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Speaker 1: Come on in. Looks like we got football in the
Speaker 1: Big Ten. What's more surprising that Monday morning when I
Speaker 1: told you the Big Ten in Pac twelve we're not
Speaker 1: going to play football this season, or this morning where
Speaker 1: the announcement has been made that there will be Big
Speaker 1: Ten football and everybody is going to play. That's the
Speaker 1: news that everybody's going to play because they were divided,
Speaker 1: and my source told me two days ago it's going
Speaker 1: to be contentious when they all get in the room
Speaker 1: and they all start to discuss what they want to do,
Speaker 1: how they want to do it, who's in who's not.
Speaker 1: It's a bad look. This is what I was told
Speaker 1: this morning, that the presidents realized it was going to
Speaker 1: be a bad look if your school did not play
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten and the other schools did. I
Speaker 1: didn't know what was going to happen state by state
Speaker 1: allowing these universities to be open for business when it
Speaker 1: comes to football. But some things have transpired in the
Speaker 1: last forty eight hours, and it has to do in
Speaker 1: large part to the testing that then they've been able
Speaker 1: to come up with. I don't know what happens with
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve because the PAC twelve has to be
Speaker 1: looking at this saying we're in conjunction with, in unison with,
Speaker 1: in lockstep with the Big ten, because the PAC twelve
Speaker 1: wanted the Big ten to be the first to say
Speaker 1: we're not playing, because the PAC twelve didn't want them
Speaker 1: to be singled out and go, you know, typical PAC
Speaker 1: twelve soft and not relevant, and the Big ten took
Speaker 1: a bullet and said we'll do it, and then the
Speaker 1: PAC twelve followed up, which is exactly what I told
Speaker 1: you back in August. But my source said that things
Speaker 1: were pushed back two weeks because initially he told me
Speaker 1: they're targeting October tenth, targeting, and that's when people said,
Speaker 1: you said they're coming back October tenth. I said, that's
Speaker 1: the target date. That was the plan. Things have changed
Speaker 1: so much here. You have to understand. There's every time
Speaker 1: i'd get some inform, an hour later I'd get different
Speaker 1: information or more information. And we had fourteen schools. I
Speaker 1: was told you're probably getting nine schools. You needed nine votes.
Speaker 1: Now you got everybody who's on the same page. That's
Speaker 1: the news. That's the big surprise here. Justin Fields, the
Speaker 1: Ohio State quarterback, just tweeted, let's go exclamation point. Pat
Speaker 1: Forty from Sports Illustrated does a great job in covering
Speaker 1: college sports. Big Ten is lost as much high end
Speaker 1: talent to opt outs as any league. Micah Parsons, Sean Wade,
Speaker 1: the defensive back at Ohio State, Rondel Moore, Wyatt Davis.
Speaker 1: Are they able to opt back in? That's the other
Speaker 1: question that I have. All schools are playing and now
Speaker 1: they've moved it back the twenty third and twenty four,
Speaker 1: so Friday Saturday, and I don't know as they move forward,
Speaker 1: are they going to try to take over Friday night?
Speaker 1: Is there a way that they have a TV deal
Speaker 1: that provides some extra revenue here? I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to find all this out in real time, but
Speaker 1: they're going to do it. Twenty third, twenty fourth, They're
Speaker 1: still going to have the Big Ten title game. And
Speaker 1: then the next day is when you have the selection
Speaker 1: committee picking its final four, and the Big Ten knows
Speaker 1: that they have a potential final four school in Ohio State.
Speaker 1: But that's where we are right now. There's been some
Speaker 1: great reporting on this following this. But I haven't steered
Speaker 1: you wrong. Everything I've said to you happened now. I
Speaker 1: did point out there were schools that weren't going to play,
Speaker 1: and I know the Michigan fans, Michigan State fans took
Speaker 1: it personally when I said that yesterday that I was
Speaker 1: told they weren't on board with this. Northwestern was not
Speaker 1: on board with this, Illinois wasn't on board, Maryland because
Speaker 1: it was a hot state, Rutgers being in New Jersey
Speaker 1: another state. You know that tad issues with quarantining. So
Speaker 1: the fact that they could get all together, and I
Speaker 1: told you that they were voting on Monday, they voted
Speaker 1: Monday night. I know that people have refuted that, but
Speaker 1: from what I'm told that they kept this quiet. They
Speaker 1: did a great job in keeping this quiet. And I
Speaker 1: was shocked because I was trying to get more information
Speaker 1: of did everybody vote yes? And then it turns out
Speaker 1: that is the case. But you got I'm told that
Speaker 1: Sean Wade, who is probably a top ten pick, the
Speaker 1: best cornerback in this draft at Ohio State, was going
Speaker 1: to sign with an agent this morning, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if he did, and if you opted out? Can
Speaker 1: you opt back in? I hope that those given what
Speaker 1: those kids have been through, I hope they give them
Speaker 1: the opportunity. Even if Wade signed with an agent, they
Speaker 1: should still let him opt back in because these kids
Speaker 1: have been through an awful lot, and I applaud them
Speaker 1: they did not give up. I hope it works out well.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what you could be thinking. If
Speaker 1: you're in the PAC twelve and you're Larry Scott, their commissioner.
Speaker 1: You've got some bigger issues in those states. You got wildfires,
Speaker 1: what's happened in California, the state with the virus. But
Speaker 1: this came down to, from what I'm told this morning,
Speaker 1: the availability of rapid testing. That's really really important here,
Speaker 1: and I think that changed a lot of people's minds.
Speaker 1: You know, I had my source telling me about liability yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's still an issue with some of these presidents and
Speaker 1: some athletic directors. This was last night. Presidents and some
Speaker 1: ads in the Big ten field. It's too risky. But
Speaker 1: the last two weeks have been hard for them to
Speaker 1: watch others schools play. It's important for Michigan to play.
Speaker 1: If there's medical support in testing protocols and if they
Speaker 1: improve to their satisfaction, then Michigan will play. Yes. The
Speaker 1: one thing that I keep coming back to that's just
Speaker 1: really difficult to get any kind of answers for is
Speaker 1: how can everybody else play but they can't? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody else in the state is playing football or soccer
Speaker 1: or what else is going on, but they can't. That's
Speaker 1: just a real tough one to explain away. And that's
Speaker 1: what I kept coming back to. High school football in Ohio,
Speaker 1: high school football in Michigan. They were playing pro football
Speaker 1: in those states were playing. That's what I didn't understand
Speaker 1: when it came to the Big Ten, and I thought
Speaker 1: that they let me go back to when they had
Speaker 1: this vote, and then I found out what the vote
Speaker 1: was and told you that Monday morning there were coaches
Speaker 1: and athletic directors who did not know what was going on,
Speaker 1: And I said, did you do everything? Did you exhaust
Speaker 1: every avenue to try to come back? And that was
Speaker 1: my criticism with the Big Ten. I don't think they did. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: in a funny way, it feels like this is gonna
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out how crazy we all are, just
Speaker 1: based off of how this football season goes because either
Speaker 1: what are we crazy? Why in the hell were we
Speaker 1: letting them play? Or you know how crazy were we
Speaker 1: that we didn't we considered not letting them play. I
Speaker 1: think that a lot of things have happened transpired since
Speaker 1: the Pac twelve and Big ten announced they were closing
Speaker 1: up shop. And I think it has a lot to
Speaker 1: do with testing and having this data available. And you know,
Speaker 1: yet ed Org you run at LSU's saying, I think
Speaker 1: our whole teams had COVID, like, okay, now we can
Speaker 1: start to play football here, Alabama, Clemson, the number of
Speaker 1: positive towns. But that happened what a month ago, maybe
Speaker 1: even longer, and gave them that opportunity. And now you're
Speaker 1: going to have football coming up in the SEC. You know,
Speaker 1: Big twelve is starting, ACC has already started as well.
Speaker 1: The Pac twelve probably not, but the Big ten is
Speaker 1: going to be ready for business. It looks like here
Speaker 1: on a Friday night. I don't know what the schedules are.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they decide who's playing whom. And
Speaker 1: it looks like there's an eight game schedule here and
Speaker 1: you know, do you have the final game of the
Speaker 1: regular season Ohio State in Michigan, Like, I don't know how,
Speaker 1: you know, they usually it's Thanksgiving, but you're stretching this
Speaker 1: out into December. Then you have the Big Ten title game.
Speaker 1: So that's the information as we have it right now. Yes, Poet,
Speaker 1: you know I can't wait for is a mid December
Speaker 1: bloodbath disagreement between SEC and the Big Ten. When a
Speaker 1: team like Ohio States eight no or seven and one,
Speaker 1: and then there's a team like let's say Georgia who
Speaker 1: plays ten games, not eight games, they play ten and
Speaker 1: they're nine and one, and the debate, well, well they
Speaker 1: played more games, their records better, but they're the third
Speaker 1: team in the SEC. Wait for that in mid December. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But what I was told is that Ohio State is hoping,
Speaker 1: according to my source, that they'll pass the look test,
Speaker 1: that they're not going to have the same number of
Speaker 1: games as the other conferences, but that the committee will
Speaker 1: look at Ohio State and say they look like a
Speaker 1: Final four team. That's what their hope is because they
Speaker 1: can only play so many games in this window, still
Speaker 1: play the Big Ten title game, and then get ready
Speaker 1: for the playoffs. Phone calls are welcome. Eight seven seven
Speaker 1: three D p show email address DP at dan Patrick
Speaker 1: dot com. I took the Clippers to task in the
Speaker 1: first hour because Paul George, after last night's loss, had
Speaker 1: this to say, It's obvious pressure, you know, to to
Speaker 1: live up to the title expectations. But as a player,
Speaker 1: I mean, you want that like you want that again.
Speaker 1: It's first time I've I've been in that situation where
Speaker 1: we're expected to win. But you know, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. Um, it's it's it's no cop out. Um.
Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is we didn't live up
Speaker 1: to that expectation. But I think internally we we we've
Speaker 1: always felt, um, this is not a championship or bus
Speaker 1: year for us. That's surprising. We'll check in with the
Speaker 1: Clippers coming up in about ten minutes from now. Because
Speaker 1: this season was a failure. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: things happened shut down, the season went into the bubble,
Speaker 1: but so did everybody else. And you can't tell me, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what the changing parts here on the roster
Speaker 1: you brought in Paul George. The Lakers turned over their
Speaker 1: roster to bring in Anthony Davis. I haven't heard any
Speaker 1: excuses out of the or chemistry issues with them. Of course,
Speaker 1: nobody went to get Chicken Wings out of the bubble either,
Speaker 1: But Kawhi and Paul George are one season away from
Speaker 1: having the option to enter free agency. That's why this
Speaker 1: was Championship or bust. Also, they gave up a really
Speaker 1: good player in Shay Giljis Alexander unprotected first round picks
Speaker 1: twenty two, twenty twenty four, twenty twenty six. They swapped
Speaker 1: picks with Oklahoma City twenty twenty three, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: and you're bringing in Kawai and Paul George. And then
Speaker 1: the Clippers traded away their twenty twenty first round pick
Speaker 1: for Marcus Morris, who soon to be a free agent. Yes,
Speaker 1: this was Championship or bust. And welcome to the bright lights,
Speaker 1: Paul George. It's not Oklahoma City, it's not Indiana. It's
Speaker 1: the bright lights. How about you make it to the
Speaker 1: conference finals? Maybe not championship or lost, how about Western
Speaker 1: Conference finals? Yes, my club, are we overrating like all
Speaker 1: this depth? Like I was looking at they're all second
Speaker 1: round picks who played in the G League except for
Speaker 1: Paul George, Like every single one of these guys, all
Speaker 1: the rushers, Zubos, Harold Ja, Michael Green, Lou Williams, Beverly
Speaker 1: journeymen and former g leaguers like they know the Lakers
Speaker 1: got Journeyman the Lakers too, I know which is but
Speaker 1: the Lakers have I would argue with Anthony Davis have
Speaker 1: are a little better. But we were talking about the
Speaker 1: Lakers chemistry a lot like when they first started the bubble.
Speaker 1: We're like, oh, I don't know, remember when Rondo was
Speaker 1: out and it was like there was some issues they had,
Speaker 1: Avery Bradley who didn't play Rondo was out and they
Speaker 1: held it together definitely. Yeah, See, it's weird that we
Speaker 1: keep going back to it in some ways anyway, But
Speaker 1: how important is Kuzma gonna be? Then he could end
Speaker 1: up being like the difference makers somehow we keep waiting,
Speaker 1: we keep waiting for him, and I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just don't know if he can be. You know, it's
Speaker 1: hard to find your spot with Lebron and certainly a
Speaker 1: d and I think Kuzma. When it wasn't Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: on the team, it was a little easier for these
Speaker 1: guys brandon Ingram to kind of find their spots there.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit tougher now, but I'm waiting for
Speaker 1: Kuzma to be a great player, well, a very good
Speaker 1: Blair player, maybe a consistent player, how about that? Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: would you who would you rather want? Who would you
Speaker 1: rather have on your team right now? Kyle Kuzmer, Tyler Hero?
Speaker 1: I probably take Tyler Hero. That's kind of the point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know Tyler Hero. We you have to watch
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat play. He's not afraid. You can shoot,
Speaker 1: he can defend. He's a good player. But you have
Speaker 1: to go out of your way to watch some of
Speaker 1: these teams. And that's what I loved about the Miami
Speaker 1: Heat because usually it's a seven o'clock game, and I
Speaker 1: got to watch them during the regular season, and they're
Speaker 1: a good team. And if they beat the Celtics, you
Speaker 1: should not be surprised. People were surprised when they beat
Speaker 1: the Bucks. I will not be surprised if they beat
Speaker 1: the Celtics they wanted in overtime. Last night, Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: hit a big shot. Bam Adebayo had a block for
Speaker 1: the Ages, and Miami picks up game one. Kemba Walker
Speaker 1: liability offensively and defensively. No NBA, no NFL, But you
Speaker 1: have sixteen baseball games coming up. But the big news
Speaker 1: this morning, the Big Ten will be playing Vincent and
Speaker 1: Wisconsin joining us today. Hi, Vincent, what do you have
Speaker 1: for me today? Thanks? Don listen. I live just southam Addison.
Speaker 1: Elementary schools, middle schools, colleges are all closing around our area,
Speaker 1: just several of them in the la past week. We
Speaker 1: aren't even a month into the school year, and I
Speaker 1: have a news currently a freshman at Wisconsin blocked in
Speaker 1: her dorm room, not able to go anywhere. There's reports
Speaker 1: of myam kurditis with this COVID nineteen. It just seems
Speaker 1: to me how many schools they are on half to
Speaker 1: close before we say, you know what this experiment of
Speaker 1: having kids come on tampas that have sailed because here
Speaker 1: in was it's not looking great, especially if you have
Speaker 1: kids that are doing, you know, trying to go back
Speaker 1: on campus and are now being told to go home.
Speaker 1: Whether it's at the like I said, elementary school level
Speaker 1: or college level. Yeah, this is gonna be a You're
Speaker 1: gonna know a whole lot in a couple of months.
Speaker 1: But these are football players. They're not students. They're football players.
Speaker 1: And don't confuse the two. Certainly not this year, because
Speaker 1: these presidents and chancellors and aletic directors have made it
Speaker 1: perfectly clear. You're not to read between the lines. These
Speaker 1: are football players, they're not students. They're coming back because
Speaker 1: they are big business and the Big Ten needs them.
Speaker 1: Dave in California, Hi, Dave, what do you have for me?
Speaker 1: You mentioned a couple of weeks ago that if some
Speaker 1: of the Big Ten teams set out, they wouldn't get
Speaker 1: a piece of the pie. And now everybody tell me
Speaker 1: back you think they're trying to preach their piece of
Speaker 1: pie by having more teams else, look for some of
Speaker 1: these smaller bowls you know, before the whole Yeah, so
Speaker 1: now you know all these all these chances or business
Speaker 1: people like you said, follow the money, and so that
Speaker 1: gives them more opportunity to get teams in these smaller bowls.
Speaker 1: If you follow the money, you're rarely wrong. Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 1: But this is about if somebody plays in the National
Speaker 1: Championship Game, the conference benefits bowl games. I'm told there's
Speaker 1: going to be bowl games this year. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many, but I'm told there's going to be bowl games.
Speaker 1: There's more revenue here. This is very transparent. This is
Speaker 1: a business deal. Everybody come back. We're going to roll
Speaker 1: the dice. We have rapid testing. We're gonna try this.
Speaker 1: Maybe we're gonna have the same approach as the sec
Speaker 1: acc in Big twelve, but we're going to play. But
Speaker 1: make no mistake about this. They're coming back because of
Speaker 1: the money. It's like I send my daughter to school.
Speaker 1: She's on campus and she doesn't go to class. Why
Speaker 1: this is about big business. This is a transaction of
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay even though you don't your child does
Speaker 1: not get the full college experience, but we want you
Speaker 1: on campus, so you're going to pony up the big
Speaker 1: ticket item there. This is business and these are professional
Speaker 1: football players who are going to go out there and
Speaker 1: play on Saturday. Make no mistake about it, because that
Speaker 1: with these chancellors, athletic directors, presidents are saying, we need
Speaker 1: you back, We need you back, go make us some money.
Speaker 1: Now we'll take a break. We'll check in with the Clippers.
Speaker 1: What is the next move for the Clippers in the offseason?
Speaker 1: Is Doc Rivers jobs safe. We'll have that for you
Speaker 1: coming up. Reggie Miller will join us coming up. In
Speaker 1: the final hour, the program more of your phone calls
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Speaker 1: calls coming up, mcleven, didn't we settle on our poll
Speaker 1: question today? Yeah? I have up which team is most
Speaker 1: likely to make the final four? Of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio
Speaker 1: State in Oklahoma. It's still Clemson, but actually Alabama just
Speaker 1: overtook Ohio State. It's a second place. No one's got Oklahoma. Okay,
Speaker 1: once again, if you're just joining us the Big Ten,
Speaker 1: they're all in. All fourteen are coming back to play
Speaker 1: football in the Big Ten. I don't know how they're
Speaker 1: going to do the schedule but it looks like eight
Speaker 1: games we're going to have a conference title game. There's
Speaker 1: a press conference going on right now, and I love
Speaker 1: to know what was happening behind the scenes, because my
Speaker 1: source has been telling me all along it was gonna
Speaker 1: get contentious. That story will eventually come out. I don't
Speaker 1: know if my source will have that, but I was
Speaker 1: told it was going to get ugly there because not
Speaker 1: everybody wanted to play, and some of these governors of
Speaker 1: these states didn't want their schools to play. From what
Speaker 1: I'm told, then you had the presidents and the chancellors
Speaker 1: involved in all that. But we'll let you know what
Speaker 1: we know when we know it. Dan, Wake, Oh, look
Speaker 1: who's back La times he covers the NBA also covers
Speaker 1: the Clippers, and you've got a smile on your face.
Speaker 1: But you might be the only person involved with the
Speaker 1: Clippers with a smile on your face. If I told
Speaker 1: you two weeks ago we'd be having this conversation today, Dan,
Speaker 1: what would you have said. I said, I've seen this
Speaker 1: movie before, Dan, is what I would say that I
Speaker 1: was there in twenty fifteen when they were up three
Speaker 1: one against the Rockets, and I've seen this team faced well,
Speaker 1: this organization be faced with success and kind of run
Speaker 1: in the opposite direction for whatever reason, whether something out
Speaker 1: of their control has happened, or you know, in this case,
Speaker 1: seemingly the pressure just got to them. And to see
Speaker 1: what happened three games in a row. To see this
Speaker 1: team below forty seven points worth the leads and elimination games,
Speaker 1: it is just stunning. It truly is. And then on
Speaker 1: top of it, to watch sort of the seemingly the
Speaker 1: collective of the NBA dance on their graves in the aftermath,
Speaker 1: and itself is almost another indictment. So it's a It's
Speaker 1: been a rough night for the Clippers, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: I mentioned this in the first hour, and you know
Speaker 1: better than I would, but it felt like these Clippers
Speaker 1: almost felt like they had won titles. You know, Kawhi
Speaker 1: had won a title and docketed one a title. It
Speaker 1: felt like the other guys acted like they had won
Speaker 1: a title before that. We somehow are on the easy
Speaker 1: pass at Disney World to get to the conference finals.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, I thought that they
Speaker 1: were in trouble against Dallas. I thought Dallas had the
Speaker 1: potential to upset them in the first round, nobody was
Speaker 1: heating any of that advice or warning. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you see these next two series here
Speaker 1: we love to point the finger here, where do you
Speaker 1: point the finger? First? Here on blame? Well, to me,
Speaker 1: it starts with the stars. Um that that's who the
Speaker 1: stuff falls on in the playoffs, and Kawhi Leonard and
Speaker 1: Paul George were nowhere near good enough last night. Um,
Speaker 1: I think you know, Kawhi Leonard looked really tentative. Late
Speaker 1: in the game, Paul George is wide open from the
Speaker 1: corner and shoots the three off the side of the backboard,
Speaker 1: a pretty pretty stunning moment. And then I think, you know,
Speaker 1: you you talk to these guys after the game, and
Speaker 1: you hear Paul George talking about process and talking about
Speaker 1: how you know it wasn't championship or bust in his
Speaker 1: mind internally that that's they knew that. And and look
Speaker 1: if if I'm the Clippers front office, and obviously only
Speaker 1: one team can win, right, but but it certainly was
Speaker 1: conference finals or bush you know, or NBA finals or
Speaker 1: bus like that. There, Dan, there is a twelve year
Speaker 1: old in America probably doing saying god knows what about
Speaker 1: the Clippers on Twitter that the Oklahoma City Thunder will
Speaker 1: be able to draft with the Clippers draft pick in
Speaker 1: six years. Right like that. That's how far down the
Speaker 1: line the Clippers that mortgage their future for this moment,
Speaker 1: and a lot of stuff has happened between when that
Speaker 1: trade was made and obviously last night. Um, there are
Speaker 1: excuses to be made all over the place. But I
Speaker 1: think ultimately, again, they had double digit leads in three
Speaker 1: straight elimination games, and they weren't able to close the door.
Speaker 1: And each time Dan they it was weird being in
Speaker 1: that building. Um, shooters talk about this stuff all the time.
Speaker 1: Were they talk were they were? They were sorry about that? Um, sorry,
Speaker 1: apologize it is not hot, it is not Sadly, it
Speaker 1: is not Paul George, m I apologize the I wish
Speaker 1: it was. What would you say to Paul George if
Speaker 1: that was him? I mean, I would, honestly, I would say,
Speaker 1: I would ask if we really believed what he said
Speaker 1: last night? You know, And because I think it's I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think he can right like that. That can't
Speaker 1: be really how he truly feels about this team. And
Speaker 1: I think, you know, hopefully I would try to out
Speaker 1: of him that you know, are you just searching for
Speaker 1: answers in this moment? Is that what this is about?
Speaker 1: Are you just looking for are you just looking for
Speaker 1: a reason to explain the unexplainable and for to not
Speaker 1: just be where the Clippers and like, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to work twice as hard to overcome the stuff just
Speaker 1: because of sort of the emotional baggage that comes with
Speaker 1: being a part of this franchise. I just wonder about
Speaker 1: the bright lights here because Kawhi has been in the
Speaker 1: bright lights. Nobody else has been in the bright lights.
Speaker 1: This is an Oklahoma city, this is an Indiana for
Speaker 1: Paul George, and it's not just on him. There are
Speaker 1: other guys that you know money. It got bright and
Speaker 1: it got hot, and they sort of fell apart here,
Speaker 1: And I don't want to lose sight of what Denver
Speaker 1: accomplished here because completely we knew they were going to
Speaker 1: be spent in game one, and I just didn't know
Speaker 1: how they would rally and down three to one, it
Speaker 1: almost felt like that's a let's just check out of
Speaker 1: the bubble and let's just go home. But they had
Speaker 1: more depth than the Clipper did, and they're star players
Speaker 1: in the last three games acted like stars, unlike we
Speaker 1: saw with the Clippers. Well, let's do this real quick,
Speaker 1: and I think I think you're onto something here, Dan
Speaker 1: Paul George last night. One of the things, another one
Speaker 1: of the things he said that I thought was really
Speaker 1: illuminating was that he's never been a favorite before. But
Speaker 1: this is somebody who's always been an underdog throughout his career.
Speaker 1: He's played for underdog franchises. He went to Fresno State
Speaker 1: right like that, essentially admitting that it took some use
Speaker 1: to it took some time, and maybe he wasn't quite
Speaker 1: used to having everybody's sort of gun for him, right
Speaker 1: and for him to be a part of that team.
Speaker 1: But you do, you're right. You look up and down
Speaker 1: this roster and you say, I mean, what has Patrick
Speaker 1: Beverley ever won in the NBA. He hasn't won anything.
Speaker 1: He hasn't played in that like the super high level
Speaker 1: of games. As Lou Williams or Mantras Harrell ever been
Speaker 1: in this situation, They have not, and they absolutely look
Speaker 1: like players that had not been in this situation. You
Speaker 1: have Blue Williams, one of the great scores of about
Speaker 1: the bench in league history, blowing layup after layup after layup.
Speaker 1: You know, it was it was at a certain point,
Speaker 1: it's it's almost cringing, you cringe stuff, and you see
Speaker 1: these guys and they have no idea what is happening
Speaker 1: to them? Um. And you know, so I do think
Speaker 1: that you're right that this, you know, the championship experience
Speaker 1: on this roster I think was overstated. Um. Certainly, it's
Speaker 1: easy to say that through the hindsight of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: and I just I feel like they've got a lot
Speaker 1: of really big decisions to make this summer or well,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this off season force I have it, um.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's a good question. You know, it's hard,
Speaker 1: it would be hard to say so definitively, I think, Um,
Speaker 1: it's something his voice within that organization, Dan is so valued. Um.
Speaker 1: He has carried them through some incredibly rocky waters and
Speaker 1: he has earned a lot of trust and a lot
Speaker 1: of credibility, um from Steve Bomber on down and in
Speaker 1: that organization. I mean, this is somebody who was essentially
Speaker 1: functionally demoted from a front from a front office position,
Speaker 1: only to do them his best coaching jobs. You know,
Speaker 1: with lesser talent this year though obviously, I mean he
Speaker 1: said it after the game. If it should be on,
Speaker 1: somebody should be at meum. I think he partly believes that.
Speaker 1: I think he also is partly just trying to protect
Speaker 1: his players. He's Dan Wayk. He covers the NBA and
Speaker 1: the Clippers for the LA Times. If you're the Lakers,
Speaker 1: how do you think Lebron is reacting to this? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think we have to wonder. I mean, they were.
Speaker 1: They were part of the dunk parade on Twitter last
Speaker 1: night too. Not necessarily a Lebron, but you know Jared
Speaker 1: Dudley is his tweeting, crying faith emojis and stuff like this,
Speaker 1: and I mean, again, I think it speaks to sort
Speaker 1: of your point that maybe the Clippers acted like a
Speaker 1: team that you know, had more on the trophy case
Speaker 1: than's actually there. He shouldn't be too excited though, because Denver.
Speaker 1: I mean, if what more evidence we need that Denver
Speaker 1: is a dangerous team than what we've seen in their
Speaker 1: last six elimination games, than what we've seen from Michael Malone,
Speaker 1: that what we've seen from Nicolai Yok, Like this beautiful
Speaker 1: glacier moving player. You know, it was just slow and devastating,
Speaker 1: and it's like throwing water polo passes. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: like this is this guy is like incredible. You have
Speaker 1: Jamal Murray who is playing as confidently as anybody in
Speaker 1: the and like yeah, and you mentioned some really good
Speaker 1: functional depth yea. And um it's it like to me
Speaker 1: like they shouldn't feel like that the you know, to
Speaker 1: to borrow one of your disney like the fast pass
Speaker 1: to the to the finals is there. Um, it's not Denver.
Speaker 1: We'll put up a fight. I just think that, um.
Speaker 1: And I think people around the league always felt that
Speaker 1: the team best equipped to beat the Lakers was the Clippers,
Speaker 1: and on top of the drama that we all wanted
Speaker 1: from the La versus LA series, uh, you know that
Speaker 1: it was also probably the best chance to knock Lebron
Speaker 1: James off. And at this point, I mean, it just
Speaker 1: seems like it seems like they're gonna have a pretty
Speaker 1: big advantage in the finals, and it feels like the
Speaker 1: other series is the consolation series with the Heat against
Speaker 1: the Celtics. But I've said to my audience the last
Speaker 1: when they we started the Milwaukee series, I said the
Speaker 1: Heat the Heat can beat the Bucks, make no mistake
Speaker 1: about it, and they're they're gaining that confidence there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they win this series, but if you're
Speaker 1: looking at a formidable opponent in the finals, who do
Speaker 1: you think is more formidable, the Celtics or the Heat?
Speaker 1: I mean, Boston I think matches up better talent wise,
Speaker 1: But but I do think there's something super special about
Speaker 1: what's happening in Miami or with Miami. Before the start
Speaker 1: of that Buck series, I asked my Budoser if he
Speaker 1: saw any parallels between this Heat team and last year's
Speaker 1: Raptors team, and he did, And I mean in terms
Speaker 1: of tough minded together. You know a star that can
Speaker 1: lift you up on both ends of the floor. You know,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler sort of in that Kawhi Leonard role. And
Speaker 1: I do think I just I wrote a story about
Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson earlier this week, and you know, it's funny
Speaker 1: you talk to these guys on this team. You've Duncan Robinson,
Speaker 1: a guy who before he's at Michigan has to go
Speaker 1: play a Division three school. You have Jimmy Butler who
Speaker 1: played at a community college. You have Jay Crowder who
Speaker 1: played at a community college. You have these guys that
Speaker 1: are used to playing in these empty buildings, doing whatever
Speaker 1: it takes to win, and it's funny. You just feel
Speaker 1: like they're sort of built for this. Dan. It really
Speaker 1: does feel like that the Heats fabric and their culture
Speaker 1: is almost exists specifically to be let's put you in
Speaker 1: the you know, this crazy position where you're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to see your family. You know, it's
Speaker 1: going to be all focused on basketball and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to buy a one hundred percent in Miami more
Speaker 1: than any other team. Seems like to be embracing that.
Speaker 1: Truly good to visit with you, Dan, And all right,
Speaker 1: how does this affect your mood? That the Clippers are
Speaker 1: out there? Like you? You cover them primarily, but how
Speaker 1: does it affect you of now you're covering who? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'll give you Lee be at Lakers. I'll
Speaker 1: be you know, doing obviously some Lakers stuff, like your stuff,
Speaker 1: and then I'll be there. You know, I think like everybody,
Speaker 1: I mean, I wanted to see that series, and that
Speaker 1: to me is part of this story. That and like
Speaker 1: the unfortunate part sort of about the Clippers story in
Speaker 1: general is that you know, the parallels to that twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen team and the situations up three one with if
Speaker 1: you remember that was they were going to play the
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors and those two teams hated each other
Speaker 1: and it was the one series that everybody wanted to see,
Speaker 1: and the Clippers didn't show up for that party, right,
Speaker 1: And it's just like you feel like you're you're you know,
Speaker 1: you're walking into the movie to see The Godfather and
Speaker 1: you end up with like Mickey blue Eyes or something instead, nice,
Speaker 1: nice timely references. I know, thank you Dan, great to
Speaker 1: talk to you. All right, good, that's Danik. He covers
Speaker 1: the NBA, the Clippers for the LA times. Have you
Speaker 1: ever watched me interview somebody? And then you go, who
Speaker 1: does she remind you of? And Dan looks like somebody.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's part of what is that show? Um?
Speaker 1: Not crime? Is it crime Unit? Like criminal Intent? Law
Speaker 1: and Order? Yeah, maybe criminal Intent. He looks a little
Speaker 1: bit like he could be Seaton's older brother or maybe
Speaker 1: a cousin or something. I don't know. I've just watching
Speaker 1: and I was going, he looks like somebody. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: just me. Yes, I've been scanning the Law and Order
Speaker 1: series for who Vincent? Yes, does he look a little
Speaker 1: like Vincent Denofrio or is that just me? I see it?
Speaker 1: I see it? Okay, Yeah, I got a note. He
Speaker 1: looks a little bit like Wags from Billions, maybe his
Speaker 1: younger brother. I don't know if that's a strap. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen Billions, but I'll take somebody at their word.
Speaker 1: By the way, Fritzie is um. He comes in sometimes
Speaker 1: and he plays the sports center anchor like if he
Speaker 1: was going to tease something. So he just walks around
Speaker 1: owned This morning and around eight o'clock, Fritzie went on
Speaker 1: his is as if he were a sports center anchor.
Speaker 1: This is what he would say. And you had some
Speaker 1: very funny ones. You uh want to recount those of
Speaker 1: the Jayson Tatum thought he had the game time done,
Speaker 1: but bam, that happened else. I had one I think
Speaker 1: I would joke related. I have to think about which
Speaker 1: one it was. It was something about the jokes on
Speaker 1: the Clippers. I gotta I don't remember what I said something,
Speaker 1: but I'm screwing this whole thing up. I thought it
Speaker 1: was funny at around eight o'clock. It's just not as funny.
Speaker 1: Two and a half hours later. You know what, It
Speaker 1: was funny when Todd was just naturally yeah. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: when it's set up to like like, hey, Todd's gonna
Speaker 1: do some sports center lines and now on the spot,
Speaker 1: because as sports center anchors, we'd always have those corny
Speaker 1: lines like that one line that you would have and
Speaker 1: you know that was one that you had, like bartender,
Speaker 1: somebody out to buy this guy drink? How to buy him? Yes,
Speaker 1: but Todd was in character as a sports center an
Speaker 1: and he had a great bam out of bio line.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to it. The first one
Speaker 1: was okay, yeah, that was the he did character for
Speaker 1: us at eight fifteen in the morning. Celtics thought they
Speaker 1: were gonna win, but bam that out of the heating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well the heat talking about the heat and in the heat.
Speaker 1: But you know that's a good point because Title isn't
Speaker 1: doing his impression that time. He was doing that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: what was it? It It was there was something about a
Speaker 1: line that I was gonna say. It was like something
Speaker 1: about a bam and then it was gonna be like
Speaker 1: and stuffing like that. Never mind, Todd, never mind, I'm bummed. Doune. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's thinks America. Yeah, something that was something joke with
Speaker 1: The joke was on the Clippers. Yeah, but imagine the
Speaker 1: audience here, like how they feel. You're bummed. I have
Speaker 1: to apologize. Hopefully they haven't changed stations at this year.
Speaker 1: Onion Bagel all over again. Lot setup in a bad place,
Speaker 1: damn in a bad place. H Rick and Iowa. Then
Speaker 1: we'll take a break. Hi, Rick, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Great? Rick? Love none of your program.
Speaker 1: I'm a truck driver and you guys talk like me
Speaker 1: and my sports fan buddy's in. I'm not around him.
Speaker 1: So you guys here like my buddies while I'm driving
Speaker 1: a truck. I'm heading normal right now. With winter a week.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you remember the song turned the page with
Speaker 1: Bob Seger. Seger you got it, buddy. Oh, they don't
Speaker 1: do what They'm all out there, you know, turn to
Speaker 1: page anyway, Just a couple couple playing dum Not to
Speaker 1: go political, but there's one guy that's smarting from ear
Speaker 1: to ear about the Big ten. Oh I know that,
Speaker 1: Oh I know that, I know that. Thank you, Rick. Yep,
Speaker 1: he said they were down to the one yard line,
Speaker 1: which they weren't. They weren't even in the red zone.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure that the President will take a victory
Speaker 1: lap today that the Big ten is coming back. A
Speaker 1: little Bob Seeger here that he said, Rod, It's gonna
Speaker 1: take a little while to get to the vocals. Here,
Speaker 1: here we go, Bobby's Seeger. He's so you can listen
Speaker 1: to the engine moaning at is one note song. You
Speaker 1: can think about the woman, Oh, the girl you knew
Speaker 1: the night before. I think this is his best song,
Speaker 1: but her thoughts will soon be wandering. Wait, they always you.
Speaker 1: I like Bob Seger. He's one of those American treasures. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. Yeah, man, that happened thanks to you.
Speaker 1: Don't feel much like thank you back, Just wish the truth.
Speaker 1: Canna take a break here, more phone calls coming up.
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller will join us, coming up next down. It
Speaker 1: turns out the joker was on the Clippers. Thank you, Todd,
Speaker 1: you're back. All you had to do is imitate Neil
Speaker 1: Everett or Stan Barrett. Our research is better than yours.
Speaker 1: You know what it was? I over set you up,
Speaker 1: That's what it was. Yeah, it's not the pressure like
Speaker 1: I did, like when I went on stage and bombed
Speaker 1: the over for it. It's like throwing on alley oop.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, which time did you go on stadium? It's
Speaker 1: like throwing an alley oop to a guy who can't jump.
Speaker 1: Pritzy's entertaining when nobody's watching, well, when you're not paying attention,
Speaker 1: he's funny, and then you'll go, oh, that's funny, Todd, Yes,
Speaker 1: I see. And I feel terrible because this morning he
Speaker 1: was cracking up. It was so funny, he was rolling,
Speaker 1: it was great. I hit him out of the parking
Speaker 1: batting practice and what's the game? Start looking again? All right,
Speaker 1: we're back out and the whiff. Take a break. Got
Speaker 1: a couple more items about the Big Ten. I'll have
Speaker 1: that for you coming up next year on The Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show. Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine
Speaker 1: until noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio,
Speaker 1: and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at
Speaker 1: FSR or stream us live on the Peacock app. More
Speaker 1: phone calls coming up. Barry Alvarez, former Wisconsin coach, I
Speaker 1: believe Athletic directors says the ninth week of the Big
Speaker 1: Ten season will not just be the Big Ten title game,
Speaker 1: but also second placed team in the East will play
Speaker 1: the second place team in the West, third versus third, etc, Etc. Etc. Yes, pall,
Speaker 1: does that mean, like many predicted years ago, that Rutgers
Speaker 1: would someday play on Big Ten Championship weekend, is actually correct?
Speaker 1: I'm good. Yes, technically, technically Rutgers is playing on Big
Speaker 1: Ten Championship weekend. Yes, still trying to get all that information.
Speaker 1: What else is going on? What else went on behind
Speaker 1: the scenes to get all of these presidents and chancellors
Speaker 1: on the same page. Truly remarkable, Not that they were
Speaker 1: going to play football, it was the number of schools
Speaker 1: that we're going to play football. By the way, I'm
Speaker 1: excited to announce something in conjunction with Amazon Music and IMDb.
Speaker 1: I have a new podcast that starts September twenty second.
Speaker 1: It's called That Scene, and I get to talk to
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell about that scene in Old School where he
Speaker 1: goes streaking, David Spade, that scene in the car and
Speaker 1: Tommy Boy, that scene with Peter Billingsley. He was Ralphie
Speaker 1: in a Christmas story where he's going to shoot his
Speaker 1: eye out. The first one is with Adam Sandler, where
Speaker 1: Samman talks about the infamous fight he had with the
Speaker 1: legendary game show host Bob Barker in Happy Gilmore. And
Speaker 1: the first episode will drop on September twenty second. That's
Speaker 1: with Amazon Music in conjunction with IMDb. So it's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. And got a chance to talk to
Speaker 1: Brian Cranston about the final scene in Breaking Bad. We
Speaker 1: spent about forty five minutes on that, but you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to have him about thirty minutes or less,
Speaker 1: and it's just talking about that one scene. But that
Speaker 1: is the name of the podcast, that scene with Amazon Music.
Speaker 1: All right, phone calls coming up here Tom and Ohio,
Speaker 1: Hey Tom, what do you have for me today? Hey,
Speaker 1: good morning, Dan. How are you doing today? Good sir.
Speaker 1: I just want to elaborate on what you said about
Speaker 1: Wolkee who he looks like him. If you watch the
Speaker 1: Charlie Brown Christmas right at the end where they sing
Speaker 1: Hart that Harold Angels sing, he looks at his mouth
Speaker 1: is shaped just exactly like those characters. Thank you, Tom.
Speaker 1: It's a little deeper than I preferred to go. Very
Speaker 1: specific do you think that he's watching Dan Wicki on
Speaker 1: you know, on TV on Peacock Going. His mouth looks
Speaker 1: just like those characters on Charlie Brown. Wow. Uh Jeff
Speaker 1: and Detroit. Hey Jeff, what you got for me today?
Speaker 1: What a thought? One time? Put chat row Listen. I'm
Speaker 1: seriously wondering as uh the La Clippers looking for Ned
Speaker 1: Nasty Buster and the Doris the waitress, because he's looking
Speaker 1: like groundhog Day around those parts. Man. Seriously, when you
Speaker 1: think about it, they can't be doing the same thing
Speaker 1: over and over again. And I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: this doc rivers sublimers, it's the cup. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I do have one question though, for you, Dad, Okay,
Speaker 1: does the heat does does the heat remind you come
Speaker 1: like the two thousand and three to two thousand and
Speaker 1: four Pistons where nobody kind of gave my charance and
Speaker 1: here they had count La to Champs already, And you
Speaker 1: have to have good chemistry. When I look at the
Speaker 1: those guys play, they played very very well together. Do
Speaker 1: you see that? I mean they got just as good
Speaker 1: as tals as anybody? Yeah, win it. I think that's
Speaker 1: an interesting comparison. Thank you, Jeff because they weren't the
Speaker 1: bad boy Pistons. You know, He's a different Pistons team,
Speaker 1: and we didn't look at them the same. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe you could say Jimmy Butler Chauncey Billips, but you know,
Speaker 1: they have a it's a good balanced team and they
Speaker 1: seem to compliment each other by the way they play.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds like I'm over selling the heat,
Speaker 1: but I just love watching good basketball. I like, you know,
Speaker 1: where people know what they're supposed to do. Gore and
Speaker 1: Drogitch has always been one of my favorite players, and
Speaker 1: he had a big game last night. Jimmy Butler hitting
Speaker 1: a big shot. Bam, auto bio. You're watching somebody grow
Speaker 1: into a star right in front of you. I love Ty,
Speaker 1: our hero. You're not afraid of anybody. Duncan Robinson is
Speaker 1: one of the great shooters in the game. Just a
Speaker 1: it's a fun team. They got some depth and Eric
Speaker 1: Spoelstra pat Riley have done a wonderful job here Chuck
Speaker 1: and North Carolina joining us. Hi, Chuck, what do you
Speaker 1: have for me today? Hey Dad? Good morning? Five to
Speaker 1: eleven a COVID plus twenty two forty. Here a couple
Speaker 1: of mock headlines, with all apologies to Fritzie. Well, the
Speaker 1: game seven last night. First one is Kwaiemea River. Leonard
Speaker 1: scores just fourteen points in decisive Game seven, It's Clippers
Speaker 1: blow three one series lead to the Nuggets. Okay, a
Speaker 1: little lengthy on the headline, but what else do you have?
Speaker 1: The second one by George? They did it. Nuggets come
Speaker 1: back from three one down and shot Highlie Town to
Speaker 1: duel Paul George and Kawhi Leonard in seven games to
Speaker 1: advance the West Finals once against all right, thank you? Yes,
Speaker 1: suck it, back Row, stuck it back Row? Yes, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: I don't think back Row should suck it. Fritzie dropped
Speaker 1: that Hawaimie a River in like twenty fourteen, multiple times.
Speaker 1: What does this amateur hour? Yeah? This is Chuck Jakin
Speaker 1: has shot at the thrown. I think people are looking
Speaker 1: at You're vulnerable on the mock headline thrown. Would you
Speaker 1: like to respond, Todd? The doc is out? No, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Yeah see, I'm still gonna say that
Speaker 1: back Road does not have to suck it off of
Speaker 1: those not off, not off Chuck's headlines. No, what's up?
Speaker 1: Doc not the Western Conference Finals. All right, that's that's rebounding.
Speaker 1: But it's because the first one was so bad. The
Speaker 1: jokers on the clip, no, no, no no, just flailing like
Speaker 1: trying to stay above water and he can't. He's like
Speaker 1: plus you can almost hear his brain working trying to
Speaker 1: come up with these headlines. Murray Murray, step right up
Speaker 1: and see the Clippers not go to the Western Conference Finals,
Speaker 1: are going, Oh my god, a little carnival barker. Harry,
Speaker 1: Harry stepped right up, Mary Mary Murray Murray like Jamal,
Speaker 1: but Murray Martin, Murray Murray, Why you bugging mur Why
Speaker 1: there you go. That's the one. I'll go with that one. Still,
Speaker 1: now shut up, doctors, No, no, you just can't help yourself.
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller will join us. Coming up Final hour, Dan
Speaker 1: and the Dan X and Fritzie. Remember leaving the bubble