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Graydon Prescott 0:35
What's up, everybody? Great and Prescott here, welcome back to another episode, another edition of Sports prep live. This is the second episode of our sixth season, and it's the day after the Super Bowl. Super Bowl 60 was yesterday. The Seahawks defeated the Patriots 29 to 13. The game was not as close as the score says, even though the score doesn't really say the game was close. And then UNLV, women's basketball and men's basketball both had relatively eventful weeks. So we got some things to talk about here. I got KB with me per usual. Yes, back. Thank you to be back. We'll start with the Super Bowl, because that's what everybody wants to talk about. To hear about what everybody's had on their minds, anti climatic. Yes, I know it went exactly as I expected, actually

K.B. 1:19
see how, which is anti climactic? Yeah, let's

Graydon Prescott 1:22
just get this out the way. I'm gonna give a bold take. New England did not deserve to be in the Super Bowl. First of all, wow. Hot take. I don't know. I think a lot of people will agree with this one, and it's because in the game against the bills, Bo Nix, the Broncos quarterback, injured his ankle. He broke his ankle so he couldn't play against the Patriots, and it was on the very last play against the bills. They won that game by three in overtime. So the Broncos were playing without their starting quarterback in the AFC Championship now their backup quarterback still out past Drake. May the MVP runner up, sure, but if the Broncos had bone nicks, they would have won the AFC Championship game probably nine times out of 10.

K.B. 2:04
That is, unfortunately, how the ball literally bounces. Yeah, so how it's tossed. So they that happens in sports.

Graydon Prescott 2:11
So they get to the Super Bowl, yes, they play against the Seahawks. And again, I said this going in. The winner of the NFC Championship was going to win the Super Bowl. The Seahawks are the Rams. The NFC Championship was decided by a field goal and an extra point. Both teams deserve to make it to the Super Bowl. Sure, sure. Should have been the Super Bowl. I think, you know, maybe eliminate conferences because the NFC is so strong right now. It's crazy. But that game, the winner of that game, was going to win the Super Bowl, and it ended up being the Seahawks. They get to the Super Bowl, and it wasn't an offensive performance. But, man, they put it on the Patriots defensively. And you know the headline is going to be defensive.

K.B. 2:46
Yes, defense. It was a like a slug fest. And you know, the Patriots weren't bad defensively either for most of the game, and

Graydon Prescott 2:57
there were no touchdowns until late third. Correct,

K.B. 2:59
correct. So, you know, they you could say that their defense, by and large, did their job. The offense seemed like they were stuck in the mud for the Patriots. And you know, I think the organization gets to slay a ghost. You know, from the previous time that these two teams met in the Super Bowl where, well, Pete Carroll is not the coach anymore, correct, where it was literally the worst call in the history.

Graydon Prescott 3:22
But they learned, because, you know what they did the entire Super Bowl this time they ran the ball the whole time. Yes, Kenneth Walker was Wow, a beast, incredible beast

K.B. 3:33
built the second coming of BEAST MODE had channeled his march on. Shout out to Marshawn. Hooked up 135

Graydon Prescott 3:39
yards, 161 total yards, if you include his catching. Yards, and he won the Super Bowl. MVP. MVP. Did he deserve it? Yes, could. Did other people deserve Yes? Yes. There were a lot of people, I think the defense, yeah, you could have given it to the whole defense. You could have given it to the kicker. Kicker. Kicker. Had a Super Bowl record five field goals made. He also had the two extra points. After the touchdowns, he had 17 of the team's 29 points. However, defense had a touchdown.

K.B. 4:05
And I've heard that argument already. You know, in the game was just yesterday.

Graydon Prescott 4:08
I'm not arguing that, by the way, I'm not arguing that the I'm just

K.B. 4:12
saying I understand that he was one, however he was, he was put in a really good position by Kenneth, yeah, by by Walker and and by Sam

Graydon Prescott 4:21
Donald Sam darnold didn't have his best game. He he over good enough. Over the past two seasons, he has the most total wins by any quarterback, with 31 wow, last season in in in Minnesota, and they've lost to the Rams in the playoffs this year with, of course, Seattle, and they beat the Rams in the playoffs. He had 14 wins last year, and I think he had 14 wins this year, 14 and three and then three playoff wins, right? So, Big time, big time from sand Arnold, not his best performance, the USC alum through 19 of 38 so he completed 50% of his passes, only 202 yards and one touchdown first downs, though, but he did what he Yeah. Of the chain did what he needed to do. Absolutely, Seattle did not need him to go out there and have a Tom Brady Patrick mahomes performance to win that game, because their defense is so good, one of the best defenses that we've seen since, like the 2015 Broncos or the Legion of boom Seattle teams with Bobby Wagner and, you know, Richard Sherman and those guys. So they had a fantastic defense. KENNETH Walker went off and, you know, the whole team really showed up. I think it was one of the better single, singular Team Super Bowl performances we've seen in a while. The Patriots, on the other hand, were disappointing. I don't know if you can hold that against them, though, because I really don't think they deserved to be in that game. And I don't. I think they were completely

K.B. 5:44
it felt like Drake got there just a few years too.

Graydon Prescott 5:48
Yeah, we forget. Drake is 23 he's a young buck. Yeah, I'm I am not going. I tip my hat to Drake man, this year, me saying that they didn't deserve to be there does not mean that they don't have a bright future, they do, and that, that's a fantastic show. I'm just saying that this year, he needs a little bit worse situation where it was a little bit too early. Yes, it would have been like, you know, I always make these analogies. It would have been like if Michael Jordan, or if the pistons, you know, Isaiah Thomas broke his leg and couldn't play against Michael Jordan, and then he got to the finals and he had to play the Showtime Lakers in their prime, right? Right? He was just there a little bit early in that case. Yes, he needs a little bit more seasoning. He needs a little bit more time. That's all, that's all we're saying with expect to see huge experience for him. So yes, the Patriots aren't going anywhere. This is a team that is built to win. They're built to win consistently. They proved that they can win in the playoffs. Now, were there some asterisks? Yes, but this is sports, there's always going to be sure. So look. Hats off to the Patriots. They had a great season. They won 14 games. They shocked the world. Nobody thought they were going to get this far right, myself included. And, you know, they made it to the Super Bowl, and then they lost to a team that was superior, that's that's nothing to frown about now.

K.B. 7:01
Now to veer just a little bit, what did you think of the halftime show? Did you watch it?

Graydon Prescott 7:07
Oh, yeah, okay, yeah. Bad bunny, the Ricky Martin, yeah, yeah, Lady Gaga, the whole crew. I saw Jessica Alba was in there. I saw Pedro Pascal. Was Hardy b i Now, I thought the halftime show was fantastic. I think it was something that the world needed. This is just my personal bias, though I would have loved if he performed. I like it with Cardi B, because I just love the song. And I think that song is so massive and so significant, not like from a political standpoint, but from like, a cultural standpoint, that song is huge. So I think, I think it was a missed opportunity there, especially with Cardi B being in attendance. Now, I get her not wanting to perform because her her hubby is literally playing

K.B. 7:50
the Patriots, yeah, but Stefan Diggs, for those of you who don't know, right?

Graydon Prescott 7:54
But I think that that would have been a big moment to perform that song, even if they didn't do the whole thing. It's just a big song. But for the halftime show, I thought it was great, you know, spreading the message of love. And it was kind of a celebration of Latino. It was

K.B. 8:11
political without being political, right, right? I really thought it was. I echo your sentiments. It was very well executed. It was a great production. I did not understand a lot, but I don't agree with sage Steele, former ESPN analyst. Now, just going hard, right? Who says that there should have been subtitles? I think that's, that's really kind of a stray. I don't even know that that that she was being earnest in that, yeah, it was just, you know, there's 40 million Hispanic people in this country, you know. And although people think there is, there is actually no official language for the United States of America. 40 million people. That's a lot. I do. I did read that it surpassed all viewership.

Graydon Prescott 8:50
Yeah, I had, I had a feeling, because bad money is such a worldwide phenomenon. He's not just like an American phenomenon, right, right? So the viewership records, he broke the record by more than Kendrick broke Michael Jackson's, you know, during the show viewership record.

K.B. 9:06
Well, I think Kendrick came in at 130 3.5

Graydon Prescott 9:09
Yeah, I saw bad money as high as, like, 140 I

K.B. 9:13
saw 135 and you saw 130 saw that he beat him by a million and a half, which is still even for Kendrick, an ungodly number,

Graydon Prescott 9:20
I know. And then Michael Jackson was like, which is insane, without social media and stuff. He was like, 130 3.4

K.B. 9:27
that's crazy. In 1993 no YouTube streaming, no anything. And then

Graydon Prescott 9:33
in terms of just YouTube views, I think Dr Dre still has the most. He's probably up over half a billion now. And then, Kendrick is there, Shakira and J Lo are there, and bad bunny is going to get there, you know, in the next few days. So, yeah, in terms of viewership, bad Bunny was the record. I thought pretty confidently that he was going to be because of how big he has become over the past couple of years. I mean. A lot of people didn't agree with picking bad bunny, which, to me, was just ridiculous. I thought he deserved it as much as any other artist on the planet, and he's become such a worldwide phenomenon that picking him for the Super Bowl, it wasn't just because of the performer he is. It was going to draw eyes everywhere.

K.B. 10:17
I you know, I don't know how Jay Z did it. For those who don't know Jay Z heads up, rock nation. Rock nation has a partnership with the NFL where they do the halftime talent, Jay Z, rock nation, NFL and apple. And who knew that he would be able to tap into this cultural moment where everything is going on with respect to ice and, yeah, you know, bad bunny is at the Grammys. He says, what? He says, the whole ice out. Didn't really see anything derogatory. No, he just, he just said that. You know, they're all Americans. They're not absolutely, they're American, not savages, right? All things that are true. And then to have this moment where, you know, like you said, he's pushing 130 540 million views. And then on the other end of the spectrum, I did not watch. I heard about it. Kid Rock doing whatever

Graydon Prescott 11:10
he did. Well, look, I'm gonna try to

K.B. 11:13
quote, unquote, people that love America. I was really offended by that.

Graydon Prescott 11:19
I think the the most American thing of the night was a was bad bunny spreading that message of love. And, you know, the only thing more powerful than haters love, yes. And then Charlie Puth killed the national and, oh my goodness, yes, he did national anthem. I mean, it wasn't Whitney Houston. I think, I think it was, I think it was top three I've ever heard. It was really good. I think it's Whitney is in a tear of her own. Yeah? And then I, you know, Jennifer Hudson killed it, Marvin Gaye killed it when he did it. And Charlie, those are really, yeah that I can think of. There's a few other good ones, you know, if I'm missing some, feel free to throw them at me. But I can't really think of it. It was a good it was a good halftime show. Yeah, great, great

K.B. 12:04
national I think even people that did not or do not speak English, or, I'm sorry, do not speak Spanish, could enjoy what they saw visually, right? So I you know, hats off to the NFL. Hats off to Jay Z, hats off to bad bunny. It was a very well executed production, even though you didn't comprehend what he was saying. I think everybody got the message that that celebration of culture, that it is, you know, he came out with all the flags. This is a part of the mini right? Yeah, one of many. And so I really thought it was very well done. And it was, it was really a cool show. All right, anyway, moving on.

Graydon Prescott 12:37
And I will, you know what? I'll say it anyways, Kid Rock Show, no, I didn't watch. I didn't tune in. I've heard some stuff about Kid Rock and some of the songs, yeah, he there's this lyric, there's this lyric, he says. He says, like young ladies, young ladies. I like them under age. See some say it's statutory. I say it's mandatory. Really, ugly. Hey, if that's, if that's who the right side wants to promote as the guy that they want to replace, a man who promotes love and a man who promotes equality and a man who promotes everyone in America being able to celebrate culture together, right? If they want to replace the melting pot anyway, right? If they want to replace that guy with young ladies. Young ladies, I'll let you finish the lyrics.

K.B. 13:26
Yeah, I'm not going to Yeah, you I'm not a fan of Kid Rock. I thought, You know what they did. You know, their own halftime show was really silly.

Graydon Prescott 13:35
It was childish. It was probably not gonna happen again.

K.B. 13:39
I doubt that it's gonna happen again. Yeah, he was lip syncing. And I guess things didn't go well on the lip sync. No, it was horrible. I've heard that, you know, a 6 million number in terms of views, but I heard that number was inflated, so it was just a bad idea all the way around, simply because, you know, there was a Hispanic performer at the Super Bowl. And look, I hope, in, you know, the not too distant future like country music has taken making a really big comeback. I mean, they're outselling almost every other genre right now. So who knows? You know, it may be a country music artist up there next year. And I guarantee you other music genres aren't going to go off and say, You know what? We're going to hold our own halftime show, right? Try to divert

Graydon Prescott 14:17
and on. And honestly, me, speaking as you know, a minority and a guy who loves the culture and stuff. This is me saying this, Taylor Swift deserves a halftime show. Absolutely like absolutely come on. She She's one of the biggest artists of all time. Taylor Swift deserves a halftime show. I agree. I think, I personally think she should get the next one. I really do. I don't think there's anyone in the world who deserves it more than she does.

K.B. 14:42
She is a dog in terms of her artistry. So I'm huge fan just her business acumen, her production quality. You know her not only the expertise, but you know the way that she executes, she writes her own music. Kobe talking about, like, like she is just, she's brilliant animal. Yeah. So. Yeah, I would. I did not know she hadn't done a halftime show. I would love to see her up on the halftime show, but I don't think country music would be satisfied with that, because although she got her start there, obviously she ended up moving on and

Graydon Prescott 15:10
but let's be completely honest, though, I do think that it would be a much different response than it was to bad bunny getting the show as well. Oh sure, sure, especially from that side.

K.B. 15:21
I don't know this year if it would have been all that different, because, you know, he took his shots, you know, the President took his shots at her, because she came out and, I guess, said something favorably about Kamala Harris, yeah, so maybe not this year. I think there still would have been that pushback. I don't think it would have been as vitriolic as it was with bad bunny. Yeah, no, no. There's a lot of undertones.

Graydon Prescott 15:42
I don't think it will ever, it can ever rise to a level of that response to bad money with a person like Taylor Schiff,

K.B. 15:48
that was insane. That was insane. He's a good dude, a good artist, great music, you know, puts on a great show. And it's sad that he can't have, and we're gonna get back to sports here in a minute, but sad that he can't have a tour here in the USA because he's afraid that if he has the tour, but a lot of the people that it would attract would be fodder for ice to show up at his concert tour. So he's decided he's not going to detour here in the United States, which is absolutely crazy.

Graydon Prescott 16:15
Yeah, that's true. That's really a tragedy. It's great impressed. Got here on Sports prep live, and we've talked Super Bowl Halftime Show and some controversy or two sides to a little debate that's going on in the world. And now we get to turn our attention to the Mountain West Conference and UNLV for the back half of the show. Quick tidbit on the Mountain West Conference. Sandy, North Dakota, state of all places, is joining the Mountain West 2026 for the 2026 football season. They are, they're a powerhouse in subdivision football. They've won 10 national championships in the last 14 years. And they're, they're set to join Boise, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, they're all trying to Mountain West is trying to rebuild the PAC 12, I guess.

K.B. 17:03
Yeah, I don't know. We've had this discussion before, and I know that you are going to be and I'm going to be glued to the radio you're going to be having on ad Harper, you know, over the next few shows.

Graydon Prescott 17:15
Yeah, I'm going to ask him about this again.

K.B. 17:17
Me being selfish. As a fan of collegiate sports. I would love to see UNLV stick their toe in the water with big 12, for me, the big 10.

Graydon Prescott 17:27
Okay, now, here. Now I'm not gonna go that far. I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you to pump the brakes a lot.

K.B. 17:33
I'd love to see it, because big 10 loves a big city, right? Like you think

Graydon Prescott 17:38
10 loves a big city, yes. But is UNLV collegiate sports program ready for the big 10.

K.B. 17:43
I do not think they're ready yet, but I do think a lot changes overnight if you become a part of

Graydon Prescott 17:49
the big 10. I think a lot changes overnight if you become a part of the big 12. Big 12 as a springboard like Texas. Texas was in the big 12 years ago. Now they're in the SEC I am not mad at that. Yeah, I think that you might be right about that. And I think it would be a lot more playing to their level of competition you got, you know, schools like Colorado and by us in the big 12, Arizona. So it's still a highly competitive sports conference. It's just not the big

K.B. 18:15
10, right? But again, once you're there in the big 10, the caliber of athletes, right? That end up coming into your program, Northwestern is in the big 10 that can change. They are, they are, but Northwestern doesn't allow allow people to really skimp on the grades. This is true. Yeah, yeah. So, because you know that that that puts you in a smaller class of athletes is true in terms of, you know, they're not going to say, Hey, you're 610 and you can dunk a basketball, you know, easily in your in your sleep. Well, Michigan is no slouch. In Michigan is another good school in academics. It's not really very good in basketball and football. It's a great school. It's not Northwestern, it's not Northwestern, but it's very good, but it is a very good school. Yeah, it's probably number two in the big 10. And when I say big 10, we're talking about 18

Graydon Prescott 19:09
schools here, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to, I see Northwestern Michigan, you know, not Penn State, not Ohio State. I was

K.B. 19:16
a good school. I was a good school, not on that, probably not on that level, yeah. But now

Graydon Prescott 19:20
USC, us Oh, you at USC, UCLA is another big one. Yes, I think those would be the four Northwestern Michigan and then the two LA schools, right, right? So, but the point is, I think UNLV, that's a joke. Yeah, it's a big leap. Yes, to look a little bit less huge jump. I just don't think they're ready in their athletic program. But is the city of Las Vegas ready? Absolutely, sure, sure. Is unlvs athletic institution ready? No, but I think if they join the big 10, they could be ready in the next decade, or the big 12, I think they could be ready in a decade, or the big 10, yeah, because that, because then you're, then you're in a power five conference. It's and you can it's Las Vegas. It's the Entertainment Capital of the World, sports capital of the world, comes in for the title. Big 10 loves stuff like that, right? But I do think that they should, like, try to be a little bit humble walk before they can run. Right? Yeah, you can't, you can't, you know, try to dunk a basketball before you can dribble, correct? So I think big 12 that makes a lot of and again, the big 12 is not like the ugly step brother to the big 10 respective. Yeah, it is. It is a very good it's probably the third or fourth best.

K.B. 20:36
UNLV is just now, and I'm sure you'll talk a little bit about this with Lady Harper you. And LV is just now getting its wheels in motion in terms of nil, and so in a few years, I think that machine will really get itself going. But they announced a really, you know, huge deal a couple of months ago, which is really going to benefit, you know, the football program, but I think that's going to begin to spread out to other sports here as well. But they are still in their infancy. In terms of nio, a lot of schools are but a lot of schools do not have kind of the economic infrastructure of Las Vegas. Of Las Vegas, right? Obviously, there are some cities that do. But as far as cities go, UNLV should be well suited, once they get this machine rolling, to really be able to pull in some, some elite, elite?

Graydon Prescott 21:20
Yeah, yes, absolutely. If you know, if a school like BYU can do it, then, right? We should be able to do it too. Now I will say BYU is rich, yes, yes, boat loads of money at people, probably the richest school out of all the schools we could think of. But still, the point is, a city like Las Vegas should be able to attract some firepower in

K.B. 21:42
this region, they are very, very well to do. Yeah, right, yeah. I mean, they don't have an endowment like Harvard, but yeah, in this region, BYU is sitting on a boatload of endowment.

Graydon Prescott 21:53
Yeah, yeah. Now, while we're on the topic of UNLV, I want to, I want to talk about the men's basketball team. They saw two, two opposite sides of the stick, okay, in the past week. So they beat Grand Canyon 80 to 78 and a two point win, and then they lost to Fresno State, 9698 now I'm going to focus on the Fresno State game, not because I like to see UNLV lose, but because there are some things that need to be discussed in the Fresno State game, number one UNLV was up by five with six seconds left, okay, and they lost. It was 96 to 91 with six seconds left in the game. I'm not talking 16, not 66 right? 06 I don't know how they lost the game. They I guess a player got a flagrant foul, okay, Fresno State shot two free throws. Then they hit a three, because they get the ball back after the flag. And then UNLV tried to make the Hail Mary play and throw the ball from out of bounds to the other end of the court without calling a timeout. And he threw it to the other out of bounds. And then Fresno State gave it to this dude, and he hit a shot from the corner, kind of short corner, and won the game for Wow. So they blew a 96 to 91 lead with six seconds on the clock. I've honestly never seen that before. That might not even be the biggest story from the game, because there were a total of Get, get this, this. This number might not make sense in your head. There were a total of 80 free throws taken, okay? 80 free throws taken in the game, 42,000 a lot. That's a lot. And 80 free throws. UNLV shot 36 Fresno State shot 44 UNLV missed 11 of the 36 they only shot 69% on free throws. Fresno State missed 12 of their 44

K.B. 23:38
coaches tell you all the time, make your free throws, it does matter,

Graydon Prescott 23:41
but a total of 42 No, it was a lot more than 42 fouls, excuse me, 63 fouls.

K.B. 23:48
63 right? That's a lot. That's a lot. But still, if you if you missed more than you lost by, if you missed more than you lost by, then it's on you, right? Yeah, so they missed more free throws than they lost by. You say they lost by 2.2 points. Okay, they were up five that with six, six seconds six, like, six seconds left. Well, I'll say that two times real fast, six seconds left. They were up by five with six seconds left, and ended up losing the game. But, you know, if I'm a coach, I'm gonna say, look at the free throws. Yeah, not necessarily the disparity, but if we miss, you know, in excess of two or three free throws. And obviously they did then, that's your culprit,

Graydon Prescott 24:25
right, right? Yeah. And then, you know, tomorrow, they're gonna play against San Jose State at Thomas and Mack Center, and then they'll travel to Boise for a showdown with Boise State on Friday night at 7pm they are currently sitting seventh in the Mountain West Conference, so let's, hope that they can make a little bit of a rally. Make a run rebels, Lady rebels, on the other hand, are sitting at 16 and seven, but that record is better than it looks, because they started off this season with a lot of those games, like a team like Baylor that were non conference games against high level, but they're 11 and two in the conference. They're 11 and two in the conference. That's solid. That's solid. They're second in the Mountain West behind San Diego State, who was 12 and one, okay, okay, San Diego State, one of those 12 wins and one of the two UNLV losses was San Diego State game, right? That was here at Cox pavilion, and San Diego State won in overtime. 12, three was the overtime score. But UNLV had that game go to overtime. It was very evenly matched, and then they just collapsed in overtime with Coach Lorac at the helm, I guarantee you that will not happen again. When they play San Diego State in a couple of weeks, they're heading to San Diego. They got to play there. That's going to be a big game. Yeah, a really big game. You had

K.B. 25:38
her on the show. I love everything about Coach LaRock. So you're absolutely right. She is X's and O's. You know, a product of Stanford. She knows her basketball, yeah, so I would not be surprised at all.

Graydon Prescott 25:51
She is the Steve Kerr TARA VANDERVEER square. She really is. She knows her stuff. The ladies are going to be taking on Wyoming on Wednesday at 630 and then Grand Canyon Saturday at 2pm both of those games will be at home. And if you're going to attend the game on Saturday, make sure to wear pink, because it will be Breast Cancer Awareness game. Okay, okay, so that'll be a pink out for you. And LV absolutely as they knock off Grand Canyon University, I'm calling a victory early Kobe's, those are hard, yeah, those are tough to come by. Sixes, yeah, they're tough to come by. They are very, very tough to come by. Maybe you should get, maybe you could get some like pink John Moran shoes as a consolation prize.

K.B. 26:34
His stock has gone. We didn't get a chance to talk about, you know, the trade deadline last year, but I don't think they could move John Moran.

Graydon Prescott 26:43
They I they tried, yeah, they moved Jaren Jackson to Utah, yeah, but they were

K.B. 26:48
honest, didn't move. I was hoping he would end up in Golden State, right? The Golden

Graydon Prescott 26:52
State's Golden State's problem was they traded coming to Atlanta instead of but they were going to have to get rid of it. Well, no, they had to get rid of him, but like, he had to be a part of the deal for Giannis.

K.B. 27:03
And I get, you know, Dave Carter talked a little bit about this, and you know, you come into a championship team, and where do you find the minutes? He just came in at a really bad time. Yeah, they won a championship his rookie, right? But a really good talent, but you just came in at just the right time.

Graydon Prescott 27:18
But I still feel like the warriors, especially after that 2023 season, because they won a championship. And then they had a really mediocre year where Steph Curry carried them to the playoffs on his back, and he had because of a punch, and he had 50 points in a game seven, right because of a punch. And then the year after that, mediocre again, that was the year Klay Thompson goes over 10 in the play in game. Either one of those two years could have been the time where Steve Kerr looks at Jonathan coming up, the super talent that he is, and says, Hey, here's your moment. This is, this is where you step up. You should be the robin Steph Curry's Batman. I don't think Jonathan coming to ever wanted to be the man on his team. I think he knew Steph Curry is the guy, right, but he very well should have been option two, I agree, from like his third year,

K.B. 28:05
and Steve Kerr readily admitted much. Mitts admits as much he he kind of stubbed his toe on this. Yeah, he messed up. And again, part of it is due to, you know, hey, we won a championship the year that he came in. Where do you slip him in? Right, right, you know, with that kind of roster, but then you have that turmoil right with Jordan Poole, with Jordan Poole,

Graydon Prescott 28:24
and then Poole gets traded, and Looney gets traded. And, you know, even though they got Jimmy Butler, but that was a couple years later. By the time Jimmy Butler got there, kuminga should have been established, as I agree, the second option. And then Jimmy Butler gets there, and it's not going to be like, Oh, where does coming to fit in? Now, it's like, Okay, we got this trio, and they've curry Jimmy Butler, Jonathan

K.B. 28:45
coming, they may live to regret. I think Dave handled him, because this guy is young. Yeah, he's young, super athletic, talented, aggressive

Graydon Prescott 28:52
and and this Atlanta team that's rebuilding, they're building something in Atlanta. Jalen Johnson is Jalen Johnson is a problem. He's almost averaging a triple double. Jonathan kuminga is heading down there. Dyson Daniels is an issue. He's a defensive menace. They're building something

K.B. 29:08
in it. I agree. Young squad, a lot of potential.

Graydon Prescott 29:11
Yeah, a lot of potential. Same thing with Washington too. But ad doesn't want to be back there, so we'll we'll see. But thank you everybody for tuning into this episode of sports prep live. There was a lot to talk about, and unfortunately, I could not fit everything that I wanted into the 30 minute slot that I have. But we will be back next week with more on UNLV, on the NBA trade deadline and any controversy that we got going on. I'm great and Prescott, everybody will see you all next week, right back here on 91.5k on V HD two. Thank you for tuning into this episode of sports prep live. I'm Graydon Prescott, and don't forget to catch all of our episodes on Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcast, and be sure to follow us on Instagram or Twitter at sports prep live. Thank you.

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