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The Paul Finebaum Show
"suggs" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"And we have one more hour to go and we're really excited to welcome our next guest. He is doctor David Welch suggs junior, a Professor of journalism from the university of Georgia. Professor, thank you. Great to talk to you and thanks for gracing us with some great knowledge. I can't wait to talk to you. Oh, Paul I'm looking forward to it. I'm honored you take a little bit of time out of your draft coverage to talk about the big picture of college sports. We need to rest our minds professor because it seems to be the same thing over again. Hey, thank you for joining us. And I want to talk about something that you have written. We complained about college athletics all the time. Where are we going? And where are we currently standing? So tell us about this model. You have two different models. One is a pretty familiar model. Ones bringing the academic part into the equation where a number of schools pay attention to. I know your school does. But tell us what you have come up with. And then we'll decide whether we're going to bring it to the SEC meetings in a couple of weeks and let commissioner sankey decide on it. Go right ahead. I'm sure Greg would love to hear it about this. Just by way of a little bit of background here, the NCAA has kind of been able to keep up the fiction that athletes are just amateurs who play for the love of the game now for well over a hundred years. But over the last 15 to 20 years is the money has piled up and you have coaches and ADs pulling down 7 and 8 figures a year. People will start thinking it was really weird that the only people not getting paid are the ones on the field and it's also weird that colleges are using sports teams to kind of build up their brand. Here at Georgia, we had 60,000 applications for somewhere around 5 or 6000 slots in the freshman class last year. And somehow I think probably back to back national championships might have something to do with that. But none of that goes to the players on the field. And what we've seen, I think, within IL and I've heard a couple of your guests so far this afternoon talk about the chaos at that's created. You know, the incident had a opportunity to get a handle on that and they didn't. They tried to fight it in the courts, and when they lost, they really didn't have a plan B and now the genesis of what I wrote was thinking that, okay, there are a lot of people suing the NCA again athletes who are suing asking to be paid for what they do on the field, asking to get some of the value of the money coming in from ESPN from CBS from the other. Networks and players in the field. And so what I propose was essentially, you know, we need to stop trying to tell a fiction about college boards. We need to talk about the reality of college sports. And so the model I propose is that schools should just drop the pretense that they are not in the business of professional sports. And develop a professional model, which I call the prestige model in the piece that I wrote for athletic director you. And you pay players, you come up with some kind of a compensation model. Obviously, in the SEC, we talk about football and men's basketball, but I think that there are other schools that could develop this for baseball for softball. Maybe even for track and field, which was my sport, way back in the day. And then other sports you move into an academic model that is really much more of the idealistic model that we think of with college sports. That looks maybe like what happens at the Ivy League or division three or places like that. But we stop trying to create incentives for coaches to push players to get all they can and then discard them. We try to drop the incentives for players to move around based on NIL deals or based on opportunities move up in the draft. But let the ones who oppose be pros and let the ones who are not, get the greatest value they possibly can out of sports. Doctors, it's a great suggestion. And it really irritates me when I hear college leaders continue to float towards student athlete because you've described it accurately. I want to ask you about the odds of this happening. But why do you think there would be such resistance to this? Because we are pretty much there already based on what our guest told us a few minutes ago with what Deion Sanders is currently doing at Colorado. Oh, sure. And in IL has just muddied the waters for everybody. But I think Paul, you talk to many more people in college, boards than I do, but I think a lot of people are really horrified at the thought of paying athletes. A lot of people who go into college sports to be coaches or administrators do that because they want to help students grow. And there's nothing wrong with that. I totally understand that. But there's also you got to realize that those people as idealists as they may be. They still get a paycheck every month. And a scholarship is great. The opportunities that can come from attending college are great. You can take classes with people like me. But I think number one that people are just resistant and not willing to take a leadership role if it might happen to threaten their institution. But the other thing that I think is going to come is I think the NC could very well lose in the court again. And that's what worries me most about sort of the future of college boards and everything that we all love about college sports is if the NCAA is no better prepared to lose in the courts over compensation than they were over NIL. Then the whole enterprise is going to be thrown into even more chaos. And that's where we're apparently headed as you well know and have described I may be getting more into the psychology of this in the literature of it, but why do you think there is such a resistance? Because right now, it still feels like administrators can complain about NIL. We're going to Congress. We're doing this. But once it becomes a pay for play, what do they say then? Well, at this point, I think there's so much resistance because you know what coaches, especially football coaches that you don't want more than anything else. They want control. They want to minimize the risks to their program. And so I think that no one is willing to step forward and lead on this issue. And so no one's really put the effort into thinking through what we look like on the other side. And I really hope the NCA starts doing that. But they just passed another set of benefits for athletes. That's essentially throwing a little bit more money here and there at them. And so I feel like they still think that they can tinker with their model and solve everything. Instead of recognizing that they could get their rear ends handed to them in court in the next couple of years on this. You teach journalism, your distinguished professor. So this is an unusual question maybe, and I realized that if you go back 40 years at Georgia, it was certainly a major controversy in terms of the merging of academics and athletics. But we hear athletes on Saturday and we talk about their GPA and their majors, what do these athletes study for the most part? In the academic world, are they doing the same thing that the rest of the students are doing? Well, I think a couple of things. First, you can't paint with two broader brush. You know, I have a ton of athletes in my classes, including some football players. And they're all really smart. I mean, honestly, I don't think you can be a division one athlete with being without being really smart. Are your grades showing a reflect that maybe not because the problem is, in distributing really under spar, they are under a ton of pressure to do everything they got to do. And I'm not just talking about football players there. I'm talking about swimmers. I'm talking about golfers. I'm talking about tennis players. They're lives are largely controlled by their coaches and the way that translates is that they are under a lot of pressure to take classes and pursue majors that give them the most freedom to structure what they got to do around their sports. And that's again why I think it's just such a terrible model to try to force them to into this pretense that they are doing the same thing that other students are doing.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"suggs" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"So yeah, maybe that's the direction there. If you're the clippers and let's say you're the clippers and you kind of internally know, we're going to get back. He's going to play. Do you try and go get somebody and at a piece, in the year? So yeah, now again all that stuff it's a little early for those conversations here, trademark kind of unofficially will open in about two weeks. December 15th, when players who were signed over the summer can be traded, but yeah, one other team, I'm going to throw out just because we know they want to get into the playoffs. And they need to add. The Charlotte hornets. They need that big man help. And they need to add any form of interior defense. Because they're bare defense overall stinks, but their interior defense is absolutely awful. It is probably the worst that there is in the league. It is really, really bad. And plus minus is not a perfect stat or anything like that point differential is not a perfect stat. But the Charlotte hornets right now sitting in the 60s, but it is pretty noticeable that they are a -.5, which is not terrible, but a -.5 and the 5 teams below them are all in the positive right now in terms of point differential. So that would suggest that maybe they're playing a little bit above their head or they're at least they're slotted a little bit above their head in terms of the table right now. So it's something where you could see them drop and that might give them a little out of incentive to go ahead and make a move. And start to look at it too as far as that starts to speak a little bit to look. Yes, you know, you've definitely had some and then look at the Indiana Pacers. They're 9 and 14, but are plus 1.3. And point differential. And they're sitting in what is at 13th in the east, they're three full games out of just making it to the plan. So yeah, so that's where it does kind of start to sit and look and say, all right, where are we really at is we start to evaluate our team here. But yeah, it's a little early one thing just 'cause I know we're both looking at the standings page. Oh, here come the box. Quietly, because the suns are on a 16 game win streak. The bucks are quietly on a 7 game win streak and that's certainly a game and a half behind the nets for the top seed now. Yeah. I will also say on behalf of Eastern Conference basketball fans, where are we going to fix this? Western Conference teams with 500 or losing records being playoff team. While these poor eastfield winning records have to fight that is the first time in like 30 years. Hey, if you need to fix that way, he needs to fix the other way too. Oh my God, hey. He had to say it now. Oh, yeah. You gotta get your shots in when you have the opportunity. Yeah. But yeah, no, we think everybody for the questions. We wish you could have got some more. But I've got to run off to a middle school soccer game, Trevor's got Lakers stuff to do. So we'll do this again now. We'll try to do this somewhat regularly or we've talked about doing a live YouTube show where you guys can just come in and ask questions there..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"suggs" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"On this, he they have missed the most games in the league due to injuries. And part of that is because Isaac and Carter Williams and full 7 plead. It all but they've also employed the second hardest schedule. In the league, which is, I mean, that's all danger. Yeah. And they're already not good. So you had not good, injured, and Yeah, there are four and 18. Maybe you should feel good that they're even have that decent of a record. So yeah. That's certainly a tough situation. That's not only are they an undersized or if they're if they're compared to the rest of the NBA, they're going into a fight undersized lack of experiences there too. And now you're making the fight with an arm behind their back by getting that schedule in the early going in the injuries. So this is not an easy situation for them. Cole Anthony again does sound more to be like game to game kind of thing. Maybe he'll come back from that sprained ankle soon. Hopefully, because he's been a bright spot for them, but yeah, tough going early on for the Orlando Magic. Now losing Jalen suggs to the broken thumb. Speaking of thumbs, we just got word that Avery Bradley will be missing in action tonight for the Los Angeles Lakers due to a thumb sprain. We don't know the severity of it or how long he will be out possible. It's just a one game thing, the Lakers don't play again until Friday against the clippers, so maybe he's back for that one. We'll have to wait and see what we hear there. But that means there will be a new starting lineup for the Lakers tonight. We'll see a again. Again, another new starting lineup for the Lakers Avery Bradley out. But you know yesterday Frank Vogel actually during a media availability, which we're going to talk about in a minute. He actually had to defend Avery Bradley. The question was brought up by Kevin itki. The question was brought up of the advanced ads and what that meant for Avery Bradley. What Frank Vogel was seeing in him that had him continue to be in the starting lineup and Vogel admitted that hey, the advanced stats, they don't look great, but we're taking all of that with a grain of salt. We believe his energy is infectious. We believe that he, that he brings more life on the defensive end of the floor to the team, despite what the advanced stats say, which the advanced eth say they are much better with him off the floor than on. So interesting and now they get a chance to see what the other side looks like with Avery Bradley rolled out due to injury. It's really funny because that goes all the way back to his Boston days. Excuse me, there was always this sense you would ask players and when they do those polls of players. Who's the toughest on ball defender? Who's this? Who's that? Avery Bradley, we consistently rank high, where was, you know, he's a guy, you don't want to go against. You want to make your life tough. There is a period of time where he was the guy that they played him and Isaiah Thomas together under Brad Stevens is a starting backcourt, which is a super small backyard. That's the easily where the smallest backcourt in the league. But there were times when they basically said, very, maybe you got stuff, lock them down. And they won those games in Golden State, one of the warriors were kind of at the peak of their powers. And Avery Bradley was a huge part of that..
Book Club with Julia and Victoria
"suggs" Discussed on Book Club with Julia and Victoria
"Just continues on. I was like oh. I'll find a place to stop reading for like Page pass and you don't know what's happening and it's kind creepy and you're like really closely inside a perspective. But you don't know what you're looking at. I think that's kind of what's unsettling. I think a horror film or even movies that aren't supposed to be horror but put me on edge when you get a shot of someone you don't like you only see from their views so you don't know who's behind you or you see the person walk into a space that you can't see the space and you're like ready for someone to jump out like the conscious effort to leave things out can make things really unsettling because you not sure way or at or what's happening exactly. Yeah the beloved is just incredibly unsettling character and you're never quite sure whether she's physically there are not you're like is everyone here just losing their minds or she physically there. And how corporeal is she the whole time you know like even her spirit is. There are the only one who can see her like. It's really kind of have to believe that. She's a physical person. But the whole time you're doubting yourself another aspect of it that makes it not feel very real is. The the spirituality of the book is obviously. There's a spirit or ghost but there's also the in the memories you know in the in the flashbacks when once their free baby suggs as kind of like a spiritual leader in their community. And there's this region in the woods called the clearing which is where the living daughter denver runs away to a lot and it again feels like this place outside of time like it's not quite real and so i wanted to read a bit of that. When warm weather came baby suggs holy followed by every black man woman and child who could make it through took her great heart to the clearing a wide open place cut deep in the woods. Nobody knew for what at the end of the path known only to deer and whoever cleared the land in the first place in the heat of every saturday afternoon she sat in the clearing while the people waited among the trees after situating herself on a huge flat sided rock baby suggs bowed her head and pray silently. The company watched her from the trees. They knew she was ready when she put her stick down then she sat shouted let the children come and they ran from the trees toward her. Let your mother's here you laugh. She told them and the woods rang. The adults looked on could not help smiling. Then let the grown men. Come she shouted. They stepped out one by one from among the ringing trees. Let your wives and.
SportsCenter All Night
Magic shut Suggs down after left thumb sprain
"On. Magic Rookie Jalen Suggs, the fifth pick in last month's NBA draft, left thumb sprain will be sidelined. The remainder of the NBA Summer League suffered the injury Thursday at MRI confirming
Game Theory Podcast
"suggs" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"But then when he gets them, he's got a whole bag of tricks of, he's going to slice and dice you. Yeah. No, he's a real actual like playmaker with the ball in his hands. Like he can do shit. What the ball. He's not just like some pick-and-roll big who finishes like he's there is a lot of domantas sabonis. He stuff. They're like, he's going to be really good defensively. I'm I am in no way concerned about them. Sensibly you wanted to give a couple of quick words on Christopher though. He's been good. You still can't. But like he's been really, really effective. As a pastor is a ball handler and Creator and as a Defender off. He's going to have to shoot at some point, but like he looks really good right now. He looks really, really good. He did more than I thought he would frankly and he came out there and he looked like the Mayfair high school with Josh Christopher, the tape a terrorist State the first game or two and we had a mock draft. We had them like 20th, I felt appropriate like he was good. Yep. And then throughout the year like he didn't. I mean, my biggest takeaway. I watched some of the film was, oh, wow. He changed his shoes off half time and it just, it wasn't there. Where here's this score like, cam, Thomas, who's scoring twenty a game that that's plug-and-play fine with Josh Christopher. I just didn't know. And here's really played up being a good teammate and they might them up, he's very vocal. He was five fifteen from the field, but at fifteen points and seven assists, the second game. Like that's a crazy amount of assist, her dress, Christopher so long. It's a really good young core and it it's it's funny because of how bad the Rockets regular season was last year and now they're their fan bases going nuts because of how well they play these, these two age Early games, what they're young core of of guys and groovin not even playing yet. Yeah, no. And it looks like gruba is going to come over which is cool too. It looks like real had a thing yesterday where they said they released them. So often the buyout must have gotten handled and everything. Okay. Other rookies. So we've got Jalen Suggs who we're just going to take a Victory lap on like let's just be real. We are we are yeah yeah he showed us everything he scored his past. He'd over fifty fifty balls. Pulled up from three. Had nine rebounds that first game took over it mattered, I liked him better on the ball. I didn't like it sort of argument. I did not get one call and they started the offense. So cold that move it been Authority. Would the world didn't get to see more of this scoring Grassroots version of Suggs that I have and a lot of people did pre Gonzaga go and to see him have 20 points consistently and kind of be this really Alpha. Now, in a certain himself I wasn't surprised and it was so Jalen Suggs with the first game. Thirty seconds left off 8383. He's a Defender, which one brake and like blocks a shot and breaks it up..
AP News Radio
Detroit Pistons Grab Cade Cunningham at No. 1 in NBA Draft
"The Detroit Pistons made Oklahoma state point guard Cade Cunningham the first pick of the NBA draft the six day coming in with the big twelve player of the year as a freshman averaging twenty points a game the Houston Rockets followed by selecting guard Jaelyn Greene became the first player drafted that high street out of the G. league U. S. C. big man Evan bubbly then went third to the Cleveland Cavaliers fall by Florida's the fourth Scottie Barnes in the surprise of the Toronto raptors Gonzaga point guard Jalen Suggs was then scooped up number five by Orlando who also took Michigan's Franz Wagner eighth I'm Tom Mariam
Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"suggs" Discussed on Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"If, if I'm Koby Altman, I'm putting out signs. You know, that I'm dropped in Moberly and sucks. I want Serano to 2 a.m. Like they have to move up because they want to get their guy, right, whether it's Suggs or Moberly, maybe, if you're Cleveland, you can drop down one and say, you know, what will flip with you, right? So you can get your guy, we don't care. Yeah, either way, we don't care. I would say, you know, certainly for Toronto right now, that's the position they're in if it Cleveland's going to draft Evan Mobley, then it has to be unplugged. And honestly Subs to me fits really well in Toronto at 4 because you're losing Kyle Lowry you. Have Fred Fred Van Vleet? Yes, good job. But you need that point guard of the future. Yeah. When you look at what Jalen Suggs was able to accomplish a 1-year, didn't shoot the ball grade. Did have some turnover issues as a freshman but man, that dude, he wins, he makes he plays the shade. The final fours is enough to be said with that, and his measurables are great. I mean, he is an elite athlete at 6 for that. Do can move. So I think, you know, it off. Like you said, whoever Falls in them at 4 great. Yeah, listen I think you can make a clear case that Jalen Starks could or should be the number to bank and nobody would offer you that nobody. He's that talented. I think he's a potential to be a top-five point. Guard in the NBA at some point his career. I think he's that talented again. He's gotta get shot, better off and he's got to take care of the ball, but some of the things that he sees, oh, and get that though, with only passes they're going to turn it over cuz they're taking chances like Jama re-write. Same thing I mean yeah. Yeah all right so then we said at 2, it gets interesting, I think at 5 it gets even more interesting because to me I don't think anybody has any clue what to do there. I'm not as big as Jonathan kaminga fan as as many are. And I've said this since day one, that I felt like wage Or four guys and then a big gap and I would not take kaminga if I'm the Orlando Magic and Jeff. Hello. I would I think, you know, to me if I'm going a guy who's defensive-minded, which I don't want to go from Orlando,.
Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"suggs" Discussed on Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"If, if I'm Koby Altman, I'm putting out signs. You know, that I'm dropped in Moberly and sucks. I want Serano to 2 a.m. Like they have to move up because they want to get their guy, right, whether it's Suggs or Moberly, maybe, if you're Cleveland, you can drop down one and say, you know, what will flip with you, right? So you can get your guy, we don't care. Yeah, either way, we don't care. I would say, you know, certainly for Toronto right now, that's the position they're in if it Cleveland's going to draft Evan Mobley, then it has to be unplugged. And honestly Subs to me fits really well in Toronto at 4 because you're losing Kyle Lowry you. Have Fred Fred Van Vleet? Yes, good job. But you need that point guard of the future. Yeah. When you look at what Jalen Suggs was able to accomplish a 1-year, didn't shoot the ball grade. Did have some turnover issues as a freshman but man, that dude, he wins, he makes he plays the shade. The final fours is enough to be said with that, and his measurables are great. I mean, he is an elite athlete at 6 for that. Do can move. So I think, you know, it off. Like you said, whoever Falls in them at 4 great. Yeah, listen I think you can make a clear case that Jalen Starks could or should be the number to bank and nobody would offer you that nobody. He's that talented. I think he's a potential to be a top-five point. Guard in the NBA at some point his career. I think he's that talented again. He's gotta get shot, better off and he's got to take care of the ball, but some of the things that he sees, oh, and get that though, with only passes they're going to turn it over cuz they're taking chances like Jama re-write. Same thing I mean yeah. Yeah all right so then we said at 2, it gets interesting, I think at 5 it gets even more interesting because to me I don't think anybody has any clue what to do there. I'm not as big as Jonathan kaminga fan as as many are. And I've said this since day one, that I felt like wage Or four guys and then a big gap and I would not take kaminga if I'm the Orlando Magic and Jeff. Hello. I would I think, you know, to me if I'm going a guy who's defensive-minded, which I don't want to go from Orlando,.
Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"suggs" Discussed on Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"Many same business owners are busier than ever. And I can tell you as a small business owner, we are slammed people going back to the office, people getting married again, they need dress clothes, and we are absolutely sent to the point where we are actually running out of stuff. So if you have weddings, it's just quicker, Seinfield weddings you need to plan for things, shop ahead of time, small business owners are focused on managing and growing our business. We can't always spend the time that we wish we could on recruiting, and that's why LinkedIn Jobs made it easier to find and hire the best candidates for free. What we are getting somewhat back to normal here in terms of we can afford off. Irish knew people, when we finally can do. So you best believe I'll be using LinkedIn jobs to hire the perfect candidate for myself. They have a network of over seven hundred forty million professionals too. Big talent pool to pick from and I want to be able to sit people out, so I can have screening questions that I can put in front of my candidates. Not going to find find the most qualified one with the experience skills and motivation that I need who was filled out my target to question the best then I can filter power. Touch top candidates that I would like to interview for, you know, future growth of my business LinkedIn jobs up to hire a person for your role, as you know, every week. Nearly forty million job Seekers visit Linked In, but it's unbelievable forty million against lot of talent pool there. Most of your first job for free at linkedin.com good. That's linkedin.com to post your first job for free terms and conditions apply. Then you get the Cleveland Koby Altman Club. One's got, you know, a decision here to me. This is clearly a top-four draft. I think there's a big gap after forth. A lot of people disagree with me, I've heard pigs calling it like a five or six man, draft. I think it's a clear for and that's where I think. Cleveland Toronto made out here. Getting in that top for and neither could go wrong. Now, Cleveland has Colin Saxton. They have Darius Garland say small small backcourt. If you draft Jalen Suggs who I think is a better place I would rather have Jalen Suggs. That's a mobile E Rob but I just don't think I think then you have to make a move your forced every places you have to try them in and I just don't think it's value is high enough, right? That you're going to be able to get enough warm. You would think he's worth more than everybody else does. So I would take Evan Mobley again going against what I said earlier which is don't drive for a position, I think it's off..
Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"suggs" Discussed on Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"Many same business owners are busier than ever. And I can tell you as a small business owner, we are slammed people going back to the office, people getting married again, they need dress clothes, and we are absolutely sent to the point where we are actually running out of stuff. So if you have weddings, it's just quicker, Seinfield weddings you need to plan for things, shop ahead of time, small business owners are focused on managing and growing our business. We can't always spend the time that we wish we could on recruiting, and that's why LinkedIn Jobs made it easier to find and hire the best candidates for free. What we are getting somewhat back to normal here in terms of we can afford off. Iris new people when we finally can do. So you best believe I'll be using LinkedIn jobs to hire the perfect candidate for myself. They have a network of over seven hundred forty million professionals too. Big talent pool to pick from and I want to be able to sit people out, so I can have screening questions that I can put in front of my candidates. Not going to find find the most qualified one with the experience skills and motivation that I need who was filled out my target to question the best then I can filter power. Touch top candidates that I would like to interview for, you know, future growth of my business LinkedIn jobs up to hire a person for your role, as you know, every week. Nearly forty million job Seekers visit Linked In, but it's unbelievable forty million against lot of talent pool there. Most of your first job for free at linkedin.com good. That's linkedin.com. Good to post your first job for free terms and conditions apply. Then you get the Cleveland Koby Altman Club. One's got, you know, a decision here to me. This is clearly a top-four draft. I think there's a big gap after for a lot of people disagree with me. I've heard pigs calling it like a five or six, man, draft. I think it's a clear for and that's where I think. Cleveland Toronto made out here, getting in that top for and neither could go wrong. Now, Cleveland has Colin Saxton. They have Darius Garland say small small backcourt. If you draft Jalen Suggs who I think is a better place I would rather have Jalen Suggs. That's a mobile E Rob but I just don't think I think then you have to make a move your forced every places you have to try them in and I just don't think it's value is high enough, right? That you're going to be able to get enough warm. You would think he's worth more than everybody else does. So I would take Evan Mobley again going against what I said earlier which is don't drive for a position, I think it's off..
Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"suggs" Discussed on Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"Yeah, I'm retiring. So now, I think I'm good for one more year impress. Oh, all right, let's start with with the easy one. Is there. Anybody is? Can you give me any case for Thursday for Detroit, taking anybody other than kid cutting up? You can't. I don't think so. I just think that with their team. First of all, this is the first time they've had the number one pick since nineteen seventy-eight it's crazy pretty wild since they haven't been that good for a lot of, you know, they they certainly have that runs with the bad boys and then the Chauncey and Ben Wallace. Rasheed Wallace teams. But yeah, it's that's wild. They have to figure out what they want to do with Jeremy Grant, you know? Do you, do you want to keep him? Do you want to move them for younger players? You draft Killian Hayes last year, 7th, he place. 26 games when he was banged up. So deep. They had a Goodyear today. Ball game. He shot 38% from 3. So you've got some some young guys where you're like can we move Jeremy grant money for, you know, pieces and for more of a young core and that might be yes. But I just think that with Katie Cunningham, you're getting a guy that can only score he's a great passer home. A pick-and-roll. You think when you look at the draft and and the other maybe Tier 1 prospects whether it's Jalen. Green is Evan Mobley, Jalen Suggs, whoever I just need Cunningham at the end of the day, you look at all the boxes. He checks. It just makes so much sense for Detroit to travel. My biggest comparison with him is Lucan. Yeah, I know some people probably think I'm crazy but the sizes there the ability to make people better, is there? You're not great Shooters, the question would be, can he get Luka doncic his foot work? Because that allows To do things. We're not athletically Ultra gifted. That's right. But you can, he can do things that not a lot of guys can do, cuz he puts on a masterclass in terms, you know what, cage better than luquette off the defense event. Yeah, that's where he's better, that's where it's better, but you're right. Luke is just so, so gifted in terms of using angles and and using this footwork to be able to create a base. And I mean, he's unbelievable at it, but I think Kate again, I think it's clearly the number one pick. And then then to me the draft kind of gets interesting for Houston..
Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"suggs" Discussed on Jeff Goodman Basketball Podcast
"And like, yeah, like saw him the next morning, you know, like again could have died in my sleep. Bee check on, you know, nothing 00 and down sir. Not the guy. You want an emergency apparent, that's what it shows. That's what it shows. Rob dauster, not the guy you want, if you need somebody. So anyway, so I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you survived. The PCM, I survived the peach jam, and I have a huge huge, was it, was it a b or do you know? We don't even know. I don't know, no idea, but I have a bunch of medication. I'm supposed to take in case, just in case, I don't know, who knows. Anyway heart let's get to it. After our Argo full stories about how we both have failed miserably over the Baptist month mentioned struggles. There have been some struggles. Let's, let's talk about somebody else who's struggling. Gregg Popovich in the Olympic team. Let's start there. And who, who do you put the blame on, you put it more on pop, or do you put it on Kevin Durant and Damian Lillard and some of these other guys that are producing? I mean, I think it's shared all the way around. You know, the players have to play and, and certainly the coaches have to coach the guys, but also, you know, you gotta be a team in a way where you can build the team and look like if we had top-five or if we did the top twelve guys, in the NBA that are from United States and you haven't play Kawhi Leonard LeBron James Steph Curry Susanna conversation because the Gap is still pretty wide. But when you start taking, you know, like the the World Cup in 2019 for 515 that was what the like the home team of probably NBA players like not that they're bad but when you compare them to who the top 12 is going to be. Yeah, it's totally different. Like Javale McGee is on our dog. Olympic team, Calvin, Johnson, Tom Johnson and again not bad players. Javale McGee has made himself a really good NBA player. He said up terrific career when you look at where he has come from and how he's what a 350 MB, a champ and is now made a national team. That is an incredible career, but when you look at national teams of the past it is Hall of Famers, every song Hall of Famer talked about. So, you know, the talent isn't the same as what we're probably used to, but I think also you're now seeing that since the Dream Team in ninety-two home countries, have heavily invested in basketball, and they have done a really good job of, not only developing players, but developing chemistry and camaraderie and guys have grown up playing together. You know, Pride, Rob, don't you think there's more of a pride you played in some, of these countries. Now that we don't have pride not again. Kevin Durant doesn't have pride for his job. He does. What is it? A different level with with some of these other guys? Yeah, it probably is. And I think also, you know, some of those guys might take the national team stuff down more seriously. But yeah I guess Lucas said it didn't Lucas say he rather wanted gold medal than an NBA title? I mean yeah and that'll probably isn't the case for all of our guys about for any of our guys. I just think that it's become such a foregone conclusion in most years that the US are just going to win. Yeah. So where it's like?.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"suggs" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"He's not a zero by his only two more years on that deal to end. Where's he from canada. that's fun. come on sharks. I'm here to take contract. I'm telling you that right now. Given the assets to get that on my book come on sexton. then you don't want Wiggins what's wrong with you. We just thirty one point five next year and thirty three point six the year after i was trying to think is there a way. Toronto could get basically seven fourteen wiggins. Stay at four but then try to or basic. Try to figure out how they could end up with. Bogeying sucks is like what whatever they had to trade where that's like the last two assets they'd have standing. I don't think it's possible to i try. I try to figure it up the two guys. They actually want it. Seems like our jalen. Suggs and scotty barnes. And there's like some little know josh katie rumblings. I don't think that's real from the more spot. But maybe if they were at seven or fourteen were talking there but like how much are we factoring in. Kyle lowry's future with this decision number four. How much are we factoring in the very real ben simmons interests as well with the decision. That's made there. Because if you want ben simmons and if you're going for ben simmons with young players future picks or whatever. Maybe you're not taking scotty barnes and the city jalen suggs like. How much is that a consideration. He came to see. I think that's really important. Because i think if you're toronto if you draft suggs at four he's gonna positive value in a year. 'cause he's going to be a winning player on a playoff team with two ability and you can say. Here's your young star for ben simmons. We've developed him. He's doing really well. He's like s. J all of a sudden sox's so to me like you draft sudden say in a year i can trade suggs and picks for almost anybody basically is what i'm thinking. I think that's important because suggs fits he plugs and plays with toronto's roster based on what i've looked at and thought about i mean he he is going to be ready to play for them next year. My opinion like he's he's just readies. Its smart tough player. And i think he's going to be a two way player and yeah agree agree with the trucks. I think he's going to be a good asset in the near future. He's very raptors e. My guess. Is they let lowry go. And they just take sucks and they just annoyed suggs as the lowry successor. What i still haven't figured out. What lower price ranges. Because people do this they now or they just assume every team can sign everybody no matter what. Their cap situation lakers. Though they're going to get chris paul is like how. There's no possible way. They're gonna get chris paul unless they talk somebody to take schreuder. And you know. Casey p or coups ma like. She's not realistic with With lowry you know. The knicks are the team that have the cap space for them. I do think that knicks are going to be heard from the chris. Paul thing there's been a lot of rumblings about are we positive..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
Raptors, Magic Make Offers to Cavaliers For No. 3 Pick in Draft
"Orlando Magic in Toronto. Raptors to both made offers to the Cleveland Cavaliers for the third pick, or a Thursday, the 4th pick. And then some interesting players, the magic have the 5th and 8th pick and again, some interesting players that they could throw in a trade. So that's kind of kind of something to watch their that song. There's where you gotta pay an exorbitant price cuz you're only moving up a couple spots but that to me says that they have their eyes on, you know, somebody falls out of mobile er Suggs or green off. So they they there's probably somebody specific there. My guess is what we would ultimately see there is that would be a targeted move
AP News Radio
Paul Carries Suns Past Giannis, Bucks in NBA Finals Opener
"Chris Paul led six players in double figures with thirty two points and nine assists Suggs beat the bucs twenty eighteen one oh five to take game one of the NBA finals Devin Booker added twenty seven points and six assists D. Andre eight double double twenty two points and nineteen rebounds something he said was key there are some really good they often is going especially you know just try to clean up some of that stuff so we can get on a run and give ourselves some momentum as well Yanis Antetokounmpo had twenty points and fifteen rebounds for the box in his first game back from a knee injury Khris Middleton led Milwaukee with twenty nine toward chatter Phoenix
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"suggs" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"Was trying to think like a player who came out of college and became you know. Top ten level kind of player that suggs ceiling might match and the games are not identical for sure but i think defensively with the upside there and Given the role this player has currently. I think that like donovan. Mitchell type is suggs is ceiling. I think he could pay potentially Top five pick So he's just one that certainly comes to mind Where if you want the ideal outcome for jalen suggs. it's donovan mitchell type of impact. I can guess. I can see in five years. A situation. Jalen songs is the best player on his team. Real quick on the weak spots again. Not a ton shooting consistency. Fine i get that. He hit one out of every three threes. he took but he had six point four per game. He wasn't asked to do with ton and he shot fifty eight point eight percent on two pointers to begin with. So yes. i think the The knock on the long distance stuff. It's fine at this point understandable. But i can grow into it. He has six five wingspan on the six three frame. Okay good not great. That's fine and then a little bit with this handle just a little bit like he's got a good handle but he was a bit prone to getting his pocket pick just occasionally but other than that. There's not a lot there man. He's defensively he's super promising. You i had in my notes plus defender you said earlier absolutely. I think he's got a shot at being a top fifteen top twenty dollar on defender in his prime if he absolutely commits to a great feat good upper body. I mean what more what more can we say. This is basically has enthusiastic of a of a draft profile pot. We've ever had just because again. There's not a lot of downside with him. In fact just to loop back with few and one thing that i think will also benefit him. I think i mentioned someone. podcast earlier. During the season when i was building out the one two three fifty three rankings. Or whatever for whatever reason i wound up talking to few. I want to say like mid october of last year. Got to talk about this team. And why they were projected to be the best team by you And cetera et cetera. And it was a completely different situation from the year prior. We've talked about this. Before the year prior mark few thought he might have had one of his worst teams and not say that they were bad. Houston high expectations. In the hello they would have been a one-seat had we had twenty twenty and it was different going to last season clearly projected to be potential the team in college basketball so then we got to talking about suggs and i was asking him how he was doing and i remember few saying he's got good promise but he's hitting the same exact preseason freshman wall that every single other player we've ever had said i think he's going to be able to figure it out but you know he's just he's going through it a bit right now just suggesting like he was just hit like he was going through typical september october. Growing pains you flash forward to their first game suggs goes for twenty four points. Eight times four rebounds two steals and was the best player on the floor. So i bring that up just to say not that the transition to his first. Nba game is going to the exact same thing. Of course of course it's not but he has. He has the great benefit of a good. I q great great skill set and body type for the nba and a wonderful ability to adapt so he. He is a player that i think you can have as much confidence in for immediate impact. Is anyone in. This class is funny coaches and disagree if if you think this is off and i mean every coach but coach do exactly that with their freshman on the little stuff that they're not getting and practices particularly when they're surrounded by upperclassmen and people people who have already been in the program and so who know all of the little things. I cannot tell you how many times i've talked to coaches in preseason and you ask them about their heralded freshman. They're like really talented but not quite there yet but they always get caught up in the little stuff and then in a game start and they're just playing and then it just it just breaks right there. I remember. I think the the one that sticks out to me jared sullivan jer. Coming into ohio state. Because i've seen him on. The grass which circuit was just over physically not a great athlete. Not seven foot tall but just did knew how to play. And i just didn't think there was any way that guy wasn't gonna be a great college player in the nba. We'll see but a great college player. And i remember i was gonna make him a preseason first team all american and i talked to the staff this time at ohio state. Obviously i remember talking to the staff. There and i was like listen. I'm thinking about making cylinder first team all america but like you guys. I ain't seen him since peach. You guys are seeing them every day. Am i am i. Am i stretching. It a little bit and i was. I was told. He's he's got a chance. But i don't know about that. And then like within the first two weeks of the season. I was texting the stabbing. Joe i tried to get this right. I knew this guy was gonna. He's blowing us away now. He's really playing. Cnn practices because your focus. It's the nature of coaching..
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"suggs" Discussed on CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
"Scheduled for july twenty nine. We're gonna be dedicating and episode of the island college basketball podcast to a notable prospect. Same way we did in advance of last year's draft. We started the series two weeks ago with a twenty two minute profile kate cunningham. We follow that with twenty two minutes on evan mobely and today we will turn our attention to another consensus top five. Pick gonzaga star jalen sucks. He's a six foot four lead guard who averaged fourteen point. Four point five point three rebounds. Four point five assists and one point nine steals in twenty eight point nine minutes per game for a gonzaga team that advanced to the title game of the ncaa tournament and finished thirty. One and one is fifty point. Three percent from the field thirty three point. Seven percent from three and seventy six point one percent from the free throw line. every brand. i've seen has jalen soaks in the top five. I actually have him going. Second overall behind only kate cunningham t need aside. Where are you taking jalen suggs in this draft. First second third or somewhere else for me and i have not released a mock draft yet at cbs. Right now this morning. I think i'm taking a second. I think we. I think we agree. He is as enjoyable. They guard prospect to watch coming out of college like the last college player. I think from an all around standpoint. I love watching as much as subs is probably a singing about this. It was probably de ngelo russell who was in the twenty fifteen draft. Maybe there was one or two. Nba prospect since then the come close. But what's not to love about his game. In fact these podcast. We usually tend to talk about you. Know top ten prospects It's not that they don't have weaknesses. It's just that they don't have a ton of them because that's why they're top ten prospects with suggs in particular. You can make the case that he has fewer weaknesses in his game right now than any other prospect in this draft class and for that reason alone. I think that's why he should still be in is still in the conversation to go number one. Overall i think kate cunningham's overall i think what he provides a narrow gives a narrow case above suggs. But i love sexist game. I have since i saw him play games kansas in the season opener impossible not to not to love he brings to the floor so we are on the same page. We would both put him right now and i don't see why that's going to change. We would happen going number two in this class. I don't most people believe there's a consensus top five in this draft. We could mix up the order. But it's cutting am jalen subs. Evan mobely jalen green and jonathan commingle and that those are the top prospects if i were publishing a big board. That's what it would look like. Jalen suggs is the only prospect that i would consider first overall other than kate cunningham. So i agree that the top five should be the top five in some order. But i think the top two should be the top two in some order and it should be cake cutting him in jalen suggs and the thing that would scare me. Let me clear. I would take cunningham number one but the thing that would scare.
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"suggs" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"I know deep down you agree with me. What if the new orleans. Pelicans somehow i mean. I know that they've been playing a little bit better. They're creeping up into that plane conversation in the west golden state falling apart. So i i don't mean to cut you off but the pelicans are going to make the playoffs. Not even the plan. They're gonna make the playoffs. I wanna down on the record rate. Here this is from the bracket master himself. Mike phenol right. everybody you know. Put it in sharpy. He's ready to go. I love that but don't you think that this wouldn't even be a question. If design didn't have the worst point guard corps in the league basically What if you had suggs in there doing all the things people wish eric bledsoe was capable of doing pretty much on zion's time-line albeit a couple of years younger. There is going to be a little bit of a short term sacrifice that i know you've been all in on this idea of like win now. We're now we're now with the pelicans around zion. Because he's such a big impact maker. But i think the biggest thing long-term mr fine that running mate that the pelicans never really found for anthony davis could be a better running mate than say jrue. Holiday was down there in new orleans. Where you kind of. Keep zion happy. You go through a seven or eight year. Window of competing as suggs gets up to speed. His shooting winds up creating the spacing. That new orleans has lack so far this year you get zion on both sides of pick and roll where. He's not just creating off the dribble but now he's his role. Man you know. Just putting unbelievable amounts of pressure on defense with suggs orchestrating. And then you also need defense down there. In new orleans abe been looking for it for a while and stugz brings that to that feels like a really really clean fit. Michael it does so. I guess my questions are number one. Are we sure. Zion needs a point guard. And if i'm trying to put a back court players around him like traditional one. Or whatever. I'm i might just be more interested in patrick. Beverley type like someone who's just comfortable being off the ball who can hit the spot up three who's relatively cheap. Who will defend his position but not play point guard on offense. Because that's what's ions going to do. Does that does that. Seem like a potential path here for zion in his career. The answer is teams always need point. Guards i mean would have. We just said about this clippers team that did have patrick beverley. God they need a point guard. Better go out and trade. Multiple around picks to get regime rondo five years after he was good. You know i think like i. I know what you're saying..
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"suggs" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"Right They've got themselves in more. Nba like environment from a strategy standpoint. They're playing a game. That's going to be closer to the game. They're gonna play next year once they reach the nba. But what they really have it had is the visibility factor right and the ncaa is always kind of defended itself by saying well look at this platform for the players all this exposure and everything else but this year. I think it's absolutely fair to say that the three guys everyone has talked about the most in the draft process. Were the three guys who reached the tournament. Cade cunningham evan. Mobely and jalen subs. And nobody was a bigger winner in my opinion than jalen suggs. Just because of that shot and because of how deep they went so. I think you're onto something with skepticism. I flip it around and maybe what you wanna do as the brooklyn hipster Hit bailey says a few of our listeners. Call you maybe you wanna make the argument that these these g. league ignite guys should be the number one pick michael. Because they're being slept on. I i got. I got a circle back with you. There do listeners actually commie that you share them with me and the emails okay. Okay one listener. 'cause you that He's he's a big lakers fan His name's tyler. He's great he's still not over. You picking against lakers. All four rounds last year so i think he started calling. You hit bela's because the brooklyn ties I think it's a term of endearment. Okay i don't think he's he's being me. No of course in tyler. You have not seen anything yet with regards to the los angeles lakers. But i think what you said about the the g. league players who i've i like totally have blocked out and have never seen play basketball before. That's the thing. That's that's a big part of this problem. I don't know if they need like showcase game for these guys ride or they need to come up with some sort of a way to get everybody's attention on them at a certain moment but they are completely off the radar. There's there's no way around it. I i receive more emails about that team from the nba than anything like talks messages from my mom very interesting calls from my wife like it's the g. league email from that team like updates on like box scores and who won and what who their upcoming opponent is like it is. I'm getting inundated. Not been like i feel like this would be a big topic of conversation if i was seeing people in person and fun of just how often. I'm getting them but it's just something i've noticed throughout the throughout the pandemic that's fascinating because i was gonna blame them for not tooting their own horn but it sounds like i'm just completely zoning out all of their emails and i'm not even seen them. It's just like kind of it's almost You know like the christmas special emails that you get you know from harry and david and they're hitting you every single two days and they did not pay for that plug by the way but you know it just gets to be so much that eventually your eyes glaze over..
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"suggs" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"Pick no matter what i mean. Sucks to me. Is the most complete prospect at the point. Guard position that we've seen an awful long time and that's not to say that mitchell's not a complete player. But i think is gonna wind up being better distributor for his teammates. Then mitchell and i think he's probably gonna wind up being a better defensive player at that one spot then then maybe mitchell's. Yeah i think one of the fascinating things is how the ncaa tournament kind of can amplify a players Perception or reputation and you know if he plays well for a month or something or three weeks in a row if he hit leitner shot everybody falls in love. Yeah i mean the guy hit the the what is probably going to go down as the most memorable shot and while they lost the national championship. Which kind of puts a little bit of a damper on it but a real reach a real seventy three and nine. Five to these god's sake bulldogs and i feel bad for them because it's always talked finishing second man you know and A piece that you mentioned by gregg bishop on gonzaga was just phenomenal. I mean going into these. Sunday ball runs that john. Stockton's got organized up in spokane. Where he's teaching the proper fundamental values to the next generation of zags. This seemed like the year they were finally going to do it after twenty something years of mark few and they come up just short it was. It was heartbreaking. I'm just really glad it saved your bracket honestly because you can throw all the other stuff out the window michael. Piano one is bracket great. No i thank you. That's exactly how. I felt walking away from the tournament too but like i guess like my point is that suggs plays on this team. That is ridiculous like it. Is the dream team of college basketball. There are multiple players who will play in the nba. Who were on his team I don't know how good they'll be in the nba. But they will make it whereas you look you know. I think kate cunningham is the number one with a bullet prospect right now and most likely to get selected first overall like he played on a team with nobody from my scant research. That will ever sniff the nba. And didn't really you know he's playing without spacing he's playing Where he can be the greatest playmaker who ever lived in guys aren't finishing his ridiculous passes And so i think if you were to kind of In a situation where he surrounded by more talent than he would've maybe looked a little bit better than he did. Even though by all accounts he was still absolutely a phenom at oklahoma state So i think that. That's a factor here and i don't wanna get too caught up in march madness and what a player does or does not do in one single tournament just to build on that. I mean. consider the two guys who are on the g. league night who didn't get any of that exposure for madness right. I mean they're completely off the radar and you if you run back the hypothetical and you just throw them into the ncaa tournament how much the stories change if those guys are leading teams as well. It's a very fair question. It's actually kind of a fascinating dichotomy. Michael i mean the the players in the g. league ignite they got the pro quality coaching. They got the contract up..
Titus & Tate
Baylor Beats Gonzaga for the National Championship
"Have never in my life been for a game so anticipated. Been just sitting here. Like i cannot believe this is happening and even even as all the talk in the second half is like all right. Uh-huh gonzaga tonight. I honestly like never really felt like ever. I said on the show before this season gonzaga. There's so there's a calming presence about that. I said if they're down ten. I think what i said. It was even if they're down ten with like four minutes left. I'm not panicking. Because they just their so calm cool and collected they were not calm at any point in this game. The moment jalen down four. Nothing in jalen suggs picks up the charging foul. They had like a look in their of lake. What you want to and at no point were even when they cut it to nine. I was like great. You cut it to nine. Like i don't see how you're going to. You cannot stop baylor. so that's cool. You cut it tonight and then snap of a finger. It's back to like seventeen that it was as thorough of an asking. I if they play tomorrow it reminded me a loyal illinois like it's technically upset but like at the same time. Play that game tomorrow. Baylor's kicking the. I'm still taking baylor tomorrow. I'm still taking baylor on wednesday. I'm taking baylor on thursday
ESPN Daily
Where does Gonzaga-UCLA rank among greatest college games?
"What time did you get to bed on saturday night. Three thirty three. I was done working at like one thirty. I just i. I watched the jalen sug shot fifty times. I just i couldn't get over it and i woke up this morning. Still kind of buzzing about it jeff. Porcello is a college basketball insider for espn and he's been covering the tournament from indianapolis us a prisoner of the moment. Jeff that's the phrase that gets thrown around but there are not many moments in sports history like what happened with gonzaga in the final four. You were there just broad historical analysis year. What did we witness. I mean it was the best game i've ever seen in person or on tv and it wasn't a game where the ending masked a you know sloppy but close game. This was just just unbelievable. Basketball for forty. Five minutes. Both teams making shots. No team led by more than seven points the the tension and the butterflies ahead throughout the game. It was just unlike anything. I've witnessed the shot at the end. Just just kind of cap it all off just mentioned that that shot by suggs. Walk us through it from your perspective. What you're seeing. I knew we were good because there was in jalen hands. He's got that magical or he just. He makes them in practice all the time. It's been craziest. Your many's maiden practice where last second shot so. I felt pretty good staring right at it and i was like that's in so it was. It was the best game you know in my you know since i started covering the sport and people compare it to the nineteen ninety-two duke kentucky game. I did not see that. In person. And i was six years old five years old but i i can't imagine there are too many games in the history of the sport. There were better than this.
NBC Sports
Just how epic was Suggs' Final Four game-winner?
"The Final four last night, one seed Gonzaga at 11 seed U. C. L A. We're tied at 90 in the final seconds of overtime. Here comes sucks Long three for the winner Takes it home. Banks it hold Jalen Suggs deep. Sweet Justin Gun. Sega one step closer to history Call on Westwood one. Gonzaga will face Baylor in the National championship game after they routed Houston, 78 to 59.
WGN Showcase
Jalen Suggs' half-court miracle at buzzer keeps Gonzaga's perfect season alive
"Best games in N C a a tournament history to reach Monday's title game against Baylor. Correspondent Mark Myers reports It will go down as one of the greatest shots in the final four history. Gonzaga's Jalen Suggs banked in a Miracle three at the buzzer, giving the Bulldogs a 93 to 90 overtime. Win over U C L A. It was nuts, and I still can't speak. I mean, I don't I just can't believe that happened. I don't think it's really gonna hit me until I wake up tomorrow, but Mean tonight tonight was specially through Timmy scored 25 points to lead the Zags. Johnny Jews sang finished with 29 to top the Bruins. The Wind sends 31 all Gonzaga into Monday's national championship game against Baylor. I am Marc
CBS Sports Radio
Suggs hits buzzer-beater in overtime, Gonzaga tops UCLA 93-90
"It was in all time Classic at the Final four in Indy seven seconds to go six seconds choosing in the paint fade away. No. Got his own rebound slippers to the ram and lays it in three seconds to go. We're tied at 90. Here comes Suggs. Long, three for the window Banks at home. Thanks in home, Jalen Suggs. Deep bank three Justin Gonzaga, one Step closer to history. Jalen Suggs, The hero for Gonzaga. Kevin Kugler. The Call on the Westwood one N C. A. A radio network Suggs with the buzzer beater in overtime to keep the Zags undefeated, Season alive and beat U C l a 93 90 It's the first buzzer beater in the final four since 1977 and Gonzaga will be the 10th team to enter the national title game undefeated. They'll play Baylor there. The Bears blowout Houston in the first game, 78 to 59. It would be their second ever title game appearance and first 1948
CBS Sports Radio
Overtime buzzer-beater ends Bruins impressive tourney run
"Suggs with the buzzer beater in overtime to keep the Zags undefeated, season alive and beat U. C L. A 93 to 90 was the first buzzer beater in the final Four. Since 1977 and Gonzaga will be the 10th team to enter the national title game undefeated. They will play Taylor On Monday night, The Bears blew out Houston 78 59. It's their first title game appearance since 1948
CBS Sports Radio
Jalen Suggs' Buzzer-Beater Pushes Gonzaga Into National Championship Game
"Time classic at the final four in Indy. Seven seconds to go six seconds choosing in the paint fade away. No! Got his own rebound slippers to the ram and lays it in three seconds to go. We're tied at 90. Here comes Suggs. Long three for the win. Thanks at home. Thanks in home. Jalen Suggs, A deep banked three Justin Gonzaga. One step closer to his jailing Suggs, The hero for Gonzaga. Kevin Kugler, that final call on the Westwood one N c. A a radio network Suggs with the buzzer beater in overtime to keep this AGs undefeated season alive, they beat U. C L a 93 to 90 days, the first buzzer beater in the Final four since 1977 exacta the 10th team to enter the national title game undefeated. And they will play Baylor there. The Bears had a much easier time getting to the national title game. They blow by Houston a 78 59 in the first game with the Final Four. They let it 45 20 at halftime, It'll be their first national title game appearance. Since 1948 on the
Mornings with Keyshawn, Jorge & LZ
Tournament upsets working against No. 1 Gonzaga
"We were having a spirited debate about gonzaga show where we were talking about this. You know casual basketball fans will say. Hey gonzaga doesn't win it this year. This is the best chance to win it. But i was saying about this about for a long time. I went back to that team. But they have with nigel williams gos- and cement karnowski the amount of masquerading as a man as you always call him. This has been a consistent theme. Do you think this their best chance to win. It's considering we have by double digit seeds moving on the sweet sixteen in relation to the competition. While i think that's the camera talks about the best team. It's got to be this best team in relation to who you're gonna be playing against so when you look at this gonzaga team in relation to the field. It's probably their best chance. Not we'll have another chance knowing mark few they're going gonna continue to get good players but this team is unique. There historically good offensively. They create matchup problems match problems at the point. The size of suggs. Who quite honestly reminds me. Jason kidd matra points of front timmy. With his footwork and his skill level match up at the four spot with casper stretch defense and put it down and mma forces your for to guard on the floor especially in transition joel. Who absolutely only triple double in the history of gonzaga basketball. And we don't even talk about the dude. So yeah i think in relation to the field i think this is gonzaga's best shot. They're so good offense when he gets up every fourteen seconds which is absolutely ridiculous to flow of their offense really puts a lot of pressure on your defense not only to get back but to get set so i would agree. This is their best shot in this moment in time because of the
ESPN Daily
Katie Barnes on College Basketball BFFs Jalen Suggs and Paige Bueckers
"Katie. Is to have you back on the show. Thanks for having me so. I'm talking to you because you have the story of the kind of blew my mind and i say that because if there's one player in the men's college basketball tournament i would advise people to know about it would be jalen suggs. These star of the number one overall seed gonzaga bulldogs. He's a freshman. They open their tournament. Tomorrow heavily favored. He's going to be the face of this whole thing in the women's tournament the one name i'd advise people to know about would be page. Bekker's their star freshman the star of the yukon. Huskies who are also a one c and opening their tournament. Sunday against high point. They are the two faces of the game right now. They will be the two faces of the month of march. And what. I didn't know until i read your story. Katie is that they grew up twenty miles away from each other in minnesota and they've been friends since elementary school. How did you discover that page. Bekker's jalen subs. Were this close. I had pursued a tip from my editor. That was a video of the two of them playing rock paper scissors when they were seniors in high school. I had written about page before. So i just asked her. It was like. Are you actually friends with jalen suggs. And she said that she was shocking that to kids from the midwest who live pretty close to each other who both played basketball of course they would know each other. Of course they would be friendly. That wasn't surprising. But as i reported the story and i found out just how deep these routes go that to me was. What made this really special. Yeah you came into the story. I know having reported a lot about page. Bekker's you got to know jalen suggs. It sounds like in the course of doing this along with family members of each of them. How difficult was it to get everybody on the record to talk to you about the specific relationship. Everyone was really excited to talk about this relationship. These two are really good friends. Their families our friends. You're the parents want to celebrate the other one so everybody was really pumped to talk to me
CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball Podcast
College Basketballs Uncertain Return to the Court
"I on thursday. Tupper beat six rate. Kansas ninety awesome performance and then on friday afternoon mark to the gonzaga coach. Confirm that the zags beat auburn on friday morning. Nine hundred sixty seven after a player believed to be julian straw. They're tested positive for covid. Nineteen so norlander. We're gonna get into next credible opening week on the court second. But let's start here where you surprise in an auburn still played on friday after a gonzaga player test positive. I was surprised because my opinion is that if other teams and i'm not saying all other teams but many other teams were in that situation. The game would not have been played in my opinion. If gonzaga ran into the issues it ran into and it was playing in belleville. gonzaga would not have played. It's game on friday. Gonzaga might not have even played a game against kansas or fill in the other opponent again. If you put it in. And i'm i'm speaking from what i'm seeing here and the protocols and everything that goes into place to even holding this in the state of connecticut okay. Gonzaga had a member of its travel party test positive on thursday gonzaga took two different planes to the event specific and has taken two different buses. It's it's doing specifically to guard against this. But obviously there is no full on guarding against this so we played kansas. And we'll get but then you know at least one player as positive another believed to be The players roommate is kept out as a precautionary reason. And the game goes off because and you can speak to a gp. Frankly we'll we'll get to virginia san francisco the minute but i was i was. I was watching that game. So i didn't hear fuse press conference. I've seen some of what he said. They're the relying on the florida health officials as being the ones that were to clear it and the health officials down there made that determination and it might wind up that that determination is going to be okay in the end. But i've received four text messages from coaches to heads to assistance. All of them basically asking why in the hell is gonzaga in auburn. Being allowed to play right now one of them saying if this was us there is no shot in hell that we would have been able to play and so this this is certainly captured. A little bit of attention around the college basketball world understandably so gonzaga's looked awesome. But you can make an easy argument that it that it should not have a have played the game. What are your thoughts. And then what can you share for the listeners. That might not have seen a about what few said in his postgame. Zoom press conference. Okay so mark was clearly asked about it and he said he kept it very simple. He's did we followed turns guidelines not we tournament guidelines were were in place and established. We had this positive test. And then we follow the guidelines and then the florida health officials came in and they contact tracing how they contact tracing. They told us we were okay. We were cleared to play and we play. He kept it. He didn't really expand anymore than that but listen. They didn't do anything illegal. They possibly did something irresponsible but didn't do anything illegal. They didn't act in defiance of the tournament or florida. Health officials noted that florida as a state hasn't taken covid nineteen that seriously to begin with. So what florida. Health officials were okay. Where quite clearly would be the same thing that said california. Health officials are okay. Wis lucky if they wanted to play the game. They're lucky they were in florida as opposed to to somewhere else. And you're exactly right. It's bubble ville or in south dakota. I don't believe this game would have been played. Wichita state got sent home from south dakota because they had maybe a couple of people in the travel and party test positive. They were like okay. Get outta here. You're not playing today. you're not playing tomorrow. you're not playing it off. So i don't know that this game would have been played if it were a tournament. Where you're at or in south dakota but because this was sort of a thing they put together in fort myers as long. Auburn was cool to play and gonzaga wanted to play. they were allowed to pluck. I though was surprised that the game went off. Because i mean we've seen baseball teams. Get shut down over one positive test during the major league baseball season the world series if it would have if the dodgers did not win the game justin turner had to be removed because they got a positive test back of the game so they take justin turner around. They complete that game. The understanding was that game. Seven of the world series would not have been the following night. They would not have played until everybody can test test test for a few days and they make sure it's safe to play and so yes. I was surprised that they played the game. And hopefully nothing comes from it that it doesn't end up being a quote unquote superspreader of it. Because if we an outbreak now at gonzaga because by the way gonzaga tweet video from the locker room after the victory over kansas and they're all celebrating no mask jewish authors in front of mark. Few right in the middle of the celebration. He is believed to be the one who test positive. So hopefully nothing comes of this but if we have a subsequent outbreak at gonzaga or subsequent at auburn gonzaga is going to become the biggest story in college basketball. And it's not going to be a sports story anymore. It won't be because jalen suggs looks. Incredible it'll be because they knew they positive test in their locker room and they played less than twenty four hours putting their players at risk and the auburn players at risk. I hope it doesn't come to that. But if it comes to that this becomes a bigger story than just to college basketball story. It becomes something that's on. Cbs evening news. Yeah we'll wait and see if that does happen. I mean auburn's gotta be you know held equally responsible and all of this because it opted to play the game regardless you know there was no self imposed penalty here. Handed down by bruce pearl. That was not in play on friday and so inherently like. You know the chances. Go up that you're going to potentially be infected. We don't know but it's clearly out there. I mean there are. There are no shortage of schools and athletic directors coaches. Just straight up would not play the game. So we'll wait arizona. State would not play baylor because the baylor coach tested positive. Not even a player who was who was gonna who was on the court with other players twenty four hours earlier right and that came from that even came from above. Bobby's hurley's bobby hurley's had which is the case in a lot of these instances but frankly what gonzaga auburn decided to do it. Just flies in the face of convention in college sports in professional sports that we've seen and we'll will you know we're recording this on friday afternoon. We'll wait and see what's going to happen here. Gonzaga's got some high profile games ahead and we're really enough one of them's blade baylor like if there's if there's one team that's actually going to be good with this like it's baylor. They might just play the game regardless. But we'll wait and see if either of these teams are now forced because if it gets another positive one after that like they have no choice. They're going to have to shut down for two weeks and then ask themselves if playing against auburn was really worth it you know. Was it worth it. Because now you're gonna lose these other games
All Things Considered
US automakers return to work
"The U. S. auto industry is now restarting its collective engine after being idled for weeks by the corona virus the first wave of plants re opened today and these plants look a little different than before as NPR's Camila domonoske reports a couple of weeks ago market give me gifts and went on a video tour of Detroit diesel a plant that makes truck engines when it's not shut down for a global pandemic I thought we had them on show you guys what they're going out on Madsen's lawyer Barry Gibson is a shop chairman at the plant he was showing his union members the new safety protocols being put in place to prepare for re opening like plastic sheeting yeah I met the person stopper you see I got a curtain up there now because there's usually two people in on the side of the block he pointed out health check stations and sanitizer bottles and tapped on a large clear shield there is a big the truth that we all got together for well the separate obviously any you know Mister articles from the model of your nose before coronavirus none of this was here now it's the new reality Gibson says several auto plants in the south like kia and BMW started back up today Michigan is still under a stay at home order so Detroit diesel remains closed but it has to get ready these plants were designed for people to be able to stay six feet apart Ralph Morris junior is the president of the local union right now there's a lot of high anxiety driving you've read about the other meat processing plants and in a factory setting unless the you know the the precautionary measures are taken you know I could spread through the whole whole facility questions about how to re open in a way that see for workers have caused many companies to push back their plans to resume operations America's big three for General Motors and fiat Chrysler haven't confirmed a start date yet their workers are represented by the United auto workers union which has called for more testing because people without symptoms can spread the disease Houston Robinson as chief human resources officer for Ford Motor Company on a call with reporters last week she addressed the issue I think that the bottom line is based on all the information we have access to we will not have a reliable and scalable testing solution to several weeks and it may even be month Sir now Ford says it will send employees who feel sick to be tested for covert nineteen but the company can't offer its own tests to all employees yet there's intense pressure on companies to figure this out and soon the plant closures are costing the industry billions of dollars hundreds of thousands of workers are affected and customers are already starting to buy cars again Sean Suggs is the president of the Toyota plant in blue springs Mississippi where they build corollas he says the plant re opening will be gradual we're not going to just flip a switch and everything's going to be back to normal there is no going back to the normal way we simply cannot operate the way we operated before covert nineteen the blue
Around the NFL
Super Bowl 54 Recap
"Kansas City Thirty One San Francisco Twenty air it. It is Mitchell as he's been waited his whole damn life to make that call and cheese fans. They've been waiting fifty years for their team to Hoist Lombardi and it finally finally happened on this. The second of February two thousand twenty the Kansas City chiefs are the super bowl champions after that thirty one to twenty win over the San the average Cisco Forty nine dollars a game in which they were down like they were all their postseason games by double digits. This time in the fourth quarter and yet Patrick Mahomes and company would not not be denied. Dan Heads here the around the NFL podcast presented by little caesars. And yes I'm coming to you from a hard rock stadium that is filled with heroes mark. Sesser Chris Wesseling and Greg Rosenthal. What is up boys? Hey Dan still filled with some chiefs fans and employs employs. Usually I feel like we start the taping after midnight. got going a little quicker like there's still an MVP chant going on the exciting. These fans. Don't WANNA leave. They've waited. You know half a century for this. Yeah usually when we're here it feels like we're ghosts like passing passing through a stadium and and and you can't. You're not sure if you're humid or not until you get back to the hotel but in this case where here. The field is is covered in confetti. Where on the third level the really Nice hardrock stadium here in Miami was great Super Bowl Week? A lot of fun a great city for a super bowl the eleventh and Super Bowl in this area which is most just past New Orleans and If you're a cheese fan this was the dream come come true and I got to watch the second half of this game in the seats With my cousin Matt and I just you know watching an older gentleman guy looked like he was in his fifties with his wife Cheese FAN IN JERSEY. As that game it became clear. After obviously the Damian will even before the Damian Williams run that clinched it it was becoming clear then the Williams touchdown and then there was this release. Like Oh my God the chiefs are GonNa win the Super Bowl and it was a well-earned win and one that didn't look particularly like it was heading in this direction even halfway through the fourth. That's quarter the chiefs to me. Their players and coach Kinda remind me of the fans. It's been so long since they got that Super Bowl in Randy read. It's been so long a guy like Frank Clark find his way there. Honey Badger finds his way to Kansas City to make this happen. Terrell suggs is lucky enough to come along for the ride at the end of the year. A lot of I just find their way to Kansas City and end up winning this one and you're right fourth quarter at midway through the fourth quarter forty nine hundred ninety five point six percent win probability. I know that's not your stat. The latest evidence that people need to stop talking about win probability it means nothing other than a twitter talking boy. It means it means it's unlikely the other team's GonNa win and now know Kyle Shanahan. Would it peaked at about ninety nine point wait. Six percent against the Patriots early in the fourth quarter always had ninety five point six percent. The percentage. I don't think takes into account Patrick Mahomes uh-huh it just doesn't or the chiefs offense or Andy Reid like the way that you have to dominate Patrick mahomes and make his life. If uncomfortable for sixty minutes I think is the hardest thing to do in the NFL. The forty niners balled out on defense. Not Unlike I believe the the Seahawks balled out on defense against the broncos. They did so many things right for the first three quarters. I think in a lot of scenarios and with a lot of quarterbacks that game would have been twenty seven to six at with eight minutes left in the fourth quarter and they're never could've been a comeback but mahomes got out of a lot of plays blaze. That could have gone worse. He had a lot of negative. Plays the chiefs defense. Did just enough and it just shows you. Yeah you can. You can do a lot while. They held him to five point three yards per play which is a very very low number for the chiefs and she's still put up thirty one points in nine drives. They barely have the ball. They still went over not surprising. Because that's what they've been doing for for months and months and if we had one kernel of information going into the for the last two weeks to to base our analysis on that the chiefs and Patrick Mahomes I would open the third quarter with back to back picks by Patrick Mahomes and that the niners would be nestling a twenty two ten lead minutes into into the fourth. You would think this is a perfect setup for San Francisco to run away with this thing but if you give Patrick Mahomes even ten minutes to operate and it gets hot. Aw everything's off the table. Fifty fifty two and a half minutes of game time the niners down day and I remember thinking as has the game was reaching as it's ticking through the fourth quarter and they have a twenty two ten lead and thinking what made the chief. So unstoppable all when they were humming the regular season but especially in those two comebacks in the AFC playoffs it. was that big play ability. That the niners there's through their dominant front four. Were taking away. Mahomes running for his life just by his brilliance kept the game close because is almost any other quarterback decided. Lamar Jackson has a couple sacks. Fumbles and the game gets away. Like what Von Miller Cam Newton a few years back but he was able to stay on his feet. Keep the game from getting away and the what really sticks out to me at that moment again. Midway through the fourth quarter after the tyreek hill catches is overturned on review. And you feel the entire building is psyching up. It feels like the niners are about to make the big play. Plays away from winning the super. Aw It is third and a miles third and fourteen. I believe third and fifteen and I leaned to my cousin Matt. I said the most likely play. Is You get try to get half of this back and then make a manageable fourth-down fourth and five and get it done. But no that's not what the chiefs do that's not how they operate and even a game where they never made any big plays with the season on the line mahomes dropback. This time found tyreek Hill West on a busted coverage and that changed
South Florida's First News with Jimmy Cefalo
Suggs aiming for Super Bowl after joining Chiefs last month
"Of Super Bowl fifty four now just nine days away the forty Niners and chiefs land that am I a on Sunday kicking off Superbowl week across the county Eli manning holding a press conference today officially announced his retirement well the last sixteen seasons as quarterbacks for the giants guiding the team of Superbowl championships one of only five players in league history three two time Super Bowl
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What are Chuck Pagano's plans for the Bears defense?
"Now Chuck Pegado he replaces Vic Fazio who went from Chicago to Denver. He is the new defensive coordinator of depth buyers trademark me your thoughts was well. This is the one that this this instigated the article <hes> thinking about Chuck Pagano because you lose Vic Fangio. Who is I think along with Wade Phillips the most most respected affected defensive mind in the game right well bill belichick sort of on an island up there by himself but you know throw in Romeo Coronel is another guy who's respected but we don't really we know what Chuck Pagano is? He had one year defensive coordinator with the Ravens where they finished third in defense with Ray Lewis Ed Reed Terrell suggs and then he went to the the colts and he never really had much town to work with on defense now he's token over a defense that is almost sure to regress to the mean just because they had a sky a high turnover rate loss very few games to injury last year and cannot and fifteen percent of drives with an interception like they did last year especially especially That defense every week to make up for their offense. I felt like an if you're if you're in the situation Pagano. You're going to get blamed from their earliest part of the season. It doesn't go well. Why would I want to take over some for someone who floundered before me you come in and you look on the other hand when you have a chance to work with Cleo Max Akiem Hicks Roquan Smith Dan Danny I mean they're absolutely loaded Jackson Kyle? They are loaded and yet. I think it's a tough spot to go to for for Pagano.