May 20, 2024 • 49 mins
On today's Dan Patrick Show, DP recaps both Game 7's between the Knicks/Pacers and Nuggets/T-Wolves, was there an East Coast bias in ESPN's coverage of the Knicks/Pacers series? Adam Sandler joins us from Italy to discuss Happy Gilmore 2 and Anthony Edwards, and Jim Jackson breaks down what the Mavs need to do to stop the T-Wolves.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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busy weekend. Timberwolves come back, they dropped the Nuggets, they
went in seven. Pacers roll the Knicks they went in
seven as well. So two road teams winning a game
seven the playoffs. That doesn't happen very often, if it's
ever happened before the Eastern Conference Finals will start on Tuesday.
The West will start on Wednesday. Xander Schoffley wins the PGA,
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his first major, but this will be the major that
we remember as the Scottie Scheffler PGA Championship. He finished
tied for eighth. You know, when you talk about any
any publicity's good publicity, I don't subscribe to that. But
in the case of what happened was, you know, Scottie Scheffler,
(01:32):
it kind of changed his image a little bit, like
all of a sudden, it felt like, hey, all right,
he got a little personality here.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
His image was. He didn't have an image, and you
go to jail, you get out, you play well. Now
what hurt him was the way he played on Saturday.
Played really well on Sunday. But Xander Schoffley did what
you're supposed to do, had the moment, took advantage of
the moment, and it sounded like this.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Practicing he's a kid down sands and buses times.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Tell me yourself, it was for this very occasion to
win it.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
All, Senator, good victory up if you missed it. Then
he was facing Bryce and Deshambo, who has quietly had
an unbelievable season, and you go twenty under and you think, oh,
I'm going to win a major at twenty under, and
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normally you do. But Xander Schoffley down the stretch, had
some big big shots and did what you're supposed to do.
They didn't back in. He had to go get it
and Deshambo warming up watching this and he wins his
first major. So but I think we're going to look
back as the oh, that was the Scottie Scheffler moment
when he went to jail instead, and we said this
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after he got out of jail and he played. That
will no matter who wins, if it's not Scheffler, that
we're going to remember as oh, that's right. Not that
person will remember what happened to him. Now with the basketball,
I turned the game off at halftime. I thought the
Nuggets at home, double digit lead, they should win this game.
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They did not. They got shut down in the second half.
You had two Nuggets who showed up. You had joker
Jamal Murray. The reason why they lost is Michael Porter
Junior did not play well at all. Aaron Gordon played
over forty minutes and had four rebounds in four points.
I said at the outset of the series, I didn't
think this was a great team. They didn't have depth,
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and you got two great games out of Joker and
Jamal Murray. Give credit to the Timberwolves because they went
in and it's not sexy. They played defense. Anthony Edwards,
you know, when you want to be a great player,
it's not just I scored forty, it's I'm not scoring. Now,
how can I help the team? He took over guarding
Jamal Murray in the second half. Little things, big difference
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there and Minnesota. So Game seven on the road at
altitude and you're facing the defending champs and they win.
But I'll go back to what we talked about at
the beginning. I said, I wouldn't be surprised if they won.
And also, if you want to make comparisons stylistically to
Michael Jordan, then you can't be surprised if Anthony Edwards
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comes back and wins, Like you can't all of a
sudden lose the confidence in him. Then he's like Michael Jordan.
Then all of a sudden, they end up losing three
in a row. Now, all of a sudden, he's not
Michael Jordan. I said, it doesn't work that way. You
have to have the confidence in him that he can
still be a reincarnation of Michael Jordan at least the
embryonic stages. And people jumped on the bandwagon, thought Minnesota
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was going to sweep Denver, jumped off the bandwagon, jumped
on the Nuggets bandwagon. Well they're going to repeat now
to then jumping off the Nuggets bandwagon and jumping on
Minnesota's bandwagon. Here is Mike Malone, the head coach of
the Nuggets.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
How hard is it just to absorb a loss like
this after going ahead by twenty?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Nice question, Man, the season's over. That's what's hard, being
up twenty season's over. You don't understand that the season's over.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
It's hard.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's good questions, all right, Mike, Come on, you can't
have it both ways here, Like you want to be
the tough guy. You're calling out all the analysts. Oh yeah,
I'm clipping this off. If everybody said we're going to
get swept. This is a job that the reporter has.
And really it's a harmless question.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
All you need to do is just sort of answer
it and move on, batter it away. But instead of
calling him out, I mean, I get it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You're disappointed, but this reporter's doing their job there, So
I was embarrassed for him. Here is the Joker after
the loss.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
It's hard because the teams are more hungry or better
balented than last year. Probably everybody get better, everybody wants
to beat us. Probably that's when I thought for us,
it's probably.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, he played well. Now he's the one who's going
to be singled out because oh lost the game at home,
got blown out in game six, you lost in game seven. Now,
I did point out the points spread was surprising. I
think Denver was only favored by four, which I thought, Okay,
somebody knows something here. But it feels like, you know,
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we're going to look big picture at the Joker of
where he is now the best twenty players of all time,
because if he had won, if you have three MVPs
and two titles, you go down through history of anybody
who has that combination of five. Now you're in the
top fifteen all time. Joker. This isn't on him. He'll
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get the blame. He's the star, and he'll take ownership
of that. But this is really about his teammates who
let him down. They're already calling for Michael Porter Junior,
the third to be traded, and he played horribly last night.
Now he's had a few things on his mind off
the court, with you know, two of his brothers in trouble.
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But even said, look, you know, I'm not going to
use that as an excuse, but Aaron Gordon and Michael Porter,
who had played well, really well as a starting five,
they have the best starting five. Well, when two of
the you know three, two of the five are not
playing well, it's up to the other three. Two of
those guys played well, but you don't have a bench
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like you did last year. And that's what they're going
to have to address in the offseason. So now we
turn our attention to ESPN's New York Knicks, who lost
in Game seven to the Pacers. You know, Pacers did
play in the game. I just want to let ESPN
know if you want to buy into East Coast bias,
(07:58):
you have every reason to buy into ESPN's East Coast
binas watching that game. How about some impartiality here. Okay,
I was embarrassed for ESPN because it felt like it
was all about the Knicks. Even at halftime, it was
about the Knicks. The Pacers aren't exciting. I get it,
you know, not big names, not a sexy team, but
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you still have to cover the game. You got to
be fair. I don't need a Stephen A Smith a
rival video. I don't need a pep talk with him
and Spike Lee. He doesn't work for the Knicks, you
work for ESPN. I was really surprised, and I didn't
care who won. But after that, I was rooting for
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the Pacers. I thought, you know what, let's make this
uncomfortable for you. And Indiana was the better team. But
they were only the better team because the Knicks ran
out of gas, they ran out of players, and you know,
I don't know if a Nick fan goes you know what?
That was pretty impressied. I hope they do. That was
impressive what they did. You get them health. You already
(09:04):
have some guys that got some great you know, run
here and I would be really excited about next season.
But here's Tyrese Haliburt and the Pacers guard.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
We had a pre camp, preseason camp in Nashville, just players,
no coaches, and that's that was what we communicated from
the jump that we expected to be here. This ain't
a surprise for us.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
You know, it's no fluke.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
We expect this from our group, and then once we
added p we knew that we could really take off.
So it doesn't really matter what anybody thinks except for
the people in our travel party seventy eighty people who
come because I don't think anybody here picked the Pacers
to win the series, but it happened.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I have picture proof.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So that's Tyrese Haliburt and p is Pascoal Siakam. You
know it's it's a balanced team. It's a good team.
TJ McConnell coming off the bench is really, you know,
a great weapon. And Rick Carlong's won a title before.
But to go into New York, and granted New York
was Jalen Brunson. I think he's already They maybe had
(10:04):
a fracture in that hand, but he certainly hurt it
to the extent that he was done. Here is Jalen
Brunson after the lass.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
That's part of the game this group.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
No, we didn't make excuses for anything, and so if
things happened, we move forward with what we had and
obviously we want everyone healthy. I think that's the most
important thing. But I think as a group where we
had that mindset the next man up, and we really
took it to heart.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
They did. It was wonderful to watch that excitement in
the garden going toe to toe, big shots, big moments,
and you got players that you didn't expect who could
step up but they did. And now build off of
that momentum. Yeah, every reason to be excited about next season.
Now the Pacers play the Celtics. This is one of
those no win situations. Even if Boston wins the title,
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we're still going to say, yeah, but come on, you
didn't have to face the Nuggets in the finals. Nobody
in the East. Everybody's injured, No Jannis in there, Embiid
was banged. You know, get ready for the asterisk, like
this will be up there with the Lakers winning in
the bubble. It feels like if the Celtics win. Now,
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if you're a Celtic fan, you'll take this. If you're
those players, certainly Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, you'll take it.
You can put an asterisk there, you can kiss my asterisk.
They got to win a championship. Oh yes, you got
to win a championship here and you should win a championship.
But let's factor in the Pacers here. As I said,
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when this series started, it was going to be about
New York and post Oh, we can't wait New York.
It's going to be ratings gold. And then all of
a sudden, the Pacers go all right. Now have I
called out the Pacers a couple of times that they played,
They were embarrassing, embarrassingly bad. But they did what you
wanted a team to do in this moment, step up,
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hit big show. I mean they hit every shot basically,
he shot like seventy percent. And now they move on
and now you have Dallas. Dallas is back in an
Eastern Conference or Western Conference finals with Luca, and Luca
talked about just how great Kyrie has been.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Man when he came nothing but supportive of for everything
I did, everything we did, but just helping me mature
a lot, I realize to see the game in a
different way, and obviously in the Cord is amazing to
play a guy like him, Like I said, just go
out there and go out there and enjoy and the
leader he's been for us, not just for me, but
(12:35):
for us. He has been amazing, always positive energy.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
He has.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
There's no drama. I haven't heard anything from him. Now
it's just basketball and you sometimes forget, which is hard
to do that he is still extremely dangerous, great, not
afraid of a big moment. You're gonna have either Anthony
Edwards playing for a championship or you're gonna have Luca
playing for a championship. That's pretty cool. And I believe
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this will be the sixth consecutive year we have a
different NBA champion. I think that's the case. All right,
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Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yee, welcome to the program. I hope he had a
great weekend. Everybody. The talented Adam Sandler will join us.
Happy goil Moore two is officially a go. Also, I
want to talk to Sandman about Anthony Edwards because ant
Man was in the movie Hustle that Sandler had out
a couple of years ago, and I remember him telling
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me he's like Danny, this kid has so much charisma,
and you know, not only a great basketball player, but
so much charisma. And then I'm watching the movie. He goes,
wait till you see him. He can act. And then
I'm watching I'm realizing, I know he can play basketball,
but he's got so much charisma. Well, last night his
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team they held you know, they hung in there. They
were down fifteen at halftime, they were down twenty at
one point in the game, and came back to win.
It's the first time in NBA history that you've had
multiple road teams win Game seven's on the same day.
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there he is, Adam Sandler joining us on the program. Sandman,
how are you feeling today?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I buddy, do you want shades on? Like this or
like this?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I think shades let's I mean, let's be a movie
star here, let's go Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I feel I'm a European. I feel like I feel
like it makes sense.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I missed you. I'm glad to see you.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Where are you right now?
Speaker 7 (16:40):
I'm in my trailer. I'm shooting a movie. It's all
going good. I'm in Italy, Italy.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Brought I guess who I brought Lock? I brought Lockran.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Look uh, look at my favorite dog.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
There. Miss your mess, your Danny?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Who you with? And it.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Family? My family brought the family. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
But I wake up in the morning and rewatch the
basketball games that Anthony Edwards had a heck of a series,
didn't he Last night was good?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And you're the one that told me that he's not
only a great basketball player, but when you put him
in the movie Hustle, that he could act. But how
did you realize Anthony Edwards could kind of hold his
own as an actor?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
You know, I'm sorry it went out for a second,
but you were talking to that I told you how
great he is. Yes, he was just such a funny sweetheart.
The only reason I'll take them off the chaise I
look crazy. But the only reason we know of him
is Wancho played on the same team with him and
when he read the script we were casting a party,
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goes you should use my my friend Anthony.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
He's my teammate. He's great. He would kill this and so.
Speaker 13 (17:59):
Red with Jeremiah the director, and Jeremiah's like, oh my god,
he's like Paul Newman or something. He just was like
all charisma came in hang on one second day. Yeah
he uh oh. He definitely had like.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Made everybody by the way, every pro guy when we
were shooting the movie.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
Loved him.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
He just got something carefree, cool thing about him, and
he wants to win and he and he's he's a badass.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
I love him.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Uh is this movie top secret or something?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
There? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You got me?
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Sorry, yes, I got you.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Who else is starring in this movie?
Speaker 7 (18:42):
The one I'm doing right now in Italy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Uh clone Laura dern Uh it's it's no Bomback, No
bomback movie.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Oh so you guys were shooting in London now you're
in Italy exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, same movie, same movie. It's still going, man,
okay going, but it's going great. It's going great. We've
been having fun and we've been talking a lot of basketball,
because man, I'll tell you, Europe's starting to know that basketball.
Whenever I go to go out in Italy or in England,
they all talk to me about the Knicks and they
talk to me about six ers and it was pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
They know their stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And every everybody's starting to talk about Anthony Edwards being
a superstar.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
I know it. He's big in America now right, Everyone
loving him? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Uh so how do you have time to work on
Happy Gilmore?
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Too? The script. It's not easy, man. We're going to
get to it in a in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I come home in a couple of weeks in the
Hurl that he flies out, and and and and then
we get going on that.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Can you get me?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Can you give me a plot, like a like a
working plot here that you have.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
No, I mean, I will right when, I right when
we zero it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Now we got we have some million things, like I
told you, But I I just got to kind of
make it flow a little more. But I think I
might have to do with something with be being a
little older now and and and still trying to compete
with the youngsters.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Oh so you're going to be so you're going to
be playing golf in the movie?
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I think so. I think so right right now, I am, Yeah,
it makes sense to me. But uh, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Hurley he was at the UH He went down to
the tournament this weekend and hung out with some of
the guys. He hung out with Daily a little bit
and they and Daily was selling up some great stories.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
It was we're ready, baby, we're excited.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Is John Daily going to be in the movie.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I would like to think so is. But I love him.
I love him I always did love him.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Is Tiger going to be in the movie?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Ah, huh, let's see what it is. I'm sorry. Is
Tiger going to because I forgot.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I would love it.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I'm gonna write, I'm gonna write all my dreams and
then you never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
But we're gonna, we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I'll let you, I'll let you go. I'll let you go. Yeah,
you're you're you're freezing up.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Uh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I love you.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I love you too.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
All right.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
That's Adam Sandler joining us from Italy. Yeah, happy Gilmore too. Yeah,
we didn't even get a chance to do the elevator pitch.
Maybe that's a good thing. Convenient for everybody, that's a
good thing. Yeah, Paulie had it all kind of mapped down.
Maybe a ryder Cup type feel for this, and uh,
Adam Sandler shooting McGavin, maybe partnering together. Yes, Pauline, you.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Gotta get Sasha Baron Cohen in there. He's just naturally
funny European bad guy. That'd be nice. I like that
John Daly gets injured. Tiger Happy Gilmour writes itself after.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That, and then I thought, since Bob Barker is not
around any more to reprise his role, that we get
Drew Carey since he's hosting that show. So maybe Drew
Carrey gets to punch Sandman. I still love that Bob
Barker when he's shooting Happy. Gilmore said that he would
do the part, but he had to win the fight
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with Sandler.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Boss.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's that was it. He said, I'll do it, but
I have to win the fight, and of course it
made for a better scene there and then so I'll
probably be a golf announcer there. I'm guessing that's what's
my role would be. Quinn, California. Hey Quinn, what's on
your mind today?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Hey gentlemen, good morning.
Speaker 14 (22:35):
Yeah, I was thinking about this story plot. What if
you had shoot mcgabb and the guy trying to get
to the tournament and gets arrested in front of like
Happy and stuff and he's telling Happy, Hey, tell him
who I am.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
He just walks by laughing.
Speaker 14 (22:47):
And then Shooter gets out of the can and he's
struggling with his drive, so he has to somehow incorporate
haf to Gilmore to teach him to get a drive back.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
It's an idea, Okay, it was that.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Christopher mc donald is Shooter McGavin, great actor. Yeah, he's
in the show Hacks, which is a wonderful show. Gene
Smart is the star and he's in there and they
were actually playing golf in this last episode. But yeah,
that if you want a nice, breezy, kind of fun
show to watch Hacks with Gene Smart. I think it's
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on Max or Netflix that they're in a third season.
Marvin says, it's on Max all right. By the way,
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it now only on Peacock. All right, Seaton, pull question
from our one and what are we going to go
with hour two?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (23:50):
We got up there a team that should feel best
about next season, Denver, New York and Oklahoma City. Right now,
Oklahoma City is running away with that at sixty percent.
Is that just because of their age?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah? Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 15 (24:02):
It's tough to not feel great if you're Denver, you
still you still have.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, but it's weird because they're gonna get rid of
some players. They don't have a bench. Are you going
to trade Michael Porter? He's making thirty three million dollars
a year. I go love Aaron Gordon, But Aaron Gordon
did not play well last night either. Four points, four
rebounds and he played over a forty minute. I mean
that's almost impossible with that team. His talent and they
(24:33):
know showed. But I mean Minnesota moved on because they
it was a team effort, not Anthony Edwards. It was
a team effort in fact, picking him up because he
didn't he wasn't shooting well from the floor. Yeah, Stephen,
what about for the Knicks?
Speaker 15 (24:50):
I mean the Knicks. You had a great season with
a ton of injuries. I'd feel good about what happened,
all right, But are you just as because it's the Knicks?
Are you skeptical about their ability to do it again?
Speaker 7 (25:03):
Just be? I mean, just.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Well, now I feel better about Dante DiVincenzo and Josh
Hart and of course Jalen Brunson, og An Andobi. I
don't know if Robinson will be back, Hartenstein, are they
going to have him back? He's a free agent. Julius Randall.
You know, a couple of pieces there, and now they
know they can do it. Now against all odds, they know,
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they know they can do it, and they can hold
their own. But you're still gonna Miami's gonna get better,
Philly will get healthier, Milwaukee's gonna get healthier. I mean,
these teams, you have a window. This was the window
for the Knicks, and this is the window for you know,
the Timberwolves. Because that the West is young, you know,
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Denver will still have a couple of great players. I mean,
just throw in everybody in there. Houston's on the rise.
I mean there's a lot of teams, OKC, Dallas, like
you have your window. I mean that's why we've had
what five different winners the last five years, will have
a sixth this year. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 16 (26:11):
So the Celtics they better win it this year, Yes,
they better. So quick question. Have you ever seen a
team that won a championship but it was more like
a sire relief rather than a celebration.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I think the Dodgers winning the World Series, it felt
like good call because there was a lot at stake there, Yeah,
a lot at stake, you know, Clayton Kershawn winning a title,
Dave Roberts holding onto his job, the amount of money
they put into that team, and it almost felt like, Okay,
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you won. I'm trying to think basketball wise, if there
was an overwhelming favorite, they won, but it wasn't a.
Speaker 15 (26:56):
Heat with Ron d Wade Bosh Big Three. Took them
a little bit to figure that out. But there was
a lot of expectations there.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Well, I think because they lost to Dallas and then
all of a sudden it wasn't a foregone conclusion they're
going to win a title. Then when they did, I
think it was like, oh, okay, all right, Yeah that
makes up for you know, losing to Dallas. Yeah, pulling ill.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Throughout the ninety five Atlanta Braves. They had made a
couple World Series and they had a truckload of pitching talent,
maybe as an all time pitching roster. Yeah, and they
finally won it, and yeah, that's all like an.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Excel good call. Let's see Nick and Irvine. Hi, Nick,
good morning, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Ay?
Speaker 17 (27:43):
My Hall of Famer? Hey name I got a best
in the worst. They both involved Valhalla first for the
winner San Diego Boy just seems like the nicest guy.
I just congratulations to him. It was that was epic.
It was an epic final. Roulers came down to the
last pot.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Beautiful.
Speaker 17 (28:04):
My worth of the weekend is the Golf Club of Valhalla.
They could not keep their volunteers safe with one death
on the board. They arrested the number one player in
the world wrongfully.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
You know.
Speaker 17 (28:19):
And I hope people when they when they see and
hear other people maybe have different colors complaining about being
arrested by cops, they can have a little more understanding
now about where other people might be.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I think we're going a little too far here. New
I don't know if this is the golf course. It
was a police officer and somebody was killed at five
in the morning when it was pitch black, and I
don't know that you know the circumstances there, But that's
not the golf course. Somebody could have walked in front
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of a you know, shuttle bus. Nobody saw, you know,
somebody there, and these police officers. I mean, if you
want to say something about the PGA of America and
who they hired, Okay, maybe there's a conversation there, but
I'm not putting this on Valhalla. Let's see Bob and Seattle. Hi, Bob,
welcome back, Hey you bego morning morning.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Hey, I got the best, the worst of the weekend.
The best of the weekend is Manchester City winning the
fourth straight Premier League title, which is a very excuse
to have our girl from Rebecca Lo Rebecca Lough who
doesn't like Rebecca Low. And the worst of the weekend
is I work weekends as a soccer referee and had
(29:38):
the pop of the achilles. I'm out for a year.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh well, Bob Man, I feel for you. Did you
know as soon as it happened, Yes.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Sir, it sounded like a tree branch snapped, and I'm like,
there's no trees around here. And of a sudden I
was looking at the grass. This is not good.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
How old are you, Bob sixty? Oh? And were you
refing older players.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Sixteen and a under? Yes, it was quite competitive.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
It was a great game.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You're trying to keep up with them?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yes, yes they did.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
They carry you off.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I limped off and then one of the assistants took
over for the for the rest of the match.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, get a hold of Aaron Rodgers. See what I
f hisz doctor can help you, Bob.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Make me on the list. Hey take me out with
a strikeout, would you?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Bob is gone?
Speaker 15 (30:41):
Oh man, that's tough.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
For a year.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Everybody describes it the same way. It's like dang well
and you turn around and you realize, wait, oh, that's
that's my achilles that popped. There's nothing else there. We'll
take a break. We'll give you our best and worst
of the weekend. More phone calls coming up and seven
to three DP show. How do you console a friend
whose team lost while you're still you still have to
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do your job, So you work with this person, you
still have to do your job. We have a couple
of those people around here that we've had to console
over the last couple of years. Whether it's Niners losing
a Super Bowl, Detroit up big on San Francisco in
the conference title game, or say the Knicks losing yesterday.
We'll talk about what it's like to console back after this.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
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Speaker 2 (31:43):
Our good buddy Jim Jackson, Fox Turner, NBA analyst fourth
overall picked by the MAVs in the nineteen ninety two draft,
played fourteen seasons in the league, and he joins us
from his car. All right, let's play guess the car
that Jim Jackson is driving. Todd, start with you. Escalator
(32:03):
like escalat. I ain't see no Connor not.
Speaker 15 (32:07):
Oh man, I don't know about the shape of that.
It looks maybe like land Rover is I'm gonna go
with the g Wagon like the Boss.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
All right, all right, Uh, Marvin, you want to guess,
we can just go with range Rover. All right, Paulie,
I'm gonna go off the board.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
It looks like a big car, Lincoln Navigator.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I'm gonna go Range Rover.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Jim Marvin must have been a brother, right because Marburn
knew it right away. He said it was Range Rover.
He knew you got it right.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, I think Wait, man, let me check, Marvin. Are
you still a brother? He said, you might be a
brother still in Okay? Yeah, yeah, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
He answered it real quick with authority, like you already
knew that back in the day. You knew what the
Caddy was just you knew coming around the corner, just
by looking at the tail lights about a grill before
it was a caddy. You already knew.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
What was the first car you got when you got paid?
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Uh, it was a BMW seven to fifty.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
So that was at Ohio State.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
No, No, that was when I got paid, when I
went to the That was that was good. That was good. No,
technically I was still at Ohio State, but I declared
for the draft. Okay, I see that. Great education prepared
me for that one. That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Let me, uh, let me start with last night's game.
At what point did this game change in your opinion
in Minnesota go on to win.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
Probably when Minnesota. Minnesota was able to cut the league,
you know, being down twenty at a half time and
I was out running around with my son yesterday on
daddy duties. But uh, being able to And it's it's
a funny thing, Dan, It's like momentum. They say it
doesn't exist, Yes, no, but it does mentally, especially when
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you're able to cut into a lead in the third
quarter and feel good about yourself going in the fourth quarter,
because mentally you're like, the game can change so quickly
where it goes from a twenty point deficit down to
ten and you're like, oh, that's only four or five possession.
You know, we're right back in the game. And I
(34:20):
think that's where things kind of took a turn, because
even though it was a twenty point game, it didn't
feel like Minnesota was out of it, like, you know,
they cut it down to seventeen, sixteen, went back up
to twenty, so they were right there. But I thought,
you know, going into the fourth, Minnesota was in a
really good position. You stream together, some stops, make some shots,
(34:42):
you cut it under ten, and now the pressure is
on Denver to have to win that at home.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I'm also when I watched Anthony Edwards that you know,
shooters shoot, but at some point you realize you've got
to help the team in a different way. Means twenty two.
And then all of a sudden they put him on
Jamal Murray and defense won that game last night. Second half.
Defense won that game, and they needed to have other
(35:10):
weapons kind of fill in the gray area there. I
kept waiting for Karl Anthony Towns, like somebody had to
be that second best guy, and they actually got, you know,
a lot more of a collective unit. I don't know
how sustainable that is this is a team built to
beat Denver? Is this a team that is also built
to beat Dallas.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Well, let's go back to this. The team is built
in a way where it doesn't have to rely on
one particular play. I think the biggest jump from from
Minnesota this year to last year's a couple of things.
Not the biggest, but a couple of things. One, you
had a full of Mike Conley for training camp. I
think that kind of you saw you know, No, no,
it's not like the offense was in the top ten
(35:54):
all year, but he gives you a certain about sustainability
on the on the offense, when you need to get
a basket, you need to get into a set, you
need to get set up. He provised it. That's that's
what you need in particular in the game seven on
the role when you need to make a basket. But
I do believe too, with Kat changing his mindset last year,
(36:17):
it was it was a lot of things going on,
a lot of disruption. He and Anthony Edwards, he and
Rudy Gobert. But I think Kat did an excellent job
this year. I'm kind of accepting the secondary role, but
still knowing that he could be very effective and will
be needed even combined that with Jade McDaniel and to
(36:38):
kill Alexander now os reed and what those guys are
they able to do. This gives you a really complete team.
Now the channels are going to have, you know, against Dallas.
Dallas was going to try to spread them apart. That's
that's what you do with Dodge. You want to spread
that side and then attack individually. But I'll tell you what, man,
It's something about this team, Chris Finn. This is an
(37:00):
excellent job in the organization of kind of plugging and
piecing together quality guys with Anthony being able to be
the leader at a young age. But it's just his demeanor.
He just doesn't care. He wants to play defense, he
wants to pass, he wants to score, he wants to
be the best. It's something about this Minnesota team. Will
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this be the year? I don't know, but I'll tell
you what. I'm having a hell of a time watching
him play.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Talking to Jim Jackson, Fox and Turner NBA analyst, I
also kind of scolded people. If you're gonna say Anthony
Edwards reminds you of Michael Jordan, then don't give up
on him when you know they had to win the
last two games. If you believe he truly is a
reincarnation of Jordan, or at least the embryonic stages, then
(37:46):
you know he can do this because we didn't doubt Jordan.
And that's why I said, don't doubt Anthony Edwards. He
can do this. But the confidence level at twenty two.
Did you ever run into somebody where you go?
Speaker 7 (37:59):
Man?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
They got way too much confidence at at early age.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
AI. Oh yeah, A, I was like that, Alan Iverson.
I mean it was. You know. It's funny because I
go back to when Anthony was in high school. Steve Sman,
who works for TURNERDNT, played at Michigan State, played the NBA.
We were together a few times in Atlanta and he said, Jim,
I got this young fella right here in Atlanta that
(38:25):
I've been helping. You know. Mentor has yet a rough
upbringing a little bit, but he got something in him.
He's just different. He just built different. His mentality is different. Okay.
I said, okay, let me keep an eye at me,
you know. And I saw he went to Georgia and
I could tell. I said, you won't be able to
tell what kind of player he can be at he
gets out of college. But his mentality is just so different,
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and it's lovable as likable. He is who he is,
one thing about it. He's not caught up into that.
I know of himself. He knows how good he is.
He'll tell you how good he is. But it's not overbearing.
It's not overbearing to his teammates, to the coaching staff
because he's willing to listen. He's willing to learn, and
that's something you cannot teach. It has to be within you.
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And he's going to compete. I don't care who it
is on the court. You so I'm going at kd Song,
going at Yoking Seaw, I'm going at Murray. He's gonna
go ahead, he said, I can't wait. I want to
guard Kyrie. How many of the young players dan accept wait?
One want that challenge? Accept it, and then if it
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doesn't work, it's on me, my bad. I'm not pointing
a finger at everybody else trying to pass to blame.
It's on me. You don't see that, And I think
that's what makes him so special. Man.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
He's cocky but likable.
Speaker 7 (39:47):
Yes, and he's right when Berkeley played.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Yeah, you liked him even though he was cocky.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Yeah, exactly. He gave you some great quote. That's what
and that's what and that's what Anthony is. He told
he told Chuck, bring your ass, bring you to Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
You know, did the Knicks have a good season?
Speaker 7 (40:12):
Yes, in an outstanding season. If you deterned the Knicks
fans organization, you're a game away from getting to the
Eastern Conference Finals at the beginning of the year. They
would have took that all day long. So it's a
matter of perspective. They'd have told you that that Jalen Brunton,
would have been in the conversation for MVP, that Josh
(40:36):
Hart and Dante Deepenchindo, but eventually it came off the
bench would be your starters and had this kind of impact.
They would have bought that all day long. Put your
perspective change. When you start to have a little success,
get a little greedy and said, oh we should have no, no, no,
This right here, despite the injuries, was a very successful
(40:59):
You can feel the energy in the garden through the
TV man. It was phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
How much pressure is on the Celtics.
Speaker 7 (41:09):
A lot because no Jokic is in there, no Durant,
no Lebron, especially with Tatum and Brown, is not Taylor
made for them to win it, but it's They've been
to the Eastern Conference rant and you can't take that
for granted on how difficult that is to get that thing.
Jayden Brown has been there six times and Tatum five times,
(41:30):
down to the Eastern Conference frontal and you know people
say it like oh with this another Eastern Conference finals,
like there's nothing mess stop it. It's extremely difficult, difficult
to go through an eighty two game season and get
to the Eastern or Western Conference finals right before championship.
But again, it's expectation and it is an opportunity for
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this team to kind of set the table. Indiana's gonna
be tough then now they're not gonna roll over. But
I think a lot of people I think that I
don't know what the odds did you see the odds
bust with loss but they lost? How how much did
it go up? Because they were already favored.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
There, but much increase big big favorites. Yeah, yeah, certainly
over the Pacers and you know decent uh favorite over
the Timberwolves.
Speaker 7 (42:19):
Yeah, but how do you deal with two The question
is going to be taking it one game at a time.
Let's get through the Eastern Conference finals and then get
to the finals and worry about the finals. Then Okay,
that's that's that has to be the goal, and you
want to get through that, I'm going to say rather quickly,
say five or six games. You know, I think this
(42:41):
Dallas series may go to seven.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
We were talking about painful sports moments like would you
rather have physical pain in your body or the pain
of what happens when your team loses.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
Physical physical I can't watch right now the Elite eight
game when we lost to Michigan for some reason. Dan,
When it comes on, I'm hoping for a different result,
but it does not happen. We always end up losing it.
Over time, hold that shot by Trins goes in and
(43:17):
I get a chance to get to a Final four.
The mental part stays anytime, and I'm blessed to do
with Turner the Elite A Sweet sixteen And every year
when I get to that point, I dig back into
the memory banks and the feeling of what if, what
(43:39):
if you know, we beat Michigan twice that year, what
if we win that game and just get to a
final four. What would that feel like? Injuries? I've been
through it. Yeah, the pain and but that feeling right there, Dan,
It never leaves, bro, never leave.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
You faced Duncan in this spurs later in your career.
Speaker 7 (44:02):
You got him early. Oh I mean you in the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (44:08):
Oh in the playoffs yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
But when you liked did you understand Duncan's greatness when
you saw it?
Speaker 7 (44:15):
Well, it was it was twofold. My first time. It
was the year they wonted ninety eight, ninety nine lockout
yard report. So that was my sixth six year in
the league, six year in the league, seven sitting ninety eight,
So six years in you could see that this young
man was skilled. I think that was his second year
(44:37):
because he and Rashid were kind of going at it
and and that year David Robinson played well. But you
could tell this this young man, and you you question, like, okay,
you have center? Is the power for it? I mean,
what is he? He's so skilled? But then I got
a chance to meet him again when I was later
in my career, when he had evolved so much and
already won championships when I was with Phoenix and just
(45:00):
watch that evolution of a guy just going to work
about his business so tough. I'm might what do you
take away? And he became a better pre throw shoot.
But before you can follow him, put him to the
line and you know, he made me one out of
two and you okay, late in the game situation. No,
I mean, and he just went about his business in
(45:24):
a professional manner that it was hard to talk get
to him. It's hard to get him right because he wouldn't.
He'd just give you that stare and look he's like, man,
I'm just wasting my time and it ain't even worth it. Man,
it ain't not even worth it.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
But who's the player you played against? Where you go,
I don't know how he's doing it, Like, I don't
get it, because there are certain certain times you'll watch,
like Brunson and he's petting up forty four Joker, you'll
watch and you go, I don't know how he's doing
or Lucas putting up sixty and twenty and you're going,
I don't know. They're just certain players that you go,
(45:57):
I don't I don't get it. Was there an, Yeah,
I don't get it.
Speaker 7 (46:01):
Guy, Yeah it is. I'm trying to think of who
during my time period because it was so many and
it's not the star, it's just man's That's a great
I have to get back to you on that one.
That's a great question because the stars are going to
be the star. You're like, even with the Luca, he's
(46:22):
so talented and he understands the game. He's and he's
had a ball in his hands, he go put numbers up.
You're talking about the guy that you're looking at, Like, no, man,
not athletic, probably you know, probably doesn't have height, but
yet and still that's a good question. I have to
(46:43):
get back to you on that one. Old Age Dan
old Age.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Yeah, well I'm catching up to you. I'm catching up
to you.
Speaker 7 (46:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I looked up to you when I was growing up
in Ohile and just want to like, you know.
Speaker 7 (46:57):
I appreciate that. Yeah, mighty day. What was your mascot
of Dainsville? Uh?
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Well, I was only born in Zanesville. I grew up
right by King's Island.
Speaker 7 (47:07):
Yeah, oh yeah, Mason, that's the problem. That's the problem
because Cedar Point is a lot better than kings Gland.
Speaker 9 (47:13):
Bro.
Speaker 7 (47:14):
Sorry, we would never go to King Guy.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
I would never go to Cedar Point unless I was
about to steal your girlfriend.
Speaker 7 (47:20):
Well that's see, that's your problem. See you didn't expand
your rides enough, because what did you We had the
Gemini and the Demon Drop and all that to the
part what you have? You had one roller, big, big,
That was it.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Yeah, yeah, that was yeah. We were the Mason comics.
We were the Mason No, don't, don't, don't don't. You
had to grow up around Cleveland, man. No, Toledo man,
same thing, same thing. Don't don't don't give me a
brag on Toledo.
Speaker 7 (47:53):
Damn did you did you know history? Lesson this? Because
you want to know, I know you do. I can
afford your fifties big banking area Toledo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit,
those areas were hugged because of water rail banking. Not Cincinnati,
you know, not Columbus. You know that dating Toledo, Well
(48:19):
that's remember.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Great to know that it was in the forties and fifties.
That has nothing to do with now, But that's when
you were born.
Speaker 7 (48:25):
So I was just saying.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
Again, I looked up to you when you were at
Ohio State, and I go, I want to be that
good and get paid that much money when I'm in
college too.
Speaker 7 (48:35):
College.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
You know what, how about that Elite eight game? Remember
when Jim Jackson was in the Elite eight against Michigan
and they pull that video.
Speaker 7 (48:43):
Paulie, it don't go to the father. I would never
come back on this show.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
Great to talk to you, man, Thanks for joining us.
That's Jim Jackson, Fox and Turner NBA analyst and UH
spent fourteen years in the Lake. The Association
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busy weekend. Timberwolves come back, they dropped the Nuggets, they
went in seven. Pacers roll the Knicks they went in
seven as well. So two road teams winning a game
seven the playoffs. That doesn't happen very often, if it's
ever happened before the Eastern Conference Finals will start on Tuesday.
The West will start on Wednesday. Xander Schoffley wins the PGA,
(01:12):
his first major, but this will be the major that
we remember as the Scottie Scheffler PGA Championship. He finished
tied for eighth. You know, when you talk about any
any publicity's good publicity, I don't subscribe to that. But
in the case of what happened was, you know, Scottie Scheffler,
(01:32):
it kind of changed his image a little bit, like
all of a sudden, it felt like, hey, all right,
he got a little personality here.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
His image was. He didn't have an image, and you
go to jail, you get out, you play well. Now
what hurt him was the way he played on Saturday.
Played really well on Sunday. But Xander Schoffley did what
you're supposed to do, had the moment, took advantage of
the moment, and it sounded like this.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Practicing he's a kid down sands and buses times.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Tell me yourself, it was for this very occasion to
win it.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
All, Senator, good victory up if you missed it. Then
he was facing Bryce and Deshambo, who has quietly had
an unbelievable season, and you go twenty under and you think, oh,
I'm going to win a major at twenty under, and
(02:26):
normally you do. But Xander Schoffley down the stretch, had
some big big shots and did what you're supposed to do.
They didn't back in. He had to go get it
and Deshambo warming up watching this and he wins his
first major. So but I think we're going to look
back as the oh, that was the Scottie Scheffler moment
when he went to jail instead, and we said this
(02:48):
after he got out of jail and he played. That
will no matter who wins, if it's not Scheffler, that
we're going to remember as oh, that's right. Not that
person will remember what happened to him. Now with the basketball,
I turned the game off at halftime. I thought the
Nuggets at home, double digit lead, they should win this game.
(03:10):
They did not. They got shut down in the second half.
You had two Nuggets who showed up. You had joker
Jamal Murray. The reason why they lost is Michael Porter
Junior did not play well at all. Aaron Gordon played
over forty minutes and had four rebounds in four points.
I said at the outset of the series, I didn't
think this was a great team. They didn't have depth,
(03:32):
and you got two great games out of Joker and
Jamal Murray. Give credit to the Timberwolves because they went
in and it's not sexy. They played defense. Anthony Edwards,
you know, when you want to be a great player,
it's not just I scored forty, it's I'm not scoring. Now,
how can I help the team? He took over guarding
Jamal Murray in the second half. Little things, big difference
(03:55):
there and Minnesota. So Game seven on the road at
altitude and you're facing the defending champs and they win.
But I'll go back to what we talked about at
the beginning. I said, I wouldn't be surprised if they won.
And also, if you want to make comparisons stylistically to
Michael Jordan, then you can't be surprised if Anthony Edwards
(04:20):
comes back and wins, Like you can't all of a
sudden lose the confidence in him. Then he's like Michael Jordan.
Then all of a sudden, they end up losing three
in a row. Now, all of a sudden, he's not
Michael Jordan. I said, it doesn't work that way. You
have to have the confidence in him that he can
still be a reincarnation of Michael Jordan at least the
embryonic stages. And people jumped on the bandwagon, thought Minnesota
(04:44):
was going to sweep Denver, jumped off the bandwagon, jumped
on the Nuggets bandwagon. Well they're going to repeat now
to then jumping off the Nuggets bandwagon and jumping on
Minnesota's bandwagon. Here is Mike Malone, the head coach of
the Nuggets.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
How hard is it just to absorb a loss like
this after going ahead by twenty?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Nice question, Man, the season's over. That's what's hard, being
up twenty season's over. You don't understand that the season's over.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
It's hard.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's good questions, all right, Mike, Come on, you can't
have it both ways here, Like you want to be
the tough guy. You're calling out all the analysts. Oh yeah,
I'm clipping this off. If everybody said we're going to
get swept. This is a job that the reporter has.
And really it's a harmless question.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
All you need to do is just sort of answer
it and move on, batter it away. But instead of
calling him out, I mean, I get it.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You're disappointed, but this reporter's doing their job there, So
I was embarrassed for him. Here is the Joker after
the loss.
Speaker 8 (05:54):
It's hard because the teams are more hungry or better
balented than last year. Probably everybody get better, everybody wants
to beat us. Probably that's when I thought for us,
it's probably.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, he played well. Now he's the one who's going
to be singled out because oh lost the game at home,
got blown out in game six, you lost in game seven. Now,
I did point out the points spread was surprising. I
think Denver was only favored by four, which I thought, Okay,
somebody knows something here. But it feels like, you know,
(06:31):
we're going to look big picture at the Joker of
where he is now the best twenty players of all time,
because if he had won, if you have three MVPs
and two titles, you go down through history of anybody
who has that combination of five. Now you're in the
top fifteen all time. Joker. This isn't on him. He'll
(06:52):
get the blame. He's the star, and he'll take ownership
of that. But this is really about his teammates who
let him down. They're already calling for Michael Porter Junior,
the third to be traded, and he played horribly last night.
Now he's had a few things on his mind off
the court, with you know, two of his brothers in trouble.
(07:12):
But even said, look, you know, I'm not going to
use that as an excuse, but Aaron Gordon and Michael Porter,
who had played well, really well as a starting five,
they have the best starting five. Well, when two of
the you know three, two of the five are not
playing well, it's up to the other three. Two of
those guys played well, but you don't have a bench
(07:35):
like you did last year. And that's what they're going
to have to address in the offseason. So now we
turn our attention to ESPN's New York Knicks, who lost
in Game seven to the Pacers. You know, Pacers did
play in the game. I just want to let ESPN
know if you want to buy into East Coast bias,
(07:58):
you have every reason to buy into ESPN's East Coast
binas watching that game. How about some impartiality here. Okay,
I was embarrassed for ESPN because it felt like it
was all about the Knicks. Even at halftime, it was
about the Knicks. The Pacers aren't exciting. I get it,
you know, not big names, not a sexy team, but
(08:20):
you still have to cover the game. You got to
be fair. I don't need a Stephen A Smith a
rival video. I don't need a pep talk with him
and Spike Lee. He doesn't work for the Knicks, you
work for ESPN. I was really surprised, and I didn't
care who won. But after that, I was rooting for
(08:41):
the Pacers. I thought, you know what, let's make this
uncomfortable for you. And Indiana was the better team. But
they were only the better team because the Knicks ran
out of gas, they ran out of players, and you know,
I don't know if a Nick fan goes you know what?
That was pretty impressied. I hope they do. That was
impressive what they did. You get them health. You already
(09:04):
have some guys that got some great you know, run
here and I would be really excited about next season.
But here's Tyrese Haliburt and the Pacers guard.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
We had a pre camp, preseason camp in Nashville, just players,
no coaches, and that's that was what we communicated from
the jump that we expected to be here. This ain't
a surprise for us.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
You know, it's no fluke.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
We expect this from our group, and then once we
added p we knew that we could really take off.
So it doesn't really matter what anybody thinks except for
the people in our travel party seventy eighty people who
come because I don't think anybody here picked the Pacers
to win the series, but it happened.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I have picture proof.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So that's Tyrese Haliburt and p is Pascoal Siakam. You
know it's it's a balanced team. It's a good team.
TJ McConnell coming off the bench is really, you know,
a great weapon. And Rick Carlong's won a title before.
But to go into New York, and granted New York
was Jalen Brunson. I think he's already They maybe had
(10:04):
a fracture in that hand, but he certainly hurt it
to the extent that he was done. Here is Jalen
Brunson after the lass.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
That's part of the game this group.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
No, we didn't make excuses for anything, and so if
things happened, we move forward with what we had and
obviously we want everyone healthy. I think that's the most
important thing. But I think as a group where we
had that mindset the next man up, and we really
took it to heart.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
They did. It was wonderful to watch that excitement in
the garden going toe to toe, big shots, big moments,
and you got players that you didn't expect who could
step up but they did. And now build off of
that momentum. Yeah, every reason to be excited about next season.
Now the Pacers play the Celtics. This is one of
those no win situations. Even if Boston wins the title,
(10:54):
we're still going to say, yeah, but come on, you
didn't have to face the Nuggets in the finals. Nobody
in the East. Everybody's injured, No Jannis in there, Embiid
was banged. You know, get ready for the asterisk, like
this will be up there with the Lakers winning in
the bubble. It feels like if the Celtics win. Now,
(11:14):
if you're a Celtic fan, you'll take this. If you're
those players, certainly Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, you'll take it.
You can put an asterisk there, you can kiss my asterisk.
They got to win a championship. Oh yes, you got
to win a championship here and you should win a championship.
But let's factor in the Pacers here. As I said,
(11:35):
when this series started, it was going to be about
New York and post Oh, we can't wait New York.
It's going to be ratings gold. And then all of
a sudden, the Pacers go all right. Now have I
called out the Pacers a couple of times that they played,
They were embarrassing, embarrassingly bad. But they did what you
wanted a team to do in this moment, step up,
(11:57):
hit big show. I mean they hit every shot basically,
he shot like seventy percent. And now they move on
and now you have Dallas. Dallas is back in an
Eastern Conference or Western Conference finals with Luca, and Luca
talked about just how great Kyrie has been.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Man when he came nothing but supportive of for everything
I did, everything we did, but just helping me mature
a lot, I realize to see the game in a
different way, and obviously in the Cord is amazing to
play a guy like him, Like I said, just go
out there and go out there and enjoy and the
leader he's been for us, not just for me, but
(12:35):
for us. He has been amazing, always positive energy.
Speaker 7 (12:38):
He has.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
There's no drama. I haven't heard anything from him. Now
it's just basketball and you sometimes forget, which is hard
to do that he is still extremely dangerous, great, not
afraid of a big moment. You're gonna have either Anthony
Edwards playing for a championship or you're gonna have Luca
playing for a championship. That's pretty cool. And I believe
(13:02):
this will be the sixth consecutive year we have a
different NBA champion. I think that's the case. All right,
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Speaker 2 (15:03):
Yee, welcome to the program. I hope he had a
great weekend. Everybody. The talented Adam Sandler will join us.
Happy goil Moore two is officially a go. Also, I
want to talk to Sandman about Anthony Edwards because ant
Man was in the movie Hustle that Sandler had out
a couple of years ago, and I remember him telling
(15:24):
me he's like Danny, this kid has so much charisma,
and you know, not only a great basketball player, but
so much charisma. And then I'm watching the movie. He goes,
wait till you see him. He can act. And then
I'm watching I'm realizing, I know he can play basketball,
but he's got so much charisma. Well, last night his
(15:46):
team they held you know, they hung in there. They
were down fifteen at halftime, they were down twenty at
one point in the game, and came back to win.
It's the first time in NBA history that you've had
multiple road teams win Game seven's on the same day.
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there he is, Adam Sandler joining us on the program. Sandman,
how are you feeling today?
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I buddy, do you want shades on? Like this or
like this?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
I think shades let's I mean, let's be a movie
star here, let's go Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I feel I'm a European. I feel like I feel
like it makes sense.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
I missed you. I'm glad to see you.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Where are you right now?
Speaker 7 (16:40):
I'm in my trailer. I'm shooting a movie. It's all
going good. I'm in Italy, Italy.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Brought I guess who I brought Lock? I brought Lockran.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Look uh, look at my favorite dog.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
There. Miss your mess, your Danny?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Who you with? And it.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Family? My family brought the family. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
But I wake up in the morning and rewatch the
basketball games that Anthony Edwards had a heck of a series,
didn't he Last night was good?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
And you're the one that told me that he's not
only a great basketball player, but when you put him
in the movie Hustle, that he could act. But how
did you realize Anthony Edwards could kind of hold his
own as an actor?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
You know, I'm sorry it went out for a second,
but you were talking to that I told you how
great he is. Yes, he was just such a funny sweetheart.
The only reason I'll take them off the chaise I
look crazy. But the only reason we know of him
is Wancho played on the same team with him and
when he read the script we were casting a party,
(17:49):
goes you should use my my friend Anthony.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
He's my teammate. He's great. He would kill this and so.
Speaker 13 (17:59):
Red with Jeremiah the director, and Jeremiah's like, oh my god,
he's like Paul Newman or something. He just was like
all charisma came in hang on one second day. Yeah
he uh oh. He definitely had like.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Made everybody by the way, every pro guy when we
were shooting the movie.
Speaker 7 (18:22):
Loved him.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
He just got something carefree, cool thing about him, and
he wants to win and he and he's he's a badass.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
I love him.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Uh is this movie top secret or something?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
There? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
You got me?
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Sorry, yes, I got you.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Who else is starring in this movie?
Speaker 7 (18:42):
The one I'm doing right now in Italy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Uh clone Laura dern Uh it's it's no Bomback, No
bomback movie.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Oh so you guys were shooting in London now you're
in Italy exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, same movie, same movie. It's still going, man,
okay going, but it's going great. It's going great. We've
been having fun and we've been talking a lot of basketball,
because man, I'll tell you, Europe's starting to know that basketball.
Whenever I go to go out in Italy or in England,
they all talk to me about the Knicks and they
talk to me about six ers and it was pretty funny.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
They know their stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
And every everybody's starting to talk about Anthony Edwards being
a superstar.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
I know it. He's big in America now right, Everyone
loving him? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Uh so how do you have time to work on
Happy Gilmore?
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Too? The script. It's not easy, man. We're going to
get to it in a in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I come home in a couple of weeks in the
Hurl that he flies out, and and and and then
we get going on that.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Can you get me?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Can you give me a plot, like a like a
working plot here that you have.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
No, I mean, I will right when, I right when
we zero it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Now we got we have some million things, like I
told you, But I I just got to kind of
make it flow a little more. But I think I
might have to do with something with be being a
little older now and and and still trying to compete
with the youngsters.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Oh so you're going to be so you're going to
be playing golf in the movie?
Speaker 7 (20:14):
I think so. I think so right right now, I am, Yeah,
it makes sense to me. But uh, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Hurley he was at the UH He went down to
the tournament this weekend and hung out with some of
the guys. He hung out with Daily a little bit
and they and Daily was selling up some great stories.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
It was we're ready, baby, we're excited.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Is John Daily going to be in the movie.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I would like to think so is. But I love him.
I love him I always did love him.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Is Tiger going to be in the movie?
Speaker 7 (20:48):
Ah, huh, let's see what it is. I'm sorry. Is
Tiger going to because I forgot.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I would love it.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
We'll see.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I'm gonna write, I'm gonna write all my dreams and
then you never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
But we're gonna, we're gonna.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I'll let you, I'll let you go. I'll let you go. Yeah,
you're you're you're freezing up.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Uh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I love you.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I love you too.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
All right.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
That's Adam Sandler joining us from Italy. Yeah, happy Gilmore too. Yeah,
we didn't even get a chance to do the elevator pitch.
Maybe that's a good thing. Convenient for everybody, that's a
good thing. Yeah, Paulie had it all kind of mapped down.
Maybe a ryder Cup type feel for this, and uh,
Adam Sandler shooting McGavin, maybe partnering together. Yes, Pauline, you.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Gotta get Sasha Baron Cohen in there. He's just naturally
funny European bad guy. That'd be nice. I like that
John Daly gets injured. Tiger Happy Gilmour writes itself after.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
That, and then I thought, since Bob Barker is not
around any more to reprise his role, that we get
Drew Carey since he's hosting that show. So maybe Drew
Carrey gets to punch Sandman. I still love that Bob
Barker when he's shooting Happy. Gilmore said that he would
do the part, but he had to win the fight
(22:13):
with Sandler.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Boss.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's that was it. He said, I'll do it, but
I have to win the fight, and of course it
made for a better scene there and then so I'll
probably be a golf announcer there. I'm guessing that's what's
my role would be. Quinn, California. Hey Quinn, what's on
your mind today?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Hey gentlemen, good morning.
Speaker 14 (22:35):
Yeah, I was thinking about this story plot. What if
you had shoot mcgabb and the guy trying to get
to the tournament and gets arrested in front of like
Happy and stuff and he's telling Happy, Hey, tell him
who I am.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
He just walks by laughing.
Speaker 14 (22:47):
And then Shooter gets out of the can and he's
struggling with his drive, so he has to somehow incorporate
haf to Gilmore to teach him to get a drive back.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
It's an idea, Okay, it was that.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Christopher mc donald is Shooter McGavin, great actor. Yeah, he's
in the show Hacks, which is a wonderful show. Gene
Smart is the star and he's in there and they
were actually playing golf in this last episode. But yeah,
that if you want a nice, breezy, kind of fun
show to watch Hacks with Gene Smart. I think it's
(23:22):
on Max or Netflix that they're in a third season.
Marvin says, it's on Max all right. By the way,
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it now only on Peacock. All right, Seaton, pull question
from our one and what are we going to go
with hour two?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (23:50):
We got up there a team that should feel best
about next season, Denver, New York and Oklahoma City. Right now,
Oklahoma City is running away with that at sixty percent.
Is that just because of their age?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah? Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 15 (24:02):
It's tough to not feel great if you're Denver, you
still you still have.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah, but it's weird because they're gonna get rid of
some players. They don't have a bench. Are you going
to trade Michael Porter? He's making thirty three million dollars
a year. I go love Aaron Gordon, But Aaron Gordon
did not play well last night either. Four points, four
rebounds and he played over a forty minute. I mean
that's almost impossible with that team. His talent and they
(24:33):
know showed. But I mean Minnesota moved on because they
it was a team effort, not Anthony Edwards. It was
a team effort in fact, picking him up because he
didn't he wasn't shooting well from the floor. Yeah, Stephen,
what about for the Knicks?
Speaker 15 (24:50):
I mean the Knicks. You had a great season with
a ton of injuries. I'd feel good about what happened,
all right, But are you just as because it's the Knicks?
Are you skeptical about their ability to do it again?
Speaker 7 (25:03):
Just be? I mean, just.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Well, now I feel better about Dante DiVincenzo and Josh
Hart and of course Jalen Brunson, og An Andobi. I
don't know if Robinson will be back, Hartenstein, are they
going to have him back? He's a free agent. Julius Randall.
You know, a couple of pieces there, and now they
know they can do it. Now against all odds, they know,
(25:29):
they know they can do it, and they can hold
their own. But you're still gonna Miami's gonna get better,
Philly will get healthier, Milwaukee's gonna get healthier. I mean,
these teams, you have a window. This was the window
for the Knicks, and this is the window for you know,
the Timberwolves. Because that the West is young, you know,
(25:51):
Denver will still have a couple of great players. I mean,
just throw in everybody in there. Houston's on the rise.
I mean there's a lot of teams, OKC, Dallas, like
you have your window. I mean that's why we've had
what five different winners the last five years, will have
a sixth this year. Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 16 (26:11):
So the Celtics they better win it this year, Yes,
they better. So quick question. Have you ever seen a
team that won a championship but it was more like
a sire relief rather than a celebration.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
I think the Dodgers winning the World Series, it felt
like good call because there was a lot at stake there, Yeah,
a lot at stake, you know, Clayton Kershawn winning a title,
Dave Roberts holding onto his job, the amount of money
they put into that team, and it almost felt like, Okay,
(26:46):
you won. I'm trying to think basketball wise, if there
was an overwhelming favorite, they won, but it wasn't a.
Speaker 15 (26:56):
Heat with Ron d Wade Bosh Big Three. Took them
a little bit to figure that out. But there was
a lot of expectations there.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Well, I think because they lost to Dallas and then
all of a sudden it wasn't a foregone conclusion they're
going to win a title. Then when they did, I
think it was like, oh, okay, all right, Yeah that
makes up for you know, losing to Dallas. Yeah, pulling ill.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Throughout the ninety five Atlanta Braves. They had made a
couple World Series and they had a truckload of pitching talent,
maybe as an all time pitching roster. Yeah, and they
finally won it, and yeah, that's all like an.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Excel good call. Let's see Nick and Irvine. Hi, Nick,
good morning, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Ay?
Speaker 17 (27:43):
My Hall of Famer? Hey name I got a best
in the worst. They both involved Valhalla first for the
winner San Diego Boy just seems like the nicest guy.
I just congratulations to him. It was that was epic.
It was an epic final. Roulers came down to the
last pot.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Beautiful.
Speaker 17 (28:04):
My worth of the weekend is the Golf Club of Valhalla.
They could not keep their volunteers safe with one death
on the board. They arrested the number one player in
the world wrongfully.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
You know.
Speaker 17 (28:19):
And I hope people when they when they see and
hear other people maybe have different colors complaining about being
arrested by cops, they can have a little more understanding
now about where other people might be.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I think we're going a little too far here. New
I don't know if this is the golf course. It
was a police officer and somebody was killed at five
in the morning when it was pitch black, and I
don't know that you know the circumstances there, But that's
not the golf course. Somebody could have walked in front
(28:52):
of a you know, shuttle bus. Nobody saw, you know,
somebody there, and these police officers. I mean, if you
want to say something about the PGA of America and
who they hired, Okay, maybe there's a conversation there, but
I'm not putting this on Valhalla. Let's see Bob and Seattle. Hi, Bob,
welcome back, Hey you bego morning morning.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Hey, I got the best, the worst of the weekend.
The best of the weekend is Manchester City winning the
fourth straight Premier League title, which is a very excuse
to have our girl from Rebecca Lo Rebecca Lough who
doesn't like Rebecca Low. And the worst of the weekend
is I work weekends as a soccer referee and had
(29:38):
the pop of the achilles. I'm out for a year.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Oh well, Bob Man, I feel for you. Did you
know as soon as it happened, Yes.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Sir, it sounded like a tree branch snapped, and I'm like,
there's no trees around here. And of a sudden I
was looking at the grass. This is not good.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
How old are you, Bob sixty? Oh? And were you
refing older players.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Sixteen and a under? Yes, it was quite competitive.
Speaker 7 (30:12):
It was a great game.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
You're trying to keep up with them?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Yes, yes they did.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
They carry you off.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I limped off and then one of the assistants took
over for the for the rest of the match.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Well, get a hold of Aaron Rodgers. See what I
f hisz doctor can help you, Bob.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Make me on the list. Hey take me out with
a strikeout, would you?
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Bob is gone?
Speaker 15 (30:41):
Oh man, that's tough.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
For a year.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Everybody describes it the same way. It's like dang well
and you turn around and you realize, wait, oh, that's
that's my achilles that popped. There's nothing else there. We'll
take a break. We'll give you our best and worst
of the weekend. More phone calls coming up and seven
to three DP show. How do you console a friend
whose team lost while you're still you still have to
(31:08):
do your job, So you work with this person, you
still have to do your job. We have a couple
of those people around here that we've had to console
over the last couple of years. Whether it's Niners losing
a Super Bowl, Detroit up big on San Francisco in
the conference title game, or say the Knicks losing yesterday.
We'll talk about what it's like to console back after this.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
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Speaker 2 (31:43):
Our good buddy Jim Jackson, Fox Turner, NBA analyst fourth
overall picked by the MAVs in the nineteen ninety two draft,
played fourteen seasons in the league, and he joins us
from his car. All right, let's play guess the car
that Jim Jackson is driving. Todd, start with you. Escalator
(32:03):
like escalat. I ain't see no Connor not.
Speaker 15 (32:07):
Oh man, I don't know about the shape of that.
It looks maybe like land Rover is I'm gonna go
with the g Wagon like the Boss.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
All right, all right, Uh, Marvin, you want to guess,
we can just go with range Rover. All right, Paulie,
I'm gonna go off the board.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
It looks like a big car, Lincoln Navigator.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
I'm gonna go Range Rover.
Speaker 7 (32:27):
Jim Marvin must have been a brother, right because Marburn
knew it right away. He said it was Range Rover.
He knew you got it right.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, I think Wait, man, let me check, Marvin. Are
you still a brother? He said, you might be a
brother still in Okay? Yeah, yeah, Marvin.
Speaker 7 (32:45):
He answered it real quick with authority, like you already
knew that back in the day. You knew what the
Caddy was just you knew coming around the corner, just
by looking at the tail lights about a grill before
it was a caddy. You already knew.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
What was the first car you got when you got paid?
Speaker 7 (33:04):
Uh, it was a BMW seven to fifty.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
So that was at Ohio State.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
No, No, that was when I got paid, when I
went to the That was that was good. That was good. No,
technically I was still at Ohio State, but I declared
for the draft. Okay, I see that. Great education prepared
me for that one. That was a good one.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Let me, uh, let me start with last night's game.
At what point did this game change in your opinion
in Minnesota go on to win.
Speaker 7 (33:39):
Probably when Minnesota. Minnesota was able to cut the league,
you know, being down twenty at a half time and
I was out running around with my son yesterday on
daddy duties. But uh, being able to And it's it's
a funny thing, Dan, It's like momentum. They say it
doesn't exist, Yes, no, but it does mentally, especially when
(34:00):
you're able to cut into a lead in the third
quarter and feel good about yourself going in the fourth quarter,
because mentally you're like, the game can change so quickly
where it goes from a twenty point deficit down to
ten and you're like, oh, that's only four or five possession.
You know, we're right back in the game. And I
(34:20):
think that's where things kind of took a turn, because
even though it was a twenty point game, it didn't
feel like Minnesota was out of it, like, you know,
they cut it down to seventeen, sixteen, went back up
to twenty, so they were right there. But I thought,
you know, going into the fourth, Minnesota was in a
really good position. You stream together, some stops, make some shots,
(34:42):
you cut it under ten, and now the pressure is
on Denver to have to win that at home.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I'm also when I watched Anthony Edwards that you know,
shooters shoot, but at some point you realize you've got
to help the team in a different way. Means twenty two.
And then all of a sudden they put him on
Jamal Murray and defense won that game last night. Second half.
Defense won that game, and they needed to have other
(35:10):
weapons kind of fill in the gray area there. I
kept waiting for Karl Anthony Towns, like somebody had to
be that second best guy, and they actually got, you know,
a lot more of a collective unit. I don't know
how sustainable that is this is a team built to
beat Denver? Is this a team that is also built
to beat Dallas.
Speaker 7 (35:31):
Well, let's go back to this. The team is built
in a way where it doesn't have to rely on
one particular play. I think the biggest jump from from
Minnesota this year to last year's a couple of things.
Not the biggest, but a couple of things. One, you
had a full of Mike Conley for training camp. I
think that kind of you saw you know, No, no,
it's not like the offense was in the top ten
(35:54):
all year, but he gives you a certain about sustainability
on the on the offense, when you need to get
a basket, you need to get into a set, you
need to get set up. He provised it. That's that's
what you need in particular in the game seven on
the role when you need to make a basket. But
I do believe too, with Kat changing his mindset last year,
(36:17):
it was it was a lot of things going on,
a lot of disruption. He and Anthony Edwards, he and
Rudy Gobert. But I think Kat did an excellent job
this year. I'm kind of accepting the secondary role, but
still knowing that he could be very effective and will
be needed even combined that with Jade McDaniel and to
(36:38):
kill Alexander now os reed and what those guys are
they able to do. This gives you a really complete team.
Now the channels are going to have, you know, against Dallas.
Dallas was going to try to spread them apart. That's
that's what you do with Dodge. You want to spread
that side and then attack individually. But I'll tell you what, man,
It's something about this team, Chris Finn. This is an
(37:00):
excellent job in the organization of kind of plugging and
piecing together quality guys with Anthony being able to be
the leader at a young age. But it's just his demeanor.
He just doesn't care. He wants to play defense, he
wants to pass, he wants to score, he wants to
be the best. It's something about this Minnesota team. Will
(37:20):
this be the year? I don't know, but I'll tell
you what. I'm having a hell of a time watching
him play.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Talking to Jim Jackson, Fox and Turner NBA analyst, I
also kind of scolded people. If you're gonna say Anthony
Edwards reminds you of Michael Jordan, then don't give up
on him when you know they had to win the
last two games. If you believe he truly is a
reincarnation of Jordan, or at least the embryonic stages, then
(37:46):
you know he can do this because we didn't doubt Jordan.
And that's why I said, don't doubt Anthony Edwards. He
can do this. But the confidence level at twenty two.
Did you ever run into somebody where you go?
Speaker 7 (37:59):
Man?
Speaker 2 (38:00):
They got way too much confidence at at early age.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
AI. Oh yeah, A, I was like that, Alan Iverson.
I mean it was. You know. It's funny because I
go back to when Anthony was in high school. Steve Sman,
who works for TURNERDNT, played at Michigan State, played the NBA.
We were together a few times in Atlanta and he said, Jim,
I got this young fella right here in Atlanta that
(38:25):
I've been helping. You know. Mentor has yet a rough
upbringing a little bit, but he got something in him.
He's just different. He just built different. His mentality is different. Okay.
I said, okay, let me keep an eye at me,
you know. And I saw he went to Georgia and
I could tell. I said, you won't be able to
tell what kind of player he can be at he
gets out of college. But his mentality is just so different,
(38:48):
and it's lovable as likable. He is who he is,
one thing about it. He's not caught up into that.
I know of himself. He knows how good he is.
He'll tell you how good he is. But it's not overbearing.
It's not overbearing to his teammates, to the coaching staff
because he's willing to listen. He's willing to learn, and
that's something you cannot teach. It has to be within you.
(39:11):
And he's going to compete. I don't care who it
is on the court. You so I'm going at kd Song,
going at Yoking Seaw, I'm going at Murray. He's gonna
go ahead, he said, I can't wait. I want to
guard Kyrie. How many of the young players dan accept wait?
One want that challenge? Accept it, and then if it
(39:32):
doesn't work, it's on me, my bad. I'm not pointing
a finger at everybody else trying to pass to blame.
It's on me. You don't see that, And I think
that's what makes him so special. Man.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
He's cocky but likable.
Speaker 7 (39:47):
Yes, and he's right when Berkeley played.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Yeah, you liked him even though he was cocky.
Speaker 7 (39:55):
Yeah, exactly. He gave you some great quote. That's what
and that's what and that's what Anthony is. He told
he told Chuck, bring your ass, bring you to Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
You know, did the Knicks have a good season?
Speaker 7 (40:12):
Yes, in an outstanding season. If you deterned the Knicks
fans organization, you're a game away from getting to the
Eastern Conference Finals at the beginning of the year. They
would have took that all day long. So it's a
matter of perspective. They'd have told you that that Jalen Brunton,
would have been in the conversation for MVP, that Josh
(40:36):
Hart and Dante Deepenchindo, but eventually it came off the
bench would be your starters and had this kind of impact.
They would have bought that all day long. Put your
perspective change. When you start to have a little success,
get a little greedy and said, oh we should have no, no, no,
This right here, despite the injuries, was a very successful
(40:59):
You can feel the energy in the garden through the
TV man. It was phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
How much pressure is on the Celtics.
Speaker 7 (41:09):
A lot because no Jokic is in there, no Durant,
no Lebron, especially with Tatum and Brown, is not Taylor
made for them to win it, but it's They've been
to the Eastern Conference rant and you can't take that
for granted on how difficult that is to get that thing.
Jayden Brown has been there six times and Tatum five times,
(41:30):
down to the Eastern Conference frontal and you know people
say it like oh with this another Eastern Conference finals,
like there's nothing mess stop it. It's extremely difficult, difficult
to go through an eighty two game season and get
to the Eastern or Western Conference finals right before championship.
But again, it's expectation and it is an opportunity for
(41:52):
this team to kind of set the table. Indiana's gonna
be tough then now they're not gonna roll over. But
I think a lot of people I think that I
don't know what the odds did you see the odds
bust with loss but they lost? How how much did
it go up? Because they were already favored.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
There, but much increase big big favorites. Yeah, yeah, certainly
over the Pacers and you know decent uh favorite over
the Timberwolves.
Speaker 7 (42:19):
Yeah, but how do you deal with two The question
is going to be taking it one game at a time.
Let's get through the Eastern Conference finals and then get
to the finals and worry about the finals. Then Okay,
that's that's that has to be the goal, and you
want to get through that, I'm going to say rather quickly,
say five or six games. You know, I think this
(42:41):
Dallas series may go to seven.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
We were talking about painful sports moments like would you
rather have physical pain in your body or the pain
of what happens when your team loses.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
Physical physical I can't watch right now the Elite eight
game when we lost to Michigan for some reason. Dan,
When it comes on, I'm hoping for a different result,
but it does not happen. We always end up losing it.
Over time, hold that shot by Trins goes in and
(43:17):
I get a chance to get to a Final four.
The mental part stays anytime, and I'm blessed to do
with Turner the Elite A Sweet sixteen And every year
when I get to that point, I dig back into
the memory banks and the feeling of what if, what
(43:39):
if you know, we beat Michigan twice that year, what
if we win that game and just get to a
final four. What would that feel like? Injuries? I've been
through it. Yeah, the pain and but that feeling right there, Dan,
It never leaves, bro, never leave.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
You faced Duncan in this spurs later in your career.
Speaker 7 (44:02):
You got him early. Oh I mean you in the playoffs?
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (44:08):
Oh in the playoffs yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
But when you liked did you understand Duncan's greatness when
you saw it?
Speaker 7 (44:15):
Well, it was it was twofold. My first time. It
was the year they wonted ninety eight, ninety nine lockout
yard report. So that was my sixth six year in
the league, six year in the league, seven sitting ninety eight,
So six years in you could see that this young
man was skilled. I think that was his second year
(44:37):
because he and Rashid were kind of going at it
and and that year David Robinson played well. But you
could tell this this young man, and you you question, like, okay,
you have center? Is the power for it? I mean,
what is he? He's so skilled? But then I got
a chance to meet him again when I was later
in my career, when he had evolved so much and
already won championships when I was with Phoenix and just
(45:00):
watch that evolution of a guy just going to work
about his business so tough. I'm might what do you
take away? And he became a better pre throw shoot.
But before you can follow him, put him to the
line and you know, he made me one out of
two and you okay, late in the game situation. No,
I mean, and he just went about his business in
(45:24):
a professional manner that it was hard to talk get
to him. It's hard to get him right because he wouldn't.
He'd just give you that stare and look he's like, man,
I'm just wasting my time and it ain't even worth it. Man,
it ain't not even worth it.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
But who's the player you played against? Where you go,
I don't know how he's doing it, Like, I don't
get it, because there are certain certain times you'll watch,
like Brunson and he's petting up forty four Joker, you'll
watch and you go, I don't know how he's doing
or Lucas putting up sixty and twenty and you're going,
I don't know. They're just certain players that you go,
(45:57):
I don't I don't get it. Was there an, Yeah,
I don't get it.
Speaker 7 (46:01):
Guy, Yeah it is. I'm trying to think of who
during my time period because it was so many and
it's not the star, it's just man's That's a great
I have to get back to you on that one.
That's a great question because the stars are going to
be the star. You're like, even with the Luca, he's
(46:22):
so talented and he understands the game. He's and he's
had a ball in his hands, he go put numbers up.
You're talking about the guy that you're looking at, Like, no, man,
not athletic, probably you know, probably doesn't have height, but
yet and still that's a good question. I have to
(46:43):
get back to you on that one. Old Age Dan
old Age.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
Yeah, well I'm catching up to you. I'm catching up
to you.
Speaker 7 (46:53):
You know.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I looked up to you when I was growing up
in Ohile and just want to like, you know.
Speaker 7 (46:57):
I appreciate that. Yeah, mighty day. What was your mascot
of Dainsville? Uh?
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Well, I was only born in Zanesville. I grew up
right by King's Island.
Speaker 7 (47:07):
Yeah, oh yeah, Mason, that's the problem. That's the problem
because Cedar Point is a lot better than kings Gland.
Speaker 9 (47:13):
Bro.
Speaker 7 (47:14):
Sorry, we would never go to King Guy.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
I would never go to Cedar Point unless I was
about to steal your girlfriend.
Speaker 7 (47:20):
Well that's see, that's your problem. See you didn't expand
your rides enough, because what did you We had the
Gemini and the Demon Drop and all that to the
part what you have? You had one roller, big, big,
That was it.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Yeah, yeah, that was yeah. We were the Mason comics.
We were the Mason No, don't, don't, don't don't. You
had to grow up around Cleveland, man. No, Toledo man,
same thing, same thing. Don't don't don't give me a
brag on Toledo.
Speaker 7 (47:53):
Damn did you did you know history? Lesson this? Because
you want to know, I know you do. I can
afford your fifties big banking area Toledo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit,
those areas were hugged because of water rail banking. Not Cincinnati,
you know, not Columbus. You know that dating Toledo, Well
(48:19):
that's remember.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
Great to know that it was in the forties and fifties.
That has nothing to do with now, But that's when
you were born.
Speaker 7 (48:25):
So I was just saying.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
Again, I looked up to you when you were at
Ohio State, and I go, I want to be that
good and get paid that much money when I'm in
college too.
Speaker 7 (48:35):
College.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
You know what, how about that Elite eight game? Remember
when Jim Jackson was in the Elite eight against Michigan
and they pull that video.
Speaker 7 (48:43):
Paulie, it don't go to the father. I would never
come back on this show.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
Great to talk to you, man, Thanks for joining us.
That's Jim Jackson, Fox and Turner NBA analyst and UH
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