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Chris, what's happening in Chris Bussar, Mister

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Parker, I'm great, How

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are you?

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I'm great?

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Man?

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Well, who you trashing? It

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is trash talking Tuesday? Who you trash?

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You know what, Chris? I know it's

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not fair.

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Holmes has been pitching lights

1:52

out for the Yankees out of the closure in

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the bullpen.

1:55

Yes, last night, it was.

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Pretty obvious he didn't have his good stuff,

1:59

And I'm gonna trash Aaron Boone,

2:01

who probably should have yanked

2:03

him before he did wind up costing the Yankees

2:06

the game.

2:06

They're four to one in the ninth.

2:08

I just wonder sometimes, and you want

2:10

to try to let guys work out of it, Chris,

2:12

you know what I mean, and give them

2:14

a chance.

2:15

But it just looked pretty obvious that

2:18

he didn't have it.

2:19

You know, why not just

2:22

say tonight, come on, it's

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okay, you don't have it tonight.

2:26

It was obvious to me, that's all. But that's

2:28

not fair because he's been lights out. It's

2:30

tough.

2:30

Yeah, you know what I mean. You just

2:33

tend to riding. But you

2:35

know, it happens to the best of them, So right, nobody's

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gonna be perfect. That'll be great, right,

2:40

So we got some good stuff to get to on

2:43

this trash talking Tuesday.

2:44

So let's introduce the I.

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Couple crew and get this party started.

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The super producer Rib is out,

2:51

so in his place our man

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Bo Benson.

2:54

It must be a holiday coming up.

2:56

Rob G's off already the holiday on Monday,

2:58

Monday.

3:00

We will be working on Monday. Yes,

3:02

working hard for Chris. What happened to you? Are

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you sick? What are you doing working?

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Now?

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I gotta do TV, so I might as well do radio

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too, So I'm looking you okay, all right?

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That makes sense now? Yeah? Yeah.

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Also we got DJ Alex

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tight shirt is in. That's a

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that's an unusual event.

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So we're excited her Monday.

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Right Alex Monday, I'll be on the

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herd. I'm sorry about that.

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What there you go?

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I know it is all unusual

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because we also Rob got Martin Weiss.

3:31

On the other Yes, you

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see Chris Dan Bayer heard

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that shock in your voice and he said, you know what, let's give

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him a double dose.

3:38

How about that?

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There you go? There you go, do your thing?

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Man?

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And on the social media, are

3:44

man in? Liz Ja Sabuna.

3:46

Rob.

3:47

I want to get right.

3:48

To this because it's an interesting some

3:50

interesting stuff out there. We talked last

3:52

week about why

3:55

American NBA players

3:58

or ex NBA players seem

4:00

to be going after the international

4:03

guys, and sure enough,

4:06

yesterday this wasn't really

4:08

going after him. This was just stating a

4:10

matter of fact. But Evan Turner, who

4:13

I will I will read about what

4:15

he.

4:15

Said in a moment.

4:17

But Jalen Rose, Rob, who

4:20

of course was a very good player, member

4:24

of the iconic Fab five

4:26

and has done some great

4:29

good broadcasting over the years

4:31

too. He tweeted this out

4:33

yesterday, Rob, dear

4:36

us born players

4:39

put in that work tirelessly

4:42

and showed discipline. Otherwise

4:45

NBA jobs are becoming extinct.

4:49

If that isn't a shout out to the international

4:52

takeover, I don't know what is.

4:55

And this is a little different. This is more of a

4:57

shot.

4:57

We'll we'll spend more time talking about

4:59

Jalen and what he said, Rob.

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But Evan Turner, who played ten years in the NBA,

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was a solid player, was

5:06

not what he was supposed to be right coming out of Ohio

5:09

State. He was a really a

5:11

top player coming into

5:13

that draft. Was actually the second

5:16

pick overall in twenty ten, but

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at a decent NBA career. Here's

5:20

what he said after the Nuggets lost to the Timberwolves.

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And obviously the Nuggets rob were

5:25

led their best two players international

5:28

Nicola Jokicic of

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course of Serbia and Jamal

5:33

Murray of Canada, and

5:36

the top player from Minnesota

5:38

and top two players were American

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in Anthony Edwards

5:43

and Carl Anthony town.

5:45

But it's not like they don't have any international players.

5:47

Let's not.

5:48

Rudy Gobert is their

5:50

third probably their third best player, right.

5:52

I was gonna say, okay, let's make.

5:54

But they but you know what, that's that's

5:56

why they they're looking at them more as

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the Americans.

6:00

Way, here's what did you see this?

6:02

Rock?

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What Evan Turner posted

6:05

on x NO. I just saw the

6:07

Jalen Rod stuff. Yeah, here's what Evan

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said.

6:10

I sound like a hater, but

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I don't want to see Joki play

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another game.

6:17

It's like watching baseball.

6:21

I knew know that will stick under your crow.

6:25

Yet watching Evan Turner in his career

6:27

was like watching baseball.

6:28

How's that.

6:30

Evan Turner is now like he's

6:32

the beautifire

6:35

of the game. He's the guy who tells you how

6:37

great it is to watch what a three time

6:39

MVP. A guy will put up forty

6:42

points in game six or

6:45

like, you could say that after they lost

6:47

and it's fine, and you could say you don't

6:49

enjoy it.

6:50

He's not as exciting as ant Man.

6:52

I don't think you need to be a former

6:54

basketball player Chris to say that, but

6:56

there's still something about his game and what he's

6:59

able to do, his passion

7:01

ability where he can

7:03

score the basketball from everywhere.

7:05

I mean, it's different tastes for

7:07

different people.

7:09

That doesn't bother me as much, but

7:11

the Jalen Rose thing is something I'm definitely

7:13

interested them.

7:14

Yeah, let me.

7:14

Comment on Evan and then I want to hear you going, Jalen,

7:19

Im look like you said,

7:21

different taste for different people,

7:23

right, different strokes for different folks. If

7:26

you like high flying, and I do, I

7:28

prefer I mean Michael Jordan, I think had the best

7:30

looking game in the history of basketball.

7:32

Kyrie Irving with all the you

7:35

know, the

7:37

ball handling and the moves

7:39

that he has, all that

7:42

is exciting to watch. So I do prefer

7:44

that style. And I have thought

7:46

certain players were boring. I saw Tim Duncan,

7:49

rob as great as he was, was

7:52

certainly not an exciting player

7:54

to watch, right, But I think

7:56

Jokic is actually very fun

7:58

to watch. His

8:01

passing ability, the fact

8:03

of a seven footer who's

8:06

not even thin, he's a seventh footer

8:08

who's bulky, is

8:12

bringing the ball up, running the point.

8:14

Essentially he is their point guard. I

8:17

know it's Jamal Murray technically,

8:19

but the NICOLEA Jokic is their

8:21

point guard. Rob and I enjoy

8:24

watching him. It's like Larry

8:26

Bird. He wasn't high flying, but

8:28

he was fun to watch. Now his passes

8:31

were a little fancier, or you

8:33

know, some of them were.

8:35

Jokic can throw the fancy passes.

8:37

But I like.

8:39

Watching Jokic, And I'm

8:42

a little surprised that an NBA player

8:44

or ex NBA player who knows

8:47

the game would say that it

8:49

was not fun to watch him.

8:52

You know what I mean.

8:52

I'm like, I get Duncan and I'm

8:54

not even trying to rip Duncan, but Jokic,

8:57

I'm surprised somebody that really knows the game. Thing,

9:00

Jokich isn't fun to watch, right, not

9:02

the way he you just said it.

9:03

He's a point guard, a points center,

9:06

Chris, the way he passes the basketball

9:08

I mean, he does some stuff that's interesting.

9:11

I look and go, I can't believe he made

9:13

that pass. Like seriously, he hit

9:15

threes with hands

9:17

in his face.

9:18

You know, he scores at all

9:21

levels, can even lead the break,

9:23

I mean, for goodness sake.

9:24

So maybe Evan Turner would have hated watching

9:26

Kareem abdul Jabbar because he did the same thing

9:29

right, this skyhook, and I would be like,

9:31

why should he do anything different like

9:33

that?

9:34

You couldn't stop the shot, Chris, it was

9:36

really good. Why should shock shoot a sixteen

9:38

foot thanks? Stop the dunk? Right,

9:41

stop dunking, Shock. That's boring, and

9:43

we get it.

9:44

You're nine foot tall and you weigh eight hundred

9:46

pounds and nobody can stop you.

9:48

Why don't you go to the perimeter?

9:51

Oh man, all right, rap so here. I know you want

9:53

to comment on Jalen, so have at it.

9:55

The Jalen thing. I don't think it

9:58

was ripping him. Were you think he was ripping? Yeah?

10:00

I don't think it was ripping. But it sounds good.

10:02

But it ain't gonna have any effect because

10:05

it ain't stopping people from getting paid.

10:08

It ain't gonna stop the aau Chris

10:11

machine. People aren't

10:14

going to adjust.

10:15

They don't.

10:15

They look at their individual They

10:18

look at their individual play and

10:21

where they want to get to, and they don't look

10:23

and go, I want to be a better

10:25

passer. I want to have better skills

10:27

and not score as many points because I made the right

10:29

basketball play.

10:31

They're not doing that because people

10:33

are still getting paid.

10:35

People want to put up their numbers, Chris,

10:37

to have their highlights

10:39

and get there. They they're not going

10:42

to run and go do fundamentals

10:44

because that's not gonna get them where they want to

10:46

go. And even though we

10:49

talk about it in a number of European

10:52

or foreign players are now gonna be at the top of the

10:54

draft.

10:54

Right, is in two of.

10:55

The top three, gonna be feign

10:57

three to the top four, yeah, something like

11:00

that, And they don't look at it like

11:02

that doesn't affect me.

11:03

I don't care.

11:03

You know, I'm still gonna be in the draft or I'm gonna

11:05

be a lottery pick. So they don't look at

11:07

it like that and go, oh, yeah,

11:10

I need to work on my passing and

11:12

I'll score five less points,

11:15

right Chris, and be under twenty, but I'll have

11:17

two more assists and I'll know how what's

11:20

the right basketball player to make good luck

11:22

with that, because I don't see that happening.

11:25

Look, I agree with you for the most part,

11:27

Jalen Rose, that's good, great advice.

11:30

It is great advice. It's needed. Rob,

11:32

Let's stop.

11:33

I mean, how many how many players, ex

11:35

players have we had on the show who've

11:38

been in denial.

11:40

Look, we were still the best in the world. We're

11:42

still the best. What you need to right

11:44

there in denial?

11:46

All Right?

11:46

So I like Jalen sound in the alarm.

11:49

I'm with you for the most part.

11:50

And I'm gonna add this, I think a big like

11:54

are the way we develop players

11:56

in our culture. I don't mean black

11:58

cult, drafting, American Coast, American

12:01

social media, and the country as

12:04

a whole.

12:05

Rob.

12:05

If you are fifteen years old

12:08

and a great player, you're

12:10

a celebrity. Right You're

12:13

on social media. You probably got over

12:15

a million followers. Your highlights

12:18

are being played all over the place. People

12:20

are gassing you up. You're the man.

12:23

You're probably people wanting you know, they don't

12:25

really ask for autographs as much now, but

12:27

they want pictures everywhere you go.

12:30

You're probably getting paid. You certainly

12:32

can get paid off your social media. You

12:34

probably you might be getting an NIL deal.

12:37

That is just not conducive.

12:40

Fifteen years old, you haven't made it to the NBA.

12:43

We've before all this social media,

12:45

Rob, there were tons of guys who

12:47

were awesome at fifteen and

12:50

never even either never made the NBA

12:53

or when they got there.

12:54

They were subpar. Oh J.

12:56

Mayo was supposed to be the new hotness.

12:58

He was then decent

13:00

career after one year at USC

13:03

not even a decent career.

13:04

His career was cut short. We see

13:06

that time and time again.

13:09

And meanwhile, is

13:12

Serbia, in Slovenia,

13:15

in Greece or wherever it's

13:17

in Europe, they are if you're

13:19

fifteen and nice, Rob, you're

13:21

playing with grown men.

13:23

You're practicing twice a day, you're

13:26

being yelled at and really coached

13:28

well by some hard

13:30

nosed coach, and grown

13:33

men are schooling you

13:36

every day in practice, and you don't

13:38

get much playing time in the real games.

13:41

So that is that developed you

13:43

much better than if you think

13:45

you all that and you're about

13:47

to go to the NBA and be this

13:50

great player.

13:51

And so I agree with you on that, and

13:53

I just added.

13:54

That, Rob to you what you said, but

13:56

I will here's what I'll throw in, and

13:59

I don't know if we'll respond to it or not.

14:02

But pride.

14:05

Do we do we? Or I don't even know if it's

14:07

pride, it might just be desperation.

14:13

I mean, like we need to wake up.

14:15

I hear what you're saying. You know, I think

14:17

we go ahead.

14:19

I just think, Chris, people are on

14:21

their individual kick. What you're

14:23

saying makes sense if

14:25

you are a part of a team trying

14:28

to do something and in that scheme,

14:30

hey, you gotta do better on this or

14:32

that, or try to play better.

14:35

But to tell an individual player.

14:37

But if you're gonna tell him,

14:39

look, you might be great in California.

14:42

You're the tenth best player in America

14:44

at your age, or the fifth best or whatever.

14:47

But you look at the best players

14:49

in the world, they're no longer married. Like you know what, I'm

14:51

here in

14:53

the NBA. I don't know. I'm

14:55

just saying it makes logical sense, Chris.

14:58

But I just don't think people are wired that way

15:00

because they don't think it affects them.

15:02

What does it have to do with me.

15:04

I'm not scoring less points, then they're

15:06

gonna hold that against me. I'm not

15:08

taking less you know what I mean, Like like

15:10

that's the way they look at it, like, oh,

15:13

well.

15:13

That's a smart guy. He made the write basketball play.

15:15

And he did this, or oh then he

15:17

he takes care of the basketball.

15:19

Well that sounds good, and I'm

15:21

not saying it's not a bad thing.

15:22

Yeah, but no, I know to

15:25

that point, and you're talking

15:27

about playing the quote unquote right away.

15:29

Right, I don't think we die.

15:32

I think that's a problem in American basketball

15:34

in general, that we agree play

15:36

you know, one man or two man basketball,

15:39

high pick and roll at all the levels now

15:42

and you know, isolation

15:45

and over there they're learning to play kind of five

15:48

man ball. Although Luca is as one

15:50

on one as anybody. But

15:53

I just I think we do

15:56

need our adults need to wake up,

15:58

Rob. The adults that teach the kids need

16:01

to wake up and start teaching

16:03

them better and stop worrying. You're

16:05

talking about worrying about themselves. Yeah, a

16:07

lot of coaches, Rob are like, this

16:09

is my meal ticket. I'm gonna get on the

16:11

bench out a major college because of this kid,

16:14

right, And you're not coaching him.

16:16

You're not teaching him.

16:18

I went to the Ball Brothers, not not

16:20

Lonzo I went to the last two

16:22

ball.

16:22

Remember I went to the I went to the game. Oh

16:24

yeah, there was Cherry Pick in California. Le

16:27

Angelo and LaMelo.

16:28

They with Cherry Picking Chris. They wouldn't even

16:31

come past half court. The other guys

16:33

would rebound the ball and throw it down to them.

16:35

It was embarrassing. It was

16:38

embarrassing.

16:39

And look at them now.

16:39

I mean, le Angelo never was a great

16:42

prospect, but he's not in the NBA.

16:44

LaMelo's in it, but his.

16:46

Career is on hold,

16:48

and Lionzo is injured,

16:51

you know, and who knows what his career is gonna be. So

16:53

yeah, but hopefully Rob desperate.

16:56

I would say this before we go to the listeners.

16:59

I think more players or

17:01

more ex players, Rob, the Ogs,

17:04

Garnet's, the Paul Pierce's, guys

17:06

like that, they need to start

17:09

doing what Jalen did.

17:10

Now.

17:10

You gotta do it in a way you and

17:12

I would say that some of these guys just don't

17:15

care. I don't don't

17:17

do it in a way that's insulting to the international

17:19

rights because.

17:20

I mean, if they gonna come over here, it be better. God

17:22

bless them.

17:23

You know, it's nothing against them at all, But

17:26

It's just saying, look, we need to step

17:28

up.

17:28

This is a game that was created

17:30

in America.

17:31

We've dominated it for you

17:33

know, one hundred years, and

17:36

now we're losing a grip on it.

17:38

So let's start playing better

17:40

and teaching better. I just

17:43

want more of these guys, the ogs, to come out

17:45

and start saying that. All right, eight seven, seven ninety

17:47

nine on Fox, You'll turn the way

17:49

in Jalen Rose sounds

17:51

the alarm on American

17:54

basketball players. I guess at the lower

17:57

levels high school, college,

18:00

junior, high even and how they

18:02

have to get better or they're

18:04

gonna be more fewer and fewer Americans

18:06

in the NBA and more and more international

18:08

players. Your thoughts next, Chris rodda

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19:19

Quickly, let's get to it.

19:21

Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.

19:23

We want to get a few of you guys in here.

19:26

Jalen Road sounds the alarm. You

19:28

win it or not? Will it work

19:30

or not?

19:32

Let's go Chris with Doug in Michigan.

19:34

You're on the Odd Couple of Fox Sports Radio.

19:36

What's up, Doug?

19:38

Hey, how you guys doing.

19:39

I'll keep it quick. Rob.

19:41

I needed to do this by the end of the night. You have

19:43

to listen, and this is no disrespect. You

19:45

have to listen to Robin McNutt, who announces

19:47

for the New York Knicks.

19:49

Who you mean, Monica, Yeah, Milica mcnut

19:51

Yeah.

19:51

I'm sorry, Monica. She sounds identical to Christmas.

19:54

Really, Oh my god, I

19:57

ain't a woman on earth that sounds

19:59

like me. Stop it, all right, say

20:02

it ain't so I got

20:04

way too much base. Oh

20:08

my god, Chris, Chris,

20:13

I with this new fangle thinking all

20:16

right.

20:16

Go ahead, go ahead, Doug.

20:19

She's very she's awesome at what she does, and I

20:22

mean she's great.

20:23

She does a great job job.

20:25

I just want to say, like with these guys playing like

20:27

older guys, like that's a huge

20:29

thing. Like they're not liked up to be these

20:31

huge supers. You don't even find

20:33

out about them till the draft, and when they.

20:35

When we draft them, we boot.

20:38

No, you're right, and you know,

20:40

like.

20:41

You know, not in the huge thing.

20:42

I love this show.

20:43

I can't wait to hear answering and Chris, I'm

20:46

sorry, sound man all I want.

20:49

To take a listen. Thank you, Doug appreciated.

20:51

Will you know her?

20:52

Right?

20:52

I mean yeah, I don't know. I

20:54

don't I'm never I don't know her. But she does a

20:56

good job.

20:57

She does.

20:57

She does a good job. When we were long gone, Chris,

21:00

when.

21:00

She got there, yeah, I mean yeah, Tony.

21:02

In Delaware, you're in the eye couple of Fox

21:04

Sports Radio.

21:06

Chris, rob was popping.

21:08

How are you? What's up?

21:10

Love the show man, love your show. Just

21:13

can't wait for seven o'clock to get here, you

21:16

know, along the lines with the Jalen Rose,

21:19

I agree with both of you. AAU

21:22

that's an unstoppable machine. That's not

21:24

gonna happen. One thing

21:26

I will say with Chris, I do

21:28

not see pride and American

21:30

ballers. I worked with kids

21:33

here in Delaware. You know basketball, you

21:35

know fundamentals, And I'm

21:37

like, okay, hold up, son, you're trying to shoot.

21:39

A logo three?

21:40

How about the mid range? They do

21:42

a game here and work out to three.

21:45

You don't have the basic fundamentals, bro.

21:48

Check it out international players,

21:50

they're just more polished. Here's

21:53

what I recommend you. Know you're a star

21:55

here in Delaware, but take your games

21:58

of the markets so you can gauge

22:00

your skills against other men.

22:03

Guys bigger than you. Guys quicker than you,

22:05

then you can see what your game is before

22:07

you a go to college or be even

22:10

end of the dress.

22:10

Well don't you think that's happening within

22:13

America?

22:13

I mean the best players in the country, they

22:15

they play against guys all over the.

22:17

Count The problem, Chris and that and Thanks,

22:19

they're all playing the same way Tony in Delaware,

22:22

Chris is that they just play too many games. It's

22:24

not enough practice and they just they'll

22:26

play like.

22:27

That over the weekend.

22:30

That's just they just playing.

22:32

Jason in Florida, let's squeeze

22:34

another one and if we can.

22:35

You're in the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.

22:38

I'll be real quick with it. Fellas.

22:39

I appreciate everything, y'all do. I

22:41

think it's one thing. Jalen's right for

22:44

the most part. We have these kids, though.

22:46

The thing is I have a sun knee deep in this stuff.

22:49

We have these kids. They're in the mid weapons,

22:53

they run the Princeton backdoor offense.

22:55

They're out there. They're not what the NBA

22:58

these n Y B I B

23:00

L and be the circuits that they're looking for. They're

23:02

not kids.

23:03

Getting Okay, if

23:05

we got these kids, are they playing in college.

23:09

They're going to college. But it's also the NBA's

23:11

driving this. The athleticism is what's

23:13

jumping off the screen. But the other thing

23:15

is what about the loss of the two and three sport

23:18

athletes.

23:19

Well, we we talk about that all the

23:21

time. That's a that's an issue

23:23

in this country.

23:25

I'm seeing it.

23:26

But anyway, I just want to give it

23:28

in.

23:29

We might need to you talking about this, Rob,

23:31

We'll discuss that. But it's a good topic

23:33

people in a way, we I mean, we can we can

23:35

just gem carry it on. Well, yeah, we'll calls

23:37

after the side. Right, we got from Salim

23:39

around the corner. But here's Martin Weiss

23:41

with the other that's right, Martin.

23:44

Yo. And if the

23:47

way you said my name, I thought he about to ask me a question.

23:49

No, no, no, no no.

23:50

I mean, well, you know, Jalen Rose makes

23:52

a point, but I just don't think people are going to fall

23:54

in line with it, you know what I mean, like, oh,

23:56

yeah, we got to do this for the country.

23:58

No, it's going to be.

23:58

About things about the country. I think is

24:01

about you as an individual. How do

24:03

you want to be a great basketball

24:05

player?

24:06

Right?

24:06

Because you ain't just playing against the kids in

24:08

the US anymore, you know, can

24:11

you can you hang with that dude from

24:13

Africa or that guy from you know,

24:16

Spain or whatever.

24:17

So but go ahead, Martin, all right.

24:19

In the NFL, the owners have approved

24:21

a rule limiting the length of head coaching interviews

24:23

with assistant coaches whose teams are still in

24:25

the playoffs. They're now going to be a maximum

24:27

of three hours. Before there

24:30

was no limit to the length of the interviews, some

24:32

candidates were asked to interview for as long as

24:34

six or seven hours.

24:36

What it is, that's the end of

24:38

the NFL. What you don't need to interview somebody

24:41

seven hours? That's outrageous.

24:42

I mean, that's a full worth day seven

24:45

hours.

24:46

Some of these guys, I don't do they just

24:48

not want to go home.

24:50

Talking about all the time with.

24:51

These coaches that they don't want to go home.

24:54

That's sleeping in the office state.

24:56

I mean, come on, man, them, I.

24:58

Need to talk to you for an hour, Chris to get

25:01

a feel or we're.

25:02

Going to have about two three hour interviews

25:04

bay back, I mean, come on.

25:07

Will also require now that in person

25:09

interviews be at a location approved by the

25:11

team that currently employs the head coach,

25:14

rather than requiring assistance to travel

25:16

to visit the team interviewing them.

25:18

Oh Jesus, so, I mean it makes

25:20

a little bit more sense to me.

25:21

Like, if you're the Lions last year Ben Johnson

25:23

taking an interviews, She's got to fly to Washington to

25:25

have an interview, to come back to each other and then go to.

25:27

San You're in the middle of a playoff series.

25:30

I totally agree.

25:31

When I got hired at WDFN

25:33

in Detroit, the first all sports

25:35

station, and Lorna Gladstone

25:37

had me in her office, Chris, she

25:39

offered me the job in seven

25:42

minutes.

25:43

In seven minutes times, is that how long

25:45

it took to hammer out the Stone tablet

25:47

you had to sign for your contract. The

25:50

Louisville Metro Police Department is continuing

25:52

their investigation into the events that surrounded

25:55

the arrest of Scotti Scheffler last Friday.

25:57

Department says they will provide additional updates

26:00

on Thursday. Browns quarterback to Sean

26:02

Watson will not throw at OTA's

26:04

today at Ari tomorrow rather as he

26:06

recovers from off season shoulder surgery. Meanwhile,

26:09

Aaron Rodgers doing everything in practice

26:11

and has no restrictions per Jets coach Robert

26:13

Sala. Of course, remember he tore his achilles

26:15

last year. LA Rams running back Kyron

26:17

Williams will miss the team's offseason workouts this

26:19

spring because of a foot injury, and Carl Edwards,

26:22

Ricky Rudd, and Ralph Moody. They

26:24

make up the twenty twenty five class

26:26

to be enshrined in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

26:29

Rob Chris back to you guys.

26:30

All right, thank you, Martin. We're live

26:32

from the tie rag dot com studios. Our

26:34

man Epim Salon.

26:35

What's up brother yo, young brothers doing?

26:38

We are good.

26:39

Look, we're gonna read you a tweet

26:42

from Jalen Rose yesterday.

26:45

Yes, and Rob and I just spent

26:47

time talking about it. We might keep

26:49

talking about it in the next hour, but

26:52

we want to get your thoughts. He says this,

26:55

Dear US born basketball

26:57

players put in that work

27:00

wirelessly and showed discipline.

27:03

Otherwise, NBA jobs are

27:05

becoming extinct.

27:07

Your thoughts, well,

27:10

I mean you just look at the landscape

27:13

of the league now. Spots

27:16

are definitely becoming extinct.

27:19

There'll always be jobs for

27:22

US born players, but there

27:25

limit the number of spots on a team

27:28

are are are greatly decreasing

27:30

because of the tremendously

27:33

high basketball IQ of foreign born

27:35

players and the way they're

27:37

training there. They train more,

27:40

practice more, play less games overseas

27:44

and when you watch AAU. My nephew

27:48

is on a top A he's nine

27:50

can by the way, he's on the top

27:52

AAU team for his age bracket

27:55

to where if they even play up and

27:57

it's when they play so many games

27:59

and the weekend it's out of control. They

28:02

practice one maybe twice a week if

28:04

that because of school, and

28:06

they go on these tournaments. You

28:08

know, we were in Vegas. Now we're

28:10

going to Nevada and we'll be back back

28:13

in Vegas. And they play six, seven

28:15

games in two days.

28:19

That's what we just Chris, did we just talk about these

28:21

We just talked about that play

28:23

games instead of learning

28:25

and skills and practice.

28:27

Let me ask you this from and

28:29

I imagine at nine and ten they're

28:32

getting real coaching. Maybe

28:34

not, but you tell me, but do

28:37

you see some of the higher level teams, the

28:39

thirteen, fourteen, fifteen

28:41

year olds where they can make.

28:43

Decisions to go to different teams.

28:44

Are they being coached or are they just

28:47

being it's able to do whatever they

28:49

coach.

28:50

I coach nine to twelve year olds,

28:52

right, and we I coach basketball,

28:56

right. I don't coach roll the ball

28:58

out there, give it to your best and

29:00

everybody sets screens and get out of the way,

29:03

right right, Well, I don't coach one

29:05

on one basketball. I coach team basketball

29:09

because you know, the level

29:11

of basketball at you starts at

29:13

this age. If you tea man,

29:15

are you unique?

29:17

Because it doesn't seem like our players are

29:19

playing that the way you're talking about, seems

29:21

like they are playing more than one on one and

29:24

high pick and roll.

29:24

And you know what I mean, Well, it's

29:27

easy. Like at this age you can see the outlier,

29:30

the kid who can go behind his back, who can hesitate,

29:32

who can do a step back. He's obviously

29:34

going to get the shine on the team.

29:36

Right.

29:36

But I have to tell these kids, hey man, we

29:38

can only go as far as you. If you want to be

29:40

a leader, then you have to lead. You have

29:43

to get your teammates involved, because guess what

29:45

happens at that age, they will

29:47

just stand around and watch you play.

29:50

They'll they're literally stand

29:52

and watch you dribble up across somebody

29:55

over, take on the double

29:57

team and put up a shot and they won't

29:59

do it anything basketball related. And

30:02

that's the problem. You have to teach the

30:04

game of basketball, not basketball

30:07

moves. Like my son works with a

30:09

personal trainer and then for

30:12

his own individual abilities

30:14

and then when he comes and wee ca and I coach the

30:17

team, I'm coaching basketball.

30:19

I'm not how good you can go

30:21

behind your back and I do the step back. I'm not

30:23

teaching that. I'm like, hey, man, give

30:25

the ball up and go screen right,

30:28

or come set the screen on the ball, roll

30:31

or pop dick and pop. The game

30:33

of basketball is played in the three man way,

30:35

like if you can get the advantage

30:38

right using similar to like a three

30:40

man triangle where you can cut

30:42

the half the court in half and

30:44

take advantage of the defense, then

30:47

that's basketball. It's always been

30:49

a two man game. If you watch

30:51

any of these kids, it's all one on one man.

30:54

Everything is one on one. Everything

30:56

is me versus you.

30:58

Hey from let me ask you are The

31:00

NBA ratings are down ten percent.

31:03

We got some seven game series, we

31:05

got younger, more exciting

31:07

players. The old school guys

31:09

got knocked out or or didn't make

31:12

it, or you not.

31:13

So you're not surprised.

31:14

No, I'm not surprised because it's it's on Brandon.

31:16

Like when you look at Nicolea Yokich, You've been the

31:19

MVP, in my opinion, for the last four years.

31:21

Just fyi, even

31:24

though we had to you know, Joel and b thing

31:26

last year, Nicolea

31:29

had better numbers and team with won

31:31

the championship the old nine Yards and

31:34

he looked before that. You had Giannis and he looked

31:36

before that, like they're no American

31:39

player was even in

31:41

the top three for

31:43

MVP. They're all four

31:45

born players.

31:46

So do you think that it is

31:48

as now?

31:49

Look, the Minnesota Denver

31:52

game was the highest rated, the

31:54

game seven, highest rated

31:56

game ever.

31:58

I believe that's.

31:59

Correct me if I'm on I think I heard that in our

32:01

update ever on tn

32:03

T, highest ready to playoff game ever

32:06

on tn T, which is obviously good. I think a

32:08

lot of that was probably because

32:10

of Anthony Edwards in Minnesota. Do

32:12

you think if if international

32:15

players continue to

32:17

dominate, or to be honest, it gets even

32:19

more become more dominant because win by

32:21

Yama.

32:22

I mean, come on, he's.

32:23

Right there, coming

32:25

right, so do you He's

32:28

here right next year he's gonna be a top ten player,

32:30

maybe top five, But do you think

32:33

that that will hurt the ratings

32:35

of the league.

32:37

Look as baseball as

32:41

baseball right? Tell

32:46

me? Is baseball

32:48

like like American born players

32:51

haven't dominated baseball? And I don't know

32:53

how long that's just the

32:56

fact of the matter.

32:57

I don't know when you when you say that, and I'll

33:00

I'll put some stars because

33:02

there's rookie bads, there's Aaron Jones,

33:05

there's Mike Trout.

33:06

No, no, no, no, I can give you.

33:07

If I give you the top ten baseball

33:10

players, I'm gonna tell you that eight

33:12

or seven of them are from the United States.

33:14

And I get it. There are a lot of Latin

33:16

players and the best player is

33:19

old Tom.

33:21

Of nationality on baseball teams

33:23

as a whole, well,

33:27

I.

33:27

Do think, I think to your point where whether

33:29

we argue over that, but when

33:32

when your best players or some of your

33:34

highest profile players.

33:37

We talked about it Rob last week.

33:40

Because they're in a different country, because

33:42

they may be English, may be a second

33:44

or third language, they're probably

33:47

in general, there are there a few outliers,

33:50

but in general, they're probably not gonna show

33:52

as much of their personality right

33:54

and be as colorful?

33:57

Is that fair? And that could hurt the marketing

33:59

of the game.

34:00

Well, of course the face of baseball

34:02

show hey, and he's

34:05

got one New Balance commercial over here, like

34:08

what are we doing? How do you

34:10

market that? And in terms of the.

34:11

NBA commercials,

34:14

but yeah, still it's not the same.

34:16

But what I'm saying is, how

34:18

do you like coming out in the draft? Nobody

34:20

cares about the NBA draft or

34:23

the draft lottery or any of that, because we

34:26

know there'll be there'll be players that

34:28

are drafted we've never ever seen play

34:30

basketball, right.

34:32

Right, nobody's gonna know who

34:34

they are.

34:35

We're not invested. We're not invested

34:37

in any of these players because

34:40

we've never seen them play. All of a sudden,

34:42

now they're the first, second, third pick

34:44

in the draft and we're like, okay,

34:47

what happens. The reason the NFL

34:49

is the way it is is because of the college

34:51

system n c double A. All right,

34:53

these kids to come from high school, go to

34:56

college, and they lived there for three years, they

34:58

played there, the you know, send

35:00

them for NCAA football

35:02

is through the roof. So by

35:04

the time the draft rolls around, you

35:07

know these kids, you've seen them play on

35:09

the high level. You've watched them all

35:11

weekend. There's marketability

35:14

there because it's home grown. You can

35:16

relate to some of the stories.

35:18

Is that why they have the UFL.

35:20

They think that people going to go follow those kids

35:22

from college and watch that.

35:23

Well, now, because now you get you

35:26

get the stories right. You get this kid with the

35:28

you know, quarterback in the UFL. Now he's

35:31

you know, making the transition to the

35:33

NFL. He has an opportunity

35:35

to do this and that they We love those

35:38

stories. Like, nobody watches the G

35:40

League. So when these guys come

35:42

from high school and go play in the G League and then then

35:44

they get drafted, nobody's ever seen them

35:46

play before outside the Balls Life

35:49

website. And you got the clips of them playing

35:51

AAU when they were in high school. But

35:53

other than that, you don't know.

35:56

It's a good it's a good conversation.

35:58

Yeah, from We appreciate h input.

36:01

Brother, Thank you, thank you very much.

36:03

Prepire.

36:05

Yeah, Game one

36:08

the Eastern Conference Finals coming up

36:10

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36:12

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36:13

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All right, here we go. Chris.

36:59

The Mariner's car to me last night on a Yankee

37:02

minus one and a half run. They were leading four

37:04

to one in the ninth then and they

37:06

gave it up. But I got the Yankees to night. They're

37:08

gonna bounce back. The Yankees

37:10

minus one and a half runs, Chris against the

37:13

Mariners and the Bronx. I'm gonna take

37:15

the Pacers plus ten and a half. I

37:17

got the Celtics winning Game one in Boston.

37:19

Chris, but the Celtics covering

37:22

the ten and a half, okay,

37:25

And I got the twins.

37:26

Boston been blowing everybody out in their

37:28

wins. I know they have beened.

37:30

I just got the Pacers make

37:32

it close, Boston, you know, sometimes

37:35

they played different, no doubt,

37:38

no doubt. And I got the Twins

37:40

minus one and a half runs, Chris, there in DC taking

37:42

on the Nationals. So the Twins minus

37:44

one and a half runs, Pacers plus ten and a half

37:47

points, and the Yankees minus one and a half

37:49

runs. And remember, I'm not telling

37:51

you who to bet on. I'm telling

37:54

you who I bet on. That's

37:57

right, I want the money shot.

38:01

All right, here we go, Rob, Celtics,

38:04

Pacers about to get underway

38:06

in probably twenty minutes or so.

38:09

So yeah, I'm with you.

38:10

I got Boston winning the night, I got the series

38:13

going six, and

38:18

we all we both got boughted. I mean, I don't

38:20

know anybody, Rob, other than maybe a

38:22

die hard Pacers fan that's

38:24

picking the Pacers.

38:25

Everybody say that they can't win.

38:28

But on paper, if you honestly

38:30

look at this, Chris, honestly, it's

38:33

just hard for you to look at the Pacers and go like

38:35

they're going to beat them four times.

38:37

That's I don't think they can win, like

38:40

I'm talking about without injury, or

38:44

Boston would have to beat itself.

38:46

Rob.

38:47

And when you over rely on the three that

38:49

could happen. But

38:53

this Ron, this what happened.

38:55

If this was about for

38:58

it to happen this series, which You're right,

39:00

it's unrealistic that they're gonna do that four times.

39:03

Rob.

39:03

This would be and I don't

39:05

have the list in front of me or anything

39:07

like that, Rob, this

39:10

would be.

39:12

One of the greatest.

39:13

Upsets that I think in NBA

39:17

Conference Final history.

39:20

Would you. I mean.

39:22

Even Lebron Rob upsetting

39:26

Detroit and you and I were there, Remember when he scored

39:28

twenty five straight points, right, and

39:30

they won? They won four straight in

39:32

six games. They won that in two thousand and

39:35

seven. Even though that

39:37

was a big upset, Rob, you

39:39

still had Lebron, who we

39:41

all knew at that time was

39:44

going to be an all time great, right.

39:47

I mean, God bless Tyrese Halliburton,

39:50

but he ain't in the class of Lebron James.

39:53

So I'd even say this would be a

39:56

greater upset than that was.

39:59

I mean, I really have to strain my.

40:01

Brain and look

40:03

at the encyclopedias

40:05

of basketball unless

40:08

I'm missing something recently,

40:10

Rob to come up with a bigger

40:13

upset than

40:15

this.

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And I don't mean seeding. I mean,

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you know what I mean.

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Like quality of the teams,

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experience of the teams, age

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of the teams, all of that stuff.

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It would be colossal.

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And the same thing even if the Pacers, which

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are they're gonna shoot sixty seven

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for a game, they might win.

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They might win a game or two Christmas. Yeah,

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you got.

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Them in six. So that's realistic. It's

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it's always about the four games. It's

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unless somehow Boston

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falls behind and Boston loses

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the first two games or something like like

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what happened to Denver when they lost the first

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two games at home, then you could you

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would be susceptible Chris for having

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something like that happened to you. If you put yourself

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in that kind of hole, would you.

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Agree with that? Yeah?

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You know, yeah, I'm just saying, I mean,

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I don't think Minnesota over Denver was this big

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of an upset as this.

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No, but I mean winning three in Denver,

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No, I get it. I'm just saying like that

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that.

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Yeah, here's

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what I want to see if I'm a Celtics fan. Jason

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Tatum get out of his funk and play great

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efficiently. Chris Stashworzini

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is healthy and no home losses.

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How about that? Keep it locked. A com