WEBVTT - 01/13/21 DPS Hour 1 Ross Tucker 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.920 Sports Radio. We made it to a Wednesday. It's our one, 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:09.440 Dan and the Dane's Dan Patrick's Show. Come on in 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:13.360 stay a while. You can watch us via peacock all 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.079 three hours. Download the app. You can watch for free. 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.280 Say good morning to our radio affiliates, those on chat row. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.239 Coming up, we'll talk some basketball with Chris Mannox, Nate 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:28.440 Burrelson on loan from CBS Sports. I thought he did 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.880 a great job on Nickelodeon. We'll talk to Nates about 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.479 all the NFL things going on right now. And Ross Tucker, 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.120 our favorite analysts from Westwood One. He will stop by 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.839 as well. With no football and last night, I was 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.080 kind of like a bear coming out of hibernation after 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.440 three days of nothing but the NFL. In the National 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.760 Title Game, I imagine we were all a little bleary eyed. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.320 And even if you're kind of surfing looking for college 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.440 basketball or the NBA, you're not quite sure if the 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.560 games are going to be played. They've canceled multiple games lately. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.000 But in the shadow of football, this hasn't made a 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.520 dent in the news cycle because we've been so consumed 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.800 by the NFL with the playoffs, the National Title game, 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.360 and we're looking at these NBA games and we're like, okay, 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.959 they got restarted here and you know, to shortened season, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.760 and all right, I'll catch up with it and maybe 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.920 March or so. But there's a lot of things going 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.280 on right now when you think about it in sports, 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.560 and you have the Rockets with James Harden, you got 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.120 the Nets with Kyrie Irving, the Texans with Deshaun Watson. 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.679 These are situations that are fluid. They're happening right now, 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:37.840 and we're trying to fix them or at least come 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:41.240 up with an explanation as to why they're happening. I 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.440 watched James Harden last night with the Lakers, and there's 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.360 one thing that I will say about James Harden, and 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.840 I've said this before many many times. I find him amazing. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.720 He's somebody that I love to watch, but I love 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.280 to watch when he wants to play basketball. He doesn't 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.640 look like he wants to play basketball. It looks like 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.120 he doesn't want to be in Houston, doesn't want to 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.160 be in a Houston uniform, and it's basically given up. 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:10.560 That's really troubling because he's not being professional, and he's 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.600 the one that helped orchestrate all of this. He is 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.360 the Houston Rockets. He's the one who wanted this guy, 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.400 and you trade that guy, bring this guy in. And 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.239 then all of a sudden he looked around and he went, 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.600 wait a minute, I don't like what's going on here. 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.280 I don't like who we have here. James. You created 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:33.080 the situation. If it look no further than you and 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:36.440 then start to take inventory with other people that you 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.560 want to bring into the blame game here, but it 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:44.320 starts with you. You don't want to be there. Okay, 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.640 now what so the Rockets who did everything that you 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:53.560 wanted them to do, now you want them to trade you. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.160 You're still scoring your fourteenth in the league in scoring, 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.320 but he doesn't even get over twenty points, believe in 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.000 the last four games, and last night he didn't want 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.760 to be there. And after the game, this is what's 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.200 really troubling. When he had this to say to the media, 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.360 which is not good at us. The chemistry tell him 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.919 was just everything and it was clear, like I said, 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.880 these last few games, I love the city. I literally 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.760 done everything that I can. I mean, this situation this 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.440 is crazy to know it's something that I don't think 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.680 you fixed. Sixteen, twenty, fifteen, and fifteen. Those are his 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.640 points the last four games. James Harden can have that 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:38.240 in a quarter. He didn't want to play. You've lost 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.080 four or five. You got embarrassed by the Lakers last night. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.720 But instead of being a professional saying, hey, I helped 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.200 create this, I'm going to stay in here for the 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.160 long haul and try to make this better. What was it? 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.360 Was there a moment where he looked around and went, 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.920 do I really want to play with these guys? Do 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:58.840 I want to play this style? Do I want to 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.360 be known as this kind of play? And it has 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:06.200 to be frustrating for Houston fans because it wasn't long ago. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.160 Where you go, the Rockets are exciting, We got DeShawn Watson. Hey, 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.360 the Astros are winning the World Series. Now Deshaun Watson 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:18.600 wants out, Westbrook is out. You got John Wall, Poor 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.200 John Wall. John Wall coming back from surgery on his 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.200 achilles and he's looking around going, wait a minute, I've 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:29.560 only been here nine games, Like what's wrong? Here's John 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.520 Wall on James Harden wanning out of Houston and a day. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.560 A lot of guys years are going to compete, and 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.640 I love them, and like I told everybody to night 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.560 and I told the guy was doing. When the one 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:42.640 through fifteen guys all on the same thing and they commit, 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:44.120 they know their role, they know what they want to do, 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:45.400 they know what they want to get out of this. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.720 That's to win you all to be fine. But when 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.120 you have certain guys in the mix that don't want 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.160 to buy in all this one, he's gonna be hard 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:53.960 to do anything, specially to do anything good as a 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.400 basketball team. I've been on those teams and my lamby 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:57.720 has been the league. I've been on team like that 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.720 my first five years where it was all about me, me, me, me, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.160 not about the team and ars and it brings everybody down. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.120 So we can get all on the same page. There 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.320 can be something good here and we can't do it 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.159 down on it because there's only been nine games. Like, 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.239 come on, man, you want to jump out the cliff 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:13.920 all the nine games. Here's a lot of basketball stud 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:18.520 We played John Walls, the professional in the room. This 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.600 is what James Harden should be saying. Hey, it's nine games. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.920 We got a good group of guys here, and we're 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.240 gonna make this better. Instead of throwing his arms up saying, hey, 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.120 I want out of here. It's like somebody who builds 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.520 a house and it's not a good house, and then 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.400 they're the ones that built the house, and then they say, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.440 I don't want to live in this house. You build it. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.479 I don't want to live here. He wants to go 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:45.400 to somebody else's house. And you know, we I guess 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.040 we expect the Nets are gonna go. I trade Kyrie 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.599 for James Harden. How about that if you can find Kyrie, 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.040 because right now we have no idea. We have no 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.159 idea what's going on with Craig Kyrie Irving. But the 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.360 Nets got to do all the right things, say all 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.920 the right things, and I got to give him time. Hey, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.960 he'll be back when he needs to come back. Okay. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.800 My point through all of this was at least let 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:15.400 Steve Nash know what's going on so he doesn't look foolish. Steve, 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:21.200 where's your starting point? Guard? I'm not sure haven't been 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.400 in touch with him, only he's been in touch with 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:29.960 some of his teammates. Yeah, I know. Like, this is 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:31.719 where you go. It's eleven o'clock. Do you know where 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.400 your kids are? Like? Hey, it's game time. Do you 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:41.120 know where you're starting point guard is? I would just say, 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.000 and I don't know if any of the media is 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:48.640 just say, do you know where Kyrie is? How concerned 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.039 are you that Kyrie is not here? Why is he 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:57.120 not playing in this game? Here's Steve Nash. Are you 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.480 sure Kyrie will be back this year? Or are you 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.000 at least confident he will be sure? You know, I, 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.320 like I said, like right now, I got to focus 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.360 on coaching this team and getting the best out of him, 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:15.000 So I can't make any predictions prognostications about things that 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.760 are outside of this building. This evening. You know, we 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.200 got our hands fall of the nugs and my hands 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.720 are full there and then that's really where I gotta focus, 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:28.400 all right. I feel bad for Steve now. When this started, 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.920 they got Kyrie and Katie, and I said, it's either 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:36.680 going to be spectacularly great or spectacularly a disaster. And 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:39.760 it's been both because we do see glimpses of boy 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:43.760 these guys can be unbelievable too, okay, And Kyrie is 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.880 the key, you know, in Cleveland it became an issue. 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.880 In Boston, it became an issue, and he just got 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.960 there with the nets a little over a year and 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.640 here we are, and maybe there's something more to this. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:01.160 Maybe maybe there's something that's serious going on right now 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:06.280 and it deserves a sensitive touch here. I get all 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.560 those things, but at least let your coach know that 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.600 you're not going to be playing. That's the point, you know. 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.720 Deshaun Watson's not happy. And I understand why he's not 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.840 happy because he looks around and he goes, Okay, we 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.480 traded away DeAndre Hopkins. Who did we get Well, he 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.800 didn't get anything there. We used to have a formidable defense. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.960 We don't have a formidable defense. I turned in the 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:30.000 greatest season the quarterbacks ever turned in for a team 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:36.079 that won four games statistically. Look at his numbers. He 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.360 was doing everything he can and looks around and goes, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.280 all right, I got a coach. Now, I don't want 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.520 him to be the coach. Who's the general manager? Who 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:45.840 are we bringing as our general manager? I like to 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.560 have this guy interviewed. You gave me the power to 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.320 at least be involved in these decisions, which I didn't 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.160 agree with. But you gave him the power to be 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.600 involved in these decisions. And here you are. He wants 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:02.200 Eric B. Enemy interviewed, and I think that's going to happen. 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:07.520 Everybody is being interviewed by the way over Zoom. Everybody like, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:13.400 if you're not interviewed this year with Zoom, you're not 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:21.000 getting interviewed. I mean Jason Garrett getting interviewed. But possibility 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.480 to the head coaching job of the Chargers, Like everybody 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.000 come on down, get on a Zoom call, and then 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.800 they don't have time or they're not interested in Eric B. Enemy. Okay, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.880 I'm not saying Eric B. Enemy is the next Andy Reid, 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.240 but it does feel like there's a pretty good track 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:40.560 record there. You do have his quarterback who is speaking 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.520 on his behalf, who would then lose him as his 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.200 offensive coordinator, but thinks that highly of him, even letting 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.600 Deshaun Watson know you should bring in Eric B. Enemy 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.839 as your head coach. So there's a lot of things 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:58.120 going on with big question marks attached to them. Deshaun Watson, 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.440 James Harden, and of course Kyrie Irving. I was looking 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.679 at these numbers with James Harden, and the reason why 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.520 I'm piling on is because I've been over the top 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.959 supportive of James Harden. As a basketball player. I find 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:20.240 him truly amazing. First three games average thirty seven shot 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.760 fifty two from the floor, forty five from three point range, 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:30.520 had five three pointers per game. Made last five games 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:35.920 seventeen points per game, shooting thirty seven percent, shooting twenty 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.559 five percent from three point range, and he's making two 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:46.240 three pointers per game. James Harden has licked the stamp, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.080 put it on the envelope, and mailed it in. And 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:53.640 I have a problem with that. Not everybody's going to 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.319 play with the best team, but you've got to make 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:00.720 the best of a situation that you helped create. And 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.200 if you want to play better, Like, if I'm a 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:08.040 team right now, do I go? Man? Now's when I 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.800 really want James Harden. Looks like he's out of shape 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.640 and looks like he doesn't care. Man, Who do we 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:19.200 want to give up to get James Harden? At least 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.720 a Shawn Watson is coming off an unbelievable year for 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.760 a bad team that went through an awful lot, and 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:33.480 he still played magnificently. Yeah, boy, when you said that 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.640 about James Harden, I thought to myself, this sounds like 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:40.400 a job for the New York Knickerbocker. Yeah. Yeah, they 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.000 got some young talent. Let's package him up. Yeah, but 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:44.800 he's not gonna want to go there, of course. That 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.080 I mean, that's the thing is that he wants to 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.000 go for a winner. Hey, I gotta go. I gotta 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.360 be part of a winner. Okay, you gotta be part 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.839 of a winner. But weren't you part of a winner 0:11:55.880 --> 0:12:00.080 in Houston? You just got to a certain glass ceiling 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.320 and you couldn't get through it. I understand those things, 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.720 But you didn't want Chris Paul anymore. You wanted Russell Westbrook. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:12.160 You traded away all of your draft picks, and then 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.480 you suddenly were moving on from Russell Westbrook. You know, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.800 that's one of those where you have to go, you know, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.800 maybe I'm the problem. Like after a while, you go, 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.880 who's the problem here? What's the problem here? James has 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.920 to look at this and go, maybe I'm part of 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:34.720 the problem. Does anybody want to play with me? And 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.360 how many times does a superstar go, you know, I'm 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:42.000 the problem. It's really really really really rare and if 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.040 they do it, they probably don't say it publicly. But 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.320 James Harden has to look at this and say, I 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:52.079 can be the solution to my problem me. But I 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.720 don't think he wants to this program brought you by 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.480 built Bar eighteen amazing flavors like mint brownie and coconut Almond. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.679 Some of my babes go to builbar dot com and 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.320 with the promo cod DP and get twenty percent off 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.320 your purchase. You got a pull question for me, mccleuvin. 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.480 I mean, I want to put up who would you 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.720 rather have on your team? Kyrie or James Harden? Just 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.160 solve all our problems with one fouls who? All right? 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.560 That's fine? Do you? I mean do you think it 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.600 could honestly happen where the nets could get harder at 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.319 some point? I mean, if this gets pushed close to 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:24.880 the trade deadline and he really wants to go to 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:32.640 a contender, I think I think the host in me, 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.320 the person looking for content, would love if he went 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.079 to the nets, because once again, it could be either 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:43.280 great or disaster. But if I'm Kevin Durant, I don't 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:48.200 want that. You have a talented team there? You do 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:49.840 you have a talented team? Do you think you have 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:55.040 enough to win a title? Though? Sure, if Kyrie is there. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.760 Kyrie plays it like when's the last time Kyrie played 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:02.520 a full season? Like, I can't count on that. And 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.360 here's Katie who did everything possible to get ready for 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.000 this season, coming back from achilles surgery, which is not 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.560 easy to do, and he looks great, look great last night. 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:20.560 But I think that I guess the Rockets have to 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.320 make a move. But you know what, it's a shame 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.640 because they're gonna make a move and they're gonna trade 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.440 somebody and they're not gonna get They're gonna get not 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.560 pennies on the dollar, but you're not going to get 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.160 your true value for James Harden. I mean, are you 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.800 getting three or four good players here? You're getting anybody 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:44.080 potentially great? Here is this addition by subtraction. I think 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:48.000 that's that's what happens players. You know, NBA players have 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.600 the power. You don't always find this in other leagues, 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.720 but you do in the NBA. You've got power. Yeah, 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.160 McLevin our two, Paul and I don't know if it's related. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.240 Is there any trade package that the Texans should listen to? 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.840 If you're you run the Texans? Are you taking calls 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.800 right now? Yes? Yeah? I mean I think you have 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.840 to do your due diligence here, because what if Miami 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:13.040 blows you away? What if they say we'll give you two, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.400 we'll give you the third pick? Overall? Okay, you got 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.600 my attention. I mean, Deshaun Watson's a wonderful player, but 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:26.000 you're not winning anything with Deshaun Watson, not anytime soon. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.520 Factor in his contract. I mean, that team's a mess. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.640 It's like the Eagles. I would not want that job. 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.120 I would want to be the head coach in the NFL, 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:41.920 but the Eagles situation is a mess. Like if I 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:45.320 was the PA announcer at the grocery store, I'd be saying, 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.120 we got a spill in Aisle six, we got a 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.080 spill in Aisle three. I mean, that's really what's happening today. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.800 There are a lot of spills, and I think you're 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.600 seeing that with Houston with the tech since with the 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:05.360 rockets and the nets potentially could be a disaster as well. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.040 All right, eight seven seven three d P Show email 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.560 address dp A dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.160 TP show. Steven Ohio leads us off, I Steve, what's 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:20.200 on your mind? How's it going? A big fan? Sixty? Literally, 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.920 I'll tell you what h I was raised by a 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.160 terrific father who said, when somebody pays you to do 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.520 a hard day's work, that's what you do. And that's 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.360 what I do every day. And see my family. These guys. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.200 I'm a pro player guy, I am, but these guys 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.520 are getting out of control. And you know, I'm a 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.240 Cavs fan, but I love the late Kobe Bryant. I 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.120 remember No. Eight when he wanted a trade from La 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.880 not real public, didn't whine and complain when the season 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.720 started they had found a deal, he had vetoed it. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.600 Not a lot of media attention, at least from that side, 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.600 and then he played his ass off because that's what 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.560 professionals do, and you know it ended up working out 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.160 for them. He didn't whine and complain, he didn't cry 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.040 about it in the newspaper. He just out every night played. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.800 And I think that these guys need to take a 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:06.800 page out of his book. You know, he would lose 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.280 a big series. He was the first guy to the 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.160 podium to answer questions. That's what professionals do. And when 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.720 I look at a guy like James Harden, just not professional. 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:15.720 I wouldn't want that guy in my organization or on 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.240 my team. Yeah, and you know I put them in 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.200 a real difficult position. Thanks for the phone call, because 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.760 you did what he wanted you to do. And we 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.159 all looked at this and said, can you win with 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.600 the roster where your starting lineup is six, seven and under? 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:34.919 You got Mike D'Antoni very entertaining regular season teams that 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:40.000 he's coached, but not great postseason teams. And James Harden 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.760 wanted this, got this, and now he wants to leave. 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.480 And it sounded like that was an exit interview last 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.280 night or an exit comment. Hey I love this city, 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:56.399 but yeah, I've done everything that I can. The situation's crazy. 0:17:56.440 --> 0:18:00.640 It's something I don't think can be fixed. Yeah, Paul, 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:03.560 have you noticed in the past two months that this 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.200 is going on. Guys like Adrian Wishnowski have not reported 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.919 any trade offers, trade movement. It's a very quiet story 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.159 except for the coverage of it. It doesn't seem like 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.359 there's a lot of active people trade trying to trade 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.359 for him. Well, all stories always get out, and he's 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.399 trying to expand the list, or his agent is because 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.200 if you say, hey, these are the teams I want 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.679 to go to, well you might not get that it 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.040 might be somebody who was one of the teams that 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.600 are on the precipice of being a playoff team. There's 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.879 no guarantee here. Hey, I want to go to the nets. Okay, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.119 So how do we make that happen? James? We just 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.199 take whoever they give us, and then we send you 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.719 on your married way, because we've given you everything before. 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.720 And that's the disappointing part of this. Through all of this, 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.480 I always saw James Harden putting up numbers, playing hard 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:59.399 and being a force. And the last four games and 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.720 last night and then these comments. That's really disappointing to hear, 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.680 really disappointing. All Right, we got our poll question here. 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:12.280 Steve Sarkisian has taken over at Texas. The college football 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:16.760 transfer season is officially under way. Kyrie m i a 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:22.720 NBA tightening up hotel protocols. No hugging, no hugging. The 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.360 Seahawks have fired their offensive coordinator. There's a whole lot 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.040 going on, a whole lot going on. Man, we haven't 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:31.240 even gotten to the games coming up this weekend, but 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.879 we will. The popular Ross Tucker will join us coming up. 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.439 What would he do with Deshaun Watson in Houston, and 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:41.880 is there an offer out there where you go. Okay, 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:46.119 I think that benefits both teams. We'll talk to Rossill 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.400 Jonas coming up next. It's twenty one after the hour. 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:51.280 Just getting fired up here on this Wednesday, Dan and 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:56.040 the Dan that's Dan Patrick Show. 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He'll be 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:43.560 in Buffalo on Saturday night AFC Divisional playoff game between 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.919 the Ravens and Bills. That's on Westwood one, and he 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.639 was also on the broadcast for the coltson Bills wildcard 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.960 game this past weekend. Ross, thanks for joining us. What's 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:57.400 the weather forecast in Buffalo. Yeah, it's gonna be cold, Dan, 0:21:57.520 --> 0:22:00.639 as you might imagine, and they're saying there's a chance 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:05.159 of snow now only accumulating an inch or so. But 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.879 Lamar Jackson already talking about it. He was asked about 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.959 it yesterday. He said he's never played in snow before. 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.280 He doesn't want to play in snow. Remember he's a 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.280 South Florida kid. So I think I already tweeted this 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:21.879 morning Dan at Ross Tucker NFL the first rule of 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:25.480 snow football club is never admit that you don't want 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:28.199 to be a part of snow football. I mean, like 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:31.000 it's like Lamar, I think it's a little bit too honest, 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:33.040 Like we know you don't want to play in the snow, man, 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.200 but it might be snowing Saturday night, so just embrace 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:38.280