March 28, 2025 • 22 mins
On today's episode, Jason reacts to a wild night in hoops across the country, where the Lakers late meltdown still couldn't outdo the action in the NCAA Tournament. Jason dives into Duke's win over Arizona and gives Cooper Flagg his credit for showing out on the biggest stage. Jason highlights what went wrong for Arkansas after Texas Tech mounted an incredible comeback over the last few minutes of the game. Plus, Jason gives his picks for Friday's Tournament action!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What is up, Drake Fire Fame, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Straight Fire for Friday, March the twenty eighth was the
Sweet sixteen?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Could for you? Oh boy wow.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I am recording this late on Thursday night after Texas
Tech just had a thrilling, unbelievable comeback to keep my
dim bracket hopes alive in a big bracket contest, I
have them winning at all, just a hedge because I
have Duke in the Calcutta and Texas Tech. I thought
they were dead in the water. I mean, folks, when
(00:49):
you're down what thirteen but down? How much was it?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Let's see, they were down thirteen.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Four forty three left, came back and wanted overtime. That's
heart of a champion stuff. We'll get to that game.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It just ended. It's almost what one fifteen on the
East coast right now.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Just to thriller. I hope you didn't go to bed
and miss it. The Sweet sixteen was complete. There was
only a brief interruption when I got like seventy four
texts about the Lakers finish. We're not going to get
into it. This is a sweet sixteen podcast. Obviously, by
the way, shout out to anybody who loved the j
Billis podcast and told me about it. Thank you. The
Lakers had one of the all time melts in NBA history,
(01:28):
up five with the basketball with twelve seconds left, up
five with the basketball, twelve seconds left, and the Bulls
get a three steal, three Lakers score, and then the
Bulls had a half court shot at the buzzer by
Josh Giddy, who apparently owns the Lakers. Anyways, Lakers blow.
That's a bad loss. And they played all their guys.
(01:49):
I thought they were going to sit everybody on a
back to back, like, what are you doing? You've got
Memphis Saturday, got the Rockets Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Cares about the NBA right now. It's all about college basket.
So four games last night didn't go great on the
gambling front. I took the advice of a friend who
was like, oh, sweet sixteen unders always, so I's like,
throw a couple bucks on sweet sixteen unders. Texas Tech
Arkansas would have hit, but overtime happened. And what the
other one was definitely was not albound. Oh it was
(02:19):
the Florida, Maryland game, and neither of those came close
on the under. So that's stunk. I had BYU on
the money line. That was a That was the one
upset I went for and that was that was total failure.
Parlay's teasersult those all look good except the one had
BYU in it. But we don't need to talk about
Florida beating Maryland.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I think Queen probably goes to the NBA man, that
kid is good ten for ten from the line, like
he tried his best to keep Maryland in it. The
Crab five was really the crab four. One of the
guys was zero for seven. They got nothing off their bench.
It sounds like Kevin Willard's leaving. I don't know if
you guys saw after the game, but he's like, listen,
I don't know who the ad is.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Villanova wants me essentially, That's what he said, and gave
Win and Cruise to an easy win over the Turps.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
In the other early.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Game, Alabama smoked BYU, and I will say I'll talk
about Alabama Duke in a minute. Alabama played I don't
know if there's like such thing as a perfect game,
but one hundred and thirteen points, which is the most ever.
In the Sweet sixteen. They hit twenty five of fifty
one from three. Mark Steers hit ten threes by himself.
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BYU as a team was six of thirty from deep.
Mark Seers repeat had ten threes himself ten of sixteen
from three thirty four and eight. You know, if you
squint and you really look hard at Mark Sears, you
can see the makings of Jalen Brunson. You could tell
he studied him a lot. Obviously, I don't think he's
gonna become Jalen Brunson, but that's the type of player
(03:47):
he looks like. A really impressive performance from him. This
kid Holloway bang six threes. This kid young Blood hit five.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
If they play remotely close.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
To this, they will beat Duke. The thing is BYU
plays zero defense. They stuck in the two three zone
way too long. Duke will not play the two three zone.
But that game was garbage. The night games are where
it was good. And we'll start with Duke one hundred,
Arizona ninety three. Arizona wouldn't go away. Duke went up twenty.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You're like, all right, it's cruising.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Let's start with the let's guess the spread for the
Duke Alabama game. Let's see how they match up. And
the next thing you know, Caleb Love starts to warm
up and percolate. And Caleb Love that was the concern.
If he goes off, we'll he end up thirty five.
And this became an interesting game. If you before we
you know, glaze Cooper flag here and he needs to
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be glazed. Holy hell, that guy's good. I just need
to say, like, you're the number one defense in the
country right according to Ken Pump. You give up ninety
three points to Arizona ninety three. I mean they were
living at the foul line twenty one or twenty three.
They didn't miss free throws, but they killed Duke on
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the offensive class had twelve offensive boards. They just wanted
it more, didn't really turn the ball over. And I
know some Arizona fans are gonna say the ref screwed
him and listened the one grab and hole pulled down.
Think they should have got that. Duke got it like
a minute earlier, and then Arizona didn't. It felt weird overall,
though Hella impressive by Arizona. The young kid from I
(05:19):
don't know where. Let's see Portugal or something.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Australia.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Dude, he's gonna be a pro. He's gonna be in
the NBA. I don't know when, but six' sixth. JUNIOR
i don't really know exactly what happened and why he
didn't play as. Much maybe it was, defense but he
had two threes in the first few. MINUTES i was,
like this guy looks like a. Player and then for whatever,
reason he was kind of phased out and they went
with some other guys off the. BENCH i guess a
(05:45):
couple guys that they were trying to maybe get to
stick around as opposed to enter the. PORTAL i don't,
know But arizona showed really. Well and now it's time
to talk About Cooper. Flag took five and a half.
Minutes it's probably too. Long it could have just done
twenty minutes On Cooper flag and called it a. Night
but this kid's a generational. TALENT i, mean tight. Game first,
Half Cooper flag grabs the, board comes up and hits
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like a twenty five foot three pointer at the. Buzzer,
okay in the second, half When arizona started coming, Back John,
shire who doesn't really have a point. Guard remember they
Had Caleb, foster but he's kind of been phased. Out
Sion james is the guard that's the starter now and
he had a really nice game from three to three or,
four but against the, Pressure shire was just like get
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it To Cooper. Flag And Cooper flag brought the ball
up the court and it's, like, oh what do you
put on? Him do you put a big because he's
gonna get by him as he was doing And Cooper
flagg driving to the layup to the, lane everybody has to.
Collapse he just throws. ALLEUPS i felt like he threw
three or four alley oop. PASSES i mean it was
incredibly breaking the pressure by. Himself so then they put
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a guard on him and he still got too tight
of a handle and then there was a mismatch. Elsewhere
Cooper flag is a. UNICORN i know he Called Zion
williamson a freak. Boy Cooper flag is. Unbelievable this was
one of those games where you're watching and you're, like,
OH i can see not. ME i knew. This i've
watched a lot Of Cooper.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Flag but you, know guys who.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Don't watch a lot of college troops are, like, oh
that is why everybody in THE nba is. TANKING i got. It,
now somebody's going to get a generational. Talent Cooper flag
finished with thirty seven. Assists remember he's six six' ten,
six boards.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Three blocks it was a one of.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
THOSE games I texted coward in the middle. OF it i,
was like he took this game by. The throat it
was his and he was not going to let go.
Of it and the guy just. He's unbelievable like you
run out of adjectives to Talk About. COOPER flag i
don't know who guards, him now we'll See what. Alabama
does they. Do have, the kid you KNOW who i,
(07:56):
actually like and he played really well last Year Is.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Grant nelson he's a six to.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Eleven kid he was playing At What North dakota state
played Awesome in alabama. LAST year i thought he was
gonna go pro and he ended up STAYING to i
guess he's working on his three. Point shot he's still
only twenty seven percent, from three which is, not ideal
but it's gonna be an interesting match because he's long
and Can bother cup a couple blow by him Now
(08:27):
and nelson, MOVES well i think he's, a pro but
this will be a tall order trying To stop cooper
flag the big Guy. On duke maliuch got in, foul
trouble which is, not GREAT and i think That helped
arizona crush him on. The board so that is a
point of Weakness for duke and that would be just
without winning the. Big guy and it's FUNNY because i, told,
(08:48):
somebody man this guy reminds Me Of joel EMBIID and i,
SAID that I think i said on the pod On,
the HERD and I Heard jim jackson.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Say it he Looks.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Like joelabian obviously, not offensively but, the frame the way
he moved the. Shop blocks that guy's gonna get four
blocks And that duke front line. Is tough now this
is where it. Gets Interesting, tyrese proctor the guy who
was just incendiary from three in the tournament and late
in THE a, sec tournament. Couldn't couldn't he was a total,
(09:18):
non factor three, of eight shooting one of four. FROM
three i think one of his late threes was. A
brick the confidence is. NOT there i mean he hit
won early AND then i think he went like the
final thirty minutes without, a three and, you're like, all,
right well you know they did hit. Eleven Threes cooper
flag hit three, Of Them cion james, at Three but
alabama hit. Twenty, five folks this is How crazy. Duke
(09:41):
is they shot sixty percent from, the field fifty seven percent,
from three eighty five percent from, the line and they
still did.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Not cover.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
This team. Is unbelievable that, being said, the defense it
kind of made. Me nervous and the Line For, DUKE
alabama i see six and. A half my gut is
going to tell me that money's gonna come In. ON
alabama i will Wait For ken pom to see what number.
He Says And bart Torvik remember duke led this game
(10:14):
by twenty and then just let them. Back, IN yeah
i see six and a half and nothing Yet On
ken palm or there wasn't like five minutes AGO before
i started RECORDING when, i checked and Oh Now ken pom.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Has, it okay eighty seven Eighty.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
One duke and the COOL thing, i like if you're
not a subscriber, To him and again it's, cheap guys
like forty bucks they do Like when alabama has, the
ball how their offense matches Up, against duke and then
they Have when duke has the Ball and duke is
Facing an alabama defense that just isn't.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Very good IT'S not I.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Mean byu couldn't throw in, the ocean and they still
scored eighty. Eight POINTS so I think duke will have their.
Way OFFENSIVELY and i do Obviously think duke will win.
THE game I mean i need. Them To but alabama
is one of the most experienced teams in the country,
Ninth inexperienced duke one hundred and. Twenty eighth it's gonna
be a. GREAT game i gotta see What, type saturday, nine.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
O'clock oh Nine. O'clock eastern oh.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
My Goodness Fox sports radio has the best sports talk
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Speaker 2 (11:28):
Guys this, you know we had a good local girls,
basketball SEASON and i saw there was a local tournament
that's not for. Club teams for, my daughter who's in,
sixth grade it's a fifth sixth grade tournament all, the
grades but they broke it up in a Fifth SIXTH
so i, was like maybe we should just enter. A
team so we got together like an all, star squad
(11:48):
some kids from, the league some who don't play in,
the league many of them. Play club and we've. Entered
it and, You know i'm trying to get scouting reports on.
The opponents it's kind of fun. AND exciting i take
this stuff way. Too seriously but the games, Are today Saturday,
and sunday and, it's like, oh boy, oh no and
we have a game SHOOT as i look at the schedule,
(12:11):
right now.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Five o'clock oh Dear During.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Duke alabama that's gonna be. A problem may have to
get an assistant coach to step in for. That, One
Anyways duke alabama's gonna be. A thriller and The other
elite eight Game on Saturday With Florida texas Tech And
texas tech, is there by the grace of The big, man,
upstairs folks this was.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
A thriller.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
It was Just an arkansas meltdown that there's really no
other way to. Describe It Like texas tech could not
make a shot to save. Their life the, kid McMillan
who they were hoping would play their, best shooter third,
leading score he didn't go AND they i think they
were something like four for twenty two, from three and Of,
course arkansas which is not a good, shooting team was
like seven of fifteen in the, first HALF and i
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thought they. Were dead calipari was up thirteen with four point,
thirty Left and arkansas fans are already comparing This to
calipari's Meltout At memphis kansas And the natty two thousand
and eight Aka The mario. Chalmers game do you guys remember?
That ONE so i had to call up the box
score from, that GAME and i.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Remember that, you know we had Moved from brooklyn To
the burbs.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
In, another STATE and i, hate, moving OBVIOUSLY but i
hate moving during sporting events Like The, final four so
we moved. THAT weekend i don't Remember The final four games,
at ALL but i do remember setting up cable SO
that i Could Watch, memphis KANSAS and i was loaded Up.
(13:46):
On kansas memphis of Course Had derreck Rose and memphis
IS just, i Mean It's Chris. DOUGLAS roberts i don't
know if you guys. Remember him they had a guy
by the Name Of joey dorsey who was in. The
League robert doser had a. Good game rose had a.
Good game it was a, pretty, awesome outstanding impressive Game
from Memphis. AND calipari i looked. U up they were
(14:08):
up ten In The national championship with three. Forty left
they were up nine with two, minutes left and then
you know What, happens kansas which only made three threes the.
Entire Game Mario Chalmers derek rosman is a. Free Throw
mario chalmers splashes A Three jim nance with a. Great
call go look it up. On YouTube that Was A brandon.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
RUSH team.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I was this IS when i was doing like fantasy,
college basketball And the internet was still. With this two thousand.
And eight internet, was big but it wasn't as robust
as it, is now, you know, WITH chat gbt and
all these POWERFUL shirt, i mean YouTube was in, its
infancy AND so i Was the, Rush, Brothers, brandon jaron
(14:48):
and then there was, Another. One kareem THEY were i
was like huge fans, of them EVEN though i didn't Really.
Like Kansas mario chalmers, Was Great russell, Robinson Solid daryl
arthur play IN. The Nba That sharon collins is a.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
TOUGH guard i.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Don't like i'm not Like A kansas, jayhawks FAN but
i like, that TEAM and i had them in. Bracket pools,
you know it was, loaded up and then they pull away.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And cover it. In overtime it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Was GLORIOUS and i still. Remember watching we were renting
a TOWNHOUSE and i was, just like this, is amazing
and then of course you have to go unpack. Fifty,
boxes anyways so Last night Calipari in arkansas.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Just totally lose. THE plot, i mean it.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Was ugly It was i'm not going to blame any
of these, guys individually but they went seven for fifteen
from three in the. First half and you guys, know
this anybody, who hoops guys who aren't, great shooters if
they get hot, from three, they're, like oh this is,
my night and they just keep shooting and, keep shooting
and they don't know when to really rein.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It In and arkansas didn't really.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Do that they just kept jacking not, great Shots And
Texas tech fly finally started to. MAKE shots, i mean
it really comes down, to that they start to. Make
shots there. Are, horses williams who was he started out four. For,
twenty okay he was really on the. Struggle bus it
(16:09):
was not his night, at All and toppin was struggling
with the Size Of Arkansas's biggs brazil and. A do,
i mean it was tough Going For, texas tech and
then all of.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
A sudden a couple threes.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Go in overton, Hits one anderson hit, a couple And
then williams. Hit one the, big guy their. Power forward
he's like a quintessential college. Basketball player he's probably too
much of a tweener to be have an impact IN,
the nba but he's Like A cordless, williamson type but with,
you know a Modern Day cortless williams because he can
step outside and shoot and he hits a three to,
(16:43):
fource overtime my daughter comes in to watch this. WITH
me i gassed her Up On, texas tech so she's
got them going far in, her brackets and It was
we're just like celebrating.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Big time it.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Was awesome and then, in overtime, you know they get
they get, the lead And then i'll, GET listen I
got i gotta get the guy at credit and, YOU
Know dj wagner had another. Rough game he is. Prodigiously
talented he had a take to tie the GAME with
i don't know forty. Seconds left that was like how
to even get the shot off And the english on
the layup it. Was spectacular but then off that he
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comes down seven seconds left Out After williams bank won
in and he takes like one of the worst shots,
in basketball like a fifteen foot step back and it's,
short rimmed and that, Was it and you just felt
Bad for arkansas and their Fans in Calipari and Wagner,
and wagner he was a bit of. A mess like
it was. Just, tough, like, LISTEN man i.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Don't think he's a.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Pro yet he's got the makings, of one but that's
just a tough Loss. For Arkansas texas tech advances To.
Play florida The line i'm Seeing is florida minus six and. A,
HALF listen i Like this tech team. A lot they,
are scrappy they, don't.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Quit but unless they get.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
McMillan back they played seven guys in an, overtime game. Two,
guys hawkins who was awful one of, Ten shooting he had,
five turnovers was one of seven. For three his only
three was made. In overtime he played forty, five minutes
didn't come out of. The Game, christian anderson who actually
shot well, for them played forty. Four minutes those guys
now have to turn around and play Again, on saturday
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and they don't have. The depth florida has a, massive
bench so it's tough for me to make a case
For The red. Raiders, Here obviously i'll be rooting, for
them and a lot of People have florida in. Their
brackets if you guys are doing any the, bracket pools
so you should be Rooting. Against florida Reality is florida will.
PROBABLY win I think duke. WILL win i don't think,
IT easy, i mean never really.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
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Speaker 2 (18:48):
Listen live and now let's quickly look at two night's
games In the. Sweet sixteen we have in the four
o'clock Round At mississippi State at Michigan Versus. MICHIGAN state
I like sparty IN that i don't. LOVE them i
don't have any money on. The Game kentucky. Tennessee again
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go back. To listen we talked about It With ja
billis this is going to be a unbelievable game should
be nip and duck don't have. A dime I'M sorry.
I lied i because my buddy told me to take.
THE under i took the Under On Mississippi michigan state
under one, forty three not a, big bet and then
the Under on michigan one, Fifty Three, michigan auburn and
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then the Under On. PURDUE houston i Didn't Take kentucky
tennessee because the three point variants is too Great and
i'll probably get, screwed there but the unders went, own
too so maybe you won't avoid. Him anyway and then
Of Course auburn michigan is in, the nightcap And Then
perdue houston. Is late the BIG bet i had was just,
you know teasing all the number one seeds and money
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line parlay the number. One seeds so two of the four.
Are home i've been reading online and people there's there's
some Momentum. FOR michigan i don't totally. GET it.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I think I got auburn.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
At nine it is. Currently nine houston, is eight which
is kind of sort of surprising. To ME thought I
thought perty would be getting, more RESPECT but i. Suppose
not so listen there's a good chance the number one's.
ALL advanced i think. They will i'm sure as hell hope.
They will and that would set Up A houston Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Or Houston kentucky elite eight.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Game, on sunday and then the other one would Be
likely Auburn Versus, michigan state but we could. Have one
we could HAVE three sec Teams, on sunday three of
the four TEAMS. Being sec alabama OF, course sec and So.
Is florida so we could have five of the eight
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Of the elite eight TEAMS being? Sec teams is that?
NOT crazy sec was just so loaded, This, Year man florida.
Looks good if you haven't looked ahead to the, final
Four assuming Duke, beats alabama they would play the Winner
of Houston. Per due so if You're a duke fan,
like me lay the big lumber In the calcutta our,
Group did you're Already scouting houston to see if they.
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Can hang but you Don't overlook alabama, because man if
they go hot, from three All that duke size is not.
Gonna matter you guys have a GREAT we i hope.
We win this girls team wins. A championship my daughter
we have all, six graders but we don't have a ton.
Of size our tallest girl just had to bow out
because she could only make. One game after the schedule,
Came out, we're like, all right we, need more we need,
(21:38):
more bodies so.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
We'll see it's gonna. Be fun you, GUYS know i.
Love coaching.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's not a FLEX but i haven't lost a girls
basketball game as a coach in, two YEARS and i
don't plan on losing. This WEEKEND but i can't coach
all all all three of the pool. PLAY games i
can only. Coach, two yeah it's a, busy.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Weekend guys it's a, busy weekend. All right. STAY safe
i hope the winners. Are profitable enjoy.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
The weekend
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What is up, Drake Fire Fame, It's me Jason McIntyre.
Straight Fire for Friday, March the twenty eighth was the
Sweet sixteen?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Could for you? Oh boy wow.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I am recording this late on Thursday night after Texas
Tech just had a thrilling, unbelievable comeback to keep my
dim bracket hopes alive in a big bracket contest, I
have them winning at all, just a hedge because I
have Duke in the Calcutta and Texas Tech. I thought
they were dead in the water. I mean, folks, when
(00:49):
you're down what thirteen but down? How much was it?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Let's see, they were down thirteen.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Four forty three left, came back and wanted overtime. That's
heart of a champion stuff. We'll get to that game.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
It just ended. It's almost what one fifteen on the
East coast right now.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Just to thriller. I hope you didn't go to bed
and miss it. The Sweet sixteen was complete. There was
only a brief interruption when I got like seventy four
texts about the Lakers finish. We're not going to get
into it. This is a sweet sixteen podcast. Obviously, by
the way, shout out to anybody who loved the j
Billis podcast and told me about it. Thank you. The
Lakers had one of the all time melts in NBA history,
(01:28):
up five with the basketball with twelve seconds left, up
five with the basketball, twelve seconds left, and the Bulls
get a three steal, three Lakers score, and then the
Bulls had a half court shot at the buzzer by
Josh Giddy, who apparently owns the Lakers. Anyways, Lakers blow.
That's a bad loss. And they played all their guys.
(01:49):
I thought they were going to sit everybody on a
back to back, like, what are you doing? You've got
Memphis Saturday, got the Rockets Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Cares about the NBA right now. It's all about college basket.
So four games last night didn't go great on the
gambling front. I took the advice of a friend who
was like, oh, sweet sixteen unders always, so I's like,
throw a couple bucks on sweet sixteen unders. Texas Tech
Arkansas would have hit, but overtime happened. And what the
other one was definitely was not albound. Oh it was
(02:19):
the Florida, Maryland game, and neither of those came close
on the under. So that's stunk. I had BYU on
the money line. That was a That was the one
upset I went for and that was that was total failure.
Parlay's teasersult those all look good except the one had
BYU in it. But we don't need to talk about
Florida beating Maryland.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I think Queen probably goes to the NBA man, that
kid is good ten for ten from the line, like
he tried his best to keep Maryland in it. The
Crab five was really the crab four. One of the
guys was zero for seven. They got nothing off their bench.
It sounds like Kevin Willard's leaving. I don't know if
you guys saw after the game, but he's like, listen,
I don't know who the ad is.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Villanova wants me essentially, That's what he said, and gave
Win and Cruise to an easy win over the Turps.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
In the other early.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Game, Alabama smoked BYU, and I will say I'll talk
about Alabama Duke in a minute. Alabama played I don't
know if there's like such thing as a perfect game,
but one hundred and thirteen points, which is the most ever.
In the Sweet sixteen. They hit twenty five of fifty
one from three. Mark Steers hit ten threes by himself.
(03:26):
BYU as a team was six of thirty from deep.
Mark Seers repeat had ten threes himself ten of sixteen
from three thirty four and eight. You know, if you
squint and you really look hard at Mark Sears, you
can see the makings of Jalen Brunson. You could tell
he studied him a lot. Obviously, I don't think he's
gonna become Jalen Brunson, but that's the type of player
(03:47):
he looks like. A really impressive performance from him. This
kid Holloway bang six threes. This kid young Blood hit five.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
If they play remotely close.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
To this, they will beat Duke. The thing is BYU
plays zero defense. They stuck in the two three zone
way too long. Duke will not play the two three zone.
But that game was garbage. The night games are where
it was good. And we'll start with Duke one hundred,
Arizona ninety three. Arizona wouldn't go away. Duke went up twenty.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
You're like, all right, it's cruising.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Let's start with the let's guess the spread for the
Duke Alabama game. Let's see how they match up. And
the next thing you know, Caleb Love starts to warm
up and percolate. And Caleb Love that was the concern.
If he goes off, we'll he end up thirty five.
And this became an interesting game. If you before we
you know, glaze Cooper flag here and he needs to
(04:35):
be glazed. Holy hell, that guy's good. I just need
to say, like, you're the number one defense in the
country right according to Ken Pump. You give up ninety
three points to Arizona ninety three. I mean they were
living at the foul line twenty one or twenty three.
They didn't miss free throws, but they killed Duke on
(04:55):
the offensive class had twelve offensive boards. They just wanted
it more, didn't really turn the ball over. And I
know some Arizona fans are gonna say the ref screwed
him and listened the one grab and hole pulled down.
Think they should have got that. Duke got it like
a minute earlier, and then Arizona didn't. It felt weird overall,
though Hella impressive by Arizona. The young kid from I
(05:19):
don't know where. Let's see Portugal or something.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Australia.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Dude, he's gonna be a pro. He's gonna be in
the NBA. I don't know when, but six' sixth. JUNIOR
i don't really know exactly what happened and why he
didn't play as. Much maybe it was, defense but he
had two threes in the first few. MINUTES i was,
like this guy looks like a. Player and then for whatever,
reason he was kind of phased out and they went
with some other guys off the. BENCH i guess a
(05:45):
couple guys that they were trying to maybe get to
stick around as opposed to enter the. PORTAL i don't,
know But arizona showed really. Well and now it's time
to talk About Cooper. Flag took five and a half.
Minutes it's probably too. Long it could have just done
twenty minutes On Cooper flag and called it a. Night
but this kid's a generational. TALENT i, mean tight. Game first,
Half Cooper flag grabs the, board comes up and hits
(06:08):
like a twenty five foot three pointer at the. Buzzer,
okay in the second, half When arizona started coming, Back John,
shire who doesn't really have a point. Guard remember they
Had Caleb, foster but he's kind of been phased. Out
Sion james is the guard that's the starter now and
he had a really nice game from three to three or,
four but against the, Pressure shire was just like get
(06:31):
it To Cooper. Flag And Cooper flag brought the ball
up the court and it's, like, oh what do you
put on? Him do you put a big because he's
gonna get by him as he was doing And Cooper
flagg driving to the layup to the, lane everybody has to.
Collapse he just throws. ALLEUPS i felt like he threw
three or four alley oop. PASSES i mean it was
incredibly breaking the pressure by. Himself so then they put
(06:52):
a guard on him and he still got too tight
of a handle and then there was a mismatch. Elsewhere
Cooper flag is a. UNICORN i know he Called Zion
williamson a freak. Boy Cooper flag is. Unbelievable this was
one of those games where you're watching and you're, like,
OH i can see not. ME i knew. This i've
watched a lot Of Cooper.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Flag but you, know guys who.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Don't watch a lot of college troops are, like, oh
that is why everybody in THE nba is. TANKING i got. It,
now somebody's going to get a generational. Talent Cooper flag
finished with thirty seven. Assists remember he's six six' ten,
six boards.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Three blocks it was a one of.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
THOSE games I texted coward in the middle. OF it i,
was like he took this game by. The throat it
was his and he was not going to let go.
Of it and the guy just. He's unbelievable like you
run out of adjectives to Talk About. COOPER flag i
don't know who guards, him now we'll See what. Alabama
does they. Do have, the kid you KNOW who i,
(07:56):
actually like and he played really well last Year Is.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Grant nelson he's a six to.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Eleven kid he was playing At What North dakota state
played Awesome in alabama. LAST year i thought he was
gonna go pro and he ended up STAYING to i
guess he's working on his three. Point shot he's still
only twenty seven percent, from three which is, not ideal
but it's gonna be an interesting match because he's long
and Can bother cup a couple blow by him Now
(08:27):
and nelson, MOVES well i think he's, a pro but
this will be a tall order trying To stop cooper
flag the big Guy. On duke maliuch got in, foul
trouble which is, not GREAT and i think That helped
arizona crush him on. The board so that is a
point of Weakness for duke and that would be just
without winning the. Big guy and it's FUNNY because i, told,
(08:48):
somebody man this guy reminds Me Of joel EMBIID and i,
SAID that I think i said on the pod On,
the HERD and I Heard jim jackson.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Say it he Looks.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Like joelabian obviously, not offensively but, the frame the way
he moved the. Shop blocks that guy's gonna get four
blocks And that duke front line. Is tough now this
is where it. Gets Interesting, tyrese proctor the guy who
was just incendiary from three in the tournament and late
in THE a, sec tournament. Couldn't couldn't he was a total,
(09:18):
non factor three, of eight shooting one of four. FROM
three i think one of his late threes was. A
brick the confidence is. NOT there i mean he hit
won early AND then i think he went like the
final thirty minutes without, a three and, you're like, all,
right well you know they did hit. Eleven Threes cooper
flag hit three, Of Them cion james, at Three but
alabama hit. Twenty, five folks this is How crazy. Duke
(09:41):
is they shot sixty percent from, the field fifty seven percent,
from three eighty five percent from, the line and they
still did.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Not cover.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
This team. Is unbelievable that, being said, the defense it
kind of made. Me nervous and the Line For, DUKE
alabama i see six and. A half my gut is
going to tell me that money's gonna come In. ON
alabama i will Wait For ken pom to see what number.
He Says And bart Torvik remember duke led this game
(10:14):
by twenty and then just let them. Back, IN yeah
i see six and a half and nothing Yet On
ken palm or there wasn't like five minutes AGO before
i started RECORDING when, i checked and Oh Now ken pom.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Has, it okay eighty seven Eighty.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
One duke and the COOL thing, i like if you're
not a subscriber, To him and again it's, cheap guys
like forty bucks they do Like when alabama has, the
ball how their offense matches Up, against duke and then
they Have when duke has the Ball and duke is
Facing an alabama defense that just isn't.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Very good IT'S not I.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Mean byu couldn't throw in, the ocean and they still
scored eighty. Eight POINTS so I think duke will have their.
Way OFFENSIVELY and i do Obviously think duke will win.
THE game I mean i need. Them To but alabama
is one of the most experienced teams in the country,
Ninth inexperienced duke one hundred and. Twenty eighth it's gonna
be a. GREAT game i gotta see What, type saturday, nine.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
O'clock oh Nine. O'clock eastern oh.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
My Goodness Fox sports radio has the best sports talk
lineup in. The nation catch all of our Shows At
foxsports radio dot com and Within the. iHeartRadio APP search
fsr to. Listen LIVE so I think i told you.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Guys this, you know we had a good local girls,
basketball SEASON and i saw there was a local tournament
that's not for. Club teams for, my daughter who's in,
sixth grade it's a fifth sixth grade tournament all, the
grades but they broke it up in a Fifth SIXTH
so i, was like maybe we should just enter. A
team so we got together like an all, star squad
(11:48):
some kids from, the league some who don't play in,
the league many of them. Play club and we've. Entered
it and, You know i'm trying to get scouting reports on.
The opponents it's kind of fun. AND exciting i take
this stuff way. Too seriously but the games, Are today Saturday,
and sunday and, it's like, oh boy, oh no and
we have a game SHOOT as i look at the schedule,
(12:11):
right now.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Five o'clock oh Dear During.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Duke alabama that's gonna be. A problem may have to
get an assistant coach to step in for. That, One
Anyways duke alabama's gonna be. A thriller and The other
elite eight Game on Saturday With Florida texas Tech And
texas tech, is there by the grace of The big, man,
upstairs folks this was.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
A thriller.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
It was Just an arkansas meltdown that there's really no
other way to. Describe It Like texas tech could not
make a shot to save. Their life the, kid McMillan
who they were hoping would play their, best shooter third,
leading score he didn't go AND they i think they
were something like four for twenty two, from three and Of,
course arkansas which is not a good, shooting team was
like seven of fifteen in the, first HALF and i
(13:00):
thought they. Were dead calipari was up thirteen with four point,
thirty Left and arkansas fans are already comparing This to
calipari's Meltout At memphis kansas And the natty two thousand
and eight Aka The mario. Chalmers game do you guys remember?
That ONE so i had to call up the box
score from, that GAME and i.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Remember that, you know we had Moved from brooklyn To
the burbs.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
In, another STATE and i, hate, moving OBVIOUSLY but i
hate moving during sporting events Like The, final four so
we moved. THAT weekend i don't Remember The final four games,
at ALL but i do remember setting up cable SO
that i Could Watch, memphis KANSAS and i was loaded Up.
(13:46):
On kansas memphis of Course Had derreck Rose and memphis
IS just, i Mean It's Chris. DOUGLAS roberts i don't
know if you guys. Remember him they had a guy
by the Name Of joey dorsey who was in. The
League robert doser had a. Good game rose had a.
Good game it was a, pretty, awesome outstanding impressive Game
from Memphis. AND calipari i looked. U up they were
(14:08):
up ten In The national championship with three. Forty left
they were up nine with two, minutes left and then
you know What, happens kansas which only made three threes the.
Entire Game Mario Chalmers derek rosman is a. Free Throw
mario chalmers splashes A Three jim nance with a. Great
call go look it up. On YouTube that Was A brandon.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
RUSH team.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I was this IS when i was doing like fantasy,
college basketball And the internet was still. With this two thousand.
And eight internet, was big but it wasn't as robust
as it, is now, you know, WITH chat gbt and
all these POWERFUL shirt, i mean YouTube was in, its
infancy AND so i Was the, Rush, Brothers, brandon jaron
(14:48):
and then there was, Another. One kareem THEY were i
was like huge fans, of them EVEN though i didn't Really.
Like Kansas mario chalmers, Was Great russell, Robinson Solid daryl
arthur play IN. The Nba That sharon collins is a.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
TOUGH guard i.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Don't like i'm not Like A kansas, jayhawks FAN but
i like, that TEAM and i had them in. Bracket pools,
you know it was, loaded up and then they pull away.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And cover it. In overtime it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Was GLORIOUS and i still. Remember watching we were renting
a TOWNHOUSE and i was, just like this, is amazing
and then of course you have to go unpack. Fifty,
boxes anyways so Last night Calipari in arkansas.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Just totally lose. THE plot, i mean it.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Was ugly It was i'm not going to blame any
of these, guys individually but they went seven for fifteen
from three in the. First half and you guys, know
this anybody, who hoops guys who aren't, great shooters if
they get hot, from three, they're, like oh this is,
my night and they just keep shooting and, keep shooting
and they don't know when to really rein.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It In and arkansas didn't really.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Do that they just kept jacking not, great Shots And
Texas tech fly finally started to. MAKE shots, i mean
it really comes down, to that they start to. Make
shots there. Are, horses williams who was he started out four. For,
twenty okay he was really on the. Struggle bus it
(16:09):
was not his night, at All and toppin was struggling
with the Size Of Arkansas's biggs brazil and. A do,
i mean it was tough Going For, texas tech and
then all of.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
A sudden a couple threes.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Go in overton, Hits one anderson hit, a couple And
then williams. Hit one the, big guy their. Power forward
he's like a quintessential college. Basketball player he's probably too
much of a tweener to be have an impact IN,
the nba but he's Like A cordless, williamson type but with,
you know a Modern Day cortless williams because he can
step outside and shoot and he hits a three to,
(16:43):
fource overtime my daughter comes in to watch this. WITH
me i gassed her Up On, texas tech so she's
got them going far in, her brackets and It was
we're just like celebrating.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Big time it.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Was awesome and then, in overtime, you know they get
they get, the lead And then i'll, GET listen I
got i gotta get the guy at credit and, YOU
Know dj wagner had another. Rough game he is. Prodigiously
talented he had a take to tie the GAME with
i don't know forty. Seconds left that was like how
to even get the shot off And the english on
the layup it. Was spectacular but then off that he
(17:16):
comes down seven seconds left Out After williams bank won
in and he takes like one of the worst shots,
in basketball like a fifteen foot step back and it's,
short rimmed and that, Was it and you just felt
Bad for arkansas and their Fans in Calipari and Wagner,
and wagner he was a bit of. A mess like
it was. Just, tough, like, LISTEN man i.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Don't think he's a.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Pro yet he's got the makings, of one but that's
just a tough Loss. For Arkansas texas tech advances To.
Play florida The line i'm Seeing is florida minus six and. A,
HALF listen i Like this tech team. A lot they,
are scrappy they, don't.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Quit but unless they get.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
McMillan back they played seven guys in an, overtime game. Two,
guys hawkins who was awful one of, Ten shooting he had,
five turnovers was one of seven. For three his only
three was made. In overtime he played forty, five minutes
didn't come out of. The Game, christian anderson who actually
shot well, for them played forty. Four minutes those guys
now have to turn around and play Again, on saturday
(18:18):
and they don't have. The depth florida has a, massive
bench so it's tough for me to make a case
For The red. Raiders, Here obviously i'll be rooting, for
them and a lot of People have florida in. Their
brackets if you guys are doing any the, bracket pools
so you should be Rooting. Against florida Reality is florida will.
PROBABLY win I think duke. WILL win i don't think,
IT easy, i mean never really.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Is Easy Fox sports radio has the best sports talk
lineup in. The nation catch all of our Shows At
foxsports radio dot com and Within the. iHeartRadio APP search
fsr to.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Listen live and now let's quickly look at two night's
games In the. Sweet sixteen we have in the four
o'clock Round At mississippi State at Michigan Versus. MICHIGAN state
I like sparty IN that i don't. LOVE them i
don't have any money on. The Game kentucky. Tennessee again
(19:08):
go back. To listen we talked about It With ja
billis this is going to be a unbelievable game should
be nip and duck don't have. A dime I'M sorry.
I lied i because my buddy told me to take.
THE under i took the Under On Mississippi michigan state
under one, forty three not a, big bet and then
the Under on michigan one, Fifty Three, michigan auburn and
(19:30):
then the Under On. PURDUE houston i Didn't Take kentucky
tennessee because the three point variants is too Great and
i'll probably get, screwed there but the unders went, own
too so maybe you won't avoid. Him anyway and then
Of Course auburn michigan is in, the nightcap And Then
perdue houston. Is late the BIG bet i had was just,
you know teasing all the number one seeds and money
(19:54):
line parlay the number. One seeds so two of the four.
Are home i've been reading online and people there's there's
some Momentum. FOR michigan i don't totally. GET it.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I think I got auburn.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
At nine it is. Currently nine houston, is eight which
is kind of sort of surprising. To ME thought I
thought perty would be getting, more RESPECT but i. Suppose
not so listen there's a good chance the number one's.
ALL advanced i think. They will i'm sure as hell hope.
They will and that would set Up A houston Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Or Houston kentucky elite eight.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Game, on sunday and then the other one would Be
likely Auburn Versus, michigan state but we could. Have one
we could HAVE three sec Teams, on sunday three of
the four TEAMS. Being sec alabama OF, course sec and So.
Is florida so we could have five of the eight
(20:53):
Of the elite eight TEAMS being? Sec teams is that?
NOT crazy sec was just so loaded, This, Year man florida.
Looks good if you haven't looked ahead to the, final
Four assuming Duke, beats alabama they would play the Winner
of Houston. Per due so if You're a duke fan,
like me lay the big lumber In the calcutta our,
Group did you're Already scouting houston to see if they.
(21:17):
Can hang but you Don't overlook alabama, because man if
they go hot, from three All that duke size is not.
Gonna matter you guys have a GREAT we i hope.
We win this girls team wins. A championship my daughter
we have all, six graders but we don't have a ton.
Of size our tallest girl just had to bow out
because she could only make. One game after the schedule,
Came out, we're like, all right we, need more we need,
(21:38):
more bodies so.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
We'll see it's gonna. Be fun you, GUYS know i.
Love coaching.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
It's not a FLEX but i haven't lost a girls
basketball game as a coach in, two YEARS and i
don't plan on losing. This WEEKEND but i can't coach
all all all three of the pool. PLAY games i
can only. Coach, two yeah it's a, busy.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Weekend guys it's a, busy weekend. All right. STAY safe
i hope the winners. Are profitable enjoy.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
The weekend
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