Wrestling Chaos, Blockbuster NFL Trades and NBA/NHL Finals

We go from a sharp Clash of Italy wrestling recap to the bigger sports ripple effects of blockbuster trades and Finals pressure. We praise the weekend’s best storytelling, call out uneven online criticism, then debate what real contenders do when money, legacy, and expectations collide. 
• Clash of Italy highs and what felt “missing” compared to the night before 
• Mask vs mask breakdown and why the match worked 
• Dominic Mysterio direction talk and how to build the next feud 
• Cody vs Gunther finish and the rope-break logic problem 
• Rhea and Jade notes plus what might come next 
• Why Jade Cargill gets louder backlash than others 
• NFL June 1 league-year impact and why it matters 
• AJ Brown to the Patriots and what it means for Drake May 
• Devontae Smith as WR1 and the pressure shift in Philly 
• Myles Garrett to the Rams and why it’s win-win 
• Aaron Donald comeback scenario and how it changes everything 
• Caleb Williams “Iceman” trademark debate with George Gervin 
• Stanley Cup Finals check-in and who we’re pulling for 
• OKC’s Game 7 loss and tough roster decisions 
• Knicks vs Spurs Finals thoughts and Game 2 stakes 
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Transcript

Welcome And Merch Shoutout

SPEAKER_00 0:05

Welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of From My Perspective. I'm your boy Dion coming to you. Please go ahead, like, please go ahead and subscribe. Please hit that link in the bio and get yourself some merch. You might as well go ahead and leave some type of comment in the comment section to let us know that you are here listening to your boys. Again, I'm your boy Dion, and I'm joined by the man the myth, the legend himself, Captain Hater Q. How you doing today?

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Hey, what it do what it is. You already know the badge is your boy, Mr. Bear. I can't say your name up on it. I might not be with you tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

What's going on, Leon? It's going good. Um, we we need some we need some new sources. We we was off, all off. I apologize. Um, first things first, we I thought class was on Saturday. I was hyped for it to be on Saturday. And it ended up being on Sunday. Nonetheless, I still was able to watch it live. I would have preferred to watch it live on Saturday. Um, but I watched it live on Sunday. Secondly, we got our uh pre you call a pre-show matches wrong. Again, we might need to go ahead and talk to our sources. Sources wrong this time, but they end up, I guess they listen to you, Cody Gunther and uh Soul and Becky. I mean, it was Cody Gunther and it was Cody Gunther,

Clash Of Italy Quick Verdict

SPEAKER_00 1:25

Rhea, and Jay at the pre-show matches, and then obviously the rest of the matches follows who, but Clash of Italy, I called it Clash and Rematch. How did you feel about the show?

SPEAKER_01 1:38

I feel like so. Here's my problem, right? I feel like the show was really good. They had an event the night before.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Yeah, it was great. So it was like, uh, why can't y'all do that here? So I know that's wrong, right? But yeah, you ain't feel the same way.

SPEAKER_00 2:01

I felt the same way.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

This was really good. But last night was great.

Mask Vs Mask Steals The Weekend

SPEAKER_00 2:05

We'll go ahead and talk about that last night, the midnight before. Mass versus Mass. Louis Kaiser, aka El Grande Americano. He is not taking that mask off ever again in his life, probably. And Chad Gable, aka the original El Grande Americano, they cooked. It was an excellent match, excellent storytelling. You didn't even have to know all the story because they did well with the video packages and letting you know what happened with the stuff that came uh when the people came out and messed up with uh Chad Gables grind. Obviously, uh Luke with the girlfriend. She played a part in it. Excellent match. The crowd, the crowd was into it. It had just enough blood. It wasn't too much blood, it was just enough to let you know the intensity of the match. Everything was great. They ripped the mast off. And obviously, we knew who what we we knew who was going to win, but it was still an excellent way to get there. Was the L Grind Americano. Then Chad Gable, he had to take his mask off. What was your thoughts? You know, obviously it was excellent. What was your thought on that amazing main event?

SPEAKER_01 3:23

So when I was sitting there watching this match, and all I could think was, y'all had Ludwig, Ludwig Kaiser in Cater, but this day gonna wrong. And this man out here got the crowd loving him. Loving him. And then you look at Chad Gabriel dripping in blood. Even after the match, the fans are screaming. Chad Gabriel. Chad Gabriel said, Hey, this ain't gonna be the last time y'all see me. I'll be back. And then the match that they put on, oh man. Like I said, it was great. And it wasn't just like I watched the Ray uh the Ray Phoenix match. I had to go back and watch that. He's the new uh the cruiserweight champion. Good match. Like it was great last night, the night before. You know, it was really good. You know, flashy end of it, but it was cool. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? And it because it was in comparison to what they did the night before. I am like you said, he's gonna never take that mask out. What?

Dominic’s Direction And TripleMania Talk

SPEAKER_01 4:40

So what's up with him and what's up with him and Dominic Mysterio? That's my that's my question.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

Oh, yeah, that he's gonna have to make another thing on it. Because you know, you know, they got the reports that dom he's frustrated with what his uh what his direction is on WWE main roster. I don't know what your direction is on Triple A. One man.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

Hey, you hey, one man, you about to go see that man. That man that got the crowd going crazy, you about to go see that man.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

Yeah, go ahead, go ahead and hand that title over smooth. Um no issues, no screaming, just go ahead and hand that title over. That's all you need to do. Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

You think it should be smooth though? Or do you think it should be a little a Dominic win the first one?

SPEAKER_00 5:26

Look, look at Verse P, little adverse speech.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Yeah, stretch it out a little bit. Let it build because like you said, it ain't like now I'm in the judgment's days doing anything on wrong.

SPEAKER_00 5:37

Uh, I don't think I don't think he'll get it. I think they they announced they have a two-night show or two night. Yeah, I want to say it's a triple mania, I want to say it's triple mania. Yeah, it's triple mania. No, one is in Las Vegas and the other show is in like Mexico City or something like that. It's happening in September. That's when there's those two shows happening. That's when Dom's gonna, that's when Dom's gonna have to give it up. So he got he better keep that thing nice and warm. By the time that show comes around in September, we're gonna have to hand that thing over.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

And what they should, they should, because they haven't uh uh the continuation of the event that they just had this past this past uh Saturday. They haven't uh if they haven't at this current serve this coming Saturday. I know Bailey got it isn't a six-woman tag, but you know the name I ain't see, y'all. Um he ain't doing nothing on Raw. He ain't doing nothing on Triple A. Um, why they not why they not using this man?

SPEAKER_00 6:38

Wait, hey, what do I he's even confused? But uh back to Clash Italy.

Clash Match Rundown And Surprises

SPEAKER_00 6:44

Uh let's go ahead and just run down a couple of the matches. Cody Gunther. Cody won. They the way the ending was. We're gonna see Cody versus Gunther again. Uh, Gunther had his leg under the rope. We'll see that again. Uh Ruka, she pulled out the surprisingly upset win over Baker's. Congratulations, So Ruka. I didn't think they were gonna give it to him personally, but hey, shout out. Rian J had a pretty solid match. Um, a little bit of a blunder there. Can't really tell whose fault it was, but it didn't, you know, at the end of the day, it didn't really matter. No, Mitchin, she couldn't, you know, really couldn't grab the leg, but it didn't matter. We knew we knew we knew what was supposed to happen. Um Charlie came out, but I don't know what's next for Rhea. So we'll see. Maybe Charlie's next for Rhea. Maybe somebody else is next for real. Maybe they give her Jade again. Who knows? Um Buck versus Oba. It went exactly how I thought it was gonna go, kind of. Like I couldn't have booked it. Instead of six, it was seven. One doing announce table. It made a lot of fans. I noticed on Twitter, I feel like they just watching results. They stat, they stat watchers. They just thought that Oba lost. It was like, oh, Oba's buried. Did you see how he lost? It took seven F5s. S5's been known as a one-hitter quitter. Not against Oba. So it took seven of them. It made Ober look strong from my perspective. Maybe some people disagree. If that's the best loss you could give over Family, seven F5s went through the announce table, and he looked like a monster. So I wasn't mad about it. Uh Roman Jacob, bloodline rules match, they went all through the crowd and stuff. It was cool. Roman won. Now the the interesting stuff is seeing how Jacob handles having to fall in line and Jay. That's the interesting stuff. We'll see how that plays out. We've been here before, though, but maybe it'll be a little bit different with Jacob at the being uh the guy that has to follow Roman around instead of Jay. But we we kind of seen the story before, but they you know rewrite it a little bit. We'll see how it goes. But what's your thoughts on the show as the whole?

Finish Fixes And Jade Hate

SPEAKER_01 8:56

So the first the first time, let me get on this. Um they should have had Gunther just put his foot on the ropes and not let and the referee not see it. Because you putn't you putting your foot up under the ropes, if casual wrestling fan, especially because you own ESP2, they don't know that rule. You should have you should have just had him put his foot on the ropes. Imagine. I don't with Jay doing it the next match. I don't know how great that would've looked, but that makes more sense in doing it that way than having the referee, uh, and have the referee act like he didn't see it. The Jay de Rhea situation, the Jay de Rhea match, the match was good, that ain't really what I'm talking about when it comes to that match.

unknown 9:43

J.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

Cargill gets so much dang on hate, and we know why Jake Cargill gets that so much. Everybody, everybody watches movies, right? And hell, this match, she did a good job. She did a great job. As a solo. You know what I'm saying? But every time she every time Jay Cargill makes a mistake, it's it's glorified. And you see the wrestling community online throw her under the bus saying she's not this and she's not that and she's not a great worker, and she needs to go back to training, or she needs to go be a model, or whatever the case may be. But when other people make those watches, noise ain't that loud. We know why it's that loud with Jay Cargill. We ain't gotta say why. Y'all know why. Stop with the hate. There's only there's nobody else. Besides LA Knight, because LA Knight gets a lot of hate for his watches. Nobody else gets that much hate. That's it. And J. Car gifts the EO gets the hate because one she's a woman, and the other one, y'all know why. Um the only thing I didn't like about the Ober in Brock was because simple fact he got the L5 through the table, right? Yeah, but then he got he popped up, got in the way, got another L5, and then it was over. I wish it was like a spur in an L5 to like stretch it out just a little bit. Because he pop back up. Yeah, something. I don't know, but you know, I don't know if he's the suplex over. Oba ain't no small dude. You know what I mean? And brought 305. He ain't no screen chicken. You know what I'm saying? He ain't like everything, dude. So I wish it was just a smaller team, other than at the message green. And from I like, because like you said, they didn't really bury over because it took seven of them things. So yeah, other than that, I mean Roman, we know what it is. We'll see what the solo thing is, but he already beat Roman, so why are we doing the solo thing?

SPEAKER_00 12:00

Yeah. It is what it

NFL League Year And AJ Brown

SPEAKER_00 12:04

is. Uh let's go ahead and move on over to the NFL. Uh the league year starts. You know, June 1st, new league year. Basically, you know, a lot of people gets money dropped off in their account. Uh, a lot of people, they become cheaper and easier to trade. And just so happens, a couple people traded. Now, that's one trade that we all knew was going to happen. AJ Brown to the New England Patriots. My mama knew he was getting traded to the New England Patriots, and she don't even watch an NFL. She knew it. So he got traded to the New England Patriots. How do you feel that that works out for the New England Patriots? And do you think, is it really, do you think Devontae Smith is ready to be a number one?

SPEAKER_01 12:48

I think I think Drake May needed AJ Brown. I think AJ Brown needed Drake May. They was already in the Super Bowl last year. With them already being in the Super Bowl last year, you give him a proven number one. We know what AJ Brown can do when he gets the ball. He made it very clear when he was in Philadelphia. When I get the bomb, y'all know the results. And he ain't lying. So I think it was great for Drake made, and I think it was for AJ Brown to get away from the taxes situation in Philadelphia. Charisma situation. Devontae Smith, right? AJ Brown was doing all that talking about him not being happier and him complaining about the offense and talking about Jalen Hurts. The other wide receiver did it too. AJ Brown just was louder. Yeah. So if AJ Brown was doing it last year with Devontae Smith, also doing it. Now they really gonna go to Smith and have all the microphones in the face. And I don't know if he's gonna be as nice as AJ Brown is.

SPEAKER_00 14:18

Uh no, he's not. He's not.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

You know, so Jalen Hurts might want to keep that man the ball.

SPEAKER_00 14:27

It's gonna be a little bit harder now, too. Now, hey, because honestly, I I think Devontae Smith, he was he, I think he's more talented than AJ Brown. It's just the man won a Heisman. The man won a Heisman. I think he's more talented than AJ Brown, and it showed at times, but now it's AJ Brown and Malachi Lemon. So them double teams is coming your way, Devontae Smith. I hope you're ready.

Myles Garrett To The Rams

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Speaking of somebody that's gonna be seeing a lot of double teams, uh, the man that broke the sack record last season, he you know, he finally got out of Cleveland. He was known was there, riding away in Cleveland. Now he's going to the Los Angeles realm. You texted me and was like, man, I'm not a betting man, but I'll go ahead and put some money on the rims. And I basically told you, it's like, bro, they was already top two favorite. They never number one favorite. So they hey, I ain't gonna lie, you ain't you can put some money on the rims to win it all, but you definitely ain't gonna win no money for real, for real. But Masgar to the uh Los Angeles Rams, and it shouldn't go without notice. They did trade away without obviously some picks, but they traded away uh Jed Verst a very solid player. Was a little upset to see him go. I know he was he said himself he was upset to leave LA to go to Cleveland. He is an Ohio kid, though, from Columbus, I believe. Daynor, I think he said Dayner Columbus, I think it's Dayton, but he probably didn't want to go to Ohio. He went to Florida State and he went to LA. He he was not trying to go back to that code.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

But uh you saw his face walking into the press conference. He's looking at all everybody like all right, man.

SPEAKER_00 16:17

Come on, look at this over with and also they did y'all did the Gabriel dirty, y'all did him dirty. You don't you see what happened? No, they didn't ask you for his number. Jerry Version showed up with the 8-0.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

I mean respectfully. I'm gonna play.

SPEAKER_00 16:44

But you know the thing is you use it, hey, let me toss you a couple bands for your number. Didn't even get that call. He just imagine somebody just showing up with your number. Like, damn.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

You lucky you still on the team. Like, come on, man. Yeah, let's be great. Um there. How many quarterbacks you gonna have in the room? You you lucky you still on the team. We're number seven, nine, pick a new one. We're 88. I don't care. You ain't gonna be on the field that much. The preseason. Hey, matter of fact, every preseason game gets you a different number. You know what I'm saying? Your number ain't gone. Uh well. Did you deserve it? No. But I mean, um they talking like we ain't gonna turn it, we ain't gonna turn it, we ain't gonna turn it. Yeah. St. Louis picked up.

unknown 17:48

St.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

Louis picked up the child's head. LA, LA. I mean, that's always gonna be St. Louis to me, man. But you're right, I like the realm said. I heard you. He won't be here. We gonna give you a talented, a talent, uh talented uh defensive hand as well. And we gonna get and we're gonna give you a pick.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

First round, I think they got a first, third and a fifth or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

We giving y'all that. And we giving y'all somebody that I mean, while might not break the rush, the uh sack record, we're gonna give y'all somebody that can get some sacks.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

Yeah. And he and he's young too. He's 25.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

We ain't giving y'all no slouch. So we giving y'all, yeah, we're giving y'all a cornerstone, cornerstone to build around for your future defensive end, for your future defensive line, because of the simple fact. The one that you got, you know, Mouse Garrett, he's been there for a while. You know, he's about to come to the end. We're gonna get y'all somebody young. They did him a favor. Like you said, I'll look draft picks. The LA Rams, I was about to call the same loss again. The L.A. Rams did him a solid. That makes sense. You was loyal for, same thing with Giannis. You was loyal for a long time. Ooh, you did all that you could do. Giannis won the championship. He won't win the championship in Cleveland, but he broke the sack record. So that's something, right? He he gonna be, he's gonna be their best player. Uh sorry. There's a very famous running back that I was about to disrespect. So let me let me say not their best player in history, but they second best player in history. Hey, I did y'all solid, but let me go win the championship in LA. Yeah. So I think it's I think it was a win-win for both sides.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

You never I agree, definitely was a win-win for both sides. Uh Mouse Garrett, he's gonna be playing with a lead, hopefully. But like I said, they're gonna be um they're gonna be very, very good. They're very, very scary, but potentially they could become become very, very even more scary.

What If Aaron Donald Returns

SPEAKER_00 20:00

There's a guy by the name of Aaron Donald who retired two seasons ago. He's 35. Now, obviously 35, you ain't no spring chicken. But if you look at Aaron Donald's Instagram, he's a workout machine. He's very well still in shape. Now, football shape, no. But I imagine it would take him long to get into football shape. The man Aaron Donald, he is very, very scary. He, you know, they tweeted, he's you know, people's been texting him. He pretty much said if he could find that fire, he would seriously consider joining the Rams. Now, is he gonna be Aaron Donald of Aaron Donald? Probably not. But even 75% of an Aaron Donald is probably still a top 10 defensive player of all time. Because Aaron Donald, Aaron Donald, he's top he's top three. Maybe the best defensive player of all time. So, what would it look like if Aaron Donald and Miles Gary is on the same defensive line? Because honestly, if I was an offensive lineman, I would probably retire if that happens. Especially if I played for the Cardinals, the 49ers, or the Seahawks.

SPEAKER_01 21:12

So that is scary. If you put them two monsters next to each other, you gotta call it curtains. It's holding okay, super bowl on the way. Because you get the you have the defense gonna be balling out of balling out of control, but the offense is going to up their game because of the fact they see what the defense is doing, and they keep giving them short field after short field. Oh yeah, it's curtains. You might as well go ahead and uh didn't the uh Super Bowls in So Far Stadium this year, too.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

So it's a home game.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

Yeah, if they stay healthy, you ain't gonna be able to do no type of bet. Everything gotta be quick. Everything gotta be two, two or Three step drops. You ain't gonna do any no D balls because you can't double team both of them.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

Okay. Um that's the thing. If I'm here, okay, if I'm around, since he's talking about it, I would give him a call, but I wouldn't I wouldn't ask him to come back at the beginning of the season. I wouldn't ask him to go through training camp. I wouldn't ask him to come back. You know, week week seven, week eight. You in the facility week four. Week eight, you come and play a couple snaps. Week nine, you come play a couple snaps. Through week 12, you play a couple snaps, week 13 and week 14, you unleash the beast. And even then, you only playing 75% of the snaps because of the fact we still got Mouse Garrett.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

Crazy.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

So yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't ask too much of him.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Yeah, and like I say, hey, just give me just give me some third downs, man. Just give me some third downs. We don't need much. But just and a lot of times, just his presence on the field is enough to uh it's enough to ruin any offensive uh coordinator's day.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

So that's who you gonna block. It's both both of them. Who you gonna block? You can't block both of them.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

But yeah, NFL starting to get hot and heavy. Players are about to start returning to trending camp. You guys know we'll be talking about all the news and noteworthy stuff. Um one thing I did want to ask you, I feel like we haven't talked about it much, especially when it was hot and heavy.

Caleb Williams Tries To Be Iceman

SPEAKER_00 23:35

Um Madden Cover came out, quote unquote Iceman Caleb Williams. I feel like we should have talked about this when it was starting to go out, but Caleb Williams tried to get the Iceman uh trademark. Now, some of you most of you guys probably not knowledgeable in the sports world like me and Q. But there's an Iceman already out there that play for the San Antonio Spurs. Gervin. The Iceman. Iceman George Gervin. Iceman George Gervin. Uh, I heard that he denied it, basically said, no, you can't get that uh trademark. How'd you feel? How do you feel about that, uh, Caleb? I I don't blame him for trying to get it, but how do you feel about Caleb trying to get the Iceman trademarked?

SPEAKER_01 24:26

I don't blame him for trying to get it, but I also don't blame George Garvin being like, well, I've been the Iceman before you was born. Quit playing with me. You know what I'm saying? Oh look, I'm getting older. Old man get off my line. Man, I've been doing this longer than you've been born. Quit playing with me. No, you can't have it. Go call yourself something else. Uh I don't I don't know what you're gonna come up with. Figure it out. You better put it in chat GPT, quit playing with me.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

Also bad on uh George Iceman Gurvin that he didn't already have at trademark. You should have been to have that. I mean, I know you had it back in the what the 70s. Yeah, but you you you should have you probably should have done that a long time ago, though. I'm just saying, but uh Taylor Williams, he's still calling himself the Iceman. That's the nickname he's giving himself. I like it, especially since you're in a cold city like Chicago, soon to be the Indiana Bears. But um, I like it. You just ain't got the trademark, and you're not gonna have the trademark. Sorry. Shout out to the Iceman George Gervin.

Stanley Cup Check In

SPEAKER_00 25:30

But speaking of Ice, the Stanley Cup is going on at right now as we speak. The Golden Knights versus the Hurricanes. Uh right now, the um the Golden Knights have a one-game lead over the Hurricanes. How are you feeling about this uh Stanley Cup so far?

SPEAKER_01 25:52

So the LA um well, not LA.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Las Vegas.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

Las Vegas Kings. I mean next to them up. Los Lakes Kings with them sweeping last round. It's not surprising to me that they already up, they up 1-0 in the series, then one up 1-0 in this current game that we're watching.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Uh-oh, 2-0, 2-0.

SPEAKER_01 26:11

2-0, sorry. Sorry, 2-0. It was 1-0 before I looked. You just said that my bed. Um it's not surprising, but the Kings was the Kings was following. You know what I'm saying? The cup, the the few hockey games I had watched in the Stanley Cup playoffs was the Carolina Hurricanes. My uncle asked me uh on Facebook, he was like, man, who you going with? Who you pulling for? You know, I got tired, I got ties to Carolina, so I'm of course I was gonna go with Carolina. And Carolina came out in and won their last series in. Like I said, I wasn't surprised by that because they have been playing well throughout this Stanley Cup playoffs. We don't know much about hockey over here. But the games I watch, I'm gonna finish, I'm gonna watch this game once we finish it and I'm gonna watch the game, the rest of the series. I want it to go long just like I want the NBA playoffs to go long. But if Las Vegas is winning, you know, two on the road already, and they going home. Now I know hockey is different. You can win on the other opponent's ice. They do it all the time, they do it often over. But it's something to say if they end up going up 2-0 and then end home. But we shall see, like I said, we currently our game two is currently going on as a recording. So we gotta get we gotta give the NHL some love. We ain't, you know what I'm saying? They done went through the whole playoffs. We ain't talked about it too much, so we gotta we gotta give them a little love. I want the Carolina Canes to pull it out, but we shall see.

SPEAKER_00 27:41

Yeah, especially because they got the best trophy in all the sports. We talked about it before. Um the lore behind that thing, crazy. Absolutely crazy. But yeah, we'll we'll be talking about it a little bit more as the series goes on, especially since they're in the Stanley Cup finals. Uh, speaking of finals, we might as well talk about the NBA finals, but before we talk about the two current teams, we talked about Cleveland,

OKC’s Game Seven Wake Up

SPEAKER_00 28:05

whatever. It's time to talk about OKC that lost in game seven to the San Antonio Spurs. I was a little shocked. I didn't know the San Antonio Spurs was ready for prime time like that to win on Game 7 on the Fending Champs floor, but they did. But also, if you think about where we were talking about, what, about two months into the NBA season, month and a half into the NBA season, OKC was on a historical run. And I sat here on this podcast and said, if you Sam Prested, you don't do nothing but sit back and watch your team and watch the Fruits for your labor. Because we're talking about they should get Giannis. That's when they was on a historical run, potentially trying to get to 74 wins. Obviously, the bottom fell out. Sam Preston did end up doing a little something-something against Jeremy Kane, which was a great get. It helped him out in the playoffs, not quite enough. But as we got into the end of the playoffs and they had been eliminated, my thoughts have flipped completely different, especially considering some of these players, the big pay tech day is coming here soon. In fact, some of them you didn't play or absolutely didn't show up. So I feel like you might, you might gotta do some wholesale changing in OKC. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

I feel like J Dub. I feel like J Dub is the best trade out because you have AJ Mentry right there making making far less money than what J Dub. Like you said, J Dub's contract is about to his attention kicks in that year. The real the crazy the crazy money. When you got a player that might not be as good, but that's right there, as well as the other depth that you have on this roster, you could afford to let J Dub go because you know it's might not it might have just been this year and looked at last year as well with the injuries, but you gotta start looking at the amount of money in the salary count. I know everybody's gonna say Trey Chan.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

His stock low though. His stock is low.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

Here's the thing with Trey Chan. Seven foot one and got skilled. Yeah, he looked bad in game seven offensively. Defensively, he wasn't that bad. He was petrified in game seven offensively. He did he basically got bitched towards the end of the game. He probably should have got bitched earlier because he he what it's like he he wasn't aggressive. That's how it was. I don't know if he was scared or he just wasn't aggressive. Either way, you know J Dub is out, you the third best player, you really the second best player, you gotta play like it. You gotta have you gotta have that urgency. It's game seven. You gotta wanna. But the problem is you can't you can't you can't trade hype because you can't teach like it. He already got it. You gotta skill. You you have to keep track. Like you said, the stock is low, but you're still gonna be able to get something for it. They still got two, they still got two first-round draft picks in this day on trade. You give them all this day on draft picks, but I think you have to consider tracking. Well, not considered, let me rephrase that. I think you have to trade track. And it's only because it's money. With the new aprons and then these first round draft picks, but they probably gonna have to trade away and kick those down the road anyway, package them for a better first-round draft thing later. It's only so much money to go around, and you gotta feel like the rest of the roster, especially like uh Lou Dor is a free agent. You need to bring him back because he he got goon. Wherever, you know what I'm saying? He the goon, he the bully on the team, because ain't nobody else gonna do that type of work. So you gotta keep Dork. Y'all damn the family. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

Yeah, I I I don't disagree with you. I'm which people you're right. You definitely gotta trade um, you gotta trade J Dub, you gotta re-sign uh Lou Dork. The chat thing is just weird. Like you you probably need to keep him. I just don't think there's much. You gotta see what he looks like to start the next season because people were describing that playoff game seven as the the I don't remember what game it was, but but basically that game last time Ben Simmons looked like something and he meant he just passed up that easy layup to Pastor Joe Hill. They're describing it like that. Now, if that's the case, if that's gonna be something like that, because after that, Ben Simmons was never the same. Never shot the ball again, it seems like.

SPEAKER_01 33:02

Like I said, Trey Hype. There's a 75 monster that they just lost to, right? I know it didn't look like it in this series, but there's only one, there's one person who really should be able to match up with him, and it is Chad. Don't get me wrong, we're gonna get to Cat. Cat looked like it a little bit, but the one person who, well, let me take it back. Evan Mowgli should be able to match up with him as well. He's a little bit short, he's like 6'11, but still, he should be able to match up with him as well. Them are the two people that should be able to match up versus Big Vic. What Chet needs to do is go home every day and look at this poster on the wall of Big Vic blocking his shot when he was falling to the ground. Because Victor Wendy Alma hates Chet. He thought it was a two-way round. It's not, it's a one-way round. Chet needs to make it a two-way round. He needs to he need to learn to hate that man so it can fuel him when they play.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

You're right. Well, I hope you're right. I hope it happens. Uh good luck, Chet. You got you gotta deal with that 7-5 monster for a long time.

Knicks Vs Spurs Finals Predictions

SPEAKER_00 34:17

But right now, the New York Knicks is having to deal with that 7-5 monster. They did very well in game one, getting a 10-point victory, a 105 to 95 victory. I was watching that game. Got a little sleepy at the end, so I kind of missed a little bit of the fourth quarter, but I was keeping up with it on my phone as I was in bed. I'm looking like, damn, San Antonio was up. They just the New York Knicks just went crazy. 13 points from Jalen Burston in the fourth. So, I mean, I had San Antonio in six, but I mean, I can't I cannot say that the way the Knicks winning that game didn't discourage me a little bit. It did discourage me a little bit. What about you?

SPEAKER_01 34:58

Last first seven. Um I thought they was gonna win game seven on the road. What this game did was remind me of, because you know, we ain't we ain't seen the Knicks in a while.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

Yeah, it's been a minute.

SPEAKER_01 35:13

Because they made Cleveland quit game three. So we ain't like game four, it was on in the it was on, but I ain't really paying attention to it that much because that's how y'all quit game three. Why am I watching game four? I already know what the outcome is. Um what it reminded me was that New York City hasn't been playing the best basketball in this playoffs. I was talking to uh, you know, Mr. Bass family quad, his Knicks fan, and I said, it's like New York something clicked in that first round series. They was like, everybody's about to get fired, boy. We struggling against the Hawks. You know, the team that makes the play-in every year since it was invented, we struggling against CJ McCollum, the person that me and you thought was gonna be in uh Houston Rocket at some point this season. Yeah, you need to balling for the Hawks in New York, going basket for basket with uh Mr. Brunson. It's like they looked in the mirror and said, nah, we're not losing to him. We're not gonna struggle against him. And then it's like they it woke him up for the rest of the playoffs. It's at least what it feels like. It woke him up for the rest of the playoffs.

SPEAKER_00 36:30

But I just know, even though they you get it, they are the hottest team that won 12 straight. I think Celtio is still the uh better team, the more talented team they are younger. But we'll we'll see. I I am a little worried now, but game two is now, it's not a I don't consider it a must-win. You know, the aliens ain't got the their finger on the death beam if you lose this game, but you probably you probably should win this game.

SPEAKER_01 36:57

Yes, you definitely should win this game. But I think they're gonna win this game because of the fact De Aaron Fox and uh they played bad. Like Wibby put up 20 points, but he was like three or twenty or four or twenty one or something, something like some crazy stuff like that. And then Aaron Fox didn't play good as well. They played well. And then they didn't play Harper, they played Harper like 24, 28 minutes, something like that. He should he should have been playing like 36, 37 minutes ago. Because simple fact, I was listening to Bontemps, and he said Harper's their second best player. And when he said it, I kind of know he ain't. And I was like, I've been thinking about it because I knew he was gonna do the pie, and I knew I was gonna say that. And when the Spurs win, he is their second best player. If you think about the games that they won, especially in this OKC series, the games that they won, Arthur was their second best player because he he gets to the he gets in the paint, he draws everybody, and if they don't, if they don't come in, he scores the match. He can he makes it he can create his own shot as well, set up on the other team, uh teammates. And with him being being a second best player, uh what is that?

SPEAKER_00 38:29

Yeah, Julian Champagne.

SPEAKER_01 38:36

When Marco gets into the fame, that creates wide open shots for him. Once he gets rolling, oh, that dude be a marksman, you hear me? Once he gets rolling with them threes, you it's hard to beat them. Yeah. Because Stefan Castle sometimes gets in his head. The f them hard foul calls, he be he'd be driving with Stephanie. Yeah, that's the thing. When Fox was playing, when Fox came back, he didn't have to dribble as much. He played, he, you know what I'm saying? He played better. And gang without Fox, we're had like 12 turnovers. Fox came back, he had five for like the rest of the five for the next three games. It's easier when you got like an actual point guard. That's why If you know Fox is hurt, so we don't want to bag on Fox too much. But he played bad. That's why Fox needs to take some of those minutes.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Yeah, because Fox missed some shots that he normally don't miss, like point blank shots. I'm like, dang, you fox just don't miss them, floaters. I mean, and I you you posted a couple games ago. I forgot which game it was. Fox won them a couple games, won them a game against OKC. So we'll we'll see what it's looking like. It's just game one. It's early. We'll see what happens. It's a seven-game series. I'm looking forward to it. Sports fan in me wants to see seven. I think it'll go to six. Q's gotta go in seven, but we'll

Wrap Up And Listener Question

SPEAKER_00 40:05

see. Uh, but that'll do it for another episode of from my perspective. Glad you guys could join us. Appreciate you guys once again. Go ahead, like, go up, subscribe. In the comment section below, please tell us who you got in your main followers. You got the San Antonio Spurs or do you got the New York Knicks? If the New York Knicks win, I pray for the Statue of Liberty because that thing might end up underwater. Just saying. But uh go ahead, like, subscribe, leave a comment section who you think will win the finals. Go ahead to that link and get you some merch. I'm your boy Dion. Q go ahead and take us home.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

Man, you already know the passage, your boy, Mr. Bale. AKA say you'll never gonna spot. You might not put you tomorrow. We'll catch y'all on the next one. Y'all be easy.