June 22, 2024 • 40 mins
TJ Houshmandzadeh and Plaxico Burress talk about the Lakers hiring JJ Redick as their head coach, the Celtics winning their 18th title and their chances to repeat next year, the Thunder trading for former Bulls SG Alex Caruso, the Pistons firing Monty Williams, and more!
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We got some Lakers, We got some Lakers talking about
we finally have a coach. Finally finally have a coach.
Talk a little Boston Celtics. We'll talk about the two
most important franchises in the NBA, the Lakers and the Celtics.
We don't know what's going on with one of the
worst franchises, the Detroit Pistons, and what they got going.
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They just paying coaches all kind of money. Not that
we'll get in all of that, mister Burrs. How you doing, man,
Hey man, you know everything is lovely.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Man. We got heat waved going over here on the
East coach Man. It's it's a it's a it's kind
of moist outside, man. That's all I can explain. It's
been in the nineties all week. I mean it's been
it's been really, really, really human.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I don't know what's going on, but you know, if
you live over here on the East coach Man, you
cannot complain because of the winners that we have. We
we are due for some good weather man finally, and
it's here, but it's blistering hot.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So so you'll take that heat wave over that cold
wave A solute that's that's uh, well, you're in a
heat wave, and I'm in the sauna where I'm at.
It's it's one hundred degrees out here, so it's everybody
is experiencing quote unquote a heat waves, just just a
little different the Lakers. The Lakers took a little heat.
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Many said, Lebron James jj Reddick just kind of out
the blues started a podcast. Many people thought, that's odd.
I wonder where this is going to go. Interesting. I
like the show, you know, I like how they bounced
things off each other, you know, got good chemistry. But
somebody said when the show started, I think Lebron wants
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jj Reddick to be the next head coach. When the
show started, and lo and behold, that's what has happened.
And it took the Lakers a long time to get here.
Was jj Reddick is a candidate. Jj Reddick is a
leading candidate. And then they pivoted and went after Dan
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Hurley did not work out, and they come back to
now who many thought and assumed was a front runner
to get the job from the day they started that podcast.
What are your thoughts on the Lakers hiring Reddick and
do you like it? Man?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
You know, I really didn't expect Danny her to leave Connecticut,
especially at the state in which that program is in
right now. You know, those kids are at Yukon and
they wanted to go to Yukon to play for Danny Hurley.
So you know, why would you leave a stable situation
in which he has in Yukon and go into a
(04:26):
situation to be the head coach for the Los Angeles
Lakers when you when it's completely unstable right now. I
think if he would have took that job, he probably
would have been the head coach, maybe for two or
three years maybe, and then he probably would have ended
back up in college. But I think it was the
right decision for him to go back to college football
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because I really believe with his coaching style and how
passionate he is about coaching, he would have to change
his style of you know, coaching and a dressing you know,
these professional players, but you know the game is not
going to change for him, but he would have to
make those changes. So you know Answert, JJ Reddick, and
(05:12):
you know, I just don't see where there's any relevance
outside of him or being an NBA player for fifteen seasons,
why the Los Angeles Lakers would you know, select him
as being a head coach. I think when I heard
when I heard he was named the head coach, two
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specific things jumped off the page for me. They offered
Danny Hurley six year, seventy million and they offer him
I believe it was a four year, thirty two million
dollar deal. So you know what, it doesn't matter who
becomes the head coach of the Lakers. They're not going
to be able to compete in the Western Conference right
now with all these young teams that you have obviously, OKC,
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you know Denver, you know, Minnesota's on the rise, and
maybe they is four for fifth knowing the West, but
you know, their quest to get back to the NBA
Championship right now with that current route that they have,
I don't believe that they'll make it back to the
NBA Finals anytime soon. But for JJ Reddick, uh, you know,
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to get this job, for this for the Los Angeles Lakers,
I didn't see it coming. I kind of I think that,
and we know that there are more qualified coaches out
there than a JJ Reddick. Obviously, their relationship with Lebron
I think really you know, helped them, you know, sway
their position in hiring him. But you know, I think
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everybody agrees to at the same time that you know
JJ Reddick is you know, he's a guy that we
just don't know what he's going to bring to the table.
Are the players going to have that respect for him
as being a head coach? What is that locker room
going to be like with the players knowing that him
and Lebron have that kind of relationship. So I think
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it's a He's going to win some games, but the
media and him dealing with these questions dan and day out,
that's one of the things I want to see him,
you know, going from the media side of it to
being asked all those questions about the media.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You know, it's number one I like to hire. And
the NBA has a It's about players, man, It's about players. Like,
if you have a good roster, you're going to succeed
as a head coach, and if you don't, you aren't
going to succeed. It's very simple since twenty twenty. Let's
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go back to COVID when we want a championship. Okay,
let's go back there. We want a championship. Since then,
it's been a different NBA champion every year, so five
different champs. We're on our third head coach. Frank Vogel
gets fired, Darvinham gets fired, and now here we are
with JJ Reddick and we just won a championship five
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years ago and we are on our third head coach.
And so the Lakers don't have the fire power, they
don't have the man power, they don't have the development
of young guys to compete with some of these teams.
I mean the Milwaukee Bucks. They fired their coach right
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in the middle of the season, well not even the
middle of the season, early in the season, and everybody's like, oh,
they fired Adrian Griffin. We're gonna be in Doc. We're
gonna bring in Doc Rivers and we're gonna be much
better record wise. They weren't better. They weren't better. And
so you fired a coach thinking, oh, we're gonna hire
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Doc Rivers and get better. No, Giannis goes down. They
didn't have the man power, they didn't have a firepower
to beat the Celtics. And that's the NBA is one
hundred a player league. If you got the players, you
are gonna win, and if you don't have the players,
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you're not gonna win. And so when you look at
the Lakers roster, Lebron he has a player option fifty
one million. Lebron has plenty of money. I'm assuming and
I believe he'll he'll resign. Anthony Davis is under contract.
I believe D'Angelo Russell also has a player option. But
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where can the Lakers get better to give JJ Reddick
a chance? That's the key. Where can they get better?
And do you can they make a trade? Who can?
They can't acquire anybody in free agency unless Lebron leads,
and that's probably gonna make them worse if he isn't there.
And so I'm rooting for JJ Reddick because we all
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know I'm a Laker fan. But it's tough when you
look at the Minnesota's of the world, the Denvers of
the world, the Dallas Mavericks of the world. Sacramento is
going to be better. There's just so many teams. Oklahoma City,
who was the number one seed, there's just so many
really good teams in the Western Conference. It's like, where
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do we fall, where do we slide into that? Will
it give JJ Reddick a chance? The way JJ Reddick
played with the I don't care if you like me,
I'm gonna do me attitude, that should bode well as
a coach because he's going to he seems as if
he's going to demand respect. He's not just gonna let
you walk over him, and you have to have that
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as a coach. But then you also you can't be
the tough guy demand respecting me the tough guy, everybody's
gonna tune you out. So he's gonna have to have
that that balance of demanding that respect, getting that respect,
but not rubbing people the wrong way. I'm optimistic that
it'll workout, but you gotta out of players. And if
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it's just Lebron and they did we come back with
this same team. We're close. But these teams are getting better.
Minnesota gonna better next year, They're gonna be better. Oklahoma
City has gotten better. They gonna be better next year.
Dallas from this experience of going to the finals and losing,
they're gonna be better. And so I hope I can
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say the same thing about my team that we will
be better. I like to hire, but it's about the players, man.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, no doubt about it. Man, Just like you said,
but you don't have the players in this conference to
really get it done. I mean, what are the roster
changes going to be here? We are, We're already approaching
July August. You basically got three months trying to half
months until the season starts. I think the league, Lakers,
you need to start making some moves now if they
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want to even come and compete for a spot. And
the Western Comps. I believe they'll make the playoffs. I mean,
I mean, I really do. But when it comes down
to it, you know, what is JJ Reddick going to
be like in these huddles, in these you know, crunch
time situations where he has.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
To draw up plays?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
And if if the if the Lakers are going through
a tough stretch winning basketball games and they are out
there doing everything that he is telling them to do
and what he is uh, you know, teaching them or
telling them it's not resulting in wins. You know, do
they keep their trust in them or do they believe
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they believe in you know his you know his coaching
style or or his play calling. What's going to happen
when those things arise for Lakes, Because it will happen.
They're going to lose, you know, four or five games
in a row. It happens in the NBA basically just
every team. So how the Lakers and Lebron and that
crew respond to him being in a first year a
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head coach and he's going to receive a lot of criticisms. Man,
it's not a good job. I mean, I'm just telling
you what comes with being the coach of lost in
the Lakers is like being the Hiccas with the Dallas Cowboys.
I mean that's just the kind of attention he's going
to receive. Wow, then the first coach, we we better
than the Cowboys. You know the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I'm just talking from and since the nineties.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I'm just talking about from a media standpoint. You know
how people you know how to yell. Yeah, there's gonna
be a lot of scrutiny, a lot of eyes of you.
You lose three four games in a row, Man, what
is JJ Reddick doing? But also what coaches will be
on his staff or what they bring in, Uh, really
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experienced coaches what will it be a lot of former
players on step you don't know, but ultimately you can
bring in who you want to bring in. You can
bring in all these coaches and this and that, and
you got a had of players.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
When that ball is tipped off and thrown in the air.
If you got five on the court and three or
four on that bench that can come in and do something,
JJ Reddick gonna look like a savior. And if you don't,
it's gonna be. Yeah. We told y'all he wasn't ready
for this. We knew it. They reached on this. I mean,
how can you prepare for this? I mean, really being
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a head coach for the Lakers? How can you go
from you know, being a TV personality to being a
head coach? There's no preparation for that, no preparation. I
believe he's ready for this. The coaching is more of
a people business than the exit and the exes and thos.
These dudes know, they know the game. It's a people business.
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Getting people to trust you, believe in you. And we'll
see if JJ Reddick can do that. We will be
taking a break and when we come back, we're gonna
talk a little boss and Celtics, Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum
Celtics now the winners franchise when it comes to championships
in the NBA. That's Plaxico Burris, some teacher who's a
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Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh yeah, welcome back in that bon game Live from
atirag dot com studio. I'm TJ. Houshima was out alongside
Mr Plexico Burrs. Yeah he with the little mellow music
A plex that you got did you watch the can
and friends to pop out sometimes you gotta pop out
and shown. Yeah, for all the people listening. You know,
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West Coast native Kendrick Lamar, I just thought it was
a great thing what he did, had a concert and
had a lot of West Coast artists, brought them all together.
It was good for that scene out here. Yeah, I
think you should make that din on June teenth. I
think you should make it a yearly thing, annual thing.
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Can and friends pop out at the form. Yeah, it
was good. It made me think about that when he
played when he played that music. The Boston Celtics Monday
last Monday or five days ago, they went their eighteenth
NBA Championship and they're the favorites to repeat again. Now
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you can take this so many different places. I want
to go here with it. Jaylen Brown wins conference in VP,
and then he wins follows that up and wins the
finals in VP. But what was weird was Jason Tatum
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led the team at points rebounds and assists. Was it
more so people in the media saying, wait, I think
Jaylen Brown may be the best player on the team,
but when you lead the team at point three bounds
and assists, how are you not the best player? On
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the team. You know what.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I believe I think that Jason Tatum had Obviously, I
think in the championship game he had thirty one points
and Jalen Brown had twenty one points and they ended
up having fifty two points between them. But from an
overall series standpoint, I believe Jalen Brown had the better series.
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And you know, when obviously, when Jason Kidd came out
and said, well, you know, Jason, Jalen Brown was the
best player on the team. And now based off of
what we've seen and what happened with him winning the
Eastern Conference Finals MVP and winning the MV and women
the finals MVP, maybe he is the best player on
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the team or maybe not, but it doesn't matter. At
this point. They were world champions. But I thought, from
you know, all postseason, you know, uh, you know, Jason
Tatum took the leadership role of you know, he scored
when he had to. There were games where you know,
he didn't have his best game, and Jalen Brown was
kind of carrying a team on both sides of the
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court offensively and defensively. And I think from an overall,
you know, you know, final standpoint and postseason he had
the best postseason out of anybody you know on that team.
Jayson Tator may be the best player you know on
a Celtis. I believe that he is. But I I
said going into the uh into you know, into game
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five when they when they ended up, you know, did
win the championship, that I I if Jalen Brown just
p had a you know, a decent game, that he
would you know, beat the finals MVP. I think Jason
Tatum was really pushing it to win it at But
you know, at this point, did they they They they've
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rowned with each other. They've been in the league together
on the same team since they were what thinteen twenty
years old, So I believe that there is a genuine
love for each other. It didn't matter who won the MVP.
They just really wanted to get that monkey off them
off their back of getting to the NBA Finals and
winning the World championship.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
See when Jason Kidd when when he comes out and says, man,
Jaylen Brown the best player on the team. He was
trying to call some dissent calls something at locker room
to stop them from playing the way that they were playing,
in a team way. If you open shoot the ball,
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everybody eats a type of offense. That's what he was
trying to do. He knew if they continue to play
that way, Dallas didn't have a chance. But what he
did was in the media, people may have quietly thought, man,
Jaylen Brown is playing really good. Jallen Brown may be
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the most important Celtic. Then it became a topic every day, Hey,
Jalleon Brown, let the Celtic is scaring again? Is he
the best player? To say? Oh, Jalen Brown is Garden
Luca picking him up ninety four feet? Is your best
player on the team. Jason Kidd started it and then
it kind of just took over and had the life
of its own. But when he won MVP at the
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Eastern Conference finals, I believe that did something for him mentally.
Were you know what everybody for years have said, Jason
Tatum is a non Nah, it's us. It's not just him,
it's us. And so I hope they can maintain what
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I believe they have And what you just said is
that friendship, that mutual respect, because in essence they have
grown up as men together and they've been proved and
they matured. But I personally felt like me. I felt
like Jason Tatum should have been the MVP of the finals.
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I believe he impacted the game in so many different ways.
But if you give it to Jaylen Brown, you're not
gonna be angry about it. And the fact that he
did win it, it's like, okay, it's rewarding for him.
I believe this is gonna make the Celtics even better
because Jaylen Brown is gonna come back now next year
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chip on his shoulder because he knows people ah, should
he have won it, And Jason Taylor is gonna be
pissed that he didn't win it, and so they will
be better. They are the favorites to repeat. And I'm
actual about that in a second, but we gotta check
in what not mister sir Ilo Isaac loyin crime with
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these updates and who what you got for us?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Just getting ready for what I'm about to play you fellas,
sorry about that, because we are indeed starting with Euro
twenty four going on as we speak, Portugal taking on
Turkey and Portugal off to a great start. And let's
find out how it sounds in Portuguese. Here is the
broadcast crew from RTP in Portugal, and even though it's
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in Portuguese, the guy starts talking about Elvis. Of now,
if I'm not mistaken, listen to the first goal that
Portugal scored in Portuguese.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Hell Spoka, so Heavylla got this alad.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
So apparently Elvis lives in Portugal, although I can't really
explain why. Portugal has since scored another goal seven minutes later.
So they're up to nothing over Turkey now. In the
thirtieth minute at Euro twenty four earlier today, Georgia and
the Czech Republic finished in a one to one tie
in Game six of the Stanley Cup Final. On Friday night,
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the Edmonds and Oilers did it again. They defeated the
Florida Panthers five to one, so the Oilers have rallied
from a three games to none deficit to tie the
series at three, forcing a Game seven on Monday night
at Florida as the Oilers became the first team to
rally from a three games to non deficit to force
a Game seven in a Stanley Cup Final since the
Detroit Red Wings in nineteen forty five. In Major League Baseball,
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Friday Night Angels over the Dodgers in ten innings three
to two, despite a four hundred and fifty five foot
home run by Shohey O'tani, his twenty second of the
season to lead the National League his seventh and eleven games.
Jay Croninworth of the Padres five for five of the
home run in a nine to five win over the Brewers. Finally,
in the WNBA on Friday night, Caitlyn Clark had sixteen
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points and seven assists as her Indiana fever one at
Atlanta ninety one to seventy nine in front of an
Atlanta franchise record crowd of seventeen thousand, five hundred and
seventy five at State Farm Arena, breaking the old record
by nearly six thousand fans. TJ and PLEXI goo back
to you.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Man, Caitlyn Clark is putting them butts in the seats. Man. Thanks,
She is putting butts in the seats. They coming out
to watch her play, and they did put her on
the Olympic team. They're done lost state mind. But how
Digress were not even talking about that. Celtics her favorites
to repeat very simple. You think they can get it done.
(25:18):
I'll say this, if Christapp Porzingis can play in fifty
five games and be healthy. Look out. I don't know
if he can do it, But do you like to
the Celtics chances of repeating.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I think they're going to have a good team. I mean,
I really do you know. I think that you know,
their role to the East Eastern Conference was, you know
it was it was a little bit easier than the
Dallas Marathis and what they had to go through. Obviously,
they had to beat the Clippers. They beat Dema Nuggets.
I know, I'm sorry that they beat the Minnesota Oklahoma City.
(25:56):
Oklahoma City, who was the one seed in the Western
comes out. I just believe when they got to the
NBA Finals, they just completely ran out of gas. But
I think next year, I think, uh that the Western
Conference will be better. I think with the healthy Jewel Embiid,
you have to consider Philly as a strong candidate. Keeping
Yan as healthy as obviously a priority for for Milwaukee
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because if he's not healthy, then we're not even talking
about the Milwaukee Bucks winning the winning the you know,
the Eastern Conference. But I think with this group of guys,
they're going to keep these group of guys together. I
think you're going to see shifting the NBA as far
as how these teams, uh.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You know, will will you.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Know, decorate their rosters because you know, just sitting there
watching the Boss and Celtis in the way that they waited.
They share the basketball. Everybody's completely unselfish. They switch everything,
They switch all the screens. On defense, everybody can guard.
They don't double team anybody. And I think that's what
we do. Shift four dudes that can right defense with
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no help. I mean, right, that's crazy. I think that's
one of the things that you know you're going to
see change, you know, you know with these rosters, you know,
moving forward, because they play complete team basketball, man, and
they don't do you really consider Jason Tatum to be
like a real superstar of this league. I think it's
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the first time where we've seen a team, uh you know,
from a team standpoint, collectively, everybody having an impact on
the basketball game at some point in time.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
In every game.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
It was Jewe Holliday one game, it was Jason Tatum
one game, Ja Brown one game, Derrick White another, Al
Hall for coming up knocking off threes, and obviously christat
poonzingis the game that he had in Game one. Nobody
expected him to come out and had the kind of
game that he had. But I think for the Boston Celtics,
you know, being with Eddie House and how you know,
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Brad Stevens has you know, constructed this team. They have
it where everybody's contract is like staggered, so they don't
they won't be in a situation to where they have
two guys like a Drew Holiday or Derek White coming
at a contract at the same time. You had Jyalen Brown.
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This year is Jason Tatum. The next year is going
to be uh, Derek White. Then then then it's going
to be uh, you know, Jaylen Brown again as far
as you know staying with the team. So I think
they've done a really good job as far as you know,
managing this roster and the guys that they have. They're
gonna keep these guys together for a long time.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I'll say this, the Celtics will once again probably have
the best roster in the NBA because of what I
said earlier, last five years, five different NBA champions, I'm
gonna say that Celtics won't repeat. It's hard and the
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Bucks will be better if Jannis is healthy. The Sixers
will be better if and b can stay healthy, there'll
be a team. The Knicks will be better. They get
Julius Randall and Tip stop playing forty eight minutes a game.
You know you're talking about run out of gas. You
ain't got no choice but to run out of gas
playing for him, he gonna empty the tank. It don't
matter regular season Playoffs're gonna play the whole game. And
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so just from that perspective, I believe it will be
a new NBA champion. It's tough to repeat. You have
to have a special team and they you and you
got to have a lot of things go your way.
You gotta have the ball bounce your way off season.
I don't know if that's possible, but a big congrats
on the Celtics winning their eighteenth NBA title. And we
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got work to do as Lakers because now we're behind them,
so we got to make sure a whole lot of
we belong at the top. You have a lot of
work to do. Yeah, we got a lot of work do.
We'll get there. And the Bulls are they're doing some work.
They traded Alex Cruz, so who many in the league coveted.
(30:07):
A lot of people wanted this three in d Ability
trading Oklahoma City Thunder and it was weird. It was
just a player for player swap, which is very very
rare these days. Alex Caruso for Josh Giddy. That makes
Oklahoma City a better team because in the playoffs Giddy
(30:27):
kind of he was falling out of it. He was
a starter. Then they put him on the bench. And
you rarely see this in the NBA. A guy starts
off season, you're starting in the playoffs, and then the
coach is like, you know what, I'm gonna bring you
off the bench. That's gonna make Oklahoma City better. This
will give This is a good opportunity for Giddy because
(30:47):
Giddy was averaging eighteen points and some He's a playmaker.
But on Oklahoma City with SGA, you don't get that opportunity.
Him going to Chicago was good for his career. What's
Caruso going to Oklahoma City is great for Oklahoma City
because now they're trying to if you look at it,
they can get a big man to help out chat
(31:09):
just just some with some size and some weight. Only
they are almost like Boston, where that whole lineup can
play defense. SGA can play defense. Jalen Oneers could play defense,
Caruso could play defense. Is get to the point where
you start looking at Oklahoma City and they're very similar
to what the Boston Celtics are doing and have accomplished.
(31:33):
What do you think of the trade Caruso for Josh Getty.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I think it's great. I mean, I really do. I
think the Oka see they just got better defensively. You know,
carus who's going to score some points. He's not going
to be, you know, the focal point of the little offense.
Everybody know who that that's SGA Pop probably should have
won the MVP. And I think they are taking a
(31:58):
page out of what I just said with the Boston
celter He's getting better on defense. They gotta find a
way if they can slow teams down. They have one
of the best scorers in the world and that's Ja.
So it's a young group. Caruso is a veteran, he's
one of He's won World championship with the Lakers, so
I think he will come in and have that Drew
Hollway type effect on this basketball team on the defensive ends,
(32:23):
when it comes to you know, effort and competing and
not giving up on plays. I believe he brings that
same type of you know mentality to this team in
which they need. They young, they are going to be, uh,
you know, one of the top teams in the Western
Commerce for for some years to come. So I think
some of the more vetterment leadership that they can get
(32:45):
on this basketball team. I think Adas Carusso is respected
around the league as being one of those guys. He's gonna,
you know what, you know what you're going to give
him every single night. He's gonna come out of compete,
He's gonna score some points on offense. He's gonna, you know,
guard guard your best offensively. And I think it's a
good move for you know, Okay, see, I don't know
(33:05):
how it's a player to play a trade, but I think, okay,
see one with adding Cruiser to this roster, well.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
We gonna see how that plays out. But yeah, I
feel like Oklahoma City is a much better team. And
they still have a draft, and the way Sam Presty
is drafting guys, you just assume he gonna draft a
diamond and a rough and in a couple of years
they're gonna be like, how we miss on this guy?
Sam Presty just know what he's doing. We'll take a break.
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That's mister Plexico Burst. And before we finish this first hour,
(33:59):
man money Williams, Money Williams. I just can't signs of
seventy plus million dollar contract with the Detroit Pistons. Wins
fourteen games in his first season. I believe they lost
(34:21):
was it twenty seven or twenty eight games in a row?
They fired him and they owe him sixty five million dollars.
They owe him sixty five million dollars. So he basically
worked for one year and made over seventy million. I
(34:43):
believe it was seventy eight to be exact. What are
your thoughts? And once again, it's what what we were
talking about earlier. I don't care how good the coach is, man,
you ain't got the players. It ain't happening. Well.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
When Monty was fired from the Phoenix Sons, he was
going to take a break from coaching because his wife,
you know, has cancer, so he would you know, he
wanted to go home and you know, tend to tend
to his wife and beat it for her support, and
you know, beat it for his wife obviously. So when
(35:25):
the Detroit Pistons offered him the job and offered him
the contract, his wife said, you gotta take the job.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
He was like what.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
And that's the reason why he took the job because
she may said, uh uh, you can't turn on that
kind of money. I know that I'm dealing with some
health issues, but you need to go coach this team
and get this money, So listen to his wife. That's
what Monty Williams did. He didn't want to coach after
he was fired for Phoenix. So they lose twenty eight
(35:59):
games in a row. They're the worst team in basketball.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
And he just can't find whatever he's looking for in
his team. They just don't have it. And they've had
top five picks for the last I don't know, six
or seven years straight and they just have not been
able to put together a basketball team that can compete,
(36:24):
that's even a halfway decent product on a basketball court.
And these guys are high draft picks.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
So if you're the Detroit Pistons in his organizations, if
you're drafting the best possible guys that are available coming
out of college basketball.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
What are they supposed to do? These guys are coming out,
they're not NBA players, and when they get this, it's
already too late. So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Maybe they need to do a better job of scouting
or whatever the case may be for an NBA basketball
team to go out there and compete. And these guys
are being paid mellions of dollars and you can lose
twenty eight basketball games in a row. It's not the coach.
The players got to take some kind of accountability of
(37:10):
going out there and performing on the basketball court, because
I don't believe I can remember anybody or any team
losing twenty eight games in a row in the NBA.
So it doesn't matter who you put out there, if
they're going to put the same basketball team out there
that they did last year. And I think the NBA
(37:33):
needs to be like the NFL.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
In regards to the if you have the worst record,
you get the first pick. They didn't get the first
They didn't get the first pick this year, so how
do you expect this franchise to get better if they
have the worst team in basketball?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
And I believe that picking fourth or fifth this year,
going into the NBA draft, maybe they can find, you know,
somebody that can come in and lift this organization. Because
of right now, the guys that they have drafted and
who have been the best available basketball players in the world,
(38:13):
they have not panned out to being good NBA players.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, it is once again, you don't have the players,
it's hard to win. And when you look at the drafts,
because again it's your scouts and your assistant coaches. The scouts, okay,
we should draft this kid. This is the coaches really
develop them. That player development is important. You go to
twenty twenty, they draft Killian Hayes. Where he at now plex,
(38:40):
where he at? Killian as where he at nobody knows,
So that was a waste to pick. The next year,
they draft k Cunningham with the first pick. He's a
good player. Twenty two J Nivey solid player. Last year
Asar Thompson the jury is still out. You don't know,
but he looks to be someone that you can build
(39:03):
I don't know if you can build around, but he's
gonna be a solid rotational player in the league. But
it's what you said. You have all these picks in
the top five. Killian Hayes was the seventh pick. You
have yet to hit on one of them to where
it's like he's the best player on the team. Many
will say that's Kid Cunningham, but you don't know. You
(39:28):
don't know, and so it doesn't matter if it's mine.
Williams pat Riley from the eighties with the Lakers in nineties, like,
if you don't have good players in good player development,
it is hard to win. But man, can you imagine
being on that Detroit Piston team and losing twenty eight
(39:49):
games in a row twenty one They drafted Luca Goalzen,
he was the best college playing basketball. Yeah, man, it is.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Then you get Jay Navey, you can get them from Purdue,
and you draft Marcus Afster, the punk god from the
University of Houston. I'm thinking you coming too the league
and take off and yeah happened. Get somebody to develop talent.
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We got some Lakers, We got some Lakers talking about
we finally have a coach. Finally finally have a coach.
Talk a little Boston Celtics. We'll talk about the two
most important franchises in the NBA, the Lakers and the Celtics.
We don't know what's going on with one of the
worst franchises, the Detroit Pistons, and what they got going.
(01:51):
They just paying coaches all kind of money. Not that
we'll get in all of that, mister Burrs. How you doing, man,
Hey man, you know everything is lovely.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Man. We got heat waved going over here on the
East coach Man. It's it's a it's a it's kind
of moist outside, man. That's all I can explain. It's
been in the nineties all week. I mean it's been
it's been really, really, really human.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I don't know what's going on, but you know, if
you live over here on the East coach Man, you
cannot complain because of the winners that we have. We
we are due for some good weather man finally, and
it's here, but it's blistering hot.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
So so you'll take that heat wave over that cold
wave A solute that's that's uh, well, you're in a
heat wave, and I'm in the sauna where I'm at.
It's it's one hundred degrees out here, so it's everybody
is experiencing quote unquote a heat waves, just just a
little different the Lakers. The Lakers took a little heat.
(02:56):
Many said, Lebron James jj Reddick just kind of out
the blues started a podcast. Many people thought, that's odd.
I wonder where this is going to go. Interesting. I
like the show, you know, I like how they bounced
things off each other, you know, got good chemistry. But
somebody said when the show started, I think Lebron wants
(03:20):
jj Reddick to be the next head coach. When the
show started, and lo and behold, that's what has happened.
And it took the Lakers a long time to get here.
Was jj Reddick is a candidate. Jj Reddick is a
leading candidate. And then they pivoted and went after Dan
(03:40):
Hurley did not work out, and they come back to
now who many thought and assumed was a front runner
to get the job from the day they started that podcast.
What are your thoughts on the Lakers hiring Reddick and
do you like it? Man?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
You know, I really didn't expect Danny her to leave Connecticut,
especially at the state in which that program is in
right now. You know, those kids are at Yukon and
they wanted to go to Yukon to play for Danny Hurley.
So you know, why would you leave a stable situation
in which he has in Yukon and go into a
(04:26):
situation to be the head coach for the Los Angeles
Lakers when you when it's completely unstable right now. I
think if he would have took that job, he probably
would have been the head coach, maybe for two or
three years maybe, and then he probably would have ended
back up in college. But I think it was the
right decision for him to go back to college football
(04:48):
because I really believe with his coaching style and how
passionate he is about coaching, he would have to change
his style of you know, coaching and a dressing you know,
these professional players, but you know the game is not
going to change for him, but he would have to
make those changes. So you know Answert, JJ Reddick, and
(05:12):
you know, I just don't see where there's any relevance
outside of him or being an NBA player for fifteen seasons,
why the Los Angeles Lakers would you know, select him
as being a head coach. I think when I heard
when I heard he was named the head coach, two
(05:33):
specific things jumped off the page for me. They offered
Danny Hurley six year, seventy million and they offer him
I believe it was a four year, thirty two million
dollar deal. So you know what, it doesn't matter who
becomes the head coach of the Lakers. They're not going
to be able to compete in the Western Conference right
now with all these young teams that you have obviously, OKC,
(05:54):
you know Denver, you know, Minnesota's on the rise, and
maybe they is four for fifth knowing the West, but
you know, their quest to get back to the NBA
Championship right now with that current route that they have,
I don't believe that they'll make it back to the
NBA Finals anytime soon. But for JJ Reddick, uh, you know,
(06:18):
to get this job, for this for the Los Angeles Lakers,
I didn't see it coming. I kind of I think that,
and we know that there are more qualified coaches out
there than a JJ Reddick. Obviously, their relationship with Lebron
I think really you know, helped them, you know, sway
their position in hiring him. But you know, I think
(06:41):
everybody agrees to at the same time that you know
JJ Reddick is you know, he's a guy that we
just don't know what he's going to bring to the table.
Are the players going to have that respect for him
as being a head coach? What is that locker room
going to be like with the players knowing that him
and Lebron have that kind of relationship. So I think
(07:05):
it's a He's going to win some games, but the
media and him dealing with these questions dan and day out,
that's one of the things I want to see him,
you know, going from the media side of it to
being asked all those questions about the media.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You know, it's number one I like to hire. And
the NBA has a It's about players, man, It's about players. Like,
if you have a good roster, you're going to succeed
as a head coach, and if you don't, you aren't
going to succeed. It's very simple since twenty twenty. Let's
(07:43):
go back to COVID when we want a championship. Okay,
let's go back there. We want a championship. Since then,
it's been a different NBA champion every year, so five
different champs. We're on our third head coach. Frank Vogel
gets fired, Darvinham gets fired, and now here we are
with JJ Reddick and we just won a championship five
(08:08):
years ago and we are on our third head coach.
And so the Lakers don't have the fire power, they
don't have the man power, they don't have the development
of young guys to compete with some of these teams.
I mean the Milwaukee Bucks. They fired their coach right
(08:31):
in the middle of the season, well not even the
middle of the season, early in the season, and everybody's like, oh,
they fired Adrian Griffin. We're gonna be in Doc. We're
gonna bring in Doc Rivers and we're gonna be much
better record wise. They weren't better. They weren't better. And
so you fired a coach thinking, oh, we're gonna hire
(08:54):
Doc Rivers and get better. No, Giannis goes down. They
didn't have the man power, they didn't have a firepower
to beat the Celtics. And that's the NBA is one
hundred a player league. If you got the players, you
are gonna win, and if you don't have the players,
(09:17):
you're not gonna win. And so when you look at
the Lakers roster, Lebron he has a player option fifty
one million. Lebron has plenty of money. I'm assuming and
I believe he'll he'll resign. Anthony Davis is under contract.
I believe D'Angelo Russell also has a player option. But
(09:38):
where can the Lakers get better to give JJ Reddick
a chance? That's the key. Where can they get better?
And do you can they make a trade? Who can?
They can't acquire anybody in free agency unless Lebron leads,
and that's probably gonna make them worse if he isn't there.
And so I'm rooting for JJ Reddick because we all
(10:01):
know I'm a Laker fan. But it's tough when you
look at the Minnesota's of the world, the Denvers of
the world, the Dallas Mavericks of the world. Sacramento is
going to be better. There's just so many teams. Oklahoma City,
who was the number one seed, there's just so many
really good teams in the Western Conference. It's like, where
(10:25):
do we fall, where do we slide into that? Will
it give JJ Reddick a chance? The way JJ Reddick
played with the I don't care if you like me,
I'm gonna do me attitude, that should bode well as
a coach because he's going to he seems as if
he's going to demand respect. He's not just gonna let
you walk over him, and you have to have that
(10:45):
as a coach. But then you also you can't be
the tough guy demand respecting me the tough guy, everybody's
gonna tune you out. So he's gonna have to have
that that balance of demanding that respect, getting that respect,
but not rubbing people the wrong way. I'm optimistic that
it'll workout, but you gotta out of players. And if
(11:06):
it's just Lebron and they did we come back with
this same team. We're close. But these teams are getting better.
Minnesota gonna better next year, They're gonna be better. Oklahoma
City has gotten better. They gonna be better next year.
Dallas from this experience of going to the finals and losing,
they're gonna be better. And so I hope I can
(11:27):
say the same thing about my team that we will
be better. I like to hire, but it's about the players, man.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, no doubt about it. Man, Just like you said,
but you don't have the players in this conference to
really get it done. I mean, what are the roster
changes going to be here? We are, We're already approaching
July August. You basically got three months trying to half
months until the season starts. I think the league, Lakers,
you need to start making some moves now if they
(11:57):
want to even come and compete for a spot. And
the Western Comps. I believe they'll make the playoffs. I mean,
I mean, I really do. But when it comes down
to it, you know, what is JJ Reddick going to
be like in these huddles, in these you know, crunch
time situations where he has.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
To draw up plays?
Speaker 3 (12:13):
And if if the if the Lakers are going through
a tough stretch winning basketball games and they are out
there doing everything that he is telling them to do
and what he is uh, you know, teaching them or
telling them it's not resulting in wins. You know, do
they keep their trust in them or do they believe
(12:35):
they believe in you know his you know his coaching
style or or his play calling. What's going to happen
when those things arise for Lakes, Because it will happen.
They're going to lose, you know, four or five games
in a row. It happens in the NBA basically just
every team. So how the Lakers and Lebron and that
crew respond to him being in a first year a
(12:56):
head coach and he's going to receive a lot of criticisms. Man,
it's not a good job. I mean, I'm just telling
you what comes with being the coach of lost in
the Lakers is like being the Hiccas with the Dallas Cowboys.
I mean that's just the kind of attention he's going
to receive. Wow, then the first coach, we we better
than the Cowboys. You know the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I'm just talking from and since the nineties.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I'm just talking about from a media standpoint. You know
how people you know how to yell. Yeah, there's gonna
be a lot of scrutiny, a lot of eyes of you.
You lose three four games in a row, Man, what
is JJ Reddick doing? But also what coaches will be
on his staff or what they bring in, Uh, really
(13:40):
experienced coaches what will it be a lot of former
players on step you don't know, but ultimately you can
bring in who you want to bring in. You can
bring in all these coaches and this and that, and
you got a had of players.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
When that ball is tipped off and thrown in the air.
If you got five on the court and three or
four on that bench that can come in and do something,
JJ Reddick gonna look like a savior. And if you don't,
it's gonna be. Yeah. We told y'all he wasn't ready
for this. We knew it. They reached on this. I mean,
how can you prepare for this? I mean, really being
(14:16):
a head coach for the Lakers? How can you go
from you know, being a TV personality to being a
head coach? There's no preparation for that, no preparation. I
believe he's ready for this. The coaching is more of
a people business than the exit and the exes and thos.
These dudes know, they know the game. It's a people business.
(14:37):
Getting people to trust you, believe in you. And we'll
see if JJ Reddick can do that. We will be
taking a break and when we come back, we're gonna
talk a little boss and Celtics, Jaylen Brown, Jason Tatum
Celtics now the winners franchise when it comes to championships
in the NBA. That's Plaxico Burris, some teacher who's a
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Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh yeah, welcome back in that bon game Live from
atirag dot com studio. I'm TJ. Houshima was out alongside
Mr Plexico Burrs. Yeah he with the little mellow music
A plex that you got did you watch the can
and friends to pop out sometimes you gotta pop out
and shown. Yeah, for all the people listening. You know,
(16:10):
West Coast native Kendrick Lamar, I just thought it was
a great thing what he did, had a concert and
had a lot of West Coast artists, brought them all together.
It was good for that scene out here. Yeah, I
think you should make that din on June teenth. I
think you should make it a yearly thing, annual thing.
(16:32):
Can and friends pop out at the form. Yeah, it
was good. It made me think about that when he
played when he played that music. The Boston Celtics Monday
last Monday or five days ago, they went their eighteenth
NBA Championship and they're the favorites to repeat again. Now
(16:57):
you can take this so many different places. I want
to go here with it. Jaylen Brown wins conference in VP,
and then he wins follows that up and wins the
finals in VP. But what was weird was Jason Tatum
(17:19):
led the team at points rebounds and assists. Was it
more so people in the media saying, wait, I think
Jaylen Brown may be the best player on the team,
but when you lead the team at point three bounds
and assists, how are you not the best player? On
(17:42):
the team. You know what.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
I believe I think that Jason Tatum had Obviously, I
think in the championship game he had thirty one points
and Jalen Brown had twenty one points and they ended
up having fifty two points between them. But from an
overall series standpoint, I believe Jalen Brown had the better series.
(18:07):
And you know, when obviously, when Jason Kidd came out
and said, well, you know, Jason, Jalen Brown was the
best player on the team. And now based off of
what we've seen and what happened with him winning the
Eastern Conference Finals MVP and winning the MV and women
the finals MVP, maybe he is the best player on
(18:27):
the team or maybe not, but it doesn't matter. At
this point. They were world champions. But I thought, from
you know, all postseason, you know, uh, you know, Jason
Tatum took the leadership role of you know, he scored
when he had to. There were games where you know,
he didn't have his best game, and Jalen Brown was
kind of carrying a team on both sides of the
(18:48):
court offensively and defensively. And I think from an overall,
you know, you know, final standpoint and postseason he had
the best postseason out of anybody you know on that team.
Jayson Tator may be the best player you know on
a Celtis. I believe that he is. But I I
said going into the uh into you know, into game
(19:11):
five when they when they ended up, you know, did
win the championship, that I I if Jalen Brown just
p had a you know, a decent game, that he
would you know, beat the finals MVP. I think Jason
Tatum was really pushing it to win it at But
you know, at this point, did they they They they've
(19:31):
rowned with each other. They've been in the league together
on the same team since they were what thinteen twenty
years old, So I believe that there is a genuine
love for each other. It didn't matter who won the MVP.
They just really wanted to get that monkey off them
off their back of getting to the NBA Finals and
winning the World championship.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
See when Jason Kidd when when he comes out and says, man,
Jaylen Brown the best player on the team. He was
trying to call some dissent calls something at locker room
to stop them from playing the way that they were playing,
in a team way. If you open shoot the ball,
(20:12):
everybody eats a type of offense. That's what he was
trying to do. He knew if they continue to play
that way, Dallas didn't have a chance. But what he
did was in the media, people may have quietly thought, man,
Jaylen Brown is playing really good. Jallen Brown may be
(20:34):
the most important Celtic. Then it became a topic every day, Hey,
Jalleon Brown, let the Celtic is scaring again? Is he
the best player? To say? Oh, Jalen Brown is Garden
Luca picking him up ninety four feet? Is your best
player on the team. Jason Kidd started it and then
it kind of just took over and had the life
of its own. But when he won MVP at the
(20:57):
Eastern Conference finals, I believe that did something for him mentally.
Were you know what everybody for years have said, Jason
Tatum is a non Nah, it's us. It's not just him,
it's us. And so I hope they can maintain what
(21:17):
I believe they have And what you just said is
that friendship, that mutual respect, because in essence they have
grown up as men together and they've been proved and
they matured. But I personally felt like me. I felt
like Jason Tatum should have been the MVP of the finals.
(21:39):
I believe he impacted the game in so many different ways.
But if you give it to Jaylen Brown, you're not
gonna be angry about it. And the fact that he
did win it, it's like, okay, it's rewarding for him.
I believe this is gonna make the Celtics even better
because Jaylen Brown is gonna come back now next year
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chip on his shoulder because he knows people ah, should
he have won it, And Jason Taylor is gonna be
pissed that he didn't win it, and so they will
be better. They are the favorites to repeat. And I'm
actual about that in a second, but we gotta check
in what not mister sir Ilo Isaac loyin crime with
(22:23):
these updates and who what you got for us?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Just getting ready for what I'm about to play you fellas,
sorry about that, because we are indeed starting with Euro
twenty four going on as we speak, Portugal taking on
Turkey and Portugal off to a great start. And let's
find out how it sounds in Portuguese. Here is the
broadcast crew from RTP in Portugal, and even though it's
(22:59):
in Portuguese, the guy starts talking about Elvis. Of now,
if I'm not mistaken, listen to the first goal that
Portugal scored in Portuguese.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Hell Spoka, so Heavylla got this alad.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
So apparently Elvis lives in Portugal, although I can't really
explain why. Portugal has since scored another goal seven minutes later.
So they're up to nothing over Turkey now. In the
thirtieth minute at Euro twenty four earlier today, Georgia and
the Czech Republic finished in a one to one tie
in Game six of the Stanley Cup Final. On Friday night,
(23:51):
the Edmonds and Oilers did it again. They defeated the
Florida Panthers five to one, so the Oilers have rallied
from a three games to none deficit to tie the
series at three, forcing a Game seven on Monday night
at Florida as the Oilers became the first team to
rally from a three games to non deficit to force
a Game seven in a Stanley Cup Final since the
Detroit Red Wings in nineteen forty five. In Major League Baseball,
(24:14):
Friday Night Angels over the Dodgers in ten innings three
to two, despite a four hundred and fifty five foot
home run by Shohey O'tani, his twenty second of the
season to lead the National League his seventh and eleven games.
Jay Croninworth of the Padres five for five of the
home run in a nine to five win over the Brewers. Finally,
in the WNBA on Friday night, Caitlyn Clark had sixteen
(24:37):
points and seven assists as her Indiana fever one at
Atlanta ninety one to seventy nine in front of an
Atlanta franchise record crowd of seventeen thousand, five hundred and
seventy five at State Farm Arena, breaking the old record
by nearly six thousand fans. TJ and PLEXI goo back
to you.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Man, Caitlyn Clark is putting them butts in the seats. Man. Thanks,
She is putting butts in the seats. They coming out
to watch her play, and they did put her on
the Olympic team. They're done lost state mind. But how
Digress were not even talking about that. Celtics her favorites
to repeat very simple. You think they can get it done.
(25:18):
I'll say this, if Christapp Porzingis can play in fifty
five games and be healthy. Look out. I don't know
if he can do it, But do you like to
the Celtics chances of repeating.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I think they're going to have a good team. I mean,
I really do you know. I think that you know,
their role to the East Eastern Conference was, you know
it was it was a little bit easier than the
Dallas Marathis and what they had to go through. Obviously,
they had to beat the Clippers. They beat Dema Nuggets.
I know, I'm sorry that they beat the Minnesota Oklahoma City.
(25:56):
Oklahoma City, who was the one seed in the Western
comes out. I just believe when they got to the
NBA Finals, they just completely ran out of gas. But
I think next year, I think, uh that the Western
Conference will be better. I think with the healthy Jewel Embiid,
you have to consider Philly as a strong candidate. Keeping
Yan as healthy as obviously a priority for for Milwaukee
(26:19):
because if he's not healthy, then we're not even talking
about the Milwaukee Bucks winning the winning the you know,
the Eastern Conference. But I think with this group of guys,
they're going to keep these group of guys together. I
think you're going to see shifting the NBA as far
as how these teams, uh.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You know, will will you.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Know, decorate their rosters because you know, just sitting there
watching the Boss and Celtis in the way that they waited.
They share the basketball. Everybody's completely unselfish. They switch everything,
They switch all the screens. On defense, everybody can guard.
They don't double team anybody. And I think that's what
we do. Shift four dudes that can right defense with
(27:00):
no help. I mean, right, that's crazy. I think that's
one of the things that you know you're going to
see change, you know, you know with these rosters, you know,
moving forward, because they play complete team basketball, man, and
they don't do you really consider Jason Tatum to be
like a real superstar of this league. I think it's
(27:22):
the first time where we've seen a team, uh you know,
from a team standpoint, collectively, everybody having an impact on
the basketball game at some point in time.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
In every game.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
It was Jewe Holliday one game, it was Jason Tatum
one game, Ja Brown one game, Derrick White another, Al
Hall for coming up knocking off threes, and obviously christat
poonzingis the game that he had in Game one. Nobody
expected him to come out and had the kind of
game that he had. But I think for the Boston Celtics,
you know, being with Eddie House and how you know,
(27:54):
Brad Stevens has you know, constructed this team. They have
it where everybody's contract is like staggered, so they don't
they won't be in a situation to where they have
two guys like a Drew Holiday or Derek White coming
at a contract at the same time. You had Jyalen Brown.
(28:17):
This year is Jason Tatum. The next year is going
to be uh, Derek White. Then then then it's going
to be uh, you know, Jaylen Brown again as far
as you know staying with the team. So I think
they've done a really good job as far as you know,
managing this roster and the guys that they have. They're
gonna keep these guys together for a long time.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I'll say this, the Celtics will once again probably have
the best roster in the NBA because of what I
said earlier, last five years, five different NBA champions, I'm
gonna say that Celtics won't repeat. It's hard and the
(29:00):
Bucks will be better if Jannis is healthy. The Sixers
will be better if and b can stay healthy, there'll
be a team. The Knicks will be better. They get
Julius Randall and Tip stop playing forty eight minutes a game.
You know you're talking about run out of gas. You
ain't got no choice but to run out of gas
playing for him, he gonna empty the tank. It don't
matter regular season Playoffs're gonna play the whole game. And
(29:23):
so just from that perspective, I believe it will be
a new NBA champion. It's tough to repeat. You have
to have a special team and they you and you
got to have a lot of things go your way.
You gotta have the ball bounce your way off season.
I don't know if that's possible, but a big congrats
on the Celtics winning their eighteenth NBA title. And we
(29:46):
got work to do as Lakers because now we're behind them,
so we got to make sure a whole lot of
we belong at the top. You have a lot of
work to do. Yeah, we got a lot of work do.
We'll get there. And the Bulls are they're doing some work.
They traded Alex Cruz, so who many in the league coveted.
(30:07):
A lot of people wanted this three in d Ability
trading Oklahoma City Thunder and it was weird. It was
just a player for player swap, which is very very
rare these days. Alex Caruso for Josh Giddy. That makes
Oklahoma City a better team because in the playoffs Giddy
(30:27):
kind of he was falling out of it. He was
a starter. Then they put him on the bench. And
you rarely see this in the NBA. A guy starts
off season, you're starting in the playoffs, and then the
coach is like, you know what, I'm gonna bring you
off the bench. That's gonna make Oklahoma City better. This
will give This is a good opportunity for Giddy because
(30:47):
Giddy was averaging eighteen points and some He's a playmaker.
But on Oklahoma City with SGA, you don't get that opportunity.
Him going to Chicago was good for his career. What's
Caruso going to Oklahoma City is great for Oklahoma City
because now they're trying to if you look at it,
they can get a big man to help out chat
(31:09):
just just some with some size and some weight. Only
they are almost like Boston, where that whole lineup can
play defense. SGA can play defense. Jalen Oneers could play defense,
Caruso could play defense. Is get to the point where
you start looking at Oklahoma City and they're very similar
to what the Boston Celtics are doing and have accomplished.
(31:33):
What do you think of the trade Caruso for Josh Getty.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I think it's great. I mean, I really do. I
think the Oka see they just got better defensively. You know,
carus who's going to score some points. He's not going
to be, you know, the focal point of the little offense.
Everybody know who that that's SGA Pop probably should have
won the MVP. And I think they are taking a
(31:58):
page out of what I just said with the Boston
celter He's getting better on defense. They gotta find a
way if they can slow teams down. They have one
of the best scorers in the world and that's Ja.
So it's a young group. Caruso is a veteran, he's
one of He's won World championship with the Lakers, so
I think he will come in and have that Drew
Hollway type effect on this basketball team on the defensive ends,
(32:23):
when it comes to you know, effort and competing and
not giving up on plays. I believe he brings that
same type of you know mentality to this team in
which they need. They young, they are going to be, uh,
you know, one of the top teams in the Western
Commerce for for some years to come. So I think
some of the more vetterment leadership that they can get
(32:45):
on this basketball team. I think Adas Carusso is respected
around the league as being one of those guys. He's gonna,
you know what, you know what you're going to give
him every single night. He's gonna come out of compete,
He's gonna score some points on offense. He's gonna, you know,
guard guard your best offensively. And I think it's a
good move for you know, Okay, see, I don't know
(33:05):
how it's a player to play a trade, but I think, okay,
see one with adding Cruiser to this roster, well.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
We gonna see how that plays out. But yeah, I
feel like Oklahoma City is a much better team. And
they still have a draft, and the way Sam Presty
is drafting guys, you just assume he gonna draft a
diamond and a rough and in a couple of years
they're gonna be like, how we miss on this guy?
Sam Presty just know what he's doing. We'll take a break.
(33:34):
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That's mister Plexicville Bursts. I'm TJ. Zada. Stay tuned in,
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A love from Tyrek dot Com Studio. I'm TJ. Houshman Zada.
That's mister Plexico Burst. And before we finish this first hour,
(33:59):
man money Williams, Money Williams. I just can't signs of
seventy plus million dollar contract with the Detroit Pistons. Wins
fourteen games in his first season. I believe they lost
(34:21):
was it twenty seven or twenty eight games in a row?
They fired him and they owe him sixty five million dollars.
They owe him sixty five million dollars. So he basically
worked for one year and made over seventy million. I
(34:43):
believe it was seventy eight to be exact. What are
your thoughts? And once again, it's what what we were
talking about earlier. I don't care how good the coach is, man,
you ain't got the players. It ain't happening. Well.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
When Monty was fired from the Phoenix Sons, he was
going to take a break from coaching because his wife,
you know, has cancer, so he would you know, he
wanted to go home and you know, tend to tend
to his wife and beat it for her support, and
you know, beat it for his wife obviously. So when
(35:25):
the Detroit Pistons offered him the job and offered him
the contract, his wife said, you gotta take the job.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
He was like what.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
And that's the reason why he took the job because
she may said, uh uh, you can't turn on that
kind of money. I know that I'm dealing with some
health issues, but you need to go coach this team
and get this money, So listen to his wife. That's
what Monty Williams did. He didn't want to coach after
he was fired for Phoenix. So they lose twenty eight
(35:59):
games in a row. They're the worst team in basketball.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
And he just can't find whatever he's looking for in
his team. They just don't have it. And they've had
top five picks for the last I don't know, six
or seven years straight and they just have not been
able to put together a basketball team that can compete,
(36:24):
that's even a halfway decent product on a basketball court.
And these guys are high draft picks.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
So if you're the Detroit Pistons in his organizations, if
you're drafting the best possible guys that are available coming
out of college basketball.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
What are they supposed to do? These guys are coming out,
they're not NBA players, and when they get this, it's
already too late. So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Maybe they need to do a better job of scouting
or whatever the case may be for an NBA basketball
team to go out there and compete. And these guys
are being paid mellions of dollars and you can lose
twenty eight basketball games in a row. It's not the coach.
The players got to take some kind of accountability of
(37:10):
going out there and performing on the basketball court, because
I don't believe I can remember anybody or any team
losing twenty eight games in a row in the NBA.
So it doesn't matter who you put out there, if
they're going to put the same basketball team out there
that they did last year. And I think the NBA
(37:33):
needs to be like the NFL.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
In regards to the if you have the worst record,
you get the first pick. They didn't get the first
They didn't get the first pick this year, so how
do you expect this franchise to get better if they
have the worst team in basketball?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
And I believe that picking fourth or fifth this year,
going into the NBA draft, maybe they can find, you know,
somebody that can come in and lift this organization. Because
of right now, the guys that they have drafted and
who have been the best available basketball players in the world,
(38:13):
they have not panned out to being good NBA players.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, it is once again, you don't have the players,
it's hard to win. And when you look at the drafts,
because again it's your scouts and your assistant coaches. The scouts, okay,
we should draft this kid. This is the coaches really
develop them. That player development is important. You go to
twenty twenty, they draft Killian Hayes. Where he at now plex,
(38:40):
where he at? Killian as where he at nobody knows,
So that was a waste to pick. The next year,
they draft k Cunningham with the first pick. He's a
good player. Twenty two J Nivey solid player. Last year
Asar Thompson the jury is still out. You don't know,
but he looks to be someone that you can build
(39:03):
I don't know if you can build around, but he's
gonna be a solid rotational player in the league. But
it's what you said. You have all these picks in
the top five. Killian Hayes was the seventh pick. You
have yet to hit on one of them to where
it's like he's the best player on the team. Many
will say that's Kid Cunningham, but you don't know. You
(39:28):
don't know, and so it doesn't matter if it's mine.
Williams pat Riley from the eighties with the Lakers in nineties, like,
if you don't have good players in good player development,
it is hard to win. But man, can you imagine
being on that Detroit Piston team and losing twenty eight
(39:49):
games in a row twenty one They drafted Luca Goalzen,
he was the best college playing basketball. Yeah, man, it is.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
Then you get Jay Navey, you can get them from Purdue,
and you draft Marcus Afster, the punk god from the
University of Houston. I'm thinking you coming too the league
and take off and yeah happened. Get somebody to develop talent.
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