Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Hour two. On this Thursday, We'll check in
Speaker 1: with Chris Haynes, who covers the NBA. We'll check in
Speaker 1: inside the Bubble. Join us coming up. LSU head coach
Speaker 1: head or Jon will join us coming up in the
Speaker 1: final hour of the program. Talked a lot about Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott and Derrick Henry. During the first hour of the program.
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott is clapping back at Twitter haters. Here, mcleven,
Speaker 1: are you involved in this? I don't think so. I
Speaker 1: want in Okay, what's he saying? Check the stats? Since
Speaker 1: I entered this league, I have dominated year in and
Speaker 1: year out, put some respect, respecting capital letters on my name.
Speaker 1: And then somebody clapped back and said, Bro, you got
Speaker 1: paid two years early and for way too much. How
Speaker 1: you need more respect than ninety million. Here's another one, bro. No, Lie,
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan, but I'd be lying if I
Speaker 1: said I wasn't disappointed in your performance the last two years.
Speaker 1: I don't see the hunger that happens with running backs
Speaker 1: when they get paid, you start to run a little
Speaker 1: more tentatively. Hunger has never been the question mark. Wow Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a shot. That's easy, low hanging fruit, which is
Speaker 1: something you should probably have more of. What hey, can
Speaker 1: you show me the numbers with Zeke Elliott here mclove
Speaker 1: in the last two years. I just don't think we
Speaker 1: mentioned him. I don't think he has those plays that
Speaker 1: he had when he first got in the league, those
Speaker 1: incredible plays. Remember it was Zeke's team, like they were
Speaker 1: a running team, and then they were like, we got
Speaker 1: to take advantage of Zeke with play action pass and
Speaker 1: this will help Dak Prescott be able to throw the
Speaker 1: ball downfield. I had a scout tell me that defenses
Speaker 1: still want to see if he can throw the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. This is the knock on Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: And then his numbers are big still. He led the
Speaker 1: league of rushing two years ago fourteen thirty four and
Speaker 1: had thirteen fifty seven last year. Okay, but I wonder
Speaker 1: how impactful they were. That's where I keep coming back
Speaker 1: to that. Do you think that they're a running team
Speaker 1: When they needed a big play, did they get that
Speaker 1: from Zeke Elliott? I mean there's still if Zeke's great
Speaker 1: and the offensive line is Hall of Fame worthy and
Speaker 1: you got Dak who wants to be the highest paid
Speaker 1: or second highest paid player in the game and you're
Speaker 1: eight and eight. I can put a lot of this
Speaker 1: on Jason Garrett. I still think that Jerry Jones's biggest regret,
Speaker 1: and he'll never mention it publicly, is he stayed with
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett too long and blew too many opportunities to
Speaker 1: maybe make a run and get a coach that was
Speaker 1: going to make this team better, because I don't know
Speaker 1: if he brought out the best in his players on
Speaker 1: a consistent basis. I always thought Jason was more of
Speaker 1: an assistant coach, and that's what you have now with
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. He's an assistant coach there, and
Speaker 1: maybe Mike McCarthy is going to be an upgrade there.
Speaker 1: I don't know if the offense changes. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's more on Dak Prescott's shoulders. Are they more
Speaker 1: of a running team with Zeke Elliott? But I don't
Speaker 1: want to pay my running back early. I don't want
Speaker 1: to pay him often, and Dallas did that, and I
Speaker 1: think that that will turn out to be a bad
Speaker 1: deal for them. Yeapo, Zeke Elliott's got a point, and
Speaker 1: he is the fourth all time in rushing yards per
Speaker 1: game career. He's averaging ninety seven yards a game rushing
Speaker 1: in his career. That's just behind Jim Brown, Barry Sanders,
Speaker 1: and Terrell Davis. Now, the caveat there is that a
Speaker 1: lot of running backs start hot and their first four
Speaker 1: years are always their best or almost always their best.
Speaker 1: But he's ahead of Eric Dickerson, Walter Peyton, Adrian Peterson. Okay,
Speaker 1: but if I said you can have Zeke Elliott or
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, who do you want completely healthy? No, yeah,
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott. Oh, I'd take Christian McCaffrey in a second.
Speaker 1: Right now. It is splitting hairs. But Ezekiel Elliott takes
Speaker 1: five yard runs and makes them eight. And now I
Speaker 1: know he's a great pass catcher. Derrick Henry or Zeke
Speaker 1: Elliott Zeke when healthy? Yeah, but I don't know what
Speaker 1: healthy means now. Oh, I guess I'm using that with
Speaker 1: all running backs assuming health. Well, he's been pretty healthy,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. He's not the same running back
Speaker 1: he was when he got in the league. His first year,
Speaker 1: hembage one hundred nine yards per game. Nuts, he's got
Speaker 1: one of the best offensive lines in the game. Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey does not have that. Derrick Henry I think made
Speaker 1: that offensive line look a little bit better. By all accounts.
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott has one of the top three lines. He's
Speaker 1: got what maybe two Hall of famers on that line,
Speaker 1: like Zach Martin Iron Smith. Those are Hall of famers.
Speaker 1: So he's got a headstart over all these other running backs. Yes, McLeman,
Speaker 1: he's got a lot aware already in his NFL career
Speaker 1: that well, plus go back to college too. I mean
Speaker 1: you have to actor in the wear and tear on
Speaker 1: the running back, and I have to go back to
Speaker 1: college as well. Derrick Henry didn't have wear and tear
Speaker 1: at Alabama. Christi McCaffrey did have wear and tear at Stanford,
Speaker 1: and it eventually catches up to you. I go back
Speaker 1: to remember James Wilder with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had I think one season, maybe two, four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty carries something crazy like that, But that's all
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers had, but four hundred plus carries. Yeah, McLevin.
Speaker 1: You know who seems like an exception you mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, Like he's the only running back where it
Speaker 1: never mattered what he did, and if he had stayed
Speaker 1: healthy and you know the suspension, he would be knocking
Speaker 1: on the door of him at Smith for the all time.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if anybody's ever going to get
Speaker 1: close to that again. It's it just doesn't it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, we devalued the running back. We
Speaker 1: don't give you the same touches because football used to
Speaker 1: be predicated on running the ball, controlling the clock. You
Speaker 1: take a couple of shots down the field and you
Speaker 1: have a good defense, that's it. It was almost a
Speaker 1: conservative approach. And unless we go back to that, the
Speaker 1: running back, if you get to ten thousand yards, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be like, man, you had a great career, but
Speaker 1: that's the way it used to be. You got to
Speaker 1: ten thousand yards like Jim Taylor of the Green Bay Packers. Now,
Speaker 1: granted they won Super Bowls. He wasn't a great running back,
Speaker 1: but for that team and that offense, he was what
Speaker 1: they needed. I still think Ricky Waters was one of
Speaker 1: the great players that just got lost. Got lost. Great
Speaker 1: pass catcher, and he got overshadowed because it felt like
Speaker 1: he was Marshall Falk before Marshall Falk and then you
Speaker 1: started to see some of these numbers and Ladanian Tomlinson
Speaker 1: comes along. You're like, Oh, everybody's in trouble here, all right,
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Speaker 1: still waiting for this Washington Post story that's supposed to
Speaker 1: be a big deal. Nobody's confirmed anything. We've reached out.
Speaker 1: We reached out to the sports editors at the Washington
Speaker 1: Post and just said, look, off the record, can you
Speaker 1: tell us when the story is going to come out?
Speaker 1: And we didn't even get a response on it. Everybody's
Speaker 1: tight lipped about this, but it feels like there's something
Speaker 1: to do with the toxic culture work environment with the
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins. I'm guessing the article expose is probably complete
Speaker 1: now the lawyers are looking over this. That would be
Speaker 1: my guest. And I don't know if it involves Daniel Snyder.
Speaker 1: You got two employees fired Sunday and then they're a
Speaker 1: long time broadcaster Larry Michael just resigned. Something's happening here.
Speaker 1: It's not just a name change. And that's where I
Speaker 1: wondered with skepticism that maybe the name change just happened
Speaker 1: to come about at the same time you had a
Speaker 1: story that was going to explode. Ross Tucker, our friend,
Speaker 1: former NFL lineman, said, this is like the movie that
Speaker 1: everybody keeps saying, you gotta go see it, you gotta
Speaker 1: go see it, you gotta go see it, and then
Speaker 1: you go see it, you go, Well, it didn't live
Speaker 1: up to what the hype was. I'm hopeful that this
Speaker 1: story doesn't live up to the hype because given look,
Speaker 1: I've been told enough that boy, this could be an explosion.
Speaker 1: This could be something that is pretty bad for a
Speaker 1: couple of people that we're in the organization. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's no names that I'm going to attach, and I'm
Speaker 1: not even going to mention, you know, what anybody's job
Speaker 1: was in there. You just start to hear a little bit.
Speaker 1: But we don't have that story. And maybe the Washington
Speaker 1: Post drops that story by the end of the week,
Speaker 1: but by all accounts, it's pretty exclusive. Exclusive. All right,
Speaker 1: some phone calls here, what are we gonna stay with
Speaker 1: that pole question for the first hour? Yeah, we have.
Speaker 1: If you could start an offense and one of these players,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, we'll stick with it. I we'll
Speaker 1: come up with something better. All right, what are the results? Okay,
Speaker 1: so you have a choice between Kittle, Michael Thomas, and
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey actually runs away with it, no pun intended. Okay,
Speaker 1: that might be the most famous of those three. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now I said I would probably start my team with Kittle.
Speaker 1: I'm with you because he's there's he's the best tight end,
Speaker 1: where Michael Thomas is one of the top ten receivers,
Speaker 1: but it's McCaffrey the best running back. You've convinced me
Speaker 1: that all these guys are good, now I've you know
Speaker 1: these are all there's so many outstanding ones. I mean,
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott is putting up great numbers, but they don't
Speaker 1: compare to what he did when he first got in
Speaker 1: the league. Therefore, you know, I probably diminished his value
Speaker 1: a little bit. Derrick Henry extremely valuable, but Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: didn't have a great year last year. It just feels
Speaker 1: like there's another running back, then another running back another
Speaker 1: running back. This guy came out of nowhere, third round
Speaker 1: draft pick, this guy fifth round draft pick. It just
Speaker 1: feels like at that position you're able to find running
Speaker 1: backs right like Raheem Mostard could have been the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl MVP had they won. Where'd he come from? Off
Speaker 1: a surfboard? I mean he was a he was a
Speaker 1: wide receiver at Purdue and became a running back. Yeah, mcclem.
Speaker 1: If God forbid there was no NFL season, does that
Speaker 1: mean that we'd spend all next year talking about Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott's new contract again? It'd just be the never ending
Speaker 1: back Prescott contract. I try to talk about the things
Speaker 1: that I think are pertinent. I don't do clickbait in
Speaker 1: the minority here, and I don't begrudge others that do it.
Speaker 1: I think the transparency is if you can mention Lebron
Speaker 1: or the Cowboys and Dak Prescott, then you're going to
Speaker 1: do that every single day. You know, Skip and Shannon
Speaker 1: do that every single day. I don't begrudge them. That's
Speaker 1: the program they're doing, and I'm not here to help
Speaker 1: somebody program their show. It's just there's other things to
Speaker 1: talk about instead of saying, how do I work Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott into the show. Dak Prescott deserves to be in
Speaker 1: the show today and as we head into this regular season,
Speaker 1: and he's going to be a storyline the entire year
Speaker 1: because we're gonna look and say, he bet on himself again,
Speaker 1: was it worth it? Are the Cowboys gonna go? You
Speaker 1: know what, We're gonna franchise you next year? And that's
Speaker 1: what my thoughts process was sign him and get him
Speaker 1: at a bargain. If you did it last year, if
Speaker 1: you really want him, then give him his four year,
Speaker 1: one hundred forty million dollars deal like the Seahawks gave
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Then you got a bargain. Then you can
Speaker 1: use that money elsewhere. Now you're going to be saddled
Speaker 1: with paying your quarterback forty million dollars on an offense
Speaker 1: that you paid everybody and a couple of deep defensive
Speaker 1: players that you paid. The salary CAP's gonna go down
Speaker 1: maybe twenty to thirty million dollars due to the pandemic.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, smart man, But I think you could have
Speaker 1: had him at a bargain. But back then, it always
Speaker 1: you know when somebody says, you know, you could have
Speaker 1: bought that house fifteen years ago for this Well, I
Speaker 1: didn't have the money back then. But like people always say,
Speaker 1: you know, you could have bought that Brownstone in New
Speaker 1: York for one hundred thousand dollars back in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 1: Where were you in nineteen seventy five to tell me
Speaker 1: about that? It's after the fact, you know, you could
Speaker 1: have got that car. Got that car a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago for a bargain twenty thousand dollars lands yeap.
Speaker 1: Have you guys ever had one of those where something
Speaker 1: you passed on and you're like, oh, and it still
Speaker 1: is in your gut. I got buying a car, buying
Speaker 1: a house yep. Investment opportunity yea. Moving on, Yeah, moving
Speaker 1: on here, moving on. Dan in Chicago joins us so
Speaker 1: I Dan, what do you have for me today? A
Speaker 1: DPH just wanted to get your opinion on you know,
Speaker 1: how much blame are we putting on the Vikings contract
Speaker 1: with Kirk Cousins for essentially conflating the rate of all
Speaker 1: these growing quarterbacks. My opinion is that, you know, his
Speaker 1: mediocrity essentially set this extraordinary standard for these huge amounts
Speaker 1: of money. Now you got your your Jimmy G's R
Speaker 1: Dacks or Tan hosts your cars who are serviceable quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: but they're in a pay band that's a lot more
Speaker 1: that than what they can really chew. I know, and
Speaker 1: this is what happened because when I came in that
Speaker 1: Monday and I said, you know, Kirk d. Cousins is
Speaker 1: going to get all but guaranteed. This had never happened.
Speaker 1: And I came in because I had a source who said, hey,
Speaker 1: he's getting it all guaranteed. And I said, now, why
Speaker 1: it's a shorter contract and it's all guaranteed sixty six
Speaker 1: million dollars. And then all of a sudden, all these
Speaker 1: agents Ding ding ding and their clients go, hey, we
Speaker 1: went it all guaranteed. And that's what's happening until they
Speaker 1: hit the reset button with these quarterbacks salaries, it's going
Speaker 1: to get out of hand with crazy numbers for guys
Speaker 1: who aren't worth it. The NBA is going through this.
Speaker 1: There are guys who are making over forty million dollars
Speaker 1: and you go, huh, like John Wall, John Wall a
Speaker 1: nice player. If he was playing out in the field house,
Speaker 1: I might wait a while before I went out to
Speaker 1: watch him shoot we've got to make forty two and
Speaker 1: then I think forty six or forty eight million dollars?
Speaker 1: And how many how many guys in the NBA would
Speaker 1: you go watch turn on the TV or watch an
Speaker 1: entire again? Is there like four or five? Maybe? Now
Speaker 1: if I said teams, that's a little bit different. But
Speaker 1: you know, the healthy Warriors, Lakers. You're not gonna sit
Speaker 1: and watch an entire Bucks game. Don't even try to
Speaker 1: tell me anybody don't. Are you saying we haven't or won't?
Speaker 1: You haven't and you won't if they get to the
Speaker 1: NBA finals, you might, But you know, I'll watch the
Speaker 1: Greek freak. He's wonderful player, Lebron Hardened Westbrook. Don't forget
Speaker 1: the big one, the big ticket, the NBA superstar. Zan
Speaker 1: William said, I mean, oh yeah, yeah, they think he's
Speaker 1: the number one draw. Well he might be. He might be.
Speaker 1: If I said you could have Zion or Luca, Oh see,
Speaker 1: Luca's going to be an MVP, right, I don't think
Speaker 1: Zion's going to be an MVP. But the excitement factor
Speaker 1: is oh yeah. But that's if you said to a
Speaker 1: TV executive, if they were going to be honest, we
Speaker 1: can show you moored Luca games or more Pelicans games.
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's a contest. I think it's
Speaker 1: a Pelicans and Luca is a better player than Zion
Speaker 1: at least right now. Yeah, point, but Zion's numbers. Actually,
Speaker 1: he's overachieving on the court. In only nineteen games, he
Speaker 1: averaged twenty three and a half points. He shot pretty
Speaker 1: well even from three shot. He didn't shoot a lot
Speaker 1: of threes, but he shot forty six percent. He's nineteen, well,
Speaker 1: but Luca's twenty one, right, But he's so much older
Speaker 1: than Zion. He plays older than Zion. But Zion, you know,
Speaker 1: he said, Hey, I went back to the basics. I
Speaker 1: worked on my basics there. He'll never have the shot
Speaker 1: of Luca and the ball hand wing of Luca. But
Speaker 1: as far as a draw to get people to come out,
Speaker 1: young fans, they're coming out to see Zion. Yeah, Nickle,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Instagram video of Luca and Porzingis
Speaker 1: and Seth Curry just draining forty five foot jumpers. Are
Speaker 1: you in on them? Are you you get excited? Is
Speaker 1: that why you're right, Luca, I'm excited about Dallas in
Speaker 1: the bubble. Oh, but Porzingis is the key. If he
Speaker 1: can be dominating or anywhere near what he once was,
Speaker 1: then Dallas is tricky. That's a tricky matchup. That's highest
Speaker 1: scoring team. Right there. I will take a break. I
Speaker 1: will get to your phone calls, but I want to
Speaker 1: make way for Chris Hayes. He will join his inside
Speaker 1: the bubble. Well, he didn't have anything to do, right,
Speaker 1: he's stuck in his room. He can't go anywhere, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: he's been there for two weeks or ay, wait, he
Speaker 1: got there early. He's been there two weeks. Who gets
Speaker 1: there early? I think I saw him pool side the
Speaker 1: other day on TV. He might be post quarantine. He
Speaker 1: might be at the non Alito deck. Was he out
Speaker 1: there with the DJ with Dwight Howard? That's what I'm hearing,
Speaker 1: just those two guns. All right, We'll take a break.
Speaker 1: Let's see nineteen after the hour, head into the bubble
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Speaker 1: reporter and a host of Posted Up with Chris Haynes podcast.
Speaker 1: He is Chris Haynes, who joins us. Now. Last time
Speaker 1: we talked, you said you were going to be in
Speaker 1: a scrub hotel in the bubble. Looks like you're in
Speaker 1: a nice hotel there, Chris. I'm selling you the better side,
Speaker 1: the better half of the hotel room. dB. Well, wait,
Speaker 1: what's on the other side? Two bets, that's about it.
Speaker 1: How many sneakers did you bring? It's about a one
Speaker 1: two about I got about eighth pair, then you know
Speaker 1: about two. Are you out of corn? Are you allowed
Speaker 1: to walk around? You're out of quarantine. You don't have
Speaker 1: to stay in your hotel room. Yeah, I'm allowed to
Speaker 1: walk around. I got here on July first, so I've
Speaker 1: been for a few weeks already. Do you go and
Speaker 1: knock on the doors of other NBA reporters and then
Speaker 1: run away because you're allowed to be outside and they
Speaker 1: can't be. Uh, you act like you've seen a video
Speaker 1: of something like that. Have you done that before? Oh?
Speaker 1: You know what, I'm gonna plead the fifth Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll just say I won't be doing that again. How
Speaker 1: would you describe this scene there for those of us
Speaker 1: who won't be able to be in the bubble? Well, currently,
Speaker 1: right now I'm at the Coronado Spring Resort on Walt
Speaker 1: Disney World campus, and on this campus, excuse me, on
Speaker 1: this property. This also houses the top teams in the
Speaker 1: NBA by standings. You got the Lakers here, Clippers are
Speaker 1: here in Toronto, Raptors, Utah Jazz, Denver Nuggets. I believe
Speaker 1: I'm missing some Boston Celtics there here. And so as
Speaker 1: of right now, we kind of share the same amenities,
Speaker 1: the same facilities, and you know, you'll see I'll see
Speaker 1: guys walking around taking jobs, of guys riding on bicycles, fishing.
Speaker 1: We have a little river here right in the middle
Speaker 1: of the campus. So it's a pretty unique thing. Were
Speaker 1: you pulled shide with Dwight Howard when they had the
Speaker 1: DJ out by the pool and Dwight was the only
Speaker 1: one out there. No DP, I think if I was,
Speaker 1: I will be explored off campus. Oh wait, you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to be part of those events. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you you can't socialize with the player, like if you
Speaker 1: see Lebron. Yes, no, there's been times where I've seen
Speaker 1: Lebron and we've spoken seen numerous players, but we're told
Speaker 1: not to interact with players outside of availability. But with
Speaker 1: that being said, they know who I am. They're coming
Speaker 1: up to me and they're you know, they're talking and
Speaker 1: having conversations, so you can't avoid those. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not going out of my way to try to
Speaker 1: see contact. How important is the snitch line for guys
Speaker 1: to call up and be anonymous? Is it real? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's real, it's real. Last last I've heard, see what
Speaker 1: was it? Tuesday? Tuesday? A handful of individuals calling that
Speaker 1: on that hotline, a mixture of staff members and players,
Speaker 1: and so it's real, guys, are you know? There's been
Speaker 1: some violations, some guys you know, having to warn their
Speaker 1: face masks and things that nature. Little warnings, but nothing
Speaker 1: serious as it right now. Spencer did Winnie of the
Speaker 1: Nets came out and said, uh, he used the expression
Speaker 1: la work. Uh huh. I didn't know what la work meant. Chris.
Speaker 1: That's that's the like players in the import export business.
Speaker 1: Is that how that worked? Well? I just say, DP,
Speaker 1: you know, does work everywhere? He doesn't worked everywhere. I'll
Speaker 1: know why he singled out la work. Yeah, yeah, why
Speaker 1: just uh you know, have an exclusive to la the
Speaker 1: import export business. You know, the more successful these teams are,
Speaker 1: the longer they get to stay have to stay in
Speaker 1: the bubble. I just wonder how long before these guys
Speaker 1: start going stir crazy. You know, it's funny. I m
Speaker 1: the first day I got here, I bumped into somebody
Speaker 1: from the Washington Wizard Organization, and you know, I asked me,
Speaker 1: how are you doing it? Everything's good as a whole. Yes,
Speaker 1: we just we just came here to win, and you know,
Speaker 1: we just want to be as successful as possible. I said, look,
Speaker 1: coming here, they do not want to get out of here.
Speaker 1: What chance do you all? Yes, who is the favorite?
Speaker 1: Now that the Lakers don't have Avery Bradley and Ron
Speaker 1: Jean Rondo? Did that effect you think the overall favor
Speaker 1: to win the title? I don't think it affected much. Obviously.
Speaker 1: Avery Bradley is a big part in Rondo, also a
Speaker 1: big part. They expect to have Rondo back at some
Speaker 1: point later in the playoffs. But you know, acquiring j R. Smith,
Speaker 1: you know, I know he's not Avery Bradley doesn't have
Speaker 1: the skill set that every Rady want the defensive end.
Speaker 1: But you know Jrs had big moments in this league
Speaker 1: during big times, and he's also had a blunt or
Speaker 1: of course, but you know he's a I think he's
Speaker 1: a coupe for the Lakers. I still have the Lakers
Speaker 1: clip as the higher actual teams in the Western Conference, Okay,
Speaker 1: and then the East is it Milwaukee? Milwaukee is my favorite.
Speaker 1: I can't to smiss Boston. And I'm going I'm going
Speaker 1: to mention Toronto Raptors because I going on other platforms
Speaker 1: and not mention them, and I got killed for I'm
Speaker 1: definitely the Raptors. They're legitimate as well. The team that
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated to where there's two teams, I'm fascinated to
Speaker 1: see it. I'm fascinated to see the Rockets. I don't
Speaker 1: know James Harden's availability as health. We know that Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook committed that he tested positive but Hardened coming back
Speaker 1: as well. I think the Rockets can be a tough
Speaker 1: out just that style of basketball. The other team is
Speaker 1: the seventy Sixers. It could be either really good or
Speaker 1: really bad for the seventies sixers. Where do you stand
Speaker 1: on the Rockets and the Sixers. Well, sources did tell
Speaker 1: me that Hardened plans to practice for the first time today,
Speaker 1: so that's good news for them. But no, I get
Speaker 1: what you're saying about Houston. I'm not so sold on Philly.
Speaker 1: I gotta see a little bit more. But I will
Speaker 1: say this to the way this restart is shape and structure,
Speaker 1: it bowls well for a lot of teams that's probably
Speaker 1: young got the young leads a lot of team a
Speaker 1: team like Houston who can go on a hot stretch
Speaker 1: and just go out and put together wins. But another
Speaker 1: team as well, deep that you that you haven't mentioned,
Speaker 1: and I would understand why you didn't. They're currently not
Speaker 1: in the playoff picture as a right now, but the
Speaker 1: Portland's trail Blazers, if they sneak in and the playoff picture,
Speaker 1: I think they can be a tough out first round
Speaker 1: out for the Los Angeles Lakers, and if they happen
Speaker 1: to get past the Lakers, I can see them going
Speaker 1: the distance. Well, we had Chris mannox On and Mannix
Speaker 1: I think picked the Blazers in the sixers to go
Speaker 1: to the finals. WHOA Okay, I wouldn't go that far.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is if they happen to get
Speaker 1: into the playoff picture, and they get past Lakers, which
Speaker 1: is a daunting task, I could see them get into
Speaker 1: the final. Okay, all right, he's Chris haynes Yan, who's
Speaker 1: sports senior NBA insider NBA on TNT sideline reporter. Look
Speaker 1: at you moving up? Now you're a TV you're a
Speaker 1: talking hair due you're at the TNT hotel. Look who's
Speaker 1: moving on up to the east side. Well that's why
Speaker 1: I'm only showing you the east side of this. I
Speaker 1: was told that you have an ironing board and you
Speaker 1: have your sources. Tell me that your your zoom is
Speaker 1: on an ironing board, your lap. Hey, all that is
Speaker 1: is just great reporting, That's all that is. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: I do we just I just had a question here.
Speaker 1: If I said you could have Luca or Zion, I'm
Speaker 1: going with Luca right now. Okay, But if you're a
Speaker 1: TV executive, do you think and you can decide, do
Speaker 1: you put on more MAVs games or Pelicans games plans? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. Yeah, I mean we look at Zion,
Speaker 1: who's what nineteen and but Luca's what twenty one? It's
Speaker 1: not like he's an old guy here, he's not. It's
Speaker 1: just the flash and look Lucas actually, man, he got
Speaker 1: some possess like he's not this boring you know play.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not this boring player, but you know
Speaker 1: those those hot those duck highlights. Man, you know, people love,
Speaker 1: people love the seas. I ain't get up and down,
Speaker 1: and we've never seen somebody of his stature really get
Speaker 1: up the way he does. I think people are kind
Speaker 1: of polarized by that. So now definitely, if i'm executive, yeah,
Speaker 1: I probably want more Pelican games on what's your biggest
Speaker 1: question with all of this? Aside from safety precautions and
Speaker 1: let's let's just say that we're able to have basketball question.
Speaker 1: The number one question you have is what you know
Speaker 1: a DP is hard to answer that without without even
Speaker 1: mentioning what happens if a player test positive? A significant player?
Speaker 1: You know, those unknowns would it even be revealed, like
Speaker 1: what what would happen the protocol? But just straight basketball,
Speaker 1: you know, you just want to see, like the Lakers
Speaker 1: are on to run, you know, they're playing good before
Speaker 1: this hiatus? Does that continue? How much? How much? Like
Speaker 1: how much rust is on some of these guys, be
Speaker 1: honest with DP. I have to remember a lot of
Speaker 1: guys weren't playing ball during the time. A lot of
Speaker 1: guys I suppose, who didn't even think the season was
Speaker 1: going to restart. So what type of condition are they
Speaker 1: going to be in? And there's this period right now
Speaker 1: that they're utilizing. Is it enough to get them into
Speaker 1: the proper shape before the season get here and even
Speaker 1: before the postseason gets here? So I always want to
Speaker 1: see what type of quality of basketball we're going to see?
Speaker 1: You won't show. I thought they were gonna have this
Speaker 1: the Losers Tournament in Chicago or wherever, And is that
Speaker 1: still happening the teams that didn't get invited to Orlando.
Speaker 1: It's not officially called the Losers Tournament. I just just
Speaker 1: like it's not officially called the Snitch hot Lock. No no,
Speaker 1: but are they getting I heard the Warriors aren't even
Speaker 1: gonna go they don't even want to participate in this.
Speaker 1: So I haven't heard much more on a often the
Speaker 1: fact that there are teams out there who do want
Speaker 1: to get some type of league started because they don't
Speaker 1: want those guys not doing anything for seven eight months
Speaker 1: at a time. You know, it wouldn't be like that
Speaker 1: in the traditional structure of the season. So they want
Speaker 1: to get out there and assess their young guys and
Speaker 1: get the proper reps in. So I expect something along
Speaker 1: those lines to occur. All right, stay safe, don't don't
Speaker 1: bring it in la work. You know you're gonna make
Speaker 1: sure that you're you know, nose to the grindstone here.
Speaker 1: No no work here, no no enjoy the situation as
Speaker 1: best responsible. Can you just walk and open up the
Speaker 1: door just to get fresh air? I can't now, But
Speaker 1: during quarantine you've been not step out unless unless you're
Speaker 1: going to get tested. Hold up your best pair of shoes, Like,
Speaker 1: if you're going out, you want to get somebody's attention,
Speaker 1: which one of your sneakers are you wearing. I'm rocking,
Speaker 1: I'm rocking the Dames. I'm rocking to Dage sixes. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm rocking to Dage sixes and I gotta look. I
Speaker 1: got social love for the other side. You gotta got
Speaker 1: the Paul Georges. You never could go wrong with the
Speaker 1: Air Force ones DP. What about those yellow ones behind you?
Speaker 1: You know yellow ones. I gotta find the right outfit,
Speaker 1: Derrick Roses right here. I gotta find the right outfit
Speaker 1: to go with. You. Gotta be really good to be
Speaker 1: able to wear those shoes, man, really good. It's tough
Speaker 1: to get something that yellow, that bright. Yeah, that's like
Speaker 1: a highlighter on both on both feet wearing it now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta get the SpongeBob out for the something. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm happy for your success. Good luck down there. We'll
Speaker 1: check in with you. Great to talk to you is
Speaker 1: always Chris. That's Chris Haynes. Yeah, who sports senior NBA
Speaker 1: Insider NBA on TNT Sideline Reporter and his podcast posted
Speaker 1: up with Chris Haines. A couple of phone calls in here.
Speaker 1: Look like he's doing okay down there. Seemed in good spirits.
Speaker 1: When we had Joe Varden on, he was on lockdown
Speaker 1: when he says he's doing sprints from his bathroom to
Speaker 1: the door, running back and forth between these two walls
Speaker 1: two point five. I brought one pair of boat shoes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm worried about Joe. Yes, mclovin. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: I couldn't do seven days in one room. I just
Speaker 1: the quarantine portion of it. Yeah, like I couldn't SEP.
Speaker 1: I don't think I could do it. I did have
Speaker 1: a handful of times a year when we went to
Speaker 1: La you never left. That is lots of times. I
Speaker 1: just lock it down really well. We have to get
Speaker 1: up at four in the morning. Yeah, so I understand.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Am I going outside today? I'll probably
Speaker 1: just stay here, you know. Yeah, balcony would be mandatory.
Speaker 1: Imagine having a room down in Orlando with no balcony
Speaker 1: and being in ever seven days. Uh, let me see.
Speaker 1: Let me get to Matt and South Carolina. Hi, Matt,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Hey? What's up? DP got
Speaker 1: a little I need some advice from the gang. And
Speaker 1: I got a pretty cool stat of the day after
Speaker 1: the advice, getting married in August fifteen, so like thirty
Speaker 1: days from now or something. And we had a nice
Speaker 1: honeymoon plan to Hawaii that got canned obviously. So I
Speaker 1: need some advice on some maybe local southeast beaches. We
Speaker 1: might can drive through that you or some of the
Speaker 1: Danettes have been to that you would recommend for a
Speaker 1: last minute honeymoon plan, Paula, you got one. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you go down to South Carolina. There there's a beach
Speaker 1: down there called Folly Beach. It's nice, it's not too expensive,
Speaker 1: and it's close to Charleston, which you can get some
Speaker 1: really great food. I don't know the situation down there
Speaker 1: or anything, but that that was a really nice place,
Speaker 1: some really good food around there. Well, you're in South Carolina,
Speaker 1: so you're probably aware of that. Might go somewhere different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she lived in Charleston for like two years, so we
Speaker 1: want to follows probably time retract. Yeah. Other than that, No,
Speaker 1: we don't have any advice of where you can go
Speaker 1: unless you got to speak about it. Kind of a
Speaker 1: weird time for traveling. Yeah, I know you can't. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe you do go back to but
Speaker 1: I would tell you, like, a lot can change in
Speaker 1: a month, though, Matt, that's the problem, because how about
Speaker 1: you get a RV go camping. That might be what
Speaker 1: we do. But whatever I'm booking, I'm gonna book like
Speaker 1: a week in advance, because, like you said, who knows
Speaker 1: what's happening in a month. It doesn't matter. When you're
Speaker 1: in love. Whatever you decide, I'm sure it's gonna be great, Matt.
Speaker 1: That's my philosophy. When you're in love. Yeah, loving the
Speaker 1: Caribbean sounds a lot better. Do you have a stat
Speaker 1: of the day? I do? Can I get the old
Speaker 1: school music? Old school stat of the Dame music? After
Speaker 1: his win last weekend, Talan Murray Tawa has two wins
Speaker 1: and just one miss cuts and joining the PG eight four,
Speaker 1: he has the first player to accomplish this in Tiger
Speaker 1: Woods and ninety six. By the time the Big Cat
Speaker 1: missed a second cut in two thousand and five, he
Speaker 1: had forty three wins and nine Oh man, Matt got
Speaker 1: swallowed up there. It's just like marriage, man, Thank you, Matt.
Speaker 1: Good luck in a month there. Yeah, he got you know,
Speaker 1: they flirt with the post. You gotta hit the post,
Speaker 1: and he got hit by the post. You gotta get
Speaker 1: out of the gate, yeah, beasts, Yeah, you know. And
Speaker 1: the post is gonna come up quicker than you think.
Speaker 1: But you can always tell because it's like a two
Speaker 1: or three second delay before they start with their stat
Speaker 1: of the day. They've timed it out, and then they
Speaker 1: start late, and then they start to rush and you
Speaker 1: get crushed. More phone calls coming up, and we'll take
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Speaker 1: it a little bit today. The Washington football franchise making
Speaker 1: headlines on Monday for finally retiring their team name. Now
Speaker 1: we're still waiting for what has been deemed a potentially
Speaker 1: damaging report that could expose the team's toxic culture. We
Speaker 1: don't know anything else other than what we're being told
Speaker 1: and the speculation that is attached to this. But a
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Speaker 1: haven't advanced this story. I don't know what the hold
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Speaker 1: to see how ugly it potentially could be. But that
Speaker 1: is the story. And PAULI tried to get a hold
Speaker 1: of the editors sports editors at the Washington Post just
Speaker 1: to say when are you going to drop this story?
Speaker 1: Got no response from them. All right, Paully says, we're
Speaker 1: going with a new poll question. Yes. So Paul and
Speaker 1: I were discussing the new poll question as I buy
Speaker 1: it for time, and we couldn't come up with one yet.
Speaker 1: But I tell you, at the top of next hour,
Speaker 1: Ethan Cooperson is going to give us one. Ethan our
Speaker 1: stats guy. Yeah. Actually, I was saying, I was going
Speaker 1: to ask you should we put up Luke Go versus
Speaker 1: Zion as a pole because we were just debating it
Speaker 1: again in the last break. Yes, so you can make
Speaker 1: the case that there's no doubt that Zion Williamson's compelling
Speaker 1: and for your franchise will sell more products, sell more tickets,
Speaker 1: making more relevant, Luca don Chick is all a sure
Speaker 1: thing on the court. Would you think about taking Luca
Speaker 1: over Zion because of health reasons past health issues with
Speaker 1: Zion's knee and how that could play out for a
Speaker 1: guy who jumps in it. Well, I would take Luca
Speaker 1: over him, no doubt. Yeah, even with the marketing and this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's still the best marketing you can have is
Speaker 1: when you win. And I as much as I love
Speaker 1: what the Pelicans are doing or trying to do and
Speaker 1: some of the pieces they have there, you know, Luca,
Speaker 1: that kind of talent can win a championship for you.
Speaker 1: Zion is, you know, a highlight machine. But Luca has
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands all the time. Zion is not,
Speaker 1: although he's a better passer than people think. It's just
Speaker 1: Luca's able to do things at that size and his
Speaker 1: ability to be able to shoot and pass. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a triple double. He can do what you need
Speaker 1: him to do. He just doesn't do it necessarily with
Speaker 1: the flare that Zion does. But then not many players
Speaker 1: do you How do we know he's not just a
Speaker 1: stat stuffer on Luca, like until he wins at the
Speaker 1: highest level, like Lebron and Steph Curry and Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: I don't know that Lucas gonna win you a championship.
Speaker 1: I'm not he's twenty he's twenty one. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think he develops like a Kevin Durant. I don't know
Speaker 1: that he's ever unguardable like those guys. Maybe I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: but I'm not convinced that he's a sure fire he's
Speaker 1: gonna win three NBA titles. Guys, Well, he's not one
Speaker 1: of those guys who relies on explosive moves. That's kind
Speaker 1: of it eyeball him. I'm like, is that guy really that?
Speaker 1: When I watched his highlight reel from Europe, I kept thinking,
Speaker 1: he just does enough to get the shot off, just
Speaker 1: enough to get the dunk, just enough to get the pound.
Speaker 1: It was always just enough. When he comes to the
Speaker 1: NBA and he does the same thing, it's just enough.
Speaker 1: So that's not by accident. That's just who he is
Speaker 1: and how he plays. Yeah, and it's not like he's gonna, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna jump his high or slow down. His
Speaker 1: game is not predicated off that zion. Let's face it.
Speaker 1: Without that explosion, then he comes back to Earth in
Speaker 1: more ways than one. Yeah, pull Kevin Durant aged twenty
Speaker 1: second year in the league average twenty five, six sists
Speaker 1: and six rebounds. Luca right now is afaging twenty nine points,
Speaker 1: nine point three rebounds and nine assists. Yes, but he's
Speaker 1: like James Harden. He's a huge volume shooter. He's only
Speaker 1: shooting thirty one percent from three. That's a real problem.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a big deal. He's twenty, he's
Speaker 1: twice I know. But I'm just saying like, yeah, but
Speaker 1: you have to you have to let him grow into
Speaker 1: him himself. Like, what is his game going to be
Speaker 1: like in five years from now? Could he be the
Speaker 1: next Harden? Would you buy that comparison? No, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's another Harden. Yeah, in the sense that he
Speaker 1: could score a million points and not win a title.
Speaker 1: And now he's bald dominant. But then, how many guys
Speaker 1: aren't bald dominant? Now? Of your stars, it feels like
Speaker 1: they're all bald dominant. We'll check in with LSU and
Speaker 1: their head coach ed Orgeron. He'll join his coming up
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