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I'm 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.679 gonna be honest, I'm hearing our subscriptions on the podcast 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.240 feed and our subscribers on YouTube have it slowed a bit. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.800 So if you're listening right now, you're probably part of 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.160 the solution, not part of the problem. Tell a couple 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.000 of people on the podcast, maybe tweet about the podcast. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.640 How about this? You know, I DEMONSI might not have 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.480 control of my Twitter account, but I always assume somewhat 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.440 control of his. If you tweet about the What's Right 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.640 with Nick Great podcast or YouTube feed, tag. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.160 Demonsay in it, He'll retweet you. How about that? There 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:10.800 are you good with that? 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:11.360 Of course? 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:11.680 Thank you? 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.960 There you go, so get out we'll retweet you. There 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.280 is he will retweet you. So we have a lot 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.240 to do today. On today's show. But first we must 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:21.800 get to what we're not doing on today's show, as 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.920 we always do. What is not on today's show is 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.360 Western Arference Finals Game one, because that takes place in 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.840 a few hours from us actually doing this, even though 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.520 it took place a few hours after you guys were 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:33.920 hearing this. 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:35.360 It's confusing, but just trust me. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.240 Ab wants to retire in Pittsburgh, no chance, and Tom 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.760 Brady getting roasted Tom, maybe more accurately, Tom Brady's social 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.320 media team getting roasted. 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:46.519 That is not on today's show. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.400 We will get to what is on today show in 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.120 just a minute, but if you didn't hear the episode 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.440 earlier in the week up, we have up the clock 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.400 by two minutes. We have twelve minutes for the first segment. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.840 I am one for one and hitting the clock with 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.120 the new twelve minute time frame is what we should 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.000 have been doing from the beginning. So you guys can 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.280 start the clock. You'll see it in the right top 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.360 left hand corn of your screen for watching on YouTube. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.160 If you're listeners, don't have to trust me. Start the clock, demons. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:12.280 What are we starting with? 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.840 So, yeah, Miami won Game one against Boston, just like 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.720 you said, yeah, I'm not abandoning shit, but it's uh, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.040 I mean, obviously there were key players missing. You did 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.440 say that the Heat would win because like, you know, 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:28.880 Celtics were gas or whatever. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:30.400 Yeah, but they were missing. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.840 You're missing Marcus Smart and Al Horford. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.360 I feel like if that's not the narrative, they definitely 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.840 win the game. Okay, but you know, so are we 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.720 all just sleeping on Jimmy Butler in the heater? 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.680 What's going on here? I'm not sleep on Jimmy Butler. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.080 All right, So a lot of things discussing. First of all, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.560 I will give you credit. You have been the biggest 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.040 Robert Williams time Lord fan there is. 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.040 And he played yesterday and played well. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:57.080 Played very well, and it was looking great for the Celtics. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.640 The Celtics are up ten at halftime, and if they 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:06.040 win that game in Miami, no Marcus Smart, no Al Horford, 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.960 It's very hard to figure out how the Heat are 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:10.440 going to be able to win four of the next 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.760 six as the Celtics get healthier. But then the Celtics 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:17.839 and notably your guy Tatum, had the worst quarter they've 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:22.039 had all postseas yea, and now that was inflicted upon 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.800 them by the Miami Heat defense in Jimmy Butler. But 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:30.719 Tatum tied the modern playoff record for most turnovers in 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.680 a quarter in any playoff game. He had six turnovers 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.240 in the third quarter and it went from a ten 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:40.039 point Celtics lead to a ten point Celtics deficit in 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.800 the span of six game minutes. First six minutes of 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:46.000 the third quarter was a twenty two to two Miami run. Now, 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.560 that was done some by Jimmy, but a lot by 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:50.760 the Miami. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:51.279 Defense as a whole. 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.919 But to answer the question about are we sleeping on 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.640 the Heat, I mean they're the one seed. They made 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:01.039 the finals two years ago. Everyone discounts that finals appearance 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.600 because what they're really trying to do because so much 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.679 of not just for me, but from so much NBA 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:12.120 commentary revolves around the Sun that is Lebron James, and 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.560 so people discount what the Heat did in the bubble 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.880 as a way to discount what Lebron won in the bubble. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.040 If you acknowledge the Heat, we're an awesome team. It 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.120 gives more validity to Lebron's championship instead of me calling 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.560 it a bubble title or a Mickey Mouse title. But 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.800 if you look at it like, okay, so the Heat 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.120 went to the finals in twenty twenty. Last year they 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.760 ran into peak of his powers Giannis, and they played 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.719 poorly and guys were banged up and they got swept 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.920 in around one. This year they're the one seed. They 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.000 have been able to deal with injuries throughout the year, 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.560 still be the one seed. And now we get to 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:51.799 Jimmy Butler. Which this is something we acknowledge is happens 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.480 all the time with some regularity in the negative direction. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.000 But people need to open up their eyes that this 0:05:58.040 --> 0:05:59.239 can happen the positive direction. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:00.120 Here's what we know. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.359 What happens in the negative direction. An all time great 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.880 regular season player gets to the postseason and gets worse 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:08.920 every year. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:10.719 James Harden is an example. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:15.760 James Harden is regular season wise, statistically one of the 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.800 greatest players ever, and in the postseason is twenty five 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.520 to thirty percent worse. Before your era, Carl Malone was 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:27.279 like this, Carl Malone second leading all time scorer. Well 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.320 did Lebron pass him yet, I'm not certain, but regardless 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.640 he was the second leading all time scorer one two 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.400 MVPs finished second to other times and Carl Malone come 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.280 the postseason would be just a little bit worse. We 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.760 would say, Okay, you're great in the regular season and 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.960 you're just good in the postseason. Jimmy Butler's the inverse 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.480 of that. He's good in the regular season twenty points, 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.240 five rebounds, five assists, and come to the playoffs, he's 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.919 a different level. Gone. He ups his game by twenty 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.320 five to thirty percent. Jimmy Butler the year they went 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.560 to the finals had zero forty point games in the 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:05.320 regular season. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:06.800 In the playoffs, he had too. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.360 Jimmy Butler this year had zero forty point games in 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.400 the regular season. In the playoffs he already has three. 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:17.800 So is Jimmy Butler a superstar in the regular season? 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:17.920 No? 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.320 In the playoffs? Are there ten guys you'd rather have? 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.240 Sure doesn't seem like it. So in the playoffs he's 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.400 a superstar in the playoffs that matters the most. We 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.880 saw this a bit with your guy Rondo near the 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.160 end of his career, but that wasn't to the same. 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.600 Was happening with Rondo was Rondo was. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.800 Bad in the regular season and then would be above 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.840 average to good in the playoffs. Yeah, Butler being good 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.880 in the regular season and then great in the playoffs 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.320 is a unique thing. But yeah, I mean some people 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.320 are sleeping on the Heat. Some people picked the Heat 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.040 to win the series. Heat and seven was the pick. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.160 Feel pretty good about it. But you guys will get 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.760 Smart back, You'll get Horford back, Your guy. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.840 Tatum needs to play better. It all is not lost. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:08:00.680 There's gonna be a tight nip and tuck series. However, Yeah, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.800 some people saying, well, Heat, not me because I've gotten 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:05.840 basically everything about these NBA playoffs right except for the 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.080 Buck Celtics series, and Chris Milton was out, so it 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:08.720 doesn't even really. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.000 Can there's sticking with Heat and seven. 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.120 Yeah, of course I'm not going to abandon it after 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.800 they win Game one, of course. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.080 Not all right, what's the next? 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.480 Chris Faull says he's coming back next year. Wolves reports 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.160 that Ayton's due for a max and free agency. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.600 Yeah, Suns fan, wait on, Yeah, Suns fans are blaming 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.080 everyone from Maddy Williams to Kendall Jinner. 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.640 So did they just have a bad Game seven or 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:30.880 do you think they need to blow it up? 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.680 There's a fork in the road moment for the Suns 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.440 because Robert Sarver, who deals with a bunch of off 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.520 the court stuff that he inflicted upon himself, is notoriously cheap. 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:42.960 He's the owner of the Suns. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.320 I do right now. Booker's on a max, Chris Paul's 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.840 making thirty million per Mikhail Bridges is making twenty million, 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:55.720 Jay Crowder's making ten million, Landry Shamman's making ten million. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:00.760 There in Landry Shaman's contract disaster. And that's before they 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.120 pay eight and a nine. So the fork in the 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.000 road moment is this because Aighton will get a MAX 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:06.840 from somewhere. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.200 The question is will it be Phoenix? 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.720 They could have given him the max last year after 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.080 he helped lead them to the finals, they didn't. 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.800 Are they going to give him a MAX this year? 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.240 Any idea why that happened? 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.120 Well, I think because Starbar's incredibly cheap, and because there's 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:25.199 questions about Aton's maturity, and there's questions about does it 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.559 make sense to play a center to pay a center 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:33.120 in this NBA the max unless he's Embiid or Jokics 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.280 that caliber of a guy. But somebody will. The other 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.800 problem for the poor Suns is eight and went number 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.360 one in Luca's draft, so they could have just had 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.520 Luca and I said they took DeAndre Aid, but set 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:44.200 that aside. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:49.080 Here is to answer your question. Yes, it was a disastrous. 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.160 All time gag job of the game seven that was 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.199 not indicative to the quality of their team. But Chris 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.400 Paul's thirty seven. There's no reason to believe he's going 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.559 to be better. He's only going to slowly deterior. So 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.040 the Sons have a choice. Run it back one more 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.200 time with Chris, maybe sign in, trade Aighton, or just 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.720 let Aighton walk and hope Michale Bridges gets better, Booker 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.600 bounces back from a rough series. Chris can hold on 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:20.040 or pivot the other way, sign Ayton move on from Chris. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.560 So there's a trade out there if they want it. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.960 That's an easy one to make. That is actually about 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.880 the Lakers that we can discuss in a moment. I 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.400 don't know if they would want to do it, but 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.120 it exists. But there are other teams. There's not a 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.120 lot that would want thirty seven soon to be thirty 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.160 eight year old Chris Paul making thirty million each of 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.520 the next two years, but they could do that. I 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.600 don't think they're going to do that. I think they're 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.640 going to run it all back and move on from Ayton. 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.800 But the short version is this, I think the Sun's 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.360 window a slam shut. I think the next time the 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:54.280 Suns make a conference finals, let alone in the NBA Finals, 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.160 Chris Paul will be long retired. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.600 And if you agree with me on that, then you probably. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.000 At least consider moving on from CP three, which I 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.640 think leads us well oddly enough into our next topic. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.280 But go ahead and tell us about our next topic, 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.280 which appears to be about the Lake somehow. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:10.840 The Lakers made the show today. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.880 Yeah, while since we talked about them perspective, coaches are 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.520 saying that Russ is still in their plans. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.440 Coach Magic and Phil Johnson are helping. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.520 The Phil Jackson. Phil, what I said, this is Phil Johnson. 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:22.760 You think the Magic Johnson? 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.600 Yeah, go ahead, Phil and Magie Johnson are responsible for this. 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.400 But you know, who do you do? You do you 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.520 think Russ will actually, you know, has any chance of 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:31.559 coming back to the Lakers. 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:36.000 No, I don't. I think that people are misunderstanding. Of course, 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.920 the Lakers are telling coaches that Russ might be back 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.280 because they're not going to hire all these guys and 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.959 if you interview a guy for a job, he doesn't 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.439 get the job, then he can tell anyone in everyone 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:50.560 they're all they're done with Russ. 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:51.320 They're trading Russ. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.120 If they want to have any chance to have any 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:57.200 type of leverage in any potential Russ trade, which they're 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:00.880 already kneecapped on, there needs to be the pos like, hey, 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.720 we might just run it back and keep him. So 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.480 I think I can't. But even though Phil Jackson reportedly 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:11.920 has said keep Russ and trade Lebron, which is just insanity, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:13.640 I love if the Lakers did that. By the way, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.720 I don't like Lebron playing on the West Coast. It 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.839 ruins my sleep schedule during the year. The Lakers are 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.240 are our poverty franchise at this point, not but I 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:23.080 don't think they're going. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.800 Obviously, don't think Russ was responsible for too much of 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:27.040 the downfall of the Lakers. 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.880 Okay, I don't think you watched enough of Lakers Russ 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.880 was terrible with that said, let me get back to 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.240 the CP three thing. Okay, So Russ only has one 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:41.200 year left on his deal. If the Lakers call up 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.480 the Suns and say. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.520 You want to pay thirty seven soon to be thirty 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.000 eight year old Chris Paul. I don't know. We like 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:49.880 paying old guys. 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.120 You want to be able to get off Landry Shammits 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.760 ten million this year and next year, we'll give you 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:59.200 Russ plus a couple of draft picks future picks that 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.160 could be good because Lebron will be gone by then, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.280 Chris Paul will be gone by then. You can have 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:08.160 those picks for Russ, for Chris Paul and Landry Shammitt 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.920 plus picks from the Lakers, And then Starver can decide 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.120 that Suns can decide will we try to use Russ 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.680 or we just buy him out? Will we try to 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.199 pay him thirty eight million of the forty seven million 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.080 to pay him to go away? He can go sign 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:27.200 somewhere else, and we can instead of being on the 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.000 hook for around ninety million for Chris over the next 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.680 three years, We're just gonna be on the hook for 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.880 this forty to forty seven million for us this year, 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.360 and we get off Shammit's money and we get the 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.880 draft picks. Because if they do want to, the Lakers 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:41.800 are going to really have to thread the needle on 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.000 this rush trade. They're going to have to take back 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:48.480 bad contracts. Is Chris Paul a bad contract at this point? 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:49.200 I don't know. 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.920 It's it's hard to say he is given how well 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.320 he played during the regular season. But it's also hard 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.199 to trust his body at the end of a regular 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.400 season at the end of a postseason. But I don't 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.000 really want to slander Chris Paul right now because this 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.880 guy we're about to talk about is taking care of 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.080 it for the whole world. What's our final topic, Demansey, It's. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.120 Been a few days since Patrick Beverley went on his 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:12.720 disrespectful rant. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.840 Yeah, absolutely went in on CP three. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.320 Players like Katie Dame and Matt Barnes back Chris Paul up, Yeah, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.160 saying that he was out of line. I think, you know, 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:24.960 he might have just been trying to be entertaining, Like 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:26.360 why would anybody care about this? 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:31.680 It's a weird thing. But Patrick Beverly is in the 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:36.560 exact wrong position to be disrespectful of a great athlete. 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:41.520 Here are the people that, rightly or wrongly, the general 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:45.680 public has no problem with with being. 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.080 Disrespectful of a great player. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.000 Other great players Shack and barklay On inside the NBA 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.280 can say whatever they want, or guys like me who 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.720 never played the only like, if you never play, you're 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.640 Steven A. If you're me, you can just crush people, 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.640 and people like that's the job. If you're an all 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:05.440 time great, it's like, oh, you gotta listen to him, 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:08.040 it's all time great. If you were a role player, 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.720 people are like, don't how dare you? How dare you 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.840 take a shot at Chris Paul like that. It's a 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.720 really weird thing where if Beverly was just way worse 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.920 at basketball and never made the NBA, nothing he'd be 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.600 saying would be considered that out of line. But because 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:26.640 he's good enough to make the NBA but not good 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.600 enough to be a good NBA player, he's getting. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.760 Take on it. By the way, that's what he said. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.640 He was like, listen, we were role players. We gotta 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.400 we gotta zimmy exactly right. No, that's how it works. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.960 And so it's why I've always wondered. And then I'll 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:48.400 wrap up like our Laslow asked me this once, my 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.840 old buddy from can't see Radio. If he thinks quarterbacks 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.560 get like, who are quarterbacks more bothered by when they 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:02.080 get criticized by? Like if I am criticizing Russell Wilson. 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.280 Is he more bothered by me criticizing him someone who 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:09.720 never played, or if Dan Orlovsky criticized him when Orlovsky 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.600 played but was known for running out of the back 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.120 of the end zone on his safety and was. 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.440 A bad player. Who is a great analyst? 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:19.520 Like who? Who doesn't bother the athlete more? 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.600 And I think, actually it bothers. 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:25.000 The alute talking right, exactly right. But for some reason 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.000 the commentary are like, ah, that's his job, all right, 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:27.880 We'll we write back. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:36.640 Oh gosh. 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Watch Unstoppable now exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:08.359 Patrick Beverly is he's always hated Chris Paul right, I mean. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.000 And like he tried to like make it seem like 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:11.800 it wasn't hate by saying, you know, like I. 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:12.520 Love the guy. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:13.840 Here's the other problem. 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.199 If Pat Beverly's going to talk about how bad of 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.200 a defender Chris Paul. And by the way, Chris Paul 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:21.240 for a decade was one of the best defenders in 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:21.679 the releet. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.400 He's old, he's nine times. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.320 Defense, but now he's gotten worst defensively and he's always 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:28.600 been small, which makes it hard. Right, But let's say 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.199 Pat Beverly was Jamal Crawford. If Jamal Crawford was like, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.359 gotta tell you, look at Chris Paul up there, and 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.320 we start looking because Beverly like this. 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:38.160 Yeah. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:42.800 The problem is Beverly has never been able to exploit anyone. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:44.480 On offense. 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.640 Ever, Like Beverly at his apex is very good defender 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.280 and might knock down a couple threes. The idea that 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.800 you could have picked the worst defender in the league 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.080 Patrick Beverly is not like clear out for me. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:02.560 He's just a trash offensive Oh my god, which is 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.000 what made it more laughable. 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.440 Chris Paul's final five games, which were the worst five 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.480 game stretch of his career are Beverly's career average? 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:11.719 Like, stop it, all right? 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.760 I failed hitting the clock that first segment, but I 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:14.160 was close. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.080 I was really close. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.959 Yeah, within a minute, I think it's okay. I'll hit 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.040 it this segment. We got ten minutes on the clock. 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.159 It's second segment of the show. It's episode twenty of 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:24.080 the What's Right with the Great podcast? You did very 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.040 well that segment. Yet you know why? How I know 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.480 you did well is your evolution as a broadcaster. You 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.919 had one little stumble reading the question. You didn't let 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.040 it bother you. You just powered through. You're like, ah, I know, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:33.879 no reason. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.760 To stop down. We don't. Let's just keep it moving. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:40.080 People understand, Demonse is here not necessarily because he enunciates 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.600 perfectly or necessarily knows that the guy's name is Phil Jackson, 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.359 not Phil Johnson. He's here because he's the eye candy 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.960 of the show and occasionally shocks you with the good take. 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.399 All right, Demonse, what are we starting with for the 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:52.119