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Speaker 1: say good morning to them. Also, chat Row, we got
Speaker 1: a pull question. I believe we have a pull question, McLevin. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I did today. Who's coming out of the West to
Speaker 1: start to see if there was any movement. Lakers are
Speaker 1: still one. Clippers are still strong number two, with the
Speaker 1: MAVs third, followed by the Jazz and the Rockets. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised us that the Clippers could be a strong two
Speaker 1: if the MAVs are three. Yeah, but what about the
Speaker 1: Jazz and the Rockets there in play too, aren't they Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course they are. Once you get Westbrook back and
Speaker 1: you know, Oklahoma City trying to put up a fight here,
Speaker 1: but you get Westbrook back, it'll be rested, you hope,
Speaker 1: and you'd be ready to go into battle there around two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the club. How about a pole question, who scores the
Speaker 1: most point if the MAVs win the series? If you
Speaker 1: have Luca Harden and Donovan Mitchell all playing, aren't they
Speaker 1: all gonna go for forty five a games? Yeah? Scoring
Speaker 1: is up the highest in the postseason in the last
Speaker 1: thirty five years. Yeah, Paul, it feels like nobody buys
Speaker 1: into the Rockets until they get to the finals because
Speaker 1: they we've seen it in the past four years in
Speaker 1: the regular season. They're hard to team to buy into.
Speaker 1: That's make it the promise Land, Well, you have this
Speaker 1: small ball there and you're still not sure if it
Speaker 1: works like it's a it's an entertaining offense, it's gimmicky,
Speaker 1: it's entertaining. Is sustainable for seven games in a series?
Speaker 1: Can you win four times with that? And that's always
Speaker 1: been the knock because they're just not consistent enough where like,
Speaker 1: even if they have a bad night, can they still win?
Speaker 1: Can they have a bad night still win against a
Speaker 1: good team? That'll be the challenge for the Rockets. Luca
Speaker 1: ties the series at two games apiece, and we love
Speaker 1: to do this, and I'm right there front and center.
Speaker 1: We love to offer comps when it comes to players,
Speaker 1: and we've been trying to do this with Luca don Chick.
Speaker 1: And every time you say Larry Bird, people say easy there,
Speaker 1: slow your role. Well here's Luca's head coach, Rick Carlyle,
Speaker 1: who played with Larry Bird in Boston. I mentioned Kid
Speaker 1: and Bird. I mean, I think both those guys, you know,
Speaker 1: just are from the same fabric competitively and in terms
Speaker 1: of their will to win and their resourcefulness to find
Speaker 1: ways to impact the game in unique arms. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's not just about putting the ball in the basket.
Speaker 1: It's about giving teammates confidence. And he does you give
Speaker 1: your teammates confidence When you hit the game winner with
Speaker 1: somebody in your face and it's a three pointer and
Speaker 1: you tie this series at two games apiece, they could
Speaker 1: easily be up three games to one, and I thought
Speaker 1: that they were more dangerous to the Clippers than the
Speaker 1: Blazers were to the Lakers. But you know, as as
Speaker 1: you move forward here, I don't know Porzingis is going
Speaker 1: to play in Game five, probably a game time decision.
Speaker 1: Can you ask Luca to do this again? And what
Speaker 1: kind of defensive philosophy changes for the Clippers. Here is
Speaker 1: Doc Rivers talking about the difference between Dallas and the
Speaker 1: Clippers yesterday. Give Dallas credit. They could have threw it in.
Speaker 1: We'll get up twenty one there they're minus Porzingis, but
Speaker 1: they didn't. They just stayed in the game. And you
Speaker 1: can see the difference in the spirits, like they make
Speaker 1: a run and everybody's excited. They make a run on us,
Speaker 1: and you know we came in, so that's on all
Speaker 1: of us. Me too. I gotta get guys right. Lucas
Speaker 1: said that is historic triple double. Game winner was something special.
Speaker 1: This is what he had to say post game. I
Speaker 1: was just trying to make it. You know, I can't
Speaker 1: explain the emotions I had, you know, not only when
Speaker 1: he go the ball goes in. When I see the
Speaker 1: whole team like twenty told me that was something special.
Speaker 1: One of the best feelings I ever had as a player,
Speaker 1: and it's just something special. Man. This Tim is something
Speaker 1: special once again, he's twenty one years of age. So
Speaker 1: they tied the series of two games apiece. The Celtics
Speaker 1: sweep the seventy sixers, the Raptors sweep the Nets. There's
Speaker 1: been reports, there's another report this morning by the Athletic
Speaker 1: that the Nets might be interested or are interested in
Speaker 1: Gregg Popovich. I don't know if they've contacted him. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they've had discussions here. Now that the
Speaker 1: season ends, you can have those discussions, I guess, unless
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to ask permission from the San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 1: I would think, but this has been out there for
Speaker 1: about a month, that Popovich maybe would be interested in
Speaker 1: any change of scenery to take over the book Brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets and with that talent there, and they showed talent,
Speaker 1: but they showed a lot more than that. They showed
Speaker 1: a willingness to compete, something we did not see from
Speaker 1: the seventy six ers as they bottle out and don't
Speaker 1: you dare asked Joe lmbid a question about what went wrong.
Speaker 1: This is his postgame comments. What do you think the
Speaker 1: issue is with this team? I mean Do you think
Speaker 1: it's the way it's built. Do you think it's coaching.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's the bad luck with the injuries
Speaker 1: all of the evolved book as you say the issue,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a that's a very stupid question. That's
Speaker 1: not issue. We're good, we just didn't win. We came out,
Speaker 1: we could have made shots the whole series. So men
Speaker 1: like it's frustrating. You know, I felt like everybody played hard,
Speaker 1: we tried it, just shot just didn't fall. And then
Speaker 1: times defense was not good. All right, it's not a
Speaker 1: stupid question. It's poorly phrased, but it's not a stupid question.
Speaker 1: And Joe lmbid, as the leader of this team, or
Speaker 1: you're hoping he's the leader of this team, should have
Speaker 1: answers here. But this is different. You know, you didn't
Speaker 1: get one game here. When you get swept four games,
Speaker 1: I know you're without Ben Simmons. I look at the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets, they never gave up, and they were without
Speaker 1: Kadi and Kyrie. So no excuses here. You play hard,
Speaker 1: not expecting you to win, but body language horrible with
Speaker 1: the Sixers and Brett Brown is going to pay the
Speaker 1: price as the head coach. Here you got the Jazz
Speaker 1: up three one on the Nuggets, Heat up three zero,
Speaker 1: and the Pacers Lakers up two one on the Blazers
Speaker 1: they play to night and Rockets up to one on
Speaker 1: the thunder So you got Pacers, Heat, Rockets, Thunder Bucks, Magic, Lakers, Blazers.
Speaker 1: That's coming up tonight. The seventy Sixers launched into the
Speaker 1: controversial team building strategy that back in twenty thirteen. Twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen when the former GM Sam Hinkey took over and
Speaker 1: took them to the next level tanking, that is, it
Speaker 1: became the process. So they got rid of good players,
Speaker 1: went young, collected draft picks, and the most notable aspect
Speaker 1: of the process was losing All along. The team sold
Speaker 1: a bigger picture to its fans. Suffer Now when big
Speaker 1: later seventy Sixers got the plan right, at least half right.
Speaker 1: They lost a lot of games, but transforming into a
Speaker 1: champion wasn't that simple, and the Sixers just got swept
Speaker 1: by the Celtics, another early exit in the playoffs. Now
Speaker 1: you got some young stars and Joel and Beat and
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, who knows if they can play together. They
Speaker 1: made a lot of mistakes here, and of course, they
Speaker 1: traded up so they could have gotten Jason Tatum. Instead
Speaker 1: they went up and got Marquel Folds. The results have
Speaker 1: been disappointing. Now what is part of the process, this
Speaker 1: next step for this team? What do they do next?
Speaker 1: Can you keep one? I would keep both. Whatever coach
Speaker 1: comes in would probably want to have two guys with
Speaker 1: the potential to be Hall of famers, and Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: and Joe Lmbid. I just don't know the mental makeup
Speaker 1: of these players, because that says a lot about how
Speaker 1: great they want to be. Embiid can be great, I
Speaker 1: don't know if he has designs on being great. And
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons this might be as good as he's going
Speaker 1: to get. I don't know. Now he plays both ends.
Speaker 1: He's a talented player, but you know he's limited. And
Speaker 1: then Joe l Embiid is not the guy I want
Speaker 1: leading me. Entertaining me is one thing, but not being
Speaker 1: the leader of my team because I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's capable of doing that. But they've got some questions there,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if they have the answers because
Speaker 1: the process has been processed. Yes, McLevin, it's not Sam
Speaker 1: Hinky's fault. He set everything up perfectly. They just draft Tatum,
Speaker 1: they would have been you know, that was the next
Speaker 1: They fired him in sixteen halfway through. Brian Colangelo screwed
Speaker 1: this whole thing up, and then they paid Tobias Harris,
Speaker 1: who you actually let Al Horford? I did like Tobias
Speaker 1: Harris with the Clippers. Yeah, I think you get there,
Speaker 1: and it just felt like there were a lot of
Speaker 1: personalities and there was never that boy. I feel pretty
Speaker 1: confident that if it goes bad, then who's going to
Speaker 1: be your leader? And they brought in Al Horford? So
Speaker 1: you get an aging Al Horford and you pay one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars to come in and be your clubhouse leader.
Speaker 1: And you know, Jj Reddick, you let him go. I
Speaker 1: saw where the Pelicans maybe trying to put Lonzo Ball
Speaker 1: up for trade. I had high hopes for Lonzo, and
Speaker 1: then he gets to the Bubble and then David Aldards
Speaker 1: had a report that he had checked out that Lonzo
Speaker 1: really didn't want to be there, and he played like that,
Speaker 1: you know, are you gonna ship him to another team? There?
Speaker 1: He's got talent, he does, but yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's got heart. I don't know if he wants
Speaker 1: to play, he wants to be great. I mean that
Speaker 1: separates these guys. They all have talent, it's who wants
Speaker 1: to be great every night and the sacrifice that goes
Speaker 1: along with that. And a lot of these guys want
Speaker 1: to be great. Want to tell you they're great. Hey,
Speaker 1: look at all the followers I have on Instagram. Height
Speaker 1: go out there and be great now in the postseason,
Speaker 1: be great now, want it now? Like Damian Lillard wants
Speaker 1: to be great, wants it chip on his shoulder, takes
Speaker 1: the court every single night like that. That's what I want.
Speaker 1: I want you to prove it every single night instead
Speaker 1: of you go out there and you're entitled, because the
Speaker 1: seventy six ers played entitled and it showed Kayle. But
Speaker 1: Oregon joins us as we offer the opportunity to give
Speaker 1: us your best and worst of the weekend. Hey Caleb,
Speaker 1: good morning, Good morn Indian. Worst of the weekend was
Speaker 1: getting really bad food poisoning for about two days, which
Speaker 1: was about a representation about how my Blazers played both
Speaker 1: Game two and three. And the best of the weekend
Speaker 1: was having an amazing wife to take care of me
Speaker 1: and the newborn. So she was one with two babies.
Speaker 1: And then I add a question. When my child was born,
Speaker 1: I was wearing my Tampa Bay shirt, and so on
Speaker 1: the month anniversary, I was wearing my Cronchineer shirt. Which
Speaker 1: shirt do you think I should order for the for
Speaker 1: next month on the fifteenth, Well, what shirt should we
Speaker 1: have Caleb having? Well, there's the cam chowder is pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: See still I'm trying my best. The Mario one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do like I laugh every time I see Mario
Speaker 1: wearing a T shirt that sums up his inability to
Speaker 1: do anything. Well, I'm trying my best, trying my best.
Speaker 1: Cut me some slack. We have a the new Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers T shirt. Yes, where he said that he was
Speaker 1: drinking heavily on the night of the draft, and so
Speaker 1: we thought, why not just have a twelve and then
Speaker 1: put last call and have it the Aaron Rodgers T shirt.
Speaker 1: By the way, on this day a year ago, I
Speaker 1: think started the craziest year in sports. I'll have that
Speaker 1: for you. Coming up a couple more phone calls. Andrew
Speaker 1: and North North Dakota. Andrew, Welcome to the program. Good
Speaker 1: morning Fellas six, two to ten. I best of the
Speaker 1: week was obviously Luca I just be math. I did
Speaker 1: not think was gonna pull it off this espession without
Speaker 1: Chris Stops. The worst of the weekend was probably the
Speaker 1: Montrez Harold comments. That's a deeper discussion for a much
Speaker 1: later time, but I have to chat as mclovin. Please,
Speaker 1: I'm a nice guy and I don't want to chastize
Speaker 1: you too much, but I just I don't like your
Speaker 1: analysis of basketball players for months now because you think
Speaker 1: James Harden is a great player, and he's a really,
Speaker 1: really really good player, but greatness doesn't I'll give a
Speaker 1: perfect historical comparative. Adrian Dantley was James Harden. Adrian Dantley,
Speaker 1: if he would have grew up in the three point
Speaker 1: line era, he would have learned to shoot the three.
Speaker 1: If you watched Adrian Dantley, he would pump, fake, jabsta jabstick, pump, think,
Speaker 1: and he would get to the line and take forever
Speaker 1: at the line. I played basketball at a high level
Speaker 1: When another one of my teammates is constantly having the ball,
Speaker 1: literally scoring or not, and you don't see that ball,
Speaker 1: it just bitterness just keeps in gently and you can't
Speaker 1: win as a team like that. Andrew, Andrew, let me
Speaker 1: go to our Andrew, would you like to respond? I
Speaker 1: didn't know I was a James Harden guy. That's awesome,
Speaker 1: I've all but you know the Rockets did take one
Speaker 1: of the best teams in NBA history to seven games
Speaker 1: in the West Finals. Well. I have been a big
Speaker 1: proponent of Harden with his ability to score that he is,
Speaker 1: that he's unstoppable, and we've had other people. Charles Barkley
Speaker 1: is the one who's been on the campaign here with
Speaker 1: James Harden, the most unstoppable offensive player he's ever seen.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this translates to any success in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, and you're starting to get that feeling with
Speaker 1: James Harden that it won't and he's going to be
Speaker 1: one of those careers where you go, gosh, he scored
Speaker 1: a lot of points and that's all he did. He
Speaker 1: scored a lot of points and he won an MVP. Yeah, mcclub.
Speaker 1: But they ran into the Warriors. That was their only
Speaker 1: They would have won two titles. If if Durrant didn
Speaker 1: joined the Warriors, maybe yeah, maybe, but you're the harding guy,
Speaker 1: not me. I don't, by the way, I I don't
Speaker 1: want him on my team. Can I be the Luca guy? Now? No,
Speaker 1: you're not, No, no, no. Can I ask a question
Speaker 1: about Luca you just did? How can he such a
Speaker 1: good rebounder and such a good dribbler, like he's an
Speaker 1: animal on the glass. You kind of have to want
Speaker 1: to be a rebounder like guys who rebound well, want
Speaker 1: to rebound. It's not glamorous. Stats Rodman made it glamorous,
Speaker 1: but that was the only way that you lay. You
Speaker 1: singled him out because of his hair, but he rebounded.
Speaker 1: That was all he did with the bulls. He wasn't
Speaker 1: a great defender with the bulls. He wasn't with the pistons.
Speaker 1: But Luca prides himself in doing all of those. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he goes out like Russell Russell Westbrook
Speaker 1: went after a triple double. I don't know if Luca
Speaker 1: goes boy, I gotta get how many rebounds do I have? Oh?
Speaker 1: You got nine? Okay? I have to get one more
Speaker 1: because he blows right by those numbers. It's not like
Speaker 1: he goes, you know, twenty three, ten and ten. You
Speaker 1: know he's going forty three, seventeen thirteen. So it's different. There,
Speaker 1: But I don't know how you got lumped in there
Speaker 1: with James Harden. Yeah, you and Charles are like national voices.
Speaker 1: I think he was unstoppable. I think I think him
Speaker 1: with this rest and Adrian Danley. If those of you
Speaker 1: who are old enough to remember Adrian Danley, Adrian Danley
Speaker 1: could not shoot a jump shot. Adrian Dantley did do
Speaker 1: head fakes, going back to when he was a freshman
Speaker 1: at Notre Dame when they upset UCLA with Bill Walton.
Speaker 1: He was a great player, but it felt like you
Speaker 1: knew exactly what you were getting with Adrian Danley, and
Speaker 1: he put up numbers. Yes, MC, I'm an Alex English guy, right,
Speaker 1: great score. Guys like that would they dominate today those
Speaker 1: seventies Trapuca, alexandlish Kiki, Well, they would be their mid
Speaker 1: range jump shooters. You know. A guy like Dan Issel,
Speaker 1: who played center for the Nuggets, would be great now
Speaker 1: because Issell could shoot. For a big man, he could shoot,
Speaker 1: you know. But the Alex English was just a I
Speaker 1: don't think you can accidentally score twenty six thousand points
Speaker 1: or whatever he has like he he was a guy
Speaker 1: that he just didn't do anything other than that. And
Speaker 1: he did that really well. It just didn't translate into success.
Speaker 1: That's why you can get thirty five a night and
Speaker 1: you don't win. You can get twenty two a night
Speaker 1: and win, and you'll be singled out because you got
Speaker 1: Tim Duncan got singled out because he would give you twenty,
Speaker 1: twenty two and ten. Now he had a really good
Speaker 1: team around him, but he understood how to blend in
Speaker 1: with that team, allow those players to be great. Tony
Speaker 1: Parker manage to noble when Kawhi came in. You know
Speaker 1: to be there with David Robinson. You know that you
Speaker 1: get recognized because you win, you can be a highlight.
Speaker 1: Jordan understood. This took him a while. He finally asked himself,
Speaker 1: you just want to lead the league in scoring average
Speaker 1: thirty five and be a highlight reel and sell shoes?
Speaker 1: Or do you want to be the greatest of all time?
Speaker 1: And he said, I want to be the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time. Took less money, made sure they brought in players,
Speaker 1: got Rodman, Pippin was there, Tony Coo, coach came in.
Speaker 1: Mike understood, this is how you become the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time. Bill Russell no what's the most he ever averaged?
Speaker 1: Eighteen nineteen. It didn't matter did you win, that's all
Speaker 1: the matters. What's the most Magic Johnson ever averaged? How
Speaker 1: many times did Magic average twenty? Not many? Reggie Miller
Speaker 1: didn't average twenty too many times. Now, he didn't win,
Speaker 1: but he took his team to the NBA finals. Champot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Magic was like a eighteen five for most of his career,
Speaker 1: but he'd average eleven, twelve, thirteen assistant. Yeah, he had
Speaker 1: a couple of years where he averaged twenty three points
Speaker 1: a game Magic midway through his career. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna blow your mind when we come back, just
Speaker 1: because it's a one year anniversary of something that I
Speaker 1: think really got the ball roll even before the pandemic.
Speaker 1: That when it came to the craziest sports year of
Speaker 1: all time, we already had built up a big head
Speaker 1: of steam. That snowball was really big before we got
Speaker 1: to the pandemic. But I'll have that for you coming up. Also,
Speaker 1: our best and worst of the weekend, and the great
Speaker 1: Al Michaels will join us in an hour from now.
Speaker 1: The NFL had a situation and false Positives had this
Speaker 1: happened during the regular season, you would have had a
Speaker 1: team that probably wouldn't been able to field a team
Speaker 1: that they might have had to forfeit because of these
Speaker 1: false positives. And it's a nice dress rehearsal for the NFL. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to Al Michaels about that twenty one after
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Speaker 1: seven career three pointers. He is not James Harden. PAULI
Speaker 1: has a quick who's who's? Do you have any theme
Speaker 1: music for? Whose stats? Whose stants? Whose stats would you want? Tummy? Tummy? Dummy?
Speaker 1: Who stands? Whose stats would you want? Dance? Still adding
Speaker 1: it up, if we have some filler music sets and
Speaker 1: I need just a little more time, okay, sets, I
Speaker 1: really want sets in the Monta sets because the evenings
Speaker 1: are focused. Okay, so the evenings are for girls. Dan
Speaker 1: whose second year NBA stats? Would you want? This is
Speaker 1: their second season in the NBA. Both about twenty ish
Speaker 1: years old. Player one twenty seven points per game, seven rebounds,
Speaker 1: seven assists, two steals, thirty five percent from three forty
Speaker 1: two minutes the game forty two minutes a game. Player
Speaker 1: two twenty nine points per game, nine rebounds, nine assists,
Speaker 1: one steal, thirty two percent from three playing only thirty
Speaker 1: four minutes per game. Who is who? Player one day,
Speaker 1: Player one, Lebron, that's correct, Player two, Luca, that's correct.
Speaker 1: That's some serious stuff. You know what they say, Well,
Speaker 1: you can't compare to Lebron James yet, why can't you?
Speaker 1: I know his accomplishments aren't near but at the same stage.
Speaker 1: And that's the point I always make when people go
Speaker 1: stop comparing him to Larry Bird, And I said, he's
Speaker 1: better than Larry Bird at age twenty one. Larry was
Speaker 1: in college at Indiana State, and Luca is doing this
Speaker 1: in the NBA. So yes, he is better at Larry
Speaker 1: at than Larry at twenty one, just like I thought
Speaker 1: Larry was better at age thirty than Lebron was, and
Speaker 1: then Larry's health went down after that, and then Lebron
Speaker 1: blew right by him. But Luca is better than Larry
Speaker 1: at age twenty one, and you could make a case
Speaker 1: he's better than Lebron at age twenty one. Whatever Larry's
Speaker 1: second years stats Larry Bird was twenty four his second
Speaker 1: year in the NBA. He average twenty two points, eleven rebounds,
Speaker 1: five assists, and two steals. Not really much of a
Speaker 1: three point shooter yet at that point his career percentage wise,
Speaker 1: but in no volume, and he average about forty minutes
Speaker 1: the game. It was on this day a year ago
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck retired, So remember that was a preseason game.
Speaker 1: He's on the sidelines. Adam Schefters at a wedding reception.
Speaker 1: He gets worse that Luck is going to retire, and
Speaker 1: then I was told he was going to retire on Sunday,
Speaker 1: so it was his Saturday night, Andrew Lucks on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: Fans started booing him that he decided they just didn't
Speaker 1: want to play anymore, and they got him out and
Speaker 1: he was going to announce, you know, make his announcement,
Speaker 1: and his family was going to be there on Sunday,
Speaker 1: so you have that. Tom Brady then decides he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to play in New England and goes to Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown is completely out of football. Philip Rivers becomes
Speaker 1: a Colt. Philip Rivers I think joins us on the
Speaker 1: program tomorrow. Teddy Bridgewater goes to the Panthers. Cam Newton
Speaker 1: leaves the Panthers, he goes to the Patriots. Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: would be the number one pick. Lamar Jackson would be
Speaker 1: the NFL MVP. The Packers would take a quarterback in
Speaker 1: the first round of the draft. What a crazy year
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And those are just the top stories
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Everything else that has happened here during
Speaker 1: the pandem emmick, all of the stories what's been shut down,
Speaker 1: kept alive the bubble. What's going to happen with the
Speaker 1: NFL College football? There is a ground swell of support
Speaker 1: in the Big Ten to play football. And what happened
Speaker 1: was the presidents voted on this, and the athletic directors
Speaker 1: and coaches. I don't know if they had much of
Speaker 1: a sayso in this. With a Big ten, and you've
Speaker 1: had this ground swell, but from what I'm told, the
Speaker 1: Big Ten is not playing football in the fall. They're
Speaker 1: not going to walk this back. You've heard nothing with
Speaker 1: the Pac twelve, but with the Big Ten, there was
Speaker 1: a ground swell of support led by Justin Fields. But
Speaker 1: from what I'm told this morning, the Big Ten is
Speaker 1: not playing football. They're talking about the spring, talking about
Speaker 1: the spring, but I don't I think that's a pipe dream.
Speaker 1: I think what that is doing is basically saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's take it off the front burner where it's really
Speaker 1: hot and boiling. We're gonna put it on the back
Speaker 1: burner and let it simmer a little bit, just to
Speaker 1: give you the hope that we would have football. And
Speaker 1: I don't think you're going to have football in the spring, Fritzie,
Speaker 1: said Philip Rivers. On Wednesday. Reggie Miller turns fifty five today.
Speaker 1: He will join us on the program tomorrow, and Charles
Speaker 1: Barkley I think joins us on Wednesday as well. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Toddy. So those are just the NFL items here.
Speaker 1: But when Andrew Luck, see, I thought Andrew Luck that
Speaker 1: he finally had what he needed, what he should have had.
Speaker 1: You spend one hundred million dollars on your quarterback, and
Speaker 1: then you spend fifty cents on your offensive line, and
Speaker 1: then you go, boy, I don't know if Andrew Luck's
Speaker 1: enjoying this, and then you build this good, really good
Speaker 1: team there and an offensive line, got a running game.
Speaker 1: It just felt like everything was in place for Andrew
Speaker 1: luck to maybe take that next step to show he's
Speaker 1: a great player, a Hall of Fame career. But that
Speaker 1: was the one that you went wow, like Brady going
Speaker 1: to Tampa Bay. Once you started listening to the people
Speaker 1: who kept telling us giving us hints here, then you
Speaker 1: realize Brady just wasn't happy there. Antonio Brown and maybe
Speaker 1: he gets back in Remember when he went he was
Speaker 1: on hard knocks with the Raiders last year and he
Speaker 1: did that cryotherapy and he burned. You have to wear
Speaker 1: slippers in there, and he burned his feet. Now I've
Speaker 1: done the cryotherapy and it is extremely cold and they
Speaker 1: tell you you got you can only stay in there
Speaker 1: for like two minutes. And he didn't have shoes on
Speaker 1: when he did it, and it just fried his feet.
Speaker 1: I thought, okay, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe made a mistake there. And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, No, there was more to it with that
Speaker 1: with Antonio Brown, and he might play this year. Second
Speaker 1: half the season. Somebody's gonna try to pick him up.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's going to pick him up, but
Speaker 1: somebody gonna try to pick him up. You have Pauling.
Speaker 1: I was going back and looking at some articles around
Speaker 1: Andrew luck right before he retired. Two days I think
Speaker 1: about two days before he retired, he tweaked his ankle
Speaker 1: in a practice and like the interview him after practice,
Speaker 1: He's like, Oh, it's all good. I'm feeling great all
Speaker 1: as well. The coaches were like, oh, everything's fine. You know,
Speaker 1: he has nothing to do with his shoulder. It's a
Speaker 1: little ankle tweak, full speed ahead. That was twenty the
Speaker 1: forty eight hours before he retired. Yeah, and we still
Speaker 1: keep thinking and is he gonna is he gonna stay retired?
Speaker 1: And when I talked to his dad, his dad goes, no,
Speaker 1: he's enjoying being a dad. I think he still lives
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. And then you got the Earl Thomas situation.
Speaker 1: You have two of the best run organizations in NFL
Speaker 1: history in my opinion, the Ravens and Seattle. Both of
Speaker 1: those organizations have let Earl Thomas go. I guess Dallas
Speaker 1: could use him whenever there's a story that you can
Speaker 1: somehow now you can say what Dallas, no matter who
Speaker 1: it is, it's like, Hi, Dallas, it's because you want clicks.
Speaker 1: Because if I say, you know, the Bengals might be
Speaker 1: interested in him. Nobody clicking on that. Dallas might be interested.
Speaker 1: Hey they need a safety. Hey what about if he
Speaker 1: goes back to Seattle. I don't know. He flipped off
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll while he was being carted off on the field.
Speaker 1: But I think there's I look at Earl Thomas the
Speaker 1: way I do Antonio Brown, like something changed with them.
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas didn't say anything. Antonio Brown was a story
Speaker 1: you rooted for, and then all of a sudden something changed.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was you know that this
Speaker 1: is traced back to CTE any kind of head injuries.
Speaker 1: But the fact that the Ravens, the leaders on the
Speaker 1: Ravens went to management and said we don't want him
Speaker 1: here anymore, it seems like, you know, it's not a
Speaker 1: one off, this is a pattern behavior. And Earl Thomas
Speaker 1: was on He was on a rocket ship to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. His first five years, I thought he
Speaker 1: was the most valuable defensive player on that Seattle legion
Speaker 1: of Boom two. He kind of cleaned up everything. But
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna pick him up, Somebody gonna give him a
Speaker 1: chance here. But I hope that the bigger picture, as
Speaker 1: I've said, with Antonio Brown, you might be giving him
Speaker 1: a chance, but there's other things going on with Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown and Earl Thomas made the Pro Bowl last year.
Speaker 1: He started fifteen games, he made the Pro Bowl. They're
Speaker 1: gonna take a huge salary cap hit. They must really
Speaker 1: want him out of there. Yeah, McLevin. I think he
Speaker 1: still makes the haul though, people forgetting made the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame and to is one of the great. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: to the fact that they held him out. It was
Speaker 1: really embarrassing because to our wide receiver selfish. Yes, just
Speaker 1: about every single one of them. But I had to
Speaker 1: overlook some because his numbers are crazy. But Thomas and
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown will both be fine and fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: Thomas is gonna make it. He's got a championship, He's
Speaker 1: million All Pros and Pro Bowls. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he has a million those ways. Seven Pro Bowls and
Speaker 1: three first team All problem looking at I mean, that's it.
Speaker 1: Do you ever hear quarterbacks talk about him? He's like
Speaker 1: Ed Reid light Yes, I'm right there. I thought that
Speaker 1: he was the best player on that defense. It's just
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a strange back half of his career
Speaker 1: and that would I think he becomes borderline now. You know,
Speaker 1: he went from he's a Hall of Famer to he's borderline. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what about Antonio Brown. I don't know. I mean, the
Speaker 1: numbers are really impressive, but everybody's numbers are really impressive.
Speaker 1: I don't he was great, but I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if people are gonna go he was a difference
Speaker 1: maker or you can't. You can't put in guys who
Speaker 1: played in the same era with him and then not
Speaker 1: put him in, Like, I don't know how that works.
Speaker 1: Like people are still saying Edelman's a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: No he's not. If there's a Hall of Fame for
Speaker 1: Super Bowl performances, you can put in Julian Edelman, but
Speaker 1: that's it. He's not a Hall of Famer. He's a
Speaker 1: Hall of Good in the in the Super Bowl, absolutely
Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of Fame wide receiver in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: He had two of the greatest biggest catches in Super
Speaker 1: Bowl history, keeping drives alive, and he was there when
Speaker 1: you needed him. Yeah. Point Antonio Brown did all his
Speaker 1: work before age thirty. He had seven hundred catches in
Speaker 1: six years. I'm sure that's gonna be hit one of
Speaker 1: the best of all time. But the last year he
Speaker 1: had four catches. This year he may have zero or
Speaker 1: you know, thirty. Those numbers are going away fast. He'll
Speaker 1: be stuck at eight hundred forty one catches if he's
Speaker 1: a guy with a thousand catches, which he would have
Speaker 1: breezed by if he started the past the season and
Speaker 1: the last season. It's hard to keep him up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but a thousand isn't a thousand the way it used
Speaker 1: to be. I remember when Tim Brown was trying to
Speaker 1: get into the Hall of Fame. He got in and
Speaker 1: they go, he's got a thousand catches. Back then a
Speaker 1: thousand we were starting to go, yeah, but thousand catches,
Speaker 1: Chris Carter, you know, you start to go, you know,
Speaker 1: how many catches do you have to have now to
Speaker 1: be a Hall of Famer like Michael Thomas. At what
Speaker 1: point does Michael Thomas become a Hall of Famer? Because
Speaker 1: if he ends up with eleven hundred, twelve hundred catches,
Speaker 1: is he a Hall of Famer? Now we don't look
Speaker 1: at a wide receiver and go, yeah, but how many
Speaker 1: Super Bowls did he win? Michael Thomas is gonna he'll
Speaker 1: have the fastest start for a wide receiver in NFL
Speaker 1: history as far as catches. I'm gonna guess all right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break. We'll give you our best and
Speaker 1: worst of the weekend, and more of your phone calls
Speaker 1: coming up here back after this. Thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: and worst of the weekend. Let me get to Ted
Speaker 1: and Champa Ted good to hear you again. How are
Speaker 1: you day? Good morning, Dan thirty years Army Special Operations.
Speaker 1: Best and Worst the weekend. Best of the weekend was
Speaker 1: the Echo Challenge, World's toughest race. It was on the
Speaker 1: TELEVISORR live ocean paddling, ocean swimming, swimming through rivers that
Speaker 1: are fifty degrees, climbing and ascending from where falls three
Speaker 1: four hundred feet tall. A couple of guys had actual
Speaker 1: heat strokes, a lot of people had hypothermia. Incredible race.
Speaker 1: They have it every year. I'd like to try to
Speaker 1: get the Danets to commit. No, no, no, no. Worst
Speaker 1: of the Weekedan is the worst offensive tackle statistically and
Speaker 1: and de facto bad for Tom Brady has reported back
Speaker 1: into the Bucks camp. He wrote a letter seeing he
Speaker 1: wasn't going to play for cut salary and he wouldn't
Speaker 1: go to play for the h COVID virus reasons. But
Speaker 1: now I reported Bath because like Ari Gold, he left
Speaker 1: the team and he said who's with me? And he
Speaker 1: looked behind him and Lloyd woodn't with him. Thank you dads,
Speaker 1: squeezing a lot in there. Dad has problems of that
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay offensive line, that world's toughest race though. Thing
Speaker 1: is awesome. I'm a little behind where the finale is.
Speaker 1: I'm only like three episodes in, but it's it's really good.
Speaker 1: We're not going to be competing. You don't want to
Speaker 1: be like an adventure racer? No? No, why no? You
Speaker 1: go see the world? Why I can see the world
Speaker 1: without doing it where I might put my life on
Speaker 1: the line. Yeah. Point, I would like to travel to
Speaker 1: watch Guys Adventure Race. I would love to sit there
Speaker 1: and watch it anywhere at any ocasion. You're like mountain
Speaker 1: biking in some crazy land. Then you're sailing in a
Speaker 1: little raft from one island to the next. You know
Speaker 1: what I've done? That's dangerous As a pub crawl, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's about as dangerous. Is that as dangerous? And
Speaker 1: people almost got in? That's that was the pub crawl
Speaker 1: with Bill Murray in New York City, the A to
Speaker 1: Z pub crawl. First of all, it's called an A
Speaker 1: to Z pub crawl. So you go to a bar
Speaker 1: that has the letter A, and then the bar that
Speaker 1: begins with B, and then there's C and then so
Speaker 1: you have to have a drink at each place. So
Speaker 1: if you do the math, you're doing your If you
Speaker 1: get to Z, it's twenty six drinks. So we go
Speaker 1: and we start out. I think we got to J
Speaker 1: Hi J somewhere in there, and there was an altercation
Speaker 1: potential for an altercation with Bill Murray and Bill didn't
Speaker 1: mean any harm, but the guy thought that he was
Speaker 1: making fun of him and Bill wasn't he might have been,
Speaker 1: And next thing you know, we're ushering ushering Bill out
Speaker 1: the door with his brother and that ended up the
Speaker 1: pub crawl the A to Z. During that pub crawl,
Speaker 1: we were in the village on Sixth Avenue and there
Speaker 1: was a street cleaner that was the engine was going
Speaker 1: and the guy was in a convenience store and Bill
Speaker 1: and I walked up and we the Bill goes, you
Speaker 1: ever been in one of these things? And I go no.
Speaker 1: So we jumped up on a street cleaner in New
Speaker 1: York City and Bill was ready to pilot the street
Speaker 1: cleaner and this guy comes running out like hey, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? You know? And Bill was like hey,
Speaker 1: and he pops his and guy goes Bill Murray and
Speaker 1: he's like yeah, and he goes, oh okay. Like basically,
Speaker 1: you could take it for a little bit of a spin.
Speaker 1: And then we got out of this machine. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: could you get pulled over for drinking and driving of
Speaker 1: a street cleaner in New York City? I mean that.
Speaker 1: Imagine that police officer gonna I'm gonna have to rescue,
Speaker 1: arrescue mister Murray. Yeah, Paul, that would be a show.
Speaker 1: Bill Murray going on the country and committing small crimes
Speaker 1: and getting out of them. Because he's Bill Murray. No
Speaker 1: one's gonna arrest him. Nobody want to see anything bad.
Speaker 1: Dam All right, let's go around the room. Best and
Speaker 1: worst of the weekend, Todd, I'll start with you my
Speaker 1: best of the weekend. On side of the Padres hit
Speaker 1: their fifth Grand Slam home run in six games. San
Speaker 1: Diego became the first team in MLB history to hit
Speaker 1: Grand Slams in four straight games during a sweep of
Speaker 1: the Rangers in a home and home series. I love
Speaker 1: my Padres, man, They are for real, And I love
Speaker 1: that Fernando Tatts. You know that people have an opinion
Speaker 1: on him because so many players are irrelevant in baseball.
Speaker 1: He's good and he wants you to know it. And
Speaker 1: I love that he has fun with the game. The problem,
Speaker 1: the biggest problem with baseball is nobody has fun because
Speaker 1: everybody is worried about hurting everybody else's feelings. What else
Speaker 1: do you have to tell? Right? Worst of the weekend?
Speaker 1: What the ref I like to call this? One? Heat
Speaker 1: Pacers game three Saturday, Miami went to the free throw
Speaker 1: line fifty two times, including twenty trips. Jessica Butler paces
Speaker 1: only went twenty eight times, six the most free throws
Speaker 1: attempted by one team at a playoff game that ended
Speaker 1: regulation since the year two thousand. Mcleovin, Okay, my best
Speaker 1: is gonna be Seth Curry, who's shooting one hundred and
Speaker 1: eleven percent from the field. Hen not true, He's shooting
Speaker 1: sixty five percent from the field. Unbelievable. My worst is
Speaker 1: Paul George, first player to shoot under twenty five percent
Speaker 1: in three straight playoff games since Bob Kuzy in nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty unprecedented. Bad Bob Couzy. They he want a good
Speaker 1: shooter to begin with his career field goal percentage? Is
Speaker 1: it forty percent? Bob Couzy couldn't shooter? No, we couldn't shoot.
Speaker 1: What was he good at? Dribbling around? Take a dribble,
Speaker 1: Seaton Will It's one of my favorite impersonations that we
Speaker 1: do when Seaton does the Bob Couzy unstoppable Yes, and
Speaker 1: then you have that old archival footage and it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: There's how many six ers have no answer for Bob Couzy.
Speaker 1: He's a magician and he's dribbling right hand the whole time.
Speaker 1: I'm going, how about somebody make him go to his
Speaker 1: left here? Yeah, Seaton best worst. My best other weekend,
Speaker 1: The Cleveland Indians had the pitcher make his major league
Speaker 1: debut this weekend, Tristan McKenzie when six innings, pitch two
Speaker 1: hits to run a walk and ten k's. But it's
Speaker 1: the best part of it. He's twenty one years old,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't look a day over fifteen. He looks
Speaker 1: just like a baby out there and he's just bringing heat.
Speaker 1: Really impressive debut. My honorable mention best though, is Donovan Mitchell,
Speaker 1: who's just not really getting a lot of attention necessarily.
Speaker 1: I think Lucas sort of stealing the spotlight, but he's
Speaker 1: having a hell of a playoff run. And my worst
Speaker 1: of the weekend is the false positives in the NFL
Speaker 1: dangling that's feels like an omen of things to come,
Speaker 1: or at least just one of the many possibilities of
Speaker 1: things that could go wrong here this fall. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that next hour when Al Michaels joins us.
Speaker 1: PAULI Bestman works Best, Jamal Murray versus Donovan Mitchell. The
Speaker 1: Nuggets chassa the wrong day to score fifty yeah, after
Speaker 1: Luca's game winner forty three pointer. And so my wife was,
Speaker 1: what do you watch? I go, I'm watching the Nuggets chashes.
Speaker 1: You're making those team names out. Those aren't real team names.
Speaker 1: I'm like, they are, all right, prove it. So I
Speaker 1: had to shower. Those are real team names, all right.
Speaker 1: Coming up next hour, Al Michaels will join us. More
Speaker 1: of your phone calls as well. Reggie Miller will join
Speaker 1: us on the program tomorrow. Philip Rivers, ARLs Barkley. I
Speaker 1: believe on Wednesday I heard from Will Ferrell. Last night.
Speaker 1: Will said, I hear you got a new job. I said,
Speaker 1: I don't have a new job, it's just a new
Speaker 1: home in Peacock. So he might join us this week
Speaker 1: as well. Two hours of the books, one more to
Speaker 1: go on this Monday. Dan and The Dan and Stan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show