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Speaker 1: we got a lot to get to you, right. Baseball
Speaker 1: still taking place, Fernando Tatis still doing Fernando Tatis sorts
Speaker 1: of things. Lakers play tonight, try and even the series
Speaker 1: with the Trailblazers. But for the third conset, third consecutive day, yeah,
Speaker 1: third consecutive do we have upsets that we didn't have
Speaker 1: upsets the first day a favorites went four and oh
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. So for the second consecutive day, down goes
Speaker 1: a sizeable favorite, not just in terms of of point spread,
Speaker 1: but a favorite in terms you know, people believe that
Speaker 1: the Clippers are a favorite to win an NBA title,
Speaker 1: and here they lose to the Dallas Mavericks after game one,
Speaker 1: very competitive and Perzingis was ejected. They might be down.
Speaker 1: I know that's not the way it actually works in
Speaker 1: real life, right because you lost game two. You might
Speaker 1: have lost game one. It's not how it worked. But
Speaker 1: could have been down two games and none. Um, I
Speaker 1: guess is that where you start with straight fire? Was that?
Speaker 1: Do you start with the is it time to panic?
Speaker 1: If you're a Clipper fan, I you're right on the money.
Speaker 1: Doug as usual? Um, you know in the restart during
Speaker 1: those eight games, we saw the Bucks kind of hit
Speaker 1: and miss. You know, Jannis had that headbut Bledsoe had
Speaker 1: the COVID and it's just was they didn't look like
Speaker 1: the Bucks who were dominant. We had the COVID. You
Speaker 1: don't go with had ron rona COVID. Yeah, yeah, had
Speaker 1: the rona coronavirus um. And then the Clippers also had
Speaker 1: some issues, right Montrez Harold never played a game, Beverly
Speaker 1: in and out of the lineup. The chemistry was lacking,
Speaker 1: and Doug the Lakers. Lakers had some issues with the shooting.
Speaker 1: And now we've seen all three of them already drop
Speaker 1: a playoff game, and Doug, I have no idea. There's
Speaker 1: no precedent for this, Like do the Mavericks now have
Speaker 1: momentum heading into Game three? Or is there no home
Speaker 1: court advantage? Like what is the mood for the Lakers?
Speaker 1: Are they must win? I mean, I can't imagine the
Speaker 1: Bucks are in trouble, but I don't know. This is
Speaker 1: just so weird. You're going into like a quiet arena
Speaker 1: and there's no fans. Luca one time in the first half,
Speaker 1: it's just he hits a three and he goes and
Speaker 1: looks to the non bench sideline and like pounds his
Speaker 1: chest like you would do if you're in a home game.
Speaker 1: So it's almost you have to like play like there's
Speaker 1: a crowd even when there is no crowd. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know, I and we can get into this. There's
Speaker 1: a story. Um Joe Varden, of course covered Lebron in
Speaker 1: Cleveland wrote the story about how you know, how surprised
Speaker 1: he is the affected by not having fans Lebron is.
Speaker 1: We could but like, look, they're all this is what
Speaker 1: they've created in Orlando is an environment that basically is
Speaker 1: what the NCAA tournament in its and it's heart of
Speaker 1: hearts wants to be right, it wants to be a
Speaker 1: true neutral site environment, and that's what you have, and
Speaker 1: so you just get the who's the better basketball team
Speaker 1: on that particular night, And I think I think that's
Speaker 1: on some levels the most surprising thing. I did this
Speaker 1: on my show yesterday where I'm like, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the maybe one of the myths of the NBA
Speaker 1: is how non competitive we think first round series are,
Speaker 1: and the truth is they're a lot more competitive. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: this this happens way more often than you think that
Speaker 1: the underdog steals a game and and and sometimes the
Speaker 1: favorites just survive. But there's a bunch to get to.
Speaker 1: Let's let's begin with Luca okay um I you know Vlody,
Speaker 1: I think lucas the reason bloody Divats got fired. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean you can't have an all European front office
Speaker 1: have the most decorated and uh, I mean it wasn't
Speaker 1: It wasn't a European prospect as much as he's a
Speaker 1: European player, Yeah right, Like this wasn't a Nikolai Skidisvilli
Speaker 1: who was a bench player in Italy. And you're like, well,
Speaker 1: you know as he matures like. I played against Darko
Speaker 1: before he was drafted. We played twice when I was
Speaker 1: in Israel, play against twice he was seventeen, and I
Speaker 1: would I said, I thought it was a great pick.
Speaker 1: I thought he had great upside and potential. But it's
Speaker 1: just potential, yea. What people need to remember about Luca
Speaker 1: was Luca was arguably the best player in Europe, if
Speaker 1: not the best young player in Europe, won a European championship,
Speaker 1: and he was the go to guy. So it's not
Speaker 1: as much so Luca got Bloody Divas fired. Right, he's
Speaker 1: the Portland not taking him, I mean Phoenix not taking
Speaker 1: him and taking DeAndre and only a sign of exactly
Speaker 1: and they had his national team coach as their head
Speaker 1: coach at the time. It unbelievable. But how do you
Speaker 1: see Luca after now watching him two playoff games and
Speaker 1: I think he's second all time and most points scored
Speaker 1: in his first two playoff games. Well, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: going on Colin Cowherd show later today, and I have
Speaker 1: a theory already that when Jannis gets presented that Supermax
Speaker 1: is summer, yeah, this offseason, you know, whenever it is
Speaker 1: we'll see what where the bucks are. But if I'm honest,
Speaker 1: I don't am I sticking around to play with Middleton
Speaker 1: and Bledsoe and these guys, or I don't know, Dallas
Speaker 1: is gonna have money. They have started to clear a
Speaker 1: cap room for the summer of twenty twenty one. And
Speaker 1: if you're Luca Dontage and you are ascending to the
Speaker 1: point letter, I don't know, Doug. When I watched Luca,
Speaker 1: I feel like he makes everyone better. Tim Hardaway looks awesome,
Speaker 1: Seth Curry looks like I'm one of the best role
Speaker 1: players in the league. I mean, if you're Luca Dontage,
Speaker 1: you put in a call to Jannis, Yo, you want
Speaker 1: to come run with us? Well, I think nobody can
Speaker 1: stop the pick and roll with me and Porzingis now,
Speaker 1: I mean Luca and Yannis. Like you're Luca, you're a
Speaker 1: foundational player in this league. The guy has one playoff
Speaker 1: win under his belt. But Doug, I think it's undeniable.
Speaker 1: He is the best player on the court. So far
Speaker 1: in this series, Kawhi has had some good numbers playoff.
Speaker 1: Paul George shrinking in Game two as he is wont
Speaker 1: to do. But I think it's easily. Luca Dodge is
Speaker 1: the best player on the floor. Just looks he's in
Speaker 1: total control. And think about this, Clippers MAVs eight quarters
Speaker 1: in with the exception of the first quarter of the
Speaker 1: game one, Porzingis and Luca never played a playoff game.
Speaker 1: Dallas has controlled the series. Luca Donches is the best
Speaker 1: player on the floor. I'm stunned at how amazing he is.
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, he's twenty one years old. Well, the
Speaker 1: two of them are not good defensively, Zingers probably especially so.
Speaker 1: So it's it's really hard to sit there and just
Speaker 1: go ross stats, raw data. Lucas better than Kauai. But remember, though,
Speaker 1: this is an offensive league. Dallas had I think, per
Speaker 1: one hundred possessions, the greatest offense in NBA history. Uh,
Speaker 1: and why and Paul George on the on the wings
Speaker 1: to stop a guy like Luca. I think it's an
Speaker 1: offensive regular season league. Now, Now, what's what's interesting about
Speaker 1: the bubble? Jason McIntire, Doug Gotliebin for Jan and the Denetts.
Speaker 1: What's interesting about the bubble is it used to be
Speaker 1: you get to the playoffs and the game was officiated
Speaker 1: completely differently in terms of physicality, right, Like, whoa, what
Speaker 1: happened to? That's really what affects Steph Curry, especially early
Speaker 1: in the NBA finals is and and during that times
Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs as teams have been so much more
Speaker 1: physical with him, and you know, it starts to the
Speaker 1: officia aint starts to tighten up, and he starts to
Speaker 1: get loose, usually later in series. But but the regular
Speaker 1: season the postseason have been different. Now Prezinga is getting
Speaker 1: ejected for what I felt like it was nothing the
Speaker 1: other day. I understand as the second technical foul, but
Speaker 1: why he got a technical foul, I don't really understand. Like, so,
Speaker 1: part of what we have to understand is there's the
Speaker 1: possibility that you're right, they want this to be an
Speaker 1: offensive league. The league, the game is going to be
Speaker 1: super tightly officiated, and those and players that skew more
Speaker 1: to offense will be as valuable in the postseason as
Speaker 1: they are in the regular season. However, like you said,
Speaker 1: he's undeniably the best player on the floor, and I
Speaker 1: let's just take a breath. He's been incredible, He's really good.
Speaker 1: I don't actually think by the way it works with Jannis,
Speaker 1: and I think there's a bigger discussion to have about Jannis,
Speaker 1: and you talk about Cowherd. I thought he actually, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes he says stuff about basketball. I'm like, what, dude,
Speaker 1: And but yesterday I thought he was on fire in
Speaker 1: terms of a couple of points he made about the
Speaker 1: Lakers and then a comparison he made with Jannis. I
Speaker 1: want to get to But I look at this thing
Speaker 1: and I think Luca is amazing. I agree, he's in
Speaker 1: complete control. He plays at his own pace, and he's
Speaker 1: one of these guys where, you know, I think his
Speaker 1: style lasts a long time because he's so skilled, but
Speaker 1: also he's so big that even if he's already kind
Speaker 1: of a half step slow, yeah, right, even if he
Speaker 1: becomes a step slow like Paul Pierce, you can still
Speaker 1: get to where you want to get to and and
Speaker 1: can completely control the game. He's been marvelous. How about
Speaker 1: this over under two and a half MVP awards for
Speaker 1: Luca done in his career. He's twenty one. Jannis is
Speaker 1: about to win his second MVP. Larry Bird had won
Speaker 1: three in a row. Steve Nash one two, Curry one two.
Speaker 1: I'll give I'll give it two and a half for
Speaker 1: Luca over Under. I mean, I'd take under. I mean
Speaker 1: the idea you're gonna win multiple mv like, let's let's
Speaker 1: catch our breath. I mean, because if we go by
Speaker 1: simply by the bubble, Damian Lillard's the best point guard
Speaker 1: in the league. He's not right, but he'd be the
Speaker 1: best point guard in league. I mean, we've seen him
Speaker 1: against Steph Curry in playoffs before, and Steph Curry has
Speaker 1: kicked his ass. I think Steph Curry's ten and oh
Speaker 1: against Stimula right now. He's had many in many aspects,
Speaker 1: he's had better teams, but it's not just ten No,
Speaker 1: like he's Steph went healthy has played really well against
Speaker 1: against Well, let's admit though Dame has gotten better, no
Speaker 1: question the last two. That's the other problem. That's the
Speaker 1: other problem that we make. And this kind of will
Speaker 1: we'll get around to the Lakers is a lot of
Speaker 1: this we're doing on dated data. Right Whereas I said, hey,
Speaker 1: I think Luca is better than Lebron, people are like,
Speaker 1: you know, what are you talking about, like Lebron like
Speaker 1: seventeen years, Like I'm not talking about Lebron for the
Speaker 1: last seventeen years, talking Lebron James today and Luca today. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Lebron still does some things athletically the Luca coulnot.
Speaker 1: But you know Luca made. Luca's close to the same
Speaker 1: passer and a far better scorer. I mean that's the
Speaker 1: thing that Lebron just doesn't seem to have the bill
Speaker 1: to do is get his own shot. You notice he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the lift of walked twice well again, And
Speaker 1: there's another thing that Colin actually picked out. I want
Speaker 1: to get to like, he's not really a it's it's fascinating,
Speaker 1: all right, So we got a lot to get to. Uh,
Speaker 1: let let me start though, let me get back to
Speaker 1: the original question, and then we'll work work in this conversation.
Speaker 1: Are the Clippers in trouble? I think the Clippers are
Speaker 1: in trouble. I just saw a stat that the Mavericks
Speaker 1: have outscored the Clippers by sixteen points with Porzingis on
Speaker 1: the floor. Now it's only it's only six quarters. And
Speaker 1: I know Pat Bev, the lead dog at Chris Bussard,
Speaker 1: loves to tell me, oh, the Clippers got these dogs
Speaker 1: on defense. I mean the MAVs have shredded them now twice,
Speaker 1: just absolutely tore that great defense apart over one hundred
Speaker 1: twenty points twice. So I just don't know how much
Speaker 1: I buy of this. They got the dogs and they
Speaker 1: love to play defense. Paul George can't stay in front
Speaker 1: of Luca. That's a problem. I mean, yeah, Dallas is
Speaker 1: one of the great three point shooting teams in the league.
Speaker 1: They catch fire for in Game three. I'm a little concerned,
Speaker 1: I would say, I think the better question, who are
Speaker 1: you more concerned about the Clippers after two games or
Speaker 1: the Lakers after one? I would say the Lakers after one,
Speaker 1: but not the Lakers in terms of losing to Portland.
Speaker 1: I still think they're in good shape. I still think
Speaker 1: they're fine with Portland, you know, with especially with no
Speaker 1: home court disadvantage whatever to go to Portland. Are they
Speaker 1: gonna miss twenties? What are the twenty six three pointers? Again?
Speaker 1: Now that we scoff, but Casey p and Danny Green
Speaker 1: can't throw in the ocean door. I mean, and it's
Speaker 1: a little scary. It's not not not just you know
Speaker 1: then you know you're when you're when they want to
Speaker 1: go defense at point guard, you know, you bring in
Speaker 1: a guy who's can't is not a score Crucho baby
Speaker 1: and Crusoe. As much as I love Alex Crusoe, what
Speaker 1: kept him out of the league consistently for a long
Speaker 1: time was his jump shot. And that gets exposed even
Speaker 1: more once you get to the postseason, right at the
Speaker 1: like like he's basically Avery Johnson, and what people forget.
Speaker 1: Avery Johnson was cut three times I think by the Spurs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good mid rain shooter. But we know what he did
Speaker 1: was he developed I gotta get to my spots, my spots,
Speaker 1: and like he had like five spots on the floor.
Speaker 1: They were all mid rain shots, and when he would
Speaker 1: enter the ball in the offense, like he would just
Speaker 1: get to his spots and he could make just enough
Speaker 1: of them so that all the other things that he
Speaker 1: could do, passing, defending, leading, we're good. Now. The league
Speaker 1: has kind of evolved since then. And Caruso, you know,
Speaker 1: Caruso tries to cut, but he just he's you know,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to have a point guard, a guy
Speaker 1: who when you when you're on a team that doesn't
Speaker 1: have more than one shot creator, when you're a really
Speaker 1: good passer and you're explosive, but you can't score like that,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a problem. But that's not their biggest problem,
Speaker 1: right their their issue. They had h This is where
Speaker 1: I disagree with you in terms of it being an
Speaker 1: offensive league. The Lakers were fine. They held Portland, even
Speaker 1: with Portland going on a late run there to one
Speaker 1: hundred points. Yeah, that's the lowest scoring win of the season,
Speaker 1: hundred And that's by design for the Lakers, like they
Speaker 1: want to control with their defense. That's how they're built
Speaker 1: because they don't have the offense. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: when they have us on Whiteside in the game, Lebron
Speaker 1: can't can't finish. That's exactly what I want to get
Speaker 1: too done, because I think that is one of the
Speaker 1: things Vogel's going to have to fix. I don't think
Speaker 1: you can play two bigs against Portland that allows nurkicch
Speaker 1: and Whiteside to be in the game. I think Vogel's
Speaker 1: got to say, listen, Anthony Davis, I don't care that
Speaker 1: you refuse to play the five, dude, We've got to
Speaker 1: get Morris out there. He shot, he doesn't refuse to
Speaker 1: play the five. About it all the time. I don't
Speaker 1: think I get it. Fine, you want the start of
Speaker 1: the year. He can play well, guess what, it's playoff time. Man. No,
Speaker 1: But at the start of the year and then as
Speaker 1: the season went on, he actually embraced it and started
Speaker 1: doing the problem with Anthony Davis was, Okay, we're playing
Speaker 1: you at the five to stretch you out, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're you're You're Steph Curry now, like, dude,
Speaker 1: you can't be just taking threes like, we need you
Speaker 1: to get in there and score. And this has been
Speaker 1: fifteen outside of the restricted area. Well, he two for fifteen,
Speaker 1: But why is he shooting all the I don't know.
Speaker 1: Why does he fade away on every shot? I think
Speaker 1: Vogel has to realize we can't play two bigs if
Speaker 1: we will go with Morris or Kuzma at the four.
Speaker 1: And now, why dare you to play Hassan Whiteside and
Speaker 1: Nurkis because they they blocked a lot of the Lebron
Speaker 1: shots at the rim that I mean, hit side surprised me.
Speaker 1: I was really shocked at he. I know he led
Speaker 1: the league in blocks, blah blah blah, but you know
Speaker 1: this is the guy who can't shoot free throws for
Speaker 1: a lick. What does that do him? Defending the minus
Speaker 1: offensive player. But the reason he the reason he exists
Speaker 1: in this world is what he did the other day.
Speaker 1: He all he has to do is defend the rim
Speaker 1: and roll to the basket and finished when he gets it.
Speaker 1: And the Lakers have to counter by saying, Okay, I
Speaker 1: guess what, We're not gonna play two bigs. I actually
Speaker 1: I just I actually think the two bigs. If you
Speaker 1: can get the problem in Portland is they won't match
Speaker 1: up necessarily with two bigs. And now they get you
Speaker 1: all screwed up defensively, right because they keep they keep
Speaker 1: their big guys in the lane. The lanes crowded for Lebron.
Speaker 1: It was really not Allude a lot of room to operate.
Speaker 1: And they don't respect KCP. They don't respect Caruso. I
Speaker 1: think you got I mean, I I do believe Doug.
Speaker 1: We will see more than five minutes of Dion Waiters.
Speaker 1: He played one minute in Game one. We gotta see
Speaker 1: some j R. Smith. I know he can't defend anybody,
Speaker 1: but he's a shooter. But he hasn't made any shots, right,
Speaker 1: Like give them some shots? Like do you do you
Speaker 1: they've been down there a month and a half. Do
Speaker 1: you think if they assessed that j R. Smith could
Speaker 1: make shots and couldn't do it in the NBA game,
Speaker 1: that they would have given him a shot. Well, but
Speaker 1: that's like that's the thing that is and again this
Speaker 1: is this is like the going on dated information, Like
Speaker 1: if you want to go buy four years ago, that's cool.
Speaker 1: He hadn't played in the league in two years. Okay,
Speaker 1: So to go from not playing the league in two
Speaker 1: years to training with the team to playing in a
Speaker 1: regular season game where you look completely out of sorts too,
Speaker 1: let's throw you in an NBA playoff game or oh yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, you're gonna have to match up with
Speaker 1: either CJ. McCullum. They can try to hide him on
Speaker 1: where Gary tread hug up Gary trend. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: You can't that you can't. This is what's changed about
Speaker 1: the NBA. You can't hide dudes. Well, you can't hide you.
Speaker 1: You can't hide four for twenty one, Danny Green and
Speaker 1: Casey We've seen it games. They can't shoot and if
Speaker 1: you make it, but if you make a free throw,
Speaker 1: if you make a free throw, if Lebron, if Lebron
Speaker 1: attacks more when he gets the rim, and instead of
Speaker 1: being more passive. You're you're fine. I'm optimistic. I am
Speaker 1: all in. Not quite the college education for my kids
Speaker 1: on the Lakers tonight, but I'm very confident that the
Speaker 1: Lakers will win. Yeah, I do believe Lebron. You've seen
Speaker 1: the movie Troy with Brad Pitt. Remember when they're on
Speaker 1: the boat about to storm the shores and Brad Pitt
Speaker 1: as Achilles just destroys everyone. He makes that speech, we
Speaker 1: are Lions. It's epic. You go watch it on YouTube
Speaker 1: thirty seconds and I think Lebron at some point today
Speaker 1: will be like, guys, I don't go down O two.
Speaker 1: This is just not what I do. We are better
Speaker 1: than this team. They're the twenty seventh rated defensive team
Speaker 1: in the league and we scored ninety three friggin points.
Speaker 1: Buck up, get it together, and the Lakers just smother.
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Speaker 1: Patrick's Show on Fox Sports Radio. UM, there's like yearly discussions.
Speaker 1: It feels like in sports right. For a long time,
Speaker 1: it was is Joe Flacco elite? Right? And um or
Speaker 1: I guess is eli elite? Then it was Joe Flacco elite. Uh,
Speaker 1: now it's for a while. I remember at the end
Speaker 1: of Brett farther front, will Brett Farve retire? No, he's
Speaker 1: not gonna retire. He will retire. Then finally he kind
Speaker 1: of got retired, and then he wanted to come back,
Speaker 1: and he went to the New York Jets, and and
Speaker 1: and the rest. By this is history in the NBA.
Speaker 1: In the NBA over the last I think three years,
Speaker 1: in the off season, at least the last two years
Speaker 1: in the off season, there has been at least a
Speaker 1: discussion over the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Will they ever
Speaker 1: be able to achieve the level of success that their
Speaker 1: their talent would tell you they should achieve. And by talent,
Speaker 1: I mean you have two of the elite talented young players.
Speaker 1: Then Tobias Harris. Who who they now have who's like
Speaker 1: a um He's a very talented scoring wing. I don't
Speaker 1: know he's one of the top thirty players the NBA
Speaker 1: is Okay, don't make me count. I don't think he is.
Speaker 1: Don't think Harris is in the top thirty players in
Speaker 1: the NBA. Is Jamal Murray? No? No, I like Jamal
Speaker 1: Murray a lot, Okay, I mean I just see him.
Speaker 1: No, No No, it's okay. I mean it's like you say
Speaker 1: top thirty. Then you start to realize, right, there's thirty teams. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's there's a bunch of teams. He's not the best
Speaker 1: player on. But is he you know he's Is he
Speaker 1: absolutely the best player? I don't, I don't know m
Speaker 1: with him? Is he he got a Max deal and
Speaker 1: he ain't a Max player? Right? That's that's the kind
Speaker 1: of classic that that's what happened for with the Max
Speaker 1: contract for a long time, which is there should be
Speaker 1: different levels of the Max, right, there should be the
Speaker 1: super super which is what the Supermax is. Really you
Speaker 1: needn't get that. Yeah, but it's still a ton of money,
Speaker 1: and that's how you get guys to come join you anyway,
Speaker 1: I guess the question they get beat by the same Celtics.
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum is one of the top thirty players the NBA.
Speaker 1: You okay with that thirty? Yeah, I think he's a
Speaker 1: lot higher than that. I think there's okay, But he's
Speaker 1: still a top ten, like number ten. Okay, I mean,
Speaker 1: like we don't have we we can do another ratings
Speaker 1: segment if you want, but if you're a top ten,
Speaker 1: you're definitely in the top thirty. Tatum is a superstar
Speaker 1: man star. I don't know a superstar. He's a star, right,
Speaker 1: but find budding superstar. I'll back off the superstar buddings.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's unstoppable. And what really kills the Sixers
Speaker 1: is they could have drafted him and they took Mark. No,
Speaker 1: he could have drafted him. Okay, but they traded draft picks.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, like no, no, no, you take the first pick,
Speaker 1: We'll take the third pick. That's the amazing thing. And
Speaker 1: the process is done. Dug, it's over. Trust the process.
Speaker 1: It was fun. It made a lot of sense. There's
Speaker 1: a lot too, okay. So so okay, well, well, let's
Speaker 1: work to the let's work to the question as to
Speaker 1: whether or not you break up the team in a second.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say this about the seventy six ers,
Speaker 1: and this comes from here's my kind of there's here's
Speaker 1: my realist brain working. Okay, when you walk into houses nowadays,
Speaker 1: at least in my neighborhood and you're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what you're gonna do. You're almost better off when
Speaker 1: everything is original right from like the nineteen sixties and seventies.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh boy, you're almost because you're gonna That's
Speaker 1: what a lot of these teams do is they want
Speaker 1: to just start over. Let's just start over, take you know,
Speaker 1: knock out a couple of walls all brand new, like
Speaker 1: because if you're just gonna throw on white paint and
Speaker 1: try and redo something, it ultimately it's age will show. Okay.
Speaker 1: So some of these houses you walk in and they
Speaker 1: had a kitchen that was redone ten years ago. A
Speaker 1: bathroom has done five years ago, and they you know,
Speaker 1: they just threw on you know, some new stop new
Speaker 1: paint and redid the outside, the exterior. And so you
Speaker 1: have different visions, you have different eras, different things that
Speaker 1: are important, right like the ship lap thing and the
Speaker 1: modern farmhouse thing is now seemingly kind of going out.
Speaker 1: You go back ten fifteen years ago and travertine was
Speaker 1: in right, like the different stones that you use. That's
Speaker 1: what the seventy six ers are. They started with the process. Okay,
Speaker 1: they decided to keep their coach and keep these players.
Speaker 1: But then they've interjected different personnel every year. There, you're
Speaker 1: kind of they're almost doing like line changes hockey style
Speaker 1: in terms of every year switching out guys, trying to
Speaker 1: fix something where at the end of the day, the
Speaker 1: layout of this house may just not work right. You
Speaker 1: just may not be able to have Simmons and embiid
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm I'm wondering what you do if you're
Speaker 1: I put Jason mcintarre in charge of the Sixers, what
Speaker 1: do you do? Oh, that's a genius move, Doug. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought you were a good coach, but maybe you're
Speaker 1: a good GM. I think you start with getting rid
Speaker 1: of Brett Brown. It's pretty clear that that ship is sailed.
Speaker 1: He's done. But I also think you need to look
Speaker 1: at the GM Elton brand who built this team. Remember,
Speaker 1: gave Tobias Harris a Maxteele, brought in Al Horford, and
Speaker 1: let Jimmy Butler walk. I mean I think he would
Speaker 1: basically oh for three on those if you ask me.
Speaker 1: And I don't think you trade them yet, either Simmons
Speaker 1: or Embid. But I certainly think Doug, you have to say, hey,
Speaker 1: we need to interview coaches who have an idea of
Speaker 1: how on earth this this could work, because this pairing
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it can. And then I think the
Speaker 1: guy you look to move is Embiid and on on
Speaker 1: Straight Fire today, Actually it's on iTunes and Spotify. We
Speaker 1: discussed three landing spots. Are you ready let me hit
Speaker 1: you with him? If you could get Joel Embid to
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns to pair Embid with Devin Booker, If
Speaker 1: you could get Joel that, well, you get Joel Embiid,
Speaker 1: who's a dynamic superstar. Um, he's a top twenty player
Speaker 1: in the league. Okay, we don't know if what DeAndre
Speaker 1: Aden will be. He's strictly a defense and rebound and
Speaker 1: a rim runner and he's not a great shop rim
Speaker 1: protector and beads a better defender than he better players.
Speaker 1: There's there's no quick Well you realize you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to and something back in Well, if you the trade, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like, hey, we want Joel the Sons. You like,
Speaker 1: we want Joel Embiid, You take DeAndre and like, okay,
Speaker 1: well what else you Okay, Well, if you if you
Speaker 1: are going to position Ben Simmons as the Draymond Green
Speaker 1: point guard version, and he's your big and you want
Speaker 1: to build around him. You could use a little Kelly
Speaker 1: Ubre who's a pretty he's a pretty good wing player.
Speaker 1: He doesn't play a lot of defense, but he's a
Speaker 1: scorer and a shooter. And you know, I like the
Speaker 1: um the kid mcl bridges. He's a nice wing player.
Speaker 1: Now the originally was drafted by Philly. You sent him
Speaker 1: back to Philly where he played college. Ye payee, I
Speaker 1: mean I want to I want wings around Ben Simmons
Speaker 1: who can shoot. Richardson can shoot a little bit. They
Speaker 1: got Tobias Harris. They don't have enough, So I think
Speaker 1: Phoenix one opportunity someone the other great idea from my producers,
Speaker 1: straight Fire said, what if the Wizards said, we'll give
Speaker 1: you Bradley bo you give us Joel embiid Wait, why
Speaker 1: would the Wizards do that? Well, you know, what do
Speaker 1: you what do you have with Bradley Beale? You just
Speaker 1: signed him to a massive long term deal. All you've
Speaker 1: got the best player by a by a mile. Right.
Speaker 1: The problem is the John Wall thing where if John
Speaker 1: Wall comes back, is he healthy? They have a huge
Speaker 1: contract with Wall. You can't necessarily trade him. He can't shoot.
Speaker 1: I mean, John, they don't want to like if Yeah,
Speaker 1: that I don't see that. Okay, look here's the here's
Speaker 1: my thing. I've always been a if you're gonna trade,
Speaker 1: you trade Ebid because Embiid can't stay healthy. And and
Speaker 1: whereas Simmons, the issues with Simmons at times were attitude,
Speaker 1: would he become a shooter? Um? And and you know,
Speaker 1: do guys like playing with him? It feels almost the
Speaker 1: opposite now, right, Like Ben Simmons can't stay healthy. He
Speaker 1: had the back issue that would have kept him out
Speaker 1: for the playoffs, and then he comes back obviously for
Speaker 1: the bubble, and now he's got the knee problem. Where's
Speaker 1: his knee pops out? And that's going to keep out
Speaker 1: of these playoffs. Ben Simmons can't stay healthy. And it's
Speaker 1: Joel Embiid who doesn't all always show that he's a
Speaker 1: great teammate, that guys want to play with him. He's
Speaker 1: always looking out of shape. Yeah, I mean, look, this
Speaker 1: is My late father used to had this expression, and
Speaker 1: I don't think he invented. I think it's something that's
Speaker 1: the old basketball expression. He used to say, there's always
Speaker 1: a reason you know I've played in the usbl and
Speaker 1: in two thousand we played usbl Enian Oklahoma. Jason sown
Speaker 1: about the Yeah, home of Brent and Mark Price. That's
Speaker 1: where they went to high school. Collectually play at Mark
Speaker 1: Price Arena and their their late father, Denny, was one
Speaker 1: of our assistants that year. Phillips University used to be there.
Speaker 1: Now it's uh Northeastern Oklahoma. I believe it is now
Speaker 1: what they had a campus there anyway, So um and
Speaker 1: on the team. We had Willie Burton, ninth pick in
Speaker 1: the NBA draft, Minnesota Golden Gopher. Sure he had fifty
Speaker 1: points an NBA game. We had Bubba Wells who played
Speaker 1: for Austin Pete led the country in scoring. Bubba Wells.
Speaker 1: Bubba Wells, look at up Bubba Wells. He he actually
Speaker 1: had two. He broke his legs on stress fractures in college,
Speaker 1: so he had like rods in his legs. So had
Speaker 1: Bubba Wells. We had um uh oh man, what's the
Speaker 1: name of the guy? I'm just blanking on his name.
Speaker 1: He there was the famous story about Michael Jordan where
Speaker 1: he gave it to George oh Lebradford Smith. Ah. Yes,
Speaker 1: Louisville Star. Okay, so he had Lebradford Smith. We had
Speaker 1: we had probably six or seven dudes that played in
Speaker 1: the NBA and maybe a couple more who were also
Speaker 1: drafted in the NBA. And my dad I never forget.
Speaker 1: He was like, I was like, Dad, this team is.
Speaker 1: You would not believe how good these guys are. He's like, Son,
Speaker 1: there's always a reason. What do you mean, There's always
Speaker 1: a reason. He's like, why are you there? I was like, well,
Speaker 1: because I can't shoot, right, that's why you're not in
Speaker 1: the league. You're in the usbl right, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know, some guys cannot maintain the proper weight. They
Speaker 1: don't have the self discipline. Right. That's the fear with
Speaker 1: with Zion Williamson, where he spent a couple days outside
Speaker 1: the bubble and he comes back looking like he's fifteen
Speaker 1: pounds heavier. Here you got Joel Embid, who's got a
Speaker 1: world of talent. But but even if he's in better shape,
Speaker 1: he's still not in You've got to be in the
Speaker 1: best shape of your life. Can you imagine if Embid
Speaker 1: were playing in the nineties, he would have been the
Speaker 1: perfect player. I mean, he's a la jahwe light. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna win an MVP and a Defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year, but in like the eighties and nineties and
Speaker 1: bead would be a top five guy in the league.
Speaker 1: I think he still should be the top five guy
Speaker 1: in the league because because he can really score at
Speaker 1: the block, because he can, he's a good enough shooter.
Speaker 1: He's made himself in a pretty good shooter, and he
Speaker 1: can defend the rim, and he can defend ball screens
Speaker 1: like that guy should be. The problem is why doesn't
Speaker 1: he put it together more often? It's not just Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons in the lack of space, It's not just Brett Brown.
Speaker 1: It's that kind of personal accountability of I'm not in
Speaker 1: the best shape and his The thing I like best
Speaker 1: about Luca, to be totally honest with you, is every
Speaker 1: time they show him, he's smiling, yeah, having fun right,
Speaker 1: like he's just out there hooping. Reminds me of myself
Speaker 1: in that way. How about this one, Joel Embid to
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks. New York has lacked star power forever.
Speaker 1: In return, well, you know, I'm looking at the roster.
Speaker 1: It's very bleak. But if you could cobble together something
Speaker 1: like a RJ. Barrett, Kevin Knock, Julius Randall. No, why
Speaker 1: do I want those things? No, I'm gonna give away
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give away the most talented big guy in
Speaker 1: the league. He may not be the best, he's the
Speaker 1: most talented big guy in the league. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: away the most talented big guy in many what's the
Speaker 1: definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over
Speaker 1: again expecting different? Isn't that? I don't one definition of insanity. Insanity?
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're like, look at that dude, he's insane. That's right,
Speaker 1: he's not doing the same thing. But just how many
Speaker 1: years are we going to trot out and be in Simmons? No,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think that the Brett Brown thing
Speaker 1: is the first the problem. Here's my disappointment of Brett Brown.
Speaker 1: I understand that the job he's doing now is not
Speaker 1: the job he's he was brought in to do. I
Speaker 1: also know that he's working for a completely different ball
Speaker 1: so that so it's it's really it's very hard to
Speaker 1: be Brett Brown, right, And you're like, well, he's got
Speaker 1: great players. Not okay, everybody's got great players, talented, let's
Speaker 1: just go talented. He's got talented guys who've never won anything,
Speaker 1: and the roster keeps changing, and you know, in order
Speaker 1: to play Al Horford, who everybody loves, that everybody believes
Speaker 1: is a winner, that means you're you're shrinking the space
Speaker 1: and the floor. It dictates something that that your team
Speaker 1: can look very odd in terms of how you look
Speaker 1: versus how everybody else is playing in the NBA. That said,
Speaker 1: my disappointment of Brett Brown is really simple. Ben. The
Speaker 1: whole reason he kept his job was he coached Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons dad in Australia. I can get I can break
Speaker 1: through to Ben Simmons. I can fix Ben Simmons. I
Speaker 1: can make Ben Simmons everything that people believe he can be.
Speaker 1: And while I'm sure it's a lot harder than than
Speaker 1: it looks, the fact is that he's never used any
Speaker 1: of that equity, or doesn't feel like he's used like it.
Speaker 1: Just now, Ben Simmons is taking jump shots. No, he
Speaker 1: should have been benching him anytime he turns down in
Speaker 1: a regular season, any turn time he turns down a
Speaker 1: jump shot. You know, their home record was obscene in
Speaker 1: the NBA, their road record was abysmal. Why is that
Speaker 1: the road exposes adversity and those guys clearly don't handle
Speaker 1: adverse situations well. And I'm surprised he hasn't challenged Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons more and gotten more out of Ben Simmons. Some
Speaker 1: of that is on Ben Simmons, but some of that
Speaker 1: is on Brett Brown. And I agree with you. If
Speaker 1: you get the sweetheart deal, you'd probably do it. But
Speaker 1: I would guess, as is usually the case in the NBA,
Speaker 1: the first thing to go is the coaches before they start. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe the GM two and then yeah, you're right, Um,
Speaker 1: I just it's disappointing that this won't work. The Markel
Speaker 1: Fulton was really stump. Can you imagine this team Tatum,
Speaker 1: Simmons and Embid. That's terrifying. Yeah, well, they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: to buy his hairs, although we don't know if we
Speaker 1: would know, it would have been better. You would add
Speaker 1: more and more couch space, you know. Oh yeah, But
Speaker 1: but we also don't know if Jason Tatum wouldn't developed
Speaker 1: the way he used to be. Like, we all believe
Speaker 1: that Jason Tatum would be exactly the same, but there's
Speaker 1: a good chance that he wouldn't have developed. And one
Speaker 1: of the things that helped Jason Tatum was um Kyrie
Speaker 1: went down and didn't play in their first playoff run
Speaker 1: and so he had to shoot the ball. See the
Speaker 1: Tatum numbers. Go look at the Bucks Celtics series last year.
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum was terrible. You average like twelve points for
Speaker 1: the series, shot like from three because of the Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving and also playing with Kyrie Irving is it's like
Speaker 1: bad for your health. Honestly, guys, not a good teammate.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go in on Kyrie Irving. Its
Speaker 1: too You just did you already did already. Jason McIntire,
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Speaker 1: Dnett's here on as Day, A Little Throwback Thursday or
Speaker 1: a frowback Thursday. Although Jason, you cut the froe. How
Speaker 1: many COVID haircuts have you had? One? Had two? The
Speaker 1: wife trim me up both times. We just ordered the
Speaker 1: clippers online, yep, and I've done the home cut. I've
Speaker 1: also I mean Orange County, where I live, we had
Speaker 1: barber's were open for a lot longer. So I had
Speaker 1: two cuts in the actual actual barber's chair, which is great. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's weird work being at FS one. I
Speaker 1: would just get haircuts there. So I haven't been in
Speaker 1: a barber's chair and like four or five years. It
Speaker 1: is interesting. Everybody got haircuts there. I never got one,
Speaker 1: never once. No, they'll trim me up any day you
Speaker 1: need it. I know. I just guys got them daily.
Speaker 1: I won't mention them, but I like that people get
Speaker 1: them daily. I like that. Now, did you when you
Speaker 1: get them? Do you tip? What do you? How do
Speaker 1: you do it? H No? I mean I don't. Personally
Speaker 1: I do the end of the year, I just give
Speaker 1: everybody that I work within the building a little something.
Speaker 1: What's a little something? A little holiday slash, Christmas sand
Speaker 1: what's a little something? I think it varies, it depends
Speaker 1: on you said, you give everybody a little something. I do.
Speaker 1: I roll in with you know, the family card, the
Speaker 1: MacIntire holiday card. I think we send them to you
Speaker 1: me and the family out there in the South Bay
Speaker 1: them thank you so much. Well you got listen, you
Speaker 1: got to be a professional, now, Doug. You send the
Speaker 1: card with your family and then we I actually go
Speaker 1: to Target and get the gift cards. Gift cards. Huh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a gift card guy. Okay. So so I mean
Speaker 1: I tried the first year to personalize it for somebody.
Speaker 1: Who So there's somebody who cuts your hair on a
Speaker 1: bi monthly basis. My hair grows kind of slowly, so
Speaker 1: I'm like maybe a once every six week a guy,
Speaker 1: you get a haircut once every six weeks? Six or
Speaker 1: six no way? Yeah, seriously, I'll trim up the neck
Speaker 1: hairs myself. Yes, I want to have a clean nut,
Speaker 1: and I usually go kind of short, let it grow,
Speaker 1: and then cut it six Okay. So so uh if
Speaker 1: we go once every six weeks, there's fifty two weeks
Speaker 1: in a year. Well the problem is there's like three
Speaker 1: different people that can cut your hair. Okay, so what
Speaker 1: do you how do you I think we you know,
Speaker 1: I think I pretty much will do either, you know,
Speaker 1: two hundred two fifty a person. Yeah that's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I mean again, you know, when you're doing
Speaker 1: that with the makeup artists as well. And listen, there's
Speaker 1: producers I work with. You work with them as well.
Speaker 1: I don't give them inducers. They're not that good. They're
Speaker 1: not worth two hundreds. Hey, they're trying to help me
Speaker 1: make me look good. So hey, you know you gotta
Speaker 1: spread the wealth. You got to spread the wealth, and
Speaker 1: you have lots of it. Jason McIntire joining us because
Speaker 1: I got four jobs. You played basketball and made a
Speaker 1: lot of I did not um. Okay, So so there's
Speaker 1: a there's an article from Ethan Strauss in The Athletic
Speaker 1: and Ethan Strauss is remember he wrote the book on
Speaker 1: the Warriors Kevin Kevin Rant did not love Um. And
Speaker 1: now this article talks about the ratings struggles of the NBA.
Speaker 1: You and I both read it without getting into like
Speaker 1: gritty details of it. Do you think the NBA is
Speaker 1: in a bad place ratings wise? And if so, how
Speaker 1: can they go back? Well, the big factor is there
Speaker 1: if you look at since twenty twelve, Doug, they're down
Speaker 1: forty And the article highlights a lot of the social
Speaker 1: issues that I guess the author thinks is a big
Speaker 1: reason why ratings are down so much. I personally dug
Speaker 1: into it for the podcast Rate Fire and Doug, I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest. If you look at primetime TV ratings,
Speaker 1: they are down even more. Across the CBS, FOX, ANBC, ABC,
Speaker 1: they're down more than the NBA games, I actually believe.
Speaker 1: But sports are not down right, Well, baseball is not
Speaker 1: down in the regular season. But if you compare the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals over versus the World Series in the same
Speaker 1: eight year span, the NBA crushes the World I got it.
Speaker 1: But obviously in the NFL football regular season, college football
Speaker 1: regular season healthy numbers despite the despite the fact that
Speaker 1: they're not. I think we agree that NFL there is urgency.
Speaker 1: There's sixteen games, right, there's you know, you can't miss
Speaker 1: NBA games. There's eighty two regular seas can miss NBA games,
Speaker 1: you can miss NBA, you can't miss NFL. Yes. Now,
Speaker 1: then you'll say, well, Jason, what about baseball. Well, this
Speaker 1: is where it gets really interesting, Doug. If you look
Speaker 1: at when the NBA season is played, they open up
Speaker 1: going against college football in the NFL. Okay, then they
Speaker 1: struggle going up against the NFL playoffs. Then they get
Speaker 1: the March madness. So in like seventy percent of the season,
Speaker 1: they're going up against major sports. Major League Baseball has
Speaker 1: a runway in June, July, August where they're going up
Speaker 1: against nothing. Absolutely, they're going up against vacation and people
Speaker 1: not traditionally paying attention to you know, they're also going
Speaker 1: up against the fact that they're a sport, which, um, there,
Speaker 1: they're a sport which is not deemed as older, colder older.
Speaker 1: But my big one last thing, Yeah, if you look
Speaker 1: at the markets, and this is big where baseball is successful.
Speaker 1: The Yankees had the best record in the American League
Speaker 1: in the decade. The Red Sox were second in the
Speaker 1: National League. The Dodgers were first for best record of
Speaker 1: the of the two thousand and tens. Those are the
Speaker 1: three biggest, three of the biggest TV markets. Look at
Speaker 1: the NBA markets. The New York Knicks have been an
Speaker 1: abject failure for the decade. The Chicago Bulls have been
Speaker 1: a dumpster fire. The Lakers just had a six year run,
Speaker 1: the worst record in franchise history. You've got the big
Speaker 1: markets struggling in the decade. Okay, like yes, look the
Speaker 1: last five years are back to the Lakers. Um and
Speaker 1: that does coincide with some of the numbers, but I
Speaker 1: also so so there's some there's some things that you
Speaker 1: can't fix, that you can't change. I think one of
Speaker 1: the things though, that you're getting at is there are
Speaker 1: things that the NBA has done to themselves, right, they're
Speaker 1: self inflicted out This is not a wound, but the
Speaker 1: new TV deals which are I think like four years
Speaker 1: old or whatever. With trying to think how far back
Speaker 1: with the ESPN in Turner, the NBA is not only
Speaker 1: played every night, it's literally on national TV every night.
Speaker 1: So there's nothing special about it. There isn't now if
Speaker 1: you want to, and you can make the argument and
Speaker 1: be a good one, that the NFL is is trending
Speaker 1: in a very similar fashion, although that's kind of been
Speaker 1: the one question. The Thursday night thing is has been
Speaker 1: hard for them to play Monday, Thursday, Sunday and occasionally
Speaker 1: Saturday and then you know it, do it again. But
Speaker 1: the NBA is literally on at least five not six
Speaker 1: days a week national TV between ESPN and Turner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's the first thing. The second thing is and
Speaker 1: I do think that the social justice part of it
Speaker 1: is at least a small fraction of its small right agreed, right, Like,
Speaker 1: do I think that that racist watch the NBA previously? No,
Speaker 1: but I think there are plenty of people in the
Speaker 1: middle or in the middle leaning to the right. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of watch sports not hear about this stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me ask on a personal level, do you know
Speaker 1: anyone who used to watch the NBA and now does
Speaker 1: not because Greg Popovic yes, says Donald Trump is a
Speaker 1: buffoo and curses. No, it's just it's just about the
Speaker 1: like I turn on to watch a ball game and
Speaker 1: I'm getting what I'm getting on some level. I'm getting
Speaker 1: what I'm getting on Fox News, MSNBC, and you know,
Speaker 1: because they wrote black Lives Matter on the court. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's the commercials as well. There's I don't It doesn't
Speaker 1: bother me, Like I don't care. Like if you know
Speaker 1: someone personally, yeah, I know you want to mention they
Speaker 1: have you talked about why as they exactly what I
Speaker 1: expressed as why. It's like I watched to see a
Speaker 1: ball game. I don't watch to see you know, to
Speaker 1: be told you know, different political stances. I just don't.
Speaker 1: That's you know, there are people who are really bothered
Speaker 1: by NFL players or NBA players taking any towards the flag. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My wife's stepdad was a hardcore NFL fan and he
Speaker 1: was in the Vietnam War. Was drafted at eighteen. He
Speaker 1: told me, and I believe he gave it up cold Turkey.
Speaker 1: He would go for bike rides on Sunday. He was
Speaker 1: that upset with it. And you know, we talked about it,
Speaker 1: and he hasn't mentioned the NBA to me. But I
Speaker 1: can understand the Vietnam War. I get there. There's a
Speaker 1: There's another issue though, that I think is less divisive,
Speaker 1: which the players moving makes it really hard, not just
Speaker 1: Lebron being in the West, but just not knowing who's
Speaker 1: where in comparison to the National Football League. Be sure
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