Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of MU Sports Reporters.
I'm Alicia Wynne, your host, and this week's panel is Jimmy Fisher, Arthur Dowell, and
Danny Price.
Starting off with topic number one.
After the Yahoo NFL power rankings were released, how do you feel about undefeated
Kansas City being number six with two lost teams above them, Seattle dropping three spots,
and the Bengals being better than the Patriots?
I think when you look at it, it's all about offense.
You look at some of the offensive ranks for Kansas City.
They're ranked middle of the pack, almost 19th overall.
Alex Smith is the 20th ranked quarterback.
Their run is amazing.
They're ranked sixth in the run in the league, but in the past they're ranked 22nd, and they're
only averaging 13 points per game, only averaging maybe 17, 21 points a game.
But then you're going up against Denver offense, who in some polls is ranked higher than Kansas
City, who is just number one in every offensive category except the run.
But then you've got New Orleans, who really has a good offense, New England has a great
offense.
When you look at it, I think it comes down to who's the better offense, and how does
that determine the power rankings?
I mean, the Yahoo power rankings, New England was not even ahead of them.
Really?
Really.
I mean, you're absolutely right.
Offensively, yes.
There's definitely a lot of questions for the Kansas City.
It's really their defense that's gotten them there, but it's the past two weeks they've
just gotten by really luckily, 17-16 against Houston, 23-17 against Cleveland.
I mean, these two teams are not relevant.
Kansas City is, and they're making it look like they're not relevant against these non-relevant
teams.
You said it.
I'm sorry.
You said it.
You're keeping them in these games, but when you look at it, I think that the power rankings
go by the better offense.
But that's just my opinion.
I mean, if it were up to me, Kansas City would be ranked number one in every category.
Well, I mean, it's hard to argue that the Chiefs shouldn't be number one because they
are undefeated.
It's hard to not rank an undefeated team as your number one in your power rankings.
As for the rest of the teams, I know on Yahoo, it's got the Colts better than the Broncos,
which is understandable because the Colts did beat the Broncos, but if you look at the
overall body of work, it's hard to argue that the Colts are better than a lot of teams
because they are a two-loss team.
As for the Bengals and the Patriots, the Bengals are a better team than the Patriots,
then I'll fight anybody on that right now.
The Bengals are just playing better than the Patriots, and it's just one of those things.
The Chiefs, you can argue that they aren't the best power rankings team because they
barely squeak by the Browns.
The Browns have beaten some pretty good teams this year as well.
So the power rankings, to me, are just kind of a joke because they don't really say anything.
It's just kind of the writers trying to analyze who they are.
The writers are writers for a reason.
They don't play football.
They write about it.
So at the end of the day, how much say do they really have in this whole thing?
At the end of the day, standings are the only thing that matter.
Right now, the Chiefs are ahead of it, so why can't they be number one in the power
ranks?
They're ahead of the Broncos right now, and the AFC West.
So they are the best team.
And if you're going to say the AFC West is one of the best divisions in the league and
you're atop that division, then you should be number one.
It's very valid.
AFC West is a very competitive division.
Between Denver and Kansas City, there's only one loss that separates them.
Denver, like I said, is ranked ahead of Kansas City in a couple of the power polls.
Like ESPN, Fox, and Sports Illustrated all have Kansas City as number one.
Really, these are like, at least ESPN is definitely one of the major sports markets out there
when it comes to rankings.
But like Danny, you said, the power rankings aren't what's going to win you the division.
It's how you play that's going to win you the division, how you stand in the division.
And I mean, I can see a couple of these teams.
The teams that are ranked ahead of Kansas City on Yahoo, Green Bay Packers, Denver Broncos,
Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts, and New Orleans Saints.
I can see the Saints in Seahawks being a little bit better than the Chiefs.
I mean, they have bragging rights on the line for the NFC home field advantage.
That is true.
They play later in the season.
And I feel like if the Saints did go up against Kansas City, I think Drew Brees and his high
Octane offense could put up a lot of points against this Kansas City team.
Yeah, right now, honestly, the only team that truthfully scares me as a whole are the Saints,
because they're the only team that'll light you up on any given week on the scoreboard.
You know, lately, the Broncos started off hot, but they've been kind of struggling
on both sides of the football the last few weeks.
You have the Chiefs who are just solidly squeaking by a lot of teams.
Okay.
The Colts, they're all right, but then you got the Seahawks, they're not impressing
anybody, especially on the road.
Okay, guys.
Moving on to topic two, what's wrong in Pittsburgh?
Talk about the bottom of the power rankings.
Yeah.
A lot is wrong in Pittsburgh.
A lot is wrong in Pittsburgh.
And the number one thing that I can think of is I'm not even looking at stats.
I'm looking at their leadership is not there anymore.
Troy Palamalo does not look like Troy Palamalo.
They lose James Harrison.
Yes, James Harrison, you know, six times he was cut.
But when he was there these last few years, he was a big part of that defense.
They just don't have the vocals anymore, and it definitely shows.
I mean, and then if you're going to go off of that and you're going to go back and look
at stats, they're just inability to put up points is a problem.
I mean, there's one thing to be able to put up 20 points and still hold them on defense.
But if your defense isn't holding anybody, then you got to start scoring some more.
And I think Ben Rothesburg has lost a lot of his mojo that he had going early in his
career.
You know, people are just figuring him out.
I think he looks slower.
His escape ability is less than it ever used to be.
And Pittsburgh is known for their running game, and they don't have one.
Pittsburgh has always been known for having a power running game.
And in going off of that, they had solid receivers who could catch the ball in the flat.
And they haven't been able to do that at all this year.
Right.
You guys said it.
A couple of key players lost on defense, James Harrison included.
They lost in the free agency.
He's now with the vision rival Cincinnati.
Seems like every time Troy Palamalo ties his cleats, he's fighting an injury.
So you know, Danny said, offensively, they have no running game.
Offensive line is banged up.
Yes.
Their center, Marquise Pouncey, was lost like week one or two for the season with the tourney
CL.
The passing game is just not there, because you don't have Mike Wallace anymore who was
lost to free agency to spread the field.
And defensively, you know, a lot of a new name, Steve McClendon, Vince Williams, Jason
Worlds, a couple of young guys stepping in big shoes now.
It just really baffles me, though, that with Hall of Famer Dick LeBeau running that defense.
You think they'd stand a chance any given Sunday.
But the ranked bottom 20 in like almost every defensive category.
But you know, he has a lot of new key players.
And so he has to develop these players.
He has to bring them into the system.
It's not overnight.
You know, nothing in the NFL or any professional sports really comes overnight.
And right now, this is the year that they're going to struggle.
But I can't see him turning this defense over overnight because it's all new people.
Yeah.
Pittsburgh was always kind of known for that older defense that still, you know, somehow
knew how to do it because they were veterans and they understood the system.
And now it's just kind of a mix because you have some older guys who are always, you know,
kind of hurt or injured, not the same.
And a lot of new guys.
There's really not that in-between mix of guys that have been around for a couple of
years and are kind of mentoring the young guys.
It's just, it's pretty much, you know, a laxadaisical secondary with an injured Palomalu.
And they're weak up front.
You know, they just can't stop the run, which is a problem because, again, you always knew
the Pittsburgh defense for having a solid linebacking core and they cannot do anything.
So it's just one of those things that they're just missing a lot of pieces on that team.
And you almost feel bad for Tomlin because he's a great coach and he's the motivator
of the team and they're just not responding to him right now.
I think in any other situation, he would be a solid choice for head coach.
And offensively, I mean, with Big Ben and the running game, even if you don't have an
offensive line protecting you, you can't make throws when you're going on your butt every
other play.
And the running game can't get established so they're not opening any gaps for you.
It's ultimately, the offensive line is the most underrated position within football because
everyone puts the pressure on the running back in the quarterback.
And I really think that we're seeing the end of Ben Rilesberger's career right now.
He's been in the league for 10 years and he just keeps, his progress is going backwards
instead of forwards.
And even when he's a veteran and you should be able to make plays as a veteran, I mean,
not as good as a younger guy where you lack in physical ability, you make up in just your
experience and he is just not finding that right now.
I think next season will be a big determining factor for Pittsburgh.
How do they respond to this really horrific season?
How do they respond in the draft, infre agency?
How does the offensive line come back healthy?
How does the defense come back in this, I guess, for these younger guys their second
year in the scheme or however long they've been in it?
And more importantly, like you said, how does Rothesburg come back?
And Pittsburgh is definitely known for drafting well.
Yes.
They are known for drafting.
I'm surprised with all their player moves.
They didn't even try to sell at the trade deadline.
They didn't do anything to just try and show up their future with a draft pick or two.
They didn't really do anything.
So it's going to be interesting to see come draft time.
Yeah, absolutely.
Just one of those things you got to watch out for.
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Our third topic for today is what are your feelings about the new look of the ACC in college basketball?
Exciting. Exciting to say the least.
The ACC has always been known as a powerhouse for basketball.
It always will be.
You've got the powerhouses of Duke, North Carolina, Wake Forest, NC State.
They're always up there on top of Virginia Tech, Virginia, Clemson.
I can go on and on about the powerhouses, Miami, of recent years.
But now here we are and we have the additions of Syracuse, Pitt, and Notre Dame.
Wow.
That is some serious offensive and defensive power going into the ACC from the old Big East.
The Big East was a good conference.
Now you add these teams going into the ACC.
It's going to make it even better.
I would even argue that the Big East was just as exciting as the ACC some years.
And now they're taking some of these powerhouses, such as Syracuse, you get Pitt as well.
I think it's just going to be really exciting, brutal basketball games.
It always is in the ACC.
As you said, we know about North Carolina. We know about Duke.
How does Syracuse, who is also respectively known nationwide,
how do they respond in an ACC conference that's really powerful?
It certainly makes this conference so much deeper come tournament time.
Where you're used to seeing the Big East just because they were a bigger conference in terms of numbers,
having eight schools go into the tournament.
Now you're looking at the ACC possibly having eight schools go into this tournament
if they don't beat each other up during the year, which is always a problem in a smaller conference.
The thing is, come ACC tournament time, who's going to be the number one standout?
Some of these teams are so evenly matched.
Duke of North Carolina always going to beat each other up,
even if one is not having an exclusive season as the other.
Now you had Syracuse in the mix, who's always a top ten team in the country.
What are they going to do?
Don't forget about Miami and what they did by sure.
Yeah, so they have youth, they have experience.
It's just going to be very interesting to see and it's going to be a coaching matchup.
Which coach is going to be able to put their team on the court and be the best?
That's very true.
But I want to talk about now the new scheduling that they have going on for this season.
They have this new thing called, quote unquote, primary partners.
How it will work is teams will have different partners and they'll play at home and away each season.
It's going to be the course of a three year cycle.
Boston College will have Notre Dame as partner number one and Syracuse as partner number two.
Clemson will have Florida State as partner number one.
Georgia Tech as partner number two.
Duke will have North Carolina.
One of the best basketball rivalries.
The best basketball rivalries.
Yeah, it's always fun to watch.
Wake Forest as number two and so on and so forth.
The list just goes on and on.
So how do you believe this new schedule will really affect the ACC?
It'll be interesting because the ACC was so small that they could play each team twice.
One home, one away.
It was always the way it was.
We used to see that in the NFL and stuff like that.
But now with all these new teams, it's what's going to happen with these new scheduling.
It's going to be interesting to see if you don't play a team as many times,
sometimes that one loss like in college football really affects you.
You don't have a chance to come back and say,
you know, well, I lost to this team the first time, but then I rebounded and beat them the second time
and blew them out of the gym.
So there really isn't going to be that chance for redemption this year.
So it's going to be every win is really going to matter.
Yeah, and I mean, I wouldn't even be shocked if come ACC tournament time that potentially for the next 10 years
that the winner of the ACC tournament is the number one seed in the best of 64 tournament.
Well, the way this new conference is, it wouldn't shock me.
Because chances are you're going to have Duke, North Carolina and Syracuse all battling for that ACC.
So like every year going into the college basketball season, I always look at North Carolina and Duke
and like, which one of those two do I want to pick to like,
I almost had North Carolina every year when the March Madness bracket comes out.
I almost always have them in the national title.
And they've been having some down years this year in these past couple of years.
So now with this revamp, they're just going to go harder on the recruiting.
They're going to have to go harder in terms of playing and practicing.
And they're going to look to, you know, re-energize that program
because it has been down these last couple of years.
Whereas Duke's been skyrocketing, Syracuse has been skyrocketing out of the Big East.
And now they come into the ACC.
What I'm curious to see is what's going to happen with Syracuse.
Now their travel pattern is a little bit different.
Now you've got to go up and down the East Coast.
Whereas sometimes you would get, you know, stay up in the Northeast.
So it's going to be interesting to see.
And it'll be exciting.
Absolutely.
With those Big East teams coming over to the ACC though,
how does the Big East schedule play out now?
Well, they dismantled the Big East.
They had the American conference, the old Big East.
It'll be wild.
Okay guys, moving on to topic four.
Who are your top five women's basketball, college basketball picks?
I mean, speaking of ACC basketball, I mean, women's basketball is just as good in the ACC.
I mean, you have Duke, Notre Dame, every single year those two are up there.
I mean, and then, you know, going up to the Big East, you still have Yukon.
Yeah.
You know, I mean, Yukon's never going to go away.
Yukon never.
I'm actually excited to see how does Baylor, because a lot of people are saying that they're still really good.
Even with arguably the greatest player of all time, Bernie Griner, gone.
They're still saying that they're young, talented, and they can even be in the top five team.
Yeah.
Well, a lot of these schools have lost big-name players like Bernie Griner.
You know, Notre Dame lost Skylar Diggins who, you know, went to the WNBA as well.
Stanford's always had a top-flight program these past couple of years as well as Connecticut and Duke.
So I think right here, my top five would be Baylor, Duke, Stanford, Connecticut, and Notre Dame.
In any order, you can really interchange women's basketball.
It's not exactly like men's basketball, where there's so much fluctuation.
Women's basketball is really top-heavy.
Sometimes you have a couple of upsets.
But, you know, the most exciting thing to me in women's basketball last year was the emergence of Elena Deladon
out of Division 1AA Delaware.
And she really kind of took over the scene for women's basketball, and now she's in the WNBA making waves in the WNBA.
So the emergence, you know, you have no more Bernie Griner, no more Skylar Diggins, no more Elena Deladon.
Who's the new face of women's basketball, and that's going to be more interesting to see.
It is, but, you know, going back to these power rankings, you know, you got Baylor.
Like you guys said, Baylor, Notre Dame.
But I'm really looking at Connecticut here.
Connecticut has won eight national championships.
They won three in a row, 2002, 2003, 2004.
They won it last year.
The worst record they have when they won a national title was 35 and four.
They've always had, like, one loss or no loss seasons.
I mean, the head coach, Gino Arayami, has coached all eight of those national title teams,
and as long as he's coaching there and Connecticut still remains his powerhouse,
I'm putting them number one, going to repeat.
Yeah, I mean, you can't go against UConn.
I mean, again, the coaching experience and the way that they go about recruiting at UConn
and how he develops these players, and I know I say things can't come overnight.
It seems like he turns this team over overnight,
and they just become national championship contenders every single year.
Yeah, now that Brittany Garner attended Baylor.
Baylor's in the spotlight, whether they like it or not,
and without Garner, can they maintain the spotlight?
You know, they just cut down the nets, so what's going to happen this year?
They are ranked number one, so what's going to happen when they go into the season,
they don't have that star, that center?
You know, are they going to be able to rebound and build around what needs to be?
I wouldn't call it a rebuilding team, but they certainly need to find a new stud
or just figure out a way to play with five people instead of play with one.
Yeah, and there's still some other good teams in terms of who we've seen in national title games.
Notre Dame went to 2 in a row in 2011-2012, Stanford went in 2010-2008,
Louisville went twice, they went last season and not too long ago in 2009,
so really a modern era here of teams that are really fighting.
And I mean, now that Notre Dame is in the ACC, does that make this Duke in North Carolina
women's basketball rivalry huge?
Yeah, I mean, it could increase it a little bit.
I think to me, the better question in terms of rivalries,
are there any rivalries built when you play an undefeated team?
And every year in women's basketball, there's always somebody going for that undefeated season,
you know, and then you have one loss and maybe you lose a second time.
But my question is, do you think of any of these top five teams can go for that undefeated season?
It hasn't been reached since the UConn team did it a couple of years ago.
Yeah, I don't think so. I mean, as you said, it's top heavy and it seems like Stanford and UConn
always continue to play and Stanford started their winning streak and ended their winning streak.
That's true.
We're just going to have to wait and see how it pans out.
Basketball is just one of those games that it could go either way.
Honestly, it can go either way, even with one or two losses.
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Our fifth topic for today is Derek Rose or LaBron James?
LaBron James. LaBron James. LaBron James. LaBron James.
No hesitation. No hesitation.
There's a blue man group right here.
I'm in two time NBA champion, two time NBA MVP finalist, four time MVP.
I mean Derek Rose doesn't have these numbers.
Derek Rose hasn't even played in the last year.
Well, LeBron James is on a whole other level
when it comes to basketball play.
He can do anything and everything on the court.
And his habits, I mean, when you read about it, wow.
He spends about every minute on the airplane,
studying every single player and his binder.
He studies the game in and out, and it shows.
He's the best right now.
Yeah, I mean, I look for every reason.
I hate LeBron James, and I look for every little nook
and cranny to dislike him, but it's hard.
I mean, the guy is an absolute freak
when you look at his just body alone.
Six foot eight, two-fifty, can jump out of the gym.
Any football coach would love him on the team
in any position.
On top of that, now he's playing basketball,
which is a star game.
It's not me, it'll play with five people.
It'll play with one good person around
and four others around them,
and that's the way it's always gonna be.
And LeBron James, just when he's on a team,
he makes that team automatically better.
Does Derrick Rose do the same thing?
Yes, but is LeBron James better than Derrick Rose
on a one-on-one competition?
Yeah, probably.
I mean, I realize Derrick Rose
probably gives up about 100 pounds and a couple inches,
but at the same time,
LeBron James is just so dominant on the court
that you just can't, you can't stop him.
You can only hope him to slow him down.
As cliche as that sounds.
And he never gets hurt.
He went, you know, obviously now he's winning titles,
which was the biggest knock on him.
He's winning MVPs, you know, he can put up points,
you know, but he makes the people around him better,
and that's the one major thing with LeBron James.
He's kind of like, I guess you could say,
the Peyton Manning of the NBA.
But that's just kind of my opinion, you know.
He was a stud in Cleveland.
He fused pretty much the face of, I would say,
Cleveland in general.
And then he goes to Miami, he gets a lot of scrutiny,
like Danny said, because he wanted to win a championship.
Then he even had that infamous,
what should I do Nike commercial?
You know, everyone's telling him, no, you shouldn't have went,
but he wants to win a title.
That's why you play the game,
as coacher Medward said, you play to win the game.
He goes to Miami, just does absolutely astounding,
wins two titles, Miami could possibly go
for a three-peat this season.
As long as LeBron is in the NBA,
I don't want to hear anything about anybody being better.
Yeah, I mean, as you said,
he makes everybody around him better.
I mean, Dwayne Wade has been battling
some nasty injuries these past couple of years.
And yes, somehow, someway, he's been putting the Miami Heat
over the bump and winning national titles.
And, you know, I mean, yes, it went to seven
against a really good San Antonio team, but guess what?
He's still got them over the bump there.
And as coach Kay from Duke says,
it's the greatest player I've ever coached.
And he's coached some great Olympic teams,
and Duke teams and says, LeBron is the greatest player
I've ever coached.
Yeah, and it's hard to argue that, you know,
LeBron James is, you know, he's a bad person.
You do the whole, you know, the decision thing
on ESPN is one thing.
But when he was on Cleveland,
Cleveland was automatically a title contender.
As soon as he got drafted on Cleveland,
they were suddenly playoff contenders
and title contenders.
As soon as he goes to Miami,
Miami wins the championship.
So obviously, greatness does follow him.
He makes the teams better.
You know, Cleveland's been irrelevant now for, you know,
a few years, now they drafted Kyrie Irving there
a little bit better.
But since LeBron James left,
Cleveland hasn't won anything.
They've barely won games.
So clearly LeBron has a huge impact on the team.
Whereas, you know, the bulls were pretty good
before Derek Rose came.
They were all right.
They competed a little bit.
Derek Rose comes on the scene, they're better.
But Derek Rose can't do it all alone,
like LeBron James can.
You know, LeBron James puts up 40 points a night,
and they're gonna win.
Derek Rose puts up 40 points a night.
She's a dumb machine.
Yeah, but Derek Rose puts up 40 points a game,
but that's not his job.
Derek Rose is a point guard.
Derek Rose is supposed to dish the ball.
He can't be as successful as he is
without passing the ball to other teammates.
Absolutely not.
Derek Rose averages 20.96 points per game.
LeBron averages 27 points per game.
I think LeBron, right there, will tell you.
I think you could say.
LeBron does everything.
Yeah, he does everything.
He does everything.
Rebounds, assists, points.
I mean, triple doubles machine.
Yeah, and it doesn't even begin there.
Yeah, he averages close to seven assists a game,
and he averages seven rebounds a game,
which you know he's doing it all
on both sides of the ball rather than just scoring.
Absolutely.
LeBron averages eight field goals.
Sorry.
Okay, moving on to our last topic for the day.
Who is the greatest rule player in NBA history?
That's a tough one.
I'm gonna have to go Scotty Pippen.
I mean, the guy was Michael Jordan's wingman
for so many years in Chicago,
winning all those championships.
It's hard to argue against somebody who,
without his defense and without his ability on the boards,
you just couldn't win championships.
He couldn't get the ball to Jordan.
He couldn't clear out space for Jordan
if you don't have Pippen.
Obviously, you can't win unless you're defending.
So, if without Scotty Pippen,
I don't think they win that many titles.
I don't care what anybody says.
Michael Jordan did not do it all on his own.
Right, and I mean, I tried to refrain
from both Scotty Pippen and Dennis Rodman when I did this,
only because I mean, it does help that you are playing with Jordan.
I understand Jordan didn't do it all on his own,
but I'm going with John Stockton.
Arguably the greatest assisting leader there
that never won an NBA title with Carl Malone.
You know, I mean, he's played on the great 1992
US Olympics team, and really it's just,
you know Dennis Rodman, you know Scotty Pippen.
So, I tried going with someone different,
and his numbers are really good for not having an NBA title.
Yeah, I mean, watch, I mean, you know,
if you see any highlights of him just dishing the ball
with a mailman, I mean, those two were a dynamic duo,
you know, in terms of just passing and scoring
and all this other stuff.
It's hard to relate John Stockton about Carl Malone
and Carl Malone without Stockton
because they wouldn't have each other's success
without each other. Exactly.
That's right, you guys are making a good point,
but I'm going to go with Kevin McHale.
The guy came off the bench in the 80s
for the Boston Celtics, 81, 84, and 86.
They won the national, or the national,
they won the NBA championship.
They actually went to five in that whole decade.
He's considered in what many,
he's in what many considered League's best frontline
with Larry Bird and Robert Parrish.
You know, even Charles Barkley, Charles Barkley,
says that Kevin McHale was one of the best players
that he ever played against because he, on offense,
he was just unstoppable.
You know, played 971 career games,
averaged 17.9 points per game, 7.3 rebounds,
played 169 post-season games,
and in those he averaged 18 points a game and seven rebounds.
You know, it's funny because people say
that Kevin McHale was actually almost,
if not better than Larry Bird was.
And as good as Larry Bird was,
Kevin McHale was considered the better player on that team.
It's just Larry Bird got a lot of the attention.
So you throw Kevin McHale on another team,
the guy was the number one guy on any other team.
So, you know, in terms, I think that, you know,
McHale and Bird were a dynamic duo
in terms of just scoring.
You know, they did one without the other,
but if you put one of them by themselves,
I don't know if they'd be as good,
but they would certainly carry a team.
And Kevin McHale is, you know,
as a role player-ish as he was,
he just necessarily, I think he was just, you know,
as dynamic as Bird could be.
Yeah, I mean, this is one of those
greatest all-time discussions.
If you can really go with so many people, you know,
I mean, Dennis Rodman even,
let's not forget about him.
He also won NBA championship before he went to Chicago
and was part of that trio with Scottie Pippen,
Michael Jordan and him.
He won titles and-
That's what made him attractive.
That's why they wanted him on that team.
That's what he brought that championship prowess
to that organization.
It's just one of those things that, you know,
you look at guys like LeBron James and you, you know,
Derek Rose and all these studs,
but without their role players,
they would not be anywhere near as good as they are,
in my opinion, because, you know,
as star studded as the NBA tends to be,
you can win it with one person rather than the NFL
or the MLB where you can't win it with one person.
Without us, without like a sidekick,
you're not winning anything.
It's like Batman without Robin.
It's just not the same.
Great examples, Kobe Bryant.
After Shaquille O'Neal left LA,
he could not win any championships.
All of a sudden then he gets Paul Gasol to come over
and he's, he works with these guys.
He wasn't as greedy with the ball.
He wanted to win a championship again.
And Kobe Bryant's the greatest example
I could think of in today's game,
that you can't do it by yourself.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, look at Carmelo Anthony at New York right now,
just doesn't really have that extra piece along with him.
That's why he's not going to win an NBA title.
LeBron has DU8.
He has quick Chris Bosh.
That's why he's able to win titles.
You know, Kevin Durant's best chance
with Oklahoma City was having Westbrook and,
and, and, and yeah.
And Hardon.
And Hardon, yeah.
So it's just one of those things where,
unless you have those sidekicks,
you can't do it all alone.
Right.
That's all for Jimmy Fisher, Arthur Dow,
Danny Price, and myself, Alicia Wine.
Thank you for tuning in to this week's episode
of MU Sports Reporters.
And I'll see you guys next time.
