The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Straight Fire - Luka Drops 60, Boozer and Dybantsa Shine & UNC's Hubert Davis on the Hot Seat

Episode Date: March 20, 2026

On today’s episode, Jason discusses Luka Doncic's 60-point explosion in Miami against the backdrop of Bam Adebayo's 83-point outburst last week, what he learned about presumptive National Player of the Year Cameron Boozer in Duke's close call win over Siena, why BYU's AJ Dybantsa looked every bit like a potential first overall NBA Draft pick despite losing to Texas, and whether Hubert Davis deserves to be fired after yet another March Madness flameout by the North Carolina Tar Heels.  #FSR Follow Jason on Twitter and Instagram. Click here to subscribe, rate and review all of the latest Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's so tough. It was a rough week. I know you don't give a rat's ass because you're fired up. We're the picks. Oh, come on. How's the bracket? All that stuff. But hosting the herd, doing the pod,

first week of the NCAA tournament, brackets galore, had the Calcutta. Two championship games. One, both of them, by the way. It an odd twist, and you can laugh all you want. Listen, man, getting old, pretty clear. Basketball days near the end. didn't score in either to the championship games

a combined O for two shooting, but I don't care. It's all about just getting the chip. I don't need bragging rights. Like, oh, hey, I scored 8 points, 16, but it doesn't matter. You know, if I had a game winner,

that'd be amazing. But it was just a hell of busy week. And just when I think, like, oh, college basketball, dig into the tournament, I'll just lay around. Luca Donchit decides to drop. First of all, I can't believe the Lakers played them.

So they played at Houston Monday. Then they played at Houston Wednesday. then they had to fly and get into Miami. I believe it was something like 3 or 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. on Thursday. Rest up and everybody expects, oh, no Reeves, no Luca, no LeBron. They all played. I'm stunned.

When Dave McManoran put it out there, I'm like, geez, why are the Lakers doing this? They don't want to risk injury. This is the long game. What are they doing? There's a long road trip. Why are we forcing this? And then Luca goes out and puts up a 60 piece in 38 minutes. Austin Reeves plays 40 minutes.

He's still a little bit on the struggle bus. LeBron, 38 minutes on a back-to-back. Are you effing kidding me? LeBron, by the way, Tripp Dub, 1915, and 10. Like, what is happening? Now, I'm not out here saying the Miami heater. Great. I don't even know where they are in the east.

I'll look it up real quick. But I'm stunned the Lakers play there, guys. I'm stunned the Lakers players. Oh, the heater 8th in the east. Yeah, they're not good. I'm stunned. Luca went for 60. is for efficiency.

18 for 30. Nine threes. 15 of 19 from the line. Five steals for Luca legend. And the Lakers, it looks like they were down after one. You know, Lakers getting their legs,

and then they came back and dominated it in the second half and rolled to victory. Pay about a bio, 28 and Ted Tyler Hero played. Yeah, they, I didn't. Pell Larson is in the starting line of. I was unaware of that.

This is, Norman Powell came off the bench. It's a fine wind. It's on the road. Listen, guys, it's never easy to win it back to back. And I know what you're going to say. Oh, well, back in the 80s and 90s, people had no problems with back to backs. You guys are just drunk.

I mean, honestly, clueless. The pace, the tempo. It's ridiculous now in the league. It is insane. And that's why you're seeing a lot of guys get injuries. It's just, it's a much tougher league now. And honestly, I would have sat the guys. Rob G has some really funny quote from Bam out of bio.

But at this rate, listen, you never want to go overboard and overreact. The Lakers have won out 11 of 12. They are freaking rolling at this point. You look at the standings, they're trying to get some separation and lock up third, face whoever is sixth, and then bring on the spurs. It looks like the spurs at least because the thunder of won 10 in a row, spurs have won four in a row, Wemby hit a game winner. and I think the pretty clear line that those are now the top three teams.

Denver's kind of limping to the finish and Edwards out a few weeks. Rockets are proven to be frauds. So this Lakers run is impressive. There are 12 games left in the season. They're not going to catch a spurs. But Rob, I need you to read this BAM out of bio quote because it's so funny. Bam, of course, scored 83 recently. I saw somebody posted that they're selling BAM out of Bauer,

bio jerseys with the number 83 on them. But he said something goofy afterward. Yes, he did. Now, BAM himself had a solid game, you know, 28 and 10, you know, which is great for his standards, right? So after the game, he's meeting with the media and he has the box score in front of him like they all do. And he's asked about Luca Donchich and he says in part, here's the quote, I know what it's like to be in that mode as people can see it's not easy to get 80 you bastard i'm like i don't mean to call him a bastard but it's like you you you cannot be serious right now bad matter silly yeah like you you you

you were there you know what happened you know what you did you know what you and spo did to get to the 83 it was unethical basketball i don't want to argue at j mac because that was a week ago but like that happened and then you see what happens when a real ethical baller shows up and And Luca is even on the, if there's like a spectrum between ethical and unethical ballers, if it goes from like, let's say BAMs 83 is the worst version and like Josh Hart is the best version. Like even Luca, it tilts more to the unethical side. But in this scenario, you mentioned 18 of 30, 9 of 17, 15 of 19 from the free throw line for 60 points. Once after the first quarter, once they finally got their sea legs underneath them and they were no longer jet.

lag and they weren't, you know, running in slop after the first 12 minutes. Luca, if he wanted to, could have got you 70. No problem. And you saw what happens. Like I saw somebody put out this tweet where, I don't know if you know that the cat Williams stand up where he says, hey, man, why did you get a Chrysler 300? And he says, because it looks like a phantom. It's like, well, it only looks like a phantom until an actual phantom pulls up.

And then you're like, well, no, it looked at a crisis 300. That's how you compare what BAM did versus what Luca did. Is that really a cat really? Yeah, it's really funny if you haven't seen it. I had not seen it. What BAM did looks cool and the box score looks fantastic until you actually see what a marquee NBA player looks like when they go off. And you're like, oh, yeah, this is not the same sport.

What Luca did and what BAM did are two totally different things. It's like me going off, you know, an NBA 2K and J-MAC going off in the men's like. Like this is not the same. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, huge news?

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And within the IHeart Radio app, search FSR to listen live. To your point, I would not have played the those guys after getting in it was a 5 a.m. local time. They look slow. They look sluggish. And then all of a sudden, Luca just made a couple of shots. Then he made a couple of more.

And it's like, well, hey, if he's got it going, maybe we'll do something here. And I thought that what he said after the game, in all seriousness, where they asked them about the decision to play.

Because according to all reports, they gave the players the option, whether or not they wanted to play, right? And to a man, Luca, A.R. LeBron all said, no, we're going to play. We're going to go get this one.

And if that doesn't tell you about where they are mentally and emotionally heading into the postseason, I don't know what it does. Well, hopefully they don't catch the South Beach flu. They've got the Orlando Magic Saturday. That will not be an easy one, even though the magic lost last night to Charlotte. I'm sure you also saw guys are dropping like flies. Janus, of course, injured. Again, I saw the collapse lung.

Lamped Lung for, what's his name, a kid Cunningham. Like, it's just a tough time to be an NBA player now, Anthony Edwards down. And it's late. And I, frankly, I was going to open with the NCAA tournament if Luga didn't drop 60. And I think a lot of people over the next four days will largely, you know, miss out on NBA results. I know I will. Especially if things happen like the way what went down with the Duke Sienna game. And, you know, it sounds like North Carolina could be making a move.

Let's just quickly start with Duke since I watched that and I think I told you guys we got Duke in the Calcutta you know 44,000 second highest team after Arizona and to get our you know to get our money back

make a little bit they need to get to the final four and that's well within reach and I knew that they were vulnerable I didn't think they were lose to freaking Sienna vulnerable and that nearly happened down 13 in the second half

down five with seven minutes left it was like geez guys what the hell hell is happening. And frankly, I saw a lot of takes, hot takes flying about Camboozer, Rob, you know, a lot of people aren't really locked in on Camboosor. And, you know, they watched him kind of, I mean, I don't want to say he struggled. He's 18 and a half going up against Sienna, which Sienna weirdly, I've never seen this, Rob. They didn't sub once the whole game. All five of their starters play 40 minutes. Now, I guess they have a suspension and an injury

and that made it tough, but it's like, you can't spell a guy for two minutes before the under eight timeout or what have you. I was stunned at that, and they wore down late. But, you know, Boozer, he was good. He wasn't dominant. I think people are expecting, oh, this guy could be the number one pick. Oh, J. Max calling him, you know, on the Yokic path. His dad said he could be a Tim Duncan type player because he's not athletic.

And Boozer comes out with 22, 13, and 3. Only 4 of 11 shooting. Settle for 5-3s, which was dumb, but did make 13 and 14 free throws. And it was like, you know, he's not totally dominant. Well, I'll tell you this right now, Rob. He's going to have to be against TCU. They played TCU Saturday. And TCU won with some bully ball against Ohio State.

You know, these are grown-ass men. And Cam Boozer is an 18-year-old. So I do think Duke's got its work cut out. I already bet them minus 10 to beat TCU. I think they bounced back. You know, that was their one. I mean, one of their players did like the halftime interview. and was like, we thought it would be a cakewalk.

You know, these are, they start three freshmen. Okay. And Boozer's brother, the point guard, didn't, I don't think he started any games this year at all until the injury to Foster. So he was coming off the bench. Now he's starting. And you could just tell they were not totally locked in early.

And it was dicey for way too long. I'm not going to overreact to an 18 and a half year old debut in the NCAA tournament against a pesky opponent. Let's see. TCU, and then after that, where it gets real interesting is it looks like they will be facing Kansas or St. John. St. John's is a tough team with some bad ass dudes inside. Kansas, they have a couple, but I think this is the wake-up called Duke needed, Rob, but really unimpressive stuff. You know what's funny is I watched that whole game as I was prepping for my own podcast, which I know you never listened to.

So I appreciate that. I did listen to the first one. Oh, you did. Thank you. I appreciate it. Wow. I feel like a dick now. listen to the second one this one's okay no but um i watched that whole game and and to your point everybody

was expecting the highlights the the showcase game from from cameron boozer and i actually came away wildly impressed with him for two reasons number one to your point he didn't have it right this was not a Cameron boozer type of game he did not look like the best version of himself he really struggled there from the field four of eleven shooting but then you look at the box scoring you're like well 22 and 13 on an off night sounds pretty damn good to me. Right. And then you, I also remember thinking to myself more than once watching these two teams play.

And it's like, are they really having Cameron Boozer at, you know, generously listed at, what is it, six eight, you know, six nine, he's not six nine, two 50.

I can tell you that right now. I think he might be taller, no? I think he might be smaller. I think he's six, seven, two 35. Well, now,

That's not, if he's six, come on, six seven, really? He, he, he, he, he, his hair maybe adds a couple inches, right? You know what I mean? Like, but they had him dead center of the defense having to defend against a physical front line that CNN had. Like, was it, foliac from Sienna? Six, seven, two 50. Like, that's what, that's what a tank looks like. When you saw him out there, like the two guys look totally different.

And he's having to anchor their defense inside as an undersized five man because their centers. currently out. And it was tough early, but the second half, when they got down and they knew they had to get stops, he's anchoring the defense that's getting all the stops, he's getting every single rebound on the defensive end, and he's still finding ways to score when his shot's not falling. So if you can have a game like that, which I would consider to be maybe what, his C-level game, and you don't look good, and he finds a way to get things done, that's impressive.

because you don't know how many times we've watched a player, maybe not of his caliber, but the best player on a team on a higher ranked team in this tournament not have their best stuff and they can't find ways to impact winning if the shot's not falling. And he did. Yeah.

So, you know, if and when, you know, their senator comes back, maybe he comes back in round two. I will see. I think they're projecting Sweet 16. So that would be next Thursday. Next week. Yeah.

So if they are able to get that, far, that's going to be a huge step in the right direction for him in that team. Yeah, it felt like if you watched AJ DeBonsa, Kerry, and I mean, Carrie B. He was awesome. Texas. He had 35, 10 of 18 shooting, could not hit the three. He was one of seven. They were four of 22 from Deep.

It killed him. Made all 12 of his three throws, but he had 35 and nine. Only one assist, not great. He clearly is a playmaker, but he's not playing with NBA level guys. And ultimately, they can't get over the hump. Texas just murdered them. in the offensive class, 16 offensive rebounds. They had some big guy who I think had maybe one double double in his career.

And he went off for 23 and 16, but he was 3 of 11 from the line. He just dominated inside. And BYU gets eliminated. It stinks. DeBonse goes to the pros. But he looked like the part, right? That guy. He could get to the rim any time he wants.

He did everything. And then if you watched any Darius Acuff, as Arkansas took a. as Arkansas took apart Hawaii, Aikoff was the real deal. He had 24, 7-14 shooting and 24-7 assists. Terrific game. They played without like their third best player, depending on

on the second or third, and they smash Hawaii. So it was an interesting opening salvo for the guys who were big-time picks. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers, and guess what? We have some big news. What's the news, huge news? We created a lot. our own podcast called Hey Jonas.

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Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox SportsRadio.com. And within the IHeart Radio app, search FSR to listen live. I think outside of Duke's struggles, the biggest story is probably North Carolina and choking away a 19-point second-half lead and losing to Virginia Commonwealth in just a devastating loss. And it's so bad that you've got former UNC players coming out

and wondering if Hubert Davis can survive this. They literally could not inbound the basketball when it mattered most in the last five minutes. I mean, that's unacceptable. They got outscored in like the, essentially the fourth quarter, 23 to 11. Now, I know it's just halves in college basketball, but they break it down by 10 minutes segments.

they got outscore 2311 down the stretch VCU Storms Back, it ends up winning in overtime. Now, to defend Hubert Davis, and I'm not defending him because he went to my high school, which he did. I didn't know him, of course. I was way younger. They didn't have their best player, Caleb Wilson.

Right? The guy was going to the pros. He was wearing a pretty cool shirt on the sideline, actually. But you're still up 19, you know? Like, even without your best player, you're up 19. I thought Trimble looked like a good player. and Vsar was good. They just missed a billion free throws. You know, it's a devastating loss.

But the worst part is so Hubert Davis essentially starts his career in year one, taking the tar heels to the final four. In 2022, they end up losing to Kansas in that one. They had a big lead. And I remember because that was the first year we did at Calcutta. And we had Kansas. And it was a big sweat. And I remember we were on spring break.

and we were in Mexico with the family and it was super difficult to find a television and watching it on my phone was like a bit of a hurdle not that you care about any of this but I remember like oh my gosh we got to get back to the hotel so I can fire this up on the TV and you know if we're being real like I got lucky or Carolina blew it

and that's kind of I don't want to say it's been his thing but Rob did do some digging and Huber Davis has blown his fair share of leads huh? Yeah, he definitely has blown his fair share elite. You're underselling what happened to him in North Carolina. So he starts off like gangbusters. Now you recall he was the handpicked successor to Roy Williams at UNC.

That's one of the plum jobs in all the sports, not just the college, right? He beats Coach Kay and Coach Kay's final game, which if you're a Carolina fan, like that holds major weight. Like that's like if you're a Michigan man And you beat Ohio's a three straight years Like that's that's a huge deal Takes down Coach Kane his final game Makes this the national championship game They blow the big lead and lose that game

We're like hey first year They made it to the title game They lost the lead but they'll be back watch The next season They become the first team And NCAA history up until that point To be the preseason number one And miss the tournament outright

Oh geez Okay Then in 2024 They're the one seat or A1 seat again. Lose in the sweet 16. All right. 2025 last season and now 2026 back to back years. They lose in the first round,

including Thursday night blowing a 19 point lead. Yeah, that's not great. So this is not an aberration. This is not a blip. I don't even think the Caleb Wilson excuse is going to hold water for Tar Hill Faithful. When you have... When you're up 19, you know.

Yeah, I mean, when you have Tyler you know here or should be Tyler Hansborough said Tyler Hero Tyler Hansborough saying on his podcast with Jeff Goodman you know I wasn't surprised I've seen the story before yeah like that that kind of speaks volumes not great because they say here in L.A. after the infamous Lane Kiffin situation remember Arizona State they lose they get embarrassed and he gets fired on the tarmac on the tarmac before he goes home. Hubert Davis if they had to fly home I think this was in South Carolina this may have been a tarmac game for him.

UNC is too good of a job with too much money, too big in NIL, and the Jordan brand behind them. There is no way he makes it to April 1st as the coach. Wow. You think he's cooked. Absolutely. Absolutely. Interesting.

I haven't looked at like the recruiting pipeline or what they have on the horizon. It's a bad loss. That's undeniable. But he is a tar heel grad, right? Went to UNC. Hmm. That's tough. I mean, listen, that's a bad loss.

But, you know, frankly, they ain't beaten Illinois. Let me look at the line for Illinois. They weren't going to win that game anyway, but you're right. You can't really lose that. Illinois is probably going to be in favor by about 10 against VCU. Let's see here. Ken Palm has it at nine. Illinois looked amazing, so everybody's going to bet them.

I mean, they hammered Penn by like 35. Let's see if the lines are up, Rob. Sorry for the delay. I know this is riveting. No. People love, oh, yeah, let's hear that line. Jay, fire it. Okay.

So Illinois is minus 10. I mean, I think they'll be fine. The other lines for Saturday, Arkansas minus 11. I think they murder high point. Gonzaga, Texas, six and a half. Nothing there. Houston, A&M. A&M really throttled.

There was a lot of blowouts at night during the day. There was a couple good games. You had a high point taking down Wisconsin, and I called Wisconsin during the Big Ten tournament. They're the biggest boom-bust team ever. They make a lot of threes. They play no defense. If the threes aren't falling, they're vulnerable. There it is.

Michigan 12 and a half against St. Louis. That St. Louis thing, team scares me. I don't know if you saw this, Rob, 66 points in the paint, the most in the tournament in seven years. And now they've got to face Michigan. St. Louis has that transfer, the white guy with goggles, and his nickname is Cream. C-R-E-A-M, Abdul-Jabbar. Love that guy. Are you familiar with his work?

Love that guy. I mean, he's basically like a doughy yokic with glasses. And he's a really good college basketball player. So Saturday lines up at some good... I'm just, listen, I'm excited to just lay around all weekend and watch basketball. I got to walk my dog because I haven't been able to really walk in this week because I'm up at, you know, butt crack at dawn. Today is a big one. I know you guys care deeply about the Calcutta teams.

Obviously, Michigan and Duke survive, but, you know, this is going to be a big sweat. I will do my best to not lose my mind on social media. We got a good week of content, though, Rob, right? We had Luca and the Lakers going off. You have Janice beefing with the bucks. Did we get into the Tracy McGrady comments? We did a little bit yesterday. A little bit, yeah, yeah.

There's just so many good things. things happening now. Max Crosby popping off about the Raiders and the Ravens situation. I will say your Raiders are gotten interesting. They're more interesting than the Jets. Yes. I mean, sure as heck, hope so.

Well, they got Mendoza. The Jets, they got Gino Smith. It's uninspiring. Anyways, all right, everybody, have a great weekend. We are back on Monday. Hopefully the bracket contest is going well. Putting the picks online as usual. See you tomorrow.

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