June 10, 2025 • 37 mins
Doug and the crew talk about Stefon Diggs and the way he chose to handle questions from the media about his viral video on a boat. NBC Sports DOT com's NBA writer and managing editor Kurt Helin joins Doug to talk about all of the headlines around the NBA. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through The Press.
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Speaker 3 (00:44):
It's It was a great question that you had there
Byer in terms of what's the most random NBA Finals team? Like,
Pacers being in this finals is pretty random. It's pretty random.
Oklahoma City is random enough, but Oklahoma City, he's had
the best record in the league.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, Pacers are really random.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yes, I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, it's one of those like, really is this It
feels like.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
When you know, a couple of years ago, went C
New State and FAU were both in Miami or in
the Final four, and you're like, this is weird, this
is weird.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, I would. I would even see say teams that
have won the title, like when the Raptors were in,
and I'm sure people felt it was weird that the
Bucks went in, but I felt like with the Bucks
it was a little bit of a slow build because
they were the you know, number one seed. Same thing
with kind of like the the Pacers for all those
years in the nineties and then finally breaking through in
two thousand, Like you could see them trying to climb
that mountain to get there. And some of these are
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just like specifically with the Raptors with Kawhi showing up
that one year and then all of a sudden they
were a nice team. They made the playoffs with deroz
In and Kyle Lowry, but that was a that was
even a weird one, and they won it all and.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
They went all.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
But also, you know, Golden State just got so many injuries,
you know, started with Durant caring his achilles and then
Clay towards ACL So that was a weird one. I
bring it up because, yeah, I mean, you have two
kind of random, interesting teams and it just feels everything
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feels off when it's not what you're used to. I mean,
there's no tradition to it. Everything feels it feels really weird.
But this was also kind of a state that we
were in when Jordan left the game, you know, or
at the end when Jordan came back out of retirement,
where we were kind of searching. You mentioned those NETS teams.
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The Nets teams were kind of a lot like these Pacer,
these Oklahoma City teams where they they had great players.
You're just saying it was weird to see the Nets
in the finals, and just because that organization, outside of
those couple of years, has not been a sterling representation
of what basketball is supposed to be like or competing
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for a championship. But the Nets were legit good. The
Spurs were boring, the style of play was boring. There's
like ten years there in the NBA where no one
wants to talk about everybody thinks they wanted to forget
before Lebron got that thing going and got to the finals,
because before that it was super.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Random, E boring, E just hard.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Like here we have an NBA Finals which is tied
it one apiece and we don't have another game for
another two days, and I can't tell you that there's
unequivocally energy towards sports talking talking about that series.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Correct. Game two didn't help either. Can I throw one
other new Jersey nets stat at you to kind of
add to this, because they won twenty six games the season.
Before entering that two thousand and two season, they had
never won fifty games in a season, and they'd only
been to the second round of the playoffs once. And
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then they end up going to the NBA Finals. Like
that's what was.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Super weird, super weird, really really strange, really really weird,
really really odd.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But it did happen. It did happen.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But god, what a odd time in sports to talk about.
All Right, I got a couple things to get to first,
let's get to some NFL stuff. Stefan Diggs met with
the media today. Okay, he's a new Patriots wide receiver.
Digs well traveled, obviously, the first time we've got a
chance to hear Stig's talk since the viral video of
him having the pink pottery supposedly pink cocaine, which is
(04:46):
not cocaine substance on his person. Here's Stefan Diggs earlier today.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I want to be as can do as you guys
as possible. I kind of like have everything where I
talk about my person likly people I don't know personally.
I'm pretty sure everybody here, men and women are great people,
but you know what I'm saying, kind of keep my
personal personal personal. I had a conversation with Drapes obviously,
Mack on everything that he said. He told me, you know,
hoping everybody making good decisions. What I'm saying. I had
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a conversation with people in the building as well, So
everything else is everything else, you know, the particular is
all internal. Obviously, it's a conversation. You know that's happening internal,
him saying, I can't have too much of a conversation
with about it. But I've been in this league ten years.
You can format the question many different ways. You know,
I'm gonna obviously ask it the same.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Way, so did you know what was being recorded?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Once again, you can format the question many different ways.
You know what I'm saying, I've been doing this for
ten years. The conversation that I have with Rabes and
the people in the building, obviously it's gonna be handling
internal you know what.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I'm saying in house thing.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
So I just read it happened, so you guys, and
again I would hate to repeat myself again.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay, Jace, do what do you think you're you're And
so you understand Jason Stewart once on his two that
he searched for whatever the opposite of BS was.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
What do you think as to Fund Diggs and how
he handled those questions?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I just think that there's a there's a couple pr strategies.
You could do what he just did and leave leave
reporters with more questions than answers, which almost never ends. Well,
if you're not going to provide answers, then there's going
to be speculation. Speculation equals distraction. And if I'm the
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head coach of the Patriots, do I want my player
adding to the distraction or to provide some pretty vanilla answers?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I understand there are some things that are not the
press does not deserve to be privy to. I do
think there was a couple there were some easy outs
there where again, when you have a couple of days
to prepare and you know the questions are going to
ask you can answer them.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You know, do I regret it? Of course? Of course, even.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
If you know, even when I did nothing wrong, I
regret the fact that there's a perception that I did,
which creates this narrative of somebody that I'm not.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Of course, I like, do I regret it? That is
a good question. Did you know you were being filmed?
I don't know. I wouldn't know he was being filmed.
I know it would be a phone.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
That was the part that bothered me the most was like,
he clearly didn't care that he was being filmed. Bier,
what do you think of his He he was smart
to not be terse, but he did a Q and
A but didn't want to actually do the A.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, I think I think he knew he was being filmed.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Of course he did.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And so to that aspect of it, I would just
expect I would expect more from someone who's been in
the league that long. That sort of questioning to me
is maybe twenty two year old, twenty three year old
kid in the league. I hate to say that Stefan
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Diggs knows better, But Stefan Diggs knows better. I mean
he should, and so then to hear this stuff today
of its it comes off as not taking any responsibility
for anything that is happening, and that's the part that
rubs me the wrong way. On it seemed like a
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of a party from the videos that we saw, but
still party.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
B's downstairs, a couple of a couple of decent little
women and bikinis upstairs. Fun to hang out with him.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I thought I saw Sam somewhere in there. Were you
in there?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Sam?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Is that where you were out there?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
No? I was not on the boat, unfortunately or fortunately.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Just to just want to make sure it does.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Pretten up that it brings up the conversation I think.
I don't know if it was a podcast conversation or
we had it on the air recently. Were I think
that most people or on something. If you're walking down
the street, eighty percent of people that you encounter are
on something prescribed or not. The only explanation for him
not knowing new his film is that he was very high.
(09:13):
And at that point do you really remember or acknowledge
peripheral stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I don't know the answer to that because I've never
been high, so I don't never been sitting there on
something on some substance and like, I don't know if
I'm being filmed or not.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's a hard one, Dan, do you do you operate
on the assumption that everybody's high, everybody's on something.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I felt that I was pretty naive, especially when I
came out to California twenty years ago, and then I've
learned that I maybe shouldn't be as naive.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
No had I had friends in high school and they
were like, yeah, we dropped acid in high school.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Like what when? Like, yeah, just I don't know, it's
like a Wednesday. What were you doing? Like I was
playing basketball? You were dropping acid in high school?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Well, this is yeah, this is This is also one
of those things where this video what dropped last week
was that when it because I felt I felt I
was gone, like I wasn't here when this became a topic.
So I didn't even really see the video. I had
heard about the video. So I've saw the video for
the first time within the last twenty four hours, and
I'm looking at it right now, and there's a woman
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who actually looks back at the camera as she's sitting
right in front of stuff on Diggs, And so that's
why I think that he has to know. Unless your
point is is that he was on something so much,
but he feels like he was composed. I just don't
know how.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I felt like you was composed.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I felt like, if anything, the out would have been
I was done something they were I had some for them.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
They can go do that. I don't need to do that.
I just I just brought it to him so they
can have a good time. I don't know that works
for people.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Sam, What about you did the Q and A work
for you? Are you like, okay, I'm good with I'm
good with Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Now, yeah, I wasn't. I wasn't surprised by how he
answered that. It was just that's your standard deflection when you're,
you know, a pro athlete or it's like kind of
like being interrogated by the police, like you're you're you're
trying to protect your own rights, trying to protect information.
I mean, he he's he sidestepped and deflected and didn't
really give real answers. Uh, And I would expect him
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to do that. That's probably the smart thing to do.
Why would you why would you divulge information just telling
you know, reporters everything about that day when you really
don't need to, and then it just creates more stories.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
What's your approach with the police, please pull you over?
Are you super friendly guy? Are you defined guy? Are
you matter of fact guy?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
What's your I'm friendly. I'm I'm very friendly with you know,
I'm very friendly with the police and civil But I also, like,
I'm not gonna be bullied around. I know my rights
and I know what's necessary to do in the moment,
Like in terms of you know, I know, if I'm
just being pulled over for not using my blinker or
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speeding or whatever I may have, there's no reason for
like my car to be searched, Like I know that.
So I definitely am not going to be like stepped on.
But I'm very I'm very civil with law enforcement, Jay Stu.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Are you exceptionally behaved and well mannered? Yes? I respect
law and order.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
I do.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I'm very respectful of it. I do, add times, get
a little annoyed at the pace, at the pace of
things like come on, like if you're going to give
me a ticket, give me a ticket. I the time
between when they take your license and go back to
their vehicle and call it in and decide. Am I
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giving this guy a warning? Am I giving this guy
a ticket that feels like it lasts an eternity?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Yeah, it can go fifteen twenty minutes, and usually you're
you're speeding because you're trying to get somewhere quickly, right,
and then you're pulled over, and that's made even worse
by the delay of getting your ticket.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I don't understand how one grown man could feel comfortable
and okay with having an other grown man tell him
that he was doing wrong. So I think that there
is no matter what this underlying sense, even grown woman
officer of when you're our age, if you're at any
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point between twenty five and fifty five, I think just
that interaction is unless you're like, oh, man, I knew
it was going eighty four in a fifty five. I
knew it I was speeding. But there is an underlying
of like believe you need bleep? What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
So what is your general You're on the freeway, the
speed limit is sixty five. What do you believe is
fair and reasonable to go?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Well? I always thought the thing was with an undertan.
So if you're going seven four.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yes you're good, Yes you're good, Like don't even blink
twice at seventy four. But you'll hear people go like, well,
you know, outside of California, it's like four miles over. Like,
I don't know anybody who goes thirty nine to thirty five.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I just don't.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
When I was back back home last week, Doug, I
was driving on the freeway and was probably going twelve
over past the cop But I wasn't doing anything crazy,
and you know, nothing happened. Maybe he didn't have his gun,
maybe that was the case. Maybe he's looking for something else.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
But Jay stew what's your usual? How many miles out
and how over?
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Oh? I mean, Dan's driven with me. I don't know
if if the freeways allowing me to go ninety five,
I go ninety five. Like, I reject the premise that
the that the HP cares how fast you're going and
what's you're recklessly driving or over one hundred. It's what
time of the month is it? Is it the time
of the month where we need to increase our revenue
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for the state and make a quota And it doesn't matter.
Or you could be going, you know, four miles an hour,
half over or nine and it doesn't matter. In their world.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'm like California.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I remember getting pulled over on the fifty five. If
you ever lived in Orange County, the fifty five, you
know goes kind of bisex right up the middle of
central Orange County. I remember get pulled over one time.
It's like, oh, you're going like eighty four on the
fifty five. It's I was like, and I just want
to go like, yeah, everybody's going eighty five on this,
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like literally everybody. Well yeah, but I got you, Like yeah,
but why did you get me?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
What was the point?
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Because I need to meet a quota and you got unlucky.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
What do you think their quota is? How many people
do you think they need to pull over?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I have no idea, but I still stand.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
On I just have several friends who are law enforcement officers,
and they just say that there is a at a
certain part of the month, if there is a need
to hit a certain number their jurisdiction or whatever, then
they tell their CHP cops to get the revenue.
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Speaker 2 (16:34):
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Speaker 3 (16:36):
He's the lead NBA writer managing editor for nbcsports dot Com. Course,
NBC just sort o get in the NBA next year,
so they'll be back on Peacock and the Peacock if
you will, which is NBC. Kirk joins us now on
the Doug gollib Show. Kirk, if you were to give
a two sentenced synopsis over the NBA Finals to date,
what would it be?
Speaker 9 (16:59):
That's a good one. Oklahoma is still the better team,
but feisty Indiana's got a chance in this. Let me
get yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Game three is everything, isn't it?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
I would say Game four is going to be the
is going to be critical. But I'm really curious to
see because I think even Oklahoma was talking to the city,
was talking about this today and they're players at the practice.
They haven't been good in game threes. They know they're
going to get Okay in Indiana's best punch, and I
think they feel like if they can come out and
establish themselves here, it's really going to knock them for
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a loop. And it would. It would make Game four
must win for Indiana and put a lot of pressure
on them, and I think they're fully capable. I still
think Oklahoma City is the better team. I just will
see if they're going to rattle off for a role
rather getting a hyped Pacers team that is a really
good team to lose to at home is going to
be a challenge.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Uh Nemhart did a great job in a good job
in game one. The counter was okay, let's put Shay
in the post, and he was both a facilitator and
a scorer in game two. What's the Indiana counter to that?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
That's a really good question. I think you're going to
see a defensive switch a little bit on him when
he if he tries to post up. I think they'd
love to scram out of that a little bit and
maybe put a Siakham or somebody bigger on him and
challenge him down there, or bring help earlier, or do
something The problem is, and it's one of the things
both these teams do, but it's the big problem with
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with the Thunder is there's nobody to really sag off,
like I mean, guess Lou Dort sort of, but Lou
can hurt you from there, Like there's not a weak
link out there where you're like, man, this is the
guy we got to just target or on defense or
the guy we got to sag off. They'll kind of
hurts you anywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio, Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Oklahoma City. In terms of.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Resident like, do you think this is a team that
competes for multiple NBA titles if they stay as they
are constructed, knowing that other teams are going to reconstruct themselves.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
Yeah, I think that. Look as long, I feel like
dynasty windows are going to be shorter, especially in the
new CBA. It's just going to be so hard to
keep guys together. And we're already seeing you know, Boston's
gonna be break, you know, Drew Holiday's probably gone and
then they've already he should should they trade Jalen Brown?
Talk like it's just going to be so hard to
keep teams together. We saw it with Denver. They are
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in a better position just because they've got this season
and next season with chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams on
rookie deals, right, and then they've got Doug. I forget
the exact number, but I believe it's six twenty four
picks over the next seven years, right, yeah, yeah, And
that allows them with a couple of good drafts or
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to use those picks to leverage to bring in somebody,
you know, short term, kind of like they got Caruso
and Hartenstein, where neither of those guys are probably going
to be here in two years, but they can afford
to kind of bring them in right now. On the
short term. I think they're better set up to do
it than anybody. But eventually, I think the map that
catches up with them and the league catches up with them.
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But they're better positioned than most. If somebody is going
to break this, you know, where this will be seven
years in a row without a repeat champion. I think
that they're really well poised to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
The Bucks went for it, right, They went and said,
all right, we're gonna get Damian Lillard. We're going to
make another push and Lillard ends up tarin his achilles tendon,
and now they're gonna lose Lopez and they're probably gonna
have to start over here. I'm not like, a, hey,
leave your original team, but it does feel like if
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Giannis is going to leave, this is the time.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Does it happen this year?
Speaker 9 (20:53):
I think what you said is exactly what John Worst
and the Bucks are going to try to say to him,
which is, if you're going to do this, do this now.
I don't want to have this discussion again next year,
right like, let's do it now or not do it.
That said, they'll never financially, they just can't ask him
to leave, Like he's just worth too much to the
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franchise in terms of the sponsors he brings in and
then filling the building and popularity with fans and all that.
So I would say right now it's I mean, it's
tough to tell from the outside. My guess is it's
fifty to fifty. I will tell you, Doug that people
I've talked to from other teams around the league are
very much in wait and see mode, are very much
in I'll believe you know, maybe I'll believe it when
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I see it. Would be the other way to phrase that,
they're not convinced he's going to ask out because the
options are, Hey, I can go if he goes to
Houston or San Antonio, they're instant contenders. But then you
go to the West with Oklahoma City and Denver and
Luke and Lebron and Curry and Butler and an on
down the list. Right, you can stay in the East,
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but you're gonna it's gonna be Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks, right,
You're just gonna gut the roster to get in there.
And then it's gonna be the same situation where it's
him against the world and not having enough around him.
So I'm not sure if he's looking at this that
he's suddenly like there's some great option for me out there.
I'm not sure what he's gonna choose.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Okay, what about the Knicks and Jason Kidd? Make it
make sense?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
To make it makes sense to all of us, right,
because on one hand, got we were told nobody wants
to work for Jim Dolan, and Jim Dolan, by all accounts,
is the one that pulled the trigger on this thing.
Now I know Jay Kidd played his last NBA game
with the Knicks and then turn around to coach the Nets.
But he's in Dallas. They're getting Cooper the Cooper flag.
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You'll get Kyrie back. Granted he's got some he's had
some injuries, and you do have Anthony Davis, like, make
it make sense to me.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
The the argument would go like this. He did not
and this is this so much we all know he
did not like being out. I don't want to say
being the face of that trade, because obviously Miko Harrison
took a lot of heat for that, but Nico wasn't
really speaking to the press. The guy who was in
the room every day talking to the media and kind
of out in front of this was Kid. He did
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not like that trade. He did not like the situation.
He may not be horribly fond of the new ownership there,
so maybe he thinks the grass is greener in New York. Although,
like you said, you know, James Dolan is excited about
having a good team again and that makes him more
involved and I'm not sure that's good. But I'm not
not sure that's not good for the next Let's just
(23:38):
be fun about that. So if he's unhappy enough because
he talked himself into New York being a better situation
because I think he realizes well as we all do,
the East is a little more wide open next year
with the Jason Tatum injury. It feels like you've got
you've got a real swing. So if you can get
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there and get a little more out of these guys
and you know, maybe they maybe they bring in a
little more depth and shooting and whatever else, maybe you
can make a run at it. And then you know,
as you know, whoever the star player and coach are
for the next next time they win a title, they'll
never pay for a meal again.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Right, No, No, I've told people that for years. But
I mean, how many different coaches from pat Riley to
I mean, you name a good coaches, big names, Phil Jackson,
Have you know Ben Gundy, Phil Jackson, pat Riley, you
name it. They've all taken a shot, Dan Tone, They've
all taken a shot at it, and none of them
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been able to do it. And now you get closer
than you've gotten in twenty five years, and they fired
the guy, and you're like, that's a okay, Durant. I
mean it's starting to heat up that he's gonna be moved,
most likely destinations.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Where I wish I could. This is great radio. I'm
not totally sure. There's a lot of teams that are interested.
He's got to wait for that. He and everybody else
have to wait, like the the Yannis Domino has to fall, right.
But I would say keep an eye on, not so
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much Houston. There's been some San Antonio talk. I think
it's gonna be one of the teams in the East.
I would really, you know, there's a sneaky team to
watch in this. I don't know if he'd want to
go there. Toronto. Toronto is gonna be crazy aggressive this
offseason because they think they're close. They see the opening
in the East and they think if they can get
somebody like durant or or Giannis or some other star
(25:40):
next to Scottie Barnes and into that system, that they're
in a good place. I think he goes East, though
I think it's maybe he ends up in Cleveland, maybe somebody.
But I think he goes to an East team that's
going to take a swing at it.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
All right, let's circle back to the NBA Finals. India
has a chance. How great a chance do you give
them to win?
Speaker 9 (26:04):
The series, the series, mm hmm, five percent. Like I
just still don't think they're the better team. I still
think I still think they run into Scott. I mean,
Doug's the logistical problem of, well, these two teams play
a similar style.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
They don't and the Thunder and under a better edit, right.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
Exactly, better players, better at it. And when you ask
them today, we were talking about, Hey, what's making it
so tough on you guys to get good? You know,
you struggled from two and to get good looks. What's
making this so difficult? And they're just like, because they've
got four good perimeter defenders with chet Holmgren and isay
Hertsign behind them, Like it's it's just they're so good
(26:44):
defensively that I just don't see how they lose the series.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
It's a it's a it's a great point that they made,
and it does make it really really interesting to see
if the Pacers can use that pace and use home
court advantage. Still a five and a half point dog
going into Thursday's game, Kurt, enjoy the game, Enjoy the series.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
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Us, Hey, thank you for having me on your listeners.
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Speaker 8 (27:17):
Some have remorse.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior
I engage in.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Come on, but.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
There's nothing quite like buyer's remorse.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Dog. I touched a little bit on this yesterday when
we did Love and Hate, and it's the foam, all
the fear of missing out. And again day two of
the week long US Open events at Oakmont practice rounds
again happening today and there is just huge regret that
I did not plan. I don't know. Plan better is
not the case. I knew I had a trip back
home because my niece graduated. It's just going to be
(27:51):
a tough fit. But I always tell this to people
who want to go to sporting events, who have always said, oh,
I would love to go to go to that, to
go to that event and be there, I always tell them, go,
just figure out a way and go. If you want
to go to Augusta, pay the extreme fee that it
is so you can say you went to Augusta. You
(28:13):
have that story for twenty years, and I feel like
this is another opportunity where I should have just figured
out a way to, I don't know, go a day
or two. Life's different when you have a younger child
as well. But yeah, it just complete regret that I
didn't plan better and figure out a way to at
least be on the grounds for a day or two
at Oakmont. But when you get the opportunity, you got
(28:35):
to go to these events. And even I did not
listen to my advice.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Okay, it's fair enough.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Just go, Just go right, Go to that concert that
you've wanted to see, right, just go. Yeah, Sam, is
there a band that you would love to see? Yeah, sure,
just go and see him.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Then I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what, guys,
Just do it. Yes, Arcade Fire came out with their
album I think at twenty eighteen. Arcade Fire, that's one
of my bands. There were no scheduled dates for Los Angeles,
and I'm going to give you a little too much
information here, but yeah, what is that festival out in
the desert called Coachella. I guess every band that's booked
(29:18):
for Coachella. Can't book any Los Angeles tour dates until
after Coachella. Sure, So I saw this massive like gap
in Arcade Fire's tour and I'm like, I'm going to
miss him. And I drove up to Shoreline and saw them.
I drove up to Shoreline and saw them on a wheel.
And then after a Coachella they booked like nine LA spots.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
That was correct. It happens, heavens, But it's go. Just
just go be there.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Just go, man, just go.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
And I understand and I and I'm still saying to myself,
as we talked about yesterday, I'll be able to see
more golf. I'll be able to consume it more from
my couch than I would be from being on the grounds.
But there is something about being there. There's something about
just seeing the course as it is told you. I
got to play it. There are a lot of great memories.
(30:11):
I'm going to go through the photo album tonight, look
back at all the one hundred pictures that I took
on my round there golf. But yes, I regret that
that is where my remorse lies. It will lie there
tomorrow and then it will lie there through Sunday.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
That's my remorse, all right, that's buyer's remorse. It is
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think about the rules, I'll tell you next.
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Speaker 4 (31:37):
The Press, Doug a unique portion of the press today
includes changes that are coming to college basketball and as
a head coach, I am curious on your thoughts on
the changes that are coming to the men's game the
any with them. The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel today
approved changes to help enhance the flow of the game
(32:00):
for the upcoming season. Changes include a coaches challenge at
any point in a game to review out of bounds calls,
basket interference and goaltending, and whether a secondary defender was
in the restricted area arc. The panel also approved modifications
to the rule on continuous motion on field goal attempts
(32:20):
and also have addressed the conversation about halves to quarters.
But Doug, under the coaches challenge rule, teams must have
a timeout to request an instant replay review challenge on
one of those instances.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, I get they got to sit in that challenge.
Do I make sure I get it right in the
first half? He won the second half whatever. That sounds
like fun. Sounds like they're giving more of an NBA
field a continuation, right, A longer continuation, which I guess
I like.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Yes, says currently players are only credited with field goals
when they are followed while shooting the basketball. Now, an
offensive player who wins his dribble going toward the basket
and absorbs contact from the defense will be allowed to
pivot or complete this step the player is on and
finished the field goal attempt. This is all exact wording
from the nc DOUBLEA, and I want us to be plagiarism.
(33:07):
I just want to make sure we get the rules correct.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah. No, the quarters thing is not happening though yet
right correct.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
They said that they've included they've made positive momentum was
the phrase they used. But the committee realizes there are
hurdles to implementing the quarter format to the game, including
the structuring of media timeouts media timeouts to accommodate commercial inventory.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I mean, look, I would love to do FOBA, which
is way faster, and you can't call live ball timeouts.
The problem is the PHOEBA games are done in like
our thirty five hour forty and remember college basketball is
a two hour window, so it's how can they get
it to a two hour window? And media timeouts if
you don't know with a twenty minute half, okay, you
(33:51):
had them at sixteen, twelve, eight and four okay, so
you have four mandatory media timeouts, plus you have each
coach has what's called a use it or lose it,
So you're very likely to have at minimum five timeouts
in the first half. If you have quarters and they're
ten minute quarters like the women's game, do you do
(34:13):
you do it every four minutes like you do it
in the men's game. Do you do it every five minutes?
If you do every five quarter five, okay, that's only
three timeouts. And then if you have your loser loses,
that's five timeouts as opposed to what's possibly and that's
again if both guys use it, so it's like four
as opposed to five possibly six. So that's what they're
dealing with. You know, they got to have a way
(34:35):
to have the same number of mandatory timeouts and user
lose its or not. And so if the if at
ten minutes there's a timeout, that's one. How do they
put the how they structure the other two other three
in there.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Two minute warning. That's what they should install, right, just
so you can have that two minute commercial break, to
have a two minute warning. I'm joking. I do not
think they should institute a two minute warning, but I
actually follow to everything that you said there, Doug. Also,
officials now have the option to call a flagrant one
foul when a player true wording from the NCAA is
(35:09):
contacted to the groin. Used to only be a common
foul or flagrant too. Now you can call a flagrant
in one file.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
The problem that is like a shot.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
You can take a shot to the groin that's not intentional,
like we're judging. We're not judging intent, like, oh you
got shot to the groining, you got a shot to
the head. Like that's kind of basketball, right. It's not
basketball to line somebody up and intentionally need them in
the groin or hit them in the groin or whatever.
But guys do get hit in the groin unintentionally, and
it shouldn't be a flagrant. And yet based upon the
(35:40):
wording of this rule, it could be.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
And if one of the shot clocks becomes inoperable, instead
of shutting them both down, the one that works will
still be in use.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
What about when you can't get any power to your
clocks at all and then you move your game to
another site same day?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Uh, that happened last year.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
That was very specific.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Oh yes, yes. Lee Corso's final college game day appearance
on ESPN will come in the season opening weekend when
Ohio State entertains Texas in Columbus on Saturday, August thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Holy cow, what a game? What a game? What he
has to put on? The Buckeye had that thing?
Speaker 8 (36:19):
Right?
Speaker 4 (36:19):
He has to do is the first one that he
put on, It's got to be the last one that
he puts on.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Makes sense, right? Makes sense?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Do you have any favorite head gears? That that Oklahoma
State one was like a big plastic one. It seems
pretty heavy.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
It's not plastic. I think it's like plaster.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
It's fiber glass.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
A pistol. Peace. Yeah, he's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Yes, I love it.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
I mean, I just all I know is all those.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Guys that work on the show love him, love him,
treat him like their grandfather.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
They wish they had. He's awesome.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
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Shambo starts seven twenty nine Eastern time Thursday morning, and
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that's the press.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
They get out there and pressed.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
That was the press.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Some to look at in the next couple of days.
Right now, Indiana playing a home five and a half
point favorites. Where does that go before we get game
time on Thursday night. In the meantime, download the podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
A little weird. I know, it's beautiful and sunny in
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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for more NBA Finals, more Stanley Cup Finals, more outstanding
sports talk.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Do dot dot do.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
It's It was a great question that you had there
Byer in terms of what's the most random NBA Finals team? Like,
Pacers being in this finals is pretty random. It's pretty random.
Oklahoma City is random enough, but Oklahoma City, he's had
the best record in the league.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, Pacers are really random.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yes, I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, it's one of those like, really is this It
feels like.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
When you know, a couple of years ago, went C
New State and FAU were both in Miami or in
the Final four, and you're like, this is weird, this
is weird.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah, I would. I would even see say teams that
have won the title, like when the Raptors were in,
and I'm sure people felt it was weird that the
Bucks went in, but I felt like with the Bucks
it was a little bit of a slow build because
they were the you know, number one seed. Same thing
with kind of like the the Pacers for all those
years in the nineties and then finally breaking through in
two thousand, Like you could see them trying to climb
that mountain to get there. And some of these are
(01:42):
just like specifically with the Raptors with Kawhi showing up
that one year and then all of a sudden they
were a nice team. They made the playoffs with deroz
In and Kyle Lowry, but that was a that was
even a weird one, and they won it all and.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
They went all.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
But also, you know, Golden State just got so many injuries,
you know, started with Durant caring his achilles and then
Clay towards ACL So that was a weird one. I
bring it up because, yeah, I mean, you have two
kind of random, interesting teams and it just feels everything
(02:23):
feels off when it's not what you're used to. I mean,
there's no tradition to it. Everything feels it feels really weird.
But this was also kind of a state that we
were in when Jordan left the game, you know, or
at the end when Jordan came back out of retirement,
where we were kind of searching. You mentioned those NETS teams.
(02:44):
The Nets teams were kind of a lot like these Pacer,
these Oklahoma City teams where they they had great players.
You're just saying it was weird to see the Nets
in the finals, and just because that organization, outside of
those couple of years, has not been a sterling representation
of what basketball is supposed to be like or competing
(03:04):
for a championship. But the Nets were legit good. The
Spurs were boring, the style of play was boring. There's
like ten years there in the NBA where no one
wants to talk about everybody thinks they wanted to forget
before Lebron got that thing going and got to the finals,
because before that it was super.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Random, E boring, E just hard.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Like here we have an NBA Finals which is tied
it one apiece and we don't have another game for
another two days, and I can't tell you that there's
unequivocally energy towards sports talking talking about that series.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Correct. Game two didn't help either. Can I throw one
other new Jersey nets stat at you to kind of
add to this, because they won twenty six games the season.
Before entering that two thousand and two season, they had
never won fifty games in a season, and they'd only
been to the second round of the playoffs once. And
(04:06):
then they end up going to the NBA Finals. Like
that's what was.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Super weird, super weird, really really strange, really really weird,
really really odd.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But it did happen. It did happen.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
But god, what a odd time in sports to talk about.
All Right, I got a couple things to get to first,
let's get to some NFL stuff. Stefan Diggs met with
the media today. Okay, he's a new Patriots wide receiver.
Digs well traveled, obviously, the first time we've got a
chance to hear Stig's talk since the viral video of
him having the pink pottery supposedly pink cocaine, which is
(04:46):
not cocaine substance on his person. Here's Stefan Diggs earlier today.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I want to be as can do as you guys
as possible. I kind of like have everything where I
talk about my person likly people I don't know personally.
I'm pretty sure everybody here, men and women are great people,
but you know what I'm saying, kind of keep my
personal personal personal. I had a conversation with Drapes obviously,
Mack on everything that he said. He told me, you know,
hoping everybody making good decisions. What I'm saying. I had
(05:11):
a conversation with people in the building as well, So
everything else is everything else, you know, the particular is
all internal. Obviously, it's a conversation. You know that's happening internal,
him saying, I can't have too much of a conversation
with about it. But I've been in this league ten years.
You can format the question many different ways. You know,
I'm gonna obviously ask it the same.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Way, so did you know what was being recorded?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Once again, you can format the question many different ways.
You know what I'm saying, I've been doing this for
ten years. The conversation that I have with Rabes and
the people in the building, obviously it's gonna be handling
internal you know what.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I'm saying in house thing.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
So I just read it happened, so you guys, and
again I would hate to repeat myself again.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay, Jace, do what do you think you're you're And
so you understand Jason Stewart once on his two that
he searched for whatever the opposite of BS was.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
What do you think as to Fund Diggs and how
he handled those questions?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
I just think that there's a there's a couple pr strategies.
You could do what he just did and leave leave
reporters with more questions than answers, which almost never ends. Well,
if you're not going to provide answers, then there's going
to be speculation. Speculation equals distraction. And if I'm the
(06:33):
head coach of the Patriots, do I want my player
adding to the distraction or to provide some pretty vanilla answers?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I understand there are some things that are not the
press does not deserve to be privy to. I do
think there was a couple there were some easy outs
there where again, when you have a couple of days
to prepare and you know the questions are going to
ask you can answer them.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
You know, do I regret it? Of course? Of course, even.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
If you know, even when I did nothing wrong, I
regret the fact that there's a perception that I did,
which creates this narrative of somebody that I'm not.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Of course, I like, do I regret it? That is
a good question. Did you know you were being filmed?
I don't know. I wouldn't know he was being filmed.
I know it would be a phone.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
That was the part that bothered me the most was like,
he clearly didn't care that he was being filmed. Bier,
what do you think of his He he was smart
to not be terse, but he did a Q and
A but didn't want to actually do the A.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, I think I think he knew he was being filmed.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Of course he did.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And so to that aspect of it, I would just
expect I would expect more from someone who's been in
the league that long. That sort of questioning to me
is maybe twenty two year old, twenty three year old
kid in the league. I hate to say that Stefan
(08:10):
Diggs knows better, But Stefan Diggs knows better. I mean
he should, and so then to hear this stuff today
of its it comes off as not taking any responsibility
for anything that is happening, and that's the part that
rubs me the wrong way. On it seemed like a
(08:30):
of a party from the videos that we saw, but
still party.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
B's downstairs, a couple of a couple of decent little
women and bikinis upstairs. Fun to hang out with him.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I thought I saw Sam somewhere in there. Were you
in there?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Sam?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Is that where you were out there?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
No? I was not on the boat, unfortunately or fortunately.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Just to just want to make sure it does.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
Pretten up that it brings up the conversation I think.
I don't know if it was a podcast conversation or
we had it on the air recently. Were I think
that most people or on something. If you're walking down
the street, eighty percent of people that you encounter are
on something prescribed or not. The only explanation for him
not knowing new his film is that he was very high.
(09:13):
And at that point do you really remember or acknowledge
peripheral stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I don't know the answer to that because I've never
been high, so I don't never been sitting there on
something on some substance and like, I don't know if
I'm being filmed or not.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's a hard one, Dan, do you do you operate
on the assumption that everybody's high, everybody's on something.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I felt that I was pretty naive, especially when I
came out to California twenty years ago, and then I've
learned that I maybe shouldn't be as naive.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
No had I had friends in high school and they
were like, yeah, we dropped acid in high school.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Like what when? Like, yeah, just I don't know, it's
like a Wednesday. What were you doing? Like I was
playing basketball? You were dropping acid in high school?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Well, this is yeah, this is This is also one
of those things where this video what dropped last week
was that when it because I felt I felt I
was gone, like I wasn't here when this became a topic.
So I didn't even really see the video. I had
heard about the video. So I've saw the video for
the first time within the last twenty four hours, and
I'm looking at it right now, and there's a woman
(10:28):
who actually looks back at the camera as she's sitting
right in front of stuff on Diggs, And so that's
why I think that he has to know. Unless your
point is is that he was on something so much,
but he feels like he was composed. I just don't
know how.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I felt like you was composed.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
I felt like, if anything, the out would have been
I was done something they were I had some for them.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
They can go do that. I don't need to do that.
I just I just brought it to him so they
can have a good time. I don't know that works
for people.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Sam, What about you did the Q and A work
for you? Are you like, okay, I'm good with I'm
good with Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Now, yeah, I wasn't. I wasn't surprised by how he
answered that. It was just that's your standard deflection when you're,
you know, a pro athlete or it's like kind of
like being interrogated by the police, like you're you're you're
trying to protect your own rights, trying to protect information.
I mean, he he's he sidestepped and deflected and didn't
really give real answers. Uh, And I would expect him
(11:27):
to do that. That's probably the smart thing to do.
Why would you why would you divulge information just telling
you know, reporters everything about that day when you really
don't need to, and then it just creates more stories.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
What's your approach with the police, please pull you over?
Are you super friendly guy? Are you defined guy? Are
you matter of fact guy?
Speaker 7 (11:43):
What's your I'm friendly. I'm I'm very friendly with you know,
I'm very friendly with the police and civil But I also, like,
I'm not gonna be bullied around. I know my rights
and I know what's necessary to do in the moment,
Like in terms of you know, I know, if I'm
just being pulled over for not using my blinker or
(12:05):
speeding or whatever I may have, there's no reason for
like my car to be searched, Like I know that.
So I definitely am not going to be like stepped on.
But I'm very I'm very civil with law enforcement, Jay Stu.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Are you exceptionally behaved and well mannered? Yes? I respect
law and order.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
I do.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I'm very respectful of it. I do, add times, get
a little annoyed at the pace, at the pace of
things like come on, like if you're going to give
me a ticket, give me a ticket. I the time
between when they take your license and go back to
their vehicle and call it in and decide. Am I
(12:45):
giving this guy a warning? Am I giving this guy
a ticket that feels like it lasts an eternity?
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Yeah, it can go fifteen twenty minutes, and usually you're
you're speeding because you're trying to get somewhere quickly, right,
and then you're pulled over, and that's made even worse
by the delay of getting your ticket.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I don't understand how one grown man could feel comfortable
and okay with having an other grown man tell him
that he was doing wrong. So I think that there
is no matter what this underlying sense, even grown woman
officer of when you're our age, if you're at any
(13:23):
point between twenty five and fifty five, I think just
that interaction is unless you're like, oh, man, I knew
it was going eighty four in a fifty five. I
knew it I was speeding. But there is an underlying
of like believe you need bleep? What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
So what is your general You're on the freeway, the
speed limit is sixty five. What do you believe is
fair and reasonable to go?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Well? I always thought the thing was with an undertan.
So if you're going seven four.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Yes you're good, Yes you're good, Like don't even blink
twice at seventy four. But you'll hear people go like, well,
you know, outside of California, it's like four miles over. Like,
I don't know anybody who goes thirty nine to thirty five.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I just don't.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
When I was back back home last week, Doug, I
was driving on the freeway and was probably going twelve
over past the cop But I wasn't doing anything crazy,
and you know, nothing happened. Maybe he didn't have his gun,
maybe that was the case. Maybe he's looking for something else.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
But Jay stew what's your usual? How many miles out
and how over?
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Oh? I mean, Dan's driven with me. I don't know
if if the freeways allowing me to go ninety five,
I go ninety five. Like, I reject the premise that
the that the HP cares how fast you're going and
what's you're recklessly driving or over one hundred. It's what
time of the month is it? Is it the time
of the month where we need to increase our revenue
(14:56):
for the state and make a quota And it doesn't matter.
Or you could be going, you know, four miles an hour,
half over or nine and it doesn't matter. In their world.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I'm like California.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
I remember getting pulled over on the fifty five. If
you ever lived in Orange County, the fifty five, you
know goes kind of bisex right up the middle of
central Orange County. I remember get pulled over one time.
It's like, oh, you're going like eighty four on the
fifty five. It's I was like, and I just want
to go like, yeah, everybody's going eighty five on this,
(15:29):
like literally everybody. Well yeah, but I got you, Like yeah,
but why did you get me?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
What was the point?
Speaker 6 (15:34):
Because I need to meet a quota and you got unlucky.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
What do you think their quota is? How many people
do you think they need to pull over?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I have no idea, but I still stand.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
On I just have several friends who are law enforcement officers,
and they just say that there is a at a
certain part of the month, if there is a need
to hit a certain number their jurisdiction or whatever, then
they tell their CHP cops to get the revenue.
Speaker 8 (16:03):
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Speaker 2 (16:34):
Curt Kurt Healing joins us.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
He's the lead NBA writer managing editor for nbcsports dot Com. Course,
NBC just sort o get in the NBA next year,
so they'll be back on Peacock and the Peacock if
you will, which is NBC. Kirk joins us now on
the Doug gollib Show. Kirk, if you were to give
a two sentenced synopsis over the NBA Finals to date,
what would it be?
Speaker 9 (16:59):
That's a good one. Oklahoma is still the better team,
but feisty Indiana's got a chance in this. Let me
get yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Game three is everything, isn't it?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
I would say Game four is going to be the
is going to be critical. But I'm really curious to
see because I think even Oklahoma was talking to the city,
was talking about this today and they're players at the practice.
They haven't been good in game threes. They know they're
going to get Okay in Indiana's best punch, and I
think they feel like if they can come out and
establish themselves here, it's really going to knock them for
(17:37):
a loop. And it would. It would make Game four
must win for Indiana and put a lot of pressure
on them, and I think they're fully capable. I still
think Oklahoma City is the better team. I just will
see if they're going to rattle off for a role
rather getting a hyped Pacers team that is a really
good team to lose to at home is going to
be a challenge.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Uh Nemhart did a great job in a good job
in game one. The counter was okay, let's put Shay
in the post, and he was both a facilitator and
a scorer in game two. What's the Indiana counter to that?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
That's a really good question. I think you're going to
see a defensive switch a little bit on him when
he if he tries to post up. I think they'd
love to scram out of that a little bit and
maybe put a Siakham or somebody bigger on him and
challenge him down there, or bring help earlier, or do
something The problem is, and it's one of the things
both these teams do, but it's the big problem with
(18:29):
with the Thunder is there's nobody to really sag off,
like I mean, guess Lou Dort sort of, but Lou
can hurt you from there, Like there's not a weak
link out there where you're like, man, this is the
guy we got to just target or on defense or
the guy we got to sag off. They'll kind of
hurts you anywhere.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio, Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Oklahoma City. In terms of.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Resident like, do you think this is a team that
competes for multiple NBA titles if they stay as they
are constructed, knowing that other teams are going to reconstruct themselves.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
Yeah, I think that. Look as long, I feel like
dynasty windows are going to be shorter, especially in the
new CBA. It's just going to be so hard to
keep guys together. And we're already seeing you know, Boston's
gonna be break, you know, Drew Holiday's probably gone and
then they've already he should should they trade Jalen Brown?
Talk like it's just going to be so hard to
keep teams together. We saw it with Denver. They are
(19:30):
in a better position just because they've got this season
and next season with chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams on
rookie deals, right, and then they've got Doug. I forget
the exact number, but I believe it's six twenty four
picks over the next seven years, right, yeah, yeah, And
that allows them with a couple of good drafts or
(19:51):
to use those picks to leverage to bring in somebody,
you know, short term, kind of like they got Caruso
and Hartenstein, where neither of those guys are probably going
to be here in two years, but they can afford
to kind of bring them in right now. On the
short term. I think they're better set up to do
it than anybody. But eventually, I think the map that
catches up with them and the league catches up with them.
(20:12):
But they're better positioned than most. If somebody is going
to break this, you know, where this will be seven
years in a row without a repeat champion. I think
that they're really well poised to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
The Bucks went for it, right, They went and said,
all right, we're gonna get Damian Lillard. We're going to
make another push and Lillard ends up tarin his achilles tendon,
and now they're gonna lose Lopez and they're probably gonna
have to start over here. I'm not like, a, hey,
leave your original team, but it does feel like if
(20:46):
Giannis is going to leave, this is the time.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Does it happen this year?
Speaker 9 (20:53):
I think what you said is exactly what John Worst
and the Bucks are going to try to say to him,
which is, if you're going to do this, do this now.
I don't want to have this discussion again next year,
right like, let's do it now or not do it.
That said, they'll never financially, they just can't ask him
to leave, Like he's just worth too much to the
(21:14):
franchise in terms of the sponsors he brings in and
then filling the building and popularity with fans and all that.
So I would say right now it's I mean, it's
tough to tell from the outside. My guess is it's
fifty to fifty. I will tell you, Doug that people
I've talked to from other teams around the league are
very much in wait and see mode, are very much
in I'll believe you know, maybe I'll believe it when
(21:36):
I see it. Would be the other way to phrase that,
they're not convinced he's going to ask out because the
options are, Hey, I can go if he goes to
Houston or San Antonio, they're instant contenders. But then you
go to the West with Oklahoma City and Denver and
Luke and Lebron and Curry and Butler and an on
down the list. Right, you can stay in the East,
(21:57):
but you're gonna it's gonna be Carmelo Anthony to the Knicks, right,
You're just gonna gut the roster to get in there.
And then it's gonna be the same situation where it's
him against the world and not having enough around him.
So I'm not sure if he's looking at this that
he's suddenly like there's some great option for me out there.
I'm not sure what he's gonna choose.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Okay, what about the Knicks and Jason Kidd? Make it
make sense?
Speaker 3 (22:23):
To make it makes sense to all of us, right,
because on one hand, got we were told nobody wants
to work for Jim Dolan, and Jim Dolan, by all accounts,
is the one that pulled the trigger on this thing.
Now I know Jay Kidd played his last NBA game
with the Knicks and then turn around to coach the Nets.
But he's in Dallas. They're getting Cooper the Cooper flag.
(22:44):
You'll get Kyrie back. Granted he's got some he's had
some injuries, and you do have Anthony Davis, like, make
it make sense to me.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
The the argument would go like this. He did not
and this is this so much we all know he
did not like being out. I don't want to say
being the face of that trade, because obviously Miko Harrison
took a lot of heat for that, but Nico wasn't
really speaking to the press. The guy who was in
the room every day talking to the media and kind
of out in front of this was Kid. He did
(23:16):
not like that trade. He did not like the situation.
He may not be horribly fond of the new ownership there,
so maybe he thinks the grass is greener in New York. Although,
like you said, you know, James Dolan is excited about
having a good team again and that makes him more
involved and I'm not sure that's good. But I'm not
not sure that's not good for the next Let's just
(23:38):
be fun about that. So if he's unhappy enough because
he talked himself into New York being a better situation
because I think he realizes well as we all do,
the East is a little more wide open next year
with the Jason Tatum injury. It feels like you've got
you've got a real swing. So if you can get
(23:59):
there and get a little more out of these guys
and you know, maybe they maybe they bring in a
little more depth and shooting and whatever else, maybe you
can make a run at it. And then you know,
as you know, whoever the star player and coach are
for the next next time they win a title, they'll
never pay for a meal again.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Right, No, No, I've told people that for years. But
I mean, how many different coaches from pat Riley to
I mean, you name a good coaches, big names, Phil Jackson,
Have you know Ben Gundy, Phil Jackson, pat Riley, you
name it. They've all taken a shot, Dan Tone, They've
all taken a shot at it, and none of them
(24:39):
been able to do it. And now you get closer
than you've gotten in twenty five years, and they fired
the guy, and you're like, that's a okay, Durant. I
mean it's starting to heat up that he's gonna be moved,
most likely destinations.
Speaker 9 (24:52):
Where I wish I could. This is great radio. I'm
not totally sure. There's a lot of teams that are interested.
He's got to wait for that. He and everybody else
have to wait, like the the Yannis Domino has to fall, right.
But I would say keep an eye on, not so
(25:16):
much Houston. There's been some San Antonio talk. I think
it's gonna be one of the teams in the East.
I would really, you know, there's a sneaky team to
watch in this. I don't know if he'd want to
go there. Toronto. Toronto is gonna be crazy aggressive this
offseason because they think they're close. They see the opening
in the East and they think if they can get
somebody like durant or or Giannis or some other star
(25:40):
next to Scottie Barnes and into that system, that they're
in a good place. I think he goes East, though
I think it's maybe he ends up in Cleveland, maybe somebody.
But I think he goes to an East team that's
going to take a swing at it.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
All right, let's circle back to the NBA Finals. India
has a chance. How great a chance do you give
them to win?
Speaker 9 (26:04):
The series, the series, mm hmm, five percent. Like I
just still don't think they're the better team. I still
think I still think they run into Scott. I mean,
Doug's the logistical problem of, well, these two teams play
a similar style.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
They don't and the Thunder and under a better edit, right.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
Exactly, better players, better at it. And when you ask
them today, we were talking about, Hey, what's making it
so tough on you guys to get good? You know,
you struggled from two and to get good looks. What's
making this so difficult? And they're just like, because they've
got four good perimeter defenders with chet Holmgren and isay
Hertsign behind them, Like it's it's just they're so good
(26:44):
defensively that I just don't see how they lose the series.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
It's a it's a it's a great point that they made,
and it does make it really really interesting to see
if the Pacers can use that pace and use home
court advantage. Still a five and a half point dog
going into Thursday's game, Kurt, enjoy the game, Enjoy the series.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
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Speaker 9 (27:02):
Us, Hey, thank you for having me on your listeners.
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Speaker 8 (27:17):
Some have remorse.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior
I engage in.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Come on, but.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
There's nothing quite like buyer's remorse.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Dog. I touched a little bit on this yesterday when
we did Love and Hate, and it's the foam, all
the fear of missing out. And again day two of
the week long US Open events at Oakmont practice rounds
again happening today and there is just huge regret that
I did not plan. I don't know. Plan better is
not the case. I knew I had a trip back
home because my niece graduated. It's just going to be
(27:51):
a tough fit. But I always tell this to people
who want to go to sporting events, who have always said, oh,
I would love to go to go to that, to
go to that event and be there, I always tell them, go,
just figure out a way and go. If you want
to go to Augusta, pay the extreme fee that it
is so you can say you went to Augusta. You
(28:13):
have that story for twenty years, and I feel like
this is another opportunity where I should have just figured
out a way to, I don't know, go a day
or two. Life's different when you have a younger child
as well. But yeah, it just complete regret that I
didn't plan better and figure out a way to at
least be on the grounds for a day or two
at Oakmont. But when you get the opportunity, you got
(28:35):
to go to these events. And even I did not
listen to my advice.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Okay, it's fair enough.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Just go, Just go right, Go to that concert that
you've wanted to see, right, just go. Yeah, Sam, is
there a band that you would love to see? Yeah, sure,
just go and see him.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Then I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what, guys,
Just do it. Yes, Arcade Fire came out with their
album I think at twenty eighteen. Arcade Fire, that's one
of my bands. There were no scheduled dates for Los Angeles,
and I'm going to give you a little too much
information here, but yeah, what is that festival out in
the desert called Coachella. I guess every band that's booked
(29:18):
for Coachella. Can't book any Los Angeles tour dates until
after Coachella. Sure, So I saw this massive like gap
in Arcade Fire's tour and I'm like, I'm going to
miss him. And I drove up to Shoreline and saw them.
I drove up to Shoreline and saw them on a wheel.
And then after a Coachella they booked like nine LA spots.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
That was correct. It happens, heavens, But it's go. Just
just go be there.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Just go, man, just go.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
And I understand and I and I'm still saying to myself,
as we talked about yesterday, I'll be able to see
more golf. I'll be able to consume it more from
my couch than I would be from being on the grounds.
But there is something about being there. There's something about
just seeing the course as it is told you. I
got to play it. There are a lot of great memories.
(30:11):
I'm going to go through the photo album tonight, look
back at all the one hundred pictures that I took
on my round there golf. But yes, I regret that
that is where my remorse lies. It will lie there
tomorrow and then it will lie there through Sunday.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
That's my remorse, all right, that's buyer's remorse. It is
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are going to ask the coach what they What I
think about the rules, I'll tell you next.
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Speaker 4 (31:37):
The Press, Doug a unique portion of the press today
includes changes that are coming to college basketball and as
a head coach, I am curious on your thoughts on
the changes that are coming to the men's game the
any with them. The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel today
approved changes to help enhance the flow of the game
(32:00):
for the upcoming season. Changes include a coaches challenge at
any point in a game to review out of bounds calls,
basket interference and goaltending, and whether a secondary defender was
in the restricted area arc. The panel also approved modifications
to the rule on continuous motion on field goal attempts
(32:20):
and also have addressed the conversation about halves to quarters.
But Doug, under the coaches challenge rule, teams must have
a timeout to request an instant replay review challenge on
one of those instances.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, I get they got to sit in that challenge.
Do I make sure I get it right in the
first half? He won the second half whatever. That sounds
like fun. Sounds like they're giving more of an NBA
field a continuation, right, A longer continuation, which I guess
I like.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
Yes, says currently players are only credited with field goals
when they are followed while shooting the basketball. Now, an
offensive player who wins his dribble going toward the basket
and absorbs contact from the defense will be allowed to
pivot or complete this step the player is on and
finished the field goal attempt. This is all exact wording
from the nc DOUBLEA, and I want us to be plagiarism.
(33:07):
I just want to make sure we get the rules correct.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah. No, the quarters thing is not happening though yet
right correct.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
They said that they've included they've made positive momentum was
the phrase they used. But the committee realizes there are
hurdles to implementing the quarter format to the game, including
the structuring of media timeouts media timeouts to accommodate commercial inventory.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
I mean, look, I would love to do FOBA, which
is way faster, and you can't call live ball timeouts.
The problem is the PHOEBA games are done in like
our thirty five hour forty and remember college basketball is
a two hour window, so it's how can they get
it to a two hour window? And media timeouts if
you don't know with a twenty minute half, okay, you
(33:51):
had them at sixteen, twelve, eight and four okay, so
you have four mandatory media timeouts, plus you have each
coach has what's called a use it or lose it,
So you're very likely to have at minimum five timeouts
in the first half. If you have quarters and they're
ten minute quarters like the women's game, do you do
(34:13):
you do it every four minutes like you do it
in the men's game. Do you do it every five minutes?
If you do every five quarter five, okay, that's only
three timeouts. And then if you have your loser loses,
that's five timeouts as opposed to what's possibly and that's
again if both guys use it, so it's like four
as opposed to five possibly six. So that's what they're
dealing with. You know, they got to have a way
(34:35):
to have the same number of mandatory timeouts and user
lose its or not. And so if the if at
ten minutes there's a timeout, that's one. How do they
put the how they structure the other two other three
in there.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Two minute warning. That's what they should install, right, just
so you can have that two minute commercial break, to
have a two minute warning. I'm joking. I do not
think they should institute a two minute warning, but I
actually follow to everything that you said there, Doug. Also,
officials now have the option to call a flagrant one
foul when a player true wording from the NCAA is
(35:09):
contacted to the groin. Used to only be a common
foul or flagrant too. Now you can call a flagrant
in one file.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
The problem that is like a shot.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
You can take a shot to the groin that's not intentional,
like we're judging. We're not judging intent, like, oh you
got shot to the groining, you got a shot to
the head. Like that's kind of basketball, right. It's not
basketball to line somebody up and intentionally need them in
the groin or hit them in the groin or whatever.
But guys do get hit in the groin unintentionally, and
it shouldn't be a flagrant. And yet based upon the
(35:40):
wording of this rule, it could be.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
And if one of the shot clocks becomes inoperable, instead
of shutting them both down, the one that works will
still be in use.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
What about when you can't get any power to your
clocks at all and then you move your game to
another site same day?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Uh, that happened last year.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
That was very specific.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Oh yes, yes. Lee Corso's final college game day appearance
on ESPN will come in the season opening weekend when
Ohio State entertains Texas in Columbus on Saturday, August thirtieth.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Holy cow, what a game? What a game? What he
has to put on? The Buckeye had that thing?
Speaker 8 (36:19):
Right?
Speaker 4 (36:19):
He has to do is the first one that he
put on, It's got to be the last one that
he puts on.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Makes sense, right? Makes sense?
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Do you have any favorite head gears? That that Oklahoma
State one was like a big plastic one. It seems
pretty heavy.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
It's not plastic. I think it's like plaster.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
It's fiber glass.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
A pistol. Peace. Yeah, he's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Yes, I love it.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
I mean, I just all I know is all those.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Guys that work on the show love him, love him,
treat him like their grandfather.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
They wish they had. He's awesome.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
TEA time set for the US Open at Oakmonts including
Rory McElroy team off ten at seven forty Eastern time
Thursday morning, which with Justin Rose and Shane Lowry, Scottie
Scheffler World number one. He's off at one twenty five
Eastern time with Kalam Morikawa and Victor Hovlin. Bryson de
Shambo starts seven twenty nine Eastern time Thursday morning, and
(37:07):
that's the press.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
They get out there and pressed.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
That was the press.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
Some to look at in the next couple of days.
Right now, Indiana playing a home five and a half
point favorites. Where does that go before we get game
time on Thursday night. In the meantime, download the podcast
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