So everyone is up in arms about the Phoenix Sun's preseason game where they lost to a team I had never heard of before today, the Adelaide thirty six ers. I'm sorry. Was I supposed to know them? Was that? Am I not up on my international basketball hoops? I don't know. At that point. I guess I'm just not plugged in enough. They didn't, though, just get beat They
got thrashed one thirty four twenty one twenty four. What if it was one thirty four to twenty four, one thirty four, one twenty four in Phoenix, that'd even like the MAVs game. One thirty four to twenty four is the first half score of Game seven in the mass. It's caused, though, this beatdown against the team none of us, I don't think new. It's caused a lot of Suns fans to feel like the the roof is crashing in. It's already a train wreck. This is just the next
sign of it. And you can understand why you've got a head coach Monty Williams hasn't talked to his star senator DeAndre eight and since June May May June, somewhere in there, you have an integral player of their success. Jay Crowder, who wanted an extension, wanted to start. Now he's not around the team, wants to be traded. You have your team owner. We've already rehashed, so we'll do
it again. Robert Sarver just a generally bad guy. Just misogynists, racist and a man of faith of course, and not much as going right for the Phoenix Suns, to be honest. But to me, coming off of my monastery trip, I want to look at the bright side here. This isn't about the Suns losing to an NBL team. It's about an NBL team beating the Suns, because that is something
different when you think about it. In terms of how Australia is feeling at the moment, they have got to be feeling pretty hyped up Australian basketball here like here here, It was probably here when LaMelo went over there to get himself seasoned and become the number two overall pick three three two. It was Aunt Edwards, it was James Wiseman,
LaMelo ball number three. They are balling down there. People are finally starting to notice we're not talking about just Patty Mills and Ben Simmons and Josh Giddy and Joe Ingles and Dyson Daniels. We're talking about the quality of the competition of the NBL as a whole. There's Australian pro hoops and they have come a long way. And that shows right because I have never heard of the thirty six ers, which this is a very hilarious bootleg
name for the seventy six ers. Former Memphis Tiger Craig Randall, former Washington State star Robert Franks lit up the Suns for sixty seven points combined. And by the way, the Sun starters all played if you're wondering, oh, well, maybe they were just like sitting on the bench and we had like Campaign and Landry Schamte out there. No all Sun starters played a minimum of twenty two minutes. Even Monty Williams said after the game he didn't give his
opponents enough respect. It's kind of like Game seven. But he'll be getting it now though. They'll be rolling into OKC to play against Gidey, They'll be playing the Pelicans against Dyson Daniels. This is gonna be These are gonna be games that everyone in Australia is going to tune in for now at least they feel like, oh, well, we have a shot. Last remaining problem though, in terms of why we maybe don't know about this game logistics, only seven, if you can believe it, seven NBA teams
sent scouts out to that game. It's called the Blitz. Why why did only seven come? That's what she said. It was held in Darwin, which apparently is next to impossible to get to. As ESPN reported, some NBL teams didn't even send executives to the Blitz because of how much of a hassle it was to get to the Northern Territory. Australian teams wouldn't even send their scouts out there. Why would you put this game in the middle of
remote territory? Just for fun? Because I have so much time on my hands, I checked in on a ticket to see what it would be like to get to Darwin. First of all, cheapest cost of a ticket three K. Second of all, quickest transit time that I could get out of Washington, DC was three days, including thirty six hours and thirty minutes of flight time, plus all of the time you're sitting around airports in your connecting flights. I mean, this could be in the middle of nowhere.
This is like Tasmania. But the bottom line of all this is that don't feel bad for the Suns. Feel happy for these thirty six ers. I can't even get their name right. I almost said seventy six ers again. They could very well be a train wreck, but it's not because they lost to this NBL team Australian Pro Basketball, no joke, and now NBA fans are just i think, starting to realize it, given the fact that it's trending right now.