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17:29Chad Johnson:I got - Hey, look, I know who I know. I know the infrastructure now. I know who all work in the inside. I know who up there, you know what I mean? I seen the names on there today. So yeah. Yeah, Bayless, Stevie, Nicky.

17:40Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, yeah, yeah.

17:41Chad Johnson:Ain't none of them. You got them working overtime, though. How y 'all come out with a real already game just was over two minutes ago? Come on, man.

17:50Shannon Sharpe:I mean, they had plenty of time to work on it. They saw y 'all die by 20 with 15 minutes to go. All right, all right. You gave them plenty of time to work on it.

18:04Shannon Sharpe:UConn beat Michigan State. They hang on to beat Michigan State. Tyrus Reed, Jr. scored 20 points. Alex Caravan had 17. Both made pressure-packed free throws in the final minutes to help UConn hold off Michigan State. I thought this game was going to be a blowout early. Give Michigan State credit because they were down 15, 17 points early and they fought. It was more than that. They clawed their way back in. Made it respectable at half. All you got to do is let's go into the half. Let's not be down by more than five. If we could make it a ball, we got 20 minutes to do something. give Michigan State credit, but UConn 32 and five back-to-back national championship two years ago, and it seems to be their only way.

18:45Shannon Sharpe:Hey, they're a good team. They found ways, but I think they're going to need more. They're going to need more. Their bench only gave them seven, only gave them eight points. They're going to need, those guys are going to have.

18:55Chad Johnson:Well, you know, you know, Michigan State liked them low scoring games.

18:59Shannon Sharpe:Yeah.

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21:53Chad Johnson:The 80s and the 90s, that ain't what Michigan State do. You know, they don't even have them type of players. And I talk about game changers and game managers. I thought Michigan State, they play well as a team. So does UConn, Uncle Ocho. I think UConn just got, you know, they got some guys who can really take over and really be, you know, a game changer that continue to take you, you know, farther in the tournament. Not only that, you know, they tough, gritty, play aggressive. You know what I mean? Like, I know we playing, everybody thinks basketball is just this finesse game and you don't get to – man, listen, you kind of out there playing, bro.

22:28Chad Johnson:They competing. They competing. They touching you.

22:31Shannon Sharpe:Hey, Uncle, you know what I think? I think they let them play a little bit more in college than what they did.

22:36Chad Johnson:They do. They do.

22:38Shannon Sharpe:They do. I'm like, damn. They do.

22:40Chad Johnson:I ain't going to lie. I like because even when you see the vertical – I can't even say the word – the vertical challenge when guys are straight up. Yeah, verticality. Yeah. You know, they don't call that. It don't matter how hard you run into a dude. As long as he don't come over. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think you're right. I think they're a lot more aggressive in college than the pros. And the pros, because, you know, guys are going to be flaking and flopping. They trying to sell a call. Yeah. In college, you don't really get that. You know, you don't really get that. In college, guys, they competing.

23:15Shannon Sharpe:The guys don't stay long enough and build up that kind of credit. You don't get a Christian Laettner. You're not getting a Tim Duncan. You're not getting Bobby Hurley and Grant Hills, guys that have played and officials know them since they're freshman, sophomore, junior, here they are seniors playing. You don't get that anymore, Joe. So these guys here, hey, they get good. I know. Ain't no ifs ands, but hey, I appreciate the hospitality. It was great being on campus for six months, but I'm out of here. So those days, so you're not going to get a player that, If he's really good, he's one and done.

23:51Shannon Sharpe:If he's halfway good, he's one and done. You're never going to get another Tim Duncan. You're never going to get another Kenyon Martin. Those days are over. Guys that stay four years are senior. Kenyon Martin was the last senior to go number one overall. That was in 2000.

24:07Chad Johnson:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

24:09Shannon Sharpe:That was a quarter century ago. I don't believe you'll ever see it again because the guys are like, there's too much money at the next destination for me to stay. Exactly. And you know what I think it's going to come down to, Unk? What's that? What's that? I think, obviously, look at Duke. You look at UConn. You look at what Caravan and Reed Jr. were able to do.

24:29Chad Johnson:Yeah. And dominating and controlling the game, being the ones who are going to score the points. You look at Duke. They had two players. That thing is going to come down to what other players are going to contribute, not just on the bench. I'm talking about Adat starting five. You got two people that are going to be able to wield themselves and score points when you want to. Then you have three that are somewhat just decoration on the court. I don't mean that in a disrespectful way, but I'm just saying there's really no contribution on the point side. They contribute in other areas, but I think as far as point scoring, someone else is going to have to step up.

24:59And obviously the bench. I think the bench is going to be very important for Duke and UConn and who's able to come off the bench and contribute in those times and those pressure situations to kind of not ease the pain, but make the game a little easier to take some of the pressure off of the starters.

25:13Chad Johnson:Yeah, yeah. Well, UConn, they really – they're going to take a collective team effort to really beat you. Okay, Ocho. You know, they ain't really just going to rely on one guy like this, even though Reed, he had a hell of a game. But they got other guys who can step up and have big games as well. Yeah.

25:33Shannon Sharpe:The thing that concerns me about UConn is they got out rebounded by nine. And Michigan State is not a big team. They tough, though. Duke has got no one. They tough, though. but just think about how Duke hit that glass with Booz and the big kid, the other kid that's going to be a lottery pick if you let them get the glass like that if you got that rebound, you get that rebound about 15 because Duke, one thing they do, they hit the glass Booz is going to get those rebounds we talked about it, he's 22-10, that's where he was tonight 22-10, and I like the fact that the matter is that he doesn't press I love Booz because he doesn't press He's like, okay, don't worry about it.

26:13Shannon Sharpe:I got to hold another half. Ain't no sense in me taking these willy-nilly shots. I ain't finna jack up threes. I ain't finna shoot no fall-away jumpers. I'm going to let it come. You watch him. He'll get easy baskets. He'll get a layup. He'll get a putback. And the next thing you know, he's in a rhythm. He's getting to the free-throw line. He's in a rhythm. UConn's going to definitely have to play better than what they played today. And I expect him to. Dan Hurley's going to, look, guys, hey, we're happy. We won. Survive in advance. We won the ball game. But in order for us to go to the Final Four, we're going to have to beat the number one overall seed, a team that by many thought was picked and winning at the beginning of the season.

26:51Shannon Sharpe:And we're going to have to play one of our best games of the year in order to –

26:55Chad Johnson:I agree. But remember what we was talking about, the experience. They ain't got nothing but juniors and seniors. Okay, Ocho. Yeah. You know, they got some guys with experience. So that experience against that freshman talent that Duke has, I think it can help UConn in a different way. I think it can help them propel and win the game is what I'm saying. I can see them beating Duke.

27:23Shannon Sharpe:I can too. But what concerns me is that for those guys to be pressured and to be in that situation, I thought they handled the pressure well. I thought Duke guards handled the pressure well because we know Michigan, we know Izzo teams like to pressure you, like to get up and tell you. And I thought they did a great job of handling that. So they weren't in our other moment. They weren't in our like, damn, I just left high school seven months ago. What the hell am I doing out here? They're like, hey, it's what we do. And I think it has a lot to do with the expectations you go to do. You know what expectations are.

27:59Shannon Sharpe:You know the – and you see guys – I mean, I don't know how many of these guys were there in the summer, and you see the guys come back. you see Zion and you see all these other guys come back and RJ Barrett and Tatum and this one and that one and Ingram and this one. And they come back and they're, hey, don't you mess this up. Dawkins and Amaker and Danny Ferry, they started this. And Leighton and Christian Leighton and all these guys, they continue this and so forth and so on. So don't y 'all mess this up. We got a great fan going. I agree.

28:31Chad Johnson:I agree. It's going to be a good one. Who you got? Y 'all brackets all messed up. Who you got, Joe Sunday? Duke or UConn? I just can't pick Duke. You say you can't pick Duke? Why? You just got to be a guesser. A, B, D. Anybody but Duke. Yeah, I forgot. I forgot. Who you got, Joe? Who they play? Duke play who again? UConn. I'm talking about, oh, they play UConn. Yeah, I think I'm going to go UConn. Yeah. I'm going to go UConn because the experience that they have, and I just feel like, yeah, I know Boo's going to give you 20 and 10. I don't know if Evan's going to continue to play at that level he played at today.

29:19Shannon Sharpe:He shot the lights out today. Yeah, I mean, hey, I don't know if he'll have another out-of-body experience like that, Joe and Ocho, but he shot the lights out of the ball today. Yeah, I know. If he doesn't have this game, they're not advancing, Joe. I agree. They're not advancing. If he doesn't play like he played today, they're not advancing.

29:39Chad Johnson:And that's why I said that. And that's why if I'm him, if I'm the Evans kid, I'm thinking to myself, man, listen, my draft stock can continue to rise if I just continue to keep playing, you know, great basketball. He going to have to give him 20 plus a game too now. I know we putting a lot on Boos, but Evans, you know, he done been there. He been playing on this big stage. Boos been playing on this big stage since he been playing high school at AAU.

30:07Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Yeah, they have me up to it. You know when your dad is who you – First of all, if you play a sport that your dad played, you already know what the expectations are. You got to deal with the comparisons that are as well.

30:19Chad Johnson:It's automatic. It's messed up. It's messed up too because I don't know about y 'all, but me as a father, It's like, you know, with my son playing basketball, you know what I mean? It's like, I can't really, it's hard for me to really get on him like I really want to because they like, man, he ain't you, he ain't. I'm like, bro, I'm giving you the game. I'm telling you how to beat these suckers out here, man. For real, I'm telling you, I got the blueprint.

30:46Shannon Sharpe:Joe, it's easier for somebody else to coach your son. I already know it. I was trying to, hey, I was like, you know what? Hey, listen to them. I mean, forget the fact that I was on Super Bowl winning teams. I was a pro bowl. I was all pro catching the football. But you know what? Listen to the guy that didn't go farther than that. That's all I'm saying, bro. That's all I'm saying. I mean, ain't no sense to be arguing on you what I'm doing. You're right. You're right. So, but you know, if you were a professional athlete and your son plays the sport that you played, see, if he plays a different sport, they're like, okay, his dad was a basketball player.

31:23Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. a football player or his dad was a football player he a basketball player or he a baseball player but when you play that same sport the expectation whether it's fair or unfair people automatically but bro that's the genes I mean that yeah always and it is what it is and you know talking to Griffey Jr and Griffey Jr like it was just hard to watch his son play he said because he would go there and be sitting in the stands and people would say, he ain't nothing like you. And Griffey, and Junior, and Griffey say, well, tell me five people.

32:04Shannon Sharpe:And so it's the same thing. Griffey said that when his dad would come see him play, he couldn't do nothing. He said his dad would have to sneak up in the RV and just watch from a distance. He wouldn't know his dad was there. He said, but when his mom come, his dad would call his mom, say, what'd that boy do? I think he was like three for four to home. I think. Yeah, cuz he's in my ass. Why the hell he didn't do that when I was there? But it's like, I mean, just imagine your Peyton Manning. If daddy was Archie, number two pick in the draft, you know the expectations, Ocho. My kid, your kid. My son just said, I don't want it.

32:49Shannon Sharpe:I don't want to do that. My dad played. I got my uncle. I don't want no parts of that.

32:56Chad Johnson:Why do you think it's so hard to duplicate, though? That's why I respect. I don't know.

33:01Shannon Sharpe:Joe, you didn't have. Just imagine if your dad played in the NBA. So you got to smooth right along. Like, damn, man, Joe, really good. There was no comparison. Automatically. I had to get compared to my brother. Three years older than me. He's a senior. I'm a freshman. So the comparisons are there. I'm like, well damn, he my brother, not my dad. I know we got the same last name, the same parents, but damn, but I embrace that. It's hard to live up to those expectations that others put on you. You might not even like, hey, I'm just going along. I'm just like, hey. Yeah, you know, Joe and Ankh, that's how I think it was with my son.

33:47Obviously my son, Joe played at Arizona State. He played, he received out there at Arizona State, played at Venice High School.

33:53Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. And obviously it was at Arizona State with Jaden Dan before Jaden transferred over to the goddamn LSU.

34:00Chad Johnson:Really? I didn't understand the pressures and the comparisons, you know, to it. But I think my son got to a point where I think he was somewhat fed up with it. I think he, in a sense, he kind of played football because I did it. Yeah. I don't think it was really his first love. Yes. It wasn't really his first love. That's not what he did. Right, right, right, right. I think he did just because I did it. Yeah. I think probably the comparisons to him, I don't know if it got to him a little bit, but I don't think he loved the game the way I did. You know, maybe his aspirations, his dreams, maybe it wasn't to play in the NFL, you know?

34:29He had a belly full. He had a nice air conditioning room.

34:33Shannon Sharpe:You're right. He didn't have the same stimuli that you had. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a whole different ball, and that's what I tell people. My son's stimuli? My son got to come in and hit the garage on the three-car garage on the 10 ,000 square foot on. Shana didn't have no garage, Shana had cinder block floors. I mean, a cinder block home with cement floors and a gym room. It's different, it's different. It's the hell yeah. You gotta really want it, you gotta really want it. It gotta be something that you really love to do. You know, and I don't think you really, really love the game like that.

35:04And I'm one, and Joe, you know, I don't push my kids to do nothing. Yeah, me neither, bro. If this is what you wanna do, I support you. But if it's not what you wanna do, whatever endeavors it is that attract you and interests you, I'm all for it. I'm behind whatever it is. Now my youngest son, Savi, he different. Mentally, he different. He's a dog and he actually wants it. It ain't got nothing to do with me. And he don't care nothing about no comparisons because he talking trash to me already as a sophomore in high school. So I'm better than you.

35:36Chad Johnson:He a receiver, Ocho? Yeah. Man, dad, I'm better than you? What you mean you better than me? Well, you better check YouTube. Who you talking to? Yeah, yeah. He's a different kind of animal. So I can see him already, you know, playing on Sunday just because of his mentality, you know? He's on it. He's on it.

35:55Shannon Sharpe:It's really simple. I want you all the same way. I tell him I can't want something more for you than you want it for yourself. I'm not going to push you in any direction. But all I ask, don't waste my time and money.

36:07Chad Johnson:Boy, I'm telling you.

36:09Shannon Sharpe:if you want to do this if you need a coach if you need whatever you need I will get you whatever you need to help you be the absolute best you can be in what you want to do but don't waste my time and money if that's not what you want to do don't do it because your mom wanted to do don't do it because your friends do it do it because you want to do it and if you want to do it I'm going to move heaven and earth to try to make sure you get the best so you can I agree that's it that's all I ask don't waste my time and don't waste my money if you want to be you want to be an astronaut hell if I got to call Neil Tyson in the garage hey bro check this out my son say I need you to get some advice I don't I'm just saying Joe I'm going to do I'm going to do whatever I can but if that's not what you want to do it's hard growing up in the shadows because there's a separation between you and your kids.

37:12Shannon Sharpe:But just think, me and my brother, everything. Bro, you ain't good at your brother. Woo, boy, your brother. Oh, man, your brother been gone. Oh, your brother did that. Your brother did. Man, your brother ran 10.5, man. You ain't running but 10.9. But damn, that's still pretty fast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Damn. So, but it didn't ever bother me. See, I didn't live in my brother's shadow. I embraced it. So when they told me, you ain't as good as your brother, I'm going to show you.

37:44Chad Johnson:Right.

37:46Shannon Sharpe:I'm going to show you. Now, as a high schooler, I could have been better had I applied myself. I was just so much more talented than everybody else. I ain't do no work in high school. Lifting weights? For what?

37:58Chad Johnson:Yeah, me neither, man.

37:59Shannon Sharpe:I lift them tobacco racks. I lift them bales of hay. I lifted watermelons and bushel of corn and onions. That's what I lifted to get this body. Once I got to college and I started lifting weights and I saw my body change.

38:14Chad Johnson:Oh, my God.

38:16Shannon Sharpe:Oh, my God. Oh, Joe, I went from like 180 to 205. So when we stopped playing football in November, and by the time we had spring practice, I was 205. Chisel. What?

38:30Chad Johnson:Yeah.

38:31Shannon Sharpe:Man, my brother came. when my brother came and saw me he said man what you been doing what they feed you in savannah state i say they don't feed us in savannah state like they feed y 'all in south carolina that's for damn sure then he came back my junior year now i'm like 220 god damn you went from 205 out of 220 you know he told me he told me my junior year he said you don't lift. I say I want to be a member of the 4-6 club. He said 4-6? I said no, I want to bench 400 pounds and squat 600. He said you're going to lift yourself into a three-point stance. I'll be a damn, Mocho. I ended up in the 90s.

39:13Shannon Sharpe:Okay, okay, okay. He told me about Junior in college. He said you're going to lift yourself into a three-point stance. That's crazy. He was part of the 4-6 club. Damn. No, I didn't squat. I could bench 400. I could never squat six. Okay, okay, I was part of the three six club then, when I was in Cincinnati now. Three six club? You picked three on it? Yeah, you know, when I was in Cincinnati, I was thin framed, Joe. I mean, the biggest I got in Cincinnati, probably about 190. Yeah. I could bench 315. I would work out with the linebacker sometime, and I would work out with the officer lineman when it came to doing the lower body work on, I think it was what, Friday's when they did lower body?

39:52Yeah. It might be Friday's, Joe.

39:54Shannon Sharpe:No, I cut legs. You're supposed to cut legs off on Thursday. You don't do no legs after that. You don't want your legs heavy. Your legs wouldn't be heavy. You did legs off. If I'm not mistaken, I can't remember the schedule exactly, but I used to work out with a lineman. Joe, you know I squat about 650 to 670, Joe. Damn. Yeah, you get down with that? Joe. Yeah, Joe. No. Are you lying? If at one night he squatted 670, 700, he was the strongest man ever to live. I think I only was the strongest man. Hold on. I might be one of the strongest men that ever played in the NFL, it's just nobody sees it.

40:26I don't know about all that. My frame is so small, so you never know. Man, listen.

40:30Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I do know. I look at them legs. First of all, your hips ain't wide enough to hold that kind of weight. You look at guys that squat a lot of weight. Hey, hold on. I got hips like a fat person. What you talking about?

40:41Chad Johnson:Man, come on, man. What's wrong with this dude? I ain't gonna show it to you right now because that's inappropriate.

40:47Shannon Sharpe:But yeah. I might give you 450 with a squat. with a spot. With a spot. I might give you 450, 475 with a single ply or double ply suit. But just, just, just, with just a belt? Yeah, hey, matter of fact, I mean. Maybe, maybe with a single ply suit and your ass. Not sleeve wrap. I'm glad you said that, Joe. You know how sometimes I post my videos, you know, doing 120, 150s on the dumbbells, right?

41:15Chad Johnson:Yeah. When I get back to Miami on Sunday, I'm gonna make sure Monday gym session, I'm gonna do legs which is normally an upper body day. I'm gonna make sure I put 475 or 500 on the rack and do one rep. So when we get on the show - What are you gonna do, one squat? Are you - I do two, I do two.

41:32Shannon Sharpe:Okay, all right, all right. I do two reps. He ain't fit to do no barbell squat, not with no 475. Yeah, I'm a regular squat.

41:40Chad Johnson:Ocho, don't catch no hernia out there man.

41:42Shannon Sharpe:I'm good Joe, I don't care. You gonna be walking around your knees like mine. I don't get hurt, Joe. I don't never get hurt, Joe. So you boobie Johnson on Friday night flight? Yeah, I don't know if that's it, Joe. I know God been good to me, especially when it comes to injury, Joe. I ain't really had sustained nothing. Well, don't get nothing. Don't be trying to squat. Hey, your heavy squat days, go in there, do 20-25. Keep your foundation strong. Keep your glutes because, hey, the more leg muscle you have to eat, the longer it's proven, the longer you're going to probably live. So take care of your leg, your bottom half.

42:18Shannon Sharpe:You're going to be fine. You don't need squats. You don't need squats. I've been trying to show you. That's all. I've been trying to show you.

42:24Chad Johnson:You can't.

42:24Shannon Sharpe:Hey, get up under the machine. I think they got belt squats. They got pendulum squats. They got other squat apparatuses that you don't need to put that barbell on your damn back. You do dumbbell squats. I'm just trying to show you that I can do it. That's all. That's all. You'll never believe me unless you have visual evidence. That's all I'm saying. Nah, I ain't gonna believe you, nah. And y 'all got fake weights. They got so many people on IG not doing fake weights. Where am I going to get fake weights from? Man. Easy. Michigan beat Alabama. The Wolverines had the most overall play on the floor.

43:01Shannon Sharpe:Yaxel Lindenborg, who did it all tonight, finishing just three-assist shot of a triple-double. He had 23 points, 12 rebounds. Michigan was the more efficient than Alabama for three-point range, connected on 13 of 27 attempts. Alabama held on as long as they could. Phil Yarn Jr., LeBaron Phil Yarn Jr. That's what I'm talking about, game change.

43:25Chad Johnson:You need guys who can get to that chicken, Ocho, who can get to that, who got a bag. Hey, man, if you will score, perfect. We need you to get some buckets. The rest of us, we can do the dirty work.

43:38Shannon Sharpe:One more guy to come along with it. He needed one more guy because Michigan had too many guys. They got 33 points on their bench.

43:44Chad Johnson:They missing 20.

43:45Shannon Sharpe:So he needed another guy to come in.

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46:46Chad Johnson:Your guy tried to be free of Rick Ross. Yeah, but if they'd had him, they definitely they probably would have really had a chance. They definitely had a chance. Yeah.

46:55Shannon Sharpe:But I ain't no feel y 'all was that nice. You know, you see Clint, you saw, I see highlights of him and stuff like that. Yeah, I got a chance to watch

47:04Chad Johnson:Alabama play a few times because they in the SEC obviously playing against my Razorbacks. So they got some guys who can go, you know, and they got some some tough, gritty guys, too. They got some tough, gritty guys. So they they pretty good.

47:16Shannon Sharpe:You know, people look at Alabama and people just think football. Yeah. But Alabama used to have basketball.

47:22Chad Johnson:What you talking about?

47:24Shannon Sharpe:I mean, you know, you had Ori.

47:27Chad Johnson:Freewell.

47:28Shannon Sharpe:Freewell. They had Freewell. Before them, they had. Freewell to Alabama. I didn't know that.

47:34Chad Johnson:Yeah, they had Gerald Wallace. I played with Gerald Wallace.

47:37Shannon Sharpe:I don't know. Before then, that was before your time, they had Bobby Lee Hurt. They had Enos Watley. Oh, they had some guys that hit him. Nah, they had some dogs.

47:45Chad Johnson:Some boys raised down deep in the South. Hey, prior to him getting hurt, Antonio McDyess.

47:54Shannon Sharpe:McDyess? McDyess? What? I played with McDyess, huh? I'm talking about, you talking about 6 '10", and can leave the building.

48:05Chad Johnson:He like that, Ocho. I'm talking about - He can jump like that. Oh my goodness. Head time. That boy, that boy gonna fly. That boy gonna fly.

48:12Shannon Sharpe:Before he hurt that knee. Oh, he was, hey. Cause I was in Denver when he got there.

48:19Chad Johnson:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

48:20Shannon Sharpe:I was at, Brian Steele's came there, Lafonso Ellis. I was there when Jalen Rose got there. All of them, Dikembe Mutombo, all of them. Rodney Rogers, Melo so hey, McDyess whoo Lord have mercy, man before he hurt that knee he was something to deal with

48:40Chad Johnson:he wasn't nothing to play with, that boy was sick

48:42Shannon Sharpe:nah, he was like that but Bama has some

48:46Chad Johnson:they normally keep some hoopers they basketball team really they might not, obviously we know what the football side, what the football program does, but basketball wise they rarely ever slouches now. They normally keep some pretty good guys over there. Yeah, I know that. I think Alabama football, it overshadowed. They so goddamn good. It does.

49:08Shannon Sharpe:It does. It does. It does. It does. It's just like Michigan football. Michigan has some basketball players come out of the field now. Don't slip on Michigan basketball players.

49:18Chad Johnson:Yeah, but Michigan, that's a football school, huh? Yeah.

49:22Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. I mean, people just talk about the Fab Five, but, hey, man, when they had Glenn Rice and Mills and all those guys. They had some guys.

49:30Chad Johnson:Yeah. No, they had some guys. They had some guys.

49:34Shannon Sharpe:But the number one seed so far, other than Florida, advanced, who does Michigan play next? Hey, you see. Oh, they play Tennessee.

49:46Chad Johnson:You see, Michigan got a lot of juniors and seniors too, Unc. Yeah. Hey, they got experience that they are banking on, but they got guys playing well. The one thing that I noticed about their bigs, man, they can pass. I'm going to tell y 'all something, man. In today's game, if you got any young hoopers out there listening, chat, y 'all hear me out. Man, having a great IQ for the game, knowing how to pass, knowing how to play the right way, that'll get you a long way, bro. Michigan got some guys. I'm talking about them backdoor passes when you got them guys playing overaggressive. Yeah. Setting picking roles for your bigs, and they can play make.

50:28Chad Johnson:They take a lot of pressure off your guards for guys who really can't get by their man like that. Right, right, right. You know what I mean? You got different ways to get open to exploit the game and manipulate it in so many different ways when your big is versatile like that. That's why Jokic is so special, man. Look at Jokic.

50:44Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. Oh, you see what he had? You saw what he had? No, what he had? 33, 14, and 12. 33, 14, and 12.

50:53Chad Johnson:Yo, and he playing in our face right now. Y 'all know that, right? That man playing in our face. Yeah. Hey, y 'all think he don't hear the chatters about who should be MVP? Yeah. He always going to be in it, but the man is a triple double. Yeah, for sure.

51:09Shannon Sharpe:I think, you know what it is, Joe? Give me a guy that has IQ, be it football, basketball, baseball. Because a lot of times, Ocho, we play with guys doing robotic. You say, hey, bro, this is right 10 to 12. Well, the guy standing right there, you go run behind. Dumb, dumb, don't run behind him. The quarterback ain't going to throw you the damn ball. You run behind the DB. Cut in front of him.

51:33Shannon Sharpe:Man, you know what? Hey, I saw. Bro, got.

51:35Chad Johnson:Hey, IQ making you.

51:37Shannon Sharpe:Boy, son, I hate to tell you this, but if dynamite with brains, you couldn't blow your nose. Come on over with me, son. Hey, hey, um, and Joe, the better your IQ, especially when it comes to the game of football, obviously i'm sure basketball is the same way where you can see what's going to happen before it happens or knowing what's going to happen actually before it happens to be two steps ahead of everybody else at times at times i could i could just speak for me playing receiver joke yeah always two or three steps ahead of the person in front of me right two or three steps ahead of the safety because i understand what you have to do and i know where you're going to be so understanding how to manipulate what's in front of me and give the illusion that i'm doing something that I'm really not going to do, to make sure I can get to the spot I need to get to as fast as hell.

52:20Chad Johnson:I understand that. You know what I mean? I think, yes, I think you may even have to have that in basketball more than you do in football. Especially if you got the ball in the hand, huh? I don't think. Well, because the floor, if things happen, I have to understand floor spacing. You know what I mean? I think that's the biggest key, especially young guys who really don't know how to play the game. You know, they don't understand floor spacing and getting deep corner, getting out your man way. You know, you got a guy operating, you standing right next to him, cut. You know, you have – a lot of these cats got to learn, Ocho, because they all growing up with the ball in their hand, and when they don't have it in their hand, they just look like statues out there.

52:59Chad Johnson:They don't know what the hell to do. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Hey, you know, Uncle Joe, you know what they always say. When it comes to sports, the game, especially once you get to the highest level, the game is 90 % mental. Hello. It's only 10 % physical. Hello. middle because so now it all comes to how much you know up here how can you see the game and see things before they actually happen yeah always having a plan if plan they don't go right how fast can you can you can you reenact yeah what happened with plan b yeah being able to adjust on the fly yeah i mean it's it's oh it's that's what makes me so upset ocho is that and

53:40Shannon Sharpe:And we talk about this all the time. I say, Ocho, he got help to the inside. Why would he get beat outside when he know he got help inside? If you got help outside, why would you get beat inside? That's what kills me. You see the guy. You see that safety coming down. If you see the safety coming down, what do you think the man on top of your head going to do? He going inside. The safety is coming down because now he has outside contained. Bro, how you get beat on that? Man, I ain't. What you mean you didn't know? Did you watch film? They did it on film 10 times.

54:19Shannon Sharpe:But every time, give me your phone real quick. Let me see how many phone numbers you got in the last five days. You got that, you wrote all this down. But you don't remember these damn plays. See, Joe, that's why I couldn't coach, man. It drove me crazy that we go over stuff and they show up on film, they're going to give you this look. It's just like Spags. We already know. If Spags get you, if Spags feel threatened, he's coming with pressure. You know that. It's coming. Why is it a situation that we've gone over and over and over and over? You effing up.

55:03Chad Johnson:I know exactly what you mean, boy.

55:07Shannon Sharpe:Man, you know, it ain't okay. It is not okay. Stop telling me that it's okay. It ain't.

55:16Chad Johnson:Yeah.

55:17Shannon Sharpe:Like, bro, how? And you mean to tell me, so let me get this straight. You can't remember one damn play, but you quick to tell me, I got 1 ,300 on the SAT. I got a 30 on the SAT. I can't tell who took the test with you.

55:36Shannon Sharpe:your SAT must have been just shaped is this a square a rectangle or a circle cause there ain't no way in hell you can't remember this but you got a 13, 1400 SAT bro that's why I just don't have the patience I don't, I try, I just don't because if I can get it and I know when I got there, I didn't know nothing. I ain't know nothing about no over, no under. I didn't know about no coverage. I ain't know no two. I ain't know no one. I ain't know no six. I ain't no quarters. I ain't no seven. I ain't no eight. I ain't know nothing. And for me to pick it up and to be able to do, flourish in it.

56:21Shannon Sharpe:Lord have mercy. I get mad every time I think about somebody that I'm f-ing up a coverage. Hey Joe, I ain't had no choice but to get it Joe. I ain't had no choice.

56:30Chad Johnson:Hey, none of us had a choice, Ojo. Hey, I talk too much shit not to get it, Joe. Yeah, oh yeah. Too much trash. Oh yeah. I had to be on top of my game. Oh yeah.

56:41Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, because if you don't talk to people out there game, you talking, you worried about me, you got the flat. Here you carry me up the scene. Yeah, nothing today. Sharks are gonna be running. TD got 15. Your black ass supposed to be in the flat. Why you worried about me up the scene? Oh man. But you ain't, they would rather shut you down, Ocho, blowing assignment, saying, all right, you ain't catching no pass, as opposed, you got the flat, you got hooked. Ain't something there.

57:11Chad Johnson:Yeah.

57:15Shannon Sharpe:I just, man, I just, man. I be thinking about stuff, I said, Lord, have mercy. I said, Lord, you coulda, I said, I wouldn't mind, Lord, if you took a little bit of talent and gave me more patience.

57:29Shannon Sharpe:He gave me all talent, no patience. You know, I can still see you coaching for some reason. No, I didn't mean coaching. Hey, Joe, even though he say I don't have the patience for it, but understanding what he could do, especially with his structure and discipline, when it comes to playing, whatever sport it may be, whether it's football, whether it's basketball, but being that he knows both really well, I can see coach, especially at the highest level, you get somebody like that in the building, man, stop playing. because it's hard Ocho I mean it's hard to develop this level of discipline if you're not already disciplined no that's what that's got I mean you're like it's just like it's obsessive I mean it's a I don't know if I want somebody as disciplined as I was Ocho because it ain't healthy and the thing is it drives you crazy because everything my grandfather had had to be right and so I always tried to do everything because there ain't no if he didn't like if you it wasn't no good job I bet I've been he told me about brother what he gave was he gave told me and my brother to watch the truck he gave us a dollar no he gave us two dollars he gave us like 350 I got a dollar cuz I just want yeah my brother was in charge of washing the truck, the body, drying it off, and do all that stuff.

58:55Shannon Sharpe:We went going to the house, we run the cows. Papa, Papa, we done. He come out there and look at it. He looked at me, me and Spanky standing side by side. He looked at the truck, he looked at me and Spanky. He looked at the truck, he looked at me and Spanky. Don't laugh, y 'all. He say, anything is better than nothing, but you two fellas real close to that I look I look I look with Dago I thought we did a good job I thought we did a good job

59:30Chad Johnson:hey

59:32Shannon Sharpe:you know what I need my brother my sister don't like when we tell the story but that joke was hard he was hard on it there was no excuses he didn't tolerate excuses he did not I'm not either get it. I'm like, I'm like, and I've been spanking, spanking. He'd be spanking, walking up. He's like, we real close to me. Yeah, that's what he's saying.

1:00:02Chad Johnson:Hey, hey, listen.

1:00:04Shannon Sharpe:That's what he's saying. So I couldn't do it, O.J. I couldn't do it. It took a lot because, you know, when you have kids, you have to develop a certain level of patience. I'm talking about patience to the up to the degree because like wet in the bed, they gave you to you to about two years old, maybe two and a half, three. Boy, if you was four years old, let alone five, six, seven, and peeing in the bed. They were teasing. They were teasing. Teasing? Boy, Barney Porter, shut down on your ass. Mary Porter going to shut down on your ass.

1:00:40Shannon Sharpe:Oh, hell no. Like, you know, kids have problem where they wet the bed. It's a lot of things, like a lot of this stuff, like you had, boy they beat that up out you. They beat that up out you. All those, what kids have now, you know, he got ADHD, he got this, you know. Hey listen, Joe, back in them days, you know, it wasn't no ADHD, you were just stupid. That's it. You was, you was. Yeah, you was stupid. Yeah, they tell your ass, guess what? They tear your ass up and all of a sudden you like, damn, I could do this homework so good. Ooh, four plus four is eight. Eight times four is 32. Oh, I could do my homework.

1:01:27Shannon Sharpe:Well, when Barney and Mary shut down on your ass, I could read. I'm like, damn, this shit don't go easy. Boy, you know, a whipping solves everything in the South. Everything.

1:01:40Chad Johnson:You got him.

1:01:40Shannon Sharpe:Hey, you, hey. Hey, grandma. I'm gonna tell this story, we gon' go on. My granny used to have a saying that like my aunts never come in the house and you know, they wouldn't speak, cause my grandfather was big in that. You couldn't walk in his house without speaking. But you know how women, I mean, they teenage girls, you know, they might be on their cycle or whatever, and they walk in the house and they wouldn't say anything to him. My grandfather say, is there something on your mind you wanna dance? No sir.

1:02:15Shannon Sharpe:Hey, look at Joe, Joe, Joe. I'm telling you, y 'all need to get with my brother. Boy, boy, did they play that? All that coming in the house and all that sucking your teeth and slamming the doors. No, when you walk into the house, it's yes, sir. Hey, good morning, good afternoon, good night, whatever the case may be. But don't you walk in that man's house and don't – What?

1:02:34Chad Johnson:Hey, man, when I was in elementary, bro, we were still getting paddled. You get paddled.

1:02:39Shannon Sharpe:Yeah. We had paddled with Alphabets too. I was in high school. You could get paddled in high school.

1:02:44Chad Johnson:I know when I was in elementary, you could get a paddled. I went to the office one time, Ms. Goshen, boy, she gave me, she hit me three times with that paddle. You got that paddle, Joe? One time, Ocho, one time. That's all it took, huh? Three times. She hit me three times with that paddle, boy. Hey, hey, hey, never again.

1:03:04Shannon Sharpe:Three times, boy, y 'all got up light. Man, I remember my homeboy told the teacher her breath stay. She got that joke about 35 weeks. Oh, he probably deserved it.

1:03:13Chad Johnson:I ain't, nah, nah. He told the teacher what? Her breath stay. Her breath stay. Hold on, hold on. Now, so he got 35 legs for the teacher. I know he got some when he got home.

1:03:24Shannon Sharpe:Nah, they, nah. Hey, I was just surprised. He lasted long in school, about as long as Skippy in the military. You know, Skippy, he skipped the military. I got you. No. They ain't one of them. I mean, once they get to a certain age, I was like, I don't really expect. I mean, if a guy missing 15, 20, 30 days in the second, third, fourth, and fifth grade, as soon as he get big enough, dang. Yeah, it's a wrap. It's a wrap. I mean, we ride by they rolling dice, so I like, they ain't coming. If you rolling dice at 730 in the morning, what's your chance of you coming to school, Joe? What's the chance of you coming to school?

1:04:01Shannon Sharpe:It ain't none. I got you. Okay.

1:04:04Chad Johnson:Well, hey, the boy hustled early. There it is.

1:04:08Shannon Sharpe:Tennessee beat Iowa State 76-62. The Balls pulled away in the second half because of their superior size, physicality, and toughness, as Iowa State seemed to crack without star forward Joshua Jefferson. Rick Barnes and the Balls are back to their third consecutive Elite Eight will have a chance to reach the Final Four for the first time in team history.

1:04:28Chad Johnson:Wow. Wow. I am happy for Tennessee. Another SEC blood. But another team. Yep, they got some young guys. They got the freshman in the minute who will be a lottery pick this year, Arkin Ocho. But the rest of these guys are juniors, seniors. I think they got another freshman or two coming off the bench. But for the most part, they got the upperclassmen doing the dirty work while the young guys doing all the scoring. You know what I mean? And this was surprising to me. It was surprising because I was led by two guards as a senior. You know, obviously I thought both of them played well, but Tennessee too much, bro.

1:05:07Chad Johnson:They got some bruises under their basket, man.

1:05:11Shannon Sharpe:They got out-rebounded Iowa State by 21. You get out-rebounded by that, I'm surprised the score wasn't more lopsided. Think about it. If you get out-rebounded by 21, they had 16 offensive rebounds.

1:05:30Chad Johnson:Shot 51 % From the field

1:05:37So I mean

1:05:39Shannon Sharpe:Got some good matchups So I guess it's Michigan and Tennessee Duke and you

1:05:44Chad Johnson:Hey we here now We here now Yeah You should see When it comes down to them brackets You know who in first night right Who you got winning Ocho And you know who in first right now, right? Who we got? Ocho, Ocho, Ocho, Ocho. Who we got winning? Who we got winning? Hey, y 'all making all them jokes talking about I'm picking mascots. Yeah, you did. You were. You did. Listen, listen, listen. Who is in first right now? And let me tell you who gonna win the whole The Mars Madness bracket. Who gonna win it? What you mean who gonna win? I was pulling up the rear in the beginning. Huh? Come on now. Who you picked?

1:06:25Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, Joe. Hold on. Hold on. Let me kick my feet up. He still got Duke in it. He still got Arizona in it. He got Michigan, but he had Virginia to beat Michigan. His bottom half bracket gone. It's busted. The south bracket is busted. But he still got Duke. He got Duke in Arizona. In the championship. To play for the national championship. He got Arizona to win it.

1:06:47Chad Johnson:Yeah, Arizona look good. I ain't going to lie to you. I mean, what you want me to say, Joe? But you only picked them because you just looked at a wildcat versus a hog. That's what I know, that's what I'm saying. That's how I - Joe ain't got nothing to do with it. Yeah, it is. Man, you don't know nothing about these teams. You know the mascot, and you like, that's what I'm going with. And it's worked out well for you. I ain't hating on you, I'm just saying.

1:07:12Shannon Sharpe:Yeah, I feel you, I feel you. But I see, you know what, next year I gotta take this thing more serious. I gotta put some more time in it. Remember watch some basketball, cause hey, hey, hey.

1:07:24Chad Johnson:Man, these boys out here getting down.

1:07:27Shannon Sharpe:I'm going to take a little. Instead of spending 10 minutes, I'm going to spend 30 minutes.

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