WEBVTT - 07/07/21 DPS Hour 3 Frank Isola 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.600 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.480 Sports Radio. What up? Good morning to you, Doug Gottlieb, 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:11.640 Rob Parker in for Dan and the Danetts the Dan 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:15.880 Patrick Show. You're on Fox Sports Radio. We'll get back 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.560 into the Rachel Nichols Maria Taylor thing. It will ask 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:25.320 Frank is Sola you know Rachel for years as well? Yikes? Yikes? 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:30.960 Is right? Yeah? Yeah, I mean, how do you how 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.479 does that? What is? Yeah? How does that get? How 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:38.360 do you can't you fix that? Yeah? It's it's curious. Dog, 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.680 I'm with you. I don't know how you just said 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.000 it earlier? How do you put the genie back in 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:48.080 the bottle? I don't know. I mean, as I said, 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.319 you could say a lot of things and people might 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.400 not be happy with it. If he if she went 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.640 on a rant and said that Maria Taylor wasn't better 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.560 than her and all that. I think people could could 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:00.560 deal with that, you know what I mean, that's how 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.120 you feel you could deal with that, But once the 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.760 race part is in, it's just hard for people to 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.360 overlook that. And I'm talking about okay, so help me 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.480 out here. Obviously, there's not a not a ton of 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:17.760 white NBA players. Okay, Uh, but is there is there 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.760 a discussion to be had about what Jalen said and 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.199 really didn't back down from in regards to Kevin Love, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.039 where he said that Kevin Love is only on the 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.839 team because they didn't want to set an all black team. Basically, 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.080 Kevin Love only got the job because he's a white gay. Yeah. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.400 I think there's there's two sides of this, and one 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:39.039 is uh misinformed, right because they had already been four 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.880 black teams. You know, so I think uh, in that 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.480 stance with Jalen, but to and I'm not trying to 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.400 make it like like like it's race is involved. So 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:54.720 I hear what you're saying. Um, but I think in 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:59.600 this case one is uninformed or misinformed. Uh. And I 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.320 don't think he wasn't. I don't think Jalen was informed. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.680 I don't think he called anybody. I think that's just one. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:09.920 I think that. And yes, right, what I'll doing the research, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.000 Like if you're gonna make that claim, all you have 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:13.239 to do is all you gotta do is call the 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.480 USA basketball guys to be like, look, man, here's the deal. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.840 Some of these guys didn't want to go. You know, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.720 some of these guys are in contract years. They don't 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.160 want to possibly get hurt. They don't want to go go 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.920 to the bubble. He played for us before. Plus we 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:26.799 need a shooting big we can bang. We can play 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.119 him at the five, at the four. If he doesn't play, 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:31.079 it's no big deal. He doesn't care. He just wants 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:32.920 to be a part of a winner, like all these 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.440 things would like really for real, that's now he could 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.600 still think it. But yes, he did not do the 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.600 due diligence. But but he's still he didn't fact say it, 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:45.080 and he said it live on air, right, so I 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.680 just it's and now he said on a radio show whatever, 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.040 but he didn't say it on TV. But you know, again, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:55.080 I don't I don't the idea that that that the 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.240 Rachel it was it shouldn't have been recorded, but it 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.919 doesn't doesn't excuse what she said right right right, And 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.000 everybody says that, oh, well, well, well who was he? 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.280 I just forgot his name? The owner of the clippers, 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:11.440 like like, uh, the Donald Sterling right, like right, okay, 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.640 it's a private conversation. But he said it right and 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.840 once it once it came out the bottle, what happened 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.960 Doug that the franchise that he had owned for forever 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.840 and whatnot. He was forced out right because even if 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.960 it was a private conversation, people heard it and it 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.640 made you look at him at a different way. So 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.160 so I'll look at it in that in that standpoint, 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:38.520 you if people if if Maria Taylor leaked it, if 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.800 let's say her people leaked it, because the tape was 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.000 out there, apparently there was an edited tape that other 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.240 people that that had been out there before this one 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.640 had cut out some of these parts to it. If 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.840 if it, if it was found out that Maria Taylor's 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:56.840 people leaked it, what would your opinion of Herbie, It 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:01.400 doesn't matter to me who lead. It's a real tape. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.240 If you told me that they spliced together to have 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.400 or say something that's not your no, no, no, no, no, 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:07.960 I'm not saying that. I'm saying it's really I'm not 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.640 saying there's anything. No one has denied the validity of 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.800 the tape or what's on it. I'm saying, if you 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:15.840 drop this too, if you drop it to the New 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:20.040 York Times the weekend before the biggest the biggest stage 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:25.640 that the league has, that you the company you work for, 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.280 that you're in a contract negotiation with, Like, I'm gonna 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.840 disagree with you on that one. Again, it doesn't it 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:35.600 doesn't in any way vindicate Rachel Nichols. Okay, But whoever, whoever, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:39.840 whoever dropped it, Like, like, the timing of it is 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:44.200 more than curious, and I don't think there's a there's 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.279 another way to do it. There's there's other ways to 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.559 do it, and this was not the time or the place, 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.960 and because because I mean, like look at the very 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.000 employee was fired I mean, or who was I mean, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.800 who was disciplined for for the tape. I'm just saying 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:03.400 I noticed somebody who you know, rated public maybe who 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.440 has maybe off the ESPNY, but maybe she's But why 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.360 why wasn't it already previously out? I don't know. I 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.560 dropped in the fourth of July, and it was an 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.800 absolute absolutely there's no doubt. It took away in many 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.000 ways from I mean, I guess you it was why 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:22.159 you watched. I mean, look, Millik Andrews, she's awesome, So 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.320 it wasn't like where's Rachel you're watching? You know, she's awesome. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.920 And I don't think there was much change in anything. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.520 Of what I was watching last night. We did. There 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.040 was the surprise, wasn't the sideline reporter for it. It 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.600 was that Jannis played and looked healthy like he didn't. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:46.279 He had that incredible chase down block. Um, what was 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.960 your opinion of the series before last night's game when 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:51.360 you were on the Odd Cult. By the way, Rob 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.360 Parker and Chris Bussard Odd Couple seven to ten Eastern 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.560 Time every night on Fox Sports Radio four to seven. 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.000 You can also download the podcast. It's really really popular. Okay, 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.640 So what was your opinion of the series before the 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.039 series started? I picked the Sons because I didn't know. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.360 I was like the run of luck that they've had 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.640 with stars being injured. I didn't know Jannis was gonna play, 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.119 to be honest, Doug, I thought he wasn't gonna play 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:21.640 and was surprised that he was playing. He played, okay, 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.080 I mean he didn't have a huge impact on the 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:29.360 game either way. So I said the Sons in five 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.159 or six games, I'm sticking with that. I think the 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.520 Sons are gonna win the championship. I don't. I don't 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.960 have that confidence in Milwaukee. I know they got through Atlanta, 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.880 but Trey Young was hurt right and didn't play. So 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:46.560 I know they got through Brooklyn, but you know Kyrie 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.320 was hurt and James Harden was hobbled, you know what 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:53.680 I mean? And if Kevin Duran boy side size fourteen 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.440 instead of a seventeen, then the Nets would be in 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.800 the NBA Finals. I mean, yeah, I mean, like I 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.120 I can't, I don't. I don't think. I think we 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:03.680 need to get into the whole discussion about how they 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.039 get got here and should they be here or whatever. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.159 Just in terms of this series, I think it's gonna 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.080 be a very good series. Um. I think Jannis being healthier, 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.760 he's still going to be a hard matchup. The big 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.840 thing is going to be how and do the Bucks 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.640 adjust right, because that's really the that's the criticism Mike Boudenholzer. 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.280 It's not that he's not a good coach. It's that 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:28.000 like the ability to do what what Tylu did consistency consistently, 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.960 which is adjust. I mean Monty Williams when he didn't 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:33.640 have Chris Paul and they go two and oh in 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.520 the Western Conference finals, it's a just adjust your lineups, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.720 adjust your coverages, and look, I don't think it's crazy 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.280 to go into a game going, you know, let's make 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.200 Chris Paul beat us. Like the best thing Chris Paul 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:50.000 does is makes everybody else better, makes everybody else go. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.600 Let's make Chris Paul beat and you know what, one 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.200 game in he beats you. You know he had thirty 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.120 two on nineteen shots. He beats you. He's sliced you, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:07:59.840 he diced you. You put a big on him. He 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:01.880 was too quick. You forced him to go right. He 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.440 found a way to go left, even if he got 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.040 back to his right hand, like Chris, Chris Paul, he 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.240 beat you. Now you're now. The question is, if you're 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.760 Mike Botnozer, are you gonna go with the numbers and say, 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.280 like I don't think he can beat us four times? 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.960 Or are you gonna change how you guard him and 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.600 change your lineups? And that's the big challenge because he 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:20.880 is not a guy who is. He doesn't. The crazy 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:22.720 thing is there's not a lot of in game changes, 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.520 and then even between games, the changes are usually subtle. 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.880 He doesn't pull the drastic whereas a lot of these 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:37.640 other guys go with the drastic changes. Yeah, I get that, Um, 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.880 I just w when when you say you think this 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.439 is a good series. Yes, that's with or without Yannis? 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.920 You really no, no, no, no, no no, now with Yannis? Okay, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.000 so before this, before you knew he was playing, what 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.640 what what did you think of this series? I thought 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.640 he was playing anyway? Oh okay, so I'm the one 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.440 who was in the dark. No I didn't. I had. 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.040 I mean I had a little bit of help, but 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.040 not a ton of help. It was it was just 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.439 more like when they say hyper extended knee, and it 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.600 just didn't do it on the video, you know, when 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.520 I saw right, um, but some kids, but it didn't 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.400 look like it buckled. It just yeah, it looked like 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.080 it bent a little bit the wrong way, but it 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:19.320 didn't look like absolutely positively that's a torn acl or 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.199 meniscus or whatever. And and I couldn't tell when you 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.160 hear no structural damage, they're telling you it's just given 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:29.199 to be about, you know, swelling and when does he feel? Right? Um? 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.559 I I So that's that's what I thought it'd be 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.560 a good series. I picked the Bucks only in that 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.840 the reason the Lakers felt like they could they would 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.640 they were a good matchup against the Suns was the 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.840 Sun's frontline, you know, you got Aton who is more 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.960 of a traditional center of all, he's shown he can 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.839 he can guard some out on the floor. And then 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.800 you know who's the other big You know, is it 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.320 Jay Crowder? Right? So how do you match up when 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.040 you have when you're two best players or you're two 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.760 big players, which is what the Lakers had he had 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.280 yet Anthony Davis. They like that matchup, and I would 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.600 say that on some level, some level, that's exactly what 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.559 the Bucks like about it. The problem is, I don't 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.640 think Drew Holiday played great. Um. The problem was better 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.600 they and Jannis could couldn't play better, and they didn't 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.440 play that starting lineup together a bunch and then they didn't. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.600 I think they need to look at playing small more often, 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:25.960 and that comes down to Ken. They hired Bryan Forbes 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.240 on defense because he gives them something on offense that 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:35.120 nobody else gives them, which is outright deep deep shooting. Okay, 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.840 I just I'd be surprised if the Bucks win this. 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:46.920 But um, but then again, uh, you know, I'm surprised 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.439 where they are. But but things have worked out for them, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.080 and I don't want to, like you said, We're not 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.679 going to get into figuring out and booten Hawser, booten 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.600 Holzer as the coach. Where are you on him? You 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.640 know about coaching, you coach some teams. You know, he 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.640 gets a lot of criticism. I remember it looked like 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.080 he was a goner after they lost by what forty 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.760 nine or thirty nine to the nets? You remember that. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.760 I mean, I think apart is he a good coach? 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.760 I think he's a good I it's you know, it's 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.680 like it's like like baseball. Okay, here's the baseball analogy. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.520 There are guys are there are guys that are great 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.720 regular season managers, but in the playoffs he's like, what 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:28.719 the playoffs are completely different challenge. Right, it's about matchups, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.079 it's about what the computer says. But it's also about feel, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.640 and some guys have it and some guys don't. Right, 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.800 they go they keep going out there and like, what 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.679 are you doing? You know? They some guys have feeling, 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:45.319 some guys don't. I think for for bud It, the 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.600 criticism of him is that while he's really consistent and 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.560 that works in the regular season, in the postseason it 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.480 is about adjustments, and his adjustments are subtle at best. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.720 If if or does he he's kind of that old 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.400 school we do what we do, and if we do 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:01.880 what we do well, like last night, he's like, well, 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.320 Chris Paul is a good player, so that's why they lost, 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.480 Like no, or you kind of helped him out with 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.040 you with your coverage. So what do I think? I 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.480 think that that last night played right into that narrative 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.640 of Bud's not great at adjusting two different personnel. It 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.120 takes him a long time. Do so, look the game 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.880 where Jannis got hurt. Remember the game where Yannis got 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.760 hurt against Atlanto's at game four. Okay, he tweaks his knee. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.439 It looks like he tores acl right, that's what everybody's 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.240 holding their breath. Reggie Miller's going like, well, if he 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.800 can walk on it, maybe that Like, no, Reggie, that's 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.199 not how we judge anyway, Like we're all holding our breath. 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:42.160 So they get back to playing, and all of a sudden, 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.040 Atlanta hits the three and they got great energy, and 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.120 then they hit another and then you know, Milwaukee misses 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.360 a bunny. They come down and they hit another three, 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.400 like right then and there you called time out. All right, hey, fellows, 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.280 let's catch our breath. He waited till like a ten 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.559 o run and then he finally calls time out. So 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.200 I just think he's a little slow to react and 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.480 to fix things. Instead he falls back on the hey, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.920 if we do we do well, then it does nothing 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.280 else gonna matter. And we saw on the other flip 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.520 side of a guy who some people didn't think was 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.400 a good coach, who made a lot of adjustments in 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.040 the playoffs. Who's that ty Lou? I thought ty Lou did. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:22.679 A group didn't think he was a good coach. So 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.280 some people like because he had Lebron and he won 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.680 the championship. Some mean just like the casual people just think, wow, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.199 if you had Lebron James I could win a championship too. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.800 I thought he did a great job with the He 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.800 he was fantastic with the Clippers, and Monnie Williams has 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.960 been fantastic, fantastic with the Suns. Like there's been some 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.360 really I feel like I do feel like in the 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:51.480 NBA coaching does get because it is a lot like baseball, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.920 where in the regular season you're managing minutes and managing 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:58.040 personalities and trying to get consistency and trying to get 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.520 everything to work together. In the playoffs, it's about how 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.200 do we how do we match up? How do we 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:04.800 find a way to win this game? And then how 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.280 do we win the next game? Then how do we 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.160 win the next game? Nothing else matters, and there are 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.480 not There are guys that can do the matchup thing, 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.160 but they can't get to the postseason to do it 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.000 or put themselves in position. There are guys that can 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.320 do the managing of egos and personalities, but then they 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.080 can't do the in game stuff. I think Monty can 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.120 do it both. I think Tylu can do it both. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.320 And I think there's a pretty sound argument. I think 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.520 budd has shown the ability in the regular season in 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:35.400 Atlanta in Milwaukee to do an excellent job, and they're 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:41.520 pretty consistent. But the slowness of adjustments is or lack thereof, 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.280 can be a little can be a little alarming. All right? 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:48.440 Could these finals bring disaster ratings to the NBA? And 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.720 doesn't matter, doesn't matter, we'll discuss. Frank gi Should is 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.960 going to join us around the corner. Be sure to 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.960 catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.000 at nine am Eastern six am Pacific Sports Radio in 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.920 the iHeart Radio WAP Good morning you, Dan Patrick, show 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.400 Rose on Rob Parker, Doug Gottlieban for Dan and the 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:14.320 Dan Nettes. Frank Gisla has worked in the newspaper business 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:17.920 so long that even he he remembers Rob Parker back 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.400 in the day they were they were stripes, back when 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.239 they actually wrote things by hand. And did you do that, um, 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.960 do you always do the recorder thing or did you 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.840 do the like the shorthand notes set started out with 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.680 just the pad and then added the recorder. I've been, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.120 you know, in the business for thirty five years, so 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:40.800 when I first started out, Doug, excuse me, even like 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:45.000 sending in your story was difficult. We were We wrote 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.360 on these tandy laptops where you could only see about 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.920 six or eight lines of your story. It was, it was, 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.640 And then you would have to plug into a phone line. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:16:00.480 So I've sent stories from McDonald's from the air poured 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.880 service desk, from pulling over to a gas station and 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.760 begging the store owner to let me use his phone line. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.600 It was incredible, like where I filed stories from. Yeah. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.320 Now now now it's you can record a podcast from 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.040 any right on his zoom. You can literally be face 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.320 to face with anybody anywhere in the world. It's it's incredible. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.360 And I've known Frank forever obviously, we worked in New 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:32.680 York together, and he's a fantastic NBA reporter. I absolutely agree. Agree. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.760 We just we disagree in the shakery Richardson that she 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.840 shouldn't run, right, We we both. I'm trying to think 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.440 there aren't any major points of disagreement today. Well I don't. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:45.760 Um today, I'm you're with Oltani. You would pick Oltani 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.880 to start your team, and I would take Tattoos Junior. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:50.440 So that yeah, but that's not That's not what I'm 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.800 willing to go to the mattresses for. Like, I know, emotional, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.600 but it's splitting there two great players splitting hairs. Yeah. Um, 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:03.920 but you ask my opinion on Mike budenholz Er, what's yours? Yeah, 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.399 I mean, I'm just I asked George. I don't think 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.320 he's that great. But I'm not a coach. So that's 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.040 why I think your opinion is even better because you've 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.520 done it and you've coached kids, you know what I mean, 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.359 and you have a team or whatever. So I'm just 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.879 always interested as a guy who's covered the nbas's nineteen 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:25.000 eighty seven. I think he's just okay. You know, he's 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.159 not a terrible coach, but there's times I think what 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.760 is he doing? Frank is Soola joins a serious XM 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.200 NBA radio. You can also see him around the horn 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:40.040 at the Frank Isola Frank I said that Budd. The 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.720 criticism of Bud, which is fair, is that he's kind 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:45.240 of that a little bit of that old school We 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:46.600 do what we do, we do it well, and they 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.640 adjust to us. He just not quick to adjust in 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.639 terms of lineups at times and in terms of coverages. 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.320 They will make some subtle adjustments, but not He won't 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.720 just change things the way that a Tyler would just 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.280 change things. Now it's worked to a certain level, but 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.919 hasn't worked in the playoffs. Is that a fair Is 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:07.720 that a fair way of describing what people in the 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.879 NBA say about Mike Budenholzer. I think it's fair. And 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.720 Doug and Rob, how you guys doing. You know, if 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.040 you look at the NET series, it didn't seem like 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.320 should ever be out there. If you go to back 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:21.400 to game five when they just kept running that high 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.920 screen and roll with you know, Duranpez he started taking 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.359 the ball up and then it was he was a 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.199 lot of times isolated on brook Lopez and Lopez just 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.280 couldn't keep up yet. In Game seven, Lopez did have 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.000 the block shot on Kevin Durant with the game tide 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.600 at one eleven, and that's when Joe Harris said missed 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.000 the three. Chris Middleton came down hit the basket, which 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.000 ended up being the one that won the series to them, 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.120 and then brook Lopez had some good moments. I think 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.560 you talk to people that have worked with Mike Budenholzer, 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.000 they say that he does make a lot of in 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.240 game adjustments, maybe not dramatic things where he's changing the 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.880 starting lineup and things like that, but he does make adjustments. 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.160 But last night and even the guys on the telecast, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:57.800 we're saying, you know, at some point you got to 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.639 do something. It's just not working to keep getting you know, 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.800 brook Lopez caught an isolation and they were completely exploiting 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:06.600 him on the pick and roll. But if you look 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:08.679 at the Milwaukee Bucks their history, and it's not a 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.400 good one, but I think it's five of the last 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.760 six playoffs series they've been in they have lost Game 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.080 one and the one that they won against Miami, which 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.000 was about a month ago, six weeks ago. They didn't 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.960 really play that well even in that game, so they've 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.159 been slow starters, so maybe it kind of takes him 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.439 a game or two. They're really getting adjusted. What do 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.240 you think of how Nis looks. I thought he looked 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.040 really well. You know, I thought they did a good 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:34.160 job last night on the pregame. I guess Steven Any 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.000 and Michael Wilbama are probably on, and they were showing 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:37.960 him warming up. And you know, we've all been to 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.199 NBA games. We've seen guys work out. He looked like 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:43.880 he was going through, you know, the typical workout before 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:45.480 you're gonna play. And I know they kept it kind 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.359 of close to the best before the games. But we 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.600 also know the way Yannis says, you know you're at 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:51.959 the NBA Finals. I don't think he would go out 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:53.360 there if he felt he was gonna hurt the team. 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.640 I thought he was pretty aggressive early. I was cringing 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:57.920 every time he jumped because you're you're worried about him. 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.280 But think about where we are. You know, two years ago, 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.240 when the final started, the big thing was will Kevin 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.399 Durant come back from injury and play. Well he did that, 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.480 then you know, this finals begins with everyone wondering whether 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:09.760 or not you honest, he's gonna play, what games will 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.760 come back? And I thought, you know, all things considered, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:14.480 I thought he was pretty good. He saw it. You know, 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.359 he set seventeen rebounds and he was seven for twelve 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:18.720 in the pree thro line, which I gotta be honest, 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:20.200 I think I might take the rest of the series. 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:24.040 You know, miss only five out of twelve. How about 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.480 the Sons, Frank I said that their championship run is 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:31.280 for gays, he only because of and I know they 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:34.040 were the second team, best team in the West record wise, 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.159 but they've had an unbelievable amount of breaks and and 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.840