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Speaker 5: Why are we having Worthy on today? He always comes
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow usually comes on Wednesdays and tomorrow exactly right, and tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Schedule talk. We have a very very special So tomorrow
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Speaker 2: like it did yesterday, I don't even know if the
Speaker 2: Clippers will get on.
Speaker 4: Oh that'd be sweet.
Speaker 2: But we have an event on That is also why
Speaker 2: we can't talk to worthy on Thursday. We have an
Speaker 2: event on Thursday that's two to four on a flex
Speaker 2: alert and a place we've never been before.
Speaker 5: A regular lament from the Petros and Money audience is
Speaker 5: why don't you spread yourself out?
Speaker 2: Why don't you go to Montabello. That's what they say.
Speaker 5: There are so many BJ's restaurant in brew house locations
Speaker 5: in the Greater LA area, and we always say it's
Speaker 5: not up too odd, not up to us. We go
Speaker 5: where they tell us to go. And tomorrow we will
Speaker 5: have such a short show that will celebrate on Thursday
Speaker 5: a flex Alert two to four in Montabello, pe On
Speaker 5: to sixty.
Speaker 2: Mannabello a Mexican American town. BJS anywhere is Pj's everywhere,
Speaker 2: but there will be a cultural flavor brought to you
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Speaker 2: beautiful mountain.
Speaker 5: Mana Bello bello.
Speaker 2: It is a Mexican American town despite the Italian name,
Speaker 2: Mannabello High, home of the Oilers. The most famous alum
Speaker 2: from Mannabello High. You guessed it, Edward James. Almost come
Speaker 2: on coming out today, Essa. Edward James almost a huge
Speaker 2: Dodger fan. Also in the area of Manabello. Beat Peninsula
Speaker 2: highsootball team in the very first year of its existence
Speaker 2: in the first round of the playoffs, pull of the Spartans.
Speaker 2: Sure High. Sure High, who went to Sure High? One
Speaker 2: of the microphones, one of the most contributing factors in
Speaker 2: the petrol Some money show in the last few years.
Speaker 2: One of the Los Mi La Mortes. Okay, not the
Speaker 2: inventor of the Sure microphone. No man.
Speaker 6: By the way, Village Christian played Sure in football in
Speaker 6: the fall, so I went out to that game. It
Speaker 6: is a beautiful campus, great.
Speaker 2: Beautiful old East La Campus. Brother, it is it is
Speaker 2: really nice. Fail High is in Montabello. That is the
Speaker 2: Vikings which is the continuation school where they let you
Speaker 2: smoke and you work. They do, and that they'd let
Speaker 2: us smoke, and they let the kids smoke I day
Speaker 2: they rancho the continuation school in Palace Vernes, and then
Speaker 2: the one of course in Chatsworth, Stony Point, all of
Speaker 2: them smoking schools.
Speaker 5: Waterey High School here in Burma, the Extended Uh.
Speaker 2: And they let you smoke, You work on your you
Speaker 2: work on your work book, and they let Now it's
Speaker 2: they let you vape, sure, but you work your work book.
Speaker 5: That's what it is. Now they let you vathe.
Speaker 2: Also in that area Bell Gardens High School, home of
Speaker 2: the Lancers, who were a tough Hispanic option team in
Speaker 2: the nineties. The guy who sang the Summertime Blues Eddie Cochran,
Speaker 2: Ain't no cure. That's the guy feels like summertime out
Speaker 2: there today. Let me tell you he is from Bell Garden.
Speaker 2: So that is where we're going.
Speaker 5: And it is easily accessible off the sixty. It is
Speaker 5: in the shadow of the sixties right after you exit
Speaker 5: Paramount Boulevard and you basically turn right into the Montabella
Speaker 5: Town Center and the BJ's restaurant in brew House.
Speaker 2: You know who we should talk to this about. But
Speaker 2: we're parking because he leads immediately, so we don't insult
Speaker 2: him about Fred Kevin Fingers who went to cal State LA.
Speaker 2: Let's go eagles right there, which is not far from
Speaker 2: that area. He might have picked up a few pelts
Speaker 2: over the years, if you know what I'm saying, Matt, Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know what you mean. What do you mean
Speaker 2: in Montabella? What do you mean not following you shared
Speaker 2: life experience in Montabello? In Monnabelo, the number anybody the
Speaker 2: number one attraction other than us at the bjys in
Speaker 2: the Montapello Bellow Town Center. The number one attraction in Montabello,
Speaker 2: from what I can tell, is grant Reya Park, the
Speaker 2: jewel of Montapello. Uh. It is a closed landfill dedicated
Speaker 2: to you sports. Grant Rea was a World War II
Speaker 2: local hero. I think a pilot now. The grant Raa
Speaker 2: Park's got it all, Matt. What's it got? Pools? Okay,
Speaker 2: picnic areas. I like a picnic fields. I like an
Speaker 2: open field, well not just open field softball, baseball.
Speaker 5: Oh, I got your playing fields?
Speaker 2: A senior banquet hall. Let's say you're old and you
Speaker 2: want to have.
Speaker 5: A party inside temperature controlled maybe some bingo pickleball that
Speaker 5: can get a little sport can get.
Speaker 2: Well, that's not that's obviously not for the elderly unless
Speaker 2: they want to play.
Speaker 5: Uh no, I may gets hot on the court.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, yeah, I got kicked and it's and it's
Speaker 2: hot figuratively out there literally too. Skate park Okay, should
Speaker 2: I bring a skateboard? Sure, it's got a shore high school.
Speaker 2: Yeah that too. It's got a splash pad, Matt, you
Speaker 2: can bring your trunks, okay. And uh a barnyard zoo
Speaker 2: at grant Raa Park. I mean this is no punk park.
Speaker 2: This is a big ass landfill, a barnyard zoo. Those landfills,
Speaker 2: you know, they know how to fertilize that ground amphitheater.
Speaker 2: They got a lot. And then it has that big
Speaker 2: arch thing.
Speaker 5: What's the big arch thing.
Speaker 2: It's right in the middle of grant Raa Park. It's
Speaker 2: kind of like the symbol of Montebello. It's like a
Speaker 2: tall climate or like no, no, okay, no, you don't climbate.
Speaker 2: You don't climb to Saint Louis RG either have some respect.
Speaker 5: They got a elevator, I think they should top of that.
Speaker 2: Monto Montapello is an East Los Angeles paradise and I
Speaker 2: cannot wait to be there. We're gonna get a taste
Speaker 2: of it, and we're gonna have the time of our
Speaker 2: least of DJ's that we're gonna did well. We've certainly
Speaker 2: had plenty of dates of that over the years.
Speaker 5: Do they have a unique Monapella menu.
Speaker 2: I don't believe so, man. I don't think it's like
Speaker 2: Baha Thursday at the Montabello BJ's or anything like that.
Speaker 2: But it should be a great time.
Speaker 5: And we got giveaways, great giveaways. By the way, well
Speaker 5: that but that's not what people really want. U. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's exactly what they want. And so it's worth pointing out,
Speaker 5: we've got tickets to opening day. Why what's that? What's
Speaker 5: that look like? I don't care tickets to opening day.
Speaker 5: We're going to be set out there early. That's how
Speaker 5: big of a deal it is. We've got to shift
Speaker 5: our time slot so the early morning hours for opening day.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows. And this is what Hartman said. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: why I gave that look because I've been indoctrinated into
Speaker 2: the new Steve Hartman way of thinking. This is what
Speaker 2: Hartman said on Friday On Friday, did you guys do
Speaker 2: cross talk on Friday?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: For like, if Ronnie didn't play us off, it would
Speaker 2: still be.
Speaker 5: Going wait wait win during their time slot or the PMA.
Speaker 2: Asked, They asked. They sent a formal invitation to Jonas
Speaker 2: Knox and I not since a duke or something was
Speaker 2: invited to the met Opera has such a formal invitation
Speaker 2: gone out as like the Gilded Age. They sent us
Speaker 2: an invitation everywhere down the hall. Calligraphy, Yeah, beautifully done.
Speaker 2: Guy with a big powdered wig gave it. They sent
Speaker 2: us an invitation to do the cross talk, to do fusion,
Speaker 2: which has not been done in these parts, for it
Speaker 2: feels like a thousand years. And we said, okay, we
Speaker 2: accepted the invitation. We came down. Now there were a
Speaker 2: few things working in our favor for fusion and against us.
Speaker 2: One an extremely bitter David Vassey was at Camelback.
Speaker 5: Ranch and he live from the from the ranch.
Speaker 2: So he was inevitably going to feel left out and
Speaker 2: be bitter. Hartman was very excited. Jonas was excited. It
Speaker 2: was really like.
Speaker 5: Fourth Jonas was excited just.
Speaker 2: Just to be part of the fusion, to be out
Speaker 2: here with Steve Hartman, and I did make the reference
Speaker 2: that we sounded like four virgins and an orgy. You know,
Speaker 2: we didn't know how to do the fusion anymore because
Speaker 2: it's been so long. Ever since Rodney tried to send
Speaker 2: Matt back to Indianapolis.
Speaker 5: That was the end of it, twenty eighteen. I just
Speaker 5: looked it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seven years ago ended the fusion. We just we
Speaker 2: started fighting with Rogan and Rodney and we couldn't do
Speaker 2: the fusion anymore.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: That same thing as happened with us and a few
Speaker 2: other shows. They've been on that long. Sadly, they've been
Speaker 2: on that long. Sadly, time passes quickly. That's all I
Speaker 2: wanted to say. You cut me off.
Speaker 5: He told you go back to be in your twenty.
Speaker 5: It feels like, yeah, you know, we've been doing this
Speaker 5: a long time. No one can step to us and.
Speaker 2: Year twenty and no one even farts in our direction.
Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon do ten years and they get like
Speaker 2: this is your life. Where they're sitting there last six
Speaker 2: months holding hands on two director's chairs while two people
Speaker 2: wax poetic on stage about Gary and Shannon. I mean,
Speaker 2: Gary and Shannon get more fanfare than Robert Duvall at
Speaker 2: the Oscars, Who's one of the greatest actors of his generation.
Speaker 2: Why did Gary and Shannon get so much love for
Speaker 2: their anniversary? And Matt and I are just sitting here
Speaker 2: staring at each other's bootzolls for twenty years.
Speaker 5: Twenty years, not ten. We got nothing for ten, nothing
Speaker 5: for five, but yeah, seven years for twenty seven years ago, Matt,
Speaker 5: when we were only thirteen years in. That is when
Speaker 5: cross talk went sour. So we did cross talk with
Speaker 5: Rogan and Rodney, or excuse me, with the Rogan and
Speaker 5: Rodney Show. And that day it was David Vasse and
Speaker 5: Steve Hartman and it went swimmingly and it was great
Speaker 5: to see Steve and geek it up and chop it
Speaker 5: up with Steve.
Speaker 2: That being said, Steve said to everybody, you don't want
Speaker 2: opening day tickets, that's a sham, you know what them.
Speaker 2: What you really want is the second DIY. You want
Speaker 2: rig Knight. Rag Knight's a mess now with the rig
Speaker 2: Knight lives. Yeah, He's the greatest night of my lives.
Speaker 2: How comes on the right.
Speaker 5: You know, we don't have those tickets.
Speaker 2: No, we don't. Man, we do have open But that
Speaker 2: was the influence that Steve had on me very much.
Speaker 5: So I was the editor of the Daily Bruin back
Speaker 5: in the early eighties. He also worked for the Raiders. Yes,
Speaker 5: he did at a pr E and L. Davis Thickest Thee.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know this, but when he
Speaker 2: was in high school, Steve was quite the heart throb.
Speaker 2: Played base in a valley band called Dire Need.
Speaker 5: He's well traveled, many adventures. The man's lived a million lives.
Speaker 5: We will have tickets to opening Day on Thursday, from
Speaker 5: two to four. We'll have tickets to the Freeway Series.
Speaker 5: I do believe they'll be an announcement about where we're
Speaker 5: going to be camped out for one of those Freeway
Speaker 5: Series games. We adjust accordingly when baseball begins to be played.
Speaker 5: And we'll also have tickets in our suite. So sweet
Speaker 5: tickets Opening Day. That's a hell of a mascot. That's
Speaker 5: a hell of a mascot.
Speaker 2: So they're smoking over at Snowty Point. Oh, they're welcome
Speaker 2: if you want them, Matt.
Speaker 5: So Sweet tickets Opening Day tickets, Freeway Series tickets. We
Speaker 5: will be in Montabello Thursday on a flex alert and
Speaker 5: a short show two to four only two hours off
Speaker 5: the sixty Paramount in the Montabella Town Center. BJ's rest
Speaker 5: runner Brewe House. First time ever at this location. Very
Speaker 5: excited to find our way off the sixty Freeway there
Speaker 5: East La. You guys know, Opening Day is not an
Speaker 5: Opening Day game. It's a it's a is it a
Speaker 5: standard or is it a little bit earlier? It's a
Speaker 5: five five thirty start because the NBC is doing their
Speaker 5: first broadcast, so that's Nashley.
Speaker 2: Are we doing the four man show?
Speaker 6: No, as it is now, they'll do a couple hours
Speaker 6: leading into.
Speaker 5: You'll do twelve to two and we'll do two to
Speaker 5: four thirty something like that. Yeah, and there will be
Speaker 5: no crossing of the streams. No, you guys can wait
Speaker 5: in the hall. They'll be downstairs while we're upstairs. We'll
Speaker 5: be up upstairs. Well, yeah, I like that. I like that.
Speaker 5: That's how it went last year.
Speaker 2: What do you mean.
Speaker 5: We we're in the suite eating wraps and fruit while
Speaker 5: they were finishing their show that was shortened because we
Speaker 5: took an hour from them and then we came on
Speaker 5: the air. It was not the put the table, put.
Speaker 2: The uh put the biscuit in the basket?
Speaker 5: Yeah the hell would you call it?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Put the the desk on the field with five chairs,
Speaker 5: and here's all you guys plus a guest hanging out
Speaker 5: together doing a four hour RADI.
Speaker 2: It makes me want to die. Yeah. Uh, I just
Speaker 2: got a text from mister.
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Speaker 2: That's what it says on my phone. Mister Yee, okay
Speaker 2: my phone. If Colin text, it says callin Oli. Ye,
Speaker 2: it's two different guys. And mister Ye writes this Colin
Speaker 2: used to use the batting cages at the park in Montabella.
Speaker 5: At your Grant Ray Park thing. Yes, how about that?
Speaker 2: I mean, what what a wonderful connection? Oh dang, surf
Speaker 2: punk Matt is going to revert back to three sixty
Speaker 2: Allie Kickflip Matt at the BJ's and Mantabelle.
Speaker 5: Hell more likely I'll revert to broken wrist, Matt, most likely,
Speaker 5: what will happen?
Speaker 2: Well, we'll be back and we'll talk to James Worthy,
Speaker 2: who is Hall of Fame James Worthy. And it's hard
Speaker 2: to shake.
Speaker 5: That Lakers are streaking winners of six in a row.
Speaker 5: Luka Doncic making a push for First Team All NBA.
Speaker 5: I'm sure James going to be in a fantastic mood.
Speaker 2: Guys that have been a terrible mood. This team is losing.
Speaker 2: I'm James Worthy, and I live vicariously emotionally through this
Speaker 2: Laker tease.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: I usually don't get that impression of James. I feel
Speaker 2: like he's.
Speaker 5: Immune to that. Yes, wile the Town Center's got a
Speaker 5: lot of shops in it, perhaps in a way that
Speaker 5: the Duke of Sports is not. Ah, Yes, I feel
Speaker 5: like you're a little late. Mat I expect you.
Speaker 2: You to look up the different shops in the town
Speaker 2: Center and just starts spewing out, oh my soul and
Speaker 2: all this different stuff. About ten fifteen minutes ago, while
Speaker 2: I was talking about Grant Ray Park but didn't want
Speaker 2: to step on Grant record, I sure not, of course not.
Speaker 2: But they do have an I fix iPhone repair at
Speaker 2: the Montabella Town Center. Leave review on yep, pick cash,
Speaker 2: give it to you a price. I'll bring bring your
Speaker 2: broken electronics to the event. We'll be back with James
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Speaker 2: Matt joining us right now on this find Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2: We're happy to have him on a little early this
Speaker 2: week due to some scheduling conflicts that are beyond our control.
Speaker 2: It is the Hall of Famer. The Lakers are streaking
Speaker 2: and worthy new and once Reeves and Luca got together
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Speaker 2: What's cracking?
Speaker 1: James?
Speaker 4: How are you all good?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: All good? On a special Tuesday?
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you buy it. Thanks for doing it early
Speaker 2: because of the Clippers schedule and then we got to
Speaker 2: go to Montamelo. But that's not your problem, James, and
Speaker 2: you don't have any problems. The Lakers are streaking right now.
Speaker 2: What is it about Luca and Austin Reeves playing together
Speaker 2: in the way that they do that makes them so
Speaker 2: difficult for very good NBA teams or anybody to guard?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, like I hate saying the things that
Speaker 4: always sound like excuses, but you know the fact that
Speaker 4: they finally got everybody like healthy and together and play
Speaker 4: together for a while a few games, and I think
Speaker 4: the coaching staff was able to figure out how to
Speaker 4: deal with the trio. Okay, you look at Lebron's role
Speaker 4: now it's more off ball. I think he's enjoying it,
Speaker 4: and I think he realizes that he can be most
Speaker 4: productive in that role, and he allows Austin Reeves to
Speaker 4: handle the ball just as much as Luca. To me,
Speaker 4: they you know, Luca obviously is you know, super talented,
Speaker 4: but they both are very efficient, and I think having
Speaker 4: them on the floor together, sometimes with and without Lebron,
Speaker 4: and allowing Austen to flourish with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 4: He gets to the free throw line, he didn't look
Speaker 4: to do the same thing. They get to the line,
Speaker 4: they draw files, they both at shoot the three. They're
Speaker 4: very spontaneous, and when that happens, I think eight and really,
Speaker 4: you know, Marcus Smart, you know, he reminds me of
Speaker 4: Michael Cooper so much. He's just a you know, he
Speaker 4: sticks his nose in there. He's got Lebron diving on
Speaker 4: the floor. You know, Marcus Smart came in here diving
Speaker 4: on the floor early in the season. Now he's got
Speaker 4: forty one year old guy. So I think they're starting
Speaker 4: to like get more synergy than they've ever had. We've
Speaker 4: seen spurts oft it. It's easy to see the talent
Speaker 4: when you got Luke out there, you know, killing it
Speaker 4: from three and do what he does. And then when
Speaker 4: you bring in the consistency of like I thought, Jake
Speaker 4: Lavia had a good game last night. You know, I
Speaker 4: think when they start to make that more consistent on
Speaker 4: the defensive end. They've always had the offense, but now
Speaker 4: when you when you're throwing the defense and you know,
Speaker 4: the collective effort, it's nice to see. I don't think
Speaker 4: it's sustain it.
Speaker 5: On the six game win streak, you've seen DeAndre Aiden's
Speaker 5: minutes go up. Played almost thirty last night, thirty against
Speaker 5: the Nuggets, nearly forty against the Bulls, you know, and
Speaker 5: there was a lot of conversation about him not accepting
Speaker 5: his role. You heard what he said. You know that
Speaker 5: that kind of took off in a viral moment about
Speaker 5: him not being Clint Capella just kind of where where
Speaker 5: you at with aighton? How responsible is he on this
Speaker 5: six game you know, win streak, these nine of their
Speaker 5: last ten, And do you feel like he's done a
Speaker 5: better job of kind of filling in where he's supposed
Speaker 5: to fill in?
Speaker 4: Well, I think I think Clint Capella had the best response.
Speaker 4: You know, Clint Coppella said, hey, man, you got you know,
Speaker 4: three guys that can ball. Just go out and just
Speaker 4: go out and ball with him, you know, And I think,
Speaker 4: you know, if he does that, I do think that
Speaker 4: they're starting to include him early. I think some guys
Speaker 4: you have to like initiate and get them the ball,
Speaker 4: whether that's a love or something off a pick and roll.
Speaker 4: His defense I thought was amazing. Then once he gets
Speaker 4: some few touches, they're active, they get involved. I think
Speaker 4: Marcus Smart started this about a month ago. He intentionally,
Speaker 4: I remember one game throwing eight in the ball to
Speaker 4: get him involved. So uh, lately, I like his effort.
Speaker 4: I like his efficiency. He's got nice you know, and
Speaker 4: when you get him the ball in the paint, he's
Speaker 4: very efficient with the little floaters and sometimes he gets
Speaker 4: a dunk and can hit the eight footer, but it
Speaker 4: collapses the defense a little bit, and he's a willing
Speaker 4: passer out of that. So uh, that's when Luke Canard
Speaker 4: gets an open three or somebody gets in, you know. Uh,
Speaker 4: Marcus Smart might get a wide open three. Uh. So
Speaker 4: they need to inclue when you got a big number
Speaker 4: one draft pick for a reason. Now he hasn't dominated, uh,
Speaker 4: but he's he still has talent, and he's still young,
Speaker 4: and hopefully he'll he'll find it, you know, get a
Speaker 4: little bit of to kill O'Neill in it, you know
Speaker 4: what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: The Great James Mrthy we could all use a little
Speaker 2: bit of Shaquille O'Neill in us.
Speaker 4: Money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, take some of that money. Is that Papa John's money, James? Uh?
Speaker 2: Last night the Lakers were like double blitzing Kevin Durant
Speaker 2: late in the game when he had the ball. Now
Speaker 2: did they do that to Nikola Djokis last year? And
Speaker 2: is that something that JJ Reddick seems to do a
Speaker 2: lot or just when it gets to be toward the
Speaker 2: playoffs and in the playoffs, because it was effective last night,
Speaker 2: kind of stifling Kevin Durant late.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, I think without San Goon, you
Speaker 4: know that that was one advantage that the Lakers had.
Speaker 4: You know, he was out last night, and he's kind
Speaker 4: of like he kind of he's kind of like a
Speaker 4: Yokic center. He can handle the ball. He does do
Speaker 4: a lot of handoffs. So I think with with with
Speaker 4: him out and not really having a really uh a
Speaker 4: really breakdown primary guard, they were able to take some
Speaker 4: of Kevin Durant's comfort away. He liked to handle the
Speaker 4: ball a lot to get to his spots. So by
Speaker 4: blitzing him, which by the way, they also do a
Speaker 4: lot with Luca, they try to get Luca out high
Speaker 4: with a blitz and get it out of his hands. Uh.
Speaker 4: Luca's a little bit more evasive. Uh, but I think
Speaker 4: that was good strategy, blitzing him, double teaming him, getting
Speaker 4: out of his hands, forcing the issue, which they were
Speaker 4: successful at, you know early. You know, early in the
Speaker 4: third second quarter they had a lot of offensive rebounds.
Speaker 4: But I think once they figured out the rotations, uh,
Speaker 4: and a lot of part of the game they were
Speaker 4: they had much success with, you know, closing down Durant
Speaker 4: Who's Who's hard to do, by the way, it's very hard,
Speaker 4: but they did a good job of blitzing and collapse.
Speaker 5: James. We remember they had that stretch last year where
Speaker 5: they were one of the best defensive teams in the league.
Speaker 5: Kind of right before that Luca trade, they were streaking
Speaker 5: on that side of the court. You mentioned it that
Speaker 5: on this win streak they're playing better defense. I mean
Speaker 5: last night, no Sangoon, but talking about holding them to
Speaker 5: twenty points below their season average. Kind of did the
Speaker 5: same thing with the Knicks as well, and that big win.
Speaker 5: Do you think this can be a good defensive team
Speaker 5: with their personnel if Lebron, Austin Reeves and Luca are
Speaker 5: out there. Is it, Is it possible? And how do
Speaker 5: they do that? Because they're probably going to need that
Speaker 5: to win a playoff series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, you know that. You mentioned the Knicks. They
Speaker 4: almost had Minnesota on the hundred. They scored a few
Speaker 4: points late in the fourth. But yeah, the Lakers have
Speaker 4: shown that and clutch last four minutes, last five minutes,
Speaker 4: they've been pretty good. You know when you add that
Speaker 4: for four to forty eight minutes. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 4: think they have to have that, And I think it
Speaker 4: starts with you know, Marcus Smart was Defensive Player of
Speaker 4: the Year. He's bought this mentality to these guys that's tough, physical, verbal,
Speaker 4: and uh, that's what you need. And I think you know,
Speaker 4: when guys like Aydan who's a rem protector, uh you know, uh,
Speaker 4: Hayes is always pretty active. But then guys like Jake
Speaker 4: la Rabia, he don't. People don't realize he's a pretty
Speaker 4: tough defender. He's sneaky, he he gets offensive rebounds, he
Speaker 4: doesn't spectate. So when you start to bring in those
Speaker 4: type of uh, you know players on top of you know,
Speaker 4: Austin Reeves taking charges. Surprisingly, Luca is a better defensive
Speaker 4: player this year. Uh, you know, it kind of reminds
Speaker 4: me of Magic. You know, he's a good team defender,
Speaker 4: knows the other team's offense and knows how to step
Speaker 4: in and get steals. Every now and then he's getting
Speaker 4: back on you know, getting back on defense because you know,
Speaker 4: he can't complain too much to the referees because he
Speaker 4: has that he only has that one more technical, so
Speaker 4: now he can't complain. He'd get hitting back on defense quicker.
Speaker 4: But I just think that they know defense is going
Speaker 4: to win defense they do. They do need to do
Speaker 4: a better job once they play twenty four seconds of
Speaker 4: good defense of securing that rebound. They give up too
Speaker 4: many offensive rebounds. They did against Boston, they did last night.
Speaker 4: I kind of on one possession where team got like
Speaker 4: four extra rebounds, and that just it's demoralizing when that happens. So, uh,
Speaker 4: those are less shot attempts you're getting up and they
Speaker 4: need to they need to work on that a little bit.
Speaker 2: The great James Worthy, our hero. Where do you think
Speaker 2: this momentum can take them? James? I mean, they're a
Speaker 2: lot of fun to watch and they have some great players.
Speaker 2: How far do you think they can go leading into
Speaker 2: the playoffs here.
Speaker 4: You want home corner advantage in the first round. I
Speaker 4: think if you know, right now, I think they're still
Speaker 4: in third, I believe, and they have secure I know
Speaker 4: they secured a tiebreaker with Denver, and so I think
Speaker 4: the Suns are still floating around. Yeah, you want home
Speaker 4: court advantage and then you know once you can secure
Speaker 4: that in the playoffs. You know kind of began in
Speaker 4: the second round, but if you do want to kind
Speaker 4: of stand around third and see if you could secure
Speaker 4: home court advantage and go from there and continue to
Speaker 4: get better on the defensive vand particularly as you get
Speaker 4: deeper into the into the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Real quick, James, how worried are you? Six v eleven
Speaker 5: North Carolina VCU No Caleb Wilson v. Custeen of seventeen.
Speaker 5: It's like the number one upset that everyone's picking for
Speaker 5: the tournament. How are you feeling?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, I keep it real. I want my tar
Speaker 4: here and I want to be pulling form. Without Caleb,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be tough in that bracket. That's a tough
Speaker 4: bracket there in. But I'm pulling for him, you know,
Speaker 4: I always say, you know we can upset somebody. That's
Speaker 4: just extradition. But it's it's it's it's not you know,
Speaker 4: they're not favorite. You know, if I had to really
Speaker 4: like buckle down and say, Okay, I don't know if
Speaker 4: they can get through.
Speaker 5: This, but I'm a tar heel, well, good luck to
Speaker 5: the heels. That's right, you got it, Thank you, James.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm a tar heel. There he goes on
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Speaker 5: That was a hell of a day. We had a
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Speaker 3: It's going good. The Dodgers are playing under the lights
Speaker 3: tonight against the Mariners, and the Dodgers made the announcement
Speaker 3: today that Shoho Tani is going to start tomorrow's game
Speaker 3: and then start the final game of the Freeway Series
Speaker 3: against the Angels for his final tune up before the
Speaker 3: regular season. And as you guys know, yesterday the big
Speaker 3: announcement that Yoshi Yamamoto is the opening day starter. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's great to have everybody back here since YadA was
Speaker 3: on Mookie bets shoulder today, so things are back to
Speaker 3: Dodgers normal now, Dave.
Speaker 5: If he is pitching the last game of the Freeway series,
Speaker 5: where does that slot him in the rotation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that still remains to be seen, but it doesn't
Speaker 3: slought him for or the first opening series against the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 3: I could definitely see Otani pitching one of those games
Speaker 3: against the Guardians, especially with a weird day off on
Speaker 3: Sunday after they finished the three game series against Arizona.
Speaker 3: So that would lend itself to believe that Otani probably
Speaker 3: starts one of the games against the Guardians.
Speaker 5: You feel like you got a clear picture of what
Speaker 5: those first three or four or five starters are going
Speaker 5: to look like.
Speaker 3: I believe, so I believe if you just look at
Speaker 3: the caliber of starters that Dodgers have, it's got to
Speaker 3: be Yamamoto opening day obviously, glass now as the season starts,
Speaker 3: he would be, you know, my number two starter, and
Speaker 3: then that leads who I mean, Otani not going to
Speaker 3: start in the Arizona Series.
Speaker 5: So is that Emit.
Speaker 3: Shean, you know, Emmit Shean. Over the weekend he got
Speaker 3: upset with me, but it was hard to ignore the
Speaker 3: fact that he was throwing about ninety to ninety two
Speaker 3: instead of his normal ninety five. He said it was
Speaker 3: mechanical and there are no red flags that the Dodgers
Speaker 3: are showing right now. So I would say those would
Speaker 3: be my first three right now. Roki Sasaki a big
Speaker 3: start tonight under the lights here against the Royals because
Speaker 3: it has looked uneven. He pitched well on the backfields
Speaker 3: you know last week, but that was against minor leaguers,
Speaker 3: and the way he was getting outs was, you know,
Speaker 3: minor leaguers chasing pitches that major leaguers don't usually chase.
Speaker 3: So tonight's a big one and the Dodgers need Sasaki
Speaker 3: and his innings as they start the season without Blake
Speaker 3: Snow and Gavin Stone.
Speaker 2: How's Mookie doing, Dave? He hit a home run on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a great talk with Mooki after that
Speaker 3: game out there a mesa against the Cubs Petros. There's
Speaker 3: the look of Mookie Bets. The actions on the field
Speaker 3: resemble the Mookie Bets that we saw in September last
Speaker 3: year and the Mookie Bets that he's in his entire career.
Speaker 3: And we asked him what is the biggest difference, and
Speaker 3: he said it was simple that sickness took a lot
Speaker 3: out of him. Here's what he said about how being
Speaker 3: stronger in spring training is translating to him being the
Speaker 3: hitter that we know.
Speaker 7: It's consistent. You know, I'm kind of doing the same
Speaker 7: thing every day. But I think the most important part
Speaker 7: is just I have Now that I have, I think
Speaker 7: I'm one to seventy eight now seventy eight, almost one eighty,
Speaker 7: so I'm able to just have speed, you know, something
Speaker 7: that didn't when I lost all the way. I just
Speaker 7: was down ten miles pour and speed, and so you
Speaker 7: got guys throwing one hundred miles an hour and with
Speaker 7: a slow bat. I mean it's going to be hard
Speaker 7: to do it's not an excuse, but it's a fact.
Speaker 7: So now I got my speed back, I don't I
Speaker 7: don't have to hurry up and make decisions so fast.
Speaker 3: So there you go. I mean, I guess it makes
Speaker 3: sense he has his strengths back and that has allowed
Speaker 3: him to get them that through the strike zone quicker.
Speaker 3: And so he basically said that he was playing from
Speaker 3: behind all last year, which we heard about. But now
Speaker 3: it makes sense why he looks and resembles the Mookie
Speaker 3: Bets that we've known in the past.
Speaker 5: This may be a stupid question, but I'm known for
Speaker 5: those Dave. In a spring training game when it gets
Speaker 5: away from a team like it did yesterday and Dave
Speaker 5: Roberts was struggling to find pictures that could find the
Speaker 5: strike zone, can you just say we're good, like, hey,
Speaker 5: let's just call this off. Would that have too much
Speaker 5: of a negative effect on the team, Like it was
Speaker 5: a hot day out there and it seemed like things
Speaker 5: just kept getting worse and worse in those final two innings.
Speaker 3: No, that's not a dumb question. In fact, it's something
Speaker 3: that we were all talking about. Who is this benefiting?
Speaker 3: Is it really helping the development of those pictures that
Speaker 3: just couldn't find the strike zone. I'm not sure who
Speaker 3: that benefits as far as player development goes. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm with you. I feel like in that circumstance, you know,
Speaker 3: for all of the quirks, so the World Baseball Classic,
Speaker 3: you know, once it gets to that stage, how about
Speaker 3: the mercy rule. But at least we got to see
Speaker 3: Brady Evil hit his first home run as a professional
Speaker 3: yesterday at camel Back Ranch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and who knows if they would have called the game,
Speaker 2: it could have never happened. What about Blake trying and rushing?
Speaker 2: They've had terrible springs, Dave, what is the level of concern?
Speaker 3: Oh, truth, you're paying attention. I guess you, guys, we
Speaker 3: were paying attention yesterday when Blake trying and made you
Speaker 3: guys sit and wait to do your show because he
Speaker 3: gave up. He gave up some three run home run
Speaker 3: in that nine run seventh inning. Look, at this point
Speaker 3: in time of spring training, it's pretty serious.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: It's not everybody's leaving saying, oh, you know what when
Speaker 3: they leave the building after a game like that and
Speaker 3: they don't perform well, that they're feeling great about themselves
Speaker 3: at this juncture of spring training, just you know, less
Speaker 3: than ten days away from opening days, it's pretty serious
Speaker 3: to start getting some results. And I think the biggest
Speaker 3: concern is that Trynon not only is walking hitters, not
Speaker 3: only is he not missing bats, but he's only throwing
Speaker 3: ninety three and he's thirty seven years old. You have
Speaker 3: to wonder how much he has left. And he's going
Speaker 3: to be on the opening day roster, but certainly there's concern.
Speaker 3: And look, Dalton Rushing for a guy that says that
Speaker 3: he needs to play every day, has been given the
Speaker 3: opportunity to play every day and it just hasn't gone
Speaker 3: well for him this spring training. So again he's going
Speaker 3: to get the opportunity to be on the opening day roster.
Speaker 3: But certainly the Dodgers have a pretty good defensive catcher
Speaker 3: in Elisia Alfonso that they brought in. He caught yesterday.
Speaker 3: He definitely could be part of this equation. And you know,
Speaker 3: the Mets have two really good, two real good catchers.
Speaker 3: Ben Horffitt may be available by the end of spring
Speaker 3: training if the Mets decide not to tender him, so
Speaker 3: he could be back on the Dodgers' radar.
Speaker 5: Well, good luck. I know that'll make Tim Kate's very happy,
Speaker 5: getting Royt vedback. Good luck. Focusing on the Dodgers Royals
Speaker 5: contest tonight, with the World Baseball Classic getting rolling at
Speaker 5: five pm and a six o'clock first pitch for the
Speaker 5: boys in Blue, Dave, we appreciate it. Looking forward to
Speaker 5: Andre Ethier tonight as well or tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys, thank you night.
Speaker 2: All right, Dave, goodbye, and we'll be back with Mark Petrosen.
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