Andrew Schulz, Akaash Singh, and guests dissect the podcast's rebranding for SEO before critiquing Nike's rookie combine and debating NBA playoff matchups. They analyze Nikola Jokic's playmaking against Damian Lillard, James Harden's controversial officiating strategies, and Kawhi Leonard's defensive dominance. The conversation also covers Kyler Murray's historic NFL draft selection, Spurs culture under Gregg Popovich, and heated exchanges regarding Asian identity in America, ultimately exploring how sports narratives intersect with broader social dynamics. [Automatically generated summary]
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Welcome to Flagrant 200:08:51
What's up, everybody?
Welcome to Andrew Schultz's Flagrant 2: No Easy Buckets.
I am Andrew Schultz's Akash Singh.
I am Andrew Schultz's Real Life Kaz.
Andrew Schultz is Alex Media.
And I'm Andrew Schultz's Andrew Schultz.
And, you know, we're just here on Andrew Schultz platform ready to spit some hot takes.
Akash, do you have any hot takes about the...
Yeah, you know, Andrew Schultz's Akash Singh has some hot takes.
Thanks for clarifying.
Thank you for clarifying.
Plus, I'll speak.
Permission to speak.
Oh, permission granted.
Andrew Schultz's Real Life Kaz also has some put out today.
So thank you.
That's all.
Thank you for granting me the permission to speak.
Andrew Schultz's Alex, Andrew Schultz's Alex Media.
How is your weekend?
Was everything good?
Andrew Schultz's Alex Media had a great weekend with Andrew Schultz.
You know, it's funny.
It was Andrew Schultz's weekend that you were all.
Well, Andrew Schultz's Andrew Schultz had an amazing weekend with Andrew Schultz's Alex Media.
So I'm just so glad that we can all be on the same page, man.
Like, what an amazing weekend of content, right?
Amazing.
You see Andrew Schultz's The Avengers' Game of Thrones?
Andrew Schultz's Game of Thrones comes pretty close, man.
Andrew Schultz's Avengers endgame.
Andrew Schultz's endgame was way better.
Way back.
Absolutely.
Come on.
I would almost say that Game of Thrones was so bad, it wasn't even Andrew Schultz's.
Oh, God.
Okay.
We could do this the whole episode, but we got so much shit to cover.
I want to quickly acknowledge, or we want to quickly acknowledge the name change.
No, Andrew Schultz wants to quickly acknowledge the name change.
It's on the line on Andrew Schultz's Flagrant, too.
Okay, so basically what happens is this.
I'll tell you very quickly what's going on.
You couldn't search for our podcast via our names at all.
So if you typed in our names on any podcast, the iTunes podcast app, they didn't come up, which was a huge problem, especially since a lot of people have been searching my name recently on YouTube with certain videos going viral, et cetera.
And we wanted to capitalize on that.
So we had a discussion together.
Okay.
The discussion was called the Andrew Schultz's discussion.
We met at Andrew Schultz's Preta Monger.
Andrew Schultz's Prada Monger.
You're right.
Presented by Andrew Schultz.
And we had a discussion.
And then the idea was this: we put, oh, basically, what goes on is this.
When Loudspeakers, the company that presents this, I guess this is Andrew Schultz's Loudspeakers presents and Andrew Schultz's Flagrant 2.
They have an iTunes account and their name is locked to the iTunes account.
And I figured this out when I tried to search for Charlemagne's name on iTunes and Brilliant Idiots didn't even come up.
Then I searched my name on iTunes and Flagrant 2 or Brilliant Idiots didn't come up.
And I was like, okay, this is quite peculiar and horrible business.
So the iTunes account is already locked.
The iTunes account cannot be changed.
A bunch of podcasts come from this iTunes account.
So the only way you can make your podcast searchable is either putting your name in every episode, which seemed a lot.
I think we have really clever episode titles, or putting the names in the title of the podcast.
And since currently I have the most searchable name, which is Andrew Schultz, because Andrew Schultz presents Bing.
We thought that the best way to bring new eyes and new ears to the podcast was to put it in there.
I may be a tyrant, but this was not a tyrannical act.
No, it was not.
Yeah.
And shout out to everybody in the Discord who was adding me all week.
Like, how are you guys going to let them change it up?
I'm like, I'm like, guys, like, even if you just, just plain common sense, you look at Andrew's YouTube pages, you see the stand-up comedy stuff doing millions of views, and then the Flagrant 2 stuff doing okay views, but not millions of views.
I mean, hey, we all looked at each other.
It's like, it'll be nice to do a million views on Flagrant 2.
Andrew Schultz is we really was like, we should have done this earlier.
We should have got the Rogan bump.
We the only motherfuckers with the Rogan bumps.
We were the only people that didn't benefit from the Rogan bump.
Out of all of your like.
Us and Andrew Schultz and Charlamagne are the only people that didn't benefit from the Rogan bump.
Obviously.
I mean, it was something that we all discussed.
It wasn't something that we all just woke up to while we were looking at the podcast.
And it was uncomfortable for me, to be honest with you.
I know I sat down with you guys.
Because initially, the first thing we said, like, initially, we were like, yeah, it's cool, but like, you're going to look kind of crazy.
Like, you're going to look like, you know, like you're kind of sucking your own dick a little bit.
So, like, right.
Which you are.
Yeah.
Let me tell you something.
Andrew Schultz can suck Andrew Schultz's dick.
In all seriousness.
I mean, I've worked on internet and done blogs and websites for a while.
Like, SEO is like extremely important.
So, like, if we're getting most of our track from iTunes and, like, you can't just Google Flagrant 2 or Akash or any of us and it don't pop up, that's an issue.
So, I mean, like, it was either do that and, you know, still do okay or make the change and, you know, and try to capitalize and push.
And it was a conversation, obviously, we all had.
And, you know, usually I don't like to address these types of things because you can't address everything you hear.
But it was important.
I don't care if an opinion is taken a certain way on a podcast.
Yeah.
I do mind if intent is taken away.
And that's what bothered me.
I thought that there was a confusion about intent.
You know, welcome, Andrew Schultz's.
Eden is back here.
And thank you.
Did you bring Andrew Schultz's coffee?
No, you're right.
Andrew Schultz's Akash sing.
Andrew Schulz's Gregory's coffee.
So the intent was very important for me to address.
And, you know, obviously Kaz and Akash and Alex and Eden understand where I'm coming from.
He was the last person to sign off on the photo, actually.
Andrew sent it to me, and I was like, whatever.
And then he was like, I don't know.
I'm not sold yet.
I wasn't because I wanted it to be, yeah, I wanted to make sure that we could get the most out of this.
Obviously, I'm having a moment right now.
And my, you know, if anybody's known me for the extent of my career, I will make sure that the people around me succeed.
That is 100% fact.
I mean, Akash, I think you know that.
Alex, you guys know that intimately.
So the conversation we had was, listen, how do I, how do we capitalize on this?
I want Flagrant to be the space.
I want to be the home for everything I do.
I want weekly for all us all to come here.
And I'd like to bring everybody that's watching these clips around the world to this and have this be the epicenter of flagrancy.
And from that, you grow, you use that equity, and then you start to do projects for people.
I mean, we're helping out with cause and effect.
We're going to be doing Akash's new project or special at the end of the year.
And it basically gives me the bandwidth to do what I really do like doing, which is helping out my friends who I think are really talented.
And the more this grows, the better it is for all of us.
Absolutely.
The Rising Tide, you know, relives all ships.
The flagrancy spreads.
Yeah.
The flagrancy spreads.
So there it is.
Acknowledge.
Enjoy the comments in the Discord.
You still need to go on it.
Well, I'm going to rename it.
Well play.
All right, let's get the show started, man.
Oh, my lord.
By the way, this episode is brought to you by this episode.
That's how important this is that we had to acknowledge this before we pay bills, y'all.
You see that?
Anyway, Andrew Schultz's bills.
Yes.
This episode.
All the bills could be Andrew Schultz's bills.
You know, they had been for a while, to be honest with you.
That is true.
I was paying the bills.
Nobody had a problem with that.
I was like, who runs this out?
Okay, right.
Who pays Alex?
It was Andrew Schultz's flavor, too.
Okay.
Okay, give.
Okay, listen, guys.
If you've ever stopped at a railroad crossing, right, and the signals are flashing and you don't see the train or it looks like it's moving slow and you're thinking maybe you could get across the tracks before the train comes.
Think about this.
In 2018 alone, 270 people were killed at railroad crossings.
270 people.
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Stop.
Trains can't.
Okay.
You got to stop.
Do not cross.
If you hear that chugga-chugga-chugga, it's coming for you.
You're not going to make it.
You don't have that NFL 40 time.
You got Kaz's 40 time.
Kazuri is 6-0.
We want to talk about this.
We got witnesses here so they can fucking tell you what happened.
We are going to talk about this.
This is about train safety, for God's sake.
Train safety.
Train safety.
I'm just saying, we have to be careful.
We have to make sure that we are not messing up and we are being safe when these trains are coming through, man.
It's a big deal.
Nobody wants to talk about it, but we're going to talk about it.
All right.
Do not cross if you hear that train, see that train, or even see the thing close.
It's there for your safety.
And I know you think you're young and spry and you got your fast switch muscles.
That's what Kaz thought, too.
Okay?
You want to know what the cause and effect was this week?
Old age.
That was the cause and effect this week.
Finish the ad, all right, because I got things to talk about.
This is a lot of girls with my chest.
Anyway, this has been brought to you by the NHTSA, and they want you to be out there and be careful and make sure that you don't get run over by a train.
So just trust them.
And things will, I mean, look, it is a disaster when that happens.
Yeah, of course.
An absolute disaster.
And as we segue to another disaster, which is your combine, why don't you break down?
Let's break it down.
Exactly what happened.
All right.
So last week, Nike invited myself and a few other media members from wherever, like from all ESPN Bleach Report or whatever, to do a truncated version of the rookie combine, right?
Love it.
They had a 20-yard dash, which you did in six seconds?
No.
So this is the thing.
They double the time when you do it, right?
Bro, what are you holding?
They had a three-cone shuttle drill.
They had a vertical jump and they had a L shuttle drill, right?
So let me show you how this shit is set up.
And I think Eden has that.
Doubling the time is not fair.
It's not fair because it takes you a while to start up.
Exactly.
So one.
The last 20 is definitely faster than the first one.
Way faster.
Yeah.
Thank you, Akash.
They basically just gave you your slowest time and then doubled it.
Basically, if it makes you feel any better, it's not your 40 time.
It's Andrew Schultz's.
Yeah, yeah.
Good point.
All right, so this is the numbers, right?
The vertical is not bad.
It wasn't a running.
24.
You know, that's a higher vertical than John Jones.
Really?
John Jones is like a 22-inch vertical.
Oh, yeah.
That was my vertical just straight up without running and jumping.
The short shuttle was all right.
The short shuttle was good.
The three-cone drill, I stumbled on, I think, right?
So it's flat feet, bro.
With the flat feet, right?
So the 40 was this, right?
So mind you, before I'm doing my 40, like Debo Samuel, Damakin Su, like all these like guys, like either first round, about to be first round picks or like all pro guys, watch me run.
And the Damaken Sue's looking at me like, oh, yo, dude, you can move.
Like, yo, this is how you do it.
So he's like teaching me how to like, this will all be on Revolt this week, by the way.
So like, he's like teaching me how to like run a proper 40, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So I do it.
And mind you.
The 40 like if you've ever been in the Nike gym, right?
Yeah.
They put a turf on the basketball court.
Okay.
There was maybe two feet of like hardwood floor and then just wall, right?
Oh.
So you have to slow down or else you're going to smack right into the wall.
And if you guys saw that video that went viral with Darren Revelle like running his 40 this week.
Yeah, It looked shitty like that.
Yeah, yeah.
So mind you, this is a 20-yard dash that was doubled twice and I had to slow down to avoid crashing.
So in real time, it was like a 3-9.
No.
Was it?
I don't remember.
I was running 0-3-9.
First off, I've ran 40s before.
The fastest 40 I ever ran was a 4-8.
That's pretty fucking good.
Which isn't bad.
Yeah.
That's fucking good.
And I've done a Fanike football study, too.
So here's the actual.
It's 40 yards.
40 yards, yeah.
What do you?
I'm trying to think what I could run that in.
All right, so let me just slowest of the three.
Can we play the 30-yard?
No, 10 yards a second.
Yeah, yeah.
10 yards in one second.
4-1-9 is the fastest I think I've ever, in this video, they have like a 40-yard dash.
Yeah.
They have a tracker of John Ross's 40, so it compares you to like a 4.2 or something like that, right?
You ever heard the Dion story?
Yeah, just give me a shot.
So mind you, first off.
Less than that guy.
All right, pause right here.
Pause right here.
This is you?
Yeah, this is me.
They didn't have lotion?
Fuck you.
Son, dude.
Your elbow looks like a territano, bro.
What the hell is going on?
It looks like your foot, family.
Bro, that shit is.
It was crazy as fuck in the morning.
Yeah, it was like in 9-30.
That's how you know them shit.
That's a player.
Did they just remove a horn?
So they shoot it from mad angles to make it look like a 40, but it's really 20 yards.
Okay.
And there's the wall right there.
Okay, that's a lot of space.
That's like 30 feet.
That's not a lot of space.
Are you wilding?
That's a lot of space.
That's not a lot of space.
There's hardwood right there.
I'm running in clean.
There's a lot of explanation for it.
Look, man, it's 20-yard day.
Oh, that's the wall.
That's the whole wall.
Oh, no.
We thought the wall was on the other side.
There's a window.
Let's clarify.
There's a window that happens a couple feet after the good 10 people crash into that fence already.
So I'm like, there's no way I'm going to be the 11.
So I stop here because there's a whole basketball court here.
And I've seen people get their cleats stuck in there, slamming the fence.
So I'm like, fuck that.
I'm not running my fastest.
I'm going to slow down around like the 1520.
And it turned into a six-point.
All right, let's watch it one more time and just look at your thing.
Look at that.
Look at that elbow.
Holy shit.
Jesus Christ.
Piercing through the wind.
Look at that.
It's not bad.
It takes you a little bit to start up, too.
But I'm moving.
And that's why it's more unfair that you got a 20-yard dash.
It takes you because you kind of.
You're lumbering.
Yeah, you're more lumbering.
Like, I don't have a quick start, but once I get going, I can move.
Yeah, it's not even long enough for us to make fun of.
I really wanted it to be way longer.
But it's just.
I was trying to explain to people.
I was like, yo, like, it's...
Do you have lotion in your hand, Alex?
Can you pass me that lotion?
Thanks.
That's a good catch.
Catch it.
It was really a good.
It was a throw.
It was a throw, though.
That was a good catch.
That was a good catch.
He overhead caught me.
Take out that bow, bro.
Take out that elbow.
I got a long sleeve on, bro.
I'm sure it's cut a hole through the elbow part.
By now, you just put it directly on, dude.
Look at that.
Whoa, fucking dragon scale.
What is it called?
Dragon glass.
No, not dragging big.
First of all, Dragon Scale.
He was looking ashy today, bro.
Well, that looked ashy.
This ain't that ashy.
Yeah, that's pretty ashy.
That's not that ash.
That's breaking up, bro.
You don't know as.
I see waves.
You don't know.
Now, your elbow got waves.
I just flake out.
Who's that right there?
That's John Ross.
He ran the fastest sport.
So the Deion story.
Okay, yeah.
He stretches a little bit, comes up with the combine, stretches a little bit, runs like a warm-up lap, then runs his 40.
Yeah.
And then doesn't stop running, just runs out of the tunnel and then doesn't participate in any more drills.
Because it's going to be that fast.
I thought that the Deion story I heard was he showed up and then they go, Do you want to run the 40?
And he goes, Who had the fastest time?
And then he goes, Give me a 10th of a second lower than him.
I heard that he ran the 40, and that's it.
Like, just ran the 40, ran, didn't stop running, kept going out of the tunnel, and then left.
It is a different thing.
Like, raw speed is a different thing because, and we had this conversation.
I forget, maybe it was on Brilliantis, but like, everybody has run before.
Yeah.
So when you're the fastest runner, it's insane.
You are literally the fastest person.
We don't know who the best basketball player is.
We know who the best person who's ever had the opportunity to play basketball, right?
Everybody runs.
Everybody has run.
Every man, every woman.
Unequivocally, Usain Bolt is the fastest human on the planet.
That is fucking cool, man.
That's really cool.
It's kind of like he practices.
What I'm saying is that running is so, I think, ubiquitous is the term that if you have intense speed, someone will find you no matter where you are in the world.
You could be in some Siberian village and they'll be like, oh, shit, he's pretty fast.
You'll enter some tournament and eventually they'll be like, oh, this guy's fast.
Let's train him.
You don't miss out on the best runner.
They find seven-foot Africans all the time.
Running gotta be running the first sport?
Hell yeah.
Running or fighting, right?
Well, you ran to the fight.
Four away, yeah.
For sure.
Yeah, and humans were probably running away from a lot of shit.
Facts.
That's true.
I mean, those were the humans that stay alive.
That's probably the first thing we learned how to do.
Like, there were dinosaurs running around.
It was like, that was dinosaurs.
With the crystal running.
I don't know about that shit.
Yeah, no, like, it's.
This shit looks terrible.
Yeah, you got a little squat going on.
But the end is strong.
It's a little side to side, but you also your strides are mad long.
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Yeah, I got long legs, bro.
Yeah, you're good.
The end is strong.
All right.
Well, anyway, we just wanted to make sure that we addressed your trash ass running.
But look at the assessment, though.
In line with many pro athletes, work on maintaining speed and tighter turns.
All right.
Yeah.
They got to be comparing you against other bleacher report dudes.
What kind of air?
They had like a leaderboard the whole time, and I was like in the top three.
I was like, yeah, I'm killing.
Then I'm looking around.
I'm like, what kind of athlete, though?
That's the question.
There was like some legit athletes in there, though.
No, that they're comparing you with.
Oh, fuck.
I'm a big dude, bro.
I stood next to Domican Sue.
I was like, oh, shit.
Like, you're kind of.
He's like, yeah, you're a big boy.
Like, same, same size.
That's a big motherfucker for the NFL.
You didn't think that he was bigger than you?
You didn't think that he was like.
I thought he would be bigger than me.
But he wasn't that much bigger.
Nah, like, really?
He was a little bit more cut, but like, we're same height and like size and shit.
Yeah.
How much do you want?
There's a picture on my arm.
I'm 240, 245.
Ah.
How much is Sue?
Sue 60?
I don't know.
Maybe.
But no, there's a picture of us on my Instagram.
260.
Oh, no, 260.
260 miles.
Yeah.
I mean, he's considerably bigger, but yeah, I know what you mean.
But he's not, he didn't like.
I thought he'd be.
Yeah, he thought he'd dwarf you.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's not crazy.
He's just wider than you.
Yeah.
But he's like, you could see it at pause.
You can see like through his shirt.
I'm like, nah, this motherfucker is like cut up.
Yeah.
Like, I don't look like that.
He also, you, you flexing, and he just, he's in a very neat pose.
He's that full relaxed.
He's flexing.
That's a flex right there.
Hey, bro, you don't got to be jelly, man.
I don't know, John.
We really don't got it.
He's jelly right now, bro.
This guy's a professional.
What is he?
A lineman, right?
D-lineman?
The defensive element.
Yeah, defensive element.
And, right?
Yeah.
One of the best to ever do it.
Without, like, you know, the whole stepping on people shit.
That motherfucker loves.
He loves.
He ain't one of the best to ever do it.
He's good.
He was real good for a few years.
He was a couple.
He won a couple all-pro.
He went a couple Pro Bowls, no?
Yeah.
He went to a Super Bowl.
Super Bowls ain't the best to ever do it.
He went to a Super Bowl.
He was a title.
He was a top one.
He was an all-over catch.
John Wall, one of the best to ever do it.
Yeah.
All right.
He's like John Wall level up.
Yeah, hey, man.
He's John Wall of them.
He's good as fuck.
He's good as fuck.
I'm about to get caught out of a carry.
I felt like as a sports person, I couldn't let you get away with it.
But he's a beast.
He's a beast.
I've been hearing about Sue since college for over a decade now.
He's a monster in college.
We just think defensive ends.
There was like five or six people you think of, and he's one of them.
How do you spell his name?
Don't look at it.
Oh, fuck.
I know how to spell it.
Go.
N-D-U-M-O-N-K-O-N-G.
Wrong.
Stop looking.
Son.
I was going to have a spell off.
Oh, fuck.
That's close.
Go.
I think it's N-D-A.
Yep.
N-D-A-M-A-N.
You got a pill and paper.
That don't count.
No, no, no.
Don't look.
No, no.
You can spell it.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I don't want to.
I don't worry.
N-D-A-M-A-N-K.
Wrong, you fucking fake-ass Indian.
Can't spell shit.
Yeah, that's Damakung.
I'll spell it.
You want me to spell it?
No.
Ready?
Here it is.
I got you.
All right.
A-N-D-R-E-W, S-C-H-U-L-Z, apostrophe S and Dominic Sue.
Motherfucker.
All right, man.
Outside of obviously Avengers endgame, we're not talking about it.
Game of Thrones, we're not talking about it.
Y'all can tap into Western Bros for all that good shit.
I also haven't seen it in game.
I want to talk about it.
I don't know how you went this whole weekend without it.
You got to see it, man.
It's fucking fantastic, though.
It's really good.
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We're not going to ruin any of it, but we've had a pretty amazing weekend of content.
It's been amazing.
Oh, it's been so good.
From the draft?
Even the draft is interesting.
The NFL draft is never interesting.
The draft is interesting.
Let's get into some basketball.
I want to talk about the we're seeing playoff Kyrie and playoff Kawhi.
And playoff.
James Harden.
Playoff Kyrie.
What's up?
And playoff KD.
And playoff KD and playoff James Harden.
And I think this is very interesting to start about because playoff Kyrie is, and regular season Kyrie is the inverse of playoff James Harden and regular season James Harden.
Okay.
So playoff Kyrie is locked in, hungry, getting at it.
Pull him out in the fourth because the game's already over.
Playoff James Harden is like Kazus 40.
Pathetic.
Yeah.
Do we want to talk about Kyrie first or Harden first?
I love how y'all just bruise through Kyrie.
Give him his love.
Y'all just gave him all these attributes, right?
But like all year, all you were saying.
He deserved it all year.
All you were saying is he won the league rate.
You're still not sold.
Yeah, how are you still not sold?
This is a team that already made it to the conference finals last year.
And the only reason they didn't go to the finals is because LeBron in game seven.
Okay.
Only reason.
So we're acting like he's carrying the fucking team.
I picked him to beat Milwaukee on Wednesday.
He's not carrying the team.
But this is lost a game.
He's not carrying them, but he is doing exceptionally.
He's playing exceptionally well.
And I'll always be objective when it comes to players.
I don't think that any of my criticisms about Kyrie have had to do with his play outside of defense.
All of my criticisms of Kyrie have had to do with him as a teammate.
There's no question whether he could get buckets.
I don't think there's anybody in the league that can stop him.
And I think he's one of the most fierce scorers in the history of the game, right?
I agree with all that.
It's incredibly clear he's locked in.
One.
And two, this is the thing that is incredibly clear, that Jason Tatum is being the beta.
And the issues earlier this season was Jason was not about to give up that alpha.
And Jason Tatum has tucked his fucking tail between his legs and decide to take it in his ass for the entire playoffs by Big Daddy Kyrie Irving.
I don't even know where Jason was.
I was watching this game.
Like, does he play on the team?
I don't think he's tucking his tail in.
I just think like Kyrie is so locked in.
Like, he's been a, like, he's just a force now.
So it's like, you're either going to get on that boat or you're going to get ran over.
And Gordon Ayrton.
I think we're saying the same thing.
Gordon A. Woods.
He's got to play well.
He played well these last night.
He played pretty well.
I was watching it.
It's shell of himself.
He's played well.
Jalen Brown's played well, but Tatum's just like been a ghost.
I think we're saying the same thing.
I think we agree, right?
I'm saying, what I'm saying is with Kyrie, this series right here, especially the way they line up, is tailor-made for Kyrie to go off.
I'm the only one who picked him.
Y'all picked Milwaukee both, y'all.
And I'm not directing that at him as much as I am you.
I never said Kyrie's bad.
I said I don't like his attitude.
He's injury prone.
He's not great at defense.
He's ridiculous offensively.
He does have a killer instinct.
I would still rather have Dame for all the reasons I listed.
I think Dame ain't great at all.
Kyrie's gonna be better.
Kyrie got a chip.
Who is Dame's best player ever?
Is this CJ McCollum that he's played with?
I guess so.
Marcus Aldridge, who the game passed by?
I understand.
He ain't had no greatest ever top two rounds.
I understand what you're saying, but when you're talking about just killer instinct between those two, I'm not talking about who's had a better team or who's been in better situations.
Like, Kyrie has had those moments too, but Kyrie's had the finals.
Kyrie's had them too, and he's had really big moments.
Sure, for sure.
I don't think Akash is knocking Kyrie as much as he's saying that he, exactly.
He's uplifting Dame, and he's saying that there are certain things that are concerns about Kyrie, which are personality stuff, which I think we can all agree with.
I think that's where we're all agreeing.
I'd never say that he was bad.
Okay.
Yes.
That's definitely a personality.
He is really good.
This is what happens a lot, I think, with players, right?
It's like the second you lift another player up, right?
The assumption is you're bringing the comparison player down.
No.
This is how truly good we think Dame Lillard is.
We are lifting him past Kyrie.
Kyrie hasn't gone anywhere.
Kyrie's still sitting in that nine range out of 10 or whatever you mark him.
We're just going, hey, Dame is 9.1.
And the reason I still stand by and wouldn't give him a max deal is because of attitude and injury prone.
And injury's huge with Max Steel.
And I'm a guy that, my personal philosophy is I'm not giving out a lot of Max Deals.
There's maybe 10 of those in the league that I'm like, well, you're going to have to.
Sure.
You might ask him.
That's a great point.
That's a great point.
Because I feel like I'm a max player.
It don't matter what you think of the team.
Somebody will pay.
I would rather not be there.
But furthermore, it's you need to sign someone.
And there are 10 teams that need guys and six guys that are out there.
That's fair.
And when that market presents itself like that, all six are getting max, right?
In an ideal situation, let's say.
And the thing is, if you're not going to be able to get a fear that GM that doesn't give Kyrie a max, one of those teams that already has a max player is going to be like, all right, we'll give you the max.
Exactly.
We think you're a max player.
Exactly.
You don't got to be like, I think max players are on different tiers where it's like, you could be a max player and be the man like LeBron is, or you could be a max player like Jimmy Butler.
You could be the man, but you'd be much better as alongside another Max Player.
It's no different than the real estate market.
A one bedroom in New York is four grand.
Yeah.
A mansion in Alabama is four grand.
Right.
But sometimes the market presents itself in a way where you're going to get a little bit less for the same amount of money.
So the thing is, I know you're operating back in a vacuum, right?
But it doesn't matter if you hesitate.
Because someone else will be there.
Here's my other counterpart.
Yeah, go.
I think if you give him a max and you got another guy that deserves a max that's your fucking dog, I think those two are going to butt heads.
And I think a guy that might be a little more compliant, which I think Dame would be, and again, not knocking Kyrie.
My point is really, we've underrated Dame.
And I say this to Andrew when I watch the All-Star game, I saw Dame taking those logo threes.
And I was like, why do we not talk about this?
Yeah, right.
He's so fucking good.
And I think Kaz point out why we don't.
We don't care about the late night games, especially in Portland.
Late night games, there's the East Coast bias.
And when you do watch those late night games, either the Clippers, either the Lakers or the Warriors are getting a lot of money.
And there's way more interesting storylines on the West Coast.
It's the Lakers, the trailers, the Oracle.
The Golden State Warriors or the Rockets.
There's a lot more going on there.
But in this offseason, and you're not going to have that situation.
What you will have the situation this offseason is Kemba and Kyrie.
And I think that's a perfect example of what you're talking with is Kemba's going to be more compliant because we've seen him be compliant in Charlotte.
Kyrie will not.
And as a team, Kaz, you got to make the decision, right?
Because of performances like showing in the postseason.
No, sure, sure, sure.
If you're understanding.
But you got to make a decision as a GM, right?
You got to go, okay, I have, let's say you're the Knicks.
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, you're the Knicks.
And let's say KD comes.
There's all hypotheticals, right?
You're a GM of the Knicks.
Now you want KD to be the man because he's been waiting to be the man.
Do you want a guy who's going to do some, I don't want to spoil Avengers, but do you want a guy who's going to, I think you know the scene I'm talking about at the end, we're not going to talk about, but do you want a guy who's going to question who the captain of the ship is?
Yeah.
Or do you want a guy who's going to go, hey, I'm first mate?
We all know who the captain is.
Yeah.
Right?
Right, right.
You know what I'm saying?
And those of us who have seen Avengers know what I'm talking about, not ruined anything.
When I say Pippin ability, Jordan mentality, Pippin is a fucking great player.
Of course.
But I want my Pippin to have a Pippin mentality.
Wait for it.
And one of the greatest things about Pippen is the lack of ego.
Yeah.
Right.
I'll play defense.
I'll do whatever.
I'll do whatever it takes.
So here's my question.
Here are you, Kaz.
Here's my question.
You're Nick's GM.
Yeah.
You have the opportunity to sign KD and Kyrie or KD and Kemba.
What decision do you do?
KD and Kyrie, and I don't blink about it for a second.
Give me the example.
I take Kyrie and KD because I feel like the reason why Kyrie acts the way he does is because he looks at everybody on Boston Celtics and he knows nobody's better than them.
There's no way he could look KD in the eye and be like, you're better than Kyde.
I think he did it to LeBron.
He can do it to KD.
He learned from LeBron.
That's the risk you're taking.
Maybe he did.
I think he's learned.
I think he's learned his lesson.
I think the one player on earth that he can't look at, like, I think he thinks he's better than stuff.
I think he thinks he's better than Dame.
I think he thinks he's better than Kemba.
I think he's better than Harden, any of these guys.
I think Kevin Durant, and maybe to a, I hate to do the big brother thing, but for the fact that they were teammates, maybe LeBron James.
KD and LeBron are the only two people he can't look dead in the eye and be like, I'm better than you.
Okay.
Because he's not.
But I think one thing.
Yeah, yeah.
So your knock on Kyrie was his attitude throughout the regular season.
Right.
You guys have been watching the playoff Kyrie, though.
He's been up more than just about any teammate, congratulating everybody.
So one theory.
He's been super positive.
Yeah, it's a good point.
So it's like playoff, when it counts, you want that player on your team.
I want to ask you, Aka.
I want to ask you real quick.
You're a GM.
Yeah.
You have to put KD with Kemba or Kyrie.
I think I would do Kemba because of durability.
And I think the ego thing, even if I can, I can concede your, maybe he would little brother to KD, I'd be uneasy about it, but I'm like, all right, he's definitively more skilled than Kemba.
Yeah.
But Kemba, I don't have nearly as many questions about him being available for all 82.
Is there a question?
Is there a question if you're a GM and you are sensitive to what KD has gone through, which is he's had point guards on his teams that have outshined him and have gotten their way over his way.
Do you want to put him in yet another environment with a point guard who is going to want their way?
Absolutely.
You say yes.
Absolutely.
I'm uneasy about it.
And again, with durability, I'd say no.
I'm not about to roll the dice on KD the solo act.
He's never in his career not had an all-world point guard by his side.
If there's any time KD has seemed ready to be a solo act in attitude and games, it's right now.
Yeah.
And my Kemba, real quick, with Kemba, the thing about, I don't think we've ever seen Kemba play with anybody good.
No, we never have.
Imagine what Kemba.
He's been begging to get Kemba some help for the past five years.
Let's think about what Kemba does when he's number one option and you know the double team's coming.
Imagine what he's going to do when KD is soaking up that whole half of the court.
Yes.
Right?
Like the whole half is centered around KD.
One quick swing over, Kemba becomes spot up shooter, which is knockdown.
He's knocked down off the dribble.
So spot up, forget it.
Right.
And he has ISO one-on-one against the second best defender on the team.
Yeah.
I mean, I feel like Kemba's, like we were talking about max players.
I think Kemba's in that B level of max guy.
Yeah, yeah.
Like Jimmy Butler.
It's called Tobias Harris.
It's called the White Boy Max.
No, this is a real term.
So my boy was in the Gordon Harrod is the white boy Max.
And Kevin Love started the White Boy Max.
So it's when you get the max deal, but for four years instead of five.
And maybe that was an old CBA thing, but it was, remember, you could max out five in the story.
And my boy was in the locker room, one all-star game, and he overheard the conversation.
And they go up to Kev, and they're like, all right, Kev, you got that max.
And he goes, and a white boy Max.
So even he knew what the fuck it was.
See, I didn't know that was a thing.
Yeah.
I got to see that.
One potential point in defending Kyrie, I think we talked about this on a Patreon episode where he said he heard from Kobe that you need to be an irritant in the locker room.
You need to test these guys.
You need to push these guys.
So maybe it's possible he was doing that in the regular season.
To Alex's point, it is possible.
Do what works.
I still don't fully buy it, and I still don't think they get by Toronto.
I picked them to get by Milwaukee.
I don't think Toronto, but that is possible that he was testing them all year.
Then playoff time, he's like, all right, no more bullshit.
So knowing all that, if it works, if the Kobe system works, I flip.
And Kyrie leads them to a championship.
Leading to a championship will flip me.
I bet that's stupid to leave.
Not even championship.
You get to the finals.
If he takes them to the finals in a leadership role and continues this kind of positive energy off the bench and truly leading his team, I can completely look at the regular season as a Kobe-esque experiment in keeping your team motivated instead of looking at it as a diva breaking apart the nucleus that was very healthy and young.
I mean, you've been like, I hear stories about that all the time.
82 games is a long fucking season.
You have to stay motivated somehow.
You see the Warriors.
That's why everybody thinks they're so vulnerable right now.
82 games are so long.
This is their fourth trip to the finals, fifth trip to the finals, possibly.
Like if it takes that much time, like you need to stay motivated somehow.
And everybody said the Warriors are very easily that you can pick them off this year because they don't look motivated.
They have defensive lapses.
Stan Van Gundy has been saying this every single time you get him in front of a camera.
He's like, they can be beat this year.
They are not locked in.
The people that locked them in aren't there anymore.
They had irritants.
They had Draymond getting KD's face out.
Damn West, like all these, all these guys that filled in those holes that they're showing this year.
Like, he's saying they had irritants this year.
Like, Draymond was an irritant.
No, but I mean, like, a lot of the guys, they had more than Draymond before.
They had, what's his face?
Javel McGee.
He's agreeing with your idea.
You know, it's an interesting study.
Yeah.
I heard the study on the ticket.
It was, it studied, I think, specifically basketball dynasties.
Yeah.
And they looked at the one common trait that they all had, and it was actually a guy who was willing to do the dirty work, didn't need credit, was willing to call out teammates when they, no matter how big their name was, when they weren't doing right or like weren't doing right by the team, and willing to go at coaches.
And they said that's the common.
And I thought about who they were, probably.
David West, Udonis Haslam.
Iggy.
Iggy is the game.
Iggy is the guy.
I think Poplar for the Spurs.
I know like Tim Duncan, too.
Maybe.
Tim Duncan.
And that was one of the beautiful things about his lyrics because the best player on the team was the one not only holding players accountable, but himself.
He was in all credit.
And it was, for a fact, Derek Fisher with the Lakers.
He was the one that he would defend Kobe to the other team when Kobe was right, and he would go at Kobe when the team was right.
And he'd be like, yo, Kobe.
Did I ever tell you that story about how Pop would yell at Tim Duncan in front of the players?
I think you might have.
I feel like I've heard this somewhere unless I said it.
So Pop would rip Tim Duncan in front of the players.
And then afterwards, Pop and Tim Duncan would have combos like, was that cool?
Everything was.
It was completely set up.
But the thing was, if the best player on the team and the best power forward ever is going to take criticism for the coach, who the fuck is Patty Mills?
Building a Giant Team00:07:02
Yeah.
Right?
Who the fuck is Manu Genoba?
Who the fuck is that?
That's how you establish culture.
Absolutely.
Any franchise with culture, the head coach and the best player are always like that.
So who is that now with the Spurs?
Who does he come down on?
It's not LaMarcus.
They just started talking.
It's not TeRosa.
He's sensitive.
DeMar sensitive.
It's got to be like Deontay Murray got to get really good.
Yeah, I think it's just his point guards, like Patty Mills, Deontay Murray.
What's it?
Derek White.
Before we talk about the end of that game, the Spurs Nuggets game, where apparently no one knew what the fuck they were doing.
Did you read the article about the Spurs team dinners?
No.
Big ASPN article.
I wish I had taken more notes, but I just read it out of interest.
Since Pop has gotten there, he's been having these team dinners on road trips.
Like most teams go back home immediately.
He will always find a dinner.
He's like a foodie and a big wine head.
And he'll go to like a Michigan star rated diner, Michigan star.
The last one.
Wow, you want is a restaurant rated by Detroit.
Hey, you're on a green count.
Hey, this place has a roof.
Let's eat.
But he thinks through everything.
Like, he thinks through the wine they're going to drink.
Table size is six every time because he decided that's the optimum.
That's as big as you can get before everything starts to splinter.
He'll have multiple small conversations.
He'll tip like $1,000 on a $400 bill.
He pays for everything.
This is a giant team building thing for him.
And he's been doing it since he got here.
And people are thinking maybe that's why.
Oh, he's got it all locked down.
There's a buddy of mine was out to drinks with, they were just at a restaurant together.
This is a place in Montreal called Joe Beef.
Okay.
You heard of this place?
No.
And they're at another table, and Pop is there.
And they send a bottle of wine over to Pop.
Right?
Yeah.
And Pop projects it.
He goes, no, you don't have to buy him a bottle.
We're done drinking.
We got an early flight.
Don't worry about it.
They say goodbye.
They walk out.
And then my buddy's table asks for the bill.
And the waiter goes, oh, no, it was taken care of by the guy with the white hair.
He's a beast man.
Right?
Like, just a boss.
Like, he doesn't let you buy him the bottle.
He pays your airbill.
Your whole bill.
That's so funny.
Like, if you ever listen to him talk, you could tell he's one of those guys who's got life fucking figured out.
Yeah.
Like, he never trips over any of his shit.
Like, he knows all this shit is fucking fleeting and being rich and being famous and all that type of shit.
Like, it's Pop is one of those guys.
Like, we had conversations about who would you want to have a drink with or like this type of conversation.
Like, Pop.
Top of the list, him and like Barkley, like, top two.
Pop could be your father.
Pop's everybody's pop.
Yeah, but he also seems like he'll like have somebody.
Barkley's your uncle.
Like, you know, everybody got an uncle like Barkley, man.
Just no kids.
Does he have kids, Barkley?
I don't think so.
He seems like your uncle that got no kids.
Yeah.
And that you look up to, like, you know what?
Maybe I don't need kids.
This motherfucker having fun.
He's living life.
Look.
Walking around pregnant.
Did y'all see the end of the Spurs game?
No.
I missed it, folks.
They are down for like 20 seconds left, and then they just don't foul Denver.
And then they get the ball back down for with two seconds.
1.8 seconds.
I guess because it was like too loud or something.
Pop saying it was so loud he couldn't hear that he was calling for a time.
And probably ran out on the court.
I did see it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just don't understand it.
The lack of situational awareness.
I guess you get caught up in a game.
I'm not an athlete, so I don't know what's going on.
You're a player, you should know.
That's something you even discussed.
It was off of a missed free throw or a free throw or something like that.
They brought the ball up.
It's him Jerry.
Denver both ball up.
Yeah, Denver.
They must have just hit a free throw, just got a bucket.
Like, that should be communicated.
Like, yo, soon as they get the ball, foul.
It's very rare for a Spurs team to have a mental lapse like this.
You could see certain teams that don't have a strong culture.
Yeah, don't have a strong.
I bet Lamarcus should know.
Like, there are certain guys that are still on the same stage.
I mean, like the core.
Like, it's their first season.
Entermar has been in the playoffs for a while.
There are guys that should know how much time is left.
And it's just kind of shocking to see.
But in a weird way, I'm okay with Denver getting by.
Yeah.
It was time for Denver.
Yeah.
It was the quintessential matchup I went to this year.
Because this matchup is going to be good.
Oh, yeah.
This matchup, especially if my man, what's it called?
The Turk can't play.
Cancer.
Because Enos might not be able to play.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, he fucked up a screen.
So Jokic, what's his name?
I'm just going to have a field there.
Jokic is nice, bro.
Jokic is a guy that we never talk about here.
And we won't start now.
I don't get my Portland and they don't get mentioned as he moves on the next round.
No, but he's wildly creative with the basketball.
He's an amazing touch.
But when he walks back or runs back on D, it is lumbering.
Lumbering.
Yeah.
If you ever see him shoot, God.
Like, I think every one of his threes go like five feet over the backboard and drop it.
It's unbelievable, dude.
I've never seen those.
He runs like a toddler.
If you watch any Pampers commercial, there's the point where the kid is just running like that.
That's how Njokic runs down the floor and then drops dimes.
Yeah.
I heard him like explaining.
He explains the game so simply.
He was like, assist two people happy.
You score, one person happy.
That's why I do it.
That's why you tell his dumbass that he's one, not Yoda.
Okay.
Two, when he scores, someone assisted on him.
Yeah.
So two people are still happy.
That's true.
Listen, fucking Europeans think you know everything.
Fuck up his philosophy.
Your fucking health care.
But no, I still got Portland taking this.
Akash?
I think I got Portland.
I think I got it.
It's hard to go against it now.
Because they got the momentum.
I've had a whole lot of, they've had what, like a whole week on it.
I think Denver got it.
You think Denver got it?
I think that there's nobody on Portland that'll be able to handle Njokic or whatever his name is.
And I think that Denver has just a really strong team.
I think they got shaken by.
I think Canter's going to play, though.
Maybe he plays.
Even if his shoulders fall away.
But I think they got shaken by a truly not veteran team in the Spurs, but like a playoff prepared and ready team.
And this is, I mean, Denver's new when you think about it.
No, yeah.
This is their first playoff series one since the Mellow era.
Right.
And so these are guys who they might not be rookies, but they are young for the playoffs.
Oh, for sure.
And it's a different energy.
So the fact that they just got out, they're like, okay, we're free.
Time to get back to doing what we got to do.
Stop playing like pussies and get the home credit advantage, which is huge right now.
I know some playing in Portland.
Sometimes these series have a way of flipping.
Like, Portland seems so dominant in the last round, and then all of a sudden, this round seemed like that.
So that could happen.
I just still think it just seems like they're ready mentally.
Yeah.
Look, it's a coin flip for me.
I'm going with Denver.
When it's a coin flip for me, I take who's the best player on the floor.
Nokic.
Lillard.
Lillard's the best player on the floor.
How many Nokic's are there?
I'm not saying he's not a great player.
I'm not saying there's no chicken.
He's just more rare.
You don't get that fish.
You're saying it like he's a potato pasta.
Jokic.
I think it's just Jokic.
No, but it's like in the playoffs.
Isn't it better that way, though?
Like, it should be Jokic, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I feel like in the playoffs when I'm going to get it.
Figuring Out Consent Issues00:15:04
They're stupid ass names, bro.
These fucking people, their fucking stupid ass names.
They're so dumb.
The fucking name is dumb.
Where are they from, even?
Slovenia?
Where's this guy from?
Serbia.
Serbia?
I don't give a fuck.
Give him a normal fucking.
Somebody spells last name.
How do you spell it?
Jokic.
He's a Joker.
J-O-K-C.
J-O-K-I-C.
I knew that.
That's Jokic.
Jokic.
It's not kitsch.
It's Y-O-K-I-C-H.
Yeah, you have to add the H.
This is America, baby.
This is America, baby.
Do you know what I mean?
You got to do, if you're going to use the letters here.
Maravich.
Marovich, was there a C-H on that?
H on the end, baby.
Yeah, because when he came to America, he put the shit together.
Look at that form.
That's a beautiful form.
Pete Maravich was Peter Marovich.
I'm not even dealing with it.
What do you mean?
They need all-time grades.
They need to follow the Asians and come here and become Bob.
Stupid Asians.
Asians.
Yo, why Asians only pick white names?
Because they're smart.
Yeah.
You ain't never met a Fong in your life, dog.
No, Vietnamese.
I'm saying the names that they pick when they come to America.
Yeah.
Right?
It's always like Timothy or Leslie.
It's never like Jamal.
They're Christian, right?
No.
I don't want an Asian to come here and be like, yo, I'm Tyreek.
I'm Tyreek Lee.
Funny enough.
Jawal, Jamal and Tyree is way more American than like Peter.
Peter's mad British.
That's mad British and European.
You ain't mean no Jamal entire.
Son, Asians, when you come to America, you got to pick your name.
Pick a black ass name, yo.
Or pick a Spanish name.
Throw everybody in.
Enrique.
Enrique Dong Dao.
You're just going to sound Filipino.
That's right.
Watch the next generation.
Yo, you got a mix.
Exactly.
Like the hip-hop Asians, they're going to name all their kids.
They're going to name all their kids Supreme.
Like, nothing.
Supreme Dow.
This mother's son, Kith Ling.
God damn.
He's born in like vape hospitals and bait Mount Sinai.
Son, that's so dope.
You could just rename yourself in a different language.
If you had to, if you know, your name is already Indian.
Yeah.
Fuck.
What would I do if I went Indian?
What would my name be?
Yeah, Andrew Schultz is what?
Andrew Schultz is.
Honestly, I would call my shit Tika.
Andrew Schultz is Tika?
No, my name would be Tika.
Tika Schultz.
Oh, so like California.
That's a girl's name, you fucking loser.
Is it?
Yeah.
Oh, like Tika like Tika Masa.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That's a girl's name.
Tika is a name.
I know Atika.
Yeah, she's a Titanic.
Tika means chicken.
Is it like Kobe?
You don't mean chicken, bro?
There's is it like Kobe Bryant being named after beef?
Tika.
Tikka is a kind of spice, but there's also a Tika you put on your women put on their head when they get married.
T-Ika.
It's a jewel.
It's like a jewel that goes down.
So, who wears the dots?
I thought married women wear the dots.
Yeah, but no, that's not the like the Bindi.
I guess Bindi is the name of the dot.
Yeah, I would call myself Bindi.
Bindy Andrews.
Bindy Shakespeare.
Bindi.
Bindi.
Why a woman's name?
Say what?
Because look at him.
Because, bro, it's different in India.
That's respectable.
That is, right?
That's the untouchables.
My bad.
I didn't know.
That's the name of them, right?
The tranny class.
Oh, no, I don't know what that is.
What?
There's a training class in India where they ask you for money.
You got to get that break.
Tranny.
Really?
A whole class of trainees.
And if they ask you for money, you got to give money.
And Akash didn't give them bitches money and his flight got delayed 24 hours.
Almost crashed.
No way.
Turbulence dude had paramedics got called the flight.
I almost killed the motherfucker by not giving the train some money.
No shit.
Hell yeah.
I did not know that.
That's how much respect they got.
Out here in America, they just beating up trainies.
Because we're mad progressive over there.
That is very progressive over there.
You're the most progressive.
I can see that.
I don't know about all that.
No, I mean, like, they have like philosophically.
Philosophically.
Y'all gotta figure out consent.
And then we're gonna talk about who's the most progressive.
Y'all ain't figured out consent.
Yes, we did.
You ain't figured out the consent.
I think we figured it out.
I don't think.
See, that's not a good answer.
We figured out the consent.
I think we figured it out.
We're the most consenty.
We got the gyms.
The West is the most consenty, right?
Y'all mad consentee.
We're consenty.
Y'all be thinking we're mad pussy probably out here, right?
Out there, you be ripping off Bindy's like, nah, you are mine.
You'd be like, what dot?
I ain't married.
Who's married?
Your mans don't know you have friends.
The go-to line.
God damn.
I'll give you some red marks on your head.
Wow.
Woo!
All right.
Get it hot, baby.
Get it hot.
Like Indian pussy.
Oh, like that tikka.
Yo, that's tika, bro.
Spicy.
Real talk.
That's what I would call myself.
Do you think that's spicy that when you eat it?
No, tikka is not spicy at all.
I can eat spicy now.
Did you know that?
No.
My whole shit changed.
What happened?
You just had like a joll-off like a month ago.
And I bodied that.
Y'all put all the spice, and I still was able to consume it.
Did you?
I didn't.
Like, this is on tape.
Like, we saw you die.
Say what?
I was eating it straight out of the jar.
Okay, you're brown.
I took all that show off.
That shows who?
I'm Caucasian.
I'm white.
I'm from Scotland.
Now I can use Tabasco sauce.
That's not spicy.
I can use Cholula.
I can use.
That's not even that hot for me.
I just, I like that with it.
I could use any green one.
If it's green, I can body.
Green is mild?
Yeah.
Word.
There we go.
If you remember.
But look at me.
I bodied that.
That's light.
Look at me.
See, I bodied that.
All right, maybe I'm not great.
No, I don't think body is a good word for it.
I'm not great at it, but.
What did you guys put in that?
Is that just a regular one?
That's just a regular.
There's no way that that was just wrinkled out.
Man, I forgot about this.
Damn, hell.
Thank you.
Thank you for having that ready to go.
Damn.
Damn, yo.
That had to be Alex, not Andrew.
Yeah, I don't want to talk about it.
Ain't no way.
I'm pulling up Brilliant Idiots clips.
Yo, son.
Yo, we had a man, we had a, we were in a, we were in Austin this weekend.
Yeah.
Bro, we had a fucking incredible time.
Also, some of my favorite cities.
Yo, I used to hate on Austin.
I'll be hating on it.
Honestly, I got it this weekend.
You kept Austin weird?
Yo, we did goat yoga.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
Yo, Alex said the funniest shit, bro.
We did goat yoga, right?
And he goes, wait, what?
And I go, yeah, goat yoga.
He goes, like with the animal, right?
I go, yeah.
And he goes, wow.
He goes, man, y'all just jump past Indians.
I go, what are you talking about?
He goes, I don't even think Indians use the goats yet.
Yo, you got a mad arch in your back.
Son, I'm not even throwing it back that hard, to be honest with you.
I could throw it back more.
I could throw it back more.
That's light.
That's light for me.
That's light for me.
I could really arch it.
Are you wearing yoga pants?
Now I'm wearing a cooji sweatsuit.
But they literally, you do yoga with the goats.
Alex could not believe the caucasity of this system.
It's crazy.
It was unpleasant.
That goat looked delicious.
I'm going to be honest with you.
Yo, you want to know what we did immediately after goat yoga?
A goat.
Ate some fucking goat, baby.
Goat barbecue.
Tender meat, baby.
We don't play around.
Savage it.
We don't play around.
That mother, his mom right there, we just devoured.
He looking kind of cute.
I bet his mom ugly as fuck, though.
Yeah.
Goats be getting ugly on you.
Yeah, they do.
I'm still disappointed in his arch, bro.
What, mine or the goats?
Yours.
That goat got a high ass, though.
Look at them legs.
He ready to fuck you.
Yeah, he ready for you.
I was about to take it to a dark place, but I just flavor too, bro.
Let it go.
Let it rip.
I was about to say with that goat, you already got to bend it over.
You don't have to bend it over.
It's on all fours, man.
Yo, you just move that tail out the way.
Oh, geez.
And insert.
Nah, because people really do be out there fucking goats, and that's crazy.
Nah, sheep, sheep.
Oh, sheep?
Yeah, because sheep got fat asses to jiggle.
They do?
Yo, I'm from Scotland.
Am I not, son?
Yo, this is how well off.
Some people fuck goats.
I know they fuck sheep.
This is how well off white people are.
This is how amazing white culture is.
We fuck animals, bro.
Most other cultures don't even got animals to eat.
We got so many animals around.
We'd be like, yo, I'm going to try to fucking right there.
Yo, y'all full, right?
Everybody full?
Everybody ain't nice dinner.
I'm so fatty, though, a little bit.
Y'all had a good dinner, everybody full?
All right, bet, because there's sheep over there.
I'm a dick.
Yo, white people.
I'm going to see it.
Yeah.
Go to a video of streets.
People are legitimately freezing on the street.
Go to a video of sheep walking.
People are freezing on the streets.
Can't even get a sheep's coat.
Sheep's boy.
Can't get a sweater.
And now I'm putting my dick in this.
And we use that hair to hold on.
You got a sheep walking, but we need walking from the back, shaking that tail feather.
Son, this is a girl.
What's wrong with y'all?
Look, watch it.
No, no, no, no.
There's one.
No, there's another video.
They do kind of walk.
They got the switch.
Remember that stand up with Jamie Fox talking about like that?
Look at this.
Look at this.
Look at that shit.
Shake that shit.
How you not gonna hit that?
How you not gonna hit that, bro?
How you not gonna hit that?
Look at that.
Fat ass.
Apple bottom jeans.
Poots with the fur.
So they're looking at her.
She hit the girl.
She hit the bus.
Bro, you are knocking that sheep down, bro.
Yo, no jokes.
You would take that down?
Yes or no?
You're drunk.
It's the year 1400.
You're going to die any day.
Bro, you're about to go to war with your next daughter.
I think I'm going to get some on my dick.
I'm not going to hold you.
Son, your dick is filthy anyway.
You live in the forest.
There's no homes for people.
You're a Scotsman in the middle of the prairie.
Okay.
You don't got a real house.
This fat ass sheep walking by.
Thick, thick.
Thick.
Yo, thickest.
Boston has some thick ems out there.
Thicks.
Donald Trump.
He's talking about thick whites.
Oh, yeah.
Thick whites out there, bro.
Thick whites.
Come on, Alex.
Right?
I wasn't aware.
It wasn't where it was Texas.
Son, I never thought.
All Bill Bottom heavy.
Can I tell you the thing that happened?
This shit was heartbreaking, right?
So we have one of the clubs, right?
We have one of the clubs.
We had one of the clubs doing a show, right?
Black dude outside hitting on this old white lady, right?
Black dude.
Like, no, super, super, super Western culture.
Super Western culture.
So black dude is hitting on this white lady.
All of a sudden, Alex walks out the club, right?
Black dude's grasping his draws.
He's failing with this white lady, right?
All of a sudden, he just reaches out to Alex and he goes, he goes, hey, man, what do they say about white women that eat cornbread?
Right?
Hey, hey, man.
Hey, hey, hey, what do they say about white women that eat cornbread?
Right?
And Alex looks at him in the whitest voice I've ever seen him put on and just goes, I do not know what you're talking about.
Hey, there you go, Alex.
He goes, I didn't know how to.
He goes, you ain't heard what they talking about.
White women eat cornbread.
And then he goes, he goes, no, I can't recall any conversation I've had about that at all.
And then the kid, he goes, well, where are you from?
You're not from Texas.
He goes, no, no, we're from New York.
We're from the North.
We're from the free north.
And then he goes, he goes, oh, okay, maybe certain things, something like that.
But I realized after the fact what this was about.
Alex was not going to have another black man fuck his white queens, bro.
He was not going to have.
He had to cock block that black dick, bro.
Nah, I would never.
You want all the white walkers for yourself?
You want all them white walkers for yourself, Aria?
Oh, Jesus.
Bro, that shit was so.
Yo, this man was heartbroken.
I almost had to step in like, nah, bro, I understand what they say about cornbread.
Nah, bro.
Alex looking at the broken head.
He was looking for the food, bro.
So I didn't even understand what he was saying.
Then he was like, you ain't heard about milk?
I'm like, milk?
Milk.
I was five seconds away from crossing the street.
I understand y'all sometimes.
Did you hold in your purse?
I need to bring you this one.
I need to bring y'all for a weekend where we go somewhere because, son, the shit that we get into, there was this one lady, right?
We're at the hotel bar upstairs on the balcony, right?
It's me, my agent, TJ, and Alex.
We just hanging out.
All of a sudden, this white lady just walks and sits down right next to Alex, right?
And she just starts having conversation, right?
And she pressing hard, right?
I immediately check out.
Alex doesn't even know what's going on.
And then she's talking to my agent about like the Grateful Dead and fish and all that kind of shit like that, right?
And she's like mumbling, but she keeps on asking questions and asking another one and asking another one.
It's not really going anywhere, asking another one.
And I just get a text from Alex.
She goes, yo, is this like improv shooting your shot?
Like, he was so thoroughly confused about what's going on.
And then he goes, Grateful Dead, that's white music?
What is that?
Like, he had no clue what the fuck was happening.
And then he goes, yo, I think she's a prostitute.
He just had never experienced a friendly white woman.
Like, this is how foreign the South was to him.
You know how foreign the South was to him?
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He didn't bring pants.
All he brought was shorts.
Oh, you thought it was going to be hot there all the whole time?
Yeah, it was.
It was 80-something.
To go out at night.
Yeah, like once the sun leaves, then it's.
Yeah, I wasn't prepared.
I go, I go, what if we go out at night?
He goes, these people wear cowboy boots.
Yeah, you, these people, these people are.
Son is texting me.
I never seen you wearing boots, fam.
Yeah, but you live up north now.
I don't know how young son.
You said he used to be that way.
So funny, bro.
Wait, you don't owe a wear cowboy boots?
No, man.
You don't?
No.
Actually, it's not even on some moral shit.
You just never.
You never had a hat.
You had a hat.
No.
I've had a hat.
I had a hat, but I don't know how to do it.
I've got a cowboy hat.
You got to have a cowboy hat.
I don't.
What else happened, Al?
Oh, we did a we took shout out to the patrons, man.
Shout out to everybody that pull up.
But I got like 13 or 14, I forget, tickets to Avengers Endgame.
Yeah.
And I took like 13 or 14 at the noon, right?
So we took like, I think we took 13 of them to go see Avengers.
All of us linked up.
It was fucking dope.
I mean, some people, one shorty flew.
Where you going?
Don't leave.
You here for this.
You here for this.
One shorty flew in from Cali.
We had other people drive from Dallas and that kind of stuff.
And it was dope to just kind of link up, watch the movie together.
It was just, it was just the shit to kind of unite.
It was cool as everybody pulled into the like, I don't know where the ticket area was.
Like, we didn't know who was on the squad or not.
So there was like a moment where you just threw the asshole up and we're like, all right, that's team.
That's gang.
You know what I mean?
So we go and we out watch the movie.
Now, we're not going to spoil the movie.
All we're going to say is it was very emotional upon, you know, at least three moments.
Now, the first one, you know, we're maybe shedding a little bit of tear, but you got the 3D glasses on the cover, so you don't got to touch your face or nothing like that.
Right?
The second one, it gets a little bit more emotional.
We all know that we're crying.
It ain't no like, are you crying?
Stupid.
It's like, we all know we're crying.
There's these two moments that like, I wouldn't, I wouldn't.
Then the third moment happens.
I'm not going to tell you all that happened because I want to ruin the movie, but the third moment happens where it really fucking locks in, right?
Everybody in the theater crying.
All of a sudden, Alex and Rudy, all of a sudden, I just hear this sound.
This motherfucker tapped out of tears and went straight audible.
I know exactly what that sound is.
You try to thug through the tears.
Yeah.
You're trying to thug it through the tears.
This one, you crying and you went out of breath.
You're crying.
That's why I'm sorry.
I tried to mask it with the laugh.
It was just so bad.
It was like.
Here's the thing they don't tell you about the thug tier, right?
The thug tear.
What are you trying to thug tear?
Thugged out bitches just crying.
Just crying.
As a guy who cries, that's a fucking, that's like a deep cry.
What do you try to thug tear?
You forget to breathe, right?
So when you finally have to catch that first breath, stop calling the thug tears, man.
I just cried.
No, you don't mask this shit.
You hold it in, and your eyes get a little watery, and then one tear drops out the ball.
We provide balling.
I was balling.
It wouldn't stop like a good 10 minutes.
Really?
That shit was running.
I was like, damn, what is wrong with this?
The first time I didn't cry.
Second time I saw it.
You let it out.
I let it all out.
I let it all out.
We saw it in this movie theater, right?
Where you could order food, right?
Oh, those are dope.
And drinks.
Yeah.
Alamo draft house.
It's a great theater.
So I was putting in an order for food at a very important part in the explanation of the storyline.
Fuck, man.
Fuck.
Okay.
I put the order in.
I hand it over.
I'm going to be ordering too.
And I'll be ordering.
And they finish the explanation.
I give the order and then they go, and that's how we're going to do it.
I go, whoa.
This looks like the rest could be kind of confusing if I missed that last part, right?
I immediately turn to Alex and I'm trying to get the explanation of the thing.
Alex crying.
He don't even know what's going on.
He's just fully tears.
I put my face kind of close.
I might even touch a tear cheek to cheek.
It was bad.
It was weird.
Right?
I was like, I can't ask that motherfucker anymore.
So I'm asking Brianna, the shorty next to us, right?
I'm asking the lady, the waitress, comes over.
She goes, she goes, wait, comes over.
She goes, she goes, you can't talk anymore, right?
I go, it's been 10 years.
It's been 10 years.
I've been building it up.
I'm going to find out what fucking fuse.
It's been 10 fucking years, bitch.
You're out of your goddamn mind if I'm going to be confused.
I don't know how the fuck Scarlet Witch for whatever the fuck her name is.
Natasha or Natalia or whatever.
Natasha.
Natasha figured out this fucking timeline.
Black widow.
Son, it wasn't going to happen.
I wasn't going to sit there for three fucking hours.
I'll tell you that goddamn much.
So I ain't going to say which bro, but one of the assholes.
They had to go to the bathroom.
Oh, boy.
They didn't want to disrupt everybody by going through that.
And we're on the first aisle before, we're on the first aisle before you could walk.
Okay.
So we're not in the front row, but we're in the front row of a section.
Does that make sense?
Right?
So she thought she could limbo.
Right?
Shorty tried to limbo and smacked her fucking head so hard, bro.
You here.
Don't.
Yeah.
No.
It sounded like Thor's hammer.
That shit.
I thought Cap took that.
Oh, my God.
Bro, it wasn't.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Don't be sorry.
That shit was too hard.
We got a bunch of more shit like that, yo.
Yo, that's dope.
We got to do this.
We're doing it, man.
Thank y'all for coming out.
I appreciate y'all coming out.
It was cool to connect with y'all, man.
And definitely everybody who came out to the show as well, man.
It was, we had an amazing fucking time in Austin, but we got to do that.
We try to do that when we're in different cities.
It's not usually on that scale.
Usually we'll meet up with a couple of them or help us out shooting and filming, but it was cool to do it as a group and then like talk about it a little bit afterwards.
And we're not going to spoil it now, but they had some hot takes afterwards.
We thought it was pretty funny.
And I feel like we could talk.
Well, yeah, I got rough.
I'll tell you this, though.
It was fun.
It was fun walking out of the movie theater and all the people that were walking in and just like the power you have over them.
Like I was talking about that on stage a lot.
Like that is power, bro.
When you could ruin the last 10 years or something, Kaz put the whole shit on his timeline.
It felt like.
Oh, absolutely.
You really started that.
Fucking breakdowns.
I was given MVP awards, like first team, second team, and then raising Kazakhstan.
All that shit, bro.
I went in.
I went in today.
Yeah, yeah.
And people were upset about that.
You didn't even let people hit the matinee.
I thought that was fun.
I said, yo, this shit's been out since Thursday, yo.
If it's Sunday night, I'm like, the fucking Battle of Winterfell tonight.
If y'all haven't seen it by fucking tonight, bro, like, you didn't really want to see it that bad.
That's true.
Akash, you didn't really want to see it that bad.
No, I had a valid reason, I think.
Oh, that's true.
Akash came out of the closet to his family this week.
It was about time.
It was a big week.
It was a big week.
Hey, to be honest, they already knew.
It be like that sometimes, yo.
It really be like that sometimes.
You know what I mean?
It is what it is.
Dad was like, it's about time.
You don't know my game.
It's about time I've been waiting to murder you for many years.
Let's get on with it.
You brought him in for a hug and just hit you in that ARIA.
This will be the last thing that penetrates you.
So I got to ask one question about Dallas.
Because I heard at least 10 times when I was in Austin, like, oh, this is a liberal area.
This is the liberal.
This is a non-racist area.
Like, everybody kept coming to meet the one black person and telling me that.
So now talk to Akash about this because he's from Dallas and he's from Texas.
So you can explain the rivalry a little bit.
Austin, just a little.
Most people in Dallas love Austin.
Don't like it because I always hear when I leave Texas, I hate Texas, but I love Austin.
It's like, bruh, we get it.
You're a cuck.
You know what I mean?
It's just Portland in the South.
So they think they're not racist, but you're just Portland racist.
You know what I mean?
Okay.
Like super white, apologetic, blah, blah, blah.
Dallas is a city.
They'll make fun of you for being black.
You make fun of them for being white.
Cool.
We're friends.
Am I going to get called the N-word?
No, man.
Yeah, but I mean, it's like nobody in Portland.
I'm thinking, like, yo, I got to watch out for the Klan and shit.
Dog, they look down on it like y'all look down on Brooklyn and Manhattan.
You know what I mean?
Like, so Dallas is Manhattan.
Dallas is the big city of Texas.
Dallas, I think Houston's bigger, but both big, all big cities are urban.
Like where my brother lives, urban.
Yo, Houston, mad diverse.
When we go to Houston, Houston is like the most diverse city in America.
Like all of them, it really is legit.
It really is.
Like all the Vietnamese moved there after the war and shit like that.
They've already had a bunch of black people and white people living there.
Obviously Mexicans.
Yeah.
Yo, Texas is dope.
Sunlight is pointed.
Like, obviously, Mexico.
Texas ain't a white name.
Like, we bodied that shit.
It was Mexico and we were like, y'all live with us now.
We really pulled some shit like when you want to build the Barclay Center.
We just did it in a statement.
You need to put on a wall.
This hard.
Just go somewhere else.
But I guess what he was freaked out about.
And I guess maybe because we got shows this weekend in Dallas.
By the way, yo, come out.
Addison Improv.
I'm going to be there.
Akash is going to be there.
It's going to be dope.
I'm super excited.
Get tickets now, While they're still around, We're going to talk about shows in a little bit.
But I've always loved Texas, but also Dallas.
I've always thought Dallas is this shit.
That's a great city.
Austin is different.
It's not a great visit, to be honest.
There's not like a bunch of cool shit to do, but it's just like a nice city.
People are nice.
People are friendly.
Customer service.
Tell them about customer service.
You don't know, Alex.
You get treated better than you get treated in New York.
You know how New York when you walk into a store, they act like they're doing you a favor by selling you shit.
Texas is everybody you see is going to say hi.
You walk by a person, hey, how you doing?
You're going to think the black dudes are gay there just because of how friendly they are.
I mean that 100%.
I started, I thought that.
Hello.
Hey, how you doing, buddy?
Hey, can I get you something?
You want hospitality?
I'm trying to give you tea all the time.
Why are you trying to give me tea, bro?
Do you want some sweet tea?
Stop saying sweet.
What's going on with all this shit right here?
But it's true, right?
It's immense.
It's just super, everybody's friendly.
Oh, okay.
Friendliness means something there.
Like, you are nice to people.
That's just what you do.
So that's why when I come here and people are rude, I'm like, who the fuck are you?
Like, I get really upset because that's just culturally not how you approach things there.
It's not even as friendly as it used to be, but it's still much friendlier than anywhere else.
Not at all.
Friendlier than Cali.
Friendlier than so we broke this down about New York, right?
And it was New York versus England, where it's like in London, people are incredibly polite, but they're dicks.
Okay?
Like they'll be like, they'll say sorry, but they mean fuck you.
Right.
They'll be like, sorry.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Can I get by?
Sorry.
They use it in that kind of way.
Like they'll pretend to be polite because politeness is part of the culture.
New York, people are dicks, but we are the most helpful motherfuckers on the world.
Oh, by far.
Right?
It's like, hey, do you know how to get to Times Square?
Like, man, that shit is far as fuck.
All right, just go up there.
You're left right here, baby.
Right?
In England, it'll be like, do you know how to get to Simes Square?
Or do you know how to get to Leicester Square, whatever the fuck it is?
They'll be like, oh, sorry, I don't know, but best of luck.
Even though they know.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
Does that make sense?
I also think manners are inversely proportional to how many people you got.
Like, if it's bad people, I got no time for me.
If I hold the door open with somebody in Texas, I will do that because maybe two people are walking through.
If I hold the door open at the subway, it's fucking Times Square subway station.
I'm going to die.
I got 200 people walking through.
I don't have time.
I'm going to trample you.
I'm going to get in your way so I don't have to hold the door open for the thousand people behind you.
Yeah, but people are going to be friendly.
You're not going to go through.
I mean, listen, knock on wood, there are racist people everywhere.
And in the South, there's probably a few more, but like, you're not going to experience no shit.
So that's the thing in New York.
When someone says something racist, you're surprised by it, right?
Because when they say something racist in the South, they dress the way you see racist people in the movies.
Right?
But like, someone in New York says something racist, they're dressed just like you.
Like, they look at you.
They're like, you like the Yankees?
I like the Yankees.
They're like, you like sneakers?
I like sneakers.
You like black people?
No.
Right?
Where in the South, the guys wearing a cowboy hat and boots.
You're like, oh, fuck.
This is the opportunity.
They're like, top and shit.
It's like, oh, yeah.
You got the racist, like, authentic apparel on.
Like, absolutely.
But don't worry about that.
I'm telling you, Dallas is fucking Texas is fucking dope.
All right, but the T is going to be a big city for the most part.
Like, if it's a, I think it's like the fourth biggest city in America, Dallas.
Dallas and Fort Worth together.
Yeah.
But so there's just too many people.
Like, they're not going to be racist.
We're going to have some good food.
They're going to have, they got good.
They got good Tex-Mex in Dallas, right?
Yeah, it's Tex-Mex.
Yeah.
They got good Tex-Mex in Dallas.
Because we had more of the barbecue in Austin.
That's kind of what Austin's all for.
Austin barbecue is better.
Dallas is going to have good Tex Mex.
It's Texas Mexican food.
It's Tex Mex.
Yeah, we all met.
It's going to be good.
Anyway, come out to shows, man.
We got that May 3rd, 4th.
And then we got Nashville the 18th.
And, oh, quick reminder: the San Francisco June 8th shows are sold out.
We add another show the 9th.
And then the Toronto show, I believe, is sold out.
So we added another show that night.
Hey, so that's pretty dope, man.
That's about the theater.
Yeah, that was my first time doing a big theater, man.
And you saw that shit.
Toronto shows love.
It really does, man.
I got the most love for fucking Toronto, man.
We're going to do that big for a time.
It's a fun city too, man.
Yeah.
Fun city is a great city.
It is weird that they keep comparing themselves to New York, though.
They are a New York.
It feels very like multiculturally, it feels like it.
And that is their like their identity has always been this like version of New York in Canada.
They're super multicultural, but Caribbean multicultural.
Yeah.
Like you see in New York.
Like New York blacks, there are American blacks, but there's also all these Jamaicans.
I didn't really know what the fuck West Indy is.
You know what I mean?
Like Trinidadians.
Like there's all these.
They all migrate here.
They all migrate to Toronto.
You know what I mean?
Especially if you're coming from another country.
You don't know a lot of cities.
So go to New York.
People kept asking me when I was there, doesn't this remind you of New York?
And I was like, no.
Neighbor Josh, Funny Comedian Comics is the answer to the question nobody's asking.
Because they're all like, we're like New York, right?
And you're like, nobody ever thought that for sure, I guess.
They're the New York girls.
Because it's so kind.
You don't want to tell them like, all right, you're not really New York City.
Caribbean Multicultural Identity00:03:32
I'll say this, though.
Fire city.
Dope city.
Stunningly beautiful women.
Fire women.
And without attitude.
Yeah.
Stunningly beautiful women have that Canadian humility.
Canadian girls don't.
They're all mixed with something.
There's tons of mix, but also Canadian girls don't shut you down the way that girls in New York do.
Like a girl in New York has no time.
That's why we got a cat call here.
Yes.
But what I mean by has no time is like it's over from the beginning.
Yeah.
Yet she's not doing anything.
Like she'll stop a conversation so she could be bored.
Yeah.
Right?
Like you looking at the girl that just turned you down like, bitch, you are doing nothing.
You looking at your phone.
You scrolling.
She still has no time for you.
But you have no time, right?
Girls in Canada will be like, well, I guess I'm just standing here scrolling.
Yeah.
All right, shoot your shot.
Yeah.
Clank you missed.
All right, have a good night.
But there's a little bit of that.
Yeah, they'll listen.
And you'll take, you see the woman in Toronto, you'll take a shit shoot down from them, though.
Oh, they're just all on birth control, all bent to the friends or some shit.
All like Cape Verdean women.
Real talk.
So go check that out, man.
Dallas.
I might come with you.
Yo, pull him out.
I can't do that.
Why not?
I mean, I could, but you know.
Oh, yeah.
When can we talk about it?
Not yet.
We got a big announcement eventually coming out.
Andrew Schultz presents.
Oh, buddy.
Oh, buddy.
Bro, that's a joke that's going to be simmering for a while.
And when it finally hits, it's going to slam, bro.
Anyway, I'm stoked, man.
Come on out.
Love that city.
Akash.
Akash, any shows?
Any shows coming up for you?
Thank you to everybody who came out from Carolina's.
There's some assholes that came out.
It was dope.
We had a fun time.
Shout out to Benson.
Benson filmed some shit for us.
Sick.
And I'm going to be with Andrew for sure on Friday.
Maybe both shows Saturday.
It might only be one.
I'm trying to figure out fucking Finago.
The club thinks you're there for all the shows.
Okay, well.
I'm flying out there for an event and I might have to skip the family event.
I might have to skip that to go to the shows.
Yes.
We'll figure it out.
You know what I mean?
Follow your heart, bro.
We'll figure it out.
Might be a lot of Uber's back and forth, but we'll figure it out.
But that's it.
Thank you, everybody.
Came out.
Appreciate it.
And then, oh, I guess I announced it on the Patreon.
I'm going to try to go on tour in the fall.
Yes, sir.
And then we're going to try to film something at the end of the year.
Andrew Schultz presents for real this time.
Yes.
Yes.
We are going to do it, man.
I'm excited about that.
What about you, Kaz?
Any other Duce Palooza, May 27th at the Brooklyn Mirage.
It's now.
It's definitely going to sell out.
We're going to announce our headline in a few days.
Yeah, that's about it.
Cause and effect every week on Friday at Revolt TV.
It's doing well.
We're going back to the negotiation table, which is very good.
That's good.
Yeah, they want to make an official thing.
Yeah, a bigger thing.
That's great.
Congratulations on Edit and Alex and everybody.
You know what I mean?
I'll take a little shout out for my equipment.
I guess.
Yes.
All right.
That is serious.
Another Andrew Schultz presentation.
I want a producer credit, guys.
I don't need any money.
I just want a little producer credit.
I want you guys to succeed.
And if you guys can use the equipment to succeed, then by all means, use it, man.
Andrew is the most helpful guy I know who needs you to acknowledge that he's helpful.
Fixing Bad Referee Calls00:14:55
That's all you got to do.
I cut dinner.
Just say you appreciate it.
That's it.
There it is.
You cut your hair and even notice.
Cut my hair.
But it's not my hair.
I cut your hair.
But in all seriousness, no, if there's any ideas, any projects and everything, I try to support in any way I possibly can.
And that is what we do here, man.
Pretty blessed.
Yeah, let's talk about something.
We said we're going to talk about it and didn't, and we have to talk about it.
James Harden, playoff James Harden.
The anti-Kyrie.
You see that James Hardenard.
Hey, fuck James Harden.
I am tired of this guy who gets 10 bullshit calls a game complaining about not getting two questionable calls.
Keep that in the gene.
That's it.
You see the way he takes a shot.
He jumps up in the air.
He falls at least three feet forward.
He kicks his legs another two feet forward.
Of course, there's going to be some contact.
He's created a brilliant hack to the game, which is my release point will be at one place, but I will land at another place.
Therefore, it will always be contact if there is a contest for the shot.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
That is genius.
I've said many times before that I believe James Harden is the most skilled offensive player in the history of the game of basketball.
That being said, shut the fuck up.
You're not going to get some calls sometimes, buddy.
That's how the game goes.
And you are the guy who gets more calls than anybody else, more bullshit calls than anybody else.
And this should be an easy, it's a wash.
I get it.
That's my issue.
I think the officiating was bad.
I think they got fucked last year by the officials against Golden State.
Okay.
You are the number one team and player, maybe in the history of the game, on benefiting from bullshit calls.
So, for you to suddenly be so up in arms.
I went a fair shake.
How do you think you got here?
It's unfair shake.
Traveling on game winners.
Four steps.
Nobody calls it.
Now, officiating got to be consistent.
Yes.
Get the fuck out of here.
Also, 9 for 28 is a dog shit percentage.
I don't care if you put up 38 points.
That is not a big time performer.
I get dirt shit as a Dallas fan for not coming through in the playoffs in big games.
James Harden, that's his MO every year.
Look at his stat line in his biggest series.
Yep, yeah.
Always poor shooting percentages.
Yeah.
Doesn't dominate a game.
If they want to win, Chris Paul is going to have to be much more assertive, just like he was last year.
And when his body breaks down, just like he did last year, and it's on James Harden, they're going to fall short just like last year.
Damn, couldn't have said that better myself.
Cash Mo.
Cash, talk to us.
Cash talk to us.
As much as James Harden's kind of fucking this up, I kind of got to put this on the reps because they set that precedent already.
They let it slide for two seasons, the bullshit calls.
That's a bullshit stuff.
But they only missed two.
No, we're not talking about calling it.
Calling it in the first place.
You never missed a certain amount of calls, right?
No, I was like, I'm not even mad at the missed calls or whatever.
I'm saying if they don't establish the precedent that these bullshit push-offs, these bullshit walks, these bullshit jumping into people and failing, all that bullshit.
If that's not there for two seasons ahead, you're not bitching about this.
I don't even think you're so good of a team.
If you're taking away all those points, so what you're saying, I think a lot of people are saying is they should continue making bad calls that benefit James Harden throughout the playoffs instead of correcting what they did wrong, which was make poor calls.
No, I think what the referees did was absolutely fair and correct.
Good.
I never thought those were fouls.
I thought if you're an offensive player initiating contact, that's not a foul.
And that's what James Harden is a master at.
He's set records for free throws because of this shit, right?
And the referees and the way the game is being played, they set that precedent now.
So of course it's going to make the referees look bad now because these are the calls you've made all year for the past two years.
And now instead of making it look like, oh, the referee's doing a bad job, just be like, no, James Harden, this shit was never a foul.
We let you slide for two years on this bullshit.
I do think Golden State gets away with more calls and other things than every other team.
I do think that.
They get away with more moving screens than I've ever seen anything.
And I hate Golden State, and I want Houston to win.
I'm just listening to my, obviously, I got friends from Houston, and they're just so up in arms about this.
And it's like, fam, shut the fuck up.
Like, you still had a chance to win.
Don't put this on the refs when you lose by four.
Nine for 28, you lost by four.
That's not the refs.
This is a winnable game, and you didn't come through.
Your shooting percentage was 30%.
That's not getting it done.
Greats, shoot 50.
35 points on 28 shots is just not good straight up.
Now, what would you say to the average Houston fan that goes, his shooting percentage would have been better if those shots that he got fouled on that they didn't call didn't count against his percentage?
Yeah, my friend said that.
He said five.
There were five calls that should have happened.
So it would have been nine for 23, which is still not good.
It's not good, but it's not bad.
Nine for 23 is not awful.
Nine for 28, now we're in the 30% country.
We're in James Harden territory.
That's where we are.
We're playing James Harden's territory.
Listen, the calls were horrible last year, game six in game seven.
They also missed 40 fucking threes in game seven at home.
So don't put this on the refs.
27 straight threes or some shit, though.
27, something crazy like that.
When we have a bad set, we have bad audiences sometimes.
That's true.
And at the end of the day, what do we say?
At the end of the day, it's still on us.
It is still on us.
And if you want to be great in your field, it is still on you.
You had a game-time three at the end.
You didn't hit it.
You know who was up two and hit a big three at the end of the game?
Even though they played like dog shit all game, Steph.
Stuff hit that.
Who I don't even think is a great playoff performer, but he hit that shot.
That was a big shot.
That was a big fucking shot.
Yeah, it's a tricky.
I agree completely with what you're saying.
James Harden's great playoff moment.
Somebody name me one end of the game great playoff moment from James Harden.
I can't.
I think when he like untucks his jersey and you see his belly a little bit, nobody arches their back.
My man is built just like Kaz, and that's not a bad build, but you a fucking NBA total favorite.
Yeah.
I think it's just the head that.
No, I'm looking at his body up.
My man is built just like Kaz.
His best case scenario you.
His best case scenario.
No, he's right now case scenario Kaz.
My only thing with Harden, it's the same 40 time game.
I hate the fact that they just didn't adjust.
Like, if you're not getting that call, adjust.
Stop flailing.
Stop doing the stop exaggerating more.
Like, bro, like, you're on the road.
You're not going to get calls anyway.
When do you expect calls on the road?
Yeah, you're not going to get calls anyway, dog.
Like, yo, adjust the game.
I don't want to grant him bail, but the refs can't wait till the playoffs to start calling shit differently.
Yeah, the whole, the whole, like, it's a playoff.
I disagree with that.
I disagree with that because I think if at any point in the season you can make a correction, it should be there.
And if they recognize that this guy plays a certain way and that he is cheating the game and they have a way to change the way that they officiate, they should do it.
In my opinion, I think it should start at the beginning of the season.
I also have a feeling.
But then what do you wait?
Sorry.
Then what do you wait until you continue to make bad calls?
Yeah.
See, I just.
Because they sent that president.
No, because so what happens a lot of times, right, in the playoffs is this.
The game slows down for the refs too.
Because they're seeing the same players night after night and they're seeing exactly how they play against each other.
So coaches will go up to the refs and be like, hey, Draymond sets illegal screens at the block.
Can you do us a favor and just watch?
Or Montres Harrell hangs out in the paint a long time for this certain play.
Can you do it, right?
So just so what you do is, as a coach, is you start lobbying for the things you want.
And they've primed these players.
They said, listen, when James jumps up and they go over video with them, they go, when James jumps up, he's jumping into us.
At least give us the benefit of the doubt for a straight-up jump to block the shot.
And I think the refs have looked at the footage and rightfully agreed.
And you know why they're not noticing contact now?
And this is all on James?
Because James flails, so they're looking at feet, not hand.
When James jumps up for a shot, now refs are looking at if his position has moved toward his defender or if he's maintained the same position.
And instead, they're not instead of looking at his follow-through where there might be a hand touching a hand.
And that's on James Harden.
I will say this.
I don't think they make this adjustment against any other team.
I think if Houston is playing a second round series against Portland, James Harden is getting all these calls.
I was about to say, you think this is biased for the Warriors?
I don't necessarily think the league is rigged or whatever.
Let's just say we all know superstars get calls and they got the most superstars.
And that's a logical explanation.
Fine.
But they do get calls.
And I think against any other team, James Harden still gets his calls.
Because he's the biggest star on the floor.
Here's the thing.
Something to be said for that.
There's something to be said for that.
I guarantee you he's going to get all those calls, game two.
He's getting all those calls, game two.
That's also possible.
They took a lot of flack.
They came out with the whole fucking report.
It's been the talking point of every fucking morning sports show this week.
Like, he's getting all of those calls in game two.
I disagree.
I guarantee you.
It's going to be switching in there.
It's going to be a fucking marching band to the fucking game.
So here's the question.
Does he still keep up the antics in game two?
I have a theory that he's not going to.
I have a theory he's going to go, I'm not going to fall on the ground every time I shoot because I'm not going to get the calls.
So I'm just going to focus on trying to knock down these shots.
And I think he's going to shoot better because of it.
He's got to.
I think what happens with James Harden, and I was trying to calculate why he shoots worse in the playoffs.
And I think it's because he's playing for the foul instead of playing for the knockdown shot because he doesn't want to go a possession without scoring.
And it is way easier to guarantee a foul than guarantee the knockdown.
Once he realizes I'm not getting those shots, all he's doing is following through and looking at that ball go into the basket.
And I think it will help him.
I think James has a good shooting night.
I think so.
I think, honestly, between that, I think not just for the Rockets, but like specifically for James Harden and why they've matched up so well against the Warriors for so long.
Going to the free throw line slows the game down against Golden State.
Like you're going to get way more possessions.
You're going to get way less possessions.
So if you don't get that game fucking, if you don't get that game-breaking Warriors run that you always get, like you're always in the game.
So even though if they weren't getting fouled, it was still a pretty close game.
They're only down by like three or four with the game on the line.
But if you're not getting those free throws and the Warriors are just fucking nuking you like they do to every team and you get those 20 nothing runs, 30 nothing runs, like you're done.
The only way to keep it a fair game is if James Harden is going to the free throw line.
How is that even considered a foul?
It's not even close.
You think that was that debatable at all?
Not this one.
Look where his feet are.
Look where he takes off.
He's way behind the free throw line.
The three-point line.
Are you two feet?
Two feet minimum.
Watch where Draymond lands.
Draymond lands on the three-point line.
Harden was two and a half feet beyond the three-point line, and Hardin and Draymond land together.
That means Hardin has moved closer to Draymond.
Draymond has not moved closer to Harden.
Unnaturally closer.
Unnaturally closer.
No foul at all.
I'm sorry.
That's not a foul.
I think Klay got away with the defender.
I think Clay got away with one, but this was.
You got to give him a chance to defend.
Clay got away with one early.
Yeah.
Maybe two.
But that happens in a game.
You go to the basket, you get fouled.
You don't get a call.
We're acting like these two no calls were the only no calls the entire game.
I'm running the feet in Scott.
I'm not going to get up, though, because it...
What did Kobe say?
Jalen Rose me?
Where Jalen Rose guy came out of Kobe's feet and then twisted his ankle?
Yeah, that's a dirty play.
But this isn't induced by Harden.
This isn't.
Right.
What I'm saying.
This is the clay one.
Right.
What I'm saying is, I don't even know if the clay one is that much.
Perhaps.
Right.
So it's like, this is, if Hardin is putting his feet in front, like, notice how Hardin lands.
He lands on his tippy toes.
He's not trying to.
Look how Hardin lands, right?
Harden always lands when he throws his feet.
He lands light on his feet and falls to the ground because he knows he doesn't want to turn an ankle.
Right?
Yeah.
He knows he's going for the foul and he doesn't want to turn the ankle.
This is all strategy.
This is choreography.
He's not even trying to land.
It's gross.
And I hate the Warriors, but to act like you got hosed off of this call is crazy.
Dude, it's so bad.
It's making me root for the Warriors.
I'm rooting for the Warriors this series.
Wow.
Oh, I've been rooting for the Warriors off.
I'm going to do that.
I need KD to get one more so you can come home.
If they lose before they get to the finals or they lose in the finals, my home, goddammit.
Okay.
Anyway, I mean, look, we don't have to hard pawn Harden too much.
It's just.
And Chris Paul needs to fucking hold it together too, dude.
Yeah, what are you doing?
You're getting a fucking tech?
What are you doing, bro?
You've wasted a great Eric Gordon game.
I think he had like 30.
I mean, at that point, the game is over.
They missed.
They didn't get the ball back.
There's four seconds left.
They're down three.
Right, but four seconds left.
They're not, Gold State's not going to miss both free throws, but they could.
And it's still a one-possession game.
Fair enough.
Right?
So it's like, Chris, you got to stick that out.
He's going to have to be more aggressive.
He's had like, you know, he's had like a sneaky, like good NBA career.
Who's that?
Ahmad Schumpert.
Oh, yeah.
Like, I just noticed he was on the Rockets yesterday.
I'm like, yo, he's played with like every NBA.
Not Ahmad Shumpert.
Iman Shumpert.
Imon Shumper.
Ahmad Shum.
I had no idea he was on the Rockets until like yesterday.
He's three feet, a full yard behind the three.
Look at this.
Watch this.
He's three feet behind the line.
And he watches like a far he inside.
You can't, if let's say Draymond was not there, watch this.
Land it.
He's not even intending to land on his feet.
If Draymond didn't go, there'd be no way he could possibly land on his feet.
This should be ready for it.
He's a wide open three.
He still falls.
This should be ready for it.
Yeah.
Offensive foul.
He is throwing his feet at a defenseless defender.
That's great.
Offensive foul.
You should not be able to do that because you could potentially put your feet underneath his and then he could turn his ankle.
He's actually trying to land.
You're not.
Offensive foul.
Hard-Fought Playoff Series00:15:39
It would be lit if they called that next game.
This year, that should be a rule change.
I mean, I get it though.
Like, you're trying to protect the player, but like if you're not, if you're purposely not trying to land on your feet, protect the defender, too.
Because think about it.
Imagine Draymond.
Look, ready?
He lands on his ankle.
Draymond jumps up after him, right?
If Draymond had any athletic ability whatsoever, he would land first.
He could land it on his ankle and really bust his ankle.
Yeah, wow.
Dangerous.
Offensive foul, Harden.
Foul him out of the game.
I mean, I get what he's trying to do.
He's trying to bait the refs for all season.
You know what?
Play the game the way it's supposed to be played.
Naked.
Not call the game the way it's supposed to be called.
Play the game the way it's supposed to be played.
Shoot a jumper like it's supposed to be shot.
Yes.
Don't stick your fucking feet out and land on nothing.
Stop it.
And it's especially frustrating to watch that.
And then you go on the other side and you see like Kevin Durant.
Going ham.
Fucking head in the face, head, whatever.
Like, nothing ever fucking changes.
Landing on his feet when he jumps.
Yeah, like, it doesn't fucking matter, dog.
Like, he's.
Bro, can we talk about that again?
Can you send us a screenshot?
We got to post this on Instagram.
The idea, this is a natural three-point shooting form.
You know what they should do?
They should screw out Draymond.
They should eliminate him from the image.
You know how you can do that?
Yeah.
And just show his natural jumping motion without a defender there and show how absurd it is that there'd no fucking way he would ever be able to land on his feet.
And that's all that Houston fans need to see to realize that he's getting all the calls that he should get.
Let's tell you something about Houston.
There's a bunch of stupid people in this.
Oh, man.
I got to use a bathroom real quick.
I was about to say, all right, so before he was about to head out.
Go, go, go.
Kevin Durant, is he the best player in the world now?
Not like that.
As an official.
I don't.
Maybe.
It's just tough to give a guy the best player in the world when he's playing with three other all-world players.
And to you, I say, how have those all-world players played this postseason?
Yeah, no, because they just take so much focus away from him.
Focus, yeah.
But I mean, just watching his game.
Like, imagine LeBron had Kyrie still.
Even if Kyrie's having a bad game, Kyrie and another knockdown shooter.
Whoever the fuck.
And I want to say Kawhi because that's kind of like Clay, but not really.
Just another fucking all-world, historically great at-shooting thing.
Think of the amount of pressure that takes off.
Of course, but to you, I also say it's not that easy to play with people that good, right?
Like Kevin Durant, even when he's surrounded by all these all-world players, he's still head and shoulders above everybody.
Like when the game slows down, when it's time to win, when they give KD the ball, it's like, oh, yeah, no, he's by far the best player on the court.
I don't know, man.
I also know they struggle without Steph, period.
I mean, based on this past season and season before, like, when Steph is not there for long stretches, I wonder how it would be in the playoffs because Steph doesn't look quite right.
He hasn't looked right.
And it's a yearly thing now.
Like, every year, it's like, oh, is Steph good?
He got a little Kyrie in.
You see, that's regular season Kyrie.
Playoff Kyrie.
Playoff.
Last year wasn't there.
Well, yeah, he was out for the regular season.
He got hurt in the regular season.
Yeah, he got hurt in the regular season.
What do you mean?
He gets hurt.
The first finals against the Warriors.
Yeah.
He should have taken that series over.
The Warriors honestly weren't ready.
LeBron was playing out of his fucking mind.
Game one wasn't.
He got hurt in the finals, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he ran through everybody else through that.
He ran through all the way till it mattered.
Yeah, the guy.
He ran through the East.
He got hurt.
God bless his soul.
He ran to the East.
Tell me when Steph has ran through the playoffs.
No, Steph hasn't.
I'm not giving Steph credit.
I'm knocking Kyrie.
And that's why KD and Kyrie need to team up next year.
Be like, hey.
So Kyrie.
Don't you hate carrying people in the playoffs?
And they both get together and say, fuck us, Kyrie.
And then Kyrie's going to get hurt in March.
Y'all are going to struggle through it.
God damn it.
I'm sorry, man.
I don't hate Kyrie.
I just think we got to acknowledge that he's injury prone.
Of course.
He doesn't seem to have the greatest attitude.
I also think Steph is an injury prone as well.
I agree.
And I do think it's time for us to acknowledge that KD has taken.
We can acknowledge that Steph hasn't had a single finals MVP with three finals.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
KD has taken that title from LeBron.
Like, you are the best player alive right now.
He might be.
It's tough to say, but I think, yeah, I think right now you guys are.
You see how that Clippers game.
Like, and granted is the Clippers, but they were a team.
They're a team designed to harass guys like KD all day long.
Like, you got all the irritants on your team.
You got a Hall of Fame coach, a championship coach.
Like, there's no superstars on that team.
Like, they sent people in waves to guard KD.
And it did not fucking matter.
Like, ever since he said, I'm Kevin Durant, you know who I am.
He has played like that ever since.
Like, not a soul.
So are they winning the championship?
Because if he's playing at that level, nobody's beating him.
Yeah.
They're winning the championship.
They're winning the championship again.
And I feel like just the way he's fucking played, Steph Curry should have fouled out in game one.
I can see that.
Anyway, what's the point of these shits anyway?
He's like, these rougher reviews like the day after the game's over.
It's like, can we go back and play it over?
Can we like, do you credit a fucked up call to the next game?
I don't know what else could have happened.
You're down 103 to 100 and James Harden has a three-point retirement.
James Harden should have hit that three to tie the game.
God damn.
I mean, this is just absurd.
What a loser.
Just go for the shot.
Stop falling.
I mean, I guess if you're a ball player and you know what's off, like I've been in that situation before, like, I know it's off, and I'm trying to draw a foul.
That's how he shoots.
You see this report?
What's up?
Steph Curry should have fouled out in game one.
Because he hit, I don't know, but they're acting like him hitting one of these shots.
Should have been a foul when he stepped out of bounds.
Oh, my God.
But he forced him out of bounds.
Are you kidding me?
It's playoff defense.
The referees got two no-calls correct in the final seconds of the Warriors victory over the Rockets, but the review also ruled it.
So what they're saying is these calls weren't wrong.
Right.
We're talking about the fans.
I'm talking about Houston fans, not the rest.
But Steph fouling out on that body foul on the base on the sideline is absurd because that, if James doesn't step out of bounds, which he shouldn't, he should have more awareness.
But if he doesn't step out of bounds, nobody has a problem with that.
James doesn't have a problem with it.
Yeah.
Right?
Like, I don't think James would be.
He fouled me with his body on that play where I just dribbled and then maintained my dribble and we did something else.
It's absurd.
Can I ask one more playoff question?
What happens with the Bucs in this series and then after if they lose?
I think the Bucs figure it out.
You think they win this series?
I think they figure it out.
When they win this series, I still think Milwaukee takes it.
I think it's going to go seven.
I think it's going to be a dogfight.
I think Giannis is going to figure it out eventually.
They got a lot of good shots yesterday.
They just weren't hitting them.
This was what was scary yesterday.
Out of nowhere, Giannis became a three-point shooter.
And if that becomes consistent.
Oh, my God.
The league should just stop.
Stop playing.
Steph Kerr.
If that happens, KD will have been the best player in the world for two months.
For one series.
Two months.
Because as soon as that's, it's a wrap.
It's a wrap.
As a matter of fact, if Milwaukee advances because Giannis hits a three, KD was the best player in the world for two weeks.
For two weeks.
Dude, there was a moment, there was a stretch where I think he hit back-to-back threes.
He didn't have that little hitch in his shot.
Now, granted, I was watching it on a JetBlue TV, so I could not have seen it.
It was a horrible little TV.
But it looked smooth.
Release was there.
Shot it with confidence.
We're not talking about end-of-the-shot clock shots.
We're talking about, I want this shot.
I'm going to take it.
And if he can add that part to his game, there's no way to defend him.
You cannot defend him on the three-point line.
Yeah.
You cannot go.
You have to.
You have to stay in.
His first step is so quick and long.
It's over.
If you have to respect that three-pointer.
It's over.
Just fuck the league.
I think Giannis has one, maybe two more playoff heartbreaks in him before he climbs the mountain.
I think this will be it.
I think this is one of the playoff heartbreaks.
Yeah, I think this is it.
I still believe Milwaukee figures it out.
I think they take it in seven.
It's going to be a hard-fought series.
It's weird that we're giving Kyrie so much credit if y'all think they're still going to lose this series.
No, I just think Giannis is, man.
Giannis is confident.
Pull with confidence.
Alex and I were both watching on the plane, and we were both gasping.
It was, look at it.
And again, they're going to give him that all series long.
You have to.
And then once that starts being consistent, lock.
Because you can't stop him one-on-one.
Like going to the room.
I mean, look at that.
They got a shit punch there, but still.
I've got some real problems.
I also think you got to start giving Brad Stevens credit as at least a coach for the first few rounds of the playoffs.
Yeah.
My issue with Brad Stevens is never about his excellence in O's.
It's all about his ability to manage talent.
And I don't think that he manages talent well.
I think Kyrie is managing himself.
I think Kyrie is going, okay, I'm locked in.
And I think if Brad was a truly great coach, he would find a way to get Kyrie to lock in during the season as well.
I think if Brad Stevens just wore suits that fucking fit him, he would make a starter.
He does dress like Men's Warehouse.
He dresses like you're in middle school and you got to wear a suit to a speech or some shit.
He dressed like Tom Hanks in big after he shrunk.
Yeah, I think I'm starting to come around on Toronto.
Oh, Toronto got it.
Oh, that was the other thing.
Playoff Kawhi.
Yeah, Jesus Christ.
Prayoff Kawai is making Jimmy Butler look sad, man.
That's Jim Butler.
That's Jim Butler.
Bro, it was...
Dude, you see what he was doing to Ben Simmons?
I saw a little highlight package.
I didn't watch the game.
I saw a little.
Oh, just bitching him around.
Ben Simmons could do nothing with Kawhi.
Dog, I'll tell you this.
If Golden State and Toronto make it, that matchup of KD and Kawhi.
Oh, it's going to be beautiful.
It's going to be fucking.
Can we acknowledge something very interesting?
I don't think we spoke about this at all, but the Clippers actually played pretty well against Golden State.
They have a young, interesting, and exciting team.
I wouldn't say young, but they have an interesting and exciting team.
If you add Kawhi to that team, buddy.
Oh, yeah.
They got space for two.
Yeah, they got space for two.
Think about that.
You add Kawhi to that team.
Think about this.
How nice do you think Kawhi will feel knowing when he goes to the bench, sweet Lou Williams is going to come in.
And Montrez Harrow also is like 18 and 8 off the bench.
Oh, no.
Well, Montres will be starting next year.
For sure.
I think that's your bulldog.
You have him start next year, but look at this lineup.
You have Pat Beverly, who has a place in my fucking heart and soul now.
I just love the dog in him.
Lou Williams, I've been a huge fan.
I'm a fan of Shai Gilgis Alexander, a rookie person.
He's a rook, but he's got some show, right?
Galanari, fine.
I don't think he's that good, but he's a guy who needs stroke.
Shamett, like you have guys that if you add a Kawhi to and you got Doc Rubers coaching you.
Yo, I think we need to apologize to Doc.
I said on Twitter, I was like, yo, we need to give Doc his credit because...
Doc coach his ass off, man.
I didn't know four to five starters on this team.
I didn't know four to five starters.
They just got two of them.
That's fair.
Like in February.
You know who's got the fucking golden touch is Jerry West.
He just got there.
Like a year ago, two years ago.
And all of a sudden.
I feel like some people just figure out the chemistry of how a team operates.
The only way he couldn't win a chip with was the Grizzlies.
And even then, they got good.
They got good.
They were Grand City.
They were a hard out every single playoffs.
Guys, this is what sucks for Toronto because even if they go far, all of a sudden the Clippers look like such an amazing situation for Kawhi.
The advantage Toronto had earlier in the season was, hey, the Clippers are going to be trash.
You don't want to go there and rebuild.
You don't got to rebuild.
You just plug him right in.
Plug him right in.
You got that boy Pascal, though.
He's nice.
Great player.
You got Kyle Lowry who can at the very least get traded for a Mike Conley.
Yeah.
Well, now I tried to do that earlier this season when they got Gasol.
If you got Pascal Siakam and Gasol and Kawhi Leonard, like, I'm good with Kyle Lowry, not happy to give me 15 points at 20 points a game.
Like, bro, just run the show.
Absolutely.
Just get these two big fucking monsters on my wings.
Dude, they've got a good team.
Yeah, they got a good team.
This matchup with Golden State, if that's what happens, will be good.
It will be good and it'll be closer than everybody thinks.
It will be way closer and it will be fun.
Dude, Siakam, Siakam chasing around.
First of all, Siakam chasing around Giannis.
That's why he's funny.
That's why I said Toronto's playing.
Let's say it's not Giannis.
Jason Tatum is a ghost.
But let's say Jason Tatum wants to play up.
Siakum and Jason Tatum.
There's a lot of fun matchups going on here.
And do you really think that Al Horfer is going to be able to hold down a legit seven-foot chunky center in Gasol?
I think Gasol is going to body him.
Yeah, and Gasol got touched too, so you got to come and guard him out as well.
So they'll probably put my questions out there, right?
Or Baines, what's the guy's name?
They'll probably put Baines on Gasol a little bit more, yeah.
Give me an answer to this, right?
Toronto and Golden State see each other in the finals, hypothetically.
Who are the best three players on the court between those teams?
KD, Kawhi, Steph.
Steph.
But you got playoff stuff, though.
We got never won that finals MVP stuff.
Yeah, but Steph is still a beast, man.
But then he got on whenever he wants.
Bro, I love you know.
If it's not Steph, it's Klay.
If it's not Steph, I think it's Pascal Ciato.
No, we got no Pascal, bro.
Let's get boxed.
I get it.
Pascal Ciato.
But we are forgetting.
The reason KD went to that team is because Klay showed his ass in game six against OKC.
In a way, we've completely forgotten one of the greatest player performances I've ever seen.
Klay's always good for one of those Klay games in a series where he just completely takes over.
We'll win you a game by himself.
He's conscious, man.
He's a killer.
And he goes nuts.
He's graded D.
I think next season we're going to be talking about Kawhi's the best player in the league.
Will that be in Toronto or will that be in I don't think it's going to matter.
Where do you think he's going to think though?
Where?
Where I think he's going.
Like you put that idea of Clippers in my head and I'm like, if he's smart, that's the good move.
Not only, and it breaks my heart to say it because I'm a Toronto fan, but not only is it the good move, you also have Ballmer.
You have a billionaire owner that literally all he did his whole career is sell.
He is the salesman of Microsoft.
That's what people don't know about.
He is the salesman.
He sells.
So you don't think when he walks up to Kawhi's uncle, his goofy ass uncle, whoever the fuck runs the show for Kawhi, you don't think that this guy who sold Microsoft tech shit can sell some uncle from Jersey on him coming to Los Angeles?
Which is where he wanted to go in the first place.
Yo, the Lakers are so fucking dumb.
He's gone.
We don't want to give up Brandon Ingram for the chance to just sign Kawhi outright, where he already wants to go to play with LeBron.
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It's done.
It's on both sides of the court.
Dude, it's ridiculous.
How good he is.
And you're a guy like Kawhi, right?
Who is a grit and grind player.
And you see a guy like Patrick Beverly on this team.
Oh, yeah.
Tell me you don't want your point guard a selfless player.
Pat Beverly is selfless.
I mean, he was taking big shots in that game five or whatever it was when he hit the five threes.
He had to, but he is a selfless player.
You could count on him now to get buckets a little bit.
A little bit, but he'll never overextend.
He's trying to get everybody.
He's selfish.
He works his ass off on fucking defense.
He's working harder than anybody else.
And Kawhi, knowing that he does that same shit, knowing that he got a point guard to lock up to, knowing that he got another guy who's just get buckets, Lou Williams, that Lou is a respected by other guys in the league, too.
He's an OG.
Oh, yeah.
He's one of those guys that like.
Came under AI.
He came under the same.
I remember playing against Lou Williams in AAU.
Oh, shit.
Okay.
Yeah.
He was.
Yeah, they compared him.
He's like, he's the next Iverson.
Yeah.
That's what they called him.
And he had that ACL, I think, earlier in his career, which like he busted his knee early in his career, and that's why he took a toll.
Yeah, but he was like in my high school class.
So I always remember when you look up the rankings, like, it's like Lou Williams and like a couple of other guys, but you always saw his name because he was just like a regular size kid, but the motherfucker was averaging like 45.
He was nice.
He just get a wild bug at him.
What was his game in high school?
Same thing you see now.
Just buckets.
Just touch.
He had bounced too.
He was almost like if you watch Brandon Jennings a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But like Lou Williams is just stone-cold buckets every and get to the hoop from outside wherever wherever you need him get a bucket he'll get a bucket.
Same way he plays now.
Yeah.
He's like Jamal Crawford.
I could see him in the league for like easily another 10 years doing the same exact thing he's doing now.
Dude, he's fucking so good.
I'm just saying if I want to play with the Clippers, I'm a guy.
I'm an elite basketball player.
Honestly.
I hate to say it because I like this Raptors team, but maybe, yeah, I mean, it is everything you wanted.
It is everything he wanted.
Oh, gosh, I'm KD.
I could go to the debacle of an organization of the New York Knicks.
Yes, he will.
Yep.
Let's go.
KD should want to go to the Clippers.
Or I could go to the Clippers.
And wait a minute.
I'm sorry.
Did you say they have room for two players?
Yeah, they do.
They have room for two max players.
So I'm KD.
I could say, hey, Kawhi, would you like to go with me and play in Los Angeles, California for the Clippers that already took two games off of the Golden State Warriors in the first round with nobodies?
Or even if it's just fresh shit.
Even if it's just, If you just want to play with your friend, hey, Kyrie, you know where it's nice and warm?
You know what's easier on your brittle-ass joints?
Warm weather in Los Angeles, California.
You know who wouldn't mind coming off the bench, guys?
Who?
Patrick Beverly.
You know who would not mind in the least being a seventh man, but come in and play some two, play some one, just go lock up on D, especially during the regular season when I don't want to play more than 30 minutes.
You know who wouldn't mind doing it?
Patrick Beverly.
See, all that makes sense on paper, but at the end of the day, they're the Clippers.
At the end of the day, you're the Knicks.
Joshua.
What are you talking about?
But you're in New York.
You're still like.
But you're in Los Angeles, listen.
You're fucking Hollywood.
Jerry West.
Listen.
Steve Ballmer.
How do you not do this for the past?
Installers like the Nets.
For the past 10, 12 years.
For the past 10, 12 years, the Clippers have been run way better than the Knicks.
By far.
Not even close.
They've also gotten much more.
Play Griffin, gotten further in the playoffs, all that type of shit.
Still, people look at them like the little brother in L.A. Because they haven't won the chip.
But if you get Kawhi going to the bottom of the ship, they're always going to be.
Here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
You know who doesn't care about being a little brother?
Kawhi Leonard.
Kawhi Leonard is a white walker.
Kawhi Leonard cares about nothing.
All he wants to do is get on that throne.
That's the only thing that he cares about.
He doesn't give a fuck about being a little brother or not.
He's been a little brother in San Antonio the whole time.
KD, I really don't think KD gives a fuck about anything but winning and having his squad.
And you know who would give him the squad?
Kawhi.
Well, to that, though, why wouldn't he stay in Golden State of this?
That's my thing.
I think if he gave a fuck about winning, I think KD wants to be the man.
And I'm thinking Kawhi would give up.
Yeah, so I don't know how to stand out.
Kawhi goes to the West.
I think that's more incentive for KD to come east.
Very true.
Yeah, but what.
If you're trying to get straight to the finals, like, the only thing you have to worry about is the best.
But if they sign Kawhi, they still have space for KD.
So KD's like, I can go east and avoid him, or I can go play on his team.
That doesn't happen.
I'm going afloat.
That doesn't happen.
There's no way you have to go to Kawhi.
If that shit happens, woof.
These are all bad.
I would love it as a guy who's just tired of the Lakers and arrogance.
I'm tired of Lakers fans.
And the Clippers, it's nice to see a little brother get away.
I'm a little brother.
It's nice to see a little brother get away.
Who doesn't root for you?
Here's the thing.
The Knicks are getting Chris Middleton and Kemba Walker.
That's who we're getting.
I said it in the beginning of this fucking moment.
Chris Middleton leaves.
That's the sad part.
We might just get Kemba Walker.
We might just get Kemba.
Tobias Harris.
That's who we're ending up getting.
If we just get Kemba and save money, I'm happy.
Nah, I'm not happy with that.
You don't have to make another presentation.
I'd much rather them not like swing and miss on a B-level max than be like, all right, well.
I told you this.
Simmons said this on his podcast.
I saw a tweet.
He had it on good authority that Dwayne Wade and LeBron were ready to go to New York, like team up, go there.
But they fumbled the presentation so fucking badly that Riley was able to swoop in and be like, yo, come back.
Come back to Montevideo.
That's what I heard, too.
And then they were like, all right, well, yeah, this is my best.
And this is why Knicks fans have such PTSD because everybody's hearing like, oh, yeah, KD's a done deal.
Yeah.
Like, oh, it's just a matter of signing the paper.
I'm like, yeah, we heard the same shit about Braun and Wade eight years ago.
Pardon me if I'm a little fucking pessimistic about this shit.
I'm very pessimistic.
I don't believe in it.
But unless there's anything else, guys, we got to start wrapping it up.
You want to cover the shout out to the Giants.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Let's do a draft real quick, and then we got to wrap this.
I just wanted to point out one thing that was kind of cool.
So Kyler Morriguez goes number one to the Arizona Cardinals.
Arizona trades Josh Rosen.
First of all, I think that's a great trade for Miami.
Absolutely.
Second-round draft.
Do you believe in Rosen?
I think Rosen's good.
I don't know about his attitude.
I'm a little iffy, but talent-wise, if you said that would be a second-round pick, absolutely.
And the guy on the ticket I respect who like fucking knows football and like watches tape and all that said he had Kyler Murray at the same level as Rosen.
Coming out the draft, everybody was like, Rose is the guy until like a couple, you know, yeah.
Like, he had like a bad like combine or something.
But this guy, Kingsbury, he wants Murray for his offense.
He's known Murray since Murray was in high school and he was at Texas Tech trying to recruit him then.
Like, he wanted Kyler Murray.
Okay, here's a storyline that's kind of cool: Kyler Murray, black quarterback, goes number one, replaces a white quarterback.
White quarterback is looked at as dog shit, gets dumped for nothing.
Not once does a racial story get brought up.
And I just thought that was so nice.
No apologies for once.
Not even the overly enthusiastic look how four weeks come like when Tony General or Josh Rosen was just that whack where they're like fine.
Don't take anybody.
Fine.
We've let the Negro boy play.
I don't know what play quarterback.
But you didn't even hear the story of the black quarterback number one.
Like there was no, and I just thought that was cool.
Like I remember when the Colts played the Bears in the Super Bowls, Tony Dungy and whoever the black coach was for the Bears.
Lovey Smith?
Lovey Smith.
Oh, so many fucking stories.
Oh, two black coaches in the Super Bowl.
Got so annoying.
No stories about this.
And I just thought that was real progress.
That this just happened.
The black quarterback went number one, which was a huge deal before Cam Newton.
It was only correct.
The bigger stat I heard was this is the first time a quarterback at this height has been taken.
And then he dumped a white quarterback, and nobody in Arizona was like, no, keep the white guy.
They were just like, yo, the black guy, I think he's going to be better.
Get rid of the white noise.
Because he's Jewish.
Last.
Not for Rosen.
Why does it sound like a Jewish accident?
They got the Jewish quarterback out of there, bro.
Yeah, there was only like 19 black quarterbacks drafted in the first round, like ever.
Ever?
Before this year.
But now this is a sign that the first two quarterbacks say they were black.
Yeah, it's Russell Wilson.
Haskins fell to 15.
No, Marlowe.
And Dwayne Haskins.
Dwayne Haskins.
And nobody talked about race at all.
And I just think that was such a nice sign of progress.
The Russell Wilson effect, man.
Nobody wants to be that guy that missed out on their next thing.
Did you ever see that story about why there have been so many prolific Jewish quarterbacks?
No.
Yeah.
That's because you get a quarterback.
I know where you're going.
I thought I could go to a much darker place.
I thought I was going to go to a much darker place.
I'm relieving racial humor for you guys.
Just to remind us that we're all sitting right in front of it.
If anybody gets upset, I'm Jewish.
Salty.
God damn.
Oh, man.
Poor Giants.
They also, the Cardinals, I think, had a really good draft.
The Giants, yeah, had a horrible draft apparently.
Can you guys break down the Giants and how awful this kid is from Deuce?
I don't know that he's awful.
A lot of people say they had him as like a third-round talent, but I don't know.
He looks fucking downy a little bit.
Man, looking a little bit more.
My thing is like this: if you're going top 10 as a quarterback, I better have heard about you before this week.
Right.
That's my only shit.
I'm like, there's no way a guy who played in ACC played for Duke is worth a top 10 pick.
And on top of the lopsided trade for Odell Beckham, people are just looking at this like, nah.
What is the upside in this?
What did Gettelman say?
Gettleman liked him, and he said, if we waited till like our next first-round pick or whatever, we tried to trade back, we know for a fact two teams before 17 were going to take Daniel Jones.
And we didn't want to lose our guy.
If it's a quarterback and you believe that's your quarterback, people say take him wherever.
Doesn't fucking matter.
But most people who follow the draft are like, so my follow-up question is: what made him their guy?
Because you see all this criticism.
I don't know what that is.
Does he have like typical quarterback size?
Does he have big hands?
Yeah, he's like 6'5, prototypical size.
Also, a lot of people are like, look, he played on Duke.
He had no talent around him.
Gotcha.
Kyler Murray had one of the great offensive lines in college football.
Gotcha.
He had weapons out the ass.
He had a great coach.
Daniel Jones was playing at Duke.
Okay, got you.
So you have prototypical quarterback size.
He wasn't prolific, but they feel like given some pieces, he could actually do well.
Maybe this isn't a franchise quarterback, but it's someone who could manage the game and be effective.
Well, he has all the tools.
So the tools to be good.
He has apparently a decent arm.
I haven't read a ton about him.
I didn't hear his name until, like Cass said, the week of the draft.
Yeah.
I wasn't nearly as invested as I was because the Cowboys didn't have a first-round pick.
Right.
But I didn't hear anything about Daniel Jones until I heard a rumor, a tweet that was like one team has Daniel Jones in their top 10 and you all know who it is or has their QB1, which is their tweet.
And you all know who he was.
Everybody's like, John!
Now, did he have a good combine?
Was there anything that wasn't?
No, I didn't hear any combine about him.
And this is not a guy because the combine is like athletic ability, not really throwing.
Right.
So I don't know what he wouldn't have run a fast 40.
He wouldn't have had a good broad jump.
You know what I mean?
Like, how's he going to shine at the combine?
Look at the tape.
How to be the tape, I guess.
Eden, can you take notes on how Alex handles YouTube and just how shocking he is?
This is you?
Motherfucking game.
God damn.
Look at that.
God damn.
Ed Martinez coming through.
We probably got a great Wonderlick scorer.
Yeah, I didn't hear about like a that's like the test they give him.
I didn't hear about that.
So I don't know, but if he could be good, I just don't.
Most people don't believe so.
My thing is, is he better than Sam Darnold?
No.
Is he better than Lamar Jackson?
He's better than any first-round quarterback that they could have got last year.
I mean, granted, you wouldn't have got Saquon Barton.
No, get Saquon.
I think that was the right move.
I think you've got like a franchise player.
I think a franchise quarterback is worth so much more than a franchise running back.
Cowboy's got arguably best running back in the league.
People make that argument.
Yeah, look at his deal.
Not big deal, but like, I would rather have a great quarterback any day.
That's fair.
He had good grades, and he was the team captain.
I hope you're the fucking team captain if you're the quarterback.
What the fuck is that it?
Dwayne Haskins, also academic All-American, also broke a lot of passing records.
People aren't super high on him, and I don't know why.
I think Washington had a good first round.
They got two people who just fell, and it seems like for no real reason.
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Absolutely.
Okay, so this is Daniel Jones.
Okay.
I mean, you see, he's tall.
Bad throw.
That didn't look impressive.
Yeah, none of this stuff.
Okay, let's see.
His form looks odd to me.
Maybe I'm crazy.
Looks like he's throwing side on.
Broad jump.
That's a solid broad jump.
Nine and a quarter feet.
Solid broad jump.
For 6'5.
White?
Yeah.
White's play.
Oh.
Okay, got up.
What's that?
32?
Yeah, I don't see any highlights of him running, though.
So what's the big deal about being athletic?
He got a little arm on him.
Okay, good though.
He got a little arm on him.
I ain't going for it.
Yeah, yeah.
All right, all right, all right, all right.
It'd be nice to have a guy like Old El Beckham Jr. to throw to.
Well, guys, that has been another episode of Flagrant 2.
Excuse me.
Andrew Schultz's flag.
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So keep that kind of given spirit alive.
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And we will see you next week.
Oh, real quick, before we go, I did this fucking show that was so cool that I have to shout out.
This guy named Jeremiah Watkins has a show that he usually does in LA at the comedy store, but he did it in Moontower and it was called Stand Up on the Spot.
And the audience just yells out suggestions and you got to create a stand-up bit on the spot about it.
And it was such a cool, fun show.
I did at Moontower.
So if you're in LA, definitely go check that out.
We posted a video of it on the YouTube channel.
So it was just freestyled set.
I think that's what we put it under.
But if you're in LA, definitely go check that out, man.
It is just so raw.
It's comedy in its raw form.
And I really think that y'all will appreciate it.
And yeah, so shout outs to Jeremiah, man, for doing that.