Time is running short on the Phoenix Suns chances for a playoff and not play-in spot this season

Time is running short on the Phoenix Suns chances for a playoff and not play-in spot this season

Oh man uh unusual Afternoon Delight here on the outside shots EJ with a rare daylight appearance usually people see you on the games at night or they’re here early at the crack of dawn at 8:30 in the morning but no 3:00 in the afternoon look at this special special day EJ thank you

For gracing us with your presence it’s not because I’m doing you a favor I know cuz I should be at home right now I just got done playing the circus golf course I should have had my butt here early what uh what golf course Whisper rock okay all right all right Whisper

Rock yeah and before we get started though okay uh oh Hey listen folks EJ came in on a heater so here we go before we get started now somebody’s calling you why are you calling me man cuz somebody’s calling you I want everybody to see this

Now y’all you all tell me if this is creepy or not see this tell me you know it’s just this dude have like everybody has a profile Pi picture I get it everybody has a profile picture I get it like when people call they have a little bitty thumbnail picture of themselves do

You have an image of him look at this fo I mean he who wants to look at a grown ass man when I’m on the phone like every time I turn the phone around I feel like he’s looking at me what’s so funny is it’s going to my voicemail right now what he

Saying man this is ridiculous man that was really creepy why why man I’m a goodl looking dude give me thumbnail man I don’t want this you can change it I don’t know how to change it but I’m just going to delete your picture how about that you can’t you can’t all right okay

I’m cool now are you sure man you need a hug or something no and I want some money on the golf course you already intimidated Derek and you forced him away you come in here then you you try to steal somebody else’s bike over here like I don’t know what you’re on today

Man what’s your name Caroline Caroline Caroline say she rides a bike you know to the bus stop yeah and I’m like okay I just ask her where did she lock her bike up at CU I need a bike exactly soon as she gets at the bus stop I got the bike

All right well all right the suns are on a heater as well Eddie and uh we should talk about them because they they just beat the Cavs last night two in a row and seven out of their last 10 and hello and behold they’re right there in the sixth

Spot again and they got two crucial games coming up against the Timberwolves and then the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday so after watching them for the last couple games are you back on board with the aspirations that people have and the Positive Vibes or do you still need to see a little bit

More no I mean I’m not shocked at what’s going on like people keep they were talking about strength of schedule oh look at the St the Suns have the hardest schedule left in the league and they’re gonna look man it’s the best thing to happen to them that they’re playing good

Teams because they normally play well against good teams like good teams make you concentrate like I’m all for doing it the hard way because if you do it it takes you into the playoffs on a better note like in trying to back your way in and we’ve seen this team this year where

They play teams that we think they should beat and they don’t so for me I like the schedule and they’ve done well uh so far and so they got some tough ones left right as you know they got Minnesota coming up they got the Pelicans they might not have Zion on

Sunday which scares me because now then that’s a game you think they should win and then then they got the Clippers twice and Sacramento in Minnesota so uh all difficult games all teams that are trying to find their Niche and and find their way into the playoffs and not the

Play in and so that’s I think why we’re playing well now and and so if Devin and KD are playing like they are team is just hard to beat man and we’ve said it time and time again and they’re on the heater right now let’s help let’s hope

That heater continues you know one of the things that I I I keep bringing up and my feeling is obviously Frank vogle talked about Bradley Beal taking on more of the point guard duties um and it feels like right now Bradley’s trying to find that nice balance between being a

Facilitator and a playmaker versus you know getting his whenever the opportunity calls and I think from time to time he is guilty of overpassing um I thought especially last night I thought there was a couple opportunities where he got into the lane did his typical step back had the shot and then deferred

To somebody else in the corner not named KD or book and I think in those opportunities that’s what I would like to see I would like to see Bradley Beal be a little bit more aggressive um be that because that’s what Bradley Beal is he’s an aggressive player he can he can

Attack the rim better than just about anybody else on that team and he could facilitate for sure but I don’t want him to find that passiveness because he’s trying to feed everybody else I still want him to have some level of aggressiveness in his own game while also trying to facilitate to everybody

Else do you see the same thing or no yeah but I think he’s caught in between at times so I think he wants to like he’s grabbed on to something new like Brad bills the guy that led the NBA in scoring multiple times like we all know

He can score and so I think now he’s just embracing uh the idea of doing something different and enjoying that aspect of it and so at times he’s going to catch himself in the middle and maybe he should shoot and he decides to pass right or maybe he should pass and he

Decides to shoot so it’s it’s still work in progress but you have to like the fact that Bradley Bill is taking over because I think it’s Unleashed Devon off the ball it’s unleash KD off the ball and and that’s what we need we don’t need them trying to facilitate we need

Them to be the guys that take care of it at the end uh when they get the ball in their sweet zones go for it and I think that’s what we’re seeing right now I like the I like I do like the way they’re playing I thought defensively

They’ve been a lot more focused theyve played with effort and purpose more than anything else and I think that’s what we’ve always wanted from this team it just feel like sometimes during the season they would just kind of go through the motions and they it just didn’t seem like they were connected on

Defense and they would have mental lapses in the last couple games it feels like they’re they’re very more focused very much more focused on on what they’re doing defensively because they they do have to ramp that side of the thing up uh side of the ball up before

They get to the playoffs because if they don’t they going to find themselves at home really quick and so I I I am pleasantly surprised at how quickly they’ve been able to modify and adjust on that side of the ball as we come down the stretch however they finish it’s

Going to be a tough situation for them regardless whether they’re in the playin having to play you know New Orleans Dallas or Sacramento or the Lakers or whoever for the seventh for the seventh spot uh or they get into the playoffs free and clear and they got a match up

In the first round against either Oklahoma City Minnesota or Denver in the six spot and if they move up to five which is they’re capable of doing then they have to face the Clippers so anybody they play is going to be difficult so you’d rather be in the

Playoffs immediately and don’t have to deal with a play in but the play in work well for the Lakers last year they made the Western Conference Final mhm it worked well for Miami last year they made the finals so I just think they want to be playing

Well now look the ball’s in their court if they went out they’ll keep the sixth spot to the fifth spot so there’s scenario because of the Clippers and having two games against the Clippers they can get to the four they can get which is unbelievable which would be

Unreal the crazy part about it and what the Suns have six more games left right and they they won what 40 what oh 44 sure so I have top my head 45 45 so can you imagine after all this team has gone through they can win 51

Win that would now let’s do the math backward that would be typical let’s do the math backwards though right 51 wins three losses against San Antonio that’s 54 three losses against Houston 57 the loss at Indiana that they had it 58 the lost to Portland 59

Yeah got to take care of business that’s the difference man in taking care of your business and not yeah so you talking about a team that could be sitting right now with close to the best record in the in the league you know and on the other end now

They’re fighting you know to to have a solid spot in the playoffs so that’s why the 82 game Merit is great because you got to pay attention early and you got to beat the weak teams and the sons have done a poor job this year of beating the

Teams they’re supposed to beat yeah no no doubt no doubt uh Buddha the skitso says uh so there’s a scenario where they can clinch a playoff birth today right I mean essentially because of mathematics they they’ve basically already clinched a playoff spot whether that’s a playin

Or a playoff is still to be determined but it’s a high unlikelihood if the Warriors lose today then yes I think for sure by by the book and by numbers they have clinched but because of all everybody that has to play each other uh there mathematically there’s no way that

They’re going to miss the playoffs so I think you’re set there because the Rockets are the only ones that can even catch the Warriors they got to play tonight the Warriors beat the the Rockets the Rockets are out everybody clinches everybody’s good so you don’t have to worry about that um there was

Also another question earlier in the chat uh that asked about just the flow of Poss possessions uh and and the question was do you believe the sun’s flow uh is not generating enough possessions that’s by Charles couter what do you think I don’t think what’s up with this

Possession stuff I don’t know people people really that’s so overrated man why like why yeah because I just believe in good shots okay like I believe in being efficient with good shots I’m not I’m not turned on by the fact you push the ball up and some dude shoot a

Freaking 25 foot brick like what okay so I would rather get solid possessions I’m not into this analytical robotic mindset well the more shots you get up the better chance you got and then pace of play the pace of play in today’s game I want to shock you

Lot lot of you people it’s not faster than what it was in the 80s you might think it is what’s pace of play getting on sh getting up shots or or running for high percentage shots I like that better like we ran 94 ft we ran for layups this

Generation runs for threes so for me I I like the fact that you have a possession I want you to have the best possible look that you can get and not just chucking up quick shots I I that’s that part of me drives me nuts because I don’t believe in

It okay all right I mean by the Numbers possessions are up compared to the 80s and the 90s and the early 2000s for sure shots are up but that’s because it’s a lot of chucking and du chucking quick shots I get it I get it um I mean

Overall obviously the Suns they’re in a much better position that I think we all felt like they were going to be uh just a few days ago I mean you know they lose to the Spurs and you’re feeling pretty down about their their chances uh not very optimistic I still remain

Pessimistic or or not a Believer uh totally in terms of what they can possibly do in the playoffs because I want to see them put a complete game together um more importantly I want to see all three of the big three play at a

High level at the same time and I I feel like we’ve missed a part or two here or there with those three on the court I don’t feel like maybe outside of a handful of occasions all three of them have been clicking um and rolling at the

Same time so that’s the one thing that I think can separate them from everybody else else I don’t think anybody wants to see the suns in the playoffs without a doubt um I think they’re a scary team for anybody to have to face because of the unknown and the inconsistency they

Could come out they hell they could come out and sweep a team if they’re playing at a high level they could also get swept if they’re not playing at a high level so that is the Jackel and hide of this Sun’s team right now uh you don’t

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Look at this I do have a problem though what’s going on you got all these bobbleheads out where’s my what I say Eric what did I say before we even start before the show sa’s like we need to find an EJ bobblehead but these are just bobbleheads I believe espo had so I

Don’t know if we have an EJ one blame ESO is this espo show yeah no do you have a bobblehead of yourself we can borrow do you have a bobble head is this esb’s show it’s your show okay so why he gets to choose I should have been like

An email not an email text sent to me so I could okay it like you know you got Amar you got Charles do you want me to take the bobbleheads down you got Connie Hawkins you know you don’t have e i kind of leaned up to see maybe maybe EJ in

The middle and I don’t even I see an invisible EJ I mean I don’t know if that that might be the most Diva thing I’ve ever heard I need set approval before we do the show is that what you’re asking for right now well well maybe if you show it up a

Little earlier Eddie before we started the show you can have set approval well that’s the reason why it’s my show I can show up I want EJ I’ll tell you what if you get me a bobblehead of yourself or if we find one I’ll use it in the Suns

Show too it it’ll be all over you know most producers go and do stuff like that I like you’ll go out and take care of that for me where am I gonna find an Eddie Johnson bobblehead I can barely find an Eddie Johnson poster that’s not

A knock on you I tried to find one really brother I’m not making it up I tried to find I actually tried to find the original Eddie Johnson poster that I bought for the very first time it was my first ever poster and I could not find

It at all anywhere I think maybe it was just a son’s only developed poster that I could get at the Coliseum could not find it there’s a couple but there’s not a lot so anyway as he goes to Google or Bing or whatever the hell search engine

He’s trying to use uh let’s talk about the sun’s playoff chances playoff chances as uh we have the standings right here uh and as you see Minnesota Denver Oklahoma City are the top three Oklahoma City is one game behind Denver and Minnesota they are battling for that final uh or that top

Spot in the west and then you got the Clippers Dallas and Phoenix rounding out the four five six spots uh Dallas is on a heater as well and we all know that uh you know I know we’re sitting there talking about if you get to the Five

Spot you might have to face the Clippers there’s a very real Poss possibility that the Clippers could end up falling to the six and we might see Dallas as the four and five that’s the way it’s kind of feels like it’s going right now you think so man I mean they’re they’re

Two and a half games ahead of us I know but you know I know we play them twice you’re GNA play them twice and if you then you would only kaai is dealing with his little issue and that’s not good for them yeah that’s what I’m saying you

Never know but the six spot is where I would like to see them um I think Minnesota’s going to fall back and Oklahoma City’s ultimately going to get into that top two I think we up very well with Minnesota and I think that’s going to prove out tomorrow that’s just

Me I think we match up well with everybody if we come to play I don’t I don’t really fear any of these team I think Suns fans might fear Dallas because of Luca and you know and obviously the game seven of A couple of years ago I just tell F shake that off

You know that’s I mean come on head-to head I think the sons have beating the Mavericks more than the Mavericks have beaten them right over the last couple years am I not yeah mistaken so you know just one of them weird games man where just nothing went well but I wouldn’t

Hold that like the ghost of the Mavericks or something so I think they they match up with everybody I I know for a fact Denver doesn’t want to play the Suns no no without a doubt and I even said that today on on the all NBA

Show you should check it out with adars and uh um Tim legler I don’t know why I was I was going to say Flex titim legler uh yeah no Denver does not want to see the Suns no at all I don’t I don’t think anybody wants to see the Suns Eddie I

Really don’t well I don’t think they want to see the Suns they don’t want to see the Lakers either right uh you know the way the Lakers are playing right now and I’m not shocked come on LeBron’s 39 years old now he’s turning it up you

Know at the end of the season that’s what he does like just like what Devon is doing right now Devon’s turning it up right you see it in his eyes the veteran players in the league they they know how to do that right and so yeah I I just

Think the West man is going to be a tremendous playoff run I think we’ll see a few series go six and seven and that’s going to be great for TV you know the first round last three weeks so you know teams be getting two three days off in between games so

That’s going to be good for the older teams yeah as I don’t know what you’re talking about we don’t have another channel so uh I don’t know what you’re talking about so if you got blocked somewhere else on some other YouTube channel I’m sorry but that’s not us also

Uh let’s let’s go back up uh there was a angle V said the Thunder is still young though zero playoff experience we win are six or s in my opinion now this is what I want to say about playoff experience in 2021 Devin Booker didn’t have playoff experience mckel Bridges

Cam Johnson DeAndre Aiden and they still performed at a high level in the playoffs got all the way to the finals I think I think sometimes we overvalue playoff experience when it comes to younger teams OKC as a young team but they’ve they can play at a high level

They’ve proven that all season long I know the regular season is different than the playoffs but it’s still I I think sometimes we put a little too much emphasis on the experienced portion of this you think you think it’s yeah I disagree with you I oh yeah okay all

Right oh yeah cuz I went through it like it’s just a different animal because it is now becoming close to final and I think that’s the the possessions in a playoff game every possession is important like you’re thinking about it you not you’re not wanting to turn it

Over you wanting to make the shot uh so if you’ve never been there before it’s a different animal and look they going to have expectations on them too so like they had a great regular season record so when they going to the playoffs you know not only the fans going to have

High expectations but everybody’s going to be looking at them like okay let’s see what they do I for one think that they’re big for the moment I I think Jaylen Williams and Shay they’re big for the moment I think chat’s big for the moment as well so I don’t for see them

Going south I think you want have to beat them uh but the way they looked against the Suns the other day I don’t know if we want to play them right now I I don’t want to play OKC I know a lot of people are like oh yeah we would be OKC

I mean everything I’ve seen so far right now this season it just feels like they’re younger and quicker and a little bit more effective against us than just about any other team and I’m not a big fan I’m not a big fan of that at all all

Right so uh if you’ve never seen this show you probably uh are maybe going to be turned off or you’re going to like what we’re about to talk about but we don’t just talk about Suns only we talk about other things too uh and one of the

Teams I want to talk about real quick selfish yeah I mean listen they want to talk they want to get your opinion on the Suns big deal just tune in to the broadcast I you know K lets me talk every 10 minutes okay all right well hey

Uh T Bounty Bay said silly Saul it was a little much to say the Suns might beat the Wolves by 20 tomorrow it’s underestimating a winning team we beat him about 30 earlier in the year so why can’t why can’t I say they they’re going to beat him by 20 I’m

Being optimistic I’m trying to trying to turn a new Leaf there Eric change your ways trying to change my ways Brave of trying to look at the glasses half full instead of half empty so uh are you one last question before we move on the

Bucks uh are you still a believer in the buck despite the fact that they’ve lost to the Grizzlies and I think the Hornets in the last oh no Wizards it was the Wizards and the Grizzlies in the last two games I don’t know what is going on with them disappointed without a doubt

At their performance they’re an old Team all their key players are north of 30 some of them 30 North of 35 and I think that’s part of their issue the marathon is taking a toll on them and they just can’t wait to get to the playoffs where they’ll get two days

Off in between games games and all of that and I think that’s when they’ll be better but yeah right now it’s kind of embarrassing to see how they play and how they’re allowing teams to dominate them like last night Memphis like dominated them in the paint it’s one

Thing to lose to him that’s fine anybody can lose to him but it’s how they beat him like they dominated them in the paint and Milwaukee’s a big team they were able to let them do that so that is some concern without a doubt uh getting

A new coach normally when you get a new coach the Euphoria of getting that new coach carries over to the floor did not teams play at a higher level we haven’t seen that so those two things do concern me but I’m not writing them off totally

Right now because I think with Dame and Giannis uh they’re going to win their share of playoff game they’re lucky they’re in the Eastern Conference because they don’t really have to battle a lot of teams to stay up at the top of that conference and secure homec court advantage I mean they’re basically

They’ve done that already so they’re good there um I I I don’t know if Giannis has enough to carry that team to where it needs to go or Dame um again Dame’s gotten far I think Western Conference Finals as far as he’s ever gotten he wants to get to the finals but

Boston is such a tough team I just don’t see anybody in the East getting past Boston at all I just think that this is their year to get to the finals and whoever they match up with is going to depend whether or not I think they’re

Going to be the favorite but I think overall they are the betting favorite to win a championship according to G yeah and look I the only thing I’m going say about Boston and you’re right I think they are the favorite to get out of the East but in my mind they’re also very

Vulnerable to getting beat because of the way that they play they rely on the three ball a lot they take a ton of Threes And I just wonder if they start to struggle from three will they keep shooting it cuz they don’t have a post

Up guy uh and so they don’t have many options past the pace that play so I would be curious if if they got in trouble in the playoff series and how they would play all right well uh moving on to other things we got a coule a

Couple little little things that I want to cover because I want to really get your opinion on on this all right Angel Reese she has been a lightning bolt of focus for a lot of people uh in the basketball world and first of all I want to say women’s

Basketball has been phenomenal this year um I don’t know if if you haven’t watched a game you should 12.3 million people watched Iowa versus LSU Caitlyn Clark versus Angel ree the other night which is to be commended that was more than the NBA Finals that was more than

The World Series that was more than the college football playoff I mean the ladies did their thing Angel Reese though um caught a lot of flak uh especially after last year because of the whole pointing to to the ring thing and then like you can’t see me thing

Right and I wanted to go through a couple things and just kind of prove to you how stupid this is all right let’s see the first uh image there Eric that’s Dame what’s he doing yeah the Dame time the typical thing right what about the next one oh you got to

Rock the baby right and this is we’ve seen Westbrook do this hell we’ve seen book do this as well all right next one we got dbe mumble with the finger wag right like he every time he blocked a shot he threw that finger in somebody’s

Face and then he got it back to him because Michael Jordan when he dunked on him did the same thing back to him oh and by the way there’s this and this is Kaylin or Kaylin Clark doing the same exact thing the game before Angel Reese

Did it uh to uh Haley van lith and then Angel Reese does it and all of a sudden it’s become an issue and you know and because she’s not backing down of by of who she is and the the approach that she goes with the game and her being

Unapologetic for being the player that she is and the confidence that she has in herself people have tried to slander her and I just don’t understand it I don’t like it um I don’t think I think there’s a connotation to this in some aspects that that people are trying to

Go with uh and I just don’t see the narrative doesn’t fit the piece in my opinion so she’s talking trash a million other players in the history of the game have talked a lot of trash so I just I just don’t think that that the flak that

She’s been getting over the course of the last really year and a half has been warranted at all well a couple of things I’m not GNA get too deep with it because I could get deep but I’m not not stay stay a little bit above G-rated first

Thing they don’t like her because she kicked Caitlyn’s butt last year that’s why I don’t like her just put it where it is oh yeah a million perc and it’s not everybody it’s just some of these losers out there that they live their life through the success

Of somebody else and it ticked them off last year that angel Reese got that butt like last year M okay and they won the title and people didn’t like the fact that she all of a sudden was bragging about it okay so boohoo to you okay boohoo to

You as you noted Caitlyn a game before that did the same thing she talks junp so is okay for her to talk junk but reys can’t cuz that’s what that sounds like that’s what it sounds like exactly I don’t like it at all you know

We live in an era right now I don’t I don’t want to get too political but we got people that can do something in broad daylight and say they can get away with it all right and then you ask somebody did he mean anything by that and you no

No no no he’s just kidding stop stop want to hear that like this is sports you can talk junk I was just on the golf course talking smack you don’t like it pick up your clubs and go back home I mean that’s just it like sports is competitive man and like

Any advantage that you can get or rub it in you can do it she didn’t Rob her she didn’t assault her all she did was just make a motion just like she did a game Caitlyn did a game before that and now everybody’s getting on Angel ree they

Want to get on her because she’s very good at what she does and you don’t like that she can talk that she talks it up well you know that’s your that’s your problem it’s not her problem and she’s not going to change and if I told her I

Would tell her never to change never because it’s competitive basketball that’s all it is is okay it’s not little Johnny little Timmy at the YMCA and mommy and daddy like don’t call travel and he just ran with the damn ball 80 89 steps it’s [Laughter] travel Sportsman you got to be a good

Sportsman ain’t no sportsmanship between them lines the reason guys made it to the NBA and and women to the WNBA is because they cut your throat to beat you that’s how they get there they don’t get there by being super nice between the lines outside the lines okay hey how are

You how things going how’s the family everything good between those lines it’s on I’m not g to lie I look trust me and you all know how much I like I I I love women I because my mom was a single mom I was raised by women and you know the

Amount of money I’ve talked about it millions of dollars that I helped get donated to this organization helping answer single moms I’m all for the impact of women all for it no no problem but I’mma tell you something when I’m between them lines I jumped up one time for a

Jumper and I got up so high cuz the guy I’m not gonna even say who the guy was okay I don’t have to say it twice but I was looking down on him and I look that’s your mama shot that Jumper in on everything go between them lines

Unless it’s like until it gets to the point where you know it’s Ultra personal and you know what that means right we’re not talking about that we just talking about competitive Spirit that’s why they successful so now you want to take Angel’s Reese successfulness in her edge away from

Her come on yeah kayin be out there looking at people like she want to smack somebody like she shoot a [Laughter] jump Have You Seen Her Smile on the court oh very rarely an assassin oh yeah she’s out for the throat she’s single L that’s what makes her great Y and I love

Watching her not just for the scorn a passing she is ridiculously good she’s an assassin Larry Bird was an assassin I can’t even tell you the things he said to me on the basketball court okay assassin MJ Michael assassin like LeBron assassin he hits people and then he like

Right he meant to hit him like that’s what you got to do if you’re not ready for it that’s maybe why you came up short that’s all I got to say I think it is a double standard it’s not only because of you know listen there is a racial component between

Kaitlin Clark and Angel Ree and I think that is what kind of sparked a little bit of this and and and if you think I’m lying go look at the LA Times article by Ben uh somebody had already mentioned it where he called them uh he called LSU

Dirty debutants uh in their match up prior to UCLA that’s a narrative painting somebody in a negative light based on what uh that’s definitely skin color that’s that’s not anything else besides that and so like I I just didn’t like the way that that everything was

Carrying forward and those two if you if you’ve paid attention Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark actually do get along off the court they’re they’re they they they respect each other’s games they push each other to another level kayin Clark got better even from last year to this

Year why because she lost to Angel Ree and she was like I don’t want to do that [ __ ] again so she came back this year and been balling out she and she still don’t have a title No but but Angel Reese does she does but you know that’s

Still to be determined my point is but she got the revenge that she wanted against LSU but didn’t mean a ton like think about it it might lead to a title though right cuz if she comes comes up short and they got a good a tough game

Next she hasn’t done what Angel Reese has done true true like you got to get the title I remember one year the Lakers swept Us in the playoffs I think it was 88 89 swept us 40 they went on I think they maybe won the title I’m not

Sure come back to next year we kick they butt 4-2 MH and then we lost to Portland to go to the finals I didn’t feel good about that I know fans did because we beat La I didn’t like I I feel like we came up short

Yeah yeah I mean Hey listen again I just didn’t like the double standard um I think people are a little too sensitive sometimes uh when when there’s trash talk on the core and uh I’m not wrong because something else came up and I just don’t understand what we’re doing

In society today uh don Staley had a quot and I’ll let you listen to it and you guys can react and tell me if there was anything to even worry about I’m giving all the glory to God though he God is really he’s really funny he’s really funny uh the devastating loss

That we had last year to put us back here with a totally different team if you don’t believe in God something’s wrong with you seriously I’m I’m a believer I’m a Believer because he makes things he makes things come true but when you’re at your worst he’s at his

Best look at him look at him so there was some blowback because she said basically if if you don’t believe in God then what was the the rest of that quote Eric then then then I don’t know what to tell you or something like that right and I just don’t I just

Don’t I just don’t understand why people are getting so Twisted about this like it’s a frame of speech it’s a figure of speech it doesn’t matter like if you don’t like what she said you don’t have to listen to it I don’t think she was attacking anybody that doesn’t believe

In God I’m just saying like we’ve got to a point sometimes in society where we get we we’re trying to find the negative in every single little thing that people say and I I I think we’ve completely disregarded intent she is in a moment where she wants to think God for what is

Happening around her you don’t have to believe that that’s what happened but that’s what she feels it’s all good I’m cool with that she even had to clarify her remarks by saying this I said if you don’t know there’s a God then something’s wrong with you what

If I said if you don’t watch women’s basketball something’s seriously wrong with you would you take it as threatening as as somebody took the other one I mean it’s a figure of speech if you can’t comprehend that then tune me out like tune me out cuz I’m not here to offend

Anybody I’m not here you know just again like I I think we’ve gotten to a point sometimes where we’re just being overly sensitive about some of these things and when I heard that the first time I didn’t even blink an eye I just kind of moved along but everybody else is just

Kind well not everybody else but people are trying to pick and choose and again I I think when you’re looking at you know these are two black women that we’ve been talking about in Angel Reese and Don Staley who have been a lightning bolt for controversy in quotes and I will put

That in quotes because I don’t feel like either one of these things should have been a controversy it’s just it’s it’s tough to get by and just be like oh well you know it’s not a big deal uh they have points and this is how everybody should feel

Because what they did was wrong because I don’t agree that’s just my two cents no no and listen I will tell people to I’m blw in the face first of all it got hot all those people that complain it just got hot where they were that’s all it got hot that’s all

Temperature went up cuz why would you even comment on it why would that even bother you to that point unless it just got hot in the room right yeah so that’s the way I look at it but I will tell people like I know God has watched over

Me I know it because there’s no way I could have gotten out of some of the situations that I was in if it wasn’t for the grace of God I know that that’s my belief I could care what somebody else thinks about my belief who cares I

Don’t think she had to come back on and apologize for that that’s what she believes like so how dare somebody say oh that’s not the right time to say it that’s the perfect time to say it if that’s what she belied like I just know I mean seriously I know

That to me that it’s instances in my life where and I have about four or five where I know that God was watching over me to tell me to react a certain way to something that was getting ready to happen you just can’t always think it’s

By coincidence like it to me I don’t believe that you know just one point man I was walking past an alley one time I was leaving a summer league with my girlfriend then and she had some heels on and we were walking past an alley in

Inner city of Chicago we had just left a summer league game with thousand thousand people were there watching but it was like a dark Street we were walking past and so you know I’m tired just played the game you know your mind’s not thinking right and I walk past and out

The corner of my eye I saw three guys walking down the alley and they were just walking and I walked about four more steps and you don’t have to believe this I don’t care if you believe it or not I just know it happened for me I felt something that came over me

That said go back and look down the alley again I’m serious I was say this time blew in the face I walked back and those same three dudes was in a full Sprint and I saw guns in their hand I looked at her I said you need to kick them shoes off cuz

We got to Sprint back across the street this is a true story got across the street they weren’t going to come across the street cuz everybody was still there and I heard the guy say you just saved your life H like to me that was God

Telling me to back my butt up and look down that alley because if if it didn’t I don’t know if they would have caught me when I if it was just me and they turned that corner and I saw him they CAU but I was with someone so I wasn’t

Going to leave yeah you know and so don’t tell like if Don Staley believes that that’s her like you live your life you live your ideals but you don’t get mad at her because she says somebody’s guiding her that’s a higher power and you personally don’t feel like that’s the case that’s

On you just like it’s on her yeah so I don’t even think she needed to come back and even apologize for that I just don’t again it’s a figure of speech we’ve all said it you know before you know you know if you don’t do this then

Something’s wrong with you I just did not think it was to that level and appreciate you sharing that story because that just man like and I want everybody that’s watching this this podcast I want you really to close your eyes and go back in a time in your

Life where if you didn’t decide to do something based on what could have happened if you didn’t what tough position would you have been in like you know we ain’t smart enough to to be able to compute every damn thing yeah so that’s just how I look at it

And so at the end of the day she’s not trying to force her religion on anybody else you can believe what you want to believe not everybody’s going to is a Believer and that’s fine like I’m hell I’m not a religious guy I’m just not you

Know what I mean and you you believe in God and and it’s and it’s all good like we can all coexist it doesn’t mean that anybody’s right or wrong it really doesn’t because we don’t know nobody knows so again the figure speech thing just kind of went a little bit overboard

I just didn’t understand that and um you know look when you turn the channel like you know how how many you all get up more when you turn the channel on Sunday and you hit a channel and the guy is preaching do you stay there or do you

Keep turning the channel it’s up to you turn the Damn Channel if you didn’t like what she said [ __ ] you do it all the other times they do it all the other times yeah you walk past the church you see people going in the church do you go in or do you keep

Walking you kept walking you kept driving you have a choice so you had a choice to turn all it’s not your game that’s that’s more her game than it is your game because she’s actually in it and she’s trying to raise kids to play the game and she’s trying to make adults out

Of them and mature them so she’s putting more into it you’re the fan that’s watching if you don’t like what she’s saying turn the volume down yeah like no pun intended but preach there you go hey uh to the to the guy earlier in the chat

Just a little FYI uh who said 53 million people watched NC State versus Duke I’m sorry to tell you but you were crazy wrong it was actually 15.1 buddy that’s not even close to the same realm of of viewership watch D get their butt kick they did watch Duke get their butt

Kicked and now did they have more why they watch did they have more viewers did they have more viewers than LSI was sure but that doesn’t dis that doesn’t disprove my my my comments about 12.3 million watching the highest viewed women’s basketball game of all time and

It did outpace those other events sorry uh it’s not a narrative because I don’t care I go by the numbers I go by the data that’s what it is and so here we go now we’re going to leave you on a nice positive note we’re gonna play a little

Game with Eddie called this or that here we go Eddie I’m GNA give you seven little different scenarios you got to pick or choose which one you’re gonna and you have to pick one you can’t you can’t be unbiased and just be like you know sit in the middle you got to give

Me one or the other all right first one up or not all right Biggie or Tupac oh yeah come on now come on now I know you’re in Chicago guys so you’re in the midwest I don’t know you gonna go east or you gonna go west I gotta go

Tupac oh even though I love biggie I gotta go Tupac okay all right next one up oh it’s biggie all day for me I thought you knew really they was meeting really they was meeting you at the bar around too but the people the people need to know the people need too yep

With my crew let’s go you at T-bone steak cheese eggs and wels is great baby all right uh all right Michael Jackson the prince prince yeah and here’s why I’m picking Prince because you met him no not just that I’m picking Prince because now understand something Michael is the Best

Entertainer like you know nobody could beat him but Prince was was not only just an Entertainer he was a great songwriter M he’s a great musician like he could do a concert all by himself like so that’s why I would pick Prince uh in that regard but man that is apples

And oranges yeah uh I would tend to agree I think Prince is the better overall musician uh Michael was the better performer for me it’s Mike uh and I have a different reason my mom is uh 94 95% deaf so she’s considered hard of hearing but she can’t hear she can only

Hear high pitched notes and when Michael Jackson sings that high-pitch note that he sings at um hits her eard drums to the point where she can actually pick up what he’s saying oh yeah so did so to me growing up MJ was everything in my household because my mom could sing

Along to the songs especi she could so can I ask you a question can I ask you a question go ahead but when you were young and you trying to be romantic who was you listening to was you listening to Michael or you was listening to National no this is who I was

Listening to man listen man I’m this is mid90s for me when I was when I was in the Romantic game it was D’Angelo for me no no no between Prince and Michael I never played I never I didn’t even listen to Prince until I got into my 20s

Man International Lover sorry man sorry to disappoint you are you kidding me sorry come on next one cotton Fitz Simmons or Jerry CL I love Jerry cotton man that dude if it wasn’t for him I had some of the greatest coaches ever in basketball they took a guy that wasn’t highly athletic

Lou Henson first uh and I’ll go all the way back to high school Frank lolin who was not a a high school um a basketball coach per se but I had Frank lolin and Roy Kad who were like Two Italians that raised Eddie on the basketball court

Frank’s not here anymore Roy is still here so I’m G send him a text I said your name Roy I know I haven’t talked to you in a while what’s up what’s up pops uh then Lou Henson took over uh I had him I had Tony Yates uh those two at the

University of Illinois were huge for me uh other guys too uh they watched it Bob Hall uh dick naggie uh all these guys that really groomed Eddie and then when I got to the league cotton had me first man and I just don’t know if I have had any other

Coach if if I would have become the player that I was all those guys to a man they coached me the right way I was normally The Whipping Boy I was they got on me I took it and I worked on my game and cotton took it to

The highest level man so yeah both of them had an impact on me without a doubt I mean Jerry was a GM uh but cotton drafted me in Kansas City and uh he was the best coach I ever had all right there we go all right these are goingon

To get a little harder Dan Marley or Tom Chambers well well no no it’s not hard I I I’m I’m gonna take Tom hesitated though no I’m well yes I should here’s why I’m gonna take Tom because I know his ability is what really was the focal point of us winning

50 plus games okay in the years that we were here uh but Dan guarded his man and half of my man so he protected me how about outside of basketball how about like in your postc careers golfing or personal life I mean I don’t see Dan Much Anymore he’s you

Know he just plays golf and he really don’t see him okay and Tom obviously I see him all the time but you know that’s a tough one there but I would take Tom and I think Dan would agree like if it wasn’t for Tom I don’t think we would

Have won at the level that we did okay so there you go next one all right you you want to take a yacht at the ufi coast for a week or do you want to travel around the world first class for a month in one of those one of those like

Beautiful planes where you can lay out and stretch it yeah yeah on the plane I’mma do the yacht and and how long is the yacht one week In First Class how long a month I’mma still go with the yacht because one I’m not that in love with flying at this old

Age so I don’t want to fly the same plane every time I like to play Russian Roulette no I do seriously I do with all the current plane stuff man I don’t know about I like to play Russian Roulette I that’s just me I just same one all the time

But the the the cruise I’ve been on about 25 cruises in my life okay I love the cruise I love cruises I love Cru I’m going on my second Cruise ever here in about two months that’s your second second ever man you got you got way to

Catch up the EJ the second largest uh ship in the world The Wonder of the Seas I’m kind of EXC yeah you like it yeah there we go let’s go I I don’t know if that’s the one that’s got the gokart on it yeah oh I don’t know cuz the one I

Just went on had the gokart and the gokart the track like was off the edge of the ship nope so you going through it and back into the ship oh yeah yeah EJ was on that thing EJ EJ was like trying to hit people can’t

Swim Eli said EJ wants to fly the spirit experience oh man all right last one I do believe a second to last one k Ray or Tom Leander oh that’s cold that’s cold you know what I’m I’mma dress this one up I’mma take Leander oh you know why

Longevity no my body’s better than his like you know I look better in my suits oh boy KR man KR rip yeah yeah he’s kind of yeah he kind of like kind of take a little tension for me Jay I don’t like that like Tom Tom is like you know Tom is

Probably on got the edge and handsomeness right but his body ain’t built like you know KR like KR KR man he got one of them bodies man like you ever remember like back in like back in the day when you were single you’d walk behind somebody some girl or

Something You’ be like damn she got a nice body then you get up there you see her face like oh no K taking taking shots right now oh my goodness all right oh no I’m not talking about k r that’s what you just said I’m just talking about compared to Leander like

Leander’s like you know he’s like a Top Model man Leander has even man leand look like he 28 years old still Dam all right oh k r good looking guy but he ain’t leanda all right but leanda don’t have K R’s body okay all right so there

You go all right then before we get to the next one this is all about style okay and you can’t hey you can’t you can’t mess around with this EJ this is all about style it’s all about Swag it’s all about the look who we got book oh

Man bch you didn’t have the shots man I I told you I changed a picture on some of them you said they okay go back well go back what you got what did he mess up what did he mess up I had fashion pictures of these of you

Two I had a picture of you in a suit and I had a picture of uh of of Devin Booker and like a like a styled outfit and you know I I was trying to compare the two but you know our producer ruined it Hey

Listen I came to you before the show I didn’t see the I Chang some of the pictures I hope that’s okay suit so I ain’t worried he wasn’t in a suit but style and swag H but you know please let me see this yeah he’s he’s

Trying to wh y’all know I don’t I don’t bite my toe you know we could just throw the pictures up it doesn’t even matter Eric so uh but yeah like again like I thought you know I was trying to to show you the swag here uh and you know Eric’s

Gonna pull this up real quick for us so you can see what I’m talking about there’s a Devon with you know little style probably like a little GQ sho got got got that dog on car that cost about100 yeah yeah you know listen one thing

About Devin is he is uh he’s got that that swag but he’s also he can put a fit together um even with colors that you don’t think should go together he he he does a pretty good job of pulling it all off now can you do

That you know I I mean look I mean listen first of you got the 2003 draft look going on right here with the baggie suit and stuff it’s not a tight attack ued on that one well that’s back in uh I think they retired my number back in

What mid 2000s which it was about six years too late I started telling them give me give me I don’t even put it up there but anyway uh who got the most swag you trying to say between me and DB yeah well put us back up there let me

Show show you show show the show The Jump no the jumpers the jumpers oh the jumpers okay you want the jumpers see I don’t use get a picture with me shooting a jumper but you know look at that body though you don’t see no body fat on me

Oh my good we’re not body shaving book you want a [Laughter] bet I’m not body shaming them I’m just saying you know I like look I had I had 3% body fat man you know all right books my boy man he rolling right now too yeah he rolling

I you know what I was thinking uh the other I was talking to somebody today and I said you know people say well who are your favorite players to watch play right and you always get gravitate to who people that played like you right so

That was me I knew I couldn’t play like George gerin so I can’t gravitate toward him the reason I picked number eight was Marcus Johnson ward in Milwaukee and I like I felt like I didn’t have his hot but I felt like we played similar game

Right uh I couldn’t say Dr J you know please I can’t jump like that and Rock the Baby on Michael Cooper yeah right I can’t jump off two feet like Dominique so I’m going to gravitate toward guys that played the game the way I

Played and I am telling you I have I I love KD before he came to the Suns uh when he was at uh when he was in Seattle the first year I just love the way he plays like for me calling games I just love the way he plays I

Really love the way Devon plays Devin plays I don’t know if you ever watch Dale Curry play yeah he’s like a a super Echelon like meteoroid of Dale Curry okay okay Dale Curry when he would run you thought you thought he was Flo like he his his his gate was just unreal

And it just L like he was just walking on water that’s Devin when you look at him play man it look like he just and I mean it’s just then he then all of a sudden boom he’ll go yeah not many players play like that man it like and I

Love watching him play so he’s smooth he is smooth you know what I mean like again like he’s one of the greatest shooting guards listen he’s one of the better shooting guards in the history of the game without a doubt but he’s also one of the best shooting guards right

Now currently in the game if not the best he’s as close like Kobe was as close to Michael as anybody ever could be close to Michael and Kobe played the part like started wearing shorts under his uniform and the way he stick his tongue out I to fall away I mean Kobe

Just he copied everything Devon didn’t do that but he’s copied nuances of both of them to Fall Away I mean if you put Kobes and devans together devans is even better because Devon is not even I mean he’s just not even moving his fall away is

Unreal uh but man just the way that dude plays and how he moves around the court it it just it baffles me how smooth he is all right there we go little Devon Booker Lov to end the show hey that’s the best way to end the show look at

That uh that’s another episode of outside shots we appreciate you joining us today uh uh we’ll be back next week hopefully uh the earlier time like usual uh and uh yeah follow my guy jumpshot 8 at or jumpshot on Twitter and Instagram you can follow me _ Bookman you can

Follow show phor Suns until next time Peace

In a topsy-turvy season the Phoenix Suns continue to befuddle even the most optimistic observers but can Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal put it all together, and more importantly do they have enough, to carry the Suns to any significant depth in the playoffs? Eddie Johnson and Saul Bookman touch on that and the captivating spectacle that has become of Angel Reese.

0:00 Intro
0:30 Eddie comes in on a heater
3:00 Suns are playing well! Can they sustain it?
17:30 Looking at the west standings
26:00 Breaking down the many storylines in NCAAW basketball right now
46:00 Dis or dat

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