Speaker 1: To Eves Sports Radio.
Speaker 2: Yes it is Thursday, May the twenty nine, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: I won't see it today, I'll see it tomorrow. Next thing,
Speaker 2: you know, I'll be saying it's December the second and
Speaker 2: it's Christmas. Just wait, guys, that's how quickly this year
Speaker 2: is going. Can you believe it? It will be June
Speaker 2: next week. Welcome back to the show. This is Eve
Speaker 2: Sports Radio. Phone numbers five zero two five seven one
Speaker 2: seventy nine hundred. That's five zero two five one seventy
Speaker 2: nine hundred. This is Sports Talk seven ninety KRD. Got
Speaker 2: Shannon behind the glass, of course, like always, he's in Louisville.
Speaker 2: I'm sitting here looking out the window of the eighth
Speaker 2: floor room eight twenty six the Weston and Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville, Spartanburg.
Speaker 2: I'm looking out the windows, so guys, I can tell
Speaker 2: you there's nothing going on here at all other than
Speaker 2: the NCCAA convention. So welcome back to the show. We've
Speaker 2: got a lot to get to. Shun and tell me.
Speaker 1: It's my younger son with me yet he's on. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Young fella? How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing good this morning? You know, looks like it's
Speaker 3: gonna be nice, a nice day out here in Louisville,
Speaker 3: Kentucky as well. So looking forward to a nice day
Speaker 3: off to you know, finally get to see some sunshine
Speaker 3: and relax.
Speaker 1: I got you.
Speaker 2: I didn't say it was a nice, Anthony. It's overcast
Speaker 2: here and rainy. It's been raining the entire time. At
Speaker 2: least it warmed up a little bit yesterday, but it's
Speaker 2: it's a tough time around here right now. If people
Speaker 2: are looking for sunshine, you're not gonna get it here.
Speaker 1: That's all I can say. Here's the problem. Though. We've
Speaker 1: got so much in sports. But I'm telling you what, Anthony.
Speaker 2: Last night was one of those nights awfoot ball game,
Speaker 2: which we'll talk about. I fall asleep on it, probably
Speaker 2: mid third quarter. I wake up at one o'clock, turn
Speaker 2: off the lights, TV. Couldn't go back to sleep. I
Speaker 2: don't go back to sleep until three.
Speaker 1: Up.
Speaker 2: I did not turn the television on, just up. I
Speaker 2: hate this. I've been traveling my entire life. I'm sixty six,
Speaker 2: so at least I mean real traveling since I was
Speaker 2: eighteen and a half, so guys, you know, forty eight
Speaker 2: years and I probably had five nights like this. I
Speaker 2: have no problem sleeping. I go to sleep every night, Anthony,
Speaker 2: and sleep all night unless I have to get up
Speaker 2: to use the bathroom because I'm old. But I have
Speaker 2: no problem going to sleep. Not last night. I just
Speaker 2: looked at the walls, looked at my phone, looked at
Speaker 2: the walls.
Speaker 1: I said, this is awful. There's nothing worse than I've
Speaker 1: been able to sleep in a hotel. That's all.
Speaker 2: It was awful one of those nights, Anthony. So anyway,
Speaker 2: I've got to get ready.
Speaker 1: We've got meetings all day today and then we vote tomorrow.
Speaker 2: And I'll get out of here. But I'll tell you
Speaker 2: one thing, Athink host telling Shannon, everybody wants to be
Speaker 2: a big time We're the NCC. Our second see is
Speaker 2: for Christian. So you've got National Collegiate Athletic Associate. We're
Speaker 2: a national Christian got me, that's all. And we could
Speaker 2: have done all this on one day. We could have
Speaker 2: brought up the issues in the morning, we could have
Speaker 2: voted on them last night.
Speaker 1: I could have been on my way home today.
Speaker 2: But we have to act like we're the SEC, the
Speaker 2: Big ten, the a SEC, and we meet and speak
Speaker 2: about everything. They went to baseball games last night, Anthony,
Speaker 2: for fellowship. I didn't go. Tony Brad said, what's wrong
Speaker 2: with your fellowship? I said, I've got enough of it.
Speaker 1: So anyway, and that was last night.
Speaker 2: So we've got so much. I mean, Anthony, we've got
Speaker 2: good news. Oh Taga always coming back to the Cats.
Speaker 2: So they're excited, and I'm happy we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about that. I'm glad for that. We've got to talk
Speaker 2: about the game. Oh my goodness. I mean I did.
Speaker 2: When this thing started, Anthony told everyone I don't watch
Speaker 2: regular season.
Speaker 1: But I do watch the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I like the playoffs I've seen this year, Anthony, have
Speaker 2: been blowouts. I want people to understand. There have been
Speaker 2: blowouts in playoff games. Even when I played in the eighties, Anthony,
Speaker 2: there have been some twenty five, twenty six point beat downs.
Speaker 2: There have, but not as many as this year. This
Speaker 2: year was just comical. And last night's game, which we'll
Speaker 2: get to, was a joke. I mean that was just
Speaker 2: And then when it's sixty five or thirty two at
Speaker 2: halftime and I'm sitting never going what am I watching?
Speaker 2: Trying to find a movie on all the rest of
Speaker 2: the channels. It was just that bad. So I'm a
Speaker 2: thought to you with some national news. We've got another
Speaker 2: game tonight that you're gonna give us, and then we're
Speaker 2: gonna dive into quite a bit of this sports some
Speaker 2: smart things. I still I'm gonna play. We've got to
Speaker 2: talk about Matt. I'm Matt Shannon. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I sent it to you or not. Yes, but play please,
Speaker 2: Let's just play a little bit from our OKC so
Speaker 2: that we can hear.
Speaker 1: Let's just start with that actning before I hit rich
Speaker 1: your national news. Let it play, please, sha it Finals
Speaker 1: Most Valuable Player trophy is appropriately named after another all
Speaker 1: time NBA great, Magic Johnson. The winner of the Magic
Speaker 1: Johnson Trophy for the twenty twenty five Western Conference Finals
Speaker 1: Most Valuable Player is Shaye Gilges Alexander Shaye just knowing
Speaker 1: what that trophy stands for. What does it mean to
Speaker 1: you to now own one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a really good feeling. Think stuff you jimmy
Speaker 4: about as a kid. I just want to shout out
Speaker 4: these fans.
Speaker 1: They've been here.
Speaker 4: Yet a couple of years. I got here. There's some
Speaker 4: really dark times in this arena, not fun times. And
Speaker 4: these stands fans have been by her side through thick
Speaker 4: and thin, so we appreciate them.
Speaker 1: First and foremost.
Speaker 4: And then, of course I want to thank my teammates.
Speaker 4: Without them, I'm nothing Claire's day. I don't have one
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty four points by myself. I love these
Speaker 4: guys to death. Now, with all that being said, this
Speaker 4: is a step in the right direction. But we have
Speaker 4: a lot more work to them. We know that, and
Speaker 4: that's what we're focused on.
Speaker 3: So let's buckle up and your weddings great.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Shannon. So Anthony, there you go, give me
Speaker 2: my national news. But what do you think about Shake Gilders.
Speaker 2: I like that young man, Anthony, I really do. I
Speaker 2: like his temperament. I just do what do you think?
Speaker 3: Hey, hey said he won the smoothest guys in the
Speaker 3: NBA for a reason.
Speaker 2: No, they do. That's a true statement. Coaches, general managers, players,
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, When Patrick Beverly and everyone, if you
Speaker 2: all don't know, Patrick Beverly has played in the league
Speaker 2: for fourteen or fifteen years. He used to get under
Speaker 2: everybody's skin. He would defend you with the rockets. He
Speaker 2: played for probably five or six teams a Minnesota everywhere.
Speaker 1: I listened to him when he said the first time
Speaker 1: and he had to guard him. He went up and
Speaker 1: told him.
Speaker 2: He calls him slinky. He says, slinky, you know about yourself?
Speaker 2: He says, no, what do you mean? He says, you
Speaker 2: don't know about yourself? He says, I'm going to be
Speaker 2: pretty good. He says pretty good. You're going to be great.
Speaker 2: And this was Patrick Beverly, honestly, guys five years ago
Speaker 2: telling the kid, no, you're gonna be great. And this
Speaker 2: is one time Patrick Beverley was correct. He's a nutcase,
Speaker 2: but he is one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 1: He is good. He's really good, Anthony.
Speaker 2: I mean the kid just thinking he's got thirty four
Speaker 2: points in thirty three minutes.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: Fourteen for twenty five, and there have been games when
Speaker 2: he had to shoot it twenty nine times.
Speaker 1: But I told you I had no problem with that.
Speaker 1: He takes the responsibility. But fourteen for twenty five, two
Speaker 1: for four from the three, four for four from the
Speaker 1: free throw line, seven rebounds, eight assists, two turnovers.
Speaker 2: I mean they just twenty six to nine. They should
Speaker 2: have had a running clock rule, Anthony. They should a
Speaker 2: running clock rule.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 2: So I'm a though to you give me some of
Speaker 2: the national news, tell me what you think of last
Speaker 2: night's game, and then we'll get to our first break.
Speaker 3: That game last night was you know. The crazy thing
Speaker 3: is I didn't even watch it last night. I just
Speaker 3: kept up with the stats on my phone. But when
Speaker 3: I saw that halftime score, I was, I was just
Speaker 3: I was. I was disappointed. I mean, twenty six to
Speaker 3: nine of the first quarter. Then the same quarter wasn't
Speaker 3: much better. Guys blown out thirty nine to twenty three.
Speaker 3: They're down a total of like thirty four in the
Speaker 3: first half. It was just I was like in Minnesota,
Speaker 3: they flew out to Oklahoma City for absolutely no reason
Speaker 3: at all. I don't even know why they came.
Speaker 1: They had to. They just had to get it over
Speaker 1: with tob they'd gone to cobble lethargic.
Speaker 3: You know Anthony Edwards, you know, he tried his best.
Speaker 3: He had a rough night. Julius Ramdalls started off slow,
Speaker 3: trying to get it going. But outside of those two players,
Speaker 3: I hate to say for the Minnesota Timbwolves, they gotta
Speaker 3: make some of them. They gotta make some adjustment support
Speaker 3: their supporting cast is terrible. I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 2: Yes, Reid's the only decent player. Here's the deal, though, Anthony,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to be honest with you. They've been
Speaker 2: in the Western Conference finals everyone the last two years.
Speaker 2: So Chris Finch has done an adequate job, I mean
Speaker 2: a very good job. That means they're only four teams
Speaker 2: playing out of the thirty. But there's got to be
Speaker 2: some coaching going on, Anthony. They have no concept. They
Speaker 2: out talented people. In my opinion, and I told you
Speaker 2: this Golden State would have beat.
Speaker 1: Them this year.
Speaker 2: I did not think they could have beaten Golden State
Speaker 2: because Golden State has a concept.
Speaker 1: They just do.
Speaker 2: I don't think they would have been able to do that.
Speaker 2: But you can't take anything from them. They got to
Speaker 2: the Western Conference twice. And I'm an Anthony Edwards fan.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna roll over on him. He's young, twenty
Speaker 2: three years old, and he's very talented. But the bottom
Speaker 2: line is he's gonna have to take the coaching and
Speaker 2: Chris Finch is gonna have to give some coaching because Anthony,
Speaker 2: their offense was so bad and so stagnant it's embarrassing.
Speaker 2: I think a change is coming. I want everybody to
Speaker 2: listen to me.
Speaker 1: Now. I love the NBA.
Speaker 2: When I played the Magic Johnson and Isaiah Thomas, you
Speaker 2: talked jazz. We have one hundred and twenty points a game, Anthony.
Speaker 2: We got up and down the floor even with the physicality.
Speaker 2: Magic Johnson, James Worthy, Byron Scott, Michael Cooper dunk it
Speaker 2: on people in transition. Anthony, this is Ricky Green. Before
Speaker 2: I ever played the my first game, there was a
Speaker 2: hotel directly across the street from the Forum, directly across
Speaker 2: the street where we stayed in Marriotte at the time.
Speaker 2: I want everyone to go back and think about pac
Speaker 2: Man was huge, Anthony.
Speaker 1: The video game pac Man was huge. It was taking
Speaker 1: over the world.
Speaker 2: So we were in the lobby early, Ricky Green and
Speaker 2: I with our low quarters playing pac Man. It only
Speaker 2: took a quarter Anthony playing pac Man and Ricky standing
Speaker 2: behind me and says, are.
Speaker 1: You ready, young fella? And I was having a pretty
Speaker 1: good rookie year, guys, I made second team. Are rookie
Speaker 1: as ten points a game? I said, yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: I'd played against Magic Johnson before and stros games before it.
Speaker 1: I was comfortable.
Speaker 2: He says, here's what I want you. Just to imagine
Speaker 2: Magic Johnson in the middle, Michael Cooper on the right wing,
Speaker 2: James Worthy on the left wing.
Speaker 1: And guess what happens to you? I said what he says,
Speaker 1: you get dunked on.
Speaker 2: He says, that's all that's gonna happen to you, over
Speaker 2: and over and over again. You'll see Anthony. Not three
Speaker 2: hours later, I'm backpeddaling. Magic Johnson's in the middle, James
Speaker 2: Worthy's on one side, Michael Cooper's on the other. James
Speaker 2: Worthy was my roommate in the first National Sports Festival, Anthony,
Speaker 2: so Worthy is a very good friend of mine. Of
Speaker 2: course he went to Worthy, Anthony. Everyone knows the Statue
Speaker 2: of Liberty dunk that James Worthy would do. Boom marking,
Speaker 2: not mark Eaton, Ben Poqutt takes the ball out abound
Speaker 2: throws it in. All I remember is James Worthy yelling
Speaker 2: at me, got you. Because he was a year younger
Speaker 2: than I was.
Speaker 1: Anthony.
Speaker 2: All he yelled at me was got you, I said.
Speaker 2: And he came out early. He came out before I did, Anthony.
Speaker 2: And that's all I can remember him yelling at me.
Speaker 2: See him, got you?
Speaker 1: I said, boy, Ricky Green told me I was getting
Speaker 1: that was gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But here's the change. The Indiana Pacers get up and
Speaker 2: down the floor, Anthony. They run early offense. They transitioned,
Speaker 2: their big men run to the front of the rim.
Speaker 2: Okay See, you didn't watch the game, but Holgrin gets
Speaker 2: a dunk early in the first quarter. Anthony, running the wing,
Speaker 2: dunks it with two hands. I think teams are going
Speaker 2: to change this. Get a rebound, give it to the
Speaker 2: star player, walk it up. They him, dribble it a
Speaker 2: thousand times, run thirty five, picking rolls, and shoot the ball.
Speaker 2: I think a change is coming back, and I'm glad
Speaker 2: for it. I really do. I love the way the
Speaker 2: Pacers play, and I love the way okay See plays.
Speaker 2: I think okay See still beats them. Honestly, Anthony, I
Speaker 2: think okay Se wins it in five. They may give
Speaker 2: up a game, and this one's not over tonight with
Speaker 2: the Knicks and the Pacers, But okay See's the best team.
Speaker 2: There's no question about it. They're the best team. And
Speaker 2: they defend you like college health defense. They force you
Speaker 2: to shoot primber's shots. They don't let you have dribble penetration.
Speaker 2: I think a change is coming. I'm glad for it
Speaker 2: because the old NBA, Anthony the and one NBA with
Speaker 2: all the dribbling, to watch Julius Randall trying to run
Speaker 2: a pick and roll, which was the play Anthony with
Speaker 2: his right hand going right, they stole the ball. Shay Gildigs.
Speaker 2: Alexander gets a dunk. That's not to his strength. That's
Speaker 2: not knocking Julius Randall. That's putting that man at a
Speaker 2: disadvantage Antey, That's not what he does. I don't care
Speaker 2: what Chris Finn says or anybody says. That's not to
Speaker 2: Julius Randall's strength. And that's what they had him doing yesterday.
Speaker 2: It was it was child's play. It was embarrassing. So
Speaker 2: hit me with the rest of the national news before
Speaker 2: we get to break Anthony. What's going on tonight? What
Speaker 2: about the next game?
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 3: I still like the Pacers tonight, you know, I you know,
Speaker 3: and I know it's tough to say. Obviously, they're playing
Speaker 3: in New York, the game is close to spread. Is
Speaker 3: a favorite of Knicks four and a half at home. Obviously,
Speaker 3: what I can see that Knicks do get a lot
Speaker 3: of crowd momentum when they play at home. That is
Speaker 3: the one advantage and going back there. But the Pacers
Speaker 3: are that team too, and I feel, like I've said
Speaker 3: all postseason, they're just an unorthodox team all the way
Speaker 3: down to Tyreechhylburn, from their play style, how they run
Speaker 3: their offense, and the scoring evilely distribution across the board
Speaker 3: because they don't have that one person that they focus
Speaker 3: in on. That's the only reason why I think Indiana
Speaker 3: will win this series when they go to and I
Speaker 3: think they will when they play Okay. See. Will they
Speaker 3: have a harder time scoring, Yes, I think so, But
Speaker 3: I think they'll have a better time scoring than the
Speaker 3: Timberwolves are. Timber Bowls are very much just Anthony Edwards
Speaker 3: and Julius Randall heavy, you know, those two of their
Speaker 3: main majority scores. That they don't score, they lose by
Speaker 3: like fifty points. We've seen it like four times in
Speaker 3: the playoffs where the Timberwolves, and not even just in
Speaker 3: the OKC series, even in the series before, even when
Speaker 3: they played Denver, they had games where they were getting
Speaker 3: blown out or they had difficult games scoring. But the
Speaker 3: games that they did have closer wins or even losses.
Speaker 3: They had better scoring with the supporting cast. Jayden Daniels
Speaker 3: scored better, Nas Reed, Dante DiVincenzo, some other players stepped in.
Speaker 3: Mike Conley has just kind of been out their coasting
Speaker 3: a little bit. He's really not.
Speaker 1: Much to retire.
Speaker 2: The factor in the playoffs Indianapolis Lawns and arth Boy
Speaker 2: Anthony went to school with your nieces.
Speaker 1: Great guy, great Gabas. Time to retire, no question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's gonna be a different matchup for Oka. See,
Speaker 3: you just can't focus it on one person because the
Speaker 3: one thing I think I will say about the Paters
Speaker 3: is that majority of their team can shoot the ball
Speaker 3: from the perimeter, which space is the floor out. Even
Speaker 3: the role players can shoot very well. The only one
Speaker 3: that doesn't shoot is super great is TJ McConnell. He's
Speaker 3: more of a mid range player, but he does play
Speaker 3: defense hard, so he brings that to Nasty to him.
Speaker 3: But Hal Burns, Aaroni Smith, Andrew nim Hard, even Myles
Speaker 3: Turner stretches the floor. I'll bringing Hartenstein outside of the paint,
Speaker 3: which does help him to Obviously, Rudy Gobert can't shoot
Speaker 3: you know to save anybody's life at this point, we
Speaker 3: all know that. So he kept the paint clagged Hartenstein
Speaker 3: and they got a lot of boards. Same thing with
Speaker 3: chet Holmingrom. I think they'll have better matchups. Obie Topping
Speaker 3: can be out there to stress the floor a little
Speaker 3: bit as well coming off the bench. I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: say they're gonna go out there and be She's dominant handon,
Speaker 3: dominant heavy from the perimeter. But I hate to say
Speaker 3: that Indiana is gonna have to make a lot of
Speaker 3: perimeter shots to have a chance to win that series.
Speaker 3: Is they have to be able to stretch forward to
Speaker 3: bring him out to where they can shoot open lamps
Speaker 3: in the second half. If they come out there and
Speaker 3: they shoot all bricks like a lot of teams been
Speaker 3: doing in that series, I just don't see their probability
Speaker 3: of winning being very high.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 1: I agree, and we got to get the break.
Speaker 2: It's already seven twenty two and yes, well man, John Karney,
Speaker 2: you can sleep well now we'll take it always back.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows that I can't wait. We're getting close. John.
Speaker 2: It's almost time for Eves against Carney. Everybody knows Carney's Galleries.
Speaker 2: But guys, he's a cat fan and I'm a card
Speaker 2: and he got it. He got a piece back, Anthony.
Speaker 2: He's happy he got his chest piece back. So he's
Speaker 2: happy about his basketball team. And we're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: that and University of Kentucky. I alluded to yesterday coach
Speaker 2: Stoops talking about people poaching players, and we're gonna talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about that also.
Speaker 1: After the break. It's the sports radio. Guys.
Speaker 2: It's already seven twenty two. I'm in Greenville, South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Anthony's in Louisville. We'll talk to you after the break
Speaker 2: back to Eaves. Sports Radio got Anthony Eves. It's seven
Speaker 2: twenty six. You should be on your.
Speaker 1: Way to work. If you have to be there at
Speaker 1: eight o'clock, go safely. I hope you have a beautiful
Speaker 1: day in Louisville, Anthony. Kentucky fans are feeling pretty good, Anthony.
Speaker 1: That o'teiga Olway has come back.
Speaker 2: We know the young man sixteen point two points, four
Speaker 2: point seven rebounds, one point six steals had a tremendous
Speaker 2: season last year. Scored in double figures almost every game,
Speaker 2: I think, but two or I know, no more than
Speaker 2: three great year, breakout year, surprising year, waited till the
Speaker 2: last minute, almost Anthony to declare that he was going
Speaker 2: back to Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Were you surprised he came back?
Speaker 3: No, I wasn't. I know he was testing all the
Speaker 3: waters in the NBA draft. But you know, I hate
Speaker 3: to say, it's one of those things that in il
Speaker 3: money and his reputation be so high at the UK,
Speaker 3: it's almost it's almost hard to not go back.
Speaker 1: Exactly. I'm glad.
Speaker 3: I don't think there was a guaranteed spot from the NBA.
Speaker 3: Is as good as he had a cold season last year,
Speaker 3: I couldn't sit there and guarantee and be like, I'll
Speaker 3: take a Oway was just a guaranteed for a round pick.
Speaker 3: Even though that sounds crazy to say, Well, if you
Speaker 3: look at his number of statistics, I understand that. But
Speaker 3: I hate to say the ABS scouts. The one thing
Speaker 3: they're always gonna throw in there that's gonna knock people
Speaker 3: like wuld take away a is his age age?
Speaker 1: Yeah, agent shit.
Speaker 2: I mean that, yes, and I think hopefully Anthony that's
Speaker 2: gonna change. But you're correct about that in certain positions.
Speaker 2: I mean, they didn't say that about Larry bird, Anthony.
Speaker 2: But in today's era and for some reason, people don't
Speaker 2: think that you can improve at age twenty three, twenty four,
Speaker 2: I don't really get it, but you're one hundred percent
Speaker 2: correct with it. But Anthony, this is the reason why
Speaker 2: I'm glad. If there was no name, image and likeness
Speaker 2: money or take an Oway would have forced itself into
Speaker 2: the draft or gone overseas. There's no question about it,
Speaker 2: and so a lot of players. But I gave the
Speaker 2: statistic years back. The last four years since namage and
Speaker 2: likeness money has been involved, less players are going pro.
Speaker 1: They're staying in college.
Speaker 2: Now here's what I want to explain to people academically,
Speaker 2: which I don't understand, which I said, I'm going to
Speaker 2: do a whole show on one day, but I want
Speaker 2: to give it to you.
Speaker 1: Parents.
Speaker 2: If you've ever paid for your kids to go to school,
Speaker 2: and we have, and they have to transfer, if they
Speaker 2: want to transfer, and if they want to change majors
Speaker 2: when they go to another school, if you have sixty
Speaker 2: hours you're completely done with your freshman sophomore's curriculum in
Speaker 2: college and you transfer to a different university in state,
Speaker 2: are out.
Speaker 1: They're not going to accept all the hours.
Speaker 2: You may get forty four of the sixty, you may
Speaker 2: get forty of the sixty, but they don't accept all
Speaker 2: your hours no universities due that means they're putting yourselves behind.
Speaker 2: So with all this jumping around that we have and
Speaker 2: nameage and likeness, I understand that with this transfer portal,
Speaker 2: I can only see seniors doing it because they've finished
Speaker 2: their curriculum, they've finished their four year programs, or they're
Speaker 2: truly are only going to be thirty six hours from graduating.
Speaker 2: I could see them bouncing around, but I can't see, honestly,
Speaker 2: how freshmen are doing it. Multiple times when schools aren't
Speaker 2: accepting each other's credit hours, they shouldn't be eligible to
Speaker 2: play academically because they do have a progress rule in
Speaker 2: the NCAA that they want you to progress toward a degree.
Speaker 2: So I think you're going to start to see naturally
Speaker 2: if the universities a bid by their rules and only
Speaker 2: accept certain credit hours from different universities and plug them
Speaker 2: into a real curriculum, that students will not be able
Speaker 2: to transfer as much anthony because they'll go from juniors
Speaker 2: to sophomores, which is a no no, which will make
Speaker 2: them ineligible.
Speaker 1: So I'm waiting to see that happen, I really am.
Speaker 1: Which means schools, all schools are going to have to
Speaker 1: have some integrity. I told you all the other day.
Speaker 1: I know Michigan has done it twice.
Speaker 2: And I know some IVY League teams have turned down
Speaker 2: very good players because their hours would not transfer. That's
Speaker 2: when people to understand that. So, uh, I'm with you,
Speaker 2: ant I'm glad he's back. I think it's going to
Speaker 2: help solidify Kentucky again. Everybody's got a brand new roster.
Speaker 2: Everyone does, so that's not a disadvantage Anthony. But with
Speaker 2: this SEC, Anthony, and the movement inside the SEC, I
Speaker 2: mean I picked Kentucky ten and eight last year. That's
Speaker 2: where they were. If you had to guess today basketball wise,
Speaker 2: before we get in to coach Stoops, and it's only
Speaker 2: a guess, where would you put them? As for the SEC?
Speaker 2: Top four, Anthony, Middle four, where would you put them?
Speaker 3: I put I probably from the from the roster I've
Speaker 3: seen for they have this year coming up. Just off
Speaker 3: of their prospects alone, you know, I'd probably put them. Honestly,
Speaker 3: it sounds crazy. I probably put him top three or
Speaker 3: top two right now.
Speaker 5: Know, yeah, I think they have.
Speaker 3: Yeah loaded rosters and basketball. I don't be almost crazy
Speaker 3: if they had that, I do almost I almost put
Speaker 3: them in the one seed right now. I think I
Speaker 3: think they're better than Florida. Florida pretty much lost half
Speaker 3: their team or even the returning players transferred out. Walter
Speaker 3: Clayton's gone. They're just not going to be the same
Speaker 3: team anymore. Alabama. Alabama has always been that kind of
Speaker 3: if team. They're always missing something. And I just wasn't
Speaker 3: a huge fan of the team last but they were
Speaker 3: in the in the big games. They couldn't get it done.
Speaker 3: They just they couldn't get over the hump against the
Speaker 3: better teams. And then obviously you always have Auburn in there,
Speaker 3: that's the contender. But I think Kentucky's roster gets Auburn
Speaker 3: this year. I just don't see any other teams. You know,
Speaker 3: you've got Missouri's in there that always put up competition.
Speaker 3: You know you have Old miss I will try.
Speaker 1: To compete, but you know Chris gonna compete, no question
Speaker 1: about that. Yes, I mean.
Speaker 3: Like I still like mar Pope, I still like Mark,
Speaker 3: I like Kentucky. This year, I think Kentucky is like
Speaker 3: a third favorite to win the national championship right now.
Speaker 3: It's preseason standing sid, So I don't disagree. You know,
Speaker 3: I know the cast fans are excited. I'm excited. I
Speaker 3: like watching good basketball. I like the state of Kentucky
Speaker 3: when the teams are good. I like watching good UFL basketball.
Speaker 3: I like watching good Kentucky basketball. So I hope they
Speaker 3: do well this year.
Speaker 2: No, I do agree, Anthony. They're top three in my opinion.
Speaker 2: We'll have to wait and see. It's a tough conference,
Speaker 2: but I agree. Let's take our first caller, Ron, Welcome
Speaker 2: to the sports radio.
Speaker 5: Are you how are you all this morning?
Speaker 1: Good? We're good. What's going on?
Speaker 5: Hey, Jerry, I wouldn't comment on what you said, which,
Speaker 5: first off, my preface about saying I agree one hundred
Speaker 5: percent with everything you said about it. But let's get real, Okay,
Speaker 5: this ain't about education. It's never been about education. These
Speaker 5: players are not bouncing around for education, and these schools
Speaker 5: are not worried about it. They're worried about the dollars.
Speaker 5: And that's what it all fools down to. There's no
Speaker 5: sense we're fooling ourselves. Average sports is gone, man, it's
Speaker 5: it's not about student athletes no more.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Ran, you know what that could be. That
Speaker 1: could be a true statement.
Speaker 2: But until they change that rule, that progress rule, Ron,
Speaker 2: and that could happen. That could happen, But until they
Speaker 2: do Ran, it should only be it should only be
Speaker 2: seniors and juniors jumping around.
Speaker 6: Well, but.
Speaker 5: Jerry, it's over.
Speaker 1: I got you the walls.
Speaker 5: They gave it to the almighty dollar. Like everybody does everything.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I chase it to Ryan. I like to chase
Speaker 1: it myself. No, but Ryan, you're right.
Speaker 2: When you start to give up your integrity, the money
Speaker 2: should come because you do the right thing. And Ran,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm a pro. I want players to get paid.
Speaker 2: I'll never back off that. But the portal needs to
Speaker 2: be dealt with.
Speaker 1: The portal needs to be dealt with, the transfer portal,
Speaker 1: the balancing around to be dealt with.
Speaker 5: We're talking about integrity and and what's legitimate. I mean,
Speaker 5: take a look at our country, for the love of Jesus,
Speaker 5: I know what do we expect? What do we expect
Speaker 5: the universities and schools today.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a troubling time. Right now, Run,
Speaker 1: you're one hundred percent very shifting sands. Shifting sands, You're right,
Speaker 1: I just think but again, until they changed that progress rule,
Speaker 1: and I want everybody to understand, it was one of
Speaker 1: the best rules ever put in that universities had to
Speaker 1: force their student athletes to stay on time, and more
Speaker 1: student athletes WRI have graduated at a higher rate than
Speaker 1: non student athletes. That's a fact you all. I want
Speaker 1: you to know that. So congratulations to the universities and
Speaker 1: the student.
Speaker 2: Athletes for force education upon to making it a create
Speaker 2: a key element.
Speaker 1: And while they're there. But I'm telling you now as
Speaker 1: you well know, Run, you.
Speaker 2: Know I don't have to tell you guys, universities do
Speaker 2: not accept everybody's credit hours.
Speaker 1: They usually take, honestly, fifty to sixty percent. That means
Speaker 1: for a freshman or a sophomore abouts around, he should
Speaker 1: be ineligible.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, a lot of that's about money too.
Speaker 1: It's all about now that part I'm gonna work with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's all about money.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, I know exactly. I mean, Ryan, when I
Speaker 1: was in college, there wasn't even summer school money. If
Speaker 1: you had to go to summer school. First thing, the
Speaker 1: universities were mad at you because they didn't want to
Speaker 1: send you to summer school. I want people to understand,
Speaker 1: now they're in summer school before school starts.
Speaker 2: Everyone stays it's a good deal, But when I was
Speaker 2: in school, there was no summer school money for all
Speaker 2: student athletes. You had to get it done in the
Speaker 2: timeframe just like everyone else, and then just all there
Speaker 2: was to it. There wasn't the extra money. But that
Speaker 2: was again run fifty years ago, honestly forty eight years ago.
Speaker 2: So things have changed in the better now. If I
Speaker 2: let you go seven thirty six quick opinion, Anthony said,
Speaker 2: Kentucky went two or three next to year basketball before
Speaker 2: I get into football.
Speaker 1: Where do you put them? I'll take it always back.
Speaker 5: I want to see him play first.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's gonna be a totally different chemistry because
Speaker 6: it's a totally different team, but always very very very
Speaker 6: important to the I'm doing well. I mean I can't
Speaker 6: take I don't think you know I can take away
Speaker 6: more than sixteen points a game in that conference last year.
Speaker 6: And I don't think anybody's arguing that that conference wasn't
Speaker 6: really tough year.
Speaker 2: No, nobody's arguing that that's yeah, that's over though. That's
Speaker 2: what under the bridge.
Speaker 5: Here's thirty thirty six in a row. So I'm I mean,
Speaker 5: he's gonna be a factor as long as you call.
Speaker 5: And that's a nervous thing. Are they gonna stay healthy
Speaker 5: this year? You know, last year they fall the whole
Speaker 5: way almost, I mean they did.
Speaker 1: I like the roster though. I like their roster. I
Speaker 1: do what they've done.
Speaker 2: You know what, Jade and Quincy is the time I'm
Speaker 2: looking Jayden is a key If he plays early, they're
Speaker 2: really good against Quainton's excuse me, yes, Quaintance. We have
Speaker 2: to wait and see what happens with him in that
Speaker 2: rehabit of that knee.
Speaker 1: So roight, we gotta get to.
Speaker 5: Break, take care of all right, you guys, have a great.
Speaker 2: Day YouTube Anthony. We're gonna get to break at seven
Speaker 2: thirty eight. Take us away when we come back. We've
Speaker 2: got the guys. We've got a Terry Bradshaw. Y'all can
Speaker 2: love him or you can hate him. It's one of
Speaker 2: the two when it comes to Terry Bradshaw.
Speaker 1: We all know.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna play a little audio. But Terry Bradshaw
Speaker 2: and his Pittsburgh Steelers four times, Bochamp, I don't care
Speaker 2: what anyone says. Twice back to back, seventy five, seventy six, discussing.
Speaker 1: The Aaron Rodgers saga.
Speaker 2: After the break, Welcome back to EVE Sports Radio seven.
Speaker 2: I got the great Anthony's on the other line. We
Speaker 2: got Shannon behind the glass. Shannon, please play, guys. Terry Bradshaw,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, sums it up best and he is
Speaker 2: a Pittsburgh Steeler, no question about it. Like I said,
Speaker 2: four time Super Bowl guys. Just listen to his opinion
Speaker 2: about Pittsburgh and their quarterback situation. Let it play, please, Shannon,
Speaker 2: Thank you, Shannon, appreciate that. Yes, I sent Shannon the
Speaker 2: wrong clip. He's alluding to what Terry says. So let
Speaker 2: me just tell you all, Anthony, what Terry said. Terry says,
Speaker 2: there's absolutely no way that they're going to bring Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers in here to be the future of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2: Ter Bradshaw said that we all know that he was.
Speaker 2: He's a Hall of Famer, Terry said, without a doubt.
Speaker 2: But football has got a life expectancy that ends. You
Speaker 2: cannot turn back the clock. Sands of time, and he's
Speaker 2: not practicing, he says, so that's not even an option.
Speaker 2: He believes Terry Bradshaw that Pittsburgh's going to go into
Speaker 2: this season with Rudolph as their certain quarterback and try
Speaker 2: to live to see if they can get the manning
Speaker 2: or quarterbacks that are coming out this year. And he
Speaker 2: says that's just not an option. He says, Pittsburgh is
Speaker 2: supposed to play to win championship. So I'm with Terry,
Speaker 2: there's no way long term that you're looking at Aaron.
Speaker 1: Rodgers is not his time is pasting. It happened.
Speaker 2: Father time is father time. It's undisputed. Muhammad Ali went down.
Speaker 2: It's undisputed heavyweight. It just is Michael Jordan. Everybody it goes,
Speaker 2: it changes. So I have no idea what Pittsburgh's going
Speaker 2: to do. I know that their coach Mike Tomalin is
Speaker 2: the best, in my opinion, behind Andy Reid, Anthony, he's
Speaker 2: the best. I just don't know what they're trying to
Speaker 2: do right now with their quarterback situation. So anyway, let's
Speaker 2: get the break seven forty five.
Speaker 1: Anthony.
Speaker 2: When we come back, you're gonna talk a little bit
Speaker 2: about Charlie Woods to everyone is this EVE Sports Radio.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you in a minute. Welcome back to
Speaker 2: EVE Sports Radio. I like that and it's catchy. It's
Speaker 2: seven forty nine, ten minutes before punching that clock at
Speaker 2: eight o'clock. Get there, do a good day's work. That's
Speaker 2: all I can say. Anthony throwing it to you. Tell
Speaker 2: me about the Woods. What's going on with Charlie? Not Tiger,
Speaker 2: but Charlie.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Anthony? I guess we've lost it.
Speaker 3: You still hear me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can't. We can't hear you know? What's going
Speaker 1: on with Charlie? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, Charlie Woods. Obviously he got his first AJGA tournament
Speaker 3: win cardon on a sixty six, So finally getting a
Speaker 3: good trophy under the books to start his young career
Speaker 3: as a guy that is only twenty eight years old.
Speaker 3: You know how excited I am because we have we
Speaker 3: get another hopefully. You know, we're not expecting the taker
Speaker 3: Woods type of dynasty run from the sun, but just
Speaker 3: seeing the Woods last name back out there competing in tournaments.
Speaker 3: It's hard wing to see because you know, I know,
Speaker 3: we went to Valhalla last year as PG Championship. That
Speaker 3: was the only time I've ever seen Tiger Woods play
Speaker 3: in person in my entire life, and probably the only
Speaker 3: time I ever will, and you know, getting to walk
Speaker 3: by him, just see how their demeanor goes about it.
Speaker 3: It's one of those things that it's hard to explain
Speaker 3: unless you're there. You can't explain the sensation seeing someone
Speaker 3: that you've watched on TV or in entire life. He's
Speaker 3: pretty much been our icon of golf, you know. Obviously
Speaker 3: being one of the only African American men and almost
Speaker 3: dominating the sport for such a long time is another
Speaker 3: segment that we can't even get into because you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's rare, you know, outside of tac Woods and
Speaker 3: maybe a handful of others. You know, African American golfers
Speaker 3: is slim on tour, and it's just a true fact.
Speaker 3: So when you see one that goes out there and
Speaker 3: does so well, and you know it's kept themselves in
Speaker 3: such a high standard and in such an icon in
Speaker 3: the sport, it's it's sad to see him go. It's
Speaker 3: it's not the same. It's almost like we you know,
Speaker 3: when Steph Curry and Lebron retires, just you know, it's
Speaker 3: I'm like I'm like, I don't even know who who
Speaker 3: my favorite player is anymore. I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 3: everybody know they.
Speaker 1: Go, well, Lebron goes. I'll be happy, but I will
Speaker 1: be sad to see Steph go. I really will.
Speaker 2: Steph is, guys, No matter what they want to say,
Speaker 2: that young man looks like you and I. If you
Speaker 2: were walking behind him, you would never say, that's Curry,
Speaker 2: the leading three point shooter, the craziest shooter ever in
Speaker 2: the NBA. It would never even cross your mind. It
Speaker 2: just would not. He has just changed the game and
Speaker 2: his stature is just Norman human Norman, normal human being.
Speaker 2: Lebron James is a freaking the guys. He was sixty
Speaker 2: nine two sixty in high school and I mean god
Speaker 2: gifted talent. Yes, and he's a tremendous player. Yes, not
Speaker 2: a fan of him, but yes, he is a tremendous player.
Speaker 2: He's a top five NBA player of all time, no
Speaker 2: question about that, leading score in the NBNBA. But as
Speaker 2: far as I can go, I will be sad if
Speaker 2: Curry leaves. But you're right to watch Tiger Woods. And
Speaker 2: that was my first time to watch him play. I
Speaker 2: saw him in practice Anthony, but that was the first
Speaker 2: time to see the first ball on the tenth tee
Speaker 2: at Valhallow, straight down the middle of He piped it
Speaker 2: three hundred and ten yards. The ball fell directly in
Speaker 2: front of you and I, guys, how could this be?
Speaker 2: We walk out of the press room last year's PGA,
Speaker 2: walked straight to the tenth fairway to say, Tiger's team
Speaker 2: off right before I flew out to go to Chicago,
Speaker 2: and the ball stops dead in front of his Anthony
Speaker 2: Tiger wall straight down the middle of the fairway to
Speaker 2: his ball. We're looking at each other, looking at Tiger.
Speaker 2: He's not fifteen yards max. Twenty yards away from us.
Speaker 2: Pictures are going off. Next thing we know, Anthony seems
Speaker 2: like he hits a great three wood or five wood.
Speaker 2: Anthony pulled it over the high stuff and it is
Speaker 2: a bogie in the hole from the middle.
Speaker 1: Of the fairway. I couldn't believe it. I got to
Speaker 1: the airport, they said, Tiger bogie ten. I'm like, when
Speaker 1: I left, he was dead in the middle of the fairway.
Speaker 1: But you're right, it was just nostalgia to watch him.
Speaker 1: And congratulations to Charlie Woods. That's a lot that's a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure Anthony that he has. Now. He loves golf,
Speaker 1: he wants to play, but you know that that's just
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure that young man's under trying to
Speaker 1: follow his father. It's all there is to it.
Speaker 2: And hopefully he can just carve his own niche and
Speaker 2: be happy with himself and what he can accomplish in
Speaker 2: the game of golf and not try to evaluate himself
Speaker 2: against his father and that legacy.
Speaker 1: It's just I don't know. Jack's kids have tried to play,
Speaker 1: and Jack has a younger, he has relatives that are
Speaker 1: playing now. But you know, it's just really really hard.
Speaker 2: To say I'm gonna follow my dad and do anything
Speaker 2: of what he's done with fifteen majors.
Speaker 1: So but congratulations to Charlie Woods.
Speaker 2: Now awful news Anthony Baylor. Alex Foster, eighteen years old
Speaker 2: dies after shooting these are linemen multiple shots in Greenville, Mississippi.
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, guys, I don't know the circumstance.
Speaker 2: I don't, but these kind of things always it seems
Speaker 2: I'm not jumping to a conclusion on the young man,
Speaker 2: but when you see these kind of things in this
Speaker 2: horrific the shootings ninety five percent of the time it's
Speaker 2: drug related issues. Not saying on this one, but I'm
Speaker 2: saying one thing. If you want to stay out of
Speaker 2: harm's way, stay away from drugs, period.
Speaker 1: Point blank. That's all.
Speaker 2: They're just I have no idea on this one, so people, yes,
Speaker 2: I'm jumping the gun. I have no idea. But guys,
Speaker 2: sh these kind of things most of the time arrived
Speaker 2: from around some kind of way of a substance or
Speaker 2: buying a substance. Most of the time we have to
Speaker 2: wait and see. On this one, I know there's a curfew.
Speaker 2: The mayor of Greenville's got a curfew, Anthony, trying to
Speaker 2: curtail the violence and the crime. Bottom line, though, most
Speaker 2: of the time Anthony and people and bullets are flying,
Speaker 2: it's about drug related business.
Speaker 1: So I just hate to hear about it.
Speaker 2: And the young man's family, they have no idea who
Speaker 2: at this time the assailant is.
Speaker 1: I hope they find him and catch him. But I'm
Speaker 1: just telling people, let me just give you a tip.
Speaker 2: Yes, violent crime happens all the time, and it could
Speaker 2: happen to me, could happen to you. But if you
Speaker 2: want to stay out of harm's way, stay away from
Speaker 2: the drug trade. That's all there is to it. That's
Speaker 2: all there is to it. So we have to wait
Speaker 2: and see what transpires. I hate it for Alex Falster.
Speaker 2: I mean eighteen years old, Anthony. I mean just think
Speaker 2: six five and ninety two pounds. Anthony didn't get a
Speaker 2: chance to even bud and live his life amazing. So
Speaker 2: that kind of takes us to this one, Anthony, mister
Speaker 2: Diggs Stefan, we all know the Viking to Bill a Texan.
Speaker 2: Now he's a patriot towards I want to say acl
Speaker 2: last year with the Texans early in the season, it's
Speaker 2: not at OTAs and they have him on a boat
Speaker 2: during Memorial Day with the substance some kind of that
Speaker 2: he took out and gave to three young ladies.
Speaker 1: Again, I don't know what the substance or what was
Speaker 1: in the envelope. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I have no idea, but I have an opinion, Anthony,
Speaker 2: anything we all do. I just it's sometimes could we
Speaker 2: just what do you think, Anthony? Could they be a
Speaker 2: little smarter, Could they be a little smarter? Could they
Speaker 2: stop filming everything? That would be and he wouldn't that
Speaker 2: be smart? I mean, it's just like Morant.
Speaker 1: And can't we just put the cameras up when there's
Speaker 1: issues like this? I mean, Anthony, it's like, my goodness.
Speaker 1: So we have to wait and see what happens with Diggs.
Speaker 1: Were they drug testing? Was that cocaine? We don't know.
Speaker 1: But again, Anthony, if I had to bet money, everyone
Speaker 1: knows whe I'm putting my money. I think I know
Speaker 1: it was in that little packet. I hope that I'm wrong. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we're done, Anthony, get to work and to get my
Speaker 1: truck together. People don't know I bought a tr X
Speaker 1: seven hundred and two horse power. When you're old, you
Speaker 1: have to have some fun. So tell Chuck Kine to
Speaker 1: get it together for me, and I can't wait to
Speaker 1: drive it. This is Esports Radio. I got Anthony Eves.
Speaker 1: You all have a lovely day. We love you. She
Speaker 1: had a great job, like always, talk to you tomorrow,
Speaker 1: God willing, Bye bye