REID & REACT NFL NEWS UPDATES NBA DEFENSE NOW VS THEN

What’s up fans! Here’s a quick rundown of today’s episode.

First, the crew talked about the Philadelphia Eagles and some potential roster moves. The rumored trade for Maxx Crosby looks like it’s not happening, and instead the discussion shifted to players like Trey Hendrickson as possible defensive help. The hosts debated whether that move would actually help the team or create more problems.

They also brought up the idea of signing Tariq Woolen as a cornerback and possibly moving Kelee Ringo to safety. Some of the guys liked the talent, but others were worried about attitude issues and penalties.

Another big topic was whether the Eagles should bring back Chauncey Gardner-Johnson. Some think he’s productive and fits the team, while others think the front office avoids players who bring too much drama.

Then the conversation turned into a heated NBA debate. The crew argued about whether today’s NBA still plays real defense compared to past eras with legends like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and Shaquille O'Neal. Some said the modern game is too focused on offense and three-point shooting, while others said the game has just evolved with more versatile players.

In the rant and rave segment, one host gave props to Duke University for making history by having multiple teams win their conference tournaments. Another host talked about staying positive, growing spiritually, and keeping God first.

They also called out the constant trade rumors around A. J. Brown and Jalen Carter, saying the Eagles should shut those rumors down if those guys are truly part of the team’s future.

🔥 Final message: stay positive, stay consistent, chase your goals, and keep grinding.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:08

It's the reading react. Yeah. I'll come back. It's the reading react. We doing this we doing. It's the reading react. We talking football. We talking basketball.

SPEAKER_03 0:28

You know what's up, I know what to do, it's like baby. Welcome to the show, we gotta go and watch our shit. They want us to be a man. Two sons won't pop here. We send this train. Just tell me what you need, raps voice and comedy. Go ahead and leave a comment. Y'all know what it is. It's your boy. A C Batching the reader.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

In the house all day.

SPEAKER_03 1:19

Look at it, man. First, first, first, first, first thing of the day. Let's talk about them Eagles, man. So, actually, I want to talk about that trade first, huh? So officially that Max Crosby trade is avoided. That shit was canceled. So they got Trey now. They got Trey Henderson. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:46

I don't like that no better.

SPEAKER_03 1:48

You say you feel like we're not going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_04 1:50

I don't like that no better. They say they they can't get him, so they went and got him. That shit ain't no good either way.

SPEAKER_03 1:56

Why you say that? Both of them. Either one of them dudes over there bad news. Oh, I mean, oh yeah, facts, facts, facts. Trey Henry said he got something he he wants though. Matt Crosby wanna win, but at the same time, he'll rather do it with the Raiders. But Trey been trying to lead that team. He got something he wanna do.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

I think he's gonna get hurt and he ain't gonna do nothing over there.

SPEAKER_04 2:26

That's normally what happens. I ain't even gonna catch it. That's normally what happens. That's what I'm gonna do.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

And I just feel like I just feel like as they the way their team is, he don't fit what they do. The way he does it. And then his overexertion of that situation is gonna lead him to injury.

SPEAKER_04 2:47

He's gonna be doing too much, you guys.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 2:53

You're saying that shit like he said, so he said, uh I wouldn't say that, bro. I mean, maybe though, because that happened with Michael Parsons, so maybe, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 3:02

Absolutely. Same situation. Cool out. Stop trying to be something that you uh not. I wouldn't, I wouldn't say that, but okay. What you mean you're not a hater? You're not a hater.

SPEAKER_03 3:14

I'm not hater, I'm just speaking of facts, but you always hating.

SPEAKER_00 3:19

Whatever, man.

SPEAKER_03 3:20

Okay, so let's kick back up with the little eagles. What moves they have done or what they not doing. And playing and and potential moves. So first Rek Willen. Y'all know your boy was saying that shit, man. I'm talking about Rek Willen. He's a free agent this year, right? Yeah. That's a good if we can't get anything else. If we can't get Denzel Ward, if we can't find somebody we really like, that's a very good option for a corner two in this lineup. Move Keely Ringo to safety, it was like I was it was like I was in a building or something.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

Like no, no, no, no, no, no, cat. You definitely smoke that into fruition. I mean, it was like you just knew, and then that you've been talking about that for a minute, too. So you definitely get your flowers for that one.

SPEAKER_03 4:19

We I wanted him since last year. I was like, bro, come on, we gotta trade every bully.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

But I mean, with everything that is good, it's always something that is bad. He led the league in taunting penalties, he's a little bit of a head case. Um, leaving Seattle, it wasn't a happy departure. They wanted him out. Um, I hope he comes here more mature. Maybe it was Seattle, Washington, maybe it was the West Coast, but regardless of what it is, this is the East Coast, and we don't do that crap. And let's see.

SPEAKER_03 4:58

This is a legitimate business, young man.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_04 5:03

Uh but I hope you ain't the only one. You ain't the only one calling shots because uh my man Adrian Sarrow is looking real eagle-ish right now. Nah, chill out, but that's gonna pop. I guarantee you that's gonna happen. It's crazy because they're and I'm telling you, and I told you it was gonna be that first pick in the in the in the in the first round. I'm telling you, that's gonna be him. If it ain't him, it who else could it be? It's nobody else. Uh uh, the only other player I can see them grabbing is the uh the safety ball from Toledo. That's the only two people I can see one pick.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

We're not we're not in that need of of a DB, bruh. Not like that.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

Not now because of Tariq Willin, duh, but we we're definitely still in the need of a goddamn safety. And if they don't go get the ball from Toledo, they're tripping. Like hardcore tripping. Uh, don't know what else they got going on.

SPEAKER_03 5:58

We have we have four, we have three safeties, and we could have brought back Marcus Ipps, and I'll and we should have switched, we should switch Keely Ringo to a safety. Andre Sam is good. Andre Sam is good. He has it, he just hasn't got his chance yet. Sydney Brown is still is still growing into who he is. He's still a very good player, he just has to get on the person when he tackles him. That's it. That's literally it. And and Andrew Makuba, it just has to stay healthy. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

These are those are in his second in his second year, so he got tons of time to go. Right.

SPEAKER_04 6:38

He he they asked a lot of him from uh they asked for a lot from him last year. And he in the first in his first few games, he answered. He answered. He's makuba is definitely one of the one of the better rookie safeties coming up in the in the league. He'll I think I actually think Makuba will become somebody very, very, very, very special. He low-key he reminded me of Eric Eric Reed from um uh uh uh uh the Ravens? KC. Nah, KC. That's Ed Reed. The ball from from um Steelers. KC no KC, the Chiefs.

SPEAKER_03 7:23

Oh, you're talking about that that read that I'm thinking this again. Like somebody somebody, I'm like Eric Reed.

SPEAKER_04 7:37

And he his name is spelled the last the way our name is spelled, R E I D. I think he's he'll become like him. He's a small safety, he but he got a lot of power for him.

SPEAKER_02 7:48

We should have got CJGJ every time he comes to this team, bro.

SPEAKER_04 7:53

We we go to the Super Bowl. I bet stay in that though.

SPEAKER_03 7:58

He don't think he thinks he's another I don't care how bad he is, bro. In in whatever Trotter Case they're saying, bro. He's producing on the field, and he can't be that bad. He cannot be that bad.

SPEAKER_00 8:11

Six interceptions.

SPEAKER_03 8:13

He's both on the field, bro. He's literally producing, he can't be that bad, bro. He will he's telling you, I want to be a belly and six interceptions. You can't argue the dude want to play for the team so bad. He said, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ravens, yeah, kick me off your team. I want to go to the Eagles. All right, bro.

SPEAKER_04 8:41

Anything anything to be a bird, and he and they still won't make him a bird. They could probably sign him for a veteran, uh veteran minimum.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

Yeah, because they said that he was a bird brain.

SPEAKER_04 8:52

Okay, how many bird brains is in the league right now? That's nice. Be real. A lot of them. Exactly. So what's wrong with adding? You just added another headcase, Tariq Moon.

SPEAKER_03 9:05

That's what I'm saying. This nigga's a known headcase, he's a problem on the field.

SPEAKER_02 9:11

CJ ain't no problem on the field, like, bro. Come on, bruh, come on, I ain't no son. Uh, you got Jalen Carter in there spitting on people and all kinds of shit, but you ain't gonna fuck with CJ GJ, the nigga on the field doing something.

SPEAKER_03 9:26

Hey bro, Philadelphia is very picky, bruh.

SPEAKER_00 9:32

No, they're inconsistent.

SPEAKER_03 9:36

Exactly. With everything though, they're inconsistent with how they want to work with players. It's like, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna take this dude and I'm gonna develop him. I'm gonna take Josh Job, I'm gonna send him somewhere else. He's gonna win a Super Bowl, but we're not gonna win him back. Or we're gonna we're gonna get these good ass linebackers, get rid of them, and then have a linebacker problem, and then wonder why. Like brother, it's it's it's just crazy. Like they they do this shit every time.

SPEAKER_04 10:03

We had we had linebacker long enough.

SPEAKER_03 10:06

What linebackers we have? Zaire White and and who was the other dude?

unknown 10:10

Zaire White.

SPEAKER_03 10:11

Yeah, Zaire White.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

Kazir White and um I forget the other guy's name, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:19

Like that situation, they let both of them niggas go. Like, what did they think was finna happen? That's crazy though. They they got lucky with that Zach Bond shit. They got lucky with him. They got it.

SPEAKER_00 10:29

Yeah, they you you you you you you you definitely found somebody. They got lucky with over overpaid him, and then he didn't really produce as much the following year.

SPEAKER_04 10:44

Who says Bond?

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:47

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 10:48

Saint Bond been a muscle since he's been here. No, last year he was kind of quiet. That's not true. Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_03 10:58

He wasn't, he didn't have the same type of season that he had the first year, but I mean he have like 32, didn't he have like 32, 34 solo tackles?

SPEAKER_04 11:07

How many look at him?

SPEAKER_00 11:09

He just didn't make the spash the splash plays in the in the in the crazy ass interceptions like he did a bunch of like a bunch of forced fumbles like he had that first year.

SPEAKER_03 11:21

Like that punching that shit.

SPEAKER_00 11:23

Y'all expect him to be a high punching ball out like at a high level. You're not really doing that.

SPEAKER_03 11:32

That's what you're supposed to do. You're in the NFL, that's what we paid you. And you just and you just got a huge contract, right? That's what they gave you the you do ain't.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

This is a guy that was a special teams player.

SPEAKER_03 11:45

That's what I'm saying. You haven't had money your four you haven't had the you haven't had money your whole career, your whole career, and you're what 27, and we just gave you bank like you're in your fourth year.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

You got a team that's willing to spend on you, you you you gotta go 110 on them.

SPEAKER_03 12:04

You supposed to come out there every game, break a toe running so hard.

SPEAKER_04 12:11

But then if he if he breaks a toe running so hard, you're gonna be sitting here saying that the man is trash because he always injured. No, no, come on now.

SPEAKER_03 12:18

That's him that's that's him that's all fans. We gotta do a lot better. Stop, bro. No, that's not me. I've never said that. That's him all day. That's straight pops. I've never said shit like that. I don't say N'Kobe Dean is trash because he could be injured. He says that he be like, uh the best type of player who ever played that is available.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

You done said, you say shit like that.

SPEAKER_03 12:44

You do say shit like that.

SPEAKER_04 12:47

You said the best type of thing.

SPEAKER_03 12:50

I'm just saying. I have never said I've never said anything about anybody being transcendent. First of all, first of all, I'm black.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

Second of all, I'm black. So with all that being said, and I just said it, don't be doing black on black crime.

SPEAKER_04 13:12

The streets.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

Right. This is the this is the read and react, the realm of positivity. Any celebration faces. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 13:23

Yao me, y'all mean on some Yao Ming. You feel me?

SPEAKER_00 13:27

Doing it real big on some Yao Ming.

SPEAKER_04 13:31

Isn't that the guy that played for uh Houston? Uh go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 13:36

That's not your team, bro. Stop it.

SPEAKER_04 13:39

I wasn't there.

SPEAKER_03 13:39

I'm my fault. He wasn't there. No. You were you're a Cavaliers fan now. What? That's where your that's where your your uh your man is at. Your guy is your man. That don't mean that that's my team. No, that's your team. That's my team. He's a bandwagoner.

SPEAKER_04 13:59

Listen, but listen, but listen, that just goes to show you that it's it's LeBron's fault that wasn't nobody coming over there. Because why is all them people in in Cleveland now? How did he get to Cleveland? And that's LeBron City.

SPEAKER_03 14:10

Why ain't nobody come to Cleveland when LeBron needs to be like you know how hey, you want to know how the 76ers got AI? Let me speak though. You know how the 76ers got AI? Dad, what you say? Dad, what'd you say? Three, two, one, say it with me. A lot of losing.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

Like they got out of team because it was losing.

SPEAKER_04 14:29

They had niggas wanting to play in Philly. During AI period, it was niggas that wanted to play in Philly. They just didn't pull for management.

SPEAKER_00 14:38

Didn't want to pay nobody.

SPEAKER_04 14:40

Exactly. Exactly. When when LeBron was over there in Cleveland, they had the money and and they had the team to do it. Ain't nobody want to play with him. It ain't ain't had nothing to do with where it was at. It was him. He had to go force teams. Look at look at Miami. But like I said, we ain't supposed to be talking about that. I don't want I don't want to get too much on the goat debate. Miami. Yeah, Miami.

SPEAKER_03 15:10

What are you trying to say?

SPEAKER_04 15:13

No. I'm gonna leave it alone. He got it.

SPEAKER_03 15:15

Not a damn thing.

SPEAKER_04 15:17

Not a thing, yeah. Not a damn thing. Damn 83.

SPEAKER_00 15:23

Damn, damn.

SPEAKER_04 15:25

Fuck damn. That shit don't count. Damn 83.

unknown 15:29

Right.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

That's the only thing we don't talk about. Are you talking about the craziest 83 points I ever seen before in my life? Yeah, like guarding him. 43 foul shots. Because he's like that.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

Nigga, he was out there sparking at him. Green beam from heaven. Green beam from heaven.

SPEAKER_04 15:50

Yo, he's gonna make 30 of the everyday nine. What are you talking about? That nigga don't pull 30.

SPEAKER_03 15:58

Who don't pull 30?

SPEAKER_04 16:00

Damn.

SPEAKER_03 16:01

Pull 30. What? Are you saying 30 points?

SPEAKER_04 16:04

That nigga has trouble pulling 30 every night.

SPEAKER_00 16:07

You're crazy. For the last three years, he's been in a a dominant scorer. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_04 16:13

Not 83.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Bro, he just did it. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_04 16:18

You can't say that he did. Look at who he played. Look at how they played last night. The Wizards, yeah. Look how they played against the uh Celtics last night. Nigga, they look terrible. Worst team in the league. Niggas won't win two games for the rest of the for the rest of the season. You're tripping.

SPEAKER_00 16:41

Last night, and the sixes was up 20 25 points. So that just tells me that defense in the NBA is non-existent. And that's why got 83 points.

SPEAKER_04 16:58

Yo, even uh even uh even uh even in the Celtics game after that happened the next day and the Celtics played the Wizards. They the commentary people, the people that be talking during the game, they was running that shit the whole time, bro. Nobody is like accepting that shit. That is a low hello aborted.

SPEAKER_03 17:21

There's no use your un there's no defense in the NBA. Pause, bruh. There's no NBA, there's no defense in the NBA. Yo, right now, first of all, fix your M F and face.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

That's number one.

SPEAKER_03 17:36

There's no in the NBA.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

Yo, number two, adjust your chin. Then go ahead and check your stats because the the defense in the NBA is gone.

SPEAKER_03 17:53

Explain how so.

SPEAKER_00 17:55

It's only it's like it's like two teams that play defense in the whole league. And whether it's defense, I mean that's uh Detroit and San Antonio.

SPEAKER_03 18:04

Not true.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

Cavaliers. They play all right. Evan Mobley. Look at who's on the team. Anytime you got a team that has a James Harden in it, you ain't playing no dick. James Harden just got there. James Harden just got there.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

James Harden. First of all, stop that shit. James Harden just got there. James Harden just got there. Evan Mobley was a was the defensive player of the year not too long ago, and he's on that team.

SPEAKER_00 18:32

We're talking about James Harden.

SPEAKER_03 18:35

James Harden just got there.

SPEAKER_04 18:38

It don't matter. James Harden hasn't played defense on any fucking team he's been on.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

Thank you. Thank you, sir.

SPEAKER_04 18:44

He hasn't played defense in fucking OKT, my nigga. What are you talking about? Bro, can I do that?

SPEAKER_03 18:52

So hey, so let me guess. It's the it's the it's the Cleveland James Hardens. Oh, oh, that's the name of the team now. Oh, I didn't know that. Y'all think y'all should have told me something. It's the it's the Cleveland James Hardens. Oh shit. Now I know. My bad. That's on me. I should I should have knew that. The the the uh Cleveland Hardens. Y'all ain't y'all ain't what are you why are you saying that though?

SPEAKER_04 19:18

Why are you saying that?

SPEAKER_03 19:18

It's a it's a it's it's five guys and they're all James Harden. It's the Cleveland Hardens. I guess they're all James Hardens.

SPEAKER_04 19:26

Nobody's saying that. No, we're talking about it.

SPEAKER_00 19:30

I said there's no defense in the NBA, period.

SPEAKER_03 19:34

And y'all acting like it's the Cleveland, it's the Cleveland James.

SPEAKER_04 19:36

Individually, a lot of niggas don't play defense on the Cleveland Cavaliers.

SPEAKER_03 19:41

They play defense. On Detroit, they play defense. On the Celtics, let me ask you a question. On the Celtics, they're gonna be available. Let me ask you a question. I can name I can name all the teams that play defense. Y'all finna say it. Can I ask a question? In the 76ers, we definitely play defense, but okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:53

Okay, can I can I ask a question? I'm listening. Right. How many teams is in the league in the NBA? Like 30. Okay. So in 30 teams, what are your top defensive teams? Detroit. Cleveland. San Antonio. You want to say the Sixers? There you go. Let's just throw anybody else in there. Let's say OKC. Let's say OKC because they're not going to be able to do that. You could take off the 76ers.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

So I say OKC and the Celtics. OKC and the Celtics. Take off the 76ers. You don't even got to put the 76s in there.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

Okay, so all right, so five teams, just for argument's sake. Okay. Five teams out of 30. So 30 teams. You only got five that play defense, and you're telling me that the defense is a staple of the defense of the NBA?

SPEAKER_03 20:54

I'm saying teams that's known for defense. There's defensive players.

SPEAKER_00 20:57

I don't say that it's no defense, but it's kind of just a team thing. As far as the league is concerned, where when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, everybody played defense. It was the staple of the NBA. That is no longer the staple at the NBA. What is the staple of the NBA? The threes.

SPEAKER_04 21:21

Oh I put the words right out my mouth.

SPEAKER_00 21:24

So everybody shoots the threes, and that's what all that counts. Right. Ice in my beans. Look at that. So so so that's it. And that's all my point. I'm not saying I'm not disrespecting the league, but the league has definitely changed.

SPEAKER_04 21:42

Did you not see how how how Edward shot that shot that three in the corner and then stare stuff down? Shit, crazy. And it's not all about the threes. Ain't nobody and they had two people sticking him, bro. He had two people sticking in. Where's the defense?

SPEAKER_03 21:55

Yeah, no defense. Where is the defense? Maybe he's just Okay.

SPEAKER_04 22:03

Okay, so so you don't think you don't think the the league is is like predominantly more offensive than defensive?

SPEAKER_03 22:12

That's not it's it's definitely more offensive because everybody's good at good at everything now, right?

SPEAKER_04 22:17

And that's what the original conversation was about. How niggas don't play defense.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

If you look at the all-star game, perfect example.

SPEAKER_05 22:25

You look at the all-star game, look at the scores of the all-star game.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

You got all-star games that's literally almost at 200 points. Excuse me, my nigga. No defense.

SPEAKER_04 22:43

It was not like that when Kobe and Jordan was around.

SPEAKER_00 22:46

You got guys that were on the what was on the um all-star games that were defensive stoppers. Stamp beat tools that would shut you down, and that's the reason why they made the all-star game. You don't have any guys that are really defensive stoppers now. I guess we're beating each other up on the court. Look how many seven-footers shoot threes.

SPEAKER_04 23:19

Exactly. I just was saying that I said that before. Andre Trump is shooting threes now.

SPEAKER_03 23:23

What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 23:24

That's what I just said. So if you're pulling yourself 25 foot away from the the the basket, that ain't damn damn no defense. You can't, how are you supposed to guard that? All right, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 23:36

I'm done. How are you supposed to guard that? What are you saying? You're saying there's no defense because you can't block a seven, three, seven foot nigga. What do you how what are you supposed to do? They're not driving in the paint. Paint defense is is very good.

SPEAKER_04 23:52

Is it or is people just settling?

SPEAKER_03 23:55

People settling.

SPEAKER_04 23:57

Because you got you got dudes that can get to the rim like SGA. You got dudes like him that can get to the rim, but he knows how to manipulate the defense because niggas is lazy and get fouls behind it. And the nigga gonna jump. Why are you jumping? He hasn't left his feet yet. You jump, he bangs you and hit the shot. That's lack of discipline on defense. You're jumping out of your shoes.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

You're using that as a freaking art form as the number one dude to get fouled in the league. Why? Because he's manipulating the the defense because of lack of defense.

SPEAKER_04 24:40

Lack of discipline on defense.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Right. There is no scheme. Schematically, the defense is gone.

SPEAKER_04 24:47

Did you see? Did you see how they was playing? Look at look at the wizard defense from from the Celtic team. Like, make sure you run these clips when I say that. Bro, just go get the third quarter highlights. Oh, I'm trying to tell you them niggas ain't playing no defense the whole game. I'm just saying the third quarter, just because that's where niggas really into the game already.

SPEAKER_03 25:07

A bunch of rookie ass players. Bro, there's plenty of teams back in the day. You're talking about them like there wasn't bum ass players back in 1922, 1960, 1990, 1930. You gotta go because you're talking about the Wizards like there's not 30, like 29 other teams in the fucking NBA. The bro, there's plenty of teams with defense. You cannot just bro. Y'all niggas are not finna say that, bro. There's plenty of teams with defense. The good teams in the NBA have defense, the Lakers have defense, the Mavericks have defense. You're not finna say none of these teams have fucking defense. There's hella teams with. All right in their way, bro. All right, but again, I can name 20 teams from back in the day that they had a fucking defense, bro. Like I'm not hearing that shit. It was like five good teams back in 1930, 1920, bro. I'm not hearing that shit. Back in 1805, when niggas was shooting fucking pig skins in the net.

SPEAKER_00 26:16

Yo, you said did you just say 1805?

SPEAKER_03 26:20

I'm not hearing that shit. Back in 1912, back in 1312, when niggas was hooping on a dinosaur and shit, bro. I'm like I'm gonna say one thing, bro. I just say one thing.

SPEAKER_04 26:41

Can I talk balls with the hole in it and shit?

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Excuse me. Can I say something? Go ahead, bro. Comedian of the year.

SPEAKER_04 26:51

SGA.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

I nominate you.

SPEAKER_04 26:55

Canadian of the year?

SPEAKER_00 26:57

I said comedian of the year.

SPEAKER_04 27:00

Oh, I thought this nigga said Canadian of the year. I said SGA.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

Comedian of the year. I nominate you. That's great, great. As you were, Sergeant.

SPEAKER_04 27:09

Wait, who you talking about, Michael? Absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 27:15

Bro, that shit is wild, man.

SPEAKER_05 27:20

Bro.

SPEAKER_03 27:26

Bro, there's defense in the NBA, bro. Y'all can't say that, bro. There's very good.

SPEAKER_04 27:32

Nobody was saying that it wasn't. We're speaking on the teams that don't. Bro, fuckers.

SPEAKER_03 27:39

Name the Wizard starting five. Who's who's the best player on the Wizards right now? So yo. He's not. Oh he is on that team. Ain't he injured though? Ain't he injured?

SPEAKER_04 27:51

Oh, he just played against Bam in the uh Boston. Bro, 6'2, bro.

SPEAKER_03 27:59

That don't count, bro. Like, bro, that don't count. Bro, he's not guarding.

SPEAKER_02 28:06

Bam is dope. Bam just scored 83 points. He's fucking 6'2. What do you want him to do?

SPEAKER_03 28:14

Against the whole team. It was three niggas guarding him.

SPEAKER_04 28:18

And and and you don't think that's bad defense?

SPEAKER_03 28:20

Alright, bro. Name somebody else on the team other than Trey Young.

SPEAKER_04 28:23

Name the starting five on the Wizards.

SPEAKER_03 28:24

Name the starting team. Name the starting five on the Wizards.

SPEAKER_04 28:29

Fuck the Wizards starting five.

SPEAKER_00 28:31

Trey Young. Are you serious right now? You're gonna sit there and try to have a discussion about anything that has to do about the Washington Wizards. Cool out. No defense in the league. You got like five teams. Cool the fuck out.

SPEAKER_04 28:48

You barely got it. We're not talking about individual playing defense.

SPEAKER_03 28:56

I don't like niggas like y'all because y'all are gonna y'all are acting like everybody back in there was playing defense.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

Y'all gonna be like, oh yeah, we had Shaq back in the day. We had Kemakar. We had niggas like we had niggas like Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen on the court. Can I just say one thing?

SPEAKER_00 29:13

Let me just say wait, wait, look at look at the look at look at look at the big man. Look at the big man that you just said. Dak. So that was the staple of big men back in the day. Right. Big big man. Look at the best big man right now in the league. San Antonio?

SPEAKER_04 29:33

No, Joker. Joker.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

No. And he's a three, he's a he's a three, uh, uh, uh, uh, a triple threat because he's gonna give you three things. He's gonna give you points, rebounds, and assists.

SPEAKER_04 29:47

Who Joker, right? No, yeah, because what's him called a percenter.

SPEAKER_00 29:53

Look at the my point is look at the difference between how big men were back in the day, big guys that give you points, and that's it. So now big guys are like bars, they put up a lot of points, they shoot threes, and they they're they're they even assist leaders. But it's nothing like the chat, or the or the Patrick Ewings or the Moses Malone's of the old days.

SPEAKER_03 30:25

It's positionless basketball.

SPEAKER_04 30:27

You can even throw, you can even throw Tim Duncan and Dirk in here. And Dirk is a different type of nigga.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

It's positionless basketball. No, Dirk was definitely a shooter.

SPEAKER_04 30:36

Nah, but he he definitely gets in the post. He's not popping a three on you every game. He getting into the post again.

SPEAKER_03 30:44

Positionless basketball.

SPEAKER_04 30:47

What's no, it wasn't back in the day. No, it wasn't positionless.

SPEAKER_03 30:51

It's positionless basketball right now. Y'all talking about shooting threes and shit. It's positionless basketball. My bad, my homie don't these big ass niggas don't get up dunk. Like, okay, bruh, they want to shoot threes now, bro, because they can make it.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

The point of the conversation was lack of defense in the NBA, period. And it's there. And the reason why is because of the positional changes that now, like you just said, big men ain't doing what normal big men do. You got big men now that seven foot four that do what? Shoot threes. So it changes the game. The things that they used to care about, which was defense and ball security. Now they don't care because all you want to do is outscore somebody, which is shooting threes, getting a bunch of rebounds, and running the court off the rebound.

SPEAKER_04 31:50

Off the fast break.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

Right. There you go.

SPEAKER_04 31:54

There's something crazy because a majority, majority of fast break points now and in threes, and that's that's a fact you can go check. And I know that for sure. You get more fast break threes, do you get a fast break dunk?

SPEAKER_00 32:08

Oh, you know back in the day when you go fast break, you're going to the hole. No, now they're going on extreme threes.

SPEAKER_04 32:15

You ain't even slowing down and running in the total corner.

SPEAKER_00 32:19

Hey, they'll give a give a 10 shot away for 25.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

Y'all, y'all sound like haters. This this is all I'm hearing. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you just want to validate your point about what somebody doesn't know speaker to what you know. That's not true. Y'all see you. Listen to y'all. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. This is what y'all doing. Hey, they're stopping to shoot threes. They're getting more points. Hey, they're tall and they can shoot threes. They weren't doing that back in the day. Hey. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, it's my point. It's my turn. No, it's my turn. No, listen. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey. That's exactly what I said, bro.

SPEAKER_04 33:02

We can do the everything. Let me ask you a question. Is it easier to score now or then? We should have been done with this. Wait, wait, wait. Is it easier to score in today's era of ball or Jordan's era of ball?

SPEAKER_03 33:21

No, it's not easier to score at all. If you go to the NBA.

SPEAKER_04 33:27

Is it easier to score in today's NBA or is it easier to score back when when Jordan was playing?

SPEAKER_03 33:34

Probably back when Jordan was playing. Them niggas will leave you open. Some niggas will leave you open to play the paint.

SPEAKER_04 33:41

Yeah, I'd be forgetting you slow.

SPEAKER_03 33:43

That's not true. They let Jordan open all the time at the three-point line. It's proof. Like they left people open at the three-point line. I have video proof of this shit. Yeah, I have video proof.

SPEAKER_04 33:57

And I got video proof of them leaving a lot of things.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

But you wrong. So back in the day, back in the day. Back in the day, it was way more coaches. So schematically, that was the deal. And so it was about all the headballs. It was about your scheme. So nobody was getting no brand new um easy layups and stuff like that. People didn't get layups. There was no easy layup rule.

SPEAKER_05 34:39

It was no easy bucket at all.

SPEAKER_00 34:41

And if you have to get a layup, they're gonna fail you and you earn it on the line. That was the old way. That ain't my problem. That's the truth.

SPEAKER_05 35:00

That's a funny.

SPEAKER_00 35:04

Because you don't have coaches that's like that now. Most of these coaches come are young coaches that come from um schools or or come from um organizations like summer leagues. Okay, yeah. Only so they can learn how to develop young talent.

SPEAKER_05 35:25

Let's take the winter, for example.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

And the teams that are the best are the ones that have the more established coach. Not true. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 35:37

That's not that's not that's not fully true. Because you just like I was about to say, we could take you could take LA, for example. The Celsius just won the one the final. Um Boston is doing. And he's a younger coach than JJ Reddick.

SPEAKER_00 35:54

No, that's not what I said. I said more established. Young guys that's that's the young coaches that's now mostly they come from colleges or they come from the organization's summerly programs where their biggest assets are utilizing young talent and bringing that talent together. More of how to handle people compared to uh a player's overall uh talent. It's all about can you can he handle with with these guys? And it's more it's more about that. Like the Boston Celtics guy came from the other Boston Celtics guy who came from Doc Rivers when Doc Rivers was the Boston Celtics coach. Right. So even though it's another coach and a younger coach, and it's a different coach, he's still coming from the same like repertoire of Doc Rivers.

SPEAKER_04 37:08

Yeah, right. It's just a different one off of him, yeah. A different style of his scheme is is based off of something he's seen from Doc Rivers or somebody like that.

SPEAKER_00 37:18

Off that and then and then his young boy took it from there, and then his young boy got it from there, and now his young boy is the coach, right? So now he's doing it his way, but what way? He really doing it the way from Doc Rivers' way, right?

SPEAKER_04 37:36

Right, he just added his own little sauce to the shit, right?

SPEAKER_00 37:40

That's it.

SPEAKER_04 37:40

That's a brother, yeah. Uh and we take my kill out of the conversation, come back.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

No, my kill took himself out of the conversation because my kills are.

SPEAKER_03 37:54

I'm just saying, bro, y'all, y'all a little iffy on y'all on y'all statements. Uh it ain't really, it ain't really the most established coaches winning right now. Uh the it's the it's the I didn't say that. You did say that. He said that it's it's more established coaches that's winning right now. That's that's what he said. What are you talking about? Like I said, who who just won the finals? OKC, right? Their coach is 41. He's only been coaching since 2020. Uh uh uh fucking That's what I said. The Celtics, the Celtics coach.

SPEAKER_04 38:27

That's what I just said. He just said the younger coaches is the ones taking over more than the ones that's established.

SPEAKER_00 38:35

That's what I just said. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 38:37

You're you you're saying it backwards. Um that's not what he said. He did not say the the older coaches is more established than him.

SPEAKER_03 38:44

All right, all right.

SPEAKER_04 38:44

I was about to say mad at me. Don't be mad at me.

SPEAKER_03 38:52

I know teams with defenses, plenty of them.

SPEAKER_04 38:55

All right, give me give me two right now, and don't say the Boston Celsius, and don't say OKC. And don't say, don't say the Fixers, and don't say uh the Spurs, and don't say Detroit. Give me another team. Give me another team in the league right now that's primarily defensive.

SPEAKER_03 39:10

The whole team, there's not a whole bunch of primarily defensive players.

SPEAKER_04 39:15

Oh, then defense is a fucking problem in the NBA. No, and who who started all of that problem with being defensive problems? You're goat. Sorry, Swapper King. But I ain't wanna bring that nigga up. I'm just keeping it above.

SPEAKER_03 39:29

Alright, guys, so now we're gonna move on to the rant and rave. Uh cops, go ahead and go first, man.

SPEAKER_00 39:35

So today my rant is gonna stay with me. And today I'm gonna rave. Today I'm gonna rave about Duke. Duke men, Duke Women, Duke Men football. First time ever. And NCAA Sports, all three teams won the tournament. Uh their conference tournament. That's a great milestone and for a story franchise like Duke. It says a lot. Especially for the first time in NCAA history that that ever happened. So that's my rave.

SPEAKER_03 40:22

Go doing a word.

SPEAKER_04 40:32

Um, but alright. Um, I don't really have the rant. I I don't I don't really have a rant um today, but uh I'm gonna go to my usual rave and and more positivity in the world, guys. Same thing as always. That's the only thing I'm ever gonna push when it comes to these raves. Every time I think of a rave, I only think about ways to tell y'all to get closer to God because that's that's that's all that ever matters at the end of the day. I tell y'all all the time, we put a lot of work into this. This shit ain't easy, it's a long road, you gotta put hard effort in, all that. We always need that, and I I don't know, but I'm I feel like I'm the one that advocates that every single time. And I ain't saying these guys don't because they definitely do, on and off camera. But I'm always gonna push the same thing when it comes to my um my raids. God, guy, guy. Get them in your life. No time is a good time until now. Get that man in your life and and and find find yourself. Find yourself, find yourself. That's my raid. Matter of fact, I got a little bit of a rant. I got a little bit of a rant. I want to see um I wanna see Eagles do more in um in these conversations with AJ Brown. I don't like the fact that it's too much, it's it's so much circulation around that for them not to put out a statement and shut it down. And the fact that Howie Roseman went to the fucking draft draw and was talking about how he's not giving up AJ Brown, and the conversations are still flowing as if AJ Brown needs to go, that's a that's to me, that's a load of bullshit. They need to they need to find a way to knit this shit in the butt. It's ASAP. And the same thing goes for fucking Jalen Carter. Get these niggas' names out of the trade rumors. Because if these niggas is niggas that y'all saying is top dogs for us, keep them out of the fucking trade rumors. Because all the trade rumor shit about these two players is is is insane when we actually need both of them niggas. And that's my rant.

SPEAKER_03 42:43

Alright, guys, so my rant and my rave is first I'm gonna go with my rave first. You know, stay positive, man, stay consistent, stay on your stay on your grind, bro. Anything that you want to be in life, bro, you can do that shit, bro. I'm trying to tell y'all, man. Because look at us, bro. One day we believe this is gonna become something special, and we have goals and we have plans for our life. And I hope y'all have the same type of aspirations and goals, man. Because you know how much we love y'all and y'all love us, and we appreciate y'all. And I know we y'all appreciate us, and we ain't gonna stop. So y'all shouldn't stop. Y'all got one life, live it to the fullest. Y'all cannot drive. Y'all need to learn how to drive. It's a problem. Y'all are tripping, bruh. They need to take five, they need to every 10, 5 to 10 years, y'all need to do courses or something because that shit is not it. Y'all know we're tired of it. We we it's me and my family, and y'all watching a motherfucking reader react. Hey, go ahead and cue that motherfucking music, man.

SPEAKER_01 43:56

Yeah. Hey, it's the reader. It's the reason.