WEBVTT - HOUR 1- Bruce Feldman Aug 31, 2020 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.720 Sports Radio. Hope you had a great weekend. Everybody gangs 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:08.920 all here on this Monday. Dan and the Dan nstan 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:13.319 Patrick Show officially on Peacock gave you a tutorial on 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:15.640 YouTube dot com slash the Dan Patrick Show on how 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:17.640 to join us To watch the program. You can, of 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.880 course listen on our great radio affiliates numbering three hundred 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.880 and sixty two around the world. 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Doesn't it seem 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.160 like it was a month ago that Orlando took Game 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.600 one against Milwaukee. The Clips close out the Maps. We'll 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.200 talk about the MAVs as they move forward in the 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.560 off season, and the Lakers close out the Blazers, but 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.119 maybe a little tension from the meeting the players only 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.800 meeting with Lebron James. We'll talk about that story as well, 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.880 heating the Bucks Rockets in the Thunder coming up later 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.320 on today. NBA playoffs are back, but I'm not sure 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:26.480 it's business as usual. Coronavirus made sure that it never 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.800 was really business as usual. But after last week's stoppage, 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.119 staying focus has to be more difficult than ever, because 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.160 you know, the players are trying to figure all of 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.040 this out. They're trying to use their platform to promote 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.480 social justice, and there's no easy answers, and even as 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.479 they narrow in on actionable items, they're engaging in a 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.200 short term and long term battle. And that's one thing 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.240 about sports that's easy. The clock hits zero, there's a winner, 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.080 there's a loser, you get to celebrate, you have a parade, 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.720 everybody goes home. Social issues don't work that way. Players 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.840 are trying to come up with short term, long term 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.280 strategies while playing basketball at the same time and playing 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.840 at a high level, and you're trying to set the 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:11.440 tone for the entire sports world. A champion is likely 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.640 to be crowned this season, but that's only part of 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.080 the reason that this will go down is the most 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.400 unique postseason in history. So you have the games coming 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.519 up tonight. The Cabs lost to the Clippers. Give credit 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.280 to Kawhi Leonard. That's what you want a great player 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.799 to do. Stepped up big time and took over that game. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.160 The Mavericks in the offseason are probably going to look 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.160 for a player who has been a thorn in their 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.480 side in this postseason, and that's Marcus Morris. You need 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.320 a little bit of toughness in there, and you're probably 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.680 going to need a couple of veterans in there. But 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.880 as you move forward, as long as you can keep 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.880 Kristaps porzingis healthy, I don't know if you can get 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.480 a third star in there, and maybe you get somebody 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.720 who is on the cusp of being a star. But 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.760 I will pose this question, if you're a young star, 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.440 do you want to play with Luca don Chick. Now, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.800 before you say, well, of course you do. It's a 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.320 ball dominant guard and you have to be a certain 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.800 of a certain mindset and maybe at a certain point 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.560 in your career, either early in your career or later 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.720 in your career, because everybody wants their money, everybody wants 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.600 to be a star. But if you can find somebody 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.160 like Eric Gordon is with Houston where he knows his role, 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:36.680 James Harden ball dominant guard, Luca was great Morris, you know, 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.680 got thrown out of the game, ejected for a flagrant foul. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.960 I don't think it's any coincidence that it was a 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:48.120 flagrant foul because he did target, in my opinion, Luca's 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:52.720 ankle earlier in the series. But as the Dallas Mavericks 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.400 move forward, if they want to be a championship contender, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.240 and now's the time you got to shore up your 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.480 defense got to be a little bit tougher because you 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.720 basically need a guy who was going to protect Luca, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.920 and the MAVs didn't go after Kauai. I didn't understand this. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.520 If you want to play tough, playoff basketball, hard fouls, 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.400 then I would have gone after Kawai. Wayne Gretzky always 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:19.080 had a protector. The great one had had Dave Simenko. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.120 He was the guy, his job, he was on the 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.279 roster to protect Wayne Gretzky. If you went after him. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.160 You had to go through Dave Simenko, and not many 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.560 people got through Dave Simenko to get to Wayne Gretzky. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:36.400 Morris is a protector and enforcer. He's a Draymond Green type, 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.320 not as good, and that's probably what Dallas is going 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:44.080 to need, someone like that who will step in front. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.400 You know, Kris stops Porzingis tried to do it, but 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.640 you know the Clippers didn't you know, even flinch when 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.320 that happened. They're like, get out of here. But I 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.839 think the MAVs as they move forward, Lucas got to 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:00.159 improve on his shooting, three point shooting, his free throw shooting, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.800 down on turnovers. But I'm nitpicking because at age twenty 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.440 one he was spectacular, has been spectacular, and I think 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.920 he has an MVP or two in his future. The 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.359 question is are they going to be a great team? 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.839 And I think this is where you get that playoff 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.640 experience and it's so valuable. All the great players will 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.400 talk about this. You don't know what the playoffs are 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.600 like until you're in the playoffs and you've seen teams. 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.440 The Bulls could never get past the Pistons. The Pistons 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.000 couldn't get past the Celtics, but then all of a 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.920 sudden it changed and then you got past them, and 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.919 then you never look back. And that is something that 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.360 happens with these younger teams. I don't know if this 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.560 is going to happen with Denver or Utah or Dallas. 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.320 Portland went to the conference finals last year, and I'm 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.719 not I'm not ready to say, hey, let's make a 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.880 change at the coaching position with Terry Stotts. You know, 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:59.120 they were thrown together and that's still a very talented roster. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.479 They got to play defense in the playoffs. You must 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.120 play defense. At some point, you have to play defense. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.679 I don't care what sport it is. We've talked about 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.600 this with the NFL. Kansas City Chiefs won the Super 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:16.440 Bowl because they played defense at the biggest moments of 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:21.279 the Super Bowl, they played defense. Patriots look at some 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.400 of those Super Bowls where they won the Super Bowls. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.279 Malcolm Butler, he won a Super Bowl. He played defense. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.000 And in the NBA Finals, somebody is going to come 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.800 up with a big defensive play, or the defense will 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.560 be a big difference here, or the difference maker you 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.760 can have offense, and that's that's what the regular season 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.880 is really built upon go out there and have fun 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.680 come playoff time, no matter what it is, we talk 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.680 about pitching and defense in baseball. We can have home runs, 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.799 you can have home runs galore, but come postseason time, 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.640 somebody's going to step up because you're getting a great 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.400 pitching performance. And that's where I look at some of 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.480 these younger teams in the NBA. The next step you 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:09.160 make add toughness a veteran or two, but also understanding 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.160 the learning process of being in the playoffs and when 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:16.160 you lose, being able to learn from that. And hopefully this, 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.360 you know, incentivizes angers Luca don Chick to go out 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.600 and become even greater. And then can you get somebody 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.880 to join that team? McLevin, you got a pull question 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.760 for me. By the way, I do have an update, 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:31.840 and I had this over the weekend, but I've been 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:36.120 trying to get more information on this. The Jags just 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:42.280 release Leonard Fournette, just letting you know that. So I 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.920 don't know if he's going to play again. But I 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.120 saw this from April that the Jags were going to 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.640 release Leonard Fournette or trade him. There's a chance they 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.960 had him with Buffalo, the Dolphins, Lions. Those were the 0:07:56.000 --> 0:08:00.320 three favorites than Steelers, Colts and Chiefs. That's from April 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.720 at twenty four seven Sports. So I don't know if 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.480 Leonard Fournette, I don't know if he ever loved football. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:13.240 He got paid, But this is a team that basically said, hey, 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.680 last name that you recognize leaving the building, turn out 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.000 the lights because Yannick and Goquay got traded to the 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:24.400 Minnesota Vikings, and Minnesota is the team to beat, certainly 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.760 in that division. And I think this was a great 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.880 pick up for them. Daniel Hunter, they lost Everson Griffin, 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.400 but Minnesota picked up That's how much in Goackway wanted 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.800 to get out of Jacksonville because he took a pay 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:40.200 cut to get out of Jacksonville. But they're all in 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:44.800 on Trevor Lawrence. I don't think there's any mistaking there. Yes, McLevin, Now, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.360 I know you didn't like the process in Philadelphia, but 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.640 you gotta like what Jacksonville is doing. I mean, how 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.120 could if you're a fan and your team doesn't do this, 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.240 would you be upset? No, it's fine, but I did 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:56.680 like it a couple of years ago when they were 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.679 almost in the super Bowl. I like that a lot better. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.960 You know that that's long gone. I know. But if 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.880 you're saying, what's cooler, Hey, we're almost going to the 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:08.160 super Bowl too. Do you know anybody besides Gardner Minshew 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.600 on this team? Yeah. See. Part of the reason that 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.120 that run with the jack with the Jaguars is gone 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.400 is because you've gotten rid of it. Literally everybody who's 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.640 gotten you there. I mean, they've completely dismantled that team 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.880 just a year out a lot so Leonard Fournette was 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.400 released by the Jacksonville Jaguars. All right, here's something I 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.160 had on college football over the weekend from my source. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.480 This is the same source who told you that the 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.440 Big Ten and Pac twelve we're going to close up shop. 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:40.280 What I got from him yesterday was told that the 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.240 Big Ten Thanksgiving started as a very long shot. More 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.960 support for late January and an eight game schedule, A 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.240 number of players will opt out, and twenty twenty one 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.400 fall season will be adjusted with the amount of padded 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.600 practices in contact. The Big Ten is trying to save face, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.959 but they missed their window in the fall. Going now 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:06.160 only complicates everything. And then I ask about Jamar Chase, 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.760 the LSU wide receiver. He decided that he was going 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:13.439 to skip this season and get ready for the Combine 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.400 and he'll be probably a top ten pick. And my 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.640 source said, if you had Joe Burrow still there, Chase 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.040 would have stayed. The lack of a quarterback at LSU 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:28.720 made Chase's decision easier to pass up this season at LSU. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.640 But you know, Leonard Fournette was hurt in college. I 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.240 don't know if he ever really loved playing. I think 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.200 he was good at playing, but I don't you gotta 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.560 love it. When you get to the NFL, you better 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.280 love it. It's nice to get paid, but at that position, 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.560 you gotta love it. And I don't know if Leonard 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.559 Fournette ever did. And this comes from people who are 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.640 around him and a former teammate. They just don't know 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.240 if he truly loved it. He was good, But what 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.640 was that fourth overall pick by jack You look at Jacksonville, 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.880 they take Leonard Fournette, they take Blake Bortle's third overall. 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.080 They did get lucky with some of these draft picks, 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.640 and they build something there. They were on the cusp 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.280 of really making things nervous for the new England Patriots 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:24.559 in the AFC, and now if they're not tanking, like 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.800 at least say yeah, we're looking forward to next season here, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.960 because if you say no, no, everything's good here. Okay, Yeah, 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.920 I'm mclovin. I love a good tank, but I got 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.439 him at the London aspect makes me a bit nervous. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.199 I just can't see Trevor Lawrence playing so many games 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.920 in London and Yahoo at nine AM like, I don't know, 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.320 is there something fundamentally? Are they gonna be able to 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:52.200 build this well? I think if if if jackson Bill 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.560 gets Trevor Lawrence, you want him on display in whatever 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.480 continent you can put him on display because you got 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.560 to create am I'm not gonna say global brand, but 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.760 you have to be relevant and Trevor Lawrence is gonna 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.200 make your relevant. Although PAULI is at him and he says, 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.600 Trevor Lawrence is even if he's drafted, he's not going 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:15.120 to play for Jacksonville. Nope, he's gonna pull an Eli 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.920 maybe more likely Carolina, you think that uncan yes, mcleode, 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.280 we really never know. I mean, some quarterback could get 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.719 injured tomorrow. We could have a new bad team. It's 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.760 not that easy to tank. For number one, Look what 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.840 the Dolphins screwed it up last year? Well, Jacksonville seems 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.200 like they're tanking. I'm just saying that NOBE. The Dolphins 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:39.120 tanked and they won five games. Yeah, I think that 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.480 you had Ryan Fitzpatrick, who can be Joe Montana and 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.880 then he can be Joe Blow like you just I 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.360 don't know if Ryan Fitzpatrick got the memo because he's 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:50.679 at the end of his career and he goes out 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.000 there like the first week of the season, then they 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.160 be the beat the Saints. He throws five touchdowns or something, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.480 he fits. He easy with all those completions. Yeah, and 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.920 they played hard for Brian Flores. I will say that. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.480 So that's the information I have with college football and 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:09.400 we'll talk to Bruce Feldman about this. Also, John Thompson 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:14.160 passed away. The legendary coach at Georgetown, and he would 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.360 come on our show once a year, once every other year. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.839 But during his twenty seven year tenure at Georgetown, he 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:26.079 won thirty four NCAA tournament games, reached three final fours, 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.360 and reached three national title games, won one title in 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.720 eighty four, and all the other seasons in the program's history, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.480 Georgetown had a total of thirteen NCAA tournament wins, reached 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:39.960 the final four twice, never reached the championship game. He 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.920 was a larger than life presence literally figuratively, and he 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:49.640 could intimidate. But he did some pretty amazing things and 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.360 probably is underrated in sports history with the stance that 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:58.360 he took, stands that he took. And I just reached 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.800 out to Patrick Ewing to offer my indolences, and he 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.400 said he really appreciated that the coach meant everything to him. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.960 It was like a father figure to him. You had Alonso, 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.319 you had to Kembey, you had Patrick Ewing going through there, 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.440 Reggie Williams, you had Alan Iverson, had a lot of 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.120 talent that went through there. But John Thompson passing away 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.760 earlier this morning. Phone calls are always welcome. Eight seven 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.600 seven three DP show email address DP A Dan Patrick 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.760 dot com Twitter handle a DP show McLevin. What kind 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.240 of pull question are you thinking about today? Okay? Which 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.600 team is most likely to be a pull A second 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:36.640 round upset? The Rockets against the Lakers, the Jazz or Nuggets, 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.320 whoever wins at against the Clippers or you're Miami Heat 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:49.880 starting today against the Milwaukee Bucks. I'm gonna say the 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:55.239 Rockets because Westbrook's coming back and I still think they're fascinating. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.160 It could go horribly wrong and they could get swept, 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.280 but I I just don't look at the Lakers as 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:06.200 just being impenetrable. You know, it feels like it they 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.920 can be great, but it also feels like they can 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.040 be really average there and the Rockets are the same way. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.320 The Rockets, you know, could make thirty threes in a game, 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.880 or they can you know, miss twenty three out of 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:22.880 twenty five like that in a previous game. What else 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.240 do you have? This is one that I've been sitting 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:30.640 on for months. Bigger surprise the San Diego Padres Jamal Murray. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.600 You never see those two guys are the same ball. Well, 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.200 I don't know what people thought the expectation level was 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.040 with the Padres this year. So I would say the 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:42.880 Padres because they're all in, like they're making deals, They're 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.680 fun to watch, and you know they're gonna be a 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.800 tough out come playoff time. Jamal Murray is a first 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.080 round draft pick. If it's just he plays in Denver, 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.440 you really have to go out of your way to 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.240 watch one of his games. I mean, he only averaged 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.880 eighteen a game this year. It's not where you go. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.800 He's putting up Devin Booker numbers. I think he averaged 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:07.800 eighteen a game, but man, is he making up for 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:14.920 lost time. Thirty four game in the postseason. Pretty incredible. Also, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.200 I think he has scored. Let me see if I 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.920 have this right, here's one. You know what, I'll take 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.920 a break here. It's a pretty amazing stat about Jamal Murray, 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.640 and it's teasworthy, I think. But we'll settle on a 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.760 poll question. I like the one that you had there, mclovin, 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:33.040 about which second round opponent could pull off this surprise. Yes, 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.440 I was ready for you to say Heat. Well. I 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.800 love watching the Heat. It's just I have my Milwaukee 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.760 fans that are like, oh, you're always picking on the Bucks. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.280 You don't like the Bucks. What's what's wrong with the Bucks? 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.800 The Bucks are fine? I mean, I don't know. I 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.240 just like the underdog and the heater are really interesting. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:57.520 Team Bucks aren't exciting. They're boringly great, sort of like Kauai. 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:02.600 They're like a mid range jumper. No, that's it. It's okay. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:08.040 You can be boring and win championships. There's bad teams 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.360 that are exciting, and I tend to you know, I'm 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.960 looking for the mess sometimes. That's why I root for 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.399 the Sacramento Kings. For God's sakes, you can't call me 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.080 a front runner. 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He has scored one hundred 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:12.200 forty two points over his last three games. Only two 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.960 players in NBA history have scored more points over a 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.800 three game span in the playoffs, Jerry West and Michael Jordan, 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.600 and right now Jamal Murray trying to make himself a 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:28.200 household name because he was overshadowed by former Kentucky Wildcat 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:32.239 Devin Booker. And even in this series, I think there 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.320 are a lot of people that looked at Jamal Murray 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.399 as the other guy in this series playing for the 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.760 Denver Nuggets. But that's been very entertaining. You got basketball 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.479 coming up today and tonight Rockets, thunder Heat and the Bucks. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.679 I mentioned about ten minutes ago from my college football source. 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.560 This is the person who told me that the Big 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.040 Ten and Pac twelve we're going to shut things down 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.960 before anybody else had that information. He told me that 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.679 the Big Ten Thanksgiving started as a very long shot. 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.879 More support for late January and eight game schedule. A 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.560 number of players are going to opt out. The twenty 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.119 one fall season will be adjusted with the amount of 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.679 padded practices in contact. The Big Ten is trying to 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.359 save face, according to my source, but they missed their 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:17.280 window in the fall. Going now will only complicate everything. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.440 It's bringing the great college football writer for the athletic 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:24.439 Bruce Feldman, who joins US. Bruce, thanks for joining us, 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.280 who leaked this story on Friday that the Big Ten 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.280 was looking at maybe somehow trying to salvage this season 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.600 morning Dan's. I think it's been something obviously a lot 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.879 of powerful Big Ten coaches have tried to mobilize some 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.880 strong opinion on and it's a plan that look ads 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.200 in the conference as well as a lot of coaches 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.920 are really pushing for. And I think so you can 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.040 start there. I think a little lot of what you 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.560 said a minute ago is probably on point. I think 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.280 some of the challenges. If you're looking at a potential 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:01.159 Thanksgiving start, it would give them, they hope, ten games. 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:04.800 It would also give them a little more flexibility in 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.119 terms of not having the feeling that they'd be piggybacking 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:12.760 potentially two seasons in twenty twenty one, you know, potentially 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:16.479 up against a regular quote unquote fall season. And then 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:19.240 the other element of this would be if the if 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:23.040 the regular students were to go home for finals after Thanksgiving. 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:26.480 It's not a bubble environment, but it probably gives them 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:30.199 the feeling that, Okay, there's there's less risk around the 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:32.199 regular students because they would be home and then you 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:36.120 could start up and the hope is that testing would 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:40.440 be more efficient at that point. But again I think 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.480 it's it's a stretch to expect it, but that's one 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:45.439 of the models they're looking at. It's real right now, 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:47.480 at least in terms of the discussions. How did the 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:50.680 Big Ten get to this point though, where you had 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.520 athletic directors and coaches who had no real say. From 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.600 what I'm told that this is basically presidents and a 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:01.760 commissioner who decided to make this decision. And I don't 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.400 know why they didn't try get why not try at 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:07.120 least that was or give the impression you're at least trying. 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:10.199 They didn't even try to get this season started. Well 0:22:10.240 --> 0:22:12.280 the part I think that's different. You know, you have 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.159 the PAC twelve, which hasn't made its own announcement, like 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:17.720 about an hour after the Big Ten did. The PAC 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:21.400 twelve I think did a much better job of having 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:25.080 an alignment. They had a very detailed zoom call with 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:29.040 their medical experts the Monday night before all their coaches 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:31.200 were on and all their ads were on, and Larry 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:34.720