May 21, 2024 • 38 mins
In the first ever roll-out of "Hold On, Let's Ask The Coach", Doug is asked what the Pacers need to do to win their series with the Celtics. Doug compares his situation to JJ Redick's situation as Redick looks to be the favorite to be the Lakers' head coach. Doug welcomes FSR NBA Insider Mark Medina onto the show to talk about the Lakers, Nuggets and all of the major headlines around the NBA. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through a Tuesday edition of "The Press".
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Got a good hour for you, really, really do. I
want to talk about JJ Redick as head coach and
and obviously I think I'm keenly aware of some of
the similarities there, but there are some differences, some of
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things that make it easier for him to be in
then some of the things that are being harder for
in comparison to what I'm trying to do. But it's
definitely an interesting parallel to say the least. And then
you know what's really fascinating here. We have I know
Sam is, Jason definitely is and Dan byer is as well,
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we are, Like, it's kind of crazy how far into
baseball season we already are. We're what forty six games
or so forty nine games between forty six and forty
nine games into the baseball season, one hundred and sixty two.
So you're right there at the quarter pole, right, And
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the Yankees are good, the Phillies are good, The Dodgers
are good, right, The Brewers are good, the Guardians are good,
the Orioles are good, the Mariners are maybe a little
bit surprising. And other than that, like, can you really
tell me anything that's interesting in a sport which I
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think has been made far more interesting to watch because
we just picked up the pace and because of you know,
not having the shift or the true shift anymore, more
balls put into play, more speed. It's just it's a
better watch with more scoring. I can't really think of
one thing that I would say is worthy of a
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national sports radio discussion.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well, what you just pointed out, stolen bases are way
down and pace of play is up, so that that
thing that we saw last year that we love so
much is spike may be an aberration. Yeah, it's kind
of come back to the mean a little bit, and
those pitcher injuries early in the season and the Union
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making a big deal out of the pitchclock being a
reason for the pitcher injuries, which the league has said
there's no evidence that proves.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And you're right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
The storylines started with show hey, and then it became
show hey, maybe a gambler, And now it's just show
how Tawny doing kind of well on a team that
was expected to win. But there aren't a whole lot
of storylines in baseball. But I think Buyer has a
different opinion.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Well, yeah, I just I think that there there are
two really big stories that I would say, and it's
one actually that Jason and I talked about after the
show a little bit yesterday about the Houston Astros. Now
they're playing better baseball, but now is this was this
the bottom falling out? There are six games under five
hundred right now. You mentioned the Mariners, Rangers obviously coming
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off their World Series win, but you know, does does
Houston come back? Or is this who Houston is now?
Have they fallen off and now will no longer be
the eight team that we think they are? And then
the other thing is it is the Yankees Judge, Stanton
and Soto playing as well as they have, and the
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home run numbers that they have I think are something
of Now you want to talk about Bronx bombers. I
think that's something that could pick up steam throughout throughout
the season.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But we know, we know if you've followed along. And
I think I saw a tweet just the other day
Stanton and Judge they're gonna be the first tandem to
hit fifty home runs in the season. And it's like, no, no,
Stanton's gonna get hurt here, and it's gonna be sooner
than later, and Judge is gonna get hurt. Like I
don't think the Yankees thing is sustainable. I think they're
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a nice story in the middle of May. But check
back with me in four weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Okay. My point is that I look inside baseball. I
think those are good stories. I don't know if they
it's just interesting, like even show Hey performing well, lean
the Ligan batting everage, I don't know how much that
matters anymore, but it does matter when you're number one
and you had thirteen home runs already. But he doesn't
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really have a dynamic personality, and there's still the Dodgers.
It's still a great watch, but you know, it hasn't
kind of taken over. Maybe if he goes on some
sort of crazy run, maybe then we discuss it. But
I don't know. My point was, I'm struggling with every
day Jason and I talk, I'm like, what is something
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baseball that is interesting to people? And I struggle with it.
Even if the games themselves are interesting, it becomes very
much inside the beltway of each of those cities in
regards to their interest. This is the Doug Gotlib show
here on Fox Sports.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Is there one is? Can we like do a show
hey numbers analyzing of those numbers on when everyone believed
that it was his interpreter's fault as opposed to what
they were, when we thought maybe in those first couple
of weeks, can we break those numbers down at some
point I'm interested in that. See is he hitting now
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four sixty eight? Since it was stated that he they
found no evidence that he had that's on the.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Splits, that's on the split stand, And I think he did.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
He did.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
He was Look, he had two sixty nine in March.
In March twenty six at bats okay twenty six, we
had seven hits and then remember March is when April
kicked in. That's when he started to warm up. That's
when the intributer thing went away. Three fifty two and
he's hitting three ninety.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Wow, he loaded off his shoulders.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Now he has only one hit since it came out
that his best friend on the Angels is under investigation,
so he might be the burden might have picked up
last night. He only has one hit since that news
story came out.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's baseball.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I know, could we do a new could we do
a new bit on the show? I had our creators
go to work on this. You know, Veto works real
hard on the show and the network and Bob Schmidt.
They put in the work, and I want to make
sure that this doesn't go without acknowledging. Since Doug is
now the head coach of the Green Bay Phoenix, I
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think we could do this every once in a while,
probably on a day to day basis. There's going to
be a question, a burning sports question that only a
coach could answer. Oh, I like this, so I put
together this intro.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
There's a question that needs an answer, and the answer is,
if only there was someone with the authority and the
wisdom to give us that answer.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
No, I'm the head coach.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I get to set the schedule.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Hold on, let's ask the coach.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I did love that question from Dan, like what if
you're practicing in the afternoon? Like, who do you think
that's the practice times? But anyway, all right, so we're
doing ask.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
The coach, what do you think of the intro? I
liked it good, Yeah, I liked it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
How can you not like it?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I specifically like this one part that I had Sam
set aside.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I'm looking at Veto through the glass right now and
he's taking a bow.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Hold on, let's ask the coach.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
See, there's a basketball whistle in there, you know the
small things you.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Want to know, small things that I know. The whistle
that they use in basketball, the most high level. It
is called the Fox forty and it was developed by
two different officials. Their names are intertwined in there. And
it's got this little kind of side sort of rib,
and it allows you to blow that whistle shorter and tighter.
That's how much of the small details I know.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, that's an old school whistle. That's not a new
school whistle.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah, it's that's old school sound. Effect there.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
So I figure the way we can kick off this
bit is to Since you know so much about each
of these teams, I would love to know, like you
don't have to handicap the series. I hate prediction radio,
but I would like you to tell us, like, if
the Pacers are going to win four out of seven games,
how how are they going to be able to do it?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Like?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
What do they need to do? You know against this
like you said prohibitive favorite Celtics team.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, I mean, look, here's where the matchup isn't good.
Okay is what do you think Jason? Like that when
you say when I say the Pacers, right, what's the
strength of that team?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Let's see athleticism. Scoring, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yes, scoring, Scoring's fine. I mean they're leading the playoffs
in scoring. They like to play with a great with
great tempo. They led the NBA in scoring this year
at one hundred and twenty three game. Do you know
who is second in scoring in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I'm guessing in Boston.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That would be Boston. So the idea is they want
to play fast, they want to play free and wide open,
and the Celtics are like, yeah, we do two, we
do two. I mean, like, look, I think that obviously
Tyre's Haliburton has to play well, and it'll be interesting
because the big move that was made this offseason for
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the Boston Celtics was trading away Marcus Smart, right, and
Marcus mart can be a lot of things, but he's
a tenacious, tenacious on ball defender, tenacious on ball defender.
So I mean, I think the first thing is, obviously,
you know, what do they have to do well? And
it's it's lame to say, It's totally lame to say,
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but it's it's not lame to point out that this
is a different Celtics team when you're starting Derek White
at the point guard spot and then you have Jalen Brown,
who's a good defender. I mean, what do you have
to do well. Let's see if Prizingis plays, the Brezingis
doesn't play. I do think you can expose Al Horford
and you know if they when they go to Luke Cornett,
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I mean he can't really move. He's just a pick
and pop shooter. And and the other part is, you know,
Drew Holiday has not had Drew Haliday's reputation when early
in his career we were like late to catch up
to just how good a player he is. He has
not had a great season this season. Now it's been
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pretty good in the playoffs, but it's not had a
great season this season. So I mean, I think the
first thing is, you know, how is Drew Holiday defensively
against Tyrese Halburton as opposed to how Marcus Smart would
have been. And then it's continue to push the tempo
and try and get to the celticspense, especially if the
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Celtics are playing without Christoshperzingis. I don't know, I have
we found out yet dan If Perzingis is going to play.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
He's out the beginning of this series. They ruled him
out yesterday for one.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
So Sophie's out for the early part of the series.
Even if he does play in the series, it's going
to be spot minutes. And so I think, you know
that you want to try and attack Al Horford, and
you know, when Al Horford's in the game offensively, you
got to make him dribble the basketball because now at
this point in his career, all he really wants to
do is catch and shoot threes. And then yeah, I
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think continue to push that temple and use your youth
as as your strength.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Hold on, let's ask the coach.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I thought that whistle really makes it, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I think it does.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Hold on, let's ask the coach.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, but isn't if hold on, we blow a whistle
because we asked the coach. I guess this is practice.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
We bolth the wishs.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Just play along.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I'm just playing along. I'm just trying to you know,
maybe I'm getting too literal.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
You getting too technical with it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I am getting too technical with it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You're saying, all whistle should proceed.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Hold on, Well, no, just a whistle is more if
there's a I guess that whistle in practices. But asking
the coach, you know, usually you'd blow the whistle, you'd ask.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
You'd go for a replay.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Just Scott mountro, I'm being I'm being annoying. I got it.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
You know me too much.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
No, I'm just being too literal with things. That's That's
really what it kind of comes down to.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
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Speaker 2 (13:06):
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feel like we're getting closer and closer to the possibility
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You know, it's interesting at at at our level at
Green Bay and right now, you know, what I've what
I've chosen to do is to be methodical with hiring
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assistant coaches. Starting tomorrow, we have what's called a dead period,
so you can't go out and face to face and
contact UH student athletes. There can still be contact, but
it definitely changes the pace of things and the veracity
of things, and so it'll allow us to kind of
dial back and outside of doing the show, we're going
to kind of lock it in, you know, lock ourselves
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in a room, get a bunch of food, and work
through all of the different little things that we want,
including you know who else I want to bring a
board for this job. So there is a lot to it.
But again, the difference at my level as opposed to
like JJ Reddick NBA is you literally can hire whoever
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you want. In the NBA, you can have as many
assistance as you want. Now you only have three people
on the front of the bench, and those are the
three people who can really help you during the game.
But you can in terms of hey, if I don't
know s, you can hire people. And I'm a big
proponent of that. Hire people who know what you don't
know and then let them do their job. I think
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the issue he'll run into is who are those people
going to hire? And is he hiring them or is
Rob Polinka hiring them? Is hiring somebody to work with
at least in this especially when you're JJ and I
guess to a much lesser extent me, but the number
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one component, the number one attribute you have to have
is you got to be loyal. And loyalty is in
there's a bunch of different ways to it, right, loyal
to the cause, loyal to the guy. You just there's
going to be people who take shots at JJ Ruddick
and you have to be willing to take those bullets,
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and you can't you know, you can't question the man
either because when you do.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
If you know.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Obviously you can in his office, but not in front
of anybody else, not out in public, because then it's like, wow,
this guy knows maybe he's not so loyalty is big?
Can he do it? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I think he do it.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I you know it's but now again I don't know.
JJ also is usually it's the point guards that can
do it, because when you play point guard, when you
play in the NBA, you've been processing all this stuff anyway.
But yeah, he can, of course he can do it.
Of course he can't. Does he need to help with
practice plan on shores? He need help with rotations? Absolutely,
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But he's played for a bunch of different coaches. He's
done it forever. Like I do think on some levels
we overrate, overrate the experience factor from you have to
have experience as a coach. You play a decade in
the NBA, you've seen everything everything.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yes, Jason Zert, could you explain to me why this
is different than Steve Nash or Derek Fisher or what. Oh,
there's there's been in other words that has been done.
Is it like your situation is for one off, JJ?
There has been other people, right.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yes, Steve Kerr pat Riley did. He was a little
bit of assistant coach, but basically he was a broadcaster
for the Lakers. Yeah, there's been plenty. Doc Rivers had
never coached before before he got the Orlando job, right,
Doc Rivers retired and went into TV, and then he
got the Orlando job.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
So mixed results because Nash was a disaster. Derek Fisher was,
but I mean, uh, Doc Rivers is a good example.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Was Nash the coach when they lost to the Bucks
or was that jock? Was that Jock when they lost
to the Bucks in the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Yeah, I think it was. I think Nash was the coach.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Right, So Nash became a disaster. But remember like a
good portion of it was that when he got the job,
Kybrie Irvings said do we really need a coach? And
they also had you know, they they traded for James
Harden and James Harden was had a bad hamstring. And
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if if Kevin Durant does hit the shot with his
foot his foots down on the line to win the game,
it gives you three instead of two, and they win
that game and Kyrie plays What does that NBA Finals
look like? What does it look like his foot was literally,
you know, toe was barely on the line. They go
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to the NBA Finals and I don't know if he's
still the coach. I remember then there's COVID. There was
the COVID part of it as well, where you know
Kyrie Irving wasn't in the league, didn't want to play
forget about the bubble, and that was where he got
it hurt. He didn't want to play. So I think
there's there's a lot too ones that haven't worked. But yes,
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it is a kind of a big spack. And then
Scottie Scheffler's doing the little review thing right stuck gotlip show.
You're on Fox Sports Radio, Mark Medeena joints Is he's
our Fox Sports Radio NBA insider? Yeah, mm hmm, all right, Mark,
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let's start close to home, JJ Reddick, how close is
this deal making?
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Coach? Good to talk to you. I'm sorry I missed
the first part of the question here.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
What's what's the where are you with JJ Redick and
the Lakers?
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Oh? Yeah, he's he's the favorite. You know, we we
discussed that part, but as far as like how close
is going to be toward hiring him? They're still in
the middle of the process. If I had to predict,
I think that everything's going to be finalized like once
the NBA Finals are over. I think that's that nice
little window between NBA Finals and NBA Draft, and then
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you know they'll go in that order as far as
what they do on Draft night, trades and who they select,
including Brownie James, and go from there. But in fairness,
even though he is the heavy favorite, people around the
league expect JJ Reddick to get the NOD. I think
the Lakers are trying to make sure that they cross
the t's dot the eyes to make sure that he's
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the right candidate because he's never been a head coach before.
But they are very enamored with depositive attributes that he
brings of you know, formerby player, bright basketball mind, and
you know that podcast partnership with Lebron, Right.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt about it. Okay, so
Lebron's like a hands off on this thing, but you're
always trying to curry favorite with Lebron. Any chance that
he he gives a look to anybody else in free agency, I.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Don't think he's going to come back. That's the predominant expectation.
The Lakers haven't gotten any signal whatsoever that he's wavering
on that. I think it's now a matter of you
know what sort of deal is he looking for. But
the thing that's interesting about Lebron about not having involvement
with the coaching search, they're always as it is with Lebron.
There's a lot of contradictions in gray area, I think
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dating back to the Russell Westbrook deal. The message that
I've gotten, not just with this coaching search but in general,
is that Lebron has his opinions on what he wants
the front office to do. But as a way to
shed the whole narrative about it, he's legim and he
gets overly involved. He has said that he hasn't given
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direct feedback as far as what to do, what not
to do, so that he doesn't get blame if it
doesn't pan out. But this is Rob Polinka's own words.
He has always said that Anthony Davis and Lebron James
are stakeholders. You know, they're captains. They run things by him.
But again, ever since the Russell Westbrook trade, the Lakers
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messaging have been, you know what, any decisions we make
or don't make. We're the ones making the decisions. So
a lot of this is I think the messaging efforts
from both parties here for political reasons.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So got leave show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
let's let's go to Denver. Nuggets are champions. Then they're not.
They're beaten three times at home by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
What do you think they change edited next year?
Speaker 7 (22:04):
Yeah, it's a very interesting question, Doug, because I listened
to you and Jase talking about was this a collapse
was it not? I think we can have it both
ways here. I give most credit to Minnesota. They're playing
really well, they have good talent, but the fact that
they coughed up a twenty point lead show that it
was more than that. Yeah, the championship fatigue, et cetera.
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The bench part was a thing. But I think dating
back to you know, talking to Calvin Booth before the
season started, they concluded that it wasn't just luxury tax concerns.
They just felt, you know what, they still had their
main core and they're in their prime. But clearly that
wasn't enough. They need more help than just relying, not
even just on Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray, but even
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their other complimentary players with Michael Porter Junior and Aaron Gordon.
So I do I would expect they make changes around
the margins. But I think the tricky hard is they
don't really have cap flexibility, so it would have to
involve the trade, and you don't want to eat into
that core identity that got you there in the first place.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Stug Gotlieb show here on Fox Sports Radio. Mark Medina
is our guest, the funky cool Medina. Okay, now we
get ready for the Western Conference Finals. You know there's
not this obviously it's Luca versus what we feel like
is ensemble cast. But I mean it's Anthony Edwards and
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Luca Anthony Edwards trying to you know, climb that ladder
in terms of the the NBA hierarchy. What are your
thoughts on this matchup?
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Yeah, I think he made a really good point Dog
the other day that you know, it's not the same
kind of branding draw that the Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota
Sumbrules have as we think of other franchises like the
Lakers Warriors. But I think what is appealing with this
matchup is one I think it can go six to
seven games, so that's good too. I think that the
players can resonate because every player has their own redemption story.
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You look at Luka Dodgic, like we've seen that he's
been a brilliant player, MVP caliber player for a reason,
but the m on him was, well, he doesn't have
enough help and he's doing everything on his own. Here,
they have a completely different team. Kyrie Irvin. You know,
he's had his rehabilitation tour after not having good stops.
You know that edit on bad notes at Brooklyn, in
Boston and Cleveland, and I think, you know, some of
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those were very unique circumstances. But I think the thing
that applies to Dallas here is the fits really well.
He and Luca get along really well, X's and O's.
It's great, and he's a lot healthier than he has
been in a recent season. And then I think with Minnesota,
to your point, Anthony Edwards is that young star that
I think can have the most impact besides Victor Webbin
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Yama that can resonate with the next generation of fans.
But they're also a likable team. Like Carl Anthony Towns
has been very willing to be like the one, A,
one D or even number two. Like I was talking
to his trainer last week, Matt Mazari, and he was saying,
like when he was out last season with his injury,
with his strain right calf, like he was saying, Hey,
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it's a blessing in the skies here because as much
as I want to play, I'm competitor. This is going
to allow Anthony Edwards becoming a brighter star and I'm
okay with that. And so I think those things are
intriguing in the fact that Minnesota used to be a
hot mess for a while and now they're actually a
respectable team. So yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Prazingis not going to play early. Does he play in
this series at all?
Speaker 7 (25:26):
They've left the window open, but you never know. I mean,
here's the thing we know, Christos Porzingi's injury history. Right
calf injuries are no joke. I think the encouraging sign
here is that it's not like he hasn't been doing anything.
He had on court work, but he hasn't had full
contact five on five, so he's ruled out one and two.
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He hasn't been ruled out entirely in the series, but
he's going to have to get five on five at
some point before they play. And I know it's the
playoffs and you know when you're available, but these kind
of injuries are very said. I mean, Kevin Durant had
this injury in twenty nineteen and then when he came back,
he injured his achilles. So I don't want to say
it's not definitive he comes back, but there's a lot
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of checks as he's got to to reach before that,
and given KP's injury history again, even though he's shown
improvement in that in Washington and Boston, it's still a
delicate though.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Mark Benina joining us here on the Doug Gottlieb Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, what happens in the offseason with.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
The Knicks, good question. I think that they look to
see what they can package with Julis randallin picks, and
it's not because they have to do it. I think
that they can improve there, mainly from a health standpoint
an availability standpoint. But I really like what they've shown
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here this season. I don't think this is a fluke
one off. Jalen Brunson is going to continue to become
an even greater player each season than he plays. He's
shown that he's a leader, and I really like the
identity of this team. That they're available and even when
they're hurt, you know, they make the best of what
they have. So I don't think that they're going to
blow things up or make dramatic changes, but I think
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that they'll at least entertain the possibilities to see what's
available that includes a package for Julius and Picks. But
if they don't get the right deal, I think that
they would be relatively satisfied with just trying to, you know,
get a better clean the health next season and build
from that.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah, no, it would, It would make sense. The question
is that, you know, can you add one more piece?
Randa is the guy that obviously fans and I think
maybe some executives can run hot and hot and cold
on what does Cleveland do well?
Speaker 7 (27:49):
That's another tricky thing. I think that everything is up
in the air. You know, they obviously want Donovan Mitchell back.
I think he's going to come back because he's eligible
for that extent, but there's no guarantees with that, and
if he doesn't agree to that extension, you have to
assume the writings on the wall that he would leave
the next summer, and they don't want to walk away
with nothing. But I think he will agree to the extension.
(28:11):
I think the most likely scenarios is that you know,
even though JB. Bickerstaff, there's more than you know his
issues as a coach. I think he's been mostly fine.
It was more of a fact that the Ross itself
had a lot of injuries. I think that that's the
low hanging fruit because that's what happens in the NBA.
And then they'll see what they can get with Darius
Garland in a trade. But I'm of the mind I'm
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not someone that usually just leans back on injuries as
a fallback. But I think in this case, this court
didn't have a lot of time together and so any
idea that you know Mitchell and Garland weren't a fit, well,
they didn't play a lot. And I think the same
thing applies with Evan Mobile and Jared Allen. So I
think there's no arm in doing that. But I just
don't think it's going to happen because that's just how
the landscape's been working.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Mark, you're the best man. Listen enjoy the games. We
got to get you out. I mean you want to
come and come a cover of Bucks game, We'll send
a car for you. You come up to the bay, we'll
hang out.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
I want take you up on that offer, coach, I
can call you that from allan.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Right, Well, come whatever you want, man, just don't call
me late for dinner. But the funky cold Mark Medina
R Fox Sports Radio NBA insidert, you got to be
impressed with the fact that I got the breath things right.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Very impressed.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
So cool at a bar looking for a little action anyway,
I will see this.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Doug Mark said that he was listening to the show
yesterday and he heard us debate whether it was a
choke job by the Nuggets, and he says, I think
you can. You could have it both ways. And what
he doesn't understand about talk radio there is no both ways.
There's a right and wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
You are so right and sometimes coming up next to
the Doug Gotleep Show Live from the Tirat dot Com Studios,
it's just a matter of time before nil takes a
wild turn in college football. Apparently that time is now.
That's next.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
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Right after we get off the air, Let's get to
the press. The press, Dan Byer, what's the uh? What's
(31:04):
in the press?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
S Doug, it's the middle of May. Maybe we're actually
on the back end of May right now. I'll have
to ask our time expert Jason Stewart about that. But
it is May, and you wouldn't think that college football
would be the first story on our minds.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
But is it May already?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
But time flies, ma'am for three weeks into May.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
But I'll tell you Georgia quarterback Jade Reshada has made
college football our lead story here on the Press, as
he is suing Florida head football coach Billy Napier, plus
a school booster and other members of the staff over
an alleged failed fourteen million dollar nil deal. It's thirteen
(31:43):
point eight five million dollars, but as part of the
lawsuit where shot of claims that he originally committed to
Florida and in fact turned down a nine and a
half million dollar offer to sign with the Miami Hurricanes,
but Florida then never came through on their nil promises,
including a one million million dollar payment when he signed
his national letter of intent. Or Shota ended up decommitting
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from Florida, playing in Arizona State, and is now at Georgia.
Rashata did tell Kirby Smart, the Bulldog's head coach, about
the lawsuit. Smart gave his blessing to file the lawsuit.
According to CBS Sports.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Okay, so he was told he would make how.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Much thirteen point eight five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Over the life of his career? Yes, okay, and he's
supposed to get a million dollars up front, correct, and
when he signed he never got anything, so then he decommitted. Yes, okay,
I don't know enough enough about the legalities of it.
Sounds highly illegal right to have a signing bonus, but
also sounds like something that does in fact happen. And
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the question becomes, you know what's actually in paper, what
actually is on the contract, and what Florida can get
out of and oh yeah, by the way, you know
there can be lots of loopholes and stuff. I can
only tell you that I have not. I've I've had
conversations with at least ten recruits, and not one of
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them any grant we're at a lower level. I'm not
trying to say we're in the sec football. None of
them have brought up an il. Now there's the agents
will have brought it up for other players, but not
one player has brought it up.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
N I l in this situation stands for now into litigation.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Really nice?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Ja, We don't even have a there it is. I
we get the drum roll from Sam. Sam doesn't like
he likes my humor. He doesn't just laugh at it
like a true laugh, Doug. What he does is he
couches it with like a fake audience laugh or like
you heard the little uh you know the drum there.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Is.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
It takes a little bit, a little bit off of
my joke. So don't you think, like.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
To quote Jay Moore back in the day, feel free
to laugh. I'm doing material here, feel free to laugh
on the air. But it brings up a good question.
What do we think about the drum roll as a
as a radio drop.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
I have used it on multiple occasions.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Not the drum roll, whatever, whatever you play. What do
we think of the rim shot?
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Is what I mean. I think it lessens anybody's joke.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Yes, it makes the joke more cheap to do a
rim shot. It's lazy and unimaginative.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Would you rather have a laugh?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Hold on? Hold on? I actually I agree and I
disagree Jason. And here's why I agree that it's cheesy.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
I think that's fun.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
No, I think that's when you use the rim shot
when you when you have a dad joke.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Yes, that's what I did it verbal heyo in the studio.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
That makes sense if you do it when it's a
real joke and then you do the rim shot. Yes,
and cheatin's the joke. But the joke is cheesy and
it's like wah, wah right, you can also do the
also do the rim shot.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
It also she bens the joke, but it's also Sam's
way of getting in on the funny. Like I'm gonna
lessen your joke, but because I played this rim shot,
that's gonna be funny, and so then people will be like, Iowa,
Sam did it again? But didn't you think?
Speaker 8 (35:27):
You were like, where's my rim shot? And I played
it a little late, and then so it's like you're
expecting it. So you can't have it both ways. Well, man,
you cannot. This is sports talk radio. I am not
having it both ways. I just knew that you would
try to lessen such a good joke.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
That's all that I knew was gonna happen with a
fake audience laugh or a fake chock.
Speaker 8 (35:45):
I am old school. I did not play the laugh track.
I went the rim shot. It's like old Johnny Carson
Tonight's show.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Come on.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
The keyword is old and over you, and I'm younger
than all you guys. It's a difference in generation or something.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
I hope do you want to do your Johnny? Was
he Johnny Carson line, Jason, what are you gonna?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
No?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
I don't get Johnny.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Carson on all right, moving on, Hopefully Justin Fields and
Russell Wilson don't fight like this, because Justin Fields talked
today about what he expects in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I mean, I definitely don't have the mindset of you know,
me just you know, sitting all year, so you know,
I'm coming in every day giving it all I got
and you know, pushing them to be his best, and he's,
you know, pushing me to be my best each.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
And every day.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Doug Fields also gave credit to Ryan Poles the Bears
GM for trading him to a place that he wanted
to be, and that would be Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
That was very nice of him. Sometimes things have work
out well for a reason, right they do. I mean some,
not all, not all trades have to end in bitter negativity.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
That makes sense. Game seven of the Timberwolves Nuggets series
averaged eight point four million viewers on TNT. That's the
most on the network for a first or second round
game in the network's history, fourth biggest for all networks,
by the way. Operatings though down overall ten percent from
a year ago. Awful announcing track down some of those numbers.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Well I mean they had to be down when you
when you eliminate these names that we've come to, frankly
expect to be in the playoffs every year. You know,
no Staff, no KD, no Lebron James, Like, you know,
the Celtics are good. But I mean, do you do
people tune in to see Jason Tatum? I don't think so. No,
(37:27):
I just don't.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
And I would also say this that a quarter of
the bracket the Boston Heat, Calves magic and then moving
on to the semis of Celtics Calves, no buzz whatsoever. Uh.
Boston and Cleveland I think were the only people who
paid attention to it. So there's why you would also
see a drop. So a quarter of your bracket was
(37:48):
kind of incognito throughout the playoffs. And that is the press.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
Get out there and pressed.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
That was the press rubbing.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Salt saltan the wound. Yeah, no, I think like I
think it's cheesy. I think it's intentionally cheesy. And if
you like Cheetos, you know it ain't easy being cheesy.
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Got a good hour for you, really, really do. I
want to talk about JJ Redick as head coach and
and obviously I think I'm keenly aware of some of
the similarities there, but there are some differences, some of
(01:03):
things that make it easier for him to be in
then some of the things that are being harder for
in comparison to what I'm trying to do. But it's
definitely an interesting parallel to say the least. And then
you know what's really fascinating here. We have I know
Sam is, Jason definitely is and Dan byer is as well,
(01:29):
we are, Like, it's kind of crazy how far into
baseball season we already are. We're what forty six games
or so forty nine games between forty six and forty
nine games into the baseball season, one hundred and sixty two.
So you're right there at the quarter pole, right, And
(01:50):
the Yankees are good, the Phillies are good, The Dodgers
are good, right, The Brewers are good, the Guardians are good,
the Orioles are good, the Mariners are maybe a little
bit surprising. And other than that, like, can you really
tell me anything that's interesting in a sport which I
(02:13):
think has been made far more interesting to watch because
we just picked up the pace and because of you know,
not having the shift or the true shift anymore, more
balls put into play, more speed. It's just it's a
better watch with more scoring. I can't really think of
one thing that I would say is worthy of a
(02:35):
national sports radio discussion.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well, what you just pointed out, stolen bases are way
down and pace of play is up, so that that
thing that we saw last year that we love so
much is spike may be an aberration. Yeah, it's kind
of come back to the mean a little bit, and
those pitcher injuries early in the season and the Union
(02:57):
making a big deal out of the pitchclock being a
reason for the pitcher injuries, which the league has said
there's no evidence that proves.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And you're right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
The storylines started with show hey, and then it became
show hey, maybe a gambler, And now it's just show
how Tawny doing kind of well on a team that
was expected to win. But there aren't a whole lot
of storylines in baseball. But I think Buyer has a
different opinion.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Well, yeah, I just I think that there there are
two really big stories that I would say, and it's
one actually that Jason and I talked about after the
show a little bit yesterday about the Houston Astros. Now
they're playing better baseball, but now is this was this
the bottom falling out? There are six games under five
hundred right now. You mentioned the Mariners, Rangers obviously coming
(03:48):
off their World Series win, but you know, does does
Houston come back? Or is this who Houston is now?
Have they fallen off and now will no longer be
the eight team that we think they are? And then
the other thing is it is the Yankees Judge, Stanton
and Soto playing as well as they have, and the
(04:12):
home run numbers that they have I think are something
of Now you want to talk about Bronx bombers. I
think that's something that could pick up steam throughout throughout
the season.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
But we know, we know if you've followed along. And
I think I saw a tweet just the other day
Stanton and Judge they're gonna be the first tandem to
hit fifty home runs in the season. And it's like, no, no,
Stanton's gonna get hurt here, and it's gonna be sooner
than later, and Judge is gonna get hurt. Like I
don't think the Yankees thing is sustainable. I think they're
(04:41):
a nice story in the middle of May. But check
back with me in four weeks.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Okay. My point is that I look inside baseball. I
think those are good stories. I don't know if they
it's just interesting, like even show Hey performing well, lean
the Ligan batting everage, I don't know how much that
matters anymore, but it does matter when you're number one
and you had thirteen home runs already. But he doesn't
(05:09):
really have a dynamic personality, and there's still the Dodgers.
It's still a great watch, but you know, it hasn't
kind of taken over. Maybe if he goes on some
sort of crazy run, maybe then we discuss it. But
I don't know. My point was, I'm struggling with every
day Jason and I talk, I'm like, what is something
(05:29):
baseball that is interesting to people? And I struggle with it.
Even if the games themselves are interesting, it becomes very
much inside the beltway of each of those cities in
regards to their interest. This is the Doug Gotlib show
here on Fox Sports.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Is there one is? Can we like do a show
hey numbers analyzing of those numbers on when everyone believed
that it was his interpreter's fault as opposed to what
they were, when we thought maybe in those first couple
of weeks, can we break those numbers down at some
point I'm interested in that. See is he hitting now
(06:09):
four sixty eight? Since it was stated that he they
found no evidence that he had that's on the.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Splits, that's on the split stand, And I think he did.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
He did.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
He was Look, he had two sixty nine in March.
In March twenty six at bats okay twenty six, we
had seven hits and then remember March is when April
kicked in. That's when he started to warm up. That's
when the intributer thing went away. Three fifty two and
he's hitting three ninety.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Wow, he loaded off his shoulders.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Now he has only one hit since it came out
that his best friend on the Angels is under investigation,
so he might be the burden might have picked up
last night. He only has one hit since that news
story came out.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That's baseball.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I know, could we do a new could we do
a new bit on the show? I had our creators
go to work on this. You know, Veto works real
hard on the show and the network and Bob Schmidt.
They put in the work, and I want to make
sure that this doesn't go without acknowledging. Since Doug is
now the head coach of the Green Bay Phoenix, I
(07:19):
think we could do this every once in a while,
probably on a day to day basis. There's going to
be a question, a burning sports question that only a
coach could answer. Oh, I like this, so I put
together this intro.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
There's a question that needs an answer, and the answer is,
if only there was someone with the authority and the
wisdom to give us that answer.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
No, I'm the head coach.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I get to set the schedule.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Hold on, let's ask the coach.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I did love that question from Dan, like what if
you're practicing in the afternoon? Like, who do you think
that's the practice times? But anyway, all right, so we're
doing ask.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
The coach, what do you think of the intro? I
liked it good, Yeah, I liked it.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
How can you not like it?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I specifically like this one part that I had Sam
set aside.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I'm looking at Veto through the glass right now and
he's taking a bow.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Hold on, let's ask the coach.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
See, there's a basketball whistle in there, you know the
small things you.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Want to know, small things that I know. The whistle
that they use in basketball, the most high level. It
is called the Fox forty and it was developed by
two different officials. Their names are intertwined in there. And
it's got this little kind of side sort of rib,
and it allows you to blow that whistle shorter and tighter.
That's how much of the small details I know.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, that's an old school whistle. That's not a new
school whistle.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah, it's that's old school sound. Effect there.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
So I figure the way we can kick off this
bit is to Since you know so much about each
of these teams, I would love to know, like you
don't have to handicap the series. I hate prediction radio,
but I would like you to tell us, like, if
the Pacers are going to win four out of seven games,
how how are they going to be able to do it?
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Like?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
What do they need to do? You know against this
like you said prohibitive favorite Celtics team.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Well, I mean, look, here's where the matchup isn't good.
Okay is what do you think Jason? Like that when
you say when I say the Pacers, right, what's the
strength of that team?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Let's see athleticism. Scoring, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yes, scoring, Scoring's fine. I mean they're leading the playoffs
in scoring. They like to play with a great with
great tempo. They led the NBA in scoring this year
at one hundred and twenty three game. Do you know
who is second in scoring in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I'm guessing in Boston.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
That would be Boston. So the idea is they want
to play fast, they want to play free and wide open,
and the Celtics are like, yeah, we do two, we
do two. I mean, like, look, I think that obviously
Tyre's Haliburton has to play well, and it'll be interesting
because the big move that was made this offseason for
(10:08):
the Boston Celtics was trading away Marcus Smart, right, and
Marcus mart can be a lot of things, but he's
a tenacious, tenacious on ball defender, tenacious on ball defender.
So I mean, I think the first thing is, obviously,
you know, what do they have to do well? And
it's it's lame to say, It's totally lame to say,
(10:29):
but it's it's not lame to point out that this
is a different Celtics team when you're starting Derek White
at the point guard spot and then you have Jalen Brown,
who's a good defender. I mean, what do you have
to do well. Let's see if Prizingis plays, the Brezingis
doesn't play. I do think you can expose Al Horford
and you know if they when they go to Luke Cornett,
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I mean he can't really move. He's just a pick
and pop shooter. And and the other part is, you know,
Drew Holiday has not had Drew Haliday's reputation when early
in his career we were like late to catch up
to just how good a player he is. He has
not had a great season this season. Now it's been
(11:11):
pretty good in the playoffs, but it's not had a
great season this season. So I mean, I think the
first thing is, you know, how is Drew Holiday defensively
against Tyrese Halburton as opposed to how Marcus Smart would
have been. And then it's continue to push the tempo
and try and get to the celticspense, especially if the
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Celtics are playing without Christoshperzingis. I don't know, I have
we found out yet dan If Perzingis is going to play.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
He's out the beginning of this series. They ruled him
out yesterday for one.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
So Sophie's out for the early part of the series.
Even if he does play in the series, it's going
to be spot minutes. And so I think, you know
that you want to try and attack Al Horford, and
you know, when Al Horford's in the game offensively, you
got to make him dribble the basketball because now at
this point in his career, all he really wants to
do is catch and shoot threes. And then yeah, I
(12:05):
think continue to push that temple and use your youth
as as your strength.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Hold on, let's ask the coach.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I thought that whistle really makes it, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
I think it does.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
Hold on, let's ask the coach.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, but isn't if hold on, we blow a whistle
because we asked the coach. I guess this is practice.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
We bolth the wishs.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Just play along.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I'm just playing along. I'm just trying to you know,
maybe I'm getting too literal.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
You getting too technical with it.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I am getting too technical with it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
You're saying, all whistle should proceed.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Hold on, Well, no, just a whistle is more if
there's a I guess that whistle in practices. But asking
the coach, you know, usually you'd blow the whistle, you'd ask.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
You'd go for a replay.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Just Scott mountro, I'm being I'm being annoying. I got it.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
You know me too much.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
No, I'm just being too literal with things. That's That's
really what it kind of comes down to.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
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Live Doug olib Show. Fox Sports Radio so it does
feel like we're getting closer and closer to the possibility
of JJ Redick being the head coach of the LA Lakers.
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You know, it's interesting at at at our level at
Green Bay and right now, you know, what I've what
I've chosen to do is to be methodical with hiring
(13:49):
assistant coaches. Starting tomorrow, we have what's called a dead period,
so you can't go out and face to face and
contact UH student athletes. There can still be contact, but
it definitely changes the pace of things and the veracity
of things, and so it'll allow us to kind of
dial back and outside of doing the show, we're going
to kind of lock it in, you know, lock ourselves
(14:11):
in a room, get a bunch of food, and work
through all of the different little things that we want,
including you know who else I want to bring a
board for this job. So there is a lot to it.
But again, the difference at my level as opposed to
like JJ Reddick NBA is you literally can hire whoever
(14:31):
you want. In the NBA, you can have as many
assistance as you want. Now you only have three people
on the front of the bench, and those are the
three people who can really help you during the game.
But you can in terms of hey, if I don't
know s, you can hire people. And I'm a big
proponent of that. Hire people who know what you don't
know and then let them do their job. I think
(14:51):
the issue he'll run into is who are those people
going to hire? And is he hiring them or is
Rob Polinka hiring them? Is hiring somebody to work with
at least in this especially when you're JJ and I
guess to a much lesser extent me, but the number
(15:12):
one component, the number one attribute you have to have
is you got to be loyal. And loyalty is in
there's a bunch of different ways to it, right, loyal
to the cause, loyal to the guy. You just there's
going to be people who take shots at JJ Ruddick
and you have to be willing to take those bullets,
(15:33):
and you can't you know, you can't question the man
either because when you do.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
If you know.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Obviously you can in his office, but not in front
of anybody else, not out in public, because then it's like, wow,
this guy knows maybe he's not so loyalty is big?
Can he do it? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I think he do it.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I you know it's but now again I don't know.
JJ also is usually it's the point guards that can
do it, because when you play point guard, when you
play in the NBA, you've been processing all this stuff anyway.
But yeah, he can, of course he can do it.
Of course he can't. Does he need to help with
practice plan on shores? He need help with rotations? Absolutely,
(16:16):
But he's played for a bunch of different coaches. He's
done it forever. Like I do think on some levels
we overrate, overrate the experience factor from you have to
have experience as a coach. You play a decade in
the NBA, you've seen everything everything.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Yes, Jason Zert, could you explain to me why this
is different than Steve Nash or Derek Fisher or what. Oh,
there's there's been in other words that has been done.
Is it like your situation is for one off, JJ?
There has been other people, right.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yes, Steve Kerr pat Riley did. He was a little
bit of assistant coach, but basically he was a broadcaster
for the Lakers. Yeah, there's been plenty. Doc Rivers had
never coached before before he got the Orlando job, right,
Doc Rivers retired and went into TV, and then he
got the Orlando job.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
So mixed results because Nash was a disaster. Derek Fisher was,
but I mean, uh, Doc Rivers is a good example.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Was Nash the coach when they lost to the Bucks
or was that jock? Was that Jock when they lost
to the Bucks in the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Yeah, I think it was. I think Nash was the coach.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Right, So Nash became a disaster. But remember like a
good portion of it was that when he got the job,
Kybrie Irvings said do we really need a coach? And
they also had you know, they they traded for James
Harden and James Harden was had a bad hamstring. And
(17:54):
if if Kevin Durant does hit the shot with his
foot his foots down on the line to win the game,
it gives you three instead of two, and they win
that game and Kyrie plays What does that NBA Finals
look like? What does it look like his foot was literally,
you know, toe was barely on the line. They go
(18:16):
to the NBA Finals and I don't know if he's
still the coach. I remember then there's COVID. There was
the COVID part of it as well, where you know
Kyrie Irving wasn't in the league, didn't want to play
forget about the bubble, and that was where he got
it hurt. He didn't want to play. So I think
there's there's a lot too ones that haven't worked. But yes,
(18:37):
it is a kind of a big spack. And then
Scottie Scheffler's doing the little review thing right stuck gotlip show.
You're on Fox Sports Radio, Mark Medeena joints Is he's
our Fox Sports Radio NBA insider? Yeah, mm hmm, all right, Mark,
(18:58):
let's start close to home, JJ Reddick, how close is
this deal making?
Speaker 7 (19:06):
Coach? Good to talk to you. I'm sorry I missed
the first part of the question here.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
What's what's the where are you with JJ Redick and
the Lakers?
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Oh? Yeah, he's he's the favorite. You know, we we
discussed that part, but as far as like how close
is going to be toward hiring him? They're still in
the middle of the process. If I had to predict,
I think that everything's going to be finalized like once
the NBA Finals are over. I think that's that nice
little window between NBA Finals and NBA Draft, and then
(19:40):
you know they'll go in that order as far as
what they do on Draft night, trades and who they select,
including Brownie James, and go from there. But in fairness,
even though he is the heavy favorite, people around the
league expect JJ Reddick to get the NOD. I think
the Lakers are trying to make sure that they cross
the t's dot the eyes to make sure that he's
(20:01):
the right candidate because he's never been a head coach before.
But they are very enamored with depositive attributes that he
brings of you know, formerby player, bright basketball mind, and
you know that podcast partnership with Lebron, Right.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt about it. Okay, so
Lebron's like a hands off on this thing, but you're
always trying to curry favorite with Lebron. Any chance that
he he gives a look to anybody else in free agency, I.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Don't think he's going to come back. That's the predominant expectation.
The Lakers haven't gotten any signal whatsoever that he's wavering
on that. I think it's now a matter of you
know what sort of deal is he looking for. But
the thing that's interesting about Lebron about not having involvement
with the coaching search, they're always as it is with Lebron.
There's a lot of contradictions in gray area, I think
(20:52):
dating back to the Russell Westbrook deal. The message that
I've gotten, not just with this coaching search but in general,
is that Lebron has his opinions on what he wants
the front office to do. But as a way to
shed the whole narrative about it, he's legim and he
gets overly involved. He has said that he hasn't given
(21:13):
direct feedback as far as what to do, what not
to do, so that he doesn't get blame if it
doesn't pan out. But this is Rob Polinka's own words.
He has always said that Anthony Davis and Lebron James
are stakeholders. You know, they're captains. They run things by him.
But again, ever since the Russell Westbrook trade, the Lakers
(21:35):
messaging have been, you know what, any decisions we make
or don't make. We're the ones making the decisions. So
a lot of this is I think the messaging efforts
from both parties here for political reasons.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So got leave show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay,
let's let's go to Denver. Nuggets are champions. Then they're not.
They're beaten three times at home by the Minnesota Timberwolves.
What do you think they change edited next year?
Speaker 7 (22:04):
Yeah, it's a very interesting question, Doug, because I listened
to you and Jase talking about was this a collapse
was it not? I think we can have it both
ways here. I give most credit to Minnesota. They're playing
really well, they have good talent, but the fact that
they coughed up a twenty point lead show that it
was more than that. Yeah, the championship fatigue, et cetera.
(22:27):
The bench part was a thing. But I think dating
back to you know, talking to Calvin Booth before the
season started, they concluded that it wasn't just luxury tax concerns.
They just felt, you know what, they still had their
main core and they're in their prime. But clearly that
wasn't enough. They need more help than just relying, not
even just on Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray, but even
(22:50):
their other complimentary players with Michael Porter Junior and Aaron Gordon.
So I do I would expect they make changes around
the margins. But I think the tricky hard is they
don't really have cap flexibility, so it would have to
involve the trade, and you don't want to eat into
that core identity that got you there in the first place.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Stug Gotlieb show here on Fox Sports Radio. Mark Medina
is our guest, the funky cool Medina. Okay, now we
get ready for the Western Conference Finals. You know there's
not this obviously it's Luca versus what we feel like
is ensemble cast. But I mean it's Anthony Edwards and
(23:29):
Luca Anthony Edwards trying to you know, climb that ladder
in terms of the the NBA hierarchy. What are your
thoughts on this matchup?
Speaker 7 (23:38):
Yeah, I think he made a really good point Dog
the other day that you know, it's not the same
kind of branding draw that the Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota
Sumbrules have as we think of other franchises like the
Lakers Warriors. But I think what is appealing with this
matchup is one I think it can go six to
seven games, so that's good too. I think that the
players can resonate because every player has their own redemption story.
(24:00):
You look at Luka Dodgic, like we've seen that he's
been a brilliant player, MVP caliber player for a reason,
but the m on him was, well, he doesn't have
enough help and he's doing everything on his own. Here,
they have a completely different team. Kyrie Irvin. You know,
he's had his rehabilitation tour after not having good stops.
You know that edit on bad notes at Brooklyn, in
Boston and Cleveland, and I think, you know, some of
(24:22):
those were very unique circumstances. But I think the thing
that applies to Dallas here is the fits really well.
He and Luca get along really well, X's and O's.
It's great, and he's a lot healthier than he has
been in a recent season. And then I think with Minnesota,
to your point, Anthony Edwards is that young star that
I think can have the most impact besides Victor Webbin
(24:42):
Yama that can resonate with the next generation of fans.
But they're also a likable team. Like Carl Anthony Towns
has been very willing to be like the one, A,
one D or even number two. Like I was talking
to his trainer last week, Matt Mazari, and he was saying,
like when he was out last season with his injury,
with his strain right calf, like he was saying, Hey,
(25:03):
it's a blessing in the skies here because as much
as I want to play, I'm competitor. This is going
to allow Anthony Edwards becoming a brighter star and I'm
okay with that. And so I think those things are
intriguing in the fact that Minnesota used to be a
hot mess for a while and now they're actually a
respectable team. So yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Prazingis not going to play early. Does he play in
this series at all?
Speaker 7 (25:26):
They've left the window open, but you never know. I mean,
here's the thing we know, Christos Porzingi's injury history. Right
calf injuries are no joke. I think the encouraging sign
here is that it's not like he hasn't been doing anything.
He had on court work, but he hasn't had full
contact five on five, so he's ruled out one and two.
(25:48):
He hasn't been ruled out entirely in the series, but
he's going to have to get five on five at
some point before they play. And I know it's the
playoffs and you know when you're available, but these kind
of injuries are very said. I mean, Kevin Durant had
this injury in twenty nineteen and then when he came back,
he injured his achilles. So I don't want to say
it's not definitive he comes back, but there's a lot
(26:10):
of checks as he's got to to reach before that,
and given KP's injury history again, even though he's shown
improvement in that in Washington and Boston, it's still a
delicate though.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Mark Benina joining us here on the Doug Gottlieb Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, what happens in the offseason with.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
The Knicks, good question. I think that they look to
see what they can package with Julis randallin picks, and
it's not because they have to do it. I think
that they can improve there, mainly from a health standpoint
an availability standpoint. But I really like what they've shown
(26:52):
here this season. I don't think this is a fluke
one off. Jalen Brunson is going to continue to become
an even greater player each season than he plays. He's
shown that he's a leader, and I really like the
identity of this team. That they're available and even when
they're hurt, you know, they make the best of what
they have. So I don't think that they're going to
blow things up or make dramatic changes, but I think
(27:15):
that they'll at least entertain the possibilities to see what's
available that includes a package for Julius and Picks. But
if they don't get the right deal, I think that
they would be relatively satisfied with just trying to, you know,
get a better clean the health next season and build
from that.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah, no, it would, It would make sense. The question
is that, you know, can you add one more piece?
Randa is the guy that obviously fans and I think
maybe some executives can run hot and hot and cold
on what does Cleveland do well?
Speaker 7 (27:49):
That's another tricky thing. I think that everything is up
in the air. You know, they obviously want Donovan Mitchell back.
I think he's going to come back because he's eligible
for that extent, but there's no guarantees with that, and
if he doesn't agree to that extension, you have to
assume the writings on the wall that he would leave
the next summer, and they don't want to walk away
with nothing. But I think he will agree to the extension.
(28:11):
I think the most likely scenarios is that you know,
even though JB. Bickerstaff, there's more than you know his
issues as a coach. I think he's been mostly fine.
It was more of a fact that the Ross itself
had a lot of injuries. I think that that's the
low hanging fruit because that's what happens in the NBA.
And then they'll see what they can get with Darius
Garland in a trade. But I'm of the mind I'm
(28:35):
not someone that usually just leans back on injuries as
a fallback. But I think in this case, this court
didn't have a lot of time together and so any
idea that you know Mitchell and Garland weren't a fit, well,
they didn't play a lot. And I think the same
thing applies with Evan Mobile and Jared Allen. So I
think there's no arm in doing that. But I just
don't think it's going to happen because that's just how
the landscape's been working.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Mark, you're the best man. Listen enjoy the games. We
got to get you out. I mean you want to
come and come a cover of Bucks game, We'll send
a car for you. You come up to the bay, we'll
hang out.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
I want take you up on that offer, coach, I
can call you that from allan.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Right, Well, come whatever you want, man, just don't call
me late for dinner. But the funky cold Mark Medina
R Fox Sports Radio NBA insidert, you got to be
impressed with the fact that I got the breath things right.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Very impressed.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
So cool at a bar looking for a little action anyway,
I will see this.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Doug Mark said that he was listening to the show
yesterday and he heard us debate whether it was a
choke job by the Nuggets, and he says, I think
you can. You could have it both ways. And what
he doesn't understand about talk radio there is no both ways.
There's a right and wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
You are so right and sometimes coming up next to
the Doug Gotleep Show Live from the Tirat dot Com Studios,
it's just a matter of time before nil takes a
wild turn in college football. Apparently that time is now.
That's next.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
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you get your podcasts, and you'll see today's show. Post it.
Right after we get off the air, Let's get to
the press. The press, Dan Byer, what's the uh? What's
(31:04):
in the press?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
S Doug, it's the middle of May. Maybe we're actually
on the back end of May right now. I'll have
to ask our time expert Jason Stewart about that. But
it is May, and you wouldn't think that college football
would be the first story on our minds.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
But is it May already?
Speaker 4 (31:19):
But time flies, ma'am for three weeks into May.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
But I'll tell you Georgia quarterback Jade Reshada has made
college football our lead story here on the Press, as
he is suing Florida head football coach Billy Napier, plus
a school booster and other members of the staff over
an alleged failed fourteen million dollar nil deal. It's thirteen
(31:43):
point eight five million dollars, but as part of the
lawsuit where shot of claims that he originally committed to
Florida and in fact turned down a nine and a
half million dollar offer to sign with the Miami Hurricanes,
but Florida then never came through on their nil promises,
including a one million million dollar payment when he signed
his national letter of intent. Or Shota ended up decommitting
(32:06):
from Florida, playing in Arizona State, and is now at Georgia.
Rashata did tell Kirby Smart, the Bulldog's head coach, about
the lawsuit. Smart gave his blessing to file the lawsuit.
According to CBS Sports.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Okay, so he was told he would make how.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Much thirteen point eight five million dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Over the life of his career? Yes, okay, and he's
supposed to get a million dollars up front, correct, and
when he signed he never got anything, so then he decommitted. Yes, okay,
I don't know enough enough about the legalities of it.
Sounds highly illegal right to have a signing bonus, but
also sounds like something that does in fact happen. And
(32:48):
the question becomes, you know what's actually in paper, what
actually is on the contract, and what Florida can get
out of and oh yeah, by the way, you know
there can be lots of loopholes and stuff. I can
only tell you that I have not. I've I've had
conversations with at least ten recruits, and not one of
(33:11):
them any grant we're at a lower level. I'm not
trying to say we're in the sec football. None of
them have brought up an il. Now there's the agents
will have brought it up for other players, but not
one player has brought it up.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
N I l in this situation stands for now into litigation.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Really nice?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Ja, We don't even have a there it is. I
we get the drum roll from Sam. Sam doesn't like
he likes my humor. He doesn't just laugh at it
like a true laugh, Doug. What he does is he
couches it with like a fake audience laugh or like
you heard the little uh you know the drum there.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Is.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
It takes a little bit, a little bit off of
my joke. So don't you think, like.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
To quote Jay Moore back in the day, feel free
to laugh. I'm doing material here, feel free to laugh
on the air. But it brings up a good question.
What do we think about the drum roll as a
as a radio drop.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
I have used it on multiple occasions.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Not the drum roll, whatever, whatever you play. What do
we think of the rim shot?
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Is what I mean. I think it lessens anybody's joke.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Yes, it makes the joke more cheap to do a
rim shot. It's lazy and unimaginative.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Would you rather have a laugh?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Hold on? Hold on? I actually I agree and I
disagree Jason. And here's why I agree that it's cheesy.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
I think that's fun.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
No, I think that's when you use the rim shot
when you when you have a dad joke.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Yes, that's what I did it verbal heyo in the studio.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
That makes sense if you do it when it's a
real joke and then you do the rim shot. Yes,
and cheatin's the joke. But the joke is cheesy and
it's like wah, wah right, you can also do the
also do the rim shot.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
It also she bens the joke, but it's also Sam's
way of getting in on the funny. Like I'm gonna
lessen your joke, but because I played this rim shot,
that's gonna be funny, and so then people will be like, Iowa,
Sam did it again? But didn't you think?
Speaker 8 (35:27):
You were like, where's my rim shot? And I played
it a little late, and then so it's like you're
expecting it. So you can't have it both ways. Well, man,
you cannot. This is sports talk radio. I am not
having it both ways. I just knew that you would
try to lessen such a good joke.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
That's all that I knew was gonna happen with a
fake audience laugh or a fake chock.
Speaker 8 (35:45):
I am old school. I did not play the laugh track.
I went the rim shot. It's like old Johnny Carson
Tonight's show.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Come on.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
The keyword is old and over you, and I'm younger
than all you guys. It's a difference in generation or something.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
I hope do you want to do your Johnny? Was
he Johnny Carson line, Jason, what are you gonna?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
No?
Speaker 4 (36:05):
I don't get Johnny.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Carson on all right, moving on, Hopefully Justin Fields and
Russell Wilson don't fight like this, because Justin Fields talked
today about what he expects in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
I mean, I definitely don't have the mindset of you know,
me just you know, sitting all year, so you know,
I'm coming in every day giving it all I got
and you know, pushing them to be his best, and he's,
you know, pushing me to be my best each.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
And every day.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Doug Fields also gave credit to Ryan Poles the Bears
GM for trading him to a place that he wanted
to be, and that would be Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
That was very nice of him. Sometimes things have work
out well for a reason, right they do. I mean some,
not all, not all trades have to end in bitter negativity.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
That makes sense. Game seven of the Timberwolves Nuggets series
averaged eight point four million viewers on TNT. That's the
most on the network for a first or second round
game in the network's history, fourth biggest for all networks,
by the way. Operatings though down overall ten percent from
a year ago. Awful announcing track down some of those numbers.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Well I mean they had to be down when you
when you eliminate these names that we've come to, frankly
expect to be in the playoffs every year. You know,
no Staff, no KD, no Lebron James, Like, you know,
the Celtics are good. But I mean, do you do
people tune in to see Jason Tatum? I don't think so. No,
(37:27):
I just don't.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
And I would also say this that a quarter of
the bracket the Boston Heat, Calves magic and then moving
on to the semis of Celtics Calves, no buzz whatsoever. Uh.
Boston and Cleveland I think were the only people who
paid attention to it. So there's why you would also
see a drop. So a quarter of your bracket was
(37:48):
kind of incognito throughout the playoffs. And that is the press.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
Get out there and pressed.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
That was the press rubbing.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Salt saltan the wound. Yeah, no, I think like I
think it's cheesy. I think it's intentionally cheesy. And if
you like Cheetos, you know it ain't easy being cheesy.
This is the Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
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