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And I'm like...

Is that a thing that we're now just doing to expect?

We're just expecting that Cade Cunningham is going to have the best game a Piston has ever had and Isaiah Thomas played for the Pistons.

Is that what we're doing with some of the analysis where you're going into a game and you're requesting 45 from somebody?

The reason, though, that I bring it up, OK, is because I love that show and that show is the standard bearer.

But you have a fight having happening beneath that show.

OK, because everything's beneath that show where Stephen Jackson is unique.

yelling angrily about Mad Dog's analysis because Mad Dog is looking at Donovan Mitchell and James Harden and doing some version of calling them either overrated or trash.

And so Steven Jackson, as a former player, is looking at what the icons in media are doing on the general talking points.

And he's saying, really?

You're going to call Donovan Mitchell and James Harden trash?

You're going to call them overrated?

And Steven Jackson's point is, Mad Dog, what have you ever done in your life that would be as substantive as what those athletes are doing?

And so when you say, you say that's not analysis, but what is getting rewarded in sports commentary, I would say, is not analysis.

You don't rise to stardom now, do you?

You can be analysts that are trusted for their information, but to get to the top of whatever the game has become now, where Steven Jackson and Mad Dog and Stephen A are playing and where Shaq and Barkley are playing it, the job is now you have to be entertaining.

You don't have to be smart about anything.

But the part I do think is fair, though, is looking at Donovan Mitchell and James Harden, who would be, I don't know, top 20 in the world that's competing over something.

To call those people trash and overrated, that is not sophisticated commentary.

And it's not fair.