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I'm Chris Codi BSP and. So Kendrick Perkins, who was out in front nationally calling the Miami Heat them goons and supporting Miami Heat things in a way that was very strange from Kendrick Perkins, because he's at the center, literally at the center of the one title that Boston has won in Mike Ryan's lifetime as he shakes a fist at the Boston Celtics for never winning anything. Now, I did like the stat that was thrown out. There's two guys that LeBron James has played in thirteen point five percent of the finals that there have been.

And somebody countered from the past with Bill Russell has won 15 percent of the finals that there have been was it Bob Ryan?

But Boston winning was a long time ago. And now Kendrick Perkins is on television. I think, Mike, I think this is the best you can do in terms of headed into this series. He says the Lakers winning the title is not a slam dunk, that he expects it to go six or seven games. So even the Heat's most ardent national supporter is at best saying, look, I expect them to fight, but I don't expect them to necessarily win.

Is anyone naturally going to pick this heat team? Because because I really do think I might be able to talk myself into this by Wednesday. But the thing that I can't do or I'm having trouble with Strogatz is the following, because it's not just that the Lakers have the two best players, it's that I just watched to my shock Dwight Howard bother Jokic I just saw to my shock Dwight Howard get inserted in the game and create on both ends create problems where Jokic was getting in getting fouls and I don't know what that's going to do to Bam like I don't know how that's going to link up because I.

Dwight Howard was a former defensive player of the year. It was a long time ago but I just don't know how that's going to look because basically LeBron James is Bam's size, LeBron James is. And Dwight Howard is too.

I know, but I think Bam and Jokic are very different players, different body types where I think Bam won't struggle nearly as much with Dwight Howard defending him as Jokic was struggling in that series. So I think the heat will be fine.

I think there's a lot of reasons Dana. I don't think it's very hard to talk yourself into the heat winning this series based on. I think nationally people will laugh at you. Really. Yeah. I don't think many people are going to pick them. Do you think many people are going to pick them? I mean, they've made it this far, beating the box, beating the Celtics. They have you're right. They have LeBron and Anthony Davis, two best players in the series.

But they he'd have three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Well, we'll see today when the when the picks start coming out. I imagine most people, the Lakers are favored minus four forty series price. That's a big number move.

I mean, it's actually a little smaller. I was here that was going to be minus five hundred.

So like against the bucks, the heat were, what, plus minus three.

Sixty 260. I thought no. Three cents plus. Yeah. I got I got them pretty much at the same price for this series. I'm taking the Miami Heat in this series. I've only heard one prediction so far. Zach Harper took Miami and six. I imagine overwhelmingly they're going to be picking the Los Angeles Lakers. I don't think Dwight is a guy that guards Bam. I think Anthony Davis is a guy that that guards Bam because that's a guy that I just don't know how they're going to use.

Dwight is what I meant to say. I don't know.

Probably it's probably more of a jovial javal series. We'll see. I don't know. I don't think my name is going to play zone against the Los Angeles Lakers. I'd say it worked against the Boston Celtics and it's cute. But there's a reason why we only flash that really against Boston. It'll be I think we just have to outshoot Los Angeles. We have two outs, shoot them and I think they can. Miami won an Eastern Conference finals with really having only one good shooting performance from the outside in the game that they needed to in game six.

This is don't try to apply logic and reason carrying over what you saw last year. That was like a year ago when Miami played them without Goran Dragic at home. And it was a very tight game. I know Miami went over there and got drubbed, only put up eighty points, but it was on the last leg of a of a road trip. This is a whole new series, a whole new season. I think Jimmy Butler, we were always saying if Jimmy Butler is your third best player, you can be a championship team.

I don't know if it's exactly that, but I think we're starting to see the seeds of that.

Well, the thing that was crazy to me about yesterday is Bam hasn't had that game all season. Like he chose a pretty good time to have that game. Iguodala hasn't had that game all season, literally all season. I'm not I'm not exaggerating. I'm looking at game logs and telling you that those are the two in that spot. That's why they stayed with Iguodala throughout the fourth quarter.

Got Iguodala has not had that basketball game. They traded for the hope that Iguodala would have that basketball game a couple of times and bother Giannis a little bit and bother LeBron a little bit.

He was great last night. I've mocked him pretty good but he did have that game. He had that quarter that for three that he hit when he was feeling it and he gave you the double threes on the way back. That was a goose bump moment. I mean he'll do that. And Iguodala operates in this special piece of real estate now where if he just has one good game at a seven, but he does that, it's just like that's why we acquired for the seven minutes where he fouled a bunch of three point shooters.

It's really cool to see what what band did we saw him take another leap. He was like, OK, he was embarrassed by how he played in games. He was like, OK, Tice, I'm going to start driving to the hoop from half court, try and stop it. It was a switch that flipped in his mind and everyone realized, including Bossin, Oh, shit, we got nothing for this. Let's just start bombing threes and hope they go in because that's our only way back, because Bam is going to eat as much.

Is he wants with two pointers, you thought that was something that a light went off or do you thought that was design? I don't know the answer that will ask Tyler Hero at 11, 30.

I don't know. I thought it was pretty telling. There was a moment in which bam out of bio has the ball at the top of the key and Tyler here is starting to feel it after struggling. I was in group chats were like, Oh, this is Jeremy Lin game vibe's. They're starting to a race. He had a couple of turnovers, so there was a cool moment.

Fans were bam has the ball at the top of the key and you could see Tyler like a little puppy, like running off a screen for the handoff. And that's like Miami's vintage played Duncan and bam bam, give it to him. He didn't give it to him. He gave it to Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler couldn't wait to give the ball to Tyler Hero, who does the very same thing, little scrappy puppy dog and gets a ball with five seconds left.

And you can kind of tell bam out of bio's like, OK, we're not doing that. It's great that Tyler has the guts, but Tyler is 20 years old and it's really cool that Jimmy Butler trusts him, even though we saw a little bit more of an aggressive Jimmy Butler. That's all fine and dandy. But Bam out of bio from then on was bringing the ball down court and attacking the rim. And it was yet another way the Miami Heat could beat you.

They unveiled another way they can be.

Well, that one's interesting because I saw I saw scouts got an anonymous scout was actually quoted as saying that autobio and Tice was a push like that guy should be fired.

Someone needs someone needs an anonymous catch. Someone needs to hunt that guy down and not allow him to evaluate players anymore. But when you're watching last night, speaking to what Mike is speaking of. Right, Dragic wasn't playing in the fourth quarter. Dragic has won them games. You know, it is only going to be for whatever Dwight Howard did to Jokic. There were only two guys for the Lakers who are going to win games like it. Even if Kuzma gives you something he's going to give you seventeen in a game that's like he's not going to explode for something where he's their leading scorer.

It's going to be LeBron or Anthony Davis. The Heat have different guys every night. I mean it was Duncan Robinson last night. It was what was Bam last night. Right. I mean Duncan played well those five or seven, he did play well and he was out there specifically to spread the floor. He is out there to shoot so that not even to make shots, he really isn't out there to make shots. He is out there to shoot from distance.

So they have to guard it so that everything gets opened up. And what he makes. That's why Spoelstra I was surprised this preseason when they were talking in all of those press conferences and Spoelstra was just saying, I want him to shoot. I don't care if it goes in. I just.

Get carried away and I wonder how the national audience listening to this is experiencing the Holmer stuff in it. At any time in history, we would laugh at the idea of they can beat you with any number of guys going up against LeBron James and Anthony Davis, like if you got a bunch of guys who can win games, you don't have any as good as the ones that they have.

Right. And so that's the part that's the part that I have a hard time talking myself into, even as I see them shooting in the bubble against that defense, against that defense, because the Laker defense is just as good. It's getting harder every round as it should. Both of these teams have lost three games in the playoffs. The Lakers the Lakers blew through the playoffs as well. It was it was Rockets. It was not good Nuggets. It was Portland.

It was one loss, one loss, one loss. All easy series for LeBron.

Lakers expected to do that, though, the Heat were not.

That is correct. They were expected to do that, but they went and did it and they did it in a dominant fashion and they did it with the game that Bam gave you. LeBron gave you a better one in game five. That's the best game we've ever seen from Bam! That's LeBron doing again what LeBron does.

Yeah, I don't know how telling it is, the way they celebrate their conference title, but Miami's really enjoying this Eastern Conference title and as well they should because no one had this five seed doing it. Lakers did the thing like, yeah, I told you we were going to dismiss them. They're barely touched the trophy. J.R. Smith is taking these pictures with it and Dion Waiters taking his pictures with it. But the Lakers, very the season's all about championship or bust.

That's not the case with Miami. This is absolutely a bit of a destination. That being said, I want to smoke. I don't fear LeBron. This is house money. House money. Yeah. I'll probably get invested in ways that it will hurt if Miami lose this series. But I'm so beyond thrilled with what this team gave me at a time that I think we all needed it, that I just. Yeah, I'm here for LeBron. Just went through Boston, just went through the two time reigning MVP.

I absolutely want to beat LeBron James because people are going to try to take stuff away from whoever the champion is. Right. Not if you beat LeBron Stewart.

I would have said with the heat up three one, OK, I would have said if the heat had lost the next three games to Boston, this season has already been a success, like up three percent.

If they had lost that series, it would have been OK to lose that series.

I love a tweet that Dragonfly Jones had where he said in any other time in American history in Miami, Tyler Hero has that thirty seven point one turnover game and everyone takes him out for the night of his life in Miami. Instead, he goes back by monorail to his hotel room and eats at Nature Valley Bar.

Thank God it's there. I saw the night of his life. Yeah, he might have because. Yes, because, you know, he's got to. Yes, he's got a friend. He's got a friend that's penetrated that bubble that's in the room.

Yes. Given the social media. So I think Tyler had a good night. I think the Miami Heat really enjoy that as this feels. It feels really good to be Jimmy Butler right now feels really good. And he's doing it trusting people, saying that wouldn't get him to the playoffs if he wasn't on this roster. He wasn't that good last night. He was OK. But it's not like he was winning the game in the fourth quarter. It's not like he was making any of the threes.

Like you still don't trust him. You trust them less than just about anybody on the team taking three. It's weird because when he decides he passes up open threes, but when he decides to actually take it three, it's like a junk shot. Jimmy Butler is a good player and Jimmy Butler has been consistently this like it'll raise your eyebrows when he has, like, that crazy the forty point game. But the outliers. Yeah. You don't expect that.

To me, that was shocking to see Jimmy Butler go for forty.

I like the game he had last night where it's twenty two point eight assists and he was plus eighteen like to me that's that's Jimmy Butler Patterson and that's the heat when they're at their best, when he doesn't have to score for the percentage of buckets that were assisted last night.

I think you saw it was a beautiful game to watch. The defense wasn't much there, but you saw two teams. I kind of figured each other out, six games into a series. And those are two really good defensive teams. And it didn't really matter all that much because at that point, we'll exploit what you're given us. We'll exploit what you're given us and you just got to out execute in the Miami Heat. Did that? Well, you say it didn't really matter.

And I would object to what it is you're saying, because when it came to season deciding time, those Celtics were taking an awful lot of threes.

They were missing like it wasn't all of a sudden all that aggression that that you get at the rim like it was Kemba from far away. It was Marcus Smart from far away. It was Tatum from far away.

They like to make those shots but they collectively I think realize they just simply didn't have an answer for that bam because Bam had been good in moments in this series you just coming off a bad game. He didn't quite flash that until game six and I think they all realized the only way we can win this game is by bombing from the outside. At this point, there's going to be that moment. In the finals where LeBron is guarding, he's matched up against Tyler Herra, right, just to stop the thing that you say, though, you say the thing that you said, that makes me wonder and I really don't know how the matchups are going to work.

Maybe Mike's right and we don't see very much of Dwight Howard. But the thing that you said about the number of guys that can beat you, you're saying LeBron on Tylor Hero. But you could say that if he's on Jimmy Butler, you could say it's on Bam. Right? Like you could say, if someone's got like if Bam is doing what he's doing last night, caving in defenses, then sure as hell you're going to get LeBron on him.

Yeah. And so like I don't know who it is that I'm looking forward to seeing LeBron on. I mean, if he could do it to Jamal Murray, he could do it to anybody that he'd have. But who's it going to be?

Got no idea how Miami defends. And that's a credit to how versatile the team is, how and just how wacky this year is. Because I can't carry over regular season anymore because it's a brand new season. But historically, Miami's a lot of guys that coaches would put on and designate the LeBron stopper. Andre Iguodala won a finals MVP being that guy. Jae Crowder has been acquired in attempts to be that guy. Then you're going to see a lot of switching.

I think LeBron James is going to see a lot of defenders just the same way that Giannis did. We didn't really play Zone and the Miami Heat first unveiled zone against Giannis Antetokounmpo They didn't really play that it was just ball denial and trap you when you get to the baseline. So I think LeBron James is going to see a lot of defenders then bam guard LeBron.

I think he can try. Yeah, yeah you can. Certainly LeBron James, his strength, his unprecedented strength is being that size and being able to drive to the hoop. We didn't really see Bam have to do that too much against Giannis but that's the comp right.

I thought, I thought and I said erroneously that Giannis was going to get Bam in foul trouble. LeBron and Anthony Davis have to get back in foul trouble.

No. If not, they're going to complain to the reps, they've already done that, they've sent out memos, you're going to see a lot of free. But we haven't seen really we haven't seen the Miami Heat hurt by foul trouble. Kemba Walker was hurt by foul trouble in the series we have not seen. There has not been a whole lot of the dunk and stuff, I think. Well, yes, Doug Duncan Duncan got into foul trouble.

But it's funny that you say that because I just thought of the heat. As for guys, basically that can beat you, that Duncan is not one of the guys who's going to lead them in scoring, that Duncan's always going to be a complementary guy.

It is cliche because Miami has a lot of different guys that can hurt you. But with this team, like Golden State, had a lot of guys that can beat you. And the problem was they would share the ball and be so great at moving the ball that all those of those guys that could beat you would get open looks. Miami is the same way. It's just not Klay Thompson, it's not Prime Andre Iguodala. And we're all trying to get adjusted to what this means.

But this is a really good basketball team and I like our chances.

You rather have Duncan Robinson than Danny Green, right? Yeah, yes.

Yeah. That roster construction go through it. This is one of the more bizarre teams that LeBron has ever taken to the finals. And because of injury, he once was relying on Matthew Dellavedova. He's got Anthony Davis, which is on his level at this point. But after that, it's not a good shooting team.

Right. The Lakers, I have not looked at the numbers, is not good for in the bubble. The Lakers had not been a good shooting team until until the playoffs got going and then they became a better shooting team.

I mean, fair to say LeBron would rather be playing with this Heat team than the Laker team right here. The better team. Let's be honest.

It's an interesting conversation. Thank you. Because if LeBron James were on this team, why are you saying, you know, it's rare.

It's where I get a compliment was not a very nice emotion. There wasn't even a cop. It felt like he was just saying I'm saying LeBron was a filibuster. He didn't have an immediate answer for the question. So he just said, that's a good question.

I'm just applying what we've seen to do with LeBron teams. Historically, you have the most success when you surround LeBron with shooters. Right. And Miami Heat have had the shooters. They tried to acquire the shooters, Kawhi Leonard, try to make sure that they had a week as a team as possible. But Danny Green isn't the same Danny Green. But I'm sure in the finals you'll be denying every single fastbreak that we have and you'll turn it on to that zombie, Danny Green, that we've seen.

Caldwell Pope is erratic. It's a weird team. Rondo is actually shooting the ball. Quite good for Rondo.

Will someone please explain to me? OK, because it is sometimes confusing to me. I don't know what Brad Stevens saw that made him insert Williams. I don't know what it is that made spo say. Tonight is the night that I am going to keep writing Iguodala in the fourth quarter and I'm going to bench Goran Dragic. OK, but I want an answer to this question and I will not rest until I get it. Why is Solomon Hill continually getting five minutes.

Does anyone in our audience have a question that he'll never have an answer for. Why it is that Solomon Hill continues to get just a five minute burst. Are they trying to disorient the opponent with who is this guy and why does he look so haggard?

If it's not broken down, don't fix it. And if Solomon Hill playing five meaningless minutes every single game is propelling you to an NBA finals, then you just ride it out and you continue to give them five meaningless minutes. He didn't take a single shot. He didn't have a single assist either. Make a single play out of it, certainly fouled anyone, but he played it five minutes.

And Solo certainly knows the gravity of the situation any time he checks in because he has posted to his Instagram a photo of him holding up the Eastern Conference trophy there. Yeah, I could have folded. Thank God I'm not built like that. He could have folded in those five minutes, but he's not built like that. I'm not quite sure how he's built to God.

So you owe an apology because he got a defensive rebound. You're out here saying he didn't contribute at all of the offensive rebound, minus one for the game by Ben. To celebrate St. Bart's surprisingly great race, we gave this game day jam surprising. I was afraid that would think we. Hey, I want a way to save you, right? Yeah, they're great. State by state by state, they make like a good neighbor.

State Farm is their. I haven't listened to one of takes about this series that I could steal. I've got I just have no idea. LeBron hates it. They're playing. Yeah, totally. Did you see that? You could tell when Shaq's just making shit up. Did you see that stuff? Roy Shaq saying they want Miami. And he was right and he was pressed on his sources, he's like, I know they want Miami, I'm sure the waiters one's Miami because I think Dion Waiters is guaranteed a championship ring now, no matter what.

He was the real winner from last night. Dion Waiters, NBA champion. That's the main takeaway. They'll play the same amount for either team, so it doesn't matter. I've stopped watching it since I just stopped watching it.

I don't blame you. You're terrible. You'll be back Thursday. I will. I'll be back when they get what's his face from Clemson, Trevor Lawrence. Yes, it is until my end of racism from the top of draft boards, and it gets replaced by Dear King. This week for the Jets started with a pick six, right? Yep, I was thinking to go to the red zone. Yeah, and Scott had that little boy just goes, this is an incredible stat.

You're not going to believe this right now. The Colts defense is averaging twenty six point five points or they have twenty six point five fantasy points for the week. That's top ten out of any player running backs and quarterbacks included. Right now, the Colts defense is one of the top performers of the week.

They outscored the Jets six to seven, I believe the defense. Two touchdowns of safety. The Jets had seven points. I'm tired of them. So your teams under five hundred? Yeah, I'm curious.

It must sting your teams over five hundred for the first time in six years. Got no frame of reference for what that feels like. Guys, I'm just here to add one extra playoff spot in my conference. Now, all of a sudden I got a good system. QB got the league's best rushing attack, Odell Beckham Junior being a willing teammate. Things are looking up in Cleveland as the system quarterback now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We need to talk about football today because I'd rather spend the time all our time today talking Miami stuff. I need some help from the young people in our audience because as you may know, I am fossilized, fossilized at a precipitous rate. You may have heard me confused Rece Davis and Carl Ravich a little bit earlier. I don't know if I heard dugouts correctly or not, but when you were talking about the Solomon Hill movement, the Sally Hill minutes called them, you said something.

It throws everything off. It's blank. I said access. OK, you said access, right, or you said access, I was saying if SPO doesn't play them those five meaningless minutes, the sally hell minutes, then it will throw everything off its axis is what I was trying to say. I'm not I'm not certain how it came out.

No, it's well and fine because if it's not me being old at you being old. But help me with this. I have an access. I need some help from Tony and Roy and Billy Crystal is not here again. He said we'd see him like game two or game three of the finals because he just went sprinting into the street with a whole lot of alcohol and he was totally nude and he was screaming and because he's very happy with how his teams are doing.

He was wearing his shoes, the floor as he was. Well, he was wearing crocs. Yes. And but only Crocs. And I want some help with this right here, because I am not on the Insta, but I have been told that Tyler Hero has shot his shot at Kyle Kuzma's X.

What does that mean? What do I do with this?

All of it. He shot the shot. What is instead he shot landed it. Made it. Yeah, she's in the bubble with around it actually. Three way down.

Three. Yeah. And so how is that going to go. I mean, you think that this is the first time in NBA history two NBA players have been with the same woman, I know what Joe Test broke that down.

I don't I don't know. But I also don't know how that impacts the series when we know about it, when we only do a series, when one of them is 20 and the other one tries to dress like he's 20.

But this isn't new dance. Let me tell you about something that happened on the East this weekend that when you see in a couple of weeks will horrify you. Apparently, like a rat, there's still a thing pandemic be damned. People are going to be out there. There's going to be no mass is going to be pots and pans is going to be screaming. There's going to be the guys in the back of the pickup truck just waving dead palm fronds out of the back of the thing.

There's going to be peeling out. And also over the weekend, I guess, bars are open again. Right. And conga line seemed to be cool. Does it matter? Just grabs any stranger next to you. Play some loud music. If you dance fast enough, I guess you can't get sick. I don't know what's going on, but I feel like in a couple weeks we're going to know what's going on.

Did you guys see the scene of the elbow room, by the way? Oh, yeah, I saw that it was crazy out here on the beach this weekend, too. It was like it was like Mardi Gras out here. There was.

That's a bizarre news dump by Ron de Santos to catch everybody by surprise, including local government, by saying, hey, Wild West, everything's back open again. No one had a plan. We are all fully open except nightclub establishments that are just waiting for clarification, clarification that elected officials need clarification on.

I don't know what that has to do with it. And I have no idea what it is because, Dad, you just found out about the, you know, the title hero situation. I disagree. And I'm telling you, only a dad was wild this entire weekend, but last night in particular. And you're not going to like what you see. I'm just telling you right now, I felt so old because I'm watching and I'm like, oh, maybe I'm going to sit this one out, maybe let me put on a mask, maybe let me be a little bit further away from people just to kind of be safe and see how things play out here.

Because, guys, just because you can't do it doesn't mean you need to do it. And now I feel like I'm a parent telling people, hey, maybe wear your mask and be safe anyways because I'm telling you, conga lines, I don't even know. People still did conga line, but there's a bar that's open and they're playing the music and they're like just grabbing people from booze and just bringing them in and they have the sticks that light up.

And then did you see the other thing?

You know, that meme with the you know, the meme with the cast and the guys dancing with the casket only in Broward, which I didn't know was a thing until this weekend, put out a video and only in Broward. Apparently there was some pool party, some words, some club. I don't know where it was. And they had a casket. They had a casket and a girl with a bottle inside the casket. And that's how they're delivering the bottle to the person that bought the bottle.

They're playing the music and the guys are dancing with a casket on their shoulder and the bottle girl in the middle of the casket going to give this expensive bottle to whoever played in a casket.

What are you doing? We're doing all them, I. So we're going to throw it back to high school then, I think in these finals, because obviously the woman in question is now inside the bubble tailers there, Kuzma's there. She's going to be at the game somewhere perched out watching this game. I mean, you know, anything could happen.

I think that is pretty good analysis there. And I don't know how to do the analysis on, for example, because I don't know who some of these people are. Evidentally the Steelers backup quarterback situation. I don't know how this happens. The dating choices of someone, a bachelor contestant, a former bachelor contestant, has dated both backup quarterbacks with the Pittsburgh Steelers. And so when you put it on, I understand your point that you think that this is the first time NBA players have ever dated the same woman.

But Kyle Kuzma is a Kyle Kuzma is a bit of an Instagram model influencer himself and also Kyle Kuzma doesn't generally allow women who are with him to have their faces or heads shown in his Instagram.

Choices of the detectives have been out though. There was an IG photo that she put out in which you could recognize that Kyle Kuzma tattoo grabbing a hold of a certain body part there. Dan secrets like this don't get kept for long but don't overlook the professionalism of ballers in this situation. You know there's a hot 97 summer jam, right. And I'm pretty sure Amber Rose has walked through there. You don't you don't think that's awkward for like literally everyone on that bill.

They make it work with no drama.

OK, but if Koosman Hero are if there are some sparks there, all of a sudden you guys are going to be interested in that conversation. Correct.

If you see force, one of them is 20, the other one's twenty five. But he'll have you believe he's 17 years old. Those kids don't fight any more man. They'll, they'll just block each other on it and we'll escalate it that way. This is fine.

Wait, are you telling us that Mason Rudolph and Josh Dobbs data the same person? Yes. Really? Yes, that's it. And that's what I was telling you. Yeah. Amalgamation.

And Josh, I was surprised to find out that Dobbs was back in Pittsburgh.

That is what I was telling you got. Thank you for clarifying that for the audience in the event that they didn't know how. I was trying to talk around that. But yes, that is what I that is why I was sort of mystified as someone who is generally not judgmental about these things, how is it that you're making your choices when it comes to dating, when those are your particular two choices?

Kyle Kuzma actually has important experience in this department because, I mean, every time he lines up against Ben Simmons and the Sixers, he's run into this situation. Tyler Heroes is not the first new boyfriend that's popped up around is.

Well, Mike, I do need some help with this. Can you guys help me though, because I have absolutely skewed out of the demo. Right? Never mind. Pat Riley sort of at one time in his history, finding players if they would fraternize or if they would help another player off the court or up off the court if they'd fallen down.

But I am genuinely confused by, for example, all the Tristan Thompson stuff with reports of cheating regarding the Kardashian family and then the specifics of that Ben Simmons relationship, where it seems his entire life is being shown on Instagram, where he is perpetually getting cheated on by now. Another, you know, a billionaire, Jenner. Right. Who is now evidentally, although I'm not keeping up on these things, they're hard to keep up. Keeping Up with the Kardashians dating Devin Booker, evidently now.

Correct.

I wish that the Kardashians would have made their way into the bubble. Could you imagine that's what the bubble really needed. The car dash. That's the only thing that they didn't get this season. What do you think Pat Riley's room is like? I know that's not what we're talking about, but do you think he gets the same room as everyone else, or do you think he goes to the front? Does after guys like his legal side room and he's like, you know what, I'm going to splurge a little bit.

I'm going to upgrade here. Pat Riley doesn't stay in the same room as, you know, Joe, and flow from Montana when they come to visit Mickey Mouse.

The I don't know what the room situation is specifically in Disney and how high end those go, but generally Pat Riley's room has a grand piano in it. What do you mean, General? Does he play the piano? No. Do you have a lifetime contract with a piano maker now to in addition to the Armani deal?

I mean, if he doesn't have a piano and does he get outraged? What happens when his money back?

No, I'm not saying he requests a piano. I'm just saying that that is the stratosphere of elegance that we're talking about. I'm not saying that he wants a piano or is requesting a piano. And it's actually not even it's not even that special. Like Leonard Hamilton, when he was coaching, Michael Jordan had a grand piano. It's you know, these hotels have high end rooms and the coaches tend to get the high end rooms.

People like that take up a lot of space, a piano in a room. It seems like a room without them.

It seems like it's a room with a lot of space is the point, Billy. Yeah, but if you don't play piano, who wants a grand piano in that room? Give me something else.

These people operate in a on a different level. I can't imagine going down to the receptionist and saying, hey, look, there's is there a problem with the room, sir? Yeah. Yeah, actually, there is one Kano's out of two, the grand piano.

That's not. What kind of establishment are you running here? I'm practicing Bach.

There's only two teams left in the bubble, though, I imagine really the whole floor of a hotel.

It's weird because Spoelstra was calling up to the owner's box in that arena and Zo was there and he called Pat the godfather godfather still wearing the mask upside down on purpose.

It's got to be superstition. My father's been wearing the same underwear for three weeks.

He told me the other day and he was saying, we've got to get some rapid tests so we can enjoy this with you guys. I don't know if this is an optics thing or that's the NBA manual that Pat Riley and Mickey Erickson and Alonzo Mourning can't be around the team. No, it's the protocol.

It is the protocol because they they're at a higher risk. And so I don't know whether that was violated or not, but I know that they're frustrated by the amount of distance that there has to be.

At this point, though, they've been in the bubble longer. But people are coming from outside the bubble and fraternizing with that circle. So I have to imagine at some point they're going to be able to say Mickey Arison wins a title like Protocol Be Damned. He's finding a way on that court. So to be 100 percent clear, Katya has more access to the heat than Pat Riley does at this point. That is correct.

Who do you guys think Wade is rooting for? Just out of curiosity, just some chum in the water, this one's easy because I know these brothers with LeBron, but he also has like a Big Brother relationship with Jimmy Butler.

And this is super cool, although kinda has to be a hit to the ego.

This is happening the year after you retire. Well, not only has to be a hit to the ego, he's got to be wondering, oh, man, maybe I should have stayed like one more year. I could have been. Iguodala I could have been veteran presence. Iguodala Like someone. Right. I don't know if they're here in this exact spot, but you know, the cool part about this season has been the growth and development of the young players in the ball movement.

And I think by saying I think Mike's right, I think Wade ruins everything. I don't think so. We get the five minutes. I mean, all of it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if Miami Heat are here. And that's fine. That's fine.

Billy, can you give me some guidance, please, when Tyler here comes on with us at eleven thirty, should I tiptoe around any of this stuff with Kuzma. Do you have any guidance for me.

Oh no I just don't like a bad idea. Just I mean you know that's, I mean honestly it's going to change anything anyways. Probably not. So do whatever you want. I don't think it's a good idea but I please don't.

So just talk about it on the air behind his back. But don't ask him precisely what he is is. Yes. You're getting a little.

We hung 50 on the on the Florida State Seminoles does just that's nuts. It's crazy that the Miami Hurricanes did do bad teams. What really good teams do on a national stage, they have a quarterback. They have an offensive line that gave up 10 sacks of Florida last year. That, according to pro football focus, hasn't been responsible for a single sack through three games. Right now, no turnovers from the quarterback, a quarterback that is three years older than Tyler.

Here, I'm playing like he's mature. I still don't trust the receivers. But damn it, Dana, we got a football team on the offensive line that's been shocking to watch.

They were terrible last year. They were averaging a five sacks the games to God. Right.

And you remember you mentioned Florida to me. Florida stood out this week in Florida's offense. Good. Florida is going to be a good football team offensively this year. I don't know what Mississippi is offensively. They put whatever was almost 30 on them.

That was hilarious to watch because I was like, Costello, what do I know? That name is a crappy Stanford quarterback. That's a grad. Transfer an sec. Fans, I know you're getting dunked on by Mississippi State fans, but they have been they have been crushing Mike Leach for a decade. Your khatuna offense. Come do that down here week in, week out. And he goes to Death Valley in his first week in the SCC and sits a passing record with a grad transfer.

They have a bunch of guys who are out but might just back to the canes for a second. And you're right, it was super impressive what Mississippi State and Mike Leach did. Let's see if, you know, if he could continue to do it, because usually it flames out at some point. But with the canes, you say we have a football team. You'll probably know in a week if you have a football team or not. Right. I mean, you play Clemson.

Well, wait a minute. Have you got to be there?

Have you talked have you talked yourself into they can play with Clemson?

I think they can. They can. I think they can score with Clemson right now. It's tough to tell. Right, because you don't have nonconference games. So I don't know if the A.C. is bad or anything. I kind of feel like I know Florida State's the worst team on our schedule. I like UAB over Florida State. Louisville lost by three at Pitt. But is Pitt one of the best defenses in the nation? I don't know, because Pitt's not traveling to a Big Ten school and getting their heads caved in.

So it's very difficult. I think Miami can score with anybody the last two weeks to plan from these defenses and say what you will about FSU. But they have some really good defensive talent that's going to go high in the NFL draft will sit back and you've got to beat us with your arm. And Derek King's making great decisions. He's making even better throws than decisions and he's beating teams doing this. Now, Clemson's a different animal. They got the athlete.

Well, forgive my ignorance on this. Help help me. Because I don't I'm not properly informed on this. I know that. I know LSU lost a bunch of people. And so that line seemed fat because people didn't know what Mississippi State. And so LSU was like a seventeen point favorite. But LSU lost a lot of people. I don't actually know how good Clemson's defensive line is. I know it was great two years ago, but they lost a lot of guys from two years ago.

And so I don't know how much havoc they can cause defensively because they played Wake Forest and Citadel.

Yeah, I don't know what kind of team Clemson is. I haven't seen enough. Wake Forest had a game canceled against Notre Dame. If they put up a respectable performance against Notre Dame, you could say, wow, wow, how good is Clemson? There's just it's year over year, especially in a year like this. What I'm encouraged by is the offense looks better every week. And that's expected considering the unprecedented circumstances with like no spring, really limited contact in practice.

They're getting better week to week. I think they can score with Clemson. I don't know. The defense has also been improving. I think they first used receivers, their top three receivers combined for one catch and two yards in that game against the quarterback is so bad. Which one that both of them blackens never going to beat the University of Miami. That's a bad football team.

But this is such a weird year and that it was exciting. Yeah, the first full week, really, this this past weekend, there were a ton of upsets, but I'm looking at the playoff predicted that ESPN has. And it's amazing because a team like Yusif right now, Dan, has a twenty eight percent chance of making it to the final four. That's right behind Wisconsin, Clemson, Alabama and Ohio State. They're going to have a weird final four this year.

NCF can score with anybody. No offense, USF has been the best school in the state for the last, I don't know, five years.

Yeah, I've just pointed BYU has a 15 percent chance right now of making it to the final four just because the schedule is shortened. They're not playing out of conference games. It's a win. And the games are sitting at one percent right now. But that's because of Clemson.

If yeah, well, it's a measuring stick game. It's really to see how much ground do we have to make up between this match up with Clemson and hopefully the next matchup with Clemson in the ACC title game. Want to come away encouraged? I am. Not going into this game, thinking that we can win, I can go into it hoping that we'll see something special, it's not really Death Valley if there's still like rigidities in terms of who they can allow in.

Oh, but I'm not even doing road game, though. Like to me, the analysis. And again, I speak from a point of ignorance because it's not like I have studied the Clemson roster. I'm simply assuming that based on the success that they have had, that they've gotten whatever recruits they've wanted for the last several years. And the reason that I wouldn't like Miami chances is simply, wow, Miami's quarterback's great and they're fighting uphill at that position in that game as well.

Miami's quarterback is great, is a great quarterback. He is a quarterback you would like to build around. A lot of teams would want him. Clemson would not. Clemson would be fine with the guy that they have.

It's the one team they'll play this year, the Canes, where their quarterback, who is great, you're right, will be the second best quarterback on the field.

This is a good time for you to play them, though, right? Like, if they keep it close and they lose, there's plenty of weeks to rebound after this. And if your only loss is against the number one team in the country and that's a week away, the the the hurricanes have a bye week this week so they could move up in the rankings. It'll be one against, let's say, six if they move up. Right. If they're only loss on the season is one and then you go undefeated the rest of the way.

They have a decent resume to get in the final four. And then you'll see what happens as long as they keep it close. Losing that Clemson at this point in the year isn't the worst thing that can happen. It's better to do it now than at the end of the season and be like number three and then you lose the one and then you're out of the playoffs. Lose early. I'm with you.

Get ready for the arguments. We're like an undefeated Oregon that's only played seven games is going up against Miami. That has two losses, but they're both.

The Miami owns the pandemic. The city of Miami benefits for all sorts of weird mutations, like it's the only way our baseball team, even Billy, die hard. Sports fan Billy Die Hard Marlins fan. Since he was six years old, Billy wouldn't be out here making arguments on behalf of the Marlins making the playoffs if the season was 162 game season. But a Miami football team playing this mutated weird schedule where, you know, their defensive ends are good.

I think their offensive line is good. And I don't understand why their offensive line is good because it was young and terrible last year. But I didn't expect it to be young and terrible and then make a leap to not allowing any pressures.

Is it fair to say that we're the best at sports? I mean, is that fair pandemic sport? I mean, you're right. We have dominated the pandemic. Sports are the best. When rules go out the window, we excel.

When when rules go out the window, we've got a casket delivering liquor at a place.

Who approves that? Like who's the manager, whatever you want to produce. Yeah, we have the budget for that. Yeah, we could get that in the budget basket. Sure.

Yes I am. I'll do it. Billy, I can't even imagine your level of fear in all circumstances. I can't imagine the horror with which you looked at videos coming out of Miami and the governor now allowed things. And I believe and this is dangerously close to political talk, but we are sitting here and just getting a whole bunch of flooding the market with just a bunch of distractions that like just super saturating the market with scandals so that you turn you look up and you don't notice that Trump has paid seven hundred and fifty dollars in taxes like in the last several years.

Like everything's moving so fast, it's hard to keep track of all of them. It's hard to keep track of sports. It feels like the Marlins clinch the playoffs two weeks ago.

What's wrong with that?