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Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll hear from Charles Barklay and his description
Speaker 1: of Anthony Davis. You know, sometimes we take for granted
Speaker 1: how hard it is at the highest level in the
Speaker 1: NBA to be able to win and win consistently. You know,
Speaker 1: we're seeing that with the Lakers right now. The Boston Celtics,
Speaker 1: they were on a trajectory to win championships plural loaded
Speaker 1: with young talent, high draft picks. They had a great coach,
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens, you had Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown and draft
Speaker 1: picks Eastern Conference finals three of the last four years,
Speaker 1: but they took a major step backwards last night. Nets
Speaker 1: knocked them out. No surprise that the Nets were going
Speaker 1: to knock them out. They did get one win. But
Speaker 1: they have an emerging star in Tatum, but Danny Ainge
Speaker 1: has to bring in some talent here next year. The Celtics,
Speaker 1: they had an opportunity to build on something special. And
Speaker 1: the window of opportunity in all those sports closes rapidly,
Speaker 1: and we've seen that with Boston. You have the Nets.
Speaker 1: They're going to be loaded for the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: Here the window to greatness is still open, but there's
Speaker 1: some real pressure to get back on track in a hurry.
Speaker 1: But you're dealing with a lot of pressures now in
Speaker 1: the NBA. You know there's pressure on the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 1: Can they get past the Nets? Can they get to
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Finals? You know the Nets, this isn't
Speaker 1: easy the Bucks. I like them as an underdog. You
Speaker 1: start to see what's happening in Portland. You have an
Speaker 1: unbelievable performance by Damian Lillard last night, all for not
Speaker 1: he puts up fifty five and they lose, and then
Speaker 1: you wonder what the offseason is going to be like
Speaker 1: in Portland. Look at the Lakers on the brink here
Speaker 1: down you know, three games to two, series goes back
Speaker 1: to LA. We don't know if Anthony Davis is going
Speaker 1: to be able to play. But last night the Nuggets
Speaker 1: went up three two on the Blazers. The Sun's rolled
Speaker 1: the Lakers. Here is Lebron James after last night's embarrassing loss.
Speaker 1: We got our ass kicks. I mean, it's just that simple.
Speaker 1: They did, got to whatever they wanted to get to
Speaker 1: in his game, and you know, we gotta be better
Speaker 1: obviously if we want to force a game seven. So
Speaker 1: obviously a lot to learn from in his game, a
Speaker 1: lots of cover. See. Uh, you know what we got
Speaker 1: to do better going in to game six. But I
Speaker 1: mean pretty much just kicked our ass. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: nothing else really to say. No, the game was over
Speaker 1: at halftime basically when the Suns were up thirty. Lebron
Speaker 1: checks out with five minutes to go, and they lived
Speaker 1: to see another game, but it might be the last
Speaker 1: game of the season for them. You know, Dennis Shrewder
Speaker 1: turned down that contract extension. Man, he did not score.
Speaker 1: He had the same number of points as I did.
Speaker 1: Like that. That's hard to do. If you're a good
Speaker 1: player in this league, you just start to look around.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to hear that the roster is
Speaker 1: bad now. Because when they acquired Dennis Shrewder and some
Speaker 1: of these other players Marcus saw, people talked about how
Speaker 1: great the lineup was. Andre Drummond. You know they got him.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that guy. He averages twenty rebounds a game.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be great. You got Harold from the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Oh well, you stole one from the Clippers. They got depth. Okay, Hey,
Speaker 1: I was front and center. I thought they improved. I
Speaker 1: thought they were going to be a better team. This
Speaker 1: year comes down to this. I mean, there's nothing magical
Speaker 1: about it. It's Anthony Davis and Lebron play. Lakers usually win.
Speaker 1: If one of the two doesn't play, or one of
Speaker 1: the two is seventy percent, then you're susceptible. Here. Charles
Speaker 1: Barkley has a new nickname for Anthony Davis. Not a
Speaker 1: good nickname, Antha Davis. I told you Delicas can't win
Speaker 1: this series. Forget about the championship. They can't win this
Speaker 1: series without street clothes. I'm not even you want to
Speaker 1: explain that I'll call him after the street closed Davis
Speaker 1: because he's always in street clothes. You ain't got to explaining,
Speaker 1: Chuck got to explain it. I love that Draymond Green
Speaker 1: is there and Draymond knows, Hey, I still gotta play.
Speaker 1: I gotta play this guy. I gotta guard this guy.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna kind of snicker a little bit there.
Speaker 1: Play it again after the Davis. I told you Deliquas
Speaker 1: can't win this this this series. Forget about the championship.
Speaker 1: They can't win this series without street clothes. I'm not
Speaker 1: even you want to explain that I'll call him after
Speaker 1: the street closed Davis because he's always in street clothes.
Speaker 1: Do you think gotta explaining? Chuck ain't got to explain it, Chuck,
Speaker 1: you know that this came up before they went out
Speaker 1: on the set. This is where they're probably talking, and
Speaker 1: then Charles goes, you know, anthy Davis, I call him
Speaker 1: street clothes. Oh man, you gotta use that. I don't
Speaker 1: use it. And then you go out there and you
Speaker 1: drop that on NBA World. I don't know if Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis going to play in Game six, but he better.
Speaker 1: I don't know how healthy Chris Paul is. See, the
Speaker 1: Sons are young, and they got confidence last year in
Speaker 1: the bubble, they won all of their games eight no,
Speaker 1: and they started this year with even more confidence because
Speaker 1: they had Chris Paul. You have a very good coach.
Speaker 1: Booker's a wonderful player. DeAndre Ayden has held his own
Speaker 1: and their bench really helped them, like their role players
Speaker 1: really helped them last night. But you got the Lakers
Speaker 1: on the brink. Now get them early, finish them off.
Speaker 1: Don't let him get healthy, don't let him get rolling.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to Reggie Miller about this. Does he think
Speaker 1: it's over for the Lakers now? Maybe they get past
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns, but maybe this is just a little
Speaker 1: peak into the crystal ball that they're going to have
Speaker 1: a really hard time trying to just keep everybody healthy.
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard was wonderful last night. He's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite players. But he puts up fifty five in a
Speaker 1: loss to Denver. Here is Lillard after the game, But
Speaker 1: after what you gave just personally, we lost the game.
Speaker 1: For me at this point, art that matters is we
Speaker 1: can't lose another game in the series. So if we
Speaker 1: go out there and we played a win a game,
Speaker 1: we came up short, so we're going back home. It's
Speaker 1: a must win or our season is over. Then we
Speaker 1: got to come back here and win on the floor game.
Speaker 1: So I mean, that's what it is. The fifty five
Speaker 1: by Lillard last night with the third most by any
Speaker 1: player in a postseason loss. Now, I thought Jerry West
Speaker 1: would have been in here for putting up like forty
Speaker 1: something in a loss to the Celtics. But my information
Speaker 1: has Donovan Mitchell had fifty seven versus denvers season. Jordan
Speaker 1: had sixty three against the Celtics in the Garden in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six. But I thought Jerry West averaged forty
Speaker 1: points in an NBA Finals when he was the MVP
Speaker 1: when they lost. But I don't know if he ever
Speaker 1: had one of those huge games, but he did average
Speaker 1: I think forty points in a series. Wizards six ers tonight, Hawks,
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Speaker 1: mclubin what do you have for me today? By the way,
Speaker 1: Jerry West scored fifty three in a win in that series,
Speaker 1: I'm okay at that game and he scored. He scored
Speaker 1: a lot in there, like forty two in a loss. Man,
Speaker 1: he was unbelievable. Halicheck put up huge point to that.
Speaker 1: So we kind of did this in the pre show meeting,
Speaker 1: and I'm curious if it works as a pole. Whose
Speaker 1: career would you want? Damian Lillard or Anthony Davis? And
Speaker 1: you can explain how we got to that comparison. All right, Paul,
Speaker 1: would you rather be Damian Lillard? Everyone thinks he's awesome, underrated, undercovered,
Speaker 1: it needs more help. But he's not the problem. He's
Speaker 1: considered just a fantastic player. Or Anthony Davis, who's considered
Speaker 1: a great player but not an alpha not maybe a
Speaker 1: little shows up here and there right now. Their images
Speaker 1: are in two different directions. They're current images. I know
Speaker 1: one's got a ring, yeah, and a ring in college
Speaker 1: too at Kentucky. Who would you rather have on your
Speaker 1: team if both were healthy. Yeah, it would really depend
Speaker 1: on who else was on my team. Yeah, Like if
Speaker 1: I'm starting my team. See, I still think Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: can he can be a unicorn like he was the
Speaker 1: Greek Freak before the Greek Freak. I just like I
Speaker 1: want him to play. I just never know if he's
Speaker 1: going to play, and when he does play, he can
Speaker 1: play at an extremely high level. I know Damian Lillard's
Speaker 1: going to be there for me, and I know that
Speaker 1: he loves the big moment. He's not afraid. You saw
Speaker 1: that last night. I just wonder if we're going to
Speaker 1: look back on his career and say, man, it was
Speaker 1: all wasted. He was wonderful player, great story coming out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. But something's got a change in Portland here. Now.
Speaker 1: Maybe they go back home, they win this game, they
Speaker 1: force a game seven, maybe they advanced. I had them
Speaker 1: beating Denver because Denver doesn't have it starting backcourt. They
Speaker 1: don't have one of their better players. And that's why
Speaker 1: I thought Portland, there's no excuses here, but give give
Speaker 1: credit to Denver with what they've done. Michael Porter Junior
Speaker 1: Yokitch last night was trading baskets with Lillard. He at
Speaker 1: thirty eight role players. So why we love the stars,
Speaker 1: But even when the stars are great, what happens with
Speaker 1: your bench? What happens with your role players? I give
Speaker 1: you go oh for nine from the floor and you're Lebron,
Speaker 1: chances are you're probably not going to win, and you
Speaker 1: don't have Anthony Davis. Like my second best player is
Speaker 1: who Kuzman Caldwell, Pope, he got injured, no points. Lebron
Speaker 1: can only do so much. Now if he stayed and played,
Speaker 1: and then maybe he gets a triple double, and then
Speaker 1: we'd go, oh, he had a triple double, it didn't matter. Well,
Speaker 1: and now you go back six season on the line,
Speaker 1: you got a son's team that's young, probably confident, maybe cocky,
Speaker 1: ready to go. That's dangerous, man, you're just playing with
Speaker 1: fire scarecrow. Yeah, I'm mclovin. We were talking about before
Speaker 1: the show up, what do the Blazers do, Like, who
Speaker 1: can they bring in? Because I think Lillard's under contract
Speaker 1: for a few more years there he's not going anywhere. Well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna bring in a new coach that's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: and then what kind of philosophy are you going to
Speaker 1: have after that? You know what you know? You build
Speaker 1: around Damian Lillard. Now do you keep CJ McCollum, Do
Speaker 1: you like the supporting ket what do you bring in
Speaker 1: that makes your team a little bit more threatening? And
Speaker 1: right now, I don't know if Portland has answers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lillard does not seem like a force my way out
Speaker 1: of here guy. Nothing in his career up to this
Speaker 1: point would make you think that he would go rogue
Speaker 1: and say I gotta get out of here. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna complain my way out of here. Others do yeah, yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mclub what else? By the way, Carmelo thirty minutes
Speaker 1: last night, Uh okay, one more poably had a good question.
Speaker 1: Which is a worse nickname for Anthony Davis the brow
Speaker 1: or street clothes? Yeah, I mean you can, you can
Speaker 1: laser or shave the brow, but he's embraced the brow.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be embracing street clothes. That that's a
Speaker 1: trending story right now. Street clothes is the number one
Speaker 1: trending story topic in America right now. It's not a
Speaker 1: good thing. Not a good thing. Yes, okay, I have
Speaker 1: two poles that are purely for clicks. All right, I'll
Speaker 1: start with the Lebron pole. It's early and I shouldn't
Speaker 1: even be doing this because the Lakers tilitaries. Who takes
Speaker 1: over the mantle when Lebron is done? Who's the next
Speaker 1: Lebron in the NBA? And I'll give you choices Luca Donte,
Speaker 1: Diane Williamson, Jason Tatum, Janis Joki and Beide. And the
Speaker 1: reason I'm asking this polar is because I fell in
Speaker 1: love with Devin Booker last night. Maybe he's the next
Speaker 1: super superstar. There's no Lebron? Is there? No Noah? Is
Speaker 1: this to say? Are we watching the last year's of
Speaker 1: the Bulls? Is the sport just solely about Lebron? Right now? Um?
Speaker 1: I don't think it's solely about Lebron, but I do
Speaker 1: think that, you know, the world kind of pivots when
Speaker 1: he pivots. He's worldwide, and you know he's polarizing. I like,
Speaker 1: is there's somebody else in the NBA that you go? Boy?
Speaker 1: I got a really visceral reaction to him, Like who
Speaker 1: Kyrie Harden Steph? I mean, it's Lebron. It's more than
Speaker 1: just basketball, it's everything. But as far as passing them,
Speaker 1: let me wait, let me, let's let's just see what
Speaker 1: the Lakers do here before all of a sudden we
Speaker 1: go and we've moved on from Lebron and the Lakers.
Speaker 1: Let me let me just hold off here. What else
Speaker 1: do you have? And then we'll take a wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: as long as we're in this, you know the clicks mode?
Speaker 1: Where do you want to see Aaron Rodgers be traded
Speaker 1: to again? A pre show meeting? And if I gave
Speaker 1: you the choices, I looked up a list the most
Speaker 1: likely destinations, the Raiders, the Broncos, the Philadelphia Eagles, or
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers, which I don't know if they're still
Speaker 1: possible in play. Is there any team that would be
Speaker 1: so interesting that you'd want to see Aaron Rodgers in
Speaker 1: that uniform? No, I want to see him on Green Bay.
Speaker 1: But if he leaves green Bay, then green Bay is
Speaker 1: interesting still because they just lost Aaron Rodgers and the
Speaker 1: new team is interesting, so you're adding another interesting team.
Speaker 1: He has to look at the Rams and go, God,
Speaker 1: why didn't I get there before? Matthew Stafford and he
Speaker 1: has to look at the Niners to say, why didn't
Speaker 1: the Packers trade me? Why didn't they trade me? Keep
Speaker 1: those picks? Send Garoppolo here, and then I could be
Speaker 1: their quarterback instead of drafting Trey Lance. Right, you would
Speaker 1: give up less for Aaron Rodgers than it took to
Speaker 1: move up to get Trey Lance. Yeah. Boys, my efforts
Speaker 1: to sell Todd and Seaton on the Broncos this morning futile.
Speaker 1: The Broncos. Maybe that's it, that's they're the team. No, No,
Speaker 1: you're not even the best team in your own division.
Speaker 1: You're not even the second best team in your own division.
Speaker 1: You might be the third. Maybe maybe you're the best
Speaker 1: football team in Colorado. All right, Yeah, the Charges have
Speaker 1: more talent, but the Charges will find the banana peel
Speaker 1: and drop it anyway though, all right, let me take
Speaker 1: a break. Reggie Millner is going to join us coming up,
Speaker 1: and we'll get phone calls, we'll settle on a poll
Speaker 1: question and all of that good stuff. Chris Bosh will
Speaker 1: join us a little bit later on as well. We'll
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Speaker 1: call tonight at the Garden with Marv Albert. Game five
Speaker 1: Hawks and the Knicks at seven thirty Eastern and could
Speaker 1: potentially be Marv's last game ever at Madison Square Garden
Speaker 1: with that wonderful career of his. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: matchup coming up. But we welcome in Redge and we
Speaker 1: start with the Lakers. Well, how would you sum up
Speaker 1: the position that they're in right now? Redge? First of all,
Speaker 1: the Lakers treated that Game five like it was a
Speaker 1: preseason game, and that's sad. I'm disappointed that the Lakers
Speaker 1: the raining champ. I know they're down an All Star,
Speaker 1: I know they're down a top ten player, But other
Speaker 1: than the first five to seven minutes when they showed
Speaker 1: a little bit of life, they treated that like it
Speaker 1: was a preseason game. And obviously you just can't give
Speaker 1: playoff games away, and they absolutely just gave a game away.
Speaker 1: I give credit to Phoenix. They probably played their best
Speaker 1: game of the series, shooting the ball wise from everyone,
Speaker 1: but you just can't give games away. And look, they're
Speaker 1: facing a big hole. Can they come back and win
Speaker 1: this series, Absolutely, but they've got to take it. They've
Speaker 1: got to get a sense of urgency. I didn't see
Speaker 1: any sense of urgency whatsoever in the Lakers last night.
Speaker 1: But how did they get to a point where they
Speaker 1: treat it like it's a preseason game, like just this, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you this win. We want to go
Speaker 1: back home and hopefully we get Anthony Davis. I mean,
Speaker 1: is that how they viewed this game? I think that's
Speaker 1: exactly how they viewed it. We have reinforcements coming back
Speaker 1: knock out Wood. But people need to understand there's two
Speaker 1: things that are very difficult to play within the game
Speaker 1: of basketball. Are growing injury very difficult because that's your
Speaker 1: lateral movement, and back injuries because you know everything is done,
Speaker 1: your back control is just about everything. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: it was very difficult decision for eighty not to play
Speaker 1: last night, but the Lakers played like, Okay, we'll give
Speaker 1: you guys this game, we'll get a what ad back
Speaker 1: went at home, and then we'll take our chances here
Speaker 1: in game seven where we want in this place. In
Speaker 1: game two, they're putting all their eggs in one basket,
Speaker 1: assuming that they can win two games in a row,
Speaker 1: and they are messing with fire because Chris Paul is hungry.
Speaker 1: He wants to beat his good friend Lebron James Devin Booker.
Speaker 1: This is his first time in the playoffs, and he
Speaker 1: wants to show the world why he's one of the
Speaker 1: best shooting guards on the planet. And this young team
Speaker 1: is getting confidence along the way, and that's why you're
Speaker 1: messing with fire because they've gained their confidence, which was
Speaker 1: kind of snatched from them early on with the Chris
Speaker 1: Paull injury and the way Devin Booker, he hadn't played
Speaker 1: particularly great in this series, had a monster game won
Speaker 1: and played great last night. But they have confidence now
Speaker 1: and they feel that they're the better team. Even though
Speaker 1: they're the number two seed, they feel that they're the
Speaker 1: better team now. Lakers are in real trouble. What do
Speaker 1: you make of Charles Barkley's nickname for Anthony Davis which
Speaker 1: I didn't hear what it was, Seaton, Will you play
Speaker 1: it for reg Antha Davis? I told you the Lakers
Speaker 1: can't win this series. Forget about the championship. They can't
Speaker 1: win this series without street clothes. I'm not even I
Speaker 1: will say this, it takes a lot not to play
Speaker 1: the game of basketball, especially in the playoffs. And I
Speaker 1: missed I think in my career and Seed, you can
Speaker 1: go back and look at this. I missed four playoff games.
Speaker 1: And I believe it was in ninety six, a week
Speaker 1: before the playoffs were to begin. Otis Thorpe broke my
Speaker 1: orbital fracture. I broke my boat in my He gave
Speaker 1: me a good fist to the eye going for a
Speaker 1: loose ball and I was out. And in that first
Speaker 1: round matchup it was US versus Atlanta, and I think
Speaker 1: I was ten days out from the surgery, still seeing
Speaker 1: double vision, and I wanted to play, but there was
Speaker 1: no way. I just knew, But I say I kept,
Speaker 1: I keep telling people that me at seventy eight is
Speaker 1: better than a lot of people at one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: And again, I know, growing injuries are very difficult to
Speaker 1: play through, but sometimes just your mere presence can uplift
Speaker 1: your teammates. And I mean, Ad is right, And he
Speaker 1: said this after Game one when he played terrible and
Speaker 1: had those thirteen or fifteen points. We're not going to
Speaker 1: win a game, let alone a series if I continue
Speaker 1: to play like that. So again, all the eggs are
Speaker 1: in one basket for the Lakers, they're hoping a d
Speaker 1: comes back at eighty percent seventy percent and they could
Speaker 1: win two games in a row. But I like the
Speaker 1: nickname street clothes. I probably with can get right. But
Speaker 1: we'll find out. How about day did Davis Anthony Dad Davis?
Speaker 1: Not bad? Not bad? Yeah? I know everyone wants to
Speaker 1: throw shots again, growing injuries are very difficult. If he
Speaker 1: could play, he could play. It's just we've seen this
Speaker 1: from a d I know he's a champion, but any
Speaker 1: little bump, he goes down, and you've got to learn
Speaker 1: how to play and manage with injuries. That's just a
Speaker 1: part of the game. Everyone at this point in time
Speaker 1: of the season, something's ailing on them. So do you
Speaker 1: have any problem with Lebron checking out with five minutes
Speaker 1: to go go into the locker room? No? But what
Speaker 1: they're down thirty five? Yeah, they're gonna make a miraculous comeback,
Speaker 1: I know, but do you stay there with your team? No?
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe something's ailing on him. He's going to
Speaker 1: go get ice on something. Lebron is the best shot
Speaker 1: for them to move on. So maybe something that ankle
Speaker 1: probably got sore. Let me go put it in a
Speaker 1: bucket of ice, and let me shift all my focus
Speaker 1: into Game six. I have no problem. There's no need
Speaker 1: for him to be out there and see that blood bath.
Speaker 1: He lived it four about thirty minutes. You know, when
Speaker 1: the baton is passed here redge from Lebron to who?
Speaker 1: Like who gets the People assume it's going to be
Speaker 1: a D. But they're the Lakers. I'm sure there'll be
Speaker 1: another superstar on the way here. It'll be a D
Speaker 1: because there's a pecking line and he does have a championship.
Speaker 1: No league, the league, not the Lakers. Like the face
Speaker 1: of the league is is who after Labron Luca? But
Speaker 1: though Luca's name out there, Um, I mean you you
Speaker 1: you would think it'd be Kevin Durant. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's to me, the next best player, if not the
Speaker 1: best player. Uh, you know, Joel b has a great personality.
Speaker 1: I mean unique guys that can push the league and
Speaker 1: find those viewers that are just casual viewers. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody kind of fits into that category
Speaker 1: where you go, oh, I'm going to tune in because
Speaker 1: i want to watch him lose, or I'm going to
Speaker 1: tune in because I want to see, you know, him
Speaker 1: win or see greatness. I mean, I would put step
Speaker 1: in there, but Steph was thirty two, thirty three, so
Speaker 1: you know, I'm talking about the twenty year olds. Damian
Speaker 1: Lillard what he did last night, I mean he should
Speaker 1: be a household name, which he is a household name
Speaker 1: for the hardcore basketball fans, but for casual fans playing
Speaker 1: in the Northwest in Portland, not the casual faring. They
Speaker 1: may have heard of Damian Lillard, but they don't really
Speaker 1: know Damian Lillard because he hasn't really gone deep in
Speaker 1: the playoffs like Steph or Lebron. What would you do
Speaker 1: if you're Damian Lillard? I mean, you're We're gonna look
Speaker 1: back on your career and go Hall of Famer unbelievable nights.
Speaker 1: But is there really a bottom line exclamation point with
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard? Stop it, damn, because that's that's me. You
Speaker 1: can't falter guy for being loyal. You know, we kill
Speaker 1: guys about championships and then we kill guy when Kate
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant leaves Oklahoma City and goes to Golden State,
Speaker 1: we kill him, you know. And the small markets they
Speaker 1: can't compete with the Chicago's, the New York's, the LA's,
Speaker 1: the Golden States. So when you get a chance to
Speaker 1: have an Anthony Davis in New Orleans, you just pray
Speaker 1: and hope that other teams and big markets don't come recruiting.
Speaker 1: So we can't look back at Lillard's career and say, oh,
Speaker 1: I wish you would have played in the bigger market.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with being loyal. And you know, people
Speaker 1: can say, well, you never want a championship, right, It's yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't. But sometimes the whole point of it's in
Speaker 1: the struggle, and that's what Lillard is in right now.
Speaker 1: He's in the struggle of trying to make a small
Speaker 1: market team relevant and successful. But I feel bad for him.
Speaker 1: It's it's not that I'm gonna go well, then frame
Speaker 1: it that way. Don't frame it as in, oh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna look back and your career meant nothing. It did. No,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a Hall of Famer. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: we're gonna look back and say It's like Mike Trout.
Speaker 1: We're gonna look back on Mike Trout or Dan Marino
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go, gosh, did they surround him with
Speaker 1: the right people. That's the point I'm making with Damian Lottard.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he should say get me out of here,
Speaker 1: but like, what can he do? What does franchise do? Now?
Speaker 1: It just feels like there's a glass ceiling. Well, you
Speaker 1: hope the franchise and the leadership of the franchise says, look,
Speaker 1: we got to get some guys around him. Look, he
Speaker 1: is surrounded by some pretty good players, but he's had
Speaker 1: some bad luck as well. Nurks missed a ton of
Speaker 1: games this year. McCallum missed a ton of games this year.
Speaker 1: Should they have been a sixth seed? Probably not. They
Speaker 1: should have been a top four seed if those two
Speaker 1: guys play eighty percent of their games, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: Zach Collins missed all year. I mean, that's a seven
Speaker 1: footer that can, you know, help things, you know, help
Speaker 1: help them out. But look, he's doing everything he possibly
Speaker 1: can do, and I applaud that for a small market.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Reggie Miller, the Hall of famer Reggie
Speaker 1: on the call tonight the Knicks in the Hawks. This
Speaker 1: is must see TV. Yes, well, any game you do
Speaker 1: is must see TV, of course. But how do you
Speaker 1: think the Knicks, the Knicks fans treat Trey Young when
Speaker 1: he walks in. Oh well, well, if games one or
Speaker 1: two were in any indications you saw kind of the
Speaker 1: victuall that was being thrown at Trey. Look, he's become
Speaker 1: the new poster boy here and I think he has
Speaker 1: relished and accepted. But I will say this, there's certain
Speaker 1: guys that are built for it, and I think he
Speaker 1: wants the moment. He understands they have a chance to
Speaker 1: move on here. But it is going to be a
Speaker 1: very very intense game because the Knicks have not played,
Speaker 1: they have not shot the ball particularly great. They're best player.
Speaker 1: We talk about this, you and I all the time
Speaker 1: talk about the playoff basketball. How things get taken away.
Speaker 1: Julius Randall has been exposed a little bit in this game.
Speaker 1: Great regular season, the most improved player, which you want,
Speaker 1: but come playoff time, when teams get a chance to
Speaker 1: scout you, if watch videotape of you, they always take
Speaker 1: away your three best plays. Well, what do you have
Speaker 1: left in your bag, and right now we're seeing that
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of left in the bag. So
Speaker 1: he has to play Barrett better. RJ. Barrett has to
Speaker 1: play better. You can't have And God bless him because
Speaker 1: to this day he's my favorite player. And I've said
Speaker 1: this when he was at the height of his power,
Speaker 1: when he went through the depths of all his injuries.
Speaker 1: Derek Rose cannot be your best player in these playoffs,
Speaker 1: which he has been for the Knicks. You know, he
Speaker 1: just can't beat your best player. And Barrett randall that youth.
Speaker 1: They've got to show up, which I think they will.
Speaker 1: I think they win tonight here and they forced the
Speaker 1: game six. You were on the call with the Russell
Speaker 1: Westbrook situation with the Wizards in seventy six ers, And
Speaker 1: of course I don't know if in your mind in
Speaker 1: the moment you're thinking about the Malice and the Palace,
Speaker 1: because you were knee deep in that as well and
Speaker 1: had a front row seat to that. But is it
Speaker 1: fans or fan that we have to be concerned about here? Well,
Speaker 1: isn't that almost one and the same, Well, it could
Speaker 1: be one person, Like I don't know the building, I
Speaker 1: don't know if if there's certain buildings where you go,
Speaker 1: it's just that's a bad situation to go into. Or
Speaker 1: you have some idiot who wants to run on the
Speaker 1: floor and tap the backboard. I will say, but here's
Speaker 1: the thing. That idiot did not come to that game alone.
Speaker 1: That idiot had to have discussions with whoever he came
Speaker 1: to that game. He didn't just get up in the
Speaker 1: middle of the game and said look around and just
Speaker 1: run out there. He had to have discussions that he
Speaker 1: was going to do this. I just think it's unfortunate
Speaker 1: now that we've we've finally gotten the energy back in
Speaker 1: the buildings by letting fans back in, that we've had
Speaker 1: these incidents occur. And I'm just telling you, if roles
Speaker 1: were reversed, if Kyrie had run up into the stands
Speaker 1: and punch that guy wearing the Kevin Garden jersey, I
Speaker 1: mean all hell would be breaking loose on networks like this,
Speaker 1: I'm shows and podcasts like this. The league has to
Speaker 1: do a better job. What is banning a fan from
Speaker 1: an arena. I don't understand that what that entails. You
Speaker 1: can't tell me that that fan can't get a ticket
Speaker 1: from a secondary person and show up in that building.
Speaker 1: How are you ever going to know if he's in
Speaker 1: that building or not? Ban from it? What does that mean? No,
Speaker 1: you need you got to go after their wallets. Name
Speaker 1: these guys put their faces everywhere like you would do
Speaker 1: the players, find out where they work. You have to
Speaker 1: go after their wallets, prosecute them. That's how you make
Speaker 1: it heard. Banning them from an arena? What does that do?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? If I'm bad from arena and
Speaker 1: you and I want to go see the Knicks play,
Speaker 1: I said, hey, Dan, just go buy the tickets and
Speaker 1: I'll go with you. I'll put a hat on, I'll
Speaker 1: put a face. How are they ever gonna know other
Speaker 1: than I'm six seven? Well, you know the Trey Young
Speaker 1: situation where somebody would spit on you that in today's
Speaker 1: age of COVID, right, and I know we're on our
Speaker 1: way out of this thing, but you actually spit What
Speaker 1: are you thinking of? That is discussing? Seriously? That mean
Speaker 1: it's sad. And you know I'm asking a twenty two
Speaker 1: year old to be the bigger man here and Trey
Speaker 1: wasn't going to press charges, but you know, it's just
Speaker 1: sad has he been named? Do we know who that
Speaker 1: person is? Do they ever show him? See that's the point.
Speaker 1: If tray tray, you don't want to turn around and
Speaker 1: knock that dude out. It would be on a loop.
Speaker 1: That would be on a loop. I don't know how
Speaker 1: you guys. And and the NBA is different than any
Speaker 1: other sport because those fans can actually touch you. They
Speaker 1: like when you're out of bounds, throwing the ball in bounds,
Speaker 1: so I could reach out and touch you. Yes, they
Speaker 1: can say things, they can throw things. You hear everything there.
Speaker 1: I don't. And I will also say this fans, and
Speaker 1: I hope this happens. I think we're better than this.
Speaker 1: They need to start policing each other too. Fans need
Speaker 1: to start policing one another. No, you can't say that,
Speaker 1: cut that out or usher, come get this guy. He
Speaker 1: is saying and doing things that are inappropriate. They need
Speaker 1: to start policing themselves. Are you gonna walk around New York?
Speaker 1: Are you okay with walking around New York? I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about going out to get in a late breakfast here.
Speaker 1: I'm staying somewhere. You guys know this area well? Is
Speaker 1: it called the Hudson Yards Oh yeah, it's called Oh yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1: We're staying down by the Hudson Yards, nice area, So
Speaker 1: I think I think I can go out. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna try and go out for a late lunch. Okay.
Speaker 1: The good thing about it is everyone has to wear
Speaker 1: a face coverings now so they won't know who I am,
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of good. Why don't you wear why
Speaker 1: don't you wear your pacer warm ups and just walk out?
Speaker 1: Do a funnier die where you just walk around and
Speaker 1: just like people's reaction. Go to a local court. Okay,
Speaker 1: that'd be pretty funny. I think I did see a
Speaker 1: basketball court somewhere around here and guys playing. I might
Speaker 1: just go show up, you see, if anyone wants to
Speaker 1: play any horse all. But do you think it'll be
Speaker 1: like Barkley in that commercial for Capital One where he's
Speaker 1: he's not gonna he's not sure if he's gonna be
Speaker 1: the first draft pick with those little kids, like what
Speaker 1: happens if you go out there and then you're not
Speaker 1: the first pick. I would be devastating. I mean, don't
Speaker 1: don't you know who I am? I'm the killer? Yeah
Speaker 1: his name? Do you mean? I was on your wall
Speaker 1: when I wasn't when you were a kid, do you
Speaker 1: get booed in the garden when you get boot They're
Speaker 1: gonna kill me. They are going to kill me, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to love it. I am going to actually
Speaker 1: love it. But look, I'm more excited to be working
Speaker 1: alongside the Gun. That's why I'm doing this game. This
Speaker 1: is all about Marv. I can care less about what
Speaker 1: the fans are gonna say to me. I want him
Speaker 1: to have potentially this could be his last game in
Speaker 1: the Garden. I want him to have a great send
Speaker 1: off because this has been the greatest play by play
Speaker 1: man this game has ever seen. He worked for the Knicks.
Speaker 1: I think he deserves a great send off, and that's
Speaker 1: why they have sent in the heavy guns to do
Speaker 1: this game. So I'm excited about it. Twenty seven years
Speaker 1: ago yesterday day, you know what you did against the Knicks.
Speaker 1: I hope we won a game. You had twenty five
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. That was that. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: the choke sign. That was the Spike Lee choke sign.
Speaker 1: That's where it all started. Thirty nine points, no turnovers
Speaker 1: because I was gonna pass the ball. Why there was
Speaker 1: no turnovers? Who do you want me to pass it
Speaker 1: you with south Homson? No, Damn Mitchell, No, who I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pass the ball too? Can come to think of it,
Speaker 1: you didn't have any shooters on that You were the
Speaker 1: only shooter that was yes. But we had a squad though,
Speaker 1: my Davis boys, Rick Smiths. We were ready, We were ready.
Speaker 1: It was It was a magical time because we had
Speaker 1: two cities that didn't really like one another, but hated
Speaker 1: one another. Yeah, two coaches that didn't get along, and
Speaker 1: Pat Rowley and Larry row they didn't get along. And
Speaker 1: it kind of filtered down to the players love John
Speaker 1: starts now but couldn't stand m Charles Oakley was a
Speaker 1: great friend of mine. The couldn't stand them during the series.
Speaker 1: So do you remember you threw the ball at the
Speaker 1: end of the game, threw it down, spiked it and
Speaker 1: it goes into the stands. Damn, I watch you're held
Speaker 1: onto that ball, you know, Paul, see if you can
Speaker 1: find that basketball for Rencher. Okay on eBay somewhere somewhere.
Speaker 1: Reggi is on the call tonight. That'll be seven thirty
Speaker 1: eastern on TNT. It's the Knicks and the Hawks. REGs
Speaker 1: great appearance. Have fun tonight, we'll be watching. Thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us. I appreciate it, dude, or Dan Yantz back
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Speaker 1: that was an impressive performance by Damian Lillard, and everybody
Speaker 1: knows that he's going to shoot. That's what's even more amazing.
Speaker 1: When you're the number one score, everybody knows you have
Speaker 1: to score like Alan Iverson every single night had to
Speaker 1: bring it every single night because that was their offense.
Speaker 1: Damian Lillard knows every single night that he has to
Speaker 1: bring it. And then you know the team you're playing
Speaker 1: is gearing up to stop you. Imagine your goal is
Speaker 1: to stop Damian Lillard, Contain him, and he goes for
Speaker 1: fifty five. That's why when you watch Steph Hurry, you
Speaker 1: know he's shooting, it's just where and when, and you
Speaker 1: still can't stop him. I'm marvel at that. These guys
Speaker 1: who you look at the opening and there really isn't
Speaker 1: an opening. It's such it's so quick, split second and
Speaker 1: you just get somebody to lean one way. All you
Speaker 1: need is just a little bit. Michael Porter is six
Speaker 1: ten and he's got his arms up so he's probably
Speaker 1: seven three. And Damian Lullard says, all right, Steph Curry
Speaker 1: will do this to Anthony Davis, who's probably got a
Speaker 1: seven six wingspan, and he would shoot over these guys.
Speaker 1: All they want is to get you a little off balance.
Speaker 1: And you saw that last night, as it was wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful to see somebody and what was he's seventeen to
Speaker 1: twenty four from the floor, Like he was pretty remarkable.
Speaker 1: Do you realize the Nuggets have given up two of
Speaker 1: the biggest scoring performances in postseason history, but they did
Speaker 1: win both of them. Donovan Mitchell had fifty seven on them,
Speaker 1: and now Damian Lillard goes for fifty five twelve of
Speaker 1: seventeen from three point range for Lillard, Yeah, Seed, that's
Speaker 1: like we've often having you say it another analysts that
Speaker 1: come on say it where they're like, all right, like
Speaker 1: this star player they're gonna get there is it's the
Speaker 1: other guys that we can't let beat us. It's like
Speaker 1: that's the exact definition of what it is. They're saying,
Speaker 1: all Right, this dude's gonna get his but we can't
Speaker 1: let these other guys beat us. Jack in Texas, Hey Jack,
Speaker 1: a long time listener, second time caller. A couple quick things.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the video of Austin
Speaker 1: Rivers after Dame missed his last shot, but I think
Speaker 1: pretty much describes what it feels like the guard Dame Lillard.
Speaker 1: And secondly, I don't want differently, but I was wondering
Speaker 1: how much different only we would do Dame Lillard now
Speaker 1: without Steph Curry right there doing the same thing and
Speaker 1: doing it better. Yeah, I mean yeah, they both have
Speaker 1: amazing game winners against Oklahoma City. They're so similar in
Speaker 1: so many ways, but step is doing it that much better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Steph wins championships. That's the difference. And he's been
Speaker 1: on center stage, had the spotlight like you have to
Speaker 1: find Damian Lillard. Steph was there and he had help,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, Clay, Kadie Graymond, Yeah, McLellan. After Dave
Speaker 1: miss Austin Rivers puts his hand together in prais uses.
Speaker 1: Thank God, it's really funny. That's a great appearance by
Speaker 1: redg By the way, Wog is saying that Danny Ainge
Speaker 1: is seriously considering stepping down as the Celtics president.