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There's so many correlations. Like you said, it's obviously the angles in terms of who's open and where to cut.

The timing of the two. Like one guy in the back line is a half step slow getting up in forming the line and all of a sudden now a guy's in on goal. 100%. You don't make that rotate quick enough when the guy gets blown by. You're late to the low man. I get dunked on. What's going on guys? Welcome to Switch to Play. This is a show where we tiptoe the line between the NBA and the Premier League. I'm Larry Nance Jr. I'm Roger Bennett of the Men in Blazers Media Network, and we are doing this, Larry Nance. It's been a long time in the making. We got our good friend, Alex Caruso, coming on just in a second.

But first, thanks to our friends at Ali Pop for making this all possible.

God bless.

And you said at the top, this show has been a long time in a making.

And you were telling no lie.

Because I first met you back in 2019.

You walked into our studio.

It was so long ago, Larry, you were then proper Chelsea.

What struck me things have changed was just how deep, how sincere, how unbelievably head over heels you were for football, almost ahead of your time there. But you were over in England. So much honestly felt to me, you're on the Stamford

Bridge pitch more than Christian Policic.

Well, look, look, the Chelsea stuff is a bit of a, a sort topic at this point.

But no, you're right. This has been a long time coming. This passion of mine has done nothing

but gross since I've met you the first time.

Despite meeting me, it's gross. Despite meeting you. And that's been the hardest part of it. No, I'm a basketball player. I'm a soccer fanatic. But this is life for me. This is, I really eat, sleep, and drink this sport. You really do. And one of many things I love about you, you're a man of talk, but you also a a man of action. You've become for real, and I'm sure this will become a refrain that we go deep on, a co-owner

of Leeds United. Hence the shirt, the Chelsea Days, they were just the adolescent mistake for

Larry Nance Jr. But you were ahead of your time. Back then, being a football fan in the NBA, it was almost like a dirty little secret. There were a couple of you. It's almost like the Masons. It was like a secret society. But now it runs so bloody deep. It's as much an NBA trope football fandom in an NBA locker room as like, you know, Joe Missoula's love of the town. No, no, you're 100% right. Coming into the NBA, I was very fortunate where I got to, you know, I got to be in a locker room with Kobe Bryant, who was just, you know, so passionate about about the soccer world. But since that point, it's become just more and more European influenced. And, of course, as those guys come over, you know,

we start to like, what are you watching over there? And, you know, what's, what's that jersey

you got on? And so guys are starting to really tune in to the greatness that is the world's

greatest sport football. You know, Steve Kerr actually came on the show and spoke to young,

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