Right

here.

Nothing to it.

In this place.

Right there.

Keep your mouth shut over there, Todd.

But you think about getting all of us together.

Give your pitch.

They're buyers.

Yeah, and then they come out of the break, and they, uh, they go to LA and sweep the Dodgers.

It's ridiculous 'cause this team has no talent.

No talent.

It does remind me of the 2014 Red Sox team that was not very good and won the World Series miraculously.

It was Ortiz and a bunch of misfits.

But I will tell you, Zeb, that it's funny you say that 'cause back around June, around the time they were fired, you know, their infield, um, was so pathetic.

D- what did you think of the Tarik Skubal trade?

Mm-hmm

... can support organizations that are, are helping our kids, I'm gonna do it.

So I was down there for that, and I started getting a bunch of notifications on my phone, and then I started getting texts that said, "Are your, are your fam- is your family all right?" And I said, "Well, this is, this can't be good." And then I started seeing the footage, and I got in the car and started heading home immediately.

Um, my kids and wife were actually at a movie, which was probably a safe space for them.

And, uh, when I got home, it was absolutely unbelievable.

Um, I've never seen anything like it.

We lived about, or we live about a mile away.

[laughs]

yeah

which allowed the guards to be able to get aggressive be aggressive and who was anchoring the defense Mike Boyd, right? So, I mean, you look at what he was able to do it, how he was able to go about that defensively.

Like I look at it and I say, yeah, they can not only compete in the big 10, they can compete for a national title.

They've got more than enough skillset.

They've got length at the rim.

I know Jeff, you're kind of shaking your head a little bit at me.

But defensively, they're going to be in games because of the length.

Why is Wisconsin basketball going to keep maintaining that trajectory this season?

How is it that the NBA has a brothers jobs program, sons and brothers and relatives jobs program that pays millions of dollars? Doesn't that seem a little bit embarrassing?

Well, it's embarrassing, but here's the secret within the league by itself.

Whether it's a brother's program or whether it's an agent, hey, I got a guy and you need to take care of him, guys.

Like, this has been around forever.

Like, there's guys that, matter of fact, when I was playing the G League, I had an agent reach out to me when I got called up to the Nuggets.

He's like, hey, I can get you on the Knicks tomorrow if you sign with me.

I've got three guys on a contract there that are renegotiating them.

it and you'll help them out right

Butchy, please tell our son, Armen, not to be disappointed when there's no pony for Christmas, that there is no way this week the Bucks say, "Yeah, you know what? Never mind, we're keeping him." It's not happening.

No, it's not happening at all.

He's gone.

Uh, this is gone.

You, you...

This was happened a long time ago.

Um, Giannis has said it in Giannis' way.

That's it.

So why don't you walk us through what that is, how it launches, and what it's gonna do?

Yeah.

Well, this is what I'm really passionate about.

Obviously, I've been in the media for a long time now, um, which is something I enjoy.

Uh, but I've been running youth basketball camps for about 16 years, and I started them with the vision of how do I make Wisconsin kids better? Like, how do I give back? How do I find a way to do that? Because I had a platform.

I played at the University of Wisconsin.

A lot of people knew who I was.

Sure.

[laughs]

I, I kinda know the way this stuff works here, Brandon.

I'm telling you, one of the reason Giannis wants to come back and play is 'cause he wants to play with his brothers.

They wanna start history.

That being said, that played out a little bit.

Uh, so congratulations on Alex getting his first NBA points, all from the free throw line.

Uh, but it was the tone early on in this game, Brandon.

No.

So what, in your opinion, has changed with that?

[smacks lips] Well, I, I just...

I, I, I think it was a contract that shouldn't have been given.

I mean, I th- and I say that jokingly, Brandon, but I think when you look at it, I wasn't a huge fan of AJ Green.

I think the development is great.

I think all that has been there.

Um, I, I just...

... for this team not giving up?

So when did this one turn for you against the Bucks as they fall by seven, now 28 and 40 on the season?

Yeah, I think it was this.

You know, you look at Ousmane Jang, he, he make, drills a three, gets it a four-point game, and then what happens? Cleveland comes back down, Max Strus corner three, gets it to seven with 3:39 left.

I mean, there's a lot of points in the game that go back and forth, but bottom line is you're sitting there for the majority here going back between, you know, a two-point game.

Obviously, there's a little bit where, you know, Cleveland pushes it to an eight-point, uh, with five minutes left, but they're still chipping away, chipping away, and I felt like, okay, like, the fight is still there.

But when it finally got to seven, and I was like, "All right, that's probably where this thing is at," and, and it was.

Like, there just wasn't enough yet, and there was...

Yeah.

[laughs]

"We're, we're not gonna worry about either team playing defense in the first half.

We're just...

We'll, we'll just go play." Um, then all of a sudden they did get a couple of stops.

I thought they tightened up at the end, end of the third.

Uh, at the end of the third with Torian Prince and what he was able to do.

Knocked down a couple threes, do some different things there.

But when did you think this one turned in favor for the Bucks on their way, on the, on the, on their way to an 11-point win?

They're getting destroyed.

Well, yeah.

No, but part of it is they're really bad defensively.

I've seen that.

I agree with the, the comments that are there.

Um, defensively they are [laughs] not elite by any means.

Um, so I, I...

[laughs]

Just give us, you know, a qui- you know, two or three minutes, your thoughts on the, on the individual play from Ryan Rollins.

Yeah, I think this is the thing, um, he's young still.

Now, he's been given the keys with the injuries, and now all of a sudden you expect him to really develop.

Now, he's developed, and I think a lot of that is, is, you know, the, the assistants are, that are there, right? Mainly Rondo and what he's been able to do.

I think that's a big part of that.

Um, but to me, like I, I just think that the takeoff, we'll use it that, the, the, the takeoff is so wide that he has been asked to do a lot more and is not necessarily put in his box yet as far as this is what you do really well.

Stay within those four lines.

I don't think so.

Your thoughts, Butchie, on the 128-117 win?

Yeah, I think it's a great win for this team.

They're really starting to do some really good things.

I think when you look at this team with KPJ and what they're doing and Thomas and Porter, to me the biggest thing is they are hunting mismatches.

And then when they have them, they take advantage of them.

And I think that's the biggest thing that I look at with this group.

I mean, yes, the Toronto game was ugly.

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