Friday: Pat on the Back

Lakers to give Pat Riley a statue outside their arena.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
According to our deep dive Google research. Here there yeah two,
John Connor, where are you when we need you? Tiger
Woods won the two thousand and five Open at Saint Andrews.
The sixth hole is a par four, the fifth hole
is a par five, and it has never not been.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
And so way to go.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
PGA Championship, PGA Championship dot com is whatever it was
lying to us. And I don't recall Tiger ever getting
an albatross in any any PGA Tour event or major
that he's ever played in.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, there's one website that says he has.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
So where would this one be at?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
This one was at the twenty thirteen PGA Championship that
was held at Oak Hills Country Club in New York
in Rochester, New York.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Well, I'll look at that if I can. But I
don't recall Tiger ever getting an albatross. And I think
he was interviewed once and said that he's had some
playing with his friends, but never in competition, never in
a tournament. All right, pat Riley, the executive of the
Miami Heat, is going to be honored with the Los
Angeles Lakers as joining seven others in their I guess

(01:20):
Ring of Honor if you will, with statues outside the
now Crypto dot Com arena. Those other seven that are
in the in the Laker Ring if you will is
Shaq and Kobe Kareem and Magic, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor
and their longtime broadcaster Chick Hern. I think Kobe's actually
going to get a couple. He's out one with number

(01:40):
twenty four. They're putting one with number eight and and
then the one with Gianna. Yep, So Kobe, you'll get
a few more. And now pat Riley, So, pat Riley
played for the Lakers in the early seventies. Then he
was Chick Hern's. Basically, they they forced chick to have
a partner. He didn't really want one, but he and
pat Riley were able to get along for a while

(02:02):
until pat Riley was summoned from the broadcaster's location to
the bench. And then pat Riley became a great executive
and obviously a great coach with the Lakers. What do
you think, good, bad, indifferent, deserving of him being in
the Laker Ring of Honor.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Surprised it took this long? I guess anything.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I mean, I think his coaching in the in
the in the in the eighties was great. It led
him to also coaching the Knicks and then moving to
Miami to with the Heat and he's been a very
good executive in the NBA for a long time as well.
I go back to the movie the or the series
that HBO did Winning Time, and the person that portrayed

(02:42):
pat Riley portrayed him as kind of a savant, a
guy that kind of knew what was going on before
you did.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
And he and.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
The coach that was there before pat Riley, I can
see him now. I'm blaking on his name, but anyway
he was. He didn't like the slowdown style system that
he was trying to run Paul Westhead. Paul Westhead had
a way he wanted everybody to play and it was

(03:14):
very structured. And Magic was one of those guys. If
I get the rebound off the glass or I get
an outlet pass, I'm going I'm not waiting for me.
And west Head wanted to make sure that Kareem got
his touches, and Magic got with Kareem and said, listen,
you've been in the league now for thirteen fourteen years.
We want you to play defense. We want you to

(03:34):
get rebounds, you're still going to score twenty twenty five
a game, but you're not going to be the leading scorer.
So what do you think about. Here's what we're going
to do. You get the rebounds, you throw it to me.
I'm going to run up the floor and within the
first seven seconds we're going to get off a shot.
We're going to get a bucket, and then you can
take your time getting down the floor on offense. And
this is where Kareem got a lot of criticism over

(03:55):
the years for lally Gaggett on offense, but that was
part of the system so that it didn't wear him out.
Prior to that, Kareem would hurry down the court on
a mini fast break and camp out in the post
and they'd throw him in the lane and get a
hook shot. But the Magic's idea was, let's fast break
and let's get early offense if we can. And then
once we get early offense, if it bogs down and

(04:17):
we have to get a play we're late in the
shot clock, then you go find one side or the
other and then you'll get your hook shot. So about
a third of the game we're going to be successful
at a fast break. About a third of the game
we're not going to be successful, period. And the other
third you're gonna get a touch and get a hook shot.
And Crane was like, yeah, that sounds good to me.
But Bill Fitch didn't want to play that way. I mean,
Paul Wes said, didn't want to play that way, and

(04:40):
pat Riley did. And as soon as Magic went to
Jerry Buss and said, I'm done with mister west Ed
get me somebody else. That's how pat got that job.
I'm surprised that Worthy's not in their Ring of honor.
I thought James Worthy had a great career in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
I mean, but it's going to be like the Yankees
at some point, Andy, everybody's in.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Everybody, well the Yankees. The Yankees are pretty judicious as
to who gets in. But they've been playing baseball for
one hundred years too, so.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
It's the same thing. Twenty what like the Celtics, there's
like what fifteen people or something like that that their
jerseys were talking about.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
The Yankees are basically if you're if you're a new
player and you come on the end of the organization,
your number is going to be fifty or higher. Because
we don't have any numbers left below that? Yeah, all right,
we'll talk about the Roadrunners getting ready to take on
the Aggie's in two weeks. It's the Andy Everatge show.
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