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The hosts discuss the recent Super Bowl and whether Patrick Mahomes has the potential to be considered the greatest of all time. They also talk about the overtime rules and the controversy surrounding the 49ers' lack of awareness of the rules. They mention the importance of knowing the rules and the impact it can have on the game. They also mention the expensive core of the 49ers and their future financial challenges. You're listening to WCC Radio, Coastal Carolina University student-run radio station. It's Monday, it's two o'clock, this is Sports Uncaged. I'm your host, Christian Mitchell, joined here by Braxton and Will. Man, the Monday after the Super Bowl should probably be a crime to have class and school and work and all that. The wake up this morning, not a great one, not great seeing the Chiefs win either, but what a game we got. Honestly, it was the first overtime game with the new rules since the Josh Allen and Chiefs game a couple years back. It was honestly a great Super Bowl. That first half was a little sleepy, a little boring. That second half really kicked things off. Pretty much after Usher was on the screen, things were going cool. Before we get too deep into the Super Bowl, I think we should just acknowledge the fact that Patrick Mahomes is now up to his third Super Bowl, his third Super Bowl MVP in, I believe, what, five years of starting now? Something along those lines, five or six. Somehow you trade away Tyreek Hill and repeat. Don't know how I go about that. I'm gonna start with Braxton here. Do you think Mahomes can catch up to Brady to be labeled as the GOAT? Yeah, I really do. Come on, let's be honest. Three Super Bowls in six years? That's insane. That is genuinely insane. And then the past five years, AFC Championship, and then one of them wasn't. He's insane. That receiving court is not good this year. And he made the Chiefs look phenomenal that game, the second half, of course. He's just such a playmaker. He really is. I didn't see him have one bad ball yesterday, to be honest with you. I didn't see any bad throws or anything, well, except the interception. But otherwise than that, he just bounced back. He looked like an absolute unit out there. Just always making the right play. What do you think, Will? Patrick Mahomes is a GOAT in the making. I'm not gonna lie. I do think he can catch up to Tom Brady because he's one of the quarterbacks as a whole. He can do everything possible. Yeah, he just, it's like he always makes the right play at the right time. Not that it's always the most flashy, like 40-yard pass, but even just his little, like he knows when to use his legs and he uses them effectively. He's not afraid to take the check down and just work the sticks, which is a lot of what you saw Brady do, like when they were super successful. Just you don't have to play with these crazy risks and he's always so calm. I also believe he's probably on pace here to catch up to Tom. I think he's just so fun to watch and this is Sports Uncaged. We'll be back after this. You're listening to WCCU Radio, Coastal Carolina University student radio station. This is Sports Uncaged. I am your host, Christian Mitchell, joined here by Braxton and Will. We were hitting a little bit on, you know, obviously the Super Bowl last night. I want to continue with that with one of the major stories coming from the 49ers complaining, you know, seemingly what they do and making excuses. No bias in that statement. Anyway, if you haven't seen multiple players really today and right after the game have come out and said that the 49ers were not aware of, well, some of the 49ers players were not aware of the adjusted overtime rules. As we said earlier, this was the first game to use this set new overtime playoff rules and them receiving the ball to start it could have been a major, you know, disadvantage. I think that's something that we don't really have, like I was just saying this before break, something that we don't really have statistics for yet, which is what a lot of the coaches use to make, you know, like are we going to go for it on fourth down here or whatever. So there's not really a guideline or a basis out there. So this is just kind of like the growing pain I'm going to imagine with that. I'm going to start with Will here this time. Do you like the overtime playoff rules? And if you were in the 49ers situation, would you receive or kick first? I do like the rule. I think, honestly, I would kick it off first and trust my defense with the offensive line and the defense I have to stop Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, I meant stopping Patrick Mahomes. It's hard, but I trust that 49ers defense. Yeah, I think Shanahan probably should have. What do you think, Braxton? Uh, I love the rules. It's no college OT rules. I think college OT rules. I think that's what they should do in the NFL. But if I'm Shanahan, I'm going to kick it off. I'm going to be honest because you were going to base your game plan on offense based on how the Chiefs do on their first drive. Exactly. Yeah. If they get a touchdown, hey, we got to change the game plan up and not play it so conservatively like they did on the first drive. They played it so conservatively when they just gave McCaffrey the ball instead of airing it out a little bit more. And then just you're 10 yards away from the goal line and then you kick it for the field going fourth and three. And at that point, you don't know if you want to go on fourth or not because you don't know what the Chiefs are going to do. Exactly. Yeah. At that point, it's like you kind of like fourth and three. I'm sure the numbers would say go for it, especially that close. But the fact that it was overtime in the Super Bowl, like if you kick that field or if you go for it, which is probably the right play, you know, nine out of ten times the entire rest of the season, you still are setting yourself up to where the Chiefs just need a field goal to win. And that's something that's there's a couple of things that are guaranteed. And it's a Patrick Mahomes point. He just did it literally like 10 minutes before that to send it to overtime. So that's something you probably you don't feel very. I mean, the 49ers defense has been probably the best defense all year. They were Baltimore and they neither one of them could hold Mahomes when it mattered at all. So I feel like it's something you've got to you've got to kind of know. And I like what you're saying. Like, it's almost reactionary. You want to make them make the first move. And speaking of college overtime, most teams that win the coin toss in college overtime defer and get it after because when you're in that situation like the Chiefs, they went for it on. I think it was like it was a really it was fourth and really short. Yeah. Yeah. It's still like I mean, if they're in the 49ers spot, do they just kick that field goal there? I don't want to say probably, but like all things considered, yeah, probably just take your points. You're in the Super Bowl, man. It's just something you have to be aware of. And deferring, I think you like I said, you react to what Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense has done. You were stopping them a lot. You should have confidence to at least, you know, run your defense out there. And that's just not I feel like we all knew when once they got that ball and they started moving, like they got that first or their first or second first down. Like, yeah, they are for sure going to at least score here. Like that was always out of the question. It was just are they going to walk them off or not? And that's, you know, exactly what happened. I just don't know why the 49ers are always seemingly always at some like tail end of some controversy that it's not their fault that they lost the game. But this is something that you, Eric, sorry, what's his Eric? I can't think of his name. The chief safety read. Yes, yes. Eric Reid came out and said in response to the 49ers playing or the 49ers players claiming that they didn't really know that the Chiefs have gone over it in training camp and every single week of the playoffs. And how do you not know about that? If you go to every single week in the playoff, the major excuses of being honest that they knew about it since training camp back in August. Well, the Chiefs did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So like if your opponent is knowing this. Also, you had two weeks of preparation for this. I this is just you had to have some sort of like rules guy on your staff to know this or at least it's not something you necessarily practice. I guess it's super specific. You know, it doesn't normally happen, but it's something you have to be aware of at all times. And I want to. I like how you brought up college overtime because I don't know why they don't they don't do the same. Yeah, right. And it leads to great games. It's such a good overtime rules like it is perfect. You start on the third year, the twenty five. I think I believe it's the twenty five. Twenty five. And then you go back and forth. And then it's really all up to offense at that point, which you got. I mean, let's be honest, in the 49ers favor, they would probably win that because they got a better offense. But I think, again, with the 49ers losing Dre Greenlaw, huge, huge, absolutely huge because even on the first drive of the game, Dre Greenlaw got three tackles on the first drive and they went three and out. And then he celebrates too hard on the sideline. Yep. There goes his Achilles. Yep. That's I mean, that's awful just to be kept out of the biggest game of your career and probably your life because of something like that. And yet he was making a difference early. I also want to shout out Fred Warner. He did get dusted by Travis towards the end of the game to set up the game tying field goal at the end. But literally other than that, I swear he was on him almost every play and kept him in check lockdown for sure. I specifically remember one rep where he jammed them at the line and he jammed Kelsey to the ground, like completely taking him out. I do want to want to hit on this, the fact that this is the third, I believe, third straight 49er Super Bowl loss now. And their core is very expensive. In reality, their core is very talented, very expensive and going to need more money, which is just something they're not going to be able to do forever. See it happen to teams all the time. So I'll start with Braxton here. Where do you think the 49ers go from another Super Bowl loss? I think, again, with the paydays, like it's going to be hard for them. I think they're going to lose IU. I don't think they're going to be able to pay IU because, you know, he is a special player. I mean, because he wants to be a rival super one. And you could argue saying he's rival super one, I don't know, but Debo got a lot more touches yesterday than IU. Are they going to lose IU? Are they going to lose a big defensive player? Probably a defensive lineman, probably one of, I mean, Eric Armstead, Chase Young's a free agent who they haven't really shown too much interest in wanting back after questioning his effort recently. Yeah, they're just they're going to be expensive. Yeah. Purdy is coming up. I think next year he's on the contract and then the year after that he's gone. So big year for Brock Purdy because how can you if they, you know, come out and win 10 games again next year, you're going to not pay him, you know, like kind of stuck there. And then eventually they're going to have to pay McCaffrey's because McCaffrey's contract is going to end to the Panthers are paying that right now. Yeah, I'm going to ask you, will this because would you rather pay Brandon IU or Debo Samuel? Because I think this is a pretty, pretty big toss up here. I'd rather pay Debo Samuel, I'm not going to lie. Really? Yeah. Why Debo? The numbers you put up on our site that playing better, like he got much better receptions and everything like that. I think I'm much more than you. And if you conquer is very expensive, I think you're going to go leaving free agency. Yeah, I, I see Brandon, I use this kind of like T Higgins right now. Like he's on a contending team. Both their futures are kind of pending. Both are wide receiver ones in most other places. And I would argue that IU was their wide receiver one this year, especially with all the time that Debo missed. And I believe IU had 1400 yards. He was an all pro. Yeah, he had a great season. He should be a wide receiver one somewhere. And he's going to command that wide receiver one money because someone's going to throw it to him. Right. And they're not going to be able to match it. Debo, Debo really did not have a good game last night at all. My only real argument for Debo would be how versatile he is and how much he opens up in your offense, because you could run him at running back, you know, wherever, especially with Shanahan using his formations and his, his art, like his pre snap motion. That's like, typical, like, that's perfect for Debo Samuel. But he just like I said, last night, he really didn't perform. IU also was kind of quiet. But on that last play or on the last drive that they had, they were so conservative. It was almost like they didn't really use either one. And again, with Debo injury trouble. I don't see IU injured at all. Debo, it's every other week. Yeah. So if I were the Niners, I would try to trade Debo. Because he's on a three year contract. They just signed it to him last year. Yeah. And I would I would choose IU. Yeah, I don't disagree here. We'll have to see. This is Sports Uncaged. We'll be back after this. You're listening to WCCU radio, Coastal Carolina University student radio station. This is Sports Uncaged. I'm your host, Christian Mitchell. Joining me are Braxton and Will. It's obviously the Monday after the Super Bowl. I've been pretty much talking about all of that. I know, Will, you really want to talk about Travis Kelsey, yelling at Andy Reid early on the sidelines after he had, I believe his stat line in the first half was one catch for one yard on one target. So what do you think of that, Will? Honestly, I was really surprised he got all in his face and everything like that. Honestly, I don't know how I would handle that with Andy Reid, to be honest with you. I mean, it's a star player voicing out frustrations in the biggest game. I don't, to be honest with you, I don't really see no problem with it. I think if it's anybody but Travis Kelsey, it's not a headline or not a story. Like, obviously, Andy Reid's been here, been around. You know, he's definitely got that seniority. I believe that was his third Super Bowl as well last night. He's been in like six of them at this point. Something crazy like that. Yeah, I mean, he handled it well. You got to keep your player, big time players make the big time plays. Kelsey, for his standards, did not have a great game last night. Bet on him to score a touchdown. Did not happen. But it just gets the job done. You know, being that safety blanket had a couple of big catches at the end of the game, which is what we've come to expect from Travis Kelsey. And even though he's going to voice his frustration and yell, like I said, I don't really have a problem with it. Do you think? I mean, let's look back a couple years, by a couple, I mean like 10. Tom Brady did the same thing to Belichick in the Super Bowl one time yelling at him. You know, it's not different. It's just Travis Kelsey, and that's why it's going on. And the fact that Travis bumped Andy, and then Andy had a big reaction about it. It's not, it's not, you know, not normal for a star player to get mad at their coach and yell at them for not playing them in. See, like, I feel like it's almost you're almost worried if you're not seeing that passion out of your stock, right? Like Brady spiking his tablets and all that was, I mean, that was a little much, especially when he was in Tampa, and like literally like a 40-year-old man freaking out throwing a tablet. But you want to see that fire, show that they care from your star players. And at the end of the day, that's where it really comes from. It's like, coach, I believe that was, he was out, that was after the play Pacheco fumbled on the goal line, and it was their backup tight end. Noah Gray. Yeah, Noah Gray was in. And Kelsey was, that's what caused him to yell. It's like, I get that. You're talking about a 34-year-old, probably, if not the best tight end, second best tight end of all time, wanting to be on the field in the Super Bowl. Nothing about that seems, you know, out like crazy to me. Your best players want to play, want to be in the States to make the plays. Do I think anything differently? Like, is Pacheco going to not fumble on that play if Travis Kelsey's the one blocking? No. But like, I get it. It's tension, especially after, they hadn't moved the ball really at all until that drive with that big play, and to waste that drive, of course frustration is going to be high. So I really, I think that's fine, you know. I do want to really pivot back to the 49ers going so conservative with their first drive into overtime. CMC, if they ran 10 plays, CMC had the ball in eight of them, it seems. Like, it was pretty much strictly CMC, strictly screens, and it just, to me, showed a lack of trust in Brock Purdy there. Like, it's, come on, bro. It's overtime. It's Super Bowl. Like, what are we doing? This is what you've been waiting for. If you're Kyle Shanahan, this is what you've been waiting years to get rid of the 28-3 and to right your wrongs of blowing a 10-point lead to the Chiefs in the fourth quarter, and that's just exactly what you did again. Like we said at break, it's like Kyle Shanahan was just not Kyle Shanahan. He's always been aggressive. What are you doing? Don't play the face of the Super Bowl now, come on. Yeah, like, this is what we were talking about with the Ravens two weeks ago. Do what got you to it. Exactly, dude. Like, you, yes, you scheme stuff up because maybe you're not overly confident in Brock Purdy. I understand that. I mean, he's done nothing to wrong you, but I understand why you wouldn't want to fully give him, like, the keys in that situation. He's not Josh Allen. He's not Patrick Mahomes. He's not Lamar. But you do agree that you can throw a bar or even Deeble Samuel. Yeah, let him feed his weapons, you know. Give him a chance to make the play. Like, if you look at all of the best coaches, it's like the number one thing that they'll tell you when they say, or when they win in big moments is, I had to set my players up to make the play I know they can make. At the end of the day, you're trying to scheme the most out of your players and get them in the best situations possible for them to, at the end of the day, make that play and have the easiest, like, route of making a successful play. That's just not what happened again. Like, I get it. You, CMC has gotten you everywhere. Your entire offensive run off CMC, and you want to feed him. You don't want to turn the ball over, but it's just, you got to be a little bit more. He's going to get wore out. Oh, yeah. Which he was. You know, eight out of ten points. Yeah, he had 30, I think it was 30 touches, exactly, with rushes and catches yesterday. And after getting hit that many times in the Super Bowl, you, especially on that last time, you kind of started to see how wore down he was. But like, that's just how, that's how it happens. That's when you throw the ball. No, you can run the ball and everything, except when you say pass the ball, you don't want to wear out too much to the point where now you can't run the ball. Exactly. And also when you're running the ball successfully, that sets up the pass. You're already ready to help Brock Birdie. And don't forget, you got three guys that are huge, that are really good at running after the catch. Devo Samuel, basically a running back in Robert Cesar's body. And George Kittle, same thing. And IU can break a lot of tackles too, but IU's just the route running guy. Run like some short plays, and they'll extend it, like the whole time. And that's what the Chiefs did. Underneath Rashid Rice, got the first down, basically set them up for success. The set up field goal, Travis Kelsey was just a drag route that he beat Warner off the jump. Like, it's just, they, like, you're not, you don't need, it's like sometimes with Kyle Shanahan, not me, maybe not him specifically, but like these offensive minded coordinators like him, or coaches, trying to do too much, bro. I get it, you know, you do, Shanahan specifically with this one, he uses so much motion, like by far league leader in motion. And a lot of the times it's four, like it's literally just there to distract, and pull the defense away, or just get them froze for a second, snap the ball, whatever. That works. But it got to the point where in the, towards the end of the fourth quarter and in overtime, they weren't even following the random receiver running in motion. The Chiefs defense is just known to be like a decoy, and they were just running the ball over and over again. It's like, you don't, it's just small things like that. You just don't need to do that. Exactly. And to see them kind of, Purdy, I don't want to say Purdy had a great game, because he didn't. He, but he didn't have a bad game. He didn't do anything wrong. He missed maybe, I think he missed probably like three throws. It's just, they were the big ones. You know, they were the ones that you had to have. That deep end zone shot. That Devo Samuel wide open in the end zone, you overthrew him. Yeah. And not just overthrew him, you threw it out of bounds in the back end. Like that's the, that's the play you have to make there, you know. No, there's no getting around that. Right. And maybe that's why he didn't, Shanahan didn't really trust him to make a play, but when it comes down to it, you just, you have to. Come on. Exactly. Come on now. Dan Campbell would have done it. For sure. It's just, I don't know, the way, I mean, I'm sure it's easy to sit here the next day and say, what if, if they would have just done this, why didn't they do that? How come they didn't do this? You know, but it's just, sometimes it just seems so obvious of, you're just doing too much. You can't run the same play and then expect them for them to do that. I'll do the same thing. You understand? Like, yeah, like emotion and everything. That's literally the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, which is what Kyle has, Shanahan has done in three straight Super Pals offense. Like I, I don't know, you have such good playmakers and they were running screens. The Chiefs were using a lot of screens early on too. Just like I said, get your, it's the most easy and effective way of just getting your players the ball. But it's like that adjustment the Chiefs made. They saw Pacheco was not working. You know, he was not working on the inside runs at all. They threw in a couple outside runs, working a little bit, but they found out the small routes by the receivers. And then them just extending the plays out, worked out towards the end. And then they scored back and forth second half. And then when it came down to overtime, literally what they did the whole time. Exactly. This is what I was saying this earlier. They, Mahomes is making like the right play, whether it doesn't have to be a 30 yard bomb. It's just a, an eight yard moving the sticks completion underneath. That's exactly what was happening the entire time, especially on their last drive of the fourth quarter, which yes, that's a pretty proper spot to be conservative, especially early on, but they were giving just such a blanket. I think Kelsey had like two or three catches on that drive alone of just underneath, you know, gets the ball quick, go down quick out of bounds, whatever. Like that's, you don't need it all on one play, you know? And that's really what the Chiefs have kind of lived by. Like that's been their like mantra all season pretty much. And the 49ers is just take what's there. Take what the defense is giving you. You don't have to completely scheme something else. They made the adjustments and then they made, they called a play without going for them. Yeah. It's a game of adjustments. It's a game of coaching and Andy Reid outcoached Kyle Shanahan last night. This is Sportsland Cage. We'll be back after the break. You're listening to WCCU radio, Coastal Carolina University student radio station. This is Sportsland Cage. I'm your host, Christian Mitchell joined here by Braxton and Will. We've been talking all Super Bowl. I mean, probably as expected here. We want to kind of switch into things and go to the post-NBA trade deadline. This is about that time of year where the NBA really starts heating up as certain teams are going to be pushing for the playoffs or tanking, you know, and it's a very competitive, very competitive league this year. I believe going into Saturday, there was four teams out West with the same record tied for the first seed. So there's going to be a lot of drama come down the stretch here. And for the trade deadline, there was the Mavs. The Mavs, I really didn't see a lot of coverage or anything after they traded for PJ Washington and Daniel Gafford from the Hornets and the Wizards, two of the worst teams in the league respectively. Buying in and I'll start with Will here. What do you think of those moves, honestly? Trading PJ Washington? For PJ Washington, yeah. I think it's a great move to be honest. Really going to help their bench on depth. For sure. Just get some players on that team that aren't Luka and Kyrie Irving. What do you think, Braxton? Yeah, obviously knowing PJ Washington. Hey, what can I say? And like Grant Williams even said it, Grant Williams knew Luka was the only one scoring on that team right before he got traded. Getting PJ Washington, who is also a pretty good shooter, and then you got two playmakers now, two forwards that are playmakers, and it opens up Donkic's field. Huge. Donkic can truly show his playmaking ability. You know how Jokic, Jokic is dropping out many points a game, but you've seen his assists. And now Donkic can do exactly that instead of just scoring the whole time for the match. You know, save some energy, play some defense. But yeah, no, I think these moves were literally great. PJ Washington didn't really, what the Hornets got a first rounder in like two, three years, something along those lines. And then 2027. Yeah, and then just filler pretty much outside of that. And Grant Williams, who's someone who apparently had rumbles inside their locking room anyway, that they were just looking to move on from. Yeah, PJ Washington, great. He's gonna, him and Gafford especially, just lob threats. Saw it a lot. They played one game against the Thunder, the West leading Thunder at the time. Killed him. Smoked him. Put up 50 in the first quarter. Won by 40 points. Like, that's insane. You just see the versatility and the threat that they put on the paint and take away from Luka. I remember it was, I was watching this game, it was the beginning, it was not the beginning, but it was about like five, six minutes into the first quarter. PJ Washington's first points were a like almost half court lob from Luka. Stuff like that is going to be insane. If you have Luka not even running fully down the court doing that, getting them to the pick and roll and just putting more pressure onto the paint, it's going to help space out the rest of the offense. And like we said, just take some of the scoring and the pressure like that load off of Luka and allow him to, you know, just rest. Like, there was, he's been under fire for not playing defense. Specifically against the Celtics, I saw he was like not even coming back to play defense really. This is something that can help solve that, you know. Someone's like, it's like Harden when he was in his prime in Houston. Not really playing defense but scoring a bunch and you just, that doesn't have to be like that, you know. Obviously, he's Luka, he's going to score 30, 40 points but you don't need him to, you know, create on every possession anymore. So, I did really like that move. I also want to talk about another team out east buying in, the New York Knicks, man. Finally seeming to put together a competitive team. Well, not like, they made the playoffs obviously last year and the year before but were never really a threat. This year, things might be different. Obviously, buying in OG and then trading for Alec Burks and Bojan Bogdanovic, two big, two great bench players from Detroit. Obviously, being from Detroit, you know, ain't nobody was watching them but two great bench players to come off and complete, you know, the Knicks bench as you need depth, especially with Randall out right now and not, Randall and OG out right now. Just some help for Brunson, you know, carry them along and then hopefully, they can put everything into the or put everything together by the time they get to the playoffs healthy. So, I'll go with Braxton here. Do you think the Knicks are a serious contender after making these moves? I think they can be a serious contender. Obviously, I think they'll make playoffs. Yeah. 100%. It's just what they do in playoffs and hopefully, they get Randall back by that time and then it'll be with those two back. I think they can do it because getting those bench guys like, people underestimate how much bench means in the NBA and winning those games. You need bench pieces and you get some of that, you know. You get a guy that knows what he's doing and Bogdanovic, you know, and it's huge. I think they're, I think they are contenders. All right. Same here. I think Alec and Bogdanovic are going to be great. Great defense, I mean, on the bench and everything like that and then when Randall and Jalen are playing and everything like that, I think they'll be a good series playing through the playoffs. Yeah. I, yeah, bench really is so important, especially in this like last, you know, two months or so of the season where people get hurt, people get tired, you got your stars missing games. Like, Jalen Brunson's not going to play every, like, all the 30 games left, you know. When it comes to the playoffs, I don't think it's like as important because you'll play your stars like 40 minutes, you know, anyway. But to just have a set catch-and-shoot score like Bogdan coming off the bench there alongside a good playmaker in Brunson and even Randall for a big is a pretty good playmaker. I think it's going to be great. I do want to note that they traded away Quentin Grimes, their young guard who wasn't really seeing any, like, much play time after, like, kind of beefing with their coach Thibodeau. Don't like that, really, but I like the return they got back for him. It doesn't seem like Grimes was going to pan out in New York. He just kind of needed that change of scenery. So, I guess he's also a winner here. I do think the Knicks are primed for a run if they get everyone back, like one of those sneaky teams. Brunson was nearly an all-star starter this year. Great, great season from him. Really kind of, he had a great year last year too, obviously, but really this year kind of cementing, like, he's the guy, you know. Randall, it's always a mixed bag with Julius Randall. He's either the best player on the court or you're like, how is he playing basketball in the NBA right now? But, so, we'll see what he does in the playoffs, but bringing in OG and Obi earlier, we didn't get the chance to talk about this on the show, love OG. 3 and D. You know what that Knicks team, like, really reminds me of? Last year's Miami Heat, you know, because, you get those acquisitions and it's like, when they get into the playoffs, maybe they'll just turn some up that makes them a whole completely different team, like on fire. Because you know how basketball works. You're hot, you're hot, you know, but when you're cold, you can absolutely be freezing, you know. And maybe they'll have some guy that's like that playoff Jimmy Butler. All right. That's going to be Jalen Brunson for sure. I just really like OG. I feel like every, every championship team needs a player like that. 3 and D, consistent three-pointer, great defender on all levels. You pretty much guard, you can't guard a five, but you can guard a one to a four. Just, he's the glue guy. He's going to, and he has been the glue guy for them since coming in. Just bridging, you know, that kind of gap and giving more support to Randall and Brunson, who are both All-Stars this year. I think I really, I really like that move. And with them filling out their bench, it seems they're kind of, like on paper, they seem good. You've got your leading scorer, a point guard who just kind of does it all. Not really a defender, but he's a hot scorer. And when he's hot, he is hot. You got Randall, can carry the load, drop 30 offensively, plays defense, has pretty good playmaking, like I said, for a big, and then you have OG, can guard the other team's best player in the entire game while averaging, like, 18 points a game. And then you just have Bogdan and Burks to fill out the, you know, fill out the rotation. Also, they've been getting a lot of good play from Myles McBride. They're, I think he's been their sixth man recently. He's just a three-point shooter. Has been great. If a guy like that can get hot in the playoffs, that's, that's a difference maker. That's like one of those random players, like half of the Heat roster last year that turned up and then they're in the finals, you know. Yeah, I, I really like that. We're, we got about a minute here before we go to break. So I just want to acknowledge that the Warriors are six and one in their last seven games after falling off and that Klay Thompson openly has accepted taking a lesser role to stay in Golden State. Somebody asked, Will, if you were Klay, would you have taken a lesser role to stay, stay home? Honestly, yeah, I would have just to regain my confidence. And then when I feel more confident, I'll ask for more playing time and everything. But yeah, I think I would stay home. Yeah, just, I get that. What do you think, Bryson? I think, I think staying home, I think like the main thing with Klay, he just wants another one. You know, like he just wants another one. He's getting older. He doesn't, you know, he doesn't seem like he's close to anywhere he was, used to be. Yeah. And I think he, I think he's making the right move. I really do. I think he's doing the best thing for the team. He's a team guy. Yeah, for sure. I think literally fits like just the mantra of Golden State and hard to see him in any other team's jersey. This is Sports Uncaged, we'll be back after this. You're listening to WCC Radio, Coastal Carolina University student-run radio station. This is Sports Uncaged. I've been your host, Christian Mitchell, joined here by Braxton and Will. We've been talking mostly Super Bowl, hit a little bit on the trade, the NBA trade deadline before. And this is our little wrap-up segment. I'm just gonna, I'm gonna start with Braxton here. What was your favorite move from the trade deadline this week? What can I say? My hornets, man. Getting Trey Mann, and I don't even start, I can't even say his name. It's a lot of things like the veg or something. Oh, yeah, like. Not even gonna try it. Yeah. Phenomenal trade because Gordon Hayward is, was not worth it. Oh my goodness, he was, he didn't even play any games for us. And the fact that we got Trey Mann, a guy that is so young, but has so much potential. And then the veg guy with, he's somewhat bigger, but he has a playmaking ability. And the first game that we come back from after the deadline, it's like a whole different team. Like, like no other. Like we, I've never seen this one team play like that ever. And that's without LaMelo on the court. So I, again, biased. Fully biased. I think Hornets. Quick, quick shout out to Brandon Miller. That boy been hooping. What you got, Will? All right, man. Buddy Hewitt. Yeah. The Secretary of Trade, I really think acquiring Buddy Hewitt and everything, that will help us with our three-pointers so we can believe we're last. And shooting and everything. And then having him as a shooting guard, really help our team. Yeah. I think Buddy Hewitt, obviously he's been like rumored to go to the Sixers at like every trade deadline since I was like a junior in high school. So for it to like, it's like, oh wow, this finally happened. No way. This is more than a rumors post on Instagram. So I, I'm going to say that Buddy Hewitt trade too. I really like Buddy Hewitt. He's had, I believe he's put up 20 in his first two games as a Sixer. It's really just all on a bead, man. I like the core they have around him right now. I went into this year, not a believer. Didn't want to trade Harden. But honestly, the starting five looks good. You have Maxie, Maxie, it would be Maxie Hewitt. I think Oubre at the three. Yeah. Toby at the four. And then obviously Joel when he comes back. Like that's a, that's enough. That is ample help for the Wellerbees. The way Maxie's been playing this year. The shooting and spacing that Buddy Hewitt brings. And also just the scoring of Kelly Oubre too. Kelly Oubre. Underrated. Yeah. In my mind, he's like the perfect role player because he can, you know, give you like 10 if in limited minutes, or if you give him play as a starter, he'll drop 20 plus. He averaged 20 plus on the Hornets game last year. You know, Hooper. Hooper. He is a Hooper. It's just, it's just every year, when is NB going to be healthy? No, 100%. Also, we finally have the right coach. We don't have to deal with no more dog grabbers and everything. Now we have Nick Nurse, a coach who's competent. I'll use those players coming off on the bench. Yeah, no, I love Nick Nurse. Nick Nurse has done great things. The team chemistry in the locker rooms and stuff that they'd be posting looks insane. And he seems to be a center of it. Especially after so many like bad things would have happened in that locker room. And I want to thank y'all for listening. This has been Sports Uncaged.