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Speaker 1: into the Rachel Nichols Maria Taylor thing. It will ask
Speaker 1: Frank is Sola you know Rachel for years as well? Yikes? Yikes?
Speaker 1: Is right? Yeah? Yeah, I mean, how do you how
Speaker 1: does that? What is? Yeah? How does that get? How
Speaker 1: do you can't you fix that? Yeah? It's it's curious. Dog,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I don't know how you just said
Speaker 1: it earlier? How do you put the genie back in
Speaker 1: the bottle? I don't know. I mean, as I said,
Speaker 1: you could say a lot of things and people might
Speaker 1: not be happy with it. If he if she went
Speaker 1: on a rant and said that Maria Taylor wasn't better
Speaker 1: than her and all that. I think people could could
Speaker 1: deal with that, you know what I mean, that's how
Speaker 1: you feel you could deal with that, But once the
Speaker 1: race part is in, it's just hard for people to
Speaker 1: overlook that. And I'm talking about okay, so help me
Speaker 1: out here. Obviously, there's not a not a ton of
Speaker 1: white NBA players. Okay, Uh, but is there is there
Speaker 1: a discussion to be had about what Jalen said and
Speaker 1: really didn't back down from in regards to Kevin Love,
Speaker 1: where he said that Kevin Love is only on the
Speaker 1: team because they didn't want to set an all black team. Basically,
Speaker 1: Kevin Love only got the job because he's a white gay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think there's there's two sides of this, and one
Speaker 1: is uh misinformed, right because they had already been four
Speaker 1: black teams. You know, so I think uh, in that
Speaker 1: stance with Jalen, but to and I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: make it like like like it's race is involved. So
Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. Um, but I think in
Speaker 1: this case one is uninformed or misinformed. Uh. And I
Speaker 1: don't think he wasn't. I don't think Jalen was informed.
Speaker 1: I don't think he called anybody. I think that's just one.
Speaker 1: I think that. And yes, right, what I'll doing the research,
Speaker 1: Like if you're gonna make that claim, all you have
Speaker 1: to do is all you gotta do is call the
Speaker 1: USA basketball guys to be like, look, man, here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Some of these guys didn't want to go. You know,
Speaker 1: some of these guys are in contract years. They don't
Speaker 1: want to possibly get hurt. They don't want to go go
Speaker 1: to the bubble. He played for us before. Plus we
Speaker 1: need a shooting big we can bang. We can play
Speaker 1: him at the five, at the four. If he doesn't play,
Speaker 1: it's no big deal. He doesn't care. He just wants
Speaker 1: to be a part of a winner, like all these
Speaker 1: things would like really for real, that's now he could
Speaker 1: still think it. But yes, he did not do the
Speaker 1: due diligence. But but he's still he didn't fact say it,
Speaker 1: and he said it live on air, right, so I
Speaker 1: just it's and now he said on a radio show whatever,
Speaker 1: but he didn't say it on TV. But you know, again,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't the idea that that that the
Speaker 1: Rachel it was it shouldn't have been recorded, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't excuse what she said right right right, And
Speaker 1: everybody says that, oh, well, well, well who was he?
Speaker 1: I just forgot his name? The owner of the clippers,
Speaker 1: like like, uh, the Donald Sterling right, like right, okay,
Speaker 1: it's a private conversation. But he said it right and
Speaker 1: once it once it came out the bottle, what happened
Speaker 1: Doug that the franchise that he had owned for forever
Speaker 1: and whatnot. He was forced out right because even if
Speaker 1: it was a private conversation, people heard it and it
Speaker 1: made you look at him at a different way. So
Speaker 1: so I'll look at it in that in that standpoint,
Speaker 1: you if people if if Maria Taylor leaked it, if
Speaker 1: let's say her people leaked it, because the tape was
Speaker 1: out there, apparently there was an edited tape that other
Speaker 1: people that that had been out there before this one
Speaker 1: had cut out some of these parts to it. If
Speaker 1: if it, if it was found out that Maria Taylor's
Speaker 1: people leaked it, what would your opinion of Herbie, It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me who lead. It's a real tape.
Speaker 1: If you told me that they spliced together to have
Speaker 1: or say something that's not your no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that. I'm saying it's really I'm not
Speaker 1: saying there's anything. No one has denied the validity of
Speaker 1: the tape or what's on it. I'm saying, if you
Speaker 1: drop this too, if you drop it to the New
Speaker 1: York Times the weekend before the biggest the biggest stage
Speaker 1: that the league has, that you the company you work for,
Speaker 1: that you're in a contract negotiation with, Like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: disagree with you on that one. Again, it doesn't it
Speaker 1: doesn't in any way vindicate Rachel Nichols. Okay, But whoever, whoever,
Speaker 1: whoever dropped it, Like, like, the timing of it is
Speaker 1: more than curious, and I don't think there's a there's
Speaker 1: another way to do it. There's there's other ways to
Speaker 1: do it, and this was not the time or the place,
Speaker 1: and because because I mean, like look at the very
Speaker 1: employee was fired I mean, or who was I mean,
Speaker 1: who was disciplined for for the tape. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: I noticed somebody who you know, rated public maybe who
Speaker 1: has maybe off the ESPNY, but maybe she's But why
Speaker 1: why wasn't it already previously out? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: dropped in the fourth of July, and it was an
Speaker 1: absolute absolutely there's no doubt. It took away in many
Speaker 1: ways from I mean, I guess you it was why
Speaker 1: you watched. I mean, look, Millik Andrews, she's awesome, So
Speaker 1: it wasn't like where's Rachel you're watching? You know, she's awesome.
Speaker 1: And I don't think there was much change in anything.
Speaker 1: Of what I was watching last night. We did. There
Speaker 1: was the surprise, wasn't the sideline reporter for it. It
Speaker 1: was that Jannis played and looked healthy like he didn't.
Speaker 1: He had that incredible chase down block. Um, what was
Speaker 1: your opinion of the series before last night's game when
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Speaker 1: So what was your opinion of the series before the
Speaker 1: series started? I picked the Sons because I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I was like the run of luck that they've had
Speaker 1: with stars being injured. I didn't know Jannis was gonna play,
Speaker 1: to be honest, Doug, I thought he wasn't gonna play
Speaker 1: and was surprised that he was playing. He played, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean he didn't have a huge impact on the
Speaker 1: game either way. So I said the Sons in five
Speaker 1: or six games, I'm sticking with that. I think the
Speaker 1: Sons are gonna win the championship. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: have that confidence in Milwaukee. I know they got through Atlanta,
Speaker 1: but Trey Young was hurt right and didn't play. So
Speaker 1: I know they got through Brooklyn, but you know Kyrie
Speaker 1: was hurt and James Harden was hobbled, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? And if Kevin Duran boy side size fourteen
Speaker 1: instead of a seventeen, then the Nets would be in
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. I mean, yeah, I mean, like I
Speaker 1: I can't, I don't. I don't think. I think we
Speaker 1: need to get into the whole discussion about how they
Speaker 1: get got here and should they be here or whatever.
Speaker 1: Just in terms of this series, I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a very good series. Um. I think Jannis being healthier,
Speaker 1: he's still going to be a hard matchup. The big
Speaker 1: thing is going to be how and do the Bucks
Speaker 1: adjust right, because that's really the that's the criticism Mike Boudenholzer.
Speaker 1: It's not that he's not a good coach. It's that
Speaker 1: like the ability to do what what Tylu did consistency consistently,
Speaker 1: which is adjust. I mean Monty Williams when he didn't
Speaker 1: have Chris Paul and they go two and oh in
Speaker 1: the Western Conference finals, it's a just adjust your lineups,
Speaker 1: adjust your coverages, and look, I don't think it's crazy
Speaker 1: to go into a game going, you know, let's make
Speaker 1: Chris Paul beat us. Like the best thing Chris Paul
Speaker 1: does is makes everybody else better, makes everybody else go.
Speaker 1: Let's make Chris Paul beat and you know what, one
Speaker 1: game in he beats you. You know he had thirty
Speaker 1: two on nineteen shots. He beats you. He's sliced you,
Speaker 1: he diced you. You put a big on him. He
Speaker 1: was too quick. You forced him to go right. He
Speaker 1: found a way to go left, even if he got
Speaker 1: back to his right hand, like Chris, Chris Paul, he
Speaker 1: beat you. Now you're now. The question is, if you're
Speaker 1: Mike Botnozer, are you gonna go with the numbers and say,
Speaker 1: like I don't think he can beat us four times?
Speaker 1: Or are you gonna change how you guard him and
Speaker 1: change your lineups? And that's the big challenge because he
Speaker 1: is not a guy who is. He doesn't. The crazy
Speaker 1: thing is there's not a lot of in game changes,
Speaker 1: and then even between games, the changes are usually subtle.
Speaker 1: He doesn't pull the drastic whereas a lot of these
Speaker 1: other guys go with the drastic changes. Yeah, I get that, Um,
Speaker 1: I just w when when you say you think this
Speaker 1: is a good series. Yes, that's with or without Yannis?
Speaker 1: You really no, no, no, no, no no, now with Yannis? Okay,
Speaker 1: so before this, before you knew he was playing, what
Speaker 1: what what did you think of this series? I thought
Speaker 1: he was playing anyway? Oh okay, so I'm the one
Speaker 1: who was in the dark. No I didn't. I had.
Speaker 1: I mean I had a little bit of help, but
Speaker 1: not a ton of help. It was it was just
Speaker 1: more like when they say hyper extended knee, and it
Speaker 1: just didn't do it on the video, you know, when
Speaker 1: I saw right, um, but some kids, but it didn't
Speaker 1: look like it buckled. It just yeah, it looked like
Speaker 1: it bent a little bit the wrong way, but it
Speaker 1: didn't look like absolutely positively that's a torn acl or
Speaker 1: meniscus or whatever. And and I couldn't tell when you
Speaker 1: hear no structural damage, they're telling you it's just given
Speaker 1: to be about, you know, swelling and when does he feel? Right? Um?
Speaker 1: I I So that's that's what I thought it'd be
Speaker 1: a good series. I picked the Bucks only in that
Speaker 1: the reason the Lakers felt like they could they would
Speaker 1: they were a good matchup against the Suns was the
Speaker 1: Sun's frontline, you know, you got Aton who is more
Speaker 1: of a traditional center of all, he's shown he can
Speaker 1: he can guard some out on the floor. And then
Speaker 1: you know who's the other big You know, is it
Speaker 1: Jay Crowder? Right? So how do you match up when
Speaker 1: you have when you're two best players or you're two
Speaker 1: big players, which is what the Lakers had he had
Speaker 1: yet Anthony Davis. They like that matchup, and I would
Speaker 1: say that on some level, some level, that's exactly what
Speaker 1: the Bucks like about it. The problem is, I don't
Speaker 1: think Drew Holiday played great. Um. The problem was better
Speaker 1: they and Jannis could couldn't play better, and they didn't
Speaker 1: play that starting lineup together a bunch and then they didn't.
Speaker 1: I think they need to look at playing small more often,
Speaker 1: and that comes down to Ken. They hired Bryan Forbes
Speaker 1: on defense because he gives them something on offense that
Speaker 1: nobody else gives them, which is outright deep deep shooting. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just I'd be surprised if the Bucks win this.
Speaker 1: But um, but then again, uh, you know, I'm surprised
Speaker 1: where they are. But but things have worked out for them,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to, like you said, We're not
Speaker 1: going to get into figuring out and booten Hawser, booten
Speaker 1: Holzer as the coach. Where are you on him? You
Speaker 1: know about coaching, you coach some teams. You know, he
Speaker 1: gets a lot of criticism. I remember it looked like
Speaker 1: he was a goner after they lost by what forty
Speaker 1: nine or thirty nine to the nets? You remember that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think apart is he a good coach?
Speaker 1: I think he's a good I it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: like it's like like baseball. Okay, here's the baseball analogy.
Speaker 1: There are guys are there are guys that are great
Speaker 1: regular season managers, but in the playoffs he's like, what
Speaker 1: the playoffs are completely different challenge. Right, it's about matchups,
Speaker 1: it's about what the computer says. But it's also about feel,
Speaker 1: and some guys have it and some guys don't. Right,
Speaker 1: they go they keep going out there and like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? You know? They some guys have feeling,
Speaker 1: some guys don't. I think for for bud It, the
Speaker 1: criticism of him is that while he's really consistent and
Speaker 1: that works in the regular season, in the postseason it
Speaker 1: is about adjustments, and his adjustments are subtle at best.
Speaker 1: If if or does he he's kind of that old
Speaker 1: school we do what we do, and if we do
Speaker 1: what we do well, like last night, he's like, well,
Speaker 1: Chris Paul is a good player, so that's why they lost,
Speaker 1: Like no, or you kind of helped him out with
Speaker 1: you with your coverage. So what do I think? I
Speaker 1: think that that last night played right into that narrative
Speaker 1: of Bud's not great at adjusting two different personnel. It
Speaker 1: takes him a long time. Do so, look the game
Speaker 1: where Jannis got hurt. Remember the game where Yannis got
Speaker 1: hurt against Atlanto's at game four. Okay, he tweaks his knee.
Speaker 1: It looks like he tores acl right, that's what everybody's
Speaker 1: holding their breath. Reggie Miller's going like, well, if he
Speaker 1: can walk on it, maybe that Like, no, Reggie, that's
Speaker 1: not how we judge anyway, Like we're all holding our breath.
Speaker 1: So they get back to playing, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Atlanta hits the three and they got great energy, and
Speaker 1: then they hit another and then you know, Milwaukee misses
Speaker 1: a bunny. They come down and they hit another three,
Speaker 1: like right then and there you called time out. All right, hey, fellows,
Speaker 1: let's catch our breath. He waited till like a ten
Speaker 1: o run and then he finally calls time out. So
Speaker 1: I just think he's a little slow to react and
Speaker 1: to fix things. Instead he falls back on the hey,
Speaker 1: if we do we do well, then it does nothing
Speaker 1: else gonna matter. And we saw on the other flip
Speaker 1: side of a guy who some people didn't think was
Speaker 1: a good coach, who made a lot of adjustments in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Who's that ty Lou? I thought ty Lou did.
Speaker 1: A group didn't think he was a good coach. So
Speaker 1: some people like because he had Lebron and he won
Speaker 1: the championship. Some mean just like the casual people just think, wow,
Speaker 1: if you had Lebron James I could win a championship too.
Speaker 1: I thought he did a great job with the He
Speaker 1: he was fantastic with the Clippers, and Monnie Williams has
Speaker 1: been fantastic, fantastic with the Suns. Like there's been some
Speaker 1: really I feel like I do feel like in the
Speaker 1: NBA coaching does get because it is a lot like baseball,
Speaker 1: where in the regular season you're managing minutes and managing
Speaker 1: personalities and trying to get consistency and trying to get
Speaker 1: everything to work together. In the playoffs, it's about how
Speaker 1: do we how do we match up? How do we
Speaker 1: find a way to win this game? And then how
Speaker 1: do we win the next game? Then how do we
Speaker 1: win the next game? Nothing else matters, and there are
Speaker 1: not There are guys that can do the matchup thing,
Speaker 1: but they can't get to the postseason to do it
Speaker 1: or put themselves in position. There are guys that can
Speaker 1: do the managing of egos and personalities, but then they
Speaker 1: can't do the in game stuff. I think Monty can
Speaker 1: do it both. I think Tylu can do it both.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a pretty sound argument. I think
Speaker 1: budd has shown the ability in the regular season in
Speaker 1: Atlanta in Milwaukee to do an excellent job, and they're
Speaker 1: pretty consistent. But the slowness of adjustments is or lack thereof,
Speaker 1: can be a little can be a little alarming. All right?
Speaker 1: Could these finals bring disaster ratings to the NBA? And
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, doesn't matter, we'll discuss. Frank gi Should is
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Speaker 1: Rose on Rob Parker, Doug Gottlieban for Dan and the
Speaker 1: Dan Nettes. Frank Gisla has worked in the newspaper business
Speaker 1: so long that even he he remembers Rob Parker back
Speaker 1: in the day they were they were stripes, back when
Speaker 1: they actually wrote things by hand. And did you do that, um,
Speaker 1: do you always do the recorder thing or did you
Speaker 1: do the like the shorthand notes set started out with
Speaker 1: just the pad and then added the recorder. I've been,
Speaker 1: you know, in the business for thirty five years, so
Speaker 1: when I first started out, Doug, excuse me, even like
Speaker 1: sending in your story was difficult. We were We wrote
Speaker 1: on these tandy laptops where you could only see about
Speaker 1: six or eight lines of your story. It was, it was,
Speaker 1: And then you would have to plug into a phone line.
Speaker 1: So I've sent stories from McDonald's from the air poured
Speaker 1: service desk, from pulling over to a gas station and
Speaker 1: begging the store owner to let me use his phone line.
Speaker 1: It was incredible, like where I filed stories from. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now now now it's you can record a podcast from
Speaker 1: any right on his zoom. You can literally be face
Speaker 1: to face with anybody anywhere in the world. It's it's incredible.
Speaker 1: And I've known Frank forever obviously, we worked in New
Speaker 1: York together, and he's a fantastic NBA reporter. I absolutely agree. Agree.
Speaker 1: We just we disagree in the shakery Richardson that she
Speaker 1: shouldn't run, right, We we both. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: there aren't any major points of disagreement today. Well I don't.
Speaker 1: Um today, I'm you're with Oltani. You would pick Oltani
Speaker 1: to start your team, and I would take Tattoos Junior.
Speaker 1: So that yeah, but that's not That's not what I'm
Speaker 1: willing to go to the mattresses for. Like, I know, emotional,
Speaker 1: but it's splitting there two great players splitting hairs. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: but you ask my opinion on Mike budenholz Er, what's yours? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just I asked George. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's that great. But I'm not a coach. So that's
Speaker 1: why I think your opinion is even better because you've
Speaker 1: done it and you've coached kids, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: and you have a team or whatever. So I'm just
Speaker 1: always interested as a guy who's covered the nbas's nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty seven. I think he's just okay. You know, he's
Speaker 1: not a terrible coach, but there's times I think what
Speaker 1: is he doing? Frank is Soola joins a serious XM
Speaker 1: NBA radio. You can also see him around the horn
Speaker 1: at the Frank Isola Frank I said that Budd. The
Speaker 1: criticism of Bud, which is fair, is that he's kind
Speaker 1: of that a little bit of that old school We
Speaker 1: do what we do, we do it well, and they
Speaker 1: adjust to us. He just not quick to adjust in
Speaker 1: terms of lineups at times and in terms of coverages.
Speaker 1: They will make some subtle adjustments, but not He won't
Speaker 1: just change things the way that a Tyler would just
Speaker 1: change things. Now it's worked to a certain level, but
Speaker 1: hasn't worked in the playoffs. Is that a fair Is
Speaker 1: that a fair way of describing what people in the
Speaker 1: NBA say about Mike Budenholzer. I think it's fair. And
Speaker 1: Doug and Rob, how you guys doing. You know, if
Speaker 1: you look at the NET series, it didn't seem like
Speaker 1: should ever be out there. If you go to back
Speaker 1: to game five when they just kept running that high
Speaker 1: screen and roll with you know, Duranpez he started taking
Speaker 1: the ball up and then it was he was a
Speaker 1: lot of times isolated on brook Lopez and Lopez just
Speaker 1: couldn't keep up yet. In Game seven, Lopez did have
Speaker 1: the block shot on Kevin Durant with the game tide
Speaker 1: at one eleven, and that's when Joe Harris said missed
Speaker 1: the three. Chris Middleton came down hit the basket, which
Speaker 1: ended up being the one that won the series to them,
Speaker 1: and then brook Lopez had some good moments. I think
Speaker 1: you talk to people that have worked with Mike Budenholzer,
Speaker 1: they say that he does make a lot of in
Speaker 1: game adjustments, maybe not dramatic things where he's changing the
Speaker 1: starting lineup and things like that, but he does make adjustments.
Speaker 1: But last night and even the guys on the telecast,
Speaker 1: we're saying, you know, at some point you got to
Speaker 1: do something. It's just not working to keep getting you know,
Speaker 1: brook Lopez caught an isolation and they were completely exploiting
Speaker 1: him on the pick and roll. But if you look
Speaker 1: at the Milwaukee Bucks their history, and it's not a
Speaker 1: good one, but I think it's five of the last
Speaker 1: six playoffs series they've been in they have lost Game
Speaker 1: one and the one that they won against Miami, which
Speaker 1: was about a month ago, six weeks ago. They didn't
Speaker 1: really play that well even in that game, so they've
Speaker 1: been slow starters, so maybe it kind of takes him
Speaker 1: a game or two. They're really getting adjusted. What do
Speaker 1: you think of how Nis looks. I thought he looked
Speaker 1: really well. You know, I thought they did a good
Speaker 1: job last night on the pregame. I guess Steven Any
Speaker 1: and Michael Wilbama are probably on, and they were showing
Speaker 1: him warming up. And you know, we've all been to
Speaker 1: NBA games. We've seen guys work out. He looked like
Speaker 1: he was going through, you know, the typical workout before
Speaker 1: you're gonna play. And I know they kept it kind
Speaker 1: of close to the best before the games. But we
Speaker 1: also know the way Yannis says, you know you're at
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. I don't think he would go out
Speaker 1: there if he felt he was gonna hurt the team.
Speaker 1: I thought he was pretty aggressive early. I was cringing
Speaker 1: every time he jumped because you're you're worried about him.
Speaker 1: But think about where we are. You know, two years ago,
Speaker 1: when the final started, the big thing was will Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant come back from injury and play. Well he did that,
Speaker 1: then you know, this finals begins with everyone wondering whether
Speaker 1: or not you honest, he's gonna play, what games will
Speaker 1: come back? And I thought, you know, all things considered,
Speaker 1: I thought he was pretty good. He saw it. You know,
Speaker 1: he set seventeen rebounds and he was seven for twelve
Speaker 1: in the pree thro line, which I gotta be honest,
Speaker 1: I think I might take the rest of the series.
Speaker 1: You know, miss only five out of twelve. How about
Speaker 1: the Sons, Frank I said that their championship run is
Speaker 1: for gays, he only because of and I know they
Speaker 1: were the second team, best team in the West record wise,
Speaker 1: but they've had an unbelievable amount of breaks and and
Speaker 1: not had to face some of the best players, and
Speaker 1: they'll win a championship. I think they'll win, and you know,
Speaker 1: and it'll count. And I'm not an asterisk guy, But
Speaker 1: what do you think of just about the path that
Speaker 1: the Sons have taken. Yeah, I think luck facts is
Speaker 1: into everything. And I make the Milwaukee Bucks cut huge
Speaker 1: breaks because James Harden got hurt fully three seconds into
Speaker 1: Game one and then Kyrie everyone down in Game three.
Speaker 1: So I think if everybody had been healthy across the board.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis, Kawhi Leonard. I think the Nets were the
Speaker 1: best team, but it doesn't always work out like that,
Speaker 1: and that's why when you have the chances, you have
Speaker 1: to take them. And I felt a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago Milwaukee had a great chance, you know, when they
Speaker 1: were up to oh On Toronto and they probably weren't
Speaker 1: going to play with the Warriors with Kevin Durant, and
Speaker 1: they blew it. Just like two years ago, Damian Lillard
Speaker 1: and Portland got to play in the Western Conference finals
Speaker 1: where they didn't have to play Kevin Durant. They didn't
Speaker 1: take advantage of it. I you know Money Williams. I
Speaker 1: got to cover him when he first came to New York.
Speaker 1: And Money's a very serious, like no nonsense guy. And
Speaker 1: we all know what Chris Paul is all about. He's
Speaker 1: no nonsense, very serious, he's nasty and a good way.
Speaker 1: He's going to work the refts. He knows how to
Speaker 1: push his teammates. So to me, that franchise went from
Speaker 1: being kind of a country club to like this stable,
Speaker 1: like legitimate franchise. And I think the head coach and
Speaker 1: the point guard have a lot to do with it.
Speaker 1: And think about those young players, man, they got all
Speaker 1: you know, they got two of them in the same draft,
Speaker 1: Aiden and mcale Bridges and Devin Booker was a backup
Speaker 1: on Kentucky. So if everyone wants to kill somebody, let's
Speaker 1: let's call up our buddy, John Calipari's because why he
Speaker 1: was bringing off the bench. They've done a great job
Speaker 1: kind of building the team. It's gonna be a legitimate
Speaker 1: championship because they did go through Lebron and they're playing
Speaker 1: a terrific team in Milwaukee. And you know what, ten
Speaker 1: twenty years from now, it's just like Kim Duncan's first
Speaker 1: title with fifty game season, nobody really makes that big
Speaker 1: a deal of it anymore. Now, nobody remembers and like
Speaker 1: Toronto's Toronto is probably the ultimate one, right where basically
Speaker 1: everybody else, everybody outside of staff got hurt and it
Speaker 1: still took him six games to vanquish the Warriors, but nobody,
Speaker 1: nobody really cares. Well, stuff missed that shot that could
Speaker 1: have forced the game seven if you remember at the
Speaker 1: end of the game, But that's another story, right, But again,
Speaker 1: just all anybody remembers the Toronto won the championship that year,
Speaker 1: right kawhig Toronto won one the championship. I can, Frank,
Speaker 1: I do have another question from does Janis win no
Speaker 1: matter what, whether they win the championship or not. And
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is he decided to stay
Speaker 1: the small market, not force his way out of Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: not go join some super team or whatever. And he's
Speaker 1: in the NBA finals. People, I remember when he signed,
Speaker 1: all what a mistake, He'll never win a title. It
Speaker 1: was dumb. Why would you stay in Milwaukee? You know
Speaker 1: all the young NBA heads who just want guys to
Speaker 1: go team up with each other and that's it. Does
Speaker 1: Does he proved you can get to the championship without
Speaker 1: a super team or without being in a big market. No,
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of truth to that. And
Speaker 1: I also thought they cut some bracelet did a great
Speaker 1: job with Chris Middleton, a former second round pick. And
Speaker 1: obviously they made the big, bold move to go out
Speaker 1: and get through Holliday, and they gave up a lot
Speaker 1: to get him. But Jannis, you know, it's hard not
Speaker 1: to like him. I've gotten to know him really well
Speaker 1: since he came into the league as a rookie, it's
Speaker 1: a guy who's come from nothing. He's a self made player.
Speaker 1: He still has a long way to go. If you could,
Speaker 1: you know, you could make the case. Obviously, Layton games
Speaker 1: are better up with the ball in Chris Middleton's tans. Yet,
Speaker 1: probably the biggest basket of Yannis's career was when he
Speaker 1: backed down Kevin rant in the final minute of game
Speaker 1: seven and overtime, and you know they were down too,
Speaker 1: and he was in a position where he can get fouled.
Speaker 1: And if he gets fouled, he's got to go to
Speaker 1: the free throw line. So while Ben Simmons doesn't want
Speaker 1: the ball late in the games, doesn't want to go
Speaker 1: anywhere near the paint because he might get fouled, Yannis
Speaker 1: isn't worried about that. And what you love about Yannis is,
Speaker 1: you know, last night, you know the fans are counting
Speaker 1: while he's at the free throw line. He gets asked
Speaker 1: about it after the game, He answers a question. He
Speaker 1: doesn't cite mental health, He doesn't cite you know, the
Speaker 1: fans are out of control. He just like takes it
Speaker 1: like to me like he's a legitimate tough guy. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's not throwing punches on the court. But I think
Speaker 1: he's just a mentally tough player. It's so easy to
Speaker 1: like him, and that's why, you know, I hope it
Speaker 1: works out from either way. You know, Chris Paul's gonna
Speaker 1: get his title or Yannis is gonna get it. So
Speaker 1: either way, it's going to be a pretty good steward.
Speaker 1: But I'm happy for him because he got his money.
Speaker 1: He likes it. In Milwaukee, they cut some breaks. I
Speaker 1: think the next series they caught a break, and here
Speaker 1: they are four wins from a title. Frank, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: interested in the rest of the league. Okay, so the
Speaker 1: Portland Hire it didn't go over great use of the
Speaker 1: press conference and the other stuff about Chauncey that I
Speaker 1: hadn't even known her. But but but I you know
Speaker 1: what I have an issue in and I just look
Speaker 1: at it this way. If he's good enough, or he
Speaker 1: was cleared to be an assistant coach in the NBA
Speaker 1: and and be up for the Cleveland Cavalier's GM job
Speaker 1: and all that, then then you can't, like now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden say he shouldn't be get that job.
Speaker 1: But Rob, Rob, he plays for like seven teams, and
Speaker 1: that was okay, right, he almost got to run the
Speaker 1: entire department of the Cleveland Cavalier. He's been an assistant coach,
Speaker 1: he worked at ESPN. But this is the one job
Speaker 1: where we're going to draw the line. They can't get it.
Speaker 1: And and Doug right, they didn't win the press conference.
Speaker 1: But guess what. The Yankees didn't win the press conference
Speaker 1: when they hired to a Tory. And I think a
Speaker 1: lot of times organizations get into trouble where they want
Speaker 1: to make, you know, the big splash he hired. It's
Speaker 1: a big name. It's not about that. It's where the
Speaker 1: the guy can do the job. And I think people
Speaker 1: who know Chaluncey Billips know that he's a very smart guy.
Speaker 1: He's obviously a great leader. What that leads to we
Speaker 1: don't know. But that's why I can't like if you're Portland,
Speaker 1: and I think on a national scale, I don't think
Speaker 1: that the story had a lot of tracks and I
Speaker 1: think locally in Portland, Oh yeah, well, you also have
Speaker 1: to you have to take it, You have to take
Speaker 1: in a context all the other factors. Right, it's Portland,
Speaker 1: which is right, And you know, over the last year
Speaker 1: has been a city where has been as as like
Speaker 1: left leaning, as as as you you possibly see. That's
Speaker 1: part of it. Part of it is there's there's an
Speaker 1: owner or an acting owner who she apparently was in
Speaker 1: love with the idea of having um Becky Hammond as
Speaker 1: as her coach. And I think I think that's really
Speaker 1: what this is about, is about how can you give
Speaker 1: a guy to this guy a job to this guy considering,
Speaker 1: you know, what he was accused of over twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: when there's a perfectly viable candidate who is on an
Speaker 1: NBA bench and she interviewed and people liked her, and
Speaker 1: there's there's just a lot more to it. Okay, So
Speaker 1: the reason he got the job is one everybody thinks
Speaker 1: Johnson's a bright guy. He kind of similarly serious, focused
Speaker 1: culture guy. Totally get it. But also it's can he
Speaker 1: can he keep Damian Lillard on board? Right? Like that's
Speaker 1: that's really it. I mean, I saw David Fizdale's now
Speaker 1: on the front of the bench with the Lakers. Why
Speaker 1: do you think that's going to happen? Well, because he's
Speaker 1: got a great relationship with Lebron James. Like that is first,
Speaker 1: you've got to keep the most important people in your
Speaker 1: on your team happy. But what else can they do
Speaker 1: in Portland to keep Damian Lillard happy. Yeah, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to make you know, obviously some moves and I
Speaker 1: you know, you guys saw that cryptic tweet. I guess
Speaker 1: it was an Instagram post from Damian Lillid the other
Speaker 1: day and in the background I think it was a
Speaker 1: WNBA game, but it was clearly purple and gold behind him.
Speaker 1: You know, I like Damian lill I would take him
Speaker 1: on my team in a second. I don't really like
Speaker 1: the way that he's a'mo this whole thing. I think
Speaker 1: he's facing a lot of heap from the fans because
Speaker 1: he endorsed first Jason Kidd and the Chauncey Billups or
Speaker 1: some fans gave him criticism. He's open out of shape
Speaker 1: about this. But here's my thing about Damian Lillard. You know,
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard again played for Portland, got swept by the Warriors,
Speaker 1: his hometown team, Steph Curry, no Kevin Durant, and like,
Speaker 1: nobody really brings that up. You think about other stars
Speaker 1: in the league when they lose, they hear about it NonStop.
Speaker 1: So in a lot of ways, Damian Lillard should be
Speaker 1: happy that people always regard him as a great player.
Speaker 1: He's a rapper. He's there. Oh, poor Damian Lillard. Yet
Speaker 1: in the moment, and again, I'll take him on my
Speaker 1: team tomorrow if I could. The biggest series of his life,
Speaker 1: he could not take a game off of the Warriors
Speaker 1: without Kevin Durant. No, it's it's fair, it's it's the
Speaker 1: it's it's actually the benefit of when you play in
Speaker 1: a smaller market, right where you know, if things go bad,
Speaker 1: it's never your fault. And if you don't have anybody
Speaker 1: if things go good, can you believe? Can you believe
Speaker 1: what you've been able to do? And you know, then
Speaker 1: if you go to one of those kind of sort
Speaker 1: of super teams, I guess here's my question, Guys, if
Speaker 1: you're one of these older players, does the Chris Paul
Speaker 1: going to a young team energize you to do that?
Speaker 1: Because traditionally what happens is these guys they don't get
Speaker 1: together until they're thirty years old, right, And as we
Speaker 1: saw with the Nets, you get to that age in
Speaker 1: pieces breakdown and then the rest of the team is
Speaker 1: all made up of older veteran guys who may or
Speaker 1: may not have it like a Marcus all right. I
Speaker 1: mean he just had nothing left in the tank, and
Speaker 1: you're you're kind of scrounging the bottom of the barrel.
Speaker 1: Or are you better off instead of doing that, joining
Speaker 1: one of these young teams that have depth and talent.
Speaker 1: They just don't have any experience in doing it, and
Speaker 1: you can be the alpha and the leader kind of
Speaker 1: the I think that's what Jimmy Butler did in Miami.
Speaker 1: It didn't work when he tried to do it in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: And think about it if Chris Paul had gone to
Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz, think about how that could have changed them.
Speaker 1: You know, last year I had heard, you know, some
Speaker 1: scubble but Leon Rose obviously representing Chris Paul for a
Speaker 1: long time. The Knicks tried to get him ten years ago,
Speaker 1: and I heard the Knicks We're gonna do everything they
Speaker 1: could to get Chris Paul. I remember tweeting it out
Speaker 1: and a lot of the Knicks, Oh, why don't we
Speaker 1: want this old guy for it's the last thing we
Speaker 1: need now. I'm not saying the Knicks would have made
Speaker 1: it to the finals, but the Knicks would have been
Speaker 1: a lot better with Chris Paul. Chris Paul has managed
Speaker 1: to stay relatively healthy and again that leadership that he
Speaker 1: brings to a young team. But they also have guys
Speaker 1: that fall in line. You know, Michael Bridges played at Villanova.
Speaker 1: You know he was well coached. He's a terrific role players,
Speaker 1: just like a lot of the Villanova guys are that
Speaker 1: entered the NBA DeAndrea and I think it is a
Speaker 1: lot better than a lot of people thought, maybe because
Speaker 1: the Luca Donchez got off to the great starts, or
Speaker 1: we would you draft DeAndre in first overall? And Devin Booker,
Speaker 1: who you know, when he first came into the league,
Speaker 1: it seemed like he was more concerned about scoring seventy
Speaker 1: points in a loss and taking a picture of a
Speaker 1: piece of paper with order with the number seventy hunt
Speaker 1: it than he was about winning. But that dude's a
Speaker 1: winning player, man like, he does things to help this
Speaker 1: team win. He played with that broken nose. So Chris
Speaker 1: Paul worked walked into a terrific situation with solid, you know,
Speaker 1: young players and including an All Star and Booker and
Speaker 1: and a soon to be All Star in DeAndre eight Um.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's a question for both of you, guys. Question,
Speaker 1: both of you guys, do you think Lebron gets back
Speaker 1: to the championship level? You go first, Rob, No way, No,
Speaker 1: how how about that. I'm on the I'm on the U.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna step out there. No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I don't think that they have room to add the
Speaker 1: kind of player that they need, and I don't think
Speaker 1: that they can always count on Anthony Davis. To me,
Speaker 1: the championship year in the bubble with the four month
Speaker 1: layoff was the only year he really was able to
Speaker 1: stay healthy. That was an anomaly. Most of the time,
Speaker 1: this guy gets hurt. It's just if you look at
Speaker 1: his career. So I'm saying, no, they don't get back.
Speaker 1: I hate to agree with the guy from Queens, New York,
Speaker 1: but I think he's right. And you know, I always
Speaker 1: say whatever, you know, I always say that Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: average is like three grimaces a game, and you're thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is it for him. And you
Speaker 1: just feel that Lebron when he sees Anthony Davis stopped playing,
Speaker 1: it almost as if Lebron is thinking, Dude, I'm the
Speaker 1: one that should be missing games. I've been playing, I've
Speaker 1: played a million playoff games, a million minutes. You need
Speaker 1: to carry the team. Then we'll get to the playoffs
Speaker 1: and then I could do my thing. So I tend
Speaker 1: to agree with Robie. I think the unless they can
Speaker 1: go out and make some kind of bold move, and
Speaker 1: maybe they could use Dennis Shrewder, you know, in a
Speaker 1: sign and trade to get a player. I'm sure they're
Speaker 1: going to try to go after Damian Lillard, you know,
Speaker 1: something to to that degree, but they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: make a big time move to get better. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: And and and for even Lebron himself, like he's still effective,
Speaker 1: but his ability to dominate a game physically, it's just
Speaker 1: it's it's not there nearly as often as it used
Speaker 1: to be, nor should it be at at at this
Speaker 1: stage in his in his career. Can squeeze one more
Speaker 1: in Frank, the Knicks have they reached their ceiling? And
Speaker 1: what is really available to them? I mean there are
Speaker 1: no big time free agents, you know, to sign or anything.
Speaker 1: Where did the Knicks go from here other than home
Speaker 1: dinner in the show. Yeah, I think Tom Tibott for everything,
Speaker 1: you know, and I blew it getting the number four
Speaker 1: seeds this year because now the expectations they're going to
Speaker 1: be through the roof. You're you're right, you know, you
Speaker 1: know how it is in New York. Rob It's always
Speaker 1: going to be you know, they're always gonna shoot for
Speaker 1: the stars. Lebron James, he's gonna come. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, and then two summers ago it was gonna
Speaker 1: be honest, of course he's gonna want to come to
Speaker 1: New York where and the story of Queen's is the
Speaker 1: biggest Greek population in the United States. Yeah, those guys
Speaker 1: are all signing those contracts. They're gonna have to They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to get creative, They're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: a trade. That's one of the reasons why some people
Speaker 1: in the organization wanted to sign Gordon Hayward because those
Speaker 1: types of free agents don't become available all the time,
Speaker 1: and when you have a chance to get one, you
Speaker 1: want to get that player. They didn't really make a
Speaker 1: legitimate you know, run at him and you look at
Speaker 1: Gallinarready got signed by Atlanta, even Bogdanovitch. Maybe if the
Speaker 1: Knicks had tried to get, you know, one of those
Speaker 1: guys that would have helped because the're definitely gonna need shooting.
Speaker 1: And if you go back to a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: you know, they drafted Kevin Knox right ahead of Michael Bridges.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Michael Bridges, you know, is Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: but it's a better player. He's a better player than
Speaker 1: Kevin Knox. I have to do a little better than
Speaker 1: the draft as well. No, I mean, I think I
Speaker 1: think Knox was one of those super young guys a
Speaker 1: lot like Devin Booker. I think he was the youngest
Speaker 1: player in the draft that year, and they they you know, um,
Speaker 1: And I also think that that Michael Bridge is great.
Speaker 1: But he's great because he's being used in the perfect
Speaker 1: way right Like they're not They're they're not saying, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: we need to you go get us thirty a night
Speaker 1: like No. No, he's standing over there in the corner,
Speaker 1: make shots, slash occasionally, and guard the hell out of people.
Speaker 1: And that's what he does and so he doesn't. That
Speaker 1: was his role in college, that's his role here. He's
Speaker 1: he's tremendous at it. Let me ask you guys this,
Speaker 1: you could draft eight, right, so eight and Trey Young,
Speaker 1: which way would you go right now, if you're starting
Speaker 1: a team, you're gonna go. You're still gonna go Luca first, right, Yes,
Speaker 1: I think so, I think. I don't think it's close, Yeah,
Speaker 1: not to don't think it's particularly close the Clippers in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, But I still would take him. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: about the fact that he's accomplished what he's accomplished us
Speaker 1: for not necessarily a team standpoint, But he's as a player,
Speaker 1: He's got the skills. He goes in, plays for his
Speaker 1: national team and they had to qualify the going the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Yet Ben Simmons, who could work on his game, decides
Speaker 1: not to play for his national team against you know,
Speaker 1: tough competition. Now, granted he was hanging out at Wimbledon
Speaker 1: with Maya Jama who's got the greatest name of any
Speaker 1: model in history. But like, what if I tell you,
Speaker 1: like Luca loves to play, and you look at Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you want to play in the Olympics. You
Speaker 1: might play the United States in like the middle ground.
Speaker 1: That's not a big deal. Correct, he should be playing
Speaker 1: working on his game, and he's not. But again, like, look,
Speaker 1: you've talked about Anthony Davis and him not keeping his
Speaker 1: body together. Talking about Ben Simmons and not want to play.
Speaker 1: They're both rap bike by Clutch Sports. They just are.
Speaker 1: And like, I get, they've done an amazing job building
Speaker 1: in business. But the way to sustain that business is
Speaker 1: you got to not just be like, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: be the advocate for the player casually, you gotta be
Speaker 1: able to pull that player aside and go like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: you guys need to Anthony Davis needs to work on
Speaker 1: his body. It should not be breaking down like this,
Speaker 1: and Ben Simmons needs to be playing hoop because that's
Speaker 1: not was that Lebron says, keeping the main thing, the
Speaker 1: main thing. And I heard that they are working on
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, that they really are trying to push him.
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: disappointed that he decided not to play the olympiccause I
Speaker 1: think it's a huge mistake. You can't say I want
Speaker 1: to work on my skill set, well, your skill set
Speaker 1: would be training with the national team, playing in actual games. Correct, correct,
Speaker 1: completely agree. Frank gys Sola Series x M NBA Radio
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Speaker 1: start my all sports newspaper, which was called sports Line
Speaker 1: back in the day. None other then I addressed a
Speaker 1: letter to Rupert Murdoch, the publisher of the New York Post,
Speaker 1: and I got a check from the New York Post
Speaker 1: to start my newspaper. How about that? Is that an
Speaker 1: unbelievable story? Called sports Line because the high school newspaper
Speaker 1: was called the B Line because our nicknames were as
Speaker 1: the VB. So when they used to be there used
Speaker 1: to be sports Line USA. Did they give you any royalties?
Speaker 1: Oh no, they did not, and then CBS butt it
Speaker 1: was CBS sports Line did see Yes, pay you any royalties?
Speaker 1: Uh no we didn't. And then you had a barbershop.
Speaker 1: We had a barbershop show before Lebron had a barbershop. Yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't pay you any royalties. No he did not,
Speaker 1: called U Shop Talk. That was on TV and Detroit
Speaker 1: way way way before Lebron show. But it's it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: My point is it came out of nowhere. I'm thrilled.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be uh inducted in September. And a couple
Speaker 1: of names of only twelve people are in the High
Speaker 1: School Hall of Fame. Donnie Deutsch, who know that name? Right?
Speaker 1: Donnie Deutsch from advertising and he was on the Today's Show.
Speaker 1: He did television. Madeline Cohn, the actress who's in a
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Speaker 1: I think of that. There are other people who are
Speaker 1: way smarter, who got Nobel Prize winners and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But there's a Nobel Prize winner that's that seems like
Speaker 1: that would be the Nobel Prize winner went to Martin
Speaker 1: Van Buren High School. Yes, there's a couple, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, you know what I mean, Like it's hard
Speaker 1: people don't won't recognize them. Those are the names they
Speaker 1: would recognize. But I'm thrilled. Okay, real quick, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: not much to say during the match yesterday. Do you
Speaker 1: think he's their first day of trading camp. Yes, he
Speaker 1: will be there. I agree. I thought it was funny
Speaker 1: nikkil Harry wants to be traded for the Patriots. Patriots
Speaker 1: probably love to trade nikkil Harry. They just trying to
Speaker 1: get something back in return that I but I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I think it just there. There's an inevitability
Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers ending up with the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: Will they rework a deal, will they find a way
Speaker 1: to reconcile, or will they just play this whole circus
Speaker 1: again as soon as the season's over. That's the only
Speaker 1: thing that'll be interesting to find out. Um, Okay, then
Speaker 1: you have the the NBA. Did what you see last
Speaker 1: night change in anyway your thoughts of this series. No.
Speaker 1: I picked the Son's Molly. Question is whether or not
Speaker 1: people will embrace this series as it goes on, and
Speaker 1: what the numbers. Obviously, they won't be as bad as
Speaker 1: they were a year ago with Lebron and Miami. You know,
Speaker 1: all the ratings were down down. I think that was
Speaker 1: the least watch NBA Finals ever, if I remember correctly
Speaker 1: dug a year ago. But I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: people want new teams, they say they do, and they
Speaker 1: wanted to be spread around. I'm just not so sure
Speaker 1: what the numbers will be on this series. I don't
Speaker 1: think they'll be very good, but I do think they'll
Speaker 1: be made better if Milwaukee can bounce back and win
Speaker 1: and win Game two, which could well happen. I like,
Speaker 1: I don't think Chris Paul's dropping thirty four to night
Speaker 1: That's not who he is. So we'll see how much
Speaker 1: they adjust and how much if Chris Paul can do
Speaker 1: that night in and night out. Remember, he has played
Speaker 1: less competitive basketball than any of these other starters because
Speaker 1: he's had so much time off. The shoulder injury kept
Speaker 1: him out, and then of course he had he had COVID,
Speaker 1: so he looked fresh and rested. More so than anybody else.
Speaker 1: Will see what the adjustment is. I don't think it
Speaker 1: rates well, but doesn't matter to me. It's two teams
Speaker 1: that have survived a crazy season, right, I hear you. Now.
Speaker 1: All we can do is watch and enjoy at least
Speaker 1: for the next four or five games, and that's what
Speaker 1: we'll do. But I'll be at the Baseball All Star
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