WEBVTT - 07/15/21 DPS Hour 3 Richard Jefferson 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.720 Sports Radio Final Hour on this Thursday, Dan and the 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.160 Dane's Stan Patrick Show, come on in. We'll talk to 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.640 Richard Jefferson of the Mothership covering the NBA Finals. A 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:17.840 better block Lebron's block on Andrea Gudala when Richard Jefferson 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:21.159 was there with Lebron in Cleveland or last night with 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:25.479 the Greek freak against DeAndre Eton. Now, Lebron's came in 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.240 a championship game, so it's a little bit different there. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.120 But to me, what Jannis did degree of difficulty far 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.040 greater than what Lebron did. And part of this is 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:40.839 also I'm not surprised at anything Lebron does not anymore. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:43.519 I got to the point and you know, am I 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.000 surprised anything that Tom Brady does? No? Was I surprised 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:51.000 at anything Gretzky did? No? I mean, Yannis is younger, 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.920 and he was injured, and he hasn't been on a 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.800 big stage like this in the NBA Finals. And for 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.960 a guy who got injured and had the hyper extended, 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.880 you're not pacing himself. And I think you got to 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.959 factor that in as well. But we'll get to phone 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.520 calls eight seven seven three d P show email address 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.880 DP at dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.440 The Open Championship, as they like to say, not the 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:18.880 British Open, It's the Open Championship is underway, great weather, 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:24.640 great scores at Royal Saint George, including Jordan Spief up 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.039 there on the leaderboard. Pretty high, but a lot of 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.959 great scores. If you don't if you don't shoot in 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.440 the sixties today, you're gonna be in trouble. Come with 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.920 you know, the weekend there. You got a chance to 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.280 post some pretty good scores there. But I don't think 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:43.959 the players look at this as a overly challenging golf course. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.440 But it's still quirky because it's the Open Championship, all right, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.360 mclen poll question, Okay, we switched it up starting this 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.880 hour with who's coming out of the finals, the Sons 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.200 or the box? Fifty four percent say Sons. Right now. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.480 I guess that's home core. Yeah, I guess, you know, 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.960 with two of the next three and that's probably the 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.440 safer bat here. Can Milwaukee win in Phoenix? That's what 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:08.320 it's going to come down to. They need to win 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.280 in Phoenix. The w NBA took a different approach to 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.040 its All Star game last night, and I got to 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.079 watch a little bit of this. I was really curious 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.480 that you had Team USA took on the w NBA 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.880 All Stars who weren't on the Olympic squad. So the 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.440 non Olympic players won a close, hard fought game, and 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.840 maybe the NBA could go with a similar format for 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.320 its All Star game. We have proposed this. Reggie Miller 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.080 echoed the sentiments. Michael Wilbon brought it up on the program. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.360 But imagine if you had Lebron and k D and 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.280 Steph and you had an international team with Janis and 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.799 Joe Lmbid and Luca don Chick. I mean, that could 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.000 be fun, and you play for there's a different pride 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.640 at stake. I mean, Luca don Chick has famously said 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.240 winning an Olympic gold medal would be far greater, more 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.520 of accomplishment and more treasured by me than winning an 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.560 NBA championship playing for your country. But the w NBA 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.920 game had something we're not used to seeing in an 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.880 All Star format, and that's competitiveness. The non Team USA 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.200 players had a lot of pride, but nice to see 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.960 what you could do with a similar type format for 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.280 the you know, the men's All Star game. I think 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.799 it'd be great International versus Team USA. I think it'd 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.880 be great. I think it'd be you know, you could 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:30.120 get American flag type uniforms, something patriotic for Team USA, 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.480 and you could have all the different colors with the 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:38.280 international team. Maybe they're different flags on their uniform. I mean, 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.120 you could come up with a lot of different things 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.400 to be able to sell this. But I think the 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.520 competitive part of this is what I would really be 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.520 interested in watching because most of these All Star games, 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.400 you know, it's sort of a fun little exhibition there. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.320 But last night with the w NBA, it was competitive, 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.800 like it was spirited. Yeah, mclub, What would you do 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.360 with the fact that the international team has all these 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:03.880 super our centers, like you have Embiid and Jannis and 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.320 Gobert and Joker, Like it almost feels like you couldn't 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.560 do anything with all those guys if you played the 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.400 international team. What do you mean that, like you have 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.440 five centers, you can't all be on the team or 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.560 all be on the quarter once, Like, um, you know, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.760 who do you start? It's a Joker, the clear starter 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.680 over Embiid. Uh. You know, is Jannis a three? How 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.799 would you international team? But what would you do? Strategy? 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.839 Put him all on the floor, right, you gotta guard him? 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:37.320 I mean sure, why not? Joker plays outside, Embiid plays outside. Uh, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:44.080 Yannis and Gobert will be playing inside. Uh, Luca plays outside? Yeah? 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.000 Be fun. No, I mean, I'm I'm just proposing it. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.560 I don't I don't know what it looks good when 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.560 it's or if it looks good on the court, but 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.920 I think just having when you watch something, you want 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.920 to know what's at stake. Like That's why you know, 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.040 the euro Cup was so important to so many people 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.760 because of what it meant. And even if you weren't 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.080 a soccer fan, you know it meant so much to 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.920 these two countries. And you could see the fans and 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.919 you could see the tension. That's what made it fascinating. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.720 That's what you want, no matter what the sport is, 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.560 what's at stake here? Who cares? And that's why when 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.839 I was watching the w NBA, you could tell that 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.479 they truly cared of who was going to win this 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.560 whole star game. Yeah, Paul, if it's USA rost of 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.240 the world, can we get Canada. That's kind of fair. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.280 They're they're technically connected to us. We get Canada. No, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.760 I got to give Canada to the international team because 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:39.800 then they could get Jamal Murray. They're gonna need some 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.640 guards there, so I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.800 to give them Canada based off of Jamal Murray. Yes, Like, 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.880 where would Dominique have been international? He was born on 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.600 an army base back in the day, like his Ben's. Yeah, 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.919 so we lose Ben Simmons, but that might be buddies 0:05:54.920 --> 0:06:00.240 an American citizen. Dominique is okay, yeah, okay, Yeah, there's 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.640 a lot of immigration rules would have to look at you. 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.200 But yeah, Ben Simmins had helped the international team. I 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.480 actually think he fit better with a team of all stars. Yeah, 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.160 you're right, because they don't need him profit. Yeah, he 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.799 didn't have shoot absolutely all right, we'll get phone calls 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.480 coming up, and then Richard Jefferson will join us. He'll 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.159 recap what he saw last night covering the NBA Finals 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.039 for the Mothership. Georgian Ohio, Hi, George, what do you 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:27.559 have for me today? Hey, good morning, good morning. A great, 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.600 great block by the Greek Freak I love defense in basketball. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.920 Y're talking about great moments, Nicigo, and I'm going to 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:42.280 go way back. Do you recall Wilt Chamberlain blocking and 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.640 Kareem skyhook? I seem to recall washing that on televison. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.160 Maybe it was a goaltending. I don't remember. You guys 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.040 do great research. I just thought you would know. All right, well, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.840 thank you, George. I remember when the first time they 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.200 played each other, the Lakers in the Bucks, and you 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:02.600 could tell that Will was overmatched, maybe the first time 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.159 in his career he thought that physically he was overmatched 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:11.440 because Kareem was tall, maybe taller a little bit taller 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.080 than Wilt, but he had so much more grace and athleticism. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.160 And that skyhook. I think Wilt goldtended one time. But 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.240 to see and back then, Wilt had this strange headband. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.320 He had like a gold it looked like a sponge 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.880 on his forehead, and then he had like a rubber 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.360 band that went around his head and he had his 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:36.400 gold wristbands on. And I just remember Kareem lu Alsendour 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.000 at the time he was he was so great. I mean, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.120 this is something we never saw a big man who 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.920 had that much grace and athleticism. Now, Bill Russell was 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.040 a great athlete, and so was Wilt. Nobody was like Kareem. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.320 I'm just magical, absolutely magical. Yeah, Paul, your memory is 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.680 funny because your spot on here Kareem is with Milwaukee 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:04.080 pretty young. Will Chamberlain does have the it's not a headband, 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.800 it's like a head strap with the fuzzy stuff on 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.640 the front. Yeah, it looks like a sponge that he's 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.800 got there on his forehead. He does in the same 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.640 game block Kareem skyhook twice. One is kind of a 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.880 running skyhook going to the basket, like where it's on 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:19.640 the side that's pretty close to the the basket, and he 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.920 blocks it off the glass like he kind of pins it. 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.240 And the next one is a goaltend and got called 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.200 a golden Yeah, he didn't know what to do with 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:31.000 Kareem or leu elisendor I should say, but I mean 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.920 to me, Loui is the greatest college player of all 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.160 time and certainly on that short list man, and I 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:42.240 think we understate his greatness. I think he nobody likes 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.640 the big man like we embraced Bill Russell, but he 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.760 wasn't your typical big man and he played defense and 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.560 he wasn't a score wilt. It didn't matter what he 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.920 did offensively, and people just didn't like the big man. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.560 And the same with lu Elisendoor and Kareem. It felt like, 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.000 but I just marveled at his footwork and that ability 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.400 to be able to Why hasn't anybody even come close 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.800 to attempting to master that shot? Like when you think 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.720 of that with that sky hook, Yes, guys, you're micro's 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.800 a wrong because it's not cool. Shooting a skyhook is 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.640 not cool. Yeah, it's not cool. Really, I think Seaton's 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.760 got it. It feels like the sixties and seventies. Man, 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.520 I don't know if Rudy Gobert added that he would 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.160 never be stopped, well, I can understand. Nobody's gonna pick 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.400 up rick Berry's underhand free throw shooting. I get that 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.480 because that's not masculine, but it does go in, and 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.360 he's one of the great free throw shooters of all time. 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.000 If you knew, let's say you were Ben Simmons and 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.240 you knew, like you could sign a contract, I'm gonna 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.200 go to underhand free throw shooting. I'll be an eighty 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.880 five percent free throw shooter. Nope, you wouldn't do it. Well, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.080 I would, but he wouldn't. I don't think he would. 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:54.920 It would be made fun of for about two minutes 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.840 and still until he I don't know, I don't, I 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:02.000 don't know. Guys are weird like that. You hold it 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.760 on both sides with your fingertips and spin backwards. Yes, yeah, 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.439 but you have to have it come down between your legs. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.120 You know what, during the commercial break, let's see whom 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.440 looks masculine shooting that kind of underhand free throw. Okay, yes, Hunt, 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.880 I can't imagine anyone doing the underhand free throw. But 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:20.599 as far as the sky hook, at least when I 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.440 was a kid, seeing him do that in a deep 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.720 corner or at the top of the popping sky hooks 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.600 like that swish, that was like insane. But he set 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.000 the all time scoring record, and I think he was 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.040 guarded by Mark Eaton and Utah And it's a baseline 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:38.720 like fifteen foot hook and he was shooting sky hooks 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:43.800 from fifteen feet and he just had, I mean, unbelievable 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:47.439 athleticism and just that a touch. You know, we always 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.760 talk about big man. Oh, you know, you're a big guy, 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.719 and your hands are too big and it's nonsense. You know, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.200 You've got guys who are big, who can shoot and 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.199 have touch and Kareem certainly did. Jeff and Detroit. I 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.560 Jeff Woo's on your mind today? What up though? One 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.120 time for chat row Listen, Dan. I believe that the 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.160 NBA has got an unexpected gift here. We have been 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:14.640 Kawhi Leonard, Steph le Blanc kd to death in the finals. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.120 We finally get two small market teams who we know nothing. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.360 You know, the average person really doesn't know anything about them, 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.079 and it's shaping up to be one hell of us here. Yeah. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.120 My question to you guys is this, And I know 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.440 Fritzie is a great booker, why didn't you guys get 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:34.000 the one person on that can explain a trackdown come 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:38.400 from behind block Reggie Miller, Tayshaun Prince. I feel like 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.760 you guys. I look at Wow, Jeff Wow, Tayshaun Prince, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.480 Gott Redge too soon. Yeah, yeah, we can't do that 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.559 to redg Yeah that's not good at all. Berry in 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.480 Long Island, Hi, Berry, thanks for thanks for holding Hi. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:59.120 Good morning fellers. You were talking about great defensive plays. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.880 I'm going to will show my Age here. Nineteen sixty 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:07.199 nine World Series, tom Seaver on the mound Ron Swobota 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.640 the diving catch and might feel to save the game. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.200 All you young punks out there, go to YouTube. Type 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.920 in Swibota catch you'll see some baseball. All right, thank you, Barry. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:22.240 But I think Tommy Age had better catches in that 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.040 World Series their center fielder. I think he had a 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.760 couple of dramatic catches against the Orioles. He has McLeman. 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.440 By the way, we got a ton of tweets mentioned 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.800 Kirby Puckets World Series catch, although it was at a 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.560 critical moment as one of the defining defensive plays ninety 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:42.320 one World Series when he won the MVP. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:43.640 I don't know. It wasn't like it was like the 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.360 third in areas. Yeah, I mean it was a big catch. Usually, 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.520 I mean you're waiting for the end of a game 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.640 and that kind of we we get illuminated on. Boy, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.319 remember that play it. I go back to James Harrison 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.880 of the Steelers with that touchdown at the end of 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.920 the first half of the Super Bowl. Imagine if that 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.080 was at the end of the Super Bowl, if that 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.559 was the final play of the Super Bowl. Would there 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.520 be any play that would compare to what James Harrison did. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.480 But he did it at the end of the first half, 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:17.680 and it was still incredible, And Larry Fitzgerald almost tracks 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.480 down James Harrison. But I that's I still think Malcolm Butler, 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:25.440 that's the greatest defensive play given what was at stake 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.680 when it happened. And if you're if you're the Patriots, 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.800 if you go back and look at Tom Brady's face 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.440 on the sidelines, he knows he's resigned to losing the 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.760 Super Bowl. He would never admit it. But you know 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.960 what are you a yard out? Two yards out? You 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:45.920 got Marshawn Lynch, and you know, Belichick basically said, we 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.000 want you to throw the ball where we want. We 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:52.040 want to present a defense that says, go ahead and 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.800 throw the ball, don't risk running it and then not 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.280 scoring and then have time run out. And the fact 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.120 that he told Malcolm Butler, this is what's going to happen, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.400 and when it happens, you go for the ball, you 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.120 go this angle, And that's to me greatest play I 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:11.079 ever saw. Yeah. See there's this video on YouTube. It's 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.920 about ten minutes long. As cut together of all these 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.440 highlights of a group of like I'm a twenty thirty 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.560 Seahawks fans watching the game, and it's like sort of 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.000 seen from the TV's point of view, and so it's 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.160 almost like they're watching the camera all the time and 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.760 they're going nuts at all these highlights, and especially that 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.560 last final drive, they're going absolutely ballistic and they're all 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:36.880 chanting beast mode, Beast mode, Beast bade beast. Then you 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:38.920 can just see it all hit them like, oh no, 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.520 they through. It's it's the best video because they it is. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.320 You've never seen such high and then lows in a 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:50.040 split second switch and Seaton, you bring up something that 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.520 I could understand from a Seattle perspective, because when I'm 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.240 watching in the end zone and I'm staring at Marshawn 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.160 Lynch as if I'm making eye contact with Marshawn Lynch, 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.800 like i know you're getting it, and you know I'm 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.000 getting it, and I'm expecting him get the ball and 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.200 he's gonna run right into the end zone or I'm 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.560 gonna get up on the podium and I'm gonna hand 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.240 him in the Super Bowl Jovie, and I'm gonna talk 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.280 to him about that touchdown, and then all of a sudden, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.760 Russ takes a couple of steps back and raises his 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.800 right arm and I go oh bleep. And then all 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:25.880 of a sudden, Malcolm Butler, welcome Butler. All right, more 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.640 phone calls coming up. We'll talk to Richard Jefferson from 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.160 the Mother's Ship and we'll do so next coming up 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.920 on seventeen after the hour, Dan Patrick shall sleep number 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.400 has got you ready for a great night's sleep. And 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.920 when's the last time that you woke up? And he went, wow, 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.560 that was different. If you have a sleep number bed, 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.760 and I speak from firsthand experience, you wake up and 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.160 you feel different. You have energy instead of being sluggish. 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.200 Sometimes you wake up and you'll go God, I could 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.240 stay in bed. But there's so many tips. 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Richard Jefferson 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:54.320 he Spin NBA Analyst, Yes Network Nets Analyst, NBA Champ 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.679 with the Cabs joining us from Milwaukee. Richard, thanks for 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.920 joining us. I was just talking to the Danets about 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.080 shooting underhand. If I had said to Shack or some 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.080 of these other players who struggle, hey, you can make 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:09.760 seventy five percent of your free throws, but you got 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.040 to shoot underhand. How many guys do you think would 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.600 be willing to do that in a game? Um? I 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.120 think I don't know. I think it takes more courage 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.000 to do that because I think you're you're already having 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.399 to deal with people making fun of you because you 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.359 shoot fifty eight percent and you're going, you know, brick 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.879 in every free throw. So you know, it's just all 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.600 about self confidence in those moments because you know you're 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.280 gonna make seventy five but you actually might get more 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.119 heat than you will from just shooting normal free throws. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.840 But isn't that interesting that you would rather be embarrassed 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.440 in a different way than like, if I'm going to 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:49.160 be embarrassed, I'd rather be embarrassed in succeeding than in failure. Yeah, 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:53.560 that was the ultimate conversation between Billy Hoyle and Sydney Dean. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.120 He's like, I know who you are. You'd rather look 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.480 you'd rather look good and play bad and play bad 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:04.360 and look good. White men can't jump reference there, all right, 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:09.360 So you had firsthand, great view front row seat when 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.159 Lebron had is a you know this chasdown block on 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.320 andret Igudala in the NBA Finals, and then you were 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.520 there last night with what Jannis did to DeAndre Aden 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:24.560 better drop, better block to you was which one very different? 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.359 I think Jannis's blocking game one was closer because it 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:29.879 was the same it was as a takedown. The difference is, 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:32.600 it's what makes both of those blocks though special and 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:36.440 so unique, is the time in which they happened, right, 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:38.840 the time in which they happened, the moment in the game, 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.639 the moment in the series. So if we're talking about, 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:47.240 you know, more impressive block, it's definitely broad because it 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.520 meant more at the time of it a minute ago 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.239 in a game seven, you know, down three one, all 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.200 that stuff. If you're talking about how many people on 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.680 the planet could go do what somebody did, then that's 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.760 the yachness block because they're only maybe two players that 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:06.760 can be backtracking, hand up, turn around, see the lab 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.560 go up one to go get it against the number 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.680 one pick that's seven feet in athletic DeAndre eight And 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:19.600 it was technically perfect and it was physically only three 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:21.440 people in the world can do that. So it's like 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.399 the combination is what made that so special? What was 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.000 the huddle like after Lebron had that block against the Gudala, 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.280 I kid you not. I kid you not? In seven, 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.040 after the seven games and all this other stuff, that 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.280 was the first time I thought, oh, we're gonna win this. 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:41.840 I kid you not. Because it was back and forth 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.000 and everyone knows and everyone's talked about that game and 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:46.359 it's one of the more dissected series, but it was 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.320 like that was the first moment where I was like, oh, wait, 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:50.760 we're gonna win this because it was like, now the 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.000 time was running out, now was becoming a one two 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:56.240 possession game. We had the ball, you know, and it 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:57.720 was like, okay, what are we gonna draw up what 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:59.879 are we gonna do because at that moment we had control. 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.640 It becomes like that. It becomes that free throw time game. 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:05.879 You can look and see like, well, we're even if 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:08.119 we miss and they score, we're going to get a 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:10.440 second chance. So like, we're in control right now. This 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.119 is the first time in the entire series that we 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.600 were in control and it was like a minute to go. 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:20.440 Did Lebron say anything in the huddle? No. I think 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:22.080 that's when they were talking about trying to get the 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.560 ball to Kyrie, trying to get step on them. That 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:26.520 was the difference for us, is trying to get Steff 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.800 in more pick and rolls because the Warriors defense was 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:32.679 so impeccable with Dremont, you know, helming it and Andre 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:36.400 and those guys and play you have three basically all 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:40.159 first team defenders on that roster, and so trying to 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.840 get Step in it not that you know, Steph led 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.280 the league and steals not the Steff can't play defense, 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.879 but that was one of the small advantages that you 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.280 might have and so got Kyrie and the rest of 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:54.160 the rest was history. Dame Lillard tweeted in real time 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.919