May 12, 2025 • 37 mins
Doug and the crew share what they loved and hated most from the sports weekend. Doug welcomes FSR NBA Insider Ric Bucher onto the show to talk about the Celtics, Giannis and all of the other major headlines around the NBA. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through "The Press".
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Tire buying should be we got a lot to get
to lot, a lot to get to this hour. I
we got to get to Celtics Knicks, which is tonight. Okay,
remember Friday. I was talking like Celtics Knicks was Friday,
but it really wasn't. But just like Nuggets and Oklahoma City,
(01:24):
short turnaround because of the game that was on Saturday
and now the game is on Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Plus Rick Buker be our guest. We'll talk about the
draft lottery, whether Cooper Flagg the rights to him could
be traded for a Jannis.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You never really closed that loop. By the way, we
close the loop from Friday, like you said that you
had a tough choice on Friday, the Knick, Celtics or
the stand up act you were going to. And then
the entire controversy about who opened for the stand up act?
Was it a metal band?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Was there an opening?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
There were a bunch of other I'm glad you brought
that up. I can't remember all of the comedian's names.
There was no metal band, Doug.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
I was thinking about how ridiculous that I would even
assume a metal band would Why would we why would
we blow over one's ear drums out before having a
soft spoken comedian come up on stage.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
I don't make any sense. It made funny, and it
was funny. I gotta admit it was.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It was funny, but I gotta be honest with you.
I'm not actually sure. I don't agree with that. I
don't know of a metal band. But you don't necessary
because I'll tell you what happened, and then I'll circle
back to why it's not crazy what you said, So
Nate has I think there were three other comedians, plus
there was a host to his a comedian, and they
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did I think eight minutes a piece or so eight
ten minutes a piece, and they were all very good,
very good.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
You better have your best stuff. If you only got
ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, that's how long a set normally is, isn't it,
Jay stew you ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yes, that.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Is like eight to ten minutes, right I.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Show no so uh one, I would. I would encourage
you to go. It's a great show. What I loved
about the show was it was probably a little too
Nate's humor is probably a little bit more like our age.
You know, you probably gotta be upper thirties and all
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up to there's a lot of wife, kids, marriage, and
then normal lifetime stuff. He did do a dr Pepper
riff which was very, very funny, but no one, not
one curse word, not that I'm like, look, I cursed
like a sailor when I'm not on radio and occasionally
sometimes I get clipped, Sorry about that Sam from Friday. Anyway,
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not one curse word, and they were all kind of
not over the top. Their comedic style sort of matched
and married married his. Now the downside to that is
I'm walking out and my son. Hayes was his first
comedy show ever, and he was like, I like the
heavy guy. I thought he was way funnier. What's his
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name like, I don't remember, It's like he was. He
was eye connected with him more. He was funnier to me,
which is like, if you have four comedians, sometimes one
of the guys again, because it's only ten minutes and
an hour is a long time, you're kind of stretching
jokes and taking pregnant pauses and whatever, and he has
a slower pacing. Anyway, the one thing about having another
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comedian is they can top the actual headliner. Whereas if
he had a metal band, not top of it.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Right, it's a different experience, right.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But it's a really good show.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
But like it just I've seen.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I went to go see an ACDC tribute band once,
and Bill Burr and other comedians actually opened up for
that show. It's right before COVID hits. But I'm I'm
just thinking back. I've never heard of a band. Plus
you have to set up all the drums and all equipment.
I've never heard What was I thinking on Friday? I've
never heard of a a musical show opening up for
a I'm sure it happens from time time, but a
musical show opening up for a dan up backt that
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just doesn't doesn't happen that often.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Don't think, No, it does not, It does not. Okay,
So I love the show. I'm gonna use I'm not
going to use that as my love the weekend.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
By the way, how did how did uh mister I
can never say his name, Bargazzi? Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
How did he fare with the I saw your story
one of your social media starts? How did you fare
with the three hundred and sixty degree stage?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
So he had great people all around him in the.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Theater, in the round theater, in the round.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
It's like a little disorienting.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's could be I think, you know, he toured last
year and I think it was I don't know, but
I think it was the same stage setup.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So this was only his second show of this tour.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
You gotta like turn around. We can't can't ignore the
people behind you, you can't have them before.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, I mean around.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He just kind of walks in sort of paces and
it kind of works. It feels like he knows. It
did not feel like it was his first ever theater
in the round. So pros pro and good show.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And for those that are wondering, Wage War in New
Orleans started out with self Sacrifice, Low Stitch, and then
Gravity and then they went to high Horse god Speed
in nail five.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Do you know the only reason then they ended with
is this how it ends. So that's how it ended
in New Orleans on Friday nights.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
The only reason that this became a controversy is because
our very on Ryan Berschinger, who I think listens to
this band. He immediately he was listening to the show
and he messages me and he's like, now that's not right, man.
The Wage War is in New Orleans, and so and
I just started. It started unraveling from there. So thank
you to Ryan Berschinger for bringing this to light.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
What's funny was so my daughter, as you guys know,
metal head, herself metal musician, and she was actually listening
to the show on Friday and she's like, really, they're
opening in Green Bay. I was like, no, no, Grace, No,
She's like no, I heard I heard Sam say it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He was sure of it.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
That with a grain salt.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's very funny. Let's get to love and hate.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
What did you love?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
God? I love you?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
And what did you hate?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Meet these player hays.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Love love, love, hate hate hate? Hey, hate hate hate?
What'd you love for the weekend? What'd you hate for
the weekend? Hope you had a great weekend. Hope the
weather was good. Let's start with our resident lovah bo,
Dan Meyer, Dan Wold you.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
All right, resident lover boy. I'll take it. And again
we step outside of the world of sports, but I
think there's many a man like me and probably women
as well, that love that first mo. Now, in California,
we don't have four seasons, but obviously, Doug, where you are,
there's a first mo of the year that you have
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of the lawn and it's glorious. But I told you
I'm redoing my front lawn, the little area that we have.
And on Saturday, the first mo of the year happened.
And even though I've got some patchy spots that need
to fill in, the first mow was a success. It
looked a lot better mode than it was just growing.
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But there is something about it. I stood there.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I just love it, right, Yes, it was.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
It was amazing and you just look at it and
then you look at it from a different angle.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Then you walk around and look at it from another angle.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Oh it's so okay. I'm going to hop in on
your glory.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
So did I tell you guys last week that I
bought a mower.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I saw it, So that needs to be yeah, tied
into this because I saw you with a John Deere.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yes, so so that okay.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So look, when I was at ESPN, I had a
riding mower and I loved it, loved it and would
i'd mowed my own grass. And then when I was
at CBS in Westport, Connecticut, we're there for three years.
I don't think I didn't have the mower because I
sold it. We moved and we had somebody we had
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like a lawn service, and it was a beautiful yard too,
Like it was so easy to do, easy to do,
like the lines on. We had like a little baseball
field in the backyard. So when I bought my home
here in Green Bay, like the first thing was like, ooh,
I can mow my own lawn. And just you know,
last year I had zero time, none. So I was
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looking in a Facebook marketplace and I was like, ooh,
should I bought, like, you know what.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I can afford a new mower. Wow, I can afford
a new mower. Dang it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So I went down just like every other Tom, Dick
and Harry and I went to home depot and first
I was going to get the less expensive one, and
I was like, you know what, I did, only get
the forty two inch, not the forty eight inch.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But not only did I mow my own.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Grass, but my son was here and I taught him
how to use a riding mower, which I granted, I
understand if you're a real man, you push mow it
like like Dan did whatever. But it's like I was like, dude,
you can just bet a little summer job. Just go
door to door, be like, hey, mow the lawn and
and uh yeah, so a double wind for me.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
One mowed my own lawn.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Two taught my son how to use a riding mower,
and I felt all about it for it so I hear,
and when it was done, I did the exact same
thing you're talking about. I'm like, I am man, I'm
o lawn smell. That smells like baseball season, right, It's
so great.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Yes, I have questions for both of you. Actually, well, Dan, please,
I just want to. I just want to.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I want for the record because I would feel guilty
if I didn't mention this. Our gardeners mowed the lawn.
But the reason why the gardeners mowed the lawn is
because our lawn is so small and there's not a
lot of room to keep the more because just of
our property size. But so there's gardeners that there are
neighbor's house that do our house. But they mowed the lawn.
But I have been thinking of do I just get
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one of those little blade cutters.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
You know those manual wal yeah, pre motor.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I feel like that wouldn't take up as much nearly
as much room I could keep it on the side
of the house, or I could try to sticking in
a corner of our garage. So those are the options
I have been looking at. I got to keep those sharp. Yes,
but go ahead, Sam question.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Well, okay, so Doug, it makes sense that if you're
in the Midwest, you kind of get your first mow
in you know, April or even May. Maybe if it's
you know, you're in a month, or you're in a
place like Green Bay, it's a little colder, a little longer,
so the grass doesn't start growing until a little later.
But Dan, you said, do you what about the grass
growing at your place all through the winter? I mean,
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because out here we have temperatures in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Is we got a little rain?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Finally, So is your grass just not growing the whole
time until until recently?
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Well I killed it in Feu, right, you're starting over.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yes, But again there are people who are saying that
you shouldn't shouldn't grow your lawns in the spring. You
do it in the fall, and then it has enough
time for roots to be stronger. And I guess maybe
I'll find out in July and August if I made
a bad decision.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
M okay, uh Jase too, what's you left in the weekend?
Shut hell?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Tany go ahead three run home run Friday. But that's
not what I loved. I love the fact that he
mocked the Diamondbacks. This guy named this clown name lordus Gorriel.
I hope I got his name wrong. A bunch of
Diamondbacks are hitting home runs off of Dodger relievers throughout
the latter part of the game. Lordus Gorriel maybe being
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the biggest offender of the bat flip and uh Shoho Tani,
which I love a lot of things about show hey,
but he's fairly boring. In fact, he's almost overly thoughtful
and considerate. I don't know if you've ever noticed this,
but he'll follow a ball off and alask if the
catcher's okay. But he went full mockery. He hit a
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three run homer, and he mocked lordus Gorriel. And then
the next day lordis Gorriel got a fastball in the back,
which scene So, thank you, Shoho Tani for lowering yourself
to the new baseball standard.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Wait, so did he pimp a home run?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Oh, sho hey pimped it badly. Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Badley Show.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Hey, oh Tani, Sam, what'd you left for the weekend?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
By the way, I can, I can kind of weave
this into love because riding a lawnmower is just oh man,
it's like it's easy and it's it's fun. I guess,
unless you have to do it as a job, but
it's it's you know, that's how you spend your weekends.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Man, that's good stuff. My love I had.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
I had a nice mix of social get togethers and
you know, getting stuff done at home. My love is
my weekend. I got some new sports related shirts. One
of them I'm wearing right now. It says Portal University.
It's kind of mocking the whole you know, transfer Portal
out of control. It got so hot in my apartment.
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It was nineties, high nineties on Saturday. So I escaped
after I you know, I was doing some cleaning and
then got out of there, went hung out with producer
lead to lap pool side. So that was nice, and
took in a lot of NBA basketball. It was just
a great weekend, a little you know, the good bounce
of socializing and doing stuff on your own at home.
Took in a lot of NBA.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
It was beautiful man. That was my love.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's beautiful. That's that's that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, in addition to the weather, In addition to UH
buying my buy buy my first brand new mower, right,
i'd bought always bought a US mower uh in the past.
I I just I loved watching one guy in the
NBA this weekend. His name is Peyton Pritchard because so oftentimes,
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you know, you talk about, hey, you got to find
a role, and if you're a Peyton Pritchard, you would
think his role.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Was like a TJ.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
McConnell, like get up guard, dudes, just be a dog.
But he's become this amazing scoring weapon. He's a average
fourteen and a half a game. But if you look
in the NBA season, like what he did, I think
on Saturday, that's not an outlier. That's how his season was.
And it's like the untold story of these Celtics. They're like, well,
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is Jason Tatum good?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Is he bad? Is he alpha? Is your star? Is
her superstar? What is he?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Peydon Pitcher was just so dynamic. And there's a guy
who I don't know if you've seen his workouts, like
he does these dribbling workouts in his garage in Orgon,
which are insane? Did he score like ninety three points
in like a pro am game? I just I don't know,
feels like self made, dude. And despite my brother when
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my brothers in Oregon State, he tried to recruit Peyton
and Peyton didn't even return his calls because all he
want to do is go to Orgon, And so I
always didn't like him. I'm like, dude, you not even
return to guy's calls. Now I love him because he's
a He's just a hooper. Let's keep well, let's not
shelved the hate. Go to hate real quick. Let's get
to hate real quick, real quick. Gotta be quick. Gotta
be quick. Jay s Dou, you got more hate than
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anybody I know.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I hated seeing Nicolo Nicolo Jokic, what's his name, Nicolay
nicol I hated seeing him suck in the fourth quarter
of this this game, couldn't stand it.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Hated seeing that.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I hated seeing the Canadian hockey teams all lose this weekend.
On Saturday night, Edmonton lost a heartbreaker, although maybe they
shouldn't have won the game, but on the last second
goal by Vegas and then on Sunday Maple Leaves got
shut out by the Panthers and the Jets were blown
out by the Stars five to two.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh with you hate, Sammy.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
It feels over for the Calves. And I know the injury,
you know the injury issues. They they fired back, you know,
they came to Indianapolis, they they won handily, but then
now they're down three to one and they just got
absolutely taken taken to the cleaners, and it just it
feels over for the Calves.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
This series feels over. That's my hate.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I I hate watching that the halftime of the NBA
playoff games on ESPN, not because those guys aren't talented,
Like I actually thin Ketchrick Perkins is really prettyn good.
I think Bob Myer says interesting stuff. Steven A obviously
gets his point across as well as anybody. But it's
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just a weird studio team. And whereas the the TNT guys,
they're entertaining more so than enlightening. They just keep searching
for an ESPN and it's.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
A hard watch, hard watch. And that's Lobane.
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Speaker 1 (17:58):
We'll get to Dan Byer at the end of this
year's segment, but I got to welcome in Rick Booker.
He's a Fox Sports One NBA analysts. He's also our
Fox Sports Radio NBA insider. And I guess Rick, my
question is on Oklahoma City. Right, last year they kind
of got pushed around and you lose to Denver.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
This year you go in and all of a sudden,
you're trailing excuse me, Dallas. This year you're you're trailing
Denver in the series and with a quick turnaround, they
get a big win. But what are your thoughts on
this team now that we've seen them be pushed in
the same series they were pushed in last year.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Well, I think if it comes down to having to
win the kind of close games that generally playoff games are,
we've seen We've seen one of the other right, We've
seen these these nip and tuck back and forth down
to the last second miraculous finishes, and then we've seen
the absolute blowouts. But I think that that by and large,
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playoff games are decided by your ability to defend and
execute offensively in the last in the last minute, possession
by possession. And that's where Oklahoma City is just in
some ways a victim of its own success in that
during the regular season they played a total of five
games that were decided by three points or less, and
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they were one and four in those five games. That's
that's a that's at least half, it's not a third
of the games that other teams played. The vast majority
of their games, their their tempo, their defense combined with
their their offense created blowouts. And so I'm watching a
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team that is that is trying to figure out in
real time how should we play possession by possession at
the end of these games, and they happen to be
up again the Denver Nuggets teams this time around that
has gads of experience in those kinds of games, and
you can see the difference in the execution. I think
this last game, the only reason it went okay See's
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way is because the miss free throws ultimately by Denver
and I think they ran into the same thing with
Dallas last year. So that's something that has to be developed,
and they have to determine whether they have the personnel
to do that as good as Shaye Alexander and Jalen
Williams are.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
So ultimately, can they win? Do they win this series?
Speaker 8 (20:33):
I don't, honestly, I believe that Denver is going to
win it for that very reason. And if they and
if Oklahoma City somehow winds up surviving this series, I
don't see them getting to the finals. I think there's
just too much growth, there's too much understanding of how
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to play in high pressure situations. I still say there's
learning to be done there by them, and they have
to go through some teams that that have have more
experience ultimately at that and uh, and that's not where
I was, you know, over the course of the season,
I thought, you know, I just didn't want to ignore
just how good their regular season record was and how
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good their defense was. I thought that that could carry
the day. But I just I don't. I just I
see a team that's still searching for what's the best way,
What do we want to go to, how do we
want to play where are we going to operate from
when when we're in a last second situation and having
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to figure that out as opposed to everybody having a
familiarity with what you want to do. I mean, I
think you know this from having played and coached, Like,
that's not a place that you want to be. You
want to know every whether you whether you execute successfully
or not. You want to have like everybody knowing this
is what we're going to do, and our star player
is going to be doing this, looking to do this,
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so that everybody knows how to react.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Off of this.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Well, I would I would add this, And even in
the game that they won yesterday, there were some bad
possessions late where it becomes Shay one on one, take it,
take it contested three, and you're like, what happened to
all that cool stuff you were doing the whole year
offensively to create space for him, and then it kind
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of rests resorts to everybody else. So I I is
that And look, Minnesota's done the same thing too with
Anthony Edwards at times where it's just you know, people,
you go from great ball movement to all of a sudden,
of the game, let's just watch our best player go
one on one and try and save us. But that
part really surprised me. I don't think it's just players.
I think coaching staff also has to learn the differences.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Here we saw that, but I mean as experienced the
coach as Tyron Lewis. He did the same thing with
the Clippers. Slippers were much more effective when the when
the ball is moving, and simply a lot of it
is just just makes decisions quicker, like you're either going
to go, you're not going to go, and and Minnesota
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just does is another team. It is so maddening when
the ball moves and you just got one two you're
either attacking or you're moving the ball and then and
then looking for something else. They're just so much more effective.
And whether it's Julius Randall or Anthony Edwards, when I
see them holding the ball and staring at the defense
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and like three seconds tickoff, four seconds tickoff, like this
is going nowhere, Like make a decision and keep it moving.
And and that coaches allow that to happen or sometimes
even invite it at the end of the games is
still it's still extraordinary to me that that can hurting
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the consequences that it isn't allowed to happen.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Stuck out, they've shure hear in Fox portrayer that's the
voice of Rick Buker. Okay, the it was the weirdest
game there Saturday night with the Warriors right where they
don't make it three in the first half and they're winning,
then they start making threes in the second half, and
then all of a sudden they get kind of boat
raced at the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But it did feel like, you.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Know, they they obviously this team is really pretty good defensively.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Can they keep it together for when Steph returns.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
I'm going to be surprised if Steph comes back. First
of all, let's start there. I think there's a lot
of optimism that when I look at his age and
I look at the risk that comes with with trying
to play the way that he plays with a hamstring issue,
I just I find it hard to believe that it's realistic.
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And I know everybody's like, can they just hold or
can I get him back for a Game six or
a Game seven? I look Minnesota's indifference or they're seemingly
not being all that urgent to get this series over
and not risk death coming back is alarming to me.
(25:21):
The level of basketball IQ with some of their best
players is alarming to me.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So I.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
You know, Golden State has done as much as you
could possibly ask them to do. I think sometimes the
talent differential is just too much to overcome. But the
fact that the fact that Golden State, based off of
their system and everybody understanding what needs to be done
in the general basketball IQ of their team, the fact
(25:56):
that they've made it competitive, you know, for at various
stages of the game is I think is more a
statement about the Minnesota Timberwolves. None of these games should
have been close, and they and they haven't been at
various times. And then Minnesota just completely lets off the pedal.
(26:16):
And the problem is that if there, if you at
the farther any team advances, the more your ability to
stay locked in and execute for forty three, forty four,
forty five minutes of the game. Everybody has lulls. Everybody
has those those brain cramps and those and those periods
(26:37):
where things just kind of go sideways. That happens with
every team. Nobody plays when you can talk about playing
forty eight minutes, Nobody plays forty eight minutes of perfect basketball.
It never happens, but it's like a muscle you've developed
that ability to stay focused and when things go sideways
to rein it back in and get back on task.
(26:58):
Like that's the muff so that you develop so that
it goes from thirty five to forty to forty two minutes.
And the Timberwolves are showing no interest in developing that
muscle or the ability to play consistently for the better
part of the game, and I think that that's going
to bite them at some point down the road here.
(27:21):
And until they get that, then they're not coming close
to winning a championship.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
The Knicks are still up to games to one, but
after falling behind by twenty game one and game two
and come back and winning, they fall behind by thirty
and don't recover. Yeah, how do you first see the
rest of the series?
Speaker 8 (27:39):
Ah? Man? I mean it's the beauty of these playoffs, right,
with all of these, with all of these series, is
that you you have these games where you're like, Okay,
if it goes this way, then I think I can
pretty much predict how this is going to play out.
And then you have a game that just throws everything sideways.
(28:00):
I still believe. I'm gonna believe the same as with
I think this is very similar to the okayc in Denver.
It's a matter of controlling the tempo and and how
well is Boston going to shoot the three. For the
better part of this season, they've shot the balls, shot
the three incredibly well. But they're They've become a little
bit of a one trick pony when it comes to that.
(28:22):
And I believe that the physicality that's being allowed in
the game now more than I've seen in years. It
ratcheted up in last year's playoffs, but this is this
is a whole other level. I do think that that's
affecting threes. Whether it's the the you know, taking guy's
legs a little bit, or whether it's den you know,
(28:43):
allowing the contact at the rim now means you can
be a little more physical, which means the timing on
the on the perimeter on the kickouts is not quite
the same. Guys that can't make that pass as easily.
I I'm I'm gonna bet on on on the knicks.
In the way that they play, I just think that
(29:05):
they have more ways to score than than Boston has
developed over the course of the season, and Boston's confidence
at both ends of the floor is highly dependent on
the three ball falling. And you know, if I'm going
to bet on one thing or another, I'm gonna bet
against that carrying them through for for another couple of wins.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
You got the Jazz, the Wizards, the Hornets, Uh, Sixers, Pelicans, Nets,
and Raptors. Yeah, which of those teams in your mind
would trade Cooper Flag if they could get Giannis?
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Oh, I didn't see that question coming. That's an interesting,
interesting question. If they're smart, all of them, every single
one of them. And I'm a big Cooper Flag fan
in terms of what he and they would be doing
him a favor I'd like to see him with and
maybe not Cooper Flag going to Milwaukee. That's tough because
(30:11):
he kind of has to step into I don't think
that's a ready made team to go forward. What I'd
like to see Cooper Flag. Ideally, where I'd like to
see Cooper Flag end up is where he can be
a number two or three.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
I don't want him going in and immediately having to
be the cornerstone of a new situation, especially if it's
not a developed culture. But and and that's why I
say any of those teams, even you know, Toronto, I
think is a little farther down the line.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I like.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
I like a lot of what they have. I don't
know how well the Cooper Flag Scottie Barnes combination works.
That would be my only my my only hesitation there.
But a lot of those other teams, like I do
not want to see him in Washington, I don't want
to see him in Charlotte like those those teams have
(31:01):
established stars that I would think are are not going
to be good for his development. So and Philadelphia is
such a mixed bag, and I don't it's it's this
is kind of a treacherous situation for Cooper Flag if
we want him to become everything that we think he
can become, because the candidates are not are not exactly
(31:23):
star stuttered.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
No, no, they're no, they're not. It's going to be fascinating. Hey,
you great stuff as always, man, thanks for taking us
the time with us. Let's talk next week.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Sounds good.
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Speaker 4 (32:06):
D anybody got I think Sam played lover Boy because
of Canada?
Speaker 6 (32:10):
All right? Correct?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
The Stanley Cup playoffs and my help for a Canadian team.
Just Canada hasn't won one in thirty plus years, and
I figure that the market, whatever market wins, will go
absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Please.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Plus, it's just that it's Canada's sport.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
And then when you have that drought like it's yeah,
like I just I want them to win one.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
Big Ley, I'll say.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I mean, listen, they've been President Trump wants to absorb
his fifty per state like this is their their solidarity moment.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
I know that some people may think that it could
be political, but it has nothing to do with politics.
I also just don't like those warm weather cities winning
Stanley Cups.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
There's no ice down there.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It's weird. It's weird. It's like, look, I'm not a
Knicks fan, my late father was. I'd love to see
the NIXT the title because they care about it and
people would go bunkers for it. I think it'd be
good for the NBA. Same again, I know the country
is bigger than just an area, but kind of same
thought process of you.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Dan.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Also, Doug called Dan lover boy earlier in the show.
All that's why. But of course the Canadian thing. Yes, yes,
of course?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
What else?
Speaker 6 (33:21):
I got my red leather pants on right now? All right?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Moving on, NBC announced that Michael Jordan will be a
special contributor to their NBA covered starting next season when
the new TV deal is in place.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Does that mean that?
Speaker 8 (33:36):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
What's the what's the former NBC employee?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
God, they were like best buddies. Yeah, is a mad
shod also joined the coverage. It feels like that's gonna
happen next.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
They should call the segment sheer Will. Wasn't that one
of his questions? Michael sheer Will, Then you just point
the microphone over. Are you excited to see Michael Joan
in that role earlier on the show you were.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I mean, I just think it's a great get. Like
I want to be the who's that that that comes from?
Whoever the top executive NBC is. Do you know how
hard that is to get? No one's been able to
do it. No one that's a great get.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Do Commas and zero's matter when you're Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
No, I mean, there's got to be a relationship piece
with whoever he'd agree to do the deal with.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Like what is the Yeah, it's a weird one.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
This is gonna I don't want to speak on Jason's behalf,
but I feel like this is going to demystify Michael
Jordan a little bit because he's been he's been his
own man and in control of his own narrative for
the last twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So I do wonder how much Peyton Manning have it
his own thing. You know, Peyton didn't want to do games,
but he created his own thing. I just I wonder
if Jordan gets to create his own thing again. That's
why you have it a moderate shod so you can
have somebody who can make you look really good. I
suggest work with Tarika, He'll make you look good.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I think that Jordan wants to keep his legacy alive,
and the further we go on in years, the further
we're away from it. And then if Lebron steps aside,
and there's going to be a time where then I
think it shifts because Lebron's no longer in the game
and he isn't a polarizing anymore. But I think that
(35:23):
this is That's why Jordan was able to speak during
the last dance. He had the final say on everything.
So I think that's what he wants to do. Fair enough,
don't you forget about me.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
It's honestly crazy because Magic was terrible, but he's gotten
multip opportunities to do it. Bird's never done it, doesn't
want to do it. Duncan haven't seen him. Kobe obviously
tragically passed away before he ever made it made it
to television. I mean, you talk about the all time greats,
like Charles Barkley's all time great on TV, but he
(35:59):
ain't might go Jordan, like, I'm fascinated to see what
that looks like.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Jason Stewart, any thoughts on this.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
I just think that the guy has spent the better
part of twenty five years cultivating this like Reightcluse persona
that when he does speak, it matters, And the only
thing that could go down in my mind is his
is his reputation. I had a lot more respect for
Tom Brady before I heard him started doing games. I
(36:25):
had a lot more respect from Magic Johnson before he
completely aborted himself on TV. The only way this could
go down, or the only way that this can go
is down for me.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
With Jordan, there is the outside think.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Remember there was a lot of stories about him needing
money and that's why he sold his nights to the Hornets. Right, sure, again,
I mean crazy to think Jordan needs some money.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Well, no, I didn't think so, and that's why I
said I didn't think that Commas and Zeros were the
reason why he would do this.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know enough for the backstory.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I know there's definitely a legacy element, but Jason's one
hundred percent right, Like you can make yourself look really bad.
There's lots of people have never seen you play basketball,
who are gonna watch on TV and parse every every
sentence you say.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Donovan Mitchell a game time decision according to ESPN for
tomorrow's Game five is the Cavs are down three to
one to the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
They just feel done, don't they? They just feel done.
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Eagles and Cowboys to open up the NFL season in
Philadelphia on Thursday night, September fourth.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
NBC is having a heck of a day right first
announced Jordan on their you know Jordan is gonna cut.
It's gonna help them with their broadcast, and then they
get Cowboys Eagles.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Good day to be NBC.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
That's the press get out.
Speaker 7 (37:45):
There was the press.
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to lot, a lot to get to this hour. I
we got to get to Celtics Knicks, which is tonight. Okay,
remember Friday. I was talking like Celtics Knicks was Friday,
but it really wasn't. But just like Nuggets and Oklahoma City,
(01:24):
short turnaround because of the game that was on Saturday
and now the game is on Monday.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Plus Rick Buker be our guest. We'll talk about the
draft lottery, whether Cooper Flagg the rights to him could
be traded for a Jannis.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You never really closed that loop. By the way, we
close the loop from Friday, like you said that you
had a tough choice on Friday, the Knick, Celtics or
the stand up act you were going to. And then
the entire controversy about who opened for the stand up act?
Was it a metal band?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Was there an opening?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
There were a bunch of other I'm glad you brought
that up. I can't remember all of the comedian's names.
There was no metal band, Doug.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
I was thinking about how ridiculous that I would even
assume a metal band would Why would we why would
we blow over one's ear drums out before having a
soft spoken comedian come up on stage.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
I don't make any sense. It made funny, and it
was funny. I gotta admit it was.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
It was funny, but I gotta be honest with you.
I'm not actually sure. I don't agree with that. I
don't know of a metal band. But you don't necessary
because I'll tell you what happened, and then I'll circle
back to why it's not crazy what you said, So
Nate has I think there were three other comedians, plus
there was a host to his a comedian, and they
(02:43):
did I think eight minutes a piece or so eight
ten minutes a piece, and they were all very good,
very good.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
You better have your best stuff. If you only got
ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well, that's how long a set normally is, isn't it,
Jay stew you ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yes, that.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Is like eight to ten minutes, right I.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Show no so uh one, I would. I would encourage
you to go. It's a great show. What I loved
about the show was it was probably a little too
Nate's humor is probably a little bit more like our age.
You know, you probably gotta be upper thirties and all
(03:24):
up to there's a lot of wife, kids, marriage, and
then normal lifetime stuff. He did do a dr Pepper
riff which was very, very funny, but no one, not
one curse word, not that I'm like, look, I cursed
like a sailor when I'm not on radio and occasionally
sometimes I get clipped, Sorry about that Sam from Friday. Anyway,
(03:45):
not one curse word, and they were all kind of
not over the top. Their comedic style sort of matched
and married married his. Now the downside to that is
I'm walking out and my son. Hayes was his first
comedy show ever, and he was like, I like the
heavy guy. I thought he was way funnier. What's his
(04:05):
name like, I don't remember, It's like he was. He
was eye connected with him more. He was funnier to me,
which is like, if you have four comedians, sometimes one
of the guys again, because it's only ten minutes and
an hour is a long time, you're kind of stretching
jokes and taking pregnant pauses and whatever, and he has
a slower pacing. Anyway, the one thing about having another
(04:27):
comedian is they can top the actual headliner. Whereas if
he had a metal band, not top of it.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Right, it's a different experience, right.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
But it's a really good show.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
But like it just I've seen.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
I went to go see an ACDC tribute band once,
and Bill Burr and other comedians actually opened up for
that show. It's right before COVID hits. But I'm I'm
just thinking back. I've never heard of a band. Plus
you have to set up all the drums and all equipment.
I've never heard What was I thinking on Friday? I've
never heard of a a musical show opening up for
a I'm sure it happens from time time, but a
musical show opening up for a dan up backt that
(05:01):
just doesn't doesn't happen that often.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Don't think, No, it does not, It does not. Okay,
So I love the show. I'm gonna use I'm not
going to use that as my love the weekend.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
By the way, how did how did uh mister I
can never say his name, Bargazzi? Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
How did he fare with the I saw your story
one of your social media starts? How did you fare
with the three hundred and sixty degree stage?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
So he had great people all around him in the.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Theater, in the round theater, in the round.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
It's like a little disorienting.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
It's could be I think, you know, he toured last
year and I think it was I don't know, but
I think it was the same stage setup.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So this was only his second show of this tour.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
You gotta like turn around. We can't can't ignore the
people behind you, you can't have them before.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, I mean around.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He just kind of walks in sort of paces and
it kind of works. It feels like he knows. It
did not feel like it was his first ever theater
in the round. So pros pro and good show.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
And for those that are wondering, Wage War in New
Orleans started out with self Sacrifice, Low Stitch, and then
Gravity and then they went to high Horse god Speed
in nail five.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Do you know the only reason then they ended with
is this how it ends. So that's how it ended
in New Orleans on Friday nights.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
The only reason that this became a controversy is because
our very on Ryan Berschinger, who I think listens to
this band. He immediately he was listening to the show
and he messages me and he's like, now that's not right, man.
The Wage War is in New Orleans, and so and
I just started. It started unraveling from there. So thank
you to Ryan Berschinger for bringing this to light.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
What's funny was so my daughter, as you guys know,
metal head, herself metal musician, and she was actually listening
to the show on Friday and she's like, really, they're
opening in Green Bay. I was like, no, no, Grace, No,
She's like no, I heard I heard Sam say it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
He was sure of it.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
That with a grain salt.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's very funny. Let's get to love and hate.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
What did you love?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
God? I love you?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
And what did you hate?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Meet these player hays.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Love love, love, hate hate hate? Hey, hate hate hate?
What'd you love for the weekend? What'd you hate for
the weekend? Hope you had a great weekend. Hope the
weather was good. Let's start with our resident lovah bo,
Dan Meyer, Dan Wold you.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
All right, resident lover boy. I'll take it. And again
we step outside of the world of sports, but I
think there's many a man like me and probably women
as well, that love that first mo. Now, in California,
we don't have four seasons, but obviously, Doug, where you are,
there's a first mo of the year that you have
(07:48):
of the lawn and it's glorious. But I told you
I'm redoing my front lawn, the little area that we have.
And on Saturday, the first mo of the year happened.
And even though I've got some patchy spots that need
to fill in, the first mow was a success. It
looked a lot better mode than it was just growing.
(08:10):
But there is something about it. I stood there.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I just love it, right, Yes, it was.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
It was amazing and you just look at it and
then you look at it from a different angle.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Then you walk around and look at it from another angle.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Oh it's so okay. I'm going to hop in on
your glory.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
So did I tell you guys last week that I
bought a mower.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
I saw it, So that needs to be yeah, tied
into this because I saw you with a John Deere.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yes, so so that okay.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So look, when I was at ESPN, I had a
riding mower and I loved it, loved it and would
i'd mowed my own grass. And then when I was
at CBS in Westport, Connecticut, we're there for three years.
I don't think I didn't have the mower because I
sold it. We moved and we had somebody we had
(08:56):
like a lawn service, and it was a beautiful yard too,
Like it was so easy to do, easy to do,
like the lines on. We had like a little baseball
field in the backyard. So when I bought my home
here in Green Bay, like the first thing was like, ooh,
I can mow my own lawn. And just you know,
last year I had zero time, none. So I was
(09:18):
looking in a Facebook marketplace and I was like, ooh,
should I bought, like, you know what.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I can afford a new mower. Wow, I can afford
a new mower. Dang it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
So I went down just like every other Tom, Dick
and Harry and I went to home depot and first
I was going to get the less expensive one, and
I was like, you know what, I did, only get
the forty two inch, not the forty eight inch.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
But not only did I mow my own.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Grass, but my son was here and I taught him
how to use a riding mower, which I granted, I
understand if you're a real man, you push mow it
like like Dan did whatever. But it's like I was like, dude,
you can just bet a little summer job. Just go
door to door, be like, hey, mow the lawn and
and uh yeah, so a double wind for me.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
One mowed my own lawn.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Two taught my son how to use a riding mower,
and I felt all about it for it so I hear,
and when it was done, I did the exact same
thing you're talking about. I'm like, I am man, I'm
o lawn smell. That smells like baseball season, right, It's
so great.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Yes, I have questions for both of you. Actually, well, Dan, please,
I just want to. I just want to.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I want for the record because I would feel guilty
if I didn't mention this. Our gardeners mowed the lawn.
But the reason why the gardeners mowed the lawn is
because our lawn is so small and there's not a
lot of room to keep the more because just of
our property size. But so there's gardeners that there are
neighbor's house that do our house. But they mowed the lawn.
But I have been thinking of do I just get
(10:46):
one of those little blade cutters.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
You know those manual wal yeah, pre motor.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I feel like that wouldn't take up as much nearly
as much room I could keep it on the side
of the house, or I could try to sticking in
a corner of our garage. So those are the options
I have been looking at. I got to keep those sharp. Yes,
but go ahead, Sam question.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Well, okay, so Doug, it makes sense that if you're
in the Midwest, you kind of get your first mow
in you know, April or even May. Maybe if it's
you know, you're in a month, or you're in a
place like Green Bay, it's a little colder, a little longer,
so the grass doesn't start growing until a little later.
But Dan, you said, do you what about the grass
growing at your place all through the winter? I mean,
(11:27):
because out here we have temperatures in the fifties and sixties.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Is we got a little rain?
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Finally, So is your grass just not growing the whole
time until until recently?
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Well I killed it in Feu, right, you're starting over.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Yes, But again there are people who are saying that
you shouldn't shouldn't grow your lawns in the spring. You
do it in the fall, and then it has enough
time for roots to be stronger. And I guess maybe
I'll find out in July and August if I made
a bad decision.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
M okay, uh Jase too, what's you left in the weekend?
Shut hell?
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Tany go ahead three run home run Friday. But that's
not what I loved. I love the fact that he
mocked the Diamondbacks. This guy named this clown name lordus Gorriel.
I hope I got his name wrong. A bunch of
Diamondbacks are hitting home runs off of Dodger relievers throughout
the latter part of the game. Lordus Gorriel maybe being
(12:19):
the biggest offender of the bat flip and uh Shoho Tani,
which I love a lot of things about show hey,
but he's fairly boring. In fact, he's almost overly thoughtful
and considerate. I don't know if you've ever noticed this,
but he'll follow a ball off and alask if the
catcher's okay. But he went full mockery. He hit a
(12:40):
three run homer, and he mocked lordus Gorriel. And then
the next day lordis Gorriel got a fastball in the back,
which scene So, thank you, Shoho Tani for lowering yourself
to the new baseball standard.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Wait, so did he pimp a home run?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Oh, sho hey pimped it badly. Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Badley Show.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Hey, oh Tani, Sam, what'd you left for the weekend?
Speaker 5 (13:09):
By the way, I can, I can kind of weave
this into love because riding a lawnmower is just oh man,
it's like it's easy and it's it's fun. I guess,
unless you have to do it as a job, but
it's it's you know, that's how you spend your weekends.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Man, that's good stuff. My love I had.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
I had a nice mix of social get togethers and
you know, getting stuff done at home. My love is
my weekend. I got some new sports related shirts. One
of them I'm wearing right now. It says Portal University.
It's kind of mocking the whole you know, transfer Portal
out of control. It got so hot in my apartment.
(13:47):
It was nineties, high nineties on Saturday. So I escaped
after I you know, I was doing some cleaning and
then got out of there, went hung out with producer
lead to lap pool side. So that was nice, and
took in a lot of NBA basketball. It was just
a great weekend, a little you know, the good bounce
of socializing and doing stuff on your own at home.
Took in a lot of NBA.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
It was beautiful man. That was my love.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That's beautiful. That's that's that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Well, in addition to the weather, In addition to UH
buying my buy buy my first brand new mower, right,
i'd bought always bought a US mower uh in the past.
I I just I loved watching one guy in the
NBA this weekend. His name is Peyton Pritchard because so oftentimes,
(14:40):
you know, you talk about, hey, you got to find
a role, and if you're a Peyton Pritchard, you would
think his role.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Was like a TJ.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
McConnell, like get up guard, dudes, just be a dog.
But he's become this amazing scoring weapon. He's a average
fourteen and a half a game. But if you look
in the NBA season, like what he did, I think
on Saturday, that's not an outlier. That's how his season was.
And it's like the untold story of these Celtics. They're like, well,
(15:07):
is Jason Tatum good?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Is he bad? Is he alpha? Is your star? Is
her superstar? What is he?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Peydon Pitcher was just so dynamic. And there's a guy
who I don't know if you've seen his workouts, like
he does these dribbling workouts in his garage in Orgon,
which are insane? Did he score like ninety three points
in like a pro am game? I just I don't know,
feels like self made, dude. And despite my brother when
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my brothers in Oregon State, he tried to recruit Peyton
and Peyton didn't even return his calls because all he
want to do is go to Orgon, And so I
always didn't like him. I'm like, dude, you not even
return to guy's calls. Now I love him because he's
a He's just a hooper. Let's keep well, let's not
shelved the hate. Go to hate real quick. Let's get
to hate real quick, real quick. Gotta be quick. Gotta
be quick. Jay s Dou, you got more hate than
(15:58):
anybody I know.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Well.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I hated seeing Nicolo Nicolo Jokic, what's his name, Nicolay
nicol I hated seeing him suck in the fourth quarter
of this this game, couldn't stand it.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Hated seeing that.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
I hated seeing the Canadian hockey teams all lose this weekend.
On Saturday night, Edmonton lost a heartbreaker, although maybe they
shouldn't have won the game, but on the last second
goal by Vegas and then on Sunday Maple Leaves got
shut out by the Panthers and the Jets were blown
out by the Stars five to two.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Oh with you hate, Sammy.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
It feels over for the Calves. And I know the injury,
you know the injury issues. They they fired back, you know,
they came to Indianapolis, they they won handily, but then
now they're down three to one and they just got
absolutely taken taken to the cleaners, and it just it
feels over for the Calves.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
This series feels over. That's my hate.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I I hate watching that the halftime of the NBA
playoff games on ESPN, not because those guys aren't talented,
Like I actually thin Ketchrick Perkins is really prettyn good.
I think Bob Myer says interesting stuff. Steven A obviously
gets his point across as well as anybody. But it's
(17:19):
just a weird studio team. And whereas the the TNT guys,
they're entertaining more so than enlightening. They just keep searching
for an ESPN and it's.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
A hard watch, hard watch. And that's Lobane.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
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Speaker 1 (17:58):
We'll get to Dan Byer at the end of this
year's segment, but I got to welcome in Rick Booker.
He's a Fox Sports One NBA analysts. He's also our
Fox Sports Radio NBA insider. And I guess Rick, my
question is on Oklahoma City. Right, last year they kind
of got pushed around and you lose to Denver.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
This year you go in and all of a sudden,
you're trailing excuse me, Dallas. This year you're you're trailing
Denver in the series and with a quick turnaround, they
get a big win. But what are your thoughts on
this team now that we've seen them be pushed in
the same series they were pushed in last year.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Well, I think if it comes down to having to
win the kind of close games that generally playoff games are,
we've seen We've seen one of the other right, We've
seen these these nip and tuck back and forth down
to the last second miraculous finishes, and then we've seen
the absolute blowouts. But I think that that by and large,
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playoff games are decided by your ability to defend and
execute offensively in the last in the last minute, possession
by possession. And that's where Oklahoma City is just in
some ways a victim of its own success in that
during the regular season they played a total of five
games that were decided by three points or less, and
(19:26):
they were one and four in those five games. That's
that's a that's at least half, it's not a third
of the games that other teams played. The vast majority
of their games, their their tempo, their defense combined with
their their offense created blowouts. And so I'm watching a
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team that is that is trying to figure out in
real time how should we play possession by possession at
the end of these games, and they happen to be
up again the Denver Nuggets teams this time around that
has gads of experience in those kinds of games, and
you can see the difference in the execution. I think
this last game, the only reason it went okay See's
(20:12):
way is because the miss free throws ultimately by Denver
and I think they ran into the same thing with
Dallas last year. So that's something that has to be developed,
and they have to determine whether they have the personnel
to do that as good as Shaye Alexander and Jalen
Williams are.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
So ultimately, can they win? Do they win this series?
Speaker 8 (20:33):
I don't, honestly, I believe that Denver is going to
win it for that very reason. And if they and
if Oklahoma City somehow winds up surviving this series, I
don't see them getting to the finals. I think there's
just too much growth, there's too much understanding of how
(20:57):
to play in high pressure situations. I still say there's
learning to be done there by them, and they have
to go through some teams that that have have more
experience ultimately at that and uh, and that's not where
I was, you know, over the course of the season,
I thought, you know, I just didn't want to ignore
just how good their regular season record was and how
(21:19):
good their defense was. I thought that that could carry
the day. But I just I don't. I just I
see a team that's still searching for what's the best way,
What do we want to go to, how do we
want to play where are we going to operate from
when when we're in a last second situation and having
(21:42):
to figure that out as opposed to everybody having a
familiarity with what you want to do. I mean, I
think you know this from having played and coached, Like,
that's not a place that you want to be. You
want to know every whether you whether you execute successfully
or not. You want to have like everybody knowing this
is what we're going to do, and our star player
is going to be doing this, looking to do this,
(22:05):
so that everybody knows how to react.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Off of this.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Well, I would I would add this, And even in
the game that they won yesterday, there were some bad
possessions late where it becomes Shay one on one, take it,
take it contested three, and you're like, what happened to
all that cool stuff you were doing the whole year
offensively to create space for him, and then it kind
(22:29):
of rests resorts to everybody else. So I I is
that And look, Minnesota's done the same thing too with
Anthony Edwards at times where it's just you know, people,
you go from great ball movement to all of a sudden,
of the game, let's just watch our best player go
one on one and try and save us. But that
part really surprised me. I don't think it's just players.
I think coaching staff also has to learn the differences.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Here we saw that, but I mean as experienced the
coach as Tyron Lewis. He did the same thing with
the Clippers. Slippers were much more effective when the when
the ball is moving, and simply a lot of it
is just just makes decisions quicker, like you're either going
to go, you're not going to go, and and Minnesota
(23:13):
just does is another team. It is so maddening when
the ball moves and you just got one two you're
either attacking or you're moving the ball and then and
then looking for something else. They're just so much more effective.
And whether it's Julius Randall or Anthony Edwards, when I
see them holding the ball and staring at the defense
(23:36):
and like three seconds tickoff, four seconds tickoff, like this
is going nowhere, Like make a decision and keep it moving.
And and that coaches allow that to happen or sometimes
even invite it at the end of the games is
still it's still extraordinary to me that that can hurting
(24:00):
the consequences that it isn't allowed to happen.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Stuck out, they've shure hear in Fox portrayer that's the
voice of Rick Buker. Okay, the it was the weirdest
game there Saturday night with the Warriors right where they
don't make it three in the first half and they're winning,
then they start making threes in the second half, and
then all of a sudden they get kind of boat
raced at the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But it did feel like, you.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Know, they they obviously this team is really pretty good defensively.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Can they keep it together for when Steph returns.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
I'm going to be surprised if Steph comes back. First
of all, let's start there. I think there's a lot
of optimism that when I look at his age and
I look at the risk that comes with with trying
to play the way that he plays with a hamstring issue,
I just I find it hard to believe that it's realistic.
(24:57):
And I know everybody's like, can they just hold or
can I get him back for a Game six or
a Game seven? I look Minnesota's indifference or they're seemingly
not being all that urgent to get this series over
and not risk death coming back is alarming to me.
(25:21):
The level of basketball IQ with some of their best
players is alarming to me.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So I.
Speaker 8 (25:33):
You know, Golden State has done as much as you
could possibly ask them to do. I think sometimes the
talent differential is just too much to overcome. But the
fact that the fact that Golden State, based off of
their system and everybody understanding what needs to be done
in the general basketball IQ of their team, the fact
(25:56):
that they've made it competitive, you know, for at various
stages of the game is I think is more a
statement about the Minnesota Timberwolves. None of these games should
have been close, and they and they haven't been at
various times. And then Minnesota just completely lets off the pedal.
(26:16):
And the problem is that if there, if you at
the farther any team advances, the more your ability to
stay locked in and execute for forty three, forty four,
forty five minutes of the game. Everybody has lulls. Everybody
has those those brain cramps and those and those periods
(26:37):
where things just kind of go sideways. That happens with
every team. Nobody plays when you can talk about playing
forty eight minutes, Nobody plays forty eight minutes of perfect basketball.
It never happens, but it's like a muscle you've developed
that ability to stay focused and when things go sideways
to rein it back in and get back on task.
(26:58):
Like that's the muff so that you develop so that
it goes from thirty five to forty to forty two minutes.
And the Timberwolves are showing no interest in developing that
muscle or the ability to play consistently for the better
part of the game, and I think that that's going
to bite them at some point down the road here.
(27:21):
And until they get that, then they're not coming close
to winning a championship.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
All right.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
The Knicks are still up to games to one, but
after falling behind by twenty game one and game two
and come back and winning, they fall behind by thirty
and don't recover. Yeah, how do you first see the
rest of the series?
Speaker 8 (27:39):
Ah? Man? I mean it's the beauty of these playoffs, right,
with all of these, with all of these series, is
that you you have these games where you're like, Okay,
if it goes this way, then I think I can
pretty much predict how this is going to play out.
And then you have a game that just throws everything sideways.
(28:00):
I still believe. I'm gonna believe the same as with
I think this is very similar to the okayc in Denver.
It's a matter of controlling the tempo and and how
well is Boston going to shoot the three. For the
better part of this season, they've shot the balls, shot
the three incredibly well. But they're They've become a little
bit of a one trick pony when it comes to that.
(28:22):
And I believe that the physicality that's being allowed in
the game now more than I've seen in years. It
ratcheted up in last year's playoffs, but this is this
is a whole other level. I do think that that's
affecting threes. Whether it's the the you know, taking guy's
legs a little bit, or whether it's den you know,
(28:43):
allowing the contact at the rim now means you can
be a little more physical, which means the timing on
the on the perimeter on the kickouts is not quite
the same. Guys that can't make that pass as easily.
I I'm I'm gonna bet on on on the knicks.
In the way that they play, I just think that
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they have more ways to score than than Boston has
developed over the course of the season, and Boston's confidence
at both ends of the floor is highly dependent on
the three ball falling. And you know, if I'm going
to bet on one thing or another, I'm gonna bet
against that carrying them through for for another couple of wins.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
You got the Jazz, the Wizards, the Hornets, Uh, Sixers, Pelicans, Nets,
and Raptors. Yeah, which of those teams in your mind
would trade Cooper Flag if they could get Giannis?
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Oh, I didn't see that question coming. That's an interesting,
interesting question. If they're smart, all of them, every single
one of them. And I'm a big Cooper Flag fan
in terms of what he and they would be doing
him a favor I'd like to see him with and
maybe not Cooper Flag going to Milwaukee. That's tough because
(30:11):
he kind of has to step into I don't think
that's a ready made team to go forward. What I'd
like to see Cooper Flag. Ideally, where I'd like to
see Cooper Flag end up is where he can be
a number two or three.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (30:23):
I don't want him going in and immediately having to
be the cornerstone of a new situation, especially if it's
not a developed culture. But and and that's why I
say any of those teams, even you know, Toronto, I
think is a little farther down the line.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I like.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
I like a lot of what they have. I don't
know how well the Cooper Flag Scottie Barnes combination works.
That would be my only my my only hesitation there.
But a lot of those other teams, like I do
not want to see him in Washington, I don't want
to see him in Charlotte like those those teams have
(31:01):
established stars that I would think are are not going
to be good for his development. So and Philadelphia is
such a mixed bag, and I don't it's it's this
is kind of a treacherous situation for Cooper Flag if
we want him to become everything that we think he
can become, because the candidates are not are not exactly
(31:23):
star stuttered.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
No, no, they're no, they're not. It's going to be fascinating. Hey,
you great stuff as always, man, thanks for taking us
the time with us. Let's talk next week.
Speaker 8 (31:31):
Sounds good.
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take us home with the press.
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Speaker 4 (32:06):
D anybody got I think Sam played lover Boy because
of Canada?
Speaker 6 (32:10):
All right? Correct?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
The Stanley Cup playoffs and my help for a Canadian team.
Just Canada hasn't won one in thirty plus years, and
I figure that the market, whatever market wins, will go
absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Please.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
Plus, it's just that it's Canada's sport.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
And then when you have that drought like it's yeah,
like I just I want them to win one.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
Big Ley, I'll say.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I mean, listen, they've been President Trump wants to absorb
his fifty per state like this is their their solidarity moment.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
I know that some people may think that it could
be political, but it has nothing to do with politics.
I also just don't like those warm weather cities winning
Stanley Cups.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
There's no ice down there.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
It's weird. It's weird. It's like, look, I'm not a
Knicks fan, my late father was. I'd love to see
the NIXT the title because they care about it and
people would go bunkers for it. I think it'd be
good for the NBA. Same again, I know the country
is bigger than just an area, but kind of same
thought process of you.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Dan.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Also, Doug called Dan lover boy earlier in the show.
All that's why. But of course the Canadian thing. Yes, yes,
of course?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
What else?
Speaker 6 (33:21):
I got my red leather pants on right now? All right?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Moving on, NBC announced that Michael Jordan will be a
special contributor to their NBA covered starting next season when
the new TV deal is in place.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Does that mean that?
Speaker 8 (33:36):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
What's the what's the former NBC employee?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (33:41):
God, they were like best buddies. Yeah, is a mad
shod also joined the coverage. It feels like that's gonna
happen next.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
They should call the segment sheer Will. Wasn't that one
of his questions? Michael sheer Will, Then you just point
the microphone over. Are you excited to see Michael Joan
in that role earlier on the show you were.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I mean, I just think it's a great get. Like
I want to be the who's that that that comes from?
Whoever the top executive NBC is. Do you know how
hard that is to get? No one's been able to
do it. No one that's a great get.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Do Commas and zero's matter when you're Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
No, I mean, there's got to be a relationship piece
with whoever he'd agree to do the deal with.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Like what is the Yeah, it's a weird one.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
This is gonna I don't want to speak on Jason's behalf,
but I feel like this is going to demystify Michael
Jordan a little bit because he's been he's been his
own man and in control of his own narrative for
the last twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So I do wonder how much Peyton Manning have it
his own thing. You know, Peyton didn't want to do games,
but he created his own thing. I just I wonder
if Jordan gets to create his own thing again. That's
why you have it a moderate shod so you can
have somebody who can make you look really good. I
suggest work with Tarika, He'll make you look good.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I think that Jordan wants to keep his legacy alive,
and the further we go on in years, the further
we're away from it. And then if Lebron steps aside,
and there's going to be a time where then I
think it shifts because Lebron's no longer in the game
and he isn't a polarizing anymore. But I think that
(35:23):
this is That's why Jordan was able to speak during
the last dance. He had the final say on everything.
So I think that's what he wants to do. Fair enough,
don't you forget about me.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
It's honestly crazy because Magic was terrible, but he's gotten
multip opportunities to do it. Bird's never done it, doesn't
want to do it. Duncan haven't seen him. Kobe obviously
tragically passed away before he ever made it made it
to television. I mean, you talk about the all time greats,
like Charles Barkley's all time great on TV, but he
(35:59):
ain't might go Jordan, like, I'm fascinated to see what
that looks like.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Jason Stewart, any thoughts on this.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
I just think that the guy has spent the better
part of twenty five years cultivating this like Reightcluse persona
that when he does speak, it matters, And the only
thing that could go down in my mind is his
is his reputation. I had a lot more respect for
Tom Brady before I heard him started doing games. I
(36:25):
had a lot more respect from Magic Johnson before he
completely aborted himself on TV. The only way this could
go down, or the only way that this can go
is down for me.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
With Jordan, there is the outside think.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Remember there was a lot of stories about him needing
money and that's why he sold his nights to the Hornets. Right, sure, again,
I mean crazy to think Jordan needs some money.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
Well, no, I didn't think so, and that's why I
said I didn't think that Commas and Zeros were the
reason why he would do this.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know enough for the backstory.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I know there's definitely a legacy element, but Jason's one
hundred percent right, Like you can make yourself look really bad.
There's lots of people have never seen you play basketball,
who are gonna watch on TV and parse every every
sentence you say.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Donovan Mitchell a game time decision according to ESPN for
tomorrow's Game five is the Cavs are down three to
one to the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
They just feel done, don't they? They just feel done.
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Eagles and Cowboys to open up the NFL season in
Philadelphia on Thursday night, September fourth.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
NBC is having a heck of a day right first
announced Jordan on their you know Jordan is gonna cut.
It's gonna help them with their broadcast, and then they
get Cowboys Eagles.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Good day to be NBC.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
That's the press get out.
Speaker 7 (37:45):
There was the press.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
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