The View From Summer League. Plus, How Many Robs Could Take Wemby? | Group Chat
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What happened when the hosts reunited and set the tone for this Summer League episode?
Hello and welcome to Group Chat. I am Justin Verrier and joining me, Rob Mahoney, J. Kyle Mann. Kyle, no black eyes, so I assume no fights while you were in Vegas?
Yeah, all my trash talking about BAM luckily was on an Indian encrypted social media service, so none of it got out, luckily, but...
Yeah, no trash talking publicly here. We would never say a negative thing about any player. We keep it to signal as God intended, keep it amongst ourselves. Although, Justin, I have to say, maybe it's not a coincidence that Kyle does not have a black eye. Also, you were not in Vegas. So, I mean, who was the feud really going to be with to begin with?
Oh, I wouldn't just throw punches. I would just give him a stone cold stunner, you know, one to the chest, drop them down.
Justin 316, baby. Have either of you ever been in a fight? Like for real?
Absolutely not. Kyle, come on. I got punched once in sixth grade by Tim Barlow. Didn't have a chance to throw back.
Can I ask you an honest question?
Yeah.
Did you deserve it?
probably okay it was it was over like a piece of paper like a paper dropped to the ground it was someone's and I was like you should pick that up you know fighting for what's right in the world as I typically am these days still he didn't take kindly to it and then
Right in the kisser. Were you having a brother, Rob? Those don't really count, though, on the ledger. It's not a real thing, yeah. Right, yeah. I've been punched a couple times. I was always kind of skating in that realm. The mouth was always ahead of the ability to fight, obviously. I was a big trash talker in practice. And I went through a phase of saying the person's name. If I made a three over them, I would say their name. It was pretty obnoxious. And I would do it to the upperclassmen. And I remember I did it and I said, Ryan, I was like, it's going to take more than that. And he goes, motherfucker, what did you say? Everybody's like holding it back. And I was like, he would have killed me. But you said Stone Cold Stunner.
And that's what triggered this for me is because I was playing... tackle football outside and I think I was like a freshman in high school and there was this dude I just didn't I'm not I wasn't a fighter but it escalated and I didn't know what to do like where it was like he was coming at me and I ran and basically just like took him down and my friend said you did a stone cold stunner on him that was amazing and I was like Oh, I didn't even. No, not a fighter. So shockingly, this isn't a fighting podcast. I know.
Who knew? People will be truly stunned to hear it. Great. Great stuff. I'm surprised that the stunner even worked in real life because I'm just like the mechanics of it. It's literally you're just like dropping down, hoping that the chin meets the crook of the elbow and somehow that sort of blow like does something to you. Like the mechanics of actual wrestling don't make sense to me. So I'm surprised that it got off in real life.
We got to be glad that Ben isn't on this recording because he would be interjecting with fact checks left and right. I mean, we're clearly dragging Steve Austin's name through the mud, but here we are.
Yeah.
All right. Well, why don't we get to the task at hand? We'll get to some mailbag questions later on. Thanks for sending those into ringergroupchat at gmail.com. You can still send them in and just checking on Rob throughout the course of the summer. Please. Ask if he ever gets out of the back room that he's stuck in right now, this liminal space.
Yeah.
You don't even want to see the half form desk that I'm currently sitting at. But, you know, ends like needs must really. We're in the offseason. These are desperate times. We got to record anywhere and everywhere we can.
All right. But we got to talk about first and foremost, some of this hot summer league action. Kyle, you were just there. You were just there. Set us a scene. What was going on on the concourse? What was up at the Venetian? Were you running the tables at night? What was the scene like?
I, I'm, I'm very much a people watcher person.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What happened when the hosts reunited and set the tone for this Summer League episode?
0:16–13:59
2
What was Kyle’s on-the-ground Summer League report from the Venetian and Old Vegas?
13:59–28:03
3
Which top rookie performances (the ‘top four’) stood out and why did Caleb Wilson electrify the crowd?
28:03–50:20
4
How did scouts evaluate Kayla Wilson’s shooting, defense, and translateable skills?
50:20–1:20:20
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