Speaker 1: What is up, fellow Siko's I am Dan Valley coming
at you with my certified fantabulous co host, mister Grant.
Used for a very special it's a mini episode relative
to how long our normal ones are. But we're gonna
draft NBA players to participate in other summer Olympic sports,
and the rules I've not informed. I don't even informed Grant,
the sports we're gonna use. I don't have a big
board of stars, to be clear, but I do know
the sports we're gonna use. We can't use the same
player twice, and so once he's off the board for
a certain sport, we cannot use him again. And the
g to game it here as we alternate, it's gonna
be well like, we need to pick the sports that
we know is gonna make sense, so we could take
so and so off the board. Grant, one, how are you?
But two, how are you feeling about this very topical exercise.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna combine my answers. I'm very excited, mainly because
coming into an exercise cold means there should be no expectations,
and I thrive in environments where I'm not expected to
do well. So I'm I'm excited and I am bummed
that I can't just choose Anthony Edwards, self proclaimed greatest
athlete on planet Earth for all of these sports. But
we'll just have to, you know, get more creative.
Speaker 1: And the other thing. As long as you agree, I'm
not limiting this because this is a situation where we
use we and we talk about tam USA like international
players are absolutely allowed to be selected. We're talking about
the NBA at large.
Speaker 2: So we're forming an Olympic super team. Then like it's
it's international different events. Yeah, okay, international committee. So it's
just we're fighting, we're playing, we're competing against the aliens
in the Olympics, and we can choose anyone from Earth
that plays in the NBA.
Speaker 1: We can't choose Wemby.
Speaker 2: That sucks. That's really gonna hurt us. Uh.
Speaker 1: Are you ready for the reveal, mister Grant Hughes.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Okay, Grant, since you had no idea what's sports we
were selecting going in, I will let you be the
one to pick and anyone who's watching because I don't
have a player pool set up. Again, Grant and I
we haven't talked about this beforehand. It will take a
little bit of time for me to put someone's face
up on the screen, so just bear with that.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm gonna choose the one that really jumps
out at me here is fencing, partly because that picture
looks cool. And what are we gonna do for fencing
or do we get to like put our heads together
or do I just have to pick somebody?
Speaker 1: I think we can talk about it like a So
I hate.
Speaker 2: To use him now without really thinking about what he
might be able to do in other sports. But why
isn't this Wemby because of the reach?
Speaker 1: Well, but also it's just like it doesn't work the same. Okay,
he has that reach, but just think about how long
it's gonna take him to do the sword movements to
like get well.
Speaker 2: But it's like the cartoon where like the big kids
fighting the little kid and he like puts his hand
on the forehead of the other the other character, and
he's like he can't reach him, like he's just spinning
his legs this. Yeah, I'm not describing the cartoon very well.
It's like a Tom and Jerry thing. Maybe I don't know,
but like if Wemby can reach you with his arm extended.
Unless you're also Wemby, he can't reach him. You can't
reach him, right, Like, isn't it just he can get
you before he gets anywhere near being stabbed? Right?
Speaker 1: I'm actually I'm dying it. I'm not sure also Wemby,
I'll allow it because the sport that I thought like
just that, I think he would probably be best suited for.
I thought volleyball at first, but I feel like it
would be fairly easy to find, right, someone else that
makes sense for volleyball.
Speaker 2: So we are burning Wemby early. But but yeah, I
think that's right about volleyball. We could pick there's fifty
guys that could be world class volleyball players in the NBA.
Maybe that's actually conservative.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to pick which one should I go with? Here,
I'm gonna go with water Polo, And I actually think
this one is an easy pick. It has to be
Nicola Jokic, right like he just he throws water Polo
passes already. And I will say people that are looking
at screens and so they know which sports are coming
or maybe looked at the time stance that we are
kind enough to include with every episode. Hey, subscribe. We
care about you. H he can't like he's into horses,
but he shouldn't be the one riding the horses.
Speaker 2: Well, that's I think. I agree. I'm glad we found
something for Jokic, the whole the dressage thing. I did
have a conversation with my wife the other day in
which she posited, like, anyone could be an Olympian in
that event because the horse is doing everything, and I
was like, that kind of makes a lot of sense.
You just have in theory of this horse. You know,
maybe you train it, which would put Jokic in the
running for it, but like you really are just kind
of sitting on it right and like telling it what
to do. If you could just learn the little subtle
like rain commands and what to say to it, Like
the horse is the Olympian, not you, not the guy
or the girl on the horse. So I think it's
SMA to use yogicchen water Polo, and we don't need him.
We don't need anybody with athletic talent. Sorry, I would
love it. By the way, if any of our audience
is like a dressage fanatic and is going to tell
me how wrong I am, because I probably am, but
we don't need him for any horse sports, even though
he should be the guy for that. I love it.
Uh ooh, I don't know. Do we stay in the pool?
I don't know what the swimming thing is.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and by the way I did this, generally
there's some specification on So the running one is the
one hundred meter? Okay, consider that, but that's it. Like
swimming is just swimming. It's not oh it's the eight
hundred millimeter freestyle, or it's the team relay, you could
you it's it's general. So you need someone who's maybe versatile.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I rack, I don't have a good one for swimming.
Let's do the one hundred meters just because there's a
relatively short list of guys you know that you think
of as who's the fastest guy in the league end
to end? Isn't this just Tyrese MAXI should should that
be our pick for the hundred?
Speaker 1: I was thinking, I was thinking, Daron Fox, you think
it's tyre'se Maxie.
Speaker 2: I think Maxie's faster. Max is quite a bit younger.
At this point Fox maybe it was like for a minute,
there was like Fox Westbrook, Uh, we're taking guys as
they are now, He's got.
Speaker 1: That muscular burst to him, like you see some of
these runners are just like absolutely chiseled, and I feel
like Daron Fox has more of that.
Speaker 2: I Ah, who else is even in the conversation besides
Maxie and maybe Jaw. I feel like jaw we could
use for Oh, I already know what I want to
use Jaw for.
Speaker 1: I already knew what I want to use jaw War too.
Speaker 2: Oh. Really, I wonder if it's the same one I met.
Speaker 1: Like, Well, I was gonna say, like, we can't use
prime Russell Westbrook, Doninan Mitchell. We just did the fastest
like three quarter court times that he was surprisingly Uh,
I'm fine with tyre'se Maxy. I thought we were gonna
be in lockstep with darn Fox, So I get where
you're coming from with Maxie. I probably would pick Fox,
but if you think we'll want to put him somewhere else.
Speaker 2: So the question is, can we use Maxie for anything
else that we really need?
Speaker 1: Do we need to? Well, if you think Tyre's Maxie
is the better fit, you should just use him here
because I don't like looking at this again, We've not
given a thought that was the whole point. I don't
really have Tyree's Maxie is like an option anywhere else I.
Speaker 2: Would then I would like to use Maxie, and I
promise I will defer to you on another one if
we have a disagreement. So Maxi's in the hundred.
Speaker 1: So he's in the hundred. I don't know how I
feel about that. I'm not gonna lie. I feel like
he's so fast.
Speaker 2: What's what? What? What's what's not to feel good about?
Speaker 1: I guess I just like, doesn't it feel like dearon
Fox has the longer straw, Like he just feels like
more of the whole package.
Speaker 2: When maybe Fox is like a two hundred guy or
a four hundred.
Speaker 1: You're building a team relay team, it'd be Fox, it'd
be Maxie. We need four people, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, oh man, who else is? I'm sure there's people
shouting at us right now, like, how are you forgetting?
How fast this guy?
Speaker 1: Do we include jaw in there? Donovan Mitchell?
Speaker 2: Mitchell's pretty fast? Well, what about who scoots trans? I
mean freaking Lebron. If we're just talking straight line speed,
is he still in this conversation? Use Lebron for something else? Though,
all right, uh, you your turn.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go. We didn't pick a fourth, but
we have Scoot, Maxie Fox and whoever. It's fine, man,
what do I want to go with here? Do I
want to go with power walking?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm gonna go with swimming, And I'm
going to pick and let's see if you agree Anthony Edwards,
because he was already talking shit about swimming, saying that
he's probably the best swim in the league. He's like,
these guys don't know how to swim, and so like,
who's my competition? He said something about maybe Drew Hollidays
his competition for it. So I think he's been confident
about everything, including what he could do in table tennis.
But I think he was so confident with what he
was doing with swimming that feels maybe he's a little
bit too like I don't want to say muscular, becausewimmers
are in fantastic shape, Like is he a little is
there an element of like too much of his compacted
muscle is like together rather than like he's long, So
maybe he would need to train differently. But I think
I think he's the one for me with swimming.
Speaker 2: My only I'm with it. My only concern is we're
burning like someone that could probably work in almost any
other sport.
Speaker 1: But aren't the other sports a little bit easier to like,
don't require as much athletics. I mean gymnastics, That's the.
Speaker 2: Thing I was just gonna say, So let's hype let's okay,
Well we'll use Edwards as in this in swimming, mostly
because I just he's he's got the confidence, Like confidence
goes a long way, So maybe maybe that's the way
to do it. Uh, let's go to gymnastics though then,
and so we're gonna need someone probably you gotta be small,
you gotta be compact, and you have to be like
a nuclear athlete. Where is this where you're gonna put jaw?
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was the one that I was like, this
makes this feels like John Moran's event. I don't know
if he's muscular enough. I mean, you look at these gymnasts,
you look at some old biles, like it does feel
like you need more of just the raw explosion. But
like I'm like strength explosion, where's jaws? Just but you
just look at his explosion in general, this feels you
maybe would like if he was a little bit because
it feels like he would be more susceptible to injury
because of his lankiness or like slender frame. But I
mean like he would he might hit the ceiling when he's.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, I love the idea of a jaw floor exercise.
I'm concerned about some of the more strength based events,
like how's he on the rings? You know, how's he
on the uneven bars? Like that kind of stuff. The
balance beam, balance beam. I think he'd be pretty good
on the balance beam. Okay, all right, so yeah, okay,
I was gonna use I think that's the right call
for gymnastics. I was going to use him for team handball,
just because the picture is someone like soaring through the
air and like making up his mind later, which I
can imagine joh doing. But we can get a lot
of NBA guys for team handball.
Speaker 1: Now that you described it, I think one in particular
makes sense. Let's go to I know nothing about shot put,
but I do know that a lot of these guys
look like an out of shape Zion Williamson, and so
imagine what actual Zion Williamson could do. I think he's
the pick for shot put. Is that that like, would
you agree or no?
Speaker 2: The only so I was just gonna say Steven Adams
because it involves strength. I think Zion. What just just
to put it out there, do what do we think
of Zion and rugby?
Speaker 1: Like, are you about Stephen Adams for rugby?
Speaker 2: Okay, well that makes more sense because he's from New
Zealand and they really like their rugg Okay, let that works.
That works. Uh so let's go yeah, perfect two for one.
Speaker 1: Would you have put? Like did you even consider Zion
before you went to Steven Adams for this though? When
you were looking at.
Speaker 2: It, I just the first thing when you said Zion,
I was like, oh, yeah, right of course, But but
I I had I had Steven Adams first in my
head just looking at the picture. Uh so, okay, Zion
for shot put, and I think we do go Steven
Adams for rugby, just because imagine the things he would
do out of to the referees at the bottom of
that scrum, Like he would just he would be pulling
fingernails out and all kinds of crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you know about this, like
seven by seven rugby where it's the shorter pitch or whatever.
It's called would he be as good suited for that?
And also it's just is he too tall for it?
Speaker 2: Probably? I mean probably, Yeah, they're all gonna be almost
everybody's gonna be too tall. Also, like there is a
fair amount of running. But I do like Steven Adams
odds of just not being tackled by anybody.
Speaker 1: He just feels like he has those very like deliberate strides.
Now to where it's would he be, you know, able
to keep up with just the physicality of it, like
Jonas Allen Chunas is too slow for this, he'd be
another good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I guess Zion might have been a better fit for
rugby there, but I like Steven Adams there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's fine. Let's do Let's go to archery.
And I feel like this is since we don't have
like darts or anything else that's just pure like repeatable
motion skill, I think it has to be Steph for archery.
We got to use him for something. I just like
his odds of being accurate at anything.
Speaker 1: I The only thing other thing I would probably would
have considered him for was table tennis mm hm. But
I feel like we should be able to find someone
for that one, right, don't. I don't know, Archie. I mean,
like he's just he's a dead eye shooter, so why
not that probably scales to more equipment.
Speaker 2: It's almost a boring pick because it's just like, yeah,
of course, but I think I think that I feel
good about that. There's another easy one on the board.
I just realized.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing though. Would he be the guy using
all of the equipment and like the special scope glasses
or is he the one just coming in looks like
he just rolled out of bed. Yeah, obviously I knew
that was a different competition the meme we're referencing.
Speaker 2: But I think he's the guy that does all the
work away from the bright lights, and then is the
guy that hits the bulls eye but he's already turned
around to celebrate before the arrow gets there, Like that's
he's that casual with it.
Speaker 1: Let's go to equestrian.
Speaker 2: Okay, it doesn't matter the horse is doing all the work.
Speaker 1: No, I think aren't jockeys, and I know they're not
all jockeys. They're just typically on the smaller end, right.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, you want to be small. I think it
make it easier on the horse who again is doing
all the work. So we got to pick a little
guy here.
Speaker 1: Who you got what about Chris Paul? Or is he
too controlling?
Speaker 2: He won't Well, guys, Chris Paul is in a speed
walking commercial. We're going to pretend that's not a thing
because we are going to have to pick a speed walker. Okay,
So but so let's go even smaller. Who's like the
who who in the league is like one hundred and
fifty pounds? Who are we trade?
Speaker 1: Young?
Speaker 2: Trade? That's it? It's Tree Young. And also there's no
issue with like he's.
Speaker 1: Also someone who's not good at relinquishing control, though.
Speaker 2: I was gonna go the other way. There's no issue
with him pissing off a teammate because like the horse
can't understand him. He's just that's a horse.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, he'll piss off the horse. Horses have feeling.
Speaker 2: You know what though the horse the horse is uh,
it's the horses used to uh someone else getting all
the credit for all of its work, which is how
Trey Young's teammates who have to play defense feel. So
maybe there's like some it's like it relates a little bit.
There is there anybody smaller than Trey Young. We could use,
uh is Isaiah Thomas? What if Isaiah Thomas got on
a roster, the horse would like him, everybody likes him.
Speaker 1: That'd be a good one. But I feel like that's
a little disingenuous to use right now. Who is who
are the smallest active NBA players right now?
Speaker 2: I mean Rob Dillingham is pretty pretty light. Uh here though,
that's like, yeah.
Speaker 1: Bit bigger than uh. Let me look at this, so
I'm gonna sort this by players who are under Let's say,
do we have any who are the under six footers
right now in the league?
Speaker 2: Almost nobody's listed.
Speaker 1: No, there's only Isaiah Thomas last year apparently. All right,
let's look at shorter than six four and see if
anyone stands out. I mean Gyllen Brunton, ooh, do.
Speaker 2: We need him for anything else? That's that's another one.
Being left handed probably matters in team handball, I would imagine.
Speaker 1: I think we'll probably get away with him here, unless
you think that Trey Young is just better. I'm open
to that for sure.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not at basketball or riding horses than
Jalen Brunson. I do think. Just to keep with the bit,
of let's choose someone light. Let's just go with Trey Young.
I Brunson's got to have twenty pounds on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's uh, I think that's fair.
Speaker 2: Is Chris is Chris Paul the Speedwalker? Is that is?
Speaker 1: I forgot about his commercial? I guess he kind of has.
Is there any like who is? Just feels like they
would be a really good I feel like Jimmy Butler
might win this event.
Speaker 2: I kind of like that dude.
Speaker 1: So maybe we go Jimmy, like Chris Paul's getting up
there in age, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, Well Jimmy's I mean he's not he's
likeable to break down too.
Speaker 1: Well, go with me on this, Okay, Maybe Luca because
he doesn't mind, Like he's kind of used to walking
up the court when he's not happy about a call
that wasn't made at the other end, And so is
this just like right in his wheelhouse there?
Speaker 2: I think that's a great take, and I don't see
anything else I really want to use Luca for so
I think, uh, maybe just for the clicks, let's include Luca.
As I'm moving off of I literally had Jimmy and
Emo Jimmy's face by the way, because I haven't changed
my well, they don't have new headshots yet, but I
had Emo.
Speaker 1: Jimmy all lined up and ready to go there. So
you're gonna have to vamp for a little.
Speaker 2: Bit, all right, That's fine.
Speaker 1: Luca for power walking too, Like he'll his body type
and I'm not even meaning like he'll like jockey people
out of the way, just like he can get through
these crowds that we're seeing on the screen, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I imagine since you can only go so fast,
A lot of it is about understandabase and angles and
body position and like who's better than Luca when it
comes to that stuff, because you're in a crowd the
whole time. He loves, he loves, he wants contact. That's perfect.
He's he's made for this.
Speaker 1: I don't have like any immediate thoughts on what's left.
It's your turn to pick, I think.
Speaker 2: But boxing is James Johnson.
Speaker 1: I just know it's not. First of all, who's boxing
Draymond Green. He's got the length and he's prone to
he will punch anybody.
Speaker 2: I mean, James Johnson's a black belt in like fifteen
different disciplines. Are we are we taking this seriously or not?
I just I don't know if you if you look
if Draymond Green and James Johnson fought, unless Draymon can
get him from behind and choke him out, I feel
like James Johnson, which would be illegal by the by
the Olympic standards. Uh So Draymond could win if if
he only if he didn't have to fight more than once. Uh,
but I mean it has to be James Johnson. I
can't believe you're fighting me on this too serious of
a pick. Maybe that's the problem.
Speaker 1: I think I was probably trying to go for someone
and this isn't a reflection of you. I just wasn't
gonna go with someone who had like a history of DV.
Speaker 2: But well, I yeah, sure, I mean, but if we're
everybody and when they talk about like who's the scariest
guy in the league, it's always James Johnson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is there anyone that would be again, looking at
just this event, then, is there anyone that would actually
be like a viable alternative.
Speaker 2: Pick who's like actually thrown a punch in the NBA
in recent years?
Speaker 1: Well, he asked like players from other eras they nobody
because they're all just fakes off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, nobody throws punches anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of like Russ might be good.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Russ would. Russ is tough, he would care,
he would he would be able to take a lot
of punishment and keep fighting.
Speaker 1: It feels like if I thought that Oganna Noobi had
like a violent streak to him, he would get an
interesting pick. But I don't think what about Randall? She
just gonna start naming Nicks players and say, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just looking for tough guys. That's where you start.
Speaker 1: I think, objectively speaking, just James Johnson's history, Yeah, like
just background as a what is he of like eight
black belts or something?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's like he's multiple martial arts. He has
black belts in I don't know if any I think
one of them is kickboxing, so he's he already knows
how to do like boxing. Plus more so boxing should
be easy.
Speaker 1: Where do we want to go for badminton?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: This is like someone needs to be like like have
like a ridiculously high IQ.
Speaker 2: I think maybe I was thinking like quick reflexes, smart understands,
like trying, you know, hit it where they ain't like that.
Speaker 1: You know what, is this a Jael and Sugs event?
Like talk about who are the best hands in the
NBA right now?
Speaker 2: That's interesting because I was my first thought was Drew Holliday,
but kind of the same same idea, sug Suggs is
Suggs is kind of in that vein. We could go
Derek White too, if we're.
Speaker 1: Talking, you know what, I think Derek White is the pick.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I like that one. The other one I thought of,
but I don't know if he's like too long for it.
Uh Shay Gilges Alexander.
Speaker 2: Real real quick, gets a lot of steals. Yeah, like
the guy. Maybe we should just go to deflections per
thirty six if we're assuming you got to be real
quick and just pick that. I mean, who is I
just looking at? You know who? You know who led
the league among guys who played like at least a
little bit in deflections per thirty six last year as
Robert Covington. He's too old probably to be used here,
but and also he's a free agent, so maybe he's ineligible.
I think I think Derek White is a solid one
there that.
Speaker 1: Feels like the good middle ground, and it also satisfies
the bigger name criteria, which I'm sure some people would
think that Jalen Suggs doesn't qualify.
Speaker 2: Sure, okay, but now maybe we just go now to
table tennis because we're kind of looking at similar skill sets,
maybe like a little less mobility, but probably even more
like quickness. I just man, I'm trying to think who
who's got like just the quickest hands. That might just
be holiday. We might just have to use holiday holiday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think he has the mobility for it still?
Or should that be this Beest Sugs?
Speaker 2: It's a short area, you're not moving a ton, like.
Speaker 1: Like do we trust I granted, hitting a ping pong
ball is not akin to making jumpers, but like, do
we want someone who's more of an assassin like it
when it comes to precision?
Speaker 2: I got somebody else. I think Duncan Robinson was a
tennis player, Okay, And so it's I can't imagine there's
a ton of NBA players with like high level tennis experience.
So I might just go there quickly just because of
the speed like this, or because you know he played tennis.
Speaker 1: I'm just like, because the speed, I don't know that
he I don't know that he played tennis.
Speaker 2: I want to verify that I didn't make up that
Duncan Robinson played tennis.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry is apparent. This is why I want to
save him for table tennis grants would have been so easy.
Speaker 2: Well who are you gonna use for archery instead? And
do you and how much do you want to redo
the graphic? Is the real question?
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm not going to redo it. It's too late.
Now we've moved, We've moved past it. There's no there's
no going back. We have. We've made our bed. We
now have to lie in it. Trying to think of
just what about Clay feels like maybe he you know,
that's probably taking a bunch of edibles and played some
table tennis in every day.
Speaker 2: God, why can't I think? I'm starting to get concerned.
I made up that Duncan Robinson played tennis.
Speaker 1: Now we can't pick him because you're just you're lying.
Speaker 2: But I know I can't be trusted. Yeah, I don't know.
I feel like he said that on a podcast, So who.
Speaker 1: Do you is like that that's your pick to represent,
like in the the the NBA, in the Olympics and tables.
Speaker 2: Anybody I apparently made up that I thought had played
table uh tennis of any or racket sport of any kind. Wait,
so who's your table tennis pick?
Speaker 1: Do you have one like the manual? Quickly?
Speaker 2: Hmmm.
Speaker 1: See, there's a lot of people who seem to think
of Lebron could be good at.
Speaker 2: Tennis, and this is like we I mean Lebron, We've
kind of made a mistake in not using Lebron for
anything because it feels like he has to be included.
Speaker 1: I'll give you. I'll give you between handball guy shorter court.
It'll just dominate there.
Speaker 2: Let's let's go. I'll give you quickly at table tennis.
But we have to you have to issue a formal
apology if Duncan Robinson actually did play tennis and it
turns out him right, but.
Speaker 1: That's probably first of all, tennis. Is I played tennis too?
Tennis is not table tennis.
Speaker 2: No, But well, but you're probably you probably have like
just a little bit of an advantage at table tennis
against someone that hadn't played actual tennis, right, I mean
I guess.
Speaker 1: I guess as someone who's like as tall as Duncan, right,
is that at all disadvantage like it. It could be
an advantage at the net in tennis. And when it
comes to your serve, is there any real advantage to
it when you're playing table tennis, I might value the
lateral click quick, do you see how far these people
are away from the table.
Speaker 2: You gotta be able to move. I mean we over
index on, like, who's really quick? So I think I
guess by that logic quickly makes sense there.
Speaker 1: You were looking to put Lebron somewhere. I think of
the events that are left, team handball might be it.
Speaker 2: I think we're going to have to do that. Yeah,
I like it, you gotta have. I watched a little
bit of this actually the other day. I don't this this, Dan,
Do you realize how perfect this is? Uh?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: There's some equivalent. It's not the same rule, but there
is kind of like a traveling thing in team handball,
where you get a certain number of steps without dribbling
the ball. And Lebron has always been among the greatest
at like how do you get that extra step on
that layup? And why wasn't that actually three? So that's
a factor. The vision's a factor, the speed, the strength
he can throw over the top. That's a that's a
good one. I think i'd certainly given what else we have,
Lebron has to be the team handball guy.
Speaker 1: You were so and look, you're from the West Coast,
so I just assume you've played volleyball all the time.
Who was your You said it was going to be
easy to find someone that would be great at volleyball.
Who's the who's the NBA player we're sending the Olympics
for volleyball.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a huge bummer that Chase Budinger hasn't
played in the NBA recently because he is in fact
an Olympic level volleyball player, but which we probably.
Speaker 1: Would not be if he still played in the NBA
though that's true.
Speaker 2: Uh man, Okay, so is Kevin Love too old?
Speaker 1: I know he played volleyball.
Speaker 2: He's way too old, I think. So what we need
is someone who can just be an incredible like middle blocker,
So think like a center that can get off the
floor like obviously Wemby. Yeah it would have been great here,
or somebody who's like a super explosive athletic outside hitter.
Those are the guys that you don't have to be
that tall, but they just jump out of the gym.
Or we could have a setter who has like great
court vision, who all they do is facilitate, have to
be like tricky and sneaky because you like fake out
the other team who you're setting. So we have a
lot of we don't necessarily have to.
Speaker 1: Pick here who Zion would have been good?
Speaker 2: Here about Yiannis? Honest is Jannis could kind of do all. Well,
let's see now I'm kind of hung up on what
if we just found like who's the sneakiest like facilitator
in the league, Like could be seeing underrated or no,
like just is like tricky with his passing, Like does
a lot of like look one way throw that like
a Halliburton type. Maybe this isn't someone that's gonna hit ever,
like almost ever, they're just gonna like fake fake you
out and like set somebody else open after they've manipulated
the defense to go the wrong way.
Speaker 1: What about LaMelo?
Speaker 2: LaMelo would be interesting. Man, we got a lot of
ways to go with volleyball.
Speaker 1: I'm almost wondering which one. So which archetype do you prefer?
Were you kind of outlining the more explosive athletic like
middle person if we.
Speaker 2: Just went like let's say we go outside hitter someone
that just who do you imagine taking off with two
feet and throwing down like a ridiculous like one handed
like windmill or Tomahawk? Like who comes to mind when
you think of that, besides Anthony Edwards who already used
and we use Jam Raans, we use m What about
dub No, he doesn't get up like that like the
vicious finishes Jalen Green. He's more of a one foot guy.
Who else was like who else was in the dunk contest?
That is actually like a decent nobody with a big name.
I mean, we could just throw Rudy gober In as
a middle blocker, like you're not You're just not gonna
hit over that guy.
Speaker 1: Would that be your pick? If that's the actually, if
you're going the middle blocking route, not Bam.
Speaker 2: Bam would be good. But you know what, and Bam
could do kind of all of it. He could be
your middle blocker. He's a good passer, so maybe he
could set if you needed him to. I kind of
love Bam, great call. I think it needs to be
Bam and he could hit to.
Speaker 1: We stumbled into our pick. Look look at U. Where's that? Paul?
Look it up?
Speaker 2: Look at us?
Speaker 1: This is this next one is going to be our
last one, I believe right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pull vault. So the men's record was set in
pole vault, and so I'm trying to like the the
frame of the pole vaulter seems to be like, you
don't have to be you're probably like you can be
fairly tall, but you don't want to be like, you know,
six seven or six even six five, probably gotta be
you gotta kind of look like a like a four
hundred meter runner, but a little bigger. I would say, so, like,
who's I mean, maybe this is Fox because you got
to get some speed up, uh, you know, running running
towards the whatever the apparatus. Uh, he's like wiry strong,
I kind of love and we we did kind of
lose him or I talked you out of him for
the hundred. So maybe it's Darren Fox for the pole vault.
What do you think about that?
Speaker 1: I think that's a good one. I don't know if
there's like any like maybe Donovan Mitchell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be him. Mitchell's a little stockier than
a lot of these guys. Where I think you want
the wiry like, yeah, why.
Speaker 1: Bane came to mind, But then I was like, oh,
he's a little too.
Speaker 2: Stocky, little too Yeah, I don't think you want you know,
you gotta you gotta be light enough to really fling yourself,
uh with the off the pole. So I yeah, I
think I think Fox is kind of perfect for that,
for the pole vaulting. Yeah, so you heard it here first,
Dearon vox Olympic caliber pole vaulter.
Speaker 1: Uh, and we had him as a potentially Olympic caliber
What do we say? Uh? What I was about to
say it wasn't gymnast because I was so dead set
on Jaw. Do you like Jaw better for the pole vault? Like,
should Dearn Fox have been our gymnast?
Speaker 2: I mean, we got to get Jaw in the air
one way or the other. And I think I think
we got it right. I think Jaw as a gymnast
and then Fox as the pole vaulter.
Speaker 1: Okay, So to recap draft the NBA players for other
Olympic sports. Nicole Jokic for water polo, Zion Williams for
the shot put, Emmanuel Quickly for table tennis, Anthony Edwards
for swimming, John Morant for gymnastics, Derek White for what
was that badminton? Badminton?
Speaker 2: Excuse me?
Speaker 1: Bam Adebayo for volleyball, James Johnson for boxing, Diaron fox
Uh for polevall thing, Tyres Maxie for the one hundred
meter Luca not just for power walking, Lebron for team handball,
Victor wembin Yama which I still can't. This is for fencing.
This is where you started, Trey Young for equestrian, Steven
Adams for rugby, Steph Curry for archery. We did it.
You want to take a nail here.
Speaker 2: I want to hear. I want to hear everybody else's nomination. Man,
I'm sure we miss some.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I just included the sixteen and I was like, yeah,
let's throw these in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, tell us where we were dead right and
dead wrong? Please? Thanks everybody for watching. Thanks in advance
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