1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:18,600 Speaker 1: Sports Radio. So welcome to the Dan Patrick Show. Mark Jackson, 3 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: who's a bigger breakout star than Jamal Murray? Would you 4 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: say that, Devin book who you know you're already given 5 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: him superstar him or will be a breakout saw? Then 6 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: he scores seventy points in a game. I thought we 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: were gonna be friends. No, no, we're always friends, but 8 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:39,160 Speaker 1: this is now friends act. I just slapped the floor. Mark. 9 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 1: I'm ready to play some defense here. I'm not used 10 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: to that from you need and be a playoff round 11 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: to the Celtics two games to none on the Raptors. Surprised. Yeah, 12 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: actually I really am. I really thought that, Sir Javaca 13 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: Marcus Aul former Defensive Player of the Year. These guys 14 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 1: are champions. I didn't think that day would be outplayed 15 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: by Robert Williams, Daniel Tye or even Grant Williams for 16 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: that matter. And Cething Bings have really gone a great job. 17 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,039 Speaker 1: It's a long series for Toronto Broadcasting from the Mercedes Man. 18 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: This is Dan Patrack made it to a Thursday. It's 19 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: our one, Dan and The Dan and Stan Patrick Show. 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: Glad to have you on board. We'll check in with 21 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: Chris Mannocks will join us from the bubble. We'll recap 22 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: what we saw last night. He'd go up two h 23 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: on the Bucks, Rockets close out the thunder, and we'll 24 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: look at the matchups here. You got Nuggets, Clippers coming 25 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: up tonight, Game one, Game three, Raptors in Celtics coming 26 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: up tonight. We'll say good morning to our listening audience, 27 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty two affiliates around the world on 28 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Also Peacock is our TV home. 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It ended in 37 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: an unspectacular fashion, controversial fashion, because Jimmy Butler, I guess 38 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: you could say lightly fouled with no time left in 39 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: a tie game, hit the free throws clinched to win. 40 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: So the Heat are up two games to none, but 41 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: maybe there was some karma because Milwaukee tied it. When 42 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: Chris Middleton was fouled on a three pointer, the officials 43 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: said that Goren Dragic entered his space. I disagreed with 44 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: the call. I thought both of those calls should have 45 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: been no call whatsoever. Social media was pretty brutal after 46 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: the game. But as frustrating as it was, it's great 47 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: that we get to watch basketball and we get to 48 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: complain about basketball and the officials. Now. Look, I want 49 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 1: the officials to get it right, and I feel bad 50 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: for the Bucks fans, but these are luxury problems for 51 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,239 Speaker 1: the casual fan who went months without games, and same 52 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: could be said for baseball and hockey. I can't wait 53 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: to go after NFL officials here from tonight. Complaining about 54 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: referees is an essential part of being a sports fan. 55 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: Did they ruin the Heat Bucks game? Maybe a little, 56 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: but at least there was an exciting, hard fought game 57 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:15,120 Speaker 1: for them to ruin. Here is some of the interviews 58 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: from after the game. Here's Jimmy Butler on the foul 59 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: at the end of the game. It was it was 60 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: an ISO going and made a hell of a pass 61 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: on Mboo and then just waiting for the clock to 62 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: go out step back jumper and I got fout pushed 63 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: me in the back. Can't deny that, and then I 64 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: knew I had to make one out of two, so 65 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: you know I ended up. I think I made both 66 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: of them and we went yep, here's the Greek freak 67 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: on that so called foul at the end of the game. 68 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: I haven't seen the play. I try to go was 69 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: to play again. I'm trying to make it tough for Jimmy. 70 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: You know that I've said that there was contact, that 71 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: maybe there was. I gotta wise to play, you know, 72 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: that's what it is, um try to put as a shot. 73 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: But he said there was a contact there, so he's 74 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: gotta I gotta ways to play. Yeah. I wanted to 75 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: see those be non calls because Chris Middleton jumps into 76 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: Goren Drag's space. And I thought Doris Burke was wonderful 77 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: last night because you know, I want somebody who was 78 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: an analyst. Maybe you don't agree with Steve Javy who 79 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: is your refereeing analyst, and she didn't agree with him, 80 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: and I like that because Steve Javey more than often, 81 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: you know he's going to be siding with the officials, 82 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,280 Speaker 1: and Doris Burke said, no, I don't agree with that. 83 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: And Chris Middleton is jumping forward on that three and 84 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: so Gorn Draggit is in his space. And then it 85 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: was a little touchy with Jimmy Butler with the Greek 86 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: freak going after the shot didn't get the shot. There 87 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: was a little bit of contact and Jimmy Butler sold it. 88 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: And then you start to wonder was that a makeup call? 89 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: Because maybe the Chris Middleton call shouldn't have been made. 90 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: Is the makeup call a good thing? Let's just say 91 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: that that was a makeup call. Is that a good thing? 92 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 1: What if they didn't do a makeup call? Because I 93 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 1: started to wonder, and I do believe that the officials 94 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: do have makeup calls. I do believe that, you know, 95 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: maybe somebody tells them or they get together and they're like, yeah, 96 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 1: you know what, I think. I think we missed that one. 97 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: But I didn't think that Chris Middleton deserve three free 98 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: throws there. I thought draw gets just put his hands up. 99 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 1: It's amazing, though, and you've seen this before where a 100 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: guy would just stand his ground and just put his 101 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: hands up and then the offensive player just charges into 102 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: him and draws the contact and then he gets the 103 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,080 Speaker 1: opportunity to go to the line. But came down to 104 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: the very end, so did the Rockets in the Thunder. 105 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: Who would have thought if I said, hey, by the way, 106 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: James Harden's defense is going to help the Rockets advanced 107 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 1: to face the Lakers. He wasn't good offensively, but they 108 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: got a lot of help from other players, and that's 109 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:01,719 Speaker 1: going to be essential as you you know, go into 110 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: this series against the Lakers. It can't be just hardened 111 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: in Westbrook. If you think you're going to advance, you 112 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: need help from everybody on that bench, everybody else in 113 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,799 Speaker 1: that starting lineup. But the Rockets close out the Thunder. 114 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: Here's James Harden on his defense at the end of 115 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 1: the game. I've been locked in, you know, obviously, just 116 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: all year long, trying to be better on that side 117 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: of the ball, and tonight was a US emphasis on it, 118 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: and so came up with the big blocks to win 119 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: a game. And I just thought, I've been to be 120 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 1: engaged as much as possible offensively. Had a rough shooting night, 121 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 1: you know, turn the ball over a little bit too much, 122 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: but trying to follow the ways to impact the game, 123 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:40,919 Speaker 1: and you know, came up with a huge block to 124 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: end of the game, one of nine from three point range. 125 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: And if I would have told you he's going one 126 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: of nine from three point range, who do you think 127 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: is gonna win? Probably would have gone with OKAC. Chris 128 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 1: Paul played wonderfully in this series. And this is his 129 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: comment after the game. Oh no, man, that's a tough one. 130 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:05,280 Speaker 1: It's tough. We fought hard all year. Obviously a lot 131 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: of people doubted us, but we didn't doubt ourselves. We 132 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: didn't give a damn about anybody's predictions going into any series, 133 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: in any game, we expected to win. All right. So 134 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: the thunder go home and they certainly, you know, put 135 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: up a great fight there to go against the Rockets, 136 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 1: going toe to toe with them, and it came down 137 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: to the very end. But the Rockets to advance. They 138 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: play the Lakers starting Friday. Yes, Bony, Chris Paul said, 139 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: a lot of people doubted us. Don't you have to 140 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: say that after you advance, they're they're out. We doubted them, 141 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: and we were correct. They're no longer in the playoffs, 142 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: you guys, drop. Nobody bought into us. Nobody believed in us. 143 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: Everyone doubted us. After you advance unexpectedly, Chris. So if 144 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 1: the Rockets say you doubted us, right and they advanced right, 145 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: Well what if he'd say, you know, man, a lot 146 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: of people doubted us. Turns out they were right. You're out. 147 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: Really hope we're better next time, Like the Miami Heat 148 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 1: if they knock off the Bucks can say a lot 149 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: of people doubted us. Yeah, yeah, no one saw this coming. 150 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: You're at home. Well yet the other part of this, 151 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: and I wanted to look at the Greek freak and say, 152 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 1: all right, how are they using him? And are they 153 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: using him differently than they did during the regular season. 154 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: During the regular season, you know, he's probably thirty one 155 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: minutes a night. There were a lot of times they 156 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: blew out teams, and I thought, well, okay, you're managing 157 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: his minutes. So when you get to the postseason, he's 158 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: not exhausted. He looks exhausted. After two games, he's thirty 159 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: six minutes. He's got to play forty two I mean, 160 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: I gotta have him out there. This is your season 161 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: is on the line. I gotta have him play forty 162 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: two minutes. I mean, I can't take him out, and 163 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: now you're down two games to none. Now he's going 164 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: to be playing forty two minutes. He better forty minutes. 165 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: Gotta get him out there. And the thing that he 166 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: still has to work on is he has to have 167 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: a signature move. He has this he can go from, 168 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: and if you don't let him get out in transition, 169 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 1: then you're gonna severely limit him. And I think what 170 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: has happened in this series with Miami, they've done a 171 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: really good job of trying to make this more of 172 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: a half court game the best they can, because if 173 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: Milwaukee gets out and runs, they're really really dangerous and 174 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: they're gonna win. But Miami's done a really good job there. 175 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: I gotta have the Greek Freak play, but his offseason 176 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: should be I have to come up with a signature 177 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: go to move in a half court offense, and I 178 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: don't know what that is, but he needs help. And 179 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: Richard Jefferson last night sent out a tweet former NBA 180 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: player saying, all right, I'm gonna say it, Greek freak 181 00:09:55,480 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: is Scottie Pippen. He needs a Michael Jordan. He needs 182 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: a one A. He's a one B. How many MVPs 183 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: are a one B not a one A. Does he 184 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 1: need help, yes, But would I say that he's Pippin 185 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: And then you're gonna try to I mean, good luck 186 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:22,439 Speaker 1: trying to find Jordan here. But if you can create 187 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: your own shot, then this is different. Then you become 188 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 1: the one A. But the defensive player of the year 189 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: in the end back to back MVPs is Scottie Pippen. 190 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: He's only twenty five, but I wouldn't say that he's 191 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: Scottie Pippen here. I just think that he has to 192 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: be able to come up with a signature move. It's 193 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 1: similar to Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis is not that alpha. 194 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:56,559 Speaker 1: He was the Greek freak before the Greek freak. Now 195 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,080 Speaker 1: you got a six eleven guy who can shoot and 196 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: run the floor, play defense, but having that signature move 197 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: and being able to carry a team. And I think 198 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: that's going to be the big concern for Milwaukee in 199 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 1: the offseason. What do you do with that lineup to 200 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: help him? And you know this series isn't over, even 201 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: though they're down two games to none. Although I don't 202 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: know if anybody's taken the Bucks to win right now, 203 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: probably not but down two games to none, I got 204 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: to figure out a signature move. And you know, if 205 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: Milwaukee had Chris Paul, I think this much of Chris Paul, 206 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: I think Milwaukee would win the title. Like I really 207 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 1: think that having that point guard who is a great, 208 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: established smart point guard would help them out considerably because 209 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: the Greek free cast to do everything. Now he's a 210 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: point forward at times here and Chris Middleton, as good 211 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: as he is, he's not great. And I think, look 212 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: at these other teams. Lebron Is Anthony Davis. On a 213 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: bad night, they have each other, Harden in Westbrook on 214 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 1: a bad night, they have each other, Kawhi and Paul 215 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 1: George on a bad night, you can count on the other. 216 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: That's what you have to have. Dallas with Porzingis and Luca, Milwaukee, 217 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: it's not the same. Chris Middleton is good, but I 218 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 1: don't know if he'll ever be great. Yeah. See, is 219 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: Jannis more comparable to Kevin Garnett and that he's an 220 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: MVP caliber player but has to leave to get a title. Well, 221 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: the difference is that Garnette didn't have a good team 222 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: like he had Stephan Marbury in Minnesota and people thought 223 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,719 Speaker 1: boy that's a great inside outside duo. I don't know 224 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: if he ever had a good team. Didn't they go 225 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: to the Western Conference finals once? I think with Garnett, 226 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: But I just don't think they were Milwakey's had the 227 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: best record in the sport and they've been great. I 228 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,319 Speaker 1: just don't know. I think it was different with Minnesota. 229 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: Minnesota trading Okay, Kevin McHale and Danny Ainge former teammates, 230 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they pulled off that deal 231 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: to get Kevin Garnett to go to Boston, and he 232 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: was that missing piece they needed, that toughness and a great, 233 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: you know, two way player. I don't Greek Freaks different. 234 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: Greek Freak is a special player and will turn out 235 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: to be better than Kevin Garnett when it's all said 236 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: and done. Yeah. Point, It's a pretty solid comparison though, 237 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: because you look at the same age Garnette and Janis. 238 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: Garnett was averaging twenty four points, fourteen rebounds, five assists, 239 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: a steal and a half and two blocks. I mean, 240 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: he was doing everything. He was an MVP candidate and 241 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: he was going at the best to the second round 242 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: of the playoffs. It was all for nothing his first 243 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: eight years in the league. But he didn't have a 244 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 1: good team. No, it was they would always change players 245 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: around him, Like Milwaukee is the best team in the East. 246 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: During the regular season, it's just it's different basketball. You 247 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 1: get to the postseason, and that is I gotta have 248 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: my star player. Gregg Popovitch used to do this to 249 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: Tim Duncan. Go back when Tim Duncan was first with 250 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: the Spurs and they were in the playoffs. I'll bet 251 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:15,959 Speaker 1: you there are times when Tim Duncan was playing at 252 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: least forty minutes a night in the postseason. But that's 253 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: when I need you. During the postseason regular season, I 254 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 1: don't you can play thirty one minutes a night. This 255 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: is desperate times, desperate masers. I gotta have him plan 256 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: And I was really surprised with that last night. It's 257 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: thirty six minutes, but he looks gassed. Yeah, mclevn. So 258 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: are you ready for my MVP theory that they should 259 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: wait till after the playoffs? So you know, I was 260 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: watching Rustbrook at hard and last time, like these dudes 261 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: were MVP. That's unbelievable. These guys like Chris Mannocks see 262 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: those big stat lines and don't I don't know, well, 263 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: I don't know if we need to call out Mannox. 264 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: They're all THEBA writers were all all over Russell Westbrook 265 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: and Nanny lost in the first round. Yeah, Derek Novitski 266 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: back in the day won the MVP and went out 267 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: in the first round. Okay, So who are you voting 268 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: for for MV. Whoever wins between Lebron and Kawhi is 269 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: the MVP. Whoever wins that series. Yeah, but I they're 270 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: the true most valuable player and everyone knows that. Yeah, 271 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,960 Speaker 1: but Kawai doesn't play during the regular season, Like there's 272 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: value to playing during the regular season. But they don't 273 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: call it the regular season MVP. They call it the MVP. 274 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: I know. But we've had guys who win the MVP 275 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: because they're great in the finals, and it's not even 276 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: the MVP of the postseason. It's the MVP of the 277 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: NBA finals, right, Well, that award is different. I mean, 278 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: Andrea Goodala is not going to win the MVP. No, 279 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: but j if Lebron leads the Lakers or or Anthon 280 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: Davis to or Kawhi, they're really the true MVP. Probably, Yeah, 281 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: I mean, I'd have no problem if Lebron, if they 282 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: won the title and you wanted to give Lebron MVP, 283 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. Kawhi, He's not the season MVP. 284 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: He may turn out to be the postseason MVP again. 285 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: This program brought to you by legal Zoom. You can 286 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: start online. We are all faced with new challenges these days. 287 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: If you need legal help, count on legal zoom network 288 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: of independent attorneys. They provide advice when you need it, 289 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: and since legal Zoom is a law firm, you don't 290 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: have to leave your home. 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Yes, Fritzie is 310 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 1: so close to being looking like he's in good shape. 311 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 1: He needs, like I'm telling you, Fritzie, give me two months. 312 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: You got the arms, you got no shoulders whatsoever. You 313 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 1: need a little ad work. You're you're this close, man, 314 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 1: You're two months away from looking Jack got to get 315 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: that fifteen and twenty pounds off their waist and hips, 316 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: and then maybe we got something, some semblance of something. 317 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 1: I'm just happy if Todd drinks a lot of water 318 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 1: and takes a walk every day, and I've definitely been 319 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 1: doing that. Yeah, and you lost weight, but you mix 320 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: that with four bagels and mountain. He didn't have four bagels. 321 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: Have that man doing quite a while? I did have 322 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 1: one bagel, but then you put in pizza so I 323 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: had you don't have to eat it. It was like 324 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: beckoning me to try beckoning. You were making a big 325 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,720 Speaker 1: deal about this great pizza boy. Let you sit beckoning. 326 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 1: All right, let me take a break here, we'll come back. 327 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: We'll settle on a poll question. We got a few 328 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: of them here, and then Chris Mannox will join us. 329 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: It's eighteen after the hour. 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I was talking 357 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: about Tim Duncan and the number of minutes that he played, 358 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 1: and I said, if you go back and look at 359 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: his career, early in his career, because the Greek freak 360 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: has got to play at least forty minutes. I mean 361 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: this playoff time, big boys playing big minutes. Here's Duncan's 362 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,640 Speaker 1: minutes forty one forty three forty forty two forty two 363 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: forty that's his first what's six postseason years. He's playing 364 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: over forty minutes for Greg Popovitch and the Spurs. I 365 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 1: don't know why they're still limiting the minutes of the 366 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: Greek freak. They did it during the regular season, probably 367 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: because they were winning games by large margins. And you know, 368 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: you're probably having him pace himself so he doesn't get tired. 369 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: He looked exhausted last night. Before we get to Chris Mannox, 370 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 1: what kind of pull question you have, McLevin. Okay, we 371 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: got a couple of options we could hit that topic 372 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: that we hit in the first segment. Is a makeup 373 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: call a good thing? Yes or no? Okay? Well, and 374 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: we're looking at the call on Drag. I didn't I 375 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 1: wouldn't have called a foulon either one of those, yes, Polly. 376 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: But after the first bad call on Drag, yeah, we're 377 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 1: things made better for the results of the game by 378 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 1: the second bad call if you look, because if they 379 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: didn't make it, what would be talking about today. Let 380 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,640 Speaker 1: me let me start there with Chris Mannox, who joins 381 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: us now in the bubbles. We're's illustrated NBA senior writer. 382 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 1: Was that a makeup call on the Greek Freak with 383 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler. I don't know if it was a makeup call. 384 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: You can certainly argue that it was given. It was 385 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 1: the exact same referee that made that call, and you 386 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: can certainly defend the legality of the call, and I 387 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 1: think you will see that defended in the last two 388 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: minute report that comes out later this afternoon. But I mean, 389 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: those are two calls that I think you put your 390 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: whistle in your pocket in those situations. I mean, I 391 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,159 Speaker 1: understand on the first one, you've got to let a 392 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 1: guy land. This has been something the NBA's called consistently. 393 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: It dates back to when Kawhi Leonard got injured a 394 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 1: few years ago by stepping. I think it was as 395 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: Opportunia stepped underneath him. The NBA is very specific on 396 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: making that particular call. But the second one, I mean, 397 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: you had another referee, Dan right there, five feet away, 398 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 1: and he doesn't make the call. I just don't. I mean, 399 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 1: the makeup call is a very sensitive thing to NBA referees. 400 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: I think it was at twenty eleven when referee actually 401 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:03,199 Speaker 1: suit a reporter for tweeting about a makeup call, tweeting 402 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: he heard something about a makeup call. So this has 403 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 1: always been a sensitive topic, but certainly yeah, I think 404 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 1: it was Bill Spooner back in the day. You have 405 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: to look that up, but it was something the league 406 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 1: is very sensitive about. And I understand it that as 407 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: a shooter, when you go up, you'll see guys they 408 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:22,679 Speaker 1: used to just put their foot underneath you just to 409 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:25,359 Speaker 1: have you think of something other than taking that shot. 410 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,119 Speaker 1: Like now I got to worry about coming down. Chris 411 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: Middleton is jumping into Goren Dragic's space, so he's initiating that, 412 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: and that's why I wouldn't have given him the benefit 413 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 1: of the doubt there, and I wouldn't have called the 414 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: foul on the Greek freak. You know. I hated to 415 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: see it come down to something like that. But here 416 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: we are with the Miami Heat up two games to none. 417 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 1: How much trouble is Milwaukee in right now? Oh? It 418 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: enormous amount of trouble. I mean, look, they're they're all 419 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: sorts of advantages Miami has had in this series. But 420 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 1: I think Eric Spoelscher has been masterful in this series. 421 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: You watch these two games, and I've been there for him, 422 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 1: And it just seems like Miami is a step ahead 423 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: of Milwaukee on everything. They can anticipate what Milwaukee is 424 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: going to do offensively defensive that they're exploiting every weakness 425 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: that the Bucks have. Their shooters are playing with enormous confidence. 426 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler most of the time looks like the best 427 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 1: player on the floor. I'm with you, Dan, You've got 428 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,960 Speaker 1: to play Jannis forty plus minutes in these next few games. 429 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: What are you saving it for at this point? I 430 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 1: had a coach talk to me about something that it 431 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,239 Speaker 1: fits in this just the other day where we were 432 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 1: talking about Boston now. Boston's you know six and Ozo now, 433 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 1: And one of the things that coach said was like, 434 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 1: you know, the Celtics don't have great depth, but what 435 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: do you need great depth for in the playoffs? Like 436 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: in the regular season, depth is awesome, like you can 437 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: play you go nine, ten deep. In the playoffs, you 438 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,399 Speaker 1: really only need to go seven deep and play your 439 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: guys extended minutes to get wins. And the Bucks got 440 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: to throw their depth out the window and just play 441 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: their best guys as much as possible if they want 442 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: to have any hope of getting back in the series. 443 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,199 Speaker 1: Who's in more trouble the Raptors or the Bucks. I 444 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,920 Speaker 1: think the Bucks are only because I think the Raptors 445 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 1: have a certain mental toughness that developed last year that 446 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 1: will allow them to bounce back. And the Game two 447 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: was lost because Marcus Smart went berserk, Like how often 448 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: are you're really going to expect Marcus Smart that five 449 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 1: to three pointers in a three minute span. I mean, 450 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,959 Speaker 1: the Raptors weren't pretty much control there. So I think 451 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: their mental toughness that I think. You know, I've written 452 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 1: this a couple of times, like Kawhi Leonard has gone, 453 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,399 Speaker 1: but Kawhi Leonard is still there with the Raptors. He 454 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,239 Speaker 1: taught them a lot about how shake off losses and 455 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: just you know, put it aside and get back and 456 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: get out there playing. The question but the Raptors, though, 457 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: is when is Pascal siak I'm going to show up 458 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,359 Speaker 1: with this good thing he has? He has not been 459 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: the Siakam we saw pre pandemic in this restart, I 460 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: mean the regular the seating games. He shot the ball poorly. 461 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 1: He had I think only one game in the first 462 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,919 Speaker 1: round were shot better than forty three percent. I think 463 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: he had only what two points on free throws in 464 00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,680 Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of Game two. You know, Nick Nurse 465 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: has told me like this, this is the guy we 466 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: need to make plays for us in end of game situations. 467 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: You can have all the quality shooting you want with 468 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,679 Speaker 1: Lowry and Van Bleet and Anobi and all those guys, 469 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 1: at some point somebody's gonna make a shot for you. 470 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 1: And Siakam has been build as that guy. He hasn't 471 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 1: been that guy up at this point. Boss has got 472 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 1: like three of them that can make shots for you 473 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: in those situations. Siakam's the one guy Toronto has and 474 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: he hasn't done it yet. Rockets Thunder, the Rockets survive. 475 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: James Harden his defense helps the Rockets move on to 476 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: face the Lakers. What do you take? What's the takeaway 477 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: from Rockets Thunder? I tell you, sitting courtside last night, 478 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: like towards the end of the game, you could almost 479 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: like feel the sizzling hot Rockets takes like enveloping you 480 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: like people like Trey James Harden, like Dan Tony Spire, 481 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook and Russell Westbrook could have gone for forty 482 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: twenty and twenty. It would have been all his faults 483 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: in this game, like you could just feel the criticism 484 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 1: is boiling over. Okay, but if Bard hits that shot, though, Chris, 485 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 1: what are you saying today about the Rockets? I'm saying 486 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: it's I mean, look, yeah, I wrote half the column, 487 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: so I can go find it if people want. It's 488 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 1: just I have the hot taste too, Like it's right, 489 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 1: you should post the half the column you were writing. 490 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: If the Rockets lost last night, you right the top 491 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: or and filled up a quote. Probably Look, Mike D'Antoni 492 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 1: would have been gone off the door. You probably would 493 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: have had and you may still have a discussion about 494 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: Tredy James Harden down the line. I mean, if if 495 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: they had failed in the first round, and not just 496 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: failed in the first round, but failed in the first 497 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,080 Speaker 1: round to a team that they dumped their other star 498 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,720 Speaker 1: player on this past offseason. I mean, Chris Paul had 499 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 1: not to change the topic yet. But Chris Paul, I 500 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: mean you talked to people in the Oklahoma City organization 501 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 1: like Chris would ever admit it, but like he could 502 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: taste this, like he wanted this as bad as any 503 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,119 Speaker 1: series I think he's ever played it. And you know, 504 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,399 Speaker 1: I don't know what the ynamics between Paul and Harden, 505 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 1: you know, behind the scenes, but you know, at the 506 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: end of the game, Paul, you know, hugged Russell Westbrook 507 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: for a good five or six seconds. He basically tapped 508 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: James Harden on the on the side and the way 509 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,120 Speaker 1: out the door and said goodbye there. So there's there's 510 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: a strange dynamic there. The Rockets, though, you know, they 511 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 1: live to fight another day. But the franchise, I think 512 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 1: it would have been shaken up significantly. I think you 513 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,920 Speaker 1: would have seen at least one blockbuster deal. How could you, 514 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 1: James Harden, I mean you can trade anybody. How could 515 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: you trade Chris Paul? Like Chris Paul. Chris Paul is 516 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 1: at the end of his career. No, but like what 517 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: you said, I mean, I'm saying like you might be 518 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: asking a different questions, Like I'm saying, how do you 519 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: trade a guy with that big contract? You can trade 520 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: any kind of contract you want. I think there would 521 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,159 Speaker 1: be a market first, Okay, James Harden, I think it 522 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: would have been handful of teams out there. You can 523 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 1: always turn to the Knicks and ask them. All right, 524 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: let's look at the matchup for the Lakers here with 525 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: the Rockets, and I thought that the Rockets had the 526 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: higher ceiling. Uh, you know with the thunder and the 527 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,640 Speaker 1: Rockets the higher sea. You know, there are times when 528 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,919 Speaker 1: their basement is a lot lower. So I don't know 529 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: what we're going to get. The Lakers probably don't know 530 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: what they're going to get here. So how would you 531 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: handicap this matchup between these two? What it boils down 532 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: to for me is a lot of what the Lakers 533 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 1: Blazers first round series boiled down to, and that is 534 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: for the Rockets to have any chance of winning, you 535 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: have to have the most dominant performance ever by hardened Westbrook. 536 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: Like they have to average between them fifty five to 537 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: sixty points, ten to twenty assists, and they've got to shoot, 538 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: you know, thirty five plus percent from three and forty 539 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 1: five plus percent from the floor. I mean that's their 540 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 1: only advantage. I mean, the Rockets when they start Game 541 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: one tomorrow, like their tallest player might be like the 542 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: fourth tallest player on the Lakers. Like, it's going to 543 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: be such a weird dynamic out there with the super 544 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,960 Speaker 1: sized Lakers versus super small Rockets. And look, they have 545 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: won games. I think in the seeding games, Milwaukee out 546 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,400 Speaker 1: rebounded them by like thirty so they've won games where 547 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 1: they've been crushed on the boards. They've just had to 548 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: make threes at a historically high level. So they're probably 549 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: gonna put up between fifty and sixty threes per game 550 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: in this series. They've got to make thirty five forty 551 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: percent of them, and Harden and Westbrook have to be 552 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: a huge part of that. Nuggets, Clippers, what do you 553 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: expect out of this? I like the Clippers reasonably comfortably. 554 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: I've long believed, and I've said this I think to 555 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: you before the Clippers and the type of team that 556 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: is going to significantly improve every single game, because you 557 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 1: saw what they were in the seeding games, desperately trying 558 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 1: to get all nine of their rotation players on the floor. 559 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 1: Montrese Harold just got back for game one of that 560 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,280 Speaker 1: last series, and you saw them get progressively better. They 561 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 1: had their lapses, of course, Paul George stunk it up 562 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: in the first few games, and Luca Donson just went crazy, 563 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: and a couple of them. But I like what I saw. 564 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: I mean, kawhis playing at at a Kawai like level, 565 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: and I just think the way the matchups play out. 566 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: With Kawhi and Paul George able to match up with 567 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 1: Jamal Murray, They've got some bodies you can throw at 568 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: at Nicola Yokis as well. The Nuggets are gas too, Dan. 569 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 1: I mean I went to their practice yesterday and there 570 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 1: was open grumbling about how they have to turn around 571 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: after a seven game series and play the resty Clippers, 572 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 1: you know, thirty six hours later or whatever it was. 573 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: I just don't know how much the Nuggets is gonna 574 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: have left in the tank to play a team this 575 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: deep and this talented. Like La mcleven brought this up 576 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: about twenty minutes ago, and he said, you know, why 577 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 1: don't we wait until the end of the postseason to 578 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: name the MVP? I mean for just the MVP or 579 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: all the awards? I mean, where are we dividing the 580 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: line mcleven, Where are you dividing the line here? Why 581 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 1: not all the awards because some guys might not be 582 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: eligible Perloff, Like if you don't if you if you 583 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 1: have like the sixth man of the Year that's on 584 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: a team that didn't make the playoffs, are you going 585 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: to give a playoff team the benefit of four or 586 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: five more games for their guy to sway voters. I mean, 587 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 1: that's that's part of it. It's a regular season award. 588 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: I think, I think the awards process will survive if 589 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 1: the Washington Wizard six man gets robbed of an award, right, 590 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,719 Speaker 1: all right, well, brandon Ingram, brandon ing one most improved 591 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: player this year? I mean, what if they had the 592 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,240 Speaker 1: playoffs and bam Adebio, who came in second place, had 593 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 1: the benefit of you know, two rounds or three rounds 594 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: or whatever it was. And I think I can't give 595 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: brandon Ingram Most improved if you're I didn't either overall. No, no, no, 596 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: you can't be a lottery pick and be most improved player. 597 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 1: We disagree on a lot but on this one we 598 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: are in lockstep. Like it is insane to me when 599 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: I look at that voting. I look at that voting 600 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: and I see brandon Ingram and Luca don chich In 601 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,360 Speaker 1: like the top four. I mean, what are we doing here? 602 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: These are guys. There's one that was compared favorably to 603 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: Kevin Durant and one who in his rookie year was 604 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 1: being called like the next great international player, one of 605 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 1: the greatest international players of all time. For me, it's 606 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: bad at a bio. I voted for Davis Burton's second 607 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: because he came out of nowhere after being traded from 608 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: the Spurs, basically dumped onto the Wizards. He got there. 609 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 1: And then uh DeVante Graham, who was a second round 610 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: pick with Charlotte, Like he made a big flash this 611 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: year and that's that's what it should be. It's insane 612 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 1: to give top three picks. The most improved player is 613 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: Billy Donovan staying in Oklahoma City. This is going to 614 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 1: be one of the most interesting offseason questions because going 615 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: into that game last night, we were all kind of 616 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: fixated on Mike D'Antoni, right, would he be back with 617 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 1: the Rockets next year? Billy Donovan coached the last game 618 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: of his contract with Oklahoma City and Sam Presty, the 619 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 1: thunder GM and Donovan have not sat down and spoke. 620 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 1: Presty has been on record saying he wants Donovan to 621 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 1: come back. But I think what it comes down to 622 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: for Billy Donovan is what's the direction of this team? 623 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 1: Like this was kind of fools goal this year. It 624 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: might be the wrong phrase, but like nobody expected this 625 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: to happen with with Oklahoma City. I think Billy Donovan 626 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 1: wants to know what's the plan here. I mean, this 627 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 1: guy was brought in back in twenty fifteen to coach 628 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: a team headline by Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. Now 629 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: he's coaching a team without those two players, and it's 630 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: very much unclear what the thunder want to do. They 631 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,560 Speaker 1: want to tear this thing down and start a full rebuild, 632 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 1: that they want to build off some of these young 633 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: players and keep Chris Paul for the next couple of years. 634 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 1: I think Billy just wants some clarity on what this 635 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: team's future is going to look like over the next 636 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,680 Speaker 1: three or four years. But he would be he'd be 637 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: a very interesting, you know, coaching canon on the free 638 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 1: agent market, both for the pro ranks where there's a 639 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 1: few openings still, and even the college ranks. I mean, 640 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: he's one of the most successful college coaches of this century. 641 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 1: You know, he would be appealing to do. I think 642 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,800 Speaker 1: a lot of big time college programs. Well before I 643 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 1: let you go, we mentioned this earlier. Richard Jefferson, the 644 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: former NBA player now an analyst, said that Greek Freak 645 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: is basically Scottie Pippen, and he needs himself on Michael Jordan, 646 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,720 Speaker 1: which I thought there's there's not a bunch of Michael 647 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 1: Jordan's out there, So I'm not quite sure. In fairness 648 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: to Richard Jefferson, like, does he have a point here 649 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,440 Speaker 1: that the Greek freak is not your your alpha and 650 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 1: your one a guy? Not really? I mean I think that, 651 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 1: I think before you can make that type of assumption, 652 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 1: you have to get Yannis a running mate the equivalent 653 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,879 Speaker 1: of Scottie Pippen, don't you. I mean, you know, Chris 654 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 1: Middleton is a good player. You know, I had him 655 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,280 Speaker 1: Third Team All NBA this year at a guard spot. 656 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: But if you look at the top tier teams in 657 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 1: the NBA, there's a big gap between Jannis's number two 658 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,359 Speaker 1: and whether it's Lebron's number two or Kawi's number two. 659 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:38,759 Speaker 1: You know, some of these other You've got to I mean, 660 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,000 Speaker 1: I think this is going to turn out to be 661 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 1: more about Jannis's supporting cast than is anything else. If 662 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,840 Speaker 1: this team gets beat in the in the in the 663 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:49,960 Speaker 1: second round, I do I do think a lot of 664 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,439 Speaker 1: it's on Jannis. I mean, you can't turn the ball 665 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,840 Speaker 1: over like he did in game one, You've got to 666 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,400 Speaker 1: make plays and frankly, don't answer questions like, you know, 667 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,800 Speaker 1: if somebody asks you do you want to play every minute? 668 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 1: Don't say I'm gonna leave up to my coach. Say, 669 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,319 Speaker 1: you know, if you try taking me out of this game, 670 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,279 Speaker 1: you know what would Jordan do? What would Kobe do? 671 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,640 Speaker 1: It wouldn't let themselves be taken out of these typic games. 672 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 1: So I think, yeahs is gonna be a lot more 673 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,480 Speaker 1: assertive moving forward. But I mean it's a bit of 674 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: a stretch to call a guy. It's gonna be a 675 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 1: two time MVP, you know, a Scottie Pippo more than 676 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,279 Speaker 1: I Michael Jordan. Good stuff, Chris, you're doing okay in 677 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,719 Speaker 1: the bubble about my last few days here. Dan, I'm 678 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 1: getting out on Sunday, and I'm good with that. I'm good. Yeah, 679 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 1: you look you look like you're frazzled. Haggard might be rough, 680 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,759 Speaker 1: a little rough around the it's it is, like I mean, 681 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,439 Speaker 1: it's it's one of these experiences. And I'm gonna write 682 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 1: about this a little bit on Monday, like I wouldn't 683 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:46,840 Speaker 1: trade it for any of the world. It's been probably 684 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 1: the most meaningful professional experience of my life because if 685 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,200 Speaker 1: everything that's gone on and really being able to document 686 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 1: history down here as it's played out, both with you know, 687 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 1: competing in this COVID nineteen era and what happened with 688 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 1: the players in the aftermath of Jacob Blake shooting. But you, 689 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,719 Speaker 1: when you're down here, you commit all day, every day 690 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,920 Speaker 1: to the job. Like I'm up six thirty seven o'clock 691 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: every morning, I get back from games one thirty two 692 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 1: o'clock at night. It's every single day, and I don't 693 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 1: have a problem with it. But I wouldn't count on 694 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,520 Speaker 1: me surfacing for more than, you know, a couple of 695 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 1: hours for the next week or so. When I get 696 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,759 Speaker 1: out of here, Fritzie, don't call Mannix not Yeah, let him, 697 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:24,799 Speaker 1: let him kind of decompress. He likes my constant techs 698 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,719 Speaker 1: all hours of the Yeah, I'm sure he does. I'm 699 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,759 Speaker 1: sure he tell Paul, tell Paully to bring a couple, 700 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:31,799 Speaker 1: you know, little maple syrup over to Vermont. I'll be 701 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,200 Speaker 1: camped out up there for the next week. Call pack 702 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 1: a bud light. Oh I like it. Hey, that's that's 703 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,239 Speaker 1: a that's a Vermont beer bud light. Thanks, thank you. 704 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,760 Speaker 1: Chis thank you. Chris. All right, then, that's Chris Mannix 705 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,799 Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated NBA Senior writer. We'll come back. We'll give 706 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,319 Speaker 1: you our play of the day. Settle on a poll 707 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,279 Speaker 1: question back after this. Thanks for listening to The Dan 708 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 1: Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every 709 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 1: weekday morning nine until noon eastern six to nine Pacific 710 00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,640 Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio, and you can find us on 711 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,399 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app at fs are or stream us live 712 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 1: every day at YouTube dot com. Slash The Dan Patrick Show. 713 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 1: Oh my God, the place of the day. Play this 714 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:18,839 Speaker 1: is the playoff day. Check this out. Graphics from the stadcast. 715 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:23,319 Speaker 1: As another high flyball walloped towards center, Bradley goes to 716 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,359 Speaker 1: the wall. That's d Duvall has a free run. Home 717 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:31,640 Speaker 1: free run night. Another home run, Ford wall and Marcellos 718 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,960 Speaker 1: Whoda saying anything you can do, I can do better? Wow. 719 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:40,160 Speaker 1: Seven five may walloped. That's an underrated description. You walloped 720 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:44,600 Speaker 1: that ball. Duval and Osuna are the second teammates all 721 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,399 Speaker 1: time with three home run games back to back days, 722 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 1: joining Babe Ruth and Lou Garrig of the Yankees MLB 723 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:53,719 Speaker 1: on Fox with the call, and that's our play of 724 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,920 Speaker 1: the day brought to you by legal Zoom. You can 725 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,640 Speaker 1: start online network of independent attorneys can provide advice when 726 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,520 Speaker 1: you need at the most. And since legal Zoom isn't 727 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: a law firm, you don't have to leave your home. 728 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,879 Speaker 1: Is it legal zoom dot Com? Today? Before we get 729 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:11,160 Speaker 1: to our poll question today, mclovin says he has a 730 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:19,399 Speaker 1: WOJ bomb. Yes, okay, give us some hints here, okay, um, well, 731 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:20,880 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give you a big hint. It is 732 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:28,120 Speaker 1: somebody filled a coaching vacancy. Oh okay, Greg Popovich is 733 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,759 Speaker 1: going No, it's not pop related. Is it a Hall 734 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:36,479 Speaker 1: of Famer? Oh? I don't know. I let me check. 735 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,399 Speaker 1: I'm not sure this. Yes, I'm hearing yes in my ears. 736 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,000 Speaker 1: So a Hall of Famer as a coach or a 737 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,839 Speaker 1: player player player? Oh? Okay, so a Hall of Fame 738 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:59,200 Speaker 1: player is taking over a job. Yes, okay, what team, 739 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,160 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets? The Brooklyn Nets have hired a Hall of 740 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:07,640 Speaker 1: Fame basketball player that is obviously not Jacque Vaughn. Yeah, 741 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,600 Speaker 1: Jack Vaughan, although he's an amazing in Kansas. But no, okay, 742 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,120 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to give me another hint here. Okay, 743 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:19,000 Speaker 1: this one, this is exactly like normally you'd be adopt this. Uh. 744 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,799 Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you some weird hints. Okay, Uh, this 745 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:28,279 Speaker 1: dude loves soccer. Steve Nash is the next head coach 746 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 1: of the Brooklyn Nets. Yes, indeed, whoa Well they kept 747 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,640 Speaker 1: that quiet. He's already got the close for Brooklyn. Yeah, 748 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,759 Speaker 1: he is a hipster. I think he's got a place 749 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:47,440 Speaker 1: in Lower Manhattan. Our buddy Mannox has tweeted that he 750 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:51,000 Speaker 1: worked with Kevin Durant in Golden State as a sort 751 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,319 Speaker 1: of developmental coach, So he has a relationship with Durant. Okay, 752 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:59,160 Speaker 1: Chris says, I didn't know that Nash had aspirations to 753 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:04,360 Speaker 1: do that. Was it just the Brooklyn opportunity or was 754 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,160 Speaker 1: his name out there for other jobs? So I didn't 755 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,440 Speaker 1: know that. I've never seen it anywhere. Wow. Be interesting 756 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:15,480 Speaker 1: to see what he could do with Kyrie too. Yeah. 757 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,680 Speaker 1: I would have thought if he was gonna be a coach, 758 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,480 Speaker 1: he'd be a manager in the Premier League or something. 759 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:25,960 Speaker 1: Didn't he had Taughtenham. Well, he was doing like, uh 760 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,040 Speaker 1: like commentary for some of the games. Yeah, he was 761 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:31,080 Speaker 1: an analyst. Yeah, I didn't I didn't know what Steve 762 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,399 Speaker 1: I know that he was like a special scouder coach 763 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,600 Speaker 1: with the Golden State Warriors. Yeah, po is he gonna 764 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 1: wear a suit on the sidelines or skinny jeans and 765 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: like a rush T shirt. He doesn't strike me as 766 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,439 Speaker 1: a rush T shirt. He's part maybe an ironic rush 767 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,960 Speaker 1: T shirt. Yeah, Yeah, Paul, he's tried to claim he's 768 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,920 Speaker 1: Canadian and therefore he liked to rush. Not everybody in 769 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,600 Speaker 1: South Africa. He was born in South Africa, I think, 770 00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:00,440 Speaker 1: and then raised in Canada. Nobody who's Canadian and doesn't 771 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:04,200 Speaker 1: like rush. Is that that's a rule? Yeah, Canadian? You 772 00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,080 Speaker 1: have to like Canadian bands. Should be a law here. 773 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,520 Speaker 1: To get into Canada, they check your passport and has 774 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,239 Speaker 1: to say loves rush. A couple of phone calls, so 775 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,680 Speaker 1: Steve Nash is going to be the coach of the 776 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:22,640 Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets. Is a wojebon there, Daniel and California leads 777 00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:24,680 Speaker 1: us off this morning, Good morning, Daniel, what do you 778 00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:29,120 Speaker 1: have for me? Yeah? Good morning, dan Um. I know 779 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,120 Speaker 1: there's something you touched on the previous days and last 780 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,799 Speaker 1: week I couldn't get on, but he talked about Paul 781 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,840 Speaker 1: George dealing with I think he called the depression in 782 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,719 Speaker 1: the bubble, and Charles Barkley came on and kind of 783 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,360 Speaker 1: dismissed that a little bit. I agree with some of 784 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,040 Speaker 1: the us that he said, but not with that. I mean, 785 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,920 Speaker 1: and you touched on it, the fact that he's wealthy 786 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,680 Speaker 1: and a professional athing has nothing to do with depression. 787 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,560 Speaker 1: And you know, depression doesn't discriminate. And I'm good friends 788 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,880 Speaker 1: with former NFL player Shane McClellan, and I asked him 789 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,040 Speaker 1: if I could call any great about it. An article 790 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:06,479 Speaker 1: came out about Shay. He went to Boise State, first 791 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,080 Speaker 1: run draft pick with the Bears and then went on 792 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,960 Speaker 1: to play for the Patriots in the Super Bowl against Atlanta. 793 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,800 Speaker 1: She was a starting linebacker. And he speaks very openly 794 00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:20,600 Speaker 1: in this article in The Athletic about dealing with depression 795 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,960 Speaker 1: and anxiety post NFL. And I'm a good friend of his, 796 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,000 Speaker 1: I'm a coach of his and a new sport that 797 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,400 Speaker 1: he's gotten into and he just wants to get the 798 00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:30,960 Speaker 1: word out there. I think it's a great article. I 799 00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,879 Speaker 1: try to post it on your all right, Thank you, Daniel. Yeah. 800 00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:38,799 Speaker 1: I applaud these athletes who are willing to It is 801 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,359 Speaker 1: not easy to do that, but when you do it, 802 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,879 Speaker 1: you know that you're helping people. And what I went 803 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:50,360 Speaker 1: through and I said to my wife, I have to 804 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,799 Speaker 1: say what I'm gone through, and she said, if you 805 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,920 Speaker 1: help one person, and Kevin Love came out and said this, 806 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,239 Speaker 1: and if you help one person, who then helps one 807 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,640 Speaker 1: other person. They're so many people who suffer from this. 808 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:03,680 Speaker 1: And it used to be when I was younger, you 809 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,560 Speaker 1: had mental health issue, like there was something wrong with 810 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:10,320 Speaker 1: you mentally, like that was the label you had. And 811 00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,200 Speaker 1: there's people who have social anxiety. They are just so 812 00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,320 Speaker 1: many things that come up in your life and you 813 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:18,799 Speaker 1: don't know how to deal with him, and then you're 814 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,480 Speaker 1: afraid to tell anybody or talk to anybody. And that's 815 00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:26,120 Speaker 1: why when Paul George said it, I understand it. And 816 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,919 Speaker 1: especially when you're in the bubble and no family there 817 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,920 Speaker 1: and you're just doing this. That's the same thing every 818 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:37,240 Speaker 1: single day. And I understand that. Because I said something 819 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,319 Speaker 1: was wrong with Paul George, I didn't know if he 820 00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,200 Speaker 1: was injured. And then all of a sudden he said, look, 821 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,920 Speaker 1: I've been in a dark spot here, and then he 822 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:48,120 Speaker 1: came out and he played pretty well. Maybe it was 823 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,720 Speaker 1: just a moment there that he had. Maybe it's something 824 00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,560 Speaker 1: that he will have the rest of his life. But 825 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,160 Speaker 1: when you have these athletes who are willing to open 826 00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:00,360 Speaker 1: themselves up and say it can happen to me, it 827 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,600 Speaker 1: can happen to you. I got an update on the 828 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,000 Speaker 1: Big Ten and are they going to be playing football? 829 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:08,440 Speaker 1: Have that for you coming up at the top of 830 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,759 Speaker 1: the hour. More phone calls as well, and I'll look 831 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,800 Speaker 1: back on the great career of Tom Siever, passed away 832 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:15,799 Speaker 1: the age of seventy five. Back after this