Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Final Hour. On this Tuesday, we'll talk to
Speaker 1: Reggie Miller the whole of Famer, get his thoughts off
Speaker 1: last night's action. Lakers roll the Blazers up three games
Speaker 1: to one. Everything's good, everything's fine, nothing to see here.
Speaker 1: Right as the Lakers get ready to put away the Blazers,
Speaker 1: Jazz Nuggets Game five tonight, Maverick's Clippers Game five, another
Speaker 1: reason to watch. We have a wheel of punishment on
Speaker 1: the line. I'm taking Luca don Chick to have less
Speaker 1: than twenty nine points tonight against the Clippers, and there's
Speaker 1: a pie to the face at stake. All four Danettes
Speaker 1: are taking the over with Luca don Chick, and if
Speaker 1: they lose, all four of the Dannets get a pie
Speaker 1: to the face. So we'll talk to Reggie about that.
Speaker 1: Here's Lebron James on playing close out games, which they're
Speaker 1: going to have with the Blazers. Now, Lakers up three
Speaker 1: games to one. It's the hardest game because you know
Speaker 1: the team that you're playing with our desk and they're
Speaker 1: planning all you know, they will give you everything that
Speaker 1: they got because they know they can be you know,
Speaker 1: sent home and Damian Lillard's got to get started sooner
Speaker 1: if he's going to be healthy enough. Because they were
Speaker 1: down twenty four and he hit his first three of
Speaker 1: the night, his first basket of the night. I think
Speaker 1: it was thirty eight to fourteen. Speaking of a score,
Speaker 1: Lebron James looked up and saw the score was twenty
Speaker 1: four to eight, and of course this was where they
Speaker 1: wore their Kobe Bryant Mamba jerseys and couldn't help but
Speaker 1: think twenty four and eight, the two jersey numbers that
Speaker 1: Kobe wore. I did notice that we were up twenty
Speaker 1: four to eight because I'm always trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on throughout the course of the game. I'm
Speaker 1: always looking if we're out, if we're down, what's the
Speaker 1: team files and all of that nature. And when I
Speaker 1: looked up there and seeing twenty four to eight, I
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this is he's here in the building. So,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a beautiful knife Far franchise and
Speaker 1: it's something that we would probably always remember. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was special. Brought to smile on my face when I
Speaker 1: just saw twenty four eight, and I just kind of grinned.
Speaker 1: But it was over early. The Lakers played inspired basketball there.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was in large part or at least some
Speaker 1: part to Kobe Bryant in honoring him. So Jazz Nuggets
Speaker 1: Game five, Mavericks in the Clippers Game five, and you
Speaker 1: start to wonder about what happened with the thunder beating
Speaker 1: the Rockets last night. They tied that series at two
Speaker 1: games apiece. You know the ramifications, the repercussions that are
Speaker 1: going to happen if the Rockets don't advance. Mike D'Antoni
Speaker 1: is not coming back. Mike d'antoni's probably not coming back
Speaker 1: if they don't get to the Western Conference once again.
Speaker 1: We watch the Rockets, and we watch a team that
Speaker 1: lives and dies with the three. And when they live,
Speaker 1: it's spectacular. When they die, it's still spectacular. They missed
Speaker 1: twenty three to twenty five during one stretch there, and
Speaker 1: I got to ask Reggie Miller about this. At some point,
Speaker 1: I have to either rest James Harden or maybe we
Speaker 1: just go for a layup. This is a team that
Speaker 1: miss twenty seven consecutive threes in the playoffs before. I
Speaker 1: gotta get something that breaks the ice here. But James
Speaker 1: Harden looks spent. Damian Lillard looks spent, And I can
Speaker 1: understand Dame being spent because they had to do everything
Speaker 1: they could just to get into the playoffs. James Harden,
Speaker 1: we've seen this before playoff time and the over reliance
Speaker 1: on him. No, Russell Westbrook here, and I give Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City a lot of credit. Yeah, they hung in there
Speaker 1: and pulled out the wind to tie this series at
Speaker 1: two games apiece. Here's James Harden on the good and
Speaker 1: the bad of last night. We're straight away from it
Speaker 1: on both ends of the ball. And obviously, so you know,
Speaker 1: we don't score the basketball and we don't get back defensively,
Speaker 1: they score, they go on their run. Obviously, you know
Speaker 1: teams are gonna make runs. But it's the way they
Speaker 1: made their run. You know, we weren't getting our shots
Speaker 1: that we want to offensively and defensively, weren't you know,
Speaker 1: Asti Gus our principals in so it was a disaster
Speaker 1: on both kids. Here's the number to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: Free throws. Free throws attempted by the Rockets. They attempted
Speaker 1: ten free throws, Harden, I'll have that. At halftime. They
Speaker 1: got to attempt at least twenty free throws. But if
Speaker 1: you're just going to be shooting the threes in Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City knows that, you know, lay off of them, don't
Speaker 1: foul them when they're shooting threes. And that's what happened
Speaker 1: last night. The Heat sweep the Pacers. I have no
Speaker 1: idea how good the Heat are, but I do enjoy
Speaker 1: watching them. I said this in the first hour, and
Speaker 1: some people reacted. Eric Spolster is going to be a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame coach when it's all said and done.
Speaker 1: He's going to go to the Hall of Fame. And
Speaker 1: he's done a great job with this team, with pat
Speaker 1: Riley and some of the pieces they brought in, and
Speaker 1: they look this is an outmann Pacers team. But still
Speaker 1: the Heat are fun to watch. Bucks over the Magic.
Speaker 1: They're up three games to one, and as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: Thunder over the Rockets. A couple of phone calls in
Speaker 1: here to ask this, and I'm gonna ask Reggie this
Speaker 1: the most watchable team in the East right now? Is it?
Speaker 1: The Bucks? Raptors Celtics are the Heat because the Bucks
Speaker 1: are playing the early game, and that tells you an
Speaker 1: awful lot. When's the last time you had an MVP
Speaker 1: who wasn't put in prime time during the playoffs. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's happened, but you know, Lebron has won
Speaker 1: a few of the Russell Westbrook James Harden, but you know,
Speaker 1: with the Greek freak as great as he is, the
Speaker 1: Bucks just aren't musty TV. The Raptors, I think are
Speaker 1: a really good team, but I think you have to
Speaker 1: be a basketball ficionado to go I'm gonna tune in
Speaker 1: and watch the Raptors. They're well coached, They're a really
Speaker 1: good team. Celtics, I think are probably the most interesting
Speaker 1: team because Tatum and Brown and Kemba and you know,
Speaker 1: Brad Stevens good coach Celtics with their tradition. And then
Speaker 1: I think guy went Celtics heat Raptors, Bucks as far
Speaker 1: as who is the most interesting watchable team in the East.
Speaker 1: And I know it's painful to hear, but if you're Milwaukee,
Speaker 1: who cares? Just win? It's the same thing with the Raptors, Like,
Speaker 1: who's going to tune in to watch the Raptors? Last year? Oh,
Speaker 1: is anybody gonna watch the Raptors in the finals? And
Speaker 1: I went, who cares? If you're a Raptors fan, just
Speaker 1: win the damn thing. I don't care who's watching. I'd
Speaker 1: rather say, hey, you should have watched, look at what
Speaker 1: you missed. And if that's the case with the Bucks,
Speaker 1: go out there and win it, shut everybody out else up.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll be a tune in factor next year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: MC club. If Kawai and the Clippers lose this round
Speaker 1: and the Raptors go far, is that sort of water
Speaker 1: down with Kawai did last year in a weird way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and has too, Like I can't trumpet him as he's
Speaker 1: now the best player in the game. And then if
Speaker 1: they would ball out against Dallas, Dallas could ease, they
Speaker 1: could be up three games to one. They could And
Speaker 1: nobody wanted to buy into Dallas beating the Clippers upsetting
Speaker 1: the Clippers because there was no juice there. Everybody was
Speaker 1: focused on Portland upsetting the Lakers and all, what's that
Speaker 1: mean to Lebron? Well, if Lebron's legacy is at stake here,
Speaker 1: then so is Kawi's, and certainly so is Paul George's.
Speaker 1: Paul George pick up a white courtesy FUNE And I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's injured, that would be My first question,
Speaker 1: is there something going on there? Because he hasn't been
Speaker 1: good at either end of the floor, and I would
Speaker 1: expect him to at least be great on the defensive end.
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier in the show, Earl Thomas is not
Speaker 1: going to the Cowboys per Ian Rappaport report. I don't
Speaker 1: know who is going to be buying for his services.
Speaker 1: Have you seen mcleven other teams? I know that we
Speaker 1: love to throw Dallas out there because they're the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and you get clickbait. I actually haven't I seen if
Speaker 1: you're in trouble, Dallas is interested in you, Seattle right
Speaker 1: coming back? Now, I can't. I can't imagine. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe Pete Carroll says, hey, let's bring Earl Thomas back
Speaker 1: and he can help Jamal Adams, Like I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: Is Earl Thomas that good where I'm going to possibly
Speaker 1: potentially disrupt my locker room? The answer is no. Now,
Speaker 1: if there's an injury, that's different. But it's like Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: risk reward ain't worth the risk, and then I throw
Speaker 1: in Age and I would say no, But then who's
Speaker 1: gonna want to bring him in? And is this a pattern?
Speaker 1: That's going to happen continue when he goes to another team. Yeah, mccleman,
Speaker 1: I did read the Jets as one team because they
Speaker 1: lost Jamaal Adams bringing it, But I don't are they
Speaker 1: They're like caught between are they rebuilding or are they what?
Speaker 1: I don't know if they know what they're doing. I
Speaker 1: don't the Jets, and I feel bad for Sam Darnold
Speaker 1: because I think we're gonna find out how good he
Speaker 1: is after he leaves the Jets. I got it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's just you look at some of these
Speaker 1: teams and you say, like, what the Packers did to
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers to me as criminal, I mean not literally criminal,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna look back on this and you're gonna go,
Speaker 1: they didn't supply so one of the great quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the history of the game. And then you almost said,
Speaker 1: let's give him degree of difficulty. We shouldn't give him
Speaker 1: a first round wide receiver, you know, and they haven't.
Speaker 1: And then you draft another running back, and then you
Speaker 1: draft a fullback and you Okay, you're gonna have one
Speaker 1: title to show for Aaron Rodgers tenure there and one
Speaker 1: title to show for Brett Farves tenure there, and it
Speaker 1: felt like if you said Green Bay had CD Lamb,
Speaker 1: let's just say they got CD Lamb. How different would
Speaker 1: you feel about the Green Bay Packers going into this year?
Speaker 1: Just that move right there, and could they have Ceedee?
Speaker 1: Lamb was already taken. Wasn't he mcleven by the Cowboys? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He went seventeen? I believe? Okay, so was Henry Ruggs
Speaker 1: available or he was? Remember Henry Ruggs went first? Oh,
Speaker 1: he was the first, but there were other wide receivers.
Speaker 1: It was the best wide was supposed to be one
Speaker 1: of the best wide receiver drafts ever. Yes, and all rounds,
Speaker 1: not just the first round. My source, who's the scout,
Speaker 1: said there is a receiver, a quality receiver his words,
Speaker 1: a quality receiver for every team in this draft. And
Speaker 1: somehow the Packers didn't get one. But if they had
Speaker 1: somebody like that, how different would you feel about the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers this year? I would certainly look at
Speaker 1: them on the short list of you know, winning it all? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Mclement total devil's advocate. Though what they did last year
Speaker 1: kind of worked, weren't they thirteen and three? Oh? That
Speaker 1: was a spoken mirrors they made NFC Title Game. It's
Speaker 1: like a Titan. They're like the Titans, right, so they
Speaker 1: run the ball. Okay, So then you bring in another
Speaker 1: running back, yeah, with huge thighs. Right. And if so,
Speaker 1: if they're that close, if I use your logic, McLevin,
Speaker 1: then why don't you get somebody who helps you this
Speaker 1: upcoming season instead of a guy who's supposed to help
Speaker 1: you in three years at the earliest. Oh that's a
Speaker 1: great question, right man. DeAndre Hopkins? Right, I would give
Speaker 1: up that first pick get DeAndre Hopkins. Maybe you have
Speaker 1: to give up a little bit more. So, Yeah, DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins and Aaron Rodgers and I got a great running back.
Speaker 1: So then it feels like you're even closer to getting
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl. Instead you're farther away because we're
Speaker 1: taking Jordan Love. We couldn't pounce up on it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Can you do some sniffing around and find out it
Speaker 1: was DeAndre Hopkins? Really on the open market? Does every
Speaker 1: team know that they could have given a second rounder
Speaker 1: for him? Mccloven. I came in here one day after
Speaker 1: talking to somebody and they said it's an open secret
Speaker 1: in Houston that Bill O'Brien is going to trade DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: There was not a question. He was not coming back
Speaker 1: from what I was told. So if I knew it,
Speaker 1: then I'm going to guess these other gms would not.
Speaker 1: And then how many teams kicked the tires on DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins and said we'll give you two first round picks
Speaker 1: for him? Green Bay would have Gladden? Well, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I give up two late first round picks
Speaker 1: for DeAndre Hopkins? Well, what's it ended up being a
Speaker 1: mid second round? Yeah? I know, didn't even first I
Speaker 1: thought you had to give up two first round picks.
Speaker 1: You didn't have to give up that, Yeah, Paul, does
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien know you don't have to take the first
Speaker 1: offer thirty teams? Yeah, you can get the phone bills,
Speaker 1: you know, don't call everybody. It's like when somebody offers
Speaker 1: you something on your house. Okay, we'll take it. Remember
Speaker 1: Chris Farley, Okay, Okay, they wouldn't buy from him. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pass in a par Okay, Okay, all right?
Speaker 1: Then Michael and Florida joins us. Reggie Miller will join us,
Speaker 1: coming up in about five minutes. Hey Mike, Hey Dan,
Speaker 1: how are you today, Good sir, what's on your mind?
Speaker 1: I switched over to Peacock finally today, So congratulations, good
Speaker 1: platform as well. Thank you. I called. I called some
Speaker 1: weeks back, not to uh, not to bring up coming
Speaker 1: back from the dead, but a couple of weeks I
Speaker 1: called back, and I was trying to give you guys
Speaker 1: some extra love for the Emmy award. And I know unfortunate,
Speaker 1: I know, unfortunately this year did not go your way.
Speaker 1: What I did want to say, though, is your reaction
Speaker 1: was epic and the reason the reason I loved it
Speaker 1: so much was you know, you only have your type
Speaker 1: of reaction when you have the amount of passion that
Speaker 1: you put into this show. So as a fan, to
Speaker 1: see that passion, to see your reaction is the exact
Speaker 1: reason why I listened to you guys on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Thank you, Michael. Look, I'm honest
Speaker 1: with my passion of making this show great and having
Speaker 1: eyeballs on it and wanting the Danats to get a
Speaker 1: Sports Emmy. It hurts. It does last year the year before, Man,
Speaker 1: that stays with you. And then my reaction and this
Speaker 1: is why I said, look, you're gonna get we were
Speaker 1: having a watch party a watch us lose the Sports Emmy.
Speaker 1: So I was letting you watch me. This is how
Speaker 1: I would act if I wasn't there. If I was there,
Speaker 1: I would have been probably far more professional than I was.
Speaker 1: But it hurt. I was with the Danats. We are
Speaker 1: having fun. We had a party, and that was it.
Speaker 1: But I knew that that was what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: I just knew. But you know, it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: you still don't strive for that every year. And it's important.
Speaker 1: Who's the most bothered by not winning a Sports Emmy.
Speaker 1: On the other side, apparently nobody's bothered by this loo
Speaker 1: I still can't talk about it. Yes, what's going on
Speaker 1: money here? I'm very bothered by it. But you put
Speaker 1: an interesting spending it, like the whole lovable Losers thing
Speaker 1: that maybe somehow somewhere I know I said it, but
Speaker 1: I do that as a defense mechanism. It's bad for
Speaker 1: our brand if we win. I'm just saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to brace the fall. I've never heard of that.
Speaker 1: What's that one show that's brand really suffered by winning
Speaker 1: multiple Emmy Awards? Like you know what? It was so
Speaker 1: good that's why it really dropped off. That's why they
Speaker 1: kept winning all those Emmy's. Look at Bob Constus brand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's toll and off, yeah, plummeting. Yeah, look
Speaker 1: at my brand, don't you Guys? Like I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a dumb award anywhere that day, Like you immediately
Speaker 1: like your brain says, oh, we didn't care. Like that's
Speaker 1: how I That's how I had to go instead of
Speaker 1: being upset being like, oh, draw luck in the draw.
Speaker 1: All right, well, Reggie Miller old cheers up. We'll take
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Speaker 1: Famer joining us on the program. Stepped Outside of the Bubble,
Speaker 1: It goes back into the bubble Bubble coming up on Monday,
Speaker 1: and he joins us on the program. Good Morning reg
Speaker 1: How are you good morning, theod or in my Dan Netts?
Speaker 1: How are you guys doing? We're doing okay. We're trying
Speaker 1: to process here what the Lakers are They they got
Speaker 1: everything figured out. Now we're all good. Nothing to see here.
Speaker 1: We move on to the second round false alarm. How
Speaker 1: ball movement and actually the ball goes in the nets
Speaker 1: for these role players, how they start puffing out their chest,
Speaker 1: they get more active defensively. But again, you and I
Speaker 1: we've talked about this for weeks now. When Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: plays at a certain level, he takes his team to
Speaker 1: a different level. And I think we're seeing that because
Speaker 1: the role players playoff because he is the one player
Speaker 1: and Lebron at times, don't get me wrong, every time
Speaker 1: they touched the basketball is going to command a double team.
Speaker 1: So Caruso and Casey Pe and Morris, Danny Green, all
Speaker 1: these guys feet off those wide open shots. When they're
Speaker 1: knocking down shots, then this team is tough to beat
Speaker 1: because then Lebron has all these open lanes to get
Speaker 1: all the way to the hole and finish, which we've
Speaker 1: been seeing the last two ball games and Portland we
Speaker 1: talked about this, so I didn't know if they would
Speaker 1: come in on an emotional high, which I think they
Speaker 1: did in that first game, But now it looks like
Speaker 1: they're they're on fumes, they're spend a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're running out of gas, and unless Dame and CJ
Speaker 1: has a big game, because to me, I've always thought
Speaker 1: the Blazers have a better supporting cast in terms of
Speaker 1: Nurkic White side Carmelo. You know, Carmelo's had moments, you know,
Speaker 1: during the restart. To me, I think they have a
Speaker 1: better supporting cast, but they have spent so much energy
Speaker 1: just to get that aided seed, and then you know
Speaker 1: that playing scenario with Memphis, Dame has been unbelievable. He
Speaker 1: was the bubble MVP. Don't get me wrong, right, You're right,
Speaker 1: I think right now, unless he has a huge game,
Speaker 1: this series is arguably over. The Clippers game plan for
Speaker 1: tonight against Luca is what or should be what Lucas
Speaker 1: is going to be Luca and Luca's going to get
Speaker 1: his numbers. I think it's almost like with Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: You've got to stop everyone else. It's the heart array,
Speaker 1: Trey Burkes, Seth Curry, those guys are the ones who
Speaker 1: are really beating you. I mean they did this. Granted,
Speaker 1: a phenomenal shot by Luca, an unbelievable triple double by him,
Speaker 1: but it's those other guys when he penetrates and collapse
Speaker 1: the defense and finding those spot up threes in the corners.
Speaker 1: To me, that's what's hurting the Clippers. And again they've
Speaker 1: got to get I know, this is like a broken record.
Speaker 1: Where's Paul George? Where is Paul George? And look, you
Speaker 1: give your name. If you're gonna give yourself playoff Bee
Speaker 1: the nickname, you gotta show up in the playoffs, right,
Speaker 1: I mean playoff Paul right has to show up in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and he has it. Lou Williams has been good,
Speaker 1: Quiet has been fantastic, but that set the piece has
Speaker 1: to be Paul George. Once Lucas shot a good shot though, Reggie, No,
Speaker 1: that was no, it wasn't And it wasn't a lucky
Speaker 1: shot too, because he shoots that all the time. But
Speaker 1: it was a bad shot made by a great player.
Speaker 1: And I attempted and made a lot of those bad
Speaker 1: shots because he practices those, and I think he'll get
Speaker 1: better in time. But if you're Reggie Jackson, who was
Speaker 1: switched out on him because if you look at the play,
Speaker 1: Kawai initially started on him and it was a down screen,
Speaker 1: and what you're supposed to do is switch like for like,
Speaker 1: size for size, which they did. But if you're Reggie Jackson,
Speaker 1: you will live with a step back what was at
Speaker 1: thirty five forty footer you'll live with that. Who created
Speaker 1: the step back I have no idea, but it was
Speaker 1: probably my best go to louve. I adopted it from
Speaker 1: Kiki Vanderway learned it at UCLA. We worked on this shot,
Speaker 1: I am not kidding you, two to three hours a day.
Speaker 1: So he shot. He showed me how to step back left,
Speaker 1: step back right. Now, in today's game, those guys take
Speaker 1: it to James Harden takes it to a different level
Speaker 1: with the steps. I wish I could have done that.
Speaker 1: Ours was a little bit more traditional, couple of dribbles
Speaker 1: and just creating that separation. Lucas is phenomenal because he
Speaker 1: has a great handle and flow to it, but it
Speaker 1: was an unbelievable shot. It was a bad shot but
Speaker 1: made by a great player, so that kind of lessens
Speaker 1: the odds a little bit. And then Kobe borrowed it
Speaker 1: from you the step back right, I taught him. I
Speaker 1: mean this dude, asked me. But when you knew that
Speaker 1: you're already giving one of the top scores in the game.
Speaker 1: He wasn't then. He was a kid. He was a
Speaker 1: pump kid, say with a pump little kid. Do you
Speaker 1: remember do you remember that day when you talked? We
Speaker 1: were shooting a segment or show for the Real World
Speaker 1: if you remember that back on MTV, and it was
Speaker 1: he and I versus the Real World cast and if
Speaker 1: we want they had to do like silly chores, like
Speaker 1: you know, we went to the h We got a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of dogs from a shelter and they had
Speaker 1: to go wash them and do errands for us whatever,
Speaker 1: And we knew we were gonna be So it was
Speaker 1: us two versus like ten people. And Kobe's like, I
Speaker 1: want to destroy him. I want to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: it was fun. He's like, no, I want to destroy
Speaker 1: these kids. I'm like, all right, whatever, let's go after them.
Speaker 1: So in the downtime, while we were waiting for them
Speaker 1: to come back, He's like, do you want to play
Speaker 1: one on one? I'm like, dude, I'm like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play you one on one. You know, I was thirty,
Speaker 1: he was nineteen, eighteen nineteen. He's like, well, show me
Speaker 1: that step back mo that you I gotta know this
Speaker 1: step back move. I was like, okay, well, I'll show
Speaker 1: you that step back move. You show me that crossover
Speaker 1: because I love I've always loved just crossovers. He's like, sure, okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm showing him the step back left. Okay, you
Speaker 1: want the guy on your left hand side right, look
Speaker 1: at his feet. When his feet start to crossover, that's
Speaker 1: when you step back. He's like, okay, but how you
Speaker 1: do it the other way? I was like, okay, when
Speaker 1: you get the balls in your left hand, he had
Speaker 1: his waist. If he's leaning this way, take a couple
Speaker 1: of steps back and raise up. There's no way. And
Speaker 1: when he does recover, he's gonna value because he's gonna
Speaker 1: be going for your risks. I was like, so show
Speaker 1: me that crossover. He's like, what are you talking about.
Speaker 1: Never showed me the crossover. Showed me the crossover. Here,
Speaker 1: I am giving away my prize. Stet that move and
Speaker 1: then low and behold what was that year? Two years
Speaker 1: later in the finals, this dude is giving me my
Speaker 1: own move to me, what an idiot I was idiot.
Speaker 1: We're talking to Red Millner, the Hall of Famer. He'll
Speaker 1: be back in the bubble starting next week. If the
Speaker 1: Rockets lose this series. Dot dot dot. I could easily
Speaker 1: see Mike D'Antoni moving on. There's some very favorable job openings.
Speaker 1: But is it the roster or is it the coach? Well,
Speaker 1: the coach is always the first to go. Ask Brett
Speaker 1: Brown that right, he had all that talent. I know
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons did not play because of the injury, but
Speaker 1: he still had talent, still had Tobias Harris and Joel
Speaker 1: n b and you with those two teams, two guys
Speaker 1: on the team, you shouldn't be swept. So the coach
Speaker 1: is always the first to go. And I think Mike
Speaker 1: D'Antoni and this system, like this system for the Rockets
Speaker 1: was built to put up a lot of numbers or
Speaker 1: James Harden and Westbrook who has not played obviously, and
Speaker 1: they're undersized, so they're always gonna get killed on the
Speaker 1: boars and they're just going to try to outscore you.
Speaker 1: But which the difference though, Redge with Golden State in
Speaker 1: the Rockets in their philosophy. They play defense. Golden State
Speaker 1: plays defense. Okay, okay, right, they have great shooters, but
Speaker 1: Draymond Greene and I know Tucker is a defensive minded
Speaker 1: guy in Austin Rivers and all that. But as a whole,
Speaker 1: those teams played defense. They were top ten in offense
Speaker 1: and top ten in defense during those championship runs. And
Speaker 1: you got Clay Thompson as well. If if you could
Speaker 1: have the Nets opening the Pelicans opening of the seventy
Speaker 1: sixers opening as a head coach, who I'd probably go
Speaker 1: with Brooklyn because you have Kyrie and Katie. Do you
Speaker 1: think Popovich is actually interested in that jump? Is he interested?
Speaker 1: Or well, they're interested in him? Yeah? But do you
Speaker 1: think could you see Popovich in Brooklyn with Kyrie? I
Speaker 1: could because I think they have a relationship from Team USA. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that's they're probably kind of looking at
Speaker 1: a guy that's Juan Championships. I know Tyler's name is
Speaker 1: in the mix. I hope my man Mark Jackson's name
Speaker 1: is being floated around for some of these some of
Speaker 1: these gigs as well. All three spots are very desirable
Speaker 1: New Orleans with a very young nucleus. The only question mark,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is Zion and how he's going to
Speaker 1: come back. When does the season start to get first
Speaker 1: of all next season and is he gonna come back
Speaker 1: and shape and how many games can we get out
Speaker 1: of him? But what about Lonzo ball redg No, No,
Speaker 1: I mean now I'm hearing that maybe they're gonna try
Speaker 1: to trade him. I thought that this was the perfect
Speaker 1: place for it was and I still think it is.
Speaker 1: I think he had a bad run, I really do.
Speaker 1: I think he has potential. Everyone keeps saying he's going
Speaker 1: to be an All Star type player. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's going to be an All Star type player, but
Speaker 1: I think he could be a very solid contributor because
Speaker 1: of his skill set, his size, being able to run
Speaker 1: the floor. It's just the shooting. The shooting that's failed him.
Speaker 1: Before the stoppage in the restart, he was shooting the
Speaker 1: ball fantastic. I don't know if the layoff affected him,
Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, was not able to find that shot.
Speaker 1: But New Orleans, Philly, Brooklyn, Chicago, Chicago's another un team,
Speaker 1: great city, you know, if you can it's cold there,
Speaker 1: but it's a great city and you can revive that.
Speaker 1: So there's there's four spots that are very desirable if
Speaker 1: you're a head coach. Most watchable team in the East, Bucks, Raptors,
Speaker 1: Celtics Heat. I would probably go with Wow, that could
Speaker 1: be your final four two, which would be awesome. I
Speaker 1: would go see Miami's fun to watch because they are
Speaker 1: casting a lot of threes, Duncan, Robinson, Tyler Hero, I
Speaker 1: like the toughness of Bam Auto Bio and obviously Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler well coached. They're a fun team to watch. It's
Speaker 1: a different style from when you saw the winning championships
Speaker 1: with Lebron and d Wade, and they're just tough. They're
Speaker 1: top defensively. You know what you're gonna get with Jannis
Speaker 1: and that team. Hey, look Boston and what Tatum and
Speaker 1: Brown have done in the absence of Gordon Hayward and
Speaker 1: Kimba seems to have found his game now. You can
Speaker 1: pick a team, rege. The most watchable team in the
Speaker 1: East is just because they swept my Pacers. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the Miami Heat and that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun matchup in the second round between Miami and Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: I picked the Celtics one Heat to raptors three bucks four.
Speaker 1: I tell you this, I would not be surprised if
Speaker 1: Toronto ends up winning the East. I think I said
Speaker 1: that last week. People keep sleeping on them. They're the
Speaker 1: defending champs for reason, and they play a certain style
Speaker 1: and those guys know one another. So it's not going
Speaker 1: to surprise me if Toronto wins the East. I think,
Speaker 1: in fact, I think they have the clear advantage over
Speaker 1: those four teams you mentioned because they know how to
Speaker 1: win in crunch time and Fred van Blee has been
Speaker 1: fantastic in this restock for them. When Bird was your
Speaker 1: coaching in the end, did you guys ever have shooting content? Now?
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask him, but I didn't want to
Speaker 1: lose to him as well, because I knew he was
Speaker 1: just wait, do you think he would have shot? No,
Speaker 1: that just wasn't this thing. His very first year was
Speaker 1: probably his one year because he was doing a lot
Speaker 1: of running. Then the next two years, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: he wasn't as active in terms of shooting. Now, he
Speaker 1: took money from Jonathan Bender, Al Harrington and the rookies
Speaker 1: because they were dumb enough not you know, I at
Speaker 1: least knew Larry Legend and having faced the Celtics and
Speaker 1: God against him. These dudes were puppies and we're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Larry Legend, Yeah, we'll play a horse
Speaker 1: against you. I'm like, dude, are you serious? And yeah,
Speaker 1: so he would take money off the rookies. Did you
Speaker 1: celebrate your birthday yesterday? I did nice and quiet, nice
Speaker 1: bike ride solo and the rest was spent with the family.
Speaker 1: It's interesting as you get older and then your wife,
Speaker 1: because what do you want for your birthday? Like, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, a nap, maybe I maybe I get
Speaker 1: to be by myself today or something like that. When
Speaker 1: you got a little one, that was it my two things.
Speaker 1: I was like time number one on one time time
Speaker 1: on the bike. So she gave me time on the
Speaker 1: bike and she's like, well, what do you want for
Speaker 1: your birthday? And I was like, wow, um, I need underwear.
Speaker 1: So I got my birthday. Are you surprised that Montrese
Speaker 1: Herald didn't get fined by the league after be back
Speaker 1: and forth. I know a lot of things get set
Speaker 1: on the floor there, Redge, but that doesn't mean it's
Speaker 1: right that a lot of things get set on the floor.
Speaker 1: And the fact I'm surprised there wasn't a fine Yeah
Speaker 1: you I kind of talked, text talked about this. Then
Speaker 1: maybe even a suspension, des send a message because I
Speaker 1: always play role reversal. What if Luca had said that
Speaker 1: to Montrese. Yeah, you know that's I like to you know,
Speaker 1: role reverse. Everyone would be up in arms if Luca
Speaker 1: had said that to Montrese, and you're playing on a
Speaker 1: court that says black lives matter and inclusion and acceptives. Right,
Speaker 1: So Montrese, I know, he apologized and Luca accepted it.
Speaker 1: I get it, but still the words were said, and
Speaker 1: I think there should be some type of consequence for that.
Speaker 1: But I go back to Isaiah Thomas and Dennis Rodman
Speaker 1: what they said about Larry Bird, but is like, that's
Speaker 1: not an I guess they were angry because Larry stole
Speaker 1: the ball and you know, and they said if he
Speaker 1: was a black player, he'd be just another player, I think,
Speaker 1: and Dennis said it, Isaiah seconded, and then Larry had
Speaker 1: to go to a press conference, so then go, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't care what they said. Larry didn't care, so
Speaker 1: that to me, I don't think Luca cares, right, But
Speaker 1: as Luca's worse because he's what he's called. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's calling him out in a negative way. I know
Speaker 1: that they were being angry about Larry saying if he
Speaker 1: was black, he'd be just another player. Lucas that was
Speaker 1: that was personal. Well, look and it was personal on
Speaker 1: the step back three the tieth series two. So actions
Speaker 1: mean more to me. And I think that's how Luca
Speaker 1: is backing up whatever people are saying about him by
Speaker 1: putting up huge numbers. I'm just saying, if Luca had
Speaker 1: said that about Montrez the players on the Clippers, we
Speaker 1: would still be talking about it. Yes, today, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: would have probably been suspended. Correct. I have Luca the
Speaker 1: over under. I just made it up. I said twenty
Speaker 1: nine tonight. I'm going under for Luca tonight against the Clippers.
Speaker 1: Me too. I think Paul George because of what all
Speaker 1: talk radio talk radio has been killing him. I think
Speaker 1: he and Kawai have monster games together. I think the
Speaker 1: over for them. Here's the question, the over for them?
Speaker 1: Is it sixty five or over for Paul George and
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard sixty five or over combine? Well, I can
Speaker 1: count for twenty six from Kawai. Think Paul George. Will
Speaker 1: you think Paul George has a monster game. I think
Speaker 1: he does, and if he does it, then they're in trouble.
Speaker 1: They're in huge job. I don't think he goes for thirty.
Speaker 1: Who wins tonight? I think the Clippers going all right?
Speaker 1: And then are we sleeping on the Jazz? You know,
Speaker 1: when Bogdanovitch went out with the wrist injury, I kind
Speaker 1: of wrote them off and said, you know, that was
Speaker 1: a team good enough at the beginning of the year
Speaker 1: to play for the Western Conference finals. But I didn't
Speaker 1: give them and then Conley left the bubble, wife had
Speaker 1: a baby, and now here they are up three games
Speaker 1: to one. I will say this, Donovan Spider Mitchell has
Speaker 1: been fantastic Ingles Golbert. They know their roles. I feel
Speaker 1: that it is going to be a lot like the
Speaker 1: Blazers when they play in the next round. Knocked on
Speaker 1: wood that they finished the series out and face the
Speaker 1: Lakers in the next round. Yeah, this is perfect for
Speaker 1: the Lakers. Will they have spent so much gas doing
Speaker 1: what they've done and playing great and then run out
Speaker 1: of gas against the Lakers. Is set up perfectly for
Speaker 1: the Lakers to get to the Conference finals. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: this is a perfect team for them to play safe
Speaker 1: travels there back into the bubble and h nice shirt there,
Speaker 1: I like it. Thank you and Louie. Indiana thirty three.
Speaker 1: Larry Legend in Indiana State. Larry Legend Man got a
Speaker 1: love him. My favorite player growing up. I love Magic Johnson.
Speaker 1: He raised to be at UCLA. But I patterned my
Speaker 1: game after this fan. But if you could start your
Speaker 1: team with Larry, your magic magic, how I play? Oh? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: but how I play? I'm on the team. Yeah magic.
Speaker 1: How many threes would Larry shoot now if he played today?
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what fifteen to twenty? Fifteen to twenty yeah,
Speaker 1: but he always he would shoot the mid range jumper
Speaker 1: and all that. And so that's when the mid range
Speaker 1: jumper met something these kids that all the time. I know,
Speaker 1: analytics say threes are better than twos, which okay, but
Speaker 1: your rescentages are lower. But something to be said with
Speaker 1: a good seventeen good mid range game. Hold on. Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant built a Hall of Fame career off the mid
Speaker 1: range jumper. Sir Damar Dea Rosen the mid range jumper.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Burler, the mid range jumper kind of got him,
Speaker 1: you know, Trevy out of Toronto and miss Dollar on
Speaker 1: Championship tomorrow. But you still have a heck of a
Speaker 1: mid range game. Yeah. Great, nice consolation prize, safe travels
Speaker 1: reg Thank you, Bud, Thank you Lador. We'll come back
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Speaker 1: calls in here always go to hear from Jeff and Detroit. Hi, Jeff,
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Speaker 1: chat row listen big Loving. That was the joke of
Speaker 1: the week. Man. He said, the guys from Police Academy
Speaker 1: and he says, Michael wins laughter, brother to make the pay.
Speaker 1: I was in the bank and I started laughing, so
Speaker 1: loud I had to explain everybody I was. I had
Speaker 1: it Buzz in and I was laughing because they thought
Speaker 1: I was just in there laughing out loud. I got
Speaker 1: a big mouth. So listen on the poll question the Pelicans.
Speaker 1: I would love to get ahold desire and if you
Speaker 1: could turn that franchise around, you can write your ticket
Speaker 1: anywhere as well as I would find whoever trained Ben Wallace,
Speaker 1: the trains are on because if you can get his
Speaker 1: stammin up and his strength up like that man, he
Speaker 1: would be a force to be wrecked with him. Last,
Speaker 1: but not least, which guy should be an NBA Jill
Speaker 1: in your opinion for Unarmed Robbery? Our horror of Blake Griffin? Wow,
Speaker 1: thank you, Jeff Well Al Horford was healthy, he played
Speaker 1: Blake Griffin's been injured. Paul George, He's stealing right now,
Speaker 1: Jesse and Los Angeles. Hey, Jess, good to have you back. Hey,
Speaker 1: Good morning, DP. Hey, great interview with Chris Webber yesterday.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best storytellers you have guests, and
Speaker 1: you know now now he's offering up Kobe stories in
Speaker 1: light of his passing, and even though I'm a lifetime
Speaker 1: Kings fan, it's good to hear him be reminded of
Speaker 1: Kobe's greatness, even though he tormented my youth in the
Speaker 1: two thousands. But I also have a Chris Paul signature
Speaker 1: moment for you, okay, And I do like him as
Speaker 1: a player. I'll preface that it because he reminds me
Speaker 1: of John Stocking. He's like my favorite player of all time.
Speaker 1: But his moment for me is twenty and fifteen Verse
Speaker 1: the Warriors. Steph Curry dribbles behind the back Paul shoes
Speaker 1: somehow turned to ice skates. He goes to the ground
Speaker 1: and Curry hits the jumper. Thank you, Jesse. That's mean spirited. Yeah, Now,
Speaker 1: I was just wondering as I'm watching Oklahoma City yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's all I just said, what is his signature moment.
Speaker 1: He's known more for two things, his TV commercials and
Speaker 1: also he nearly got traded to the Lakers in a
Speaker 1: deal that David Stern in the NBA uphell, you know
Speaker 1: they upheld that said, no, that deal's not going through.
Speaker 1: He's top ten and steals and assist all time. He's
Speaker 1: a Hall of famer. He just I don't know if
Speaker 1: he has his signature moment. That was all. It wouldn't
Speaker 1: be mean spirited, that was all just throwing that out there.
Speaker 1: Final results of the pole question we have this day
Speaker 1: in sports history as well. McLevin final. I actually switched
Speaker 1: up to the poll an hour three to who wins
Speaker 1: the bat on the Luca sixty seven with the dan nettes.
Speaker 1: Okay that he scores what we have to get twenty
Speaker 1: nine twenty over twenty nine you win, so he's got
Speaker 1: to get thirty. Okay. If you win, you can eat
Speaker 1: the po oh and you get to smash me in
Speaker 1: the face at the very end of the show. But
Speaker 1: only one one pie to the face. All four of
Speaker 1: you can put your hands on the pine and smash
Speaker 1: my face. Don't do like Michael Irvin did. Michael Irvin
Speaker 1: drew blood. I don't think Irv understood when you hit
Speaker 1: somebody in the face with a pie like it's just
Speaker 1: you don't do it with force. But he did. Yes time,
Speaker 1: I WI should avoid the hair. You got very upset
Speaker 1: with me. Well, no, that's when you went above and beyond.
Speaker 1: I said, you can hit me in the face with
Speaker 1: a pie, and then you grabbed it and then put
Speaker 1: it on top of my head. I did do that, right,
Speaker 1: That was a little much, I know, carried away with
Speaker 1: the moment. Yeah, and your anti hair right, So I
Speaker 1: couldn't fully appreciate why you would get that upset. What
Speaker 1: the big deal is? Yeah, I know I did get angry,
Speaker 1: Like Todd, You're legitimately angry then even then I like
Speaker 1: smacked you with something and you're like, oh, there was
Speaker 1: like a little cut thong. So I then heard yeah,
Speaker 1: you know this day sports history. Pulling nineteen this picture,
Speaker 1: became the youngest pitcher to win twenty games in a
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball season nine to eighty five. That pitcher
Speaker 1: is for an end of valence, white goodness. Oh should
Speaker 1: have gotten now white good and twenty wins at age twenty?
Speaker 1: Was he twenty four and four? Yes, yes, twenty wins
Speaker 1: only thirty games into the season. Oh wait no, no,
Speaker 1: that's we're halfway. We're at the All Star break? Aren't
Speaker 1: we a major league baseball? Uh? Todd? What did you
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