WEBVTT - 06/07/21 DPS Hour 2 Frank Isola 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.080 Sports Radio on and stay a while Dan and the 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:09.959 Danets Dan Patrick Show, your phone calls, best and worst 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:11.920 to the weekend which you saw that you liked you 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.120 didn't like. We'll check in with the Brooklyn Nets and 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.239 the injury to James Harden. I've been harping on this 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:22.640 for the last couple of weeks. These injuries, a sprained ankle, 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:28.200 a groin injury, hamstring injury, they do not go away. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.680 You sort of manage it. And Harden has been bothered 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.440 by the hamstring. Anthony Davis with the groin, lebron with 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.400 the ankle, they were not going to go away. And 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:42.600 with James Harden, we saw that yesterday early in the festivities. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.720 He checks out. He knows right away. He went in, 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.040 took a shot, and then all of a sudden he 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.199 felt the twinge and then he was going right to 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.240 the locker room. He knew right away what that feeling 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.360 is like. And it's not going to go away when 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.240 he comes back, He's still going to have that in 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.320 the back of his mine. But this is a team 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.840 that has the luxury, unlike the Lakers. There's a luxury 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.920 there The Nets do have two other great players, and 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.640 they have a pretty good supporting cast as well. Sometimes 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.720 a player is so spectacular that you have to recognize 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.520 that player even in a loss. Nineteen sixty nine, Jerry 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.880 West won the NBA Finals MVP even though the Lakers 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.200 lost to the Celtics. That's the kind of performance that 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.440 Luca john Took had in the first round. Even though 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.360 his mAbs lost to the Clippers. Dallas lost Game seven yesterday. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.880 Lucas scores forty six that's one short of the all 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.840 time NBA record for a game seven set by Dominique Wilkins. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:46.720 Luca also had fourteen assists, so he created seventy seven points. 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.760 That's a game seven record. MAVs still couldn't stop the Clippers, 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.920 losing one twenty six to one eleven. Now Dallas has 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.440 to figure out where do we go. We have one 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.320 of the bright stars in the game, but we didn't 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.720 get out of the first round. Again. They supposedly have 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.800 another star in Kristaps Porzingis, but I don't know if 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.880 he's as good as he thinks he is. I know 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.760 that there have been reports that he feels like an 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.440 afterthought to Luca. Don chick. He does view himself as 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.280 a superstar. They have time to figure it out. Luca's 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.080 only twenty two, but this is reminiscent of what Lebron 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.079 had in Cleveland. Lebron was able to take that team 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.600 to the NBA Finals and I still maintain that's one 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.119 of the worst teams to ever play for a championship 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:38.280 in NBA history. I don't think Luca can do what 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:43.640 Lebron did, but there are similarities with their age, with 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.800 the performance that they put up, and I can't fault 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.840 Luca with what he did through this entire series. But 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.079 no matter what he does, it's not enough to win 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.600 a championship. It's not enough to get out of the 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.880 first round. And are you going to sign up poor 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.799 zingis to a long term contract? Who can you bring in? 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.760 Also to try to figure out who can you bring 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:12.280 in to play with a guy like Luca, because you 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.600 have to get acclimated to that he has the ball 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:20.919 all the time. Now does he pass, Yes, but it's 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:25.040 similar to James Harden that they have the ball ball dominant. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.080 But you got to have those guys that are role players, 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.720 who understand their role, embrace their role, and are consistent 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.040 in their role. I don't know what I get out 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.080 of poor zingis. I can watch and somehow a guy 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.880 who's seven three disappears on the floor. He doesn't play 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.800 seven three. I don't want a seven three shooting guard. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.400 There are times when I wait for him to take 0:03:53.560 --> 0:04:00.400 over the seven three, takeover, dominate. He can shoot as mobility, 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.400 But I don't know. I don't know if he wants 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.960 to be great. You can think you're great. I just 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.000 don't know if he are you putting in the effort 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.480 to be great? And yes, you probably are an afterthought 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.719 to Luca don Chick. I was also wondering this as 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.719 I was watching the Clippers beat the MAVs and Luca 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:26.240 putting up these unbelievable numbers. I think Atlanta's okay with 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:31.360 Trey Young. You remember they traded the rights to Luca 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.240 to the MAVs, and then with that draft pick they 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.960 took Trey Young. Now, it didn't look great for a while, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.719 and you know, we can say that lucas still a 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.760 far better player. The Atlanta Hawks got out of the 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.280 first round, and they took Game one yesterday against the 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:51.320 seventy six ers. Trey Young joins Luel Sindoor, who became 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.640 Kareem is the only players in NBA history to score 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.679 at least thirty points in each of the first four 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.280 road playoff games in their career. He had thirty. I've 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.279 in ten as they pick up game one in that 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.920 second round series with the seventy six ers. I don't 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.599 overreact to game one, and you shouldn't either. Jazz lost 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.080 Game one to the Grizzlies won that series four one, 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.800 Nuggets lost game one of the Blazers won that series 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.359 four two. Clippers lost Game one to the MAVs and 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.840 won that series four three. I wouldn't overreact to this, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.360 but it should be acknowledged that Atlanta beat Philadelphia and 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:32.039 was blowing out Philadelphia. Philadelphia made an interesting late but 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.560 I got to give credit to a very young Atlanta 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.960 team and Nate McMillan, their coach. They did a great 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.760 job to be able to do that. Now, what do 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:46.120 you do in game two? You got Milwaukee Bucks huge? 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:50.560 Game two you lost. They didn't have James Harden. You're 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.719 not going to shoot as poorly as you did. I 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.400 got to get Chris Middleton involved here, you know, the 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.440 Greek freak admitted now they were nervous. Never RBS in 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.280 that game. I picked the Bucks to win this series. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.279 I'll still stay with that. The Nuggets in the Sun's 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.680 Game one is coming up. Ye. So what you're saying 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.159 is do you think the Sixers are gonna need six 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:16.680 games and not five? Maybe? Maybe? But here's the problem. 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.480 Tredy Young so small that if you get with an 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:20.960 eight feet of him, it's a foul. He's tiny. Will 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.560 you stop whining? Well, first of all, I billed A 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.560 Blasio the mayor of New York and whine about it. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.160 I can wind about it. He's impossible to officiate. Well, 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.600 maybe the seventy sixers need to need to get some 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.640 small guys so then they get every call. Is that 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.400 what you're saying? Well, first of all, stopped running six 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.240 eight guys at him. He just runs around them like 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.240 they're not there's there, Frankenstein, m Danny Green shouldn't be 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:45.039 guarding him. Yep. How about the defensive player of the 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.280 Year mclovin. I have no one to tell you. I 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.640 how about Ben Simmons. I tried to trade Ben Simmons 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:53.840 for Damian Lillard on Friday. You wouldn't let me do it. 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:58.600 I wouldn't do it. If I'm Portland, You're right, I 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:04.120 know I'd be crazy to give up Damian Lillard for Portland. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.680 Should not think of trading him. Some people love Ben Simmons. 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.960 He went three of ten from the line yesterday. Is 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:15.840 a liability. Okay. So the Defensive Player of the Year 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.520 is not guarding Trey Young. He hasn't won it yet, 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.200 by the way, to be fair, he's one of the 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.120 three finals, okay, so he's going to maybe if he 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.640 doesn't win, he'll finish second. But I did. But he's 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.240 six to eleven. How's he going to cover a little 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.600 Tray Young? Well? Wait, is he the defense? Is he 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.640 a guard? Is he the defense? No, he's not a guard. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:41.200 That's he's He's a center. He should cover Capella. The 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.800 defensive player of the Year can't guard Trey Young. Well, hey, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.320 it's better than Kawhi and Paul George as those but 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:52.200 they admitted, they admitted that they couldn't stop Luca. I can't. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.560 Here is Kawhi Leonard after the game on just how 0:07:55.560 --> 0:08:00.240 great Luca don Chick was. I don't know how many 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.880 forty point games you have to leave three, three or four? 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.240 You know, shooting it very efficiently from three for sure, 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.440 off the drible shots, you know, just doing it all 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.239 for his team. Uh. You know, he's a great player. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.480 He's gonna sae him many years to come. You know, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.280 he's playing at his own pace. He makes it look 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.320 easy up today. And then here's Paul George, the Clippers forward. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.160 I mean, you knew he could get better, you knew 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.680 there was room for improvement, of course, but I mean 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.160 it was even more awesome. You know, he just plays 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.800 with so much confidence and his game is just so 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:36.839 beyond his age. You know, he pretty much can pick 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:41.719 up and read almost any defense. We threw a lot 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.160 at him and he was still able to keep his 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:50.240 team afloat. Yeah, now, what do they add for this team? 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:54.079 Because as it is, this team is a first round 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:59.400 basically first round team. Maybe second round. But you know 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.640 you gotta start looking at you don't want to waste 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:05.080 these years and you say, well, he's only twenty two. Yeah, 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:06.880 you just don't want to look up and go, man, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.000 he's twenty eight and he hadn't done anything yet. And 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:14.200 that's what happens sometimes with superstars, or they say, you know, 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:20.160 maybe I need to play elsewhere so we got a 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.640 pull question. Mclevenen, A were gonna stay with it. We 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.240 have the boxing poll. Question doesn't water down. We have 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.480 some NBA ones too, What do you have? Well, it 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.120 seems like Paul he's eager for one. I got a 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.120 quick NBA one. I just think about this. Chris stops 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.200 Porzinca seems to be frustrated. According to the the reports, Ben 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.120 Simmons is maybe not the best player on that team. 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:39.960 Who would you rather have on your team? Chris Stops 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.000 is twenty five years old, twenty points per game, nine rebounds, 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.480 pretty good three point shooter, and he shoots eighty one 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.800 percent from line. As are all good STAPs. Ben Simmons 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.760 is twenty four year older. You're younger, much better defender 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.720 much fourteen points per game, seven rebounds seven. It says 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.080 he does not shoot threes or make them, and he's 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.440 a liability sixty one percent from the line. Talk about 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:03.480 that could be a rade. Man. If I'm Philadelphia, I 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.439 don't want them. I don't want them. You wouldn't. You 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:12.559 don't think that's an upgrade? Christops porzingis if healthy, Yeah, 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.840 I mean it's tricky. I don't want either player. That's 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:20.160 a bad side. That's a bad side. I just you 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:23.400 know what, we've overrated Ben Simmons. That's really what it 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.559 has come down to. Like he's not Magic Johnson. It's 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.559 just not tragic Johnson. Yes, mclub. You know I heard 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.680 speak a defensive player of the years. I heard this 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.040 the other day that Rudy Gobert is a defensive liability 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:37.760 for the Jazz because if you pull him out the 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.000 thirty feet the guards are gonna to pick a roll. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.520 Has made seven footers a huge liability. So even mister 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.840 defense from France is a problem for the Jazz. So 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.480 the NBA, you don't need a seven four Porzingis anymore. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.440 He hurts you. Yeah, but Ben Simmons is a guy 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:57.200 who can guard everybody. We're told Rudy Gobert is not 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.840 you know, somebody who can guard, you know, a guard 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.280 or forward. But he's supposed to be the best defensive 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.200 player of our generation. He's a rim protector, right. I 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.440 don't know who said he's the best defensive player of 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.560 our generation. I mean, how many has it he won? 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.480 And a couple of defensive player. Yeah, back in the day, 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.840 did Kemmi Mutumbo could get plays defense nowadays, I got 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.480 Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, who's supposed to be really 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:25.160 good defenders. How did they do they got They barely 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.880 got by the Mavericks. They let Luca have an all 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:33.640 time playoff series. Those are guys who play really good defense. Well, 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.600 the reason is because they're calling everything like you touch 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.800 Trey Young or James Harden or Luca Donchez and well 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.079 not Luca, but you. They're calling it to let these 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.720 periheric guys do whatever they want. Okay, well, then do 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.720 they let Kawai do whatever he wants or yeah, George, 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:50.600 those guys are on the perimeter. They didn't put up 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.439 forty six. They had decent games for them. Kawai did. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.440 But it feels like then everybody gets to have free reign. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.800 That it's not just Luca, they're Trey Young, it's everybody 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:06.880 gets this. Every getting everybody gets preferential treatment. Right, if 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.199 you play on the perimeter, you get preferential treatment, according 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.200 to you all the olds. Yeah, I mean that's why 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.160 you're seeing one thirty to one twenty all the time, 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.800 because they're they're letting the they're giving the guards a 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.520 lot of breaks. Well, they're shooting two. They're shooting the three, right, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.920 But it like we'll have read you on. He'll say, Oh, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:23.480 back in the day, we would have beat up Trey Young. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.839 You know, that's what all the old school guys are saying. Right. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.640 The game has changed to let the perimeter players do 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.640 whatever they want. Yeah, it's for entertainment. Like that's the 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.400 NBA came out of the dark ages and said, oh, 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.959 we're not gonna let you beat up everybody. We want 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.040 some fluidity to the game. Now. Is it too much? Yes, 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.120 it's just like baseball. Hey, we want this, and then 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:49.719 you get this and you go, oh, no, we don't 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.040 want that. There's too much of that. There's gonna be 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.800 pushed back eventually with the three and that we're gonna 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.600 go should they move it back? I go back to 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:04.679 the seventies early seventies, Sports Illustrated how to cover a 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:09.000 cover story on raising the basket to eleven feet because 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.400 they were worried about all the big guys being able 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:17.439 to dominate. This isn't this is nothing new. You know, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.840 they're gonna shrink the gold post, you know, the you know, 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.319 the width of the gold posts, because oh, these field 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.080 goal kickers are just too good. You know, they they 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:30.040 toy they tweak these things. Yeah, mcglob the back row 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.600 does have a serious issue with the NBA. Really serious. Okay, 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:38.080 the last two minutes of an NBA game are so 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.680 long because of the reviews and the timeouts. Can you 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.679 fix us? This is where you get your commercial inventory 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.920 that that's not going away. This is where you want 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.880 to make money. They need to make money. They need 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.960 to make money because they lost money last year. You 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:59.400 get a timeout. They shouldn't give you all of the timeouts. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.120 I mean, that's part of the problem here. But all 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.840 it is is you don't need those timeouts. It's just 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.880 commercial inventory. They got a cramin all in there. Yes, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.800 time can it backfire? From a TV marketing standpoint, what, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.040 I'm so annoyed with all these commercials. I'm going to 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.080 take it out on these products that I'm either going 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.080 to walk away or not watch the commercial, or I'm 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.600 gonna just have a negative attitude towardsless commercials that are 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.000 making the less seventeen seconds of a game take twenty 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.600 three minutes to play. If Mountain Dew sponsored the last 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.160 two minutes of that game yesterday with Brooklyn, are you 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.080 going to stop drinking Mountain dew. I probably have a 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.280 little less Yes, I don't know if you totally just 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.520 know you would not. Cameron in Indiana, Hey Cam, what's 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.720 on your mind today? Welcome to the program. Hey guys, 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.120 So I got a couple of things for you. Will 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.800 defends the Alabama Softball perfect Game, Worst of the weekend 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.200 sixers leasing and I want to post the question to 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.240 you guys. The NBA has got a real problem when 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.920 Lebron James leaded YEA. Who is the face of the 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.640 NBA when Lebron leaves? Well? I asked that question to 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.080 Reggie Miller last week and I don't know if we 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.440 came up with an answer, Cam, but thanks for the 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:10.000 phone call. I'm gonna guess Luca. I think Reggie said 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.960 Lucas probably the face of the league at age twenty two. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.360 Is there's like, how many players will you tune in 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:32.280 to watch? It's still Lebron? Is it? Luca Zion? Zion 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.640 might be the face, but that's because we got to 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:40.520 know him that one year a duke. But is he 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.680 the future? I don't know, but it feels like it's 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.960 Luca Zion that I don't know if it's anybody else 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.600 where you go. Why tune in? Fact, like, am I 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.120 tuning in to watch Joe l embiid oh? Am I 0:15:55.200 --> 0:16:02.880 tuning in to watch Kauai? No Paul George, no Damian Lillard. 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:07.280 I will watch a game with Damian Lillard. It fits on. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:12.600 I'll watch Steph Curry is you know he's in the 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.360 second half of his career, but I will tune in 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.400 for Steph Curry game. I just don't know if they're 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:21.320 enough tune in factor players. Lebron, you tune in because 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:22.560 you either want to see him win, you want to 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.960 see him lose. There's no other player like that where 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.480 you go I love him or I hate him, And 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.840 it really feels like there's no in between with Lebron. Hey, 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.560 he has no business approaching Michael Jordan's throne. Or you know, 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.320 if he wins another title, he's right there with Michael Jordan. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.400 Let me get to frank and Los Angeles. Then we'll 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:54.080 take a brank here. Hey, frank Ay Branking. I've been 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.760 meaning to do this for a while. Six two two 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:03.880 forty iank you I think, well, firstly, let me let 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.199 me get about Luca real quick. Someone I read somewhere 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:11.320 that Luca had averaged more points at a playoff series 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:15.200 than Michael Jordan, but they like just their seven game series. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.320 But it was at work cost. You know, he's seen 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.320 the guy on the court, and mind you, he might 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:22.080 be the face of the NBA twenty two years old. 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.640 He keeps this up, but he doesn't have any help 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.159 and who cares. The other part, the other point that 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.080 I wanted to make us about the fight last night, 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.960 I think this is maybe the lowest point in boxing's 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.159 history when you really look at it, because here's a 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:42.320 forty four year old apparently broke Floyd money Mayweather fighting 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.040 a man who apparently became famous off his line, and 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.520 the YouTube had no business being in there with somebody 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.040 who had the ten thousand hours of Floyd Mayweather. And 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.520 I think the most interesting part of it all is, yes, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:18:00.600 obviously Floyd could not knock him out, but Cannella had 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.800 tweeted about the fight with the face palmed little emoji 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.840 sons like. The interesting reality also is that Canello hasn't 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.720 knocked anybody out either, And I think that's really what 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.840 we're all looking for is, or at least what the 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:17.040 American public is looking for is a knockout and it's 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:20.679 pretty shameful. Yeah, that's not and thank you, Frank. I 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.840 mean that that's not boxing last night. All that is 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.800 is reality reality show. That's all it is. It just 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:32.199 a reality show. It was all of these all of 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.680 these reality shows. That that's just celebrity boxing at all. 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:42.359 All that is. I mean I I viewed it as entertainment, 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.040 that's all. I mean, it's in the eye of the beholder. 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.639 Was I entertained by it when I saw the highlights? No, 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.160 I was not. Was I entertained when Ocho Sinko got 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.120 clipped on the chin and went down? Yeah, I thought 0:18:54.160 --> 0:19:00.720 that was interesting at least. But Logan Paul can't fight. 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.240 I mean, I gotta be careful, you know, I don't 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.600 want him to call me out. I want to fight 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:11.720 me here. But Logan and Jake at the same time 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.520 shouldn't be able to beat Floyd Mayweather. But I credit 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.840 them as being business man. That's what Floyd is. Floyd's 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:23.560 not fun to watch. He's not He's not interesting at 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:29.080 all as a fighter. Now, maybe fifteen years ago, the 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.399 fact that he was undefeated, we were always tuning in 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:38.560 for that. But you know, he's an unbelievable defensive strategist. Wow, 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:41.760 what other sport do you go? Man? I'm tuning in 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:48.960 for the defense. None can't wait to watch that defense. 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:54.320 Floyd Mayweather is a is a boxing no hitter, like 0:19:54.520 --> 0:20:00.080 you're going it's that's that's impressive, but it's boring. Oh 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.800 there's something interesting right at the very end. Then that's it. 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.000 So he avoided getting hit for the most part for 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.640 eight rounds. He had an eight inning Note he's Madison Bumgardner. 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.119 He had an eight inning noe hitter here mich O 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:19.600 King and then he'll fight the other brother and Floyd's 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:25.919 not broke. But don't watch it. I mean, that's the 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.840 whole thing. It's just don't. If you don't like it, 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.120 don't watch it. But a lot of people, enough people did, 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:35.359 and that's why it's going to continue twenty one after 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:39.040 the hour. Frank Isola, who covers the nets, will join us. 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:42.360 Coming up. We'll get his thoughts on what Floyd should fight. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.240 Rand Paul their father, the politician. Is that a lot 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:49.000 of people know, right, that's not that's not it's not no, 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:51.479 he's not. No, he's a big name politician. If you 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:55.560 put Rand Paul, Jake, Paul Logan, Paul, Chris Paul. Then 0:20:55.560 --> 0:21:00.000 you're pay him. Maybe okay, I want credit for that one. 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:04.720 Maybe Rand Hey, he's a big name politician. He too 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:08.080 embarrassed for boxing. Take a break. Twenty two after the hour. 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.919 This is the Dan Patrick Show. 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I thought it was interesting after 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:54.800 the game. I once had a guy tell me when 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:57.959 I first started covering sports, guy from the New York Times, 0:22:58.000 --> 0:23:02.160 he said, never underplay an injury. And after games, if 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:04.280 a guy's not hurt, the team will always say it's 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:06.840 not that bad. If it's a bad injury, they'll always say, now, 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:08.960 we don't really know. And after the game, that's what 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:10.680 you were kind of getting from the Brooklyn Nets. And 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.920