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June 27, 2024 40 mins

Ryan Leaf continues to fill in for Dan Patrick and he talks to former PGA professional and current analyst Brandel Chamblee about the future of the PGA and LIV tours. And NBA analyst Andy Katz drops by to give a detailed breakdown of the first round of the NBA Draft.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
They picked an American guy. They went with Ryan Leaf.
Welcome to the Dan Patrick Show, Hour two, Our one
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comedian sits down with a stellar list of celebs, celebs, guys.

(00:28):
I wonder if Dan's going to be part of that.
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I get, the more humbled I get by my kids.

(00:49):
Like my kid, I didn't do anything. I won't do anything.
I'll never be anything from my kids except their dad.
You know, less and less starstruck, I think maybe be
the word. You don't get starstark. Yeah, not as much
as I used to used to be. Uh, golfers that

(01:10):
really got me starstruck. I love like like if Jordan
Spied's walked into the man Cave right now, probably I
would have you know, years ago, would have fangirled out
on him. So, oh my god, it's Jordan Speed and
you know, asked him how it would could putt you know,
because I want to go be a good golfer. I'm
trying to be a good golfer, So not so much anymore.

(01:30):
When's the last time you guys were starstruck? Maybe? I
mean this is this is probably a really good question,
because you know you have stars that walk into this
studio or on your zooms like every day. Fritzy.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
For me, it wasn't an athlete.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
And when we had the New York studio when Michael
Douglass walked in, Oh yeah, that was like, whoa, this
guy just jumped up the big screen and he's sitting
on the couch waiting to come out with Dan.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
That was weird.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Romancing the stone else Scott one out there, oh pa
ill agree with Fritzy.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
It's the people you don't expect to meet, like we
expect to meet Joe Montana at some point in this job.
We were at Pebble Beach and we were there for
a couple of years with DirecTV and AT and T,
and it was great. We had a lot of celebrities
on the site, Ry McElroy and Jordan Speed and et cetera,
et cetera. We tried year one to get Clint Eastwood
to come by, and he was under the weather and

(02:22):
didn't do it. We're pretty disappointed. The next year, Fritzi
worked really hard and we all were trying to get
Clint Eastwood to come by and we were preparing to
tape it. We stayed for hours after the show to
taper for the next day. And also when we get
the we get the call he's on his way over,
and I'm telling you, I started sweating a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
And when he pulled up on set, You're like, that's
that's dirty Harry, that's you know, Josie Wales at someone
you don't ever expect to meet in your life. And
I think that's the last time I started rug.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Mine's Jack Nicholson. Never. I mean, come on, when, when
in my lifetime would I have ever interacted with Jack Nicholson? Right?
And uh, somehow we ended up what's the club here
in Manhattan? China Club back in the day, like old school,
old school, like nineteen ninety eight. I'm in there, Bruce

(03:11):
Willis to me Moore and Jack Nicholson and Ryan Freakin'
Leaf sitting around a tables and I'm just like in
awe of like this guy. I had never had any
intent of meeting anybody like that in my life. So yeah,
I'm with you, like just the most unexpected out of
nowhere that takes you by shock Seaton. It's kind of

(03:31):
a funny one.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
And I don't know if it was the scenario that
we were in, which was like beyond surreal, or if
it was the person themselves. But we went to shoot
this Adam Sandler movie called That's My Boy in Toronto. Yeah,
and us idiots are like, we have no idea what
we're doing. We're really just trying to not get in trouble, right,
But and we get to watch them shooting all of

(03:53):
these scenes and we're just waiting for them to like
call our names and be like, all right, go over there,
don't screw this up. But while we're sitting there, Susan
saran is acting and like doing all of this stuff.
And I remember being like, oh my god, that's Susan
Sarandon standing right there and she's working, she's acting. We're
watching her, watch her takes back and you could see
her like she's doing the lines over in her head
and the next time she'll do it a little differently

(04:14):
or whatever. I found that to be fascinating, that, like,
that's Susan Sarandon right there, and she's working.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
We're just watching her work. I think, watching any of
that stuff people who work at their craft and you
see different things over and over again, you know. Like
I said, starstruck for me was golfers, always has been golfers.
I love the game of golf. It's given me so
much over the last ten years, you know. And a

(04:41):
guy that I think does a pretty darn good job,
you know, towing the towing the line, going over the line,
talking about every possible aspect of the PGA Tour and
what's going on in it right now, Brandal Shambly if
the off channel leads studio analysts joining us right now, Brandal,
how are you doing today?

Speaker 7 (04:59):
I'm great, Thank trying nice to join you.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
How you doing I'm doing I'm doing really well. Caught
your performance during the US opened down at Pinehurst. Thought
it was exceptional. What a great tournament to watch it
play out that way. I held off a week because
I thought on Father's Day, I'd be able to watch it,
but of course as a father, you never get to
the thing you're able to get to. So I watched
it last week while I was in abandon. Uh and uh,

(05:24):
and I still can't get over it's just, you know,
some of the way it ended. What were your biggest
takeaways from from that weekend at Pinehurst? Rory every advantage,
two stroke lead and then to lose it with the
putts that he hadn't missed in any any time like that,
to lose to Bryson.

Speaker 7 (05:42):
I think the biggest takeaway really was just how spoiled
I think we all were as a golf audience getting
treated to a back and forth like that between two
just megastar strowing haymaker after haymaker, you know. For Bryson
it was it was just these wonderful recoveries, you know,
from the native areas. There's never been any buddy, you
go back to nineteen eighty, that's the earliest data that

(06:03):
you can find on the US Open. Nobody's ever won
a US Open that poorly ranked and driving accuracy, nobody,
So to see him recover from those Native areas and
those great scrambles around the green. You know, it reminded
me a bit of Sevy or Tiger, and then with Rory,
who was the opposite, he was just driving the ass
out of it. It was amazing to watch. But you know,

(06:26):
the heartbreak of Rory and the and the I don't
know what you know, what you call it, it's just
the charisma Bryson, you know, seeing that go back and forth.
Because there's a huge section of golf that pulls for Rory.
I mean, it's well known in the golf industry. There's
really only a few people that moved the needle in
golf Tiger. But Tiger doesn't play much anymore, and when

(06:47):
he does, he struggles Rory, and that's kind of it.
It was Jordan Speed for a while, and it was
Nicholson for a while. But now I think watching this
emergent superstar and bright to Shambo, who's now become more
energetic and effusive with the audience, and to see that
play out, I think was just a real treat. That

(07:09):
was the overall take at least that I had.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
I haven't watched a bunch of golf, be honest with you,
over the last two years. Ever since all the live
in PGA Tour stuff has gone on, it's been hard
for me to watch. To be honest, I sat down
and watched this that weekend. You're exactly right. The question
I want to ask you around Scotti Scheffler in the
year he's having, which is exceptional. But you just talked

(07:34):
about a player in Bryson d Schambeau that that he
doesn't get to go up head to head except for
maybe four times a year. How do you quantify the
season Scottie Scheffler is having on the PGA Tour because
it's historical, yet it may not be necessarily against the
greatest competition in the world weekend week out.

Speaker 7 (07:55):
Well, you know, the world rankings doesn't doesn't incorporate these
guys are doing on live. But there's a site called
data Golf that does a really good job of cross
correlating how good these guys are playing against the competition.
And so there's really only a couple of guys that
are in the top ten in the world from live.
That's John Rahm and Bryson to Shambo. So look, I

(08:17):
mean Bryson to Shambo clearly is having the best year
in major championships, but he's also competing week in and
week out on live and he hasn't dominated. So it's
tough Ryan to answer your question. It's tough to really
put into perspective if he's not playing week in and
week out against the very best, and that is the
dilemma that we're all burdened with in this sort of

(08:38):
dichotomy that we have of these two tours. But having
said that, if you take Tiger out of the equation,
because you can't compare Tiger to Scotty Scheffer any more
than you could compare Usain Bolt to Tyson Gay like Tiger,
even what Scotty's doing right now, Tiger was light years
ahead of what Scotty's doing. So you take Tiger out
of it, and he's in another category of Hogan and Nicholas.

(09:02):
The last time we saw a golfer like this globally
from a data perspective was Tom Watson. You know, Rory
didn't play the type of golf that Scotty's playing right now.
He came close, brooks Kepka, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Jason Day,
Justin Thomas. They didn't play the golf that Scotty Scheffer's
playing right now, it's the best golf that we've seen

(09:24):
since Tiger Woods now Teeter Green. What we're seeing with
Scotty Scheffler is very much like Tiger Woods, very much.
I never thought i'd see that again. But the difference
is that Tiger was just as good a putter as
he was at every other aspect of the game. You
couldn't make Tiger up. You just couldn't make him up.
And Scotty Scheffler is not. He's just not that good
a putter.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
I remember hearing Paul Aisinger say when Tiger missed that,
what was it like a eight footer on seventeen at
Pinehurst the year that Payne Stewart won. It was the last,
you know, inside ten footer that Tiger miss for like
a next decade. And that's to your point. The putting
is is what set him apart, because he could do

(10:05):
anything you can imagine from Tea Green and then he
would able to get it up and down. The Scotty
Scheffler's demeanor on the golf course, I think it's there
says that's kind of a smooth textan you know, slow
walking into the bar mindset. How does that effectively help
him on the golf course because it serves him seemingly

(10:27):
very well, especially when something like that the memorial happens
and he throws in a triple bogie there out of
nowhere and then comes back and still wins the tournament.

Speaker 7 (10:34):
Well, he's just miles better than everybody else. I mean,
we can look at his demeanor and try to infer
that it helps him play better golf. But and a
lot of people do that, and I'm asked to do
that all the time, but for me, it you know,
we often infer mental emotional maturity aspects of people's demeanor
that we can't divine out. I mean, we can guess,

(10:57):
but the data shows he's just so much better than
everybody else.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
T degree.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
I mean, it's he's miles better than anybody else in
the game.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Of golf right now. Just yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
The ball striking, you know, I mean, Tiger Woods was
as animated up and down and all over the map
as Scotty is even keeled. You know, Scotty reminds me,
you know, his faith is very important to him. He's
a very religious man, so he reminds me a lot
of Now this is going back, you know, you know,
if you're not a golf geek. You may not remember

(11:30):
this name, but Byron Nelson. Barron Nelson was a man
of deep faith, also from Dallas or around the Dallas area.
Excellent and you know, he retired young. But he was
very even keeled, like Scotty Scheffler, Billy Casper, another player
whose religious faith was very important to them. And they
were very they were very humble on the golf course.

(11:50):
They didn't get too animated. You don't see Scotty Scheffler
running around air punching very often. You know, it's just
not who he is. So it's exciting in the act.
I mean, it's funny. It took him getting arrested a
world to jump on the Scotti Scheffler bandwagon. Now when
he shows up and walks on the range at the
US Open. When he walked down the range, you know,

(12:10):
there were this really wonderful group of kids that always
hung out in the same area, fifty one hundred kids,
and every day they would just, you know, just chant.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Scotty, Scotty, Scotty.

Speaker 7 (12:22):
It's like the whole world became in the way he
handled that with such grace. I think really enamored him
with a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, he certainly did do that. Before I get you
out of here, we're speaking with Brandall Shambly from Golf
Channel leads studio analysts as well as NBC Sports the
live golf aspect of things about two years ago. Of course,
you've been a staunch advocate for the PGA Tour. Sometimes
the controversy has blown up into something bigger. One of

(12:52):
my biggest takeaways from all this, and I think it's
what pushed me away from it all, was what the
PGA Tour decided to trot out there in terms of
making Rory and Tiger kind of the face of this.
I thought it would have done so much more to
the credit of the PGA Tour if someone like Max
Homa was the face of this, because he was what
the PGA Tour had brought to Fruition and Tiger and

(13:16):
Rory though they had done all that, they had generational wealth, right,
that wasn't something that some of these live players that
were taking off for and what Harold Varner spoke to
and stuff like that. Why has this conversation about money
and who's given the money and what this is all?
How has this divided the because the golfing fan for

(13:38):
me is is right down the line. I love golf
like I want to go spend five hours. I'll play
thirty six if you want to, if you want to
go and do that. Where are we today with this
in terms of collectively kind of bringing us all back
together because I don't want to watch full swing and
look at you know, Joe Damon and his caddy crying
on a private jet going. I do not want to

(13:59):
say I don't care about that at all. You know,
you are a pretty pretty lucky person right now. So
where are we at right now? And where's that got
to go?

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well?

Speaker 7 (14:08):
Heky raised an interesting point. So if you look at golf,
golf is the only sport that I can think of,
Ryan where the professional aspect of it could go away tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Zero.

Speaker 7 (14:19):
There could be no professional golf tomorrow, and it doesn't
change the game. One bet for those that play the game,
You're still.

Speaker 8 (14:25):
Going to go play.

Speaker 7 (14:26):
I'm still going to go play. All my buddies are
going to go play. There's still seventy five million people
in the world that are all going to go play golf.
That's not like every other sport where you watch it
for entertainment purposes.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Solely.

Speaker 7 (14:37):
You know, people bet on football, they're all in. Nobody's
going to go play football the next day. You know,
golf is a participation sport as much as it is
about entertainment. But the professional I think to your point,
I think most people became disenchanted with the professional sport
and the greed that was so pervasive in it. Everybody
fighting for money that was not warranted based upon the

(15:02):
niche aspect of the appeal of the game, and that
they were already comparatively speaking, unbelievably wealthy, right, and it
just seemed like, you know, this tug of war between
the greediest athletes in the world, and they had an
unrealistic view of their worth. And I think that came
across as you know, you see lesser known players hopping

(15:24):
on these private jets and you think they're all doing well,
what are they fighting for? And the ratings don't justify
this money. But the reason Tiger and Rory were so
much to the four of it because at least from
the professional aspect of it, the game really suffers unless
the stars are going to stick with the PGA tour.
So and the lesser known players needed to know that

(15:45):
the best players were going to be around because the
game falls apart, the media, rites fall apart if the
stars are not there and prominent. And the PGA Tour
I think has done a you know, thanks to Rory,
thanks to Tiger.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (16:01):
You know, I think they people fall suit. They're leaders,
the two biggest voices in the game, Rory and Tyger uh.
And they're the most appealing players in the game globally.
So they were very important to the sticking power of
the PGA Tour, so to speak. But from a recreational standpoint,
I think the whole world shared your view.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (16:21):
We're kind of sick of all the talk of money.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, I want to go play golf and I want to.
I want to. I want to learn how to stop
hitting my slice, and so I want to listen to her,
you know, give me book. Randall Shamblee from NBC Sports
as well as the Golf Channel lead studio analysts there. Randall,
thanks for taking them time today. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (16:39):
Nice talking to you, Ryan. See you down the road.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Some well, sir, Randall Shamblee. Golf Channel. A lot of
a lot of interesting stuff there. I want to get
into that A little bit later. But before we get
into that, we're going to have Andy Katz join us
next to talk about all things from the NBA Draft
last night. Need to be educated, I want to know
about this French and vag right here on the Dan
Patrick Show.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
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Speaker 2 (17:02):
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Speaker 2 (17:56):
Welcome back, everybody to the Dan Patrick Show. I'm Ryan
Lee filling in for Dan today. Just got done talking
with Brandle Shambly from Golf Network, Golf Channel, NBC Sports.
Pretty special to be a part of that that US
Open coverage. That was a that was a heck of
a deal. I waited a week to watch the ending

(18:18):
and it was hard. It looked like me putting on
sixteen there for Rory pulled that thing a little left
and and there you have it. It's difficult when that
pressure hits, When that pressure mounts, a lot of pressure
last night for a lot of these first round draft picks,
you know what expectations they will have some Wednesday highlights.
So I told you a little earlier. I'm a New

(18:40):
York Yankee season ticket holder this year. It's it was
kind of a neat way of doing it. You could
buy twenty season tickets. They you know, they have it
split off into that's certain amount by season. You know,
twenty season tickets, which has been great. All the games
we've gone to so far this year, they've won. You know,

(19:01):
feel like I'm batting pretty good, but I haven't been
to a game in a while. They're two and eight.
I only have two I only have two games on
the horizon, by the way, in the month of July,
July third against the Reds, July sixth against the Red Sox,
and then we're gone a whole month of July, Like
we don't come back to August second. So hopefully they don't,
you know, go into a leaf slide somewhere there. Aaron

(19:22):
Judge hit his thirtieth home run of the season Yankees
twelve to two lost to the Mets. Well, he joins
Babe Ruth, Harmon, Killerbrew, Ken Griffith Junior, Mark McGuire, Roger Merrison,
Sammy Sosa is the only players to hit thirty or
more home runs in their first eighty two games of
a season multiple times in their career. It's the most
he most in the first eighty two games since Albert
Pouhols hit thirty one in two thousand and nine. Gavin

(19:45):
Stone tossed the four hit shutout the Dodgers beat the
White Sox. Of course, we heard about first time there's
been a shutout since Walker Bueller did it back in
twenty twenty two, and Atani led the game with his
nl eating twenty fifth home run, third leadoff home run
of the year, this sports state in history. I like
this one, Mike Tyson. I remember having this Sports Illustrated
cover of Tyson knocking out Spinks nineteen eighty eight, June

(20:09):
twenty seventh, ninety one seconds in Atlantic City, unified all
the heavyweight titles. Really pretty much the precipice of Mike
Tyson's dominance. Everything kind of fell apart after that. Cuss
passed away right before that fight, I believe. And then
Dan O'Brien. This one's really Dan O'Brien failed to score

(20:32):
any points in the pole Vault in nineteen ninety two,
and if you guys remember correctly, Reebok had put this
huge campaign together about Dan and Dave going to the Olympics,
and one of them did not qualify. Therefore their whole
campaign was undercut. Got a good story there about Dan
O'Brien and when he went back to Atlanta and won
a gold medal, came and spoke to our Washington State team.
It's pretty pretty good stuff, all right. I want to

(20:56):
get back to the NBA stuff, and so we thought
we'd bring in the expert, Andy Katz. He joins us. Now,
welcome to the show, mister Andy Katz. TNT sports broadcast
and basketball analysts. Were you unfamiliar as most people were
in the United States with the two guys that ultimately
went at the top of last night's draft.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, obviously I knew who they were.
I had seen sar Alex saw play because he played
on Overtime Elite, So there's some domestic games in that,
you know for them played their two years. Resache, I
had never seen him play in person, just highlights. Like

(21:37):
pretty much everyone else, he had to go to France
to go see him for the most part. You know,
this was a draft to me that mirrored nineteen ninety eight.
I'm dating myself here, but that's when goodyear. Yeah, Michael
Hollover Candy was the number one pick in the NBA draft,
and three spots down was Antonine Jamison, so you know

(22:01):
it was a draft no one knew who should be won.
Then you shoot ahead to twenty thirteen, Anthony Bennett was
the number one pick. No one really knew who to
pick one, and Giannis was in that draft, so you
know there will be an elite player in this draft.
I'm convinced of it. We don't know who it will be.
I kind of think Stefan Castle may it being the

(22:22):
best player in this draft he goes forward to San Antonio.
But I know the way these gms got they they
love the upside, especially the upside international player. And so
I wasn't shocked at Receschet and Sar went one two.
But I think there's gonna be a little more value
a little bit deeper into the draft.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
These these players are You talked about it being a
bit of maybe a project. Not what we saw last
year with the Frenchman, right, that was a star. We
knew about him in time. It was the height, it
was all the things that went into it. Is that
something that propelled this year's draft to think about how
successful he was as a rookie, that these guys kind

(23:05):
of grew up in his shadow, his form and how
they come into play and do an NBA that's much
different than it was ten years ago when when you
came in from a foreign country.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, I mean, I think also it is cyclical. Next
year's draft is absolutely loaded at the top. I mean,
these two guys would not sniff the top five next year.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
You know with Cooper Flag and Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper,
those guys are all gonna go one, two, three in
some order, so it is cyclical, it is based on
you know, who comes out. I find it interesting that
as of now, none of the four first round Frenchmen
are going to be on the French Olympic team, at

(23:47):
least not projected to be, and yet they could be
one of the contenders for a silver. I think we
all know it was probably gonna win the gold. But
they're gonna have an outstanding roster led by women. But
they've got you know, Gobert, and you know there's a
number of NBA level players who have French roots will

(24:09):
be playing on that Olympic thom who are experienced and older,
and yet four Frenchmen go in this first round here
in twenty twenty four, I.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Want to ask you a question specifically around the French
invasion and why it started and who kind of maybe
was the catalyst. I think maybe Tony Parker. I want
to ask you that in a second here, but first
let's you know where Tony Parker ended up going was
the San Antonio Spurs. They go out and grab the
number one overall pick last last year, and now they
take a player at four who you believe could easily

(24:41):
be the best player in this year's draft. What have
they done, how quickly have they got better? And what
is pop expecting to look like with this team next season.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
I love the selection of Stefan Castle. I think he
will be the best player in this draft. I'm a
believer that you know, maybe this is why I'm not
a GM, but I think that you go with the
best player, regardless of fit, and then you figure it out.
We see this in a lot of other sports. Sometimes you
have duplication. But if you think player X is better

(25:13):
than player why on a given year, then you know,
just figure it out some and you've got a tradeable asset.
And I think Castle is going to be the highest
value pick. The one question on him was could he
make threes? He did that in the final four. But
I also love the fit played for Dan Hurley work
you know high like basketball like you work ethic and

(25:36):
Dan Hurley, Greg Papovich, there's a line there. I mean
both those guys. Obviously Papovich you know, older Hall of famer,
you know that kind of level of coaching, winning multiple
championships at the NBA level. You've got urly just one
back to back championships in college basketball. If you can
play for Dan Hurley, you certainly can play for Greg Papovic.

(25:56):
And so I love the fit there for the Spurs
and getting their kind of guys. And they've done a
great job obviously of development and development hoping players in
the NBA. And also one thing Papovitch had to do
and Brendan Haywood said this last night when he was
doing some Spurs games that he said Popovich told him that,

(26:17):
you know, they were having to teach you know, with
a lot of these young guys, if you've got a
player that's coming out of the current Yukon program, you
don't have to teach him anything. That player is coming
in ready to play the game and he's not going
to be raw. And so that's what I think will
help speed up this process for the Spurs next season.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Outside of the United States, and I was shocked to
hear this. Over about the last decade, the most amount
of players that have come into the NBA have been Frenchmen.
But it, for whatever reason, last night seemed very Frenchmen loaded.
And Tony Parker is the first real Frenchman that I
can think of that you know, when everybody has a player.
Michael Jordan was that for so many that made them

(27:00):
want to get into basketball, or Ken Griffey Junior into baseball.
In the in the country of France, Tony Parker may
have been that catalyst for let's say this group of
players that are coming out here now, they're all around
nineteen twenty years old and you know, making their way
to the United States to play in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah, and I do think that. And you know, think
of like Ronnie Trurioff who played with the Lakers, played
at Gonzaga. You know, you're familiar with that school up
in the Northwest, and you know, so he played in
the States first, but he's a French national. So this
has been going on for quite some time. I mean,
Parker is sort of the biggest name, but they've got,

(27:41):
you know, a ton of talent. I mean I got
to give you know, while we were not on the
air in watching ESPN's coverage that Jonathan Cagoni made a
good point on ESPN about, you know, the diversity in
France now is you're seeing it on the athletic fields,
you know, whether it's you know, obviously in basketball and soccer,

(28:04):
you know, the country certainly has changed, and you know
in its demographics and we're seeing it play out, you know,
in the diverse players that are coming through there. And
there's no question that France I think will be a
basketball power for years to come. I think I take
over the US and the Olympics. Probably not, but they're

(28:27):
certainly going to be a contender. I mean, think about this.
What in the nineties and early two thousands, you know,
Argentina you know, was one of the main competitors for
the US, you know, in the Olympics, and then it
just wasn't that low of players to continue, you know,
after that genobili era of Argentinian players, and so they've

(28:50):
not been able to sustain it. You know, Let's see
if Spain can sustain it. I'm questioning that too after
that Poga soul era in Spain. But it does look
like Ants could sustain it. I mean, I go way
back Lithuania, if you remember, they had some great teams,
you know, at the global stage, but they also weren't
able to sustain it. There was not really that, you know,

(29:12):
with Germany, same thing. France seems like the country right
now and Canada, by the way, that I think have
the ability to stay at the high level on the
international stage.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
All right, what did the Lakers get when they got
Dalton connect you know, big sky to the SEC dominant
there at Tennessee on he was twenty three years old.
I think that was one of the bigger complaints about
something I also heard listening to Frank I Soola coming
into the the office today. You know how that's a
positive though. I mean, all the experience you have going

(29:48):
into a team that has so much experience.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Yeah, I thought, if you're going to look at the
playoff teams that I thought were the big winners last night,
the top two for me were Minnesota and the Lakers.
You know, Minnesota gets Robed Dilly Hamm in the trade
and they get Terrence Shannon Junior, who is twenty three

(30:13):
as well. He only slid because of his legal issues.
You know, wasn't able to sort of be free and
clear until early June. Once he was, you knew that
he was going to probably move up. He didn't move
up as much as I thought he should have. But
he is a ready I mean, as Brendan Haman was saying,
that's that plug and play guy. He can come right

(30:34):
in and we're going to see dunks the way ant
Man has. We're going to see that from Shannon. So
there's a twenty three year old who's going to help them.
The Lakers, same deal Dalton Connect slides to seventeen. They
want to win now, Well, you don't win now with
the guy you try to develop. JJ Reddick I think
will love coaching Dalton Connect because he's got that same

(30:54):
basketball IQ. He can defend, he can block shots, and
he can a big time score we saw in that
Elite eight matchup against Purdue. But also I think with Lebron,
Lebron's going to want to trust a player on the
wing when he gets doubled or whatever happens where he's
got to give it up. If he's kicking it out
to Connect, Knect's going to make that shot and he
will have the confidence to do that as a twenty

(31:16):
three year old who's done it at an elite level,
whether it was at Northern Colorado where no one knew
who he was, or kind of seeing leading his team
to do EE eight. So I love those two guys
who are both twenty three, Shannon and Connect having an
immediate impact on playoff games all right, We'll.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Let you go catch this plane here. On this question,
I think most people out there are going to be
watching Round two, and maybe more people will be watching
Round two, frankly simply because of the big question around
Bronnie James playing with his dad. Will it be the Lakers,
will it be another team that maybe takes him and
uses him as leverage to try to do something with

(31:55):
the Lakers, or maybe even because of Lebron not signing
his extension yet in OPTI in who knows. I think
there's a lot of intrigue tonight because of Bronnie James
and Lebron James family tonight in round two.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Well, so I'm going to piggyback off my comment about Connect.
I think because they took Connect, it makes it much
more palatable to take Bronnie James. If the Lakers had
taken a player that needed to be developed or a
bit of a project at seventeen, then it's kind of
hard to justify taking someone similar at fifty five. Now

(32:28):
you've got your guy who can be in the rotation
at seventeen. You can take a flyer happens to be
the son of your Hall of Fame player, but you
can take them to fifty five. And that's okay, because
you know, fifty five you're not expecting to get a
rotation guy. But I didn't think that both of their
picks could be guys that needed to be developed. Now
you've got one. Now it's gravy. You know, you take

(32:50):
them fifty five, Okay, whatever, you know, let's see if
he can develop into a player. It's fine. So I
think may now have the luxury to take him, and
I think they will. And I think there's the only
team that would late in the second round.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Oh you answered my question on the way out. If
it wasn't the Lakers, then who was it?

Speaker 3 (33:06):
So?

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Uh Lakers or bust for Bronnie James and his pops
rolling into the sunset years for lebron in La. I
guess retirement. Uh you know with this, I mean, how
cool is that I watched King Grifford Junior and his
dad almost collide and make a catch their day. Imagine
playing with your son. I mean, what a cool thing. Hey, Andy,
thanks so much for taking the time. I know you
were rushing out of there. Really appreciate it. The education.

(33:29):
I only watched one NBA game this year, so I'm
I'm ready. I mean, I'm gonna go on NBA TV today.
They probably so Andy Katz everybody TNT Sports Basketball Analyst.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio wapp.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Welcome back everybody to The Dan Patrick Show. Ryan Leaf
in the big Man's chair today. You guys get a
little vacation. This was upcoming week on with along with
your with your Boss Dan. Huh, you guys get to
go off and go your separate directions. Everybody's kind of
coming to me for the Fourth of July. Parents are coming,
friends are coming to celebrate. This would be kind of

(34:11):
our first real Fourth of July on the on the
East Coast. Fritzy, are you doing a lot of grilling cooking?

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Do you bring in food or a cater or something?
How are you handling all that?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, we we grill and then we kind of cater.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
We have a.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Chef that likes to come in and grill and stuff
like that sometimes and kind of put some stuff on
the on on the bar before us. So that's what
we'll probably do. You know, Anne has got the pool
for the first time, and so she's become like this
this this pool lady. You know, she just goes out
with her skimmer and she just kind of it's like
her yoga and her like little Zen. She's got a
little robot she sticks in the water that cleans the

(34:45):
walls and does the whole thing. I mean, she's first
time she's ever had a pool, so she's all in
poly Do you guys.

Speaker 5 (34:50):
Ever have Maybe it's just me. Probably when you have
a lot of relatives over at the house every once
in a while, you just find a quiet, empty room
and go there for like twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
All right. So yeah, super Bowl, Super Bowl. I had
both my brothers visiting, you know, and I've come to
the realization that one of the brothers I can only
have stay at the house for like like twenty four hours.
He cannot be there longer than thirty six hours because
it's it's no go. So I ended up in the
nursery with the baby, feeding the baby, watching the Super

(35:19):
Bowl on my pretty much on my own that night,
and it ended up being a pretty great night, you know,
because I was holding the baby there watching the game.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
Brian, how long are you going to feed the baby.
It's been four hours that you've been hiding in there.
I know, I was really hungry.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
I'm really hungry, and she likes the chiefs. What have you got, Mark? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (35:33):
The idea, the idea of family getting together is better
than family actually getting together, because about an hour in
you see a cousin like, oh, I'm so excited to
see you, and then two hours in I forgot you
were like this.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yes, yes, that's the that's the bigger one and all
of this. You know, once you build your own family.
God loved the old family that you had, but it's
your it's the one you've built, and it's the one
you want to be with. And that's that's kind of
the mindset in place that we we've gotten to. It's
probably a good poll question speaking of pole results, uh

(36:07):
seating our one. Would you rather be a number one
pick in a draft that's something that's forgettable or in
the middle of the road in a loaded draft? Well
how'd that one come out? Oh?

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Man?

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Right now?

Speaker 6 (36:22):
Seventy five percent of the audience would rather go number
one overall?

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're number one or bus you know,
we're Ricky Bobby here you know, we're first or last
in this deal. All right, I'm gonna wear I'm gonna
wear my you know, you know, Crystal Gaale T shirt
and show up with a cougar and we'll be good
to go. Walker in Texas Ranger the kids, Yep, yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Would you today?

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Walker? I took a bunch of grandpa's chips war medals
and threw them off the bridge. It was a great day.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
You did.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
What these young kids? They have the greatest day, Seaton.

Speaker 6 (36:56):
It would be pretty sick though, Like if you're going
through the listen, you're like, okay, let's se number one,
Allen Iverson, Marcus Camp, you know, Stefan Murray sixteen, Patrick O'Connor, holy, yeah,
that was my.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Draft, Yeah, my draft. That was my draft. Also, you
wouldn't have a Steve Nash.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Was just ahead of me and then I went in.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
This one wouldn't have had its yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 (37:17):
Kobe Bryant thirteen then yeah by seventeen.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, Patrick O'Connor, how about that?

Speaker 3 (37:22):
What you know?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Maybe Will loves from a year ago.

Speaker 6 (37:24):
C J.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Stroud goes second overall and there's nothing wrong with that,
you know, and he's taken the second round all of
a sudden, he's the Tennessee guy and he beat starts
beating CJ. Stroud's brains in, you know, over the next
five years in the in the AFC South. Huh Yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:36):
And dropping in the NFL Draft isn't bad because you
go to a better team. I remember the video Lamar
Jackson sitting there. No one's taking him, No one's taken him.
And I think, did the Ravens jump back up to
the first round?

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Yep, so they could get they jump back up in
the first round. They got him for the fifty year option.
Yeah yeah, and look at the team he went to.
And I'll play to his strengths, play to his strengths.
Two time MVP. Guess what I get to do this year?
This will be the first time, you know, you guys know,
I get to go out and speak to the college
football programs all over the country. It's the first year.
I'm I'm I'm most likely heading to an NFL camp

(38:08):
here at dan in July. And the first coach to
do that, you know, which is transseador John Harbaugh, Baltimore Ravens.
I'm I gonna tell the two time MVP, you know,
and you know it's that's a little daunting. I remember
the first time I stepped into an NBA locker room
to speak, and it was with the Yoklahoma City Thunder
and there was Carmelo, there was Paul George, and there
was Russell Westbrook.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
And I'm like, these all these guys, like two hundred
plus million dollar guys, They're sitting in the front row,
and I'm going the hell am I gonna tell you guys?
You know, I mean, you got it. You got to
figure it out, right.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
It can all go away, fellas.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
I'm just saying, you're gonna go away.

Speaker 5 (38:43):
Yeah, Paula, do you think rookies, and let's say all sports,
not pigeonhole, any one sport need more advice of dangers
off the court, dangers off the field, or financial dangers
off the field.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
There are two different things, right, I think that that
any and all information and be beneficial, like setan ass
what I at the time had the wherewithal of somebody suggested,
why don't you stay home and do this? How would
have my mindset been at that time? My mindset would
have been, screw you, I know all, I know everything.

(39:15):
It's hard to take that information. So it's important though
to give it. I think in the mindset that you
just you say, all these kids aren't going to listen anyway,
so what's the point in even doing it. That's the featist.
You have to actually give the advice be part of
the solution. You can't control what somebody else does with it,
so you'd go through all of it. You give them
every piece of information you can on the good the bad.

(39:39):
What you can control your attitude, your behavior, and your effort.
Those are the only three things that you can actually control,
no matter how much you think you can control everything
else in this world's those are the only three things.
And so yeah, I think you just give everybody that
type of information. You use your life experience to try
to establish, you know, evidence of that when you're speaking.

(40:03):
I think that's that's important. So you do that, you
hope for the best, and then you sleep better at
night because you know you tried to contribute differently, Paul.

Speaker 5 (40:11):
Quickly when you were younger, you could say this for later.
Did people try to take advantage of rookies with the
big new contract like financial advisor type.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
People, financial advisor people, and then all of a sudden,
the relatives that you didn't know, that all of a
sudden were cousins that you didn't now know, and I
was in such need of comfort or yes men, I
welcome into men. And now they're completely gone. The BRODDI
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