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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Final Hour.
Speaker 2: In this Thursday Ben Wild first two hours of course,
Speaker 2: the breaking news the Lakers are targeting Dan Hurley at
Speaker 2: Connecticut to be their next head coach. This according to
Speaker 2: WOJ earlier this morning. Stat of the Day brought to
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Speaker 2: You got American Stars. Noah Lyles, the fastest man in
Speaker 2: the world. Gabby Thomas is also in there. The New
Speaker 2: York Grand Prix June ninth on NBC and Peacock as
Speaker 2: they get ready to go to Paris. We reached out
Speaker 2: to the University of Connecticut and we asked if Danny
Speaker 2: Hurley was available or had a comment that he would
Speaker 2: like to make, and Todd got the following back. Thanks Todd,
Speaker 2: But coach Hurley has no comment on reports at this time. Okay,
Speaker 2: doing his job, that's all he does. I'm not afraid
Speaker 2: to ask the tough questions.
Speaker 3: You never know where they gonna say. How does eleven's
Speaker 3: out really? Okay?
Speaker 2: Well, we just had Gino on and Gino had a
Speaker 2: lot of comments. Now no comment from Danny Hurley. Well,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of different angles with this, but it's
Speaker 2: not done yet. That's the one thing I keep cautioning people.
Speaker 2: I don't know. If Danny Hurley used this as leverage,
Speaker 2: then it got serious. Now all of a sudden, now
Speaker 2: you're knee deep in this, and now maybe you have
Speaker 2: to really consider do I want to go to the Lakers?
Speaker 2: And the fact that Gino Orienta was with Danny Hurley
Speaker 2: last night at an event and leans over and says, hey,
Speaker 2: you could probably win a couple of titles with the Lakers,
Speaker 2: and Danny just nods. Gino said, I didn't know what
Speaker 2: was going on. I just brought up the Lakers.
Speaker 4: Rando.
Speaker 2: Wow, pretty crazy? All right, Final hour poll question Reggie
Speaker 2: millerbal Jon is coming up in about uh fifteen minutes
Speaker 2: or so.
Speaker 5: Final hour. We got one here from Paulieu. If we
Speaker 5: could have just one on the show this hour, Dan
Speaker 5: Hurley or JJ Reddick, JJ Reddick, Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'd take Lebron. Yeah, I take Lebron. Let's take
Speaker 2: Lebron off the board, and you could have Danny Hurley
Speaker 2: or JJ Reddick. Uh, I'm gonna take Dan Hurley. You are, yes, Yes,
Speaker 2: I am. I mean, I don't know I don't know
Speaker 2: how much JJ Reddick knows. I know that Dan Hurley
Speaker 2: might know a lot more than JJ Reddick this morning
Speaker 2: when it comes to being the Laker head coach. And
Speaker 2: nobody had this there weren't even you know, they had
Speaker 2: long shot odds in Vegas for the Lakers shot. Danny
Speaker 2: Hurley's Name's not on there. Yes, eaton.
Speaker 5: Here's one from the Twitter machine. All right, would you
Speaker 5: rather have dot dot dot? This is from Joe. Would
Speaker 5: you rather have dot dot dot Bobby Hurley's playing career
Speaker 5: Danny Hurley's coaching career.
Speaker 2: I'd rather have Danny Hurley's coaching career. Yeah, I think so,
Speaker 2: still going, Yes it is. Bobby's playing days are over.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but they were awesome.
Speaker 2: They were unbelievable. But Danny's got back to back titles.
Speaker 2: Bobby had back to back titles. And now you're going
Speaker 2: to the Lakers maybe allegedly interest targeting.
Speaker 6: Yes, Baul, Danny Hurley can leave yu Khon and replace
Speaker 6: himself with his brother, easy transition, go out through coach
Speaker 6: the Lakers, Bobby Hurley back to the East coast.
Speaker 2: He would leave Arizona State to go to Yukon. I
Speaker 2: consider it but yes, yes.
Speaker 5: This is another one from Twitter, not a poll question,
Speaker 5: but a comment from Evan that exactly six people found
Speaker 5: that numerology second interesting.
Speaker 2: That is so mean and unnecessary, rounding up Todd had
Speaker 2: six degrees of separation with the Lakers with all names
Speaker 2: that have six letters.
Speaker 3: In fact, that someone posted that and then seeing felt
Speaker 3: they need to share it with.
Speaker 7: The class both of those things.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, well then on a good joke, buddy, thank
Speaker 5: you to that is thank you to.
Speaker 3: A good line.
Speaker 5: Then ye oh, I know why it's six because today's
Speaker 5: June sixth, oh right, six six exactly you.
Speaker 8: Did that on purpose, and twenty twenty four of the
Speaker 8: year two four is six two plus four.
Speaker 2: Sex didn't do that up, you didn't do it on
Speaker 2: the sixth, may have subconsciously no, no, And then Reggie
Speaker 2: and Miller six six.
Speaker 3: And twenty four is all six. Yeah, it's pretty wild,
Speaker 3: it's crazy.
Speaker 7: Yes, Marv Yukon men have six national championship.
Speaker 3: I just said a kick Kat that's six letters right
Speaker 3: there too. We have some candy in the back kickcat six.
Speaker 5: And then guess what if you today's June six right,
Speaker 5: the sixth day two four plus together six six six six.
Speaker 2: So sixth month, Yes, sixth.
Speaker 5: Day adds up to six.
Speaker 2: That's three sixes in a row. You know what that means?
Speaker 2: What the devil? Oh? That's right?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean the segment's going to hell.
Speaker 5: I don't know if this show has gone to hell.
Speaker 2: A couple of phone calls here. By the way, I
Speaker 2: was watching The Pirates and the Dodgers last night, and
Speaker 2: I wanted to see where the rookie Paul Schemes out
Speaker 2: of LSU when he faced Otani the first time. And
Speaker 2: Schemes is the odds un favorite for Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 2: And it feels like every other pitch is at least
Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour. So this is the first
Speaker 2: time they met one another. Otani and Paul Skeens, courtesy
Speaker 2: of the Pirates Radio Network.
Speaker 5: Two strikes out Otani, the crowd hushes got the pitch
Speaker 5: from Skims, swinging.
Speaker 2: A liss water run blood right by him. Two straight
Speaker 2: strikeouts for Paul Skins. I gets two MVPs. All right, clean, crisp.
Speaker 2: You can hear the ball hit the mitt. And then
Speaker 2: the next time up where sho Hey, Otani settled in
Speaker 2: and faced off against Paul skeins with a full count.
Speaker 9: Bitch, this ball swung on hammer to center fielding deep,
Speaker 9: so Winzky back to the track piece.
Speaker 3: Of the wall.
Speaker 7: It's got a home run show.
Speaker 1: Hey, Tony hits it out and the Dodgers on the board.
Speaker 4: It's seven to two for show.
Speaker 2: Hey, home run number fifteen. That's courtesy of the Dodgers
Speaker 2: Radio network AM five seventy LA Sports. It's certain guys
Speaker 2: when they connect, it's got a different sound to it.
Speaker 8: Yes, Marv, that's scheme striking out Otani. That feels like
Speaker 8: Alan Iverson crossing over Michael Jordan where it's like, oh,
Speaker 8: you may have not won that game, but it's like, okay,
Speaker 8: he means business.
Speaker 2: You know what's amazing about that play is Mike almost
Speaker 2: caught up with Iverson to get his jumper, so he
Speaker 2: crosses over, crosses over, and then I think one more
Speaker 2: time to take the shot, and Michael all gets that
Speaker 2: that jumper. That's how amazing. It was like all right,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do it again. And
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, Mike's like, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna try to get you, and he almost did. Doug
Speaker 2: in North Carolina, Doug, thank you for holding what's on
Speaker 2: your mind today?
Speaker 9: Well, Dan in front of me. I have a website
Speaker 9: called Sports Boston and has the NBC Peacock on it,
Speaker 9: so somehow it's affiliated. And two days ago they published
Speaker 9: an article on the greatest Boston sports villains of all time,
Speaker 9: like the sports person that Boston fans like to hate
Speaker 9: the most. Roger Goodell is on the list, Bill Lambert's
Speaker 9: number seven, Jack Tatum number five, Alex Rodriguez number two.
Speaker 4: As of two days ago.
Speaker 9: Who do you think they put number one?
Speaker 2: Hiri Irving?
Speaker 4: That is.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 9: They said Irving is the ultimate villain because he almost
Speaker 9: destroyed the Celtics from within and without no wonder your
Speaker 9: thoughts on this.
Speaker 2: Well, he's regretted it. You know, he needed to mature.
Speaker 2: He's talked about that experience there. He thought he was
Speaker 2: ready to run a team and that team didn't need
Speaker 2: him to run it. Now Kyrie, now with the Celtics,
Speaker 2: then it would be an interesting certainly a different story.
Speaker 2: But I mean Boston fans are going to welcome back
Speaker 2: the way Boston fans you would expect that they would.
Speaker 2: It won't be pretty. I'm curious if you know how
Speaker 2: Luca responds to it because he loves when somebody engages.
Speaker 2: He loves to have that who wants say something about me?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if he's going to pick
Speaker 2: up the tempo sooner because of that is over unders
Speaker 2: thirty one and a half tonight according to DraftKings. Let
Speaker 2: me see what else do we have. By the way,
Speaker 2: we talked about last time a coach won the national
Speaker 2: championship went into the NBA, Larry Brown. That was nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight. He was at Kansas with Danny Manning, then
Speaker 2: went to the Spurs. Jim Harbaugh's the first coach to
Speaker 2: win the national title in college football then become an
Speaker 2: NFL coach the following season. There have been coach is
Speaker 2: with a one year gap between winning a title and
Speaker 2: then becoming a pro coach. Jimmy Johnson with Miami and
Speaker 2: then the Cowboys, Nick Saban LSU and then the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Rick Pattino national title in Kentucky and then that was
Speaker 2: ninety six, lost the title game in ninety seven, and
Speaker 2: then he left for the Celtics.
Speaker 4: After that.
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Speaker 11: to day. This is the State of the day.
Speaker 2: Will in Iowa, Hi, Will, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 12: I was just wondering if who do you think is
Speaker 12: the front runner for the early job if he leaves
Speaker 12: and is Yukon the most attractive job in college basketball
Speaker 12: over say like a duke in North Carolina?
Speaker 13: That's up?
Speaker 2: Thanks you well, I think it has been. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it is now, But who am I getting?
Speaker 2: Does Bill Murray's son Luke Murray, who has done an
Speaker 2: unbelievable job on the staff with Yukon, does he stay
Speaker 2: or does he If Danny Hurley goes to the Lakers?
Speaker 2: I think I think we got to see what Hurley
Speaker 2: does if he's bringing coaches with him. If he does
Speaker 2: take the job there, Hey, JJ Reddick could always coach Connecticut.
Speaker 8: Yes, Mark yet a Yukon job it may feel like
Speaker 8: or the Lakers. It might feel like Phil Jackson where
Speaker 8: he takes a text winner with him. Yeah, where it
Speaker 8: might be a package deal where you know what you
Speaker 8: take me, you take my staff.
Speaker 2: Also, well, if you're looking at this and you have
Speaker 2: financial security for let's say seven years, six years, whatever
Speaker 2: it's going to be for Danny Hurley, and you're part
Speaker 2: of the coaching staff there to get experience in the NBA,
Speaker 2: and then if you decide to stay in the NBA
Speaker 2: or you go elsewhere, if you're one of his assistant coaches,
Speaker 2: I could certainly understand that Luke Murray is going to
Speaker 2: be a head coach at some point somewhere. Yeahton I got.
Speaker 5: It's got the sense too that, well, Dan Hurley gets
Speaker 5: all of the attention and I guess credit that comes
Speaker 5: with that that Luke Murray was a crucially important part
Speaker 5: of what Yukon has built. So I would be shocked
Speaker 5: if Dan Hurley was to make a jump to the
Speaker 5: Lakers and not Luke has to go with him, or
Speaker 5: if Dan made that jump and Luke didn't go with him,
Speaker 5: I would be shocked.
Speaker 2: Yes, if Lebron is talking about or commenting when JJ
Speaker 2: Reddick interviewed Dan Hurley and he's listening to that podcast
Speaker 2: and Dan Hurley is explaining their offensive philosophy, well, that
Speaker 2: offensive philosophy is based a lot on Luke Murray, the
Speaker 2: assistant coach, and I think you'd be crazy not to
Speaker 2: want to take him. And you get Bill Murray showing
Speaker 2: up at Laker games. How about that. Let's see Kenny
Speaker 2: in La. Hi, Kenny, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 4: So I was thinking.
Speaker 14: About this going back a number of years. This is
Speaker 14: not the first time the Lakers have flirted with a
Speaker 14: Yukon championship basketball coach. There is Kevin Ollie. Actually, I
Speaker 14: think he came cloth both in twenty fourteen right after
Speaker 14: winning the championship, as well as twenty sixteen, and then
Speaker 14: those jobs went to Byron Scott as well as Luke Walton.
Speaker 14: So perhaps this is not going to happen. I understand
Speaker 14: why the pole seemed like people feel that Hurley may
Speaker 14: just be using this as leverage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I have to at least factor that
Speaker 2: in because he had voiced, I don't know, displeasure he
Speaker 2: wanted this contract extension to get done after winning the
Speaker 2: second national title. Donovan in Oregon. Then we'll take a break,
Speaker 2: Reggie Miller will join us.
Speaker 13: Hey Donovan, Hey Darren first time all time six foot
Speaker 13: one hundred, beer bellied eighty. Okay, yeah, all this talk
Speaker 13: about the physicality with WNBA, this isn't near news. When
Speaker 13: I was in high school, we had a couple of
Speaker 13: girls who were Division one, Division two bault players out
Speaker 13: of the School of about three hundred kids, and my
Speaker 13: JV basketball team was scheduled to scrimmage with them the
Speaker 13: week leading up to the state tournament and they beat
Speaker 13: the ever living you know what out of them.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. You just have new eyes who
Speaker 2: are trained on the WNBA. You have a lot of
Speaker 2: people who never watch. Now they want to have an opinion,
Speaker 2: a referendum on the WNBA. This is how they play.
Speaker 2: It's physical. It's far more physical than you would think.
Speaker 2: But they it didn't just happen here in the last
Speaker 2: six weeks because of Caitlyn Clark. You might have just
Speaker 2: happened in the last six weeks because you're watching Kitlin Clark.
Speaker 2: I mean, take a break and get Reggie Millner's thoughts
Speaker 2: on what the Lakers are doing. He'll join us right
Speaker 2: after this.
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Speaker 2: we're waiting. They are on the road, not sure who's healthy,
Speaker 2: who's playing, and then all of a sudden, Luca and
Speaker 2: company they get going. Maybe Kyrie. Kyrie gets a rolling
Speaker 2: as well. So that'll be coming up tonight. Reggie Miller,
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Speaker 2: NBA n List. All right, Danny Hurley to the Lakers
Speaker 2: question Mark and your reaction is.
Speaker 4: I like this coming out of left field for the Lakers.
Speaker 10: I think the prevailing thought, and from what everyone's been
Speaker 10: talking about in reading, is that it was what JJ
Speaker 10: Reddick's to lose, right, And I kind of like the
Speaker 10: outside the box thinking from the Lakers here on Dan Hurley. Look,
Speaker 10: the landscape of college basketball as we've known over the
Speaker 10: last few years has changed because of Nil and I
Speaker 10: could see a lot of these coaches that are the
Speaker 10: upper tier starting to look at the NBA a little
Speaker 10: bit because of the changes, you know, coming down in
Speaker 10: college athletics. I think this would be a great, a
Speaker 10: fantastic hire for the Lakers if you could get a
Speaker 10: chance to get Dan Hurley, because to me, not only
Speaker 10: is he a great Texes and O those guys, but
Speaker 10: he is a development of men and if you watch
Speaker 10: any of their practices and see how they play. Their
Speaker 10: offense and their defense is a lot like a pro offense,
Speaker 10: and you've got to be able to find the players
Speaker 10: that number one, are smart enough to be able to
Speaker 10: run it.
Speaker 4: I think it would be a great hire. If Dan
Speaker 4: Hurley is now.
Speaker 10: I don't know if he's looking for a bigger pay
Speaker 10: cut or a bigger payday from Yukon, like using this
Speaker 10: as leverage, but if he is serious about coaching at
Speaker 10: the highest level, which is the NBA game, this would
Speaker 10: be a fantastic leap for him.
Speaker 4: He has nothing else to prove in college, back to
Speaker 4: back champions at Yukon, so he doesn't have anything to
Speaker 4: prove anymore. The next step for him would be and
Speaker 4: how about this, your first gig in a pro would
Speaker 4: be the Lakers.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, come on now, and coaching Lebron and
Speaker 10: ad why not?
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the down sign?
Speaker 4: It's the Lakers. And with that comes a lot of scrutiny.
Speaker 10: Every single practice, every single game, every single press conference
Speaker 10: was a big thing because number.
Speaker 4: One, you're on the clock. Because you're on the.
Speaker 10: Clock, because it's a countdown to the end of Lebron's career.
Speaker 10: He's probably going to retire a Laker, so that takes
Speaker 10: a life and a meaning of its own. But again,
Speaker 10: there's always more plus size because you're playing for a
Speaker 10: franchise with sixteen seventeen banners hanging in the rafters, with
Speaker 10: all those Hall of Fame jerseys hanging up there as well,
Speaker 10: that you can rely on.
Speaker 4: To me, there's more pluses.
Speaker 10: I'm sure a lot of people in left field and
Speaker 10: be like, he has no NBA experience, what is he doing?
Speaker 4: This is gonna be Rick Bettino and John caler Pari
Speaker 4: all over again.
Speaker 10: Maybe they're right, maybe so, But I just think Dan
Speaker 10: Hurley would be a fantastic fit for the Lakers.
Speaker 2: Would Dan Hurley be better for Brownie James or Lebron James?
Speaker 4: Maybe both.
Speaker 10: Look, there's no secret the Lakers in the second round
Speaker 10: have what the fiftieth fifty second pick something like for
Speaker 10: I thank you, okay, And Lebron has made no secret
Speaker 10: that you also to play with his son. I think
Speaker 10: you can achieve both here as well as get Dan Hurley. Again,
Speaker 10: but this is all about the bigger, the bigger James
Speaker 10: as opposed to the smaller James.
Speaker 2: Okay, But would you have a problem as an established veteran.
Speaker 2: If Indiana would have brought in a college coach like
Speaker 2: Brad Stevens would have left Butler, let's say at the
Speaker 2: height of when he was there at Butler and took
Speaker 2: over the Pacers, how would that go over with you,
Speaker 2: Mark Jackson, the Davis Brothers, Rick Smith.
Speaker 10: If Brad Stevens would have had two championships behind him,
Speaker 10: I mean, you can't fault what Dan Hurley has done.
Speaker 10: And I think having those two back to back ships
Speaker 10: and the success he's had a Yukon, I think that
Speaker 10: gives him a little bit of a little bit of
Speaker 10: a cacheme if you're coming into the Lakers. And again,
Speaker 10: if you watch Yukon, if you watch them playing, you've
Speaker 10: watched their offense. It is very sophisticated and I think
Speaker 10: it's next level and I think that could be applied
Speaker 10: to Lebron and aad and moving forward.
Speaker 2: Can you explain that though, reg because I likened it
Speaker 2: to the triangle offense that Phil had that he had
Speaker 2: to get his players to buy in in Chicago and LA.
Speaker 2: I don't know what this reincarnation of NBA offense, What
Speaker 2: exactly is Dan Hurley teaching that can translate to the NBA.
Speaker 10: Well, his offense is a lot from the European teams.
Speaker 10: He went over to Europe and really stole a lot
Speaker 10: of their offense. It's a lot of cutting movie the
Speaker 10: ball doesn't stick. And what I think and how it
Speaker 10: can be applied and be great for the Lakers is
Speaker 10: that you are going to be putting your two best
Speaker 10: players Lebron an Ad with Aflock running down.
Speaker 4: You're going to put them in actions to be successful.
Speaker 4: And it's a lot like.
Speaker 10: As you mentioned, the triangle where it starts on one side,
Speaker 10: but your two players have so much influence when the
Speaker 10: ball comes back to them. Then being able to make
Speaker 10: a quick decision, which Lebron and Ad do, and being
Speaker 10: able to score in traffic and make plays for others.
Speaker 4: Now they will have to do a little bit.
Speaker 10: More with a roster because they're don't have to find
Speaker 10: a little bit more shooting. That's something that the Lakers
Speaker 10: haven't had over the last few years. They've got to
Speaker 10: find better shooting and probably an established point guard that
Speaker 10: helped run this offense as well.
Speaker 2: How do you think JJ Reddick feels today.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's still out of the running here.
Speaker 2: These are just reports, but he was supposed to be
Speaker 2: getting the job. It felt like a mere formality. Now
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you're getting dressed up for your
Speaker 2: press conference and then they say, well, slow that down
Speaker 2: a little bit, slow that down, don't put on the time.
Speaker 10: I think JJ has bigger things to think about with
Speaker 10: the NBA Finals getting ready to start and here for
Speaker 10: the next two weeks or so.
Speaker 4: I'm sure his head is kind of focused that way,
Speaker 4: but in the back of his mind, sure, yes.
Speaker 10: I mean, now there's another player in the situation here,
Speaker 10: and a guy, Dan Hurley, who's well established, who has
Speaker 10: actually coached the team before. So yeah, I'm sure he's
Speaker 10: not feeling great, but his name is still in the
Speaker 10: running here.
Speaker 4: It's down with these two.
Speaker 2: I would assume talking to Reggie Miller, the Hall of Famer.
Speaker 2: We have Game one tonight in Boston. Dallas has been
Speaker 2: a really good road team. What is the key to
Speaker 2: being a really good road team?
Speaker 10: I think blocking out all the white noise. And you've
Speaker 10: got two guys on their team who really.
Speaker 4: Don't care who can play at home, and it's just
Speaker 4: as effective on the road, Luca and Kyrie. And it's
Speaker 4: interesting and I tell people this all the time. Luca
Speaker 4: has played in more and bigger games overseas when he
Speaker 4: was fifteen or sixteen turning pro in the EuroLeague. And
Speaker 4: if you've ever seen any of those those games and
Speaker 4: those fan bases for those EuroLeague games, it makes our fans.
Speaker 10: Look like child's plays. So he's been in bigger environments. Yes,
Speaker 10: this is the NBA Finals and this is the crowning
Speaker 10: jewel of basketball, but Luca has played in bigger games
Speaker 10: on the road in.
Speaker 4: EuroLeague at a younger age. So this is not going
Speaker 4: to face him. And with Kyrie coming back to Boston,
Speaker 4: with everything that transpired on his exodus, out him stopping
Speaker 4: on Lucky at center court and all that, that just
Speaker 4: adds to the drama. Kyrie won't be phased. And the
Speaker 4: rest of those Vavericks, they follow those two guys, So
Speaker 4: I don't think being on the road is going to
Speaker 4: phase them whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Do you think that Lebron really feels that Kyrie is
Speaker 2: the most talented player, most gifted player, that he's more talented,
Speaker 2: more gifted than Lebron is.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean.
Speaker 10: Obviously he played with him, he won a championship with him,
Speaker 10: He saw him wanted every day.
Speaker 2: But what does that mean gifted? I mean Lebron is in.
Speaker 10: Terms of ball handling, finishing, shooting, shot creating, shot making.
Speaker 10: I think he's adding all that into the mix here. Look,
Speaker 10: he's he's not six eight too, forty two thirty and
Speaker 10: built like a tank, and you know has played twenty
Speaker 10: one years. Lebron is a different breed too now. But
Speaker 10: I think he's talking in terms of total package. Is
Speaker 10: ball handling and shot making, creating.
Speaker 2: Is he more gifted than Steph?
Speaker 10: I think he's on the same level as Stefan in
Speaker 10: terms of creativity with the basketball, his shot making. Obviously,
Speaker 10: Steph is to me a better shoot, but I would
Speaker 10: put Kyrie right up there.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 10: I think the comparison a lot of people are saying
Speaker 10: is that he is a smaller version of Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 10: I think a lot of people like to make that
Speaker 10: comparison in terms of ball handling, being able to create
Speaker 10: your own shot, being able to finish in difficult environments
Speaker 10: in the pain Kobe, Kyrie even MJ a little bit.
Speaker 10: But though MJ wasn't handling like Kyrie, Kyrie is a
Speaker 10: savant with the basketball.
Speaker 2: Okay, how did the Celtics not win this series.
Speaker 10: Frech wow, it's theirs for the taking. But look to me,
Speaker 10: this is all gonna come down to two things. How
Speaker 10: does Celtics play Dallas in the pick and roll? Because
Speaker 10: you only have three options. You're gonna blitz, You're gonna trap,
Speaker 10: you're gonna drop. Those are your only three options. And
Speaker 10: which one all the three? There's one that I would
Speaker 10: do every single time, and that's blitz. I would blitz Luca.
Speaker 4: I would blitz Kyrie and make those sinners Dereck Lively,
Speaker 4: Daniel Gafford, make them be playmakers. And if they find PJ. Washington,
Speaker 4: if they find Josh Green, if they find Derrick Jones
Speaker 4: in the corner, and those dudes make shots. We were
Speaker 4: going to lose anyway. But if you drop or if
Speaker 4: you switch, Luca and Kyrie are going to have a
Speaker 4: fields date. We've already seen the blueprint.
Speaker 10: We saw it versus Okac, and we certainly saw it
Speaker 10: versus Minnesota when Rudy Gobert was trying to guard Luca
Speaker 10: and the drop or you know, they were hard hedging
Speaker 10: and we saw every single scenario and he destroyed them.
Speaker 4: To me, blitz get the ball, out his hands and
Speaker 4: make those.
Speaker 10: Sins become playmakers, and if they make plays, you're gonna
Speaker 10: lose anyways, so be it.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering about this that I think jokers the best
Speaker 2: player in the world, but it felt like he needed
Speaker 2: to win a title to have that official label. And
Speaker 2: now you're the best player if Luca wins the title
Speaker 2: this year. Now he hadn't won an MVP, but it
Speaker 2: feels like he's on the verge of or people are
Speaker 2: waiting for him to be on the verge of being
Speaker 2: the best player in basketball. Whether he is or not,
Speaker 2: winning that title all of a sudden validates authenticates you
Speaker 2: would Luca be considered the best player in basketball if
Speaker 2: Dallas wins the title.
Speaker 4: Daniel, And if you listen to Jason Kidd, he has
Speaker 4: alluded and said this all along. He's like, the league
Speaker 4: is actually giving you the keys to the kingdom, young man.
Speaker 10: All you need to do is finish the job. And
Speaker 10: by finishing the job, that's by winning the championship. And
Speaker 10: think about the road that the Dallas Mavericks has has
Speaker 10: had to take to get to the NBA Finals. Maybe
Speaker 10: a fifty plus win team in the Clippers, a fifty
Speaker 10: plus win team and the number one seed OKC Thunder,
Speaker 10: a fifty plus win team in Minnesota. Now you're going
Speaker 10: against the Juggernaut, the team that's tied with the most
Speaker 10: NBA championships in the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 4: You're starting on the road once again. This is a
Speaker 4: fourth Sea series.
Speaker 10: That they will they will have started on the road
Speaker 10: if they can find a way to win this. Yes,
Speaker 10: he now becomes part of the face along with the Joker,
Speaker 10: as the face of the NBA.
Speaker 4: But you got to win the ship. You've got to
Speaker 4: win the ship for that to happen.
Speaker 2: When you played in the NBA finals, I think Shack
Speaker 2: was twenty seven, oh.
Speaker 4: Man, Now Kobe went nineteen or twenty.
Speaker 2: He was twenty one. I think during the finals.
Speaker 4: Damn you, damn you. But here you're going here, you're going.
Speaker 4: You're gonna make me feel bad, don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, okay, if I didn't face well, I
Speaker 2: haven't faced Shack. You did Chack at twenty seven? What
Speaker 2: was that like? When you go into the finals and
Speaker 2: you know that dude is he's omnipresident. He's there and
Speaker 2: he's not leaving.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you this, Larry Bird came to Mark Jackson
Speaker 4: and I, along with Recall All, I was like, we
Speaker 4: have no answer for Shock. We're not gonna have any
Speaker 4: answer in this series.
Speaker 10: What we're gonna do, Sam Perkins, Rick Smith's, Dale Davis,
Speaker 10: We're just we're just gonna hack a shack and he's
Speaker 10: gonna have to make free throws. If you go back
Speaker 10: and look, and Paul Ley, I want you to look
Speaker 10: this up as we're talking. I believe he averaged twenty
Speaker 10: five or thirty three throws in that series. I believe
Speaker 10: game one or Game two he may have shot forty
Speaker 10: plus free throws. We were just going to foul him
Speaker 10: and if he made free throws, great.
Speaker 4: We had no answers.
Speaker 10: It was trying to stop the Rick Foxes, the Glen Rises,
Speaker 10: the Kobe's, everyone else. We felt then we had a shot,
Speaker 10: but we had no answer because other than Willed, none
Speaker 10: of us played against Wilt, but really saw Will.
Speaker 4: He's been the most dominant force in our game, and
Speaker 4: there was no answer for him. So all we tried
Speaker 4: to do was just hack a shacker.
Speaker 2: He averaged you know what he averaged in that series?
Speaker 4: Yeah, like thirty five eighteen five Fox.
Speaker 2: I think he averaged thirty eight and seventeen.
Speaker 4: I'll see, I'm look, I said thirty five and seventeen.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, shot thirty eight? What you said?
Speaker 2: Thirty eight, thirty eighteen, seventeen. How many blocks did he average?
Speaker 2: Ball three? Okay only three?
Speaker 4: How many free throws did he average?
Speaker 6: He shot? He attempted ninety three free throws in six games.
Speaker 6: He shot thirty nine percent for the free throw line.
Speaker 2: What's the most free throws he took in a game?
Speaker 2: Reggie said he might have taken forty. I was at
Speaker 2: those games.
Speaker 6: I have twenty two in a game.
Speaker 4: He shot. Look at how many free doll attempts did
Speaker 4: he shoot? Free door tempts?
Speaker 6: Not me, he didn't make twenty two in the whole playoffs.
Speaker 6: I got Shack. Hold on, he attempted a hold on
Speaker 6: this game. Here, hold on, I'm telling it might be right.
Speaker 6: I don't I remember he went to the line a
Speaker 6: lot because I was at that series. But I'm telling
Speaker 6: you he shot throw. In Game two, Shack was eighteen
Speaker 6: for thirty nine from the free line.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Regg.
Speaker 2: That's impossible to go eighteen of thirty nine.
Speaker 4: Oh my, think about shooting thirty nine?
Speaker 2: Oh no, if he could make free throws, then he
Speaker 2: wouldn't have shot thirty nine free throws. The fact that
Speaker 2: he couldn't is why he shot thirty nine free throws.
Speaker 2: Damn eighteen. Your son can shoot better than Shaq did
Speaker 2: from the line, right, probably, Yes, your wife could probably
Speaker 2: shoot better than Chack from the line.
Speaker 4: But we couldn't stop them down though.
Speaker 2: Oh no, oh my god. Shaq was only twenty six,
Speaker 2: then twenty seven, twenty seven.
Speaker 4: Twenty seven, Gee, what man? Those dudes should have stayed
Speaker 4: They could have been well, they are considered one of
Speaker 4: the greatest duels of all time, but just imagine if
Speaker 4: they would have stayed together a few more means. Okay,
Speaker 4: we're talking.
Speaker 2: Best duo is Mike and Scotty.
Speaker 4: If you're going by Chips and all that, you got
Speaker 4: to put them up there. But I'm putting Kobe. Kobe
Speaker 4: is shack man. They were different. I know I was close.
Speaker 2: To okay, more dominating. Okay, who would scare you more?
Speaker 2: You're going against Scotty and Mike or Shaq and Kobe.
Speaker 4: I went against them both and they both beat my head.
Speaker 2: Okay, I will against them, okay, but who would you
Speaker 2: rather have faced if I said, you can pick. You
Speaker 2: got Mike, and you got Scottie, you got Shaq and Kobe.
Speaker 4: I still would want to face twenty seven year old
Speaker 4: Shack and twenty one year old Kobe because he's still
Speaker 4: a little green. Kobe was right, he grew into one
Speaker 4: of the greatest of.
Speaker 10: All time, but he was still young when I faced
Speaker 10: him going against Mike and Scottie.
Speaker 4: They were they were already there, they were already at
Speaker 4: the mountain top.
Speaker 2: Great to talk to. You always love you, man, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Uh Who do you have? Who do you have winning
Speaker 4: NBA Finals? Uh? I have the Celtics, I have doubt
Speaker 4: I have Dallas in six.
Speaker 2: Dallas is a great wether. Okay, if the Boston wins,
Speaker 2: then we finally put it to bed, and then we
Speaker 2: recognize this group for doing something pretty incredible. If Dallas wins,
Speaker 2: you got the Kyrie story, you got you got Luca's story,
Speaker 2: Jay kids store like it. That's a better There's a
Speaker 2: lot more storylines I can run with if Dallas wins.
Speaker 2: And then of course the pressure that the MAVs winning
Speaker 2: puts on the Dallas Cowboys, which is what everybody is
Speaker 2: going to jump to. That conclusion that. Yeah, Yeah, come on,
Speaker 2: don Luca did it? Luca did it?
Speaker 4: That's up to you.
Speaker 2: All right, Thank you, Reg we'll talk to you later.
Speaker 4: Appreciate your Theatore and my Dandy.
Speaker 2: That's Reggie Miller, Hall of Famer, Turner Sports NBA Analyst.
Speaker 2: We'll take a break. Last call for phone calls right
Speaker 2: after this.
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Speaker 2: Last call for phone calls? What we learned? What's in
Speaker 2: store tomorrow? Sean and Indy. Welcome back, Sean. What's on
Speaker 2: your mind?
Speaker 13: Hey, Dan, I got some more numerology for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's Yeah?
Speaker 12: What's the date today?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we brought that up.
Speaker 12: It was, oh, it's the six months of.
Speaker 2: The Yeah, I know, yeah, yeah, we brought that up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we brought that up.
Speaker 4: Six six six.
Speaker 2: Todd has his numerology running down all the names involved
Speaker 2: with the Lakers. Six names, six letters, yes.
Speaker 5: Day for Motley Crue. As a matter of fact, they
Speaker 5: would be very into this day.
Speaker 2: They have a song.
Speaker 5: They were very into six six six sixes. Yeah, back
Speaker 5: in the day, back in the eighties. Uh huh Uh
Speaker 5: Jack and Indy? Hi Jack, what's to be six?
Speaker 4: Hello?
Speaker 2: He's a guitar player for Motley Crue. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: is he still alive? He's still with us? Okay?
Speaker 6: Soft?
Speaker 16: Uh?
Speaker 2: Jack and Indy? Hey Jack? What's on your mind today?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 13: You doing damn?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 16: Just first of all, it is for first time long time.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 16: I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed
Speaker 16: the show and the break you give me every day
Speaker 16: from the New York Jet Network. I. Uh, I'm taking
Speaker 16: my kids to Indy or too, sorry to h New
Speaker 16: York this weekend. We're going to Yankee game tomorrow. And
Speaker 16: I know in the past I've heard you give, you know,
Speaker 16: some suggestions for dinner or something fun to do, uh,
Speaker 16: cool places to go. So I was going to hit
Speaker 16: you up for that. And I wanted to ask Marvin
Speaker 16: about the uh if I remember right, I think his
Speaker 16: mom took him to the Michael Jackson Show and I'm
Speaker 16: Broadway show still playing, and I was going to get
Speaker 16: his approval or his read on that that was worth
Speaker 16: going on?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: Was it worth Jack taking his kids to see Michael
Speaker 2: Jackson original cast?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Definitely original cast. Yeah, loved.
Speaker 2: Oh you did it.
Speaker 7: It was phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Is it still on Broadway?
Speaker 4: It is?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, let's see restaurant wise, there's so many of them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there is if you really want to treat them to
Speaker 2: something special. Keynes Steakhouse. It's in the Theater District. That's
Speaker 2: like thirty sixth and sixth. If you can get in
Speaker 2: great state, great atmosphere there, get on the Staten Island
Speaker 2: ferry and don't get off the Staten Island ferry, but
Speaker 2: go all the way to Staten Island and then back
Speaker 2: and you're going to see the Statue of Liberty. You're
Speaker 2: going to see the southern tip of Manhattan. And if
Speaker 2: you do it when it's right around dusk, around around
Speaker 2: seven thirty eight o'clo, it'll be gorgeous.
Speaker 4: Gues don.
Speaker 3: What about that place that you rave about that has
Speaker 3: the chicken palm pizza in Midtown?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's quality of Toil. Yeah, yes, it's a pizza
Speaker 2: shaped chicken parm.
Speaker 3: What else could you possibly want?
Speaker 2: Oh my god. When Todd saw.
Speaker 3: That, I couldn't believe they make such a thing.
Speaker 2: He goes, wait, is that a pizza chi chicken palm pizza.
Speaker 2: It's both it's chicken palm, but it's shaped like a pizza.
Speaker 3: That is just an incredible invention, is what that is.
Speaker 3: It's like electricity or the wheel.
Speaker 2: That's a quality. Quality Italian There Aaron and fort Wayne
Speaker 2: hi eron what's on your mind today?
Speaker 12: Hey, Dan, thanks for taking my call. You know, I'll
Speaker 12: just listened to all this Dan Hurley stuff and I
Speaker 12: just want your opinion on how much do.
Speaker 17: You the lure of college basketball playing to his decision?
Speaker 17: Because we're just looking like college coaches differently. I mean
Speaker 17: Jim Bayh and Bob Knight, they're immortalized forever and NBA
Speaker 17: coaches is just different.
Speaker 12: How much if they that's playing into his decision? Also,
Speaker 12: I have a pie of the Faith bet to get
Speaker 12: from Seaton the number three pick Drake May went to
Speaker 12: the Patriots. So would you like to get a soup
Speaker 12: sponsor and do a New England clamp chowder over the head?
Speaker 14: Thank you, Dan?
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't know what the bet was with Drake May.
Speaker 2: Did you guys follow that with some New England chowda
Speaker 2: over the head? I didn't. I don't remember that.
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't get it not sure. You know my attention
Speaker 2: span is not the way it used to be. This
Speaker 2: day in sports history, Paulie, I'll just give you one.
Speaker 6: Wayne Gretzky of the Kings won the Heart Trophy for
Speaker 6: the ninth time. He was the first player in NHL
Speaker 6: history to win the same ward nine times. He won
Speaker 6: it nine of his first ten seasons as a pro.
Speaker 2: That is pretty awesome.
Speaker 7: Insane.
Speaker 2: Yes, the Alan Iverson stepping over Tylu on this date.
Speaker 2: In two thousand and one, he had forty eight in
Speaker 2: Game one of the NBA Finals. That was the only
Speaker 2: game the Sixers won. And I was at that series
Speaker 2: and I thought, oh my god, they took Game one.
Speaker 2: Can they win this thing? No, they can't. Once again,
Speaker 2: one of the worst lineups to ever go to an
Speaker 2: NBA Finals. The Rally Monkey debut back in two thousand
Speaker 2: with the Angels come back went over the Giants. The
Speaker 2: Rally Monkey. Let me see anything else in Ooh, Kevin
Speaker 2: McHale clothesline Kurt Rambis. That happened on this day in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four, and Boston won in overtime one twenty
Speaker 2: nine to one. Twenty five went on to win the
Speaker 2: series in seven and no fouls called. There probably was
Speaker 2: no flagrant found. They weren't throwing people out. That was
Speaker 2: a hard playoff, found Todd. Would you learn today.
Speaker 3: Targeting and sports can be a negative? But now what
Speaker 3: if the Lakers targeting Danny Hurley as an ex head coach?
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, Satan.
Speaker 5: I learned from Todd? What it is that's powering everything
Speaker 5: in the world. Electricity.
Speaker 3: You can par pizza electricity and the wheel electricity?
Speaker 2: What extricity? Electricity, electric electricity, Marvin also known as electricity.
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