March 24, 2023 • 47 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon breaks down the greatness of all the recent March Madness games with Gonzaga and UCLA playing tonight in the sweet 16! Plus, Berman drops by to give us his best references to the big wins of the night!
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sources and who's talking to me? No one's talking to me,
intercircles breaking trust Smith. But I gotta tell you right now,
smack Dad. In the middle of night one of the
regionals of the NCAA tournament, We're about to tip off
the game of the night, UCLA and Gonzaga. This feels
like a national championship game, right Like, I know, we're
in the sweet sixteen, they're two three, But Gonzaga and
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USLAG the last couple of years, how far they went,
the games they've played, This feels like the national title game.
I mean, yes, we had great games so far tonight
we got Tennessee and Florida Atlantic right now, early in
the first half. But the Zags and the brew it
feels like the na turns, feels like the NSA Championship. Well,
we got one terrific game tonight right one, one and one.
So uh, the Connecticut Arkansas game was a disaster. It
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was fun. It was a deceptor for Arkansas. Yeah yeah, no,
but I'm just saying, like, you know, it's one of
those Hey check the score on that one. Do we
need the second screen? Nope, Nope, because the other one
you wanted to put it on a second and a
third and surround yourself with all of the greatness that
was going down the big plays, some of the curious
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decision making, uh down the stretch both sides. But uh, yeah,
it is festive, no question about it. UCLA Gonzaga, Um,
definitely a Gonzaga uh most most definitely actually feels like
a little bit of juice. Right. Even last week it seemed,
I don't want to say stayed, but it didn't have
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the same thrust that the beginning of March Madness normally does.
I didn't hear a bunch of ads about vasectomese. I
didn't have anybody doing long form that's filled my timelines
with those ads and suggestions about which frozen vegetable you
needed to buy and stock up on ahead of said procedure.
Didn't see any of that this year it was lacking.
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Either that or everybody's already taking care of that business.
But this one feels pretty huge and us being here
in Los Angeles, Jason, I know you've been around folks
all day. The guys already in the back. We're getting
no work out of them. In about five minutes. When
this thing tell you they're done, They're all, yeah, they's done.
I got by. You said. They got their chests and
faces painted for UCLA for this game. So again, this
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game is still a couple minutes away from starting. The
two games we talked about it in the books. Look
the one that was a blowout. It's time for one
thing to happen now. It is time for Danny Hurley
to get credit as one of the Sorry Dan, Danny.
When I watched him play, he was Danny Hurley. So
he's Danny Hurley. Does he have to be Dan? Now? Well? Yeah,
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you gradually way to Dan because he curse it guys.
He's just uh who was it? Who was the football coach? Right? Um? Oh,
Dion Sanders? You know? No, no, no, you just call
him sir to avoid any problems. No, no, no, no no,
it's NBA Michael Malone don't call me oh yeah, yeah,
don't call me Mike. No. Well, when you have nick,
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when you have names like like like Danny or Billy,
as you get older, it's okay. Normally okay, you use
the more formal form of their name because they've gotten older.
But you know, still Billy Donovan is still Billy Donnov.
He's not William Donovan. You know, it's it's but but
Dan William. Yeah, I mean he's now, but he's now.
You know. Look Dan Hurley, and you know because because
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I remember him hoisting up threes for Seaton Hall when
I was watching him, which which tells me how old
I am. Uh. He's got to get credit as one
of the top coach in Division one because he's someone
that has succeeded at all three of his stops and
he's done the same thing. He has taken a team that, hey,
we need you to raise us, and that's what he's done. First,
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he started at Wagner College in the early twenty tens
when Bobby Hurley was his assistant, and got Wagner up
to the top of the Northeast Conference. He left for
Rhode Island took him a couple of years after two years,
they're winning twenty games yearly got to the NSA Tournament
a couple of times. He jumped to Yukon I believe
five years ago today, Dan Hurley got the gig as
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Yukon's head coach. In two years they were up to
winning twenty games a year and boom, here they are
now in the Elite eight. Twenty three wins. Last year
they came in third in the Big East, twenty seven wins.
This year, fourth in the Big East, and here they
are in the Elite eight. He's done some kind of job.
When you can succeed at every one of your stops,
and every one of those stops is a step up
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from the one before it, that's the mark of a
terrific head coach. And Dan Hurley has done a phenomenal
job getting this team here in the Elite eight. They
were trendy coming in and now I think a lot
of attention is going to be spent on him depending
on how the next game goes. But Dan Hurley could
be a really big topic converence station coming up the
next few days. Well, I mean the fact that he
also got all of his extensions in right, So I
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mean that that's good, So that that works out nicely
and the celebration thereof what is he? All the way
through twenty twenty seven. Now yeah, you know, up to
about three million dollars a year. But remember how powerful
this team and this school was years ago. You go
through a bit of a lull and a transition and
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to build it back. But we watched this in every sport,
you know, where you have to go through the ranks
and show your chops and adapt to the level of
athlete you can recruit and try to get some kind
of continuity and system in place, and then you hope
it all works out right, that the guys that you
invest in all that time, effort hours on the practice
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court when it comes to March madness and these type
of things, because we still are in the phase and
it's one that I had a little debate with the
guy that I do the Baltimore hit with earlier today,
you know, talking about the Big Ten which is now
all eliminated with Michigan State going down a bit earlier
today that you know, what are you recruiting for trying
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to win your conference and then you go and play
a completely different style of squad, perhaps six different times
right to go through the bracket. So what's the level
of success that you know, what's the measure by your
bosses and the bosses uh, whoever you decide to give
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the power, whether it's institutionally or the fan base at
times starts to rise up the journalists in town unless
they can get fired because the coach has clout on
his way out the door, beheim uh. And and then
you you try to, you know, figure that out. And
each school, each conference, et cetera, has to decide for themselves.
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But he's not a hell of a job. And it's
it's fun to watch, you know, a team rise back
up because now we get to go back and talk
about those great Yukon teams of the past. Yeah, now,
now suddenly it's gonna be oh and Kemba Walker would
have this big run in the NCAA turn all this time. Now. Look,
it's it's great to see Yukon back on the map
and back being a college. Look. But whenever the heritage
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teams are good in college basketball, it's good for college basketball.
It's great. Then you know the new issue that I
would say a team like Houston is a newish team
because look from the nineteen Look, yarn, you're going back
from nineteen eighty two, nineteen eighty three for them, right,
Like it's great for them to be to be to
be good again. But when the heritage teams that are
the conference tournament teams, teams you see on TV all
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the time, when they're good, the sport is always better.
And you know for a year that we didn't have
um North Carolina or or Duke or Kansas or Kentucky,
you know, getting far in the tournament. To have a
school like Yukon getting okay, because it's yes, it's not
too it's still not too long ago from the Jim
Calhoun days, not cold Ella mean days and Rip M
Hamlet maybe so yeah, I mean it's it's it's great
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to see that back. And Yukon has had one heck
of running. Look like I said, trendy team uh in
the NCAA tourna, I wish I had the guts to
pick them in my bracket, but I fought, you know, boy,
are they just too trendy? Are they really this good?
And I'm like, oh, yeah, okay, they're they're really this good?
Now UCLA is holding my bracket up all by themselves
like they're the owner. I'm like, I wish you said
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that the only look, but I got UCLA winning it all.
They're the only ones holding up my bracket. Well, Michigan
State was one of those where I was like, all right,
I had them against Duke and I thought they could
beat Duke. Well now they're both gone, so they can
both beat it. I'll see them both in Hell. I
had eight of the sixteen coming in. Down they go,
and then well, I'm gonna lose one of the teams here.
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I picked Gonzaga, so we'll see what happens there. But
it is, um, I don't know, it's a big night.
You know. You mentioned Rip Hamilton and Lamine and I
just started thinking about that squad. We were still living
up in the Bay Area when they were at their peak,
and they came up to play Stanford and that bus
rolled in and they were tough. It was raining, like
it's been raining here, and you know the weather people
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have had all across the country, and yet there were
still like a hundred people waiting to meet those guys.
That's just just yeah, I'm telling you. The bus rolled
up and you got all these folks standing around and
they did their best, you know, taking pictures, signing autographs,
all that kind of thing, you know, because back then
you still had to have the uh instant cameras, you
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know that, or you had the Hey, I might get
this developed, I might not. There might be a lot
of shots from that day that are still sitting in
someone's drawer undeveloped. Now my one hope now with the
NCAA tournament now for for Ukon here because we'll look,
we'll get to Marquis Nooel coming up in a few minutes.
My one hope for Yukon is that to celebrate Yukon
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going to the Elite eight, people start posting the Jim
Calhoun get some facts and come back and see me,
because that's one of my That was the favorite underrated
press conference meltdowns of all time, is it gets some
fact acts and come back and see me. Get some
facts and come back and see me, because you know
there's a oh yeah, all the moneys. Yeah, when he
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what was it take tonight? Like all the money? Geat,
what was it take tonight? The gate? Then he gets
really mad at the guy. Get some facts and come
back and see me. I really want that to live again,
because that was just so unbelievably entertaining, and that's like
the biggest you know, I want that. Hey, if I
can ask for one thing. Hey, we talked about d
Dan Hurley. We talked about Dan Hurley, and let let
let's give Jim Calhoun credit because that was one of
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the best postgame press conference meltdowns ever. I hope that. No,
he was really good because because he always had the
furrow and brow and you knew he was pissed at you,
but he didn't usually go over the top and and
and really go after you like Behaim made it a science.
Shovski would get whiny, right, and then he'd give you
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that look and start leaning in into his chair and
then you'd see everybody cour and then they were bowing
down at the altar for the rest of those press appearances.
Sorry Duke fans, storry, Sorry do all the coach k stands. Look,
I'm a Chicago kid. I love the career he had,
uh southside Polish guy, all that stuff that he he
wore out his sleep, but he'd go back and look
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at it and go, Yeah, probably wore guys out a
little more than I should have at times. But Calhoun
didn't didn't do it regularly. But when he went in,
oh he fully went in. Not one time, not one time.
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AP Happy john Wicknight. A lot of people, a lot
of people at john wickfour will be They're all gonna be. Oh,
it's gonna be beautiful. It's got the bulletproof suit. Oh,
I can't wait. I wrote a sign for the three
hundred kill. Yeah really now three hundred club. Yeah, let's
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got He's got two hundred and ninety nine kills through
three movies. Now I'm being serious. When he kills that
first person in john Wick four tonight, uh yeah, do
they stop the movie and we celebrate it like Lebron
passing Kareem Abdul Jabbard and then we get back to
the movie. I think we should. I think we should.
Little bit, Yeah, that's number three hundred. He get Kenna
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Reeves gets to talk. It'll be a short speech, you know,
because John Wick's character doesn't talk all that much. He
would say like, I'd like to thank everybody who died
in the movie. Okay, great, thank you, all right, great everybody.
It's like all the times that we monitor movies for
how many curse words? Right, how many times the F
bomb gets dropped in a movie? The same thing here, Yeah,
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Adam Silver comes out, congratulates John Wick on the three
hund and here's the three hundred more John all right, great,
I got the back end. I got the rest of
this movie. I might get three hundred more by the
end of this film itself. But will the presenter look
more like Rob Manford did the other night at the
end of the World Baseball clients, I mean, who are
we kidding guys, We're gonna be in the process of
literally stand up and the second kill is gonna happen.
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We'd have to sit right back down. Yeah, that's yeah,
you're right, you're right, yeah, yeah, sure, Now that they
would be looking like we're doing the wave or we
call a time out and have them turn the lights on. Well,
I think that's what has to happen, is like it
has to be very organic where the kill happens and
then boom right to everybody stops, someone comes in, confetti
goes off, and you know, okay, we have to stop
right now. Well, Jason or what could happen is right
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after he hits three hundred, he does what Lebron did
and fakes an injury and sits out for a while.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah yeah, and he'll get
his three hundredth kill and Anthony Davis won't celebrate. I'm
rooting for the bad guys. I'm not standing up for
you at three hundred. Butler comes out, oh oh oh,
that's nicely done. But right now NCAA Tournament Florida Atlantic
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look Out could be headed to the Elite eight. They
lead Tennessee forty eight forty one. It's been a big
second half for them. Meanwhile, UCLA up ten over Gonzaga
fifty four forty four. Drew Timmy's got twenty five and
nine boards, and UCLA is still up ten. We'll have
more on this game as it continues to unfold. Against
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a lot of time left here with fifteen minutes. But
we had a couple of big results early tonight. Ukon
with a big blowout win over Arkansas. Kansas State out
last Michigan State in overtime ninety eight ninety three. Marquise
Noel with an unbelievable night there. So the big question is,
how would Chris Berman announce these results? Oh? Boy? Howd
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announced these results? And here we go? What do you want? First?
You want how how Yukon uh moves on? Or do
you want to Kansas State? What do you want? First?
Let's go k State. Let's get the Wildcats in because
first ubiquitous uh simple name that they stole from us
uh t J today feeling like Christmas for Noel and
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the Wildcats. That's not bad? J good, that's good. I
can I can get with that. The first Noel to
take Kansas State to the Elite eight since twenty eighteen.
TJ okay gool for Noel Born is the king of
the Sweet sixteen. See that one. You can put on
a T shirt. Noel certainly no coward against Michigan State today, DJ, Look,
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I get literary on you. Now, Hey, I'm not just
a John Wick shoot him up, guy. I'll get literary
on you with Noel Coward. Yeah, you want to explain
to um well, folks that don't read a lot who
he was? Right? Read a lot? You? Um am? I
raw no, no, no, I think during your course of
your career. You get a little bit of Noel Coward,
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don't you. I mean I would, I would think, no,
can you go to school and stuff? When you go
to school and stuff, I'll take English playwrights for well.
I didn't get get any of him when I was
in school. I mean that came later. But yeah, okay, okay,
all right, and maybe now we're an audience of two. Okay, alright, alright,
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very good, very good. T J. Lizzo normally puts the
L in Iszo, but today it was Kansas State. Whoa
how he's gonna come in? John Wicky TJ. The Michigan
State lost. Today was about damn time for Iszo. Who's
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gonna Who's gonna go after m Harder? Is it gonna
be Iszo or John Smoltz? Oh oh no, No, it's
gonna be Steve Garvey. Absolutely is gonna be Steve Garve
should be Hall of Famer Steve Garvey. Uh so uh Now,
Yukon Yukon congratulates Yukon and Dan Hurley. You know, hey, look,
big day for Hawkins as well, leading Yukon and scoring TJ.
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Yukon were the winners. When all the hurly burly was
done and the battle was lost in one YEA, Well,
I come on, everybody's tay, Come on, you know everybody
taking that Shakespeare and knows early Burley in the Battle
loss Shakespeare, I know. But people people go to high school,
no Shakespeare, you do, Sure they do. So you're saying
Burman didn't go to high school. No I didn't. I
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didn't say. I said. People, that's what I put together.
They get No, I'm sure he went to high school.
He went. They went to Brown, right, I think it
to Brown? He was not a high school nobody. Well,
I think you I don't think you can jump right
from middle school to Brown. I think you have can. Actually,
I don't know that you can. Brown's a pretty good school.
I don't know that you can do that. You don't
think you could have been homeschooled and gone to Doogie
House or Route. I don't know, man, I have to
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think that if there was some kind of crazy way
to be homeschooled through high school and get to great
schools like on a regular basis, more people would do that. Yeah,
my child's best child in class, graduate, highest average really, yes,
top one percent? Yes, got an A and every class right?
What school was it? Um, it was in the living room.
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It was University of Phoenix. What's that? What's that? I
was home schooled? Oh okay, I gotta think more people
would have done that, Star pupil. Well, you still have
to pass a bunch of proficiency tests and go in
and proved yourself to a bunch of guys and women
suited up and ready to excoriate what you've worked so
hard to attain. Well, what if you're homeschooled and your
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parents still are grading your test? Well, boy, you only
got six out of ten? Right, So what did I get?
A hundred? Congratulations? Nice job? But wait I got four wrong? Nope,
I don't see any I don't see any red marks
on that paper. You had everything right, Brown University, get ready.
I can understand your rationale for choosing that answer, and
I applaud you for doing it. TJ. Yukon's in the
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Elite eight. You can't be serious. I am serious, and
don't call me Hurly. Oh no, Mike too far. I
don't know about Larry and Moe, but it was a
big night for Hurley and you can numbskulls. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Yukon's in the Elite eight extra extra. Read all about
it in the early edition of the newspaper. All right,
that's it. You got Kyle Chandler in again. You're done,
t J. There's no more stranger things than Hawkins and
Yukon in the Elite eights. TJ. Turn my cof out.
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You're done. Usually with Hawkins we talk about eleven, but
this is the Elite eight for Yukon too far. Oh
and that's pretty good. There's no going back now, TJ.
The new Sheriff of Hawkins is Hawkins and Yukon as
they advanced to the Elite eight. TJ. Even TJ's left,
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David is seeking safe harbor and Hawkins Hawkins is the
new sheriff. He just gets up at least all right,
I'm done, I'm done. He just stuff like Bernie at weekends.
Thinks he's still around, but he isn't. Oh hey, do
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you want a hot lebron take. Well that's coming up
in ninety seconds, but first let's check in with Steve
to Sager to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. So between the Connecticut head coach and
the big man Sinogo, there you got your hurly burly. Yeah,
we got sure. If only we had at the same
time in college basketball, Marquise Noel and Rickie Christmas and
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Drew Holiday. Oh oh, that would have been fantastic. Got
Holiday and Christmas and Noel. Now, yeah, you're Sweet sixteen,
every right, You're absolutely right. Marquise Noel, five foot eight
guard from New York at Madison Square Garden tonight was
the star nineteen assists in an overtime win against Michigan
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State ninety eight ninety three in the round of Sweet sixteen.
This was the first overtime game we'd had since two
years ago when UCLA eliminated Alabama. But this tournament hadn't
had any overtime games at all. Last week. We got
one tonight and Michigan State is eliminated. It finishes the
season twenty one and thirteen. By the way, the last
NCAA tournament to be played without a single overtime game
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is still nineteen seventy. I saw this stat on the
Big Ten now the Spartans are out that the last
two years that conference has sent seventeen teams to the
NCAA Tournament, not one has advanced to the Elite eight.
So most teams any league has sent over a two
year span without any of them reaching a regional final.
In the history of the tournament. Noel was sensational, including
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the steal and layup at the end for the ninety
eight ninety three overtime final. He only had two turnovers
twenty points five steals as well. You add up his
three tournament games so far, it's over sixty points, over
forty assists, it's eleven steals. According to the folks at
stats Inc. Any Division one or NBA player in the
last fifteen years, nobody's had those numbers. You'd have to
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go back to Alan Iverson in any three game span
in two thousand and five. He has been sensational and
certainly was tonight. The winner k State is awaiting either
Tennessee or Florida Atlantic FAU, a three point gunner team,
has made a few threes in the second half and
leads the Tennessee balls with three minutes to go fifty
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five to fifty. As for the two games in Vegas
in the West region of the Sweet sixteen, Connecticut easily
beat Arkansas eighty eight sixty five Ukon with a fourteen
oh run in the first half, so Yukon will get
the winner of Ucla and Zaga. Zaggs had made a
run Ucla still twelve minutes to go, Ucla up fifty
nine fifty four, and you mentioned Drew Timmy earlier dominating
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in this game. Timmy is fifteen of twenty two shooting
from the floor. The rest of his team combined has
about twenty two shots in this one, but the Bruins
are holding onto an advantage. Four more games in the
tournament's Sweet sixteen tomorrow, including number one Alabama against San
Diego State. Just four NBA games tonight. Late games in
LA late first half Clippers have had forty nine forty
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eight over Oklahoma City Kawhi Leonards seven of seven shooting
in the first quarter, fifteen points. Paul George out at
least two to three weeks with a spring knee. New
Orleans got a triple double from Brandon Ingraman beat Charlotte.
Orlando upset New York and Cleveland on a last second
three one at Brooklyn. The Nets have lost five straight.
There is still no target day for Lebron James return
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to the Lakers. He's been out since late February with
his foot injury. Just over two weeks left in the
NBA's regular season NHL wins for the Rangers in Boston
and Phillies. First baseman Reese Hoskins suffered a torn ACL today.
ACL reconstruction surgery is recommended after the non contact injury
in a spring training game. Back to you, thanks a bunch,
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Steve the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike
Harmon live from the ti iraq dot com studios. And
today was a day you just heard Steve talk about
the situation with Lebron James. Where early in the day
we got the report that Lebron James progressing in his
comeback from his right foot injury. There's optimism he could
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come back in the final week of the regular season. Look,
he's been out since the end of February with a
tendon injury when he got hurt in Dallas. He's back
on the court a little bit and is on a
gradual basketball movement progression. This is what the Lakers announced
on Thursday, and then Lebron James put this statement out
on social media. There wasn't an evaluation today and there
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hasn't been any target date for my return. I'm just
working around the clock every day, three times a day
to give myself the best chance of coming back full strength.
Whenever that is God, bless y'all sources. I speak for myself.
So here is the Here are the Lakers who are saying, hey,
we're hopeful to get him back, maybe the last game
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regular season. Here's Lebron saying no evaluation, no target date. Now,
this is a this is a pretty hot this is
a pretty hot take, and it's it's but I want
to say it now because this is what we're gonna
find over the course of the coming days and months.
Doesn't it feel like the Lakers are kind of done
with Lebron? Yeah? Doesn't it feel like they're done? I mean,
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I know he's got the contract extension that that's gonna
you know, kick in. He's got an estimated forty six
million for next year with a player option. But this
last this injury was such a big deal for them,
you know, the fact that he gets hurt and now
I'm not available. I feel like we talked about at
the time where where you realize, Okay, you can't count
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on Lebron anymore. Right, we were past that point where
you can't count him to be on the floor because
he's just getting hurt way too much, and the Lakers
can't count on him. It's whenever he plays as a bonus.
But now I almost feel like the Lakers feel like
they're done with him, Like all right, you pass cap
and that's great, and you won everything, but now you
got to get us in the playoffs here and now
you're hurt again, and it feels like they're done. Just
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the feel with the team. Austin Reeves has the big
night last night, you know, him and D'angela Russell combined
for you know, fifty points, and Reeves is shooting the
ball well, he gets into great rhythm. He takes a
lot of shots, and it's crazy that we're talking about
well Austin Reeves is pushing Lebron up, but it's like, wait, what,
Just the fact these conversations and things are out there,
it sort of feels like the Lakers are done with
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Lebron and I don't know what happens from here on
out because it gets messy. But Lebron coming back and
the fact that he's now at odds with the Lakers
when he can come back when he can't. You have
two reports, one says, yeah, he's progressing, and hopefully the
end of the regular season, and Lebron feels need to
put out a statement saying no evaluation, just mean no
other sources are they They've gotten the point where I
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think they've gotten what they want to out of each other.
And the Lakers got a championship and they wanted more,
but that was it. And Lebron got the brand of
Los Angeles and he got to pass Kareem Abdul Jabbar
and break the all time record, and now it's like, Okay,
we've each gotten as much as we're gonna get from
the other, and now we're done. And I feel like
like the Lakers are pushing that that they feel almost
(28:05):
like the Packers and Aaron Rodgers, where Okay, we've gotten
what we've wanted out of him. It's not been great,
but we did what we could. The last couple of years.
He won the MVP. That's awesome. Now he's not the
MVP anymore. We want to move on. And it sounds shocking,
but that's how it goes. And I kind of feel
like it's the same point with the Lakers and Lebron,
now where okay, we've gotten all really going to get
out of you and now our team is not any
(28:27):
better and we're not winning, and look at the way
they play when you're not on the floor. And maybe
there's a future here without you that we can make
our team better somewhat sooner. Maybe there's some kind of
trade or a situation where things work out, because it
doesn't always end great, you know, for players, Just to
ask Aaron Rodgers, you don't always get to ride off
into the sunset whenever you want to. I feel like
they're at that point now where they're done with Lebron
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and now from here on out it's just going to
be messy. Yeah, just wondering in terms of the sourcing
and and all of that fun stuff, you know, wild
them off and you play along versus Bristling. Did you
plant this if you're the Lakers to get make him
the bad guy? Right? Could you still had enough people
that'll carry water for him at every turn. Nobody's gonna
go quite as blunt as tie shirt saying ah, he
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got his record, he quit, But yeah, I paraphrase it,
But it's just that idea, right, Look how hard he
worked those last couple of weeks, the extra minutes, the
extra stress. When we knew he was already playing through
an injury, right, Wasn't that the report we kept getting
He's playing through the foot, an ankle and all of
(29:34):
that stuff, and then he's going thirty eight a night
and hustling and grabbing every opportunity to bolster his point total,
and then he couldn't finish that game and they lose
to Okasee and he's been unavailable since. And the frustration
has to be huge because Davis had to wear it,
and he's certainly, you know, has had to step in
(29:57):
multiple times during his tenure here and answer questions about
availability either for Lebron or well himself. On the A's
feeling all right, but this was a scheduled thing from
you know, like a month ago. So it's it's really
the dumpster fire floating on the river gif right now,
as as well as component parts of that team is
(30:17):
are is playing. Depending which you want to conjugate with,
there is the idea that um with Lebron James, they've
just had enough of having to kick the can down
the road. It's like, you know what, this this will
snuff him out. He's got to say something if this report,
if he wants to disagree with this report, and he did,
and now it's it's on him because it's all all right,
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So how are you feeling? Give me more than that?
Don't just push back on all the reporters that you
and your team have been feeding reports too forever. Hey, guys,
I'm gonna go against John this one. You gotta give
me this. I need one to flex. Why are you
where where you are? Well? Okay, so then where are you? Like?
What's give suff nothing? I mean? I mean so you
(31:01):
wonder how much does he want to come back? The
same question is at the end of last year, Because
what did I tell you was going to happen? Last year?
When it looks like the Lakers weren't going to make
the playoffs, Lebron was gonna somehow find a way to
not play. What happened, He didn't play almost all the
way down the stretch, right, I told you exactly how
that's going on, the same thing was happening here. Lebron
looks like the Lakers might not make the playoffs, and
(31:21):
Lebron's not played for a long time. You wonder how
much does he want to play? I don't even know.
I didn't know what motivates him anymore as a player.
But now I feel the injury that he had the
Lakers that was like, okay, you know what, Now, now
we're done. And they shouldn't have signed him to the extension.
They should have let him go. They got what they
were gonna get, and instead, no, we have to keep them.
They felt the pressure. We got to keep them here.
(31:43):
We gotta keep Lebron James, we have to have a
big star. And now it's okay, now we're ready, We're done,
ready to move on. And that's kind of where the
Lakers are. And this whole thing. I can't say I
blame them, because okay, so why are you Why are
you and the team at odds with your health? If
everybody's on the same page. That should never happen and
you should never not be on the same page with
your team as far as your health goes. And maybe
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it's just them saying maybe Lebron can come back at
the end of the regular season as a as a
like a carrot at the end of the stick for
the for the Lakers, or you know, that's a that's
a bad example, but just like a you know, it's
something to point to look forward to. Hey, let's keep
it afloat here. Maybe Lebron can get back and really
help us. And now Lebron is saying, oh, hey, no,
(32:25):
you know, no, no, that's not gonna. I don't know
where I'm at. I don't know if I could play anymore.
You know, it's weird like it could be just be
as simple as the Lakers want to give people hope
they could come back, and Lebron still just says, no, no,
I don't even know if that's gonna. Be sure to
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All I can say is wow, I wish I had
trademark sentence. Are you blanking kid? Wow? Wow? Wow? Wow? Okay,
Las's let me explain. No, there is too much. Let
me sum up. Ucla has just had a tremendous comeback.
(33:10):
They were down nine with less than two minutes left
to go in the game, a furious comeback. You had
a couple of end ones by himI Hakez and then
you had a three by Amri Bailey with thirteen seconds
left to go to give UCLA the seventy six seventy
five lead. Drew Timmy missed two free throws that could
(33:33):
have really put the icing on the game, but instead
a Marie Bailey hits a three with twelve and a
half seconds left to go to give UCLA the lead.
Ucla calls time out because z I got to inbound
the ball from under their basket. They get the ball
up the floor very quickly, and with seven seconds left
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on the clock, Julian Strother hits a three from about
the edge of the Madness logo that gives Gonzaga a
seventy eight seventy six lead. There was no we're looking
for a bucket here, we only need two at seventy
six seventy five. Straw ticks the ball seconds and hits
(34:13):
a Damian Lillard three Like that's a that's the heroic
shot of shots that give them the lead. Gonzaga gets
the ball back because Tiger Campbell turns it over with
a couple of seconds left. Ucla had the ball and
everybody watching this game is thinking the same thing. I
am right. Strawthor hits the three, and then what it's
(34:35):
Tias Edney, right, It's Tias Edney and Tiger Campbell up
the floor in the final seven seconds and it looked
like he was getting set to pull up for a
pull up to stop for a pull up jumper, and
he lost the ball. Strawthor picks it up. He hits
a free throw to make it seventy nine seventy six.
Tiger Campbell gets a last second off balance three from
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justin side half court. It doesn't go. Gonzaga beats UCLA
seventy nine seventy six. What an unbelievable thriller we just
saw and drew. Timmy goes from Hero to Goat back
to Hero because his great game, he missed those free throws.
I tell you open the door for U and he
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missed two. Wow, and then had the opportunity right He
goes to the foule line with two shots. He misses
the first one, makes the second, making it a three
point game, and then they did the hook and laugh. Yeah.
And you know, here's the thing I want to say
this right away is that the strath shot is just unbelievable.
That that is uh. I don't even know how to
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your best describe that in terms of your analogy. I
am I am going to say this. I'm gonna go
out on a limb here, Mike Harmon, I'm gonna go
out on a limit. I'm gonna say, I don't think
that was the play that Mark you drew up in
the in the huddle, I don't think that's what it means.
I don't create the lead blocker and then he runs
up he fires up at three with seven point five
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or main No, probably not. I don't think a three
from the logo was the shot that he called up there.
I'm thinking that was more let's get it into Timmy,
who can either take it to the or find us
find somebody because he's such a great passer. I don't
think that was a play. That was one of those
give me the ball, I'm gonna make this shot. Was
that play right there? YEA cold yeah blooded? If you
(36:26):
say what you know, hey, you know, help me out
with this. I don't know what they mean when they
say a cold blooded three. You just show him that
video right there, because that's what that was. That was
a cold blooded three. By Man had no conscience. It
was like he knew he was facing John Wick and
this is the only way he was going to survive
for this movie. You know, shoot or shoot right, this
(36:47):
is the guy he's you know, he averaging fifteen points
a game, but he's four out of fourteen on the night.
Doesn't matter. I'm gonna take this shot. He knew that
was a that was a Lillard logo three for stra
author and I again, I don't think that was That
was one of those player where Mark he was like, no, no, no,
what are you doing? Yes? Yes, yes, Right now, his
family and friends are all scrawling things on napkins and
(37:11):
every piece of paper they can find in the house
to create some turn of phrase to nil the hell
out of this thing. Gee, somebody get Timmy a trimmer,
get off due. Yeah, but that's how Timmy's looked for years. Now,
I mean that that's it, and he's got four more
years of Eligibility's gonna be at eight. Yeah, he's gonna
be Anza. He'll still be a Gonzago when the Mets
are done paying Bobby Benia. Oh that's how long he's
(37:33):
gonna be there for. Look at that. I mean, really,
you see le Gonzag Get him together, right, and you
get a game like this always. But you know, but
the thing Tiger Campbell, it's like on the final drive
after they get the ball, you know, he makes the shot,
he's got time to get up the floor because he's fast,
and they and Gonzago, you know, falls back. They allow
them to inbound the basketball. And I think he felt
(37:55):
like he got caught because he went to the right side.
He had two defenders there, and rather than look for
a pass because he had a couple of seconds, he
panicked and he just lost the ball. I mean, he
just lost the ball when it was either a pull
up jumper or some kind of play because Campbell had
a couple of seconds. But he's got it. It's he's
got like three and a half seconds left, and he
(38:15):
goes up and the defender just slaps the ball out
of his hand and it goes to Gonzaga, and Gonzaga
wins the game. Who unbelievable, brutal, what a game. Oh man,
this is March. This is March. I'll tell you, this
is absolutely Jason. Just the fact that UCLA was still
in it and took it to the final one point four,
It is amazing that. But that's it, right, They're down
(38:37):
nine at two h five, can't score for nine minutes,
getting outrebound him like fifty to twenty. Final second half
numbers forty six thirty is the scoring. In the second half,
they were down nine, they didn't have a bucket till
a minute fourteen leven still grabbed the lead temporarily and
(38:58):
then we see the shot of shots Man. This is
just an incredible end. Wow, I really, I mean, Gonzaga survives.
They eliminate UCLA seventy nine seventy six, a game that
it looked like USLA had in the bag in the
first half. They were up by thirteen. Then it looked
like Gonzaga had it because useilated hit a shot for
ten minutes and then getting back in it. And maybe
(39:21):
maybe I'm overestimating this this a little bit because part
of the drama at the end was the fact that
USA looked like they were out of gas. Right they
were out of gas, they were tired, they don't have
a big bench, they're missing a couple of players. We've
talked about that. And there was a little bit less
than two minutes left to go and Gonzaga had the
ball and they were facing a shot clock violation where
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it was the clock was ticking down. Gonzaga took a shot,
it didn't draw iron. It looked like it was going
out of bounds and Drew Timmy comes and tries to
do the I'm gonna save it by throwing it off
the UCLA player, and he throws it off us LA
player and the ball bounces and it bounces out of bounds,
but it bounces out of bounds right around the time
the shot clock hit zero, which it doesn't go out
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of bounds, and they've had the ball. It's gonna be
a shot clock violation. So they spent a good few minutes,
I want to say at least four or five minutes.
First they were looking at did the ball hit the rim,
because it clearly went out of bounds off a UCLA player,
But did the ball go off the rim? Did it not?
And then if it didn't go off the rim, then
did it go out of bounds before the shot clock
(40:23):
hit zero? And that four if I mean, I kind
of said it, but I was kind of only half serious.
But I wonder if that amount of time just gave
the UCLA players. We got time to just sit back
and rest and gear up for the last minute and
a half because they had they were done, and now
suddenly they couldn't miss hawks is at the rim for
end one and end one and then a big three
and it's like all of a sudden, here comes you know,
(40:45):
UCLA is back like they were, like they were never gone.
I wonder if that four or five minute stretch of
looking at that play let them just catch their breath
for a couple of minutes and either clear their heads
and reset and get them back or at least get
them time to just not have to worry about running
up and down the court and get some energy back. Yeah,
just today, and look, we know the resiliency, right, get
(41:06):
the back of the tank for you. And you're coaching
your daughter's teams, here's some orange slices like Peyton Manning.
I mean, you gotta follow the and emulate the best, right,
and you can get rolled through. Look, they're highly conditioned,
pressure packed tested athletes up and down the line. So
(41:27):
you know you're at the finish line and that you
had a moment to regroup. Somebody maybe said ted Lasso
like inspirational quote or a grunt like your Roy Kent
and you got back out there and you gave a
hell of a show in that final minute fourteen seconds
(41:47):
that you know, you got a lot of folks nervous
man on all all fronts because as soon as it
opens the door again, it's like, oh, we're gonna lose
a heartbreaker again. And that shot mean that that's one
that Cronin and all these guys are gonna be seeing
for forever. Man, you're gonna know exactly where he was
(42:08):
above the arc when he let that thing go unbelievable ending.
This is March. This is March. I mean we've seen
that play before, right, we talk about Star Street. We've
seen the three where hey, I'm coming up and the
trailer takes it. Oh it's good, it's a good, uh
but liking move. But I can't believe at that moment
(42:28):
that was in a game where Timmy's got thirty six points.
And I mean, maybe they would get him, they would
collapse on him, they would send him the free throw line.
But ah, you only need you only need a bucket,
you don't need a three. I really, I really wonder
if that was the play that was called. As he
pulled up and was getting ready to shoot. I stood
up in the studio here like wait what And then
(42:50):
it goes down like wow, I mean you talk about uh,
clutch pressure, whatever terms you want to use on it,
and I'm sure the phrase you'll come up with a
few burminisms before we get out of here for it.
But yeah, that lead blocker. I mean, you can't defend
in front of him, right, No, unless you're chasing him down.
(43:11):
So that's about as clean a look as you're gonna get,
even if you drive to the basket at that point,
because you're also moving the ball up quickly. Timmy's not
back on the block at that point. So you know,
the one thing I will tell you about this, watching
it as many times as I have, is that it
doesn't look like Timmy is moving for the ball at
any right it like I'm watching because obviously that's where
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the ball's gonna go. It doesn't look like he is
moving to get the ball at any point. And you
want to get it to him because you're talking about
a game in which you have less than ten seconds
left to go at this point, right, you want it.
You don't want to give it to him with like
two seconds left. So maybe it was well, I mean
you gotta get Look, the worst thing that can happen
is trying to get cute and say, all right, we're
going down on the block and you got seven seconds
(43:55):
left right. But UCLA one of your better defending teams
even without the He's like, you see Timmy is kind
of walking up and then he starts to aggressively work
towards a potential rebound situation frantically. Yeah, but he wasn't
gonna get that if that, if that missed, he wasn't
getting that ball. He was he was just standing there,
he was, he got a hint a rope a dope,
(44:17):
and then he spun back. But yeah, it's that's it.
I mean, that's that's the call of calls and you
know what, it's just like we drew it up. That's
the that's the answer from few and everybody else. You know,
we run that trailer play, you know, it's like the
old uh Duyane Wade Lebron James play with the dunk
and he's staring at the camera after he lobs it up. Yeah,
(44:38):
that's it. That's what we did right there, except it's
a three pointer from thirty feet away. Wow, unbelievable. Hey,
how did it sound when it looked like UCLA was
gonna win there up by a point and Gonzagas shot.
That's gonna live in March Madness forever. Uh, here's how
it sounded. Strawther, we'll get it in. Salas picks it up.
Clock start's eleven seconds. Salas across the top on pitch
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it back straw the deep free from the top of
the key got it. Scraller from the top seven seconds.
We Cambel on the run out of the front court
drives the right side, struck the Scraller's got it full
with one point one to go, Ryan rad Key Westwood
one on the call. There it was the straw, the
three tiger. Campbell loses the ball and Gonzaga moves on
(45:23):
unreal to the Elite eight, where their prize is. Oh
a Yukon team that didn't break a sweat tonight against Arkansas. No,
that was it was a nice rollover win there. He
came in and took care of business. And again now
and now my bracket has done and Gonzaga you did,
(45:44):
you have a Gonzaga did nice. But so I at
least have one of eight teams. Yeah that's good. Yeah, Yo,
you can still win. You can still win, Yeah you have.
But now you're talking about the games. Tonight we have
a three and a four playing for the five four
and a three and a nine playing for the final four?
(46:04):
Who this is great? Maybe? Hey, can I still win
if I don't have either team in the national Championship game?
Can I still wink? Still do that? No, you can
go through all the permutations. If you want to go
and look at everybody's bracket that is in that contest,
head at it. I might be able to. I'll leave
that for you. I'm gonna get ready. Just know you
beat one person's bracket that's in the studio tonight. Oh
(46:26):
who did that beat tight shirt? Howd u CSB winning it? All? Oh?
Better than tight shirt? Better than much better than tight shirt?
Better than tight shirt? Who else in your final four
besides USB? Oh? Gosh, I have to look, But I
think I had them against Pittsburgh for the final. Okay,
(46:48):
you CSB in Pittsburgh? Yeah, I was. I can do
the same two Okay, all right? Yeah? Would that would
be tough? You're right? Well, either way I win, then
you know, Oh, no, that is true? That is true? There,
you know? Or I would say maybe the old Nick
Pacai push there are no winners here. Okay, if you
had UCSB and PIT and it happened that way, you
(47:10):
would be able to quit Fox Sports Radio because you
would do interviews with people for the rest of your life. Millionaire,
how did you have this? How did you have a
fourteen and eleven? I just did. I just did. I
don't really pay attention, and you work in sports, Yeah,
but I don't really pay attention I do. I do
anime stuff while the show was on the air, Yeah,
and I do that stuff. Yeah, I do anime. But
(47:32):
but how did you pick those? I don't know. I
just did. What do you want to talk about? I'm
a health food guy too. What do you want to know?
I tho she looks good.
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sources and who's talking to me? No one's talking to me,
intercircles breaking trust Smith. But I gotta tell you right now,
smack Dad. In the middle of night one of the
regionals of the NCAA tournament, We're about to tip off
the game of the night, UCLA and Gonzaga. This feels
like a national championship game, right Like, I know, we're
in the sweet sixteen, they're two three, But Gonzaga and
(01:47):
USLAG the last couple of years, how far they went,
the games they've played, This feels like the national title game.
I mean, yes, we had great games so far tonight
we got Tennessee and Florida Atlantic right now, early in
the first half. But the Zags and the brew it
feels like the na turns, feels like the NSA Championship. Well,
we got one terrific game tonight right one, one and one.
So uh, the Connecticut Arkansas game was a disaster. It
(02:13):
was fun. It was a deceptor for Arkansas. Yeah yeah, no,
but I'm just saying, like, you know, it's one of
those Hey check the score on that one. Do we
need the second screen? Nope, Nope, because the other one
you wanted to put it on a second and a
third and surround yourself with all of the greatness that
was going down the big plays, some of the curious
(02:33):
decision making, uh down the stretch both sides. But uh, yeah,
it is festive, no question about it. UCLA Gonzaga, Um,
definitely a Gonzaga uh most most definitely actually feels like
a little bit of juice. Right. Even last week it seemed,
I don't want to say stayed, but it didn't have
(02:54):
the same thrust that the beginning of March Madness normally does.
I didn't hear a bunch of ads about vasectomese. I
didn't have anybody doing long form that's filled my timelines
with those ads and suggestions about which frozen vegetable you
needed to buy and stock up on ahead of said procedure.
Didn't see any of that this year it was lacking.
(03:16):
Either that or everybody's already taking care of that business.
But this one feels pretty huge and us being here
in Los Angeles, Jason, I know you've been around folks
all day. The guys already in the back. We're getting
no work out of them. In about five minutes. When
this thing tell you they're done, They're all, yeah, they's done.
I got by. You said. They got their chests and
faces painted for UCLA for this game. So again, this
(03:38):
game is still a couple minutes away from starting. The
two games we talked about it in the books. Look
the one that was a blowout. It's time for one
thing to happen now. It is time for Danny Hurley
to get credit as one of the Sorry Dan, Danny.
When I watched him play, he was Danny Hurley. So
he's Danny Hurley. Does he have to be Dan? Now? Well? Yeah,
(03:59):
you gradually way to Dan because he curse it guys.
He's just uh who was it? Who was the football coach? Right? Um? Oh,
Dion Sanders? You know? No, no, no, you just call
him sir to avoid any problems. No, no, no, no no,
it's NBA Michael Malone don't call me oh yeah, yeah,
don't call me Mike. No. Well, when you have nick,
(04:20):
when you have names like like like Danny or Billy,
as you get older, it's okay. Normally okay, you use
the more formal form of their name because they've gotten older.
But you know, still Billy Donovan is still Billy Donnov.
He's not William Donovan. You know, it's it's but but
Dan William. Yeah, I mean he's now, but he's now.
You know. Look Dan Hurley, and you know because because
(04:41):
I remember him hoisting up threes for Seaton Hall when
I was watching him, which which tells me how old
I am. Uh. He's got to get credit as one
of the top coach in Division one because he's someone
that has succeeded at all three of his stops and
he's done the same thing. He has taken a team that, hey,
we need you to raise us, and that's what he's done. First,
(05:01):
he started at Wagner College in the early twenty tens
when Bobby Hurley was his assistant, and got Wagner up
to the top of the Northeast Conference. He left for
Rhode Island took him a couple of years after two years,
they're winning twenty games yearly got to the NSA Tournament
a couple of times. He jumped to Yukon I believe
five years ago today, Dan Hurley got the gig as
(05:22):
Yukon's head coach. In two years they were up to
winning twenty games a year and boom, here they are
now in the Elite eight. Twenty three wins. Last year
they came in third in the Big East, twenty seven wins.
This year, fourth in the Big East, and here they
are in the Elite eight. He's done some kind of job.
When you can succeed at every one of your stops,
and every one of those stops is a step up
(05:43):
from the one before it, that's the mark of a
terrific head coach. And Dan Hurley has done a phenomenal
job getting this team here in the Elite eight. They
were trendy coming in and now I think a lot
of attention is going to be spent on him depending
on how the next game goes. But Dan Hurley could
be a really big topic converence station coming up the
next few days. Well, I mean the fact that he
also got all of his extensions in right, So I
(06:05):
mean that that's good, So that that works out nicely
and the celebration thereof what is he? All the way
through twenty twenty seven. Now yeah, you know, up to
about three million dollars a year. But remember how powerful
this team and this school was years ago. You go
through a bit of a lull and a transition and
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to build it back. But we watched this in every sport,
you know, where you have to go through the ranks
and show your chops and adapt to the level of
athlete you can recruit and try to get some kind
of continuity and system in place, and then you hope
it all works out right, that the guys that you
invest in all that time, effort hours on the practice
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court when it comes to March madness and these type
of things, because we still are in the phase and
it's one that I had a little debate with the
guy that I do the Baltimore hit with earlier today,
you know, talking about the Big Ten which is now
all eliminated with Michigan State going down a bit earlier
today that you know, what are you recruiting for trying
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to win your conference and then you go and play
a completely different style of squad, perhaps six different times
right to go through the bracket. So what's the level
of success that you know, what's the measure by your
bosses and the bosses uh, whoever you decide to give
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the power, whether it's institutionally or the fan base at
times starts to rise up the journalists in town unless
they can get fired because the coach has clout on
his way out the door, beheim uh. And and then
you you try to, you know, figure that out. And
each school, each conference, et cetera, has to decide for themselves.
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But he's not a hell of a job. And it's
it's fun to watch, you know, a team rise back
up because now we get to go back and talk
about those great Yukon teams of the past. Yeah, now,
now suddenly it's gonna be oh and Kemba Walker would
have this big run in the NCAA turn all this time. Now. Look,
it's it's great to see Yukon back on the map
and back being a college. Look. But whenever the heritage
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teams are good in college basketball, it's good for college basketball.
It's great. Then you know the new issue that I
would say a team like Houston is a newish team
because look from the nineteen Look, yarn, you're going back
from nineteen eighty two, nineteen eighty three for them, right,
Like it's great for them to be to be to
be good again. But when the heritage teams that are
the conference tournament teams, teams you see on TV all
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the time, when they're good, the sport is always better.
And you know for a year that we didn't have
um North Carolina or or Duke or Kansas or Kentucky,
you know, getting far in the tournament. To have a
school like Yukon getting okay, because it's yes, it's not
too it's still not too long ago from the Jim
Calhoun days, not cold Ella mean days and Rip M
Hamlet maybe so yeah, I mean it's it's it's great
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to see that back. And Yukon has had one heck
of running. Look like I said, trendy team uh in
the NCAA tourna, I wish I had the guts to
pick them in my bracket, but I fought, you know, boy,
are they just too trendy? Are they really this good?
And I'm like, oh, yeah, okay, they're they're really this good?
Now UCLA is holding my bracket up all by themselves
like they're the owner. I'm like, I wish you said
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that the only look, but I got UCLA winning it all.
They're the only ones holding up my bracket. Well, Michigan
State was one of those where I was like, all right,
I had them against Duke and I thought they could
beat Duke. Well now they're both gone, so they can
both beat it. I'll see them both in Hell. I
had eight of the sixteen coming in. Down they go,
and then well, I'm gonna lose one of the teams here.
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I picked Gonzaga, so we'll see what happens there. But
it is, um, I don't know, it's a big night.
You know. You mentioned Rip Hamilton and Lamine and I
just started thinking about that squad. We were still living
up in the Bay Area when they were at their peak,
and they came up to play Stanford and that bus
rolled in and they were tough. It was raining, like
it's been raining here, and you know the weather people
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have had all across the country, and yet there were
still like a hundred people waiting to meet those guys.
That's just just yeah, I'm telling you. The bus rolled
up and you got all these folks standing around and
they did their best, you know, taking pictures, signing autographs,
all that kind of thing, you know, because back then
you still had to have the uh instant cameras, you
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know that, or you had the Hey, I might get
this developed, I might not. There might be a lot
of shots from that day that are still sitting in
someone's drawer undeveloped. Now my one hope now with the
NCAA tournament now for for Ukon here because we'll look,
we'll get to Marquis Nooel coming up in a few minutes.
My one hope for Yukon is that to celebrate Yukon
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going to the Elite eight, people start posting the Jim
Calhoun get some facts and come back and see me,
because that's one of my That was the favorite underrated
press conference meltdowns of all time, is it gets some
fact acts and come back and see me. Get some
facts and come back and see me, because you know
there's a oh yeah, all the moneys. Yeah, when he
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what was it take tonight? Like all the money? Geat,
what was it take tonight? The gate? Then he gets
really mad at the guy. Get some facts and come
back and see me. I really want that to live again,
because that was just so unbelievably entertaining, and that's like
the biggest you know, I want that. Hey, if I
can ask for one thing. Hey, we talked about d
Dan Hurley. We talked about Dan Hurley, and let let
let's give Jim Calhoun credit because that was one of
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the best postgame press conference meltdowns ever. I hope that. No,
he was really good because because he always had the
furrow and brow and you knew he was pissed at you,
but he didn't usually go over the top and and
and really go after you like Behaim made it a science.
Shovski would get whiny, right, and then he'd give you
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that look and start leaning in into his chair and
then you'd see everybody cour and then they were bowing
down at the altar for the rest of those press appearances.
Sorry Duke fans, storry, Sorry do all the coach k stands. Look,
I'm a Chicago kid. I love the career he had,
uh southside Polish guy, all that stuff that he he
wore out his sleep, but he'd go back and look
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at it and go, Yeah, probably wore guys out a
little more than I should have at times. But Calhoun
didn't didn't do it regularly. But when he went in,
oh he fully went in. Not one time, not one time.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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AP Happy john Wicknight. A lot of people, a lot
of people at john wickfour will be They're all gonna be. Oh,
it's gonna be beautiful. It's got the bulletproof suit. Oh,
I can't wait. I wrote a sign for the three
hundred kill. Yeah really now three hundred club. Yeah, let's
(12:58):
got He's got two hundred and ninety nine kills through
three movies. Now I'm being serious. When he kills that
first person in john Wick four tonight, uh yeah, do
they stop the movie and we celebrate it like Lebron
passing Kareem Abdul Jabbard and then we get back to
the movie. I think we should. I think we should.
Little bit, Yeah, that's number three hundred. He get Kenna
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Reeves gets to talk. It'll be a short speech, you know,
because John Wick's character doesn't talk all that much. He
would say like, I'd like to thank everybody who died
in the movie. Okay, great, thank you, all right, great everybody.
It's like all the times that we monitor movies for
how many curse words? Right, how many times the F
bomb gets dropped in a movie? The same thing here, Yeah,
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Adam Silver comes out, congratulates John Wick on the three
hund and here's the three hundred more John all right, great,
I got the back end. I got the rest of
this movie. I might get three hundred more by the
end of this film itself. But will the presenter look
more like Rob Manford did the other night at the
end of the World Baseball clients, I mean, who are
we kidding guys, We're gonna be in the process of
literally stand up and the second kill is gonna happen.
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We'd have to sit right back down. Yeah, that's yeah,
you're right, you're right, yeah, yeah, sure, Now that they
would be looking like we're doing the wave or we
call a time out and have them turn the lights on. Well,
I think that's what has to happen, is like it
has to be very organic where the kill happens and
then boom right to everybody stops, someone comes in, confetti
goes off, and you know, okay, we have to stop
right now. Well, Jason or what could happen is right
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after he hits three hundred, he does what Lebron did
and fakes an injury and sits out for a while.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah yeah, and he'll get
his three hundredth kill and Anthony Davis won't celebrate. I'm
rooting for the bad guys. I'm not standing up for
you at three hundred. Butler comes out, oh oh oh,
that's nicely done. But right now NCAA Tournament Florida Atlantic
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look Out could be headed to the Elite eight. They
lead Tennessee forty eight forty one. It's been a big
second half for them. Meanwhile, UCLA up ten over Gonzaga
fifty four forty four. Drew Timmy's got twenty five and
nine boards, and UCLA is still up ten. We'll have
more on this game as it continues to unfold. Against
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a lot of time left here with fifteen minutes. But
we had a couple of big results early tonight. Ukon
with a big blowout win over Arkansas. Kansas State out
last Michigan State in overtime ninety eight ninety three. Marquise
Noel with an unbelievable night there. So the big question is,
how would Chris Berman announce these results? Oh? Boy? Howd
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announced these results? And here we go? What do you want? First?
You want how how Yukon uh moves on? Or do
you want to Kansas State? What do you want? First?
Let's go k State. Let's get the Wildcats in because
first ubiquitous uh simple name that they stole from us
uh t J today feeling like Christmas for Noel and
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the Wildcats. That's not bad? J good, that's good. I
can I can get with that. The first Noel to
take Kansas State to the Elite eight since twenty eighteen.
TJ okay gool for Noel Born is the king of
the Sweet sixteen. See that one. You can put on
a T shirt. Noel certainly no coward against Michigan State today, DJ, Look,
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I get literary on you. Now, Hey, I'm not just
a John Wick shoot him up, guy. I'll get literary
on you with Noel Coward. Yeah, you want to explain
to um well, folks that don't read a lot who
he was? Right? Read a lot? You? Um am? I
raw no, no, no, I think during your course of
your career. You get a little bit of Noel Coward,
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don't you. I mean I would, I would think, no,
can you go to school and stuff? When you go
to school and stuff, I'll take English playwrights for well.
I didn't get get any of him when I was
in school. I mean that came later. But yeah, okay, okay,
all right, and maybe now we're an audience of two. Okay, alright, alright,
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very good, very good. T J. Lizzo normally puts the
L in Iszo, but today it was Kansas State. Whoa
how he's gonna come in? John Wicky TJ. The Michigan
State lost. Today was about damn time for Iszo. Who's
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gonna Who's gonna go after m Harder? Is it gonna
be Iszo or John Smoltz? Oh oh no, No, it's
gonna be Steve Garvey. Absolutely is gonna be Steve Garve
should be Hall of Famer Steve Garvey. Uh so uh Now,
Yukon Yukon congratulates Yukon and Dan Hurley. You know, hey, look,
big day for Hawkins as well, leading Yukon and scoring TJ.
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Yukon were the winners. When all the hurly burly was
done and the battle was lost in one YEA, Well,
I come on, everybody's tay, Come on, you know everybody
taking that Shakespeare and knows early Burley in the Battle
loss Shakespeare, I know. But people people go to high school,
no Shakespeare, you do, Sure they do. So you're saying
Burman didn't go to high school. No I didn't. I
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didn't say. I said. People, that's what I put together.
They get No, I'm sure he went to high school.
He went. They went to Brown, right, I think it
to Brown? He was not a high school nobody. Well,
I think you I don't think you can jump right
from middle school to Brown. I think you have can. Actually,
I don't know that you can. Brown's a pretty good school.
I don't know that you can do that. You don't
think you could have been homeschooled and gone to Doogie
House or Route. I don't know, man, I have to
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think that if there was some kind of crazy way
to be homeschooled through high school and get to great
schools like on a regular basis, more people would do that. Yeah,
my child's best child in class, graduate, highest average really, yes,
top one percent? Yes, got an A and every class right?
What school was it? Um, it was in the living room.
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It was University of Phoenix. What's that? What's that? I
was home schooled? Oh okay, I gotta think more people
would have done that, Star pupil. Well, you still have
to pass a bunch of proficiency tests and go in
and proved yourself to a bunch of guys and women
suited up and ready to excoriate what you've worked so
hard to attain. Well, what if you're homeschooled and your
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parents still are grading your test? Well, boy, you only
got six out of ten? Right, So what did I get?
A hundred? Congratulations? Nice job? But wait I got four wrong? Nope,
I don't see any I don't see any red marks
on that paper. You had everything right, Brown University, get ready.
I can understand your rationale for choosing that answer, and
I applaud you for doing it. TJ. Yukon's in the
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Elite eight. You can't be serious. I am serious, and
don't call me Hurly. Oh no, Mike too far. I
don't know about Larry and Moe, but it was a
big night for Hurley and you can numbskulls. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Yukon's in the Elite eight extra extra. Read all about
it in the early edition of the newspaper. All right,
that's it. You got Kyle Chandler in again. You're done,
t J. There's no more stranger things than Hawkins and
Yukon in the Elite eights. TJ. Turn my cof out.
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You're done. Usually with Hawkins we talk about eleven, but
this is the Elite eight for Yukon too far. Oh
and that's pretty good. There's no going back now, TJ.
The new Sheriff of Hawkins is Hawkins and Yukon as
they advanced to the Elite eight. TJ. Even TJ's left,
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David is seeking safe harbor and Hawkins Hawkins is the
new sheriff. He just gets up at least all right,
I'm done, I'm done. He just stuff like Bernie at weekends.
Thinks he's still around, but he isn't. Oh hey, do
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you want a hot lebron take. Well that's coming up
in ninety seconds, but first let's check in with Steve
to Sager to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. So between the Connecticut head coach and
the big man Sinogo, there you got your hurly burly. Yeah,
we got sure. If only we had at the same
time in college basketball, Marquise Noel and Rickie Christmas and
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Drew Holiday. Oh oh, that would have been fantastic. Got
Holiday and Christmas and Noel. Now, yeah, you're Sweet sixteen,
every right, You're absolutely right. Marquise Noel, five foot eight
guard from New York at Madison Square Garden tonight was
the star nineteen assists in an overtime win against Michigan
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State ninety eight ninety three in the round of Sweet sixteen.
This was the first overtime game we'd had since two
years ago when UCLA eliminated Alabama. But this tournament hadn't
had any overtime games at all. Last week. We got
one tonight and Michigan State is eliminated. It finishes the
season twenty one and thirteen. By the way, the last
NCAA tournament to be played without a single overtime game
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is still nineteen seventy. I saw this stat on the
Big Ten now the Spartans are out that the last
two years that conference has sent seventeen teams to the
NCAA Tournament, not one has advanced to the Elite eight.
So most teams any league has sent over a two
year span without any of them reaching a regional final.
In the history of the tournament. Noel was sensational, including
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the steal and layup at the end for the ninety
eight ninety three overtime final. He only had two turnovers
twenty points five steals as well. You add up his
three tournament games so far, it's over sixty points, over
forty assists, it's eleven steals. According to the folks at
stats Inc. Any Division one or NBA player in the
last fifteen years, nobody's had those numbers. You'd have to
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go back to Alan Iverson in any three game span
in two thousand and five. He has been sensational and
certainly was tonight. The winner k State is awaiting either
Tennessee or Florida Atlantic FAU, a three point gunner team,
has made a few threes in the second half and
leads the Tennessee balls with three minutes to go fifty
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five to fifty. As for the two games in Vegas
in the West region of the Sweet sixteen, Connecticut easily
beat Arkansas eighty eight sixty five Ukon with a fourteen
oh run in the first half, so Yukon will get
the winner of Ucla and Zaga. Zaggs had made a
run Ucla still twelve minutes to go, Ucla up fifty
nine fifty four, and you mentioned Drew Timmy earlier dominating
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in this game. Timmy is fifteen of twenty two shooting
from the floor. The rest of his team combined has
about twenty two shots in this one, but the Bruins
are holding onto an advantage. Four more games in the
tournament's Sweet sixteen tomorrow, including number one Alabama against San
Diego State. Just four NBA games tonight. Late games in
LA late first half Clippers have had forty nine forty
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eight over Oklahoma City Kawhi Leonards seven of seven shooting
in the first quarter, fifteen points. Paul George out at
least two to three weeks with a spring knee. New
Orleans got a triple double from Brandon Ingraman beat Charlotte.
Orlando upset New York and Cleveland on a last second
three one at Brooklyn. The Nets have lost five straight.
There is still no target day for Lebron James return
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to the Lakers. He's been out since late February with
his foot injury. Just over two weeks left in the
NBA's regular season NHL wins for the Rangers in Boston
and Phillies. First baseman Reese Hoskins suffered a torn ACL today.
ACL reconstruction surgery is recommended after the non contact injury
in a spring training game. Back to you, thanks a bunch,
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Steve the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike
Harmon live from the ti iraq dot com studios. And
today was a day you just heard Steve talk about
the situation with Lebron James. Where early in the day
we got the report that Lebron James progressing in his
comeback from his right foot injury. There's optimism he could
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come back in the final week of the regular season. Look,
he's been out since the end of February with a
tendon injury when he got hurt in Dallas. He's back
on the court a little bit and is on a
gradual basketball movement progression. This is what the Lakers announced
on Thursday, and then Lebron James put this statement out
on social media. There wasn't an evaluation today and there
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hasn't been any target date for my return. I'm just
working around the clock every day, three times a day
to give myself the best chance of coming back full strength.
Whenever that is God, bless y'all sources. I speak for myself.
So here is the Here are the Lakers who are saying, hey,
we're hopeful to get him back, maybe the last game
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regular season. Here's Lebron saying no evaluation, no target date. Now,
this is a this is a pretty hot this is
a pretty hot take, and it's it's but I want
to say it now because this is what we're gonna
find over the course of the coming days and months.
Doesn't it feel like the Lakers are kind of done
with Lebron? Yeah? Doesn't it feel like they're done? I mean,
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I know he's got the contract extension that that's gonna
you know, kick in. He's got an estimated forty six
million for next year with a player option. But this
last this injury was such a big deal for them,
you know, the fact that he gets hurt and now
I'm not available. I feel like we talked about at
the time where where you realize, Okay, you can't count
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on Lebron anymore. Right, we were past that point where
you can't count him to be on the floor because
he's just getting hurt way too much, and the Lakers
can't count on him. It's whenever he plays as a bonus.
But now I almost feel like the Lakers feel like
they're done with him, Like all right, you pass cap
and that's great, and you won everything, but now you
got to get us in the playoffs here and now
you're hurt again, and it feels like they're done. Just
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the feel with the team. Austin Reeves has the big
night last night, you know, him and D'angela Russell combined
for you know, fifty points, and Reeves is shooting the
ball well, he gets into great rhythm. He takes a
lot of shots, and it's crazy that we're talking about
well Austin Reeves is pushing Lebron up, but it's like, wait, what,
Just the fact these conversations and things are out there,
it sort of feels like the Lakers are done with
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Lebron and I don't know what happens from here on
out because it gets messy. But Lebron coming back and
the fact that he's now at odds with the Lakers
when he can come back when he can't. You have
two reports, one says, yeah, he's progressing, and hopefully the
end of the regular season, and Lebron feels need to
put out a statement saying no evaluation, just mean no
other sources are they They've gotten the point where I
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think they've gotten what they want to out of each other.
And the Lakers got a championship and they wanted more,
but that was it. And Lebron got the brand of
Los Angeles and he got to pass Kareem Abdul Jabbar
and break the all time record, and now it's like, Okay,
we've each gotten as much as we're gonna get from
the other, and now we're done. And I feel like
like the Lakers are pushing that that they feel almost
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like the Packers and Aaron Rodgers, where Okay, we've gotten
what we've wanted out of him. It's not been great,
but we did what we could. The last couple of years.
He won the MVP. That's awesome. Now he's not the
MVP anymore. We want to move on. And it sounds shocking,
but that's how it goes. And I kind of feel
like it's the same point with the Lakers and Lebron,
now where okay, we've gotten all really going to get
out of you and now our team is not any
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better and we're not winning, and look at the way
they play when you're not on the floor. And maybe
there's a future here without you that we can make
our team better somewhat sooner. Maybe there's some kind of
trade or a situation where things work out, because it
doesn't always end great, you know, for players, Just to
ask Aaron Rodgers, you don't always get to ride off
into the sunset whenever you want to. I feel like
they're at that point now where they're done with Lebron
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and now from here on out it's just going to
be messy. Yeah, just wondering in terms of the sourcing
and and all of that fun stuff, you know, wild
them off and you play along versus Bristling. Did you
plant this if you're the Lakers to get make him
the bad guy? Right? Could you still had enough people
that'll carry water for him at every turn. Nobody's gonna
go quite as blunt as tie shirt saying ah, he
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got his record, he quit, But yeah, I paraphrase it,
But it's just that idea, right, Look how hard he
worked those last couple of weeks, the extra minutes, the
extra stress. When we knew he was already playing through
an injury, right, Wasn't that the report we kept getting
He's playing through the foot, an ankle and all of
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that stuff, and then he's going thirty eight a night
and hustling and grabbing every opportunity to bolster his point total,
and then he couldn't finish that game and they lose
to Okasee and he's been unavailable since. And the frustration
has to be huge because Davis had to wear it,
and he's certainly, you know, has had to step in
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multiple times during his tenure here and answer questions about
availability either for Lebron or well himself. On the A's
feeling all right, but this was a scheduled thing from
you know, like a month ago. So it's it's really
the dumpster fire floating on the river gif right now,
as as well as component parts of that team is
(30:17):
are is playing. Depending which you want to conjugate with,
there is the idea that um with Lebron James, they've
just had enough of having to kick the can down
the road. It's like, you know what, this this will
snuff him out. He's got to say something if this report,
if he wants to disagree with this report, and he did,
and now it's it's on him because it's all all right,
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So how are you feeling? Give me more than that?
Don't just push back on all the reporters that you
and your team have been feeding reports too forever. Hey, guys,
I'm gonna go against John this one. You gotta give
me this. I need one to flex. Why are you
where where you are? Well? Okay, so then where are you? Like?
What's give suff nothing? I mean? I mean so you
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wonder how much does he want to come back? The
same question is at the end of last year, Because
what did I tell you was going to happen? Last year?
When it looks like the Lakers weren't going to make
the playoffs, Lebron was gonna somehow find a way to
not play. What happened, He didn't play almost all the
way down the stretch, right, I told you exactly how
that's going on, the same thing was happening here. Lebron
looks like the Lakers might not make the playoffs, and
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Lebron's not played for a long time. You wonder how
much does he want to play? I don't even know.
I didn't know what motivates him anymore as a player.
But now I feel the injury that he had the
Lakers that was like, okay, you know what, Now, now
we're done. And they shouldn't have signed him to the extension.
They should have let him go. They got what they
were gonna get, and instead, no, we have to keep them.
They felt the pressure. We got to keep them here.
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We gotta keep Lebron James, we have to have a
big star. And now it's okay, now we're ready, We're done,
ready to move on. And that's kind of where the
Lakers are. And this whole thing. I can't say I
blame them, because okay, so why are you Why are
you and the team at odds with your health? If
everybody's on the same page. That should never happen and
you should never not be on the same page with
your team as far as your health goes. And maybe
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it's just them saying maybe Lebron can come back at
the end of the regular season as a as a
like a carrot at the end of the stick for
the for the Lakers, or you know, that's a that's
a bad example, but just like a you know, it's
something to point to look forward to. Hey, let's keep
it afloat here. Maybe Lebron can get back and really
help us. And now Lebron is saying, oh, hey, no,
(32:25):
you know, no, no, that's not gonna. I don't know
where I'm at. I don't know if I could play anymore.
You know, it's weird like it could be just be
as simple as the Lakers want to give people hope
they could come back, and Lebron still just says, no, no,
I don't even know if that's gonna. Be sure to
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All I can say is wow, I wish I had
trademark sentence. Are you blanking kid? Wow? Wow? Wow? Wow? Okay,
Las's let me explain. No, there is too much. Let
me sum up. Ucla has just had a tremendous comeback.
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They were down nine with less than two minutes left
to go in the game, a furious comeback. You had
a couple of end ones by himI Hakez and then
you had a three by Amri Bailey with thirteen seconds
left to go to give UCLA the seventy six seventy
five lead. Drew Timmy missed two free throws that could
(33:33):
have really put the icing on the game, but instead
a Marie Bailey hits a three with twelve and a
half seconds left to go to give UCLA the lead.
Ucla calls time out because z I got to inbound
the ball from under their basket. They get the ball
up the floor very quickly, and with seven seconds left
(33:53):
on the clock, Julian Strother hits a three from about
the edge of the Madness logo that gives Gonzaga a
seventy eight seventy six lead. There was no we're looking
for a bucket here, we only need two at seventy
six seventy five. Straw ticks the ball seconds and hits
(34:13):
a Damian Lillard three Like that's a that's the heroic
shot of shots that give them the lead. Gonzaga gets
the ball back because Tiger Campbell turns it over with
a couple of seconds left. Ucla had the ball and
everybody watching this game is thinking the same thing. I
am right. Strawthor hits the three, and then what it's
(34:35):
Tias Edney, right, It's Tias Edney and Tiger Campbell up
the floor in the final seven seconds and it looked
like he was getting set to pull up for a
pull up to stop for a pull up jumper, and
he lost the ball. Strawthor picks it up. He hits
a free throw to make it seventy nine seventy six.
Tiger Campbell gets a last second off balance three from
(34:58):
justin side half court. It doesn't go. Gonzaga beats UCLA
seventy nine seventy six. What an unbelievable thriller we just
saw and drew. Timmy goes from Hero to Goat back
to Hero because his great game, he missed those free throws.
I tell you open the door for U and he
(35:21):
missed two. Wow, and then had the opportunity right He
goes to the foule line with two shots. He misses
the first one, makes the second, making it a three
point game, and then they did the hook and laugh. Yeah.
And you know, here's the thing I want to say
this right away is that the strath shot is just unbelievable.
That that is uh. I don't even know how to
(35:43):
your best describe that in terms of your analogy. I
am I am going to say this. I'm gonna go
out on a limb here, Mike Harmon, I'm gonna go
out on a limit. I'm gonna say, I don't think
that was the play that Mark you drew up in
the in the huddle, I don't think that's what it means.
I don't create the lead blocker and then he runs
up he fires up at three with seven point five
(36:03):
or main No, probably not. I don't think a three
from the logo was the shot that he called up there.
I'm thinking that was more let's get it into Timmy,
who can either take it to the or find us
find somebody because he's such a great passer. I don't
think that was a play. That was one of those
give me the ball, I'm gonna make this shot. Was
that play right there? YEA cold yeah blooded? If you
(36:26):
say what you know, hey, you know, help me out
with this. I don't know what they mean when they
say a cold blooded three. You just show him that
video right there, because that's what that was. That was
a cold blooded three. By Man had no conscience. It
was like he knew he was facing John Wick and
this is the only way he was going to survive
for this movie. You know, shoot or shoot right, this
(36:47):
is the guy he's you know, he averaging fifteen points
a game, but he's four out of fourteen on the night.
Doesn't matter. I'm gonna take this shot. He knew that
was a that was a Lillard logo three for stra
author and I again, I don't think that was That
was one of those player where Mark he was like, no, no, no,
what are you doing? Yes? Yes, yes, Right now, his
family and friends are all scrawling things on napkins and
(37:11):
every piece of paper they can find in the house
to create some turn of phrase to nil the hell
out of this thing. Gee, somebody get Timmy a trimmer,
get off due. Yeah, but that's how Timmy's looked for years. Now,
I mean that that's it, and he's got four more
years of Eligibility's gonna be at eight. Yeah, he's gonna
be Anza. He'll still be a Gonzago when the Mets
are done paying Bobby Benia. Oh that's how long he's
(37:33):
gonna be there for. Look at that. I mean, really,
you see le Gonzag Get him together, right, and you
get a game like this always. But you know, but
the thing Tiger Campbell, it's like on the final drive
after they get the ball, you know, he makes the shot,
he's got time to get up the floor because he's fast,
and they and Gonzago, you know, falls back. They allow
them to inbound the basketball. And I think he felt
(37:55):
like he got caught because he went to the right side.
He had two defenders there, and rather than look for
a pass because he had a couple of seconds, he
panicked and he just lost the ball. I mean, he
just lost the ball when it was either a pull
up jumper or some kind of play because Campbell had
a couple of seconds. But he's got it. It's he's
got like three and a half seconds left, and he
(38:15):
goes up and the defender just slaps the ball out
of his hand and it goes to Gonzaga, and Gonzaga
wins the game. Who unbelievable, brutal, what a game. Oh man,
this is March. This is March. I'll tell you, this
is absolutely Jason. Just the fact that UCLA was still
in it and took it to the final one point four,
It is amazing that. But that's it, right, They're down
(38:37):
nine at two h five, can't score for nine minutes,
getting outrebound him like fifty to twenty. Final second half
numbers forty six thirty is the scoring. In the second half,
they were down nine, they didn't have a bucket till
a minute fourteen leven still grabbed the lead temporarily and
(38:58):
then we see the shot of shots Man. This is
just an incredible end. Wow, I really, I mean, Gonzaga survives.
They eliminate UCLA seventy nine seventy six, a game that
it looked like USLA had in the bag in the
first half. They were up by thirteen. Then it looked
like Gonzaga had it because useilated hit a shot for
ten minutes and then getting back in it. And maybe
(39:21):
maybe I'm overestimating this this a little bit because part
of the drama at the end was the fact that
USA looked like they were out of gas. Right they
were out of gas, they were tired, they don't have
a big bench, they're missing a couple of players. We've
talked about that. And there was a little bit less
than two minutes left to go and Gonzaga had the
ball and they were facing a shot clock violation where
(39:41):
it was the clock was ticking down. Gonzaga took a shot,
it didn't draw iron. It looked like it was going
out of bounds and Drew Timmy comes and tries to
do the I'm gonna save it by throwing it off
the UCLA player, and he throws it off us LA
player and the ball bounces and it bounces out of bounds,
but it bounces out of bounds right around the time
the shot clock hit zero, which it doesn't go out
(40:02):
of bounds, and they've had the ball. It's gonna be
a shot clock violation. So they spent a good few minutes,
I want to say at least four or five minutes.
First they were looking at did the ball hit the rim,
because it clearly went out of bounds off a UCLA player,
But did the ball go off the rim? Did it not?
And then if it didn't go off the rim, then
did it go out of bounds before the shot clock
(40:23):
hit zero? And that four if I mean, I kind
of said it, but I was kind of only half serious.
But I wonder if that amount of time just gave
the UCLA players. We got time to just sit back
and rest and gear up for the last minute and
a half because they had they were done, and now
suddenly they couldn't miss hawks is at the rim for
end one and end one and then a big three
and it's like all of a sudden, here comes you know,
(40:45):
UCLA is back like they were, like they were never gone.
I wonder if that four or five minute stretch of
looking at that play let them just catch their breath
for a couple of minutes and either clear their heads
and reset and get them back or at least get
them time to just not have to worry about running
up and down the court and get some energy back. Yeah,
just today, and look, we know the resiliency, right, get
(41:06):
the back of the tank for you. And you're coaching
your daughter's teams, here's some orange slices like Peyton Manning.
I mean, you gotta follow the and emulate the best, right,
and you can get rolled through. Look, they're highly conditioned,
pressure packed tested athletes up and down the line. So
(41:27):
you know you're at the finish line and that you
had a moment to regroup. Somebody maybe said ted Lasso
like inspirational quote or a grunt like your Roy Kent
and you got back out there and you gave a
hell of a show in that final minute fourteen seconds
(41:47):
that you know, you got a lot of folks nervous
man on all all fronts because as soon as it
opens the door again, it's like, oh, we're gonna lose
a heartbreaker again. And that shot mean that that's one
that Cronin and all these guys are gonna be seeing
for forever. Man, you're gonna know exactly where he was
(42:08):
above the arc when he let that thing go unbelievable ending.
This is March. This is March. I mean we've seen
that play before, right, we talk about Star Street. We've
seen the three where hey, I'm coming up and the
trailer takes it. Oh it's good, it's a good, uh
but liking move. But I can't believe at that moment
(42:28):
that was in a game where Timmy's got thirty six points.
And I mean, maybe they would get him, they would
collapse on him, they would send him the free throw line.
But ah, you only need you only need a bucket,
you don't need a three. I really, I really wonder
if that was the play that was called. As he
pulled up and was getting ready to shoot. I stood
up in the studio here like wait what And then
(42:50):
it goes down like wow, I mean you talk about uh,
clutch pressure, whatever terms you want to use on it,
and I'm sure the phrase you'll come up with a
few burminisms before we get out of here for it.
But yeah, that lead blocker. I mean, you can't defend
in front of him, right, No, unless you're chasing him down.
(43:11):
So that's about as clean a look as you're gonna get,
even if you drive to the basket at that point,
because you're also moving the ball up quickly. Timmy's not
back on the block at that point. So you know,
the one thing I will tell you about this, watching
it as many times as I have, is that it
doesn't look like Timmy is moving for the ball at
any right it like I'm watching because obviously that's where
(43:34):
the ball's gonna go. It doesn't look like he is
moving to get the ball at any point. And you
want to get it to him because you're talking about
a game in which you have less than ten seconds
left to go at this point, right, you want it.
You don't want to give it to him with like
two seconds left. So maybe it was well, I mean
you gotta get Look, the worst thing that can happen
is trying to get cute and say, all right, we're
going down on the block and you got seven seconds
(43:55):
left right. But UCLA one of your better defending teams
even without the He's like, you see Timmy is kind
of walking up and then he starts to aggressively work
towards a potential rebound situation frantically. Yeah, but he wasn't
gonna get that if that, if that missed, he wasn't
getting that ball. He was he was just standing there,
he was, he got a hint a rope a dope,
(44:17):
and then he spun back. But yeah, it's that's it.
I mean, that's that's the call of calls and you
know what, it's just like we drew it up. That's
the that's the answer from few and everybody else. You know,
we run that trailer play, you know, it's like the
old uh Duyane Wade Lebron James play with the dunk
and he's staring at the camera after he lobs it up. Yeah,
(44:38):
that's it. That's what we did right there, except it's
a three pointer from thirty feet away. Wow, unbelievable. Hey,
how did it sound when it looked like UCLA was
gonna win there up by a point and Gonzagas shot.
That's gonna live in March Madness forever. Uh, here's how
it sounded. Strawther, we'll get it in. Salas picks it up.
Clock start's eleven seconds. Salas across the top on pitch
(45:01):
it back straw the deep free from the top of
the key got it. Scraller from the top seven seconds.
We Cambel on the run out of the front court
drives the right side, struck the Scraller's got it full
with one point one to go, Ryan rad Key Westwood
one on the call. There it was the straw, the
three tiger. Campbell loses the ball and Gonzaga moves on
(45:23):
unreal to the Elite eight, where their prize is. Oh
a Yukon team that didn't break a sweat tonight against Arkansas. No,
that was it was a nice rollover win there. He
came in and took care of business. And again now
and now my bracket has done and Gonzaga you did,
(45:44):
you have a Gonzaga did nice. But so I at
least have one of eight teams. Yeah that's good. Yeah, Yo,
you can still win. You can still win, Yeah you have.
But now you're talking about the games. Tonight we have
a three and a four playing for the five four
and a three and a nine playing for the final four?
(46:04):
Who this is great? Maybe? Hey, can I still win
if I don't have either team in the national Championship game?
Can I still wink? Still do that? No, you can
go through all the permutations. If you want to go
and look at everybody's bracket that is in that contest,
head at it. I might be able to. I'll leave
that for you. I'm gonna get ready. Just know you
beat one person's bracket that's in the studio tonight. Oh
(46:26):
who did that beat tight shirt? Howd u CSB winning it? All? Oh?
Better than tight shirt? Better than much better than tight shirt?
Better than tight shirt? Who else in your final four
besides USB? Oh? Gosh, I have to look, But I
think I had them against Pittsburgh for the final. Okay,
(46:48):
you CSB in Pittsburgh? Yeah, I was. I can do
the same two Okay, all right? Yeah? Would that would
be tough? You're right? Well, either way I win, then
you know, Oh, no, that is true? That is true? There,
you know? Or I would say maybe the old Nick
Pacai push there are no winners here. Okay, if you
had UCSB and PIT and it happened that way, you
(47:10):
would be able to quit Fox Sports Radio because you
would do interviews with people for the rest of your life. Millionaire,
how did you have this? How did you have a
fourteen and eleven? I just did. I just did. I
don't really pay attention, and you work in sports, Yeah,
but I don't really pay attention I do. I do
anime stuff while the show was on the air, Yeah,
and I do that stuff. Yeah, I do anime. But
(47:32):
but how did you pick those? I don't know. I
just did. What do you want to talk about? I'm
a health food guy too. What do you want to know?
I tho she looks good.
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