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00:00Tyler's in the building as well.
00:01By the way, last night, man, that damn euphoria, boy, is taking me out now.
00:11It is.
00:11Still haven't started the new season.
00:13Can't bring myself to do it yet.
00:14My God, I'm completely caught up.
00:17I'm on the week-to-week watch now on Sundays.
00:20It is.
00:20So it's good?
00:21New season?
00:23It's a different level of intense.
00:25It is one of the most intense shows I've ever watched.
00:28Yeah.
00:28It's a different level of intense.
00:30I wouldn't have guessed it could get more intense.
00:32And that's why I had to put it down.
00:34It was too much anxiety.
00:36Oh, I know it.
00:36It was too stressful.
00:38It's an easier level, I think, to accept now of anxiety.
00:42Man.
00:42But you've got to watch the other parts.
00:44Zendaya was so good.
00:46Realistic.
00:47When she was strung out and the whole thing with her mom.
00:49She still is.
00:50Like, I just could not come back from that.
00:53I was like, you know what?
00:54Heavy.
00:55This is heavy.
00:56This is bringing down my mood and my vibe.
00:59And then there's Sydney Sweeney.
01:01That's one very good reason to watch that show.
01:03I'll tell you what.
01:04That's an artistic show.
01:05She is a work of art.
01:07And Zendaya's acting is a work of art.
01:09The writing in that show is a work of art.
01:12But it just gets me in my feels a little bit too much.
01:14We're taking it up a notch with Sydney Sweeney.
01:16You've moved a boat and son of a bitch.
01:18No, she's talented.
01:19I'm talking about it in the new season.
01:21We're taking it up a notch.
01:23Yeah.
01:24Go for speed or for comfort?
01:26It's ended it off with a cliffhanger too, boy.
01:29In this episode.
01:30Yeah.
01:31You know one thing that bothers me about Sydney?
01:33Like, are they still in high school?
01:34No, no, not now.
01:35They're in college now?
01:36Now the new season.
01:37I know they're older.
01:38I will say I've not seen anyone step foot in college.
01:40I think we're past college.
01:41Okay.
01:42Yeah.
01:43Well, I get that.
01:43Nobody in the season has stepped foot in college.
01:45Started their careers of sorts.
01:47I did because I was like, man, at some point, Sydney Sweeney is just going to be too damn
01:52sexy to be playing all these high school roles.
01:54Like in White Lotus, I think I want to say she was a high school kid maybe or maybe an
01:57early college.
01:58It's like, hey, we need to be very clear about what that is.
02:01That's an adult woman because we are all thinking the same thing.
02:05Bringing it.
02:05And that is not a high school kid that we're thinking these things about.
02:08Bringing it.
02:09She is well put together, I tell you.
02:11A woman.
02:12Yes.
02:12All right.
02:13Yes, she is a grown woman.
02:15Let's be clear.
02:17She is fully developed.
02:20Yeah.
02:20She's an adult.
02:21Yes.
02:22Yes.
02:23I might do my little rewatch of the last few episodes of that first season tonight and
02:29then jump into it because I don't have anything to watch right now.
02:31Yeah, it is.
02:32It's phenomenal.
02:33It is.
02:33Yeah, you'll roll right through it.
02:35It is.
02:35It's just you got to stop.
02:37You got to chill.
02:38Give yourself a break.
02:39I don't.
02:39Yeah, I had to pause a couple of times there.
02:42All right.
02:43I know certain scenes I'll be pausing as well.
02:45Yeah, I know you will, Tyler.
02:47We all know the scenes you're talking about, Tyler.
02:49That's wild.
02:49We've gotten that understood.
02:52Pausing scenes is crazy.
02:55No, I haven't had to pause the scene for what he's pausing.
02:58It's like crazy.
02:59I'd need to take a smoke break without the cigarette.
03:02I mean, there's some times where she's maybe just like, I need a minute here.
03:06Whoa.
03:07That one, that episode where she was just running the whole time.
03:10Oh, that one.
03:11They know what they be doing.
03:13That was intense, boy.
03:15They know what they be doing.
03:16A lot of bouncing and reaping.
03:17I'm talking about that one when Zendaya was running the entire episode.
03:20Oh, that one.
03:21Oh, that one.
03:23I'm like, good God, man.
03:24I got to get a hold of myself.
03:25This is getting crazy.
03:27All right.
03:28Here's Rafael Stone, the general manager of the Rockets, talking about the offseason
03:34and what the focal point will be.
03:36Well, I want to make it better.
03:38I think we're obviously not good enough, and so that reflects on all of us, and we all
03:48have to get better at our respective jobs, but especially given the youth of our starters
03:54in the playoffs, all five of those guys really need to take big jumps.
03:58The good news is I feel like they did that last summer, and I expect it, and they're at
04:04an age where that should happen, but that, yeah, we just, we have to get better, and
04:08then in terms of the rest of the roster, you know, we'll look at everything, but I think
04:14our big focal point going into the summer is those young guys really improving.
04:18Yeah, all five guys taking large steps is what Rafael Stone said.
04:23All of them.
04:24The ones who started.
04:26The easiest can be.
04:27Yeah, all five of them taking large steps.
04:29He's a dreamer.
04:30The dream with him.
04:32The guy's a dreamer.
04:33Listen, and everybody can jump in, 713-572-4610, YouTube and Twitch, and you're watching it.
04:38We're watching it, to me, like there are the three teams that are playing competitive
04:43basketball for four quarters in the Western Conference right now, which is everybody but
04:48the Lakers whose season will end tonight.
04:52The Thunder, the Spurs, and obviously the Minnesota Timberwolves.
04:57All of those teams, you're watching them, like that's the range you've got to get to.
05:02I would even throw the Pistons in there.
05:03I know it's the East, but in terms of young teams up and coming.
05:07Yeah, but I'm just thinking contending teams.
05:10The Knicks you could throw in there, too.
05:12Seriously contending teams.
05:13That's where the Rockets have to get to.
05:16What do you think they need to do?
05:18Because he said the focal point is we need all five of them dudes that started to take,
05:23he said big steps.
05:25That's Shingun, that's Smith, that's Shepard, that's Eason, that's a man Thompson.
05:32All have to take big jumps to get to that level.
05:37That, okay.
05:38All right.
05:39That is a hell of a, that's a very lofty goal to me.
05:42But in your mind, what do they need to do to get to that level that we've been watching?
05:48Man, I feel real negative today.
05:50I feel real negative today because I counted the Astros out earlier in the show.
05:54And my answer to your question, as it pertains to what do the Rockets need to do
05:59to become a contender to be more along the lines of the level of San Antonio and OKC,
06:06my answer, my honest-to-God answer, is that there's nothing they can do.
06:12Like, I don't think.
06:14There's nothing they can do at all.
06:15I don't think, like, I'm not going to say there's nothing that they can do.
06:18I don't think there's anything that they're realistically doing that's going to put them
06:23there.
06:24I think that they are better than what we just saw this year, this past year, but not
06:31quite above, like, what the Lakers ceiling is right now.
06:35I think that's ultimately what their ceiling is.
06:38Something around anywhere from a 2-4 seed, depending on how the season plays out.
06:42But somewhere around that second.
06:44Could they make it to the second round next year?
06:47Yeah.
06:47But do I think they're going to be able to...
06:48That's what we're talking about, though.
06:49Yeah.
06:50Yeah.
06:50Second round, sure.
06:51But, I mean, what is that?
06:52Like, can they make it through that gauntlet, though, of, like, all of those other teams
06:56are ahead of them now.
06:58And I think they are going to be ahead of them no matter what it is the Rockets do, whether
07:03they go star hunting, bring in a Giannis, bring in a Kawhi, trade for Donovan Mitchell.
07:08They can do any and all of those things, right?
07:10And I don't think that they're going to be able to put a team, a good enough team around
07:14those guys to be on the same level as OKC or San Antonio, or maybe even Minnesota for that
07:21matter.
07:21So, I think that they are just kind of stuck behind.
07:25It's the reality of it.
07:28Now, what would I do?
07:30Really?
07:31Like, what am I more in favor of?
07:34I am in favor of cashing your chips in and going out and getting a star, as realistic as
07:41it may be, right?
07:42Like, if you can pull it off, like, I think they should be having all of these conversations
07:46about guys, right?
07:47I'm not interested in Kawhi.
07:48But they should have every conversation about a potential star that could be available because
07:52they have the ammunition to go get it.
07:54They should have the Giannis conversation.
07:56They should have the Kawhi Leonard conversation, even though I don't think they should do that.
07:59They should have the Donovan Mitchell conversation.
08:01Do I think ultimately doing any of that is going to make them on the level of those teams?
08:09No, I do not.
08:10Nor do I trust the internal growth of those five guys that Raphael Stone is talking about
08:15resulting in them being on that level.
08:18Could it happen?
08:19Sure.
08:20I wouldn't bet on it.
08:24Really?
08:24So, you don't even think there is a move or a trade?
08:28Because I'm with you.
08:29I definitely don't think their current roster is that.
08:33If they've got to make a move to me, obviously, Shingun or Thompson would be the guys to trade
08:40for a win-now player of some sort.
08:45But you don't even think there is a win-now player like Giannis, like whoever, that could
08:51come in here and put them in the space where they can compete?
08:56Because I look at Minnesota, and obviously they had Edwards, but their thought was, we
09:03got Towns, we got Rudy, we got Edwards.
09:07And then they said, well, this isn't working.
09:10We're going to trade Carl Anthony Towns, who's a very talented big, and we're going to go get
09:15Julius Randle, who's a different player, probably not on the level as Carl Anthony Towns, but
09:21that move kind of changed a lot for them.
09:24Now, they developed some other guys like McDaniels and stuff, but that move changed a lot for
09:29them.
09:30And they look like they're competing on the level of a contender.
09:34But you don't even think there is a move to be made, even using the chips of either
09:39Shingun or Ahmed Thompson that can get this team.
09:41I don't see, I'll put it this way, I don't see a clear path to the Rockets becoming a
09:49contender beyond like a second-tier Western Conference team.
09:53I think if they run it back and everybody's healthy, they're better than they were this
09:57past year.
09:57They probably get past the Lakers, as they did not this past year.
10:01I think they are, they go from that, because right now they're like a third-tier playoff team.
10:05I mean, they might as well be the Suns, I mean, if we're just being honest about it.
10:10But I think if they run it back, they could be second-tier.
10:14I think if they trade for Giannis, they could also be second-tier.
10:18Do I think that any of that is going to make them on the level of those other teams?
10:22I don't see a clear path to that.
10:24Whatever the path is, it is not a clear and obvious one.
10:27It is one that I cannot foresee or predict.
10:31That is, it's either a star, because here's my thing.
10:36I've said this too, and if I haven't, I'll say it now.
10:39The guys that I'm really most in favor of trading for are guys that are likely not available.
10:45They're the ones, they're the stars, not the Giannis 30 and up type, but like these guys
10:51that are under 29 that are superstars.
10:54You think about the Cade Cunninghams of the world, Anthony Edwards of the world, even Jason
10:58Tatum, guys like that.
11:00Those are the ones that I feel like if you trade for one of those, now we're having a
11:03different conversation.
11:04I just don't think-
11:05Those guys aren't available.
11:05I don't think any of those guys that we're talking about are available.
11:08Maybe Brown?
11:09Maybe, I don't know.
11:10And he falls right outside of what I'm talking about.
11:14He's with Jalen Brunson of guys that are going to turn 30 this year, and just a little
11:18bit beyond what I'm talking about.
11:20So, like the guys that would change, you know, Cade, Wimby, Anthony Edwards, Luka, right?
11:29Jason Tatum.
11:30The guys that are under 29 that are bonafide superstars already right now today, those are
11:35the guys that I think you could trade for and then start talking about changing the trajectory
11:39of your team.
11:40The older ones, I'm not quite so sure.
11:42That's crazy to me.
11:43I feel like if they weren't able to bring in Giannis and put the right pieces around
11:48them, now that is a big deal, but put the right pieces around them-
11:53That's not a small piece of this.
11:54It's not, but to me, like, you got to give yourself a chance to do that by bringing in
12:00the players.
12:00That's why I feel like they got to have the conversation.
12:02To put the right pieces around them, they could, but for you, it sounds like you think
12:06the number one thing is nothing can do it.
12:09And you don't even feel confident that a trade of one of those pieces to bring one in could
12:14do it.
12:16So should they just be ripping this thing apart or starting over or trying to do like
12:21what?
12:21No, not at all.
12:22No, because they're still perfectly positioned to grow the team.
12:29It's very possible that the guy that I'm talking about, their Cade, there's only one
12:35Wimby, but you understand what I mean.
12:36Their Cade, their Anthony Edwards, their guy.
12:39It's somebody that we have never heard of yet.
12:41Somebody that they haven't drafted because they got all of these picks.
12:43We obsess over, or I would say we overuse the term young core when we talk about these
12:49five guys, and they are young guys, but we also kind of forget that they could make a
12:56whole new young core.
12:57Like, they could, like, without starting over.
12:59They can try their damnedest.
13:01Because I'm not, what I'm not saying is they shouldn't do nothing, right?
13:05That they shouldn't expect this internal growth from their young core.
13:07That they shouldn't go down this road about trading for a superstar.
13:11They should explore all options and still act as if they are trying to compete for a championship.
13:16They should still behave in that manner.
13:17I'm just giving you my opinion of what the situation is.
13:20But it is also possible that that guy just has not been drafted yet.
13:27Yeah.
13:28I don't know, boys.
13:29By the way, update out of the NBA playoffs.
13:32Victor Wimbanyama, who just tried to take out Nas Reed yesterday.
13:37I mean, you talk about an elbow.
13:40My man looked at him at the corner of his eye and just nailed him.
13:44Took him off his feet.
13:45He was ejected with a flagrant two.
13:47Nas Reed can eat a punch, man.
13:49Or an elbow in this case.
13:51Yeah, he took one.
13:52Yeah, that's not a jaw or chin made of glass.
13:55Sharp ass elbows he's got.
13:56But the NBA has already made the decision, according to Shams, that Victor Wimbanyama,
14:03he is going to avoid a suspension from Nas Reed in the elbow.
14:07And he will play in game five.
14:08Listen, I think it's good for basketball watchers that he is going to play in game five.
14:17But gun to my head, hard or scrolled him, I think he should have been suspended.
14:22I think what he did, like that can't, like you can't, it is hard for me to look at it
14:29and set a precedent
14:30that say that that's something that won't get you multiple games.
14:34I mean, he lined, he looked at him, lined him up.
14:38He did.
14:39And just, I mean, it wasn't just a friendly touch.
14:43He lost it.
14:44They've been very, very physical with him.
14:46And he just laid him out with an elbow that if laid the right place could have been a lot
14:55worse than what it ended up being.
14:58And I'm not, I'm not shocked that they didn't suspend him because I don't think they want to.
15:03But I, but, but I, I think, I think what he did reached the level of he should have been
15:10suspended.
15:10Yeah, I think I lean toward, I agree with everything you're saying, but I actually lean toward the greater good
15:17of the game
15:18versus this idea of being punitive for the sake of being punitive.
15:23Like, I think the only reason to really suspend him would have been to send a message or to not
15:28set a precedent the way you put it.
15:30But I also don't think that just because he didn't get suspended means that now a guy's just going to
15:34be elbowing other guys in the face like that.
15:36Like, I think everybody can reasonably look at that.
15:38Even Winby himself has to look back at it and say, hey, can't do that on the court.
15:43And I think everybody knows that.
15:44So it's not like there's a slippery slope or you're opening up Pandora's box for, oh, now, now everybody's going
15:50to be Carl Malone with their elbows.
15:51I don't think that's the case.
15:53So I'm good with not, like we were talking about overreaction before.
15:58I think suspending him while justified also could have been considered an overreaction.
16:02Let's just play basketball.
16:03I just think it was.
16:04Don't do that anymore.
16:05Let's play basketball.
16:06It was such an unsafe thing.
16:09Don't do it anymore.
16:09That it was that, like, I would have, I would have run on him.
16:13Someone said suspended, LOL, you saw.
16:15Oh, okay.
16:17I mean, Ron Artest did the same thing to, I forgot who it was he did.
16:20It was James Harden.
16:21He would celebrate, yes.
16:22It was James Harden when he was the Thunder.
16:25Harden looked so young.
16:26Yeah, he did.
16:26When he had the Mohawk and he could wear those and not look silly.
16:29Yeah, as an adult, man.
16:30Yeah.
16:31That was why.
16:32But you know what?
16:32I watched the Buffalo Sabres and Montreal Canadiens in their game last night with about seven or eight fights.
16:43I think they all should get run.
16:44It's about seven or eight fights and nobody's going to suspend none of them.
16:48It's the stupidest thing.
16:48I'm just saying.
16:49I mean, that's part of that sport.
16:50But it's dumb that it's part of it.
16:52It's dumb that it's part of it.
16:53But it is.
16:55And it's not in the NBA.
16:57I think that's the difference.
16:58But what I'm saying is, I think part of it is a little bit of an overreaction to one and
17:04an underreaction to the other.
17:05So I would meet in the middle and say, don't do almost cuss.
17:09Don't do silly stuff like that.
17:11And let's play ball.
17:12Let's go.
17:12Let's go.
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