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Valenti admits he was completely blown away by Tom Izzo's squad, calling the Spartans an absolute "wagon" and declaring that for once, they looked like the team with better athletes, length, shot creation, and NBA-caliber freshmen.
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00:00Welcome in on a Wednesday. We need five minutes before we get back into lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions,
00:10lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions and lions and lions and lions and that's in a theme.
00:18Well, dude, it was just all day yesterday. Nothing changes and people still want to talk about it.
00:23Okay. I'll be your huckleberry, but you know, for, for my mental health, can I take five minutes to talk
00:28about something that's actually interesting? Lions? No, the lions are not interesting. We all knew they weren't going to make
00:34a damn trade. They didn't make a damn trade. The same people were upset with them that they weren't going
00:39to make a trade or upset. And the same ass kissers who love Brad and would drink his bath water.
00:45They're going to defend it. Nothing changes. Good team. Not a great team. Good team. Not a Superbowl team.
00:53Shemizel, shemazel. I mean, I just, Rico was four hours yesterday and it's just like, what? I turn on the
00:59station at 15 different points today. All the same thing. Zabbity doo. So we still got half a season to
01:07go. Great. Wake me up when I play somebody I care about. All right. So look, I want to take
01:11five minutes before we go back into lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, Brad, lions, Brad, Dan,
01:19lions, lions, lions.
01:19So I did something for you last night as we start this show. Yeah. I did something for you. I
01:26was very, uh, I was upset about it. And then honestly, I went, I'm glad I did this.
01:32I watched, I'm intrigued. I watched Michigan state Duke. Okay. I gave it my time. You know how I feel
01:37about early season college basketball, much less early season.
01:42Izzo out of conference basketball. I have to, I have to tell you something in, in, in, in basically telling
01:48you this, I'm asking you. Okay.
01:52I think they're an effing wagon.
01:54I think Michigan state, this, this, this might be the thing. Like this might be the team Rico. I watched
02:02and it was like, I'm always left going.
02:06Damn it. Tom, why don't you have a freshman like that? Or why don't we have athletic wings this way?
02:12Why do our players look like they're at like camp?
02:16And these other dudes look like they're 35 with two kids. I watched you wire to wire Duke. MSU never
02:24beats Duke, but you wire to wire them.
02:26You dominate them. You're holding the 33% shooting. The defense was outstanding last night.
02:3124% from the three you have the true floor, general playmaker leader point guard and Jeremy fears.
02:38You've got copious amounts of lengthy athletic wing playmakers. You have some shot creation, some jump shooting. You have some
02:49bigs. There's depth on this team. It's not reliant on one singular person.
02:55I have to tell you, I know it's one game. I checked Ken Palm, you know, Ken Palm, right?
03:03How many games do you think state will be an underdog the rest of the season as we sit here
03:09today? I'm doing this for you.
03:12I'm going to say six lower, three lower, two, one, one. I just wanted to give this five at Tennessee.
03:23Yes. Okay.
03:24Just, just five minutes before we go lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, lions, Dan, Brad, lions, lions, the
03:33lions, Brad, Dan, lions, lions.
03:36I just for all lions, for all of the times I have been like Rico, whatever, right? Like, okay, state
03:44will be good, but they're not going to win it all.
03:46Well, Rico, that looked like the team. I think Spartan fans have been chasing for the better part of a
03:54decade, at least where you go. Okay.
03:57Like this, this Pete Jervis kid, that kid's legit.
04:01Josiah Jervis.
04:02Whatever, man.
04:03Can he at least get his real name?
04:04Whatever, man. That kid's legit.
04:06I laughed. I laughed because you did that for me and I'm laughing, thinking about you.
04:11So we've done this show too long that we're simpatico because I'm sitting there saying, chuckling to myself.
04:21I can, you know, Mike always says, how come we don't have those freshmen as Jervis hits a step back
04:27three, as CJ Metlock, the point guard comes in and hits not one, but two step back threes.
04:32The shock creation, the modern athlete who doesn't look like a baby foal on the court.
04:39Even Ethan Taylor, the big seven footers out there, giving you some good minutes and rebounds and putbacks.
04:44And I'm laughing because I'm like, Mike always says every year, but why don't we have those freshmen?
04:50Correct.
04:50Look at ours.
04:51I suck.
04:52David Rico's always like, well, Mike, this kid's going to need time to develop.
04:56And I'm like, F development. These guys don't need development.
05:00No, they got Josiah Jervis.
05:02He was the guy that they had to go get because they couldn't get Jackson Richardson because his mom didn't
05:08want him to come here.
05:10You have a team, Mike.
05:12And they look good, man.
05:13And they have depth.
05:14And at any given night, anybody could go off for 18 to 20 points.
05:19And that's the dangerous part about it is Fierce is the leader, but Cohen Carr was in foul trouble.
05:25It really didn't do much.
05:26The entire game had nine points.
05:28No, and you can go ahead and sire me.
05:30Uh-oh.
05:32Talking with Tom, he absolutely loves this team.
05:37Everything that you said, he's just like, I had to give it to you.
05:40I had to give it to you for all the times I slander and I get annoyed and I go,
05:45wake me when Tom's going to get serious and go to the spice shop and the host store and buy
05:50the things he needs to buy.
05:52Rico, it actually looks representative.
05:54And I know it's one night in November, but damn it, I hate Duke.
05:57It was fun.
05:59I just, I had to offer you that, Rico.
06:02It looks proper.
06:04It looks like a national championship caliber team.
06:08And I know Cookie says you can't win unless you hit the portal hard.
06:10He paid his own players to come back.
06:13He had to pay to keep Scott and keep all those players to stick around and stay.
06:17And it's paying off because Scott, I mean, no one had that on their card that he was going to
06:22go out and block six shots and just be like, he's Dikembe Mutombo out there.
06:26The block was, it was obscene.
06:28It was like out of a comic book.
06:29Right.
06:29The, the, the, the one on the three pointer, the sideline.
06:32Yeah.
06:32And I'm going like, I know it was, it was, it was like late.
06:36I was already tired, but I'm like, am I hallucinating or is he 12 feet in the air?
06:39No, he was.
06:40It was almost like he told that guy, didn't I tell you not to shoot that ball?
06:43No, look one night, but it looks right.
06:47It was Duke wire to wire.
06:48And I think that's, that's what it was because it wasn't some other team.
06:52That's, that's a game we normally lose by 11.
06:54Get close, falter, get close, falter.
06:57No victory.
06:58And I'm jealous of Bobby Boomsay, Boomsay or whatever the hell it's named.
07:01Boomsay, Boomsay.
07:02The bottom line is state looked like they had the better players.
07:05They did.
07:05They had the better team.
07:06They had the better leader.
07:08I, I, Hey.
07:09And then you saw why I call one the bad boozer and one was the good boozer.
07:12That is correct.
07:14Uh, was it Caden boozer?
07:15I don't care.
07:16He's not.
07:17Hope he saved his money from the phone commercial.
07:19Uh, but for a night it looked right.
07:21I know that was a big deal.
07:22I know you were all about it.
07:23And I, yeah, I know before we go to lions, lions, lions, Dan, Brad, lions, lions, lions,
07:28lions, I, I just, I had to tell you one game.
07:32Wow.
07:33That's impressive.
07:33No, you said they were only, um, one, they're underdogs in one game the rest of the season.
07:38Cause they were like seven and a half point favorites in this game.
07:41Underdogs.
07:42Last night.
07:43Yeah.
07:43Well, that's the last time you're going to see them like that.
07:45Look, it was real.
07:46I was excited about it for you.
07:48I was excited about it because it was actually enjoyable to watch.
07:51I haven't taken a lot of joy out of watching Michigan state basketball.
07:54I don't want to say the last decade, but let's say post COVID.
07:57They're not a fun team to watch, buddy.
07:59I thought about the entire night.
08:01I was like, I really hope I know Mike's probably not watching this, but I really hope he's really
08:06watching this.
08:06No, I dedicated time to it that and, and watching Tatum go belt to ass on that smarmy
08:11foe intellectual Jalen Brown.
08:13He'd think Jalen Brown and Brad Holmes are the same damn human.
08:16They think they're the smartest guy in the globe.
08:18They're not.
08:19They are not seeing JB not dap up Tatum in the pregame.
08:23Oh, I wasn't paying attention.
08:24He's spinning the ball.
08:25Of course is that.
08:26Well, you're paying attention now.
08:28Celtics going to win by 30.
08:29So it was a good little double dip for me because JB, I told you what he did after game
08:34seven with the podcast, thinking he's all cute and get the hell up out of here.
08:38And then yes, state was fun to watch.
08:40So I just wanted one segment.
08:42Damn it.
08:43That's all I wanted.
08:44Yeah, right.
08:45Cause I'm David go to hell.
08:47Yeah.
08:47David said, wake me in January.
08:49Hey, ready?
08:50Someone tell me something new about the lions.
08:52Two, four, eight.
08:55I just thought about you because the whole, every year, how come we don't have either David,
09:02either I get the phone call and I, you know, let me just put this on speaker.
09:06Cause he's going to yell.
09:07No, but I get the text messages.
09:09How can we don't get any of these effing blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
09:13Right.
09:14NBA player.
09:15Why don't we have anyone who can create an effing shot?
09:17Why do we suck all the time?
09:19Why does everybody look like McGrakos?
09:21I give, I just, right.
09:23They have him and we have this.
09:25Right.
09:26They got boopsie boopsie and we got oopsie oopsie.
09:29What is this?
09:30Yeah.
09:31When, when, when, when they, when Jervis hit the step back, I was like, okay, I really
09:37hope Mike is watching this because I'm going to say they have those freshmen this year.
09:42Full flower.
09:42Ain't like the one that Kansas had in the next game who went out there and just basically
09:47told Kentucky.
09:48Yeah.
09:48F you.
09:48Right.
09:49No, look, but it looks proper.
09:51Yeah.
09:51And for once I feel like, okay, maybe Tom's got a shot to get this done.
09:54Yeah.
09:55To get his second title.
09:56Because for one night against Duke, I wasn't jealous of any of their players.
10:00He wasn't the, he wasn't the coach of the Washington generals because normally when they
10:04play, it's like, okay, you're in these name brand games and you do all of this stuff.
10:10We'll play you on the moon if we have to, but you don't win these games.
10:15And that's what's frustrating.
10:17Listen, I just, you know what?
10:19We got a few phone calls.
10:20I don't care.
10:21I'll take them.
10:22I do.
10:23Well, man, we did.
10:23Somebody wake David up.
10:24We did four hours of lines yesterday.
10:26I'm just telling you, let's get ahead of it.
10:28November 11th.
10:30Anything outside of a national championship is a failure.
10:33I just, this team has every ingredient you need.
10:36Yeah.
10:36He's, he's got to get his butt.
10:38They did a nice job.
10:39Tom did a nice job.
10:40The GM of the team, the staff, the whole thing.
10:42It's deep.
10:43It's, it's, it's got options, lineup, uh, optimization, optionality, optional.
10:49Yes.
10:49Optionality is there where they can go big.
10:52They can go small.
10:52They do a lot of different things.
10:54It looks the way I've wanted it to look for a long time.
10:56So yes, I watched.
10:57I didn't tell you.
10:58I just wanted to surprise you and say, you know what?
11:01This might be your time.
11:03Well, I knew it was bad when I've heard three times from Rieger as he's just so upset.
11:08Like why you guys are back.
11:10I can't stand it.
11:11Why don't you just go away?
11:13Oh yeah.
11:14That's what I knew.
11:15I'm like, okay, they may be special because of Jeffrey.
11:17I'm like, Jeff, you just want to talk.
11:18I don't care.
11:19Well, it's the other thing is, is first of all, you have to disregard Rieger.
11:23It's not a real.
11:24I like Rieger.
11:25I know he's insane though.
11:26You just have to understand you're dealing with insanity.
11:29The other thing, I say it again to you.
11:31Look, if you want to start lining up your lion's calls, you can.
11:36What would you like me to say?
11:38Mike, kind of like the trade deadline.
11:40Let's deal with that when we have to deal with that.
11:42I dealt with it all day.
11:44No, no, no.
11:44I mean, later today.
11:45We'll talk line.
11:45You were sunning and funning or whatever you were doing.
11:482-4-8-5-3-9-9-7-9-7-9-7.
11:51Go, go.
11:51Whoa, whoa, whoa.
11:52What do you want, Paul?
11:53What do you want?
11:54He looks like he's ready to talk.
11:56What do you need?
11:58No?
11:59Oh, I'm sorry.
12:00I thought Paul had a nuanced take for everybody.
12:02I saw him adjusting his microphone.
12:04I go, oh, Paul's got something good for us.
12:06What are you doing?
12:07A little dance back there?
12:082-4-8-5-3-9-9-7-9-7.
12:12We'll get with the people.
12:14And oh, yeah, don't worry.
12:16Coming up next, Lions, Lions, Lions, Lions, Lions, Lions, Lions, Lions, Lions, Lions, Lions,
12:20Lions, Lions, Lions, Lions, Lions, Lions.
12:21Hey, hey, hey.
12:21We may even have a club or seen you today.
12:24Don't get me started.
12:25Don't get me started.
12:26Not Lions.
12:28David, you had to do that.
12:35I'm just simmering.
12:36Hey, hey, David, why don't you play the Brad Holmes audio?
12:41Oh, wait.
12:42He had his coach talk for him again.
12:44Well, he's on the plane headed to Germany.
12:48But I heard he was spotted at the airport wearing a villain T-shirt.
12:51No one believes you.
12:5397-1.
12:55Lions, Lions, Lions.
12:55No one believes you.
12:55No one believes you.
12:56No one believes you.
12:56No one believes you.
12:56No one believes you.
12:56No one believes you.