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Thank you.

I used to. I lived on this planet.

It sounds crazy enough, but I lived thirty two years on this planet, not needing coffee, just not liking it, not having coffee in the morning and then I need caffeine. I started doing the Red Bull and then I found coffee and I was like, oh, coffee is way better.

It's not even so much about getting up, it's about getting my intestines going. And I can't activate my sloppy intestines now without at least ten ounces of Joe. It's about taking a shit. Yeah. Yep.

Never been a better laxative. Invented a little bacon is up there as well.

What bacon gets you to shit. Yeah. A few slices of bacon.

Apple just made me shit when I was young, when I was a little kid it was sunny d really. Sonidos Abdullah's house had off a Cleveland Browns play it and should give me a glass of sunny D and I just have immense shits. Let it fly.

Mm hmm. All right. Sunny D is cheap an' right. Yeah. I was poor. So was she was you know that's that's what I was having.

Too much sun was around when you were a kid. I'm not certain if sunny day was cheap orange juice. I think Tropicana was overpriced.

Orange juice was honest with you because through a child's eyes, I just remember, Sunny, the commercials that Dave Chappelle famously worked into a stand up routine. He's like, I was a I was the black kid. I was looking at the grape stuff. When you open up the refrigerator in the sunny commercial, I always thought Sunny D was invented in the nineties just because that's when they popped up on my radar. But Sunny was around. Dave Chappelle is my age my.

Yeah, but I thought he was making a pop culture reference because I was a 90s commercial, so I didn't know Sunny Delight was around in the sixties, my childhood.

It was sunny delight and welfare cheese. My grandmother had got welfare cheese.

What's welfare cheese? I imagine it's a government cheese.

That's way you cut it with a it's like this big.

So government cheese like the milkman, they would just deliver cheese to my grandma, huh?

Hmm.

I feel like Sonidos sounds like the name of a really upbeat rapper. Like a Will Smith, like rapper.

The positive rapper. Sunny day, did you guys feel about pop, you guys, some poll people like Paul Amitav, I'm a some pop guy.

It's stuck in my teeth. Ruins the whole experience. I really like orange juice. I'm with you very soon, it's got to be in a very certain mood, maybe some champagne with it, perhaps.

Oh yeah, mimosa. We're we're voca. That two screwdriver a. Roy, what makes you shit? Uh, it's a good place to start.

That's a good that's a good place to start. Just ask him that question again. I mean, just I've been rolling on this entire discussion, all right? That's what I was hoping you were, but I wasn't totally sure because I was. I just want the pay off of what's right answer. What is Roy's answer?

Roy, what makes you shit is stupid ass conversation.

We're having the odd laxative.

I wish people could see what's happening in this room, OK. You got Roy just miserable. He appears to have a headache of some sort. Yeah, Tony looks like the Unabomber wearing a hoodie in 90 degree Miami. Billy just put a baseball cap on. But before that, you could see that he had woken up very recently. Cody, sounds like death itself, like just awful.

I'm hoping Mike was rolling on that milk and coffee conversation going way back to then, because, Chris, you shook your head vigorously and angrily when you got just getting warmed up for this show. Just agreed with Greg on water. Makes me phlegmy, which is just ridiculous. Cody's just guzzling coffee and milk and then complaining that he's got phlegm.

I am telling you that there is water. Water will make me phlegmy. Are like sometimes it's better just to keep a dry mouth. Now, I don't know what medication Greg's on. I take certain medications. If for some reason water makes me it increases the phlegm. So I try not to drink too much water until we get off air. It's weird. It now takes you Ghazi's advice and for the next month, be like, I don't drink water.

You got it, doesn't it? Makes them dry to like it's just he looks for every excuse not to drink water. He doesn't drink enough water.

My father's the same way. My father for ten years. Any time I tell him, Dad, you got to drink a certain amount of water, he says, no, I drink that diet orange drink and it's the cheapest diet. Orange drink is the worst. It's it's worse than sunny D it's worse than any.

It's literally called diet orange drink. It's like the CBS brand of diet orange drink. You get three for ninety nine cents.

I wouldn't put it in my car radiator because I would, I would think that it would spoil the engine.

Right. So ridiculous.

Put these on the pole Garmo please. At Batard show pulp yes or no on pulp. And does water make you extra phlegmy. Stewart said yesterday, Greg Cody, that this is the biggest week in South Florida sports history. You are our resident historian and dinosaur. You sound like you. You've emerged from the sixteen hundreds.

Has there been a bigger sports weekend or sports week since the sixteen hundreds?

There have been a couple, but this ranks up there because everything's happening all at once, particularly when you factor, you know, um, at Clemson. On the cusp of that, we're on the cusp of two. You know, you have two playoff teams going all at once the hell the NHL draft is today. You know, so the Panthers are in the in the week's mix. Yeah. Everything is happening. It's exciting. It is.

You got Roy's attention there with the Panthers. Mike, can you help me with something here, please? Because you're someone and I don't know how you make time for these things, but you will check out the college team, the opposing college team's podcast from its collegiate you know, whatever side department you will check in. Is Clemson's defensive line any good? Do we know how good Clemson's defense is? Virginia put up, what, seventeen or twenty four?

Twenty four. It seems like they would always be good to play D line at Clemson. You would have to be good. No, you have to be athletes. Yes, but are they as good as the the elite I got that we saw in the national.

Well they're not going to be that good because you got a bunch of first rounders there. But no, I'm still struggling to find reference points for exactly how good teams are. No, no nonconference games really. Screw this up for me. It talks you and a man. I think Pitt has one of the best defensive units in the nation and then they lose to NC State. So it's kind of wacky. They played Wake Forest, the Citadel and Virginia.

I thought that they would smoke Virginia and Virginia last year was a good team. They've had some personnel changes, defense. Nothing really took out as far as like, oh, that's an elite defensive unit. This will no doubt be the the toughest task Miami is faced defensively. Oddly enough, I think even though FSU has athletes, maybe UAB would have arguably been that opponent on the schedule. For me, I was really looking at, OK, you have Roquet and you have Philipps.

It's I really wish we had Rousselle, but you have Rossia and Phillips getting pressure. Can you bother, can you bother Trevor Lawrence. I saw glimpses of that. One of the things about the Clemson line though, that did jump off the screen because a UVA put up more points than I thought, thought the quarterback for UVA had a lot of time. But I don't really take much stock in that because Ashley's offense is get the ball out in two and a half seconds so you don't really need time.

It's why pro football focus has said zero sacks have been on this offensive line. And this is an offensive line, pretty much the same personnel. They gave up ten sacks against Florida last year. Part of that is scheming, but part of it is growth and improvement from taking your lumps.

And oh, yeah, no doubt your individual players have certainly gotten better, but they're being put in positions right now within this offense to succeed. It's ridiculous that the Miami Hurricanes football program has waited this long to go to this type of offense, considering the high school talent and all the offenses that local high schools play down here. Regardless, you have a fast tempo offense and you have a quarterback that makes quick decisions and gets rid of the ball quickly.

So the defensive line shouldn't be really playing a factor in this game. But let's say the secondary coverage is such that King holds onto the ball a little bit longer to make these decisions. From what I saw on that UVA game, there's a little bit more time afforded and you're starting to trust this offensive line from the Miami Hurricanes. But I don't think it's that important considering the offense that they run.

Cody, what are you hearing about the University of Miami's defensive ends as. Rose. Well, Quincy Rachet is supposed to be a, you know, definitely a first round pick, and I've seen him anywhere from the 10 12 range to to to lower Ron. So he's he's the first round talent. You know, he's not Gregory Russo. And Mike's right. That was a huge loss, even though he has obviously downplays it. But yeah, definitely rosapepe for sure.

And the tight end Vernon Jordan, I think is going to be high to mid round, first round pick. But let me say this about game Saturday. And this is not I'm not throwing this out as a random opinion. I think it's a declarative if you have wins and I give them a much better chance in the past two meetings, if you want wins and you're King somehow pitches Trevor Lawrence, the Heisman Trophy script flips overnight because right now a lot of people have came in the mix.

You know, Lawrence is way up there. He's an easy number one, but then kings on that second tier. And so this changes potentially the Heisman Trophy race.

If Miami can can manage this, it does feel like a bit of a Heisman elimination game with on going to the NFL. Miami was slated to have the nation's two leading SAC artists on their defensive line, Russo and Rochelle Rochelle being the transfer coming in. Russo leaves because of the pandemic opts out of the season. And he turned to Jalen Phillips, who takes Russo's jersey. No, takes his attitude. He got kicked out of that FSU game. Jalen Phillips is a transfer from UCLA.

When he was a freshman, he had NFL written all over him. He was one of the top recruits in the nation, played immediately over there, suffered a lot of injuries, has taken essentially two years to get healthy. And I don't know if you've seen his body. He looks like Rousso out there. It's not just the number. So really good edge rushers. If they would have if they would have been able to have a rotation of those three guys with Rousselle in there.

We're talking about one of the greatest pass rushers the University of Miami has ever had. And that's saying a lot about this program.

Biggest week ever, Dan. The Heisman Trophy is also on the line. I mean, how about that's give me some history, Cody.

Help me with a couple of different things. When Mike Ryan says best pass rushers in, um, history, we're talking about Russell, Maryland, and Warren Sapp. We're talking about Greg Mark and Bill Hawkins. Like, what else are we talking about? Where best pass rushers, because I want to go to you on a couple of historic things. I also want to know where Jimmy Butler's game ranks in the history of the Miami Heat, because I saw that Ethan Skolnick of five recent sports put Dwayne Wade.

He's he's taking everything into account. Stakes and everything else, he put Dwayne Wade game three against Dallas when he had 100 free throws, No. One, I would have flip flopped his one into LeBron at Boston. Number two, I would have put that number one in terms of best games we've ever seen a Miami Heat player play. But then Jimmy Butler comes in around third. You put him any higher than that. No, I think that's about right, but but it is that high and, you know, my the leader of my story off that game was Jimmy Butler just stepped in the Heat legend and lore.

I mean, people are going to remember that game forever. And it's the context of it, because if you go down three at all and they looked like they were on the precipice of going down three, you know, with those injuries at all, you go down three know you have no chance. The historically you have no chance. The entire series fizzles. The entire country is yawning and saying, what a dud, what a disappointment. And now it's different.

And Jimmy Butler did all that wasn't the heat that Jimmy Butler did all that. And Sloes Soulsters postgame news conference started perfectly when he said Jimmy Butler. I mean, it was just a game for the ages when we use phrases like that too commonly, but a forty point triple double in that context. On that stage, I thought it was just shake your head phenomenal. And it was front to back. It continued in the fourth quarter when they've got the six point eight six point lead and his key basket makes it an eight.

I mean, everything he did was magical. I found a weekend in 2003 that might compete, really, as we say, this is the greatest sports week in South Florida history.

Is the Heisman on the line?

I mean, there was a top five matchup between Miami and Florida State in October of 2003 while the Marlins were playing in a World Series and the Miami Dolphins were four and one. Now they were playing a bad Jaguars team led by Jack Del Rio. However, let's remember number two versus number five with the Marlins in the World Series against the New York Yankees. I offer that as competition.

Nice little tweak. But you didn't have the heat in the NBA finals. I mean, very true. There wasn't a global pandemic going on at the time that forced that. Exactly.

And in the middle of it all, one, Billy Gil waiting for his Miami Marlins. The rotation gets reset with some rest. Right. They just go right back to the top and they're just going to come out the same way that they came out against the cubs. They're going to go the sand. They're not going to go the Sandeman. And then six, though, now six.

Those Game three, Pablos, game two. How do you feel about the same? How do you feel about that? I'm good with it.

I think it'll be fine. They got Max freed in game one. Dan, last time they faced Max Freed, they got to Bill Parcells off of him in the first inning, but then he left with a sprained ankle. He's seven and know with a two to Yaara. So he's pretty good. And he pitched that game against the Reds where they went thirteen minutes before anyone scored a run, feeling a little bit confident but not too confident.

Going to be Max Frid by the third inning, I'd say. Billy, what do you think about Boo, about all of the games at two p.m.?

I guess that I feel like disrespectful. Totally disrespectful.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's not the nicest thing. The rest of America won't see them, but at the same time, I don't want to stay up until eleven o'clock at night. So selfishly it works out for me.

The argument then you don't have to decide between the heat in the Marlins in a day like today, the argument could be made that the MLB is hiding the greatest story in this playoffs from America. They're hiding them purposefully. What's the purpose of it?

I don't know, because the ratings may be low because they can play the Yankees at seven o'clock at night.

I mean, that's really the reason because nobody knows the market well. That's whose fault that made all the games at two p.m., she gave them network television.

The last round they were on ABC. No, yeah. They're on FS one.

All the playoff games I made two oh on a Tuesday afternoon on FS one is where baseball games go to die. Mike, I mean, that's disrespectful.

No, I love it.

I love it because, you know, we get done with work and we can just slide right into my couch and my wife's not home. Yeah. Like, it's perfect for me personally, but I just feel disrespected.

Greg can tell you, historically, playoff games happen in the daytime. This is a throwback to when baseball was in its golden age. Right.

Greg, I love the two p.m. start. And, you know, I remember the 1967 and possibly green season and Red Sox and Cardinals in the late great Bob Gibson.

Yeah. Versus Jazz. And all that happening was during the daytime. I remember having I was in a middle school and I'm told it was called junior high. I was in a junior high school drafting class.

I was decorated drafting, by the way. I could wield that pencil on those lines and everything.

A drafting teacher let us watch the game in the middle of class, which I saw now. But that was Day Ball Baby Dave the Hill, who was on the great Cody show this week, talking Marlen's and doing so expertly and wonderfully. Thank you again for that.

Really that in the thrill of a lifetime.

Thank you much. Yes, they baseball was the original, you know, Wrigley used to be just the day before they threw up the lights. I mean, David won't rules. It was all day before lights, the perfect day.

Dan used to be a get up at sunrise. You go out, you do your chores, you head over to Denny's, treat yourself to a grand slam, go over to the movies, check out a matinee, then get home in time for a two o'clock first pitch baseball baby, then down to bed by sunrise or sundown.

There were three channels back then. I mean, three networks. So they had to do it that way. You guys realize that, right, than stack the games. So now listen, I love the day game as well. I love the two Oades. Start it. Just burying it on FS one doesn't seem right to me. It seems disrespectful to the Marlins. That's all you mention that.

Greg, can you tell us in 1967 when we're talking about day games, are we talking about fans going to the games wearing suits and like bowlers top hats like we? Is that is that what was happening in 1967? When I look at black and white photos of day games back then, I've got people going to the games in suits, or did they stop doing that by that?

Well, yeah, it was it was a little too modern for that. You know, Connie Mack was not managing in the dugout in a suit with a bowler hat, but you did see better dressed crowds. I'm going to say that you saw you did if I recall, you did see some men in suits. You saw some women in hats, but. For the most part, it was it was regular fan attire, that's when people respected the game and respected cells before all this, YouTube's and Jake Paul and tie dye shirts and backward baseball hats.

And that's true. That's true. You never saw a backward baseball hat in the 60s and into the 70s. Never.

I used to be Greg Coatis move when I would have a hat on backwards and I had not come with directions, just like Grandpa.

I love that. What else is he you?

We should come back in the next segment, which is things. Write them down, Chris. Things that your dad used to say to you as a kid they'd give off grandpa by.

My dad had what we do, break a window every time he got the check in a restaurant and that's one of my dads is what we do, break a window, but we break a window. You're a legend in your own mind as one I got. Oh, I know, I still get it. Has there ever been a Monday night doubleheader where we've been like, oh yeah, more of this. Oh, I love last night because it seems like such a test, it seems like such a good idea at the time, but it's just too much.

Oh no, not too much. It's not so much a double header every week.

Yeah, the seven o'clock kickoff was perfect and I love the set up with a forty five show. You get a little crossover on the games. No, I thought it was perfect.

There was a 7:00 side. Right, but the back end of a double header, it's impossible to get a good game like a game that I'm interested in watching now.

But I mean you had I mean, you had Patriot, you didn't have Cam, but you had Patriots, the Chiefs, and then you had Aaron Rodgers later. So you had I mean, you had Aaron in Mahomes playing on the same night. That was pretty cool.

Falcons are playing.

Yeah, I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who was asking me if I thought that Bill Belichick gets sexually aroused by denying us football entertainment for the first half the way that he did, because that is the genius on display of Bill Belichick and all of Mahomes his games. There are only three times this is a Bill Barnwell stat. There are only three times that Mahomes hasn't had a first half tough touchdown and all of his professional games and it's Patriots, Patriots, Patriots that Bill Belichick now knows how to do something that's incredible, that can slow Mahomes for at least a little while.

While Romo pointed it out last night, what they were doing is every first aid is so important to that team, it's another two minutes off the clock. He will take the play clock down to under five seconds on just about every snap. When he got in, that game was going perfectly for the Patriots right up until the Brian Hoyer interception. And he took Hoyer out with Stidham. And Stidham had one good moment and then became the guy that looks like a third string quarterback over there.

Yeah, I was watching that game and I thought they had Cam Newton. They might win this game, which is a bit of an upset. That's a very impressive set. I got another set for you that I heard on PTI yesterday and blew my mind. Jimmy Butler, regular season and postseason is 18 and 19 all the time against LeBron James, 18 and 19. LeBron James has had the better team, arguably for all but maybe one of those matchups, that one being last year when the one time that they faced off Sixers and Lakers.

That is crazy. That is. And it speaks to the greatness of LeBron James, that Jimmy Butler can be one game under 500 and all of us be like, whoa, but how can that possibly be? How can that be right?

Like what? What are we to be right? Because he's won 18 of the times that he's faced LeBron James, he's lost nineteen, but he's one game under 500 regular season and postseason, which means he actually had a winning record or he was at five hundred entering these NBA finals, which is it's insane. It shouldn't be.

Is that mostly regular season games, though, because Jimmy Butler has never challenged. Why not in a playoff series?

I think he was he was a Chicago bull in 2012. So I think he he matched up with LeBron James in a series where he clearly had the better team. I think those those Bulls series both won five games, if I may be mistaken. But so he's behind the eight ball already. I'm telling you, you look through all the head to head matchups there, all teams that LeBron has gone to the finals with. LeBron has only missed the finals during that run.

And you once and you help me with some of the stat, though, because I, too, am impressed by the stat you're giving me. But I feel like it's possibly fraudulent because Derrick Rose was the leader of those teams that was beating LeBron James and Jimmy Butler was an ancillary piece. Do I have it wrong? Was Jimmy Butler the number one I'm looking at?

I think I'm looking at the same thing Mike's looking at. It's nineteen eighty and LeBron it's fourteen. Denied Jimmy Butler in the regular season. It's ten for LeBron in the postseason.

Obviously there was some part there where Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Butler, I think average what his first season he barely played is first season. But those losses count actually those losses count.

But the wins count because those are the wins. Both teams were were beating Miami during the regular in the regular season. Jimmy Butler is fourteen and nine against LeBron James in the playoffs. He's four and ten. He's been a part of, I think, two gentlemen suites at the hand at the ends of LeBron James is Miami Heat still incredibly impressive. That said to be just one game under a team that that is better.

Every time you match up against him, I give it like a C plus or B minus that stat since we had to look into too much ability, seemed unimpressed throughout the.

Well, Dan is not as important as this, is that Dan was picking it up hard.

I mean. Well, because the winds are all during the regular season and the postseason.

I mean, for the most of course, LeBron James, how many times as Jimmy Butler been in the finals? Zero. How many times has LeBron James been in the finals when Jimmy Butler has been in the league all but once when he missed the playoffs entirely in a different conference. So the fact is, irrefutably, LeBron James has had the better team every time he's taken the court, except for. One of those match ups, 35 plus, so the fact that Jimmy Butler is even within reaching distance, let alone if he wins today, he's 500 all time.

Regular season and postseason is really impressive.

Here's a stat. In the last game he played, Jimmy Butler was one to no with 40 points in the triple double against LeBron James.

How's that for a stat from right heart guts? Stat's ghile gret just won numbers never lie down, keep going around the horn with ways to describe Jimmy Butler balls.

Yeah, Koronis Culture. What did you say, Greg? Culture, culture, I said Belgya that's right.

I thought you said Belgian coffee.

Jimmy Butler was a coffee drinker, by the way. You know, he is he wants to start his own coffee company. Yeah. Make fun of coffee now.

God, you sound so bad. You sound that sound so bad. How can you do that? Did you do that purposefully? Like slurping coffee from a thermos as he does it to. It's like it's like pouring oil on a fire. Like what are you doing. You know, I just had a bad patch there, still guys knows that, I mean, we're flyman. Yeah, I mean, you know, it comes and goes usually when it comes, it's in an inopportune time.

I try not to lean forward, but I'm speaking. I noticed you lean forward there a bit too much, which means your chair was probably too far away from the desk. I would have it closer and sit straight up, you know? Right.

No, that's a good point. I just set up with my chin up. If I do all my talking like this, I'm better off.

How about standing? You should try standing it. Oh, that's an outstanding idea. Thank you.

So what's what's a boy now?

He had a cartoon boy. I think Jimmy Butler needs to be super grateful for the bubble, not just because he's obviously worked it to his advantage, being that he's in the NBA.

He's been the star like he's been the star of the bubble. Nobody but nobody's stock has improved more than that guy is. Not Damian Lillard, not TJ Warren. Every damn Jokic not anybody.

But the bubble is keeping the virus out and by virus I mean every pharmacist in Miami that has a business proposal for Big Face coffee because that guy is sitting on a goldmine when he gets out of there and you know there is about eighty five business proposals, probably more than that, just waiting for him. People trying to get in touch. Hey, I got a great idea. We've got big face coffee merchandise. We've got a whole deal. I'm telling you, thank God for that bubble because is it in boxes?

It has to be just cluttered with just people who handle their emails in the bubble.

There's no it's out. It's why do we have pharmacies, pharmacies slash deejay's in my real estate, real estate moguls. I want to make money with big face coffee. No doubt it's like the HMOs, Miami Enterprise.

It's got to be a real estate attorney who moonlights as that.

Jimmy Butler, you think they'll retire Jimmy Butler's jersey? Yeah, tell it already about BAMS needs a little bit more.

Know, speaking of Bam upgraded a questionable. Hmm. Upgraded to questionable today, Miami doesn't really do the doubtful designation. I saw they were made available. Goran Dragic and Bam autobio yesterday to the media and I watched both of their press conferences. Heartbreaking.

Goran is broken, heartbreaking. He must not pecky he's just got a lot of pain. He's in a lot of pain.

Yeah but he knows to this point he knows he's not going to play. And also remember when I was saying something looks a little off with Goran, doesn't look like he has the same left. Goran admitted that he's actually been playing with plantar fasciitis, which is painful for the last two rounds. And it finally just gave out on him and completely tore really sad sound because he's obviously adorable. Goran Dragic, right. He's worked his entire career to have this showcase.

And from a basketball standpoint, the Lakers don't really have an answer for what Goran Dragic brings to the table Goran Dragic We'll see Anthony Davis and go at him now they may win that battle but no fear there He may get all the contact and not get the calls as we've seen with Goran Dragic but he would have been a very important weapon in this finals and he knows it and he was just crestfallen. Heartbroken. It seems like we can write him off for this series because he comes to the realization he's like, I want to be out there and I know I can.

But it comes to the point that am I hurting the team by being out there? And he couldn't even look at the zoom camera while he was saying that bam, though, does seem like he might give it a go today if they update them from doubtful to questionable.

Well, what are you guys expecting from Anthony Davis? Because that's a difficult matchup for Bam under healthy circumstances. Like what is it that I couldn't believe? How bad is Anthony Davis was in the last game? I didn't think I'd be watching a finals game where Anthony Davis was invisible. A liability, not a help on defense, didn't do much of anything in terms of RIM protecting. The idea that Jimmy Butler would have his greatest game ever in the paint is an enormous indictment of Anthony Davis, who is there to make, among other things, the Lakers defense and above average defense.

He corrects a bunch of mistakes. You guys expect him if he himself. You're scared, are you not?

If I expect him to have a monster bounce back game, then you expect them to win? No. Well, they probably. Yeah, yeah, I think everyone does.

I expect the Miami Heat to not really put Bam on Anthony Davis as much because the limited time that they shared the court was really Jae Crowder with that assignment and then bam on switches and then contesting for rebounds. What I'm worried about his fitness man, about a bio's fitness. I worry about those honestly for opening minutes of Dwight Howard being super physical because he's going to get tested right away. Dwight Howard was incredibly physical with Yokich. It bothered him to the degree that you can bother Yokich, who's one of the unguardable players, because it doesn't matter how good or how physical you are with him, he can get a shot up.

But it did seem to bother him some Dwight Howard is going to put a shoulder and don't bother him, Mike.

There's no question about that. Jokic There was nobody who was better on both ends on Jokic than Dwight Howard right buddy.

Dwight Howard. It's weird because it feels like he's had good series but you realize when he gets taken off the court he's going to be gone for a while. In two of the three games Miami's gotten off to good starts with Dwight Howard on the court. He's an energy guy. I think his particular skill set is big when you have a hobbled Bam Adebayo because you test him right away. So that can't be fun because BMW is smaller than these guys.

Anthony Davis and certainly Dwight Howard maybe don't start bam to that thought.

I don't know, maybe bring him, bring him in when Dwight goes out maybe.

I don't, I don't think that Bam is actually smaller than Dwight Howard physically.

You mean just Dwight Howard has like forty five pounds on him. It looks like muscle. Yeah. And when bam even though Bam is what, six. Ten. He looks smaller than LeBron James when he's matched up. We're talking about mass when you have a neck strained shoulder injury risk injury and you have to push off someone like Dwight Howard, it's pound for pound, one of the strongest players in NBA history. It's very difficult to test your to test your injury.

I love that Stan Van Gundy story when he was coaching Dwight Howard and Dwight Howard was allowing some rebounds to the Minnesota center that I will try to name in a second. We'll see how close I come to his name. But he looked like one of the villains in one of the original Star or Superman movies. Yeah, I know exactly who you're talking.

Not Petkovic, is it? You nailed it. I think Kovacevic.

So it's Petkovic. Stan was yelling. Montenegro I had Dwight Howard when he came back to the huddle because he. Allowed a couple of offensive rebounds to Percovich and stand immediately shut up when Dwight Howard said, Stan, he's the strongest man in the world.

I like Dwight Howard is somebody he's the strongest man in the world. Stands just like, you know what? Sorry. Look at me. Look at me. I look like a pizza maker in an old Italian restaurant who sits behind the counter and my face on the box. I'm frumpy. I shouldn't be telling you, Dwight Howard, we could park a motorcycle on your shoulders. I shouldn't be telling you anything about strength. You come back to the hotel, you tell me Percovich is the strongest man in the world.

I got to shut up.

What are you looking for today? You obviously think Anthony Davis is going to have a bounceback game and we'll see if he adjust to what Miami did differently defensively, which was trapped in some forcing some turnovers, got him an early foul trouble, got him out of rhythm. It stands to reason that Jimmy Butler can't possibly do that again, can he? So the Lakers would be foolish to change their defensive approach. And I know that I asked you a question to get my take.

So we'll go there.

So use hold on. Is where I go in South Florida. That's what I get. I get somebody who has a question to give me my I went for it.

Here I am popping out of the grocery aisle and asking you, you should have seen how excited you guys was as soon as you did this.

I know. I know what you're doing. King of subtlety. You did this yesterday. You come in, you're disguised in your costume of subtlety. Go ahead. Ask me. It seems like you're trying to distract me. Make me forget the question. Go ahead. Oh, no, thank you. Know it again. No, no. Forty points. No, no. Back to back games. No. Triple double. No. Can they win game or no, no, can Duncan Robinson make a show, no.

Oh, can we go game without fouling a three pointer?

Oh, no, no, no, no. Cody, no. Anybody else? No, no. Any other team? Kelly Olynyk. No. Will it be a long series, no. So it has to be yes or no. Alex Caruso can't possibly keep that up. No. Oh, I almost tricked you there. You had to think about how much I wanted to make. I was like we were getting double negative territory. The king of subtlety.

You should have seen us all so excited. Scottsburg delaying.

You guys enjoyed yesterday's show so much. I haven't seen Happy in two decades.

Two decades operates in a special place where he gets celebrated. If he's awful at making predictions and he makes so many, he's a volume shooter that it's really hard to actually remember his predictions. But when you go out on a limb, when you say something so strongly and you push back, as we saw at the start of the previous segment, where it's just like, wait a second, let's let's pick apart this Jimmy Butler record. When you feel strongly about something, it is just sheepskins.

When you're so wrong, it's that condescending.

No, I mean, that's what it is because, you know, it sat with me all weekend. I was like I was thinking about it. I did get Jimmy Butler score 40 points in it. No, no. He talked down to me like, you know, he knows everything and I don't know a thing. And it sat with me. I got to acknowledge Monday felt good.

I mean, you don't need to acknowledge it. It was obvious you were peppering me during the break with stats when we were off the air, like I was sitting in my phone minding my own business. And you're talking about George Michael nonstop.

I still have that lot I get. I think you brought it up.

I mean, when in Rome, guys, I'm pretty sure. What do you think happened here? I came in here the other day and for a month you got to twenty has been on the console. And I came in here yesterday and it was gone and you got stole his twenty back right.

Before you guys answer that. Jimmy Butler became the third player in NBA finals history to score 40 points on twenty or fewer shots. Butler Shaquille O'Neal to George Mikan. Greg, you were there for that. I was making was great.

Where's the twenty? Where's the twenty? Did you steal your twenty back? I did steal my twenty back is. Wow. So do you think the cleaning set now. I'm not going to do that. We do that all too often. Danz honestly thrown out his wallet in the garbage and is blame game cleaning people before. Oh I don't want to do that.

But the twenty is missing.

Hopefully he didn't spend the twenty dollars on the Menagh Falcons plus six that.

Oh that sucks for me. Seven and one.

Eight and one and one you don't take a win away on. You got to be standing up here looking for the 20 that he knows he stole and he's pretending like he's looking for it. Let's see. So there's three, four singles in their wallet.

He's not angry enough about this. I don't think I have a 20 in my wallet. I try not to carry cash. Like, let me see if I have any 20s. Hold on a sec.

Why do you leave 20, 20, 20 first? One, two, three, four. I was wrong five. I've 720 zombie right now. Perhaps I did take that 20.

How much money is that's to get. One hundred and forty two dollars. You're right, Chris, it would have been funnier if he had just gotten the math wrong. It's not great when he does it correctly, but he's feeling himself now because he's got that George Michael stashed in his back pocket. He just did the Tytler Heroes snarl, I did the one hundred and sixty two dollars, Chris, if I if I pull out the missing 20 from the Godsell, definitely it's in my right pocket.

Just over 20 back Stoller's on 20 did.

I really did. And I think the cleaning crew, I think we have an issue here. If there is a cleaning crew that is coming here and cleaning this place, I think they stole the money because I would tell you, if I took the 20 dollars and I am telling you right now, it did not take anything. I took the 20 dollars. Yes.

If there's a cleaning crew, I think due to like covid protocol, they need to come in here twice a day.

OK, well, I mean, then perhaps we should leave them a tip, don't you think?

Maybe that's what they thought of it because there are other singles here that they did not take. Don't put it on them. This is absolutely still got to do it.

It's not there from every really it sat there like look at it today.

It sat naked taco on Friday. Oh.