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Rob and Kelvin tell you if Dan Hurley is the most hated coach in all of all of college basketball. CBB evangelist Rashad Phillips joins the show to talk some ball. The guys have all the details on Mookie Betts illness. And we take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets. Plus, was Rick Pitino right or wrong on benching his best player in the tournament against Arkansas?

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(01:42):
it is a magic city Monday, and we have so
much to do in this On this program, we'll talk
some college basketball with Sean Phillips.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Google college basketball, Yoda.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
That's why he played at U A D. One of
the best em when it comes to college and pro basketball.
Will talk with him in our number one in about
twenty seven minutes. Our number two, Deshaun Tait. He is
also a basketball analyst and will be uh, you know, tournament, Hea,
you get your building on all the stuff that went
on for the weekend also, So those are the things

(02:17):
that we're going to talk about. A lot of great topics,
a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, but first of me,
welcome in. My partner he is Calvin Washington.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
What I'm in. Happy Monday. Back to it.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
By the way, I don't know if LA just realized
it wasn't summer yet. My gosh, ninety degrees. I'm not
mad at it. But good weekend. Did you did you
get back to the cleaning, straighten out the house?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Did you hit the streets?

Speaker 4 (02:39):
I did all of that, still doing the same old thing.
Everything is good. And today my class sports reporting a
friend of ours, Darren Haynes, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Spoke to my class he did great. They keeps going.

Speaker 6 (02:53):
We know that's what he loves, that stuff. He does that,
so that was really good.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
He's I actually worked on my local TV show Sports
Rap in Detroit.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
His frost dreads, then no dreads.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
He cut him yeah, regular short haircut, and he went
from that, worked his way all the way up to
an ESPN sports anchor and now he's a anchor at
k CAL and k CBS out here in La.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Out here in La.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
So it's great to see you know him and the
students were mazed by his uh story, you know what
I mean. So great story, no doubt. All right, let's
welcome in the eye Couple crew. We wouldn't be able
to do this fine radio program without him. Justin is
our producer filling in for Rob g. What's up, Justin?

Speaker 3 (03:36):
How are you doing great?

Speaker 6 (03:37):
Thank you for having me always, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
My man.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Uh Steve de Sager is at the anchor desk. Kill
Keepers updated throughout the program. There you go, hey, Steve,
Uh Saga, Patel Saga, the media googles.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Saga and I had a bromance in New Orleans. Was
when something was going on underneath the table that I
didn't see.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
No no, no, no, okay, that was the night you in
my you stole rob these bread that his hot cross buns?

Speaker 6 (04:03):
No, no, no cross busy.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Are they then? What was it there were? There was
a piece of bread. Now it's just a piece of Now,
it's just a piece of bread. No buns.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Dinner justin when you go to dinner that they give
you buns. Right, No buns were changed, that's right, No
buns were exchanged. No shot to soccer though. Man, we
we hip hop and food. We were getting it in.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yes, So saga is soccer? Make me look good?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Now on the socials and of course on the ones
and twos.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
Married Mary, I ain't seen married in weeks. First thing,
she said, why you didn't get me coming? Why you
know my birthday? Dang, good to.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
See your man. Two weeks. Lord, No, I'm calling off Rod.
I said that I better give me the biggest birthday
present as well. I'm expecting nothing but great. When is
it next week? Yeah? Thursday?

Speaker 6 (04:58):
Alright, all right, happy, I won't be here early birthday.
You know he'll be here, all right.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Hey the Lakers, Yeah, let's real quick.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
They're getting started against the Magic in Orlando.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Then need to bounce back from that bad game.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
When first came back, they got blew out at home
by the Bulls.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
I thought Michael Jordan and Scotti Pippen were playing for
the boothe Yeah, yeah, Lron's first game bad seventeen, obviously
trying to get his legs back, just growing whatever.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Had a terrible game he had. He had all those points,
but seven turnovers. You can't keep turning the ball over
like that.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, Lucas had a hit a string.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
I think he's had like twelve games now twenty points
or something. But you know, points don't always matter like
it's it's timing of points. It's when you fill up
with a statue. You know who I used to call
it you you you feel me on that. I call
it pointless points. You remember Kevin Martin. He was the
king of that in the NBA. He would go to
all these bad teams year after year and just put
up twenty five a game. You like, dang, if you

(05:57):
just looked at the stats man, he's balling. That was
That was Stafford in Detroit. That's why stat Patrick start,
it's just my day. Say it just got back. You
get what I'm saying. I missed you and this is
how we're starting to show. This is how we're starting
the show.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
I'm just saying, all right, hey, let's get to the
college basketball. Let's do it, all right, and let's start here.
So do we have the post game sound by Dan
Hurley from Yukon. So they lose, Yeah, and Dan Hurley
on his uh way out.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Had some thoughts.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
Yeah, yes, they lose by two to Florida, number one
seeded Florida seventy seven, seventy five.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
And on his way out is he talking to Baylor?

Speaker 4 (06:42):
All right, let's let's let's hear it. Okay, here here's
Dan Hurley from Yukon.

Speaker 7 (06:47):
A coach. That's why I was on the hot seat
going into twenty three. You got to ask Dave Bennett.
But until these men, you know, until Alex Cara been
put on the uniform.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
And the players changed your life.

Speaker 7 (07:07):
When you have such special people.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
What is all that? Okay? I get it. They won
back to back championships. They get knocked out.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
I gotta say this, Dan Hurley has to be the
most hated coach in college basketball. He has flipped the screen.
We get it, you won back to back championship. I
think it's gone to his head and he's been like, like,
what what has happened here? You got break it down
starting from there, you go. What was it in Hawaii

(07:37):
when they kicked off the scene. They lost back to
back games, and I never want to come back here,
like he destroyed, destroyed the place, as if they had
anything to do with him losing. Then there was another
game this year where they played and he was taunting
the crowd and pointing to two fingers like we won

(07:58):
two rings or whatever. And then here in a game
that was closed, but they missed free throws and they
didn't get our offensive rebounds when they needed them, and
they blame he blamed the officials for losing the game
against Florida. And the more you see him, and this
is the guy who the Lakers offered the job too.

(08:18):
They offered JJ Reddick's job to this guy, and I
don't know if his ego went through the roof because
of that. He was courted by one of his most
story franchises in the NBA and offered a ton of money.
And then he went back to Yukon to be the
god there and now he's beyond reproach.

Speaker 6 (08:35):
I mean, I don't get it. But he's unlikable. He's
just unlikable.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
You can't be that big of a cry baby every
time something doesn't go your way, and it's become like
he's a saw loser. You want back to back championships.
Do you know how many other coaches had to console
their kids and deal with the you know what I mean,
losing in big moments or big spots. Have class. It's okay,

(09:03):
Dan Hurley, do you expect to win the NCAA championship
every year?

Speaker 3 (09:07):
Well also too, don't forget.

Speaker 5 (09:08):
He was walking out to the tunnel and the guy
you know, was yelling at somebody said, I.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
You know, we had good luck to you.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Don't Hopefully you don't get blanked over like I did,
and just they blanked us, Yeah, they blanked us.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
And just continually having these moments where you're like, hey man,
so I look at it a couple of ways. You
don't want life lesson. I've learned and I'm continuing to
learn because you always have to be constantly learning. But
somebody says something once Rob that I thought was really
great because I get it now that I'm oted. They said,
what's your love for that special thing? Can also end
up being your kryptonite. And I'll give you an example.

(09:40):
Everybody has that friend, wild Wildfred. Right, oh, man, hanging
out with Fred. Why you like hanging out with Fred?
Because Fred is wild? You never know what you're gonna
get into. And it's all fun, right for the first
couple of years. Then I see you and I say, hey,
you still hanging with wild Fred? Na, why not? He's
too wild for me. Man, I can't hang with him. Man,
I'm always in trouble Lee just too much. He's too wild.

(10:01):
You loved him because he was wild and it was
fun and it was crazy nights. Then you got older
and you mature. And I say that to say the
passion that Dan Hurley has, the all night paying attention
watching film, you know, running on high all the time.
It's great when you're winning, right, you're looking at it.
We're winning, we're having success, and people look at it
as well. Rob passionate. There he goes Tom Brady yelling

(10:24):
at people on the sideline. That's passion. There you go, man,
look at him, he's passionate. If Tom Brady was two
and twelve yell at everybody, he's a diva. He's a
bad guy. What a horrible believer.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
And that's the way people get it. But I'm in
the Dan Hurley case and I have it. When he
was walking off in the tunnel quote, I hope he's
talking to Baylor. I hope they don't blank you like
they blanked us Bailor.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
I really hope they don't. And you know, people could
hear it.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
It wasn't like he was talking to somebody privately or
whatever's on his way to the tunnel. And I just
the attitude does a coach need to really, I don't
care what the fans.

Speaker 6 (11:07):
It's college basketball.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
You're gonna let the kids in college basketball get under
your skin. You won two national championships. I would like
to see and I haven't seen it. If I'm wrong,
somebody could tell me another college coach who's one championship,
who's pointing to his fingers, like, like.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
We won two championship. You see these two rings.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Seriously, that's tacky. It's classless. Everybody knows you won back
to back championship.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
And again, it works out well because he was winning early,
right He's meaning he's only been coaching out for a
himful of years at Yukon and he's won and had
he was going for his third straight if had he
won this year. So it's cute and it works. When
you're winning, he's passionate. Look, and he's firing his team up.
When you start losing, you start getting exposed. We start
to see your true character, right, and his true character

(11:55):
is coming out. He's like the kid on the basketball
court who loses the game, wants to take his ball,
kicks his ball out past the fence.

Speaker 8 (12:02):
You know.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
He because I'm mad, I'm losing.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
You filed me and that's starting to show so to me,
I'm looking forward to him using this as an opportunity
to grow mature. Because also, by the way, and we
talked about this before, you're supposed to be a leader
of young men. Yes, And I'm not saying you can't
be passionate and be upset and ticked off. That's a
part of life, but you can't be at every time.
And this is your reaction, right.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
The hell with Hawaii. We don't want to have it be.

Speaker 5 (12:26):
Here right really, and and every now and again, I'm
gonna need you to hit you with some Michael Jackson,
I'm gonna need you to look at the man in
the mirror, because it can't be all gravy when you're
winning and leading the kids and then you're losing it.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
It's the refs and it's.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
The other team, the fans and the crowd and all
this other stuff. Why for somebody who's won that much,
you get me just one thing?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
You would you're ready, like.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
You've bet a lot. And and you see how long
time been coaching since Moby Dick was a guppy.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
He got one championship that heurly already got.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
To and that twenty five Tom hasn't won it twenty
five years. I'm just saying, you can't be a soort.
It's a loser's mentality, losers behavior, and it's it's unbecoming.
I don't know how anybody could want to root for
him or you come seriously.

Speaker 5 (13:13):
I think the person the people are looking at it
as he's just passionate, he's all in. He cares you
can have a time with that and want that around.
And I think, to me, he's gonna have to learn
the lesson. And this is this lesson. I was saying,
JJ redd is gonna have to learn you can't burn
so hot twenty four to seven. If JJ wants to
coach for another fifteen twenty twenty five years.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
He's gotta find it. Ain't gonna happen, right, You'll be burnt.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
Out, having hard I'm serious, Urban Meyer, having health issues.
You gotta find that dances, lap dances and heart attacks.
That's not like a crazy album. You gotta find that,
you know what I mean. Look, you can't we gotta
ride to even Keell. You can't go up and all
the way down all the time. So you gotta find
that even kill and he's gonna have to find it.
He's gonna burn out, dude, He's gonna burn out.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
Right, seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine nine six sixty three sixty nine.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Where are you Dan Hurley?

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Passionate or a loser? I mean, well, what you gotta
fall in one of them? You cool with his behavior?
Every time he loses, he flies off the handle, or
so it seems. And he went after the refs after
losing yesterday to number one Florida by two points. Uh,
he didn't mention the free throws missed or grabbing an
offensive rebound. Are you cool with it or not? It

(14:31):
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Speaker 3 (14:56):
Where's My pen?

Speaker 5 (14:57):
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you're gonna tach do it
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Dan Hurley and uh, just his outburst is always something

(16:05):
if you've been.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Watching anybody else throughout the season.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yeah, and most recent one after the game the lost
to Florida, he said, I hope they don't blank you
over like they blanked us over Baylor. So eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox passionate or doing too much?

Speaker 4 (16:18):
That's right, Reese and Lexington, Kentucky, you're on the couple
of Fox Sports Radio on a.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
Magic City Monday. What's up, buddy? What's up?

Speaker 9 (16:26):
Guys?

Speaker 7 (16:26):
Yo?

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Yo?

Speaker 9 (16:28):
Now, man, I can't believe.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
What Reese. I can't believe it either.

Speaker 9 (16:35):
Late tournament.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Over you're falling out for five seconds. Yeah, gotta have
Reese go go oh yeah.

Speaker 9 (16:45):
Fuck, he's gonna walk out and yell at another team
and cuff like he did and blame it on the
rist man. He's like a little league coach fighting with
the parents or something like that. The way he's acted,
I mean, that's re that's an embarrassment to the Yukon
University and his teammates. You know, he should have went
out with a little bit of you know, honor, you

(17:07):
know some class.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
He had lose with class. That's right.

Speaker 5 (17:13):
Every time you lose, that means you were screwed over.
Just say, every time you lose. Can't be that right.
It can't be always.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
I always lose. This happened just.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
And it was the number one school. It wasn't like
you're playing sixteen and you lost and they would call him.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
It was a competitive game. I understand he's frustrated, but
every time you lose, somebody.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
Fuck Marcus in Alabama you're under they couple of Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
What's up, Marcus.

Speaker 8 (17:36):
I'm good man. I appreciate you taking a call.

Speaker 10 (17:38):
Man, Yes, sir, Yeah, dude, just doing too much, man,
I think, uh, you know, history is the best teacher.
I remember Fab and Knight used to do a lot
of stuff, throw chairs on the floor while he was winning, right,
but when he started losing, they can't say Indiana said, hey,
it's time to go.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
Man, no doubt. You don't need to do all that.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
It's okay.

Speaker 4 (17:58):
Nobody expects you to win every year. Okay, I'm sorry.
So it happens. Uh, you missed some free throws, you
didn't get some offensive rebounds.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
It happens. Thanks markets for the call.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Kenny in California, you're in the yard couple of Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
What's up?

Speaker 11 (18:14):
Ken?

Speaker 3 (18:16):
How are you?

Speaker 10 (18:18):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (18:18):
Man? Hey? No, not only was I loved him when
Rick kicked up Bunk got him and Saint Johnson's out.
You know when this guy started him crying like a baby.
All I can do is want to give him his
bottle and give him some Johnson and Johnson baby powder.
I loved it.

Speaker 12 (18:38):
He's a.

Speaker 5 (18:41):
Can't appreciate it's still early, Kenny. Don't still want to
yell at you at some point? Yeah, nod my side,
thank you, No you didn't, Kenny.

Speaker 4 (18:49):
Mike in Texas, you're in the yard couple of Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
What you got?

Speaker 4 (18:54):
We know that Dan Hurley is a hell of a coach.
He's won back to back championship.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Right, I'm glad. I'm glad you said that you could
coach or not. But Mike, is he acting like a
baby or what?

Speaker 12 (19:06):
Yes, sir, I think he was. What's up, fellows and
enjoy the show, Mike. He's got to show maturity. You
know that there's a good to bed and they're going
to come with every job. He's got to be able
to what's saying. He wouldn't have lasted with the Lakers.
You know what, I man, he's got immature But see
they put those a lot of these coaches up on
such a high post. When that kind of breaks and
fall on, can you handle it? But you got to

(19:27):
show maturity and you gotta show class. They say had
a university like that, they need to sit them down
and tell him that, Hey, as long as you win
and things are fad, but when you don't win, you
still got to hold the integrity of our university.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
You're the face of this decade potentially.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Yep, you represent Thank you for the call, Mike. Uh
You represent the university all times. And there's a there's
a time when things you get jobs and you want
to be mad and blossome steam but it can't be
all the time.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
It can't be.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
Listen, part of the job as a ca is to
go at the refs is to say we were you know,
we were messed up. I'm not saying that doesn't that's
a part of the game, but it just can't be
every time, every single time. And you guys lost a
lot of players, and I understand the expectations were there
and you didn't get you know.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Can you imagine saying you don't want to come to
Hawaii anymore?

Speaker 5 (20:16):
Seriously, I'm trying to go to Wabi and believed, but
you know, yeah, Hawaii's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Two times. I love Hawaii. Yeah, look at the faith,
look at the join in your face? What no good time?
I think?

Speaker 4 (20:25):
Oh, I love the Waifi and I you know, I
saved up all my marriout points so we had a
room on the beach.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
I honestly need the I need I need.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
I already have to hear you every day in my
life now, but I still need to hear you specifically
in one topic. You know, how you get the You
see me sit here and every day next to you
want a little coffee from this place?

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Do you know I still haven't had the reward points.
Yet after all these to get better at that.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
And I'm gonna tell you, I need to put together
a manual, a book for people. I'm gonna write this.
I'm not even curious I should. I should write that
is manual and tell people on all these things you
should do seriously, because what I did when I started
as a sports writer, I didn't use any of my
Marrioup points a mile. So when we got married, we

(21:12):
went to Hawaii in Japan's flew first class had a
suite on the beach in Hawaii from my Marriott points.
We stayed in the Newatani Hotel in downtown Tokyo. The
hotel this is nineteen ninety seven, five hundred dollars a night.
That was twenty five years nineteen ninety seven, twenty two
d exactly. That was five hundred dollars a night. That

(21:32):
was a lot of nineteen ninety seven. We stayed there
for a week for free. Like that's what I'm trying
to tell you, No.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
You do you you need to do this. I'll tell
you when we go to break I'll tell you the
secret to him.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
I definitely need to write up manual. It's an easy
way to write it, Bob Parker Life Manual.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
You know, you know I've had the interview at these
authors on the news. Yes, there's an easy formula. All right, Well,
i'll share that moment with the moment. We got Rashad
Phillips aka Yoda, basketball player from University Detroit. Now in
analyt gonna break down some of what we saw here
in just a little bit. Right now, we got to
get you ready for what's trendy with Steve the Sacre.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
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Speaker 13 (22:07):
There and Rob, is that going to be one of
your future podcasts?

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yes, so we'll make it a podcast too.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Is that a simulcast? Who it'll be on tea? It'll
be recorded, video, audio, everything.

Speaker 13 (22:16):
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Speaker 6 (22:32):
On Friday's a good name still by the way, inside
the Park.

Speaker 13 (22:38):
Speaking of baseball, we got opening day for most teams
on Thursday. Dodgers and Cubs reach back from Japan playing excell.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
I'll be there. They played the Tigers. I know, man which.

Speaker 13 (22:47):
Means the best picture in the American League is pitching
at Dodger Stadio.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
So you're off, Trek Scouble Schooble, you're off. No, no,
I'm working, but I'm going. You're just gonna go to
early a little bit. I'll be there earlier. Unbelievable year.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
And then of course it all came undone in that
playoff game against Right.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
I mean, he pitched great the whole way and they
had that one.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Inning, which what's happened? But you would still keep him.
You wouldn't Sam darnold him. No, no, no, no, I mean nobody.
When the Tigers were talking about trading him. Do you
remember that during.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
The when they were I was like, absolute stupid, There's
no way, he's so good. You gotta have a guy
like that at the top year rotation. And they didn't
trade him.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
Thank god.

Speaker 13 (23:27):
You could have two guys on your roster that couldn't
replace what he can do you. He's so good, not
just in one season. And by the way, if you
heard the update on the health of Dodger short style
Mookie bats last night, not good because he was sick
before the team ever went went to Japan.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
And he got on a plane thinking he would get.

Speaker 13 (23:45):
Better longest plane ride of his life there and back.
Remember he got sent home early.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
And and the thing is, when I look at the
video Steve and Kelvin, you could see he's lost twenty
so he looks thinner.

Speaker 13 (23:57):
He said he was one seventy five when he started
spring training and one fifty now.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
He has he and if you've ever seen there's no weight.
He's probably three percent body fat. I'm not even funny.

Speaker 13 (24:07):
And he's like five ten already. Yes, it's amazing that
he hits home runs in the first place. Now they're
asking him to play shortstop, not outfield. I just didn't
see any way, looking at that interview last night, that
he was going to be playing Opening day on that.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
I'm with you now, if this was Max Munthsy, twenty
pounds wouldn't be that bad.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
Wasn't even notice. I don't know if you guys have
noticed I've lost twenty. We didn't see it. Max.

Speaker 13 (24:29):
So they started a three game exhibition series against the
Angels last night.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
He was out.

Speaker 13 (24:34):
Manager Dave Roberts has just said Mookie bats went through
a full workout today at Dodger Stadium and more importantly,
was able to keep some solid food down, which is
a big change to his last week or two. He's
scheduled to play tomorrow's exhibition finale and if that goes well,
should be in the lineup for the Thursday home opener.
So we got some ifs, but amazingly we do have

(24:57):
a little bit better news than we got last night
when he was a late scratch to the NBA. We've
got eight games on this late tonight, including the Lakers
leading twenty four to twenty one at Orlando. Late in
the first quarter for the Lakers Luka Donsich with eleven points.
So far, the Wizards have a record of fifteen and
fifty five. They are leading late first quarter against the
Raptors twenty one to sixteen. In women's college hoops, they

(25:21):
have started the second overtime of the second round NCAA
Tournament game at Maryland Terp's early second ot leading ninety
nine ninety six against Alabama LSU at home, was only
up one at the half, now leads eighty one fifty
five over Florida State at the end of three. Needless
to say, many more blowouts on the women's hoops scheduled

(25:41):
today including dominant wins for NC State, Oklahoma and Texas.
Texas men's basketball has an agreement with Xavier coach Sean
Miller to take over for the fired Rodney Terry Beck
to you.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Ye, Steve Segur, thank you brother. We appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
Coming to you love from theti iraq dot com studios.
It is iyakable Rob Parker Washington on a Magic City Monday,
and we're joined now by Rashaan Phillips, of course basketball
analysts as well as former player at University Detroit where
I used to watch him.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
You did too, Robert.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
I come for him when he was in college along
teams up all the time.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
What's up, buddy, how y'all doing?

Speaker 8 (26:21):
Fellas? I appreciate you guys doing great.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
Man, you.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Get hit me what you got.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
I put them on TV on Channel seven as a
basketball analyst.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Right he did.

Speaker 8 (26:34):
The first person, first person gave me my shot on
TV was Rob Parker, and he coached me up really well,
got me prepared for it. And anytime I go on
TV or go on radio, I always give kudos to
my O G Rob Parker for that.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
Listen, man, I like to tease Rob a lot, but
that's one thing I always tell him.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
He knows this.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
He has a lineage of folks he has helped out,
for sure, and showing so I like as much as
you know, I like to mess with him. That's one
thing I'll give him credit for for sure.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
Well, Sear, we just were talking about Dan Hurley.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
He's a great coach, back to back championships, we get
all that, But it can't be everybody's fault every time
you lose.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
He comes off like a loser or a cry baby.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
A coach has to be careful not to that every
time you lose is somebody else's fault.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
That's not a great message for kids.

Speaker 8 (27:24):
Is it. No, it's not. You know, I think a
lot of times, you know, and you look at the
Hurley family in general, like they come from a lineage
of of tough nose basketball player. You know, they from
you know, they're from New Jersey, you know, they they
kind of you know, they've been in the trenches, you know,
when it comes to the basketball and stuff like that.

(27:46):
So they they're they're very very competitive. But you know what,
there's a difference between There's a thin line between being
very competitive and being a sore loser. And I think
sometimes sometimes he crosses it just a little bit, you know.
And in the social media space that we're in now,

(28:09):
everything is on film, everything is everybody has their cameras out,
everybody has their phones out. So these type of antics.

Speaker 12 (28:18):
Would not.

Speaker 8 (28:20):
Wouldn't be seen twenty thirty years ago because there was
no social media. But now everybody has a camera in
their hand. Everybody has a miniature camera in their hands,
so they catch every little thing. So we have to
cut them a little slack with that. Soon as he
gets rolled up, people pick up their phones. And I
think he's also entertaining because he know he's on film
as well, you know.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
So it's both to me, Sean Phillips, our guests, Rob,
let me ask you this when we look at these teams,
I joke, but it's also some truth to man.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Some of these kids look like.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
They went to high school with me, you know, and
I went to high school long, long time ago. And
what do you make of if you know you're coaching,
you are coach, But you know, if you're coaching one
of these teams, how your ability to go get players
out of the blue? You don't have to, Oh, it's
going to take us two three years of rebuild. You
can go get that twenty three year old who's that
Wichita State, you know, who's been playing for years, and

(29:14):
get him, and go get a couple other guys like
that and start your team. Is this better for college
basketball or is it just where we are right now?

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Not better or worse.

Speaker 8 (29:22):
Yeah, I don't think it's better or worse. I think
that's just what we're dealing with and you have to adapt.
And when you look at college basketball now, I think
that it's kind of turning into a little bit of
the European model. That's as opposed to, you know, creating,
having older players stay longer, being able to nurture those

(29:45):
players a little longer. And now with money being involved,
guys are not so quick to try to jump into
the NBA because college sports has become a job. It's
a job now. Twenty years ago it was a job,
but you didn't get paid like it was a job.
He was more right, right, So I feel like, yeah,

(30:10):
you're still a student athlete, but now you have to
add another slash to it, so it's student slash athlete
slash job. That's what it is now. So guys are
getting paid, they're staying longer, and in order to win,
you got to have upperclassmen, so no doubt.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
Hey, there was a story that broke at Michigan with
Scottie Pippen's son justin just two days right after the
sweet sixteen birth. I'm out he entered the transfer portal
and he will not be playing against Auburn, and I
guess he's done with Michigan.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
What do you make of that?

Speaker 4 (30:49):
With the transfer portal, didn't even wait till the season
was over, but he's not playing, so I guess he
decided he wasn't going to be a part of it anyway.

Speaker 8 (30:58):
Yeah, I mean okay with the transfer portal, I think
it needs some tweaking. I think the transfer portal should
not open up until literally after the national weird TI, Yeah,
I think it just needs I mean I actually enjoy
the free agency. We love free agency with MLB, we

(31:20):
love free agency with NFL, we love it with NBA.
Why don't we love it in college? I just think
it needs to be tweaked a little bit. Uh, College
free agency is I'm okay with that. I think kids
should have the opportunity to applying better work.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
I agree with that coaches doing all the time. Look, Daniel,
I never leave it here. I will be by your side.
Get on the bot of here real quick. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (31:49):
Yeah, So I think that if the coaches have the
ability to find a better job, why can't the kids
find a better job as well. So I just think
that the rules need to be pushed back the like
the transfer portal opened up today. Today is the first
day that opened up. But I feel like if it's

(32:10):
pushed back to you know, the first week of April,
where you get every team equal opportunity to participate in
free agency, then that's what I would like to see.
So to answer your question about pipping, I don't think
it's the right time to jump in a portal when
your team is still playing.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
Yeah, it does seem it just yeah, because it's to
our whole point of like it's not as fall per say,
he's trying to get out early so we can get signed.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Go somewhere else.

Speaker 5 (32:40):
Yeah, you know, but it just looks bad like you're
ditching the team, And now maybe looks like all that
would he do that to us?

Speaker 3 (32:46):
You know, if you're the one who would sign him,
is he going to just leave us like that? All right?
Real quick with Sea.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
We got to bounce out of here. Who do you
have in the championship game? Who'd you have picked?

Speaker 8 (32:55):
I picked Florida to win it all. Okay, I think
I think Florida wins it all because I feel like
in order to win the National Championship, you got to
do two things. You gotta be able to play defense,
you got to be at a rebound. And the additional
bonus things you've got to be able to do is
score big points and you have to have death. I

(33:17):
feel like when you look at the Florida Gators, they
check all of those boxes. So I picked them to
win it all.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
All right, We will see how right he is. He's
usually right about most things. Rashan, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Man. We appreciate you, appreciate you.

Speaker 8 (33:30):
Appreciate you. Guys, Thank you so much. Talk soon, all right?

Speaker 5 (33:32):
What the heck is going on with Mookie? We were
just talking about that with Steve. We'll continue that conversation
and Force. We got to get Shekel City in there
and see how Rob did. It's the odd couple. Rob
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Speaker 5 (34:30):
All right, it is time now for check out city
defeat the eyes to dude.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
Alright, on Friday, I was one and two. That's seventy
five and seventy six.

Speaker 6 (34:43):
Okay, all right, yeah he bounce back. Here we go tonight.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
I'm gonna take the Sacramento Kings plus three in a hand,
gotta be plus at home against the Boston Celtics.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
But only plus three and a half.

Speaker 5 (34:56):
And they like somebody out somebody you already know that
Tatum or Jaylen Brown out something, Zach.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
Remember the Kings plus three and a half. Also, I'm
gonna take the Phoenix Suns host of Milwaukee. I'm gonna
take the Suns minus three and a half. Really at home, yep,
taking on the Bucks. And then my best bet Denver
minus two and a half taking on the Chicago Bulls.
That's in Denver. So i'm gonna take the McNuggets with
some honey mustard sauce.

Speaker 5 (35:21):
Yeah, plus the Bulls with that big win over the Lake.
They gotta relax, exactly, they'll come back down to earth.
So Denver minus two and a half, the Sons minus
three and a half, and Sacramento plus three and a half.
And remember, I'm not telling you who to bet on.
I'm telling you who I bet on. All right, there
you have it, man. We were just talking about a
little bit with Steve earlier. Just obviously the Dodgers coming

(35:43):
in has the favorites to win and repeat first time
in twenty five years.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
We talked about that since the.

Speaker 5 (35:48):
Yankees one key cog in that would be Mookie Bets
and this weird mysterious illness that they can't diagnose.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
They don't know what's going on.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
At first I thought he ate something in Japan, but
but Steve said that he was sick.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
Prior to days before they left. Yeah, and then that
long flight to Toke that didn't not help.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
I could imagine.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
I know he must have been because to not be
able to eat solid food. Just recently, I guess they said,
just he's now starting to hold down some food.

Speaker 5 (36:16):
And what's if you know anything about him, he's just
like a lot of insanely great athletes, ridiculously meticulous with
all that, like the eating and what I eat, where
I eat, how I eat. Dude, we did a whole
thing on him. He brings his own pots and pans
and things so he can cook on the road. Dude,
did you hear I just said the man is worth

(36:36):
you know, then signed a few hundred million dollars. You
think he all gotta chef the travels or I do this,
or oh I just we got some good food in
the hotel.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
We stay in five star hotel.

Speaker 5 (36:44):
No, he brings his all home pots and pans on
the road so he can then, you know, cook what
he's supposed to eat, only make the proper thing. So
for a guy like that, you know, and then the
mess around to lose twenty twenty two to three pounds.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
It's just it's scared.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
And I was listening to one of the interviews and
he said that, you know the doctors that said his
blood work was fine, So that's that was good to hear.

Speaker 8 (37:08):
That.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Still, not to be able to hold down food can't
be that great. And and then I guess we'll find
out more. But I'll say this, he doesn't need to
rush back. We'll started seeing the Dodgers already too. And
all remember they won the two games in Japan against
the Cubs. And if he's not up to it to
get the guy held, you got a long role. Remember,
if you're expecting and you're the Dodgers and you're expecting

(37:32):
to repeat, you're gonna be playing until November. So there's
no reason to rush him back if he's not. And again,
he's playing. It's not like you can hang out in
right field playing short stuff.

Speaker 5 (37:42):
And he and he was disappointed in his performance some
last year too, so he's been talking about how much
he wants to get better, wants to improve.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
That's not an easy position.

Speaker 4 (37:50):
They're not too many guys who are on the Hall
of Fame track who changed positions like right exactly. I mean,
I remember Robin Youll, who is a Hall of Famer.
He went from shortstop to center field. That's usually what
they do, and that's they put you out there activity exactly.
He's not the other way around most not too many people,
Yeah to third.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
He moved from shortstop to third. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
But but yeah, so Mookie to do that and then
not only like it was to your point, it wasn't
hey for a week or two, somebody's out just covered
to now make it a full time thing. So you
know he wants to improve in that. Yet the good
thing too, I was we were talking about this earlier,
Dustin and I.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
The Dodgers, if they have two things that if they don't.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
Do anything else will well their farm system clearly, and
then also their depth, like they've covered the tracks for
the last you know, six seven, eight years of all right,
if this guy goes out boom, he's in. This guy
goes out boom, we got this going on. Uh, And
so they've always had some good depth so they can
sit Mooky. I mean, dude, you lead off with showhy

(38:52):
that's just crazy. Already sounds absurd, but MOOKI definitely has
to get right because he's a key part of this
and he and he kind of redeemed himself. We talked
about two years ago he and Freddy Freeman struggled in
the postseason. I believe it was two years ago, and
so him and able to have some big moments. His
past postseason was really good for him. Obviously Freddy as well.
Freddy ended up being the biggest story. But for Moki

(39:14):
to kind of come back, bounce back this pass offseason,
our postseason was good for him. So yeah, hoping that
it's best for him, But that's frustrating when you don't
know what's going on. You're doing your due diligence. You know,
they have the best doctors money can get, and for
them to not have an answer has to be a
little bit frustrating.

Speaker 6 (39:28):
But yeah, no rush On, no, absolutely no. Obviously he wants.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
To play Opening day, everybody does, you know what I mean,
But if you're not well, not one hundred percent, take
your time, there's no rush I just didn't like seeing
him looking that thin.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Yeah, I mean, dude, he is in ridiculous shape. Like
if you you know, it doesn't even make any sense.
Like and so for that guy to lose twenties, like
I think Russell Westbrook. If Russell Westbrook lost twenty pounds,
you'd be like whoa.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
And the quote my body feels like it's just kind
of eating itself. I mean, think about that.

Speaker 5 (39:59):
Why I want that for me, though not in a
sick way, not in a sick way, just in a
I'm meeting his fat I would love for this to
be the case.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
I'm doing better though.

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Number two Deshaun Tate college basketball Analyst, We'll talk more.
NCAA tournament will do that and a lot of good
stuff to get to ill and uh well, let's just
let's go to that Arkansas Saint John's game, yep, and

(41:10):
it was coach cal against Rick Patino, not not buddy buddy. Uh.
They said that they have a mutual respect for them,
but other people say they hate each that's what they say.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
I think I think it's it's uh, oh can I
that was about to be a bad example.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
I was gonna say, like, I'm not gonna bring that on,
don't do that, do that.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
But yeah, I just think it's uh, you know, like
I like him, but he's too much like me or
too similar and and and on my heels and the
thought of is he better than me? So I think
there's that element too, you know though, like the the
teacher trying to be better the teacher, the student trying
to be better than the teacher.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
By it, I get a little bit of that too.

Speaker 4 (41:51):
I just I'm always surprised when coaches act brand new
at a game.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
M hm.

Speaker 6 (42:00):
So in this game, he benches like one of the
star players.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
Yeah, r J. Lewis Junior, what are you doing? Oh yeah?

Speaker 5 (42:13):
So basically, uh, Lewis Junior hits two free throws to
get the game within two with four minutes and fifty
seconds six seconds left, So you're thinking, all right, cool,
we're good.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
You know, we were down two.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
We gotta still got our best, one of our best players,
and all of a sudden, we don't see him again
and they go on eleven to four run Arkansas does
Paul to win the game, and so everybody's curious, well,
what the heck happened?

Speaker 3 (42:40):
You know, why why didn't he come back?

Speaker 6 (42:42):
No, forget when we talk about the best, he was
the big.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
Ten ten player, big yeah, player of the year, I.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
Mean big big East, sorry, Big East player of the year.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
Yeah, So this isn't a guy, this is the guy,
and so everybody was obviously curious, Like he just knocks
down two free throws and.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
We getting ready to go.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
Lewis did not have a great game. He was three
for seventeen from the field. So he had an awful day.
And let's hear Rick Patino trying to defend this to
reporters when he's questioned on it.

Speaker 8 (43:11):
You had RJ on the bench, you know for a
pretty long stretch at the end. Was that just because
he just didn't wasn't making him or was there something
more to it?

Speaker 14 (43:21):
Played thirty minutes, it's a long time.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
So he was tired.

Speaker 14 (43:25):
No, played thirty minutes and I went with other people.
You already know the answers, Roger, you're asking the leading questions.
You already know it, So don't ask leading questions. You
already know why he didn't play.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
Was there one play with RJ that made you sit
him the last five minutes? You know he was three
for seventeen?

Speaker 14 (43:40):
You know he was oh for three, So you're answering
your own I'm not going to knock one of my players, but.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
You just did by giving the stats.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Why can't you say I didn't think you know, like
a lot of players, they'll be like, let him shoot
out of it.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
He's a star.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
He could get hot, make three baskets at the end,
win you the game. Ry have a terrible Rick, you're
asking leading questions. No, we're trying to figure out what
you're thinking of benching your best player when the game
was within two points, somehow you survived.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
How about questioning you want to take the whole team out?

Speaker 4 (44:16):
They shot four for forty one a combined Arkansas and
Saint John's. This is college basketball? Four for forty one
from three? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (44:28):
What is this?

Speaker 8 (44:31):
So?

Speaker 4 (44:31):
Rick doesn't want to I'm not throwing one of my
kids done to the punk you did.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
You didn't play him in the last four fifty six.
What are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (44:39):
You you're you're big enough to take the kid out
of the game, but you can't say why. Hey, I
don't think that kid's a fantastic player. I just don't
think he had it tonight, and I wanted to give
another kid an opportunity who had worked hard in practice
his backup. We did this earlier this year in the

(45:01):
game at Buffalo, and that kid gave us a spark.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Uh, I got it? Is that so hard?

Speaker 5 (45:09):
I think I never thought the day would come. Then
I'll be throwing brick Patino bail. I think I'm throwing
them some bail here. I think what he was trying
to do was not throwing fully under the bus and
say two robs point man, we don't shoot threes like this.
They were one of the worst shooting three point teams.

(45:30):
We don't shoot threes like this. This ain't our game.
And every time I look up, you're shooting threes. And
not just him, obviously, the team as a whole. He
talked about how their assists the ball moves better, we
get assists, we play better. So I think there might
have been something where it's like, hey man, what's up
with these shots selections? This is why we find ourselves
in these positions. We keep chucking up bad shots, chucking

(45:50):
up bad threes. Let me find someone who's gonna run
what we're trying to run. Let me find someoneho's gonna
run the offense the way I'm trying to design this
so we can actually get some fluidity and get the
offense flowing. So I think he was trying to do
that and not put him under the bus and saying
he wasn't doing I asked, you saw him taking bad
shots this?

Speaker 4 (46:08):
But he was only zero for three from three, so
they missed a lot, right, That's.

Speaker 5 (46:12):
Why I said the team this to me reads of
I'm looking at you and saying, don't do something, and
you went out there.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
And then if I say moved the ball.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Seventeen and had ten miss threes, okay, maybe maybe I'm
buying into that.

Speaker 3 (46:26):
That's what I'm saying there.

Speaker 5 (46:26):
So when he had his beef, like you know, you know,
all gets in those huddles and he says, hey man,
I'm sick of y'all not moving the ball.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
Move the ball.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
That's the reason why we're you know we're down. We're
taking easy the first shot available. That doesn't mean it's
the best shot available. Blah blah blah. And then you
go out and do that one or two more times
because the logic is, I'm keeping my best player in
the game. So to me, this is reading something bigger.
I think you know what I mean, something bigger. I
had to have happened then just he was broken, miss.
I think you have to look at this.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
If you're Rick Patino, the game is on the line,
and the big right, you're down by two, the Big
East player of the year. You can't turn your back
on him if we're gonna lose. Lewis Junior stink it
up all the way and I'll live with it. His

(47:17):
rise back to prominence. Rick Patino is hitch to that
kid's wagon all year. Now, all of a sudden, when
it gets tough, your bail on the kid.

Speaker 3 (47:29):
I don't buy it.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
I don't think that you do that.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
You still would rather have that kid out there and
think with the shooters mentality. You played high school basketball
at a high level. Wanna State championship in Michigan. All
it takes is for him to make one and then
he might make three.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
To add am I right or wrong? No, you're right,
And what makes it even weird?

Speaker 5 (47:50):
I will say this, So I played, as you mentioned with,
would be the high school player of the year the
whole country, not just Michigan, the entire country. And it
was up Lavelle Blanchard shot to leavell uh Winter to Michigan.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Had a really nice career. Blah blah blah. Did he
make the NBL Dude.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
Lavelle Blanchard, I was ten years too early. He I
think in Toronto had him in for a little bit.
What he was best at he would be he'd have
a twelve career now undersized, he's six seven, but that
era was Carmelo, Kobe, Lebron, Paul Pierce.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
You're supposed to be real.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Jason Richardson, who we played against in that state championship,
you gotta be crazy athletic. He wasn't quite that athletic
as them, shoot the lights out, rebound with the best
of them. He would have been a stretch for in
the NBA. Now he had a nice career. Give remember
giving you twelve and six A night. You know, for
ten years, made one hundred million. He would have had
a career. He was too early. He was in a

(48:50):
Kobe Bran. If you six seven, it's like dark O
Darko what he's doing yep, Like Darko right now would
fit into this fact again, rebounding tough era he was
supposed to be in and that happens Lavell in this
because dude, think PJ. Tucker guard centers nowadays, Draymond, he
could be a stretch forward, srets five, knocking down threes,

(49:12):
think a not I'm saying no that My saying is
auhor for skill wise and he's not that big, but
just knockdown shots, rebound, play some good and he would
have had a nice career.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
But he was too early.

Speaker 5 (49:21):
Where if you're six six', seven you're a one of
these Treats chasey, McGrady, Carmelo Paul pierce type.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Players my point, is, dude if we're.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
In the game and if our coach Pull lavel and
it was, like, Uh lavell is just not coming. Back
oh is in vioul. Trouble no he's. Not oh he's.
Hurt no he's. Not i'm Just i'm mad at.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
Him right.

Speaker 5 (49:41):
Now you talk about that, now you try to fight through,
that but, mentally what does that do for? Us, like
oh my, gosh how are we coming back when lavel
is just sitting on the bench right. Now and so
that is one of those things WHERE i could see
it's not only are you messing with the player, Himself
lewis junior the, team because right you're all, right we're

(50:02):
trying to come, back and every time you look your
best player sitting on the, bench tyl over his head drinking,
gatorade you're, like, ah we need the cavalry to come
up in here and at some. Point so it's hard
to be competitive when what you're used, to you're used to.
Happening if you look at This laker team right, now
your point and you're, looking, go all, right all, right
we got it down, six all, Right luca's coming in

(50:23):
at some.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Point and If.

Speaker 5 (50:24):
Luke ain't coming, in you're, LIKE i don't give a.
Day if lucas five for, forty Bring luca. Business that's my.
Point and that's WHY i Think rick missed a. Body
is something? Personal did he say something to?

Speaker 4 (50:35):
Him you give it up like because love like and
it doesn't make sense what you've done to the team
and even your success with the.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
School you weren't out of.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
It if you went down by If jay he missed
a three and he had missed eleven shots in a,
row and you're down by, fifteen can you take him?
Out Then, okay we're not gonna win this. Game it's
four minutes to, go five minutes to. Go we're, Down
we're Not you can't make a shot Or i'm. Hurt
he's trying to push through as much as he. Could you,
Know i'm, not, Man i'm not gonna Have this doesn't make.
Sense and then to not be able to just articulate

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to the media and The Saint john's fans who would
want to know why the best player on the team
isn't playing the final five minutes in a two point. Game,
okay forget about what, happened forget about the three for,
seventeen the game two to. Nothing that's how you have
to look at. It, right the whole team is. Shooting

(51:25):
they Combined arkansas And Saint john four for forty. One, yeah,
everybody everybody's, Bad so why are you picking out your best?

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Player that's Why i'm reading into.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
This it was something not necessarily personal, person but something
Where i'm looking at you, saying only do, this and
you went out there and didn't do, it and MAYBE i, said,
hey remember we're only doing this and you did it,
again or a man blankety. BLANK i don't give a
dang about you know, something because it doesn't make. Sense
Rick patino wants to. Win eve been coaching for forty fifty.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Years For himI seventy two years, old so he to,
win and this is against his young.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
Mintee, right this is your comeback story here right, here, Right,
yeah he went to. Us he's At Saint john story,
right and then you're gonna do this at.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
That that's why it reads something, personal like something happened
where you might have you, KNOW i don't, know because
otherwise it's just logically basketball wise doesn't make. Sense Luka,
Doncics Lebron James Jason tatum can go five for twenty
but in the last four minutes of this game and
win all game, well winner go home game, right guess
who's playing to say The Kobe bryant In game seven

(52:32):
with The lakers seven for twenty. Two danga even came
down to one. Shot who you think that ball was
going to, right you know WHAT i? Mean so, YEAH
i Just that's WHY i said it must be something
where he was, like oh, really oh really, okay because
obviously he was broke three for. Seventeen clearly the shot wasn't,
falling it wasn't at. Night maybe you get him a
blow for two minutes to, like all, right, see maybe

(52:53):
he said somebody else. Up you don't even.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
Know he's a, decoy like you still got you still
gotta guard him, That i'll leave him. Open he's three
for seventeen and then all of a sudden he knocks
down three straight threes and as ball, game.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
Dude that's Why i'm like something weird, here man all?

Speaker 4 (53:08):
Right eight seven seven ninety nine On fox eight seven
seven nine nine six sixty three sixty. Nine Did Rick
patino do the right? THING i think he did the wrong.
THING i think you got to go with your best,
player even on the worst shooting night or bad. Night
the game was within, reach AND i think he made a.
Mistake you understand it a little bit.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
More i'm saying there.

Speaker 5 (53:28):
Has to be something else to it than just he
wasn't three for c he was three for. Seventeen there's
something to, it you, know because that doesn't make any
sense because last, point, rop this ain't a playoff game
where we got the best of, seven.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
No, right this is the winner go. Home and for
him to do, that my thing is.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
Maybe patino, knows but But i'm still, saying you can't
do no matter, what no matter, what because this is
about the, school his, teammates and you just said it
this winner go.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
On you'll be, like we want the best player back,
in back.

Speaker 5 (53:59):
In you started looking at that. Bench, Coach, no. COACH
i don't know if you, know But louis sitting right.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
There put him back in