July 30, 2024 • 41 mins
On today's Dan Patrick Show, Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski joined us to discuss the process of building an Olympic basketball team roster, and Yahoo Sports Senior writer Jay Busbee stopped by to break down the problems Paris is facing with the Seine River.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're so phony.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
We're watching mixed table tennis gold medal match, and we
act like we know what's going on. We're experts here.
Paulie's giving me the strategy of here of what they're doing.
You know, I think you want to hit it right
down the middle and then you force the two partners
to come together and decide if they're gonna who's gonna
hit it, and and they don't have rallies. It feels
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like it lasts about I don't know, three four seconds,
like bloop bloop, bloop, bloop bloop. Then that's it. Next
point and we're we're now we're experts on this. Yeah,
every four years maybe we watch some of these events,
but now we're an expert here. We know exactly what's
going on handball curling, when that happens in the Winter Olympics.
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We just embrace these and then we move on and
never talk about them again. Yes, Sed, I'm watching.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Men synchronized diving last night.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
You had a real problem with this massive problem, massive
and rightfully so explain to the audience.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's men's synchronized diving. Okay, that means synchronized diving. There
are two divers who go at the same time, and
in my opinion, they have to stay in sync. Right,
They have to do the same moves at the same
time as closely as possible and then get into the
water with as little splash as possible. Okay, right, so
I'm watching, So they're supposed to mirror each other.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, they should be like exactly the entire dive
they mirror each other. It's like you're looking at one,
but you could be looking at the other.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
And so I'm watching and the announcers like, oh, well,
you're gonna get some points off for this. You're gonna
get to what other this is that?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
And then the team from China gets up there and
they're crushing everybody. Right, they go and do their dive.
They basically can take a victory lap. They got this
thing wrapped up. They get up there and they in
real time it looked flawless. It was like, holy crap,
that was amazing. Look at what they just did and
they're barely even trying. And then when they showed the
video slowed down, they were clearly out of sync. One
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guy's head was at like twelve o'clock. The other one
was closer to like two or three. And I'm like, well,
wait a minute, that's not synchronized. I don't understand this.
And the announcer said in the moment, we yeah, but
that's not a big deal. That's not a big deal.
It matters how they get into the water. That's what
really counts. What then, why isn't it called just diving.
Why is it called synchronized diving if being in sync
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is not important. I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm right there with you.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I am like, well, technically it was a much more
difficult dive, so they're gonna get points for that. That'll
balance out whatever they got. I think they got like
a nine point five, almost a perfect score. But if
you can't stay in sync, then don't try it as
difficult to dive. Because if you're gonna try the more
difficult dive and you can't do it, then you should
get points off.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yes, if you're not synchronized, then you should lose points
for synchronized diving.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, it seems fair.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Maybe that's just me. Oh, I don't think you're alone.
I think there are a lot of people outraged that last.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Night, throw up all of our papers. This is what
I'm doing just before I'm going to bed. By the way,
I'm like yelling at my wife. I'm like, babe, what
they're not sync though, Like they're not in sync. It's
like eleven thirty. Would you just just go to bed?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Women's gymnastics later today the finals, swimming, finals, rugby, surfing
as well. Men's gymnastics team got a bronze medal. That's
a big deal. That was a really, really big deal
because the men's gymnastics team is sort of like the
men's soccer team in the Olympics, probably don't expect too
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much and the fact that they won the bronze is
pretty impressive. Now, if the women's team would win a bronze,
that would be terrible, that would be a huge disappointment.
But the men they won the bronze and all as
well so far. USA women they rolled Japan yesterday. I
don't know who they're comp Petitian's gonna come from. They
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may have one of those games where you go, okay,
a little interesting here, and it comes like this, you
are going to try to beat them shooting the three
because they have great size nobody has the size, although
China has. I think the tallest woman in the world.
Is she like seven eight or something like that. Checking Okay,
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Now I watched her play of course, doing my scouting here,
my prep work, and she kind of labors up and
down the floor, but if she gets it up high,
it's pretty hard to stop her. I don't know if
that team is good, but I know that she gets
like forty points a game, just because everybody else is
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probably under six feet and she's seven seven to eight.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, Pauline, I think you're right, But I have the roster.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
It's in centimeters, so I gotta I needed like a
month to figure that out.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Okay, we have a real issue with the triathlon in Paris.
We'll talk about that. They're nervous about the river, the
Send River being polluted. What's been polluted for over two
thousand years, and they spent over a billion dollars trying
to clean it up. One point four billion to be exact,
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to clean up the river. Yeah, I've been to Paris.
I wouldn't get in that water unless somebody I knew
was in the water and needed help. That would be it.
But they're trying to clean up two thousand years of
pollution there in four years, and they spent over a
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billion dollars. And you imagine they're not even sure if
you swallow the water, like what could happen to you
during the race. It is a triathlon, but yeah, you're
just swimming and you're going to take in some water.
One point four billion dollars to clean up the river
to have a triathlon, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
They have to test for equal eye levels daily and
if it doesn't, if it's not declared it's safe by
a number of officials, they have to postpone it. That's
why they're trying to do it so early. They have
to keep postponing it. But if you start swallow some
of that water, there might be a fourth level of
the triathlon that's not so painful, not so much fun.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
They you know, depending on the rain. If it rains,
then it makes it even worse. But yeah, that's literally
a mess.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yes, they said the river is vulnerable to occasional sewage
runoff if heavy rains overwhelm the new water treatment system.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That costs one point four Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Of course, the true Olympic spirit swimming in pollution. But
you know, we're okay with it. We're like, eh, I
don't care what happens to those triath leads after they're done.
Go out there and entertain us. Dive into the deep
end of the river there. Yeah, see, I do love
the just like human arrogance of that. We could clean
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it up, yeah, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah. How do you think that went with?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Somebody goes, uh, you know what, we should have the
triathlon in the sen River.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yes, that would look great. Okay, but we got to
clean it up. Oh you know who can clean it up.
Jimmy Lipper. He's gonna do it. You know what.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
We'll just throw a ton of money at us and
we'll be able to clean up just hundreds of years
of abuse.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Y don't worry about thousands of years of abuse there
and like black playing, like some of the worst human.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Disease is pestilence.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yes, and the gold medal for pestilence goes to friends. Congratulations. Hey,
our river's dirtier than yours. I don't know about that.
So that's the triathlon, weather permitting. We have some of
our best people working on that story. We're trying to
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get an expert there to join us. Didn't the like
the mayor jump in the water. She jumped in to say, hey,
it's okay, and then quickly jumped out of the water.
They were doing some you know press tour. Hey, everything's
great and safe over here, and I'm going to jump
in the in the river, and then she jumped in
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and quickly jumped out.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It's not like she was swimming for a mile breathing.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Has anybody seen the mayor sense?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh? Okay, that's the question. I don't know. I don't know.
Let's pull question. We're going to go with first, howur here?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
We're actually getting some very interesting suggestions from Paul and Todd.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Okay, by the way, Mike Skhushevski will join us coming
up next.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Don I can't.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I'm not going to describe them as hater questions, but
there they both are tinged with a certain edge that
I find very interestinged. Okay, let's say one suggestion here, Wash,
if you were the bullying type, would you pick on
the US men's gymnastic team.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah, I don't know why, Todd, I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
This was an issue where you saw them with their
bronze medals and you go, oh, you know what, if
we were in the lunch room, I'd knock their trays over, which.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Is so not like me, because I was actually on
the receiving end of bullying, like in school, where people
would like, you know, try to push over your tray
or knock over your milk or something.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But they had that nerdy look.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
And the first thing, just looking at that group picture
made me think if you saw them like at a
cafeteria in your local elementary school of middle school, someone
might want to go over there and start up with them.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You didn't say someone, you said, you said you.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
But I'm not the bullying type. I probably shouldn't have
said me, because I've never I've been bullied. I've never
like done anything.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
But you brought this up this morning. I did. You
showed us a picture and you said, look at those nerds.
I want to go pick on them.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Yes I did at that moment.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
I was being a little restless, but you know, looking back,
I wouldn't be the one. I might encourage someone else
to go over there and do all I watch, but
I don't think I would initiate the bully.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
But the choices were why not.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
I can take those dudes and their pommel horse or no,
thank you, they'll rings my neck.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I would never mess on with somebody who's short or
shorter because they'd probably been bullied a lot in their life,
and they're gonna have leverage on you.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Little center at gravity.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yes, yes, it'd be tough to move.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yes, Like you're gonna go over there and you're gonna
knock their tray over. Next thing, you know, they're gonna
be climbing up your leg, roughing you up.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
See that's not necessary.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Say that's how you start a fight with somebody, Dan,
I don't know if you're aware of that.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Tall guy smack talk, Yeah, yeah, yeah. How's the weather
down there?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Here's another suggestion, sort of similar but not really Olympic athlete,
I'd least like to fight that that removing martial arts.
Why are we fighting anybody? Why are we fighting any
of these Olympians. They're all in phenomenon like infinitely better
shape than any of us. Why Why in the world
I don't want to fight a badminton guy.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I don't Why are we angry?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I don't want to fight any gymnasts, don't want to
fight any swimmers.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
No, I don't want somebody who's got a gun either
part of his sport, his discipline, shot put her. I'm
not messing with him. Why why be anger today? Why's
not a Todd Poole question? That one was Paul, Paul,
why are we angry today?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
That was based off Todd's inference that gymnastics guys are soft,
even though they're completely huge and jacked.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I think he was just he You thought they looked nervous.
There's one guy who's wearing glasses.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
It was from the neck up kind of thing. You
know what's behind the what's under the outfit there in
the sweatsuit.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
You don't want to mess with that.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Okay, they'll make your bar uneven.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
We talk today?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, you're gonna knock him off his pommel horse. Yeah
you were the glasses? Get over here, all right?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
A sudden, he just turned into the kid from Christmas
Story Grover Dill And what's the.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Name, Scott Farcascas.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Kill me?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah? What other pool questions do we have? All right?
Here's another negative temper the anger today?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Okay, well this will cause some anger, but it's certainly negative.
Most corrupt but awesome sporting event the Olympics, World Cup
or other.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Another. Okay, fine, I.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Think we need to start this show over right. I
don't know what happened here, all right. Uh, I'm gonna
say the Olympics. There's more sports there than the World Cup. Yeah,
the World Cup could be corrupt for the city getting
the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
The Olympics certainly couldn't.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Now they are for the most part. They've been very
corrupt there for a while. Certain cities. It's like, how
did Putin get the Olympics? Probably overspent by a couple
twenty billion dollars there. Okay, we'll go to Sochi, LA
in four years. Who even knew there was a place
called Sochi prior to the Olympics. But we're going there Arena?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Really?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yes? Yes, tod So, how.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Much of the Olympic corruption is something a player and
athleater a team is doing, versus how did your country
get the Olympics in the first place?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I think probably bribing the IOC for the site. Maybe coruption,
That would be corruption, Yes, it would be. Uh who
got the World Cup and they had to play at
night because it was too hot?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Was that cutter? Qatar? They had to move it to
a different season.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Yes, they had to change the whole like calendar year
based on it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
When they pitched that World Cup, they said it will
be in summer. We're gonna be ready for summer, blah
blah blah.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Approved. And then they're like three years, like, well, we
can't actually do it in summer.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I don't even think they thought of it. They're like, wait, man,
you're gonna spend how much money?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Okay, And that was what finally got a whole bunch
of people to retire to you know, I think I've
done now, I think I'm good. Yeah, you guys take
it over.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I'm gonna go out on this one. Yeah, this is
my last one. Thank you. I'm gonna set.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
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Speaker 3 (14:35):
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and won five titles at Duke A Time Coach of
the Year. Mike Krzyzewski back on the program, Good morning, coach,
How you doing.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Good morning. Yeah, It's always good to spend time with you.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I was wondering about with all the Olympic teams that
you had, how do you divvy up playing time to
keep everybody happy.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Well, the only way everyone's going to be happy is
if we win. That's what I would tell each team.
The only thing anyone will ask ask you, did you win?
And so don't get caught up in minutes, shots or whatever.
Just be consumed with winning. And we actually had each
guy pledged that they would do anything that we wanted
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them to do to win. And then I tried to
get into like a nine man rotation sometimes ten, and
I pretty much had a starting unit the whole time
and four of the five championships, and then another unit,
not a complete unit. I never subbed five for five
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and Dan I thought, I think a big thing is
for the really tough games, you have to have a
closing unit that would be a combination of the two
and formula will work really well. And I mean guys
like Tayshawn Prince, Michael Red, Carlos Boozer, even Anthony Davis.
They didn't play that much Anthony when he was a
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young player, And they're going to be two or three
guys who either won't play or will not play that
that much. And but I think you got to get
to that quick.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
When you're building a roster though, and you're playing a
different style of basketball. How much does that factor in
of international play as opposed to NBA play, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Big time. You know, there's a huge difference in how
the game's administer You know, the ball's different. I know
you as a shooter or a profess shooter, you would
have to have time to get it. There's two more panels,
it's different color, it feels different. And so really getting
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accustomed to the nuances of the game are really important.
And I think a key thing is not to be positioned.
You know, one thing about our country, we have probably
the most positionless players. In other words, like a closing
unit in London for me was Durant, Kobe, Lebron, Armelo
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and Chris Paul and Chris didn't play the point Kobe
or Lebron would have it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I think I could have coached those guys to a
gold I'm just saying.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Well, you could have coached them. That doesn't mean you
would have won with them.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, I would have. I think I would have coaching.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
But anyway, I think I never got caught up in position,
except like the big guy if you were facing usually
Serbia had really strong big guys. We had to have
a really tough center in there at that time.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
The mentality of Kobe versus Michael Jordan in practice at
the Olympics, Uh, is there a discrepancy, Like is there
similarities that they sort of attacked when they when they
came in that practice was a game to them.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Now, I think they're probably two of the most similar
great players in the history of our game. I mean
in one day. Really, you know, they were just super talented,
but they were also incredibly prepared, and uh, I don't
think anybody was any more competitive than those two guys,
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you know, so they were that all the time. That
was their personality and when they were on the court
and it meant something, uh, in practice or in a game,
they were all business, you know. They they wanted to
be great, not good. I mean they wanted to win,
but uh, and they wanted moments. They were never afraid
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of a moment. They craved moments. I knew that more
about Kobe because he was on two of our teams
and I was the head coach, and if it was
a tough moment, he smiled like, all right, this is
what I prepared for. That other stuff was pretty easy,
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but this is who makes me, and he came through
all the time.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
What Olympic team had the biggest impact on you, whether
it was coaching or personally.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Well, you know, I was an assistant on the Dream Team,
so I saw the magnificence of those guys and their
professionalism and how they brought the NBA culture at that
time into the Olympics. The teams I coached, starting with
the Beijing team in two thousand and eight, the first
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team is always a little bit more special because you
haven't done it before, and we had not done it
for a while as a country. And then a number
of those guys. Then five of them played again in twelve,
and then we won the World Championships in Istambul and ten.
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Durant was the star and we had a lot of
young players, and five guys from that team we're on
the twenty twelve teams. So a key word that Jerry Colanguell,
who ran USA Basketball and I embraced, was continuity. And
those guys gave it, and that's what Lebron is giving
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right now. And Kevin Anthony Davis, Steph. You know a
lot of people don't realize Steph was part of two
of our World championships in ten and fourteen, so he
understands international ball and he wants to win a gold medal.
Having those four veterans is huge as far as the
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continuity aspect.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Talking to Mike Skushevsky go back to the Dream Team,
and it felt like there was like tangible moments where
Bird and Magic and everybody else realized that all of
a sudden, Mike was the new sheriff in town and
that there was almost this begrudging handoff of that guy's
the best player in the world.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Well, you know, they weren't at the same age at
that you know they You know, Jordan was more in
his prime, although he's always in his prime, and that's
I shouldn't even said that. You know, he was Jordan
then and uh where Larry has really had a lot
of back problems then and Magic had been all out
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for a year and so they not that they were
at his level at that time that if they were
in their prime, all three of them. Take those three
guys to start any.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Team, if you could pick one of those three, that
one would go to Duke when you were there.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Oh, I take any of them.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
No, you got it, you got first pick.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Yeah, Well, who's going to stay for four years?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Yeah, Jordan only stayed stayed for three. I wish he'd
only stayed for one at Carolina.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
How about they're going to all stay for three years? Magic,
Larry or Mike.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I can't pick one. Yeah, I can't pick one. I
love all three of those guys, Like you're talking about
three of at least in the top six or seven
in the history of the game. I mean, uh, Magic
is probably the best point guard ever. You know, Jordan
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may be the best player ever. Look, Kobe's right there
in Lebron and Larry was just unique you know, like
he's and you talk about being a competitor. There aren't
as many players like that anymore. I'm telling you, I
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don't know. I don't know, yew and not that there
isn't talent, but yeah, like I don't know if you
I saw something yesterday where the salaries and these guys
deserve it. Of our Olympic team for next year, the
guys on it are something like five hundred million dollars
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when you combine for the year, you know, the twelve
guys on the Dream Team, it was thirty five million,
so for the whole team. And and so I don't
know if there there was You didn't just play for money.
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They loved the game, and I wish we would have
I think we have a number of guys who love
the game, but in youth basketball and even college. But
I'm not sure the love of the game is the
impetus to be good all the time. Yeah, like Durant,
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Durant loves the game. Durant, if he's walking by a Jimmy,
he's got to go in and shoot, you know, he's
got to play every every day. And I wish that
I would see that more. You know, in the young players.
Now again, not that is there are players like that,
but it was almost like everyone was like that during
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that time period.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
When you look at the development of other countries, and
I don't know if if we need to kind of
reassess what we're teaching at the high school level, AAU level,
because what's happening. You know, you can make an argument
the four or five best players in the world didn't
play in the United States.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Is that a concern, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
And actually I'm working with the NBA now and one
of our committees is a Global Development Committee and we're
about just over a year old, and we're trying to
change the One is to unify the game. Like the
game is played in many different ways in our country. Internationally,
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if you're in France or Italy, you play the game
the same. You know, there are four quarters, ten minutes.
You know. The men's college basketball was the most outline
of all of them, you know. And then many people
don't play with a shot clock. Many states don't have
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a shot clocks, and that's a mistake because you have
to learn to play the game. The only way you
wanted to play the game is that place and play.
So we're trying to unify that and uh change how
the American the young American players being taught and coached.
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They play a lot of games, but they don't practice
a lot. And you'd be shocked and pleasantly shocked in
like France, Germany, uh, Lithuania, of these countries from young
age on, these kids are really coached well and they're
brought up the right way. Ours is still dan. Ours
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is based on a scholastic system where you know, in
other words, like for men's college basketball, it's crazy you
can practice twenty hours a week in season and then
you can't practice at certain times. Then in the summer
you can practice four hours a week. You got to
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be kidding me, like that has what the hell's happening?
You know, like if a kid is playing the piano
or is in acting and he wants to work sixty
out he or she wants to work sixty hours a week,
no one's stopping them from doing. I think it's the
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next once they get all this stuff. Whenever they get
the stuff done, whether they're contracted employees or whatever they are,
the next lawsuit is going to be. You mean, I
can't be coached more than twenty hours I mean it's stupid,
it really is. It's so so bad, and we're trying
(27:44):
to we're doing some things to try to change that.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, talking to Mike Ruszewski, the Hall of Famer Special
Advisor to NBA basketball operations, is Cooper Flag good enough
to make the Olympic team?
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Not right now, but he will be, you know, hopefully
no injuries or whatever. You know, he's not only talented,
he has he has a love of the game, and
he is a competitive kid. I mean, he is as
competitive as any freshman that has come into Duke. And
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I'm not saying he's more competitive than some of the
elite guys we had, but as competitive and and he
has a game that translates. He doesn't have a position.
He's just a damn good basketball player and a winner.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Speaking of competitors, Christian Latner isn't in the Basketball Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
He's in the he is as a member of the
Dream Team.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Now I'm talking about individually. Why hasn't he had his
day just college career a loan.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Well, he's in the college Basketball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
But the one in Springfield where yeah, it's very difficult
to uh get into, uh this Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame,
and uh uh if I'm not sure anybody's who's done
it just with the college career.
Speaker 8 (29:17):
Uh. In fact, that's why we started, just in the
turn of this century, we started uh uh the college
Basketball Hall of Fame. Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
But college coaches get in there, so not many. I mean,
there's one of the top five college players of all time,
would you say.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
I agree? So uh one, I'm sure he's been nominated,
and you go and through the selection process and you
know you uh if they're the things would be given
more to an NBA player consideration than a collegiate player.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
And so that competition then is with probably somebody who
had a fifteen to eighteen year career. You know, it
was all NBA five times. And and but I agree
with you. I mean, Christian was the winningest player we've
ever had a duke. He was the most competitive.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And don't you just want to hear that speech when
he gets inducted.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
It'd be a good one. And I can just say
I'm coming up and he said, yeah, this is a
great honor and I want to thank Dan Patrick.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And he should.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Yeah. Yeah, are you only saying that because you want,
you know him to be recognized, Yeah, to be recognized.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I'm surprised Moore don't recognize me in their whole. Like
when Jordan was up there, I thought I'd give a
shot and get a shout out from him. I mean,
he roasted everybody. I thought he would give me a
shout out. But yeah, I guess that's partial for why
I want.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
Yeah, well, Christian. You know, Christian really understood the game.
And uh, he he does some coaching now and in
camps and clinics and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
But he had a long NBA career as well. I
mean it wasn't decorated, but still.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
Which takes away then from the consideration. In other words,
if it's a cut a continuance of the exceps. Uh.
And so it doesn't add that you were in the NBA,
it's were you an All Star? Were you all? Did
you know? Did you make the first team defensive teams? Like? Uh,
(31:46):
it's very difficult to get into the Naismith Hall of Fame,
it really is. And and uh, that doesn't that's not
a knock on Christian. Obviously. I love Christian and he
made me a hell of a coach.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, he helped you get into the Hall of Fame coach.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
He did you know as uh for a coach to
get in. We got a lot of help from a
lot of players.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I was wondering about when the Lakers were talking to
Dan Hurley. Yeah, and you were advising the Lakers, I believe, uh,
not just insulting.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
Rob Polinka and I are friends. But no, I wasn't consulting.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Oh so you didn't have any say in Dan Hurley
or JJ.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
No, I talked. I never talked to the Lakers about
Danny and Danny and actually has on the phone with
Danny last night for about an hour about uh, changing
college basketball and his family.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
There need to change it. He's winning coach.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
No, No, you have to always look at improving it.
But no, I talked to Polenka, you know, Rob and
JJ during that process. Of course I did you know. Uh,
it'd be that would be wrong if I didn't. But
I wasn't a consultant. Okay, Yeah, I mean that that's
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taken it a little bit too.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Far, giving you a little too much credit. There is
there anything interesting in the office. Is this like the
main office where you have all the awards and like
people can come in and see how great you are.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
This is my conference room. You know I still work
at Duke. If you should come in my office, I
don't have all that busy stuff that you have on
your desk. I have really like accomplishments. Your desk is
a wanna be you know, My desk is a beat.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Okay, If I come in your office, I would probably
steal something.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
We have cameras, it doesn't matter. I'm out the door.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I'm gonna maybe I would take your high school jersey.
Didn't you leave the city of Chicago and scoring? So
you probably had that frame there in.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
Your office just a Catholic league.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, but you still led the Catholic League in scoring.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Right. But no, I don't have any high school things up.
I have West Point things us a Duke, and uh
my office is pretty pretty neat. And you're you're invited
to come at any.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Time, anytime, anytime, anytime.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
You have to have somebody in the office with you
while you're here.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Well why not you?
Speaker 8 (34:31):
No? Well I may not be here. My got so
I say anytime and anytime you could you could come in, okay,
and I could where you would get lost in memories
of all the being the nostalgic person that you are.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Do you think I would openly weep if I was
in your office in soul from from joy.
Speaker 8 (34:53):
I can't believe this happened, and that happened, and that happened.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I'm getting I'm getting emotional just thinking about.
Speaker 8 (35:03):
It, right, Coach, I didn't realize. Yeah he did all that.
Yeah you think it would walk out in wonderment.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Well, I'm glad you're doing well and I always to
talk to you.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
So, by the way, I'm headed off to Napa We
I host a vwine celebration there. It's raised in the
last twenty five years one hundred and sixty million to
fight cancer, and we're going to raise probably twelve to
fifteen million this weekend. It's a great grade event in
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Napa Valley.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
It's a little late notice for me to go. But
I know what you're doing, Like, is this a fake invite?
Speaker 8 (35:43):
Yeah? Do you do you ever drink wine?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yes? I do?
Speaker 8 (35:46):
Okay, Yeah, specials like red white.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Cabs, you know. Yeah. Wait, did you say South.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
Bronx No, Savignon?
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Oh I thought you said South Bronx. I'm like a Bronx.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
Do you do your bottles have quarks.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yes they do, okay, but you can get like Australia.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I mean they have the twist off and there's nothing
wrong with that, Coach.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
No, in fact, that shows me you know a little
bit more than I thought you know about wine.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Thank you, coach. And you know who you.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Should get on the show. Who really who's a great
friend and really knows whine from coaches? Is Pop Greg Popovich.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
He doesn't. I've been trying for twenty years to get Pop.
He doesn't do this stuff.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
Yeah he's a great guy.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Oh I hear that, but I'll never know that. So
I'm going to take care of great Yeah, put in
a good word for me. We'll talk just wine. I
won't talk anything else other than why.
Speaker 8 (36:48):
You'll knock your socks off with wine.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Save travels to NAPA and thanks again for the faux invite.
Speaker 8 (36:57):
And you know, I'm going to take a picture pick
of my office and send them.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
That'd be nice. That'd be nice, Coach.
Speaker 8 (37:03):
It'd be like a wish list, a dream. Yeah, yeah,
like you know those places that you have not visited before.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah, winners, Yeah, yes, you're right, thank you, coach. That's
Mike Skrushevski. Won three gold medals. His team USA's head coach.
Sounded like an invitation, but not really an invitation. Invitation, Yeah,
an invitation, but you.
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Want to go right there?
Speaker 6 (37:24):
I just figured that that's that's what he's kind of
doing to you. Yeah, I think you'd want to go.
Speaker 8 (37:27):
But if you're around.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Now, he knows that I know a little bit about wine.
Uh maybe next time.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Back after this, be sure to catch the live edition
of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern
six am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Let me go back to the pollution element here playing
a large role in Uh, what's going on with triathlon?
Jay Buzzby, a Yahoo Sports senior writer, and uh, he's
covering this. Uh, Jay, what can you tell us? What
is the update? Is the sind rivers still polluted?
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Well, I'm standing right by it and I'm not sure
that I would drink out of it right now. So
it's it is apparently polluted enough that they postponed the
men's triathlon this morning, schedule for eight am Paris time
this morning. They're gonna shrine Runner tomorrow after the women's triathlon.
We'll see if the sin gets cleaned up in twenty
four hours. They're hoping it's very bright that opens the
sun is going to be the disinfectant, but it's still
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way up in the air at this point.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Go back four years here, they spent over a billion
dollars for this moment. What do you get for over
a billion dollars when it comes to cleaning up a river?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
That's what you got there.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
I mean, if you can see behind me, it went
from being mud brown to kind of a greenish brown.
So that's about what they've gotten for a billion and
a half. It actually does look mildly cleaner, but again
I still would not.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Swim any Okay, you have a couple of events, don't
you have men's and wayman's a triathlon and then is
there a marathon on swimming there's a.
Speaker 7 (39:01):
Marathon swim as well, and so yeah, that's that is
scared it for later on. What they're gonna do is
they're going to try to have the triathlon tomorrow. If
that doesn't work, they're drop dead date in August second.
It's probably not the right phrase to use. The end
to the last possible date is August second. If that
doesn't work, they're going to turn it into a do athlon.
It's just going to be running and biking, and then
on August seventh and eighth they have the marathon swim.
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So obviously it's still got a little bit of time
to get some of this in, but it's still no
ways to go until it's cleaning up to the satisfaction
of the swimmers.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Jay, what are the swimmers risk here?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
I know we can have fun at their expense, but
being in the water, they're going to be uh swallowing
some of this pollution.
Speaker 7 (39:42):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's equal as the main one.
Do we all you know, we've all heard about that
what that can do to you know, what that can
do to your You're a digestive system, you're intestinal system,
all all aspects of it. That's that's the question.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
You know.
Speaker 7 (39:52):
Obviously, when you're swimming, you can't hold your breath for
that entire amount of time. You can't keep the water
out of your eyes, out of your your other orifices.
So yeah, they're going to be subjected to this for
a while, and the question is whether they're going to
feel comfortable if they you know, if the threshold is
here and it gets right down to here and they
call it safe. I mean, how much more safe is
that really than it is right now?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Who's catching heat for this?
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (40:14):
Pretty much everybody? Uh Paris. This Paris city government is
really taking a lot of heat for this, mainly because
they spent, as you said, a billion and a half
dollars on this and they're not getting much out of it.
There's and that Paris protest. French people protest the way
that we eat eat, you know, just constantly. But here,
what they're finding out is that Paris people are not
really thrilled with spending all this money on the Seine
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and not on other, you know, other necessary aspects of government.
So that's what's drawn a lot of protests. I think
the number one team drawing heat is is Paris, the
city government.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
So you wouldn't jump in that that river right now?
Speaker 7 (40:48):
Well I might, but I'm an idiot, so I mean,
I just kind of want to see what it would
be like. But it's I mean, it moves fast, that's
the thing. It's a fast moving river. You know, if
you don't know what you're doing, it's gonna be a
lot of trouble. But it doesn't look terrible, doesn't look
at any worse than any river that I've seen, you know,
in the South. But it may or may not be
an endorsement of it.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Jay, great to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Could you bring me back a little a little glass
of water there from the Send River.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
A little bit of a little bit of a sample.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
You bring me back a sample from the Olympics. Thank you, Jay,
Take care,
You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
We're so phony.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
We're watching mixed table tennis gold medal match, and we
act like we know what's going on. We're experts here.
Paulie's giving me the strategy of here of what they're doing.
You know, I think you want to hit it right
down the middle and then you force the two partners
to come together and decide if they're gonna who's gonna
hit it, and and they don't have rallies. It feels
(00:28):
like it lasts about I don't know, three four seconds,
like bloop bloop, bloop, bloop bloop. Then that's it. Next
point and we're we're now we're experts on this. Yeah,
every four years maybe we watch some of these events,
but now we're an expert here. We know exactly what's
going on handball curling, when that happens in the Winter Olympics.
(00:49):
We just embrace these and then we move on and
never talk about them again. Yes, Sed, I'm watching.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Men synchronized diving last night.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
You had a real problem with this massive problem, massive
and rightfully so explain to the audience.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
It's men's synchronized diving. Okay, that means synchronized diving. There
are two divers who go at the same time, and
in my opinion, they have to stay in sync. Right,
They have to do the same moves at the same
time as closely as possible and then get into the
water with as little splash as possible. Okay, right, so
I'm watching, So they're supposed to mirror each other.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, yeah, they should be like exactly the entire dive
they mirror each other. It's like you're looking at one,
but you could be looking at the other.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
And so I'm watching and the announcers like, oh, well,
you're gonna get some points off for this. You're gonna
get to what other this is that?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
And then the team from China gets up there and
they're crushing everybody. Right, they go and do their dive.
They basically can take a victory lap. They got this
thing wrapped up. They get up there and they in
real time it looked flawless. It was like, holy crap,
that was amazing. Look at what they just did and
they're barely even trying. And then when they showed the
video slowed down, they were clearly out of sync. One
(02:05):
guy's head was at like twelve o'clock. The other one
was closer to like two or three. And I'm like, well,
wait a minute, that's not synchronized. I don't understand this.
And the announcer said in the moment, we yeah, but
that's not a big deal. That's not a big deal.
It matters how they get into the water. That's what
really counts. What then, why isn't it called just diving.
Why is it called synchronized diving if being in sync
(02:25):
is not important. I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm right there with you.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I am like, well, technically it was a much more
difficult dive, so they're gonna get points for that. That'll
balance out whatever they got. I think they got like
a nine point five, almost a perfect score. But if
you can't stay in sync, then don't try it as
difficult to dive. Because if you're gonna try the more
difficult dive and you can't do it, then you should
get points off.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yes, if you're not synchronized, then you should lose points
for synchronized diving.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, it seems fair.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Maybe that's just me. Oh, I don't think you're alone.
I think there are a lot of people outraged that last.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Night, throw up all of our papers. This is what
I'm doing just before I'm going to bed. By the way,
I'm like yelling at my wife. I'm like, babe, what
they're not sync though, Like they're not in sync. It's
like eleven thirty. Would you just just go to bed?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Women's gymnastics later today the finals, swimming, finals, rugby, surfing
as well. Men's gymnastics team got a bronze medal. That's
a big deal. That was a really, really big deal
because the men's gymnastics team is sort of like the
men's soccer team in the Olympics, probably don't expect too
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much and the fact that they won the bronze is
pretty impressive. Now, if the women's team would win a bronze,
that would be terrible, that would be a huge disappointment.
But the men they won the bronze and all as
well so far. USA women they rolled Japan yesterday. I
don't know who they're comp Petitian's gonna come from. They
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may have one of those games where you go, okay,
a little interesting here, and it comes like this, you
are going to try to beat them shooting the three
because they have great size nobody has the size, although
China has. I think the tallest woman in the world.
Is she like seven eight or something like that. Checking Okay,
(04:23):
Now I watched her play of course, doing my scouting here,
my prep work, and she kind of labors up and
down the floor, but if she gets it up high,
it's pretty hard to stop her. I don't know if
that team is good, but I know that she gets
like forty points a game, just because everybody else is
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probably under six feet and she's seven seven to eight.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, Pauline, I think you're right, But I have the roster.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
It's in centimeters, so I gotta I needed like a
month to figure that out.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Okay, we have a real issue with the triathlon in Paris.
We'll talk about that. They're nervous about the river, the
Send River being polluted. What's been polluted for over two
thousand years, and they spent over a billion dollars trying
to clean it up. One point four billion to be exact,
(05:15):
to clean up the river. Yeah, I've been to Paris.
I wouldn't get in that water unless somebody I knew
was in the water and needed help. That would be it.
But they're trying to clean up two thousand years of
pollution there in four years, and they spent over a
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billion dollars. And you imagine they're not even sure if
you swallow the water, like what could happen to you
during the race. It is a triathlon, but yeah, you're
just swimming and you're going to take in some water.
One point four billion dollars to clean up the river
to have a triathlon, Yes, Paul.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
They have to test for equal eye levels daily and
if it doesn't, if it's not declared it's safe by
a number of officials, they have to postpone it. That's
why they're trying to do it so early. They have
to keep postponing it. But if you start swallow some
of that water, there might be a fourth level of
the triathlon that's not so painful, not so much fun.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
They you know, depending on the rain. If it rains,
then it makes it even worse. But yeah, that's literally
a mess.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yes, they said the river is vulnerable to occasional sewage
runoff if heavy rains overwhelm the new water treatment system.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
That costs one point four Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Of course, the true Olympic spirit swimming in pollution. But
you know, we're okay with it. We're like, eh, I
don't care what happens to those triath leads after they're done.
Go out there and entertain us. Dive into the deep
end of the river there. Yeah, see, I do love
the just like human arrogance of that. We could clean
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it up, yeah, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah. How do you think that went with?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Somebody goes, uh, you know what, we should have the
triathlon in the sen River.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Yes, that would look great. Okay, but we got to
clean it up. Oh you know who can clean it up.
Jimmy Lipper. He's gonna do it. You know what.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
We'll just throw a ton of money at us and
we'll be able to clean up just hundreds of years
of abuse.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Y don't worry about thousands of years of abuse there
and like black playing, like some of the worst human.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Disease is pestilence.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yes, and the gold medal for pestilence goes to friends. Congratulations. Hey,
our river's dirtier than yours. I don't know about that.
So that's the triathlon, weather permitting. We have some of
our best people working on that story. We're trying to
(07:49):
get an expert there to join us. Didn't the like
the mayor jump in the water. She jumped in to say, hey,
it's okay, and then quickly jumped out of the water.
They were doing some you know press tour. Hey, everything's
great and safe over here, and I'm going to jump
in the in the river, and then she jumped in
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and quickly jumped out.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
It's not like she was swimming for a mile breathing.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Has anybody seen the mayor sense?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh? Okay, that's the question. I don't know. I don't know.
Let's pull question. We're going to go with first, howur here?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
We're actually getting some very interesting suggestions from Paul and Todd.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Okay, by the way, Mike Skhushevski will join us coming
up next.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Don I can't.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I'm not going to describe them as hater questions, but
there they both are tinged with a certain edge that
I find very interestinged. Okay, let's say one suggestion here, Wash,
if you were the bullying type, would you pick on
the US men's gymnastic team.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah, I don't know why, Todd, I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
This was an issue where you saw them with their
bronze medals and you go, oh, you know what, if
we were in the lunch room, I'd knock their trays over, which.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Is so not like me, because I was actually on
the receiving end of bullying, like in school, where people
would like, you know, try to push over your tray
or knock over your milk or something.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But they had that nerdy look.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
And the first thing, just looking at that group picture
made me think if you saw them like at a
cafeteria in your local elementary school of middle school, someone
might want to go over there and start up with them.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
You didn't say someone, you said, you said you.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
But I'm not the bullying type. I probably shouldn't have
said me, because I've never I've been bullied. I've never
like done anything.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
But you brought this up this morning. I did. You
showed us a picture and you said, look at those nerds.
I want to go pick on them.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Yes I did at that moment.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
I was being a little restless, but you know, looking back,
I wouldn't be the one. I might encourage someone else
to go over there and do all I watch, but
I don't think I would initiate the bully.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
But the choices were why not.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
I can take those dudes and their pommel horse or no,
thank you, they'll rings my neck.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I would never mess on with somebody who's short or
shorter because they'd probably been bullied a lot in their life,
and they're gonna have leverage on you.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Little center at gravity.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yes, yes, it'd be tough to move.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yes, Like you're gonna go over there and you're gonna
knock their tray over. Next thing, you know, they're gonna
be climbing up your leg, roughing you up.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
See that's not necessary.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Say that's how you start a fight with somebody, Dan,
I don't know if you're aware of that.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Tall guy smack talk, Yeah, yeah, yeah. How's the weather
down there?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Here's another suggestion, sort of similar but not really Olympic athlete,
I'd least like to fight that that removing martial arts.
Why are we fighting anybody? Why are we fighting any
of these Olympians. They're all in phenomenon like infinitely better
shape than any of us. Why Why in the world
I don't want to fight a badminton guy.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I don't Why are we angry?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
I don't want to fight any gymnasts, don't want to
fight any swimmers.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
No, I don't want somebody who's got a gun either
part of his sport, his discipline, shot put her. I'm
not messing with him. Why why be anger today? Why's
not a Todd Poole question? That one was Paul, Paul,
why are we angry today?
Speaker 5 (11:04):
That was based off Todd's inference that gymnastics guys are soft,
even though they're completely huge and jacked.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I think he was just he You thought they looked nervous.
There's one guy who's wearing glasses.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
It was from the neck up kind of thing. You
know what's behind the what's under the outfit there in
the sweatsuit.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
You don't want to mess with that.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Okay, they'll make your bar uneven.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
We talk today?
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, you're gonna knock him off his pommel horse. Yeah
you were the glasses? Get over here, all right?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
A sudden, he just turned into the kid from Christmas
Story Grover Dill And what's the.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Name, Scott Farcascas.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Kill me?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah? What other pool questions do we have? All right?
Here's another negative temper the anger today?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Okay, well this will cause some anger, but it's certainly negative.
Most corrupt but awesome sporting event the Olympics, World Cup
or other.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Another. Okay, fine, I.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Think we need to start this show over right. I
don't know what happened here, all right. Uh, I'm gonna
say the Olympics. There's more sports there than the World Cup. Yeah,
the World Cup could be corrupt for the city getting
the World Cup.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
The Olympics certainly couldn't.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Now they are for the most part. They've been very
corrupt there for a while. Certain cities. It's like, how
did Putin get the Olympics? Probably overspent by a couple
twenty billion dollars there. Okay, we'll go to Sochi, LA
in four years. Who even knew there was a place
called Sochi prior to the Olympics. But we're going there Arena?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Really?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yes? Yes, tod So, how.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Much of the Olympic corruption is something a player and
athleater a team is doing, versus how did your country
get the Olympics in the first place?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
I think probably bribing the IOC for the site. Maybe coruption,
That would be corruption, Yes, it would be. Uh who
got the World Cup and they had to play at
night because it was too hot?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Was that cutter? Qatar? They had to move it to
a different season.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Yes, they had to change the whole like calendar year
based on it.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
When they pitched that World Cup, they said it will
be in summer. We're gonna be ready for summer, blah
blah blah.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Approved. And then they're like three years, like, well, we
can't actually do it in summer.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I don't even think they thought of it. They're like, wait, man,
you're gonna spend how much money?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Okay, And that was what finally got a whole bunch
of people to retire to you know, I think I've
done now, I think I'm good. Yeah, you guys take
it over.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I'm gonna go out on this one. Yeah, this is
my last one. Thank you. I'm gonna set.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
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Speaker 3 (14:35):
Hall of Fame coach, special advisor to NBA Basketball Operations
and won five titles at Duke A Time Coach of
the Year. Mike Krzyzewski back on the program, Good morning, coach,
How you doing.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Good morning. Yeah, It's always good to spend time with you.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
I was wondering about with all the Olympic teams that
you had, how do you divvy up playing time to
keep everybody happy.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Well, the only way everyone's going to be happy is
if we win. That's what I would tell each team.
The only thing anyone will ask ask you, did you win?
And so don't get caught up in minutes, shots or whatever.
Just be consumed with winning. And we actually had each
guy pledged that they would do anything that we wanted
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them to do to win. And then I tried to
get into like a nine man rotation sometimes ten, and
I pretty much had a starting unit the whole time
and four of the five championships, and then another unit,
not a complete unit. I never subbed five for five
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and Dan I thought, I think a big thing is
for the really tough games, you have to have a
closing unit that would be a combination of the two
and formula will work really well. And I mean guys
like Tayshawn Prince, Michael Red, Carlos Boozer, even Anthony Davis.
They didn't play that much Anthony when he was a
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young player, And they're going to be two or three
guys who either won't play or will not play that
that much. And but I think you got to get
to that quick.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
When you're building a roster though, and you're playing a
different style of basketball. How much does that factor in
of international play as opposed to NBA play, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Big time. You know, there's a huge difference in how
the game's administer You know, the ball's different. I know
you as a shooter or a profess shooter, you would
have to have time to get it. There's two more panels,
it's different color, it feels different. And so really getting
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accustomed to the nuances of the game are really important.
And I think a key thing is not to be positioned.
You know, one thing about our country, we have probably
the most positionless players. In other words, like a closing
unit in London for me was Durant, Kobe, Lebron, Armelo
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and Chris Paul and Chris didn't play the point Kobe
or Lebron would have it.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I think I could have coached those guys to a
gold I'm just saying.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Well, you could have coached them. That doesn't mean you
would have won with them.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, I would have. I think I would have coaching.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
But anyway, I think I never got caught up in position,
except like the big guy if you were facing usually
Serbia had really strong big guys. We had to have
a really tough center in there at that time.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
The mentality of Kobe versus Michael Jordan in practice at
the Olympics, Uh, is there a discrepancy, Like is there
similarities that they sort of attacked when they when they
came in that practice was a game to them.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Now, I think they're probably two of the most similar
great players in the history of our game. I mean
in one day. Really, you know, they were just super talented,
but they were also incredibly prepared, and uh, I don't
think anybody was any more competitive than those two guys,
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you know, so they were that all the time. That
was their personality and when they were on the court
and it meant something, uh, in practice or in a game,
they were all business, you know. They they wanted to
be great, not good. I mean they wanted to win,
but uh, and they wanted moments. They were never afraid
(18:59):
of a moment. They craved moments. I knew that more
about Kobe because he was on two of our teams
and I was the head coach, and if it was
a tough moment, he smiled like, all right, this is
what I prepared for. That other stuff was pretty easy,
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but this is who makes me, and he came through
all the time.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
What Olympic team had the biggest impact on you, whether
it was coaching or personally.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Well, you know, I was an assistant on the Dream Team,
so I saw the magnificence of those guys and their
professionalism and how they brought the NBA culture at that
time into the Olympics. The teams I coached, starting with
the Beijing team in two thousand and eight, the first
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team is always a little bit more special because you
haven't done it before, and we had not done it
for a while as a country. And then a number
of those guys. Then five of them played again in twelve,
and then we won the World Championships in Istambul and ten.
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Durant was the star and we had a lot of
young players, and five guys from that team we're on
the twenty twelve teams. So a key word that Jerry Colanguell,
who ran USA Basketball and I embraced, was continuity. And
those guys gave it, and that's what Lebron is giving
(20:40):
right now. And Kevin Anthony Davis, Steph. You know a
lot of people don't realize Steph was part of two
of our World championships in ten and fourteen, so he
understands international ball and he wants to win a gold medal.
Having those four veterans is huge as far as the
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continuity aspect.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Talking to Mike Skushevsky go back to the Dream Team,
and it felt like there was like tangible moments where
Bird and Magic and everybody else realized that all of
a sudden, Mike was the new sheriff in town and
that there was almost this begrudging handoff of that guy's
the best player in the world.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
Well, you know, they weren't at the same age at
that you know they You know, Jordan was more in
his prime, although he's always in his prime, and that's
I shouldn't even said that. You know, he was Jordan
then and uh where Larry has really had a lot
of back problems then and Magic had been all out
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for a year and so they not that they were
at his level at that time that if they were
in their prime, all three of them. Take those three
guys to start any.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Team, if you could pick one of those three, that
one would go to Duke when you were there.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Oh, I take any of them.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
No, you got it, you got first pick.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Yeah, Well, who's going to stay for four years?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Yeah, Jordan only stayed stayed for three. I wish he'd
only stayed for one at Carolina.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
How about they're going to all stay for three years? Magic,
Larry or Mike.
Speaker 8 (22:29):
I can't pick one. Yeah, I can't pick one. I
love all three of those guys, Like you're talking about
three of at least in the top six or seven
in the history of the game. I mean, uh, Magic
is probably the best point guard ever. You know, Jordan
(22:51):
may be the best player ever. Look, Kobe's right there
in Lebron and Larry was just unique you know, like
he's and you talk about being a competitor. There aren't
as many players like that anymore. I'm telling you, I
(23:12):
don't know. I don't know, yew and not that there
isn't talent, but yeah, like I don't know if you
I saw something yesterday where the salaries and these guys
deserve it. Of our Olympic team for next year, the
guys on it are something like five hundred million dollars
(23:34):
when you combine for the year, you know, the twelve
guys on the Dream Team, it was thirty five million,
so for the whole team. And and so I don't
know if there there was You didn't just play for money.
(23:56):
They loved the game, and I wish we would have
I think we have a number of guys who love
the game, but in youth basketball and even college. But
I'm not sure the love of the game is the
impetus to be good all the time. Yeah, like Durant,
(24:17):
Durant loves the game. Durant, if he's walking by a Jimmy,
he's got to go in and shoot, you know, he's
got to play every every day. And I wish that
I would see that more. You know, in the young players.
Now again, not that is there are players like that,
but it was almost like everyone was like that during
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that time period.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
When you look at the development of other countries, and
I don't know if if we need to kind of
reassess what we're teaching at the high school level, AAU level,
because what's happening. You know, you can make an argument
the four or five best players in the world didn't
play in the United States.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Is that a concern, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
And actually I'm working with the NBA now and one
of our committees is a Global Development Committee and we're
about just over a year old, and we're trying to
change the One is to unify the game. Like the
game is played in many different ways in our country. Internationally,
(25:26):
if you're in France or Italy, you play the game
the same. You know, there are four quarters, ten minutes.
You know. The men's college basketball was the most outline
of all of them, you know. And then many people
don't play with a shot clock. Many states don't have
(25:49):
a shot clocks, and that's a mistake because you have
to learn to play the game. The only way you
wanted to play the game is that place and play.
So we're trying to unify that and uh change how
the American the young American players being taught and coached.
(26:13):
They play a lot of games, but they don't practice
a lot. And you'd be shocked and pleasantly shocked in
like France, Germany, uh, Lithuania, of these countries from young
age on, these kids are really coached well and they're
brought up the right way. Ours is still dan. Ours
(26:38):
is based on a scholastic system where you know, in
other words, like for men's college basketball, it's crazy you
can practice twenty hours a week in season and then
you can't practice at certain times. Then in the summer
you can practice four hours a week. You got to
(26:58):
be kidding me, like that has what the hell's happening?
You know, like if a kid is playing the piano
or is in acting and he wants to work sixty
out he or she wants to work sixty hours a week,
no one's stopping them from doing. I think it's the
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next once they get all this stuff. Whenever they get
the stuff done, whether they're contracted employees or whatever they are,
the next lawsuit is going to be. You mean, I
can't be coached more than twenty hours I mean it's stupid,
it really is. It's so so bad, and we're trying
(27:44):
to we're doing some things to try to change that.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, talking to Mike Ruszewski, the Hall of Famer Special
Advisor to NBA basketball operations, is Cooper Flag good enough
to make the Olympic team?
Speaker 8 (27:58):
Not right now, but he will be, you know, hopefully
no injuries or whatever. You know, he's not only talented,
he has he has a love of the game, and
he is a competitive kid. I mean, he is as
competitive as any freshman that has come into Duke. And
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I'm not saying he's more competitive than some of the
elite guys we had, but as competitive and and he
has a game that translates. He doesn't have a position.
He's just a damn good basketball player and a winner.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Speaking of competitors, Christian Latner isn't in the Basketball Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
He's in the he is as a member of the
Dream Team.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
Now I'm talking about individually. Why hasn't he had his
day just college career a loan.
Speaker 8 (28:53):
Well, he's in the college Basketball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
But the one in Springfield where yeah, it's very difficult
to uh get into, uh this Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame,
and uh uh if I'm not sure anybody's who's done
it just with the college career.
Speaker 8 (29:17):
Uh. In fact, that's why we started, just in the
turn of this century, we started uh uh the college
Basketball Hall of Fame. Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
But college coaches get in there, so not many. I mean,
there's one of the top five college players of all time,
would you say.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
I agree? So uh one, I'm sure he's been nominated,
and you go and through the selection process and you
know you uh if they're the things would be given
more to an NBA player consideration than a collegiate player.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
And so that competition then is with probably somebody who
had a fifteen to eighteen year career. You know, it
was all NBA five times. And and but I agree
with you. I mean, Christian was the winningest player we've
ever had a duke. He was the most competitive.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
And don't you just want to hear that speech when
he gets inducted.
Speaker 8 (30:32):
It'd be a good one. And I can just say
I'm coming up and he said, yeah, this is a
great honor and I want to thank Dan Patrick.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And he should.
Speaker 8 (30:43):
Yeah. Yeah, are you only saying that because you want,
you know him to be recognized, Yeah, to be recognized.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
I'm surprised Moore don't recognize me in their whole. Like
when Jordan was up there, I thought I'd give a
shot and get a shout out from him. I mean,
he roasted everybody. I thought he would give me a
shout out. But yeah, I guess that's partial for why
I want.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
Yeah, well, Christian. You know, Christian really understood the game.
And uh, he he does some coaching now and in
camps and clinics and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
But he had a long NBA career as well. I
mean it wasn't decorated, but still.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
Which takes away then from the consideration. In other words,
if it's a cut a continuance of the exceps. Uh.
And so it doesn't add that you were in the NBA,
it's were you an All Star? Were you all? Did
you know? Did you make the first team defensive teams? Like? Uh,
(31:46):
it's very difficult to get into the Naismith Hall of Fame,
it really is. And and uh, that doesn't that's not
a knock on Christian. Obviously. I love Christian and he
made me a hell of a coach.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, he helped you get into the Hall of Fame coach.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
He did you know as uh for a coach to
get in. We got a lot of help from a
lot of players.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I was wondering about when the Lakers were talking to
Dan Hurley. Yeah, and you were advising the Lakers, I believe, uh,
not just insulting.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
Rob Polinka and I are friends. But no, I wasn't consulting.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Oh so you didn't have any say in Dan Hurley
or JJ.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
No, I talked. I never talked to the Lakers about
Danny and Danny and actually has on the phone with
Danny last night for about an hour about uh, changing
college basketball and his family.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
There need to change it. He's winning coach.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
No, No, you have to always look at improving it.
But no, I talked to Polenka, you know, Rob and
JJ during that process. Of course I did you know. Uh,
it'd be that would be wrong if I didn't. But
I wasn't a consultant. Okay, Yeah, I mean that that's
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taken it a little bit too.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Far, giving you a little too much credit. There is
there anything interesting in the office. Is this like the
main office where you have all the awards and like
people can come in and see how great you are.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
This is my conference room. You know I still work
at Duke. If you should come in my office, I
don't have all that busy stuff that you have on
your desk. I have really like accomplishments. Your desk is
a wanna be you know, My desk is a beat.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Okay, If I come in your office, I would probably
steal something.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
We have cameras, it doesn't matter. I'm out the door.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
I'm gonna maybe I would take your high school jersey.
Didn't you leave the city of Chicago and scoring? So
you probably had that frame there in.
Speaker 8 (33:59):
Your office just a Catholic league.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, but you still led the Catholic League in scoring.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Right. But no, I don't have any high school things up.
I have West Point things us a Duke, and uh
my office is pretty pretty neat. And you're you're invited
to come at any.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Time, anytime, anytime, anytime.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
You have to have somebody in the office with you
while you're here.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Well why not you?
Speaker 8 (34:31):
No? Well I may not be here. My got so
I say anytime and anytime you could you could come in, okay,
and I could where you would get lost in memories
of all the being the nostalgic person that you are.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Do you think I would openly weep if I was
in your office in soul from from joy.
Speaker 8 (34:53):
I can't believe this happened, and that happened, and that happened.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I'm getting I'm getting emotional just thinking about.
Speaker 8 (35:03):
It, right, Coach, I didn't realize. Yeah he did all that.
Yeah you think it would walk out in wonderment.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Well, I'm glad you're doing well and I always to
talk to you.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
So, by the way, I'm headed off to Napa We
I host a vwine celebration there. It's raised in the
last twenty five years one hundred and sixty million to
fight cancer, and we're going to raise probably twelve to
fifteen million this weekend. It's a great grade event in
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Napa Valley.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
It's a little late notice for me to go. But
I know what you're doing, Like, is this a fake invite?
Speaker 8 (35:43):
Yeah? Do you do you ever drink wine?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yes? I do?
Speaker 8 (35:46):
Okay, Yeah, specials like red white.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Cabs, you know. Yeah. Wait, did you say South.
Speaker 8 (35:56):
Bronx No, Savignon?
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Oh I thought you said South Bronx. I'm like a Bronx.
Speaker 8 (36:04):
Do you do your bottles have quarks.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yes they do, okay, but you can get like Australia.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I mean they have the twist off and there's nothing
wrong with that, Coach.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
No, in fact, that shows me you know a little
bit more than I thought you know about wine.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Thank you, coach. And you know who you.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Should get on the show. Who really who's a great
friend and really knows whine from coaches? Is Pop Greg Popovich.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
He doesn't. I've been trying for twenty years to get Pop.
He doesn't do this stuff.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
Yeah he's a great guy.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
Oh I hear that, but I'll never know that. So
I'm going to take care of great Yeah, put in
a good word for me. We'll talk just wine. I
won't talk anything else other than why.
Speaker 8 (36:48):
You'll knock your socks off with wine.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Save travels to NAPA and thanks again for the faux invite.
Speaker 8 (36:57):
And you know, I'm going to take a picture pick
of my office and send them.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
That'd be nice. That'd be nice, Coach.
Speaker 8 (37:03):
It'd be like a wish list, a dream. Yeah, yeah,
like you know those places that you have not visited before.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah, winners, Yeah, yes, you're right, thank you, coach. That's
Mike Skrushevski. Won three gold medals. His team USA's head coach.
Sounded like an invitation, but not really an invitation. Invitation, Yeah,
an invitation, but you.
Speaker 8 (37:23):
Want to go right there?
Speaker 6 (37:24):
I just figured that that's that's what he's kind of
doing to you. Yeah, I think you'd want to go.
Speaker 8 (37:27):
But if you're around.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Now, he knows that I know a little bit about wine.
Uh maybe next time.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Back after this, be sure to catch the live edition
of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern
six am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Let me go back to the pollution element here playing
a large role in Uh, what's going on with triathlon?
Jay Buzzby, a Yahoo Sports senior writer, and uh, he's
covering this. Uh, Jay, what can you tell us? What
is the update? Is the sind rivers still polluted?
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Well, I'm standing right by it and I'm not sure
that I would drink out of it right now. So
it's it is apparently polluted enough that they postponed the
men's triathlon this morning, schedule for eight am Paris time
this morning. They're gonna shrine Runner tomorrow after the women's triathlon.
We'll see if the sin gets cleaned up in twenty
four hours. They're hoping it's very bright that opens the
sun is going to be the disinfectant, but it's still
(38:27):
way up in the air at this point.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Go back four years here, they spent over a billion
dollars for this moment. What do you get for over
a billion dollars when it comes to cleaning up a river?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
That's what you got there.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
I mean, if you can see behind me, it went
from being mud brown to kind of a greenish brown.
So that's about what they've gotten for a billion and
a half. It actually does look mildly cleaner, but again
I still would not.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Swim any Okay, you have a couple of events, don't
you have men's and wayman's a triathlon and then is
there a marathon on swimming there's a.
Speaker 7 (39:01):
Marathon swim as well, and so yeah, that's that is
scared it for later on. What they're gonna do is
they're going to try to have the triathlon tomorrow. If
that doesn't work, they're drop dead date in August second.
It's probably not the right phrase to use. The end
to the last possible date is August second. If that
doesn't work, they're going to turn it into a do athlon.
It's just going to be running and biking, and then
on August seventh and eighth they have the marathon swim.
(39:24):
So obviously it's still got a little bit of time
to get some of this in, but it's still no
ways to go until it's cleaning up to the satisfaction
of the swimmers.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Jay, what are the swimmers risk here?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
I know we can have fun at their expense, but
being in the water, they're going to be uh swallowing
some of this pollution.
Speaker 7 (39:42):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's equal as the main one.
Do we all you know, we've all heard about that
what that can do to you know, what that can
do to your You're a digestive system, you're intestinal system,
all all aspects of it. That's that's the question.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
You know.
Speaker 7 (39:52):
Obviously, when you're swimming, you can't hold your breath for
that entire amount of time. You can't keep the water
out of your eyes, out of your your other orifices.
So yeah, they're going to be subjected to this for
a while, and the question is whether they're going to
feel comfortable if they you know, if the threshold is
here and it gets right down to here and they
call it safe. I mean, how much more safe is
that really than it is right now?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Who's catching heat for this?
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (40:14):
Pretty much everybody? Uh Paris. This Paris city government is
really taking a lot of heat for this, mainly because
they spent, as you said, a billion and a half
dollars on this and they're not getting much out of it.
There's and that Paris protest. French people protest the way
that we eat eat, you know, just constantly. But here,
what they're finding out is that Paris people are not
really thrilled with spending all this money on the Seine
(40:34):
and not on other, you know, other necessary aspects of government.
So that's what's drawn a lot of protests. I think
the number one team drawing heat is is Paris, the
city government.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
So you wouldn't jump in that that river right now?
Speaker 7 (40:48):
Well I might, but I'm an idiot, so I mean,
I just kind of want to see what it would
be like. But it's I mean, it moves fast, that's
the thing. It's a fast moving river. You know, if
you don't know what you're doing, it's gonna be a
lot of trouble. But it doesn't look terrible, doesn't look
at any worse than any river that I've seen, you know,
in the South. But it may or may not be
an endorsement of it.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Jay, great to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Could you bring me back a little a little glass
of water there from the Send River.
Speaker 7 (41:13):
A little bit of a little bit of a sample.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
You bring me back a sample from the Olympics. Thank you, Jay,
Take care,
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