00:00Let's solve the world's problems.
00:03Go ahead.
00:04Michael, welcome back.
00:05You know what?
00:06I'm going to start off with an easy thing for you.
00:09And we kind of touched upon it earlier in the show.
00:12Yes, I think Renegade is going to win the Kentucky Derby
00:14with his smashing performance in the Arkansas Derby.
00:17It was a great performance.
00:19Shut up.
00:19Thank you for sharing that with me.
00:21I know.
00:21It was tremendous.
00:22Go ahead.
00:23Can we say that in order to make the Final Four
00:28and win a national title,
00:30you need a first-round NBA player or international player?
00:35Yeah, I mean, the NBA part is far more important.
00:38This is why MSU is not winning a second championship under Izzo.
00:42They don't have NBA talent.
00:43They have really good college players.
00:44Well, guess what happens when you run into NBA talent?
00:47You get yaxled.
00:48You need NBA talent.
00:51When you think about it,
00:52it's why that loss to Syracuse in a tournament hurt
00:54because you had an NBA player.
00:56You had two.
00:57I'm going to leave that alone.
00:58I'll leave it alone.
01:00I'll leave it alone
01:00because it's too early in the week to anger you
01:02and mention Ben Carter's late brace.
01:04You can't hurt me.
01:05We're good.
01:0525 to 6.
01:06You can't hurt me.
01:08Most definitely, I feel like I do agree with Mike.
01:10The NBA talent is a little more important to it.
01:13But then at the same time as well,
01:14as much as people say,
01:16oh, get the NBA talent or allocate a lot of money,
01:18look at the teams like, for example, Kentucky.
01:21You can shell out 10 million.
01:23It doesn't really equate to...
01:24Yeah, but hold on.
01:24Yeah, Corbin, that's bad evaluations.
01:27I don't care about Kentucky falling on their ass
01:29because Mark Pope's an idiot.
01:31Well, no.
01:31My point is, if you don't have NBA talent,
01:33you have no chance.
01:34If you do, it doesn't guarantee anything.
01:37But Corbin, you know what I know.
01:38There's not a single player on this state team
01:40that's an NBA player.
01:40No, I...
01:41Not one.
01:41By all means, I agree with that as well.
01:43I mean, the U of M...
01:44I mean, not U of M, MSU, in my opinion,
01:46were a little too fraudulent for that sole reason.
01:49I just think that when there are teams
01:50that are shelling out the money like a Kentucky
01:52with players who might not be first-round
01:55or lottery pick caliber,
01:56but still on the cusp of it necessarily,
01:58I don't think it'll equal to results
01:59as people think it would.
02:01No, it's not a guarantee.
02:02But if you don't do it, you got no shot.
02:05Can we say that Yaxel Lindeborg
02:09will be the best player that Michigan had
02:12in modern history?
02:14I'm not going back to the Kazzy days.
02:16I'm saying modern history.
02:18No, no.
02:20He's an outstanding college player
02:23now that we're allowing 30-year-olds
02:24to play in college.
02:26But no, Michigan's had some wonderful,
02:29like, legit NBA...
02:31Like, do I think Yaxel will be an NBA all-star?
02:33No.
02:34No, but I'm not talking NBA.
02:35I'm talking...
02:36Oh, college?
02:36At Michigan.
02:38At Michigan, will he go down as the best player,
02:41a best Michigan player?
02:43In the modern era?
02:46How long's modern?
02:47I'm not being a smartass.
02:48No.
02:48Okay, let's...
02:49We take it back to...
02:50You want to say a decade?
02:51No, we can take it back to 2000.
02:53What was it?
02:57Yeah, maybe.
02:59Just because I...
02:59Well, I think they're winning the title.
03:01So, all right.
03:02Yeah, I can go with that.
03:04I would say maybe as well on the sense of just how great he is
03:08as a basketball talent, but I will say if you had U of M fans
03:12kind of make a list, I feel like some players might over-trump him
03:16like a Trey Burke, because obviously he was very beloved,
03:18maybe like a Nick Stauskas or whatever, but I think...
03:21It's a weird gray area.
03:23No, no, but I look at that, and that's what I was thinking,
03:25but I'm watching him.
03:27He could take over the game no matter what.
03:29He doesn't even...
03:30He could throw out the assist.
03:31He could play defense.
03:32He could score.
03:33Those guys were very good.
03:35But I look at him, and I'm like,
03:37for that one year, he's going to become legendary at that school,
03:41especially if they end up winning the whole thing.
03:43Can we say that the Duke Blue Devils blew the game
03:48more than UConn won the game?
03:50100%.
03:51It's not even close.
03:52I mean, I give Mullen full credit for hitting the shot
03:55and the tip and the whole bit.
03:57He blew a 20-point lead.
03:59It's ridiculous.
04:00And then the last play, I'll shout out Rico.
04:03He's been calling him bad boozer all year.
04:06Bad boozer did bad boozer things.
04:08Yes, it was one of the ultimate chokes,
04:10and you just hate to see it.
04:14How many points do you have to be up before it's like,
04:17I'm the one that blew this thing?
04:19It depends on time.
04:20You blow a 10-point lead in the last three minutes, choke.
04:23Right.
04:2417, 18-point lead any time in the second half, debacle.
04:29Yeah.
04:29To me.
04:30It was a 19-point lead, but it was in the first half,
04:33but still, okay, it's a five-point lead late in the game.
04:37Okay, we hit our free throws.
04:39We could win this thing.
04:40And then it just got to the point where,
04:41can we just inbound the ball and get fouled?
04:44Question mark.
04:45Yeah, you can't choke away a lead like that no matter what time it is.
04:48And at the same time as well, sure,
04:50he can do the crying in the post-game interview.
04:53That's just a Cardinal sin in basketball.
04:55Ten seconds left, and Kyle, you hold the ball.
04:57You don't, I don't care what your percentage is free throws.
04:59You didn't even have to cross the half-court line.
05:01You could have just held the ball.
05:03Yeah.
05:04You hate to see it.
05:05Can we say that the Illinois basketball team is a team
05:10that really nobody's talking about in this Final Four?
05:12I know one person who did.
05:14Mr. Rico Beard, you've loved Illinois all year, man.
05:17It's okay to take a little victory lap,
05:19even though you didn't draft him, and I did in our Sweet 16 pool.
05:22Well, because you took him before I could.
05:23You hate it.
05:25Yeah, and look, they're a fun story.
05:29I really love Brad Underwood's RBF.
05:32You know, he just looks miserable constantly.
05:34But they're fun to watch,
05:36and they've got a hell of a story with Wagler,
05:38the international crew.
05:40Why not?
05:42Now, they better pray they don't see Michigan, but why not?
05:45Well, yeah, because I thought that was going to be a better game
05:47when they played earlier in the year.
05:51They're a lot like Alabama,
05:52and they rely a lot on their three-pointers.
05:55And when the three-pointers aren't falling,
05:57do they have anybody who has two pounds of wheat at their house?
06:00No.
06:01Well, a lot of cigarettes.
06:05Yeah, the Illinois team, I mean, no one's really talking about them,
06:07but they're the fun team.
06:08I mean, I wouldn't be mad if they end up winning at all.
06:12Can we say that UConn is the center of college hoops?
06:19As in what?
06:20The standard is what a program is?
06:22Right.
06:23They are the new standard.
06:24100% to me.
06:26Dan Hurley, as weird as he is, knows what he's doing.
06:31Can we say he crossed the weird threshold
06:33with the pantsless celebration in the locker room?
06:37What was that?
06:38What are we doing with bath towels here?
06:42No, just did he or did he not cross into Weirdville?
06:46He may have, but you just won.
06:47You beat Duke, and I guess there are certain things you could be allowed to do.
06:51Okay.
06:51UConn's always been the sneaky blue blood, in my opinion.
06:54I'm happy that this particular run with Dan Hurley is more so solidifying it.
06:59And at the end of the day, if he wins it all, he'll be one of, I believe,
07:02seven coaches to hit the three-title stretch mark.
07:05I mean, he's the best in all of college athletics for basketball, of course.
07:08Yeah, no, UConn is the 1A in my eyes.
07:12Okay.
07:13So, yeah, I still look back to that Duke game, and I just,
07:17what were you doing in that final 10 seconds?
07:20I don't get it.
07:21It makes no sense.
07:23And what was John Shire doing with that stupid look on his face?
07:26We don't have time.
07:27We'll get to that later.
07:29This is Can We Say That 97.1.
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