WEBVTT - 06/23/21 DPS Hour 1 Tim Legler 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:08.119 Sports Radio. We made it to a Wednesday barely hour one. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.200 Come on in, stay awhile Dan and the Dan n 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.720 Stan Patrick Show say good morning to our radio and 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:16.480 TV partners. We'll talk some hoops with Tim Legler from 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.120 the Mother's Ship. Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez will stop 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.680 by as well. Hawks at the Bucks game one coming 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.640 up tonight. Suns beat the Clippers last night to go 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:31.680 up two games to none. We've been down this road 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.199 before with the Clippers. Can they do it again? How 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.200 many times can you keep going back to that, Well, hey, 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.520 we lose the first two games. Well, you're not gonna 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.720 have Kawhi Leonard anytime soon. This feels like a little 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:49.320 bit different O two hole for them. Eight seven seven 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.760 three D P Show Email address DP at Dan Patrick 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.560 dot com, Twitter handle a TP show. The Clippers raised 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:57.080 two O deficits in the first two rounds of the playoffs. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:02.760 But this certainly is different playing without Kawhire. You have 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.920 the Phoenix Suns. They didn't play well, Devin Booker didn't 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.560 play well. You don't have Chris Paul. Now, granted you 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.360 don't have Kawhi, but you got to steal one of 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.279 these games. And it came down to those who didn't, 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:20.319 and those who didn't came down to Paul George not 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.000 making a couple of free throws with seven seconds to go. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.200 He missed five of ten free throws. The rest of 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.919 the team missed one one of eight from three point range. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.959 As often or as much as we want to praise 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.520 Paul George and we have in these postseason games, this 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.600 is one of those where you have to be critical 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.839 of Paul George. This is your team, this is your stage. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.440 They need you. You have to be big, you have 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.280 to hit those shots. You gotta be clutch. You can't 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:53.600 rely on Kawai to bail you out. And last night 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.000 you had a chance to steal that. Give credit to 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.680 the Phoenix Suns because Monny Williams called a great play 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:05.080 nine tenths of a second to go and nine tenths 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:09.840 of a second to go, and Devin Booker was the decoy. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.000 He set the pick that allowed DeAndre Eton to score 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.120 the game winner at the buzzer. He didn't even know 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.560 if he had committed offensive goldtending. He didn't know what 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.720 the rule was. But you have Boogie Cousins who jumps 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.320 as well as I do on the inbounds pass, and 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.160 he's sort of shading to the other side of the court, 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.440 not realizing that there might be an alley oop, so 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.720 he doesn't really jump or can't jump that high. They 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.680 throw it up. It's a beautifully die. It's a beautifully 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.280 diagram play. Really was. I just want to know what 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.320 were the Clippers thinking the Sons were going to call. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.680 That's what I kept thinking. Okay, nine tenths of a second, 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:57.000 can Booker get a catch and shoot off balance deep? Yeah? 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.560 Probably so. But DeAndre eight, with a pick set for him, 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.360 went up Jay Crowder a perfect lob pass here and 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.160 here's DeAndre a eight and describing what happened at the 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.519 end of the game. Once I sat that first screaming camp, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.040 I said, I said, I try to set up Zoo 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.480 black to, you know, for book to have a good 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.880 angle whenever. And I believe once my fee touched the 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.600 paint where I can go off right, left, one, two, 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.280 not many people are going to be up there with me. 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.919 So that's why that's where I got confident at once 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.680 I really got that gap there, nobody bumped me or 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.079 you know, it was up man, you know that was it? 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.320 I love it. Not many people are going to be 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.880 up there where I am, but it was a beautifully 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.480 placed pass there and that's your difference. One oh four, 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.080 one h three. This program has brought to you by 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.840 Simply Safe, Simply Safe home Security. They've been saving people 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.040 last fifteen years. Simply Safe is always there. Somebody's always 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:52.920 there who has your back to keep you safe. Go 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.920 to simply safetan dot com, customize your system, get a 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.440 free security camera today, mclub and give me a poll 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.480 question to day. Okay, we're work shopping this still, but 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.800 I have a bet for these Suns Clippers series. I'll 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.440 give you. If the Suns win, you get one hundred 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.480 thousand dollars. If the Clippers come back and win the series, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.680 you have to lose a pinky, which is the Pauli's 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:18.280 favorite ways always. Okay, how confident are you that the 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:23.320 Suns have this wrapped up? I guess to be specific? 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.920 Which pinky? Can you pick? Which pinky? You know? If 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.080 you're right handed? Do you want to lose your pinky fingering? Yeah, 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.520 that's okay. There was also a discussion on you in 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.920 a tax free state like which you know a state 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.719 tax free state? Is one hundred thousand enough for a pinky? Well, yeah, 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.560 but you have great odds. You're up to nothing, and 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:45.159 Chris Paul's coming back. I think a millions too much. Okay, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.440 what are the poll questions do you have? Okay? Uh, 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.560 we thought we'd done with it now. I was hoping 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.200 there might have been something a little more. Five minutes 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.159 in is a little too early for that, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.800 all right, well sprit yet if you want to get 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.320 more ridiculous, let's get into this topic. Should the MLB 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.839 continue checking pictures the way they're doing? Now? All right, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.600 I'll get to that topic in a little bit here. 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:16.240 What else what's better TV? The NBA Draft lottery or 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:21.960 the NFL schedule release, In other words, shows about nothing 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.400 that was unintentionally funny last night. Because there are people 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.719 who really don't have much to do with the team, 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.640 or you don't care that they're there. Occasionally, you'll get 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:36.039 Kevin Love showed up one year, Kim Ali Juan was 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.520 there for the Rockets, Elgin Baylor was always there for 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.960 the Clippers. But for the most part, you're just going, 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.400 all right, it's a kind of a placeholder there, a 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.560 seat filler. Hey, would you show up at the lottery 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:54.240 and sit there and act enthusiastic? Hey, when they announced 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:59.279 that we have the sixth overall pick, look really excited there, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.840 because you had some people who were going, uh, is 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.000 this a good thing? Am I supposed to react? Here? 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:13.000 Did we get what we And then the camera will 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.159 focus on them and then they realize they're on camera 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:20.920 and then they go okay, yeah, yeah, Paul, you were 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:24.120 not entertained by Sacramento Kings general manager Monty McNair and 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.960 his not as much as I normally am. How about 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.960 the president of Basketball Operations, mister excitement Jeff Weltman of 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:34.479 the Magic, I was not as excited as I normally am. Oh, okay, yeah, 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.720 that's on you though, yes it might be well then yeah, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.520 well as a media oh he's you get him out 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.400 and get a couple of drinks in him. You remember, man, 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.599 he's got some loose lips there. Well, man, yeah, what 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.400 else you have? Another poll question? Is the NBA Draft 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.920 still relevant? I know that sounds harsh, but I see 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.119 the same five teams up there. I see the Orlando 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.320 Magic picking five every year, and everyone's getting a six 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.400 four swing guard that they had no idea about. Well, 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.960 it feels like those swing guards are around six six 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.760 or six seven now, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I think 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.920 they've grown. But it feels like every draft is basically 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.400 the same player, just from a different place in the 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.400 United States or a foreign country. And they come in 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.280 and you know, he's a six eight tweener. He can 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.240 play point. Uh, you know, he's got to work on 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.200 his three point shooting. It just feels like they sort 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.840 of had that profile for just about everybody there. Yes, 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:33.640 But don't you feel like there was sort of a 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.000 collective disappointment among maybe a handful of very talented young 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.760 athletes last night when they saw Detroit number well, only one. 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.600 I think Cade Cunningham out of Oklhoma State. He's probably 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:50.280 the one going. Where am I going? Oh dear, when's 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:55.760 the last time Detroit basketball was relevant? It's been a 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.600 long Prince Rip Hamilton, maybe it's been a long time. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:01.880 It's not like the other options were so great. Do 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.480 you want to be anything to do with the Houston 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:08.160 Rockets right now? I know they have a bad Yeah, 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.200 I think I would. Yeah, because you went the green light, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.760 that's why you But if you're Kate Cunningham, you played 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.080 at Oklahoma State, Now you're gonna play at Houston. You're 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.400 in a state no income tax. You got a team 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.880 that can be your team when you step in there. Yeah, 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.520 I guess I don't know if there were great options there, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.600 but it does feel like, you know, you're you're seeing 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:36.240 these schools and then you're not seeing the big schools, 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.679 the big names that we normally see, and then you're 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:44.520 seeing a G League team ignite and I think get 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.240 used to that. I think we're going to see more 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.280 of this where you know Nike's gonna have its own league, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.520 You're you're just gonna players are going to decide, Hey, 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.520 you know, I can go to the G League, get paid, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.440 get developed, be a professional, play against pros, guys who 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.520 have been in the league, and then I can be 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.439 a lottery pick. And it feels like that's sort of 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.959 where we're headed. It feels like there's more players who 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.440 will look at that option, whereas before we thought, oh, 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:15.439 you're gonna disappear. You know, LaMelo Ball, he went overseas, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.599 he played in Australia and what Lithuania came back. He 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.280 didn't miss a beat I think if you can play, 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:26.280 you can play. I think we look at Oh, you're 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.920 gonna miss out on being on national TV. You're gonna 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.800 go to Kentucky or Duke or North Carolina. You get 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.640 to play on national TV. But look at the I 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:40.000 found this interesting though. Jalen Suggs played for Gonzaga. He 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:45.840 was wonderful this year. But his social media following. What 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.400 are the numbers on his social media? Seaton, do you 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:54.119 have those Jalen Suggs. Yeah, his Instagram, he's got about 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:58.760 four hundred and fifty six thousand followers. Okay, so after 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.559 a run in the tournament, they were gonna go undefeated, 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.800 We're gonna win a national title. He was a great story. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:10.280 Former quarterback in high school and a big time recruiter. 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:16.040 Goes to Gonzaga. Who has the most followers social media 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.760 was of the potential lottery picks. Well, if you look 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.959 at we'll just say the other Jalen Jalen Green. He's 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.880 got one point two million and he went to the 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.640 G League, right right, he actually has Jalen Ramsey only 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.200 has well, not only but has one point one million, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.960 So he actually has more followers than Jalen Ramsey. Does 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.600 on Instagram. Yeah, my club. They're high school guys right 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.080 who have gigantic following. Yeah, I mean the biggest point, 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.840 does Brownie count or is that a different that's different? Yeah, 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:47.920 like he inherited his father's following. But yeah, I think 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:49.440 Seton had a great You don't need to go to 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.960 college to get your profile up anymore. No, you don't, 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.400 and we think that you have to. Zion could have. 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.160 His profile was huge when he was in high school. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.880 It's because social media, if it's Instagram, Ram or TikTok, 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.520 you know, that's what they're capitalizing on. And you know 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.120 these athletes, if they do go to college, are going 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.800 to be they're going to be using those those social 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.240 media platforms to be able to make a lot of money. Yeah, McLeman. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.600 One disappointment I had last night that I have no 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.200 idea if it's even true that the Warriors got the 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.560 number seven pick. I was like, Oh, wouldn't it be 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.080 cool if the Warriors could have added a top two 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.600 or three pick, although it might have been protected because 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.920 it was a trade, but that was a one team 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.079 I saw last night that I was like, oh, man, 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.440 they could be exciting. Are they building something? They have 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:38.920 seven and fourteen James Wiseman. Curry, you're kind of bullish 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.600 on the Warriors. Well, with Clay, I thought that they 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.200 could compete for the title this year. Can they rebuild 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.160 to the point where they were at some point? Well, 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.120 you got your window. It looks like it's about three 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:54.360 years with Steph and Clay. How healthy is Clay going 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.920 to be the development of Wiseman? You know, they had 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.360 some players who stepped up with Golden State this year 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.880 and it wasn't necessarily a one man team with Steph, 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.640 but he did lead the league in scoring Yeampoli. But 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:08.000 then you look at the draft, there's a lot of 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.440 guys we don't know. Devin Booker. No one thought he'd 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.840 be a superstar. Nobody did. He was the fourth Kentucky 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.440 player taken in the twenty fifteen draft, Karl Anthony Towns, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:21.839 Trey Lyles, both Harrison brothers, Willie Cauley Stein. Yes, they 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.600 were all taken before they had I think seven or 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:29.200 eight players who got drafted or Booker didn't even start 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.880 for Kentucky, right, he was a thirteenth overall pick. Yeah, 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.480 nobody had him, but that's you know, Tim Legler is 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.280 going to join us. If you look at the draft, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.480 nobody thought Jannis could be this good. Nobody thought Kawhi 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.680 could be this good. Nobody thought the Joker could be 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.400 this good. Devin Booker. Devin Booker average ten points a 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.960 game at Kentucky is freshman year. Who's up top or 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.400 who you think is going to be good? There's always 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.840 going to be an outlier always, if not one, you 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.840 know two or three. And but to try to handicap that. 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.280 I want to talk to Tim Legler about that Legs 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.160 will join us. I want to know what he thought 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.360 the Clippers were thinking that final play was going to 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.480 be all about, because I do wonder it felt like 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.320 it was going to be a pick and pop for 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.200 Devin Booker in a quick shot with nine tenths of 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.480 a second. We'll take a break, just getting started here. 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.920 Glad you're part of the program. Back after this in 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:26.360 the Dan Patrick Show. Rockauto dot Com all the parts 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.000 your car, truck, whatever need. Rock Auto dot Com family 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.240 business founded by automotive engineers back in nineteen ninety nine. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.280 Two goals in mind. 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We'll have that for you coming up. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.240 Stay in your cars for that. Okay, settle on a 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.280 poll question. Play of the day's stat of the day. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.440 Here's ty Lou, the Clippers head coach, after the devastating 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.720 loss last night. That one get away. Yeah, that's how 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.840 we felt. But the conference, I mean, the compens of 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.040 his team has a waiver. You know. Gus said, all right, 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.000 we gotta go home now. And there wasn't disappeared. So 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.560 now I said, we fought hard, we played, played, you know, 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.440 do to win this game. I don't know if wasn't 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.400 it happens and we guys got to move on. You 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.800 ready for Game three. Clippers raised two O deficits the 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.400 first two rounds of the playoffs, but this when fields 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:21.360 a little bit different. Let's bring in the former Phoenix 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.720 Sun Tim Legler, the ESPN NBA reporter who joins US 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.640 analyst Sons Legend. How many games did you play for 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.520 the Phoenix Suns in your career? Oh? Not many. I 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.640 was there for two ten days my rookie year. That 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.800 was my very first taste of NBA basketball and my 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.800 very first NBA points on an assist from the great, 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.440 Kevin Johnson. I'm running the left wing and kJ had 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:47.160 the ball in the middle. He kicked it out to me. 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:50.280 I just got there that morning. I barely even knew 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.480 the guys on the team, and I heard Cotton Fitzsimmons 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:57.440 say Legler in that draw about you know. Late first quarter, 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.080 I stood up. I didn't know any of the play. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.960 I go to the court. One of the first trips, 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:04.720 I run the floor in the left wing after a 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.920 turnover and kJ hit me, I'll never forget it, Dan, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.880 I shot a jumper on the left baseline and it 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.200 came out of my hand. I knew pretty much immediately 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.760 was going in and kJ gave me a nice wink 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.520 and a point running back down the floor. That was 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.880 in my first two NBA points in a Phoenix Suns uniform. Nice. Nice. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.080 Let me start in reverse here at the end of 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:28.000 the game, what play do you think the Clippers thought 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.240 the Suns were going to run? I think there's no 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.440 question they're expecting Devin Booker to set some sort of 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.640 screen and then pop out, And that's really how they 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.160 defended it. If you look at Nicholas Patum, who they 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.200 put on Booker for a very specific reason because he's 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:48.360 six foot eight, he's long, and they figure point nine 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.040 he's not going to be able to put it down, 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.880 so he's gonna have to catch it and shoot it, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.000 so you want extra length on him. And when you 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.920 look at the wind, Booker set the screen, but Tom 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.560 isn't thinking about bumping at all on DeAndre eight. You know, 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.760 normally the screens two screens, screen being set with two 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.199 guys that don't have the ball, you're hoping that you're 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.960 going to get a bump by the defender of the 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.840 screener in this case, Buttom didn't happen because he was 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.199 so worried. If he bumps Booker pops to the corner, 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.159 he's not going to recover. So as a result, there's 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:23.960 nobody touching DeAndre Ayton and he basically gets that quick 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.840 free run to the rim and then boogie Cousins. Obviously 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:28.600 I've talked about a lot here. He's been he's lined 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:33.760 up improperly, he's got his shoulders square to the back. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.360 It's basically to antinue a mid court line, and as 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.120 a result, you're given Jay Crowder a direct sight line 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.520 to the rim. You know, six to eleven, you put 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.159 him on the ball for a reason, you cannot allow 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.720 Jay Crowder to see unimpeded a direct line where he 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.879 wants to throw the ball at the rim and boogie, 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.320 because he's just didn't do enough to impede his vision, 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.119 and as a result, it worked perfectly. Monty Williams never 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.680 could have a million years dreamed that was going to 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.040 work that way that easily when he drew that up. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.680 He's hoping, but there's no way he can have vision 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:09.000 all that going right. Aton didn't even know the goaltending rule. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:14.200 He thought he might have committed offensive goaltending there. Yeah right, 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:15.840 and I think a lot of people did. You could 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.439 see he was so sheepish. He dunked it and he 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.680 immediately looked around. If you don't reminded me of go 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:26.600 back to Lawrenzo Charles. Yeah right, he dunked it and 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.000 he didn't know he same thing, put his hands like 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.240 to the side, like you had committed a crime, and 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.840 he didn't want any evidence on the basketball. That's what 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.840 That's what Lorenzo Charles looked like, and that's exactly what 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.000 DeAndre Ayton looked like. And a lot of people were 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:41.920 debating it at first, and you know, just thinking about 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:45.520 the logic of it, because you can't score from out 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.639 of bounds where you're throwing the ball, you know it 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.040 has to be a pass in a game. The reason 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.919 that that could be considered offensive goaltending because you're not 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.200 sure if that's a shot or a past. Necessarily, in 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.240 this case, you know it's got to be a pass 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.399 because you can't throw it indirectly from out of bounce. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.480 Would you rather lose a game like that or get 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.920 blown out if you're the Clippers, I think that way. 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.080 I was just one of those people I hated getting 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.680 blown out. I mean, it never felt good to get 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.439 blown out. I think what they've got to hang their 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.160 hat on is what torond Lou said a couple things. First, 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.240 they did enough, They hung in there, it persevered enough 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.119 to have a chance to win the game. And you know, 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.400 I look at something no one's really talking about. Dan, 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:29.320 You're talking about bad luck, the three that Bridges took 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.840 right before that. Look at the way the ball caroms 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.560 off the rim. It's very bizarre from a corner three 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.120 point shot for that ball to hit the rim and 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:44.320 not project up into the air at all, because if 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:47.000 it does, the game is going to end no matter 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.320 who gets three bound instead, It's very strange. It hits 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.480 the rim and it like skirts sideways at such a 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:57.240 direct angle nobody can grab it. And it happened so 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.960 quickly it allowed them point nine. That's just bad luck 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:02.639 that that ball did that. If that ball kicks up 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:04.880 in the air, the game's over and it's one one 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:08.160 and they feel completely differently. But you said it, two 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.600 oh against this team is different than the two Oh's 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.359 Day have faced in the first two rounds. We praise 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:18.280 Paul George. We bury Paul George. This is your moment. 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.080 You don't have Kauai. You missed two big free throws, 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.800 you missed five free throws on the night, you go 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:29.560 one of eight from three point range. I mean, how 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:33.000 do you assess Paul George here in that performance last night? 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.040 Man oh man? You know, and I've been hard on 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.280 him over the years. You know, I go back and 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.879 going into this postseason, I go and look at the 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.760 way his seasons have ended for him personally. You know, 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:46.359 it's not just what happened last year against Denver going 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.320 four for sixteen. He had moments, you know, Okloma City 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.679 against Utah where he was so bad in that series. 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.160 To close that out about going back in Indiana series, 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:56.280 he had some games against Cleveland when he was playing 0:20:56.280 --> 0:21:00.920 in Indiana at key moments, like series defining moment. This, 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.880 He's been great. He really has been. He's been so consistent, 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:06.680 so good. He's had a couple of nights that he's 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:08.879 awful little bit, but for the most part, man, as 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:10.760 he stepped up and then he gets this moment, and 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.480 what's odd about it is, I just don't think that's 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:15.920 a choke job. I know he went to the line 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.679 one hundred and forty one times this year to shoot 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:22.119 two free throws and he did not healing this two once. 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:25.080 So it sounds like, yeah, that's a choke If you 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:27.640