WEBVTT - 06/15/21 DPS Hour 3 Reggie Miller 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.400 Sports Radio Final Hour in this Tuesday, been a fun show. 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:09.799 If you miss any of the interviews on this show 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:13.520 Dan Patrick dot com Reggie Miller will join us coming 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:17.160 up in about fifteen twenty minutes from now. Phone calls 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:19.160 are welcome. We'll get to more of those coming up. 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.840 The nets have upgraded James Harden, according to Adrian Wojnarowski, 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:28.520 too doubtful for tonight's Game five, which means it's all 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:32.800 on Kevin Durant. Do I rest him? How long can 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.880 I rest James Harden? I guess depends on who wins 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:40.520 tonight and really what his availability is. You can try 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.080 to rush these things, but you shouldn't because this could 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.879 lead to something even bigger in a longer period of 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.800 time that James Harden is out Kyrie with that ankle injury, 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.920 depending the severity of it. You know, he's had a 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:55.880 couple of days, but doesn't look like he's going to 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:58.760 be playing as well, So this falls on Kevin Durant 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.720 and he's supporting casket. You would think that the smartest 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.720 basketball fans would be people who played the game, or 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.160 maybe the analytics experts, but the way things are going 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.280 right now, the orthopedic surgeons might be the real experts 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.240 because the NBA right now, according to mclovin, stands for 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.880 National Body Part Association. It seems like every time you're 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.000 hearing about a player, there's a body part attached to 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.640 an Anthony Davis is growing, James Harden's hamstring, Kyrie Irving's ankle, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:32.360 Joel Embiid his knee, Donovan Mitchell's ankle, Trey Young shoulder, 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.160 Kawhi Leonard's knee, Chris Paul's shoulder, and then you got 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.880 Mike Conley's out, Danny Green and Philly Dante de Vincenzo 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:46.240 in Milwaukee. And the problem is, or isn't that players 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.840 are soft. I mean they play hard. The problem is 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.600 soft tissue. We knew this coming around the short turnaround, 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.600 and there were there were going to be these kind 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.480 of injuries, and teams and players need to have new 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.600 strategies to keep guys on the and maybe load management 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.440 isn't working, but that's a question for tomorrow. Right now, 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.200 the health issue is really the key trying to figure 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.240 out who's going to play for a championship this year. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.320 It's going to be the walking wounded. You know, the 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.480 healthiest team is probably going to win an NBA championship. Yeah, 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.840 I mclub. You just brought up a great point. I didn't. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.120 I forgot about how tight this season has been. It 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.120 feels like there's less time in between everything. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.839 it feels that way. Last night the Clippers got the win. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:32.280 You had Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, each scoring thirty one. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.960 Leonard and George are just the third duo in NBA 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.480 history to score at least twenty points in each of 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:44.680 their team's first eleven playoff games. The last duo Shack 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.400 and Kobe, and the other duo also played for the Lakers, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.320 Jerry West and Elgin Baylor. Mitchell, by the way, had 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.520 thirty seven, so he's the first player with six consecutive 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.520 thirty point playoff games since Steph Curry did this in 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.720 twenty nineteen. Stat of the Days, That of the day, 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.440 best out of the day, stat of the day dude 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:15.760 comes that what stat of the day? NASCAR Cup Series 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:19.160 returns to NBCSN one of the more anticipated events of 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.839 the season, and return to Nashville for the first time 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.200 in decades. The race to the playoffs is in high 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:28.880 Gear NASCAR in Nashville, Sunday three Eastern on NBCSN update 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.480 the poll results. McLevin okay. Our one and two was 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.720 will Aaron Rodgers be the starter? Week one? It's up 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.120 to sixty eight percent say yes, pretty much a majority. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.920 We were work shopping this poll question. Which favorite in 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.360 the NBA playoffs is in the most trouble The Brooklyn Nets, 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.640 who are the two seed versus Box or three, the 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.360 Sixers who are the one seed, or the Jazz who 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.400 are the one seed. All the series are tied at 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:59.640 two two. Well, yeah, Philly, Philly's got to be really 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.440 careful here, you know, tied to two games, and that's 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.400 an Atlanta team that doesn't know enough to be nervous 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:17.359 in this situation. I don't think there's a wrong answer 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.800 here because I'm looking at the Clippers and now what 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.320 happens in games. It feels like who wins Game five 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.560 is going to win this series, even with Philadelphia and Atlanta. 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.479 Because I said, hey, Philly's gonna win Game three in 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.920 Atlanta is gonna win Game four? Well, here we are, 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.960 and now you have Game five coming up tonight with 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:43.400 the Bucks in the Nets. Well, I'm gonna say that 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.039 the Nets are the favorites in Vegas. So are they 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:53.600 in the most trouble? I think they put themselves. That's 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.880 pretty vulnerable, man, because because the Bucks are healthy except 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.960 for Dante di Vincenzo. But you know, we don't know 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:03.640 who's going to show up and when they'll show up, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.720 and how good they will be when they show up 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.479 with the Nets. Yeah, Polly, I was watching the Sixers 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.920 last night, Ben Simmons's. He was one for five from 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.000 the free throw line, one for five. No one on 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:16.800 his team missed a free throw other than him. The 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.960 rust of the team was one hundred percent. That's debilot, 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.280 it it is, it's it's It's one of those where 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.279 you just go and everybody knows when you go to 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.440 the line you're going. You know, hopefully, hopefully the miss 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.760 won't be that bad, because sometimes you can miss and 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.920 it'll be like, oh, it's a brick, or that wasn't 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.719 even close. You want it where it's like, oh, that 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.800 almost could have gone in. Yeah. There's a situation where 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.520 the Hawks were going to foul and Simmons inbounded it 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.680 and ran the other way like he was running from 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.839 a swarm of bees, so he didn't get grabbed. There's 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.520 a story that I don't know if we have you know, 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.040 verification on this, but the US Open is going to 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.960 start Thursday Tory Pines in San Diego, and there is 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.760 a story that's out there that the PGA Tour or 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:08.960 the USGA went to Bryson Deshambo. He is the defending 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:14.159 US Open champ. Brad Facson, former golfer, mentioned this on 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.120 Sirius XM radio that the tour went to Bryson de 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:22.080 Shambo and said, would you be willing to play with 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:26.800 Brooks Kepka, Now that'd be great TV. They don't like 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:32.520 each other, and according to Brad Faxson, Bryson de Shambo said, no, 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.920 Now he's the defending champ. And I look, I know 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.479 they manipulate these you know, threesomes or twosoms. I get that, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.400 and I would love to see these two play in 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.680 an event, I think in a major, though that might 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.800 be being unfair to Bryson de Shambo's he's the defending champ. 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.719 You know, if you were paired with Tiger, that meant 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.720 you were playing for a championship. Now guys would talk 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.200 about how you know, it was unfair with the crowds, 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:02.839 and you know, you had to go through a lot 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.400 more and yet a crowd that was pro Tiger there 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.360 as well. But you were playing with Tiger. That meant 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:13.520 you were probably playing for a title Saturday and Sunday. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.480 Maybe brooks Kepka and Bryson Dshambo end up getting paired 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.760 on Saturday or Sunday. But I think to be fair 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:28.240 to Deshambo asking him, I think that was the right 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.880 thing to do. I do because they this isn't one 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.400 of those all those guys they have a rivalry. They 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.960 don't like each other. I mean, Keepka definitely doesn't like 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.200 Dshambo and doesn't care if he knows it or not. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:43.880 In fact, he wants seem to know it. I don't 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.280 know if Deshambo doesn't like brooks Kepka, but it feels 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.000 like brooks Kepka does not like Bryson Dashambo. Yeah, Poe. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.360 If I'm Kepka, I just say, well, Bryson, if you 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:56.920 are on the leaderboard on Sunday, you'll be playing with me. 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:59.520 You know, talks a smack or raise it up a 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:07.280 little bit. Uh. Some phone calls here, Dave in Pennsylvania, Hi, Dave, Hey, DP. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.120 How are you doing. Always good to talk to you. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:11.880 Listen every day except for when I was in Vegas. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.440 I just got back to sporting and I hate to 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.440 keep beating the dead horse. The Aaron Rodgers, however, always 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.440 felt as the Vegas knew what was going on. They 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.640 have the over under for green Bay at nine and 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.560 a half. Now, that tells me that there's no way 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.200 that Rodgers is going to play. Just want to see 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.800 what you thought about that. Okay, all right, well that's interesting, Dave. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:38.280 Nine and a half. Yeah, m Cloth, that feels really low. 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.480 It should be ten and a half. Her. Well, that's 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.559 the point that he's Yeah, no, I'm totally I'm amplifying. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:47.120 I agreekably that that's interesting. You know, maybe he doesn't 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.520 play for Green Bay, but does that mean he's going 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.760 to play for somebody else? I just don't see the 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.120 Packers trading him. Yeah, pull, I've got a few other 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:56.920 websites that had the Packers at ten and a half 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.839 or eleven wins as the over under. I'm not doubting him, 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:03.880 but he may have gotten roughed up in Vegas and misremembered. Yeah, 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.520 because I'm saying nine and a half, I might even 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.600 take that with Jordan Wove. Yeah, there's teams. The teams 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.280 that are nine and a half are like the Titans, 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.280 the Saints, and the Cowboys. I think the Packers had 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.839 thirteen wins last year. A couple more phone calls here, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.720 Jay and Indiana, hijay, what's on your mind? Hey? Dan? 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.520 H five eleven two ten. Pretty good shape for the 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:31.000 shape I'm in. Lifelong lifelong musician over here? Doesn't that 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.679 sound like a country that sounds like a country song? 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.760 I'm I'm in pretty good. I'm in pretty good shape 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.240 for the with the What was that again? I mean 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.520 pretty good to say that. Yeah, pretty good shape for 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.520 the shape I'm in. All right, sounds like I'm gonna 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.800 pass it on to Darius Rucker. Yeah, all right, do 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.200 that man? All right, I'm pretty constant. I ever saw 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.160 actually was Darius was Hoodie back of the Day side No, yeah, man, 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.520 that stuff about Zeppelin and you know Bobby p not 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.800 being able to necessarily do the those songs, it's like, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.600 you know, you don't know you're writing the song that's 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.840 impossible to sing when you're twenty or whatever. I have 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.000 heard like Don Henley and I could be getting the 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.000 math wrong on this, but I heard they would write 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.640 songs like a half step down and then record them 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:17.360 a half step up, so it was more challenging to sing, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.640 and you get half to push that hard to get 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.880 those performances in the studio and then play I'm an 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:26.000 in standard key to where you're kind of halfway there 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.079 and it's kind of like uh, you know, putting a 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.240 donut on the bat and the on deck circle. You know, 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.920 you set yourself up and then you're fast in the box. 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.200 I don't do that one. I play and sing songs 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.319 for a living. I don't do that one because you know, 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.640 I got to do this, you know, three, four or 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.000 five times a week. It's like load management, you know 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.160 what I mean? Yeah, thank you so much. I love 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.719 you guys. I'll spend every morning. What's y'all pretty? Jay? 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:55.320 Jay's a professional, And yeah, you don't write songs going 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.800 you you hope that you have that choice to sing 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.680 something thirty four years later where you go. I can't 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.560 quite sing this the way I used to, But I 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.520 mean it's like McCartney when he sings, you know, the 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:12.360 hits that he sings. It can't do helter skelter. The 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.360 way he did Helter Skelter. Were the Beatles punk before punk? 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.320 And I know I'm opening up a door here, maybe 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:25.640 a garage door, But you know what was the who 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:30.920 punk before punk? I'm just curious about that. I I 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:35.439 was listening to Seaton gave me a scrunchy face. There. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:40.439 Can you see Beatles with maybe punk before punk? I 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.800 actually just was reading something that is, the Beatles were 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.400 the first punk and the most important punks, and nothing 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.760 that would follow could have the same impact. Oh okay, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.600 all right, all right, yes McLellan. I just heard this 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.960 thing about how in the sixties you had to choose 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.000 between the Stones and the Beatles because that was a 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.040 real deal, and the angry people went to the Stones 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.840 and went to the Beatles date like a social I'm 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:03.600 telling you, I just heard this guy interviewed to be 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.120 like there was so much pressure to choose aside. It 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.520 was like he had to choose between Nirvana and Pearl Jam. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.959 Same thing. But I would think the Rolling Stones were 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.680 a little more punk in a way, but then they're 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.800 not punk at all. So the music, no, they they 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.040 were blues, right, I mean that that was they were 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.720 influenced by black artists. Isn't Pete Townsend slamming the guitar? 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:29.160 Isn't that the Yes, that feels pretty punk. Yeah, I 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.640 don't know if anybody else was destroying their equipment because 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.080 Keith Moon would do that too. The drummer is led 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.920 Zeppelin punk. Ah, they were bluesy too, I don't I 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.440 don't know if they were punk that if you listen 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.800 to Helter Skelter and when that came out, you're like, wait, 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:51.439 the Beatles this song, like, it's crazy when you think 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.960 in that guitar, I mean, it's it's pretty wild to 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:59.160 do that. When they did that, who is getting who 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:05.120 is consider the founding fathers of punk. Ramons are up there, 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:11.319 MC five, the Stooges, so Iggy Iggy and the Stooges. Yeah, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:15.080 that's punk. I never viewed the Ramones as punk. I 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:19.880 mean it's it's poppy, yeah, blitzkrieg bump like, it's not 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.720 that there's it's not an edge to it. It was unique, 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.640 but I think I think playing that fast and that 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.000 the songs being that short and that fast. Um, I 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.000 don't know, Okay, Yeah, point Divo was the even though 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.760 they're not the hardest core punk band the world. They're 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:36.560 the first ones ever got a lot of airplay because 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.600 of MTV. Yeah, like there was punk bands didn't do videos. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.280 I know it's a lot later in the process, but 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.560 in early Adies Divo got some pump. Yeah, they seemed 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.640 gimmicky though ya mad like you know the weird thing 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.320 you know hats on and we are not man, We 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:56.559 are Divo now the Tubes. The Tubes were an interesting 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:02.080 band as well. Yeah. I don't know where punk originated from, 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.800 but it feels like the Beatles were right there at 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.199 the forefront. Yeapo the lead singer the Tubes check me 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.679 Roight fee Waybill was that the guy's name. His name 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.800 was fee great name. I just remember having the album, 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.679 but I don't I don't know the name of the 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.640 lead singer. Let me take a break. 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Limitations apply. Thanks for listening 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.120 to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.080 us live every weekday morning nine until noon eastern six 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.720 to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Race D, and you 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.480 can find us on the iHeartRadio app at FSR, or 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.440 stream us live on the Peacock app. I like Rush, 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:12.120 I don't love Rush. It should be one Rush song 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:16.040 per show. That's it. Even then I might be stretching 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:21.560 a little too much. NBA Competition Committee will reportedly look 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.080 into the way certain shooters initiate contact and draw fouls 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:31.880 with unnatural movements aka the Reggie Miller rule. James Harden 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:36.440 and Trey Young have made a living out of doing this. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.120 Regg is the godfather of this, he joins us. Now 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.320 we're gonna call it the Reggie Miller rule. What do 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.400 you think this is getting ridiculous? I'm serious, I mean 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.560 I got penalized. I shouldn't say I but they put 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.960 the rule in about the leg kick, which to this 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.800 day I still believe as a good move and a 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:59.840 good shot. Though you're kicking your leg out to draw. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:05.760 I'm not chaking. I'm just creating space, that's all. This 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:10.600 is my space. So look, okay, explain this though. What 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.120 they're focusing this rule on James Harden and Trey Young, right, 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.560 and we've been hearing this year about those two players, 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.480 and I guess you can probably throw Jannas in there 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:27.760 as well. Offensive players seeking out contact on drives, on 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:32.640 those floaters and initiating the contact and getting the call 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.920 it is. I think it's going to be so hard 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.760 to monitor for these officials. They already got enough on 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.800 their plate. Now they've got to figure out in a 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:47.480 split second at times, without the help of replay, who's 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.680 initiating the contact they wanted scoring up. So what they're 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.480 really doing is penalizing the shooter and the scorer in 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.800 this instance. So I'm a little surprised at that, because 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.040 freedom of movement, this is what they've always wanted. So 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.840 this is gonna to me kind of hurt some of 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:09.560 the scores because as a natural born score as I won, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:14.159 was you do seek out contact? I felt I played 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.960 better and I shot better when I knew where the 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.320 defender was, when I could feel him. It was a 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.359 much harder shot for me if I was wide open 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.359 as opposed to someone closed into me, closing on me, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.320 or being right on my body. I felt I was 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.080 a little bit easier for me to get the ball 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.280 off and score. But it feels like Trey Young and 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:36.199 James Harden there's a gimmick about them drawing their contact. 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.000 I'm more surprised they haven't talked about like the traveling 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.880 than the stepbacks and the sidesteps. To me, that's more 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:50.520 infuriating than seeking out contact. But I kind of get 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:56.000 it a little bit. Less free throws, maybe faster games. 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.960 Maybe that's what the NBA's trying to do here. I 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:04.280 don't know. Again, you're you're you're adding and piling on 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:09.760 these officials to make split second decisions in big time 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:14.280 moments of playoff games or for next year. I mean, 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.120 I think they're overloaded already, the officials, and now you're 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:21.720 telling them they got to be able to differentiate between 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:26.040 who's making the contact. Yeah, good luck with that. Do 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:30.000 you think that there were referees that didn't like you, 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:37.040 like truly didn't like you. I wouldn't say didn't like me, 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:41.760 but there were certainly some officials I felt at times 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:49.480 I had a bias. I wouldn't say it didn't like 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.679 I mean, that's a strong word. I felt like I 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.439 could communicate with most officials. There were some officials that 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.000 you just couldn't say anything too. It was a quick 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.320 tea and you're kind of muted for the rest of 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.880 the game. But I felt I've had a pretty good 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.760 relationship with most officials, though I did talk a lot 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.000 to them and complain a lot to them. It's how 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:17.639 you go about it. And does complaining work REGI, No 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:23.320 it doesn't, but it sure made me feel better. No, 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.359 it does. It isn't a day, No it doesn't. But 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.360 what you're trying to do, and what I was trying 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.720 to do, you're always trying to plant a little bit 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.800 of seed because if it's a close game and the 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.240 game is in the balance, you want all that talking 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:43.760 you did through three and a half quarters to matter 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.960 in the last two minutes of a close game. That's 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.919 probably the only reason why I talked so much, was 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.320 trying to plant a seed. REGGI will be on the 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.679 call for the Eastern Conference Finals. Who do you expect 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.200 to be in the Eastern Conference Finals? Wow? Last week 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.560 we talked about this was going to be a sweep 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:07.399 by Brooklyn. They were looking great, and I keep telling people, 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.520 it's great to have the best talent in the world. 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:17.120 It's great to be well coached, But to win a championship, Theodore, 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.359 you've got to have a lot of luck on your teams. 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:23.479 You think about Kobe's and Shacks three peat with the Lakers, 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.720 Do you think about MJ and Scottie and back to 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:31.680 back three peats? A lot of luck? Were they talented, absolutely? 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.199 Were they well coached, absolutely, But you've got to have 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.120 a lot of luck. Can you even remember when MJ 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.959 even thought about this in a game because of an 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.960 injury when he was I can't remember if he ever 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.480 did this a game. And it wasn't like he was 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:52.119 just shooting jump shots. I mean he would driving punishing 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:58.360 people and no twisted ankles, no knee issues. A lot 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:01.920 of luck goes into winning championships. And we're the healthiest 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.320 team is going to win this year's championship. Who's gonna 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.600 be standing at the end. I mean it's it's unfortunate. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:10.800 Injuries are a part of the game. You just don't 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:12.920 want them at this time of the year, which we're 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:16.359 seeing right now. Yeah, in Harden's status, he's upgraded to 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.760 doubtful for tonight. Yeah, he's not gonna play now. It's 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:23.640 on Kevin Durant, and he's had the benefit of these 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:28.760 super teams recently. Now it's back to all right, Okay, 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.760 let's say let's see what you can do. Let's see 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:34.480 go out there, let's see you win a big game. 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.960 I will say this, if there's any one player who 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:41.920 could deliver a huge game in a moment like this, 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:47.160 it's Kevin Durant. And I will say this, role players 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:50.480 play better at home. I expect Brooklyn and some of 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.480 these guys that normally don't get the limelight because it's 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:58.400 Kyrie or James Harden along with Katie, they'll shoot better, 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:02.800 they'll play harder. That New York crowd will kind of 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:06.280 energize them a little bit. It's you know, I'm not 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.320 going out on a limb here. Who wins tonight? To me, 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:13.639 wins the series between Milwaukee and Brooklyn. If I'm Brooklyn, 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:15.800 all I'm saying is look, let's just win our home games. 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:19.640 We win our home games, we advance to the conference finals. 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:23.640 But this is Milwaukee's best chance. This will maybe their 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.120 only chance, because if it goes seven games, I can't 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.040 see them winning back in Brooklyn. This is the chance 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:33.520 for Milwaukee to win the series. They've got to win tonight. 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:37.920 With two superstars down for the Nets and just Katie, 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:40.240 it's got to be all our chips in the center 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:43.600 of the table for Milwaukee. They they must win tonight 0:22:43.600 --> 0:22:46.680 to win this series. It's a bigger game for Durant 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.080 or a bigger game for the Greek Freak because he 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:55.200 doesn't have any excuses here. I agree. I think there's 0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:59.160 built any excuses for Katie because he doesn't have Kyrie 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:04.159 in hard but to be it's the only game tonight. 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:08.040 All eyes will be on this matchup. And let's face it, 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:11.600 Milwaukee has come up short the last two years. They've 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:14.879 had the best records the last two years and they've 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:18.040 fallen short. And Greek has not played up to MVP 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:22.919 expectations by winning back to back MVPs come playoff. He 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:27.880 has disappeared. He had a great Game four, but you're right, 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:32.600 Why has he taken those threes? What's that? Why is 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:35.880 the Greek freak taking those threes? I have no idea. 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:41.600 And they're daring him. They're daring him, they're baiting him 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:46.159 into it. But that's a recipe for your disaster. I 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:49.640