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Speaker 1: Greg Sauceman. Welcome to the Trade Deadline edition. Who let's
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Speaker 1: We have, of course a lot to discuss, not just
Speaker 1: with our New York Knickerbockers, but there are a lot
Speaker 1: of trades being done in the NBA right now leading
Speaker 1: up to the trade deadline. How you doing, buddy, I'm
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Speaker 1: much to celebrate, and over the next hour, yeah, NBA
Speaker 1: trade deadline stuff to talk about. Before we get to
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Speaker 1: pit is gonna tell you all the ladies of what
Speaker 1: is going on around the NBA. The trade deadline is
Speaker 1: here and make it all down. You're sewn sports grade
Speaker 1: news update. I'm John Glossomakia with your vff T update
Speaker 1: a Furrier walkbuster trades. As the NBA trade deadline has
Speaker 1: just passed three pm Eastern time, that does not mean
Speaker 1: trades will not be announced after three pm Eastern time.
Speaker 1: They just need to be into the league office and
Speaker 1: approved before the deadline. All right, let's get to the
Speaker 1: trades and some of the news. The Golden State Warriors
Speaker 1: have agreed to trade the' Angelo Russell to the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Timberwolves in a deal that includes Andrew Wiggins. The Warriors
Speaker 1: also will get a twenty twenty one protected first round
Speaker 1: draft pick and a twenty second round pick, and we'll
Speaker 1: send Jacob Evans and a Maori Spellman to the tim Wolves.
Speaker 1: Now the pick is top three protective. Also Andre Drummond.
Speaker 1: He's going from the Detroit Pistons to the Cleveland Calves.
Speaker 1: Sources say they will also get John Henton Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: in return. The Pistons and a second round draft pick.
Speaker 1: Now the pick is the lesser of Golden State or
Speaker 1: Cleveland's twenty three draft pick. How about the New York Nicks.
Speaker 1: They send their best player, Marcus Morris to the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Clippers for a first round pick. Coming back end
Speaker 1: more artless. Nicks also made new news today They planned
Speaker 1: to make c a agent, Leon Rose, the franchise's next
Speaker 1: president of operation. That is according to S and Y source. Also,
Speaker 1: William Wesley that's he's known as Worldwide West is understrong
Speaker 1: consideration to be part of the organized as with the
Speaker 1: Knicks under Rows. So, guys, just a number of NBA
Speaker 1: picked trades that we just announced. Um and if you want,
Speaker 1: we could also talk about MLB news. The New York
Speaker 1: Mets uh their sell from the Wilpons to um this
Speaker 1: hedge fund owner Stephen Cohen. Well, that's all according to
Speaker 1: MLB Commissioner Rob Manfredso the New York Mets will be
Speaker 1: looking for new partners if they do indeed want to
Speaker 1: sell the team. Alright, guys, that's your BFFs news update.
Speaker 1: Now let's go back to Greg Susman and Frank Standfold. Guys.
Speaker 1: Here you go back that right there from Sean Glass,
Speaker 1: the market and all the update the NBA. It's moving
Speaker 1: so fast there Sean, it's something as to all of the
Speaker 1: the man you're you're right, stuff is still gonna creep out,
Speaker 1: and I'm just waiting for this the other shooting job
Speaker 1: to do with Andre Drummond. No opinion on this. No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't like Andre dum He's out on Andre Drummond.
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. Yeah, this is baffling Under Drummond
Speaker 1: over to the Cleveland Cavaliers, obviously a team that's in
Speaker 1: no position to compete uh this season. And you know
Speaker 1: when it comes to under Drummond, look after everything he's
Speaker 1: done for Detroit for them to just kind of like
Speaker 1: throw him out there, Greg the you know, Greg Susan
Speaker 1: walks out of his apartment, he takes a little trash can,
Speaker 1: he throws it down the shoot in his penthouse apartment
Speaker 1: in Manhattan. In Manhattan, That's basically what the Pistons just
Speaker 1: did with Andre Drummond. They just like took him and
Speaker 1: threw him out for nothing. There you go. You couldn't
Speaker 1: see it. Greg just smack the balloon down to the ground.
Speaker 1: Is gave away for nothing. So we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: on the Andre Drummond front. See if there's a third
Speaker 1: team involved, or if he's sticking with the Cleveland Cavalier's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting one to uh to follow here, Greg,
Speaker 1: I don't really I don't really know what the Detroit
Speaker 1: Pistons are doing right now. I will tell you this. Nobody, no,
Speaker 1: neither the top two teams in the Eastern Conference made
Speaker 1: a deal in Milwaukee Bucks and the Toronto Raptors stay put,
Speaker 1: according to Zach Low of ESPN, So they're staying put.
Speaker 1: The Knicks, we'll start that, Frank, we're Knicks fans, right,
Speaker 1: So you said for a while you expected the first
Speaker 1: round pick to come to the New York Knicks in
Speaker 1: exchanged for Marcus Morris. And they do get that first
Speaker 1: round pick alongside Mo Heartless, but it is arguably one
Speaker 1: of the worst first round picks you can get. It's
Speaker 1: either going to probably be there thirty or number twenty eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we still have more information trickling in involving this
Speaker 1: trade between the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Clippers.
Speaker 1: We thought all along that they were going to move
Speaker 1: Marcus Morris because he is on a one year deal,
Speaker 1: so essentially a rental for the Los Angeles Clippers. Here,
Speaker 1: anybody I want anybody else. Well, the other guys don't
Speaker 1: one year deals too. Yeah, come on, you didn't want
Speaker 1: Bobby Portis, want over Peyton? Come on? Come on? Anyway,
Speaker 1: Marcus Morris lanes with the Los Angeles Clippers, and it's
Speaker 1: a great get for them. You know, a team that
Speaker 1: would is already competing for the top seed in the
Speaker 1: Western Conference this year. Uh. And now I would have
Speaker 1: to imagine that he kind of uh fits right in
Speaker 1: either in the starting line up, they could have him
Speaker 1: come off the bench, he could be the sixth man role. Obviously,
Speaker 1: from a fantasy perspective, Marcus Morris's production is going to
Speaker 1: come down. He's not gonna have nearly the same usage
Speaker 1: rate that he did on the Knicks, the freedom to
Speaker 1: shoot as much as he did with the New York Knicks.
Speaker 1: So the fantasy value for Marcus Morris comes down here.
Speaker 1: Greg moving over to the Los Angeles Clippers, looking at
Speaker 1: their current depth chart. Uh, there are people uh seeming
Speaker 1: that seeming to think that he's going to play. He's
Speaker 1: gonna start at the four, and then they slide Kauaide
Speaker 1: down to the three. They put Paul George at the two,
Speaker 1: and then you have obviously a trio of assets off
Speaker 1: the bench there with Lou Williams, Montres Harold and Landry Schmidt,
Speaker 1: whom they did not want to give up to the
Speaker 1: New York Knicks in that deal. No, they did not
Speaker 1: very good defensive team in l A because you mentioned
Speaker 1: Marcus Morris, while Leonard Patrick Beverley's just started point guard
Speaker 1: and Paul George. I mean, these guys are really really
Speaker 1: good defenders. Obviously, they certainly hold their own on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball as well. The Clippers is
Speaker 1: gonna be a very, very tough team in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and obviously a tough out in the playoffs as well.
Speaker 1: The Lakers and the Clippers were both fighting for Marcus Morris,
Speaker 1: but the Lakers would not give up Kyle Kuzma. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the Clippers gave up enough in Mo Harkless and that
Speaker 1: first round pick to get it done. Isaiah Thomas also
Speaker 1: gonna come off the bench of the Clippers as he
Speaker 1: was acquired in this deal, which technically with a three
Speaker 1: team deal as well. Three team deal, So what was
Speaker 1: the third team was the Washington Wizards, and they sent
Speaker 1: over Jerome Robinson, the former lottery pick who really hasn't
Speaker 1: had any opportunity to play in the NBA, so he
Speaker 1: goes over to Washington. Washington takes a stab at him
Speaker 1: and see, look to see what you got in the kid? Right,
Speaker 1: he was a former lottery pick, someone who is viewed
Speaker 1: as a scorer. But him back to back to back
Speaker 1: yes for the Los Angeles Clippers, and now neither remains
Speaker 1: on the Clippers. Year later, Isaiah Thomas coming over to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. There interesting. He already has some experience playing
Speaker 1: in Staples, former Los Angeles Laker. He was there for
Speaker 1: a brief in but former fortifying their bench even more
Speaker 1: again one of the best benches already in the league.
Speaker 1: Lou Williams and Isaiah Thomas played next to each other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not great. Defensively, there's yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: think they want to start Isaiah Thomas either, because they
Speaker 1: want pat Patrick Beverley in that starting lineup. Uh, the ferociousness,
Speaker 1: the defense that he brings for the Los Angeles Clippers
Speaker 1: as well. So you ask me, I think we're looking
Speaker 1: at Beverly, Paul, George Kawhi, Leonard, Marcus Morris, uh and
Speaker 1: Ivica Zubats as the starting five for the Clippers, and
Speaker 1: then obviously you have four legitimate players rounding out a
Speaker 1: nine man rotation for the Clippers there out in Los Angeles. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: the good rotations, the deep rotation for the Clippers. They
Speaker 1: did well. I think you're very satisfied if your Clippers fan,
Speaker 1: what you give up? What you got Marcus Morris one
Speaker 1: of the guys that are on the market that could
Speaker 1: really help you right now. Nicks they do get a
Speaker 1: first round pick. I think they finally the smart thing. Um.
Speaker 1: But before we hit the break, Frank, speaking of smart
Speaker 1: things and nixs, did they hired a new president basketball operations?
Speaker 1: Won't be an Aouked for a while, but Leon Rose
Speaker 1: give be the next president of basketball operations with world
Speaker 1: Wide West. You heard from Shawn a second ago with
Speaker 1: Worldwide West coming in as well. We're thinking this decision.
Speaker 1: It seems a little rust if we're being honest. You know,
Speaker 1: they just let go of Steve Mills forty eight hours ago,
Speaker 1: and all the talks about trying to bring in someone
Speaker 1: who has experienced in the Massayu Jerry maybe as Sam Presty. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, those were those were the pipe dreams, right,
Speaker 1: trying to make that happen. Obviously, you would have to
Speaker 1: give up some compensation to get those UH front office
Speaker 1: executives to the New York Knicks. But this is a
Speaker 1: trend that we've seen in the league now with Rob
Speaker 1: Polinka taking over as the GM of the Lakers and
Speaker 1: Bob Meyers as the GM of the Warriors. And look
Speaker 1: what those guys have been able to do. Yes, if
Speaker 1: they've been able to bring in a lot of stars,
Speaker 1: but they're also competing for championships. So let's see how
Speaker 1: it works out for the Knicks. Let's talk about Andre
Speaker 1: Drummond and Andrew Wiggins on the other side. This are
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Speaker 1: You're not happy. We're kicking off our third year together.
Speaker 1: Let's go pray deadline. Did you did you think two
Speaker 1: years ago you still be here doing this with me?
Speaker 1: Of course I did. There's no place I'd rather be
Speaker 1: Greg throwing balloons in the air inside our studio. That
Speaker 1: was a famous lyric from a pop song that you
Speaker 1: definitely love. There's no place I'd rather be using the
Speaker 1: song not me, as you can tell. That's right, believe
Speaker 1: which is not? Then nobody's arrived. No trade deadline? Friend,
Speaker 1: someone explained to me, I don't care if it's you.
Speaker 1: I don't get if anybody in the pain, anybody watching
Speaker 1: us right now in sportscrid did right tradeing away Andre Drmond,
Speaker 1: Which makes sense, right, They're not gonnaing him back next year,
Speaker 1: opted up his contract and get paid a lot of money,
Speaker 1: paid a lot of money, you think, But they traded
Speaker 1: him for nothing? Why not? Ah? How did serious? How
Speaker 1: did the New York Nicks get more for Marcus Morris
Speaker 1: than the Detroit Pistons got for Andre Drummond? And even
Speaker 1: further than that, let's take it one step further. Why
Speaker 1: are the Cleveland Calves the team to go out and
Speaker 1: trade for Andre Drummond. They're clearly not competing this year,
Speaker 1: and then they didn't even ship out Trisan Thompson either, Greg. So,
Speaker 1: now if you own either one or let's say both
Speaker 1: of them, which I do in multiple fantasy maskets, upset,
Speaker 1: how did the minutes breakdown? Obviously, Andre Drummond's gonna start.
Speaker 1: He's a far superior player than Tristan Thompson. You'd have
Speaker 1: to imagine Drummond plays his thirty to thirty two minutes
Speaker 1: to night, and what does that leave for Tristan Thompson
Speaker 1: sixteen to twenty minutes per game? Look at this season,
Speaker 1: it's I mean the rebounds seventeen point eight points, fifteen
Speaker 1: point eight rebounds. And you know what people always sleep on.
Speaker 1: The defensive numbers that Drummond puts up, Greg, just absolutely
Speaker 1: ridiculous from a center two steals per game, one point
Speaker 1: seven blocks per game as well. So regardless of you
Speaker 1: play in a categories league or in a points format,
Speaker 1: we know that the defensive numbers are worth a lot
Speaker 1: in the points format as well. Andre Drummond is just
Speaker 1: a stud from a fantasy perspective, but perhaps his minutes
Speaker 1: come back a little bit here. He's got to share
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit more with now, with guys
Speaker 1: like Kevin Love, with Collins Exton, guys that have high
Speaker 1: usage rates, who are not shy, They're going to get
Speaker 1: their shots up. So I think drummonds fantasy value takes
Speaker 1: a little bit of a step back. Here, Greg Christian
Speaker 1: Thompson's fantasy value takes a huge step back. And amongst
Speaker 1: all of this, we're left trying to figure out why,
Speaker 1: just why did this happen? Why? Why are the Cavs
Speaker 1: a team that's trading for Drummond. Why isn't a contending
Speaker 1: team trading You're telling me the Celtics couldn't have put
Speaker 1: together a better trade package than John Henson, Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: and the second round pick. I don't get it. The
Speaker 1: Celtics couldn't pull that off. Not, of course they could have,
Speaker 1: I don't. I know they like Daniel Tyson and his cancer,
Speaker 1: but not more than Andrew Drummonds obviously not. I don't.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I don't know, so weird, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's clear that the Pistons wanted to clear
Speaker 1: up space and clear up room. I don't get it.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I really don't. And now there are
Speaker 1: rumors of the Pistons potentially buying out Reggie Jackson's contractors.
Speaker 1: De Row still on this, why is there exactly like,
Speaker 1: this is what we'd be saying about the Knicks if
Speaker 1: they didn't trade away Marcus Morris, right, Like, why are
Speaker 1: the since keeping Derrick Rose, unless, of course they think
Speaker 1: he's their point guard the future. But I believe he's
Speaker 1: on a short term contract as well, if not a
Speaker 1: one year contract for Derek Rose, I'm sure it is.
Speaker 1: So even if he's not, I'm sure you could have
Speaker 1: found a suitor out there, a contending team that wanted
Speaker 1: Derrick Rose off the bench because he's been phenomenal. It's
Speaker 1: a career renaissance for Derrick Rose. You know, he's averaging
Speaker 1: around seventeen eighteen points. Well, I never really understood the
Speaker 1: Lakers because you have to surround Lebron with shooters. Derrick
Speaker 1: Rose is not a good shooter. So that's why I
Speaker 1: never really understood that from the get go. But the
Speaker 1: Pistons just making a lot of really weird moves or
Speaker 1: or lack of moves too. While we're at it, speaking
Speaker 1: a big time centers, Cella was traded a day or
Speaker 1: so ago. It feels like a week ago now, but
Speaker 1: he was traded days ago to Atlanta. It was like
Speaker 1: a four team deal, the most players traded since Patrick
Speaker 1: Ewing was traded twenty years ago. And essentially what you
Speaker 1: need to know is Capella heads over to Atlanta, Robert
Speaker 1: Covington heads over to Houston, and I guess it's really
Speaker 1: all you need to know, to be honest with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Malik Beasley in Minnesota. Now, Frank, they're gonna start PJ
Speaker 1: Tucker at center. Paul is PJ Tucker. He can't be
Speaker 1: bigger than six seven at max six seven, six eight seven,
Speaker 1: he can't. He can't be bigger than that, So he's six.
Speaker 1: This is do their story and center. I get the
Speaker 1: Andre I get the Audrey Igudala death line. I will
Speaker 1: get to him in a moment, but you're talking about
Speaker 1: he is listed according to Wikipedia at six five. He's
Speaker 1: a great rebounder, though gritty ball player. He's a great rebounder,
Speaker 1: is a good defender. But like, I don't understand that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a vision of it tonight in the
Speaker 1: Lakers Rockets game. How this guy is expecting to stop
Speaker 1: Nicola Yoki Ry Gobert, Anthony Davis, Montrese, Harrold Exactly. I
Speaker 1: have no idea. Yeah, I mean, rebounding is gonna be
Speaker 1: a huge issue for the Houston Rockets, and they already
Speaker 1: had trouble defending specifically in the interior as well. Right,
Speaker 1: So now you use Clint Capella, who's one of the
Speaker 1: better rim protectors in the NBA. You see here's averaging
Speaker 1: one point eight blocks per game, much like Andre Drummond,
Speaker 1: one of the better rebounders in the league. Two up
Speaker 1: over thirteen rebounds per game, almost fourteen rebounds per game
Speaker 1: here for Clint Cappela. So and he was great in
Speaker 1: the pick and roll with James Harden and Russell Westbrooks.
Speaker 1: So he afforded them, uh something like a different look.
Speaker 1: He afforded them something different there. But here's what I
Speaker 1: will say, Greg. According to stat mus, I saw this
Speaker 1: last night and I thought it was really interesting. The
Speaker 1: Rockets are ten and one without Clint Cappella in the
Speaker 1: lineup this season. There are five and oh in games
Speaker 1: where no Rockets players taller than six six play more
Speaker 1: than ten minutes. So they are dominating in games where
Speaker 1: they are playing small ball. So if they're looking at
Speaker 1: this analytically, albeit a very small sample size. Again, this
Speaker 1: is just you know, five and oh and ten and one,
Speaker 1: so we're looking at a five game sample size and
Speaker 1: an eleven game sample size. Uh. They have played well
Speaker 1: with these small ball lineups, So yes, your your question
Speaker 1: is valid. How are they going to stop centers in
Speaker 1: the west and how are they going to rebound? But
Speaker 1: on the other side of that, you also have to
Speaker 1: ask the question, um, how are opposing teams going to
Speaker 1: keep up running up and down the court With the
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets playing the small ball lineup which will likely
Speaker 1: feature Tucker Russell, Westbrook, Robert Covington, James Harden, and then
Speaker 1: a mixing match of Eric Gordon, Austin Rivers, Daniel House,
Speaker 1: whoever you want in there, who can come in and
Speaker 1: shoot threes. Those are a lot of guys that can
Speaker 1: pull from deep and they get up and down the
Speaker 1: court quickly. So to me, that's the biggest Those are
Speaker 1: guys are the biggest benefactor over these deal because you're
Speaker 1: gonna see a whole lot more than McLamore, Eric Gordon,
Speaker 1: Daniel House, those are the all Austin Rivers, those are
Speaker 1: the guys are gonna be out there all the time
Speaker 1: as they basically go with the Villanova style offense, right
Speaker 1: four guards at all times on the court. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you're talking about you mentioned the death lineup right with
Speaker 1: the with the Golden State Warriors when they had Andre
Speaker 1: Iguodala and and Andre uh not Andre Drummond, Raymond Greene,
Speaker 1: and they're playing small a smaller lineup where Draymond is
Speaker 1: at the five, and you don't really have anyone on
Speaker 1: the floor that's big or than you know, six ft eight,
Speaker 1: six ft nine, when they had Durant as well. Obviously, look,
Speaker 1: they had superstar caliber athletes and players, but you still
Speaker 1: have Russell Westbrook and James Harden on this team. And
Speaker 1: then Covington, who is a good defender and he can
Speaker 1: knock down three, so he fits the mold there with
Speaker 1: D'Antoni very well where he can, you know, just come
Speaker 1: in and help them shoot from the outside. That's all
Speaker 1: the Houston Rockets seemingly want to do. And then p J. Tucker,
Speaker 1: albeit a smaller player, is a very good rebounder and
Speaker 1: a good defender as well. And then you have that
Speaker 1: rotation of House mc lemore, Eric Gordon, and Austin Rivers.
Speaker 1: So they're playing their own brand of basketball. It's not
Speaker 1: really something that we've seen before, but it's gonna be
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting tonight, specifically going up against a
Speaker 1: team that the craziest part differs them entire So this
Speaker 1: is this is a team that basically features the Twin
Speaker 1: Towers right at all times, Like you have a JaVale
Speaker 1: McGee or Dwight Howard along with Andre Drummond on the
Speaker 1: court at all times. So we don't have to wait
Speaker 1: Andre Drummond. My name's are all over the place, Greg,
Speaker 1: But we're gonna find out right away tonight the differing styles,
Speaker 1: who has the advantage there? And if we're just looking
Speaker 1: at the spread, it's been climbing big time in favor
Speaker 1: of the Los Angeles Lakers. I'm sure that has something
Speaker 1: to do with Russell westros status questionable. I mean, you
Speaker 1: just look at the Western Conference right and that's what
Speaker 1: I did, and trying to examine this trade currently the
Speaker 1: Rocks of the four seeds, it seems in front of
Speaker 1: them Lakers. You just described polar opposites, Los Angeles Clippers
Speaker 1: polar opposites. Not necessarily's only plays about twenty minutes per game.
Speaker 1: Just Harrold plays a lot high. Yeah, but Harold is
Speaker 1: not a big guy. He's like six nine. No, he's
Speaker 1: not a big guy. He's a good rebounder for sure.
Speaker 1: You think of him, he's he's more of that. He's
Speaker 1: a bigger guy. He's he's a more post presence type
Speaker 1: player where he makes his living in the paint. But
Speaker 1: he is not a big guy by any means. Greg,
Speaker 1: all right, that's interesting. I wouldn't. I would have taken
Speaker 1: the over there the Nuggets with nikoliok. Yep, he's a
Speaker 1: large man. Rudy Gobert on the Jazz, he's a large man. Um.
Speaker 1: The thunder are interesting obviously if Steven Adams in the middle,
Speaker 1: and then they have New Orleans Nowell who comes off
Speaker 1: the bench, so they always have a big on the
Speaker 1: court as well as Coursings, but they can't they don't
Speaker 1: play right out of the perimeter for the most part.
Speaker 1: And then the Grizzlies are interesting too. Um, and those
Speaker 1: are the eight teams right now. Portland's my Plazers will
Speaker 1: get there at some point. This has to be financial related,
Speaker 1: right six sevens Montros Harold for the record, it has
Speaker 1: to be financial related why they traded away Clint Capella.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that the Rockets are trying to
Speaker 1: make a stand like we're changing basketball. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: with the lineup that features nobody over six ft six
Speaker 1: so so I don't think it's about UM. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's about making a stand. But I do think
Speaker 1: that they realize what you did, how good they are
Speaker 1: UM play small ball. I think they can definitely save
Speaker 1: money and give themselves flexibility. Now you look at all
Speaker 1: any of these biot candidates. You mentioned Reggie Jackson for instance.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's a fit, but like you look
Speaker 1: at all these biot candidates, they can go all in.
Speaker 1: They have a twelve million dollars they could spend at
Speaker 1: the moment and going forward, they have some ways to maneuver.
Speaker 1: And Daryl Morey always likes to trying to fix things,
Speaker 1: no matter what you saw, Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul, year
Speaker 1: after year he tries to make a change. This is
Speaker 1: this year's change. Is it gonna work? Have no idea?
Speaker 1: I have no idea. Yeah, I don't think anybody really knows.
Speaker 1: He seemed perfect for this team for me, yeah. Again,
Speaker 1: a rim running center when you have two of the
Speaker 1: better pick and roll point guards in the NBA and
Speaker 1: James Harden and Russell Westbrook. Uh And again James Harden
Speaker 1: in the pick and roll is just an absolute nightmare
Speaker 1: because you know you step up at all and then
Speaker 1: he's looking at Clint Cappello with the alley you U
Speaker 1: and the Russell Westbrook. Once he goes around the pick,
Speaker 1: I mean, he can literally just explode to the basket
Speaker 1: before you know what, he's dunking in your face. But
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the contract of Clint Capella here Greg
Speaker 1: and he is signed through the three season. Uh, and
Speaker 1: he's making sixteen million, seventeen million, eighteen million. I think
Speaker 1: he fits what they were trying to do. You ask
Speaker 1: me this is nancial related. I don't think it's just
Speaker 1: they're looking at, oh, we're a better team without Clint Capella,
Speaker 1: because ultimately I don't think that's true. We're coming to it.
Speaker 1: Obviously fits in there as well, the defender, which is
Speaker 1: obviously always US Rockets need. When we come back, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about he thinkgest trade spart today Inst'angelo Russell for
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins. How does this work out? For both of
Speaker 1: those teams. We'll tell you. Why do we come back
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Speaker 1: continued roll on here on a Thursday, trade deadline has
Speaker 1: just passed in the n b A. I gonna treat
Speaker 1: Andre Drummond like that Greig, because that's how the Pistons
Speaker 1: traded him. You're not kidding, that's right. Um. Andrew Wiggins,
Speaker 1: Andiangel Russell, two names. Have we talked about being traded
Speaker 1: for a while for each other. It actually happened. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of smoke and ultimately there was fire with
Speaker 1: Wiggins going over to Golden State, the Angel Russell going
Speaker 1: over to Minnesota called of picks involved as well. I thought,
Speaker 1: Um actually thought Golden State did well, though I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of backlash like what are you doing? Why
Speaker 1: are you making this trade? I don't get it, but
Speaker 1: I do. I do think it makes a lot of
Speaker 1: sense to be honest with you other like they're not
Speaker 1: playing for this year. I don't care about this year.
Speaker 1: We all know that Andrew Wiggins has a big time
Speaker 1: contract and you're you're stuck with it. But going forward,
Speaker 1: you have replaced Harrison Barnes, who overplaced Kevin Durant. Andrew
Speaker 1: Wiggins fits that mold. He is comes with that kind
Speaker 1: of expectancy. You have your backcourt. D'Angel Russell didn't really
Speaker 1: fit necessarily with Stephen Curry and Clay Thompson. I think
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins does more. I like the fit and if
Speaker 1: Steve Kurren get the best out of Andrew Wiggins, I
Speaker 1: think Bob Meyer's in a nice job here. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't hate this deal either. And you know, look, Andrew Wiggins,
Speaker 1: say what you want about him, He's never really been
Speaker 1: in a position to succeed. Has he been a let
Speaker 1: down based on the hype he had coming into the NBA? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's probably fair to say. But now he's
Speaker 1: gonna have an opportunity, it's starting next year, to compete
Speaker 1: for an NBA championship in a lineup that includes, uh,
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, Clay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins and Draymond Green. So
Speaker 1: obviously they're gonna bounce back next season. And then whoever
Speaker 1: they get in the draft, they're gonna have a top
Speaker 1: five pick in the draft. I mean, if you add
Speaker 1: James Wiseman to that crew or whoever else they want
Speaker 1: to bring in, I think bringing in a big man
Speaker 1: makes more sense there. For the Golden State Warriors. Uh,
Speaker 1: then obviously they're look, they're gonna be right in the
Speaker 1: thick of things come next year. And I don't think
Speaker 1: that D'Angel Will Russell was the answer playing alongside Clay
Speaker 1: Thompson and with Steph Curry. What the Minnesota Timberwolves get
Speaker 1: here is they finally get a point guard, right because
Speaker 1: they've been searching for a long time for that point guard.
Speaker 1: I mean, no, Daniel Russell and Karl Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: are good friends and they've long been rumored to wanting
Speaker 1: wanting to play together. So now that comes to fruition.
Speaker 1: I know earlier today when the Knicks picked up Leon
Speaker 1: Rose as their new president of basketball operations. Greg, the
Speaker 1: first thing people thought was, well, he's the agent of
Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns. How can we get Karl Anthony Towns
Speaker 1: to the New York Knicks. And then people started thinking, well,
Speaker 1: if we get the Angelo Russell to the New York Knicks,
Speaker 1: maybe that will lower Karl Anthony Towns to the New
Speaker 1: York Knicks. Ultimately, like it always does, Uh, it did
Speaker 1: that happen? It fell through for the New York Knicks. Um,
Speaker 1: but they will be playing together now with the Minnesota Timberwolves,
Speaker 1: and I think it's interesting to look at that line up,
Speaker 1: especially from a fantasy perspective. Here, Greg just trying to
Speaker 1: figure out who is going to start for this Minnesota
Speaker 1: Timberwolves team. Obviously you got Russell, you got Karl Anthony Towns,
Speaker 1: and then you fill in the blanks with the two, three, four. Personally,
Speaker 1: I think it will be Jared Colver, who was their
Speaker 1: first round pick this year. You have Joshua Koge at
Speaker 1: the three now that Robert Covington has gone, and then
Speaker 1: you have Wanto hernan Gomez at the four. He comes
Speaker 1: over from the Denver Nuggets and I believe Malik Beasley
Speaker 1: will likely be the sixth man off the bench, so
Speaker 1: definitely definite value. You know, Kogee Wanto, Hernon Gomez and
Speaker 1: Malik Beasley getting more minutes with Minnesota here. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: see how this Timberwolves line up shakes out. I totally
Speaker 1: agree a lot of what you said that Dangel Russell
Speaker 1: is apoint gonna have been waiting for Carlo any Towns.
Speaker 1: They wanted to play together. Ultimately, Russell decided to sign
Speaker 1: with the Warriors over the Timberwolves this offseason. You new
Speaker 1: Minnesota was interested, and really since the day he signed,
Speaker 1: there's been talk of being shipped over to Minnesota, and
Speaker 1: now it's happened. This is the vision of the new
Speaker 1: GM with the Timberwolves, is the vision of Ryan's honors
Speaker 1: to para De'angel Russell with Carl Ampy Towns, and it's
Speaker 1: we're gonna see if this will work. Both players are
Speaker 1: still young. I know it doesn't feel that way. How
Speaker 1: old do you think T'angel Russell is? Greg twenty three
Speaker 1: years old? Is turney twenty four in just about two
Speaker 1: weeks time, but twenty three years old. Yeah, it feels
Speaker 1: like he's been around for every even four teams. Ready, right,
Speaker 1: It's not like he's bad. He's gotten so much in
Speaker 1: his prime. Yet he's last year in Brooklyn when he
Speaker 1: was the focal point of that offense, and yes, this
Speaker 1: year in Golden State, I guess you could say he
Speaker 1: was the focal point. But I mean, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: what were the Warriors paying for? They were never playing
Speaker 1: for anything this year. As as soon as Steph Curry
Speaker 1: went down with the injury, and even before that, the
Speaker 1: Warriors look terrible to start off the season. It was
Speaker 1: it was always gonna be kind of a a letdown
Speaker 1: year for the Warriors. They kind of reset year for
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors. So now look, the Timberwolves are
Speaker 1: not going to compete for anything this year, but at
Speaker 1: least they have their young core of the future, Greg Carl,
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns, D'Angelo Russell, and then if Jared coul can
Speaker 1: uh develop into that third option for this team, a
Speaker 1: three indeed type player, maybe someone who gives you fifteen
Speaker 1: points consistently. I think they have a nice young core there.
Speaker 1: With Minnesota, I agree. I think they're building it the
Speaker 1: right way there. He's gonna be a tough of space.
Speaker 1: Now you're out of Andrew Wiggins contract, so you have
Speaker 1: some flexibility. And that's the name of the game here
Speaker 1: in the NBA, is that flexibility. Speaking of flexible teams,
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat have been very, very flexible this uh
Speaker 1: this trade deadline because they've tried to make a ton
Speaker 1: of moves. Franks put themselves a position to win the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference and get to the NBA Finals. You heard
Speaker 1: about them being interested in andre Igudala. They pulled it off.
Speaker 1: Dala is coming over from Memphis alongside Jay Crowder, two
Speaker 1: playoff tested veterans. That's gonna fit well with the young
Speaker 1: Miami team, along with Jimmy Butler. I mean, that's a mean,
Speaker 1: mean team. You get rid of Deon Waiters, get rid
Speaker 1: of James Johnson, Gorgy Dang comes back here. Um, the
Speaker 1: Heat gets tougher. That's like the one word that comes
Speaker 1: to mind. Tougher. Yeah. Look, you want to talk about
Speaker 1: what we were just talking about, a three and D
Speaker 1: layer in Jaredover and Robert Covington's This is a three
Speaker 1: n D team, right. You might not think that because
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler is not a three point shooter, but look
Speaker 1: at the other players. That are surrounding them, Tyler Hero
Speaker 1: a great three point shooter, Duncan Robinson, great three point shooter.
Speaker 1: Uh and now under ego, Dallas comes in and he
Speaker 1: can shoot a little bit from the outside, but brings
Speaker 1: that veteran leadership to the Miami Heat. And according to
Speaker 1: the Action Network, I saw that the updated odds for
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat to win the NBA Championship this year.
Speaker 1: Uh they went from twenty five to one to sixteen
Speaker 1: to one. Uh and if you check out the Vandal
Speaker 1: Sports book, they still have it at twenty three to one.
Speaker 1: So you're getting some value right now on the Miami
Speaker 1: Heat again if you think they can make it that far.
Speaker 1: But I would say that they're one of the top
Speaker 1: two or three teams in the Eastern Conference. It seems
Speaker 1: like it's the Bucks and then everybody else. Honestly, But
Speaker 1: would it surprise you if the Miami Heat push the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy sixers to a seven game series, if they
Speaker 1: beat the Boston Celtics, that wouldn't have a prize me.
Speaker 1: This Miami Heat team plays defense, they're gritty, Jimmy Butler
Speaker 1: is their superstar. They have another veteran leader in Andre Iguodala,
Speaker 1: they had young players that can shoot Jay Crowder as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then you know Baman of Bio, who might be
Speaker 1: the most improved player in the NBA. Sans brandon Ingram,
Speaker 1: I think the Miami Heat compete in the Eastern Conference.
Speaker 1: Juice Winslow also leaves Miami, and he's never healthy anyway,
Speaker 1: So I think it's a great job by pat Riley
Speaker 1: here improving the Miami Heat team. The only thing that
Speaker 1: sucks about this trade is that they don't play the
Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies anymore this year. I wanted to see John
Speaker 1: Marett go up against Iguodala, Man and Dylan Brooks. After
Speaker 1: all the chatter back and forth Triple Jay two man
Speaker 1: Triple J as well um Nate Duncan John Aldre have
Speaker 1: been doing a or John Honger rather have been doing
Speaker 1: a running blog on the main trades. DeLine at the
Speaker 1: Athletic and Nate Duncan kind of broke down the Andrere
Speaker 1: Dalmond trade a little bit. So essentially, Detroit Pistons by
Speaker 1: unloading Andre Drummond and bringing back nothing in return, they
Speaker 1: free out a ton of cash based right, because you
Speaker 1: have a whole that Andre Drummonds player option, assuming he
Speaker 1: could optate. It's a twenty eight million dollar option. He
Speaker 1: could opt into that. So he's not going to. He could,
Speaker 1: there's always a chance, but he's not going to. He'll
Speaker 1: get a max whatever, four year max contract for something.
Speaker 1: Don't know that he does. The NBA is not built
Speaker 1: for these guys anymore, you know what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: maybe I just he's gonna ton of money, maybe obviously million.
Speaker 1: Now it's a lot of money. So let we continue.
Speaker 1: So Detroit reads of all that cap space and they're
Speaker 1: gonna have like thirty million under the cap next year
Speaker 1: when most of these teams they don't really have much suspend. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're banking on that. The Cavaliers are banking like, hey,
Speaker 1: we got Andre Drummond. Maybe we'll resign Andre Drummond and
Speaker 1: they'll attract other free agents. Or we got Drummond and
Speaker 1: he's gonna help our rebuild. It's two teams are kind
Speaker 1: of in similar positions that swapped. The Cavs had cap
Speaker 1: space and they use that caspace potentially on Andre Drummond.
Speaker 1: Do they have cap space though they do, they got
Speaker 1: rid of it now by taking on contract and like
Speaker 1: Tristan Thompson still has money on its contract. Ken under
Speaker 1: a max contract. Is that Tristan Thompson is a likely
Speaker 1: free agent and then he could be bought out. Okay,
Speaker 1: they'll be brought out now, yes, potentially, Okay, so the
Speaker 1: landing spot for Thompson is Los Angeles. I think Los Angeles. Well,
Speaker 1: they just traded away Clint Capella doesn't even want a center.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It doesn't cost him as much. But
Speaker 1: he was always linked to the Clippers as well, so
Speaker 1: that wouldn't surprise me. And he's teach an upgrade over
Speaker 1: he's an unrestricted free agent after this year. Okay, yeah
Speaker 1: they have he's going to be bought out. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: gonna land with probably Houston or the Clippers. I think
Speaker 1: that makes a lot of sense. Probably. I don't know
Speaker 1: what space the Clippers haven't at the market's Morris deal
Speaker 1: right what they need, but yeah, they might have to
Speaker 1: waive somebody the funy way to make it work if
Speaker 1: they If they can, Houston makes a lot of sense
Speaker 1: to me, although I believe him the engine was hard
Speaker 1: in both dated kloe Ardashian's I don't know how that works, honest,
Speaker 1: Esca bros. Um, never bind it like that. So so
Speaker 1: there you go. Um, those are the major's trades. Am
Speaker 1: I missing anything? Frank? Uh No, those were the ones
Speaker 1: that made the headlines. Um, but there was really nothing else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got through Marcus Morris. We spoke about Clint Capella
Speaker 1: from the other day. Well, let's go back to Clint
Speaker 1: Capella for a second grade. What do you think about
Speaker 1: this from a Atlanta Hawks perspective, Because I think if
Speaker 1: you put much like James Harden, Try Young is not
Speaker 1: James Harden yet, although he might be, you know, slowly
Speaker 1: making his way there. Uh, you put Tray Young in
Speaker 1: the pick and roll with Clint Cappela, that's pretty damn interesting.
Speaker 1: John Collins is not really a stretch for yet. I
Speaker 1: think like they're trying to help him develop an outside shot.
Speaker 1: He's more so known as someone that can finish around
Speaker 1: the basket. I think he has a solid mid range
Speaker 1: jump shot, but the athleticism is really what plays up
Speaker 1: there for John Collins. So it's an interesting mix with
Speaker 1: him and Clint Cappella on the court. But if he
Speaker 1: could continue to expand that range and you have a
Speaker 1: core of Trey Young, Gon Collins and Clint Cappela, that's
Speaker 1: pretty damn good in the Eastern compere, it is. It's
Speaker 1: nice step forward for the Houston Rockets. The celebration or
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Speaker 1: Greg continue. We're not just celebrating the NBA right downline,
Speaker 1: We're not just celebrating a brand new president of Basketball Operations, Frank.
Speaker 1: We are celebrating our second anniversary together. Your three begins today.
Speaker 1: And because you know it wasn't just you and I
Speaker 1: that began this venture together, that was only right that
Speaker 1: we bring in our buddy, I go Floria celebrating with us. Up, guys, guys,
Speaker 1: how are you We're good? We are We're celebrating together.
Speaker 1: We are celebrating the anniversary. Gregg. It's smacking balloons the
Speaker 1: studio right now, Mike, while he's talking to you. I
Speaker 1: expect nothing less than Greggy. Yeah, how are you doing, man?
Speaker 1: What's going on? What's what's going on in your world? Oh?
Speaker 1: My world? I mean right now, I'm currently outside and
Speaker 1: it's very nice out, so I think it's the weather wise,
Speaker 1: at least probably a little bit better than your guys world.
Speaker 1: And other than that, getting ready to baseball, you know,
Speaker 1: finishing up some football stuff, and uh, that's it, Mike.
Speaker 1: It's forty degrees in reigning here today in the New York,
Speaker 1: New Jersey area. Don't you miss it? No, today it
Speaker 1: is a cold day in l A. Actually it's sixty
Speaker 1: three degrees. Well, thank you, thanks, Mike. Thanks for rubbing
Speaker 1: it in our face. It's a cold day here, sixty
Speaker 1: three degrees. Mike. We know that you are a die
Speaker 1: heart Nick fan as well. You wrapped the Knicks hoodie
Speaker 1: through thick and thin while you're out there on the
Speaker 1: West Coast, even with people pointing and laughing at you
Speaker 1: for being a Knicks fan. How do you feel about
Speaker 1: everything that has happened today, your boy mart Marcus Morris
Speaker 1: is gonna be playing in the Staples Center with the Clippers.
Speaker 1: And then obviously they name Leon Rose, who is a
Speaker 1: player agent, as the president of basketball just right. Other
Speaker 1: than like Rich Paul, he's like the player edge, he's
Speaker 1: the player agent. Yeah, they went to Metro here hiring
Speaker 1: a former agent. I hope, you know. Definitely we call
Speaker 1: the Warriors route here Floria like a winning team ideally, no,
Speaker 1: because I mean the mix are way more like the
Speaker 1: Mets than they are the Warriors. I mean, let's just
Speaker 1: be honest. At least at least the Nicks tried to sell.
Speaker 1: You think that like they'd accomplish it. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have, you know, the owner's cry baby son
Speaker 1: trying to ruin it. Actually be fair, that's currently with
Speaker 1: the Knicks half because his father, uh probably wanted to
Speaker 1: sell and then his son crimes and no, let me
Speaker 1: run it, let me run it. And they haven't one sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: James Dolan, I mean him and and not to go on,
Speaker 1: the Mets stand him and Jeff upon are basically too insane,
Speaker 1: like they need to have everything their way and they're
Speaker 1: like spoiled bread, you know, and I can't blame him.
Speaker 1: I was brought up a billionaire. I'd probably want everything
Speaker 1: at the click snap of my fingers too, But it's
Speaker 1: not good for business, and they've proven they're not. You know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna win. I like this president signing, at least
Speaker 1: the sounds of it. It sounds like he is Cat Ties,
Speaker 1: and Cat is the player that I'm hoping the Knicks
Speaker 1: get this off season, even though they just got the
Speaker 1: team will just got below, So I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're gonna be looking at trade Cat now. But that
Speaker 1: was the one exciting part I took away from it.
Speaker 1: I will say this in regards to the New York Knicks.
Speaker 1: They send out Marcus Morris, they received back the Clippers
Speaker 1: first round pick right to swap Ella the Clippers first
Speaker 1: round pick. Why would you want that right? The Knicks
Speaker 1: are not going to be better than the Clippers next year, Greg,
Speaker 1: but if they are right, they can swap right. There's
Speaker 1: always a chance. More heartless, I love him, Uh the
Speaker 1: rights to it is a sonnon that. You know who
Speaker 1: that guy is and I'll look him up in a second.
Speaker 1: And the Clippers probably was playing with a Mari Staudermier
Speaker 1: in the Israeli DA last year. I think this guy's
Speaker 1: not as round. Uh, and the Clippers second round pick,
Speaker 1: which is from Detroit guys, Mo Heartless gets to go home.
Speaker 1: So that's the one little cool moment of this. He's
Speaker 1: just think some John's kid. I think have been the show, Harkless.
Speaker 1: I really thought you were gonna go with um coming home, like,
Speaker 1: instead of doing the whole video package for Mellow, we
Speaker 1: could just do it for Mo Harkless. So I guess
Speaker 1: you're wondering us off. Sannon is a Ukrainian professional basketball player,
Speaker 1: all right, if they're plays in the Slovenian League. Steve
Speaker 1: Satimy right now have more. I was gonna say it,
Speaker 1: but then I felt like that was something you would
Speaker 1: get mad at me for saying. But I guess we've
Speaker 1: hung around long enough together that our tendencies rub off
Speaker 1: on each other, That's right. The one cool fact I
Speaker 1: have on Mo Harkless is uh, I watched a lot
Speaker 1: of Clippers games. Now I don't have the Lakers on
Speaker 1: because they're not They're only on slick Providers. So I
Speaker 1: watched a lot of Clippers. Harkles can guard one through
Speaker 1: five and he's done it this year, So they don't
Speaker 1: really care about Mo. Yeah, they're not. He's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be bought out by the next no, no, no, let
Speaker 1: him play off. So I'm on us of Satten's um Wikipedia, right,
Speaker 1: so I told you he's Ukrainian Slavenian. On the last line,
Speaker 1: he says, this is amazing. He will also be the
Speaker 1: saviors the New York Knicks knee when he makes the
Speaker 1: jump to the NBI. Someone to put that on his
Speaker 1: How old is he years old? Twenty years old? Alright,
Speaker 1: who knows? Maybe that's the next Bogdan Bogdanovitch. Right, it's
Speaker 1: always comes over from overseason, you know, turns the Knick's
Speaker 1: fortunes around, because you know we've seen so many players
Speaker 1: do that before. All Right, thetball who do you got?
Speaker 1: That sounds kind of that sounds kind of familiar, like
Speaker 1: like it would be great if the Knicks to go
Speaker 1: out and get a great European player, someone who could
Speaker 1: come over and energize the fan base. It sounds kind
Speaker 1: of familiar. He watches the show Prison Break to learn English.
Speaker 1: You're learning a lot on his Wikipedia page. Uh, Greg, Mike,
Speaker 1: you mentioned, uh the Knicks finding their European star. You know,
Speaker 1: if they ever do get that player, maybe they'll end
Speaker 1: up trading him away for a player they could have
Speaker 1: drafted the next year, and cap space for players that
Speaker 1: they'll use, that they'll sign. That are are four power forwards,
Speaker 1: I think. So you know you nothing were its better
Speaker 1: in the NBA than a lineup of all powerfullards and
Speaker 1: the mix approving that every single night. And we'll say
Speaker 1: this when more notable. Man, you saw last year making
Speaker 1: quick the Adriotic Liga e b A the average four
Speaker 1: points with one and a half rebounds, one point six assists.
Speaker 1: That's it. You know what, Christops Porzingi didn't do much
Speaker 1: in the Spanish, So you know what we still have
Speaker 1: hope for. Say his name use have shot? Yeah, that guy.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, Frank, it looks cool. He looks cool.
Speaker 1: All right. Well, you're a big subscriber to the cool
Speaker 1: name theory, but I guess now you're moving on to
Speaker 1: the if you look cool that counts you gotta do,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta do. Has been great for you.
Speaker 1: Some guys just had to look. Man, that's a floria.
Speaker 1: That's why I've always liked you, man, Always like right,
Speaker 1: he's got a cool name. All right, Floria, we have
Speaker 1: you for a coupe more minutes before we wrap up
Speaker 1: today's show. Um, I saw you. You tweet out and
Speaker 1: baseball stuff. You guys always been Blakes. Now you you
Speaker 1: wrote an article on Blake's Now this year. I texted you.
Speaker 1: He did not respond because I obviously didn't read your article,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to know if it was a good
Speaker 1: or bad Blakes No article. First of all, Gregor, you
Speaker 1: were wrong. I did respond, I just didn't respond right away.
Speaker 1: I responded before I texted you about coming on. I said, quote,
Speaker 1: I'm in. I'm just gonna have a meeting. Should I call? So?
Speaker 1: I thought the I'm in had to do with I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm ready for the show. I'm in. No, he's in
Speaker 1: on Blake's No, how could not be? I guess my
Speaker 1: tweet my text of Frank, but wait, my text of
Speaker 1: Floria was quote are you in? That was That's exactly
Speaker 1: the point I was gonna make that like it wasn't
Speaker 1: like I just wrote for no reason. Like he specifically
Speaker 1: said in a round and capitalized in Mike, I I
Speaker 1: missed you here on the show because I don't have
Speaker 1: someone to help me gang up on Greg like this often.
Speaker 1: This would be great if we can do this more often.
Speaker 1: Here it was it was like text, I'm in on
Speaker 1: blakey Blake, you know. I mean, I know. It's no
Speaker 1: surprised wasn't on him a couple of years ago. I
Speaker 1: wasn't on him last year. But I think the thing
Speaker 1: last year, it wasn't like, you know, the talent wasn't there.
Speaker 1: He just got hurt. And the first injury, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any way to dispute it. It
Speaker 1: was a fuck injury. He dropped the piece of furniture
Speaker 1: on his foot. I don't think that is a reoccurring
Speaker 1: injury that we have to worry about. The second one
Speaker 1: not so much. Elbow injury. That's a little scary. And
Speaker 1: in my article I wrote about it, the usage of
Speaker 1: Snell really changed. If you remember he went on the
Speaker 1: the I l in. I think it was still a
Speaker 1: deal back then, and he went there on the in
Speaker 1: July and when he came back. Since then, his pitches
Speaker 1: per game are down like fifteen per start. His innings
Speaker 1: pitch per game are down the whole inning per start,
Speaker 1: So that is worried him. Last year. Early in the
Speaker 1: year before Snow got hurt, they were pushing him six
Speaker 1: seven innings the start, but then when he came back,
Speaker 1: I mean when he came back in September, we really
Speaker 1: never saw the full Blake Snell and I think he
Speaker 1: even admitted he wasn't fully healthy and he's taking every
Speaker 1: precaution he can. Like I read a whole thing on
Speaker 1: the Athletic Plug Fernando and those guys that Blake Snow
Speaker 1: went to camp earlier this year, like earlier than ever,
Speaker 1: weeks before players have to report, because he said his
Speaker 1: health is what he's fully focusing on. He's diving, he's
Speaker 1: a doing different workouts to kind of try to maintain
Speaker 1: that health. I think the talent is absolutely there, and
Speaker 1: if you look at where he's going, there's guys who
Speaker 1: have durability concerns. To Chris Stale like, we can't Are
Speaker 1: we able to guarantee that Christal is going to go
Speaker 1: more innings than Blake Snell? I don't think so can
Speaker 1: we do it? For Steven Strassburg, Yeah, he went two
Speaker 1: hundred last year, but coming into last year and for
Speaker 1: years the argument was always, hey, is this guy ever
Speaker 1: gonna stay healthy? He did it once, no guarantee to
Speaker 1: do it again. Plus he had to pitch deep into
Speaker 1: the playoffs in the World Series and not always scares me.
Speaker 1: So I think Blake Snell is going in the right spot.
Speaker 1: And it's it's that group of pictures that have like
Speaker 1: they're not the elite class. They have these stuff where
Speaker 1: they could enter that class, but can we see them
Speaker 1: put it together over the course of two hundred plus innings.
Speaker 1: You gotta pay up for the talent. And it's the
Speaker 1: reason why he's going, you know, a little bit later
Speaker 1: than guys like the gram and Cole and stuff. He
Speaker 1: I think, you know, if you have the ability to
Speaker 1: match those guys, maybe a little bit less and maybe not.
Speaker 1: The stuff isn't fully on part, but it's pretty damn close. Personally,
Speaker 1: I have moved Blake SNeW up my draft board because
Speaker 1: he reverred to steroid users as buff. So I like
Speaker 1: Blake Snell because of that. Mike, I know you're doing
Speaker 1: a lot of NBC Draft Champions drafts right now, and
Speaker 1: stupid me took James Paxon in the sixth round yesterday,
Speaker 1: but I followed that up with Carlos Carrasco and Zach Gallon,
Speaker 1: so hopefully that covers my bases a little bit. And
Speaker 1: they also just took Edwin in Carnascio in the eleventh round,
Speaker 1: so I know he's someone you like this here too.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you take you? Who's looking like? He's in
Speaker 1: the queue? Man? He really is looking like and he
Speaker 1: keeps making these hype videos and I'm like, what are
Speaker 1: you trying to hype up? You don't look good. He's
Speaker 1: hyping up and he's been eating burgers. All right. When
Speaker 1: we do our fat guy free you can come on
Speaker 1: and talk about you had assess for us. He's a
Speaker 1: fat guy now and and freak. I feel bad about
Speaker 1: James Pattson. There's nothing you could have done there like
Speaker 1: I saw it. And my initial reaction was like, thank
Speaker 1: god I haven't been drafting him everywhere because normally I am.
Speaker 1: I don't. This year, I'm kind of fallen, not like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm avoiding Paxson or anything, but he wasn't like
Speaker 1: a guy that I was like, you need to get him.
Speaker 1: But I feel bad for you. Man, that's just bad luck,
Speaker 1: all right, followed Floria at Michael F. Florio on Twitter
Speaker 1: at MIKEA. We appreciate the time. Congratulations on not two years.
Speaker 1: You know you're not here, We're on the show. Congratulations
Speaker 1: all of you guys. Let's go. We did it. That's
Speaker 1: not strike the last man of survivors. We did. We
Speaker 1: did it for all, coach to coaches up next, everybody
Speaker 1: downstairs or Frank, I'm great. We're all going tomorrow, we hope.