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They've been with us since day one, 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.159 three hundred and sixty two affiliates around the world. We 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.760 say good morning to them. Also, chat Row, we got 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.240 a pull question. I believe we have a pull question, McLevin. Yeah. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.120 I did today. Who's coming out of the West to 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.680 start to see if there was any movement. Lakers are 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.640 still one. Clippers are still strong number two, with the 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.600 MAVs third, followed by the Jazz and the Rockets. I'm 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.760 surprised us that the Clippers could be a strong two 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:06.000 if the MAVs are three. Yeah, but what about the 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:10.200 Jazz and the Rockets there in play too, aren't they Yeah, 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.040 of course they are. Once you get Westbrook back and 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.400 you know, Oklahoma City trying to put up a fight here, 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:20.280 but you get Westbrook back, it'll be rested, you hope, 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.759 and you'd be ready to go into battle there around two. Yeah, 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:25.720 the club. How about a pole question, who scores the 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.160 most point if the MAVs win the series? If you 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.720 have Luca Harden and Donovan Mitchell all playing, aren't they 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.560 all gonna go for forty five a games? Yeah? Scoring 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.600 is up the highest in the postseason in the last 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.160 thirty five years. Yeah, Paul, it feels like nobody buys 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.760 into the Rockets until they get to the finals because 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.520 they we've seen it in the past four years in 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.200 the regular season. They're hard to team to buy into. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.680 That's make it the promise Land, Well, you have this 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.320 small ball there and you're still not sure if it 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:58.480 works like it's a it's an entertaining offense, it's gimmicky, 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.279 it's entertaining. Is sustainable for seven games in a series? 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.720 Can you win four times with that? And that's always 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.880 been the knock because they're just not consistent enough where like, 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.320 even if they have a bad night, can they still win? 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.960 Can they have a bad night still win against a 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.959 good team? That'll be the challenge for the Rockets. Luca 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.519 ties the series at two games apiece, and we love 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.280 to do this, and I'm right there front and center. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.440 We love to offer comps when it comes to players, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.799 and we've been trying to do this with Luca don Chick. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.359 And every time you say Larry Bird, people say easy there, 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:39.000 slow your role. Well here's Luca's head coach, Rick Carlyle, 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.160 who played with Larry Bird in Boston. I mentioned Kid 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.920 and Bird. I mean, I think both those guys, you know, 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:50.919 just are from the same fabric competitively and in terms 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:55.320 of their will to win and their resourcefulness to find 0:02:55.360 --> 0:03:01.280 ways to impact the game in unique arms. You know, 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.360 it's it's not just about putting the ball in the basket. 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:07.960 It's about giving teammates confidence. And he does you give 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.520 your teammates confidence When you hit the game winner with 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.560 somebody in your face and it's a three pointer and 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.919 you tie this series at two games apiece, they could 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.480 easily be up three games to one, and I thought 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.880 that they were more dangerous to the Clippers than the 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.560 Blazers were to the Lakers. But you know, as as 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.560 you move forward here, I don't know Porzingis is going 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.240 to play in Game five, probably a game time decision. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.000 Can you ask Luca to do this again? And what 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.760 kind of defensive philosophy changes for the Clippers. Here is 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.520 Doc Rivers talking about the difference between Dallas and the 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.360 Clippers yesterday. Give Dallas credit. They could have threw it in. 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.680 We'll get up twenty one there they're minus Porzingis, but 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.920 they didn't. They just stayed in the game. And you 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.480 can see the difference in the spirits, like they make 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.240 a run and everybody's excited. They make a run on us, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.720 and you know we came in, so that's on all 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.840 of us. Me too. I gotta get guys right. Lucas 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:07.000 said that is historic triple double. Game winner was something special. 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:08.880 This is what he had to say post game. I 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.000 was just trying to make it. You know, I can't 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.320 explain the emotions I had, you know, not only when 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.240 he go the ball goes in. When I see the 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.719 whole team like twenty told me that was something special. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.920 One of the best feelings I ever had as a player, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.720 and it's just something special. Man. This Tim is something 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.800 special once again, he's twenty one years of age. So 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.160 they tied the series of two games apiece. The Celtics 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.600 sweep the seventy sixers, the Raptors sweep the Nets. There's 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.440 been reports, there's another report this morning by the Athletic 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.320 that the Nets might be interested or are interested in 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:49.480 Gregg Popovich. I don't know if they've contacted him. I 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.760 don't know if they've had discussions here. Now that the 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.000 season ends, you can have those discussions, I guess, unless 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.839 you're gonna have to ask permission from the San Antonio Spurs. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.040 I would think, but this has been out there for 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:06.120 about a month, that Popovich maybe would be interested in 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.280 any change of scenery to take over the book Brooklyn 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.400 Nets and with that talent there, and they showed talent, 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.680 but they showed a lot more than that. They showed 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.880 a willingness to compete, something we did not see from 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:22.039 the seventy six ers as they bottle out and don't 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:26.200 you dare asked Joe lmbid a question about what went wrong. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.240 This is his postgame comments. What do you think the 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.840 issue is with this team? I mean Do you think 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.080 it's the way it's built. Do you think it's coaching. 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.840 Do you think it's the bad luck with the injuries 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.680 all of the evolved book as you say the issue, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.360 that's a that's a that's a very stupid question. That's 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.640 not issue. We're good, we just didn't win. We came out, 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.000 we could have made shots the whole series. So men 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.680 like it's frustrating. You know, I felt like everybody played hard, 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.520 we tried it, just shot just didn't fall. And then 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.400 times defense was not good. All right, it's not a 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:05.400 stupid question. It's poorly phrased, but it's not a stupid question. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.880 And Joe lmbid, as the leader of this team, or 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.440 you're hoping he's the leader of this team, should have 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:16.200 answers here. But this is different. You know, you didn't 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.400 get one game here. When you get swept four games, 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.720 I know you're without Ben Simmons. I look at the 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.359 Brooklyn Nets, they never gave up, and they were without 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.960 Kadi and Kyrie. So no excuses here. You play hard, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.080 not expecting you to win, but body language horrible with 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.839 the Sixers and Brett Brown is going to pay the 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.839 price as the head coach. Here you got the Jazz 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:41.800 up three one on the Nuggets, Heat up three zero, 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.360 and the Pacers Lakers up two one on the Blazers 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.240 they play to night and Rockets up to one on 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:54.040 the thunder So you got Pacers, Heat, Rockets, Thunder Bucks, Magic, Lakers, Blazers. 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.719 That's coming up tonight. The seventy Sixers launched into the 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:02.200 controversial team building strategy that back in twenty thirteen. Twenty 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.159 thirteen when the former GM Sam Hinkey took over and 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.560 took them to the next level tanking, that is, it 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.120 became the process. So they got rid of good players, 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:15.800 went young, collected draft picks, and the most notable aspect 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.080 of the process was losing All along. The team sold 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.200 a bigger picture to its fans. Suffer Now when big 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.560 later seventy Sixers got the plan right, at least half right. 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.400 They lost a lot of games, but transforming into a 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.800 champion wasn't that simple, and the Sixers just got swept 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:37.040 by the Celtics, another early exit in the playoffs. Now 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.240 you got some young stars and Joel and Beat and 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.920 Ben Simmons, who knows if they can play together. They 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.720 made a lot of mistakes here, and of course, they 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.600 traded up so they could have gotten Jason Tatum. Instead 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.600 they went up and got Marquel Folds. The results have 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.920 been disappointing. Now what is part of the process, this 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.640 next step for this team? What do they do next? 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:04.000 Can you keep one? I would keep both. Whatever coach 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.600 comes in would probably want to have two guys with 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.800 the potential to be Hall of famers, and Ben Simmons 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.080 and Joe Lmbid. I just don't know the mental makeup 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.200 of these players, because that says a lot about how 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:20.000 great they want to be. Embiid can be great, I 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.680 don't know if he has designs on being great. And 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.400 Ben Simmons this might be as good as he's going 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:33.800 to get. I don't know. Now he plays both ends. 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:38.320 He's a talented player, but you know he's limited. And 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.000 then Joe l Embiid is not the guy I want 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.640 leading me. Entertaining me is one thing, but not being 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:47.280 the leader of my team because I don't know if 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.760 he's capable of doing that. But they've got some questions there, 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.679 and I don't know if they have the answers because 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:57.160 the process has been processed. Yes, McLevin, it's not Sam 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:01.160 Hinky's fault. He set everything up perfectly. They just draft Tatum, 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.079 they would have been you know, that was the next 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.160 They fired him in sixteen halfway through. Brian Colangelo screwed 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.600 this whole thing up, and then they paid Tobias Harris, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.880 who you actually let Al Horford? I did like Tobias 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.240 Harris with the Clippers. Yeah, I think you get there, 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.600 and it just felt like there were a lot of 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.760 personalities and there was never that boy. I feel pretty 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.520 confident that if it goes bad, then who's going to 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.000 be your leader? And they brought in Al Horford? So 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.040 you get an aging Al Horford and you pay one 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.640 hundred million dollars to come in and be your clubhouse leader. 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.360 And you know, Jj Reddick, you let him go. I 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.600 saw where the Pelicans maybe trying to put Lonzo Ball 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:51.839 up for trade. I had high hopes for Lonzo, and 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.440 then he gets to the Bubble and then David Aldards 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.840 had a report that he had checked out that Lonzo 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.760 really didn't want to be there, and he played like that, 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.680 you know, are you gonna ship him to another team? There? 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:10.360 He's got talent, he does, but yeah, I don't know 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.840 if he's got heart. I don't know if he wants 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.800 to play, he wants to be great. I mean that 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:20.680 separates these guys. They all have talent, it's who wants 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.240 to be great every night and the sacrifice that goes 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.200 along with that. And a lot of these guys want 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.040 to be great. Want to tell you they're great. Hey, 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.840 look at all the followers I have on Instagram. Height 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.400 go out there and be great now in the postseason, 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.960 be great now, want it now? Like Damian Lillard wants 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:46.319 to be great, wants it chip on his shoulder, takes 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.920 the court every single night like that. That's what I want. 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.679 I want you to prove it every single night instead 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.400 of you go out there and you're entitled, because the 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.079 seventy six ers played entitled and it showed Kayle. But 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.560 Oregon joins us as we offer the opportunity to give 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.600 us your best and worst of the weekend. Hey Caleb, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.440 good morning, Good morn Indian. Worst of the weekend was 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.920 getting really bad food poisoning for about two days, which 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.640 was about a representation about how my Blazers played both 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.760 Game two and three. And the best of the weekend 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.760 was having an amazing wife to take care of me 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.240 and the newborn. So she was one with two babies. 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:32.000 And then I add a question. When my child was born, 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.120 I was wearing my Tampa Bay shirt, and so on 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.520 the month anniversary, I was wearing my Cronchineer shirt. Which 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.440 shirt do you think I should order for the for 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:45.360 next month on the fifteenth, Well, what shirt should we 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:51.200 have Caleb having? Well, there's the cam chowder is pretty good. Yeah. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:55.040 See still I'm trying my best. The Mario one. Yeah, 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.840 I do like I laugh every time I see Mario 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.960 wearing a T shirt that sums up his inability to 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.920 do anything. Well, I'm trying my best, trying my best. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.040 Cut me some slack. We have a the new Aaron 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:13.199 Rodgers T shirt. Yes, where he said that he was 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.480 drinking heavily on the night of the draft, and so 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.320 we thought, why not just have a twelve and then 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.800 put last call and have it the Aaron Rodgers T shirt. 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.760 By the way, on this day a year ago, I 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.920 think started the craziest year in sports. I'll have that 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.120 for you. Coming up a couple more phone calls. Andrew 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.120 and North North Dakota. Andrew, Welcome to the program. Good 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:42.200 morning Fellas six, two to ten. I best of the 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.480 week was obviously Luca I just be math. I did 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.600 not think was gonna pull it off this espession without 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:53.600 Chris Stops. The worst of the weekend was probably the 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.200 Montrez Harold comments. That's a deeper discussion for a much 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:01.520 later time, but I have to chat as mclovin. Please, 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.600 I'm a nice guy and I don't want to chastize 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.640 you too much, but I just I don't like your 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:13.880 analysis of basketball players for months now because you think 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.160 James Harden is a great player, and he's a really, 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:23.200 really really good player, but greatness doesn't I'll give a 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:29.440 perfect historical comparative. Adrian Dantley was James Harden. Adrian Dantley, 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.440 if he would have grew up in the three point 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.080 line era, he would have learned to shoot the three. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.360 If you watched Adrian Dantley, he would pump, fake, jabsta jabstick, pump, think, 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.800 and he would get to the line and take forever 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.920 at the line. I played basketball at a high level 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.840 When another one of my teammates is constantly having the ball, 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.600 literally scoring or not, and you don't see that ball, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:56.360 it just bitterness just keeps in gently and you can't 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:01.720 win as a team like that. Andrew, Andrew, let me 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.400 go to our Andrew, would you like to respond? I 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.600 didn't know I was a James Harden guy. That's awesome, 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.640 I've all but you know the Rockets did take one 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.800 of the best teams in NBA history to seven games 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.240 in the West Finals. Well. I have been a big 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:18.560 proponent of Harden with his ability to score that he is, 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.480 that he's unstoppable, and we've had other people. Charles Barkley 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.400 is the one who's been on the campaign here with 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.080 James Harden, the most unstoppable offensive player he's ever seen. 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.600 I don't know if this translates to any success in 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.200 the playoffs, and you're starting to get that feeling with 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.920 James Harden that it won't and he's going to be 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.440 one of those careers where you go, gosh, he scored 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.920 a lot of points and that's all he did. He 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.840 scored a lot of points and he won an MVP. Yeah, mcclub. 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.600 But they ran into the Warriors. That was their only 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.000 They would have won two titles. If if Durrant didn 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.720 joined the Warriors, maybe yeah, maybe, but you're the harding guy, 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.240 not me. I don't, by the way, I I don't 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.960 want him on my team. Can I be the Luca guy? Now? No, 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.520 you're not, No, no, no. Can I ask a question 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.200 about Luca you just did? How can he such a 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.880 good rebounder and such a good dribbler, like he's an 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:13.920 animal on the glass. You kind of have to want 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:19.320 to be a rebounder like guys who rebound well, want 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:23.520 to rebound. It's not glamorous. Stats Rodman made it glamorous, 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.160 but that was the only way that you lay. You 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.640 singled him out because of his hair, but he rebounded. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:30.600 That was all he did with the bulls. He wasn't 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.320 a great defender with the bulls. He wasn't with the pistons. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.680 But Luca prides himself in doing all of those. I 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.640 don't know if he goes out like Russell Russell Westbrook 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:44.520 went after a triple double. I don't know if Luca 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.440 goes boy, I gotta get how many rebounds do I have? Oh? 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:49.520 You got nine? Okay? I have to get one more 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.000 because he blows right by those numbers. It's not like 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:56.800 he goes, you know, twenty three, ten and ten. You 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:01.400 know he's going forty three, seventeen thirteen. So it's different. There, 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.160 But I don't know how you got lumped in there 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.320 with James Harden. Yeah, you and Charles are like national voices. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.160 I think he was unstoppable. I think I think him 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.440 with this rest and Adrian Danley. If those of you 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.040 who are old enough to remember Adrian Danley, Adrian Danley 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.320 could not shoot a jump shot. Adrian Dantley did do 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.640 head fakes, going back to when he was a freshman 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.160 at Notre Dame when they upset UCLA with Bill Walton. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.480 He was a great player, but it felt like you 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.600 knew exactly what you were getting with Adrian Danley, and 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.320 he put up numbers. Yes, MC, I'm an Alex English guy, right, 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.840 great score. Guys like that would they dominate today those 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.960 seventies Trapuca, alexandlish Kiki, Well, they would be their mid 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:50.640 range jump shooters. You know. A guy like Dan Issel, 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.960 who played center for the Nuggets, would be great now 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.960 because Issell could shoot. For a big man, he could shoot, 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.360 you know. But the Alex English was just a I 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.000 don't think you can accidentally score twenty six thousand points 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.400 or whatever he has like he he was a guy 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.439 that he just didn't do anything other than that. And 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.200 he did that really well. It just didn't translate into success. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.639 That's why you can get thirty five a night and 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.040 you don't win. You can get twenty two a night 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.840 and win, and you'll be singled out because you got 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.520 Tim Duncan got singled out because he would give you twenty, 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.200 twenty two and ten. Now he had a really good 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:32.119 team around him, but he understood how to blend in 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.639 with that team, allow those players to be great. Tony 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.520 Parker manage to noble when Kawhi came in. You know 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.119 to be there with David Robinson. You know that you 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:47.520 get recognized because you win, you can be a highlight. 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:52.800 Jordan understood. This took him a while. He finally asked himself, 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.040 you just want to lead the league in scoring average 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.399 thirty five and be a highlight reel and sell shoes? 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.640 Or do you want to be the greatest of all time? 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.600 And he said, I want to be the greatest of 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.720 all time. Took less money, made sure they brought in players, 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:10.840 got Rodman, Pippin was there, Tony Coo, coach came in. 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.919 Mike understood, this is how you become the greatest of 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:20.000 all time. Bill Russell no what's the most he ever averaged? 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:26.760 Eighteen nineteen. It didn't matter did you win, that's all 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:31.240 the matters. What's the most Magic Johnson ever averaged? How 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:36.080 many times did Magic average twenty? Not many? Reggie Miller 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:41.360 didn't average twenty too many times. Now, he didn't win, 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.000 but he took his team to the NBA finals. Champot. Yeah, 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.200 Magic was like a eighteen five for most of his career, 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.840 but he'd average eleven, twelve, thirteen assistant. Yeah, he had 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.680 a couple of years where he averaged twenty three points 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.800 a game Magic midway through his career. Yeah, all right, 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.800 I'm gonna blow your mind when we come back, just 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.199 because it's a one year anniversary of something that I 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.800 think really got the ball roll even before the pandemic. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.639 That when it came to the craziest sports year of 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.800 all time, we already had built up a big head 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.720 of steam. 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PAULI 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:02.600 has a quick who's who's? Do you have any theme 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:11.520 music for? Whose stats? Whose stants? Whose stats would you want? Tummy? Tummy? Dummy? 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:16.600 Who stands? Whose stats would you want? Dance? Still adding 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:36.520 it up, if we have some filler music sets and 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:51.119 I need just a little more time, okay, sets, I 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:58.640 really want sets in the Monta sets because the evenings 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:03.800 are focused. Okay, so the evenings are for girls. Dan 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:06.720 whose second year NBA stats? Would you want? This is 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:10.200 their second season in the NBA. Both about twenty ish 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:14.040 years old. Player one twenty seven points per game, seven rebounds, 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.240 seven assists, two steals, thirty five percent from three forty 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:20.119 two minutes the game forty two minutes a game. Player 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:23.120 two twenty nine points per game, nine rebounds, nine assists, 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:26.840 one steal, thirty two percent from three playing only thirty 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:30.919 four minutes per game. Who is who? Player one day, 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:34.560 Player one, Lebron, that's correct, Player two, Luca, that's correct. 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:39.639 That's some serious stuff. You know what they say, Well, 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:41.879 you can't compare to Lebron James yet, why can't you? 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:47.000 I know his accomplishments aren't near but at the same stage. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:49.679 And that's the point I always make when people go 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:53.399 stop comparing him to Larry Bird, And I said, he's 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:57.280 better than Larry Bird at age twenty one. Larry was 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:02.000 in college at Indiana State, and Luca is doing this 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:05.080 in the NBA. So yes, he is better at Larry 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:09.200 at than Larry at twenty one, just like I thought 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:13.560 Larry was better at age thirty than Lebron was, and 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:17.520 then Larry's health went down after that, and then Lebron 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:24.159 blew right by him. But Luca is better than Larry 0:23:24.200 --> 0:23:26.120 at age twenty one, and you could make a case 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:31.200 he's better than Lebron at age twenty one. Whatever Larry's 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:33.960