WEBVTT - 06/14/21 DPS Best Of 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.160 Sports Radio. One of the great nicknames in NBA history. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:09.440 He is a three D. Dennis Scott, one of the 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.040 great deep shooters in NBA history. Part of Turners Sports 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:18.760 NBA analysts. Who who gave you that nickname? Three d? Uh? 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.720 Down in Orlando, Paul Porter, the PA announcer, We're playing 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.720 against the San Antonio Spurs in the preseason game. I 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.360 came down hit the three in a corner. He said, 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.639 great Scott. I said, well, that's what they called me, 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.000 a Georgia Tech. And I came down and get hit 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.120 another three, he said, Thinness Scott, and then I made 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.240 three three, And I think in a minute and a half, 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.559 who goes, wait a minute, three D. I kind of 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:48.159 looked over, I said, as the history. But when you 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.600 missed those shots in the game, did you ever get 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:54.800 somebody to say, oh, yeah, three D. Of course you 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:56.760 hit a You get that from a few fans on 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.400 the road, and you love it. But but but then 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.240 you've been on me a long time. All of us 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.640 great shoes in a mindset, if he missed two or three, 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.119 we always believe the next one's going in, all right, 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.560 let's look at some of this action here. How much 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.640 pressure is on Kevin Durant now, given Kyrie's availability and 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.039 ne James Harden. I don't know if it's pressure. I 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.760 don't know if it's desperation, because we all know now 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.560 if you're not healthy in the playoffs and you don't 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.840 have your best players, it's hard to beat people. And Durant, 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.160 we know how he wears his emotions on his sleeve, 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.360 so he's gonna try to do everything possible to try 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.520 to carry this team, which I think you need to 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.040 take a step back and empower his teammates around him 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.720 with leadership and say, hey, guys, I'm not going to 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.440 try to get sixty, Yes, maybe forty, but I need 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.560 to get ten fifteen assists like James Harden does. Get 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.480 you guys involved. Let's play good team defense and maybe 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.080 we can hold on to Kyrie or James Harden get healthy. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.480 What do you think of the Buck's defensive strategy? Are 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.320 they going over the top with their physicality here? No, 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.280 they're not. You have to take offensive players out of 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.280 their comfort zone. We know Kyle Reid's a great player, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.680 we know James Hardens a great player, we know Kady's 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.560 one of the best scores we ever see it. But 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.560 you have to be physical with them and take them 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.640 out of their comfort zone and take them and make 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.480 them do things they're not used to. Kevin Durant is 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.080 not used to. A guy named PJ. Tucker just all 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:23.000 in his face. He's smaller, but he's stronger, And that's 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.040 the physicality you're talking about. Dan, How do they let 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:31.639 Kevin Durant's bodyguard on the court? I think the whole 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:36.000 situation with the fans personal security, they're not on the 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.800 same page. Then I don't mind players having extra security. 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.880 They deserve it. I don't mind the arena's beefing up 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.800 extra security for the playoffs, but we all have to 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.160 be on the same page and know who is who. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.280 Come to find out, some people didn't know that that 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.120 was the rant security with that James Harden security. We 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:54.440 didn't know who it was. We just know was a 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.000 guy that was dressed up real big, trying to do 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.560 the right thing. But he didn't. I'm glad he didn't 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.000 go over. Did you ever have an incident like that 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.959 where somebody's on the floor and you don't know who 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.519 it is and why they're on the floor. It was 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.040 one time in Phoenix because you know, obviously playing with Shaq, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.600 everywhere we went something crazy would happen. And then this 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.520 you know this guy Ram Shack, Shack, I love you, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:20.880 and of course security said get out of here. Shack 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:25.600 was crazy. The stories I hear about Shack young Shack 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.440 at practice like he would he would run out with 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.000 just his shoes on. Is that? Is that true? Just 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:38.520 his shoes and his birthday suit. You're not gonna take 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:43.920 a charge from him. No, you're like, guy, I'm not 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.480 taking the jar of your birthday. Oh what a goofball? 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.600 Um should would you have tossed the joker? I would 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.560 have not have tossed the joker. I understand the rules. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.520 I understand what Adam Silver and the brain Trust is 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.680 trying to do is to keep the game come. But 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.240 we know the Joker was not trying to aim for 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.600 cam face. We know he was trying to do a 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.000 hard foul. If he gets the ball, gets the steel, 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.640 where where you go? Oh my god, great steel? About 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.280 the joker and he's trying to get back in the 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.440 ball game. It's an unfortunate situation. I don't want fans 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.800 to put a you know, a smear over his MVP 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.440 season off one little small instent that it wasn't that 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.440 serious in about opinion, Yeah, I think it was how 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:25.160 it looked though, Dennis. Yes, and he was frustrated. You 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.400 got his coach who's calling out his own teams, saying 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.480 they quit, and I think it's probably the joker is saying, 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.280 let me, let me try to make something happen. My 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.440 point is, you're the MVP. You can't be in a 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.960 position to all of a sudden to have a hard 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.320 foul on somebody. You can't risk that, and that's my 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.000 problem with it. And what I have tossed him? No, 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.120 but he put himself in a position where he got 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.080 tossed and I blamed him for that. Yeah. I think 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.839 that's a great learning the experience for him. Now he's 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.320 turned that corn to be a true superstar because the 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.280 last couple of years, so many people didn't want to 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.839 give him his flow, his flowers as we say, excuse me, 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.880 his roses as they stay why he live. But he's 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.919 proven he's the true superstar, the true MVP. He had 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.600 learned from his incident and move on and still be 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.919 a great player. If you watch him how about this. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.640 If you were just going to explain why the Joker 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.520 is so effective and nobody and somebody didn't see him, 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:23.640 how would you explain what he does? Because he can't jump, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:30.520 he's not quick, he's strong, he's got great eyes, great hands, 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.000 But how do you explain somebody who does what he does? 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.080 But there I said, the gaven know me a long time. 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.039 You know, back in the day when you come to 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.559 our game and it's just like now, music right, everyone 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.360 listening to music and get hyped up. Well, I tell people, 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.239 when you're watching the joker turned the music down because 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.520 the music is low. For him, it's between the ears. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.120 He understands where he wants to get on the floor, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.320 he knows the offense, he knows all four players were 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.960 on the floor, or where they liked the ball, where 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.440 they want to cut, and where they need the ball. 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.359 So the defense is, oh, you're gonna pressure up on me. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.320 I'll take my time and use my body, use my 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.760 methodical dribble and let my players cut. And if you 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.839 make a mistake on defense, I'll find it. And that's 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.000 the best way to explain it. Because to your point, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.960 he's not living on the rim. He's not sprinting down 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.400 the court, but the shots go in. He make smart passes, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.560 and he's always in the right spot on defense to 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.360 help his teammates. He's Dennis Scott Turners sports NBA analysts. 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.560 The coverage continues tonight on T and T Sixers, Hawks, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.880 and then it'll be Jazz and the Clippers. You know 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.160 what to expect out of the Clippers, Dennis, No, I don't, 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.960 because I was on that series with the Mavericks and 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.679 I saw what Luca Dodgers was doing too the Clippers, 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.520 so I was a little nervous for them, and I 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.799 was saying to myself, if the Dallas Mavericks front office 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.520 where it made a few better moves, they'd be in 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.240 the second round. They need another shooter or two to 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.320 make a few more shots, and the Clippers will be 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.240 on vacation. On the flip side of that, ty Lou, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.479 because we know he didn't panic, he went to Luke Canard, 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:08.960 and we always like Luke Canard, Luke, what are you doing? 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:10.920 He's not going to help you. Oh wait a minute, 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.880 three three three three energy, next thing, you know, the advance. 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.480 So with that being said, I agree with you. Earlier 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.680 before I came on. I don't know if Reggie Jackson 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:23.400 can continue to make shots because he is shooting the 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.320 blood out of the basketball. Very happy for him if 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:31.080 he can continue that along with playoff peak pandemic peak, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.120 that I think Clipper Nation could be excited possibly going forward. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.600 You have the seventy sixers in the Hawks and with 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.000 you know, Joe ellen bead Is, you know gonna be 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.800 He's gonna be limited a little bit, although it hadn't 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.760 really shown that much, but that that mentality that Trey 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.360 Young has, You're not You're not supposed to have that 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:57.080 at this age, but he's not afraid. No Dad. I 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.880 just love this generation. Very similar Devin book. What we're 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.240 saying that, oh, you gotta get in the playoffs, you 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.760 gotta lose around or you gotta be like we were 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.840 in the Lando you gotta get swept your first time 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.440 you go to the playoffs. These guys said, no, we 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.680 don't believe in that narrative. I want to win now. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.840 In the front office in Atlanta, in my opinion, has 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.760 done a better job putting better players around Trey Young 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.120 versus Dallas with Luca and that's why you see the 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.640 Hawks story sharing the basketball, like Donald Is shooting threes 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.920 and telling the crowd shoot, almost kicking his nose, all 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.640 that fun stuff. The Hawks have had this much fun 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.319 even when they won the sixty game a season. They'll 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.800 have more fun now back when they had sixty games. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.360 I mentioned this earlier about Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis has 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.160 to reinvest in his body the way Lebron has, because 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.400 I don't think Anthony Davis came into this season in 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:53.319 shape and it caught up to him. Do you see 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.080 a correlation between he's sort of always banged up and 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.320 I mean at this age, you're not supposed to be 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.520 as banged up as he is. So what would you have? 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:05.920 I would take a page right out of your your 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.720 you know locker made right there with Lebron. Like you said, well, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.920 I think Lebron spent one point five million dollars a 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.480 year between the nutritionists and the acupuncture and the training. 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.800 So yes, you have to do that at this point 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.400 in your career. And you may give him a pass 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.680 Lebron Miami or even dinner for a certain extent, because 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.560 all those guys were in the bubble deep into last season. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.440 They had to come right back. But bigger picture to 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.800 your narrative, No, a d they brought you there for 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.840 a reason. You're trying to extend Lebron's career a couple 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.840 of extra years. You have to be top notch, explain 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:46.960 to me. Chris Paul special, as Charles likes to say, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:48.679 and most people say, one of the best leaders that 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.319 ever put on a pair of tennis shoes. And I'm 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.760 just happy for him that this point in his career 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.280 that they staying healthy. Last night, I must admit, we're 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.320 all setting here saying to your up eight or nine, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.040 do you want to get him out of the game 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.360 before he bumps a pinky toe or pinky finger or something. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.360 But to Chris Paul's credit, He's like, no, leave me 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:11.839 in the game. I want to make sure we win 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.720 because I get a whole week off to continue all 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.920 the treatment I've been going through this playoffs to keep 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.960 my body right. But he's been on multiple teams here, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.600 So when he says after the game, hey, people thought 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.600 I was washed you know a year ago, Well yeah, 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.079 I mean, as great as he is, and he deserved 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.280 to be a top three MVP candidate, he hasn't won. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.360 And then you have Michael Malone the Nuggets head coach 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.640 who says he's arguably the best point guard of all time, 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.920 And I went, Michael, hey, did you ever see Magic? 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.120 I mean, there's no argument here, right right, No, I 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:53.040 agree with you. I think Michael Malone throughout the playoffs 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.440 that has admitted that sometimes his emotions gets the best 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.640 of him after games through his press conference. So we 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.080 both known Michael Malone a long time. I think he'd 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.480 wake up in the morning over a couple of coffee say, okay, guys, 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.559 I was a little in my feelings. We know Magic 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.679 still the best point guard ever lived. But okay, is 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.160 Chris Paul better than Russell Westbrook on the all time 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:20.920 list as a player? Yes? And stat numbers no, Because 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.839 we've seen Chris Paul go to multiple teams and make 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.520 the team better. And I think that's where the minutia 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:32.400 kind of confuses people. Are we talking about explosive Russell Westbrook? 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.280 Are we talking about better athletes Russell Westborough? Are we 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.560 talking about obviously the most triple doubles in our in 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.400 our era, Russell Westbrook? When we're talking about what Chris 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.720 Paul didn't, okay see with that young team and made 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.599 them better? Those are the things I think most of 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.359 us would give Chris Paul to not as an overall 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:55.160 better point guard, numbers Russell Westbrook point guard, Chris Paul 0:11:55.559 --> 0:12:00.160 better than John Stockton. Oh I still I still at 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.959 John Stocking. I mean, when you look at that assists record, 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.600 that alone, I don't think one of the few records 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.120 in sports. I don't think nobody get even though what 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.559 Russell's doing, I don't think nobody get Cerebal, the screen setting, 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.600 the leadership. And I think Dan, we're all trying to 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.000 figure out, is how come guys like John stock and 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.280 the car Malone of the world, with all the great play, 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.640 they don't have a ring. Now, I think that's to 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.440 this question we're going If Chris Paul gets a ring, 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:29.760 as we know in the media, his narrative will change 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.400 a whole lot. Nineteen ninety five Playoffs, you were with Orlando, 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.319 you beat the Bulls. Did you think you'd won the 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.959 championship by beating the Bulls because you went on or 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.640 you guys lost to the Rockets, But did that kind 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.439 of like we beat Jordan and now we got the 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.559 Rockets And you remember that same year, Dan, we had 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.160 Game seven at home against the Indiana Pacers, who had 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.880 just swept us the year before. So we had two 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.839 like like roller coach is like, yes, we just beat Mike. 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.400 Oh my goodness, we just beat Gradgi. Yes we got 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:03.079 the Rockets. Oh we beat them both times in the 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.280 regular season. We should be Okay, we're young, we're zoo 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:12.360 oh smack smack smack smacks. But you can say you 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.640 beat the Bulls in the playoffs there, Dennis. And when 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.520 the you know, the Jordan series came out, everyone's texting, oh, man, 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.160 you know, whenever beat the Bulls back in the day. Yeah, 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:27.120 we gotta got up a few weeks later, how mad 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:31.720 was Jordan after Orlando beat the Bulls? He was hot? 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.360 I mean it was. It was well known, you know 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.280 when Nick Adams, you know, made the comment, you know, 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:43.280 forty five knock back like twenty like no, but we 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.640 knew Mike was going to come back and change his 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.760 body right after come back from baseball. We knew that. 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.600 We know what type of competitor he was. And then 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.920 you got swept by the Bulls the next year. The 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.880 very next year was Rolling having a great year. I 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.079 think we're second in the East, and we're like, oh, 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:02.760 he's got that look at his eye. We've seen that look. 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.400 We've we've seen that. Yeah, that's a different look. And 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:09.760 I think Kobe had it. And I think watching Devin 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.800 Booker and the little stage with him and Lebron with 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:17.640 with with the jersey and Lebron was honest. Devin's different. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.600 Devin's ready. Devin's not just happy to be here. He's 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.880 not just happy to possibly get this new match contract. 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.920 He wants to win and be the next guy we 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.360 talk about every day. I was wondering about this, Dennis 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:38.200 Devin Booker owns the last game warn Jersey of Lebron 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.240 James wearing number twenty three because he's switching back to six. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.200 So this is can you imagine with all of these 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:48.280 prices for trading cards and memorabilia, what is the last 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.000 game warn Lebron Jersey where he had number twenty three 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.680 going to be worth ten years, fifteen years, twenty years. 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.600 Lebron stays healthy, stay say Lebron come back. We know 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.000 Lebron's gonna do whatever it gets body right and hopefully, 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.640 and I know Rod Flincoln, so I can go ahead 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.760 and say this for your far viewers. Pressure is on 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:15.960 Rod Lincoln now, you let Rondo go for Dennis Shrewder. 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.720 It didn't work. You let JaVale McGee and Dwight Howard walked, 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:24.240 You bought in Montrez, Harold and Dassoul. It did not work. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.320 Lebron is not twenty one anymore. As much as we 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.840 love what he's doing his age, we know father time 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.720 it's too undefeated. We just talked about a d take 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.720 care of his body. Rod the Lincoln has to put 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.400 the right vets in the right shot makers around both 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.000 of these guys. Otherwise Laker Nastion is gonna be in 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.400 trouble the next couple of years. Great to catch up 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.040 with you as always there, Dennis. Thanks for Jonius. Come on, 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.120 I got the phone call, I said, Dan, I said, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.520 no problem, bab I love my guy. Thank you, buddy. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.160 That's uh, Dennis Scott one of the few guests who's 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.800 a better shooter than me, the attorney sports NBA playoff coverage. 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.760 Can sen Us tonight on TNT with Sixers Hawks at 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:08.440 seven thirty, Jazz Clippers at ten thirty, He's likely better 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:12.120 than That's a major honor. Yeah, that's a hell of 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:16.360 a statement for you to make, um, Dennis Scott had 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:21.800 a beautiful shot, beautiful shot, sort of a Dell Curry 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:26.760 set shot, a little bit beautiful. If checking his notes 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.000 to see if you've ever said that before, I'm checking 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.120 better shooter than me has never been said in the 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.400 history of this show. Way you and I give it 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.760 to Reggie. I Reggie's a better shooter than No, he is. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.280 You didn't give it to ray Allen. I did, um. 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.280 I just questioned where the ball was on his hand. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.520 He told him he was doing it wrong. I think 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:50.800 that that's enough. I questioned ray Allen's form. That's all. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:56.080 That's great. If you could have seen the Danet's faces 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.200 when I said to ray Allen, because he I said, 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.000 hold the ball, and I always say, you know you 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.440 want it. Do you want to put a finger underneath 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.119 the ball on your hand so you could slip a 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.040 finger in there, and you want it on your fingertips? 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.399 And Ray put it there, and I said, the balls 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.840 on your palm. I said, you're holding it wrong, not 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.600 holding it weird, holding it oddly, holding it wrong, holding 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.800 it wrong, which means if he had done a different way, 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.760 he'd been a better shot. Yes, yes, yes, you know 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.280 you're doing that wrong. Yeah, And He's like, he's excuse me, 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.760 what what hey, DaVinci give me the paint press. I 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.600 gotta show you what you're doing. Yeah. Thanks for listening 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.880 to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.400 us live every weekday morning nine to noon Eastern or 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.320 six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.760 local station for The Dan Patrick Show at Fox Sports 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.600 Radio dot com, or stream us live every day on 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:47.600 the iHeartRadio app by searching f s R. You had 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.240 some tennis yesterday that I was watching and I was 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.880 kind of going in and out. You've got Djokovic who 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.160 won the French Open his nineteenth major, and that's one 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.760 the old time record that's currently shared by Roger Federer 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:07.040 and Rafa Nadal and Jokovic or Djokovic is thirty four 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.840 and has a great chance to surpass his two long 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.000 time foes. You know, we spent a lot of time 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.320 talking about Tiger Woods, chasing Jack Nicholas and that major, 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.840 but in America, men's tennis majors aren't a topic. That's 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.840 because none of the big three are American and we've 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.560 invested in Serena Williams. But it's a tricky record to 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:30.159 wrap your head around. Is Djokovic better than Pete Sampras 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:33.960 or Rod Labor or Bjorn Board. The sport they play 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.200 today is a whole lot different than it was thirty 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.919 or forty years ago. Health medicine allowed these players to 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:43.880 compete for a longer period of time, and the rackets 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.080 certainly help as well. We all know for sure that 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:51.640 Jokovic or Djokovic is an all time player and all 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.640 time athlete, no matter how much we do or don't 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.879 talk about tennis, and him also to be able to 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.240 do it in the era where you have Nadal and 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:07.280 Federer who have won thirty nine majors between them, and 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:13.840 then you get Djokovic, who, I mean, it's pretty incredible 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.040 that you're able to win. It'd be like if somebody 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:20.760 played in the Tiger Woods era and they won nine majors, 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.160 but they didn't, you know, because Tiger just dominated everybody. 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.480 These are two of the greatest players of all time. 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.280 You can make a case that Federer is the greatest 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:34.160 player of all time, but in his era, Djokovic has 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:41.920 nineteen Grand Slams. Having rivals helps didn't feel like Pete 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:47.960 Sampras had a rival there. Connors McEnroe bjorn Borg van Lendel. 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.480 You know, having that rivalry, that's what you want. Chris 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:55.440 Everett with Martina. I don't know if Serena's really had 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.400 a rival but to be able to have that rivalry 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.800 makes those victories stand and on even more. And you 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.639 have Nadal, who's the greatest clay court player of all time, 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:12.719 and you dust him off in four sets. Federer, to me, 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.840 is still the greatest player, although you could make a 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.439 case in a different era Rod Labor was the greatest 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.760 player of all time, but with what Federer and I 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:24.760 the reason why I go back to Federer is when 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.240 I asked Pete Sampras about this years ago, I said, 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.720 you know, what do you think of Federer? And he said, 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:35.760 he will attempt shots that I can't even think about, 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.600 Like I don't even have that in my imagination, and 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:42.719 he's he's attempting those shots and pulling those off. That 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:46.080 says an awful lot about you know, here's Sampras, with 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:49.199 what sixteen Grand Slam events, looking at Roger Federer and 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.480 just the fact that what he does, how he does it, 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.520 He's doing things that I wouldn't even think of doing. 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:59.879 As far as a shot there but Djokovic is incredible. 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:03.000 I mean really, that's it didn't look like he was 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.040 working up a sweat, and he always looks like he's 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.040 he's visiting a country club. He's going in to play 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:13.600 tennis at the club. You know, his shorts are perfectly starched, 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:16.920 increases in his shirt that he was wearing, his hair, 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.720 he doesn't look out of swords at all, whereas Nadal did. 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:24.800 Nadal looked like he had played, you know, ten sets. 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:30.000 But that's pretty impressive. That's nineteen majors. He's thirty four 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:35.199 years of age. But to have these three, that's remarkable. 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.120 Now you go back to boxing where you had Sugar Ray, 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:42.520 Tommy Hearns, you had marvelous Marvin Hagler, like to win 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.399 titles in that era because that's who you had to 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.640 go through. That's pretty incredible. Now they don't face each 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:51.440 other as many times as you do in tennis. But 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:57.359 what Djokovic did yesterday was pretty pretty impressive. Yeah, Pa, 0:21:57.560 --> 0:21:59.560 you're right about Djokovic. He doesn't seem to be a 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:02.119