May 1, 2025 • 37 mins
Doug does a postmortem on the Lakers' season and gives the reasons why they lost the series against Minnesota. Doug gives his opinion of how JJ Redick chose to handle a question at his pregame press conference. Doug welcomes FSR NBA Insider Mark Medina to talk about the Lakers, Clippers and all of the other headlines around the NBA. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through a game of "I Feel A Draft".
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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sunny Green Bay, Wisconsin. I hope you guys are great,
plus uh Los Angeles, California as well. A lot to
get to today as I'm really happy with with this
show and happy to be with you, right, happy to
be with you. No, no, no, no, no you no,
You're a special You're a good one. You're great. I'm
(00:50):
just okay, no no, uh, welcome in so I am.
I don't know about you, but this is a switching
time own sort of thing, right. Those Laker games can
be late at night, and I don't know what people expected,
but the the Lakers lose last night also known as
the Timberwolves won last night, it does feel like the
(01:12):
Lakers lost is the is the headline? Whereas I didn't
did Timberwolves win the game, and Jay Stu, you brought
up just a great point, which is like, hey, wasn't
it just a couple months ago or so that we
were like, yeah, they're not going to be they're not
gonna win a championship, but this is for the future.
And then people thought they're gonna win a championship. So
(01:34):
we'll dig into that in a second. Let's see a
little post mortem here. Here's Rob Polinka, GM of the Lakers,
also president of the Lakers. Remember he got a promotion
I think in no small part because he pulled off
the Luca trade. Then they lose in the first round
for Luca trade. Here's Rob Polinka talk about the priority
heading in the offseason.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
When you make a huge trade at the deadline where
you trade your starting center for a point guard, of
course that's going to create significant issues with the roster,
and we saw some of those play out. We know
this offseason, you know, one of our primary goals is
going to be to add size in our front court
at the center position, and that's going to just be
(02:14):
part of the equation. We know we have a lot
of work to do on the roster and it'll look
different next year for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, again, I think like it'll look different and the
way it usually works when you're building a team at
the start of the year. And again I can't speak
to running an NBA team. It's far different, but there
are some similarities. Right, an injury here there can change. Hey,
this is what we thought would be. You make a
trade mid season, which I don't think anybody thought they
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would make going back before the trade deadline, Like nobody
was saying, hey, you know what's going to happen Luca
to the Lakers. It just wasn't discussed, and so they
did make a change. But I think it's fascinating this
whole Lakers thing, Like is today the day that Nico
Harrison looks like he did the right thing, isn't it?
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It's just sports is amazing on how people get caught
up in the heat of the moment and they just
lose frankly, all their faculties. They just do you know,
they poop and pee themselves all over themselves. They can't
control themselves. Because when Luca and the Lakers were good,
(03:30):
oh my god, this is the biggest heist ever, right,
remember Jason kids, Like some people compare this to the
Babe Ruth trade cool Like yeah, no, not cool at all,
but people were comparing it to that. And then now
you fast forward to we've only had the Lakers only
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played four playoff games? Is that right? Five? Five playoff games? Yes,
it's four games, the one five. I play five playoff games.
And people are like, you know, hey, Luca's not in
great Chapin. Boy, he really doesn't play defense, and maybe
Nico Harrison's onto something without playing a game, without playing
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one single game in the actual playoffs, the narrative around
Nico Harrison from this guy's the biggest idiot buffoon. When
is Dallas going to get rid of him? To you know,
he might have been onto something? And I guess that's sports, right,
(04:37):
I guess that's sports because we do the same thing
with Lebron James. When he plays well, you're like, goat,
greatest of all time at forty years old. I've heard
several people on television, okay, various levels of respect ontel,
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but on television, they played, they've done something, whatever say
at times, you know, Lebron is still one of the
five best players in the NBA. And again, in a
small sample sized and one game here one game there
at forty years old, you go like, it's pretty amazing. Okay,
I didn't actually watch the game, but sure. And then
last night you see him falter in the fourth quarter,
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and suddenly it's the choke. You're like, well, he's forty,
played the whole game. The game before, it's oh no, no, no.
When he doesn't play, well, it's he's forty. Now, he's
always been forty, and you have to always take it
with a grain of salt. But this is just I
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don't know, it's a remarkable thing that happened last night.
The turnaround for Niko Harrison without doing a single thing right.
It's like winning a battle without firing a single shot. Crazy,
the turnaround sports fire you. What are your thoughts on
when watching the Lakers. I mean, there's there's a more
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basketball centric discussion that don't think people necessarily have gotten yet.
We'll get to that in a second, But what are
your thoughts on just how much the world changed spun
off its axis with the Lakers falling again last night
to the one.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, it was Douglas kind of like almost a three
step process in my mind in thinking that the Mavericks
and the Lakers would have been better off this season
for not doing the trade in just terms of what
Dallas has and didn't have and what the Lakers didn't have,
And then he had the Mark Williams deal end up
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falling apart in him not being acquired. So we knew
that there was a gaping hole. And if you could
rewind time, I think for the short term, both teams
would maybe say, all right, MAVs would be better with Luca,
Lakers would better with Anthony Davis. But then the third
step in all of this, Doug just came to the
point of and you touched on on the move, and
we heard Rob Polinka off the top, it's that acquiring
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Luca as part of this deal was the long term
move and it came at sacrificing one of Lebron James's
final seasons as of trying to win another title, and
that was the most I guess jarring part of it.
But if we go back to early February and this
trade isn't made, I think both teams are probably in
better position. I don't know, standings wise and seed wise,
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you wouldn't be able to say that, but in a
better standing and position to succeed in the playoffs than
both Dallas and the Lakers ended up doing, no.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Question, no question. It was a fairly impetuous moved. It
was like, oh, we've done kind of in cover of darkness,
you know, on a Saturday night. Yeah, it was. It
was weird. It was weird. It's like, is that really
how we want it to be done? You couldn't have
just waited to the off season. But I do think
that this pending potential contract extension, you know, is was
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the energy behind it. Was just like, guys, we can't
sign this guy to a three hundred and fifteen million dollars,
you know, four year guaranteed deal. I can't, can't do it.
And here's why. As I told you now, I'm gonna
saying you, Dan Byer, I'm saying you listener, world, you
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Nico is not an idiot. I've never understood how someone
can go from building a championship roster last year to
a complete buffoon this year, when the truth is somewhere
in the middle. He took some risk last year, took
some heat last year for some of the moves. You know,
people said Kyrie wouldn't work or you shouldn't extend Kyrie
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he did, it worked, and then Kyrie got hurt. And
Kyrie has had a lot of injuries in his career,
although not an ACL injury like he suffered this year,
but many of the other moves. Gafford coming over, that
was him. PJ. Washington coming over, that was him. Even
hiring Jason, that was him. Remember, Jason Kidd was not
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thought of as a quality game coach in the NBA,
going back to his days in Milwaukee or the nets
he did. They got to an NBA Finals and no
one mentioned any of that. When they trade away Luca,
it was fire this guy. He's an idiot. There's got
to be something done. People in Dallas actually said, and
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we had people come on the radio who said, hey,
even if Dallas wins a championship without Luca, this is
still a bad trade, which is the dumbest, dumb, dumb
stuff I've ever heard in my life. But it does
play into what I was getting to produces, which were
so overreactive to the immediate thing and we can't just
catch our breath and have some perspective on some stuff.
(09:47):
And I actually credit Jay Stu because Jay Stu was like,
and Dan, I'll get to you cause you're saying the
right thing as well, Jay Stu we're talking today, is like, hey,
wasn't this a long term move for Lakers? I don't
get he didn't get when the when the playoff, when
the betting lines came out, Like, I don't explain this
one to me. I can't except for the power of
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Lebron James. And I think that's really it. And Dan's
what Dan saying is right, which is like, look, truth is,
your teams were built for constructed a certain way. You
shouldn't let it played out and then make this trade
in the offseason. My only pushback that Dan would be
I actually think that was part of the genius with
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Nico is he probably looked around the landscape of it
and thought, you know, this won't be perfect, but no
one's perfect in the West. And if I can build
this incredible wall of defenders and just figure out a
way to let Kyrie loose, like we might be able
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to do something special winning games based upon our defense,
which oh yeah, by the way, is what Minnesota really
has done, right. They have all these like size defend
where you can't mismatch Hunt. But but you're right, I mean,
truth is, you had a team constructed. You completely changed
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the construction or the layout of the team. And remember
the trade deadline is after the All Star breaks. This
is late in the year, and what did you expect
the outcome to be? But I think the answer is
because Lebron James, there's never any happy medium. It's either
the worst or the best and nothing in between.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, and this deal did come before the All Star Game,
because it was Yeah, but you're much more forgiving of
Nico in all of this because I, in your words,
I was one of the people that said I felt
that the Mavericks fans would rather have Luca on their
team than to have their Luca Mavericks win a championship. Now,
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time may heal all wounds. I'm curious on how next
year in the year after plays out. But I still
don't think Nico is off the hook, despite the great
moves that he made the year prior, and we were
giving him his flowers at that point, and we.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Were, but I don't know if if like there's no.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Like the addition of Gafford and PJ. Washington last year
were huge. I mean, it was the reason why they
were able to navigate the West and then they just
didn't have enough against Boston. But like those trade deadline
deals that they did last year were magnificent, and I
think that we gave Dallas the credit at that point,
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and then I feel he gave it all back with
this trade. Whereas Polinka and I agree with you in
essence of if you want to say that, Look, Polenka
has made some some good moves with Austin Reeves and
Dalton connect who was involved in that Mark Williams deal
that ended up falling apart, and bringing those guys and saying, Okay,
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it's made some good draft picks, he's done this.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
That's I'm fine with saying that. But to have Luca
kind of fall in your lap and then say, okay,
as an organization that's built on stars, all right, we'll
do that deal. Yes, I think every other well I
would assume almost every other GM in the league would
do it. And so that's I'm just not ready to
forgive Nico and Polinka. I just think said, all right,
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we'll sacrifice lebron potential championship year. I mean, after all,
we did draft this Sun and in exchange for that,
they get their franchise star for the next decade.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, I'm I'm fasted by way the Lakers go from
here because he's the here's the problem. Okay, the Lakers
lost last night for a myriad of reasons, and a
lot of people want to point to their defense and
rebounding that that's a huge part of it. Right Again,
here's the impetuous nature of the basketball fan. The most
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made fun of star in the NBA is.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Byer Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yes, okay, every year it's make fun of Rudy Gobert.
He stinks he's overpaid, you can't play him in big
playoff games, and all the Lakers did, Like this is
the whole thing with like how why are they playing
Maxi Kleeber like Uda Maxi Kleeber played for last year.
It's the same thing that you try and do with
Rudy Gobert. Make him guard out in the court in
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space and then make him score in the post because
he has no post moves and you end up winning
that matchup. Three is more than two efficiency as opposed
to inefficients, right, and so that's all he tried to
do and exploit it it It didn't work. But the
issue with it is that though Lebron looks like he
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should be a small ball five right, Like Lebron's six',
eight long, arms big, hands two hundred and sixty two
hundred and sixty five pounds strong as an, ox and
he used to be able to guard point guards and
you'd think. Bigs he's never been able to guard. Inside
he is not a good post player offensively or, defensively
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as opposed To Draymond, green who's had half the offensive,
career half the, accolades and, like he doesn't look, bad
but it's not like his body looks like A greek
god Like lebron at six foot five, ish he, Can
he's just that's what he. Does so but the problem
with The lakers from now until Whenever lebron, decides And
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lebron is going to decide when he wants to not play,
again is your two best players are your two wish.
Defenders and that doesn't. Work you, know you can get
away with, one you can't get away with. Two and
last night they had. Three, right their three best offensive
players are their three worst defensive. Players and there's just
no hot in, that and none of them, rebound and
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none of them play particularly good. Defense and it will never.
Work it hasn't and it. Won't and that's why you,
Know Nico harrison goes defense wins championships is defensive, rebounding.
RIGHT i learned that the hard. Way you can play,
big you can play, small but your small guy's better.
Rebound you can play. Big big guys better, rebound and
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the big guys. Better bill contained the ball, guard the
ball guard the three point, line but you got a.
Rebound SO i you, KNOW i think they're forever in that.
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Speaker 1 (16:30):
App it's really, crazy really crazy on How Rudy Gobert,
Now it's, LIKE i can't believe that The lakers didn't
do something to stop. Him you're, like It's Rudy. Gobert
he was the he was the butt of every, joke,
(16:51):
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don't know if you heard This dan last. Night this
is an EXCHANGE Jj reddick had or the reporter in
the postgame press, conference.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
What do you recall about your thought process in the
moment sticking with the five you stuck with in the
fourth quarter the other? Day and is there an assistant
or someone maybe that you'll lean on tonight maybe to
try to get you, know some other guys, involved if
that opportunity.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Presents are you saying that Because i'm inexperienced and that
was an inexperienced decision THAT i.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Made do you THINK i don't talk to my assistance
about substitutions every single time?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Out, NO i just think there's a lot of coaches
lean on their assistance in those, situations as.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Do a lot every single.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Time that's a weird.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Assumption uh yeah about? That what you gotta tell me
what's going on WITH Jj? Reddick because there was no
mention of it's it's like the reporter was afraid to
ask him a question when it's a legitimate. Question you,
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know was this your? Decision was it a group think?
Decision you, know how does it work with you and
your assistance? Whatever but he, said, oh Because i'm, Experience
i'm in. EXPERIENCED i didn't ask my. STAFF i didn't
ask my staff and what, happens AND i guy was,
SAYING i know this from both sides of. It the
more defensive you, are the more people are, like, oh
there's something up. There he must not be talking to
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his assistant. Coaches people have asked me all, Day hey
do you KNOW? Jj not, really not very. Well BUT
i can tell you. This does that soundbites surprise you
in any? Way IF i, SAID Jj reddick comes across as, crazy, arrogant,
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uh very very smart with his, words and a level
of defensiveness which is really kind of, attacking trying to
make you feel smaller or like you're asking something. Stupid
AND i, Said, hey That's Jaga. RIDICK i don't KNOW.
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JJ i have no bone to pick with. HIM i
actually think he's really bright and really. Talented was as
a basketball, player was as an, analyst wasn't his, podcast
is as a. Coach but THAT'S Jj, reddick, Right that's
who he. Is that is a surprise to. Nobody that
is not an. Act that is who he. Is and
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it does not play well when you haven't won, anything you,
know it just, doesn't. DOESN'T i have no problem with
the playing five, Guys Like i've often, wondered you know
what would. Happen and there were times in Which, LEBRON
i don't know if guys remember When lebron was In
cleveland and they were playing The warriors in the, Finals
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tyler would play him the whole second half Because lebron
could do. It and the idea is, like, Hey lebron
against the, starters it's a. Wash lebron against The, bens
it's a. Mismatch why would you take out your five best,
players especially when you have the two best players in
the court or two of the three best players in
the court With luca And. Lebron so that's the obvious. Philosophy,
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hey we went, small we stuck. Small lebron's done it,
Before lucas in good enough, shape we can do it.
Again but the, defensiveness the, arrogance THAT'S Jj. Reddeck cue that,
music because this man just got out of a press.
Conference so The lakers just conducted their postseason press conference
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or their post mortem press, conference and our Own Mark,
vidina LONGTIME nba, Writer Fox Sports TRADIO Nba, insider was.
There Uh, mark howd this thing spin? Off its off its?
Axis you, know you go back two weeks ago and
people were hopping out of the woodwork going Hey lakers
in five and now The Lakers lakers are. Fishing what? Happened?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
DOUG a lot of things. UNPACKED i, mean first, Off
minnesota played really. Well Anthony Edwards sooka's game to another.
Level they had a lot of KEY x factor type.
Players you go down the, List, Nasrut jay, McDaniels Rudy,
Gobert Julius. Randall but as far as The lakers are,
CONCERNED i think it was three. Things one the defense
and the and their lack of. Consistency they're really caught
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up to themselves because they don't have defensive. Centers they
have good, wings but not great. Wings so that was
point number. One point number, TWO i think that we
saw The Luca dotch version Of dallas of when he
was at The Dallas mavericks before The Kyrie irving, trade
where he was holding the ball a, lot trying to
DRAW iso matchups With Rudy gobert or anyone else and
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oftentimes at the expense of you, know Team bald movement type.
Basketball and he dealt with Some elvis's injuries through the.
Season and THEN i think the third thing Is Lebron
james still play at a reasonably high, level but not
the same kind of level that we're used. To and
we Saw father's time touch here or there with, turnovers,
misshots and you add all that together and, yeah The
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wolves are dispatching The lakers pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Here, YEAH i mean that that thing was that was
crazy how it. Happened i'll tell you. This you, know
we can Blame luca and, say, Hey lucas holding the,
ball but the mismatch, hunting that's that's. Great Saint, geane,
right that's who who designs their. Offense that's what he.
Does he's a mismatch hunter in terms of his offense.
SCHEMING i think that'd be interesting to. See, okay so
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where do we go from here if you're The.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Lakers, yeah, well based off of WHAT i gathered at The,
Lakers Rob, blinka here's where they. Go you, know they're
staying commanded To, Lebron, James, luca. Dogrics that's That's they're
not going. ANYWHERE i thought it was interesting That rob
made it a point that he Views Austin reeves as
part of that core With lebron And. Luca you saw
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him play really well since The luca, trade but also
some playoff. Shortcomings but barring a blockbuster type, TRADE i
don't Think Austin reeves will be part of you, know
options that they'll deal. With but the other part is
about addressing the center position because they try to do,
that as you, Know doug after THE a d trade
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Getting Mark. Williams you, know The lakers will say they
were scented to trade because they had to fail physical but,
regardless they didn't have a lot of center options and
in the regular season they Saw Jackson hayes play, well
not so much in the. Postseason they had some marginal,
options you know With Alex, wnn but not enough FOR
Jj reddick to have faith in that and instead of went.
Small so that's priority number. One and when you're looking
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at who be, available you, know the free agents that
are big this, season think of guys you, know Like Miles,
turner Like Brook, lopez Like Clint. Capella you know they'll
have to have the cap space to make it. Work
but those are you, know the potential options moving forward with.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Us why did you get so?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Defensive, WELL i think you outlined it perfectly that that's
part of WHO jj. IS i think it, also you,
KNOW i don't want to pretend Like i'm knowing this thought,
bubble but just seeing how he answers. QUESTIONS i think
it was also the way the question was. Phrased you,
know there's a lot of insinuation that he didn't lean
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on his coaching staff. BEFORE i think if he was
simply asked straight, up what was your thought process on
why you went with the starters or how did you
wad the pros CONS i think that you would have
seen THE jj intellectual reddick version of himself where he
shares the good and the, bad the ugly of what
came out with, that as opposed to him being very
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defensive and then leaving the press, conference, uh you know
room and huffing and.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Puffing, YEAH i don't. KNOW i, mean, like what do
we what are we actually doing? HERE? Jj, like, yeah
it's not a good luck. Regardless, no but that's that,
again is who WHO jj. Is, okay let's let's talk
to the rest of the. Plass we've Got clippers now
biggest home game in their new arena's, history where, suddenly you,
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know Playout Jamal murray shows back. Up what's the state
of The Clippers nugget?
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Series, yeah it's very up in the. AIR i, MEAN
i think the thing that's VERY i would say surprising
with The, clippers as we've seen them come up short
in the, playoffs but it always had to do with
injuries at the worst possible. Time, here they're, healthy they
have their, guys they Have Kawhi, leonard they Have James.
Harden they've seen The Viza zoobots And Norman powell grow
with bigger roles like. That you, know they have roster.
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DEPTHS i lose a great, coach SO i want to
put it past them that they can win. Games elimination
game and they have the home, crowd they got the,
wall but all of a, sudden The nuggets have come
back to. Life And, DOUG i, KNOW i reminded, myself you,
know watching and covering THE nba that playoff series have
a life of its. Own anything can. Happen sometimes things
that happen in one game don't carry over to the next.
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Game but given the fact that The nuggets have gone
through so much turbulence with The Michael Malone Calvin booth,
firing they had a lot of inconsistency With Jamal, murray
some injury, related some performance, related And Nikole jokich's triple
doubles weren't always enough because of an inconsistent supporting. CAST
i thought that this was the end of, it especially
(26:37):
after That game three blowout by The. Clippers But i've
been proven, wrong and so IF i had to guess
what's going to, HAPPEN i think The nuggets pooled, it
doubt just because they've been playing better basketball a lot
more than The clippers have this. Series but you know,
this this, Series games, one, two and four have come
down to very dramatic last moment, Plays so it's very
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up in the, air AND i think it's a very
stark contrast with what we saw with The lakers And,
wolves or The wolves clearly looked like the better team
even if the games were.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Close, YEAH i got, it, YOU i got. You Doug
Mark medina joining us here On Fox Sports. Radio doug
having some technical, difficulties So, mark you AND i will
just take it the rest of the way. Here let's
bounce around a. Little you guys are talking About, Clippers, Nuggets,
Knicks pistons also A game two. Tonight it's been a
tough read BECAUSE i felt that The pistons could have
won the first couple of games of this, series they
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blow opportunities In New. York then The knicks seemed to
stronghold the series with their wins In Detroit game six.
Tonight do The knicks have the chip on the, Shoulder
do The pistons have? Momentum how does it play out
in This Eastern conference? Series?
Speaker 6 (27:46):
YEAH i think flip a coin. HERE i think that
what we've seen With detroit And New york is that they're,
steiling is just advancing into the next. Round they've been,
inconsistent partly with The knicks as that outside Of Jalen
brunson And Karl Anthone, towns they don't have that kind
of continuity and depth that you need to beat a
team Like boston Or cleveland in The. EAST i think The,
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pistons you, know outside Of Kate, cunningham you've seen the,
usual you, know patterns of a young team that just
got to the, playoffs where you, KNOW i don't want
to say that they feel. Overwhelmed they're very mature and
they're very, aggressive but they just don't have the tactical
kind of experience to adjust to a long playoff. Series
(28:27):
SO i would still give it to the next But
i've Also i've often thought in this series that they've
gotten in their own way a little, Bit so it'll
it'll be a slog, fest you, know sometimes, captivating sometimes,
ugly BUT i think it will be pretty close either.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
WAY i Think doug's back with us now here on
the Sports, yes sorry about, That.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Mark, Okay So, mark there's various stories you heard From
shams earlier. Today Rob polinka said in his press confidence earlier,
today and Again i'm not chasing The, twitter but there's
Other twitter questions about, this that there's going to be
a lot of movement in the. Offseason, yeah what are
(29:09):
they talk who? Specifically are the rumors of them going
to be?
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Moved, well, yeah as you alluded, To Rob polinka mentioned
about that he anticipates there's going to be a lot
of league. Movement and NOW i don't think that this
will pertain to The lakers necessarily BECAUSE i don't think
they're going to go big game hunting because they don't
have the necessary pieces to do. It BUT i, think you,
know there's an expectation That Kevin durant will be. AVAILABLE
(29:34):
i don't think The bucks will ever make you Honest
antakoupo available unless he directly asked, him anything can. HAPPEN
i don't think it, will BUT i think at least
twenty nine other teams are bracing for if that ever does,
happen to be prepared for, offers so that that's the.
Feeling and THEN i think generally we've just, seen even
(29:55):
with second aprin spending concern limitations last, year just a
very fluid. League so embrace another pretty busy the off
season with a lot of transactions that may or may not.
Happen BUT i think the biggest domino is going to
Be Kevin durant because the writing has spin on the
wall with The sun's early playoff exit that hasn't. WORKED
(30:18):
i Know Matt eshbie said what he said on the
record that they don't believe in, rebuilds BUT i think
eventually it's going to be inevitable That durant.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Still, Yeah And Brian gregory today is going to be
named the general manager of The Phoenix. Suns Brian, gregory
by the, way is AN izo Guy ishbia was a
walk on Under. Izo it's The Michigan state sort of.
Takeover totally makes sense to anybody who's following along at
Home mark great. Stuff oh by the, Way, mark you
(30:46):
say it's your, birthday it's not my birthday, too BUT
i think we can give you a little outro music as.
Well happy birthday to, You Mark medina dog appreciate.
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It just, There i'll take.
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Speaker 3 (32:11):
Got, Okay, doug trying to get a feel of THE
nba in the. Playoffs that are going on topic about
the association. Today your FAVORITE nba, cities cities that are
home TO nba. Teams give us your FAVORITE nba, Cities,
doug you actually have the first, Pick sam your. SECOND
(32:31):
i will pick. Third jason has the swing picks as
we reverse the second. Round all, Right, doug what are the.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
What are the? Prerequisites what are the BEST aba cities
for WATCHING nba game? Vacationing what cities you'd like to?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Live like IF i were to say to, you And
i'll just take On, Austin texas because they don't have a,
Team Austin. Texas do you Like? Austin Love? Austin, right
that could be a. Candidate so that's basically like you
like the, City, OH i love to visit that, city loved.
To there's there's really no parameters on. This there's no best.
Dining it's just favorite and UH nba cities or cities
(33:12):
that are home to AN nba. Team So austin wouldn't. Work,
no it Is sacramento. Would but you can.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Also Visit austin when you go To San. Antonio it's
only like an hour and fifteen hour and.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
A half From San San antonio could be a. Pick.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, uh FAVORITE nba, cities well for, visiting Gimme.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
NewYork it's a good.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Pick gim Me.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
NewYork this all you know that city never. Sleeps, also
let's get out tired of. Looks So, sam if you're
thinking about Going, brooklyn they are. Not they are not
included in this Because doug Took New york with.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
The second overall. Pick i'm going to. Draft. Uh by
the way we're, PLAYING i feel a. Draft, yeah sorry about.
That that's.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
OKAY i think most people deciphered That i'm going to
take with the second, Pick, chicago Great, Sportstown Chicago. Bulls
maybe not their golden years right, now but Great sportstown, Overall,
Chicago chicago is a is a really good.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
City you know what CITY i really do Enjoy. Boston
i'm not A celtics fan at, all but, Yes i'm
going to Take boston at number. Three all, Right, jason
you've got back to Love.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Bush, YEAH i love.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Us you'll spent some time up there. Too so he's
going to camp up In maine.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
And maine this. Year you Know grace, went she went
first semester up to school In, Berkeley that's. Right so,
yeah so we've been bunch Time.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
Boston i'm going to choose my favorite city in the,
World San. Francisco, NOW i know a lot of our
listeners are, thinking, yeah but that's gone to hell SINCE. Covid,
yeah but it's still aesthetically the most beautiful city in
the world with the best. Climate you always have to
wear a. Sweatshirt AND i Love San. Francisco and Then
(35:02):
i'm gonna switch it up here And i'm gonna say
Not New orleans with my fifth.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Pick Not New.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
Orleans it's, uh it smells as bad as it's swampy and.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Hot so you.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Didn't enjoy The Super bowl?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
There. Huh we walked To Bourbon street because that was One,
jason you wanted to walk, it, right just for? Once,
yep first time and you're your overall.
Speaker 10 (35:30):
Rating, yeah not for, me not for it's like the
world's biggest uh.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
What do you call?
Speaker 10 (35:38):
That?
Speaker 9 (35:38):
Amateur but you can you can go to, ah you
can eat jumble eye in a topless bar at the same,
Time so win.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Win, now there's CERTAIN nba cities THAT i HAVE i
have not been, to SO i take, yeah which. Ones
i've never been To. SACRAMENTO i have been A sacramento,
there And i've never been To.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Memphis i've been To.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Memphis all the other ONES i Think i've been able,
to uh to Mark off you like do you like pawn?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Chops not? Really do you like bail? Bonds?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
RIGHT I i've also never been To, toronto SO i
can't Take. TORONTO i Love, ATLANTA i love The, SOUTHEAST
i love the whole. Deal give Me, atlanta even if
there's pollen and. Humidity, YES i love the vibe Of. Atlanta,
sam you're up at number seven with the seventh.
Speaker 9 (36:26):
Pick i'm going to Draft minneapolis And Saint. Paul The twin, cities.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Well you get one of.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Them.
Speaker 9 (36:33):
Minneapolis guess that the play In, Minneapolis so give Me.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Minneapolis just, kidding having some fun with, you all, Right,
doug your final pick and Not New orleans not.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Available there's Some Los, Angeles. California oh, INTERESTING i mean
From Orange. COUNTY i, mean, Yeah Los Angeles california's not Hard. La,
yes always, yes.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yes and THAT'S i feel a draft in game.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
TIME i feel a.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Draft this is game time On The Doug Gottlieb.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
SHOW i think there.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Are a lot of other right. ANSWERS i, mean you,
Know i'm not a Huge miami. Guy miami is great
for like five days or, so, awesome especially if you're A.
Snowburden charlotte underrated, City CHARLOTTE'S i Love, charlotte great, weather great,
food good. PEOPLE. Dc we didn't bring up they just
barely have AN nba team coming next To The Doug Gottlieb.
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just okay, no no, uh, welcome in so I am.
I don't know about you, but this is a switching
time own sort of thing, right. Those Laker games can
be late at night, and I don't know what people expected,
but the the Lakers lose last night also known as
the Timberwolves won last night, it does feel like the
(01:12):
Lakers lost is the is the headline? Whereas I didn't
did Timberwolves win the game, and Jay Stu, you brought
up just a great point, which is like, hey, wasn't
it just a couple months ago or so that we
were like, yeah, they're not going to be they're not
gonna win a championship, but this is for the future.
And then people thought they're gonna win a championship. So
(01:34):
we'll dig into that in a second. Let's see a
little post mortem here. Here's Rob Polinka, GM of the Lakers,
also president of the Lakers. Remember he got a promotion
I think in no small part because he pulled off
the Luca trade. Then they lose in the first round
for Luca trade. Here's Rob Polinka talk about the priority
heading in the offseason.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
When you make a huge trade at the deadline where
you trade your starting center for a point guard, of
course that's going to create significant issues with the roster,
and we saw some of those play out. We know
this offseason, you know, one of our primary goals is
going to be to add size in our front court
at the center position, and that's going to just be
(02:14):
part of the equation. We know we have a lot
of work to do on the roster and it'll look
different next year for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, again, I think like it'll look different and the
way it usually works when you're building a team at
the start of the year. And again I can't speak
to running an NBA team. It's far different, but there
are some similarities. Right, an injury here there can change. Hey,
this is what we thought would be. You make a
trade mid season, which I don't think anybody thought they
(02:42):
would make going back before the trade deadline, Like nobody
was saying, hey, you know what's going to happen Luca
to the Lakers. It just wasn't discussed, and so they
did make a change. But I think it's fascinating this
whole Lakers thing, Like is today the day that Nico
Harrison looks like he did the right thing, isn't it?
(03:09):
It's just sports is amazing on how people get caught
up in the heat of the moment and they just
lose frankly, all their faculties. They just do you know,
they poop and pee themselves all over themselves. They can't
control themselves. Because when Luca and the Lakers were good,
(03:30):
oh my god, this is the biggest heist ever, right,
remember Jason kids, Like some people compare this to the
Babe Ruth trade cool Like yeah, no, not cool at all,
but people were comparing it to that. And then now
you fast forward to we've only had the Lakers only
(03:50):
played four playoff games? Is that right? Five? Five playoff games? Yes,
it's four games, the one five. I play five playoff games.
And people are like, you know, hey, Luca's not in
great Chapin. Boy, he really doesn't play defense, and maybe
Nico Harrison's onto something without playing a game, without playing
(04:17):
one single game in the actual playoffs, the narrative around
Nico Harrison from this guy's the biggest idiot buffoon. When
is Dallas going to get rid of him? To you know,
he might have been onto something? And I guess that's sports, right,
(04:37):
I guess that's sports because we do the same thing
with Lebron James. When he plays well, you're like, goat,
greatest of all time at forty years old. I've heard
several people on television, okay, various levels of respect ontel,
(05:01):
but on television, they played, they've done something, whatever say
at times, you know, Lebron is still one of the
five best players in the NBA. And again, in a
small sample sized and one game here one game there
at forty years old, you go like, it's pretty amazing. Okay,
I didn't actually watch the game, but sure. And then
last night you see him falter in the fourth quarter,
(05:21):
and suddenly it's the choke. You're like, well, he's forty,
played the whole game. The game before, it's oh no, no, no.
When he doesn't play, well, it's he's forty. Now, he's
always been forty, and you have to always take it
with a grain of salt. But this is just I
(05:42):
don't know, it's a remarkable thing that happened last night.
The turnaround for Niko Harrison without doing a single thing right.
It's like winning a battle without firing a single shot. Crazy,
the turnaround sports fire you. What are your thoughts on
when watching the Lakers. I mean, there's there's a more
(06:03):
basketball centric discussion that don't think people necessarily have gotten yet.
We'll get to that in a second, But what are
your thoughts on just how much the world changed spun
off its axis with the Lakers falling again last night
to the one.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, it was Douglas kind of like almost a three
step process in my mind in thinking that the Mavericks
and the Lakers would have been better off this season
for not doing the trade in just terms of what
Dallas has and didn't have and what the Lakers didn't have,
And then he had the Mark Williams deal end up
(06:40):
falling apart in him not being acquired. So we knew
that there was a gaping hole. And if you could
rewind time, I think for the short term, both teams
would maybe say, all right, MAVs would be better with Luca,
Lakers would better with Anthony Davis. But then the third
step in all of this, Doug just came to the
point of and you touched on on the move, and
we heard Rob Polinka off the top, it's that acquiring
(07:04):
Luca as part of this deal was the long term
move and it came at sacrificing one of Lebron James's
final seasons as of trying to win another title, and
that was the most I guess jarring part of it.
But if we go back to early February and this
trade isn't made, I think both teams are probably in
better position. I don't know, standings wise and seed wise,
(07:26):
you wouldn't be able to say that, but in a
better standing and position to succeed in the playoffs than
both Dallas and the Lakers ended up doing, no.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Question, no question. It was a fairly impetuous moved. It
was like, oh, we've done kind of in cover of darkness,
you know, on a Saturday night. Yeah, it was. It
was weird. It was weird. It's like, is that really
how we want it to be done? You couldn't have
just waited to the off season. But I do think
that this pending potential contract extension, you know, is was
(07:56):
the energy behind it. Was just like, guys, we can't
sign this guy to a three hundred and fifteen million dollars,
you know, four year guaranteed deal. I can't, can't do it.
And here's why. As I told you now, I'm gonna
saying you, Dan Byer, I'm saying you listener, world, you
(08:19):
Nico is not an idiot. I've never understood how someone
can go from building a championship roster last year to
a complete buffoon this year, when the truth is somewhere
in the middle. He took some risk last year, took
some heat last year for some of the moves. You know,
people said Kyrie wouldn't work or you shouldn't extend Kyrie
(08:40):
he did, it worked, and then Kyrie got hurt. And
Kyrie has had a lot of injuries in his career,
although not an ACL injury like he suffered this year,
but many of the other moves. Gafford coming over, that
was him. PJ. Washington coming over, that was him. Even
hiring Jason, that was him. Remember, Jason Kidd was not
(09:02):
thought of as a quality game coach in the NBA,
going back to his days in Milwaukee or the nets
he did. They got to an NBA Finals and no
one mentioned any of that. When they trade away Luca,
it was fire this guy. He's an idiot. There's got
to be something done. People in Dallas actually said, and
(09:23):
we had people come on the radio who said, hey,
even if Dallas wins a championship without Luca, this is
still a bad trade, which is the dumbest, dumb, dumb
stuff I've ever heard in my life. But it does
play into what I was getting to produces, which were
so overreactive to the immediate thing and we can't just
catch our breath and have some perspective on some stuff.
(09:47):
And I actually credit Jay Stu because Jay Stu was like,
and Dan, I'll get to you cause you're saying the
right thing as well, Jay Stu we're talking today, is like, hey,
wasn't this a long term move for Lakers? I don't
get he didn't get when the when the playoff, when
the betting lines came out, Like, I don't explain this
one to me. I can't except for the power of
(10:09):
Lebron James. And I think that's really it. And Dan's
what Dan saying is right, which is like, look, truth is,
your teams were built for constructed a certain way. You
shouldn't let it played out and then make this trade
in the offseason. My only pushback that Dan would be
I actually think that was part of the genius with
(10:30):
Nico is he probably looked around the landscape of it
and thought, you know, this won't be perfect, but no
one's perfect in the West. And if I can build
this incredible wall of defenders and just figure out a
way to let Kyrie loose, like we might be able
(10:50):
to do something special winning games based upon our defense,
which oh yeah, by the way, is what Minnesota really
has done, right. They have all these like size defend
where you can't mismatch Hunt. But but you're right, I mean,
truth is, you had a team constructed. You completely changed
(11:11):
the construction or the layout of the team. And remember
the trade deadline is after the All Star breaks. This
is late in the year, and what did you expect
the outcome to be? But I think the answer is
because Lebron James, there's never any happy medium. It's either
the worst or the best and nothing in between.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, and this deal did come before the All Star Game,
because it was Yeah, but you're much more forgiving of
Nico in all of this because I, in your words,
I was one of the people that said I felt
that the Mavericks fans would rather have Luca on their
team than to have their Luca Mavericks win a championship. Now,
(11:53):
time may heal all wounds. I'm curious on how next
year in the year after plays out. But I still
don't think Nico is off the hook, despite the great
moves that he made the year prior, and we were
giving him his flowers at that point, and we.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Were, but I don't know if if like there's no.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Like the addition of Gafford and PJ. Washington last year
were huge. I mean, it was the reason why they
were able to navigate the West and then they just
didn't have enough against Boston. But like those trade deadline
deals that they did last year were magnificent, and I
think that we gave Dallas the credit at that point,
(12:36):
and then I feel he gave it all back with
this trade. Whereas Polinka and I agree with you in
essence of if you want to say that, Look, Polenka
has made some some good moves with Austin Reeves and
Dalton connect who was involved in that Mark Williams deal
that ended up falling apart, and bringing those guys and saying, Okay,
(12:58):
it's made some good draft picks, he's done this.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
That.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
That's I'm fine with saying that. But to have Luca
kind of fall in your lap and then say, okay,
as an organization that's built on stars, all right, we'll
do that deal. Yes, I think every other well I
would assume almost every other GM in the league would
do it. And so that's I'm just not ready to
forgive Nico and Polinka. I just think said, all right,
(13:22):
we'll sacrifice lebron potential championship year. I mean, after all,
we did draft this Sun and in exchange for that,
they get their franchise star for the next decade.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, I'm I'm fasted by way the Lakers go from
here because he's the here's the problem. Okay, the Lakers
lost last night for a myriad of reasons, and a
lot of people want to point to their defense and
rebounding that that's a huge part of it. Right Again,
here's the impetuous nature of the basketball fan. The most
(13:53):
made fun of star in the NBA is.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Byer Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yes, okay, every year it's make fun of Rudy Gobert.
He stinks he's overpaid, you can't play him in big
playoff games, and all the Lakers did, Like this is
the whole thing with like how why are they playing
Maxi Kleeber like Uda Maxi Kleeber played for last year.
It's the same thing that you try and do with
Rudy Gobert. Make him guard out in the court in
(14:23):
space and then make him score in the post because
he has no post moves and you end up winning
that matchup. Three is more than two efficiency as opposed
to inefficients, right, and so that's all he tried to
do and exploit it it It didn't work. But the
issue with it is that though Lebron looks like he
(14:43):
should be a small ball five right, Like Lebron's six',
eight long, arms big, hands two hundred and sixty two
hundred and sixty five pounds strong as an, ox and
he used to be able to guard point guards and
you'd think. Bigs he's never been able to guard. Inside
he is not a good post player offensively or, defensively
(15:03):
as opposed To Draymond, green who's had half the offensive,
career half the, accolades and, like he doesn't look, bad
but it's not like his body looks like A greek
god Like lebron at six foot five, ish he, Can
he's just that's what he. Does so but the problem
with The lakers from now until Whenever lebron, decides And
(15:26):
lebron is going to decide when he wants to not play,
again is your two best players are your two wish.
Defenders and that doesn't. Work you, know you can get
away with, one you can't get away with. Two and
last night they had. Three, right their three best offensive
players are their three worst defensive. Players and there's just
no hot in, that and none of them, rebound and
(15:47):
none of them play particularly good. Defense and it will never.
Work it hasn't and it. Won't and that's why you,
Know Nico harrison goes defense wins championships is defensive, rebounding.
RIGHT i learned that the hard. Way you can play,
big you can play, small but your small guy's better.
Rebound you can play. Big big guys better, rebound and
(16:10):
the big guys. Better bill contained the ball, guard the
ball guard the three point, line but you got a.
Rebound SO i you, KNOW i think they're forever in that.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
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Speaker 1 (16:30):
App it's really, crazy really crazy on How Rudy Gobert,
Now it's, LIKE i can't believe that The lakers didn't
do something to stop. Him you're, like It's Rudy. Gobert
he was the he was the butt of every, joke,
(16:51):
Right but that was the. Call that's Our tyraq play
of the day on K, fan The Timberlves Radio. Network,
uh we'll get To Mark medeena in a. SECOND i
don't know if you heard This dan last. Night this
is an EXCHANGE Jj reddick had or the reporter in
the postgame press, conference.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
What do you recall about your thought process in the
moment sticking with the five you stuck with in the
fourth quarter the other? Day and is there an assistant
or someone maybe that you'll lean on tonight maybe to
try to get you, know some other guys, involved if
that opportunity.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Presents are you saying that Because i'm inexperienced and that
was an inexperienced decision THAT i.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Made do you THINK i don't talk to my assistance
about substitutions every single time?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Out, NO i just think there's a lot of coaches
lean on their assistance in those, situations as.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Do a lot every single.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Time that's a weird.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Assumption uh yeah about? That what you gotta tell me
what's going on WITH Jj? Reddick because there was no
mention of it's it's like the reporter was afraid to
ask him a question when it's a legitimate. Question you,
(18:10):
know was this your? Decision was it a group think?
Decision you, know how does it work with you and
your assistance? Whatever but he, said, oh Because i'm, Experience
i'm in. EXPERIENCED i didn't ask my. STAFF i didn't
ask my staff and what, happens AND i guy was,
SAYING i know this from both sides of. It the
more defensive you, are the more people are, like, oh
there's something up. There he must not be talking to
(18:31):
his assistant. Coaches people have asked me all, Day hey
do you KNOW? Jj not, really not very. Well BUT
i can tell you. This does that soundbites surprise you
in any? Way IF i, SAID Jj reddick comes across as, crazy, arrogant,
(18:58):
uh very very smart with his, words and a level
of defensiveness which is really kind of, attacking trying to
make you feel smaller or like you're asking something. Stupid
AND i, Said, hey That's Jaga. RIDICK i don't KNOW.
(19:22):
JJ i have no bone to pick with. HIM i
actually think he's really bright and really. Talented was as
a basketball, player was as an, analyst wasn't his, podcast
is as a. Coach but THAT'S Jj, reddick, Right that's
who he. Is that is a surprise to. Nobody that
is not an. Act that is who he. Is and
(19:44):
it does not play well when you haven't won, anything you,
know it just, doesn't. DOESN'T i have no problem with
the playing five, Guys Like i've often, wondered you know
what would. Happen and there were times in Which, LEBRON
i don't know if guys remember When lebron was In
cleveland and they were playing The warriors in the, Finals
(20:07):
tyler would play him the whole second half Because lebron
could do. It and the idea is, like, Hey lebron
against the, starters it's a. Wash lebron against The, bens
it's a. Mismatch why would you take out your five best,
players especially when you have the two best players in
the court or two of the three best players in
the court With luca And. Lebron so that's the obvious. Philosophy,
(20:30):
hey we went, small we stuck. Small lebron's done it,
Before lucas in good enough, shape we can do it.
Again but the, defensiveness the, arrogance THAT'S Jj. Reddeck cue that,
music because this man just got out of a press.
Conference so The lakers just conducted their postseason press conference
(20:57):
or their post mortem press, conference and our Own Mark,
vidina LONGTIME nba, Writer Fox Sports TRADIO Nba, insider was.
There Uh, mark howd this thing spin? Off its off its?
Axis you, know you go back two weeks ago and
people were hopping out of the woodwork going Hey lakers
in five and now The Lakers lakers are. Fishing what? Happened?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
DOUG a lot of things. UNPACKED i, mean first, Off
minnesota played really. Well Anthony Edwards sooka's game to another.
Level they had a lot of KEY x factor type.
Players you go down the, List, Nasrut jay, McDaniels Rudy,
Gobert Julius. Randall but as far as The lakers are,
CONCERNED i think it was three. Things one the defense
and the and their lack of. Consistency they're really caught
(21:42):
up to themselves because they don't have defensive. Centers they
have good, wings but not great. Wings so that was
point number. One point number, TWO i think that we
saw The Luca dotch version Of dallas of when he
was at The Dallas mavericks before The Kyrie irving, trade
where he was holding the ball a, lot trying to
DRAW iso matchups With Rudy gobert or anyone else and
(22:03):
oftentimes at the expense of you, know Team bald movement type.
Basketball and he dealt with Some elvis's injuries through the.
Season and THEN i think the third thing Is Lebron
james still play at a reasonably high, level but not
the same kind of level that we're used. To and
we Saw father's time touch here or there with, turnovers,
misshots and you add all that together and, yeah The
(22:26):
wolves are dispatching The lakers pretty quickly.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Here, YEAH i mean that that thing was that was
crazy how it. Happened i'll tell you. This you, know
we can Blame luca and, say, Hey lucas holding the,
ball but the mismatch, hunting that's that's. Great Saint, geane,
right that's who who designs their. Offense that's what he.
Does he's a mismatch hunter in terms of his offense.
SCHEMING i think that'd be interesting to. See, okay so
(22:52):
where do we go from here if you're The.
Speaker 6 (22:54):
Lakers, yeah, well based off of WHAT i gathered at The,
Lakers Rob, blinka here's where they. Go you, know they're
staying commanded To, Lebron, James, luca. Dogrics that's That's they're
not going. ANYWHERE i thought it was interesting That rob
made it a point that he Views Austin reeves as
part of that core With lebron And. Luca you saw
(23:15):
him play really well since The luca, trade but also
some playoff. Shortcomings but barring a blockbuster type, TRADE i
don't Think Austin reeves will be part of you, know
options that they'll deal. With but the other part is
about addressing the center position because they try to do,
that as you, Know doug after THE a d trade
(23:35):
Getting Mark. Williams you, know The lakers will say they
were scented to trade because they had to fail physical but,
regardless they didn't have a lot of center options and
in the regular season they Saw Jackson hayes play, well
not so much in the. Postseason they had some marginal,
options you know With Alex, wnn but not enough FOR
Jj reddick to have faith in that and instead of went.
Small so that's priority number. One and when you're looking
(23:58):
at who be, available you, know the free agents that
are big this, season think of guys you, know Like Miles,
turner Like Brook, lopez Like Clint. Capella you know they'll
have to have the cap space to make it. Work
but those are you, know the potential options moving forward with.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Us why did you get so?
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Defensive, WELL i think you outlined it perfectly that that's
part of WHO jj. IS i think it, also you,
KNOW i don't want to pretend Like i'm knowing this thought,
bubble but just seeing how he answers. QUESTIONS i think
it was also the way the question was. Phrased you,
know there's a lot of insinuation that he didn't lean
(24:40):
on his coaching staff. BEFORE i think if he was
simply asked straight, up what was your thought process on
why you went with the starters or how did you
wad the pros CONS i think that you would have
seen THE jj intellectual reddick version of himself where he
shares the good and the, bad the ugly of what
came out with, that as opposed to him being very
(25:01):
defensive and then leaving the press, conference, uh you know
room and huffing and.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Puffing, YEAH i don't. KNOW i, mean, like what do
we what are we actually doing? HERE? Jj, like, yeah
it's not a good luck. Regardless, no but that's that,
again is who WHO jj. Is, okay let's let's talk
to the rest of the. Plass we've Got clippers now
biggest home game in their new arena's, history where, suddenly you,
(25:28):
know Playout Jamal murray shows back. Up what's the state
of The Clippers nugget?
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Series, yeah it's very up in the. AIR i, MEAN
i think the thing that's VERY i would say surprising
with The, clippers as we've seen them come up short
in the, playoffs but it always had to do with
injuries at the worst possible. Time, here they're, healthy they
have their, guys they Have Kawhi, leonard they Have James.
Harden they've seen The Viza zoobots And Norman powell grow
with bigger roles like. That you, know they have roster.
(25:55):
DEPTHS i lose a great, coach SO i want to
put it past them that they can win. Games elimination
game and they have the home, crowd they got the,
wall but all of a, sudden The nuggets have come
back to. Life And, DOUG i, KNOW i reminded, myself you,
know watching and covering THE nba that playoff series have
a life of its. Own anything can. Happen sometimes things
that happen in one game don't carry over to the next.
(26:17):
Game but given the fact that The nuggets have gone
through so much turbulence with The Michael Malone Calvin booth,
firing they had a lot of inconsistency With Jamal, murray
some injury, related some performance, related And Nikole jokich's triple
doubles weren't always enough because of an inconsistent supporting. CAST
i thought that this was the end of, it especially
(26:37):
after That game three blowout by The. Clippers But i've
been proven, wrong and so IF i had to guess
what's going to, HAPPEN i think The nuggets pooled, it
doubt just because they've been playing better basketball a lot
more than The clippers have this. Series but you know,
this this, Series games, one, two and four have come
down to very dramatic last moment, Plays so it's very
(27:00):
up in the, air AND i think it's a very
stark contrast with what we saw with The lakers And,
wolves or The wolves clearly looked like the better team
even if the games were.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Close, YEAH i got, it, YOU i got. You Doug
Mark medina joining us here On Fox Sports. Radio doug
having some technical, difficulties So, mark you AND i will
just take it the rest of the way. Here let's
bounce around a. Little you guys are talking About, Clippers, Nuggets,
Knicks pistons also A game two. Tonight it's been a
tough read BECAUSE i felt that The pistons could have
won the first couple of games of this, series they
(27:32):
blow opportunities In New. York then The knicks seemed to
stronghold the series with their wins In Detroit game six.
Tonight do The knicks have the chip on the, Shoulder
do The pistons have? Momentum how does it play out
in This Eastern conference? Series?
Speaker 6 (27:46):
YEAH i think flip a coin. HERE i think that
what we've seen With detroit And New york is that they're,
steiling is just advancing into the next. Round they've been,
inconsistent partly with The knicks as that outside Of Jalen
brunson And Karl Anthone, towns they don't have that kind
of continuity and depth that you need to beat a
team Like boston Or cleveland in The. EAST i think The,
(28:07):
pistons you, know outside Of Kate, cunningham you've seen the,
usual you, know patterns of a young team that just
got to the, playoffs where you, KNOW i don't want
to say that they feel. Overwhelmed they're very mature and
they're very, aggressive but they just don't have the tactical
kind of experience to adjust to a long playoff. Series
(28:27):
SO i would still give it to the next But
i've Also i've often thought in this series that they've
gotten in their own way a little, Bit so it'll
it'll be a slog, fest you, know sometimes, captivating sometimes,
ugly BUT i think it will be pretty close either.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
WAY i Think doug's back with us now here on
the Sports, yes sorry about, That.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Mark, Okay So, mark there's various stories you heard From
shams earlier. Today Rob polinka said in his press confidence earlier,
today and Again i'm not chasing The, twitter but there's
Other twitter questions about, this that there's going to be
a lot of movement in the. Offseason, yeah what are
(29:09):
they talk who? Specifically are the rumors of them going
to be?
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Moved, well, yeah as you alluded, To Rob polinka mentioned
about that he anticipates there's going to be a lot
of league. Movement and NOW i don't think that this
will pertain to The lakers necessarily BECAUSE i don't think
they're going to go big game hunting because they don't
have the necessary pieces to do. It BUT i, think you,
know there's an expectation That Kevin durant will be. AVAILABLE
(29:34):
i don't think The bucks will ever make you Honest
antakoupo available unless he directly asked, him anything can. HAPPEN
i don't think it, will BUT i think at least
twenty nine other teams are bracing for if that ever does,
happen to be prepared for, offers so that that's the.
Feeling and THEN i think generally we've just, seen even
(29:55):
with second aprin spending concern limitations last, year just a
very fluid. League so embrace another pretty busy the off
season with a lot of transactions that may or may not.
Happen BUT i think the biggest domino is going to
Be Kevin durant because the writing has spin on the
wall with The sun's early playoff exit that hasn't. WORKED
(30:18):
i Know Matt eshbie said what he said on the
record that they don't believe in, rebuilds BUT i think
eventually it's going to be inevitable That durant.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Still, Yeah And Brian gregory today is going to be
named the general manager of The Phoenix. Suns Brian, gregory
by the, way is AN izo Guy ishbia was a
walk on Under. Izo it's The Michigan state sort of.
Takeover totally makes sense to anybody who's following along at
Home mark great. Stuff oh by the, Way, mark you
(30:46):
say it's your, birthday it's not my birthday, too BUT
i think we can give you a little outro music as.
Well happy birthday to, You Mark medina dog appreciate.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
It just, There i'll take.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Them be sure to catch the live edition of The
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Speaker 1 (31:06):
Pacific Doug Gottlieb, Show Fox Sports. Radio do do? Do
you're listening to us, now but you know you can see.
Us that's Why dan could see somebody coming into my studio, like.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
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Speaker 1 (31:30):
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Speaker 3 (31:32):
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Speaker 8 (31:54):
Game this is game two on The Doug Gottlieb. Show all,
right all, Right, dan what you?
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Got, Okay, doug trying to get a feel of THE
nba in the. Playoffs that are going on topic about
the association. Today your FAVORITE nba, cities cities that are
home TO nba. Teams give us your FAVORITE nba, Cities,
doug you actually have the first, Pick sam your. SECOND
(32:31):
i will pick. Third jason has the swing picks as
we reverse the second. Round all, Right, doug what are the.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
What are the? Prerequisites what are the BEST aba cities
for WATCHING nba game? Vacationing what cities you'd like to?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Live like IF i were to say to, you And
i'll just take On, Austin texas because they don't have a,
Team Austin. Texas do you Like? Austin Love? Austin, right
that could be a. Candidate so that's basically like you
like the, City, OH i love to visit that, city loved.
To there's there's really no parameters on. This there's no best.
Dining it's just favorite and UH nba cities or cities
(33:12):
that are home to AN nba. Team So austin wouldn't. Work,
no it Is sacramento. Would but you can.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Also Visit austin when you go To San. Antonio it's
only like an hour and fifteen hour and.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
A half From San San antonio could be a. Pick.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Yeah, uh FAVORITE nba, cities well for, visiting Gimme.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
NewYork it's a good.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Pick gim Me.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
NewYork this all you know that city never. Sleeps, also
let's get out tired of. Looks So, sam if you're
thinking about Going, brooklyn they are. Not they are not
included in this Because doug Took New york with.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
The second overall. Pick i'm going to. Draft. Uh by
the way we're, PLAYING i feel a. Draft, yeah sorry about.
That that's.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
OKAY i think most people deciphered That i'm going to
take with the second, Pick, chicago Great, Sportstown Chicago. Bulls
maybe not their golden years right, now but Great sportstown, Overall,
Chicago chicago is a is a really good.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
City you know what CITY i really do Enjoy. Boston
i'm not A celtics fan at, all but, Yes i'm
going to Take boston at number. Three all, Right, jason
you've got back to Love.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Bush, YEAH i love.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Us you'll spent some time up there. Too so he's
going to camp up In maine.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
And maine this. Year you Know grace, went she went
first semester up to school In, Berkeley that's. Right so,
yeah so we've been bunch Time.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
Boston i'm going to choose my favorite city in the,
World San. Francisco, NOW i know a lot of our
listeners are, thinking, yeah but that's gone to hell SINCE. Covid,
yeah but it's still aesthetically the most beautiful city in
the world with the best. Climate you always have to
wear a. Sweatshirt AND i Love San. Francisco and Then
(35:02):
i'm gonna switch it up here And i'm gonna say
Not New orleans with my fifth.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Pick Not New.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
Orleans it's, uh it smells as bad as it's swampy and.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
Hot so you.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Didn't enjoy The Super bowl?
Speaker 3 (35:18):
There. Huh we walked To Bourbon street because that was One,
jason you wanted to walk, it, right just for? Once,
yep first time and you're your overall.
Speaker 10 (35:30):
Rating, yeah not for, me not for it's like the
world's biggest uh.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
What do you call?
Speaker 10 (35:38):
That?
Speaker 9 (35:38):
Amateur but you can you can go to, ah you
can eat jumble eye in a topless bar at the same,
Time so win.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Win, now there's CERTAIN nba cities THAT i HAVE i
have not been, to SO i take, yeah which. Ones
i've never been To. SACRAMENTO i have been A sacramento,
there And i've never been To.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Memphis i've been To.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Memphis all the other ONES i Think i've been able,
to uh to Mark off you like do you like pawn?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Chops not? Really do you like bail? Bonds?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
RIGHT I i've also never been To, toronto SO i
can't Take. TORONTO i Love, ATLANTA i love The, SOUTHEAST
i love the whole. Deal give Me, atlanta even if
there's pollen and. Humidity, YES i love the vibe Of. Atlanta,
sam you're up at number seven with the seventh.
Speaker 9 (36:26):
Pick i'm going to Draft minneapolis And Saint. Paul The twin, cities.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
Well you get one of.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Them.
Speaker 9 (36:33):
Minneapolis guess that the play In, Minneapolis so give Me.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Minneapolis just, kidding having some fun with, you all, Right,
doug your final pick and Not New orleans not.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Available there's Some Los, Angeles. California oh, INTERESTING i mean
From Orange. COUNTY i, mean, Yeah Los Angeles california's not Hard. La,
yes always, yes.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yes and THAT'S i feel a draft in game.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
TIME i feel a.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Draft this is game time On The Doug Gottlieb.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
SHOW i think there.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Are a lot of other right. ANSWERS i, mean you,
Know i'm not a Huge miami. Guy miami is great
for like five days or, so, awesome especially if you're A.
Snowburden charlotte underrated, City CHARLOTTE'S i Love, charlotte great, weather great,
food good. PEOPLE. Dc we didn't bring up they just
barely have AN nba team coming next To The Doug Gottlieb.
(37:39):
Show don't call it a. Throwback what year is? It
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