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“Didn't go well, but got better, right? Baptism by fire. Got better. And so then the second year starts playing pretty well to the point where I get scouts like, this guy, this guy, Ian Nachor. I'm like, what's his name? Ahenachor? And I promise you none of the scouts pronounce it right. still um and but but we're all like and i'm now in washington this guy can move he's huge right he worked so hard and had to overcome all of the all of this and the embarrassment of not knowing how to play and …”

“They did not know how to close the game, Arcanocco. They didn't. Maybe they got tired. If you look at their start, I mean, Smith played 44 minutes. Eason played 46 minutes. Shingun, 47 minutes. Thompson, 48 minutes. Shepard, 46 minutes. And they really got no contribution from their bench. They only got three points from their bench, where the Lakers got 14, 19, 24 from their bench. And only two guys, well, you know, they had LeBron. I think the thing was, LeBron was on fumes. That's why he was …”

“So Tiger Woods arrested, charged with DUI and property damage. Wow, that's crazy. It's also a little misleading when you hear DUI. right because you think well he must have been boozing what was he doing boozing early in the day like this um yeah and i don't know i don't know the clarity but a lot of times you say dwi driving while intoxicated you know he was under the influence of something it just wasn't alcohol like dwi dwi there is a difference right i mean because timberlake and britney …”

“And Tom Pevacero of NFL Network will join us coming up here in a little bit because that's what I thought. That's what it felt like, that he's going to be there. My source, who's a scout, said I don't have a first-round pick, but that doesn't mean he's not going to be a first-round pick. Yes, Dylan. All the mock drafts had him, like, very end of the first round or second round. So unless they got kind of an inkling that maybe someone was going to try and take him, like, it took him early. Well, …”

“That sort of becomes the problem, right? I think it's going to happen in this wide receiver class in general, to be honest with you. I think there's a bunch of good receivers. I really do. Because you don't have Julio. I think Tate is the, I don't want to say the only true first rounder, but he's the guy that it's like, for me, stamp him, you know? And six isn't too high. Anything below 10 is a steal, right? Mekhi Lemon, there's some things that like, yeah, I'd like to get them later in the …”

“It's kind of jarring the first time you see it, that it looks like it hits that piece of air and comes back. His two-seamer, also just filthy, and he can run it up to 97. He got a big out last night doing it. it's going to be interesting to see the next steps with nolan mcclain can he continue at this pace and if he can he deserves to be talked about with the guys i just mentioned on that usa rotation because i mean these are silly numbers these are silly special numbers and when i was thinking …”

“and we're doing really good actually. I feel like the last three years and Easter is a bit of a triggering day for me because that was the night that he sat me down three years ago and told me about the affair. We had a great Easter together. If you read the book, you know the story. So now that it's been exactly three years, I'm happy to report that we're doing the best we've been since before I found that out. It took a lot of rebuilding. A lot of trust was broken. I don't know that we'll …”

“Halford and Frank. But I'm not moving none of them. No, Rod Wilson is 77. I'm talking about for my Steelers lineup. We're going to do the history one next. We're going to do NFL history next. I'm putting give me TJ Watt at one of the ends. Who are you taking out? Not me. Outside linebacker. Who's your outside linebackers? Kevin Green, Greg Lloyd. Somebody got to go. Which one are you moving? You're not moving either one? I told you my lineup, bro. Now, if I had to choose one, Kevin Green got …”

“it would be funny if they put it in the cba and you got like a five percent salary cap bump we did an old ESPN or Grantland column I did. We actually, somebody made a fake McKeskey trophy for this. And it one of the funniest things we ever ran It McKeskey face on this bronze whatever And as always I encourage people to go onto YouTube and watch McKeskey highlights Okay. It's the fact that you have to say as always about that. As always. As I frequently tell people. Yeah, listen. The Dennis …”

“I haven't even heard his name mentioned. I mean, I don't have great scoop on the whole team or anything, but I've heard a little bit about each person. I've not heard a peep about Trent Noah. I haven't either. Have you? No, nothing. Nothing. I have no idea if he's thinking about coming back or not. I mean, I think these guys, if they're – the good thing about the portal entry having been two weeks after the end of the ring – remember, last year it wasn't like that. The portal was already open. …”

“I'm just kind of ranting on Antonio Williams. Every time I watched a receiver, Joel, I was like, this guy's underrated. You know? Yeah. Antonio Williams, I get it like Club Nick the pass game. It didn't go as planned. This guy does the dirty work over the middle. This year I saw him settling into zones and getting open more with his instincts and his feel, attacking the ball and transitioning up the field better. I like Antonio Williams. You got Chris Bell from Louisville. Everyone's giving the …”

“assists in that game. But the idea of LeBron's just going to play at an MVP level every single night, that's not much of a playoff plan. Well, and it's worth pointing out just on the other side of this game tonight. So Phoenix currently is in seventh. They're pretty much locked into being seven. However, if they beat Houston Tuesday night, which obviously you'll know by the time the pod comes out whether they win, and it is a home game, certainly have a real chance to win that game. Their final …”

“And people think he postponed it to see if Self was coming back. But Self's now coming back. And we still don't have an announcement. So, I think Kentucky is putting everything they got into it. Now, the second thing, which I don't want to say because I don't want to be wrong, but I've heard that the whole university is trying to figure out how to make Stokes work. And so we'll see. But they certainly haven't given up on him. No, they haven't. Drew, would you say that's true? Oh, yeah, …”

“Brian, Joe, let me know. And Ocho, let me know what you think about this. Brian Windhorse said he would take Ant-Man over KD for the playoffs, and it's not close. We're not talking historically. we're talking for the 2026 playoffs I think Ant-Man I don't even think it's a debate Durant has won one playoff series since he left Golden State Ant-Man has won four series in the last two years Joe boy that's a that's a good argument I can't own you and it's closer than you think and like he said …”

“Dude, you just – you can't coach. You can't adjust. You can't do nothing to look over the fact that Wimby really is a true unicorn. Like, we have seen nothing like that before. Yeah but I would also you know one thing you never put past I not going to crack another joke Oh my dude give it up dude When the joke is on the court you know that guy obviously something special right but you know i always ask myself it funny like does he even love playing basketball like he goes out there like does …”

“so if you just hear it on the woo-woo side of things, people go like, visualize your best self, think about who you want to be. And then I've seen a lot of people, and I've probably been one of them at some point who goes, oh, come on, you just visualize your best self and if you could, then you would. And then- You're teaching your brain how to act in situations in life. That's why identity shifting is so powerful. So I read a paper that was written about athletes the other day. And this was …”

“yeah trump trump thought he could make this somebody else's problem doesn't work that way Apparently not, apparently not. Didn't work this time. Yeah, he doesn't even know what he wants, you know? Because he's old and senile. yeah well yeah he wants a nice ballroom attached go to bed and then and you'll have to bleep this 32 minutes 30 seconds in what if i didn't sorry not you roz i love you and i yeah no not you you're handsome but i agree with the idea of putting a nice ballroom next to the …”

“122-113 Evan Mobley went crazy yesterday, 34 points, 17 rebounds Don had 34 points And James Harden had 13 points, 14 assists Man, that was hooping yesterday Go ahead, load it up, man. That movie you was looking for, I'm going to go. No, I had James, so I had James for a dub. He only had 13. That's what we need to see, bro. You know what this is. He do that every game, bro. Off the heads, he's crazy. Teardropped at home for his first year. Oh, little bro got back in the league. Will's been …”

“There was an in-depth Jalen Hurts manifesto on ESPN just a couple days ago. Tim McManus, Jeremy Fowler, great job on this. Tons of sources, and we are left with what is not a new question. It is, is Jalen Hurts good? I've struggled with it, all right? Because on one side of it, you have somebody that finished second in the MVP voting, went to a Super Bowl that was essentially like a coin toss game. Then in 23 they 10 And I think those of us are kind of like yeah they 10 but is there something …”

“And Roger Ayers, one of the better officials in the whole damn country. But, you know, sometimes officials lose it, sometimes coaches lose it. You know, we're supposed to be human. I think that's the cool part about it. We are human. And that means, you know, we let our emotions get the best of us. It's an emotional game. But I think all in all, you'd say that most people have great respect for Dan. Explain to me that last 10 seconds with Duke. Like, let's say you're in the huddle and you know …”