WEBVTT - 03/04/22 DPS Hour 3 Dan Woike 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.760 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program final hour. On this 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:09.840 Meet Friday, we got a headline with the downloads Cowboys 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:14.880 from Adam Schefter. The Cowboys likely in parentheses to release 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.440 Amari Cooper by the start of the new league year. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.479 Per league sources, Cooper is due twenty million dollars in 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.120 fully guaranteed money on the fifth day of the new 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.040 league year, March twentieth. Boy, we didn't see that one coming, 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.840 did we, When we went they're going to pay Amari 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:36.840 Cooper that kind of money. I wonder what Dak Prescott 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:40.640 thinks about this right now, But then Dak may say, yeah, 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:42.600 I guess this is what happens when you get paid 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:47.040 forty million dollars. Maybe cut a running back. Marie Cooper 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.479 the value to Dak Prescott. What kind of stats did 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.160 Amari Cooper have last year? Paulling Dan in twenty twenty, 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.840 he played all sixteen I played in fifteen games, almost 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.560 all sixteen games. He had ninety two catches, eleven hundred yards, 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:01.240 five touchhows real nice numbers last year, and fourteen starts, 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.240 sixty eight catches, eight hundred and sixty five yards eight touchdowns. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.880 He was down a bit. Yeah that's not worth twenty 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:12.480 million dollars, but so likely to release Amari Cooper. 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Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll roll the 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:00.360 dice and take the Final four with the possibility that 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.240 Coach K could be coaching in his final final game. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.000 Like it all right, yes, Tod, but it's going to 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.160 still be his final game in Cameron Indoor, and that's 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.680 pretty special and awesome. I realized. I'm just making sure 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.880 you understand the last game is not going to be 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:18.640 played at Duke four sight. Thank you, Thank you, Todd 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.760 h It is a meat Friday. Todd tries to put 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.360 a damper on that. But in case you're wondering, barbecue 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.720 chicken sandwich is ultimate loaded nachos. Who's gone it better 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:33.079 than we do? No body? By the way, the twelve 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.120 fifteen podcast, we'll have that for you. That'll be on 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.640 our newsletter Dan Patrick dot com. Go to the website. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.320 The back room guys get to dish on everything that 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.120 happened this week. And I'm sure what just transpired in 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.799 the last ten minutes is going to be top rick 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:53.440 topic Numero uno, and that was hand size. We of 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:59.239 course wanted to uh see where we matched up stacked 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.680 up against Kenny pickt the Kenny Pickett Memorial Handshake Challenge 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.280 or Hand Sized Challenge here on the Dan Patrick Show. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.400 It's the first annual Kenny Pickett Hand Sized Challenge Kenny 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.400 Pickett hand size eight and a half. Pauli has the 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:17.639 results for this, you know, this program with myself and 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.799 the dinner. Yeah, Dan, you won Fritzie. And second, a 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.440 lot of people had that as the order right off 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.600 the bat. And then if you had a trifecta box. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.160 You would have lost because I finished third. Yeah, and 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.760 then Seaton the upset of the century, finishing fourth, and 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:33.160 Marvin Dan didn't that finish he was under eight inches. 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.760 That's like a non qualification. Yeah. You know Rob our 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.400 Knicks fan back there in the back, and he's dominuted. 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:44.840 He's small, he's got bigger hands than Marvin Days. Yeah, Marv, 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.760 I know that. I was. I have little hands and 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.520 little feet. Everybody else I have, you know, size ten shoe, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.920 small hands. Yeah, you know, take my strong hand, like 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.800 I don't have any strong hands, yeah, big hands. Sorry, 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.920 you didn't throw the contest, did you? No, it was 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:07.880 not that steak. Okay, Well your reputation. So from now on, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.480 everybody's gonna know when they tune in, they go, oh, Marv, 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.960 he's got small hands. What rep pm yawn? Yeah, it's 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.919 this dude just tweeted at us. He said, I just 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:21.760 hit rock bottom. I chose to be late to a 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:29.279 meeting so I could hear who had smaller hands. Yeah. Yeah, 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:31.640 so Marvin, like, you have to get to eight just 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:36.720 to qualify, and you didn't even get to eight. Yeah. Sorry. 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.239 There's already memes flying around about of Marvin's tiny hands. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:42.600 I like that I get to make the joke out 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:47.680 like Marvin's tiny hands. I know for years Seaton would 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.160 talk about, you know, how small his feet were and 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.279 his hands were. He said, I got the hands of 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.920 a twelve year old girl. That's yeah, man, You're gonna 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.360 go home and feel a whole lot better. You're gonna say, hey, hon, home, 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.560 I'm home. Yeah, yeah, what happened to your voice? What 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:11.120 do you mean? All right? So the NFL combine is 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:15.159 rolling along? Lakers lost again. We'll check in with the Lakers. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.760 They got blown out by the Clippers. Kevin Durant's back 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.760 and the Nets lose again and uh Mike Schevski's last 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.840 home game at Duke coming up on Saturday. Draymond Greene 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:31.360 had this to say about Laker fans booing Lebron jameson company. 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:35.200 To get booed by your own fans, like, it's very 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.680 distasteful and disgraceful, and I was shocked to see that. Like, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.560 I thought that was pathetic. I thought it was extremely pathetic. 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:46.440 And like I said, I thought it was very distasteful 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.440 from a fan base of an organization that has the 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.159 most championships in the NBA, like, like, let's not be 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.560 so like spoiled brats. Like it's okay to be spoiled. Yeah, 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.200 be spoiled. We all get spoiled by things at times, 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.920 at one point in our life or another. But let's 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:08.160 not be Bratt's. And that was about as braddy as 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.880 something that I've seen, considering that this team just won 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.800 the championship, not even a four or two years ago, 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.560 and now you're boy like, I thought that was utterly ridiculous. 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.359 But I will say this, the Laker fans have been patient. 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.440 We're into March now, and I think they realize this 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.840 isn't a good team. But I never understood the booing 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.920 of your own team. And you're how could you possibly 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.440 be booing Lebron James a team with Lebron James? You might, 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.840 you might boom Russell Westbrook. You can't take Lebron out 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.960 of this. It's Lebron's team. And if you think that 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.359 Russ is going to change was going to change, I 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.880 mean that's on you, and that includes the Lakers. This 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.760 is who Russ is. I don't know how you go. Nah, 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.520 you know, Russ, if we get him some open jumpers 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:05.640 there and we tap into his three point shooting acumen. Hey, 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.800 and when he handles the ball, he doesn't turn the 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.480 ball over, Like, come on, this is who he is. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.160 It was all about taking the ball out of Lebron's 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.679 hands so Lebron could then co stir in the regular 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.920 season pace himself. Well, it's not the way it's going 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.680 to happen. Anthony Davis goes down. You don't have a 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.480 great bench, supporting cast considering what you once had to 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:33.880 what you have now. And the Clippers beat him again 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.880 second straight year. They swept the seasonal series from the Lakers. Yeah, poem, 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.040 all right, But do you think that the average Los 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:46.040 Angeles Lakers fan not booze Lebron but blames Lebron for 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:47.960 the lineup. I think the average fan, maybe even the 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:49.800 national fan who doesn't know the Lakers as well as 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.640 anybody else, thinks the management puts the people on the court, 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.280 that Lebron wants, that he is stirring the drink completely, 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.320 and that Rob Plank and the other guys are just 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.080 at his beck and call. I think that's what people think, 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.400 whether it's true or not. Well, I don't think anything 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:10.000 happens there without Lebron's consent. And if Lebron thinks you 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.520 know that that we don't think that, then he's incorrect. Yes, 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.960 it's it's Lebron is running that team. Todd has a limerick. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.280 He keeps reminding me that he has a limerick, and 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.920 it's about the Lakers. Yes, but the Lakers woes. Yea, 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.200 So Todd, thank you for sending me. You have to 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.520 fill up everybody's reminder. Yeah. Yeah, So here we go. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.079 Here is uh, here's here's Todd once again. The Laker 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:39.280 fans wept hard to accept their team is inept, coaching, 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.360 player frustration, with no motivation. Against the Clippers, they got 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.600 themselves swept. All right, all right, thank you Todd. Jesse 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.840 in La, Hi, Jess, what's on your mind today? Hey, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.920 thanks for taking my call of ep yep um happy 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.920 meat cause Davy Friday nine and one four inches over 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.080 here in La. I'll let you us what's going on 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.000 over there. But but I'm calling on two things here. 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.480 Did you realize that with the King's loss to the 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.319 Pelicans on Wednesday that they're guaranteed themselves another losing season, 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.920 the sixteenth year in a row, continuing a trend in 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.840 my adult life yet to see them with a better 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.280 than five hundred record. The real reason I'm calling them 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.199 is because I wanted to throw down a bet to 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:25.600 Tiny Hands for his first DP show of tiny hands. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.920 That's Marvin's Marvin's new name, tiny Hands. Okay, so, Jess, 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:35.080 what is the pie to the face bet with Tiny Hands? Marvin? Right? 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.400 And this will supersede that lame one he made yesterday 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.280 with the football team. This is emboy march madness. So 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:45.400 Marv your Yukon Huskies, my UCLA Bruins. I think they're 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.200 both going to be seated better than six, both third 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.400 in their respective conferences. Whoever's team goes further in the 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.520 tournament loser, pie to the face. Don't be scared, dude. 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.880 First of all, it's tea hands. Oh z on the end, 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:06.240 tiny hands hands. Okay, all right, fair enough, you know 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.720 what hey you're on because we've won a national championship 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:17.200 in this century, so we'll go all right, all right, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:24.360 thank you, Jess. All right, So tea hands. That sounds 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.400 like a T shirt with little with little baby hands 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:32.760 hands hands, tea hands. Yeah, I mean for all, Yes 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:36.600 you are, You're the poster child for it, for all 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.920 those guys out there with tiny hands. Marvin is there 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.840 for you, tea hands. I I'm Marvin Prince for tiny 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:49.040 hands across America. Hey, everybody, you know me, it's me 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.559 Marvin Prince. You know me tea hands. I just want 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.680 to let you know it's all good. I'm here for you. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.520 But what solution do you have here? Support system for 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.520 the handless? Yeah? Oh no, I don't have any solution. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:02.640 I just want you to know I'm here for you. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.680 You guys feel disrespected, Well, I have nothing to say. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.080 There's now to get a free little set of gloves, 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:14.439 mitten mittens, a little mittens. Yes, me and my son 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:22.839 sheer mittens. Also, uh, Kenny Pickets your favorite quarterback now? Yeah? 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.080 Of all time? Yeah, you've heard of te Higgins. How 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:30.360 about tea hands? That's me, I'm tea hands. More phone 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.800 calls coming up. That was some gold there. I didn't 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.880 I didn't know we were gonna have that result. Just 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.880 to see Seaton's face when he realized he didn't have 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.199 the smallest hands in the room. Right now, people are 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.280 calling it like a sixteen over a one scene right there, 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:57.000 like let march maddness truly begin. It's handness, march hands miss, oh, 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.920 anything else? Oh. Charles Barkley had this to say. You know, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:04.520 Charles Dunn mince words, but he's tired of showing Laker highlights. Man, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.560 we'rem I showing these guys an the more we have 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:11.160 to return, I'm making that decision around here. But we're 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:15.120 not showing them bomb from Southern California anymore. We stop it. Nope, 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:19.920 that they were ball. We gotta stop showing that thing now. See. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.480 I disagree with Charles because we still want to see 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.800 the process, the struggle. You know a lot of times 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.200 you'll see teams when they're playing really well, and everybody 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.880 wants to show those highlights. But success can be boring. Like, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.880 I want to see the struggle here. I'm going to 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:41.720 see them work through this now. Sometimes watching that that 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.360 can be great great TV. I was gonna say great theater, 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.600 but Todd always says that. I say great theater. I 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.560 like when you say that, Yeah, but make fun of it, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.680 but it's kind of cool. What's great TV is what 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.880 it is. But yeah, I want to see the whole 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.200 process here working through that. I think that's interesting. All right, 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.720 we'll take a break, check in with the Lakers and 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.720 more phone calls coming up as well. 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Now, Look, I don't I'm not 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.800 an alarmist, and I did say, let's wait until the 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:14.600 end of December and then we'll get a better sense 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.520 maybe of this team. Here we are in March. I 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.040 guess the sense I have is they're not a good team, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.600 but there's no other options here. I don't know why 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.960 people think, oh my gosh, they're they're terrible, or Russell Westburn, like, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.040 what are you gonna do? I think in the offseason 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.400 they'll do some things. They took a chance, didn't work out, 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.040 and they've lost eight of their last ten. The Lakers 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:38.520 host Golden State on Saturday night. Dan Woiki covers the 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.880 NBA covers the Lakers for the LA Times. All Right, 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.680 where do you want to start here? Dan? With what 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.920 happened last night? It's been great theater. Dan, I just 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:50.960 want to say thank you. You know, you say you 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.960 want to watch the struggle Like that's the crazy thing 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:55.240 is like they have seven more games on national TV 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.560 as the season plays out, right, like, so we are 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.800 all going to see this like it is very public. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.160 I mean, I think, I mean, Russ's is good a 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.360 place to start at any because that decision impacted everything, 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.440 not just in terms of what he's able to do 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:15.600 on the court, sort of the math problems it caused 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:20.040 for them when you trade three players for one when 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.960 that player makes forty three million dollars and that's money 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.480 you can't spend elsewhere. You know, I was watching in 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.760 that third quarter and you watched that, you know, the 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.840 Clippers going I think it was like a twenty three 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.640 to run at one point, and you look around it's like, 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:37.360 why can't this team stop anybody? And you realize, oh, well, 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.440 Kyle Kuzman, Contavious called Poper on a different team, Alex 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.680 Caruso's I'm a different team, Like, these are the guys 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.200 that were parts of the pillars of the identity that 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.960 the Lakers won a title with, which was built on defense, 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.400 and that has all been traded out. That has all 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.680 been gone in an effort to be more dynamic on offense. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:59.920 And they stink on offense and they're slightly below average 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.520 on defense, and that's why they are in the position there. 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.280 Jim Leagler was on yesterday and he said that he's 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.720 watching the body language and he said during timeouts, they're 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.880 not talking to each other, like there's no spirit there. 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.520 There's nobody who's sort of yeah, you know, getting in 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.200 somebody's face here. And they've they've had those players in 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.920 previous years. They just don't have that now. But I wonder, 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:28.240 what do you do in the off season a lot, right, 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.800 And I think I think Legs is right. Um, you know, 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.800 I think what we're seeing, right, dan As, you're seeing 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:37.400 a team that had championship expectations being confronted with the 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.280 reality and they might not even be the teph best 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.400 team in the West, you know, And that's it's jarring. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.600 And it has been you know, let's wait, like you said, 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.160 we'll wait to dand in summer. This has been their 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.560 approach on a lot of things, at least publicly, is like, well, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.320 let's wait and see where we're at once we're healthy. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.560 Let's wait and see where're at once to get some continuity. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.000 You know, here we are with twenty games left in 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.360 the season, and it doesn't seem it seems impossible to 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.000 imagine that the get either of those things. Um, as 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.840 far as the off season goes, you know, dealing with 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.720 the Russell Westbrook issue, um, seems like it'll be at 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.119 the very top of the list. Right, Um, best for 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.640 both parties. I think probably to figure out a solution 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.119 now that that's gonna it's gonna like the Lakers are 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.760 going to have to pay for that. It's not a 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.800 simple like let's find a team that wants Russ Like 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.439 they're gonna have to sweeten that deal. They're gonna have 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.879 to use draft picks to kind of start to dig 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.440 out of the hole that they're in. But they've probably 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:30.840 got to dig out of the hole. And then I 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:34.920 think secondarily, um, you know, a coaching change seems likely. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.760 The Lakers have kind of said that, um you know, 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.880 with with with a half hearted extension, um with kind 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.320 of letting Frank Vogel dangle a little bit here during 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.920 during this season. I mean, they've sort of made their 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:52.000 their feelings known there. And I think, um, again, another 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.399 situation probably for best for both parties. Um, you know, 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.520 like there's gonna be big There'll be big changes. This 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.879 team has to look differently in the next year to here. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:04.240 The crazy thing, I'm not convinced to look that much better. Well, 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.679 I wonder if Lebron knows the clock is ticking, he 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:11.680 wants to win at least one more championship. And he's 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.080 got to look around and going, can I win a 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.879 champ Do you think Lebron can win a championship in 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.080 the next couple of years there in Los Angeles? I 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.760 mean now without a certain level of luck that hasn't 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.160 been there, right, Like, I mean, you're gonna need He's 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.400 gonna have to continue to defy age on the court, 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:32.959 but he's gonna have to stay on before right. You know, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.040 Lebron has missed a lot of time this year. His 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.600 running mate is Anthony Davis, and so you need Anthony 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.920 Davis on the court. Like, these are big ifs when 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.320 you talk about the Lakers. If Anthony Davis is healthy, 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.400 if Lebron James keeps playing at this level. I mean, 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.760 you know, next season, Lebron will be thirty eight. You know, 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.359 the York to that will be thirty nine, And eventually 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.080 you would think like that, I mean, maybe we're already 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:58.760 starting to see some of those things slow down. You know, 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.080 the swollen knee, you know, the ankle injuries seemed kind 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.159 of freakish, but you know, he's had other things, a 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.439 groin injury that he's dealt with, like these soft tissue 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:10.919 injuries that tend to kind of suggest older age, you know, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.760 I think I think that is obviously those are hugest. 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:17.600 Can it happen? I mean they have a punch of chance. 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.639 I mean they are I was talking to a scout 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.399 last night and it's like they are as born on 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.600 third base of a team as anybody, right, because they 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:27.520 have Lebron James and Anthony Davis and the sort of 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.040 why despite all of this stuff, you talk to teams 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.439 around the league, nobody still wants to play him. They 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:33.720 don't want to see them in the play and they 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:35.119 don't want to see them in the first round of 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.720 the playoffs because they have these two guys, and these 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:42.800 two guys are unquestionably great players. Is this a great team? No, 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:48.720 not close handicapped the rest of the West here best 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.439 team is who I think, at full health, I think 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.040 it's the Phoenix Suns, but the Chris faul thumb injury 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.159 is an interesting one. It is that team to me 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.959 when I see them, they make the most sense. Um 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.680 Like you just see them. They've got athletic wings now 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.399 they have they have experienced, they have perimeter scoring, they 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.800 have an interior presence, They've got tremendous depth, They've been 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:15.000 there before. It's a team I really like. Um. I 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.560 still sort of think the Utah Jazz are lurking, and 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.760 they've they've disappointed the playoffs so many times. But but 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.080 you know, it's a terrific offense, and you know, a 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.360 team that's played much better basketball. Seemingly, the only team 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.320 the Lakers can be weirdly enough, is the Utah Jazz. 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.120 But but you know, Utah and everybody that doesn't seem 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.000 like a problem. They'll have to conquerence the playoffs, you know. 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.479 And then obviously the Warriors are the Warriors. I mean, 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:42.119 I think Steph Curry's in a little bit of a 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.000 funk right now. M Clay Thompson's still playing his way 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:48.200 back and reintegrating pieces like that is not easy, dam 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:53.440 it like it, especially especially when it's been so long. 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:57.040 It's hard to readjust your identity like that. But again, 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:00.280 that's just another team that I think you know is 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:02.280 in the mix. It just to me, Phoenix just feels 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:04.240 like they have the least amount of questions. A thumb 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:06.560 injury isn't the end of the world. Chris Paul will 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:08.680 be back on the court at some point. He'll be 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:10.480 able to stay in shape. It's not like you can't 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.199 jog if you have a broken bumm. It's not like 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.479 he can't work out a little bit and stuff like that. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:16.359 So I don't think it'll be hard for him to 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.960 kind of to get back running at full speed. Make 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:26.560 a case for John Moran to win MVP. The Memphis 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.560 Grizzlies aren't on anybody's radar if he's not like shopping 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.160 above the backboard every game, you know, like in terms 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.120 of value, if they're a game out of the two 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:37.919 seed right now, day yeah, yeah, yeah, Dan, he is 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.200 the value case right um. And you know, I didn't 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.680 mention Memphis, and I probably should because it's easy to 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:48.800 kind of see the path for them, right like it 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.320 is kind of a weird year again in the West. 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:53.920 You know, who knows what doors will be open. They're 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:58.640 tremendously athletic, another team with tremendous death. They had never 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.600 been there before, which is always it's tough to go 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:04.280 through the first time. And we'll see what. You know, 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.200 how how a team defends John Moran over seven game 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:09.800 series is totally different from how you deal with him 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:11.439 on a night to night basis. And how good are 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:14.760 they had adjusting, but there's probably not a more exciting 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:17.400 player in the league right now. Um, it does feel 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:19.359 like he can do anything. I was in the building 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.399 when you know, he blocked that shot against the Lakers, 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:24.480 and it looked like, you know, he had a you know, 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.480 a couple of Tesla rockets, and the Sneakers like it's 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:29.920