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Speaker 2: around the country. Florida survives Texas Tech, Duke rolls Alabama
Speaker 2: Houston big winner over Tennessee in Auburn over Michigan State.
Speaker 2: So the odds this morning, according to DraftKings, Duke is
Speaker 2: favored by four and a half against Houston and Florida
Speaker 2: favored by two and a half against Auburn. You know,
Speaker 2: when you're watching a game, just like when I was
Speaker 2: watching John Caliperry and Arkansas blow a double digit lead,
Speaker 2: like you're watching it in real time and you can
Speaker 2: kind of see and sense and watch the momentum shifting.
Speaker 2: And you got to see that with the Florida game
Speaker 2: against Texas Tech. Texas Tech was playing great, took it inside,
Speaker 2: they were dominating, double digit lead, and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden there's a play, and then there's a play,
Speaker 2: and then there's a play, and then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden they've hit three three pointers in a row, and
Speaker 2: then you start to watch and as I've said many
Speaker 2: many times on this program, way too many times, if
Speaker 2: a game is on the line, I don't want to
Speaker 2: let that star player take the shot, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: I will not let Walter Clayton Junior, the third take
Speaker 2: those shots. It might be the second best or third
Speaker 2: best player. I will not let that guy beat me.
Speaker 2: He had thirty points, second thirty point game in the tournament.
Speaker 2: He had thirty three last year in the round of
Speaker 2: sixty four when he was at Iona. But he's a
Speaker 2: great shooter. He's a streaky shooter. He is a fearless shooter.
Speaker 2: Never let the best player beat you. Never never understood
Speaker 2: that that you let that guy have the ball, go
Speaker 2: double him. Maybe you do a box and want I
Speaker 2: cannot let him take those shots because he is as
Speaker 2: good as anybody, if not better than anybody in the
Speaker 2: tournament at taking those shots under pressure.
Speaker 3: Texas Tech had this, they did.
Speaker 2: Florida didn't seem to have answers until they did, and
Speaker 2: then Texas Tech didn't have answers. But these moments, Texas
Speaker 2: Tech is gone to the final four, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the camera work was great because then
Speaker 2: they would focus in and you got to see it
Speaker 2: was draining the league. The lead was draining, and you know,
Speaker 2: the color in your face was draining. It went from
Speaker 2: Texas Tech red to white and you're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: we're going to blow this. Houston's going to play great defense.
Speaker 2: They're not exciting. They played great defense. Got some players
Speaker 2: who've been there for a while. With Calvin Samson, he's
Speaker 2: a great coach. Auburn over Michigan, Michigan State and that
Speaker 2: was fun to watch. Yeah, Bruce Pearl's done a wonderful job.
Speaker 3: And then Duke over Alabama.
Speaker 2: It's one of those where you go, Duke's probably going
Speaker 2: to pressure the perimeters so they don't get to shoot
Speaker 2: these threes. Yeah, they've done a really good job here
Speaker 2: and Alabama. Now Alabama did have some looks and had
Speaker 2: some shots. But Duke is a really good defensive team.
Speaker 2: Like you want to talk about offense and defense, They're
Speaker 2: like the Philadelphia Eagles. You know, they're a great offensive team,
Speaker 2: three lottery picks, Cooper Flag, unselfish and defensively, they get
Speaker 2: after it as well. Every Duke team has prided themselves
Speaker 2: in their defense.
Speaker 3: Seaton, what's the poll question for hour two?
Speaker 2: By the way, you have women's games coming up tonight,
Speaker 2: yukon USC that's your headliner, and TCU and Texas.
Speaker 3: What do you have, Seaton.
Speaker 4: We got a few of them working right now up
Speaker 4: on the website. We've got favorite to win the tournament. Obviously,
Speaker 4: You're choices are Duke, Florida, Houston, Auburn. Right now, Duke
Speaker 4: and Florida running away with that one. We also put
Speaker 4: up there. The final four is the best four teams
Speaker 4: or disappointing? Okay, right now the best four teams has
Speaker 4: seventy eight percent.
Speaker 3: Of the Oh okay, I'm a little surprised.
Speaker 2: It felt like people weren't talking as much about March Madness,
Speaker 2: that the best teams were going to be playing for
Speaker 2: the championship, that you wanted to have that team, you
Speaker 2: wanted to have that player where you go, have you
Speaker 2: seen and then there's nobody saying unless you watch Cooper
Speaker 2: Flag and you go, yeah, you know what, he's really
Speaker 2: good or Walter Clayton Junior the third Yeah, and he
Speaker 2: can shoot. But I don't know if anybody's talking about
Speaker 2: man at Houston can play defense, because that's not exciting.
Speaker 2: We want that story. We've always had that story. There's
Speaker 2: always that long shot. We like cinderellas, We like the
Speaker 2: you almost or you could have a chance to play
Speaker 2: for the National championship.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: See also put up there, the NFL wants to change
Speaker 4: the tush push, although this says rush push should be
Speaker 4: tush push because of player safety. It's not a football
Speaker 4: play or jealousy.
Speaker 2: I think you have to factor in that it's predictable
Speaker 2: and the Eagles have mastered it well.
Speaker 4: Jealousy right now is sixty percent of that phone? Player
Speaker 4: safety just a mere eight percent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no data that will support player safety.
Speaker 3: It just isn't.
Speaker 2: It looks like it's going to be. You know, the
Speaker 2: guy who gets hurt the most, from what I'm told,
Speaker 2: is the center, and nobody cares about center. No, no, Boddy.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll get to some phone calls here. Todd McShay,
Speaker 2: NFL draft analyst, talking about what the Titans are going
Speaker 2: to do or not do, and what the Giants are
Speaker 2: going or to do or not to have that for
Speaker 2: you coming up here in a little bit.
Speaker 3: Jeremy in New York leads us off hour two on
Speaker 3: this Monday. Good morning, Jeremy. What's on your mind today?
Speaker 5: Hey, good morning Dan and crew. Happy Monday, six four
Speaker 5: one ninety ish. I'd say best of the weekend probably
Speaker 5: the Pistons tripling their win total from last year. I
Speaker 5: think that's the first time it's been done in a
Speaker 5: full NBA season. Worst of the Weekend. I would have
Speaker 5: liked to see a lower seed in the final four,
Speaker 5: but like you said, Dan, those teams deserve to be there,
Speaker 5: so you can't be too upset. I was curious, Dan,
Speaker 5: would you ever consider it before you sign off in
Speaker 5: a few years, having some kind of contest where listeners
Speaker 5: can come in and it's like a winner of a contest.
Speaker 5: Maybe have a tour of the man Cave or sit
Speaker 5: in on a recording.
Speaker 2: We've had people in, but very very rare, and some
Speaker 2: people sh show up.
Speaker 3: We don't encourage that.
Speaker 2: That doesn't mean you get to come in, but it
Speaker 2: might be something that I would consider. Maybe if we
Speaker 2: did a contest and allow somebody to come in and
Speaker 2: watch the show.
Speaker 3: It's not very exciting to watch how we do the show.
Speaker 4: Just sayally, it's gotta be ultimately supremely disappointing.
Speaker 6: That's what's my question? Impressive or disappointing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want you to kind of come in
Speaker 2: behind the scenes and go, man, this isn't scripted.
Speaker 3: Uh, that's all you guys do.
Speaker 4: Uh Okay, But he maybe we should put on a
Speaker 4: show for the people that come in here and you know,
Speaker 4: really acts like we're like diving into make it look
Speaker 4: more like a NASA launch than what.
Speaker 7: It really is.
Speaker 2: Well, I know one guy who would step up his
Speaker 2: game considerably if there were people in tod Fritz.
Speaker 8: I get on a Unicycle'm trying to juggle like flaming bowl,
Speaker 8: I pinch or something that I wouldn't be very good,
Speaker 8: but it's something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well consider that. I'll consider that. Got a little
Speaker 2: bit of time. Let me see urso in desmone As.
Speaker 9: Oh it's up, Dan, Hey, thanks for calling me back.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 10: A couple things, couple things for you, Dan. It really
Speaker 10: excited for you guys to be coming here to Iowa
Speaker 10: and June.
Speaker 3: That's going to be a blast.
Speaker 10: One one thought that I had, are you going to
Speaker 10: be able to bring Shay from Irving with you? Will
Speaker 10: his roommates sign off on that, because I think he'd
Speaker 10: fit in great here.
Speaker 3: And I I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Look he went to Vegas. I just said, look, I'm
Speaker 2: not going to be I'm not in control of you.
Speaker 2: I don't want to know what you guys are doing.
Speaker 2: He took some of the back room guys out, and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, they showed up every morning. That's all I
Speaker 2: ask Dylan and Picture Day Ray just show up every morning,
Speaker 2: and they did. I don't know if they were all there.
Speaker 2: When they showed up, they were gambling, maybe hungover, but
Speaker 2: Shay was there in Vegas. But I don't want to
Speaker 2: do that to thee great people of Iowa. What else
Speaker 2: do you have for me?
Speaker 3: Terzo?
Speaker 10: Well, Dan, I agreed with you last week whenever you
Speaker 10: stated that Cooper flag kind of reminded you of Kevin Durant.
Speaker 10: Especially after you said it last week, I really was
Speaker 10: really kind of paying attention to it watching the two
Speaker 10: games over the weekend. I think that was a great comparison.
Speaker 10: But I also understood what you said about Kevin Love
Speaker 10: that it's not a bad thing to compare to Kevin Love.
Speaker 10: If I had the opportunity, I would love to have
Speaker 10: his career. I thought he was a great player when
Speaker 10: he played.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my point was don't make it. Cooper Flag, is
Speaker 2: he the next Larry Bird? And I said, if he
Speaker 2: could be like Kevin Love accomplished what Kevin Love did,
Speaker 2: people would still probably view that as a disappointment, and
Speaker 2: it shouldn't be, because Kevin Love has a borderline Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame career. I just we tend to do this
Speaker 2: now all of a sudden, Cooper Flag will be a
Speaker 2: disappointment to people because well, he wasn't Larry Byrd.
Speaker 3: He's not. There isn't another Larry Bird.
Speaker 2: There's not another Magic, There's not another Michael, not another Kareem.
Speaker 2: That's the beauty of sport, these individuals. There's not another Luca.
Speaker 2: That's where we got to be careful with the he
Speaker 2: could be. He could, but that's why I said, let's
Speaker 2: lower our expectations. And then people thought I was taking
Speaker 2: a shot at Kevin Love. And I talked about this
Speaker 2: in the first hour that I did reach out Miami
Speaker 2: Heat and he wisely said no need. He understood I
Speaker 2: wasn't taking a shot at him, and I wasn't. I
Speaker 2: just want people to realize Cooper Flag is a really
Speaker 2: good player. I don't know if he's going to be great.
Speaker 2: He might play for a bad team, bad teammates. Maybe
Speaker 2: he doesn't make the playoffs anytime soon. Oh, he's a
Speaker 2: bust that this happens. I've seen it happen. That's why
Speaker 2: I just want to put it out there. Hey, let
Speaker 2: him just play, Let's see it. You know what it
Speaker 2: looks like. He might be spectacular, he's unselfish.
Speaker 3: Now he might get twenty five points. Again, what if
Speaker 3: he doesn't? What if he's eighteen and nine and five assists?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you okay with that is? I'm gonna guess most
Speaker 2: people won't be. That's why I brought up Kevin Love.
Speaker 2: Those are great numbers. I think a five time All
Speaker 2: Star won a title, really really good numbers.
Speaker 3: And but that's not going to be good enough.
Speaker 6: Yes, boy, I went back and looked at the last
Speaker 6: ten number one overall draft picks, and a lot of
Speaker 6: them took a while to get going. Cad Cunningham, he's
Speaker 6: great now, took a while. Zion, it's working well now,
Speaker 6: but the first two years was like up and down.
Speaker 6: DeAndre Ayden he's got a decent career. It's not number
Speaker 6: one overall pick where it's a nice career. Yeah, if
Speaker 6: he was a twelfth pick, Yeah, Markel Foltz bouncing around
Speaker 6: the league, Ben Simmons, and then you have a Karl
Speaker 6: Anthony Towns very invented the game back in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 6: Day twenty fourteen, Andrew Wiggins out of Kansas. It's fair
Speaker 6: to say he's at a very nice career.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but number and overall draft pick has a difference.
Speaker 2: So nobody was looking at Andrew Wiggins and going see
Speaker 2: the next Michael Jordan? Right, I mean Karl Anthony Towns.
Speaker 2: What were they saying? Is he the next.
Speaker 3: Who Cooper Flag has?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 2: Is he the next Larry Bird? I mean that's zero
Speaker 2: to one hundred and twenty. And that's why I said,
Speaker 2: let's be fair to we won't be. We won't be
Speaker 2: in this era of hot takes, no journalism, just throw
Speaker 2: stuff out there.
Speaker 3: We won't be.
Speaker 2: I will be, but most people won't because that's not
Speaker 2: any fun.
Speaker 12: Yes, Mark, And there's one thing that we lack a society. Now,
Speaker 12: patience God for me here. He doesn't come out of
Speaker 12: the gate like Lebron And you know Night one is
Speaker 12: Sacramento scores twenty five. Uh oh, we speak too soon
Speaker 12: about Cooper Flag.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get to see it Mothership. We'll have Cooper
Speaker 2: flag overrated. Question mark let's discuss on get up flag
Speaker 2: It halfs that oh Okay should have stated Duke not
Speaker 2: ready for the NBA at nineteen question mark. David in Ohio,
Speaker 2: Hi David, what's on your mind?
Speaker 13: Hey Dan, Happy Monday. That's the weekend. Uh just found
Speaker 13: out that this is David in Ohio is expecting. So
Speaker 13: I had a question for you. I need some advice
Speaker 13: for Yeah, thank you for some advice for just being
Speaker 13: the husband and being in the pregnancy and just some
Speaker 13: advice from me if you don't buy.
Speaker 3: Him, when when is missus? David?
Speaker 13: Do keep doing October close to Halloween. So it's kind
Speaker 13: of scary.
Speaker 2: So uh, try to think ahead. You know we talk
Speaker 2: about Wayne Gretzky was always thinking of play ahead. Certain
Speaker 2: guys think of play You got to think a minute ahead,
Speaker 2: an hour ahead, a day ahead, a week ahead, a
Speaker 2: month ahead. With your wife, you'll always have to be
Speaker 2: thinking what can I do for her? And don't take
Speaker 2: it for granted when she says, oh, I don't want anything.
Speaker 2: Little gifts, little just little things. You get food you
Speaker 2: want to bring it in, maybe breakfast in bet she's
Speaker 2: going to go through an awful lot, and it's something
Speaker 2: that we wouldn't. The population would be half the size
Speaker 2: if we were giving birth.
Speaker 3: It just would. Could you imagine Fritzy delivering his own baby.
Speaker 8: I'm going to pass on that.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, can you get like multiple epidurals you're gonna have?
Speaker 2: Yes, you can't be more any more attentive like you
Speaker 2: you have. I should say, be more attentive, and even
Speaker 2: when you think you're being attentive, be even more because
Speaker 2: there's gonna be some mood swim and it's going to
Speaker 2: be directed at you. Just saying. I mean, I got
Speaker 2: caught with some strays in the delivery room and I'm like,
Speaker 2: and you.
Speaker 3: Just have to take it. It's like, okay, yes, I agree.
Speaker 2: I am a jerk, you know, And you're like, okay,
Speaker 2: whatever you say.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you got a long Enjoy the process. How
Speaker 3: about that? Enjoy it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: All right, thank you David. That's David in Ohio. Yes,
Speaker 2: and trust the process, Thank you, Tod. All right, Seth
Speaker 2: Greenberg and the Mothership will join us coming out. We'll
Speaker 2: have more of the Yankee bats. Are they cheating?
Speaker 3: They all fired up?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 2: Can we find out if the Yankees use these bats
Speaker 2: in spring training, and did anybody say anything if that's
Speaker 2: the case, did they have them under wraps? Did they
Speaker 2: bring them? You know, when the gangsters will bring a
Speaker 2: gun into like a musical instrument case, you're bringing in
Speaker 2: a machine gun. No, that's a violin. Just feels kind
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Speaker 2: More phone calls coming up are the Tennessee Titans locked
Speaker 2: in with who they're taking. At number one, we'll hear
Speaker 2: from a draft analyst who says, maybe not Seth Greenberg
Speaker 2: of the Mothership. What a busy guy. He was the
Speaker 2: two time ACC Coach of the Year at Virginia Tech.
Speaker 2: Where are those awards.
Speaker 15: In my office? Behind behind my desk somewhere?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Do you proudly display those and like, hey, come on
Speaker 2: into my office, look what I got. Like if I
Speaker 2: go into Coach K's office, you know, I get to
Speaker 2: see national championship trophies.
Speaker 15: Well, I mean, I'm not coach k but I do
Speaker 15: have two d us to coaching the year, and what
Speaker 15: I do is a FaceTime from my office. I choled
Speaker 15: them prominently. Along with the wins against Duke in Carolina.
Speaker 3: What was your record against Duke?
Speaker 15: I was three to six.
Speaker 3: And what were you against Dean Smith?
Speaker 15: I mean ire to coach against Dean, I'm not that old.
Speaker 15: I coached against Roy. I think I had three wins
Speaker 15: against Roy. One of them was actually when they were
Speaker 15: number one in the country at Kansas. It was weird
Speaker 15: my teams. We had four wins against number ones and
Speaker 15: they were all on the road, which is kind of bizarre.
Speaker 2: Explain to me the role that coaching plays now as
Speaker 2: opposed to maybe earlier in the tournament or during the
Speaker 2: regular season.
Speaker 15: You know, everyone's gonna say this experience have a factor
Speaker 15: comes f Final four. People who have been through it
Speaker 15: understand it. Had an experience of dealing with all the
Speaker 15: requests and media and kind of finding a balancing point
Speaker 15: for the preparation. I think coaching has an impact every
Speaker 15: time of the year. What are you going to get,
Speaker 15: what are you gonna take away? You know you're not
Speaker 15: going to reinvent yourself in the NCM by tournament. How
Speaker 15: you get your guys to understand what's the essence of
Speaker 15: what you have to do to win, and then making
Speaker 15: sure you're managing the hardest thinking in fountal four as
Speaker 15: an assistant coaching eighty four with coach hollent Is, managing
Speaker 15: all the obligations and keeping the guys focused. It's great,
Speaker 15: it's unique. You got you know, police sports. You know
Speaker 15: you're practicing in front of twenty five thousand people, You've
Speaker 15: got eight thousand people that want tickets. Managing all that
Speaker 15: so you can stay focused on what's most important the
Speaker 15: game and the very best figure out all right, how
Speaker 15: do we get laser focused on the things that are
Speaker 15: most important? And now it's even harder with social media,
Speaker 15: with agents, with workout gurus, with all the other obligations
Speaker 15: that players are asked. And then also like some of
Speaker 15: these guys might end up transferred at the end of
Speaker 15: the front of four.
Speaker 2: I was talking to John Shier last hour about that
Speaker 2: that the blueprint it feels like has change where you
Speaker 2: have the blue bloods are taking away the mid majors,
Speaker 2: good players to prevent the you know, the mid majors
Speaker 2: from making these Cinderella runs. They're already. It's kind of
Speaker 2: circumventing the system there a little bit. Instead of waiting
Speaker 2: for this, they come in and grab those players. And
Speaker 2: we're seeing less freshmen impact the tournament other than Duke,
Speaker 2: and it feels like now it's you know, maybe sophomores,
Speaker 2: juniors and seniors. Is this is this what we should
Speaker 2: be expecting in years to come?
Speaker 15: One hundred percent? This is the future one hundred percent.
Speaker 15: Look how old the Duke? Look how uh the Auburn
Speaker 15: team is. You're starting on it. There's a twenty five
Speaker 15: year old, a twenty three year old, a twenty four
Speaker 15: year old. Uh, you can got one freshman Auburn, Todd Peterford,
Speaker 15: You've got three freshmen. Basically at Duke you don't have
Speaker 15: another freshman. You've got every single team. Look at Florida's team,
Speaker 15: they got four mid major transmits that are having a
Speaker 15: huge impact on their team. So this is the future, right,
Speaker 15: you know, with an io would transfer portal and that's
Speaker 15: why in a lot of ways that this is the
Speaker 15: way it's going to be. But we've got to get
Speaker 15: guidelines then we just have to. And we've got to
Speaker 15: have contracts, and we've got to have incentives. And the
Speaker 15: other thing we've got to do is we've got to
Speaker 15: eventually put education back into this thing. Also, like you've
Speaker 15: gotting guys transferred three or four times, it's going to
Speaker 15: impact graduation. We've got to have incentives for academic progress, retention, graduation,
Speaker 15: community service along with along with obviously team success and
Speaker 15: then maybe some individual success. We've got to have base salaries.
Speaker 15: We've got to find a way to get this thing back.
Speaker 15: And I'm all for the players making money, that's not it,
Speaker 15: but we've got to have some like maybe one. College
Speaker 15: basketball is a professional sport right now, That's what it is.
Speaker 15: It's a professional sport. Name a professional sport that has
Speaker 15: year to year free agency.
Speaker 2: I don't think any well, the owners not allow it
Speaker 2: to happen that because they, yes, they don't want to end.
Speaker 15: Up and said, well, coaches can go anytime they want.
Speaker 15: I agree, coach go any time they want. And you
Speaker 15: see a lot of coaches go from mid major to
Speaker 15: high major. Seat Kevin Willard go from Maryland to Villanova
Speaker 15: just a week. And that's true. And what do coaches
Speaker 15: have in their contracts the two they have two way security.
Speaker 15: They've got guarantees if they get fired. But they also
Speaker 15: have buyots. And I actually think the part of the
Speaker 15: contracts with the players needs to be a buyout. I
Speaker 15: don't care who pays it. Player can pay it, the
Speaker 15: school that's trying to get the kid can pay it.
Speaker 15: But if we have buyouts and it's two ways and
Speaker 15: we have two year contracts, we can get some continuity
Speaker 15: in the game.
Speaker 2: All four number one seeds reach the final four second
Speaker 2: time that that happened two thousand and eight, the only
Speaker 2: other time. Good thing for the tournament or a bad thing.
Speaker 15: This year a very good thing because those four teams
Speaker 15: have separated themselves all season. Low all these four teams
Speaker 15: that I think I'm not mistaking the bid number one
Speaker 15: in the country. This is the future riving about all
Speaker 15: four number ones. But the one number ones beat the
Speaker 15: number twos. You saw what happened to Tennessee, so what
Speaker 15: happened to State. Yeah, I do. I think it's good
Speaker 15: on good. You can see the best players playing against
Speaker 15: each other. You can see the best teams who've earned
Speaker 15: it with their body of work throughout the season playing
Speaker 15: against each other. You're not just gonna see a cindel
Speaker 15: or Ella who gets out. We don't have that many Cinderellas.
Speaker 15: We have them in the first round of second round.
Speaker 15: There are very few vcus and Loyola's. That doesn't happen
Speaker 15: very often. And I look at upsets. If you if
Speaker 15: you have a one in the three and they're major conferences,
Speaker 15: and they teams that have beaten other high level teams,
Speaker 15: it's no big thing. But this year and the last
Speaker 15: time it was the four number ones, it was in
Speaker 15: San Antonio. Also this year, these four teams have separated
Speaker 15: themselves throughout the season. Their body of work said that,
Speaker 15: you know, let's see good on good. Let's see great
Speaker 15: defense in Houston and great offense and defense in Duke.
Speaker 15: Let's see Jane I Broom having as Willis Reed type
Speaker 15: moment coming out of the locker room, you know, and
Speaker 15: making that and making that three, you know against you know,
Speaker 15: a Florida team where Walter Clayton absolutely just took over
Speaker 15: to games. At the end of the games, I actually
Speaker 15: think it's we have a great final for him.
Speaker 2: Seth Greenberg, ESPN college basketball analyst. Let me go back
Speaker 2: to Walter Clayton Junior. I am a big proponent of
Speaker 2: not letting your best player beat mes, and for the
Speaker 2: life of me, couldn't understand this. You know that's the
Speaker 2: one guy, right, everybody in the building knows that's the
Speaker 2: one guy. Why am I not getting two people at him?
Speaker 2: Why not am I? And I know he's quick, he's
Speaker 2: got a quick release.
Speaker 3: All of that.
Speaker 2: I got to take the ball out of his hands. Seth,
Speaker 2: I don't understand this from a coaching perspective. Tell me
Speaker 2: what I'm missing here? Well, good, look, that was my philosophy.
Speaker 2: Every time I want a big game, we take the
Speaker 2: other's best player out. I mean, it's it was just
Speaker 2: an automatic. Great McCaslin did that for a thirty six minutes.
Speaker 2: They blitzed him on every ball street. They got the
Speaker 2: ball out of his hands. Uh, and they did an
Speaker 2: incredible job on them. They always committed two to the ball.
Speaker 2: Kick it out now one time late game, Look that upset.
Speaker 15: It takes two to tag them. So like Texas Tech
Speaker 15: helped him by missing the free throws, Hexta helped him
Speaker 15: by taking some quick shots. And then you know Thomas
Speaker 15: how happened? He makes those first two threes which were huge,
Speaker 15: one of them on a pass off a double team
Speaker 15: where they got the ball out of Clayton's hands and
Speaker 15: he gave it up early and help knocked down a
Speaker 15: big three. Late in the game. I am one hundred
Speaker 15: percent agree with you. Late in the game, I thought
Speaker 15: Clayton did a really good job of relocating quickly before
Speaker 15: they could sit send a second guy at him. The
Speaker 15: one the last one he made where he was inside
Speaker 15: the three point line, about the foul line, and he
Speaker 15: turned and dribbled out and got himself squared up. I
Speaker 15: asked Judy Wild a day, how hard I couldn't. I
Speaker 15: can't relate to him. How hard is that to do?
Speaker 15: And like it's really hard? So like I give the
Speaker 15: guy credit for making those plays. But that's what Grant
Speaker 15: mccasla wanted to do. But he, like he said, he
Speaker 15: thought it seemed got a little tired and lost its focus.
Speaker 15: And you know, your focus on that guy, and he said.
Speaker 2: You home, Yeah, And you're right about the free throws,
Speaker 2: because if they make the free throws, then they're there's
Speaker 2: no heroics there. How would you describe Cooper Flag's game
Speaker 2: to somebody who hadn't seen him play.
Speaker 15: The most versatile player I've seen, and I compare him
Speaker 15: to Grant Hill Scottie Pippen very much, those two guys.
Speaker 15: I think in Jason Tatum, he's got kind of a
Speaker 15: mixture of all three of those guys. I mean, he
Speaker 15: initiate your offense kind of like they do with Tatum
Speaker 15: and Scottie Pippen. David hes cores at all three levels.
Speaker 15: People don't really appreciate his seven two wingspan. He's got
Speaker 15: great defensive range, and he's so damn unselfish, like like
Speaker 15: he's a terrific passer. I mean, his feel for the
Speaker 15: game for he's eighteen years old. He's eighteen years old,
Speaker 15: and he just plays like total like I got this,
Speaker 15: We're in good shape. Never gets to it now his
Speaker 15: mom has lost her mind, but he is perfectly fine
Speaker 15: like that. Dude's playing in the biggest games in the
Speaker 15: bimigus moments, knocking down big shots. And like his mom,
Speaker 15: he made a couple of turnovers early in the game,
Speaker 15: and the first thing he hears from his mom is
Speaker 15: and the three turnables, you got to be better with
Speaker 15: the ball. I mean, it is a high standard. Is
Speaker 15: a high standard in flat family I understand that, but
Speaker 15: he's a unique and you know, people say Unicorn. Yeah,
Speaker 15: I don't know. I've never met at Unicorn, so I
Speaker 15: don't know what corn is. But the dude is like really,
Speaker 15: he's not only special, but his demeanor is special and
Speaker 15: yet being fiercely competitive.
Speaker 3: You coaching against Duke when people hated Duke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this team is embraced, I said to coach Schier.
Speaker 2: I said, people don't dislike Duke, like they're kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you might not root for him, but it doesn't feel
Speaker 2: like you're rooting against them.
Speaker 15: Yeah. I mean a little bit I'd do with Mike
Speaker 15: an evil umpire and had to do it. You know,
Speaker 15: just the amount of success he had, the consistency and
Speaker 15: success they Duke became the Yankees. You love them. You
Speaker 15: hated him, you know, it's just just the way it is.
Speaker 15: Uh So, I mean, coach k and what he was
Speaker 15: able to build and the consistency that he had. People
Speaker 15: got tired of him, and you know, either you liked
Speaker 15: him or you didn't like John Shire, and I'm glad
Speaker 15: you had them all. To me, he's incredible. He is
Speaker 15: so comfortable in his own skin. He's not coach K
Speaker 15: two point zero or one point oh, he's John Shire
Speaker 15: two point oh.
Speaker 5: He is.
Speaker 15: Unapologetically himself. The way they play totally different style of
Speaker 15: basketball in a lot of ways. The way they defend
Speaker 15: differently than not denying everything to keep you in front.
Speaker 15: The way he interacts with his team holds him acount
Speaker 15: but a little bit different, but a great communicator. Coach
Speaker 15: K was a great motivator in the history of our sport,
Speaker 15: maybe in the history of sport. Ever, his ability to
Speaker 15: create causes whether he did it with the Olympic team
Speaker 15: with his Dukee teams. But John Shire has a likability
Speaker 15: to him. He's allowed these guys and it's a different age.
Speaker 15: Everyone knows these guys now from TikTok and social media
Speaker 15: and the accessibility that they have. You see their personalities.
Speaker 15: They're not like put in small boxes. So I think
Speaker 15: the social media aspect of it has changed it. John
Speaker 15: Shire's approach has changed it. And these kids are very
Speaker 15: comfortable putting themselves out and being a little bit outside
Speaker 15: the box of you would think that people expect them
Speaker 15: to be.
Speaker 2: I know you're busy. Thanks as always, great to talk
Speaker 2: to you again, Seth.
Speaker 15: Always honored to be on your show, You're the best.
Speaker 2: That's Seth Greenberg, ESPN college basketball analyst and former coach
Speaker 2: at Virginia Tech. Yeah, I think Cooper Flag is a
Speaker 2: little too unselfish, and his coach even echoed those sentiments.
Speaker 2: You like to get your teammates involved. When you're the
Speaker 2: best player, you know, it's easy for you to say, Hey,
Speaker 2: you might be I might be double teamed, you might
Speaker 2: be open, but I might have a better chance of
Speaker 2: making the shot. But he's been really good at engaging
Speaker 2: his teammates. And he's a really good passer. That's not
Speaker 2: necessarily something we've focused on. I mean, Nikola Jokic has
Speaker 2: brought that back where we're looking at style assist, but
Speaker 2: Cooper Flag's a really good passer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's got to be.
Speaker 4: The kind of thing that there has to be a
Speaker 4: balance though, right, I mean, you can't remove that from
Speaker 4: him totally, nor you wouldn't want to.
Speaker 7: And at the same time, too, you don't.
Speaker 4: It can't all be on him, right, So you kind
Speaker 4: of have to get your teammates going sometimes too.
Speaker 7: He just does it too much.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, Yes, he's but it hasn't cost them.
Speaker 7: Maybe at the wrong time maybe too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I there'd be times find his coach where I
Speaker 2: would say, Cooper, you take over, or you say you
Speaker 2: start running plays for him. You're saying to your team,
Speaker 2: we want to let him be great. Yes, And because
Speaker 2: taking over is a skill you have to learn too.
Speaker 2: If we need a bucket right now, I'll go get
Speaker 2: it right now, no problem. You know that's something that
Speaker 2: you have to develop. And everybody knows you're getting the
Speaker 2: ball and they still can't stop. Still doesn't matter, Yeah, Paulling.
Speaker 6: It is funny though, watching Duke this season. Flag gets
Speaker 6: all the coverage, but kon k Nipple, the other freshman,
Speaker 6: he is not scared to shoot in a tough situation.
Speaker 3: He's very aggressive.
Speaker 6: He gets nowhere near the coverage. He also looks like
Speaker 6: he's in high school, but man's a he's a not
Speaker 6: scared player.
Speaker 2: He's benefited from Cooper Flag because all he does is
Speaker 2: find his spot on the court and then Flag will
Speaker 2: find you. And he's a really, really, really good shooter.
Speaker 2: That's why he's going to be a top fifteen pick. Yeah, Smarph.
Speaker 12: He's going to be one of those guys where he
Speaker 12: might have a better NBA career than a college career.
Speaker 12: Could you're like, man, he's six seven, He just sits there.
Speaker 12: He shoots three very much. I don't want to call
Speaker 12: Claytons whoa, whoa, but he might have a Claytons like impacts.
Speaker 2: Right, Mike and Iowa, Hi Mike. Best and worst of
Speaker 2: the weekend, Hey, Dan.
Speaker 16: Best of the weekend Chicago White Sox winning an opening day,
Speaker 16: putting them above five hundred for the first time since
Speaker 16: March of twenty twenty three. Worse of the weekend losing
Speaker 16: the next two games to go up five hundred.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mike. Yeah, but they made a big deal
Speaker 2: about the White Sox. Yeah, they won, and then they
Speaker 2: went back to being the White Sox. We'll take a break.
Speaker 2: More phone calls coming up eight seven seven three DP
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Speaker 2: your mind today?
Speaker 9: Come on a Brother Morning show as always. You know,
Speaker 9: it's one thing I'd like to point out with this
Speaker 9: bat controversy. And I'm a longtime Yankee fan. I know
Speaker 9: there's a lot of haters out there, but no one
Speaker 9: has pointed out on any of the shows this morning
Speaker 9: that the Yanks were playing a Milwaukee team who's pitching
Speaker 9: staff might be one of the worst in baseball right
Speaker 9: now due to the injuries that it's had. Okay, so
Speaker 9: that's just my point this morning.
Speaker 2: That's not a good story, fran The bats are a
Speaker 2: good story. Nobody wants to talk about the Brewers in
Speaker 2: upt pitching staff because then you can't really like they
Speaker 2: want to blame somebody for something. That's why the Yankees
Speaker 2: and these bats, these torpedo bats, well, they must be
Speaker 2: getting away was something.
Speaker 9: I hear you there. It's it's not the narrative that's
Speaker 9: gonna sell.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, you got to you gotta be in
Speaker 2: the content business. You have to understand what are more
Speaker 2: people going to be talking about that Brewer's staff is
Speaker 2: not any good or the Yankees could somehow be getting
Speaker 2: away with something. But thank you for the phone call, friend.
Speaker 2: How about we go around the room. Best and worst
Speaker 2: of the weekend, todd best and worst of the weekend?
Speaker 8: My best was on that very topic.
Speaker 15: I'm giving it to the Yankees.
Speaker 8: Back to the twenty nine wins Saturay against the Brewers
Speaker 8: and the Bronx, Aaron Judge three home runs of the
Speaker 8: game nearly went.
Speaker 15: You're out a fourth time hit like the top of
Speaker 15: the wall.
Speaker 8: The team at four homers in the first inning alone,
Speaker 8: back to back to back shots, three consecutive pitches. First
Speaker 8: time New York at five home runs in the first
Speaker 8: two winnings of the game, nine total dingers of franchise
Speaker 8: record worst of the weekend. We mentioned this ever earlier.
Speaker 15: Also Texas Tech.
Speaker 8: Nine point lead with three minutes left against Florida tripp
Speaker 8: to the final four of the line, allowing to get
Speaker 8: it to three threes and a short window of time.
Speaker 8: Red Raiders filling blue.
Speaker 2: Yes, but also the miss free throws. You make the
Speaker 2: free throws. It doesn't matter what Walder Clay and Junior
Speaker 2: the third is doing. Cet O'Connor.
Speaker 4: My worst of the weekend is former Maryland coach now
Speaker 4: Villanova head coach Kevin Willard. The way he pretty much
Speaker 4: handled this entire year, let alone just the tournament was
Speaker 4: about as terrible as you could get. I wonder now,
Speaker 4: sometimes when something like this happens and like everybody points
Speaker 4: their finger at like this guy is the bad guy here,
Speaker 4: and you're the school that has just hired them, it's
Speaker 4: got to be tough to be like.
Speaker 3: All right, No, it's all right, it's good.
Speaker 15: Okay.
Speaker 7: Now we're excited.
Speaker 3: We're excited about this, ladies and gentlemen. Kevin Willard, Thanks everybody.
Speaker 7: My worst of the weekend was him.
Speaker 4: My best of the weekend was actually the internet's reaction
Speaker 4: to Kevin Willard, which was just a NonStop source of entertainment.
Speaker 4: Jimmy's famous seafood selling snake bites on sale. He got
Speaker 4: all kinds of just great reaction to Kevin Willard. Bad
Speaker 4: kept secret, poorly kept secret. We kept saying, I think
Speaker 4: he's out the door. You're out the door on a
Speaker 4: zoom call, dude, Really a zoom call to your players?
Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, come on, Marvin. Best and worst of
Speaker 3: the weekend.
Speaker 12: Best of the weekend page backers career high forty points,
Speaker 12: great lead, eight win against up excuse me, sweet sixteen
Speaker 12: win against Oklahoma. Good for Paige. Worse of the weekend
Speaker 12: my Yukon men's hockey team losing an overtime to Penn
Speaker 12: State for a chance to go to the Frozen four.
Speaker 12: Great season, but it came up short.
Speaker 6: Paul, I'm gonna go baseball Miami Marlins. Three wins, three
Speaker 6: walkoff wins to start the season of their three to
Speaker 6: one record. That's why hasn't been done in twenty years.
Speaker 6: I actually had on my notes Milwaukee Brewers zero to three.
Speaker 6: They're supposed to be a good team. They've been outscored
Speaker 6: by twenty two runs in only three games. Their pitching
Speaker 6: staff has given up thirty six runs in three games.
Speaker 3: Okay, U rich In Athens, Hi, Rich, what's on your
Speaker 3: mind today?
Speaker 13: Christ and Dan Patrick?
Speaker 17: Nice talk with you. I'm sitting here with my puppy dog, Fritzy,
Speaker 17: and we're just in the down of the dumps about
Speaker 17: our Atlanta Braves and we need someone to talk us
Speaker 17: off the ledge. We're oh and four with three games
Speaker 17: upcoming against the undefeated Dodgers, which means we'll be oh
Speaker 17: and seven by Wednesday. But that leads me into my
Speaker 17: stat of the day, which is only four teams in
Speaker 17: MLB history have started oh and five and made the playoffs.
Speaker 13: Would you like to guess? Or I could just give
Speaker 13: you the list.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just give me the list.
Speaker 17: The seventy four Pirates, the ninety five Reds, the twenty
Speaker 17: eleven Raids, and last year's New York Mets.
Speaker 3: All right, Stat of the day. Stat of the day,
Speaker 3: that past stat of the day. Stat of the.
Speaker 7: Day, here comes that?
Speaker 3: What stat of the day?
Speaker 2: Pete in Rochester? What's on your mind today, Pete?
Speaker 18: Hey, Dan, thanks for taking my call, Yep. I wanted
Speaker 18: to shed some light on this quote unquote that controversy
Speaker 18: with the Yankees and just bring some historical perspects to it.
Speaker 18: As we know, there's a long history in sports of
Speaker 18: teams using any advantage they can, whether it be equipment
Speaker 18: or you know, different things. And it takes me back
Speaker 18: to nineteen eighty four to Adams College where a group
Speaker 18: of nerds with the Try Lambs were taking on a
Speaker 18: heavily favored jock team with Alpha Betas and the Greek Games,
Speaker 18: and they used aerodynamic principles to change the javelin to
Speaker 18: match Lamar's limp wristed throwing style to ultimately win the
Speaker 18: Jabbler event.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you Pete for Revenge of the Nerves. We
Speaker 2: were ment it. That's one of the great sports movies
Speaker 2: of all time. Grady in Naples, Hi, Grady, what's on
Speaker 2: your mind?
Speaker 11: Hi Grady?
Speaker 10: Dan?
Speaker 11: How are you down, sir?
Speaker 16: Hey?
Speaker 11: I just wanted to add some history. If it's the
Speaker 11: same dimension the baseball bat have been used previously. It
Speaker 11: was called the bottle bat, and way back in the
Speaker 11: days of the White Socks, they're second baseman, who I
Speaker 11: believe is all star. Many years Nellie fox Ye used
Speaker 11: to use that battle bat all the time because he
Speaker 11: batted second and his key role was not as a
Speaker 11: power hitter, but as a bunter to advance what the
Speaker 11: likes of Louis Aparicio, et cetera, when they were called
Speaker 11: the Go Go White Sox.
Speaker 3: All right, well, thank you Grady. Once again.
Speaker 2: The bat can't be more than two point sixty one
Speaker 2: inches in dynameter diameter. Oh you know they're not adding
Speaker 2: more to it.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 2: It must adhere to what the you know, the requirements
Speaker 2: are here. Can't be more than forty two inches in length.
Speaker 2: It just feels like all of a sudden, baseball went
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, what are they using?
Speaker 3: Is that legal?
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