Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Let's recap some breaking news with the NFL.
Speaker 1: Tom Pellicero was the first to tweet out that we
Speaker 1: have some Titans who have tested positive three new player
Speaker 1: positives and five new personnel positives for COVID nineteen. The
Speaker 1: Titans and Vikings who hosted them on Sunday will suspend
Speaker 1: in person club activities starting today. Titans have the Steelers
Speaker 1: coming up? Did get this from Chris Mortenson? Chris Mortenson
Speaker 1: said that no positive tests for the Vikings, but they're
Speaker 1: still going through the protocols with faculty shutdown. According to sources,
Speaker 1: the NFL had a statement and said that in part,
Speaker 1: on Tuesday morning, Titans COVID testing results returned three new
Speaker 1: player positives, five new personnel positives. Titans will suspend in
Speaker 1: person club activities starting today. Likewise, the Vikings who played
Speaker 1: the Titans on Sunday will also suspend in person club activities.
Speaker 1: So you have two games that are up in the
Speaker 1: air right now, the Titans versus the Steelers, Vikings versus
Speaker 1: the Texans, and if the Titans can't practice until Saturday,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you can play this game. But
Speaker 1: here's something to consider. The Titans have three players who
Speaker 1: tested positive they played the Vikings. Is it going to
Speaker 1: be fair. Let's say the Titans won't be able to
Speaker 1: play the Steelers and you can't make that game up.
Speaker 1: Would they forfeit that game? What if the Vikings game
Speaker 1: against the Texans is a forfeit because they're going to
Speaker 1: have positive tests there. They don't have that yet, but
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be fair to them. You know, the Titans
Speaker 1: passed it on to the Vikings, or if they do,
Speaker 1: then you can't say to the Vikings, you got to
Speaker 1: forfeit that game. All you did is play. The Titans
Speaker 1: were the ones that pass that on to them. So
Speaker 1: it'd be unfair if one of these teams gets stuck
Speaker 1: with a forfeit when it's not their fault where their
Speaker 1: players getting it. So, just a couple of things to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. But Chris Mortenson tweeting out at
Speaker 1: when notified this morning, the NFL is taking the safe
Speaker 1: approach via protocols with faculties shut down, according to sources
Speaker 1: with the Minnesota Vikings. But you've got two games that
Speaker 1: are right now up in the air, and I guess
Speaker 1: keeping an eye on when these teams can if the
Speaker 1: Vikings have any positives, If they don't have positives, when
Speaker 1: do you find that out so you can start practicing
Speaker 1: or continue to prepare for the Texans. Meanwhile, the Titans,
Speaker 1: if you only have three players, you've tested positive, you've
Speaker 1: got the personnel people. Then you've got the Steelers coming up.
Speaker 1: So that's going on right now, and Titan Steelers is
Speaker 1: a big game. That's two three and oh teams. Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs still undefeated. They handled the Ravens last night
Speaker 1: thirty four to twenty the Tampa Bay Lightning. When the
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup Baseball playoffs begin today four games. Clippers fired
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers. We'll talk to Chris Mannix from Sports Illustrated
Speaker 1: on why the Clippers made the move now and what's
Speaker 1: that mean for Kawhi Leonard and Paul George And Mannix
Speaker 1: tweeted out something last night. He said, don't you make
Speaker 1: a run at Phil Jackson. If you're Steve Balmer, Doc
Speaker 1: Rivers is going to get another job. You'll probably be
Speaker 1: able to pick if it's New Orleans, it's Indiana, it's Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: But it feels like all of those teams still waiting
Speaker 1: and they haven't filled those void yet, which is interesting
Speaker 1: because I don't know if they're waiting for somebody from
Speaker 1: you know, these teams that are going to be playing
Speaker 1: for the NBA Championship, But you probably had these teams
Speaker 1: thankful that they waited because they didn't think they'd get
Speaker 1: a shot with Doc Rivers eight seven seven three d
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Speaker 1: a DP show mclove and the poll question, so far
Speaker 1: we still have up. Are you jumping off the Ravens bandwagon?
Speaker 1: Fifty eight percent say no, they're still on. Do you
Speaker 1: want to switch to a maybe a Doc Rivers NBA
Speaker 1: coaching poll? What would it be? Well, which opening would
Speaker 1: you take if you were one of these coaches? Sixers, Pelicans, Clippers,
Speaker 1: or Rockets. What's the juicies one out there? Now? Well,
Speaker 1: they're usually not juicy, because that's why there's an opening
Speaker 1: this year. Those are pretty good though, I mean, that's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's playoff teams. I'm really curious about New Orleans, Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: It feels like the process has run its course, but
Speaker 1: you still have some big contracts and the style that
Speaker 1: you want to play doesn't feel like Philadelphia has a
Speaker 1: style and therefore Dan Tony that doesn't seem like it's
Speaker 1: the right fit. If you bring him in Indiana, there's
Speaker 1: a curiosity. But Victor Oladipo once out of Indiana, from
Speaker 1: what I'm told, Okay, that's that's a that's a big
Speaker 1: loss there. And I don't know what's going on with
Speaker 1: the Rockets, you know, are they going to try to
Speaker 1: trade James Harden? Are they gonna whatever coach comes in.
Speaker 1: Are they going to be able to try to make
Speaker 1: that work? How do you work? Do you do it differently?
Speaker 1: No more small ball? They're all in on you know,
Speaker 1: what their what their style is. I just don't know
Speaker 1: if you can change that. Doc Rivers, by the way,
Speaker 1: has had a winning record in thirteen consecutive seasons you
Speaker 1: go back to two thousand and seven. Over that span,
Speaker 1: only Greg Popovich has a higher winning percentage minimum five
Speaker 1: hundred games. It's Greg Popovich and then Doc Rivers. Eric
Speaker 1: Spoelstra is a distant third on that list. But you know,
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers just didn't win in the playoffs. And when
Speaker 1: you lose in dramatic fashion like he did, did and
Speaker 1: the players deserve blame too. Let's not kid anybody here,
Speaker 1: but you know, they they they weren't smart when it
Speaker 1: came to the bubble Williams. We know with that and
Speaker 1: you know what happened there. Montrez Harrow, you know, didn't
Speaker 1: play until you know the playoff games you had playoff
Speaker 1: Pee that didn't act like playoff Pee. You know, said
Speaker 1: he was getting depressed in there. Uh. Kawhi Leonard, as
Speaker 1: much as we want to trump at him, as you know,
Speaker 1: the best player in the game, Uh, he did not
Speaker 1: perform when they needed him. You lose, you know, three,
Speaker 1: three games to one, you're allowing a team to come back.
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't know if and we'll talk
Speaker 1: to Mannix about this. You know, did Kawhi Leonard and
Speaker 1: Paul George still want to play for the Clippers no
Speaker 1: matter who's coaching or are they saying all right if
Speaker 1: the owner is going to make a choice at decision,
Speaker 1: which I think that's what happened. Steve Ballmer just said, look,
Speaker 1: we're gonna part ways with Doc Rivers, then do you
Speaker 1: hand it to ty Tyron Low? And is that enough
Speaker 1: for Paul George and uh uh Kawhi Leonard to want
Speaker 1: to stay with the Clippers, like that would be mine
Speaker 1: because this could go south in a hurry. It could
Speaker 1: go horribly wrong. And I hope somebody tells Paul George, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was get to the championship or bus this year
Speaker 1: because it cost Doc Rivers' job, because Paul George didn't
Speaker 1: think that the stakes were this high, and it turns
Speaker 1: out they were extremely high. And I was told from
Speaker 1: the beginning of the playoffs, if the Clippers don't make
Speaker 1: the conference finals, I was told the same thing with
Speaker 1: the Rockets, if they don't play for the championship, then
Speaker 1: you could see changes there. Certainly with Houston. I am
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of shock with Doc Rivers, but
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised and maybe that team and we're starting
Speaker 1: to hear this from the analysts, and this is what
Speaker 1: happens after the fact. Everybody had all the answers. No,
Speaker 1: you could see they did in chemistry issues. And you know,
Speaker 1: they played great right before the shutdown. They'd won eight
Speaker 1: of their last nine games. If they are playing a
Speaker 1: normal season and there's a home court advantage, they're not
Speaker 1: blowing a three games to one lead. That wouldn't happen.
Speaker 1: But you're in the bubble. Everybody else has got to
Speaker 1: abide by the same rules and regulations, restrictions, and they
Speaker 1: weren't able to do it. And then I see that
Speaker 1: there's an article, the two articles that said they need
Speaker 1: a leader on the floor. Wait, I thought Kauhi was
Speaker 1: the best player in basketball. Here, what happened? We're so hypocritical.
Speaker 1: Just imagine if Lebron this happened to Lebron and his
Speaker 1: coach got fired and they lost, they allowed Denver to
Speaker 1: come back three games to one. We wouldn't be talking
Speaker 1: about the teams in the NBA Finals. We'd still be
Speaker 1: talking about Lebron choked, let his team down. Not a
Speaker 1: leader Kawhi, remember we had, we had? You know, the
Speaker 1: ESPN shows were saying, Kawhi is more clutch than Kobe,
Speaker 1: He's better than Lebron, better two way player. Here's Lebron
Speaker 1: other NBA Finals. Somehow people will go out of their
Speaker 1: way to be critical of this. Oh yeah, but you
Speaker 1: beat the Miami Heat. Oh yeah, but you one of
Speaker 1: the bubble. Whatever it's going to be, I'm sure you.
Speaker 1: Oh you weren't even the best player on your own team.
Speaker 1: Whatever it's going to be. Somebody's going to spin it
Speaker 1: this way unfortunately, instead of giving credit where credit is due.
Speaker 1: But man, were we trying to usher in Kawai Leonard?
Speaker 1: So he's gonna be a top five player? What if
Speaker 1: he wins a title for a third team before Lebron does,
Speaker 1: is he gonna move past Lebron? I'm like, you guys
Speaker 1: are smoking something, because we go look at Kawai's numbers
Speaker 1: this year. I said, that's what Lebron is average for
Speaker 1: his career. They'll find a way to make this a
Speaker 1: negative there, Yes, PAULI article, I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: La time said what the Clippers need in their next coach.
Speaker 1: They need someone with a lot of NBA experience who's
Speaker 1: good with players and it's good with the media. And
Speaker 1: I was like, man, that's not just like Doc Rivers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they should hire Doc Rivers. Oh wait, people are jumping
Speaker 1: off my Ravens bandwagon. That's okay. If you jump off,
Speaker 1: you can't come back in. And if you do, you
Speaker 1: got to sit in coach you do not and you
Speaker 1: gotta sit in middle seat. Oh like when you go
Speaker 1: to an amusement park, if you leave, you can't No,
Speaker 1: he can't come back, can't come pack you ask me
Speaker 1: glub I have a quick left turn poll question that
Speaker 1: I want to get him because it's the only day
Speaker 1: we can ask it. Okay, which m MLB team really
Speaker 1: has to win pressure wise? To win this year? Is
Speaker 1: it that Dodgers, Yankees? Oh, it's the Dodgers. Well, what
Speaker 1: about the Padres because they don't know when they're going
Speaker 1: to get back in No, no, they don't have to win.
Speaker 1: What about the Indians because they've never won one and
Speaker 1: they don't look no, no, no, no, no, it's the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: There's no one, there's no one else. What about the
Speaker 1: Astros to prove they can win without cheating? It would
Speaker 1: be a nice story. Dave Roberts knows that his job
Speaker 1: probably hangs in the balance if they don't win a
Speaker 1: World Series or at least getting there again. You know,
Speaker 1: the Yankees, they've had injuries, they're trying to piece this
Speaker 1: all together. You know, there's pressure because they're the Yankees. Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about Cleveland winning San Diego is a wonderful story.
Speaker 1: But there's no pressure on them. That that's part of
Speaker 1: the Dodgers have all the pressure. The Astros now they
Speaker 1: can say, hey, we got to the playoffs. Okay, he
Speaker 1: got to the playoffs. Now if they if they would
Speaker 1: win this year, then I think, you know, it would
Speaker 1: take a little heat off of them. But it's all
Speaker 1: about the Dodgers. Yeah, I'm club any pressure on the
Speaker 1: Rays your race, No, No, nobody talks about the Rays.
Speaker 1: I just I have them, you know, representing the American League.
Speaker 1: I have them playing the Dodgers in the World Series.
Speaker 1: But this is all about the Dodgers and not even close.
Speaker 1: R at eight seven seven three d P Show email
Speaker 1: address DP at dan Patrick dot com Twitter handle the
Speaker 1: TP Show. I mentioned this at the end of last
Speaker 1: hour that Jerry Jones does his weekly radio show and
Speaker 1: it's one oh five point three to fan in Dallas,
Speaker 1: and he talked about how Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, and
Speaker 1: Tony Romo have the same ability as Dak Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: to extend to play. And then Jerry was talking about
Speaker 1: Mahomes and Russell Wilson, Tony Romo, and you know, I
Speaker 1: had originally seen this report. It came in from Clarence Hill,
Speaker 1: who covers the Dallas Cowboys, and he sends out a
Speaker 1: tweet that says, Jerry Jones said, Dak Prescott not being
Speaker 1: able to pull off the last play of the game
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks is the difference between he and Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes and even Tony Romo. They could have pulled it off.
Speaker 1: And then he goes, wow, did I hear that correctly?
Speaker 1: So I asked the guys in the back. I said, wait,
Speaker 1: grab the sound from Jerry Jones before I'm critical Jerry Jones.
Speaker 1: I want to be fair to him. This is what
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones had to say about that final play with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys loss in Seattle. This guy's very quick and
Speaker 1: elusive and can get in and out of situations with
Speaker 1: his feet and by time the quarterback we played Sunday
Speaker 1: is of that kind of nature. He's very has great
Speaker 1: ability to get in and out and then make the
Speaker 1: play that played Dak made at the end of the
Speaker 1: game that God intercepted Will. The results of Dak's ability
Speaker 1: that let him get that ball off was really great
Speaker 1: and outstanding. Well, these guys do that have that ability
Speaker 1: a lot. They are very quick footed, and they're very
Speaker 1: They have the unique ability to possibly take their eyes
Speaker 1: away from the field for a minute and then immediately
Speaker 1: focus back and see Romo had that, Okay, that wasn't
Speaker 1: a negative towards Dak Prescott. I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: what Clarence Hill, and I have great respect for Clarence Hill.
Speaker 1: He's covered the Cowboys a long time. But I'm going
Speaker 1: to say that he heard it incorrectly because I didn't
Speaker 1: hear Jerry Jones saying Dak Prescott wasn't able to pull
Speaker 1: off the last play of the game against Seattle. And
Speaker 1: that's the difference between Dak and Patrick Mahomes or even
Speaker 1: Tony Romo. They could have pulled it off. He didn't
Speaker 1: say that. I think he was talking about mahomes great footwork,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson great footwork, and the fact that Dak Dak
Speaker 1: even staying on his feet shows the incredible footwork. But
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't think that's that's a slight. And
Speaker 1: why would Jerry Jones be ripping his quarterback after three games?
Speaker 1: Ja McLevin, you don't how the same works? Can we
Speaker 1: go back to the original story where he's ripping Da
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I mean, there's part of me
Speaker 1: that wishes that he would have ripped him, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: We didn't pay him though. Keep the controversy going. Well,
Speaker 1: that that would have definitely if he like, you're bringing
Speaker 1: Romo in there on that, I don't think I would
Speaker 1: be shoehorning Romo in with Patrick Mahomes and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: He goes on a Copley Quincy Carter, I think it.
Speaker 1: Babe Lauffenberg, he complimented every Cowboy Club Ryan Leaf, every
Speaker 1: Cowboy quarterback, he complimented them, except for Dak Prescott. Yes,
Speaker 1: MC club Cowboy schedule gets a lot easier, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to stay with the Texans at some point.
Speaker 1: But well, the Texans are going to bring in Earl Thomas.
Speaker 1: But they played three quality opponents. If you look at
Speaker 1: what they've done, I mean, they played super Bowl caliber
Speaker 1: teams so far. And that's why as much as we
Speaker 1: want to bury Bill O'Brien, they'll rise, they'll come back.
Speaker 1: They'll come back from the ashes here, they will. Yeah, mcclub.
Speaker 1: They're one of the Antonio Brown rumor teams. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Ravens. Last night there was some Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: chatter on Twitter. Then they could use that guy. These
Speaker 1: teams don't know what's gonna happen to Antonio Brown, you know,
Speaker 1: he's going to be suspended, and you know, is he
Speaker 1: clear from everything else? You know, does he have personal
Speaker 1: litigation going on here? I mean it's and you just
Speaker 1: can't go out and go We're gonna take Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: because I don't know if you know when he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to play again. All Right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a break. Any other headlines that I missed here? Nick
Speaker 1: Foles named the Bears starter. Paulie insisted that I bring
Speaker 1: that up. Yeah, super Bowl yep, yeah, And yes, we
Speaker 1: did talk to Ross Tucker, the former NFL lineman, who
Speaker 1: said this yesterday on the show. I really believe the
Speaker 1: Ravens run the ball down the chief's throat tonight. I
Speaker 1: think they get after Patrick Mahomes. I think the Ravens
Speaker 1: have a great chance to win this game by double digits. Okay,
Speaker 1: Ross did call in and he got verbally spanked by us.
Speaker 1: But for those who didn't view it or listen to
Speaker 1: it as for entertainment purposes only, my apologies. But there's
Speaker 1: just their times. Man. Can't you go back to talking
Speaker 1: about Jerry Jones made a mistake? Nice and the over
Speaker 1: under it was fifty four and a half. Oh fifty
Speaker 1: four and a half. Final total was fifty four. All right,
Speaker 1: Chris Mannox will join us, and he thinks there's a
Speaker 1: possibility that maybe, just maybe Clippers make a run at
Speaker 1: Phil Jackson. I don't see that happening at all, but
Speaker 1: I'll give Mannix the stage coming up next nineteen after
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Speaker 1: Mannox joining us. He's ready. Chris Mannox, the senior Sports
Speaker 1: Illustrated writer covering the NBA joins us on the program.
Speaker 1: The big question here, Mannox is how surprised are you
Speaker 1: the Clippers let Doc Rivers go? You know, surprised, not shocked.
Speaker 1: You know, the disappointing way with which the Clippers ended
Speaker 1: their season. There were a lot of people that I
Speaker 1: talked to you throughout the NBA that wondered if Doc
Speaker 1: Rivers was going to survive. You know, it was pointed
Speaker 1: out to me by several different league types that he
Speaker 1: had taken that team exactly as far as Vinnie Del
Speaker 1: Negro had taken that team, never being out of that
Speaker 1: second round, and so blow a three one lead for
Speaker 1: the second time, it begged the question. I did think,
Speaker 1: because of the whole bubble environment, that you know, Doc
Speaker 1: would get a chance to run it back. Remember, you know,
Speaker 1: this team before the pandemic hit dan At won eight
Speaker 1: of the last nine games going into the break. They
Speaker 1: were starting to play their best basketball the season. Then
Speaker 1: the bubble hits. They have all sorts of problems in Orlando.
Speaker 1: I thought that would all be factored in and Doc
Speaker 1: would get another chance. But Steve Balmer, who had his
Speaker 1: fingerprints all over this, ultimately designed to go in a
Speaker 1: different direction. Do you think the Clippers know who their
Speaker 1: next coach will be. I don't, you know, largely because
Speaker 1: of the length of this process. If they had let
Speaker 1: go of Doc two days three days after the end
Speaker 1: of the season, I might have thought they had a
Speaker 1: plan in mind. As it stands, it took almost two
Speaker 1: weeks for them to agree to part ways, which suggests
Speaker 1: there were some now some internal conversations there. I mean,
Speaker 1: I noted, you know, in a piece I wrote presci
Speaker 1: dot Com that Lawrence Frank's name was nowhere near this.
Speaker 1: Larnce Frank is the team president, you know, usually the
Speaker 1: team president makes decisions like this. This was all attributed
Speaker 1: to Steve Balmer, the owner of the Clippers. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that's some ideas, and we could talk about them,
Speaker 1: But I don't think they have a clear successor in mind,
Speaker 1: because you have Tylu there on the bench, and he's
Speaker 1: a viable candidate for a couple of openings there. But
Speaker 1: he can he be part of the positive here or
Speaker 1: was he also part of the negative here as well? Well?
Speaker 1: Tylu makes the most sense because going into what is
Speaker 1: likely going to be either a shortened season or certainly
Speaker 1: a season that has a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: issues going into it. With the pandemic, you probably want
Speaker 1: to try to have as few bumps along the way
Speaker 1: as possible, a smooth a transition as possible, and tylu
Speaker 1: being there all season long would make it a relatively
Speaker 1: smooth transition from one coach to another. The question I
Speaker 1: have about Tylu is that would he want to take
Speaker 1: this job now? Ty has been elevated to a job before,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, taking him a job after David
Speaker 1: Blatt was fired in Cleveland, But this is an entirely
Speaker 1: different situation. Doctor is Tyler's mentor. Doc Rivers is the
Speaker 1: guy that brought ty Lou into the fold this year
Speaker 1: and made him one of the highest paid assistant coaches
Speaker 1: in basketball. So would ty feel differently about assuming Doc's
Speaker 1: chair than he would taking David black Spot. That's something
Speaker 1: I and other people across the NBA have wondered as
Speaker 1: the as this sort of plays out, And I also
Speaker 1: wondered too. I wasn't surprised at all that Doc was fired.
Speaker 1: I think that we really like Doc, but if you
Speaker 1: look at his resume with the Clippers, you know he
Speaker 1: hasn't performed up to the standards of an elite coach.
Speaker 1: And then you look at Paul George and you look
Speaker 1: at Kawhi Leonard and they got one more year there
Speaker 1: before they can be free agents. Here do they have
Speaker 1: to co sign on this? Does Steve Balmer say to Kauai,
Speaker 1: I'm going to do this or I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're brought in in a decision making role here. Well,
Speaker 1: all star players have some role in the hiring of
Speaker 1: a coach. We just saw that with Steve Nash being
Speaker 1: hired to Brooklyn, you know, effectively getting Kevin Durant's seal
Speaker 1: of approval with that team. It's just a question of
Speaker 1: how involved they get in the process. So I do
Speaker 1: believe Kawhi Leonard and Paul George will be brought into
Speaker 1: this process and they'll be given a chance to voice
Speaker 1: their feelings and their thoughts on who the next head
Speaker 1: coach is. All that being said, Dan, and this is
Speaker 1: more me my opinion on this. I look at the
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers firing as a staggering overreaction at this point.
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying about how these teams have
Speaker 1: underachieved in the playoffs. I mentioned the two blown leads
Speaker 1: in the postseason, but this was such a unique environment,
Speaker 1: and this was such a difficult situation to succeed it.
Speaker 1: I mean it was difficult for everybody, not the least
Speaker 1: of which was the Denver Nuggets, who had similar problems
Speaker 1: to the Clippers. But the Clippers came into the bubble
Speaker 1: with like half a team. They went through their seating
Speaker 1: games with Monterreise, Harrold in and out, Patrick Beverley in
Speaker 1: and out, Lou Williams the Magic City thing with him.
Speaker 1: Harold didn't play his first game until they got to
Speaker 1: the postseason. Pat you Beverley missed all but one game
Speaker 1: of that first round. I mean, there are no excuses
Speaker 1: for blowing a three one lead, But I don't know
Speaker 1: how you look at this, this experience and what happened
Speaker 1: the bubble is saying it's proof positive that Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: can't coach this team. I would actually look at what
Speaker 1: the Clippers were doing pre pandemic, when load management seemed
Speaker 1: to be working for them, when the team seemed to
Speaker 1: be peaking at just the right time. That to me,
Speaker 1: is stronger, is a stronger reason to bring Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: back than what happened in the bubble. To fire it,
Speaker 1: He's Chris Mannock senior NBA writer for Sports Illustrated. You
Speaker 1: floated out the idea that maybe the Clippers do a
Speaker 1: drive by with Phil Jackson. You think Phil is physically
Speaker 1: capable of being a head coach in the NBA. I
Speaker 1: think that's the biggest question. Seventy five years old, just
Speaker 1: turned seventy five this month, has dealt with myriad health
Speaker 1: issues over the years, Kenny's body hold up to the
Speaker 1: rigors of an NBA season. I think that's that's the
Speaker 1: first and foremost question that that would have to be
Speaker 1: answered when it comes to Phil Jackson. But other than that, Dan,
Speaker 1: it does make a lot of sense to at least
Speaker 1: kick the tires on Phil Jackson. I mean, how many
Speaker 1: coaches out there are proven to have one at this
Speaker 1: level who can take over teams with star players and
Speaker 1: succeed at the highest level. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people will say the triangle is outdated in today's NBA game.
Speaker 1: I disagree. I think that Phil's offense can work in
Speaker 1: today's NBA game, and I think guy like Kawhi Leonard
Speaker 1: could actually thrive in it in the same way Kobe
Speaker 1: Bryant thrived in it with the Lakers. And if you're
Speaker 1: Phil Jackson, isn't this job a little bit appealing to you? Don't?
Speaker 1: Don't you aren't there reasons to go and take this job? Dad?
Speaker 1: I mean Dan, it's been like a decade. I know
Speaker 1: that relationship with Junie Busses is still strong. But a
Speaker 1: decade ago, the Lakers didn't exactly throw Phil a retiring
Speaker 1: party on his way out the door. It didn't end
Speaker 1: in the most positive of ways with the Lakers. Fill's
Speaker 1: comfortable living in La being in that environment, and Phil,
Speaker 1: even though he's the all time leader in championships, can
Speaker 1: do something or at least have the opportunity to do
Speaker 1: something with the Clippers that no other coach has done.
Speaker 1: And that's when three championships with three teams as a
Speaker 1: head coach. So if you're Phil Jackson, your body's first
Speaker 1: and foremost. But if they could hold up and the
Speaker 1: Clippers call, I'd make a run at him. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't help the Clippers situation that the Lakers are four
Speaker 1: wins away from another title. No it doesn't. But if
Speaker 1: your Phil doesn't, that add a little bit more fuel
Speaker 1: to the fire. Like the Lakers might be the champion
Speaker 1: this time next week, they were going to be looking
Speaker 1: to run it back next year with the same group.
Speaker 1: The chants to walk into Staples Center and win the championship. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know Phil Jackson, you talked to him over the years.
Speaker 1: I know him a little bit. I've talked him over
Speaker 1: the years. You can't tell me that this possibility is
Speaker 1: not at least a little bit appealing to Phil Jackson.
Speaker 1: There are other variables, like I don't know he and
Speaker 1: Jerry West whatever. Yeah, that wasization. That was another question
Speaker 1: because Jerry and Phil. That didn't end well either, it didn't.
Speaker 1: But I mean, Jerry's not the general manager with that team.
Speaker 1: He's influential, but he is more of an advisor at
Speaker 1: this stage, and a well paid one at this stage.
Speaker 1: But it's not like he's running the organization. I think, Look,
Speaker 1: if you're Steve Ballmer and you're not convinced that Ty
Speaker 1: Lose the guy, and you're not convinced Jeff Van Gundy's
Speaker 1: the guy or somebody else that you have in mind,
Speaker 1: you've basically got a blank check that you can write
Speaker 1: your head coach. Why not take the Microsoft jet up
Speaker 1: to Montana and see what Phil Jackson's thinking? How do
Speaker 1: the Heat win the finals? I mean I throw out
Speaker 1: to a degree the two and no record in the
Speaker 1: regular season because those games were played without Jay Crowder
Speaker 1: with Andre Guddala, who were both acquired the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: Tyler Hero was playing behind Kendrick Nunn at that point
Speaker 1: of the season. There were very early games in the season,
Speaker 1: so I don't look at that as being a variable.
Speaker 1: I do think that the fact that Anthony Davis has
Speaker 1: dominated at A Bio in these matchups is a factor.
Speaker 1: Davis's average close to thirty points per game against the
Speaker 1: Heat shot about sixty percent from the floor against the Heat,
Speaker 1: where at a Bio has gone the completely opposite direction.
Speaker 1: He is about eleven and a half points per game,
Speaker 1: are the second lowest against any team in the NBA
Speaker 1: during the season. How they win this series is if
Speaker 1: at a Bio can even up that matchup, if he
Speaker 1: can play the way he played against the Celtics. I
Speaker 1: think crowd or Iguidala can cause some problems for Lebron.
Speaker 1: I think that zone defense, if they throw it at
Speaker 1: the Lakers, can cause some problems for some of those shooters.
Speaker 1: But if Anthony Davis plays the same way against ban
Speaker 1: Ada Bio as he did during the regular season, had
Speaker 1: a bio vice versa could be a quick series from Miami.
Speaker 1: Always great to talk to you, Chris, Thank you, you
Speaker 1: got it dead. Chris Mannock, senior NBA writer from Sports Illustrated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't see the Phil Jackson situation happening at age
Speaker 1: seventy five, given his health. He had a kind of
Speaker 1: a frosty relationship with Jerry West, who's not the GM,
Speaker 1: He's just a consultant with the Clippers, and I don't
Speaker 1: know physically if he'd be able to coach. It feels
Speaker 1: like Tyron lew Is, you know, you'll you'll do your job,
Speaker 1: search and do your due diligence, and then you'll hand
Speaker 1: it to tylu That that's the feeling that I have.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything other than just looking at this
Speaker 1: and what seems obvious, and then you start to wonder
Speaker 1: about some of these other openings and where where does
Speaker 1: doc Rivers work? There are reports now that you know
Speaker 1: there's friction with the seventy six ers that you know
Speaker 1: it's not going to work with the process there, and
Speaker 1: do you who do you ship out? You know, can
Speaker 1: you get more for embiid uh? You know, I think
Speaker 1: that's the big question there, and does Mike D'Antoni want
Speaker 1: the job if you don't have Joel Embiid? Does Doc
Speaker 1: Rivers want the job? With Joe L m b who
Speaker 1: wants Indiana? Victor Oladipo wants out New Orleans? Are you
Speaker 1: sold with that roster? We got the draft coming up?
Speaker 1: When is the draft? To make love? And I keep
Speaker 1: reading all of these stories about the next Ball brother
Speaker 1: coming in. Wait, you mean this year's draft? For next
Speaker 1: year's draft, the NBA draft. I'm just snalling. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't figure it out. Yeah, so the Timberwolves are expected
Speaker 1: to draft LaMelo Ball if they don't trade the number
Speaker 1: one pick. I don't know. With Carl Anthony Towns and
Speaker 1: D'Angelo Russell, if you want to bring in LaMelo Ball,
Speaker 1: it feels like this is not a great draft getting
Speaker 1: that guy that is going to, you know, transform your team.
Speaker 1: Remember James Wiseman at Memphis and you know, here's a
Speaker 1: seven footer and you know he went there with Penny
Speaker 1: Hardaway and then all of a sudden he got suspended.
Speaker 1: He's also in the mix as well, but I just
Speaker 1: you know, is he a DeAndre Eton kind of player?
Speaker 1: But uh, LaMelo Ball could be the number one pick,
Speaker 1: and that means that the old man will be coming
Speaker 1: back to tell us how great he is. Yes, Paul,
Speaker 1: I like your guy will be topping from Dayton. He's
Speaker 1: got power and he can get it outside a little
Speaker 1: bit and he'll probably develop. That's that's a freaky good athlete.
Speaker 1: And I wonder what Golden State does, because do I
Speaker 1: want any of these players? If I'm Golden State, I
Speaker 1: don't want LaMelo Ballum. Who's the other the kid out
Speaker 1: of Georgia An Anthony? Yeah, and like they're mixed reviews
Speaker 1: on him, So I don't I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: anybody that you go, boy, that that guy can't miss.
Speaker 1: And I don't know who that player would be. There
Speaker 1: will be players, obviously they come out of this and
Speaker 1: you go, wow, how did that guy go when he went? Um?
Speaker 1: You see what else do we have here? Um? Oh?
Speaker 1: They just all This note says that Tylu has the
Speaker 1: Clippers interested in him. Also the seventy Sixers, the Rockets,
Speaker 1: and Pelicans are preparing to talk to him in coming days.
Speaker 1: This According to Brad Turner, who covers the NBA, Tyron
Speaker 1: Lou is scheduled to meet with the seventy Sixers Tuesday
Speaker 1: or Wednesday. Jeff van Gundi is a name that you're
Speaker 1: going to hear about. I like Van Gundi a lot.
Speaker 1: I just don't know what kind of style he's gonna want.
Speaker 1: And it's really about that, what kind of style do
Speaker 1: you want and do you have the personnel to be
Speaker 1: able to pull that off. Jason Kidd, Sam could Sell
Speaker 1: is another name that's come up. Mark Jackson's name will
Speaker 1: come up as well. Mark Spears says that the Pelicans
Speaker 1: and seventy Sixers have already reached out to Doc Rivers
Speaker 1: with their coaching vacancies. Now it feels like there's about
Speaker 1: six or seven aims here, and uh, I'm gonna guess
Speaker 1: if you're the Clippers, you jump on Tylu as soon
Speaker 1: as you can. But you know, making no mistake about it.
Speaker 1: Any coach who's taken over for the Clippers, it's a
Speaker 1: must win, an ultimate win now team, you know. And
Speaker 1: you you got the sixth man of the Year and
Speaker 1: Montres Harrold, you got Lou Williams, you got Paul George
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard and don't tell me that now this isn't
Speaker 1: a good roster because I heard all along, Hey, Clippers,
Speaker 1: they're the favorite. Vegas has the Clippers the faith. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I got people saying, yeah, that
Speaker 1: roster is flawed. Where are these people before it's flawed? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but people tell us Paul George was good, and that
Speaker 1: was not He was very inconsistent. And he is good.
Speaker 1: He's not great. He's sort of portrayed as great like
Speaker 1: the second like Lebron and Anthony Davis, Paul George and Kawhi. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you you had a Clippers decision where you trade
Speaker 1: for Paul George and you have to trade Shay giljis
Speaker 1: Alexander who I would rather have him than Paul George.
Speaker 1: Danilo Gallinari first round picks twenty twenty two, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, two other first round picks belonging to
Speaker 1: Miami twenty twenty one, twenty twenty three, and they swap
Speaker 1: picks with Oklahoma City twenty twenty three and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: That's when you play and you put all your chips
Speaker 1: in the middle. You know, when you say, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call your bluff, all the chips are in
Speaker 1: the middle of the table. It's a must win situation.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break, Last call for phone calls, close
Speaker 1: up shop, what we learned, What's in store tomorrow? Right
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Speaker 1: call for phone calls, what we learn and store tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Jeff Perlman has written a new book. Nobody writes an
Speaker 1: old book? Do they so? As He's written a new book, Yep.
Speaker 1: He discusses his new book on the Lakers dynasty with
Speaker 1: Shack and Kobe. It's called Three Ring Circus. He'll join
Speaker 1: us on the program tomorrow. Jamie and North Carolina joins
Speaker 1: us right now. Hey Jamie, what's on your mind? Hey Dan?
Speaker 1: Hey guys, how are you doing? Good? Is good and
Speaker 1: well and COVID getting better. But I was just email
Speaker 1: Marvin sometimes and try and bother him and stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: I was just saying I never put too much stock
Speaker 1: into the big rosters in the NBA finals. I think
Speaker 1: it comes down to like a tight eight nine guys
Speaker 1: that are really playing in their top level. You have
Speaker 1: a few of those stubs you throw in there. But
Speaker 1: this as far as the Clippers go, I just didn't
Speaker 1: buy into it. I'm just saying I'm gonna be that
Speaker 1: guy and say I knew it the whole Thank you, Jamie.
Speaker 1: If you if you called three weeks ago, then that
Speaker 1: would have been really timely there. But now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, now the roster has flawed. Hey, you can't
Speaker 1: just throw these players together here. And I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: Lebron somehow made this work right, brought in Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: change that roster there. But I think we have to
Speaker 1: be fair to the label that we put on players sometimes,
Speaker 1: like when somebody he's great, like we say it and
Speaker 1: we don't even think about it. Paul George is not great.
Speaker 1: He's good, And a couple of years ago he was great.
Speaker 1: He finished I think third in the MVP race. Yes,
Speaker 1: last year I just didn't see greatness with him. Now
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean he can't be that again. I just
Speaker 1: didn't see it. And you know, maybe once they're out
Speaker 1: of the bubble and things will change a little bit there.
Speaker 1: But when we talk about the team that has the
Speaker 1: best two way guards defenders, it's the Clippers with Kawhi
Speaker 1: and Paul George. And I didn't see that. Lou Williams
Speaker 1: never got hot in the bubble Montres Harold and I
Speaker 1: said this before you know any of this happened. I said,
Speaker 1: there's a sense of entitlement with the Clippers, like they
Speaker 1: believed that they were going to win a championship, or
Speaker 1: that they had already won a championship. I'm sure they
Speaker 1: believed they were going to They acted like they had
Speaker 1: already won a championship. And last night, Look, when you
Speaker 1: check the roster, there aren't many guys on there that
Speaker 1: have won championships. And they played that way, and they
Speaker 1: didn't play with a sense of urgency. They didn't play
Speaker 1: with all the chips are in the middle of the
Speaker 1: table here and Doc Rivers lost his job because of that.
Speaker 1: I had Fritzier reach out to Mike Florio if the
Speaker 1: Titans would have to postpone their game with the Steelers
Speaker 1: this weekend. Florio says that there is a way to
Speaker 1: postpone the Steelers and the Titans game to Tennessee's by
Speaker 1: week that's Week seven, but they'd have to move Steelers
Speaker 1: Avens from week seven to week eight when Pittsburgh and
Speaker 1: Baltimore have their boys, which isn't fair to those teams.
Speaker 1: But let's see if the Titans are able to practice,
Speaker 1: because as it is now, I think everybody everything is
Speaker 1: shut down until Saturday. I don't know how you prepare
Speaker 1: for the Steelers, two undefeated teams if everything is shut down. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: what if the Steelers are also not allowed to practice?
Speaker 1: Just to make it even and they play ball on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Fritzie just sent me and Lou Williams did get hot
Speaker 1: out of the bubble. Thank you to consideration. Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1: Wings strippers, Yeah, magic sitting, Yeah, yeah, making a half
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