Rockets Shock The Warriors Again & Caron Butler

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't Sports Boom, What up America, Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox
Sports Radio, Well, we all got that one wrong. I
hope you had a great night, enjoyed that basketball game.
We weren't talking a lot about it, and we got
a game tonight which could hm could be the last

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game we see uh Lebron James and the Calves uniform.
Could be the last or just the last home game
for the Calves this year, or could just be the
beginning of another story of Lebron breaking the hearts of
the Boston Celtics. All of these are possible. I guess
what is most likely is what we generally go with.

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I'm fascinated by this, I really am. Um. There's a
there's a genius in simplicity, right, And sometimes we looked
so much for storylinees and for narratives. So often times
we want to believe guys are clutch or not clutch,

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that when a guy makes a shot it's confirmation bias.
When a guy misses a pass, it's confirmation bias. Take
Draymond Green, he did choke on the last play where
the ball was was was was forwarded up to him
from Steph Curry, but he had also scored the last
two buckets for the Golden State Wars Was there somehow

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more pressure in that particular moment than when he made
a three down four points an bounced pass on the
very previous play. We talked about this yesterday with Chris Paul.
Chris Paul hadn't come through in the clutch, was what
Clipper fans said, because, well, the Clippers didn't get past
the second round, even though they beat the Spurs in

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game seven. Last year, they beat the Jazz in game six,
only the losing Game seven. But Chris Paul hits a
couple of crazy oots last night, and so Chris Paul
is now clutch, even though he was actually six of
nineteen and played hero ball down the stretch and didn't
make any of those shots down the stretch right the

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the whole Look, it really comes down to this. Have
I been disappointed by Kevin Durant not taking over late
in the last two games, But I would also point
out that it really is as easy as the Warriors are,
not some dominant This is not Kentucky throwing out ten

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five stars. It's not who this is against the team
of mid majors. It's not the way it works, we
would all agree Kevin Durant's a superstar. I think we'd
all agree that Steph Curry is on on a bunch
of levels of superstar as well. And then you have
Clay Thompson, who's as good a shooter as you're going
to find, and he's more what you'd call a star player.

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Draymond Green's a star role player, and everything else just
kind of fits in place. But what what people think
is that the the same story should be with the
same with the same title of the movie. Take all
the different Star Wars, they have different characters, different points

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in the plot, theme and the storyline, a bunch of
different things kind of they get sort of thrown together. Um,
and the Star Wars that are made now, or even
the the stories, the prequels and the in between stories
that are made now, the c g I is different.
Our expectations are different, the movie makers are different. You

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go back three years ago, four years ago when the
Warriors won their first title, right, and that team's composition
the similarities are, Hey, look they had uh, they had
Steve Kerr, they had Steph Curry, they had Clay Thompson,

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they had Andrea Goodala and they had Sean Limist, That's
what they had, andreymond Green. Those players were all the same.
The differences that are one Iguadala has been out. Livingston
is a you know, is an older version of himself
and how he was always limited. There is no Bogett,

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there is no Harrison Barnes, and the league has kind
of adjusted. They were ahead of the curve and what
they did confuse people and overwhelmed people. And oh yeah,
by the way, they were also very fortunate. Every team
they played, including the Calves in the NBA Finals for

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at least two games, was missing their starting point guard.
Every team. The next year they lost to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
And last year they were ahead of the curve with
yet a different incarnation with less of a bench. They
had no Andrew Bogett, and they had evolved and changed.
This team is not the strength and numbers of four

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years ago, and it's not the seventy three win team
of three years ago. And oh yeah, by the way,
the league has changed and evolved and tried to catch
up and match up. And when Houston gets just a
little bit of help with the fifth best starter or
fifth best player in the Hampton five being out for

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two games, they're able to exploit it. How many times
did you see in that game Chris Paul attack, Jordan's
Bell attack came on, Looning attack, uh Quinn Cook? How
many times? Enough times to make your head spin like wow?

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They keep Yes, they attack Steph Curry because he's the
weak link, much like James Harden is the weak link.
And Curry, though you can score on him, at least
does compete and it wears him down them at the
offensive end. But the idea that you would find the
weakest link in the chain is what makes the chain
stronger weak. These aren't just cliches, they're actually true. So

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when when they I don't think you sold your soul,
but they did sell out to go and get Kevin Durant,
it was during a special time right to which they
can make everything work. And now by Houston catching catching
up and evolving and matching up, and Golden State being

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just a little bit less than they used to be
in addition to being even less than that because they
don't have Iguadala, now we have ourselves an incredible series.
I really think it is that, you know, it is
that simple. Everyone has seen what Golden State does. They
know how to play off their Nonshooters be physical with
Durant in the post and hope he misses. Every One

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knows steph Curry's moves, knows what he does well. Sometimes
he still makes. Sometimes he doesn't like we we make
these well. Kevin Durant, he sucked in the fourth quarter,
Like what did James Harden do in the fourth quarter.
It's really hard, especially when you don't have a matchup
that you can go against. AH, but it creates storylines.

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I feel terrible for Chris Paul, and I know that
people who are Clipper fans like Chris Paul always gets hurt. Well,
he wasn't always the one that got hurt, but he
did get hurt and it does dramatically change this series.
He's not gonna play in Game six, and then tonight
you have Game six in Boston, excuse me, in in
Cleveland with with Boston coming in. Here's Steve Kerr after

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the game. I think Clay may have been in the
far right corner, so we had the floor spread. I
thought I thought Draymond just rushed it a little bit
and fumbled it um, but you know it was the
play was unfolding nicely. It just didn't turn out. Obviously,
your sacrifices for throwing the ball to Kevin durand are
you sacrificing something. It's a good option to throw the

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ball to Kevin Durant on the post. It's a really
good option. Look my thing with Durant on the post,
there's nothing wrong with it. It's that he he's so
tall and skinny that there, and they're the way the
NBA rules or is officiating the playoffs. They allow him
just shove him off the post. So he catched his
seventeen feet from the basket, and I don't think that's
necessarily where you want him to get it. Um, here's

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Kevin Durant talking about Game six. Yeah, we got another
game at home. UM, game six, still confident. You know
we uh, we had some of opportunities to win this
game the last two games and we didn't close it out.
But we can learn from it. And you know, we've
got another opportunity at home once on Saturday, and we'll
be ready to play. It's amazing how balanced this team is.
It's scary because you're like, you, guys, realize you lose

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one more game. And it's all over, right, it's all over.
But whether that's a calmness or understanding of of process
over a result, or maybe they're just in denial of
how bad, how how bleak it might actually look. This
is this, This is all before they knew Chris Paul

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was out for Game six. This is last night, after
the game. Here's Steph Curry, by the way, discussing Chris Paul. Shimmy,
it was well deserved. If you can show me on
somebody else, you've gotta be all right getting shimming on.
So I'll keep shipping and maybe he will too, so
we'll see what happens. I've long said this. The salary
cap works, right, It just it works. And what it

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does is it makes you make a decision. Am I
going to be top heavy with a couple of big
salaries and then just and who do I fill out
the rest of my roster with? Remember the Warriors if
you don't like I like the shot of Quinn Cook.
But that is why, for example, Lebron James will always
have veteran players in with him at the end of games,

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because veteran players make those, or they just seem to
always make those, whereas young players have to. It's it's
sometimes just about hours time spent to which you kind
of you understand it, you get it, and you don't
miss those shots. Whether it's the stats tell you otherwise
or not. It feels like older players make that shot

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that younger players have a tendency to miss. But the
salary cap works. It limits you to where you can
really only have three star players. And the reason the
Warriors were able to get away with it was Draymond
was the second was a second round pick, and then
when he re upped, though it was a lot of
money at the time, the salary cap changed, and being

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a second round pick and being a restricted guy, he
wasn't able to get the huge second contract others were,
and Steph Curry's second contract wasn't as big as it
should have been because he had an injury plagued first
four seasons in the NBA. But once you get down
to once everybody gets to making their peak value, you
get limited. You have one injury and it's not necessarily

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the NBA for Yahoo Sports. Michael, I know you didn't
write the headline, but I'm gonna read it anyway. Despite
getting shimmied on. The Warriors don't appear to be shaken
on the brink of elimination. Pretty good, Pretty good. Now, Look, uh,
I know that you heard this because you're, I think,
in an uber on the way to the airport. But
Chris Paul is not gonna play in game six. But
let's first work back to game five. What happened in

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the fourth quarter that allowed the war to assume me
the Rockets to survive the Warriors, they did exactly what
they wanted to do, was to make the game ugly
and to really input doubt in the minds of the Warriors.
You know, this is a really classic front running team.
And when you think about how easy it is for
them when they're of double digits, it's easy the coast,

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it's easy to kind of float to the finish. But
when it becomes a tight game, you gotta decide who's
taking the shots and who's making the decisions, who's making
the passes. They look like a lost nunch um because really,
because they haven't really been in those situations too much. Um,
do they feed Kevin Durant, they feed Steph Curry, didn't
play Thompson's shots, Draymond do with need a facilitator. It's

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almost like they still haven't solved any of their issues.
While the Rockets, on the other hand, they've been tested
throughout the entire year. UM, they played close games, they
played games without James Harden having been at his best.
They've had Eric Gordon hit big shots, and it sort
of played out the last two games where the team
that's really been tested in those close situations and need

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somebody to step up and had a shot, that's the
team that's emerged victorious. Um. The Warriors looked just combobulated
on discipline, unfocused, and they're paying the price right now
against the team that has been telling us all year
we're better than these guys. We can beat these guys.
And now you know, Chris Paul's injury sort of you know,
clouds that a bit. But they've they've been the team

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they've told us they were all year. How much of
Golden Stage struggles comes down to it's a four man team.
It's a five man team, and when you don't have
Iguadala one Houston schooling to attack that guy defensively and
and to uh, everything else kind of just doesn't seem
to go as smoothly together. It definitely affects Steve Kerr's rotations.

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But I don't want to overplay what the Hampton five
lineup has has been because it really hasn't been very good.
Um outside of Game three. You gotta remember game too,
that the lineup was getting you know, expposed. Um, that
was one of the best lineup, worst lineups that they
put on the court. And then the guy outscored by
seventeen points he gave two. So yeah, under Ibadala, sounds

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good that he's not there, Um, you know, the excused,
but they weren't that very They weren't very good with
him on the floor either. I think one of the
problems that they're having is that the Rockets are are
in switching every possession has sort of taken away the
brawl movement that that that their offense is based on,
and it sort of had them guessing and sort of
put Kevin Durant the tough spot because in those situations

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you have to go isolation. He's their best isolation player,
and so he feels like he has to carry them
and vail them out. Um, because guys aren't moving, guys
aren't cutting in the passing Laney that are knowing me
there just aren't available because of the defense that the
Rockets are throwing at them. So if you really got
to give credit to what the Rockets are doing on
the defensive end, which is not really what you use

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you think of, we think of a Mike D'Antoni team,
But to hold one of the best offenses of all
time under a hundred points three times, you really got
to start giving credit to what the Rockets have done
to take them out of their game and to really
have them, you know, second guessing just about everything out there. Okay,
let's let's get to Chris Paul. Chris Paul pulls his hamstring,

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gonna miss Game six? How much does that affect the Rockets? Huge?
It's this big time um because there are two players
that really they couldn't afford to lose. That's Harden and Paul,
you know, because they were the game changers. They were
the guys that the ability to take over a game
and really carry them over over stretches. Eric Gordon has
emerged as probably their most important player through the series

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because he had that huge game too, and he hit
big shots in the last two games. It's gonna be
a lot more pressure on him now to step up
as a starter without Chris Paul. He just brought that
toughness and it's that nastiness. I mean, you saw it
when he shimmy the step courage face yesterday. He basically
was just letting him know that, Yo, man, we're here.
You know, we're not going anywhere like you're you're not

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taking us out like that, like we are the rockets
and we're standing in your way. And I thought that
was a really defiant statement. That really his attitude. That's
sort of you know, permeated throughout the whole team, and
they kind of have a little extra swag to him
because they have all time great they have a Hall
of Fame point guard. But you take him out of
the equation and it makes it tougher because Mike Dintoni

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has a historically tight rotation, they don't have very much step. Um,
so it's gonna be tough to contend with warriors on
the road without you know, a huge piece of what
they do. Yeah, it'll be it'll be fascinating. Um uh,
Steve Kerr said, and I believe earlier today. Look, he
loved the Quinn cook shot. It was the right shot.

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He uh, he had no he had no problem with it. Um.
And he he liked steps runner. Um, he had no
problem with it. Like he just he thinks if the
guys continue to play, eventually it'll work out. This is
what he's saying publicly. How do you think he's feeling privately?
I think he's coaching his team through us, but by

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letting us know that that's what he feels. He doesn't
want his guys a little confidence in what they've done. Um.
I think he also doesn't want to have too much
second gase in to his decision to throw Queen Cook out.
There a guy who spent the first part of this
season in the G League. To put him in that situation,
no matter what kind of shooter he is, he's never
been in that situation where he has to hit a shot,
I go ahead shot, you know, with him down in

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the final minute of a conference finals game. Um, I
realized that. You know, they have players with on their
bench who haven't stepped up and can't spread the floor.
But if I'm the Rockets, he's the only guy I
want taking those shots in those situations. And if you
look at the lash out he took Chris Paul was
grabbing his hamstring and limping up the court steph Curry
was open at the top of the key, so there

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was a chance to swing the ball for one extra
pass to the guy who I'm sure ninety nine I
have a hundred fans would want to take that shot
instead of quaint could Yeah, it's fast, I mean it wasn't.
It's a wide open. Look. He didn't catch it cleanly
and then had to take a dribble, fumbled it because
he was afraid, like he was like, oh my gosh,
you're actually doing it to me. Who me It did
a little a little like a little bit like ali

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In uh In in the Hoosiers before he went to
the to the free throw line. Michael Michael Lee joins us,
let me ask you. I know you're going to the
Oakland game, but uh, the game in Oakland, but there's
also there's another series. I think all of us operated
under the assumption it's going back to Boston. Lebron's gonna
do something heroic and bail them out and of them
get to the NBA Finals. Um, what do you think

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percentage of people like yourself that cover the NBA. Uh,
I feel like is the likelihood that Lebron does just
that we've seen it so much, you know, we've seen
his heroics, and you know it's not necessarily blind faith,
it's like total faith that we know that he's capable
of having a brilliant performances. Having that mebing is necessary

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to win this series. Um. The problem is we can't
have that same kind of confidence in the Cavaliers, you know,
because like Lebron is proven in this series that he
could have a monster game and it didn't. Game two,
we had a forty point triple double. But if they
can't get open lots for j R. Smith, if George
Hill continues to play play goest, Um, it's gonna be
a tough battle. Um. The Celtics have been so bad

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on the road this postseason that I think it's so
it gives you a little comfort that Lebron is gonna
come through in force and Game seven. Um, but his
supporting cast has been so flimsy that you can't have
a little bit of doubt. But doubting Lebron, questioning him
and betting against him has never been a wise move
over the last eight years, and this isn't in the
year I'm ready to start outing umber. All right, what

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if let's just play the what if? What if they
lose it? What if they lose at home to a
Boston who doesn't have Kyrie Irving and doesn't have Gordon Hayward.
What's our reaction? Then? Our reaction is what's gonna happen
to lebron Now? Um? You know, sort of interesting that
in two thousand and ten, you know, uh, he played

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a Boston team that was an older veteran group when
he was very young and wasn't you know what he
is now, um, and they beat him and sent him
on his way from Cleveland. Now we have he's very
he's the old guy, and he's playing a very young
Boston team. And if they beat him in six the
same way the Celtics beat him in six, you know,
eight years ago, this could be the end of his
time in Cleveland again, and it would be the same

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franchise that's sort of been essential to his development as
a great, all time great. Um once again, you know,
playing another major role this career. So it could be
the end of Since I'm in Cleveland from the same team,
but in totally different circumstances. Michael Lee Michael great great stuff,
State Travels and look forward to talking with you and

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reading your work as this series either rolls on or
ends up with a surprising NBA Finals team. Thanks so much, Hey,
thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Pleasures are
stug Gotli Show, Fox Sports Radio, Ryan Music. Did you
I think you watched the entire game? I sure did. Um.
Did you find yourself rooting for either team at any point? Uh?

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I wasn't. I do think that for our purposes, when
you have a team like the Warriors, as successful as
they've been and sort of the makeup of their team
with Kevin Durant and whatnot, it does tend to be
a little bit more interesting when they lose, because then
you tend to play the whole blame game, try to

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point fingers see how everything fell apart. But I don't
necessarily think that that met me. I wasn't going like man,
and I really hope the Rockets pulled this one out here. Yeah,
it's hard. I I like I like Chris paul more
than some people like Chris paul Um. But I'm not
a huge James Harden fan, nor am I a huge

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fan of the way in which the Rockets always play.
I will point out, you know, Kenny Smith was talking
at halftime about how you know when anything starts in
seventeen and nineteen dribbles like okay, but one. They played
that way the whole year, by the way the whole year.
And secondly, it doesn't really matter if you get the
mismatch that you want, and that's what you're whether you're

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doing what Boston does. Where there's ball movement, All that
Boston does is they just move the ball a little,
a couple of passes, and then they run a ball
screen to get a mismatch, whereas Houston might run one
little ball screen, just one little action to get that
same mismatch and then spread you out. They played to
their strengths. So I I don't love Houston and I

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don't love the way in which they play, but I
do understand that it's actually really smart against the Golden
State team. You know, people don't understand how Golden State
used to play defensively, was they would load to the ball,
they'd make you make jump shots. Well, what Houston do.
They went out and got the best jump shooting team
you could possibly get, and still one in spite of
the fact that there are two of the best shooters

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didn't make shots last night. Um anyway, I I I
root for like a fair game. That's really really my
big thing. Fame. Yeah, these games haven't been fair. No,
I just I hate when there's a call here, call
there too. You know, there was one James Harden clearly
double dribbled or traveled and they called it and then
they overturned us. It's like, what what is it? That

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was really weird where they kind of like there was
some contact and they were saying like, oh, someone touched
the ball, so it's not a travel. But I yeah,
I didn't quite understand because they made the call. You
can't review that play. You can't review that planet, So
how can you be they said like inadvertent whistle, like, oh,
come on, Like if it's a bad call, it's a
bad call. But you can't all of a sudden make
up new rules as you go along. I do have

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one question though, I thought it was weird. At the
end of the game, the Warriors were down by one
and there was like seconds left or like seconds left,
and Curry drove straight at the basket and took a
shot with like fourteen seconds left. I took that little runner. Yeah,
if you're only down by one and you're on the road,

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don't you just want to hold onto it because you're
already in a situation where if you make it, you win,
and then if you're missing, you're losing either way. Yes,
it does, it does. The other team will get the
ball back. Um, I'm personally believe, especially when you're down one,
that you go right away because the idea is if
you miss it, now you can foul, just what they did,

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and you can get the ball back. With down one,
two or three, they get the ball back down to Uh.
Their their error was they didn't call it time out
right when Draymond got the ree corral the rebound. It
was because he was falling out of bounds because they
weren't only they were not going to call a time
out just you know, but Draymond was falling out of
hounds and by the time they called time out, he
had passed the ball. So they that's why they had

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to take the ball out almost length to the floor,
that odd angle in bounce pass and then when they
threw the ball up to Draymond, he fumbled it. But anyway,
going back to your point. You're you're down one, you
go right away, go right away. Um. And just so
we're aware that there was a play to which I
don't understand why that one Quinn Cook should not have

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been in on that was that was I think it
was out of a time out and they throw the
ball in. They get it to Steph Curry and if
you watch that play when he drives to the towards
the baseline to make that runner. The reason that all
of a sudden Chris Paul can come over and help
is that Queenn cooks on the week's side. Now, Queen

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cooks a far better shooter then Sean Livingston, but Sean
Livingston would have cut right behind the double team and
either gotten a layup or been it'd been been there
for a putback. Instead, Quinn Cook is just standing out
hoping the ball comes to him for a three point shot.
And they're not gonna they're they're not gonna to throw
in the ball again anyway. Let's get to damn buy
or find out what's going on. In sports, you can

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also get a tip in if you're down one as well,
so you better to go a little bit earlier than later.
Rockets carred Chris Paul yes ruled out of tomorrow's Game
six because of a strain hamstring. Paul is gonna travel
with the team to Oakland. He'll then be reevaluated for
his status in Game seven if necessary, That would be
after the Game six tomorrow. Now. Andrea Dallas missed the

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last two games for the Warriors. He remains questionable to
play in Game six because of his knee contusion. Tonight,
Celtics calves eight thirty Eastern time in Game six of
the Eastern Finals. They'll play in Cleveland with the Celtics
up three two on le Bron James's career, enjoy being
in a position where it's like, you know, you losing,
go home, but um, and just try to extend a series,

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and you know, as long as I can, and I
just try to put myself and my teeth in position
and to be able to continue to play. Tip off
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The unofficial start of summer is here. Memorial Day weekend,
Cubs and Giants snotted up at one at the end
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eighties some degrees. How is it warmer on the East
Cut now than it is in California? Like? What? What's
what's going on here? What? What may gray? Was that
what they were talking about? Yeah, that seems to be Uh, listen,
I don't I don't want sympathy from those of you
listen to us on the East coast. All right, maybe
a little bit, But I'm looking at this in in
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weekend and high seventies into eighties in the basin, which
means seventy at the beaches and eighties and the valleys.
Fritz Coleman anyway. Um, yeah, I thought that was it
is interesting on how warm it is in the East coast.
The problem with the East coast the Midwest, like Chicago,

(28:19):
is it will be eighty one day and then it'll
be fifty next week, right or massive you know, thunderstorms. Whatever. Hey.
I heard Drew Brees on with Dan Patrick earlier today.
I thought this was really really interesting. This is the
Doug Gotlip Show Fox Sports Radio. By the way, Chicago,
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there's a there's a there's a lot of chalkiness, chalky white,
showing too much skin, speaking too much beer at Wrigley. Um,

(29:05):
but it is the place I'd like to be. Um. Anyway.
So Drew Brees was on with Dan Patrick earlier today
and Dan asked Drew about the NFL's new policy on
the national anthem. Take a list. I think that the
national anthem is a way to unify everyone. I think
by some people kneeling and some people standing and all that,

(29:27):
I think that that's very divisive for our country no
matter what you're protesting, because there's plenty of things about
this country that I think we would all like to
see improvements. I just don't think that the national during
the national anthem, is a time to to voice those opinions.
I think that it deserves our full respect. Huh. That's

(29:49):
a that's a strong statement from a quarterback in Drew
Brees normally he gives you milk toast in an interview? Right?
Really does? Um? And I do I think that Drew
is playing to a fan base. Remember, Drew still lives
in San Diego, huge military. Uh military, that's the biggest

(30:11):
military town in the country. Um. Do I think that
Drew actually believes that? Probably does. I don't think he'd
say something he doesn't but didn't believe. But oftentimes guys
choose to not say anything. And you can tell me
that it's not divisive, but I can prove to you
that it is. Here's how what's the definition of divisive? Right? What? What?

(30:38):
What's the definition of it? Do you want to take it?
You want to take a guess? Divisive is highly divided? Uh?
It's a here we go. Here's the webs Miriam Webster's
definition a cause or disagreement between people, causing them to
separate into different groups. Do we have people that think
you should protest the flag and take a knee. Do

(30:59):
we have people that they you should never protest the
flag and not taking it? Would that be different groups
by definitely like, but it is not divisive like. It
is inarguable that it's a divisive topic, that it's a
that it's a divisive event, a divisive issue issue. Again,

(31:20):
that doesn't mean that the cause for some is not
worth it. I do think there's also a portion of
football players that are sitting there going are you kidding me? Look,
police brutality is an issue. We've done a great job
bringing attention to the issue. But um, hey, why is

(31:45):
our union offering up to extend so much, you know,
trying to leverage this and our play instead of better
health care benefits, you know, continue to keep our season shorter,
getting rid of these stupid preseason games which only cause injury,
and oh yeah, by the way, fully guaranteed contracts. It's

(32:08):
it's honestly genius from the owners. Genius genius. It's this
is what you do in politics. What you do in
politics is you get an issue that is so divisive
that it takes you away from all the other stuff
you're doing. Did you do genius? All right? I mean, hey,

(32:35):
oh yeah, but you know you you make it about
I mean, take a look at what our current president did,
even when our last president. Did you make it about
hot topic issues that get people's attention, especially things that
we already have. I told you this the other day.
There is already a wall in parts of our country
between US and Mexico. But you make that a huge issue.

(32:57):
We make North Korea a big issue. You make move in,
the move in the UH the embassy in Israel to
Jerusalem a big issue. And you have those people and
they're all talking about meanwhile, all the other day to
day stuff that's the stuff that actually needs to be
paid more attention to. You don't pay attention to it.

(33:19):
So I think this is genius in the owners. Well wait,
you want to change that. You want to change that
where you can't kneel? All right, Well, this is what
NBA owners are gonna do. NBA owners, but they don't
really want high school kids in the NBA. They really

(33:43):
want more refined players because their general managers, their coaches,
their presidents of team operations. They all want more proven products.
They also know that they have a they have a
better sense of who somebody is if they see them
more time in college and they guys have built up
their and the longer they stay in college. Truth be told,
most presidents gms that they want guys to stay in

(34:05):
two years, maybe even three. But hey, do you want
to make that a big issue? Sure will negotiate on it. Absolutely,
you're gonna give us up. We're gonna give you that.
You're gonna give us something back, which is the same
with the NFL owners. It's an issue. But I'll tell
you what the NFL owners would would would fold up
shop on this issue if it meant keeping partially guaranteed contracts.

(34:32):
NFL Players Association has always been this way that they've
always chased after the bright shiny objects. Last time that
they had a lockout, they were really close to canceling
a preseason game, which would have cost their players checks
but also would have cost the owners in the wallet,
and they chose to kind of fold because those guys

(34:53):
needed money. Everybody needs that first paycheck. It is a
divisive topic, is a divisive topic. It is something that
splits us up. It is inarguable Drew brees opinion is
seen as strong and seen as the counter opinion. But
the truth is, I think if you pulled Fans and

(35:15):
you pulled the United States, you'd probably have at least
fifty backing of him of him. What I think is
maybe more interesting is that here's Drew Brees, who really
hasn't offered up many strong opinions throughout his career, stating

(35:35):
something that would be counter to many of the loud
voices in and out of NFL locker rooms. All right,
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(36:20):
dot com by fire today, Doug, we have psychic, all right?
You know I knew that. What's that behind? I knew that?
How did you know that? Because I'm psychic? Well, psychic? Well,
Chris Paul play in Game seven of the Western Conference Finals, Yes,
he will play. Would give it a go in Game seven.

(36:42):
He'll hovel around there, He'll be fine, and then at
some point he'll move and he'll fill a hamstring tweak
because that's what us old guys do. All right, Well,
let's stick with some basketball. Tonight. There's a Game six
in the Eastern Conference Finals. Lebron James and his Calves
dom three to to the Celtics. Will Lebron James gore
over thirty five points tonight? Yes, yes he will, because

(37:04):
Lebron James, in games in which he could be eliminated,
averages over thirty five points a game. He will accrue
that average. Bovada says the over under on Lebron tonight
thirty five and a half. So if you want to
listen to the psychic, take the over. Will Lebron James
record a triple double tonight? Against the Boston Self. No,
I don't think he'll record a trouble double. They're gonna

(37:25):
Celtics gonna try and make him win it by himself. Alright.
One other basketball don't We touched on this yesterday, but
the Pistons are apparently hot on the trail of one
Dwayne Casey. So if Dwyne Casey does take the Pistons
job next season, who will have more wins? The Pistons
or the Raptors. The Raptors will have more wins, just

(37:48):
personnel wise. Simple enough. How about some NFL news, Willamar
Jackson replaced Joe Flacco as the Ravens starting quarterback at
some point during the season. Yes, interesting because of injury,
because of benching, because they're just not that good, and

(38:08):
they'll give him a shot. He's a first round pick.
They'll be a call for him, and people will and
and early on he'll have some success because he's he's
electric as a runner and he does have a big arm.
But he's one of those guys that early returns I
think will fool you into believing that he can be
a day to day quarterback. And that's for his inaccurate
season and ability to read the defense and the fact

(38:29):
that there are is no such thing as an old
running quarterback in the NFL will ultimately come back to
hurt him. What stay in the a f C North.
Will the Pittsburgh Steelers have Levy on Bell prior to
September one? Yes, well, you think it's gonna report long
term deal? What report he'll report on a franchise deal?
Franchise tag deal showing up prior to week one of

(38:51):
the NFL season. Let's wrap up with this NFL question
because everything is decided in late May. Apparently Patrick Mahomes
has been struggling in Chiefs workouts this off season. So
will the Chiefs win more games with Mahomes as their
starter in than they did with Alex Smith as their
starting quarterback in ten wins last year for the Kansas

(39:15):
City Less, There'll be, they'll be. They'll be plenty of
like Look, I like Pat Mahomes great arm talent, but
there's a lot of refinement that needs to take place.
Less and the division is gonna be tough. Less. This
is game time on the Duck Gottlieb Show. Fascinating conversation

(39:35):
that was actually captured on on tape during the game
last night, and it does talk about Michael Jordan and
Phil Jackson, and it's Steve Kerr talking to Kevin Durant.
I want to talk about it and tell you why
Durant was right. Kerr was right even if they were
wrong last night. Again, process over result, process over result,

(40:02):
and you have to you have to learn the right
process and you do it enough times and the result
will follow. Um. We always compare the two best players
are best players from generations, and we do so wrongly.
We compare Jordan's to lebron They're dissimilar. The Jordan Durant

(40:24):
thing is more interesting. I'll give you my insight. They
take some of your thoughts as well of coming next
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(40:44):
or Calvin nights from now or after the NBA Finals.
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(41:08):
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(41:29):
he'll be hot taken and I'll be talking to you
through the morning. Anyway, Um, I was watching last night
and it's always a week You gotta be careful when
you use an analogy, you just do. And so I
don't know. I don't know if it fell on deaf
ears because k D though he looked engaged at first,

(41:52):
the engagement did. Um, he became a little disinterested and
started to walk away. As it ended, he was Steve
Kerr talking to Kevin Durant. I couldn't tell this before
the game or have time felt like it was before
the game. Take a listener was worth the bulls and

(42:13):
we have playoff game. But he was kept kept trying
to score and he was scoring. But we weren't getting
anything gong. Joel Jackson said, who's offer? He said, John Paxson,
I want you to trust your teammates. Early Burl. Here,
what you're doing is you're getting to the room, but
then you're trying to hit him. I want you to
trust the first guy and then move. Still attack, still

(42:36):
want to spot, but trust these guys. Okay. Now, Um,
there's a couple of things. One, it's edited and what
happens is a lot of people in the media who
saw it We're like, well, he looked like he walked away,
and he did. We don't know how long that conversation
took place, and if there was a back and forth
that they wanted to cut out because it might have

(42:57):
had some action in it, or they just might have
wanted to tie tighten it up. Um, but I think
it's also safe to say that he did actually what
his coach wanted to do. He did give up the
ball and then go get in the post and look
to get it and somebody was open. He moved the basketball.
It's funny what we are criticizing and now why I

(43:17):
say we, I mean the media, I'm not what we
are criticizing him for. He is not going and getting
the ball and clearing dudes out and going one on
one the way we thought Jordan went one on one,
But we forget that Jordan oftentimes caught the ball in
his spot. Help would come, he'd pass off to the help,
but if they didn't come, he'd go score. Katie rarely
got the ball in a good scoring position. And and

(43:43):
if you look at it, like look, Quinn Cook had
a wide open shot. Kevin Durant. I believe Kevin Durant
passed him that basketball, didn't He drove in Quinn Cook's
man was in his lap. He made the right read,
the right pass, and though Steph Curry on further review,

(44:04):
appeared open at the top of the key, I'd have
to say the Queen Cook's gotta take that shot now. Look,
it helps when you make the shot. Yeah, Kevin Durant
also when he got double teamed, found Draymond Green who
hit the three on the inbounds play the right read,
the right pass to the right shot, which is kind

(44:26):
of what Lebron has convinced us of. Is there a
happy medium? Yeah? Yeah, Sometimes you gotta force things. Sometimes
you gotta shoot over help shoot over the double team
sometimes you know you're seven feet tall, it doesn't matter
how good the defense is. And I think that Kevin
Durants is learning and learned. This is the first team

(44:50):
that's matched up with them as well without Igodala takes
away another guy who understands how to play based upon
how they're guarding him. And I I also believe that
what Steve Kerr said is simply trying to teach a
guy the true way in which Kevin uh Michael Jordan

(45:15):
became a star. Like we got lots of idiots who
talk on TV that either didn't watch Michael Jordan's don't
understand basketball or misrepresenting who he was Michael Jordan. The
Jordan's rules were he won passing because his teammates weren't
good enough. He didn't trust me and think they're good enough,

(45:35):
and the spacing wasn't good enough. He started his career.
They gave Kevin Locker, who was head coach, and gave
him the ball. They cleared out his side and he
just went and got buckets and ultimately they would get
to the top of the food chain and either play
the Celtics or the Pistons, especially the Pistons for two
years a row and he go to the basket and
they just double him. They just beat him up. They

(45:57):
knocked him to the floor and eventually he went down
and he wasn't passing. And that's when they put in
the triangle. That's when they space it out. That's when
they took away ball handling point guards and gave him
John Paxson at first and b. J. Armstrong next and
Steve Kerr at the end. They gave him a guy
who didn't need the ball to be a good leader,
a good point guard, and would hit open shots when

(46:17):
you give it to him. Jordans only became great when
he learned to pass. Lebron only learned to become great
when he would score, Like Lebron did your six eight
six nine two yo hundred sixty pounds? Why are you
giving it up to other people? Even now, sometimes he's reluctant,
which is why the scatter report on Lebron is make

(46:39):
him score. He goes for forty, fine, he doesn't want
to go for forty. He wants to go for eight
and have fifteen. If he has and fifteen, they're going
to win. If he has forty and five, they're probably
going to lose, especially if you make him take jump shots.
That's the weakest part of his game. But just because

(47:03):
you want Jordan to score doesn't mean you're not gonna
double team him at times at the end of a game.
Just because they're making you score doesn't mean you won't
find the open man. Or you want to pass, doesn't
mean you should score. You got to read the game,
and I think Kevin Durant did for the most part
what his coach wanted him to do. They didn't win,

(47:29):
but the process was right, and more often the process
is right, the more often the results will follow. If
you have the town music, what do you think when
you heard that sound, Well, I definitely thought it was
an interesting comparison for him to sort of be like, hey, look,
this is sort of how MJ played, So this is
how I think we should you know, we should be

(47:49):
having you consider in the way that you're playing. And
what I find interesting about the Warriors is these past
two games that have actually been close down the stretch,
they seem to be a little bit lost. And last year,
even though they sort of ran through the West and
really weren't even challenged all that much by the Cavaliers,

(48:10):
other than that one game that they ended up losing,
but it wasn't all that close because the Cavaliers just
shot the lights out of the building. It seems as
though they're sort of in that spot where Kevin Durant
doesn't feel comfortable totally taking over and Steph sort of
feels like he's trying to get Kevin Durant. Like they're
sort of in that place where in crunch time they

(48:33):
aren't playing the way that they play in the first half,
where they're constantly moving the ball around, but they're also
not ready to just step back and let one guy
totally take it over. Like they almost haven't figured out
how to play in crunch time yet. Uh yeah, I mean,
I think they've always been able to find a mismatch.
They've always been able. It's really hard to tell. Let's

(48:56):
see what happens when Igudala comes back. Let's let's let's
just because they've looked unbeatable for the most part when
he's been back. And I don't think I think Igua
Dallas a shell of his former self anyway, But it's
you know, they started last game, they started to use
finally start to use Jordan Bell and pick and roll
like he's not iguadala. He's not, but he's a he's
more like Capella, like throw it to the rim. He'll

(49:17):
go get it. But you can't have him do kind
of anything else. He's not yet a passer. He doesn't
have a good feel out in the court. He's really
not a defender out in the court yet. He's very
very young. Um Kevon Looney's a guy. He's super you.
I think he's only twenty years old. So those guys
are just young and they're a little bit lost. But yeah,
I would. I do think. I think that Steph not

(49:38):
being able to get a step often enough. Although I
think last night he figured out, hey, I gotta drive them.
They're making me drive to my left hand and making
me finish. I gotta do it. And that's that's when
he had success. It wasn't shooting the three. Um Clay
just kind of is what he is and he's just
gonna try and catch and shoot every time he gets it.

(50:00):
And Durance kind of had to learn on the fly.
I mean, like, look, it all just kind of works
together because this is we had Jason McIntyre on what
two days ago or was that yesterday? I can't remember
what day it was. McIntyre was on last week last week,
and he's like, yeah, Steph Curry is the second best
point guard of all time. Like he's not even a
point guard now. He can play or bring the ball

(50:21):
up the court, and there's some of the things he
does that are like a point guard, but he's not
really the point guard he does. He's more of a
shooting guard who can play some of the point. But
the great thing is that they have, you know, Kevin
Durant who's a power forward, small forward that can play
some point in Andre Gudala that can play point in
power forward, and and Draymond Green that can But when

(50:42):
you need somebody to run the offense, Draymond doesn't have
the mismatch he used to have, right, he just doesn't
not against this team. They're built to match up with them,
and you take Iguadal out, they match up even better
against them. So yeah, I do think it's it's completely
fair to say they look discombobulated in some ways disorganized,

(51:04):
But I also think and like, they haven't faced this
kind of events, but I do. I think they're struggling
with the fact that Houston's matching up with them and
they have one guy who's not supposed to be there,
and it's it's no different than you know, a band
is losing it doesn't have his bassis, right, Like you
get your lead guitar, you get your drummer. You know,

(51:26):
you got your lead saying, and it's a big deal.
Like no, do you don't understand the bassis? That's a
big thing. And that's what we're learning with Andre Goodala,
you know. And it's also look, everyone's going to go
through certain stretches in their career where they're having a
bad game and whatever. But this whole idea that like
Draymond Green is a stone cold lock as a future

(51:46):
Hall of Famer and like, oh, he just does what
the Warriors require of him, and if he was on
his own team, he could do this and do that.
I mean, the way he's played these past couple of
games has shown you how little faith I have personally
in him as being like a number one star on
another team. Like, he's not a number one star another team.

(52:09):
What team could he star on? There's not a team
he's He's not a score. He's a star role player.
That's what he is. Anything else is a mischaracterization of
who he is and what he is. He's not even
close to being a star player, like a superstar player.
Not again, like if he goes out into the real world, okay,

(52:30):
and you say, let's build a team around him, what
position is he? What does he play? What do you think?
Do you play centererard? Power forward? So um, would you
take him? Or would you take Anthony Davis? I'm gonna
go to Anthony Davis. Um. Lebron truthfully is the power

(52:55):
for the foe man for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Kevin Love
is the five, He's the four. Who would you take
Draymond Green or Lebron James? Yeah, I'm I think I'm
gonna go with Lebron. I think would you take Draymond

(53:16):
Green or Blake Griffin? Oh? I I think I'm gonna
go with Draymond just because Blake always gets Oh my god,
that come on, dud, stop it. If Blake Griffin didn't
have so much so many injuries. I can't has nothing

(53:36):
to do with injuries. I'm just talking about if you
have to build a team around a guy, do you
build it around Blake Griffin or do you build it
around Draymond Green? You need a bucket. That's true, tell
me something like, look, is he a better Is Draymond
a better passer than Blake Griffin? That that's what people? Oh,

(54:00):
he's a better pastor? Is he really? Because? Uh, Blake
average six assists two years ago and five assists a game. Like,
I think Draymond is a slightly better passer. He's not
a better shooter, not a better rebounder, not a better
score in the post. He's probably a better defender, but
that's because he doesn't have to do any of those
other things and he can just he is a better defender. Right,

(54:21):
So for that role, in the role of being the
fifth most impressive offensive player, hitting only wide open shots, facilitating,
he can do it. Do I think that Blake Griffin
can do it? Yeah? And he also gets you twenty nine? Right, Like,
that's the crazy thing about That's why guys want to
join championship teams. Draymond Green shouldn't be an All star,

(54:44):
come on, dude, not one of the top three power
forwards in the Western Conference. But because he's allowed to
be the best version of himself and not have to
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Let's let's get to last night. What's the last thing
thoughts you have of Game five in Houston? Listen, thanks

(56:13):
for having me on. I'm just thinking about Chris Paul
and his injury and his health, you know, and how
long would this last, you know, obviously being a former
teammate and obviously a good friend also, Um, you know,
I'm pulling for him, um, And you know, I just
hope that he's fine. That I've seen him go down
with this injury before, and he's returned relatively quickly in

(56:34):
the past, where it probably took probably seven of you know,
ten days for him to get back out there and
be efficient. We also seen in the past in the
playoff series where he had this injury when he was
planning against the San Antonio Spurs, and you know, he
was back out there relatively quickly too. So I just
hope he's able to recover quick because you know, he'll
be teeing a lot of basketball fans from this experience,

(56:55):
and this is a great moment in his career when
you're telling the basketball story about Chris Paul, no question. Um,
Obviously last night he had some incredible shots kind of
balancing out the fact that James Harden had some much
better looks that that he couldn't couldn't knock down. How
do you think they found the offense to beat the Warriors? Yeah,
I think he touched on the dugger. There is Chris Paul,

(57:17):
you know, just making shots and men extremely efficient recognizing
the mismatching look he did not make it complicated. You
know how you going to gym and you got a
bigger guy on you got a smaller guy on you.
The bigger guy gets the ball, you know, it's the matchup.
It's a mismatched problem. And that's exactly what Chris Paul did.
He was coming off the dribble and the picking road
top of the Keith David West was gardener. He had

(57:38):
another big on whether it's Draymond Green, and he was
just you know, using his speed and quickness and isolation
ability and getting into the paint, whether he was drawing files,
whether he's played for teammates, or scoring the basketball, which
you saw him do a ton of that. You know,
he took full advantage of it and they missed andre
go Dollar. That's the thing that he brings to the team,

(57:58):
not to scoring so but his versatility on the defensive
end of the floor where he just plays his rule
to a t and he doesn't need shots, he don't
need opportunities. He's gonna just you know, plug the gaps
and and and play excellent defense. It's it's amazing. I'm
watching the same thing, Like hey, all they're doing is isolating,
whether it's Quinn Cook or Kevon Looney or or m

(58:19):
Jordan Bell, you know, anyone who replaces him, and like, look,
Livingston is a guy who could. But Livingston can't play
extended minutes. Obviously not a very good shooter, and and
isn't the big body or even the ball handler as
much as iguadala is. Is it as simple as hey,
DeAndre go Dolla plays those past two games, they win
at least one of them. Yeah, I think it's a

(58:40):
simple as if Chris Paul does it, they win. The
noble adjustment for them is gonna have to be you know,
getting on dollar bat out. They're healthy. The welcome to
sign for me, if you're going to state Warriams was
that he made the trip. He was able to travel.
I have information and cold and you have swelling and
things that a discomfort did not have to travel to usually,

(59:02):
but to have to stay around the clock with the
medical staff home base, we can get the necessary treatment
that's needed, and you can get into the gym, get
your lab working, and also get prepared for the next
challenge in the dust game. But what I did love
about the Golden State Warriors and what Steve Kerr did
was he exercised the right to utilize other guys. You
saw a lot of mixed lineups that you wouldn't normally see,

(59:25):
and that was for numerous reasons. Because you're thinking big
pictures seven game series. Try to get these guys rested
as much as possible, but overhaul of minutes as coming.
You know in game six and seven. Yeah, it's gonna
be fascinating because they've rockets have only played seven guys
the past two games. Ultimately, do those six that are
remaining that play, Like, what do you do if you're

(59:47):
if you're Mike D'Antoni, do you play your whole bench
and sacrifice any chance of winning games six so that
you're at least partially rested for seven. Listen, if I'm
Mike D'Antoni, I go for the win. You know you
you got them on their their heels against the wall
and their backs against the wall. Look, you throw everything
out them, You throw the kitchen sink at them. Because

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the thing that happens all the time in sports where
and and we all been, you know, victims of this,
and we're on teams that this has happened with, where
you know what the major guy goes down. You know,
sometimes it's a release. You know, guys put their guard
down a little bit, don't come with the same sense
of urgency. And Chris Paul not playing in game six,
you know, maybe they put their guard down a little bit.

(01:00:30):
Maybe they think hair Gorn can't come out there and
have one of those special performances. James Howard is born
in Cable. He can go out there and score forty
and sixty points in the game, and he can get
you remoles and assists in et cetera. So other guys
have to step up in a major way. And look,
this is they're one way away from the NBA Finals.
Let it go and hang out. Coron Butler joining us

(01:00:50):
in the Doug Gottlieb Show. Most people think foregone conclusion.
Cleveland is going back to Boston for a Game seven.
What do you think? I think so too, You know,
I just don't see Lebron It's hard that did everybody
always say the same record, but it really is. It's
hard to bread bet against Lebron James. You know, he's

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a lot that you know, possessed a moving skills of
you know, just coming back and you know, imposing fear
and of young athletes. And you know these young guys,
you know, they idolize them. They look up to them,
whether they say it or not. And the Boston Celtics
been the one team that collectively come together and not
showing that weakness where they're gonna just praise him. They're

(01:01:31):
gonna compete against him and show him respect by showing
him none. But he's back at home, he's back in
his kingdom. He's gonna get the necessary cause that's needed.
You're gonna get the favorable whistle. I wouldn't be surprised
to see one of the key guys or the Boston
Celtics getting filed trumpled early. That's gonna help the Cleveland captain.
Lear's going to run and if they can separate theirselves
clear least in the scoring standpoint attended twelve to fourteen

(01:01:53):
points in the first half, it's going to go in
Cleveland's favor. So, uh, what happens if they lose? Ah,
let the story start. I don't even think people will
start even pay attention to the finals. I think it's
gonna be all about where Lebron goes next. I think
that's gonna be the story in the headline. Yeah, it's

(01:02:14):
it's gonna be. It's gonna be. It feels like a
kind of a no lose for Lebron right because he
has performed so well that if they lose, it becomes hey,
didn't have the teammates, you know, Whereas if he wins,
it's yet another miraculous comeback for Lebron where the other
team was the better overall team even though the other
team is missing their top two players. Yeah, it really are.

(01:02:35):
But if you look at the body of work and
one Lebron has been able to accomplish here in this
playoff series. Doug, he literally, and I said, at time
time again, he literally went to the y m C,
a lifetime boys and Girls club, whatever, lifetime fitness, whatever
you got near you, where a whole bunch of guys
just get together and play pick up in shape. Man.
How he went to and he said, look, I mean

(01:02:59):
eight guys were to the NBA Finals, and that's exactly
what's happening right now. It's amazing just to see his
ability to be able to do that and if he
if he's able to pull this out off. It's the
discussion of the goat conversations going to go to all
the heights. Um, okay, So what do you you think
Cleveland goes back to Boston? And then what do you

(01:03:19):
think Cleveland goes back to Boston? And then what do
you think happens in Boston? Anything can happen. Is anybody game,
there's no favorite. I don't have a horse in this brace,
but is anybody game? But I will tell you that
Boston played amazingly well all season at home, particularly in
the playoffs, and you know, I don't see that stopping.
I say Boston to win in seven. But listen, the

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best player on the planet, given the opportunity, a fighter's
chance to get a win on the road. That that
that that smells like you know, uh beforeal day barbecue
to him. That's right up this alley. What what's going
on with KD? He he took a couple of wild
shots in Game four and then passed up on shooting
the basketball coming down in transition, and then in Game

(01:04:04):
five he doesn't really get the ball much in the
fourth quarter, doesn't doesn't make a feel goal in the
in the fourth quarter. What's going on, Katie in your mind? Yeah,
I think it's a rhythm thing. I think the rhythm
is important. You know. Um, you know, it was a
moment in that game, not last game, but the game
prior to that where they played in Golden State and
Clay Thompson had, you know, guys kind of stuck with

(01:04:25):
the basketball where he probably should have kicked it out
the KB. He had amazing opportunity to step uto a
three point shot. That's routine for him. But yesterday, you know,
it was a lot of isolation basketball. But that's something
that he's accustomed to. And you know, it was a
lot of pressure. Everybody knew the magnitude of that game.
They knew that the urgency had to be there, and

(01:04:46):
it was just some moments that you know, he missed
out on the best. Believe you know, he's in the
last Today, he's watching a ton of film. He got
his guys where they're getting him prepared and uh, you know,
ready for this next challenge. And I think he's gonna
come out and be a better vision of himself and
he's gonna have a monster game and try to use
that as momentum going into Game seven. All Right, do
you think that one goes back to Houston as well? Absolutely? Yeah.

(01:05:08):
I just don't see the Warriors, you know, going down.
You know, Steph Curry is healthy, Kevin Duran's healthy, Uh,
Clay Thompson's healthy enough. Draymond Green understands that. You know,
he uh, he had a mishap back during the last possession.
Didn't come down to that possession only. It was a
bunch of things that they did. The turnovers, you know,
just not being a single one another. It was verily.

(01:05:29):
It was very recognizable that you know, those guys just
wasn't there. You know, they was turning the ball over
and they're not a customer that they may have one
guy that may be loose what they handled with the basketball.
That's traditionally Steph Curry probably average about three to five
turnovers and those things because he's just you know, using
his creative ability. But that's not something that they're accustomed to.
And I think they're going to bounce back and James

(01:05:50):
Harner is going to have to have a hemoric performance
for them to go back to Houston. Would have win, no,
no question about last week it was it was Mark Wahlberg, right,
what Mark Wallburger? Uh. The week before it was Kobe Bryant.
Who's the big name guest on the show this week?
Hey man, we're winging it. We're winging it today and
and then next week we're gonna obviously follow back up

(01:06:12):
with it. You know, another big man. You know I
always you know, you struck So what you're saying, you
struck out, you struck out this week? It's okay. I mean, like, listen,
my producer strikes out all the time. He didn't give
me we do, we do a daily So what you're
saying is you struck out. Can call me and call me.
I mean, man, we got the moment of in our
favorite man. We don't need guys on there all the time.
I could make a phone calling, get anybody. Obama on

(01:06:34):
the show. Yeah, I'd like the Obama on this heavy great,
would be great. Obama on the show would be would
be phenomenal. Karan Butler tough juice, check them out. Sunday,
that's Sunday morning alongside Yahoo Sports NBA inside of Chris Manx.
They'll be reacting to I guess that's they'll be reacting
to a game Game six in Oakland and potentially getting

(01:06:55):
ready for Game seven in Boston. I have a great
moral day weekend up to Tues. Thanks for joining us,
a con Butler joining us on the Doug Gotlip show.
Let let's bring in Dan fire Dan. If you were
going to go through your Rollodex and bring in your
biggest dame guests, who would it be? He said he
get Obama? He didn't? Did he get Obama? Uh? Mine,

(01:07:18):
probably Corn Butler would probably Yeah, that would probably got
two degrees of of Barack Obama. Yes, that would probably
probably be uh my Rolodex right now at least on
my phone. That or John Ramos, one of the two
Rocket scar Chris Paul has been rolled out of Tobarrall's
Game six because of a strain hamstring, as you guys
were just talking about. As for his status for game seven,

(01:07:38):
the team says he'll travel to Oakland and not playing
game six and will be re evaluated once that Game
six has completed. Warriors have their own issues forward under
Igo Dallas missed the last two games because of a
n EE contusion. He's considered questionable for tomorrow night's game
in Oakland again, Rockets up three two in the best
of seven series. Celtics are up three two on the
Cavaliers with Games six of the East Finals in Cleveland tonight,

(01:07:59):
that is at eight thirty Eastern time. While a Major
League Baseball the Red Sox designated Hanley Ram mirrors for
assignment and activated second basement Dustin Pedro them from the
d L comes on top of the Giants five one,
top of the eighth thinning. Yankees first baseman Gregg BYRD
could make his season debut tomorrow, returning from ankle surgery.
And some NFL news and marijuana charge has been dropped

(01:08:20):
against Nanner's linebacker Reuben Foster in Alabama and dug A
special Maddened NFL nineteen video game cover will be out
a Hall of Fame edition with one Terrell Owens on
the cover. So a special Hall of Fame edition the
True Mad nineteen game will of the cover person will
be released later this summer, but a special Hall of

(01:08:41):
Fame edition will have Terrell Owens on the cover. He
says in eight Cowboys uniform. Did you like t o
the player? Yeah, it was hard to as a Seahawks
fan when he was, you know, signing Sharpie's and but man,
he was good. It was good. Yes, a fan just

(01:09:01):
when it wasn't really a fan. Lacked a lot of
self awareness, did have some big drops. I know, he
came back from injury to play for the with the
Eagles in the Super Bowl. But what was amazing about
that was they made the Super Bowl without him, and
no one else got recognized as such, right, there was
no there was no Hey, look at all these guys
that stepped up in order for them to make like

(01:09:23):
Brian Dawkins, Like, nobody mentions those guys getting to a
super Bowl. They just mentioned that he came back early,
which is great, and he played well in the Super Bowl. Um,
there's there's also one other thing that that I think
he made it so difficult to defend him, Like if
you wanted to make a case on why, he would
always do something that just made it just like, come on,
I'm trying, I'm pulling for you. I want you to

(01:09:45):
do well. You're great, Just help me out. It was
so difficult to defend him at times, yes, completely agree.
He was. He made it. He made it really really
really hard, made it really really hard. And what's what's
interesting is in a completely different way of of even
James Harden, like you can tell me you don't like,

(01:10:06):
like Kevin Durant hasn't played that well with James Harden
has been awful for good stretches of this of this series.
He was bad last night. He wasn't as exposed defensively
as he had been. But I think part of that
was Golden State got away from attacking him. But I mean, oh,
of eleven from three, he had some bad turnovers and
some untimely bad shots like he it was that was

(01:10:27):
not that's crazy where we go result over process, right,
which is the result is they won? So I guess
he didn't play that bad. Like, no, he really paid
that bad he did. They won in spite of not
because of James Hard Were you a music Were you
a t O guy? Do you like t O? I
always thought he was good, but yeah, kind of like

(01:10:49):
what Dan said, he wasn't necessarily someone who you were like,
oh man, live and die by t Oh. I was
always just like, yeah, guys really good at football. Yeah,
I don't. I don't think Odell Beckham Jr. Is close
to getting to that part that on that amount of unlikability,
I just don't now. Part of it is Teo had

(01:11:12):
been through so many teams and all of those teams
weren't disappointed to see him go right, like nobody was
San Francisco nobody. And look, part of it is his
own personal makeup. Part of it is when you're in
San Francisco, you wanna talk about chasing a ghost, like
if people think that that Lebron is chasing a ghost
that you'll never catch in. Jordan's got nothing embarrassing to

(01:11:33):
Jerry Rice, like nothing, And he had Jeff Garcia as
his quarterback, not Joe Montana, not Steve Young. Garcia was
chasing his own ghosts, right, But you know Philadelphia the
driveway stunt uh, Dallas, that's my quarterback. Like it's really

(01:11:54):
is amazing on how many negative images there are of
Terrell Owens and yet he was a spectacularly talented football player. Ramos,
what's your thoughts onto I'm not too into people that
show off a lot, just not not something that I
enjoyed to watch when I watch football. So I would

(01:12:14):
say No, I had to make a pick. I'll say this,
the fact that you were even I know you're saying
it wasn't close. But the fact that Odell has at
least put himself somewhat in that realm so short into
his actual career is why I would have reasons for

(01:12:35):
concern if I'm the Giants and all, you know, him
wanting a new contract and things like that. I mean,
he's supremely talented, but it's really hard to say, like, hey, look,
let's give you all this money so we can prove
to you how dedicated we are to you, and then
somehow expect him to change who he is. No, I

(01:12:55):
just become more of what you're just rewarding what he is.
I I understand that. I'm just saying, like, look, I
think part of it is we cover the league and
covered these stories, so there's so many more daily shows
that talk about football that I think. You know, it's
one of the things that the t O thing was
brewing for a while, but we didn't pay attention to
it that much, even in San Francisco until he got

(01:13:15):
to the Eagles and then into until he's with the Cowboys,
and it was it's like one of those things that
I've I've tried to tell people, Uh, this is the
in sports. It's the opposite of what network TV was then, right, Like,
there will never be when when I was a kid,
was from your kid? What was your family's or throughout

(01:13:37):
your life? What's your the network TV show that you're
most locked in on. I used to watch like Happy
Days and you're you're older than meek Happy Days into
then it became what did you do? Mass did you
Cosby shows? Cheers? So my family was a Cheers family,
and then during my college years that's when we I

(01:13:58):
started get into Friends. Right, there will never be like
Friends for example, okay, Friends was you know right in
the target eighteen to forty demo. Eighteen to four year
olds don't watch network TV anymore, not for not for sitcoms.
They'll watch a Netflix show, an Amazon show. That's why

(01:14:18):
so many that we go to so many reality shows
or award shows or sports because that's what younger males
will watch now or even young females will watch now.
So there's never going to be another Friends, another show
that is based on and watched by young adults on
network TV. There may be another Friends on Netflix or

(01:14:41):
on Amazon Prime, but not by my estimation. On network TV,
they're not even trying right. CBS wants old people. They
they they're all their Their demo is sixty plus fifty
plus sixty plus. Fox TV is going all sports and
live shows. Um. Others go with dramas more for family
and NBC more dramas family oriented shows as well as

(01:15:03):
The Voice, which again another live programming like competition show.
So but that's the opposite of football football. You used
to be able to get away with being a huge
personality and paining the ass in your own home city.
And maybe ESPN picked up a little bit of it
now FS one, ESPN's Good Morning Football, and there's other

(01:15:24):
shows as well that talk about it every day. And
so Odell Beckham Jr. Feels like he's as big a
story and as big a pain as t O is.
The truth is that t O has ever been in
the news, and there were very much fewer shows to
cover people. Nick Right thinks that Lebron James to carry
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(01:17:31):
what he had to say about about today. Statistically speaking,
the greatest elimination game player in the history of the sport,
the nobody's ever averaged more points per game and elimination games.
We talked about it going into Game seven against Indiana.
How since he walked off the court against Dallas the
lowest moment of his career, he has faced elimination thirteen times,

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He's ten and three. In those games, he scored at
least thirty twelve times. The one time he didn't was
a Game seven of the Finals. Triple double. By the way,
that stretch started in a Game six in Boston, in
arguably the most important game of Lebron's career and five.
So Game seven, I believe the Calves will need more

(01:18:13):
of a collaborative effort, because it will be in Boston
Game six. Lebron can win this game by himself. Lebron
can go out and beat Boston at home by himself.
And that's about what I expect to say. Yeah, I
actually think the opposite. I don't think Lebron can win
this game by himself. Um case in point, you go
back to when they lost to Boston in game two

(01:18:34):
and you have one at the end of the first
Corps can't do it by yourself. I think, you know,
it's more likely that he gets something out of Corverse,
something out of JR. Something out of George Hill, something
out of Tristan Thompson, and foul trouble out of the
out of the Boston Celtics. Game seven is usually where
he's the only one left with gas in the tank.

(01:18:54):
I think he has a good night tonight in a
bunch of points. But I think it's the collaborative effort
that forces this thing to a game seven. Yes, rhyme music.
Because it's an elimination game. We have to see Lebron
go all out the entire time, right like if they
fall behind big early or at least somewhat significant, say

(01:19:15):
they're down like ten points at halftime. That would be
big because when they played Boston at home, they've jumped
out to a huge lead both times. That would be big,
So anyway, go ahead. But it's just like we've sort
of seen him what seems like he goes a little
more lethargic passive and kind of mails it in in
games where they're behind since obviously they kind of won't

(01:19:35):
won't won't be I I do not expect to see
that tonight, correct, I mean he he has to put
it all out there, the whole I mean like he
could go for like fifty tonight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look
to me, the whole thing is, can Marcus Morris stay
out of foul trouble? He's in foul trouble. Celtics. You know,
Celtics make couple shots, they got a chance. I think

(01:19:57):
it still goes back to Boston and even in Austin.
You know, lebron seems to be the one guy who
you can count on to have gas in the tank.
This has been the first time to which there's been
flaws to his his you know, amount of gas the
yas in the tank. But gonna be really really interesting
to see by. You're working this weekend, aren't you. You're

(01:20:20):
not going anywhere, are you? Yeah, I'll be Uh Sunday
show is normal. And taking Monday off, taking Monday off,
any any big plans Monday. You're going to the beach,
You're going to the river, you go into the desert,
maybe firing up that old big green egg you got
the big green eggs? Nice? I like that. What would
you be grilling on the big green eggs? Because you can?
You can. You can broil it, you can bastely, you

(01:20:41):
can saute it, you can smoke it, you can you know,
just like bum what's the name of the Bubba Gump
Shrimp company? What's Bubba? Right? No, yeah, Bubba Bubba, the
household name the I've never tried ribs on it, So
that's what I was thinking. You ever smoked ribs or
you ever try I on that? That deal? Okay? So

(01:21:04):
here's here's what I would do with ribs. Okay. First,
go and get a really nice rack of ribs. Uh,
fire up the grill to where you just brown them
on on both sides. Then you fire up the smoke
or cover in tinfoil and turn it down really low
and cook it for a bunch of tasty It's not
always about how much talent you have. Next in the

(01:21:24):
Doug Gotlip Show, What Up Doug gott Leave Show, Fox
Sports Radio, Come into you from the beautiful city of
Los Angeles, California. Do you guys mind if I go
a little off script, and not that there's a script
for this show, but tell you a story that you
might find interesting. What's the worst day you've ever had,

(01:21:48):
you know, outside of somebody like dying, right, you know,
like I you know, day my dad died. Bad day.
Bad day. So let's like we in the spirit of
hey 's try and have some fun with it. But
it's a bad day. What's the roughest day you've ever had? Ramos,
you want to share one? I mean, we got a

(01:22:10):
car accident. I mean that's we didn't obviously we didn't
get injured too much, but that was that was a
bad day. Okay after the car accident, what happened the
rest of the day, Uh, well, we were at the
hospital for a while. Okay, So you got hurt. Yeah,
that's that's kind of bummer, dude. Yeah, but I mean
we didn't get we didn't get like hurt, Like I
didn't break any bones. It was just more you got
shooken up a lot. Okay, yeah that was at anything

(01:22:32):
else that surrounded that day that made it made it bad? Well,
my my car was total so I couldn't drive it anymore.
It's all part of the accident. You're you're talking about
something that led from that to something else, right, Like
my wife, my wife ran over my wife. My wife
ran over our last dog while the kids were playing
outside before school one day, and then I had to

(01:22:52):
put down the dog and we picked up two of
the kids from school so they could say goodbye. Like
that was a tough day, but that was the only
bad thing that happened at music? Do you want to
play along here? And do you have any really really
bad days things that's happened to you? I mean, I
can't think of anything where it was like continuously one
after another. But the only thing I can think of
off the top of my head where had a really

(01:23:13):
bad day was probably the day I got cut from
the volleyball team. Anything else? Did you get dump by
your girlfriend in the same day? No? I did not know.
Uh what about you, Dan Buyer? Can you think of
like a doubly bad bad day. Yeah, I want to
talk about my worst days. But I will say this
that I'm very, very superstitious that I think you either
have good days or bad days. So a lot of
this stuff, like if it starts out, you know, wrong

(01:23:34):
side of the bed thing, I think it just falls
in place the rest of the day. Okay, maybe that's
what's happened with the Ilia Nastasy. He was nicknamed Nasty.
He was a great tennis player going back in the seventies.
Do you guys see this story Elistasi so uh, but
he's never known as nasty. He was, and he did
have a fiery temper. A matter of fact, I think

(01:23:55):
there was the international competition this year where he was
coaching and he got in trouble for yelling at the
other team. Anyway, Um, so he gets pulled over. He
gets pulled over like in the middle of the day
and had a level of point five five milligrams of
alcohol per leader. I'm guessing that's bad, right because he
gets basically pulled over forward for d u I that

(01:24:18):
was at four am in the morning. He was drunk.
He was They said he was visibly drunk and officers
had to block Nastasi's vehicle as he failed to stop.
Oh but there's more. At like two in the afternoon,
he was He was fined two or fifty three dollars
and had his license immediately suspended for three months. Just

(01:24:39):
like that. That's how quickly they work in Romania. You're
like good thing. Right. Later on that same day, he
was pulled over for running a red light on a
scooter and then he was belligerent two cops and they
took him in. He got arrested twice on the same day.
That's a bad day. I gotta just agree here us.

(01:25:01):
He was on a scooter. I guess he was, you
know the you know the the age old guy is
um about scooters and um m hmm. Let's see here
rotund women, right you do? You guys knew that, right?
I don't have to say. I don't have to say
what what they have in common, but people know that.

(01:25:21):
I'll tell you off air. I don't know that's there's
no curse words in it, but it's generally frowned upon
to stay on there anyway. I don't want to get caught.
It's one of those you don't want to get caught
in the scooter. But go ahead, Music, I was just
gonna say, I don't know if that can qualify as
bad luck when you're putting yourself in bad situations. Fair enough, Hello,
he's an idiot drunk driving and then probably drunk in scootering.

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Second time he was apprehended, he was filmed mocking police
officers and accusing them of acting like Communist era militia
the Stars. He got in a police car and placed
the police helmet on his head during the second rest.
I mean, look, look, it didn't hurt an anybody, thankfully.
The only order he's seventy one years old. That guy's

(01:26:04):
going out and to blaze the glory. I just thought
we'd bring a little like you thought. You've had a
bad day getting arrested twice for illegally operating a motor vehicle.
That's that. That that's a bad day. That's a bad day. Uh.
I last year at this time and Music, we were

(01:26:24):
all together last year during the NBA Finals, which people
were discussing whether or not this Golden State Warriors team
was the best team ever. You guys remember that discussion?
Do you guys remember what I said? I believe you
said no, because there were Laker teams of the past.
There were less teams in the NBA in the past,

(01:26:47):
so there was a greater depth of talent on those teams.
Right where we've said, hey, Draymond Green on his own
team is not going to average twenty a game. But
you go back to the you know nineteen you know,
pick Lakers, pick picked the great Lakers squad if you like,
you know the seven eight nine l A Lakers, Like,

(01:27:08):
are we aware that they were sixty two and twenty
which seems inferior to like a seventy three win team
of two years ago, But uh, they had Byron Scott,
Magic Johnson, James Worthy all in their prime. Magic was
Byron Scott twenty six, James Worthy, Michael Cooper, who was
the best defense player in the league, was only thirty one,

(01:27:30):
Kareem was still was forty, Michael Thompson, Tony Campbell, Wes
Matthews like they were a c Green was twenty four
years old. In that team, they were all young and
with the exception of Kareem in their prime, like that
team in that era has a greater depth of talented
players who could on their own team be a star

(01:27:50):
than what the Golden State Warriors have. What I said, though,
was that this team was a perfectly put together team
for two eighteen basketball, and last year they were and
and you know what, the Rockets have in many ways

(01:28:12):
come close to catching up to them. And they have
a three games the two league. You're like, godly, they've
done more than catch up, They've passed them. I don't
believe they have, but I believe that their roster is
so slim now without Andrew Andrea Guadala, it kind of
throws off their equilibrium. Throws off their equilibrium. I mean
you you think about how one thing it can screw

(01:28:36):
everything up. Doesn't have to be the best player. This
is what happens to the Dallas Cowboys when they lose
Sean Lee. Right, he's the most important. You're like, well,
they've got ten other guys on defense, what's the middle linebacker? Matter?
Everything calls, the offense calls defense, the audibles and oh yeah,

(01:28:56):
by the way, most important in stopping the run. And
if he's a hybrid linebacker, he can cover backs out
of the backfield. Incredible, Look at Ryan, she's here and
how different. I told you that Super Bowl run was
over for the Steelers the second that he went down
with that horrific injury. Now shas Here is in his prime,
Andre Goodala is not. But the Iguadala thing. You had

(01:29:20):
to not be paying attention last night to not see
how much they missed him. Why is Jordan Bell in
there because Andrew Goodala is not? Why is Kevan Luni
in there because Andrew goodalas What's what's maybe most interesting
is did they lose the battle and win the war?
Two different reasons? Why I would think the answer is yes, Okay,

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Part one, they're going to be more rested than the Rockets.
The Rockets have gone all in on the last two games,
playing only seven players, and now they're gonna be without
Chris Paul in game six. Now, I don't know if
the Rocket go for it, but on some level in
the first half, they're gonna go for it. And those
six guys, like you get to game seven of this

(01:30:06):
type of series and you're gas. Do you know what
the first thing to go when you lose your conditioning
and lose your legs is in baseball, what happens with
pictures when they start to hit that hundred pitch limits
they don't actually throw it slower. First, people think it's
like remember like an RBI Baseball or any of the

(01:30:27):
video baseball games. You the more you get, the higher
pitch account you go from nine two. That's not actually
what happens. What happens in Major League Baseball when guys
pitch account gets elevated past the normal level music. You
want to take a guess, You lose command, can't locate,
You can't locate two of one of two things happens.

(01:30:48):
You walk a guy or you leave one up in
the zone and they deposit out into the outfield bleachers.
Correct In basketball, when you lose your legs, when you
lose your air, when you lose your auditioning, what do
you lose your accuratec senior shooting, especially long range shooting,
You're out of gas. It's what's happened to Steph Curry
in this series, is what happened to James Harden this series.

(01:31:10):
And by my estimation, I think what will happen to
the Houston Rockets if this thing goes to seven. So look,
I'm not giving the Golden State Warriors a pass. I'm
telling you I'm incredibly impressed with the Rockets, who have
been more physical more aggressive and made just enough shots
to make it work, even with James Harden not making

(01:31:32):
shots past couple of games. Here's the second reason. Though
I think that ultimately they lost the battle, they win
the war. I actually think it's a good thing that
Kevin Durant is trusting teammates, that he's not being a
ball haug down the stretch. The past two games, especially
this last game, he's shown that he wants to be coachable.

(01:31:55):
He's shown that he wants the ball, but he's willing
to somebody's open. Let's give him a shot now. Quinn
Cook showed that he can't make that shot. Draymond Green
show that he he made one shot, but then he
turned the basketball over. So I think this empowers k
D to show that he'll pass if need be, and
he really love to score. He's done it in the

(01:32:18):
NBA Finals, no reason to believe he can do it
in Game seven in Houston. And then there's tonight. I
don't think this is the last night for Lebron in
Cleveland as a Cavalier. I just I love Brad Stevens.
I love the way they play at home, but I've
seen this thing far too often, and I do think

(01:32:38):
that once you get to game seven's look Game four,
the officiating really helped the Ks Marcus Moors gets into
foul trouble Game five. The exact opposite happened to the Cavaliers,
where Kevin Love gets into foul trouble. That affects games
when you get to game seven, it's usually evenly officiated.
I operated on the premise that we're going to see
a Game seven in both of these series, and we

(01:32:59):
know how it ends in Boston with Lebron James winning,
and and it's it's it's crazy what we're gonna do
because they're gonna win and Lebron's going to be a hero.
Even though their favored still favored to win the series.
They were favored down one. Oh, they were favor before
the series. Boston's playing with that they're two best players.
But we're gonna be led to believe that this is

(01:33:22):
he's playing with a bunch of rummies. Kevin loves a
perennial All Star. He's been on his team the whole time.
You know, Rummy, you know who's more accomplished in the NBA,
George Hill or Terry Rosier. When we can and tell
you that Al Horford's underrated. But before the series began,

(01:33:46):
Al Horford or Kevin Love, who would you take? You'd
take Kevin Love. I didn't say you're right, but I'd
say you take Kevin Love. So I don't know. It's
gonna be interesting how this gets framed if or when
Lebron James wins in Step. Coming up next, Rob Parker
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(01:35:09):
I mean Sunday he'll be reacting. I would think Sunday
night he'll have time to have watched what could be
Game seven right between the you know a game honest,
Games six, Game seven of the Celtics series would be
on Sunday, Rob, Will we see a Game seven or
do the Celtics close him out tonight? We're gonna see

(01:35:31):
one dog, We'll see a Game seven and then Lebron
and should be able to win. The Celtics a chterrible
road team, and obviously the Broads playing for a lot
legacy wise, don't want to lose to a team I
know I wouldn't without a star player. I know they
were a good team and they played well at home,
but they should be owing seven on the road. Philadelphia

(01:35:53):
gave him a win for there one in six. If
they get closed out on the road by a team
that struggled this much in the postseason. It'll look pretty bad.
It's fascinating to me, um that somehow we're gonna create this.
And look, I think Lebron has been for the most part,
obviously Game five as the exception. For the most part,
he's been fantastic in this series. But somehow we're gonna

(01:36:15):
create this. Oh my god, I can't believe Lebron pulled
it off right where. Dude, the Celtics were underdogs the
entire series. They're big underdogs tonight. They're still underdogs to
win the series there without their two best players, and
yet it's gonna be some sort of miracle if Lebron
James team wins the next two games. Yeah, some people
will paint it that way. I'm with you, it's not.

(01:36:36):
I just I just don't look at it that way.
No disrespect to what the Celtics have done there. They're
Lebron James is the best player on the planet. He
should win that series, even with with some minimal help
from other guys on that team. Not a good team, dug.
When they made all those trades and everybody went crazy,
they won their first two games and said, oh, yeah,

(01:36:58):
they're anesthetic, they're young, they all know their roles. This
is a better squad. I never brought into that this
was some great Cleveland Cavaliers team and that those moves
had changed anything Lebron. These are the guys he has
good Night, that good. But Lebron's that good, He's that great.
He should be able to be the team without Kyrie
and and uh, Heyward, what happens if they A good

(01:37:24):
question as far as will Lebron will go? You mean,
or what will happen? I mean, obviously the guy's falling
in lebron Land. I think it'd be hard for people
to put up continue to put up the Jordan's Lebron
uh greatest of all time argument. I think that would
take a major hit. But then, uh, as far as
Lebron going anywhere or doing anything in the future, I

(01:37:45):
think he needs to stay in Cleveland or go to Philadelphia.
Those are my only two choices. I really see legitimate league.
He has to go somewhere where they have a chance
to win and they have the right pieces. And I
don't see him going out West with all the competition
and all the team. He might not even get to
the finals. If he goes out West and joint saying
a Laker team that's still building and doesn't really have

(01:38:07):
all the pieces necessary, I can't see him doing that
with three years left to play. Yeah, except he's had
Except he's always had the ball and space around him,
like Ben Simmons needs the ball to be Ben Simmons right,
and Joel Embiad's gonna need the ball or be and
and score some in the post in order to be like,
how does that all work together? Well? According to Chris

(01:38:28):
Brusstard and you know his inside with the NBA and
my radio partner, he says, it's talk that people around
Lebron says that he would be willing to play without
the ball and and and and let Simmons be that
guy and and do something different, you know. And I
don't know, Maybe maybe it's asking a lot of a guy.
Maybe after all these years and all these minutes, he

(01:38:51):
doesn't want to be that guy in that situation. But
he can look at those guys and think, you put
those three together, they have a matchup problem for the Warriors,
and maybe that's enough, and the Warriors look vulnerable now.
But if you add those guys together. Jug would you
say that would be a matchup problem for the Warriors? Uh? Yeah,

(01:39:12):
I mean, although I just don't know where the shooting
is gonna come from. You know, like three is more
than two. It just it just is like like who
is here here? Who's Joel Embid gonna guard? And you
don't have to guard Ben Simmons, right, So it looks
it does look good on paper, but we've seen shooting
be more. It's been spreading the floor. Spacing the floor

(01:39:34):
be the way of the game, and that, you know,
that's why the Rockets are doing well because they have
five guys with their feet outside the three point line
and they can match up and switch and guard and guard.
You know, all the different guys were you know. And
and look that's what Golden State does with their death
lineup when they have Andre Gadallas. They can space you out.
That's not a spacing based offense. That would be a
completely different style than what And the other part is, yes,

(01:39:56):
Lebron says. Everybody says, oh, I can play without the ball,
but he's been the league fifteen years. He's the primary
ball handler on every team he's ever played on. And
I think he's going to change. I get it. I'm
just going by what. Like I said, Christmus saw some
of the people he's talked about claimed that he would
be willing to do that, and if he would, I
think that would be a landing spot for him. But

(01:40:18):
I agree, you asked him abody to do something different
than he's ever done before. So I just think his
options are more limited than people really think that they are.
Stell gotlive show here on Fox Sports Radio. Um, okay,
let's let's get to the other series. What do you
think happened last night? Uh, that's a good question. I

(01:40:39):
don't know what happened in that they the Warriors just
don't look the same. I just think that they they
look vulnerable. They look all those shots that used to
go in and and just haven't gone in. And when
they don't, there you know, for people to wave about
this team and what they've done and all the other stuff.

(01:41:02):
I mean, I've heard all this stuff about the words
they change basketball and they're this dynasty, which they're not.
You gotta win at least three in a row of
three out of four to be a dynasty. To me,
that's my definition of dynasty. They win this year, there
are three out of four just right, That's what I mean.
So they need this, They're not there yet. And also, uh,

(01:41:24):
they also did give up a three to one league,
which no team had ever done before in the history
of the NBA Finals, So they did choke one down
as well. I expect him to win at home, especially
with no Chris Paul, and then I expect them to
win games seven and go to the championship. Before the
playoffs started, I said that both Cleveland and Golden State

(01:41:47):
would make it, but it wouldn't be the postseason we
saw last year, Doug where Golden State was twelve and
oh and the Cars were twelve and one leading up
to the finals. That both teams would lose a lot
of games, a lot more games than people would think,
and they would still find a way at the end.
And that's what I still think is gonna happen. Um, Okay,
what happens if they don't? You know, they don't. Let's

(01:42:08):
what happens they lose Game six at home? You mean
the Warriors, what would happen? People still be a lot
of people rejoice in and saying it's good for the
n b A. I would be stunned and uh, if
they lose without Chris Paul on their home court, I
would just be stunned. And uh wonder if the fix

(01:42:29):
is involved. No, I'm just kidding. I just I don't know, Doug.
I would be stunned that that could happen on their
home court based on elimination. Rob Parker joining us in
the Doug Gottlief Show. All right, I want to play
for you, something Drew Brees said earlier today on The
Dan Patrick Show in regards to the the protest ruling
by the National Football League or the new rules set
in place for anthem protests. Get to that after we

(01:42:51):
get to this quick sports update. Here's Dan Buyer. Game
six of the Eastern Conference Finals tonights in Cleveland, Cavaliers
and Celtics eight thirty Eastern Times. Celtics up three two.
Is Lebron and his crew of their backs against the wall.
I enjoy being in a position where it's like, you know,
you lose and go home, but um and just trying

(01:43:13):
to extend a series, you know, as long as I can,
and um, just trying to put myself from anything position
to be able to continue to play. Eight thirty Eastern
time tonight is tip off from Cleveland. Chris Paula the
Rockets out for Game six of the West Finals tomorrow.
Andre Iguodala, questionable for the game because of his knee contusion.
Comes speak the Giants today six to two, comes President

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us Fox Sports Radio six to nine on Sundays. You
can see him on Fox Sports One. This was Drew
Brees earlier today on The Dan Patrick Show. But the
National Anthem is a way to unify everyone, I think
by some people kneeling and some people standing and all that,

(01:44:38):
I think that that's very divisive for our country, no
matter what you're protesting, because there's plenty of things about
this country that I think we would all like to
see improvements. I just don't think that the national during
the National Anthem is a time to to voice those opinions.
I think that it deserves our full respect. What do
you think what Drew Brees had to say? Totally disagree

(01:45:01):
with them. I think Drew Brees a lot of people
who are in denial. First of all, I think the
two the group of people that white people entertain and
listen to our black athletes, and they looked at them
as Unfortunately, athletics and entertainment is where white Americans pay

(01:45:22):
attention to black people for the most part, and I
think that that's a very powerful platform to have and
to bring attention to the ills going on in the
black community. I don't know how many times or how
many more videos or police brutality and bad stuff going on.
It has to happen before people realize that those lives

(01:45:42):
and things going on dogs are more important than a
damned football game. I hate that people don't want to listen.
I've seen so many incidents where people are on the
wrong side of history. They thought Muhammad Ali was the
worst man in the world because he wouldn't uh right
in the water, he didn't believe in and then this
is the same guy who years later is lighting the

(01:46:05):
torch at the Olympics in Atlanta for the United States.
Uh span set idoly. They were okay with segregation in
Major League Baseball. That was cool for a long time
as well, until somebody was willing to stand up and
do something different. You can't just ignore what's going on
in the real world. I don't care about a game.

(01:46:25):
I think Drew Brees is totally wrong on this. This
is the idea to get as much attention as possible.
Has Sterling has the Sterling Brown video got an attention.
That's more than attention. No, yeah, that's got attention, and

(01:46:45):
we got attention. Is everybody well aware of it and
people have seen it. But that doesn't that doesn't mean
that you're going to dictate and tell us where we're
supposed to protest and when that's not the act of
a protest. Does protests I used to make you feel uncomfortable.
That's what a protest is. That's that's that's fine, and
that's fair. I would I would point out, though, if

(01:47:07):
the object of the protest is to bring awareness, there's
already awareness, right, doesn't mean yeah and and oh yeah,
by the way, oh yeah, by the way, the biggest
issue in the black community is it police brutality or
is it black on black crime? What's the biggest dog?
This is the thing. I'm glad you brought that up,

(01:47:27):
because this is the this is the always the thing
that that guys throw in that's like, oh, I got
the smoking gun. It's not police brutality, it's black on
black crime. I didn't say and I want to make
sure I said this. I want to say I didn't
say blue brutality, and and and police tactics aren't a problem,

(01:47:48):
their problem, by the way. Not. I want you to
what you just brought up, dog, I want you to
understand what is the percentage of black people killed by
other black people? Do give me a number, is the percentage? Yes?
What is the percentage of white people killed by other
white people? It's the same across. It's about poverty. It's

(01:48:17):
about poverty. I's gonna do with skin color. It's about poverty, Okay, Okay.
So so if that's a bigger issue, or even if
police brutality is the issue, one attention has been brought
to it too. I do think at some point sports
is supposed to be an outlet. Look, I'd love to
talk about my family, I'd love to talk about my

(01:48:38):
thoughts on society. There's another police shooting today. But I'm
I'm told can by. I've been working for three different
networks all the boss to be like, look, you can
say what you want to say. Okay. But people listen
to sports radio for the most part because they want
to listen to they want to talk about sports people.
I don't I don't know your listeners. But when I
talk about the issues that go on in this car

(01:49:00):
three dealer with sports and whether or not racist involved,
the people that I talked to they appreciate that I'm
willing to talk about the issues and not try to
always hide behind some damn game and somebody score an average.
Those are important, but not always important. The man who
changed this country the most was a baseball player named
Jackie Robinson, who made it okay to be black in

(01:49:22):
this country. And I wish that some executive would have
told you, don't talk about Jackie Robinson breaking into the
major leagues. Nobody wants to talk about that. It changed
this country. Okay, I still understand what that has to
do with with NFL players, But you're just what you're
talking about that that people don't want to talk about
about certain things. I'm people they want to talk about it, yes,

(01:49:45):
but again, the viewers and the consumers, enough of them
people on consumers are viewers, not as not whether it's
the percentage of all black people or percentage of viewers,
enough of them have spoken to which and if look,
we would all agree it's bad for business, right that
I don't. I don't agree with that. I just don't.

(01:50:06):
I think I think there's a lot of black people
who haven't watched the NFL, who turned off the NFL
over the whole situation, and and and they never count
those guys because because it's because it's divisive because even
people who support the protest that if you tell them
they can't protest, they're like, I ain't watch the NFL,

(01:50:27):
they don't support the players. But if you do allow
them the protest, then there'll be people that won't watch
the NFL, Like I'm not gonna watch the NFL because
I don't want to know about their their protests. I
just want to watch football. It's an incredibly divisive topic.
I'm not denying any of that, but my my point
is simply like, look, attention has been brought to the issue.
No one doesn't know that there are there are incidents

(01:50:49):
of police brutality, and frankly, the body camera stuff is
going to change because there's been false accusations as well
as well that the body body cameras when they're on
have have completely changed the context of any sort of
discussion with how police officers treat any human being, black, white,
or otherwise. That said, we're all aware of it. Now

(01:51:10):
what's the next step. And all the NFL is doing
is mirroring the NBA's rule. It's the same rule, Rob,
That's a bad rule. Dog. I don't care if the
NBA passed it I'm telling you that the Players Association
made a mistake when we agreed to it. It's a
bad rule for the NBA. It's a bad rule for
the NFL. It's bad. People should have the right when

(01:51:31):
you go to work, dog, do you stand up to
the national anthem every day before you do your radio show?
They do not know? But but Rob, But Rob? Rob? Again,
Here's what you're wrong. I don't have the right to
protest on air, to talk about social issues on air.
I don't. Okay, Jones, Hold Jones, you want to end
this a dark debate, real quick, DEMONI Bamani Jones did

(01:51:54):
that every afternoon at the same time slot I had
on the same network I had, and he lost a
hundred of phil fifty affiliates that I had doing the
same thing you're telling me I should that people want
to hear They don't want to hear it, Rob, And
the consumer is always right. We are businessmen, we are
in sales, and the consumer disagree. You're wrong. I'm telling

(01:52:16):
you I don't. I don't agree with you, Okay, So
why have plenty of people out there who are conscious,
who understand what's going on and are rulling the list
to something that's important and not just frivalous dumb numbers.
And some games don't thank you, thank you. I don't.
I don't talk, and they don't have anything to say.

(01:52:38):
I listen to let me play my game and do
my radio show, and so nobody will bother me and
nobody will haven't hate mail. Who cares with that stuff?
Just be honest and keep it real with people. Okay,
but but keep looking about I am keeping it real,
and I'm telling you that people have people don't want
to hear it, or if they want politics, don't want

(01:52:58):
to hear it. That's not people, it's it's it's sports fans.
Sports fans like Look, I'm I would be if you
asked me my position on most social issues, you would
say you're pretty liberal. And yet this argument it forces
me into a position to which I sound like I'm conservative.
M I'm and I'm not. I'm just telling you that

(01:53:20):
when I when you go to a stadium and that
they play the Star Spangled banner and people look around,
everybody stands up. Why because I out of respect for
our country and it's it is not is not necessary
the time and the place. And I do respect that
during certain times. There are certain times of protest, but
you know, awareness has been brought to the issue. Now
it's time to take the next step, do something about it,

(01:53:42):
make changes in the community. But you know what, the
more in which you make a show of a protest
about something we're already aware of, now you've worn out
the consumer to which you're turning the consumer off, and
that's who pays your bills. I can I can talk
about No, no, no, that's in the reality. I just
gave you the book. I gave you the Bamaney Jones.
Are you talking about dog the same fans that you're

(01:54:04):
talking about, or the same fans who sat there and
allowed segregation to go on. No, it's not it's not
stop that. Stop stop that to stop it, rob rob
rob stop that, stop that this is and say it's
that those people are dead or in home Deaday, you're

(01:54:24):
talking about segregation and fans. Stop it, dude. Sports is
predominantly black. No, it's not. It's just it's just not
your Rachel Robinson is still alive or not. You're talking
about the sports fans. Understand Robinson. Yes, she's a senior citizen.
She's like eighty five years old. That's not who we're

(01:54:46):
talking about. You just you just said the people who
who now are done with protests at NFL games, they're
the same people who want who cheered during segregation. That's
what you said. You want me to run it back
what you say, fan, I just think fans they turned
on football on Sunday and they want to watch football
on Sunday because they got a fantasy game. Don't don't

(01:55:08):
watch them to turn the game on two minutes into it.
And there by the way, your employer or my employer,
if they tell you, hey, look man, national Anton plays,
you gotta stand up. If just hell come out in
the field, you do it or do you find another job.
Player has ever told me what I need to do
with the press box? Ever? Are you? Are you allowed
to share the press box? But the cheering about my

(01:55:30):
journalistic expectations, that's what that is. I'm talking about. For
them to tell me what I need to do before
a game. I don't need to do that. And you
go back to go back to the super Bowl in Atlanta,
Tonk and I just one last thing I want to
leave you with, and this is when they had the
Confederate flag on the Georgia state flag flag. Do you
remember that? And you know what happened. All the black

(01:55:52):
sports writers, the majority of them, walked out from the
press box during the natal anthem in protest because they
would not salute the flag still had to considerate flag
on it. And you know what happened after that Super
Bowl that that flag was eventually changed and that was
removed from from the state flag. So throwing stuff sometimes

(01:56:12):
will make changes in the world. That's all I'm telling you.
You could disagree with it all you want. Those reporters
decided that they were not that flag. Good good, but
but you know what, you know what you know didn't okay,
but you know what they did not do is they
did they weren't on the football field, on the focus
on TV doing it continually to where their bosses decided, hey,

(01:56:32):
all right, you protested, We're good, we understand it. Let's
let's move on to the next to the next thing.
And they chose, and they chose to put a law
in which, by the way, the NBA has the exact
same rule, the exact same rule. Okay, then then they
then you know what the NBA players should do, Then
they should they should take a knee during the national
anthem of the NBA files which they probably which they

(01:56:53):
probably will should rob. I appreciate I preached the conversation
we gotta go pay the bills. I appreciate it. All right,
thank you all. I'm not going to do a political
show that was done on my former home and that
show is no longer on my former home. But please
don't that. That's again, that's the problem with those of

(01:57:13):
us who would be in the middle or even slightly
to the left, is if we don't agree with your
right to continually protest or in the national anthem, somehow
we're being labeled as segregationists or racist like, no, not
the case, not the case. And to people who say, hey,
this is a time which they had the platform, dude,

(01:57:34):
NFL players have plenty of platforms. You have all of
social media, you have pregame, you have post game in
terms of interviews, to which if you want to take
a political stance, you can message was received. You're unhappy
about treatment. It has been eye opening to many of
us when we see police treatment. Some of us have

(01:57:55):
been mistreated by police regardless of our skin color, and
some of us have been mistreated our police because we
deserved it. Sometimes you're an a hole and the cop
call treats you like you're an a hole. Sometimes the
cops in a hole. He's not a power trip. Sometimes
it's because the color of your skin. Sometimes it's because
cops have a really hard job, they've had a really
long day, and they don't know when they knock on

(01:58:17):
your window exactly what you have inside that car. But
the customer is always right, and enough customers, enough sponsors,
enough people that are important to the vitality of professional
sports have said, hey, you can't keep doing this. You're
alienating enough of too many of our fans. John Arball

(01:58:40):
has a ridiculous rule change about kickoffs in the NFL.
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(01:59:27):
it in its entirety iTunes. Also, the new All Ball
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(01:59:50):
believes that a kickoff through the uprights should be worth
one point. This in response to the new NFL kickoff rules.
That's because he has Justin Tucker. He didn't have Justin Tucker.
He would say that's the worst rule I've ever heard. Well,
I got Justin Tucker. Yeah, you should be able to
kick it through the uprights. I like, if you make
it one point, if you miss it minus one, yeah,
there has there has to be some sort of negative.

(02:00:12):
That's exactly what I said when I read this story
and we talked about earlier. The Red Sox designated the
Red Sox designated Hanley Ramirez for assignment and activated second
basement Dustin Pedroia from the d l han ram has
gone the way of the Dodo. Who's the other guy
they have? There's two bad contracts, right, yeah, Pablo Sandoval
and Hanley Ramirez. But it's not like the Dodgers. You know,

(02:00:35):
those guys were those guys they overpaid to get them
for the short term. Meanwhile, they backfield with a ton
of young talent and the Red Sox have just a
ton of young talent. Is it a no brainer that
Wrigley is the best place to watch day baseball in
in the bigs? Is it? Is it just Wrigley is
Dodger Stadium, Yankee Stadium. Day baseball at Wrigley is the best.

(02:00:56):
It's the one place to which day baseball should still exist.
Comes with the Giants at Wrigley today six to two.
Hey Duke Gard Grayson Allen in southern California working out
with the Lakers today in a pre draft workout. Spurs
guard Dandy Green told ESPN that Kawuahi Leonard has told
him he wants to stay with in San Antonio with
the Spurs. I heard from a friend who told me

(02:01:17):
from a friend that told me from another friend that
Kawhi Leonard wants to stay. Like hear Kawhi Leonard say,
I want to stay. Heard it from a friend who
in the big big news of the day Ario Speedwagon reference.
I'm a friend that's that's gonna be playing in a
lake somewhere out in the in the in the Midwest.
Chris Paul out andre Igo Dollar questionable for tomorrow's game

(02:01:38):
six Rockets and Wars. I really like Chris Paul, but gosh, dang,
it's groundhog Day that Chris Paul is hurting the playoffs again.
Backing out there and pressed that the press what years
it could be? Essentially essentially any year. I'll look, I'll
say this. I like Rob Parker. I just I hate
the idea that if my stances, Hey, the NFL said

(02:02:00):
they want you to stay in the national anthem, and
you have to stay in the national anthem. Enough people
who watch football have have spoken out through their sponsors
or through not watching. If your boss says it, then
you gotta do it. It's one of the hard things
we learned about being employees. And by the way, times
like last night when the Santa fe choir sings in
national anthem you're gonna take the knee, then of course

(02:02:21):
you're not, because you have respect for the flag and
for what they went through. It's Doug Gotlin Show.

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