WEBVTT - HOUR 3- Adam Lefkoe 080520 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:07.040 Sports Radio Final Hour on this Wednesday, Dan and the 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.879 Dana's Stan Patrick Show Glad to have you on board. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:12.640 Got a poll question. I think we're changing it because 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.360 it was a runaway winner. Oh yeah, who would you 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:18.480 rather have for the next seven years? Luca or Zion? 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.119 Eighty nine percent said Luca. So the new question is, 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:24.079 if you were a likely first round pick, would you 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:27.800 play college football this season? It's actually fifty one percent 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.160 said no, so it's close to fifty fifty. I would 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.239 like to find out what's going to happen over the 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.519 next month before I would make that decision or have 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.400 to answer that question. There these players don't have that luxury. 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.440 But I think you're going to see some more players 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:45.600 who are going to opt out. Connecticut canceled their season. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:47.600 I think that there are some teams in the Big 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.839 Ten who might have their seasons in jeopardy. I don't know, 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:52.760 are we going to have a Final four this year? 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.959 Are we going to have a national championship game? Big 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.240 Ten released its schedule, So everybody's doing what I said 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:01.640 they were going to do back in April, and that 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.400 is they're just going to do conference games if they can. 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.679 That is the game plan here. And part of the 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.760 reason why Connecticut canceled their season is because they're not 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.960 affiliated with any conference and they were going to play 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.720 two games. I think in the ACC they had lost 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.840 games already because teams in conferences are saying, we're not 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.959 going to play out of conference games, and Connecticut just 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.640 decided to cancel their season. But I think you're going 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.000 to see schools, smaller schools announced that they're going to 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.080 play in the spring. I don't think the IVY League 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.319 is going to be the outlier. I think they're gonna 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:39.880 have other smaller schools. Maybe not the FBS schools, but 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.360 you're going to have smaller schools who are going to 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.640 do the same thing. Age seven seven three d P 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.880 Show Email address DP at dan Patrick dot com, Twitter 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.080 handle with DP show say good morning to chat row. 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.559 Those watching on YouTube, dot com, Slash, The Dan Patrick Show, 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.240 and three hundred and sixty two radio affiliates around the 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.960 country carrying The Dan Patrick Show talk a lot of basketball, 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:05.120 and the first hour watched just the highlights. There's a 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.360 power outage on the East coast, so still waiting to 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.640 get power back. At our homes, but we have it 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.000 here in the man Cave. And I was watching Luca 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.520 don Chick and the MAVs against Sacramento. That was fun 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.840 to watch. And you know, Luca might have that team 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.840 in the fourth spot when the playoffs start, and it's 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:26.079 a great race for that final spot. The eighth spot 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.680 in the West is really spicy here because you start 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:34.360 to look at Dallas is in Obviously, Oklahoma City plays 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.000 the Lakers tonight, Utah Rockets, Nuggets, Clippers, and the Lakers 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.000 Clippers lost last night at the Buzzer to the Suns. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:45.000 Memphis is holding on for dear life for the eighth spot, 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.760 followed by the Blazers. San Antonio is playing well, the 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.600 Pelicans are still in there, and the Phoenix Sun. So 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.800 it's been a nice race here because we wanted to 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.520 have some value to the regular season and it's been 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.840 fun just to watch these teams to get in. The Lakers, 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.919 of course, have nothing left to play for. I'm curious 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.480 what happens tonight in this game against Oklahoma City. How 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:12.320 much do Lebron and Anthony Davis play. I would think 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.880 I would lean towards having them play a little bit 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.639 more because I want to make sure that they are 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:21.480 in shape, ready to go, playoff ready once the playoffs start, 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.800 because the teams, the team they're going to face in 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.040 the opening round is going to have to scratch and 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.520 claw its way into that eighth spot, and they're gonna 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.720 be already playing post playoff basketball. They're not going to 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.720 be as good as the Lakers, but they could catch 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.560 them off guard at least that first game. Yeah, Paul. 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.240 The other day, when I was thinking about this, I 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.680 thought the Lakers had opportunity to give their guys two 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.000 or three nights rest, but they basically had three months rest. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.720 You're saying, hit the gas and tight it up. I 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.880 don't want to play in thirty five, but I do 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.800 want them playing at least twenty five minutes. I just 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:59.280 think keeping fresh here, keep moving here, that would be 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.800 my approach. Now. I don't know if there's anybody having 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.120 injuries that they're nursing. I don't think they can be tired, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.680 but I want them to be ready to go once 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.440 the playoffs start. Yeah, McLean, I was watching the Nets 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.680 against the Bucks, and the honest played the first half, 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.480 and some guy that the Nets just signed wrestled theannas 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.480 to the ground. Yeah, is that a fear that you're 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.000 playing against guys who are sort of borderline guys who 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.279 wouldn't normally be there. That the little dangerous for Lebron 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.279 and jannas well. I don't know. I mean the Nets, 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.760 that's certainly an anomaly because they're lucky that they even 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.839 fielded a team and to go in there and look, 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.120 the Bucks had nothing to play for, and you know, 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.800 the Nets were eighteen and a half point underdogs. How 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.120 does Vegas not recognize that because that's one of the 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.120 biggest upsets in NBA history, at least the last thirty years. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.400 I think as far as the point spreads go, you know, 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.000 the Nets don't have anybody. Wait, you're what about your 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:59.400 boy try What is that Luawa cabou TLC that they 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:05.000 can't say his name? Timothe Luwawa Carow. Yeah, he scored, 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.039 he dropped twenty four last night. That's your guy. Yeah. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.680 TLC is the only thing they called. Yeah, they beat 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:11.479 the Wizards a game before, who were also like a 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.200 G League. Yeah, the Wizards in Nets shouldn't be in there. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.480 But I give the Nets credit. They played hard and 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.040 picked up the victory. But I think that's one of 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.599 the bigger upsets. I don't know how many people were 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.200 taking the bucks over the Nets last night. I don't 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.400 know how much action was on that game, but I 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.880 know the Nets players were like, oh, nobody gave us 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.159 a chance. Yeah we didn't. Yeah. Mcglevin, Paully and I 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.760 were over the roof about Jamal Crawford's five minutes. Oh 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:41.760 I felt terrible. I love Jamal Crawford. He's a guy 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.720 who never made an All Star six men in the 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.640 year a couple of times, and he can score. You know, 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.320 it came out of Michigan. I just everything about him 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.159 is you know, I can identify with He likes to shoot, 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.680 but I think a hamstring injury and he was playing 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.840 well and it's a nice little story, but man, Jamal, 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.280 Jamal went down last night. That was that was uncomfortable 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.840 to watch there. Lou Williams gave us an update on 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.120 his trip to Magic City. I don't know if you 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.600 want to hear more details on Lulu Lemon, but here 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.400 is Lou Williams talking about the visit to Magic City, 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.880 where the wings are great. In hindsight, I think as 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:27.039 far as a public safety issue goes I probably could 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.760 have made a better quality decision. I was a little naive, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:34.520 and in that aspect, I went somewhere after a viewing 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.320 of somebody that considered a mentor, somebody that I looked 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.320 up to, first black man that I've seen with legal 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.039 money in my life. And the funeral home was a 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.960 couple of blocks away from one of my favorite restaurants. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.080 Has been documented how much I talk about this place, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.120 how much I eat there, and so I just I 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.520 just did something that was routine for me. I frequent 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.880 that place at that time of day, five thirty six 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.200 o'clock in the afternoon. I thought at the time, I 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.279 thought I was making a responsible decision. At the looking 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.520 back on it, you know, with everything going on in 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.720 the world in a pandemic, maybe it wasn't the best 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.520 quality decisions. So, you know, I'm talking of his day, 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.080 taking my ill and keep moving. Yeah, you can take 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.160 out the word probably it was a bad decision there. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.360 Just go and get the takeout, because remember that's what 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.440 we were told, You're just going for the takeout. And 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.360 then all of a sudden, some investigative reporter talked to 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.280 one of the dancers and said, did anybody give Lou 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.840 a lap dance. Oh yeah, yeah we did, and I went, okay, 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.120 And I feel bad for him because he was leaving 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.320 for you know, a family emergency here and you know 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.680 that got hijacked because he went to Magic City where 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:46.120 the wings are great well documented. Yeah, it's well documents, 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.080 documents out there that could find out about Lou Williams. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.640 Love of those wings. Yes, you gotta love those wings. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.560 Damian Lillard of the Blazers was talking about the greatness 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.680 of Carmelo Anthony. I have some people say, do you 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:02.360 owe Carmelo Anthony an apology? And I went, why, Well, 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.640 you didn't think that he was gonna be And I said, no, 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.360 he can do one thing. He can shoot, he can't 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.160 do anything else. And I didn't know if Portland would 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.840 be able to absorb that kind of one dimensional player. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.400 They do have a great they have a great team. 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.320 That's a talented team. But he's not my go to 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.480 guy where I go, Hey, let me go to a 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.800 guy who hits you know, fifteen to eighteen footers here. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.960 But I give him credit. You know, Carmelo has played well. Yeah, 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.320 see it looks like he's having so much fun too, 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.680 which is nice to see like this sort of you know, 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.440 Carmelo three point zero or four point zero, whatever we're 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.200 on right now is a lot of fun to watch. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.640 And I'm on a record who's saying I was hopeful 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.440 that he would end up back with the Knicks where 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.920 he could have a victory tour where they could celebrate 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:49.960 him one more time. Now, maybe not going back to 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.000 the Knicks, but to go back and have one more 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.000 run through the league where people could appreciate Carmelo Anthony. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.880 When we met him in the studio, I'd never been 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.480 around him. I said, Carmelo, you've got to do more 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.000 interviews so people can see who you are. Here, who 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.440 you are. I don't think he was interested in that. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:14.440 Here is Damian Lillard talking about Carmelo. Carmelo Anthony hash 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.520 massive shots for you guys. What has he meant to 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.640 the team, especially here in Orlando. I mean, he's a 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.160 Hall of famer, you know. I think it's more disappointing 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.160 that people are surprised by it, you know what I mean, 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:27.920 He's a he's a Hall of famer. Like I said, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.880 he's a great teammate and that's what we expect from him. 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:33.800 You know, we put him in those positions because we 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:35.679 expect him to make those shots. We believe he's going 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.120 to make those shots. And we brought him here because 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:39.880 we knew he would make a difference for our team 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.720 and he's been doing that. So no surprises here. We 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.480 expect that from him, and you know, I'm glad that 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.000 he's here to come through for us in and those 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.480 big situations. That's Damian Lillard. And look, if you go 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.440 back early in his career, the ball stopped when it 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.760 went to him. But he's smart enough to know at 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.920 this stage of his career that he's got guys who 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.320 are better than him and guys who should have the ball. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.240 But he's hit some big shots here. He made two 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.200 big plays in the final three minutes. He blocked a 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.920 shot there with a score tide and then it hits 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.120 a three, you know, putting Portland up by five. So 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:17.280 no congratulations, good for him. And so I wasn't rooting 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.200 against him. I just he's not my kind of player, 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.640 you know. I know he wanted Syracuse and he was 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:28.839 spectacular as freshman year, but he's just always been that 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.360 one dimensional kind of player, certainly in the latter part 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:38.040 of his career. Also Alan Iverson was interviewed on Complex. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:39.880 I don't know if that's a TV show or a 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.320 podcast or a radio show, and he was asked about 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.400 the greatest of All Time debate. I'm not gonna fight it, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.840 you know what I mean. Like as much as I 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:54.280 love Michael Jordan, like Dug Man, Lebron James is the 0:10:54.360 --> 0:11:02.679 one dog, he'd one man one. I didn't expect that answer. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:07.440 Let me play that again. Here's Iverson and he is 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.880 saying Michael Jordan is not the goat. I'm not gonna 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.520 fight it, you know what I mean. As much as 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.960 I love Michael Jordan, like Doug Man, Lebron James is 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:25.760 the one dog eat one man one. All right, Uh 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.120 now we've just restarted that debate, Lebron or Michael. Who's 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.520 the greatest of all time? Yeah, PAULI, Michael is going 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.680 to add one more episode to the Last Dance where 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.960 he just abolishes Iverson bunch of old video and I 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.880 don't know. Iverson always has the trump card that one 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.120 piece of video where he crosses Mike over twice, hits 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:51.199 the jumper. But people want to ask this question all 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:56.920 the time, especially after the documentary on Michael Jordan and 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.400 I go it. You know, my answer hasn't changed that 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.120 I just take Michael because it's easier. Like then, I 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.280 don't spend hours talking about this because it's it's not 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.720 a winnable argument. If you're if you're coming from Lebron's 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.080 side of the argument, you're you're not going to win it. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.880 It's frustrating. It's unwinnable, and that's why it makes for 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:21.000 a great barroom debate. Mike, if you wanted making the 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.040 greatest player of all time, what, I don't know what 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:27.560 your criteria is, go ahead, I'm fine with that. But 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:32.720 Lebron to me, Lebron is a more interesting player because 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.679 of who he is, interesting person and player. Is he 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.640 a better player, He's a different player. They are different. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:45.840 Kobe and Michael they were the same. Lebron is nowhere 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.800 near what Michael. The way Mike played personality just not 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:55.320 like that Kobe. Kobe wired himself or rewired himself to 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.160 be like Michael Jordan the way he played that killer 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.880 instant everything out it. Yeah. See, there was a video 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.199 I just saw recently about and it's it's I only 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:05.679 bring it up because it's clear how much of an 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.559 impact Michael Jordan had on Kobe right, but he was talking, 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.400 he was doing an interview, and he said at thirteen, 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.160 he didn't he was like fifty seven on Street and 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.880 Smith's like top one hundred ranking for his age group. 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.480 And he said he made a list of those fifty 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.719 six other kids, and over the next five years he 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.079 called it his kill list. And over the next five 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:25.960 years on the AAU circuit, he made sure that he 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.600 got each and every one of those kids because he's 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.000 just like, I I gotta kill these dudes, and they 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.600 need to know that I'm legit now. And you know, 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.880 Michael had to create eight situations, situations that weren't real, 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.160 grudges that weren't real. Well, that's when you know you've 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.480 gotten bored where you go. I kind of mastered this thing. 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.520 I think that guy might have said something about me. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.200 I'm gonna go out in torch him for fifty and 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:59.000 then poor Bradford Smith goes. I didn't say anything. Well, 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.600 somebody told me that maybe you said something. Here Jesse 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:04.880 and Los Angeles on the program, Hi, Jess, what do 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:10.320 you have for me today? Let it be hey. I 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.559 wanted to comment on Luca and also had an NBA 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.960 prediction of yours that I believe is now going to 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.720 come true. If thatkay? All right? All right, all right. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.440 So I watched Luca dismantled my sacrament at King's last night, 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:21.920 and I got to tell the shark guy in the 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:23.800 back who was bashing him earlier, to stay in his 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.200 laying on this, because Luca's statline from last night is 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.720 something only like you said, Kareem's done. Will it's done, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.400 and Elgin Baylor have done and it's not some inflated 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.880 four letter like network zionsta. So that's what I'm gonna 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:36.560 say to him. But on the prediction of years, I 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.840 believe it is going to come true. The NBA has 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.400 seen the intensity and the quality of these games in 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.720 the bubble and it's awesome. And because of the fear 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.720 prediction of teams that are out of the playoff run, 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.840 I'm now playing for something like the number one draft pick, 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.560 like humulating wins instead of losses and you know, avoiding 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.960 tanken to come true. Yeah, yeah, thank you, Jesse. Yes, 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.840 shark guy. Well, I mean, just all the all the 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.160 rings with Elgin Baylor and Will Chamberlain. I'm I mean, 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.400 that's a great example God for Biddy brings up Bill 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:08.960 Russell or Michael Jordan. Wow, perfect, he's proving my case. Hey, 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.160 Alsa Baylor could put up thirty eight points a game. 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.320 But show me the ring. Well, there are a lot 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.120 of guys who have won rings. Robert Or He's got 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.800 a lot of rings. Yeah, Steve Kerr's got a lot 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.800 of rings. He sure does. Yeah, there were guys who 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:25.560 were role players on the Celtics who have a lot 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.280 of rings. There's a lot of Alex english Is out there. Dan, 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.800 I'm not dating myself at all with that reference. Uh, 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:39.880 Luca doesn't play on a great team, right right. If 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.520 he did, he wouldn't be scoring thirty four points, twenty 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.680 boards at eleven assists. Obviously didn't have to share all 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:51.280 those stats. Yeah, but then he would be greater because 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.640 his team was winning. But his numbers aren't as great 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.840 according to you. Yes, okay, I mean eventually he's gonna 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.320 have to have some talent there, right, Unless you think 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.000 Porzingis can be that guy, well you need a little 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.360 bit more. I mean porzingis Is, you know, he's the 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:08.880 unicorn out there. But you know they got other players, 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.120 Tim Hardaway Junior. Uh, don't they have some guy named 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:17.240 Finney on that team. I mean, come on, you got 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:22.520 JJ Brea. He's starting. They don't have a good team. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.560 Is that? Like JJ Brea's son is starting. The guy 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.240 from the finals like years ago. JJ Barea is still 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:34.280 on the MAVs. He's probably thirty five, isn't he? How 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.480 old is JJ Barea thirty six? Thirty six? All right? 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.000 Oh wow, that is a not a great storry. No, 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.240 so you have to look around and go, Luca has 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.360 to do more. You're not giving him credit for doing more. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.920 You're you're you're not you're taking away credit because he's 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:55.800 a ballhaug and he should be putting up these kind 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.560 of numbers. That's that's the feeling I always get when 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.440 you talk about Luca. Yes, I mean he's on a 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.040 not a great team, so he's got to disaccumulate numbers. Yeah. 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.600 So instead of saying, wow, he's got his team in 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.359 a position. Maybe they're the fourth seed in the West. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.879 We'll see. I mean, they don't look great in the bubble. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.359 You have to admit that they're kind of They go 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.320 over time with the Kings and lose their other two games. 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.560 I don't think that they're a great team. I don't 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.800 think they're a very good team. At times, they're a 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.600 good team. Yeah, Paul MAVs Lee the league and obscure 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:29.560 guys with hyphenated names, Michael Kids, Willie Calli Stein, Dorian Phinney. Smith. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.720 Just saw this from David Pollock from the Mothership, a 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:39.280 former NFL player. I don't see the Yukon decision meaning 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.200 anything to the main teams in college football. They folded 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.000 because they would lose a ton of money. Others will 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.160 play to make sure they don't lose money. Well, also, 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.280 you got a factor in that nobody wanted to play 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.000 Connecticut because they only wanted to play teams in their 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:58.720 own conference. So Yukon was a team that was looking 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.760 for opponents. They these these teams are getting boxed out here. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.240 You know that Notre Dame was brought into the ACC, 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.720 and you're it's gonna be collateral damage with some of 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:13.280 these teams that we're gonna try to play. Didn't Connectic 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.600 could have two games in the ACC schedule, Maybe Virginia 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:18.760 was one of them, and I know that I think 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.720 they had one more Clemson where they scheduled to play Clemson, 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:26.760 North Carolina. North Carolina all right, So the ACC just said, hey, 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.600 look we're closing our borders here. We're just gonna play 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.840 ACC football. Yeah, mclob those are basketball games. Let's say 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.879 yukon unc ukon Virginia. There's no need for them to 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:37.840 play football. Well, that might be one of those. Hey 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:39.760 we'll play you in basketball, but we also want to 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:44.040 play you in football, although not the men's team. They 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.760 they've had a couple of down years though. Yeah, mclovin. 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.199 So if Rutgers has to cancel, what the heck are 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:50.960 we gonna do at noon? I mean it is Maryland 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.359 just gonna do it on Saturday scrimmage. Yeah, I'm just 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.800 gonna watch Maryland football because Maryland always plays at noon 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:02.359 Indiana Indiana noon Eastern on a Saturday, yampoint. Yeah, the 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.400 Hoosiers are getting a little better of that program. They're 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.560 flirting with that three o'clock window. Wow, I'm telling you, 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.800 you know you've made it. Yeah, you get out of 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.520 the noon bubble there on ESPN. I always love that, 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.640 be like who's the noon game? And then Fox started 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.320 coming in and then they had their nooner as well. 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.520 Wake Forest not a half of them, but there's his good, right, 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.040 they decided to put a good game in noon, didn't they. 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:32.120 By the way, Alex English most points in the eighties. 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.200 How about that one, McLevin, Get out of here. Is 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.400 that right? Alex English scored more points in the nineteen 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:47.560 eighties than anybody else. Yeah, days, shot spires, stat of 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:52.800 the day, stat of the day comes that? What stat 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:58.040 of the day? Yes, McLevin. Remember that whole school of guys, 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:01.240 George Gervin, Kekey Vanderway, Alex you could just score. Yeah, 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:05.960 nothing else at all. I loved watching Keiki Vanderway always 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.800 would go left it, dunk on you left hand. No, 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.480 Key was great Alex Alex English is one of the 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:16.479 nicest people you ever meet. And he could score. They 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.639 called him flick because he'd had the ball up so 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.560 high and he just had this little flick shot. And 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:25.000 the Nuggets were good teams, they just weren't great teams. Mcklevin. Yeah, 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.360 he's very nice. Never bothered anyone during the playoff time. 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.639 By the way, nothing because he sounds great to make 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:39.879 love And the shark guy who's saying that about Alex English, 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.399 I don't know why you came in, but mean spirited 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.520 today I have this I just like I like it. 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:48.200 But you just came in firing today. I was so 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.320 happy when I got to watch Sacramento against the MAVs 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:54.879 before the power went out, and then you all of 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.359 a sudden said in Luca, Ballhog. It's getting harder to 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:01.560 back my AUNTI lucas it is. Every day I'm bending 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:09.720 over backwards. Adam Lefco is going to join us now 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:14.600 he's with Turners Sports is he br Live? Bleacher Reports? Well, Boot, 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:16.800 it's all over TV these days. Yeah, it's gonna be 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.679 in the Atlanta studios over the next three weeks. Adam Lefco, 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:21.880 we'll join us. We'll talk some basketball with him. Phone 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:24.120 calls are welcome. Eight seven seven three d P Show, 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:26.919 Reggie Miller. I think we'll join us from the bubble 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:30.120 on Friday. Correct, Thank you, Tom, take a break here. 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:33.760 More phone calls coming up. This is the Dan Patrick Show. 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:37.280 I have to admit and didn't get a great night's 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:41.280 sleep because there's no power in the house and the 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:43.600 winds were howling just a little bit. But when you 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:47.080