WEBVTT - Dan Patrick - Hour 2 - NFL Insider Bucky Brooks 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.640 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:07.040 Sports Radio. Greetings, Welcome inside hour or two of the 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.559 DP Show. Jason Smith Mike Harmon in for Dan the 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:15.080 Danets today on middle Finger Monday. Hopefully this doesn't mean 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:17.360 go out and give them to everybody. This is just well, 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.320 considering what Kyrie Irving did yesterday kind of the theme 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.720 of the day, you know, not whether you're giving it 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.480 to behind the head middle fingers. We're not condoning doing that. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.200 It's just you know, well it's kind of got to 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.920 be middle Finger Monday. Well, I'm not going to dismiss 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.800 it categorically either, I mean, because sometimes you bottle that 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.520 up and it comes out in far more destructive ways. 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.600 So I mean, if if a little you know, in 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:45.600 traffic nod you know, and swipe across your nose, suddenly 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.000 it works. Fine. If you have the flamboyance of a 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.960 Kyrie Irving and you want to go full full throttle, 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.160 just remember there might be repercussions. And in the real world, 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.800 it's not just a pink envelope showing up at your locker. 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.880 It's telling you where to send you're fine money. So 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:05.040 you know, just remember with all all actions. There are 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.840 reactions and consequences. But for Kyrie Irving, he gave us 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.479 another storyline that we really did not expect so coming 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.120 into these playoffs. So you want to hold in reserve 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.920 the middle finger Monday. I want to. I want to 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.240 save it in case I need it. Well, I mean, 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.919 it's always there for you, right, It's always there. Today 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:27.920 we celebrated Furly Furly, I'm thinking about Ralph furl Yeah, 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.360 myself a nice collection of ascots later, no, but I mean, look, 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:38.119 you will celebrate it in its full uh fullness here 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.640 because we have four separate incidences of him, not just 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.720 with the physical flipping of the bird, but also you know, 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.760 being a matter of fact in his postgame press conference 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.800 of what he thought of that collection of fans. But 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.880 you know, also you need to pull back and say, 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.560 you know, it's not it's not all Celtics fans because 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.160 I mean, look, some folks miss him, some folks loved him, 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.960 folks felt sad and betrayed when he left. Those are 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.280 the ones that are now cursing him out and letting 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.840 him hear it at every chance. But what we see 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.360 now is players have decided, you know what, as a 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.000 group we're not taking this anymore. There's there's they're going 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.160 full D Snyder and twisted sister and give it back. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.960 So yeah, so middle Figure Monday brings us this. It 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.040 also brings us now before we get to look, we'll 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:25.919 tell you who's gonna win the NBA Championship in a 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.560 couple of minutes you talk, You mentioned storylines we didn't 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.560 think we were gonna get today. How about another day 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.160 where we get an NBA MVP story because you know 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:39.680 we need, we need a daily NBA MVP story. You tell, sarcastic, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.639 meaning we really don't. But now we have a officially 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.280 we know who's up for the award, as opposed to 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:51.280 you know, reading the odds and then throwing in for rumor, conjecture, speculation. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.800 Well here's the guy that I like, but he's like 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.640 fifteenth in the odds. I don't care. He's my guy. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:02:59.280 I mean, we we need, we need to have a 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.320 daily conversation about the NBA MVP. It's becoming a staple. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.120 We got to talk about it because players are so needy, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.640 they're so needy about needing to win the MVP. And 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.160 Joel Embiid everything he does, it's like he wants to 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.200 run back up the floor and go R and I 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:18.720 the MVP on the MVP. UH. The finalists have been 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:22.800 announced for NBA MVP and they are Joel Embiid, Jannis 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.679 and Nicola Yokich. All right, so you have last year's 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.840 MVP and Yokich. You got the guy who wants to 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.720 be MVP and MBAT and the guy who's won previously 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.720 in jannas these. I think he wins it, wants to 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.840 be finalists. I think that's what's let's apply it to it. 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.560 Like when he's on the court, you know what, he 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.240 wants it more and that's why they're gonna wait. You know, 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.040 the other team may or may not want to win. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.240 I think that guy wants it one hundred and ten percent. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.280 And I think we really can quantify it if Embiad 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.960 is actually outside UH the arena after games, handing out 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.360 flyers to fans with his stats on him going MVP 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.400 MVP and like he's running for something that wouldn't surprise 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.480 me because that's how badly he wants to win. No, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.960 he's gonna send that one literal guy all over the 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.240 place to it to the places of employment for all 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.280 of the guys that are and women that are voting 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.640 out the award. Why is this guy in the suit 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.680 just standing here? I know him from the meme. That's 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.920 Joel m meads guy. Instead of guys trying to sell 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.640 you CDs or say hey it's my CD in my 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.760 music or whatever, Hey here you got now he would 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.080 you like tickets to see this shown here? MVP? What 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.240 is this? It's just got my stats on it. Okay, cool, 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:28.919 I'll look at it and then you crumpled up and 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:30.760 throw it away like and you walked down. But that 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.960 that's kind of what it is players. They care so 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.520 much about the MVP. Can you imagine the NFL if 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.080 we had the same run for the MVP from guys 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.640 like Rogers and Brady who wanted to say, I don't 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.600 know why I'm not the MVP. I don't know why 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.840 look at look at what I do. I think they 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.280 just must not like me, why I can't win the MVP. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.520 Can you imagine if one of the NFL quarterbacks said 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.279 that the devoters just they must just not like me. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:58.400 I I can't believe I'm not the MVP. The desire 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.719 that the that NBA player have to be to get 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.479 that bit of of of reaction and and hey, I 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.760 gotta be the MVP. It's not president anywhere else. Nobody 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.960 else does nobody. Can you remember Aaron Judge walking around going, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.160 I don't know why I'm not the MVP. Voters just 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:15.599 don't like me. I don't know why I'm not doing 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.159 what I rake every I can't believe I'm not the MVP. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.160 Bryce Harper, Oh, he'd be public enemy number one. All 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.440 the guy does is want to win the MVP. All 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.800 the guy does. I mean, I just can't get over 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.120 the fact that the NBA play they care so much 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.120 about the MVP and about winning it. Well, you know what, 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.160 you're trying to break it down and pull it back 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.960 a little bit right with the NFL, No matter what 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.680 you do in the regular season, and you use the 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.600 example of Aaron Rodgers, Yeah, you want two MVPs, what 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.520 do you do in the playoffs? Nobody cares, right, MVP awards, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.080 stack him up all you want. Peyton Manning's got a 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:54.160 whole handful of trophies that but you know he's got 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.320 two rings, and what do people do. They drag him 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.640 because one of them he beat Rex Grossman and the 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.880 most memorable thing was praying performing purple Rain, and the 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.960 other one was that the defense dragged him to the 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:08.400 finish line. Right, No, that the MVPs don't matter in 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.240 the in the NFL and Major League Baseball. By time 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.919 they award them, we're smack dab into college football in 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.640 the NFL season, and the NBA is up and running, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:22.040 NHL's up and running. Your kids are doing performances and 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:25.120 playing fall sports. You're not paying a tenth they announced those. 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.880 Oh that's cool, it's not there for the NBA. There's 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:31.560 still some juice because remember, for a lot of years 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.200 you weren't winning titles, whether it was the Warriors run, 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.360 whether you had the heatles there for a minute, and 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.799 then go back to the Michael Jordan era or Kobe 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.640 and Shack, a lot of guys were happy to take 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.720 hardware because they knew they weren't winning the ultimate hardware. 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.159 Whereas now it's like, all right, well we might have 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.839 a shot at winning, but the individual title, we we 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.760 can do a lot of branding with it. Right. It's 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.760 also the change of the game in that regard, right, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.080 talking about nil, I joked in an hour one of 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.360 you know, Central Florida and Isaiah bows Or leading the 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.960 charge former Northwestern running back. There, they had QR codes 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.480 trying to encourage people to go and participate in their 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.000 social media and branding whatever. NBA won't be too far behind. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.440 And I think it's great. Here's all the people that 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:23.920 I have on team embad or Yo gets you or 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.800 whatever else, and you go support those brands. That's how 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.880 you make me the real MVP. Load load my wallet. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.880 But that's part of it, right It's it's salesmanshipping, and 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.920 it's branding because the titles are great and those are 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.160 going to help, but individual accolades also get you to 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.560 the finish line. And I think the and the NBA 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.160 players and maybe AAU comes into some of it. I 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.720 don't know. We talk about it a little bit, but 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:52.600 everybody wants to win titles, but certainly more vocalization, at 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:57.000 least from Joel Embiid. I think he just has the complex. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.600 And maybe it's the Philly fans. They've random hard after 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.920 those first couple of years when he couldn't play, and 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.840 now he's their guy. And then they had you know, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.400 the the Ben Simmons year and a half that was, 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.240 and all the way through so yeah, he's gonna stump 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.600 for himself if nobody else's well, you know me. You 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.000 know I like to solve problems, right, I can't do that. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.280 I like to solve it one of the many jobs 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:24.960 you've given yourself over time, fleet with a lot of 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.840 fictitious Uh. Well, it's like a I attended this university, 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.080 what'd you do? I really went for a one day seminar. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.440 But I'm gonna tell you I went to Harvard. Uh. 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.000 You know, Look, there's so many jobs I can do 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.040 without any experience. I mean, I guess it would fall 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.920 under the umbrella of of like a like a like 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.240 a superstar consultant. Right, But here's how you can solve 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.600 some MVP issues, Right, players really care so much about 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.520 winning MVP. Well, what's the big thing we have going 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.840 on right now with star players in the NBA. They 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.640 don't play enough games? Right? They sit out way too much. 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.480 They sit out back to backs all the time. They 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.319 sit out for just load maintenance. Here's here's here's what 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.400 you could do. You really want players to play more games, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:07.320 make there be a game played threshold you have to 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.080 get to to be considered for a postseason award. Then 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.960 suddenly guys ain't skipping games. Right, make the threshold, say 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.840 seventy games. You gotta play in at least seventy games 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:19.720 to be the MVP. Right. I'm not saying you gotta 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.080 play seventy five or seventy six. You have games, you 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.240 know there, there's you know, bumps and bruises you get 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.400 over the course of the year. But let's say seventy games, 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.960 seventy out of eighty two, because missing twelve games that's 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:30.680 a big that's a lot of games. But I'm gonna 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:35.920 give you the the the looseness of hey, ten twelve 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.120 games for whatever reason. Okay, you gotta play in at 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.920 least seventy games. Then suddenly you're gonna see a big 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.040 uptick because guys want to be the MVP. They want 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.360 to keep playing. Because if you look at the top 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.000 twenty five scorers in in the NBA, you know how 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.720 many of them played in seventy games? Five? Okay five 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.880 five guys played in at least seventy games. Include your 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.840 guy DeMar Derozin. Five guys played at least seventy games. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.640 Everybody else was was in the sixties or fifties. Right, 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:04.719 We've talked about this. This is a big issue with 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.320 the NBA and guy's not playing enough and stars not 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.120 playing enough. Yeah, you want to be eligible for certain 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.080 postseason awards. God hit a certain gameplay threshold. Sixty nine games, Sorry, 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.959 but I was dominant, doesn't matter. Didn't play seventy, oh 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:18.600 but I was. Well, that's how it goes. When you 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.920 get hurt, you get taken out of the run for MVP. 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.640 John Morant probably would have been the MVP, but he 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.800 got hurt. Memphis showed they could win without him, at 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.400 least in the regular season, so you can't win the MVP. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.280 That's kind of how it goes. Give me a game 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.960 played threshold to be the MVP, and then you're gonna 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.559 start seeing guys all playing at least seventy games. You're 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.280 gonna get the guys that seventy game threshold pretty easy. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.160 Seeing that this is this is where the philosophically, it's 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.800 the threshold, right, I mean, because Lebron didn't win the 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:51.079 scoring title by you know, missing one more game, right, 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.800 which is why there was so much intrigue that final 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.840 week of is he going to play one or two 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.600 more games? And you know if he did. While this 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:04.839 column was written, and if he didn't, that column was written, right, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.240 I mean, the poison pens were out right. If he 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.920 came back and played after missing elimination games and once 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.480 they were mathematically out of the playoffs, if he'd come 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.120 back to win the scoring title, we all recognized that 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.560 was going to happen. I mean, now you have the 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.440 situation whereby you're gonna need that, I mean you still 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.839 have a handful of guys, so that would be, you know, legitimately, 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.160 And this is where we get into the subjectivity of it. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.760 All of you know, what are the metrics team wins 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.680 your you know, basketball war and all of those things, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.880 right to decide who the finalists are, because I know 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.280 there's a lot of angst over all the finalists that 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.920 got announced, right, because you had players stumping not just 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.240 for MVP, but for teammates for myriad awards all the 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.760 way through. And we mentioned Jordan Pool earlier as not 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.520 even in the conversation for Most Improved Player. It's like, 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:58.760 what are we doing? Like I just don't understand or 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.320 do you just say, well, we didn't have a real 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.080 record of him last year because he didn't play heavy minutes. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.280 So now that he's a star. He just passes that category. 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.600 But if you're just now going to be eliminating guys 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:16.240 who may be truthfully highly impactful for ninety percent of 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.200 the games they play ninety five percent or whatever you 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.079 want to ascribe it, but just because they miss that threshold, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.000 I gotta imagine the Union wouldn't be happy about that. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.720 To be some argument, But it's a postseason award. It is, well, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.160 it's a postseason award. It's not you're not taking money out, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.040 and it's a postseason award. If you want to put 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.240 in your contract, you gotta be the MVP, gotta play 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.679 the games well. But also, I mean, like because you 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.000 wrap it all in together, right, go back to the 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.640 All NBA teams and how Jason Tatum got screwed out 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:49.280 of what thirty million dollars because of the way people voted, right, 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.679 I mean the fact that your max contract is tied 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.120 to those kind of things that people are voting on 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.520 and not some sort of you know, analytical you know, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.079 some metric that's been described. I mean, you might have 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.920 been had a bad night in one city that you 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.840 you you made one set of reporters angry because you 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.319 were a little short with questions and they decided to 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.160 vote for somebody else. That costs you thirty million dollars. 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.400 Don't put it in your contract, don't put it out. 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.760 No, no no, no. But that's that's a thing that's negotiated 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.120 with the league. That's not Jason Tatum's contract. That's the 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.240 way the league works, which is asinine and something the 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.439 Union needs to fight and be better about. But in 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.679 terms of this, though, I look it's problem solving, Uh, 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.680 it does create that other Pandora's box in terms of 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:38.400 games played where guys are legitimately missing a couple uh 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.199 and may miss that threshold due to injury versus UH 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.839 sitting on the sideline and drinking a glass of wine 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.400 and just watching the world go by, which is what 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.559 Adam Silver talked about in his press or what was 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.840 that a little over a week ago? Uh, the angst 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.840 over the because they thought they'd killed it right. It 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.840 looked like it had mostly gone away the low management 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.440 or at least teams were being a little better about 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.280 it and players are being better about it. And then 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.560 we got to the final month of the season. It's like, hey, 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.320 remember if five years ago when you were really mad, Hey, 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.080 get mad again because here we're back and we're all 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:17.440 gonna do it. But I think there needs to be 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:21.160 that dialogue of what is the threshold, you know for 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.480 those awards, because you mentioned job Rand's the best example 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.640 how great he was, and then the team was really 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:29.640 good without him, and so everybody said, well, he doesn't 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.440 have that much impacting Well, I don't know that that's 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:36.640 necessarily true, but here you go asked and answered, you 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.440 got all all these games. You know, Steph Curry got 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.920 hurt after they were off to that big run up. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.240 Should he have gotten more consideration than because their teams 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:49.760 slumped with him not in the lineup. So it's the 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.000 fun of the arguments that we have with this stuff. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:56.400 But at least saying, hey, here's the threshold going forward. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.480 I would love to hear Dan Wake or some of 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.280 our friends who like to ask the tough questions to 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.640 VEX commissioners and owners and players, that kind of thing. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.360 That would be fun. Think about that. At the end 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.120 of the Lakers season, yeah, going in, Hey, you know what, 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.520 let me take you away from, you know, trying to 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.720 figure out why you guys have been terrible for eighty games. 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.320 Now the awards season. If we said you had to 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.840 play this or you were ineligible, what do you think 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.880 about that? I think you might get some very fascinating answers. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.760 You might get a middle finger Monday, Twitter and out 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.520 about a Fresca Mike as Swollen Dome, Jason Smith, Mike 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.440 Harmon in for Dan and the dan 's Today. Now, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.200 with the big action that we saw over the course 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.920 of the weekend, last night's game between the Sons and 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.080 the Pelicans probably was something you tuned into for a 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.680 little bit. Saw the Sun's hat in hand. They were 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:51.960 a big at halftime. New Orleans made a little bit 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.520 of a run in the second half, but Phoenix was 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.000 never really in trouble and they just blow out the 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.880 Pelicans one, ten ninety nine. And I don't want to 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.200 overthink this because I felt like I did that during 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.080 the NCAA Tournament, when you know, you just ignored how 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.560 well Kansas was playing because you know, the Duke's storyline 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.440 was so great in North Carolina is peaking, and all 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.640 Kansas is doing is the only number one seed is 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.040 beating everybody. And yeah they had to come from behind 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:17.880 to win in the in the title but in the 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:22.160 title game, but Kansas was clearly the best team. I'll 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.040 tell you what, Mike, I look at the rest of 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.960 this playoffs. I think the Suns win the title and 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.280 I don't expect them to really be challenged at all. 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.840 Get you on their way to it, right, Picking anybody 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.600 else is overthinking it. Right, They've been the best team 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.120 all year for a reason. They've been as good as 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.040 these other teams were as good as this. The Warriors 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.680 are as good as the Grizzlies are, The Suns have 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:46.280 been better. Usually, the best team wins the championship, and 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:50.040 the Suns have been better than everybody all the way through. 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.800 And they can now know they can withstand a non 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.960 elite Chris Paul because they've done it without him. Devin 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.880 Booker's gonna wind up being the best player in this playoff. Right. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.240 He wasn't quite ready for his moment last year. They're 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.960 ready this year. There's gonna be plenty of five game 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.600 series for them on the way to the championship. They're 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:10.639 locked in. They're on a mission. This is not a 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.520 team that is going to say, all right, we're still 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.359 playing the NBA Finals a year later, where we're just 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.439 trying to get back to that point. No, they know 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.399 they got a steamroll through their opponents. They've been locked 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:22.160 in and focused all season long. There was no fat 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.680 cat syndrome. There was no oh, we got to come 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.560 back from the difficult mental aspect of losing in the 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.240 finals to the Bucks. No, they know they're the best. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.320 Then there's nobody that can beat them. There's nobody, nobody 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.200 in the wet looked Sons and Warriors in the Western 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.480 Conference finals might wind up being something. But you get 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.359 to the NBA Finals, then oh, it's could be a 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.359 rematch of Sons in the Bucks, and the Sons are 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.920 gonna wind up winning in five. I just don't see 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.960 a team being able to give them a series where 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.800 suddenly the Sons are really sweating things out. I think 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.480 it's kind of a boring run for them to go 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.480 win the championship, young, hungry, and they heard every bit 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.879 of the criticism along the ways. As we talk about, 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.159 you know, when when teams have runs, things have to 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.600 also happen for them, Right, you have to stay healthy. 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.960 That's rule number one on your side, right your trainers 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:14.600 working overtime and players staying out on the court. Rule two. Uh, 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.119 Somewhere along the way, an opponent is going to have 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:20.959 a subpar game or there's going to be an injury. 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.159 And in their case, they had every series, and everybody 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:25.399 was quick to point out it's like, you know what 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:26.959 you have to you still have to take advantage of it. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.880 Guys are still putting on their uniforms and playing. So 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.640 it's not like the Lakers. Oh, Anthony Davis got hurt, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.640 they put up a white flag and quit. They still played. 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.560 So I love what the Suns have done this season. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:41.760 I'm still taking the other I think Steve Kerr figures 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:48.199 out his horrible problem of pool versus Tomas awful, and 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.359 on the other side, the Bucks will be waiting for 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.480 the rematch. Twitter at how about a Fresco Mike at 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.399 Swollen Dome? Jason Smith Mike Harmon in for Dan and 0:18:57.440 --> 0:18:59.760 the Dead. And that's today. We all have different ideas 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.280 about success. We achieve it at different times in different ways. Now, 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.760 if you're recently change jobs or considering retirement, you're probably 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.080 thinking about your own version of success and striving to 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.440 reach your goals. 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