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Speaker 2: Well that's right, you heard demand that time of week.

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Speaker 2: My name is Bernie Frattle. We are coming to line

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Speaker 2: from the Fox Sports Radio compound here in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 2: We'll take you up to three am Pacific, six am Eastern.

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Speaker 2: And my goodness, do we have another jam pack show

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Speaker 2: for you right on cue another big week at another

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Speaker 2: big day. By the way, if you had sovereignty in

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Speaker 2: the Kentucky Derby, congratulations, you backed the right horse. Apparently

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Speaker 2: he was a mutter, maybe his mother was a mutter.

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Speaker 2: But you are a winner if you backed sovereignty. I

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Speaker 2: unfortunately had pile my on a tip from Raffie Cifaretto.

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Speaker 2: And if you didn't watch the Sopranos you didn't get

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Speaker 2: that reference, Shame on you. And as you had the

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Speaker 2: Clippers and James Harden today, well I think he backed

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Speaker 2: the wrong horse. And if you had the Lakers, you

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Speaker 2: serve lead back the wrong horse. And I've waited for

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Speaker 2: three four days now to get this narrative off my chest.

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Speaker 2: I want to reframe it. I want to establish the

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Speaker 2: real narrative, because the narrative that's been banned about is

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Speaker 2: what I honestly object to see. I realize that there

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Speaker 2: are some folks walking the planet. I won't mention any names,

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Speaker 2: you know, like Nick Wright or Shannon Sharp, who just

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Speaker 2: believe it just simply the Lakers god given right to win.

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Speaker 2: And when they lose, you know, Lebron's always got some

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Speaker 2: lame excuse. And we're going to get to JJ Reddick,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to get to a lot of it.

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Speaker 2: But what I really want to do is establish the

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Speaker 2: real narrative, or at least pose it in the form

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Speaker 2: of a question, did the Lakers lose or did Minnesota win?

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Speaker 2: Come on, man, sit on here? Does anybody anywhere want

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Speaker 2: to give the Timberwolves a modicum of credit for the

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Speaker 2: way they scouted the Lakers, the way they played the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: I want to share some inconvenient truths about your Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles Lakers, who, by the way, ended this season by

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Speaker 2: losing nine straight games on the road. And we'll have

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Speaker 2: Mark Medeena on in about eighteen minutes, and we'll revisit that,

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Speaker 2: ever so briefly, because I wondered if that might be

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Speaker 2: a peccadillo when the playoffs started, you gotta win on

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Speaker 2: the road. Hello, and the Lakers finished the season by

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Speaker 2: losing ninth straight road games, including two on the road.

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Speaker 2: This is the team in February, it was being compared

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Speaker 2: to know Bill Russell's Celtics, right because just because, What

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Speaker 2: if I told you that the Big three of Luca,

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Speaker 2: Lebron and Austin Reeves while they were on the floor

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Speaker 2: against Minnesota for one hundred and forty cumulative minutes, we're

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Speaker 2: accumulative minus twenty four in points. Oh, by the way,

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Speaker 2: did the Lakers fool like a cheap chair late in

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Speaker 2: every game? You tell me? Minnesota closed Game three on

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Speaker 2: a thirteen to one run, They closed Game four on

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Speaker 2: a five zero run, and Game five on a sixteen

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Speaker 2: to eight run. What if I were to tell you

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Speaker 2: that the Lakers were outstored, outscored excuse me, excuse me

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Speaker 2: cumulatively in the fourth quarter in the series one twenty

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Speaker 2: seven to eighty five. Did the Lakers lose? Or did

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Speaker 2: Minnesota just beat them like a rented mule? What if

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Speaker 2: I told you points in the paint Minnesota had two

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty, the Lakers had one hundred and seventy four.

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Speaker 2: That's a seventy six point discrepancy. Propagated over five games,

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Speaker 2: which comes out to what almost sixteen points a game

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Speaker 2: on the paint and the deficit. What if I told

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Speaker 2: you the second chance points? Minnesota also led ninety four

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Speaker 2: to sixty nine. Oh, Nick, right, I'm paging you again.

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Speaker 2: After Minnesota's twenty one of forty two performance from behind

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Speaker 2: the arc in game one, he proclaimed, well, they're not

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Speaker 2: going to be able to do that again, And I

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Speaker 2: go one on my shirt and said they're not going

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Speaker 2: to have to. And Game five I arrest my case.

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Speaker 2: Minnesota was a an impressive seven of forty seven from

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Speaker 2: three point land. They missed forty three pointers, They shot

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Speaker 2: fifteen percent from behind the arc, and still won by

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Speaker 2: seven points. And how about Luca. They rushed him, they

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Speaker 2: blitzed him, they targeted him, they trapped him. How if

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Speaker 2: I had a nickel for every time, especially in the

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Speaker 2: final two games, Luca would bring the ball up before

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Speaker 2: and cross the timeline and they would trap him. They

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Speaker 2: bothered him badly, and that did not allow the Lakers

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Speaker 2: to get into their offensive set, as whatever their offensive

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Speaker 2: set was going to be as valuable. Seconds ticked off,

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Speaker 2: and then I mentioned Luca doesn't want to play defense.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I've been doing this too long. Luca's been

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Speaker 2: a pro eight years in in the NBA, He's been

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Speaker 2: a pro twelve years. This is who he is. His

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Speaker 2: body is not a temple. It looks like an amusement park.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what he eats. I don't care what

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Speaker 2: But when they blow by you nine times in Game five,

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Speaker 2: you're I'm looking at a guy who doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: play defense. Defense is desire. We're gonna get to that

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Speaker 2: more a little later heading into the series. And actually

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Speaker 2: the headline should be in the series ant Man versus

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Speaker 2: camp Man because Lebron, you couldn't do when it mattered most,

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Speaker 2: don't tell me you could, and don't give me this crap.

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Speaker 2: Well I got Well, I gotta think about it and

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Speaker 2: talk about wife and talk to talk to the family

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Speaker 2: and talked about battle, and we'll see if I come back,

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Speaker 2: and shut up. You're coming back next year, and you're

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Speaker 2: coming back the year after. I'll guaranteed minimum two more years,

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Speaker 2: probably three. You know I know that because the minute

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Speaker 2: Lebron decides he's not coming back, he'll announce it. A

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Speaker 2: year ahead of time, so you can get your your

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Speaker 2: balloons in parades ready. He's gonna want the cream. Abdul

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Speaker 2: Jabbar farewell tour. The self proclaimed Kingdom Goat is gonna say,

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Speaker 2: celebrate me please. We're not getting rid of this guy

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Speaker 2: for at least two more years, probably three. But heading

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Speaker 2: into the playoff, Minnesota knew one thing. The Lakers ranked

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Speaker 2: fifteenth in opponent fast break points, which is a sign

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Speaker 2: of both poor transition defense and an inferior lack of

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Speaker 2: athleticism to recover. When Minnesota decided they were going to

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Speaker 2: push the pace that Chicago Bulls back to back victory

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Speaker 2: that I talked to Mark Mendina about about a month ago,

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Speaker 2: I asked him if that was the blueprint, because the

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Speaker 2: Timberwolves constantly capitalized on broken plays and poor rotations. They

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Speaker 2: burned the Lakers with easy points before the defense could set.

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Speaker 2: And this is all against the backdrop of massive, sky

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Speaker 2: high expectations. When Luca was added to the roster on

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Speaker 2: February second, and then there became this resurgent Lebron James,

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Speaker 2: the Lakers, they all told us they were expected to

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Speaker 2: contend for the title. I never said that to be fair.

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Speaker 2: I never predicted Minnesota would beat the Lakers either, but

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Speaker 2: I wasn't buying them his team, and I don't want

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Speaker 2: to hear this crap with Luca. We didn't have time

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Speaker 2: to mesh. Shut up. You had plenty of time to mesh.

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Speaker 2: And here's how I know that because in February sixteenth,

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine, the Dallas Mavericks sounds familiar. They traded

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Speaker 2: Mcguired were not as welcome in Dallas. They wanted him

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Speaker 2: to lose weight, he didn't play a lot of defense,

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a malcontent. I'm not saying Luke

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Speaker 2: was a malcotent, not at all. February sixteenth, nineteen eighty nine, Well,

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Speaker 2: that had plenty of time to mesh. And Pistons went

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Speaker 2: on to win back to back titles coached by Chuck

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Speaker 2: Dailey eighty nine, eighty nine to ninety beat the Lakers

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Speaker 2: in eighty nine and in Portland ninety. But I digress.

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Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is Minnesota one. They thoroughly

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Speaker 2: outplayed the Lakers in every facet of the game. They

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Speaker 2: beat the Lakers in five games. Basically, it was a

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Speaker 2: combination of size, rebounding dominance. The Lakers struggled with their

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Speaker 2: fast break defense. The Timberwolves also exploited the Lakers defensive limitations,

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Speaker 2: particularly around Anthony Edwards, and he benefitted from the added

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Speaker 2: motivation motivation excuse me because he was an underdog. This

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Speaker 2: The te Wolves had a size of rebounding advantage. They

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Speaker 2: take advantage of it, particularly with Rudy Gobert twenty seven points,

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Speaker 2: twenty four rebounds he'd been averaging six to three. They

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Speaker 2: dominated the Lakers on the glass, especially in that final game.

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Speaker 2: This allowed them to get more offensive rebounds and more

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Speaker 2: second chance points. Secondly, the fast break defense the Lakers

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Speaker 2: go back and rewatch the games. They massively struggled with

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Speaker 2: transition defense that allowed the Timberwolves to easily score on

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Speaker 2: fast break situations. How about the you know, the Lakers

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Speaker 2: defensive scheme which was designed on stopping Anthony Edwards, that

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Speaker 2: all that did was creating mismatches and opportunities for other

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Speaker 2: two Timberwolves and for their players to thrive it step up,

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Speaker 2: and they did. How about the motivation of the underdog role?

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Speaker 2: The Timberwolves entered this series as the underdog. I get it.

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Speaker 2: They were a six seed, but they swept Denver. Last year,

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Speaker 2: Denver swept the Lakers. The t Wolves made it to

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Speaker 2: the NBA Conference Finals last year. Coincidentally, they lose to

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Speaker 2: Luca on Dallas. This year, they smoked Luca. And let's

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Speaker 2: not forget the Lakers' offensive struggles. The Lakers missed a

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Speaker 2: significant number of open shots, especially in the fourth quarter

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Speaker 2: of the last three games, that hurt their comeback efforts.

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Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert, that Game five will go down in history

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Speaker 2: for the Rudy Gobert fans and anybody who follows the NBA.

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Speaker 2: The standout performance twenty seven points, twenty four rebounds, and

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Speaker 2: give it up to ants impact. This is a man

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Speaker 2: with tremendous offensive prowess and what he did with that

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Speaker 2: was put the Lakers in a difficult position, forcing them

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Speaker 2: to commit to him defensively, which opened up opportunities for

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Speaker 2: other t Wolves players. And he didn't play great game

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Speaker 2: in Game five, and he admitted it. The Lakers struggled

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Speaker 2: to capitalize on the opportunities they created, particularly in the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter. All Right, Anthony Edwards, like I said, the

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Speaker 2: star who people are falling in love with, Some are,

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Speaker 2: some are whatever. In Game five, just fifteen points on

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Speaker 2: five to nineteen shooting, missed all eleven of his threes.

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Speaker 2: But I've told you that before the game. But you

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Speaker 2: think the Lakers were lost by seven? But they had

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Speaker 2: another breakout star and Jade McDaniels. He had eight points

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Speaker 2: and three rebounds in eighteen minutes. Yes, he filed out,

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Speaker 2: but he was impactful. Naz Reid three points, two rebounds. Okay,

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Speaker 2: none of that mattered though. Even though McDaniels, Edwards, and

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Speaker 2: nas Reed did not have great games, it didn't matter

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Speaker 2: because the Wolves out rebounded the Lakers fifty four to

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Speaker 2: thirty seven that night, outscored them twenty two to four,

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Speaker 2: and bench points twenty to ten, and second chance points

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Speaker 2: in fifty six to forty in the paint. That was

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Speaker 2: just Game five. Julius Randall shook off early fouled trouble.

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Speaker 2: He finished with twenty three points, five rebounds, four assists,

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Speaker 2: and added all up. It was a gritty, gutty win

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Speaker 2: victory for a team the Minnesota Timberwolves that had really

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Speaker 2: needed to prove they could do that much of this season.

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Speaker 2: But if you go back from the start of the

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Speaker 2: series to the end, the t Wolves were the better team,

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Speaker 2: the deeper team, certainly the hungrier team. They build enough

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Speaker 2: momentum and it's seventeen to four. Finished down the stretch

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Speaker 2: very quietly in the NBA season, and they were undaunted

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Speaker 2: by the fact that they were going up against the

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Speaker 2: three seed with Luca and the Lakers and Lebron. Mike Connley,

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Speaker 2: who I'd been a fan of since he was Ohio State,

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Speaker 2: said to see that it wasn't a fluke. I want

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Speaker 2: you to see that we came in and we did this.

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Speaker 2: We were the team we think we can be, regardless

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Speaker 2: about our resiliency and patience through this whole deal. Conley

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Speaker 2: give the Wolfs some cushion. In the elimination game, the

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Speaker 2: series began crazy with Laker arrogance. You know, it was

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Speaker 2: a vast majority of national punnits picked them to win

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Speaker 2: as usual, three simple words. It's that time. Mark Medina

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they claim that he didn't pass his

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Speaker 4: Miski's misshots, turnovers, and you know the small ball lineup

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Speaker 4: Doctor J McDaniels told me he was adamant that Lucas

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough, And I'm not going to beat JJ

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Speaker 2: the timeline, they would trap him. Now, Lucas so skilled

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Speaker 2: The Lakers can't get into their offensive set, and they

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, look, two things can be true once more.

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Speaker 4: I think what they need more time for is the

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Speaker 4: I think in the playoffs, as I mentioned before, Luca

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Speaker 4: But again, if the Lakers had better defense, more consistency

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Speaker 4: next season they're going to be better with more time,

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Speaker 4: That's always what happens. But the bigger factor is will

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Speaker 4: he wants to see what else is available, So let's

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Speaker 4: just put this to rest. I don't see the Lakers

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Speaker 4: lot of assets to work with, even if Janna Sante

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Speaker 2: We'll talk more about this in the coming weeks. But

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Speaker 2: Luca doesn't want to play defense. I see nine blowbys

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Speaker 2: you can say he's only twenty six, he's been in

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Speaker 2: that goes by, his body looks more like an amusement

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Speaker 2: the treadmill and want to play defense. Is nothing more

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's still young. He's with the Lakers.

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Speaker 4: more energy to provide on defense, as well as the

426
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Speaker 4: fact that there was a good amount of supporting cast

427
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Speaker 4: help around him, or it wasn't on him to be

428
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Speaker 4: the defensive guru. His calling cards always going to be

429
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Speaker 4: scoring it. Don't get me wrong, but I do think

430
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Speaker 4: I am relatively optimistic that he can come into even

431
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,760
Speaker 4: next season not seen as a defensive liability. He's not

432
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Speaker 4: going to make an all defensive team, and I'm not

433
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Speaker 4: going to trust sell anyone of billi goods on that,

434
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Speaker 4: but I do think that he'll have a buy in

435
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Speaker 4: of being in better shape, getting his health right, and

436
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 4: just gained more acclimated. I mean, again, they they're in

437
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 4: this kind of middle area here because when they made

438
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Speaker 4: the trade.

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Speaker 5: I didn't.

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Speaker 4: I thought that day he could be a contender. It

441
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 4: was more of a lightning a bottle chance. I still

442
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 4: thought they're a flawed roster because of what we're talking

443
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Speaker 4: about with when you give up someone like Anthony Davis.

444
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Speaker 4: They didn't have a lot of defensive depth outside of

445
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Speaker 4: Jared Vanderbilt. But it was more about a long term

446
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 4: play off getting Luca another star for you know, the

447
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 4: final years of Lebron James Post Lebron Bron. At the

448
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 4: same time, this was disappointing. They were supposed to at

449
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Speaker 4: least get the second round, and while the circumstances are

450
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Speaker 4: completely different, they ended the season the same way as

451
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Speaker 4: it did last season, where they lost in the first

452
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Speaker 4: round in five games. So it's definitely underwhelming to say

453
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Speaker 4: the least.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's you're never gonna like the way you lost Mark,

455
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Speaker 2: But when you look at the plus minus with Luca,

456
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 2: Lebron and Austin Reeves on the floor of minus twenty four,

457
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 2: Minnesota closing their games out with big runs in the

458
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Speaker 2: final three, Lakers getting outscored massively in the fourth quarter,

459
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Speaker 2: getting owned on points in the paint, second chance points

460
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Speaker 2: right on down the line. They were beaten like a

461
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Speaker 2: red and mule. Okay, they were soundly. Let's just move on.

462
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Speaker 2: I'm tired of ab Lebron's got to think it over.

463
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Speaker 2: He'll be He'll be in legal least three more years.

464
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Speaker 2: I'm standing on that.

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Speaker 4: Oh he's back with the Lakers. He's got fifty two

466
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Speaker 4: million reasons why so, yeah, we'll know when he's.

467
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Speaker 2: Going to retire. He'll give a three year notice and

468
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 2: he'll say I want everybody to give me a parade.

469
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 2: You'll know. And so let's just move on. Look, I

470
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Speaker 2: think you've been fair and objective about throughout the throughout

471
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Speaker 2: the way. And now listen, Uh, the Lakers are are

472
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,679
Speaker 2: a polarizing franchise. Now, they're an iconic franchise in history,

473
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 2: the lexicon of sports. But but they're they're a they're

474
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 2: they're a team of eras. And this era is turning

475
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 2: into a clown era in my humble opinion. And I

476
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Speaker 2: didn't bring up Brownie this time. We'll just let's just

477
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Speaker 2: let's just hold on to that.

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Speaker 4: Well, I guess technically you did.

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Speaker 2: You're right, I just didn't. I All right, shame on me.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's move along. Ever So, quickly, Greg Popovich

481
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Speaker 2: steps down your thoughts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, there's a lot of emotions or I

483
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 4: don't think it should be surprising given what's happened with

484
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 4: his health this past year. But you just think, you know,

485
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 4: when you have the winniness coach of all time, you

486
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 4: start thinking, Okay, well he's just going to keep coaching forever, right,

487
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 4: And obviously that's that could never happen. But he's just

488
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 4: been such an iconic coach with helping the Spurs win

489
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Speaker 4: five championships in different eras. You know, first it was

490
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:19,360
Speaker 4: all about with Tim Duncan, and you know, with David Robinson,

491
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,719
Speaker 4: and then Tim Dunker with Monti Genoboli and Tony Parker,

492
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 4: and then all those three guys, both with Kawhi Leonard

493
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Speaker 4: and there's just so many different imprints that he's had.

494
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Speaker 4: Obviously we talked about the winning, but just his role

495
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Speaker 4: with the international player you know, international games growth. I mean,

496
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 4: he and the Spurs for ant office were really good

497
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Speaker 4: with evaluating foreign talent knowing how to use them. Well,

498
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Speaker 4: you know, Moni Genobili and Tony Parker became you know,

499
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Speaker 4: gems that were all stars and they were unknown prospects.

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Speaker 4: And just the way he was able to help foster

501
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Speaker 4: this really good system of structure, accountability, but all so

502
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 4: a safe environment for players to express themselves and feel

503
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 4: like this is more than just basketball, and just having

504
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 4: that environment where they would go on road trips and

505
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 4: you know it's not just about basketball, but you know,

506
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 4: getting team dinners and visiting different things in a certain city,

507
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 4: and usually in professional sports that's not possible. But because

508
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 4: he was such a great coach, he's part of a

509
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 4: winning environment. He was able to get to buy in

510
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 4: as far as everything else. And you know, I think

511
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 4: the last thing is his coaching tree. I mean, basically

512
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 4: every head coach in the NBA is literally connected to him.

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Speaker 4: So it's just a hell of a legacy. But I

514
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 4: think the cool thing is, even though it is tough

515
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 4: to see that he's stepping down as coach, and you

516
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 4: know it was his decision, but I think, you know,

517
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 4: obviously health dictated that that he's still able to have

518
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 4: a role with the Spurs, you know, and it's not

519
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 4: just a ceremonial role. I mean, he is president basketbll operation,

520
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,880
Speaker 4: so he's going to be part of the lead voice

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Speaker 4: on the front office and still having an imprint in

522
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Speaker 4: the organization.

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Speaker 2: Winning as coach of all time in five championships. Speaking

524
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Speaker 2: of coaches, give it up to David Adelman. It seems

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00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 2: like Denver has really regrouped under him. He seems to

526
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 2: be doing a fine job. The Nuggets move on. Is

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00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 2: just it for them? Or could the Nuggets find lightning

528
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 2: in a bottle themselves?

529
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 6: Now?

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Speaker 4: I think this is a the Oklahoma City Thunder. They're

531
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Speaker 4: arrested after sleeping the Memphis Guazzies. They are number one

532
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 4: in the West for a reason because shake Gilgess. Alexander

533
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 4: is going to win MVP. JAYL Williams became an All

534
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 4: Star because now he's a more consistent secondary scorer, and

535
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 4: they just have so many wing players. Let me be

536
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 4: clear here, the Denver Nuggets have played really well with

537
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 4: David Adelman and Nikolay Jokic is a walking triple double.

538
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 4: Jamal Murray has become the better version of himself. Same

539
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 4: thing with Peron Gordon. But I think that it was

540
00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 4: more about the Clippers self destructing than anything. I mean,

541
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 4: this is even more disappointed. This is the most disappointing

542
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 4: season in the choir. Leonard Kawhi, Leonard Era and that's

543
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 4: saying a lot because the Clippers have had a lot

544
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 4: of disappointing postseasons since he joined the team. And here's

545
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 4: why the most disappointing. This team finally is fully healthy

546
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 4: in the playoffs. All the other years there's only some

547
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 4: ill timed injury. Here, Kawhi was healthy, James Harden was healthy,

548
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 4: Nooron Powe was healthy, Feats the zoo box is healthy.

549
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 4: And prior to Game seven, it was anyone's game. A

550
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 4: lot of close games, you know, the Clippers had to

551
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 4: blowout win against the Nuggets Game three, and he thought, Okay,

552
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 4: they're in control, the Nuggets winning nail bier off of

553
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 4: an Aaron Gordon put back dunk in Game four, Okay,

554
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 4: that's fine. But then they get blown out in Denver,

555
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 4: get game five, they get blown out again in Game seven.

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Speaker 4: It's just unacceptable. I mean, for they did not after that,

557
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,480
Speaker 4: with exception the first quarter, they did not seem like

558
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 4: a team that really cared about trying to save their

559
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 4: season and on the road and it just seemed like

560
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 4: they're ready to go to Cancun before the game was

561
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 4: even over. So I would say this Minnesota, when we're

562
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 4: looking at the Lakers. They deserve a lot of credit.

563
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards taking his game at another level, Rudy Golbert

564
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 4: showing he's a respectable player, Julius Randall showing he and

565
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 4: Golbert can co exists well, and good roster depth with

566
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 4: Nas Reed and Jade McDaniels. But I would argue that

567
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 4: the Clippers lost against the Nuggets in much more brutal

568
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Speaker 4: fashion than the Lakers did against Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: US quick winking and nod to Russell Westbrook, who I

570
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 2: think is playing with great energy and he's been very opportunistic.

571
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 2: He's made some key threes. David Adelman seems to have

572
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 2: gotten the most out of him. So listen that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, can I just interject here, I mean, that's not

574
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 4: going to be sustainable. I mean, Russell west rs Russell Westbrook.

575
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Speaker 4: Let's get it clear here. How of a competitor. You know,

576
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 4: he is well respecting the locker room because of his

577
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 4: resume and the fact that he works really hard. But

578
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 4: a lot of this just had to do with the

579
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Speaker 4: fact that he was facing his former team. He is

580
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 4: he epitomizes any time, you know, because of how he

581
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 4: is against former teams. He's how that jealous x is

582
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 4: anytime they cross paths with their former partner, they always

583
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 4: want to be you know, seen it at their best,

584
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 4: and then once that partner is away, you know, then

585
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 4: becomes the same old toxic nonsense. So it's not sustainable. Again,

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Speaker 4: He's a great guy off the court, but on the

587
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 4: court it's not sustainable. I guarantee you when he plays

588
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 4: a thunder, he's going to brick shots again and not

589
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 4: play defense.

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00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 2: So not wrong. Look, look, you're not wrong. And one

591
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,960
Speaker 2: of the jam Lebron's greatest moves was acquiring Russell Westbrook.

592
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Speaker 2: Last thing, Mark, We'll let you run. So we saw

593
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 2: a playoff James Saturday night. As in Harden, What else

594
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 2: is new? You get playoff Jimmy in a game seven, dude.

595
00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 2: The Golden State Warriors, the savvy, wise, old, experienced Golden

596
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 2: State Warriors have enough in the tank to go into

597
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 2: Houston Sunday and get it done against a pretty athletic,

598
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 2: opportunistic demon. I think Gamian o'doka has been a good job.

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Speaker 2: Who was that game Sunday?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, because the Warriors they've been here before.

601
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 4: You know, they've won a Game seven against Houston five

602
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 4: years ago. With Steph Curry and Raymond Green. Completely different context,

603
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 4: completely completely, but they've also you know, they've also squadered

604
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 4: three one series leads like they did in Cleveland twenty sixteen.

605
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 4: Again completely different context. But as it pertains of this series,

606
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 4: I think the Rockets aren't more control because now they

607
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 4: have home court. They're a young team, they're very defensively savvy,

608
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 4: they're very physical. Yes, and yes they're young, but Fred

609
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 4: van Vliet is a great veteran winning player. I would

610
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Speaker 4: like to think that Steph Curry can play the best

611
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Speaker 4: version of himself. Same thing with Jimmy Butler, same thing

612
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Speaker 4: with Raymond Green. But it's just mind boggling that they

613
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 4: wet the bed in Game five and Game six. So

614
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 4: it's anyone's game. Anything can happen. But if I were

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Speaker 4: to have to give a guess, I would actually say

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Speaker 4: Houston because they've just been playing better basketball the last

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Speaker 4: two games. And you know, I say this with the

618
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Speaker 4: caveat that the series isn't over. The Warriors can very

619
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 4: well rectify it. And a lot of times in playoff series,

620
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 4: games don't necessarily, you know, development in a certain game

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Speaker 4: don't necessarily carry over into the next game. But if

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Speaker 4: I'm having to give a prediction, we'll be using somewhere

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Speaker 4: because the last two games they've been playing much better.

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Speaker 2: I'm in agreement, all right, Marc already looking forward to

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Speaker 2: next week. You know there's going to be news and

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Speaker 2: we'll tackle every bit of it.

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Speaker 7: Thanks thanks to.

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Speaker 2: Medina, Thanks buddy, appreciate you. It's Mark Medina, our Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio NBA guru. Come it up, Get your fingers ready.

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Speaker 2: We are seventeen minutes away from the midnight hour from

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Speaker 2: where I see here in Las Vegas. It's twelve midnight

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Speaker 2: literally from where you sit, perhaps literally and certainly figured it.

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Speaker 2: Will you get the last word eight seven seven nine

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Speaker 2: look forward to what you've got to say. We got

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Speaker 2: up to midnight hour, get ready, we're looking forward to

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Speaker 2: hearing from me. I'll set up the three topics. I'm

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Speaker 2: Bernie Friddle comedy line from the Las Vegas Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio compound. Here in Las Vegas, that's the Department of

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Speaker 2: Redundancy department. So keep it locked right here. You're listening

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Speaker 2: to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. Right

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Speaker 2: We're back on the Bernie Frattle Show comedy line from

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Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radios. It is just getting started.

653
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Speaker 2: We're eleven minutes away from the midnight hour. From where

654
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 2: I sit, it is midnight. From where you sit, it's midnight. Also,

655
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Speaker 2: well for me, it's midnight literally be twelve am Pacific

656
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 2: time here in eleven minutes, perhaps the same for you,

657
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,760
Speaker 2: but regardless, the man that hour has a double entendre.

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Speaker 2: It means you get the last word eight seven seven

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Speaker 2: nine nine six six three sixty nine eight seven seven

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Speaker 2: ninety nine on Fox. I really look forward to what

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Speaker 2: the folks have to say tonight. The first two topics

662
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 2: are somewhat related, and I want to know from you

663
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 2: because my mind is made up. I do not think

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Speaker 2: the Luca Lebron tandem will ever met a championship in

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00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, not even close. The matter of fact, my

666
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 2: colleague Steve Hartman, who I respect a lot, has advanced

667
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 2: what I think is a pretty shrewd narrative. He thinks

668
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 2: they should Lebron should move on now and get what

669
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 2: you can. And say, Lebron, where do you want to go? Right?

670
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 2: You know, you're basically a mercenary and maybe you win

671
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 2: somewhere else and you'll, let you know, hook your hit

672
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 2: your wagon with someone else. So you tell me, is

673
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 2: the Luca Lebron tanam gonna work? I mean, Luca does

674
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 2: not want to play defense. You can't have nine blowbys.

675
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 2: I don't want I really don't want to hear that

676
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 2: he's young. He's not young. He's been in the NBA

677
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 2: eight years. He's been a professional basketball player. At twelve.

678
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 2: The Lakers were pull axed Man. They were minus twenty

679
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 2: four cumulatively and plus minus with the Big three on

680
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 2: the floor. Minnesota closed out all three games with big runs.

681
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 2: The Lakers were out scored cumulatively in the fourth quarter

682
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 2: one twenty seven to eighty five. They were hammered in

683
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 2: the paint dominated dominated paints, and points in the paint

684
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 2: dominated second chance points. You get it. Okay, what's gonna

685
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 2: change next year? What Luca's gonna go to Orange Theory

686
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 2: Fitness and come back and look like Kawhi Leonard? Yeah? Sure,

687
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 2: I think led Zeppelin will record the Gilligan's Island theme

688
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 2: song and sell a man copies too while you're at it.

689
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 2: So question number one, will they win anything with Luca?

690
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 2: Will they figured out? If they got some sort of

691
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 2: magic formula. I couldn't see. They just didn't have time

692
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,240
Speaker 2: to mesh. Not buying that either. I told you about

693
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 2: my bad boy Pistons. When they acquired Mark Acguire sixteen

694
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 2: days later, then Luca was acquired, they meshed. Okay, they

695
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 2: traded Dantley for Aguire and they went back to back championships.

696
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 2: The second thing is I like JJ Riddick.

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00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 6: I do.

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00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 2: I just like the dude. I like the cut of

699
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 2: his jib. Not everybody's not everybody's cup of tea. But

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00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 2: I'm not questioning whether or not he's got the temperament

701
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,760
Speaker 2: to do this. He's got the brains, he's got the decisiveness.

702
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 2: I think he's got the leadership qualities, but there have

703
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 2: been some things that have spilled over. As a matter

704
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 2: of fact, he was called out on social media. He's

705
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 2: taken some heat for some comments he made after the

706
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 2: team was eliminated from the playoffs on Wednesday. He was

707
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 2: accused of hypocrisy on what saw on what some people

708
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 2: saw as excuses after the Lakers lost in five games.

709
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 2: He used to do the same thing to Doc Rivers

710
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 2: just last year. He said, there's always an excuse for

711
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 2: this Doc Rivers guy. There's never accountability. So do you

712
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 2: think JJ Reddick is the mand to lead this team

713
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 2: to the Promised Land? So question one, Luca is it

714
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 2: going to work out with Luca in La? Two? Is

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Speaker 2: JJ Redick demand? The third one? And this is a

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00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:20,320
Speaker 2: highly charged issue. You may remember Raiders wide receiver Henry

717
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 2: Ruggs had a terrible situation in November twenty twenty one.

718
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 2: He was involved in a fatal crasher in Las Vegas

719
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 2: that killed a twenty three year old lady, a terrible

720
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Speaker 2: and her dog, and his blood alcohol content was zero

721
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Speaker 2: point one six. He was driving one hundred and fifty

722
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Speaker 2: six miles an hour on a main drag here in

723
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Speaker 2: Las Vegas three forty am and he's in jail. He's

724
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Speaker 2: in jail. But interestingly enough, Henry Ruggs is eligible for

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00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 2: parole on August fifth, twenty twenty sixth and he's been

726
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,800
Speaker 2: talking to teams when he hasn't been. But his former

727
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 2: Alabama teammate Josh Jacobs has been talking to NFL teams

728
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 2: hoping that if Ruggs is released on parole. We're not

729
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 2: running away from that, but that could happen in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six Would he get another chance? Do you believe

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Speaker 2: Henry Ruggs deserves another chance? I want to hear what

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Speaker 2: you folks have to say, and at the end of

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Speaker 2: the hour, I will give you my thoughts. So question one,

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Speaker 2: you tell me, is Luca and Lebron gonna work? I

735
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 2: say no, not, no, hell No. Is jj Reddick the

736
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Speaker 2: man to lead him to the promised land? I like him?

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00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 2: I mean they won fifty two games this year, and

738
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Speaker 2: third should Henry Ruggs. We are a country of second chances.

739
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 2: Henry Ruggs of Alabama, the Las Vegas Raiders, who's in

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00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 2: jail for manslaughter vehicular manslaughter? Does he deserve a second chance?

741
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Speaker 2: We want to hear from you. Eight seven seven nine

742
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Speaker 2: nine six six three sixty nine, eight seven seven nine

743
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Speaker 2: to nine on Fox, it is time for the midnight hour. Lakers, Luca,

744
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 2: JJ Reddick, Henry Ruggs. Keep it lock. You listen to

745
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 2: the Bernie Fradle Show Fox Sports Radio.

746
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

747
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 2: Well, that's right, you heard the man Bernie Frales Show

748
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 2: keeps rolling right along. Coming to lie from the Fox

749
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio compound here in Las Vegas. We'll take you

750
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 2: up to three am Pacific, six am Eastern. Just getting started.

751
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 2: So you heard the three topics? Will the Lakers and

752
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 2: Luca figure it out? Is JJ Redick demand leading the

753
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:28,280
Speaker 2: Promised Land? It's just Henry Ruggs deserve a second chance

754
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 2: to come back to the NFL. We've got people online.

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00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 2: Eight seven seven nine nine sixty three sixty nine. Please

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00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 2: be patient. We will get to all of you. I promise.

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00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 2: I don't want anybody turned away. I appreciate all the

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00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,799
Speaker 2: callers you take the time to call us. Hear what

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Speaker 2: you gotta say. So, without further ado, it's been that hour,

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00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 2: all right. Jim in Massachusetts leads us off once again.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in Jim, Hey.

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Speaker 8: How you doing bern Uh, Yeah, I think the Lakers

763
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 8: are going nowhere. I've told you this before. Now, I

764
00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 8: remember a while back when they got Luca Medina saying

765
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 8: they're going to tire his number and this is going

766
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 8: to be a good thing for the Lakers, and this

767
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 8: and that, and now look where you are and the

768
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 8: terry on the Sunday is where was Reddick? Where were

769
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 8: the adjustments all during the playoffs?

770
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 6: You know, where was he?

771
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 8: No way to be found.

772
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:18,840
Speaker 7: Then he has a postgame press.

773
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 8: Conference saying, oh, we got to get people in shape

774
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 8: and this and that. You know for the season, it's

775
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 8: a year round thing.

776
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 9: Well, when you got.

777
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 8: Him there, why didn't you get a nutrition into something

778
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 8: you saw to deal with issues? You know, it's just

779
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 8: this thing like there some glory team and let's let's trade.

780
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 8: Let Lebron go off somewhere. They're going nowhere. You're just

781
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 8: living on yesterday's laurels.

782
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:45,399
Speaker 2: I just thought, well, we're an agreement and this one

783
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 2: main thing, Jim, what you see is what you get

784
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 2: with Luca. You can tell me that you're blue in

785
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 2: the face. Not you. But he's twenty six, he's been

786
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 2: a professional basketball player twelve years. This is who he is,

787
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 2: A prolific scorer period. You got the floor.

788
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:02,919
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true.

789
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Speaker 10: I mean you can't get into everybody's head.

790
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,280
Speaker 8: Maybe he just wants to, you know, do his seventy

791
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 8: two games or whatever they play, and.

792
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 2: By now it's not that hard to figure out, I know.

793
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 8: And collect his check and go about his way. I

794
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 8: don't think, you know, championships all this other stuff is that.

795
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 10: Big in his brain.

796
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 8: You know. I mean to have that talent, to have

797
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 8: the talent he's got and not take care of your

798
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 8: body because you only got like a ten year window

799
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 8: tops most another Brons played forever.

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Speaker 2: You know, you know what have you know, you know

801
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 2: what have uh? You know who would have excuse me, Jim,

802
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 2: you know who would have sent him packing red Aurbach

803
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 2: after eight years? You would have said, okay, son, this

804
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 2: is a two way league. You've got to play defense.

805
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:49,800
Speaker 8: It would have been quicker than that. It would have

806
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 8: been quicker than that. You know, it's all about culture.

807
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 8: It's all about what you want and out there it's

808
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 8: just running gun and hope for the best. And they've

809
00:42:59,160 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 8: never played beef.

810
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 10: It is what it is, and it's just.

811
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Speaker 8: Glorified trip of how the lake is and this I

812
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 8: just don't understand the aura and all this when you

813
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 8: can see on the TV it ain't happening, you know,

814
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 8: well it ain't.

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Speaker 2: It's the group think, echo Chambers. What happening Henry Ruggs.

816
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 2: Did he deserve another chance to get back into the NFL?

817
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna get my thoughts at the end of

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Speaker 2: the hour.

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Speaker 8: Well, you know, hey, everybody deserves to make a living.

820
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 7: But he made a big mistake.

821
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Speaker 8: But I remember, wasn't there a guy that played for Cleveland,

822
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 8: a wide receiver slaughter who ran over somebody in Miami.

823
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and ran.

824
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Speaker 6: And ran over him again. He went over once, turned around.

825
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 10: Ran over him again.

826
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Speaker 8: He didn't get cut or anything. It's all about see,

827
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Speaker 8: it's all about talent and winning. And if they had,

828
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 8: you know, eleven mass murderers on the field they went,

829
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Speaker 8: no one would care.

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Speaker 9: And that's what's wrong with society. I mean, that's what's

831
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Speaker 9: with everything.

832
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 8: It's all about greed. It's all about money. All these

833
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 8: parents that think they got the next you know, Larry

834
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 8: Byrd or Lawrence Taylor on in this aau and all

835
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 8: the business just chasing the you know, the ring and

836
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 8: the merry around and it's not it. You know, it's

837
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 8: just just sad the way society has gotten about this

838
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 8: and about sports and everything. It really is, you know better,

839
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 8: it's better to be a decent human being than to

840
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 8: try to reach for all the glory and.

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Speaker 2: All right, Jim, thanks so much, buddy, And hopefully people

842
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 2: can be both. I certainly think that way about Magic

843
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 2: Johnson and uh and I felt that way about Doctor

844
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 2: Jay and a lot of guys. Karen in Minnesota, Johnes

845
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 2: just welcome in.

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Speaker 11: Yeah's a going good good So I agree with you

847
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 11: with the Luke. I don't think that he is going

848
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 11: to necessarily do anything for the Lakers. I think that

849
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 11: it was more of like a show that he was,

850
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,240
Speaker 11: you know, to go over there, and I just I wonder,

851
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 11: you know, what happened, what happened with Austin Reeves, Like

852
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 11: why he wasn't able to pull through and kind of

853
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 11: do something for them. No one's talking about that.

854
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:10,839
Speaker 2: It came up as this series went on that they

855
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,720
Speaker 2: needed him to play better and he just couldn't quite

856
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 2: up his game to the level to put other people

857
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 2: on his back. And it's been talked about, but not

858
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 2: to any great degree. I think most of the focus

859
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:27,240
Speaker 2: has frankly been on Luca and JJ Reddit anything else.

860
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 11: No, Yeah, I just think that they should probably just

861
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 11: have Lebron, retire Luca, go somewhere else figure it out

862
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,320
Speaker 11: from there. And I don't think they're going to do

863
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 11: much honestly what they're pairing. They had a great run.

864
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 11: I thought they were going to beat us, To be

865
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 11: honest with you, I thought I was going to go

866
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 11: into Game seven, We're going to lose by two, and

867
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 11: I was just going to be devastating but super happy

868
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 11: that we went we made it. However, I don't think

869
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 11: that they have.

870
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 12: All of what they're looking for, So all right, I.

871
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 2: Appreciate you checking in in top credit to the Mina Timberwolves.

872
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 2: As I said in my opening monologue, the narrative has

873
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 2: been the Lakers got beat and they didn't live up

874
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 2: to expectations. The narrative should be his Minnesota beat them

875
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 2: like a rended mule. Hey, Kyle, Kyle in Vegas Joint.

876
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 2: Just welcome back in, buddy. How are you?

877
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 10: What up?

878
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 2: Bernie?

879
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 10: What up?

880
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 9: What up?

881
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 2: Hey?

882
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 9: So listen, you already know we got to talk because

883
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 9: we did, I say last week I said as soon.

884
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 10: As they lose.

885
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 9: It was going to be. Luca is the scapegoat for

886
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 9: Lebron's failure. Lebron had failed, he failed, he failed, he failed,

887
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,359
Speaker 9: So I don't want to hear it. I heard all

888
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 9: the topics this week about oh, the Lebron's gonna come

889
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 9: back and win it, and and Shannon Sharp is now

890
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 9: eating quote. Nick Wright has been always proven to be

891
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 9: nick wrong so far. To me and my gets every

892
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 9: debate wrong. He says everything backwards. He wants to push,

893
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 9: he wants to push. The Lebron narrative is the greatest

894
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 9: thing since sliced bread. But Lebron James, to me, is

895
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 9: that first piece of bread. Everybody has to touch over it,

896
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 9: but nobody really wants it. He's not gonna get it.

897
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 9: He's not gonna win the next championship. Call it quits.

898
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 9: You're not Tom, you don't have seven You're not the greatest.

899
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 9: You're the most longest active player that's winning accolades yet

900
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 9: true enough, but you're not You're not the goat, brother.

901
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:28,320
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, take several seats. Luca, on the other hand, again,

902
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,959
Speaker 9: like you said, twelve years into the business, you don't

903
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 9: want you don't want your body to be in that condition,

904
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,240
Speaker 9: because if you did it truly, you would go find

905
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 9: the best of the best. You're making close to two

906
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 9: hundred million dollars, my guy, go get yourself into shape.

907
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 9: Even if you do it privately, go do it. You

908
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 9: couldn't play for the heat and pat Riley because he

909
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 9: would have had you down to zero percent body fat

910
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 9: and playing somewhat defense. If you go to Tims in

911
00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 9: New York, he's gonna have you playing defense. My guy,

912
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 9: you're getting blown. Pass it, said Bernie. I called it.

913
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 9: I said, those younger chaps that link the defense of

914
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 9: Soda is going to stifle them, and it's exactly what

915
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 9: they did.

916
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 2: Now.

917
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 9: Lastly, Henry Ruggs, my Alabama brother, my Ama Mater friends.

918
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 9: I don't know him personally, but does he deserve second chests?

919
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 6: Yes?

920
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 9: Is he going to get that second chest? Most likely

921
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 9: not Kareem Look at the difference between Kareem Hunt and

922
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 9: Ray Rice similar incidents once back in the one one

923
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 9: was able to get back in the league. The other

924
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 9: one never recovers from it. So at the end of

925
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 9: the day, it's up to what the NFL owners and

926
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 9: the personnel want moving forward. But lastly, before I go,

927
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 9: I do want to say Bernie that I'm going to

928
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 9: call this now. Whether it's Golden State or Houston that

929
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 9: plays Minnesota next, they both still have the biggest problem.

930
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 9: Who's going to be your big when it comes down

931
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:04,760
Speaker 9: to bear how a unheard of Monsters Gang twenty seventy

932
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 9: twenty four. They shot that, but look whack and you

933
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 9: got a guy that was literally supposed to be nothing

934
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 9: for the series turned it into something completely different, Gang

935
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 9: Changer one under Vernie. Love you not I thinking all

936
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 9: the great success.

937
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 2: Appreciate you, Kyn good stuff as always, step in Kansas

938
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 2: City back for somemorrow, Always welcome, Steve. What do you

939
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 2: got for us tonight today?

940
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:28,760
Speaker 13: Vernon Vernie?

941
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 7: What's that?

942
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 13: Buddy?

943
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 14: What?

944
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 7: The Collins have been really good tonight?

945
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:31,879
Speaker 15: Man?

946
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 2: I gotta say, oh.

947
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:38,760
Speaker 7: They've been fantastic. I mean, we're we're trying to build

948
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 7: a dynasty in the Oklahoma city here with deanness and

949
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 7: the trade for draft picks. So it's going to be

950
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 7: delicious to watch the Lakers crash and burn. I almost

951
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:50,879
Speaker 7: I almost feel sorry for Jeanie Buzz. This is such

952
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 7: a dysfunctional situation. That last collar nailed it with with

953
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 7: Lebron the low key drama king. I can't wait to

954
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 7: see him get his come up and finally and watch

955
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:06,720
Speaker 7: this thing just absolutely go nuclear. I mean, they should

956
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:09,720
Speaker 7: really be smart and get rid of Luca right now,

957
00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 7: but I doubt that will happen. I mean, like, like

958
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 7: like people were saying that the guy is uh, when

959
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 7: you're when you're in the competition for the greatest, you

960
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 7: don't have to proclaim yourself the greatest and say that

961
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 7: your title was the greatest with Cleveland because you did

962
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 7: more with lest That just rubs a lot. He just

963
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 7: rubbed a lot of people the wrong way because he's

964
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 7: always kind of snarky and he's always kind of he's

965
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 7: sort of liked the low key Kevin Durant, but he

966
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 7: doesn't have enough courage to be the bad guy. So

967
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 7: Lebron just sort of just kind of like lays lays

968
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 7: in the weeds. I mean, he's just sort of a

969
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 7: he's just sort of a low key jerk. I don't

970
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 7: know what we should love the guy. You know, he's

971
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 7: he's well, at one point.

972
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 2: I think I think he was, and he became very polarizing.

973
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 2: Let's move off with Lebron real quickly on JJ Reddick.

974
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 2: Can he be the maestro to get this team where

975
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:08,359
Speaker 2: they want to get?

976
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Bernie, I don't think Greg Popovich could say this,

977
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 7: could say I could save this situation right now? Sure

978
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 7: enough to be to be honest about Henry Ruggs.

979
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 2: You're a big Chiefs fan. You remember Henry Ruggs with

980
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,800
Speaker 2: the Raiders? Did he Will he get a second chances?

981
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:26,839
Speaker 2: He's desert man.

982
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 7: Give the guy. Kareem Hunt deserved a second chance, So

983
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,360
Speaker 7: give Ruggs a second chance. And I wanted to ask

984
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 7: you too about Bernie. What do you think about Bill

985
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 7: Belichick's reputation?

986
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 5: Is he is?

987
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 7: His reputation going down the tubes now. I'm just kind

988
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 7: of curious at how the how the world sort of

989
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 7: views what's going on with his new brand management and

990
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 7: all this, all this craziness that Carolina thanks.

991
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 2: A lot, Steve. Bill Belichick will get none of my airtime.

992
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 2: The whole situations are complete for Gayzy, I don't know

993
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 2: what the hell's wrong with him. Man. You must have,

994
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 2: you know, got some bad pasta or something. Wouldn't He's

995
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 2: an idiot right now, a complete idiot. Uh And let's

996
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 2: just leave it there. I'm sorry. I don't have a

997
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:12,720
Speaker 2: better answer for you. See, I just don't have anything

998
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 2: to say about that knucklehead Spockswed in Oregon. What's up, buddy?

999
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 2: What are you drinking tonight?

1000
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 5: Hey?

1001
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 6: Baby?

1002
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 12: I am drinking a fabulous I PA. I've been at

1003
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 12: the alcohol so I'm sober, you know, And I know

1004
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 12: that my starcasm could be little missunderstood. So I'll try

1005
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 12: to be a little bit more careful tonight.

1006
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 2: Now we know your style, so you were you let

1007
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,760
Speaker 2: her rips. Let's start with we will Luca will Luca?

1008
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 2: You know? Uh, actually, actually I can't even get the

1009
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:45,919
Speaker 2: damn question out. You know what I'm trying to say?

1010
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 6: Go ahead, I do? Could I start backwards?

1011
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 5: Though?

1012
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 6: I would like to address to Henry the Henry go

1013
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 6: ahead question? Go ahead first? And I don't know the details.

1014
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:56,879
Speaker 6: And it's like he.

1015
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 2: Was going one hundred and fifty six miles an hour,

1016
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 2: zero point one six a legal limit. Donal maythorrow far

1017
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 2: Here we're into a young lady sitting by herself at

1018
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 2: the stop at night, three in the morning. If she

1019
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:09,439
Speaker 2: burned to death in her car with her dog. He's

1020
00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 2: in jail right now. He is parole up August twenty six,

1021
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:15,959
Speaker 2: and I think there are a couple of NFL teams

1022
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 2: that are interested if he gets out.

1023
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 12: He killed a woman, I'm yes, he did. I really

1024
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 12: have a problem with money and talent trumping justice.

1025
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 2: Well, he's listen, he's serving us, paying his death to society.

1026
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:36,919
Speaker 2: The question, the question is whether a god he gets

1027
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 2: out in that that that remains to be seen. He's

1028
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 2: up for parole in August of twenty twenty six, and

1029
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,399
Speaker 2: so right, let's not spend a lot of time real

1030
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 2: quickly understood. What do you got for me? On on

1031
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:49,760
Speaker 2: Luca and JJ Reddick?

1032
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 12: Okay, JJ Reddick. JJ Reddick is not the leader that

1033
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 12: the Lakers need. He is too eager to go ahead

1034
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 12: and other people under the bus. I was a company

1035
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 12: commander in the Army whenever if we didn't accomplish the mission.

1036
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 12: I never threw my people under the bus. I took

1037
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 12: responsibility for what was going on. I let my NCOs

1038
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:16,040
Speaker 12: throw the people under the bus and get him trained

1039
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 12: up better. It's not it's if JJ is is going

1040
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 12: to be that kind of a leader. I don't think

1041
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:22,319
Speaker 12: he's going to get a locker room and I don't

1042
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 12: think he's going to be successful.

1043
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:28,359
Speaker 2: All right, listen, I appreciate you, spots and thank you

1044
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 2: for your service to our country. As usual, callers are fantastic.

1045
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 2: We're just getting started. Antonio and Miami, Jerome, Andrew, Poppy

1046
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 2: McCall in Minnesota. You are all up next in that order.

1047
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,799
Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere. I want to hear from Alia. Just

1048
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 2: be patient, sit back, put your feet up. We'll get

1049
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 2: to Alia, and I want you all to get plenty

1050
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 2: of everytime. You know our three topics we're gonna you know,

1051
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 2: is Luca gonna get the Lakers in the Promised Land?

1052
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 2: Will they figured out? JJ Reddick? Is he the right guy?

1053
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 2: And then the just Andrew Ruggs deserve a second chance.

1054
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Fraddlewick comedy line from Las Vegas, Fox Sports

1055
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 2: Radio Studios. Keep it locked. It's the midnight hour and

1056
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 2: listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

1057
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

1058
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 3: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

1059
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 3: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

1060
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 3: listen live.

1061
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 2: Fire back on the Bernie Frattle Show. The Midnight Hour

1062
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 2: continues off to a rollicking start. We go out to Miami.

1063
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 2: We're joined by Antonio. Tonio, Welcome into the Bernie Frattle Show.

1064
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 6: How are you, hey, Bernie.

1065
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 16: I'm sorry it's Tony from Miami, but I gave you

1066
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:38,879
Speaker 16: the full name.

1067
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 2: It's all good. I remember you.

1068
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:47,879
Speaker 16: Okay, it's been a while, but yeah, I want to

1069
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:51,799
Speaker 16: start with Luca. Luca needs to doesn't need to lose weight,

1070
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 16: he doesn't need to do anything. If they don't want

1071
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 16: to give him the money, that's fine. Luca needs to

1072
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 16: be Luca Kyrie and Steph Curry. I can keep on going.

1073
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 16: Don't play defense. Luca cannot guard a handicapped parking space

1074
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 16: at Walgrain's three hours after closing, and that is absolutely fine.

1075
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 16: They need to embrace Luca for what he is and

1076
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 16: just build.

1077
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 10: A round that.

1078
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 6: Rob.

1079
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Robblow or you.

1080
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:27,280
Speaker 16: Know the general manager there is the Polinka I believe,

1081
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 16: builds around that and they're going to be fine. The

1082
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:37,360
Speaker 16: big problem is Frank Underwood or Lebron James or whatever

1083
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 16: you want to refer to him as the slippery slimy

1084
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 16: just quiet, like the other callers were saying, which are excellent,

1085
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:49,320
Speaker 16: he just seems to be around when credit is coming.

1086
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 16: But when when when someone's to blame? Uh, you know,

1087
00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 16: he's he just kind of steps out of the car

1088
00:56:57,680 --> 00:56:59,359
Speaker 16: and quietly tiptoes away.

1089
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 2: Know.

1090
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 6: I think they got it. I think it might.

1091
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 2: The question is are they ever going to figure it out?

1092
00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 2: That's the question.

1093
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 16: Here, the question those two will never figure anything out there.

1094
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 2: Great, let's move on from that. How about JJ Reddick.

1095
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 2: Is he the right man for the job? I like him,

1096
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 2: but I don't know. He's been a weird three weeks.

1097
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 16: I think he reminds me of a sequel to Jerry

1098
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 16: Maguire with Bob Sugar, except playing more than a hole.

1099
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 16: I like him for l A. I don't think they'll

1100
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 16: ever get out of the second round, but I still

1101
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 16: like him for LA. Here work together, I think that's fine,

1102
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 16: JJ Reddick, I mean, and let's be able to get

1103
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 16: you know, a couple of people said Brendan Malone. I'm

1104
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 16: finning with JJ Redicks from now. I don't think he

1105
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 16: was the major problem. I think he'll be better next years.

1106
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 16: I think he's the personality of what al he's about.

1107
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:56,320
Speaker 16: I used to live out there for a few years.

1108
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 16: I think JJ Reddick he's not the main problem. Lebron

1109
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 16: is the problem?

1110
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 2: Okay, real quickly. I just got about ten seconds, big

1111
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 2: fellow Henry Ruggs. Did he deserve a second chance?

1112
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 16: Absolutely not. I have no respect for a calculated bank

1113
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 16: heist when then gets hurt with them whatever that was,

1114
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,720
Speaker 16: whatever that is, and I see it down here a lot.

1115
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 17: It's sickening.

1116
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 16: It's mostly insecure young man with very small hands doing that.

1117
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 2: All right, buddy, appreciate you, Tony. Always strong stuff. Ladies

1118
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 2: and gentlemen. We go to a fan favorite and we

1119
00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 2: are now about to read from the Gospel of Jerome

1120
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 2: in Charleston. Joe, Welcome in, buddy.

1121
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 10: How are you You know you've got something? They're showing

1122
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 10: up on this show. You lucky. I'm greeting you with

1123
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 10: my presidence this evening. That's what you try? Basketball did

1124
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 10: against Go to New York, Go New York. Goo that meltdown.

1125
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 10: Will I ever recover from that?

1126
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 6: I don't know.

1127
00:58:57,840 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 10: It's a good thing I've watched and win that two

1128
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 10: bot trophy because it makes me sleep a little better

1129
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 10: at night.

1130
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 2: Medic And it's all about inexperience. I talked about it

1131
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 2: last week. They had everything but experienced Jerome and I

1132
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 2: think they made a quantum leaf this year. And you look, man,

1133
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 2: you'll get over it. Man, you're Jerome. You lie down

1134
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 2: philosphical comprece some more milk off music, Right, you be

1135
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 2: all right.

1136
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 10: I don't drink and I don't smoke. To right, that's

1137
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 10: not going to work, all right, But anyway, they're going

1138
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 10: to have to miss it. They're going to have to

1139
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 10: make a blockbuster move in the off season some kind

1140
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 10: of way, some kind of mapping.

1141
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 2: Talk about the Lakers.

1142
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 10: Now, yeah, you're better off going.

1143
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 2: To Blockbuster Video. They're out of business. They got they're

1144
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 2: all under contract, Jerome. I mean, maybe they can retrade

1145
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 2: for Mark Williams and change their mind. I don't see

1146
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 2: your solutions, big fellop.

1147
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 18: Sorry, go ahead, someone's gonna have to do something because

1148
00:59:58,760 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 18: the whole thing go.

1149
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 10: That's getting late early. Look, I only see him playing

1150
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 10: one more year in LA and I think does continue

1151
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 10: his career more likely, I think it'll be somewhere else, Okay,

1152
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 10: because he's still pretty darn good. All right, I'll say

1153
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 10: what he's other to Bron. He said about my Lebron.

1154
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 10: I love Lebron.

1155
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:20,960
Speaker 2: Okay, he's still productive.

1156
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 18: Can yeah, but I just thought I just told him, Look,

1157
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,680
Speaker 18: they gotta do something, man, Hey, they got and the

1158
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 18: only guy would trust would be of course that team

1159
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 18: would be the Live Brown of Bobby Knight.

1160
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 10: And you talk about it bracing her. Yeah, you played

1161
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 10: the r for defense like that, Bobby doneld brace You're

1162
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 10: a braksyall right. Sure, there ain't no way you're gonna

1163
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:48,480
Speaker 10: let somebody play matter door l defense like that. No way,

1164
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 10: not for Bobby Knight, no kind of way, Live Brown.

1165
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 10: He is the more common kind of guy as far

1166
01:00:54,600 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 10: as Henry Rogers dog. Uh, no way now uh never again,

1167
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 10: you should have thought about that before you got that

1168
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 10: dog or rocket ship and what you do. No, you

1169
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 10: got it Jack written mare perspective. You got your whole

1170
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 10: life for have you do it all the way? No way?

1171
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 10: Ever again go up to Canada.

1172
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 2: Appreciate you draw him a lot, buddy, I listen. I

1173
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 2: appreciate your candor a lot, and uh your ability to

1174
01:01:23,360 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 2: draw uh from other perspectives. I really enjoy it. I

1175
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 2: drew all the calls. But Jerome, Jerome, we got a

1176
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 2: style of your own. And you know that's we love that.

1177
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 5: Uh.

1178
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 2: Andrew and Bakersfield back on the Bernie frattle show. How

1179
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 2: are Andrew?

1180
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:36,800
Speaker 19: I'm all right?

1181
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 16: How are you good?

1182
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 19: I gotta I gotta say what my my man Ray

1183
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 19: would say.

1184
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 5: What you say?

1185
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:46,760
Speaker 19: You guys are nuts.

1186
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:48,919
Speaker 6: Okay, let's make it.

1187
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 19: Let's make it interesting. Okay. When the trade happened, everyone

1188
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 19: was bashing on Nika Harrison. It's the greatest trade over.

1189
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 2: I wasn't. Let's give it three, but go ahead. I

1190
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:03,760
Speaker 2: just want to know. Listen, I listen. I want to

1191
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 2: plenty of airtime, but I want to stay on topic.

1192
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 2: You got Lebron and Luca. They are two p's in

1193
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:11,120
Speaker 2: a pod right now. They burn this year. Are they

1194
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 2: going to.

1195
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 10: Figure it out?

1196
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 5: Yes?

1197
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 19: When I was watching the game, I'm blind, but I

1198
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:20,920
Speaker 19: can tell from my perspective that they had no team

1199
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 19: defense and Lebron. It starts with Lebron and Kobe always

1200
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 19: used to say defense wins championship.

1201
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 2: Okay, so are they gonna here's the thing. You got

1202
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 2: the three best players, Austin Reeves, Lebron who can play

1203
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:38,960
Speaker 2: defense sometimes, and Luca, who can't guard a park car.

1204
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 2: Are they going to figure it out?

1205
01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 20: Yes?

1206
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 8: Or no?

1207
01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:43,560
Speaker 19: Reeves gotta go.

1208
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 2: I think okay, fair enough? How about JJ Reddick?

1209
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 19: JJ Reddick I think he's a good coach, but he's

1210
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,080
Speaker 19: Oh by the way, I want to give props to

1211
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 19: Shack for getting a coaching job too, But I think

1212
01:02:57,480 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 19: JJ Reddick is good.

1213
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 2: All right? Uh finally, Henry Rubbs, you know the story.

1214
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 2: Does he deserve a second chance to get back in

1215
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 2: the NFL?

1216
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 19: This is the first I've heard of it, so I

1217
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,439
Speaker 19: don't really have a comment right now. I'm thinking about

1218
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 19: the top of the hour.

1219
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give my comment here. I want to bring

1220
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:15,520
Speaker 2: everybody up to stuff, and I'll give you my honest opinion. Andrew,

1221
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 2: appreciate you as always, man, Thanks for checking invest to you.

1222
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 2: Poppy in San Diego. What's up, Poppy?

1223
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 21: Just a beautiful day here in San Diego, sandy beautiful

1224
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 21: rain here.

1225
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:32,919
Speaker 22: Yeah yeah, So onto the Luca look. Lucas a little

1226
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:36,800
Speaker 22: bit chunky. Hopefully he gets motivated and goes on a

1227
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 22: diet because there's a lot of influencers over there in

1228
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:39,840
Speaker 22: La a lot.

1229
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 2: He needs more of a diet, man, Luca.

1230
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 10: So Baby, something's got to do, right, Bertie.

1231
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 2: He can mixing a salad all day. He needs some

1232
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 2: uh orange steery fitness or some yoga or some damn

1233
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 2: thing and then it needs to it ain't in the

1234
01:03:58,160 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 2: cards for Luca. I'm just gonna say it right now.

1235
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,600
Speaker 2: Saving this sound like if I'm wrong, play it back,

1236
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 2: Lucat Yeah, no, go ahead, go ahead, Sorry, Pop you

1237
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 2: got that?

1238
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:13,920
Speaker 21: Yeah, som Luca, I'll say in Spanish, go on to diet.

1239
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 21: And also JJ Reddick, Wow, like JJ Reddick.

1240
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 6: I love him.

1241
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 22: He's a successful coach.

1242
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:22,680
Speaker 21: He's done a podcast.

1243
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 10: He's a podcast coach.

1244
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 21: Lebron James hired him.

1245
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 6: He's done more than a previous coach, Darvin Ham.

1246
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 21: You know, so he's doing better, like he's doing it right.

1247
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 21: I love he's really smart because now we're in a society,

1248
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 21: Bernie Is you know, you got to be political correct.

1249
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 21: You can't really say it really direct because you know,

1250
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:44,320
Speaker 21: if I was JJ Reddick, I'll be scared because Genie

1251
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 21: Buzz will fire me if.

1252
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 2: I say, Frank Vogo wins the championship, he got fired.

1253
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:52,160
Speaker 2: Darvin Ham gets him to the conference finals, he gets fired.

1254
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 2: You know, what do you think about Henry Ruggs. You're

1255
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:55,480
Speaker 2: a big fellow.

1256
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 21: Yeah, and Henry Ruggs. You know, I think everyone deserves

1257
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 21: a second chance. I don't agree with he and you know,

1258
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 21: rest in peace to the you know, poor person in

1259
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 21: the bat in your home state and the dog that

1260
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 21: passed away. But Kennedy Ruggs is paying the punishment right

1261
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 21: now if he does the time served. He's getting paid

1262
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 21: two dollars and fifty cents in prison right now for

1263
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,920
Speaker 21: making license plate or whatever he does in prison. But

1264
01:05:18,200 --> 01:05:20,680
Speaker 21: he does deserve a second chance. And I hope whoever

1265
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 21: he's gonna second chance, he learned from it. But you know,

1266
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:27,440
Speaker 21: it's up to the universe and see what happens, So

1267
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 21: hopefully he gets the second chance.

1268
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:32,120
Speaker 2: Bernie, all right, Poppy, always appreciate you, Bud. Let's go

1269
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 2: back out to Minnesota. Michale joined us from Minnesota. Welcome

1270
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 2: and Michael, how are.

1271
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 23: You very well? Bernie always a pleasure.

1272
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1273
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 23: Lebron, Luca not gonna happen. Lebron's too old and Luca's

1274
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 23: just a low.

1275
01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think you got to play defense, listen. I

1276
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 2: trust my eyes. They tell me a lot. Those nine

1277
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 2: blowbys in Game five, No, forget it. I don't care.

1278
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:02,640
Speaker 2: You know he can hire a body by Jake and

1279
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 2: by the video, I don't get it. Ain't the cards.

1280
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 2: I'm agreeing with you. How about JJ Reddick. I like him.

1281
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:11,440
Speaker 2: I might be in the minority right now, but you

1282
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 2: think eventually he can be a guy that can you

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01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 2: know he's he the right guy for the Lakers.

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01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 5: Right guy.

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01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 23: Yes, he is a super smart individual and yeah, he

1286
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 23: just got to put a better team around him.

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Speaker 2: Finally, Henry Ruggs, Will he get a second chances? He's

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01:06:29,840 --> 01:06:30,800
Speaker 2: a serve a second chance?

1289
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:36,000
Speaker 23: Absolutely not, and I need to give a he there

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01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 23: to Jaden for seeing Fear and Luca and not letting

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Speaker 23: it go.

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01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, burn again, it was just tremendous. Thank you, Mikheil.

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01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 2: You saw that too. We saw that to Congratulations to

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Speaker 2: your Timberwolves. Rick and Louisiana's up next. Welcome into the

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Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show.

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Speaker 5: Yes, hello, Bernie, thanks for taking McColl s. I want

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01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 5: to start with Rugs first. I'll say second chance. Give

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01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:01,480
Speaker 5: him a second chance, but shouldn't be solely on just

1299
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 5: him playing in the NFL. You should have him a mentor.

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01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:07,440
Speaker 5: But I don't know about it in Nevada, but here

1301
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 5: in Louisiana, I had a friend that when he had

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01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 5: a drinking problem, he had to blow into a device.

1303
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 5: And if he blow into the device, and it was

1304
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 5: it would read it the truck wouldn't start, so that

1305
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 5: could eliminate some of it, or else he has to

1306
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:25,720
Speaker 5: have somebody driving him.

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01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 7: Wherever he go.

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01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:32,000
Speaker 2: First, and that's August early August twenty twenty six. You're

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01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:35,440
Speaker 2: not wrong, that's not uncommon for some folks. Yeah.

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01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:38,360
Speaker 5: Yeah. And also you know, like with Michael Victory, he

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01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 5: had a you know, Tony Dunee that was kind of

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01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:42,560
Speaker 5: mentoring him. So I think he would need that as

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01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 5: well if he was going to come back. But as

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01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 5: far as Luca and Lebron, the way they're set up

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01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 5: right now, no, because what Iron was, what I recognize

1316
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:58,880
Speaker 5: is if you're playing the player, then the starters for

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01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 5: the whole second half. That's one of two things. So

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01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:05,919
Speaker 5: I'm kind of going over into whether you know, the

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01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 5: coach should remain if if that's a coaching decision, or

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01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 5: if he has the players. That's the two questions. Is

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01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 5: it him?

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Speaker 2: That's a good way of putting Rick because they managed

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01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:19,800
Speaker 2: to win fifty two games, and they got every Regaga

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01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 2: in February and then the playoffs started. But he thought

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01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 2: the Lakers would win and they I mean, they got

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01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 2: pull assed, man, So you got to bring up a

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01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:29,360
Speaker 2: good point there. He may be the right coach if

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01:08:29,360 --> 01:08:31,839
Speaker 2: you get him the right players ain't right.

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Speaker 5: But I know one thing they need. Anthony Edward stopp Her.

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01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 2: I love a man. I love yeah.

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01:08:38,439 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 5: I mean nobody was able to stop himsel Now they

1332
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:43,280
Speaker 5: got a defensive problem.

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01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 2: No, they got a major one. So all I appreciate

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01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:49,720
Speaker 2: you a lot, Rick as always, man Well and Guardiana,

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01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 2: what's up, buddy?

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01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 20: They say I'm lazy, but it takes all my til.

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01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 6: Just won't a see. Hey hey, Bernie, So check it out. Man,

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01:09:03,280 --> 01:09:07,320
Speaker 6: I'm in La. I saw this thing firsthand. If they

1339
01:09:07,360 --> 01:09:12,519
Speaker 6: can trade Lebron and lsun to the Dallas Mavericks to

1340
01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:19,320
Speaker 6: get Jason Kidd and ouset jj Reddick, then maybe this

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01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:22,600
Speaker 6: Luca team has a chance. But they have to surround

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01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 6: Luca with defenders. Okay, Lebron's ship has sailed, man, We've

1343
01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 6: seen it. Yeah, he was productive during the regular season.

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01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:35,639
Speaker 6: There's no more fear factor to him. All of these

1345
01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:40,120
Speaker 6: youngsters want to give him his lunch and they've been

1346
01:09:40,320 --> 01:09:45,080
Speaker 6: doing it. Anybody can win in February, Bernie, but not

1347
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:48,759
Speaker 6: everybody in the first round. You know what I'm saying.

1348
01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:52,280
Speaker 6: It was fool's gold from the beginning. And I'm not

1349
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:58,559
Speaker 6: a Luca fan, but Jason Kidd knew how to get

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01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:00,920
Speaker 6: that guy in the right frame mind and had the

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01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 6: right players around him. That's why I'm saying Jason said,

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01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 6: we should have never let Jason Kidd go. Remember he

1353
01:10:07,240 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 6: was on the staff. So that's first things first. The

1354
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 6: Henry rugsting again. Man, you know, I'm a diehard Raider fan,

1355
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 6: and we've seen it before. Leonard Little killed somebody, and

1356
01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:27,439
Speaker 6: the guy who escapes me from the Ravens killed that

1357
01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 6: dude on the way home who was actually a longshoreman

1358
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:34,559
Speaker 6: getting off of work. Guy from the Ravens. The receiver

1359
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:38,600
Speaker 6: killed them too, and they both got second chances in

1360
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 6: the NFL. Now, in my opinion, they should have never

1361
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 6: gotten second chances in the NFL. Man. You know, Blind

1362
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 6: Scott brought up a good point earlier in the week

1363
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:55,280
Speaker 6: to Ben Mallory. You can pay your debt to society

1364
01:10:55,600 --> 01:10:58,760
Speaker 6: as far as jail, but what about the family of

1365
01:10:58,800 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 6: the fit that thought.

1366
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:02,200
Speaker 2: Because I'm gonna have to after we're done with all

1367
01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 2: the callers, I'm gonna give my thoughts and my thoughts

1368
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 2: on getting a second jence. But go ahead, finish up

1369
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 2: your thought. Man.

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01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:11,719
Speaker 6: Well yeah, man, And I loved him as a player.

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01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:15,240
Speaker 6: He was you know, speed dean and great receiver.

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01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't.

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01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:18,599
Speaker 6: Think you could give him another chance.

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01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:18,880
Speaker 12: Man.

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01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:21,920
Speaker 6: That won't be a good look for the NFL, to

1376
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 6: be honest. And hey, man, you can't pay back the family, man,

1377
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,800
Speaker 6: That would be a big slap in the face to

1378
01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:32,719
Speaker 6: the victim's family. So I like that for you, Bernie,

1379
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 6: loved you.

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01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:34,040
Speaker 2: Always appreciated.

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01:11:34,080 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 18: Man.

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01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 2: Well, thanks so much. Here's what we're gonna do the

1383
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 2: midnight hours rolling. We've got Hugh on the five, Mike

1384
01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:42,880
Speaker 2: the Leprechaun Elliott, and Utah Allen and Saint Louis Twner Minnesota.

1385
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 2: You're all getting on. This is a deal. If you

1386
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:49,080
Speaker 2: dial in before one m Pacific time for m Easter.

1387
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:51,000
Speaker 2: If you dial in and get in the queue, you're

1388
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 2: getting on the air. If you don't mind waiting, holding

1389
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:54,519
Speaker 2: through the brake. I don't want anybody to cut off.

1390
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 2: I don't want anybody to cut short. We got to

1391
01:11:57,240 --> 01:11:59,519
Speaker 2: do our delio here and play by the rules. But

1392
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 2: you're all getting on. I don't want anybody not getting on.

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01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 2: So again, Hugh on the five, Mike and Leprechawn Elliott,

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01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:11,080
Speaker 2: Allen Tyler. We're gonna take you all on that order,

1395
01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:13,320
Speaker 2: and if we don't get to you by the top

1396
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:15,840
Speaker 2: of the hour, hang on, We'll get you right after

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Speaker 2: the top of the arm I'll get into my Henry

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Speaker 2: Radio Studios. The Midnight Hour, Rageous on, let's go back

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01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:02,120
Speaker 2: out to the phones, huge joint. You welcome back into

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01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:02,919
Speaker 2: the Bernie Fradtershire.

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01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:04,800
Speaker 9: Who are you, hey, Bernie?

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01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:06,240
Speaker 2: Are you good?

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01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:07,679
Speaker 6: All right?

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01:13:08,640 --> 01:13:09,759
Speaker 8: So yeah, I'm on the five.

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01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 14: I'm probably going to be heading towards.

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01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 6: A poppy way.

1421
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 8: Actually I'm going south.

1422
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:17,200
Speaker 7: So right, I've got something.

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01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:17,639
Speaker 16: To tell you.

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01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:22,080
Speaker 14: That's you foreshadow my answer to all three things. I'm

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01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 14: a UNLV graduate from nineteen ninety one, So put yourself.

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01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:31,519
Speaker 2: I saw your team play in person three times, and

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01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 2: the nineteen ninety team was the national champions. The ninety

1428
01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 2: one team was undefeated before losing to do continue on.

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01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 14: Okay, and also, yeah, I was sitting the Gucci row

1430
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 14: like with.

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01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:43,880
Speaker 6: Sugary Leonard and you know.

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01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:48,120
Speaker 14: Right, so I have to all right, so where am

1433
01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 14: I going?

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01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:51,920
Speaker 6: Okay?

1435
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:54,799
Speaker 2: Remember Oliver Miller of course Arkansas?

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01:13:54,920 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 6: Okay?

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01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 14: Yeah, So if Oliver Miller was playing the NBA today,

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01:13:59,439 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 14: he would look like Luca like right, he wouldn't be

1439
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:06,840
Speaker 14: he wouldn't be beating people up down below.

1440
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 2: Two different players. Man, Oliver Miller was a lot more

1441
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:10,479
Speaker 2: physical and a lot more.

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01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 14: Well, he would Yeah, that's that's my Well, my point is, though,

1443
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:17,599
Speaker 14: the way the game has changed, he would just be

1444
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 14: throwing up forty forty foot or you know, forty foot threes. Right,

1445
01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:25,920
Speaker 14: So if Luca applied himself like Oliver Miller and he's

1446
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 14: got more skill, it.

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01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 8: Would be then then yeah, maybe, But the essence of this,

1448
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 8: if your ant had Cole should be your uncle.

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01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:39,240
Speaker 2: If Luca he doesn't want to apply himself, Luca does

1450
01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:40,879
Speaker 2: not want to play defense.

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01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:42,600
Speaker 9: That's the point.

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01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:43,880
Speaker 14: That's the point.

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01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 8: And so the question is will this team ever, you know,

1454
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:49,040
Speaker 8: between these two guys, ever make it well?

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01:14:49,040 --> 01:14:53,519
Speaker 24: Between him and and Lebron who's now basically like Albert

1456
01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:57,320
Speaker 24: Poohol just you know, trying to just try and pat

1457
01:14:57,320 --> 01:15:00,920
Speaker 24: his staff get further away, further away, further away.

1458
01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 14: At the top, top top score and all that stuff.

1459
01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:05,280
Speaker 14: It's like, no, it ain't gonna happen.

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01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:06,479
Speaker 6: And then as far.

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Speaker 19: As the coach, I would say, you know, the team.

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Speaker 14: That the Lakers have now, I think the Clippers have

1463
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:15,880
Speaker 14: a better coach for that team for the Lakers. But

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01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 14: if you take away the two superstars, then you know,

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01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:23,719
Speaker 14: Reddick could probably coach up a good, young, hungry team.

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01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:26,680
Speaker 14: I think that's that's would be that would be his

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01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 14: best fit.

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Speaker 7: But having to deal with these two guys.

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Speaker 14: No, he's not right now, He's just not. By the way,

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01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 14: he went to Duke, so who knows, you know, to keep.

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Speaker 24: That whole narrative going about real quickly.

1472
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Speaker 2: And by the way, just to be fair rested, rest

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Speaker 2: in peace, Oliver me. Well, he just passed away about

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Speaker 2: two months ago. Kidding, yes, and and and and the

1475
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Speaker 2: thing is, your comparison is apt. He was. He had

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01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 2: weight problems his entire career, but he played hard. He

1477
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Speaker 2: played very hard, all right, real quickly on h On

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Speaker 2: Henry Rutgs the.

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Speaker 8: Second Yeah, you know, okay, very quickly.

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Speaker 14: In general, I think everybody would say people deserve a

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01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:11,840
Speaker 14: second chance, and I would like to give him a

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Speaker 14: second chance if he's humble when he gets.

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Speaker 6: Out of prison.

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01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:22,840
Speaker 14: But the fact that he's already talking to nflers about well,

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01:16:22,880 --> 01:16:24,000
Speaker 14: he's not Josh.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna lay that out after the top

1487
01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:29,640
Speaker 2: of the hour. Josh Jacobs, his teammate at Alabama, is

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Speaker 2: acting on his behalf.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know what, Well, screw him.

1490
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:36,200
Speaker 14: I mean, everybody should just pipe down, let the guy

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Speaker 14: come out.

1492
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Speaker 6: I mean, if he should be, he.

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Speaker 14: Should go into a different career when he comes out

1494
01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:45,280
Speaker 14: of jail to show that he's humble, and then maybe

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Speaker 14: he can circle around after. But you shouldn't be come

1496
01:16:47,640 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 14: out of jail and you know going to a you know,

1497
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:51,240
Speaker 14: going to a workout.

1498
01:16:51,400 --> 01:16:53,679
Speaker 6: There's just no way. Guy. The guy needs to pay

1499
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:55,280
Speaker 6: his pennant first.

1500
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:58,760
Speaker 2: Fair enough, we'll see where this goes. I'll have a

1501
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:01,240
Speaker 2: taught at our top. Good good stuff. You appreciate you

1502
01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:04,439
Speaker 2: mans be, don't be a stranger. All right, We're gonna

1503
01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:06,639
Speaker 2: squeeze in one more here before the top of the hour,

1504
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 2: and then after that we'll get to Elliott, Alan Tayler,

1505
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:12,719
Speaker 2: and Rebecca. Uh, Mike the leprecaun becoming a regular. Welcome

1506
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:13,680
Speaker 2: back in Mike, how are you?

1507
01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:14,800
Speaker 6: Thank you?

1508
01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:15,679
Speaker 23: Third time caller?

1509
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:19,559
Speaker 25: You're the second most famous famous Ben Benny or Bernie sorry,

1510
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:20,920
Speaker 25: Bernie Sanders.

1511
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:22,439
Speaker 7: Is on the less you're number two.

1512
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:25,840
Speaker 8: But anyway, yeah, that's all right, Uh yeah, I know,

1513
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:26,479
Speaker 8: I might.

1514
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:28,679
Speaker 2: It makes my teethhitch. I mean, if that guy doesn't

1515
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 2: shut up, I'm gonna have to change my name. But

1516
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 2: you got the floor.

1517
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:35,679
Speaker 25: You can't teach an old dogs new tricks, that's the saying.

1518
01:17:36,280 --> 01:17:38,760
Speaker 2: And he's definitely an old dog. He's an ugly one too.

1519
01:17:39,160 --> 01:17:39,599
Speaker 2: Go ahead.

1520
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 25: Oh no, no, no, I'm talking about Lebron and Lucas.

1521
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:44,680
Speaker 2: Oh I'm well fair enough. Oh I'm sorry. You're way

1522
01:17:44,680 --> 01:17:47,680
Speaker 2: ahead of me, Mike, see Mark much sharper than I am.

1523
01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:48,320
Speaker 6: Well.

1524
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:49,800
Speaker 23: I sorry for them.

1525
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:52,479
Speaker 2: Go ahead a couple of minutes here, let me. I

1526
01:17:52,479 --> 01:17:53,799
Speaker 2: don't think you go ahead.

1527
01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:56,120
Speaker 9: They're dead weight on defense.

1528
01:17:56,600 --> 01:18:00,160
Speaker 25: As you know, the saying again, offense sells tickets in

1529
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:03,200
Speaker 25: LA or anywhere, but defense ruins championships.

1530
01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:06,280
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot to that, I really And

1531
01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 2: that's an old cliche, but I'm with you, and so

1532
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:11,320
Speaker 2: you're I'm in a way of saying it ain't gonna work.

1533
01:18:11,360 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 2: By the way, Henry Ruggs deserve a second chance to

1534
01:18:14,920 --> 01:18:15,719
Speaker 2: get back in the NFL.

1535
01:18:15,920 --> 01:18:17,559
Speaker 6: Yes, okay, if.

1536
01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 20: He does, and I'll tell you why, go ahead again?

1537
01:18:19,479 --> 01:18:23,639
Speaker 25: Another cliche to err his human to forgive divine. If

1538
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 25: I were him, I would offer if he came out

1539
01:18:26,040 --> 01:18:28,360
Speaker 25: of jail, he should get a job whatever he.

1540
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:30,719
Speaker 20: Can work out all he wants. That's for his mental health.

1541
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 20: But he should offer ninety percent of whatever salary he

1542
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 20: makes to that family if they have a foundation, and

1543
01:18:37,120 --> 01:18:39,160
Speaker 20: keep whatever he needs for his own needs.

1544
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:39,759
Speaker 6: To be humble.

1545
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:45,720
Speaker 2: Very call Mike, very Mike the leper count. First of all,

1546
01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:48,840
Speaker 2: I like what that's excellent, call Mike. Don't be a

1547
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 2: stranger listen. First of all, it was simplistic but spot on. Well,

1548
01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 2: you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Luca, he

1549
01:18:57,000 --> 01:18:59,000
Speaker 2: ain't twenty six. He's an old dog. He's twelve year

1550
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 2: NBA player, twel year pro hit. Your NBA player, Lebron.

1551
01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:05,559
Speaker 2: He is what he is. Take him as he is

1552
01:19:06,479 --> 01:19:08,679
Speaker 2: and as far as I'm gonna get to the Henry

1553
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 2: Rooks thing after the top of the hour, but we're

1554
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:13,600
Speaker 2: also gonna get to Elliott, Allen Tyler and Rebecca and

1555
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 2: I want to read Don's tweet. He said the LBJ

1556
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:19,320
Speaker 2: fifty two million dollars salary cap hit he's forty. Let's

1557
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:21,920
Speaker 2: be honest. He needs to go where take less. He's

1558
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 2: a third option on a winning team. JJ meads more humility.

1559
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 2: Luca is who he is. You'd be better off on deef.

1560
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:31,400
Speaker 2: He didn't complain about every offensive possession and got back.

1561
01:19:31,840 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 2: By the way, Lebron and Brownie made five million two

1562
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:37,040
Speaker 2: So the James family taking a fifty seven million in

1563
01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:39,760
Speaker 2: cat face, right, we'll continue on after the top of

1564
01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 2: the hour with the men at our callers keep it locked.

1565
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:46,040
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

1566
01:19:46,280 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

1567
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:51,760
Speaker 2: Well, that's right, you heard the man. Bernie Fraddle Show

1568
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 2: keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie Frattle. We

1569
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:57,360
Speaker 2: are company line from the Fox Sports Radio compound here

1570
01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:59,839
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas, taking up to three in Pacific sixteen,

1571
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:04,800
Speaker 2: having a rocking good time tonight on the midnight hour.

1572
01:20:04,880 --> 01:20:06,760
Speaker 2: As he continues, you've got a little bonus time, a

1573
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:08,720
Speaker 2: little overtime, and the bended hour, So let's go back

1574
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 2: out to the phone. Lines were joined by Elliott in Utah. Elliott,

1575
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 2: thanks for hanging on. You're up next.

1576
01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:17,760
Speaker 17: Hey, Bernie appreciates you. Man, appreciate you being up at

1577
01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:22,479
Speaker 17: this hour. I'll be quick, Luca, I think we're all

1578
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:26,040
Speaker 17: forgetting this guy went to the finals last year. Does

1579
01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:30,599
Speaker 17: he suck at defense? Absolutely doesn't play it, Lebron. I mean,

1580
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:33,880
Speaker 17: I know what's going on with that guy, but they've

1581
01:20:33,920 --> 01:20:36,439
Speaker 17: proven you put the right roster around Luca and this

1582
01:20:36,479 --> 01:20:39,640
Speaker 17: guy will take you places. Man, And with that, I

1583
01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:42,240
Speaker 17: think JJ is the right coach for him. He's young,

1584
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:46,240
Speaker 17: he leans into the advanced analytics. The way that he

1585
01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 17: played Yogic this year was incredible. In my opinion, I

1586
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:51,519
Speaker 17: think he's one of the few coaches who really had

1587
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:55,400
Speaker 17: a great game plan for Jokic. So that's my Lakers take.

1588
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,880
Speaker 17: And then as far as the Henry Ruggs, I actually

1589
01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 17: love that last Callers take. I believe we all get

1590
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:07,960
Speaker 17: second chances as well. And yeah, I think like half

1591
01:21:08,040 --> 01:21:10,200
Speaker 17: or seventy percent of his salary if he gets a

1592
01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:13,160
Speaker 17: second chance, should go to the family until they get

1593
01:21:13,160 --> 01:21:15,559
Speaker 17: a certain amount of money, and then the rest of

1594
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:18,280
Speaker 17: it his career earnings. You know, a certain percentage should

1595
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 17: go to like drunk driving awareness something like that.

1596
01:21:20,880 --> 01:21:23,640
Speaker 2: So all right, excellent Carle Elliott, don't be a stranger. YEA,

1597
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:26,519
Speaker 2: that was Mike the Leprechaun. And I'll get into this

1598
01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:29,080
Speaker 2: topic later when I finished with the callers. You bring

1599
01:21:29,160 --> 01:21:34,640
Speaker 2: up a good point, Elliott. Look if you surround Luca

1600
01:21:34,920 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 2: with Austin Reeves, who I love, but is he defensively

1601
01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:43,439
Speaker 2: challenged and Lebron, who I think is still productive in spurts,

1602
01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:47,240
Speaker 2: but his best days are way behind him. In my opinion,

1603
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:50,240
Speaker 2: you just proved it in the playoffs when it mattered

1604
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:53,400
Speaker 2: most if you shrown him those guys and Luca's going

1605
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 2: to be handstrung. So they made this deal to get Luca.

1606
01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:57,920
Speaker 2: They're going to have to rebuild this roster, and that

1607
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:00,720
Speaker 2: includes Lebron not being there because I can't see you

1608
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:02,960
Speaker 2: take our fifty two million in cap space. What you're

1609
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:05,479
Speaker 2: going to do? You get these younger athletic teams. And

1610
01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:07,960
Speaker 2: I agree, I like JJ Redick. I ain't giving up

1611
01:22:07,960 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 2: on that dude. It's just been been a rough three weeks.

1612
01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:13,000
Speaker 2: Alan Saint Louis Joys, you say, I welcome into the

1613
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 2: Bernie Fradle Show.

1614
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:15,439
Speaker 26: Well, good morning, Bernie.

1615
01:22:15,439 --> 01:22:17,080
Speaker 2: How you doing. Good? Good morning, sir.

1616
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:21,280
Speaker 26: Enjoy your subject as always, thank you. On the Lakers.

1617
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:24,840
Speaker 26: You know, the problem with the Lakers is Luca can't

1618
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:27,879
Speaker 26: play defense. I mean, Luca may not want to play defense,

1619
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:30,559
Speaker 26: but he's surrounded by a bunch of other players who

1620
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:31,679
Speaker 26: can't play defense.

1621
01:22:31,840 --> 01:22:35,000
Speaker 2: Very true, Rue, So his lack.

1622
01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:38,800
Speaker 26: Of defense is glorified because he's the star. It's like

1623
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 26: the previous Carlin mentioned. You surround him by other players

1624
01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:46,439
Speaker 26: who can play defense. His lack of defense may not

1625
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:48,640
Speaker 26: be as bad that he can concentrate on what he

1626
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:52,160
Speaker 26: can do offense offensively. As far as J. J. Redick

1627
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:57,160
Speaker 26: is concerned, I think, you know, the regular season record

1628
01:22:57,240 --> 01:23:00,559
Speaker 26: is fine, but your coaching prows come out in a

1629
01:23:00,640 --> 01:23:05,200
Speaker 26: seven game series. That's when quote unquote adjustments are made.

1630
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:08,400
Speaker 26: And I think when he said let those guys play

1631
01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 26: that whole half, not only he sent a message to them,

1632
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 26: he sent a message to the guys who never got

1633
01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:17,679
Speaker 26: in the game and how do they feel about him?

1634
01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:21,120
Speaker 26: So he's going to have to, you know, talk to

1635
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 26: those guys. And they're also got to make a roster

1636
01:23:24,280 --> 01:23:27,799
Speaker 26: adjustments too, because the guys on the team, it's obvious

1637
01:23:28,080 --> 01:23:30,800
Speaker 26: he didn't want to play his big man who they

1638
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:33,960
Speaker 26: didn't think. They made Rudy Gobert and look like Will Chamberlain,

1639
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:38,719
Speaker 26: they said, literally, and that is that has never happened

1640
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 26: in Gobart's career. As far as Henry's concerned, you know,

1641
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 26: I hear people with different opinions. First of all, I

1642
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 26: think he deserves a second chance. You know, he's doing

1643
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 26: his time, and you know, we can't dictate what the

1644
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:59,439
Speaker 26: judicial system does. If they say two years, he does

1645
01:23:59,479 --> 01:24:03,280
Speaker 26: two years. We have to accept that during his time. Now,

1646
01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:06,639
Speaker 26: as far as his giving money to other families. I'm

1647
01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 26: not sure about that because you know, does he give

1648
01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:12,560
Speaker 26: money to the other family because he's just a football

1649
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:15,559
Speaker 26: player make a lot of money. But does the male

1650
01:24:15,600 --> 01:24:18,519
Speaker 26: man who gets out of jail, gets out of prison,

1651
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:20,640
Speaker 26: when he goes back to work, does he have to

1652
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:23,439
Speaker 26: give family money? So I think we get the star

1653
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:25,840
Speaker 26: thing kind of kind of we get called up in

1654
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:28,880
Speaker 26: the starret thing first, but I think he deserves the

1655
01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 26: second chance and from Saint Louis. And we had the

1656
01:24:32,360 --> 01:24:36,559
Speaker 26: situation there with Leonard Little, yep, with Leonard Little, so

1657
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:40,679
Speaker 26: you know it's not it's already pressed has been said.

1658
01:24:40,720 --> 01:24:43,720
Speaker 26: So hopefully when he gets out he'll do the right thing.

1659
01:24:44,160 --> 01:24:47,040
Speaker 26: But as far as the monetary is unconcerned, I won't

1660
01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:49,080
Speaker 26: get into that. That'll be up to l take care

1661
01:24:49,080 --> 01:24:49,439
Speaker 26: of Bertie.

1662
01:24:49,479 --> 01:24:49,800
Speaker 5: Good time.

1663
01:24:50,080 --> 01:24:52,519
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, Man, appreciate you. Alan, Thanks so much.

1664
01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:56,360
Speaker 2: I'm glad we're hearing from so many Minnesotans tonight, Tyler

1665
01:24:56,400 --> 01:24:58,320
Speaker 2: and Minnesota you are up next. Go ahead.

1666
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:03,519
Speaker 13: Hey, I'm just wondering, like the Henry rugg stuff. I'm

1667
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:07,000
Speaker 13: not all about anything against Henry Ruggs. I'm just all

1668
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:10,479
Speaker 13: about like, you can't do that and then get away

1669
01:25:10,520 --> 01:25:13,280
Speaker 13: with it and then get back in the league after that.

1670
01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:19,360
Speaker 13: Like I'm not opposed to the guy himself or what happens.

1671
01:25:19,439 --> 01:25:22,519
Speaker 13: You get a lot of money, you go fast, you

1672
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:27,639
Speaker 13: make bad decisions. That's what happens when sometimes people get

1673
01:25:27,680 --> 01:25:31,280
Speaker 13: a lot of money. But you also can't let that

1674
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:35,759
Speaker 13: guy go back in the profession and makes him making

1675
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:40,880
Speaker 13: a lot of money. That also could be looked at

1676
01:25:40,920 --> 01:25:45,200
Speaker 13: it by other people that why are you making this

1677
01:25:45,400 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 13: money other than you're just a gifted athlete somewhere. And

1678
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:52,519
Speaker 13: that's not one of my main questions too.

1679
01:25:54,320 --> 01:25:57,400
Speaker 2: All Right, I'm gonna address those. Any thoughts on whether

1680
01:25:57,479 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 2: or not Luca he figures it out, the Lakers figured

1681
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:01,360
Speaker 2: out with Luca, and.

1682
01:26:01,439 --> 01:26:07,080
Speaker 26: Well, the other one is that Luca is like with Luca, nobody.

1683
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:08,120
Speaker 13: Wants to play defense there.

1684
01:26:08,360 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 9: But you know, the one.

1685
01:26:10,800 --> 01:26:13,920
Speaker 13: Thing I think about is remember the video that came

1686
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:17,439
Speaker 13: out last year which nobody talks about, but the GM

1687
01:26:17,800 --> 01:26:20,559
Speaker 13: or whoever he was, the president, I don't know who

1688
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 13: he was, but he came through Luca's drinking a bud

1689
01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:28,759
Speaker 13: light there. He grabbed the bud light so smoothly swiped

1690
01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:31,880
Speaker 13: it out of there, and it obviously looked like the

1691
01:26:32,040 --> 01:26:37,000
Speaker 13: main public. That obviously the GM and Luca obviously didn't

1692
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:41,760
Speaker 13: get along. Which titles are not entitled. I don't know

1693
01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:45,840
Speaker 13: if that's the right word, but that he traded him

1694
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:49,479
Speaker 13: to the Lakers, which everybody looked at that is that's

1695
01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 13: a horrible trade.

1696
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:52,360
Speaker 2: Well, there's no queestion.

1697
01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:58,800
Speaker 13: We all watched that video that he took that beer

1698
01:26:59,120 --> 01:27:02,120
Speaker 13: Luca's hand. Luca looked at him like, what the heck

1699
01:27:02,200 --> 01:27:05,800
Speaker 13: are you doing? And then obviously nothing came of that.

1700
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:09,439
Speaker 13: But now we see that he got traded with a Lakers,

1701
01:27:09,439 --> 01:27:13,639
Speaker 13: so obviously that GM must have thought something of him

1702
01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:16,720
Speaker 13: that he wasn't meant to be there.

1703
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 2: So all right, buddy, it's not I appreciate you, Tyler,

1704
01:27:19,880 --> 01:27:21,839
Speaker 2: don't be a stranger. And before I get to Rebecca

1705
01:27:21,880 --> 01:27:24,040
Speaker 2: and Nate, our last two callers, she's a couple of things.

1706
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:27,559
Speaker 2: The Nico Harrison trade will always be second guessed because

1707
01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:30,759
Speaker 2: he got virtually nothing in return, not nothing in return,

1708
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:33,639
Speaker 2: but he could have theoretically got a lot more. When

1709
01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:35,720
Speaker 2: the trade happened, I said, let's wait three years and

1710
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:38,960
Speaker 2: see what this looks like, because I saw the frustration

1711
01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 2: on the man's face. Nico Harrison he says, I ain't

1712
01:27:41,920 --> 01:27:44,800
Speaker 2: paying this guy three hundred and fifty million dollars. I'm

1713
01:27:44,800 --> 01:27:48,800
Speaker 2: not doing it. When he's going up and down the court,

1714
01:27:48,840 --> 01:27:52,640
Speaker 2: look like he's dragging a trailer. I realize that he

1715
01:27:52,640 --> 01:27:54,880
Speaker 2: can score thirty eight points a game. I realize he's

1716
01:27:54,880 --> 01:27:58,559
Speaker 2: prolific offensively. But I gotta tell you, Minnesota's coaching was

1717
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:02,439
Speaker 2: so brilliant trapping him after mid court. I don't want

1718
01:28:02,439 --> 01:28:03,800
Speaker 2: to go back into that. Maybe I will at the

1719
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 2: end of the show. Second thing, just so we know

1720
01:28:06,360 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 2: everybody knows the facts. Leonard Little was a player for

1721
01:28:09,479 --> 01:28:11,240
Speaker 2: the Rams, and in the late nineties, he was on

1722
01:28:11,280 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 2: his way home from a birthday party and he ran

1723
01:28:14,160 --> 01:28:17,200
Speaker 2: over a young lady and was in Saint Louis. His

1724
01:28:17,280 --> 01:28:20,599
Speaker 2: blood alcohol content was zero point one point nine, way

1725
01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:23,560
Speaker 2: over the legal limit. He pled guilty to you involuntary

1726
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 2: and manslaughter, and he got ninety days in his city workhouse,

1727
01:28:28,360 --> 01:28:31,240
Speaker 2: a probation, in a thousand hours of community service. He

1728
01:28:31,320 --> 01:28:33,599
Speaker 2: went back and played six more years in the NFL.

1729
01:28:34,040 --> 01:28:36,960
Speaker 2: So there's precedence here now. The Henry Rugs situation was

1730
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:39,439
Speaker 2: far more horrific in terms of going one hundred and

1731
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:42,120
Speaker 2: fifty six miles an hour, and I live here in Vegas,

1732
01:28:42,160 --> 01:28:44,360
Speaker 2: and I saw the accounts and talk to people. The

1733
01:28:44,360 --> 01:28:46,599
Speaker 2: young lady burned to death in our car was horrible,

1734
01:28:46,760 --> 01:28:51,599
Speaker 2: just horrible, and he was Tina intur So. I don't know.

1735
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:56,040
Speaker 2: There's no easy reconciliation here. I'll give you my thoughts

1736
01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:59,120
Speaker 2: after we get through all the callers. Let's go back

1737
01:28:59,120 --> 01:29:01,599
Speaker 2: out to Minnesota where Becca. Welcome into the Bernie Frattle Show.

1738
01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:07,639
Speaker 23: Hi, Rebecca passed out, But I just want to start

1739
01:29:07,680 --> 01:29:11,520
Speaker 23: by saying we have to start to stop deciphering.

1740
01:29:11,560 --> 01:29:12,880
Speaker 6: Who is wrong? Is more wrong?

1741
01:29:13,479 --> 01:29:13,719
Speaker 23: Wrong?

1742
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:14,240
Speaker 6: Is wrong?

1743
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:14,840
Speaker 4: Is a wrong?

1744
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:22,240
Speaker 2: Okay, let's fill into blinks here. Okay, fair enough. I

1745
01:29:22,600 --> 01:29:27,040
Speaker 2: would just say this, we can't solve the problems on

1746
01:29:27,080 --> 01:29:30,559
Speaker 2: this show. This is an open forum, and I don't

1747
01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:32,719
Speaker 2: want to get into what about it is. And that's fair,

1748
01:29:33,200 --> 01:29:35,800
Speaker 2: But since Leonard Little's name was brought up three times,

1749
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:38,760
Speaker 2: I wanted to set the listeners straight on why there

1750
01:29:38,760 --> 01:29:41,439
Speaker 2: may have been a parallel. The issue here is whether

1751
01:29:41,520 --> 01:29:45,120
Speaker 2: or not Henry Ruggs gets a second chance. Why are

1752
01:29:45,120 --> 01:29:46,519
Speaker 2: we even talking about it? Well, I'm going to tell

1753
01:29:46,520 --> 01:29:49,800
Speaker 2: you why. Coming up, Nayton, Texas wrap it up for

1754
01:29:49,960 --> 01:29:52,400
Speaker 2: us tonight on the midnight hour.

1755
01:29:53,280 --> 01:29:55,960
Speaker 13: All right, Bernie love a show.

1756
01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:57,240
Speaker 6: That's a few times they called in.

1757
01:29:57,680 --> 01:29:59,320
Speaker 13: Really appreciate you having me for sure?

1758
01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 2: Sure, sure the all.

1759
01:30:01,439 --> 01:30:06,920
Speaker 15: Right, so Luca in particular, and all right, so Nico's frustration, like.

1760
01:30:06,880 --> 01:30:08,680
Speaker 6: I get it, and he did what it is.

1761
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:11,400
Speaker 15: I'm like, I'm I'm from here, I'm born and raised

1762
01:30:11,400 --> 01:30:12,240
Speaker 15: in DSW.

1763
01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:13,639
Speaker 6: I get there.

1764
01:30:13,760 --> 01:30:15,639
Speaker 7: I don't think there's ever gonna be a chance.

1765
01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 6: To like Nico.

1766
01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:21,799
Speaker 15: Actually, like, you know, let's say, gets it clear by

1767
01:30:21,880 --> 01:30:22,519
Speaker 15: by us, you.

1768
01:30:22,439 --> 01:30:22,960
Speaker 6: Know what I'm saying.

1769
01:30:23,680 --> 01:30:23,800
Speaker 16: Uh.

1770
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:27,960
Speaker 15: And one of the reasons that Luca dominated was so

1771
01:30:28,040 --> 01:30:29,920
Speaker 15: good around it, it's because he had a whole ass

1772
01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:36,200
Speaker 15: team that sorry for cussing, the whole team that was

1773
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:39,120
Speaker 15: built around him, because he's not a defensive player, right,

1774
01:30:39,479 --> 01:30:41,920
Speaker 15: he's not, and so you you build around him, you

1775
01:30:41,960 --> 01:30:42,920
Speaker 15: get bigs around him.

1776
01:30:42,920 --> 01:30:43,720
Speaker 6: That it was good.

1777
01:30:43,840 --> 01:30:46,920
Speaker 15: The reason why we went to the finals last year

1778
01:30:47,120 --> 01:30:48,760
Speaker 15: is because we built the team around him.

1779
01:30:48,960 --> 01:30:50,200
Speaker 6: And so he goes to the.

1780
01:30:50,200 --> 01:30:52,240
Speaker 15: Lakers and it makes sense. And we saw it in

1781
01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:54,960
Speaker 15: Game five. Man, that was it was kind of hard

1782
01:30:54,960 --> 01:30:58,240
Speaker 15: to watch. There's there wasn't any sort of synchronicity, there

1783
01:30:58,280 --> 01:31:01,360
Speaker 15: wasn't any sort of defense being played, and that actually

1784
01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:04,439
Speaker 15: goes with in season trades. They generally don't work out.

1785
01:31:04,720 --> 01:31:07,759
Speaker 15: You know, the first year that Kyrie and Luca played together,

1786
01:31:08,080 --> 01:31:09,479
Speaker 15: they weren't very good together either.

1787
01:31:09,920 --> 01:31:11,639
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question. Eight you know, since

1788
01:31:11,640 --> 01:31:14,280
Speaker 2: you're they're there in DFW, it sounds like you're a

1789
01:31:14,360 --> 01:31:17,200
Speaker 2: Mavericks fan, or at least you follow the team. I am.

1790
01:31:17,400 --> 01:31:20,880
Speaker 2: So Luca's okay, this is not his first barbecue. He's

1791
01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:23,439
Speaker 2: been in league eight years. I remember covering him in

1792
01:31:23,479 --> 01:31:26,439
Speaker 2: the Summer League back in the summer twenty eighteen. When

1793
01:31:26,439 --> 01:31:28,759
Speaker 2: he came in, he was a young little kid looking

1794
01:31:29,400 --> 01:31:32,759
Speaker 2: he's aged to me. Now, I'm asking you a question.

1795
01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:38,960
Speaker 2: Have you seen a progressive uh sort of what's the

1796
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:42,120
Speaker 2: word I'm looking for? Have you seen his body change

1797
01:31:42,920 --> 01:31:46,240
Speaker 2: over the years? Give us some perspective on that because

1798
01:31:46,280 --> 01:31:47,559
Speaker 2: you see him year in year out.

1799
01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:51,280
Speaker 15: Okay, So I'll give you. And this is what a

1800
01:31:51,320 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 15: lot of people want to hear. Whenever he first comes

1801
01:31:53,439 --> 01:31:56,920
Speaker 15: to training camp, does he look a little budgy, But

1802
01:31:56,960 --> 01:31:58,880
Speaker 15: then he starts training and then he gets back into

1803
01:31:58,920 --> 01:31:59,200
Speaker 15: it and.

1804
01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:01,839
Speaker 6: He gets back in shape.

1805
01:32:02,280 --> 01:32:03,840
Speaker 15: And one of the things I think that a lot

1806
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:05,639
Speaker 15: of people have an issue with it is that very

1807
01:32:05,640 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 15: first day that he shows up a training camp, maybe

1808
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 15: he has an extra ten pounds or something of a

1809
01:32:10,439 --> 01:32:11,000
Speaker 15: little flat.

1810
01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:13,760
Speaker 1: You know, I don't disagree with that stint though.

1811
01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:17,840
Speaker 2: It's the desire to play defense. He had nine blowbys

1812
01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:20,840
Speaker 2: and that's Game five. Only I don't see a guy

1813
01:32:20,880 --> 01:32:23,519
Speaker 2: that looks to me like he really wants to play defense.

1814
01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:26,679
Speaker 15: And I don't even necessarily disagree with you.

1815
01:32:26,760 --> 01:32:28,040
Speaker 7: And here's here's my.

1816
01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:32,000
Speaker 15: Also, I'll add into it. Dirk was never really really

1817
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:36,080
Speaker 15: known for his defense either, but they built in twenty eleven.

1818
01:32:36,120 --> 01:32:39,439
Speaker 15: They built a team around Dirk to make sure that

1819
01:32:39,560 --> 01:32:42,200
Speaker 15: he had the defense surrounding him.

1820
01:32:42,400 --> 01:32:43,559
Speaker 13: That's why last.

1821
01:32:43,360 --> 01:32:46,960
Speaker 15: Year's team was so productive and so phenomenal. And that's

1822
01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:52,000
Speaker 15: why Luca effectively carried this team score wise, points wise

1823
01:32:52,560 --> 01:32:54,960
Speaker 15: to the finals. Now, don't get me wrong, I am

1824
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:58,080
Speaker 15: fully aware and as a fan, as a Luca lover,

1825
01:32:58,240 --> 01:33:01,240
Speaker 15: I love him. I don't know if you remember, but

1826
01:33:01,280 --> 01:33:02,880
Speaker 15: I told you a couple of weeks that I'm rooting

1827
01:33:03,720 --> 01:33:05,519
Speaker 15: a couple of weeks ago. I'm rooting for the Lakers

1828
01:33:05,840 --> 01:33:07,400
Speaker 15: for sure because of you.

1829
01:33:07,360 --> 01:33:08,320
Speaker 6: Know, karma.

1830
01:33:08,560 --> 01:33:14,320
Speaker 15: Uh, But sure, I don't think that you know the

1831
01:33:14,439 --> 01:33:19,080
Speaker 15: Lakers had anything going for him defensive wise, and that's

1832
01:33:19,080 --> 01:33:21,720
Speaker 15: why it ended up failing. Don't get me wrong, I

1833
01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:24,720
Speaker 15: do understand the fact that Luca, You're one hundred percent right,

1834
01:33:24,920 --> 01:33:28,200
Speaker 15: Bernie said, No, it looks like he doesn't want to

1835
01:33:28,200 --> 01:33:28,880
Speaker 15: play the defense.

1836
01:33:28,920 --> 01:33:29,680
Speaker 6: He doesn't want to do that.

1837
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:31,800
Speaker 8: He wants to score, and he scores a lot.

1838
01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:33,800
Speaker 15: He scores more than anybody else in the league.

1839
01:33:33,840 --> 01:33:35,040
Speaker 6: That is my issue.

1840
01:33:35,080 --> 01:33:38,519
Speaker 15: He's one of the most prolific, it's not the most

1841
01:33:38,520 --> 01:33:41,880
Speaker 15: prolific scorers in the in the league, and I feel

1842
01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:45,360
Speaker 15: like people aren't given that credit. You can build the

1843
01:33:45,400 --> 01:33:48,160
Speaker 15: defense around him, and that's what.

1844
01:33:48,080 --> 01:33:49,200
Speaker 13: We did last year.

1845
01:33:49,280 --> 01:33:50,599
Speaker 6: We did it last year.

1846
01:33:50,720 --> 01:33:54,920
Speaker 15: And Nico Harrison just completely ignored all that, ignored everything

1847
01:33:54,960 --> 01:33:56,320
Speaker 15: about that, and it.

1848
01:33:56,200 --> 01:33:57,559
Speaker 6: Was just like, oh, all right.

1849
01:33:57,760 --> 01:34:00,240
Speaker 15: The first week of training camp he showed up a

1850
01:34:00,240 --> 01:34:01,120
Speaker 15: little pudgy.

1851
01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:01,760
Speaker 6: And that was it.

1852
01:34:01,840 --> 01:34:03,679
Speaker 15: And that was the you know, the you know put

1853
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:05,479
Speaker 15: plot that they just washed the hands of it.

1854
01:34:05,920 --> 01:34:07,720
Speaker 2: Well look at it, and it's stand the line. I

1855
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:12,400
Speaker 2: think stand the line. Look, I think Nico struggled with

1856
01:34:12,520 --> 01:34:14,800
Speaker 2: decision more than people realized. It came down to one thing.

1857
01:34:14,880 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 2: Nate my humble opinion, I know it's against a law

1858
01:34:17,160 --> 01:34:20,360
Speaker 2: of practice psychology was out of license. But I'm gonna

1859
01:34:20,360 --> 01:34:22,080
Speaker 2: do it anyway, Nico said, I can't pay this gay

1860
01:34:22,120 --> 01:34:23,920
Speaker 2: Throe a undred fifty million. I'm not going to admit

1861
01:34:23,960 --> 01:34:26,640
Speaker 2: that in public. Ain't gonna do it. Ain't gonna do it.

1862
01:34:26,680 --> 01:34:28,280
Speaker 2: I've been talking to him for two or three years

1863
01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:30,880
Speaker 2: about this. Yea, I scores a bunch of points. Dave

1864
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:32,880
Speaker 2: Kingman hit a bunch of home runs with the Cubs,

1865
01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:35,479
Speaker 2: and then ever won Jack and I think he got

1866
01:34:35,520 --> 01:34:37,160
Speaker 2: he got to his wits end. And if you've ever

1867
01:34:37,160 --> 01:34:40,519
Speaker 2: been an employer and people don't change certain habits or that,

1868
01:34:40,640 --> 01:34:42,080
Speaker 2: you know, I don't want to go down that road.

1869
01:34:42,760 --> 01:34:46,720
Speaker 2: This is a highly charged situation. Acknowledging all along that

1870
01:34:47,280 --> 01:34:50,679
Speaker 2: Luca is a tremendous fan favorite and was a key

1871
01:34:50,800 --> 01:34:55,040
Speaker 2: cog in getting the Mavericks to the Conference finals last year,

1872
01:34:55,040 --> 01:34:58,160
Speaker 2: even though they got smoked, but he got them there.

1873
01:34:58,240 --> 01:35:00,840
Speaker 2: He was a key part in helping them get there.

1874
01:35:01,560 --> 01:35:05,280
Speaker 2: But think that was in this is now. And yes,

1875
01:35:05,560 --> 01:35:09,240
Speaker 2: if you surround Luca were the right people, maybe they

1876
01:35:09,240 --> 01:35:13,320
Speaker 2: win a championship. But it's theoretical. You got the last word,

1877
01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:15,320
Speaker 2: so and.

1878
01:35:15,680 --> 01:35:17,600
Speaker 15: You're one hundred percent right. And Bernie, I'll give you

1879
01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:18,800
Speaker 15: that credit without a doubt.

1880
01:35:19,160 --> 01:35:21,759
Speaker 14: It is a maybe, it's a big maybe.

1881
01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:25,719
Speaker 15: But we've seen it before, and even with the Mavericks,

1882
01:35:25,720 --> 01:35:28,559
Speaker 15: we've seen it before. You build around the player that

1883
01:35:28,680 --> 01:35:33,559
Speaker 15: has incredible offensive talent with the defense to support him.

1884
01:35:33,680 --> 01:35:37,040
Speaker 15: Dirk is Dirk didn't play defense either. He was not

1885
01:35:37,080 --> 01:35:40,759
Speaker 15: a good defensive player, and he won he big twenty

1886
01:35:40,760 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 15: eleven is heralded as the best finals run of all time,

1887
01:35:46,240 --> 01:35:49,840
Speaker 15: and it was based off a character that could not

1888
01:35:49,960 --> 01:35:53,639
Speaker 15: play defense. Now do I agree that like that's gonna

1889
01:35:53,640 --> 01:35:57,600
Speaker 15: happen every single time? No, So I do understand the

1890
01:35:57,640 --> 01:35:59,719
Speaker 15: fact that it's like, all right, if that's the case,

1891
01:36:00,080 --> 01:36:04,160
Speaker 15: let's trade them out and go from there. However, you're

1892
01:36:04,320 --> 01:36:08,040
Speaker 15: trading one of the most prolific scorers of all time,

1893
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:10,800
Speaker 15: even better than Dirk, even better than the.

1894
01:36:11,080 --> 01:36:12,000
Speaker 6: Scorers out there.

1895
01:36:12,439 --> 01:36:16,439
Speaker 15: You're trading him away, and you're pissing off your fan

1896
01:36:16,520 --> 01:36:18,160
Speaker 15: base in the process.

1897
01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:23,200
Speaker 2: All right, well again, great call. I remember the twenty

1898
01:36:23,200 --> 01:36:26,720
Speaker 2: eleven Dallas Mavericks team. Well, it was the second year

1899
01:36:26,720 --> 01:36:28,360
Speaker 2: I lived in Las Vegas. I watched most of those

1900
01:36:28,360 --> 01:36:30,240
Speaker 2: games at the m resort of the hell of a comeback.

1901
01:36:30,760 --> 01:36:32,640
Speaker 2: They won fifty seven games in the regular season and

1902
01:36:32,680 --> 01:36:36,960
Speaker 2: won the championship. They were ranked dated overall defensively heading

1903
01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:40,439
Speaker 2: into the playoffs, the Lakers were sixteen. They managed to

1904
01:36:40,439 --> 01:36:43,479
Speaker 2: be a strong defensive team because they had enough dogs

1905
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:47,679
Speaker 2: in there like Tyson Chandler and Sean Merian and Jason Kidd,

1906
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:50,639
Speaker 2: so they had some guys who could play defense. But

1907
01:36:50,720 --> 01:36:56,439
Speaker 2: your comparison is noted somewhere along the line, Dirk didn't

1908
01:36:56,439 --> 01:37:00,440
Speaker 2: present the same limitations, at least from a perception stacepoint

1909
01:37:01,320 --> 01:37:05,360
Speaker 2: to the management and whether it be Mark Cuban, whether

1910
01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:10,479
Speaker 2: it be Nico Harrison, whoever the brass is. They said,

1911
01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:12,240
Speaker 2: we ain't paying this guy at three hundred and fifty

1912
01:37:12,240 --> 01:37:15,160
Speaker 2: million dollars. That's if I'm going to reduce this to

1913
01:37:15,240 --> 01:37:18,680
Speaker 2: its simplest common denominator. I'm certain that that's what it

1914
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:21,120
Speaker 2: came down to. We're not paying this guy three hundred

1915
01:37:21,120 --> 01:37:22,720
Speaker 2: and fifty million, which you would have been eligible for

1916
01:37:23,439 --> 01:37:29,040
Speaker 2: here in July. Fantastic job to everybody on the midnight hour.

1917
01:37:29,479 --> 01:37:32,559
Speaker 2: We'll have another good one next week coming up. I'm

1918
01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:35,240
Speaker 2: going to unpack the Henry Rex situation bringing up this

1919
01:37:35,280 --> 01:37:37,439
Speaker 2: stuff and tell you what my thoughts are. It'll be

1920
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Speaker 2: dive into the Henry Rug situation. I lay it out

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Speaker 2: for you. What's going on? Why did I bring this

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Speaker 2: up tonight? I'll check all those boxes in just a second.

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Speaker 2: All right, back on the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio,

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Speaker 2: come to live from the Las Vegas compound here of

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. We'll take up to three am Pacific,

1944
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Speaker 2: six am Eastern, once again the minnight hour. The calls

1945
01:38:52,000 --> 01:38:56,080
Speaker 2: We're outstanding. We talked about whether or not Luca and

1946
01:38:56,160 --> 01:38:59,240
Speaker 2: the Lakers would ever figure it out and coexist and

1947
01:38:59,280 --> 01:39:02,519
Speaker 2: win a champions whether or not JJ Reddick was the

1948
01:39:02,640 --> 01:39:04,639
Speaker 2: right guy, is the right the right guy? I don't

1949
01:39:04,640 --> 01:39:07,479
Speaker 2: get to that. And Henry Ruggs, Now for those of

1950
01:39:07,520 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 2: you who perhaps maybe under a rock, or aren't art

1951
01:39:10,880 --> 01:39:14,800
Speaker 2: and football fans, or just fell out of a touch,

1952
01:39:16,080 --> 01:39:19,800
Speaker 2: Henry Ruggs was a prolific wide receiver at University of Alabama,

1953
01:39:20,560 --> 01:39:25,879
Speaker 2: very fast, checked all the boxes, had by all accounts,

1954
01:39:25,880 --> 01:39:30,400
Speaker 2: should have been you know, a very you know, productive

1955
01:39:30,439 --> 01:39:33,639
Speaker 2: player for the Raiders. But in November twenty twenty one,

1956
01:39:33,840 --> 01:39:37,400
Speaker 2: Henry Ruggs here in Las Vegas was involved in a

1957
01:39:37,439 --> 01:39:40,280
Speaker 2: fatal crash that killed a twenty three year old young

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01:39:40,320 --> 01:39:42,240
Speaker 2: lady by the name of Tina Tintor. Now. The Las

1959
01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 2: Vegas Metro Police said Ruggs showed signs of impairment after

1960
01:39:46,280 --> 01:39:50,120
Speaker 2: they respounded to the collision, and then ruggs blood alcohol

1961
01:39:50,160 --> 01:39:53,280
Speaker 2: content was zero point one six. That's more than twice

1962
01:39:53,479 --> 01:39:56,639
Speaker 2: Nevada's league limit. That was according to the police report.

1963
01:39:57,240 --> 01:40:01,799
Speaker 2: The authorities also said Ruggs was driving his at speeds

1964
01:40:01,840 --> 01:40:03,600
Speaker 2: as fast as one hundred and fifty six miles an

1965
01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:07,240
Speaker 2: hour at three forty am when he crashed into the

1966
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:09,519
Speaker 2: young lady's SUV. I believe she was parked at a

1967
01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:11,800
Speaker 2: red light, best of my understanding. Now I know the

1968
01:40:11,800 --> 01:40:13,599
Speaker 2: street he was driving on. To be going one hundred

1969
01:40:13,600 --> 01:40:19,080
Speaker 2: and fifty six is beyond approach. I cannot describe how

1970
01:40:19,120 --> 01:40:23,760
Speaker 2: irresponsible that is, but it happened. Henry Ruggs is in

1971
01:40:23,800 --> 01:40:27,759
Speaker 2: prison and he's actually now training to get a second

1972
01:40:27,840 --> 01:40:32,120
Speaker 2: chance in the NFL after that twenty twenty one crash,

1973
01:40:33,439 --> 01:40:37,240
Speaker 2: and interestingly enough, he is eligible for parole for the

1974
01:40:37,280 --> 01:40:42,599
Speaker 2: first time August fifth, twenty twenty six. And his former

1975
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:47,640
Speaker 2: teammate at Alabama, who's also a prolific running back for

1976
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:50,840
Speaker 2: the Raiders now with the Green Bay Packers, Josh Jacobs,

1977
01:40:51,479 --> 01:40:54,400
Speaker 2: said he's been talking to teams on Henry Ruggs behalf

1978
01:40:55,479 --> 01:40:57,880
Speaker 2: to give him another chance, and then a couple of

1979
01:40:57,880 --> 01:40:59,680
Speaker 2: teams seemed willing to give him a chance that was

1980
01:40:59,680 --> 01:41:06,200
Speaker 2: a How do we know this? Well, there is a

1981
01:41:06,240 --> 01:41:10,000
Speaker 2: podcast hosted by Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor, who was a

1982
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:12,680
Speaker 2: great running back in the NFL, and Channing Crowder, an

1983
01:41:12,760 --> 01:41:18,040
Speaker 2: NBA player, And apparently I'm guessing I think that Josh

1984
01:41:18,160 --> 01:41:22,679
Speaker 2: Jacobs was a guest on the Pivot podcast and he

1985
01:41:21,600 --> 01:41:27,400
Speaker 2: shared the story. Jacobs and Ruggs were t mits at Alabama,

1986
01:41:27,400 --> 01:41:29,280
Speaker 2: I think for one year. I think they crossed over

1987
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:32,280
Speaker 2: one year. And he says he loves Hunter Ruggs. He

1988
01:41:32,320 --> 01:41:35,080
Speaker 2: keeps in close contact with him while he serves his

1989
01:41:35,400 --> 01:41:37,840
Speaker 2: president sentences. Prison sentence that he got was three to

1990
01:41:37,840 --> 01:41:42,040
Speaker 2: ten years. He pled guilty to felony drunk driving. So

1991
01:41:42,479 --> 01:41:45,000
Speaker 2: when August twenty twenty six rolls around, he's going to

1992
01:41:45,040 --> 01:41:49,360
Speaker 2: have his first chance to be eligible for parole. The

1993
01:41:49,360 --> 01:41:51,200
Speaker 2: first thing that has to happen is the parole board

1994
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:53,679
Speaker 2: has to grant that release and be out on parole.

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01:41:54,600 --> 01:41:56,880
Speaker 2: And then Jacobs told him, he says, if you get

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01:41:56,880 --> 01:41:59,479
Speaker 2: that chance, man, don't look back one decision. Don't define

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01:41:59,479 --> 01:42:02,160
Speaker 2: you who you are as a man. All Right. This

1998
01:42:02,240 --> 01:42:08,479
Speaker 2: is a very highly highly charged situation. Just a few

1999
01:42:08,479 --> 01:42:12,880
Speaker 2: hours after the crash, the Raiders released Henry Ruggs, which

2000
01:42:13,320 --> 01:42:20,280
Speaker 2: is understandable, and Rugs hired a high power attorney. And

2001
01:42:20,680 --> 01:42:23,559
Speaker 2: this is where we sit. So after listening to all

2002
01:42:23,560 --> 01:42:26,840
Speaker 2: the opinions, and these are my thoughts. First of all,

2003
01:42:28,120 --> 01:42:30,400
Speaker 2: if he pays his debt to society based on what

2004
01:42:30,479 --> 01:42:34,559
Speaker 2: the judicial system says, and he gets out on parole,

2005
01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:36,880
Speaker 2: and parole is a pretty tight leash. You can't you

2006
01:42:37,479 --> 01:42:40,960
Speaker 2: can't screw up, you'll be right back in jail. But

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01:42:41,040 --> 01:42:43,920
Speaker 2: it's not on the room of possibility that he would

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01:42:43,920 --> 01:42:47,360
Speaker 2: get out on parole and that he would get an

2009
01:42:47,360 --> 01:42:52,439
Speaker 2: opportunity to be part of an NFL team again at

2010
01:42:52,439 --> 01:42:56,519
Speaker 2: that time. If he gets out and there's just no

2011
01:42:56,560 --> 01:43:03,479
Speaker 2: way of knowing, and it's still fifteen months away, there's

2012
01:43:03,479 --> 01:43:07,439
Speaker 2: no way of knowing. But theoretically, if you were, he

2013
01:43:07,600 --> 01:43:09,800
Speaker 2: might have an opportunity to latch on with somebody in

2014
01:43:09,800 --> 01:43:12,439
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty six NFL season. So where do I

2015
01:43:12,520 --> 01:43:16,840
Speaker 2: weigh in. I think the family does have to sign

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01:43:16,840 --> 01:43:20,439
Speaker 2: off on this. If the judicial system says you've paid

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01:43:20,479 --> 01:43:22,960
Speaker 2: your debt, but you're gonna be on parole, you got

2018
01:43:22,960 --> 01:43:26,519
Speaker 2: to straighten up and fly right. And an NFL team

2019
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:29,200
Speaker 2: says we'll hire you as an employee, we think you

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01:43:29,200 --> 01:43:32,439
Speaker 2: can help us win games, and the family signs off

2021
01:43:32,479 --> 01:43:35,679
Speaker 2: on it. Look, they lost a daughter and his sister

2022
01:43:36,520 --> 01:43:39,160
Speaker 2: in a most horrific way. They have to weigh in.

2023
01:43:39,520 --> 01:43:42,519
Speaker 2: I'm not implying they're paid money. I don't know. Might

2024
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:47,080
Speaker 2: the Leprechaun. It was a good call, but then one

2025
01:43:47,120 --> 01:43:49,320
Speaker 2: of the other callers from Saint Louis said, no, you

2026
01:43:49,320 --> 01:43:51,800
Speaker 2: don't have to pay him money. Okay, that's why they

2027
01:43:52,200 --> 01:43:55,120
Speaker 2: mend that hour is so good because you know, the

2028
01:43:55,200 --> 01:43:57,880
Speaker 2: most boring conversations where everybody agrees, so for what it's

2029
01:43:57,920 --> 01:43:59,840
Speaker 2: worth it. Leonard Little's name came up, and he was

2030
01:43:59,840 --> 01:44:05,880
Speaker 2: the ram player who killed somebody's mother in nineteen ninety

2031
01:44:05,880 --> 01:44:08,479
Speaker 2: eight and came back and played several years in the NFL.

2032
01:44:08,560 --> 01:44:11,960
Speaker 2: He paid his debt, as it were, he allegedly paid

2033
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:14,200
Speaker 2: that family a settlement some I don't know how much

2034
01:44:14,200 --> 01:44:17,080
Speaker 2: it was. It was never published, but that could maybe

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01:44:17,080 --> 01:44:18,760
Speaker 2: go a long way. You're never going to bring that

2036
01:44:18,840 --> 01:44:22,880
Speaker 2: person back, so I have to accuse myself. I can

2037
01:44:22,920 --> 01:44:25,479
Speaker 2: only say, if the law decides one thing, we have

2038
01:44:25,520 --> 01:44:30,160
Speaker 2: to respect that or national laws. If the NFL says, hey,

2039
01:44:31,040 --> 01:44:33,519
Speaker 2: you know, as far as we're concerned, We've done our

2040
01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:35,439
Speaker 2: due diligence, and we think he can come back and

2041
01:44:35,479 --> 01:44:39,200
Speaker 2: be a productive member. I can't second guess that, but

2042
01:44:39,280 --> 01:44:43,120
Speaker 2: I do think the family has to be consulted. As

2043
01:44:43,160 --> 01:44:46,800
Speaker 2: it has been reported, the Leonard Little Klan never apologized

2044
01:44:46,840 --> 01:44:50,160
Speaker 2: to the young man's mother who was killed. I think

2045
01:44:50,160 --> 01:44:52,799
Speaker 2: he lives in Chicago, and he was reached for interview

2046
01:44:52,840 --> 01:44:54,400
Speaker 2: as recent as a couple of years ago after the

2047
01:44:54,479 --> 01:44:57,040
Speaker 2: Rugs sing and says he still keeps his mother's clothes

2048
01:44:57,040 --> 01:44:59,360
Speaker 2: in the closet. He's not ready to give her up yet.

2049
01:44:59,400 --> 01:45:03,040
Speaker 2: So these are difficult, difficult, difficult things, right, they are

2050
01:45:03,040 --> 01:45:06,639
Speaker 2: not easy, and I I don't I don't know what's

2051
01:45:06,640 --> 01:45:11,519
Speaker 2: gonna happen, but we'll keep an open mind. And that's

2052
01:45:11,600 --> 01:45:15,840
Speaker 2: that's why this whole subject came up as far as uh,

2053
01:45:15,960 --> 01:45:19,439
Speaker 2: as far as you know, whether or not Henry Ruggs

2054
01:45:19,439 --> 01:45:21,559
Speaker 2: would get a second chance. I mean, why we I've

2055
01:45:21,560 --> 01:45:23,599
Speaker 2: always had a rule in radio. Why are we talking

2056
01:45:23,600 --> 01:45:28,439
Speaker 2: about this today? Well that's why because Josh Jacob's Ruggs

2057
01:45:28,439 --> 01:45:32,599
Speaker 2: teammate at Alabama, UH, broached this on the Ryan Clark

2058
01:45:32,840 --> 01:45:37,280
Speaker 2: and Channing Crowder uh you know podcast the other day.

2059
01:45:37,320 --> 01:45:38,599
Speaker 2: So there you have it. We'll just have to see

2060
01:45:38,600 --> 01:45:42,840
Speaker 2: where the story goes. Now. I I loved the JJ

2061
01:45:44,240 --> 01:45:47,639
Speaker 2: Reddick higher when it happened. I like outside the box, Hires.

2062
01:45:48,840 --> 01:45:51,919
Speaker 2: I was very pleased to see our colleague Doug Gottlieb

2063
01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:55,360
Speaker 2: getting an opportunity to, you know, achieve his dream as

2064
01:45:55,360 --> 01:46:01,280
Speaker 2: a Division one college basketball coach. Uh because formulaically, a

2065
01:46:01,320 --> 01:46:04,640
Speaker 2: lot people are hired for the same reasons over and

2066
01:46:04,640 --> 01:46:07,200
Speaker 2: over and to fill your rights high So think outside

2067
01:46:07,200 --> 01:46:10,400
Speaker 2: the box now and then now, I thought Riddick did

2068
01:46:10,400 --> 01:46:12,880
Speaker 2: a good job this year. Look, he's he's got a

2069
01:46:12,880 --> 01:46:15,040
Speaker 2: bit of a red ass man, he's got a quick trigger.

2070
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:17,439
Speaker 2: But she had to know that by now. Yeah, I

2071
01:46:17,439 --> 01:46:19,519
Speaker 2: mean he went at it with Kendrick Perkins on the

2072
01:46:19,560 --> 01:46:21,759
Speaker 2: air a couple of years ago about something he added

2073
01:46:21,760 --> 01:46:24,960
Speaker 2: a duke. And I know a lot of folks make

2074
01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:27,000
Speaker 2: it out, make it a sport out of hating duke.

2075
01:46:28,840 --> 01:46:32,080
Speaker 2: I'm not necessarily one of those people, but you kind

2076
01:46:32,080 --> 01:46:35,719
Speaker 2: of knew what you were getting with JJ Reddick. Now,

2077
01:46:35,920 --> 01:46:38,360
Speaker 2: after winning fifty two games and having you know, half

2078
01:46:38,360 --> 01:46:41,200
Speaker 2: the Western hemispheld believe the Lakers just had this god

2079
01:46:41,240 --> 01:46:44,040
Speaker 2: given right to show up and win, and at the

2080
01:46:44,120 --> 01:46:46,120
Speaker 2: end of the show. I'm going to I'm going to

2081
01:46:46,240 --> 01:46:49,120
Speaker 2: lay out the inconvenient truce again. The Lakers just didn't lose.

2082
01:46:49,240 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 2: Minnesota wamped them. They pull asked him, Okay, there's just

2083
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:57,479
Speaker 2: no question. But all of a sudden, now after the fact,

2084
01:46:58,120 --> 01:47:00,599
Speaker 2: JJ Reddick is taking some heat for carrominans he made

2085
01:47:00,600 --> 01:47:04,000
Speaker 2: after his team was eliminated. He was actually accused of

2086
01:47:04,080 --> 01:47:07,720
Speaker 2: hypocrisy because some saw him was making excuses after the

2087
01:47:07,800 --> 01:47:11,479
Speaker 2: Lakers lost in five games to the Timberwolves, and Reddick

2088
01:47:11,479 --> 01:47:14,360
Speaker 2: admitted that the Lakers playoff rotation had not played together

2089
01:47:14,439 --> 01:47:16,240
Speaker 2: much that might have been a factor in their defeat.

2090
01:47:16,640 --> 01:47:22,680
Speaker 2: I'm not buying that. But look, if you juxtapose his

2091
01:47:22,800 --> 01:47:27,600
Speaker 2: most recent comments go back to June of twenty and

2092
01:47:27,640 --> 01:47:31,240
Speaker 2: actually was before that. He had a famous rant on

2093
01:47:31,640 --> 01:47:38,320
Speaker 2: ESPN's first Take before he became coach of the Lakers,

2094
01:47:38,720 --> 01:47:41,080
Speaker 2: and actually it was to the point it was in

2095
01:47:41,120 --> 01:47:45,160
Speaker 2: February last year, twenty twenty four, he pissed off Patrick Beverly,

2096
01:47:45,280 --> 01:47:49,439
Speaker 2: and Beverly threw shade at Redick, who, while he was

2097
01:47:49,479 --> 01:47:56,240
Speaker 2: an analyst for ESPN, went viral because he criticized Doc Rivers,

2098
01:47:56,680 --> 01:48:00,800
Speaker 2: who and Patrick Beverly had played under Rivers. He tore

2099
01:48:00,880 --> 01:48:04,599
Speaker 2: into Rivers because he was always making excuses. So he's

2100
01:48:04,600 --> 01:48:07,320
Speaker 2: always throwing guys under the bus, and there's never any

2101
01:48:07,320 --> 01:48:12,040
Speaker 2: accountability with him, all right, And he went on to say,

2102
01:48:12,040 --> 01:48:13,880
Speaker 2: we've seen the trend for years, So trend is always

2103
01:48:13,880 --> 01:48:16,400
Speaker 2: making excuses. Doc, We get it. Taking over a team

2104
01:48:16,400 --> 01:48:17,720
Speaker 2: in the middle of the season, it's hard, but you've

2105
01:48:17,720 --> 01:48:20,160
Speaker 2: always got an excuse. Blah blah blah. I made a

2106
01:48:20,160 --> 01:48:25,120
Speaker 2: lot of inflammatory comments, and you know it came back

2107
01:48:25,160 --> 01:48:28,160
Speaker 2: to bite Reddick last year. Was coming back to bite

2108
01:48:28,200 --> 01:48:31,320
Speaker 2: him this year because if you juxtaposed those comments with

2109
01:48:31,400 --> 01:48:34,120
Speaker 2: what Reddick just said the other day, now that he's

2110
01:48:34,160 --> 01:48:36,880
Speaker 2: head coach of the Lakers, which he accused Doc Rigor

2111
01:48:36,960 --> 01:48:40,680
Speaker 2: was always making excuses for the failures, the implication is

2112
01:48:40,720 --> 01:48:42,960
Speaker 2: Redick's now doing the same thing the excused Rivers are doing,

2113
01:48:43,280 --> 01:48:46,040
Speaker 2: and now he's a head coach. And he went on

2114
01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:48,400
Speaker 2: to say, you know, we only played thirteen games with

2115
01:48:48,439 --> 01:48:51,200
Speaker 2: our playoff rotation. These things take time. It doesn't happen overnight.

2116
01:48:51,560 --> 01:48:53,519
Speaker 2: Then he went on to say, you know, we need

2117
01:48:53,560 --> 01:48:54,920
Speaker 2: to be in better shape. We know, we know what

2118
01:48:55,000 --> 01:48:57,680
Speaker 2: you're talking about. You're talking about Luca Now I get it.

2119
01:48:57,880 --> 01:49:01,559
Speaker 2: Lebron was dog tired and he had some bad turnovers

2120
01:49:01,600 --> 01:49:07,679
Speaker 2: and he was trying to play defense. Okay, and look, JJ,

2121
01:49:07,800 --> 01:49:11,920
Speaker 2: Reddick is polarizing, and like anything else in life, any

2122
01:49:11,960 --> 01:49:16,320
Speaker 2: other opportunity, either produce results or you don't. And Doc's

2123
01:49:16,360 --> 01:49:19,200
Speaker 2: been around twenty five years, Reddick's just starting out with this,

2124
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:23,080
Speaker 2: so I thought he had a good first year. Obviously,

2125
01:49:23,320 --> 01:49:27,800
Speaker 2: expectations fell way short because of what the group think

2126
01:49:27,840 --> 01:49:30,720
Speaker 2: Echo Chamber said, not because of what was reality or

2127
01:49:30,760 --> 01:49:36,720
Speaker 2: what should have been reality, but because people who had,

2128
01:49:37,000 --> 01:49:43,000
Speaker 2: you know, expectations about the Lakers that just turned out

2129
01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:46,240
Speaker 2: to be false. They were they were their objective truth

2130
01:49:46,280 --> 01:49:48,880
Speaker 2: in our personal feelings, most of these opinions were subjective.

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01:49:49,400 --> 01:49:53,360
Speaker 2: Nick Wright is very successful in his craft, but he's

2132
01:49:53,360 --> 01:49:54,960
Speaker 2: a fanboy when it comes to the Lakers in the

2133
01:49:55,000 --> 01:49:59,400
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs, he just is, and he should own

2134
01:49:59,439 --> 01:50:01,880
Speaker 2: it more than he did. But we all see it.

2135
01:50:02,920 --> 01:50:06,799
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't recall him ever being objective

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01:50:06,800 --> 01:50:10,439
Speaker 2: about the Lakers or Lebron. And this has had to

2137
01:50:10,479 --> 01:50:13,400
Speaker 2: be a tough pill to swaller because, as I said,

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01:50:14,080 --> 01:50:18,479
Speaker 2: this is a situation where Minnesota beat the Lakers. That's

2139
01:50:18,520 --> 01:50:22,679
Speaker 2: the narrative. The Lakers didn't, you know, lose just because

2140
01:50:23,320 --> 01:50:27,360
Speaker 2: they were beaten. And Game five was a microcosm, and

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01:50:28,040 --> 01:50:31,040
Speaker 2: you know, between the size and rebounding advantage and the

2142
01:50:31,080 --> 01:50:34,920
Speaker 2: fast break defense and the Lakers attempts to defend Anthony

2143
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:39,200
Speaker 2: Edwards and not being able to quell Minnesota's energy or

2144
01:50:39,240 --> 01:50:42,519
Speaker 2: their motivation, and the underdog role, and of course not

2145
01:50:42,520 --> 01:50:46,040
Speaker 2: being able to stop Rudy Gobert their offensive struggles. Right

2146
01:50:46,240 --> 01:50:51,000
Speaker 2: down the line, the Lakers were soundly beaten. JJ Reddick

2147
01:50:51,040 --> 01:50:53,600
Speaker 2: will forever be called out for not going to his

2148
01:50:53,640 --> 01:50:57,360
Speaker 2: bench at all in Game four. It almost worked. That's

2149
01:50:57,400 --> 01:50:59,679
Speaker 2: why I'm not calling him out. We wouldn't be talking

2150
01:50:59,720 --> 01:51:04,360
Speaker 2: about we were robbed of what should have been a

2151
01:51:04,479 --> 01:51:08,080
Speaker 2: Game six on Friday, and what would have been hopefully

2152
01:51:08,760 --> 01:51:10,760
Speaker 2: would have been great to see a Game seven on

2153
01:51:12,160 --> 01:51:16,799
Speaker 2: later today, which we'll get with Golden State and Houston.

2154
01:51:17,520 --> 01:51:19,559
Speaker 2: But that's the way the cookie crumbles, by the way.

2155
01:51:19,640 --> 01:51:23,880
Speaker 2: You know what, why are we not giving the Denver

2156
01:51:23,960 --> 01:51:27,559
Speaker 2: Nuggets a little credit for what they did. Let's dive

2157
01:51:27,560 --> 01:51:30,640
Speaker 2: into that for just a second, because they truly overpowered

2158
01:51:30,640 --> 01:51:34,519
Speaker 2: the Clippers and they had their turmoil right before the

2159
01:51:34,520 --> 01:51:36,400
Speaker 2: season when they fired their coach and they managed to

2160
01:51:36,439 --> 01:51:39,479
Speaker 2: rebound from it. Let's see what I did there. By

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2165
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2168
01:52:02,600 --> 01:52:05,720
Speaker 2: Let's give the Denver Nuggets their props. They sent the

2169
01:52:05,720 --> 01:52:08,760
Speaker 2: Clippers packing one day. If the sports gods would just

2170
01:52:08,800 --> 01:52:11,200
Speaker 2: give Ben Mallor a break and let the Clippers for once,

2171
01:52:11,640 --> 01:52:14,200
Speaker 2: for once, I'm Bernie Fraddle come to your line from

2172
01:52:14,200 --> 01:52:17,599
Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios. Keep it locked

2173
01:52:17,600 --> 01:52:19,679
Speaker 2: you listen to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

2174
01:52:20,800 --> 01:52:23,719
Speaker 2: We're back of the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio,

2175
01:52:24,360 --> 01:52:29,040
Speaker 2: coming to live from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio compound.

2176
01:52:29,040 --> 01:52:31,280
Speaker 2: Here we'll take after three and Pacific sixty of eastward,

2177
01:52:31,360 --> 01:52:33,920
Speaker 2: just thirteen minutes away from the dance sens Nation sweeping

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01:52:33,960 --> 01:52:36,360
Speaker 2: the nation. What kind of brand new fool of you

2179
01:52:36,640 --> 01:52:40,840
Speaker 2: followed by what my name. Well, the Lakers take up

2180
01:52:40,880 --> 01:52:42,960
Speaker 2: a lot of air in the room, and I get it,

2181
01:52:43,560 --> 01:52:46,800
Speaker 2: and you get it too, all right, especially in light

2182
01:52:46,840 --> 01:52:51,360
Speaker 2: of the trade, which you know Jason Kidd compared to

2183
01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:54,559
Speaker 2: Babe Ruth. Okay, let's pump the brakes on that. But

2184
01:52:54,640 --> 01:52:56,439
Speaker 2: it's as big a trade in the NBA since Cream

2185
01:52:56,479 --> 01:52:58,840
Speaker 2: Abdul Jabbar was traded to the Lakers fifty years ago.

2186
01:52:59,400 --> 01:53:03,280
Speaker 2: It's that bag. And so there is narratives. There are narratives.

2187
01:53:03,280 --> 01:53:05,880
Speaker 2: I'm going narratives, but I'm about the other LA team.

2188
01:53:05,920 --> 01:53:08,160
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, you got to feel for James Balmer.

2189
01:53:09,080 --> 01:53:12,040
Speaker 2: He does this thing called the wall, you know, in

2190
01:53:12,120 --> 01:53:15,000
Speaker 2: their arena, and he flew he flew fans to Denver

2191
01:53:15,080 --> 01:53:17,080
Speaker 2: and put him up and all that. This guy has

2192
01:53:17,080 --> 01:53:19,519
Speaker 2: done everything. And they put a good roster on the floor,

2193
01:53:19,880 --> 01:53:22,559
Speaker 2: and like Mark Mnina said, they're all healthy, and yet

2194
01:53:22,560 --> 01:53:26,840
Speaker 2: they still got completely overpowered by the Denver Nuggets. It

2195
01:53:26,960 --> 01:53:30,680
Speaker 2: was close after one quarter, but Denver pulled away in

2196
01:53:30,720 --> 01:53:33,439
Speaker 2: the second and they completely shut down the Clippers offense.

2197
01:53:34,120 --> 01:53:37,280
Speaker 2: So now Denver advances to face Oklahoma City, that's no prize.

2198
01:53:37,320 --> 01:53:40,760
Speaker 2: They go ten deep mark things though, Loklahoma City will

2199
01:53:40,800 --> 01:53:43,040
Speaker 2: make quick work of them. But I gotta tell you,

2200
01:53:43,040 --> 01:53:46,120
Speaker 2: as long as you got Nicole Jokic, I like what

2201
01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:51,200
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon's done, Jamal Murray, They've still got some championship DNA.

2202
01:53:51,840 --> 01:53:53,760
Speaker 2: I don't think they're getting past Oklahoma City, but at

2203
01:53:53,840 --> 01:53:56,000
Speaker 2: least they lived to fight another day. So how did

2204
01:53:56,000 --> 01:53:59,040
Speaker 2: the Nuggets do this? Because remember they had so many storylines.

2205
01:53:59,040 --> 01:54:02,360
Speaker 2: A month ago they fired the coach and all season

2206
01:54:03,400 --> 01:54:06,360
Speaker 2: what was the biggest issue with Denver? It was the

2207
01:54:06,400 --> 01:54:09,560
Speaker 2: same one that the Lakers turned out to be their bugaboo,

2208
01:54:09,600 --> 01:54:13,720
Speaker 2: and that was lack of a bench. And frankly, this

2209
01:54:13,880 --> 01:54:15,719
Speaker 2: was a series. If you watched, it was a seven

2210
01:54:15,760 --> 01:54:20,040
Speaker 2: game series. The bench struggled mightily to generate offense unless

2211
01:54:20,120 --> 01:54:25,240
Speaker 2: Jokic was on the floor. Now, in game seven, you

2212
01:54:25,280 --> 01:54:29,839
Speaker 2: know you had a couple of unusual suspects, Peyton Watson

2213
01:54:29,880 --> 01:54:32,680
Speaker 2: and Russell Westbrook. They kind of provided the minutes in

2214
01:54:32,720 --> 01:54:35,920
Speaker 2: production and all of a sudden, game sevens are route.

2215
01:54:35,960 --> 01:54:40,120
Speaker 2: You go into the second quarter seventeen unanswered points to

2216
01:54:40,160 --> 01:54:43,640
Speaker 2: twenty four to four, run thirty five points. Denver explodes, goodnight,

2217
01:54:44,600 --> 01:54:47,720
Speaker 2: thanks for coming, don't forget to tape your waiters and waitresses.

2218
01:54:48,680 --> 01:54:52,440
Speaker 2: Look Denver's bench, and this is if the Lakers had

2219
01:54:52,480 --> 01:54:54,480
Speaker 2: done this or been able to do this, or JJ

2220
01:54:54,520 --> 01:54:56,440
Speaker 2: Readick maybe given him the chance, We're never gonna know.

2221
01:54:57,040 --> 01:55:00,960
Speaker 2: The Nuggets lack of depth there's not only been a

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01:55:01,000 --> 01:55:05,240
Speaker 2: season long issue for this current season, It's been an

2223
01:55:05,280 --> 01:55:10,440
Speaker 2: issue for multiple seasons. And that's the reason I'm told

2224
01:55:10,880 --> 01:55:13,960
Speaker 2: while general manager Calvin Booth and Mike Malone, who's been

2225
01:55:14,000 --> 01:55:16,440
Speaker 2: with the organization in a long time and had a championship,

2226
01:55:16,720 --> 01:55:20,720
Speaker 2: were fired the last week of the regular season. Now

2227
01:55:21,280 --> 01:55:25,120
Speaker 2: in Game four, the lack of a bench really manifested itself.

2228
01:55:25,680 --> 01:55:27,720
Speaker 2: They're in our own coach, David Adelman, who's done, I

2229
01:55:27,720 --> 01:55:31,000
Speaker 2: think a pretty damn good job. He devoted just seven

2230
01:55:31,080 --> 01:55:34,520
Speaker 2: minutes totally to reserves in the second half. Now, part

2231
01:55:34,520 --> 01:55:37,720
Speaker 2: of it was because Russell Westbrook was hurt, but part

2232
01:55:37,760 --> 01:55:41,960
Speaker 2: of it was the same reason for Malone. He didn't

2233
01:55:41,960 --> 01:55:46,200
Speaker 2: trust the young players that Calvin Booth drafted, and Calvin

2234
01:55:46,240 --> 01:55:50,240
Speaker 2: Booth didn't retain the veterans that Malone used. That resulted

2235
01:55:50,280 --> 01:55:53,520
Speaker 2: in kind of this very thin bench, a very unproven bench,

2236
01:55:53,520 --> 01:55:56,800
Speaker 2: of inexperienced bench. I think there were issues between Booth

2237
01:55:56,800 --> 01:56:00,320
Speaker 2: and Malone. Anyway, they've ended up both getting fired. Let's

2238
01:56:00,320 --> 01:56:04,240
Speaker 2: face it, the Nuggets, when Nikola Jokich is not on

2239
01:56:04,240 --> 01:56:07,600
Speaker 2: the floor, they're not anywhere near the same team. You

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01:56:07,760 --> 01:56:12,280
Speaker 2: just watch, even for two three minute stretches. Right Ironically,

2241
01:56:13,360 --> 01:56:16,440
Speaker 2: Jokic struggled at the beginning of the game, but Adelman

2242
01:56:16,520 --> 01:56:20,600
Speaker 2: arrested him to start the second quarter, and somehow Russell

2243
01:56:20,640 --> 01:56:24,480
Speaker 2: Westbrook and I didn't get this for most of the year.

2244
01:56:25,000 --> 01:56:28,800
Speaker 2: He's one of the veterans former coach Michael Malone relied

2245
01:56:28,840 --> 01:56:33,400
Speaker 2: on probably too much, and Peyton Watson, who's just a

2246
01:56:33,440 --> 01:56:36,640
Speaker 2: twenty two year old wing and his role was never

2247
01:56:36,680 --> 01:56:40,680
Speaker 2: really completely defined under the old coach. They supplied the

2248
01:56:40,720 --> 01:56:46,200
Speaker 2: minutes while Jokic rested, regrouped, steadied himself, got back in

2249
01:56:46,240 --> 01:56:51,000
Speaker 2: the game and double Yolkic does what Watson and restbur did,

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01:56:51,120 --> 01:56:54,400
Speaker 2: combining for seventeen points in the first half, including a

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01:56:54,440 --> 01:56:59,040
Speaker 2: five to seven all why Jokic got rest well, the Clippers,

2252
01:56:59,040 --> 01:57:02,960
Speaker 2: who have a very injurious bench, had just seven and

2253
01:57:03,080 --> 01:57:06,880
Speaker 2: during that time seven points outscored seventeen to seven. Eventually,

2254
01:57:07,000 --> 01:57:09,800
Speaker 2: Jokic got back on the floor, got it going that's

2255
01:57:09,800 --> 01:57:11,480
Speaker 2: what he does. He's a Hall of Famers, a three

2256
01:57:11,520 --> 01:57:15,480
Speaker 2: time MVP something, the best player in the game. And

2257
01:57:16,040 --> 01:57:21,200
Speaker 2: so now you know, Denver did what they needed to do.

2258
01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:24,160
Speaker 2: So the question is what the hell happened to the Clippers.

2259
01:57:26,480 --> 01:57:29,360
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I just don't know. And you

2260
01:57:29,920 --> 01:57:33,280
Speaker 2: can you can right it off to energy or locked

2261
01:57:33,280 --> 01:57:41,640
Speaker 2: thereof they didn't have it, and the Clippers had a

2262
01:57:41,680 --> 01:57:43,720
Speaker 2: twenty six to twenty one lead after the first quarter.

2263
01:57:44,240 --> 01:57:46,320
Speaker 2: But then all of a sudden, Russell Westbrook comes out,

2264
01:57:46,400 --> 01:57:51,360
Speaker 2: goes crazy, hits a three, draws a file on Bogdanovitch,

2265
01:57:51,440 --> 01:57:53,640
Speaker 2: gets back to back steeles, Caps attend to run all

2266
01:57:53,680 --> 01:57:55,480
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the game's never the same again, and

2267
01:57:55,560 --> 01:57:58,200
Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon went off to the Clippers never let again,

2268
01:57:58,200 --> 01:58:01,080
Speaker 2: and the Clippers looked like a team that couldn't handle

2269
01:58:01,120 --> 01:58:05,120
Speaker 2: the energy the Nuggets had at home. Westbrook matched Kawhi

2270
01:58:05,200 --> 01:58:08,680
Speaker 2: Leonard for a quarter high ten points. Both players essentially

2271
01:58:09,000 --> 01:58:11,720
Speaker 2: spent the entire period on the floor, but by halftime,

2272
01:58:13,000 --> 01:58:15,480
Speaker 2: the Nuggets had outscored the Clippers fourteen and four on

2273
01:58:15,560 --> 01:58:18,480
Speaker 2: fast breaks, nine to four on second chance points, in

2274
01:58:18,520 --> 01:58:21,120
Speaker 2: thirty to twenty six in the paint. They were nominating

2275
01:58:21,200 --> 01:58:24,520
Speaker 2: the game. What happened to the Clippers' legs? They didn't

2276
01:58:24,560 --> 01:58:27,120
Speaker 2: have their legs. They missed thirteen of eighteen shots outside

2277
01:58:27,200 --> 01:58:30,600
Speaker 2: the pain. Vika Zubatch was in foul trouble. He never

2278
01:58:30,600 --> 01:58:33,480
Speaker 2: gets into foul trouble. That's a sign of fatigue. Norman

2279
01:58:33,640 --> 01:58:35,920
Speaker 2: Paul was in foul trouble. He had more files in

2280
01:58:35,960 --> 01:58:38,440
Speaker 2: the first half. He had three first half fules. He

2281
01:58:38,480 --> 01:58:41,680
Speaker 2: had more falls than points or at least buckets. And

2282
01:58:41,720 --> 01:58:45,240
Speaker 2: then once again, James Harden playoff. James plays forty six

2283
01:58:45,280 --> 01:58:49,400
Speaker 2: minutes in Game six, had a slow start, bad turnovers, Early,

2284
01:58:49,840 --> 01:58:54,240
Speaker 2: missed four field goals early, and Nicholas Batoum started the

2285
01:58:54,280 --> 01:58:58,320
Speaker 2: second half in place a Derrick Jones. The Nuggets said,

2286
01:58:58,520 --> 01:59:02,160
Speaker 2: all right, we're coming after you. We're going for the throat.

2287
01:59:02,200 --> 01:59:05,000
Speaker 2: Seventeen oh run. Tough ending for the Clippers in a

2288
01:59:05,080 --> 01:59:08,520
Speaker 2: series which perhaps it looked like going the distance wouldn't

2289
01:59:08,520 --> 01:59:11,400
Speaker 2: have been their best interest, But I think it's going

2290
01:59:11,440 --> 01:59:13,240
Speaker 2: to be a hard pill to swallow. They were eliminated

2291
01:59:13,240 --> 01:59:16,360
Speaker 2: by a Nuggets bench led by a player Russell Westbrook.

2292
01:59:16,400 --> 01:59:18,440
Speaker 2: They had on their sea team last weeks and didn't

2293
01:59:18,440 --> 01:59:22,800
Speaker 2: want I think Mark Madina laid that out Russell Westbrook

2294
01:59:22,840 --> 01:59:26,520
Speaker 2: had extra motivation coming up. The dance sensation Sweeping the Nation?

2295
01:59:26,640 --> 01:59:28,440
Speaker 2: What kind of brand new fool you followed by what

2296
01:59:28,560 --> 01:59:30,440
Speaker 2: my name? Keep it locked? You're listening to the Bernie

2297
01:59:30,440 --> 01:59:33,960
Speaker 2: Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

2298
01:59:34,200 --> 01:59:36,960
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

2299
01:59:37,280 --> 01:59:39,840
Speaker 2: Well, that's right, you heard the man. My name is

2300
01:59:39,840 --> 01:59:42,560
Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle. We are coming a line from the Fox

2301
01:59:42,760 --> 01:59:49,600
Speaker 2: Sports Radio La Vegas compound and the Bernie Fraddle Show continues,

2302
01:59:50,640 --> 01:59:54,440
Speaker 2: take you up to three am Pacific, six am Eastern. Again,

2303
01:59:54,480 --> 01:59:56,560
Speaker 2: I want to thank all the phenomenal callers in the

2304
01:59:56,560 --> 01:59:59,640
Speaker 2: mind that hour tonight to good every week, but tonight's

2305
01:59:59,720 --> 02:00:02,560
Speaker 2: so matter was a little bit more highly charged. And

2306
02:00:02,600 --> 02:00:04,760
Speaker 2: we'll have more of that in weeks to come. But

2307
02:00:04,800 --> 02:00:07,080
Speaker 2: you know, we've come to that time in the show,

2308
02:00:07,120 --> 02:00:09,480
Speaker 2: that juncture in the show. You know what you love it?

2309
02:00:09,520 --> 02:00:11,840
Speaker 2: You can't live without. It's a dance sensation sweep the nation.

2310
02:00:11,960 --> 02:00:15,640
Speaker 2: See because on our show, like Yogi Berra once said,

2311
02:00:15,640 --> 02:00:18,360
Speaker 2: you can observe a lot by watching, and that's what

2312
02:00:18,400 --> 02:00:21,280
Speaker 2: we do. And across this great land of ours, from

2313
02:00:21,280 --> 02:00:25,080
Speaker 2: Seed to Oily Sea, will people engage in activities and

2314
02:00:25,120 --> 02:00:29,360
Speaker 2: sometimes these activities are frivolous and stupid and not very smart.

2315
02:00:29,400 --> 02:00:32,520
Speaker 2: But they're innocuous. Other times they're more serious, and other

2316
02:00:32,560 --> 02:00:35,080
Speaker 2: times you want to follow the law. They could even

2317
02:00:35,160 --> 02:00:38,160
Speaker 2: land you in jail. But any way you slice it,

2318
02:00:38,200 --> 02:00:41,120
Speaker 2: any way, to characterize it, any way you describe these behaviors,

2319
02:00:41,520 --> 02:00:45,440
Speaker 2: they always leave us scratching our head and asking ourselves,

2320
02:00:45,800 --> 02:00:48,840
Speaker 2: what kind of brand new fool you So tonight we

2321
02:00:48,960 --> 02:00:52,680
Speaker 2: take you to New York City. And this one is

2322
02:00:52,720 --> 02:00:55,320
Speaker 2: a weird one, like most of them are. And I'm

2323
02:00:55,360 --> 02:00:59,720
Speaker 2: sure folks know that joy riding is a crime. It

2324
02:01:00,440 --> 02:01:02,720
Speaker 2: can be a felony. It can land you in jail

2325
02:01:02,960 --> 02:01:06,160
Speaker 2: for up to a year, finds all kinds of stuff.

2326
02:01:06,760 --> 02:01:09,400
Speaker 2: If you take someone's card take it for a joy ride.

2327
02:01:09,800 --> 02:01:12,600
Speaker 2: We've all heard the colloquialism is about throwing somebody under

2328
02:01:12,640 --> 02:01:17,440
Speaker 2: a bus or getting run over by a bus. You

2329
02:01:17,480 --> 02:01:20,400
Speaker 2: get it right, Well, this one involves joy riding and

2330
02:01:20,560 --> 02:01:23,160
Speaker 2: involves a bus. And this one's a little weird. They

2331
02:01:23,200 --> 02:01:26,440
Speaker 2: didn't New York City Police didn't even release this guy's

2332
02:01:26,600 --> 02:01:31,560
Speaker 2: name because he happened to see a bus, an American

2333
02:01:31,600 --> 02:01:36,000
Speaker 2: Airlines bus at JFK Airport sitting by the road idling

2334
02:01:37,320 --> 02:01:42,680
Speaker 2: and no one was in the bus, so allegedly, I

2335
02:01:42,680 --> 02:01:45,600
Speaker 2: guess you have to use the word allegedly. He said,

2336
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Speaker 2: what the hell? He decided he would take the bus

2337
02:01:49,480 --> 02:01:54,600
Speaker 2: from Lock twelve at the Queen's Hub somewhere around two am,

2338
02:01:55,080 --> 02:01:58,160
Speaker 2: and the New York An NYPD wouldn't give the man

2339
02:01:58,280 --> 02:02:00,160
Speaker 2: his name. He's a forty three year old man. He

2340
02:02:00,280 --> 02:02:03,560
Speaker 2: jumped in and drove off. Well, here's what's interesting if

2341
02:02:03,560 --> 02:02:05,400
Speaker 2: you know New York City. He got on the Grand

2342
02:02:05,440 --> 02:02:09,400
Speaker 2: Central Parkway into Manhattan, then drove south bomb on the FDR,

2343
02:02:09,640 --> 02:02:12,080
Speaker 2: which he's about a good twenty minute ride, and he

2344
02:02:12,120 --> 02:02:15,160
Speaker 2: eventually got caught at Cabmin Plaza West and mid Off Street,

2345
02:02:15,520 --> 02:02:20,760
Speaker 2: where police pulled him over. Fortunately no injuries were reported.

2346
02:02:21,920 --> 02:02:26,080
Speaker 2: The NaN's name was not released, but turns out the

2347
02:02:26,160 --> 02:02:30,480
Speaker 2: dude has a body of work. He has been arrested

2348
02:02:30,600 --> 02:02:35,960
Speaker 2: nine prior times, but none for taking a bus on

2349
02:02:36,040 --> 02:02:39,280
Speaker 2: a joy ride. I guess he wanted to add that

2350
02:02:39,320 --> 02:02:42,080
Speaker 2: to his body of work. He does have a criminal

2351
02:02:42,160 --> 02:02:46,000
Speaker 2: history and he is arrest dates going all the way

2352
02:02:46,040 --> 02:02:51,520
Speaker 2: back to twenty fifteen. Butmanned unnamed man in New York

2353
02:02:51,560 --> 02:02:54,680
Speaker 2: City taking the American Airlines bus at Jfcairport and making

2354
02:02:54,760 --> 02:02:56,480
Speaker 2: all the way to Manhattan, which is a good twenty

2355
02:02:56,520 --> 02:02:58,960
Speaker 2: minute drive. Maybe you must know how to drive a

2356
02:02:58,960 --> 02:03:01,160
Speaker 2: bus because that ain't a easy vehicle to drive. So

2357
02:03:01,200 --> 02:03:03,240
Speaker 2: maybe he's a former bus driver. I don't know, I

2358
02:03:03,240 --> 02:03:06,600
Speaker 2: don't care. All I know is unnamed man joy Ride

2359
02:03:06,640 --> 02:03:10,320
Speaker 2: bus driver been arrested nine times. What kind of brand

2360
02:03:10,320 --> 02:03:15,040
Speaker 2: new fool are you? Okay, Brianna, you got.

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02:03:14,920 --> 02:03:16,560
Speaker 6: The floor alrighty?

2362
02:03:16,680 --> 02:03:21,280
Speaker 27: So keeping in tradition with producer Shay and going Florida

2363
02:03:21,360 --> 02:03:26,839
Speaker 27: Man again. So a Florida man was banned from Disney

2364
02:03:26,880 --> 02:03:31,680
Speaker 27: World after allegedly attempting to sneak a wallet full of

2365
02:03:31,760 --> 02:03:36,880
Speaker 27: cocaine into the Magic Kingdom. Dustin Wallace, age forty four,

2366
02:03:37,040 --> 02:03:40,440
Speaker 27: was arrested in late March and charged with possession of cocaine.

2367
02:03:40,960 --> 02:03:44,960
Speaker 27: According to the affidated Affidal, Oh yeah that's the word.

2368
02:03:45,000 --> 02:03:46,760
Speaker 27: I was like, Oh, it didn't sound right when I

2369
02:03:46,800 --> 02:03:50,640
Speaker 27: said it. He was going into the park with his

2370
02:03:50,920 --> 02:03:55,200
Speaker 27: son and was stopped at the checkpoint when they entered

2371
02:03:55,200 --> 02:03:57,640
Speaker 27: the security guards line, and when he was scanned with

2372
02:03:57,680 --> 02:04:01,200
Speaker 27: a metal detector they took out. They saw that something

2373
02:04:01,320 --> 02:04:04,440
Speaker 27: was kind of weird with his wallet. So when the

2374
02:04:04,880 --> 02:04:08,040
Speaker 27: Disney security officer opened the wallet. It seemed a little

2375
02:04:08,040 --> 02:04:10,520
Speaker 27: bit bulky, so they opened it and they saw the

2376
02:04:11,160 --> 02:04:16,680
Speaker 27: bag of a white substance. And you know, since they

2377
02:04:16,720 --> 02:04:18,640
Speaker 27: didn't really know what it was, I mean, it could

2378
02:04:18,680 --> 02:04:21,160
Speaker 27: have been, you know, a variety of things, I guess.

2379
02:04:21,720 --> 02:04:24,400
Speaker 27: The security officer told Wallace to leave the park and

2380
02:04:24,440 --> 02:04:27,760
Speaker 27: warned him not to return to any Disney hotel, park

2381
02:04:27,840 --> 02:04:30,920
Speaker 27: or any kind of property, and that you know, if

2382
02:04:30,960 --> 02:04:33,160
Speaker 27: there was any issues, they would be in contact with him.

2383
02:04:33,520 --> 02:04:36,840
Speaker 27: So a field test allegedly came back positive for cocaine

2384
02:04:36,920 --> 02:04:41,520
Speaker 27: and security called the Sheriff's office to report mister Wallace.

2385
02:04:42,080 --> 02:04:46,320
Speaker 27: When the Sheriff's office arrived at the Magic Kingdom, they

2386
02:04:46,320 --> 02:04:48,720
Speaker 27: took a statement from him and said that he had

2387
02:04:48,760 --> 02:04:51,600
Speaker 27: been using it for one month because of quote stress

2388
02:04:51,640 --> 02:04:55,040
Speaker 27: from work. He admitted to the police that he put

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02:04:55,200 --> 02:04:57,160
Speaker 27: the drugs in his wallet and it was attempting to

2390
02:04:57,200 --> 02:05:01,560
Speaker 27: bring it inside the park in case he quote got

2391
02:05:01,600 --> 02:05:06,840
Speaker 27: stressed out. He was then taken into custody and booked

2392
02:05:06,840 --> 02:05:09,760
Speaker 27: in a nearby jail, and his bail was set about

2393
02:05:09,880 --> 02:05:14,280
Speaker 27: at twenty five hundred dollars. His case is still currently pending.

2394
02:05:14,880 --> 02:05:17,920
Speaker 27: Dustin Wallace also involving your son in all this drama

2395
02:05:17,920 --> 02:05:19,840
Speaker 27: when you're supposed to just go Disneyland and hang out

2396
02:05:19,840 --> 02:05:22,400
Speaker 27: with like have a family day. What kind of brand new.

2397
02:05:22,320 --> 02:05:22,760
Speaker 7: Fool are you?

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02:05:23,920 --> 02:05:27,960
Speaker 2: Well? That is one damn fool, one damn brand new fool?

2399
02:05:27,960 --> 02:05:33,080
Speaker 2: All right, another rousing edition of what kind of brand

2400
02:05:33,120 --> 02:05:36,560
Speaker 2: new fool you? Which now allows us to segue into

2401
02:05:36,560 --> 02:05:40,720
Speaker 2: our second favorite bit, which we refer to as what

2402
02:05:40,880 --> 02:05:47,800
Speaker 2: my name? All Right? I am the most recent NBA

2403
02:05:47,840 --> 02:05:51,240
Speaker 2: player to get twenty rebounds in a game. As a

2404
02:05:51,280 --> 02:05:54,000
Speaker 2: matter of fact, I got twenty four rebounds in a

2405
02:05:54,040 --> 02:06:00,000
Speaker 2: game the other night. Mark Ramsey, what my name Here's

2406
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:02,800
Speaker 2: there's a clue. His team just advanced to the second

2407
02:06:02,880 --> 02:06:05,400
Speaker 2: round of the NBA playoffs.

2408
02:06:06,080 --> 02:06:07,720
Speaker 28: They called him gobarrassing.

2409
02:06:07,800 --> 02:06:11,360
Speaker 2: Mister Gobert, nicely done the little playing words there, Mark

2410
02:06:12,080 --> 02:06:15,640
Speaker 2: all right? Winter winner win or winner. Well, you know,

2411
02:06:17,760 --> 02:06:20,680
Speaker 2: getting twenty rebounds in a game is really a heck

2412
02:06:20,720 --> 02:06:24,640
Speaker 2: of an accomplishment. But there are two NBA players that

2413
02:06:24,720 --> 02:06:27,240
Speaker 2: stand above all others. I mean, they're way ahead of

2414
02:06:27,240 --> 02:06:33,320
Speaker 2: anybody else. So I am the holder of the most

2415
02:06:33,720 --> 02:06:37,400
Speaker 2: twenty rebound games in the history of the NBA. Brianna

2416
02:06:37,440 --> 02:06:40,800
Speaker 2: what my name? Here's a clue. I also won eleven

2417
02:06:40,920 --> 02:06:50,000
Speaker 2: championships during my tenure. Bill Russell, absolutely Bill Russell, the

2418
02:06:50,040 --> 02:06:56,280
Speaker 2: Boston Celtics. Well, Bill had to break somebody's record, and

2419
02:06:56,960 --> 02:07:00,360
Speaker 2: he well, I don't know he broke his record. But

2420
02:07:00,560 --> 02:07:03,680
Speaker 2: this guy's number two only just a few rebounds a

2421
02:07:03,720 --> 02:07:06,960
Speaker 2: few games. Russell had like one hundred and twenty four

2422
02:07:07,000 --> 02:07:09,400
Speaker 2: of them. This guy had like one hundred and thirteen,

2423
02:07:09,440 --> 02:07:11,600
Speaker 2: and then after that the next one's got like twenty.

2424
02:07:12,040 --> 02:07:16,959
Speaker 2: But this gentleman was seven feet tall, played for the Lakers,

2425
02:07:17,120 --> 02:07:20,600
Speaker 2: and his nickname rhymed with stilt, Mark Ramsey, what my.

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02:07:20,600 --> 02:07:23,720
Speaker 28: Name Wilt Chamberlain.

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02:07:24,040 --> 02:07:27,240
Speaker 2: It is, in fact, Wilt Chamberlain. His name was. His

2428
02:07:27,360 --> 02:07:34,400
Speaker 2: nickname was Wilt the Stilt. All right, Well, you know

2429
02:07:34,520 --> 02:07:37,920
Speaker 2: we've talked about the Lakers and could they win a championship,

2430
02:07:38,760 --> 02:07:42,680
Speaker 2: and with this crew, et cetera, et cetera, we beat

2431
02:07:42,720 --> 02:07:46,680
Speaker 2: it to death on the midnight hour. I'm the last

2432
02:07:46,800 --> 02:07:49,920
Speaker 2: Laker coach to actually win a championship, and it wasn't

2433
02:07:49,960 --> 02:07:53,360
Speaker 2: that long a goal. Here's a clue. I did it

2434
02:07:53,360 --> 02:07:54,680
Speaker 2: in the bubble, Brianna, what.

2435
02:07:54,720 --> 02:07:55,480
Speaker 19: My name is it?

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02:07:55,480 --> 02:07:56,160
Speaker 27: Frank Vogel.

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02:07:56,400 --> 02:07:59,440
Speaker 2: It is Frank Vogel. One of my favorite. Frank Vogel

2438
02:08:00,480 --> 02:08:04,920
Speaker 2: has quite an interesting NBA career, and he was relieved

2439
02:08:04,960 --> 02:08:06,600
Speaker 2: of his duties a couple of years later. And then

2440
02:08:10,040 --> 02:08:12,560
Speaker 2: Darvin Ham gets into the conference finals and he's relieved

2441
02:08:12,640 --> 02:08:15,560
Speaker 2: his duties a right. Continuing on with an NBA theme,

2442
02:08:16,960 --> 02:08:23,200
Speaker 2: As an NBA head coach, I have won more games

2443
02:08:23,440 --> 02:08:29,640
Speaker 2: as an NBA head coach than anyone in history. Mark Ramsey,

2444
02:08:29,760 --> 02:08:34,120
Speaker 2: is my name? Don Nelson, pat Riley or Greg Popovich?

2445
02:08:34,160 --> 02:08:34,800
Speaker 2: What my name?

2446
02:08:37,400 --> 02:08:38,720
Speaker 28: Only because he's in the news.

2447
02:08:38,760 --> 02:08:39,320
Speaker 25: Popovic.

2448
02:08:39,800 --> 02:08:43,680
Speaker 2: It is Greg Popovic. It is Greg Popovich. He's won

2449
02:08:43,760 --> 02:08:47,600
Speaker 2: more NBA games than any other player he coached twenty

2450
02:08:47,680 --> 02:08:52,200
Speaker 2: nine years. Well, what's interesting is now the Greg Popovich

2451
02:08:52,400 --> 02:08:57,920
Speaker 2: was the longest reigning tenured NBA coach, But now that

2452
02:08:58,040 --> 02:09:03,680
Speaker 2: Greg Popovich is gone, I am the longest tenured NBA

2453
02:09:03,800 --> 02:09:09,440
Speaker 2: coach currently Brandon what my name? Here's a clue. I

2454
02:09:09,520 --> 02:09:12,320
Speaker 2: once coach Lebron and we won a championship with Lebron.

2455
02:09:13,080 --> 02:09:18,920
Speaker 2: Eric Eric spolsterra is the name? All right, great job

2456
02:09:18,960 --> 02:09:22,080
Speaker 2: you guys, I think you're undefeated two weeks in a row.

2457
02:09:22,480 --> 02:09:26,680
Speaker 2: Didn't miss anything. Good job, good job on the brand

2458
02:09:26,680 --> 02:09:29,960
Speaker 2: new Fool and all that stuff. And by the way,

2459
02:09:30,120 --> 02:09:33,960
Speaker 2: I should remind everybody you can stream this show and

2460
02:09:34,040 --> 02:09:37,640
Speaker 2: all of our Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty four

2461
02:09:37,680 --> 02:09:41,720
Speaker 2: to seven in the new and improved iHeartRadio app. Just

2462
02:09:41,760 --> 02:09:45,080
Speaker 2: search Fox Sports Radio in the app to stream us live.

2463
02:09:45,640 --> 02:09:47,360
Speaker 2: And one of the newest features in the app is

2464
02:09:47,400 --> 02:09:49,200
Speaker 2: that you can select Fox Sports Radio is one of

2465
02:09:49,240 --> 02:09:53,360
Speaker 2: your presets, just like the presets on a radio dial.

2466
02:09:53,680 --> 02:09:55,800
Speaker 2: So be sure to preset Fox Sports Radio in the

2467
02:09:55,840 --> 02:09:58,680
Speaker 2: i Art Radio app and will always pop up on

2468
02:09:58,720 --> 02:10:01,000
Speaker 2: the top of your screen. One of the things I

2469
02:10:01,040 --> 02:10:04,880
Speaker 2: wanted to get to tonight was is it true that

2470
02:10:04,960 --> 02:10:10,160
Speaker 2: the NBA is looking to copy the NHL? Well, they are.

2471
02:10:10,640 --> 02:10:14,360
Speaker 2: We all know how bad, what a train wreck disaster

2472
02:10:15,080 --> 02:10:19,160
Speaker 2: the NBA All Star Game has been in the last decade,

2473
02:10:19,720 --> 02:10:23,080
Speaker 2: and it turns out the NBA played very close attention

2474
02:10:23,160 --> 02:10:25,560
Speaker 2: to what the NHL did over it's All Star break

2475
02:10:26,000 --> 02:10:28,400
Speaker 2: this past February, and it looks like they might want

2476
02:10:28,440 --> 02:10:31,080
Speaker 2: to replicate that model. As a matter of fact, just

2477
02:10:31,080 --> 02:10:34,880
Speaker 2: this last week, Adam Silver, the commissioner and president of

2478
02:10:35,240 --> 02:10:38,920
Speaker 2: League Operations Byron spoul Well, they held a press conference

2479
02:10:38,960 --> 02:10:41,640
Speaker 2: with the media in New York and they both said

2480
02:10:41,680 --> 02:10:45,080
Speaker 2: they're interested in going to a format similar to what

2481
02:10:45,120 --> 02:10:48,000
Speaker 2: the NHL had with its four Nations face off, but

2482
02:10:48,080 --> 02:10:51,080
Speaker 2: rather play an All Star game. The NHL what they

2483
02:10:51,120 --> 02:10:52,840
Speaker 2: decided to do this last year, as you saw it

2484
02:10:52,840 --> 02:10:55,600
Speaker 2: as a hell of a deal. They had players competing

2485
02:10:55,640 --> 02:10:59,040
Speaker 2: against each other while representing their countries. The four countries

2486
02:10:59,080 --> 02:11:03,160
Speaker 2: involved were Canada, Finland, Sweden, and the United States. Now

2487
02:11:03,200 --> 02:11:07,800
Speaker 2: the USB Canada in a very heated ron robin game,

2488
02:11:08,120 --> 02:11:10,200
Speaker 2: even though Canada ended up winning the rematch in a

2489
02:11:10,280 --> 02:11:14,880
Speaker 2: championship game to capture this first ever event. Now Matthew

2490
02:11:14,880 --> 02:11:16,760
Speaker 2: could chuck out hurt and was out ten weeks, but

2491
02:11:16,800 --> 02:11:18,920
Speaker 2: he's now returned to the Florida Panthers. But that's how

2492
02:11:18,960 --> 02:11:21,720
Speaker 2: serious this was, and that's exactly the reason why the

2493
02:11:21,840 --> 02:11:25,160
Speaker 2: NBA doesn't take their own All Star game very seriously,

2494
02:11:25,200 --> 02:11:28,520
Speaker 2: because they don't want to get hurt. It's as simple

2495
02:11:28,520 --> 02:11:30,000
Speaker 2: as that. They don't want to compete. They don't want

2496
02:11:30,000 --> 02:11:33,600
Speaker 2: to get hurt. But the beauty of it is the NHL.

2497
02:11:33,880 --> 02:11:38,160
Speaker 2: It was very well noticed that these players went all

2498
02:11:38,200 --> 02:11:41,600
Speaker 2: out in terms of effort, and the games frankly delivered

2499
02:11:41,640 --> 02:11:46,520
Speaker 2: huge ratings. Now the NBA has faced exactly the opposite

2500
02:11:47,200 --> 02:11:50,800
Speaker 2: issue players don't give any effort in the All Star Game,

2501
02:11:50,960 --> 02:11:56,080
Speaker 2: so the raidings have been declining. And the concept here

2502
02:11:56,120 --> 02:11:59,640
Speaker 2: that Adam Silver I think really started the glom mounts

2503
02:11:59,720 --> 02:12:01,800
Speaker 2: started last summer with the Olympics, he said, given the

2504
02:12:01,840 --> 02:12:05,600
Speaker 2: strong quote here's his quote, given the strong interest we've

2505
02:12:05,600 --> 02:12:10,800
Speaker 2: seen in international basketball competitions, most recently in last summer's Olympics,

2506
02:12:10,800 --> 02:12:14,520
Speaker 2: and parents, we're discussing concepts with the players representing their

2507
02:12:14,560 --> 02:12:17,600
Speaker 2: countries or regions instead of the more traditional formats we've

2508
02:12:17,680 --> 02:12:20,200
Speaker 2: used in the past. And the quote. Now, next year's

2509
02:12:20,280 --> 02:12:22,080
Speaker 2: NBA All Star Game is going to be in Los

2510
02:12:22,120 --> 02:12:25,440
Speaker 2: Angeles at the intwit Dome, and Steve balmerville I called

2511
02:12:25,520 --> 02:12:28,880
Speaker 2: him James Balmer Earlier'm in Steve bamber at the end

2512
02:12:28,880 --> 02:12:32,920
Speaker 2: Twodome in Los Angeles. NBC is got the TV rights,

2513
02:12:33,520 --> 02:12:35,680
Speaker 2: and given the fact that LA is also going to

2514
02:12:35,680 --> 02:12:38,440
Speaker 2: host the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics, which will also

2515
02:12:38,520 --> 02:12:42,960
Speaker 2: be televised by NBC, apparently NBC is very much on

2516
02:12:43,120 --> 02:12:48,040
Speaker 2: board with pushing this format that would see the players

2517
02:12:48,040 --> 02:12:51,720
Speaker 2: face off against each other, based on the way the

2518
02:12:51,840 --> 02:12:55,800
Speaker 2: NHL did it with other countries. So what's interesting this

2519
02:12:55,880 --> 02:13:00,840
Speaker 2: year won't be that far off. In February NBA All

2520
02:13:00,840 --> 02:13:03,640
Speaker 2: Star Week and is gonna coincide with the twenty twenty

2521
02:13:03,640 --> 02:13:09,680
Speaker 2: six Winter Olympics held in Italy, which NBC also has

2522
02:13:09,760 --> 02:13:12,960
Speaker 2: the TV rights too. So well, let's come to pass.

2523
02:13:13,240 --> 02:13:16,560
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just don't know in past years.

2524
02:13:16,640 --> 02:13:19,600
Speaker 2: I know, in twenty ten they had the World Classic

2525
02:13:20,520 --> 02:13:25,080
Speaker 2: with the NHL, and the NHL players are just hardwired differently, okay,

2526
02:13:25,120 --> 02:13:26,600
Speaker 2: and it's a different game.

2527
02:13:28,240 --> 02:13:28,440
Speaker 23: You know.

2528
02:13:28,600 --> 02:13:31,880
Speaker 2: Look, there were a lot of people who weighed in

2529
02:13:31,920 --> 02:13:36,920
Speaker 2: on the comments, had great idea. You know, Russian players

2530
02:13:36,920 --> 02:13:40,480
Speaker 2: weren't allowed to participate in the NHL, but Team USA,

2531
02:13:41,680 --> 02:13:46,120
Speaker 2: you know, showed their metal and and you know, but

2532
02:13:46,720 --> 02:13:49,960
Speaker 2: the comments are like Adam Silver is chasing his tail.

2533
02:13:50,440 --> 02:13:53,680
Speaker 2: Will this happened? I'm gonna be honest, I'm dubious that

2534
02:13:53,680 --> 02:13:55,480
Speaker 2: they're ever gonna get out of their own way and

2535
02:13:55,520 --> 02:13:57,720
Speaker 2: make this happen. I don't think it will. But at

2536
02:13:57,800 --> 02:14:00,760
Speaker 2: least they're talking about it. At least they know that

2537
02:14:00,800 --> 02:14:03,720
Speaker 2: they've got to do something because what's doing, what's happening

2538
02:14:03,720 --> 02:14:09,240
Speaker 2: now is working. Conversely, what if I told you baseball

2539
02:14:09,560 --> 02:14:13,000
Speaker 2: the first month of baseball is in the books. April Okay,

2540
02:14:13,680 --> 02:14:16,440
Speaker 2: even though you have two teams playing in minor league parks.

2541
02:14:17,160 --> 02:14:19,880
Speaker 2: You get the Oakland A's playing in Sacramento in a

2542
02:14:19,880 --> 02:14:22,800
Speaker 2: minor league park, and you've got the Tampa bay Rays

2543
02:14:22,840 --> 02:14:24,720
Speaker 2: playing in a minor league park in George Stown Brenner

2544
02:14:24,760 --> 02:14:29,800
Speaker 2: Stadium in Tampa. Even with that, major League Baseball attendance

2545
02:14:30,680 --> 02:14:34,280
Speaker 2: is at its highest after one month in ten years.

2546
02:14:34,440 --> 02:14:38,400
Speaker 2: It's an incredibly strong historical start. The average attendance per

2547
02:14:38,440 --> 02:14:42,760
Speaker 2: game twenty seven sixty one. Now, if a team averaged

2548
02:14:42,760 --> 02:14:45,480
Speaker 2: that for a season, now we know it's across the board.

2549
02:14:45,560 --> 02:14:48,640
Speaker 2: Not everybody's got that much, and the Dodgers and Mets

2550
02:14:48,720 --> 02:14:51,840
Speaker 2: lead the way. They're going crazy. But if every team

2551
02:14:51,920 --> 02:14:57,520
Speaker 2: averaged that, you'd have well over two million in every park,

2552
02:14:57,960 --> 02:15:01,160
Speaker 2: which is incredible. You know, I know that Major League

2553
02:15:01,200 --> 02:15:03,320
Speaker 2: executives had high loops for another season with the rule

2554
02:15:03,400 --> 02:15:05,920
Speaker 2: changes and so on and so forth. Major League Baseball's

2555
02:15:05,920 --> 02:15:08,800
Speaker 2: ahead a last year's pace, all right, And there's a

2556
02:15:08,840 --> 02:15:11,919
Speaker 2: lot of momentum. The pitch clock has been well received,

2557
02:15:11,960 --> 02:15:15,360
Speaker 2: there's more action, You've got the broad appeal of more

2558
02:15:16,080 --> 02:15:19,280
Speaker 2: you know, major stars emerging. You know, guys like shoey

2559
02:15:19,280 --> 02:15:22,560
Speaker 2: Otani and Aaron Judge, but also Paul Skiing to Pittsburgh.

2560
02:15:22,880 --> 02:15:25,560
Speaker 2: Elie de la Cruz. Give it up to the Dodgers.

2561
02:15:26,040 --> 02:15:29,720
Speaker 2: It's incredible. They're averaging fifty one thousand and three to

2562
02:15:29,800 --> 02:15:32,720
Speaker 2: sixty four per game. Well, they are the World Series champions,

2563
02:15:32,720 --> 02:15:35,200
Speaker 2: defending World Series champions. They do play in the league's

2564
02:15:35,280 --> 02:15:38,200
Speaker 2: largest stadium, but look, the Dodgers have been in League

2565
02:15:38,200 --> 02:15:41,800
Speaker 2: A tennis leader for over ten years. The biggest story

2566
02:15:41,840 --> 02:15:45,040
Speaker 2: at the gate this year is City Field. The Mets

2567
02:15:45,080 --> 02:15:47,960
Speaker 2: are up by more than fifty seven percent. They're averaging

2568
02:15:48,080 --> 02:15:51,840
Speaker 2: thirty seven thousand fans per game, by far, major League

2569
02:15:51,880 --> 02:15:55,960
Speaker 2: Baseball's largest in Greece. Now, why you know, I joked

2570
02:15:55,960 --> 02:15:58,840
Speaker 2: around and made a lot of fun about Juan Soto's contract.

2571
02:15:59,160 --> 02:16:02,280
Speaker 2: He had a record setting free agent contract, get a

2572
02:16:02,280 --> 02:16:05,240
Speaker 2: bunch of you know, goofy incentives in it, you know,

2573
02:16:05,320 --> 02:16:09,600
Speaker 2: three and seven hundred and sixty five million dollars. But fans,

2574
02:16:09,600 --> 02:16:12,280
Speaker 2: it turns out in Queens, want to go out and

2575
02:16:12,280 --> 02:16:14,920
Speaker 2: see him play. And he's had And by the way,

2576
02:16:14,920 --> 02:16:17,680
Speaker 2: the Mets have had a massive hot start on the field.

2577
02:16:18,360 --> 02:16:22,000
Speaker 2: And again it's not across the board. You've got some

2578
02:16:22,040 --> 02:16:25,040
Speaker 2: struggling teams like the Rockies. They've won what four or

2579
02:16:25,080 --> 02:16:28,400
Speaker 2: five games already ready. I mean, that's that's brutal. Again,

2580
02:16:28,480 --> 02:16:31,360
Speaker 2: you still got, you know, the A's and race playing

2581
02:16:31,360 --> 02:16:33,400
Speaker 2: in minor league stadiums. But believe it or not, the

2582
02:16:33,480 --> 02:16:36,560
Speaker 2: A's are actually up at a tenants at Sacramento Sutter

2583
02:16:36,560 --> 02:16:41,120
Speaker 2: Hearth Sutter Health Park, more so than they had in Oakland.

2584
02:16:41,640 --> 02:16:45,120
Speaker 2: And you know, the Razor are having some issues at

2585
02:16:46,760 --> 02:16:48,440
Speaker 2: in their minor league park. But there's gonna be something

2586
02:16:48,520 --> 02:16:51,840
Speaker 2: also this year that's going to take place at Bristol

2587
02:16:51,920 --> 02:16:54,039
Speaker 2: Motor Speedway in Tennessee. They're gonna have the Major League

2588
02:16:54,040 --> 02:16:57,960
Speaker 2: Baseball Speedway Classic. It's going to be one special event

2589
02:16:58,000 --> 02:17:01,360
Speaker 2: game at the Bristol Motor Speedway. I believe it's designed

2590
02:17:01,360 --> 02:17:05,760
Speaker 2: to generate the largest single attendance of any game ever

2591
02:17:06,920 --> 02:17:11,279
Speaker 2: in history major League Baseball history. I saw the number somewhere.

2592
02:17:11,720 --> 02:17:14,200
Speaker 2: I'd have to look it up, but it's a massive number.

2593
02:17:14,560 --> 02:17:16,480
Speaker 2: One last thing, because I have a lot of friends

2594
02:17:16,480 --> 02:17:19,760
Speaker 2: that are Mets fans, and the Mets are off to

2595
02:17:19,800 --> 02:17:23,240
Speaker 2: this crazy start, and I think it's always good for

2596
02:17:23,280 --> 02:17:27,280
Speaker 2: baseball if the New York teams are doing well. Remember

2597
02:17:27,320 --> 02:17:29,440
Speaker 2: the Mets ended on a heater last year, got to

2598
02:17:29,480 --> 02:17:34,360
Speaker 2: the playoffs, then the Aduan. So if for any reason

2599
02:17:34,400 --> 02:17:36,440
Speaker 2: the Mets say, get to the World Series this year

2600
02:17:36,520 --> 02:17:41,680
Speaker 2: or do something crazy in the postseason, point to April eighteenth,

2601
02:17:42,120 --> 02:17:45,160
Speaker 2: And I know that sounds random, but this was sort

2602
02:17:45,160 --> 02:17:48,280
Speaker 2: of a point of demarcation for the Mets season. Juan

2603
02:17:48,400 --> 02:17:51,200
Speaker 2: Soto stepped up to the plate. It was a game

2604
02:17:51,200 --> 02:17:53,320
Speaker 2: against Cardinals. It was in the fifth inning, there was

2605
02:17:53,360 --> 02:17:57,119
Speaker 2: one out, the metsro trailing two to one, and Juan

2606
02:17:57,280 --> 02:18:00,480
Speaker 2: Soto had been off to a really slow start, a

2607
02:18:00,600 --> 02:18:04,160
Speaker 2: very slow start, and he was feeling it was he

2608
02:18:04,200 --> 02:18:06,880
Speaker 2: was feeling it in his body language. You know, he's human.

2609
02:18:06,959 --> 02:18:08,760
Speaker 2: He wanted to live up to the seven and sixty

2610
02:18:08,760 --> 02:18:12,560
Speaker 2: five million dollars contract the Mets gave him, The fans decided,

2611
02:18:12,640 --> 02:18:14,440
Speaker 2: people in New York decided, we want to give an

2612
02:18:14,480 --> 02:18:18,360
Speaker 2: emotional lift, and they gave him a rousing standing ovation.

2613
02:18:20,000 --> 02:18:21,880
Speaker 2: I think they did something similar a couple of years

2614
02:18:21,879 --> 02:18:28,120
Speaker 2: ago in Atlanta. For it escapes me the player that

2615
02:18:28,240 --> 02:18:30,760
Speaker 2: uplifted him in or Philadelphia maybe it was, I think.

2616
02:18:31,879 --> 02:18:34,960
Speaker 2: And it was a real relief for Soto. He really was.

2617
02:18:35,000 --> 02:18:39,000
Speaker 2: He'd been hitting terribly up to that point and in

2618
02:18:39,040 --> 02:18:41,920
Speaker 2: the second pitch, he ties the score with a single.

2619
02:18:41,959 --> 02:18:45,760
Speaker 2: The New York wins five to four. And he'd been

2620
02:18:46,560 --> 02:18:49,800
Speaker 2: not doing real well, and I think he admitted that

2621
02:18:50,080 --> 02:18:52,920
Speaker 2: the flushing crowd there in New York really uplifted him.

2622
02:18:53,400 --> 02:18:58,760
Speaker 2: He had had three weeks of really, you know, having

2623
02:18:58,959 --> 02:19:02,640
Speaker 2: sort of a lousy stretch of ball, and Solos still

2624
02:19:02,640 --> 02:19:05,520
Speaker 2: hasn't really reaved it up right. And the Mets, by

2625
02:19:05,560 --> 02:19:07,840
Speaker 2: the way, they're missing forty percent of their plan rotation,

2626
02:19:08,440 --> 02:19:11,360
Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz is out, et cetera. But somehow they're twenty

2627
02:19:11,360 --> 02:19:13,080
Speaker 2: two and eleven. I think they've only lost like one

2628
02:19:13,120 --> 02:19:15,520
Speaker 2: game at home throughout three and a half games in

2629
02:19:15,520 --> 02:19:18,560
Speaker 2: the NL East, and they got all kinds of breathing room.

2630
02:19:18,600 --> 02:19:20,840
Speaker 2: How the Mets doing this well? Give it up to

2631
02:19:20,879 --> 02:19:25,199
Speaker 2: Pete Alonso. He spent the winner, you know, a fighting contracts,

2632
02:19:25,240 --> 02:19:29,400
Speaker 2: but he's back. Francisco Lindor, you know, he hasn't had

2633
02:19:29,440 --> 02:19:31,880
Speaker 2: a great year yet, but he's had his moments. They

2634
02:19:31,959 --> 02:19:36,959
Speaker 2: got a young second basement. Most importantly, this Mets pitching rotation,

2635
02:19:37,200 --> 02:19:39,760
Speaker 2: which you can barely name any of them, is leaving

2636
02:19:39,760 --> 02:19:42,720
Speaker 2: the majors in era. And the big breakout has been

2637
02:19:42,720 --> 02:19:45,680
Speaker 2: a twenty nine year old named Tyler McGill. He's always

2638
02:19:45,680 --> 02:19:48,600
Speaker 2: had kind of this heavy fastball, but he's never really

2639
02:19:49,240 --> 02:19:51,520
Speaker 2: reached into his own and this year, all of a sudden,

2640
02:19:51,520 --> 02:19:53,760
Speaker 2: he has. He's got a one point seventy four eight.

2641
02:19:54,000 --> 02:19:55,760
Speaker 2: So look, I know people are waiting for the Mets

2642
02:19:55,840 --> 02:19:59,000
Speaker 2: to come back down to earth. Maybe they'll regrets, but

2643
02:19:59,560 --> 02:20:02,160
Speaker 2: give it up to baseball. I think it's great that

2644
02:20:02,240 --> 02:20:04,360
Speaker 2: people are getting out to the park. School's not even

2645
02:20:04,360 --> 02:20:06,920
Speaker 2: out yet. The weather certainly hasn't turned into a lot

2646
02:20:06,920 --> 02:20:10,480
Speaker 2: of Eastern cities you get your breakout days, but this

2647
02:20:10,760 --> 02:20:16,039
Speaker 2: summer should be quite the baseball renaissance. Coming up, we

2648
02:20:16,120 --> 02:20:19,039
Speaker 2: continue on with the Bernie Fraddle Show. I'm Bernie Fraddle.

2649
02:20:19,320 --> 02:20:21,279
Speaker 2: We're coming to your line from Las Vegas, Fox Sports

2650
02:20:21,360 --> 02:20:24,080
Speaker 2: Radio Studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie

2651
02:20:24,080 --> 02:20:25,400
Speaker 2: Fradle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

2652
02:20:26,560 --> 02:20:29,440
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

2653
02:20:29,480 --> 02:20:32,840
Speaker 3: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

2654
02:20:33,000 --> 02:20:37,080
Speaker 3: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

2655
02:20:37,200 --> 02:20:38,959
Speaker 3: listen live or back on.

2656
02:20:38,959 --> 02:20:42,480
Speaker 2: The Bernie Fraddle Show Fox Sports Radio. Next week, I'm

2657
02:20:42,520 --> 02:20:44,560
Speaker 2: going to dive into this a lot heavier because I

2658
02:20:44,600 --> 02:20:47,279
Speaker 2: get a kick out of it. Every year, the Athletic

2659
02:20:48,360 --> 02:20:52,720
Speaker 2: has an anonymous NBA poll and they cover a lot

2660
02:20:52,720 --> 02:20:56,320
Speaker 2: of ground and ask a lot of questions, and three

2661
02:20:56,360 --> 02:20:58,680
Speaker 2: of them really caught my eye. There's a bunch of it.

2662
02:20:58,680 --> 02:21:00,520
Speaker 2: It's worth doing a whole segment, and I'll do it

2663
02:21:00,560 --> 02:21:03,200
Speaker 2: next week. But one of the questions was who's the

2664
02:21:03,280 --> 02:21:06,320
Speaker 2: league's most overrated player? But don't tell this to his dad.

2665
02:21:07,120 --> 02:21:10,520
Speaker 2: Tyres Halliburton ran away with it. He got the most votes.

2666
02:21:10,800 --> 02:21:15,840
Speaker 2: Interestingly enough, Rudy Gobert was second and Jimmy Butler was fourth.

2667
02:21:16,879 --> 02:21:19,520
Speaker 2: One of the other questions was five years from now,

2668
02:21:19,520 --> 02:21:22,279
Speaker 2: who will be the face of the league? Victor Winbanyama

2669
02:21:22,600 --> 02:21:26,240
Speaker 2: ran away with it fifty four point three percent, Anthony

2670
02:21:26,320 --> 02:21:30,920
Speaker 2: Edwards thirteen percent, Shay Gil just ten, Jason Tatum six,

2671
02:21:31,400 --> 02:21:34,760
Speaker 2: Luca two point nine percent, John Moran two point two,

2672
02:21:35,240 --> 02:21:37,480
Speaker 2: Paul Benkarro and k Cunning up. We're going to get

2673
02:21:37,520 --> 02:21:40,680
Speaker 2: into this a lot heavier next week because there's a

2674
02:21:40,760 --> 02:21:44,200
Speaker 2: lot of really good stuff. Who will win the NBA title?

2675
02:21:44,240 --> 02:21:48,520
Speaker 2: Who's really the MVP? These are anonymous NBA players. Who's

2676
02:21:48,560 --> 02:21:54,160
Speaker 2: the best run organization, who's the worst run organization, Who's

2677
02:21:54,160 --> 02:21:57,960
Speaker 2: the league's most underrated player, and again they didn't the

2678
02:21:58,520 --> 02:22:01,240
Speaker 2: players didn't hold back. Just a lot of good stuff

2679
02:22:01,240 --> 02:22:03,360
Speaker 2: aside from your own coach, who's your favorite coach, who's

2680
02:22:03,400 --> 02:22:05,280
Speaker 2: the best coach, who's the worst coach?

2681
02:22:05,959 --> 02:22:06,080
Speaker 29: Uh?

2682
02:22:06,560 --> 02:22:12,560
Speaker 2: Which player in the league would you least like to fight? Well,

2683
02:22:12,680 --> 02:22:15,080
Speaker 2: we'll share that next week. We'll share that. Actually is

2684
02:22:15,080 --> 02:22:18,320
Speaker 2: a ton of them. In the meantime, you know, we

2685
02:22:18,400 --> 02:22:21,800
Speaker 2: do cover it all on the show, and the bottom

2686
02:22:21,840 --> 02:22:25,640
Speaker 2: line is football is managing to make the news year round.

2687
02:22:25,840 --> 02:22:27,920
Speaker 2: F O T B A L. I'll just have the

2688
02:22:27,959 --> 02:22:31,800
Speaker 2: draft fot is coming up. You know, Shador Sanders, it's

2689
02:22:31,840 --> 02:22:34,200
Speaker 2: his world. We're just visiting. But we also cover the

2690
02:22:34,240 --> 02:22:37,640
Speaker 2: other sport internationally spelled f U T B O L football,

2691
02:22:37,680 --> 02:22:40,760
Speaker 2: which is also known as soccer. It's time Chris Purfett's

2692
02:22:40,800 --> 02:22:41,120
Speaker 2: World of.

2693
02:22:41,120 --> 02:22:58,680
Speaker 29: Soccer, the greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drama.

2694
02:22:58,720 --> 02:23:02,160
Speaker 1: It's all here in this from the World of Soccer.

2695
02:23:02,600 --> 02:23:04,280
Speaker 30: So we've been saying for a while, Bernie that it

2696
02:23:04,320 --> 02:23:07,199
Speaker 30: was a foregone conclusion of Liverpool winning the Premier League.

2697
02:23:07,240 --> 02:23:10,240
Speaker 30: Well they made it official last weekend. And how official

2698
02:23:10,320 --> 02:23:14,520
Speaker 30: they made it with a victory over Tottenham Hawkspur and

2699
02:23:15,000 --> 02:23:18,480
Speaker 30: Arnslaught first time at the Helm for Liverpool, taking over

2700
02:23:18,560 --> 02:23:23,080
Speaker 30: for the legendary Jurgen Klop and somehow not just starting

2701
02:23:23,080 --> 02:23:26,440
Speaker 30: the season with a lot of questions about this Liverpool squad.

2702
02:23:26,480 --> 02:23:28,240
Speaker 28: Would it be their final year together?

2703
02:23:28,360 --> 02:23:30,959
Speaker 30: Would we see the last of Mohammed Salah or a

2704
02:23:30,959 --> 02:23:32,920
Speaker 30: lot of the rest of this Liverpool corps that had

2705
02:23:32,920 --> 02:23:36,840
Speaker 30: been together through the pandemic years through the early twenty twenties.

2706
02:23:37,000 --> 02:23:38,720
Speaker 30: Would this be the last time we've really seen them?

2707
02:23:38,760 --> 02:23:41,680
Speaker 30: When this be the high water mark? Well, by the

2708
02:23:41,760 --> 02:23:44,640
Speaker 30: time we've now reached May, most of the big pieces

2709
02:23:44,720 --> 02:23:48,959
Speaker 30: have signed to new contracts and Liverpool stands atop the

2710
02:23:48,959 --> 02:23:51,120
Speaker 30: Premier League, not really even a contest. We were just

2711
02:23:51,200 --> 02:23:54,320
Speaker 30: kind of waiting for things to become official and they

2712
02:23:54,320 --> 02:23:56,920
Speaker 30: have now with this victory. For the twenty twenty four

2713
02:23:56,959 --> 02:24:01,160
Speaker 30: to twenty twenty five season, tied Manchester United for the

2714
02:24:01,200 --> 02:24:05,840
Speaker 30: most English football titles twenty for each club, and the.

2715
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Speaker 28: Way Arnslott did it is very reminiscent.

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02:24:08,240 --> 02:24:09,840
Speaker 30: I would say, if you want to take a look

2717
02:24:09,879 --> 02:24:12,959
Speaker 30: at someone like Ben Johnson of the National Football League,

2718
02:24:13,040 --> 02:24:17,759
Speaker 30: what I mean by that is creativity, creativity, creativity, creativity,

2719
02:24:18,200 --> 02:24:20,160
Speaker 30: Arn Slot for a lot.

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02:24:19,959 --> 02:24:20,640
Speaker 28: Of his career.

2721
02:24:21,040 --> 02:24:23,080
Speaker 30: If you listen, if you look at the article that

2722
02:24:23,120 --> 02:24:26,760
Speaker 30: came out from ESPN from Beth Lindap and val Alaine

2723
02:24:26,840 --> 02:24:31,240
Speaker 30: van Hilton, they had talked about a lot of talk

2724
02:24:31,320 --> 02:24:33,960
Speaker 30: with former teammates and people that Slot had worked with,

2725
02:24:34,200 --> 02:24:36,920
Speaker 30: where he was just looking at film all the time,

2726
02:24:37,000 --> 02:24:41,039
Speaker 30: studying a lot of Manchester City film, studying how.

2727
02:24:40,720 --> 02:24:42,680
Speaker 28: To make good corner kicks, how.

2728
02:24:42,520 --> 02:24:46,439
Speaker 30: To make set pieces and being a fan of offensive football.

2729
02:24:46,760 --> 02:24:50,199
Speaker 30: That really really put Liverpool. Took all of this talent

2730
02:24:50,240 --> 02:24:52,840
Speaker 30: that Liverpool had that we knew they had had, and

2731
02:24:52,920 --> 02:24:56,280
Speaker 30: put them in the right places to make just unbelievable

2732
02:24:56,320 --> 02:25:00,160
Speaker 30: plays across there, to have the flexibility to change his

2733
02:25:00,240 --> 02:25:02,640
Speaker 30: formations up and never really give a club the same

2734
02:25:02,720 --> 02:25:06,360
Speaker 30: look every time. You know, a lot of other managers

2735
02:25:06,440 --> 02:25:08,400
Speaker 30: tend to be stodgy, it's like, oh we play three

2736
02:25:08,480 --> 02:25:11,640
Speaker 30: four three. But with Slot it was always different in

2737
02:25:11,720 --> 02:25:14,959
Speaker 30: a lot of different ways, and he inherited a ton

2738
02:25:15,000 --> 02:25:17,280
Speaker 30: of talent at Liverpool and we have to give credit

2739
02:25:17,640 --> 02:25:21,920
Speaker 30: to those players as well. As you had an unbelievable

2740
02:25:21,920 --> 02:25:24,640
Speaker 30: amount of guys who had been playing together, working together

2741
02:25:24,720 --> 02:25:27,039
Speaker 30: as a team for so long, Liverpool might not have

2742
02:25:27,440 --> 02:25:29,920
Speaker 30: the riches of say a Manchester City. But what they

2743
02:25:29,920 --> 02:25:32,680
Speaker 30: did have is a fantastic star in Mohammed Sala. What

2744
02:25:32,760 --> 02:25:37,240
Speaker 30: they did have was a season great defender in Virgil Vanjique.

2745
02:25:37,400 --> 02:25:41,640
Speaker 30: What they did have was Luis Diaz, They had Cody Gakpo,

2746
02:25:42,040 --> 02:25:43,760
Speaker 30: and they had all these guys who knew how to

2747
02:25:43,760 --> 02:25:47,360
Speaker 30: work together, how to attack together, and play very well.

2748
02:25:47,400 --> 02:25:51,240
Speaker 30: And that is exactly what you've got out of Liverpool this.

2749
02:25:51,120 --> 02:25:53,240
Speaker 28: Season as they climbed to the top.

2750
02:25:53,280 --> 02:25:55,240
Speaker 30: And we have no I mean we've talked a lot

2751
02:25:55,240 --> 02:26:00,480
Speaker 30: about them, and I feel like Liverpool now stand about

2752
02:26:00,480 --> 02:26:03,840
Speaker 30: here is came into the season with so many questions

2753
02:26:03,840 --> 02:26:05,720
Speaker 30: about what their future would be. This is one of

2754
02:26:05,720 --> 02:26:07,560
Speaker 30: the great clubs that I know. A lot of Americans

2755
02:26:07,640 --> 02:26:11,040
Speaker 30: love to enjoy Liverpool. It's a club with a lot

2756
02:26:11,040 --> 02:26:14,560
Speaker 30: of history. You'll never walk alone. They stand for the

2757
02:26:14,600 --> 02:26:18,200
Speaker 30: working classes of Liverpool. They have that blue collar attitude

2758
02:26:18,200 --> 02:26:21,000
Speaker 30: about them. It has been a club that has enamored

2759
02:26:21,040 --> 02:26:24,440
Speaker 30: a lot of people to love them and to come

2760
02:26:24,480 --> 02:26:27,359
Speaker 30: into this season they had with not a lot of expectations,

2761
02:26:27,360 --> 02:26:30,039
Speaker 30: with Clop bailing out and with a lot of looks

2762
02:26:30,040 --> 02:26:31,840
Speaker 30: that they'd be losing some of these guys on free

2763
02:26:31,879 --> 02:26:34,840
Speaker 30: transfers and instead you've locked up the core again. You've

2764
02:26:34,879 --> 02:26:38,480
Speaker 30: got some real success to arnslaught. It's very hard to repeat,

2765
02:26:38,920 --> 02:26:41,160
Speaker 30: especially if you're not someone like Manchester City and just

2766
02:26:41,280 --> 02:26:45,960
Speaker 30: you know, flaunting financial rules. But for Liverpool they have

2767
02:26:46,000 --> 02:26:48,320
Speaker 30: a real chance to once again go at the top.

2768
02:26:49,200 --> 02:26:52,800
Speaker 30: Man City will be really feisty next year. Arsenal you

2769
02:26:52,879 --> 02:26:55,720
Speaker 30: gotta think they keep being the bridesmaid, never the bride.

2770
02:26:56,080 --> 02:27:00,959
Speaker 30: But Liverpool at fifteen points ahead of anyone else right now,

2771
02:27:01,520 --> 02:27:04,320
Speaker 30: just was not even closed for the entire season.

2772
02:27:04,640 --> 02:27:06,360
Speaker 28: It was not and sometimes that's fine.

2773
02:27:06,400 --> 02:27:10,680
Speaker 30: Sometimes you're not going to get these hotly contested tables

2774
02:27:10,720 --> 02:27:13,120
Speaker 30: like we get in.

2775
02:27:12,200 --> 02:27:13,920
Speaker 28: In Siria right now, which if.

2776
02:27:13,840 --> 02:27:16,560
Speaker 30: You're watching Italy Nopoly with a three point lead heading

2777
02:27:16,560 --> 02:27:20,080
Speaker 30: into Sunday over inter Milan, who continues to have to

2778
02:27:20,120 --> 02:27:22,680
Speaker 30: battle in the Champions League as well, definitely the bigger

2779
02:27:22,720 --> 02:27:25,600
Speaker 30: prize for them, But for Napoly it would be great

2780
02:27:25,640 --> 02:27:28,320
Speaker 30: to win a scudetto there. But there is something to

2781
02:27:28,400 --> 02:27:31,760
Speaker 30: the fact that Liverpool honed in won the Premier League title,

2782
02:27:31,800 --> 02:27:35,160
Speaker 30: which is as prestigious as you can ask for a

2783
02:27:36,040 --> 02:27:39,400
Speaker 30: domestic league title, and next year you know they're just

2784
02:27:39,440 --> 02:27:40,959
Speaker 30: going to try to shoot and maybe you see if

2785
02:27:41,000 --> 02:27:43,240
Speaker 30: they can add another and definitely if nothing else, to

2786
02:27:43,320 --> 02:27:45,920
Speaker 30: get back to the Champions League and winning ways there.

2787
02:27:46,600 --> 02:27:50,040
Speaker 30: In the world of European football, it's always about what's next.

2788
02:27:50,400 --> 02:27:52,840
Speaker 30: You never rest on your laurels. You have the open

2789
02:27:52,920 --> 02:27:56,400
Speaker 30: bus parades and have that fun, but it's always something

2790
02:27:56,440 --> 02:27:59,720
Speaker 30: else to chase. And for Liverpool they'll enjoy this and

2791
02:27:59,760 --> 02:28:03,080
Speaker 30: then next year it's back to the grindstone all over again.

2792
02:28:03,400 --> 02:28:05,400
Speaker 30: And what we're looking forward to, what's next for us

2793
02:28:05,400 --> 02:28:07,480
Speaker 30: in the world of soccer. We're gonna have the second

2794
02:28:07,560 --> 02:28:12,120
Speaker 30: leg this week of the Champions League semi finals inter

2795
02:28:12,240 --> 02:28:16,760
Speaker 30: in Barcelona, tight on aggregate, a slight one goal lead

2796
02:28:16,840 --> 02:28:20,959
Speaker 30: aggregate for Paris Saint Germain as these switched the games

2797
02:28:21,000 --> 02:28:25,680
Speaker 30: to Paris taking on Arsenal in Paris and Barcelona inter

2798
02:28:25,800 --> 02:28:29,880
Speaker 30: Milan at San Sero, the Cathedral of Italian soccer. We

2799
02:28:29,920 --> 02:28:31,840
Speaker 30: cannot wait. We'll see you next time, Bernie. On the

2800
02:28:31,840 --> 02:28:32,640
Speaker 30: world of soccer.

2801
02:28:35,160 --> 02:28:37,800
Speaker 2: We'll give it up to Liverpool, as Chris said, fifteen

2802
02:28:37,840 --> 02:28:41,879
Speaker 2: points ahead of Arsenal, second time they've won the Premier

2803
02:28:42,000 --> 02:28:45,039
Speaker 2: League in five years and then did it without buying

2804
02:28:45,040 --> 02:28:49,400
Speaker 2: any high priced players. So there you have Christophets World

2805
02:28:49,440 --> 02:28:51,960
Speaker 2: Soccer coming up. We wrap up the show. I'm going

2806
02:28:52,040 --> 02:28:56,840
Speaker 2: to revisit some inconvenient truths for Laker fans. You didn't

2807
02:28:56,879 --> 02:29:00,720
Speaker 2: just lose to Minnesota, Minnesota Road, you like rented mule.

2808
02:29:01,520 --> 02:29:03,920
Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Fraddle. We are company live from the Las

2809
02:29:04,000 --> 02:29:06,320
Speaker 2: Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios. Keep it locked right here.

2810
02:29:06,320 --> 02:29:09,040
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

2811
02:29:10,560 --> 02:29:13,199
Speaker 2: All right, we're wrapping it up on the Bernie Frattle Show.

2812
02:29:14,040 --> 02:29:17,520
Speaker 2: I'll thank my producers Mark and Brianna all your hard

2813
02:29:17,520 --> 02:29:23,039
Speaker 2: work and professionalism very much appreciated. Well, it's been a

2814
02:29:23,040 --> 02:29:24,680
Speaker 2: hell of a week in sports. It's been a hell

2815
02:29:24,720 --> 02:29:29,600
Speaker 2: of a dame in sports on Saturday. If you had sovereignty, well,

2816
02:29:29,640 --> 02:29:33,080
Speaker 2: you backed the right horse. If you had James Harden

2817
02:29:33,080 --> 02:29:35,320
Speaker 2: and the Clippers, you backed the wrong horse. And if

2818
02:29:35,320 --> 02:29:40,279
Speaker 2: you had the Lakers and Luca and Lebron and company

2819
02:29:40,440 --> 02:29:44,760
Speaker 2: and Austin Reeves and JJ Reddick, you really backed the

2820
02:29:44,800 --> 02:29:47,360
Speaker 2: wrong horse. But if you had we had a lot

2821
02:29:47,400 --> 02:29:49,360
Speaker 2: of callers from Minnesota and then I was glad to

2822
02:29:49,400 --> 02:29:52,600
Speaker 2: see that during the midnight hour. Boy, they deserve their

2823
02:29:52,640 --> 02:29:56,320
Speaker 2: props because I don't like this narrative. This narrative that

2824
02:29:56,959 --> 02:30:00,000
Speaker 2: you know, according to Nick Wright with all due respect

2825
02:30:00,080 --> 02:30:03,600
Speaker 2: act and maybe Shannon Sharp with all due respect, it's

2826
02:30:03,640 --> 02:30:06,120
Speaker 2: like the Lakers have a god given right to win.

2827
02:30:06,360 --> 02:30:09,720
Speaker 2: Just just win. Man, look what they did in February

2828
02:30:09,760 --> 02:30:13,600
Speaker 2: and March, and now look now look at them. Well,

2829
02:30:14,360 --> 02:30:18,279
Speaker 2: I think the real narrative is not that the Lakers lost.

2830
02:30:19,120 --> 02:30:22,560
Speaker 2: It's at Minnesota one. Come on, man. I started the

2831
02:30:22,600 --> 02:30:25,400
Speaker 2: segment off by saying it was ant Man versus camp

2832
02:30:25,440 --> 02:30:29,080
Speaker 2: Man because they couldn't. The Lakers couldn't. These are some

2833
02:30:29,280 --> 02:30:35,160
Speaker 2: inconvenient truths about the Lakers series against Minnesota. Give the

2834
02:30:35,200 --> 02:30:38,360
Speaker 2: devil their due, the Big Three, and by the way,

2835
02:30:38,440 --> 02:30:41,480
Speaker 2: let's it should be noted the Lakers, for all their

2836
02:30:42,040 --> 02:30:47,640
Speaker 2: glory and self proclaimed righteousness with their fandom, ended the

2837
02:30:47,680 --> 02:30:50,840
Speaker 2: season by losing nine straight road games. They lost both

2838
02:30:51,080 --> 02:30:56,080
Speaker 2: road playoff games in Minnesota and beat by the way,

2839
02:30:56,320 --> 02:30:58,440
Speaker 2: Minnesota beat the Lakers two on three at their place.

2840
02:30:59,280 --> 02:31:02,680
Speaker 2: The Lakers lost nine straight road games. Well in the

2841
02:31:02,720 --> 02:31:10,160
Speaker 2: series against Minnesota. I tipped my cap to Chris Finch

2842
02:31:10,200 --> 02:31:13,360
Speaker 2: and Mike and nore in company for the game plan

2843
02:31:13,400 --> 02:31:15,880
Speaker 2: they put together. They knew the Lakers only ranked fifteenth

2844
02:31:16,280 --> 02:31:19,760
Speaker 2: in opponent fast brain points, and that was a sign

2845
02:31:19,800 --> 02:31:24,720
Speaker 2: of poor transition defense. Their athleticism, frankly manned top to bottom,

2846
02:31:25,240 --> 02:31:27,680
Speaker 2: didn't match up with Minnesota's. It made it difficult to

2847
02:31:27,720 --> 02:31:31,480
Speaker 2: recover with Minnesota pushed the pace and the Timberwolves constantly

2848
02:31:31,480 --> 02:31:36,880
Speaker 2: capitalized on broken plays poor rotations. They burned Los Angeles

2849
02:31:36,879 --> 02:31:41,400
Speaker 2: with easy points, oftentimes before the defense could be set.

2850
02:31:41,440 --> 02:31:45,439
Speaker 2: And this is against the backdrop of sky high expectations.

2851
02:31:46,320 --> 02:31:49,800
Speaker 2: When they added Luka Doncic on February second, and it

2852
02:31:49,879 --> 02:31:53,640
Speaker 2: gave Lebron a real resurgence, people thought they would contend

2853
02:31:53,640 --> 02:31:57,039
Speaker 2: for a title. Come on, man. And then at the end,

2854
02:31:57,120 --> 02:31:59,119
Speaker 2: Luca has the audacity to say we didn't have enough

2855
02:31:59,160 --> 02:32:03,080
Speaker 2: time to mesh No, that is Bulvine scatology. I take

2856
02:32:03,120 --> 02:32:06,440
Speaker 2: you back to my bad Boy Pistons nineteen eighty nine.

2857
02:32:06,480 --> 02:32:09,960
Speaker 2: On February sixteenth, when they acquired Mark MacGuire from the

2858
02:32:10,000 --> 02:32:13,840
Speaker 2: Dallas Mavericks for Adrian Dantley, they had two less weeks

2859
02:32:13,879 --> 02:32:17,320
Speaker 2: to mesh well. They won back to back championships, beating

2860
02:32:17,320 --> 02:32:20,039
Speaker 2: in Lakers in eighty nine and Portland in ninety. But

2861
02:32:20,160 --> 02:32:23,880
Speaker 2: I digress. Given the size and rebounding advantage, the fast

2862
02:32:23,879 --> 02:32:27,120
Speaker 2: break defense and defense against Anthony Edwards that the Lakers

2863
02:32:27,120 --> 02:32:30,680
Speaker 2: tried to prosecute, and then while focusing on Edwards, it

2864
02:32:30,760 --> 02:32:33,680
Speaker 2: created other mismatches and opportunities around the rest of the

2865
02:32:33,720 --> 02:32:40,120
Speaker 2: floor which Minnesota took advantage of. Minnesota clearly clearly embraced

2866
02:32:40,160 --> 02:32:42,400
Speaker 2: the role as an underdog, even though they made it

2867
02:32:42,440 --> 02:32:46,080
Speaker 2: to the conference finals last year. They beat they swept

2868
02:32:46,080 --> 02:32:49,720
Speaker 2: the Denver team who beat the Lakers. So these are

2869
02:32:49,720 --> 02:32:52,680
Speaker 2: the inconvenient truths. In addition to the nine straight road

2870
02:32:52,720 --> 02:32:56,760
Speaker 2: games having lost at the end of the season with

2871
02:32:56,840 --> 02:33:00,000
Speaker 2: the Big three on the floor, Luca Lebron and Austin Reeves,

2872
02:33:00,040 --> 02:33:06,280
Speaker 2: relatively their plus minus was minus twenty four. If you

2873
02:33:06,360 --> 02:33:09,879
Speaker 2: think the Lakers faded down the stretch in their final

2874
02:33:09,920 --> 02:33:13,280
Speaker 2: three games, you'd be right. Your eyes did not deceive you.

2875
02:33:13,959 --> 02:33:17,080
Speaker 2: In Game three, Minnesota closed out with a thirteen to

2876
02:33:17,080 --> 02:33:19,520
Speaker 2: one run, In Game four they closed out with a

2877
02:33:19,560 --> 02:33:22,440
Speaker 2: five zip run, and in Game five, sixteen to eight run.

2878
02:33:22,480 --> 02:33:25,959
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the fourth quarter was an

2879
02:33:26,000 --> 02:33:28,960
Speaker 2: absolute debacle for the Lakers. Throughout the series, they were

2880
02:33:29,000 --> 02:33:32,160
Speaker 2: outscored cumulatively. The Lakers were by the t Wolves in

2881
02:33:32,200 --> 02:33:35,600
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter one twenty seven to eighty five forty

2882
02:33:35,640 --> 02:33:39,040
Speaker 2: two points. It's an average of eight points per quarter

2883
02:33:39,240 --> 02:33:41,520
Speaker 2: in the five games. Not good. By the way, the

2884
02:33:41,600 --> 02:33:45,760
Speaker 2: Lakers in their three launches led at one point in

2885
02:33:45,840 --> 02:33:50,599
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter in each of those games. I'm not done.

2886
02:33:50,760 --> 02:33:55,200
Speaker 2: How about points in the paint. Minnesota put up two

2887
02:33:55,280 --> 02:33:57,840
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty points in the paint to the Lakers

2888
02:33:57,840 --> 02:34:02,840
Speaker 2: one seventy four. That's a delta, a seventy six against

2889
02:34:03,120 --> 02:34:06,760
Speaker 2: again propagated over a five game series. That's just under

2890
02:34:06,879 --> 02:34:10,800
Speaker 2: sixteen points a game in the paint that Minnesota, uh,

2891
02:34:11,840 --> 02:34:16,840
Speaker 2: you know, surpassed the Lakers on second chance points. Minnesota

2892
02:34:16,879 --> 02:34:22,199
Speaker 2: had ninety four for the series. The Lakers had sixty nine.

2893
02:34:22,560 --> 02:34:26,840
Speaker 2: And I know that after Game one, when Minnesota was

2894
02:34:27,160 --> 02:34:30,039
Speaker 2: twenty one to forty two from behind, the r Nick

2895
02:34:30,080 --> 02:34:31,360
Speaker 2: Wright went on to say, well, they're not gonna be

2896
02:34:31,360 --> 02:34:33,920
Speaker 2: able to do that again. I remember on my show

2897
02:34:34,040 --> 02:34:37,200
Speaker 2: saying They're not gonna have to based on everything else

2898
02:34:37,240 --> 02:34:40,720
Speaker 2: I'm seeing and mismatches that are going to carry over

2899
02:34:41,440 --> 02:34:46,800
Speaker 2: as the series continues to progress. Case in point, in

2900
02:34:46,879 --> 02:34:52,440
Speaker 2: Game five, remember the Lakers lost by seven one h

2901
02:34:52,520 --> 02:34:55,880
Speaker 2: three ninety six the game in and on a sixteen

2902
02:34:55,879 --> 02:34:58,640
Speaker 2: to eight Minnesota run. Well, what if I told you then,

2903
02:34:58,760 --> 02:35:01,080
Speaker 2: not only did Minnesota knock twenty one to forty two

2904
02:35:01,160 --> 02:35:06,600
Speaker 2: doing they need to from behind the arc, they went

2905
02:35:06,680 --> 02:35:10,320
Speaker 2: seven to forty seven, They missed forty three point shots,

2906
02:35:11,040 --> 02:35:16,280
Speaker 2: they shot fifteen percent from three point land, and yet

2907
02:35:16,320 --> 02:35:19,320
Speaker 2: still won Game five one o three to ninety six.

2908
02:35:19,640 --> 02:35:22,760
Speaker 2: And along the way, they rushed him, They blitzed him,

2909
02:35:22,760 --> 02:35:27,000
Speaker 2: They targeted Luca. They would trap him just after crossing

2910
02:35:27,040 --> 02:35:30,640
Speaker 2: the timeline, which bothered him tremendously. Now, Luca is a

2911
02:35:30,720 --> 02:35:33,560
Speaker 2: very skilled player, so he'd managed to wiggle his way

2912
02:35:33,560 --> 02:35:36,039
Speaker 2: out and maybe throw a little dipsy dodo behind the

2913
02:35:36,040 --> 02:35:38,680
Speaker 2: back pass or something and get it to an open Laker.

2914
02:35:38,720 --> 02:35:42,480
Speaker 2: But but at that time, six seven valuable seconds had taken,

2915
02:35:43,080 --> 02:35:45,240
Speaker 2: had come off the twenty four second clock, which did

2916
02:35:45,240 --> 02:35:47,560
Speaker 2: not allow the Lakers to get into their offensive set

2917
02:35:48,760 --> 02:35:53,680
Speaker 2: and oftentimes settled for a shot that hit the front

2918
02:35:53,680 --> 02:35:57,640
Speaker 2: of the rim or worse. And oh, by the way,

2919
02:35:57,680 --> 02:35:59,760
Speaker 2: when Luca had to get back on defense in Game

2920
02:35:59,800 --> 02:36:04,680
Speaker 2: five alone, there were nine blowbys blow right by him. Look,

2921
02:36:04,760 --> 02:36:08,560
Speaker 2: defense is desire, that's what it is. I'm gonna beat

2922
02:36:08,600 --> 02:36:10,560
Speaker 2: you to that spot. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna

2923
02:36:10,600 --> 02:36:12,880
Speaker 2: do it again. I'm gonna frustrate you. I'm gonna bother you.

2924
02:36:13,400 --> 02:36:16,520
Speaker 2: Luca doesn't do that. I get it. Luca is a

2925
02:36:16,560 --> 02:36:20,320
Speaker 2: prolific offensive player. He's a fan favorite. Luca doesn't want

2926
02:36:20,320 --> 02:36:22,959
Speaker 2: to play defense. This is who he is. I'm sticking

2927
02:36:23,000 --> 02:36:26,360
Speaker 2: to that. If you're telling me he can turn into

2928
02:36:26,360 --> 02:36:29,640
Speaker 2: something better. And I'm not talking about Dennis Robin or

2929
02:36:29,720 --> 02:36:32,959
Speaker 2: Joe Dumars or the glove Gary, I'm just talking about

2930
02:36:33,000 --> 02:36:37,000
Speaker 2: a serviceable NBA defensive player. Well, don't tell me, show me.

2931
02:36:38,000 --> 02:36:40,920
Speaker 2: Don't tell me, show me, show me that Luca is

2932
02:36:40,959 --> 02:36:42,840
Speaker 2: willing to do that. I don't think he wants to.

2933
02:36:44,160 --> 02:36:46,400
Speaker 2: I really don't, and we're gonna find out. And don't

2934
02:36:46,400 --> 02:36:48,720
Speaker 2: tell me. He's only twenty six. He's been in the

2935
02:36:48,760 --> 02:36:52,119
Speaker 2: league eight years. He's a veteran. He's been a professional

2936
02:36:52,240 --> 02:36:56,040
Speaker 2: basketball player for twelve. Luca's been a professional basketball player

2937
02:36:56,320 --> 02:36:58,879
Speaker 2: and some very high leagues since he was fourteen years old.

2938
02:36:59,160 --> 02:37:01,959
Speaker 2: This is who he is. And by the way, Game

2939
02:37:02,000 --> 02:37:06,320
Speaker 2: five on the Road was a microcosm. Behind Rudy Gobert's

2940
02:37:06,360 --> 02:37:09,480
Speaker 2: twenty seven points and twenty four rebounds, the t Wolves

2941
02:37:09,520 --> 02:37:13,039
Speaker 2: completely dominated Game five, as much as one team can

2942
02:37:13,120 --> 02:37:16,840
Speaker 2: dominate another when the margin to victory is only seven points.

2943
02:37:17,680 --> 02:37:20,040
Speaker 2: And the reason it was is because the Timberwolves were

2944
02:37:20,080 --> 02:37:22,840
Speaker 2: incredibly bad from three point range seven to forty seven.

2945
02:37:23,000 --> 02:37:25,600
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, Anthony Edwards, the star who

2946
02:37:25,640 --> 02:37:27,560
Speaker 2: everybody's falling in love with, and they shook because he's

2947
02:37:27,560 --> 02:37:31,520
Speaker 2: a good player. He only scored fifteen points at night

2948
02:37:31,560 --> 02:37:34,560
Speaker 2: on five to nineteen shooting, missed all eleven in his threes,

2949
02:37:35,320 --> 02:37:37,880
Speaker 2: but he had breakout stars Jade McDaniels. He only had

2950
02:37:37,920 --> 02:37:41,560
Speaker 2: eight points in eighteen minutes, filed out. Navried only had

2951
02:37:41,560 --> 02:37:45,240
Speaker 2: three points, but none of that mattered. Why John Wooden

2952
02:37:45,280 --> 02:37:47,480
Speaker 2: said it best, there's a place in Heaven for rebounders.

2953
02:37:47,879 --> 02:37:50,600
Speaker 2: The Wolves out rebounded the Lakers fifty four to thirty

2954
02:37:50,600 --> 02:37:54,160
Speaker 2: seven that night, outscored them twenty two to four, bench points,

2955
02:37:54,400 --> 02:37:57,160
Speaker 2: twenty to ten and second chance points, and fifty six

2956
02:37:57,200 --> 02:38:00,959
Speaker 2: to forty in the paint. Even Julius Randall shook off

2957
02:38:01,000 --> 02:38:03,680
Speaker 2: the early foul trouble to finish what twenty three points,

2958
02:38:03,720 --> 02:38:06,879
Speaker 2: five rebounds, and fourth This in the end, a gritty,

2959
02:38:07,000 --> 02:38:10,720
Speaker 2: gutty victory for a team that throughout the season didn't

2960
02:38:10,720 --> 02:38:13,120
Speaker 2: have a lot of that. They had a seventeen and

2961
02:38:13,200 --> 02:38:15,360
Speaker 2: four run to finish the season, and no one noticed

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02:38:15,440 --> 02:38:18,000
Speaker 2: because you're all too busy staring at the Lakers, who

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Speaker 2: finished nineteen and thirteen. Oh by the way, the Lakers

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Speaker 2: were a three seed the t Wolves worth six seed.

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Speaker 2: No one thought the Lakers would lose to the Tea

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Speaker 2: Wolves much less than five. We'll see what happens in

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Speaker 2: the future, but the Lakers, I don't have any faith

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Speaker 2: that this Luca Lebron thing is gonna work, and they're

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Speaker 2: running out of time. In the meantime, we'll have another

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Speaker 2: great game on Sunday night between the Golden State Warriors

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Speaker 2: and the Houston Rockets. Good look to Ryan Hollins team

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Speaker 2: that's gonna end up doing it for the Bernie Frattle Show,

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Speaker 2: I'll see you next Saturday night at eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 2: In the meantime, keep it locked right here for the

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Speaker 2: great Andy Furman on Fox Sports Radio.