Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Oh, we made it to a Friday. It's
Speaker 1: a meat Friday at that Welcome to the program. We're
Speaker 1: down to Danette mclovin has taken a day off sharkwatch.
Speaker 1: He's going to Cape cod to look for sharks. Fritzie's
Speaker 1: here's Seaton's here, Pauli's here, and yours truly boys in
Speaker 1: the back. We got Marvin answering phones, we got Tyler
Speaker 1: the moderator with chat Row, and we got the big
Speaker 1: german running the TV portion of this. We're ready to go.
Speaker 1: You're allowed to be part of the program if you want,
Speaker 1: variety of ways. You can email, you can tweet, you
Speaker 1: can also dial us up. Say good morning to our
Speaker 1: folks watching on TV. That's YouTube dot com slangs to
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show and our great radio affiliates around the country.
Speaker 1: NBA appeared to bend over backwards to bring the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Pelicans down to the bubble. At least that's what
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought when they decided to settle
Speaker 1: on twenty two teams to compete, and based on the
Speaker 1: TV schedule, there's no doubt that they can Zion Williamson
Speaker 1: a big drawl. They frontloaded the regular season TV schedule
Speaker 1: and then Zion was out with surgery. Now he's back
Speaker 1: in the bubble and he was on display last night. Ideally,
Speaker 1: the Pelicans would like to find a way to reach
Speaker 1: the postseason then face the Lakers in the first round.
Speaker 1: The problem is they come into the bubble as the
Speaker 1: number ten seed and they have a lot of work
Speaker 1: to do. They have the easiest schedule of the teams
Speaker 1: in the bubble, but they lost last night to the
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz. Zion was on a strict minute's count. More
Speaker 1: on this coming up in a little bit. They turned
Speaker 1: the ball over twenty times. They shouldn't have lost that game.
Speaker 1: They were the better team last night, but give credit
Speaker 1: to Utah. They hung in there and in crunch time,
Speaker 1: Pelicans couldn't hit a shot and Utah got a couple
Speaker 1: of big shots there at the end. And despite all
Speaker 1: the hype, the Pelicans are young, they're fun. You not
Speaker 1: only have Zion Williamson, Lonzo Ball, you know, Brandon Ingram
Speaker 1: to me, this is you're watching somebody grow up before
Speaker 1: your very eyes. And I remember when we were we
Speaker 1: had Reggie Miller on this is a while ago. This
Speaker 1: is when Ingram was traded, or maybe it was rumored
Speaker 1: to be traded, and he said it'll he needs to
Speaker 1: get out from Lebron's shadow. And he said he'll do
Speaker 1: better in a smaller city than he would in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: And I found that interesting. I don't know that much
Speaker 1: about Brandon Ingram other than what I saw a duke,
Speaker 1: and he has a Kevin Durant tight build to him.
Speaker 1: But what I love to see is improvement. He wasn't
Speaker 1: a good free throw shooter. He's become a good free
Speaker 1: throw shooter. He was not a good three point shooter.
Speaker 1: He's become a good three point shooter. He's now becoming
Speaker 1: a Kevin Durant light. How's that Lonzo Lonzo Ball benefited
Speaker 1: from getting away from his dad and getting away from
Speaker 1: the shadow of Lebron James. This is a fun team.
Speaker 1: And if I have those three, If I have Zion
Speaker 1: Ingram and Lonzo Ball and I have them for the
Speaker 1: next five years, maybe or longer, you might be able
Speaker 1: to do something really special in New Orleans. Now, I
Speaker 1: would love to see them have a true rim protector
Speaker 1: or a big man there. But watching last night against Utah.
Speaker 1: You can see the embryonic stages of what could be
Speaker 1: something that's special there. But the Pelicans, they're young, they
Speaker 1: have a great future. But just because they're on TV
Speaker 1: all the time doesn't mean they're suddenly going to win
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis. And you saw that last night.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Chris Haynes. Chris Haynes was
Speaker 1: working the sidelines for TNT last night, and I want
Speaker 1: to know what was up with Zion Williamson that I
Speaker 1: have him played three minutes and then he sits out
Speaker 1: the rest of the quarter and then four minutes. He
Speaker 1: played fifteen minutes last night, He's got thirteen points. Are
Speaker 1: you trying to win? You're sort of trying to win
Speaker 1: because he's either ready to play or he's not. And
Speaker 1: would I would argue this having Zion play in a
Speaker 1: three minute spurt a burst, would leave him more susceptible
Speaker 1: to doing something of you know that he can injure himself,
Speaker 1: reinjure himself because once he gets done, then he gets
Speaker 1: on a bicycle and rides the bicycle the rest of
Speaker 1: the quarter. I would rather have him out there and
Speaker 1: just say I'm going to have you play seven minutes,
Speaker 1: because he's going to get out there and try to
Speaker 1: do everything in a three minute period, and that, to
Speaker 1: me is dangerous if you don't think Remember, he was
Speaker 1: in the best shape of his life and then he
Speaker 1: left with a family emergency. Then he came back, he
Speaker 1: was quarantined for four days, and then he's out there
Speaker 1: and you're going, Okay, he's sort of out there. You
Speaker 1: can't get anything going in three minutes. You're not going
Speaker 1: to get back in shape. I don't I think they
Speaker 1: appreciate being in the bubble. I think this is a
Speaker 1: good experience for that team. I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: really trying to win, because if you are, then put
Speaker 1: Zion out there. If not, then don't play him. That's
Speaker 1: what I said yesterday. Is he going to play or
Speaker 1: not play? Three minutes? Three minutes? Is not going to Okay?
Speaker 1: What happens next game? Four minutes, five minutes and you're
Speaker 1: on the clock. You got to win these games if
Speaker 1: you want to make it into the bubble and face
Speaker 1: the Lakers in the opening round. So that was puzzling.
Speaker 1: But we'll talk to Chris Haynes. He was on the
Speaker 1: sidelines for that watching the Lakers last night against the Clippers.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of fun. That was intense. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was playoff basketball. Anthony Davis was the best player
Speaker 1: on the floor, but the game came down to Lebron
Speaker 1: James doing what Lebron James does. He scored thirteen of
Speaker 1: the lakers twenty seven fourth quarter points, played great defense
Speaker 1: on Paul George in the waning seconds to close out
Speaker 1: that victory, and he made the go ahead basket in
Speaker 1: the final fifteen seconds. You know, it wasn't a great shot,
Speaker 1: off balance shot, but the follow up was great, the
Speaker 1: sixteen foot jump shot. Then got his own rebound. And
Speaker 1: this was something that was I thought big for Lebron
Speaker 1: because Lebron means business and he wasn't talking. Lebron was
Speaker 1: just playing. He wanted to He wanted to send the
Speaker 1: message that this is serious. We have a mission, we
Speaker 1: have a job to do. He wanted Paul George in
Speaker 1: the closing seconds, and he wanted Kawhi Leonard on the
Speaker 1: defensive end in the closing seconds. I loved it because
Speaker 1: that's what I want. I want my guy out there
Speaker 1: and he knows what's at stake here. But a lot
Speaker 1: of fun last night I'm not getting caught up in
Speaker 1: the crowd noise, the ambiance, the lack thereof. It's not ideal,
Speaker 1: but what's the other option here? There is none, so
Speaker 1: I just enjoyed it. What was weird was it was
Speaker 1: a Pelican's home game, so they catered the noise. Now
Speaker 1: that crowd noise is in the arena and in our TV,
Speaker 1: and then they would pump up. So let's say JJ
Speaker 1: Reddick hit a shot and then you'd hear the crowd go.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how you can take advantage of
Speaker 1: that if you're that's your home court advantage. But that
Speaker 1: was a little odd. Yes, he is the NBA the
Speaker 1: only league doing that the in house crowd. I was
Speaker 1: always under the impression that the other leagues did it
Speaker 1: like it's or say soccer. They just did it on TV,
Speaker 1: but in the actual stadium itself was just there was
Speaker 1: no sound. I was surprised too, because I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's just for us. I'm still surprised. You're saying that
Speaker 1: the players can hear the exact feed that we hear, yeah,
Speaker 1: which that actually seems super cheesy. Doing it for the
Speaker 1: TV experience I get, but pumping it into an empty
Speaker 1: stadium sounds so corny. I know, in the fifteen minutes
Speaker 1: Zion was on the floor, Pelicans were outscored by sixteen points.
Speaker 1: I hate to be a hater on a Friday. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: he did not look good. I mean he looked. He
Speaker 1: had those moments where he has a great play, an
Speaker 1: alley oop from Lonzo ball power move to the hoop.
Speaker 1: He didn't look great. You know, Lebron didn't look great
Speaker 1: to start the game. But I you know, if Zion
Speaker 1: is what nineteen twenty, I'm hopeful that he could be.
Speaker 1: You know, Lebron is what thirty five. I understand if
Speaker 1: he's maybe struggling to come back here. Zion just turned twenty.
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful that he would be ready to go. But
Speaker 1: Zion last night, okay, didn't look great. But brandon Ingram, man,
Speaker 1: he's got it all. Are you calling brandon Ingram because
Speaker 1: there's some people in this room who said they may
Speaker 1: have called brandon Ingram. All I know is I might
Speaker 1: have a couple more people on my Pelicans bandwagon. Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of fun to watch. Man, it's
Speaker 1: breaking news for you, but Pelicans are fun to watch.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. I think if we're
Speaker 1: going back in the order, I think Andrew has a
Speaker 1: pretty good claim on brandon Ingram mclovin. He's not here.
Speaker 1: He's not here, but he was very high on him
Speaker 1: at Duke Like that's hard, difficult call to make, but
Speaker 1: he does claim a lot of people though, seeing that
Speaker 1: is true. He remember when he bought the Bucks hat
Speaker 1: and he was all in on the Milwaukee Bucks. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: so he does jump in Blaine Gabbert. Remember he was
Speaker 1: all in on Blaine Gabbert. He's just more pro ready
Speaker 1: than Gamootin. He stands by it. Oh gosh. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: So we'll check some moments with Chris Baines coming up
Speaker 1: on about ten minutes from now. Matt Ryan or the
Speaker 1: Falcons will join us coming up as well tonight. Six
Speaker 1: NBA games, thirteen baseball games, ten NHL games coming up
Speaker 1: this weekend. You're going to have over sixty games coming
Speaker 1: up this weekend with baseball, hockey in the NBA. But
Speaker 1: if you the normal schedule is we wouldn't have hockey
Speaker 1: and we wouldn't have the NBA. Those seasons would be
Speaker 1: over a year ago at this time. There would be
Speaker 1: no preseason football that would start the following week, you
Speaker 1: would have baseball and less more teams have positive tests.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have thirteen baseball games coming up tonight. By
Speaker 1: the way, if I say the name Shane Bieber, Shane Bieber,
Speaker 1: anybody justin Bieber's little brother. Nope, Nope, it's weird to
Speaker 1: see the jersey and you see Bieber on the back.
Speaker 1: And Shane Bieber is a pitcher. He pitches for the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Indians, and I was watching him last night. Shane
Speaker 1: Bieber brings cheese. He's had twenty seven strikeouts in his
Speaker 1: first two starts this season. That's tied for the most
Speaker 1: by any pitcher in baseball history in the first two
Speaker 1: starts of a season. The only other time it happened
Speaker 1: was back in nineteen fifty four. Twenty seven strikeounts, one
Speaker 1: walk for Shane Bieber. Stead of the day, stat of
Speaker 1: the day? That beast out of the day. Stat of
Speaker 1: the day? Dude, comes that? What stat of the day?
Speaker 1: PAULI can you chuck? I thought a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I got a sneaky dark
Speaker 1: horse for Cy Young in the American League. He said something, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I said it on the air,
Speaker 1: but maybe as I was walking out to the kitchen,
Speaker 1: or called me one night and said, there's this guy
Speaker 1: in Cleveland who's got a lot of gass. Terry Frankona
Speaker 1: there go. Yeah, I want to back here, Shane Bieber.
Speaker 1: Your guy has faced fifty batters this season. He struck
Speaker 1: out twenty seven of them. Dang, Yeah, I'm on the
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber bandwagon. You're a believer, Yes I am, Yes, Tod?
Speaker 1: How about biber gun for nicknames? Since you throw so hard?
Speaker 1: Or is that not politically correct because you're using the
Speaker 1: word gun it's too violent instead of a BB gun
Speaker 1: biber gun? Does that need to be workshopped a little more?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not worried about the political correctness of
Speaker 1: a BB gun that I just it was just a
Speaker 1: bad Yeah. Yeah, don't blame American. Yeah, but thank you
Speaker 1: Todd for showing up today. All right, well done? Who
Speaker 1: is handling the poll question today? With mclovin not here? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. Are you guys are okay with that?
Speaker 1: Are you capable of filling the large shoes of mclot Oh? Well,
Speaker 1: nobody could ever fill mcloven's shoes when it comes to
Speaker 1: the poll question. But I could certainly try my best. Okay,
Speaker 1: what do you have for a seaton? Well? I was
Speaker 1: actually thinking what we could do is normally would just
Speaker 1: say like, oh, hey, Paul had this idea or whatever.
Speaker 1: I was going to throw out some suggestions and then
Speaker 1: you can not only decide which pole ques do you like?
Speaker 1: But who's submitted whole question? Oh? Okay, we'll make a
Speaker 1: game out of it. Okay, got a new format. I'm
Speaker 1: already off to a good start. Okay. Who suggested do
Speaker 1: you have music for this? You know what? We sure
Speaker 1: could Okay. By the way, this program is brought to
Speaker 1: you by the great wireless earbuds. The way to go
Speaker 1: is Raycon RI Y C O N and you can
Speaker 1: get fifteen percent off your Raycon order at by raycon
Speaker 1: dot com slash Patrick. That's by Raycon dot com slash Patrick.
Speaker 1: Here we go. And who suggested this whole question? If
Speaker 1: you were twenty two years old, would you rather play
Speaker 1: for the Lakers or the Pelicans? Do I have to
Speaker 1: answer the question or tell you who came up with
Speaker 1: the questions? I think you should answer the question and
Speaker 1: answer the question who came up with the question, if
Speaker 1: you're twenty two years old, would you rather play for
Speaker 1: the Lakers or the Pelican? Well, I'm gonna be playing
Speaker 1: for a championship if I'm twenty two, I don't know
Speaker 1: what role I play. It seemed like a lot of fun, though,
Speaker 1: does it probably not not as much fun as you
Speaker 1: would think it would be you're in Los Angeles, when
Speaker 1: you're not even in Los Angeles, you're in the bubble.
Speaker 1: Pelicans feel like, hey, let's just go out there and
Speaker 1: have some fun. So I probably say the Pelicans. Judging
Speaker 1: from what I've seen with Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram,
Speaker 1: feels like they can go out there. You might make
Speaker 1: a mistake, it's okay, So I'd say the Pelicans. Do
Speaker 1: you know who suggested that you? Yes? Oh, you're on fire?
Speaker 1: Well done, Well done. The second question NBA restart looked
Speaker 1: more entertaining than awkward. More awkward than entertaining. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say Todd correct Man, you are on fire two for two.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't care about the aesthetics other than
Speaker 1: the basketball wasn't necessarily great at times last night, so
Speaker 1: I'm fine with the entertainment portion. Of it. Okay, next question,
Speaker 1: sports spies, July dot dot sucked. It was at nice
Speaker 1: little month. Actually I don't. It's all blending together. So Paulie,
Speaker 1: that's yours. Yeah, shocker, Okay, but my point was, I
Speaker 1: can remember we did this a month ago and we
Speaker 1: said that June was pretty bad. Everything was getting pushed back.
Speaker 1: Now thirty days later, No, I'm good with July. It
Speaker 1: seems like we're going in the right direction sports wise. Yes,
Speaker 1: June was rough, very May it was rough, April was rough,
Speaker 1: July nirvana. I'm happy with what we've accomplished so far.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we get all these games in over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely fine with all of them. Yes. See, after
Speaker 1: watching the NBA restart last night, I'm going to watch
Speaker 1: more than I planned, going to watch less than I planned. Okay,
Speaker 1: who came up with that question? Todd came up with
Speaker 1: that question, accurate. I'm I'm watching more, but that's that's
Speaker 1: just you. Yeah, it's just me. But I want to
Speaker 1: watch the team like Washington the Wizards, I'm gonna watch
Speaker 1: because nobody's gonna watch, and Sacramento I'm gonna watch because
Speaker 1: nobody's probably gonna watch or the Brooklyn Nets. Nobody's gonna watch,
Speaker 1: but I'm watching all of these things. Yeah, Paul, there
Speaker 1: was no option for I'm gonna watch exactly the same
Speaker 1: amount as before. Like, I haven't changed my opinion whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I have the exact number of games I plan to watch,
Speaker 1: and that's what I'm gonna watch, you know what. There
Speaker 1: was that option, but I thought it would have given
Speaker 1: away todd to too easily in the middle of the road.
Speaker 1: I can't give him an easy adlet. But that would
Speaker 1: be my on the fence third choice. Oh, you are
Speaker 1: committing either way. You were one of the best at
Speaker 1: being on the fence. I'm gonna watch approximately the same amount,
Speaker 1: roughly the same amount. Here's another one. Is it acceptable
Speaker 1: to talk trash about Super Bowl fifty one to Matt Ryan? Yes? No,
Speaker 1: being okay, who who is the person who would be
Speaker 1: talking trash? It could be TV twelve if you want,
Speaker 1: It could be because I can't, right, you can't. I can't.
Speaker 1: If you played in the game, I think you can.
Speaker 1: But Matt Ryan is not a guy that you would
Speaker 1: talk trash too because he seems nice. He's yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a nice guy. Yeah, Like, hey man, that kind of
Speaker 1: probably stunk. I mean, you know his nickname is Maddie Ice.
Speaker 1: You can't spell nice without ice. I mean, he's just
Speaker 1: Mattie Nice. It's not because he's cold blooded. No, no, no, No,
Speaker 1: he might be, but yeah, he's joining us in the
Speaker 1: lansdown or the program. I'm gonna bring up twenty eight
Speaker 1: to three. I'm gonna bring it. I'm gonna bring it up,
Speaker 1: but I don't know how I'm gonna bring it up. Yes, Paul,
Speaker 1: it'd be a lot more fun and funny to poke
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan if he had a Super Bowl ring since then,
Speaker 1: like if he had won the next year, like if
Speaker 1: Bill Buckner had one World Series MVP two years later.
Speaker 1: You might be able to have a little fun with
Speaker 1: eighty six. Yeah, but I can't joke with Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: Junior the third and say, hey, how's Malcolm Butler? Hey
Speaker 1: did you think about name of your son Malcolm? That
Speaker 1: wouldn't go out, No, it wouldn't. Didn't he name his
Speaker 1: son win? Yes, Win, not Winch. That's not sure for
Speaker 1: Winchester or Winthrop. It's just Win. Okay, Win. That's a
Speaker 1: cool name, like Win Butler. His middle name is If
Speaker 1: we run the ball. Wow, No, that's too soon. His
Speaker 1: middle name is give it to beast mode. Yeah, win
Speaker 1: if if we give it to beast mode, meaning we
Speaker 1: would have won if we had handed the ball off damn. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But if you have a name like win and then
Speaker 1: you don't win, I don't know, it sets up a
Speaker 1: lot of playgrounds trash talk for sure, because we get
Speaker 1: caught up. You know, his parents when you give somebody name, Oh,
Speaker 1: my grandmother's middle name was Grace, or my dad's name
Speaker 1: was Jack. Now you know, kids don't give a damn
Speaker 1: you know why you were named after somebody. They're just
Speaker 1: looking for that loophole of how do I make fun
Speaker 1: of you when you know it's awkward. When we were
Speaker 1: in the like my wife was pregnant and we're in
Speaker 1: the process of naming my son, we wouldn't tell anybody
Speaker 1: what the name was, even though we had it picked out,
Speaker 1: because I didn't really want One of the things that
Speaker 1: happened is like, oh, we're thinking about this name, and
Speaker 1: then people will say, oh, I don't like that, Oh
Speaker 1: I hate that name. And then you know, when it's
Speaker 1: a family member that says that, it's like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe we were thinking of that name. So we didn't
Speaker 1: say anything, and then I think the expectations got built
Speaker 1: up that we were naming our son after someone in
Speaker 1: the family. This is a moment in the hospital, We're like,
Speaker 1: what's the name? We're like here, and there was like
Speaker 1: a oh wait, oh that's nice. Okay, that's nice. So
Speaker 1: your dad thought maybe you were naming your son after
Speaker 1: your dad. I don't know. I don't know who it
Speaker 1: could have been, anybody in the family, your brother maybe
Speaker 1: maybe you know. Oh okay, it's very nice. All right,
Speaker 1: let me take a break. We'll talk to Chris, get
Speaker 1: his thoughts on the games last night. So he did
Speaker 1: the Pelicans Jazz game and then you walk down the
Speaker 1: street and then you get to see the Lakers and
Speaker 1: the Clippers. So we'll talk to Chris and does he
Speaker 1: have any more information on Zion Williamson in the minutes
Speaker 1: restriction and I think I think the answers are kind
Speaker 1: of confusing coming from the Pelicans. Have that for you
Speaker 1: coming up? It's twenty two after the hour, Glad you're
Speaker 1: with us. Hour one Dan and the Dan at Stan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show. I mentioned these wireless earbuds just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes ago. Let me give you a little bit
Speaker 1: more detail here. Everybody is looking for that great pair
Speaker 1: of wireless earbuds. But what I love about rake Un.
Speaker 1: Whether there's a lot of things to love about Rakun.
Speaker 1: They're about half the price of the other premium wireless
Speaker 1: earbuds on the market, and they sound just as amazing
Speaker 1: as those top audio brands. Ask for the every day
Speaker 1: E twenty five earbuds, Just remember E twenty five, Like
Speaker 1: if Jason Jombi made an error at first base, E
Speaker 1: twenty five would be E E three. But never mind
Speaker 1: E twenty five earbuds. They're best ones yet, six hours
Speaker 1: of playtime, seamless bluetooth pairing, more base and you're gonna
Speaker 1: love the design that they have, the nice noise isolating fit.
Speaker 1: Racon's wireless earbuds are so comfortable, perfect for conference calls
Speaker 1: if you're doing video chats. Get fifteen percent off your order.
Speaker 1: You go to buy Raycon dot com slash Patrick so
Speaker 1: it's by Raycon dot com slash Patrick for fifteen percent
Speaker 1: off your Racon wireless earbuds. Thanks for listening to The
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live
Speaker 1: every weekday morning nine to noon Eastern or six to
Speaker 1: nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station
Speaker 1: for the Dan Patrick Show at Fox Sports Radio dot com,
Speaker 1: or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1: by searching f SR Lakers last night shot thirty nine
Speaker 1: percent from the floor, Lebron and A D We're combined
Speaker 1: fourteen for thirty eight thirty seven percent. They do get
Speaker 1: the victory. We'll settle on a poll question. How does
Speaker 1: that a Manchester United jersey? It is? It's got my
Speaker 1: last name on the back of everything. I couldn't name
Speaker 1: you a player or a coach or anybody, but the
Speaker 1: found it in the closet. And I don't know why
Speaker 1: I'm wearing a soccer kit, you know, after the NBA reopening.
Speaker 1: Can you name one player on Manchester United? I don't
Speaker 1: think I can. Okay, how about historically? Probably not. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that I know this famous soccer players, but I
Speaker 1: don't know if they were affiliated with Manchester United. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's funny, is you could actually guess, Like if you
Speaker 1: just started guessing the most famous soccer players, you might
Speaker 1: know you'd probably hit a couple that one like Ronaldo
Speaker 1: or there you go, Beckham, Rolandno you salvage it a
Speaker 1: little bit there, Roland, Roland, it got too correct. I too, though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all right, Beckham. Yeah, I'm just curious now that
Speaker 1: you can't wear the Houston Astros jerseys. You're gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna run out of things to wear their time? All right?
Speaker 1: Did we decide on a pull question here? Seaton? Well, no,
Speaker 1: we haven't decided on one. Is there one that you like?
Speaker 1: It's your day? Today is your day because you're filling
Speaker 1: in for mclovin. So I'm gonna how about we start
Speaker 1: with uh, well, I guess I'll start with one of mine.
Speaker 1: If you were twenty two, which team would you want
Speaker 1: to play for? Okay, here's a power that's interesting. Go
Speaker 1: for the clicks. Kennedy in Louisville. Hey Kennedy, what do
Speaker 1: you have for me today? Hey? Dan, how are you good? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Right on topic because mcloven's out today. I just it
Speaker 1: kind of seems like that Drew Bloodsoe Tom Brady moments
Speaker 1: for ethan Um just kind of seems like his moment
Speaker 1: to step in come up with a couple of steps um.
Speaker 1: Just kind of my thought. All right, Well, thank you, Kennedy.
Speaker 1: I did say this. When mclovin said, Hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take Friday off, I'll see you on Monday. I said,
Speaker 1: Ethan probably is going to join us tomorrow, and he goes, Really,
Speaker 1: I go, no, Ethan will help us with stats, because
Speaker 1: of course you know that I love Ethan. He's really
Speaker 1: good at what he does. He graduated from Harvard. This
Speaker 1: would be the queue for the big german to hit
Speaker 1: the sound effect. Thank you. Let me direct the show
Speaker 1: as well, apparently, but Ethan will have something. In fact,
Speaker 1: Ethan had the stat on a D and Lebron James.
Speaker 1: You know, Ethan could probably direct the show as well. Wow,
Speaker 1: apparently anybody can. I don't know that there's anything he
Speaker 1: can't do. So far. He's incredible. Yes, more phone calls
Speaker 1: are welcome. H seven seven three DP show. Let's bring
Speaker 1: in Chris Haynes, Yahoo's sports NBA writer, senior writer for
Speaker 1: them but also working the sidelines for TNT last night.
Speaker 1: Had his suit on, had his mask on, and he
Speaker 1: was working the opener the Pelicans and the Utah Jazz.
Speaker 1: Let me start with that game, Chris, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: What was the most unusual part of last night's game? Dad?
Speaker 1: It had like a summer league feel like how you
Speaker 1: were attending multiple games. Um, but the crowd, the fake
Speaker 1: crowd noise like that kept that kept getting to me
Speaker 1: because it was like it was overly loud, and it
Speaker 1: was funny because you know, the players would score a
Speaker 1: basket or make a big play in this large virtual
Speaker 1: crowd noise, or you know, just just hit the arena
Speaker 1: and the players wouldn't really react like they knew, they
Speaker 1: knew this wasn't real fans. You know, they weren't getting
Speaker 1: hyped up. And so it's just it's just a different,
Speaker 1: different atmosphere and you know, going to you know, I
Speaker 1: did the Pelicans UM Jazz game for TNT that I
Speaker 1: walked down the street and went and saw the rest
Speaker 1: of the Lakers UM the Lakers and Clipper game, and
Speaker 1: you know, you just see all you know, see all
Speaker 1: the players sitting in the stands right There's just it's
Speaker 1: a unique atmosphere. Something I really never experienced before. Were
Speaker 1: players who weren't playing last night, that their teams weren't
Speaker 1: playing at the games. Correct, So he had Damian Lillard there,
Speaker 1: you had Carmelo Anthony, c J. Mccallough, Chris Paul was there,
Speaker 1: Demark de Rosen. You know it was it was about
Speaker 1: I would say twenty players. I think Russell Westbrook who
Speaker 1: James Harden was there as well. So I mean just
Speaker 1: having players just come and watch the game and check
Speaker 1: out the atmosphere. You know, we've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 1: Zion on the minutes restriction here, it was a game
Speaker 1: time decision. What did you learn from what was happening
Speaker 1: or what their game plan is with Zion moving forward.
Speaker 1: I'll say this Zion was pissed like he wanted to play,
Speaker 1: and obviously I think the members of the Pelicans feel
Speaker 1: like if he was able to go down a stretch
Speaker 1: or play significant minutes, that they would have got to
Speaker 1: win last night. But they wanted the plan was to
Speaker 1: get them out there in three to four minute verse
Speaker 1: they said it was he said, They said he really
Speaker 1: wasn't ornamentutes restriction, but they just wanted to make sure
Speaker 1: they kept them in first. But I don't think Zi
Speaker 1: know that he knew that he was going to go
Speaker 1: out there and get fifteen minutes, So that that was
Speaker 1: disappointed from miss standpoint, because you have to understand New
Speaker 1: Orleans Pelicans. You know, they're fighting for a playoff spot
Speaker 1: and these games count, so in seven more games left,
Speaker 1: so they're trying to put themselves in a position to
Speaker 1: getting that top eight. Yeah, but Chris, I don't understand this.
Speaker 1: Are they there to win to try to get into
Speaker 1: the playoffs? And if they are, then why aren't you
Speaker 1: playing Zion? And I would I would argue those three
Speaker 1: to four minute burst, he might have more of an
Speaker 1: opportunity to get injured as opposed to kind of being
Speaker 1: able to go. I can relax a little bit and
Speaker 1: have a seven or eight minute stretch here. No, I
Speaker 1: see what you're saying, DP. I think New Orleans is
Speaker 1: thinking of the long game here, and obviously with his
Speaker 1: injury history, they want to make sure, you know, they
Speaker 1: want to be careful, you know, you know, let's let's
Speaker 1: just be real, DP. There's not a lot of teams.
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing New Orleans one of those teams. There's
Speaker 1: not a lot of teams that's putting a lot of
Speaker 1: spot and playing meaningful games here. You know, there's some
Speaker 1: teams that you know, quite simply were forced to be here.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think you know, you look at
Speaker 1: Washington's roster, they're not absolutely they're not trotting a playoff
Speaker 1: type roster out there. So, uh, you know, I think
Speaker 1: New Orleans like they want to win, but I don't
Speaker 1: think they're gonna do it at the detriment of Zion's
Speaker 1: long term ability with the team. Yeah, but White, I
Speaker 1: just don't understand it because he wants to play. So
Speaker 1: you just said he wants to play, and he was
Speaker 1: really upset about not playing. So who's right the Jazz
Speaker 1: or the Appelicans approach to this game with the Jazz
Speaker 1: or Zion saying, look, I'm back, I came back. I
Speaker 1: want to play. Well, we have to keep in mind
Speaker 1: DDP that he went away on a family and murdencis
Speaker 1: so he hasn't been with the team getting a lot
Speaker 1: of practice in. It says that I think he got
Speaker 1: want to say, two maybe two and a half practices
Speaker 1: in before the game. So they want to just make
Speaker 1: sure that, you know, he's make sure that he's in
Speaker 1: the right mind. And look, I see both sides, but
Speaker 1: I also get you know, having a significant injury for
Speaker 1: Zion or maybe there's something lacking. You know, the team
Speaker 1: is being very quiet with his injuries, and if he's
Speaker 1: heard or not, they're saying this is strictly a conditioning
Speaker 1: issue because he's been away. But you know, we really
Speaker 1: don't know, so without knowing all the facts and them
Speaker 1: being transparent, I can't really make the call on who's
Speaker 1: right or not. He's Chris Haynes, the young who's senior
Speaker 1: NBA insider. He was courtside reporter for the Jazz Pelicans.
Speaker 1: Mister TV star. By the way, he was on TNT
Speaker 1: last night. Look good, blue jacket, blue mask, You're looking good,
Speaker 1: Look tight. Look you got to coordinate, I mister, coordinate.
Speaker 1: That's that's all I do. DP. I'll say this, man,
Speaker 1: it was hell for me talking through that mask because
Speaker 1: you got your hot breath all in your masks and
Speaker 1: I'm sweating as it is. I got this fool suit
Speaker 1: and you know, it's humidity. It's not the most comfortable feeling.
Speaker 1: But you know, we trying to be use proper social
Speaker 1: distance and you know, were your mask covering, but it's
Speaker 1: not a comfortable feeling. The Lakers and the Clippers that
Speaker 1: was spirited came down to the last possession, and what
Speaker 1: did you take away from that game? You know it
Speaker 1: that was it was weird. DP. I went and watched
Speaker 1: that game. I watched the second quarter on. It was
Speaker 1: weird because I saw Lebron talking way more during the scrimmage,
Speaker 1: like going at players, cussing that as players teammates, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Just saw him real lively and
Speaker 1: he was real quiet last night. I think, I think
Speaker 1: more so because the games are starting and now we
Speaker 1: can actually like hear every everything they say. It was
Speaker 1: an awkward, bizarre scene. It's one that I probably can't
Speaker 1: really demonstrate and tell properly because people aren't there. Just
Speaker 1: the scene of just no fans, and I think everybody's
Speaker 1: trying to be on their best behavior. I think Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis made a point and saying like, well, we can't
Speaker 1: say what we want to say because there's no fan,
Speaker 1: and so they'll hear everything. So it seemed like they're
Speaker 1: kind of trying to keep everything compressed, and so I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see him if that's something that they can
Speaker 1: continue as a season moving forward. I know there's a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on Lebron. There should be a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on Anthony Davis, like this is Anthony Davis's
Speaker 1: chance to really shine on a big stage. Lebron's done this.
Speaker 1: Kawhi has done this. I think Paul George and Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis have a lot to prove here in the bubble
Speaker 1: your thoughts. I do, But it's Lebron James. It's Lebron James.
Speaker 1: He's going to get the bulk of the criticism. He's
Speaker 1: going to get the bulk of the praise. That's that's
Speaker 1: just what comes with it now. Any other star and
Speaker 1: maybe even any other superstar, but I would even say
Speaker 1: Lebron James has probably past superstar and he's a megastar,
Speaker 1: And so Anthony Davis as long as he's playing with
Speaker 1: Lebron James along, Lebron James is playing at a high level.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis or any other player could take a backseat
Speaker 1: to Lebron. He's still going to get criticized. Yeah, and Lebron,
Speaker 1: what I loved is okay, so I didn't like the
Speaker 1: first shot and then the follow up that sealed the game.
Speaker 1: But what I loved is he wanted Paul George and
Speaker 1: he wanted Kawhi Leonard on the defensive end there in
Speaker 1: the final sequences. That's what great players want to do.
Speaker 1: You want to step up and here we are just
Speaker 1: dipping our toe back into the bubble and Lebron's plan
Speaker 1: like it's the NBA Finals. Look, Lebron knows the narratives
Speaker 1: that go out there. They know how people are trying
Speaker 1: to annoy Kawhi Leonards being the best player. They know,
Speaker 1: you know, people are you know, trying to say Paul
Speaker 1: George might have a step on them this year. You know,
Speaker 1: so down the stretch, like you mentioned DP, he used
Speaker 1: those defensivessignments as you know, to his wheel and wanted
Speaker 1: to oppose, you know, pose himself in. He switched Paul George,
Speaker 1: got off in his crows and saved thing with Kauai.
Speaker 1: Can I say that crows? You just did twice? Just
Speaker 1: said you just said that twice? Hey waited? Did he
Speaker 1: get up in his crotch or is crouch Chris? Well
Speaker 1: you know what, Okay, you can say crouch. Okay, well
Speaker 1: you get the port. Okay. So Lebron is a crotch defenders.
Speaker 1: He's across the figure. I give you that he was
Speaker 1: across the figure. Yeah, the stretch. He's not across the
Speaker 1: figure all the time. Okay, but that is stretch with
Speaker 1: you know, was top of his game time. You know
Speaker 1: he does it. He shows that he can still play
Speaker 1: at high level, and he did that towards Can you
Speaker 1: bring that up the next time when you do a
Speaker 1: Lakers game if they throw it to you and you
Speaker 1: can say, you know, Lebron's one of the top five
Speaker 1: crotch defenders. Hey, you know all. But you know it
Speaker 1: was the New Orleans pillic is home. Oh yeah, crowd. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I asked Alvin Jenten during the coach's interview, I'm like,
Speaker 1: can you talk about the boost your home crowd is
Speaker 1: giving you. It was so bizarre that when I'm listening
Speaker 1: to the game and all of a sudden, I'm going
Speaker 1: I and Eagles talking about, well, it's a Pelicans home game,
Speaker 1: therefore the crowd noises catered to the Pelicans, and I went,
Speaker 1: oh my god. You got a funny response though, he said,
Speaker 1: you know what, it's good Chris, because every time we
Speaker 1: come roll down and we have a good home. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's great to talk to you, and congrats on the
Speaker 1: sideline stuff there and we'll check in with you again, Chris.
Speaker 1: Thank you again. Take Oh crotch defender Lebron James. I
Speaker 1: think that's new. That's a new term. How good a defender?
Speaker 1: He's one of the best crotch defenders we have in
Speaker 1: the league. That's Chris Haynes, Yahoo, Senior NBA insider, NBA
Speaker 1: on T and T, sideline reporter and host of Post
Speaker 1: It Up with Chris Haynes podcast. We'll take a break.
Speaker 1: We got our play of the day coming up. PAULI
Speaker 1: has a question for me that involves Kawhi Leonard. I
Speaker 1: have a thesis, A theory on quiet thesis. It's short,
Speaker 1: though as a short how short can a thesis be?
Speaker 1: I can't even spell Reggie Thesis who played in the NBA.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break. We're back after this on The
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday
Speaker 1: morning nine until noon eastern six to nine Pacific on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, and you can find us on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app at FSR or stream us live every day
Speaker 1: at YouTube dot com slash The Dan Patrick Show. Yes, Paulie,
Speaker 1: you had a thesis, a Kawhi Leonard thesis. Yes, I've
Speaker 1: been thinking about this past week and I watched Kawhi
Speaker 1: last night. Would it be fair to say I'm going
Speaker 1: to defer to you because I consider you a basketball expert,
Speaker 1: I really do. Would it be fair to say that
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard is the most complete player in the NBA
Speaker 1: offensively and defensively? No, but right up there because he's
Speaker 1: been Defensive Player of the Year a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Greek Freak is you know what he does offensively, he's
Speaker 1: going to be defensive player of the year. Yeah, Kawhi
Speaker 1: is a great two way player. I don't think he
Speaker 1: has the highs that the Greek Freaks, but he's in
Speaker 1: the conversation of best two way players. I've noticed the
Speaker 1: past week a lot of people talking about Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: and they dabble in the line he's the best basketball
Speaker 1: player in the world, and they dabble on it, and
Speaker 1: they I've heard Reggie Miller kind of talked about it.
Speaker 1: He might be the best. I heard Van Gundi last
Speaker 1: night saying he might be the best player there is.
Speaker 1: And I have the theory that no one's going to
Speaker 1: declare him the best player in the world because they
Speaker 1: don't want a star player. He has no star power
Speaker 1: to him. He has no entertainment value off the court,
Speaker 1: almost like Tim Duncan. His lack of entertainment, his lack
Speaker 1: of engagement with the fans. You don't declare him the
Speaker 1: best player in the world, even if it was factually true.
Speaker 1: He's just he's boringly great, right, But I think that
Speaker 1: would keep people in saying the face of our league
Speaker 1: is this guy, because it's always gonna be Lebron. It's
Speaker 1: almost like Mike Trout. Mike Trout is clearly the best
Speaker 1: hitter in the past seven years. Well, he's the best
Speaker 1: player in baseball right, hands down. Unfortunately, he's also the
Speaker 1: least engaged player with the media and fans. He's born, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so, but he had to plow through that way. Well,
Speaker 1: are you saying if Kawai had more of an entertainment
Speaker 1: value a social presence, he'd be rated higher even on
Speaker 1: the court. Yeah, it would help if he played more
Speaker 1: regular season games. What happened in San Antonio when he
Speaker 1: quit on the team, Uh, you know, he won championships there,
Speaker 1: but he had help. He had won a championship there,
Speaker 1: but he had you know, a really good team there. Toronto.
Speaker 1: He did a wonderful job there, uh, you know, winning
Speaker 1: the championship. And if he wins a title with the Clippers,
Speaker 1: I mean he deserves to be People would say Kevin Durant,
Speaker 1: I think he is a better player than Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: when they're both healthy, because Durant has become a very
Speaker 1: good defender and and he's more of a matchup nightmare
Speaker 1: than Kawai is. But Kawhi is, you know, he's on
Speaker 1: the shortlist of great two way players. You know, Klay
Speaker 1: Thompson's a great two way player as well. We just
Speaker 1: don't we don't focus in on that. We'll focus on
Speaker 1: a big man who's a good defender. But if you're
Speaker 1: a really good two guard defender, or you're you know,
Speaker 1: if you play the three and you play good defense,
Speaker 1: we don't really focus in on it that much. But
Speaker 1: there's something that happened last night. It's so small, it's
Speaker 1: so subtle, but of course I realized what was going
Speaker 1: on here. And I'm sure you know a lot of
Speaker 1: smart basketball people do. Did I just put myself in
Speaker 1: the smart basketball category. The closing seconds, Kawhi is not
Speaker 1: going to be able to go to his right. Lebron
Speaker 1: has taken away the rights and he's he's making him
Speaker 1: dribble into traffic he wants. He's trying to make Kawi
Speaker 1: dribble into a crowd. He wants to get help defenders,
Speaker 1: and he does the same thing with Paul George. Put
Speaker 1: Kawhi has the ball and then he gives the ball
Speaker 1: up to Paul George. There is a moment a fract
Speaker 1: fraction you know second there I almost said fractionary, and
Speaker 1: I don't even know if that's the word, and mclevin's
Speaker 1: not here to correct me. There is a split second
Speaker 1: where Kawai gives the ball to Paul George. Lebron is
Speaker 1: guarding Paul George. He looks up and see to see
Speaker 1: the clock just a split second, takes his eye off
Speaker 1: Paul George looks up to see the clock to know
Speaker 1: Paul George has to get this shot off, makes him
Speaker 1: go left and makes it even harder going left and
Speaker 1: then shooting right. And Lebron played very good defense on
Speaker 1: both of those players in crunch time. And the fact
Speaker 1: that he switched off. You know what happens sometimes is
Speaker 1: you're guarding a guy and then you know, somebody else
Speaker 1: then has to guard Paul George and it might be
Speaker 1: a more favorable matchup. Lebron switched off. Kauai went to
Speaker 1: Paul George, noticed the clock, noticed that he had to
Speaker 1: get the shot off, made him go left, making it
Speaker 1: tougher to go back, you know, to shoot that you know,
Speaker 1: right handed jumper and he didn't fallon It was a
Speaker 1: small thing, but it was you know, that's important defense.
Speaker 1: Getting some help defense as well from his teammates. Kyle
Speaker 1: in California joins us Hi, Kyle, what do you have
Speaker 1: for me today? DPKA loved it last night. Lakers look fantastic.
Speaker 1: Lebron little slow out the gate. It's gonna happen. He's
Speaker 1: going to ramp up. They're all going to ramp up.
Speaker 1: But the whole Kauhi thing, you know, let's look at
Speaker 1: this objectively. The only reason they win last year, not
Speaker 1: only but you know, Katie doesn't get hurt, Kwai doesn't
Speaker 1: get hurt. Different story. The whole story rangs three teams.
Speaker 1: It's apples and oranges between him and Lebron and that category.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just gonna say it, Oh, I'm there
Speaker 1: with you. Kawhi is not in Lebron's category. But if
Speaker 1: he gets to three teams, three different teams, winning three titles,
Speaker 1: then he deserves to be celebrated. He just doesn't we
Speaker 1: don't know who Kawhi Leonard is. He doesn't care that
Speaker 1: we know who he is, and I think because of that,
Speaker 1: he probably doesn't get enough credit. You know, Tim Duncan
Speaker 1: got credit, but it took a while. John Stockton, we
Speaker 1: didn't know John Stockton, took a while, and then we
Speaker 1: finally gave him credit. Now it happens that way. Jim
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, Hi, Jim, when you have for me
Speaker 1: Hi DP, now that you know, I hope that you
Speaker 1: and the three Dennetts are doing well. I have a
Speaker 1: poll question. Now that you've got Wally Pip halfway out
Speaker 1: the door, my suggestions for the fourth Dennett the Jim Parsons,
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller, or Ethan the Harvard grad All right, well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Jim. I would say Jim Parsons probably busy,
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller probably busy. Actually, isn't Jim. Isn't Jim semi unemployed? Now? Parsons,
Speaker 1: I think he's pretty busy. I think he has a
Speaker 1: lot of projects there. I think he does a lot
Speaker 1: of things. But Ethan, I don't know if I could
Speaker 1: do that to mclovin, Like the seat's not even cold yet. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's only gone for one day here and he's out
Speaker 1: there risking his life on the beach in Cape Con
Speaker 1: looking at sharks. But you know, I'll take the under
Speaker 1: advisement Ethan. Maybe is a replacement for mclovin question mark