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Speaker 1: and worst of the weekend. Lebron James is back in
Speaker 1: a familiar spot with a d out for four weeks
Speaker 1: because of calf and achilles issues. The Lakers roster probably
Speaker 1: compares to the Cavs teams that you know Lebron was
Speaker 1: saddled with. He took a team that might have been
Speaker 1: the worst team to go to an NBA Finals back
Speaker 1: in two thou seven. With Davis out, Lebron's going to
Speaker 1: have to carry a bigger load. He's thirty six. Now
Speaker 1: you would think that at some point, like right now,
Speaker 1: you would want him to get rest. You want to
Speaker 1: make sure that he's ready to go in May and June.
Speaker 1: He's played in every game and you had a short
Speaker 1: offseason All Star game coming up. You know, players aren't
Speaker 1: wired for load management. Now say this about Lebron. He
Speaker 1: does want to play, but he does want another mvpick.
Speaker 1: And this is going to be a difficult situation here
Speaker 1: to monitor. If you're Frank Vogel and the Lakers, you
Speaker 1: want Lebron to be rested, like you have to protect
Speaker 1: Lebron from Lebron in a situation like this. You know
Speaker 1: the Lakers don't want to lose over the next month
Speaker 1: without Anthony Davis. But you know the regular season only
Speaker 1: means so much. A February March losing streak isn't going
Speaker 1: to impact the Lakers as much as Lebron being tired
Speaker 1: for the playoffs or Anthony Davis not able to play
Speaker 1: in May or June. But we'll talk to Chris Mannix
Speaker 1: about this coming up. Here is Lebron James talking about
Speaker 1: adjusting to playing without Anthony Davis. Right now, with another
Speaker 1: another challenge for me to be able to adjust, you know,
Speaker 1: not hav an ad for a long period of time
Speaker 1: is something that we haven't had over the last year
Speaker 1: and a half. And now it's time for me to
Speaker 1: adjust again and see ways I could be even more
Speaker 1: effective to help the team win ball games, because that's
Speaker 1: that is the sport that we're in. We're in the
Speaker 1: winning business, and it's time to a clicking today. I
Speaker 1: thought they had all this depth. Now it's time for
Speaker 1: all this depth to come to the surface here and
Speaker 1: help out Lebron James because I know they're a top
Speaker 1: heavy team, but I got to have some contributions here
Speaker 1: right now, more than ever with the Lakers. All right,
Speaker 1: mclev and poll question, update the results so far? Where
Speaker 1: will JJ Watt land? There is a runaway winner, the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers sixty four percent, with the Steelers a
Speaker 1: distant second. Well, it's obvious and it's probably wishful thinking
Speaker 1: with those you know, with our fan base in Wisconsin
Speaker 1: that getting JJ Watt in a Packers uniform coming back
Speaker 1: to Wisconsin makes a lot of sense. The Browns situation
Speaker 1: is the one that's tricky because other than hey, you
Speaker 1: get to play opposite Miles Garrett. Is that enough to
Speaker 1: play for the Cleveland Browns? Yeah, Paul or Seaton jj
Speaker 1: Watt going to the Packers. It'll be awesome to follow
Speaker 1: that up with Still didn't do anything to help Aaron, though,
Speaker 1: And it's trying to twist that into like leaving Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers hanging again. Unless he's playing tight end, I don't
Speaker 1: know how that helps the Packers. Yeah. Yeah, it didn't
Speaker 1: get Aaron anymore weapons. Yeah, hey, Aaron, we got your
Speaker 1: jj Watt. Yeah, I'd like to have maybe an offensive weapon.
Speaker 1: There is he blocking for me or any way? He
Speaker 1: can't play tight end? Yes? If I give you jj
Speaker 1: Watt to Buffalo, are they the favorites then or they?
Speaker 1: Is that the missing super Bowl piece? No, he's a
Speaker 1: good defensive player. He's not a missing ingredient. I do
Speaker 1: think that the Kansas City Chiefs. If I'm Kansas City,
Speaker 1: I would at least explore that with jj Watt. I
Speaker 1: don't know what he's gonna cost you, but you can
Speaker 1: say to him, we're going back to the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Do you want to be part of the You want
Speaker 1: to join us for the ride? You already got money,
Speaker 1: you want to ring and if if I'm JJ Watt,
Speaker 1: do I wait for Kansas City to reach out to
Speaker 1: me or do I reach out to them? And I
Speaker 1: would certainly reach out to Kansas City, absolutely, And I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're on the list, Paulie. The odds
Speaker 1: for JJ Watt my list or the ESPN list, Well,
Speaker 1: your list is different because you and JJ have something
Speaker 1: going on there. Let me see if Kansas Okay, these
Speaker 1: are the odds for Las Vegas Browns, then the Packers, Steelers, Bills, Bucks, Ravens, Patriots, Cowboys, Colts, Rams, Niners,
Speaker 1: Chiefs aren't even on here. That's gonna be money, right,
Speaker 1: they're saying they have like that. Dave was signed to
Speaker 1: everybody cap wise. Yeah, but if he is true to
Speaker 1: his word, he just wants to win. Where's your best
Speaker 1: chance of winning? Unless you think if you think Tampa
Speaker 1: can do it again, I would rather go to the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. What about the Patriots on this list? Man?
Speaker 1: That doesn't seem I don't. I don't see if I'm
Speaker 1: J J Watt unless you go, boy, I want to
Speaker 1: say that I got to play for Bill Belichick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't see that at all. All Right, we'll get
Speaker 1: some phone calls here. PAULI has a is it a
Speaker 1: is it a Tim Tebow question? Or a game a
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow question? Tim Tebow has retired. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he chose to retire from football and now he's
Speaker 1: retired from baseball. He played football, so he's twenty five
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. If you gave it's almost a
Speaker 1: two part question. If you gave him Tebow ado over
Speaker 1: at age twenty five with football, would he be open
Speaker 1: to go playing a different position and being more of
Speaker 1: an emergency quarterback? And if he did that would have
Speaker 1: it extended his career another five years? If he played
Speaker 1: a different position, he was open to changing positions and
Speaker 1: not being a quarterback anymore, because that's the reason he's
Speaker 1: not in the league, isn't it or was it the
Speaker 1: too much coverage? No, I just don't think he could
Speaker 1: play the position in the NFL. Right. So, if he
Speaker 1: would have said to all teams through his agent, I'm
Speaker 1: willing to help the team in any way like a
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill or like Eric Crouch did not do when
Speaker 1: he came out of Nebraska, would he be still playing
Speaker 1: in the NFL? Yes, if you gave him a duover.
Speaker 1: Would he do that? No, man, but I do. It's
Speaker 1: it's so easy to dump on Tim Tebow. You know
Speaker 1: that he was a disappointment in the NFL. What I
Speaker 1: admire about him is he chose to play the most
Speaker 1: difficult sport and and it's you know, his games were shown,
Speaker 1: his at bats were shown. You know, if he did
Speaker 1: something well, you know it was trumpeted by the Mothership.
Speaker 1: But it's a humbling sport, as Michael Jordan showed us,
Speaker 1: It's a humbling sport. And he didn't give up. He
Speaker 1: kept trying to make the roster, major league roster with
Speaker 1: the Mets. And I commend him on that. This is
Speaker 1: somebody who's been successful all of his life and he
Speaker 1: put himself in a position where seven out of ten
Speaker 1: times you fail and you're still considered a very good player.
Speaker 1: He wasn't a great player. He wasn't even a good player.
Speaker 1: And I batted two twenty three in the minors. Now
Speaker 1: they're a lot worse. But I give him credit that
Speaker 1: he tried. And when he first you know, he had
Speaker 1: that hey, I'm going to work out for the scouts,
Speaker 1: and I thought it felt like it was more attached
Speaker 1: to a shoe company. I think it was Adidas, and
Speaker 1: I thought it was he's going to be sort of
Speaker 1: wearing the gear and it felt it felt promotional, and
Speaker 1: then I realized that he truly was committed to trying
Speaker 1: to be a major league baseball player. It's the same
Speaker 1: with Jordan. For whatever reason he decided to interrupt his
Speaker 1: career to go play baseball, he still was going to
Speaker 1: be embarrassed because that's what baseball does to you. And
Speaker 1: Jordan had the athleticism, but he didn't have I truly
Speaker 1: believe if you said to Michael Jordan, you're gonna just
Speaker 1: play baseball, not basketball, and he spent five years preparing
Speaker 1: for that moment, Michael Jordan would have been in the
Speaker 1: major leagues and contributed in the major leagues because he
Speaker 1: had athleticism. He had a long swing, like he tried
Speaker 1: to have a pretty swing instead of, you know, a
Speaker 1: smart swing. But you know, Jordan could play or at
Speaker 1: least showed signs and tebow occasionally. Did I think that
Speaker 1: bat that he sent me after he hit a home
Speaker 1: run last year, that's the last that baton was used
Speaker 1: for the last home run he hit in baseball. Yeah, Paully,
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow in twenty eighteen played double A in Binghamton.
Speaker 1: That's pretty high level double A. Yeah. He hit two
Speaker 1: seventy three for the season where he had three hundred
Speaker 1: plate appearances. There are five guys on the team whose
Speaker 1: batting averages were worse than Tim Tebow, who had three
Speaker 1: hundred plate appearances. He was an average player on his team.
Speaker 1: He was solid. Two seventy three is nothing not embarrassing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I thought the Mets used him, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: for promotional vehicle, you know, but I thought he truly
Speaker 1: was going to get on the major league roster, like
Speaker 1: a September call up. I just thought that, you know,
Speaker 1: the Mets weren't any good. Hey, let's bring up Tim Tebow. Yeah. See,
Speaker 1: you know it's sort of taken for get granted, just
Speaker 1: to go back to the football thing that if Tim
Speaker 1: Tebo had switched to another position, he would have been
Speaker 1: more successful. But you really don't know that, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how interested he is and
Speaker 1: blocking for a running back or something like that. No,
Speaker 1: but if he's all in, which I feel like, if
Speaker 1: he committed to it, then he could have been an
Speaker 1: h back. He could have been a tight end. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not Taysom Hill, but I do think that he
Speaker 1: could have he he could have played a different position.
Speaker 1: I feel that way. Yeah, club see, I was I
Speaker 1: was thinking the same thing as seeing he's slow, though,
Speaker 1: unlike Eric Crouch and Taysom Hill, like I think Tebow's
Speaker 1: forty he was in the four seventh where and Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill's famously at four point four. Well, Taysom Hill's freak athlete.
Speaker 1: I mean Tim Tebow could have fit in with a
Speaker 1: lot of tight ends. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean that
Speaker 1: that's you know, Taysom Hill's a wide receiver and a
Speaker 1: quarterback and a running back. Tebow would have just been
Speaker 1: a tight end. I think Eric Crouch was going to
Speaker 1: move to safety right, which also happens wide receiver, a
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Okay, and he passed. I kept thinking, oh boy,
Speaker 1: orc remember Antoine Rand. A lot of receiver, A lot
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks have done that move. Yes, but you have
Speaker 1: to be really fast. Yeah, Trelle Pryor did it. Logan Thomas,
Speaker 1: my guy, Logan Thomas became a tight end. He's great too. Hey,
Speaker 1: he's good. He's good. A couple of phone calls here,
Speaker 1: Tyler and Michigan. Hey, ty what's on your mind? Hey Dan,
Speaker 1: I got a that's and worse for the weekend. As
Speaker 1: I'm packing to go to Florida, I realized I had
Speaker 1: a fresh Dan Patrick Shill had to play hit the
Speaker 1: Links with and worst is having the conversation with my
Speaker 1: fiance to most likely cancel our wedding again for the
Speaker 1: second time due to COVID. Here in Michigan, we're shut down,
Speaker 1: So everybody go get your vaccine. Well, Tyler, Tyler, don't
Speaker 1: say cancel, say postpone. Yeah, I probably shouldn't show this
Speaker 1: video to Yeah, it's a it's a postpone, but it's
Speaker 1: not a cancelation. I guess this time, it looks like
Speaker 1: beach is the answer. So I was doing a good
Speaker 1: job sounding disappointed, though, Well, looks like we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to cancel it again. Oh well, yeah, I am disappointed
Speaker 1: in that. A wedding is a day. Marriage is a lifetime.
Speaker 1: You want to get married, get married. That's all, go
Speaker 1: down the courthouse, just get married, all right. If I
Speaker 1: had to do it all over now, I had a
Speaker 1: great wedding. I had a great wedding, great reception. It
Speaker 1: was great. It but I this destination wedding stuff. I
Speaker 1: would totally go, Hey, who wants to join us in
Speaker 1: Hawaii at the beach and that's it. No I have
Speaker 1: to worry about anything. You know, we can have uh,
Speaker 1: I don't care hamburgers, hot dogs, taco bar something, um,
Speaker 1: you know margharita that I'd just make it so simple
Speaker 1: and then bank all that cash instead of no. But
Speaker 1: that's I say that to my son who's getting married.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you don't have to, you know, do a
Speaker 1: big deal, and he goes, yeah, I know. I said, okay,
Speaker 1: but if I had to do it all over again,
Speaker 1: I'd bank some cash. And instead of because you invite
Speaker 1: people you're never gonna see again, you do you invite people,
Speaker 1: it'd be better to just invite brothers and sisters, you know,
Speaker 1: some aunt's uncles like that, and be it. I don't
Speaker 1: need to, like you invite people that you were working
Speaker 1: with at the time, and I did that and I
Speaker 1: haven't seen them since. And I've been married thirty three years.
Speaker 1: I don't even get a Christmas card from those people. No. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: I went to a wedding a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: Buddy in Vermont and he had in his backyard, beautiful,
Speaker 1: lovely backyard, nothing you know, high end, a pig roast
Speaker 1: and two guys with acoustic guitars. My wife turns to
Speaker 1: me at the end of the wedding. We had a
Speaker 1: great time. It's a very low key wedding. You know what,
Speaker 1: We should have done something like this, And I was
Speaker 1: lost it because we spent a year discussing flowers and
Speaker 1: center pieces whatever that means. Don't we know what a
Speaker 1: centerpiece is, but we did like three days on it.
Speaker 1: We decorated everything, and you gotta be all into it.
Speaker 1: Let me give you a couple of tips here. Guys,
Speaker 1: you may not know a damn thing about flowers, invitations,
Speaker 1: what they look like, calligraphy, whatever it is. You have
Speaker 1: to just be all in because if if you're not,
Speaker 1: it will come up twenty years later, thirty three years later.
Speaker 1: But always be there. How do I help? How do
Speaker 1: I help? Because it's really about your wife's mother, like
Speaker 1: she's gonna be all involved in this. I am picking
Speaker 1: words carefully, but you can't have a couple of things
Speaker 1: for yourself if you're the groom, like let's have ribs
Speaker 1: or let's have a ice cream Sunday barsn't have a cake. Nope,
Speaker 1: you can't do it. Nope. But if she does ask you,
Speaker 1: even if she asks you, you know you can't tell
Speaker 1: her what you really want. You have to go, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe ice cream Sunday bar would be great,
Speaker 1: but but it maybe it doesn't make sense, like you
Speaker 1: have to kind of maybe she picks up on it
Speaker 1: and she doesn't, then you just move on, yes me, clem. Also,
Speaker 1: I think as a rule you should be able to
Speaker 1: edit your best man speech. Well, no, you just give
Speaker 1: them that you get this amount of time you and
Speaker 1: they have free U the wedding. They can't. I've been
Speaker 1: at one where I was just a guest and it
Speaker 1: was somebody that my wife knew, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: go up and just grab this guy around the neck
Speaker 1: and just say get the hell out of here, because
Speaker 1: he was trying to be funny. Like you get up
Speaker 1: there and you think it's live at the improv, you
Speaker 1: get a couple of pops in you and you think
Speaker 1: you're the funniest guy in the world, and you are
Speaker 1: not funny at all, not at all. This would have
Speaker 1: happened to you twice if you had actually attended my
Speaker 1: wedding because I remember my best patch. I've talked about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was R rated NC seventeen in a crowd that
Speaker 1: didn't want that. Was your wife upset with you with
Speaker 1: what your best man's speech was? You have the rong
Speaker 1: verb you said was she's still yes, she's yeah. Of
Speaker 1: course she was upset with me. She wasn't as upset
Speaker 1: with him. Yes. Boy. The best piece of advice I
Speaker 1: would give is you need someone close to you as
Speaker 1: your enforcer, the wolf like in pulp fiction. Yeah, my sister,
Speaker 1: who is way less emotional than me and I'm emotionless,
Speaker 1: was my wolf, my hammer when anyone else got out
Speaker 1: of line of my wedding, I looked at my sister
Speaker 1: and gave her like I was calling into the bullpen.
Speaker 1: I just gave her a little tip, and she gave
Speaker 1: me the head nod. She dispatched a few people from
Speaker 1: my wedding at certain points that we're getting out of line,
Speaker 1: and it was fantastic. She's awesome. You gotta have one
Speaker 1: person that's your hammer, and it can spiral out of
Speaker 1: control quickly. Yeah. I like I got married on a Saturday,
Speaker 1: but on a Friday night rehearsal dinner, and then I
Speaker 1: lost somebody who was in the wedding party and he
Speaker 1: was off with somebody. And then the next morning, I'm
Speaker 1: going to the church, I can't find him. And then
Speaker 1: he shows up and he had no shoes on, and
Speaker 1: I said, dude, you're on your own, like I got
Speaker 1: to go to the church, and I gave him the
Speaker 1: key to my apartment. I said, show up all right
Speaker 1: if you can. And he was the life of the reception.
Speaker 1: Like we had our cumber around our faces and like
Speaker 1: we were bandidos or something like bank rubbers, and and
Speaker 1: that play with them missus. Oh oh, my wife loved it.
Speaker 1: We were sliding down the steps on our chest. Now
Speaker 1: I wouldn't advise this because at one point we broke
Speaker 1: a guy's nose like he was lifting me up and
Speaker 1: my foot came down and broke his nose. And as
Speaker 1: long as it wasn't my nose, I didn't care. But
Speaker 1: you know, blood all over the place. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we had a lively time. Yes time. The other thing
Speaker 1: you can't do is, though sometimes the women your wife
Speaker 1: is showing you your wife to be different things, whether
Speaker 1: it's flowers or photo photographers or whatever, and if you
Speaker 1: give them too quick a yes, it shows that you're
Speaker 1: absolutely not interested. You have to at least fame, you know,
Speaker 1: make a choice, even if it's not her choice, you'd
Speaker 1: make it look like, you know, you gave it some thought.
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, yeah, whatever you want, honey, is not
Speaker 1: the way to go. Yeah, yeah, that's I mean. You
Speaker 1: you learn to say, oh, I agree, honey, Oh I
Speaker 1: love that, and you can't go I don't know. Got
Speaker 1: you just want an opinion. They want to hear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they want you involved. Yes, you rub your chin a
Speaker 1: lot and squint when you're looking at the pictures of flowers.
Speaker 1: You know, what kind of are those? What do you think?
Speaker 1: But you give a little opinion, but not those are
Speaker 1: the ones I want? Because could you imagine if you
Speaker 1: had to tell Todd as if he was ever a
Speaker 1: best man that you've got to limit him to three minutes?
Speaker 1: That would be awful. Have you food for like ninety seconds?
Speaker 1: And now I'm something I'm left with him and I
Speaker 1: have to actually say something, have you ever been a
Speaker 1: best man? Uh? My brother's wedding? Yeah, And I probably
Speaker 1: went longer than I should have, and I did one
Speaker 1: of those cheesy rhymes where everything has to be a poem,
Speaker 1: and that's that's kind of my thing. Did you do
Speaker 1: mock headlines at your brother iris? We did not do
Speaker 1: mockheads that I wasn't inappropriate, that I didn't call anybody out.
Speaker 1: That that's some kind of inappropriate behavior that was done
Speaker 1: to this one's cousins. Can you find the speech? I
Speaker 1: will have to look for that I find it. I
Speaker 1: will definitely on the teas and bump unit. You were
Speaker 1: in love. We all knew it was for you and
Speaker 1: your bride. We're all just wondering why. But we're all
Speaker 1: on your side. Yeah, everything that goes out for seven
Speaker 1: more minutes. You didn't do one. You didn't do sports names,
Speaker 1: didn't do Sports Day. I should have, now that I
Speaker 1: think about it, that might have been actually play judge.
Speaker 1: But I feel compelled to challenge myself to have everything
Speaker 1: to be a priest Holmes, Stanley, Cup, pre Nup, Todd,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Sports names? What's that got to
Speaker 1: do with my big day? What are you doing? Oh?
Speaker 1: That would have been a disaster, and especially now, because
Speaker 1: then you'd have to get up and you have to
Speaker 1: do expected. No, you have to do some humor, and
Speaker 1: there would be section row seat and I'd get the
Speaker 1: same kind of silence that I experienced in a few
Speaker 1: other cases. Crickets. Let me take a break. Chris Mannix
Speaker 1: covers the NBA for Sports Illustrated. We'll talk about the
Speaker 1: Lakers situation. Also, are the Nets the team to beat
Speaker 1: in the NBA? That's coming up next twenty two after
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Speaker 1: believe set to Jonas here. I've been talking about this
Speaker 1: this morning, Chris, that you have Lebron and the Lakers,
Speaker 1: that you know, the Lakers without Anthony Davis. Lebron is
Speaker 1: still playing a lot of minutes. I know he wants
Speaker 1: to win the MVP, but I want him rested for
Speaker 1: May and June. What do the Lakers do now with
Speaker 1: this situation, at least over the next month. I think
Speaker 1: the key for the Lakers is going to be maintaining
Speaker 1: Lebron's minutes in that low thirty ish range, even if
Speaker 1: it comes at the cost of wins. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know they're going to stumble without Anthony Davis over the
Speaker 1: next few weeks. It's inevitable. But you really can't concern
Speaker 1: yourself with your place in the standings if you're the Lakers,
Speaker 1: I mean, under optimal circumstances, home court advantage didn't mean
Speaker 1: anything to them anyway. I mean, we've seen Lebron's teams
Speaker 1: in Cleveland go from what like the fourth seed to
Speaker 1: the finals in the past. It's the same situation in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. So you've got to treat the regular season
Speaker 1: as just something you get through and resist the temptation
Speaker 1: to burn Lebron out for thirty nine forty plus minutes
Speaker 1: just to get wins. And look, I think Frank Vogel
Speaker 1: understands that, and I think even if you know Lebron
Speaker 1: to resists, you'll see Lebron's minutes, you know, start to
Speaker 1: hover around those mid to Lowe thirty range. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know that it just feels like he's obsessed with
Speaker 1: proving to everybody he should be the MVP, should have
Speaker 1: been the MVP, And you know it's a delicate balance
Speaker 1: there of he wants to win an MVP. You can
Speaker 1: you get that feeling, Chris, He look, he's I do
Speaker 1: get that feeling, and I think he's probably the front
Speaker 1: runner right now. We should dispel the notion Dan that
Speaker 1: he should have won MVP last year. He should not
Speaker 1: have won MVP last year. It is a regular season award,
Speaker 1: and Jannis put up one of the greatest regular seasons
Speaker 1: we've seen since Shack in the early two thousands. His
Speaker 1: numbers were outstanding, the bucks were outstanding. They phizzled out
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, but that's not what the award is for.
Speaker 1: So we did not get robbed by any stretch last year.
Speaker 1: This year, if he doesn't win, I think he'll have
Speaker 1: a stronger case because you can look at Joel him
Speaker 1: Bead and NICOLEI Yokich and a handful of others, including,
Speaker 1: by the way, James Harden, who I thought thrust himself
Speaker 1: back into the conversation. You know, during this five and
Speaker 1: old road trip. The Nets are on, but I think
Speaker 1: Lebron will have a stronger case this year by far
Speaker 1: than what he did last year. I know you have
Speaker 1: a column coming out tomorrow on the Nets. Where do
Speaker 1: you stand with, Well, they're not even fully assembled. But
Speaker 1: are the nets of the team to be clearly in
Speaker 1: the east, They are, no question. You know what's scary
Speaker 1: about the Nets right now is that they've figured out
Speaker 1: a way to be competent defensively. You know that flop
Speaker 1: from James Harden last night. Notwithstanding, they've been a really
Speaker 1: good defensive team over these last five six games two weeks.
Speaker 1: I thought DeAndre Jordan last night played one of not
Speaker 1: his best game of the season on both ends of
Speaker 1: the floor. And it just seems like they're getting comfortable
Speaker 1: playing off of each other that you know, the switches
Speaker 1: are making more sense. Their chemistry is a lot better.
Speaker 1: And look, they don't need to be a top ten
Speaker 1: defensive team to be a champion. They just need to
Speaker 1: be like, you know, better than like the twenty eighth
Speaker 1: or twenty ninth that they were in the first couple
Speaker 1: of weeks after the trade. They've hovered. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: the updated stat this morning. But they've hovered right around
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack, and that's all they need
Speaker 1: to be. That's the only place they need to be
Speaker 1: because offensively, they're dynamic right now. I mean, you see
Speaker 1: Joe Harris making shots. Harden and Irving clearly have good
Speaker 1: chemistry out there on the floor. And when Durant comes back,
Speaker 1: they'll have three snipers out there in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So as long as they're capable defensively, they're the team
Speaker 1: to beat in Eastern Conference, no question. And they have
Speaker 1: proven on this recent trip that they're better than capable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I start to wonder because I always say this,
Speaker 1: it feels like every year, no matter what the sport is,
Speaker 1: that it will come down to a defensive play. Football,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a defensive play that you made
Speaker 1: it or you didn't make it. I'm starting to think
Speaker 1: with the Nets, it doesn't matter that they could just
Speaker 1: be so good offensively, it doesn't matter what kind of
Speaker 1: defensive performance they put out there. Yeah. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: don't agree because I mean, you remember those first couple
Speaker 1: of games they played against Cleveland, when they were in
Speaker 1: Cleveland for that two game set, when they I mean,
Speaker 1: they scored all they wanted, but they gave up like
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty five. On the other end, I mean,
Speaker 1: I like to say there's no such thing as a
Speaker 1: ten point shot. So when no matter who you got
Speaker 1: on the floor, if you're down by seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 1: ten points, you're going to find yourself in a world
Speaker 1: of trouble. They're a lot better defensively since that point,
Speaker 1: which I think is all they need to be. But
Speaker 1: I do think it matters what they do defensively. It
Speaker 1: might it might matter Dan how Kyrie Irving defends, frankly,
Speaker 1: because if you watch the game last night, you know
Speaker 1: the Clippers were switching everything to get on Irving. You know,
Speaker 1: whoever it was, Paul, George Kawhi, Lenap didn't matter as
Speaker 1: long as they got Kyrie Irving and to switch they
Speaker 1: were going at him. That's going to continue throughout the season.
Speaker 1: So whether it's Irving improving defensively, which is a lot
Speaker 1: to ask, or Steve Nash coming up with ways to
Speaker 1: cover for him, that's probably something you want to watch
Speaker 1: most closely defensively. And I don't know if Kyrie Irving
Speaker 1: deserves to be commended the fact that he said basically
Speaker 1: to James Harden. You are a point guard, like James
Speaker 1: Harden should be your point guard. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Kyrie is always tricky, and I just feel like he
Speaker 1: can win a game for you, but then he might
Speaker 1: be the guy who's going to lose a game for you.
Speaker 1: Where do you think he fits in with all of
Speaker 1: this when it's all said and done. It's really surprised
Speaker 1: me how seamless the transition has been for Kyrie and
Speaker 1: James Harden, because I was legitimately concerned how that would
Speaker 1: work out over the first you know, a few weeks
Speaker 1: of this partnership, mean, James Harden is used to having
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands. Kyrie Irving has used to
Speaker 1: having the ball in his hands. But I think we
Speaker 1: do have to give Kyrie credit for, you know, saying
Speaker 1: to Harden, you be the playmaker, I'll play off the ball.
Speaker 1: You and I Dan could sit here and say it's
Speaker 1: the right move, and it is. But for Kyrie Irving,
Speaker 1: who has been a point guard his whole career, who
Speaker 1: signed on to play point guard alongside Kevin Durant, to
Speaker 1: have everything change on him, you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks into their first full season together, I could have
Speaker 1: envisioned a scenario where Kyrie kind of threw a nutty
Speaker 1: and said, I don't want to kind of be any
Speaker 1: part of this. But he has it, he has embraced it,
Speaker 1: and it's been enormously successful Harden, you know, when Durant's
Speaker 1: in there, especially, but Harden has looked to be a
Speaker 1: passer first, not look to be the same guy we
Speaker 1: saw in Houston. Kyrie has benefited from Again, if you
Speaker 1: asked me two weeks ago if Kyrie was an All Star,
Speaker 1: I would have said no. I would have said, look,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of other guys, whether it's Julius Randall
Speaker 1: or Tobias Harris or others who deserved that last spot.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard to keep him off the team
Speaker 1: with the numbers he's putting up. He's Chris Mannix, He's
Speaker 1: an NBA senior writer. The Pelicans are an interesting watch.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're a good team, but Zion is
Speaker 1: still fascinating here. I guess, you know, do they make
Speaker 1: moves here? What stan Van Gundy gonna do with this
Speaker 1: team down the stretch? Well, I think if they make moves,
Speaker 1: it's going to be to deconstruct pieces of the roster
Speaker 1: and not add to it for the playoff run. It's
Speaker 1: pretty clear they don't envision a long term scenario with
Speaker 1: Lonzo Ball. He's available before the March twenty fifth trade deadline.
Speaker 1: Has been well known around the league that JJ Reddick
Speaker 1: is available before the deadline. JJ his shooting numbers have
Speaker 1: gone up in the month of February. I remember he
Speaker 1: was off to that just dismal start that made people
Speaker 1: wonder if he was completely washed. But I think he's
Speaker 1: right around fifty percent from three in the month of February,
Speaker 1: which is going to make him more appealing to teams
Speaker 1: bore the deadline, but look, it's Zion, it's brandon Ingram.
Speaker 1: They're building around those two guys long term, but short term.
Speaker 1: My belief is David Griffin his prioritizing draft picks. I
Speaker 1: mean they traded Drew Holiday to get those three first
Speaker 1: round picks from Milwaukee. I think if there's a first
Speaker 1: round pick out there for either Lonzo Ball or JJ Reddick,
Speaker 1: or even in the case of JJ, you multiple second
Speaker 1: round picks something like that, I think you could see
Speaker 1: those two moved off before the March twenty fifth deadline.
Speaker 1: You and I have been on the LaMelo ball bandwagon,
Speaker 1: and he's better than what people thought, a lot better
Speaker 1: than what people thought. But I wonder if he's going
Speaker 1: to end up like Kemba Walker did in Charlotte, where
Speaker 1: hey tune in to watch the Hornets with Kemba Walker
Speaker 1: but there was nothing else to see. What kind of
Speaker 1: confidence do you have that they're going to build something
Speaker 1: there in Charlotte with Lamello. I think you can have
Speaker 1: some cautious optimism in the same way you had cautious
Speaker 1: optimism early in the Kemba Walker run with the Horns.
Speaker 1: Remember Kemba wasn't always kind of mired in mediocrity there
Speaker 1: in Charlotte, had a couple of playoff appearance. I think
Speaker 1: they went to a couple of Games sevens in Kemba's
Speaker 1: time in Charlotte in the first round. You're kind of
Speaker 1: at that beginning stage with Lamello, and I really like
Speaker 1: what they've put around him early on. I mean, remember Dan,
Speaker 1: there was a time when people laughed at the Terror
Speaker 1: Rose year contract. I mean, Terry Rozier is averaging twenty
Speaker 1: one points per game and shooting forty six percent from three,
Speaker 1: and he's taking eight threes per game, the Davante Graham,
Speaker 1: you know, Terry Rozier, LaMelo ball backcourt that seems to
Speaker 1: make some sense. Gordon Hayward has clicked there. He's got
Speaker 1: a case to be an All Star this year. They
Speaker 1: don't have anything in the front court right now. I
Speaker 1: mean Bismac Beyambo, Cody Zell. That doesn't do anything for anybody,
Speaker 1: at least when it comes to the playoffs. But if
Speaker 1: you've got a good foundation there one through three, you've
Speaker 1: got reason to be cautiously optimistic. So now it's on
Speaker 1: Mitch cup Jack, it's on Buzz Peterson's on the front
Speaker 1: office to add pieces that makes sense around LaMelo. But look,
Speaker 1: let's praise us both here then Dan, because LaMelo can play.
Speaker 1: I still think that they're going to try to change
Speaker 1: his shot this offseason. You know, James Burrego comes from
Speaker 1: that San Antonio system where they changed Kawhi Leonard shot
Speaker 1: and they changed Richard Jefferson shot for the better for
Speaker 1: their long term of their careers. I think this summer
Speaker 1: they're gonna sit with LaMelo ball and trying to change
Speaker 1: that shot. But for right now, I think he is
Speaker 1: the runaway rookie of the year, and that's that's something,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty big to build on. Yeah, I'd like
Speaker 1: to see that shot start a little bit higher because
Speaker 1: he does have it lower. But you know what his
Speaker 1: argument though, dan As he makes it like I think
Speaker 1: he's shooting mid thirties from three point range. He's like,
Speaker 1: why are you trying to change my shot when it's
Speaker 1: going in? So it's well, the one thing about you know,
Speaker 1: LaMelo said this the thing about two weeks ago. He said,
Speaker 1: everybody tried to change my shot, including Charlotte. You have
Speaker 1: to embrace it. The reason that Kawhi Leonard you know,
Speaker 1: was successful with the change of his shot and people
Speaker 1: forget he was a terrible three point shooter in college.
Speaker 1: He went to San Antonio. When he got there, Chip
Speaker 1: England showed him, you know, photos and video of Richard
Speaker 1: Jefferson and changing it into a Kobe Bryant like shot,
Speaker 1: and Kawhi embraced it. Kawhi said, look, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: I'm all in. LaMelo has to be all in. If
Speaker 1: he just is doing it because Charlotte says you need
Speaker 1: to do it's not gonna work. If he says, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm going to become a better shooter. This way, then
Speaker 1: I think you can become just as dangerous. Good to
Speaker 1: talk to you, Chris has always thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: You got a Dan. That's Chris Mannoxe, senior NBA writer
Speaker 1: for Sports Illustrated. If you get a chance watch LaMelo Ball,
Speaker 1: you got to go out of your way to find
Speaker 1: him because it's Charlotte and they're not going to be
Speaker 1: musty TV. But if you want to come to my
Speaker 1: house and watch, try to. Now maybe I shouldn't offer
Speaker 1: that invitation. He's fun to watch, it really is. It's
Speaker 1: fun to watch, and I love they're players that have
Speaker 1: the ability to see the floor differently, and it's not
Speaker 1: once in every generation. I mean, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of players who see the floor, play the angles. LaMelo
Speaker 1: Ball has the ability to find somebody open or he
Speaker 1: can throw somebody open. We talk about this a lot
Speaker 1: with quarterbacks in the NFL, and the difference of college
Speaker 1: to the NFL is you have to throw players open.
Speaker 1: In college, they're open. LaMelo Ball will throw you open
Speaker 1: somehow he sees something that's not there. And look, he's
Speaker 1: not polished by a long shot, but who is at
Speaker 1: that age. He's just a lot of fun. And I
Speaker 1: was concerned that he wasn't even going to be starting
Speaker 1: because I thought he'd be Rookie of the Year. And
Speaker 1: he's that good. And Charlotte is a sneaky competitive team.
Speaker 1: They are Rogier has been good. They have some players there.
Speaker 1: But you will tune in to watch LaMelo ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can someone have a good shot if it's not good looking?
Speaker 1: Like Sean Marrion I think made up five All Star
Speaker 1: teams and his shot was weird? Well what he ever?
Speaker 1: It's like twenty two game. Reggie Miller's shot is unorthodox.
Speaker 1: There are guys who you still have to It's like
Speaker 1: a golf swing. Where are you an impact? You know?
Speaker 1: Jim Purik swing has been described as a variety of things,
Speaker 1: you know, like an octopus fell out of a window.
Speaker 1: But when he gets to the ball, it's the same
Speaker 1: as all the other golfers. But that as long as
Speaker 1: it's repeatable. You know, guys will tinker with their shots.
Speaker 1: They'll be at the free throw line. You could see
Speaker 1: their thinking, like you get to the free throw line,
Speaker 1: boom boom boom, couple dribbles and then shoot it follow through.
Speaker 1: That's it. But guys, they that's not natural and you
Speaker 1: start to Lebron tinkered with his free throw. He's still
Speaker 1: tinkering with his free throw, and it's the one knock
Speaker 1: on Lebron. Not a great free throat, not even a
Speaker 1: really good, even good free throw shooter. Yeah, McLellan, don't
Speaker 1: forget Ray Allen was doing it wrong as well. Imagine
Speaker 1: if you I would have been able to help him
Speaker 1: with his shot, you know, earlier in his career, what
Speaker 1: a shooter he would have been. Yeah, weney, Okay, I
Speaker 1: got a question though, Okay, LaMelo ball. You still say
Speaker 1: his shot is jankie? Should he restart it like Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons try to restart? Well, no, no, Ben is that's
Speaker 1: on a different planet. That's that's LaMelo brother Alonzo and
Speaker 1: Ben's I'd love to see those two have a shooting
Speaker 1: contest from three point range like All Star Weekend. He'll
Speaker 1: be great, Like, can I get the worst three point
Speaker 1: shooters out there? I don't like LaMelo's release is a
Speaker 1: little lower, But I just want to know if you
Speaker 1: have rhythm and you follow through and you have confidence, Yeah, club,
Speaker 1: does he have time to fix it before he goes
Speaker 1: to the Lakers and three years we'll take a break.
Speaker 1: Last call for phone calls right up to this. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure
Speaker 1: to catch us live every weekday morning nine until noon
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Speaker 1: you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at FSR
Speaker 1: or stream us live on the Peacock app. Last ten games,
Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball shooting forty three percent on three pointers, averaging
Speaker 1: twenty points a game, six and a half assists per game.
Speaker 1: If you're not on the bandwagon, then you can't come on.
Speaker 1: That's it, the bandwagon, there's no more. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: be any more. Seats me and Mellow. Who would have thought,
Speaker 1: because I don't like his dad, but I have to
Speaker 1: give up his you know, his dad a lot of
Speaker 1: credit because you know, these kids have turned out to
Speaker 1: be good players and make it to the NBA. Li
Speaker 1: Angelo hasn't, but you know, and Lonzo is probably going
Speaker 1: to be a work in progress. There was a moment
Speaker 1: yesterday and the Pelicans overtime win where Lonzo was running
Speaker 1: away so he wouldn't get fouled at the end of
Speaker 1: the game. If you've ever seen somebody be chased by bees,
Speaker 1: that's what it looks like like he's he's running, but
Speaker 1: you're going why is he running? He couldn't afford to
Speaker 1: be He fouled because he didn't want to go to
Speaker 1: the line. It looked like he was being chased by bees,
Speaker 1: and he was like, don't touch me, don't found me.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go to the line. Here all right,
Speaker 1: let me get a couple of phone calls in here
Speaker 1: Mo in Arizona, Hey Mo, what's on your mind? Hey? Mom?
Speaker 1: For the record, Jeff mornerstay had a horrible looking shot,
Speaker 1: but it works, So uh hadn't said that? Uh lad
Speaker 1: a slide on humanas my wife and my wife's to
Speaker 1: live up your anniversary. She watched this show. It works,
Speaker 1: you got she could give her a shout out and
Speaker 1: get a lot of brownie points from my best and worst.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to do it? Or do you
Speaker 1: want to do it? Sounds better coming from you? Better better?
Speaker 1: All right? What's her name? Mo? Wonder? Oh? Hey Wanda?
Speaker 1: Oh are you? Oh sorry? Sorry but perfect? Thank you? Mo? Um,
Speaker 1: hey Wanda, take care moo all right. I can't spell
Speaker 1: momentum without m you know, I mean, all right, moll
Speaker 1: ask I delivered Stephen Denver, Steve, what's on your mind? ADP?
Speaker 1: I was calling him because your guys talk about the wedding.
Speaker 1: My fiance and I are getting married Labor Day weekend
Speaker 1: and first marriage for both, and she's a physician. We're
Speaker 1: both in our forties, and it has been a lot
Speaker 1: of whatever you want, dear. Anytime I've tried to put
Speaker 1: my foot down, she's like, no, we're doing that, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I have at it, no problem. So
Speaker 1: it's really at home with what you guys were talking.
Speaker 1: But Steve, this is your only marriage. It's it's not
Speaker 1: your first, it's not first for both like you, this
Speaker 1: is your only one. This is the only marriage. Solid,
Speaker 1: solid point, Okay, all right, all right, see I got
Speaker 1: it these little things. Man, I'm just trying to All
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do is cut everything. I'm troubleshooter. That's
Speaker 1: what I am. Santo and Maine. Hey, Santo, Hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: I was doing, man, good, what's on your mind? A wedding? Wedding,
Speaker 1: wedding suggestion for your son. My wife and I got
Speaker 1: married about seven years ago. We were into a small
Speaker 1: hall and Kennebuntport, Maine, had dinner for the immediate family,
Speaker 1: and then we invited it, invited all our friends in.
Speaker 1: We had a keg, a bunch of the cases of
Speaker 1: two buck chuck. Everybody did a byob. They said it
Speaker 1: was the best wedding they've ever been to. I love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And Betton, look, my son's getting married in April, so
Speaker 1: it's they've already got everything planned. One of the more
Speaker 1: interesting weddings I ever went to was downtown Hartford and
Speaker 1: the couple got married outside where there were Christmas ornaments
Speaker 1: already up, and then they timed it. They got married
Speaker 1: at around four forty five, and then we went into
Speaker 1: happy hour where they were serving the many hot dogs,
Speaker 1: pigs in a blanket, and went into a bar and
Speaker 1: it was basically, you know, you were buying your own
Speaker 1: drinks and then they had food or dervs because it
Speaker 1: was happier. It was nice. Todd's got wedding day sports names.
Speaker 1: I just happened to see that someone was tweeting that
Speaker 1: they were suggesting that maybe we do a few wedding
Speaker 1: day sports names. Okay, what do you have for me?
Speaker 1: I had Travis best Man, Jacob the groom Bath McBride,
Speaker 1: Larry Center's piece Derek Favors and Marry Decker Slaney. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's just the ones that just came to mind, all right?
Speaker 1: Did you come up with those? I came up with those? Okay?
Speaker 1: There was an Andy Groom, There was a Dick McBride,
Speaker 1: There was a Warren Honeymoon. There was were a few
Speaker 1: that would again, all right, suggested, um, what did I
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