WEBVTT - HOUR 1: The Mavs Punch Back 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.600 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.240 Sports Radio. What up? Good morning, Dan Patrick Show. You're 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.720 on Fox Sports Radio. Oh man, Jay Mack Jason McIntyre, 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.000 founder of the Big Lead, and now of course he does. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:22.240 He does the morning pod, Straight Fire, Straight Fire Daily 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:25.959 on your iHeartRadio app. You just want the big topic 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.800 of the day, That's what Jay mc gives you. I'm 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:30.680 just aug Gotlib Doug Gotlieb Show by the way three 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.400 to six Eastern, twelve, three Pacific on many of these 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:38.280 same Fox Sports Radio, iHeartRadio and Serious XM stations. Um, Jason, 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.120 we got a lot to get to you, right. Baseball 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.960 still taking place, Fernando Tatis still doing Fernando Tatis sorts 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.960 of things. Lakers play tonight, try and even the series 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:54.200 with the Trailblazers. But for the third conset, third consecutive day, yeah, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.680 third consecutive do we have upsets that we didn't have 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.040 upsets the first day a favorites went four and oh 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:03.120 yeah yeah. So for the second consecutive day, down goes 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:08.000 a sizeable favorite, not just in terms of of point spread, 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.040 but a favorite in terms you know, people believe that 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.080 the Clippers are a favorite to win an NBA title, 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.759 and here they lose to the Dallas Mavericks after game one, 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:20.280 very competitive and Perzingis was ejected. They might be down. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:21.959 I know that's not the way it actually works in 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.720 real life, right because you lost game two. You might 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:26.319 have lost game one. It's not how it worked. But 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.520 could have been down two games and none. Um, I 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.040 guess is that where you start with straight fire? Was that? 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.120 Do you start with the is it time to panic? 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.559 If you're a Clipper fan, I you're right on the money. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:41.120 Doug as usual? Um, you know in the restart during 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.560 those eight games, we saw the Bucks kind of hit 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.920 and miss. You know, Jannis had that headbut Bledsoe had 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.360 the COVID and it's just was they didn't look like 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.760 the Bucks who were dominant. We had the COVID. You 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:55.680 don't go with had ron rona COVID. Yeah, yeah, had 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:59.920 the rona coronavirus um. And then the Clippers also had 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.920 some issues, right Montrez Harold never played a game, Beverly 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.840 in and out of the lineup. The chemistry was lacking, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:09.200 and Doug the Lakers. Lakers had some issues with the shooting. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.680 And now we've seen all three of them already drop 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:16.160 a playoff game, and Doug, I have no idea. There's 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.760 no precedent for this, Like do the Mavericks now have 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.280 momentum heading into Game three? Or is there no home 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.680 court advantage? Like what is the mood for the Lakers? 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.720 Are they must win? I mean, I can't imagine the 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.080 Bucks are in trouble, but I don't know. This is 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.959 just so weird. You're going into like a quiet arena 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.200 and there's no fans. Luca one time in the first half, 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.400 it's just he hits a three and he goes and 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:43.519 looks to the non bench sideline and like pounds his 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.359 chest like you would do if you're in a home game. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:47.839 So it's almost you have to like play like there's 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.440 a crowd even when there is no crowd. Yeah, but 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.679 you know, I and we can get into this. There's 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.520 a story. Um Joe Varden, of course covered Lebron in 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.359 Cleveland wrote the story about how you know, how surprised 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.079 he is the affected by not having fans Lebron is. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.040 We could but like, look, they're all this is what 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.919 they've created in Orlando is an environment that basically is 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.320 what the NCAA tournament in its and it's heart of 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.840 hearts wants to be right, it wants to be a 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.240 true neutral site environment, and that's what you have, and 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.519 so you just get the who's the better basketball team 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.600 on that particular night, And I think I think that's 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.520 on some levels the most surprising thing. I did this 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.799 on my show yesterday where I'm like, you know, one 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.920 of the maybe one of the myths of the NBA 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.200 is how non competitive we think first round series are, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.840 and the truth is they're a lot more competitive. Yeah right, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.800 this this happens way more often than you think that 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.040 the underdog steals a game and and and sometimes the 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.800 favorites just survive. But there's a bunch to get to. 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:56.400 Let's let's begin with Luca okay um I you know Vlody, 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.240 I think lucas the reason bloody Divats got fired. Well, 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.120 I mean you can't have an all European front office 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:08.120 have the most decorated and uh, I mean it wasn't 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.200 It wasn't a European prospect as much as he's a 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.120 European player, Yeah right, Like this wasn't a Nikolai Skidisvilli 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.000 who was a bench player in Italy. And you're like, well, 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.640 you know as he matures like. I played against Darko 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.359 before he was drafted. We played twice when I was 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.760 in Israel, play against twice he was seventeen, and I 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.760 would I said, I thought it was a great pick. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.279 I thought he had great upside and potential. But it's 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.599 just potential, yea. What people need to remember about Luca 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.800 was Luca was arguably the best player in Europe, if 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.359 not the best young player in Europe, won a European championship, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.599 and he was the go to guy. So it's not 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.960 as much so Luca got Bloody Divas fired. Right, he's 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.520 the Portland not taking him, I mean Phoenix not taking 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.279 him and taking DeAndre and only a sign of exactly 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.240 and they had his national team coach as their head 0:04:56.240 --> 0:05:00.520 coach at the time. It unbelievable. But how do you 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.120 see Luca after now watching him two playoff games and 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.520 I think he's second all time and most points scored 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.240 in his first two playoff games. Well, you know, I'm 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.840 going on Colin Cowherd show later today, and I have 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:16.280 a theory already that when Jannis gets presented that Supermax 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.760 is summer, yeah, this offseason, you know, whenever it is 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.120 we'll see what where the bucks are. But if I'm honest, 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.440 I don't am I sticking around to play with Middleton 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.359 and Bledsoe and these guys, or I don't know, Dallas 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.560 is gonna have money. They have started to clear a 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.839 cap room for the summer of twenty twenty one. And 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.400 if you're Luca Dontage and you are ascending to the 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.480 point letter, I don't know, Doug. When I watched Luca, 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.720 I feel like he makes everyone better. Tim Hardaway looks awesome, 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.080 Seth Curry looks like I'm one of the best role 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.240 players in the league. I mean, if you're Luca Dontage, 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.320 you put in a call to Jannis, Yo, you want 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.600 to come run with us? Well, I think nobody can 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.640 stop the pick and roll with me and Porzingis now, 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.400 I mean Luca and Yannis. Like you're Luca, you're a 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.440 foundational player in this league. The guy has one playoff 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.480 win under his belt. But Doug, I think it's undeniable. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.000 He is the best player on the court. So far 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:10.080 in this series, Kawhi has had some good numbers playoff. 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.560 Paul George shrinking in Game two as he is wont 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.720 to do. But I think it's easily. Luca Dodge is 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.080 the best player on the floor. Just looks he's in 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:25.120 total control. And think about this, Clippers MAVs eight quarters 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.400 in with the exception of the first quarter of the 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.240 game one, Porzingis and Luca never played a playoff game. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.760 Dallas has controlled the series. Luca Donches is the best 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.560 player on the floor. I'm stunned at how amazing he is. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.200 And oh yeah, he's twenty one years old. Well, the 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:46.039 two of them are not good defensively, Zingers probably especially so. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.440 So it's it's really hard to sit there and just 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:53.440 go ross stats, raw data. Lucas better than Kauai. But remember, though, 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.840 this is an offensive league. Dallas had I think, per 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.600 one hundred possessions, the greatest offense in NBA history. Uh, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.920 and why and Paul George on the on the wings 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:05.920 to stop a guy like Luca. I think it's an 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:10.520 offensive regular season league. Now, Now, what's what's interesting about 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.040 the bubble? Jason McIntire, Doug Gotliebin for Jan and the Denetts. 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.640 What's interesting about the bubble is it used to be 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.160 you get to the playoffs and the game was officiated 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.080 completely differently in terms of physicality, right, Like, whoa, what 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.440 happened to? That's really what affects Steph Curry, especially early 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.120 in the NBA finals is and and during that times 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.560 the NBA playoffs as teams have been so much more 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.720 physical with him, and you know, it starts to the 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.080 officia aint starts to tighten up, and he starts to 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:43.680 get loose, usually later in series. But but the regular 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.600 season the postseason have been different. Now Prezinga is getting 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.560 ejected for what I felt like it was nothing the 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.560 other day. I understand as the second technical foul, but 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.120 why he got a technical foul, I don't really understand. Like, so, 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.880 part of what we have to understand is there's the 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.800 possibility that you're right, they want this to be an 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.000 offensive league. The league, the game is going to be 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:07.160 super tightly officiated, and those and players that skew more 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:11.000 to offense will be as valuable in the postseason as 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.640 they are in the regular season. However, like you said, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:19.120 he's undeniably the best player on the floor, and I 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:23.080 let's just take a breath. He's been incredible, He's really good. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.160 I don't actually think by the way it works with Jannis, 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.520 and I think there's a bigger discussion to have about Jannis, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.920 and you talk about Cowherd. I thought he actually, you know, 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.439 sometimes he says stuff about basketball. I'm like, what, dude, 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.880 And but yesterday I thought he was on fire in 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:39.520 terms of a couple of points he made about the 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.240 Lakers and then a comparison he made with Jannis. I 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.520 want to get to But I look at this thing 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:51.000 and I think Luca is amazing. I agree, he's in 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:55.320 complete control. He plays at his own pace, and he's 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.200 one of these guys where, you know, I think his 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.920 style lasts a long time because he's so skilled, but 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:04.520 also he's so big that even if he's already kind 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:06.920 of a half step slow, yeah, right, even if he 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.360 becomes a step slow like Paul Pierce, you can still 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.040 get to where you want to get to and and 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.160 can completely control the game. He's been marvelous. How about 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:19.560 this over under two and a half MVP awards for 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:23.959 Luca done in his career. He's twenty one. Jannis is 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.000 about to win his second MVP. Larry Bird had won 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.600 three in a row. Steve Nash one two, Curry one two. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.200 I'll give I'll give it two and a half for 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.199 Luca over Under. I mean, I'd take under. I mean 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.240 the idea you're gonna win multiple mv like, let's let's 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:41.880 catch our breath. I mean, because if we go by 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.240 simply by the bubble, Damian Lillard's the best point guard 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.920 in the league. He's not right, but he'd be the 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:48.640 best point guard in league. I mean, we've seen him 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.080 against Steph Curry in playoffs before, and Steph Curry has 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:52.920 kicked his ass. I think Steph Curry's ten and oh 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.600 against Stimula right now. He's had many in many aspects, 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.240 he's had better teams, but it's not just ten No, 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.559 like he's Steph went healthy has played really well against 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.520 against Well, let's admit though Dame has gotten better, no 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.560 question the last two. That's the other problem. That's the 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.559 other problem that we make. And this kind of will 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.080 we'll get around to the Lakers is a lot of 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.600 this we're doing on dated data. Right Whereas I said, hey, 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.480 I think Luca is better than Lebron, people are like, 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:18.839 you know, what are you talking about, like Lebron like 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.800 seventeen years, Like I'm not talking about Lebron for the 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:26.320 last seventeen years, talking Lebron James today and Luca today. Uh, 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.520 you know, Lebron still does some things athletically the Luca coulnot. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.000 But you know Luca made. Luca's close to the same 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.480 passer and a far better scorer. I mean that's the 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:37.920 thing that Lebron just doesn't seem to have the bill 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:39.720 to do is get his own shot. You notice he 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:44.600 doesn't have the lift of walked twice well again, And 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.000 there's another thing that Colin actually picked out. I want 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.560 to get to like, he's not really a it's it's fascinating, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.400 all right, So we got a lot to get to. Uh, 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.320 let let me start though, let me get back to 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.160 the original question, and then we'll work work in this conversation. 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:04.280 Are the Clippers in trouble? I think the Clippers are 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.400 in trouble. I just saw a stat that the Mavericks 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.679 have outscored the Clippers by sixteen points with Porzingis on 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.120 the floor. Now it's only it's only six quarters. And 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:16.800 I know Pat Bev, the lead dog at Chris Bussard, 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.040 loves to tell me, oh, the Clippers got these dogs 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.760 on defense. I mean the MAVs have shredded them now twice, 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.360 just absolutely tore that great defense apart over one hundred 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.000 twenty points twice. So I just don't know how much 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:29.960 I buy of this. They got the dogs and they 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.719 love to play defense. Paul George can't stay in front 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:36.559 of Luca. That's a problem. I mean, yeah, Dallas is 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.960 one of the great three point shooting teams in the league. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.760 They catch fire for in Game three. I'm a little concerned, 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.600 I would say, I think the better question, who are 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:50.079 you more concerned about the Clippers after two games or 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:54.080 the Lakers after one? I would say the Lakers after one, 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.760 but not the Lakers in terms of losing to Portland. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:58.880 I still think they're in good shape. I still think 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.240 they're fine with Portland, you know, with especially with no 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.920 home court disadvantage whatever to go to Portland. Are they 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.280 gonna miss twenties? What are the twenty six three pointers? Again? 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.400 Now that we scoff, but Casey p and Danny Green 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.480 can't throw in the ocean door. I mean, and it's 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.800 a little scary. It's not not not just you know 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.000 then you know you're when you're when they want to 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.079 go defense at point guard, you know, you bring in 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.959 a guy who's can't is not a score Crucho baby 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.200 and Crusoe. As much as I love Alex Crusoe, what 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.480 kept him out of the league consistently for a long 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:36.160 time was his jump shot. And that gets exposed even 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.680 more once you get to the postseason, right at the 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.920 like like he's basically Avery Johnson, and what people forget. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.600 Avery Johnson was cut three times I think by the Spurs. Yeah, 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.560 good mid rain shooter. But we know what he did 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.720 was he developed I gotta get to my spots, my spots, 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.079 and like he had like five spots on the floor. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.800 They were all mid rain shots, and when he would 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.360 enter the ball in the offense, like he would just 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.120 get to his spots and he could make just enough 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.200 of them so that all the other things that he 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.880 could do, passing, defending, leading, we're good. Now. The league 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.880 has kind of evolved since then. And Caruso, you know, 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.480 Caruso tries to cut, but he just he's you know, 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.439 it's really hard to have a point guard, a guy 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.200 who when you when you're on a team that doesn't 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:20.760 have more than one shot creator, when you're a really 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.160 good passer and you're explosive, but you can't score like that, 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.240 that's a that's a problem. But that's not their biggest problem, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:31.880 right their their issue. They had h This is where 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.559 I disagree with you in terms of it being an 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.240 offensive league. The Lakers were fine. They held Portland, even 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.200 with Portland going on a late run there to one 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.920 hundred points. Yeah, that's the lowest scoring win of the season, 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.719 hundred And that's by design for the Lakers, like they 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.200 want to control with their defense. That's how they're built 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.360 because they don't have the offense. But um, you know, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.960 when they have us on Whiteside in the game, Lebron 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.320 can't can't finish. That's exactly what I want to get 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:58.920 too done, because I think that is one of the 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.640 things Vogel's going to have to fix. I don't think 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:06.160 you can play two bigs against Portland that allows nurkicch 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.960 and Whiteside to be in the game. I think Vogel's 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.280 got to say, listen, Anthony Davis, I don't care that 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:15.439 you refuse to play the five, dude, We've got to 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.160 get Morris out there. He shot, he doesn't refuse to 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.720 play the five. About it all the time. I don't 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:22.720 think I get it. Fine, you want the start of 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.680 the year. He can play well, guess what, it's playoff time. Man. No, 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:26.920 But at the start of the year and then as 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.920 the season went on, he actually embraced it and started 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.800 doing the problem with Anthony Davis was, Okay, we're playing 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.320 you at the five to stretch you out, but that 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:36.200 doesn't mean you're you're You're Steph Curry now, like, dude, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:37.920 you can't be just taking threes like, we need you 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.760 to get in there and score. And this has been 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.200 fifteen outside of the restricted area. Well, he two for fifteen, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.000 But why is he shooting all the I don't know. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.000 Why does he fade away on every shot? I think 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.640 Vogel has to realize we can't play two bigs if 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.320 we will go with Morris or Kuzma at the four. 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.080 And now, why dare you to play Hassan Whiteside and 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.320 Nurkis because they they blocked a lot of the Lebron 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.000 shots at the rim that I mean, hit side surprised me. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.280 I was really shocked at he. I know he led 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.640 the league in blocks, blah blah blah, but you know 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.120 this is the guy who can't shoot free throws for 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:11.000 a lick. What does that do him? Defending the minus 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.920 offensive player. But the reason he the reason he exists 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.480 in this world is what he did the other day. 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.840 He all he has to do is defend the rim 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.640 and roll to the basket and finished when he gets it. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.800 And the Lakers have to counter by saying, Okay, I 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.200 guess what, We're not gonna play two bigs. I actually 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.800 I just I actually think the two bigs. If you 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.040 can get the problem in Portland is they won't match 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.080 up necessarily with two bigs. And now they get you 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.640 all screwed up defensively, right because they keep they keep 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.120 their big guys in the lane. The lanes crowded for Lebron. 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.120 It was really not Allude a lot of room to operate. 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:44.280 And they don't respect KCP. They don't respect Caruso. I 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.640 think you got I mean, I I do believe Doug. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.040 We will see more than five minutes of Dion Waiters. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.000 He played one minute in Game one. We gotta see 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.520 some j R. Smith. I know he can't defend anybody, 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.080 but he's a shooter. But he hasn't made any shots, right, 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:59.880 Like give them some shots? Like do you do you 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.760 they've been down there a month and a half. Do 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.480 you think if they assessed that j R. Smith could 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.680 make shots and couldn't do it in the NBA game, 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.080 that they would have given him a shot. Well, but 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.640 that's like that's the thing that is and again this 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.600 is this is like the going on dated information, Like 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.760 if you want to go buy four years ago, that's cool. 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.960 He hadn't played in the league in two years. Okay, 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.880 So to go from not playing the league in two 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:24.480 years to training with the team to playing in a 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.880 regular season game where you look completely out of sorts too, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.320 let's throw you in an NBA playoff game or oh yeah, 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:30.720 by the way, you're gonna have to match up with 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.200 either CJ. McCullum. They can try to hide him on 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.360 where Gary tread hug up Gary trend. That's the problem. 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.760 You can't that you can't. This is what's changed about 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:44.880 the NBA. You can't hide dudes. Well, you can't hide you. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.080 You can't hide four for twenty one, Danny Green and 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:52.280 Casey We've seen it games. They can't shoot and if 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:53.960 you make it, but if you make a free throw, 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.200 if you make a free throw, if Lebron, if Lebron 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.280 attacks more when he gets the rim, and instead of 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.679 being more passive. You're you're fine. I'm optimistic. I am 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:08.000 all in. Not quite the college education for my kids 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.240 on the Lakers tonight, but I'm very confident that the 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:15.440 Lakers will win. Yeah, I do believe Lebron. You've seen 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.679 the movie Troy with Brad Pitt. Remember when they're on 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.680 the boat about to storm the shores and Brad Pitt 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.040 as Achilles just destroys everyone. He makes that speech, we 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.040 are Lions. It's epic. You go watch it on YouTube 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:31.400 thirty seconds and I think Lebron at some point today 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.040 will be like, guys, I don't go down O two. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.480 This is just not what I do. We are better 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.200 than this team. They're the twenty seventh rated defensive team 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.520 in the league and we scored ninety three friggin points. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:45.440 Buck up, get it together, and the Lakers just smother. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.440 Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.160 Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:56.840 on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio wapp. Doug Gottlieb, 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:59.199 Jason mcintarre in for Dan and the Dan as Dan 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:06.919 Patrick's Show on Fox Sports Radio. UM, there's like yearly discussions. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:08.960 It feels like in sports right. For a long time, 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:14.119 it was is Joe Flacco elite? Right? And um or 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.680 I guess is eli elite? Then it was Joe Flacco elite. Uh, 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.040 now it's for a while. I remember at the end 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.080 of Brett farther front, will Brett Farve retire? No, he's 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.200 not gonna retire. He will retire. Then finally he kind 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.520 of got retired, and then he wanted to come back, 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.800 and he went to the New York Jets, and and 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.600 and the rest. By this is history in the NBA. 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.679 In the NBA over the last I think three years, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:38.920 in the off season, at least the last two years 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:40.800 in the off season, there has been at least a 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.200 discussion over the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Will they ever 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:51.480 be able to achieve the level of success that their 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:56.240 their talent would tell you they should achieve. And by talent, 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:01.000 I mean you have two of the elite talented young players. 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.159 Then Tobias Harris. Who who they now have who's like 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:09.160 a um He's a very talented scoring wing. I don't 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:10.960 know he's one of the top thirty players the NBA 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.600 is Okay, don't make me count. I don't think he is. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.240 Don't think Harris is in the top thirty players in 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:22.720 the NBA. Is Jamal Murray? No? No, I like Jamal 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.639 Murray a lot, Okay, I mean I just see him. 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:27.760 No, No No, it's okay. I mean it's like you say 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.679 top thirty. Then you start to realize, right, there's thirty teams. Okay, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.000 he's there's a bunch of teams. He's not the best 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:35.720 player on. But is he you know he's Is he 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.679 absolutely the best player? I don't, I don't know m 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:40.159 with him? Is he he got a Max deal and 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.520 he ain't a Max player? Right? That's that's the kind 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:44.600 of classic that that's what happened for with the Max 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.040 contract for a long time, which is there should be 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.199 different levels of the Max, right, there should be the 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.679 super super which is what the Supermax is. Really you 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.280 needn't get that. Yeah, but it's still a ton of money, 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:57.359 and that's how you get guys to come join you anyway, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.440 I guess the question they get beat by the same Celtics. 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.400 Jason Tatum is one of the top thirty players the NBA. 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.159 You okay with that thirty? Yeah, I think he's a 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:07.720 lot higher than that. I think there's okay, But he's 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.640 still a top ten, like number ten. Okay, I mean, 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.919 like we don't have we we can do another ratings 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.640 segment if you want, but if you're a top ten, 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.080