WEBVTT - 10/19/21 DPS Hour 2 Adam Lefkoe 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.960 Sports Radio. That both parties need a separation here. But 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:10.520 for that to happen, I think Ben Simmons has to 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.360 show that he can play basketball. I don't know if 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:15.680 he's going to be any better. I don't know what 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:19.160 happens the first time he has that wide open three, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.560 or the first time that he goes to the free 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.680 throw line, or he's going to the hoop and doesn't 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:26.040 want to get fouled so he passes it off. And 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.880 how the seventy six are crowd really reacts, how does 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.120 Joe l Embiid react, How does Doc Rivers react? I 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.319 still think they want to trade him. The question is 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.000 what can they get and when do they trade him? 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:40.800 But I think it's really imperative that Ben Simmons proves 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.279 he can play basketball, because right now I wouldn't want 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:48.040 to trade for him because it feels like, hey, I'm 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.600 twenty five. He's acting like a twenty five year old. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.360 Hey stop criticizing me. And then when you criticize that, 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:56.560 you know I want to get out of here. No, 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:01.120 how about you just get better? And yes the criticism hurts, 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.680 but you're the one that brings on the criticism. You're 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.360 the one that you know, how much time you putting in, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.480 how much do you really want to get better? And 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.480 this sense of entitlement. I don't want that on my team. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:14.959 I think he's got to prove it he can be 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.800 a good team player and play hard and do other things, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:24.080 because right now it's such an odd body language that 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.320 you see with that team in that player Kyrie. Whatever 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.160 Kyrie decides to do, whenever he decides to do it. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.199 If he decides he's going to sit out this season, great, 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.480 he made his decision. The NBA will move on, The 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.319 nets will move on. The Nets will still be listed 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.720 his favorites to win the NBA title even without Kyrie Irving? 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.280 Does Kyrie wait a couple of months, what happens in 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.760 New York City? Does something change where he can come 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.400 back and play? But in the meantime, your two storylines, 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.440 it feels like going into tonight have to do with 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.760 Ben Simmons is there sort of and Kyrie's on. Now 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.440 we can extrapolate and go, oh, you got the Lakers 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.920 with Russell Westbrook and yeah you do. Uh, you know, 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:11.079 how how physical is the toll going to be on 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.880 Anthony Davis. Can he hold up Lebron James Russell Westbrook's role? 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:20.760 Did they you know they have depth there, Dwight Howard, Carmelo, Anthony. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.600 You know, it's a fascinating experiment that they have as 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.080 far as you know, Utah or Denver. What do they 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.080 learn from last year? Phoenix? Are they going to be 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.720 there again? This Golden State have another run in them? 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.240 Then you have the Bucks basically brought everybody back, which 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.480 is not sexy. You don't get clicks when you bring 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.240 everybody back. But you know, they should still be the 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.840 team to beat in my opinion, because I just don't 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.520 know what's going to happen with the Nets. But you 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:48.639 know there's going to be an outlier. You know, are 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.160 they Atlanta Hawks? Legit? Are the Knicks legit? You know, 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.120 you got a lot of questions there, Miami Heat, Miami 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.200 Heat with Kyle Lowry? Are they that much of a 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.680 different team? But those are some of the questions. But 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.399 Adam Lefco, who hosts NBA on T and T, he'll 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.920 join his coming up in a little bit. Yeah. Pauli 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.200 Ben Simmons question, can most athletes can win or play 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.639 their way out of almost any criticism, any off field baggage. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.240 Does it feel like it's too late? In Philly? Let's 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.080 say they started seven and one and he played better, 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:23.359 much better. Would it be forgiven or just temporarily forgiven 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:28.240 with Ben Simmons? Well, but by playing better they there. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.480 They were a great team last year, but he wasn't great. Yeah, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.440 but I don't know how he becomes better if you 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:41.720 stare well. But he can't shoot, so that that hasn't changed. 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.600 Would I like to see him more like Yannis not 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.280 being afraid to go to the free throw line? Yeah? 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.520 I would. Um, I don't want Yannis shooting jumpers, but 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.880 I love that he's fearless. Ben Simmons is afraid of 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.960 getting criticized. You can't step on the court, and he 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.320 is a great talent, but you can't go out there 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.000 with those things that are always going to be in 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.240 your head or your coaches, or your teammates or the fans. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.000 They're waiting for you to go to the line. They're 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.160 waiting for you to take a jumper. And you know, 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.800 if I'm Ben Simmons or on Doc Rivers, I don't 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.360 want him in the situation where he's taking jumpers. I 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.599 would use him as a power forward. You know, he's 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.160 going to have to go to the free throw line, 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.760 but I don't need him. Not everybody needs to shoot threes, 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.839 and I would utilize him in a different way. It's 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.760 like Jannis became so dangerous. They put him on the 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.600 low block in the finals and he dominated. You know, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.560 he put you in foul trouble and then he hit 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.880 what's seventeen of eighteen free throws in that final game? Yeah, mclevn. Yeah, 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.960 speaking as Sickerts fan, Ben tenses hang out forty feet 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.239 from the basket, which means his man is on himbiid. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.240 He doesn't go down low where he's dominant. He's really 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.920 really good. Yeah, he just doesn't want to shoot free throws. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.599 He doesn't want to be embarrassed. He's a he's a 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:00.000 TikTok kid. It's like, you know, Okay, you want everybod, 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.200 you say nice things, you want likes, and you know 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.880 all of this stuff. That's just not the NBA. That's 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.320 not the way it works. And you know, get tough, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:12.400 act tough, be tough, and try to make yourself a 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.760 better player instead of hey, stop picking on me, trade me. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.559 I want out of here, and then all of a sudden, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.520 why did you come back? Well, I didn't realize they're 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.960 gonna pay me or find me that much. So you're 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.520 sort of there with Philadelphia. You're not there for the 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.320 long home, not at all. All right, we'll get some 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.000 phone calls here. What's poll question for our two? So 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.360 we have up who is a favorite in the AFC? 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.880 And the Buffalo Bills are still running away with it 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.440 despite losing last night sixty four percent. The second and 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.280 behind them is the Ravens. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:46.880 I mean the Ravens. The Ravens are proving you don't 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.039 need a quality running back. You don't you don't even 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:52.279 need a name running back. But they have names. They're 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.960 just incredibly old. They have Levy on Bell, Davante, Freeman, Ladavius, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.440 but you don't need them. I would still have an 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:03.039 empty bad with Lamar, and I would have either an 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.960 extra wide receiver an extra blocker, and I would just say, 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.280 try to stop him. He's gonna get hit. You know, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.600 if you look at the times a quarterback has been 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.160 hit this year, this is those running and you know 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.640 you're in the pocket and you get hit. Lamar Jackson 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.200 has been hit in ninety eight times, so that's being 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.799 tackled or hit in the pocket. Next on the list 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.720 is Josh Allen at seventy eight, Jalen Hurts seventy eight, 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:34.560 Carson Wentz sixty five, Sam Darnold sixty five, Patrick Mahomes 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.520 sixty three, Daniel Jones sixty three. You're gonna get hit. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.320 The question is design plays. Do you get out of 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.120 bounds to your slide? You know that's really the key. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.200 Lamar Jackson is going to get hit, and so is 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.160 Josh Allen. They get hit differently because it feels like 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.400 Lamar is a little better at avoiding contact or that 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.360 direct hit Josh Allen, he almost seems to take on 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.600 that contact. But I would just spread. I would just 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.920 say to the defense, try to stop this. And Lamar 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.640 is a better passer than people given credit for because 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.320 if you watch that game, got a really quick release. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.520 He might not be as accurate as the other elite quarterbacks. 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.320 But I look at what he does well, does better 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:24.360 than anybody, and you build off of that. Yeah, I mclub. Yeah, 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.120 Lamar's had a lot of stats taken away because Brown 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.320 has had the drops this year. He's played well. He 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.640 had three t drop one game, and he dropped one 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.680 this game too. You know, Lamar's passing numbers are really 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:39.679 good this year. The least hit quarterback. Actually, they're tied, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.720 and I would never have thought that they would be tied. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.400 Ben Roethlisberger and Tom Brady have been hit the fewest 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.240 thirty eight times. Yeah. Point. I saw a stat the 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.120 other day. I think Chris Collinsworth dropped it that Ben 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.920 Roethlisberger is getting rid of the ball faster than any 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.320 other point in his career, back to the point where 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.840 it's just like a hop tato. Yes, yeah, everything is 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.960 like three, four, five, six yards. You know, he just 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.280 doesn't want to get after a while. I mean, he 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.600 can't move any but he used to be able to 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.840 have mobility and he could extend to play. He just doesn't. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.280 He doesn't want to get hit anymore. I mean, the 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.640 reason why Brady is still playing is because he doesn't 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.880 get hit. You know, he's not running, he's not running 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:28.440 from anybody. Uh, let me see, Jeff, and Milwaukee leads 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.080 this off. Hey, Jeff, what's on your mind today? And morning? 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.480 Pretty excited morning, pretty excited for the start of the 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.720 NBA season, more excited than ever for obvious reasons. But 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.280 I'm wondering if there's really any way to overrate what 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.559 Jannis did in the finals last year coming off to 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.600 knee injury. He's got the Chase down blacking game one, 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:53.719 two forty point games, backed back the black than the 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:58.280 hellyoop fifty points, making his free throws unafraid. As you say, 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.560 I've absolutely loved you talking about that the past couple 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:05.839 of weeks. Where do you put that historically for a 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.880 finals run? It's there, you know. I still go back 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.760 to Rick Barry had an incredible finals run with the 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:20.480 Golden State Warriors. Jerry West did, Magic, did Bird did. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:27.080 Michael obviously did. But but Jannis is different because I didn't. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.560 I don't look at the second best player on the 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.000 Bucks equal to the second best player with Magic or 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.920 second best player with Bird or second best player with Michael. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.960 Jannis is just fascinating. And I know I keep repeating this, 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.440 but if you look at Ben Simmons and Jannis, they're 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.640 of similar age, but they are so different in their personalities. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.800 Because Jannis wasn't entitled when he came over. He had 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:57.439 to keep work and keep working, prove himself. Ben Ben 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.680 couldn't go to the NBA right out of high school. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.920 He stops in for you know, a couple of months 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.680 at LSU, has no interest in going to class and 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.880 basically quit on that team. They weren't even a tournament team. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.040 And then he hey, number one pick, this guy's the 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.480 next Magic Johnson. I'm still waiting for the next Magic 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.720 Johnson because it's not Ben Simmons and there will never 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.439 be another Magic Johnson. But he came in. It's like here, 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:28.920 I am enjoy and then all of a sudden, you go, hey, 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:32.240 you got some holes in your game. And I remember 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.080 the first time I saw him playing at LSU, I go, 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.360 I think he's I think he's shooting with the wrong hand, 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.440 and I was sort of joking, sort of yeah, and 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.440 it's not Chris Middleton's fault. But he's not very famous 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.640 and he's not very spectacular. He's a very good NBA player, obviously, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.040 but he's such in the shadow of the aura of 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.760 Jiannis that it feels like it's a one man team, 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.000 which isn't fair, but that's what it feels now. Yeah, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:00.800 and look, they have a good balanced team, But go 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.280 back to Kevin Durant with his foot on the line. 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.720 I mean, how different that could have been. You'd probably 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:09.120 have a new head coach in Milwaukee, Like there was 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.440 so much attached to that they held on for dear life. 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.559 But you know, Ben Simmons has to decide if he 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.960 wants to take on the risk and the reward of 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.520 being a great player. He's gonna get paid, but do 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:27.000 you want to be remembered as somebody that people go, oh, yeah, wow, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:31.560 he was overrated or Janie is going to be underrated 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.319 probably when it's all said and done, which is really 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:38.160 hard to do getting all the attention that he does. Yeah, McLeman, 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.240 I can't help myself. We gotta put an as first 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.040 on this title. Last year. Come on, they beat the 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.360 Hawks at the conference finals and they beat the Phoenix 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:50.320 Suns in the finals. You can't control who you play, well, Okay, 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.000 then Kawhi Letter gets full credit for beating the Warriors 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.760 without Katie. If there's I just feel like this was 0:11:55.800 --> 0:12:00.560 a quirky quirky NBA Magic was injured when Michael won 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.920 his first title beating the Lakers. Nobody brings that ump 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.439 was that that Lakers team was not fully stocked though, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.079 was it They would have woke okay, but they had injuries. 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:11.880 But then Michael went on to win the next one. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.839 My point is Jannis he has to prove a little 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:20.600 more to be in like okay, and he might do. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.040 The Spurs get all the credit they deserve should they 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.280 get blamed. They beat a Knicks team that didn't even 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.080 have Patrick Ewing on it. That's another big I didn't 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:31.640 hear anybody say anything, but they beat Like, that's the 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.600 worst finals. What about they beat a Cleveland team that 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.199 I had Lebron James and no one else, one of 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.080 the worst teams to ever go to the NBA Finals. Yeah, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.600 nobody is patting them on the back for that, But 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.760 those are two Those are two titles. Well yeah, but 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.600 they went on to win a bunch more so that 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.160 that takes the astric away. Okay, but then do I 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.960 take those away that they only won three not five? No, no, no, 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.520 because you get it back after you win a subsequence. 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:04.640 That's how it work. So if Janni's somehow beats the Nets, yes, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.200 then then and then this one counts. Just like Kawai's 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.520 title doesn't really count in lieu of a banner raising. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.520 You have an asterisk lowering. Mm okay, yeah, like nobody. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.760 Nobody's gonna really take that Raptors title that seriously. I 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.480 think it's just you. Oh, come on, there's somebody NBA 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:29.320 fans who like to put asterix on different things. I knew. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.120 I couldn't help myself. I'm sorry. And I love the 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:35.080 Bucks I Bucks gear all over my because it's free. Yes, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.720 that's true. All right, let me take a break. We'll 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.680 talk to Adam Leftco the NBA on TNT host Hill 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.440 Jone is coming up. More phone calls as well, and 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.080 we'll preview Dodgers this afternoon. By the way, that's a 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.400 five o'clock, five o eight Eastern time game, just to 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.120 let everybody know. And that's one of those that you 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:54.800 could be tuning in. You're like, oh my god, they're 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.640 in the seventh inning. 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Todd sure is oh okay, Hey left Go. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:14.080 The biggest storyline going into the season is, oh, man, 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.040 you caught me in a whirlwind between Ben Simmons and 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:22.800 Kyrie Irving. I feel like those are the two NBA 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.600 seventy fifth year anniversary that's the biggest one. But I 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.400 think what's going to happen to these two guys that 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.760 are not currently playing right now? Do the team even 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.600 like him in terms of Ben Simmons and in terms 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.800 of Kyrie Irving, does the team even need him? Those 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.600 are the two questions that I'm kind of thinking storyline wise, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:47.600 who would you rather interview between those two? Oh, Kyrie 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.120 is going to take you to a place that you 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:53.520 have no idea where he's going. And I'm someone that 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:59.520 does find it somewhat entertaining Ben. It feels like a 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.920 lot of angst, a lot of anger, a lot of 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:06.679 built up just frustration, and I feel like it's going 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.480 to be a lot of no comments. So at least 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.119 I can have a conversation with Kyrie which one is 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:17.160 more salvageable Kyrie. I think that when we would always 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.040 have these stats last year for MBA and TNT, how 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.480 is this team with Kyrie and Durant but no Harden 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.760 and how are they? They were great? And so when 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.480 you look at the depth of this roster, I totally 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.159 forgot Patty Mills, I know, but they got Javon Carter 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.680 two from Feeding. They're very deep, and James Harden played 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.400 a lot of point guard last year, and so I 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.080 think that this Nets team could start off really hot 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:46.200 and then three four months in possibly he gets the 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.120 vaccine and joins them with Ben. He is literally working 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.320 out in a hooded sweatshirt with the sleeves cut off, 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.720 wearing full pants to practice. He's not playing. We are 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.160 watching a hold in instead of a old Alps And 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.240 I think that this is just posturing for a possible trade. 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:10.240 Who had a great offseason. I think the fact that 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:16.240 the Bucks resigned a lot of guys, they got continuity 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:21.199 in a league of constant change. I thought it was 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.560 really well done for Boston to kind of move a 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.600 bunch of their pieces and retain their core and still 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:32.160 build around Tatum. I think I would have said Phoenix, 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.840 but this DeAndre Ayton not getting the max I think 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:40.399 suddenly brings trouble in Paradise. But I think also the 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:45.600 Lakers and specifically Russell Westbrook to go from the Washington 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.960 Wizards to the Lakers, what an off season for him? 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.120 Really impressive. What is the game plan do you think 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:55.000 for the Lakers during the regular season? So that was 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:58.720 the best part of the Russell Westbrook moved by the Lakers. 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.320 In my opinion is that Lebron is now and he 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:05.680 has been for the last few years, a CEO that 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.360 doesn't need to be in every meeting, and I think 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.720 when you heard the upset nature of him with Jared 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:16.160 Dudley leaving, he needed those generals to keep the team 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.600 motivated during the regular season. And I don't think anyone 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.199 does that better than Russell Westbrook. We heard it in 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.440 Houston where he was on the plane and they're waiting 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.080 for Harden and then he goes to Washington and all 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.680 of a sudden, the team and Bradley deal is focused. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:34.440 Lebron now has his general, his everyday general to keep 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:38.199 that team motivated during the regular season. We saw it 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.439 last year like they're okay, going for the seven or 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.359 eight seed if it means, you know, resting Lebron a 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.760 little bit. I think that they're going to go for 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.400 it all this year. I think that when you look 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:51.720 at the West, I think the Sons are great, but 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.560 I think it's unlikely that they have a similar run 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:56.560 back to back. It's just tough to do that two 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:58.800 years in a row. So I think they're kind of 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.399 going up against UT to try and win the regular season. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.760 But I think as long as they're in the top four, 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.280 they're feeling good. But I really think Westbrook now is 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:11.439 that day to day general of the team. Who's the 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:21.320 most overrated team? Oh? Overrated? I think, like I just said, 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.280 I would just from having watched sports a long time, 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:28.440 it's probably unlikely that Phoenix and Atlanta do what they 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.719 did again. You know, those just seemed like big runs 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.600 motivated by a lot of and there are so much 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:39.760 opening in the West with Kawai's injury and the Lakers injuries. 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.639 I just I think Phoenix is probably the team that 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.480 people are penciling into the finals that I just would 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:50.679 I would bet against them. Who is underrated? I like 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:55.800 the Utah Jazz, and mainly because of conversations that we 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:59.359 have had before about Yeah, I get this with the 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.199 Bucks and the regular season, but show me in the 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.760 playoffs and then it happened, and this happened with the 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:09.400 Raptors a few years ago. I'm not saying Rudy Gay 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:11.959 is the guy at the missing piece that brings us 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.680 all together, because that's just that's a good thing. I'm 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.800 I'm glad you didn't. Okay, yeah, I've had n't two 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:22.560 year three into loving the Utah Jazz. I too, love 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:28.160 the unit. Um. I think it was watching Rudy Gobert 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:32.320 in the Olympics, and it was watching him get brought 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.199 into similar situations in the playoffs where he's having to 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:39.120 defend guards and he actually did it. But look, I've 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.080 Mellow Olympic mellow messed me up for a number of years. 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:48.159 So I just I have to imagine that all of 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:52.359 these years of getting just absolutely swept in the playoffs. 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:54.560 I don't know, man, I'm I'm a sucker for Payne, 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:57.080 you know, And so I think the Utah Jazz are 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.800 are my tool this season? Who is your finals pick? 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.760 All right, I'll I'll be even sicker because if it happens, 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:09.479 I want credit. I'll put the Jazz in there, and 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.240 I'm going to put the nets so it'll be Jazz 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:16.040 versus Nets. The thing that I'm thinking about tonight's game, 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.000 which is a matchup for the Eastern Conference Finals Bucks Nets, 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:24.000 is the one player the Bucks didn't bring back is PJ. Tucker. 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:28.479 And I know it's weird to read that PJ. Tucker 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:31.360 was a great defender against Kevin Durant when Kevin Durant 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:34.440 had like an all time game in games five and seven. 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:38.880 But the reason he was so big as it meant 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:42.320