WEBVTT - A Frogman Friday (Hour 2) 4/24/26 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:04.320 On air at AM five seventy LA Sports and I'm 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:07.960 demand on the iHeartRadio app. This is the Petros and 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:11.440 Money Show. You are one of the kind, hosted by 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.720 Petros Papaday guests left school after sixth grade. Look at 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.760 him and the voice of the Bolts Matt money Smith. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:21.239 The answer is on money. There is nothing you can do. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.680 You know it's coming. 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Why why he's old left ankle sprain. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.640 That's what they're saying. Matt left ankle. Sprain played seventy 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.080 eight regular season games this year, one of the healthiest 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.319 regular seasons of his career, and then the playoffs come 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:29.280 around and unfortunately for he and the Rockets, bad timing. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:34.119 So Lakers already up to zero duran out tonight. They've 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:35.520 looked pretty terrible offensively. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.120 First game he missed was due to a knee, knee, 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:39.319 and now it's an ankle. 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.760 Yeah, so there's that. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.720 I mean, that does not seem advantageous. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.920 For the Rockets. No advantageous for the Lebrons. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.880 Yeah, the fighting Lebron. James's how'd you like to win 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.960 a thousand dollars? 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No, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.200 you could podcast the show on the iHeartRadio app for 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.080 your smartphone and enjoy it that way, which is very, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.760 very advantageous, unlike the Rockets and the Lakers situation. Okay, 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.080 his words. The word of the day. Today's word of 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:54.840 the day is Armenian genocide. It's Armenian Genocide Day here everywhere, 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.280 but in bird Bank, Matt. The flags are flying. The 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.240 machine gun stickers on the back of the cars are there, 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.320 defend Armenia. Back of an Escalade, back of a black Mercedes, 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.400 back of a black Range Rover. I'm black and I'm back. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:14.360 And I went to the doghouse the. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.400 Former Taco bell up the street from the studio there. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.800 Yeah, and it doesn't look like a former Taco bell anymore, 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:19.359 it really did. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:20.440 They did a good job with that. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.800 Yeah, I'd really look like a former Taco bell for 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.800 a long time. Like the ones that are like a laundry. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:26.280 The mission style. 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.320 Yeah, and you go in and you think you're gonna 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.280 like churn some butter and wash some clothes by the river, 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.560 but instead it's a laundry no longer a taco bell 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.440 and some of the old taco bells. That one on 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.800 on what is that Holly? What is that Olive? The 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:46.080 one on Olive? Where where the doghouse is? It used 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.120 to have like an open flame out front, like a 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.680 fire pit. I don't do that anymore. The taco bells 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.520 used to have like a sweet fire pit out front. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.440 One thing you need in Burbank in the summer, it's 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:56.400 a flame to sit by. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.280 Well, I like to sit by that fire when I 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:02.320 eat my in fuato to my cinnamon twist. It's like 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:06.440 at one o'clock in August in right, I like to 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.800 sit down right there at the fire pit. But I 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:16.440 met the new owner of the u of the doghouse. 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:23.440 And the new owner of the doghouse on Olive is 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:29.680 an Armenian gentleman. Okay, yes, And he told me he 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.920 was a listener. He said, I have to ask, are 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.800 you Petros? I said, I am Petros, and I'm here 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:39.839 all the time. Is this your doghouse? And he said, yes, 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:45.440 it is my doghouse. And his name was Vaha. I'm 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.719 sure he has a cousin named mesk Bro and Vaha. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.720 I wished him, you know, I honored the Armenia. I 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.479 didn't say happy Armenian Genocide Day, because that's not right, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.760 you know, not happy. But I said, you know, my 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.960 thoughts are with your people to and he did the 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.200 heart touch and he said thank you, and then I 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:07.200 took another bite of my giant bacon breakfast burrito, which 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.160 I did enjoy. So a shout out to the new 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.479 ownership at the doghouse down the street, Matt. We are 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.600 very much involved with the doghouse, and Vaha owns three 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:21.320 other houses of the dog as well. Okay, they do 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.080 a bang up job with that, they sure do, Matt. 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.200 So a tip of the cap to our Armenian friends. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:29.640 Vaha went to Burbank Kai unfortunately, he told me, unlike 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.120 Kate's who went to Burrows, And Vaha said, I went 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.880 to Burbank because that's where all the Armenians go. That is, 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:47.480 may everybody have a pleasant and reflective Armenian Genocide rememberance day. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.359 You know, if he owns the doghouse over by the 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.360 Airport of Hollywood Way, that'd be a kind of cool 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.400 little spot for us to go maybe after a show 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:55.960 to get some beers. They had a really nice little 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:56.360 beer guard. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.919 They have nice yeah, they have. I mean I like 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:00.960 to sit right where they used to have that open 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.040 flame at the old top of Bell But hey, whatever. 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.160 You know, I'll bring your own flame. You know, we 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:05.520 can bring a hot plate and sit around here. 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.919 Yeah, that's good. Next time we brought a lighter around 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:08.640 here in Burbank. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:10.760 Really, I mean not that we get together as a 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.080 show or anything like other shows doing really bond, but 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:14.360 I'd rather get okay, all. 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.600 Right, here's my number. Number of the day. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.800 Number of the day is five. I believe we've talked 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:23.880 about this a little bit, but it's making the news 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.080 now because typically when the NCAA announces they're going to 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.320 do something, it takes about another ten years before they 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.000 actually kind of leak that they're gonna do it, and 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:34.919 then another ten years before they do it. But this 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.960 new Charlie Baker guy is looking to be known for 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:43.240 action and not talking. Five and five is what he 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:46.080 is proposing p and he wants it installed and voted 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.800 upon and having it enacted as soon as June of 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.440 this year. He wants it voted on in less than 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.920 four weeks. And he's saying the way to curb guys 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:00.000 coming back from the NBA or the G League, or 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.880 are playing professionally abroad. Is with this five and five rule, 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.560 you have a five year age based window to compete 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.600 in college athletics. It begins the moment you graduate high 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.360 school for five years or when you turn eighteen, for 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.640 five years. They want to eliminate traditional red shirt years 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:24.680 and injury based waivers. Exceptions are expected to be incredibly limited, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:31.280 very specific, rare circumstances like military service or maternity leave 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.400 no longer injury based Mormon mission. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:35.960 You can be still be twenty six and have a 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:36.760 bunch of kids and do it. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.920 I think the mission will work. Yeah, that would line 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.280 That would line up, and it aligns with the recent 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:46.000 executive order aiming to saturnize eligibility and limit transfer options. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.120 So he wants this voted on, and I would assume 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.440 the fact that the federal government wants to try to 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.400 get involved in this. The NCAA is trying to nip 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.600 that in the bud and see if they can curb 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.480 that by doing it themselves. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.600 And how much how much longer are they going to 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.960 be around because the two TV networks are already commiserating 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.440 to cut them out, and the only reason they haven't 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.880 done it already is because they don't get along very 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:12.200 well either super League. So yeah, it's a complicated situation 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.320 that's going to get more complicated. But the five and 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:15.600 five thing is a. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.280 Lot more like nice and easy what I had. 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:19.800 You know, growing up. If you you know, when I 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.640 transferred from col within the conference, that was terrible. I mean, 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.239 that was so much red tape. It was so daunting 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.160 that it was almost not worth doing at all. And 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.400 that changed a lot. So it looks like they're trying 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.880 to find a happy medium between those two. But that 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.640 seems pretty uh. I heard that yeah a while back, 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.360 and it does seem like a feasible, a feasible solution. 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.679 I just can't believe they're putting a timeline on it. 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.840 Normally they just leak it and then it sits there, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:46.480 it gets stale and we move on. 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.800 Well, Matt, look you know, I mean, robot ops are here. 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.920 Things happen faster here. At twenty twenty six, the world 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:52.839 turns quicker on. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.160 Its house changing. Baseball can change. We can if us 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.679 can change, and eyes can change, and baseball can change 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.040 certainly anything. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.280 Kish how is the moment everything changed? 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.760 This is the song of the day. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.520 Home Cooking is the title of our song of the 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.720 Day from the late great Nigerian drummer and composer Tony Allen, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.240 because the Petros and Money Show has the recipe for 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.719 cooking up three hours of great sports talk on a 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.199 frog Man Friday, as the Dodgers have returned to the 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.000 friendly confines of Uniclo Field at Dodger Stadium for some 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.360 home cooking of their own with that Weirdo Craig Council 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.000 in the Chicago Cubs in town for the weekend and 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.640 Tim Cats will work you up a good ladder, getting 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.000 you ready with your Marongo casino. 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We 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:35.560 will have Dodgers on deck as it is Dodgers v Cubs, 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.040 coming off a bit of a disappointing road trip three 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.240 and four against the Rockies and the Giants before taking 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.120 on a Cubs team that started out slow but has 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.400 picked it up as of late. And you're gonna want 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.760 to listen to that because it is an Apple TV 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.480 broadcast as it is a Friday night, very. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.760 Important to have the Petro Send Money show to tell 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.800 you where to watch the game or listen to it. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.839 We will handle it. And right now it's time for 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:04.360 Don McClain, our BFF, our number one guy when it 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:08.600 comes to basketball analysis. He's in the middle of what 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.880 we like to call Camp McClain, which is his draft 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:22.559 readiness program, run My caa Adventure accounting. You know him 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.840 as the leading scorer in the history of the Pac twelve. 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.400 You see him on the Big Ten network, FS one, 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:34.720 Fox Pac twelve Network. So the next ass he kisses 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.199 will be the first. It is our friend decorated in 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:44.160 the NBA Immortal in the Southern California area on your 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:49.480 Southern California Toyota to Neither celebrity hotline. Don McClain, the 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.640 Baron of Box Canyon, is here. Hello, Don. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.520 It's interesting Tim didn't say anything. But this is typically, 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.160 at least for the last four or so years, a 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.600 scheduled week off for me on the Petros and Money Show. 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.720 Yeah, but not with the way the Lakers. You know, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.679 the Lakers, they won a couple of games, and Chargers, 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.160 you know, picked late in the draft, you know d 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.280 ND not exactly justin Herbert going in the draft. You know, 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.400 Matt and I aren't out at the Santa Monica Pier 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:22.800 or the Century City Mall, and we figured, you know, 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.560 we might as well pull the trigger on our friend 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.840 Don McLean and get his thoughts about tonight's You. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.000 Don't remember why it's normally a scheduled week off for 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:31.880 me on this show. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.080 I am I plead ignorance. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.120 Go ahead, don stage Coach. I'm not going this year. 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:41.320 The Coach. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.680 I did think about that. I did. I did think 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.520 about asking you about Stage Coach because my wife mentioned 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.199 the Diplos Honky talk is in the corner at stage 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:54.120 Coach this year, and they also have Pitbull. I think 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.160 is it stage Coach Walflou. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.320 Diplo is there every year, and two years ago he 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.199 stayed at the house right next to us. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.680 Oh yeah, I don't look at that little after hours 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:05.439 for the mcleans. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.480 I think because we're old and cranky, at least I am. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.600 I think by the time he gets back from a set, 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.040 we are soundly asleep. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.959 I prefer to envision you in the driveway when Diplo 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:23.000 and his crew pull back. Diplo, well done tonight. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.920 Where is Walshne where's your friend Woolshey fire? 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.800 Raise a glass to you, Diplo? That was epic tonight. 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.080 Where's DJ Snake? I want to congratulate him as well. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.760 It's a real nineties nostalgia year, Don, They got county crows, 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.120 they got wallflowers. I mean, this is this our year. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:47.520 Yeah, we just with what I have going on, and 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.160 I've made it work the last few years, but this 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.760 year I just decided that it might be good to 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.559 take a year off and manage what I'm managing instead 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.439 of leaving it to other people for a few days. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.040 So I'm sure we'll get back to it next year. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.600 Yeah. Last year you sent Mark Madson and to deal 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.920 with your draft picks, and they were all acting like dorks, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:15.520 all right, Don surprising maybe that the Lakers are up 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:19.400 to zero against the Rockets, or the Rockets just been 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.640 that bad. What do you think we're looking at here? 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.440 I think it's both. I think the one thing that 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.680 jumps out at me is that I think JJ Reddick's 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.800 really starting to figure this thing out. You know, Look, 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.560 he's obviously understood the game. He played at a high level, 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.200 very cerebral, but that doesn't always translate to being a 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:38.960 head coach in the NBA. And I think you need 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.920 to learn on the fly as you go, and I 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.160 think he has and I think now you're starting to 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.280 see his chops with the x's and o's. I think 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.640 in the locker room he's great with managing personalities. But 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.960 then you have to give credit to Lebron whether you 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.119 like him or not. Man, this guy is become a chameleon. 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.720 He can play with Doncic and Reeves and let them go, 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:00.440 but if they're not in, he can take take over. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.480 And then the last thing is Canard and Smart have 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.000 been unbelievable and that's what you need in the playoffs 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.160 if you're an underdog team is guys to kind of 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.520 go above and beyond what's expected. And that's really what 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:14.960 Canard and Smart have done. 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.800 What don I don't know if you can't if there's 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.240 a way to explain it, or if it's just collective effort. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.680 But I mean, the Rockets are shooting forty percent and 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.360 you talked about sort of the coaching of JJ and 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.240 it's not like you didn't have anyone out there. I mean, 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.840 Marcus Smart's former defensive Player of the Year, But when 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.240 you're watching, like, what is it that he's doing, Because 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.200 when you look at the collective, it's not like it's 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:38.840 a great defensive team. 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:45.760 No, no, in how do I say this politely, I'm 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.160 still trying to figure out what Houston's trying to do 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.240 on the offensive end. So I'm not discounting what the 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.280 Lakers have done defensively. They've been up and into it 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.920 and engaged. But you said it, Matt. They haven't shown 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.200 that they're a great defensive team all year. They've shown flashes, 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.800 but overall they're not a great defensive team. But Houston 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:06.960 doesn't have a game plan. I think the game plan 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.960 is Kevin Durant's going to bail us out. Well, he 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.680 didn't play in Game one, and then the Lakers kind 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.440 of new, Okay, they think Kevin Durant's going to bail 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.760 them out, so let's double team them, triple team them, 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:18.760 and they took him out of the game and the 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.480 Rockets had nothing else he made. Doka has been, you know, 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.280 celebrated as a is a very good head coach, and 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.200 he has been, but it's really because of the defense 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.880 that his teams have played. He's not known as a 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.880 as a great offensive mind. And I think JA and 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.920 that's why I said that about JJ Reddick, Like I 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.400 think JJ sees what they're doing or not trying to do, 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.160 or whatever they're trying to do, and he's taken he's 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.480 taken them out of it. That being said, I fully 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.800 expect the Rockets to win that game tonight and make 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:49.480 it a series. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.080 Yeah, you talk about just kind of it's it's not 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.560 fun to watch, like their offense is like you said, 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.360 it's hard to figure out what they want to do. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.800 It's stagnant. It's a lot of late shot clock shots. 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.000 For as long as you played in as long as 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:03.920 you've been around some of these young players. I'm just 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:08.440 thinking of like Amen Thompson and Sheng Goon in Esen, 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.800 like it just looks like the moment's too big, Like 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.119 is that common when you kind of get into a 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.120 series like this for guys that are really, really good 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.000 in the regular season to just kind of shrink a 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:20.000 little in the playoffs. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:25.320 Well and read Shepherd too, Matt. And you know, here's 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.080 the hard part. When you get to the playoffs and 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.199 Kevin Durant has earned anything that anyone says about him, 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.520 any award, whatever he gets. But what happens is if 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:39.040 you're an inexperienced playoff team with inexperienced players, you defer 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.760 to a guy like Kevin Durant and think, oh, he's 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.680 just going to carry us. He'll get forty five tonight 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.159 and we'll win. So you don't really know what to do. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.400 You don't know. You don't know should I take this shot? 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.359 Should I be aggressive here? Should I not? Should I 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.480 just throw it to KD? And so that's what I'm saying. 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.480 If you don't have a coach, it's like, hey, guys, look, 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.400 Kevin's gonna get his don't worry about him. Here's what 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.000 you guys need to be doing. And I just don't 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.119 see that in the first two games of this series 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:05.080 with those other guys. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.480 Is there anything else going on in the playoffs that 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:13.800 has shocked you? Don Portland beating the Spurs and Wemby 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.360 balking his head or I mean, is there any way 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.120 to think that the Lakers could get past Okac? I mean, 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.119 what are we doing, don Why we just our wheels talking? 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:24.879 We should be at stage coach. 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:30.080 Yeah, well, Jalen William's hamstring could give him a break. 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.359 I mean, they played most of the season without and 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.440 we're still the best team in the league, so that's 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.359 not really any consolation. But if you get the Thunder 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:42.119 without him, you'll obviously have a better chance. But you 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.560 never know because sometimes in the playoffs, and we've seen 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.679 this in every sport, you're an underdog coming in, you 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.199 play above expectation, you win a game or two, you 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.680 win a series. Now all of a sudden, you're pretty confident. 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:57.399 And so I'm not saying they're going to beat the Thunder, 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.920 but I think if they do get past the Rock, 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.600 it's that series will be much better than everyone thought 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.320 it would be a week ago. 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:09.840 Yeah, And again, the longer it goes, the more likely 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.680 injuries happen. In the case of the Lakers, the longer 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.080 it goes, the longer it provides an opportunity for Austin 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.320 Reeves and Luca to come back. I know you don't 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.840 want to play doctor or anything, but I'm guessing you've 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.000 probably had an oblique and a hamstring in your career. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.760 Don do you can you see those guys coming back 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.200 and if they do come back, would they be rusty? 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:30.920 Would it be hard for them to play at their 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.600 previous levels? You know, if they're coming off those injuries. 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.879 Well, both those guys are so good. I don't think that. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.040 I think what's going to be interesting to watch is 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.400 as they monitor this series. If it looks like this 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.000 Lakers team is going to beat the Rockets, you won't 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:50.120 see them. But if we get to you know, it's 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.320 two to two and those looks like it might go seven, 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.080 or we ramping up Reeves and daunch its to maybe 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.240 for a game seven to try and win, that it 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.600 will be interesting. But I do think it being around 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.240 the league for as long as I have been, they 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:07.520 will determine when those guys are coming back based on need. 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:10.600 How's camp McClain going, Don. 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:16.880 It's going good. It's going good. We just finished Week three, 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.959 two and a half weeks. We didn't start on Monday, 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:24.359 but it's good. We're for at this point in the proceedings, 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:26.199 We're probably where we should be. I wish we were 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:28.640 a little above, but we're not, and that's fine. We'll 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.920 get there. The combines in two and a half weeks, 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.159 three weeks, and so we got plenty of time to 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.359 get it going. We'll be back at it tomorrow morning 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:38.359 and then we'll finish the week. 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.920 Any rumors are there truth to the rumors that there 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:43.440 was a canoeing accident. 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:51.560 A canoeing accident in Camp McClain. No. There might have 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:55.000 been a cold tub accident, but not a canoeing accident. 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:56.880 Got to get out of there, young man. You can't 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:59.480 be in there for ten minutes. They appreciate ball song, 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:06.680 Don die bars frozen like Hans Don not not asking 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.960 to not asking to take a shot or anything here. 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:13.119 But I think because of the experience, you know, with 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:17.720 the Lakers, you had Tom Thibodeau kind of orchestrate that 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.680 that two thousand and seven Boston Celtics defense that won 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:23.239 the title or two thousand and eight I think it 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:24.919 was that won the title. And then he ends up 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.359