Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network.

And it is another edition of Hoops Adjacent. I am David Aldridge in L.A. My man, Waslambray. What's up, man?

I'm good. I'm just cooling, man. Just cooling the weather. The temperature is rising again.

Allergy season is back, but, you know, I'm cooling.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Last week was horrible for me with the allergies here in D.C. That pollen got to

kick my ass last week. It was terrible. Terrible, but better now. Better now. We have a national champion.

Congrats to Baylor for whipping that Gonzaga ass last night.

That was a, you know what was?

We'll get to Mike Smiles here in just a second to talk about this great new podcast, shattered about the last 20 years of the Knicks.

But it just annoyed me because I heard it on the broadcast and then I saw it on Twitter.

People making excuses again, you know, five, you know, 10 minutes in the game,

oh, Gonzaga's so emotionally spent after that overtime win over UCLA. They didn't have anything left.

Why can't y'all just say they're getting their ass with? What's wrong with y'all? It happens.

It's sports, man. I mean, you know, sometimes you come out and the other team just whips your ass that day.

And that's what happened last night.

It doesn't mean Gonzag is not a great team, but they didn't have a great season.

It means on Monday, April the 5th, 2021, they got their ass whipped by by Baylor, sorry.

Taylor came out and it was just like, we're better than you, we're bigger than you, we're stronger than you, we're just going to muscle you. And that's what happened. And that happens sometimes. Again, like, you know, y'all went undefeated and that was nice. Right. But it's not like you were nobody's, you know, idea of the damn John Wood in UCLA. You know what I'm saying?

Like, y'all had a nice team, man. Y'all took it as far as y'all could go and you should be congratulated for that. And maybe if they play tonight, maybe Gonzaga would play better. I don't know. You know, you never know. I'm just saying, stop. I mean, I just drove me. It just makes me angry when people won't acknowledge what's in front of y'all.

This wasn't like a,-point game, the whole game, and it went back and forth. And, you know, somebody made a shot at the buzzer. No, this will beat down. You know, it happens in sports. Sometimes you get beat down. And that's what happened Monday night with Baylor. They just beat

Gonzaga point blank. Give them credit. I mean, that's what's so hard about that. Damn. Anyway,

that's not what we're here to talk about. I just had to get that off my chest. Let's bring in

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