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Speaker 2 (01:33):
Twelve unacceptable behavior by the poison Blue bit of a mess.
After everything that everybody said and done, how could you
do this? Bill Plask looked like and he's laughing at us.
He's laughing. Plash g is at the top of the two.
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He called it, saying they're not going to win another
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lose a series or two, two or three in April.
And how are we supposed to look at that?
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Well, we're supposed to look at it by asking Emmitt Shean,
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three Things Thursday. One three things, and I doubt that
we're talking college football for three Things Thursday, but it
does stand to mention Bob Chesney, UCLA head coach Spring
game Saturday, will join us next on this Crunchy Groove Thursday.
(03:19):
I don't think this is a college football three things,
matt Less, it is.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
That certainly alters three things. I don't feel like a fool.
I was gonna start with Wake Forest weight training, but
all right, I heard they're getting Bob Chesney's coming on
in the next segment, so let's just scrap it.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They are getting after it, which in Winston Salem, Matt there,
they're in the woods.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
They're doing all that off the desk, and let's just
figure it out from here.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Every player has been given an axe, a special Wake
Forest Act.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
So we're the Deacons we are.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I don't like it. What do we do? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Let's make them a demon Okay, we're the demon Deacons.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I like it. No, what I don't know?
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Give them a motorcycle. Okay, I really like where this
is going.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Um Pike him looked like an ex president.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Yes, but a psychotic one. He wears leathers and he
comes in on a chopper. Okay, what's his face look like?
Do you remember what the cavity looked like in the
Yuckmouth commercial.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yes, let's make it look like that.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Three things be. I did not think we would be
going here today, Yet here we are. I had faith
in what James Worthy was selling yesterday. I wanted to
buy it all up. And he said the Lakers got
to win this one. Those were his words, not ours.
He said, I really think the Lakers got to win
this one. So if they didn't, it turns out they didn't.
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We now have to look at history.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yes, must win is what we heard. Matt must win
that James Worthy said, must win.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Yeah he did not, and we even we even led
him to the water and said, hey, do you want
to drink from this? They really should have lost Game
three is this series a lot tighter than it looks?
And he said, yeah, that's why this is a must win.
They very well could be down and should be down
three to two, had again the Rockets not lost their
mind in the waging twenty eight seconds of Game three,
giving up a six point lead while they had possession.
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Yet this series is now three to two. The Lakers
let it three to zero. Lebron goat conversations were happening,
and by pulling his team out of the first round
against a depleted Rockets team without Kevin Durant, would that
enhance his legacy as the greatest of all time in
NBA history. That's what was being sold today on the
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last day of April, with his team ahead three to two,
shifting back to Houston for a Game six tomorrow. This
is what they're staring at. Four teams pee in the
history of the NBA postseason, four have come back to
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just force a Game seven.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Just have managed to win the next three games after
losing the first three game and force a game seven.
The nineteen fifty one New York Knicks in the NBA
Finals against the Rochester Royals forced to Game seven and
lost in nineteen ninety four and the Western Conference Semis
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against those great Karl Malone, John Stockton Utah Jazz squads.
The Nuggets, after going down three zero, won the next
three force to Game seven, in which they lost.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
This is for the Petros and the money, and money
and the money.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
The two thousand and three Portland Trailblazers in the first
round were down three zero.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Those the Trail Gangsters.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Those were the Trail Gamesters against I believe wouldn't no,
that would not have been the three js. I think
they would have already broken up Jim Jackson, Jamal Mashburn,
and Jason Kiddo.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
It's a tall order, man, It's a tall order for
the Rockets.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
And most recently the tw twenty three Celtics against the
Miami Heat lost their Game seven as well. So what
I'm getting at is the Rockets have an opportunity to
do something that has never been done in NBA history,
and that has come from down three zero to win
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a series for the first time in the history of
the NBA. Teams had been down two zero and won
five game series. They have never been down three It's
happened in hockey, It's happened in baseball. It has never
happened in the NBA, and there are a lot of
people that think the Rockets are set up to do
just that. A team full of young talent that lost
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its mind in that game three Jabari Smith reed Shephard
arguably two of the best players on the court last
night in a hostile environment, shock full of celebrities like
Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song. Yeah, Brenda Salt, superstar. I
saw Dominican su there when they put him on the screen,
I was like, I guess that's where we're going.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I guess.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
And Dominican Suit, who I believe has been retired from
football for about five years but was a hell of
a force at Nebraska and of course in the Rams.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
You never forget him. He was great in the.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Leagues, exactly right.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
He was there as well, all the fat, out of
shape kids of Jack Nicholson. And I'm trying to think
of who sat next to him. It was Jack, and
I'll be damned if I can. I can visualize him,
the old man and the sunglasses with the white beard.
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But their kids are now it's onto the next Jets.
It's two generations later. Like their grandkids are now going
dressed up like Luca and Lebron and their headbands and
their high socks. Super cool hipster guys. Very disappointed in
the effort. Last night, the Lakers jumped out to a
quick lead. It looked like Austin Reeves was the elixir
they needed in his return. Hot start for Austin Reeves
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on fire from the field. They jump out by eleven
and then what does Reeves do? How about one for
nine in the second half? Team could not hit a
three pointer to save their life. They go ice cold
from deep seven of twenty seven and if you take
it back to the last game they lost, they are
shooting twenty five percent from beyond the arc.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And this is why you.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
Gotta be careful as you celebrate Rob Polinka for the
exchange Ah gave gave Vincent who's been future? Just a
puke of a signing and you get back Luke Knnard
twenty seven, Game one, twenty four, Game two. Last night,
Oh for thirty one minutes starts comes off the bench
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in the second half, Reeves gets to start thirty one minutes,
zero for four from the field, zero for four from
three guys, a ninety percent free throw shooter, He even
missed one of those finishes with one point in thirty
one minutes. Marcus Smart does this, peaks, valleys, valleys, peaks,
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misses everything, makes everything, three to seven from the three
point line. Lebron James the goat. If this doesn't cement
him as the greatest ever, then you just got blinders
on and there ain't no change in your mind. Zero
for six from three, missed two critical free throws down
the stretch.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
At least he realized late in the game that the
threes weren't going and he needed to do something else.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Yeah, seemed like Austin Reeves and Lebron James looked at
each other and they're like, should.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
We just keep shooting him?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Yeah, I know you're on a four on one break, Austin,
but effitt Man, let it fly?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
All right?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
What about the next time?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Don you know what, I'm gonna throw this to you, Lebron,
Why don't you take it from the right wing and
see if you can shoot it with that guy's hand
in your face. Even though Aton's wide open, don low
and he's made four consecutive baskets.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
All right, let's give that a go.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
It was a disheartening performance. And I do subscribe to
the idea that James Worthy had that it did feel
a little bit like a they kind of really got
to win this one because of how wacky that Game
three was, And you can really make the case this
this series should absolutely be too too, were it not
for two freaking hiccups and total brain farts from two
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young players. And those two Jabari Smith might have been
the best, probably was the best player on the court
for the Rockets, played his ass off reach. Shepherd got
his revenge on Lebron, poked that ball away late.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
After Lebron bunked him with a forearm in the.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Chest after he bonked him, had the two handed flush,
and everyone was like, oh, white guy like that.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Before that, he had the he had the short range,
Don McClain, and then he had the flush. Yeah, before
that the mid range where we really took it to
uh to Lebron, he went to the king. He showed
he showed no respect for the throne.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
He said, you may be a king, but I am
a shepherd, and I am a shepherd of basketball goodness.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I was there when Christ was born.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I may be but a shepherd, and you may be
a king. But that does not mean I can't lead
these men. He led them to a victory and against.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Skid maybe dark strong and shining in mine, maybe lily white.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
It's not good.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
It certainly looked fine in the first half rosterling names.
Then he went absolutely ice cold. He still managed to
get at the free throw line. They kept feeding the
hot hand for a while and DeAndrea Eyton got away
from it. Three pointers betrayed him. I don't know how
i'd feel about this thing going to a game seven
if I and by the way, kudos to the NBA playoffs.
We got. You got a Nuggets team that was down
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three to one that looks like that's gonna end up
getting to a game seven with the injury to the
ant man. You got the Lakers and Rockets that I
think if you were to pin which one of these
are going to a Game seven between Nick Hawk's Celtic Sixers, Raptors, Caves, Pistons, Magic,
most people would probably say, yeah, I think the Rockets
have the best chance to win their game at home.
All of these teams, all of these series look like
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they're going seven. After olm Bead's return, Celtics Sixers is
now three to two, Nicks Hawks is three to two,
Calves Raptors is three to two. Piston's Magic after a
hell of a back and forth in the early one yesterday,
is three to two. So kudos to the NBA for
having a hell of a playoff start after a miserable
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end of the season. And that brings us to our
second thing, real quick pee three two one, not contact,
but three two one lottery odds launched yesterday, we talked
about anti tanking, how the end of the regular season
is unwatchable for three quarters of the games.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
All teams are doing is trying to lose.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
With two way contract players and G League players being
called up in the hopes to increase the percentage that
they will secure the number one, two or three overall
pick in the NBA lottery, your odds drop dramatically if
you are outside of the top four, where you have
a fifteen percent chance. Well, Adam Silvers had enough and
he has said he wants this approved immediately. May twenty eighth,
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Board of Governors will meet and he will seek approval
on what he's calling three two one.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
What does that mean?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Thirty seven lottery balls allocated to sixteen teams the teams
with the three worst records would each receive two lottery balls,
giving them a five point four percent chance at the
number one pick. Teams that finish with the fourth worst
through the tenth worst record will receive three lottery balls
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eight point one percent. So if you have one of
the three worst records, your odds are not as good
as the teams that had better records than you four
through ten, and then the nine to ten seeds would
each receive two as well, and the loser of the
seven versus eight playing game would receive one. For all
intents and purposes, it's what they call flattens the lottery odds.
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Your best chance to win the number one pick is
eight percent versus five point four percent versus a one
to thirty seven chance if you win the seven versus
eight play in game. The teams with the three worst
records can pick no lower than twelve. Everyone else could
put anywhere from one to sixteen. Teams cannot get the
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number one pick in consecutive years, and they cannot pick
in the top five and three consecutive drafts. Those are
basically the changes that they are instituting.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
I love it.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
I think it leads to competition between teams that are
absolutely terrible but would be playing their asses off. If
you're in fourth place, you certainly don't want to lose
an extra lottery ball by sliding to third place. If
you're playing one of those teams and they're trying to
get a victory late in the season, it certainly feels
like it would at least scuttle, slightly scuttle the tanking
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that teams did this year that led to egg on
the face level of embarrassment for Adam Silver, saying he's
lighting the ass that he's got. You know, he can't
he can't get a handle on this, and that's why
it feels like he really kind of came over the
top and brought some lumber to this thing, and says
this is the only proposal that's going to be offered.
He expects it to be approved and they will run
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it through twenty twenty nine.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Well, good luck to everybody involved in the lottery. I
hope that the Clippers pick doesn't go to the Thunder.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
I think that's that's pretty much already insured. I think
this would be for next year. Oh that's a cool
upper for this year. I mean, I thought it'd be
pretty damn cool if it worth this year, and you'd
really f the teams, and who knows, maybe it is
and I just didn't read far enough down the article.
Whatever final thing, Pete, I would love And this will
be super quick, because we discussed it yesterday and I'd
just like to follow up on that. I would appreciate,
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and I would assume we'll get it, and I would
assume not everybody will be excited about it. A certain
sect of me basketball media society will not be excited
by it, but I will be. I would like to
ask if, in fact the Lakers do make history, If
in fact they do become the first team to give
up a three to zero lead and be eliminated from
the postseason in a playoff series for the first time
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in NBA history, I think we should reinstate some goat talk,
and I think we should talk about how this impacx
Lebron's legacy.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You know what, well now, yeah, you say that now,
but you didn't want it. You didn't want it, well,
you didn't want it when they were gonna want the
Kevin Durantles Rockets. The fact that the Lakers beat him
in the first round this is this is it.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
This is the c metal epoxy. This settles it makes
him the goat. You know, I think we should bring
that goat talk back. I think that's a great idea.
I think let's re examine it.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, you know, I mean, let's just wait till after
the Thunder series and then we'll talk about who really
is the goat.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
The King made history. Guys, you always talking about the
histories making the man made history.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well, let's get into it. But king was humiliated by
a h I heard last night. Let's get it. We'll
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Joining us right now on your Toyota SoCal Celebrity hotline
is the UCLA head coach, creating a lot of positive
buzz in town for UCLA football. Today was their last
spring practice. Saturday is the spring game at the Rose
Bowl noon kickoff. It's free and open to the public
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and eighteen thousand fans have already RSVP. That's pretty good.
It's going to be like a four quarter game offense
versus defense, which is you know football. Joining us now
is Bob Chesney. We were worried he was going to
fall in with the wrong crowd, but he's done the opposite.
He's gotten to work and he's changed the atmosphere around UCLA. Bob,
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what's cracking coach? And thank you for joining us? How
are you?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
What is that? My good brothers? I am excited to
be here with you.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
We got our spring game, as you've noted, coming up
on Saturday, and just excited.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
To get to the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
And a lot of these guys will be their first
time out there, my second time, so really really excited
to do that, staying in a hotel Friday night, getting
the entire game day experience in rolling from there. So
we just want to simulate everything and get a feel
for it before you know, we break from these pads
and head into the summer.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
I mean, in yesteryear, when I played college football thirty
years ago, the spring game in the late nineties was
a real blood bath. I mean, yea after it pretty hard.
Obviously that's changed over the years and how to handle
these games. Everybody has a different philosophy. What to show
the fans. Some people won't even do a game, they
call it a showcase. What is your philosophy and in
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showcasing your guys getting a game day experience before the
camp gets rolling and the summer program starts.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Yeah, our philosophy is to get out there and compete
and to do a lot of what we're doing on
a day to day basis.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Here. We want to be a little fun, We want
it to be a little.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Bit entertaining, and at the same time we want to
accomplish a lot of football and just see exactly where
our guys stand, what lessons they could carry over to
that with them, and also do it in front of
a lively crowd. And it sounds like we're going to
close to twenty thousand people there, and I think that's
a big deal for Spring.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I haven't been part of one of those.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Yeah, you mentioned the crowd, and as a former frat guy,
Petro's former college football player, and I can relate to
this as a former frat guy. Coach Pizza would do
it for me, kind of walk us through the idea
of how you want to get these fans out, how
to get this fan base engaged with a great brand
like UCLA football, and how that whole process is going.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Yeah, well, I think it's going really well. I think
that there was a lot of work that needs to
be done on the front end, which I was willing
to personally do to get out there, and you know,
not only the support other teams, but to support the community.
We were just about everywhere. I went to every single game,
as many of them as I can, sometimes two or
three in the same day, went down to Compton and
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worked at a food bank down there for a day,
and you know, just we've been at the children's hospital
across the street here, just trying to do everything we
can to make sure everybody knows that you know, we're
here to support them, and in turn, I hope they
do the same.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
But that's not a prerequisite. We're doing it because it's
the right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Bob Jessny, UCLA ahead football coach, coming fresh off a
college football playoff appearance with James Madison and a good
looking team, physical playing football the right way. I think
a word we probably overuse in the business of covering
football is probably culture or what does that actually define?
As kind of nebulous, But there's no different There's no
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doubt that there's a different atmosphere around UCLA, and you
would expect that with a new coach and a regime.
Is that something that just naturally happens when you put
the work in and the energy that you put in,
or is it something you have to really keep track
of every day and kind of coach your whole staff
and coaches on how you want things done.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yes, yes to both.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
I think initially you assemble the group of men to
accomplish this mission, and you hope they're in our interview
process that we're all on the same mission. So that
had to be the initial part of it, and that
had to be clear, and then we had to just
come up with the standards and the processes we're going
to live by on a day to day basis and
then hold each other accountable. And I think you know
that's within the building. Then you get outside of this
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building and there's another way.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
To conduct yourself and carry yourself. And as the most.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Populated team on this campus, it's important that we do
things the right way and that we lend a helping
hand where we can, and that we're you know, not
just football players, but we're engaged in a lot of
other things outside of here. So yeah, it takes a
lot of energy, takes a lot of commitment, and that's
usually what happens with the Rebirth Right is that people
get a little bit excited about it, and it's just
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you continue to stoke that fire or do you let
it kind of die down. And for us, we're going
to continue to stoke this thing and make sure that
we're injecting as much energy as we possibly can into
this community and into this program, and in turn, you
know that we'll pay itself forward.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
And pays itself in recruiting, you know.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
There we're we've been this our twentieth year doing the show,
and there would be shows on signing day where it
would be completely focused talking about fax machines and players
from southern California high schools going to UCLA or anywhere else,
kind of walk us through that's been going. I know,
you had a bunch of high school coaches out for
a while and one of the practices and just kind
of how that connection has been with the local high schools.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
It's been great, And I think that was probably the
biggest knock on me. Rightfully, So I'm not a West
Coast guy, so how is it going to build these relationships?
And just like any relationship, where does it begin at
the start? So we had to start it somewhere. So
that's something we were able to do with getting out,
you know, into all the different local high schools and
then at the same point in time, opening up all
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of our practices for anybody to stop by media, you know,
high school coaches sitting on meetings if they'd like. We
did that, and then we moved ourselves forward into you know,
having a coach's clinic carright one hundred and eighty different
coaches here from four different states, and they had an
opportunity to, you know, watch our coaches work through the
like a typical clinic which gets done on the board
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with video. But then we went out on the field
and everything we cliniced on, we actually showed them us
doing it with our own, our own team. And then
the next morning, you know, we had practice, and night
before we all hung out here, had a couple of
drinks on the patio and just got a chance to
spend quality time together. So it's not always just the
quantity of that time, but the quality that matters the most.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And I like to start that we're off to for sure.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
You know, I'm sure holy Cross had a whole different
vibe than Salve Regina. And then you know, James Madison,
and you've been climbing ever since you started as a
coach on this kind of upwardly mobile trajectory, not kind of,
and I'm just wondering. You never know where you're going
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to land when you land, and the power for which
is what we call it. Now, there's some unbelievably great
things about UCLA as a school and an institution. There's
also some challenges and a lot of things you have
to kind of check where you don't have to do
that at other places. How have you found that the
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balance of being at UCLA and just kind of adapting
to a new environment.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Well, first of all, every day I drive in, I
really do think, like, man, how lucky am I that?
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Do you feel that way?
Speaker 2 (26:07):
But he's not happy like you, coach, you know, he's
not all smiling.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, he got his own thing. I got my own thing.
Let us leave us alone.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
But ultimately, you know, for me, just think about this
for one second, Like if I'm one of our football players,
I am entrenched in an athletic department here that has
six first round draft picks to the w NBA. Right,
we'll have the first pick in the baseball draft and
probably the third pick in the baseball draft is their
number one in the country as well. You have a
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water polo team that won the whole thing, and nine
of those guys will be on the Olympics team. You
have a gymnastics team with a gold medal winner on it.
You have a beach volleyball team that will be the
Olympics team. You know, you just go through the list
of people in our athletics department. You're walking every single
day with Olympic athletes or first round draft picks, Like
that's elite. And I'm not even talking yet about the
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people in these classrooms, not talking about the few your
CEOs and the doctors and the lawyers and the engineers,
you know, and all those people like you are. You are,
you know, surrounded by greatness. And I think the thing
to me is understanding, you know, the environment they're in.
It's not just them as a football player, but embrace
all of those things and understand how elite everything is
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at the most applied to you know, college in the
entire universe. Right, those are all things that matter a
whole heck of a lot. And I think our guys
understand how, you know, blessed they are, and they enter
it with a lot of gratitude. So whatever the negatives
might be and whatever things we got to work through
and improve, we'll improve those. But you know this is
there's greatness on this campus. And it's important that we
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get that football team back to that same exact place, coach, just.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
To kind of drill down on that team. And look,
we saw it.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
We saw it through the college football playoff and the
team that raised the championship trophy. But I guess the
one group that would love to know how you kind
of take an approach to it when you have as
many new guys on an offensive line that are getting
to work together, in some cases for the first time,
and how we always hear about important chemistry, synergy and
getting that particular group to really feel comfortable with one another.
What are the challenges if there are any, and and
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kind of how do you get that group right when
they're all kind of new and getting to feel each
other out.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
Yeah, there's always challenges there.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
I think that there's two guys that have three guys
that play together at JMU, I think there's you know,
there's some familiarity there. I think that provides you with
this luxury when you know coach Smith, our offensive line
coach or coach Kennedy Roc leave the meeting room. You
got three guys in there that know this playbook inside
and out and can have separate meetings on the side
and just really help bring these people together. But we
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do a lot of people from a lot of different
walks of life that played a lot of different styles
of football that you are all now here, you know,
with one goal in mind, and I think it's important
that they attack that every single day. But it is
it takes a minute to get to know the guy
to the right or left of you, and often you know,
just is just like on the D line or any
other really physical position, you end up in the spot
where one of those guys that you were really gelled
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with is not there anymore, right or can't be there
for a couple of weeks, or you know, a game
at least. So you have to be able to, you know,
do a really good job of communicating clearly. The standards
got to be really high, and you've got to make
sure that on a day to day basis, regardless of
who is in there.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
There's trust.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
And I think that trust again comes from their football
acumen in the classroom for them to be able to
know that they're answering questions the right way and we
all feel the same way about it. And then you
get out on the field and there's tough moments where
you know, you dominate those, or you survive those, or
you lose those, and at the same point in time,
there's just constant growth, and that constant growth leads to
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more trust, and then you just keep you know, spiraling
that forward as best you can with that group. And
I don't think there's ever I don't know how many
times there's five that start the first game and are
totally intact all the way through out the entire season.
So it is important that we also, you know, rotate
a bunch of guys through there and get everybody the
experience that they need so that when their time is.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Called on, they are prepared.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Bob Chesney before we let them go, you cla football coach,
And speaking of the water polo team and the basketball team,
Corey Close and Adam Wright, the two coaches will be
guest play callers at the spring game. I don't know
what they're gonna call, hook and ladder, maybe a Bob play,
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a little week side zone.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
We like you blitz every day.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
No, I heard Corey Close.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Adam's got a playbook. Adam was at practice today. He's
got a playbook. He already sent me four different plays
that he needs installed. And we'll do that tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
He'll come over and.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Do that with his side of the ball, and then
I'll call Corey later see if she wants to do
the same. And it's all it's all part of it,
a little bit of fun. So we actually have a
sheet with you know, eight calls on it, you know,
four run, four pass, and then on the back is
the defense, you know, a couple of blitzes and they
just pick at it and then our our offensive coordinator
defense corner called in through the helmet communications. But a
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pretty cool moment for them to be out there, to
be able to select a play and us be able
to go, you know, execute it.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Attention to detail right there with Bob Chesney before we
let you go. Coach, you do have going through and
through the summer when the coaches can't be out there.
Sometimes it's a real convenience to have a quarterback with
some experience, and you do have that in Niko Iamalayava.
What's he been like to coach? All reports have been
that he's a great kid.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
He's a great kid. He's a great kid. And again,
I think for everybody on this team, but him in particular.
He got here late in the summer last year and
then by week three his head coaches, offense coordinators, quarterback
coach were all gone. And I think that trying to
lead a team through that you know, the situation is
really a challenge, especially when you don't have enough hours
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logged with them yet because you weren't with them in
the spring and all summer long. And I think now
he's very comfortable in this position. He's very comfortable as
being the leader of this team. And I love to
watch him come out here every day and compete. And
you know, he makes a play, he lets the defense
know about it. Right when the defense makes a play,
they let him know about it. But it's a cool
back and forth and it's fun watching him. He enjoys
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this game. He loves this game. I think he loves
the people he's doing it with, and I think those
are things that definitely show in his game. So I'm
excited to get a chance to get out there and
watch him go on Saturday.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
I gonna be exciting on Saturday. Go to UCLA Bruins
dot com the sports tab. You can get your tickets
there already eighteen thousand of RSVP twelve pm kickoff, open
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Speaker 2 (32:19):
So again, you this is gonna be worth another seven thousand.
Coaching depend on twenty five, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
We'll see I will actually see I know exactly what
our numbers were.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Now that I'm on your show, we'll see what after him.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
We'll see if you actually packed that type of punch
or not.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
We'll see. We'll see. Don't make them too good, coach,
USC won't want to play anymore. I'm sorry. Have a
great night and have a great spring game. Coach.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
We appreciate you, all right, Thanks guys, Go Bruins, man, Wow,
so is.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
That the thing now? Go Bruins. At the end of
the call or whatever, fight on, guy can actually talk, iz.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I don't think, are you. I don't think that I
would leave his hanging Matt at the freaking Tarantula Hill
holding our puzzo's in a four hour show.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
No, that guy would pick us up and drive us
to Tarantula Hill and talk to us the entire way
about the promise that is ahead for UCLA football. You
can hear the belief, you can hear the excitement, and
it's contagious.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
More damnit.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I'm worried, Matt. I'm worried they're gonna get too good
and s he won't want to play them anymore.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
And then that doesn't make sense. Whych whylch play doesn't
make sense to plan too close, too close. Yore day
was too far.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
This is too close.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
We want our guys to feel you can't travel anywhere,
our guys to feel the rigors of travel.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
He's gouts too.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Closet, but he continues on a crunching groom. At Thursday
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I'm white and I'm from insinitis. I was listening to
the podcast over the weekend when you played the CB
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Lemon's snakelike behavior in front of the microphone. Amazing. However,
my twelve year old son was listening as I dropped
him off at his friend's house. He got out of
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Speaker 5 (35:22):
Black black y'all, and I'm bleck y'all, and I'm plucking
it black, and I'm bleck y'all, and I'm bleck y'all,
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Bleck you because I'm bleat and I'm black and I'm
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Speaker 6 (35:56):
If you have it on cassette, if you have it
on CD, anything, CD, just shoot it my way, would you?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Thank you? Morning?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Pe.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I met Philips before the Dodger game. This was yesterday
and I saw a short latina, ordered a pickled egg
and a glass of Chardonnay at ten fifteen am. My
first thought was interesting order. My second was dark nipples,
great sports. Though well, I don't know. I didn't see her,
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but chances are with that pickled egg, pickle your egg,
would you know that? Get some vinegar. That's your Dodger's analyst.
When the burden becomes too much. All she did was
vomit up a fat non fat David Vese talking point
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from Dodger Talk. I could do what she does. Put
me in pal. Hey, you don't talk about Isabelle like that.
She is a great Dodger analyst, and she needed those
cooler heads because you. Later last night, Matt, I was
at that event in Redondo Beach with Fortunate Youth and
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Annie Snead and some other local influencers doing the beach
life merch drop and somebody asked me, God, can you
believe the Dodgers loss and two out of three to
the Marlins? And I said, hey, calm down, It's a
long season. And would I have been that measured if
we hadn't talked to baseball analyst Isabellemara at the group home.
Speaker 6 (37:27):
She sh'd tell uh Tim Kates to calm down. She
told me to calm down. She told you to call
I would have been measured like that. No, you carried
that into the streets.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Thanks is he?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
I carried that the world.
Speaker 4 (37:40):
You know I'm gonna carry this out into the real world,
is he?
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Thank you? This comes from the state of Iowa, and
says Lebron talks about Akron like Matt talks about Iowa.
I just wanted to thank you and Matt for getting
this cook damn Stap song stuck in my head. You
have a good debt.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Indeed want strike couns be ship store.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I can't stop thinking about it.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
Cheat the feel here the I'm trying to.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Come on, Marlins, crown.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Me crown.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
You know, I was thinking and it's irrational, you know,
tossing and turned in. It's like it's hoping and dreaming
enough to soar. I don't think I think you're gonna die.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
No, but you're gonna permit games and triple plays dead there, you.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Know, stolling me.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Perfect.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Come on, this builds a beautifully.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
This is not an exaggeration. Yes, well, it's just the
biggest rock band in the world.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
And yeah, I believe the.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Album that had Higher on it sold twenty million copies.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
That's the state of music in the early two thousand.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
God, it's good.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
God, it's awful.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
If you talk about the NOD, forget don't forget about
two other friends of the show ex baseball coach for
shamanad Mark Gubaza and ex Eagles football coach Ben McEnroe
Petrosen money friend. Yeah, he was texting us about the
NOD as well. Of course, the current coach, coach Machuka,
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was there, and he has not publicly apologized for the
behavior of some of the lacrosse dads. Earlier this week
and there's one thing you don't do. You don't go
to Las Vegas and talk to Moe Green like that.
And you don't go to freaking village Christian and say
anything about the wall and get out without an armenia
and taking potshots at you. Now what happened? Not much.
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A glass was broken, A glass was broken at the squads,
a glass was broken at the at the don cucos
and cooler heads prevailed throughout the night, though, and we
have no real beef with the nod that.
Speaker 8 (40:23):
Broken class, by the way, still under investigation, thoseation.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
If in any leads, please come.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Jim Kates blacked out, got up, thought he saw a
ghost of a nod. Dad threw his schooner overhand like
he's trying to peg a guy at second when he
was a catcher for the Burrows Indians, and then goes, hey,
you girls want to have some ice cream?
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Are you okay? Problem solved?
Speaker 4 (40:50):
Problem solved, exactly right?
Speaker 2 (40:52):
All right. We'll be back with more petros and money
on AM five seventy LA Sports, your home of Dodger Baseball.
We got another hour and we will set it up
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