August 2, 2024 • 39 mins
Former NFL quarterback Shaun King is in for Rob, and he and Chris explain why Joel Embiid is such a clunky fit on this current Team USA Basketball roster and tell us how they would fix the USA Basketball 3x3 program. Plus, FOX Sports Radio NBA insider Mark Medina swings by to discuss Embiid’s fit on Team USA, Steve Kerr’s evolving lineup rotations and much more! Finally, the Odd Couple Crew debates the stigmas tied to rap music in this week’s edition of Shop Talk.
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Shop Talk, which is always fun, follows that up and
closes up this hour. But let's go to basketball. Sean
and Team USA, which is two and zero, rolled over
(01:20):
Serbia by twenty six beat South Sudan I think it
was by seventeen, And how much you win by matters
in terms of seeding. So Steve Kirk came out and
said they want to beat Puerto Rico, who they play tomorrow,
by as many points as possible because they want to
get the number one seed. That means you get a
(01:40):
lighter you know, schedule at least to start out with.
So that is the deal with Team USA. And also
Joel Mbeid will be starting. It was announced that he
didn't play. He started every exhibition and an Olympic game
that he's played, but he didn't play at all in
the last game against South Dan Kerse said it was
(02:01):
a matchup issue. They were smaller, quicker, faster, three point
shooting team.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And that was true.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
And so he didn't play and beat at all. But
and B will be back in the starting lineup. And
you just said it, boo, go ahead, Nicks bound.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
He's a square peg trying to be put in a
round hole. As I said yesterday when I think as
Antonio Daniels was on the show, Zion Williamson should have
been on the team in place of Joel Embiid and B.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You just a lot of people in stead, you know,
whether Zion or a lot of other people too.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Just with the game more exciting, you know, try and
get people to tune in more.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
They're gonna win regardless. I just want women's.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Team told you they're not about, you know, drawing fans.
They're about winning. That's why they didn't have Kaylyn Clark.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I'm just saying, if they want those elevated checks, let
the men counter parts have they start being about drawing fans.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
But I just and B doesn't fit in any way.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
It's almost like the Olympic team felt obligated to bring
Joel because he was MVP.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Or because he chose them.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Remember, he could have played for France, could have played
for Cameroon. He chose to play for Team USA.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
And a lot of people choose America for citizenship.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Right, But I mean he had the choice of which
team to play for.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I look, I think they thought he would be their size.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Last year in the Feeble World Cup, we ran into
trouble against some of these teams that were bigger than us,
and we're bullying us. I mean, we got our rebounded
dramatically and we needed some bulk. But as I've said,
and I hate I hate to even keep saying it
because I've been saying this almost Mbad's entire career, at
(03:48):
least as long as he's really since he became a star,
which was pretty much right away. I've been saying, dude,
you play, you might as well be six ' four.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yes, and again, he.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Is a phenomenal mid range jump shooter, so I don't
want to I'm not saying I want you to go
down and post up on the block like Shack and
be there ninety five percent of the game or one
hundred percent of the game.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I'm just saying I want you to post up one
percent of the game and remind me of Shack.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I mean, yeah, I mean I do.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I want you to still shoot the mid range jumper
because you're so good at it, but when the situation
calls for it, you need to go down low. And
whether it's posting up, whether it's backing somebody down, whether
it's cutting flashing across the lane to the to the
low post, whatever it may be. And the fact that
(04:43):
he won't do it, Sean is a problem on this team.
And that's why you're talking about, you know, him being
a square peg, because the one thing he could give
us that most of our other players couldn't is Dominans
down low. We don't need him on the perimeter every
single time he's on the floor.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
He's got four excellent.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Perimeter jump shooters or four good shooters with him.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Let them have the perimeter.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So now you, with your seven foot three hundred pounds behind,
want to be out there with them, you getting in
their way.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Would it be fair if I said he's probably the
most frustrating player in the entire NBA. You can't say
he's not productive because he produces. He can't say he's
not skilled because he's skilled. But he's frustrating to watch
because even when he has a great game, you know
it could be greater. Like when he goes to those
stretches where he's kind of lily gagging up the court
(05:42):
that'll never make it pass a.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Three point game looks incredibly lazy. I'm not gonna call
him him lazy, but man, I will agree. I tend
to agree with you on that. Watching him play, I say,
and most people have said it to you have agreed
with it. He just got a lazy game. Yeah, Like
he looks like he is just not giving it his all.
(06:07):
And he might be.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I'm not saying he's not, but he looks that way, and.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It does frustrate you because it looks like he's just
not playing hard, not going one hundred percent. And especially
I think it's compounded by the fact that he really
won't go down low and bang. And he's the biggest
thing in the world essentially as far as not just
heype but body size, and he won't go down there
(06:33):
and use it.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
And what's and why I put frustrating as a label
for him because the thirty percent of the time that
he is on the low block, he's shooting a fadeaway jumper.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yeah, that thirty percent.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
And this was to me a huge misstep by the
US Olympic team men's basketball committee. I could understand a
couple of years ago when the Gasol brothers were with
Spain and they had Mark and Powell, and you knew
you had that probably as your gold medal game.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Now you would need an EMBI.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
But I mean outside of Serbia, who by the way,
em beat it for Germany at all costs in the
regular season.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You do need size. He got planned to its size.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, but you need athleticism with size, and Olympics to me,
I mean everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Everybody's not that athletic.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Jokic isn't incredibly athletic by what we term athletic athleticism.
He just plays hard, you know, and it doesn't look
like he's lovelygagging.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Let me put it that way.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I just Embiid.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I've said that MBID should look at Jokic, because yes,
Jokish plays a lot on the perimeter. He's a past
he's their point basically their point guard in Denver. But
he also wins. Again I use the term when the
situation calls for it. He'll back you down and score.
And there's no reason in MBI couldn't do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And yeah he could. I mean, he could be shocked.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't want to say better than Shaq, but he
would have that mid range game that Shock didn't have
or at least didn't, you know, use, and that could
be even different.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So it's just this.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Might be an oversimplification, Chris, but for a guy in
Beid's size, he's probably dunked on the least amount of
people that I can recall. Like normally, a big guy
like that is putting guys in the rim at least
once a night, even if he's not a chem Elizawan
with his back to the basket, like at least he's
going to the hoop strong and finishing. I can't recall
(08:37):
anybody and being dunket on right right off the top
of my head.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Nah, I mean, I don't know the numbers, but you
might be right. I mean here, yeah, you don't. His
highlight is a fifteen foot right. I mean, I don't
think of him dunk when I think of him, bid
you know, in a positive way. I think of him
hitting a mid range jump shot. You know, I don't
think of him dunking on somebody.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
And this team is talented, but don't you think people
will be even more intrigued to watch them play if
Zion was on the team and play something.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I mean, Zion, look, you you ain't nobody people off Zion.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I don't know why I'm not.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
He's always fine, Okay, he's always hurt.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I'm not totally off him.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And I don't think anybody's completely off him. But this
whole like the fact he's not the draw he used
to be. He is now at a stage where he's
gonna have to show us, He's gonna have to earn
it back because people are just like, dude, he's.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Hurt a great stage to earn it back.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Doesn't rebound. I don't know that he I don't know
what he do understand. I mean, we win it with
or without him, But I just don't think he's you know,
I don't think he's like the draw that he used
to be. Sure he might get some nice dunks, but but.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You know, he's a guy.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
He's another guy that has the ball in his hands
a lot, and I think that's gonna change with the
makeup of their team now, or.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
At least to some degree.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Doesn't shoot the three, but doesn't always like post up.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
A lot either.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
He could be out there getting he could be out
there getting your way too. But this is another thing
I want to throw at you and tell me what
you think. I also feel like Embiid looks like a
guy that doesn't know what to do when the ball
is not in his hands, or I should say when
(10:33):
when he is not the focal point of the offense.
I brought that up to Antonio Daniel. I was going
to bring that up, but I think it's a little different,
Like Devin Booker isn't necessarily the focal point in Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I mean you got Kevin Durant too.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I think it's to an elevated level with embiid that
unless he's the focal point, he really doesn't know what
to do.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And think about it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
He started playing basketball late, played a year at Kansas,
and every time he's been essentially on the team, certainly
at the pro level, he's been the focal point.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, I made a great point. I thought Antonio made
a great point.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Chris.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
He said being in the Olympics is an opportunity, and
he would say I think it was Gilbert a Reenas
he said he was having a conversation with about how
much harder it is to be a role player than
to be the number one option. And I think that's
what you're seeing with him, Bib. He's used to They
don't come down to court three times in a row
and not call a play for a design for him.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
B three times in a row.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I don't care how hot Max he is pretty much,
And so what you're what you're seeing is because the
players aren't called for him, he's kind of lost, like
what do I do. He's not a guy that impacts
the game, regardless if he's scoring or if he's taking shots.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Nah, because he I mean, he does get you ten
or eleven rebounds just by virtue of his size.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
But yeah, he's not like a dominant rebounder.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
He is a good defender, but he's not like a
terrifying defender. And obviously you know he's a fine passer,
but he's not.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Like great at that.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, I mean, and again, a guy that's that tall,
like even when Ben Yama.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And obviously he's taller than Embiid.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yes, he plays on the perimeter, but he also plays
to his size. He's blocking a lot of shots, you
know what I mean, He's an.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Effort level and try to contest shots as much better
than Embid and not really even under their contestant shots.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
To be honest, Look, Anthony Davis should be starting, and
their speculators felt like they promised him be a starting
role if he chose to play for America. There you know,
the reports have said that's not true.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I don't know. My my guess is it's not true.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
But I'm also saying why then outside of the game
he didn't play at all? Has he been a mainstay
in the starting lineup Lebron Steph and Embiid have been
the three.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It should be Anthony Davis period.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I'm completely with Kyrie on this.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
They need to go back to the days where you
had to compete to make the team. I don't like
all of his favoritism and hand picking this guy in
the third no offense of Derrick White. Come on, man,
you know what this slapping the face that is to
a whole bunch of highlight and I look at it.
I get the time and still though we're talking about
a gold medal, this only comes around once.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Forty They had Christian Layner on the Dream Team.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah, but I mean's basketball program in the world.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I mean coming off with.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
That, he wasn't better than Shaq.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
He wasn't, but wasn't shocking college.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And he and not only was he, Yeah, they between
him and Shock. Not only was he not better than Shack,
he wasn't better than a ton of NBA players that
they could have put on that team.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yeah, but at the time they had to have a
college guy and we had given shot that business. You
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You haven't said that Lake and Gay Shacks on work
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Speaker 1 (14:05):
I bet I bet Shaq dunked on that, dude, Come
on you times.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
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quickly Team USA two and zero in the men's basketball.
(16:31):
That's five on five, three on three. Different story. Yes,
Rob G break it down.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
American flags are a half master across the country today, guys,
because the team USA three on three basketball team limped
to a now zero and four start to these games.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Sorry, how many chances do they have an actual chance to?
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Like? Well, the thing is because the way the three
on three situation works, they are gonna have seven games,
so they might still find a way to backdoor their
way into the knockout round. It's looking highly unlikely at
this point, but shout out to the ladies who got
their first win today. So they are now one in
three combined and the three on three competition American basketball
(17:13):
is one and seven.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
But who is our team? Who's our men's team?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
That I don't recognize the other thing?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And to me, honestly, I feel for Jim Or because
obviously he didn't have the NBA career some people thought
he might and this is kind of his chance.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
At redemption and this is anything but redemption. So I
feel for him.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I know he's doing doing well overseas or wherever he's
at in the minors.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Let's honest.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
They need to make an emergency called the ice qube.
I mean, how do we get how do how do
we get the Big Three personnel in the process of
being able to qualify for the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I brought that up jokingly yesterday on first thing. And
I know their ex NBA players, but I don't know
that they would win. Well, let's say the winner of
the Big Three. We can't do worse. No, you know
what we need to do, get some real NBA. Like
who else is on the team?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Rob?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Do you know Jimmer?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I got the whole roster? Okay, James, I didn't recognize.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Okay, five people it's Jimmer for debt Uh. Dylan Travis,
Kenyon Berry and Kareem Maddox are the four guys we
have on the sea side.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Kenyon Barry I heard of him.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Was it Collin Travis Florida. I believe he's the grandson
of Rick Berry. Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
How I knew him.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Dylan Travis sounds like the bottom.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Line, get NBA.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
First of all, you could actually, I think I don't
think they would do it, but you could actually just
take players off Team USA. Because look, we see athletes
all the time in track and field. You might be
in the hundred, you might be in the two hundred
as well. Then the long jump didn't need four by one.
Like swimming, you're in various events. So I don't see
(19:04):
why you couldn't, Like if you took Tyrese Halliburton, Jason
Tatum and Joe LMB three guys who haven't you know
exactly shined in these Olympics. But let them play, or
go get some other NBA players who aren't on Team USA,
and let's wax these teams.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
We shouldn't be losing. I don't want to lose in
any basketball.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Why cleft groups bek is online one he said he
just paid Jason Tatum with three hundred, three hundred million dollars.
He said he's not gonna get him risk injury player
three on three, I can see taking a G league
or you.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Don't like you don't want to take NBA players.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
There's too much risk that gold medal.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Just regular NBA players, like not the ones on Team USA.
But just what if they do? Jalen Brown, I'm just
throwing out names.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
If you're a team, I don't think you're You're not
You're not signing off on that.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Why you say I get the five on five is
more important.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But I mean, there's a G League caliber Jimmer for
Dad eats up.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I don't know, right, And let me see if I
can find some of jimmers.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Like Jimmer for.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Day twenty nineteen, Jimmy that gets busy in minor league basket.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Well, Chris, while you look that up. We gotta be
upfront about this. The three on three rules are different
than the five on five. For the three on three,
you have to play in events leading up to the
World Championship or the Olympics, so you accrue points by
playing in more and more sanctioned.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Three on three events.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
Now you can't just show up and say, hey, my
team is Chrissa, Sean King and Steve de Seger doesn't
worked like why though?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Is why? That?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Which is why I'm saying Ice Cubes gotta figure out
how to get the Big Three into the qualifying pro.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Brothers are old man, Actually they are all old. But
I don't I'm gonna go out on the limb and
I could be completely wrong, but I'm gonna say that
our team USA could beat I don't know, it'd be interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I think they could beat the teams in the Big
Three I'm a I'm a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
No, those people have watched any of Yeah, I've watched
the Big Three.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
They are terrible. No, I'm Jim the team.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, but the most of the x NBA players in
the in the Big Three are either guys that weren't
that were only in the league for a cup of coffee,
which is essentially what this team is, and or older
NBA guys, you know, in their forties and so I
think that I don't know, it'd be interesting. I'd love
(21:44):
to see him play, But jimper for that as you
dissing he in the G League. One year in the
G League. Give me his points and assists per game?
Your guests in the cher League or maybe played five years,
but I guess twenties, Yeah, twenty one.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Points, five assist the game. You mean I want to
say that?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You don't think Jeff Tigue will be getting buckets in
the three? Come on, man, I'm looking at someone. I'm
looking on some of the rosters.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Come on, man, Mario Williams, Michael Beasley, like, these guys
are made for three on three, all one on one basketball.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
They're gonna get buckets.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I don't know, I mean, I don't know, whatever the case,
we can not keep taking these ls. All right, we
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Speaker 3 (23:02):
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Speaker 1 (23:13):
We got Sean King in for Rob Parkers, so you
don't have to deal with Rob for the next eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
So that's a good signs. Right, Let's get to it.
Joel Embiid. Look, I don't think Team USA is working
out for Joel Embiid.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I know he's, you know, likely get a gold medal
like everybody else, so I think they're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
But I don't think he's played well and I don't
think he should be starting.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
And are you are people around the league that you
talk with is it?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Are people taking note of this?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
And kind of what are they saying about himbiid if
indeed they are, Yeah, well, I.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Think there's a few things. It's ironic when it comes
to Team USA because he clearly hasn't been playing well,
as you pointed out, but they recruited him to choose
tm USA over France or Cameroon because they're mindful that
in FIBA, having size matters, having physicality matters, and so
I think in the short term, what people are saying is,
(24:17):
you know what, he's not going to have any sort
of like bounce back games in tam USA. But I
don't think that they necessarily think that this means next
NBA season is going to be bad, borring any health concerns.
But I think as a pretense to Team USA, Steve
Kerr strongly suggested that he's going to be starting again
against Puerto Rico, But I think that has more to
(24:38):
do with the fact that Team USA has already secured
a quarterfinals birth. It is a tune up game. But
I want to be surprised once the single elimination games
start that Anthony Davis starts and then they have bam
Adebayo as that next guy up in the front core.
Because the way they played against South Sutan was just
absolutely dominant, while Joe embiid he's had moments of some
(25:01):
good defense, but a lot more bad moments of bad
fouls and bad shooting performances.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
So it's interesting, But I don't think he should be
on a team like I think this is a complete oversight.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I might not.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Zion Williamson.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
If b doesn't fit in any way shape, form of fashion,
the way they want to play, why not bring another athletic,
high flying athlete with Zion Williamson, take your pick. I
just I don't get yan Bean's on the teams. They
felt obligated because he won the NBA MVP and he
chose to be a citizen here in the States.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
I don't think they felt obligated. I think the thought process,
whether you here with it or not, is you look
at the Feeble World Cup. You know last year in
their fourth place finish didn't just have to do with
the fact that, you know, they didn't have their best
NBA talent like Lebron and Steph and Durant on the team,
but they you know, didn't have traditional big Sharon Jackson
Junior was their main center and he's a great but
(26:00):
in the FOB game. You need some traditional bigs because
there's more size. So that was the thought process, and
it wasn't out of like any obligation, because they were
trying to convince them, hey, don't play for France, don't
play for Cameron, play for US. So I think there
was at least initially some politiking them. Hey, we put
all this effort to recruit him, and he had options.
We got at least throw him a bone to get
(26:22):
some minutes, to least, you know, give him a chance.
But now I think you know, the line's been drawn
where you know they're going to do what they feel
as best as far as winning games.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
The team as a holes obviously play well. Do you
see I mean you see Canada. Canada beat Spain today,
it was close game. Germany's looked pretty good. Did they
beat France today?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I know France?
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So do you see, like, do you foresee some close,
like really close games where Team USA is threatened and
maybe do you see any chance that they could actually
lose to one of these teams?
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I don't think that TVUSA, barring you know, an injury
to Lebron or Durant or any other major player, they're
going to win the Gold. Now, to your point, can
they face an opponent that will make him feel threatened?
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I think that Canada and Germany are the most likely
teams not to have a game where it goes down
to the wire, but a game where you know they're
going to have to compete, They're going to have to play.
Steve Kerr is going to have to manage the location well.
If I had a guess, I think Canada fits that
mold a lot more because they have the most NBA
players on their team outside of Team USA, of course,
(27:36):
with say Goess Alexander and Dylan Brooks and Lou Dort.
I mean those are two great physical defenders, Jay Gojess
Alexander is a great dynamic point guard. RJ. Barrett's been
a lot more aggressive with Canada with getting to the
basket than he was in the NBA. So I think
that that combination can make it a test. I think,
assuming no major injuries and Team USA doesn't let's foot
(27:59):
off the they're going to walk on with gold.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Based on what you've seen so far, Mark, if you
were Steve Kerr, what do you think the best starting
five is?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Based on how they've played in the initial two games.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Yeah, I think the best starting five would be Lebron James.
I mean, Steph Curry hasn't shot well, but I think
he's due for having a step game, and his gravity
itself is still very valuable. I think Anthony Davis at
the center spot. Devin Booker has been starting every single
game along with Lebron. He's what Steve Kuris said, a
perfect FIBA guy because even though he's known as a
(28:33):
scorer in the NBA, he's also been willing and able
to dig in and be a good passer, be a
good defender. And then I think the last player would
be True Holliday. It's weird because I thought, you know,
Kevin Durant. Once he's back, he obviously should be the starter.
He's Team USA's all time lean scorer. But just from
a chemistry standpoint, identity standpoint, I really do like the
(28:54):
fact that he can come off the bench with Anthony
Edwards because it's just efficient instant on offense. So to recap,
best starting line moving forward would be Steph Booker, Holiday, Lebron,
and Ad.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Speaking of Anthony Edwards, he made the comments Chris and
Mark prior to the team getting in the Vegas day,
he was going to prove that he was now the
best player in the world. How is he receiving, you know,
not being in the majority of these starting lineups.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
I think he's been fine. I mean, I know much
was made when he was because I was at Vegas,
and you know, he said voluntarily like I'm the number
one option. And I think that that had to do
with him just like being honest and also being playful,
like he was saying those comments with a smirk, you know,
moments before, moments after he was giving all the usual
team Team USA cliches about hey, nothing is more important
(29:48):
than winning gold. It's about sacrifice and I'll do the
little thing. Stee kerr Will actually likes the comments that
he said that he views himself as the number one option,
just because it shows that he's a confident, aggressive player.
But I don't think that he is having any gripes
whatsoever about minutes touches. I think that he run has
just loved the fact that he's with this main Olympic team.
(30:08):
He's able to play with Kevin Durant, one of his
main idols growing up, and three because of just how
well he played in the playoffs until he had some
disappointing performances against Dallas because of double teams fatigue. This
has been a kind of a redemption opportunity. So I
think he's just been soaking all and as well as
you know, challenging some ping pong teams to some competitions.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Here in thirty seconds, mart Briannie played, you know, came
on strong, played well in Las Vegas in the summer League.
How excited are the Lakers about that? Were they surprised?
You know, have kind of expectation, not that he expected
him be in a rotation this year, but you know,
(30:50):
have some things changed as far as how they viewed
him after that?
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Well, I think that a lot of ups and downs, Chris.
I think what they left them encouraged in had a
positive attitude team player. I think the biggest thing was
that he embraced the idea that most of the time
he'll probably just be playing a ge league. He just
wants to play. So I think through that lens, they're
not having a lottery pick. He's not the next Lebron obviously,
(31:16):
but he could have a pathway and being a pretty
good role player because of all those qualities.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
All right, that's our man, Funky Colst Mark Medina, great stuff, brother,
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (31:26):
I appreciate you guys. You guys are the best.
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Speaker 4 (32:19):
This week's topic.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
Comes to us from the world of music because, as
you guys know, I'm sure you saw today, Aerosmith officially
announced that they are retiring from the music game after
fifty plus years this way. But that is not the
headline because lost in all of that hullabaloo is that
LL cool J Uncle L Ladies love cool J.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
It's true.
Speaker 8 (32:44):
It's gonna drop a new album in September.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Lay l L is old enough to be your grand
years since his.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Relaxed No, he's not. He's like my, I'm fifty five.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
They start younger, some of them start younger nowadays, so
technically could be your shot, shoot you shot. He's grammed,
so Alel has started going out to eat ice cream together.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
Al been making the rounds.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
He's got some heavy hitters involved with the album. He's
got Q Tip, Eminem, Rick Ross, Fat Joe, a lot
of people on it. But people are still kind of
taking a back that he's part an album forty years
after his first one.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Really, so people are like yeah, I mean saying yo
oh man. Here's the question.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
Why is it that groups like Aerosmith and the Rolling
Stones who are rocking out in their seventies and eighties
can still have an audience, but rappers like Uncle El
in his late fifties are kind of getting the side.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Chris Broussard, Well, first of all, arrows correct me if
I'm wrong, Like the Rolling Stones are still doing concerts.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
When's the last time they did an album?
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Though?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
And I might be wrong, but.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Aerosmith, like didn't they stop doing albums.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Fairly young, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And now they just go through their old song like
the last big record. I could be wrong. That I
remember for Rolling Stones was like start me Up. And
that was in the eighties. I was in high school, right,
So I don't. I do think that older rappers remember
jay Z released four four four forty four, he even
had an album after that. I think the older rappers
(34:36):
can still like their fans from back in the day
will still rock with them. I bet you old head
hip hop fans are looking forward to ll stuff and
he got enough new I mean, Rick Ross and them
aren't really new school, but he's got enough of the
kind of the next generation. I guess where they'll get
(34:57):
some of those fans. It'll be a little it'll still
be hip. But I think they got to understand they're
not going to appeal to the you know, the eighteen
and nineteen year olds for the most part, the fifteen
year olds, those that are rocking with who.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Sexy Red and Audi you know what I mean, and
you gotta understand. But they're still an audience for you
out there. Karras One's been making out like you know
what I mean, Like that's where I'm at on it.
I just don't I said a lot, but did you
do you know? Rob G?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Like Rolling Stones?
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Rolling Stone's last album was last year, Chris, Oh really,
because you're not hit to what they're doing man last year?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Three.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
Aerol Smith their last album was in twenty twelve and
then they just dropped like a nineteen seventy.
Speaker 8 (35:43):
One that was that's like twenty twenty twelve for Aerosmith
will be forty two years after their first album. So
right online with what L Cool Jay's doing.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I don't think though old school hip hop heads have
a problem with the el release as long as I
do think your material has to mature, like if you
stillpping about the same stuff you were rapping about, you
know when you were eighteen and twenty I Need Love
was obviously you could do.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
I love room sometimes stay at the wall and in
the back of my mind and him a.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Content conscious called right, but you you you don't need
to be when we know how successful you are and
you got millions, Jay Zu, is he a billionaire or
whatever he is?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
And LLL is an actor. Don't be trying to rap.
You don't need to just brag about all your your ladies.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Stop being a skeptic. Cris Bussard.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
No, I'm just saying I don't need to hear fifty
of your old man rapping about you've womanized and money.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
And I don't think he is. Like I heard this
Saturday Night. What's it called Saturday?
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
What's the latest?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
When he did with Rick Ross in Fat Joe and
Q Tip it's fine and it's mature content.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
J J pulled it off. Jay's content was.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Very at four Yes, right, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
El's got the same capacity he doesn't mean. Yeah, I
bet he's gonna come with an album that has a
lot of dance songs that when people at cookouts, you know.
I just I think he's gonna be on that vibe
like that, let's have a good time.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
I'm at that point in my life.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
I think, you know, almost some Will Smith centric type stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
It'll be interesting. I mean this, this song is interesting
in what he did. I'm know, Yeah, what's it called
Saturday Night?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I don't know what the name.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
It is pretty good. It's to a lot of rap
music anyway, I'm more old school. That's why Mary Mary's
Jaman like I'm She's playing like that's what's gonna be
played at the king House ninety eight percent of the time.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Rob Gie, you think it's a double standard, I definitely.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
I don't think it is, because because how many R
and B groups are making I used to think it
was a double stair, like rap is a short career, but.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
It's it's that way for all musicians.
Speaker 8 (37:55):
It was entirely anecdotal. But I was just in Vegas
last week right int the show.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
I was too busy. I'm sorry, way to not give me.
Speaker 8 (38:03):
But you know that in Vegas is the land of
the residency. So I've seen residencies for saying that for
boys to man and nobody bats an eye rest. You
are not going to see a residency for Snoop Dogg
because nobody wants to see sixty one year old Snoop
Dogg talking about juice anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I agree with that, I do.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
But I don't know if that is that because I
don't think that's over. You might go see a concert
I don't think you're gonna see a rest.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Because these guys are still selling out when they Gold tour.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Why I don't.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
I would be surprised if a rapper had a residency
in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
I guess it's possible, but you know.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
Make it happy, Sean.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
You know, I knew.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
I was trying to think, has it ever happened? But
you're right, really hasn't.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
But I think outside of that, I do think, you know,
rappers can have long careers as long as the R
and B groups.
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We got our man Mark Funky Cole Mad coming on
at the bottom of the hour, the Fox Sports Radio
NBA Insider, so keep it light for that, and then
Shop Talk, which is always fun, follows that up and
closes up this hour. But let's go to basketball. Sean
and Team USA, which is two and zero, rolled over
(01:20):
Serbia by twenty six beat South Sudan I think it
was by seventeen, And how much you win by matters
in terms of seeding. So Steve Kirk came out and
said they want to beat Puerto Rico, who they play tomorrow,
by as many points as possible because they want to
get the number one seed. That means you get a
(01:40):
lighter you know, schedule at least to start out with.
So that is the deal with Team USA. And also
Joel Mbeid will be starting. It was announced that he
didn't play. He started every exhibition and an Olympic game
that he's played, but he didn't play at all in
the last game against South Dan Kerse said it was
(02:01):
a matchup issue. They were smaller, quicker, faster, three point
shooting team.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And that was true.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
And so he didn't play and beat at all. But
and B will be back in the starting lineup. And
you just said it, boo, go ahead, Nicks bound.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
He's a square peg trying to be put in a
round hole. As I said yesterday when I think as
Antonio Daniels was on the show, Zion Williamson should have
been on the team in place of Joel Embiid and B.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
You just a lot of people in stead, you know,
whether Zion or a lot of other people too.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Just with the game more exciting, you know, try and
get people to tune in more.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
They're gonna win regardless. I just want women's.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Team told you they're not about, you know, drawing fans.
They're about winning. That's why they didn't have Kaylyn Clark.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I'm just saying, if they want those elevated checks, let
the men counter parts have they start being about drawing fans.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
But I just and B doesn't fit in any way.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
It's almost like the Olympic team felt obligated to bring
Joel because he was MVP.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Or because he chose them.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Remember, he could have played for France, could have played
for Cameroon. He chose to play for Team USA.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
And a lot of people choose America for citizenship.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Right, But I mean he had the choice of which
team to play for.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I look, I think they thought he would be their size.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Last year in the Feeble World Cup, we ran into
trouble against some of these teams that were bigger than us,
and we're bullying us. I mean, we got our rebounded
dramatically and we needed some bulk. But as I've said,
and I hate I hate to even keep saying it
because I've been saying this almost Mbad's entire career, at
(03:48):
least as long as he's really since he became a star,
which was pretty much right away. I've been saying, dude,
you play, you might as well be six ' four.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yes, and again, he.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Is a phenomenal mid range jump shooter, so I don't
want to I'm not saying I want you to go
down and post up on the block like Shack and
be there ninety five percent of the game or one
hundred percent of the game.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I'm just saying I want you to post up one
percent of the game and remind me of Shack.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I mean, yeah, I mean I do.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I want you to still shoot the mid range jumper
because you're so good at it, but when the situation
calls for it, you need to go down low. And
whether it's posting up, whether it's backing somebody down, whether
it's cutting flashing across the lane to the to the
low post, whatever it may be. And the fact that
(04:43):
he won't do it, Sean is a problem on this team.
And that's why you're talking about, you know, him being
a square peg, because the one thing he could give
us that most of our other players couldn't is Dominans
down low. We don't need him on the perimeter every
single time he's on the floor.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
He's got four excellent.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Perimeter jump shooters or four good shooters with him.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Let them have the perimeter.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
So now you, with your seven foot three hundred pounds behind,
want to be out there with them, you getting in
their way.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Would it be fair if I said he's probably the
most frustrating player in the entire NBA. You can't say
he's not productive because he produces. He can't say he's
not skilled because he's skilled. But he's frustrating to watch
because even when he has a great game, you know
it could be greater. Like when he goes to those
stretches where he's kind of lily gagging up the court
(05:42):
that'll never make it pass a.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Three point game looks incredibly lazy. I'm not gonna call
him him lazy, but man, I will agree. I tend
to agree with you on that. Watching him play, I say,
and most people have said it to you have agreed
with it. He just got a lazy game. Yeah, Like
he looks like he is just not giving it his all.
(06:07):
And he might be.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I'm not saying he's not, but he looks that way, and.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It does frustrate you because it looks like he's just
not playing hard, not going one hundred percent. And especially
I think it's compounded by the fact that he really
won't go down low and bang. And he's the biggest
thing in the world essentially as far as not just
heype but body size, and he won't go down there
(06:33):
and use it.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
And what's and why I put frustrating as a label
for him because the thirty percent of the time that
he is on the low block, he's shooting a fadeaway jumper.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Yeah, that thirty percent.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
And this was to me a huge misstep by the
US Olympic team men's basketball committee. I could understand a
couple of years ago when the Gasol brothers were with
Spain and they had Mark and Powell, and you knew
you had that probably as your gold medal game.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Now you would need an EMBI.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
But I mean outside of Serbia, who by the way,
em beat it for Germany at all costs in the
regular season.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You do need size. He got planned to its size.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, but you need athleticism with size, and Olympics to me,
I mean everybody.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Everybody's not that athletic.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Jokic isn't incredibly athletic by what we term athletic athleticism.
He just plays hard, you know, and it doesn't look
like he's lovelygagging.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Let me put it that way.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
I just Embiid.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I've said that MBID should look at Jokic, because yes,
Jokish plays a lot on the perimeter. He's a past
he's their point basically their point guard in Denver. But
he also wins. Again I use the term when the
situation calls for it. He'll back you down and score.
And there's no reason in MBI couldn't do the same thing.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And yeah he could. I mean, he could be shocked.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't want to say better than Shaq, but he
would have that mid range game that Shock didn't have
or at least didn't, you know, use, and that could
be even different.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So it's just this.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Might be an oversimplification, Chris, but for a guy in
Beid's size, he's probably dunked on the least amount of
people that I can recall. Like normally, a big guy
like that is putting guys in the rim at least
once a night, even if he's not a chem Elizawan
with his back to the basket, like at least he's
going to the hoop strong and finishing. I can't recall
(08:37):
anybody and being dunket on right right off the top
of my head.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Nah, I mean, I don't know the numbers, but you
might be right. I mean here, yeah, you don't. His
highlight is a fifteen foot right. I mean, I don't
think of him dunk when I think of him, bid
you know, in a positive way. I think of him
hitting a mid range jump shot. You know, I don't
think of him dunking on somebody.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
And this team is talented, but don't you think people
will be even more intrigued to watch them play if
Zion was on the team and play something.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I mean, Zion, look, you you ain't nobody people off Zion.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I don't know why I'm not.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
He's always fine, Okay, he's always hurt.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I'm not totally off him.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And I don't think anybody's completely off him. But this
whole like the fact he's not the draw he used
to be. He is now at a stage where he's
gonna have to show us, He's gonna have to earn
it back because people are just like, dude, he's.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Hurt a great stage to earn it back.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Doesn't rebound. I don't know that he I don't know
what he do understand. I mean, we win it with
or without him, But I just don't think he's you know,
I don't think he's like the draw that he used
to be. Sure he might get some nice dunks, but but.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You know, he's a guy.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
He's another guy that has the ball in his hands
a lot, and I think that's gonna change with the
makeup of their team now, or.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
At least to some degree.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Doesn't shoot the three, but doesn't always like post up.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
A lot either.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
He could be out there getting he could be out
there getting your way too. But this is another thing
I want to throw at you and tell me what
you think. I also feel like Embiid looks like a
guy that doesn't know what to do when the ball
is not in his hands, or I should say when
(10:33):
when he is not the focal point of the offense.
I brought that up to Antonio Daniel. I was going
to bring that up, but I think it's a little different,
Like Devin Booker isn't necessarily the focal point in Phoenix.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I mean you got Kevin Durant too.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I think it's to an elevated level with embiid that
unless he's the focal point, he really doesn't know what
to do.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And think about it.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
He started playing basketball late, played a year at Kansas,
and every time he's been essentially on the team, certainly
at the pro level, he's been the focal point.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, I made a great point. I thought Antonio made
a great point.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Chris.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
He said being in the Olympics is an opportunity, and
he would say I think it was Gilbert a Reenas
he said he was having a conversation with about how
much harder it is to be a role player than
to be the number one option. And I think that's
what you're seeing with him, Bib. He's used to They
don't come down to court three times in a row
and not call a play for a design for him.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
B three times in a row.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I don't care how hot Max he is pretty much,
And so what you're what you're seeing is because the
players aren't called for him, he's kind of lost, like
what do I do. He's not a guy that impacts
the game, regardless if he's scoring or if he's taking shots.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Nah, because he I mean, he does get you ten
or eleven rebounds just by virtue of his size.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
But yeah, he's not like a dominant rebounder.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
He is a good defender, but he's not like a
terrifying defender. And obviously you know he's a fine passer,
but he's not.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Like great at that.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, I mean, and again, a guy that's that tall,
like even when Ben Yama.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
And obviously he's taller than Embiid.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yes, he plays on the perimeter, but he also plays
to his size. He's blocking a lot of shots, you
know what I mean, He's an.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Effort level and try to contest shots as much better
than Embid and not really even under their contestant shots.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
To be honest, Look, Anthony Davis should be starting, and
their speculators felt like they promised him be a starting
role if he chose to play for America. There you know,
the reports have said that's not true.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I don't know. My my guess is it's not true.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
But I'm also saying why then outside of the game
he didn't play at all? Has he been a mainstay
in the starting lineup Lebron Steph and Embiid have been
the three.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It should be Anthony Davis period.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
I'm completely with Kyrie on this.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
They need to go back to the days where you
had to compete to make the team. I don't like
all of his favoritism and hand picking this guy in
the third no offense of Derrick White. Come on, man,
you know what this slapping the face that is to
a whole bunch of highlight and I look at it.
I get the time and still though we're talking about
a gold medal, this only comes around once.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Forty They had Christian Layner on the Dream Team.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah, but I mean's basketball program in the world.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I mean coming off with.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
That, he wasn't better than Shaq.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
He wasn't, but wasn't shocking college.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
And he and not only was he, Yeah, they between
him and Shock. Not only was he not better than Shack,
he wasn't better than a ton of NBA players that
they could have put on that team.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
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Speaker 1 (14:05):
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Speaker 3 (14:10):
All right, Look, we talking about Team USA.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
There's another Team USA that is not playing nearly as
well Ron and company. I mean, shoot, maybe we'll get
into that next. It's Christy Sean Couple.
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quickly Team USA two and zero in the men's basketball.
(16:31):
That's five on five, three on three. Different story. Yes,
Rob G break it down.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
American flags are a half master across the country today, guys,
because the team USA three on three basketball team limped
to a now zero and four start to these games.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Sorry, how many chances do they have an actual chance to?
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Like? Well, the thing is because the way the three
on three situation works, they are gonna have seven games,
so they might still find a way to backdoor their
way into the knockout round. It's looking highly unlikely at
this point, but shout out to the ladies who got
their first win today. So they are now one in
three combined and the three on three competition American basketball
(17:13):
is one and seven.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
But who is our team? Who's our men's team?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
That I don't recognize the other thing?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
And to me, honestly, I feel for Jim Or because
obviously he didn't have the NBA career some people thought
he might and this is kind of his chance.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
At redemption and this is anything but redemption. So I
feel for him.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I know he's doing doing well overseas or wherever he's
at in the minors.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Let's honest.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
They need to make an emergency called the ice qube.
I mean, how do we get how do how do
we get the Big Three personnel in the process of
being able to qualify for the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I brought that up jokingly yesterday on first thing. And
I know their ex NBA players, but I don't know
that they would win. Well, let's say the winner of
the Big Three. We can't do worse. No, you know
what we need to do, get some real NBA. Like
who else is on the team?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Rob?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Do you know Jimmer?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I got the whole roster? Okay, James, I didn't recognize.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
Okay, five people it's Jimmer for debt Uh. Dylan Travis,
Kenyon Berry and Kareem Maddox are the four guys we
have on the sea side.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Kenyon Barry I heard of him.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Was it Collin Travis Florida. I believe he's the grandson
of Rick Berry. Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
How I knew him.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Dylan Travis sounds like the bottom.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Line, get NBA.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
First of all, you could actually, I think I don't
think they would do it, but you could actually just
take players off Team USA. Because look, we see athletes
all the time in track and field. You might be
in the hundred, you might be in the two hundred
as well. Then the long jump didn't need four by one.
Like swimming, you're in various events. So I don't see
(19:04):
why you couldn't, Like if you took Tyrese Halliburton, Jason
Tatum and Joe LMB three guys who haven't you know
exactly shined in these Olympics. But let them play, or
go get some other NBA players who aren't on Team USA,
and let's wax these teams.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
We shouldn't be losing. I don't want to lose in
any basketball.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Why cleft groups bek is online one he said he
just paid Jason Tatum with three hundred, three hundred million dollars.
He said he's not gonna get him risk injury player
three on three, I can see taking a G league
or you.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Don't like you don't want to take NBA players.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
There's too much risk that gold medal.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Just regular NBA players, like not the ones on Team USA.
But just what if they do? Jalen Brown, I'm just
throwing out names.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
If you're a team, I don't think you're You're not
You're not signing off on that.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Why you say I get the five on five is
more important.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
But I mean, there's a G League caliber Jimmer for
Dad eats up.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I don't know, right, And let me see if I
can find some of jimmers.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Like Jimmer for.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Day twenty nineteen, Jimmy that gets busy in minor league basket.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Well, Chris, while you look that up. We gotta be
upfront about this. The three on three rules are different
than the five on five. For the three on three,
you have to play in events leading up to the
World Championship or the Olympics, so you accrue points by
playing in more and more sanctioned.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Three on three events.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (20:40):
Now you can't just show up and say, hey, my
team is Chrissa, Sean King and Steve de Seger doesn't
worked like why though?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Is why? That?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Which is why I'm saying Ice Cubes gotta figure out
how to get the Big Three into the qualifying pro.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Brothers are old man, Actually they are all old. But
I don't I'm gonna go out on the limb and
I could be completely wrong, but I'm gonna say that
our team USA could beat I don't know, it'd be interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I think they could beat the teams in the Big
Three I'm a I'm a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
No, those people have watched any of Yeah, I've watched
the Big Three.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
They are terrible. No, I'm Jim the team.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, but the most of the x NBA players in
the in the Big Three are either guys that weren't
that were only in the league for a cup of coffee,
which is essentially what this team is, and or older
NBA guys, you know, in their forties and so I
think that I don't know, it'd be interesting. I'd love
(21:44):
to see him play, But jimper for that as you
dissing he in the G League. One year in the
G League. Give me his points and assists per game?
Your guests in the cher League or maybe played five years,
but I guess twenties, Yeah, twenty one.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Points, five assist the game. You mean I want to
say that?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
You don't think Jeff Tigue will be getting buckets in
the three? Come on, man, I'm looking at someone. I'm
looking on some of the rosters.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Come on, man, Mario Williams, Michael Beasley, like, these guys
are made for three on three, all one on one basketball.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
They're gonna get buckets.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I don't know, I mean, I don't know, whatever the case,
we can not keep taking these ls. All right, we
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Speaker 3 (23:02):
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Speaker 6 (23:04):
Oh? Not much, Just feeling good about myself after that
amazing intro.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
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Speaker 1 (23:13):
We got Sean King in for Rob Parkers, so you
don't have to deal with Rob for the next eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
So that's a good signs. Right, Let's get to it.
Joel Embiid. Look, I don't think Team USA is working
out for Joel Embiid.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I know he's, you know, likely get a gold medal
like everybody else, so I think they're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
But I don't think he's played well and I don't
think he should be starting.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
And are you are people around the league that you
talk with is it?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Are people taking note of this?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
And kind of what are they saying about himbiid if
indeed they are, Yeah, well, I.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Think there's a few things. It's ironic when it comes
to Team USA because he clearly hasn't been playing well,
as you pointed out, but they recruited him to choose
tm USA over France or Cameroon because they're mindful that
in FIBA, having size matters, having physicality matters, and so
I think in the short term, what people are saying is,
(24:17):
you know what, he's not going to have any sort
of like bounce back games in tam USA. But I
don't think that they necessarily think that this means next
NBA season is going to be bad, borring any health concerns.
But I think as a pretense to Team USA, Steve
Kerr strongly suggested that he's going to be starting again
against Puerto Rico, But I think that has more to
(24:38):
do with the fact that Team USA has already secured
a quarterfinals birth. It is a tune up game. But
I want to be surprised once the single elimination games
start that Anthony Davis starts and then they have bam
Adebayo as that next guy up in the front core.
Because the way they played against South Sutan was just
absolutely dominant, while Joe embiid he's had moments of some
(25:01):
good defense, but a lot more bad moments of bad
fouls and bad shooting performances.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
So it's interesting, But I don't think he should be
on a team like I think this is a complete oversight.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I might not.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Zion Williamson.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
If b doesn't fit in any way shape, form of fashion,
the way they want to play, why not bring another athletic,
high flying athlete with Zion Williamson, take your pick. I
just I don't get yan Bean's on the teams. They
felt obligated because he won the NBA MVP and he
chose to be a citizen here in the States.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
I don't think they felt obligated. I think the thought process,
whether you here with it or not, is you look
at the Feeble World Cup. You know last year in
their fourth place finish didn't just have to do with
the fact that, you know, they didn't have their best
NBA talent like Lebron and Steph and Durant on the team,
but they you know, didn't have traditional big Sharon Jackson
Junior was their main center and he's a great but
(26:00):
in the FOB game. You need some traditional bigs because
there's more size. So that was the thought process, and
it wasn't out of like any obligation, because they were
trying to convince them, hey, don't play for France, don't
play for Cameron, play for US. So I think there
was at least initially some politiking them. Hey, we put
all this effort to recruit him, and he had options.
We got at least throw him a bone to get
(26:22):
some minutes, to least, you know, give him a chance.
But now I think you know, the line's been drawn
where you know they're going to do what they feel
as best as far as winning games.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
The team as a holes obviously play well. Do you
see I mean you see Canada. Canada beat Spain today,
it was close game. Germany's looked pretty good. Did they
beat France today?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
I know France?
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
So do you see, like, do you foresee some close,
like really close games where Team USA is threatened and
maybe do you see any chance that they could actually
lose to one of these teams?
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (27:00):
I don't think that TVUSA, barring you know, an injury
to Lebron or Durant or any other major player, they're
going to win the Gold. Now, to your point, can
they face an opponent that will make him feel threatened?
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (27:13):
I think that Canada and Germany are the most likely
teams not to have a game where it goes down
to the wire, but a game where you know they're
going to have to compete, They're going to have to play.
Steve Kerr is going to have to manage the location well.
If I had a guess, I think Canada fits that
mold a lot more because they have the most NBA
players on their team outside of Team USA, of course,
(27:36):
with say Goess Alexander and Dylan Brooks and Lou Dort.
I mean those are two great physical defenders, Jay Gojess
Alexander is a great dynamic point guard. RJ. Barrett's been
a lot more aggressive with Canada with getting to the
basket than he was in the NBA. So I think
that that combination can make it a test. I think,
assuming no major injuries and Team USA doesn't let's foot
(27:59):
off the they're going to walk on with gold.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Based on what you've seen so far, Mark, if you
were Steve Kerr, what do you think the best starting
five is?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Based on how they've played in the initial two games.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Yeah, I think the best starting five would be Lebron James.
I mean, Steph Curry hasn't shot well, but I think
he's due for having a step game, and his gravity
itself is still very valuable. I think Anthony Davis at
the center spot. Devin Booker has been starting every single
game along with Lebron. He's what Steve Kuris said, a
perfect FIBA guy because even though he's known as a
(28:33):
scorer in the NBA, he's also been willing and able
to dig in and be a good passer, be a
good defender. And then I think the last player would
be True Holliday. It's weird because I thought, you know,
Kevin Durant. Once he's back, he obviously should be the starter.
He's Team USA's all time lean scorer. But just from
a chemistry standpoint, identity standpoint, I really do like the
(28:54):
fact that he can come off the bench with Anthony
Edwards because it's just efficient instant on offense. So to recap,
best starting line moving forward would be Steph Booker, Holiday, Lebron,
and Ad.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Speaking of Anthony Edwards, he made the comments Chris and
Mark prior to the team getting in the Vegas day,
he was going to prove that he was now the
best player in the world. How is he receiving, you know,
not being in the majority of these starting lineups.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
I think he's been fine. I mean, I know much
was made when he was because I was at Vegas,
and you know, he said voluntarily like I'm the number
one option. And I think that that had to do
with him just like being honest and also being playful,
like he was saying those comments with a smirk, you know,
moments before, moments after he was giving all the usual
team Team USA cliches about hey, nothing is more important
(29:48):
than winning gold. It's about sacrifice and I'll do the
little thing. Stee kerr Will actually likes the comments that
he said that he views himself as the number one option,
just because it shows that he's a confident, aggressive player.
But I don't think that he is having any gripes
whatsoever about minutes touches. I think that he run has
just loved the fact that he's with this main Olympic team.
(30:08):
He's able to play with Kevin Durant, one of his
main idols growing up, and three because of just how
well he played in the playoffs until he had some
disappointing performances against Dallas because of double teams fatigue. This
has been a kind of a redemption opportunity. So I
think he's just been soaking all and as well as
you know, challenging some ping pong teams to some competitions.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Here in thirty seconds, mart Briannie played, you know, came
on strong, played well in Las Vegas in the summer League.
How excited are the Lakers about that? Were they surprised?
You know, have kind of expectation, not that he expected
him be in a rotation this year, but you know,
(30:50):
have some things changed as far as how they viewed
him after that?
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Well, I think that a lot of ups and downs, Chris.
I think what they left them encouraged in had a
positive attitude team player. I think the biggest thing was
that he embraced the idea that most of the time
he'll probably just be playing a ge league. He just
wants to play. So I think through that lens, they're
not having a lottery pick. He's not the next Lebron obviously,
(31:16):
but he could have a pathway and being a pretty
good role player because of all those qualities.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
All right, that's our man, Funky Colst Mark Medina, great stuff, brother,
Thank you.
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Speaker 8 (33:38):
Why is it that groups like Aerosmith and the Rolling
Stones who are rocking out in their seventies and eighties
can still have an audience, but rappers like Uncle El
in his late fifties are kind of getting the side.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Chris Broussard, Well, first of all, arrows correct me if
I'm wrong, Like the Rolling Stones are still doing concerts.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
When's the last time they did an album?
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Though?
Speaker 3 (34:03):
And I might be wrong, but.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Aerosmith, like didn't they stop doing albums.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Fairly young, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And now they just go through their old song like
the last big record. I could be wrong. That I
remember for Rolling Stones was like start me Up. And
that was in the eighties. I was in high school, right,
So I don't. I do think that older rappers remember
jay Z released four four four forty four, he even
had an album after that. I think the older rappers
(34:36):
can still like their fans from back in the day
will still rock with them. I bet you old head
hip hop fans are looking forward to ll stuff and
he got enough new I mean, Rick Ross and them
aren't really new school, but he's got enough of the
kind of the next generation. I guess where they'll get
(34:57):
some of those fans. It'll be a little it'll still
be hip. But I think they got to understand they're
not going to appeal to the you know, the eighteen
and nineteen year olds for the most part, the fifteen
year olds, those that are rocking with who.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Sexy Red and Audi you know what I mean, and
you gotta understand. But they're still an audience for you
out there. Karras One's been making out like you know
what I mean, Like that's where I'm at on it.
I just don't I said a lot, but did you
do you know? Rob G?
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Like Rolling Stones?
Speaker 8 (35:30):
Rolling Stone's last album was last year, Chris, Oh really,
because you're not hit to what they're doing man last year?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Three.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
Aerol Smith their last album was in twenty twelve and
then they just dropped like a nineteen seventy.
Speaker 8 (35:43):
One that was that's like twenty twenty twelve for Aerosmith
will be forty two years after their first album. So
right online with what L Cool Jay's doing.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I don't think though old school hip hop heads have
a problem with the el release as long as I
do think your material has to mature, like if you
stillpping about the same stuff you were rapping about, you
know when you were eighteen and twenty I Need Love
was obviously you could do.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
I love room sometimes stay at the wall and in
the back of my mind and him a.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Content conscious called right, but you you you don't need
to be when we know how successful you are and
you got millions, Jay Zu, is he a billionaire or
whatever he is?
Speaker 3 (36:21):
And LLL is an actor. Don't be trying to rap.
You don't need to just brag about all your your ladies.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Stop being a skeptic. Cris Bussard.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
No, I'm just saying I don't need to hear fifty
of your old man rapping about you've womanized and money.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
And I don't think he is. Like I heard this
Saturday Night. What's it called Saturday?
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (36:44):
What's the latest?
Speaker 1 (36:45):
When he did with Rick Ross in Fat Joe and
Q Tip it's fine and it's mature content.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
J J pulled it off. Jay's content was.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Very at four Yes, right, yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5 (36:56):
El's got the same capacity he doesn't mean. Yeah, I
bet he's gonna come with an album that has a
lot of dance songs that when people at cookouts, you know.
I just I think he's gonna be on that vibe
like that, let's have a good time.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
I'm at that point in my life.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
I think, you know, almost some Will Smith centric type stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
It'll be interesting. I mean this, this song is interesting
in what he did. I'm know, Yeah, what's it called
Saturday Night?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I don't know what the name.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
It is pretty good. It's to a lot of rap
music anyway, I'm more old school. That's why Mary Mary's
Jaman like I'm She's playing like that's what's gonna be
played at the king House ninety eight percent of the time.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Rob Gie, you think it's a double standard, I definitely.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
I don't think it is, because because how many R
and B groups are making I used to think it
was a double stair, like rap is a short career, but.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
It's it's that way for all musicians.
Speaker 8 (37:55):
It was entirely anecdotal. But I was just in Vegas
last week right int the show.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
I was too busy. I'm sorry, way to not give me.
Speaker 8 (38:03):
But you know that in Vegas is the land of
the residency. So I've seen residencies for saying that for
boys to man and nobody bats an eye rest. You
are not going to see a residency for Snoop Dogg
because nobody wants to see sixty one year old Snoop
Dogg talking about juice anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
I agree with that, I do.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
But I don't know if that is that because I
don't think that's over. You might go see a concert
I don't think you're gonna see a rest.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
Because these guys are still selling out when they Gold tour.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Why I don't.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
I would be surprised if a rapper had a residency
in Vegas.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
I guess it's possible, but you know.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
Make it happy, Sean.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
You know, I knew.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
I was trying to think, has it ever happened? But
you're right, really hasn't.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
But I think outside of that, I do think, you know,
rappers can have long careers as long as the R
and B groups.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
All right, we got an hour left. The mining tumor
is going to be on. Keep it locked.
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