Uconn Coach Dan Hurley, Final 4 Is Set, The World Stays Mad About Zach Edey And DJ Burns Is An American Hero

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On today's Pardon My Take, we have UConn head coach Dan Hurley, our good friend. Third time on, he has just punched a ticket with his Huskies to the Final Four, back-to-back Final Fours, trying to be the first team to go back-to-back since Florida.
They're on a dominant run.

We're going to talk about the final four. It is set.
The teams, the four teams that are in it, what the storylines are. We're going to do a little who's back, and we're going to have a great show.
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Nah. April Fools! That's a good one.
Ha ha! That's a good one. No, we have our Final Four set.
And, boys? Hank is devastated. Yeah.
With Duke getting bounced. So, so upset.
It broke my heart to see how upset you were. Actually, Hank, you didn't really get mad until you bet on duke live yeah no it was a perfect henry lockwood uh moment where like he hasn't cared about duke all year he's admitted this and then in the second half he decided to bet them live and duke gave us the worst second half imaginable just couldn't score the basketball which is an important part of the game uh and dj burns was your daddy second half.
And then you actually were upset. So you found your way to be upset about this loss.
Which I like. I'm glad that you're mad because if you were just like, whatever, and you didn't actually care at all, I'd be upset by that.
Yeah. Yeah, it was a horrible game.
I mean, they shot, I think, 19 for like 75. What are you doing with your shoes? What do you mean? Are you trying to be a fashion guy? What are your shoes? What are those shoes? They're nice shoes.
Is he trying to be a fashion guy? What are you talking about? I know we've got to talk about the final four. I've always had the best shoes on the phone.
I know we've got to say. I disagree.
I actually think PFT gives a run for the money with best shoes. When he drops the pennies.
When I got the pennies, I got the kamikazes. Are you trying to be a fashion guy? The Crocs.
I've had these shoes for like a year. I know we have to talk about the Final Four, but I have to talk about these shoes first.
I've always been a fashion guy. I'm so fashion.
Those look like shoes you would wear when you want to think that you're wearing golf shoes. This is a nice Easter outfit.
Oh, you get dressed up for Easter? Interesting. Yeah.

Interesting.

Is that why you're wearing Carolina blue today?

I don't know what you're doing with those shoes, but I'm on to you.

What?

I mean, like, these are literally just white shoes.

Yeah, but something about it.

They're not, like, regular white shoes.

They're, like, fashion guy white shoes.

They're Instagram ad white shoes.

Here are the shoes you wear if you're going to work, but you want to wear shoes, but you have to dress up.

That's what he's wearing.

What are you looking at, Hank? I'm trying to look at the name. Pr i can see it's prada yeah those are fancy those are prada shoes no free ads no free yeah no free ads but uh uh a dude who just still gave these to me yeah instagram mad machine shirt oh yeah sorry the vending machine shirt your devil's lost on on easter actually very sacrilegious on your part to be cheering for them but dj burns is the fucking man yes i love him thank you on behalf of america thank you everyone in america should thank dj burns for beating duke oh for just being awesome and it is funny it's like the the drake meme when we just got done watching zach edie and we're like no and we watch dj burns.
Yes. Fuck yes.
And he was wearing his eighth grade bully shoes. I think they were James Harden's, but it was like a hue of green that just didn't match anything else on the court, spinning on everyone, just looking awesome.
His touch is so nice. It basically came down to, could DJ Burns score more points than got scored on him? And the answer was yes.
I would also say,j burns score more points than got scored on him and the

answer was yes i would also could he score more points than got scored on him and also limit his

fouls to four or less yes because i and for the last like seven minutes of the game dj burns would

just stand with his arms straight up he wouldn't even try to contest just go right out he'd just

be like i'm i'm just standing in the paint i'm gonna put my hands up in the air and try to avoid

me if you can please offense yes and we could talk about the totality of the final four we're

I'm sorry. right at him just be like i'm i'm just standing in the paint i'm gonna put my hands up in the air and try to avoid me if you can please offense yes and we could talk about the totality of the final four we're gonna go through each game but like this nc state run everyone's heard it you know they were down uh they were tied with louisville in the first round of the acc tournament i actually have a clip this is the team that's playing in the Final Four.
This is from the game they played against Louisville 19 days ago. Tell me, what is this celebration right here? I don't know why anybody that's got the recent history of these guys is celebrating.
That's Jim Boeheim 19 days ago. The team that's playing in the Final Four.
Now, credit to Jim Boeheim. He did actually pick them to go to the Final Four in his bracket.

He was three for four.

He had UConn, Purdue, and NC State.

But the NC State team was tied with five minutes left to Louisville in the first game of the ACC tournament.

They were a buzzer-beater three-pointer away from none of this ever happening.

And actually even more because everyone's like, oh, yeah, the buzzer beater when Virginia didn't foul up three. The crazier part about the whole thing that gets lost in the shuffle is the guy who was shooting the free throw for Virginia, Isaac McNeely, was an 87% free throw shooter, and not once this entire season had he had missed two free throws in a game.
He had already missed one in that game. He missed the second one.
So the first time all season, he missed two free throws in a game. And that let NC State get the buzzer beater overtime start of what is the most insane run.
Well, so he bricked the foul shot. NC State goes down the court.
They don't foul. They get a three off.
Banks it in. Barely banks it in two.
Not even like a good looking bank. Yeah.
Goes goes to overtime nc state goes on and then yeah they just i think they just started believing that they could do it because they they went they beat duke they beat unc they beat duke again yep and now like you can't you can't tell me that marquette they beat marquette they're actually just a good team yeah they're a good team and uh the other dj on the team awesome so they're a good combination and then they've got uh diar who's just eating up rebounds and fasting for ramadine yes at the same time which now i'm starting to think that you should have somebody on your team that is a practicing muslim that that fast during ncaa tournament games because now this is two years in a row with sunogo from last year and hakeem did it back in the nba days uh i there's something to it they're crazy it's they are they have the most losses for a final four team ever 14 losses on the season and they're in the final four as an 11 seed there's i mean it's just fun to watch like dj burns i don't know how anyone watches that game it isn't like this is my favorite but this is it's got to be your favorite player like he was spinning the soft

touch like he doesn't even really jump there was a couple times where he boxed out but he wasn't even really boxing out he kind of was just holding someone off and then grabbed it with his other hand but he's also the best dude ever do you see that clip of him taking pictures with security after yep like best dude ever owns vending machines owns vending machines NC State America's team, and they took down Duke and justice for Jamal Shedd, who got hurt in that Houston game, because Houston would have whooped Duke's ass. Yeah, Houston was definitely the better team.
I think the only way that you can defend against DJ Burns, maybe Edie will be able to do it just because he's huge and has long arms, but we can get to that in a second. Yeah.
If you're not a giant, the only way that can defend him is something that duke tried to do one time tonight they never went back to it where you just back away from him as he's putting that pull the chair you pull the chair out and then he gets out of control that's the only way that you can stop him because you can't push back against him you're not going to out muscle him he's going to hit you with his back or shoulder and get like two feet of separation right as the time that he's spinning around with a hook shot and you can't do anything about his finish is so soft and listen like disappointing end for duke they were they should have won that game there were seven and a half point favorites but john shire how would he have known that dj burns was good you you can't you can't prepare for yeah he's never had to prepare for a guy like that no so you know maybe he should have had someone besides Filipowski on DJ Burns who followed out with 10 minutes left in the game. And you know what? Not only did NC State defeat Duke, but they also beat the refs.
There was a moment when America said, okay, here we go again. Hank's part of America.
Barely. They blew the whistle because the ball hit the shot clock, went out of bounds.
It was a Filipowski shot that went out of bounds. He threw it at the shot clock.
He threw it out of bounds. He tried to take the shot clock down.
Yeah. And they said out on NC State, NC State's coach just basically put his hands up and was like, what are you doing? What are you talking about? Teed him up.
That right there felt like things were about to end for NC State. It's hard to beat the refs and Duke at the same time.
It's very. It's very rarely done.
It was an eight-point lead, and then it took it for the two technical foul shots. It was a six-point lead, and they were like, and Duke has the ball.
This is going to be a four-point game. This sucks.
But NC State outlasted them. It was the better team.
Shout-out to Middlebrooks. So sad for Duke.
Danny Cannell's nephew. Yeah.
The most try-hard guy out there, which I love. I was only slightly upset on NC State winning for one reason, one reason only.
I would have just loved to hear Danny Cannell's take on getting beaten by a guy that wears nail polish. Yeah.
That would have been right in his mouth. I would never root for that.
He would have done three weeks in a row of content about how men should not wear nail polish. Also, it been nice if middle brooks had gone to an sec school because that would have also been a nice wrinkle for danny had to have to root for an sec for the sec yeah but he had the shirt uh middle brooks what was his name ben ben middle brooks uncle yeah just so everyone was clear we should sell those shirts yeah just anyone can buy ben middle brooks uncle shirts yeah he becomes a where's Waldo of who's his actual uncle.
Yeah, he's America's nephew.

Yeah.

But yeah, NC State, incredible story.

So this Final Four, I feel like, has it all.

I know that the Final Four when we had all the blue bloods was incredible

and the ratings were crazy, but this Final Four has this true Cinderella.

They have Purdue and the most polarizing player in college basketball

in Zach Eadie because you either are a Purdue fan and love him or you're the rest of America and hate him. They have the freight train of UConn.
And then they have Alabama, which Alabama, as much as I am not a Nate Oates fan, they are fun to watch when they get going. And they're absolute flamethrowers.
And it's their first Final Four. So you have two teams that haven't been, I think, 83 for NC State, 80 for Purdue, first time for Bama, and then the national champs from last year.
Not to mention redemption for Purdue. Redemption for Purdue for losing last year.
And the crazy part of it is that amongst those four teams, I feel like UConn is the team that anyone without a dog in the fight is going to root for. Yeah i mean it's pretty crazy sorry sorry sorry nc state nc state is america's team i can admit that yeah uh so let's talk about the purdue tennessee game because boy do people it it gives me so much joy watching other fan bases have to watch sack ed and then i feel less crazy because i've had to watch it for four years and it's like they join the fray and you know the screenshots come out and the anger comes out everyone's like how do they how do they call this a foul Zach Eadie didn't have a foul called on him for the first 30 minutes of the game but with all that said Tennessee I know Tennessee fans are mad and you could be mad at Zach Eadie.
I think you probably should be more mad about everyone not named Dalton Connect. I think you can be mad about both things at the same time.
I think you can be furious about Zach Eadie and how the refs call him, and I think that you can also be like it would be nice if Ziegler had made one three-point shot. So Dalton Connect was 14 for 31, and the rest of the team, or sorry, he was 17 for 31.
Wait, what was his final stat line? He scored 31 points. More than half of his team's points.
He had 37 points. 14 of 31, 6 of 12 from 3.
14 of 31, the rest of the team went 10 for 31. Yeah.
I'd say that that would probably be more why you lost than Zach Eady and how he was officiated and I am I'm get I got dangerously close if Duke had won that game I would have been uh like I might have gotten an Eady jersey and watch Purdue play Duke and been like at the forefront of saying like those aren't those those are all fouls you can't do that to Zach Eady I would have been number number one proponent of Zach Eady for one single game. Zach Eady makes everyone so angry, and I understand why because I've had to go through it myself.
He also is getting to a point where people are just diminishing that he's just not good at basketball, and he's very good at basketball. He is good at basketball for sure.
He has gotten a whole lot better at basketball. When I first saw him play, I think two years ago is when I started watching him,

he didn't look like he liked being out there, didn't look like he had any fire,

didn't look like he knew what he was doing.

He was just kind of out there moving slowly.

I always would say that it's like there's a tiny little person controlling the big robot inside of him

that's thinking, okay, move your left leg, right leg, left leg, right hand.

And now it's like he is a smooth basketball player for his size at times. Right.
He's not like super quick or anything, but he does. He has improved a whole lot.
And if you're Tennessee, you can be mad at the way the refs call him, but also just Zach Eadie being there has a big effect on every single thing that you do, and it makes you uncomfortable. Like Zekaki Ziegler, whenever he would drive to the paint,

you could tell

he was like a second slow

either deciding

whether to pass or shoot

because he was thinking

there's a giant

in the paint somewhere

that's just going to swap me

if I do this wrong.

Yeah,

he caught it.

always in the back of your head

if you're playing against him.

He causes hesitation.

He causes,

like,

shots that you normally

wouldn't love.

A lot of mid-range shots

because you don't want

to go to the rim

and, you know, Purdue's defense and same with UConn, with Donovan Klingon, they know that they've got a guy behind them so they can play more pressure up top and run you off the three-point line and get you into those shots that are low-percentage shots and get you into a spot where you're shooting 10 for 31 as a team. I think most Purdue fans have reached this point, and I hope they have, where Purdue fans should just say fuck off to everyone else.
Stop trying to tell us that it's something it's not. Like, Zach Eadie's really good at basketball.
Purdue's a really good team. Really, really good basketball team.
It's not enjoyable to watch, and that's okay to have that opinion, to be like, I don't like watching a foul fest. I don't like watching a guy, you know, stand in the paint and be able to just turn around and put the ball in the basket.
Purdue fans should just be like, that's okay because we win. You know what I mean? Like there it's at a point where it's like, uh, to, to quote our good friend, Jay Billis agree to disagree.
Like you, you guys have your team. They play a certain brand that is winning

basketball. It's getting you to the Final Four.

Most of America doesn't enjoy

this experience. It's okay.

I think you're being a little disingenuous there,

but that's like

Purdue fans trying to tell us that it's something

it's not is where it's like the disconnect

becomes like you could just have to put up your hand

and be like, yeah, I understand. People probably don't

want to watch it, but guess what? We're winning. Fuck off.
Yeah, you don't have to worry about what people think about your score you don't have to worry you don't have to prove it to us you don't have to get your dub stamped by anybody else no to be like okay this was really win you guys in the final four yeah they're really good and they made their way they earned their way to watch they suck to watch do you see after the game zach edie cutting down the nets did not need a ladder yeah he just stood next to it i said they should have called a foul on the ladder because it looked like it was impeding his way out of the net but he was just standing on his own two feet reaching up in the air clipping down the net and i just saw everyone across america saw that and thought the same thing like if i was this guy's size i would also be in the final four yeah might not be true but but it's also for somebody that's on the shorter side it's fun to think about. It's a nice soothing balm that you can put on the burn of having to grow up being shorter than normal is just saying, oh, if I was just a foot taller, I would be better than everyone at sports.
So I encourage people to do that. He's put in a ton of work.
He's gotten a lot better, but it's not a fun watch. Hank actually has joined the Purdue hate crew.
It's not a fun watch. Not fun at all.
Yeah, but it works for them. So if I had i had zach edie on my team i would just be like fuck everyone that's just the way it goes yeah but can't i mean imagine the national championship how much you're going to be rooting against them and hate watching of course and i i unfortunately think that dj burns probably already got his first foul in the game on saturday getting off the bus like they're he's he's gonna be out of that game so fast it's gonna yeah going to suck.
He's not great defensively to begin with. Right.
And he does like to foul. He gets in harm's way a lot.
But then what are they going to do? Danny Cannell's nephew might be the try-hard answer that America needs. Just beat the fuck out of Zachy.
Yeah, just try extra hard. Yeah, just be really annoying.
Ask Danny for some good quotes. Just record everything that Danny Cannellnell says between now and the game and then just repeat that to him verbatim during the game to annoy him yeah just doesn't want to play there's one other thing about dj burns uh everybody in america thinks that he should play football huh why he's good at basketball who said that just everyone is like no but i know that when we interviewed him when we were like you know uh do you think of playing basketball, like your football player playing basketball? Oh, yeah, he does that a few times.
But I've seen lots of people be like, this guy should actually try to play left tackle in the NFL. Oh, I haven't seen that because his touch is so good that I want him to keep playing basketball.
Yeah, it would be a disaster. Yeah.
He's not a football player. he's the perfect big man basketball exactly let's just watch let's just enjoy dj burns for what he is although i do get under understand the sentiment that the nfl is king and so you have to be like you see good athlete oh he should play football because there was a while where anytime there was a good basketball player they they would want to try out for the nfl to be a tight end yeah like um who's the guy on

george mason i don't remember that you remember that i didn't i haven't seen the dj burns should play football take oh i know that he's it's everyone does plays that make him look like he's a football player but yeah i love watching him play basketball just let the man play basketball but whoever the george mason guy was i remember he tried out like you think of mo ollie cox from vcu No, no, no.

He's been following the Colts, right?

No, I'm thinking about the George Mason player from the 2006 2006 when he made the Final Four. Yeah, so he tried out for the NFL and they clocked him to 40.
I think he ran like a 5-4, 40-yard dash time. They're like, okay, yeah, maybe this whole NFL player, NBA college basketball player.
Ja Lewis. For everybody.
Ja Lewis signed a free agent contract with New York Giants. Ja Lewis.
That was who you were thinking of. I just looked it up.
2006. Yeah, no, I think DJ Burns is right where he needs to be.
All right, so Tennessee fans, though, like that was disappointing, but I really do think it's really the rest of your team not named Dalton Connect kind of let you down all you had to do is hit a few shots that weren't Dalton Connect shots and he was so good but it just you can't like produce one of those teams like you can't make mistakes against them because they they all their guards are older they they they're just smart with what they like they have a system they know exactly what's going to work they spam the same play and if they're hitting their threes too it's just like lights out that happened on friday night when gonzaga was in that game and then you looked up and it was like nope gonzaga's done i'm absolutely cook i'm gonna say something nice about zach edy though uh after the game when they interviewed him and he was talking about people that doubt him he started screaming and i think he dropped the f-bomb he was like we're fucking here he showed some emotion i i i hate him less yeah after watching that he also said he had a boner when they were someone was holding a uh one of his teammates was holding a camera phone and being like we made it we made it final four how we feel yeah he's like i have a boner probably for the first time in his life yeah if you're that big you got so much blood elsewhere in your body. so is that i mean listen he's averaging 30 and 16 he had 40 and 16 today it's insane what he's been doing this tournament run not a fun watch but credit to zach edie because he's good at basketball and now we have people also policing the paint touches and how long he's camped out like if you watch him play he's his footwork has gotten so much better and his defense has gotten so much better.
He's getting in and out of the paint to reset his time. You can be upset about how they officiate him.
Everything else is kind of stupid to be like he's not good. Yeah, he actually does work.
He doesn't stand perfectly still the entire time. But still, if you're NC State, you want that discussion to happen.
You want the refs to be hearing that all week. So that way they're at least looking at him when you play against him.
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It's fun to watch if you uh are a sicko yeah rico has just ruined alabama for me because nato should be a story that we're like i mean it is cool like when they're like 11 years ago he was a math teacher and now he's going to the final four and you saw alabama on saturday night, when they get hot from three, they can be the best team in the country. Like that's just a fact.
And Clemson kind of hit the regression monster and we know ball. Yeah.
So if you're shooting like 50% or less, slightly less than 50%, if those backdoor cuts are working at like a moderate pace, if you're Clemson, you're still not going to be able to beat Alabama if they're shooting the ball. Well ball well.
That's just a fact. It's just math.
That's where the math teacher thing comes in. Yeah, the math teacher thing comes in strong because they went 45% from three, and it felt like they were hitting big shot after big shot.
I also think that Alabama, and maybe people will say this is crazy, but if you have as much football success as Alabama does, no one can in their right mind be like, I'm rooting for Alabama, unless you're obviously an Alabama fan. In which case, enjoy this.
Enjoy the hell out of this. But the regular sports fans in the world, it's just too close to everything Nick Saban did and how much you dominated in football.
You can't also have basketball. If you're an Alabama just sports sports fan so you root for alabama football and you root for alabama basketball probably to a significantly lesser extent than you root for the football team what's the conversion rate like what would you trade an ncaa championship for in basketball in football like an sec title i don't think so i think less you think less just a win just an iron bowl win i think maybe even less than that win at home against lsu yeah maybe maybe home win against lsu equals national championship basketball i mean there will be some alabama basketball fans that will say that we're crazy for this but i think that if you pulled the entire alabama fan yes i mean football just is king there yeah i'm not i'm not talking about the diehard Alabama basketball fans.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. In which, like, if you are one, obviously, and even if you're not, even if you're just an Alabama fan, this is an awesome run.
This is an awesome time of joy, but I'm trying to figure out what the average member of the fan base would trade this title for. Win against Georgia? Oh, win against Georgia.
I think that's two, two in a row, two times in a row for that. That might be.
But, yeah, they just they just have there's something about having it all and they have it all they do like that they got they had a team in the in the college football playoff they have a team in the final four a lot of Michigan State fans reminding everyone they're the only other team who's done that oh yeah of course they went about that whole playoff uh but yeah they have it all and they know it is a great story in the fact that that what was 11 years ago, math teacher, to have this rise this quick and be in a spot where he's in the final four in the top of the college basketball landscape, it's crazy. Yeah.
And to make Alabama fans care about basketball. They've never been to a final four.
They'd only been to one Elite Eight before Friday or Thursday. Yeah.
Basketball school, maybe. And Clemson kind of the similar.
I don't feel that bad. You guys have – Dabo's going to figure it out.
Dabo will be – I don't know. Who do you think would win a national championship first? Clemson or Alabama? Saban gone? I think probably Alabama.
Dabo's still there? Probably Alabama. Shout out our guy Siwoo Kim Tracker.
He was down bad. Yeah, it was a rough weekend for Siwoo Kim Tracker.
He said 50 likes, and I asked the flight attendant for two sodas when he was at an airport. He just stopped giving me updates on Siwoo Kim.
He tied for 17th. That's a good finish this week.
Yeah, but he stopped giving me updates on Siwoo Kim because he was too depressed about Clemson losing. I expect more out of my trackers.
Masters next week. big week for him yeah but he he is he is our favorite tracker because no other tracker in the world can you get uh 22 feet for eagle birdie birdie and we were minus seven uh in the same timeline as uh all caps there's no goddamn motherfucking way that's a foul flopping fucking pussies yeah I hope Rico stubs his toe for five months straight.
Yeah. He's just, the man does it all.
Yeah. So truth be told, I was rooting for Clemson.
I was too. I mean, I definitely was.
I was rooting for Clemson because I wanted to be so wrong about Clemson. I wanted Clemson to win the national championship.
I think we would have won ratio of the year. Yeah.
It would have been one of the greatest graphics for this show ever to have the Clemson graphic thrown back in our face.

But unfortunately for the people at home, we do know ball.

Yeah.

We know too much ball.

We do.

We do.

It sucks.

It's a blessing and a curse because we have to tell people the truth about us knowing ball.

And then they want to say, you're crazy.

Clemson could win it all.

No, they couldn't. I expect an apology for anyone who quote tweeted that that graphic everyone be nice everyone that did it how many quote tweets does it have on it right now probably like 200 it would be nice i would like to see 200 people reaching up being like i apologize for quote tweeting our bad turns out everyone that did that should be old takes exposed yeah every single one Just a simple tweet tweet at us saying YKB, you know ball That's all I want But yeah, they're going to run up against an entirely different animal In Yukon It is like live by the jump shot Die by the jump shot If they can make 46% If they can make 45% shots, they can win? Yeah.
The only other problem for Alabama is they take twos at the rim and threes, and twos at the rim with Donovan Klingin is an impossible feat to do because we saw it with UConn versus Illinois. And UConn had a 30-0 run against Illinois in an Elite Eight.
Illinois offense that has been playing lights out and had an incredible season. That was one of the craziest things to watch ever, where it spanned two halves because it was 23-23.
The first half ended 29-23. And then it just kept on happening, where it was UConn would score.
And UConn wasn't even playing well on Saturday. So we made fun of UVA when this happened to them earlier in the play-in game.
Yeah. And a similar thing happened except the difference is this is in the Elite Eight.
So you're a good team. Really good team.
It's a really good team. Very good team.
Offensively, what were they like? Top five in the nation? I mean, they had three guys who were very, very good offensively. This was number one versus number two, I think.
Yeah. Was it number one versus number two? So they were in share.
It was out of this world for all the games up until this point. The Illini are a great, great team.
And then they scored, I think they went 55 minutes of real time without scoring a basket. It was nuts.
Without making a shot. Yeah, because it spanned halftime.
In Klingen, he was in his first 17 minutes on the floor.

Illinois scored four points.

In his first 17 minutes on the floor, they scored four points.

They went 0 for 9 on field goal attempts that were contested by him.

It was actually 0 for 19.

0 for 19.

0 for 19.

I'm sorry, 0 for 19.

He affects everything.

And Brad Underwood, the minute he got hired atinois i was like that's a problem he's a really good coach with one of the most regrettable sound bites slash coaching strategies of all time when they got him in the first half and he was like if he blocks 100 shots he blocks 100 shots he didn't block 100 shots but it felt like he was blocking 100 shots because every shot at the rim was fucked up by Donovan Klingin, and they just kept on saying, we're going to go after him, and it kept on resulting in zero points and then points on the other side of the floor. And the craziest stat from this UConn game and how goddamn good they are, because I've been saying it, they have a they have a solution to every problem that's that's given to them UConn didn't even play well they shot 17.6 percent from three like imagine if they had hit a couple of threes because when you say a 30 run you think this team just got nuclear from three and it just avalanche no.
No, no, no. That's not anything that happened.

They could not shoot from outside on Saturday and they still absolutely curb stomped Illinois. It was bad.
The game was over after that. You can't come back from a 30 to nothing run.
No. It's impossible.
It was crazy and it was also like the loudest crowd. I mean, that was...
That was Bill Murray though. It was insane how loud it was for UConn and they are just a monster.
The closest tournament game they've played in the 10 games that they've won in a row here was a 13 point victory over Miami in the Final Four. And you know what's crazy is we have a possibility depending on what happens tonight on the women's bracket but there is a possibility of getting UConn against NC State in the finals in both tournaments.

That would be incredible.

That would rock.

What an afternoon for NC State fans.

Yeah.

Back to back.

They were six, seven-point underdogs in both games.

You know what?

They deserve it.

NC State fans deserve it. It's been a long time.

Remember when we did Mount Rushmore mid?

Mount Rushmore mid.

And we were like NC State football?

You remember when?

Yeah.

And I stand by that, by the way.

But was it like 2020?

It was four years ago during COVID where the college baseball World Series, didn't they get like disqualified or something? Oh, yes. They had like six players test positive in COVID and they couldn't even play? Yes, and they were really good that year.
Yeah. They got screwed.
NC State, you deserve this. Yeah.
Don't let anyone, we're going to bring up the most losses in Final Four history just because we have to. That's cool, though.
stat, but don't let anyone don't it we're gonna bring up the most losses in final four history just because we have to that's cool but don't let don't let the haters get you down no you earned this since he stayed it's been incredible but yeah yukon is an absolute wagon i don't it i mean if they can finish the job because they have to finish the job to be in this conversation but if they finish the job this upcoming weekend and Monday, they have to go in the conversation of best college basketball teams of all time. Yeah.
It has to be said. I know that there's UCLA teams that won like five straight years without losing a game.
You had the Florida back-to-backs, the Duke year, Laitner years. But this team and the fact that it's like there's some guys from last year, but there's a lot of new guys too.
It's crazy. Danny Hurley, who we have coming up on the show, is a master motivator.
It's a piss drinking motivator. Yeah.
Okay. So final four set.
I'm excited. Also, he didn't let his son shoot again.
Yeah. At the end of the game.
We're going to talk to him about that in a little bit. But just let Andrew take a shot.
Are you guys excited for the Final Four now? I feel like this is – Yeah. Especially after last year, which was a weird Final Four because we had all those upsets and we had San Diego State and FAU and it was a weird tournament.
This feels like we're back to order restore where it's like you have two teams that were – Purdue and UConn were the two best teams all year and then you have two great stories uh matching up against them yeah i mean i i like it set up this way because we all have one cinderella to focus all of our cinderella energy on yeah too many cinderellas last year yeah not enough stepmothers i'm very excited i i am a little concerned uh for you and Dave. You guys have big futures both on UConn,

and it seems too easy at this point, which it never is.

And NC State has big-time Team of Destiny vibes.

Yeah.

I mean, I bet UConn in December, right after they lost to Kansas at 14-1,

and I said before we started taping that if UConn wins the national championship,

I will only have had a bad March. So I need them to win the national championship I do so I'm excited but that yeah no it does if that happens that will be but what if they just keep rolling it seems like they should yeah I don't think Danny Hurley is the kind of coach that's going to let him take a game off the The one thing that makes me nervous is Alabama does have the one, like,

if they just go nuclear from three, they can beat any team.

Like, they have that in them, the ability to beat any team any given night

because of their three-point shooting.

And every guy shoots.

And that's a problem.

But.

Trying to find futures here.

Like, what are the team futures?

Okay, UConn minus 195 purdue plus 205 nc state and alabama both 16 to 1 yeah nc state was 35 to 1 this morning pretty crazy pretty good in the elite eight the vending machine baby no one thought no one thought nc state was gonna be able to beat duke your dukees so sad So sad. I did momentarily.
It's a main event. Friday night I became a lay fraud Mickey Mouse reply guy for a while on Friday night.
Because that shed. That's bullshit.
Yeah. Houston was going to beat them.
So I replied to Duke's final score graphic and I was like, Duke's mickey mouse run and uh that got quoted a million times and i also was trying to get duke fans to vacate the win which i would have done if i were a duke fan in that moment jamal shed is you know he's gonna finish as a finalist for national player of the year he goes out i vacate that win because i have sportsmanship and i actually root for guys to not get injured unlike duke fans yeah it's sad it's sad houston wouldn't win they probably wouldn't win the national championship yeah that's what i'm gonna say maybe i'll get a refund too yeah what's worse being a mickey mouse lafraud reply guy or being a lmao reply guy i mean sometimes things are just funny yeah sometimes no but when you're doing the lMAO like making fun of the person that said that like not agreeing not actually thinking it was funny oh so big cat if you had done the here's Duke's Mickey Mouse time to run and then ended it with LMAO like laughing at your own joke yeah yeah at Duke I think that makes it a little bit worse yeah that makes it worse as long as you don't level up into that guy then you're good listen i i enjoyed my time as a mickey mouse uh the fraud guy it was kind of fun to just step into that world because then you have to copy and paste it and be ready to just post it on anyone who posts yeah like instantly it's got to be the first thing like adam schefter tweets that the giants just signed a backup kicker you got to be like duke's fraud run. Here it is.
You got to have like 60 different notifications after that. Yeah.
Speaking of Adam Schefter, should we talk for a second about Rasheed Rice just being on the run? Yeah. So he got into – he was driving a car that was in a really bad accident, I guess.
The old Lance Briggs where he then left his car and was like, I don't know where it is. I was was gonna say he's like a coach's son on that team yeah but what what's the latest is he still gone i don't know i don't know i don't think he's been apprehended that's very bizarre they haven't caught him yet but good news for the chiefs he signed a uh a welsh rugby star so i guess you're receiving corby fine did anyone no one died right i don't think so okay i think it was a serious woman was injured and her kid was in the car okay i mean bad very bad um i just saw a lot of people being like the chiefs are done now they're cooked i i'm sure rishi rice will probably still play i don't know depending on how injured people are depending on what he did you probably shouldn't leave the scene of an accident like that i would say not not.
Probably not. PFC, have you been studying for the bar? Yeah, I have, Jay.
Because according to Jostina Anderson, she says Rasheed Rice has retained counsel. Okay.
Oh, so he got a lawyer. So he's a lawyer.
Yeah. Well, that's a smart move.
You should always shut the fuck up when you're talking to the police. If they're asking you questions, it's because they don't know the answer.
All right. I just love Shut the Fuck Up Fridays.
That's the update.

Those guys rock.

26 minutes ago.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's a weird story, though.

It's a very strange story.

I'm looking at some of the pictures of the crash site.

Yeah.

It doesn't look good.

It was not good.

I'm going to confirm, not good.

Rasheed Rice.

It was a dash cam video, too.

Yeah, of him crashing.

Turn yourself in.

Rasheed Rice. Do it.
All right. What else is going on in the sports world before we do who's back? Anything else? Oh, there's that Jokic pass.
MLB. Yeah, I saw the Jokic pass.
I saw the Luka shot. Yeah, Luka did a scoop, like almost a three-pointer.
From like 20 feet out. Jokic also said that he was late to his press conference tonight because he was watching DJ Burns.
Game, respect, game. Yeah, big men respect big men.
Huge women's game tonight. Huge women's game tonight, yes.
Yeah, Elite Eight. This one's going to get people angry.
Oh, also Kim Mulkey, not that bad. Yeah, so the hit piece on Kim Mulkey dropped.
It turns out it was just a profile of Kim Mulkey. It was just like she's an asshole, which anyone who's a very successful coach in college sports or pro sports you could write it and be like yeah it turns out they're kind of an asshole.
Yeah they're very demanding. Some players don't like them because they're so demanding.
They can be a dick and they can go too far. I actually think it's a beautiful moment in just equality in America when I can look at Kim Mulkey and be like she is a dick.
Yeah she's a dickhead. She's a dickhead.
Definition of a dickhead. And I want to know how much more views this article got because Kim Mulkey did like two press conferences about it.
Probably a decent amount. Probably.
I went and looked for it. I looked for it too.
Yeah. Who are you guys rooting for in LSU versus Iowa? I think I'm rooting for, I want Caitlin Clark to get a championship or to get to a championship.
Because you got to a championship last year. I want her to get to another one, and I want her probably to win.
So I think I'm going to take Iowa. Okay.
Hank? What's the spread? I think it's like one and a half. Let's just pick the game.
I think I'm kind of rooting for LSU because it makes people so mad. Caitlin Clark makes people mad, too.
She makes people really mad too but I think that would make people really, really mad. If Kim Mulkey won a national championship people would be furious.
Another one. She's won a shit.
But I mean like now in the wake of the article coming. Yeah, I guess maybe I'm rooting for Iowa because I think South Carolina is going to beat either of them.
Yeah, you know what? Iowa would get the revenge and get back to the Final Four. And it would make the Final Four more fun because Kaitlin Clark would be good for the sport.
Yeah, and I do like watching Kaitlin Clark play. There was a very funny moment today when in the Elite Eight game, the three-point lines were different distances in the college game.
One was like the old women's distance and one was the new women's distance. And they didn't know.
i think five games on that court before somebody and it was way that's way worse than like it wasn't even an official that saw it you know who saw it it was a dude that was up in the 300 level well why didn't a guy that's not on the officials to measure the three-point line but if a guy that's just sitting up in the 300 level notices it and he had to yell at somebody on the sidelines, texted that person, sent them a picture that he took on his own camera from the upper deck, and then they had to go measure. It's crazy.
The fact that they played five games there and no one said anything is bad. It's bad.
Very bad. And I feel like we could have probably been making money off that.
We definitely could have been making money off that. What would have happened if they went to overtime? It's a good question jake i don't know play half court do like two 30 minute two and a half minute periods yeah yeah so they switch play one-on-one yeah i don't know but that was three big three it that was very bad yeah uh we got some brawls in baseball yeah and by brawls i mean benches clearing and uh bullpen catchers that's my favorite when the bullpen catchers get involved.
Yeah. Because they do this little trot out of the bullpen.
They look like penguins. They're so happy that they get to see sunlight.
Yeah. The Mets are already a disaster because they got one hit on opening day.
They've lost all three games. And then they also threw at Reese Hoskins on Saturday after I think he was already four-4-4 and was like total, just unanimous Bush League.
I mean, like, why would you do this after he's 4-4-4? I think their manager already got suspended. Yeah, that's tough.
Yeah, so there was the Brewers and Mets with benches clearing, and then the Blu-rays and Jays also had the benches clear. It's good to get it started early, though.
What's that? The Blu-ray disc.

Yeah, the Blu-rays.

Yeah, the Blu-rays did it.

Also, I'd just like to be the first to congratulate Jake's New York Yankees on winning the World Series.

Yeah.

Four-game sweep in Houston.

Congrats, Jake.

Juan Soto got his pinstripes.

New era, yeah.

Juan Soto today.

Offense and defense.

Actually, this whole weekend, Juan Soto has been incredible.

And it goes to show you, when you play in San Diego, it's too nice. You can't be that good.
You can't be locked in at sports if you're in San Diego. But you go to New York.
Your day kind of sucks a little bit just getting around. The only thing you care about, again, is sports.
And Juan Soto is probably, I don't know, one of the best players in the game. And he's so fun to watch.
I'm so pissed off I don't get to root for him for his entire career. Yeah, Yankees have won it all.
Congrats. Congrats, Yankees.
It's coming home. Let's do who's back of the week.
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All right, Hank, your who's back of the week. My who's back of the week is Bryce Harper.
Yes. Oh, yeah.
It was either game one or game two. Bryce Harper was playing first base.
They hit a foul ball. He went flying over to try and catch the ball, went too fast, and then basically cartwheeled head first into the dugout.
Looked pretty serious. And then the funniest part of the video was that the ball landed probably 10 yards behind him right in play.
It hit the net. Yeah, you know nothing.
You're really dumb. You know nothing.
No, because I've seen a lot of people saying this. It clearly hit the net.
That makes more sense because that video without context of it hitting the net was a lot funnier where it looked like he was just – He just overran it. Yeah, and it is funny to think that, but also the ball – I mean, watch the video without thinking about it.
I saw it, Hank and the ball is very clearly going like towards the field of play as it falls down well wind and like backspin hit the net you saw it hit the net i'm gonna no i just knew the minute i watched it i was like that clearly bounced off the net it's way funnier if you think that it didn't hit the net though i i haven't seen a video where it hits the net no but have you i used my brain and i said he's running directly to the dugout and then the ball is coming at a weird angle down off what is probably the net right there backspin no wind the net wind's not real the net it the net is still far away from where he but it's made the catch yeah but like he misjudged. I also think it might have.
At first, I actually thought it hit. Well, if it's far enough to hit the net, then he still didn't need to be going that hard towards the dugout.
At first, I thought maybe it hit the net and then hit the top of the dugout and bounced up. Like, if the net is that far away from the dugout railing where he barreled into, Did he really need to be barreling? He's a competitor, alright?

He was excited about opening weekend. Let him be.

Let him try and play. He didn't play today because of load management.
Well,

he did not play today. That's correct.

But he'll be back in the lineup tomorrow. You know what?

I'm going to agree with Hank on this because I haven't seen the

ball hit the net. We don't know.
Okay, fine.

And it's a hilarious video. Yeah, alright, fine.

It didn't hit the net. It didn't hit the net.
Bryce Harper just

misjudged it. And then the ball...

No, Hank's an idiot.

Let's not...

No, no, no, no, no.

Let's not let Hank get off of this without being an idiot.

I'm watching this.

The ball...

Have you seen it hit the net, Max?

It hit the net.

The spin on the ball brought it back.

It hit the net.

Yeah, I don't think you guys are accounting.

If you hit the ball a certain way, it's going to be backspinning in the air.

But that would make it actually go further.

It was topspinning. Yeah.
He hit the world's first top it's not inclusive we're doing the review yeah so no video evidence yeah you guys say these things as fact no i'm on your side now it didn't hit the net he's an idiot uh oh great job max yeah who who's back of the week for you pft my who's's back of the week is country music oh country music because beyonce uh put out a country album yes and i finished listening to it she's done it again bangers bangers bangers only she single-handedly saved country music well and it's fair how much is this just because the song she has with miley is the best song i'd say 95 95%. It is a great song.
It's a great song. It's a really good song.
It's warranted. I'm just going to say it.
I think Miley outperforms her on her own album. Yeah.
Yeah. I think Miley stepped.
Miley Cyrus brought country music back. Yeah.
People are having the debate because Miley Cyrus also covered Jolene a few years ago. Way better.
Beyonce's Jolene sucks. Oh, she covered it on this she did it and it's a skip oh it's a big skip skip it's not good boy everything's a skip for you except probably the miley song true yeah no well 16 carriages is pretty good too skip uh but i did see there was an article that was written in the new york post about how beyonce saved a dying genre which is very funny just because you're making everybody upset this is like when Travis Kelsey got credit for the fade or when Taylor Swift got credit for doing the heart thing which by the way I'd like to see Taylor Swift try to make a country album I don't think she can Beyonce only Max is still trying to find a hit the net I don't think he can I don't think it hit the net he didn't hit the net yeah but watch when it lands it find a hit the net.
I don't think he can. I don't think it hit the net.
He didn't hit the net. Yeah, but watch when it lands.
It didn't hit the net. Yeah, no, no.
I don't see the ball hit the net. I actually thought it hit the floor of the dugout at first, but yeah, I think, Max, you're wrong.
It didn't hit the net. You can see the way.
No, whatever. I'm not going to take this bait.
Also, the fact that. What? The fact that.
Oh, No, no, no. If we are doing this, if we are doing this, if you really were to slow this down frame by frame, if he saw it hit the net, why did he fall into the dugout? Like, why did he keep going? Good question.
If he saw it hit the net, he would have stopped. And Hank, if you slow it down, yeah, make it go frame by frame, the ball goes back and to the left.
You can see you can see it look at that it's going to the left i don't think it hit the net oh either way uh we we still like bryce harper we want him on the show but it didn't hit the net uh but uh is that the end of your who's back well yeah i mean country music was dead nobody listened to country music and then beyonce showed up and now people listen to country music again so congrats to country they never hit the net uh my who's back of the week is the commercial we all end up hating because we watch it so much during march madness and unfortunately game time no that one rocks i didn't even know that we taped pft and i if people have probably seen we've been on i think tbs has run it uh when we taped that we didn't know that was going to be a real No. So that was a commercial that me and Roan taped like two years ago.
Yeah. And it was like a pre-roll for Barstool Sports Videos.
And then I got a text from one of our producers saying, hey, we want to remake that video. Can you do it? Here's when Roan's going to be in town.
And I was like, yeah, I don't know why we're redoing this, but yeah, let's do it. And then Big Cat was here.
Roan was not here. So Big Cat's like, sure, I guess I'll'll do this like ad well rob begged me because i was like he was like ron can't make it and i know i annoy you and i was like no rob you don't annoy me but i'll do it and so we we do this and then like a week two weeks later yeah it's apparently a commercial that's on tv which is crazy but that one doesn't annoy people hopefully uh the sga shea gilders gilders alexander and chet holmgren commercial is horrific and those are two of the most fun young players in the nba and i don't know who told them to do that but that was a big mistake because i hate them now it's way way better than paul missed the net oh that one's good i like that one i know i know i love it too i just like, I love the look on Biz's face when Whitney hits him with that one.
Yeah. That's, and my other, my other who's back is Cooper flag because every single, every single time Duke loses, everyone's like, you sure Cooper flag wants to go there? And it's awesome because he's getting hated before he even shows up.
Main event. Main event.
That's his nickname. Yeah.
I like that nickname. Listen, I was a Cooper Flag guy.
Unfortunately, he didn't take my deal of a super mega NIL offer from Stella Blue Coffee to go to anywhere but Duke. I wasn't even offering him to try to go to Wisconsin.
I'm realistic. I was like, go anywhere but Duke, and I'll give you the super mega max NIL deal.
Oh, wait. Is his nickname the main event, but it's M-A-I-N-E? Yes.
That's cool. I like that.
Yeah. Hank, don't make BFT feel stupid.
You're making me feel dumb. You couldn't even open a calendar.
You couldn't open that calendar. The 11th.
The body by the calendar. All right, Jake.
Who's your who's back? The worst thing that's ever happened on the 11th day of a month. My who's back of the week is spring football.
It's back. Yeah.
UFL. Yeah.
We have a 64-yard field goal. Yeah.
I don't know if you guys saw that. I didn't watch.
I watched the highlight of the kick. I saw the highlight of the kick.
We had a fake field goal from former Steelers punter Brad Wing. Yeah, that was cool.
He threw like a 40-yard pass. I think he's more LSU, but yeah.
I like they do. They did embrace a content creator and let him be a kicker, and he actually kicks in games, which I thought was cool.

Wait, what?

Destroying.

Who's that?

He was one of those kids back in the day.

It was a few years ago where he had a YouTube channel.

He was going to play in college, but then they didn't let him play because he had a YouTube channel.

He was like, fuck it.

I'm just going to keep it on YouTube.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I remember that guy.

And he's with FaZe Clan.

He does streams and stuff.

But he's super athletic, obviously, and he kicks for one of the teams.

Yeah.

Thank you. fuck it i'm just gonna oh yeah yeah i remember that guy uh and he's like he's with phase clan he does like streams and stuff but he's super athletic obviously and he kicks for one of the teams and he like kicked off kicked field goal he's an actual actual kicker he did well yeah well user that shot this is a this is a mickey mouse league well this is a fraud bubble league and the real xfl in 2020 did not do that because they cared about football i'm i've never been more confident in my take that spring football, I just don't care.
I feel very good about that because every few years they try to pop one up and be like, you should care. I respect the sports calendar more than anything.
This is March Madness. This is going to be Masters.
This is going to be NBA and NHL playoffs. Football is king.
I love football more than anything, but not spring football. I liked the XFL in 2020.
It felt like that was on the right path until COVID because there were a lot of people in the stands, at least for those games. Yeah, but I just was still, I still wasn't, I remember when it was happening and it was March Madness.
Yeah, no, I know you're not. You're definitely not.
But I think that one had a chance of maybe lasting a few years. This one, I don't know.
Probably not. Yeah, I feel confident in my take.
OK, let's do our interview with Dan Hurley. Great interview, as always, with Coach PFT.
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And now here's Coach Hurley.

Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest,

friend of the program.

It is a tradition, two years running now,

to have him on on the Sunday after getting to a final four.

It is UConn Huskies head coach Dan Hurley.

Coach, first of all, congratulations.

Your team is a monster and so much fun to watch.

I want to start with Saturday night.

From your perspective, a 30-0 run in an Elite Eight game,

what was going through your mind when that was happening?

Because that was insane to watch.

Really, man, just the way I'm wired, I'm probably in my mind just like thinking next possession, you know, like just because I'm just I'm so, you know, maniacally kind of locked into the game.

But, you know, it was weird just looking up at the scoreboard and, you know, we got off to a good start.

It's 23-23. You know, you look up a couple more times and then it's 53 23.
yeah and it was crazy and to do that um you know to do that against that team you know the way they've been playing uh you know it was it was crazy yeah yeah it was uh it was so fast and so impressive that even people in the stands, Larry David included was yelling at you to stop coaching. He told you stop coaching.
You're done coaching for today. Did you hear Larry, Larry David yelling at you? No, I didn't.
I didn't know he was over there. And, uh, they, everyone told me about it after, and I'm like a Larry David type of character, like as a coach.
You know, I got all, you know, weird idiosyncrasies. And I say whatever I feel like saying.
And a lot of times it's ignorant. You know, I would have thought he'd be on my side.
You know, I would have thought he would be for me and not against me. And I don't think there can't be a connection to the University of Illinois at Champaign, right? No, I think he was just there as a fan.
But yeah, you hated me. He hated you.
He hated my style. He hated the way I went about coaching.
He said, shame on you. Did you feel shame? I have felt shame at different points of this year.
Mostly after being threatened by fans in opposing arenas and then them trying to play an I got you moment with me and videoing me and trying to present me as some type of a monster. Yeah, we've had your back the whole way when any of those videos pop up.
And you are kind of a Larry David-like character. I mean, you drink the piss before every game.
You know, you're going crazy on the sideline how is that going by the way the uh mushroom tea we'll call it mushroom tea we know what you're drinking yeah uh you know it's all it's all being effective uh for me you know the the cocktail that I've got over there uh everything I'm doing pre uh you know, pregame in the back. I have actually a setup before I even get out onto the arena court.
I've thought about maybe, you know, letting CBS in on that. I've got like all these different, you know, sprays, aromatherapy, lavender spray, a peppermint spray, a peppermint halo i have some holy water back there i i got a nice little setup um you know right right around the eight to five minute mark spritzing that that gets me in a good place gets me smelling fresh too yeah i like that yeah yeah we we can tell you look like you smell good on tv yeah sure

that's a fact uh i like the one quote that you had where you said that your your fan base is noxious as shit on social media so you do have somebody that monitors what's going on on twitter on instagram and do do you actually show people's posts in your team meetings yeah we do we do it all the time.

We, you know, sometimes in recruiting too,

if there's things that we could use to show potential recruits,

you know, that they'd be making a mistake by going to another school,

you know, based on some things we've seen on social,

we'll share that too there.

But, yeah, Luke Murray, I mean, he does a lot of just fueling the fire, poking the bear, so to speak. And you got to have some different type of fuel that you run on because it's a long season and you got to obviously be on your toes, especially when you're playing in a single elimination tournament.
We don't even get the luxury of best of five, best of seven. So you've got to be on edge.
Yeah. So about that, you found motivation in very different ways this year because you guys are so good.
Has there ever been a moment where your team's like, all right, Coach, you're not actually mad about this, specifically the tip time that you used as motivation for Thursday night when you're like, oh, we're first tip? Okay, shows disrespect. Because I was watching that and I was like, I like that Coach Hurley's doing this, but he can't actually be mad about this, can he? Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, they expect it. And they're almost aware before I come in of where I'm going.
You know, these kids, you know, clinging. And, you know, my new addition here, my Cam Spencer, who, you know, who also, you know, he's a mini-me on the court.
Yeah. So, yeah, you know, I think for us, it's like we've won a lot.
Look at what we've done since Teddy Allen knocked us out of the tournament there in that brutal rock fight in Buffalo. We've dominated and we've put guys in the NBA.
We've won all the championships. Now we're in the Final Four.
We're going to have more guys in the lottery this year. You know, I think we do got an edge to us.
We don't get talked about enough. Our season hasn't been covered, in my mind, in the national media enough.
You know, this is a team that's done historic stuff. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, if we were at Duke or Kentucky or Kansas, they would lead SportsCenter with it, and it would be the biggest story in sports. But, you know, because we're in Storrs, Connecticut, and, you know, we're just a little grimier there, a little grimier.
Yeah, I love the chip on your shoulder. So, actually, you bring up Cam Spencer.
I had a question about him. The story goes that he stays in hotel rooms on the road with Caravan, and he yells at him before every game in the hotel room.
At what point did you find out or figure out that Cam Spencer was a mini you and also a psycho? Yeah, I knew he was a psycho. Well, on the visit, you had a pretty good sense because, like, Brother Pat, Dad Bruce, and Donna they're uh they're all like i mean they have the absolute same world view uh all of them and it's like you know go hard or shut the you know what up uh and he's uh you know there's some weird connections too both his parents were born in jersey city you know where i grew up right uh i think his mom went to the grammar school i went to and then uh and then they also lived in rhode island for a little bit you know so there's some weird connections there but the uh you know he's cursing you know i think uh you know he curses a lot he smashes and kicks the ball he He punches the basket.
He could just miss a free throw on a side basket, and he'll just go into straight Tourette's. So our language is actually, and the way we carry ourselves, is I think it's going to button up and clean up after he leaves.
Yeah, you guys are one and the same. That's nice to have you on the court every single time.
Coach on the floor. That's good stuff.
Did you figure out what you're going to use for motivation this week? I mean, I know you already talked about the national media not talking about UConn enough, but is there anything with the setup of the tournament that you've found so far where it seems like they're out to get you? Because if you don't have some, I've got a couple you can use i do too i brought some for you yeah okay so the first oh you do have some i was just gonna say you know it's it's just it's far yeah yeah that's the first one on my way can you go way too far yeah alabama has a much shorter trip you have to travel so much further than alabama which means that and you guys haven't really spent much time on a plane. You're going to have to be on a plane.
It could be a Boeing. You don't want any extra minutes in the air.
Oh, it's far. I like it.
It's just far. And then the second one I had was how you feed off online hatred.
You love seeing people talking shit to you. And Alabama actually has the 47th lowest broadband rate.
And I think think that the 46th lowest internet availability for all the states so there's not as much stuff for you to use for motivation there yes so the so the fan base is not going to do it for me well i got one i got one for you yeah i got saying there's not enough internet in alabama yeah talk shit yeah i i got one though for you i found someone someone found enough internet here's one uh someone tweeted fuck it we're beating uconn you can't convince me otherwise that was actually from the barstool alabama account barstool alabama barstool alabama said that yeah how many how many followers they have did a lot of people hear that yeah they had a hundred uh sixty thousand views on the tweet because that matters a lot in terms of how angry you get over what somebody said. You know, if there's a, you know, if they don't, if the avatar is like an egg or it's like a person that doesn't exist and it's like a fake name, that those people, they don't get to me.
But anyone that has the courage to go with like their actual face with their actual name and maybe where they work when they when they when they uh trash me that gets to me yeah the you know the bot or whatever you know whatever the the fake person shit the wizard of oz i i don't care what the guy says behind the curtain yeah that's i mean it's so this is just a message to anyone if you want to get noticed by coach hurley put a name on. Put a name on it and a face on it.
A real person. You should have to show a driver.
You should have to do a Twitter, too. I think you should have to have some type of ID.
Yeah. You should only be allowed to have one account and everything that you say, there should be no anonymous on there.
Let everyone back up their words. Yeah, especially nudes and bio.
Yeah. Which is just all the tweets now.
It's just every tweet that's under there. It's great.
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Have you thought about starting him?

I did on senior day.

Oh.

Did you win?

Well, I didn't end up starting him, but I met with him.

We talked it through.

We talked it through because the fans love him at UConn

because he's not like an entitled asshole whose dad's the coach

and the whole thing.

He's like a humble kid.

He's a funny kid.

He just does his thing.

So I went to him before seeing you.

I said, listen, these people, you fooled them.

They think they're really behind you, and they celebrate you all the time. But if I start you, you play like shit and we lose this game and blow the Big East regular season, that whole thing shifts.
And he didn't want to risk it. So we, you know, he just, he cleaned it up at the end.
Yeah. I mean, my biggest qualm with your coaching recently has been that you have not let him shoot at the end.
Yeah. You're on the sidelines.
He's your son. Now, I know what you're thinking.
You want to be classy. You don't want to run the score up.
I get that side of it. But I would imagine that your dad would take more enjoyment of seeing him making a shot in that situation than anybody else.
And one day he might be a coach, and you're going to want to see your grandson hit a shot in a game like that. So you've got to teach him.
You've got to let him in and be like, okay, you're going to get one shot here. Yeah, and you know what? My dad is probably a better dad than me because he let me.
I think it was maybe my sophomore year I subbed my brother out, county championship. We were up 100.
And he subbed me out at the end. And I hit a half-court bank shot at the buzzer, I think, to win by 63 or whatever.
But we found that with Andrew in these games that we have – he's been dribbling the ball out, though. Yeah.
You know, like he's – and he's racking up assists and rebounds. And then, yeah, so he's showing that he's all around player, not just a shooter.
Yeah. I mean, the fact that he's gotten into every single tournament game in this two-year run is pretty awesome.
I mean, he's clearly a big piece of the success. 41-0.
You can't, 41-0 when he's in the game is pretty insane 41 and oh and he's got uh the covid year eligibility and yeah so he's you know he's squeezing me uh hard now nil you know he's obviously got tremendous leverage with the with the portal yeah and i'm sure that he he could talk to his mom and and probably probably get you to show some leniency that I mean, he's the closer. You got to have some respect for the closer.
Yeah. He's the closer at Ted's on campus here.
That's where all the madness goes on in stores. I had a real basketball question for you real quick.
First of all, Donovan Klingon, unbelievable. You also don't get enough credit for having his nickname which should get more people should be talking about it you call him Kling Kong which is awesome but in a basketball perspective watching him grow you know last year he had the injuries this year he's been unbelievable Saturday night he was just an absolute force what is it you know what have you seen from his progression and also what does he do defensively that helps the entire team? Because I feel like he makes everything go, whether it be perimeter defense or shots at the rim, everything goes through him.
Yeah, you know what? The thing that's unique about Donovan is, you know, really a couple things. I mean, he's 7'2", you know, plus, you know, probably, you know, closer know closer to seven three but and um you know once he got back from the uh from the injuries we just we wouldn't let him back on the court till he got his weight down into the 250s you know he probably came into the season like a little bit too heavy you know these guys you know with nil and everything they got they they got it pretty good so uh you know probably just came in a little bit heavy.
But it's just rare that you see somebody that size moving around the court the way he does. With our offense, that moves a lot.
Our defense moves a lot. You know, we attack the glass.
We run in transition. So, we ask him to move around a lot.
I know that's what the NBA loves about him.

Plus, he's like sometimes the big guys, especially the really tall ones,

they don't have a lot of pop.

They don't have a lot of personality.

They don't love to play.

Somebody made them play because they were tall.

They don't like when people ask them how tall they are all the time.

They just start to kind of turtle up a little bit in their shell. But he's like you know this dude is like alive he's up at 5 a.m um if if the weather was nice enough he'd be he'd fish from five to seven you know get in the gym get in the gym wouldn't go to bed till you know 2 a.m and then he's back up at five like this dude is alive so he's got this incredible energy about him.
His games are numbered here, obviously, at UConn, so we want to make the most of it. Yeah, he's so much fun to watch, and it's just a great story because it's like even last year, he could have gone to the NBA draft after last year's run.
He probably sat down know, sat down with you and you were like, hey, we can show more of your game and progress you to a point where you feel even more confident. That's what I love about college basketball and what we kind of miss sometimes.
Yeah, I mean, it's like he's not going to be in the NBA, you know, and he knows it. And you can make some money in NIL and do real well.
So it's not like, you know, you could still, you know, if you're a popular player and an excellent player,

I mean, you could these guys can be making close to what the rookies are making, you know, in college at some point soon anyway. But, you know, the guy, you know, he loves Connecticut.
He's from here.

You always dreamed of playing here. He's got a chance to like, you know, if guy, you know, he loves Connecticut.
He's from here. He always dreamed of playing here.
He's got a chance to, like, you know, if we win this thing this week, you know, he's got a chance to, you know, stake his claim to being, like, the greatest, you know, UConn player. If he gets two, becomes a lottery pick.
He's won the Big East. He'll have done it all.
But, you know, I think he just loves being on, like, a team because you know once you get to the nba um you know things change it's a grown man world and like you know the locker room and the commitment to you know i i don't want to go no i mean you're right though no you're right and i i read an article where you said you talked about it it's like look there's it's hard for a lot of these guys because the money's there and you can go to the NBA. But your goal is to make a lot of these guys get to a point where they can have long NBA careers, not just get drafted and make money, right? But you want these guys to be in the NBA for 10, 15 years.
And I think that honesty is great. James Booknight you know he was uh if you remember him from a couple years back uh that COVID year I

mean he was,

if you remember him from a couple of years back that COVID year, I mean,

he was, I mean, six, five, like the perfect modern basketball NBA,

you know, just that guy was a freak, man. The athleticism, the scoring.

I mean, he dropped 40 on Creighton during a regular season as a sophomore.

And at the end of his sophomore year, he was a lottery pick.

Thank you. the scoring.
I mean, he dropped 40 on Creighton during a regular season as a sophomore. And at the end of his sophomore year, he was a lottery pick.
I probably deep down inside knew he wasn't ready for that world. But I didn't see my obligation in that situation to say, hey, listen, you may need some more time on a college campus.
You're not ready for that world. So, and I think Jamesames you know not maybe not going to the you know to an organization uh that would hold him accountable like we did at uconn like you know he probably needed to go to a more buttoned up place like a miami heat or something like that where where they're running a tight ship but you know moving forward with these guys if i think they're making a mistake and i think they need more time in college I'm going to tell them I should have a book yeah yeah UConn has a pretty cool opportunity in front of them you're going to a final four obviously the women's team could be in the final four too are you do you talk to to Gino during the tournament and are you guys checking in with each other and like how have you thought have you guys talked about how cool that would be to both be in the final fours at the same time yeah um i talked to gino all the time um whether it's stopping over there and seeing him or uh you know or him you know just dropping a call or or a text uh you know either way the guy is like you know the smartest guy I mean mean just like just a super brilliant guy and um he's been great to me from the start you know it's awkward for me with him and coach because uh they obviously don't you know they don't see eye to eye um him and coach calhoun but uh so i've got to kind of try to not let either guy you know see me uh you know, too buddied up to the other one.
Yeah. Or else, you know, that could cause some friction.
But, you know, what Gino's done, man, is like they got like six scholarship players in the Elite Eight. And Paige Becker's, you know, obviously, you know, just to see her play, it's amazing.
And I know that the queen wants her throne back, and I know she's going to see her play it's amazing and uh you know i know that she you know the

queen wants her thrown back and and i know she's gonna go hard for it uh you know tomorrow night yeah yeah i mean the the run that both the men's and women's team is on is is awesome and there's nothing better and i love that you call him coach like calhoun is still coach how many guys do you call coach? EJ, my college coach.

I call my dad my dad.

I don't even know if I ever called him.

I don't think I ever said anything.

I don't think I ever said coach or dad during those high school years

with my father, Coach Blaney.

Yeah, just my college coaches, really.

And then those two, they're giants, man. Coach coach Calhoun he'll be in practice this week um yeah he'll talk to the boys and he'll give them a a proper send-off uh he'll bring them in the circle uh he'll rip you know he'll rip a couple guys he doesn't like the way they're playing he'll rip them and then he'll tell them like you know it ain't.
Yeah. It ain't enough, man.
You got to pick your shit up. Yeah.
All right, so I got one last question. This has been awesome as always, Coach.
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It's actually not a question. It's a statement.
I don't know. So so this run has been incredible you've you've you know we still got two games left not looking ahead but it's been an incredible run I want you to know though probably the most incredible part of this run is Max our producer who's a diehard Villanova fan you've taken all the fight out of him you've taken all the fight out of him he let you remember when you came into the studio last year and we we were like, that's the guy who bet against you every single game.
This year, he's just laying down. He just doesn't care.
He can't fight anymore.

I heard.

Yeah.

I listened to it.

I listened to it.

It made me sad.

Yeah. Very sad.

Just that segment that you guys did after that Marquette game.

Yeah.

Where he's a broken man and broken fan. And it was just sad.
You never want to see that from your... There's no feeling like loving your team and believing in your team.
And for a man to have that ripped from his hands, it's sad. It's really sad, Max.
So sad. It's so sad.
I mean, when you think about it, things that have happened in Max's life that are just like the worst is he just has to go back to your speech when you lost to Villanova, and then you better get us now because we're coming. Like that was the start of the end of Max's life.
Max? Hey, Max, I will say this in Max's defense. I mean, those night conference wins, tremendous.
You know, what hurts them, though, is, you know, those big five games are just brutal games to have on your schedule. Coming in sixth in the big five is tough.
Well, they're tough games because, you know, they're the Super Bowl of all those low to mid majors. And, you know, for Villanova, when you're playing Carolina in the non-conference and all these big games and then you're getting ready for the Big East, you know, it's not as circled on your calendar and they're neutral.
Or, you know, they're in weird places and it's just uh i i wonder if you asked uh you know i wonder if you asked those guys whether they like having those big five games on your schedule that's tough max is it is this making you like reignite your hatred a little bit the fact that your bitter rival is is like they're there and patting you on the head it's okay i've been patted on the head for the past two two years. It's just what it is.
I will say I haven't bet on UConn one time this tournament, but I haven't bet against them once. Learned your lesson.
I just know you're going to win, and I can't root for UConn. Yeah, there's nothing you can do about it.
But at least I'm not rooting against you like I was last year. Yeah.
Last year you were against us the whole way. The whole way.
Oh, yeah. He bet against you every single game.
He's like, they can't do it. Dan Hurley can't coach in March.
I didn't say that. He said all these things.
I didn't say that. He kept on saying them.
By the way, so you've been standing. When did it flip? It flipped.
When did it flip? It just died. You killed him this year.
What game? After the Big East tournament this year when Villanova got balanced, I think he just gave up all hope. Yeah, he also got up.
He just had a baseball season.

He got up big for that Saturday night game when Villanova came to Connecticut.

He was like, this is the start of the run for Villanova.

That kind of just extinguished everything.

But we got you guys coming off a loss.

That was bullshit.

Yeah.

Yeah, he was so mad that he lost to Creighton because he's like, no, we needed this.

So one thing about Max, and I actually want your take, my last question,

because you have been standing up for your league, which I love that.

you know,

you know, He's like, no, we needed this. So one thing about Max, and I actually want your take, my last question, because you have been standing up for your league, which I love that.
The Big East should have had more than three teams in the tournament. Max has the take that it's actually anti-Italian discrimination because the Big East is an Italian league.
Do you agree with that? I never put that together. I had a lot of conspiracies as to why it was happening.
Yeah. But not the Italian thing.
I thought it had more to do with not having big-time football or whoever. The weird thing is, there's uh you know with all those committee members when the when the representative from your league when they were talking about teams in your league that person's not allowed to stay in the room yeah so i guess what you got to learn the we have got to learn the art of is like i guess of how to destroy these other conferences when you are in the room right yeah right because they recuse you yeah yeah yeah you gotta you can't that you can't fight for your teams you can't say a word about your teams but you uh but you do have the ability though um to to crush the other people yeah and what what channel do you guys play your games on in the big east what network is that yeah we're Fox.
What network is the NCAA tournament on? Just it's been on

CBS or unless you're the defending you know national champs that uh have had a historic season and and won almost everything you know then you you know you're a true tv yeah yeah interesting we're playing it we're playing at two o'clock on fr instead of primetime, which, you know, like you, honestly, you know, whether we're able to finish this thing off and have the great week and deliver, you know, like historic level stuff with a completely new team, you know, just when you've done what we've done we we just you deserve those prime time slots you deserve um you know the attention that that comes with with all the success these guys have achieved that's all yeah um now you know if we come up short on saturday um you know or monday if we get through saturday and and uh you know people want to go at me for uh you know for for for talking and being confident believing in the team and talking a lot of shit, then they'll have that moment. But I turn my notifications off, so I won't hear the shit anyway.
Yeah, there you go. So, yeah, look into that Italian discrimination thing.
It goes deeper, I think. Max is on to something.
Big East is Italian League. Max, as soon as I'm done with this season man uh i'm on that i'm gonna figure that out thank you thank you i need that i need someone from the inside yeah well coach thank you so much uh we appreciate it best of luck i'm rooting for you guys uh maybe because i put a future on you after you lost to kansas because i was like this team's good i'm the anti max in the room uh but yeah good luck.
And anytime you're in Chicago, next time you're here, we've got to have you come out because we've got a full basketball court. You've got to run us through some drills.
Yeah, I would love to do that. I mean, was Coach Patino, was he in studio? Yeah, he was in studio, yeah.
So we've got to do it. Yeah, I've got to get back in studio.
Let's do it. Yeah, all right.
Well, best of luck, Coach. We'll be watching on Saturday Night at the Late Game.
Some respect. The Late Game on Saturday night.
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Okay, let's wrap up the show. We forgot one very important topic that we need to bring up.
And I'm not taking this lightly because we actually need to have a discussion about this. The Philadelphia Phillies hung a banner for losing the World Series.
The town that doesn't hang banners. It wasn't the World Series.
Oh, yeah, they didn't lose. Oh, they lost the NLCS.
And so they didn't even hang the banner for the series. They hung a banner for a year to just celebrate a good year.
This is coming from our good, good friend, Max, who has claimed that we don't care about banners for losing years. We don't hang banners for losing years.
They hung a banner for a year when they choked in the NLCS and lost game six and seven at the bank. So, Max, why is this flag a different color? I don't get that.
I don't want to talk about this. Oh, no, we have a half-deven series.
You thought you were going to get through the whole show. You guys didn't talk about it about it i was happy to not talk about yeah you can you can pull up the text i sent to hank and pft right before we stepped in the studio i said let's not bring it up till the end to make him think that we just missed it because you thought in your sick little head we would miss this well we talked about baseball i was like all right nice yeah that we did that on purpose hank was like i'm gonna do who's back bryce harper you think we can get through without bringing up I was like, all right, nice.
Yeah, we did that on purpose. Hank was like, I'm going to do who's back, Bryce Harper.

You think we can get through it without bringing it up?

I was like, yes, we'll avoid it because we have to have a serious discussion

about the city of Philadelphia hanging a banner for a year

that they lost in the NLCS, Max.

It's probably going to confuse some people too.

There's probably some people in the stadium being like, what year is it?

Oh, it's 2023.

I'm confused right now because there's other flags out there. Some are blue.
What is blue flag? Like the dark blue. I think the dark blue means lost the World Series.
Oh, that makes sense. And then the white means won the World Series.
Oh. And then the sky blue that they hung up means lost in the...
Almost lost the World Series. Almost lost the World Series.
They didn't even win the division. They won nothing.
I don't know what... You hung a wild card banner.
Which is insane. That needs to be taken down immediately.
There was a part of me that they won today. They lost the first two games.
There was a part of me that I wanted them to lose every single game that that flag was up so that something had to be done for it to be taken down.

I thought that they would never win as long as that flag was up.

It can't be up.

It can't be up.

That flag can't be there.

It has to be like an opening series thing, and then they'll take it down by...

Oh, what, to celebrate the year that we're in?

Yeah, but it was a fun year, Max. Like, like you guys made the playoffs yeah you beat the braves this is the most pathetic thing it's the most pathetic thing i've ever seen you thought you were you thought it was photoshopped no i knew it wasn't photoshopped you thought though in your head you were like maybe it is so what so as the as the mayor of philadelphia who claims that we don't hang banners for losing seasons, where do we go from here? Everything that you stood for is gone.
Are they going to give out rings for this too? Oh, they probably should. What would the ring be? 3-2 lead in the NLCS? NLCS participant, which is what they did for the World Series.
National League finalist. Yeah.
Like the Colts banner. I don't know.
You're no different from the Colts. Yeah.
You are the Colts. You're the Indianapolis Colts.
Yeah, I don't know what you want me to say. I'm not fighting.
You guys are... This is...
It's a direct reflection on you. I'm on your side.
But this is representative of you, Matt. This is your city.
This is what you you believe in I might go to Citizens Bank Park Scale that pole and take it down myself Alright, now we gotta see that happen I'll pay your bail You would probably get cheered There would probably be raucous applause in the stands for Max Have you gotten an answer on what is going on with this thing? No, I have no Like, I know nothing I. I want it down so badly.
This is such a bad banner, I could see it affecting other sports in that city. Yeah.
Yeah. Big time.
You need to cut this off now. Big Don needs to take that banner down.
Yeah. Yeah.
I don't know. I don't get it.
It makes no sense. I don't know what...
I don't know what they're celebrating. I don't know why that could

The Philadelphia that I know. I'm sure

there's Phillies fans that are like, yes, thank you.

No. Zero.

Now we can remember the time Max

got in overalls and pigtails and

screamed at everyone. The people of Philadelphia

that I know, that I love, the

diehard weirdos that love these

teams, they would not let

this stand. They would have already done something about it.
This is your call, Phil. They're just happy to be there.
I'm with Max. I refuse to believe this is real.
If it is real, it's quite sad. Quite sad, Max.
I don't know what to say. It needs to be down.
I need the people of Philadelphia to rally behind everyone and just say that we need some sort of protest so that this banner gets taken, this flag gets taken. What Hank was just saying, it sounds like they like the flag.
No, that's incorrect. Were people as outraged as you were? Yes.
Okay. Pug, you're a Philly fan.
He's not. He's an Eagles fan.
That's it. Oh, you're only Eagles fan.
Yeah. What is he? Not Phillies.
Not Phillies, Pug. Okay, but Pug, this will probably infect the Eagles.
This will infect the Eagles. For sure.
This type of loser behavior. It's going to infect the 76ers.
Yep. They probably won't even win a playoff series.

I actually will say it right now.

They're not going to win a playoff series.

You know what?

It's infected the Flyers already.

Yeah.

The Flyers, they lost their playoff spot to the Capitals.

They lost to the Blackhawks?

Maybe.

I think that's right.

I don't know. I watched my first two Flyers games.

Yeah.

And is there any coincidence that this all started to happen after this flag went up?

Next thing you know, Nova won't even make the tournament.

No, come on.

I'll see you next time. I watched my first two Flyers games last year.
Yeah, and is there any questions that this all started to happen after this flag went up?

Next thing you know, Nova won't even make the tournament.

No, come on.

All right.

Come on.

Come on.

That's fine, Pug.

All right.

That is our show.

I think we're going to do a baseball preview on Wednesday. Earlier than ever.

Love it.

We've got a special guest to do a baseball preview,

and the boys are off to Phoenix slash Glendale slash Scottsdale

slash Scottsdale slash all that for the Final Four.

And then it's Masters Week, boys.

And then it's Masters Week.

And then we're kicking it into high gear.

We're turning the corner on, like, I love how the sports calendar works

where you get March Madness and then you just look up

and it's like 16 playoff games on a night, on a weekend,

I don't know. We're turning the corner on, like, I love how the sports calendar works, where you get March Madness, and then you just look up, and it's, like, 16 playoff games on a night, on a weekend,

on a Saturday and Sunday.

That's two weeks of my sports calendar year, I think.

Really?

I love the first round of NHL and NBA playoffs.

Well, I mean, NHL wasn't two weeks for you last year.

Yeah, but just as a sports fan, we're going to have to talk about me specifically. Okay.
That wasn't about you. No.
For me, I'm not worried until conference championships. Okay.
Okay. But every night having meaningful games is the best.
It is nice. This is going to be the most intense Celtics run.
Yeah. Yeah.
You've got to win it all. Actually, if your city has two teams, if you have a team in the NBA playoffs and the NHL

playoffs, those weeks are just chaos for you.

It's so fun.

It's the best.

Yeah, no, I don't.

I don't have anything.

I don't have anything.

Bulls are going to be in a plane.

Fucking.

Bulls, Sixers, Celtics is looking pretty.

The Bulls would have to win two. And then play the Celtics.
Yeah, they'd have to win two games against playing teams. Like the Sixers.
Right. They're not going to win two games.
All right, numbers. 40.
8. 3.
20. Max, I feel like your number should be 2.

What's that?

No, second place.

I don't get it.

Oh, I'll be 2.

I'll go 2.

I'll go 2.

Can I change my number to 2 today?

If I can change mine to 11.

Okay.

Maybe 23.

Let's just start again.

Numbers.

20.

11.

2.

18.

3.

99, Pug.

21.

That's Shane. Sounded like 21.
That's Shane.

Sounded like 21 Savage there, shouldn't it?

74.

Love you guys. I don't know what to say.

I'll say it anyway.

Today is another day to find you.

Shine it away.

I'll be coming for your love of great.

Needless to say.

All the sentence is about me.

So let it away. Slowly learn that life is okay.
Say it to me. Thank you.
I'll be back. Things that I'm saying Is it all I know

Just to blame my worries away

You are the things I've got to remember

When you shine away

Well, I'll be coming for you anyway

When you shine away

Well, I'll be coming for you anyway

Take on

Take on

Thank you. I'm confused anyway.
Take on me.

Take on me. Take on me.

Take on me.

I'll take a shot.

Take on me.

Take on me Take me on Take me on me I'll make you Take me on me Take me

Take on me

Take on me