The Ringer-Verse - Star Wars Starting Five | Mint Edition

Episode Date: May 13, 2024

In honor of the NBA playoffs and our overall love for 'Star Wars,' we will be choosing our own basketball starting five within the world of 'Star Wars.' Joined by Ringer deputy art lead Matt James, Steve and Jomi will be teaming up to make four different teams of Jedi, Sith, clones, and non–Force users. Hosts: Jomi Adeniran and Steve Ahlman Guest: Matt James Producer: Jonathan Kermah Additional Production Support: Arjuna Ramgopa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Steve Alden. I'm Jimmy Dinerant. And today is a very special day. We bring you a basketball episode. Basketball episode. But I was doing Star Wars episode. Dun-na-na-da-da-da-da. Duna-na-na-da-da.

We're gonna do Star Wars. Yoka shuffles around the field. Star Wars basketball, man. Star Wars basketball. Star Wars basketball. We're here to have a great time with it. We're gonna give you a Star Wars starting five. We're gonna be talking about basketball teams

and who makes a good Star Wars basketball team. Why? We'll get into that in a minute. But first, some programming reminders. Wednesday, the Midnight Boys. Poo-Pew! I keep forgetting to do the Poo-Pew. You do, and it's like, we've been doing the podcast for over three years. Here's the thing.

I'm the producer of that show, and I'm only concerned with hitting the button. You can hit a few button. You can't chew and, you can't chew gum and walk at the same time? It's kind of, in a way, yes, because you got to, like, switch the bread. All right, I'm not going to. You just got hit the button. I do my job. Like, come on.

I hit the button. The Midnight Boys. Is that what, is that what, uh, Krenick was saying up there? Like, I just hit the button. I love how you say Krenick when you just looked at the whole, like, spreadsheet. Don't worry, bro, don't worry about my, you're breaking the illusion. Is that what? Check's notes.

You're going behind the looking glass. Okay, because he's the deaf skirt guy. That's very true. He pressed a button. Manette boys are back to give you their instant reactions to the season finale of X-Men 97 on Wednesday. On Thursday, the House of Our are going to be giving you

their deep dive into X-Men 97's season finale and the season as a whole. And on Friday, the House of Our will once again be taking a look at the Game of Thrones season finale five years later. Man, uh... Dig up some old memories.

Man, uh... Address some wounds. Some wounds? Yeah. I mean, if you want to call the gaping hole in my heart a wound. I mean, if we've, if you have, if time really heals all things and does five years, is that not long enough? I mean, I, again, this, I don't know if I've told this, this story publicly, but I've

binged the first seven seasons of Game of Thrones in a week, right? I had no job at that point. Right. And so I had to free trial. So I was like, might as well. Get into it. Oh, you free trial binge. So you had a time limit.

Exactly, exactly, right? And so I didn't love season eight, but I was like, if you probably binge it, I think if you've never seen it, you started from episode one, season one today and watched all three, you'd be like, oh, that was pretty cool, man. That was great. Now, if you had to wait, you know, weeks and months and years to get season eight, you would feel some type of way. You definitely would.

Yeah. All right. Well, to find out about all of that and more, Jomi and Denneron, where can we be finding out more? You can be finding out more on the social channels. You can go Twitter, Facebook groups, the TikTok, and the Instagram. Follow us at Ringiverse everywhere. We post some good stuff, some videos, some pictures,

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We're going to be on Google Maps. We're going to be on Facebook Marketplace. You're not going to put us on a, what was it called? What was that Google Plus? Oh, my God, Google Plus. I genuinely liked Google Plus back in the day. Man, they gave it a shot. We did.

Remember when we were trying to compete with Facebook? What a time. Man. And now you can't pay me to be back on Facebook. Sorry, everybody. Come on to the Facebook group. It's not just Jomi and me today, by the way. No, it's not.

We are joined by Ringer Deputy Art Lead and frequent button masher. Matt James, how's it going? What's up? Been hiding in the room laughing at all this. Just in the corner. You've emerged from the darkness. It would have been great if you just weren't here and I just said that you were here. Matt?

I'm here. Matt James is a Knicks fan. So that's why we brought him in, huge basketball guy, big Knicks fan. Right before we get into it, Matt. Nicks doing their thing, right? That is correct, Jemmy. I'm happy for y'all. Are they doing their thing or the refs doing their thing?

See, now you want to bring this agenda. Why not both, Steve? Why not both? You know what I'm saying? Look, this is why the league is in a great place because it saw the Lakers go out. Nobody cares about the Clippers. Clippers don't make no money. Saw the Lakers go out.

Because, guys, think about it. Let's put our conspiracy hats on. TV deals expiring. You need to get those numbers up. Let's be honest. Pacers not moving. I like that. You feel me?

Pacers are our box office. And you already know Cleveland. They're getting out of there with the Celtics. So they're looking at Eastern California's like, we need some big money. We need a draw. Yeah, well, it's been nice of the league to hand Jalen Brunson that many points every night. You know what I mean? Lord knows he won't do that.

But I mean, here's the thing, though, like, they're also the one in the one in two Cs, the one in two Cs, the Celtics and the Nix. So then meeting in the Instagram finals, you know, isn't that crazy, right? It's also not guaranteed. We keep getting injured. That's true. No, no, no, you're on the team. You do say we because they're getting so injured that they're about to pull you out from that. You have a Knicks on hat, right?

You have a Knicks on Hatt. I am just a few minutes behind Alec Berks and Minutes played the series. I think three. I'm right there. You and Alex Berks have the same amount of points scored in the series. Yeah. He missed a shot. Career or not field goal percentage?

Career. Alex Berks was a bucket. He was. He was. Maybe he won't be again. Anyway, happy to be here. Go, Nick. Glad that you are here.

Go New York. Go New York. Go New York. Go New York. Bing bong and all that. So, today's show. It's going to be a very fun one. We are doing our Star Wars starting five. So in honor of the NBA playoffs and just our

over our love of Star Wars, we're going to be choosing our own basketball starting five. We are going to be constructing several teams. The three of us will be coming together as a collective to make the best basketball team in Star Wars based on a couple of teams. We are going to be picking a point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, and a center for each team consisting of the Jedi, the Sith, clones, and non-force users. utilizing the attributes, an overall just attitude that each character that we might pick would be in a good position for this team. Listeners will be able to vote on what teams that we think are the best ones. And for any of you that aren't too knowledgeable about basketball, don't worry, I am probably like a one out of ten as far as basketball knowledge, and I'm here with two experts.

So similar to our beloved House of ours, something something baseball episode, this will be my, something something basketball episode. I'll be asking questions and comments and concerns that I might have that I don't quite know about the game of basketball to a degree, but we're gonna have some fun. We'll make it fun.

So, and before we begin, a general Star Wars knowledge spoiler for anything. We don't know who has certain types of limbs or not limbs or anything that might have happened canonically throughout Star Wars

is on the table for discussion and debate. Guys, how do you want to start this off? What kind of team do we want to start with? Do you want to start with the Jedi? Do you want to start with the Sith? I think we should go Jedi, Sith clones, and non-force users in that order. Okay.

So let's go with the Jedi. Let's start with the Jedi. So I'll throw it to our guest of honor, Matt, first. So in the Jedi team's point guard position, what do you think is going to be your pick for the Jedi? And why did you go the way that you win? Okay. Well, should we run down just like real quick positions for people who don't know basketball? For sure.

Just real quick explanation. Right? So you got the point guard that tends to be, you know, a smaller player that handles the ball that gives it to the other players. High basketball knowledge playmaker. They call them the floor general, right? You got your shooting guard, which is also another small, nimble basketball player. They tend to shoot the basketball well. Yeah, shooting guard.

You got small Ford, they're kind of the midsize there. They kind of bridge the gap between the smaller. and the taller players, right? Power forward. We're getting a little bigger here, looking to grab some rebounds. And then you got your center, the biggest person on the court, typically.

Typically. They play at the basket. They're usually... Sometimes they're bad at free throws, sometimes. A lot of centers can't shoot from deep. Some can. Modern NBA, a lot of centers shoot from deep.

Okay, so that's the breakdown for you guys who aren't particularly well-versed in basketball. You don't need to know more than that, really. If you know more, you're going to be some things for you. All right, point guard for the Jedi. So my pick for point guard, I think we got to go with Asokitano. Okay. I like that.

A leader, knowledgeable, yeah, you know. Incredible reflexes. Somebody who, you know, decisive in the heat of battle. Absolutely. He's going to make a call. Dexterous. The footwork is impeccable. Right.

Young. You know what I'm saying? I do think if we're going to need to flank her. with some experience. Absolutely. And she is 5'9. So that is a little bit short. Okay.

We do have to talk about this. We do. Let's talk about it. Are the four, should we wait till after actually to talk about it? No, let's talk about it right now. Can they use their force powers? I'm going to go and say no. I'm saying no, too.

Because that's cheating. So we need a force sensitive ref who's ready to call technical fouls. Right. Who actually isn't in the pocket of either team. because, again, what is the Star Wars TV deal expiration date? Oh, man, you know what I'm saying? And the Choruson, you know what I mean? That's a lot, it's a lot of units.

A lot of units. Glob Shito was up there like, yo, man. Glob Shito. Glob Shito. That's the, that was the Glob Shito. I don't, maybe. I don't care. Wow, okay.

I just made it, you know, I could be wrong. I could be right. I don't know. Different pronations. Different places. You know what are? Yeah, man. Like, you know, well, because you know, in Jaku, you know what I'm saying?

there's a glubshadow and a glopshadow. Right. You know what I'm saying? Two different families, a lot of beef between them. Of course, because like, we're the real shadows. And it's like, no, we're the real shadows. Capulets and Monagu's over there. All right.

I think Asoka is a good, PG. I think I had her in that spot too. I'm going to go to the power for it. I'm going to skip ahead a little bit. Okay. So, so first of all, no force. No force. No force use.

No force use. And for me, this is the team that gets hurt the most by that. Definitely. over the Sith. Definitely. No, Jedi's resting on their laurels when it comes to power. Definitely, definitely.

For my power forward, I want Mace in there. Mace. I want Mace up the four. Six foot three. You want to play in power forward? Yeah, here's the thing, man. Because if you, I mean, you, you, you, you, you probably, like, I don't know how deep you went in your research.

I went deep. You went deep. You went deep. You went deep. Oh, my gosh. Here's the thing, man. When we really think about it, how tall are the clones? Like, what, like five, ten?

Six feet? Six feet? Six foot? , yeah. Across the board because you know Well you know there's a few Outside of like Yeah yeah yeah

Yeah we'll get to My thing is My thing is like size Does matter a little bit By the end of the day If we can space the floor You know what I mean Because I got to like

With all the players On all the teams I think if we open it up For the Jedi Because the thing about being a Jedi Right As annoying And rigid as they are

It's a space of It used to be a space of creativity Right. You see a space of openness and flow. They're going to keep that ball moving. That's exactly. I'm thinking 2014 spurs. Okay. Nothing but a good pass game.

You know what I mean? Like you got Tony Parker, Manu, Kauai, Boris D.A. And Tim Duncan out there. And you just move in the ball. Everybody's peeing around the court. You don't know where the ball's going to go. Everybody gets a touch.

Everybody, yeah. And you get an open shot at the end of the day. That's my mindset. You know what I'm saying? So I thought. like Mace while he's just got a different, like, he's got a different energy around him.

He's going to crash the boards. He's going to, that's what I'm, you see what I'm saying? He's going to bring a little tenacity to the flow and the energy of the game. Now something to consider, Jedi's at least as we've seen them, operating on their own, occasionally with the Padawan, but

I don't think of a lot of team cohesion when it comes to Jedi. I mean, they have a council. Again, but that's the thing, though. Like, there's going to be too many cooks in the kitchen. Not that many plays called. No, no, no, no, no. You got to, everybody has a camera team got a captain.

This is a, this is a group of people used to coming together for the common cause. Yeah. And while there are squabbles, ultimately. A lot. They're competitive. So the front office is kind of in shambles a little bit. I mean, we'll get to the Sith. We're going to talk about it.

Just say, you want to talk about a beef. The Sith is not where it's at. They're okay in international three-on-three basketball. Sure. You know, the triangular pyramid of Sith. Right, right, right. But, yeah, there's five on five. Anyway, we'll get to that.

We'll get to the SETA. I've got no problems about the Jedi, like, team chemistry. In fact, that's probably, they're... Outside of the clones, that's probably like, the clones, I think will work well together, obviously, but the Jedi, I'm not worried about team cohesion. Yeah, now what I am worried about with them is size. Size is tough.

Size is tough. Yeah, right. So I pulled a deep cut for center to get some size. And you're going to be like, you're making upwards. Please, we'll see her. We got a Jedi. I don't even know how to pronounce this.

I think it's named Yariel Poof. I am not making this up. If you're not driving, pullover. No. If you are driving. Yes, I have seen this. This is the motherfucker's got like a two foot neck. The fact that this is a name.

He's eight foot six. So even when you factor in like the, two-foot neck, that's still like good size. Now, hold on. For the listeners at home, Yari El Poof, if you were to Google him, basically this is like a long-necked dinosaur of a human.

He's got four arms. Imagine Nala say, right, but with four arms. Yeah, you got four arms. He keeps two of them under, like, the Jedi coat most of the time. He got four arms, two brains. Two brains. He's eight foot six. He's in the paint

swinging the head around. Oh, yeah. swinging that head around. He could stand at the center and just like give like long necked looks outside. Well, here's the thing. And this is why I knew Matt would be perfect for this. That's not only a deep cut, but also this is perfect for the team we're trying to build, right?

If you're going to be small on the outside with somebody with that kind of size out there, you're not coming to the rim. He has reached, but only with his neck. Bro, this is... He got four arms. The Victor Wenbanyama. The Victor Wenbaniama.

of our team, right? You know, just stand there. They're not coming to the room. I don't even know how two brains is going to help, but you know it is. Right? The IQ's got to be off the charts. I have a couple of concerns about like dribble speed

and him in transition. Don't need him to handle the ball. Don't just put, just rebound. We're going to get you. So you're getting boxed out and rebound at the same time with four arms. Come on now. All right, forearms. That's a pretty good, that's a pretty good set.

Jomi, did you have a similar pick or did you have anybody? No, no. That doesn't matter. None of my picks matter. Your pick doesn't matter. What I was thinking about, it doesn't matter. For a shooting guard, I think we need maybe, Uriel proof is great. I'm a funny, okay, I had Obi-Wan at the two. That's a pretty, I thought about it. I, so what, now switching out, a reason that you wouldn't want to have him at point guard. I can say, I consider him a good playmaker. It's thing. I feel like, I mean, even, we're really going to get. of weeds of it. I feel like Asoka's probably your weakest defender, right? So you'd have to hide her, like, with her size. She got good speed.

She'd Dame Lillard. Exactly, right? You probably have to hide her on defense a little bit. But Obi-Wan at the two, I feel like he's probably, or you put him at the three and just make him like the general, right? Like, he's the captain, like LeBron. He brings a ball up in the core of core five minutes and starts switching. I like him at the two, though.

I do like him at the two because... Because you get his defense on guards and you, yeah. So then who do you have at the three? He will do what he must. That's the thing. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. But do what he must.

I got two people we could slide into small forward. Okay. We got Quigon Jin. Yeah. Who, solid pick. You know, he's. It kind of has strong, though. I kind of feel like when people say, hey, man, don't do that.

So actually, I'm going to do that. He strikes me also as a player that would probably, like, he would want to play an old school game while not really adapting to newer ways. Long to use. We want long twos. Okay. So I got a- Could he play dirty?

I got an alternate pick then for Small Ford. This is a little bit of a deep cut, too, but Quinlan Voss. Oh, no. Oh. I watch Clone Wars, brother. I have some goddamn respect. He's got- He's a dog.

And this team doesn't really have enough of that outside of Asoka. Okay. Like got it out the mud. Yeah. Types. Okay. Okay. And you want that out of a wing.

You want, you want. He's the guy who's going to defend your best player. Yeah. He's going to slap the floor. He's got the athleticism. He's got the drive. Yeah.

He's just going to run all day. He's making it hard for everyone. Good trash talk game too. Oh, absolutely. No, no, no. You know, I love that pick. Okay. Well, then Quigon's going to sit.

Quigon's got to sit. Quigon's got to sit. Luke is going to sit. Here's the thing Luke You know, if we need some Some Duke-ass motherfucker to Come in off the bench and hit some open shots

No, that's a good point. Wine about the refs the whole time. That's a good point. Why? Okay, but who would you put Luke over then? Nobody. He's also, he's short. He's not on.

He's short. He's coming in. He's like, okay. Has he handles? Does he have anything that could like... Without the force? He's not on my team. Here's the thing, though.

Right? Like, I mean, I feel tough to omit. It feels tough to admit Luke, but here's thing I had it. Look, you got to play. I'm not, you got to make the team based on merit, okay? Not just name, name alone. Okay. I don't care about the contract.

We're going to put the best five players on the floor. Get that nepo baby out of here, clearly. Wow, they call it Luke Brody. Wow. They call it Luke Brody. And guess what? Where's Vader going to transfer to? That's crazy.

Just to play with his son. That's crazy. I had to know with somebody who was not going to make my team. Okay. Yoda was never going to make this team. Well, if we had force, hold on.

If they were force users. If force was allowed, maybe, but I was looking at it and it was like, there's no shot. There's no way. Too small, too old. Can't defend.

It's just going to be, you know, whoever offense on Yoda, picking rolls all day. So you think that this is a bit bit more of like a veteran legacy play where he's a vet and he's clearly has had better days but like

this is more of like a locker room politics thing where he's he's there to like lead yeah like he was like not even Tristan Thompson on the Lakers or the Cavs right now because he's playing this is oh my goodness like Vince Carter on the on the Hawks I don't even know if Luke is like warm in the bench honestly because you got so many

other this is crazy Jedi Jedi who are better locker room people than Luke Yeah, I mean, I think we're talking about Yoda, but Luke Yeah, but Yoda is a good locker room. Rockers, but I mean, at the end, but you wait, like, this is like, oh, he did Edanus Haslam. Okay, yeah. He's not playing, he just there, hey, guys.

Now, for the kids who don't know, Udana's Haslam? Udana's Haslam. Udana's Haslam. Miami, he, uh... Legend. I mean, he legitimately was like one of their, like, he started on all, I don't know that he started on the 2013, 2012 teams, but he would be played, um, significant minutes for them. But the last, like, four or five years of his career, he was just,

the guy on the bench. Heat culture. Heat culture. A corpse. A corpse is crazy. Wow. Wow. But not having Luke on a jet.

Man, you really feel strongly about not having Luke on his team. I mean, he can be on the bench, I guess. But not on the starting five. He can't be in the starting five. No, no. No, we're near the starting five. Nowhere near it. I'm kind of with it.

I mean, look, here's the thing. I see where you're coming from. I do understand. I feel like, especially with, with no force. Six man? Like, you know. Five-eight, too.

Again, no size from our guy. There's not a lot of size. Now, Assook is 5-9. She's taller. She's taller. Better skill set. Way more athleticism. Way more drive.

I think, and I think here's the thing, though, if we were talking about, you know, because, like, Luke from the books, legends, Luke. Luke from the comics. Oh, yeah. Yellow jacket Luke? It's a little different. Yellow Jacket Luke, that's a different beast. It's a little different, right?

We'd have to consider all of that, but. But that's not the known cultural, relevant Luke that we're. Here's the thing, though. I know we're going to get on the podcast on Wednesday. Advanceing about, I'll listen, Luke not being on the team is crazy. And we're going to be like, look, fan. If we have Obi-Wan on the team, I think he could be fine with that. That's what I'm saying.

Yeah. If Luke's not on a team, we're clearly not thinking about legends or thinking about canon stuff. and yeah, I would say like Asoka's she's put up, she's done the numbers. She's done what she has to do. So she makes our son five. So Steve, what do we got for the Jedi Sun Five right now?

Okay. So for our Jedi team, we have at point guard, Assocatano, shooting guard, Ben Kenobi, small forward, Quinlan Voss, power forward, Mace Windu, and center.

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We sure do. Oh, boy. I got some picks. My picks, like, again, without too vast of a knowledge of the positions here, Darth Vader's got to be on this team, correct? False. False. Okay, so he's a thing, nah, man.

See? Nah, see, see, see, see. I hear you. I hear you. Oh, starting five. No. Really? I got some pitch.

Okay, Jomey, please. I got some picks. Look, it's not like I don't want him there. I just got, I just got, I got guys who, who should be in that spot over him. So here's the thing, right? Where are you, like, if you had to put him in the Toronto Five, where we'd you put him? Well, he is six foot two. Anakin is six foot two.

Yeah. Do you really want him in that? You really want him in that suit where he can't move, you can't see anything for another, like, two, three inches of height? Here's a thing. thing, right? And so in my head... Without the force, he can't even move in that thing. Honestly, he kind of survives with both the

machine and the force because he channels his rage to heal himself, but we're getting two of the weeds there. I mean, he can use the force to like stay a lot. Live, yeah. You know, as long as you're not shooting a ball or making any, like, dribble moves. My thing is, I'm thinking like,

not only, center. I'm thinking like, you know, Miami Shack. Oh. He's clearly not that guy. anymore, but he can still get you something. You know, like, in his prime, I am. I was to go. I'm thinking Boston Shack.

No, don't do that. Don't do that. We see Darth put up some numbers, bro. Come on, man. Okay, well, you got it. You got to hear me out what I got. And then at the end, we'll see if we got room for him. But, like, here's the thing.

The quintessential pick or, like, the quintessential reasoning behind the Sith is like, no, there's got to be on your team of someone. So I'm willing to hear your case about why he's not there. So give me a point guard for the Sith. Duku. Oh, okay. Duku is my point guard.

You know, and he, how, how, how, what age, Duku? Well, actually, that's probably pretty good. Because tales of, what's the good? Tales of the Jedi. Tells it's the Sith. Tells of the Jedi. Tells of the Jedi, you know what I'm saying? I see the vision.

That's the vision right there. So he's six for four. Okay. And let me tell you about something. So we're putting together this. Shout out. And the biggest problem we're going to have on this SIF team is chemistry. Sharon the ball.

Like the vision of working together. I have something for that. And Duku has so much leadership experience. Very true. Throughout his career. And he's got a vision. He can make plays and he knows the bigger picture. He was the leader of the separatist for a long time.

Bigger picture thinker. And that is very rare on this team of SIP. Okay. What you think of? I like that a lot, actually. I think I probably, I had Duku as my three. Duku is your playmaking leader, I don't know. Duku as, Duku is like coach?

I had Duke, I had Duke at my three. Yeah, I could see it. I mean, but if we're going like for size, right? Why three? I got all the size you need. No, no, not. I got so much size. Because for me, it was like, I had like, you know, we wanted, like.

So at my two, I had, um, Darth Maul with the double blades, right? Phantom Menace Darth Mall. Not Spider-Legs, Darth-Mall. No, no, not Spider-Legs Darth-Mall because I don't know if I cheated or not. I had Spider-Legs, Darth-Mall, at the Power Forward. At the Power Forward?

6-9. 6-9. Oh, ooh. See, now, listen, we do have a guy with, like, a dinosaur neck on the other team. Well, his thing, I'm not saying... I'm not saying it's the end of the world, but my thing was, I feel like

my Darth-ball pick from Fat of Manus two-way guy, literally, his sword goes both ways, right? So you move your feet on defense. I'm thinking like, 2015, 2016, Clay Thompson. Interesting. Yeah, I could, I initially thought of Darth Mall as a two as well. And then I thought, you know what?

He's got a lot of size when he's, when he's got the spider legs, he's six-nine. And I also wanted to make room for a smaller guard. who's not Darth Mall, I wanted to find a spot at shooting guard for Assange Ventris. Okay, no, she was my point. You see the fishing. There we go. You see the vision.

I had to have Assange on there. Yeah. Had to have her own interest or shooting guard. Well, well, let's keep talking it out. Let's keep talking about. Let's keep talking out. See how they fit. Because I think Assange needs to be there.

She's ruthless. She's coordinated. Yes. She's lethal. She's a winner. Here's a problem. She's got winner DNA. Here's the problem.

We have her out there. I guess Obi-Wan Canobey. She's short. It's tough. It's tough. That's tough, too. They're going to be in a day going to be. Like, everybody's going to set.

No, that's a positive. To pair them up and then it's over. Guys, hey, we're playing a basketball game. What do? Please, we can't have this. I don't do what I must. Oh, sure. I, I know,

size's got to be there. Who's your, who's, who's the center? Do you think? If you're going to put, you're going to love this pick. If you're going to put, um, spider legs. Yep. At the Power Forward. Wait, no, we have to decide whether or not it's Spider-Leges, Darth-Mall, or normal.

Well, no, I want to hear what he's got for the center. So you got Spider-Leges, Darth-Mall at Power Forward. You know who would be great right next to him. Who? Someone who's always right next to him, his brother, Savaggio Press. I had Savage at the 3 or at the-I-H-H-4. Post-Transformation 7-2, Savaggio Press, dominating the paint, next to Spider-Legs, Darth Mall,

6-9. That is a lot of size, a lot of power. Seven foot what? You don't want to go in the... Seven foot two. Jesus. So my five...

That's Shaq. That's prime shack. My... Right there. So my team was Savi... Sarja at the 1, Darth Mall at the 2,

Duku at the 3, Savage at the 4, and Darth at the 5. And my thinking... Very similar lineups. Right. My thinking was, you know, Savage is like, I don't want to say like KD, a little bigger than KD, but he can get out there and be mobile.

You can't, Darth is not mobile. He's powerful. He's strong. You get the ball in the paint. Spider-Leges are fast. You know what I'm saying? So that was my thinking. But you, I mean, with this lineup, we can go up to court.

We can be, we can play big and play fast. I like, I see the vision. So I got, I got one other name to throw out there for, for, for. and this is kind of like an asterisk. I think like you got to appeal to the league and see if this is allowed, right? But I had as my small forward, I had at 6'5 Grand Inquisitor.

So not technically a sift. They do nothing to lose. Not technically a sift. But work on the payroll for the sit. I would veto this because nothing but loser mentality. I want those losers on my squad, bro. I'm familiar with their game. I was watching, so I'm watching Tells the Empire, right?

And, you know, so every time I watch Avengers Endgame and what's his name? Ebony Ma comes on screen. I go, my dismal. Prime Glazer. Every single, he might be the top of all the glazers in film history. DJ Academics and Epony Ma. He's top two and he's not two. Okay, just a D1 glazer.

All right. Every time I see him on screen, I'm like, disma. I was watching Tells an Empire when it comes out. And, spoiler alert, Barris, it becomes an inquisitor. And they walk up her into the, to the, you know, Darth Vader storm room. And lo and behold, you'll never guess who shows up. Yes, I will. The Grand Inquisitor.

Always showing up. That's what you want. Immediately, I was like, oh, my God. Showing up to do what, though. Not this jobber, bro. I was hot. He under no circumstances. We'll put Vader in over him.

That's fine. Keep him away from my team. Okay, so good to know if it is here. Okay, so, okay, I think, I think I'm going to. I think we got our five. We just got to, we got to figure it out. We got a position. Yeah.

I think I'm going to figure out which configurations of those brothers he wants. But, do you send your arguments. I do like Duku at point guard. It seems like he could actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, okay. So then we have like a smaller Assage at the two. Right.

Okay. So do get the point of Sajit 2. Do you want, so I feel like you can either go Vader at, well, it depends on which, which versions of the, of Moll and Savage were. Yeah. I think, I think I like your size. If we go. So do you want to put, do you want to put Vader at the 3 then? Vader at the 3.

VATR at the 3. You know what Vader at the 3 is? No, small forward. Vader at the 3 is like, like literally brown right now. There was a time. Yeah. Right. Right.

Like, this. Right now. Like, there was a time when he ran shit. Oh, my gosh. Like, it was crazy.

He did it for a while. Now you're looking at him as like, how long can he keep going? He can give it to you, but. Yeah, he's still, he's still a great player you want on a team.

Okay, so this is a good comparison. So you're saying, Revenge of the Jedi Vader is modern day LeBron James. It's a little cooked. It's a little, it's still powerful. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Like, you, when you show up on a court and you're like, if he's on today, it's over. Yeah. And then when his son shows up, he's like, help me take this mask off. Oh, my gosh. Anakin is Braun and Luke is Bronny. Oh, my gosh, we did that. Yeah, and it makes sense.

Because in this metaphor, Bronny's not going to play. It makes perfect sense. That's awesome. Brony's not even making the team. Brody, for those that don't know, LeBron James' son, who is projected NBA prospect for Project NBA To who? To who?

The Lakers probably because they need to sign Brown again. But I get into that right now. So. I love where we're at now. So then at the four,

we have... We have Darth Mall with the legs. By the legs. Right. And then Savageo Press. The five. Oh my gosh.

After the transformation. So Vodgesa Press, post-transferment. Because we're absolutely break in that poof neck in the pain. Ew.

That sounds... I don't know what that means. Break your poop neck is crazy. So this is the thing, right? And I think we do have to talk about, we talked about a little bit. But the Sith, you know, notoriously don't get along, right? Yeah. That's going to be the thing about all of the political discourse that's happening

just between these five people, Count Duko, Assange Ventras, Vader, Mall. Would any of these people get along? So I feel like Savage and Maul. I mean, they're brothers. Right? At the beginning, yeah, sure, why not? And then, you know, like a little testy. A couple of Gassals together.

You know. Right? And then you have... They were just real mad the whole time. It was just running the 2008 Spain team. Assad's Rudy Fernandez. No, but I feel like what we could do is do like a rule of two thing. We have a couple two men games, right?

Between Savas and Darth Maugh. Now, the two men game is basically where two positions basically coalesce and bounce off of each other. Yeah, so essentially like, for example, Janus and Dame in Milwold. Milwaukee, right? They can run a two-man game or just like a pick-and-roll between your two best players. You have to guard both of them

and it makes it hard on the defense. Right, because they don't know where the balls go. Exactly. That makes a lot of sense because they're used to interacting in those, you know, two. Exactly, right?

And so you do a lot of that just have, you know, Safaj bring the ball up, yo, Darth, set me a screen, let's make something happen, things like that. That's got to be the offense. Okay, so nothing but open shots.

A lot of high pick and rolls, you know what I mean? Again, this is not... So then you need range after that. Well, there's not a lot of, you know, we're not doing a lot

of like, again, 2014 spurs. There's not a lot of paying a ball around. It's not how to get down. It's going to just be a lot of P&R. Yeah.

I mean, the Sith are going to be a team that is less than the sum of their parts. Whereas the Jedi are going to be a team that's greater than the sum of their parts. Exactly. Okay.

Exactly. I like that. All right. Cool. Final starting five for the Sith. At point guard, Count Duku. Shooting Guard,

Asage Ventress. Small forward, Vader. Yeah. Power forward spider legs Darth Mall Got a lot No

Distinction Yes And at center Savaja Press Post transformation Post transformation He's big and swole Big and swell

Banned substances Nah Okay It's the future The force is PEDs Yeah Oh that's true That's true

That is Yeah That reminds me No greater PED Man One of the greatest Of all time Was like

You think this hurts Me Your tears are like PEDs to me. I think about it every time somebody mad at me online. I'm like, cool, thank you. All right. Now we are on to clones. Yeah, so this is

an interesting one because the size... It's going to be pretty consistent. Size is going to be pretty consistent. You're pretty limited here. So you're really hoping that the teamwork can make up for the side. Because this is a small ball. Small ball and

cohesion is what we have. I wouldn't even want to say like 2016 or like 20, not even 2016 words. This is not the Hamptons 5 with KD. This is the death lineup with Harrison Barnes, Iggy, Draymond Clay and stuff. Yeah, Iggy. We got some Iggy's here. There's a lot of Iggy's here.

I think I'm going to start off by just letting everybody know. You probably, who's the five? Who's the five? You want to say, Recker. Yeah, I do. Low basketball IQ. He's going to file. He's going to file a lot.

I don't know what else to tell you. We need someone in the... who's got any presence whatsoever. And now for the uninitiated, it feels like we're more or less just making a basketball team of the bad batch here. So here's the thing. It's pretty close. It's pretty close.

I have two. Yeah. There's two. Oh, I think we have the same team. Again. But I can't. You guys are sympathetico more or less today.

I can't have, but I can't have record on that. I just feel like it's going to foul too much, be out of position. You know, he does, I guess, like, he does follow orders at the same time. He's a little reckless. He's a warrior, man. He keeps you going. But we need you on the floor.

He's going to commit too many fouls to say on the floor. It's kind of like cat and a body of Gobert. You still start him. You still start him. I don't know. Look, if he can hit those free throws, you start him. He's definitely not in free throws, man. He might.

He's shooting all the time. Yeah, but for how long? He's going to foul out. He's going to, you're going to have to run that five. He's like literally to bog it. Tell me who's playing five, if not him. This is where it does get tough here. You have no one with height aside.

No one, I'm outside of him. You have two people who have height, and he's one of them. Who's the other one? Crosshair is 6'4. I had him at, I mean, I had him. I have him a shooting guard. He's got to be a shooting guard. He's got to be a shooting guard.

Crosshair is pretty much the, where do you have Rex? Rex is my power forward. Interesting. I had Rex at the... He's boxing out, clean screens, pick and roll. It's a Paco Gasol with an edge. Okay. So who's your...

Where do you have Hunter? Hunter's my point guard. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're locked in there. We're locked in there. Yeah, he's running the show. He's thinking about the greater good here.

He's doing the right things, making the right plays. He's making all the reads. He's making all the reads. He's like, all right, here's what is that. He knows everybody's that. strengths, he'll see a mismatch, he'll take advantage of it. Who's in charge? Hunter or Rex.

Who's in charge? Like, who's the captain? I think it's sort of a co-captaincy. It's all like, we're all like, everybody's the leader. If you make a team of clones, it's about cohesion. You guys got to be like, we don't have to worry about. We're going up against Darth Vader. Chemistry.

They're on a, they're literally the same person. They're on a string, basically. Yeah, we're only worrying about crosshair. It's like psyche. That's it. Everybody else locked in. So listen, I think I know who you got on this team aside from the people we just mentioned. Okay.

Commander Cody. My God. You were there. We're locked in. Commander Cody, why do we have Commander Cody here? Because he's a vet. He's reliable. He's basically like Rex Light.

He's. Yeah, you can trust him. And not even that much. not even that far off. So, yeah. You trust him in big moments. And that's your point card. No, that's our three.

That's your three. Yeah, I had him as a wing, yeah. So, and so I was like, I'm not putting record on my team because. Yeah, so who did? I put fives there because it's funny. Five of the five. Fives at the five. That's the first sub in.

You've got to have record starting off. Like, if he files out, he fouls out. But you need, you need someone. in the pain who can stand there and be a physical presence. Yeah. I like the idea of record being there. It's starting five, but you know that he's getting subbed out. He's playing like what, 20, maybe 20, 22 minutes tops.

Yeah, but he's still starting. You're not running him like Tibbs. Like you're not going to see how long you go. He's literally going to be the Andrew Bogan of that 2015 team. Oh, yeah. It's like, all right, yeah, we'll pay you for like six minutes in the first quarter. and then three minutes in the second quarter. And then you'll just go there and sit down.

And then we'll just like for like when we need to get a play, when we need to get buckets. I agree. It's not ideal, but it's the best we can do. Okay. All right. I can see that.

Ultimately, like, it's really sucks because like, you know, you love all these guys, you know, scorch. I thought you kind of was being whack and bad bad.

And the thing, like I love to have, you know, tech, rest in peace. Yeah. Can I have that got there. He ain't got no right. I'd love to have Omega, but she doesn't have the size.

Don't have the size. You can do the end of Bad Batch spoilers. She still probably doesn't even have. This team's already lacking for size. We need every inch height we can get here. Man, I love Omega so much. I thought about her at the point guard. That's like my little, that's like my daughter, you know?

And like, again, I love Bad Batch. I watched the season three with tears in my eyes, especially the entire time. man, when she was taking charge of those little kids, it brought a tear to my eyes like, she's growing up, my little girl, she's growing up. Maybe she's coaching, you know. Hey, man.

Oh, she's coaching. Bro, she's coaching. Bro, let me tell you something. She's on that bitch. She's on that bitch. She's on that bench. She's on that bench. She's on that.

She's like the number. She's like the, in bounds plays drawn up. Yeah. If she like Chris, like, if Chris Finch is like, who would be the coach of this team, actually? Omega. Omega. Oh, man. because everybody else is playing

everybody's playing. That's right she'd be the coach, she'd be there. A lot of sub-ins for the clothes. She would be riding the refs like crazy. That's a deep bench though with the clones. Oh yeah, deep bench, but you're getting a lot of bodies to get nobody's got double-digit man. Next man up. Here's the thing about the close though, basically next man up, you don't even know where you're getting at. Yeah, that's fair. You'd be like, I don't even know this guy, that's fine.

Throw them in, see what works. See what works. CT-485, yeah, 46. Is that wolf? Just put them in. It doesn't matter. Is that wolf? I don't know. anymore. Who are these people? Omega as a coach, man. The rest would be sick of her. She'd be getting teed up like crazy. Hey, that's a... I can't do in the New Zealand accent.

That's a foul. That's a fail. It's a fail. Rika, it's a fail. You fail a male. Go damn. I got to be on the show for some reason. That's funny. That's exactly what it sounds like. Oh, it should be so bad. That's great. That's great.

So, well, novelty picks for each team now will be coaches. So a mega being the coach, easy. I mean, I guess the coach for the Sith

would have to be Papalteen. Yeah. Not necessarily. I guess so. No, Thron. Thron not a Siff, though.

He doesn't really care. No, he's not. He's definitely not. He's probably the coach of the non-force users. Oh, shit. We'll get to that.

We'll get to that. Oh, shit. And then who's the Jedi coach? Let's see. I guess it would have to be Yoda? Yoda. Yeah. Or Yattle.

Under his leadership. under his leadership, I don't know. I've seen what happens to Yoda's teams. They get complacent. They get complacent. They get right off the gym. The front office isn't going to fire him, though. Like, as it stands right now, they did 20-24 nuggets.

They was like, they thought it was sweet. Oh, we just running back with yokes on them. No, we don't need no Bruce Brown. We got Payne Watson and Christian Brown. They're going to be all right. Then they forget how to shoot. And it's like, uh-oh. Um-umar-Murrie.

Oh, you're going to shoot three of, three of, of 24 from the field? Uh-oh. We ain't, we're in trouble. and the Ant-A-Words come in with lightsaber start sloshing on all the younglings and get some boys up out of there. That's exactly what it looked like.

Oh, man. All right, our team for the Clone Wars, starting five. At point guard, Hunter, at shooting guard crosshair, small forward, commander Cody, power forward is Rex,

center is Rika. Rika. And our coach is Omega. This episode is brought to by the Active Cash credit card from Wells Fargo. That's a mouthful, but that's because it packs a lot in. Earn unlimited 2% cash rewards on purchases with it, big or small. So whether it's buying tickets to the game and grabbing a coffee, it earns unlimited 2% cash rewards on purchases. Say it with me,

the active cash credit card from Wells Fargo, be a 2%er. Learn more at Wells Fargo.com forward slash active cash terms of play. All right. Fourth and final are non-force users. deep bench here. Lots of much fun. This one is... I don't think we're going to have all the same picks on this one. We can't.

But so here's what I was thinking, right? We got size. I think we got the same center. I think we got the same center. We have the same center, but I don't know if we have the same... Okay, so can I say my pick for a center? Because this was the only one that I was like,

this has to be it. Okay. Yeah, it's black chrysanon. No. So here's the thing, right? I was thinking we go Bogie A.D. 2019 or 2018

Pelicans with it. These are essentially two guys that could be center. Chewy at the five. Yes, that was it. That's the pick. Chewbacca is the center. Black Cresanin at the four. And we tell them,

I dare you to go make some habit in the paint. I dare you. Now, black crescenting defending on the wing might be a little tough, but then you got Chewbacca behind. Okay, who's fouling out more, Chewbacca or Black Crescenton? Black Cresantin. No, Chubacca's way more.

emotional. Let the wookie win? Come on. Here's the day, man. I feel like Chubacca's been through a lot, like a lot of, like a lot of,

like a lot of, like a lot of, like a lot of, like he's seeing a lot. I'm saying, at the end of day, like he might be a little emotional he'll get the job to.

I think I got a better picket for. You got it for. General Grievous. Oh shit. Got four arms again. No, no, no. Okay. Slight counter.

Unreal agility. Yeah, but the health is an issue. Slight counterpoint. IG 88. From, the, the,

the, the, Hunter, droid. Yes. That's your 11, excuse me. Okay.

From Medallorian. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I was, okay. You got speed. I was thinking about K.

Versatility, rotating torso, go 360. I don't, I don't think he's got, I don't think he can grip the basketball. Straight up.

What are you talking about? Straight up. I was talking about K2S. You got them hands? I don't know. Uh, no. No.

No? Nah, because you can't pass from the ball. He can't even, he can't pass him. Here's another reflexes. IG88 can't look up. He doesn't need to.

He's very tall. That head's been side to side. He's looking down, hold on. How tall is IG80? How tall is IG88? I know K2SO is 7-1. 7-1.

He doesn't need to. He doesn't need to look up. General Grievous is also 7-1 though. And again, four-arms is kind of... He scans the battle for him. He's got the agility. He's on the injury list. He's on the injury list.

He's on the injury list for COVID reasons. He's breaking pro-COVID protocols all the time. Health and safety. to cause. No, grievous today. All right, all right. No, no, no. I think we should put a pin in net.

We should put a pin in it. Chewy at the five. Chewy's a lock. We love it, right? Chewy's seven foot five. Yeah. He's, he's, you don't want to drive the net.

No, you don't. Especially not Chewbacca. The shit out of you. You also don't even want to post him up because with all that fur, he's going to be gross, man. Oh, he's that wet fur? It smells crazy. I got to, it's got to be nasty.

It's got to be sweating like Patrick Ewing wearing a fur coat. in the paint literally don't want to even go near him you're going to rip your arms off if you come in the paint you know they cast a modern day

like I believe like the Slavic basketball player as modern day Chebacca is that right in the in the people trilogy Jonas

press a piece Peter Macu yeah new Baca drop uh yeah Junis oh boy try saying this name he's a Finnish actor

and former basketball player shout out Junis Sumato 611 I'm sure that pronunciation is spot on Immaculate, no question it Nobody right in So we're talking about

G-88 I was thinking about K-2-S-O Anything about droids K-2S-O is a better pick He's a better pick than IG-88 but No shout for a R2D2 C3PO

K and here's the thing Let's just talk about droids a quick I think R2's your coach No seriously We thought Omega was bad Yeah No R2 is given the rest

a problem. It's like Bob Knight on steroids in 20th. Like Bob Knight was throwing chairs on all that and he would get reprimanded and stuff. But we're like he's a tough guy, he's a tough coach. A coach. A coach. Get that right now? That's an eight game suspension. Yeah. R2 breaking out a little shocker,

shocking the refs. Yeah. Like he's like, he's shocking his players. What have you made that shot? He's getting he's getting ejected like, he's getting double T. He's like, they're going to be like, hey man, we got like the coach. And then he's in the press conference after talking about how Bad the refs are.

Oh, yeah. All this money, of course. All that's so familiar as a Knicks fan. And it's just your These refs, man. Where did they go in The Last Jedi? What was that planet? Which one?

Where Rose in... The Salt Field? No, no, no. The casino planet. Oh. Canto Bight. R2 is going to be like, I see what y'all doing here.

All this money for Canto Blight. That's what it is, man. Yeah, they're not going to let that he's not going to let that Canto Bight stuff staying. Like, y'all make them money for the people, man. What about us? We're trying to win the game, small markets. Brother, you know what I'm saying?

So now that Canto Bight has, like, you know, kind of been running the tables a bit more in the Star Wars basketball arena, like gambling allegations getting a little out of hand, maybe Duku gets some sort of who's, who's gambling in these teams? Duku, 100%. R2's probably gambling in these teams. I see him as a gambler Without a doubt

Duku has somebody in there like Hey man Put down 2 mil on He's like he's like Dante Porter that can actually play Right Whenever I send Dwante Porter pictures Just know that I'm betting on myself

You know what I'm saying He's in there like hey bro Just go down there To Conto bite Put down 4100 credits On some ridiculous prop bet On a Jedi Just put down 4100 on the Jedi

We're going to see what happens And him gets a game like Ah man My shoulder not right man And the Palatine's like, nut from a Jedi. Yeah. Palatine's like, well, so you can't play. What are you going to do?

It's like, don't worry. I got my little homie out there to play. And it's, um, we call it. It's my, it's a dark soul homie, actually. And he'd pull up Ezra Bridger. It's like, Ezra like, y'all, I don't want to be here. And they're like, well, you got to play. And they're just sell for them.

And they win. And the Jedi. He's like, yo, damn, y'all lost. That's crazy. Let me call my man's. And you got the, you got the slip, man. Let's get out of here. Okay.

So as fun as this is, we only have center drafted. So we table Grievous. Grievous probably is going to make it the team, but we got to figure out of the spot. But no other droids. What are the names you got? I saw someone that they're out there. I mean, obviously, you got to talk about like Han. Oh.

I don't have to. We don't have to. I don't, you know what I'm saying? I had Cadabana's my two. Oh. Again, I'm putting the shooting in shooting guard. You know who I had at my two? Who you have?

Maybe he's good for three. Saw Guerrera. Okay. No, no, no, no. He's staying though. He's kind of, I mean, like, here's the thing. He'll do whatever it takes to win. He's on the floor.

He's winning every 50-50 bowl. I'm thinking the same thing. Like, he doesn't worry about the points. He's talking, he's in people's ear, the whole game, getting in their head. Ron Artis, he's like, I mean, he's World War Peace now, but like late era. Back in the day. Because even like, back when he was with the patient, he could like, Monterworld Peace could fill it up.

I keep on the column Ron Archiexas. Better World Peace could fill it up way back when. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, like, he could do the thing. But when he came to the Lakers, it was like, all right, I'm going to shut down, shut down three. That's all I do. He shut you down. I'm a talk.

Kobe might pass him to the ball. I might hit a shot. You know what I'm saying? I still have the juice. but my primary focus is to bring the tenacity. I can see him as like an iguadala too. Yeah, he's doing his role. Bring the effort, bring the, bring the nastiness on defense.

Excelling as a role player. And making it, making it hard and making it just... We might run into character issues. Yeah, we might. He might get a little too hot, you know what I mean? And like punch the body in the mouth. It depends on who else is on the floor with him, I guess, you know? So who do you have on the floor to counteract his nastiness?

because he will get in trouble. I got my point guard, Wedge Antilles. Wedge Antilles? That's right. Leadership. Team work. He put the ship in leadership.

He's a shooter too. He's a shooter too. He also died. Is there any room? Everybody dies, Steve. All right. Damn, gee. Wow.

Wow. I got to think about that for a second. Yeah, but if you, Yeah, but if you set a pick too hard, he'll just explode. His thing, guys, and I want you guys think about this sincerely and earnestly. That's a man willing to die for the cause. Huh, well, is there a room in this team for... He's short, though, he's 5'9.

The love of my life, Harrison Dula. Anybody? You don't know. You know, saying like she was a general in the Army, you know what I'm saying? Leadership qualities. You've seen her, you've seen her skill set. she can ball it's a let's be factual actual about it she can ball we know she can under pressure under extreme circumstances now is she the tallest person out there no what is she like five nine

i think i think i five nine or something what about his hair tentacles pointed up uh look i just thing right if this is this is a team that's you know it's no yarial poof i'll tell you that But it's going to be a little limited in terms of, you know, what we can offer physically. Right. I'm not over Wedg Antilles. But I would, I would put her over Wedge. I would. Because she not dead.

You know, yeah. She's a better pilot than Wedge, too. What are we doing? You know who I was dead? Vader. He's on the team. All right. Yeah.

And she'll just be listening to Asoka more or less. Nah, nah, I mean, they home. You know what I'm saying? I didn't pick Jet Porkins, okay? It's Wedent Tillis, right? I'm just trying to disparage him. I'm just saying. Here's my thing.

I feel like if we're going to do like a leader and a pilot, it should be, it should be Harrison Dula over Wedgentilis. That's all I'm saying. Let's put a pin in that. Thoughts on Dingerian. Oh, I mean, I don't know. How tall is, I mean, forget the height.

I kind of feel like. I got Thron instead. You got Thrawn at the four? I got Thron at the three. Instead of, instead of Saw. Well, Saw can move around. Yeah, yeah. I think Thron should be.

He's six foot four. Okay. He's a tactician. Yeah. I feel like you want someone with that IQ on the floor. I don't say, I feel like that's point guard though for front. No, no, no. I said, no, well, here's thing.

We live in the modern NBA now where normally you want your best player to be like a, like, I mean, back in the day, it was big man, right? But your smartest player, the guy who sets everything up was the point guard. Now, in positionless basketball, anybody can bring the ball up. Yeah, you can design an offense around any. and your talent, right? So, again, like, this is kind of like the LeBron thing where, like, obviously, like, a lot of the game, you know, Austin Reeves, DeAngelo,

Russell bring the ball up. But when it's crunch time, when it's like last five minutes, last three minutes, LeBron's bringing the ball up, LeBron's organized the offense, right? And so I think it would be the same for Thron, where, all right, we need a bucket,

two minutes left. Statistician, telling everybody where to go. Just like, boom, boom, boom, boom. I can see the vision there. It's just a lot of IQ. It's a lot of IQ. Yeah, and the team needs that.

Yeah. Yeah, but he's more, he seems to strikes me as somebody who like, if anything, that's more your coach. I don't like, because again, he's not a man of action. He's a strategist. He's, he's like inbounding the ball off the defender's back and then getting an easy-to. Do you see any of that physicality from throwing? He doesn't have to show it in, in this.

Well, first and foremost, I don't know if you were watched the rebels, but he was in there finding him to droids. He was locked in. I get it. What you mean? He got some. But he doesn't use unless he needs it. Unless he needs to use it.

He's going to be like, he's literally going to be like 2018 LeBron, where he's like walking up the floor. He might be in the corner for a little bit there. But then once the game needs to get got, he's going to go get it. Again, I don't see it. Like, I see it. I get it. And I'll accept it.

But again, I feel like that's your coach. No, I got a better coach. Two do you got? Mon Mothma. Oh, shit. Oh, ooh. Um, hmm. Okay, okay, okay, no, no, I see the vision.

Unless you want to throw Akbar in there just to be like, it's a trap whenever they're trapping. He's the defensive coach. It's a half-core trap. He's the tips of the, like, the 2000seltics where he's just designing the defense. He's like, here's a thing, though.

Man, non-forces users have a good front office. They got a good coaching staff. They have to. They don't, like, you know, no power, no, like the clones, you know, are like literally built, like bread and built for this. Medical staff. You're just picking up guys off the street, basically, right? You got to have tip-top, you know, leadership.

Yeah, but also susceptible to subterfuge a la Andor, Mothma. I was going to bring up at Cassian. That's a guy who, I mean, in Andor, in Andor, he's deplicitous in Rogue One. He's quite literally ready to die for what he believes in. Yeah. You put him. I like it. You put him on the team.

You make him to two guard. I like it. You have him at the two. You have sought the three. Uh-huh. You have two folks who are like, I'm willing to put everything. on the line. Two Josh Hart's.

You know what else said that? Wedge Antilles. No. Wedge Antilles. All I'm saying is, he's the Austin Reeves of this team. Hera still alive.

Harris still alive. I'll give you Harry. I love Hera. I'll give it to you. We need more women on this team. I think we have a team. Okay. So our non-force users team,

fourth and final. At point guard, Harris Sundula. At shooting guard, Cassian Andor. At small forward, Saw Guerrera. At power forward, Grand Admiral Thron.

and at center, Chewbacca. Coach Mon Motho. Yeah, I feel like, you know, again, we talked about Han Solo and... Not a team player. Oh, not making the team. I feel like Cadban is way less of a team player. I think Han Solo is coming off. He's six-man to me.

That was how I envisioned Han Solo just popping in, like giving energy off the bench, important role player on the team. You already know one thing about him. He's going to shoot first. It's true. He's going to shoot first. He's going to shoot first. shoot first.

I feel like grievous, I feel like if grievous, you know, wasn't, you know, in health and safety protocols all the time. He's on the bench too, yeah. He's definitely like he could be starting, but, you know, injuries, you know what I'm saying? I hear, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Wait, so the comp for grievous? I mean, he's kind of like.

Lonzo? Lonzo, nah. It's more like Michael Porter Jr. Okay. Where, like, you look at him, you go, like, he's got the tools, but he's got that bad back, you know? Yeah. And so he falls in a draft and then you find him on a great team.

he's like your third best player or whatever and like, Dan, how did they get him? It's like, his medicals didn't really check out but when he's healthy, you know? I think for our team, we're looking for a little bit more hunger or desperation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why I made the Saw pick.

Yeah. I was like, yeah. We need folks who are like, we got to get out of the month. We are definitely running their size. And you got Monmontma coaching, so I'm not that worried about Saw, like getting in line with everything. Like, but I think Grievous could be solid.

Who else? There's a lot of non-for-man. She's out there. We'll point out of Jar Jar 6.5. You know. You want Jar Jar out there? Jar Jar is quite literally Wizards Javelle McGee.

It's like quite literally. Shacked in a fool. Every week is Jar Jar Bix. I promise you. Me's Jar Jar Jar Jar Jar. Jar is like... Measa thought we had a time out left. Yeah.

He'd be J.R. Smith on on, on the on the on the cabs of lebron exit that beam exactly he's 7 5 jr smith man Nisa thought there was two seconds left on the clock Mesa thought we was up one

you're supposed to tell charge on these things incredible you're absolutely getting frustrated with him on the court there's no way I'm sorry he can be the 15th man you know if you like breaking like if you just need a body on the floor you need a big body on the floor there's like

Let me tell you, I'm not putting Jarja on the team. I put Babu Frick on this team before I put Jarga on this. I was like... Put Babu Frick on this team. Not even, not even. He's like Bojan Marianovic, you know? Great actor. Great actor.

Great actor. Great actor. Hey man, we're up. We're up to, with 0.4 left on the shot clock. They're obviously going to throw a lob to get the, to try to score. Get out there. Put your hands up. That's it.

That's it. I need you do is get up there, put your hands up. You are walking fouls. That's it. That's it. You are six fouls on the floor. If we have to call upon you in any other situation, you are a warm body with height. It's over.

Call us, we'll call you. If Jar Jar Jar Binks is the answer, you don't want to know the question. It's essentially what it comes down to. Yeah. All right, that's fair enough. Okay, we have our four teams. Looking at this four stack lineup, what's our favorite team?

Ooh. You know, I think the Sith got something. going. That's what I'm saying. And it's crazy. But I feel like the size and the- It can't be the clones. It can't be the clones.

No, no. As much as. They got heart, but man. As much as, here's the thing, but we've seen the clones pull it, pull it out. We've seen the clones. They just don't have, they just don't have the size. They just don't.

They're beating like, you know. Again, record's going to. If they're in the East, sure. Rick, record is basically Draymond Green, but without the clout to get away with that stuff. Yeah. So he's definitely going to. He's getting teed up.

too. Yeah. Yeah. The Jedi, the Sith, and non-force users, that's the whole West right there. Clones just came from the East being like, okay, we're on a wing and a prayer right now. Just like, hey, man, we're going to... They're not Boston, but, you know... Look, the clones could pull off

like a 20-23 Miami Heat-type run. You know what I'm saying? Go to the finals. Just tired as Jimmy Butler. Just yeah. Just Cody and them, just like, dragon, you know, I mean, I can't call crosshair, Tyler Hero. That's rude. But respect crosshair, please. But, you know, I feel like they could make that kind of run again.

They would need to, you know, could they beat the, I don't know, man. I like the Sith. I really do like the SIF team. They've got size. They've got speed. Ultimately, it's- You're just worried about that chemistry. That chemistry.

The teamwork. If they could coalesce and come together. Yeah, I don't know. You're like, if somebody, who you think is going to excel, going to just show up and Tobias Harris out, you know? Oh, my gosh. Who's the most likely on the SIF team to pull a Tobias Harris?

Now pulling a Tobias Harris for the folks at home. So Tobias Harris signed a five-year, $180 million contract with the Philadelphia 70s Sixers. And this year, right, the year of Our Lord 2024, he got paid $39 million. Tobias Harris scored as many points in an elimination game against the Knicks as all four of us here did combined. Right. If you're listening to this right now, if my voice is going through your ears.

He played 29 minutes. He played 29 minutes and you, listener, you too. Scored as many points as Tobias Harris did for the Philadelphia 76ers. and he got paid $39.2 million to stall out in an elimination game. All right,

so who's most likely to do that on the Sith? Savage? I would say Duku. He'd say Duku? I'd say Duku. No. Duku would have a...

There's a stinker in Duk. Maybe Dark Mall's kind of moody after the old spider legs thing. Like, like, he's got that high ceiling, but like, he's kind of, he's got a bit of headcase in that era.

I could see. Ben Simmons. Obviously, we, we don't have enough time for that. I can see Crosshair delivering a little, Tobias Harris. A little like, didn't have it tonight. To be clear, Crosshair has... Yeah, yeah, Crosshair does have both hands, so he will be able to shoot. So this is prime Crosshair.

But, yeah, I think he's got a little bit of that for the non-force users. I hate to say this. I hate to say this. Hara might stall out. Oh, really? You know who would have? Where Jan Tilly? I think I let's,

Hera is the love of my life. He will crash and burn, is what he will be. For the, for the great of God. I would leave it all for Hara right now, but there's a chance. There's a small chance. Yeah, but then Jomey's in the front office being like, look at, she's worth every penny.

All I'm saying is, like, look at James Harrow, look what he'd be doing. You know what I'm saying? Like, you can't give him on talent like that. I mean, for the Jedi? on talent like Harrow Sundula

Who do you think is going to stall out? Who do you think is going to stop it? I mean, we haven't really scouted out Yari El Poof all that much. We don't really know the game. We don't know the scouting report. We need the size. He's a good culture fit.

He's a great culture fit. We're going to work with the trainers. We're going to work with the coaches. We're going to figure out how to make. But we don't really know the scouting report. Isn't about Yario Poof? Guys like. like that, the

seven, like the tall guys always get chances. You can't teach size. You can't teach four arms and two brains. You know what I mean? So your defensive processing has to be off the charts. And at the end of the day, as long as you read- This could be the steel of the draft.

That's what I think. Also, two-phrase, he might not be able to know how to use either of them. Nah. I mean, to be a Jedi master, you know what I'm saying? You got to have some sense. Sure. So I think, I think we're good, but, yeah, There could be like some Rudy Gobert, like, you know, I get two points on, you know, a zero or zero four shooting, you know, on a game you lost by two. Missedgo putbacks.

Had 15 rebounds three blocks, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We just don't know. You know? All right. Final question before we go. League MVP. Ooh.

Oh. League MVP. I think it might be Asoka. I don't think, I think she, like, has a borderline unimpeachable record. No fouls. I'm going to stick with the Jedi, but I think it's going to be Obi-Wan. I don't know. I think the Obi-Wan can get dirty sometimes.

I think Obi-Wan can have a bad game. I think he can definitely get too emotional. I think, again, what we've seen out of, we've seen out of Obi-Wan-Konovi is that no matter what he's going to be there, he's going to show up, he's going to bring it. That's fair. Even in his darkest-value, though. Like, the people that bring the value to the team. But even in his darkest moments, right?

even when it's all bad, he still figures out a way. I think that's what makes him special. That's what's going to propel him to being the best player in the league. So last week, NBA MVP, Nikola Yokic, you're saying that Obi-Wan Kenobi is the Nikola Yokic of this league. First of all. Who could be a monster told Obi-Wan's jockstrap? It's not sure.

Yeah, but Nikloh can go up against the best athletes in the world. the world and just be like I feel, okay. I know Ben Kenobi can win three out of four MVP's can Nicola Yoakich and the Clone Wars. I think it's possible you could have a clone who's

the league MVP and they can still bottom out because they don't have enough size. But that's not how, that would never happen though. Unless you're talking like Russell Westbrook like 2017. Maybe I am. Okay. Okay. Okay. Who you got?

Rika. Definitely not. Definitely not. Like Rex or Hunter, I don't know. Hunter, I feel like Hunter, I mean, but that's the thing they, he won't like carry enough. The thing with the Westbrook thing was he was Andre Robinson and all those guys. Like, go on my back, fellas, we're going to do it. The clones play with too much synergy for somebody like be too dominant on the ball

and for somebody to like, all right, fellas, I'm going to go score 45 tonight because we need it from me. They're going to, like, I think to their detriment. Yeah, I mean, you're probably right. I think if you have a team where they're all about the same size, you're going to expect more of the scoring to come from the guards because the bigger guys, quote, unquote, on the clone team are getting bodyed nonstop. So if anyone's being the scoring leader on the clones,

it's coming from the guard position. So it's either crosshair or Hunter. And I see Hunter as being, you know, the clear head. So long as you give him an open shot, then he'll get it. So I think Hunter's got a chance. Okay, maybe. All right. He's getting set up, you know, like the team synergy.

That's the thing you got to, like the clones, you're going to have to, no matter what, forget the size, but it's be tough to be tough to be tough to play connected basketball at all times. You just have to be, you know, if you're on your toes, your talent and size will beat them. But if you come and thinking, oh, they're just like, oh, you're going to find yourself in the dogfight very quickly. Oh, yeah. There's also a chance that Savajo Press is just prime shack. That's very true. We're overthinking it.

It could just be the guy that we always think. It doesn't matter. It just like, it just like a Joel Embed, Nicola Yovic Shaq. Like, fully healthy Joel M. Yeah, like, like, Joynambi, like, shh. Like, what if, like, when we look back and like, man, what could Joel M.B's career? It could have been if he was healthy, played 82 games. And we're like, oh, this is just Savajo Press.

Yes. Okay. There's a chance. I actually. Final, final, final question before we go. Who has? the best post-career

color commentator position on inside the NBA on TNT. Oh. Damn. Let's see, not Chewbac. That would be fun.

Actually, so Chewy, when you saw this play getting run, what did you think about it? Interesting. Well, I kind of felt like they had that who does the race to the back of the thing.

I feel like Tharman would be great. Like, even forget T and T. Tron like doing play by play. He doesn't have the energy but that's what I'm saying. It would be bad. You do play by play.

He would shit talk every play run because he's just like I would have done this better. I would have done this better. Yeah, he's going through X's and O's. I see it. It's a big moment. Mike Breen. He's open for three.

Bang! Bang! And then, and then Thrawn's like, well, he had a great shot. He guys. He executed better if there was

Is it like any just schemes like a whole play? The screen came. He went under. You can't do that against a player like that. He shot the ball. It went in. Executed perfectly. Magical.

You'd be like, all right, bro. Where's the energy? Where's the energy, bro? I'm looking at Rex. I'm looking at Obi-1. These guys have got like good charisma. Who could bounce off of like Charles Barkley, who's a good person to like, you know, talk to shack?

I mean, Saul, Saul Guerr. We're over thinking it. We'll be great on the mic. We're over thinking of it. Mace Windu. Oh, shit. Come on. Like,

yeah, I mean. That is true. I don't know. I mean, that, yeah. Man's good on the mic. I don't know. He's good on the mic. He's got a few sound bites.

It would be something. I would watch that every night. I never trusted you. The Thron Mace Windu booth is intriguing. That's intriguing. There's, I feel like, Throwing the Macy is actually great

because Mace will just shit talk through on the entire time. The entire time. Like that's the color commentator and that's the play-by-play. I feel like Dukau, you could have like a Jeff Van Gundy present. We just never happy. Ah, yeah. And he's just like, man, back in my day, man, we never did this, man. All right, all right.

You call it that a foul? You call it that a foul? We used to be head people in these streets. We used to cut people's heads off. This cupcake league, this cupcake era. Now he sliced his leg up and that's a file. What happened to the game? I love.

I push it up against the guy with spider legs. Yeah, man, what's going on? He'd be hot. He'd be so hot. So you have like the ESPN feed where it's like Mike Breen, Mace Windo, and Thron, whatever. TNT is the good shit, though.

I love how, like, we got to have Mike Breen in there. No, Mike Breen stay. He's not Canon Star Wars. He's in galactic. We're going to band it a little bit. Brother, Mike, see his thing. He's probably seen Star Wars, so good enough. Mike Green is there.

But you have, I mean, obviously, Kevin Hornin's on T&T. Right? So, you know, like it's Kevin Harland. It's Ben Kenobi and it's Vader doing that. And that's like awkward. Right. It's like, hey man, remember when you tried to kill me a couple times? Like, yeah, no. Yeah, and I remember when I was there. I was there. You know, I do kind of feel like there's like players only is the clones. You know? Yeah, but that's not an exciting. That doesn't make for good TV. That would be fantastic television. Rex is such a good personality. Rex, Rex, Recker, Hunter, and Cody. You can't have cross-ernerner. That's a drag. No, yeah, that's a drag. That's not fun at all. But those guys is chopping it up, like, I'd watch that rather than I watch players own. I mean, last night, Charles Barkley sure felt like Wrecker saying a whole bunch of dumb stuff on the mic.

You still mad about these Knicks, huh, my boy? I'm not mad about nothing. He's still mad about it. He's still mad about the Knicks. All right, well, what I'm very happy about is the fact that we did it, guys. We did it. It was a great show. this was a very fun time.

I had so much fun. Thank you for having me. This is a wonderful, wonderful time. Be sure to check us all out on socials to vote for your favorite team that we just compiled together of this announcement. It's going to be close. I think it's going to make an argument. Clones are getting blown out, though. Yeah, the clones are definitely coming in.

They got heart though. They love it. They fight. All right, but that is a wrap for us. Don't forget this Wednesday, the Midnight Boys, Poo-Pew! Are back to give you their reactions to the finale of X-Men 97. And on Thursday, the House of R is going to be giving you. you there deep dive on the season finale

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