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Say good morning to our radio friends and 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.920 also our TV friends on YouTube dot com slash the 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:46.159 Dan Patrick Show. Competition level in the NBA bubble started 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.600 out pretty high, and some of the games are still 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.839 pretty good, and you've got a lot of scoring. Starting 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.080 to see some teams rest some starters here like the 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.960 Lakers did last night with Lebron and I don't want 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.760 to hear any complaints. These are the last four games 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.840 of the regular season. Nobody watches the last four games 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.880 of a regular season during a normal year. We're just 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.399 noticing it because it's the bubble, and it's the Lakers. 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.320 But if you're a Laker fan, you're probably saying, we 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.080 don't need to have Lebron out there the Bucks. You know, 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.880 Bucks fans probably don't want the Greek freak out there either, 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.920 although he looked great last night. Lakers and Bucks are 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.560 the favorites, but teams like the Clippers and Raptors are 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.000 right behind them. And you have a bit of an 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.000 unknown right now because people are looking at Portland and 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.080 could they be a spoiler here? Could the Rockets be 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.600 a spoiler here? What about Denver? So there's a few 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.880 teams we're not quite sure of, but we put a 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.959 question mark by just how great they'll be if they 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.679 get into the postseason. And by that I mean Portland. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.800 Because Portland had forty five from Damian Lillard last night. 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.040 They're a half game out and Memphis is limping to 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.920 the finish line. The Pelicans got a great night out 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.440 of Zion, but they lost their game as well. Looks 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.160 like Portland is going to be your team. I watched 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.880 Phoenix against Indiana and they had two of the more 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.440 interesting runs that I've ever seen in an NBA game. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.920 They went on a twenty one to nothing run and 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:17.720 a seventeen to nothing run. They went on to win 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.400 despite shooting nine of thirty four from three point range. 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.639 Phoenix is now four and oh in the bubble. I 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.840 don't know what it means, but they're four and oh 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.000 in the bubble. But we have a couple of meaningless 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.440 games coming up. For the most part, and I know 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.840 I talked about this yesterday, everybody's talking about it today, 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:41.120 and that is the Lakers offense. Now, the Lakers offense, 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.639 unlike most of the other teams, has not been consistent, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.280 has not been explosive. We've seen some moments where Lebron 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.839 goes off. We've seen some moments where Anthony Davis goes off. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.120 I don't think that they're concerned about the first round 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.040 because the teams they would be playing in the first 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.959 round are not good defensive teams. But it can show, 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.919 probably will show when you get into the second round, 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.400 because if you're getting into the second or third round, 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.440 chances are you can play a little bit of defense. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.919 And I think that's when it might emerge that the 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:15.320 Lakers have some issues here. You know, their backcourt, they're 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.160 not quite sure. You know, when you lose two players 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.280 like Rondo and Avery Bradley. That just affects your rotations, 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.640 and they do have a good bench. I have to 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:30.520 admit the young Waiters has played well. Kuzma Caruso, the 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.359 question is are you going to put one of those 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.240 guys in the starting lineup here to get more offense. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.640 That'll be what I'm looking for as we get closer 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.840 to the start of the postseason or once we start 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.400 that opening round. But Reggie Miller will join us coming 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.720 up in a little bit. I mentioned the little tiff 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.119 between Jim Harbaugh, the head coach at Michigan, and Ryan Day, 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.560 he's the head coach at Ohio State. There was a 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:57.680 big Ten coaches news conference yesterday. It was a conference call, 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:04.120 and Jim reportedly interrupted Ohio States Ryan Day and accused 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:10.400 him of breaking rules regarding on field instruction. Hardball asked 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:15.880 Day about a photo that reportedly showed the Buckeyes assistant 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.560 coach Al Washington working out the Ohio State linebackers. Now, 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:25.480 NCAA rules don't permit on field instructions until today, so 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:28.839 Day fired back, how about I worry about my team 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.479 and you worry about yours. Then Ohio State had a 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:39.560 team meeting on Monday and according to Buck Nuts is 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:43.520 that a website. Our person, that's a website. Buck Nuts 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:50.119 Day purportedly told his players that the Wolverines better hope 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:55.039 there's a mercy rule this season, because quote gonna hang 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.440 one hundred on them. There there is no mercy rule, 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.279 by the way, in college football. When ESPN asked Day 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:07.479 about the reported incidents during a Zoom meeting on Thursday, 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:11.360 he declined to comment. I appreciate the question, but I'd 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:19.919 rather not answered that right now. Well, I was in 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.800 Columbus two years ago when they probably could have put 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.840 a hundy on them. I think they put what sixty 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:30.000 three on them, and they could have easily scored eighty 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.400 that day against them. And here we are going to 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.159 be in Columbus if they play now they moved it 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.520 up a month. It was gonna be it's us Thanksgiving weekend. 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:46.240 Oh boy. I would just go to tailgate and listen 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.920 to the game outside. I mean, it's such a great 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:55.119 atmosphere certainly for that game and in Columbus and even 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:59.839 ann Arbor, but just to be able to go and listen, well, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.160 they're not gonna be any fans there, so I don't 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.760 know what I'd be listening for but just to have 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:09.039 that atmosphere there looks like it'll be really, really spicy 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.320 between those two. And if you're Horball, this is what 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:18.200 Harball does. He doesn't win big games at Michigan, but 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:22.279 he's pretty good in August. Harball might be undefeated in 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:27.200 the spring, and in August we get to the regular season. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.080 There's a couple of problems there. Yes, if only he 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:33.080 could translate that winning to actual games against Ohio State, 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:37.560 then you'd really have something. So that conference call was 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.320 on Monday, and then they followed up with Ryan Day 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.480 yesterday and he didn't want to talk about how does 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.880 somebody not have any audio of that? Now, this is 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.839 a conference call with the coaches, but is the media 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.760 is listening into this? The Big Ten has got to 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.960 release this. Give us something here. We might not have football. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.920 This might be as close as we get to football here. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:04.880 How does somebody not record this? Yes? Wouldn't Why wouldn't 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.560 they want the media to record it so that they 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.719 get quotes correct And a lot of times, just if 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.160 you're going to a classroom or wherever you are, you 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.000 recording just so you can play it back and make 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.200 sure you've got it exactly right. I don't know. I 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.560 don't know. I thought that this would be something that 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:23.120 the media is able to record and then you can distribute, 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:27.400 or that the Big Ten would record and then distribute 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:34.400 Pat Forty from Yahoo's Sports Sports Illustrated. Every conference is 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.440 now prepared for a player movement and likely will have 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.880 a quick response. They all see it as a matter 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.679 of when it happens in their league, not if there's 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:48.960 a Mountain West player movement going on. You got I 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.240 mentioned a couple of days ago that the source said, 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.400 you're going to see smaller conferences, smaller schools, they're going 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.800 to opt for the spring, and you're starting to see 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.400 a few more of those situations. There a few more 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.800 players that are opting out. You've got a couple of 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.600 first rounders, potential first rounders, maybe a lottery pick out 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.880 of Miami, out of the U. A defensive lineman. Is 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:17.600 that Rousseau McLevin, Yes, like the philosopher. Oh okay, oh 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.520 well thanks for that. Well, he's probably a top ten 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.160 pick in mock drafts right now, and he's gonna opt out. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.440 I think you'll probably see a few more of these linemen, 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.960 interior linemen who are going to opt out. You have 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:37.000 the player at Purdue, Rundale Moore. He was great as 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.920 freshman year and he's pretty much the face of Purdue football. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.240 He was injured last year. He's going to opt out 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:46.720 as well. And that doesn't mean you can't opt back in. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.199 You don't have a deadline likeike you have with the NFL. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.720 But you're gonna have some of these players. They're gonna 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.760 be maybe juniors, and they're gonna go. Should I continue 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.040 to do this, Maybe I can get paid. I signed 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:02.400 with an agent. If I'm going to be a first 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.920 or second round pick, maybe I can get paid. Maybe 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.920 I can just concentrate on getting ready for the combine. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.320 In the NFL draft, you might start to see a 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.679 few more of those players. Ye ask MC club. Does 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.960 the NFL hold it against any of these players if 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:19.079 they don't play? Can it actually hurt their draft status? 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:21.959 I think it depends on how good you are. I 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.520 didn't hurt Nick Bosa, didn't hurt Christian McCaffrey of sitting 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.480 out a bowl game. Didn't Leonard Fournette sit out a 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.160 bowl game as well? Yeah? A lot of guys. Yeah, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.720 I mean it's different for just a bowl game, but 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:38.560 Nick Bosa shut it down. And you know, Ohio State 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.840 was fortunate that you have Chase Young, but you know 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.520 that caught a lot of people's attention where you're like, wow, 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.040 he's not going to try to come back at all. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:48.760 And this is a team that was going to play 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.560 for a national championship and he was a captain, Like 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.800 that was what was surprising about that. But nothing is 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.760 going to surprise me now. And you're gonna remember when 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.560 Lahoma moved up their season opener. They wanted to go 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:07.240 a week earlier. They just want to get started, because 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.360 I think that's the real fear that college football is 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.480 not going to get started. It feels like if you 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.480 get started, then it'll be harder to shut it down. 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.480 And you know, is that the philosophy that Oklahoma had. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.960 Maybe let's just get going and then we'll see what 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.600 the collateral damage is from week to week as we 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.160 move forward here, but you're starting to see some of 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.280 these conferences they're moving games back. You want to have 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.600 this window of opportunity that you want to get the 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.000 games in. You'd love to have them over by Thanksgiving, 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.160 and then you don't have you know, students won't be 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.120 on campus. Then they'll go home for you know, the 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.400 winter break, and maybe you'll be playing in a conference 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.120 championship game, maybe you'll be playing in the playoffs. You know, 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:58.320 you're seeing the playoffs in Division two and three. They're canceled. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.680 I don't know if you're gonna have of that in 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:05.320 uh FCS. But right now, it just feels like this 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.240 is a moment to moment, day to day, almost hour 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.680 to hour with college football. We'll talk to Pad forty. 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.199 He'll join us coming up in a little bit. Yes, Pauli, 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.280 Oklahoma felt like a bunch of guys paying the house 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.120 for a rainstorm. Like they're just trying to slap it together, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.360 get it done before the big cloud comes in. That's 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.640 that was their move. It was. It was I see 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.679 what they're going for. Yeah, yeah, I don't know if 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.959 it's gonna work. I don't know, but you know that 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.320 this could be just a conference by conference. What are 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:37.880 you gonna do? I don't know what are you gonna do? 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.120 All right, we're gonna try to play here. I don't 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.600 know if you're gonna have many other schools they're gonna 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:46.640 follow the Yukon model because you'll keep this in mind 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:50.040 with Connecticut Randy Edsol yesterday was it was very good, 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.640 very open. A lot of a lot of people on 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.600 social media saw that and reacted to it. Do I 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.079 think the bottom line is the safety of those players, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.400 I'm gonna say no, I think the bottom line is money. 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.800 I think you have to factor in those players and 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.000 their safety and their opinion. But I think this was 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:12.120 Connecticut was going to lose money if they played football 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.480 this year or tried. Plus, they're an independent and they 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.160 lost their marquee games. You know, they had a couple 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.679 of games with the ACC, a couple of games I 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.640 think with a big ten, and they're an independent and 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:28.000 they shouldn't be in FBS anymore. They should drop down 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:32.280 to FCS. They're not a big money making program there. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.800 And while I appreciated coach Edsel coming on and saying, 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.160 you know, they listened to his players, I hope he did. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.160 I hope all of these coaches do, because they deserve 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.880 to have a voice here. They don't have a union, 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.520 and coaches can go through the motions and say, hey, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.839 you know, we took the temperature, we talked to our 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.160 captains or whatever it might be. I hope that they 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.040 get a voice, They get a chair at the table 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.400 where they can at least express concerns that they might have. 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.440 Can you opt out and still keep your scholarship? I'm 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.560 assuming that the Connecticut football players not playing this year 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.960 they keep their scholarship. They didn't opt out. The school 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:16.440 basically did. But what about these other kids around the country? 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.079 Can you still keep your scholarship? Yeah, McLevin, it's a 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.680 kind of a question for all of you. Why can't 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:22.720 you kind be good at football? They have that beautiful 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.080 they have a great stadium. They were like in the 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.640 Fiesta Ball like eight years ago. They obviously have the capability. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.720 Why don't they rev it up and be good instead 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.640 of going down? Well, they're an independent. I think they 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.520 rolled the dice. Thought they were going to get into 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.960 the ACC or you know, some bigger conference would take them. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.800 They were in the Big East. But you know, you're 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.280 you're on an island. Notre Dame can survive on an island. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:51.360 Connecticut cannot. It's just not that that program has been 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:56.480 going down. It feels like every single year, and you know, 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:00.680 can you recruit there? Who are you recruiting against? And 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.679 it's a basketball school as well. All right, We'll come 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.280 up with a poll question, right McLevin. Yeah, I mean 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.120 I have want I want to put out there. You 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.080 might think this is the wrong question to ask, but 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.840 why don't you hold off? Okay, because we'll take a break. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.960 Reggie Miller will join us from the bubble and I'll 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.840 ask him got any suggestions on what the Lakers might 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.880 do to get that offense looking a little more formidable. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.960 It's fifteen after the hour. This is the Dan Patrick Show. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.760 Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.680 sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine to 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.080 noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.680 Find your local station for The Dan Patrick Show at 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.680 Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us live every 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.600 day on the iHeartRadio app by searching f s R. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.960 This program brought to you by Legal Zoom. You can 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.400 start online with their network of independent attorneys. They provide 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.560 advice when you need it the most, and since legal 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.560 Zoom isn't a law firm, you don't have to leave 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.560 your home. Visit legal zoom dot com today for information. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.960 It's rare when I'm the second best shooter on the show. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:09.000 It only happens occasionally. It certainly happens right now because 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.840 Reggie Miller is on the program. Reggie called the Heat 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.920 and the Bucks game, the Lakers Rockets and tonight Celtics 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.640 Raptors at nine eastern. Good morning, reg How are you? 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.840 I'm great, Theodore, Good morning, and I would put us 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:27.880 as equal. No, that's not true. No, heay, you're up 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:34.960 there with me. No, No, a Dayton shot of yours? No, no, 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.880 do you realize? I don't know if I ever told 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.040 you this story. When we had Ray Allen in studio 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:46.160 and oh, okay, so I'm watching Ray shoot in the 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.320 man Cave and I said, hey, the ball is resting 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:57.080 on the palmier hand right, So I'm critiquing so one 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.880 of the top ten shooters in the history of man 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:05.960 find I'm gonna put him in top five. Ray's top five. Okay, Yeah. 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.440 The look he had on his face, yes, seton. I 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.600 believe the exact quote when you first talked to him. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:16.880 You know you're doing that wrong. I don't know what 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.240 made me sad, but you know you you shoot with 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.400 your fingertips. He had it on his palm and he 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.800 goes like, what are you talking about? I said, I 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.720 should be able to put my finger underneath between the 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.000 ball in your hand. Am I right with that? Red? 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:35.720 You're you're right with that? But listen, it goes to 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:40.120 show you that shooting are like fingerprints there. Everyone is 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:45.320 totally different and everyone has different release points. My elbow 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.040 is out when I shot. Ray has textbook form with 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.760 his elbow being in. So everyone is different. But the 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:57.480 fact that you would correct the all time leader in 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:03.840 three pointers made in the NBA, it's why you're Theodore. Though. 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.639 I don't lack confidence when it comes to shooting. You 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.840 but and you're right, you know, you have your elbow out. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.440 And I remember when I was shooting and we had 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:16.840 a basketball hoop at the Super Bowl in Indianapolis and 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:20.040 Larry Bird was watching, and Larry came on. He said, 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.359 your elbow, it's out and he was critiquing my shot 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:29.320 because my elbow was out just like yours. So all right, yeah, 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.480 just letting you know he does the ball go in? Yeah, 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.160 then that's all that matter. Do you realize I'm still 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:41.200 trying to perfect my shot at my age with nothing 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:45.600 to play for? Are you do you do that I do? 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.920 When I do, it's like golf, you know, you know, 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:54.159 even professional golfers still take lessons and they still critique themselves. 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:58.200 And I think shooting and playing the game of basketball 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.240 is a lot like golf because there is no six 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:05.760 such thing as perfection. And it's interesting because when I 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:10.520 was calling the Lakers games last night, because their offense 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:14.760 right now, it's it's like been on hiatus. It hasn't 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.560 it has not found its way to the bubble yet. Yeah, 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:20.240 and they were pointing so great up to that point, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.320 and they're shooting if you look at their numbers I 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.800 believe we mentioned it over their last two games, they're 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:32.800 like six four fifty from three and you're wondering, is 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:37.600 it Lakes? Do they have Are they tired? Their offense 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.399 just not see does not seem to be in sync. 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.840 And this is with little I know. Labron's been played 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.480 last night, but two nights ago versus okay, see he played. 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.840 But what how concerned would you be if you're a 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.919 Laker fan right now? I said this on the air 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:56.880 last night. I understand they have the number one seed 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.280 in the West and they are trying different things and 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.280 trying to figure out but you've got to have some 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:06.440 type of rhythm going into the playoffs and everyone is 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:10.080 in a unique situation here where I wouldn't be as 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.800 concerned if they were playing in Staples in front of 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.399 twenty thousand fans and you get that energy and you 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:19.240 get a little pumped up. You are in a unique 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:24.040 environment where home court will not matter and if you 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:28.240 don't have a great rhythm starting the playoffs on August seventeen. 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:32.160 To me, that's the only thing that's a little unsettling 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.520 is because they don't have a rhythm yet. Offensively, the 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.199 only team in the bubble the Lakers with Lebron James 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.720 and Anthony Davis, that are not averaging one hundred points. 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.439 With those two great players, it's a little concerning for me. 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.440 Everybody is scoring in the bubble except for the Lakers. 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:54.920 But is there a reason why everybody is. Let's take 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.520 the Lakers out of the equation. Why is it that 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:02.480 scoring is up so high. I think the big thing 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:09.520 is teams are manufacturing their own energy, and there's less 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:14.520 pressure on some teams because usually in their home court advantage, 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:19.639 like for instance, Philadelphia, before Ben Simmons got injured, every 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.960 time he caught the ball at home in Philly, everyone 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.520 wanted him to shoot threes. The crowd would gas. There's 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:30.600 pressure playing in some in certain environments and situations in 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:35.120 the bubble, there's no fans, there's no degree of pressure. 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.320 It's really who wants it more. And I think you're seeing, 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.560 especially some of the elite guys like a Devin Booker, 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.240 who doesn't matter if he's playing in front of twenty 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:49.760 thousand or two people, put on absolute shows TJ. Warren. 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.320 These guys have got a new lease on their games 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.520 because they're just going out and playing. And I think 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.760 that's why scoring and shooting is up, because more guys 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:03.080 and teams are playing more free and open. I don't 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.600 know if you heard this. It was like a throwaway 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:10.080 line from Lebron where he talked about something off the court, 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:12.720 but he said, I don't want to get into that now. 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:14.600 I think this might have been after the game that 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.200 he had the quote. I don't know what he's alluding 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:22.160 to here, but just the fact that you mentioned that 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.520 he mentions it. Now that you know, my curiosity has 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.040 peaked of wait, what is bothering him so much so 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:31.960 that he would bring it up during a press conference 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.119 or kind of bring it up there. I don't know 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.600 if you heard that comment. From him, I didn't hear. 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:39.720 But let's remember now, there's so much going on. We're 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.959 in the middle obviously of a pandemic. These players still 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:48.480 want to have their voices heard in terms of social justice. 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:52.080 So there's there's still things surrounding and affecting these guys 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:54.600 while they're in the in the bubble. So you know, 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:56.399 you don't know if he's alluding to something off the 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:01.320 court in terms of his activism, or if he's talking 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:05.679 about something internally that's going on with the team. You know, 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.360 it's hard to get a gauge on what's going on 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.600 with the Lakers or Lebron. But yeah, I mean, I'm 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.200 sure that's a red flat comment coming from Lebron, who 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:16.800 sat out last night with a little bit of a 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:21.320 growing issue. If you had to bet a week's pay 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:26.040 on the Lakers or Clippers right now today, I'm going 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:31.400 with the Clippers. Yeah. I just think they're deep, how 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:35.520 they play the game, in terms of their length. You know, 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:38.920 they got lou Williams back. I know Beverley didn't play 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:42.960 last night, but to me, there they are the favorites 0:22:43.000 --> 0:22:45.359 to win the West because of that depth, and they've 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:49.200 got two guys and Kwhi Leonard and Paul George, who 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:53.240 can dictate the outcome of a game at both ends 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:56.679 of the floor, and both are young, both have experienced 0:22:56.680 --> 0:23:01.199 in the playoffs, well coached by Doc Rivers, who's won 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:06.840 a championship, I personally would would lean towards especially after 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:10.880 looking at the offense, you know, for the Lakers, I'm 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:13.760 leaning towards the Clippers in this type of environment. The 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:19.639 third best team in the West is who I would 0:23:19.760 --> 0:23:25.760 probably go with. You know, I want to put Denver 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:28.520 in there, but they've had so many injuries and they 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:31.240 don't have their starting lineup though the way Michael Porter 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:34.680 Junior is playing, and they still have Yokis who looks great, 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:38.680 you know. Okay, See, people are not giving Chris Paul 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:43.199