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Speaker 2: A lot of basketball. No bids last night, no bids
Speaker 2: today or tonight, but plenty over the weekend. The big
Speaker 2: story was Cooper Flag getting injured yesterday. The ankle is iffy.
Speaker 2: I think it's worse than iffy right now if he's
Speaker 2: going to be able to play against North Carolina. But
Speaker 2: the conference tournaments keep rolling, the let's see men's bids.
Speaker 2: Nothing over the Saturday and Sunday we'll have that Steph
Speaker 2: Curry his four thousandth three pointer and the Spurs lose
Speaker 2: to Aaron Fox for the rest of the season. Just
Speaker 2: some of the headlines there. I want to start with
Speaker 2: maybe the greatest sports book ever written. It was nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty five nineteen eighty six Indiana Basketball and the book
Speaker 2: was a season on the Brink and it was written
Speaker 2: by John Feinstein, who passed away yesterday at the age
Speaker 2: of sixty nine. It was a wonderful inside look at
Speaker 2: Bob Knight and Indiana basketball, and he had full access,
Speaker 2: and boy did he use it. And then it came
Speaker 2: out and Bob Knight hated it, which meant it was true.
Speaker 2: It was great, and it was. But John worked for
Speaker 2: the Washington Post. I would cross paths with John. It
Speaker 2: was golf or it was basketball. He was there and
Speaker 2: he was doggedly determined to get something that nobody else had.
Speaker 2: He just he would work tirelessly and he was unique
Speaker 2: in what he did and how he did it. He
Speaker 2: was also in the shadow of the great sports writers
Speaker 2: at the Washington Post. I mean Tom Boswell and Michael
Speaker 2: Wilbond and Tony Kornheiser. But John Feinstein had always felt
Speaker 2: like was the little brother. But he was not. He
Speaker 2: wrote over forty books. He wrote a book about the
Speaker 2: Civil War. It was Army Navy football. He wrote a
Speaker 2: book about golf, A good Walk Spoiled. He wrote a
Speaker 2: book about the Patriot League. John, give him a topic
Speaker 2: and he'll go to town. But at the time the
Speaker 2: book came out, he was thirty years of age. Season
Speaker 2: on the Brink. I mean, when you think about it,
Speaker 2: that's thirty nine years ago. But John had a good
Speaker 2: relationship with Bob Knight, and not many people did, certainly
Speaker 2: sports writers. But it cost John his relationship with Bob Knight.
Speaker 2: But he wrote over forty books and really was a remarkable,
Speaker 2: remarkable reporter. And that's what it takes sometimes when you're
Speaker 2: writing a book, You've got to be a great reporter.
Speaker 2: You've got to be able to take notes, you've got
Speaker 2: to be able to find out things. But he was polarizing.
Speaker 2: John was not lovable, he was not embraceable, but John
Speaker 2: didn't care. That's who John was. And I hope that
Speaker 2: Press Row leaves the seat for John Feinstein in San
Speaker 2: Antonio the Final Four and they joked about when John
Speaker 2: would go to Indiana basketball games at Assembly Hall, he
Speaker 2: had a seat. They called it the Feinstein seat, like
Speaker 2: John was there. And I hope that they create the
Speaker 2: Feinstein seat because every basketball writer in America was a
Speaker 2: tip of the cap or tip of the pen to
Speaker 2: John Feinstein. Season on the Brink. You can make a
Speaker 2: case best sports book ever written. And I know that's
Speaker 2: a big, big blanket to throw over sports writing. But
Speaker 2: what John did, how he did it, when he did it,
Speaker 2: and he did it with Bob Knight. John got famous quickly. Yes, Marvin,
Speaker 2: is that your favorite sports book? You know, I didn't
Speaker 2: think of it. What is my favorite sports book? I
Speaker 2: think Ball four might have been because of what it
Speaker 2: was at the time. We were finding out things that
Speaker 2: were happening on road trips with baseball players. You know,
Speaker 2: Jim Boughten was spilling the beans and he was alienated.
Speaker 2: I mean, but this is nineteen seventy where you're finding
Speaker 2: out things with guys and he's playing for a non
Speaker 2: descript team, Seattle Pilots, And that to me was like, wow,
Speaker 2: he's telling things that are going on with his teammates
Speaker 2: here in this book. That was probably the first one
Speaker 2: I read where I thought I was I was finding
Speaker 2: out things that maybe we weren't supposed to know, and
Speaker 2: we probably weren't supposed to know, but Jim Boughton, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of let us behind the curtain. I don't know
Speaker 2: what book comes up if I say favorite sports book
Speaker 2: of all time? What book would come up for you? Marv?
Speaker 4: For me, Friday Night Lights.
Speaker 6: Okay, it's just a great look at everything like with
Speaker 6: football as the foundation. Sure, race, socioeconomics, politics, everything, but
Speaker 6: football was the basis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about you, Todd, do you have a favorite
Speaker 2: sports book?
Speaker 7: I read a book what's called The Color Orange had
Speaker 7: kind of about the history of the Broncos, especially after
Speaker 7: that eighty six season. That probably wouldn't resonate unless you're
Speaker 7: a big Bronco fan. But The Color Orange was well.
Speaker 2: Done, Paulie.
Speaker 8: If not season the Brink, I'll go with Heaven is
Speaker 8: a Playground by Rick Tellender. He spent a summer in
Speaker 8: Brooklyn with streetball players like Fly Williams, Bernard King, and
Speaker 8: Albert King and I've read it five six times.
Speaker 2: Foul was another one about Connie Hawkins, and it was
Speaker 2: about a New York legend and was he going to
Speaker 2: be able to play in college and then getting, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of kicked out of college and then playing in
Speaker 2: the pros. I eventually got to see Connie Hawkins when
Speaker 2: he was with the Phoenix Suns. He came to Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: and I just remember reading that book and there he
Speaker 2: was right in front of me. Seaton, do you have
Speaker 2: a book that maybe stands out best sports book?
Speaker 3: There was a really great book that just came out
Speaker 3: in the last couple of years about the annals of
Speaker 3: sports history.
Speaker 2: I believe it, Dan, was that your book?
Speaker 9: That was?
Speaker 3: That was the best book sports book I ever read?
Speaker 4: Wow, that was supposed to be Marvin's answer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a Friday. Good move, Seaton, thank you.
Speaker 3: See that was really that's yeah. I mean it's the
Speaker 3: only one that comes to mind for me.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yes, Bo, I'm just reading some background because you
Speaker 8: can't really overstate what a big deal. Season on the
Speaker 8: brink was Night finished under five hundred and the Big
Speaker 8: Ten the year before it was a mess. And that's
Speaker 8: the season John Finstein took a leave of absence. He
Speaker 8: made seventeen grand upfront for the book, and then he
Speaker 8: got money on the back end. Two years after the
Speaker 8: book came out, they won the Final four Indiana. But
Speaker 8: it was a hot time in Bluington.
Speaker 2: His last column appeared in the Washington Post and that
Speaker 2: was just a couple of days ago, and it was
Speaker 2: a profile on Michigan State head coach Tom is A.
Speaker 2: But John Feinstein left a lasting imprint on the world
Speaker 2: of sports. Dead at the age of sixty nine, all
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Speaker 2: meet Friday. But Tyler's not here. He was on the
Speaker 2: road with a big german doing a site survey in
Speaker 2: Iowa and they drove thirty six hours. Those two. You
Speaker 2: imagine the big German and Tyler and that would be
Speaker 2: a buddy movie. I don't know if their buddies after
Speaker 2: getting home yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 4: That dynamic is pretty fascinating.
Speaker 2: Yes, and they're relaying. But I talked to the big
Speaker 2: German yesterday afternoon and he sounded like he had been
Speaker 2: up for thirty six hours driving back with Tyler. But
Speaker 2: so we reached out to our good brother buddy Lou,
Speaker 2: who's going to bring in corn beef. So we're having
Speaker 2: corn beef sandwiches today. Who is it better than we do?
Speaker 4: No body?
Speaker 3: Okay, Seeton, what's poll question today? Let's see we got
Speaker 3: a couple of them here. Do you want to start
Speaker 3: football or basketball?
Speaker 2: Let me start basketball? Two from Pauli.
Speaker 3: Okay, Steph Curry is the greatest shooter in NBA history
Speaker 3: and the top ten player in the NBA of all time.
Speaker 3: Both or yes or no?
Speaker 2: I'm going to say both. Yeah, now. It's interesting though,
Speaker 2: and I saw Sports Center had a topic today this morning,
Speaker 2: might have been on Get Up, and it was should
Speaker 2: Steph Curry be considered the greatest of all time? Well,
Speaker 2: tell me how many people you're considering? I g is
Speaker 2: it twenty? Is it fifteen? Is there's only one greatest
Speaker 2: of all time? You can't be He's one of the
Speaker 2: greatest of all time. There's a goat and it. I mean,
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan is considered the goat. Okay, is Steph Curry
Speaker 2: in the conversation the greatest of all time? I would
Speaker 2: say no, but he's still a top ten player of
Speaker 2: all time. It just it feels like there's two players
Speaker 2: who are the greatest of all time, or at least
Speaker 2: in the conversation. It's Lebron on the periphery, and then
Speaker 2: it's Mike. But you know, you get into this when
Speaker 2: somebody played, who they played against, how many titles they won?
Speaker 2: It was different back then. It's different now, and I
Speaker 2: get all of that. Steph Curry changed the game as much,
Speaker 2: if not more so, than any other player in history.
Speaker 2: If you look at the direction of the sport, that's
Speaker 2: the guy. He's the compass. It points North with him,
Speaker 2: I don't know if that makes him the greatest of
Speaker 2: all time. We get caught up in ranking. Where is that?
Speaker 2: Oh that guy Tim Duncan is here? And where's Bill run.
Speaker 2: I know this is what we do just because we
Speaker 2: have to fill three hours. I know this is what
Speaker 2: we're trying to do. But sometimes we do a disservice
Speaker 2: to the players when we start talking and ranking. You know,
Speaker 2: is Jerry West in the top ten anymore? Probably not?
Speaker 2: I hate to say it, probably not. Is Larry Bird
Speaker 2: still in the top ten? Maybe? I mean, you gotta
Speaker 2: be we hold on for dear life.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 2: I'm holding on for dear life to Jerry West legacy.
Speaker 2: Oh he lost all those times in the finals and
Speaker 2: he only won one. I know all of that. Jerry
Speaker 2: West was so far ahead of his time, it's not
Speaker 2: even funny, crazy ahead of his time. Like he was
Speaker 2: shooting jump shots. Guys didn't shoot jump shots back then,
Speaker 2: and what he did, and he was a winner and
Speaker 2: maybe the greatest general manager of all time. I get
Speaker 2: all of that. Larry Bird, I mean, but it was
Speaker 2: ten years. Lebron's a better player than Larry Bird. Where's
Speaker 2: Kareem on the leg? Like, we get caught up in
Speaker 2: this Kevin Durant, is he going to be in the
Speaker 2: top ten when it's all said and done. You know,
Speaker 2: where's a chem Elijah one? Where's Magic? Where's Kobe? I mean,
Speaker 2: after a while, you can only put ten in the
Speaker 2: top ten. We tend to put like fourteen in the
Speaker 2: top ten, Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 6: And then what ends up happening is you start nitpicking.
Speaker 6: You know, they say, oh, well, this person had to
Speaker 6: hit a shot for this guy to win a championship. Well,
Speaker 6: it's a team. Who's the best player on the team?
Speaker 6: Are they even there without him? You start doing that?
Speaker 6: Who was on his team? Well, Kobe had shack for
Speaker 6: the first Dree Like, oh my goodness, Kobe had twenty
Speaker 6: eight a game. I don't know what you want me
Speaker 6: to say.
Speaker 2: Well, then you get, well, hey, biggest moment in Lebron's
Speaker 2: career it was he didn't hit the shot.
Speaker 4: Ray Allen saved his legacy.
Speaker 2: Huh, Ray Allen did. And then you also had Kyrie.
Speaker 2: So two of the biggest shots in a championship run
Speaker 2: for Lebron James had to do with two other people.
Speaker 2: Steve Kerr hit a big shot for Michael Jordan. John
Speaker 2: Paxson hit a big shot for Michael Jordan. We don't
Speaker 2: bring that up. Michael never never missed a game winning
Speaker 2: shot and he won everything. But we don't give credit
Speaker 2: with Lebron getting to the NBA finals. Where's we go, Hey, Jordan,
Speaker 2: he won six? What did he do in the other
Speaker 2: ones when he didn't win?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 2: That has to factor in Joe Montana four? No, never lost. Okay,
Speaker 2: how many did he go to?
Speaker 9: Four?
Speaker 2: How many did Tom Brady go to? Yeah?
Speaker 4: But he lost.
Speaker 2: He got there. So what you know, we start slicing
Speaker 2: and dicing and who's great and how great? And I
Speaker 2: get it. Sometimes you're short on topics and you go,
Speaker 2: how about Steph Curry great of all time? Yeah, that
Speaker 2: sounds great, Greeny, let's do it. We'll send a spind
Speaker 2: a couple of segments on it. Yeah, come on, get up, everybody.
Speaker 2: But he's got four thousand three pointers. Four thousand. I
Speaker 2: think next closest is James Harden at just under nine
Speaker 2: hundred behind him. I don't think he'll catch him. But
Speaker 2: then we'll do the math on Steph Curry getting to
Speaker 2: I don't know, five thousand three pointers. When it's all said,
Speaker 2: and done. We'll come up with the pole question. We
Speaker 2: got to play of the day, stat of the day,
Speaker 2: just getting started? Did I mention that we're in Sacramento, Todd,
Speaker 2: Let's go sack down? Alrighty, Fox Sports eight ninety am.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Todd, thank you. Oh my gosh, they're probably
Speaker 2: going the GM's probably going, well, it's.
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Speaker 2: What did we sign up for? Yeah, Kurt Bagelman, he's
Speaker 2: the GM at Kaka party. Hey KURTI Yeah, Kurt's a
Speaker 2: good time. Hello Baglman in Sacktown. Hello, alright, I'm brand.
Speaker 2: How about we take a break. How about we take
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Speaker 2: Steph Curry scores eleven two three pointers and the Warriors,
Speaker 2: more importantly, had a win against the Kings, so four
Speaker 2: thousand career three pointers. Only one other player has as
Speaker 2: many as three thousand. That's James Harden with three thousand,
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty seven.
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Speaker 2: of the Dan Patrick Show. Steph Curry. Let's say he
Speaker 2: averages sixty games over the next four years. He says
Speaker 2: that he wants to play a little bit longer. His
Speaker 2: contracts two more years. He averages around sixty three games
Speaker 2: a season for his entire career, so if you do that,
Speaker 2: he would need to make According to CBS Sports, they
Speaker 2: did a breakdown on this, at least four point two
Speaker 2: to three pointers a game over those next sixty games
Speaker 2: in four years to reach five thousand. How unbreakable is this?
Speaker 2: I think he wants to play until he's forty. I
Speaker 2: think his birthday is today. I think he's thirty seven today,
Speaker 2: two years left on his contract. He's talked about playing
Speaker 2: past his current deal. He's also not going to be
Speaker 2: the main guy. He did talk about this where he
Speaker 2: knows that he will have a diminishing role on the
Speaker 2: team and that'll be interesting. He may play the role
Speaker 2: that Klay Thompson did, where I mean Steph gets his shot.
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson, he can score fifty and take nine dribbles
Speaker 2: in a game. The true spot up shooter Steph is
Speaker 2: capable of doing that. That's what his dad, Dell did.
Speaker 2: But Steph has a great handle, underrated handle gets his shot,
Speaker 2: and that's the difference. You have to be able to
Speaker 2: get your shot. You can't be just to catch and
Speaker 2: you can't be Kyle Korver. I mean, you can be
Speaker 2: Kyle Korver and be one of the great shooters in history.
Speaker 2: But if you're going to have anybody approach, you know,
Speaker 2: James Harden can still get his shot. But James Harden
Speaker 2: is almost nine hundred three pointers behind. But I don't
Speaker 2: know how important that is for Steph Curry. I would
Speaker 2: think Steph Curry winning another championship would certainly be more
Speaker 2: important than that. But if you're looking for individual awards
Speaker 2: and you want to put something out of reach, you can't.
Speaker 2: But in today's NBA, let's say Tray Young. Let's say
Speaker 2: Trey Young can play until he's thirty seven, thirty eight,
Speaker 2: how many three pointers is he going to have when
Speaker 2: it's all said and done. There could be somebody who
Speaker 2: is not even in the NBA or in college right now,
Speaker 2: and maybe they're that next great shooter. Because Steph Curry
Speaker 2: has birthed all these great shooters and a lot of
Speaker 2: guys who think they're great shooters or good shooters and
Speaker 2: they're not. But changing the game, change the game more
Speaker 2: than anybody probably in the history of the sport. You
Speaker 2: can want to block shots the way Bill Russell did,
Speaker 2: but you can't. You can leave from the foul line
Speaker 2: and dunk, but you can't. You can shoot three pointers.
Speaker 2: You can. Some shouldn't, but everybody can. Everybody should try
Speaker 2: it once, no matter how old you are. Just go
Speaker 2: out there and go, could I shoot this? And even further,
Speaker 2: could I go? Logo? And NBA three? Because high school
Speaker 2: in college is really easy. NBA that's different because that's
Speaker 2: where you need your legs. And because you see Steph
Speaker 2: Curry and you're going, how does he do it? And
Speaker 2: even go back to his draft profile, he wasn't a
Speaker 2: point guard, didn't think he could be a starting shooting guard.
Speaker 2: He was going to be a spot up guy. He
Speaker 2: was going to be a Steve Kerr, a John Paxson,
Speaker 2: Craig Hodges. There were a lot of questions del Curry
Speaker 2: just like his dad. But then you'll get this, Oh,
Speaker 2: that body won't hold up in the NBA, Like these
Speaker 2: are all the things that so two of the great
Speaker 2: scorers in history, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry, they weren't
Speaker 2: going to be able to hold up to the riggers
Speaker 2: of the NBA. Well, the NBA has changed now. You
Speaker 2: can't put your arms on people. You can't do that
Speaker 2: arm bar, you can't hold them, put your hand on
Speaker 2: their hip, all those silly things they allowed you to do.
Speaker 2: So there's more of a free roaming going on there,
Speaker 2: and those two players have certainly taken advantage of that.
Speaker 6: Yes, Marvin, I was always flabbergasted by that because Isaiah
Speaker 6: Thomas was probably the fourth best player in that era
Speaker 6: after Jordan Magic and Burt He was what six feet
Speaker 6: tall and not like built like a running back or
Speaker 6: anything like that. So I didn't understand what the whole
Speaker 6: his body won't hold up thing was about.
Speaker 2: Well, we didn't know if Steph could beat peopled off
Speaker 2: the dribble and go back to watching him at Davidson.
Speaker 2: I mean, he looked like he was twelve years old
Speaker 2: and he had an incredible run. But the fact that
Speaker 2: he came back I think this is maybe one of
Speaker 2: the most overlooked things with Steph Curry's career. He could
Speaker 2: have gone to the NBA, but he wanted to come
Speaker 2: back and he wanted to play point guard at Davidson
Speaker 2: And I thought that told me an awful lot about him.
Speaker 2: That I think he understood, maybe in other people's minds,
Speaker 2: that he would be limited. He wanted to prove that
Speaker 2: he had a handle, he could be a point guard.
Speaker 2: Now he's not a guy that's known for his passing.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's known for shooting. I think, if you're
Speaker 2: the greatest of all time, I don't think you can
Speaker 2: be one dimensional and be the greatest of all time.
Speaker 2: Steph is the greatest shooter of all time. But when
Speaker 2: I talk about Jordan or I talk about Lebron, they
Speaker 2: were also, especially Mike, really really good defensive players. You know,
Speaker 2: Bird and Magic weren't known for their defense. Mckeem was wonderful.
Speaker 2: Jerry West was an all defensive player. I don't know
Speaker 2: if Oscar was, probably was. Tim Duncan was a great
Speaker 2: two way player. Kobe could lock you down. You know,
Speaker 2: I think, if you're talking greatest of all time, we
Speaker 2: have to talk about both ends of the floor. And
Speaker 2: maybe it's not fair, you know, just staff, but you know,
Speaker 2: I have to acknowledge that, you know, kd became a
Speaker 2: pretty good defensive player.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Paulling, I'm looking at Steph Curry's stats, and he
Speaker 8: has four thousand threes. He really isn't slowing down at all.
Speaker 8: Over the past five seasons. He's averaging three hundred and
Speaker 8: eleven threes made per game. He led the league in
Speaker 8: threes made every season over the last five So no
Speaker 8: one's catching him. No one's making up ground of the
Speaker 8: current NBA players.
Speaker 2: But I hope we celebrate this. I don't think we
Speaker 2: celebrate enough. And you know that's why I bring up
Speaker 2: some of the older players that you remember them or
Speaker 2: you find out about them, celebrate them, And I think
Speaker 2: sometimes that's lost that we look at what's happening today
Speaker 2: is oh my god, that guy's incredible. You know, he's
Speaker 2: so much better than that guy who played before him.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you didn't see them. You might have highlights,
Speaker 2: you might have stats, but you know, I mentioned Elgin Baylor.
Speaker 2: You know I watched Elgin Baylor play and I said,
Speaker 2: he's playing a different game than anybody else in the
Speaker 2: NBA at six four, six five, and he'd get twenty
Speaker 2: rebounds a game and he'd score sixty points. It was
Speaker 2: just different. But you know, the no TV era hurt
Speaker 2: those players. You know, Bill Russell is like Babe Ruth
Speaker 2: from the Stay or Wilt Chamberlain, where it's almost like
Speaker 2: did that really happen? I mean, the greatest performance in
Speaker 2: NBA history, we don't have video of it, Will scoring
Speaker 2: one hundred, so we have to just assume that in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess he scored one hundred. We don't know, like
Speaker 2: there's a picture of his teammates congratulating him. We don't
Speaker 2: celebrate greatness enough because what happens is we get into
Speaker 2: these debates like Lebron and Michael. I mean, we've exhausted that,
Speaker 2: and it's like politics. I'm not changing you and you're
Speaker 2: not changing me.
Speaker 4: But we like that.
Speaker 2: All if Lebron went and look I said it, If
Speaker 2: Lebron wins another one, all right, now it becomes an
Speaker 2: more interesting conversation, that's all. But is Lebron going to
Speaker 2: supplant Michael in people's minds? No, anybody who was there
Speaker 2: you're holding on to, you know, your youth. Oh, nobody's
Speaker 2: better than Mike. Okay, yeah, pulling.
Speaker 8: I'll throw out a player and I think you'll agree
Speaker 8: that doesn't really get his due and it wasn't that
Speaker 8: long ago.
Speaker 2: Hakim Elijaua.
Speaker 8: I think he is the best center of my lifetime,
Speaker 8: all purpose, everything he did, and I think he gets
Speaker 8: dinged a little bit the two titles he got. Michael
Speaker 8: Jordan wasn't there sure and said they they don't have
Speaker 8: an asterisk. But almost like people talk about that and
Speaker 8: don't give him his personal credit.
Speaker 2: Even I go back to the draft day photo of
Speaker 2: Steph Curry. It looks like it's bring your son to
Speaker 2: the draft day. I mean truly, he looks like he's
Speaker 2: about fifteen, right, I mean it's remarkable.
Speaker 4: He's got bell suit on. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he probably had a hand me down from his dad.
Speaker 2: They're similar size. But you're looking at him and you
Speaker 2: go baby faced killer. Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like that's why sometimes I don't really like knock people
Speaker 3: too much for missing him. I don't know that anybody
Speaker 3: thought that he was going to be what he's become,
Speaker 3: you know. Yeah, I mean a lot of the criticisms
Speaker 3: that people had of him were pretty true. You know,
Speaker 3: he did seem pretty slight, he was a skinny guy,
Speaker 3: he was you know, a lot of different things, but
Speaker 3: he like blossomed into this unbelievable player.
Speaker 2: But I think the one thing that we missed, and
Speaker 2: I actually went back and looked at some video, is
Speaker 2: how quick he could get his shot off. That, to me,
Speaker 2: is the most remarkable thing about Steph Curry, that ability
Speaker 2: to get that final bounce and go up and get
Speaker 2: that shot off so quickly. I didn't realize that he
Speaker 2: was doing that, but I didn't know it would translate
Speaker 2: into the NBA because if you sit courtside, the number
Speaker 2: of times that a player almost blocked somebody's shot is
Speaker 2: just about every shot. They all most get it. But
Speaker 2: to be that small, and granted he's sixty three, but
Speaker 2: still you got guys who've got wingspan of seven feet
Speaker 2: who are guarding him. Every coach has tried to come
Speaker 2: up with a plan to stop Steph Curry. And that's
Speaker 2: where I always marvel at greatness. Every game you go into,
Speaker 2: they have a game plan for you. How many players
Speaker 2: in the NBA is there a designated game plan? I
Speaker 2: gotta stop him every single night. You have that, every
Speaker 2: single year. You have that, but you're still achieving greatness.
Speaker 2: And that's what I marvel at.
Speaker 6: Yes, Marvin, That's why I'm always fascinated at great scores
Speaker 6: because guys like maybe Kobe Jordan, Kevin Durant I, they
Speaker 6: know your move and you still they know Iverson's going
Speaker 6: double crossed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you still can't.
Speaker 6: Larry Bird would tell you what he's gonna do. Hey,
Speaker 6: you already know Michael Jordan, especially at the end of
Speaker 6: his career. You knew the fadeaway was coming. Yeah, And
Speaker 6: like you said before, how close those guys were to
Speaker 6: blocking that shot like millimeters?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah, I'm pelling I'm looking back at the Steph
Speaker 8: Curry draft grades and draft profiles, and like you said,
Speaker 8: there's lots of questions. What's the difference between Steph Curry
Speaker 8: and Jimmer fourdett Fordett was taken out of BYU a
Speaker 8: great score two years later, and I'm looking at his
Speaker 8: draft profile, a bigger, stronger version of Steph Curry on
Speaker 8: a couple of them, and Jimmer Furdett couldn't stay in
Speaker 8: the league and Steph Curry's an all timer.
Speaker 2: It's wild, isn't it. And I don't know if it's
Speaker 2: because Jimmer didn't have a great handle. I mean, you
Speaker 2: know they said the following, well he can't play defense.
Speaker 2: Steph can't play defense. It's just Steph can play offense.
Speaker 2: And all I know is okay. And the analogy is okay,
Speaker 2: maybe I don't play great defense, but if I score
Speaker 2: thirty five and you score twenty one, that's fourteen point separation.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 2: I am kind of playing. My offense is my defense,
Speaker 2: and I might force you to, you know, alter your
Speaker 2: game and the number of imitators that you have with
Speaker 2: Steph Curry. If you've ever been on the floor and
Speaker 2: you've got somebody who is firing up jumpers and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you start thinking like fire up
Speaker 2: jumpers too, I mean, Steph Curry, it's debilitating when you
Speaker 2: talk about a jumper. You know, a dunk used to
Speaker 2: be the oh man, that's going to last a while. Boy,
Speaker 2: that's going to send a message to me. A three
Speaker 2: under duress, everybody knows you're gonna shoot it. That's where
Speaker 2: it crushes your spirit. I mean, look at what happened
Speaker 2: in the gold medal game in the Olympics. Steph Curry
Speaker 2: crushed them with that last three, crushed them. It's like,
Speaker 2: oh my God. And that's the feeling sometimes that he
Speaker 2: lead leaves you with. It's a oh that hurts.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Marvin, I keep going back to it a everybody
Speaker 6: you really want to appreciate Steph Curry. Watch Quart of
Speaker 6: Gold on Netflix and you'll see Nicholas Batoum talk about
Speaker 6: what happened when Steph Curry hit the three in front
Speaker 6: of him and Evan Fortier. He was like, ninety nine
Speaker 6: point nine nine percent of people on Earth would not
Speaker 6: have hit that shot. Only him, Yeah, and he was like,
Speaker 6: it was gut wrenching to watch that ball go in,
Speaker 6: like swish. The shot was money too, not like oh
Speaker 6: rolls around the rim.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's one of the great shots of
Speaker 2: all time. What's at stake? Who's shooting it, who's guarding him?
Speaker 4: Who he didn't pass the ball to?
Speaker 2: You know, that's where if you're Lebron or kd it's
Speaker 2: like Steph, I mean, you had three guys on you
Speaker 2: can you pass the ball?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Pulling.
Speaker 8: There's a photo and I know I can't describe it
Speaker 8: on radio. There's two six seven dudes hanging on Curry.
Speaker 8: He is clearly much short of them, and he's barely
Speaker 8: even in the shot. It doesn't look like anything's gonna happen.
Speaker 8: It looks like a heave.
Speaker 2: It's a fascinating and it might be it might be
Speaker 2: equivalent to Joe Montana's past to Dwight Clark, where you're
Speaker 2: just kind of fading and fading and fade. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna throw it up. Maybe I'll just get it up there.
Speaker 2: Dwight Clark goes and gets it, and it's known as
Speaker 2: the catch. All right, we'll take a break. Got our
Speaker 2: play of the day up next.
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Speaker 4: I don't know how Chucky came up with then ball.
Speaker 1: We've got to see a replay. How in the world
Speaker 1: did he get that?
Speaker 2: Louisville has won ten consecutive games. That's courtesy of lear
Speaker 2: Field Sports. As Louisville advances in the ACC Tournament. It's
Speaker 2: still weird to watch the ACC Tournament. And it was
Speaker 2: cow versus Stanford the other night, and I go, oh
Speaker 2: my goodness. Yeah. I even caught myself with Oklahoma Kentucky
Speaker 2: last night. It's like SEC tournament Oklahoma against Kentucky, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, that's right. And that was a great game
Speaker 2: by the way, Kentucky winning it at the buzzer. But
Speaker 2: there's some of these matchups like how can you go
Speaker 2: to the games if you're Stanford or you know, col
Speaker 2: and you're gonna go to North Carolina for the ACC
Speaker 2: I mean, what are we doing?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Oregon fans have to go to Indianapolis to watch
Speaker 8: them play Michigan State night.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 2: Our one poll results, Seaton, What do you have for me?
Speaker 3: Well, I kind of zagged a little bit. Maybe you
Speaker 3: thought I was going to see you were zigging. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: sometimes sometimes we do that. Okay, we put up there,
Speaker 3: which is more true. It's a topic we haven't really
Speaker 3: dove too much into yet. I think we will, which
Speaker 3: is more true. Aaron Rodgers is holding the Steelers hostage.
Speaker 3: The Steelers are indecisive about their quarterback situation.
Speaker 2: I was trying to go the entire hour without saying
Speaker 2: I'm just teeing up the next down. Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: Sorry, sorry, buddy, all Right.
Speaker 2: I don't think Aaron Rodgers is holding the Steelers hostage.
Speaker 2: I think the Minnesota Vikings are holding the Steelers hostage. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: how about we wait till next hour and then we
Speaker 2: can dive into the Aaron Rodgers. Where's he gone? Okay?
Speaker 2: All right, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: All right, greatest football.
Speaker 2: And we're going to play the Aaron Rodgers game a
Speaker 2: little bit later on today. Todd, are we still on
Speaker 2: in Sacramento?
Speaker 4: Last I heard, we are with us?
Speaker 2: Okay, Todd has some new promo lines for the DP
Speaker 2: show in Sacramento.
Speaker 7: I was to send it around, but I want to
Speaker 7: want to hear it for the first time. So if
Speaker 7: you want to hear me.
Speaker 2: Okay. Now, normally you're supposed to clear these through page
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 7: Was going to, but I thought he would enjoy it more.
Speaker 7: None of this is inappropriate or would be an FCC violin.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's see how much Paulie enjoys this. Okay, here
Speaker 2: we go. So we're on our new affiliate in Sacramento.
Speaker 2: It's eight ninety AM and one oh four point seven FM.
Speaker 7: It's only about half a dozen okay, okay, Oh my god,
Speaker 7: we're a sack again.
Speaker 2: Deep peace.
Speaker 4: God it right. That was a start. I thought i'd
Speaker 4: perform instead of just reading it.
Speaker 2: And who is that?
Speaker 4: That will be the back street point.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: So the next one is Dan and the Dan Net's
Speaker 5: the new Sack street Boys. Okay, they kind of go together,
Speaker 5: all right, all right, Sack street Boys.
Speaker 4: If you're not listening to the Dan Patrick Show, you
Speaker 4: don't know Sack.
Speaker 2: All right, Yeah you know jam Okay, old school all.
Speaker 4: Right, DP and the guys are going to sack the
Speaker 4: quarter hour.
Speaker 2: That's a little inside radio there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, because a couple more turn of the sack,
Speaker 5: they're back to run the show.
Speaker 4: It's Dan Patrick, turn up? Does that?
Speaker 9: Back to right the show?
Speaker 4: One second? That's a good bet, all right.
Speaker 5: And the last two I don't have any of the songs.
Speaker 5: Best one comfort fruit for your ear, Dan.
Speaker 11: The Dennetts are like sack and cheese. And my last
Speaker 11: one was this one I think is questionable, but it's safe.
Speaker 11: We don't like to brag, but we're great in the sack.
Speaker 8: All right, Okay.
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Speaker 9: Dan?
Speaker 12: After that performing, my question may be more relevant than ever,
Speaker 12: But I was wondering if Todd is in any sort
Speaker 12: of concussion protocol after that pie yesterday, because it looked
Speaker 12: like he could have used the trip to the Blue
Speaker 12: Medical ten.
Speaker 2: Well, you took a pile to the face at the
Speaker 2: end of the show, so did Marvin. How did you feel?
Speaker 2: Because that was a pie to the face that was
Speaker 2: like Saint Balantyne's Day massacre, where it was like against
Speaker 2: the wall blueberry it was.
Speaker 7: It was a bit aggressive, but I was okay. My
Speaker 7: eye was like fluttering a little bit. You know sometimes
Speaker 7: I have a little nervous twitch. I don't know if
Speaker 7: I had a debate except him, because my left nostril
Speaker 7: was a little stuffed up.
Speaker 4: I had to get a little blueberry pie out of there.
Speaker 4: But it was.
Speaker 2: Aggressive, but I'm okay.
Speaker 4: Good.
Speaker 2: David in Ohio. Hi David, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9: Hey Dan? Happy meat Friday?
Speaker 12: Nobody. I've got three pie related NFL names that are
Speaker 12: not from the seventies, so I got a leg up
Speaker 12: on Todd for this. First one is instead of Johnny
Speaker 12: unitas Johnny Pie, second one is Ty Cobbler, and the
Speaker 12: last one is Eli apple Pie.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you. David. Don't know if we were
Speaker 2: asking for that today, but we got it.
Speaker 4: Got the creative juices flowing with the list.
Speaker 2: Buddha in San Francisco. Good morning, Buddha, No no, Boddy.
Speaker 9: Happy to me Friday, boys like the beam, Fritzy, Let's
Speaker 9: go Buddha. The first sports book that came to mind
Speaker 9: Dan when you asked was definitely Sam Smith's Jordan Rules,
Speaker 9: Classic breakdown on Jordan's running with the Bad Boys, Pistons
Speaker 9: and Dan on Monday, when you were deep breathing us
Speaker 9: on your wine tasting trip and you asked the boys,
Speaker 9: wine tasting trips are dot dot dot? I thought Marvin
Speaker 9: Nailda was his answer of boujie, and then my answer
Speaker 9: would have been wine tasting trips are a buzz. You
Speaker 9: see what I did there, Fritzy, very clever and Dan,
Speaker 9: I had my sources reach out to me on Monday
Speaker 9: morning as well about your visit to Sea Smoke. My
Speaker 9: representatives there text me letting me know you guys had
Speaker 9: a great time, and I was so happy to hear that.
Speaker 9: Good for you. And next time you're in the area, Dan,
Speaker 9: you should venture up a little more north and discover
Speaker 9: Passer Robles. That's a wonderful wine region, full of amazing wineries, restaurants,
Speaker 9: and it's a vibe. So you guys have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Buddha.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I want to go back to that area and you
Speaker 2: can go. You can be like in one area and
Speaker 2: go an hour in a couple of different directions and
Speaker 2: you can go to the beach, you can go to
Speaker 2: o Hi, you can go up towards the Bay area.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was wonderful. But once again, I love
Speaker 2: love and I went with my wife romantic stroll, you know,
Speaker 2: just just us. Yes, Marmon, are.
Speaker 4: We going to do that next year in San Francisco,
Speaker 4: little wor.
Speaker 2: Have a romantic I'd love to absolutely, yeah, And I'm
Speaker 2: not an expert. I just there's a couple of wines
Speaker 2: that I really like. There's a couple of regions that
Speaker 2: I like, and I just thought, you know what, let's
Speaker 2: do that for a couple of days. Yes, were you strolling?
Speaker 8: Was there like a lap blanket on the ground.
Speaker 4: Was there a breeze?
Speaker 2: There was a breeze. It was sunny, and uh, we
Speaker 2: were just like you know when you see the movies
Speaker 2: or you see a picture where people are giggling and
Speaker 2: they're they're just doing it for the like we were.
Speaker 2: We were waiting for somebody to take our picture because
Speaker 2: it looked like we were being phony. Where we're going?
Speaker 2: Isn't this the greatest I'm going to feed you with grape.
Speaker 4: Like one of the Sialis ads, you know whatever. Is
Speaker 4: just having a great time.
Speaker 2: We were we were sitting in two bathtubs. The strikes, Yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: paint this wall real quick. And then our hands touched
Speaker 2: You know that means I've been working on my sixty
Speaker 2: seven Mustang.
Speaker 9: Hi.
Speaker 2: Oh you brought out some lemonade? What do you really
Speaker 2: to tell me?
Speaker 4: Spackling some driveball.
Speaker 2: The next thing you know is go time.
Speaker 6: It all starts to see them cruising in the drop top.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nothing means everything and pull over?
Speaker 2: Are we still wanted Sacramentos.
Speaker 4: Let's go sack down.
Speaker 2: We get to talk about Aaron Rodgers next hour.
Speaker 9: Yay.