The Drop | What Can The Celtics Expect From Tatum's Return?

Summary

No Dunks – The Drop | What Can The Celtics Expect From Tatum's Return?

Date: March 6, 2026
Hosts: J. Skeets, Tas Melas, Trey Kirby, JD

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the highly anticipated return of Jayson Tatum to the Boston Celtics lineup after missing nearly an entire season due to a torn Achilles. The crew analyzes what his comeback means for Boston’s on-court dynamics, the adjustment for both Tatum and Jaylen Brown, and how the Celtics fit into the current power structure of the Eastern Conference. The guys also recap a packed NBA night, discuss Trad Young’s Wizards debut, Wemby’s dominance, LeBron’s new field goal record, and more—with plenty of banter, trivia, and, infamously, a live smelling salts test.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Smelling Salts—A Live Podcast First

(01:41; 02:17; 04:38; 06:00)

• Tass pays off a bet by trying smelling salts live.
  • Skeets: "First time ever. Apparently, you have to put a little bit of water in to activate it. The more water you put in, the stronger it gets." (02:57)
  • Led to much laughter, glassy eyes, nose tingling, and multiple on-mic sniffs throughout the show.
  • Trey on the effect: “That is a jolt.” (61:19)

2. Jayson Tatum's Anticipated Return: What to Expect?

Main Segment: 07:09–17:10

Tatum's Recovery and Timeline

• Tatum returns about 9–10 months after tearing his Achilles (one of the quickest turnarounds for that injury).
• Comparison to other Achilles recoveries: “Haverstro’s list—outlier is Kevin Durant, the only guy really to come back at full strength. Most guys take over a year. Dejounte Murray was out 13 months.” – Tass (08:00)

Expected Role & Rotations

• Minutes will likely be managed—early stints in the 20–25 range, not back-to-backs.
• "You start him right from the get go, just get him going because they've been waiting for this for a month." – Skeets (10:25)
• Tatum’s presence to help relieve pressure from Jaylen Brown, Peyton Pritchard, and Derrick White.

How Tatum Fits with the “New” Celtics

• Jaylen Brown’s usage rate has soared in Tatum’s absence (2nd in league, behind only Luka).
  • "When it was Tatum's team...they shot a lot of threes, hunted mismatches, but that isolation frequency, they've gone away from it with Tatum out." – Trey (12:13)
• Celtics’ style shifted to more pick-and-roll, less ISO.
• “Celtics are also 29th in assists, so basically everyone is an ISO guy.” – Tass (13:34)
• Real challenge: reintegrating Tatum without disrupting the chemistry, especially given Brown’s newfound alpha role.

Locker Room & Chemistry

• “It’s going to be on Tatum to fit in with the way the Celtics have been playing, and it’s going to be on the Celtics to be smart with the way they use him out there.” – Trey (09:59)
• Brown has publicly embraced being Boston’s No. 1 option; Tatum must find his fit after a long absence.
• FanDuel (odds talk): Boston favored in East with Tatum’s return, but "we’ll see how he looks" (15:22).

Notable Quotes

• “If Tatum comes back and has an impact, you might call them the Eastern Conference favorites.” – Tass (15:22)
• “Is he their best player? Does it matter with their chemistry over 9 years? TBD.” – Skeets (15:38)

3. Other NBA Headlines & Noteworthy Performances

Trae Young’s Wizards Debut & Ace Bailey’s Breakout

18:13–24:06

• “He looked great… He was born to wear a golden black Wizards jersey.” – Tass (18:21)
• Trey Young instantly upgrades the team’s offense; “Trey to Trey (Johnson)… all day.”
• Ace Bailey (Jazz) drops 32, including a career-high 7 threes. “If you want to score a lot of points, you play the Wizards.” – Skeets (21:31)
• Juju Reese (Wizards rookie) becomes the first since Shaq/Duncan with a 20-rebound game in his first five career games.

Wembanyama’s Dominant Night Spurs vs Pistons

26:51–32:39

• Wemby: 38 points, 16 rebounds, 5 blocks, no turnovers (“Wemby’s muscles—he’s got muscles.” –Trey, 64:08)
• Spurs defense neutralizes Cade Cunningham, Pistons’ role players falter.
• “If the Spurs get this version of De’Aaron Fox, they’re an elite team already…” – Trey (30:17)
• Spurs now 9–4 vs other 52+ win pace teams, fueling championship talk.

LeBron Sets Career Field Goal Record

32:53–39:03

• “Nobody ever says field goals. It’s always weird.” – Skeets (33:22)
• Mixed opinions on the significance of made FGs vs games played/scoring.
• Stan Van Gundy’s praise: “Passing is the best part of LeBron’s game.” – Tass (38:33)
• LeBron injury scare, Lakers "fake comeback" vs Nuggets.

Rapid Fire Recaps

• Bulls upset Suns, Warriors edge Rockets in OT, Magic beat Mavs with clutch Suggs-to-Carter alley-oop.
• Anthony Edwards yam on RJ Barrett: “That’s Michael Jordan. When he dunks like that…” – Trey (47:56)
• Rookie Cooper Flagg returns for the Mavs.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “It feels like I just was in a pool for a second. My nose got clogged.” – Skeets (04:55)
• “He brings an energy to an arena that desperately needs it… at least there was some life [with Trae in DC].” – Trey (20:17)
• “Every game, players are shocked that Victor [Wemby] is blocking these shots…” – Tass (29:06)
• “LeBron did make more history… now he’s got the made field goals too.” – Trey (33:10)
• “Stick with it, maybe.” (re Lakers’ defensive switches) – Trey (35:52)
• “A compliment you always like to hear?” – Tass (70:13)

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Key Timestamps for Important Segments

| Segment | Timestamp | |----------------------------------|------------| | Smelling Salts Segment | 02:14–07:08| | Jayson Tatum/Celtics Deep Dive | 07:09–17:10| | Trae Young & Ace Bailey Recaps | 18:13–24:06| | Wemby Dominates Pistons | 26:51–32:39| | LeBron's Field Goal Record | 32:53–39:03| | Bulls, Warriors, Magic Recaps | 41:41–47:33| | Anthony Edwards Dunk | 47:41–48:13| | Rapid Fire / Misc. Banter | 69:38–88:36|

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Tone & Style

As always, the No Dunks crew balances deep NBA analysis with plenty of inside jokes, light ribbing, and pop-culture tangents. The episode featured real camaraderie and plenty of laughs—especially thanks to the live smelling salts experiment and repeated on-air whiffs.

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Summary/Takeaway for Non-Listeners

This episode is a must for Celtics fans eager to know what Tatum’s return will look like and how it might shake up the playoff landscape. The hosts give a realistic take on the challenges both he and the team will face, referencing comparable Achilles injuries, modern roster changes, and usage trends. For general NBA fans, there are sharp insights and fun moments: from Trae Young’s fresh Wizards start to Wembanyama’s ascent and unusual NBA trivia. If you love basketball talk that swings between sharp analysis and playful banter, with a little confusion-of-the-senses thrown in, this Drop is a perfect pick.

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Memorable Closer:
“It was a jolt. It was an absolute jolt. I could see why people do it, but you shouldn’t. Okay, don’t do this. This is stupid, what we just did.” – Trey Kirby, on smelling salts (93:06)

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Transcript

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[J. Skeets]

Melis ready to smell some salts.

[Trey Kirby]

Next to him is my top shot hot boy Trey Kirby Ayo. Hey yo. And over yonder making the magic happen, super producer jd Hello. There he is. Here we are. Hello to everybody on YouTube. Hello Paul podcast listeners. On today's show, today's drop, we got Worst of The week nominees. We're going to recap a few of last night's key games and big stories. We'll discuss Jason Tatum's forthcoming return. Looks like it's happening tonight on Friday night. But first, TAS does have to pay off last month's pick em loss. And the smelling salts are here.

[J. Skeets]

It's a little dragon on here. Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

Sort of scary.

[J. Skeets]

It is scary. Okay, let's get into it. Let's just do this.

[Trey Kirby]

First time ever. Correct.

[J. Skeets]

This is the first time ever. Apparently, you have to put a little bit of water in to activate it. Now, the more water you put in, the stronger it gets. There's a scale on that little card over there. It says, do not put more than one and a half ounces in. Okay, so I'm not going to do that. Actually, I might, because I've already spilled a lot.

[Trey Kirby]

All right.

[J. Skeets]

But it b. It basically says, don't put too much water. Stay away from it. So as I puncture this seal here, I am going to stay away from it because I saw people say online, keep it a foot away from you as you smell it. The instructions say 6 inches, so half a foot.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[J. Skeets]

But anyways, I'm just going to be silent for a second because I ain't.

[Trey Kirby]

You have a sensitive nose, too. I was thinking about this on my drive. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

All right.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay. So far, so good for the podcast listener. Tass has punctured the nose. Little foil top.

[Tass]

The water's going in.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, now he's pouring it in. Okay. This is not how I thought it was.

[Tass]

Shake it up. Yeah, so you shake it up.

[Trey Kirby]

I thought. Okay, yeah.

[Tass]

Anyway, shake the bottle for a few seconds. That's what vital.

[J. Skeets]

That is so strong. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

You can smell it right now.

[J. Skeets]

That is ridiculous.

[Trey Kirby]

Now, I think it's.

[J. Skeets]

Again, the instructions say keep it half a foot away from you. So six inches away from you. But then I saw people actually doing it. People who've done it before say, 12 inches is good. I literally just inhaled the air in here. I mean, I hope the dog is gonna be all right.

[JD]

She's upstairs.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

And you're supposed to take a. Like a slow inhale, I think it said. Right.

[J. Skeets]

Like a slowly inhale.

[Tass]

Take a quick, gentle sniff for two to three seconds.

[J. Skeets]

Six inches. All right.

[Trey Kirby]

Here. A gentle sniff. Okay, here we go.

[J. Skeets]

Here we go. Oh, the little sealer thing already.

[Tass]

Cap lid.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. Whoa.

[Trey Kirby]

You with us?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. It looks like. It feels like I just was in a pool for a second. My nose got clogged.

[Trey Kirby]

Whoa.

[Tass]

Let's Do a show. Whoa.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, my God. Who. Awesome. Who was.

[Trey Kirby]

What a jolt.

[Tass]

Feels good.

[J. Skeets]

Better. Better than I expected. Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

Better than you expect.

[Tass]

Your eyes are a little. A little glassy.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. I didn't pull a Doug Christie, the King's coach, who's like, whoa.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

So. And I thought I did a decent job of not keeping it too far from.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, you got a good gentle sniff.

[J. Skeets]

It was a gentle sniff.

[Tass]

Good gentle sniff.

[J. Skeets]

Anybody wants to be a dragon like this, come get it. Come get a sn. Listen, I went to Dick's. I was trying to go to nutrition stores to try and hand pick what I was gonna do, but instead I ordered this came from China. Here it is.

[Trey Kirby]

Yep.

[J. Skeets]

All right. So, yeah, definitely not an ad. Not in person.

[Trey Kirby]

What do you think? Maybe one more sniff before worst of the week nowadays to get you really fired up.

[Tass]

I want to get one in before the ad read. I want to do an ad read a little bit here.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay, good. We'll spread it out. Let's spread it.

[J. Skeets]

Not an ad. Do it before the ad.

[Trey Kirby]

I assume it doesn't go bad in the next 10 minutes. Like, what do we got for this?

[J. Skeets]

That's the weird. That's the weird thing. There's water in here now. I don't. I don't know if you ever put water in it again.

[Trey Kirby]

I thought you were going to put the water in the cap, and then I thought you were going to take some of the powder or whatever it is and put it into the water. But.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, right.

[Trey Kirby]

So you could then keep using said powder.

[J. Skeets]

But yeah. So this is. Yeah, it's not those. Like, if you'd get them from cvs, like, if they are those sort of medication, basically, for if you faint. They are those little, like, packets. Little packets.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Which you would probably just use that part of it. But this is a whole little. Little white stuff.

[Trey Kirby]

All right, all right, test part. Let's see how hard it takes.

[J. Skeets]

You guys can do it. You guys can do it. It's not that bad.

[Tass]

You can tell task is feeling confident from the smelling salts. Didn't even bring a computer. He's like, I'm just gonna go.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, I got it here. Oh, yeah, yeah, it's all wet over here. That's for sure.

[JD]

Oh, man.

[Trey Kirby]

Incredible. Incredible. Okay, well, Tess sets up his computer. Let's start with the big story here on Friday on March 6th, that is the report that Celtics forward Jason Tatum is expected to make his season debut tonight. He missed the entire 20, 25, 26 season to date after suffering the torn Achilles during a Game 4 loss to the Knicks in the second round. He had surgery the morning after that injury before swelling set in that people say or doctors say would have cost him another month. So they were quick about it. And here he is, what, nine or ten months after the injury, again expected to play tonight, I think. Trey, the two questions are what can the Celtics expect from Tatum and how should we expect the Celtics to change on the court with his imminent return?

[Tass]

Great question.

[Trey Kirby]

Thank you.

[Tass]

Great. Two questions this Tom Haverstro just went and looked at the last 30 guys who have had a torn Achilles and how quickly they come back. And Tatum is on the very high end of a quick return. He's one of the fastest returns in the past 20 years. Like, I can't help thinking about Damian Lillard, who tore his Achilles two weeks earlier than Jason Tatum. Not even a thought that this guy would come back this year, but Tatum, from almost the second it happened, at least from the day after, I was like, he's probably going to play next season and he's coming back here. You look at the Haberstra list and there's definitely one outlier. It's Kevin Durant. He's the only guy who's really ever gotten back to form the same way he was playing beforehand. But if I'm the Celtics, if I'm Jason Tatum, I'm looking at Dejounte Murray. The guy tore his Achilles. He was out 13 months. He's come back. He's playing 25 minutes a game. He's not playing back to backs and he's playing really short stints, like four to five minutes at a time. So my guess is that's probably what we're going to see with Tatum. Just little chunks of time getting him acclimated to playing after this injury recovery, playing with the Celtics in a new style that they are playing, hopefully ramping up for the playoffs when he will be hitting a playoff game winner at some point. I think it's very unknown what to expect from Tatum. He's a good outside shooter. I would assume that that's still going to be the case. You know, maybe he will be a little bit safer with some of his drives, kind of play more on the perimeter, trying to save himself and get his legs underneath him. I assume he's going to be able to rebound the way he is. He's still a big dude. He's a good passer. So I think that all of those things can continue regardless of how the injury recovery went. But knowing his explosion, knowing how he's going to be able to take guys off the dribble, that stuff is definitely unknown, but it'll be cool to a guy coming back working this hard to return as fast as he can and to see how he can fit into a Celtics team that surprised everybody and has at the very least established Jaylen Brown as an MVP candidate. I don't know where people have him on the list. He's been one of the 10 best players in the league and he was the clear number two for the Celtics while Tatum was healthy. So it's going to be on Tatum to fit in with the way the Celtics have been playing, and it's going to be on the Celtics to be smart with the way they use him out there.

[J. Skeets]

They start him though. I think they start him right from the get go, just get him going because they've been waiting for this for a month. When, when Peyton Pritchard, who was starting for it was like 48 games. Let's check these notes. 48 games to start and then he went to the bench for 13 games the last month. The idea was, okay, Tatum's going back. Pritchard, you go into that role you were in last year and you can cook because you could see the bit of a drop off from last year to this year with Payne. Pritchard's efficiency, same with Derek White. And that's why Tatum is going to help both of those guys just to take something off their shoulders. As long as that man is healthy. And for Jaylen Brown, who is, he's vaulted into this number one role. Way more usage. It's all on him. I think it'll help him. Eventually. It will help him. It's Jason Tatum. And so the question is, you know, the difference between the championship team and what it is now is who plays on that wing beside Jason Tatum. We could get some Shireman and then some Sam Houser depending if you want to go that way. But it's probably Shireman starting and then the bigs, it's going to be Nami Escheta starting. And then when you get a situation where you want to just fire some threes, maybe ending games with V doing that, there's that option. So I'm looking forward to that. It ain't Drew Holiday inning, Al Horford type of times, but I think we will see a healthy Jason Tatum. I don't know. As you said, you brought up all the names. Most of the guys are older, I would say that are on that get hurt from the Achilles. And so that's a good sign I think for Jason Tatum. And there's just. Yeah, you're. You're right in that there's not a lot of like come back and they're. They're cooking and they're ready or they're great. But the John T. Murray is a good one, I think. I know nobody talks about Isaiah Jackson of the Pacers, but I think he has been good since coming back again. We'll see what Tatum brings. Yeah, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

They got 20 games here to figure out. He doesn't come back. He doesn't come back and have to save them by any means. Like to get into a play in game or get in into the playoffs. Like there's not that added pressure on him. So that's good for him. Slowly easing his way. And you brought up Jalen Brown. Like last year he ranked 23rd among qualified players in usage rate, finishing like 29%, let's call it of the Celtics possessions when he was on the floor. But this year, wow. I mean it jumped a second in the league. He's behind only Luka at. He's like 36.5% usage rate. That's of course going to change a little bit with Tatum back in the equation. And I'm interested to just see like when it was Tatum's team, the Celtics, yeah, they shot a lot of threes. They have and they continue to. Even though they've turned it back a little bit. They would hunt mismatches with Tatum because he's like an incredible isolation scorer and they would attack switches when things would happen like that. That was an advantage. But that isolation frequency, like they've gone away from it in part because no, Tatum's been there. Right. So they just run more pick and roll action. So just fascinating to see. Like do you just keep running with what's working and Tatum slides in that way and he becomes like a super Sam Houser sort of at first in a couple games. Or do you still run that stuff and try and get him into the. Obviously build his confidence and in his rhythm as you get into a postseason. Just something to watch because they run a lot of pick and roll now for a team that didn't run a lot last year when Tatum was in the mix.

[Tass]

Yeah. They're also though 29th in assists, so I mean everybody they've got out there is basically an ISO score. Brown, Pritchard, Derek White as well. I think that Tatum ultimately though will be taking the Baylor Shireman minutes. He's their big forward compared to Hauser's they're smaller forward and you want the shooting with Hauser out there. Meanwhile, Shireman basically plays as a Tatum style as Bill Simmons has explained quite recently. So I think it'll be Tatum working his way back to being like he probably Never gets above 30 minutes a game this season. I doubt. But if he can give him 25 good minutes, that's huge. Like, because Scheiderman has been pretty solid for the Celtics, you'll take Tatum over him. Hugo Gonzalez has been an awesome find for them as a draft guy. You're taking Tatum over him. That's a rookie that's not established in the NBA. This only can help the Celtics as long as everybody's willing to put their ego aside and work his way into it. Because I think that is a huge question. Vibes Wise is like Jaylen Brown has been pretty vocal about how much he likes being the number one guy for the Celtics this year and how good he is. He's been talking himself up quite a bit this season. He is the guy for the team. But we know that this was a Tatum led team in the past. Even if Jalen was the guy taking home the finals MVP and the conference finals mvp, they have had questions about their fit. Basically as long as they played together, they obviously figured out how to do it in the past. But this is the biggest change because Tatum has to take a step back. Brown has to fit him in. And like you're saying, the team completely changed as well. They switched out three of their top six and Tatum has doesn't have the experience with those guys yet. So this is one of the most interesting teams to watch for the rest of the season going into the playoffs because if Tatum comes back and has an impact like the Celtics, you might call them the Eastern Conference favorites.

[Trey Kirby]

That's what FanDuel calls them right now. They're plus 800 to win the whole thing. That's the best team in the Eastern Conference. Obviously it's Thunder Spurs Nuggets right now with better odds to win the whole thing. But yeah, Boston obviously bumped here. I'm sure a little bit in the odds maker's eyes with Tatum coming back. We'll see how he looks.

[J. Skeets]

Absolutely. Is he their best player? Does it matter with their chemistry that they've had over nine years, him and Jaylen Brown specifically, it's to be determined. But they made it work obviously going into the finals and I think the that Tatum will be comfortable especially to start allowing Jalen Brown to get close to that usage percentage. We'll see what happens in the playoffs. But he did a good job of taking a little bit of a step back in that Finals run because Jaylen Brown. Yeah. Ended up being the NBA Finals mvp. And so Tatum could say from the perimeter, all right, I'm just, just dishing it out and passing the ball. And that's why he was so good, because eyes on him. He was still able to distribute, so it is going to be fun. I do think defensively they probably want to save him a little bit. And that's why I think there might be a little bit more Baylor Shireman than Sam Houser. Just when you go down on that end, my man, you know, you can take the, the person that's hanging out in the corner as much as possible. TBD on that one, but they do have decent options. It ain't as good as their Finals run at this point without Drew Holiday for sure. And as much as I love Hugo Gonzalez. Yeah. No, this ain't the same thing. But yeah, whatever FanDuel is saying right now, because they're saying that because Jason Tatum's coming back right here, right now, but that still might be the same scenario in six weeks. People still may be taking them over the Pistons who will get to in their loss to the San Antonio Spurs. They could be the favorite.

[Trey Kirby]

It is fascinating. Pritchard is like basically saying when he's asked about this, like, what's the big deal? It's not like we're bringing him back to guys he's never played with. And on one hand he is right. We're talking himself, we're talking brown, we're talking white, like the main guys on this squad. But then you went through all the other guys, Trey, guys that have played a role. I mean, throw Jordan Walsh into the mix, all those other young guards or other young wing guys you said along with Keita, it's like, yeah, well, there are other pieces here. So it's a. It's split and he do have to find some rhythm with those guys. So anyway, it looks like he's back tonight and we'll see what his minutes are, see how he looks moving defensively. You know, the big part of this too is the mental game too. I assume he's. If he's good up there in the old noggin, if he's going to give it a go here tonight and they want to get him into game shape. So we'll find out. That'll be a must watch game with Tatum Baxter. We'll be talking about it on Monday's show. Trae Young debuted for the Washington Wizards last night, but Ace Bailey was the story. 32 points as the Jazz beat the Wizards. 122. 112. But let's start with Young. 12 points, 19 minutes. What do you think, TK?

[Tass]

I thought he looked great. And I think surprisingly the golden black Wizards jersey looked totally natural on him.

[Trey Kirby]

It did.

[Tass]

He was born to wear a golden black Wizard's jersey. I couldn't believe it. I also do love the idea that they're going with a Trey and Trey backcourt. You saw Trey Young find Trey Johnson for three pointers and the broadcast yells Trey to Trey all day. I was loving that. But six assists for Trey Young last night, that was really stuck out for me. Five of those six assists went for a three pointer and the last one was a nutmeg for a layup. I think it was Anthony Gill, a guy that I cannot believe is still the league scoring at the hoop.

[J. Skeets]

Every time I see Anthony Gill, I say, oh my God. It feels like he's been there for so long.

[Tass]

He's like a bottle of smelling salts. You're like, what? Anthony Gill? That's not Austin Rivers. No, it's Anthony Gill. But Trey threw some beautiful passes. The Jazz tried to double him in the back court almost at like the opposing three point line. And he threw a cross court 60 foot pass to the other corner for an open three. He threw this no, look whip pass to the corner to Koulibaly and then pointed left. That was awesome. He is an exquisite passer. The offense definitely looked their best with him on the court last night. He was a plus four in his 19 minutes. He did some highlight stuff. He is a level above everybody else that the Wizards have and you could just see it instantly that he is a talent upgrade for them.

[J. Skeets]

How do we feel about that layup on the right side of the rim where he decides, I'm gonna go with the left hand?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, his first one, it was. Yeah, it was a little surprising that he went left hand, but.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, because contract could have blocked the snot out of that. But he just like.

[Tass]

He's like lefty.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. What's that?

[Tass]

That's why he went lefty. If he went right handed, Kanchar probably blocks it.

[J. Skeets]

No, I think he's pretty closer to Kanchar.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tass]

But he surprised him. Well, yeah, definitely wrong footed.

[Trey Kirby]

Also, it's John Kanchar.

[J. Skeets]

No Contra wasn't trying anything though. He could have, couldn't. He was like he had his hands in his pants. I mean, he was just like sitting there with his hands down. Either way. Yes. Trimming through the place. Yeah, he looked great.

[Trey Kirby]

He brings, he brings an energy to an arena that desperately needs it. Like there's some optimism here around a Wizards team. Like yes, they lost and we will talk about Ace Bailey but like at least there was some life. You know, there was a crowd there, there was a buzz. He is a showman. You know, unfortunately there will be losses still, even if he's maybe your best guy. But yeah, like a. Not a bad debut for sure.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. And not to put every one of the tanking teams into the same bucket, but it feels that way with some of these young teams. And that's the looking back as being a fan of the Raptors back then. Any hope for March and April with some young blood is exciting. Obviously Trey's not young blood, but just something new blood, something specific young blood. He is young blood.

[Tass]

Young blood coursing through his veins. But they got much older at the trade deadline. Well, not much older I guess. Chris Middleton was one of the guys they shipped out it and you know, Trey is a little younger than him, but Anthony Davis, I forgot he is a Wizard. It will be there eventually. No Sar last night, which like that'll be exciting to see Trey and Sar playing together. Getting the alley oops, but very disrespectful to John Contrar. Five steals in one block last night.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, good for him.

[Trey Kirby]

Five steals. Jesus everywhere.

[J. Skeets]

He caught some balls, that's for sure. Yeah. On the other side, the Ace Bailey thing was, was super fun. He took it to Trey on, on one possession. But you look at him, he had seven threes, the most he's ever hit in his NBA Young NBA career. On 11 attempts from three, the most he's ever attempted in his career. You could see that first shot that he took was a 20 foot mid range like the longest mid Ranger you can take just inside the arc. And the Wizards allowed him to get so comfortable and to just absolutely step into it. If you want to get a hot. Not, not to take this away from Ace Bailey, but if you want to score a lot of points, you play the Wizards. So they've been doing it the last few weeks. Corey Kisper dropped 33 on his old team. Gaminga had a monster. Yeah, Lamillo had a 37 where he hit 10 threes. But I will say about Ace Bailey's threes cause you don't think him at his three point shooter and against seven threes he started in the corner but a lot of them were above the break. And he was getting comfortable. Even put one on the floor. That was a pull up three. A lot of twos. You know, when he was basically on a fast break. But he was doing those C cuts. It's the Lowry marketing cut where he gets into the middle of the floor. You find him and. And he's able to punish guys like he did for Trey. Andre Young. But that's what he's gotta be doing. They slow played him a little bit at the beginning of the season. This is how you're gonna play. And he looked obviously spectacular.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. His confidence is growing. This guy's getting more and more reps as an NBA player. It should. He's a talent. Like the last couple months, it's gotten better and better. March here, obviously super early, but he's averaging 21 points per game here. And I think three games in March. And he's shooting the hell out of the three ball right now. But I'm with you. I like he's pairing it. That three ball was still attacking and using his size and beautiful shooting stroke to obviously put up a really, really great game. He wasn't the only one in this one TK with a monster line. Julian Reese. Juju Reese.

[Tass]

Juju Reese instantly got a nickname. 18 points and 20 rebounds last night. That's a lot of roast beef. Saw a stat that we were talking about right before the show started. He is the first guy since Shaq and Tim Duncan to have a 20 rebound game in the first five games of his NBA career. So I'm thinking Hall of Fame.

[Trey Kirby]

I guess so.

[J. Skeets]

Wow. Yep. Lock it in. And the first Wizards Rookie to have 20 boards since Tom Gugliot. A great name.

[Trey Kirby]

I know. Wow.

[J. Skeets]

Since 1993. Yeah.

[Tass]

You think? They called him Goo Goo.

[Trey Kirby]

So, yeah. Good game from him. Great game from Ace Bailey. And the Wizards. They lose it in Trey Young's debut. But there was some. There was some joy, at least in that arena in the phone booth. Hasn't been a lot of that this year.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tass]

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[J. Skeets]

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[J. Skeets]

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[Trey Kirby]

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[J. Skeets]

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[Trey Kirby]

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[J. Skeets]

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[Trey Kirby]

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[J. Skeets]

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[Trey Kirby]

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[J. Skeets]

Really from the Jump control is a good word because they're one of the few defenses that are able to control Kate a little bit. They're able to speed him up. You don't say that about Kate Cunningham. With frankly, every other team, they. They get into him a little bit and he just wasn't right. That being said, he still puts up cade numbers. He just needed some more help. And unfortunately, unlike what the Wizards did with Ace Bailey, the Spurs were able to get into each and every Detroit Piston on his first attempt. Like you see guys like Dennis Jenkins over in this one. You know his quote earlier this season. We're all nasty dogs, nasty boys. Unfortunately, the spurs on the other side are also nasty. He goes over, Caris Lavert goes over and you get Aar Thompson leaving the game, unfortunately in this one. So you get guys like Kevin Herder coming in who contributed a little bit. But that's the scary part. When the Sar Thompson leaves, where's the other offense going to come from? And so you had a lot of offers, guys that weren't ready. Now the spurs are totally different from anything in the Eastern Conference. We'll see what happens with the Celtics. The Pistons should still feel confident. They're undefeated against Celtics, undefeated against the Knicks. They split against the Cavs. But at the same time, it is a little bit worrisome when the other guys aren't performing extremely well. They're not playing great Pistons basketball here in March, and that's the scary part. But the spurs will do that to you again. They really got into every single guy. They're so good, so good defensively.

[Tass]

Yeah. I think if the Pistons and the spurs meet in the NBA Finals, I'm taking San Antonio because they beat the Pistons with Wemby playing an average game on the offensive end like a couple of weeks ago. And then Wemby was dominant last night and the spurs were in control the entire time. I was really impressed with Stefan Castle and Dylan Harper. They were picking up Cade full court, really making him work. And like I talked about just recently after, I guess it was Cavaliers game. Maybe it was. Kate just looks a little wore out to me. 10 for 26 from the field. He did get to 26 points, but that's a lot of shots to get there. Only took two free throws. Four turnovers as well. He has such a huge responsibility on his shoulders. And with Duran not really being able to do anything and with Caris Lavert looking like the careless pervert out there, oh, for five and 20 minutes, getting the cardio in. Not good for Detroit, they just had no answers on the offensive end with Castle and Harper playing so aggressively, because they know that Wemby's just going to clean it up on the inside. You see every game, players are shocked that Victor is blocking these shots, and they're like, that's got to be a goal. 10. But it's just because they're not used to a guy that's nine and a half feet tall. So, super impressive win for San Antonio. I think it was their first home game in 25 days. Yeah, I think that's what our guy smelling salts Toby said on the broadcast. And you could tell the fans were pumped to see their team playing at home once again. Dear. And Fox was on fire to start. 22 points in the first half. He was by far the best guard on the court.

[Trey Kirby]

If the. If the spurs get this version of Dear and Fox in the postseason, I mean, they're an elite team already, sometimes even with Fox having a good game or not. But if they get this Fox, I'm with you, T.K. holy crap. Why not, obviously, go into a conference. Finals, Finals, whatever. Win the whole thing. Wemby's going to. Wemby. Yeah. There's going to be some, like, crossing your fingers. That Champagne Vassell hit a bunch of threes. The young guys, a little untested, of course, but I have a lot of faith in them in Castle and Harper. Fox, to me, is like, the ultimate, like, sort of wild card for this squad. When he plays like this, they feel unbeatable to me, because he was locked in. I thought he was so, so good. How about that Wemby block on a Cunningham floater, I guess, in the fourth quarter, that was one you were talking about here. Blocks it, and then they go the other way. And Devon Versailles, like, why not? He just chucked it up. He knows. He knows Wemby scores every time after a block. So, yes, just throw it up. And he threw down the alley oop. And that was. I mean, that sort of put the game to. To bed there. I guess it was, like, a little bit over halfway through the fourth.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. And like you said, Trey, they played recently, and Jalen Dern did a really good job of going at Wemby in that first game. And then in this one, Wemby wanted some revenge, and that's why Jalen Duran got into foul trouble. Wasn't able to play all that much and wasn't able to make the same impact. He was really good in that first one. So, yeah, from the Pistons perspective, you start ticking down the names. Who is going to step up? It wasn't Jalen during this game. Sar Thompson, hopefully his ankle is all right. He wasn't him in this one. You go to the Danis, Jenkins, the carousel, the bench. Everybody needs to contribute something. It just wasn't enough.

[Trey Kirby]

There are six teams on pace for 52 or more wins if you count the Spurs. And San Antonio is nine and four against those other five elite teams in the league. That is a damn good record against the best of the best as they took both of them against Detroit here. So good stuff from San Antonio.

[Tass]

The only thing holding them back from everybody anointing them as the title favorites is OKC is defending champions brought everybody back and they haven't played a single playoff game. Not even a play in game. Right. But if you told like if they had made the play in last year and won the first play in game, lost the second play in game, I think they would be the favorites. With how well they've played against all the other good teams and with Wemby progressing as rapidly as he has, this guy's still under 30 minutes per game this season. It's unbelievable how little he actually plays and how much of an impact he has.

[J. Skeets]

Sure.

[Trey Kirby]

It's a good point.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. It's all about experience. So they need a playoff series under their belts. Everybody feels every, every NBA pundit and it's, it's somewhat true. You haven't been. You haven't been in the playoffs and you're going to go to the finals. So that's. That's what it is.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. LeBron passed Kareem Abdul Jabbar for the most made field goals in NBA history. Last night came in a loss. They did their classic thing where the Lakers how many games where it feels like they're down 15 and then like they sort of comes storming back where it's like a one or two possession game and they lose. Feels like that's happened.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Over the last couple months a lot. They lost. But LeBron did make more history here last night. Obviously is already the NBA's all time scoring leader. But now he's got the made field goals too.

[J. Skeets]

Task everybody will think about made field goals. The most thing is NBA. Nobody ever says field goals. It's always weird. I know I shouldn't say nobody but

[Trey Kirby]

nobody is a casual field goals.

[Tass]

I hate that term term actually for a made shot. It is just a made shot for me.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tass]

But I mean technically it's a field goal.

[J. Skeets]

Made shots made threes. You could just Say that now. Maybe we could do it now.

[Trey Kirby]

Now, LeBron did hurt his elbow, I guess, on a layup that pulled the Lakers within four with about four minutes to go. He did leave the game, though. He came back with like two minutes to go. And the Lakers were only down one when he came back. But they couldn't take the lead. And the Nuggets did close it out, you know, in a wire to wire victory that they needed. And they won by seven.

[J. Skeets]

And they missed. Yeah, a couple threes there. Marcus Smart went miss, miss in a row. Bruce Brown missed one, but he was able to grab the offensive rebound. Big rebound for them. And then Jokic put it away after that offensive rebound. It was his sort of, it was his game to seal it, his shot to seal his made field goal to, to seal. It's not a game winner. It's not one that'll stick with anybody. But this was just a fake comeback for the Lakers.

[Trey Kirby]

I know.

[J. Skeets]

That's what they do. They do. And they can't go down like they did to start this game when they weren't ready to play. They just, they can't do it. They're not good enough to do that. Absolutely. And it is weird to see them so close to the Denver Nuggets in the standings because you look at these two teams and obviously Denver is injured, but you just know that one team is way better than the other team. That being said, the Lakers Also, you mentioned LeBron's injury, but they also had Deandre Ayton leave this game. And so, yeah, that's, it's, it's worrisome for them. And it sure felt like last year in the playoffs when JJ Redick went five out with his team and they're able to come back in this game with the five out. They're splashing some threes. It feels like we're going to see more of that because the good thing about deandre Ayton is he hasn't missed much time or Marcus Smart hasn't missed much time. Kind of feels like Marcus Smart will go back to his Wizards days maybe at same point at some point, or deandre Ayton will just miss more time. So, yeah, a very disappointing game for, for the, for the Lakers to go down like that. You can't go down like that. Simple as that. This is simple as that.

[Tass]

I thought it was pretty interesting that the Lakers made their comeback by playing small, by playing zone, by putting two on Jokic and getting the ball out of his hands. And then in like the two biggest Possessions. They played him one on one. He saw it and went to the hoop instantly because there was no size out there at all. That was a curious decision, I thought, from J.J. redick to like switch it up at that point when it had been working actually pretty well.

[Trey Kirby]

Stick with it maybe.

[Tass]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

See the game.

[Tass]

There's one guy you don't want to beat you. I mean, Murray had a really good game as well. Jillian Strother actually made a couple of big buckets down the stretch. But I would have been happy getting the ball out of Jokic's hands rather than letting him get to his right hand for a layup twice.

[J. Skeets]

Sure, yeah, that's a good point. Especially when he had an odd game, some odd turnovers. Nine turnovers.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. He nearly had a quadruple double last night, if we count the turnovers.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah. Literally that one with two minutes left.

[Tass]

He literally.

[J. Skeets]

There was nothing that rushed him. Nothing. Nobody got in the way. He just threw it to the defender. I was. I've never seen a yogic pass like that before in history. Now some good things for the Nuggets because they're very, very short handed with Aaron Gordon and Peyton Watson and Cam Johnson not playing this game. Aaron Gordon supposedly coming back tonight. Yeah, Friday night.

[Trey Kirby]

It's going to be overshadowed by Tatum. Poor ag, man.

[J. Skeets]

That happens to Denver. You know, they just kind of fly under the radar. They're going to love that. They're going to love Aaron Gordon hopefully coming back.

[Trey Kirby]

I got a quick trivia question off of the LeBron becoming the all time leader in made field goals, made shots. TK can you name the next five active leaders behind LeBron in just made field goals?

[J. Skeets]

Kareem.

[Trey Kirby]

No, no, no, Sorry, man.

[Tass]

He's coming back tonight as well. Actually. KD.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes. He's 10th all time.

[Tass]

We gotta talk guys who are here for a long time.

[Trey Kirby]

Yep. Harden, that's right. But he's 37th, so there's three guys in between them.

[Tass]

Westbrook, he's 22nd.

[Trey Kirby]

Correct. Okay, two more.

[J. Skeets]

It's a weird one.

[Tass]

Is Chris Paul active?

[Trey Kirby]

I don't. I don't even think he's there, to be honest.

[J. Skeets]

But Mike Conley.

[Trey Kirby]

No, you're missing one. I would say pretty obvious one. And then one tough one.

[Tass]

An obvious and a tough.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, the guy, Steph Curry, that's the obvious one. He's 30 first, he's nearly at 9,000. And then one that is the most difficult because he's the worst player of everybody here that we've said worse career. But will he have a Hall of Fame career. I mean. Yeah, at this rate, he will.

[Tass]

Clay.

[Trey Kirby]

No, no, no, no.

[Tass]

It seems like a lot of.

[Trey Kirby]

This guy, he's got a lot of

[Tass]

three point field goals.

[Trey Kirby]

This guy, I assume, played last night. I just want to make sure he was in the lineup. But he always is in the lineup, so he played.

[Tass]

Yeah, yeah, he's always in the lineup. He's an ironman.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, yeah, he plays a lot. I played 27 minutes in a. In another loss for this Demar Derosan. There you go, guys. He's like creeping up on 10,000 main field goals.

[Tass]

He's got a lot of twos.

[Trey Kirby]

I know.

[Tass]

Helps.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, yeah. He's 27th all time. And then Giannis is 51st at just under 8, 000. Thanks for playing.

[Tass]

I did like that Stan Van Gundy said that passing is the best part of LeBron's game. That was awesome.

[J. Skeets]

Good.

[Tass]

And Steve Nash said that playmaking is his nature. Playing the hits, even when the guy is setting the record for field goals. We got to talk about his passing because his passing was pretty sweet, especially in the fourth quarter. He was setting the table.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. And he also set the table for a great podcast yesterday. Mind the game. Good clips going around.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, Good stuff.

[J. Skeets]

I haven't listened to the whole thing, but it's worthy.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[J. Skeets]

Timothy Chalamet was so excited to do that podcast, so. Pups.

[Tass]

Yeah, he was grinning ear to ear in every photo.

[Trey Kirby]

The next major statistical milestone for LeBron is Robert Parish's record of 1,611 games played. So it's right around the corner. Though I think LeBron might be questionable here for the next game because of this elbow thing, so it's. It's very likely going to happen. He's only like. I think he's like, five games away from doing it, so. It's going down in March is my point.

[Tass]

I imagine.

[Trey Kirby]

I imagine. I mean, that's. Now that's something the chief.

[Tass]

Yeah, I mean, I agree.

[J. Skeets]

I agree.

[Tass]

Games played as higher ranking than made

[J. Skeets]

shots than made field goals. No doubt.

[Trey Kirby]

He already has the scoring part of the shots.

[Tass]

Totally.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tass]

And people care about points more than makes.

[J. Skeets]

Field goals.

[Tass]

Field goals. You think LeBron could kick a 50 yard field goal in the NFL?

[Trey Kirby]

I say no. Like, well, like, I mean, does he get to practice, like three weeks of practice? Oh, oh, yeah.

[Tass]

He's using, like, one of the holding tees.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[Tass]

Not an actual holder. So we're not putting any blame on Bronnie as the holder.

[Trey Kirby]

Damn.

[Tass]

Could LeBron make a 50 yard field?

[J. Skeets]

Isn't he does.

[Trey Kirby]

I'm gonna say no, but I have no idea.

[J. Skeets]

Is he the one who leads the pre game? Little sports things they do on their half court, on their side of half court, you know, like.

[Tass]

Yeah, he like throws the ball up in the air and they do like.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, he just throws it. He doesn't kick it. No, no, he's not.

[Trey Kirby]

Steph. Steph's the one.

[J. Skeets]

There's some booters, though. They sometimes they boot it. I think he may be one of them. So I'm just. I'm wondering how good he is kicking things.

[Trey Kirby]

Pretty sure he's three weeks of practice, off the tee, kick a few.

[J. Skeets]

Pretty sure he can do it.

[Trey Kirby]

I say no, though, because I'm looking at it like, okay, he gets all that time and then it's like, you know, the Pat McAfee kick. It's like you have one kick, one shot for $1 million or whatever in front of a lot of people. Like, that's some pressure, man.

[Tass]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Like, could he do it? Could he do it in practice? Yeah, he probably could, but I'm saying he botches it.

[Tass]

Interesting.

[Trey Kirby]

Interesting.

[Tass]

This could have been some of the most pressure he's ever had in his career.

[Trey Kirby]

He tried and pass it. All right. Other results from last night in the Association. Love calling it the association when I can. Magic beat the Mavericks in a close one. Heat taking care of business against the Nets. Man, the Nets stink. I know no one notices it right now, but, man, they are brutal. But Khalil Ware, five steals and seven blocks in that game. Yeah. The Bulls beat the Suns in a close one. Pelicans beat the Kings, Wolves beat our Raptors because the Raptors can't beat a good team. And the Warriors Rockets was pretty entertaining, but any other takeaways, any of those games you want to address?

[J. Skeets]

Tasmos, it was hilarious. Yeah, the Nets absolutely do stink. Michael Porter Jr. Dropped the ball in the first possession. He's. He's done. He was good for the first couple months, but unfortunately it's over. You see some odd games in March. Listen, the. The warriors beating the Rockets on the road, that is something for them. Yeah, and to come through in overtime. Usually Brandon Pajemski ain't good from opening tip all the way till the end of the game, but he came through in overtime. And unfortunately on the other side, I thought Shangun wasn't really coming through in overtime watching.

[Trey Kirby]

I thought he got cooked by Al Horford.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tass]

That's a Bad loss for Houston.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You think? All right, it's overtime. Let's do our thing. But Shangun was getting trapped. I mean, or getting lost in his trap. And how he was playing pick and rolls and getting killed on both ends. Forget about the offensive end. On defense, you'd think that team would come through, but great win for the Warriors. And the ESPN article is Steph, you know, called Draymond and said, I know, I know it's hard right now, but I'm coming back. I am coming back. And so they're playing for something.

[Trey Kirby]

Just hold on to the road, boys.

[J. Skeets]

They're playing for something, so that was a good win for them.

[Trey Kirby]

Any other takeaways?

[Tass]

Well, the Bulls, like you mentioned, they won again. They beat the Suns on the road. Bad loss for Phoenix because they were pretty full strength outside of Dylan Brooks, who seems had a bad night.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tass]

But saw something I've never seen before with regards to the Bulls game. When I opened Instagram this morning, two of the first things I was fed was a Tre Jones high IQ highlight. The Bulls were up by one. Grab the rebound on the defensive end. They send Big Dick Nick to the line, makes his first free throw, balls up by two, misses the second free throw. Ball gets tipped around, somehow finds its way to Trey Jones in the corner with like 1.7 seconds left. Let's say he just catches it, chucks

[Trey Kirby]

it up in the air.

[Tass]

Straight up, Just straight up in the air.

[Trey Kirby]

Yep.

[Tass]

And he threw it high enough. Unlike Michael Ruffin, he threw just high enough. The clock expired while the ball was in the air. And then it was forehead to forehead. Isaac Okoro and Trey Jones. Isaac giving him the smart man.

[Trey Kirby]

You're smart, you're loyal, you're smart.

[Tass]

That was hilarious.

[J. Skeets]

The algorithm feeding people who like smarts.

[Tass]

Exactly.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, exactly.

[Tass]

That was a good one, Skates. You got to be happy. Leonard Miller, now undefeated as a starter.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, I saw one. And now no assist last night, but flirting with the double. Double flirting. I'll tell you what, that plus, minus in the box score, usually. Plus when it comes to Leonard, whether he's starting or coming off the bench. Yep. Hey, I'm following, man. I'm more in on the Bulls than ever. Leonard Miller is the future. Yeah, that was funny. I saw that smart basketball IQ play

[Tass]

basketball IQ highlight through the roof.

[J. Skeets]

Thank you. Yeah. Disappointing on the other side, that Jaylen Green had another stinker. He's five of 20 in this one, which we all know. Jaylen Green's percentages aren't all that great throughout his career. I try and make up some excuses for him, like, hey, the hamstring has held him out until essentially February. So it's going to take some time because I like to be on Jalen Green Island. But these are the times he should be shining. He's been back a decent amount. What are you ho, ho, hoing over

[Tass]

there shooting 35, 26 from three, but only 14 games.

[J. Skeets]

He hasn't gotten to his flow. That's an excuse. He's got to be flowing at this point. We saw him live in Austin to watch to play against the spurs when he was cooking that game. But he just has too many of these not so great nights and it would obviously help him to have Dylan Brooks around, but.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, Dylan Brooks. What are you doing, man? Yeah, arrested for a DUI last night in Scottsdale, I guess it was. And he is out. He's got a broken hand, fractured hand. So not great. Apparently. He was respectful and cooperative. Okay, good. But yeah, not. Not a great look there obviously for Brooks as he's out. The Magic, just quickly about that game. Hell of a final play from Suggs, hitting Wendell Carter Jr. There on the roll for the quick little dunk as Cooper tried to scream in there and challenge it. But that was a really good play. I just bring that up because, you know, we did our underrated players draft yesterday. Jalen Suggs to me is very. Josh Hart like, does make a lot of winning plays. Good on both ends. Not. Not a superstar talent by any means, but they're. They're better when he is there. And, you know, they're getting some wins here as the Magic try and like sort of salvage this season. I guess the best way to put it, turn something, you know, a brutal season really on their. On their part with the injuries and all that. But they've disappointed and they're, you know, they're getting it going a little bit here.

[J. Skeets]

They want back helps. They want a close one against the Mavs. And I mentioned earlier, the Tankers, the tanking teams if they have something to hope for. It's nice to get all your players back. Cooper Flag was back. First time in a month.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

And so at least they're not tanking. That hard to keep Cooper Flag out. At least he can come play. And again, like we said a couple days ago, they're going to lose games even with Cooper Flag in the lineup. So it's good to just see him play and we can talk about this Rookie of the Year race with some dignity.

[Tass]

He needs to come Back and save the race. Cause cons pulled ahead for sure. Save the race. Yeah. Schumann mentioned here in the Stream team that the Bulls win against the Suns is the first time a bottom 10 team has beat a top 20 team since February 25th. Sounds like a couple of weeks. I mean, not super surprising. The bottom 10 is pretty bad. But did you see Jalen Suggs's make? He tried to throw like a little. Oh, a little scoop pass and it got deflected by PJ Washington. The ball went like 20ft in the air and switched in.

[Trey Kirby]

That was awesome. It was really cool. He also had a meme going around last night. It's like a slow mo clip of him on the ground with his tongue wagon. Yeah, I saw the magic. Shared it. I saw it everywhere. But that shot was wild.

[J. Skeets]

There was some Lucas 3. I thought the banker wasn't even a shot. There's some weird ones that'll. That's in someone's algorithm out there.

[Trey Kirby]

But the play of the night, for being honest, was probably Anthony Edwards big dunk on RJ Barrett, who was getting over a little late and went to challenge it and ant caught a body and he threw it down with two hands.

[Tass]

Two hander.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

And my God, I know it's been said ad nauseam, but I'm sorry, I just. That's Michael Jordan. When he dunks like that, it's like so, so comparable to me. But that was a monster. And I mean, he let RJ know he was feeling himself on that way. Just straight screaming in his face.

[Tass]

That was also in my algorithm this morning. Fastest inbound in NBA history. Was RJ Barrett getting the ball, running out the court as fast as he could. Stop flexing on me, man. Monster jam.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. When he gets guys caught under the rim like he got Utah Watanabe. That looks mean. Speaking of football, LeBron's kick. Anthony Edwards recently said that if he won an NBA title before he was 30, he'd go play football. He'd retire and go play football. And instead. Because he thinks he's that good at playing every sport. Yeah, but he'd be a wide receiver and say, I'm done. I'm just gonna go. If he wins. If he wins, I'm just gonna go play another sport.

[Tass]

He would be awesome as a receiver. I bet he could make a 50 yard field goal. Does he still have his show? Doesn't he have like a. Yeah, he played Pink Girls.

[Trey Kirby]

For lack of a better name.

[Tass]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

So you have more faith in Anthony edwards kicking a 50 yard field goal than LeBron.

[Tass]

LeBron had better foot this year.

[Trey Kirby]

Just got a stronger foot, though. Yeah, maybe. Maybe LeBron does.

[Tass]

LeBron probably does have at their peaks. LeBron had more powerful legs.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Tass]

But now I wonder whose legs are stronger. We need a squat. We need a squat off.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. Between these guys and the Wolves. Yeah, they took care of business there against the Raps. All right, we're going to take a break here. When we come back, we'll do worst of the week nominees. But before we go into break, I guess Trey's going to.

[Tass]

I just want a small one.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, okay. Little sniff of the smell and salts before this ad read.

[Tass]

That's hot.

[J. Skeets]

Way to get close to that.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, that's nice. College basketball is non stop.

[Tass]

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[J. Skeets]

Anyone?

[Tass]

Skeets? You can combine any teams you want. Southeast Missouri State versus Moorhead. It's going down tonight.

[J. Skeets]

Sure.

[Tass]

Ohio Valley tournament. Brad Korn versus a guy who I also went to high school with named Jamie Morell. He always had one of those hats that said Morehead on it.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, really?

[Tass]

Yeah, I remember those hats that were like sex jokes hats. Someone said cocks like for a South Carolina one.

[Trey Kirby]

Actually, I don't know if those made it up their way up.

[Tass]

We're very college based, so maybe they stayed down here. But like the goal was you get the white hat and you want that thing to be as filthy as possible.

[Trey Kirby]

Just disgust. Oh.

[Tass]

How does this relate to what I was talking about? Build any college hoops parlay you like, Anyone?

[Trey Kirby]

Skeets? Okay.

[Tass]

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[Trey Kirby]

Great stuff. You really. You brought it there after the smelling salts.

[Tass]

That's nice.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I. I don't.

[Tass]

I probably didn't get as big of a whiff as you, but I do feel a little tear in the eye now. And it wakes you up.

[J. Skeets]

It wakes you up.

[Trey Kirby]

Did you ever do it when you played football? No.

[Tass]

No, I think I only had one concussion. And back then they were just like you're good.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tass]

Yep.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, Coach.

[Tass]

Yeah, I'm good.

[Trey Kirby]

All right.

[Tass]

Jamie Morell just blasted me, but I'll be fine.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, well, that's the thing that can cover up your concussion. Exactly that.

[JD]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

So. Yeah. I feel like 30 minutes later here. I feel better in that. The first 30 minutes I was getting tingles. Like, you know those tingles you feel? I don't, I don't want to feel shivers every 15 seconds. I do not like that. So it feels better. They're gone now. They're dissipated.

[Trey Kirby]

Good, good, good. So let me know if you get your sniff before. Well, boy.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, baby. All right. Well, boy. All right.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay. But before. Oh, boy. We have worst of the week, ladies and gentlemen.

[Tass]

You need some smelling salts.

[Trey Kirby]

All right, where's the.

[J. Skeets]

We heard it, we heard it. We didn't see it. Sta of the week. Listen, the first nominee are all those trees blooming in Atlanta that smell like sperm.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, I hate those trees. They're beautiful.

[J. Skeets]

Looking great.

[Trey Kirby]

Flowering pear trees.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, these pear trees that we don't.

[Trey Kirby]

Those are cum trees.

[J. Skeets]

They are the Bradford pears. Anyways. Yeah, they stink either way. The first real nominee is the Chicago Bulls. Rob Dillingham and his turnover. That is amazing that you have to watch over and over and over because he put it behind his back and he heel kicked it.

[Tass]

But that's amazing.

[J. Skeets]

But he didn't mean to. He. We are thinking that he is going behind his back to actually keep the dribble going.

[Trey Kirby]

I think so.

[Tass]

I mean, I. I guess maybe he's trying to behind the back pass to Yabu Sele who's running on. But he's trying something behind the back.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tass]

And it ends up being a perfect back heel pass to whoever. The magic defender.

[Trey Kirby]

That's a rainbow kick. Perfectly executed.

[Tass]

I guess Thunder.

[J. Skeets]

We've all watched a thousand times watched it a thousand times to understand. Try and understand anyway what he's doing. So if you're listening to the podcast, go check out Ricky Odonnell's tweet of this. That's where I got it from. Sbnore Ricky be. And you can, you know, if you want to search the words, some of these Rob Dillingham turnovers are mind boggling. So that's what he wrote. And because that was a mind boggle,

[Trey Kirby]

that is now we need one more for the trifecta. But that is two absolutely hilarious Bulls turnovers because the first one was Jaden Ivy with the. Just kept directing traffic and he was like loading it up, loading it up, loading it up. And then he finally. Right. Tried to pass it. I think I got picked. Yeah. So now we got two after the Dillingham. Yeah. Rainbow kick. But one more stuff. Who's going to come through?

[J. Skeets]

Second nominee. Giving it to me, because when I ranked the top five NBA smiles on Wednesday's show, people called me out and said, hey, you've got to throw this guy in there. Throw this guy in there. I didn't give the people what they wanted. I said, fifth was Shea. Fourth was Pascal Siakam. Third Andrew Wiggins. My second favorite smile is Peyton Watson. And then number one was Steph Curry. But then people came at me.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

I got an Anthony Edwards. Multiple times. Anthony Edwards.

[Trey Kirby]

I thought Tyrese Maxey was the one I saw the most. And I was like, oh, yeah. Good smile on that guy.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, yeah. Always.

[Trey Kirby]

I was like, you probably could have bounced a guy or two for Maxi.

[J. Skeets]

Could have. No doubt. The Tyrese Maxey erasure is what I got. Yeah. There's no doubt. I get it. I get it. The Anthony. Anthony Edwards reason was hilarious. From JSK on Blue Sky. He's literally sponsored by dental insurance.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

So that's why he's gonna have the best smile. That's why he shouldn't have the best smile. Getting my. Jalen Williams was also mentioned because we mentioned him on the show.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Big Jalen.

[J. Skeets]

A lot of people. Yeah. Jared McCain thrown out there by Holly McKenzie. Good one, Yannis. Wow. Didn't see that.

[Trey Kirby]

Surprised you didn't say that.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. I'm not biased to my countrymen. Kawhi Leonard. Jared Allen. Jared Allen. Yeah.

[Tass]

He's Nicholas. Interesting smile.

[J. Skeets]

Interesting for sure. Jimmy Butler.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tass]

Mikhail Bridges.

[J. Skeets]

No one mentioned Mikhail.

[Tass]

I love his smile.

[Trey Kirby]

Good smile.

[Tass]

I simply love it.

[J. Skeets]

Kobe White. We got some. Porzingis was thrown out there by fans. Kelden Johnson. Didn't see that one come. We saw that smile in person. I mean, last week when we were in Austin a few weeks ago. Yeah. You mean what?

[Trey Kirby]

Well, hold on. You said Kelden Johnson. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I was thinking of the Heat dunker, too. Kashad Johnson, who also has a new pretty damn incredible smile. He has, like, one of the biggest.

[Tass]

He's got Facebook in the NBA.

[J. Skeets]

Okay. Somebody could.

[Trey Kirby]

That's what I was thinking of.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Yeah. I guess he hasn't made the name since. Made it big enough of a name since winning the dunk contest or big enough of a smile. Name Counte George. Jonathan Kaminga was the final.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, he's smiling a lot.

[Tass]

Smiling a lot.

[J. Skeets]

So listen, I'm not mad at my list, but I wanted to include those. Really. It was just about including third nominee here. And this is the one that, along with Rob Dillingham, you just don't see too often. The Pistons arena horn that could not be turned off and was going for 13 minutes. We got into it on Monday's show because it was over the weekend, but I had to give it here. And we have a little video, but we're not going to turn it up because it was in my ears for so long when I was watching this last night. And it's literally, it's irritating. So it was tough to listen to. And I ain't gonna listen to it after. Smelling salts? No, thank you. 13 minutes. Yeah. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Like, three minutes, I feel is like, okay, that's enough. You know, you ever had, like, your, like a fire detector, like, go off because the batteries and you're like, oh, crap. And like, right. Even that. Now that. That's really piercing. I think probably louder than this was, but still, it's annoying as hell. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Yes.

[Trey Kirby]

But they got it fixed.

[J. Skeets]

They just got it fixed.

[Trey Kirby]

Plugged it back in.

[J. Skeets]

Any other nominees? I know you love to shove one in there.

[Trey Kirby]

I'd like to give one to Stephen A. Smith. Yeah. For taking 12 minutes on ESPN's first take to address the New Orleans Pelicans social media team after they posted a compilation of Stephen A. Smith's sports fails. I guess the best way to put it, his crappy basketball highlights. That was pretty wild, man. Like, I know this is his thing, but the rant, I. It's bad because it's like, the rant was not even funny because Stephen A. Smith, if he's gonna do this stuff, he does his rants, like, they generally are pretty amazing. You're like, oh, that was funny. I don't think this one was. It was like, all right. Like, you know, and he keeps going like, this is not aimed at Joe Dumars or Trey Murphy III or Zion Williamson or Sadiq Bay. But then he's like, but you suck. You guys suck. You got no right to be able to call me up. But he's, like, trying to zero in on this, like, un. I don't know, paid or unpaid intern that runs a social media team for the Pelicans who said, like, go back to solitaire or something like that, you know, because, you know, he had been called. The reason it started is because he went to town on calling out Zion Williamson, called him a food addict and all this, you know, stuff.

[J. Skeets]

So food.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, it's just like. My point is it wasn't. It wasn't even a great rant. But 12 minutes.

[Tass]

That's a long time. Would you rather listen to an arena horn or that rant?

[Trey Kirby]

Honestly, an arena. Then this one than this one. Yeah. He's like. This rant is not directed at the wonderful fans or the restaurants in New Orleans. Like, he does like names everything. So who's it. It's just aimed at this one guy or girl that posted Reveal yourself Solitaire Club.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't like the line of you. You've got the third lowest evaluation as a franchise in the NBA. What does that have to do with anything?

[Tass]

It's like.

[J. Skeets]

But he went for it. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. It's not like there's anything else to talk about in the NBA.

[J. Skeets]

Right?

[Trey Kirby]

12 minutes.

[Tass]

Nah.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I mean, this is just a class, you know, he. This is his thing. This is his brand. This is his whole shticked. But even this on. You're rolling your eyes out like, wow, you are really have just decided. I am making it about myself this whole entire segment because that's all it was.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tass]

Bigger than the Pelicans.

[Trey Kirby]

He said he's bigger than.

[J. Skeets]

Right. He's more popular. Said he's more popular than everyone but Zion.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, yeah, that part. So sorry. I mean, I guess. Yeah, sure you are. You're bigger than Sadiq Bay. Yeah, you probably are. But still, that was my one. My one nominee there.

[Tass]

The other things I'm seeing in our Slack channel, worst or not worst task. Melas Vijay Edgecombe crashes into the crowd, accidentally kicks a woman in the head.

[J. Skeets]

No, he did what he was. He dove into the second round.

[Tass]

He was. They hugged it out.

[J. Skeets]

They hugged it out immediately.

[Trey Kirby]

A goddamn chance.

[J. Skeets]

She handled it. Yeah.

[Tass]

The other Rui Hotchermer replaced LeBron as the Lakers pre game tosser.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Tass]

And couldn't get the ball in the right location, so they just scrapped it and all left. And then they asked Luke about afterwards. He's like, really will never do that again.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, that's a good one. It was good. Yeah. I watched it. I determined that I wanted to talk about smiles more and that was basically what it came down to. It didn't make great video so I skipped it. But it was bad. It was so.

[Tass]

It was funny to watch. I'm like keep trying to get it

[J. Skeets]

right as a professional athlete to not get it right. It was weird. Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

All right. Good, good suggestions there from the Stream team. So who gets the Whoa boy of the week? Not the. Oh, boy the worst of the week. Let us know there in the comments.

[J. Skeets]

Are you sure you want to smell sauce?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I want to try this. I've never done it either. So do I shake it?

[J. Skeets]

I think it's pre shaken now, but yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

There's no heart.

[Trey Kirby]

It doesn't really shake as much as I thought it was going to.

[J. Skeets]

Strange putting just a tiny bit of

[Trey Kirby]

water powder 5 inches from closer.

[J. Skeets]

TR got closer, distance wise.

[Trey Kirby]

Holy moly. That is a jolt.

[J. Skeets]

Good, good shake.

[Trey Kirby]

It went up one nostril. Maybe I inhale more from my left nostril than my right one. Oh, yeah.

[J. Skeets]

There goes the eyes a little bit, probably. Could you shake?

[Trey Kirby]

I got both that time. Oh, boy. Of the night. That second one. I shouldn't have done that one. Sponsored by oh Young, oh Young's album. Really tickling the hairs up there right now. I could probably use a trim job in my nostrils. Maybe it'll burn them away. Oh, y' all use a trim job in my nostrils. Yeah. Nora's always yelling at me, trim your nostril here.

[Tass]

Unfortunately, I hear it as well.

[Trey Kirby]

We're getting old cold doing it.

[J. Skeets]

That's why I did think about it before I did. The smelling salts I use. I got. I got. I got the buzzer. I got the. And I shoved it in there. It feels weird shoving something.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, that tingle part stays with you longer than you still there.

[Tass]

Yep.

[J. Skeets]

It's like I was. I felt like I was having nostalgic memories about something. I was getting the shiver every five seconds. Oh, I remember that. Oh, I remember that. Did not like that.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, did you nearly shit yourself, though?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. As we discussed yesterday, that is exactly what smelling salts do because I directly.

[Trey Kirby]

Because that second smell you're about to hit your nostrils is not. The wild dragon on that second smell

[Tass]

has hit the nostrils.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, no.

[J. Skeets]

The pre shake is important.

[Trey Kirby]

Where are we here? Oh, oh, boy. Sponsored by oh Young. Sorry. OH Young's album, Iowa drops today. Oh Young's actual name is Leah Rusli, and she's a film composer by day. And you may have seen some of the movies she scored. I'm asking the movie guys here. Recent big ones that she's done. Problemista and Sorry Baby. Yes.

[JD]

No, no, no.

[Trey Kirby]

I've heard of Sorry Baby.

[Tass]

Yeah.

[JD]

Sorry Baby.

[Tass]

Good.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. I haven't heard of the first one, but, man, this is fantastic. Congrats on the new album, Iowa. Oh Young. Whoa, boy. Goes to Wemby. Wemby. Boy of the night. 38 point, 16 rebounds. As we talked about, spurs beat the Pistons 1224 from the field, 410 from deep. 10 of 11 at the free throw line. Blocked five shots. Did not commit a single turnover in nearly 40 minutes played. I think he was at 39 in the box score. So what a game. Couple assists as well. Flexing on him. Yeah, Wemby's muscles. He's got muscles.

[Tass]

I mean, arms that long. It's probably hard to develop the long and short head of the bicep, but he's getting there. Preseason, we definitely talked. Will Wemby have a 5 by 5 game? He doesn't yet this season. Have a 5 steel game, but there's still time. There was 20ish games left.

[Trey Kirby]

I don't know.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, but it could. I mean those Max's four steals.

[Tass]

Yeah, he's got a four steel game this season.

[Trey Kirby]

Khalil Ware, though, was sort of flirting with the five by five last night. Just needed the assists.

[Tass]

Sure.

[Trey Kirby]

Sort of, you know. Is that an easy one? Sort of. Is. Can be. Can be. But he had an amazing game with the box score. 16 points, 11 rebounds, 7 blocks and 5 steals. Just one assist though. So coming up short for the quadruple or the five by five.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, he's not an assist man.

[Trey Kirby]

No, no. That'll be tough for him. But you know, you get those cheap assess like, oh, very cheap handed to somebody.

[J. Skeets]

It's a three, not expensive.

[Trey Kirby]

Got to get a couple of those. All right, pick them. I'm in a hole here, man. I got. These are two tough losses. You know, I know the Lakers sort of made things interesting, but I lost again by basically one possession. And you guys got it because the Nuggets covered was. It was five and a half. Was the line. Yeah. Jesus. They won by seven. So I'm one and three. You guys are three and one. I'm at a bit of a deficit, but I was down last month too, and it came back. So where are we going tonight?

[J. Skeets]

We're going to Charlotte where the Hornets are hosting the Miami Heat. And they're favored by seven and a half at home. Large line. So they gotta win by eight or more. You feel comfortable taking them. Skeets, you're the only one on the Charlotte Hornets.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I don't love the line being that big line. I don't need to pick against a team right now that's rolling, baby.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, and they're blowing teams out, so.

[Trey Kirby]

They are. They are 20 and two with that starting lineup. But the Heat in the back to back here played last night, but big game in terms of like trying to catch them too in the standing really big game. But the Heater winning games here, that's a tough one. The line is a little weird. I think that's because of the back to back situation. But I need them to win by eight. I need this. I could use this for the weekend. I don't want to have a crappy weekend after a Friday night loss, you know, Just ruins the weekend for throws things off, huh?

[J. Skeets]

No. Yeah, yeah.

[Tass]

The Hornets.

[J. Skeets]

That's a good pick though considering that the Heat have spanked them earlier in the season. They put 144 on Charlotte early early season. Then they beat him again, 126 to 108. So this is the third game so they'll have something to avenge.

[Trey Kirby]

We will see Friday night here, Tatum coming back, maybe Aaron Gordon and we got a good game here between the Heat and Hornets.

[Tass]

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[JD]

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[JD]

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[Trey Kirby]

Okay, rapid fire time. Trey's got the questions. The three of us have the answers. Feels like a perfect time for another

[Tass]

round of salts with my friends.

[Trey Kirby]

My head's ringing a little bit.

[Tass]

Maybe it masks the concussion sound symptoms,

[Trey Kirby]

but it also kind of gives you concussion symptoms. Yeah, I have, like, a tiny headache a little bit.

[Tass]

Yeah. Better do some more. Comedian Nate Meeker said that hearing okay white boy on a pickup basketball court means more to him than when his mom says, I love you guys. What's a compliment you always like to hear?

[Trey Kirby]

Skeets, I'll stick on the basketball court. Great pass.

[J. Skeets]

Pass.

[Tass]

Great pass.

[Trey Kirby]

I love it. Good luck. You know, I'm like Jokic, man. I'm like Magic Johnson. Passing makes two people happy. Scoring only makes one person happy. So, you know, anytime you get a great pass, nice look, I like it. I'm a words of affirmation guy, too, so. Good. I'm in on that.

[J. Skeets]

Right?

[Tass]

Good answer.

[J. Skeets]

Me, too. I'm a words of affirmation, guys. When somebody says to me, nice hair, I say, thank you. They say, I like that little wave thing. What do you do? How do you do it? I talked to a fan of ours when we were in Austin. He asked me, how do you do that hair thing? It's just there. And it's great because people say to me, and then I have to remember, oh, yeah, my hair's like that.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yeah, my hair is badass.

[J. Skeets]

Well, I forget about it sometimes. Sometimes I go natural oil like. Like Trey has recommended before. Just don't wash this thing. Then my wife gets mad at me. Wash your hair. Wash your face. Oh, God, now I gotta wash my face. So much work.

[Tass]

Good answer.

[J. Skeets]

Thanks.

[Tass]

Yeah. J.D. what's a compliment you always like to hear?

[JD]

I don't love getting compliments because I never believe them, but I'll take a. Take it to the pickleball court. Nice shot. Nice shot. From the opponent.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD]

When they say, well, my partner says it. It's like, okay, yeah. Most of the time is lucky. You know, like it's just a lucky shot.

[J. Skeets]

Oh.

[JD]

But I'll take the compliment. I always say thank you. You like?

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[JD]

They don't need to know. It's never. There's only bad luck.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[JD]

Like, if it goes out, it's bad luck. If it goes in, it's my skill. Excellent skills.

[J. Skeets]

Y. Yeah.

[Tass]

So you're not a words of affirmation guy.

[J. Skeets]

I love them.

[JD]

Don't get me wrong. I love getting compliments. I just never believe them. You know what I mean? It's a low self esteem thing.

[Trey Kirby]

Right? You know what I mean?

[JD]

Yeah. It's like you have to say something, you know?

[Tass]

So this is your therapy.

[Trey Kirby]

Let it all out, man. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Speaking of therapy, how are your ankles doing?

[JD]

I haven't tried the shoes yet.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, you haven't tried them?

[Tass]

Well, yeah, I haven't tried them yet.

[J. Skeets]

There's different kinds of therapy. There's a physical therapy.

[JD]

We're passing around a pair of shoes to try.

[J. Skeets]

Yes.

[JD]

The last time I played pickleball was the first opportunity to play. To play in them. But it was a tournament, so I didn't to want. Want to mess with my.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't do that. You gotta work them in.

[JD]

I'm also. I wear Tatums and I always get compliments on those. That's a nice compliment.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, shoes. Anytime you get complimented in your shoes, that's a good call.

[JD]

And it's out of the ordinary because I'm on a pickleball court and I'm wearing these basketball. Very flashy basketball shoes.

[J. Skeets]

Right. It's a nice shoe, though.

[JD]

Yeah, but I'm. No, now I'm the shoe guy. Everybody knows me for the shoes. If I wear these new shoes.

[Trey Kirby]

What are those?

[J. Skeets]

They're very different. Yeah, very different.

[JD]

But I'll try them. I'll try them this weekend.

[J. Skeets]

Okay, thanks.

[Tass]

I just want you guys to know really good answers all around.

[Trey Kirby]

Great start.

[Tass]

Yes.

[J. Skeets]

Liar.

[Tass]

Look, it was a sketchy start JD but you brought it around at the end. I thought Luke Cornett wants the Atlanta Hawks to cancel their Magic City promotion coming up in a couple of weeks here. They're not going to be able to do it. What is something that you want to cancel? That definitely won't happen.

[J. Skeets]

Skeets.

[Trey Kirby]

Look, I apologize because I'm pretty sure I've already used this answer before in rapid fire, but I would like to cancel AI Slop. And it was top of mind because James Harden just shared an AI video recapping his career. I guess this week he's claiming the generative model is fire. And here are some photos from said fire. The video misspelled. The NBA showed him shooting with the wrong hand multiple times. It got his own name wrong. What? Like why does it say that on the back?

[Tass]

His last name's not Pufus.

[Trey Kirby]

Pu is like, I mean that's gonna come back to bite him in the ass once he goes, you know, three for 18 in game five or six of a game of a first round series. But yeah, this is not it. So. But it ain't going anywhere. And I know it's only getting smarter. One day it'll know how to spell Harden correctly.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. As far as worst of the week nominees go, somebody suggested that. But then I googled James Harden slop and I saw that he has done a slop like advertising video a few months ago for my prize. It's like an online casino thing. So I thought, oh, maybe it's old. And I didn't get into the puis. I didn't see the.

[Trey Kirby]

This is new, this one's new.

[J. Skeets]

But he's been, he's been slopping for a while. Yeah. Something that I would love to cancel is going to Medieval Times tonight. Cuz I have to go tonight. I got to go tonight. I went like six months ago, but it's already been promised to my six year old daughter who's excited.

[Tass]

Okay.

[J. Skeets]

And we did go six months ago and she liked it.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

The falcon flying around that arena. It's pretty neat. It is pretty neat.

[Trey Kirby]

Now the question is, are you going to get a, a new show?

[Tass]

No.

[Trey Kirby]

You're getting the exact same thing.

[J. Skeets]

Exact same show. Well, I don't know, I, I just assume that it's the same.

[Trey Kirby]

I asked that because I, I saw ads for this recently. They're like, we got a new show, you know, so. But I wonder how often it gets updated.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, I did go last year, so maybe it's a new season.

[Trey Kirby]

Maybe it is. Maybe it's it is good luck. Who you going to be cheering for?

[J. Skeets]

Well, thankfully yellow probably.

[JD]

Okay.

[J. Skeets]

Thankfully not an ad, but we had those Tabasco little bottles that we used, and my friend Phil said to me, like, he was just joking, but he knows the food is pretty there. Said maybe we should sneak in some Tabasco. And I said, oh, yeah, we've got these little baby bottles, these bottles that are literally 2 inches tall. I said, oh, yeah, I got you, man. Those in.

[Trey Kirby]

You're going to put a little dash in the dragon's blood. And they call the tomato soup.

[Tass]

Is that what they call it?

[Trey Kirby]

Austin calling it that? I remember.

[Tass]

I don't think I've been for a long time, but I do remember them calling the chicken skin dragon skin.

[J. Skeets]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I think they do do that.

[Tass]

They probably dragon everything.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, who was there at the time? Matt. Austin got into it with the wench for like 20 minutes. They went back and forth like, you know, they were in medieval times. It was hilarious. But yeah. All right.

[J. Skeets]

Anyways, yeah, Tabasco is going to go on everything, that's for sure.

[Trey Kirby]

Give it a little flavor. Yeah, yeah.

[Tass]

Do you think we're going to see a resurgence in medieval Times now that the jousting Game of Thrones series is taking place?

[Trey Kirby]

I think a small bump probably so. Because it was. Great scenes. 100 great scenes.

[J. Skeets]

Great scenes.

[Tass]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

J.D.

[Tass]

what? Is something you want to cancel that definitely won't happen.

[JD]

It's gonna sound bad, but my son's graduation is coming up. High school graduation.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD]

Look, there's two people that definitely do not want to go to this thing. It's me and Jack.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD]

He does not want to go to it.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. But what Rachel's saying this is.

[JD]

Oh, everybody's, you know, parents come down, everything. You know, Derek might even come up from Mexico.

[Trey Kirby]

We're making a big.

[JD]

Lincoln had the same thing. Lincoln had a small class, was like a hundred and something people. I don't know how many people are in Jack's class, but it's like a. It's an industrial complex. Right. This graduation thing, it's in a stadium.

[J. Skeets]

It's.

[JD]

It's.

[Trey Kirby]

But they might do multiple schools.

[JD]

Yeah, well, they do one school at a time, but.

[Trey Kirby]

But, like, they keep cycling them interns,

[JD]

but it's still in stuff. Like, it just goes on and on and on. And I just. I'm very proud of him, but it's like he's just waiting for it to end. He can't. He only goes half a day. He works half day with us. Like it's just like, he just can't wait for it to end. It's like, not really a milestone for him. And I just. I just hate it.

[Trey Kirby]

But when is it?

[JD]

May something.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay, not till May.

[JD]

Right before Memorial Day.

[J. Skeets]

Maybe inspire him to not go. You say you can be like dad who didn't go to his university graduation. Right.

[JD]

You know what?

[Tass]

Put it in the gym.

[JD]

Why can't it be at the gym or the theater in the school? Like, I would much prefer that. Like, this whole. And the guy who presided over Lincoln's graduation two years ago, Horton. This guy went down in a huge scandal.

[Tass]

Oh, yeah, he did.

[Trey Kirby]

What happened to Horton?

[JD]

Like embezzlement or something. And he was working in Illinois and. And same thing. It's like, why'd you hire this guy?

[J. Skeets]

He was.

[JD]

Yeah, it was bad. Very bad.

[Tass]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Horton.

[Tass]

Yeah, it's definitely not good. He's been. He's been in the Decaturish papers as well. Further scandal for some domestic problems.

[Trey Kirby]

Maybe. Maybe. Get up there. Say something on the mic. J.D. i don't know.

[Tass]

But I will say I love the new superintendent's name. Dr. Sauce.

[J. Skeets]

Dr.

[Tass]

Sauce.

[JD]

I get those.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Enjoy.

[Trey Kirby]

That's a badass name.

[Tass]

Honestly.

[Trey Kirby]

Would be a great nickname for an NBA player.

[Tass]

Dr.

[Trey Kirby]

Sauce. That's an awesome nickname.

[Tass]

That's great.

[J. Skeets]

It is. There's probably an. And one guy named Dr.

[Trey Kirby]

There was hot Sauce.

[J. Skeets]

Hot Sauce, yeah, exactly.

[Trey Kirby]

You're going to smuggle him into Medieval Times tonight. We thought you were talking about the actual sauce, like. No, I'm just going to bring him. All right. Well, I think he's. He's got to go, though.

[J. Skeets]

He's got to go.

[JD]

I know he's got to go. It's going to be a thing for sure.

[Trey Kirby]

But, yeah, you'll go out for dinner. I.

[JD]

Part of the Totally. You know, the fam.

[Trey Kirby]

Throw the thing. Oh, yeah, the hat thing.

[Tass]

You guys, throw the thing.

[Trey Kirby]

We never did the hat thing at all, did we? No.

[Tass]

Mortar board. Is that what that thing's called?

[Trey Kirby]

Did we even have hats? No, I think we just had gowns.

[Tass]

Did they just not have any hats in Canada?

[Trey Kirby]

Didn't have that.

[Tass]

The mortar boards just too.

[J. Skeets]

Because I don't think we have Ryerson Rams. They could have had a sex hat for that. Wow. Wow.

[JD]

What a missed opportunity there.

[J. Skeets]

Hey, man.

[Tass]

Just another great round of answers.

[Trey Kirby]

Thought provoking. Get out of here now. I don't believe you.

[Tass]

NBC brought back Bob Costas, Doug Collins, and Mike Fratello for a throwback broadcast of Sixers Spurs. They Said they're going to do it some more. People loved it.

[Trey Kirby]

Y.

[Tass]

What's another reunion that would hit you right in the next Nostalgia Bone?

[Trey Kirby]

Right in the nostalgia bone. Where is that tip of my dick?

[Tass]

I feel like it's one of your middle ribs. Fourth or fifth rib.

[Trey Kirby]

All right, well, this is a little can con for you. The reunion Humpty Dumpty Marigold.

[JD]

Wow.

[Trey Kirby]

And bear the polka dot door. The polka dot door, baby. What's a collab? Canadian children's television series. It aired in the 70s and the 80s and a little bit of the early 90s. So even. Yeah. JD knows this 1 70s guy. I'm an 80s child. It was a great show, man. Great show. Those were the stuffed animals, the four I just named. Seeing it here, they did add a French cat too, didn't they?

[JD]

That was after my time.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, that was indeed. That was in the 80s.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I want to say it was like. It wasn't Manu. Something like Manu or something. Anyway, it was a French cat. Got added to the mix, so we learned some French phrases, but yeah. Polka dot door.

[JD]

Great Poker.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, poke a roo. Now that's the fun part, isn't it? Because Pokeroo, you know, you thought was just its own thing.

[JD]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

And then at some point as a child, you learn or it clicks. Oh, wait, the host. One of the hosts is always gone.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

When Pokeroo shows up.

[JD]

That's right.

[Trey Kirby]

And then comes back and goes, oh, I just missed him again. And then you're like, oh, fuck, that's him. Or her. But usually him. Because it was usually the guy. Yeah, he is Pokeroo. He is leaving and coming back as the big mascot thing.

[Tass]

Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

And then playing dumb when he comes back and oh, I missed him.

[Tass]

Like, I thought Kent kind of deal.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Okay.

[Trey Kirby]

But man, like, I don't know.

[JD]

I found it so frustrating as a kid, like before I figured it out. Like, you've missed.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. Why do you keep leaving? You know, he shows up at the end all the time.

[JD]

Borderline. Didn't believe her as well.

[J. Skeets]

Right.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[JD]

He would be like, what are you talking about? You're making it up again.

[Trey Kirby]

But it took me. I'm not proud to admit how many years that took. In fact, I was probably maybe in my 20s when I did. Was tipped off to that.

[JD]

I just found out right now.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, damn it. I'm sorry. Sorry.

[Tass]

Am I right to assume that one of these characters is a stuffed egg?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, that's.

[Tass]

It looks like.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, that's got. They both. Are they both sort of Are.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tass]

Very cool.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[Tass]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

I used to love those. Those stuffed animals.

[JD]

Did your name ever. Did she ever say your name? When looking in the.

[Trey Kirby]

Looking through the. The door. Yeah.

[JD]

Always waited.

[Trey Kirby]

I don't. Was there a. Philip probably said probably. Yeah. I don't remember.

[JD]

I don't remember my name.

[Trey Kirby]

But great show.

[J. Skeets]

Great show.

[Trey Kirby]

I couldn't believe it was on that long. That's a long time, man. Yeah, 20 years.

[JD]

Oh, man, kids. TV is a gold mine back then.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Cheap to make nostalgia. That would get me right in the bone. Bringing back the deep voice guy for Boys to Men because they've moved on, right?

[Trey Kirby]

Rest in peace. No, he's alive. Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

99. Sure.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, yes.

[Tass]

They just kicked him out, man.

[J. Skeets]

Honestly, no, they parted ways a long time ago. They've done the reunion thing.

[Trey Kirby]

Okay.

[J. Skeets]

So it's been so long that they've done it. They left. But now they've gotta add a lot of dancing to the routine because they're getting a little older. And although they're voices still incredible. Carried them a long way. They add that. And I don't think this gentleman Michael is capable of the dancings. That's just not his thing.

[JD]

So it's the dancing, it's not the voice, it's not the bass.

[J. Skeets]

For what? For my reunion. Yeah.

[JD]

Like the bas. The guy that you're missing. It's the dancing, not the voice.

[J. Skeets]

No, no, no. I'm just saying even if he did try and come back, he couldn't dance with the new. With the crew. They're still. No, they're still. They. They make dancing a part of their thing now, which never used to be a part of it.

[Tass]

That's pretty unusual that they would add the dancing as they get older.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just because their voices weren't the same. But their voices were so good they didn't need to dance.

[Tass]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

So that's. That's their calling card. But Michael. Michael McCrary.

[Trey Kirby]

Michael McCary McCarry.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

He's. He's a life.

[J. Skeets]

Yep.

[Trey Kirby]

He's alive. What do you think? He was known by what was. Sometimes he referred to Big Mike. No, no. Mike something Mike.

[J. Skeets]

Not Pimp. Because he'd always have his cane.

[Trey Kirby]

No, no, no. Go, go with the sound of his voice.

[J. Skeets]

Bass Mike. Smooth bass Mike Bass.

[Trey Kirby]

Wow. This guy was the deep guy.

[Tass]

Yeah.

[JD]

Not to be confused with land bass.

[Trey Kirby]

True. I don't think these guys have ever been confused. Did you have a favorite boy stunt song?

[J. Skeets]

Oh, did I? Or do I? Because they still exist.

[Trey Kirby]

They still Listen to Boys to Men.

[J. Skeets]

Absolutely.

[Trey Kirby]

That's incredible.

[J. Skeets]

Because they're not just. They're not just that. No, they're deeper than that. They're way deeper.

[Tass]

Recommend a deep cut that maybe. Yeah, because if I would listen to Boys to Men now, I would. Number one would be Cooley High, Harmony, Motown, Philly. But I don't. I don't know, like a deep cut. Non single to turn.

[J. Skeets]

Well, I'm a Water Runs Dry fan.

[Trey Kirby]

Second album, right? Yeah, second.

[J. Skeets]

Two. Yeah. Listen, if. If you want a.

[Trey Kirby]

That's on Bended Knee too.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, that's. So those are the hits. But on. Also on that album, 50 Candles. If you. If you're into playing music before you make loves.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, 50 candles.

[Tass]

50 candles. That sounds like a sensual song.

[J. Skeets]

And Mr. Deep man is. Is. He's thriving.

[Tass]

It's not in the set list anymore. Wanye can't handle it.

[Trey Kirby]

Did they ever give that guy helium? See what happens to his voice? Just, you know, you see that sometimes.

[Tass]

I did just see a clip of Vin Diesel. So did Sucking on some helium. He sucks on some helium and says a sentence that no one has ever said before. I can't even imagine the words that he said. I'll have to find. That's a really weird clip. JD what's another.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Tass]

Another reunion.

[JD]

I'm also going cancat. I mentioned this show on the show before. I want to bring back Monica Duel, Michael Williams, Rick Campanelli, also known as Rick Vatemp. Electric Circus.

[Trey Kirby]

Electric Circus.

[JD]

Electric Circus. Look, we've been watching Survivor 50. We're seeing some, what are the kids say, cooked uncs on that show.

[Trey Kirby]

Sure.

[JD]

Imagine the cooked unks. If we brought back all the dancers, like the same dancers and they have to dance for 90 minutes at 299.

[Trey Kirby]

You don't have like paramedics. You might.

[JD]

Yeah, you might. You're smelling salts at least.

[Trey Kirby]

Yes.

[JD]

You know, Warp one, the Hoodie Boys, Brenda C. Kendrick Pompei, AKA the Cowboy. These are all the dancers.

[J. Skeets]

These are all the dancers.

[Trey Kirby]

The dancers became that popular that they had their own names or names.

[JD]

They're mentioned in the Wikipedia and there are no links. So they're not that popular. I think some of them were. A couple of them were like editors for City TV and stuff. So they would like just walk away from their editing bay and then dance. Jump on stage dancing.

[Trey Kirby]

I've got a clock out to dance.

[JD]

But yeah, Electric Circus. Get me right in my fourth rib. If I say that again.

[Trey Kirby]

Fourth rib, nice. There it is. Rapid fire. Not so rapid. Definitely not rapid this week. But we had some fun. Before we go, we got a founding member shout out. We got another one and it's Shihan. Thank you, Shehan, for being a loyal. No dunks founding member on Substack. We appreciate it. We appreciate everybody that has subscribed, whether you're a founding member or a yearly subscription or a monthly subscription or even the people that are just click to get the once in a blue moon free emails. That's fine.

[Tass]

Do you totally like. You get the alert that the show is open? I just appreciate you opening the email.

[Trey Kirby]

That's right.

[Tass]

Good for our percentage open statistics.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, we did a pretty good percentage.

[Tass]

I love that.

[J. Skeets]

I love that.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

There was that individual who said, when am I getting shouted out? Did you see that?

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, I checked it. It's. I. I followed up, I applied. It was Rema. Rema's a yearly subscription. I said, this is for the founding members. That's the sort of the highest level. But you just got one Rema.

[J. Skeets]

Boom.

[Trey Kirby]

Thank you. But you've opened it.

[J. Skeets]

My mistake.

[Trey Kirby]

Song for Mama. Good jam. A bit more of a deeper cut. It was on like a soundtrack, wasn't it? Was it even on one of their album? Oh, maybe.

[J. Skeets]

I mean, they did it at award shows and stuff, so you saw it happen.

[Trey Kirby]

Mama.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

They're just thinking about their mama.

[Tass]

They're coming here, huh?

[J. Skeets]

Are they?

[Tass]

March 29 and April 2, two shows

[Trey Kirby]

at State Farm Arena. I mean, in Atlanta. I believe it, actually. They can do it. Wow, that's crazy.

[J. Skeets]

Who are they? No, I've seen him at Chastain. Who? That's surprising, though.

[Trey Kirby]

That's.

[J. Skeets]

That must be a big list.

[Tass]

It's not just part of it.

[Trey Kirby]

You don't think it's just them. You think it's New Edition?

[J. Skeets]

Like, we're chilling for two days.

[Tass]

What are they doing?

[Trey Kirby]

Come on. On Come on.

[Tass]

The New Edition Way tour. So maybe that's them in New Edition.

[Trey Kirby]

Literally just jokingly said New Edition. The answer was New Edition.

[JD]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

New Edition is just come back. I think.

[Trey Kirby]

I think Boys to Men. I think the story goes, boys to Men learned of New Edition and for some reason changed their name from Boys to To Men to the two as the Roman numeral. I think there's a weird thing there.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, it's actually. It's not New Edition. It's Boys to Men and Tony Brad Braxton. That's who they. This. That's the tour.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah, but they're calling it New Edition Tour.

[JD]

Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Maybe I'm Maybe I'm wrong.

[Trey Kirby]

How's that legal? Yeah.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, maybe they are the third.

[Tass]

Wow. Tony Braxton might be in the mix.

[J. Skeets]

100 Tony Braxton I had forgotten about. Maybe it's all three of them.

[Trey Kirby]

What's your favorite? What's your favorite season of loneliness? Of the four, what do you think?

[J. Skeets]

What do I think?

[Trey Kirby]

I think it's winter. That's what I'm longing the most. That's probably when I'm at my loneliest. You know, just because if you're not going home, seeing family. Sure.

[Tass]

Season disorder.

[Trey Kirby]

Yeah. It's dark out early.

[J. Skeets]

Big time.

[Tass]

No sun. Look, I do think fall is a sad season as well. It's the season of decay.

[J. Skeets]

Of decay?

[Tass]

Leaves are falling from the trees, decomposing on the ground. Everything around you is dying. At least winter. We're turning. Turning the corner to rebirth in spring. Spring, of course. The most hopeful of seasons.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah. Of all four. Yeah. Fall is definitely not top two. Not top two. Could be top three, but it ain't top two. Bottom two. Sure.

[Trey Kirby]

What season do you think water runs most dry? I guess it's summer.

[J. Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tass]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Trey Kirby]

Let's wrap this up. Nobody wants to go, do they?

[Tass]

Too much freestyling and killing it right now.

[Trey Kirby]

I would say we're trying to help the YouTube algorithm, which is shat the bed recently. What's going on YouTube?

[Tass]

The longer we stay live, the better it is.

[Trey Kirby]

What's happened here? The last little bit? They changed something, man. They changed something. Oh, I thought you. I thought you ready for one more huff here before we say goodbye? Do you want to take one more huff?

[Tass]

One more salty boy?

[J. Skeets]

One more J.

[Tass]

Salt Life?

[J. Skeets]

Not really.

[Tass]

Imagine that's what those Salt Life stickers on the back of.

[Trey Kirby]

It's for smelling.

[Tass]

I love smelling salts. He doesn't want another one, man. He's eyeing it.

[J. Skeets]

The fragrance is spelled correctly here.

[Tass]

Well, not on here. It's fragrance.

[J. Skeets]

Oh, so it just messed up on different parts of their quality control.

[Trey Kirby]

Oh, on the box, you said they spelled fragrance wrong.

[Tass]

Yeah, with that random fragrance.

[J. Skeets]

What's amazing is this scale of water you put into it definitely strengthens the smelling salts.

[Trey Kirby]

Let's pour the whole bottle of water you have left into the. Into the bottle. Let's see what happens.

[J. Skeets]

Let's get scorching hot. Literally, it looks like your face will light on fire. Like that's how hot. That's how.

[Trey Kirby]

It was a jolt. It was an absolute jolt. I could see why people do it, but you shouldn't. Okay, don't do this. This is stupid, what we just did. Put the disclaimer at the end. Yeah, I have to just cover our ass.

[Tass]

Yeah.

[Trey Kirby]

In case somebody sues us or something. Something. Don't do that. It's not safe for you. It's the dumbest thing we've ever done.

[Tass]

You can't handle it.

[Trey Kirby]

Well, right behind putting on a dog shock collar on me that one time. That was probably dumb, too.

[J. Skeets]

Good.

[Trey Kirby]

Welcome to Jackass Johnny Knox. Okay, let's, let's go. Let's get out of here. Enjoy Jason Tatum's return. Enjoy Aaron Gordon's return. Enjoy all the basketball this weekend. We'll be back on Monday to recap it to the best of our ability. If you enjoy this show, if you enjoy seeing a bunch of guys do smelling salts and then talking hoops, hit the like button and subscribe. Podcast listeners, 5 star ratings and reviews. Clipper Bros. You heard it here first. Have a great time. Turn up. Love you guys.

[Tass]

Awesome.

[J. Skeets]

Thanks for joining us. And remember, yeah, definitely felt like jackass here. And I'm just curious, what's Johnny Knoxville up to these days? Fear Factor. Oh, he's hosting Fear Fact.

[JD]

That's a perfect reboot. Yeah, I haven't seen it, but that's what he's doing.

[Trey Kirby]

Nice.

[J. Skeets]

Thank you.

[Trey Kirby]

You're welcome. Embrace the weekend, people.

[Tass]

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[Tass]

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