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Speaker 2: play of the day, stat of the day forthcoming. I
Speaker 2: would like to announce this to the Commissioner of the NBA,
Speaker 2: Adam Silver. I need to come up with a new category,
Speaker 2: a new stat It's called shots discouraged SD no t
Speaker 2: SD shots discouraged. Victor Wembanyama. I think Portland shot nineteen
Speaker 2: percent on the shots that Wembanyama contested in this series.
Speaker 2: That's where you go and you do a pick and
Speaker 2: roll and all of a sudden you think you're open,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden you just see him
Speaker 2: fly by or come out of nowhere. Shots do scouraged.
Speaker 2: This is kind of like hurries, you know, I talk
Speaker 2: about Max Crosby. Sack's not as important to me as
Speaker 2: hurries are, because you can hurry a variety of throws
Speaker 2: and you could, you know, out of that, you could
Speaker 2: get interceptions in completions. Now, yes, bringing the quarterback down
Speaker 2: a sack, I think we get caught up on that
Speaker 2: number as opposed to how many times are you getting
Speaker 2: near the quarterback speeding up his process? And Max Crosby
Speaker 2: is maybe the best at doing that. But with Wemby,
Speaker 2: shots discouraged. Now we did try Receiver caused Interception RCI,
Speaker 2: where the receiver is the one who caused the interception
Speaker 2: that didn't catch on. So maybe shots discouraged with Victor
Speaker 2: webben Yama. I'm letting the commissioner know, as I've let
Speaker 2: him know about a couple other things. You know, positionless
Speaker 2: positionless all NBA teams, the sixty five games minimum if
Speaker 2: you're going to qualify for postseason awards. Now, everybody loved that.
Speaker 2: You didn't have to play a particular position. The five
Speaker 2: best players are on the first team, and such and such,
Speaker 2: second and third, the sixty five games. There's been some pushback,
Speaker 2: and I'll take the blame on that because we can
Speaker 2: change the lottery, and they're changing the lottery again. Load
Speaker 2: management is the big issue, not the lottery. It's load management.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there's a solution to that. And
Speaker 2: next time we have the commissioner on I mean, I
Speaker 2: get it, you want to have teams stop tanking, but
Speaker 2: I need players who want to play. And I'll go
Speaker 2: back to Victor Windanyama. He wants to be great, he
Speaker 2: wants to be MVP. He wanted to be defensive Player
Speaker 2: of the Year. You know what he did in the
Speaker 2: offseason last year He worked out with one of our
Speaker 2: guests today, Jamal Crawford, who in the pantheon of great
Speaker 2: ball handlers in the history of the NBA. His name
Speaker 2: is in that conversation. So Wemby worked out with Jamal
Speaker 2: Crawford to work on his handle. Amazing, and he's just
Speaker 2: getting to the point where he's figuring out where to
Speaker 2: be on the court offensively, defensively, he's already there. But
Speaker 2: shots discouraged in the Portland series and you could see
Speaker 2: guys like this is where quarterbacks say that they see
Speaker 2: ghost you know, or the pocket is getting muddy, and
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold famously said that, you know, he sees ghosts
Speaker 2: in the pocket, like Wemby is a ghost. He's he's there.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure where he is, but I know he'll
Speaker 2: be here. And that's what you saw in this Portland series.
Speaker 2: It was fun, fun to watch. He is musty TV.
Speaker 2: There is no other player I'd rather watch than Wemby.
Speaker 2: Now there's other you know, when Steph is at his peak,
Speaker 2: Steph was wonderful. There's so many, you know, great players
Speaker 2: even Joe l Embiid last night. I'm all fire up
Speaker 2: this morning. I gotta slow down a little bit. I'm
Speaker 2: watching Embiid last night and it was a reminder game
Speaker 2: because I kept watching and going, okay, Boston, okay, Boston.
Speaker 2: Ok uh oh, and then the fourth quarter they were horrible.
Speaker 2: But Joe Ellenbiid, keep in mind the first two years
Speaker 2: he didn't play, had a bad back, and really his
Speaker 2: college career was spotty because of injuries. But this was
Speaker 2: supposed to be the process. Could have been a bust,
Speaker 2: and you know his career will be tricky when it's over.
Speaker 2: When we look back and you go, he he didn't
Speaker 2: win an MVP and didn't win a title, but the
Speaker 2: numbers are there, like you think he's a bum when
Speaker 2: he's averaging what twenty seven, uh, I don't know, eight
Speaker 2: and four something like that. I mean, it is a
Speaker 2: down year for him, and you could see, really he's
Speaker 2: almost hunched over on the floor. He can't jump. Still
Speaker 2: has great touch and great feel for the game. But
Speaker 2: you're watching last night and I just thought, man, I
Speaker 2: don't know how he's doing it, but when he's on
Speaker 2: the floor, he can still be a difference. Now, Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: You know, I loved me some Tyres Maaxing. I loved
Speaker 2: him coming out Edgecombe. I think is a good draft pick.
Speaker 2: Then Paul George. Paul George is fun to see. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't want him on my team, but I you know,
Speaker 2: he does have a beautiful jump shot. But I'm watching
Speaker 2: and I go, Okay, Philly has some talent here. It's
Speaker 2: just Paul George's not Paul George. And joe El Embiid
Speaker 2: is not Joel Embiid because of injuries. But you're watching
Speaker 2: that game last night, and I love Boston to come
Speaker 2: out of the East, and I kept thinking, man, you
Speaker 2: can't have these kind of nights. And they had a
Speaker 2: horrible fourth quarter, certainly from three point range. So I'm
Speaker 2: watching a lot of the NBA last night, and boy, hey,
Speaker 2: let's go out to Seventh Avenue and take off our
Speaker 2: shirts and celebrate because we beat the Hawks.
Speaker 5: We're up three to two in the first round.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Nicks in six, Nicks in six. I'm going
Speaker 2: come on, are you that desperate to celebrate? Yes, come on,
Speaker 2: let's go. Let's take off our shirts.
Speaker 4: Yes, Marvin DP, they are going working and next game
Speaker 4: in the playoffs is just one of those.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: Let's just see how bad they overreact to a win
Speaker 4: against the Pacers in Game two of the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, well, Eastern Conference Finals. I'm okay celebrating.
Speaker 2: We're in the first round, aren't we.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but now this is the tradition because they've been
Speaker 4: good for about thirty six months, so every single first
Speaker 4: round we won Boston. You know you don't, I know
Speaker 4: you don't.
Speaker 5: Let's go outside and take off our shirts.
Speaker 6: We beat the.
Speaker 5: Hawks at home, yes, Paul.
Speaker 3: They got rid of TIBs. Last year they were fifty
Speaker 3: one and thirty one, lost in the Eastern Conference Finals.
Speaker 3: They have two more regular season wins this year. They
Speaker 3: don't feel as threatening, but they're they're doing pretty well.
Speaker 3: It's a good feeling down there.
Speaker 2: Jamal Crawford will join us coming up next hour. Albert Brier,
Speaker 2: the Monday morning quarterback, will join us. There's some football
Speaker 2: items to talk to him about. I saw where Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson maybe the Jets. I'm like, hasn't he suffered enough?
Speaker 2: And we're still waiting for Aaron Rodgers to show up?
Speaker 2: Feels like that's a foregone conclusion. Speaking of which the
Speaker 2: NCAA is going to make it official in a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. They're going to seventy six teams for the
Speaker 2: men's and the women's teams. And the one thing that
Speaker 2: I never ever want to hear again is a coach
Speaker 2: complaining that they didn't make the tournament. Not allowed to
Speaker 2: have that anymore. Can't say it. Seventy six teams, Yes, Martin.
Speaker 4: Team seventy seven is going to be a fire season.
Speaker 5: Not allowed. We were nineteen and fifteen, not allowed.
Speaker 4: We had Tier one wins.
Speaker 2: And they expanded, like I told you they were going to.
Speaker 2: They just add games on Tuesday and Wednesday. You're gonna
Speaker 2: have a site Dayton, Ohio again, and then you'll have
Speaker 2: what I'm told will be a West Coast site as well.
Speaker 2: Working on the travel, trying to cut down the travel.
Speaker 2: If you win your game on Tuesday, you have to
Speaker 2: play on Thursday, Wednesday, Friday. So they want to try
Speaker 2: to help out with travel there. But yes, nobody wanted it,
Speaker 2: but we got it seventies. You know who wants it. Coaches,
Speaker 2: coaches wanted, conferences want this. That's where you can brag
Speaker 2: and the Big ten can say we got nine teams
Speaker 2: in the SEC. We got all of our teams in
Speaker 2: March Madness. Here, here's the problem I have. You know what,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna save it. I'm gonna save it. I have
Speaker 2: that for you coming up. Man, I'm wound up today.
Speaker 2: I am wound up, ready to go. I don't know
Speaker 2: what it was. Maybe it was Wemby. Does that to me?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 4: Yes, Marvin, much to Todd Shagrin, he's not big on
Speaker 4: the Wemby coveries.
Speaker 5: Oh I know, I know.
Speaker 8: No, no, say say so. I have nothing to say.
Speaker 8: He's amazing, He's a unicorn. It's all been said. That's
Speaker 8: the problem.
Speaker 4: And well, now all you could do is just keep
Speaker 4: reiterating all the different adjectives that have.
Speaker 2: Been Okay, but did you ever say that about Michael Jordan.
Speaker 2: Everything's been said.
Speaker 4: Because that was more of my era when I was younger.
Speaker 3: That's We all have our little biases.
Speaker 2: But Wemby is getting better. He's twenty two, he's getting better.
Speaker 2: We ran out of things how to describe Mike. When
Speaker 2: I would do highlights, I'd be like, I don't know
Speaker 2: what adjectives to put in here.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Martin, Yeah, Fritzy, we're seeing something we've never
Speaker 4: seen in our lifetime before. This is Ralph Sampson, who
Speaker 4: can handle the basketball and play on the perimeter.
Speaker 2: Todd's not watching this, Thank you, Todd, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3: But you know certain players, they developed their games and
Speaker 3: they change. You remember early Jordan was attacked the hoop,
Speaker 3: get fouled, dunk on people. But then six years later
Speaker 3: he became a low post killer and protected himself. Wemby,
Speaker 3: he averaged nine threes attempted last year. He's down the
Speaker 3: five and a half this year. He's brought his game
Speaker 3: more inside. He's altered his game.
Speaker 2: Here is the Spurs Radio Network last night with a
Speaker 2: highlight through holiday.
Speaker 1: Brings it back up the floor, hands it back to
Speaker 1: Monti Kamara attacking, goes up on way Minyama needs some
Speaker 1: of the.
Speaker 5: Block, cuts his six.
Speaker 7: He then tomorrow throws it up.
Speaker 1: He underside of the basket, out of bounds. What can
Speaker 1: he not do?
Speaker 2: His out of this world Spurs Radio Network, there you
Speaker 2: go toaz out.
Speaker 5: Of this world? What can he not do?
Speaker 2: He's not human, He's not eight seven to seven three
Speaker 2: DP show operator Tyler's sitting by doing nothing except for
Speaker 2: answering your phone calls and petting my dog pull question, Well,
Speaker 2: do you have one right now?
Speaker 9: I do, Dan, Okay Off, the NCAA tournament expansion is
Speaker 9: expanding the tournament to seventy six teams, a good idea. Sure,
Speaker 9: the more the merrier, or no, it's perfect the way
Speaker 9: it is. We actually didn't even need the first four
Speaker 9: those to Todd's verviage.
Speaker 5: I just don't know if anybody was saying we need
Speaker 5: this now.
Speaker 2: I know that in college football, okay, we went from
Speaker 2: four to twelve, and I said, in my lifetime, I'm good,
Speaker 2: Well they realized how much money. Everybody's excited about it.
Speaker 2: Now we're going to go to sixteen. Then we'll go
Speaker 2: to twenty four. When we get to twenty four, it'll
Speaker 2: still be interesting, very profitable. I just worry because these
Speaker 2: leagues they never you know, relegate, they never move the
Speaker 2: clock back. They never go let's go back to thirty
Speaker 2: two teams not happening. You know, NBA gave us the
Speaker 2: play in game. Baseball's added more playoff spots. I mean
Speaker 2: every league is adding more. Like if you can't make
Speaker 2: playoffs in hockey, it's like you should be fired. Half
Speaker 2: the league make the playoffs. The exclusivity that's attached to
Speaker 2: this is long gone, so I understand.
Speaker 5: It, but I.
Speaker 2: Think that there can be that. Boy, we're teetering on
Speaker 2: the brink here of watering down the regular season. Everybody's
Speaker 2: going to make the tournament, yes, tod.
Speaker 8: And that could be arguments for why coaches don't want
Speaker 8: extra teams, because you couldn't make it with that many
Speaker 8: team in the field, you should definitely lose your job,
Speaker 8: as opposed to well, all these teams, I'll definitely get one.
Speaker 4: Of those spots.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So we'll come up with the poll
Speaker 2: question a little bit more. With March Madness expanding, they're
Speaker 2: going to make it now, the paper is signed. From
Speaker 2: what I'm told, probably two to three weeks down the
Speaker 2: road they'll make this official. But it is happening a
Speaker 2: lot of reports on this, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 3: You know on Selection Sunday would show a team and
Speaker 3: they show the different coaches. What if you're shown and
Speaker 3: you don't make it, your coaches walked right out of
Speaker 3: the building. Oh he gets fired on CBS National TV
Speaker 3: like the old days of Hard Knocks.
Speaker 2: Hmm, okay, I mean it's reality TV. They never show
Speaker 2: reality on reality TV. That's what disappoints me. You know,
Speaker 2: when the Kardashians go through all of their messes, we
Speaker 2: never get to see those messes though. It's like it's
Speaker 2: always homogenized. Yes, Dylan, you're.
Speaker 9: Telling me the secret lives of Mormon wives. Isn't actually
Speaker 9: that secret?
Speaker 5: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that there's the Housewives of Rhode Island.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, what yeah?
Speaker 5: Who asked for the Housewives of Rhode Island?
Speaker 3: No small state, A lot of drama, that is true.
Speaker 9: Everyone in Rhode Island does know each other.
Speaker 5: Well I didn't. Somebody said that to me and I laughed.
Speaker 2: I thought they were joking, and then I realized, there's
Speaker 2: the Real Housewives of Rhode Island.
Speaker 5: Yes, Todd, what's old is Newport again? I guess, thank you, Tod.
Speaker 3: Yes, the Real Housewives of Delaware next year? Dan not?
Speaker 5: Actually not, Why I wouldn't, I mean, why not?
Speaker 3: There's drama and Delaware.
Speaker 5: There's drama everywhere, but you create the drama.
Speaker 2: It's like, all right, you got to get mad at
Speaker 2: her and then you you know, you know, knock over
Speaker 2: some glasses and you know, turn over the table, okay,
Speaker 2: and action.
Speaker 9: That's your reality. They do always seem to have a
Speaker 9: glass of something.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 9: It's nine am. You're drinking wine again.
Speaker 5: Well, there's certain shows that they do encourage you to drink.
Speaker 9: Yeah, what was it? Love is Blind? I think, yeah,
Speaker 9: they're drinking all the time.
Speaker 2: Well, I remember I was on Jimmy Kimmel's show years
Speaker 2: and years and years ago. He had an open bar
Speaker 2: and you know, people were you were encouraged to drink,
Speaker 2: and then they eventually got rid of the bar. But
Speaker 2: I remember it's like a sure, I'll have a beer
Speaker 2: before you go out there. All right, let me take
Speaker 2: a break. Just getting started here, did I tell you
Speaker 2: how great Wemby was last night?
Speaker 6: Time?
Speaker 4: He's not human?
Speaker 6: He does.
Speaker 4: Think he's a unicorn.
Speaker 5: Out of this I think is a giraffe.
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Speaker 9: Dan is expanding the NCAA tournament to seventy six team
Speaker 9: is a good idea. Ninety one percent think it's perfect,
Speaker 9: just the way it is.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 9: We also have will college coaches on the outside looking
Speaker 9: in of the seventy sixteen field be still christ snubbed?
Speaker 9: Of course they will or nope. The days of winding
Speaker 9: you got jobbed are now over.
Speaker 2: Yep, can't say that, you know, we should have been
Speaker 2: in there. You know, your bubble teams, it's a thing
Speaker 2: of the past. They will, though, they will, they will.
Speaker 2: This is what I worry about. If you win your conference,
Speaker 2: now let's say you're Wafford or throw out a smaller
Speaker 2: school Miami, Ohio winning the.
Speaker 5: MAC, you should be in the sixty fourteen field. I don't.
Speaker 2: I want these other schools that didn't win their conference
Speaker 2: that they're going to be playing on Tuesday and Wednesday, like,
Speaker 2: show a little respect to these teams that were great
Speaker 2: from start to finish. Now you can say, well, their
Speaker 2: competition not the same as the SEC or Big ten.
Speaker 2: I understand that, but I just don't want to lose
Speaker 2: sight of the you know, the smaller schools, the mid majors.
Speaker 2: Give them something, don't don't make them play a play
Speaker 2: in game or the first you know whatever.
Speaker 5: We're calling it.
Speaker 2: Let them make the sixty fourteen field or sixty eight team,
Speaker 2: but have the other teams other schools they do Tuesday
Speaker 2: and Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Yes, Paul, and that's what happened with the first four
Speaker 3: this year. It was Howard sixteen seed, UMBC, Prairie View
Speaker 3: A and M Lehigh Miami, Ohio. All those teams that
Speaker 3: you just talked about.
Speaker 2: If you win your conference, you should make the tournament.
Speaker 2: And I'm not talking about, you know, the seventy sixteen
Speaker 2: field you should make. You know, when we fill out
Speaker 2: our brackets, your name is there on the bracket, not
Speaker 2: something that we had to write in because you won
Speaker 2: on Tuesday or you want on Wednesday. If you're going
Speaker 2: to expand, I understand this NC double A making money
Speaker 2: needs to make money. You know, you got lawsuits, nil lawsuits,
Speaker 2: like you know, they need kind of a shovel full
Speaker 2: of cash.
Speaker 5: They're in reserve.
Speaker 2: Which sounds strange to say that, but you know, when
Speaker 2: you look at all the conferences and schools making the money.
Speaker 5: NC double A still has to make money. And you
Speaker 5: add eight.
Speaker 2: More teams, ten more teams, whatever, it's going to be
Speaker 2: as long as you keep them on Tuesday and Wednesday,
Speaker 2: you're going to have two sites, two neutral sites, and
Speaker 2: then you're going to play those games we start, you know,
Speaker 2: the tournament starts on Thursday.
Speaker 6: Anyway.
Speaker 2: I don't know how many people fill out their brackets
Speaker 2: before Tuesday or Wednesday.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 2: And there is a kind of an exhibition feel to
Speaker 2: the games on Tuesday and Wednesday, and it shouldn't be
Speaker 2: that way, but that's the way it is. They position
Speaker 2: them to play into the tournament. The NCAA labeled it.
Speaker 2: You're playing into the tournament like you're almost there. It's
Speaker 2: kind of like being invited to a party, but you
Speaker 2: have to stay on the doorstep and wait till somebody
Speaker 2: leaves and then you get to come in. But you're
Speaker 2: going to expand, but make sure we take care of
Speaker 2: the mid majors. Don't have them like picking up scraps,
Speaker 2: going ah, we get to play on Tuesday to then
Speaker 2: play on Thursday.
Speaker 5: Maybe yes, Tom.
Speaker 8: How small We're gonna have to make the font of
Speaker 8: the lettering as we add more and more team so
Speaker 8: that you can print out a bracket and it stays
Speaker 8: on one sheet. That's starting to get close to that
Speaker 8: confusion there.
Speaker 2: And growth is inevitable, but every league eventually has to
Speaker 2: decide about expansion.
Speaker 5: Is it worth?
Speaker 2: You have the quantity, but I worry about the quality
Speaker 2: With all of these different leagues.
Speaker 5: You're going to add add and.
Speaker 2: At some point it subtracts from really what this is
Speaker 2: all about. And I love playoff competition. It's great in
Speaker 2: all sports. I just don't want to have too many
Speaker 2: teams in there. Yeah, pauling, but.
Speaker 3: It feels like these every league and every network is
Speaker 3: looking for more space on the calendar to place live events.
Speaker 3: And it's like the NCAA and the conferences found a loophole.
Speaker 3: We can keep the sixty four, do this funky play
Speaker 3: in game first four on Tuesday and Wednesday, and we
Speaker 3: don't upset the traditional sixty four apple cart, And hey,
Speaker 3: we can just put more games in the afternoon or
Speaker 3: at night and not really mess with everyone's tradition of
Speaker 3: sixty four.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody is going to be out
Speaker 2: on the streets protesting, because we'll watch it. I just
Speaker 2: I want it to be special, and maybe it's it's
Speaker 2: special proof just because we watch. There's always going to
Speaker 2: be a player, there's always going to be a team,
Speaker 2: there's always magic always, and ratings were up this year.
Speaker 2: I think that will. The one thing that we are
Speaker 2: going to lose is that Cinderella's story. It feels like
Speaker 2: I don't think Tennessee in a playing game on a
Speaker 2: Tuesday and then winning a couple of games is a
Speaker 2: Cinderella story. Cinderella's story is Wafford or Miami, Ohio. A
Speaker 2: school or schools where you don't know where they are. Well,
Speaker 2: you know, Miami is in Ohio, but then they get
Speaker 2: confused for Miami, Florida. But you know, you get these
Speaker 2: other schools and I think that's the fun part of it.
Speaker 2: You get to see a player that you never thought
Speaker 2: you would see, like you know, Steph Curry Davidson. Like
Speaker 2: that's the magic. And I hope that we always try
Speaker 2: to ensure that we have that. And do I want
Speaker 2: to have Cinderella stories. I do, And it plays out
Speaker 2: because Cinderella story. You might win two games, and think
Speaker 2: of the exposure that these schools get. You went on
Speaker 2: Thursday and you went on Saturday, then you don't play
Speaker 2: until the following week.
Speaker 5: You get all of that coverage and that is invaluable
Speaker 5: to a school.
Speaker 2: And I think that's the fun part of it, where
Speaker 2: you get some exposure, their coach gets interviewed on Sports Center,
Speaker 2: your star player. That's great, great for the smaller schools
Speaker 2: because I do think we're going to get to the point,
Speaker 2: and I said this a couple of weeks ago, that
Speaker 2: we're going to look at mid majors like junior colleges.
Speaker 2: If you're a player and you're going there for two years,
Speaker 2: is somebody interested in me that's in the SEC or
Speaker 2: the Big ten or Big twelve acc So I got
Speaker 2: two years to kind of get on the radar of
Speaker 2: some of the bigger schools. And if I was a coach,
Speaker 2: I would be viewing it as I hopefully get you
Speaker 2: for two years and then your probably going to, you know,
Speaker 2: get in the transfer portal. The fact that almost half
Speaker 2: of men's basketball teams this year we're in the transfer
Speaker 2: portal should tell you everything you need to know. This
Speaker 2: is just you know, you're a turnstile. It's like revolving door.
Speaker 2: Come on in and how long are you going to stay?
Speaker 2: Can we get one more spin on the revolving now
Speaker 2: you're gone. That's what it's become. And you got these
Speaker 2: kids who are staying in college longer because you can
Speaker 2: make more money. And it feels like the rich are
Speaker 2: going to get richer here because Kentucky can get kids
Speaker 2: coming in, but you still get Kentucky boosters to pay
Speaker 2: you to stay a little while longer, Duke, I mean
Speaker 2: the blue bloods are going to be able to They're
Speaker 2: going to pick and choose from the smaller schools. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't I wouldn't recruit. I wouldn't take a high school kid.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, give me somebody who's approven commodity. I mean,
Speaker 2: I might miss out on age Debanza, but that's okay.
Speaker 2: I mean he's great, but it's one and done at BYU.
Speaker 4: Yes, Marv, Yeah, you've seen what Yukon of Michigan have
Speaker 4: done the past few years, where you might get a
Speaker 4: really good high school ball player, but the rest of
Speaker 4: your team they're twenty two to twenty three years old
Speaker 4: and they're transferred guys from other schools. So that might
Speaker 4: be the play.
Speaker 2: And when I talked to Danny Hurley when the season ended,
Speaker 2: he said, yeah, that's kind of what they do. They
Speaker 2: look for that one McDonald's all American, and then you're
Speaker 2: gonna get guys transferring in Michigan had an entire roster Illinois.
Speaker 2: Like now, there's some coaches who don't like this at all.
Speaker 2: They don't think that these players should be eligible to
Speaker 2: come over to the United States.
Speaker 5: But it just feels like the doors are open.
Speaker 2: Like you know, I always go back to the scene
Speaker 2: where Kevin Bacon an animal house and he's telling everybody
Speaker 2: to stop. You know, they they squish him. That's what
Speaker 2: it feels like. It's happening with the NC double. Hey,
Speaker 2: hold on, no too late. Yeah, Paulie.
Speaker 3: It's interesting too because a guy like aj DEBANTSA by
Speaker 3: being a top three pick, B why you can't match that.
Speaker 3: But if you're like the twentieth pick of the draft
Speaker 3: or twenty fifth, you could be afforded. You could be
Speaker 3: like Mullins from Yukon. Yeah, if he was top five,
Speaker 3: he's gone. Yeah. But if you're in that next year
Speaker 3: past the lottery, they could afford to keep you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, you say, hey, why
Speaker 2: don't you stay, Why don't you show that you can
Speaker 2: be the man? Which is what I would want from
Speaker 2: this kid. I want to see if you can carry
Speaker 2: the load every single night. Because there were games where
Speaker 2: he disappeared, and then there are games where you go, man,
Speaker 2: that guy's first round draft pick. I know that we
Speaker 2: draft on potential. Potential gets you fired. I want to
Speaker 2: prove in commodity. And that's why if I'm running a
Speaker 2: big time program, I'm just going to go around the country.
Speaker 5: I'm going to say I'm going to take you and
Speaker 5: you and you and you.
Speaker 2: And then we might have a couple of recruits coming
Speaker 2: in and then maybe some holdovers. That would be my
Speaker 2: approach because I want a larger sample size. Then, man,
Speaker 2: your highlight high school highlight tape looked awesome. My high
Speaker 2: school highlight tape looked awesome. It didn't quite pan out
Speaker 2: for me, but it's like, you know, they don't show
Speaker 2: any negative plays in your high school highlight tape. That'd
Speaker 2: be great if they did give you a truer sense
Speaker 2: of what you're getting. The NBA has disclosed to its
Speaker 2: thirty general managers a new anti tanking draft reform, and
Speaker 2: it's termed the three two one Lottery. Okay, I've read
Speaker 2: I wasn't a great student, I didn't do well on
Speaker 2: the act. I'm not doing well on this lottery of
Speaker 2: trying to figure it out. They're expanding the lottery yes
Speaker 2: to sixteen teams, and then they're flattening the odds. There's
Speaker 2: something called a relegation zone. That's where the bottom three
Speaker 2: teams are penalized with fewer lottery balls for the number
Speaker 2: one pick. This is going to start with the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty seven draft, according to The Mothership.
Speaker 5: Paul, you've read it a couple of times. I'm a student.
Speaker 5: I know I'll take a shot.
Speaker 3: Okay, if I were describing this new lottery proposal, it's
Speaker 3: to discourage extreme tanking. Once you're like below five hundred
Speaker 3: and there's two months left in the season, getting worse
Speaker 3: makes your chances worse to get the number.
Speaker 2: One Okay, but the difference between tanking and extreme tanking.
Speaker 3: Is what Utah oh Utah or the Washington Wizards, where
Speaker 3: you know you're not making the playoffs, so we start
Speaker 3: shutting down players, as many players, as many games as
Speaker 3: we can to have the best odds.
Speaker 2: Did the Wizards start tanking opening night like they're not
Speaker 2: a good team. But they're not tanking, they're just not
Speaker 2: a good team.
Speaker 3: The Wizards have lost ten of their last ten, so
Speaker 3: they're right on track to improve their chances to get
Speaker 3: a top four pick. In this new system, they would
Speaker 3: be penalized for being extremely bad, and a team like
Speaker 3: let's say the Chicago Bulls have thirty one wins, they
Speaker 3: would actually be in better shape than the Wizards with
Speaker 3: seventeen wins because they played better after they were out
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 5: But isn't it the top three teams?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Boy?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: See?
Speaker 2: I once again I debated going into this topic. Is
Speaker 2: I didn't want to confuse.
Speaker 5: Does it? Marvin? Did you understand?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I was a C minus student, so I'm
Speaker 4: really not.
Speaker 2: A quick So the three to two to one lottery
Speaker 2: represents the number of lottery balls per team. Okay, teams
Speaker 2: that do not qualify for the playoffs or the play
Speaker 2: in tournament but stay out of the relegation zone, which
Speaker 2: is four through See I apologize and you're reading verbatim. Yes,
Speaker 2: teams with a bottom three record the relegation area would
Speaker 2: have two lottery balls, but have a floor of the
Speaker 2: number twelve pick. The rest of the thirteen lottery teams
Speaker 2: could fall as far as the number sixteen pick.
Speaker 3: Okay, So the mentality there is the absolute worst teams
Speaker 3: in the league with a month left, are encouraged to
Speaker 3: play better to get out of that relegation zone. Yes,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well I've said for the last couple of years, reward
Speaker 2: the teams when you're eliminated from the postseason the number
Speaker 2: of wins you have after you've been eliminated that you're
Speaker 2: still playing.
Speaker 9: Yes, Dylan, this read's kind of like what Wall Street does,
Speaker 9: where they make very basic terms sound overly complicated to
Speaker 9: confuse you, like margin and leverage and stuff. I'm reading
Speaker 9: and I'm like, I don't know if they just want
Speaker 9: everyone to be like, well, it sounds like they know
Speaker 9: what they're doing for good.
Speaker 3: Yes, this new system would reward the number nine and
Speaker 3: ten seeds. You know, those teams that are nine to
Speaker 3: ten and they play in those play in games. You
Speaker 3: would have a better chance if you lose those games
Speaker 3: to get a better draft pick in the lottery.
Speaker 5: Well wait a minute, I thought they said that something
Speaker 5: something about.
Speaker 2: The play if you're in the play in Yeah, but
Speaker 2: then you're not in the lottery.
Speaker 3: No, you are. In this new system the number nine
Speaker 3: and ten seeds, and each conference would receive two lottery balls,
Speaker 3: and the losers of the seven and eight.
Speaker 2: Things that do not qualify for the playoffs or play
Speaker 2: in tournament, but stay out of the relegations.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, if you're in the play in, yeah, then
Speaker 5: you're not in the lottery.
Speaker 3: No, the opposite, if you're in the play in and
Speaker 3: lose early in the play in and you're so basically
Speaker 3: the back half of the season, the bottom ten teams
Speaker 3: will be encouraged to battle for the play in spots.
Speaker 8: Okay, back to you, yes, hut, But it doesn't speak
Speaker 8: to the teams that are genuinely sucky. Like I'm we're trying,
Speaker 8: we're trying, we're not taking We're just bad. And so
Speaker 8: like I feel like those teams are getting punished a little.
Speaker 4: Bit so they can help us out a little bit.
Speaker 4: We're not a part of the group of teams that
Speaker 4: are looking to purposely lose.
Speaker 5: But how do you know that?
Speaker 4: That's where it's tricky.
Speaker 2: I know that's part of the problem here, is I like, Washington,
Speaker 2: Are they just inept? Are they trying to be inept?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: How do you think we did the past five minutes?
Speaker 5: You know what?
Speaker 2: I would give us a C minus? All right, yeah,
Speaker 2: I would give us what we got when we were
Speaker 2: in school.
Speaker 4: That's generous.
Speaker 2: They had me at three balls. How about we take
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Speaker 2: coming up next hour. James in New Mexico. Hi, James,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
Speaker 6: Hey? Thanks for sing a call?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was just calling, you know, with the expansion there,
Speaker 11: and I think if you have like an ie like
Speaker 11: Miami of a high this past year, some of the
Speaker 11: coaches could have a valid argument because we all know
Speaker 11: that this expansion is going to end up being a
Speaker 11: five hundred sec school over a major that actually kind
Speaker 11: of deserves it, and have some marsh madness there. So yeah,
Speaker 11: I think at that point is really the only complaint
Speaker 11: I can see as valid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's why. If you win your conference, how
Speaker 2: about you get to make the tournament. If you don't
Speaker 2: win your conference, then you might be playing on a
Speaker 2: Tuesday or Wednesday. Aw in Virginia.
Speaker 7: A five seven one ninety. How you doing, Dan?
Speaker 6: I got a problem. I wanted Marvin to.
Speaker 7: Know that Ralph Sanson had a hand.
Speaker 5: Okay, he could dribble the basketball, but one and two
Speaker 5: four to the other I watched him do it in
Speaker 5: high school.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll let Marvin know Ralph Samson had a handle.
Speaker 4: The more you know, Yeah, all right, no, but I'm
Speaker 4: just saying, just on a regular basis, but he seemed
Speaker 4: like more of a post player.
Speaker 5: Well back then you were supposed to be a post exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were like get down low. Now they expect
Speaker 2: you to be out on the perimeter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3: But don't you think the coverage of wemby the past
Speaker 3: three years has given a little light on Ralph Sampson's
Speaker 3: career that people may have forgotten about him because he
Speaker 3: was the first guy to be like this out more
Speaker 3: of an outside in seven plus footer.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sean Bradley had the potential to do that as well.
Speaker 2: He had a nice touch, nice jumper. Another guy was
Speaker 2: seven four seven five seven six. And you don't realize
Speaker 2: how big that is. I mean it sounds tall into
Speaker 2: you stand next to somebody. I stood next to Mark
Speaker 2: Eaton and I was like, that is one of maybe
Speaker 2: the biggest, biggest man I've ever stood next to. And
Speaker 2: then I stood next to Yao Ming, and I go,
Speaker 2: that is the biggest man on the planet.
Speaker 5: Because people go all Shack's bigger.
Speaker 2: I said, no, look at the pictures when Shaq is
Speaker 2: standing next to Yao Ming. Yao Ming is the largest
Speaker 2: man on the planet. David in Arkansas, Hi, David, what's
Speaker 2: on your mind today?
Speaker 6: Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 7: I just had a comment about the tournament expansion y'all
Speaker 7: are talking about. You don't remember once upon a time
Speaker 7: that n I two was depress stage tournament because they
Speaker 7: took all the regular season conference winners and the NC
Speaker 7: Double A was having to take the automatic qualifiers. So
Speaker 7: of course the NC Double A expands now they did everybody.
Speaker 7: So those regular season winners, yes, they are the ones
Speaker 7: who truly truly deserve to be in the tournament. And
Speaker 7: I just can't deal with the automatic qualified thing edging
Speaker 7: out some of those teams that truly fully deserve it.
Speaker 7: And I will also say that segment about the NBA
Speaker 7: and the tanking is one reason I really really enjoyed
Speaker 7: your show. That was just hilarious listening to you guys.
Speaker 1: Do that.
Speaker 7: I'm sitting here at work and I don't tell my
Speaker 7: director and I just that was wonderful. Thank you, gentlemen,
Speaker 7: and have a good day.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you, David.
Speaker 2: I guess he's complimenting on us being stupid trying to
Speaker 2: figure out the lottery and we still didn't figure out
Speaker 2: the lottery.
Speaker 5: Yes, Dylan, I think stupid is relatable, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 5: more people can relate to stupid instead of intelligence.
Speaker 9: There's more stupid people than smart people out there.
Speaker 3: Yes, Paul, you can call us not smart. I don't
Speaker 3: think stupid is necessary. Well, we're in the not smart Catygo.
Speaker 2: Well, then I I'm sorry I labeled us stupid.
Speaker 3: Yeah somewhere above that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 4: The NBA was just giving us a big word salary.
Speaker 5: I know, I know.
Speaker 2: I would like to have the commissioner on and say,
Speaker 2: you explain this, Okay, do you know? Can you I'm
Speaker 2: going to guess the commissioner went, he strikes me, is.
Speaker 5: NYU?
Speaker 2: Then maybe God is MBA from Columbia or something like that.
Speaker 3: Yes, Paul, it's it's even better than that. He uh
Speaker 3: he hit a duke. Oh that's right. Yeah, and then
Speaker 3: he went to University of Chicago Law School, which is
Speaker 3: like galactic. I know, jeez, he's a smart guy.
Speaker 5: University of Chicago got a nice campus.
Speaker 3: It does. It's on the South Side. It's gorgeous and
Speaker 3: old school. The neighborhoods actually getting quite better right by
Speaker 3: the water, not far from the water. But it's an
Speaker 3: area that's not like tourist friendly historically in Chicago. But
Speaker 3: it's a gorgeous campus and one of the top five
Speaker 3: schools in the country.
Speaker 5: Yes, it is. It's very difficult to get in.
Speaker 3: A school where you go to study and ye, really successful.
Speaker 6: Yuck.
Speaker 3: They do have a football squad though, they do. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they had football like one hundred years ago. Well, no,
Speaker 3: they had the first Heisman winner, Jay Berwanger. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: went to the University of Chicago. Yeah, the Burwanger and
Speaker 3: then they brought back football. I think that the Maroons
Speaker 3: maybe twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: We would be the morons, right, and see what I
Speaker 2: do with that time? Ben and Milwaukee? Hi Ben, what's
Speaker 2: on your mind today? Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 6: First comment what he was talking about. You were entertaining.
Speaker 6: You had the conversation we have that we can't figure
Speaker 6: it out. You usually do the fact you were just
Speaker 6: today beautiful. Two comments about basketball. Do you think it's
Speaker 6: possible some coach with a great program, say Duke says,
Speaker 6: you can come here. You're going to sign a four
Speaker 6: year contract. You're going to stay, you aren't going to transfer,
Speaker 6: You're not going to the NBA. You're signing a contract
Speaker 6: to play four years, or you're not coming.
Speaker 5: Here, they'll sign elsewhere.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But if you really want to be on that great team,
Speaker 6: I don't know who it is, but the teams aren't
Speaker 6: losing all the control that may give it the seventy
Speaker 6: six number. After Have we ever had a team, a
Speaker 6: team in the bottom four lower than forty eight be
Speaker 6: our champ. No, So this is just ridiculous. They want
Speaker 6: it's equality. It's forty eight, you.
Speaker 2: Like, and you know you're going to have kids. These
Speaker 2: all these kids think they can play next level. They do.
Speaker 2: I thought I could. I still think I can. No,
Speaker 2: they're not going to go to Duke and say I'm
Speaker 2: going to go four years and I'm going to stay
Speaker 2: four years.
Speaker 5: Like you can't, you can't.
Speaker 2: You know, these contracts are a year, you know, each
Speaker 2: year and then renewed. But no, you're not going to
Speaker 2: go and have them say you can't go to the
Speaker 2: NBA or go to another school. We'll talk some hoops.
Speaker 2: Jamal Crawford will join us coming up on the way
Speaker 2: after this