April 21, 2025 • 47 mins
The guys discuss Nico Iamaleava transferring to UCLA and wearing Troy Aikman's retired #8. BFF Don MacLean on the Lakers and Clippers both being down 0-1 in their opening round playoff series and having Cooper Flagg at Camp MacLean. How Was Your Weekend?
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Won a lot of fight from them clips.
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You know, they showed a lot of hustle on the floor.
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They're not a lot of fight from the Lakers.
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Less fight, yes from the Lakers.
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Wildly entertaining contest, even though it ended with the lost Clippers. Yeah,
not entertaining well the entire second half.
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Like the people after the Laker game were like, how's
how's Minnesota gonna make all those threes next time? It's like,
I don't know if you if you don't guard them,
they might they might make them again.
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I don't know if you notice, guys, but the threes, yeah,
wide open, I mean white assholepen, the doors wide open.
Now NBA players can make open threes not hard unless
you're Derek Fisher, then you connect on those at like
a twenty eight percent clip.
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Or Westbrook who made him shot.
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so thank you everybody. Now, we do have two guests
today that are important we weren't able to. Like, if
we don't talk to Don McClain today, that means we
will not have talked to him at all. Last week.
The NBA playoffs have started, the Clippers played, the Lakers played.
There's a lot of reaction to be had. So it's
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very important that we talk to Don McClain in the
very next segment so we can set the table back
because they're gonna be like two games in at least
if we talk to them on Friday, and that'll be
a lot a draft reaction and all kinds of stuff there.
We got to strike while the iron is hot strike
the hammer. So Don McClain is going to join us
in the very next segment. He also killed another snake yesterday. Nice, Yeah,
(05:12):
I was he might have used a big giant sledchhammer
on an anvil.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I feel bad for the snake because right now Don
is very I don't know if stress is the right word.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
He's got a lot on his.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
It's a lot of pressure for Don right now, and
certain that snake is probably got destroyed, just smashed.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
On you. Not only did he say it was dead,
he said it was a baby, because those worst are
more poisonous. So we'll get the update on rattlesnake death,
the NBA playoffs, and Camp McClain, which is raging with
the number one player in basketball in the draft right now,
Cooper Flagg in Don McClane's very very trusted hands. So
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we will talk to Don McClain in the very next segment,
and then that brings us to our next guest, which
is another big story. Now, this started last week, Matt.
Early last week when former Warren High School Bear nico
Ia Mariyaba quarterback sensation for the SEC Josh Heipel Tennessee,
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made the College Football playoff, playing in front of one
hundred and twenty thousand people every single home game on
Rocky Top. Leaves Tennessee because of what was reported to
be a financial dispute, which I guess we all accept
that as the or do you accept the offense?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Ryan Bryle's offense? No bueno?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
So you accept the Joel Klatt Colin Cowherd he wanted
to be in a different offense spin.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I am a fan of the jk CC combination of explanation.
I have long sim ascribe to that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
As do I I mean, where would my career be?
So he is over the weekend, committed to UCLA. He's
coming to Ucla. He will be the Ucla quarterback, the
guy that was supposed to be the quarterback that just
got done with the Spring showcase, the guy from Appalachian State.
Joey Aguilar is back back back in the cortal.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, and I guess she's like, this is exciting for UCLA, right, It's.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Big news for Ucla. Tim Kates, I think, without a doubt,
is our closest person to the Bruins on our show.
Like when it comes to our show, Tim Kates probably
has the the most direct line to UCLA as the
close to Bruin talk many things you know over the years,
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and Tim Kates right off the back. I believe Tim
Kates used to be a season ticket holder.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I was a season ticket holder. I started right when
I graduated as a young alumni. Basically, you got two
tickets for the price or four tickets for the price
of two.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Buy one, get one free.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Then we got rid of them after seventeen years, I
believe seventeen years had them. We had them, and then
the girls just stores personally. I split him with my
dad so he would go take some people. I would
take some people, but didn't. We just stopped going. But
I got an email about ninety minutes to two hours.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Girls used to dress up and cheerleader, light cheerleader, our cars.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It was the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I remember the social media.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I got an email from UCLA Football saying welcome to Westwood. Nico,
the consensus number one transfer portal quarterback Nico Iamai a
Lava is officially a Bruin. Join us in welcoming Nico
to Westwood. Don't miss a second of Nico and the
Bruins at the Rose Bowl during the twenty twenty five
campaign plays a twenty twenty five season ticket deposit.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Today guy hasn't even met his team day guy has
not met a guy on the team yet.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Maybe you heard what Dion said. It's a now generation,
I know, but you've got to get that season tickets
right now.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Now we're Nico and the Bruins.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
We're Nico's team now.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
What was the most interesting part of the email to
u K's was it the immediacy of it, like us
with Don McClain coming on in the next send.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It shocked me because the is hot. It's not a
typical UCLA type of maneuver. The usually they wait a
little bit, So.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Good on UCLA.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
It's a new arrow over there, and they got some
great people in the marketing department, so that's good on
them for getting it out immediately.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And that's very difficult because at UCLA usually you need
four or five signatures just to get a new pencil sharper. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
The other thing that struck me was the graphic that
they used UCLA sky blue the city of Westwood below
and on top of it all in the foreground is
a graphic of Nico in a white away UCLA jersey
gold helmet, his hands sort of grabbing the front of
his shoulder pads.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
He's kind of made just waits, so it's not like
an action shot. It's just posed, you know, okay, like
during warmers, kind of just posing.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Maybe he's waiting in line at the Fox Theater.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And he's wearing number eight, number eight for UCLA, which
is interesting because I thought number eight was UCLA's retired
number by Troyikman.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Weren't you there when that number was retired, Kate?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It was twenty fourteen. It was in November that year.
We had him on the pregame show. I remember he
came out in a cart and it was a big deal.
They brought him out to Matt and Wayne and I
out in lot h interviewed on the pregame show, and
then he had his jersey retired during the Jim Mora era,
right back in twenty fourteen, that halftime in that game
against Stanford.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And yet UCLA has posted the photo of Nico wearing
the number eight.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, multiple graphics, not only the one for the season tickets,
but all over social media, and he announced that he
was there and coming to UCLA. There was a couple
of graphics with number eight Nico yame Lava now at UCLA.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
In the forties, there was just one guy that wore
the number eight, and then in the in the seventies
there was a flanker, and then there was a dB,
and then there was a kicker till the eighties, and
then number eight heats up in the eighties for UCLA
Matt Carl Durell, eighty two, eighty three, eighty five, eighty six,
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number eight, Big Production, Troy Aikman, seven and eighty eight.
Davy O'Brien consensus All American.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Number one pick in the draft.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Pro Football Hall of Fame. And of course they didn't
retire it right off the bat because he didn't win
the Heisman. So a guy named Fred Gilbert wore it,
Oh Gilby, gilb Tommy Maddox. Tommy Maddox won a couple
of years.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's good run.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Looks like Tommy Bennett, a dB wore it it for
three years. Rodney Lee wore it for a couple of years.
Derel Price, we all remember him, the full back, Oh Silmour.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I played him in passing the league.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
He put me on the ground. But he wore six
and nine as well, So he just a number four.
And then Robert Thomas, great linebacker. Roberts the great linebacker
played against him. Scott McEwan, a quarterback. Yeah, then Junior Taylor,
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the wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Okay, so a lot of people had the yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well yeah, Sean Otis Chris Forcierre, remember Chris Joe Fourier,
the tall tight end from Crisby. And then there was
a guy in twenty ten who wore it. But in
twenty fourteen that was it. And Jim Mora made a
very emphatic statement. I remember, like he made a statement.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
But he remember twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
UCLA will honor Troy's greatness and the impact he made
on bruined football when we retire his number eight.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Forever. What I thought he said forever?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Well he did, he did forever.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Oh but you know that's Dan Guerrero, that's Jim Mora.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Jim Mora pac twelve. You know, I mean, it's a
different world now.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Why is this not a big deal? When who was
it at USC want to wear number twenty A couple
of years ago, way back, Actually, there was a b
darnl bang, Yeah, darnld bang.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
It was a big deal because it was retired. I
had to ask Mike Garrett. Mike Garrett said, okay, because
he was the ad A lot of people didn't feel
great about it, just kind of like the weird vibes
that everybody gets from the shadeur retiring that happened.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Now generation man, Well yeah, but that's our generation.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But now generation like that doesn't really jibe with the
whole number retirement tradition, right right. The number retirement tradition
is supposed to be about legacy, about history of out
being able to stand for something, having some kind of
foundation so you're not just wobbling around on jello when
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you face adversity. Forever, Well, yeah, we're going to hand
the number eight to every fly by Night skinny on
quarterback that demanded four million dollars from Tennessee. If we're UCLA,
that's what we're doing now.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I always thought number retirements were to sell tickets in
the first two weeks of the year, when you're playing
Mercer in the Roast Bowl and you're trying to get
extra ten thousand asses in the seats.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
You know, I wish I didn't know forever who else's
number is retired at UCLA forever forever, right, like it
is Ken Norton or somebody like that retired, because like
if you can't, if you can't keep Troy Aikman's number
on the shelf, then I mean, remember how weak and
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sad the whole Carson Palmer Jordan Addison thing came off. Yeah,
he wants you to wear number three. He didn't even
play the full year, great receiver, great player in the NFL.
But was it really worth it to I mean maybe
it was, but to compromise all of that and Carson Palmer,
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who never met the kid I heard, he's gonna play
his tailoff. Okay, so your number doesn't mean anything, Like,
I don't know if you stand there and you do
all that stuff, I have the number retired, and just
because somebody's a big recruit, you're gonna acquiesce it.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Just it.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Let's just take all the retired numbers down and not
do it anymore because it doesn't seem to mean anything.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
They only got ten guys, Aikman, Kenny Easley's five, sixteen
during sixteen, Jackie Robinson's forty two, Ogden seventy nine, and
then you got Kenny Washington thirteen, Paul Cameron thirty four,
he was fifty one to fifty three. Burr Baldwin forty
four to forty six, course per Baldwin thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Come on, really, bur Baldwin, bur you don't you don't
know about him.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Er Baldwin, ber Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I mean, I canna understand you taking Burb Baldwin's number
off the.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Shelf, the end Burb Baldwin, U don with two ends
moon Maw from fifty to fifty to a center and
then the late seventies linebacker Jerry Robinson's eighty four.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So I mean, they have more numbers than I thought retired,
but none more important. It would seem.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
He's most recognizable right outside of Jackie.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Guy's calling Monday Night football. Troy Aikman. He's a Hall
of Famer. He's been relevant in the game of football
since he was trying to run the option at Oklahoma
and transferred very early transfer success story to UCLA. And
it is not going to be forever.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, let me say this be because there's a flip
side to that point, Is there? Yes, Like, Yeah, I'm
kind of being a little bit of a smartest, but
I'm also sort of being sincere, Like, is there any
tradition left, no liked, right, there's like nothing.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well then why do we have time number? Right?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I think that's it moving forward? Like what like, Okay, yeah,
you're going to retire Shitter's number and Travis Hunter's number,
and yeah you're you're in the Big twelve again and
you weren't and you're probably not going to be in
the Big twelve in three years anyway, and who the
hell cares?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
And it just modern college football. The whole the whole
globe of modern college football has made it so it
doesn't matter anymore. But it's sad that it doesn't matter anymore.
And we're going to be here to say it. We
heard Jim Morris saying twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And we believed her forever forever.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Hell, we did his golf tournament with his wife.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Did anybody check with anybody check with Lamar Jackson if
he's okay with number eight?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, you think about that. I mean, I would think
that anybody that wears number eight anywhere has gotta has
got to make it okay with with Lamar jack got
to cross it with him first. I say this, he's
got to call his lawyers.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
If your Nico wouldn't you just be like, hey, man,
I gotta find a different number if I if I
have this on being the level of superstar quarterback, I
believe I can be. I gotta get rid of this
number eight. I'm already seeing number eight beer and number
eight Duffel bags, and these two guys are fighting two
time MVP Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young the hell
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out of the number eight. Business man. I gotta get
out of this number eight business I forgot.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
About Steve Young. I'm out. Yeah, we'll see how it
plays out. We'll talk to Wayne Cook about And of
course UCLA is excited, and they should be. They have
great reason to be excited. This is a huge get
for them. For Nico Malayaba. It's an interesting thing because
it's hard to argue with what's coming out of the
sec social media world, which is saying this guy took
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a major pay cut, he took a major cut in
relevance of a program, and he took a major cut
in relevance of an offense and an offensive play caller,
and all of those things are true.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I mean, it's it's really like, look, it's great for us,
for the UCLA station, He's.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
A thing ever. Man, I want to wear the number
eight on my chest forever.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
It's like, Man, team was in the playoff last year.
They one of the hottest teams going into the postseason.
You're you're in an offense that's putting up a ton
of points, You've got a million playmakers around you, You're
in the SEC. You've got one hundred and fifteen thousand
people packed into the freaking stadium for every single game.
And it's like I'm playing Rocky Top, playing Rocky Top
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the water.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Boys getting laid just because he touches the hamm of
your garment. And you want to come to UCLA, You're
gonna run into like some kind of protest on your
way to win a football game, but no one's gonna.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Care, like what the hell?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Like Yeah, and for UCLA, it feels like all is
forgiven from the batten of Malayava, the little brother taking
them all the way up till signing day and going
to Arkansas with the receiver on his team and leave it.
Deshaun Foster in the lurch, dressed like a bride like
Ricky Williams.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But a bride in a sweet cap and a cool jacket.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
We're in LA.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
It's been a while since you guys have been to
the Rose Ball. I get that you don't know what
it's like to have forty two thousand people with tarps
in that open stadium.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It can get loud in there in the Royal.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Teiko for UCLA football, do you know what it's like
to have forty two thousand, because I think it's more
like fourteen thousand, two hundred is kind of what we're
talking about.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
That UCLA attendance has fallen on hard times, and I
would say like twenty fourteen where Jim Morrow was on
when he's talking on on that. Yes, that's probably the
last time we really remember UCLA football having tangible year
in and year out buzz and the Brett Hunley era.
They had a great year under Chip with Dorian Thompson
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Robinson going back and forth with USC and Lincoln Riley's
first year at here. But other than that, I don't,
I mean, I just it's hard to understand for him
making the move at Warren High School, Nico wore the
number eight and the number nine, So you know we're
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getting more from Wayne Cook. How much do you think
Wayne Cook is in the know about this.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Now, if Troy came out with a post with Nico
and like, I'm so honored to hand off number eight
to Nico for one year so you see a football
can get back to relevance like that, would you be
okay with that?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
He better? Like, honestly, there's no there is zero upside.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
But what do you say? Yes? Or your Carson or
your Mike Garrett. At least Mike Garrett was the ad.
You know, he had a vested interest in the success
of the program, and he would look kind of like
a selfish guy if he said no, you can't have
my number. But just to ask him that was wrong too.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, like these guys can't say no. That's the real
horsecrap part of this is you just can not. In
the age of social media, the age of zero tradition,
nobody gives a rip. Everybody's excited about you that we're
getting his number retired, and they're like, who the hell
is Cordell Stewart? Never heard of them? It's just like
a Chad Brown whatever with that guy was eno, you know,
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like they just it's not worth it. It's totally not
worth it to say well, no, it's not okay. I'm
honored to have my number retired.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
And well, not just that it means something to the
guys you've played with, yeah, because I mean, let's be honest,
As one of them, I can tell you that there
is nothing more humbling than realizing you are one of
hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of people that played
college football at this place. They don't care about you.
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They're probably not going to answer your phone call. It
doesn't matter if you're crippled or any of these things.
You're done. There's nothing but more ex football players ending
a place until they die, and there's a blurb in
the paper about it. The thing that so many guys
have is a banner, a jersey of a guy that
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you played with or against that recognizes the era that
you were out there performing, which is meaningful to you
and you know, and just to throw it around like
it doesn't mean anything because there's a shiny new toy
that may or may not have success at your university
and can very easily. I mean, you don't think Tennessee
people probably bent over backwards to make Nico and his
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family feel great. And how do they feel right now?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You know, I mean and that's all fine, it's all
part of the business. But to sit there and take
Troy Aikman's number away from him, which really does mean
a lot, I'm sure to a lot of people for
this guy who's seemingly had a red flag with him
ever since he got four fs at Long Beach Polly
during the middle of a transfer. I don't know. It
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bothers me, but it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I guess it was chemistry, it was pre Calcu, it
was French, and it was stats. Those are four tough
one not easy classes.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Four of the toughest classes at UH program.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You know, not easy. Yeah, you'd think you'd you'd be like,
you know what, You're right though, Matt appreciate myself here.
I'm just going to take the number thirteen. It doesn't
mean anything to anybody. No, there's there's no win. There's
no win for the other side of that.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I have a number eight beer. What are you guys
doing to me? Come on, we'll be right back with
Don McClane. His numbers should be retired, should have been
retired a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Three hour show today, Three hour show today. My apologies,
technical difficulty there. Almost hit the wrong button for Dom
as he is on hold. We have no Dodger Baseball
today but tomorrow against the Cubs. Tonight game two Clippers
Nuggets tip off at seven. That's why we're off at six.
And that brings us to this conversation.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Pe the Great Don McLean, our bff. The next ass
he kisses will be the first. The next snake he
kills will be the net. His statue in Lemon Park
reminds us of his greatness leading score in the history
(25:31):
of the Pac twelve, a record that will stand forever.
This is a very busy time of year as he
is getting guys ready for the draft, including Cooper Flag.
NBA playoffs are raging, CIA Fan Duel Sports with the Clippers,
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Big Ten Network and Half Best Are I mean half best?
One the Great Don mca on Your Southern California Toyota Dealers,
Celebrity Online and on the Petersen Money Show. What's cragging down?
How are you?
Speaker 6 (26:06):
It's been a while, Pee, But last night Trent was
out front working on his golf swing for some reason.
But he comes back in and he goes, yeah, Dad,
there's a snake out in the front grass. I think
it's just a garter snake. I'm like, okay, and he's like,
but you should go look at it. Yeah, Trent, when
they have a white thing on the end that is rattling,
(26:27):
it is not a garter snake. Just just for future reference. Okay,
so we had to, uh do take care of it
if you will.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Oh yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Subdue, subdue the.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Threat, subdue the threat?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Is that a Is that a relocation elemination?
Speaker 6 (26:45):
No, that's not a relogan to you, Well, it's a relocation.
But still breathing when they're relocated.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Was it a blood object? Did you use or.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Well, pellet gun? I told you guys don't know. It's
been so long you guys have forgotten. I know. But
you know, you walk up to it, it curls up
so it makes a nice target. And that's that in Geblue.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
See you later, mister snake.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Thanks for doing the hard part curling up.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
I didn't have dogs. I guess I probably wouldn't, but
I have dogs, so I have to.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
We have to do that kind of do it, don
It's part of being a snake killer. It's part of
your occupation here in southern California. I guess we can
start with the Laker game don they you know what
playoff basketball is. Like, You've told us before that it
was a drastic change, you know that you felt when
you were a player. Did it feel like that's what
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got the Lakers or was there something more than that.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
I sensed that Minnesota kind of how they finished down
the home stretch wasn't great for them. You know, they've
dealt with some injuries and things, but they were just
ready to play and the Lakers really weren't. And you know,
we've talked a lot about since the Luca trade what
it would look like. And obviously, offensively we knew it
would work out, but it kind of looks like the
defensive things there again, they were putting them in ball screens,
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they were attacking them, singling them out, And they're going
to have to figure out how to either get Luca
to be more engaged and better defensively, or they're gonna
have to figure out coverages where he's just not required
to be as good defensively. But I expect the Lakers
to come back with a with better purpose on Tuesday
and win that game.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I guess a big question I'd have for you don
is like, try to figure out what the move is right,
you know, And I'm not expecting the Timberwolves to make
fifty percent of their threes. They're wide open for over
half of those attempts. But like, I don't know where
they go right, Like, it feels like that guests, they
could play really small Lebron at center. It just doesn't
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feel like there's a lot of moves that this team
has that depths not quite there, No.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
But I think it's more about the approach though, too, Matt.
I mean, it's not as simple as this, but when
you know you got veteran NBA players, if you're not
ready to play and the other team is, you kind
of know that. And not that not that the Lakers
let go of the rope, but they knew early on
in that game they weren't. They weren't mentally ready for that,
and Minnesota took it to him. So much of this
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is about, you know, your disposition heading into games. Yes,
it's game planning, Yes it's matchups, but at the end
of the day, if one team's more motivated and ready
to play, they're probably going to win.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
What do you like if you're and look, you know this,
don anybody that watches basketball knew what it looks like
when Luka Doncic plays, especially play on basketball. If you
watch the Mavericks make their run to the NBA Finals,
it's a modern ball, dominant hunting out the screen and
the mismatch that you want. Does that fly like cause
it seemed I don't know if it's just the way
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they lost and how quickly it got away from them,
but does it Did it feel like that to you
when you were watching, Like, Wow, he's really dominating the
ball in this game?
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Yeah, and you just wonder, I mean, you said it.
They but the Mavericks did get to the finals, so
it obviously works. I just think overall that game was
over quickly and once it is, guys know it and
they just you know, they just don't play with as
much passion, I guess, And so I think that'll change
on Tuesday for the Lakers. But that's who Luca is,
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That's who you were trading for. And to me, you know,
I never really questioned whether or not Luke on the
offensive end would be good with Lebron, because they're smart players.
They'd figure it out. To me, it's about what is
JJ going to do with him defensively? Because it kind
of stuck out the other day.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Don McClain as our guest the best of the best.
What about the Clippers, Don, did they miss a big
opportunity or is that a red flag for Denver that
the Clippers are going to be a tough out?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:41):
I still think the Clippers are going to win that series.
And I don't say that because I do the show.
I just think they were playing really well, and you know,
if they don't turn it over twenty whatever times they did,
they probably win that game. The fact that they got
it to overtime with all those turnovers tells me that
if they're right in executing, they should in the series.
And I think I'm pretty confident that they'll clean that
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stuff up or clean that stuff up yesterday and that
they'll be ready to play today, and I think they
win tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
So sort of same question that I asked about the Lakers, Don,
just sort of a did you see anything glaring, like
any adjustment that you thought they should be making?
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Not really, not really. I mean, look, when you turn
it over that many times, I don't care how good
your defense is or how well you shoot it. You're
just giving them. You're giving Denver more possessions and more shots,
and so that was the difference in the game. I
didn't really notice anything that I would say, Hey, they
need to attack that more or they need to do this.
I just think they need to be better with the ball,
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not turn it over, and they should be fine.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah, the Clippers are favored tonight in Denver, which are Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
How about that? That probably tells you.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Something cast me outside. All right, Don when we talk
about everything happening, a lot of it has to do
with you in the NBA draft. I mean, you're right
at the right at the epicenter of this with a
lot of great players and the number one guy this year.
Without asking too much, is there a cop a comparable
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guy to Cooper Flag? And does it have to be
a white guy if you compare it to him?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
You know, No, he's very unique Pee. And you know,
I think I've said this before, like even though he's
been in our gym the last couple of summers, not
for very long, a week or two. But the shooting
was the thing that you thought could be an issue.
And I thought this year he shot it a lot
better than than I thought he would. I thought teams
would just dare him to shoot the entire game, and
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they really didn't do that because I think he made
enough early. But now that he's back here, he's just
so much more confident shooting the ball and even all
the way out to the NBA three point line. I'm
not sure who he'll become, because if the shooting really
comes on, he's going to be scary good because of
the athleticism. But the biggest thing with Cooper Flag is
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his brain and his confidence and just his will to
be not good great. And you know, look, he's going
to be the first pick in the draft no matter what.
But if you walked into our gym, and you know,
we do groups of six, so he's in a group
of six, and you didn't know who anybody was that
he's the first pick, you would think he's a guy
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trying to get into the second round. Like that's how
hard he plays and how much how vocal he is.
And I can see why John Shire told somebody that
told me Cooper Flag's the best teammate he's ever seen.
And he's only been there for a few days, four
or five days so far, and that's obvious already. And
this kid wants to be great. And I have no
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doubt that he's going to be great at the next level.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Racial question here, don you mentioned Luca white guy even
though he's zero. Austin Reeves was a disaster defensively in
that game. Cooper Flagg, though known as a good defender
white guys do, he typically say good defender, not good defender?
Too slow a feed?
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Like, what is the typical tag on white guys in
the game when it comes to defense, because Flag is
an exceptional defender.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Yeah, well, it goes back to athleticism and if you
can keep people in front, that's basically what it comes
down to. Are your feet fast enough to keep guys
in front of you? And if you're not, you're labeled
as not a good defender. Now, unfortunately, white guys typically
not across the board, but typically aren't as good at
sliding their feet and keeping guys in front as the
(34:31):
other guys. And so that's kind of why that becomes
a thing. But you can overcome that, and that's you know,
you can overcome that with toughness and physicality. And I
think that's one thing that we talk about a lot,
no matter what color you are, is about you know,
if you're not as fleet to foot as somebody else.
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Can you be physical enough to keep them in front?
Can you be physical enough to bother them to misshots?
And if you can, then it really doesn't matter how
fast you feet or if you're not lightning quick.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Don before we let you go. How Camp McClain has
been going on for quite some time here. I mean
guys like Paul George have been through Camp McLaine, D'Angelo Russell,
guys that we've watched play NBA basketball. It seems like
a really really long time. How big has Camp McClain
become And how long till we have our own T shirts?
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Well, don't hold your breath on the T shirt because
I don't even have one of those. But if we
ever make some, I will make sure you guys get one.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Should it be like a big thing of your face?
Speaker 6 (35:34):
No, God, no, you guys come over the logo and
I'll take it to the boys over there and see
if they can make some shirts for us.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Dead snake done deal.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Yeah, you know, it just depends on the year. Peede,
Like this year is really big. We have tomorrow we're
gonna have seventeen players in the gym. But what's changed
and why there's that many is not all those guys
are they're they're they've they've they're testing the waters. They're
probably going back to school, probably five or six of them,
(36:07):
seven of them. And so NIL has changed that because
for years we wanted college kids to come see it
and experience and work out with these other guys, but
they couldn't afford it, you know, paying for flights, hotels,
you know, paying me, paying our sports performance people. But
now they have the money to do it, and so
that's why you know, we're we're seeing more players come
(36:30):
through because they have the ability to pay for it.
But it's good because you know, they get up to
speed and they know. For me, it's great because guys
like Leem McNeely and Cooper Flagg and Drake Powell and
these guys were out here last summer, so we already
started the process of what it needs to look like
when you are in the draft. So we're a little
ahead of the game to start than we would have
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been had they never been here. So for me, it's great.
It's a lot. I'm not sure it'll be this big again,
but maybe because of this NIL and and all these
guys declaring for the draft and then decide whether they're
going to stay in or not.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
A quick one. Don just wrapping it up full circle,
going back to where we started. You mentioned, uh, Clippers,
you think they'll get out of this first round? What
about the Lakers? You think they get out of this
first round?
Speaker 6 (37:15):
I do. I think they'll figure out a way. I
think that that that game was a really good wake
up call for them. I think that it it just,
you know, not that Lebron doesn't know he's been in
the league for twenty two years or whatever it's been,
but like just a good reminder of no matter who
you're playing, you better come ready to play. And I
think if there, if that message was received, I just
(37:37):
think they're better. I just think Lebron and Luca are
just better than the t Wolves guys, and that that'll
play itself.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Out, all right, DoD Maybe we finally get Clippers Lakers
Western gat.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
That'd be great, wouldn't That's what Matt said.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I don't know. You might be soon. You might be
knee deep in minded camp. McLaine trying to start a
fire in the rain, get a Durm flame lit, try
to help Cooper Flag catch a trout, ah, we love you.
Don have a great night. Thanks for doing it. We
missed on last week, but we couldn't let another day. Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
No, not have to snatching up a rattlesnake over the weekend. No, yeah,
he killed one. That was your weekend? Got me a snake?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Not great? Oh, I thought you asked me. Oh, we'll
be right back with how was your weekend? On the
pender somebody show on a seventy l I spart. I
just think of Troy Akman shaking hands with Nico Iamadayaba
(38:40):
and the dad and Martin Jarman's there and they're figuring
out the number eight retirement thing, and then Dale earn
Hart June you're blows through the wall and it's number Hey, y'all,
it's my number eight, damn you. It's a modello beach
A lot of Monday. It's not a real meach if
it's not made with a MODELO. A big thank you
to Don McClain and lightning stuff about basketball at every
(39:04):
level in the very last segment, and now since it
is Monday, it is indeed n do what I do.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
The weekend is mine soon. How was your weekend start
Friday night? Because tip of the captain Jim. He's a big,
big PMS fan and he manages the Italian restaurant finn
Bars in Seal Beach and it's been pizza Night every
Friday since the start of Lent, the wife being the
(39:31):
good Catholic that she is, and it was Finbar's turn
in the rotation, and Jim was very excited to see us.
I've known Jim for a while, so it wasn't just
like a first encounter. But continues to request to be
able to bring up some pizzas, some lasagna's for the
Petros and Money crew and to prove that he's a
(39:51):
dedicated listener. Without me saying anything, he said, and I'll
even bring up a bag of slop for stuffoush to
keep him occupied, so you guys can eat all the
good stuff.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Throw it over their side just down the hall. So
he Jase's it. So thank you to Jim. Saturday, surfed
in the am, watched the basketball, went to see The
Harbor Chronicles at the just reopened Old Timey Bay Theater
there on Main Street and Seal Beach. Really really cool
documentary about the shop, the oldest continually open surf shop
(40:20):
in the world. Sixty five years now right there in
Seal Beach in about rich Harbor, and then Sunday surf
with the youngest Preston for a little while in the morning,
then went up to our friends, the Ebner's for Easter Brunch,
and then we hosted Easter dinner for Carrie's family. And yeah,
it was a great day, really really good.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Do you cut the ham man or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I didn't cut the ham I made the smash burgers
and smash the do.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Like a spiral knife for.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
The They had ham up at the Ebners, so we
did the burgers instead for the family. But I did
catch the outside of my right hand on the cast
iron pan, which was was a real nice development.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Take that. Yeah, Kates had a.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Great weekend, guys, A working weekend of course, Friday and Saturday,
Dodgers Prix Sunday Dodgers Prix Sunday postgame show, as well
hanging out with Colin Ye for about five and a
half hours during the Dodgers finale in Texas against the Rangers.
On top of that, my wife decided it'd be a
good time instead of going away for Spring break, her
and Sadie did projects around the house, including re staining
(41:25):
the cabinets in one of the bathrooms, putting up a
new half shower door and taking out the doors that
go back and forth on a track, taking aught out
all that out out and putting in a half one
hour up to date. And then the third thing they
did was put a new ceiling fan in Sadie's room,
and they did so by trying to figure out the
different wiring and it was different wires than what was
(41:46):
originally supposed to be there, and they thought no, black, green,
you know, different colors. So she couldn't figure it out.
So Sadie went to chat GBT asked chat GBT what
we're supposed to do, and it gave us an answer.
We tried it.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Whilah was right, so thank you ai Yah.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
We couldn't figure out because there wasn't the inappropriate amount
of wires brown white, ye. It wasn't matching up like
it was supposed to because one hundred percent we did
trip the breakers at least once, and thankfully Chad GBT
figured it out. On top of that, we ended our
weekend at Smokehouse. Last night, we took my sister in
law and brother in law to dinner at smokehouse. So
(42:24):
it was so proud of there. We were in the
back back room with foldable tables that they put.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Oh no like eating in the kitchen at the family
Oh the Christmas dinner.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
You know, the kitchen was five feet from where I
was sitting at so yes, yes, the clinking of the
dishes was a constant in my ear last night.
Speaker 7 (42:41):
So Ronnie had a nice Easter weekend, Tim, thank you
very much. Saturday, I was out and about early went
to go get a haircut, a ransom aarons around town.
And Saturday evening we went to Top Golf and Elsagunda
with a family and have a great time, and that
we did. I had a few beers and came home
and had a few more beers and fell asleep on
(43:01):
the couch Matt Smith's style. When I did fall asleep
on the couch, the Karate Kid was about halfway through
the original Karate Kid, and uh, well, by the time
I woke up, part two was ending and part one
was about to start again. So that goes to tell
you where I was on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
They abandoned three and the Hillary Slank one. They don't
play those in the four.
Speaker 7 (43:24):
No, it was just the one and the two. They
replayed it on T and T Saturday night. Easter Sunday,
we had the family over for a nice lunch that
my wife prepared, and we just hung out all day
with you know, all the games that were going on
and enjoying each other's company.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
That was it. That was my weekend.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
That was my Easter weekend.
Speaker 7 (43:40):
What about you, petros Well.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I have been a little uncomfortable most weekend. I uh,
I went. Here's yesterday I was. I went to a
soccer We had a soccer game, very hotly contested soccer game.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Victory.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
No, I think it was a top. It was a tie,
but you know how hotly contested those games get. With
all the parents back and forth, going at the officials
and all that. It was, Uh, the dragon flames, I believe.
I don't want to say they were cheated, but I
don't want to say, you know, it wasn't great. Just
(44:19):
say that.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
And then you know, I was briefly at my sisters
for Easter. But I'm laying low because I have shingles. Yes,
I wa I went to the emergency.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Is that the adult chicken pox?
Speaker 3 (44:34):
Yes, it is, well, you know what it is. I
went to UH, I went to the urgent care and
because you know, I have ezema, and so I thought
it was that and it's not. So I'm here and
I'm a little uncomfortable, but we're doing the show and
I have shingles.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
What's it like?
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Sucks?
Speaker 2 (44:53):
Can you compare it to anything?
Speaker 3 (44:55):
It feels like, you know, I've had ezma over the years,
so I know what that's like. Just feels like a
really bad case of egzema. But you know, also I
have a headache and I'm sensitive to light and a
sore throat.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Like the chicken pox stuff.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
No light, right, So I got all that stuff going on,
and I'm on the medication, the anti viral medication. I started.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Are you wearing pit vipers right now?
Speaker 3 (45:20):
I don't know why that.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Light?
Speaker 3 (45:23):
You know? Oh no, I'm indoors Okay, sorry, Yeah, I
thought that was like something else, like.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
No, I like didn't know if you had to put no,
I'm a little loud down the windows and stuff like that,
like a lot of it.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
And you know, I was supposed to take tomorrow on
the next day off, which I'm doing anyway, at which
I really need now, is supposed to be my vacation,
but now it's just me in shingles, laying afflicted. So
good times as the old show before this one, in
this time, stuff.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Was called Yeah, what a great time that was?
Speaker 4 (45:55):
Well, good news is now if sales calls and says, hey,
anybody ever had shingles before to want to do a commercial?
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Yeah, I would if I were you guys, I'd get
the shot.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Yeah. My mother in law has been trying to get
me to get the shingles vaccine for like two years
since she had it. She's like, you need to go
get it. I'm like, I don't know. I don't know
anybody that's got shingles. It's my age. Now I do.
Now I'm gonna go get the freaking vaccine to the CBS.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
Yeah, I have heard. I had heard that Pete younger
people were getting shingles, and I'm one of them.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
We've got to be the oldest younger show. I've got
a cataract and you've got shingles. The hell's happening and
Kate's lost his gallbladder.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
Well, it's wrong with us. I've been legally crippled since
I was twenty two.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
So Fred just text me, damn you guys are old.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah easy, Fred, Yeah, I should have got doubt Fred,
I should have got that shot I never got.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
I don't know why I didn't get the shot.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
Take the chat, dude.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
I will once this out, I'll be first in live.
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
I'm gonna try to go to the CV. Oh they'll
be closed tomorrow, so we'll.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
Have your word number song of the day. Next, we'll
talk to Wayne Cook in the next hour about the
Nico Iam malayaba u c l A windfall.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
What's cooking? Wayneo shingles my right arm. That is good.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
It's on fire.
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They wore some sweet suits and they did some stand ups. Yeah,
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It is baseball season. Dodgers on deck tomorrow will start
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alert bat to one o'clock and tonight night in honor
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modela means a lot of Monday. As you know, it's
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and that is a real ward for those with the
fighting modello. That is the mark of a fighter. On
the Petrosi Money Show, we try to fight. We also
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(03:16):
of chances to win that game.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Won a lot of fight from them clips.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
You know, they showed a lot of hustle on the floor.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
They're not a lot of fight from the Lakers.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Less fight, yes from the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Wildly entertaining contest, even though it ended with the lost Clippers. Yeah,
not entertaining well the entire second half.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Like the people after the Laker game were like, how's
how's Minnesota gonna make all those threes next time? It's like,
I don't know if you if you don't guard them,
they might they might make them again.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I don't know if you notice, guys, but the threes, yeah,
wide open, I mean white assholepen, the doors wide open.
Now NBA players can make open threes not hard unless
you're Derek Fisher, then you connect on those at like
a twenty eight percent clip.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Or Westbrook who made him shot.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Dude.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That meets you a lot of Monday gracias porla musica
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the Clipper playoffs, the NFL Draft. I'm not really a horse,
(04:27):
so thank you everybody. Now, we do have two guests
today that are important we weren't able to. Like, if
we don't talk to Don McClain today, that means we
will not have talked to him at all. Last week.
The NBA playoffs have started, the Clippers played, the Lakers played.
There's a lot of reaction to be had. So it's
(04:48):
very important that we talk to Don McClain in the
very next segment so we can set the table back
because they're gonna be like two games in at least
if we talk to them on Friday, and that'll be
a lot a draft reaction and all kinds of stuff there.
We got to strike while the iron is hot strike
the hammer. So Don McClain is going to join us
in the very next segment. He also killed another snake yesterday. Nice, Yeah,
(05:12):
I was he might have used a big giant sledchhammer
on an anvil.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I feel bad for the snake because right now Don
is very I don't know if stress is the right word.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
He's got a lot on his.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
It's a lot of pressure for Don right now, and
certain that snake is probably got destroyed, just smashed.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
On you. Not only did he say it was dead,
he said it was a baby, because those worst are
more poisonous. So we'll get the update on rattlesnake death,
the NBA playoffs, and Camp McClain, which is raging with
the number one player in basketball in the draft right now,
Cooper Flagg in Don McClane's very very trusted hands. So
(05:58):
we will talk to Don McClain in the very next segment,
and then that brings us to our next guest, which
is another big story. Now, this started last week, Matt.
Early last week when former Warren High School Bear nico
Ia Mariyaba quarterback sensation for the SEC Josh Heipel Tennessee,
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made the College Football playoff, playing in front of one
hundred and twenty thousand people every single home game on
Rocky Top. Leaves Tennessee because of what was reported to
be a financial dispute, which I guess we all accept
that as the or do you accept the offense?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Ryan Bryle's offense? No bueno?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
So you accept the Joel Klatt Colin Cowherd he wanted
to be in a different offense spin.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I am a fan of the jk CC combination of explanation.
I have long sim ascribe to that.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
As do I I mean, where would my career be?
So he is over the weekend, committed to UCLA. He's
coming to Ucla. He will be the Ucla quarterback, the
guy that was supposed to be the quarterback that just
got done with the Spring showcase, the guy from Appalachian State.
Joey Aguilar is back back back in the cortal.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Yeah, and I guess she's like, this is exciting for UCLA, right, It's.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Big news for Ucla. Tim Kates, I think, without a doubt,
is our closest person to the Bruins on our show.
Like when it comes to our show, Tim Kates probably
has the the most direct line to UCLA as the
close to Bruin talk many things you know over the years,
(07:57):
and Tim Kates right off the back. I believe Tim
Kates used to be a season ticket holder.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I was a season ticket holder. I started right when
I graduated as a young alumni. Basically, you got two
tickets for the price or four tickets for the price
of two.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Buy one, get one free.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Then we got rid of them after seventeen years, I
believe seventeen years had them. We had them, and then
the girls just stores personally. I split him with my
dad so he would go take some people. I would
take some people, but didn't. We just stopped going. But
I got an email about ninety minutes to two hours.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Girls used to dress up and cheerleader, light cheerleader, our cars.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
It was the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I remember the social media.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I got an email from UCLA Football saying welcome to Westwood. Nico,
the consensus number one transfer portal quarterback Nico Iamai a
Lava is officially a Bruin. Join us in welcoming Nico
to Westwood. Don't miss a second of Nico and the
Bruins at the Rose Bowl during the twenty twenty five
campaign plays a twenty twenty five season ticket deposit.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Today guy hasn't even met his team day guy has
not met a guy on the team yet.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Maybe you heard what Dion said. It's a now generation,
I know, but you've got to get that season tickets
right now.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Now we're Nico and the Bruins.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
We're Nico's team now.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
What was the most interesting part of the email to
u K's was it the immediacy of it, like us
with Don McClain coming on in the next send.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
It shocked me because the is hot. It's not a
typical UCLA type of maneuver. The usually they wait a
little bit, So.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Good on UCLA.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
It's a new arrow over there, and they got some
great people in the marketing department, so that's good on
them for getting it out immediately.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
And that's very difficult because at UCLA usually you need
four or five signatures just to get a new pencil sharper. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
The other thing that struck me was the graphic that
they used UCLA sky blue the city of Westwood below
and on top of it all in the foreground is
a graphic of Nico in a white away UCLA jersey
gold helmet, his hands sort of grabbing the front of
his shoulder pads.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
He's kind of made just waits, so it's not like
an action shot. It's just posed, you know, okay, like
during warmers, kind of just posing.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Maybe he's waiting in line at the Fox Theater.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And he's wearing number eight, number eight for UCLA, which
is interesting because I thought number eight was UCLA's retired
number by Troyikman.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Weren't you there when that number was retired, Kate?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
It was twenty fourteen. It was in November that year.
We had him on the pregame show. I remember he
came out in a cart and it was a big deal.
They brought him out to Matt and Wayne and I
out in lot h interviewed on the pregame show, and
then he had his jersey retired during the Jim Mora era,
right back in twenty fourteen, that halftime in that game
against Stanford.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And yet UCLA has posted the photo of Nico wearing
the number eight.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, multiple graphics, not only the one for the season tickets,
but all over social media, and he announced that he
was there and coming to UCLA. There was a couple
of graphics with number eight Nico yame Lava now at UCLA.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
In the forties, there was just one guy that wore
the number eight, and then in the in the seventies
there was a flanker, and then there was a dB,
and then there was a kicker till the eighties, and
then number eight heats up in the eighties for UCLA
Matt Carl Durell, eighty two, eighty three, eighty five, eighty six,
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number eight, Big Production, Troy Aikman, seven and eighty eight.
Davy O'Brien consensus All American.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Number one pick in the draft.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Pro Football Hall of Fame. And of course they didn't
retire it right off the bat because he didn't win
the Heisman. So a guy named Fred Gilbert wore it,
Oh Gilby, gilb Tommy Maddox. Tommy Maddox won a couple
of years.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's good run.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Looks like Tommy Bennett, a dB wore it it for
three years. Rodney Lee wore it for a couple of years.
Derel Price, we all remember him, the full back, Oh Silmour.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I played him in passing the league.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
He put me on the ground. But he wore six
and nine as well, So he just a number four.
And then Robert Thomas, great linebacker. Roberts the great linebacker
played against him. Scott McEwan, a quarterback. Yeah, then Junior Taylor,
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the wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Okay, so a lot of people had the yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well yeah, Sean Otis Chris Forcierre, remember Chris Joe Fourier,
the tall tight end from Crisby. And then there was
a guy in twenty ten who wore it. But in
twenty fourteen that was it. And Jim Mora made a
very emphatic statement. I remember, like he made a statement.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
But he remember twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
UCLA will honor Troy's greatness and the impact he made
on bruined football when we retire his number eight.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Forever. What I thought he said forever?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Well he did, he did forever.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Oh but you know that's Dan Guerrero, that's Jim Mora.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Jim Mora pac twelve. You know, I mean, it's a
different world now.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Why is this not a big deal? When who was
it at USC want to wear number twenty A couple
of years ago, way back, Actually, there was a b
darnl bang, Yeah, darnld bang.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
It was a big deal because it was retired. I
had to ask Mike Garrett. Mike Garrett said, okay, because
he was the ad A lot of people didn't feel
great about it, just kind of like the weird vibes
that everybody gets from the shadeur retiring that happened.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Now generation man, Well yeah, but that's our generation.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
But now generation like that doesn't really jibe with the
whole number retirement tradition, right right. The number retirement tradition
is supposed to be about legacy, about history of out
being able to stand for something, having some kind of
foundation so you're not just wobbling around on jello when
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you face adversity. Forever, Well, yeah, we're going to hand
the number eight to every fly by Night skinny on
quarterback that demanded four million dollars from Tennessee. If we're UCLA,
that's what we're doing now.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I always thought number retirements were to sell tickets in
the first two weeks of the year, when you're playing
Mercer in the Roast Bowl and you're trying to get
extra ten thousand asses in the seats.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
You know, I wish I didn't know forever who else's
number is retired at UCLA forever forever, right, like it
is Ken Norton or somebody like that retired, because like
if you can't, if you can't keep Troy Aikman's number
on the shelf, then I mean, remember how weak and
(14:52):
sad the whole Carson Palmer Jordan Addison thing came off. Yeah,
he wants you to wear number three. He didn't even
play the full year, great receiver, great player in the NFL.
But was it really worth it to I mean maybe
it was, but to compromise all of that and Carson Palmer,
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who never met the kid I heard, he's gonna play
his tailoff. Okay, so your number doesn't mean anything, Like,
I don't know if you stand there and you do
all that stuff, I have the number retired, and just
because somebody's a big recruit, you're gonna acquiesce it.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Just it.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Let's just take all the retired numbers down and not
do it anymore because it doesn't seem to mean anything.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
They only got ten guys, Aikman, Kenny Easley's five, sixteen
during sixteen, Jackie Robinson's forty two, Ogden seventy nine, and
then you got Kenny Washington thirteen, Paul Cameron thirty four,
he was fifty one to fifty three. Burr Baldwin forty
four to forty six, course per Baldwin thirty eight.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Come on, really, bur Baldwin, bur you don't you don't
know about him.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Er Baldwin, ber Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
I mean, I canna understand you taking Burb Baldwin's number
off the.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Shelf, the end Burb Baldwin, U don with two ends
moon Maw from fifty to fifty to a center and
then the late seventies linebacker Jerry Robinson's eighty four.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So I mean, they have more numbers than I thought retired,
but none more important. It would seem.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
He's most recognizable right outside of Jackie.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Guy's calling Monday Night football. Troy Aikman. He's a Hall
of Famer. He's been relevant in the game of football
since he was trying to run the option at Oklahoma
and transferred very early transfer success story to UCLA. And
it is not going to be forever.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Well, let me say this be because there's a flip
side to that point, Is there? Yes, Like, Yeah, I'm
kind of being a little bit of a smartest, but
I'm also sort of being sincere, Like, is there any
tradition left, no liked, right, there's like nothing.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Well then why do we have time number? Right?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I think that's it moving forward? Like what like, Okay, yeah,
you're going to retire Shitter's number and Travis Hunter's number,
and yeah you're you're in the Big twelve again and
you weren't and you're probably not going to be in
the Big twelve in three years anyway, and who the
hell cares?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
And it just modern college football. The whole the whole
globe of modern college football has made it so it
doesn't matter anymore. But it's sad that it doesn't matter anymore.
And we're going to be here to say it. We
heard Jim Morris saying twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And we believed her forever forever.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Hell, we did his golf tournament with his wife.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Did anybody check with anybody check with Lamar Jackson if
he's okay with number eight?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yeah, you think about that. I mean, I would think
that anybody that wears number eight anywhere has gotta has
got to make it okay with with Lamar jack got
to cross it with him first. I say this, he's
got to call his lawyers.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
If your Nico wouldn't you just be like, hey, man,
I gotta find a different number if I if I
have this on being the level of superstar quarterback, I
believe I can be. I gotta get rid of this
number eight. I'm already seeing number eight beer and number
eight Duffel bags, and these two guys are fighting two
time MVP Hall of Fame quarterback Steve Young the hell
(18:16):
out of the number eight. Business man. I gotta get
out of this number eight business I forgot.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
About Steve Young. I'm out. Yeah, we'll see how it
plays out. We'll talk to Wayne Cook about And of
course UCLA is excited, and they should be. They have
great reason to be excited. This is a huge get
for them. For Nico Malayaba. It's an interesting thing because
it's hard to argue with what's coming out of the
sec social media world, which is saying this guy took
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a major pay cut, he took a major cut in
relevance of a program, and he took a major cut
in relevance of an offense and an offensive play caller,
and all of those things are true.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I mean, it's it's really like, look, it's great for us,
for the UCLA station, He's.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
A thing ever. Man, I want to wear the number
eight on my chest forever.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
It's like, Man, team was in the playoff last year.
They one of the hottest teams going into the postseason.
You're you're in an offense that's putting up a ton
of points, You've got a million playmakers around you, You're
in the SEC. You've got one hundred and fifteen thousand
people packed into the freaking stadium for every single game.
And it's like I'm playing Rocky Top, playing Rocky Top
(19:31):
the water.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Boys getting laid just because he touches the hamm of
your garment. And you want to come to UCLA, You're
gonna run into like some kind of protest on your
way to win a football game, but no one's gonna.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Care, like what the hell?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Like Yeah, and for UCLA, it feels like all is
forgiven from the batten of Malayava, the little brother taking
them all the way up till signing day and going
to Arkansas with the receiver on his team and leave it.
Deshaun Foster in the lurch, dressed like a bride like
Ricky Williams.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
But a bride in a sweet cap and a cool jacket.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
We're in LA.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
It's been a while since you guys have been to
the Rose Ball. I get that you don't know what
it's like to have forty two thousand people with tarps
in that open stadium.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
It can get loud in there in the Royal.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Teiko for UCLA football, do you know what it's like
to have forty two thousand, because I think it's more
like fourteen thousand, two hundred is kind of what we're
talking about.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
That UCLA attendance has fallen on hard times, and I
would say like twenty fourteen where Jim Morrow was on
when he's talking on on that. Yes, that's probably the
last time we really remember UCLA football having tangible year
in and year out buzz and the Brett Hunley era.
They had a great year under Chip with Dorian Thompson
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Robinson going back and forth with USC and Lincoln Riley's
first year at here. But other than that, I don't,
I mean, I just it's hard to understand for him
making the move at Warren High School, Nico wore the
number eight and the number nine, So you know we're
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getting more from Wayne Cook. How much do you think
Wayne Cook is in the know about this.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Now, if Troy came out with a post with Nico
and like, I'm so honored to hand off number eight
to Nico for one year so you see a football
can get back to relevance like that, would you be
okay with that?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
He better? Like, honestly, there's no there is zero upside.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
But what do you say? Yes? Or your Carson or
your Mike Garrett. At least Mike Garrett was the ad.
You know, he had a vested interest in the success
of the program, and he would look kind of like
a selfish guy if he said no, you can't have
my number. But just to ask him that was wrong too.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, like these guys can't say no. That's the real
horsecrap part of this is you just can not. In
the age of social media, the age of zero tradition,
nobody gives a rip. Everybody's excited about you that we're
getting his number retired, and they're like, who the hell
is Cordell Stewart? Never heard of them? It's just like
a Chad Brown whatever with that guy was eno, you know,
(22:19):
like they just it's not worth it. It's totally not
worth it to say well, no, it's not okay. I'm
honored to have my number retired.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
And well, not just that it means something to the
guys you've played with, yeah, because I mean, let's be honest,
As one of them, I can tell you that there
is nothing more humbling than realizing you are one of
hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of people that played
college football at this place. They don't care about you.
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They're probably not going to answer your phone call. It
doesn't matter if you're crippled or any of these things.
You're done. There's nothing but more ex football players ending
a place until they die, and there's a blurb in
the paper about it. The thing that so many guys
have is a banner, a jersey of a guy that
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you played with or against that recognizes the era that
you were out there performing, which is meaningful to you
and you know, and just to throw it around like
it doesn't mean anything because there's a shiny new toy
that may or may not have success at your university
and can very easily. I mean, you don't think Tennessee
people probably bent over backwards to make Nico and his
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family feel great. And how do they feel right now?
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You know, I mean and that's all fine, it's all
part of the business. But to sit there and take
Troy Aikman's number away from him, which really does mean
a lot, I'm sure to a lot of people for
this guy who's seemingly had a red flag with him
ever since he got four fs at Long Beach Polly
during the middle of a transfer. I don't know. It
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bothers me, but it doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I guess it was chemistry, it was pre Calcu, it
was French, and it was stats. Those are four tough
one not easy classes.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Four of the toughest classes at UH program.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
You know, not easy. Yeah, you'd think you'd you'd be like,
you know what, You're right though, Matt appreciate myself here.
I'm just going to take the number thirteen. It doesn't
mean anything to anybody. No, there's there's no win. There's
no win for the other side of that.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I have a number eight beer. What are you guys
doing to me? Come on, we'll be right back with
Don McClane. His numbers should be retired, should have been
retired a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Three hour show today, Three hour show today. My apologies,
technical difficulty there. Almost hit the wrong button for Dom
as he is on hold. We have no Dodger Baseball
today but tomorrow against the Cubs. Tonight game two Clippers
Nuggets tip off at seven. That's why we're off at six.
And that brings us to this conversation.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Pe the Great Don McLean, our bff. The next ass
he kisses will be the first. The next snake he
kills will be the net. His statue in Lemon Park
reminds us of his greatness leading score in the history
(25:31):
of the Pac twelve, a record that will stand forever.
This is a very busy time of year as he
is getting guys ready for the draft, including Cooper Flag.
NBA playoffs are raging, CIA Fan Duel Sports with the Clippers,
(25:55):
Big Ten Network and Half Best Are I mean half best?
One the Great Don mca on Your Southern California Toyota Dealers,
Celebrity Online and on the Petersen Money Show. What's cragging down?
How are you?
Speaker 6 (26:06):
It's been a while, Pee, But last night Trent was
out front working on his golf swing for some reason.
But he comes back in and he goes, yeah, Dad,
there's a snake out in the front grass. I think
it's just a garter snake. I'm like, okay, and he's like,
but you should go look at it. Yeah, Trent, when
they have a white thing on the end that is rattling,
(26:27):
it is not a garter snake. Just just for future reference. Okay,
so we had to, uh do take care of it
if you will.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Oh yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Subdue, subdue the.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Threat, subdue the threat?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Is that a Is that a relocation elemination?
Speaker 6 (26:45):
No, that's not a relogan to you, Well, it's a relocation.
But still breathing when they're relocated.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Was it a blood object? Did you use or.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Well, pellet gun? I told you guys don't know. It's
been so long you guys have forgotten. I know. But
you know, you walk up to it, it curls up
so it makes a nice target. And that's that in Geblue.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
See you later, mister snake.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Thanks for doing the hard part curling up.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
I didn't have dogs. I guess I probably wouldn't, but
I have dogs, so I have to.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
We have to do that kind of do it, don
It's part of being a snake killer. It's part of
your occupation here in southern California. I guess we can
start with the Laker game don they you know what
playoff basketball is. Like, You've told us before that it
was a drastic change, you know that you felt when
you were a player. Did it feel like that's what
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got the Lakers or was there something more than that.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
I sensed that Minnesota kind of how they finished down
the home stretch wasn't great for them. You know, they've
dealt with some injuries and things, but they were just
ready to play and the Lakers really weren't. And you know,
we've talked a lot about since the Luca trade what
it would look like. And obviously, offensively we knew it
would work out, but it kind of looks like the
defensive things there again, they were putting them in ball screens,
(28:03):
they were attacking them, singling them out, And they're going
to have to figure out how to either get Luca
to be more engaged and better defensively, or they're gonna
have to figure out coverages where he's just not required
to be as good defensively. But I expect the Lakers
to come back with a with better purpose on Tuesday
and win that game.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I guess a big question I'd have for you don
is like, try to figure out what the move is right,
you know, And I'm not expecting the Timberwolves to make
fifty percent of their threes. They're wide open for over
half of those attempts. But like, I don't know where
they go right, Like, it feels like that guests, they
could play really small Lebron at center. It just doesn't
(28:44):
feel like there's a lot of moves that this team
has that depths not quite there, No.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
But I think it's more about the approach though, too, Matt.
I mean, it's not as simple as this, but when
you know you got veteran NBA players, if you're not
ready to play and the other team is, you kind
of know that. And not that not that the Lakers
let go of the rope, but they knew early on
in that game they weren't. They weren't mentally ready for that,
and Minnesota took it to him. So much of this
(29:11):
is about, you know, your disposition heading into games. Yes,
it's game planning, Yes it's matchups, but at the end
of the day, if one team's more motivated and ready
to play, they're probably going to win.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
What do you like if you're and look, you know this,
don anybody that watches basketball knew what it looks like
when Luka Doncic plays, especially play on basketball. If you
watch the Mavericks make their run to the NBA Finals,
it's a modern ball, dominant hunting out the screen and
the mismatch that you want. Does that fly like cause
it seemed I don't know if it's just the way
(29:43):
they lost and how quickly it got away from them,
but does it Did it feel like that to you
when you were watching, Like, Wow, he's really dominating the
ball in this game?
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Yeah, and you just wonder, I mean, you said it.
They but the Mavericks did get to the finals, so
it obviously works. I just think overall that game was
over quickly and once it is, guys know it and
they just you know, they just don't play with as
much passion, I guess, And so I think that'll change
on Tuesday for the Lakers. But that's who Luca is,
(30:13):
That's who you were trading for. And to me, you know,
I never really questioned whether or not Luke on the
offensive end would be good with Lebron, because they're smart players.
They'd figure it out. To me, it's about what is
JJ going to do with him defensively? Because it kind
of stuck out the other day.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Don McClain as our guest the best of the best.
What about the Clippers, Don, did they miss a big
opportunity or is that a red flag for Denver that
the Clippers are going to be a tough out?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (30:41):
I still think the Clippers are going to win that series.
And I don't say that because I do the show.
I just think they were playing really well, and you know,
if they don't turn it over twenty whatever times they did,
they probably win that game. The fact that they got
it to overtime with all those turnovers tells me that
if they're right in executing, they should in the series.
And I think I'm pretty confident that they'll clean that
(31:04):
stuff up or clean that stuff up yesterday and that
they'll be ready to play today, and I think they
win tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
So sort of same question that I asked about the Lakers, Don,
just sort of a did you see anything glaring, like
any adjustment that you thought they should be making?
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Not really, not really. I mean, look, when you turn
it over that many times, I don't care how good
your defense is or how well you shoot it. You're
just giving them. You're giving Denver more possessions and more shots,
and so that was the difference in the game. I
didn't really notice anything that I would say, Hey, they
need to attack that more or they need to do this.
I just think they need to be better with the ball,
(31:40):
not turn it over, and they should be fine.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah, the Clippers are favored tonight in Denver, which are Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
How about that? That probably tells you.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Something cast me outside. All right, Don when we talk
about everything happening, a lot of it has to do
with you in the NBA draft. I mean, you're right
at the right at the epicenter of this with a
lot of great players and the number one guy this year.
Without asking too much, is there a cop a comparable
(32:13):
guy to Cooper Flag? And does it have to be
a white guy if you compare it to him?
Speaker 6 (32:17):
You know, No, he's very unique Pee. And you know,
I think I've said this before, like even though he's
been in our gym the last couple of summers, not
for very long, a week or two. But the shooting
was the thing that you thought could be an issue.
And I thought this year he shot it a lot
better than than I thought he would. I thought teams
would just dare him to shoot the entire game, and
(32:39):
they really didn't do that because I think he made
enough early. But now that he's back here, he's just
so much more confident shooting the ball and even all
the way out to the NBA three point line. I'm
not sure who he'll become, because if the shooting really
comes on, he's going to be scary good because of
the athleticism. But the biggest thing with Cooper Flag is
(33:00):
his brain and his confidence and just his will to
be not good great. And you know, look, he's going
to be the first pick in the draft no matter what.
But if you walked into our gym, and you know,
we do groups of six, so he's in a group
of six, and you didn't know who anybody was that
he's the first pick, you would think he's a guy
(33:22):
trying to get into the second round. Like that's how
hard he plays and how much how vocal he is.
And I can see why John Shire told somebody that
told me Cooper Flag's the best teammate he's ever seen.
And he's only been there for a few days, four
or five days so far, and that's obvious already. And
this kid wants to be great. And I have no
(33:44):
doubt that he's going to be great at the next level.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Racial question here, don you mentioned Luca white guy even
though he's zero. Austin Reeves was a disaster defensively in
that game. Cooper Flagg, though known as a good defender
white guys do, he typically say good defender, not good defender?
Too slow a feed?
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Like, what is the typical tag on white guys in
the game when it comes to defense, because Flag is
an exceptional defender.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
Yeah, well, it goes back to athleticism and if you
can keep people in front, that's basically what it comes
down to. Are your feet fast enough to keep guys
in front of you? And if you're not, you're labeled
as not a good defender. Now, unfortunately, white guys typically
not across the board, but typically aren't as good at
sliding their feet and keeping guys in front as the
(34:31):
other guys. And so that's kind of why that becomes
a thing. But you can overcome that, and that's you know,
you can overcome that with toughness and physicality. And I
think that's one thing that we talk about a lot,
no matter what color you are, is about you know,
if you're not as fleet to foot as somebody else.
(34:51):
Can you be physical enough to keep them in front?
Can you be physical enough to bother them to misshots?
And if you can, then it really doesn't matter how
fast you feet or if you're not lightning quick.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Don before we let you go. How Camp McClain has
been going on for quite some time here. I mean
guys like Paul George have been through Camp McLaine, D'Angelo Russell,
guys that we've watched play NBA basketball. It seems like
a really really long time. How big has Camp McClain
become And how long till we have our own T shirts?
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Well, don't hold your breath on the T shirt because
I don't even have one of those. But if we
ever make some, I will make sure you guys get one.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Should it be like a big thing of your face?
Speaker 6 (35:34):
No, God, no, you guys come over the logo and
I'll take it to the boys over there and see
if they can make some shirts for us.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Dead snake done deal.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Yeah, you know, it just depends on the year. Peede,
Like this year is really big. We have tomorrow we're
gonna have seventeen players in the gym. But what's changed
and why there's that many is not all those guys
are they're they're they've they've they're testing the waters. They're
probably going back to school, probably five or six of them,
(36:07):
seven of them. And so NIL has changed that because
for years we wanted college kids to come see it
and experience and work out with these other guys, but
they couldn't afford it, you know, paying for flights, hotels,
you know, paying me, paying our sports performance people. But
now they have the money to do it, and so
that's why you know, we're we're seeing more players come
(36:30):
through because they have the ability to pay for it.
But it's good because you know, they get up to
speed and they know. For me, it's great because guys
like Leem McNeely and Cooper Flagg and Drake Powell and
these guys were out here last summer, so we already
started the process of what it needs to look like
when you are in the draft. So we're a little
ahead of the game to start than we would have
(36:51):
been had they never been here. So for me, it's great.
It's a lot. I'm not sure it'll be this big again,
but maybe because of this NIL and and all these
guys declaring for the draft and then decide whether they're
going to stay in or not.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
A quick one. Don just wrapping it up full circle,
going back to where we started. You mentioned, uh, Clippers,
you think they'll get out of this first round? What
about the Lakers? You think they get out of this
first round?
Speaker 6 (37:15):
I do. I think they'll figure out a way. I
think that that that game was a really good wake
up call for them. I think that it it just,
you know, not that Lebron doesn't know he's been in
the league for twenty two years or whatever it's been,
but like just a good reminder of no matter who
you're playing, you better come ready to play. And I
think if there, if that message was received, I just
(37:37):
think they're better. I just think Lebron and Luca are
just better than the t Wolves guys, and that that'll
play itself.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Out, all right, DoD Maybe we finally get Clippers Lakers
Western gat.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
That'd be great, wouldn't That's what Matt said.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
I don't know. You might be soon. You might be
knee deep in minded camp. McLaine trying to start a
fire in the rain, get a Durm flame lit, try
to help Cooper Flag catch a trout, ah, we love you.
Don have a great night. Thanks for doing it. We
missed on last week, but we couldn't let another day. Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
No, not have to snatching up a rattlesnake over the weekend. No, yeah,
he killed one. That was your weekend? Got me a snake?
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Not great? Oh, I thought you asked me. Oh, we'll
be right back with how was your weekend? On the
pender somebody show on a seventy l I spart. I
just think of Troy Akman shaking hands with Nico Iamadayaba
(38:40):
and the dad and Martin Jarman's there and they're figuring
out the number eight retirement thing, and then Dale earn
Hart June you're blows through the wall and it's number Hey, y'all,
it's my number eight, damn you. It's a modello beach
A lot of Monday. It's not a real meach if
it's not made with a MODELO. A big thank you
to Don McClain and lightning stuff about basketball at every
(39:04):
level in the very last segment, and now since it
is Monday, it is indeed n do what I do.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
The weekend is mine soon. How was your weekend start
Friday night? Because tip of the captain Jim. He's a big,
big PMS fan and he manages the Italian restaurant finn
Bars in Seal Beach and it's been pizza Night every
Friday since the start of Lent, the wife being the
(39:31):
good Catholic that she is, and it was Finbar's turn
in the rotation, and Jim was very excited to see us.
I've known Jim for a while, so it wasn't just
like a first encounter. But continues to request to be
able to bring up some pizzas, some lasagna's for the
Petros and Money crew and to prove that he's a
(39:51):
dedicated listener. Without me saying anything, he said, and I'll
even bring up a bag of slop for stuffoush to
keep him occupied, so you guys can eat all the
good stuff.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Throw it over their side just down the hall. So
he Jase's it. So thank you to Jim. Saturday, surfed
in the am, watched the basketball, went to see The
Harbor Chronicles at the just reopened Old Timey Bay Theater
there on Main Street and Seal Beach. Really really cool
documentary about the shop, the oldest continually open surf shop
(40:20):
in the world. Sixty five years now right there in
Seal Beach in about rich Harbor, and then Sunday surf
with the youngest Preston for a little while in the morning,
then went up to our friends, the Ebner's for Easter Brunch,
and then we hosted Easter dinner for Carrie's family. And yeah,
it was a great day, really really good.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Do you cut the ham man or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
I didn't cut the ham I made the smash burgers
and smash the do.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Like a spiral knife for.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
The They had ham up at the Ebners, so we
did the burgers instead for the family. But I did
catch the outside of my right hand on the cast
iron pan, which was was a real nice development.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Take that. Yeah, Kates had a.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Great weekend, guys, A working weekend of course, Friday and Saturday,
Dodgers Prix Sunday Dodgers Prix Sunday postgame show, as well
hanging out with Colin Ye for about five and a
half hours during the Dodgers finale in Texas against the Rangers.
On top of that, my wife decided it'd be a
good time instead of going away for Spring break, her
and Sadie did projects around the house, including re staining
(41:25):
the cabinets in one of the bathrooms, putting up a
new half shower door and taking out the doors that
go back and forth on a track, taking aught out
all that out out and putting in a half one
hour up to date. And then the third thing they
did was put a new ceiling fan in Sadie's room,
and they did so by trying to figure out the
different wiring and it was different wires than what was
(41:46):
originally supposed to be there, and they thought no, black, green,
you know, different colors. So she couldn't figure it out.
So Sadie went to chat GBT asked chat GBT what
we're supposed to do, and it gave us an answer.
We tried it.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Whilah was right, so thank you ai Yah.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
We couldn't figure out because there wasn't the inappropriate amount
of wires brown white, ye. It wasn't matching up like
it was supposed to because one hundred percent we did
trip the breakers at least once, and thankfully Chad GBT
figured it out. On top of that, we ended our
weekend at Smokehouse. Last night, we took my sister in
law and brother in law to dinner at smokehouse. So
(42:24):
it was so proud of there. We were in the
back back room with foldable tables that they put.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Oh no like eating in the kitchen at the family
Oh the Christmas dinner.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
You know, the kitchen was five feet from where I
was sitting at so yes, yes, the clinking of the
dishes was a constant in my ear last night.
Speaker 7 (42:41):
So Ronnie had a nice Easter weekend, Tim, thank you
very much. Saturday, I was out and about early went
to go get a haircut, a ransom aarons around town.
And Saturday evening we went to Top Golf and Elsagunda
with a family and have a great time, and that
we did. I had a few beers and came home
and had a few more beers and fell asleep on
(43:01):
the couch Matt Smith's style. When I did fall asleep
on the couch, the Karate Kid was about halfway through
the original Karate Kid, and uh, well, by the time
I woke up, part two was ending and part one
was about to start again. So that goes to tell
you where I was on Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (43:20):
They abandoned three and the Hillary Slank one. They don't
play those in the four.
Speaker 7 (43:24):
No, it was just the one and the two. They
replayed it on T and T Saturday night. Easter Sunday,
we had the family over for a nice lunch that
my wife prepared, and we just hung out all day
with you know, all the games that were going on
and enjoying each other's company.
Speaker 3 (43:38):
That was it. That was my weekend.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
That was my Easter weekend.
Speaker 7 (43:40):
What about you, petros Well.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I have been a little uncomfortable most weekend. I uh,
I went. Here's yesterday I was. I went to a
soccer We had a soccer game, very hotly contested soccer game.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Victory.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
No, I think it was a top. It was a tie,
but you know how hotly contested those games get. With
all the parents back and forth, going at the officials
and all that. It was, Uh, the dragon flames, I believe.
I don't want to say they were cheated, but I
don't want to say, you know, it wasn't great. Just
(44:19):
say that.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (44:20):
And then you know, I was briefly at my sisters
for Easter. But I'm laying low because I have shingles. Yes,
I wa I went to the emergency.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Is that the adult chicken pox?
Speaker 3 (44:34):
Yes, it is, well, you know what it is. I
went to UH, I went to the urgent care and
because you know, I have ezema, and so I thought
it was that and it's not. So I'm here and
I'm a little uncomfortable, but we're doing the show and
I have shingles.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
What's it like?
Speaker 3 (44:51):
Sucks?
Speaker 2 (44:53):
Can you compare it to anything?
Speaker 3 (44:55):
It feels like, you know, I've had ezma over the years,
so I know what that's like. Just feels like a
really bad case of egzema. But you know, also I
have a headache and I'm sensitive to light and a
sore throat.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Like the chicken pox stuff.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
No light, right, So I got all that stuff going on,
and I'm on the medication, the anti viral medication. I started.
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Are you wearing pit vipers right now?
Speaker 3 (45:20):
I don't know why that.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Light?
Speaker 3 (45:23):
You know? Oh no, I'm indoors Okay, sorry, Yeah, I
thought that was like something else, like.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
No, I like didn't know if you had to put no,
I'm a little loud down the windows and stuff like that,
like a lot of it.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
And you know, I was supposed to take tomorrow on
the next day off, which I'm doing anyway, at which
I really need now, is supposed to be my vacation,
but now it's just me in shingles, laying afflicted. So
good times as the old show before this one, in
this time, stuff.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Was called Yeah, what a great time that was?
Speaker 4 (45:55):
Well, good news is now if sales calls and says, hey,
anybody ever had shingles before to want to do a commercial?
Speaker 3 (46:01):
Yeah, I would if I were you guys, I'd get
the shot.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Yeah. My mother in law has been trying to get
me to get the shingles vaccine for like two years
since she had it. She's like, you need to go
get it. I'm like, I don't know. I don't know
anybody that's got shingles. It's my age. Now I do.
Now I'm gonna go get the freaking vaccine to the CBS.
Speaker 3 (46:22):
Yeah, I have heard. I had heard that Pete younger
people were getting shingles, and I'm one of them.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
We've got to be the oldest younger show. I've got
a cataract and you've got shingles. The hell's happening and
Kate's lost his gallbladder.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
Well, it's wrong with us. I've been legally crippled since
I was twenty two.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
So Fred just text me, damn you guys are old.
Speaker 2 (46:48):
Yeah easy, Fred, Yeah, I should have got doubt Fred,
I should have got that shot I never got.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
I don't know why I didn't get the shot.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
Take the chat, dude.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
I will once this out, I'll be first in live.
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
I'm gonna try to go to the CV. Oh they'll
be closed tomorrow, so we'll.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
Have your word number song of the day. Next, we'll
talk to Wayne Cook in the next hour about the
Nico Iam malayaba u c l A windfall.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
What's cooking? Wayneo shingles my right arm. That is good.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
It's on fire.
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