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Girl. Good morning, everybody. My name is Bart Winkler. It is the Bart Winkler Show. We have a Friday show for you.
This is a big show. We are leading into a weekend. In which the Badgers of Ohio State. Going to be a good one, maybe. We are leading into a weekend in which the Packers have the Vikings.
My guy, Ryan Horvat, says in blood he guarantees a Packers win. I am with him. And the bulk of this show is Celebrating a Bucs win over the Philadelphia 76ers as they beat them 118. To one Seventeen a late um three-point shot put in by Philly. Just for shits and giggles.
So the Bucs only win. By a point. Um this is gonna be uh They got a, you know, obviously it's the first night, and they need some time to, you know, gel and figure it out, but. Already at this point in the season, I did not expect. To be standing right in front of my T V.
Um It wasn't a playoff game. by any means. I just don't feel like. We can't be losing these games. We can't be.
And the Sixers played very well. And if you're a Sixers fan, I'd feel very encouraged about what you saw. You got the whole Harden thing. You got kicked off the tarmac, wasn't able to. To join the team, uh, maybe they work him back, maybe they don't, maybe they try to trade him.
I don't know, but that Sixers team was very competitive. and could have very easily won that game. And most likely does. If If Damian Lillard is not a buck. I mean, Damian Lillard being a buck.
Uh, won this game. They do not win this game last year. They do not win this game with Drew Holiday, I hate to say. They needed every bit of Damian Lillard's. What was it?
39 points? Most by a buck ever in his debut. 17 of 17 at the line. That was so crucial in this one. Couldn't have afforded to miss one of those 17.
Four of 12 from three, but a big one late. Nine of 20 overall. Giannis, 20. 23 and 13. He did have seven turnovers and he was three of nine from the line.
So there is a little bit of like. I don't know that Giannis lived up to his end of the bargain today. There was some nice, like, hey, you know, rebound, get the dame, and pick and roll early and stuff like that. Uh Giannis, too many threes. I just I think it's gonna take a while for Jan is to realize.
what is happening here. You got Drew now. At the beginning of the game, before the game, Kenny Smith was on TNT saying the wall is dead. You cannot put up a wall against Giannis anymore. And Nigner still did it a little bit.
And Giannis was still battling through it, and he did sometimes. But it's not, as Kenny Smith said on TNT, it's not just Middleton out there. or Middleton and Brook. It's Middleton and Brook and Dame. You've got to realize Damian Lillard.
Is on this team, and I think he realizes it certainly. I mean, you look at what Dame did tonight. But Giannis still has to get acclimated with playing. With Damian Lillard. I think it will be much easier for Dame.
To acclimate the playing with Giannis. Then vice versa. Charles Barkley at halftime was saying if he doesn't have the ball, he's not running around.
So He can do a little more of that, perhaps. Tom. Bucks in six. Jake, I can finally unclench. Adam, MVP chance in the 414, but for whom?
Eric, I am hard. Dan, Damian Lillard's number will be in the rafters when all is said and done in Fiserve. Incredible. Noah, horsed god. Dan, Drew was never that clutch.
Paul, should we trade Giannis to surround Dame with better players? KJ, Dame is him. Jerry, Giannis will need to concentrate at what he's good at now. He doesn't need to carry the load. He'll figure it out.
So that is a good way to put it. Giannis, again, has been playing a certain way with a certain team for so long, and he'll just need to get a little more acclimated today. Bucks win over the Sixers. Alex says he's groined up. As am I, as I can imagine.
Q is growing up as well tonight. How are you, buddy? I am just on Cloud9. Or cloud cloud zero with Dame. Like this is un Believable.
I don't know. I'm a little on cloud, like three. I sweat a result too much that game. I was running like a 12-0 run, dude. What the fuck?
And I mean, we were up 19 points in the first half, but like. Yeah. That It was like the The third Third or fourth last possession where Giannis, you could see Giannis like. Going into bowl mode where he was about to charge in the lane and he was like, Wait, Don Lillard, Damian Lillard is on my team. I must pass him the ball.
And then he like. Gives it to Dame. Dame goes down. Janice Adetta Kumbo, not Yanis Adetta Shevsky. Whatever.
I'm just, I'm like almost speechless. It's just. It's unbelievable. What a luxury to have Damian Lillard on your team.
So, Giannis has five fouls. He sucks at free throws. He was just going to barrel into the lane, and Dame gets the ball, drives in, creates his own shot, gets fouled, and he's 17 for 17 from the free throw line today. Like and he needed every one of them Every one of 'em. But what what's so encouraging is like You could see.
Janice thinking instead of like just going into bull rush mode And I think, like, over the next month, two, three months, like, he's really going to get what his new role is on this team. And, like, I would hope that. Come this spring, he's getting triple doubles like every other week. And like, if that's what he's doing and he's facilitating because Chris Middleton's back and Brooke Lopez is getting quality minutes, like, I don't know, there's just so, so many good things. And the other amazing thing.
Adrian Griffin made a defensive adjustment. That changed the course of the zone. Yeah, he switched his own. He wasn't a block from behind. Great block.
He wasn't a stubborn SOB. That just does the same thing on repeat just to because that's either all he knows how to do, or that's he just believes it, that that's the only thing that works. Like it's amazing to have a defensive-minded coach. that can make adjustments. And I was questioning Adrian Griffin at that point, and he came out and just like blocked my questioning.
I like when they showed Adrian Griffin in the huddle with sound and he was coaching instead of. instead of yelling two-syllable basketball action words. I passion. Action, movement.
Okay, bud. I I just It's on Freaking believable. You know, if you were at the game too, or if you were watching this game, it's a great, like, you got a big lead, you got to celebrate and party a little bit. Um and then and then you got to see a comeback and then you you kind of got to see like Like it's when Lionel Messi came over to the MLS. You want to see Messi in big moments hit big shots.
And that's what he was doing. And Dame, it's like, yeah, we wanna see the Bucs win by 25, but if you're gonna tell me it's gonna be a close game and then Dame, Dame makes a clutch three at the end. I want to see that. I want to be witness to that. And we were, and everyone there was.
I thought the crowd sounded good on TV at least. Love to shit on the crowd.
So let me give them their accolades. It was not just a one crowd thing that I noticed. Sparse at the beginning of the half. That's not their fault. That is Pfizer form is too tight of a building.
I really it's a it's a suffocating building. I still Remember when they put the soda cups and they were like, So tiny. And then I still think this is just for my media friends that the media room, they totally forgot to put a press room and converted a A box into a makeshift press room because it's really thrown together and you have to be like 120 pounds to get through anywhere. If you have any bit of a gut, you're stuck. But yeah, great night.
Bucks have what, the Hawks on Sunday? And then heat on Monday. And heat on Monday. I do plan to go live after both. Sunday might be a double night.
We'll do Packers. And then maybe some bucks. We'll see, it's Adrian Griffin against his kid. That's on the team. What did so There were a lot of different rotations out there.
Like, what are your takes on Griff's first night with like this group of players. Like, were there any lineups that you liked that were kind of out there or unexpected? Yeah, I'll answer that. I'll bring in Austin here too. Austin.
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So, at first, um, I played a DraftKings lineup, I did very bad. I put Middleton as my captain. I thought maybe he'd explode. He only had six. But a big three early.
And he only played 16 minutes.
So they must be working him back. I was noticing, and I was trying to keep track, and I'm sure someone else did better when Giannis was in, when Dame was in. Giannis and Dame were in for the first five minutes. Then they didn't play together in the first, in the rest of the first quarter. I think it was the end of the third where they were finally both out at the same time and expect that to continue.
Marjon, I didn't know if he was even going to get in. He came in really great playing and bead. Cameron Payne played a little bit. And it wasn't big minutes because Lillard played 37. But I think that signing goes a little under the radar.
It is very nice to have a backup capable point guard shot with 28 seconds that was never going to make. The bucket, notwithstanding. I do like that. Conneton, you can't kill him, he'll always get his 20. Hortis Needs to make his free throws.
Uh, Crowder, Jay Crowder, possibly his best game is a buck. And I thought Malik Beasley and Lopez, I thought everybody played well. The rotations we will, you know, we'll look at, we'll get, but. Um, I thought everybody played pretty well. Austin, I brought you in, I'll go to you.
Hey, man. Just Beautiful way to start the season. Uh I didn't want to Come in here flying with any hot takes. I know my man Jake here. He's got a few.
I'm sure he does. And glad to hop on with Q2. Man, it was just so great to watch Dame come out and put out a performance like that after.
Okay. All of our All the media rhetoric that Somehow. Like Dame versus Drew. No, they don't win. They lose by eight, nine.
With last year's team. Probably. Drew, I mean, did Drew ever score 39 here? Honestly, did he? It's not a competition.
Like it's not. Oh, we're winning. No, it's not, but it's a different team. And this, you see why they thought, hey, even with the team that won the title. We need to improve.
Andrew was the casualty of that. And Damian Lillard looks really great. And it is still very weird, like at halftime when they show. The teammate, you know, it's it's weird. It's really still weird.
It's weird that he is Damian Lillard's buck. That is weird. It's still weird. Did I mention that it's weird? It's pretty unbelievable, but it's awesome.
And I think it's probably hard for a lot of people to believe it happening in Milwaukee, but it is happening. And take fucking note because it is happening. Uh Jake. Hey, first, let me address the Winklerverse. Austin, you look like you got your groove back, buddy.
You got the specs going, you got the martini. I'm happy for you. I was a little bit worried there.
So Good to have you back. Before I get to the game, I also wanted to say that. Earlier this week, there was a nice segment where Bart and Tim were just riffing, and it's just lovely. I just wanted to say that. I think that's my favorite.
Winkler time is when it's just the two of you boys being boys. Anyways, um Real quick, Giannis is the Wisconsin sports go, and I wanted to address that, not that let that slip through the weeds. It's not even close at this point. Um, because when you get to my age, it's more than just like winning and accomplishments, but character matters, and the type of person you are matters.
So, um Yeah, that's a no-brainer.
Now, this game, let's get the negatives out of the way. First things first, especially early on, there was some preseason energy going on, and it was just with little things like not really securing the rebound with intensity, you know, just kind of looking like they're going through the motions. There was a lot of miscommunications defensively. Naturally, new coach, new scheme, they'll get that ironed out. But the biggest thing was that, as far as from a negative perspective, I think Giannis is going through a little bit of an identity crisis, and he's not quite sure how to handle this dame time thing yet.
Now, Dame just doing his damn thing, going perfect on the free throw. You brand it that way? I get what you're saying. I don't know if I want to brand it that way.
Well, whatever, however, you want to brand it. I'm not saying that. He's just got a level of help. That he is never expected to have. Correct.
He's adjusting, and there were still a lot of things like. Bro, you don't need to shoot the threes anymore. Like, literally, I don't care if you shoot another three this season. I don't need to see it. I don't need to see you doing turnaround jumpers.
It doesn't matter if you have a bag or if you don't have a bag. I don't give a fuck about bag Twitter. You shouldn't either. You've got Damian Lillard now. Play to your strengths.
Be honest. If you are going to be the ultimate number two, because Dame is at his best when he's number one. You should be all for it because that's what's going to bring a title here.
So those were the negatives. The positives, obviously, it's dame time. The free throw line thing is just the most amazing thing to me because you take away, hey, he was, I think, 16 for 16. This team was like 8 for 19 from the line. Just, that's not going to get it done.
So, hopefully, that brings everybody up. I like that you mentioned Crowder. This is the hot take for the day. Jay Crowder now is better than P.J. Tucker ever was for the Bucs.
PJ Tucker is maybe the most overrated Buck of all time. He had a catchphrase and he got burned every time he played and he sucked offensively. But he said we dog, so we love him for it. That's my hot take for the day. All right, I'm going to go six wide.
I got Drew here. who I have not Drew, great to have you, man. Hey, what's up? You can hear me. I hear you good.
And I got Matt in the falls also. as we go six wide. And I think everybody has some sort of Bucks paraphernalia on. Hat or shirt, one way or the other. Kudos to us.
Drew, what are you wearing? You got a jersey shirt? Dame time. Dame, baby. I got my time.
You got a hat, hat, jersey, dame time.
Alright, Drew, what's up? Hey, yeah, I'm finally able to get on one of these. My kid's sleeping, my wife's sleeping, just watched that amazing Bucks game. Um, they lose that game last year, I think. A couple people already mentioned that.
Um, Drew Holiday did score 40 points in the game in that OT win against the Boston Scrubs last year. But he's not scoring 13 points in under three minutes like Dame did tonight. It just electrified the crowd. I thought it was a really strong performance by Griff for coach. Love the challenges.
Love seeing him call timeouts after a mini run and when it's not a 20 to nothing run. I think that was really important. Shout out to the rest for staying consistent with that overturn on the bead flop at the end. If they're not going to call that charge on or that block on Tucker, you can't call that foul. On Brooke on Embiid at the end.
So that was a really big play. Really hard to complain about anything. It's game one of 82. They're learning the new roles on offense. Just an electric performance by Dame, though.
Everything, man, I'd give Portland like 20 more second-round picks for Dame Lillard. Like, they can have all our picks. Like, we robbed them. Second round picks for perpetuity. Just take them forever.
Yeah, exactly. Like, we robbed New Orleans for Drew Holiday. We robbed Portland and Phoenix for, I mean, I'm just glad to have to watch Grayson Allen play tonight. Like, honestly, that's probably my favorite highlight of the game. I have to watch Grayson Allen run around and do cardio for 40 minutes.
Well, he's a big reason that we lost the trade, according to other people. Two starters. Austin, are you drinking a martini? Yeah, baby. Look, it's you.
What's up? What's up? We're feeling good again, huh? Uh Matt. Your thoughts.
Um I'm Yeah. We're kind of conflicted. Conflicted, why? Um, I mean, it was amazing. Damian Lillard was amazing.
He was, he was Damian Lillard, you know. Jake's got his arms in the air about you. Who? Jake? Yeah.
Yeah. Jake just said a bunch of ridiculous things. What are you conflicted about? Yeah, elaborate on what you're conflicted about. That, like, is it that Dame's the best player ever, Giannis?
Like, that's the only thing. No, it's just if it. Like it felt like at the it felt like Damian Lillard Felt like you gotta Took over, and like I was watching Giannis on one of the last possessions where Lillard missed a shot. And I could just tell Giannis wanted the ball and he was like. Come on, man.
Too bad. Like, no, just let me talk. I never get to talk. I just have to talk. Oh, no, I mean, too bad for Giannis.
No, I'm not. I don't even, I don't care who you're talking on. I'm just saying, as I interject, to give it back to you, as we're conversing. I think Giannis, like. Too bad.
Part of the reason wasn't just because Drew wasn't clutch with his shooting, that we needed Dame. It's because he wasn't either. He's chucking up these threes still today. Giannis, we got We we got what you need.
Okay, right.
So as I was saying before I was really interrupted, as I always am. Um It was great that we won, and it was, you know, Lillard made every free throw, and he was great. But those times when he does that and takes over and We lose. She'd be like, hey, buddy. You got Giannis here.
And he hasn't touched the ball in three minutes because you're taking the last 12 shots. And I know you're because he's good. That's why we have him. We don't have him to take the last 12 shots of everyone. Actually, we do.
No, we don't. We do though. Wait a second. Wait a sec, man. You didn't watch the same finals?
This is Dame's team now. No, what? No, what? It is offensive. Wait a sec, though, Matt.
What shot do you want who taking? That's all Matt. I want John going to the hole and getting an easy bucket and getting fucked every single time. No, no. No, they're down three.
You know three point three Giannis going to the lane. This isn't a hypothetical. We weren't down three. I'm just saying, you know. Giannis is taking every shot.
I don't want Dame taking every shot. This was like. It was like Giannis wasn't even on the floor. He's got the fourth-quarter answer because all they have to do is follow him, and he shoots less than 50% at free throws. And he's already in foul trouble.
Like, it's going to take some getting used to for us. For the team. I refuse. But Giannis is now the defensive captain. And name is the offensive captain and unacceptable.
It's gonna be okay. Oh, it's not. Yes, it is. Man, buddy, it's not your loyalty to Giannis, but like, this is Dame's offense. Go back and watch that possession where Dame's just dribbling, and Giannis is standing there.
He comes up. Because he had been down at the hoop for a while, and he came up and was like just hanging out there staring at him. Just ready. He was so ready for that ball. He was like, Come on, man.
I want some too. Come on. Giannis missed more free throws than Dame missed three pointers tonight. I haven't looked at the box score, but I'm pretty sure that's an accurate statistic. And, like, can we just say that when Philly made their run, it was Dame missed eight three-pointers, Giannis missed six.
Free throws. It should not be that close. And we don't know. And the game also got fouled on three. Three throws or three pointers.
All right, I want Jake. Jake, you go, and then I want to hear from Drew. Sure. Did anybody, like, it was the most obvious thing in the world that Giannis was having one of those spazoid Giannis games? And then he had to like take a little time out.
And I don't know if Thanosis had to be like, dude, chill, we got dame, man. Because after that, everything balanced out. Giannis stopped taking bad jumpers and they started to play off of each other.
So I really think it was like Giannis was just going into old habits of like, I have to do this shit all myself. And then it was like, oh, yeah, that's right. We got like one of the best players of all time.
So I don't have to do this all the time. And Dame probably recognized, all right, Giannis doesn't have it right now.
Now it's my time. Like, and that's going to develop more and more as this season goes on, but. Come on, Matt. Come on now. No.
Yeah, it's game one. It's um It's gonna be clunky. I know it's only one game. No, no, I'm not, I'm not criticizing it. Hey, do you want you let him talk now?
It's I don't think it really matters like whose team it is. I don't think Giannis really views it that way. I don't think Dame views it that way. I think by January, this offense is going to be consistently putting up 120, 130 a game. And this is going to take a couple weeks, a couple months.
Dame will know where Giannis is when he's open and wants to ball, and vice versa. I mean. Again, this is a game they lose last year without Dane Willard. And there's going to be games that Giannis wins for the Bucs, as he's done hundreds of times already. Um I like It's hard to read too much in the game one.
And also, we gotta remember, like. Giannis struggles against Nick Nurse defenses. Let's just be honest with that. Like, he struggles, and Nick Nurse knows how to coach again, but this time. Giannis has shooters.
He has Dan. He had Jay Carter hitting big shots. You know, it's way different. And that's why I think it's going to work out. I mean, it is going to work out.
There's no I thinking. Like, this team's going to steamroll to. You know, 55 wins at least. I mean, Jane, just like January rolls around after after the Christmas, after Christmas. They're going to be a fine-tuned offensive machine, and there's not a defense that's going to be able to stop it.
I mean, we just got to be patient, and it's hard to do because I'm not patient. I was texting my friend. All night saying, yeah, this looks like dog shit. And I don't need him to shoot three pointers 20 seconds into the jump into the shot clock. But he made clutch plays at the end, Damon clutch plays at the end, and it's going to be a great relationship.
It's really thrilling. It was probably one of the better Bucks games of the last couple of years, probably since game six. Hell yeah. We need more reason, man. I'm liking comments here.
414 Badger wants Q2. to do the accent again. Mm-hmm. Do Giannis's accent again at the end of the day. We lost Q and Q disappeared right when that was going to happen.
Uh he also asked if I'm going to smack down a Monaro. As a matter of fact, I am not.
Well I will be on CBS Sports Radio tomorrow. Priorities, man. I'm gonna miss the contract signing. I know, I'm really a bum, but I need the cash. Coffee for Favre says: Is there a coach in the NBA who could beat up Adrian Griffin?
That's a great question. Jason Kidd has a history of beating up people. I don't know if it's other NBA coaches, but. Q, you got the accent ready? What accent do you speak of?
That was a good. Hey, I had a point about three-point shooting, also. I figured this out. The Bucs three-point shooting, both offensively and defensively, is to the like what the Packers' running game is, where. When we are on offense, we make it look so hard.
And then the opposing team makes it look so easy. Like Packers running game, Bucks three-point shooting. It's like perfect yin and yang. Ooh, Zach in the Falls donates $9.99 to the show. Says I hate the fucking Sixers Bucks emoji, fire emoji, LFG dame times.
I am going to buy a new microphone.
So I'll put that $9.99 towards the microphone. I would I'd also point out, like, Middleton only played 16 minutes. Offense has even hit its final form yet. That's going to be awesome when Middleton's in there too. And if you're a Sixers fan, Kelly Ubre Jr.
and Tobias Harris combine eight for nine from three-point shooting. That's like once in like 100 years that happens that they still lost. Like, that's insane.
Well, but I'm talking from like a Sixers standpoint. Like, you watch the Sixers game, those two guys aren't usually combining eight for nine from three because they suck. And of course, they hit against the Bucks, and they overcame that. And it was just. Everything that bit the bucks in the ass last year was like.
not happening tonight and that was really exciting to see. I would give. The Sixers some credit here. I mean, they're missing hard in, and I give them a little more queue. I'll get back to you here, but I.
I've been shitting on them, saying they need to trade in B, and I still think they should because the Celtics, you're not getting past them.
So. Start over, but they looked a lot better than I thought they would, Q. Maxi and then is their fourth or fifth option instead of being like the second or third option.
Someday he will be a buck.
Someday, I was hoping he'd be a buck this year. I like him a lot. I kind of disagree with you, Drew. Like, I think he's going to hit some big threes for them, especially with Harden out. But I give them credit for keeping up with us and like.
Nick Nurse is a good coach if he can squeeze as much juice as he can out of that roster. And who knows who they're going to get for Harden? Like, they could be the third best team in the East again. The last thing I'll say is, I think Dame. And Giannis could be the next Kobe Shaq.
And it might take a month for Giannis to figure it out. But this offense is going to be unbelievable. And I just hope the health bug doesn't bite us because that seems to me to be the only thing that can stop us. Bring on the Celtics, baby. Q, thanks, buddy.
See you guys. Dan throws in $4.99 to the Mike fund. Oh, that's so kind, Dan. Thanks for your comments tonight. Worried about the Celtics.
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Okay. This is for Matt, I think. $4.99 to Matt. Blazers fan here. What is dude on?
Dame is the number one closer in the league. You prefer Giannis being fouled in those clutch situations and brick free throws? Guy paid five dollars to give make that comment happen. I prefer he smashed dunks in people's faces instead of 30-foot shots. Yes.
Yeah, but then he gets fouled and then he bricks free throws. If he makes that dunk, who cares?
Well then we lose. We can't be sacrificing free It's called a free throw. We can't be sacrificed. Did you like the dame trade? What is this?
Yes. I'm just, no, I loved it. Very happy. Very happy. I'm just saying.
This is exactly what they traded him for. I know, I know, but I was just watching the end, and there was something that just didn't feel right inside me. And that's all that's why I'm confused.
Okay, so if you're used to watching Giannis for many years. I mean, maybe you have to adjust, because Giannis has to adjust. Yeah, if this is what we get in the Eastern Conference finals. We will lose to Boston. I think Matt has a little bit of Stockholm syndrome.
With horrible box play in clutch situations or point guard play in situations.
So, like, You know, or beaten wife syndrome. I just love Yannis. Yeah, it's okay. It's all right. I get it.
It's so sincere. I get it. It's probably, it's probably like when. Uh, Diane left cheers and Rebecca took over. And Matt, you know, people were big Diane fans, and now Ted's all flirty with Rebecca.
And, you know, what do you do? And just remember this, Matt. You love Giannis, but you know what Giannis loves more than getting the ball at the end of games? Is winning. Having babies?
Yeah. I mean, think of when KD was on the Warriors. He won finals MVP. He made some big shots at the end, but everyone remembers those Warriors teams as Steph's Warriors. That'll be the same thing with the Bucs from the title two.
Still Yas's Bucks, but he has name now. Tavern, Wisconsin says, Anyone else love how Van Gundy kept calling out players on both teams for crying about obvious fouls? The Van Gundy brothers. When they're on a broadcast, they're never there to just comment on the game. They always have some agenda they want to push, and you either.
Like it, and maybe you don't. He also says, Matt, Giannis had multiple turnovers and bricks in the final six minutes. He wasn't feeling it, and Dame was. It happens. Fine.
Jerry says, I don't know. Jerry says, I'm not sure why Matt does always get cut off. But it does make me laugh. I love you, Jerry. Uh cone roller.
What's that a great man? How you guys doing?
Now, this is the real cone and not the fake Tim Shea cone. Cone. That's right. That's right. What's up, Coke Cohen?
You got World Theories coming to your neighborhood. It's insane actually down here. I went to game five. It was the last game at home that they ended up losing, but still, electric crowd for the Diamondbacks. You know, I went to a couple of regular season games.
The crowd wasn't in it, but during the playoffs, they buttoned it up. I like it. Who's making a phone call? That's my wife. No it was Jake.
She's leaving. He said socket. We got a lot of anti-mats here. By far, Matt's worst take ever. Hot take Matt.
Boo. Worst take of the night. Is Matt Brain dead? Bart, hold up. I have never liked Matt in the Falls more than I do now.
I think he's been hilarious the last couple of weeks. Matt, credit to you. Thank you. It's like on a sitcom, it takes the characters a while to kind of find their footing. Like, Matt's getting into his zone right now.
It takes a while for most people to get used to me.
So that's this. It's been about a year. That's pretty much right on time. We're right on schedule. No, the weird thing was meeting all you guys in person, like, I didn't feel weird at all.
Bart said it was going to be weird, but like, I just felt weird because everyone was really tall, just like me. It was like, oh, I'm not the tall guy because Jake's like 6'4, Grant's like 6'4. Austin's not short. I'm 5'10 and 3 quarters. Yeah, well, we all know your dimensions because somehow the tailgate wasn't weird, which Bart, you lucked out on that one.
I know. Because I guarantee Sunburn Bowl is fucking weird as hell. And my tailgate don't cost five grand to get to. No shit, and I don't have to take a plane to some remote location in Mexico. Big Ron, did you guys hear that one time Big Ron went to the Sunburn Bowl?
Oh, yeah. Good for him. He infiltrated. Yeah. He said he had a fucking blast.
I believe it's a great time. Speaking of, when is the Bucks tailgate happening, man? We're running out of nice weather here.
Well, the problem with that is we were able to get dirt cheap tickets for the brewers. Game. I'm trying to go to a couple bucks games in the next month here, and I didn't spend anything under $100. Honestly, I'd be down to go watch the game at the Deer District with you, freaking weirdos. Ooh, Deer District, good call, good call, good call, good call.
I'll book a table at Punchbowl. I'm there. It just closed, you loser. Ah, fuck. Did it really?
Yeah. Oh, that blows. Can we tailgate somewhere outside of Milwaukee and then drive in for the game and then watch the deer district? I mean, that's good. I can't.
Hey, I'm going to bring it. We're going to go seven wide, guys. We're going seven wide. Hell yeah. Uh Justin in North Carolina.
Who's been a longtime listener? And we randomly ran into him. At the Hall of Fame. In Canton. As Gary and I were getting in our cars like blocks away.
Just there's Justice. And here he is, Justice. Justice. What's up guys? What's that?
What's that? What did you think about tonight? We got an echo. Close out something. Oh yeah, you're echo.
You're echo. Do you have YouTube open? Yeah, hold on, I'm closing out everything. It's better now. I think so.
Nope. You gotta close out of YouTube. I gotta say, I agree with Drew. What he was saying, this is a game the Bucs lose last year. And how many, just how many tabs did he have open?
He had so many open, and then he just left. He'll be back, but it's like my mom's browser. She's never closed a tab ever in the history of her computer. Justin's got his GeoCities page up there, he's working on. Fucking angels.
Cohen, you said you agreed with Drew? Yeah, I think that's a game they definitely lose last year. It kind of reminded me a little bit about the playoff games from last year, where Giannis kind of struggled a little bit. It felt like he maybe was forcing it a little bit. Struggled from the line, but this year's different because we got Dame and Dame calls it out.
And that's what Dame does, and it's fun. That was a great opening game, I thought. Kinda felt a little bit like a playoff game. Great way to welcome Dame. Great way to start the season.
Entertaining.
Well, I was standing up in front of the TV, and I got to be honest, if they had lost that game. Yeah. There's not like they're not going to win 82 and they're not going to go undefeated. But there are games that. Like they need to, they can't don't.
Just don't lose. Every game counts. Justin's back, I think. Justin. Yeah, it's better now, no echoes.
No. Nobody else talking, just let him go. Yeah, Justin, you give your take. Can you guys go ahead now? We can hear you just fine.
We hear you, but the echo is going to persist.
So you just talk, and then we're going to have to say bye. I think I might know what it is. Hold on. What about now? Better?
Yeah, what the fuck? What was it? Yeah. Don't close out if you can't. Oh, if you hear us again, that's it.
Hold on one second. We got you. Tony in Texas is also here. Good to see you, Boctobox. Thank you.
All right. All right, Justin. You hear me now? Yes. Alright, better.
My bad.
So, it's gone. We can't see you. I'm gonna need to make another martini for this. Ladies and gentlemen, Justin from North Carolina. All right, talk to it.
So I thought tonight was great. I still think we need some work on things. Obviously, like a lot of you said, game one. I was really excited at the mismanagement of his team by Nick Nurse. All that shit with him playing the stars longer than he played our stars.
And I think that costed him in the end because Embiid clearly ran out of gas. But this team is good. And the thing, no, this team isn't good. This team is great. And I think they're going to find a lot of different ways to win basketball games, which is huge to me.
Dame is. Everything he could have been. times 10. And I'm just excited, man. I can't wait.
I'm going to the game November 17th in Charlotte, turn around and go November 20th in DC. Like, this is a team that I want to put my eyes on as much as possible this year. Yeah, we get that road flavor. Haven't you been on TV before doing that? Yeah, they they tend to find you, especially like.
And Charlotte, because our colors stick out so much well, so much in comparison to that ugly teal and purple. But I mean Man, this is just it's just great, man. That I Do you have Buck socks on right now? Yeah. You do.
Okay, see him. Rub it. I don't know. It's COVID toe all over again. Yeah, there we go.
Fuck socks. It's because when I saw Justin in Ohio, he was headed to Bill Packers. Everything lost. Yeah. Tony, any thoughts for you?
Yeah, I mean, put your foot down. Damian Lillard was better than advertised. And I love Matt from the Falls. Is Matt still here? Do you have a screen?
I'm confused.
Okay, Matt. Professional reset. We have Austin, hot take, Jake, Drew, Matt in the Pauls. Cone roller, Justin in North Carolina. And then, uh, you, Tony, open this up.
Let's get a 12 box. Matt, hey, it is Damian Lillard's team now.
So It might pain you to like when Magic came to the Lakers, Kareem had to take a back seat. This is how you can do it. Yeah, I know, but it's the other way around. I've been talking for about a year or so that Giannis, I know other people have to. Giannis is not a skilled basketball player.
He gets by in effort, energy, his extreme athleticism, his hard work. He does things in the basketball court that no one else has ever done. But him shooting three-pointers, him shooting mid-range. is not what's gonna get it done in the playoffs. And we've seen that too many times year after year.
Damian Lillard brings another level to this team. But my question to you guys is: who is the third wheel on this team? If Chris Middleton's not 100%, Who is that third wheel? Doesn't matter. Game one.
It does matter. It does. It'll be Chris Middleton when he's healthy. I think if Tyrese Maxie's on his team right now, he's the third best player. One more.
shit maxi's good as I agree.
Well, but Middleton, so Middleton played. Did he not play? When was the last time he checked out? Because he only played 16 minutes. Yeah, he's obviously on a pitch count, but my point is.
I think Chris Middleton's still a good player, but he's obviously not the same player. He did not play in the fourth. He might not ever be the same player. He's actually younger than Damian Lillard. Hashtag people forget.
I don't think that's fair. Middleton Did not play, I'm just he did not play the last 20 minutes of the game.
So he only played 16 minutes. I also want to give credit to. Let me give credit to Malik Beasley, who I thought played very well, especially in the beginning. Uh, even though he did try to block. Brooke Lopez.
Hey, and shout out Jay Crowder. I know you hate him, but he played really well today. I thought.
Well, I hated 2022-23 Jay Crowder. This is a new Jay Crowder. This cannot be the same man. I like this Jay Crowder, yes. Yeah.
Well, he looked good. I thought Lopez looked good. You know, I get on Yas a little bit. I just wanted to play smarter, play better basketball, be smart. You gotta pump the brakes.
Pump the brakes. Cone, you can't dribble around for five or six seconds and And then have three guys collapse on you, then go to the rim. It's just stupid. Move the ball around. How many assists did Damian Lillard have today?
What I'm impressed with this guy is his passing. He gets that ball out quick. He zips that ball, man. He finds the open player. He creates spacing.
Yannis is drawing All this, these guys towards him, and I was having flashbacks to 2019 with the Raptors series, Nick Nurse. I'm like, what is Giannis doing? There's just some stretches there. It's just mind-boggling with me. I don't understand.
It's game one. They're going to learn each other. They're going to learn all their teams. What did you see today, though, Jake? What did you see today?
Am I wrong what you saw today, what I am saying? I am right what I am saying today. He had a rough game, you're right. But it's game one. Acknowledge that.
That's all I want to know. Acknowledge that. I don't think anybody said he had a good game. Yeah. That's the history.
Physically, I mean, you look at it, it's fine, but yeah, he struggled in this game, and I think it was very telling when they took him out. Dame went on a run. What did Frank Bannon tweet out? He was a negative eighteen, I think, in the first half. Giannis is not, but this has always been the case.
He's not the offense. He can't be the offense.
Now, transition and getting down and then kicking out and all the like Giannis has a huge. Part of the offense. Why is he bringing the ball down to court? more than half the times then, Bart, if he's not the offense.
Well, he's got to get used to Dame is here now. It's gonna take time. Like I said, I think Giannis is. We've never had a point guard like Dame. Oscar Robertson.
Bled so Giannis has never had a point guard like Dame. That's enormous. That was that was not cone. But who said Bledso? Oh, bled sew.
What I said, blood sew. I guess that was the good one.
Sorry. Has anybody got anything burning off their chest? Otherwise, I got some comments we can react to. Yeah, yeah. I just wanted to say one thing and then I'll take off.
I think there's going to be a lot of games early. Where we're going to see a big free throw disparity. Griffin did say that he wanted to be like the most aggressive on-ball team in the league.
So I call it the Legion of Boom effect, where you basically commit a penalty on every play, and eventually the rest can't call you for everything, and you'll start getting away with it.
So you'll build up a reputation. You'll probably see early on the Bucks are going to get called for a lot of fouls on the ball, and eventually they're just going to start getting away with being physical. At least that's what I hope happens. Adrian Griffin, I think, won a big night for him. I think he had a really good night.
Uh, even just seeing him for 10 seconds coaching. I thought that defensive adjustments was great. I think that he didn't get the moment wasn't too big for him. He is a first-time coach, but he's been waiting 25 years for this. I think he had a nice night.
And I think there's a lot of people that, if you're going to look at coaching and say, ah, first year coach. He's a first-year coach technically. But he's been ready for this for a long time. And he gets to go against his buddy, Nick Nurse, and beat him. But I don't think a lot of guys, the way the Bucs were played tonight, Nick Nurse.
People will not do the wall all season. But Nick Nurse will never not do the wall. he will be the last one to do the wall so yannis will have better games I think To go against Nick Nurse first. You were going to get this kind of game from Giannis, and that's why it's so pivotal that we had. Dame.
So, Matt, I think you will get more Giannis fourth quarter excitement. But tonight was not going to be that night. It's fine. It's fun. Sharing some thoughts and feelings.
Oh, that's good. Yeah, feelings. Shane says: why does every Giannis free throw? Why does it look as bad as ever? It does.
We need Chuck. We need Chuck to give him lessons. Chuck's always offered Chuck Freeman for years to give him one two-hour lesson. It's not going to take too much of anybody's time. Yeah.
It is annoying watching him shoot free throws, given that he's done the same stupid ass routine for years now and he's never gotten better, yet he still does the same thing. He shot a couple of that were very, very flat too. Eric says it's nice to have a closer who can hit free throws in clinch time, clinch time, crunch time. Clinch time? Clinch time.
Clinch time. That was a dumb challenge at the end by Nurse. That's from It's Rocket Sauce. Uh Matt says Sixers aren't getting shit for Hardin. They are.
No. No. What do you think they'll get? No, I mean the clip third and a fifth. I mean, the Clippers won't even give up Terrence Mann for him.
He's a 27-year-old backup point guard who averages eight points a game. Like, if the Clippers won't give up that for Harden, like, They just have to write it out. Second round picks. The Bucks will put them second round picks. Yeah, bad contracts and middling players.
That's. Would you even entertain the idea of him? Nope, nope, nope. Neither would I. What about Tyree?
So, like. Wait, what are we shaking our heads about?
Well, you hurt the bucks to try to trade for James Harden, and that would probably be a $50 million contract and would probably cost the owners $300 million in luxury. No one would so what team would honestly want this guy? The team would implode. I'll put it this way. Not only would I not want to trade for James Harden, if another team traded for James Harden, waived him, and we had the ability to sign him for the minimum, I would not want him on my team.
Right.
So what what Business does this guy have throwing his weight around in the league at this point? It's delusion. I think he'll be a clipper. I think Maury is going to realize he's not going to get any value back. They'll ship him off for a couple picks.
Um, some random scrub off the Clippers bench, something to make the contracts match. They're not gonna get much for him, but he won't, he won't be a sixer probably beyond next after November. He'll be but, but why would the Clippers, even at that point, entertain like, oh, yeah, we'll take on your bullshit. Why not just leave the bullshit in the team that you're trying to beat? Paul George, Kwai Leonard.
Steve Ballmer is their owner. Like, he's a crazy man. Like, they. They've wasted this window of Kwa Leoner and Paul George. They're desperate.
Harden wants to play there. I think there's mutual interest. I just think Maury is asking price. He still sees Hardin as like that 2017 version of him. And he's just a broken down fat man now.
Like me. As we all are.
Well, except for maybe Jake. But.
Well, if Philly doesn't hurry up and make this decision, the Clippers are in talks with Portland as well for Malcolm Brogdon.
So they're going to end up with pie on their face if they sit too long. He'll go to Miami. That's his dream destination. Oh, that's true. I could see that.
That will have to be.
Somebody made a comment on Twitter, like. Thank God Dame didn't go to Miami. And I agree. Holy fuck. I mean yeah.
Really, the media should be roasting Pat Riley for not wanting to give up Tyler Hero in his 7 for 24 shooting last night for Dame Lillard. And then that other like Jovich guy that they didn't even play. Speaking of not playing, no Booker and Beal. Tonight.
So Adam Silver, nice try. Didn't work. Does it mean Grayson is the number two tonight? Grayson Allen's the number two. You're right, Bart.
Stupid. More from Rumbler podcast, Blazers Guy. If there's anything I love watching Dame led the Blazers this long, it's this. When Dame is in a zone, you give him the ball, get the fuck out of the way. You just said that's Kobe and Shaq.
Same thing. Same part. Bart, did you do an NBA preview show? Like give a prediction. For the championship?
Yeah, NBA, because I heard today you had Horvod on, but did you give any kind of NBA preview show?
Well, I think the Bucks are going to win.
Okay. And they will beat Denver. No, Horvat just took passive-aggressive shots at Jordan Love and the Packers because that's his brand.
Well, I love that Horvat doesn't like the NBA anymore because the Bulls suck. They already had a players meeting. I know. Yeah, what was that? What?
That's classic.
Okay, everybody, give your Bucks prediction. Austin. I mean, finals prediction, Austin. Uh the NBA Finals. Yeah, who's gonna make yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, well, that's uh Jesus Christ. Um, okay, well, I think most of us are gonna say Bucks, but why don't I have more fun then and uh say Celtics? Get me the fuck out of here. Yeah, no, no, no, man. I'm obviously going to be rooting for the Bucks to make the finals.
I'm going to pick, I'm going to homer pick. Who are they going to beat out of the West? I'm going to homer pick them. I'm gonna homer pick the box no matter what. Over who?
Oh man, so they got to beat somebody out of the West. Jesus, we'll get back to you. Jake, um Boston does not have enough horses to get there. They had to pull out all the stops to win the other night. They played their starters like 88% of the minutes or something crazy.
So they're going to come up short. It's going to be Milwaukee and Denver in the finals, and it's going to go to seven games. Drew? Bucks and six over Denver. Those are the two best teams in the NBA.
Flexus. Hey, I got to agree. I'm going to go chalk bucks and nuggets. I say, look out for those Sacramento Kings and OKC Thunder. Up and coming teams out west, but yeah, I'm going to go with you guys, Denver Bucks.
Justin. Buck sons. Bucks and sixth again. Uh hold on, Austin. All right.
I like the Suns one. Otherwise, we'll go kings. The Suns are kings. Matt, Poops Galore says Matt is the shit. Thank you.
Zach says, Matt is an essential member of the Winklerverse. Let's not.
Sorry, Zach, Stella. Thank you, Zach Stella. Tired says, I wish I was a part of the Winkler first, but Bort doesn't hurt me anymore. I think that's turd, Mart. Third, well, I don't know.
Tony, you look tired. Oh, I'm tired. Yeah, me too. On that. Um Matt is right from Mark.
Giannis is immune to slander forever after a 50-piece finals clincher, 17-19 at the line. Who slandered him? All of y'alls.
So Matt, your finals prediction? Bucks over Nuggets in seven games. Um And over the Celtics in seven games. TV Fanatic says everybody on the team needs to work on their free throws. Yes, it was not just Giannis.
Uh portis was old for four, I think. We were 69% at the line, but somehow that was better than the Sixers. What the fuck? Yeah, Embed sucked today. We didn't talk about that, did we?
The free throw merchant. And being hit some big threes, especially to start that first second half. But And he, that's what Griff said. He's like, if Ambid takes it, he's basically like, once he starts making more, we'll adjust. But.
Let him take them. I was like praying that he would take them. That was, you know what? I was actually impressed with that little. 15-second nugget of him saying that over anything Bud ever said in his four years or five years he was in Milwaukee.
Okay. Well, did you hear during the broadcast when He made a three, and it was like, Embiid's a 33% three-point shooter. They said it like it was this great thing, and then. BA kind of had to adjust. He's like, well, that's, I guess that's pretty good for a big guy.
More from Rumbler Podcast. I'm going to check this out. I'll be at Blazers Bucks in Portland. We'll be cheering every shot Dame hits. Oh, when do they go back before?
I don't know, but this Rumbler podcast, he's like the Ryan Horvat with Rogers with Dame, I think. Watch out for all the people in tents on the sidewalk. Oh my God. The Blazers host the Buck January 31st. It's gonna be cold.
There's gonna be some fires out there too. He also says muffrus Jesus Christ, Matt. You got a comment on Maine also while you're at it? No, stop. Uh much respect if Nesta.
If I could have picked any team from the go-to, it would have been the Bucs, hands down. Much respect to you guys, including Matt. Obviously. Wow. Run blur.
Scott. I should read comments more. Normally, I get to them too late. You do.
You always get to them very late. Yeah, I made an effort. When I logged on tonight, I thought, I got to get the comments tonight. Got to get the comments. You're clearly doing other stuff while you're on here.
Like, why don't you just read the comments? How are we looking? I'm doing it now. I was watching the Bills game. They won.
Somewhat in real time. On your phone? Hey, by the way, what? Nine and a half. Huh?
I didn't realize NFL's over. It's part season, baby. Let's go. Oh, Tony, tell it like it is, please, from Scott. World Series prediction, you got the Rangers, right?
Yeah. Go D backs. No, I don't want the D-Bags to win. We need to embrace the good luck, Chuck, thing. Lewis says, gotta play Marjon more.
I will always be down with that. Q says, COVID made breathing going upstairs hard. Also, Austin, smoke emojis. And Austin is frozen. Are you frozen or laughing?
That's a good phrase. That's the best. That's almost as good as Tim in the in the tunnel. Oh my gosh. Um Oh, Tom in the Fall says I'm right that Taylor Swift has the best Lipstick wearer in the world, Scarlett Johansson.
Also good. Anyway, she's past her prime. I didn't say anything about like what? What date? Austin?
Swift pastor pride? No, no, no. Joe Johansson's pastor. We're not reading that. Yeah.
Oh, plenty inner prime. What are you talking about, G'day? No way. The days of the island are long gone. Treb says, people are crapping, and it's the first regular season game.
Is this a Packers show? But they suck. The Packers suck. The Packers suck. We know the Packers suck.
The the bucks are NBA title contenders and we There's a high standard there. Ranger Airways says Ranger Air says date. and gives the team the Kobe threat. We've never had anyone like Giannis in my lifetime, obviously. We've never had anyone like Dame.
Like, it's going to be a long time. We've got two of them now. Brandon Jennings. One night, yes. He was good, yeah.
That first year. Um but no, I the fact that like We're down eight, fourth quarter. And it was him that made the threes it was lopez and crowder but There's not going to be a time where you don't think Dame can just, and you know, he wanted, like, he was, he was taking shots, and he was like, he wanted it, but. The one that went in that mattered. I mean, it was 4 or 12 from 3, but there's going to be.
I mean, I'm just ready, man. I mean, it is dame time. I was been as hype for a Regular season game, as I've been in a long time. I was prancing around the living room going. Man, this is it.
The Bucks are here and. My wife accurately said. Oh, this must be a new season starting because there's a few days every year where. You are like super jazzed up about sports. And and you think that they're going to win a title and then everything comes crashing down, so she was right about that.
I almost threw out my shoulder. Like fist bumping alone in my living room on the Dame three, and then the next play, like the Giannis transition bucket. When Yannis rebounded it and kicked it out to Dame. I did a fist. I did a fuck yeah.
Yeah, same. And I was standing three feet in front of the TV like it was game six. And I dropped the FBI. I'm mad about that, but they needed to win. Yes.
It would have been a maybe not, but I think they did. Um Tony, I do disagree with you on one thing as far as Maxie being the third best player on this team. I don't. Think he will. I don't think he would be.
I understand Middleton's hurt on a pitch count, but if you put Maxi on that team, I still don't think he's better than Brooke Lopez. I think his value to the Bucs is. Unheard of, in my opinion. Yeah, I understand. Different types of players.
I'm not going to argue Justin on that one. Hey, you guys w you want a real enemy of the night? Dwayne says, Bucks should have lost, got lucky as fuck, ain't beaten the Celtics. Dwayne. How?
I don't know. Hey, Bart, can I give a shout out to your national spots, which I really enjoy? I think you actually should go national as a permanent gig. I love that everyone on the East Coast and Ohio hate Bart. It's so funny.
I love it. Who hates me? Who hates what? These guys just, I don't know. They always tell me how much they love me.
No, they love you, then they hate you. Like you rip on Rogers a little bit. It's kind of funny. No, I had a conversation about Bard on the National Airwaves. I hold this show very dear to my heart, but not blowing smoke.
I think it's quite clear that, Bart, you're destined for bigger things, and I'll be cheering you on when you get there, buddy. Oh, that reminds me. Hold on, time out, time out, Jake. Bart, so you seriously did you watch the game on TNT? Was it on anything else?
I'm at, I don't know, because I'm asking you, and you seriously didn't see this white corn graphic that they showed a hundred times? Throughout the night, do you guys know what I'm talking about? Like in between a play. It would like go swoosh. And it would be like a sheet of like computerized white corn.
You know what I'm talking about? You got into the happy place hemp, I think. I don't remember that. I just saw it again on the stupid Lakers. It might be the TNT logo swooshing.
No, it's like a sh, it's. Like corn on the cob? Like, what? Yeah, it's not corn on the cob, but it looks like corn on the cob. Is that from the Minnesota Wild Game man?
Happy place, Hemp. Go for it. Do it. Do it. Maybe you know that's the good thing.
one of the purples. Which one is it? Oh, you're going to be out. Yeah. Mm well, yeah.
After talking with you guys, I need to. CBD CBDN? I don't know what that is.
Okay, I wanna I wanna do one thing before I leave. Get Tim? No, I want to tell you my story about eBay. Yeah. So I bought The best cards ever is 1990 Pro Set.
NFL. Best cards ever. And so I I bought some at a Antique store. I bought like a pack, reopened the packs, and it wasn't the set. I was like, oh, fuck.
So I went on eBay to look for the set. And the guy advertised it as complete set without the Eric Dickerson card. There's an Eric Dickerson card that stopped in circulation early because he was mad about it. I have to buy that card separate. But he goes, you get cards one through 787.
And I told him, I said, dude. You were missing like 30 cards in a row. Mm. And he goes.
Sorry to hear about this. I didn't count it card by card. I just looked, and it looked like a full set. Ooh. How much did you pay?
Thirty bucks. He says, what would you like? I go. The fucking cards. Yeah.
And then he's like, I'm looking for extras. I don't have them. How much would you like to be refunded? I'm just gonna say fucking. Just fucking cards.
All of it, or I'll give you a one-star feedback. They'll be terrified. I already five-starred him. What? I five-starred him when I, then I didn't look at it for two weeks.
Oh, one of those. And I gave him a plus, plus, plus, plus, plus. You did that? That's like something a 75-year-old woman does. Return that shit.
Speaking of five stars, you don't have to put this on the show. I just need some advice. How much do you tip an Uber driver? Like I got out of a concert in Vegas and You know, you just go to the app or whatever, and it's standard Uber. And then he shows up, and he has like one of those party vans with the lights, and he's got like karaoke in there.
And I didn't ask for that. but like i felt obligated to tip more than i would have less Please. Give them classically. Seriously That's a good idea. He was a nice guy.
Like, I appreciated the effort. But then I'm like, is this enough for Tiff? Were you like, is this okay? I'll tell you one thing. Oh, Rumbler Podcast is still here.
That's our guy. Rumbler, we got to get in touch. Get him on, yeah. He's just here advertising for the podcast. But I would do the same shit.
You don't. Jake, Jake, I say If it's a ride experience that you didn't want to 15%. We had fun with it. Like, we took the mic, we did some singing and stuff. But, like, oh, well, if you took advantage of it 20%.
Dude, no one's ever been in trouble for tipping too much. Yeah. Just don't under just don't under tip man. I just don't like to You don't like tipping? Yeah.
You're like Larry Deeman. I just feel like you should get paid a living wage for whatever job you do. It shouldn't be necessary.
Well, it'd be nice if we lived in a living society where everybody got paid a living wage and. That's called the rest of the world. Other people. I get it. But I'm gonna say in London, you didn't have to tip anywhere.
Like, it's just everything is you know listed on the bill, and it's not expected and. No. But yeah, I will say, went to Vegas, the When We Were Young festival. The music was amazing. Um, but I didn't enjoy paying $18 for a single cheeseburger.
Um $9 for the ghost energy drink. $50 for a t-shirt. That is not the way that punk rock is supposed to be consumed. Punk rock sold out a long time ago, Borbro. All right, final parting shots on the game, and then I'm going to go watch Loki.
Jake. Um First of many, they're going to gel more and more as the season goes on. Everybody's going to find their spots. Drew, Justin, don't be strangers, man. Keep this shit going.
Q says repeat take Jake. Yeah. What does that mean? I already said that seriously last time. Did I?
Yeah, yeah. Buddy, I'm old as shit, man. Give me a break. Drew! It was a perfect Buck season opener.
I just like to watch as a fan. It's very exciting. The Bucs won, which is the most important part, but we have to see the best of the game. And they did that in the first game after. Since the trade, the whole media is saying, like, well, is he better than Drew Holiday?
He's marginally better than Drew Holiday. Not to hate on Drew Holiday, but come on. And like everyone was saying he's a slow starter. And to see him just drop 39 game one on Philly was.
So fucking cool. And that step by that step back three heat at the end. It's going to be one of the iconic moments when they play back the championship highlight film for the Bucks this year. You know, just that's a great, like, tonight was so fucking cool. I don't think that's a great way to summarize it.
Matt? I don't have really eaten anything better. I mean, yeah, it's. I'm very happy. I'm very happy.
I don't want to be misconstrued as being complaining or anything like that. Very happy, very excited. And I'm already, my thoughts are already: how is this team going to break my heart? But I don't want to think about that right now.
So. So Austin, it's been great. Giannis realized that you got Dame with you. You don't have to win the game on your own. There's no need for you to be shooting threes, just.
You know, learn how to make free throws, buddy. Antony. Hey, the Bucs, they're damn good. Dame Lillard, better than advertise. I still say they need a third guy to step up.
And speaking of stepping up, I think the Bucks fans, the Wisconsin fans in general, they suck at sporting events, Bart. I'm sorry. They were good tonight. No. Yeah, they were.
Mediocre. All right, Tony. Thank you. All right. And on that note, part.
I'm wrapping up.
Okay, hey. What? I enjoyed East Coast Bart. Keep that up, man. East Coast BART.
Okay. See you later. I'll be in Friday on CBS Sports Radio and Saturday afternoon during a lot of the college action. I do want to thank everybody for coming on. Whether you're watching this or listening to it later.
Um Also, thank you for if you're commenting now. and joining the show now. I just. Throw on YouTube and Yikes. Uh, I throw on YouTube and uh Don't know who's going to show up.
Hope that some people do. And you guys always come through and have good. Discussions about the Bucks. I think that they're going to be. I think there's going to be more.
I do think more people are going to start to provide better Bucks content. But it's still going to be hard to To find it. And it's not, it's you guys. I mean, you guys all watch the game. You guys all rush to come on here.
So, a sincere thank you. This is the end of today's Bar Winkler Show. Back live after Packers and Vikings. And then likely for at least a little bit. on Sunday night after the Bucs play their next game.
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