The Trail Blazers are not going to win their series against the Lakers

What I've said from the start is the Blazers aren't going to win this series and they're not gonna win this series. [Game 1] was the worst shooting team I've ever seen though, the Lakers.

The Trail Blazers will 'gentleman sweep' the Lakers

We're gonna need full Hank hate in the tank for the next series and the series after that if they can somehow survive the gentleman sweep coming away from the Blazers.

Anthony Davis is afraid to be the 'alpha' while playing with LeBron James

Is AD afraid to be the alpha with LeBron around him? That's the question that people are asking.

Kevin Willard's joke about firing his staff was funny and shouldn't have been taken seriously

It was such a clear joke and people, I couldn't believe... There were people who actually thought he was being serious. I thought it was a funny joke. And then we had the people trying to cover for themselves being like, well, even if it was a joke, that's not a joke you make. Imagine if you're an assistant and you hear your boss say that.

The lack of Cinderellas in the tournament isn't due to NIL but because big teams are more efficient and physical

Todd Golden had a very good point... part of the reason why there's less upsets is teams are just getting way more efficient in scoring at the rim and becoming almost like raising their floor and becoming upset proof in the fact that you get really big dudes... and absolutely hammer the boards. And when you do that against smaller schools, you're not gonna like, how do big schools lose the small schools is like three point variance.

The Sweet 16 in Houston won't be a home game for the Cougars because Iowa and Nebraska fans travel too well

Illinois, Nebraska and Iowa have some pretty big fan bases that are all gonna wanna travel, especially Nebraska... I don't think it's gonna be like they're gonna take over the place, but I don't think it's gonna be 80% Houston at this game.