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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Let's see here, Becky Hammond is in the news because
she told everybody that Asia Wilson's not going to play
for a while. Aja Wilson fell the other night in
a rebound to think a scrum and heard a wrist
and I'm sure Asia Wilson wants to play because apparently
there's nothing broken. But Becky's comment was something that you
(00:27):
would probably read from any press release that the Spurs
have ever put out in the last twenty five years,
because it was all those exact same words that Coach
Pop would have probably said. I wonder if they collaborated
on the wording of said release.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It was when I was reading it to you earlier.
It just had As I was reading it, I was like, man,
this just screams Coach Pop telling her or not telling her,
but just kind of like educating her. Regardless of what
the player wants and what the player thinks that they
can do always air on the side.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You know, it's really interesting as players become coaches how
much smarter they become because players want to play and
they're kind of wired to play. And I'm sure during
Becky's career she'd be banged up a little bit and
say no, I can go, I can go. I'm good
and you has to take you know, an adult in
the room to go. Now you're going to take the
night off. Yeah, And I don't have an issue with
players taking a night off when they're legitimately injured and
(01:23):
what they could do could damage them further. It's when
they have a you know, a hangnail or something, or
are they they grimace that they can't seem to go
back out there and play. I just wish that players
had a love of the game like the ones that
they followed years ago. And I look at the Reggie
Millers and the Allen Iverson's, and the Kobe's and the
(01:44):
Magic's and the Kareems. They didn't take nights off. They
didn't want to take nights off. They couldn't wait to
go play basketball. And so many of these days are
taking the easy way out. I don't think Asia Wilson's
in that category, but she won't play to night now
Summer League. Yeah. Last year, the eighth pick in the
draft went to the Lakers, or the eighth pick in
(02:05):
the draft was the Spurs, and the Spurs traded that
pick after they got Steph Castle. They didn't draft another
first round pick like they did this year, and whoever
ended up I don't think it was the Lakers, but
at some point Dalton Connect got picked in the first
round and Dalton Connect was from Tennessee. Good shooter, had
(02:26):
a really good tournament back in the twenty four tournament
before he was drafted, and then went to the Lakers. Now,
you could either say he has been an NBA bust
his first year, or you could say, as many have
that JJ Reddick doesn't know how to use him or
Lebron doesn't know how to incorporate him in how he's
(02:46):
gonna want the offense to run. But Dalton Connect didn't
forget how to shoot. It's just a matter of getting
him in a position where he can do it more efficiently.
But the headlines today was talking about their Summer League
game and the summer league that he's going to participate
in this year, and the headline basically was one of
those clickbait ads. It said Dalton connects make or break
(03:07):
Summer League, basically inferring that if he doesn't have a
good summer league, he may not be even playing in
the NBA anymore. So how do you go from being
a lottery pick in the first year to not even
playing in the next year. I don't particularly get that,
but I as long as I didn't have to give
up much, that's your three point shooter right there, because
(03:29):
I think the Spurts could figure out a way to
get him the ball where he could shoot it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I think it was more along the lines of it
could be the end of his Laker career basically at
this point.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well that would beyond JJ Reddick and Lebron and the
Lakers because.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well they already remember they already tried to. They traded
him last year.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well they tried to, and then the deal fell through. Yeah,
fell through. But I don't understand what you saw between
the draft and Summer League last year and the handful
of games you let him play in, because all you
got to do is go back and look at Tennessee
highlights and say, let's put the guy at the quarter
and let him shoot threes and he can be a
Bruce Bowen three and D guy. For that matter, there's
(04:07):
room for him somewhere in the NBA. And yeah, he's
making four and a half million dollars a year. I'd
find somebody on my roster that was making that and
do the swap or at a and and I don't
care if I'm you know, there's a lot of people
say I don't want to give the Lakers anything that
they could use to get better. The Lakers aren't getting better.
The Lakers are going to be a play in tournament
(04:27):
team next year, and if they and they may not
even be in the top eight once that playing is
over with Lebron is aging Lucas by himself, and they
got a bunch of spears on the roster, and they're
so desperate right now that Bronnie James actually could start
for them, let alone play in this in this summer
league game tonight. But I liked the I liked all
doing connecting college. And unless there's something that's just out
(04:50):
there that everybody knows that he can't fix, I would, uh.
I think there's a lot of teams that could use him.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, again, I don't. I don't think it's going that
far to the extent that you know, this could be
a make or break season for him to stay in
the league. I think it's just more along the lines
of depending on how well he plays in the Summer
League and in the preseason. This goes back to what
you say is why players are terrible at trying to
(05:19):
run teams, which one Lebron James tries to do. He
may think, well, this guy isn't any good for me
or for the team. When the GM is like, no,
he is, it's you're gonna get over it. We're going
to incorporate him.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, the thing is is, does Dalton Connects show up
to practice early and get in more shots? Does he
stay after practice? Does he want to get better? And
those are the tangibles that we don't know. And for
a player like Lebron or Michael or Kobe or any
of the greats, if they throw you the ball and
you miss and they think that you're miss is because
you are unprepared. You're not getting the ball back. Everybody
(05:55):
misses shots, including the great ones. But if I give
it to if I give it up because and I
think that you're prepared, because I've seen you earn the
minutes that you're getting, then we'll work on your shot
and we'll work on your moment in the clutch so
that you get better. But if Dalton connect is lazy,
and I don't know that he is or isn't, if
(06:15):
he's showing up at eight fifty for a nine o'clock
practice and running on the court is they're getting ready
to do the stretching, and as soon as practice is over,
he's getting in the car and driving home. Then that's
on Connect. But if he's putting in the work to
get better, then somebody out there could probably use him
and do something pretty spectacular there and again.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And that's why I think this is just more along
the lines of the Lakers trying to figure out where.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
He could possibly fit in this new well. Their roster's terrible.
They got to find a spot for him someplace, I agree.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But the one thing that they needed last year was
they needed a traditional big after they traded away Anthony Davis.
They have, regardless of what you think of him or not,
they have a tall with DeAndre Ayton, depending on how
he decides if he wants to show up or not.
They at least have that one position taken care of.
(07:09):
And now maybe Dalton Connect doesn't have to worry about
you know, hey, am I going to get traded during
the trade deadline again? Because that was the thing they
were using to go get Mark Williams from the from
the Charlotte Hornets was that was the big guy. Hey, Charlotte,
here's this dangling three point shooter that we can try
to get you. So again, I agree with you, though
(07:31):
I do think it is a very clickbait headline kind
of a thing where a guy that's in the first
year and they're already sitting here talking about is his
career over?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
One last thing? In this segment, there is a Las
Vegas gambler that is a very big Las Vegas Raiders fan,
and he has decided to spend twenty five thousand dollars
on a bet okay that will if he wins, we'll
give him two point five million. Because the Raiders are
at one hundred thousand to one odds to win.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
The Bowl, one hundred thousand to one, and he's betting twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's the maybe let's see, is it a no, it's
one hundred to one odds, So so you bet twenty
five thousand, that seems and you're gonna win two point
five million.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That seems really really low. Like there's got to be
better odds than that. And when I say better, I
mean worse, like where the Raiders are getting like five
hundred to one like you see on the little ticker
at the bottom, you know where the Astros or like
the Colorado Rockies are like plus twenty five thousand. You
(08:36):
know how are the Raiders only plus what was it?
One hundred thousand?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I gotta do that. I gotta do math here. I'm
not good at that at dropping zeros, I'm just not.
But you win two and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
That just seems ridiculously low for a twenty five thousand
dollars bet, and you can only get one hundred to
one or one thousand to one, that seems really low.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
One hundred to one, yeah, yeah, it's one hundred to one.
Because he's betting twenty five thousand, he'd win two point
five million. That seems ridiculously low.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I mean, whatever sports book he's going with, I would
like to know what the Eagles and the Chiefs, you know?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, but I bet that's seven to one. See, that's
the problem with sports gambling. You only bet what you
actually make less than what you bet because you have
to put the juice up there too. So if you're
betting twenty five thousand, you're actually betting the one percent
more than that, and then you're gonna. You're only gonna
and I would say only, but that twenty five thousand,
(09:34):
it's a pretty good especially for the Raiders. They're not
winning the super Bowl. They may not even make the
playoffs playoffs there, and I would say that right now,
they're not going to make the playoffs. Yeah. I mean,
I understand your fatuation with gambling, and if you're rich
and you don't care in twenty five thousand dollars is
monopoly money to you, Okay, But that just seems like
a wasted bet to me because the Raiders are not
(09:56):
Super Bowl contenders, not yet.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I would like to see or know if there were
any degenerate gamblers that just wanted to say, hey, I
won this bet. Did you see what was at the
prop bet for Cooper Flag being selected number one overall?
It was like minus twenty five hundred, and it was basically,
you know you were gonna lose money even if you bet, Like,
(10:19):
I don't see how you potentially win that. Oh yeah,
I won the bet, but I actually lost, like, you know,
however much money.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's stupid too. I just began so you can say, so,
all right, one more segment to go. We wrap up
to Day Next, it's six forty five on the ticket.
Let's see here, Becky Hammond is in the news because
she told everybody that Asia Wilson's not going to play
for a while. Aja Wilson fell the other night in
a rebound to think a scrum and heard a wrist
and I'm sure Asia Wilson wants to play because apparently
there's nothing broken. But Becky's comment was something that you
(00:27):
would probably read from any press release that the Spurs
have ever put out in the last twenty five years,
because it was all those exact same words that Coach
Pop would have probably said. I wonder if they collaborated
on the wording of said release.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It was when I was reading it to you earlier.
It just had As I was reading it, I was like, man,
this just screams Coach Pop telling her or not telling her,
but just kind of like educating her. Regardless of what
the player wants and what the player thinks that they
can do always air on the side.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
You know, it's really interesting as players become coaches how
much smarter they become because players want to play and
they're kind of wired to play. And I'm sure during
Becky's career she'd be banged up a little bit and
say no, I can go, I can go. I'm good
and you has to take you know, an adult in
the room to go. Now you're going to take the
night off. Yeah, And I don't have an issue with
players taking a night off when they're legitimately injured and
(01:23):
what they could do could damage them further. It's when
they have a you know, a hangnail or something, or
are they they grimace that they can't seem to go
back out there and play. I just wish that players
had a love of the game like the ones that
they followed years ago. And I look at the Reggie
Millers and the Allen Iverson's, and the Kobe's and the
(01:44):
Magic's and the Kareems. They didn't take nights off. They
didn't want to take nights off. They couldn't wait to
go play basketball. And so many of these days are
taking the easy way out. I don't think Asia Wilson's
in that category, but she won't play to night now
Summer League. Yeah. Last year, the eighth pick in the
draft went to the Lakers, or the eighth pick in
(02:05):
the draft was the Spurs, and the Spurs traded that
pick after they got Steph Castle. They didn't draft another
first round pick like they did this year, and whoever
ended up I don't think it was the Lakers, but
at some point Dalton Connect got picked in the first
round and Dalton Connect was from Tennessee. Good shooter, had
(02:26):
a really good tournament back in the twenty four tournament
before he was drafted, and then went to the Lakers. Now,
you could either say he has been an NBA bust
his first year, or you could say, as many have
that JJ Reddick doesn't know how to use him or
Lebron doesn't know how to incorporate him in how he's
(02:46):
gonna want the offense to run. But Dalton Connect didn't
forget how to shoot. It's just a matter of getting
him in a position where he can do it more efficiently.
But the headlines today was talking about their Summer League
game and the summer league that he's going to participate
in this year, and the headline basically was one of
those clickbait ads. It said Dalton connects make or break
(03:07):
Summer League, basically inferring that if he doesn't have a
good summer league, he may not be even playing in
the NBA anymore. So how do you go from being
a lottery pick in the first year to not even
playing in the next year. I don't particularly get that,
but I as long as I didn't have to give
up much, that's your three point shooter right there, because
(03:29):
I think the Spurts could figure out a way to
get him the ball where he could shoot it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I think it was more along the lines of it
could be the end of his Laker career basically at
this point.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well that would beyond JJ Reddick and Lebron and the
Lakers because.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well they already remember they already tried to. They traded
him last year.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well they tried to, and then the deal fell through. Yeah,
fell through. But I don't understand what you saw between
the draft and Summer League last year and the handful
of games you let him play in, because all you
got to do is go back and look at Tennessee
highlights and say, let's put the guy at the quarter
and let him shoot threes and he can be a
Bruce Bowen three and D guy. For that matter, there's
(04:07):
room for him somewhere in the NBA. And yeah, he's
making four and a half million dollars a year. I'd
find somebody on my roster that was making that and
do the swap or at a and and I don't
care if I'm you know, there's a lot of people
say I don't want to give the Lakers anything that
they could use to get better. The Lakers aren't getting better.
The Lakers are going to be a play in tournament
(04:27):
team next year, and if they and they may not
even be in the top eight once that playing is
over with Lebron is aging Lucas by himself, and they
got a bunch of spears on the roster, and they're
so desperate right now that Bronnie James actually could start
for them, let alone play in this in this summer
league game tonight. But I liked the I liked all
doing connecting college. And unless there's something that's just out
(04:50):
there that everybody knows that he can't fix, I would, uh.
I think there's a lot of teams that could use him.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, again, I don't. I don't think it's going that
far to the extent that you know, this could be
a make or break season for him to stay in
the league. I think it's just more along the lines
of depending on how well he plays in the Summer
League and in the preseason. This goes back to what
you say is why players are terrible at trying to
(05:19):
run teams, which one Lebron James tries to do. He
may think, well, this guy isn't any good for me
or for the team. When the GM is like, no,
he is, it's you're gonna get over it. We're going
to incorporate him.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, the thing is is, does Dalton Connects show up
to practice early and get in more shots? Does he
stay after practice? Does he want to get better? And
those are the tangibles that we don't know. And for
a player like Lebron or Michael or Kobe or any
of the greats, if they throw you the ball and
you miss and they think that you're miss is because
you are unprepared. You're not getting the ball back. Everybody
(05:55):
misses shots, including the great ones. But if I give
it to if I give it up because and I
think that you're prepared, because I've seen you earn the
minutes that you're getting, then we'll work on your shot
and we'll work on your moment in the clutch so
that you get better. But if Dalton connect is lazy,
and I don't know that he is or isn't, if
(06:15):
he's showing up at eight fifty for a nine o'clock
practice and running on the court is they're getting ready
to do the stretching, and as soon as practice is over,
he's getting in the car and driving home. Then that's
on Connect. But if he's putting in the work to
get better, then somebody out there could probably use him
and do something pretty spectacular there and again.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And that's why I think this is just more along
the lines of the Lakers trying to figure out where.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
He could possibly fit in this new well. Their roster's terrible.
They got to find a spot for him someplace, I agree.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But the one thing that they needed last year was
they needed a traditional big after they traded away Anthony Davis.
They have, regardless of what you think of him or not,
they have a tall with DeAndre Ayton, depending on how
he decides if he wants to show up or not.
They at least have that one position taken care of.
(07:09):
And now maybe Dalton Connect doesn't have to worry about
you know, hey, am I going to get traded during
the trade deadline again? Because that was the thing they
were using to go get Mark Williams from the from
the Charlotte Hornets was that was the big guy. Hey, Charlotte,
here's this dangling three point shooter that we can try
to get you. So again, I agree with you, though
(07:31):
I do think it is a very clickbait headline kind
of a thing where a guy that's in the first
year and they're already sitting here talking about is his
career over?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
One last thing? In this segment, there is a Las
Vegas gambler that is a very big Las Vegas Raiders fan,
and he has decided to spend twenty five thousand dollars
on a bet okay that will if he wins, we'll
give him two point five million. Because the Raiders are
at one hundred thousand to one odds to win.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
The Bowl, one hundred thousand to one, and he's betting twenty.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's the maybe let's see, is it a no, it's
one hundred to one odds, So so you bet twenty
five thousand, that seems and you're gonna win two point
five million.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
That seems really really low. Like there's got to be
better odds than that. And when I say better, I
mean worse, like where the Raiders are getting like five
hundred to one like you see on the little ticker
at the bottom, you know where the Astros or like
the Colorado Rockies are like plus twenty five thousand. You
(08:36):
know how are the Raiders only plus what was it?
One hundred thousand?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
I gotta do that. I gotta do math here. I'm
not good at that at dropping zeros, I'm just not.
But you win two and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
That just seems ridiculously low for a twenty five thousand
dollars bet, and you can only get one hundred to
one or one thousand to one, that seems really low.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
One hundred to one, yeah, yeah, it's one hundred to one.
Because he's betting twenty five thousand, he'd win two point
five million. That seems ridiculously low.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I mean, whatever sports book he's going with, I would
like to know what the Eagles and the Chiefs, you know?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, but I bet that's seven to one. See, that's
the problem with sports gambling. You only bet what you
actually make less than what you bet because you have
to put the juice up there too. So if you're
betting twenty five thousand, you're actually betting the one percent
more than that, and then you're gonna. You're only gonna
and I would say only, but that twenty five thousand,
(09:34):
it's a pretty good especially for the Raiders. They're not
winning the super Bowl. They may not even make the
playoffs playoffs there, and I would say that right now,
they're not going to make the playoffs. Yeah. I mean,
I understand your fatuation with gambling, and if you're rich
and you don't care in twenty five thousand dollars is
monopoly money to you, Okay, But that just seems like
a wasted bet to me because the Raiders are not
(09:56):
Super Bowl contenders, not yet.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I would like to see or know if there were
any degenerate gamblers that just wanted to say, hey, I
won this bet. Did you see what was at the
prop bet for Cooper Flag being selected number one overall?
It was like minus twenty five hundred, and it was basically,
you know you were gonna lose money even if you bet, Like,
(10:19):
I don't see how you potentially win that. Oh yeah,
I won the bet, but I actually lost, like, you know,
however much money.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
That's stupid too. I just began so you can say, so,
all right, one more segment to go. We wrap up
to Day Next, it's six forty five on the ticket.
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