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Speaker 1: join us. We'll recap what happened over the weekend. Mark Jackson,
Speaker 1: ESPN NBA Analysts. A little bit later on Suns sweep
Speaker 1: the Nuggets, The Joker booted thirty seven for Chris Paul
Speaker 1: Utah and the Clips. Utaw up two games to one,
Speaker 1: Seventy six Ers, Hawks seventy six Ers up two games
Speaker 1: to one. Bucks, Nets tied it two apiece tonight seventy Sixers,
Speaker 1: Hawks Game four, Jazz Clippers Game four as well. We
Speaker 1: never learned our lesson right less than a week ago,
Speaker 1: everybody was busy crowning the Nets as the next champs.
Speaker 1: The Lakers no longer in the playoffs. Who's going to
Speaker 1: stop the Nets even if they only have two of
Speaker 1: their superstars? Were writing the obituary for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 1: But after down Z two being in a hole in
Speaker 1: Game three, In fact, you can make an argument Brooklyn
Speaker 1: was two possessions away from taking a three series lead.
Speaker 1: On top of that, already banged up Nets may have
Speaker 1: lost Kyrie Irving with that ankle injury. James Harden's already out,
Speaker 1: so hard to know what to make of Brooklyn. Now
Speaker 1: it's Kevin Durant's time. You want to be Lebron James,
Speaker 1: here you go. You got your opportunity. Milwaukee seems to
Speaker 1: have found an answer, though to KD PJ. Tucker given
Speaker 1: credit frustrating Kevin Durant, Buck Star, the Greek Freak dominant
Speaker 1: in Game four, supporting cast playing better. Tide's turn. Momentum
Speaker 1: is turned. Milwaukee has shown that there's some confidence there
Speaker 1: that they lacked in previous postseason disappointments. And a lot
Speaker 1: depends on the Nets health. But now we go back
Speaker 1: to Brooklyn with a series that's very much in the air.
Speaker 1: I'll go back to that Game three that was Thursday.
Speaker 1: The Nets were two possessions away from taking a three
Speaker 1: zo series lead. Then yesterday the Bucks went on a
Speaker 1: twenty one to four run that was the first four
Speaker 1: minutes that turned into an eleven point Nets lead, and
Speaker 1: then it turned into a Milwaukee lead of forty four
Speaker 1: thirty eight, and then ten seconds later, Kyrie Irving goes
Speaker 1: up for a layup, comes down on the Greek freak's
Speaker 1: foot and the replay of that makes you wonder how
Speaker 1: many times that we've seen this before and how long
Speaker 1: and how severe this could be with Kyrie Irving. But
Speaker 1: even if he does play, how formidable is he going
Speaker 1: to be? How many minutes can you count on? You
Speaker 1: already got James Harden? Can you force James Harden? Or
Speaker 1: politely asked James Harden to come back? Maybe sooner than
Speaker 1: expected here, because when you're up two games to none,
Speaker 1: could have gone up three games to none. I don't
Speaker 1: need James Harden the rest of the series. Now I
Speaker 1: need him? How much can I get out of him?
Speaker 1: But those are some questions that we'll have for Dennis Scott,
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Speaker 1: Nick Levin whole question, Okay, If the NETS loses serie series,
Speaker 1: who takes the fall? Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Joe Harris,
Speaker 1: Steve Nash or Kevin Durant. Why I'm not going to
Speaker 1: put this on Joe Harris. He's been the difference. He
Speaker 1: was so bad in Game three and they would have
Speaker 1: won that game if he had an eighteen footer. Okay,
Speaker 1: but I don't think anybody is going to be blaming
Speaker 1: Joe Harris. And there's people going, wait, Who's who's this guy?
Speaker 1: Maybe say the role players? He'll be the face of
Speaker 1: the role players. Someone's got to step up, right with
Speaker 1: all these guys down, they're not gonna blame Joe Harris.
Speaker 1: I mean you blame the stars. This will be about
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant probably now it shouldn't be because the other
Speaker 1: two players are injured. Kevin Durant, who missed two seasons,
Speaker 1: it felt like coming back and to be able to
Speaker 1: play and play at the level that he's played at.
Speaker 1: But you know they're going to be physical with him,
Speaker 1: even more physical with him. The question is are the
Speaker 1: Nets going to get these calls? Is Kevin Durant going
Speaker 1: to get favorable treatment here? That's what I would keep
Speaker 1: an eye on do they let Milwaukee continue to play
Speaker 1: the way they played, because if they do, then Milwaukee's
Speaker 1: going to win this series. But you've got, you know,
Speaker 1: two stars that are we don't know, hamstring and ankle injury.
Speaker 1: Those are injuries that do not leave they Linger and Harden.
Speaker 1: Hamstring now, could be the hamstring maybe the next series,
Speaker 1: the series after that, if they get to the NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: even a sprained ankle, those don't go away, not over
Speaker 1: the span of a couple of weeks. Here. Yeah, mclub,
Speaker 1: So they blame Durant even though he's on They might
Speaker 1: blame Durant even though he's on the court. Do you
Speaker 1: blame Harden than Irving for being hurt or I mean
Speaker 1: they kind of went after Anthony Davis. Yeah, but Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis it feels like it's been injured or injury prone
Speaker 1: for a while. The grin injury. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: fault him on that, other than I will fault him
Speaker 1: on does he get in good enough shape? And that's
Speaker 1: where he has to follow Lebron's lead. Hey, you're twenty six,
Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty eight years of age. You got to
Speaker 1: start reinvesting in your body. And that would be my
Speaker 1: big criticism at Anthony Davis. I don't think he did that.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can just show up and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden go, hey, I'm young, I should be
Speaker 1: able to play. I don't think he was in shape,
Speaker 1: and I think that is probably the key off season
Speaker 1: move that he needs to work on, and that's investing,
Speaker 1: reinvesting in his body so he's ready to go for
Speaker 1: the long haul here. Yeah, Paul, you know, watching the
Speaker 1: nets when they don't, when they only have Durant on
Speaker 1: the floor and they don't have their two other stars.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating the difference. Like Blake Griffin got the ball,
Speaker 1: he's looking around, not looking at the basket. He's looking
Speaker 1: away from the basket. How do I find Kevin Harris Brown?
Speaker 1: All those guys they have no um, I don't know
Speaker 1: what the word is, but they just look discombabulated because
Speaker 1: they've got one guy to go to. And then the
Speaker 1: defense knows that they're getting physical. Well, they're so used
Speaker 1: to deferring because they can, Hey Katie's not open, Kyrie,
Speaker 1: or if it was James Harden. Now you got one option,
Speaker 1: one main option. And this is what great players. This
Speaker 1: is this is your stage here going back home. Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant needs to put up one of those huge, huge games.
Speaker 1: This is this is what great players do. We give
Speaker 1: credit to players who are great for being great, which
Speaker 1: I don't understand that. I heard from Clipper fans today.
Speaker 1: You got a different opinion about Kyrie and I went
Speaker 1: a different opinion. I had people telling me or Kauai.
Speaker 1: I had people saying what not too long ago? Kawai
Speaker 1: is better than Lebron James Okay, I don't believe that,
Speaker 1: but you know during the postseason he plays big. He
Speaker 1: should Is he one of the great players. You keep
Speaker 1: telling me that, Hey, Katie, now's his time. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: now is his time. This is what great players do,
Speaker 1: not man, do you see that performance by Paul George
Speaker 1: who calls himself playoff pe Yeah, he played well. He
Speaker 1: should play well. Hey, the Greek freak looked great. Bucks
Speaker 1: aren't dead. The Greek freak should play well. It's when
Speaker 1: somebody who you don't expect to play well plays well,
Speaker 1: that's when you get recognition. Chris Paul okay, unbelievable, unbelievable performance.
Speaker 1: Talked about it this entire season. Now Chris can come
Speaker 1: out and say, hey, people thought that I was washed.
Speaker 1: You know the Rockets, Chris, You're right, but you bounced
Speaker 1: around to how many teams here? It's not just hey,
Speaker 1: the Rockets thought I was washed. You're a very good player.
Speaker 1: You're a Hall of Famer. The thing that's missing from
Speaker 1: your resume is winning. And that's what great players do.
Speaker 1: They win. And the Suns were the better team in
Speaker 1: this series. The Nuggets were, you know, undermanned, without the
Speaker 1: starting backcourt. They were not going to beat the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 1: It got frustrating. Yesterday the Joker got tossed for a
Speaker 1: hard foul and here is his head coach, Michael Malone
Speaker 1: on the ejection. I don't know. I think it's something
Speaker 1: along the lines of wind up, malicious intent, some other
Speaker 1: mumbo jumbo. But obviously, you know, you lose the MVP,
Speaker 1: it's gonna make it even harder to try to stave
Speaker 1: off elimination. I'm gonna guess when you say mumbo jumbo
Speaker 1: that you don't agree with the call. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: gonna read between the lines here, mumbo jumbo. The wind
Speaker 1: up is what looks really bad. Now he does hit
Speaker 1: the ball, but he you know he hits Pain in
Speaker 1: the face. Is it egregious? You're the MVP. You can't
Speaker 1: put yourself in a position like that. You shouldn't be
Speaker 1: the guy that's trying to change the energy. And that's
Speaker 1: what the Joker talked about. Hey, I was trying to
Speaker 1: change the energy there. You're not a hit man. You're
Speaker 1: the MVP. It's a This is one of those where
Speaker 1: you can say, normally the NBA with preferential treatment home court,
Speaker 1: call star player. That didn't matter Joe Kitch getting tossed,
Speaker 1: But you can't put yourself in a position like that.
Speaker 1: Would I have tossed him, No, I would have given
Speaker 1: him a flagrant one. But you know, it's a wind
Speaker 1: up there. It really looked like if he didn't hit
Speaker 1: the ball, he wanted to make his statement and hit
Speaker 1: Pain over the forearm there. Devin Booker went toe to
Speaker 1: toe with the Joker and had this to say about
Speaker 1: that scrum. I think, you know, it was just an
Speaker 1: emotional play. You know, I don't think he made harm
Speaker 1: by it after but you know, it was just a
Speaker 1: frustration file. But you know it was it was tough
Speaker 1: just defending my teammate. You know, that was it, but
Speaker 1: I seen him go up to Cam after and apologize.
Speaker 1: And you know, I've played a units a joker multiple times.
Speaker 1: I know you know he's not a malicious player. The
Speaker 1: last time an MVP got kicked out of a playoff
Speaker 1: game was Steph Curry in twenty sixteen. I don't even
Speaker 1: remember that, but I will say the joker. This goes
Speaker 1: back to when Michael Malone said his team quit and
Speaker 1: somebody asked the Joker after that game, hey, did you quit? No?
Speaker 1: I didn't quit. I think this is the frustration to
Speaker 1: build up there, and the Joker took it out on
Speaker 1: Cameron Payne. Yeah, PAULI, Steph Curry got ejected. I had
Speaker 1: to look it up. Game six of the two thousand
Speaker 1: and sixty NBA Finals, he got his sixth personal file
Speaker 1: and he threw his mouthpiece of frustration at the referee
Speaker 1: and actually hit a fan. So he was gone anyway,
Speaker 1: he was booted out of the game, but he got
Speaker 1: technically ejected from the game. Okay, a mouthpiece game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, if you know, the NBA looks
Speaker 1: at this and says, you know, did they overreact in
Speaker 1: the moment. It's a wind up big wind up, and
Speaker 1: you know, you just can't put yourself in that position.
Speaker 1: That's it, because you can sit there and argue and go,
Speaker 1: he shouldn't have been tossed. He shouldn't have been in
Speaker 1: the situation to begin with. And if he does get tossed,
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna blame it on him. He put himself
Speaker 1: in a position where you left it up to somebody
Speaker 1: else to decide should you continue to play or not.
Speaker 1: Give credit to the Phoenix Suns. They played extremely well
Speaker 1: and now they wait for the winner of the Utah
Speaker 1: Jazz and the LA Clippers. What other poll questions do
Speaker 1: we have to day mccleven. Okay, on that note, who's
Speaker 1: coming out of the West, the Suns, the Jazz or
Speaker 1: the Clippers sign And I'm asking that before the critical
Speaker 1: Game four here with the Clippers. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the heck's going on with that team. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know how to handicap the Clippers because when they I
Speaker 1: don't count on them, they win. When I do count
Speaker 1: on them, they don't win. Mike Conley not being able
Speaker 1: to play for the Utah Jazz is still the big
Speaker 1: piece missing for them. And if it's not this series
Speaker 1: they'll definitely need him for the next series if they're
Speaker 1: going to beat the Phoenix Suns. Yes, does this feel
Speaker 1: more wide open than usual? Usually you say, oh, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Lebron and Curry and this the Jazz Suns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is wide open? Because the Lakers aren't in it,
Speaker 1: and if the Nets aren't in it, then you're going
Speaker 1: to get some really interesting matchups here in the NBA
Speaker 1: Finals that you did not expect. Is that good or
Speaker 1: bad for the NBA? I think you want to have stars.
Speaker 1: This is I liken it to March Madness, where you go, oh,
Speaker 1: these upsets are cute, and then you get to the
Speaker 1: final four, the Elite eight, and then you want you
Speaker 1: want the blue bloods in there, unless you have a
Speaker 1: team like Butler. Like if Butler gets to the finals,
Speaker 1: I want them to win. I want Butler to win
Speaker 1: the title, not get there and not win. You know,
Speaker 1: have that Cinderella story. But for the most part, it
Speaker 1: feels like we get we like the cute little matchups
Speaker 1: and upsets, and then after that you go, Okay, now
Speaker 1: I need a great team to win the National Championship. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the Suns feel lovable. My kids know Chris
Speaker 1: Paul from the State Farm commercials, all the different commercials.
Speaker 1: They don't know him as a basketball player if they
Speaker 1: don't from commercials. I think the Suns are likable or
Speaker 1: lovable and Devin Booker dates the Kardashian You go yeah, uh.
Speaker 1: Other than that, Barkley, Can Barkley come back to some stuff? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a club. I think some other teams. I think
Speaker 1: the Bucks would be lovable. But I don't know if PJ.
Speaker 1: Tucker the way he's playing as lovable or No, that's
Speaker 1: that's not a lovable team. No, no, not where the
Speaker 1: nation's gonna go. Let me wrap my arms around the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Trey Young could be lovable. He could be a cute
Speaker 1: little guy. Yeah, let's take a break. Phone calls coming up.
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Speaker 1: on a poll question here, McLevin, Well, I want in
Speaker 1: your opinion. I ask who's coming out of the West.
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite? Who's coming out of the East?
Speaker 1: The Nets, the Bucks, the Sixers, or the Hawks. Well
Speaker 1: I said the Bucks at the start of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: so I'll stay with that, even though I don't know
Speaker 1: what to expect from them. But I'll say Bucks because
Speaker 1: that's who I went with to start in the West.
Speaker 1: I thought the Lakers would come out, but if not,
Speaker 1: I thought the Utah Jazz We're going to be the
Speaker 1: team to beat. So I'll stay with Utah right now.
Speaker 1: But what we've seen with the Phoenix Suns, I'd be
Speaker 1: hard pressed to go against them. I know the Clippers
Speaker 1: are the X factor, but you know, it's just a
Speaker 1: big question mark. I just I don't know what to
Speaker 1: expect there. I wouldn't want to bet on them, but
Speaker 1: it's one of those that you bet against them and
Speaker 1: then they prove you wrong. You have two really good players,
Speaker 1: I just don't know if they're gonna I don't know
Speaker 1: if Paul George is going to be a really good player.
Speaker 1: Great player consistently. I know Kauhi Will and then I
Speaker 1: don't know about the role players. I just have no
Speaker 1: idea at all. All right, let's see age seven seven
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Speaker 1: One of the great nicknames in NBA history. He is
Speaker 1: a three D Dennis Scott one of the great deep
Speaker 1: shooters in NBA history. Part of Turner's Sports NBA Analysts,
Speaker 1: Who who gave you that nickname? Three d? Uh? Down
Speaker 1: in Orlando, Paul Porter, PA announcer. We're playing against the
Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs in the preseason game. I came down
Speaker 1: hit the three in a corner. He said, great. Scott said, well,
Speaker 1: that's what they called me a Georgia tech. And I
Speaker 1: came down and get hit another three, he said, Thinness Scott,
Speaker 1: And then I made three three, And I think in
Speaker 1: a minute in the head, who goes, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: three D. I kind of looked over, but I said,
Speaker 1: all right, like that history. But when you missed those
Speaker 1: shots in the game, did you ever get somebody to say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: three D. Of course you hit a look at that
Speaker 1: from a few fans on the road, and you love it.
Speaker 1: But then he've been known me a long time, all
Speaker 1: of us great shoes in a mindset, if he missed
Speaker 1: two or three, we always believe the next one's going in.
Speaker 1: All right, let's look at some of this action here.
Speaker 1: How much pressure is on Kevin Durant now, given Kyrie's
Speaker 1: availability and ne James Harden. I don't know if it's pressure.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's desperation, because we all know
Speaker 1: now if you're not healthy in the playoffs and you
Speaker 1: don't have your best players, it's hard to beat people.
Speaker 1: And Durant, we know how he wears his emotions on
Speaker 1: his sleeve, so he's gonna try to do everything possible
Speaker 1: to try to carry this team, which I think you
Speaker 1: need to take a step back and empower his teammates
Speaker 1: around him with leadership and say, hey, guys, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna try to get sixty, Yes, maybe forty, but I
Speaker 1: need to get ten fifteen assists like James Harden does.
Speaker 1: Get you guys involved. Let's play good team defense and
Speaker 1: maybe we can hold on to Kyrie or James Harden
Speaker 1: get healthy. What do you think of the Buck's defensive strategy?
Speaker 1: Are they going over the top with their physicality here? No,
Speaker 1: they're not. You have to take offensive players out of
Speaker 1: their comfort zone. We know Kyle Reid's a great player.
Speaker 1: We know James Harden's a great player. We know Kadi's
Speaker 1: one of the best scores we ever see it. But
Speaker 1: you have to be physical with them and take them
Speaker 1: out of their comfort zone and take them and make
Speaker 1: them do things they're not used to. Kevin Durant is
Speaker 1: not used to a guy named PJ. Tucker just all
Speaker 1: in his face. He's smaller, but he's stronger. And that's
Speaker 1: the physicality you're talking about, Dan, How do they let
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant's bodyguard on the court? I think the whole
Speaker 1: situation with the fans personal security, they're not on the
Speaker 1: same page. Then. I don't mind players having extra security.
Speaker 1: They deserve it. I don't mind the arena's beefing up
Speaker 1: extra security for the playoffs, but we all have to
Speaker 1: be on the same page and know who is who.
Speaker 1: Come to find out, some people didn't know that that
Speaker 1: was the rant security with that James Harden security. We
Speaker 1: didn't know who it was. We just knows the guy
Speaker 1: that was dressed up real big, trying to do the
Speaker 1: right thing, but he didn't I'm glad he didn't go overboard.
Speaker 1: Could you ever have an incident like that where somebody's
Speaker 1: on the floor and you don't know who it is
Speaker 1: and why they're on the floor. It was one time
Speaker 1: in Phoenix, because you know, I was playing with Shaq.
Speaker 1: Everywhere we went, something crazy would happen and then this,
Speaker 1: you know this guy Ram Shack, Shack, I love you,
Speaker 1: and of course security said get out of here. Shack
Speaker 1: was crazy. The stories I hear about Shack young Shack
Speaker 1: at practice like he would he would run out with
Speaker 1: just his shoes on. Is that is that true? Just
Speaker 1: his shoes and his birthday suit. You're not gonna take
Speaker 1: a charge from him. No, you're like, I'm not taking
Speaker 1: the jar of birthday soon. Oh what a goofballum? Should
Speaker 1: would you have tossed the joker? I would have not
Speaker 1: have tossed the Joker. I understand the rules. I understand
Speaker 1: what Adam Silver and the Brand Trust is trying to
Speaker 1: do is to keep the game come. But we know
Speaker 1: that Joker was not trying to aim for cam S face.
Speaker 1: We know he was trying to do a hard foul.
Speaker 1: If he gets the ball, gets the steal, where where
Speaker 1: you go, oh my god, great steel about the Joker.
Speaker 1: He's trying to get back in the ball game. It's
Speaker 1: an unfortunate situation. I don't want fans to put a
Speaker 1: you know, a smear over his MVP season off one
Speaker 1: little small instent that it wasn't that serious about him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it was how it looked though, Dennis, and
Speaker 1: he was frustrated. You got his coach who's calling out
Speaker 1: his own teams, saying they quit, and I think it's
Speaker 1: probably the Jokers saying let me, let me try to
Speaker 1: make something happen. My point is, you're the MVP. You
Speaker 1: can't be in a position to all of a sudden
Speaker 1: to have a hard foul on somebody. You can't risk that.
Speaker 1: And that's my problem with it. And what I have
Speaker 1: tossed him? No, but he put himself in a position
Speaker 1: where he got tossed, and I blamed him for that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great learning the experience for him.
Speaker 1: Now he's turned that corn to be a true superstar
Speaker 1: because the last couple of years, so many people didn't
Speaker 1: want to give him his flow, his flowers as we say,
Speaker 1: or excuse me, his roses as they stay. Why helive
Speaker 1: but he's proven he's a true superstar, the true MVP.
Speaker 1: He had learned from his incident and move on and
Speaker 1: still be a great player if you watch him. How
Speaker 1: about this, if you were just going to explain why
Speaker 1: the Joker is so effective and nobody and somebody didn't
Speaker 1: see him, how would you explain what he does? Because
Speaker 1: he can't jump, he's not quick, he's strong, he's got
Speaker 1: great eyes, great hands, But how do you explain somebody
Speaker 1: who does what he does? But dare I said? The
Speaker 1: Gaven know me a long time. You know, back in
Speaker 1: the day when you come to our game and it's
Speaker 1: just like now music, right, everyone listening to music and
Speaker 1: get hyped up. Well, I tell people, when you're watching
Speaker 1: the Joker turned the music down because the music is low.
Speaker 1: For him, it's between the ears. He understands where he
Speaker 1: wants to get on the floor. He knows the offense.
Speaker 1: He knows all four players who are on the floor,
Speaker 1: where they liked the ball, where they want to cut,
Speaker 1: and where they need the ball. So the defense is, oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna pressure up on me. I'll take my time
Speaker 1: and use my body, use my methodical dribble, and let
Speaker 1: my players cut and if you make a mistake on defense,
Speaker 1: I'll find me. And that's the best way to explain it,
Speaker 1: because to your point, he's not living on the rim,
Speaker 1: he's not sprinting down the court, but the shots go in,
Speaker 1: he make smart passes, and he's always in the right
Speaker 1: spot on defense to help his teammates. He's Dennis Scott
Speaker 1: Turners sports NBA analysts. The coverage continues tonight on T
Speaker 1: and T Sixers, Hawks, and then it'll be Jazz and
Speaker 1: the Clippers. You know what to expect out of the Clippers, Dennis, No,
Speaker 1: I don't, because I was on that series with the
Speaker 1: Mavericks and I saw what Luca Dodgerson was doing to
Speaker 1: the Clippers, so I was a little nervous for them.
Speaker 1: And I was saying to myself, if the Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: front office would have made a few better moves, they'd
Speaker 1: be in the second round. They needed up another shooter
Speaker 1: or two to make a few more shots, and the
Speaker 1: clips to be on vacation. On the flip side of that,
Speaker 1: ty Lou, because we know he didn't panic. He went
Speaker 1: to Luke Canard and we always like Luke Canard, Luke,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? He's not going to help you.
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, three three three three energy, next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, the advance. So at that being said, I
Speaker 1: agree with you earlier before I came on. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Reggie Jackson can continue to make shots because
Speaker 1: he is shooting the blood out of the basketball. Very
Speaker 1: happy for him. If he can continue that along with
Speaker 1: playoff peak pandemic peak, that I think Clipper Nation could
Speaker 1: be excited and possibly going forward. You have the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers in the Hawks and with you know, Joe ellen
Speaker 1: bead Is, you know, gonna be He's gonna be limited
Speaker 1: a little bit, although it hadn't really shown that much,
Speaker 1: but that that mentality that Trey Young has. You're not
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to have that at this age, but
Speaker 1: he's not afraid. No, Dad, I just love this generation.
Speaker 1: Very similar Devin Booker, where we're saying that, oh, you
Speaker 1: gotta get in the playoffs, you gotta lose around, or
Speaker 1: you gotta be like we were in the Lando you
Speaker 1: gotta get swept your first time you go to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: These guys said, no, we don't believe in that narrative.
Speaker 1: I want to win now. In the front office, in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, has done a better job putting better
Speaker 1: players around Trey Young versus Dallas with Luca. And that's
Speaker 1: why you see the Hawks story sharing the basketball like
Speaker 1: Donald is shooting threes and telling the Crown shoot almost
Speaker 1: picking his nose, all that fun stuff. The Hawks have
Speaker 1: had this much fun even when they won the sixty
Speaker 1: game a season. They'll have more fun now back when
Speaker 1: they had sixty games. I mentioned this earlier about Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis has to reinvest in his body the way
Speaker 1: Lebron has, because I don't think Anthony Davis came into
Speaker 1: this season in shape and it caught up to him.
Speaker 1: Do you see a correlation between these sort of always
Speaker 1: hang up? And I mean, at this age, you're not
Speaker 1: supposed to be as banged up as he is. So
Speaker 1: what would you have I would take a page right
Speaker 1: out of your your you know, locking made right there
Speaker 1: with Lebron Like you said, well, I think Lebron spent
Speaker 1: one point five million dollars a year between the nutritionists
Speaker 1: and the acupuncture in the training. So yes, you have
Speaker 1: to do that at this point in your career. And
Speaker 1: you may give him a pass. Lebron Miami or even
Speaker 1: dinner for a certain extent, because all those guys are
Speaker 1: in the bubble deep into the last season, they had
Speaker 1: to come right back. But bigger picture to your narrative,
Speaker 1: No a d they brought you there for a reason.
Speaker 1: You're trying to extend Lebron's career a couple extra years.
Speaker 1: You have to be top notch, explain to me. Chris
Speaker 1: Paul special, as Charles likes to say, and most people say,
Speaker 1: one of the best leaders that ever put on a
Speaker 1: pair of tennis shoes. And I'm just happy for him
Speaker 1: that this point in his career they stay in Hell.
Speaker 1: Last night, I must admit we're all setting her saying Monty,
Speaker 1: you're up eight or nine, don't you want to get
Speaker 1: him out of the game before he bumps a pinky
Speaker 1: toe or pinky finger or something. But the Chris Paul's credit,
Speaker 1: he's like, no, leave me in the game. I want
Speaker 1: to make sure we win because I get a whole
Speaker 1: week off to continue all the treatment I've been going
Speaker 1: through this playoffs to keep my body right. But he's
Speaker 1: been on multiple teams here, so when he says after
Speaker 1: the game, hey, people thought I was washed. You know
Speaker 1: a year ago. Well, yeah, I mean as great as
Speaker 1: he is, and he deserved to be a top three
Speaker 1: MVP candidate, he hasn't won. And then you have Michael Malone,
Speaker 1: the Nuggets head coach, who says he's arguably the best
Speaker 1: point guard of all time? And I went, Michael, did
Speaker 1: you ever see Magic? I mean, there's no argument here
Speaker 1: right right? No, I agree with you. I think Michael
Speaker 1: Malone throughout the playoffs that has admitted that sometimes the
Speaker 1: emotions get the best of them after games to his
Speaker 1: press conference. So we both know Michael Malone a long time.
Speaker 1: I think he'd wake up in the morning over a
Speaker 1: couple of coffee and say, okay, guys, I were a
Speaker 1: little in my fields. We know Magic still the best
Speaker 1: point guard ever lived. But okay, is Chris Paul better
Speaker 1: than Russell Westbrook on the all time list as a player? Yes?
Speaker 1: And stat numbers no, Because we've seen Chris Paul go
Speaker 1: to multiple teams and make the team better. And I
Speaker 1: think that's where the manusia kind of confuses people. Are
Speaker 1: we talking about explosive Russell Westbrook? Are we talking about
Speaker 1: better athletes Russell Westborough? Are we talking about obviously the
Speaker 1: most triple doubles in our in our era, Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: When we're talking about what Chris Paul didn't o k
Speaker 1: see with that young team and made them better, those
Speaker 1: are the things I think most of us would give
Speaker 1: Chris Paul, but not as an overall better point guard
Speaker 1: numbers Russell Westbrook point guard Chris Paul better than John Stockton.
Speaker 1: Oh I still I still got John Stocking. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you look at that assists record, that alone, I
Speaker 1: don't think one of the few records in sports. I
Speaker 1: don't think nobody did, even though what Russell was doing.
Speaker 1: I don't think nobody diet cerebral, the screen setting, the leadership,
Speaker 1: and I think Dan we're all trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: is how come guys like John stock and the car
Speaker 1: alone to the world with all the great play, they
Speaker 1: don't have a ring. Now, I think that's to this
Speaker 1: question we're going If Chris Paul gets a ring, as
Speaker 1: we know in the media, his narrative will change a
Speaker 1: whole lot. Nineteen ninety five Playoffs, you were with Orlando,
Speaker 1: you beat the Bulls. Did you think you'd won the
Speaker 1: championship by beating the Bulls? Because you went on and
Speaker 1: you guys lost to the Rockets, but did did that
Speaker 1: kind of like we beat Jordan and now we got
Speaker 1: the Rockets. And you remember that same year, Dan, we
Speaker 1: had game seven at home against the Indiana Pacers, who
Speaker 1: had just swept us the year before. So we had
Speaker 1: two like like ro what coaches like, Yes, we just
Speaker 1: beat Mike. Oh my goodness, we just beat Graggie. Yes
Speaker 1: we got the Rockets. All we beat them both times
Speaker 1: in a regular season. We should be Okay, we're young,
Speaker 1: we're zoo oh smack smack smack smacks. But you can
Speaker 1: say you beat the Bulls in the playoffs there, Dennis.
Speaker 1: And when the you know, the Jordan series came out,
Speaker 1: everyone's texting, oh man, you know whenever beat the Bulls
Speaker 1: back in the day. Yeah. We gotta Askernackets a few
Speaker 1: weeks later, how mad was Jordan after Orlando beat the Bulls?
Speaker 1: He was hot? I mean it was it was well known,
Speaker 1: you know when Nick as you know, made the comment,
Speaker 1: you know, forty five not quite like twenty two, like no, no,
Speaker 1: but we knew Mike was going to come back and
Speaker 1: change his body right after coming back from baseball. We
Speaker 1: knew that, we know what type of competitor he was,
Speaker 1: and then you got swept by the bulls. The next year,
Speaker 1: the very next year, rolling having a great year. I
Speaker 1: think we're second in the East, and we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's got that look at his eye. We've seen that look,
Speaker 1: we've we've seen that. Yeah, that's a different look. And
Speaker 1: I think Kobe had it. And I think watching Devin
Speaker 1: Booker in the little stage with him and Lebron with
Speaker 1: with with the jersey and Lebron was honest. Devin's different,
Speaker 1: Devin's ready. Devin's not just happy to be here. He's
Speaker 1: not just happy to possibly get this new match contract.
Speaker 1: He wants to win and be the next guy we
Speaker 1: talk about every day. I was wondering about this, Dennis.
Speaker 1: Devin Booker owns the last game warn Jersey of Lebron
Speaker 1: James wearing number twenty three because he's switching back to six.
Speaker 1: So this is can you imagine with all of these
Speaker 1: prices for trading cards and memorabilia, what is the last
Speaker 1: game warn Lebron Jersey where he had number twenty three
Speaker 1: going to be worth ten years, fifteen years, twenty years
Speaker 1: if Lebron stays healthy, stay, say Lebron comes back. We
Speaker 1: know Lebron's gonna do whatever it gets body right and hopefully,
Speaker 1: and I know Rod Lincoln, so I can go ahead
Speaker 1: and say this for your far viewers. Pressure is on
Speaker 1: Rod Lincoln. Now you let Rondo go for Dennis Shrewder.
Speaker 1: It didn't work. You let JaVale McGee and the White
Speaker 1: Howard walked, You bought in Montrez Harold and Dassoul. It
Speaker 1: did not work. Lebron is not twenty one anymore. As
Speaker 1: much as we love what he's during his age, we
Speaker 1: know father Thomas to undefeated. We just talked about a
Speaker 1: d take care of his body. Rob le Lincoln has
Speaker 1: to put the right vets in the right shot makers
Speaker 1: around both of these guys. Otherwise Laker Nation is gonna
Speaker 1: be in trouble next couple of years. Great to catch
Speaker 1: up with you as always there, Dennis, Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: Come on, I got the phone call, I said, Dan,
Speaker 1: I said, no problem day, I love my guy. Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's up, Dennis Scott one of the few guests who's
Speaker 1: a better shooter than me. The Turner Sports NBA playoff
Speaker 1: coverage continues tonight on TNT with Sixers Hawks at seven thirty,
Speaker 1: Jazz Clippers at ten thirty. He's likely better than that's
Speaker 1: a major honor. Yeah, that's a hell of a statement
Speaker 1: for you to make. Um, Dennis Scott had a beautiful shot.
Speaker 1: Beautiful shot, sort of a Dell Curry set shot, a
Speaker 1: little bit beautiful. I'll checking his notes to see if
Speaker 1: you've ever said that before. I'm checking. Better shooter than
Speaker 1: me has never been said in the history of this
Speaker 1: show by you. And I give it to Reggie. I
Speaker 1: Reggie's a better shooter than No, he is. You didn't
Speaker 1: give it to Ray Allen. I did. Um. I just
Speaker 1: questioned where the ball was on his hand. He told
Speaker 1: him he was doing it wrong. I think that that's enough.
Speaker 1: I questioned Ray Allen's form. That's all. That's That's great.
Speaker 1: If you could have seen the Danet's face is when
Speaker 1: I said to Ray Allen, because I said, hold the ball,
Speaker 1: and I always say, you know you want it. Do
Speaker 1: you want to put a finger underneath the ball on
Speaker 1: your hand so you could slip a finger in there,
Speaker 1: and you want it on your fingertip? And Ray put
Speaker 1: it there and I said, the balls on your palm.
Speaker 1: I said, you're holding it wrong, holding it weird, holding
Speaker 1: it oddly, holding it wrong, holding it wrong, which means
Speaker 1: if he had done a different way, he'd been a
Speaker 1: better shoot. Yes, yes, yes, you know you're doing that wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's like, he's excuse me, what what? Hey, DaVinci
Speaker 1: give me the paint press. I gotta show you what
Speaker 1: you're doing. Yeah, let's take a break. Here. Phone calls
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Speaker 1: last time an MVP was swept in a series, Magic
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Speaker 1: P show Email and Dress DPA, Dan Patrick dot Com,
Speaker 1: Twitter handle, a DP show Paul and IOWA leads us off. Hie, Paul,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Hey? Dan? Wow, that's that's
Speaker 1: interesting about getting swept, You know. At least Magic made
Speaker 1: it to the finals though, Yeah, one worst, two best
Speaker 1: for the weekend. The worst. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys heard. There was kind of a big tennis event
Speaker 1: that happened this weekend. It's the worst because I bet
Speaker 1: on the King of Clay and Nadal went down in
Speaker 1: flames in the semifinals in Paris. But it was fun
Speaker 1: to watch. But two best here in America, we have,
Speaker 1: you know, beer snakes are back after taking a summer off.
Speaker 1: America's healing. I love to see it. And then I
Speaker 1: think we can all agree. The best of the weekend
Speaker 1: was realizing the knowledge that we did not watch a
Speaker 1: live death in a Euro soccer game that I was watching,
Speaker 1: and you just see a guy collapse and you see
Speaker 1: CPR on the field and players crying. It was a
Speaker 1: it was an awful moment, but happy here he's falling through. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, Paul Christian Ericson. I was not watching live,
Speaker 1: this was Denmark, but I quickly tuned over to it,
Speaker 1: and then the camera was you know, backed away, so
Speaker 1: it was a wider shot of it. But I didn't
Speaker 1: need to see CPR performed on him. You could tell
Speaker 1: how serious it was when his teammates and you know,
Speaker 1: even the official, the referee, like they knew something was
Speaker 1: horribly wrong there. And then you have these players not
Speaker 1: knowing what's happening. They don't know if he just died,
Speaker 1: and then he's taken to the hospital, and then they
Speaker 1: go to their locker room and then they're forced to
Speaker 1: come back ninety minutes later to play. Now they had
Speaker 1: gotten a call from their teammate from the hospital to say,
Speaker 1: you guys got to go out there and play. But man,
Speaker 1: that seemed pretty callous that all of a sudden, you're going, no,
Speaker 1: you guys got to go out there and finish this.
Speaker 1: It just felt like, wow, you don't know if your
Speaker 1: teammate is dead. Even if he's not, you just went
Speaker 1: through a traumatic experience, and of course you have all
Speaker 1: these flashbacks two Hank gathers Reggie Lewis of the Celtics,
Speaker 1: where this is right in front of you and just
Speaker 1: happening there. How do you go out and continue to play? Yah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean if you don't get back out there, you're
Speaker 1: going to forfeit the game. Dang, that is tough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see a couple more phone calls here, Joe and Chicago. Hi, Joe,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? You know? At sixty three
Speaker 1: in a wiry two ten and worst of the Weekend
Speaker 1: kind of goes off what you just mentioned with Christian Eriksson.
Speaker 1: But my focus was really on the way they handled
Speaker 1: the coverage of it. I thought, there's no reason to
Speaker 1: be zooming into the electric shock and then I'm going
Speaker 1: to the crying wife on the field and I'm hugging here.
Speaker 1: That was just kind of detrocious way to cover. They
Speaker 1: should have throw it back to the studio or commercial
Speaker 1: or something. On the flip side, I'm glad he's okay.
Speaker 1: The best of the weekend is that, along with Wrigley
Speaker 1: being packed the folk capacity for the first time, a
Speaker 1: three game sweep of the Cardinals, and Craig Kimbrell with
Speaker 1: three straight electric saves, lightness crowds. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he's got like eighteen saves this year. I go back
Speaker 1: to Hank Gathers. Hank Gathers death in death may have
Speaker 1: saved Christian Erickson's life because this is late eighties and
Speaker 1: it's a conference tournament and Hank collapses on the floor.
Speaker 1: They didn't have a defibrillator, so that's March of nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1: Now everybody has one, and that saved his life. They
Speaker 1: performed CPR, but you know, the team doctor said he
Speaker 1: was gone. But the fact that you didn't have this
Speaker 1: medical accessory device there at these events, you know, these games,
Speaker 1: I mean that that caused Hank his life. But now
Speaker 1: you have teams. I mean, this is a normal practice
Speaker 1: to be able to have that. But I mean it
Speaker 1: was scary. That was scary. But imagine you're one of
Speaker 1: his teammates and when you look, he may have been
Speaker 1: gone right then, because they know how serious this is.
Speaker 1: You're you're looking now, it's one thing to you know,
Speaker 1: he fell down and as a teammate. You don't know
Speaker 1: why he fell down, and then you realize he may
Speaker 1: not be breathing, and just that immediate emergency reaction to
Speaker 1: you know, there's I go back to when Joe Fisman
Speaker 1: had his leg broken and Lawrence Taylor knew what had happened.
Speaker 1: He knew that this was really really serious, and and
Speaker 1: just his reaction there and the players know when somebody's
Speaker 1: really hurt, and it certainly was the case there where
Speaker 1: that that was life and death, and then it became death,
Speaker 1: and then he came back to life. I mean, that's wild.
Speaker 1: And then he calls the team in the locker room
Speaker 1: to say, hey, I guess Christian Ericson wakes up and
Speaker 1: he goes, I don't remember anything, but gosh, you guys
Speaker 1: don't look very good. He's talking to the doctors. Well,
Speaker 1: they just they just saw somebody die. Yeah, Paul. And
Speaker 1: there was no lead up to it. He didn't look
Speaker 1: uncomfortable in the moment or was struggling and then collapsed.
Speaker 1: He was they were passing the ball to him and
Speaker 1: he just dropped. Let's see Jeff and Detroit. Good morning, Jeff,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Dan Patrick and Gang listen guys, My best
Speaker 1: and worst of the weekend is going to be the
Speaker 1: current situation in the NBA playoffs. I'm loving the games
Speaker 1: because we're gonna definitely see a new champion. The worst
Speaker 1: is gonna be the Denver Nuggets coach Malone and I
Speaker 1: figured they would not win another game. First of all,
Speaker 1: you call your players busters, and then you say you
Speaker 1: have to go find five guys to play on a court.
Speaker 1: These are professionals, man. You just do not belittle your
Speaker 1: team like that. You lose them like that. Now, I
Speaker 1: believe it's a little bit of a quit, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit of injury involved. Just the best situation
Speaker 1: all of mine. I hope Denver recovers from that one.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jeff. It's a different demeanor from Jeff new
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