Portland beating the shit

out of Miami right now.

They beating the dog shit out of them.

By like twenty-something points.

That shit honestly don't surprise me,

to be honest.

It don't.

It don't because that shit with Jimmy,

that shit over with, man.

They ready to move on.

They ready to get up out of there.

That gotta be just a

toxic-ass environment to go

into every day, knowing...

the person who run the squad

don't want your ass though

he's sick of you right oh

man pat raleigh is sick of

jimmy but last man straight

up I heard like all like

the heat legends are like

mad at jimmy right now like

tim hardaway I don't know

about lonzo yeah I mean

that's what I heard I don't

know what's true it's not true

I can see Alonzo more than

being – I can see him being

mad at Jimmy Butler for sure.

I can definitely see that.

I can definitely see Tim Hardaway because,

like, man, they live and die for, like,

that heat wave.

Yeah, they live for that shit, bro.

Like, they – whenever I see, like,

Tim Hardaway on podcasts, man,

he always – even though he

played other places,

he played in Golden State first.

I feel like that's what, like,

most people remember him for, like,

run TMC.

man he was cold like he was

good with the heat but man

he was with he was with

golden state man he was

really that really that

dude for real oh yeah um

the elephant in the room

wally the producer of the

show first of all wally is

welcome wally to the saint

create media media family

let's start there first uh

I was gonna announce that

today but do it on here but

Wally's on both shows on the network.

He's on Uncommon Commentators.

That's our NBA show,

and he's on this show as well.

But Lo is sick.

A little guy got her sick,

so she's under the weather this evening,

so Wally is filling in for her.

This will still be a great show, Wally.

If you come to our playbacks,

Wally's in our playbacks as well,

so this is going to be a great show.

But...

I don't know what I was saying before.

I saw your question.

I don't even know what I was

talking about before that.

But, yes, welcome, Wally, man.

Wally is a good dude.

He's a great addition to the

team for sure.

Now, Wally, let the people know, man,

where you came from.

We haven't talked about this enough.

Introduce you.

Do your own introduction.

Do your thing.

Yes, I am...

I am producer Wiley,

as I will call myself on this show.

Um, man, I thought first off,

I appreciate it because

freaking stumbling upon y'all show, man.

I, of course, Twitter being Twitter, like,

you know,

looking for more content and

just people to connect with and not,

you know, Jay popped up.

I do not know how Jay popped

up on my timeline.

Jay popped up on my timeline

and it was promoting this show.

And I was like, cool.

Cause my thing was I wanted to,

I wanted to find, you know,

someone who was talking about, uh, more,

more so about the W just

trying to help myself out with,

with the podcast that I've

been doing for the last

couple of years with, uh, with my cohost.

Uh, and that's Aries talking sports, but,

uh,

you know, for, of course,

God works in mysterious ways.

Jay pops up on the timeline

promoting the show.

I hop in the live show and I was like, oh,

okay, bet.

You know,

I see y'all in low doing y'all

thing and me being me, I'm just, you know,

just commenting, just commenting,

supporting the show.

And it just became a thing after that.

And so what got me here was

Jay mentioned about, Jay had posted about

the uncommon commentators at

the time and was looking for podcasters,

but I guess not knowing if

Antoine and Garrett, shout out to them,

if they were coming back.

So I commented, you know,

he didn't necessarily respond,

so I DM him.

Hey, man,

you still looking for podcasters?

No, but do you want to produce?

I mean,

I never really produced outside of

my own stuff.

But, you know, my thing is,

if you help me along the way,

I got you out.

You know, I do what I know.

I do what I do.

And here I am.

So, again,

it's just grateful to come across Jay,

come across Nick, you and Lo,

be able to just be me.

And that's really how I got here.

It was just me,

me and me being in the comments.

I think y'all making me the

moderator for the live shows that like,

that was cool.

Cause I was like,

I didn't expect it again.

It was just me being me and having fun.

Oh yeah, man.

When I, yeah.

Like,

Today,

I just realized today when you said

it that you met me through

playback or you met me through internet,

like through playback and

through Twitter like that.

And I forget that's how we even met,

but it's like just being yourself.

I've been trying to tell people, man,

just being yourself and

just being a true person.

Don't be trying to be

something you're not.

Good things gonna happen.

Like you gonna meet good people.

You gonna come across good people.

You just be yourself.

You know what I'm saying?

That's how I met Nick.

That's how I met Lowe.

That's how I met you.

You know what I'm saying?

Garrett, Antoine,

like when you just be

genuine and you don't be

looking for stuff in return.

you're going to meet good

people regardless.

I'm glad I met you, man.

It's just like another brother I ain't got,

man.

You know what I'm saying?

It makes it easier.

It makes it easier to talk about sports.

We have a goal.

You know what I'm saying?

I've told y'all this, not live,

just in text messages,

but the fact that y'all...

It's one thing that Raina,

and who don't know, Raina's my wife,

but she believe in me and

what I'm trying to do.

That's one thing when it's your wife,

but then it's like

I got more people.

I got y'all, Nick, Wiley, Lowe, Garrett,

and Antoine.

Like, to believe in me,

that's going to make me even keep going.

Like, because y'all here,

that lets me know because

ain't nobody getting paid yet.

You know what I'm saying?

But we here like we are.

You know what I'm saying?

So that makes me feel good.

That makes it easier for me

to do whatever I have to do

to keep growing this

company and keep getting to

the next level.

So I appreciate y'all, man.

For real.

So it's...

What up, man?

What up, Jazzy?

What's good with you?

But, like you see, Lo ain't here tonight.

Lo not here, man.

I've been not believing

because Lo not here now.

Goddamn.

I know a lot of

motherfuckers be here just for Lo.

And I ain't gonna lie, Lo is great.

Lo is great.

You know what I'm saying?

We ain't gonna take that away from her.

But we got to do her thing, man.

We got to do her thing.

Yeah, no, for sure.

No, dead ass.

But we got to – and Raina

said she appreciates y'all too, man.

She appreciates y'all.

Shout out, Raina.

Have not – have yet to meet – look,

have yet to meet Raina.

But shout out to Raina.

I'll tell you,

Raina – Raina talks shit to you too,

but Raina – Hey, listen.

I'm here for it.

Nah, she talks cash shit, but man, man,

she sweet as pie though, for real.

We came for David Ruffer and we still,

but we will stay for Otis.

I like that.

I like that.

Low Jordan, she David Ruffer.

She got David Ruffer.

She Michael Jackson and shit.

You're right, she Mike,

you know what I'm saying?

She Michael Jackson and shit.

I'll be the name, fuck it.

You going to be Jermaine?

I'll be Jermaine.

Shit.

I feel you, man.

I would go snatch Jermaine while you can,

for real.

But, man, even though she here, man,

prayers to her, man.

She ain't like – I don't

want to say prayers like

she on her deathbed, but, you know,

little kid germs is the worst, man.

When she told me he was sneezing,

when he was sneezing,

you can't escape the sneezing.

Like anything else you can –

when they sneeze on you,

It's a wrap.

It's coming.

In a matter of time,

you're going to get sick.

And when she said that, I'm like, yeah,

it's a wrap.

But we still have a great show.

We got a lot of stuff we're

going to go over.

We got college basketball

stuff coming up this weekend.

We're going to talk about, we got,

I'm going to talk to y'all

about my experience in

Bloomington going to cover USC, Indiana.

but at first uh but at first

we're going we also got

wmba free agency starting

today we got our rival

we're going to talk about

but uh man welcome but

everybody who's coming in

welcome to episode of the

best damn w show and y'all

uh y'all fans I'm gonna

call y'all fans because

that's how y'all been

acting man like y'all

really be supporting that's

what fans do y'all support

man so it's like I love

that man people will be on

twitter talking about top five podcasts

the best crew out there, man.

That's love.

That means y'all really locked in with us.

Y'all really be here with us.

And we're not even a year old.

We only got twenty three episodes.

We started in August.

And there's a lot of stuff

that's happening.

We got a lot of stuff going on.

Like,

it's just coming in in the future

that we're going to be

doing different things,

interactions with y'all.

So it's just, man, I appreciate it.

More playbacks.

We're going to do it.

I'm going to have playbacks

going all the time.

Regardless if we up there or not,

playbacks are going to be going.

Because women hoops still

are just hard to watch.

It's places people don't have.

So, man, if I can't help out,

I'm going to do that.

If we're going to help out,

we're going to do that.

So, like I said on the playback yesterday,

we got a March Madness thing coming up.

We're going to do that, a challenge.

The top three are going to win prizes.

We got playback on this Thursday for –

U.S., not U.S.C., South Carolina, LSU.

Yeah, we got that.

It's going to be some shit

talking in the group chat.

It's going to be some shit

talking in the group chat.

Well, not the group chat, but in the chat.

In the chat, not the group chat, but...

What else we got going?

On arrival,

we're going to be played every

time on Monday, Friday, and Saturday.

I think we're going to pull

up on Friday or Saturday.

I don't know which one,

even though we're going to

be there on Thursday.

But just stay tuned, man.

We're going to be all over the place.

So we out here grinding, working,

and giving you all this good content,

this stuff we want to talk about in hoops,

man.

So we're going to get this

shit started with... Before

we get started... Oh, go ahead, go ahead,

go ahead.

Real quick.

For the people that pull up

to the unrivaled,

especially unrivaled and stuff like that,

don't be afraid to chat it up.

Shout out to Kid.

Kid, when I did the one by myself,

Kid kept going, kept commenting.

So we encourage that.

So please, like, if you come,

you come and you watching, you know,

you watching the lives, hit us, you know,

comment, man.

We, we gonna, we gonna chat.

Hey, we gonna talk to you.

Yeah.

We gonna talk to y'all.

Like y'all see, no.

As Thomas.

Oh yeah.

Shout out Tom.

Yeah.

Shout out Tom, man.

Our Australian friend, man.

Shout out to him.

Shout out to him big time.

No, yeah.

No, we're not going to Australia no more.

That's his fault.

If y'all in the playback, y'all know why.

Y'all know why we ain't

going to Australia no more.

Well, it's not on my list.

It was high up.

But talking to Tom, it's very low now.

It's down the rankings.

I ain't got time for that shit no more.

The shit he was talking about.

You got to trust the locals of places.

When a local tell you what's going on,

you got to trust them.

You can't think they lying at all.

But, yeah, you know Tom.

See, yeah,

if you're in the women's hoop

community and you're on Twitter,

you know Tom.

You definitely know Tom.

Tom is a very interesting character.

I'll say that.

But he's our guy.

He's one of our biggest fans.

So, no, we appreciate him.

For real.

No, dead ass.

Straight up.

But, man, let's get into it, man.

We're going to week one of Unrivaled.

It was fun.

It was a lot.

It was successful to us.

Um, a lot of numbers came out, but man, um,

it was so much hype going

into like the media week and everything.

Like people was at first,

everybody was like overall,

like the announcements,

We didn't want to see that shit no more.

We was done with it.

But once everybody started

flying down there, they were setting up,

all the content and shit was going up.

It was Nick first.

I was like, man,

I'm kind of excited for this shit now.

And then after he said it, I'm like, damn,

this shit is kind of lit now.

But once it started, man, it was fun.

Y'all was coming out for the playbacks,

man.

Y'all was showing out for those.

But, man, Nick, man,

how you feeling about the

first week so far, man?

I mean, I'll say this, man, you know,

especially over the past, like,

two to three weeks, man, you know,

with all the content that

they've been posting,

they've been building up

the anticipation for this

league because it was really a dry spell,

like, last summer because it was, like,

they were posting a new

player that was entering the league, like,

every day or every other day.

And then it was this and that.

So, like, during the summertime,

I remember we were talking, like, man,

like, a route was all over the place,

man.

I don't know to really trust this league.

But, like I say, you know,

when they start posting –

like, just pictures in a locker room.

They're posting, like,

practices and stuff.

We were like, okay, cool,

this might be something.

And I got to say, week one delivered.

Like, the first game delivered.

Like,

the first game between the Luma Owls

and the Mists, like,

that was what showed me, like, okay,

now this league is going to be for real,

honestly.

And since then, you know,

we've seen every team pretty much,

pretty much, you know,

perform at a high level.

I know that there's some

undefeated teams and

there's some teams that

haven't won a game yet,

but through the first three

days of arrival, or four days,

whatever it is,

It's been just absolutely amazing to me,

man.

You know,

probably my two standout teams

that I've enjoyed.

First, I'll start with the Laces,

who are two and oh without Jackie Young.

Like,

Jackie Young is such an important

piece of this team.

We all predicted that she

was going to have a really strong season.

I don't know how significant her injury is,

but her missing the first two games,

I hope that she does get back soon.

But it really hasn't been a

problem for them because a

lot of people don't know.

Like,

they're winning games by a

twenty-nine point margin.

I went to go check it today.

And they haven't allowed any

team to score fifty points

as of yet this season.

So it shows how great they

are defensively.

Kayla McBride offensively

has just been cooking,

averaging twenty-four and a half a game.

Tip Hayes has been just an

orchestrator on the offensive end,

just being able to create

for herself and for others.

And then you got other players as well,

like A.T., honestly.

Like, to me,

I still don't know why people

get in the way whenever A.T.

runs downhill.

Alyssa Thomas, I'm talking about.

Man, yo.

He ran over Jewel last night, bro.

Exactly.

But no, I was...

But that's the thing.

When I was watching their

first game against the –

who did they play?

They played the – I think

they played Rose.

Or no, excuse me.

I think they played Phantom.

They played Rose.

Who?

The Laces.

Who, Vinyl?

Or Laces?

Who did they play first?

Phantom.

I think they played Phantom, yeah.

It was Phantom.

They beat the shit out of them.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that was the blowout.

But I was watching his team, and I'm like,

This team could really be

like one of the top teams in the league,

honestly,

like just the way that they play.

You know,

they play a fun style of basketball.

They shoot the ball really well.

All their players scored in

double figures in that game.

Like all six players came

off the bench and had like twelve,

thirteen points.

So they they have a lot of

offensive weapons on the

team and on top of that,

they're getting after defensively.

And I think that's probably

the most important thing.

And then the next team that

I've been really impressed

with is the Lunar Owls,

who are also two and oh.

I mean,

obviously Schuyler had the two game

winners.

The first game winner was really,

was really special to watch, man.

You know,

especially with everything that's

been going on, you know,

with Schuyler and Seattle and everything,

you know, it's good to see her strong,

but I got to give it to them.

Like Nafisa Collier is

playing at a different level, honestly.

And it's kind of crazy

because you see one of the

owners playing at a high

level and Nafisa Collier,

then the other owner,

Brianna Stewart has kind of

gone off to a slow start.

I don't know if we'll dive

into a little bit of that later,

but fees average at twenty

nine points and eight and a

half rebounds throughout

the first two games.

Like, I don't know, like, if there's, like,

an MVP list so far

throughout the first week,

but it's got to be by far a

defeat to Collier, honestly.

I mean, like I said, I mean,

Skyler's averaging around fifteen a game.

Alicia Gray has been a

really great contributor, you know,

on both ends of the floor.

She's averaging around eighteen points.

So,

the Lunar Owls getting off to a hot

start was actually really impressive.

And even heading into that first game,

I mean, you know,

I want to say they were

down in that matchup, like,

throughout most of the game

against the Mists because

Jewel got off to a really strong start.

Dejanay had really good defensive moments.

So just for them to just be

able to show resiliency and

just be able to come back

in that game was just really impressive.

And then that momentum

continued into the next day as well.

And then, I mean,

there's some other teams as well.

I mean, obviously,

Vinyl's been playing at a

really high level.

Vinyl might be one of the

most talented teams, honestly.

When you talk about Enrique Agumov,

you talk about Ryan Howard,

you talk about De'Arica Hamby,

who has been cooking in the

pick and roll for them.

Um,

same thing with players like Aliyah

Boston as well.

Like vinyl is super talented, honestly.

I mean, and they're, they're,

they're going to be another one.

One of those teams is going

to be competing for a title

this year as well.

Um, I mean, I know that there's, yeah,

I know there's a couple of

teams that are owing to right now.

Like Rose is owing to, honestly,

even though they're owing to,

I do give them some credit

because they were down in

double digits in both of their games.

It still found a way to make a comeback.

So, I mean,

obviously when you have Chelsea ground,

your team,

you have Kalia copper and then

you have angel Reese.

Like, obviously, you know,

when you look at that roster,

they should be fine.

Honestly.

I'm also just – I'm

expecting Aja Reese to cook this year.

I'm sorry.

Like,

when you're playing with great

playmakers like Chelsea Gray, you know,

Kaz, a really great ball handler,

a playmaker,

Brittany Sykes coming off the bench,

there should be no reason

why Aja Reese is not averaging at least,

like, a good amount of points, maybe,

like, at least, sixteen, eighteen a game,

honestly.

I mean, and it's pretty much – I mean,

she can pretty much get her

points off of pick and roll,

off of rim runs.

All she has to do is find a

way to get open because

Chelsea Gray is so dynamic

where she's going to drop

multiple bodies.

Kalia Cobber the same way,

especially when she penetrates.

Like,

there should be no reason why Angel

Reese is not dominating, honestly.

I mean, look,

she's averaging a

double-double throughout

the first two games,

but we should definitely

expect a better Angel Reese

if you ask me moving forward, honestly.

But, I mean,

that's just going to come with time,

honestly.

But overall thoughts on

rivaled is week one is not disappointing.

I mean, there's been great teams,

great players, honestly.

And I'll be real, man.

I mean,

I'm blown away throughout this

first weekend of a rival, I must say.

I am too, man.

How about you, Wiley?

No, I'm, of course, shoot, I've been,

as much as we, like you said earlier,

as much as they hyped it up,

as much as we hyped it up, like,

I'm sitting here like, yo, I am,

I'm ready for it, like,

to see all of the players that, you know,

that agreed to play the teams that

how they were although some

of these teams that the way

they were built I'm sure

they wish especially the

trades I'm sure those

trades that happened right

before the right before it

started I'm pretty sure

they kind of have some uh

buyer's remorse but uh

overall like yeah for sure

yeah yeah but uh week one

week one's been nothing but

but good ball outside of

Outside of the one game that we watched,

man, that was rough.

Freaking smoke layup after smoke layup,

bad shot after bad shot.

But also, again,

if you were there for the

game and for the live, of course,

you know we got the jokes off.

And we came up with our

so-called theory as to why

so much bad shooting may

have possibly been going on.

Oh, yes.

We think they went out last

night or the night before, boy.

Isn't it lit, boy?

Because it was.

They were looking tight.

They were looking gas a

little bit out there, man.

I mean, that's why I told people, like,

three-on-three is different.

Like, it's constant movement.

Like, your condition has to be top tier.

Like, if you watch, like, honestly,

I think what made me realize it was,

I don't know if people remember,

but during the WNBA

All-Star Weekend at Phoenix

this past year, they had, like,

a little three-on-three

tournament with the Team USA players.

And I just saw how they were

constantly moving.

Like,

it was pretty much like sticking with

your defender.

Like, even after a bugger,

they had to continue to move on.

There was no inbound in the basketball.

So...

And that was different.

Exactly.

Yeah, that's half court.

Now they got a full court.

I mean, I know it's not a full court.

You know, it's condensed, but still.

Man,

that's still full court three on three,

boy.

That shit,

I can imagine doing no shit like that.

And I think that's the best

part about this league,

the fact that it's three on three,

it's full court.

And like they've been saying before,

even Brendan, when he came on,

you can't hide on defense.

You have to,

you got to be able to move your feet.

It's

Like,

who was it that said she had never

done so much backpedaling?

Oh, Big Steph.

Big Steph said that.

Mama Steph, boy.

She said,

I ain't never done this much

backpedaling before.

And you can just see it out there, man.

Like Jazzy said,

BG had to regret in full court.

Oh, boy.

You know, she runs slow already.

She tall, tall, long, all of the above.

And trying to get up and down that floor,

BG,

I know she's regretting every bit of it.

I agree with that comment, honestly.

But I'll say this, too, though.

Like, you know,

them continuing to build

the conditioning here in Unrivaled,

they're going to be ready for the W. Oh,

yeah.

It comes around.

That ain't going to be nothing to them.

Yeah.

No, it's not.

It's not because, like,

you could just tell.

Because you could tell Angel

would look gassed out there a little bit.

Like, the bigs are gassed.

The guards that they find.

I ain't seen too many guards

that look like they are gassed.

Like, they ready for this.

But the bigs look like.

And on top of that, honestly,

and on top of that,

some teams play back-to-back.

I can only imagine.

Yeah.

Yeah.

People are like,

that's less than twenty four hours, too,

because they play Friday

night and Saturday afternoon.

So that's less than twenty four hours.

You have to play another game.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That was crazy.

Yeah.

Rose did have to play at

night and then in the afternoon.

Yo,

that's a crazy night day back to back

like that.

So I think week four really

things really heat up.

Like,

I really think people don't get their

legs under them.

And we're really going to see,

I think like in this next, when is it,

when is it in, in March?

So we got like the next couple of weeks,

man.

I think people needed this

first week because I know during like the,

during the media weekend of

pressers availability and

people was asking players like,

How does it feel being like

– but all they had was like a scrimmage.

All they had was practice.

You know what I'm saying?

But now,

listen to some of the pressers

since the games have started.

They're like, okay,

now we know what to expect.

They know how to adjust.

Pull that comment back up, Wally.

Huh?

I was going to say,

pull that comment back up,

the one that was about Stewie.

Stewie said she ain't

touched the ball since the championship.

They definitely got to get – See,

that's an issue to me.

I get it.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

I get that.

But when you know, like,

when it's your league and

you know that it's going to start over,

like, another couple months,

you got to be ready.

Like, you know what I'm saying?

I did not know she said no shit like that.

I had no idea she said some

shit like that.

That makes sense because

it's like I mentioned earlier.

It looked like it.

Fia's cooking.

Stewie is still trying to find herself.

Yeah.

Yeah, Stewie look, and she look tired.

Her lateral movement looks

very slow out there.

Like she getting bodied and shit.

So it is, but they are getting used to it.

I hear,

I see a lot of them talking about

the minutes.

Like there's some of them

used to playing so many X

amount of minutes, but now it's like,

you're only playing eight minutes.

You only got so much time to

make an impact.

So they trying to,

Figure out different things.

The coaches are trying to figure out.

You got coaches.

Dwayne never coached.

You got coaches who are just

developmental coaches.

You know what I'm saying?

So,

Handy was trying to – he already talked

about that.

He's trying to get that stigma off of him.

And one thing I did – I had

in my notes that I did want

to watch was seeing how the

first-time coaches was going to look.

And last night,

you kind of see a little

bit like Teaspoon was going against –

who's the coach by Phantom?

I think it's DJ Sackman.

I think that's who it is,

but whoever it was,

was getting coach circles around them.

You know what I'm saying?

So you could just, you could just see it,

but everybody's, but like you said,

I think it was jazz.

You would say,

I think in the next couple of weeks,

you're going to see stuff

coming together.

People got their legs under them.

some of them will probably realize, hey,

we can't be going out like

we think we can in Miami

like this and going back.

You better use them days off

to go out and kick it.

You know what I'm saying?

If you got to play on Monday,

Sunday night is not your night to go out.

You got to play on Friday,

Thursday night is not your

night to go out.

You know what I'm saying?

Like,

you got to wait until Saturday night.

You know what I'm saying?

The bottles that you popping,

they better be bottles of

water and not liquid.

I swear.

Yeah, you can't be going.

All that, man.

I be seeing they TikToks and

they reels and shit.

They be out there.

They out there.

They kicking.

They be at the water.

They be doing this and that.

They ain't going to show

everything because they

don't want us on their ass.

You know what I'm saying?

But we can definitely tell.

We know Russ versus I've

been out all night and drinking.

We know.

We know what that shit was like, yo.

It was probably smelling

like tequila in that damn

arena last night, boy.

Coming out of that pool.

I didn't know what it was, but man.

How do y'all feel about Phantom, man?

That's the team.

We know Rose is the one too.

Phantom is the squad.

I feel like there's nothing being said.

What up, King?

Is it King?

Rob, what's good?

What's happening with you?

I feel like

there's nothing good being

said about phantom right

now like rose like we have

like if rose do this and

that they can get it's not

like if rose can do this

they can do this they got

they got good spots phantom

ain't had a good spot yet I

was gonna say I don't know

go ahead marina well no

yeah it's missing uh marina

mabry is that like like is

it that bad to the point where

Like,

is her after school that effective

for them?

Because I'm like, you look at the squad,

Brittany Griner, Satu, Sabrina,

Natasha Cloud, Katie, and Natisha Hyman.

Oh, yeah, the shoot was a replacement.

Because the Phantom was

already off to a bad start, right?

Because they lost Kelsey.

They lost Kelsey Plum.

It was already off to a bad start there.

Then you trade away Courtney Williams.

So that's another one.

You get Sabrina.

But Sabrina is not even

going to be there all the time, I think,

because she got prior engagement.

So she's like in and out.

So I don't think she really

that damn focused.

She's not even that damn focused on that.

Satu looking like she still

might be injured.

But he out there just slow as hell.

So, I don't know.

I don't know, man.

They got a coach that never

been a coach before, like a head coach.

You know what I'm saying?

So, it's just – I don't know.

I don't know what Phantom going to do.

Like,

I don't even know who their next game

is against.

I need to go look.

I got to schedule it.

Oh, shit.

They played a miss on Friday.

I mean, the miss, oh, and two.

Yeah, oh, and three.

Oh, yeah.

So they put me on.

I think the Mets are going

to beat them for sure.

I'm going to give Phantom

some leniency because even

the game against Vano yesterday,

I thought they had a much

better showing than what

they had against the Laces on Saturday.

They did.

You're right about that.

I will give them that.

They lost it in that third quarter.

That's what it was.

From the third quarter on,

it was just like, all right.

exactly I just think they

got to get better

defensively um honestly

like I think the chemistry

just still isn't there for

them like I mean I think I

think the only chemistry

that chemistry that I

really see is really

between satu and sabrina

but that's because they

play together in college

but they got to find a way

to get others going like I

mean they got katie lou

samuels on the team they

got like quality scores and

quality shooters on the

team that they got to get

going and especially with

sabrina being the primary

playmaker like that's her

that's her job to make sure

that everyone else gets

going as well britney

grinder so I'll do saboli

and everything else and

I don't know.

I was watching the game earlier today,

and I don't know if people

noticed it either,

but it looks to me like

Sabrina had lost weight

since the championship win.

I don't know.

Maybe it's just the uniform.

It might be that, but I was like,

she looks a little skinnier

than what she normally has been.

Maybe I'm just seeing things.

I don't know.

It might have been just the uniform.

Back and look, no.

Anybody in chat,

anybody in chat seeing that?

I got to go back and look at that.

That could be something.

You never know.

People will be trying to get leaner,

you know what I'm saying?

Injury.

Maybe that might be the case.

That might be the case.

You know what I'm saying?

It could be.

Like,

you feel like you're getting too many

injuries.

People start, like,

they start leaning out

because they've got too

much weight on their body

as they get older.

So.

That could be something, too.

And one thing about yesterday,

they shot fifty one percent

from the field yesterday.

And even though they shot twenty two,

three,

they were still they shot thirty

six percent from three.

Eight for twenty two.

They only went to the line five times.

They shot five free throws

because they were shooting

so many threes.

But I mean, they had a better day.

They were shooting right with vinyl.

Is this that?

I don't know.

They have fourteen turnover.

That's the game right there.

Yeah.

Yeah,

taking better care of the basketball.

I think their defense has to get better.

But, I mean,

it's hard to stop a team like

Vinyl who has so many offensive weapons.

Also,

De'Erica was eating off the pick and

roll every time.

It was a high ball game with Arike or Ryan,

and then she just rolled to the basket.

Nobody contesting the basket

or nobody's protecting the rim.

That's a three-on-three

experience that she has,

especially from the Olympics.

Right.

Yeah, that's true.

Yeah.

And then all the people

forget her and Ryan were on that team too,

so that's already chemistry

built right there.

Yep.

My thing with the,

speaking of the pick and roll,

when Brittany Griner pick and roll,

that shit be so slow after she picked.

I'd be like, yo, at this point,

you got to slip that shit.

You got to just start

slipping those picks.

Because you're wide enough

to make an impact where

they got to figure out if

they want to go over or under.

And as soon as they make that move, slip.

Just go ahead and slip to

the basket at this point.

Because I'm like, you wait until

they, you know,

you set that pick and then

your roll be so fucking slow.

I'm like, girl,

you got to get to the basket.

Because God damn.

No, that is.

No, no, no.

Seriously,

you can't be that slow in

three-on-three full court for sure.

No three-on-three you can.

I don't think she has the quickness,

honestly,

to be able to really do it effectively.

You know what?

No, you are correct, Megan.

Vinyl looking real solid.

And De'Erica is out there,

like they were saying last

night on playback, mama hand beat.

Vinyl might have the best

offense right now in the league.

Yeah, man.

And you got Teaspoon

coaching her ass off over there, bro.

And she got something to prove.

Yeah, she got something to prove, bro.

She really do.

Like, she coaching her ass off.

Like, Vinyl really –

Really look like they want some of that,

too.

Like, they want, like, yeah,

we want some of this.

Like, they, we here for this.

So, they like, they ready.

They really want to.

Like, their chemistry is good.

Looking at them, like, at practice,

they be always dancing together.

They always doing shit.

So, you know,

that stuff translates to the court.

And you can definitely see it.

They having fun.

But they definitely locked in.

Like,

Bjerka is knowing where all the balls

are going.

All the rebounds, she's there.

You know, and she's very strong.

That's what I'm saying.

I was going to say,

people don't realize how strong she is.

She real strong.

She strong as hell, bro.

Last night, she really showed me, like, oh,

shit, she strong as shit, boy.

Like, okay, all right, yeah.

Like, she locked in.

And you know what?

I'm sure she heard people, you know,

people was probably talking

shit about her, too.

She heard people,

because all the stuff with, you know,

the aces,

but also people was saying she

was too old to be the most improved.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, what age I do?

If you improve, you improve.

Yeah, I mean, if you...

If you had a better season

than you did the previous

year and you stood out,

you should be the most

improved candidate.

That's just me.

Exactly.

I don't care.

Yeah, like, who cares about that?

Like, the only time that shit, like,

most improved bothered me is when, like,

shit, like, when somebody, like,

jogged at it.

What?

Like, why he get that?

But I got it, though.

I understood.

Like, I wasn't going to be mad about, like,

go too far.

I'm like, damn, why he get that shit?

Somebody else could have got it.

We knew Ja was going to be that.

But you know what I'm saying?

But outside of that, like, I get it.

Like,

people was mad about him beginning it,

but she balled out,

and she really improved.

Damn the age.

You know what I'm saying?

And she's showing it,

and she's showing that

she's going to be ready for

– is she a free agent?

Who?

De'Arica?

De'Arica.

I don't think so.

I don't think so.

Okay, I didn't think she was.

Okay, so she's really going to be ready.

It's going to be fun to see

her again this season

coming up with the Sparks.

And you got – she got Rakia

down there too.

I know they're on the same team,

but I feel like all this is

going to help them,

help that team going

forward because you're

still developing like this.

Then when Cam Brink comes back.

Yes,

I don't even know if she's going to

come back.

You know how people with ACLs these days,

it'd be like two years

before you see a player again.

So hopefully it ain't that

long since they start back in the summer,

but we'll see.

I want to see Arike step up the D, though,

start leading the Steelers.

Like, hey, I feel that.

I feel that.

I feel that.

Go back and watch Rose

versus Vinyl Hamby with Storm Angel, bro.

Yo,

I definitely got to go back and watch

that.

Angel ain't ready for De'Arica like that.

Yeah, that's the big issue with Angel.

She's going to get stronger.

Nah, offense is a fact.

That's why I was looking up front.

If you really watch Angel in college,

go ahead, my fault.

No, I was saying,

that was part of the reason

why I was looking into that

game on Friday.

I was like, dang,

Angel got to go up against

De'Arica and Aaliyah Boston?

Yeah, that's rough, bro.

No, that's tough.

That's real tough.

But you also,

if you watch Angel in college,

stuff like that, she's good,

but she's just,

anytime with somebody bigger,

she struggled with that strength, man.

Her legs aren't as strong,

and so she's definitely

going to have to do that in the W to up.

That's why she missed a lot of layups,

too.

She's not that strong like that,

so you bounce, you hit her,

she's going to miss that shit.

And that's the thing, too.

The W is a big league.

So, I mean, you got to be strong.

You got to be ready for

those battles every single game.

You do.

I mean, hell, I mean, you got to think.

She ain't even playing.

I play like Asia Wilson in this league.

You know what I'm saying?

Exactly.

Exactly.

So,

you better take advantage of this shit

for real.

Man, anything else?

The Erica extension is

through the twenty twenty

five season also.

Oh, OK.

OK.

OK.

OK.

Thank you.

Appreciate you.

Just one more thing before

we move on about the Mets.

I think they'll be fine.

I know that they're owing too.

I just think that they got

to really figure out how to

really utilize their players.

I mean,

they got so many offensive talents

like Brianna Stewart, Jewel Lloyd,

but then off the bench,

you got to play like Rekia

Jackson as well.

So it's just all about

utilizing your players and

just really understanding

just certain situations.

But I feel like, I mean,

with the talent alone,

I feel like the Mets will

find a way to turn things around.

I mean, you know,

the first game against the Lunar Owls,

that was a close one.

And then they lost the last one as well.

But

To me, even though they're only two,

I think they're another

team that will turn it around.

So I'm expecting both the

missed and Rose to be able

to turn it around.

I'm with you on that.

I'm with you, definitely.

We're going to say a prayer.

Yeah, we're going to say a prayer.

We're going to say a prayer

for the Phantom.

Yeah, we are.

We're going to say a prayer.

Speaking of the Phantom, man,

that's a nice segue, man.

Satu, man, free agency started.

And is she going to be in Dallas?

Is she going to be able to leave Dallas?

I don't even know how this shit work, man.

I thought she got core, didn't she?

I thought she did.

Does that mean she's not

going back like Kelsey Plum?

Who else?

Mitchell from the Fever.

Kelsey Mitchell got core.

Satu did.

I'm still... We need Ella

Dawn to go somewhere, too.

I need her to go to the Aces.

I think she's freed from the Mystics.

I think she's freed from there.

I need her to go somewhere, but

Where do you think Satu going to land?

I don't know.

I've been thinking about this.

I haven't been able to

really explore teams, honestly,

but it does seem like, I mean,

once you announce it in the

press that you're not

coming back to the team,

that's pretty much the

writing on the wall.

She did it in a press conference, bro.

I don't know what else.

That's the writing on the

wall right there.

You know what I'm saying?

That's a crazy thing, too.

As far as teams,

it just really all depends

on the situation.

I could potentially see Atlanta

I could see her playing next to Ryan,

playing next to Alicia.

I think it would definitely

create more off-ball

opportunities for both of

them because I think Ryan

is a really great player off the ball.

She'll probably have to

share the ball a little bit

with Jordan Canada,

but it's also about health, too,

because Atlanta was not

healthy at all last year.

Jordan Canada was in and out

of the lineup.

Same thing with Ryan.

I think Ryan missed close to a month.

Even other players as well

was missing time, so

atlanta just got to stay

healthy and I think sato

especially looking at sato

you know who has injury

history and who missed like

more than half the season

last year I mean which you

know which was out of her

control um I mean I mean

it's something to look at I

mean I saw people say veil

everybody always want to

say vegas bro it's so funny

it's like anytime

somebody's a free agent or

somebody paid everyone to

stay in vegas it's just

funny yeah they do they do

honestly I don't might be

good too depending on

what the whole Jewel Lloyd situation is.

I was predicting that she might stay, but,

I mean,

a lot of people are projecting

Chicago's going to be her

next destination,

which I wouldn't be mad at that,

honestly.

I would love that.

Come on home, Jewel.

We got the money, man.

Chicago got, like,

over nine hundred K in cap space.

They third on the list in cap space.

Yeah, I saw that, yeah.

So, it's like, I don't know.

So, I think Seattle will work.

So, I think Seattle will really work,

honestly.

Also, Yeah, they got seven,

they got seven hundred K or

some shit like that Seattle do, so.

Yeah, but what's up with the Satu slander?

Like, it's kind of a back-and-forth thing.

Like, at first she was getting praised,

and now she was getting slandered.

I was like – What's slandered?

There's no – I see a lot of

– I know what he's talking about.

Like, on Twitter, there's no in-between.

Yeah.

Either Satu is in that

Stewie Asia fee realm –

And then there's people who are saying,

but then there's people

saying they don't want her

on their team at all.

So I'm like, come on, man.

There's no middle ground

when it comes to Satu.

Yeah,

all the conversations I've been

seeing lately.

So it's like, come on, man.

You know you want to take

her on your team.

If you're putting Satu on

the same tier as Asia, Fee, and Stewie,

please don't talk about it.

I mean, respectfully, I like Satu.

Satu's a great player.

But just respectfully, nah.

But, I mean, you know, I agree with Meg.

I mean, I think Satu is very talented,

honestly.

I mean, hell,

even when she won most

improved player last year.

Definitely injuries.

I feel like we were just

waiting on that moment

because her career got off

to a slow start just

because of her injuries.

And, you know,

injuries have been just a

big pivotal role in her

career and why she's been held back,

honestly.

So, Satu in a new situation could work.

And, I mean, I've been saying, you know,

Dallas –

Dallas just seems like

they've just been in the

same place for so long.

I mean, look,

I know that they have the number one pick,

and obviously they're going

to get paid back or something.

That could potentially change things.

But, you know,

Seattle's a team that could

be back in championship contention,

you know, if they get a play like Sato.

I mean, you pair it with Skyler.

You could pair it with Nneka.

You could pair it with Ezzie Magbogor.

Ezzie doesn't get talked about a lot,

honestly.

But, I mean,

Seattle could be right back there.

I mean, maybe not top three in the league,

but I could definitely see them, like,

get a playoff seed with Satu

on the lineup.

No, that is.

The real question is,

why are former Ducks so injury prone?

What they doing out there in Eugene?

What they doing out there?

They got all that big-ass facility,

and they ain't got the

proper training going on out there.

What's going on out there in Eugene?

You ain't lying.

I ain't even thinking about that.

I've never even thought about that.

Also, with Jazzy, she said, I think,

when Satu played for Germany,

In the Olympics,

people were upset because

she sat out most of the

season for Dallas.

Oh, yeah, I did see that.

I think we actually talked about that,

too.

But she did.

I don't know.

What was her injuries?

I don't even know what she's battling.

What does she hurt?

Nick, do you know?

Anybody?

Meg, you know Jazzy?

What she hurt?

I don't know what she did.

Yeah, I know Meg.

Meg will come with the

information real quick.

Well, she was a former Wings fan.

Now she's a Valkyrie, apparently.

Yeah, yeah, she's a Valkyrie.

You're a Valkyrie fan, boy.

You don't even know how good

they're going to be.

Y'all getting paid.

Hey, she's buying stock early.

What, isn't her injury?

Oh, she's like one of those players.

She's like a... It is, I will say.

She's like an NBA...

She always hurt type shit?

Even despite the injuries,

Satu's still an all-star caliber player,

so I feel like any team

should want to do whatever

it takes to get her, honestly.

How much you would pay for her?

How much I would pay?

Yeah, how much you paying for Satu?

Depends on the organization, honestly.

Yeah, it really does.

And where you...

Is she a person you can

build your team around?

Like,

this is who we're going to build

around and win a championship.

It's hard to say, really, right?

If she wasn't injury-prone, I'd say yes.

Talent-wise,

I would say she is a player

that you can build around.

But you look at the injury-prone type,

it's just tough to, like,

really invest in a player like that.

I mean, hell,

you look at what's happening

in New Orleans with Zion

and how that's turned out, like,

the past six, seven years.

Good God.

Where they put all their

stock on this guy because

he was the biggest star out of college.

He was supposed to take

Brian's spot when he left.

That's not happening.

Yeah, he was.

I think she had solid two as well.

She does hang with Jimmy Butler.

Yeah, you hanging out with Jimmy Butler.

I know you on bullshit.

I don't even know.

That's crazy.

If you was in my playback last night,

you saw my rant about Jimmy Butler,

so you already know how I feel.

Yeah, she do be working out with him.

Oh, yeah, you did, Mitch.

You weren't there yet.

But, like,

when he was suspended for those

seven games,

he was working out with her over there.

But they always be hanging out.

So, yeah, that's – it's hard.

But you just don't know what

you're going to get when

she's coming there.

And I forgot, since Nick did mention that,

that she did mention her

leaving in the press conference.

So it was like, yeah, you are gone.

It's just a matter of how

this is going to work.

Yeah.

um what y'all think what do

you think uh kp gonna land

honestly see this the thing

like I feel like if she

does leave vegas she's

probably gonna have to take

a lesser role than me

because I don't know where

I mean like I mean it's not

like she's one of the top

two options in vegas but I

just I don't know it just

it just all depends on the

situation to me

To me,

I would love to see her stay in Vegas,

honestly, especially, you know, because,

I mean, I'll just be real.

I mean,

the A's is championship running over you.

I don't care if they lost this past year.

It's not.

No, it's not.

I saw a lot of people trying

to write them off after that loss,

and I'm like, yo, like, Aja Wilson,

she just turned, what, twenty-seven,

twenty-eight?

Yeah, bro.

That's prime.

That's your prime right there.

Like, literally, honestly, man,

but I think the best situation,

for me at least, would

be for her to probably stay

in vegas I see meg says

chicago I wouldn't be mad

at chicago honestly it's

just kp is just so weird

it's like it's like she's

high and she's low at the

same time it's like it's

like she can be a great

player but then she can

also make some crazy

decisions that make you

think like yo what the fuck

was that like you know what

I mean like kb is that type

of player to me but I mean

but I'll be real I mean

she's great honestly I mean

and also also you know by

the way congrats to her for

getting her her jersey

retired at washington

oh yeah was that saturday

that happened I believe I

think that happened on

saturday um I see jessie

said she thinks she's gonna

resign okay okay okay okay

I wouldn't be mad at her

resigning just because of

the fact of the uh the

chemistry that she has with

with vegas but also the

thing about it is that like

okay so let's let's say

hypothetically she does leave like

I feel like the one player

that could potentially

replace her that the Aces

could get is Kelsey

Mitchell out in Indiana.

But if Kelsey is forward in Indiana,

which I'm projecting that

she's going to stay in Indiana too,

especially with the year

that she just had.

And I feel like they're

building something finally there,

you know, because I mean,

she's been there for so

long and it's like, you know,

she had to make the playoffs to this year,

to this past year, I believe.

So where they're building

there with Caitlin,

with Aaliyah and all of them,

I feel like that's probably

the best place for her.

But honestly,

I don't know who the Aces

will replace KP with.

you know, outside of like Kelsey Mitchell.

No, I don't.

I really don't know, man.

I'm still thinking about

what Meg said about her going to Chicago.

It's about KP, man.

I didn't even think about that.

I didn't think about that shit at all.

I mean, it, it, I don't,

I feel like we can't really like, yeah,

she going to start there.

Right.

I mean, probably, but it's like,

I can't really like really

look at Chicago until after

the draft to me.

Like once they get there, honestly,

I think that'll really

determine what team we're

going to be looking at this

upcoming year.

Okay.

Since you said that,

we can talk about Jewel

because everybody got her

connected to Chicago for that third pick.

If you're Chicago,

either one of y'all can answer.

If you're Chicago,

do you offer the tenth pick

first just to see where the

conversation goes?

Yep.

That's what I'm doing.

I'm offering that tenth

first because if I offer that tenth...

Chicago's not in that

position yet where they

need to risk getting rid of

the third pick to me.

No, seriously.

I mean, Jewel is a great player,

but respectfully,

Jewel is not Asia or Fee.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, you give up everything.

You give up the house, shit.

You start with the pick and

let them try and talk you into the third.

Oh, I can see.

Okay, okay.

So let's say Chicago really wants Jewel.

I'm going to give you this

tenth and let Seattle be like, okay, well,

how about this?

It's going to have to be a

back and forth in order for

Seattle to get that third pick.

It's going to have to be

some wheeling and dealing.

It's definitely going to have to be.

Um,

just about the Chicago home real quick.

And she talked about the

Chicago facility rackets

facility wise for people

that play in Vegas.

Yeah, it is.

And the fact that,

and the fact that Chicago

haven't even broke ground on,

on building a facility yet.

I don't even know what's

taking them so long to do that.

So if you don't start now,

you damn sure not going to

have it done by next season.

ain't even started you know

what I'm saying like you

should have been started

this so I don't know what's

going on there they go

ahead yeah I don't know

what's going on over there

so but man it's like I

don't know I would love

some I've seen some people

say they think uh I don't

know nick nick I don't know

if you said this but

somebody said they feel

like jewel going back to

seattle I don't know if

that was you I said that you think so

To me, it's like, I mean, I get it.

Chicago, you know,

that's close to home for Jewel.

So I get it.

You know what I'm saying?

You're right next to the crib.

I get that.

But Jewel, to me,

I feel like she should be

better off putting herself

in position to where she

can be in win-now mode.

Chicago is not in that

position whatsoever.

And I don't know if they're

going to be in that

position for at least another, like,

maybe couple years, honestly.

But if she does want to go

based off of just being close to home,

then I'm fine with that.

Or if she just wants to stay

for the development of that franchise,

then cool.

But...

two-time champ like you know

what I'm saying like I

don't think she needs to be

waiting around to like try

to put herself in position

when another one in I feel

like at least to me I mean

we don't know the ins and

outs of the whole seattle

situation but I'm hoping

that it's not that bad at

the point where you're

willing to leave a team

where you do have a better

chance of winning a title

with going to another team

who's still young and in

the rebuilding process me

personally I feel like

I feel like a lot of this

whole situation with Skylar and Jewel,

it really could just be

solved off with just one conversation,

honestly.

I don't know if it's that bad, honestly.

I know that we heard some

things about Skylar cussing

people out in the locker

room or calling people

names and all that stuff,

but that's your franchise.

You spent your whole career in Seattle.

They look to you as a franchise player,

especially after Stewie

left and after Sue Bird had retired.

They look to you as the next

superstar of this team

yeah honestly I'm not

letting that go honestly

especially when this team

is actually in position to

be a title contender I mean

and even last year as I was

looking at them you know

they had their ups and

downs about things like man

like if they bring this all

together like to me they

got they got one more year

before they really

established themselves as

true title contenders you

got jewel who I know had a

very I mean honestly I mean

we look at jewel honestly I

mean jewel definitely had a

very underwhelming season

I mean, especially, you know,

when you look at the upside down,

especially after like in

the twenty twenty three

season when she led the league in scoring,

it was very underwhelming

to say the least.

But then you still have

Skyler who had a pretty,

pretty solid season,

especially as a playmaker.

I thought Nega had a really good year.

I thought that I thought it

was probably one of her

best shooting years, if you ask me.

And then you still got a young rising star,

Inezi Maguibor.

That was just me, honestly.

I mean, I mean, especially with Jewel.

I mean, Jewel's not young.

I want to say she's like in

her early thirties.

I would want to see her in a

in a position where she can

win at this moment.

I don't want to see her go

to an organization where.

they're about two,

three years away from

really being playoff contenders,

honestly.

I definitely understand that take,

and I definitely hear you there.

That was my first thing when

people were first bringing up Drew.

I'm like, man,

does Drew actually want to come here?

Because Chicago's not ready

to win right now.

They're a fringe playoff team,

and we still don't know

what's going to happen

without the draft and all that stuff,

too.

So it's like, man, but like you said,

it is her squad.

It could be just one conversation.

They're both down there in Miami.

So it was like,

it could just be one conversation.

I told you we need that one-on-one.

That one-on-one could

possibly solve everything, man.

I'm telling y'all.

You ain't lying, though.

That's box office.

That one-on-one could probably solve it.

It could.

That block that you had on Scholar?

Oh, my God.

You felt it.

It was more to that block.

Heard that block.

You heard the block.

It was more to that block

and everything like that.

So that's going to be interesting to see.

Man,

who's some – y'all got any sleeper

free agents that people are

not going to be talking about?

I wanted to touch on this, too,

because the news just broke.

Brittany Griner is going to

test free agency.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I've been trying to think of

places where she could go.

I don't see her going nowhere else.

I think, to me,

I think Phoenix has got to

– you've got to stay in Phoenix.

I think you just got to stay.

Hold on.

Let me tell, let me,

let me address this shit real quick.

I'm just saying, I just,

I just can't see any other team where,

I mean, look, I mean, Brittany Gratter,

Brittany Gratter, you know,

we all know that,

but it's just hard for me

to really see her like go

to another team and still

be like as effective, honestly.

I don't know.

Honestly, who's going to fit her?

You think about the rosters

and everything like that.

Who has a need for BG?

Is she going to come off the bench?

I don't know.

If it's Indiana,

she's coming off the bench

because she ain't starting

ahead of Leah Boston.

I think she's so far from

her prime to the point.

I can't bring you in and

have you starting over

somebody who's young and

who's really doing their thing.

Honestly,

Phoenix is still a contender, though.

That's the thing.

They are.

They're in the playoffs.

Yeah,

I don't know if she's going to leave.

I think she just wants to

see what her value is.

I think this is just a –

this is probably a money

play to get more money.

Yeah, I think that's probably what it is.

That's probably what it is.

Like,

let me just go see what people are

talking about.

She's going to probably go

out there and she's probably like, hey,

man, BG, you ain't –

You still BG.

We're going to respect you,

but you're not like that,

that we're going to move

heaven and earth for you to

come to this team and have

you start over.

Like, yeah, Indiana, like,

you're not starting over

with Leah Boston.

That's dead.

You know what I'm saying?

Like,

that's not – that's really not happening.

So, I don't – that's –

I think she's going back.

I definitely think she's

going back for sure.

I mean,

her name is going to – her name

pulls in stuff.

Like, people is going to bring – oh,

you see the headline,

BG going to test free

agency for the first time.

But when you sit back and zoom out, like,

damn, that ain't BG that we thought.

Like, that ain't the same BG from Baylor.

You know,

when she first came to the league,

you know, that's not the same one.

So, I think she stays.

And they also were saying

this is a DT last season.

As well, I saw a report or something.

I think, Nick, you put it in there.

Didn't you put it in the group chat?

Yeah, yeah.

I sent it to you on low, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

So DT going to be, I guess,

he's going to be retiring.

But it's time.

Well, I mean, allegedly.

I don't know it's true.

Yeah, allegedly.

DT might just wake up in April and say,

all right, I'm back.

Yeah,

so if she comes back for this one

last season,

Make sure if you've never seen her play,

go see her, man.

She's still a legend in the game for sure.

She actually had a really

good year last year.

I'll give it to her.

She did.

No, she did.

But she's still averaging what?

She's still averaging .Nineteen,

.Twenty a game, right?

Yeah, around .Eighteen, .Nineteen, yeah.

Yeah, I think she's still doing that.

Yeah,

so I think she's going to come back

one more season.

I think it's a wrap for that.

You get older, man.

You start having kids and shit, man.

You got other shit you focusing on.

Like, what, she's forty-three?

Goddamn.

Is that how old she is?

I think she is.

Damn, I didn't know she was that.

I thought she was, like, right at forty,

like, forty-one.

But, damn.

Well, but still,

when you start having children and shit,

man, like,

your priorities start changing.

And she accomplished so much.

She's done everything from UConn.

You got high school.

You got UConn.

You got the league.

The Olympics.

I mean,

what the hell else is it for her

and LeBron to do at forty?

Nothing.

Take your ass home.

Her and LeBron,

they the old motherfuckers in the club.

Hey, go home, old niggas.

Fuck y'all.

Hang with us for it.

color answers all man

they're coming they're

coming to um friday night

lights at the high school

and like y'all still here

why are y'all coming here

bro why are you here go

home dog imagine brownie

brownie trying to go to the

club now I gotta bring my

daddy my teammate all right

what are you stealing the

league for so man but shout

out to dt man so we don't

know that you're true I go

wood yeah and tiger woods

man stop man y'all done

y'all y'all accomplished everything

Seriously.

So, but I do think it's, I think,

I think Bron and DT giving

us one more each season.

So, um, yes, it's a rabbit.

He definitely next year is

his last season for sure.

Um, but man, if DT does retire,

it's going to be her last season.

Make sure y'all go out and

watch her play for sure.

I mean,

it's going to probably be hail this

year to get tickets for the W, but,

Try to give her some packages,

see if Phoenix can be in that package,

and, you know, that saves you some money,

but it's going to be hard.

Honestly, like,

if DT announced it is her

last year before the season,

you know them prices are about to go up.

Yeah, they are,

especially when she comes to town.

Like,

them Phoenix games are going to be

crazy when they come to town for sure.

Man, what do you think, real quick,

I got a couple more.

We're about AT, man.

You think Alyssa Thomas is

going to stay in Connecticut?

I don't know honestly I mean

they they just hired their

new coach um I was there it

seemed like you know it

seemed like he's on a good

page as far as really

trying to help build that

team but I don't know

connecticut is just it's

it's really tough to see

honestly I mean I saw

people like saying that

they could explore like

other things but obviously

if at is going to be going

to one is going to like

that's that's my prediction

yeah yeah so it was both of

them you know that's

definitely a big loss honestly but

really just all depends

honestly I mean I'll say

more than not they'll

probably stay but I still

question you know where I

mean israel because

connecticut actually had a

really good year last year

you know they got up to a

really hot start last year

to begin the season but I

still just don't have them

like ahead of new york or

vegas honestly so no no

seriously I'm with you on

that oh yeah yeah yeah um man before

It's always some shit in the

women's hoops community, man.

Before we even move on.

I already know what you're talking about.

Man, this Kennedy Carter shit is crazy,

man.

I don't even know what happened.

Make your layups, man.

She wasn't even talking crazy.

Just make your layups, man.

It goes into some extra shit, bro.

People shading her and shit.

Oh, man.

Like, what y'all take on this shit, man?

I had to start reading on this shit, man.

I just know she was talking about them.

It shouldn't even got this far.

It shouldn't even got this far.

You see all this stuff, Wally?

What you take on this, man?

I mean, I saw a little bit.

Like, it came across my timeline.

I haven't been on.

I've been busy today.

So, the little bit I did.

Look, the little bit I did see.

Like you said, to me, it wasn't no shade.

Like, she...

She made her statement.

The statement is... It's a

factual statement.

Hey, make your fucking layups.

That's it.

Right.

You got to worry about your layups, man.

What the fuck is going on?

Also,

that's somebody that she's hooped with.

Like, in the trenches with.

So what she...

So was she particularly

talking about Angel or was

she just talking about just

players in the league

overall that was just missing late?

I think last night she was

just talking about last

night and Angel didn't even

play last night.

Right, I was going to say,

because if that's the case,

you can take that statement

and put it to the entire

league for that part because, again,

the game last night, what, three,

four smoke layups back to back to back?

Man,

they missed like seven shots in one

position.

Oh, my God.

Like, it was bad.

Like, you know what I'm saying?

So, like, all that shit about,

I think it's just more so, like,

I feel like Kennedy has always had,

I mean, it's Kennedy Carter.

It's been that drama,

the stuff she had with

Caitlyn Clark last year.

So that shit just boils over.

And, like, but hit dogs holler, man.

Man.

Every time, like.

she's talking about layups.

She didn't say nobody's name.

We all watching the same thing.

You think she's not watching

Unrivaled like we are?

Right.

Like, come on now.

Like,

everybody in the world seeing all

them missed layups.

Everybody in the world was

seeing that shit last night.

everything.

We saw it.

It'll come back up during the season,

during the next, the incoming season.

Trust me.

It's going to come back up.

And it's not just going to be her.

It's going to be the rest of the league.

And I want to hear what

people are going to have to say then.

That is.

What you think, Nick?

I was about to ask you, man.

I don't know where she's going next year,

man, at all.

I don't know.

But this whole situation, I didn't really

dive into it too much,

but people just shut up, honestly.

Everybody just got something to say.

I'm not talking about Kennedy.

I'm talking about everybody

attacking Kennedy.

She has a right to express how she feels.

If she's watching the game

and she sees something she don't like,

she can do just like us.

If we see something we don't like,

we're going to talk about it.

so she has the right to play

basketball she knows what

she's talking about right

exactly overseas now

getting buckets overseas

that's what I'm saying like

I saw I saw I saw one of

these guys man and I'll be

real he's a he's like a

youtuber I don't like this

guy man you know he was

talking about uh about

angel like you know about

how she like can't make

threes and all that I'm

like bro like like

Kennedy is one of, to me,

like one of the more

talented offensive players

in the league today.

Like I know that her name

category is like others, honestly.

But when you look at what

she was able to do last year in Chicago,

to me,

I think she was like one of the top

ten best offensive players in the game.

And her game is honestly like expanded too,

honestly, when you look at it.

I mean,

she's a better playmaker than what

she was to the league.

She's also gotten better on

defense as well.

So, I mean,

I know that there's been rumblings about,

you know,

drama locker room drama

stuff like that you know

with kennedy and everything

but you can't deny like

what she does on the court

honestly kennedy's one of

the most talented players

in the league if you ask me

honestly so whether it's in

chicago this upcoming year

whether somewhere else best

believe with the right

opportunity kennedy's going

to produce just as she did

this last year when she

played in chicago yeah can

before we move on can

chicago still resign her if

they wanted to

They didn't do the qualifying offer,

but can they still double

back and go grab her if they wanted to?

I don't know how that works.

I don't know, honestly.

That relationship might be dead,

to be honest.

I think what people don't realize,

Angel and Kennedy were both

very close to Teaspoon.

Yes, they were.

That was the reason why she

got to Chicago.

Teaspoon signed her to a

training camp contract,

and then she ended up making the roster.

So it might be a different

situation now with Tyler there.

I don't know if she's talked

to Tyler Marsh ever since

he got hired or anything, but who knows,

man.

I mean, they saying Tyler won't shoot her,

so we're going to see, man.

But you definitely need guards.

You definitely need guards,

and they should be able to shoot.

But I would love to have

Kennedy back here in Chicago, man.

But I don't know what

direction we're going in.

We're just going to see.

But, man, before we do move on,

Just stop.

Let these people say what they want to say,

man.

If we can critique and we're

not in the pros,

let them critique and be in the pros.

Ain't no shot at nobody, man.

Honestly, even if it was directed at Angel,

I'm sure she's probably

told Angel that probably a

couple times in practice.

Who knows?

Make your goddamn layups, man.

What the fuck are you doing?

That's what I was saying.

They have that relationship.

They've been in the trenches.

So,

if anybody can say something to the

damn Angel, it should be Kennedy.

Yeah,

and I'm pretty sure Kennedy probably

got Angel's number.

Yeah.

She's not going to be on Twitter talking,

because from what I can see,

they never had no beef.

So, it's like,

I don't feel like she would have been,

and Kennedy seemed like she

was the type of person,

she would just probably say Angel's name.

Yeah, probably, yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

Like, that's her energy.

I feel like that's her personality anyway.

So, like, man, I know she's like,

I got to be arguing about some shit.

I'm the one who's a pro in this shit.

Y'all talking to me about this bullshit.

But, man, hopefully she gets somewhere,

gets another chance

somewhere in the league, man,

because she can't hoop like Nick said.

And she definitely, she's good.

So,

I'm disappointed we're not going to

bring her back.

But shout out to her,

and she's going to land somewhere.

And I forget the name of her team overseas,

but she is hooping.

He is definitely open for sure.

On to this college stuff, man.

College has been... Since

Unrivaled came out, Nick said it today,

man.

I've been watching it,

but I've been really ready for Unrivaled.

You got Unrivaled game and

there's a college.

If we're not doing playback,

I'm going to have both up.

You know what I'm saying?

We really want to know what's going on,

but

There's a lot of shit going

on in college this week,

but before we get there,

I know if you follow me,

I covered the USC-Indiana game.

First of all, before I get into that, man,

shoot your shot.

Whatever your dream is,

whatever you're doing,

whatever you're building, man,

shoot your shot.

You're going to miss.

People are going to say no.

That shit is going to happen,

especially when you're

building that shit the right way,

brick by brick.

But you're going to get some yeses.

So I did that.

That's how I ended up getting to Indiana.

I shot them an email.

They got it back to me fast.

And I didn't think it was

going to happen because it was Juju.

That was USC first time

going to Assembly Hall because, of course,

they're not in the Big Ten and shit.

So I was...

shocked to even get that but

I forgot that that shit was

three and a half hours away

so that made it just an

adventure in itself but I

was gonna make it happen so

I made that shit happen man

but um it was like

It was beautiful because a

lot of people don't know,

I am an Isaiah Thomas fan.

He went to Indiana.

And just the fact that going

there... And I like when I work games,

this is my first time being

a journalist at the game.

I'm always a photographer.

But anytime I'm working a game,

I get there early.

I want to take the shit in.

I want to take the court in, the field,

whatever it is.

Go into the tunnels,

take pictures and stuff, walk around.

You meet people.

You get to network and stuff like that.

So...

I got there early, man.

I got to experience that on

the floor and just take that shit in.

It was just like surreal,

like Assembly Hall.

You see it all the time.

Like you watch these games.

And now I'm here covering this game.

And one of my favorite

players in the game of

hoops is here tonight.

And it was like it was empty.

It was people lined up.

I got to the stadium like at nine thirty.

There's people lined up

there outside already.

It was cold as hell outside,

but it was lined up.

I got in there, got my stuff.

You could just feel it.

You know USC is in town, right?

But it's like no one has seen her yet.

No one ain't seen her.

The bus ain't pulled up yet

and nothing like that.

But then the crowd start

pulling up in there.

seen the juju shirts little

girls got juju jerseys on

you feel the energy you

feel the buzz like no one

ain't seen her yet though

you know what I'm saying

but I got this I got this

story I had a moment with

juju um in the tunnel and

it's it's these photos

right here I'm gonna show

y'all these photos this is

the story here so I'm doing

my thing I got my

photography hat on at this

point so I'm going around I'm getting uh

Shots of the stadium.

And I'm in a tunnel.

So the tunnel she's coming out is her side,

where they come, their locker room,

everything like that.

So the shot of the

basketballs is not too far

from their locker room.

So I was just walking back there.

I took photos of this.

The young lady behind Juju

in that photo came out first,

and then Juju came out.

I'm right there.

So I can see them walking out.

I speak.

She spoke.

You know what I'm saying?

I said, what up, yada, yada.

Tell her about having a good game,

all that.

told her my name, all that shit.

So as we walking, I'm like, oh shit,

my photography hat is still on.

So I'm walking out.

I ran out of there with them,

the two ladies, with Juju and the lady.

I ran out to set up so I

could get this shot of her walking out.

And then I could have easily got,

and I always think,

I never ask for autographs

when I work and doing media

because it's like, man, they working,

I'm working,

but I never think about that shit,

trying to get photos with people.

But it was like, I think it was funny that,

this is a funny ass story.

I took this photo of these basketballs.

Juju walked out.

She's right there.

And she's tall.

She's six two.

If anybody, she's legit six two.

But it was just that it was

like a surreal moment.

And I caught this moment and

she looked up at his girls,

the little girls.

They scream her name and she walked out.

And when she walked out,

it was like it was the

first time everybody in the

building saw her.

The energy went up like ten notches.

You felt it.

It was like, oh, shit.

It was like this big Jew was

in the building.

She came out.

She was the first one.

You had some of the Indiana

players on the court right there,

but she went to her side.

She was the first one for USC to come out.

Yo, let me tell you something.

You just felt it was like, oh, yeah.

And it was like everybody

went to that side when she

was shooting around and

everybody else came out.

Like Kennedy came out and

everybody came out.

But she was going through

her drills and just seeing

her go through her drills.

And she was locked in.

You know what I'm saying?

And then after that,

she went and did her

autographs before she went back in.

But the experience was nice, man.

I feel like anybody who's a Hoops fan,

you can get to Indiana to

check a game out.

to do so um but I enjoyed it

I got to I got to interview

her this is my first time

ever asking a question and

I want to shout out nick

low and k dot man because

listen I've asked them all

questions I've all listened

to them ask questions even

when we have guests on our

show I've listened to them

I listened to their their

their pods and they've had

guests on so it's like

I've asked them privately about things.

So it's shout out to y'all that I even,

it was like, I want to say I was nervous.

Cause I'm a very personal person.

I can talk to anybody.

I ain't like met a stranger,

but it was like,

I don't want to fuck this up, man.

I'm going to ask you this question.

She's looking dead at me.

Like, like,

I just didn't talk to her

early in the tunnel.

You know what I'm saying?

But it was like, now this can be anywhere.

I got to answer this question.

She gave me a real answer.

And then the rest of the

press room piggybacked off my question.

I basically asked her how

she got her shit going.

Like,

she was kind of clamped up in the

first half.

She only had eight points.

And then she ended up with twenty-two.

But it was like,

just to see it in action is like,

I can tell Juju has improved.

Because she couldn't score.

She only had eight.

But she was playing defense.

She was making the right passes.

She was doing everything she needed to do,

and she let the game get to her.

Like,

when that five-minute mark got in the

fourth quarter,

when she hit the

three-pointer at the end of the third,

and she let the game get to her, man,

the last five minutes was her game.

She could do what she wanted to do.

She could get to the lane.

She could get her middie going.

She could get everything.

So it was just amazing to

see that she was alive.

And for her to only be, like, what,

It was a dream come true, for real.

It was like, this is what I worked for.

This is what I wanted to do.

I wanted to start being a journalist.

And this is why I started

this pod and doing this stuff.

So it all came together.

So I say,

shoot your shot and keep shooting it.

Because people are going to say no,

but it was just, it was fun.

And I could have easily been like, man,

I'm not going to drive no

three and a half hours.

Fuck that.

I did that shit.

So it was fun, man.

It was exciting.

I'm going to see Juju again at some point.

I'm going to keep asking for

requests and access for sure.

I'm just waiting on my turn

to see her now.

You've seen her.

Lo has seen her.

I've both had a chance to talk to her.

I ain't seen her yet.

I ain't never had a

conversation with Juju at all.

So I'm waiting on my turn, man.

Oh, man.

That shit is amazing, man.

Like, you can feel it.

Like,

it's like it's like one of

those like the top players

you can feel that energy

like everybody's level is

going to be heightened

today like everybody

brought their phones out

everybody was just like oh

my gosh she's right here

she's here now you know I

mean I keep telling people

like she's the next star of

women's basketball if she's

not there already I mean I

know that caitlyn's

probably the biggest

superstar right now but

you're just right we're

gonna be right there

honestly especially once

her once her college career

is done and she goes straight to the wmba

Man, like, she's, you could just,

and I was just talking to parents,

like fathers bringing their daughters.

I mean, I did, I had a moment, man,

I ain't going to keep too long on this.

We got other shit to talk about.

But I had a moment where

before Juju came out, the tunnel,

it was some girls looking

for who wanted her autograph.

And it was like between the

age of fourteen and sixteen.

And after the game, I knew, like,

after the game, after the presser,

I knew where they would be

going for the bus.

So these girls was back there,

that same tunnel,

trying to get her autograph.

When I came from the other side,

from the press room, I was like,

they were still looking for them.

I'm like, listen,

their bus is on the other side.

That's where y'all going to try to go.

She's going to come out over

there and try to get the autograph.

And, man,

they end up getting a damn autograph.

That shit felt good because

I was on the court talking to people,

everybody packing up, and they came out.

I did the excitement on

their face because I knew

the only reason they was in

this game was for Juju.

They wanted to see her and

they wanted to meet her.

They had their sharpie.

They had their picture ready.

So that felt good to do that.

I just wanted to help them out.

It wasn't like I'm trying to

get some shit in return.

Like, this is what I want.

Like, you want to help out people.

When this was all about, like,

he just wanted to see these people.

Yeah, they're not supposed to be, you know,

they're not supposed to be role models.

But listen, you look up to athletes, man.

We all did growing up.

We all did.

So it felt good for me to

help them young ladies out

to get Juju autographed.

They'll never forget that shit.

They were smiling from ear to ear.

That's a different moment for them.

Yeah, dead ass, you know what I'm saying?

And I'm glad I got some photos.

I took a juju I can hang up

at my house now.

That shit might work,

you know what I'm saying?

But, yeah, man,

let's get into these games.

Man, that shit was fun.

I ain't going to hold you.

I could talk about that shit all day.

I could keep talking about it.

It was so much shit that I

experienced on Sunday.

But let's talk about this LSU thing.

South Carolina matchup we

got going on on Thursday, man,

which we will be live on Playback for.

Everybody pulled up and

started mentioning as soon

as we started the pod.

Yes.

So if you're still in here,

you wanted to hear about this game,

we're talking about it now.

I know Felicia,

I know you a South Carolina fan, but man,

it's been some crazy shit

already on Twitter about this game, man.

I forget the name of this Twitter page,

but it's the worst women's hoops.

Forget it.

That's the worst hoops page on Twitter.

I sent it to y'all earlier.

I can't remember what it is.

He's the one that was

comparing LSU and South Carolina to Duke.

Yes, man.

You both have to win games.

You both have to win games, man.

That's like the Bears-Packers.

We don't beat them.

That's not a rivalry no more, man.

We don't beat them, dude.

You got to go back and forth

for it to be a rivalry.

Angel Reese was there for

two years and never won a

game against South Carolina.

Right.

Just being real.

The year they won the

national championship,

they didn't even beat them.

Yes.

The page is ninety-four feet WBB.

Yeah.

If you see anything about that, man,

that's one of the worst

pages on Twitter when it comes to hoops.

When it comes to hoops.

Oh, my God.

I'm surprised I didn't get blocked.

I definitely said that.

I quote tweeted him and said that shit.

I'm surprised I didn't get

blocked for that.

But, man,

how y'all feel about this matchup?

I'm going to go with you, Wally.

How you feel about this

matchup on Thursday?

I can't wait because especially with the,

with the discourse that LSU

fans have been giving y'all

before I even became a part of this.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

That's what I was going to say too.

Yo, for all the LSU haters, bro,

come tap in with us on playback, man.

But, you know, to see it,

to see it from the outside

looking at it and now being on the inside,

like,

I'm interested to see how

this is going to play out.

I think South Carolina is

the best team in the country.

Even with that loss to UCLA.

We're going to talk about them too.

That showed Don Staley what

she needed to work on with her team.

They have not looked back since.

They've been blowing teams out

Even the best teams,

they made Texas look like

they didn't know what they were doing.

They made your team look

like they shouldn't even be ranked, bro.

For real.

And we all thought that

Texas was a decent team,

and they went and fucking

put the clamps on Texas.

They did.

They did.

And now we get to LSU,

and for a majority of LSU's schedule,

again, you guys made it known, and hell,

we all could see it.

Hey, y'all ain't played nobody.

Nobody.

Y'all wasn't playing nobody

early in the season.

Compared to South Carolina,

y'all wasn't playing nobody.

And we're struggling.

And we're struggling.

Yeah,

and I have South Carolina beating LSU

yet again.

and it's on the strength of

they're already

battle-tested from all your top teams.

They're already battle-tested.

So whatever Kim Mulkey is

going to try and throw at them,

I don't think it's going to matter.

She's going to get outcoached yet again,

and we're going to see what happens.

We're going to see what happens.

What you got to say, Nick?

What you got, Nick, laughing?

What you got, Nick?

I agree.

I think South Carolina

beating the shit out of them.

I'm just going to be real.

Like,

I don't think it's going to be close

on it.

It's like everything Wiley said.

I mean,

I don't think they're ready for

this type of matchup.

I mean, I get it.

They're undefeated.

You know what I'm saying?

I mean, it looks good.

It looks good on the record

and everything.

But when you look at the

level of competition,

it hasn't been up to par.

I mean, you know, I mean,

SEC plays been a little bit different.

Um, they were able to get that,

that big one against Tennessee.

I think they,

I think they won by like two

or three points.

Um,

South Carolina is a different beast.

While they talked about it,

since that loss against UCLA,

that motivated them.

I think they needed that loss, honestly,

because there's so much pressure.

At the time, they won like forty-three,

forty-four in a row.

It's pressure to continue to keep winning.

Now everybody's looking at you like,

oh my God,

are they going to keep winning?

Are they going to stay

undefeated and everything?

Finally getting that loss out of the way,

I know that people wanted

to clown them after that loss.

Give credit to UCLA.

They're a very exceptional team, but

I knew after that loss, I was like, yeah,

South Carolina is going to

come back even better.

They've been better ever since.

It's crazy, too,

because even a couple weeks ago,

we were talking, Jay,

about them losing Ashlyn Watkins.

I think, dang,

how are they going to match

up a lot of these teams?

Especially with big front courts.

They beat the shit out of Texas.

They just beat the shit out of Oklahoma.

They're about to play LSU.

Don't get me wrong.

Anissa Ma is having a really

great year for them.

I would definitely give her her credit,

but

I think Don's going to have

a great game plan for them.

I think they're going to

really try to slow down the offense.

I mean, like I said, Nisa Morrow,

Mikayla Williams, Flage Johnson, you know,

all of them, all three of them, you know,

can, you know,

provide on the offensive end.

But I think Don's going to

have a game plan, honestly, man.

And, you know,

expect a big game out of Tahina Pau Pau,

expect a big game out of

Malaysia Fulwiley, Tessa Johnson.

South Carolina is going to

obliterate them.

That's my opinion.

Do you think it's going to

be about between,

do you think they're going

to double them?

Oh, yeah.

I'm going there.

I might be wrong because I

ain't going to lie.

I'll be wrong with the predictions,

but I'm going to stick with mine.

No,

I do think South Carolina is going to

win.

I had South Carolina win by

like fifteen or something like that,

but thirty is crazy, but I'm with you,

though.

I ain't playing nobody.

I got them at like twenty.

And it's going to be... I

feel like it's going to be where...

South Carolina,

they're just going to walk.

It's like they're going to

walk them through.

It's like football.

So when you have an

offensive team that's

running the ball and they

get to control in that line,

that offensive line get control,

that's how it's going to be.

They're just going to overbear them.

from quarter to quarter to

the point where by the time

we get to the fourth quarter,

we're going to look at,

we're going to look and be like,

they're up by twenty or twenty plus.

They got too much to throw at them.

Yes.

But I'll say this too though, like,

if they want to make it a

respectable margin, LSU I'm talking about,

you got to keep it within

single digits at the end of

the first half.

Like, if you let them go up by like,

even like twelve, thirteen points,

they're going to come out

in the third quarter and

they're going to fire, right?

Because like,

South Carolina's a really

good third quarter team.

They're a really good third quarter team.

And I don't – yeah, Jazzy said it too.

I mean,

I don't think people talk about

that enough.

It's like they get a lot of

momentum to end the first half,

and then they come out of

the locker room with just a

different energy.

That third quarter,

that third quarter blitz, boy.

You don't know what the fuck going on.

You look up, you down by twenty-five.

You're like, what?

That's how it was with the

Warriors and shit.

You come up, like, what the fuck?

I was just down by five.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, oh, shit,

we got to get time out there.

Yeah,

South Carolina is a different team

right now.

Man,

do y'all actually think they should be

number one in the country?

Yes, I do.

I do, personally.

Again,

the way that they played since that loss.

I think it's time.

The way that they played

since taking that loss to UCLA, to me,

it's a no-brainer.

It definitely is no-brainer

because South Carolina,

they are ranked number one.

They just ain't been looking

the best as number one.

Like, yeah, you beat South Carolina,

and I guess that's why you

got the nod at one.

But I'm okay with putting

South Carolina back at one

with the one loss to UCLA.

I'm okay with that.

Yeah, they won't do it, unfortunately.

But also, I mean,

you look at the late-one competition,

too.

Like,

South Carolina's played tougher

competition recently than UCLA has,

respectfully.

They played Baylor.

I know Baylor was ranked

twenty twenty five.

But you talk about South

Carolina playing Texas, playing Oklahoma.

They about to play LSU when

that was your competition.

And even honestly, before that, too,

I mean,

they played they played Iowa State.

They beat them.

They face a couple of the

teams to like Duke.

Like Duke was like top ten

at the time whenever they beat Duke.

They were.

They were.

And TCU as well.

TCU was top ten as well.

They were.

And I think they still top ten.

Number nine still.

I mean, but that's what I'm saying.

I mean,

I know that they have that one loss.

I mean,

when you look at how well South

Carolina has played since that UCLA game,

to me,

they've been playing much better

basketball.

they have they really have

um I didn't watch a lot of

the ucla I mean I had it on

but I wasn't like really

locked in with the ucla

baylor game it just never

felt like ucla was being

challenged so it was just

you know I'm saying but I

will ask you this though

how y'all feel about lauren

betts she's probably going

with national player of the

year I mean she's just

playing just phenomenal

basketball on both ends of

the floor honestly I mean

you know I think I think

that's really what she

needed like I think that um

I think that, you know,

they needed to utilize her a lot more,

especially on a low block.

And I think that she's been able to eat,

honestly.

I mean, not even just offensively,

but defensively as well.

I mean,

I want to say she's averaging

around a double-double,

but she's just been

dominating both from a

scoring perspective and a

rebound perspective.

And it's been consistent all year long,

honestly.

And on top of that, I mean,

they're still undefeated.

So, I mean,

like when you look at her

numbers and then you look

at UCLA still being number

one in the country,

I think she's probably

going to come away with the

National Player of the Year, honestly.

It may not be everybody's favorite.

I'm sure people,

they'll probably

automatically go Juju or honestly,

I should take that back.

My bad.

No, I'm not going Lauren Betts.

Change my mind.

I'm going to hand that dog

over to my player.

I was about to say, man,

you ain't even said hand yet, boy.

Oh, my God.

I thought about it.

I was like, hang on a minute.

Wait, I didn't even think about it.

Yeah, I'm about to say.

I'm like, oh, shit, boy.

Betts is going to be, I mean,

she's going to definitely

be in the running.

She's the reason.

She's definitely in the conversation.

Yeah,

she's doing twenty ten and like

almost three blocks a game.

Yep.

And we'll we'll get to see

we'll really get to see

them being battle tested as

their next one, two, three, four, five,

six, seven games.

They play one, two, three.

USC twice.

One, two, three.

four, five-ranked teams.

They got Maryland, who's number eight,

Minnesota, twenty-three, Ohio State,

that's twelve, USC, who's four,

and then Michigan State,

who's twenty-one.

They got USC twice, too, in that span,

don't they?

Because they ain't played until yet.

They got USC on February thirteenth,

and then again on March first.

Oh, shit.

So one of them games,

there's going to be a playback.

Definitely going to do one of them games.

Definitely going to be a

playback for sure.

Definitely going to be a

playback for sure.

We'll get to see what not

only UCLA is made of,

but how Lauren bets.

That's what I was going to ask, too.

Like,

do y'all think that USC is prepared

to match up with a team

like UCLA at this point?

I mean, I'll give it to them.

I mean,

they've definitely improved

throughout the season.

But, I mean,

there's still some issues with the team,

honestly, especially, you know,

finishing around the rim, honestly.

And then, of course, no turnovers as well.

But I don't know.

I mean, that'll be a good test for them,

too.

It will be.

I will say this.

I will say,

after seeing them Sunday in person,

they are very fucking fast.

They are very fast.

And it's like,

if you don't prepare for that,

it's like you don't know

what to do because everybody's so fast,

and they're very tall.

They're a lot taller than

what they look like on TV.

Everybody is, you know what I'm saying?

Like, from Juju to Kennedy.

Like I said on playback, like, she...

She likes six, one, six, two, but she,

she got beast on both sides.

So it's going to be a test

for both of them.

You know what I'm saying?

And the big tan is just, the big tan is a,

it's a deep, it's a deep,

deep conference as well.

So we will see.

That's a,

that's a tough stretch for them

from the play.

You know,

they got an easy one with Rutgers

tomorrow, UCLA,

then Maryland and Minnesota.

That is crazy.

Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio state,

like in that next four,

you think they're going to

lose one of them games?

Yes.

Who are they going to lose to?

I got them losing to

Maryland because that's a

Sunday game in Maryland at one o'clock.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Even though they travel

across the country first,

they play against – they play Rutgers –

that Thursday,

and then they played

Maryland that Sunday.

But still, that travel, that travel sucks,

man.

Like, I even saw it on USC on Sunday.

Like, in that first half,

you could tell they back on

another East Coast trip or, you know,

to come this way,

Midwest East Coast trip.

It's like you could see the travel.

And Pac-Tan team's not used to that.

You know what I'm saying?

So,

I think – I don't understand why these –

I don't understand why these

teams in the West are

joining teams or

conferences that are on the East.

It just doesn't make sense to me.

I get it for money purposes.

I get it for Pac-Twelve

because Big Ten got more

exposure than the Pac-Twelve, but, man,

it sucks for the kids.

The travel just sucks.

You know what I'm saying?

And they stay.

I talked – Coach, what's her name?

Coach Gottlieb, like,

they just stay because they got to play –

They got to pay Purdue on tomorrow.

So they just stayed out there.

They flew out there like Saturday.

And they just out there now.

So it was like, damn,

they ain't used to that shit.

It's cold as fuck, too.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

It makes sense.

Because, I mean, that travel.

Hell, traveling is wear and tear.

It is.

It definitely is.

That's something that people

don't think about.

they don't, they don't,

they definitely don't think

about that shit.

And that's the first thing I

thought about when I saw

these schools going to the,

to the big team.

And I'm like, God damn,

you going over there.

Okay.

All right.

So, um,

but I know like somebody tend to

keep having a couple,

cause you got to have a couple of them,

um,

road trips to the east coast

when you got all these

teams in the big ten that's

over there that shouldn't

even be in the big ten but

money when money come call

hollering I understand so

um I get it so um man we

already we rocking the road

we already already an hour

thirty I knew it was gonna

be a long one but um real

quick into the top twenty

five when we move on and

get up out of here man uh

I'm sorry we ain't been

keeping up on our

top-twenty-five rankings for y'all, man.

It just ain't been – it's

hard when there ain't no

real movement for me all the time.

Like,

people who stay up to beat with the

top-twenty-five rankings

and write on this shit every week, man,

more power to y'all for doing that shit.

But, man, real quick,

the top – I'm going to do a

top ten right now is UCLA –

At one, South Carolina, Notre Dame, USC,

LSU, UConn at six.

Seven is Texas, Maryland, TCU,

and Kansas State round out

of the top ten.

Yo, Kansas State.

Man, I haven't watched it.

I ain't going to lie, man.

Big twelve basketball just ain't my thing.

I ain't going to hold it.

Especially not since Texas

ain't there no more.

It's a good conference.

It's not as strong as like

the SEC or the Big Ten or

the ACC or whatever it is.

Yeah.

No, I'm with you on that.

No, definitely.

It's just not as strong.

But that top ten, man,

that's pretty much – I can see that.

I mean,

Ohio State dropped because I think

they just lost to –

They just got upset,

so they fell out of the top ten,

but it's pretty much self.

There's no team that I'm like,

they shouldn't be there.

This team shouldn't be there.

LSU is crazy, but they're number five.

I think they're definitely going to drop.

They're going to lose that game.

I will say UConn,

ever since they lost to USC,

no one's really been

talking about them as much,

but they're definitely –

they're still a good team, of course.

Anything that stands out to

you all about top-twenty-five?

I don't know.

How y'all feel about Maryland, honestly?

Because, I mean,

I think some news that came

out that they just lost.

Who was it?

Cheyenne Sellers that got hurt?

I think that was.

Oh, she definitely got hurt yesterday.

They got the doors blown off

by Texas yesterday.

And then she definitely got hurt.

So, damn,

I ain't know that she's going to be out.

So, that really sucks for them.

I mean, because this AP poll came out,

I want to say, before that game.

So, yeah,

they're definitely going to drop

after this week.

Shout out to Kansas State.

Ioka Lee still playing at a

very high level out there.

Shout out to Kansas State.

LSU, I agree.

After Thursday,

they're definitely going to drop,

especially losing their

first game of the year.

Just looking at the overall

top twenty five.

I mean, I see Duke still at fourteen.

Oklahoma is now fifteen.

Oh, my God.

Why the fuck is NC?

Why the fuck is NC State

twenty at fourteen and four?

What is going on?

Did Tennessee lose?

to Vandy before the rankings came out.

Yeah, because that game was on Sunday.

Yeah, because I did not expect that.

And shout out to Vanderbilt,

both men and women,

because they both beat Tennessee.

Yeah.

They definitely did.

They did.

They did.

Who got hurt?

Oh, yeah, she did.

I didn't know that, man.

She really one of the best

bigs in the country, honestly.

I mean, healthy.

Yeah, I

I had no idea she got hurt.

Oh, shit.

Oh, wow.

But yeah, outside of NC State,

I didn't realize they were

still ranked having four losses.

In front of... They're

better than... I mean,

they're not better than... Who?

Seventeen and two?

Minnesota,

seventeen and two and they're

ranked twenty three.

Minnesota.

Oh, yeah.

That shocked me, too.

Yeah, that shocked that shocked me.

Like you got you have you

have NC State in front of teams like Cal.

I mean, I know Cal just lost.

They dropped four spots.

But you got in front of Cal, Minnesota.

Like what is going on?

I don't I don't understand that.

But I know I know cry too

much about that far back in

the top twenty five.

It is what it is at that point.

Y'all got a player of the week.

um I'm gonna go scholar

diggin smith man you know

two game winners to the

first two games for the

lunar owl especially that

first game to kick off the

unrivaled league man shout

out to scholar man you know

glad that she's back

definitely that back and

forth that she had with

jewel was impressive too

even though jewel got that

block on her but hey she

got the final she got the last so

Shout out to Scotland.

That shit happens, man.

That's hoops, man.

And real quick,

I've been seeing y'all be –

people be talking about

that shit on Twitter, man.

Look, if you play hoops long enough,

you're going to get dunked on.

You're going to get blocked.

You're going to get – you

might touch the ground a couple times.

If you play basketball long enough,

you're going to have a

basket scored on you.

So, I don't care, man.

Yeah, she blocked it.

That happens in battle.

That happens.

You're going to lose some

shit when you're in a battle like this.

It was great to see.

We love that type of shit.

So shout out to Skylar, man.

Shout out to Skylar for sure.

You got a player of the week, Wiley?

I do.

Miss Harmony Turner.

Excuse me.

Harmony Turner.

Harvard's own.

Yep.

Yeah.

So it stands out to me for her.

She's leading Harvard in

everything but blocks.

Points, rebounds, assists, steals.

Twenty-one points.

Five point three rebounds,

three point six assists,

three point four steals.

Like she's doing it all for

for Harvard and and their records.

Their record is fourteen and two.

I would love to see them

make the tournament.

So keep doing your thing.

Keep doing your thing, Miss Turner.

Like that's dope to see it

like she's come up in Harvard.

Yeah.

And she's at Harvard.

She's come up on my timeline

on Twitter like two or

three times and I'm like, oh yeah,

gotta show her some love.

No, yeah, she definitely, she definitely,

those are good player of the week.

Mine is, I'm gonna go with Kennedy Smith,

man.

After watching her live,

and Lo always said she was

one of them ones, but watching her live,

and I made sure I focused on her a lot,

is that her height and her

size shocked me in person.

But then just to see the moves she had,

she had some moves in her, man.

She grabbed one ball on the baseline.

She grabbed a rebound.

Came down with it, did a spin,

went back up with it.

She had one move when she got to the lane.

She did some spin moves.

And she got handles because

there was bracketing and

juju so much that she had to do stuff.

So she was showing everything.

She was showing everything.

She missed some shots.

That shit happens, but she can shoot.

She's a men's zone defense.

Yeah, Hannah is that one,

a men's zone defense.

But if you had to go for another one,

Kenny is next.

Kenny had them,

and she had them in a fucking blender,

bro.

Like, she didn't know what,

they were just stuck.

They didn't know what to do.

Like, she was just all over the place,

just active hands.

So, man, that's my player of the week,

man.

She really, she really,

outside of the big dogs,

that's my favorite player

to watch in college basketball right now,

for sure.

Definitely.

Pull up that comment, bro.

Pull up that question.

I was trying to hold my laugh.

Oh, shit.

I didn't even see that, yo.

I was wondering what y'all

was laughing at.

Oh, I had a little THC.

I don't even know who... I

don't even know who's on her team.

Yeah.

I don't even know when that

team... I'm picking Cheryl

Miller because Cheryl

Miller's team because of Cheryl Miller.

We know... Yeah, seriously.

You put Ray March on Cheryl Miller?

Yeah, last year, you know what I'm saying?

Last year,

USC team probably had a better

chance for some reason,

but then this team, like,

they wasn't missing lays and shit,

but still, like,

I don't know the players on

USC and this big Jew forever over here,

but, man, that's Shura Miller.

For real.

I'm just going to keep it safe,

and I'm going to say Shura

Miller's team because I

don't really need my

mentions blowing up for some bullshit.

Shut up.

That's my boy.

Shut up.

Well, when my man say hi, little TAC, man,

it's all good, bro.

What a way to end the show, man.

That was a hell of a question.

I wasn't expecting that shit at all.

Wow.

Now, after we get on,

I definitely have to go

look at that team that Shermella was on.

Now I really have to go see now.

I don't know.

I got to see now, bro.

Or maybe she might be a little later.

We got to see now.

We're definitely going to

have to check now.

I'm going to check back.

Follow me on Twitter.

Y'all see my name.

I'm going to check back,

and I'm going to give y'all

my for real answer on Twitter for sure.

For sure.

It still might be Cheryl,

but I got to see that squad.

I'm going to find the squad.

I'm going to post the squads.

We're going to see what happens.

I know if I do this or that with that team,

I know it's going to be

some new Hooper fans that's

going to pick Juju's squad.

know that I know that for

for a show that's gonna

happen so oh man uh real

quick man man it's been a

great show man wally man

thank you for uh filling in

I know you're gonna do this

anytime we ask you man

you're gonna do it man it's

been it's been a joy doing

this I knew it was gonna

soon as low told us nick

was like man ask wally I

know you're gonna want to

do it man this is fun this

is really fun um

Real quick, before we get up out of here,

like I said,

we got playback going to be

happening on Thursday for

South Carolina LSU.

I think I'm going to just

play certain college games

or women games on playback,

even if we can't make it.

So Juju play Purdue tomorrow.

I might just throw that shit

up tomorrow because I think

it's going to be on Peacock.

Everybody ain't even got Peacock.

So I'm probably just going

to throw that shit up.

I think the game starts at

like six thirty or something like that.

um we got on arrival coming

back this on friday and

then saturday and so um

stay in tune for that

follow us and all follow us

everywhere on on the

socials um on tick tock the

best damn w show instagram

the best damn w show I do

believe is best damn w

Show underscore on Instagram.

Best damn W show or the best

W show on Twitter.

I'm going to give you all

the website again for the show as well.

Man, also, man,

show some love if y'all

like me and basketball.

I know some of y'all be on

our ass when we start

talking about me and basketball over here,

but if y'all do,

I'm going to put the other show,

The Network, in the chat as well.

Y'all can go check them out,

show them some love, follow them as well.

They go live on Thursday.

Wally is also...

the producer for that as

well on the ones and twos,

as Antoine would say.

And guess what?

We will have some crossover episodes where,

you know,

Nick might be over there sometimes.

You might see me over there talking.

I watch NBA as well.

So it's all intertwined.

So follow us everywhere.

Shout out to you, Nick, again.

Shout out to you, Wally, for this.

Man, that's episode twenty three.

Oh, go ahead.

Just real quick, Jay.

My bad.

So I'm looking at I'm

looking at the USC roster

from nineteen eighty three,

the year that they won the title.

They had Cheryl Miller, Cynthia Cooper,

Paula McGee and Pam McGee.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well,

I'm still I'm still I'm still post

this question.

I don't know if I'm doing

tonight or tomorrow.

I might do tonight.

But yeah,

I think I know who I'm going to go with.

No.

Yeah, yeah.

I love Juju.

It's big Juju forever over here.

But, yeah, I don't know.

I don't know if you – I

don't know if Juju and

Kennedy and Kiki is going

to deal with Cynthia Cooper

and Cheryl Miller like that.

I don't know if that's going

to – I don't know how that will go.

Okay, real quick,

if it's a seven-game series, man,

who wins?

Cheryl Miller.

Cheryl Miller.

Is it going to be a sweep?

I think it's going to be.

It might be just one.

I'll give him one because

Juju might just go off in one game.

Juju might be good enough to get you one.

Outside of that, no.

outside of that that's I'm

with y'all on that but uh

man man appreciate y'all

again everybody who came

through all the new

listeners and future fans

that came in and the ones

that come in every week

from uh twitter uh

instagram when I didn't do

instagram twitter youtube

um we on twitch so

appreciate all y'all y'all

should do a retro versus

hey man you know what

I got some stuff I do forgot

to talk to the team about.

We definitely going to do some things.

I like that idea.

I do like that idea.

But, man, yeah,

shout out to everybody

being here the whole time, man.

So the show will be out

tonight on audio at twelve Eastern.

Eleventh Central.

The show will be on everywhere.

Well,

YouTube tomorrow morning at nine Eastern.

It might be nine Eastern,

depending on how I feel.

But until then, man, peace, man.

Love y'all.

Appreciate y'all.

Have a good one.

Good night.