit. But what I'm saying is it's the credit for allowing a superstar to come in and say, here, I'm going to rent this city. I'm going to rent Wade County for you.

And he did it. He rented a ring. He rented it. I'm going to rent this city. Everybody, LeBron James is going to hold it down for a couple years. We're going to sit back and enjoy this when he leaves his Wade County again. It wasn't Wade County again.

That shit Wade County right now. Come on, man. Right now, he ain't even on the team as Wade County. It's trash out there. Wade County right now. It ain't been the same since. It's just like Snoop Dogg with Def Roe and Pac coming in.

Alright, Shug. Here go Pac. Mm-hmm. I'm going to just... Okay. All right, Suge. Here go Pac. Here you go. Go do your thing. I'm going to sit here and just chill. I'm still me though. I'm still me.

Snoop Dogg is still me. But you not. What happens when Pac leaves or dies, he got to go do something else and it ain't the same Snoop. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. It ain't. Yeah, it was the same.

We have not seen... The No Limit Snoop has nothing on the on the death row Snoop, bro. We still have two years. I'm just saying I went down to South and you know better album cover. There's some different. Oh man. Snoop never went back to being Snoop. He had some great thumbnails. Great thumbnails.

There's some great thumbnails. The only thing the last thing about the Paul George thing is I don't want no more Cali players downplaying themselves in the league. Stop bowing down and stop like downplaying yourself. There's too many of us in the league and like we're actually the like the best of the NBA. So you include Palmdale? Anything... Anything Cal... We even count Oakland. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. California players, stop downplaying yourself. Like, that's the last time I want to hear it. We do. So, even if it's backing down to another Cali player? Yeah. Yeah, we don't... Watch out.

Yeah. Because, like I said, we can go to Rico's overruns. Yeah, we... One on one, you're going to have to see. We're going to have to play for this... You have to see me. You have to see me. We're going to have to play for this position. Just Pac-10 energy, man. That's all it is. We're going to have to play for this position. Just Pac-10 energy, man. That's how it is.

We're going to have to play for this. We don't do that shit in the ACC. I appreciate the Pac-10, though. We don't do that shit. We don't count the Pac-12. We don't acknowledge it. We don't even know who that is. It's like crypto arena.

They got like Utah. Colorado. Pac-10. Pac-10. Pac-10. Colorado. So you talked about LeBron. Let's move on to our next segment.

We back with another trust issue. I'll be on these segues. See, I I was waiting for the graphic. I'm yeah. I'm out. We got the great crew working behind the scenes to get us everything that we need. So LeBron's missed the last two games with the right foot injury against the Mavs. He said I think I heard it pop. So initially, it was supposed to be two weeks to get reevaluated. We found out that he reportedly won't need surgery, but Woe dropped a bomb today, said,

now instead of that two weeks, it's going to be three weeks. Previously during All-Star weekend, he called these final 23 regular season games the most important of his career outside of the playoffs. Lakers right now, I was a little nervous. I'm going to be real with you. I was a little salty that the AD played against the Grizzlies if they knew they were going to sit them against the Thunder, but they won the Thunder game, so I was a little nervous. I'm gonna be real with you. I was a little salty that the ad played against the Grizzlies if they knew they were gonna sit them against the

Thunder, but they won the Thunder game. So I can't hate it, but you knew you wasn't gonna beat the Grizzlies. Wait, but that's why I play him, but I'm gonna play him against the Thunder. I'm not gonna play him again. I already get that win because you don't know you're gonna win against the Thunder. You do it's a Thunder. Exactly. It's a Thunder protocol. So as a coach, I want him to play against this team, right? Because we could win but that's the next game.

I know I'm going to win that game. So I don't want to play him there. So we're going to try to get this win put all our eggs in this game. And if we can get this game now, we got two wins other than that. I'm planning to go one-on-one anyway. Okay, so I need to play him here and I'll sit him there because the team got it. Okay. Chess. I don't know. But why am I going to? Think about it.

They won. You got to back them. So they won. They won, right? It's a boot point. So why am I going to play them on a team that I do the same thing anyway, one and one? Yeah. I know the Thunder is a guaranteed win if AD plays.

It was a guaranteed win if he didn't play, obviously. It's definitely not a guaranteed win with the Lakers at all. But that's my point. It's the Thunder. With no SGA though. At all. But that's my point. It's a thunder. But no SGA though. At all. But that SGA is something broken for.

What did Giddey have out there? Triple double, almost. He not playing around. Don't come in here thinking y'all run shit out here. We don't respect none of that shit y'all used to do. Where you at now? It's OKC. Two is born and one is out.

Lou Dorton all them Hey them young boys out there little Williams out there. They not playing around. They don't get the man. Look take your old ass over there We running it out here and they lost they took that out They not tripping like like it's a guaranteed win but but the 80 play? No. Okay. So it's not guaranteed whether he play or not. It's like, hey, whether the Lakers play, like the utility player. 26-piece Austin Reeves, flawless other than a missed free throw. I should have bet on him for white guy wins. I'm not even going to front.

Only traditional white. Only traditional white. Like it's nothing against him. It's just an idea, bro. You're not rocking with Austin. You got to get over that Austin. I'm going to make you an Austin Reeves. As a starter in this league?

No, never. Never. It has nothing to do with him. You rolling with that? Listen, he plays hard. It has nothing to do with him personally. Just the idea that he is a starter when there is a Hall of Famer who just triple-double and

Yeah, yeah, it has everything to do with him personally open your mind Is the idea of someone even thought about it just the what happened what happened when the white boy Never guarded you never. Okay. Well 100. What did you think about 100? A hundred hundred John's time. Now imagine now imagine if they started him for you John Stockton. So look even him stepping on the court is like a man. Are y'all serious tonight? I'm looking over Darwin for real and that's what it for real.

And that's what happened. That's real. Yeah, that was what that's what what was Russell doing? This is what we doing. For real him we doing? Now you know Russell's attitude. For real? Him? Now you know Russell's attitude. It's personal though.

It's like, hey, Austin, you need to go tell the coach. Like on Remember the Titans, hey coach, I think you should let him play. He's better than me. Why you didn't get rid of him? What Paul George just did, hey coach, he's better. Why didn't they get rid of him though? Because that was his attitude. Man. So let's look at the Lakers. a coach. He's better. Then they got rid of him, though, because that was his attitude.

So let's look at the Lakers. The Lakers now 30-33, 11th place in the West. One game behind the Pelicans for that 10th spot in the play-in. Next five games, though, it counts. It's just the stupid. You can play into champion. It can happen. It's just the dumbest. The script writers.

But next five games, they got the Wolves, Warriors, Grizzlies, Raptors, Knicks. It's going to be tough. So, question for you. Good luck. Should LeBron trust the Lakers enough to rush back and potentially further injure his right foot if it looks like they can make that playoff run? Listen, let me just say this, man.

Tenth and ninth spot is not playoff spots. I don't give a fuck what regimen they put in. In Adam Silver's NBA. Talk about it. You've been a loser. I don't like the idea you've been a loser all year long. You've been half-assing it all year long, and then they come up with this idea to get you juicy for the end of the season.

I don't like the idea that you can be a 10th seed and make the playoffs. No. No. No. I don't like LeBron. No, you're 11th seed. If you can't make the 8th seed, stay down. I'm not running this little gimmick game

of the 10th seed and we could probably win the 8th seed. No. You didn't win the 8th seed. No. No. Come on, Joe. You got to roll with the punches here. Joe, you got to roll with the punches, man. Adam Silver. Your record says you're tense.

Like going back in history, you're going to look through the records one time and say, wait, how does this team make the playoff and this team has a better record? It's stupid shit like that. Yeah. I'm not rolling. Not a fan. Can't be mediocre and then be able to make a playoff when this team was playing well and just happen to fall at the end. Yeah. Yeah. But what if

what if that mediocrity is due to a 38 year old man in his 20th season giving all that he has. Wait a minute. To break a record. Wait a minute. Well, wait a minute. Now, now we predicted that once he broke the record, he was going to sit this shit out. So, I don't understand what we even talking about because LeBron, they said, okay, where we at? We in November. Okay, November.

Oh, he going to break this record. He going to figure out when to break the record before the All-Star break. And once he do that, he going to figure out, okay, which kind of injury is going to be a good enough injury to be like 23 games. If we get the 10th spot, we get the play in, I'll come back. We'll get our asses right on in there and sneak our way to the playoffs. Yeah, my thing is I'll, like, if they get the 10th spot and I'm healthy, then yes, but I'm not going to come back. Because, God, remember, if my ankle hurting, then every single day I'm just retweaking

it and if we do get the eighth spot anyway, I won't be healthy enough to go against the number one or number two team. Why would LeBron James- With a half LeBron James who can't drive? Come on, not drive. Come on. Now he gets in five. Kobe would do it.

What? He would play hurt. No, Kobe going to let them know, y'all are 10th seeds. We're hurt. No, Kobe going to let them know y'all are 10 seeds. But we're playing hurt. Kobe's going to let them know we're not 8 seeds. Don't walk around here like we a playoff team. But we still got a chance. No, he's not even.

He still got it. Kobe ain't giving up. And he's going to be offended. Kobe will be offended. He will be offended. He's playing through the pain. He's going to take us to the six. He's going to take us to the six five.

Kobe's going to take us to the six. He's not going take us to the six by that. So we're going to take us to the six. He's not going to sit out none of these games and it's going to roll. We're going to roll with it. I ain't got that kind of energy. So if you LeBron, what level do the Lakers need to be at in these three weeks to evaluate your ass back onto the court? If they're the AC, would you say fuck? Let's do it because I can get them to the seventh or sixth. If they're if they're if they're in playoff position, then he's going to, well, let you tell it. Let you tell it.

It's top ten. Top ten. That's the rule. Next year is going to be top 12. Everybody thinks that. Everybody gets a trophy. So, if I'm pretty sure by next week,

the end of next week, another seven days to see where you are. If you get the ninth seed, maybe the eighth seed, then he has a window of eighth, ninth, and tenth to make the playoffs, then I'm pretty sure. So, a game and a half out of the eighth seed, two games out of the seventh seed.

Does that mean that we need AD for all those games that LeBron don't play? Because that's going to be the thing, right? They can't win without AD. And I don't think they can. They cannot win. I think the team right now can actually win without him. Without AD? To get into the eighth spot spot because it's there because

It's tough again to play but they got Timberwolves at home warriors and wolves Grizzlies Raptors Knicks L That's all Everybody's trying to they're fighting right now. Oh, yeah, everybody's fighting Those are positioning teams might be able to get one warrior the first one Toronto Golden State Minnesota they all fight you coming back Friday against the wolves. He's gone. I think he's gonna lead us to party Yeah, he gonna be a good porch them. Oh good one. He gonna torch. Okay. Yeah, he gonna be a good one. He gonna torch them. Okay. Yeah, they might get two then. He might get. He's animal style. Oh yeah. They just beat the

Warriors but might come back for that game though. Warriors. Steph will be back. Steph will be back. Steph allegedly come back. He might come back for that game. Let's come back at some point. Grizz. That's one team. I'm not counting out the Warriors. Grizz is back. Shannon Sharp gotta be courtside. I'm telling you out, the Warriors. Grizzlies back, Shannon Sharp got to be courtside. I'm telling you, they in fifth. The Golden State in fifth right now?

Golden State is, hold on, let me double check. Seven. They're in fifth. They're in fifth. I'm telling you, you don't want to see them. If they healthy. No, because it's only half a games out of places, it's going to be-

It's up and down, yeah. Like them Clipper kids are going to have to come. I mean, them Laker kidsaker kids gonna have to play hard. Yeah, Austin Riggs. They don't have enough chemistry and then look at his that deep enough. No, not just because you said that. 100% he missed one free throw.

That was the only missing the game. That's going to be the best. That's going to be his highlight of his life. Game winner on the Mavs earlier in the season. This is going to be his best career this year right here. Right here. And that's it. This year right here is his best year. I thought going to be his best career. This year right here. Right here? And that's it? This year right here is his best year.

I thought last year was his best year. Austin Reed's going to turn into, what's his name, the one that went to Chicago? Caruso. Caruso, yeah. That's all. Nah, he can shoot. And I hate to say it, but he's a nicer version of Caruso.

Caruso was actually nice. But Caruso, what I'm saying. He was just passive. He was nice under Bron, like under Bron. Like under Bron, like outside of that. Adam Morrison. Yeah, it's like, it's like, it's like, you're good if you're just shooting threes, but that's only, only Bron needs that.

The rest of the 29 teams, you can't. Yeah. But playing under Bron, he's effective. Hillbilly Kobe is what they call him. He reminds BronBron of him, though. He's kind of like a passer, mover, cutter. He can do... Who?

Like LeBron? No, listen to what I'm saying. We're listening. We're listening. No, no, we're listening. Look, as far as LeBron having another facilitator on the floor at his size, Reeves can facilitate. He can give the ball to Reeves. He can make a play without scoring.

Without scoring. Bro, that's not Turk-a-loo, man. You're not this man. He like Turk-a-loo. No, Turk-a-loo's like Turk-a-loo. No, no, man. No, don't do Turk-a-loo like that. He's a poor man.

Look, he's a poor man's Turk-a-loo. Turk-a-loo in Orlando is crazy. He's a poor man's Turk-a-loo. Turk-a-loo in Orlando. He's a poor man's Bogdanovich. He's a poor man's Bokdanovich. This man is a hot potato. Here he is.

We're going to go to a Lakers game. Jeannie Buss, if you're watching this, I need you to plug us with the good stuff. I got a suite. You got a suite for a Lakers game? I just don't show up. Ever since they did my Russell like that, man, I boycotted. You mean to tell me you had a suite this whole time? This whole time, bro.

This whole time? And you couldn't let me get the tickets? Damn, B. Not this whole time. Not this whole time. Just this. Just this. Not this whole time.

Not this whole time. Not this whole time. Yeah. We're going to go watch Austin Reed. We're going to get him on the show. I'm not going in to watch no Austin Reed. You're going to watch the rest of the team, too. But we're going to get Austin Reed.

If I wanted to watch Cal Corvert, I would have did it in college. Oh, damn. I love you. He'sver, I would have did it in college. Damn. He's like, this is Cal Korver. He's not. Who you take? He do not shoot that. He's not Cal Korver.

Cal Korver? Yeah, Cal Korver. He's not shooting that thing like that. Okay, all right. He's not like Korver. He does other things, Gil. Poor man's. I'm trying to tell you.

Poor man's. New Russo. He's new Russo. Alex, new Russo. What's Russo'm trying to tell you. Poor man's. New Russo. He's new Russo. Alex, new Russo. What's Russo having right now? Six. That gets me to our next segment. We did higher lowers yesterday.

I did my white guy Wednesday. Some people on the internet felt a certain way about it. I don't care. It was March 1st. See, I didn't do it in February. I did it for March. Caruso, I need him over 5.5. He delivered.

Franz Wagner, I needed him over like 16 more if I delivered. I knew he would. Tyler Hero. Yeah. Non-traditional white. I needed him over 2.5, three-pointers. Bag buster. Busted my bag, Gil.

I told you that. You did. You did. I didn't say the bubble. I did. You said bubble boy. But you told me some shit a couple months ago, and I ended up winning with You did. He did. I didn't say the bubble. I did. You said bubble boy. But you told me some shit a couple months ago and I ended up winning with a double overtime

though. But it was a double overtime. Yeah, it was a double overtime. So you were right. I told you you was right. But now let's look at Rashad, your bag buster. You was killing it because you did the five piece. I did the five piece.

And I'd be scared doing those because somebody's going to betray me. Anthony Simons. He betrayed the shit out of me. You put higher over 16.5 points. He only had four. How? I blame Chauncey Billups. How?

Not letting him cook. Chauncey probably watched the show like, I'm just not going to let him cook. Just to be a back buster. We got to tell the fans, when you're doing these picks, right, and you're trying to figure out what's the best scenario for you? Like that look good on me like Simon's over 16. I'm thinking they giving me a winner right here This is easy. He only had four points, but this go back to me talking about how Damian Lillard needs a real to guy

Because Simon's you can't depend on I'm depending on at least 17. He did have a real to a trader He wasn't a real to eat CJ. No, not for what he needs. He needs a real to that could go get it. He's a shooter. He's a he's a no he's a two guard. He's a two guard man got it all. But he got all that.

You gotta go. You see I love CJ game. You gotta go. I'm just saying as far as the type of to. Who had more bop, him or Dame? CJ. Yeah. CJ got way more bop. It's about trusting that man.

He trusted. He trusted. CJ averaged 20. Averaging 20 don't mean you're going to the fourth quarter. I need you to come through. Fourth quarter, that was the two. They were the most deadliest two guards in the last five minutes of the game. It's Dame time in the fourth.

I need a Paul George type of two for Dame. He don't even want it. Paul George don't even want it. He just gave up the goddamn thing. I'm talking about player type. I'm talking about player type. Athletic, being able to shoot the three,

shoot the two, doing what CJ can. CJ ain't athletic like that. He not going to the line like that. He need that type of player. But when Dame was on, when he was cold, CJ stepped up. Wasn't enough. Every time. But it wasn't enough.

They probably have run around the same amount of game winners. Wasn't enough. Our team wasn't good enough. Wasn't enough. Yeah, it wasn't good enough. Give me somebody else and give me some more. I need more. So we need more. So I need more. So we need more.

So we need more. So we need other people. We need other people. I need more. That's what I'm saying. So when you look at Simon's, he not the guy. You lost. You lost your.

All right. I'm just going for. You got to tell the fans though. You got to tell them. He scores four. If we going to give them some advice, it's like, hey, man, be careful. Be careful with these young players. If that kid would have said five, I would have took it.

And we would have both been holding L's right now. Damn, big L. I'm getting this in the first quarter. The trick for all y'all at home, I want shit that I can get in the first quarter. So if it's like 1.5 blocks of steals, I'm really like, oh, he can get that. Yon is getting, oh, he's playing electric, he's getting that in the first quarter. He beating somebody's shit. But, you know, let's talk about, you did a four-piece.

No biscuit. Went three for four. KD didn't betray you. D-Book didn't. Ooh, six rebounds. Gary Terry. You said, Lord, I didn't agree because I was like, oh, I don't like to root against these dudes.

I believe in them. I believe in them to defeat underdogs and whatever metrics they placed on these gentlemen to try to shackle them. We were going to go higher than whatever y'all say. But DeMar DeRozan, Com 10, fellow at Los Angelino. Half a point. Half a point.

What's a half a point though? I need to look at the stat sheet though. They be bullshitting with these assists, Gil. Half a point is just like I needed an assist or a point. So they do that half shit. But, hey, y'all see, I still won $75, though. You insured it. I insured it.

I knew one of them was going to fuck up. I knew one was. He mad, look. He's like, man, I should have took some insurance. I'm wondering why you picked DeRozan with the assist, knowing he don't be passing the ball. Like, I know. I'm like, why would you pick this?

I know. Look, it was the points. I'm like, you're going to give me a little bit of assist. Maybe he might have one of those. Yeah, yeah. Throw it. You know what I mean? I might get a couple of those.

Because I still got Levine. I might throw a couple. I might get it. But I was really banking on his points though. I think that's what the fantasy side, we can't take those risks. Because it's just that little point that we'll miss depending on the play. We know we're going to get a couple swing swings, he'll give me three assists. Who did they play yesterday?

Bulls? I think Pistons right on my trip? Yeah, it was the Pistons too. So I was like... So that's why it's wide too. Yeah, I was like, I'm. So that's why, why too. Yeah, I was like, oh yeah. I'm thinking about 30 points, you know, so I got some wiggle room.

You know, 30 points, you know. No, I was like 20, 26, 27, maybe two or three assists. This would be cool. Well, you big guard. I think he probably had like six rebounds. I would go rebounds with a big guard. That's what they need at the two. Like at the Rosen.

The Rosen on PG, they the same type of guy though. No, no. No, they're not the same type of guy. But the game saved guys. DeRozan not coming out verbally and saying, oh yeah. No, no. DeRozan came out with the big team. Well, well, well.

Mental health too. Well, DeRozan did that in Toronto against LeBron. Well, if we had LeBron James, we would win too. Yeah. They saying I'm number two. That's he said if we had If you have like you're bound down you're basically saying well, we can't beat the ground I can't I can't ever get over. I mean, it's not like he was lying But I'm not saying that verbally I'm not I'm not putting that out there in the universe

Well, then they trade you the next year then come in win a championship What do you mean? I look bad for two with him being the one Well ladies gentlemen, we appreciate I appreciate everybody who supported the pick him yesterday I know I let y'all down only traditional whites on white guy Wednesday from now on Traditional we gotta be able to swim Tyler Tyler Hero can't swim. He's transitional. What you saying? He kind of black a little bit? He's a black.

I mean, he has a little tendency. He got a swag. He got a little swag. He like white chocolate, a little swag. He got a little negro tendency in him. I need to be traditional. Okay. Might vote for Trump.

What's wrong with this man? Maybe. I'm just kidding. Maybe. I'm fucking with y'all. But that is our episode of Gills Arena presented by Underdog Fantasy. Whoop, whoop. Yeah.

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Salute. Go ahead, go through. Salute. Salute. But we'll be here too. You know, times get tough for me, I'm moving a family in here as well. We'll be back Tuesday with another Gills Arena.

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