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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show. Competition level in the NBA bubble started
Speaker 1: out pretty high, and some of the games are still
Speaker 1: pretty good, and you've got a lot of scoring. Starting
Speaker 1: to see some teams rest some starters here like the
Speaker 1: Lakers did last night with Lebron and I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear any complaints. These are the last four games
Speaker 1: of the regular season. Nobody watches the last four games
Speaker 1: of a regular season during a normal year. We're just
Speaker 1: noticing it because it's the bubble, and it's the Lakers.
Speaker 1: But if you're a Laker fan, you're probably saying, we
Speaker 1: don't need to have Lebron out there the Bucks. You know,
Speaker 1: Bucks fans probably don't want the Greek freak out there either,
Speaker 1: although he looked great last night. Lakers and Bucks are
Speaker 1: the favorites, but teams like the Clippers and Raptors are
Speaker 1: right behind them. And you have a bit of an
Speaker 1: unknown right now because people are looking at Portland and
Speaker 1: could they be a spoiler here? Could the Rockets be
Speaker 1: a spoiler here? What about Denver? So there's a few
Speaker 1: teams we're not quite sure of, but we put a
Speaker 1: question mark by just how great they'll be if they
Speaker 1: get into the postseason. And by that I mean Portland.
Speaker 1: Because Portland had forty five from Damian Lillard last night.
Speaker 1: They're a half game out and Memphis is limping to
Speaker 1: the finish line. The Pelicans got a great night out
Speaker 1: of Zion, but they lost their game as well. Looks
Speaker 1: like Portland is going to be your team. I watched
Speaker 1: Phoenix against Indiana and they had two of the more
Speaker 1: interesting runs that I've ever seen in an NBA game.
Speaker 1: They went on a twenty one to nothing run and
Speaker 1: a seventeen to nothing run. They went on to win
Speaker 1: despite shooting nine of thirty four from three point range.
Speaker 1: Phoenix is now four and oh in the bubble. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it means, but they're four and oh
Speaker 1: in the bubble. But we have a couple of meaningless
Speaker 1: games coming up. For the most part, and I know
Speaker 1: I talked about this yesterday, everybody's talking about it today,
Speaker 1: and that is the Lakers offense. Now, the Lakers offense,
Speaker 1: unlike most of the other teams, has not been consistent,
Speaker 1: has not been explosive. We've seen some moments where Lebron
Speaker 1: goes off. We've seen some moments where Anthony Davis goes off.
Speaker 1: I don't think that they're concerned about the first round
Speaker 1: because the teams they would be playing in the first
Speaker 1: round are not good defensive teams. But it can show,
Speaker 1: probably will show when you get into the second round,
Speaker 1: because if you're getting into the second or third round,
Speaker 1: chances are you can play a little bit of defense.
Speaker 1: And I think that's when it might emerge that the
Speaker 1: Lakers have some issues here. You know, their backcourt, they're
Speaker 1: not quite sure. You know, when you lose two players
Speaker 1: like Rondo and Avery Bradley. That just affects your rotations,
Speaker 1: and they do have a good bench. I have to
Speaker 1: admit the young Waiters has played well. Kuzma Caruso, the
Speaker 1: question is are you going to put one of those
Speaker 1: guys in the starting lineup here to get more offense.
Speaker 1: That'll be what I'm looking for as we get closer
Speaker 1: to the start of the postseason or once we start
Speaker 1: that opening round. But Reggie Miller will join us coming
Speaker 1: up in a little bit. I mentioned the little tiff
Speaker 1: between Jim Harbaugh, the head coach at Michigan, and Ryan Day,
Speaker 1: he's the head coach at Ohio State. There was a
Speaker 1: big Ten coaches news conference yesterday. It was a conference call,
Speaker 1: and Jim reportedly interrupted Ohio States Ryan Day and accused
Speaker 1: him of breaking rules regarding on field instruction. Hardball asked
Speaker 1: Day about a photo that reportedly showed the Buckeyes assistant
Speaker 1: coach Al Washington working out the Ohio State linebackers. Now,
Speaker 1: NCAA rules don't permit on field instructions until today, so
Speaker 1: Day fired back, how about I worry about my team
Speaker 1: and you worry about yours. Then Ohio State had a
Speaker 1: team meeting on Monday and according to Buck Nuts is
Speaker 1: that a website. Our person, that's a website. Buck Nuts
Speaker 1: Day purportedly told his players that the Wolverines better hope
Speaker 1: there's a mercy rule this season, because quote gonna hang
Speaker 1: one hundred on them. There there is no mercy rule,
Speaker 1: by the way, in college football. When ESPN asked Day
Speaker 1: about the reported incidents during a Zoom meeting on Thursday,
Speaker 1: he declined to comment. I appreciate the question, but I'd
Speaker 1: rather not answered that right now. Well, I was in
Speaker 1: Columbus two years ago when they probably could have put
Speaker 1: a hundy on them. I think they put what sixty
Speaker 1: three on them, and they could have easily scored eighty
Speaker 1: that day against them. And here we are going to
Speaker 1: be in Columbus if they play now they moved it
Speaker 1: up a month. It was gonna be it's us Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 1: Oh boy. I would just go to tailgate and listen
Speaker 1: to the game outside. I mean, it's such a great
Speaker 1: atmosphere certainly for that game and in Columbus and even
Speaker 1: ann Arbor, but just to be able to go and listen, well,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be any fans there, so I don't
Speaker 1: know what I'd be listening for but just to have
Speaker 1: that atmosphere there looks like it'll be really, really spicy
Speaker 1: between those two. And if you're Horball, this is what
Speaker 1: Harball does. He doesn't win big games at Michigan, but
Speaker 1: he's pretty good in August. Harball might be undefeated in
Speaker 1: the spring, and in August we get to the regular season.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of problems there. Yes, if only he
Speaker 1: could translate that winning to actual games against Ohio State,
Speaker 1: then you'd really have something. So that conference call was
Speaker 1: on Monday, and then they followed up with Ryan Day
Speaker 1: yesterday and he didn't want to talk about how does
Speaker 1: somebody not have any audio of that? Now, this is
Speaker 1: a conference call with the coaches, but is the media
Speaker 1: is listening into this? The Big Ten has got to
Speaker 1: release this. Give us something here. We might not have football.
Speaker 1: This might be as close as we get to football here.
Speaker 1: How does somebody not record this? Yes? Wouldn't Why wouldn't
Speaker 1: they want the media to record it so that they
Speaker 1: get quotes correct And a lot of times, just if
Speaker 1: you're going to a classroom or wherever you are, you
Speaker 1: recording just so you can play it back and make
Speaker 1: sure you've got it exactly right. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I thought that this would be something that
Speaker 1: the media is able to record and then you can distribute,
Speaker 1: or that the Big Ten would record and then distribute
Speaker 1: Pat Forty from Yahoo's Sports Sports Illustrated. Every conference is
Speaker 1: now prepared for a player movement and likely will have
Speaker 1: a quick response. They all see it as a matter
Speaker 1: of when it happens in their league, not if there's
Speaker 1: a Mountain West player movement going on. You got I
Speaker 1: mentioned a couple of days ago that the source said,
Speaker 1: you're going to see smaller conferences, smaller schools, they're going
Speaker 1: to opt for the spring, and you're starting to see
Speaker 1: a few more of those situations. There a few more
Speaker 1: players that are opting out. You've got a couple of
Speaker 1: first rounders, potential first rounders, maybe a lottery pick out
Speaker 1: of Miami, out of the U. A defensive lineman. Is
Speaker 1: that Rousseau McLevin, Yes, like the philosopher. Oh okay, oh
Speaker 1: well thanks for that. Well, he's probably a top ten
Speaker 1: pick in mock drafts right now, and he's gonna opt out.
Speaker 1: I think you'll probably see a few more of these linemen,
Speaker 1: interior linemen who are going to opt out. You have
Speaker 1: the player at Purdue, Rundale Moore. He was great as
Speaker 1: freshman year and he's pretty much the face of Purdue football.
Speaker 1: He was injured last year. He's going to opt out
Speaker 1: as well. And that doesn't mean you can't opt back in.
Speaker 1: You don't have a deadline likeike you have with the NFL.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna have some of these players. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be maybe juniors, and they're gonna go. Should I continue
Speaker 1: to do this, Maybe I can get paid. I signed
Speaker 1: with an agent. If I'm going to be a first
Speaker 1: or second round pick, maybe I can get paid. Maybe
Speaker 1: I can just concentrate on getting ready for the combine.
Speaker 1: In the NFL draft, you might start to see a
Speaker 1: few more of those players. Ye ask MC club. Does
Speaker 1: the NFL hold it against any of these players if
Speaker 1: they don't play? Can it actually hurt their draft status?
Speaker 1: I think it depends on how good you are. I
Speaker 1: didn't hurt Nick Bosa, didn't hurt Christian McCaffrey of sitting
Speaker 1: out a bowl game. Didn't Leonard Fournette sit out a
Speaker 1: bowl game as well? Yeah? A lot of guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's different for just a bowl game, but
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa shut it down. And you know, Ohio State
Speaker 1: was fortunate that you have Chase Young, but you know
Speaker 1: that caught a lot of people's attention where you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: he's not going to try to come back at all.
Speaker 1: And this is a team that was going to play
Speaker 1: for a national championship and he was a captain, Like
Speaker 1: that was what was surprising about that. But nothing is
Speaker 1: going to surprise me now. And you're gonna remember when
Speaker 1: Lahoma moved up their season opener. They wanted to go
Speaker 1: a week earlier. They just want to get started, because
Speaker 1: I think that's the real fear that college football is
Speaker 1: not going to get started. It feels like if you
Speaker 1: get started, then it'll be harder to shut it down.
Speaker 1: And you know, is that the philosophy that Oklahoma had.
Speaker 1: Maybe let's just get going and then we'll see what
Speaker 1: the collateral damage is from week to week as we
Speaker 1: move forward here, but you're starting to see some of
Speaker 1: these conferences they're moving games back. You want to have
Speaker 1: this window of opportunity that you want to get the
Speaker 1: games in. You'd love to have them over by Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: and then you don't have you know, students won't be
Speaker 1: on campus. Then they'll go home for you know, the
Speaker 1: winter break, and maybe you'll be playing in a conference
Speaker 1: championship game, maybe you'll be playing in the playoffs. You know,
Speaker 1: you're seeing the playoffs in Division two and three. They're canceled.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're gonna have of that in
Speaker 1: uh FCS. But right now, it just feels like this
Speaker 1: is a moment to moment, day to day, almost hour
Speaker 1: to hour with college football. We'll talk to Pad forty.
Speaker 1: He'll join us coming up in a little bit. Yes, Pauli,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma felt like a bunch of guys paying the house
Speaker 1: for a rainstorm. Like they're just trying to slap it together,
Speaker 1: get it done before the big cloud comes in. That's
Speaker 1: that was their move. It was. It was I see
Speaker 1: what they're going for. Yeah, yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's gonna work. I don't know, but you know that
Speaker 1: this could be just a conference by conference. What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? I don't know what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna try to play here. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're gonna have many other schools they're gonna
Speaker 1: follow the Yukon model because you'll keep this in mind
Speaker 1: with Connecticut Randy Edsol yesterday was it was very good,
Speaker 1: very open. A lot of a lot of people on
Speaker 1: social media saw that and reacted to it. Do I
Speaker 1: think the bottom line is the safety of those players,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no, I think the bottom line is money.
Speaker 1: I think you have to factor in those players and
Speaker 1: their safety and their opinion. But I think this was
Speaker 1: Connecticut was going to lose money if they played football
Speaker 1: this year or tried. Plus, they're an independent and they
Speaker 1: lost their marquee games. You know, they had a couple
Speaker 1: of games with the ACC, a couple of games I
Speaker 1: think with a big ten, and they're an independent and
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be in FBS anymore. They should drop down
Speaker 1: to FCS. They're not a big money making program there.
Speaker 1: And while I appreciated coach Edsel coming on and saying,
Speaker 1: you know, they listened to his players, I hope he did.
Speaker 1: I hope all of these coaches do, because they deserve
Speaker 1: to have a voice here. They don't have a union,
Speaker 1: and coaches can go through the motions and say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we took the temperature, we talked to our
Speaker 1: captains or whatever it might be. I hope that they
Speaker 1: get a voice, They get a chair at the table
Speaker 1: where they can at least express concerns that they might have.
Speaker 1: Can you opt out and still keep your scholarship? I'm
Speaker 1: assuming that the Connecticut football players not playing this year
Speaker 1: they keep their scholarship. They didn't opt out. The school
Speaker 1: basically did. But what about these other kids around the country?
Speaker 1: Can you still keep your scholarship? Yeah, McLevin, it's a
Speaker 1: kind of a question for all of you. Why can't
Speaker 1: you kind be good at football? They have that beautiful
Speaker 1: they have a great stadium. They were like in the
Speaker 1: Fiesta Ball like eight years ago. They obviously have the capability.
Speaker 1: Why don't they rev it up and be good instead
Speaker 1: of going down? Well, they're an independent. I think they
Speaker 1: rolled the dice. Thought they were going to get into
Speaker 1: the ACC or you know, some bigger conference would take them.
Speaker 1: They were in the Big East. But you know, you're
Speaker 1: you're on an island. Notre Dame can survive on an island.
Speaker 1: Connecticut cannot. It's just not that that program has been
Speaker 1: going down. It feels like every single year, and you know,
Speaker 1: can you recruit there? Who are you recruiting against? And
Speaker 1: it's a basketball school as well. All right, We'll come
Speaker 1: up with a poll question, right McLevin. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I have want I want to put out there. You
Speaker 1: might think this is the wrong question to ask, but
Speaker 1: why don't you hold off? Okay, because we'll take a break.
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller will join us from the bubble and I'll
Speaker 1: ask him got any suggestions on what the Lakers might
Speaker 1: do to get that offense looking a little more formidable.
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Speaker 1: It's rare when I'm the second best shooter on the show.
Speaker 1: It only happens occasionally. It certainly happens right now because
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller is on the program. Reggie called the Heat
Speaker 1: and the Bucks game, the Lakers Rockets and tonight Celtics
Speaker 1: Raptors at nine eastern. Good morning, reg How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm great, Theodore, Good morning, and I would put us
Speaker 1: as equal. No, that's not true. No, heay, you're up
Speaker 1: there with me. No, No, a Dayton shot of yours? No, no,
Speaker 1: do you realize? I don't know if I ever told
Speaker 1: you this story. When we had Ray Allen in studio
Speaker 1: and oh, okay, so I'm watching Ray shoot in the
Speaker 1: man Cave and I said, hey, the ball is resting
Speaker 1: on the palmier hand right, So I'm critiquing so one
Speaker 1: of the top ten shooters in the history of man
Speaker 1: find I'm gonna put him in top five. Ray's top five. Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1: The look he had on his face, yes, seton. I
Speaker 1: believe the exact quote when you first talked to him.
Speaker 1: You know you're doing that wrong. I don't know what
Speaker 1: made me sad, but you know you you shoot with
Speaker 1: your fingertips. He had it on his palm and he
Speaker 1: goes like, what are you talking about? I said, I
Speaker 1: should be able to put my finger underneath between the
Speaker 1: ball in your hand. Am I right with that? Red?
Speaker 1: You're you're right with that? But listen, it goes to
Speaker 1: show you that shooting are like fingerprints there. Everyone is
Speaker 1: totally different and everyone has different release points. My elbow
Speaker 1: is out when I shot. Ray has textbook form with
Speaker 1: his elbow being in. So everyone is different. But the
Speaker 1: fact that you would correct the all time leader in
Speaker 1: three pointers made in the NBA, it's why you're Theodore. Though.
Speaker 1: I don't lack confidence when it comes to shooting. You
Speaker 1: but and you're right, you know, you have your elbow out.
Speaker 1: And I remember when I was shooting and we had
Speaker 1: a basketball hoop at the Super Bowl in Indianapolis and
Speaker 1: Larry Bird was watching, and Larry came on. He said,
Speaker 1: your elbow, it's out and he was critiquing my shot
Speaker 1: because my elbow was out just like yours. So all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: just letting you know he does the ball go in? Yeah,
Speaker 1: then that's all that matter. Do you realize I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to perfect my shot at my age with nothing
Speaker 1: to play for? Are you do you do that I do?
Speaker 1: When I do, it's like golf, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: even professional golfers still take lessons and they still critique themselves.
Speaker 1: And I think shooting and playing the game of basketball
Speaker 1: is a lot like golf because there is no six
Speaker 1: such thing as perfection. And it's interesting because when I
Speaker 1: was calling the Lakers games last night, because their offense
Speaker 1: right now, it's it's like been on hiatus. It hasn't
Speaker 1: it has not found its way to the bubble yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they were pointing so great up to that point,
Speaker 1: and they're shooting if you look at their numbers I
Speaker 1: believe we mentioned it over their last two games, they're
Speaker 1: like six four fifty from three and you're wondering, is
Speaker 1: it Lakes? Do they have Are they tired? Their offense
Speaker 1: just not see does not seem to be in sync.
Speaker 1: And this is with little I know. Labron's been played
Speaker 1: last night, but two nights ago versus okay, see he played.
Speaker 1: But what how concerned would you be if you're a
Speaker 1: Laker fan right now? I said this on the air
Speaker 1: last night. I understand they have the number one seed
Speaker 1: in the West and they are trying different things and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out but you've got to have some
Speaker 1: type of rhythm going into the playoffs and everyone is
Speaker 1: in a unique situation here where I wouldn't be as
Speaker 1: concerned if they were playing in Staples in front of
Speaker 1: twenty thousand fans and you get that energy and you
Speaker 1: get a little pumped up. You are in a unique
Speaker 1: environment where home court will not matter and if you
Speaker 1: don't have a great rhythm starting the playoffs on August seventeen.
Speaker 1: To me, that's the only thing that's a little unsettling
Speaker 1: is because they don't have a rhythm yet. Offensively, the
Speaker 1: only team in the bubble the Lakers with Lebron James
Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis, that are not averaging one hundred points.
Speaker 1: With those two great players, it's a little concerning for me.
Speaker 1: Everybody is scoring in the bubble except for the Lakers.
Speaker 1: But is there a reason why everybody is. Let's take
Speaker 1: the Lakers out of the equation. Why is it that
Speaker 1: scoring is up so high. I think the big thing
Speaker 1: is teams are manufacturing their own energy, and there's less
Speaker 1: pressure on some teams because usually in their home court advantage,
Speaker 1: like for instance, Philadelphia, before Ben Simmons got injured, every
Speaker 1: time he caught the ball at home in Philly, everyone
Speaker 1: wanted him to shoot threes. The crowd would gas. There's
Speaker 1: pressure playing in some in certain environments and situations in
Speaker 1: the bubble, there's no fans, there's no degree of pressure.
Speaker 1: It's really who wants it more. And I think you're seeing,
Speaker 1: especially some of the elite guys like a Devin Booker,
Speaker 1: who doesn't matter if he's playing in front of twenty
Speaker 1: thousand or two people, put on absolute shows TJ. Warren.
Speaker 1: These guys have got a new lease on their games
Speaker 1: because they're just going out and playing. And I think
Speaker 1: that's why scoring and shooting is up, because more guys
Speaker 1: and teams are playing more free and open. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you heard this. It was like a throwaway
Speaker 1: line from Lebron where he talked about something off the court,
Speaker 1: but he said, I don't want to get into that now.
Speaker 1: I think this might have been after the game that
Speaker 1: he had the quote. I don't know what he's alluding
Speaker 1: to here, but just the fact that you mentioned that
Speaker 1: he mentions it. Now that you know, my curiosity has
Speaker 1: peaked of wait, what is bothering him so much so
Speaker 1: that he would bring it up during a press conference
Speaker 1: or kind of bring it up there. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you heard that comment. From him, I didn't hear.
Speaker 1: But let's remember now, there's so much going on. We're
Speaker 1: in the middle obviously of a pandemic. These players still
Speaker 1: want to have their voices heard in terms of social justice.
Speaker 1: So there's there's still things surrounding and affecting these guys
Speaker 1: while they're in the in the bubble. So you know,
Speaker 1: you don't know if he's alluding to something off the
Speaker 1: court in terms of his activism, or if he's talking
Speaker 1: about something internally that's going on with the team. You know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to get a gauge on what's going on
Speaker 1: with the Lakers or Lebron. But yeah, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure that's a red flat comment coming from Lebron, who
Speaker 1: sat out last night with a little bit of a
Speaker 1: growing issue. If you had to bet a week's pay
Speaker 1: on the Lakers or Clippers right now today, I'm going
Speaker 1: with the Clippers. Yeah. I just think they're deep, how
Speaker 1: they play the game, in terms of their length. You know,
Speaker 1: they got lou Williams back. I know Beverley didn't play
Speaker 1: last night, but to me, there they are the favorites
Speaker 1: to win the West because of that depth, and they've
Speaker 1: got two guys and Kwhi Leonard and Paul George, who
Speaker 1: can dictate the outcome of a game at both ends
Speaker 1: of the floor, and both are young, both have experienced
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, well coached by Doc Rivers, who's won
Speaker 1: a championship, I personally would would lean towards especially after
Speaker 1: looking at the offense, you know, for the Lakers, I'm
Speaker 1: leaning towards the Clippers in this type of environment. The
Speaker 1: third best team in the West is who I would
Speaker 1: probably go with. You know, I want to put Denver
Speaker 1: in there, but they've had so many injuries and they
Speaker 1: don't have their starting lineup though the way Michael Porter
Speaker 1: Junior is playing, and they still have Yokis who looks great,
Speaker 1: you know. Okay, See, people are not giving Chris Paul
Speaker 1: enough credit for you know, everyone thought it was going
Speaker 1: to be a pit stop for him this year, and
Speaker 1: he has Oklahoma City playing at a very high level.
Speaker 1: In terms of you know, scary teams, I've got to
Speaker 1: put the Houston Rockets in there in this understood looking
Speaker 1: at them last night. If they are making shots, look,
Speaker 1: they're gonna get killed on the boards. We've seen that
Speaker 1: they're getting out rebounded by twenty a game. But if
Speaker 1: they can turn you over, which we've seen, and they
Speaker 1: can get out in transition, and they've got two guys
Speaker 1: that flat output pressure on you offensively on every possession
Speaker 1: in Harden in Westbrook, I would probably have to say
Speaker 1: the Rockets are probably the most scary team because of
Speaker 1: the unpredictability of what they bring with that six seven
Speaker 1: lineup and being able to switch everything and TJ PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker defensively, what he did last night versus Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: was phenomenal at the defensive end. Reggie called the Heat
Speaker 1: and Bucks last night, along with the Lakers and Rockets. Tonight,
Speaker 1: it's Celtics and Raptors. That's nine Eastern on TNT. Here's
Speaker 1: the exact quote from Lebron. He said, it's just some
Speaker 1: things that you can't control. That's here that I really
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about. That's off the floor. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's alluded too. I'm assuming that
Speaker 1: has to do with something internally with his team, maybe
Speaker 1: not in his personal life, maybe sending a message to
Speaker 1: somebody on his team. I don't know kind of cryptic
Speaker 1: it is, but it raises more red flags because when
Speaker 1: Lebron speaks Obviously everyone listens and that is that's a
Speaker 1: loaded Yeah, that's a loaded answer to a question right there.
Speaker 1: And you know more people are going to probe and
Speaker 1: try to find out what is going on with the Lakers,
Speaker 1: especially just by gauging the way they're playing. The last
Speaker 1: couple of days, we've had some people comparing a couple
Speaker 1: of players to Larry Bird. Greg Popovich said, Joe Kich
Speaker 1: reminds him of Larry Bird because he does everything. And
Speaker 1: then you've got a few people comparing Luca to Larry Bird. Here,
Speaker 1: pretty high praise for these two players. Of those two,
Speaker 1: who's more like Larry Bird in your opinion? Luca? I
Speaker 1: love Coach Popovich arguably one of my favorite coaches in
Speaker 1: the league. Both are talented in Yogi and Luca, But
Speaker 1: in terms of Larry Bird, Larry Bird was a straight
Speaker 1: assassin score. He would put thirty five on you and
Speaker 1: in a half, I don't think, and he had that
Speaker 1: killer instinct. Luca Moore has that killer instinct offensively and
Speaker 1: can pass the basketballball. He just doesn't have the size.
Speaker 1: Larry was a true sixth nine, a big long sixth nine,
Speaker 1: seven foot is the joker, and he doesn't have that
Speaker 1: killer instinct. Offensively, he can score, but he's not trying
Speaker 1: to come in each and every night and embarrass you.
Speaker 1: Luca tries to embarrass you. I think so in terms
Speaker 1: of who's closer to Larry Bird, in my opinion, it
Speaker 1: would be Luca don chich and watching the game with
Speaker 1: the Clippers and the MAVs. And while Porzingish and Luca
Speaker 1: had good games, there something that was interesting, and that
Speaker 1: was Kawai all of a sudden went into playoff Kawhi
Speaker 1: mode and wow, like that's it. It's tangible. You're watching
Speaker 1: it and you go oh. And then he said afterwards
Speaker 1: like he's getting locked he's getting locked in. And you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't say much. I don't know much about him,
Speaker 1: but that was a look or there was a field
Speaker 1: of the game, and I know it's the MAVs, but
Speaker 1: I saw something that is I rarely see where you
Speaker 1: see somebody go I'm gonna flip a switch. Now I'm
Speaker 1: a different player, a different person, And Kawhi was like
Speaker 1: that last night. And to your point, when you just
Speaker 1: ask me Lakers or Clippers and then you tell me
Speaker 1: about the cult from Labron, something's going on, possibly internally
Speaker 1: with my team. And on the flip side, you hear
Speaker 1: the Clippers and Kawai saying I'm getting locked in right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know it's two different things. And Kauai when we
Speaker 1: talk about being able to affect the game at both ends. Look,
Speaker 1: Luca is a fantastic young player, but Kwaie Leonard looked
Speaker 1: at that as a challenge, right, and they potentially could
Speaker 1: face in the first round. I believe Dallas is currently
Speaker 1: in the seventh spot in the Clippers in the second spot.
Speaker 1: So this is a potential first round matchup. And you've
Speaker 1: got Kawai and Paul George saying, oh, okay, well we're
Speaker 1: gonna give you something to think about in about ten
Speaker 1: days when we see you. And I think they're trying
Speaker 1: to send a message. Yeah. I'm trying to figure this
Speaker 1: out though, And it feels like the Clippers are just quiet.
Speaker 1: They don't want to make any headlines unless they go
Speaker 1: to a strip club. They just want to go. They're
Speaker 1: just waiting where you know, everybody focuses on the Lakers,
Speaker 1: either good or bad. They're the focus that now they're shooting.
Speaker 1: Now their offense. Now this is a big deal. As
Speaker 1: you know, we end up with the regular season. Clippers
Speaker 1: are just they're doing They're approaching it the right way
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of not saying anything. They got a
Speaker 1: deep roster, there got a great coach, and you got
Speaker 1: one guy who's done it before a couple of times.
Speaker 1: That that value of having a player who's done it,
Speaker 1: and those other Clippers players are going he can do it.
Speaker 1: Like I'm waiting for Paul George to be a big
Speaker 1: time player. I'm waiting for that, just like I am
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. Those are the two guys that I want
Speaker 1: to see. So I think which one of those two
Speaker 1: steps up in a bigger way might decide who wins
Speaker 1: between the Lakers and the Clippers. I think that much
Speaker 1: of Anthony davis ability to be able to dominate. What
Speaker 1: do you think, Well, Theodore, look, this is Doc rivers
Speaker 1: slogan coming in to the restart. Win the weight and
Speaker 1: right now and rightfully so the pressure should be on
Speaker 1: the Lakers. You you know, you go out and get
Speaker 1: Lebron James, generational type player. You add Anthony Davis. They
Speaker 1: have the championship, they have the Hall of Famers, they
Speaker 1: have all the banners hanging in staples for so many years.
Speaker 1: The Clippers have been you know, the little brother, so
Speaker 1: there's less pressure on them, and I think they're approaching
Speaker 1: this the right way. That's why all the pressure is
Speaker 1: on Anthony Davis. You know, you've been first team All NBA,
Speaker 1: You're in line for Defensive Player of the Year this year.
Speaker 1: But you played in New Orleans. You wanted out, you
Speaker 1: got out. You came to the mega hot Los Angeles Lakers.
Speaker 1: We mentioned all the Hall of Famers, centers and power
Speaker 1: forwards that have played in this organization. So the lights
Speaker 1: are a little bit brighter. Now it's time to shine.
Speaker 1: You can't come out and take what seven shots and
Speaker 1: have you know, nine points and then the next game
Speaker 1: you come out and have forty. The consistency has to
Speaker 1: be there for a d and for the flip side
Speaker 1: for the Clippers. Remember Paul George was runner up MVP
Speaker 1: last year while his time in OKC. Now he's had
Speaker 1: to take a back seat coming to the Clippers because
Speaker 1: you've got a guy who's won two finals MVP in
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard. But I like the chances of the Clippers
Speaker 1: because of that length and what they can do at
Speaker 1: the defensive end with all those perimeter players theadore every
Speaker 1: time I watched the Pelicans, I go back to a
Speaker 1: comment you made that it brandon Ingram wasn't a big
Speaker 1: city guy, that he needed to get out of LA
Speaker 1: and that New Orleans was perfect for him. Lonzo Ball
Speaker 1: had to get away from his dad and the whole
Speaker 1: pressure there, and you know that it feels like he
Speaker 1: is like these guys were able to exhale. It felt
Speaker 1: like they got there. But look at this lineup here
Speaker 1: and what the Pelicans have as they move forward. If
Speaker 1: you look at the nucleus, would you be confident that
Speaker 1: this is a perennial playoff team and what you have
Speaker 1: in New Orleans? And if not, what do they have
Speaker 1: to have? Well, it is Zion going to be healthy
Speaker 1: and play thirty two to thirty six minutes a game?
Speaker 1: Do you think he can do that wrench? Because well,
Speaker 1: he hasn't showed it. I know if he's I think
Speaker 1: he's great, but I don't know if he's There was
Speaker 1: an article yesterday a doctor said he's in a race
Speaker 1: against his body. Of you know, as big as he is,
Speaker 1: is he always going to be this explosive? And then
Speaker 1: what do you rely on when you're not that explosive,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna get bigger, So I don't know. I
Speaker 1: hope he doesn't get bigger, because look, I love the
Speaker 1: strength and the power that he plays with, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, but I personally believe he is too heavy
Speaker 1: to be playing this and I think that's why they
Speaker 1: have kid gloves on them right now. I think they're
Speaker 1: managing his minutes because they don't want a major injury
Speaker 1: because I believe he is too heavy. He needs to shed,
Speaker 1: you know, they kept saying, you know, during the four
Speaker 1: and a half month he put on you know, ten
Speaker 1: pounds of muscle. He doesn't need muscle. He needs to
Speaker 1: be a little bit leaner. So those joint the knees
Speaker 1: and the lower back, there's not so much pressure on there.
Speaker 1: So I hope, I hope going forward, if they're going
Speaker 1: to manage his minutes, they need to manage his food
Speaker 1: intake because he needs to take off fifteen twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five pounds if he wants to play thirty two to
Speaker 1: thirty six minutes and play seventy to eighty two games
Speaker 1: next season, which they're hoping for, the league is hoping for,
Speaker 1: but he needs to he needs to lose weight. But
Speaker 1: do you remember facing a young Charles Barkley when he
Speaker 1: you know, he was the I do theod whatever, the
Speaker 1: large round mound rebound. Yeah, but did you see how
Speaker 1: Charles moved when when his early days in Philadelphia. It's
Speaker 1: a lot like a Zion. Zion think Zion was probably
Speaker 1: a little bit more powerful, especially in his finishes and
Speaker 1: his dunks. Um, But Charles never got hurt. Charles never
Speaker 1: got hurt, and he was able even extend his career
Speaker 1: by losing weight. The older he got. Um. I just
Speaker 1: think Zion. He looks a little heavy to me. Oh
Speaker 1: he is heavy and button, but he's putting up like
Speaker 1: a point per minute when he does play. So it's clay.
Speaker 1: Then Regg's got Celtics Raptors at so you're doing that
Speaker 1: game tonight. I'm doing Toronto Boston. Okay, My Raptors, My Raptors.
Speaker 1: Everyone keeps talking about what did I say last week
Speaker 1: when you asked me to know? I know, I know?
Speaker 1: And what have they done so far? They're undefeated here
Speaker 1: in the bubble and they're taking names and I know team, Yes,
Speaker 1: they are us. He's Reggie Miller. He'll be on the
Speaker 1: call tonight. Reg good to talk to you. Have a
Speaker 1: great weekend, and we'll talk to you at some point
Speaker 1: next week. Thank you Theodor, thank you my Dan Nats.
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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show. Mclovin, what do you have for me today?
Speaker 1: As a poll question, we actually already put up if
Speaker 1: you had to bet on one of these two teams,
Speaker 1: the Lakers are the Clippers come out of the West.
Speaker 1: Who would you pick? Okay, just put it up right now.
Speaker 1: I'm going to guess the Clippers are going to win this.
Speaker 1: I think because of the uncertainty with the Lakers. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're the number one seed, you tend to overlook
Speaker 1: some of the blemishes there. And now all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it's being brought to light as we get ready
Speaker 1: to start the postseason. Look, this could be real, could
Speaker 1: be manufactured by the media, that this is a real problem.
Speaker 1: You know, once the playoffs start, you know, Lebron's gonna
Speaker 1: take over, Anthony Davis hopefully takes over. It's not a
Speaker 1: deep team. It feels like they're going to be hot
Speaker 1: and cold. Their nights are going to be hot and cold,
Speaker 1: whereas the Clippers probably are going to have a little
Speaker 1: bit more consistent performance throughout the postseason. Kyle and California
Speaker 1: joins us, Hi, what do you have for me today?
Speaker 1: Hey boys? Happy Friday? Thank you ep. I was listening
Speaker 1: to an interview with Reggie Love here and from Reggie,
Speaker 1: I do have to push back a little on the
Speaker 1: Lakers having more pressure. That seems like the automatic answer,
Speaker 1: but she stripped away the purple and gold and Lebron.
Speaker 1: You're looking at a Clippers team who gave up four
Speaker 1: first rounders, a young star, and Shay Gilji Danilo. They
Speaker 1: sold the farm, they sold they're sould to try and
Speaker 1: win it, and they only signed these guys to a
Speaker 1: two year deal. If you don't win this year, then
Speaker 1: everybody's talking about how we only have one more year
Speaker 1: with Kawai and Paul George. Better get it done. I
Speaker 1: think those are really valid points Kyle, I'm glad you
Speaker 1: brought that up. I think the pressure on the Clippers
Speaker 1: will be next year if they don't win it this year.
Speaker 1: Lebron's window of opportunity is closing. He wanted Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: he wanted some of those younger players shipped out. He
Speaker 1: got what he wanted. There's always pressure on Lebron. There's
Speaker 1: more pressure on Lebron because of the bigger picture of
Speaker 1: what it means for the you know, his place in history,
Speaker 1: his legacy. There's more pressure. And the Lakers are obviously
Speaker 1: the team in Los Angeles. There's more pressure on him.
Speaker 1: Not as much on Anthony Davis as there should be.
Speaker 1: But there will be not much pressure on Paul George,
Speaker 1: but there should be. Kai Kawai gets a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a Hall pass with this, just because of
Speaker 1: coming off a championship. He's got two that he's won.
Speaker 1: But you know, come playoff time, the Clippers to me
Speaker 1: have a better team. But I think that if I
Speaker 1: if you said I could have Paul George or Kwhi Leonard,
Speaker 1: or I could have Lebron or Anthony Davis, I'm taking
Speaker 1: Lebron and Anthony Davis come playoff time. We know that
Speaker 1: Lebron can do it. We know Kawhi can do it.
Speaker 1: It's going to come down to is Paul George a
Speaker 1: great number two guy? Consistent? Is he going to be
Speaker 1: able to put up some big numbers to compliment Kauai.
Speaker 1: Now they have other guys that are able to provide
Speaker 1: a lot of different offense for them. The Lakers are
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, more offensively starved. Kuzma has
Speaker 1: got to be more of a threat. You know, I
Speaker 1: was waiting for him. Does he Maybe his growth is
Speaker 1: stunted there by playing with Lebron and Anthony Davis, but
Speaker 1: he does have that potential to be a twenty point score.
Speaker 1: They just shipped out the twenty point score in brandon Ingram. Yeah, poem,
Speaker 1: you're talking about pressure, But what about the maybe the
Speaker 1: player who would have had the most to gain for
Speaker 1: winning the title if you took away Lebron and those guys.
Speaker 1: James Harden is a regular season phenomenon. His numbers are
Speaker 1: crazy if you look back at him what he's doing
Speaker 1: right now, But in the past seven years he's got
Speaker 1: two Western Conference Finals losses and a lot of playoff
Speaker 1: appearances and a lot of numbers and that's it he
Speaker 1: most to gain. Yeah, I'm trying to think who else
Speaker 1: would be on that list because Lebron has a lot
Speaker 1: to gain as well with a third team doing it
Speaker 1: in the West, and then that gets him to four
Speaker 1: titles here, so he does have a lot to gain.
Speaker 1: Kawai getting a third title with a third team, if
Speaker 1: he did that before Lebron, did Paul George finally winning
Speaker 1: a big game, who else would I put on that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Mcleis on that list yet close close, because if you
Speaker 1: win a title now, all of a sudden, you're the
Speaker 1: best player that there's no argument there. And maybe there
Speaker 1: is no argument, but I think people still look at
Speaker 1: Lebron James or Kawhi Leonard crunch time instead of the
Speaker 1: Greek freak. But it's getting close there. You know that
Speaker 1: you if you're going to get there, or you're supposed
Speaker 1: to get there, then you you know you're supposed to
Speaker 1: win a couple of these titles there if you're that great.
Speaker 1: But that may come down to is Chris Middleton able
Speaker 1: to be great? So all of these teams or most
Speaker 1: of these teams have that one figure that you count on.
Speaker 1: It's the other guys that you don't know if you
Speaker 1: can count on. Yeah, mclovin, I did watch. I took
Speaker 1: your assignment yesterday. I watched the MAVs. Those guys who
Speaker 1: aren't Porzingis and aren't don Check are not great. I
Speaker 1: told you that you should give don Check credit because
Speaker 1: that's not a good team. I who are they that?
Speaker 1: I mean, there are a lot of teams. I watched
Speaker 1: the Baby I don't know the names. It's like you
Speaker 1: turned something upside down and then whatever falls out. Then
Speaker 1: you get that, you know, like you have a drawer
Speaker 1: and you turn upside down and some change comes out.
Speaker 1: No dollar bills come out, but some change comes out.
Speaker 1: So that's what the MAV's got. They turned the drawer
Speaker 1: upside down, and they got a penny and nicol and
Speaker 1: a dime and all. There's a quarter there. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna go with that as the poll question. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have some other options for hour two and three as well.
Speaker 1: Pat Forty from Sports Illustrated will join us onder what
Speaker 1: he thought of the back and forth between Ryan Day
Speaker 1: and Ohio State and Jim Harball. I loved it, and
Speaker 1: also as he got more confidence this week than he
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