Straight Fire - Day One of March Madness, More Sports Media Beef & 'The Great White Hope' Cooper Flagg

Published Mar 21, 2025, 9:00 AM

On today’s episode, Jason discusses his biggest takeaways from day one of the NCAA Tournament, previews the Saturday slate of March Madness action from a wagering perspective, why a certain Las Vegas-area sports radio host seems to have it out for him and how big of a deal it is that Duke superstar – and potential Face of the NBA - Cooper Flagg happens to be white.  

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What is up Straight firefight, Am, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight Fire for Friday. I guess March twenty first. Oh man, it's a late late night here in the McIntire household. Day one of the NCAA tournament is over. It's way past one am on the East Coast, and I'm recording with Rob G. It's a special one for Rob G folks, big big news on the podcast front. Rob G obviously just had a young baby. Congrats to that to him and his wife. They now are a foursome with two little kids. And now he's getting paternity leave and we're not gonna have Rob G for six weeks. Little Bro's not gonna be back until the NBA playoffs. Oh my gosh. So you know Rob G and I are gonna chop it up.

Well.

I want to do a lot of NCAA tournament, but I do want him to fire off some NBA takes that we can bring back in six weeks and throw in his face and be like, damn, dude, you called it. You know, like how we've been riding the Austin Reeves train. I mean goodness, gracious. Austin reefs sits out. Lakers get blasted by thirty. I mean they also sat out Luca, but you know whatever, Austin reason is out, so we'll do that. And NCAA tournament. It's weird because first day of the tournament there were just not a lot of upsets. I mean, you look, it was chalk City blowout city, with the exception of mcnee's State taking down Clemson. Have to shout out Franfracchilla. I clipped it off and put it on Instagram and Twitter. Fran Fricilla said, McNee State, watch out. They they can hang with clems that and take him down. They led and nearly blew it, and that was really the only upset. And I confess rob G of course, has got very excited to brag about his brackets, and I basically I haven't even looked at the brackets. He told me in the Fox Sports Radio one. He's like, I'm so happy I'm ahead of you. I was like, oh, how am I doing. He's like, I think you're in the It's like I didn't even know that. I don't check brackets until Friday night, you know. First round. My daughter legit text from school. Dad. Oh my goodness, Clemson lost. I had them going into the sweet sixteen, and I'm just like, ah, kids are the best. Yeah, I'm looking around. Yeah I had money. Many people had Clemson doing things. But as you guys know, we had McNee State in the Calcutta So we're fired up. And this is where it gets crazy. I don't know if you guys have looked at lines for Saturday's games yet. Mcnee's State is I believe a is there one point?

No, I'm sorry.

There's six point underdogs against Perdue. And I didn't think Purdue looked great. Mcnee's State was just they're not gonna sneak up on Purdue. Purdue did not look amazing in their open or. They got the win and cover, but they didn't like blow them out. It wasn't like soup the nuts, just an ass kicking. So I think Mindee State is live for a possible upset in round two on Saturday. Since the game were not amazing. My guys, Oh, the Tritons UCSD awesome comeback, best player fouls out of like nine minutes left. They got a terrible whistle. But I'm not gonna complain if you got three, you got the cover. If you got two and a half, you did not, which kind of sucks. Oh you got the push. I'm sorry to push at three because Michigan's kid made two free throws with like got ten seconds left. That was a good game. Texas Tech got a scare. But here are here. Well we'll go through the well. Lets you do Friday, lineup really quickly Friday and I'm still making plays now. These eight nine games felt like toss ups, right, Louisville Creighton toss up and no, Creighton made every shot. So now we get some decent games. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that this New Mexico Marquette game, it seems like there's shirt money coming in on New Mexico. Keep an eye on New Mexico possibly winning out right. Marquette remember lost to Michigan State recently in the I think a couple of years ago in the tournament, Shaka Smarts had his first round issues. I like New Mexico money line as an upset there. I do like Saint Mary's against Vanderbilt. By the way, the SEC did not look totally dominant. Could have been reading their own clippings. I like Saint Mary's to take down Vandy. I do like North Carolina against Mississippi. We talked about that one. I like Xavier against Illinois. I think if you're looking for upsets among the high seeds, keep an eye on Kentucky. They could be in some trouble. I don't find anybody talking about Liberty, so naturally, I'm gonna say I don't know much about Liberty. Keep an eye as well as Akron possibly throwing a scare in Grand Canyon. Who knows, we'll see, but listen, it's not the worst thing in the world. Guys. If we don't get upsets, that means we get a good teams playing against each other and real quick before Rob does a victory lap for being top five or whatever in the Fox Sports radio pool. After sixteen games, here are the lines for Saturday. So Perdue is looks like Purdue McNeice is the early game. Ooh, spicy, Purdue six point favorites. I would take a look at me these state There are the games in order here, damn it? Or is per I can't tell if Purdues the last game? Any no, no, Perdue the first game. And let's see here we got Auburn is a nine point favorite against Creighton. I don't think Crayton's gonna stay as hot as they were in the opener, but if they do, Auburt, it'll be in trouble. Albert did not look sharp. Tennessee four and a half point favorites against UCLA. Houston Gonzaga is a great game. Gonzaga looked unbelievable. They let Georgia twenty seven to three. I like Houston in that one, b YU getting one against Wisconsin. I'm on BYU in that one. A and M minus two against Michigan. Nothing on that one one, two, three, four or five six. And then I guess I don't see the other lines for the other two games. So Texas Tech will be let me hit the old refresh button. Yeah, nothing on Texas Tech yet. But yeah, so that's the lineup. So rob g I know you're excited. You're probably celebrating with a bunch of booze. You're going on six I can't. I don't know what I would do for six weeks. And interestingly, when when you know my kids were born over a decade, slightly over a decade ago, I didn't get paternally because I was working at the website and it was like, I can still blog occasionally. What are you gonna do for six weeks?

My man? That is the question that everybody seems to be asking me, because even I don't know. Now, obviously, you know, you got to do the daddy dudies. You got to take care of the baby and hopefully that she develops the way you want her to. That's number one.

Yeah, but they're sleeping a lot.

Yeah, that's sort of. But what I've found that I've been on the internet's about a lot about this. There are a lot more things you can do than you would expect. Like one of them is I like to golf. You know, we've talked about this. No you can. I'm not saying I will, but I'm not saying I won't. Either, put the kid behind you on the golf cart, you know, in that little basket, put some headphones on so she doesn't really freak out. I can get nine holes in with the baby way, why not?

Why not maybe the driving range? Dude, you can't have a baby crying on a golf course.

That's why you get didn't fall asleep, That's why the whiz of the golf cart or fall asleep. No, I don't know. I don't know what I'm gonna do.

I tell you what, Like you're gonna drive your wife crazy?

Probably, Probably that's a good thing you could hit the Jim Hart. Yeah, I can like get on my healthcare because I can actually cook food every day. I have to worry about eating out or rushing from.

Are you still doing that health contest with the guys on fire?

I mean technically we are, but really like everyone's kind of falling off, except for Rob Parker. Like Rob Parker for all of his faults, and he'll tell you this too, And when he wants to lock in on something, few people can lock in better than him. Now, the diet that he's on is basically the act is like no carbs whatsoever. And the food he's eating is not what I would consider healthy, like getting you know, cheese slices and a piece of ham with mayo just on it is not like a healthy snack. But because the fuck is doing that, Rob Parker? But because there's no carbs, you know, wait's gonna fly off you going back to this this tournament situation. I'm not gonna gloat that I'm beating you. Because you know, to be going on, everyone's beating you at this point. J Mac and I think that this is what makes March Madness, especially Day one of the tournament, easily the greatest day in sports. It's three reasons. Number One, it's all day, so if you live in a LA on the West Coast like we do, from nine am to ten pm, there is basketball on. It's not always riveting basketball, but there's basketball on. Number Two, it's a one and done format. No matter what the sport, competition, game, video game, whatever it is that you're doing. When it's one and done, emotions are heightened. Everything seems to be better. If every NBA Playoff game was a Game seven. I promise you, you and I have any conversation about the TV ratings being down, everybody would lock in to see a game seven and every round was a game seven. And Third, I think this is the most important thing. If you look at this, you know, bracket challenge that we're doing through Fox Sports Radio, You of the people of the talent side that no college basketball. I can say confidently that you and Aaron Torres are the most knowledgeable people that we have when it comes to college basketball and that's including Doug Golge just because you know Doug coaches college. We had them on the show, and I'm sure Doug's plugged in. But the reality is, when you are a college basketball coach plus a radio show host, it's very difficult to follow it to the extent that you can, and Torres can, some other guys can because you just have more time on your hands. Having said that, Jason McIntyre only got eight out of sixteen in his BRACKETO great, not great. Aaron Torres got eleven at a sixteen in his bracket. You know who's leading the charge for Fox Sports Radio?

Uh oh oh, yeah, I know the answer to this, So I'll let you say.

Friend of the podcast, Steve Hartman went a perfect sixteen for sixteen. That to me is illustrative of why people love March badness. You have guys like you paralysis by analysis. You know almost too much about these teams. Steve Hartman is a casual college basketball fan. He happens to know a little bit because his show on the weekends is on during college basketball season. But there are other names ahead of you. You know, Rich Davis, Steve Cavino, Carmen Vitali. Carmen's great. I don't know how much college basketball Carmen's watching, but Carmen is killing it in the pick him because you can go by feeling. You can say, hey, historically twelve beats to five, so this is gonna be the twelve that I roll with. You know what, I've heard of this school before, So I'm gonna make a run. And I'm gonna say that McNeice because they dropped me in a state. I like that they dropped the state. So I think that it's gonna be like a burden off their shoulders. They're gonna get to the round of sixteen. And so anybody can enter a pool, enter a bracket, have some kind of competition with their buddies and their coworkers, and feel like they're invested in it. You don't have to be a hoops mavin. And honestly, if you are a hoops mavin, it's probably gonna work against you. Full disclosure. I was gonna copy a bracket from J. Billis. When I was filling out mine, I was like, Hey, I don't know enough college ball. Let me get let me see what Billis is doing. J Billis knows ball. Ja Billis also picked the highest rated team. I think through the first three rounds. He just said, whoever was the highest rated in the bracket, that's who was gonna advance. And I'm like, you know what, I don't know a lot about college basketball, but I can promise you the higher seed is not gonna win every game. And that's kind of what it is. And I think people at their your base level, at your core level, it's something that everybody can relate to. It's like, hey, we're just kind of broadly picking teams with our buddies, and I think it's why people rejoice when it comes to March madness.

Oh hell yeah.

So you know it's cool. I'm gonna I'm gonna you know, I'm not gonna gloat, but now I'm gonna enjoy being ahead of you by three picks through day one of the bracket.

I'm just gonna say that. So while you tell me who you got today, let me grab the three brackets I have off the printer. Let me see if they did better than eight for sixteen.

I'm sure they did. I'm sure they did, because you know, when you have twenty eight brackets, that's kind of the problem. Just looking here at my bracket here. Of course, I got Auburn. I got Auburn going all the way to the national championship and I'm winning the whole thing. I've got North Carolina making a little run to the sweet sixteen. I got Iowa State, I got Marquette, I got Michigan State and Izzoe because you know, Izzo's always going to be in the sweet sixteen, you know, nothing crazy. I think the craziest thing that I have going looking at my bracket here, if you can call it, that would be Colorado State. And that's only because the twelve five is such a par for the course big that that just happened to be the one that I decided to roll with this week.

Yeah, I can see why I did poorly. I'm seeing that I had lit you know, I do some of these wacky brackets, so I'm like, yeah, give me Yale, UCSD, you know, and Louisville and that right there is a absolute crap dumpster fire. I did have Clemson going far in a couple, but here's one with the Bees. Yeah, you know, I'm kind of all over the place. Oh, here's my Fox Sports radio. When I finally printed it, yeah, some some clunkers there.

But that's the problem is you actually know these teams and you're not just blindly picking like the rest of us. You're like, hell, so you know, this team is great on the defensive glass, this team has a faster pace. I think this is going to go this way, and it's like that it doesn't. If that was the case, if it was really about finding the best teams, this tournament would not be number one sixty what is sixty eight teams now?

Yeah?

Right? And number two it would it would be not be single elimination because this inherently makes it so that you don't find the best team. You find the team that just happened to get hot at the right time or had the right matchup.

Yeah, I'll say this. I thought UCSC got a horrible whistle, and I might have said that earlier, but I just needed to repeat myself. I'm looking at the box score. Their best player barely could play because he ended up fouling out battling Michigan inside. Anyways, I'm over it.

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I should also add, you know, and nobody really cares about this. So we played in a Mensleau championship. The guy arguably our best player, this guy who who actually is like a basketball trainer, trains Jack zach Lavine Bogdanovich. He had thirty six in the season opener against the guys who played in the championship. Last night. He couldn't play because he's injured, and it's super nice guy, but like he was out, I was out. We had two other guys who tore the meniscus again. We got a team of old dudes and this going guy's young and we just ran into a buzzsaw and you know, they went back to back the opponents. I will just say, Rob, maybe I need to ask for some advice here. I don't think the guy's gonna listen, so I'll go ahead and say it. So the two best players on the other team, we become friendly with them. We brought them into our other league. One of them is six' seven and you, know he's just unstoppable. Inside our guy did a great job on, him who he had never. Faced he'd never they'd never met, before and their big, guy the guy six, seven scored like an and, one and there was like a bump right and he had just got a technical for slamming the ball down like two like a minute. Earlier so the two big guys collide and then nobody like moved to separate, them AND i guess words were. Exchange and the other big, guy this guy WHO I i become friends. WITH i text him he plays in the other league with, us squared up like he was ready to fight against a guy on our team Who i've known for many, years former college football quarterback at the high level. Program he's, like what are you? Doing and they ejected the other, guy and Like, ROB i saw, That i'm, like what are you doing squaring up to fight in a men's league. Game it's LIKE i don't even know the guy AND i don't know how to talk to him. Anymore LIKE i saw, THAT i was, like you can't be. Serious what's the? Move what DO i?

SAY i?

MEAN I our guys on our team were like did that just?

Happen it's, like, dude, THERE i, Mean i'm assuming since your friendly before, this there must be something else going outside of basketball that has him home.

That's what the referee. Said guys Like i've seen guys do that and they were, like, oh it had a rough day with the. Girlfriend oh, Man, yeah BUT i JUST i was just disappointed in him And. Sam if you're, listening, dude that was weak. Shit, anyways let's quickly wrap up Before rob goes on his six week sojour and oh my, god six. WEEKS i think you're gonna get.

Bored.

Rob IF i whoever want to parachute on as a, guest sure you know someone like big Big laker game or whatever you want to, whatever big news with your with Your. Raiders by the, Way Raider nation hates. Me, oh great opportunity before we go uh to THE nba And Steph curry's. Injury Uh So rob has mentioned this guy. BEFORE i gotta be, HONEST i don't know who he. Is if he delivered a door a pizza to my, DOOR i wouldn't know. Him this guy NAMED jt The. Brick, Yes rob g knows him and like has done. SO i guess you've worked with him.

Before, Yes i've.

Never never been on a, show never work with. HIM i don't know who he is or what he looks. Like but apparently he's been around. Forever so, Again i'm on The i'm on the internet less a lot during these games Because i'm you, know gambling in real. Time AND i GUESS i missed, This but like two days, ago DOES. Jt the brick guy saw me say something about The raiders ON, tv clips it off and tries to embarrass me AND i, joked and it should have been obvious that it was, Sarcasm, rob BUT i was, like how old is The raiders?

Coach eighty two years?

Old oh my, Gosh Pete Carroll Ball AND i said something and this guy clips it off and is like this update guy couldn't even have the time to Research Pete carroll's. Age he doesn't even know he's seventy? Six what's he doing ON? Tv And i'm, like, wait, really you THOUGHT i was? Serious you don't THINK i have the ability to look up somebody's birthdate and say it LIKE i, thought eighty two is AN nfl? Coach like ha, Ha maybe next, Time, ROB i need to say ninety seven year Old Pete carroll so you get the Freakin'. Joe but, LIKE i don't, know did you see the? Post are you friends WITH. Jt should we try to get him on the.

Pot i'll tell, YOU i don't THINK jaz would come on the. Pod Oh i'll say. It i'll say it now because you KNOW jt Is he's j anyone Knows jay.

Is that one of your?

Boys at one point he was do you text?

Him not?

Anymore SO jt the album to really pull the curtain back. Here SO jt The. BRICK i work with him on the overnights way back in the, day and actually my first boxing pay per view broadcast were with, him and so he lives In, vegas showed us a night. Time we had a great time before The Odd. Couple when it was Then brussard And parker got that weekday. Slot that slot belonged TO jt The brick and he got dumped for those guys BECAUSE i was the. Producer he decided apparently THAT i am no longer his, friend and he unfollowed me on social, media all these social media, accounts AND i was, like, well that's kind of petty considering this, dude it's, like you, know in his fifties at this, point you, know, like what are? You what are we doing? Here and then BECAUSE i still follow BECAUSE i didn't have any issue with, him SO i was gonna be, Like, Hey i'm gonna you uno follow. ME i want to follow. You blah blah. Blah made the whole. THING i. NOTICED jt is one of those guys who loves taking, power massive aggressive shots at other sports media, members specifically you And. Colin, oh for, whatever for, REASONS i have no, Idea i've never asked him About, AGAIN i GUESS i haven't talked to him really in depth in, however what seven, eight nine? Years, oh he looks, angry but he has this issue with you And colin THAT i do not. Understand And i'm still good friends with What the guy who coast to this, Podcast tom Lu tomlin's a great guy game my, wedding and Even looney is, like, YEAH i don't know what it is like you would think that he has a good job with The. Raiders he's doing stuff with serious export works with The, Raiders, like, oh well that makes.

Sense He's it's, like.

You, know that's. Cool you know that he he should be, happy and for whatever, reason he has like this personal vendetta AGAINST fs one employee, specifically but more directly. You and there's something about you And colin that he just does not like and rather than tag you guys or do something, directly he's real good with The twitter sniping and the sniping and you, know the snide comments rather than addressing it. DIRECTLY i don't know what it.

Is, yeah so you, know, listen how DO i say this? Politely one way to get your name out there if your star is fading AND i don't know this, guy SO i don't know if it. Is but if you say he got bumped for these other guys, whatever uh is to take shots at the guys at the. Top, yeah and Currently colin as the number one radio show In. AMERICA i happened to be on. It i've helped, IT i. THINK i, mean our ratings are way up from what it was like five years, ago so you know we're at the. Top that's a good way take take some. Swings so he's a Big raiders, guy works for The. RAIDERS i just had that tiff With Max, crosby and AGAIN i just ALL i said Was Max crosby is not a top five edge rusher in the. LEAGUE a lot of people that Are raiders fans got angry with, me and we're, like what are you talking about and, AGAIN i, Mean, rob we could go through. It. UH i know You're raiders fans and it is probably, Unfair but Like Micah parsons Or Max, crosby they, say toss Up crosby's, YOU i don't, Know Ada, Hutchison Miles, GARRETT. Tj. Watt who else AM i? Missing there's two?

Others, well WHEN i saw your list the first, time because when you first said, IT i was, like that's, crazy BECAUSE i Think Max crosby's. GREAT i think he's he's he, IS i, think but it's not a slight, Right so to, me he's like either the best or like top. Two with Like top, TWO i think he's that good of defense event for a number of. Reasons but then you put your list out and it's, like even IF i disagree with, it it's not egregious because you don't, realize you, know, casual until. It it's like we talked about, before when people do their all TIME Nba top, ten it's, like, Oh i'm gonna Put Steph, Curry i'm gonna Put, Jokich i'm gonna Put Kevin. Durant, Okay well who you taking? Off that's what it comes down To so IF i say or, oh, bo what if you say both like not like the, Healthy i'm not gonna fight you over.

It.

Now i'm gonna SAY i Prefer Max. Crosby but it's.

Like, hendrickson who led the league in A i DON'T i don't. Know it's getting double teamed all the time because they have nobody else to.

Know bright spot on their, defense and it's like it's it's not the most Agree it's not like you're out here, saying, Oh Malcolm kotz is better Than Max, crosby you, know like it's the defensive end position in THE nfl is one of the glamour positions right.

Now but, Sadly, rob you know HOW i. Operate if somebody tells ME i can't do, something, Well i'm a petty bitch And i'm gonna do. It and if someone's, like, well why are you so mean about this? Team, oh Well i'm gonna continue to be mean because it gets under your skin in f. You so maybe that Maybe i'm being a little petty and, silly BUT i don't. KNOW i just felt like bringing that up BECAUSE i know you you MENTIONED jt The brick. BEFORE i guess he was, listen there's gonna be a day where there's a hot radio show on the up come, up and Whatever i'm on is going to be on the. Downswing and that's. Life you, know you just roll with the.

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LIVE i guess we could wrap. Up Cooper flag is taking the court today For. Duke he is. ACTIVE i don't know if he's going to be on a. MINISTER i don't know why he's even. Playing maybe if you want to warm him up and have him set the, BENCH i think that's probably the best. Strategy but there is a narrative out there That Cooper flag could save THE ncaa. Tournament then he could be the number one pick and you, know maybe be the face of the, league could be that star that THE, nba The american homegrown star that the league is dying. For and then you could take it a step further and, say, Well Cooper flag is, white and who are the most recent best white players in the. League, well you could go With, luca but He's, slovenian and you could go With, jokic but He's. Serbian you could Go Steve, nash He's. Canadian you could go who? Else we Got Larry? Bird do you have to go all the way back to Freaking Larry? BIRD i, Mean dirk Was, german Not. American so it's been like forty years since we've had like a really Great american white guy in the. League you could Say John stockton all you. Want he was always a second banana on his, Team SO i don't really think he. Qualifies Kevin love was In minnesota and was a stat pattern and then he, goes you, know to the you, know calvs With lebron and did win a, title but in no, way shape or form would see the best player on his team that was ever in the. Playoffs SO i don't think you could say he was like a potential white star In. America Cooper flag could be not only face of the, league but like a humongous white star in a Predominantly African american. League and then you toss in the current political climate and you're, like, oh you know you're gonna start Hearing i'm just putting it out there, now you guys can clip this off if you want and save it and make fun of me or pat me on the. Back AND i don't know eight Months Cooper flag could save THE. NBA nba ratings are. Sheesz come, on nobody who watches THE nba the narrative. Online by the, WAY nba. RATINGS i saw that they've been so good With luca in the last month that they're now. Flat they're not down year over, Year so you're gonna start seeing. This, oh, look ratings are. Up it's because Of Cooper, flag and you're going to start to see the same thing that we saw With Caitlin. Clark, oh the only reason people watch THE wnba Is Caitlin, clark the only. Reason that's the only reason ratings are. Up and there's interest because Of Kitlin, clark who's a white, star because we're this stupid part of the political climate where every single thing becomes politicized and, polarized AND nba clearly. POLARIZING i don't feel that, way but there's a lot of people out there who do you, know half the country voted for one, guy the other half voted for the. Other when it comes to president half the. COUNTRY i don't like THE. Nba the other. HALF i love, it you, Know AND i, Wonder, rob do you See cooper? Flag assuming, emerges they win the title Of duke number one, pick he goes to The bulls or The hornets With LaMelo Or? Washington could he revive THE nba from a black white standpoint?

One assuming he is as good as, advertised because WHEN i watch him, PLAY i think he's something similar To Paolo, bancaro just in terms of the. Physicality he's not as girthy As, polo but he. Plays he plays a lot of the same. Style he's a more athletic than you, think and you, know but we'll see how he develops he gets to the. League as far as him being, WHITE i think it would be disingenuous to say that it flat out does not. MATTER i think to your point About Kaitlyn, Clark Kaitlyn clark is. Great Kayln clark is. Awesome we've talked about her on this podcast for years. Now the reality is the best player in THE wnba Is Asia wilson and has Been Asia wilson for Something i'm now In. Vegas, yes But Caylen clark plays a unique brand of. Basketball she shoots it Like Steph, curry he isn't you? Good, well she actually plays more Like Trey young Than Steph. Curry you're gonna play that. Game but because she is a white girl From, iowa that kind of stuff gravitates to a certain segment of the country that helped propel her to even further. SUPERSTARDOM i think you could absolutely see the same thing happen With Cooper. Flag. Now the problem with it, though is, AGAIN i think he's very good And Palo bancaro is a Borderline All star. Player so me saying that that's WHY i think he's like, that that's a.

Compliment, well if he's if he's, HEALTHY i think he's better than Borderline All star. BOY i would say borderline all end be.

Sure, Sure but like you, KNOW i don't think anyone if you Say Palo bancaro because he's Not Lebron James lucadanci like they assume that he's not a great he's not a really GOOD nba, player which he. Is so the problem though with with that That Cooper flag has working against him is you there hasn't been any really White american superstars in THE nba Since Larry. Bird if you want to Count Kevin, love you want to count like this is very short. List the, problem, though is when there are so few guys that look like. Him when people make comparisons For Cooper, flag they're always gonna go back To Larry. Bird they're always gonna go back To johnstar or whoever your guy is in that. Position Remember Adam morrison played Like Larry.

Bird oh, yeah.

WHEN i watched, HIMLAD i didn't see. Anything it looked Like Larry. Bird but he goes white and he had a wispy. Mustache SO i guess that you know what it. Is and if you don't believe. Me Jim beheim did an interview on a podcast about a month. Ago this was his exact quote About Cooper. FLAG i think he's almost to Me bird like a little, bit except he's, quicker, faster more. Athletic he doesn't shoot it as, well but the shot is. Coming shots. There it may not be there this, year but it's. There he's got a good. Release people that's other people are better than him just don't know anything about. Basketball it's. CRAZY i don't know what they're. Watching maybe they're just trying to be contraried or. SOMETHING i don't. Know But Cooper, flag this is the best. Part he's the best all round player in terms of doing all the things college basketball That i've ever. Seen.

Ever he Had Carmelo anthonys and he coached for half a. Century didn't he Coach kobe in The. Olympics it's like an. Assistant.

Yeah BUT i, mean if he's saying college, basketball there's been a lot of great college basketball. PLAYERS i, mean even if you want to say the best white, Player Christian, latner like exists in. College he didn't have a GREAT nba, career but in, College Christian layner was a. MONSTER Jj riddick was a. Monster Tyler hansburg was a. Monster Jim Or fredett was a monster in. College, like you can go down the, list And i'm not trying to Disrespect Cooper, flag but he's kind of getting propped up because there are so few great white players that you instinctively compare him to the last one you, remember which Is Larry. Burr And Larry bird is like a top eight ish player IN nba. History like there's a big gap Between Paolo banco WHO i, mentioned And Larry. Bird and it's just that's what's gonna. Happen that's gonna be the discourse around paper.

Flax so, oh that's. Fun that could be good for the. Podcast good, content all, Right rob g on your six weeks, off cook up some. Takes almost there's gonna be some days WHERE i got nothing in the. Hopper and if your wife's Like, rob get out of the, house be, Like, Bro i'll call. You let's just do fifteen minutes chopping UP, NBA nfl. Whatever i'm.

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