I have reached a point in my career where I am completely confident that I am simply very good at my job.
There was a moment where I went, 'Hey, you know what? I'm fucking good.' I'm just good at this job. ... The collection of what I am now at this point, my abilities, I was like, 'I'm fucking good.' ... Once you're like, 'Hey, you know what, I'm pretty fucking good at this,' I think you become even better because now you've freed up all this other room to just continue to execute.
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View episodeThe NBA Finals were officially over the moment Nikola Jokic picked up his fifth foul and the Heat still couldn't take the lead.
Friday night we had a little Scott Foster. Jokic gets his fifth foul on a phantom foul... They take Jokic out in the fourth quarter with the Nuggets up 10 with nine minutes left. He doesn't come back in for another five and a half minutes. And the Nuggets were up nine when he came back in. So that was it. That was the moment that the series was officially over.
The Denver Nuggets winning the 2023 NBA Finals is the start of a dynasty
This is the start of the dynasty. This is, this is merely, but the first chapter that we're writing with Nuggets. If, you don't get three titles then. It's a failure.
Heat culture is dead; it has been replaced by Nuggets culture.
It's almost like the Nuggets have out-Heat-cultured Heat culture in this series to a certain extent by having those role players. It's this Nuggets culture that's winning this. ... This is Heat culture's dead. Nuggets culture. Viva la Nuggets culture.
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View profileLincoln Riley still has no signature win at USC
If you go through the Lincoln Riley résumé, this is a really long time since starting in '22 to not have that signature win. Give us one. Beat Oregon once and be like, 'Hey, look.'
The SEC will regain its national-championship dominance
It was still hard for me to believe that they're just not gonna win national championships now because of NIL. That's the kind of parity. I think the SEC is gonna turn this thing back around where they're gonna start rolling through people again.
BYU is ranked far too highly to be trusted
I was arguing Texas Tech being overlooked because at least they have some P4 wins in there. They looked like shit against Colorado. BYU is eighth in both polls. I'm not putting them in there.