WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:04.679 Welcome back to EVE Sports Radio. Yes it is. 2 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:05.200 We're live. 3 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:09.880 It is May the twenty eighth, twenty twenty five, and 4 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:16.480 I'm in Greenville, South Carolina, Quaine City. That's all I 5 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:20.519 can say. The weather's quite different. Usually it's seventy five 6 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:24.000 to eighty five and short sleeves and short pants weather. 7 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:27.399 And I landed yesterday Miss Gwenn Blackbirdy and I and 8 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:30.079 it was fifty two degrees and I think they say 9 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:34.840 right now it's forty nine outside and raining, So quite 10 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:37.439 different scenery than I'm used to when I come here 11 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:41.399 for our conference meeting. Everyone knows that the SEC is 12 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:43.920 having its conference meetings going on right now, which we'll 13 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:49.280 get into. But I'm also experiencing our conference meeting the NCCAA, 14 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:52.560 and I'll be here until Friday. So welcome back to 15 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.280 E Sports Radio. Yes it is Wednesday. We all know 16 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:59.439 that is hump Day. I hope everyone had a tremendous 17 00:00:59.439 --> 00:01:03.880 Memorial Day holiday Friday. We listened to a little clip. 18 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:06.640 A lot of people have given a lot from a 19 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:08.840 Memorial Day. It's one of the most important holidays in 20 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:11.439 my opinion. So again, I hope you all had a 21 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:14.480 great time. Now let me introduce my co host, one 22 00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:17.280 and only, Anthony Eves andthy Welcome to the show. How 23 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:17.560 are you. 24 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:22.159 I'm doing fantastic. How are you doing down there in Greenville, 25 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:22.879 South Carolina. 26 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:25.079 Well, I'm gonna tell you what. We'll get to that. 27 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:27.120 We're gonna get to that. But let me just finish this. 28 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:31.640 This is EVE Sports Radio phone numbers five zero, two, five, seven, 29 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.239 seventy nine hundred. It's Sports Talk seven ninety. Of course 30 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.400 that's KRD. We've got shedding behind the glass and we're 31 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:43.159 ready to rock and roll. So Anthony, let's just everyone knows. 32 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:47.519 I have to tell them about my travel escapades. Everyone 33 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:52.439 is traveled, most people have traveled, and most people have flown. 34 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:58.079 So Anthony, here we go. I leave yesterday morning, no problem. 35 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:02.760 Get to the airport. Look at my flight. It's delayed. Okay, 36 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:06.120 no problem. I've got a to hour window in Atlanta 37 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:08.520 to get to my connecting flight, so I'm not too concerned. 38 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.520 It's the late fifteen minutes, no problems. The late thirty minutes, 39 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.439 no problem. It's the late forty five minutes, and we're 40 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:17.840 starting to have a problem. It's the late fifty minutes. 41 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:20.400 We're going to have a problem. By the time we 42 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.520 get on the plane at Louisvie and take off. Of course, 43 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.919 Miss Gwyn Blackburn and I we miss our connection, that's all, Anthony. 44 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.599 We miss our connection in Atlanta, so we have to 45 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:33.319 go to one of the help desk. Of course, boom boom, 46 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:36.560 no long lines. Quickly I went to the delta room 47 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:38.840 and was going. We went with me and I ate 48 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:42.280 good set around. It was fine, Anthony. We get on 49 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:46.199 our flight from Atlanta to Greenville, South Carolina. Truly, you 50 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:49.840 all at thirty five to forty minute flight backs. We 51 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.199 sat on the tarmac longer than the flight. It's raining, 52 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:56.120 like you know what, Anthony, I mean. This weather is awful. 53 00:02:56.479 --> 00:03:00.400 I mean awful. So we taxi out and we're the 54 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:03.360 fourth plane from taking off. The pilot comes on and says, 55 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:06.879 we're gonna hold right here because the weather's so bad 56 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:10.759 they've shut down the airport. No problem by me. I 57 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:13.759 have no problem with staying on the ground, guys, nothing whatsoever. 58 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:16.960 So of course I start watching movies on the plane 59 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.840 and just different things. We sit there and the pilot 60 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:23.080 comes back on. It'll be another fifteen minutes. The pilot 61 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:26.000 comes back on, it'll be another fifteen minutes. And this 62 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:29.039 is all airlines, is just I Delta guys. They shut 63 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:34.319 down Atlanta's airport. That's all airlines. So next thing you know, 64 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.680 I pass out, fall asleep like I do, Anthony. All 65 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:41.400 of a sudden, I feel this flying. I'm like, okay, good, 66 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:45.879 next thing I know, and I sleep through everything, Anthony. 67 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:48.199 I mean honestly, I thought the plane was gonna turn 68 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:53.599 upside down, Anthony. I've flown for sixty six I think 69 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.599 my first flight was at thirteen West until flew me 70 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.919 to Baltimore, Maryland to his basketball camp. I was a counselor, 71 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:02.520 thirteen or fourteen years old. And if the nc of 72 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:05.439 Kentucky High School Sports Association would have known it, Anthony, 73 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:08.479 I'd have been ineligible because Western self paid me. That's 74 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:12.759 the truth. But too late now, any too late now, brother, 75 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:15.400 But Wes paid me. I went up and I was 76 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:17.680 a counselor and I played against the kids from Maryland. 77 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:19.920 I had a ball. But that was my first flight. 78 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.120 I'll never forget. I put a suit on, Anthony, and 79 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:23.839 a time my dad would not let me try. I 80 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:27.160 had a suit and tie on. So I've been doing 81 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:29.759 this a long time. Fifty two or three or four years. 82 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:34.240 I've been flying regularly, I mean all the time, and 83 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:37.920 it was the worst thirty minutes I've ever endured in 84 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:42.399 my life. I didn't think we're gonna make it. I said, 85 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:46.160 it's going to end going to the NCCAA in Greenville, 86 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:49.639 South Carolina. For me, I said, no way. And I 87 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:53.199 mean it was that bad, duo, Anthony. I thought the 88 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:56.600 plane was going to turn upside down. We were bouncing 89 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:59.160 and knocking you to thought people were throwing I mean 90 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:03.759 haymakers straight on the jaw. I'd never felt any turbulence 91 00:05:03.839 --> 00:05:08.879 like yesterday, Anthony. That plane just kept rising rising the 92 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:10.480 next thing, you know, once we got out of it, 93 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:14.079 clear smooth, three or four five minutes later, I think 94 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:16.920 we're just sending to come in to Greenville, South Carolina. 95 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:20.360 And we landed. I'm telling you, I was almost Anthony 96 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:23.720 like the Gladiator movie. I was getting ready to get 97 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:25.600 down and just kiss the ground when we walked off. 98 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:28.519 I'm not kidding, Anthony. I wanted to bend over and 99 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:32.240 kiss the carbon in the airport. Thank you Lord. That's 100 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:36.160 no joke, guys. It was just that bad. So anyway, 101 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:40.920 I'm here shaken, not stirred like James Bond, just shaking 102 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:44.959 but not stirred. So that was my trip yesterday at Greenville, 103 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:47.680 South Carolina. I'm hoping that the trip back will not 104 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:50.680 be as bad. But and I know you've had You've 105 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.519 traveled quite a bit. You played at Chicago State and 106 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:56.000 you all went to the West coast for probably half 107 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.240 of your games in your conference. So all this crying 108 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:01.560 that we heard from me Cronan A schools had been 109 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.040 doing it for forever. But you know, Cronan was crying, 110 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:06.240 now we have to go east with EU c l 111 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:08.519 A too often. So he dropped out of one of 112 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:11.120 the games. Kentucky ended up picking up Saint John's and 113 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:14.639 coach Matino. But anyway, tell me about your experience flying. 114 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:17.199 Tell me about a bad experience, Anthony ed any. 115 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:22.879 Honestly, throughout college, I didn't. I didn't have any bad 116 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:26.319 flight experiences. Sometimes it'd be long, there'd be longer try 117 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.199 longer flights, the longer days in the airport, catching buses. 118 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:32.639 When you land, shoot arounds, the days would be long. 119 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.240 You know, they could be from anywhere from four thirty 120 00:06:35.319 --> 00:06:38.560 five o'clock in the morning until ten o'clock at night 121 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.680 and it's just kind of how sometimes. But no, no, 122 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.160 turbles was never really bad. We never I don't think 123 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:48.199 we have really had any delayed flights. We never missed flights, 124 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:54.519 never got canceled. Oh you're so you never had We 125 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:55.560 never had a cancel flight. 126 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:59.160 Well, all I'm gonna tell you one thing is James 127 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:02.160 Bond said, shake, get not stirred. I was both yesterday 128 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:04.680 and I came off. I'm telling you, I wanted to 129 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:08.120 grab ground and gravel like the Gladiator. I'm telling you 130 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:10.920 I was like, boy, I'm so glad I'm walking. Oh 131 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:14.360 it was bad. So anyway, we've got a lot to 132 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:16.680 get to you at seven thirteen, we've got a lot 133 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:22.079 is transpired the NBA. Of course we're gonna dig into 134 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:29.600 that first. Antney. I even have to slap myself because 135 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:35.800 I'm critical of Halliburton because he can't always go get forty. 136 00:07:36.199 --> 00:07:40.079 You know, he's not shake Gildis Alexander. He just can't. 137 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:41.920 You know, He's not the Michael Jordan Kobe Bryant that 138 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:44.959 I'm used to putting up on a pedestal. I've always 139 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.279 knocked him, but dang it, the boys really good, Anthony. 140 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:53.160 I'm gonna stop. Halliburton is really good. I watched him 141 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:57.000 last night. He is really good. He's just more of 142 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.600 a point guard, and for some reason, as a point 143 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:01.959 guard in the NBA, I should have been given him 144 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.800 more credit, Anthony, because he is a true he is 145 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:07.480 a point guard. He can score it, but that's not 146 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:10.199 his attribute. He's not a super athlete. He's not dunking 147 00:08:10.279 --> 00:08:13.959 on you, Anthony. He just wants to run teams and 148 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:18.120 he did an excellent job last night. What's your opinion 149 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:21.920 of Tyre's Halliburton. What do you think as a triple 150 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:22.800 double last night? 151 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.319 His game is unorthodox. I'll put it like that. It's 152 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:30.240 not the normal what you see most superstar in All 153 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.200 Star players play, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's 154 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.360 just some people don't like it because he's not technically 155 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:40.480 a one on one style player exactly. He's better in 156 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:43.519 an efficient offense. He's good with the pacers and how 157 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:45.679 their play style is because they're even across the board. 158 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:48.039 That's one of the reasons why he didn't play on 159 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:49.759 the Olympic team in the USA, because he's not a 160 00:08:49.799 --> 00:08:52.080 one on one player. You can't put him out there 161 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:53.720 and just make a move on a bunch of different 162 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:56.240 European teams and blow by him and dunk on him. 163 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.519 Every other player to shoot threes in your face because 164 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:00.759 he just doesn't do that. He doesn't that just going 165 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:02.320 out there and making his own move. He doesn't do 166 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:05.080 it much on the Pacers. He has a lot more 167 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.759 confidence and flexibility under Greg Carlisle. So who'll go out 168 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:11.720 there and shoots step back three? He's fading away after 169 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:13.759 he's hit a couple of league gets flowing. He gets 170 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:15.519 the offense to go on the team's hot. They have 171 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.519 a crowd fan based that's energetic and kind of booster 172 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:22.759 the morale. Then you'll see Tyres Halliburton start to explode 173 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:25.759 more as a player. But he is efficient. The one 174 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:28.759 thing I will say is even other players have said 175 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:30.840 he's a fun all start to play with because he's 176 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.720 not selfish and he wants others to score the ball 177 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:35.519 as well. You can see it throughout. 178 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:39.960 He said that he's doing a straight jab at Leonard. 179 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:42.480 When he was talking about playing with Indiana. We all 180 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:45.440 know Pascal one one with Toronto. He says, playing with 181 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:48.399 Indiana is like a breath of fresh air. Anthony, he says, 182 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:51.000 without a doubt. We're all just play and he had 183 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.120 been playing with Leonard, which we all know he's a 184 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:59.759 douggie downer without a doubt. But Anthony, he just playoffs. 185 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.679 Fourteen games, thirty five minutes a game, nineteen points a game. 186 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:07.679 Anthony got me. He is. He is efficient. He's not 187 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.200 going to score tons of points. Again. He's a thirty 188 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:14.039 three percent, almost thirty four percent three point shooter. He 189 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:17.240 has a forty seven percent two point shooter, Anthony, which 190 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:19.879 is a very good statistic for today's era. He's an 191 00:10:19.879 --> 00:10:23.399 eighty percent free throat shooter. Anthony. He is just a 192 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:28.039 true point guard. And everyone always we just want Michael 193 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:31.480 Jordan and Kobe Bryant. We do, I do, But after 194 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:36.080 last night, I loved Indiana's up tempo Anthony. The Utah 195 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.879 Jazz in my era there played the exact same way. 196 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:42.000 We averaged one hundred and twenty points a game. We 197 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:44.440 wanted to be up and down once the team scored it. 198 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.279 We wanted the ball in bounds and up the floor 199 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:50.039 in four seconds looking to score it, and when they 200 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:52.159 missed it, we wanted to even be quicker than that. 201 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:55.240 Frank Layton wanted up tempo and you're getting a chance 202 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:58.600 to see that Indiana was running that floor yesterday, and 203 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:01.600 I mean it was a fun game tour, just different 204 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:04.320 than walk it up and watch somebody play one on one. 205 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:07.399 I mean, that's just the bottom line. Now. I'm not 206 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:10.759 saying the series is over, Anthony. I'm not saying the 207 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:15.039 Knicks are dead. They're on a respirator, doesn't look good, 208 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:17.600 but I'm not saying they're dead. I think that the 209 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:21.399 Knicks will win the next game, Game five, make it 210 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.080 three to two, and then it puts the pressure on 211 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:27.879 the Pacers to win game six. So this is still 212 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:31.159 going to be a very good series. It really is. 213 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:34.159 And Anthony a person that we had given a hard 214 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:35.960 time to you and I not on the radio, but 215 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:38.759 car Anthony Towns, he even taking the ball to the 216 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:41.600 basket now and he's playing really well. I mean he 217 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:43.919 took over not last night's game of the game before 218 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:46.879 Car Anthony Towns took it over. So there's just a 219 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:49.200 lot of good sports going on right now, a lot 220 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:52.000 of good players emerging. I think that people don't want 221 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:56.000 to give credit to but a last night's game, boy, 222 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.159 it just reminded me of the jazz the Pacers got 223 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:04.720 up and down. Now for old old sports fans in 224 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:10.200 the city of Louisville, everyone remembers fifty years ago Kentucky 225 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:15.480 Colonels defeated the Indiana Pacers in the ABA Championship. And 226 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:19.639 now I'm watching I watched Rick Smith's Pacers, Isaiah Thomas coaching, 227 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:23.039 and I coached against the Larry Bird Pacers. I've watched 228 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:27.639 them all now, the Rick Carlile Pacers, the Larry Brown 229 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:31.960 Pacers that have been in the NBA reaching Eastern Conference Finals, 230 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:37.240 the Reggie Miller choke artist with Spike Lee, and all 231 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:39.840 I can say, and you weren't even born, but here 232 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:41.919 I am in the city of Louisville. I'd love to 233 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:48.159 have an NBA team, but we don't. We do not. 234 00:12:49.399 --> 00:12:53.080 And the Pacers, I want people to understand. Fifty years 235 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:57.279 ago they were going around fundraising, I mean, asking for 236 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:00.279 people for dollars for Nichols to get into the NBA. 237 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:06.519 But they had the foresight to understand and did not. 238 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:11.000 My city, Louisville. I just want everyone to know what 239 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.639 we're watching on TV with the Pacers. We should be 240 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:17.200 watching on television in the city of Louisville, but we're not. 241 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:21.480 Our leadership has been so bad for so long it's 242 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:27.279 just not worthy of speaking about. And guys, the sports 243 00:13:27.879 --> 00:13:32.840 entertainment business is a taxable business that helps your community. 244 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:37.960 Everyone gets so hung up, Anthony, and what the athletes make, 245 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:43.080 who cares you tax them good? But the coaches make, 246 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:49.240 who care taxable dollars? Anthony, arenas oh businesses that thrive 247 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:53.360 off of those businesses, Anthony. Our leadership has been so 248 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:56.000 bad and people hate for me to go back. And 249 00:13:56.039 --> 00:14:01.120 I'm talking to you, Anthony about community leaders Today they 250 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:04.159 called me up and said, Jerry, get over it. Water 251 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.200 under the bridge. It is. But I still can't believe 252 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:12.720 that I watched the Indianapolis five hundred and the very 253 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:16.799 same day an NBA playoff game. So I want people 254 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.440 to think before we go to break, when you'd love 255 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:26.039 to add the Kentucky derby at five point thirty six 256 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:30.679 and then a Kentucky Colonel's game at eight o'clock on 257 00:14:30.799 --> 00:14:34.039 national TV in the playoffs. It should have happened. It 258 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:39.440 could have happened twice, and our community turned its nose 259 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:44.720 to it twice billions of dollars, not millions, billions of 260 00:14:44.799 --> 00:14:50.759 taxable dollars. So every time I watch the Pacers. I'm 261 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:53.399 telling you every time I watched them Indie, I watched 262 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:56.039 the Indianapolis five hundred and all they said is and 263 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:59.399 tonight the Pacers are going to be playing a playoff 264 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:02.080 game in the eat CERN Conference semifinals. It just made 265 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:04.080 me go. Made the hair on my head, which I 266 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:07.639 don't have any stand up. So when we get back, 267 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.919 we're gonna talk a little bit about OKAC seven twenty 268 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.759 one Anthony. Then we're gonna get into this college football 269 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:19.039 spectrum because Anthony, times are changing quickly and the SEC 270 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.879 and the Big Ten are trying to change the page 271 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:25.440 on all these other colleges. They better hurry up and 272 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:28.799 keep up. It's E Sports Radio, which means we need 273 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:32.600 good leadership in the ACC with our athletic directors and 274 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:35.399 our presidents E Sports Radio. We'll talk to you in 275 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:40.120 a minute. Welcome back to E Sports Radio. Seven twenty five. 276 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:43.480 I did kiss the ground. Yes, people were saying, yes, 277 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.120 I did. I should have kissed it twice. That playing 278 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:49.200 flight was frightening. That's all there is to it. You 279 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:52.320 can say what you want when you have no control, 280 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:57.120 and you know everyone says have a safe trip. I'm like, 281 00:15:57.200 --> 00:15:59.480 tell the pilots have a safe trip. I've got nothing 282 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:02.000 to do with it. I'm doing this sleepy pile. Is 283 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:05.480 that excellent job brought us in? Thank you Lord. Anyway, 284 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:09.080 welcome back to the sports radio from numbers five, zero, two, five, seven, 285 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.759 seventy nine hundred. I know everyone's had well. Anthony has 286 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:15.799 flown quite a bit. You're fortunate at Anthony. I mean, 287 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:20.399 I've had some scary ones. I really have. So let's 288 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:23.639 get to us. Anthony. We haven't spoke. Maybe you and 289 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.559 George did, but I haven't spoke much about shake Yielding's 290 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:33.879 Alexander MVP. Without a doubt, Anthony has been improving every 291 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:38.279 season in the NBA. George Williams did hit this one 292 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:40.600 on the head. He did. He hit the nail on 293 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:42.960 the head. He did. He said that kid's gonna be 294 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.600 really good. When he played in the McDonald's game, your 295 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:47.639 mother was there, Frank, you weren't there. You were still 296 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:50.360 at Chicago State. But your brother and I and your 297 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.240 mom were there. We watched him play. I said, he 298 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:54.720 is good. It was one of the lower rated Kentucky 299 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:56.840 players coming in at the time, but we all know 300 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:59.559 that Kentucky was always getting you know, three of the 301 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:02.480 top ten players in the country, but ends up taking 302 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:05.160 a certain job after about five or six games, Anthony, 303 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:09.160 and that was It's been history since then. I love him. 304 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:12.960 He's the best mid range player I've seen in a 305 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:17.440 long long time. His strength is not his three point shot. 306 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:19.839 He doesn't shoot a ton of him, Anthony. I wasn't 307 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:22.240 a three point shooter. I taught you and Frankie to shoot. 308 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.559 But he still does more than adequate job at that. 309 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:29.400 But that boy is efficient. So in the playoffs when 310 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:33.640 it matters MVP, he's playing thirty six minutes a game 311 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:36.640 after twenty nine point five points a game, Anthony shooting 312 00:17:36.759 --> 00:17:40.319 forty seven percent from the field. He's struggling from the 313 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:42.759 three point line in the playoffs at twenty eight point nine, 314 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:46.599 but he's shooting forty seven where he lives, and he's 315 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:50.039 shooting eighty five point three percent at the free throw line. 316 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:53.160 Other piece I love about him, Manthony. He will defend 317 00:17:53.640 --> 00:18:00.640 okse guard They really do? They guard you? I mean Edwards. 318 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:04.519 People are giving him a hard time, even myself, Anthony, Okay, 319 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:07.480 see guards you. That's all there is to it. They 320 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:10.920 have a college concept. They abide by it. They make 321 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:13.720 you shoot jump shots, they can test you. They rebound 322 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:16.200 the ball and they run it down your throat. But 323 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:23.400 Shake Gildicks, I mean got Lee MVP and and I 324 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:26.000 see him terrorizing the league for about five years. I 325 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:29.359 really do. I see him getting nothing but better as 326 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:34.119 he's continuing to mature with the game. And I all 327 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:36.440 players kind of you've seen them. They'll ask for a 328 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:40.559 call here or there. But his gestures, his mannerisms with 329 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:44.240 Shake gildis Alexander, how he carries himself even with his 330 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.960 frustrations and guys, I want everybody to know it's an 331 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:51.119 emotional game. And yes there were times when I played, 332 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:53.559 I was upset in playoff games, Anthony, to where I 333 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:56.440 was upset, I was, you know, I wasn't composed. Everybody, 334 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:59.079 you should be composed. You're the point guard. I don't 335 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:02.000 hear on that until you really compete at a real game. 336 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:05.319 There's moments that you're not. But he still does a 337 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:09.119 great job of handling his emotions. I just love the 338 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:15.480 way he plays, Anthony. I think Anthony, if OKC can 339 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:19.519 add just the right player in this draft, and we 340 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:21.559 know they'll be between twenty and thirty. But there are 341 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:25.039 a lot of sleepers out there, they can recruit, find 342 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:28.680 the right player to help. I would say, rebound the ball, 343 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:35.599 help with defensive presence. I love Chad what he's doing, 344 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:38.599 Hobrid what he's doing, but that body of his I'm 345 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:42.240 always nervous that he could get injured at any moment. Anthony, 346 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:44.519 They've got a great group of guys to where they 347 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:46.599 can make a run at this thing. I've always picked 348 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:50.559 Oka See. I'm staying oka See. What do you think? 349 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:52.839 What do you think does Oka See win this thing? 350 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:56.240 Do they finish it tonight? First thing? Do they finish 351 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:56.720 it at home? 352 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:02.440 We'll finish it at home. The only controversy I say 353 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:06.240 to the okac Thunder is that majority of their team 354 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:11.599 is on rookie or very low contracts. And when I 355 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:14.759 say that is him, obviously you know Sga will resign, 356 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:17.720 the will probably want to resign Jaylen Williams. But those 357 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:20.920 other key role players that everybody's like, oh, okay see, 358 00:20:20.920 --> 00:20:23.200 it will be the best team for the next five years, 359 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:28.960 they won't because they have to pay them. Okay everybody, okay, 360 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:32.359 okay See. Is not a big market team. We already 361 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:34.200 know that they don't play a lot of the players 362 00:20:34.319 --> 00:20:36.279 even the players that they had in recent history, like 363 00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:38.440 all we can even go back to the James hard 364 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:40.920 and Kem Durant, Russell Westbrook. They were all younger in 365 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:44.200 their careers. They weren't on super Max contracts. Chet Holmgrom 366 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:47.200 is gonna be a twenty five million dollar guy, Jaylen 367 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:49.480 Willams gonna be a thirty million dollar guy. Sga is 368 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:50.319 gonna be forty million. 369 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:51.240 Even if role. 370 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:55.720 Players like Crusoe, Case Wallace, Isaiah Joe, Isaiah Hartenstein. You 371 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:57.839 have to pay all of them, and even the new 372 00:20:57.839 --> 00:20:59.640 guys coming in, they are gonna be on the rookie contract. 373 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:02.039 You can keep them awhile, that's why the draft is 374 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:04.000 so important for them. But you can't say from four 375 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:06.240 years from now, every guy on that team, in the 376 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:09.279 way that the NBA market works so far, in their 377 00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:12.559 starting lineup, everybody on that team is worth twenty million 378 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:17.720 dollars at least, okay, even at least at least. 379 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.599 And Alexander Shay's gonna make sixty million, You're one hundred 380 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:24.160 percent he's gonna make sixty million. You're right. They can't 381 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:28.000 pay him sixty which they're going to Chad Hogren. They'll 382 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:30.640 pay fifty five after that, Anthony, You're right, they're gonna 383 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:35.119 lose Williams or they're gonna lose Wiggins, I mean Cason 384 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:37.880 Wallace as he continues, and that boy's improving. I mean, 385 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:41.599 you're right. At There's it's really difficult for that level 386 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:44.799 market to pay with there because and they've done They've 387 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:48.400 done a great job of drafting. So they're gonna have 388 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:50.920 to continue because you're right, they're gonna get cherry picked. 389 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:54.359 People are going to pull from their roster. I was 390 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:57.039 saying that they could be great. They're gonna keep Shae 391 00:21:57.039 --> 00:22:00.279 for five years, but to keep that nucleus around him, 392 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:03.480 he's gonna be a little bit more difficult, Anthony, unless 393 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:06.359 unless the players want to play with each other and 394 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:09.240 see that they've got a chance to win multiple championships, 395 00:22:09.319 --> 00:22:12.000 is there? Only that's the only saving Grace Fro. 396 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:17.400 That ain't happening. Only only player has done in the 397 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.000 last twenty years is taking a pay cut of Jalen Brothers. 398 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:22.680 And you see how that's working out for him. 399 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:24.359 Well, I mean, he's a great player. But you're right, 400 00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:27.000 he did give to the Knicks. I agree, I mean, 401 00:22:27.079 --> 00:22:34.160