April 22, 2024 • 19 mins
Let’s discuss some of the bad things but also some good things about Mavs-Clips Game 1! Is Jason Kidd good enough to overcome the Clippers’ talent?
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I don't know, man. Thiswhole I don't know man, thing I
think is going a little too far. I say I don't know, man,
about a thousand times a day tomy son, who's six, and
he asked me all these weird questions, and I'm just always like, I
don't know, man, I don'tknow. Man. I think any idiot
can pee on the floor, butonly a real hero can poop on the
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ceiling. It's to speak easy.I'm ninety seven on the freak, all
right, A little four o'clock isour time. And this is what I
(00:43):
thought you were off. I thoughtyou thought your mic was off. No,
oh, okay, I'm sorry.I'm sorry, I'm sorry. What
the hell man, I ruined theshow? I apologize. Well, now
there's an extra mic on the hellif I'm sorry. Let's see. I
turned it on and then you talk. And I thought that all of a
sudden I had control over yours,which might not be such a bad thing
(01:06):
in this case. It would havehelped everyone. All right, Yes you
are with the speakeasy today, comingup here in just a little bit,
mister Dallas will be around here forsomething or other. Fun driver gonna do.
I don't know, man, andwe're taking I don't know, man's
how's it going? Shoopy? Gotfour so far? All right? We
(01:30):
can we always need more, alwaysneed more. So if you got it,
I don't know, man about anything, anything, anything, Yeah,
damn it. Then get on thetalk back on the iHeart app. You'll
find it down there somewhere. Iwouldn't know exactly where myself, because I've
never been on the iHeart app,but it's there, and just use it.
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Record what you got and we'll seeif we can't put you in.
I don't know, man, duringfun drive today? How about that?
Would you like that? Sure?You would? How do you listen to
the station whenever you're outside of thelistening area? How do I Becka puts
it on for him? Okay?Good? Yeah, Actually I've not been
outside the listening area the whole timethat we've been on the air. Interesting.
(02:20):
Yeah, So there's that right now, there's this. This is the
best, damn, oh my god. And it's brought to you by Buffalo
Wild Wings where we will be onThursday, Speak Easy Remote, Jeff and
(02:42):
KT do draft coverage after at theBuffalo Wild Wings in Grapevine three one five
West State West State. That's agood gonna get the b Dub's council together.
Yeah, beautiful, beautiful. Sowe can continue discussing Game one of
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Mavericks Clippers. I'd like to startoff with some of the bad things,
and there's pretty much only bad things, but we'll try and get better from
there. I just want to talkabout how big of a hole this is.
I always love the website who winsdot com. It's just a pretty
simple, plain text place where theykeep track of the historical win loss records
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in various situations. The best ofseven series. Okay, so in the
NBA All rounds, the team thatwins the first game goes on to win
the series seventy five percent of thetime. Here, whenever you factor in
that the Game one winner was thehome team, which would mean higher seed.
That's the main thing you're picking upthere, it jumps to eighty five
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percent of the time. So Ithink that it's pretty easy for the Mavericks
to win Game two. Then youtook one at their place, You've taken
home court back, and it doesn'tseem like a big task at all,
you know, like you would thinkthat it's pretty common for teams to come
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back from a Game one loss,but in fact, they only do so
about twenty five percent of the time, so it is pretty serious. I
certainly wouldn't dabble with going down ohtwo. Well, I'm sure they didn't
intend to go down oh one,and I bet they don't want to go
down oh two. But they've gotsome stuff they got to sort out.
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One of the things that I feltlike they sorted out as the game went
along, and I would be veryinterested to see how this goes as the
uh, you know, game two, they'll have a different referee crew.
Is how the game is officiated.It felt like it was being officiated very
loosely in Game one. I thoughtthat the Clippers just did a better job
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of taking advantage of that. Theywere taking it to the Mavericks physically early
on, and there was a pointtowards the end of the second quarter where
Luca put a shoulder into someone onoffense where I was like, oh,
he's getting it now. And thenthey did close the gap over the course
of the second half, but notnearly enough for them to be competitive.
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Called for that, No, notat all. No, they let him
beat up on that boy, andit's just play on which has been a
point of emphasis for the referee sincethe All Star Break. You know that
there's been a lot fewer fouls called. The way that the game is being
played since the All Star Break isdrastically different than how it's been played over
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the last several years before. Nowwhere you can get away with a lot
as far as being physical and they'renot going to bail you out with a
call, which I think is goodin general. But James Hardensure's god at
drawing fouls though and getting the call. Yeah, and that's the kind of
stuff that has to stop. Thefirst foul of the game yesterday, it
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looked like was nothing and he didn'targue it in his defense, but he
got you know, it was justplaying defense and kind of leaned into him
just a little bit, and Hardendoes this whole thing and and then got
the call. But yeah, you'reI thought the Clippers were getting away with
a lot of stuff of how theywere playing the Mavericks offensive players and Mavericks
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offensive players need to just find outwhat world they're living in and excel in
that world. Yeah. Well,it's tough because you kept hearing and after
the game, especially from Jason Kiddenfrom all the players that they needed to
be more physical. Yeah, likethey weren't playing a physical game. They
were playing timid. They were almostplaying scared a little bit. And during
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the game they weren't like you evenheard the broadcasters saying, like the man,
even when you watch them taking theirshots, they're not like into the
shot. They're almost like, I'mgonna get this shot up before something happens
to me, you know what Imean. And that's a problem, Like
you can't go and play a Clippersteam and act timid or act scared or
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wait and see what's going to happen, because they're going to be the aggressors.
So, yeah, that was abig, big problem and something hopefully
that they can be better at.Yeah, and it's it's not it's not
great if they allow that to happenin game one, But boy, that's
a whole different, much worse kettleof fish if you're taking a couple of
days to think about it and decidedyou still want to be a p in
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game two. That's not a teamI want to cheer for. So I'm
hopeful that things will really turn around. I Like, you know, we've
we've talked a lot. Never goeto watch the game, can see that
the way that it started out isthe big problem. And to me,
this harps home something else that Iwas talking about the last time I was
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up here, which is that Ido not buy Jason Kidd as the best
the coach for the team. Andwhenever I made the point, whenever we
first were talking about this was inthe midst of the winning streak. So
anyone accusing me of only souring onhim after they've lost the game, that's
not true. I don't like himthe whole time, even when they were
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winning. Yeah, that's what I'msaying. It was it was whenever you
were on vacation. Okay, butwe were talking about, you know,
what's our feeling on Jason Kidd nowthat they're winning, And my joking,
but I one hundred percent mean it. Point is that this win streak shows
what kind of talent and ceiling thisteam has, and it should not be
wasted on such a subpar coach.They need to get someone else in there
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who can maximize the team. AndI don't know even the people who are
like, they're winning this is great. Jason Kidd has answers I don't think
that they can look in the mirrorwith a straight face and say that he's
got a real track record of pushingall the right buttons that gets the most
out of whatever guys that he's gotaround him. And whenever you see something
like this, it's the opening ofa series. So you've you've had a
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couple weeks knowing that it's the Clippers. You've put together your strategies, your
formulas, you know, like,what do you got, what do you
have that's going to put them offkilter from the opening tip? Who's which
of the coaching staffs is going tobe able to come up with the thing
that puts the other one off kilterfrom the opening tip? Well, it
was Tylu that did it here.Yeah, And did anyone really think like
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if Luca comes out and makes shotsgreat, you know, like you can
definitely beat the Clippers that way.There's players on this team that are talented
enough to overcome a lot of things. But does anyone really think that Jason
Kidd has a strategy so brilliant thathe's going to do something that just throws
the Clippers out off whack? Idon't know. I don't recall a lot
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of moments in his coaching career wherehe's done things like that. And let
me ask you something, Sure,what kind of coach would you rather have?
I mean, it's a bummer thatCarlisle is not an option because I
thought that either that stuff fine,but he was pissing everybody else. Oh
yeah, along those same lines.I always thought it was weird that when
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Carlisle was on the way out,he said they need to go out and
hire Jason Kidd as a head coachand they did. Yeah, the guy
who you'd soured on things so muchthat you're firing him. You're like,
oh, but let me do thenext head coach and they and they hire
that guy. Do you think thathe really had the interests of the franchise
at heart whenever he was making thosecomments? How many times have you had
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the best interest in the organization atheart as they were firing you? Never?
Yeah. I hope those sobs burnin hell, and I hope Jason
Kidd does it with them. Yeah. No, I I you know,
I thought that he should be definitelyof concern, and you know whatever,
I definitely have a knee jerk thingwhere if something goes bad, then I'm
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like, this is Kid's fault becausehe's the one I don't like. All
right, so let me ask youthis then, Yeah, who over there?
Do you have confidence in to hirethe right head coach? I mean,
I've never known sent to make anymistakes. Sent that's right, she
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is having sent, you know,hiring. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't. I don't have ahigh degree of confidence in their organization's decision
generally. Do you think this iswhere the new owner might decide that he
wants to get involved in this.Yeah, he's the head coach of his
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Israeli team. Is that guy asharpshooter? We need to get him over
here, perhaps one of the leadingminds in the game. I don't know.
There are just a lot of variableshere, but I think that no
matter what happens the rest of theway, I don't care if they wind
up winning the NBA Championship, youneed to explore other options. WHOA,
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they win the title. Even ifthey win the title, you need to
explore other options. Now. Iknow they won't if they won the title.
I know that. I understand it. But it would be the right
thing. It would be the rightthing to do yeah, or the best
for the benefit of the franchise goingforward. We all know they could do
better. They have to. Yeah, I mean I was. I was
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down on the Jason Kidd higher whenit happened. I was down on it
at the end of last season.I was down on it at the beginning
of this season. But when theystarted winning and they found themselves with the
fifth seed at the end of theregular season, and Nico Harrison made the
right moves to bring over PJ.Washington and Daniel Gafford, and it was
like, oh, this is it'sthe players that he was working with were
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a lot of the problem and nowwith these the right recipe, the right
mix up on the court, Well, now he's good. Now I like
it. Now I like Jason kidds. So I don't know. I mean
I think if they it's I thinkthere's a slide in the first round of
the playoffs, then yeah, thenwe can all be done with him.
That shows there's a relationship between youknow, what, what level of talent
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do you have on the roster versusyou know what coach you have, And
no coach is going to be ableto get a bunch of wins out of
no talent. Yeah, and everycoach can coach a team that's super talented,
and I you know where exactly youfit in there. I don't think
that it is like it's the playersor it's the coach. There's a relationship
between the two. And I thinkthat his like what can you win with?
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You know, like, like howgood does the team have to be
in order for you to win asa coach. I think that this kind
of shows that, like, youneed too much talent to put together the
run for the fifth seed if he'sthe coach, because they had Kyrie and
Luca last year and they missed theflip and playoffs. They had Kyrie and
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Luca this year, and a lotof the problem is that you don't always
have Kyrie and Luca. But ifyou have a team with one of those,
which almost always he was coaching witha team with at least one of
those, to not put together betterresults is pretty damning. So yeah,
if you get if you steal anabsolute beast at center and then add the
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other best defender to the team atthe trade deadline, you know, then
you've got enough that even Jason Kiddcan can win at this level. But
I don't. I want to seewhat you do whenever the pieces aren't perfect,
can you figure it out? AndI don't think that no one could
figure out the team before those tradedeadline acquisitions. I bet that there's probably
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some coach out there who could,and I would prefer to have that guy
in here. Yeah, But rightnow we are getting ready for a game
too, in the first round ofthis playoff series with the Clippers, and
I think the obvious thing is thatyou need more from everybody else that's not
named Luca or Kyrie. And let'ssee, everybody that isn't Luc or Kyrie
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combined for thirty three points on tenof thirty six shooting yesterday, twenty one
rebounds and four assists, So notgood. And to me, it's like,
okay, so this is a reallythis is a way to really dumb
it down. But like when Iplay tennis and I feel like I'm outmatched
or I'm scared, I play timidand I kind of like go into a
shell and I'm not aggressive, AndI feel like that's what the Mavericks were
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doing yesterday, Like they felt likethey were outmatched, they didn't have it.
They got down early and what theydo when they're in that situation is
look to Luca and Kyrie too much. The other guys are almost like they
lose their confidence, and you've gotto be confident, you know, to
say like, hey, I'm giveme the ball, I'm feeling it,
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I want to take some shots here. I'm not just going to give it
to you guys all the time becausethat's the that's the easy way to do
it. And it seems like that'sa little bit of what happened yesterday.
This thing started getting good when theybrought in Gafford and Washington. That's when
this thing really started to turn aroundand really started to turn in the I
thought pretty heady force that it wasfor the last part of the season.
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I think that playing the way thatthey did through that time, that team
has a chance to go all theway. I mean, and I just
don't know why that team wouldn't walkout feeling confident, because I think everything
Julie said is right, but I'mshocked that it's right well, and that's
maybe the lack of playoff experience forsome of the guys. I guess being
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on the road is part of that. It's a lot easier to feel confident
when you're the home team, andthen you know what. To your point
about the coaching, that's when thecoach has to have you snap out of
it. Yes, yes, thecoach. I mean the coach needs to
know what to say. Yeah,he needs to know how to connect with
his guys and get them out ofthe funk that they're in. And there
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was nobody on that bench yesterday thatknew that. And you talk about the
guys around Luca Kyrie not stepping up. The Clippers dominated because they had the
exact opposite of Zoobach puts in twentypoints. Terrence Man had thirteen points.
You know, Russell Westbrook, he'sa name, but it's not like these
days he's guaranteed of putting out.He had thirteen points. And the Zooboch
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thing. We highlighted that in thefirst segment. We're talking about it,
but I just want to drive homeon that. The point where we were
all really starting to think we hadsomething is when the combo of Gafford and
Lively made Djokich look mortal, whichis the only time that's happened in a
long time, and you're just kindof like, all right, well,
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every big man, we run intofully neutralized. Now we have a defense
that the best guy in the leaguecan't figure out. So we're just going
to roll now. And then aguy who you know, I can't tell
you anything about. Yeah, yeah, he is as a career, he
looks like he's just a take upspace big. Yeah, that's it,
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you know, And every time theyneed to point play or anything like that.
I guess he has some use ondefense. I haven't watched enough Clippers
basketball to really know that, butI guess he's got some use on defense
and rebounding and all that. Butfor the most part, he is just
a take up space player and notanybody that's terribly involved in their offense until
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yesterday, and that has to stop. If he has another twenty point game,
they're losing this series. Oh,no doubt, no doubt. I
hope they don't. I hope theydon't too. Yeah. I mean,
if he is anywhere near the forceand the rest of these games that he
was in this yesterday, then thisteam is going down. And that's something
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I really didn't think would happen.Both Gafford and Lively not being at full
health is concerning towards that end.The act at the ready made excuse.
Yeah, I mean, is therehas there been any reports on the status
of Gafford, because that didn't lookterribly good when he walked off yesterday.
He came back in, right,am I crazy? Yeah? I believe
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so. Yeah, but yeah,and I you know, in the short
time he's been here, he appearsto do that a lot. Look like
his career just ended and then comeback into fine. Game. That's fine
as long as you come back.Yeah, yeah, a little dramatic whatever
it may be. Which makes methink that he probably has a couple nagging
things that are bothering him this timeof year. Everybody's got nagging things.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, theydo. They do. In the playoffs,
you play through those things, allright. Well, Game two tomorrow
night in LA. Game one forthe Dallas Stars is tonight at home,
and we'll touch on them. Westill need to get to the Stars.
We've got to give them some love. So I'm thinking the sunset Lounge,
we can do a little Rangers andStars and at five point thirty, because
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coming up next we must make wayfor mister Dallas
I don't know, man. Thiswhole I don't know man, thing I
think is going a little too far. I say I don't know, man,
about a thousand times a day tomy son, who's six, and
he asked me all these weird questions, and I'm just always like, I
don't know, man, I don'tknow. Man. I think any idiot
can pee on the floor, butonly a real hero can poop on the
(00:22):
ceiling. It's to speak easy.I'm ninety seven on the freak, all
right, A little four o'clock isour time. And this is what I
(00:43):
thought you were off. I thoughtyou thought your mic was off. No,
oh, okay, I'm sorry.I'm sorry, I'm sorry. What
the hell man, I ruined theshow? I apologize. Well, now
there's an extra mic on the hellif I'm sorry. Let's see. I
turned it on and then you talk. And I thought that all of a
sudden I had control over yours,which might not be such a bad thing
(01:06):
in this case. It would havehelped everyone. All right, Yes you
are with the speakeasy today, comingup here in just a little bit,
mister Dallas will be around here forsomething or other. Fun driver gonna do.
I don't know, man, andwe're taking I don't know, man's
how's it going? Shoopy? Gotfour so far? All right? We
(01:30):
can we always need more, alwaysneed more. So if you got it,
I don't know, man about anything, anything, anything, Yeah,
damn it. Then get on thetalk back on the iHeart app. You'll
find it down there somewhere. Iwouldn't know exactly where myself, because I've
never been on the iHeart app,but it's there, and just use it.
(01:55):
Record what you got and we'll seeif we can't put you in.
I don't know, man, duringfun drive today? How about that?
Would you like that? Sure?You would? How do you listen to
the station whenever you're outside of thelistening area? How do I Becka puts
it on for him? Okay?Good? Yeah, Actually I've not been
outside the listening area the whole timethat we've been on the air. Interesting.
(02:20):
Yeah, So there's that right now, there's this. This is the
best, damn, oh my god. And it's brought to you by Buffalo
Wild Wings where we will be onThursday, Speak Easy Remote, Jeff and
(02:42):
KT do draft coverage after at theBuffalo Wild Wings in Grapevine three one five
West State West State. That's agood gonna get the b Dub's council together.
Yeah, beautiful, beautiful. Sowe can continue discussing Game one of
(03:04):
Mavericks Clippers. I'd like to startoff with some of the bad things,
and there's pretty much only bad things, but we'll try and get better from
there. I just want to talkabout how big of a hole this is.
I always love the website who winsdot com. It's just a pretty
simple, plain text place where theykeep track of the historical win loss records
(03:30):
in various situations. The best ofseven series. Okay, so in the
NBA All rounds, the team thatwins the first game goes on to win
the series seventy five percent of thetime. Here, whenever you factor in
that the Game one winner was thehome team, which would mean higher seed.
That's the main thing you're picking upthere, it jumps to eighty five
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percent of the time. So Ithink that it's pretty easy for the Mavericks
to win Game two. Then youtook one at their place, You've taken
home court back, and it doesn'tseem like a big task at all,
you know, like you would thinkthat it's pretty common for teams to come
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back from a Game one loss,but in fact, they only do so
about twenty five percent of the time, so it is pretty serious. I
certainly wouldn't dabble with going down ohtwo. Well, I'm sure they didn't
intend to go down oh one,and I bet they don't want to go
down oh two. But they've gotsome stuff they got to sort out.
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One of the things that I feltlike they sorted out as the game went
along, and I would be veryinterested to see how this goes as the
uh, you know, game two, they'll have a different referee crew.
Is how the game is officiated.It felt like it was being officiated very
loosely in Game one. I thoughtthat the Clippers just did a better job
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of taking advantage of that. Theywere taking it to the Mavericks physically early
on, and there was a pointtowards the end of the second quarter where
Luca put a shoulder into someone onoffense where I was like, oh,
he's getting it now. And thenthey did close the gap over the course
of the second half, but notnearly enough for them to be competitive.
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Called for that, No, notat all. No, they let him
beat up on that boy, andit's just play on which has been a
point of emphasis for the referee sincethe All Star Break. You know that
there's been a lot fewer fouls called. The way that the game is being
played since the All Star Break isdrastically different than how it's been played over
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the last several years before. Nowwhere you can get away with a lot
as far as being physical and they'renot going to bail you out with a
call, which I think is goodin general. But James Hardensure's god at
drawing fouls though and getting the call. Yeah, and that's the kind of
stuff that has to stop. Thefirst foul of the game yesterday, it
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looked like was nothing and he didn'targue it in his defense, but he
got you know, it was justplaying defense and kind of leaned into him
just a little bit, and Hardendoes this whole thing and and then got
the call. But yeah, you'reI thought the Clippers were getting away with
a lot of stuff of how theywere playing the Mavericks offensive players and Mavericks
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offensive players need to just find outwhat world they're living in and excel in
that world. Yeah. Well,it's tough because you kept hearing and after
the game, especially from Jason Kiddenfrom all the players that they needed to
be more physical. Yeah, likethey weren't playing a physical game. They
were playing timid. They were almostplaying scared a little bit. And during
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the game they weren't like you evenheard the broadcasters saying, like the man,
even when you watch them taking theirshots, they're not like into the
shot. They're almost like, I'mgonna get this shot up before something happens
to me, you know what Imean. And that's a problem, Like
you can't go and play a Clippersteam and act timid or act scared or
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wait and see what's going to happen, because they're going to be the aggressors.
So, yeah, that was abig, big problem and something hopefully
that they can be better at.Yeah, and it's it's not it's not
great if they allow that to happenin game one, But boy, that's
a whole different, much worse kettleof fish if you're taking a couple of
days to think about it and decidedyou still want to be a p in
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game two. That's not a teamI want to cheer for. So I'm
hopeful that things will really turn around. I Like, you know, we've
we've talked a lot. Never goeto watch the game, can see that
the way that it started out isthe big problem. And to me,
this harps home something else that Iwas talking about the last time I was
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up here, which is that Ido not buy Jason Kidd as the best
the coach for the team. Andwhenever I made the point, whenever we
first were talking about this was inthe midst of the winning streak. So
anyone accusing me of only souring onhim after they've lost the game, that's
not true. I don't like himthe whole time, even when they were
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winning. Yeah, that's what I'msaying. It was it was whenever you
were on vacation. Okay, butwe were talking about, you know,
what's our feeling on Jason Kidd nowthat they're winning, And my joking,
but I one hundred percent mean it. Point is that this win streak shows
what kind of talent and ceiling thisteam has, and it should not be
wasted on such a subpar coach.They need to get someone else in there
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who can maximize the team. AndI don't know even the people who are
like, they're winning this is great. Jason Kidd has answers I don't think
that they can look in the mirrorwith a straight face and say that he's
got a real track record of pushingall the right buttons that gets the most
out of whatever guys that he's gotaround him. And whenever you see something
like this, it's the opening ofa series. So you've you've had a
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couple weeks knowing that it's the Clippers. You've put together your strategies, your
formulas, you know, like,what do you got, what do you
have that's going to put them offkilter from the opening tip? Who's which
of the coaching staffs is going tobe able to come up with the thing
that puts the other one off kilterfrom the opening tip? Well, it
was Tylu that did it here.Yeah, And did anyone really think like
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if Luca comes out and makes shotsgreat, you know, like you can
definitely beat the Clippers that way.There's players on this team that are talented
enough to overcome a lot of things. But does anyone really think that Jason
Kidd has a strategy so brilliant thathe's going to do something that just throws
the Clippers out off whack? Idon't know. I don't recall a lot
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of moments in his coaching career wherehe's done things like that. And let
me ask you something, Sure,what kind of coach would you rather have?
I mean, it's a bummer thatCarlisle is not an option because I
thought that either that stuff fine,but he was pissing everybody else. Oh
yeah, along those same lines.I always thought it was weird that when
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Carlisle was on the way out,he said they need to go out and
hire Jason Kidd as a head coachand they did. Yeah, the guy
who you'd soured on things so muchthat you're firing him. You're like,
oh, but let me do thenext head coach and they and they hire
that guy. Do you think thathe really had the interests of the franchise
at heart whenever he was making thosecomments? How many times have you had
(10:30):
the best interest in the organization atheart as they were firing you? Never?
Yeah. I hope those sobs burnin hell, and I hope Jason
Kidd does it with them. Yeah. No, I I you know,
I thought that he should be definitelyof concern, and you know whatever,
I definitely have a knee jerk thingwhere if something goes bad, then I'm
(10:50):
like, this is Kid's fault becausehe's the one I don't like. All
right, so let me ask youthis then, Yeah, who over there?
Do you have confidence in to hirethe right head coach? I mean,
I've never known sent to make anymistakes. Sent that's right, she
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is having sent, you know,hiring. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't. I don't have ahigh degree of confidence in their organization's decision
generally. Do you think this iswhere the new owner might decide that he
wants to get involved in this.Yeah, he's the head coach of his
(11:31):
Israeli team. Is that guy asharpshooter? We need to get him over
here, perhaps one of the leadingminds in the game. I don't know.
There are just a lot of variableshere, but I think that no
matter what happens the rest of theway, I don't care if they wind
up winning the NBA Championship, youneed to explore other options. WHOA,
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they win the title. Even ifthey win the title, you need to
explore other options. Now. Iknow they won't if they won the title.
I know that. I understand it. But it would be the right
thing. It would be the rightthing to do yeah, or the best
for the benefit of the franchise goingforward. We all know they could do
better. They have to. Yeah, I mean I was. I was
(12:16):
down on the Jason Kidd higher whenit happened. I was down on it
at the end of last season.I was down on it at the beginning
of this season. But when theystarted winning and they found themselves with the
fifth seed at the end of theregular season, and Nico Harrison made the
right moves to bring over PJ.Washington and Daniel Gafford, and it was
like, oh, this is it'sthe players that he was working with were
(12:37):
a lot of the problem and nowwith these the right recipe, the right
mix up on the court, Well, now he's good. Now I like
it. Now I like Jason kidds. So I don't know. I mean
I think if they it's I thinkthere's a slide in the first round of
the playoffs, then yeah, thenwe can all be done with him.
That shows there's a relationship between youknow, what, what level of talent
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do you have on the roster versusyou know what coach you have, And
no coach is going to be ableto get a bunch of wins out of
no talent. Yeah, and everycoach can coach a team that's super talented,
and I you know where exactly youfit in there. I don't think
that it is like it's the playersor it's the coach. There's a relationship
between the two. And I thinkthat his like what can you win with?
(13:26):
You know, like, like howgood does the team have to be
in order for you to win asa coach. I think that this kind
of shows that, like, youneed too much talent to put together the
run for the fifth seed if he'sthe coach, because they had Kyrie and
Luca last year and they missed theflip and playoffs. They had Kyrie and
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Luca this year, and a lotof the problem is that you don't always
have Kyrie and Luca. But ifyou have a team with one of those,
which almost always he was coaching witha team with at least one of
those, to not put together betterresults is pretty damning. So yeah,
if you get if you steal anabsolute beast at center and then add the
(14:11):
other best defender to the team atthe trade deadline, you know, then
you've got enough that even Jason Kiddcan can win at this level. But
I don't. I want to seewhat you do whenever the pieces aren't perfect,
can you figure it out? AndI don't think that no one could
figure out the team before those tradedeadline acquisitions. I bet that there's probably
(14:33):
some coach out there who could,and I would prefer to have that guy
in here. Yeah, But rightnow we are getting ready for a game
too, in the first round ofthis playoff series with the Clippers, and
I think the obvious thing is thatyou need more from everybody else that's not
named Luca or Kyrie. And let'ssee, everybody that isn't Luc or Kyrie
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combined for thirty three points on tenof thirty six shooting yesterday, twenty one
rebounds and four assists, So notgood. And to me, it's like,
okay, so this is a reallythis is a way to really dumb
it down. But like when Iplay tennis and I feel like I'm outmatched
or I'm scared, I play timidand I kind of like go into a
shell and I'm not aggressive, AndI feel like that's what the Mavericks were
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doing yesterday, Like they felt likethey were outmatched, they didn't have it.
They got down early and what theydo when they're in that situation is
look to Luca and Kyrie too much. The other guys are almost like they
lose their confidence, and you've gotto be confident, you know, to
say like, hey, I'm giveme the ball, I'm feeling it,
(15:43):
I want to take some shots here. I'm not just going to give it
to you guys all the time becausethat's the that's the easy way to do
it. And it seems like that'sa little bit of what happened yesterday.
This thing started getting good when theybrought in Gafford and Washington. That's when
this thing really started to turn aroundand really started to turn in the I
thought pretty heady force that it wasfor the last part of the season.
(16:07):
I think that playing the way thatthey did through that time, that team
has a chance to go all theway. I mean, and I just
don't know why that team wouldn't walkout feeling confident, because I think everything
Julie said is right, but I'mshocked that it's right well, and that's
maybe the lack of playoff experience forsome of the guys. I guess being
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on the road is part of that. It's a lot easier to feel confident
when you're the home team, andthen you know what. To your point
about the coaching, that's when thecoach has to have you snap out of
it. Yes, yes, thecoach. I mean the coach needs to
know what to say. Yeah,he needs to know how to connect with
his guys and get them out ofthe funk that they're in. And there
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was nobody on that bench yesterday thatknew that. And you talk about the
guys around Luca Kyrie not stepping up. The Clippers dominated because they had the
exact opposite of Zoobach puts in twentypoints. Terrence Man had thirteen points.
You know, Russell Westbrook, he'sa name, but it's not like these
days he's guaranteed of putting out.He had thirteen points. And the Zooboch
(17:15):
thing. We highlighted that in thefirst segment. We're talking about it,
but I just want to drive homeon that. The point where we were
all really starting to think we hadsomething is when the combo of Gafford and
Lively made Djokich look mortal, whichis the only time that's happened in a
long time, and you're just kindof like, all right, well,
(17:36):
every big man, we run intofully neutralized. Now we have a defense
that the best guy in the leaguecan't figure out. So we're just going
to roll now. And then aguy who you know, I can't tell
you anything about. Yeah, yeah, he is as a career, he
looks like he's just a take upspace big. Yeah, that's it,
(17:56):
you know, And every time theyneed to point play or anything like that.
I guess he has some use ondefense. I haven't watched enough Clippers
basketball to really know that, butI guess he's got some use on defense
and rebounding and all that. Butfor the most part, he is just
a take up space player and notanybody that's terribly involved in their offense until
(18:18):
yesterday, and that has to stop. If he has another twenty point game,
they're losing this series. Oh,no doubt, no doubt. I
hope they don't. I hope theydon't too. Yeah. I mean,
if he is anywhere near the forceand the rest of these games that he
was in this yesterday, then thisteam is going down. And that's something
(18:38):
I really didn't think would happen.Both Gafford and Lively not being at full
health is concerning towards that end.The act at the ready made excuse.
Yeah, I mean, is therehas there been any reports on the status
of Gafford, because that didn't lookterribly good when he walked off yesterday.
He came back in, right,am I crazy? Yeah? I believe
(19:00):
so. Yeah, but yeah,and I you know, in the short
time he's been here, he appearsto do that a lot. Look like
his career just ended and then comeback into fine. Game. That's fine
as long as you come back.Yeah, yeah, a little dramatic whatever
it may be. Which makes methink that he probably has a couple nagging
things that are bothering him this timeof year. Everybody's got nagging things.
(19:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, theydo. They do. In the playoffs,
you play through those things, allright. Well, Game two tomorrow
night in LA. Game one forthe Dallas Stars is tonight at home,
and we'll touch on them. Westill need to get to the Stars.
We've got to give them some love. So I'm thinking the sunset Lounge,
we can do a little Rangers andStars and at five point thirty, because
(19:48):
coming up next we must make wayfor mister Dallas
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