WEBVTT - 06/14/21 DPS Hour 1 Dennis Scott 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.080 Sports Radio. Hope you had a great weekend. Everybody gangs here, 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.840 ready to go, Dennis Scott Turners Sports NBA analysts, we'll 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.480 join us. We'll recap what happened over the weekend. Mark Jackson, 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.720 ESPN NBA Analysts. A little bit later on Suns sweep 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:23.000 the Nuggets, The Joker booted thirty seven for Chris Paul 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.800 Utah and the Clips. Utaw up two games to one, 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:28.920 Seventy six Ers, Hawks seventy six Ers up two games 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:34.000 to one. Bucks, Nets tied it two apiece tonight seventy Sixers, 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:39.360 Hawks Game four, Jazz Clippers Game four as well. We 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.360 never learned our lesson right less than a week ago, 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.640 everybody was busy crowning the Nets as the next champs. 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.240 The Lakers no longer in the playoffs. Who's going to 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.839 stop the Nets even if they only have two of 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:54.880 their superstars? Were writing the obituary for the Milwaukee Bucks. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.400 But after down Z two being in a hole in 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.520 Game three, In fact, you can make an argument Brooklyn 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:05.760 was two possessions away from taking a three series lead. 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.280 On top of that, already banged up Nets may have 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:13.160 lost Kyrie Irving with that ankle injury. James Harden's already out, 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.640 so hard to know what to make of Brooklyn. Now 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.520 it's Kevin Durant's time. You want to be Lebron James, 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.440 here you go. You got your opportunity. Milwaukee seems to 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.240 have found an answer, though to KD PJ. Tucker given 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.959 credit frustrating Kevin Durant, Buck Star, the Greek Freak dominant 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:37.479 in Game four, supporting cast playing better. Tide's turn. Momentum 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.399 is turned. Milwaukee has shown that there's some confidence there 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.720 that they lacked in previous postseason disappointments. And a lot 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.440 depends on the Nets health. But now we go back 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.400 to Brooklyn with a series that's very much in the air. 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:55.080 I'll go back to that Game three that was Thursday. 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.880 The Nets were two possessions away from taking a three 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:03.720 zo series lead. Then yesterday the Bucks went on a 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:08.080 twenty one to four run that was the first four 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.960 minutes that turned into an eleven point Nets lead, and 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.560 then it turned into a Milwaukee lead of forty four 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:19.120 thirty eight, and then ten seconds later, Kyrie Irving goes 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.440 up for a layup, comes down on the Greek freak's 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.799 foot and the replay of that makes you wonder how 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.760 many times that we've seen this before and how long 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:33.280 and how severe this could be with Kyrie Irving. But 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.480 even if he does play, how formidable is he going 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.160 to be? How many minutes can you count on? You 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.200 already got James Harden? Can you force James Harden? Or 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:46.200 politely asked James Harden to come back? Maybe sooner than 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.720 expected here, because when you're up two games to none, 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.480 could have gone up three games to none. I don't 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.160 need James Harden the rest of the series. Now I 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.000 need him? How much can I get out of him? 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.919 But those are some questions that we'll have for Dennis Scott, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.560 who would join us. Coming up is we always do 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.480 every Monday, best and Worst of the weekend, which you 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.880 saw that you liked you didn't like, You can dial 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.359 us up eight seven seven three d P Show email 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.960 address dp A dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.440 DPS show. Say good morning to our radio and TV partners. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.200 Peacock carries the show, our streaming service, and our radio 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.639 affiliates around the country part of the Fox Sports Radio lineup. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.280 Nick Levin whole question, Okay, If the NETS loses serie series, 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:33.160 who takes the fall? Kyrie Irving, James Harden, Joe Harris, 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.320 Steve Nash or Kevin Durant. Why I'm not going to 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.080 put this on Joe Harris. He's been the difference. He 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.280 was so bad in Game three and they would have 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.040 won that game if he had an eighteen footer. Okay, 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:50.040 but I don't think anybody is going to be blaming 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:56.160 Joe Harris. And there's people going, wait, Who's who's this guy? 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.840 Maybe say the role players? He'll be the face of 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.240 the role players. Someone's got to step up, right with 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:07.000 all these guys down, they're not gonna blame Joe Harris. 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.760 I mean you blame the stars. This will be about 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:15.880 Kevin Durant probably now it shouldn't be because the other 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:20.680 two players are injured. Kevin Durant, who missed two seasons, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.960 it felt like coming back and to be able to 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.960 play and play at the level that he's played at. 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.600 But you know they're going to be physical with him, 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:32.440 even more physical with him. The question is are the 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.080 Nets going to get these calls? Is Kevin Durant going 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.200 to get favorable treatment here? That's what I would keep 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.599 an eye on do they let Milwaukee continue to play 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.320 the way they played, because if they do, then Milwaukee's 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.440 going to win this series. But you've got, you know, 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.960 two stars that are we don't know, hamstring and ankle injury. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:58.600 Those are injuries that do not leave they Linger and Harden. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.520 Hamstring now, could be the hamstring maybe the next series, 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.200 the series after that, if they get to the NBA Finals, 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.760 even a sprained ankle, those don't go away, not over 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.760 the span of a couple of weeks. Here. Yeah, mclub, 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.400 So they blame Durant even though he's on They might 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.400 blame Durant even though he's on the court. Do you 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:19.040 blame Harden than Irving for being hurt or I mean 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.880 they kind of went after Anthony Davis. Yeah, but Anthony 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.039 Davis it feels like it's been injured or injury prone 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.440 for a while. The grin injury. I'm not going to 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.000 fault him on that, other than I will fault him 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.000 on does he get in good enough shape? And that's 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.159 where he has to follow Lebron's lead. Hey, you're twenty six, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.400 twenty seven, twenty eight years of age. You got to 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:46.000 start reinvesting in your body. And that would be my 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.360 big criticism at Anthony Davis. I don't think he did that. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.920 I don't think you can just show up and all 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.279 of a sudden go, hey, I'm young, I should be 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.520 able to play. I don't think he was in shape, 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:01.320 and I think that is probably the key off season 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.000 move that he needs to work on, and that's investing, 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.919 reinvesting in his body so he's ready to go for 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.919 the long haul here. Yeah, Paul, you know, watching the 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.000 nets when they don't, when they only have Durant on 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:14.839 the floor and they don't have their two other stars. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.480 It's fascinating the difference. Like Blake Griffin got the ball, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.840 he's looking around, not looking at the basket. He's looking 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.960 away from the basket. How do I find Kevin Harris Brown? 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.720 All those guys they have no um, I don't know 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.720 what the word is, but they just look discombabulated because 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.279 they've got one guy to go to. And then the 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.839 defense knows that they're getting physical. Well, they're so used 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:37.880 to deferring because they can, Hey Katie's not open, Kyrie, 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.240 or if it was James Harden. Now you got one option, 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:47.200 one main option. And this is what great players. This 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.600 is this is your stage here going back home. Kevin 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.200 Durant needs to put up one of those huge, huge games. 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.000 This is this is what great players do. We give 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.719 credit to players who are great for being great, which 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.400 I don't understand that. I heard from Clipper fans today. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.240 You got a different opinion about Kyrie and I went 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.600 a different opinion. I had people telling me or Kauai. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.559 I had people saying what not too long ago? Kawai 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.120 is better than Lebron James Okay, I don't believe that, 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.080 but you know during the postseason he plays big. He 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.320 should Is he one of the great players. You keep 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:33.320 telling me that, Hey, Katie, now's his time. Well, yes, 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.880 now is his time. This is what great players do, 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.920 not man, do you see that performance by Paul George 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.680 who calls himself playoff pe Yeah, he played well. He 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:49.120 should play well. Hey, the Greek freak looked great. Bucks 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.520 aren't dead. The Greek freak should play well. It's when 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.920 somebody who you don't expect to play well plays well, 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:04.880 that's when you get recognition. Chris Paul okay, unbelievable, unbelievable performance. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.600 Talked about it this entire season. Now Chris can come 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.320 out and say, hey, people thought that I was washed. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:17.080 You know the Rockets, Chris, You're right, but you bounced 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:21.280 around to how many teams here? It's not just hey, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:25.120 the Rockets thought I was washed. You're a very good player. 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.640 You're a Hall of Famer. The thing that's missing from 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:32.280 your resume is winning. And that's what great players do. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.600 They win. And the Suns were the better team in 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:40.960 this series. The Nuggets were, you know, undermanned, without the 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.720 starting backcourt. They were not going to beat the Phoenix Suns. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:48.000 It got frustrating. Yesterday the Joker got tossed for a 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:52.760 hard foul and here is his head coach, Michael Malone 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.920 on the ejection. I don't know. I think it's something 0:08:55.960 --> 0:09:00.560 along the lines of wind up, malicious intent, some other 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:05.280 mumbo jumbo. But obviously, you know, you lose the MVP, 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.400 it's gonna make it even harder to try to stave 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.920 off elimination. I'm gonna guess when you say mumbo jumbo 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.120 that you don't agree with the call. I'm just I'm 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:22.640 gonna read between the lines here, mumbo jumbo. The wind 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.719 up is what looks really bad. Now he does hit 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:28.840 the ball, but he you know he hits Pain in 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:35.000 the face. Is it egregious? You're the MVP. You can't 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.720 put yourself in a position like that. You shouldn't be 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.840 the guy that's trying to change the energy. And that's 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.800 what the Joker talked about. Hey, I was trying to 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.959 change the energy there. You're not a hit man. You're 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:52.240 the MVP. It's a This is one of those where 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:56.839 you can say, normally the NBA with preferential treatment home court, 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:02.760 call star player. That didn't matter Joe Kitch getting tossed, 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.560 But you can't put yourself in a position like that. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.000 Would I have tossed him, No, I would have given 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.600 him a flagrant one. But you know, it's a wind 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.560 up there. It really looked like if he didn't hit 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.200 the ball, he wanted to make his statement and hit 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:22.880 Pain over the forearm there. Devin Booker went toe to 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.920 toe with the Joker and had this to say about 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.920 that scrum. I think, you know, it was just an 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.920 emotional play. You know, I don't think he made harm 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:33.640 by it after but you know, it was just a 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.560 frustration file. But you know it was it was tough 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:38.680 just defending my teammate. You know, that was it, but 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.719 I seen him go up to Cam after and apologize. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.640 And you know, I've played a units a joker multiple times. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.080 I know you know he's not a malicious player. The 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.240 last time an MVP got kicked out of a playoff 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.720 game was Steph Curry in twenty sixteen. I don't even 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.240 remember that, but I will say the joker. This goes 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:04.319 back to when Michael Malone said his team quit and 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.120 somebody asked the Joker after that game, hey, did you quit? No? 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.960 I didn't quit. I think this is the frustration to 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.480 build up there, and the Joker took it out on 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:20.400 Cameron Payne. Yeah, PAULI, Steph Curry got ejected. I had 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.000 to look it up. Game six of the two thousand 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.560 and sixty NBA Finals, he got his sixth personal file 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.760 and he threw his mouthpiece of frustration at the referee 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.040 and actually hit a fan. So he was gone anyway, 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:31.480 he was booted out of the game, but he got 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:38.600 technically ejected from the game. Okay, a mouthpiece game. Yeah, 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.120 So I don't know, if you know, the NBA looks 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.360 at this and says, you know, did they overreact in 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.240 the moment. It's a wind up big wind up, and 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.800 you know, you just can't put yourself in that position. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.760 That's it, because you can sit there and argue and go, 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:53.520 he shouldn't have been tossed. He shouldn't have been in 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.760 the situation to begin with. And if he does get tossed, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.400 then I'm gonna blame it on him. He put himself 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.080 in a position where you left it up to somebody 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.160 else to decide should you continue to play or not. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.240 Give credit to the Phoenix Suns. They played extremely well 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.600 and now they wait for the winner of the Utah 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:15.280 Jazz and the LA Clippers. What other poll questions do 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.480 we have to day mccleven. Okay, on that note, who's 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.560 coming out of the West, the Suns, the Jazz or 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.280 the Clippers sign And I'm asking that before the critical 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:27.120 Game four here with the Clippers. I don't know what 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.200 the heck's going on with that team. Yeah, I don't 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.640 know how to handicap the Clippers because when they I 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.679 don't count on them, they win. When I do count 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:42.280 on them, they don't win. Mike Conley not being able 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.800 to play for the Utah Jazz is still the big 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:49.520 piece missing for them. And if it's not this series 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.480 they'll definitely need him for the next series if they're 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.640 going to beat the Phoenix Suns. Yes, does this feel 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.800 more wide open than usual? Usually you say, oh, it's 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:00.520 gonna be Lebron and Curry and this the Jazz Suns. Yeah, 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.800 what is wide open? Because the Lakers aren't in it, 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.920 and if the Nets aren't in it, then you're going 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.160 to get some really interesting matchups here in the NBA 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.640 Finals that you did not expect. Is that good or 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.160 bad for the NBA? I think you want to have stars. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.920 This is I liken it to March Madness, where you go, oh, 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.520 these upsets are cute, and then you get to the 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.360 final four, the Elite eight, and then you want you 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.040 want the blue bloods in there, unless you have a 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.080 team like Butler. Like if Butler gets to the finals, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.000 I want them to win. I want Butler to win 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.520 the title, not get there and not win. You know, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.560 have that Cinderella story. But for the most part, it 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.319 feels like we get we like the cute little matchups 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.880 and upsets, and then after that you go, Okay, now 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.520 I need a great team to win the National Championship. Yeah. 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.600 I think the Suns feel lovable. My kids know Chris 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.920 Paul from the State Farm commercials, all the different commercials. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.400 They don't know him as a basketball player if they 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.720 don't from commercials. I think the Suns are likable or 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:01.520 lovable and Devin Booker dates the Kardashian You go yeah, uh. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.880 Other than that, Barkley, Can Barkley come back to some stuff? Yeah, 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.199 I'm a club. I think some other teams. I think 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.160 the Bucks would be lovable. But I don't know if PJ. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.600 Tucker the way he's playing as lovable or No, that's 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.520 that's not a lovable team. No, no, not where the 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.360 nation's gonna go. Let me wrap my arms around the Bucks. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.560 Trey Young could be lovable. He could be a cute 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.600 little guy. 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Well 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.840 I said the Bucks at the start of the playoffs, 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.960 so I'll stay with that, even though I don't know 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.920 what to expect from them. But I'll say Bucks because 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.680 that's who I went with to start in the West. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.680 I thought the Lakers would come out, but if not, 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.240 I thought the Utah Jazz We're going to be the 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.440 team to beat. So I'll stay with Utah right now. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.680 But what we've seen with the Phoenix Suns, I'd be 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.600 hard pressed to go against them. I know the Clippers 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.120 are the X factor, but you know, it's just a 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.560 big question mark. I just I don't know what to 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:44.560 expect there. I wouldn't want to bet on them, but 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.560 it's one of those that you bet against them and 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:50.440 then they prove you wrong. You have two really good players, 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.640 I just don't know if they're gonna I don't know 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.880 if Paul George is going to be a really good player. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.120 Great player consistently. I know Kauhi Will and then I 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.840 don't know about the role players. I just have no 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.920 idea at all. All right, let's see age seven seven 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.840 three D P show email address DP dan Patrick dot com. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.720 One of the great nicknames in NBA history. He is 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.000 a three D Dennis Scott one of the great deep 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:18.080 shooters in NBA history. Part of Turner's Sports NBA Analysts, 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:23.359 Who who gave you that nickname? Three d? Uh? Down 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:28.040 in Orlando, Paul Porter, PA announcer. We're playing against the 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.280 San Antonio Spurs in the preseason game. I came down 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.800 hit the three in a corner. He said, great. Scott said, well, 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.000 that's what they called me a Georgia tech. And I 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.760 came down and get hit another three, he said, Thinness Scott, 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.359 And then I made three three, And I think in 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.160 a minute in the head, who goes, wait a minute, 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.440 three D. I kind of looked over, but I said, 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.920 all right, like that history. But when you missed those 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.160 shots in the game, did you ever get somebody to say, oh, yeah, 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.680 three D. Of course you hit a look at that 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.680 from a few fans on the road, and you love it. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.920 But then he've been known me a long time, all 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:06.920 of us great shoes in a mindset, if he missed 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.560 two or three, we always believe the next one's going in. 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.120 All right, let's look at some of this action here. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.640 How much pressure is on Kevin Durant now, given Kyrie's 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.920 availability and ne James Harden. I don't know if it's pressure. 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.399 I don't know if it's desperation, because we all know 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.280 now if you're not healthy in the playoffs and you 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.960 don't have your best players, it's hard to beat people. 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.600 And Durant, we know how he wears his emotions on 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.800 his sleeve, so he's gonna try to do everything possible 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.200 to try to carry this team, which I think you 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.400 need to take a step back and empower his teammates 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.439 around him with leadership and say, hey, guys, I'm not 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.240 gonna try to get sixty, Yes, maybe forty, but I 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.040 need to get ten fifteen assists like James Harden does. 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.199 Get you guys involved. Let's play good team defense and 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.520 maybe we can hold on to Kyrie or James Harden 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:58.240 get healthy. What do you think of the Buck's defensive strategy? 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.280 Are they going over the top with their physicality here? No, 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:06.240 they're not. You have to take offensive players out of 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.280 their comfort zone. We know Kyle Reid's a great player. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.640 We know James Harden's a great player. We know Kadi's 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.560 one of the best scores we ever see it. But 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:15.560 you have to be physical with them and take them 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.640 out of their comfort zone and take them and make 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.440 them do things they're not used to. Kevin Durant is 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.040 not used to a guy named PJ. Tucker just all 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.960 in his face. He's smaller, but he's stronger. And that's 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.000 the physicality you're talking about, Dan, How do they let 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:35.639 Kevin Durant's bodyguard on the court? I think the whole 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:40.000 situation with the fans personal security, they're not on the 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.800 same page. Then. I don't mind players having extra security. 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.879 They deserve it. I don't mind the arena's beefing up 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.760 extra security for the playoffs, but we all have to 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.080 be on the same page and know who is who. 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.240 Come to find out, some people didn't know that that 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.119 was the rant security with that James Harden security. We 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:58.680 didn't know who it was. We just knows the guy 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.119 that was dressed up real big, trying to do the 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:04.200 right thing, but he didn't I'm glad he didn't go overboard. 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:06.720 Could you ever have an incident like that where somebody's 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.240 on the floor and you don't know who it is 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.920 and why they're on the floor. It was one time 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.040 in Phoenix, because you know, I was playing with Shaq. 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.600 Everywhere we went, something crazy would happen and then this, 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.520 you know this guy Ram Shack, Shack, I love you, 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:24.840 and of course security said get out of here. Shack 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:29.600 was crazy. The stories I hear about Shack young Shack 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.399 at practice like he would he would run out with 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.840 just his shoes on. Is that is that true? Just 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:42.520 his shoes and his birthday suit. You're not gonna take 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:48.200 a charge from him. No, you're like, I'm not taking 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.679 the jar of birthday soon. Oh what a goofballum? Should 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.840 would you have tossed the joker? I would have not 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:58.280 have tossed the Joker. I understand the rules. I understand 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:00.840 what Adam Silver and the Brand Trust is trying to 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.240 do is to keep the game come. But we know 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.280 that Joker was not trying to aim for cam S face. 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:08.200 We know he was trying to do a hard foul. 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:10.600 If he gets the ball, gets the steal, where where 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.320 you go, oh my god, great steel about the Joker. 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.160 He's trying to get back in the ball game. It's 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:17.840 an unfortunate situation. I don't want fans to put a 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.880 you know, a smear over his MVP season off one 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:24.080 little small instent that it wasn't that serious about him. Yeah. 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.920 I think it was how it looked though, Dennis, and 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:31.080 he was frustrated. You got his coach who's calling out 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.120 his own teams, saying they quit, and I think it's 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:37.040 probably the Jokers saying let me, let me try to 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:40.560 make something happen. My point is, you're the MVP. You 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.359 can't be in a position to all of a sudden 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.560 to have a hard foul on somebody. You can't risk that. 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:49.280 And that's my problem with it. And what I have 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:52.000 tossed him? No, but he put himself in a position 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:55.800 where he got tossed, and I blamed him for that. Yeah. 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.040 I think that's a great learning the experience for him. 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.840 Now he's turned that corn to be a true superstar 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:03.080 because the last couple of years, so many people didn't 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:05.199 want to give him his flow, his flowers as we say, 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:08.040 or excuse me, his roses as they stay. Why helive 0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:11.159