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00:00Coach James Young is our basketball guru and analyst of choice.
00:09That's my boy over there, uh, styling.
00:12You can catch betting above the rim is podcast every week, Tuesdays, Thursdays, I think it
00:16is.
00:17And, uh, we love talking rack, but we got to start with your Mets.
00:20Uh, they're getting ready to play game three at city field against the Phillies.
00:24Do you like him today against NOLA to get it done in this huge game in Queens?
00:30Absolutely not.
00:32My day's already been horrible.
00:35I got up.
00:36I thought the world was fine.
00:37Sounded like it's fired during sports marketing class.
00:41I didn't know what was going on.
00:43By the way, Salah should have been fired, but Nathaniel Hackett, he must got some pictures
00:48of Aaron Rodgers.
00:49I don't know how he still has a job.
00:51But I do have a feeling, Pharrell, could Devontae be a jet by tomorrow?
00:56Stay tuned.
00:57Wow.
00:58So you're calling for Devontae to the gangrene, but you're, you're going southbound on your
01:05Mets.
01:06I always knew you were a traitor when I saw you at Yankee Stadium drinking beers.
01:10Oh, they were good.
01:11They were good.
01:12Hey, Pharrell, especially that, especially that bar next, next to the, next to the store
01:17where you got the free access.
01:18Oh, no, no, no.
01:19I thought it was the one in the stadium, but that was, that was a nice time.
01:23But I will say this, Pharrell, you know what, how about this?
01:26The game goes over because it's going to get to the bullpens.
01:30They're both going to blow it, both, you know, Robbie Thompson and obviously Mendoza will
01:35be short leashes with their pitchers, even Nola.
01:37I think this game smells, smells over.
01:41All right.
01:42That's what Carver High is thinking.
01:44Nola and Mania out in Queens getting ready to go in a couple minutes.
01:47All right, coach, let's talk rack.
01:49I want to start with the Liberty and what they did because they eliminated the two-time
01:55defending champs and they got it done in Sin City.
01:58They lost game three.
01:59They didn't play well, but game four, they handled their business.
02:02Well, simply put, it was Sabrina Inescu.
02:05And if you look at the series, Pharrell, she scored 20 points or more in every game.
02:09But game number three, that's the game that she only made one shot.
02:12So Sabrina Inescu, particularly in the first half, hitting four threes, obviously the play
02:17of Stewie getting a double-double, kind of exercising her demons.
02:21Remember that 3-for-17 game last year in game four of the WNBA Finals.
02:27But then you start looking at some of the other players, John, 12, 14, and 8.
02:30Leona Fibich in the starting line-up put 11 points.
02:33They did some things, but to me, it's more on the other side.
02:36It was the lack of shooting of Hayes, of Young, of Plum, and of Gray.
02:43The three-starred shot, a combined 5-of-18 from three.
02:46I said that was going to be the issue of the series.
02:49The delivery shoots are better.
02:50Half-court basketball, you crowd the space of Aja Wilson.
02:53Notice, her points ball was 24-and-a-half.
02:55Pharrell, she didn't go over one time that series.
03:00So let's go back to Sabrina for a second.
03:03Because I noticed, and I was, Chop had a game on Sunday and hit four threes.
03:07And she did it with the release, that catch-and-shoot.
03:11Like I saw Inescu literally catch the ball and literally shoot at the same time.
03:16She caught the ball.
03:17There was no hesi on her fire after the catch.
03:22The catch-and-shoot was pure.
03:23Deep corner pocket, boom.
03:25She let it fly.
03:26On the wing, boom.
03:27Let it fly.
03:28All snap-net.
03:29And, you know, Chop hit four of them, too, in a game.
03:32I think that she looked fantastic shooting the ball off at a pass.
03:37I thought she had it all going.
03:38I mean, when you shoot like that and you're on, they're tough to beat.
03:43They are tough to beat because now you have that presence.
03:46And I think, here's the other thing people don't realize.
03:48And let's just do it all with respect.
03:51Kaitlyn Clark is absolutely phenomenal.
03:53But people forget that Inescu was Kaitlyn Clark before Kaitlyn Clark.
03:57This is the Inescu that in her senior year at Oregon got robbed of probably Oregon with
04:01the best team in the country.
04:02Would have won a National Championship because of the COVID outbreak.
04:05She goes to the WNBA with the Liberty as the number one pick.
04:08After the third game, she hurts her ankle.
04:12Misses the entire season.
04:14The rest of that 2021 season.
04:16It took her a while to figure it out.
04:19You saw glimpses last year.
04:20But this year, she played like one of the top ten players in the world.
04:24And when you can put her, Stewie, John Quarrell-Jones, for real, you got three of the top 12, 13 players
04:31in the world on one team.
04:32They're balanced.
04:33They're big.
04:35And they can defend.
04:36And they should win the WNBA Championship.
04:38Yeah, well they should.
04:39And how many times have they been to the final and not won it?
04:42Don't you think they finally washed that down the drain?
04:45Yeah.
04:46They are an original franchise that has never won a WNBA title.
04:51Right?
04:52You got to think about the teams that have come before them.
04:54Detroit.
04:55Shocked.
04:56They were an original team.
04:57They won titles.
04:58The Houston Comets won three.
04:59I mean, those two teams are, for real, those two teams done folded already.
05:02So New York Liberty got their first, I guess, championship when they won the Commissioner's
05:06Cup last year.
05:08This is the one they want.
05:09This is an important year.
05:10That don't count.
05:11That don't count.
05:12That's like when the Lakers won.
05:13That's like when they were celebrating shit.
05:14They were popping that Moet, you know, over there when the Lakers won the NBA Cup or won
05:20an in-season tournament.
05:21No one cared about that junk.
05:23This is the one they got to win.
05:25And the New York Liberty will get it done this season.
05:27Alright, before we talk about the Lynx and Sunday night and their big game five in the
05:32Target, I want to ask you, I saw that GM report and they picked the Celtics to go back to
05:37back.
05:38Do you think they'd go back to back?
05:41I think they do.
05:43But I tell you this much, this next team with Cat, it's a different kind of beast now, Pharrell.
05:52Because listen, when you look at what the Knicks did, they literally looked at Boston.
05:56They looked at Boston.
05:59They looked at Boston and they said, what do we need?
06:02We need two perimeter stoppers.
06:03So they went and got two of the best five defenders on the perimeter and O.G. and Bridges.
06:08Then they looked at the way K.P. buries them from three and says, we got to go get a better
06:12K.P.
06:13And that's Cat.
06:14I think this team is going to be really good and do not, you look good in the preseason,
06:18late in the game, don't sleep on this kid Kolic.
06:21He could be the backup.
06:22He could be campaigner.
06:23Pharrell, he looked very good in that second unit in their first game against Charlotte.
06:27There's no doubt.
06:28I can't wait for it.
06:29It's right around the corner.
06:30Doing push-ups.
06:31There's all kinds of preseason games now that I don't care about, but let's get it on in
06:35the NBA.
06:36I can't wait to get you on talking pro hoops all the time on C2C.
06:39All right.
06:40Tonight in Minneapolis now from the jump, I told you links and Liberty, and it's not
06:45a stretch to pick those two great teams.
06:47They were great all year.
06:48They're hiding there.
06:49In fact, I think these three teams that are left are the three teams that should be left.
06:55And I, I thought the Aces had their run and I thought they weren't that good this year.
07:00I thought they lollygagged and didn't take the season seriously like a two-time champ
07:05going for a three-peat could have.
07:06They just didn't seem to have it every night.
07:09Whereas the Liberty did, the Sun did, the Links did.
07:13What do you think happens tonight in Minneapolis?
07:16I'm sure you, you're probably on the Links, right?
07:18Yeah, I'm on the Minnesota Links minus a point.
07:22Simply put, Pharrell, when you, when you, when you look at Minnesota, they're going
07:26to be at home and the way that they play, particularly defensively, this game Pharrell
07:31is going to come down to three-point shooting, right?
07:34The team that shot better from three has won all four games.
07:38So now I'm going to take the home team that's got the better shooting team.
07:42Give me the Minnesota Links.
07:44I thought they were going to the finals when the playoffs started.
07:47I'm not wavering now.
07:48Minnesota Links win and they cover, they cover the four and a half points.
07:51Now I know you got some juicy props for this game tonight.
07:54What about that Sun team total?
07:57Hey, shout out to the famous group, Black Moon.
08:02Who got the props?
08:03Coach got the props.
08:04And I'd like the Connecticut Sun to go under, under their team total of 73-and-a-half.
08:12So far in this series, 73-70.
08:15And then the outliers, the high-scoring games, Pharrell, game five, elimination game both
08:20sides.
08:21You know what this means?
08:22Game slows down.
08:24And they don't shoot the ball well under 73-and-a-half.
08:27Wow.
08:28And that's, to me, the best defensive team in the league getting defensed themselves
08:33by the Links tonight.
08:34And what about Collier?
08:36You got some action on her?
08:38Yeah, her points prop was 21-and-a-half.
08:41I was nervous.
08:42So I'm just going to go big feasts, double-double at minus 140.
08:45Top five in rebounding, top five in scoring.
08:48They're going to lean on her.
08:49Big minutes.
08:50Feast to Collier.
08:51Double-double.
08:52Minus 140 on Fandor.
08:53You call her big feasts?
08:54Yeah.
08:55Big.
08:56They call her big feasts.
08:57Well, I mean, maybe not, but I just called her, and she's a big, and she's nice.
09:03Coach's programs he's got going down the shore, he's taking over the East Coast.
09:08Forget the shore.
09:09Coach is taking over the East Coast.
09:11It's the best coach in the East Coast.
09:13My man's the best coach in the East Coast.
09:15That's what's up.