Seth Davis and Stugotz Compete in Dueling March Madness Takes | The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

College Basketball analyst Seth Davis joins the show following Selection Sunday to preview this year’s March Madness bracket and Seth and Stugotz go back and forth as Stugotz fakes his way through March Madness takes. Then we react to Amin’s atrocious shooting form that surfaced in a viral video from the celebrity game he played in this weekend while we try to track him down to respond. Then Rachel Nichols joins the show to call out Amin and talk about the NBA.

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[0:00-16:10] Seth Davis, March Madness analysis

[16:11-23:19] Amin’s 3-point shot

[23:20-26:43] Risotto, Sammy Sosa steroid question

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There is professional Seth Davis you just saw it he is pulling a curtain in some hotel somewhere where he has been going over the numbers I’m sure it smells like the committee over there because Seth Davis over the last 20 years have has climbed into the granules

Of college basketball stots and he’s one of the voices on Sunday who’s going to tell us about the 40 teams we don’t know we’re all going to be gambling on over the course of the next few weeks and so all he’s here for all Chris Cody wants

From him is hey Seth abandon all your journalistic principles and just tell me who to bet on tell me who’s going to surprise people because he likes the matchup but Seth has to be a journalist he has to be Integrity he’s been doing this for 20 years stots how many names

Do you associate with this guy’s gonna tell me who’s got it right who’s got it wrong for 68 teams how many how many names can you mention that you associate like this one with this person’s information’s going to be good Seth Davis and Jay bis is it it’s not just

Two of you is who else is on that list te who else is on it that’s oh there’s a lot of guys Andy Catz Mike the Cory uh of course the people that I work with Clark Kellogg Jay Wright Candace Parker in Atlanta and you know that Chuck and Kenny have been studying

College basketball very closely no Seth that’s Seth that’s Charles Wings his way through the tournament every year it is the most amazing slalom job I’ve ever seen he knows nothing about what he’s watching and he’s doing it for eight hours a day and it’s just the fraud

Like he doesn’t he’s just doing research before the game but he knows basketball yes he knows what he sees and Kenny they they know what they see so um yeah it’s good uh it’s the greatest it’s the best but what’s this thing about gambling no who’s gambling are people gambling Chris

Cody here let’s let’s lift the veil away from from this nonsense that’s give me the value Seth who’s the look Seth Seth give us fast and easy value cheap and easy we haven’t talked to you in a while get to the good stuff well you know my

Only rule with this is no blaming like my buddies they call me from Vegas they want to know my pic I’m like no no blaming we all know the person who knows the least always wins the office pool I I went I’m kind of kicking myself look I

Get like literally six minutes to fill up my bracket because they hand us the sheet of paper from the committee we’re 10 minutes to the start of the selection show I got to make my picks and go through all my comments and and I I think that’s the best way to do it

Frankly but I’ve got a lot of chalk late in the tournament okay Houston and Yukon are the two best teams in this tournament Purdue is tricky I’m not gonna lie Purdue is tricky and they drew two tricky teams in their region if they play them in kraton and Tennessee that

Slab of meat Edy is just gonna get in everyone’s way no that’s slab of meat that fouling slab of meat that can’t be defended can’t be guarded plants itself in the key and his Yao Ming’s body that cannot be allowed to ruin this tournament Seth cannot be

Allowed I’m sensing some some Zach Ed backlash are you are you in that camp and not appreciating the Big Maple would have been drafted he would have been drafted ahead of Michael Jordan in 1984 I am not underestimating him yeah well you know the thing about Zack Edy is he

Lives at the foul line and I know this is a big conversation I’ve talked to people including inside the Big 10 that say they don’t call enough fouls against zachi okay what are you going to do the guy’s 75 270 and he knows how to play at this point because he’s been there

Forever and so you got to either stop him from Catching the ball in close or foul him and he’s become a 72% foul shooter but I’ll give you let me give you a nugget about kraton first of all they have um the best defensive Center

In the Big East and one of the best in the country in Ryan kraner and they are number one on kenpom in defensive free throw rate they are the best team in the entire country at not fouling and they have some Dynamic guards of the kind

That Purdue has had trouble with so look we all know the blueprint with Purdue zi is going to roll out of bed and get you 24 and 10 I mean that’s just the reality the question is it’s not about him scoring from the foul line it’s fouling

Everybody out in other words if you’re kraton and Ryan cul brener gets his second foul with nine minutes to go on the first half it’s going to be a long day but there will come a time and probably multiple times when the edats as I call them Braden Smith Fletcher

Lawyer Lance Jones who was not on the team last year transferred from Southern Illinois they are going to have to win a game for Purdue with their three-point shooting under the most immense pressure that an athlete can face and then Tennessee of course has a dynamic score

In Dalton connect as well as some big strong guys inside Jonas theu is a good defensive Center if if you’re going to drop teams that Purdue doesn’t want to see kraton and Tennessee would be on the short list having said that I pick Purdue to go to the final four so what

The hell do I know ediot also sounds like what you could call the Zack Edy haters I think right the ediots um my question idiots ID idiots or idiot that’s an excellent distinction thank because you have to be an idiot you have to be an idiot to hate Zach e go get

Seth D get ID I I don’t it’s not that I hate him I don’t hate him he’s just a he’s a pro he’s a problem he’s a plague I there’s a tree trunk it’s an ocean liner moving through the lane and college kids are are draped from his

Thighs and like and and you and what are you going to do he’s stronger than everybody uh and this is a problem all right well that’s fine look you you can say you hate him if he’s playing against your team you love him if he’s playing for

Your team I went to Duke with Christian leer I know about player Ha my question was you said you have Purdue in your final four does that mean you have a Purdue Yukon championship and would you take Yukon or the field I all that’s a great question I

Always take the field over one team that that’s just the reality of of the NCA tournament there was actually an interesting dialogue because we’ve had a big three in college basketball with Yukon Houston and Purdue which has you know mostly separated come back a little

Bit to the field in the last couple of weeks but those have been the big three all season and it was do you take the big three or the field and I would definitely take the big three um let me just say something about Yukon so there

Have been two teams that repeated his national champs since John Wooden dated in the 70s Duke in ’92 and Florida in 2007 and in both instances those those teams brought back the previous team basically intact Ukon lost three starters and they lost five of their top eight scores and they are the heavy

Favorite going into this thing you can’t say enough about the job that Dan Hurley is doing I like Houston now they you know they got blown out um by Iowa State I’m not surprised they lost necessarily I think Iowa State’s really good absolutely got screwed on the seating by

The way um not necessarily being a two versus a one but being the lowest number two which has ramifications because now they have to go to Boston but typically to play Yukon I was not SE can I stop you for can I stop you for just a second

People just want to hear his most screwed on the seedings right like everybody wants that like want yeah but it’s I want double digit seeds that can make it to the final four like Utah State I agree with you on Purdue and Utah State could face Purdue in the

Second round I’m telling you Seth I love the agies out of the Mountain West 27 and six overall one of the great coaches in America and Danny sprinkle they have experienced guard play they can stred stretch the floor floor great oar is a fantastic player Landing bachle also a

Very very good player they have guard play they play Tenacious D and they could score with anyone in the country what says you I’m with you if you’re looking for double digit seeds I mean there’s not going to be many of them you would think about making a final four uh

You know if Drake were not in yukon’s region I might add them to the list well but hold on Seth Seth can I stop may I stop you I believe that your analysis will not be as good as st’s analysis on Drake so let’s I believe that he think

He thinks Drake is better than even you think Drake is ah the bulldogg out of the Missouri Valley Conference 28-6 overall 16-4 inside the conference great coach Darren devise and a little nepotism I love this time of year a team with a little nepotism because his son

Trevor devise is one of the great guards Dan in America plus they have eight and right I’m telling you this team is deep they have guys off the bench they play deep defense they can stretch the floor and they can rebound and score with any team in the country how about

That well aside from pronouncing the name wrong and getting say Trevor instead of Tucker I’m with you I’m with you and your deep and your deep knowledge and your deep knowledge of Drake I am with you you know Tucker de reminds me of Doug mcdermit who also

Played for his dad uh which is interesting to quote uh Joe Buck of course the son of a great uh sports caster himself I’m in favor of nepotism as long as we keep it inside the family so um yeah I like Dr but look you’re talking about having to go through Iowa

State Illinois and Yukon to get to a final four but but that’s why they’re double DC let let me give you a couple uh I mentioned Grand Canyon I for all you bra for for for all you bracket filler outters out there look for the automatic qualifier teams the the higher

Seated teams that won their regular season in the conference as well as the conference tournament um in other words um you have uh Duane is a great story out of the Atlantic 10 they were sixth in the conference and then got hot in the conference tournament did they get

Hot did they get lucky whatever it was you know zun they in the dance but a team like Grand Canyon which not only dominated uh The Wack and then won The Wack tournament really good coach in in Bryce Drew they’ve been to the tournament three of the last four years

Colgate has been to the tournament five years uh in a row and there’s another team that escapes me that had been there three years in a row so um Drake has recent NCA tournament experience as well um I like uh a couple of teams coming out of the South okay James Madison

James Madison opened the season they won at Michigan State everybody said what the hell’s wrong with Michigan State James Madison is what was wrong there you go I get my own sound he’s giving you a pick he’s giving you a pick classic 125 give us another pick give us another pick

People fill out brackets Seth Seth stop dancing around it all right nobody nobody want yes no wants the reasons no one wants the reasons I totally agree MCN another team that won a ton of games run through its conference run through its Conference tournament will wait and then

My upset special which if you think about it it wouldn’t even be that upsetting is Stanford over Kansas say it with me everybody oh wow big one there over America is gonna fall in love with bucky ball give Hawks are you with me give Seth your UAB pick because team I

Love UAB the Blazers coach Andy Kennedy they haven’t been this good since Jee Barto was their head coach 24- 11 out of the American Athletic Conference I love their guard Eric gy I love Efron Johnson as well some of the best guard player in the country I’m telling you this team

Can make a Deep Run in the NCAA tournament don’t be surprised Seth if the Blazers find themselves in the sweet 16 I’ll I’ll be surprised but nothing can can can shock me again you’re only because you’re going against only because you’re going against my rule about winning the regular season I think

They were fourth uh the fourth seed um in that conference tournament so um get yeah they had to win to get in uh look I think San Diego State’s really good I think they’ve underperformed at times um but you know I I will say this Auburn even though I’ve got them in the

Sweet 16 Auburn vulnerable in the sense that they’re one of those teams that they don’t have to win one way but they kind of have to win one way they want to beach a 95 to 90 if if they have to beach a 65 to 60 it could be a problem

So San Diego State will force them um to to to beat them 6560 but uh you know going up against Yukon obviously my my pick to win it all but you know Auburn’s got to play a good Yale team Yale has been solid in the ivy all season long

Don’t count out the Bulldog okay don’t count out the all right so Yale is also also St I’ve got to get him out here in 50 seconds here I got to squeeze all of the all of the juice that there is to be squo in here squeeze me baby sque baby

Scar you said screwed on seating and I want I want to know what the audience wants more is it stugotz’s double digit dogs likely to make it to the Sweet 16 or outraged Seth on screwed on seating what’s the better 30 seconds outrage Seth I think I do yes I just think look

It with first of all if you’re a bubble team I don’t want to hear from you I just don’t I don’t want you complaining about the net I don’t want you to tell me analytics or BS don’t put yourself on the bubble don’t put that game in the

Hands of the refs there’s only so many slots and there’s always going to be a few teams left out and they’re always going to feel screwed and I wish coaches would be just like hey our fault if we had won more we wouldn’t be in this situation what the committee did with

Iowa state was wrong and the reason is if you look at Iowa State’s body of of work they were very comparable their record in the top two quads in the net was identical to North Carolina they had better wins than North Carolina the one thing they had was a weak non-conference

Strength of schedule ranking but their overall strength of schedule ranking was comparable to all of the other candidates so many people don’t know the committee actually seeds the entire field one through 68 and places teams in the geographic region as they go down the list so there’s a pretty big

Difference between having to play play Yukon in Boston and having to play North Carolina in Los Angeles or even Purdue uh in Detroit so I think the committee was like trying to send a message about the importance of non-conference scheduling I don’t think you should make these I don’t think you should be

Sending any messages I think you should be voting on on the teams but otherwise hey man everybody loves to complain about this stuff and by the time the games tip off nobody cares let’s get this thing rolling we are out of time Seth but Jessica has something for you

To close it out and I will tell the audience he’s been a mainstate CBS Sports for the NCA tournament like I said 20 years he’s also the co-author of the bestseller Rex Chapman is actually doing good work out there showing people uh the innards of his vulnerability it’s

Hard for me to live with me uh check out his new substack it’s called Seth Davis writes again but Jessica what do you have for Seth as we close this out Indiana state was screwed true or correct false don’t put yourself on the bubble no hey hey hey Indiana state was

The third team okay we had we had five teams an incredible number five teams won their conference tournament who would not have been at large candidates last year I think there was one the year before there was two so Indiana being the third team out if either one or two teams had

Done that they would have actually been in the field so the the real estate got kind of squeezed there in the end everybody who’s like the first second third fourth team out they they all have a case to say they were screwed win and you’re in you put the sick in sycamores

Sir terrible you’re an idiot terrible terrible you got to let creem Abdul Jabar in the tournament but Drake I wrote a book I wrote a book on Indiana State when March went mad go to Amazon and buy brutal brutal you can’t keep that it was anti-mexican ail needs to be

In the tournament just because well then win his tournament no right if they’re so good how come they didn’t be get out of here according according to St Gods Drake is 86 Celtics so what do I know he bluffed his way through the whole thing I Bean 28 and six in the

Missouri Valley Conference yeah just say no it’s deze de de whatever tomato tomato we have failed today as a show so far no one more than Chris Cody executive producer because uh this show has gone this long Lucy you’re looking at me but what I’m about to say everyone

In the audience will agree with everyone in this room every employee at metalark will agree with what I’m about to to say which is us going this far into the show without playing the video of Amin El Hassen our basketball expert taking a jump shot at a celebrity All-Star Game

In which Not only was it a terrible airball but what he did with his follow through was an international shame that got him dragged by the entirety of the internet the fact that our show has not done more with this that we have not reached out to him mean and woken him up

That we have not made fun of the hand gesture at the end which is a bit Abracadabra but is no one’s idea of basketball expertise and follow through it’s a finger roll from the easiest three-point shot in uh in the NBA and the internet is totally mocking him and

We’ve waited two hours to do so uh Billy I mean Chris Cody should be punished for this don’t you think in terms of lack of judgment um no we had to get to the Aaron Donald stuff so it’s good that we did this the thing about this clip cuz I

I I’m not going to say that I didn’t have multiple group texts that were going on yesterday commenting on this video that were sent to me um the hand thing is an obvious one right I think and you can’t see it on this shot because of our lower bar there but he

Has a situation where his feet are in opposite directions at one point in time like not like they’re opening out or they’re facing in like one has his heel down on the ground and the other has his toe down on the ground which I don’t understand how he shot the ball that way

At all all he also has like the under arour like the long sleeve Under Armour under his jersey and then like the Dwayne Wade like compression pants under his short there’s just a lot’s try he’s trying and who Peril trying too hard well who Peril reports while playing

This video and he is getting excoriated it’s got millions of views millions of views I mean the follow through this is a legit human being who has a platform that is criticizing NBA players make it make sense I think the best part about the video was you click the video to

Start and I think everybody pretty much knew exactly how it was going to end right like when you see the video you know exactly how it’s going to go but it’s kind of like how are we going to get there you know if I were a mean I

Would have just said that’s not me his face isn’t in the video I think he could have gotten away with it a head play AI it looked like him though but the hand gesture it is being mocked internationally and uh you know people are writing all again getting dragged

Amel Hassen used to be on ESPN worked for the sons a long time ago number one NBA analyst on The Dan lebatard show this right here may have ended his career I’m a fan of his but I can’t see anybody taking his basketball analysis seriously after this and then because

The thread continues tells you all you need to know Dan lebatard is a goofball of course he’s going to have goofballs on his show I can’t protest get the show he he claimed the ball was slippery Jess’s tweet hit the nail right on the head it looks like a circle change up

That he’s throwing we’re trying to reach him it what did look like a circle change he’s hiding it was a flutter ball it was a bit of a knuckle ball he he’s not hiding he sent me an audio message I want you to play we’re now having difficulty scheduling him all of a

Sudden all of a sudden it’s difficult schedule am me’s got I got to go do bullyball with Rachel Nicholls I’m very busy I don’t have time to uh to cover buddy like that’s what hit him back with then if you’re you’re like Hey Big Show not bully ball okay here’s the bully

Ball get on my show or get the hell out of here bil can you come listen to these audio messages so to so find out whether he’s excuse making or not because he said me he’s excuse okay but I need to we have an hour to reach a mean and it

Appears he’s in hiding and I don’t blame him because the internet is embarrassing him now we we have his on court explanation are you he sent a new audio note like from this morning okay cuz we have his explanation on the court if we wanted to play that too yeah so this is

The holy month of Ramadan and y’all picking on me I’m trying to be holy I’m out here not eating or drinking what number two I haven’t played basketball since the 2017 NBA final that’s true so like that’s a long ass layup for me to come out of retirement run up and down

Here number three them small balls are really light so it’s like it wi you know what’s funny when they had the whole Sabrina versus step conversation Eddie Johnson told me it’s harder to shoot with the women’s ball than is with the men’s ball that Sabrina would have shot

Better if she shot with the men’s ball than she would have with the women’s ball you know what I can agree now that is white so my hand was all going flippy flobby number four look at these injuries this is my pinky finger it does

This I have a broken wrist I got a bad back come five y anyway man what’s wrong with his pinky finger he jacked up he really cranked up the excuse machine flippy floppy was one of the excuses I don’t ramadon I don’t well Ramadan yes I’m I didn’t have the

Strength that my flutter ball would normally have it’s a great place to go I will again say Tonio vouch on this I I will again say to if you’ve never been on an NBA court you don’t have any idea how far that Rim actually is because they make it look easy these giant

People who can do it well from out there but it is further than you think it is many of us would look terrible taking NBA 3 look at that finger but not as terrible as a mean our basketball expert uh stat I need some help with a couple

Of things because we’re going to try and track down I mean we have Tracked Down The Long Beach State coach Dan Monson he was fired on Monday now they’re in the tournament we’re going to talk to him uh because it’s just a funny story he’s fired on Monday and then they win and

They’re winning they let him keep coaching right through the tournament not expecting he would win the conference tournament now he’s in the NCAA tournament that’s correct it’s weird so you’re fired but okay well we’ll Rite it out he’s got to come back now right I I want to talk to him about

This we’ll see I don’t think he can come back I think he’s been fired I mean come on they haven’t hired a new coach yet right he’s in the tournament like how deep does he have to go in the tournament to get his job back or get a

Job somewhere else how about that but he’s been fired what he’s in the tourney you can rehire someone yes yeah can you not well ask him he’ll be on later in the show but I wanted to I didn’t know if you knew this did Billy did Jessica take my phone outside yeah

So here’s what’s going on uh Aman sent two different voice notes and said this is the only way that I can be reached which is weird because he could just call in if he’s doing this on his phone but he he he’s not doing that he sent

Two voice notes but your phone hasn’t been updated so you can’t download them and then you don’t have something that can be screen recorded either because you got to do the update there so we we’re having the technology department figure out how to get that audio off of

Your phone in the meantime there’s a risoto drought what what risoto is in danger why uh because uh the fields where they’re made and there’s such a drought on the fields that it’s it’s it’s getting so pricey you’ve got we’ve all noticed correct I mean everyone’s noticed the price of everything has gone

Up and food is now unreasonable restaurants everywhere else now I don’t know if risoto is in dangered but it’s something you mean like arboro rice right CU like the risoto is the cooked that’s the thing that gets everyone chopped it’s close to being endanger okay so it turns out in 2022 the worst

Drought in 200 years struck the PO the river that feeds the system of canals that irrigates the Patty Fields as a result Italy lost 26,000 hectares of rice fields and production of the grain dropped by more than 30% and things haven’t improved since what the stainley

Tucci go fix that I didn’t know that like risoto was like I don’t know if you guys noticed over the past couple years like Christmas tree prices have been crazy right and the reason that Christmas tree price really never well so Christmas tree prices were crazy for a while because

There was a shortage of Christmas trees the reason there was a shortage of Christmas trees was because of the economy like eight years ago or something because that’s the amount of time it takes for a Christmas tree to grow so situations back then made it so that now there was a shortage of

Christmas trees and then prices went up so it seems like risoto might be in the same Botto put it on the poll please Juju is risoto in the same Botto as the Christmas tree I’m voting great news for Chop contestants let’s tally up your photos this guy gets it yeah you guys

Ever seen my cousin Vinnie Chris uh you’re not supposed to say what was that when you’re the executive producer that’s what was that uh let me play some video here I think there’s a ghost in here let me play some video here for the audience uh stugots I don’t

Know if you saw this this weekend but uh I couldn’t believe I was legitimately surprised that Samy Sosa after all of these years of rehearsing for this question hadn’t thought of what might be his counter when someone asked him a follow-up when you mentioned these mistakes will you be

Specific about what the mistake is is it time for you and Tom rickus to sit down to get back into their good graces well like I said you know I’m a mature man uh I I you I think that uh it’s a possibility that we can do that

I’m open I don’t have a problem with that um you know I have like I said I have a lot of misunderstanding in the past but now I’m I’m I’m a real man I feel gray so I recognize my mistake so hey why not are you telling me that you

Recognize the fact that maybe you did do steroids um this is um like I say um this is um um not the question that I expected from you is it time for you you let him right to the question maybe you did do steroids is the hardest

Question he’s gotten in 20 years on the subject and he was not at all prepared for it um not a question that I expected from you we wanted to bring in a legitimate expert here on this basketball shot because she’s been covering a quarter Century she’s been covering the heights of basketball

Greatness she’s interviewed everybody who’s ever mattered in the sport she’s got uh a number of different professional relationships with all of the people in basketball who matter and Rachel Nichols can break down for us uh whether or not a mean is being a coward here hiding from us uh because the audio

Messages I’m getting from aan are not helpful in terms of saying whether he’s going to be on the show to answer questions Rachel he’s got bullyball he keeps saying I have bullyball today I don’t have time to answer your questions about the jump shot at the celebrity

All-Star game can you guys please put that in the corner of the screen just have it running for Rachel so she can tell me what she saw and how much our colleague deserves to be roasted because Rachel they’re questioning his expertise nobody can cover basketball well if that’s how they

Shoot I mean I wonder if he can walk well if that’s how he sh shoots I mean it’s that was offensive to the human senses on so many levels deeper than basketball what what was he doing what was happening what was the elbow what was the finger flick I mean I really

Want to know what the basketball name for that is supposed to be according to him and frankly we have gotten no answers right there have been little bits and bits on Twitter whatever bleeps and blops but we need Amel Hassen to take some responsibility for what the

Hell happened over there Chris Cody can you help me please because she’s got a new show bully ball uh with Boogie cousins and maybe Boogie can beat it out of a mean because uh we are he’s now avoiding us we’re his main paycheck not bullyball we are his main paycheck and

He’s avoiding us is Will Will you and Boogie ask the hard question on Bully ball oh I mean you’ve met Boogie cousins he’s not afraid of a confrontation so I I just think that the referees were just a Prelude to what’s going to happen

Today with the mean I I just I I I can’t I need to know what he was thinking I mean I’m really getting my interview hat on here Dan for this later today because I just feel like I need to go into his childhood maybe to find out what trauma

Underwent that caused that shot are we not going to get a mean is a mean now not going toing us we’re eting all right regardless uh whether or not I mean is there bully ball is going to be yes is that a requirement of an NBA analyst to

Have a good shot like I’m guessing Brian windhorse is going to shoot some air balls from the three-point line as well I’m just guessing but it’s the form it’s the form that’s problematic it’s not it’s not that he missed it anybody could shoot an airball it’s not it’s the

Embarrassment of how is this person critiquing the athleticism of anybody when he looks like a crooked Rusty uh fence uh breaking apart and splintering at the fingertips okay it’s a judgment thing also right we’re supposed to trust his judgment on the NBA if he also believed that he could go out and shoot

That basketball I have so many questions do you believe any of his excuses no and by the way there were so many of them weren’t there religious I have excuse that excuse this excuse five excuses but but fasting his God is to blame his sacrifice on behalf of his God

Give him credit there that’s a heady I mean it’s unbelievable him him unbel he we checked M it us really your religion is why you look like that shooting an airall but but but but but on the same weekend Kyrie Irving hit one of the great shots of this decade in the NBA

And he is also fasting for Ramadan so I want nothing I want nothing of that from am me okay uh stugots we don’t know you were traveling so did how much information did you get from the weekend like how informed are you on things like Kyrie Irving because uh what the shot he

Made over yic to have Luca donic be in a position where he seems awed by what he’s just seen uh it is fun Rachel to see uh stakes in the west this late in the season and the top of the sport caring because oh those are your Champions there and and beating them

Still mean something and Kyrie wants to get back from the Beyond of what the last three years have been so you tell us when you’re when you’re watching uh yesterday stugots when you’re seeing any of this are you being caught up in the story lines are you missing it because

You’re traveling no I did go away this weekend I was in Chicago again the only thing I write up on is Grand Canyon I love them the antelopes out of the western athletic 29-4 17-3 in the conference I am Telling You Tyson Grant Foster TGF Dan one of the great guards

In America they have senior guard play they are deep they could stretch the court they could score with anyone and people don’t know this Dan they don’t know this Bryce Drew head coach Championship pedigree they play defense as well as anyone in the country how about that don’t be surprised if the

Anales wind up in the Elite 8 Rachel are you sophisticated enough to see that stugots is all there that he’s just making things up he’s got like three or four facts and all he’s doing is just I mean it’s not inaccurate what he’s saying but it’s bare minimum information

That he actually has he’s cheating with Q cards experience gar plan I just think like that he thinks if he throws in like a nickname initials he’s like oh yeah no one’s going to doubt me I’ve got the correct uh well Rachel can you explain this part because one of the

Things I love about the evolution of sports content coverage is that what you’re doing every Monday uh with Boogie cousins you could have worked with anybody you’ve made a specific Choice here about who you want to analyze basketball best with so so that you provide entertainment but also

Information for the people who want maximum sort of geeking out on basketball from from somebody who I think people don’t know the way you do so you’re you’re introducing Boogie cousins to people that I don’t think many people have seen before yeah no I mean Boogie is an incredibly smart

Person in general so he is great talking about basketball because he can explain through of the expertise he has on a very personal level he’s also played with everyone that’s a thing I mean he had this Superstar start to his career four All-Star appearances all of that

But when he went into the journ phase of his career after he got hurt he played on that Warriors team that made the final with Kevin Durant and Steph Curry and Draymond Green and Klay Thompson and the whole crew he played on the nuggets with yage he played on the bucks with

Yanis so he has moved around and been up close at personal with so many current players and situations in the NBA that’s one of the best parts of this show is that he sits there and he goes behind the scenes and tells you well this is

What happens with clay and this is what happens when he gets down on himself from a like TV perspective he’s a lot more like Draymond Green or Charles Barkley in that mold of just will say whatever he thinks doesn’t trigger code anything but has a Lett us SM behind it

Can you explain to us I think we did that all seamlessly the co-host of bullyball with Boogie cousins is Rachel Nichols am mean will be there later today you could catch new episodes every Monday and I would tell you to subscrib to all the smoke Productions on YouTube

They are close to a million subscribers and they’re building out their own Empire with Rachel over there but from what you saw this weekend Rachel and the specifics of the league media narratives still spend too much time with Steph Curry and LeBron when it seems clear

That the young people in that sport the future of that sport at a complicated time in America it is their time now and I’m wondering as you a a veteran media analyst see that Adam Silver suddenly gets dragged over the weekend because Curry LeBron is fouled up by technical

Issues and I’m seeing Adam Silver criticized and I’m like really he’s responsible for that but but it feels like the league has a bit of a Crossroads in terms of what it’s going to do with its next generation of stars well you and I live through the

Whole next Jordan thing right the herald minor years as I like to call them where everybody was going crazy thinking the sport was going to die and wasn’t going to be Grant Hill but then Grant Hill got so hurt etc etc etc we’re a little bit

With that now we we have what the Next Generation after the CES and LeBron is right we have that already that’s Luca that’s joic that’s Giannis but because it is a group of players that sort of came in and uh played in the shadow of probably one of the greatest Generations

In all of basketball those guys have never sort of as popular as they are and as crazy accomplished as they are they haven’t captured people in the same way that LeBron and Steph did in fact you have to go a little bit younger for that and that’s where you get the John Morant

That’s where you get Donovan Mitchell that’s where you get some of these guys who really are just sort of popping off of your screen and the fact that John Morant in particular isn’t here right now because of his injury and earlier because of his suspension I think that

Has delayed a little bit some of that actual transferring and also that middle group as well sort of makes it a little bit awkward so it’s just sort of a different time where some of the absolute best players in the world have not become beloved in the same way some

Of their Elders have been but I I do think that we have so much exciting basketball that people get into it once the playoffs are there and that meritocracy matters and that’s what some of the backlash you saw over the weekend was to me I’m really loving this couch

Situation you got going on here where did you get it thank you I I by the way I want to compliment myself because for the last two weeks thank you for the last two weeks I have managed to wear uh shirts that are the exact color of this

Couch so I’ve been sort of a floating head um style and today to dress myself properly it’s very cool though the couch you the your studio setting looks velvety it is it’s it’s velvet to the touch understand so you know you can come down here and and do your show

Anytime I’m upset though because this show more so than any any other show deserves the floating head I mean I want the floating head we’re not getting a floating head I mean yeah you know maybe have me back in a couple weeks we’ll see but I again I got myself dressed this

Morning and I really think I deserve manyi pants on the head for that it’s much earlier here than it is out there Rachel do you know about color specialist because I was learning about this in the break it turns out that you have experts you can go to that can give

You the colors that work best for you I want to know Billy what color you think you or what season you are is that how they say it like are you an Autumn or something and also where would you go for this color analysis well so Jess and

Lucy were catching me up on this and we’re kind of workshopping the idea of having a color specialist come in and maybe we can do a whole segment or episode around it you’re welcome to join us if you would like but I didn’t even know this was a thing be part of that

Okay perfect please please Dan you can’t come with but Rachel I think you would be a perfect like green emerald also Dan you’re paying for this yeah that that please was a confirmation we’re going into we’re in business with Rachel now if Rachel wants to do things we need to be doing them

With her so if colorist special content is what you guys want to make I’m all for it let’s do it what are we waiting for Dan I feel you’re a deep winter I want a set like yours I’m jealous that our stuff doesn’t look like that our stuff like look at where just

Turn off the lights it’s just no but look it’s so much mood she’s giving off there is so much attitude behind her and and all of it is uh it’s welcoming it’s inviting it’s warm it’s Charming it’s stylish it’s none of the things we are because a mean is also a frequent guest

I was told he was trying to break into what it is that we were doing there that he was causing I see we’re trying to locate a mean so he’ll be on one of the shows you’ve promised to answer the questions if we can’t get to them you

Promised that bully ball will get to the bottom of whatever Amin was trying to achieve at that game yes bully ball is on the case we have a full investigation going I have questions for stugo by the way okay okay you’re gonna quiz him on the

Weekend well I just I heard him chat earlier that he was traveling quote unquote which you know we got to dig into that a little deeper what is too hot to play golf at home or what uh no I was traveling to see my daughter’s lacrosse team play that’s all that’s

Okay all right all right well that’s that’s fair so so I want to know how much you paid attention to sports over the weekend being as you are one of the Premier co-hosts in America of one of the top sports shows that over the last decade i’ like to hear a little bit

About what you do I’m not gonna take I’m not gonna take a quiz I’m not gonna take it he’s gonna take it go ahead fire away fire away this isir how many questions do you have here how what is the nature of the questions all right so I have

Five questions wow I feel that that someone of sua’s level maybe can answer them we’ll see we’ll see we’ll see what happens so basically but just just to be clear on what we’re trying to do here Rachel is an accomplished journalist to gots that you share this space with she has worked all

Of her life and is meticulously prepared and thorough when she’s being asked questions you are now going to ask him five basic sports questions for the weekend to see if our Monday morning host to God after 30 years of doing this tried at all this weekend to inform

Himself the antelopes all right number five yes I want to know which one of the following coaches was recently fired stugots despite a winning percentage of more than 55% are you ready yep all right coach at Stanford dad haste coach at Long Beach State Dan Munson coach at

Michigan of course Joan Howard coach at Vanderbilt Mr Jerry stack house which one was recently L fired despite having a more than 55% winning percentage Long Beach State really really two-time Miami Heat Champion Jawan Howard nothing he didn’t even notice Jawan Howard got fired wow

How to God how what happened I mean you just had one story from the weekend not the other Long Beach State he lost 26 games Joan Howard he was he was as bad as Patrick Ying it fell apart very quickly number four Rachel I want to

Know stugots a fake W bomb tricked the broadcasters of a particular NBA team over the weekend they started talking about how W tweeted that in Legend of that franchise had retired and unfortunately found out later it was all just fake interneting so will you tell me which broadcast it was the Warriors

Broadcast was it the Wizards broadcast the Nicks broadcast or the Bulls broadcast give it to me I’m going to say the balls broadcast ding ding ding ding ding ding ding congratulations to God is this because you were in Chicago this weekend uh no it was just a guess

He was just guessing and he guessed correctly somehow uh and so this is a big one here it’s best of three even though he guessed to this and I’ve still we only have time for three we only have time for three what’s the third one

Rachel huh okay all right all right um I want to know which of the following parents this weekend of college tournament games which parent went viral for their son in a conference tournament LeBron James Eddie House Dennis Rodman or Julia Louie dfus oh wow not LeBron oh man that Keen insight into the

Sport dance able to just knock that one out you don’t know like hear the Cho you either you either know or you don’t know you either know what the story is I want to hear the choices again are you guessing are you do you know perhaps I

Just want to hear him again what are the choices okay LeBron James Yeah Eddie house right uh Dennis Rodman uh or Julia Louie drus wow so I have to eliminate this is what I learned when I took Tas growing up you eliminate two so I have

So you don’t know so you don’t know Eddie House no but you don’t know Eddie House oh I do know oh I do know oh I do know D leart the game doesn’t work when you’re right stots