WEBVTT - Finals start with a stinker; Lakers shock everyone with Dan Hurley rumors 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:14.160 On this episode of The Eat check Man. The Finals 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.479 are actually here. Game one is in the books. I 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.720 got some things to say the Lakers. The Lakers make, 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.240 or at least they're attempting to make, the most shocking 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.640 move chess move for a head coach probably in modern 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:34.800 NBA history. And we got some drama bruin in Minnesota, Anthony. 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.400 The finals are here. No time to waste my voice. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.760 I don't know where it's going, but it's not all 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.560 the way around yet. Let's jump right into it. Drop 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:59.920 that motherfucking beat should be rehonnered. Ooh, I fire up 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:05.199 Game one. Folenst in the book probably should have been better. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.880 I was hoping that this would be a more competitive 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:12.399 Game one. Celtics, of course run away with it. They 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:19.080 led by twenty nine at one point twenty nine, and 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:23.600 then the Luca experiment, the Luca magic came back, and 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:26.440 I thought maybe they were gonna stay you come back, 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:31.080 and they did not one seven eighty nine. Luca had 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:35.199 thirty and no one else did shit. Like nobody else 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:39.679 did a goddamn thing. Everyone on Boston eight like it 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:44.360 was Thanksgiving. Six players had ten or more points, including 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:49.960 all the starters. Holy fuck. Also Christaps porzingis Jesus Christ. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:55.000 Here are the three big takeaways. Where the fuck was 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.480 the Mavericks bench? I mean except for PJ. Washington. I 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.320 mean he's not even a bench. He's like starter. Where 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:08.760 where were y'all at Dereck Glivey, Daniel Gafford, Magxie Clay, 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.320 But where where are are y'all? At one point sam Hauser? 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:18.800 Sam Hauser was outscoring the entire Dallas bench by himself, 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.119 and he only had six points at that point. Secondly, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.839 share the rock or at least make fucking shots when 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:31.320 the rockets passed to you. Mavericks nine assists for the 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:38.280 entire game, nine. Luca averaged nine in the playoffs himself. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.360 Not one Maverick was trying to make any shots, not 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:48.239 even Kyrie, Not even Kyrie. The assist number, you look 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.840 at that comparatively to the Celtics, and the Celtics I 0:02:51.880 --> 0:03:00.440 think they have twenty three assists to nine disgusting. Also, 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.880 what probably stopped the Lobs was all of the block 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.200 party that was going on at TV Garden. They had 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:10.280 nine blocks tonight, they had they had just as many 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:22.200 blocks as the Mavericks had. Assists. No. Number three Celtics, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.960 Like I said, their defense was fucking nasty. They shut 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.240 the easy lob dunks off. The Dallas normally gets in 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.600 huge numbers. Earlier on in the series, they had six 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.920 deals as well, and it just wasn't that Kyrie got strapped. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.760 I think Kyrie missed a ton of open shots. My 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.800 man was six for nineteen on the game. I know 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.360 we were rooting for Kyrie to get under twenty three 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.360 and a half points, but god damn like we weren't 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.840 rooting for that. We weren't rooting for Kyrie to just 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:59.640 get absolutely shut down. Twelve points he had. Christas porzingis incredible. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.160 That was when the knockout blow came. Christaps porzingis what 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.120 did he even look like out there? Dirk Novitzky, He 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.880 looked like he came down from the sky and turned 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:17.360 in to Dirk Lively. Looked like a rookie. Christavs was everywhere. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:22.720 He hit threes, he hit fadeaway's, he had leys. What 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.640 the fuck twenty points twenty one minutes, eight for thirteen shooting. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.240 He was feeling it also plus thirteen when he was 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.680 on the floor and then fifth lee. There were a 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:39.200 lot of questions before the series started about Tatum Tatum. 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.640 We need to step up. Tatum's gonna need to be Tatum. 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.280 Tatum's gonna need to be the superstar player that we 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:49.440 know he can be in order to beat this Mavericks team. No, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:55.000 he does not. He played forty two minutes, sixteen points 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:00.760 and somehow at a plus nineteen net rating. Uh so data, 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.120 Datum's just still doesn't have to do shit. I guess 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.880 Boston can win without their best player doing anything. Game 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:14.200 two his Sunday night at eight. Come on, Dallas, fight back, 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:22.680 fight fucking back. All right, moving on, let's get to 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:29.239 the news. So I woke up yesterday morning to an alert. 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.159 It simply did not make sense. It really did seem 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:37.760 like one of those WOJ bombs. It's like the longe bomb. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.200 You know, they like check on Twitter and their name's 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.560 not exactly right. That was what it was. I simply 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:49.920 cannot believe that this tweet from wojan Adrian Warjanowski is correct, 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:59.960 is real. The Lakers are prepared to offer Yukon headcat 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:06.480 coach Dan Hurley Dan Hurley a massive extension or a 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:11.960 massive contract. Excuse me, a massive contract for Dan Hurley? 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:20.080 Where is JJ everything? We want is just JJ for 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:25.359 the drama, for the Lebron James JJ podcast. This whole 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.160 thing was, as Anthony would say, about as quiet as 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:34.080 the g in Lasagna. Nowhere to be found. To say, 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.479 I would be blindsided, would be disrespectful to the word. 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.400 Not a hint before Thursday morning. You want to know 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:46.400 how there was no hints of it. I would not 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.039 be able to do this if I was Dan Hurley. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:52.000 By the way, I'm so bad Yukon women's coach Juna Oriama, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.800 Oriama Oriama. People get out of my fucking mentions. Okay, 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.920 you learn how to pronounce names that are vaguely like 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.560 hard to pronounce, and you get back to me anyway. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.520 He said he was with Dan Hurley the other night, 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.960 literally three nights ago, two nights ago, No, two nights ago, 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.920 Wednesday night, and he said to Dan Hurley, listen, I 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.000 think you could win a lot of championships for the Lakers. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.600 I think you'd be really good there. And Dan Hurley 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.280 laughed and he agreed. He shook his head, didn't say 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.880 anything about you know, I think a lot of people 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:38.560 might think that, you know, I think that too ridiculous, ridiculous. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:43.160 I don't like it. I don't like this move. I 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.160 don't like anything about it. I don't like it for 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.840 Dan Hurley the most, mostly besides the fact that you 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:53.400 go get your money, playboy. He'll probably get like sixty 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.880 to seventy five million dollars over the course of the contract. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.440 If somebody offered me job I knew I would fail 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:11.040 at for seventy five million dollars, would I do it? Probably? Yeah, 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:15.080 probably I would. There's not never been a yelling ass 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.840 coach in college that's made it to the NBA. There's 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.680 never been a yelling ass coach in college football that's 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.800 made it in the NFL, not that I can recall. 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:29.360 Correct me if I'm wrong. We can go down the list. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:34.520 There's there's In thirty years, there's been two successful college 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.800 coaches and one like they're both actually not even that 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:42.000 successful if you're honest about it. Like Brad Stevens got 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:47.280 fired and then elevated in GM. Awesome, good for you, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:52.600 but not a coach anymore. And Billy Donovan is there 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.640 for the Chicago Bulls. He's there, he exists. They're not like, 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.680 he's not horrible, but I don't know if he's like 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.280 a on away success and he was a back to 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:07.760 back champion. They neither of them won a title as coaches. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.280 We're about to get a title, probably from Brad Stevens GM. 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:17.240 Instead we have a parade of Tim Floyd, Leonard Hamilton, 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:22.520 Reggie Theis Good good Lord, Reggie Theis, Fred Hoiberg. Not 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:28.720 to mention Rich Patino, John Calipari, PJ. I'll choke you out, Carlossimo. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.640 The only coach in history to win an NBA and 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.760 an NCAA title as a coach was Larry Brown. So 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.839 if Hurley makes the jump, boy, the odds are not 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.319 stacked in his favor to do anything but take his 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.600 money and go back to college. Guys worth a hundred 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.680 million dollars, don't want to tell you, don't want you 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.760 to tell them, or don't want you to don't want 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:56.160 to hear goes that fucking huddle. Okay, Like, what did 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.079 you say to me? Close the fucking huddle, bitch. I'll 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.600 close you, you and your huddle. I don't even know 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.320 what that means, but you know what I'm trying to say. 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.400 They're not running wind sprints. I love Dan Hurley so 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.840 fucking much, and I love them even more at Yukon 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.320 and I hate the Lakers. Everything about the Lakers and 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:20.280 the franchise stinks. Let's be honest. Like Genie Buss, she 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:26.240 doesn't make great decisions, and her dad made great decisions, 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:31.439 but she makes horrible decisions. Her best friend is her 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:37.839 confidant and sounding board for Lakers ops, and her best 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:42.920 friend used to be a Laker girl dancer in the seventies. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.559 I mean, what more can I say? She won't fire 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:52.760 the GM because she's tight with him and he used 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.600 to be the agent for Kobe Bryant, and she just 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.800 can't let go Kobe Bryant. If Kobe Bryant was alive today, 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.760 he would tell Gus you need to fire Rob Polinka. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:08.000 That is on God. Kobe Bryant was a killer. He 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:13.599 wouldn't allow this. According to WOJ, who has been dominating 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.200 Champs to the point where they're now putting out tweets 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:22.720 called meet the Shams, just fucked up. Uh. The Lakers 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.640 want to close this deal by the weekend. They're afraid 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.160 Dan Hurley is gonna get cold feet. By the way, 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:35.240 remember Billy Donovan did this with the Orlando Magic right 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.480 like we thought he was gonna be the Orlando Magic 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.680 head coach, and then he went back to Florida. Also, 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:44.000 Tommy Lee, remember this, Tommy Lee. You may kids may 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.480 not know Tommy Lee and Pam Anderson, but we're gonna 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.280 go there anyway. Tommy Lee rock star flew to Mexico 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.440 after meeting Pamela Anderson, and he was like, yo, let's 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.120 get married right fucking now, because he did not want 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.199 to give Pam Anderson a chance to like investigate further, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:05.200 you know, like he's Tommy Lee. Didn't he try to 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.280 take out a rib get suck his own dick, Tommy Lee? 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.240 Or was that Marilyn Manson or was that both? It 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.080 might be both. Come on, Dan, think of the kids. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.600 Alex Caravan went back to school and could have gone 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:24.400 to the NBA. Maybe he can draft him to be 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.880 a fucking LA Lakers to help make sense of this, 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.640 I am my guy, and he checked producer Anthony Irwin 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.079 on the Lakers Lounge on My show Man MGM tonight 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.199 to ask him more questions about what the fuck is 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:41.080 going on? Find it also on video on switching YouTube. 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:42.600 Anthony makes some jam sen for this. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.839 All right, Anthony Erwin's probably had a very busy day 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.920 to day Lakers insider for Lakers Daily, host of Lakers 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.440 Lounge as well. We woke up today and we saw 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.840 news that all of a sudden, we thought JJ Reddick 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.680 was gonna be the guy, gonna be the head coach 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.680 for the Lakers. And wait, now it's Dan Hurley is 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:05.079 their main target? What changed and why everything? 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:06.560 And nobody has any idea why. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:08.640 That's the best answer. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:14.480 It's Look, we've been so they fired Darvin ham back 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:19.040 in early May, and back in early May, we thought that, 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.000 you know, they said that they were going to go 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:29.760 about this long and arduous and detail oriented process which 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.800 hadn't really come to fruition to the best of our knowledge. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.240 Right now, we thought that we you know, he was 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.120 We thought JJ was the guy. And and by we, 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.960 I mean every single person who had any idea about 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:48.000 this whatsoever. Everybody that I spoke to was clear that 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.199 JJ was going to be the guy. People I spoke 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.439 to today who work for the Lakers were shocked at 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:59.559 how this all came out. So Dan Hurley is apparently their. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:00.000 Guy right now. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:01.360 How long he's been there? 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:01.640 Guy? 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.640 Is I think up for. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.560 Debate When you look at the Lakers history of making 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:14.200 coaching decisions after Phil Jackson. Are you encouraged by hearing 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.600 Dan Earley's name, or do you look at the history 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:22.520 of former college coaches and their flameouts and say, oh, man, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.200 I don't know how this is gonna go. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.160 It's a certain type of college coach who seems to 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.080 have success in the NBA. Right, Brad Stevens comes to mind, 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.400 and he's always a very stoic, calm guy on the sidelines, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.440 and he's this guy who is very good at communicating 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.560 with all kinds of people, and he didn't scream at people. 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:47.160 He spoke to people. Hurley's not that there was a 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.040 video making the rounds today where he was sitting there 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.200 getting ready to do a huddle and he screams at 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.520 everybody behind him close off by huddle, and I'm like, 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.600 I could just imagine how that goes over the first 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.360 time he tries to say that to a whole bunch 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.880 of millionaire basketball players, you know. And so I think 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.120 that's something that he would really have to dial down. 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:08.840 In terms of the. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:13.320 Lakers history with with coaches, I really, I really feel 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.000 like they were spoiled by Phil because he made it 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:16.640 look so. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:19.120 Easy. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.840 He made he made coaching look really easy, and they 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.960 were spoiled by that success and never really took into account, 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.480 never really learned what made him successful. So every time 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.360 they've hired a coach since, it's like, what if he 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.480 did it so easily, why can't you? And and it's 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:37.520 it's really kind of laid the foundation for all of 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.960 their failures with that position ever since. 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.280 Yeah, and Anthony growing up in the nineties as a 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.840 huge Bulls fan, and so like, I know how Phil 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.120 Jackson works, and that's obviously, like you said, not what 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.480 Dan Hurley really is. So I guess that would be 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.600 my question. Do you think you know, because this Lakers 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:56.000 team is a veteran team, maybe somebody like Danny Hurley 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.400 could work because Lebron wants to win one more championship 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:00.800 ring AD wants another ring most likely, and they are 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.440 a veteran team. Or do you think maybe this says 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:04.760 if they are going to make that higher, that the 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.240 Lakers are maybe looking to rebuild and Danny Hurley comes 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.680 in to coach a rebuilt team and maybe not Lebron 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:10.360 James and AD. 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.240 I think no matter what, whoever they hire is going 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.400 to be there to coach Lebron and coach Ad like 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.200 they aren't trading those guys. Those guys aren't going anywhere. 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.680 What I will say, though, is it's really clear that 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.200 whether it was JJ or Hurley, whoever they hire here 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.840 isn't gonna get fired in the next couple of years 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:35.120 for not succeeding with Lebron or with AD. The focus 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:40.080 here is, I think now pretty clearly beyond Lebron, beyond Ad. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.400 They're gonna give it, you know, the good old College 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.280 try to see what they can do to compete this year. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.000 But I'm pretty sure that you know, whoever they hire, 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.120 if it is Hurley, And by the way, this isn't 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.960 a done deal. Like the reporting right now is that 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.800 he's flying out to LA and he's gonna meet with 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.120 Rob and he's gonna meet with Genie and they're going 0:16:59.960 --> 0:17:02.160 to talk about their vision and all that stuff, and 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.840 then they're going to discuss terms of a deal. Remember 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:10.480 this is the same front office that lowball Tylo tried 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.080 to force Jason Kidd on him. He told them to 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:17.400 kick Rocks and they wound up having to hire Frank Vogel. 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.760 And so like, how they handle this is still very 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.240 much in question. Maybe they learn from that, it doesn't 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.960 seem like a front office who learns all that much 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:31.440 from failures or whatever. But I would tend to think 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.520 that whoever they hire, and again maybe it's early, maybe 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:38.840 it's reddick, the point of hiring them is to have 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:43.359 that person set a culture that extends beyond Lebron James 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:44.600 and beyond Anthony. 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.400 When you say beyond, in my mind, when I think 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.840 about how Dan Hurley could could integrate into this Lakers team, 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:56.919 I think rebuild. Is that a possibility? Like a blow up? 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.840 The front office blow up this team and allowed Dan 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.400 Hurley to start from the beginning. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.159 I don't think Rob Polink is ever getting fired by 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:10.080 Genie bus. I mean, if it's just it's just not 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.840 on the table the people that I spoke to at 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.480 the beginning of the off season here, I was asking around, 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.439 has his seat warmed up at all? This is his 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.200 third head coach he's gonna hire in the last five 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.800 or six years. This is a guy who has been 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:30.359 the steward of a mostly mediocre Lakers team over the 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:35.040 larger sample size. Yeah, he has a couple postseason runs, 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.640 but that's when Lebron James and Anthony Davis really take 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.800 over his seat isn't warming up even a little bit, 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.560 and no, so if his seat hasn't warmed up even 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.200 to this point, and he's allowed to hire this guy 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.040 and all those things, and the conversation is very much 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.560 going to be how can Dan Hurley and Rob Polinka 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.920 chart out the future of the Lakers. He's not going anywhere. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:01.879 Maybe they do a rebuild with roster and with you know, 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.600 hopefully Dan brings in some of his player development people 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.040 and the Lakers finally hire a shooting coach, for example. 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:13.680 But but you know, whatever, whatever the the the front 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.600 office might look like, uh, you know, or or any 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.520 speculation on the on the front office is all kind 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.440 of moot because you know, Rob is very very much 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:23.120 Genie s guy. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.800 Talking to Anthony Irwin bet MGM tonight. We know the 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:27.840 coaching search is a huge deal for the Lakers, but 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.879 we also know that they're always always in trade rumors 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:32.800 and there's about a thousand different names linked to this 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.200 Lakers team. What does the off season look like for them? 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.520 At the beginning of the off season, I would have 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.399 said that they were definitely going to go out and 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.159 trade for a third star. Right at the end of 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.320 the season. That was the sense that everybody had. But 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.840 over the course of that time, whether it's because of 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.880 the market and their and their introduction to the market, 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:58.480 or you know, Trey Young left clutch sports that impacted that, 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:04.520 you know, the the possibilities there. Whatever it is, the Lakers, 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:06.960 I would say, at this point seem far more likely 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:11.679 to do some upgrades around the peripheries of the roster 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:16.000 and try to get like, you know, Ruy Hachimura is 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:18.000 much more of an offensive minded player than he is 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.240 a defensive minded player. They would like to turn him 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.679 into somebody who can do things on both ends of 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:27.080 the court. Same goes for D'Angelo Russell, right, who the 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.439 Lakers are hoping is going to opt in so that 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.840 they can trade him for somebody who does stuff on 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.840 the defensive end too. So they need to turn some 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:39.440 of their role players who are more impact forward on 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.720 one side of the ball into guys who can do 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:43.800 stuff on both sides of the ball. And I think 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:46.520 that'll be their focus this season off season. 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:51.640 What about Bronnie James. We're now getting reports Anthony that's 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.240 the Lakers will take Bronnie James with one of their picks. 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:58.200 Maybe they'll move up in the second round if they 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.000 can't get them him in the fifty. What is your 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.960 sense on the Brownie James to La Saga. 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.600 Yeah, it's there was a there was a hot minute 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:11.359 where maybe just maybe they'll take him with the seventeenth pick, 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:15.879 and I was losing my mind. I was that was 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.480 not a that was not a situation that I was 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:22.320 all that thrilled about. Now what they have done, and 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:25.359 they do have about eight million dollars to spend on 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.960 a second round draft pick, what I could see them 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:33.000 doing is actually buying into the second round a little 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:37.000 earlier and maybe taking Brownie with what with that pick, 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:39.359 whatever it might be. That would be my guest. 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:41.880 So you don't so like you don't think that there's 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.560 a chance that like they have to run it back 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:47.600 just with the current roster, you do think there's definitely 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:49.760 the Lakers are going to get a superstar, even if 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:51.880 it's you know, like a I don't know what you'd 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:53.960 call it, like a level B type superstar. 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:55.320 Like a tree. Do they have anything left to trade? 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:57.879 That's because they got nothing left? 0:21:58.000 --> 0:21:59.359 Yeah, because that's it. I just I want to know 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:01.240 how they get created with the roster now they did 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:04.520 like two years ago obviously at the trade deadline. I 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:06.439 just I don't I don't know what that would look like. 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:08.280 You know, how do you think they do get creative 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:09.440 and make a move for somebody. 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.879 They have three first rounders that they can move on 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:17.080 Draft night especially, so that'll be Draft night specifically, is 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:19.840 going to be the night where things really You're gonna 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:21.480 learn a lot about what the Lakers are going to 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:24.480 be trying to do on Draft night because they essentially 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.800 have to draft for a team and send that player 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:32.320 to that team in order to abide by Stepian rules 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:35.920 and all that stuff. So I think on Draft Knight, 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:39.800 you're looking at, you know, a pick or two, you know, 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:44.680 to say Washington, maybe with like Jared Vanderbilt, and they're 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:48.600 gonna try and get Kyle Kuzma. They'll they'll try to 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:52.480 send a you know, maybe D'angela Russell Opson and they 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:55.399 try to send him with a pick for Dorian Finney Smith, 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.720 and it'll be you know, small boring moves like that. 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:02.560 The Tray Young thing, even dating back to last deadline, 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.280 when I would ask around the guy that the Lakers 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:09.280 had circled far more frequently based off of the conversations 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:12.159 I was having was actually Donovan Mitchell. They had a 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:14.280 lot more confidence that they might be able to trade 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:17.439 for Donovan Mitchell than they had in their ability to 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:20.960 trade for Trey Young, then Trey Young, Leeves Clutch and 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:24.040 I've been told that it's not that that ended it, 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.000 you know, with with Trey Young, but it certainly was like, Okay, 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:30.440 you know, he wasn't really our focus anyway, Let's see 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:32.760 what we can do with Donovan Mitchell. And then you know, 0:23:32.800 --> 0:23:35.719 Donovan Mitchell will see it looks like Cleveland is going 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:38.679 to have to choose between Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell. 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:41.800 And you know, depending on what choice they make there 0:23:41.880 --> 0:23:45.240 or what choice is forced upon them, maybe Donovan Mitchell 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.360 is the guy that they go all in for. Reeves, 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:53.960 three picks, Galen hoodscha Fino's you know potential. I guess 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:57.240 all of those things basically for Donovan Mitchell. 0:23:57.280 --> 0:23:59.879 And round and round the circle goes with the Laker 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:05.400 sits always something. Anthony Irwin Lakers insider for Lakers Daily. 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:08.439 He's also the host of Lakers Lounge. Really appreciate you 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:09.440 coming on with us. Thanks man. 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:10.920 Anytime, guys say Tad me. 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:18.800 All right, let's move on. There's some fascinating offseason news 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:24.040 coming out of Minnesota, who's had a great Western Conference run. 0:24:24.240 --> 0:24:28.200 They had a great season. First of all, the ownership 0:24:28.240 --> 0:24:34.720 debacle keeps getting stranger. Remember Glenn Taylor claimed that this 0:24:34.800 --> 0:24:38.880 deal that they made with Mark Luri and A Rod 0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:43.320 who had contracted to Bible Wolves, that they had breached 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:47.600 their contract. And now he's like, big deals off, not 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:53.240 selling anymore. Go on, just enjoy your court side seats 0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:58.399 until I kick you out of the arena. And that's 0:24:58.680 --> 0:25:02.000 a nightmare scenario because as Tim Connolly, the architect of 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:06.040