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Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if the Lakers are bad or bored right now. Jason officially puts St. John's on his 'Never Again' list. Longtime NFL Insider Jason La Canfora drops by the show. USC star JuJu Watkins is carried off the court after suffering an apparent right knee injury! And Jason already misses Danny Hurley!
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No, where you fell all the way off the leaderboard, never doesn't even appear, never again, never, never again. No, I'm done. I'm done.
The only reason I know I'm not gonna finish last is because Alex Tightshirt picked Grand Canyon and Troy in his national so I'm not gonna finish ahead of him.
Well, they're gonna play as many games as Saint John's does from here forward.
I mean, I I I'm so mad. I'm mad at Patino, I'm mad at r J. Lewis Man. The months of equity I put into Saint John's and they just show up and just throw up on themselves. Now we knew they weren't great at shooting the basketball deep at all, Like.
We knew that. But then you don't change your philosophy. You get guys in fall trouble and they say, out of hell with it, We're gonna keep chucking from beyond the arc. We're not gonna make the extra pass. And that's part of I think why RJ sat the bench in addition to his three for seventeen as Patino so passively aggressively, Hey, I'm not gonna give you what you want. And he was three for seventeen, But I Am not going to feed into your narrative and bash my kid. Did I tell you he was three for seventeen? They so let me down. They let me down and wear the suit So let me down. You know you didn't come out and the shoot get a CALIPERI had a better suit coat on and knew it was over.
Didn't get one white suit day from Patino in the tournament, not one.
Not saving it for good? I see, what do I tell you? Saving it for good? Does you no damn bit of good? Jason? Yeah? What you got Frost? Who doesn't feel bad? Oh? This guy right here?
Why I told you all the second you had them winning at all, they were screwed.
I don't even think you put the period at the end of your sentence. You said they're done.
I can't, I I really I don't. They had played so well for so long, and they hit adversity and and it was like you could see their body language wasn't great. And a lot of Arkansas players that after the game was, oh yeah, we could tell we were kind of getting in their heads a little bit, like you could tell you Saint John's had. I mean, they had been cruising right like then. There's and there's something to be said for when you don't really encounter adversity for a while, when you finally do, sure it's a it's a bigger deal. But you think, you know, it's not like Saint John's undefeated. Look, they finished in the top five that you know, they won the Big East. Okay, they lost, you get they lost the game a couple of weeks before the end of the regular season, but they they looked like as soon as Arkansas stayed with them, it was wait, let's go.
I don't understand. I don't know.
It's like when Drago doesn't get why Rocky is still fighting him in Rockyfo. Come on, man, why come on that I should have knock this guy out like fifty times already. And was it was so disappointing. I mean, really, I'm I'm real, I'm never I'm never gonna pick Saint John's again.
Never.
I just couldn't understand, and never again. They're on my never again list.
But you could go through the metrics and we talk about where they ranked offensively, defensively overall. We we knew they weren't a great outside shooting squad. But you had the bigs for Arkansas in foul trouble and I get it. They're aggressive, they're physical, they've got length, and it's not an easy entry path, but there was no effort to drive inside in those final minutes of the game, still settling for jump shots. Guess what if you're not making them, they're gonna back off like Caitlin Clark did in that game last year. Remember, Hey, go ahead, take that shot. I dare you.
I am gonna come in last for everybody here at Fox Sports Radio right then. But if you're gonna in the host bracket, but I'm gonna least the middle of but not middle of the pack, man, not towards the bottom.
Not I make a run late at the end. Not oh, I was leading for a while.
If no dead blank and last man d f L because of Saint John's But that's okay.
You pushed off the f the guy that shows up. You are the guy at the poker table that walks in and you're flashy. Right, you got your Blaine, you got a giant chain hanging, maybe you got a pinky ring on the whole nine yard and the first hand you go all in host host here. You don't watch college basketball, you're gonna finish higher than that. Yes, well, there's a lot of them.
Either gonna finish. They're all gonna finish where's Jason. He's all the way at the bottom. Boy, he's a college basketball Yeah, he's finished at the bottom because he picked bleeping Saint John's to win the championship. Never again, and once you get on my never again unless you never get off. But here's it, never again, No, never again.
What was the crypto ad for?
No, just all the all the great boyhood stuff, all my great memories of rooting for Saint John's growing up, you know on Staten Island where the campus is, and oh my, all.
The great stuff.
No.
Here it is another reminder, Oh Jason, remember your team suck and they're always gonna disappoint you.
Ah, there we go. Couldn't even get out of the second bleeping round of the tournament. Well let me grab a line from another famous New York native. Good old days weren't always good. Tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. Joel. This was bad. It was bad. No, it's bad. Well, those final couple of minutes I felt for you. It was awful. I'm either hosted the great Alley gettis gift that has become my favorite. A million voices screaming you know what else is seventy silence? What do you got the bleeping Lakers, Lakers defense the last couple of days. Oh, you give me a bailout, Give me a bailout from Saint John's bulls showed up like they weren't playing in nineteen ninety six. Oh God, back to back Eastern Conference Player of the Week Kobe White hair flowing majestically.
Look, I could bail I could bail out of the Saint John's go to the let let's bail out the second Old News.
Wild card bailout.
No.
Uh, Look, obviously a heavy basketball night. We're gonna look back at what we saw go ahead of the Sweet sixteen. But the Lakers lose again? Uh to the Magic Yeah, just a few moments ago. The Lakers another really bad third quarter, and even though they rallied a little bit in the fourth quarter, doesn't matter. This is the second straight game they got their butts kicked.
Two straight wins for Orlando and that will do it. One eighteen to one oh six.
The finals score tonight here at the Kia Center, the biggest crowd in Kia Center history.
And yes, there were a lot of Laker fans in the house tonight, and I hope they all had a very enjoyable and.
Safe Triple Magic Radio Network. On the callish Strong Disney me, you're tourism dollar. We're gonna shake you out for every time we can get you know. Really, this thing about Orlando, just really quick before we get to the Lakers, is that when we went there a few years ago, I'm still upset that we didn't go to what what is voted as the best McDonald's in the world. It's like a three story McDonald's with different I'm supposedly a different menu McDonald and we didn't go.
I'm like, how do we not go? I'm gonna make it part of it McDonald's universe, right, But I mean like, but McDonald's for me, I'm like, how do I not go there?
I mean, you going, that's gonna be great. You're the one having a great time. They're gonna give you free stuff and all kinds of stuff.
But like, how do I didn't go? I'm like, that's the one place I really want to to story one here I wanted to go. Yeah, but no, but Orlando's always rite best McDonald's in the world.
Uh.
But here, here's the thing.
It's since Frostburg, since you were so nice to let me, uh cut made on Saint Johns.
You're off the never again never again? I mean you aren't alone, though. Let's let's make this clear, right. The betting odds were still long twenty five to one, so the betting public and the gamblers did not jump on board the Saint John's bandwagon. But for media members, you're not alone. You can lock arms hands across America with a lot of guys in the media world. Hell, you got Spike Lee dressed up in Saint John.
He's wearing he's one of the throwback starter Saint John's jackets from the eighties. Oh yeah, that starter jacket that's somewhat fabricated for him.
You think he's still wearing it he jumped. No, oh no, he's back in and he's insconstin Nick's gear.
I guarantee you I can either a get that on eBay or it's in the Spike Lee Museum worn by Spike Lee on the sideline of this game.
I'm sure he does. How about that?
Yeah, he's got sports museum and all kinds of stuff. This is what he was wearing when he accosted Reggie Miller. Reggie Miller scored you know, did nine points in six seconds of a blanket was uh?
And the suit Kramer was wearing when he announced that he and Reggie Miller and Spike going after the watch side. Look.
I will say this because, honestly, and I don't know why, but I feel like the opposite when things were going when things were going well.
For the Laker.
But I'm really not that upset about the way the Lakers have played the last couple of nights, Like tonight really seem like, like, really it's been a quarter the last couple of nights, and yeah, tonight was more Hey is like Lebron and Luca like we're the only guys on the floor, We're the only ones gonna shoot the ball.
Uh.
But I kind of see the Lakers and I see a lot of see a lot of lazy passes, see a lot of lazy switching defensively, and honestly, I think they're bored. If I said one because the Lakers. The Lakers got Luca. It was such a big jolt of adrenaline and they got through it and they saw how good they were and that was okay, we're ready for the playoffs. Problem is got to play the last twenty some odd games of the regular season. Lebron gets hurt, he comes out, the Lakers stumble a little bit because you're stumbling without Lebron a bit. Now Lebron's back, They get pasted by the Bulls, they get pasted by the Magic. Honestly, I think they're bored because they carry themselves as a team that doesn't do They're not making the extra pass and I'm making the extra switch on defense.
You can just see it's much more of a.
Lottydah attitude of yeah, we're okay, We're okay. Lebron and Luca will save us. We're gonna hit shots. Because offensively, they shouldn't be scoring a hundred points a game. It's ridiculous, right, they should be scoring one hundred and twenty five hundred and thirty points a game. Defensively, they were so good, all of a sudden, they can't get it done against the Bulls and the Magic. This is not cause for huge alarm because the Lakers just look bored, and that's something that can be fixed. That's something that you deal with in the ups and downs in an eighty two game season, especially when you're a Laker team that has been ready for the playoffs now for the better part of the last month, but you still have more games to play. It's the dog days of August. I don't see this as being that big.
Yes.
Is it embarrassing, Yeah, but we've seen the Lakers. We've seen them when when they play games against teams that they should beat, they wind up coming up small.
It happens.
The good news part of this is that when they play the better teams, you see how well they play. The playoffs will be fine. I don't see this as something that's a big red alarm concern flop. I am absolutely fine with this, and I'm not saying this just to get JJ Reddick to be happy.
I don't care if he.
Hates say I'm the one, JJ red I'm I'm the one that's spurred you all of a sudden.
I'm Stephen A. Smith. I'm afraid to say something bad about Lebron. Oh, Lebron and Brody, you're both so good and both going in the Hall of Fame together. Johnny in while he's still playing, and Lebron will get They won't waive the period for Lebron, but they will go in the same time. They'll be on the same plaque the same time.
I want to say that, but look, I get the ring if the Lakers win, because we know JJ Reddick listens to the show and he hates me. But that's okay. But really, I'm not worried about the Lakers right this year. I'm not worried now the Bulls.
With the pace they play, it's been fun to watch as they they made the shuffle at the trade deadline and suddenly you're seeing some of the youthfulness. Even Josh Giddy. He's got his issues off the court. We know, all those accusations and all, but playing really well of late and then getting up and down the courts. So some of that I'm curious and I want to give a little bit of props. Go back to that game. Bronni had his seventeen against the Bucks. They lost by fewer points in that game than Lebron and Luca did in their return to the court against the Bulls. So good on you, Bronni, Good on your Bronnie.
Wait, I love how people treated that game like Bronni went for fifty, right, like he scored He scored seventeen in a game that the Lakers got beat by twenty five and suddenly.
It's oh, look, how good R mean? Come on, man, come on twenty nine point burial. He was minus thirty six, but that's okay, he scored seventeen. But I do like that he was bested when the old Man came out of hibernation after taking those six games off and they got dusted by the bulls. Now, yes, my south Side Chicago roots and the fact that I am wearing a white Sox hat kind of show the colors there. But I just thought that was delicious theater to watch them get run around. So if the there was legit an injury there, you know when we saw it, you know, when his kid had his state championship and all that stuff. You know, you can debate how quote injured Lebron was, but these first two games back don't really give you a whole the boost of confidence that they effort, like, maybe they're bored. They didn't pay together long enough to be bored. Supporting cast hasn't played well enough long enough to be quote they did it for a Jay Reddick has done this for four months, and most of it he was just mad at you.
They did it for a month. Hey, we everything moves at warp speed. Now in the world, right, a month is like two seasons. Now, Oh, we got it, we got we had that great ten game stretch, the All Star break.
We're done.
There was no assimilation period. Luca came in right away. He and Lebron had chemistry, right, I don't have to worry about it and work. It's not like the Knicks where something's we didn't know what to do. If Jalen Brunson's not on the floor, No, they're fine, like they're bored. They're bored, and and every everything will be fine. If this is the biggest problem in Lake have as all. We don't show up in games against Orlando. Yeah, I get it.
They're board, they want they're ready for the playoffs to start. They can see it. It's fine. Is this your way to like beg for box of lads? Absolutely show up here? No no, no, no, no, no no no.
Because the thing is if they lose, JJ Reddick would get more upset at me. So it's okay, would be more you'd.
Be more mad.
In fact, JJ redd is going to be more mad at me because I know in his post game he's probably ripping the Lakers a new one and then to turn on the radio and hear me say.
Everything is fine. Everything, don't worry about it talking about defense rotation. It's all fine. Bench productivity and you're rose colored glasses. Everything is fine, man, Everything is fine. Just twist that night. But by the way, I think everything just to punctuate the step and anything. He was reminded that lebron fans vote.
To maybe'll be titled his next book and one's one fifteen banner night at the United Center.
Hang it up.
They're sewing it right now, they're getting it. May let's get ready. We gotta we gotta have something to bring people there.
I always tell you, guys, find your wins at any given day, right because it might not be there tomorrow. There might not be there tomorrow. Speed up your.
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Oh yeah, Lucas still can't shoot. We'll get to Luca.
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Juju Watkins carried off the floor just a few moments ago in USC's game against Mississippi State. Again, more in this in a few minutes. But joining us now in the hot line. We had a big day in the NFL. One player is announcing himself as the number one overall pick. Cam Ward's pro day was pretty good, even had a little bit of trash talk for the Titans representatives.
Who are there? Is he going number one overall? With us now in the hot line?
Longtime NFL insider Odyssey Washington Post one O five to seven the fan in Baltimore, it is Jason Lock and fora Jay, what's.
Happening, Bud?
What's going on? Gentlemen?
Uh?
So cam Ward does the whole Hey, I'm gonna roll to my weak side and throw the ball seventy yards downfield.
Everybody loves him. Good pro day for cam Ward?
Is he going number one like, is is this gonna happen work and the Titans are something crazy happened.
At number one.
I mean there's always a possibility, but no, I think this is looking increasingly like a fad of complete And you know, they hired Byan Callahan a year ago, a quarterback guy. They kind of thrust this mister Mayo thing on him and wanted to make that try to work for a year. Vis is not an NFL starter, and maybe down the road will be an NFL starter. But you know, this team's kind of been in quarterback purgatory for a while really, since you know, they moved on from Tannehill and since he you know, started hit a little bit. So, yeah, they're drafting a quarterback and I don't think they're going to be getting cute and trading down and doing I don't think anybody's going to come up and pay a premium, and I think they want this quarterback in particular. So sometimes it just is what it is, and that's what this is looking like.
And then shortly thereafter we hear Shador Sanders's name called and he becomes a member of the Giants to hang out with Jameis Winston.
You know, I just don't know about that owner, you know, and he kind of has a certain style of quarterback and I don't know that he's going to be cool with this, and if he's not, it's not going to happen. And so we're still early in the process in terms of that. These kids are just making their rounds now and you know, moving into the thirty top thirty visits, and I'm just not sure about that. Like they've clearly abstained from drafting quarterbacks. It's kind of become part of their brand, and they've kind of been stuck in their sort of own holding patterns in terms of really hitting the reboot button and falling in love with a kid and being willing to do it. They should have, you know, drafted somebody like Penix a year ago. They had again plenty of opp Kennedy to do things, and they talk themselves out of it, and I think it goes back to this owner. And I don't know, man, I'm not positive that the Browns don't take your door standers. The Giants certainly could. I just don't know if that's going to ultimately be a fit. And do they just punt for another year? Do they take one, you know, at the top of the second round and you know, try to get cute that way. I can kind of see that maybe they do something day two. I just don't know if that's the fit.
I think it'll be Eli Manning every week calling Arch and saying, hey, you know, come come to the Giants. Why had a great time here, You'll love it here. The Giants are gonna go. Oh in seventeen this year, it'll be great. Don't worry.
The March for Art will be on in New York.
Well don't. But that's like, that's what they like. I could totally see that. I mean, you know, they're not very good at executing the tank and they end up winning, you know, games that they certainly win at the end and screw themselves. But Arch Manning, Yeah, like that's that's the kind of blue blooded thing that that owner could get completely behind. And even if they don't, you know, they're not in position automatically the draft him. Would they move up and move Heaven and Earth for something like that? You know? I mean people forget the whole Eli Manning thing was trade too, you know, I mean that was originally a Philip Rivers kind of swap situation. So yeah, like what I see, I just don't know if they and by day I mean him can handle a quarterback. Who's that brash? Who's to I don't know, man, they are just such a button up organization and they're so stuck in their own kakamani bs ways that I don't know, man, I just don't know that that's going to be the fit.
Speaking of brash, bowled, outspoken pookin Nakua says, Hey, by thirty, I'm done. I'm going to do all sorts. It's a great things coming into year three, and I want to go out like Aaron Donald on top to where they're still calling me, I like the cut of his gym. I got to say, Jason, I mean this game is not tidting.
I mean, despite what it, you know what the league will sell you not getting any safer. I mean, it's just not It's still a violent collision sport played on the same grid on that new Rockney and guys and a lot of helmets played on. The players are bigger, faster than ever. The field of play has not changed one iota. A lot of the surfaces they play on are still not merely as safe as they could be you know, for natural grass and all that's out of favor. It's an incredibly brutal sport. And yeah, helmet technology is nice and this or that, but I can't imagine what you know, the average fifty five year old former NFL player feels like a lot of mornings, and these guys it's an individual decision, and things like this aren't even uncommon anymore. I mean, we've seen a lot of guys walk away in what would be deemed that prime then it's it's a personal decision and good for him, man, And hopefully these guys can can be smart with the money and get with the right financial people and be able to try to turn you know, a seven to ten year career into something that conceive their family and the future family members for generations to come.
Jay, Well, what happens first, who Kannakua retires at thirty or Aaron Rodgers makes his decision on this season.
I mean, again, like I was wondering if we can get through this with I'm talking about, I was starting to feel I was like telling myself, like it might actually happen, and then I think this effect.
I shouldn't have said he's got a no hitter through five. That's my fault.
Yeah, this look I again, I mean, are people waiting for it? I don't know. I think he's he doesn't understand that like these no one there is no negotiations, but nobody's upping me, and that there aren't multiple teams throwing things at him. This is unlike anything he's ever experienced before. It is take it or leave it. And maybe he will, maybe he won't. And if he wakes too long and some of these teams draft somebody or they trade for Kirk Cousins or whatever, then he might have even less leverage than he has now. He also knows that there's not a football game that's going to be played that matters for a long time. He's a smart football guy, and there's probably not a whole lot in playbooks that he doesn't understand or that would take him a whole long time to pick up. So I just don't think there's any real rush from anybody. Again, if you need to tell me, those teams don't have a quarterback, you need a quarterback, and I would tell you if they were that serious about him, it would be it would have happened if anybody really thought he was absolutely the solution and this has held up over three million, five million, seven million whatever. Again, if you really thought he was a true difference maker at that position, still he wouldn't still be out there.
I just enjoy that. We're into the psychology of the you know, which is the greater of two evils, bringing back Russell Wilson, uh and with Arthur Smith or going behind door number two and whatever you think of Aaron Rodgers And then you mentioned Kirk Cousins still sitting down there. That's got to be a really uncomfortable room eventually. I mean, yeah, it's the off season now, but Jason, is that a situation that's tenable?
Well, I mean, look, Aaron Rodgers didn't spick around from mandatory mini camp last year, So like, do you really, like, you know, you think he's gonna be an off season lawyer where he goes, well, this is true. Really you think it's going to disrupt him, you know what I mean, climbing pyramids and I don't know, snorting coconuts or whatever the hell he does. Like, I don't think it's gonna again. I don't think he's going to put his other pursuits on hold to throw himself in mind, body, and soul at whatever team's paint, especially now there pain and peanuts compared to what they used to. So I don't I don't know what's worse, you know, having him show up when he wants to show up and you know, say ridiculous stuff and start to poison your locker room. Or it's better to hold off as long as possible and break glass only in any case of an emergency. Hi, I you know, I don't know.
Would you rather bring Ryan Tannehill off to scrappy?
Yes? Absolutely, you got not even non? I mean that's yes, absolutely positive daily He's on.
Twitter at Jason lock and four at Jason lock and four again honesty Washington Post one oh five seven the fan of Baltimore Jay as always, buddy, Thanks so much man, we'll talk to.
You next week. Enjoy my pleasure. Thank you, guys, Jason.
All right, there goes Jason lock and for Look, if you're ready to lose weight, get the expert help of PhD weight loss, No injections or prescriptions, fast weight loss results. They work for me, they'll work for you. Call and schedule a consult today. Is it my phdweight loss dot com. That's my PhD, weight loss dot com. Now, the whole thing about Pooka Nakua, just really quick, is that it's great, you know, saying today I want to retire when i'm third. It's one thing to say that when you're twenty three, and because it doesn't seem real right now, it's not really I can say, oh, yeah, yeah, I want to do this. That's seven years from now, right, it's great.
I don't know how I talk. I just I just take this and.
Thing like, okay, yeah he says, he says he's gonna retire in seven years. That's great, and maybe he does, and maybe it's all vange, but it doesn't even You can't when you say stuff like that, I go, you don't really even understand what the world's about right now. Right, you're twenty three and you I want to retire.
I wanted to. Okay, I get that.
But when you're saying I want to do this in seven years, I must be saying in one hundred years, I'll be trapped in the lamp with the genie from Aladin. I'll go get out. Every five thousand, fifteen thousand years.
Oh I'm out.
It's fifteen thousand years for seven years, fifteen thousand years. Like it's it's so abstract. It's not like it's one year. I'm gonna play one more year and retired. It's a seventy oh okay.
But I mean the old standard was that you would do the where do you see yourself in five years?
Right?
That was the old lazy interview question, where do you? So he just added an extra two. I think you just kind of get in terms of how how long are the normal contracts? All right, I want two more paydays and then I'll be able to walk away. Yeah. Yeah, man, I think that's kind of what he's maybe going at from a time. It's like I'll get a three year deal. I'll get a four year deal first because I'm still young and relatively healthy, and then I'll have to sign a three year deal that's a lot of guaranteed money, but shorter term, and yeah, that then I can go out.
Yeah.
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Might have passed that number. That decision may already have been made. Unfortunately, we did have potentially an awful injury in the women's basketball National Tournament tonight for USC. Juju Watkins averages twenty five points a game. Saturday, in the first round lopsided win, she appeared to hurt her left leg maybe knee. She was limping Tonight she was carried off the court with a right knee injury. She was in great pain on the court after she went down, seeming to crumple to the court as if the leg or knee gave out as she was driving the lane on a fast break double team. Don't expect to see Watkins again Tonight's and unfortunately we're not expecting great news once they do give it. USC for what it's worth, is leading twenty eight to eight over Mississippi State end of the first quarter at sc Tonight, Maryland in double overtime won one eleven to oneh eight against Alabama, forty five points for Alabama. Sarah Ashley Barker, Maryland was down seventeen late third quarter. Next up Maryland against one seed South Carolina in the Sweet sixteen. Man Sweet sixteen starts Thursday night with Alabama against BYU Florida. Maryland is an early game on Thursday. Texas has a new basketball coach on the men's side at Sean Miller from Xavier, taking over for the fired Rodney Terry. Iowa has hired Drakes Ben McCollum as head coach. Minnesota's new coach Nico medvid from Colorado State. He's from Minneapolis, NL.
The guest of the show We had him on last year, Nico Meddick. Yeah, he was on the show last year with US after they won.
Boy they got hot late season in the Mountain West, and now he moves on to his home state. UNLV will reportedly get Josh Passner as head coach. Columbia hired Florida assistant Kevin Hovdy as head coach. He's a former Columbia assistant in the past. Virginia introduced new coach Ryan Odom from VCU and former Sacramento kingsguard Mike Bibbie is the new coach at Sacramento State. He had coached high school ball in Arizona in the past. We have two late games in the NBA that started about a half an hour ago at Sacramento. It's Celtics thirty one twenty nine over the King's early second quarter and to man To Sabonis of Sacramento has returned after a sprained ankle. Jalen Brown of the Celtics is playing after a bruce knee. Boston has won five straight. It's the Bucks leading at the end of one thirty to twenty five at Phoenix and still going mid third quarter at Denver Bulls leading the Nuggets eighty five eighty two for Denver. Nikola Jokic out again for a fifth straight game with the bad ankle. The team said Jokic should return during this homestand of THEIRS victories for Dallas and New Orleans, wins for Toronto and Indiana, which is won five straight. Orlando beat the Lakers one eighteen to one oh six despite thirty two points from Luka Doncic and twenty four from Lebron James in the NHL. Among the four games we have right now at Dallas, still a two to nothing lead in the final minutes, Stars over the Minnesota Wild. The Tennessee Titans signed kicker Joey sli and the Titans attended the University of Miami's Pro day featuring quarterback cam Ward. Coach Ken Wisenhunt of Memphis of the UFL is stepping aside for personal reasons. That Spring League starts this Friday night on Fox TV.
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The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the tyrec dot Com studios. Coming up next will break down what could be an absolutely devastating injury. The best player in college basketball just got hurt Juju Watkins her knee injury. Break it down, give you more details on it as they come in. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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Grabbing her right knee quickly, grimacing in pain.
Silence right away, right away, everybody knew something bad happened, and ESPN on the call.
She was yelling and screaming on the floor.
It was really difficult and it was hard to see and seeing this replay now, a bunch of times she's coming down on the brake and there's a defender on either side of her, and it looks like she's trying to stop and plant to make her last couple of steps to the bucket, right, because she gets inside, she gets inside the lane, this is where I stop and make my get my two slow steps to go in for the layup or get a foul, go to the free throw.
Dished you a teammate who's on the brake with right exactly? Yeah?
Or but it looks like she's dribbling. And I don't want to say it was out of control, but she was dribbling.
It looked like she was.
Trying to dribble past everybody. But she wasn't going to like sometimes you're dribbling, you know, I'm going to be past everybody. But it looked like she was moving really fast, so maybe stopping. Maybe she you know, she could have slowed down a little bit earlier, knowing, Okay, I'm not gonna dribble by both of these players. They just have the they have the lane on me right now, and she comes down just to stop on her right foot. And the angle that i'd say, the angle that will that shows this I don't recommend watching it is the angle from behind that's the iso of her dribbling down the floor, or if you're picturing this where she's coming down the floor and she's dribbling away from you. She comes down and takes a step and her right knee just completely dips to the to the left, and it looks it looks really really bad.
And it was right for that.
She hits the ground. She grabs her knee right away in a lot of pain. Again, we don't know what the outcome of this is. She's being looked at right now, but clearly I don't believe she's gonna be coming back in the game tonight, and who knows what her future is.
You're starting to think now.
Usc the NCAA tournament, the WNBA season, she'd be the number one overall pick and Nate because they start, you know, forty eight hours after the National Championship game ends, and all good thoughts for her. She's hanging out with Jayden Daniels, who was at the game tonight to watch her play again.
And I mean, this.
Is just it's it's such a it's such a sad story because she's so good and she's such hey grabbing that torch from Caitlin Clark and carrying it through and USC number one team here and they the only team to beat UCLA. They beat them twice. And she's had such an incredible season and she's next. Her and Page Beckers are next. They're the next two superstars to hit the WNBA to say Okay, we got it. And now I'm just hoping she'd get back on the floor. I'm hoping it's just some kind of it's some kind of kneat, you know, just just a knee injury where she's able to take a couple of weeks and then maybe get back on the floor. But I'll tell you, it looked, it looked really bad that step and all of a sudden, her knee just completely buckles all the way to the left, very unnaturally, and right down in the heap and did not walk off the floor. She was picked up and carried off the floor. She was still screaming in pain and a lot of agony. And again that was about twenty five minutes ago, and we're you know, obviously waiting for an update on this.
But seeing that.
Angle from behind, I said, oh, you know, you always want to think maybe maybe maybe maybe it's a little bit.
Of a hyper extension, you think. But seeing that angle from behind, I said, oh, man, that's and that's not good. Well that she's it, watching it live as it transpired, like from your sideline angle, like, all right, it's an injury. She goes down, maybe there's enough contact to take her down, but clearly immediately clutching the knee is like, all right, there's more to it. And then you get that ISO shot that you described, that is from the other under the basket stanchion, which gives you the full run of her driving up the court and leaves you a bit queasy. Certainly not repeated viewings of that, and you're not going to get that angle on the television the way we do things in twenty twenty five either. I mean, it took a while before you saw a replay of the live shot rather than alternate angles. But for Juju Watkins, to your point, she and Page Becker's a lot of discussion the last couple of days of you know, why isn't she getting the run. It's like, no, she is. She's she's gotten plenty of run. You know, folks need to calm down on some of that stuff. Plenty of nil Norse puts literally, we just saw a commercial break that had two Juju Watkins spots in it. So she's certainly getting her run and her greatness is recognized. But you know, the difficult part to all of it is just how quickly this process works into the next season. Seems like we've been waiting forever for the WNBA to come back after that initial run from Clark, Reese and company. So look camera Brink coming back off a big injury, right, waiting for her to really become a member of the sparks. So for Juju Watkins, the great anticipation that you didn't get these inevitable matchups of the stars to help carry the women's game again. So best thoughts to her that you know, it's just that, hey, it gave out, like her body didn't round one right, and she's been battling a number of injuries going to the locker room, so you know, best thoughts for her will keep it up prized of it.
Again thirty eight to fourteen. So USC really in no danger this game against Mississippi State. All thoughts on Juju Watkins and again, as soon as we have an update, we'll bring it to you. But she's been in the locker room now for the better part of the last half hour. There's been no footage of her. There's been no update of her. I will keep this is the biggest story of the night, to keep going on it throughout the rest of the show. Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Tirack dot Com Studios. Coming up next, we have more big stuff out of the end. See AA tournament from this weekend. Maybe we're talking about the wrong guy last week being the best coaching college.
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The update the official update we have on Juju Watkins, USC superstar, likely the number one pick in the WNBA draft, best player in college basketball. You've seen her play all season long. Electrifying player went down in a heap with what looked to be an extremely serious knee injury in the first half of number one seed USC's game against Mississippi State. They've not been in trouble in this game. USC is still up by twenty in the second half, but Watkins goes down driving down court on a fast break and her right knee plants and the knee just goes completely to one side. It could be an injury very high up on her knee or the upper part of her leg. She went down screaming, was taken off the floor immediately. There was no standing up trying to get her to put weight on her foot. She was carried off the floor. We are waiting for an update and I'm sure we'll talk to Lindsay Gottlieb following the game. There's still ways to go, the game still in the middle of the third quarter, but the official update from USC Juju Watkins with a leg injury. She will not return of the game tonight. There will be more updates as the night goes on. So she's being evaluated right now by Kech Medicine. So that's where we're at right now. Juju Watkins being evaluated by Kech Medicine, and there will be an update on her following the game tonight. We will wait and see and all you know, prayers up in all our best thoughts out there that Juju Watkins is okay.
Yeah, I mean, you talk about a woman who's she's taking a beating this year. For sure. We've watched plenty of her games, marveled at some of her performances along the way. In this one, great expectations that you're going to get a deep run from USC, and you still very well might right. One of the things we talked about in the tournament was the depth at the top right, not of the field overall, but those first four to six teams all vying for best number one. I can't believe we were the fourth number one and so on, but Juju Watkins being one of those players to watch and to get celebrated and obviously, you know, anticipating a huge run as we get towards the next WNBA season. She gets cut off in her lane. The more you watch it, right, you have the two defenders to where you get a bit of contact where she extends her off arm like hey, get off me, and that's when the leg buckles. So like a lot of just debate of you know, that contact and how much that throws off her gait to then create undue pressure. Like so now it's all the armchair doctors flying in, but as of now we have no official work.
Yeah, you know that's why when I saw the play happen, and you can watch and go, okay, there's nothing dirty done. There's no I'm sticking my foot in the way for you to come down on it. You know, the defenders are trying to get in and get the ball, and it's it's almost like Juju Watkins. Sometimes I'm just gonna if. I'm going if. And you see this with players in the NFL, where they think they're running away from somebody and I'm just gonna try to out and they know that, and they don't know that I can outrun you. And so instead of cutting back and into the end zone, I'm going to try to outrun you, and the defender catches up to them and tackles them at the twenty, instead of, hey, I cut back, I can get into the ten and maybe.
Into the end zone.
It looked like she was continuing to try to outrun them and get ahead of them for a layup, and it got to the point where she realized, Okay, I'm not going to and I'm a little off balance and I need to make that step to slow down and get myself under control. And that was the step where her knee wound up going the other way. You know that, you know, they got in her way a little bit of her length, but she still was able to put her foot out straight.
And and it just you know where it was. So whatever she was.
Trying to do there to slow down, I would think at some point looking at this, I mean I don't I don't know. I'm just going by what I saw, but I go, wow, at some point you with the maybe she realized, Okay, I'm not gonna dribble by everybody and I'm not going to get in the clear for a lamp, so I need to make that cut more towards the basket to try to draw contact or a foul.
And when she tried to do it, maybe it was a little too late. I mean, I'm just kind of spitballing here a little bit because until we hear from her and hear what she was trying to do on the play, But clearly I'm dribbling. I'm going as fast as I can, and everybody's going as fast as they can, and when you try to stop on a dime, that's when that's when things happen. And that's kind of what she tried to do. Yeah, now we're watching, I mean, the emotion that the USC squad is playing with every possession is like it's the final shot, and hugs and cheering and backing each other up, and you know, you're watching just the coming together with their star out pretty impressive run because you know, we saw how silent the crowd got in the moment, but you know, give gott Leave her credit. She got she got them to refocus for the second half to go out and finish the job.
Yeah, because you don't know how you're going to react. And then when you see something like that and here goes your best player and everything you're thinking of, all our hopes and dreams are winning the tournament with her and we may have just seen her play her last minute with USC. What can we do here? And they've gone out and they've played terrific. I mean there was no letdown. There's not even a point where Mississippi State got close. It's telling hey, they won on a run.
It was still it was it was thirteen to two at this point, then it was like twenty one to four, then it was like twenty seven to eight. I mean, this has been a they've been holding onto this blowout for a long time. Again, still ways to go, but it's not like they've been threatened in this game. No, Kiki erie Offen is just dominating on the interior and you know she's ready to throw bows with whomever steps in her way. In a little bit. I would say the energy high for USC right now.
Again, more on this story as it develops. But you know, we talked about Cali Parry a few minutes ago, and maybe he's the coach of the Maybe he's coach of the decade for a year ago now having no players, zero players, zero scholarship players. When he took over at Arkansas and they're in the sweet sixteen, they beat Saint Johns.
He's gonna teach you how to run a startup coach of the day.
He should he should he should be how do you start? Hey, how do you start with no employees? And in a year we're gonna wind up winning. It's like a movie montage, Like all of a sudden, Jimmy Chipwood comes back and there's a movie. There's a montage and suddenly, oh, the Hickory's in the playoffs.
Oh they're great. All of a sudden, they couldn't buy a win. They couldn't buy a win, and.
Ali is making free throws, you know, Granny style to win games. And I am, all of a sudden, just a movie montage. But Danny Hurley's out. Yeah, And we watched Yukon lose great game. Uh nearly had enough to pull it off against Florida yesterday, and you saw everything with Danny Hurley in a nutshell. The video that got out of him walking off the floor in the tunnel as Baylor is going on the floor to play the next game. You see Danny Hurley say, I hope they don't blank you like they blanked us. Baylor, good luck, Baylor. I hope they don't blank you like they blanked us, talking about the officials. And then we had I'm after, okay, here's Danny Hurley. Salty Danny Hurley, this is my first loss in two and a half NCAA tournaments.
Uh, salty Danny Hurley.
But then we get this part of Hurley talking about the emotion of seeing some of those guys on the floor with him, some of his players, like Alex Caravan for the last time, you.
Know, I was in a coach That's why I was on the hot seat going into twenty three. You got to ask Dave Bennett. But until these men, you know, until Alex carab be put on the uniform and the players change your life and you have such special people.
So you got both ends of the salty Danny Hurley. Then you got the emotion. You got this and I didn't know how I'd feel about him until he was out, and I thought, oh, man, when Yukon goes out, it's going to be a breath of fresh air and people are going to exhale because they're sick of his act.
They're sick of his I'm the greatest coach. I'm always yelling in the optic.
Are bad with Danny Hurley because clearly the camera always finds him when he's yelling, which is most of the time.
Uh.
But here's where isaag when you think I'm gonna zeg.
I already miss him because and I thought about this, like, going, man, I really you know, watching the game you actually and see him, was like, Okay, he's out, and I'm like, I already missed Danny Hurley. Why college basketball isn't like it used to be where you had the rock star coaches or all coaches who were heroes that you watch for a long time, whether it was Mike Krzyzewski or Roy Williams or Tom Izzo. Until a few years ago, Jim Beheim like all these guys that would come and go far in the tournament, and these guys are the rock stars, right, And you talked about them, and it was it was look at what they've been able to do, how many games were able to win, their level of excellence. Now me might not have been a fan of their team, but you understood these guys were great at what they did, what they said always cut through, and these were rock star heroes. Those guys are all gone now and college basketball isn't made up of rock star heroes coaches, whereas the most high profile guys are all anti heroes. They're all guys that they're great coaches. But John Caliperi great coach. But Rick Patino great coach. But I mean you say Danny Hurley, great coach. But always find a way either in their past with what's going on at different stops they have had, or what they're like when they're on camera. College basketball, that's what they have now is they have the anti hero coaches, the polarizing ones, and they're the ones that make the sport great to follow because you're either rooting for them you're not rooting for them. But it's always less interesting when they're gone. Right, Like the Yankees may hate the Yankees, evil imp by Yankees have a lot of fans, but they got a lot of people that hate them, but it doesn't matter. When the playoffs are going on, it's more fun to have the Yankees in it. These coaches, these really are the three most high profile guys in college basketball are Hurley and Patino in Caliperi, and they're all polarized. They all have reason, and you can love them as coaches all the reasons you can't stand them as coaches, and so when one of them goes, it's like, oh, there's a big hole to be filled here, and now we lost two.
We lost Hurley and Patino, but you know, so now it's all well, Cali Perry's got a lot on his shoulders, but especially Hurley because winning the national title last two years, building this dynasty that he's had at Yukon, and almost pulling off a win where clearly he didn't have the team to do it, and he almost did. I can even forgive him the well, you know, when he was making NBA threes, that's what it takes to knock out a team like ours, Like, oh, dude, come on, and you didn't have a great team this year. But again, I realize I kind of missed that kind of swagger and cockiness and arrogance that pisses me off too, because it makes the game more fun. The tournament's worse off.
Today than it was yesterday or over the weekend because we lost two of those two of those coaches that make it more fun to watch.
Yeah. So, while there was never any scandal going back to coach k the way you would finger wagon get all you know, high and mighty and sanctimonious. Yeah, he was on my down list. Yeah, what to the expend to the extent of, hey, look at cala Perry's programs, what happened when he left everywhere? But Tino's had problems that he brought on himself for a long time. Oh, absolutely, And certainly there's finger wagging in there's hey, the NCAA is coming to town. No no, But with the NCD Albila come into town, it was why did they pick those guys? What did you guys do to draw their higher what everybody else is skating by? That's always the question I have whenever you're the team, you're the coach that gets caught with your hand in the cookie jar? What did you do to piss off the investigators that you're getting nailed when other people aren't right, go back to the football side of things with Reggie Bush. Was it just because there's an extra common a couple more zeros on the price of the house or what, because they certainly paid a heavier price than many others that got in trouble during those years. But for herly he hasn't hit his Walter White. Hey, let's embrace the anti hero phase. For Patino and Califari, it's like all the stuff they were doing is now legal. It's all figure out where the money flows. So it's hey, now we're just picking up like we were talking about with our Calipari discussion before, right, building a team from scratch is what he'd been doing for years, so he had twenty years of a head start over anybody else. So he and Patino are at the you know now that their elder statesman in the game, along with Izzo, who his latest claim to fame was, you know, arguing when they were playing Iowa, if they're gonna ouse Fran, be careful what you wish for, they don't spend any money like, and he started doing his finger wagging things. So you know, I just don't like that. Don't don't preach at me. But for Caliperi and for Patino, it's the warm and fuzzy of Oh, remember when they were the renegades. Now everything has come back to them, so let's celebrate their final runs. For Danny Hurley, I think people are just now really realizing who the guy is, even though he's been on the radar for a lot of years. And I don't think he's hit the I like that guy yet. I'll miss him because he gave us great storylines and whatever else, but I don't think he's in the warm, fuzzy Walter White. Hey, let's root for him even though he's the bad guy phase of his world.
