WEBVTT - 06/17/21 DPS Hour 2 Frank Isola 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.840 Sports Radio Our two on this Thursday, Dan and the 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.639 Dan Nets Dan Patrick Show. Nobody likes when people say 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:14.120 I told you so, but I think Lebron James has 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.759 the right to say I told you so. It's that 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:20.400 coming up here at a moment. Phone calls always welcome. 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.640 We'll check in on the Bucks and the Nets. That's 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:29.080 coming up tonight, and but they gotta do some pretty 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.160 good playing there to kind of top what we saw 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.480 last night. So Nets Bucks Game six tonight, Hawks beat 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.320 the seventies sixers in one of the biggest comebacks in 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.239 NBA playoff history. They're up three games to two. The 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.960 Clippers over the Jazz, They're up three games to two. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:48.479 We'll touch on those teams those games coming up. Before 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.600 the season, Lebron James criticized the NBA for condensing the 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.360 offseason during the pandemic, and earlier this week he reminded 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.760 everybody of that, saying that's the reason why we're seeing 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.440 so many stars go down with injuries. Now. The NBA 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.760 started the season just seventy one days after the Lakers 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.600 won the title. The league defended itself by saying that 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.600 the injury rates are normal, I think that maybe they're 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:15.640 exacerbated because these are big names getting hurt, high profile 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:21.280 players getting hurt, not just role players. It's it's hard 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.039 to look at the basketball analysis of this because the 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.600 health issues, what's going on, how it's impacted each of 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:33.160 these series. But it's it's pronounced because this is such 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.640 an even field now. It feels like it's wide open 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.520 and with all these injuries, everybody has a chance to 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.200 win a championship this year or it's you know, at 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.679 least get to the NBA title games. It's wide open. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.880 It feels like the team that's the healthiest has the 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.040 best chance to win it all. Last night, you saw 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.560 a Clipper team without Kawhi going into Utah, and I 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.800 think surviving the first half was the biggest reason why 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:04.160 they won the game, because Utah was unbelievable from three 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:08.480 point range and they held. They were only down five points. 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.200 Clippers down five points. Seventeen of thirty from three point 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:14.520 range in the first half for Utah, but the Clippers 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.959 only down five. That's because of Paul George. Paul George 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.600 had twenty two in the first half, and because of that, 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.640 I'm thinking some doubts. Starts to creep in a little 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.480 bit with the jazz. You're at home, you're killing it 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:32.520 from three point range, but you're only up five, and 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.160 Paul George is starting to get on a roll. I 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:37.720 don't know if Kauai is going to play the next 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:42.760 two games now. Adrian Wachnarowski of the Mothership said it's 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.200 unlikely Kawai is going to play. If there is now, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.239 there'll be a game six. If there's a game seven. 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.880 But if you're Utah, you had your opportunity. They don't 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.440 have quiet now you still do, but you got to 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.919 win that game and then you know, worst case scenario, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.680 you get to come back home for game seven and 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:08.440 then we have the seventy six ers. Congratulations, well done, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.680 well done. If you turn the game off at halftime, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.600 like I did, you probably went, wait, I'm looking at 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.400 the bottom line and it's got Atlanta leading late in 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:26.600 the game, and I went, how is that possible? Atlanta 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.040 scored sixteen in the second quarter, and I go, all right, well, 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.840 maybe they can extend this going back home and they 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.880 can win, and they can force a game seven. That'd 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.800 be nice for a team that nobody gave any credit 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:42.280 to going into the playoffs. Nate McMillan's done a wonderful 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.720 job as their head coach, and so is ty Lou 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:48.560 with the Clippers. I know we tend to focus on 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.160 the marquee names, the bigger name coaches. These guys have 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:58.520 made adjustments. Imagine you're down twenty six in Philadelphia and 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:04.840 you don't panic. That starts with a coach. Imagine you're 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.840 up twenty six and then all of a sudden, you 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:12.480 start to lose the lead, and then you panic because 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.440 I thought, Joe l embiide, that's one of those we're 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.840 gonna He's gonna get his and not much we can 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.600 do about it. Maybe he gets tired, and he looked 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:26.240 tired in the second half. It's not an apt analogy, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.799 but I'll use it just because it came to mind 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.960 when George Foreman fought Muhammad Ali and this was the 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.880 famous ropea doo and George is just hitting him with 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:40.080 everything he's got and Ali is just on the ropes, 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.560 covering up, and we thought the referee's going to eventually 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.279 stop it, because you had to. Ali was gonna get hurt. 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.159 But this was his game plan. Give me everything you got, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.839 and then you're going to tire yourself out. And then 0:04:54.880 --> 0:05:01.640 Ali knocked him out and Philadelphia took everything that gave 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.600 them everything they had in the first half, and then 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.880 all of a sudden second half, they looked tired. Ben 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:13.400 Simmons looked tentative. I mean, you had Seth Curry was 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.800 the best player, second best player on the floor. So 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:23.440 Bias Harris, where are you? And then Doc Rivers, I mean, 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.520 Doc Rivers, you can't let a lead like that at 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:33.240 home dissipline and he did. Here's Doc after the loss. Listen, 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:37.520 we scored nineteen points and gave up forty. So it's 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.359 on us, It's on all of us, is on me, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.360 it's on the players, and we have to figure out 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.880 how to get back up, which we will and bring 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.760 this game back here for Game seven. Well, it has 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.919 no other choice. The Hawks come back, the biggest in 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.160 the NBA postseason since the Clippers rallied from thirty one 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.479 down to beat the Warriors back in twenty nineteen. That's 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.120 the third biggest comeback in the last twenty five years. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:04.200 Ben Simmons said something interesting. He said, what I think 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:08.440 he thinks. I was surprised. He said it publicly, even 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.279 though you've never been the best free throw shooter. Do 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.119 you feel at this problem at this point, your problem 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:18.400 is more mental than the form. Definitely, I think mental. No, 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.200 we were we had it. I think we gave it 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.560 so we got too comfortable and didn't play the way 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.200 we should be playing now. I don't know it was 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.560 a free throw question. I don't know if he was 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:34.240 talking about his team saying it was mental, because the 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.120 answer doesn't match the question. But if you start to 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.640 buy into this is mental, and I think it is. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.440 At the free throw line. He's four for fourteen last night, 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:48.080 twenty two of sixty seven. For the postseason, he's shooting 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.400 thirty two percent. There's only one other player in NBA 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.599 history who's taken at least forty free throws in a 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:58.320 postseason and shot worse, and that was Ben Wallace. That 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.960 was back in two thousand and six. And Ben can't 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.919 shoot at all. Ben shot twenty seven percent from the 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.240 line for the Pistons. I'm gonna go back to what 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.560 Lebron James was saying. He's saying, Hey, this quick turnaround, 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.040 and you're gonna have guys get hurt. You're gonna have 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:20.080 these soft muscle issues. They shorten the regular season, but 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.680 I don't know what else they could have done here. Now, 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.880 what Lebron is saying is there's truth in there that 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.520 there are players who are getting hurt. But these are 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.400 the marquee players. If you had role players who were 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.200 getting hurt, then we wouldn't be talking about this. But 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.400 you have big name players who are getting hurt. Therefore 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.960 it's impacting these series. But also understand this. If the 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.280 NBA came back to Lebron and the players Association and said, hey, 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:51.240 how about this, how about a fifty five game postseason, 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.880 I mean, understand the regular season. Understand the emergency state 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.960 that the NBA was in during the pandemic. No crowd 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.440 going to lose all of that money, players still getting paid. 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.440 They shut down mid season. If you say to Lebron 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.120 and everybody else, how about you guys take a twenty 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:17.320 five percent pay cut. You're gonna play in fewer games, 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.240 we can start later. Who's going to sign up for them? 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.440 No one. That's why when Lebron says this, you got 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.040 to listen at least to the other side of the equation. Here. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.720 This is a bonus. This is a bonus for them 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.280 to get paid during the pandemic and they don't have 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.680 to play all the games. But it's a business. These 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.200 owners are saying, we got no fans, We took a 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.080 huge financial hit, and Lebron says, hey, you made us 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.760 turn around play all these games. But Lebron is not 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:59.320 going to forego twenty five percent of his salary. Just 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:04.760 not gonna happen. Over the last three seasons, Lebron has 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.200 played one hundred and sixty seven games out of two 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.200 twenty five. Now they played all of the postseason games. 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.800 Kawhi one sixty nine out of two twenty six, Joe 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:19.040 Lmb one sixty six out of two twenty seven, Anthony 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.079 Davis one fifty four out of two twenty five, Kyrie 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:28.160 one forty one out of two twenty six. All, they 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.840 all missed lots of games. It's not just this year. 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:36.360 These guys are all taking time off because we've allowed 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.680 them to do it. Whether they're hurt or not. You 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:45.000 can stay out longer. Donovan Mitchell stayed out longer, James 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:52.439 Harden stayed out longer. Maybe Lebron stayed out longer. Nobody's 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.480 given any money back here, and I think That's where 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.840 both sides have to look at this and say, what 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.480 are the economics here? How do we make this work 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:05.800 still protect our investment, keep our stars healthy? And I 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.120 don't think anybody is going to go, let's take less 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.680 pay for less games. Yeah see, But would you rather 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.240 see the stars in the NBA play more games per 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:19.360 season but less seasons, or more seasons just less games 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.160 per season. I'd rather see them play for a longer time, 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.760 like I would if Larry Bird had shaved off twenty 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.000 games per season but played five more years. I would 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.960 rather prefer that than Yeah, but you're you're saying. Now 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.000 you're saying, let's reduce the regular season. And if that's 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.040 the case, then I have to reduce your paycheck. Are 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:40.680 you okay with that? That's the point is Lebron Okay 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.559 would take in twenty five percent less pay if it 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.720 means he can play more seasons because as an owner, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.920 I gotta make money somewhere here or I can't keep 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.720 losing money here. And I don't think Lebron or any 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.760 of these stars are going to go let me take 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.040 twenty five percent less of forty two million dollars. Not 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.160 going to happen. Yeah. Point. If the NBA would have 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.480 started in January, and given that, let's say the players 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.880 three more weeks of rest right this season, that means 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.800 the NBA Finals would have spilled over to August. It's 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.040 gonna be played in mid July. That means if it's 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.600 you're bumping it back to August, that means the offseason 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.760 for next season is shorter. Yeah right, It never ends. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.160 If you keep pushing it back, you're just pushing back 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.320 games against yourself. The NBA did the best, they cut 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.040 the games, they did everything, and they're trying to get 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.679 back on track. I don't like seeing Kawhi out or 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:34.439 Ebad hobbled, James Harden missing games. Anthony Davis, we want 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.120 to see the stars. Lebron with a sprained ankle. I 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.680 don't know if a sprained ankle. You know that that 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.560 the quick turnaround had anything to do with that. Same 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:47.079 with Kyrie. Kyrie stepped on you know somebody's foot Lebron, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.320 same thing. Kawai has got a bad knee, had nothing 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.199 to do with this offseason or the quick turnaround. Joe 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:59.120 l mbiad meniscus tear, but he's he hasn't been in 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.600 great shape. Anthony Davis has not been in great shape. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.320 James Harden has not been in great shape. So I'm 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.040 giving these guys all this time off. They're not in 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.040 great shape. Ad needs to get in better shape, Harden 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.360 needs to get in better shape. Embid needs to get 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.720 in better shape. Kauhi with that, you know he's going 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.480 to have that arthritis or whatever. He has the rest 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.720 of his life in that name, Kyrie. I mean he's 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.240 checked out for a couple of times for we don't 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:31.000 even undisclosed reasons here. Lebron is durable now. Lebron wanted 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:35.760 to win the MVP this year now once winned every year. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.800 I think he wanted to prove a point. He wanted 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.520 to play in all the games. He didn't want to 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:42.120 have load management. He wanted to show these other players. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.120 Did that factor in and him getting a sprained ankle, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.160 I don't think so. Yeah, mclovin, you know, maybe we 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.959 noticed it that more this year is usually it's Lebron 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.720 against the Warriors or some form of that. We didn't 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.920 care that the seventh and eighth and ninth playoff teams 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.640 had injuries this year. It's so wide open that everybody's 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.720 so maybe they were this many injuries, But who cares 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.760 if it's not Kevin Durant in the playoffs? I mean, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:06.559 why would we care if Donovan Mitchell was hurt three 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.400 years ago? Yeah, you're right. I mean we tend to 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.720 focus on the finished product, and that is who's playing 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.280 for the championship. And then when you have Clay Thompson 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.520 get hurt or Kevin Durant get hurt, then it becomes 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.600 like that affected who won the championship, not what happened 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.160 in the first round or second round or even Eastern 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.640 Western Conference finals. Has there been a lot of finals 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:31.199 that have been affected by injury? I remember Magic got hurt, right, yeah? Yeah, yeah? 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:36.040 And k D yeah and Clay thank you. It's it's 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.040 impacted that all Todd has got a limerick today and 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:44.520 it's the Hawks in the seventies sixers. Now, the guest 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:50.040 to limerick ratio is every guest you get a limerick, 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.280 and at least one you get one, because we had 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.080 one when we started the show, and then we have 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.640 Frank Aisola agreed to join us here. So you're up 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.839 against a break. Can you squeeze it in here? Don't 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.840 think I can? Okay, you know what how about we 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.680 just test this. Let's take a break, and then when 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:11.080 we come back, we'll do the limerick we share with 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.920 Frank Eye solo and get him wait in or you 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.679 rather get it out of No, no no, no, no, no, 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.760 we'll do that before we get to Frank and then 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.320 we'll just see if you know, the audience wants to 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.800 stay in their card so they can wait for this limerick. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.280 How's that? So we're gonna keep track of have your 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.960 numbers either jump or fall next few minutes? Okay, I 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.640 can hear those clicks I get Oh my god, no, 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:36.480 no stop, I told him to. Let's take a break. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.240 We're back after this. We'll check them with Frank Eys 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.000 solo with the nets Bucks game coming up tonight, back 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:47.640 after this. 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Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.600 Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.960 until noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.160 and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.600 FSR or stream us live on the Peacock app. I 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:34.000 hope you're still with us, Todd sell it. Todd has 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:39.880 a limerick. I believe this is based off last night's game. Yeah, okay, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.680 all right, are you ready? I am all right here 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.560 he is your limerick. Game five had the looks of 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.640 a joke as the Hawks appeared to be broke, Danillo 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.280 and Lou came to play. Don't mean to take that away, 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.640 but make no mistake, that was a joke, and that's 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.680 a limerick. Thank you, Todd. Welcome pull question Before I 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.120 get to Frank einsol, which team is kicking itself the 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.760 most after their recent loss? Seventy six Ers one and 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.680 then the Bucks are number two, Jazz three. Frank joins 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.400 us he's the Nets studio host on Yes. He's also 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.560 Sirius XM NBA Radio the Starting Lineup he contributes to 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.280 Around the Hoard And pardon the interruption, let me start 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.040 with the poll question. The team that's going to kick 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.080 themselves the most after last night, the Jazz or the Sixers. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:26.920 It's going to be the Sixers. They were up twenty six. 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.280 The Jazz would be second, and I would put Milwaukee 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.520 third on that list. So even though Milwaukee played, you know, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.520 a next team that Harden was clearly not himself, it's 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.720 still Kevin Durant. So you're losing to a guy having 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.160 a tremendous performance and we all know that he's capable 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:42.600 of it. I mean, come on, if you're in Utah, 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.360 you're showing up for work in your own building and 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.720 Kawhi Leonard's not going to play. And then if you're 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.080 Philadelphia up twenty six, how about the way they played 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.160 down the stretch of that game. I mean, it's the 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.640 numbers are off the charts. Think about it. Dan the 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.600 fourth quarter of the last two games and beat his 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.320 one for ten and Tobias is over five and Ben 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.520 Simmons has not attempted a shot in the fourth quarter 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.199 of Games four and five. That's remarkable. Do you have 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:12.760 to take him off the floor now, Layton games, I 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.399 think you do. I think once the Hawks get to 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.679 that fourth foul, I think you got to take him out. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:19.879 If I were Atlanta, I'm not going to intentionally foul 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.680 to get to my fifth foul. But once I get four, 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.960 I don't care which quarter it's in, I'm going to 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:26.800 foul him because you could tell it's clearly in his 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.879 head and it's affecting the Sixers and the fact that 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.960 they're going to be on the road. Ben Simmons, I 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.600 give him credit for this. At least he faced the music. 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:37.760 Last night. He was in front of the media, and 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.399 to the media's credit, they asked him a lot of 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.680 questions about his shooting and specifically his free throw shooting, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.520 and he stood there and he answered all the questions. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.080 MB did not meet with the media, but Simmons has 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.760 to do something. This is now becoming. It's one thing 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:51.840 for it to happen during the regular season, occasionally in 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.920 the playoffs. Somebody had a great stat Dan that he's 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.680 already missed more free throws in ten playoff games. I 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.840 think it's forty five then Steve Nash missed in his 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.720 entire career in the playoffs, he missed forty four. This 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.880 guy's already missed forty five in the playoffs. It's hard 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.159 to believe. And I know Doc Rivers is trying to 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.199 say the right thing about Ben Simmons, and he's a 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.040 unique player and he's a great player, but I can't 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.359 have You're not a superstar in a liability. You can't 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.359 be both walking on the floor in the same game. Yeah, 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.920 I also think you know Shack struggled with free throws, 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:28.119 but you never had the feeling that Shack was nervous 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:29.920 about going to the free throw line. And I think 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.400 I think the same thing is true if Janni Sintetakopo, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.879 who's not a good free throw shooter, Jannis isn't worried 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.560 in those moments. But when you're not taking a single 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.000 shot in the fourth quarter of the last two games, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.399 when your team blew an eighteen point lead and a 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.679 twenty five point lead or a twenty six point lead, 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:46.760 what does that tell you To me? It's like he's 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.280 I don't want to use the word afraid, but it 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.600 seems like he's afraid to step up to the free 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.159 throw line and take those shots. That has got to 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.160 be a major concern. But you're right about Doc. Doc's 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.159 doing the right thing. He's going to stand by his player. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.199 But this is up to Ben Simmons. He has to 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.359 figure this out some now, all right, So do you 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:06.480 have the Clippers figured out now? Because I don't, you know, 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.840 in the Dallas series, I didn't even in the bubble 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.520 last year, I still didn't have him figured out. Now 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:17.720 you don't have Kauai. Woades says, Kawai's probably doubtful for 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.160 games six and seven if there is a seven. But 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.119 so now it's it's Paul George again, and then you 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.440 know that supporting cast. Yeah, you know, I've been hearing 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.040 it's a significant They worry that it's a significant a 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.280 c L injury. So who knows when we'll see Kahi Leonard. 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:33.960 I get Paul George a lot of credit. You know, 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.360 he gets mocked a lot, and he did not play 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.080 well in the bubble. I don't like the way the 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.440 things that he said about Doc Rivers, especially after Doc 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.359 Rivers had gotten fired. But he's had a couple of 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.520 big time performances to go on the road this was 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.080 all about the Utah Jazz. They have to win that game. 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.520 I have not had the Clippers figured out. I will 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.639 say this, when Marcus Morris plays well, they seem to 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:57.000 play well. He's a tough guy. He knocks down big 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.840 time shots. Utah completely fell apart La they're shooting in 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:02.639 the second half. I think there were three for twenty 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.960 four on threes. I don't enjoy at times watching them play. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.040 When they're moving the ball around, they look good, but 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.840 there are times when they're just settling for long, deep 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.080 three pointers and it backfired on them big time in 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.400 the second half. Frank Gisla, he covers the nets, their 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:19.360 studio host on Yes and a contributor to Around the Horn, 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:23.600 Pardon the interruption, Let's focus in on your nets. What 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.880 do you expect tonight. I'll be interested to see how 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:30.320 many minutes Kevin Durant plays in the first half. You 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.720 know he won forty eight obviously in the last game. 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:34.960 I think he's going to come out at some point 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.280 in the first half of this game. If it's a 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:39.520 ten point game in the fourth quarter. To Steve Nash, 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.480 decide to maybe pull the plug at some point and say, 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.359 you know what, let's just rest up for Game seven. 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.119 I do think that hard and will knock down a 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.439 couple of shots. He just I give him credit for 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:50.399 being out there for forty six minutes. He just didn't 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:52.320 have it. He was never cutting to the basket. Eight 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.159 of his ten shots with threes, which told you he 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.320 was just settling. I don't think you're gonna get forty 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:58.840 nine points from Kevin Durant. I think you will get 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:02.000 a big time response from the Milwaukee Bucks. I expect 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:03.520 them to win this game. I think we're going to 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:05.680 get a game seven, which would be a great moment. 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.600 I just think Durant playing forty eight and James Harden 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:10.760 playing forty six. I think that's going to catch up 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:14.280 to the Nets tonight. I scratched my I was yelling 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.040 at the TV the last game because of what the 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:19.359 Bucks did and did not do. I know, I gave 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.439 Harden out there. You don't take advantage of him, make 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:25.000 him run making guards. Somebody the Greek freak had chances. 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:28.200 He had James Harden guarding him, I know. And he 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.080 doesn't take it to the hoop. He doesn't want to 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:32.920 get found. He doesn't want to go to the free 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.560 throw line. I mean that is that's a that's a 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:38.880 flawed logic here. You know, during crunch time with one 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.560