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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And not only did they beat the Lakers, they beat
them pretty badly. And a couple of things I take
from this game. First of all, I will give credit
for Lebron James because he did have a poster donk
last night, but those come a lot less often than
they used to. And you can also tell that he
couldn't guard anybody one on one because he's not fast
(00:22):
enough anymore, especially compared to Fox or Castle some of
the other guys out there. Let's see Dylan Harper is
an amazing quickly quick player too. So all that was
pretty good last night for the Spurs. I love the
fact that they're able to get out in transition and
run when they need to. And I think, as I've
(00:44):
mentioned all week, them being in a spot where they
don't have Wimby to rely on, they've had to be
a better on ball defender. And my hope is is
that when he comes back, that they still play great
on ball defense and know that you've got a safety
valve behind you if you miss, but also understand that
(01:04):
playing good on ball defense is going to create turnovers
and steals and fast break opportunities at a much quicker rate.
The other part of all of this last night, And
I love this stat, seventeen of thirty eight from three
point land. Not only is that forty five percent shooting
from the three, it's seventeen makes and thirty eight attempts,
and that is the perfect number. And if they could
(01:25):
average that, I don't think they're not going to lose
very many times where they're seventeen of thirty eight from
three unless they really do something crazy. They only miss
seven free throws and they only turn it over ten times,
which ten or fewer, actually twelve or fewer turnovers in
a forty eight minute game is quite quite good and
quite impressive. So just an amazing run for the Spurs
(01:46):
last night. And now they've got to take on the best.
They got to play Oklahoma City on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, and it's the you know, now, the Spurs have
beaten every team in the West that is currently in
a playoff position. The only one they haven't is Oklahoma City,
who now they'll get to play three times over the
next twelve days. And if Wimby is back for that
game Saturday night in Vegas, man, I would expect you
(02:14):
see glimpses of what playoff Wimby is gonna look like
because I just when we see him play with you know,
France and the Olympics or you know, with the national team,
and you see the competitive level he can get to
when there's something more important than a regular season game
(02:35):
on the line, I would expect some kind of insane
performance if he's back. I will say, you mentioned the
speed that the Spurs have in the backcourt now with
Fox and Castle and Dylan Harper, who you threw in
there as well. The thing about Harper, I know this
is potentially sacrilegious to say it, but he has a
(02:57):
lot of the similar diet movement as Monu did.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yes, like well other ways, a lot a lot like
his dad was too. If you go back to when
when what's what's Harper's? Was it Ron Ron? Yeah? When
Ron Harper played.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, the the body control and for him to have
that at nineteen years old, having the uh, you know,
the offensive awareness to control the pace, to use his
body to control the pace to move the defender without
having to you know, get around him just by you know,
taking those long diagonal steps that get you to the
(03:34):
basket at angles where it's harder to block, your block,
your layup attempt. I just he looks like a ten
year veteran. Well, he also craz well.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I think the reason one of the reasons why he
looks like a ten year veteran is because of that
fatherly influence. For sure, Ron played with Michael Jordan. He
was definitely the beta in that alpha beta category right there.
He always knew who the star of the show was.
In fact, after after him and Pittman Pippen, it was
maybe Ron Harper was the third or fourth choice. And
then you throw in Kuk coach there for a while
(04:04):
with those teams, and maybe he wasn't even that far up.
But Ron Harper was always the consummate pro and I
think he's taught his son that probably in AAU games
and in high school and as he's progressed now into
the NBA and being around the influence of how the
Spurs do business. I don't think there's a better perfect
fit for him, and he'll get his when it's his turn.
(04:27):
But he also knows that there is a pecking order
to that and the fact that he is basically the
manu sixth man of this team right now and playing
a lot of crunch time minutes, especially when they go
to four guards. And if Wimby's in the game and
in the last four minutes of the game, and you
throw Harper and of a Cell, Castle and Fox together,
(04:48):
those are really that's four really quick, fast athletic guys
and if a BIG's on the floor, they're going to
have a hard time chasing him down.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, I mean, that is a that is a scary lineup.
It's also the kind of lineup you're going to have
to roll out to beat Oklahoma City because there are
few teams that just have the personnel to match up
with all the different ways Oklahoma City can put five
guys on the court to create an advantage for them.
(05:16):
The Spurs are uniquely built, comparing them to every other
team in the West, uniquely built in the same manner
as Oklahoma City. I mean, it's setting up for a
decade of a lot of really really fun matchups, hopefully
beyond just NBA Cup semi final matchups.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
There Spurs only a game behind the two and three
seeds right now. They could easily be the second seat
here in a week or two if you keep winning. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I also on the Ron Harper career resume, how about
going from being a part of that Bulls dynasty right
into being a role player on the Shaq.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Kobe letters exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I mean he's, you know, obviously Phil Jackson being the
conductor of all of that. It really does feel like
Dylan Harper I've already been watching him in the league
for a decade, just based on his comfort level and
coming back from injury and immediately jumping right back into
(06:20):
being a go to part of the rotation for this Spurs,
just an incredibly impressive start to his career.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well. The other thing that I look at too, when
you look at the youth of this team, I think
it's not only is it a great youth movement, but
it's a team that really enjoys the game. And I've
had this conversation for a couple of years now. Guys
like Kawhi Leonard, I don't think enjoy the game. They
just happen to be good at it, so they just
(06:46):
go do it and they make a lot of money.
But they take days off, and I think there will
be days where they are load managed, but it won't
be their decision. It'll be either Mitch's decision or upper
management decision. Hey, we played five games and seven nights,
you need a day off, and I understand that because
obviously the playoffs and the longevity of a player's career
(07:07):
is there. And we didn't think that much about Bird
and Magic and Isaiah Thomas and Reggie Miller in their
eras because even though they were making a lot of
money compared to what everybody else made twenty years ago,
they weren't making seventy million dollars or have the potential
for that. So in a way, I think there's a
lot of coaches that feel like there's an obligation to
(07:28):
manage the minutes of players who can't manage themselves because
they like the game so much. And that's why we
have some load management with players that are not necessarily
that don't necessarily want it. I think there's some players
that relish when they get days off, and Mbei and
Leonard seem to me to be guys that are that way.
(07:49):
Even if Kawhi was one thousand percent healthy every day
of his life, I don't think he wants to suit
up eighty two times, but there are guys in this
league that do, and I think there's a good chunk
them to play for the Spurs. Yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Personality is definitely evident from the very top of the
roster with Wimby all the way down to the last
guy on the bench.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know, I've said this before, and when you're a
professional athlete, there has to be a little bit of
the it factor. You have to have it, and I
don't know how you define it, but there are a
lot of players that are that you would think are
really good players, but they don't have what it takes
to make or stay in a professional league. And I
(08:32):
don't have it. When it comes to golf. I can
go out and play a little bit of golf, and
I can shoot around par when I'm playing really, really well,
and I've had a couple of, you know, ten or
twelve rounds in my life that are under par. But
I could go out and practice until from dust to
dawn or don to dusk and play thirty six holes
a day and have the best instruction in the world,
and I don't have it. I'm never going to get
(08:53):
to the level where I can make a living at
it and play competitively, and I can't imagine that if
I did, I would want to waste a second. Not
chasing legacy and all that but even we're seeing this
with professional golfers. They get a few hundred million dollars
in their bank and they'd rather take thirty weeks off
and play twenty than the other way around. And maybe
(09:14):
that's just the human nature of some people that have it,
but there's so many people that don't have it that
wish they had it. And that's where the jealousy comes in,
is that guys have it and then they decide that
they don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Look, I know myself well enough to say I would
absolutely be a Dustin Johnson if I could like that
would Yeah, that would be my career path, no question.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah. But here's the question about that. At one time
you couldn't wait to go out and play pickup basketball
with your friends. That was the highlight of your day.
And now you get paid five hundred thousand dollars a
game to go do it. You can get five hundred
thousand dollars if you don't do it, but that's still
what you're passionate about. It's like I've said this for years.
I love to play golf. I would love to go
(09:58):
play golf at Augusta, But I also loved doing utsa games.
And I don't care if Jeff Trailer or Austin Klunch
or anybody else out there said, hey, and he got
a day off, you got to pass. I'm not going
to miss a game to go play Augusta or anything else.
The passion, the number one passion, is doing the game.
And fortunately I've been lucky to not ever get sick
(10:19):
enough to where I can't do a football game. And
the only basketball games I've missed, I think are ones
that overlap with football. But I don't want to take
days off. This is the life I chose, and basketball
players they chose that life, and so I don't understand
why they relish days off. I mean, like One Soto
(10:39):
last year when he was playing for the Yankees last year,
played one hundred and sixty of one hundred and sixty
two games. I know he played one fifty nine. He
had a concussion, or they thought he had a concussion
he didn't, or maybe a wrist injury, and Aaron Boon
said I'm gonna sit you for two days, and he
was mad and he was pouting, and then they they
was one of those they like seventeen days a day off,
(11:02):
and they sat him. I think he may have pinched
hit in the ninth inning or something, and he was
livid with his manager. He goes, I'm fine, I can
go with thin. He goes, no, we need to rest
your wrist. No, I can play. And they thought about it.
And to me, whether you like one soda or not,
and the diva that he can sometimes be in searching
for the last dollar possible. I love the fact that, yeah,
I'm making seven hundred and twenty five million dollars, but
(11:23):
I'm never going to miss a day. To me, that
is a player I can respect a lot more than
a guy that says I'm making four hundred million, but
I'm going to take twenty days off. All right, let's
talk about Sharon Moore coming up next in the uh
the saga that's going on in inn Arbor. That's next.
It's the Andy Everage show. On the ticket
And not only did they beat the Lakers, they beat
them pretty badly. And a couple of things I take
from this game. First of all, I will give credit
for Lebron James because he did have a poster donk
last night, but those come a lot less often than
they used to. And you can also tell that he
couldn't guard anybody one on one because he's not fast
(00:22):
enough anymore, especially compared to Fox or Castle some of
the other guys out there. Let's see Dylan Harper is
an amazing quickly quick player too. So all that was
pretty good last night for the Spurs. I love the
fact that they're able to get out in transition and
run when they need to. And I think, as I've
(00:44):
mentioned all week, them being in a spot where they
don't have Wimby to rely on, they've had to be
a better on ball defender. And my hope is is
that when he comes back, that they still play great
on ball defense and know that you've got a safety
valve behind you if you miss, but also understand that
(01:04):
playing good on ball defense is going to create turnovers
and steals and fast break opportunities at a much quicker rate.
The other part of all of this last night, And
I love this stat, seventeen of thirty eight from three
point land. Not only is that forty five percent shooting
from the three, it's seventeen makes and thirty eight attempts,
and that is the perfect number. And if they could
(01:25):
average that, I don't think they're not going to lose
very many times where they're seventeen of thirty eight from
three unless they really do something crazy. They only miss
seven free throws and they only turn it over ten times,
which ten or fewer, actually twelve or fewer turnovers in
a forty eight minute game is quite quite good and
quite impressive. So just an amazing run for the Spurs
(01:46):
last night. And now they've got to take on the best.
They got to play Oklahoma City on Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, and it's the you know, now, the Spurs have
beaten every team in the West that is currently in
a playoff position. The only one they haven't is Oklahoma City,
who now they'll get to play three times over the
next twelve days. And if Wimby is back for that
game Saturday night in Vegas, man, I would expect you
(02:14):
see glimpses of what playoff Wimby is gonna look like
because I just when we see him play with you know,
France and the Olympics or you know, with the national team,
and you see the competitive level he can get to
when there's something more important than a regular season game
(02:35):
on the line, I would expect some kind of insane
performance if he's back. I will say, you mentioned the
speed that the Spurs have in the backcourt now with
Fox and Castle and Dylan Harper, who you threw in
there as well. The thing about Harper, I know this
is potentially sacrilegious to say it, but he has a
(02:57):
lot of the similar diet movement as Monu did.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yes, like well other ways, a lot a lot like
his dad was too. If you go back to when
when what's what's Harper's? Was it Ron Ron? Yeah? When
Ron Harper played.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, the the body control and for him to have
that at nineteen years old, having the uh, you know,
the offensive awareness to control the pace, to use his
body to control the pace to move the defender without
having to you know, get around him just by you know,
taking those long diagonal steps that get you to the
(03:34):
basket at angles where it's harder to block, your block,
your layup attempt. I just he looks like a ten
year veteran. Well, he also craz well.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I think the reason one of the reasons why he
looks like a ten year veteran is because of that
fatherly influence. For sure, Ron played with Michael Jordan. He
was definitely the beta in that alpha beta category right there.
He always knew who the star of the show was.
In fact, after after him and Pittman Pippen, it was
maybe Ron Harper was the third or fourth choice. And
then you throw in Kuk coach there for a while
(04:04):
with those teams, and maybe he wasn't even that far up.
But Ron Harper was always the consummate pro and I
think he's taught his son that probably in AAU games
and in high school and as he's progressed now into
the NBA and being around the influence of how the
Spurs do business. I don't think there's a better perfect
fit for him, and he'll get his when it's his turn.
(04:27):
But he also knows that there is a pecking order
to that and the fact that he is basically the
manu sixth man of this team right now and playing
a lot of crunch time minutes, especially when they go
to four guards. And if Wimby's in the game and
in the last four minutes of the game, and you
throw Harper and of a Cell, Castle and Fox together,
(04:48):
those are really that's four really quick, fast athletic guys
and if a BIG's on the floor, they're going to
have a hard time chasing him down.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Yeah, I mean, that is a that is a scary lineup.
It's also the kind of lineup you're going to have
to roll out to beat Oklahoma City because there are
few teams that just have the personnel to match up
with all the different ways Oklahoma City can put five
guys on the court to create an advantage for them.
(05:16):
The Spurs are uniquely built, comparing them to every other
team in the West, uniquely built in the same manner
as Oklahoma City. I mean, it's setting up for a
decade of a lot of really really fun matchups, hopefully
beyond just NBA Cup semi final matchups.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
There Spurs only a game behind the two and three
seeds right now. They could easily be the second seat
here in a week or two if you keep winning. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I also on the Ron Harper career resume, how about
going from being a part of that Bulls dynasty right
into being a role player on the Shaq.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Kobe letters exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I mean he's, you know, obviously Phil Jackson being the
conductor of all of that. It really does feel like
Dylan Harper I've already been watching him in the league
for a decade, just based on his comfort level and
coming back from injury and immediately jumping right back into
(06:20):
being a go to part of the rotation for this Spurs,
just an incredibly impressive start to his career.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well. The other thing that I look at too, when
you look at the youth of this team, I think
it's not only is it a great youth movement, but
it's a team that really enjoys the game. And I've
had this conversation for a couple of years now. Guys
like Kawhi Leonard, I don't think enjoy the game. They
just happen to be good at it, so they just
(06:46):
go do it and they make a lot of money.
But they take days off, and I think there will
be days where they are load managed, but it won't
be their decision. It'll be either Mitch's decision or upper
management decision. Hey, we played five games and seven nights,
you need a day off, and I understand that because
obviously the playoffs and the longevity of a player's career
(07:07):
is there. And we didn't think that much about Bird
and Magic and Isaiah Thomas and Reggie Miller in their
eras because even though they were making a lot of
money compared to what everybody else made twenty years ago,
they weren't making seventy million dollars or have the potential
for that. So in a way, I think there's a
lot of coaches that feel like there's an obligation to
(07:28):
manage the minutes of players who can't manage themselves because
they like the game so much. And that's why we
have some load management with players that are not necessarily
that don't necessarily want it. I think there's some players
that relish when they get days off, and Mbei and
Leonard seem to me to be guys that are that way.
(07:49):
Even if Kawhi was one thousand percent healthy every day
of his life, I don't think he wants to suit
up eighty two times, but there are guys in this
league that do, and I think there's a good chunk
them to play for the Spurs. Yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Personality is definitely evident from the very top of the
roster with Wimby all the way down to the last
guy on the bench.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know, I've said this before, and when you're a
professional athlete, there has to be a little bit of
the it factor. You have to have it, and I
don't know how you define it, but there are a
lot of players that are that you would think are
really good players, but they don't have what it takes
to make or stay in a professional league. And I
(08:32):
don't have it. When it comes to golf. I can
go out and play a little bit of golf, and
I can shoot around par when I'm playing really, really well,
and I've had a couple of, you know, ten or
twelve rounds in my life that are under par. But
I could go out and practice until from dust to
dawn or don to dusk and play thirty six holes
a day and have the best instruction in the world,
and I don't have it. I'm never going to get
(08:53):
to the level where I can make a living at
it and play competitively, and I can't imagine that if
I did, I would want to waste a second. Not
chasing legacy and all that but even we're seeing this
with professional golfers. They get a few hundred million dollars
in their bank and they'd rather take thirty weeks off
and play twenty than the other way around. And maybe
(09:14):
that's just the human nature of some people that have it,
but there's so many people that don't have it that
wish they had it. And that's where the jealousy comes in,
is that guys have it and then they decide that
they don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Look, I know myself well enough to say I would
absolutely be a Dustin Johnson if I could like that
would Yeah, that would be my career path, no question.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah. But here's the question about that. At one time
you couldn't wait to go out and play pickup basketball
with your friends. That was the highlight of your day.
And now you get paid five hundred thousand dollars a
game to go do it. You can get five hundred
thousand dollars if you don't do it, but that's still
what you're passionate about. It's like I've said this for years.
I love to play golf. I would love to go
(09:58):
play golf at Augusta, But I also loved doing utsa games.
And I don't care if Jeff Trailer or Austin Klunch
or anybody else out there said, hey, and he got
a day off, you got to pass. I'm not going
to miss a game to go play Augusta or anything else.
The passion, the number one passion, is doing the game.
And fortunately I've been lucky to not ever get sick
(10:19):
enough to where I can't do a football game. And
the only basketball games I've missed, I think are ones
that overlap with football. But I don't want to take
days off. This is the life I chose, and basketball
players they chose that life, and so I don't understand
why they relish days off. I mean, like One Soto
(10:39):
last year when he was playing for the Yankees last year,
played one hundred and sixty of one hundred and sixty
two games. I know he played one fifty nine. He
had a concussion, or they thought he had a concussion
he didn't, or maybe a wrist injury, and Aaron Boon
said I'm gonna sit you for two days, and he
was mad and he was pouting, and then they they
was one of those they like seventeen days a day off,
(11:02):
and they sat him. I think he may have pinched
hit in the ninth inning or something, and he was
livid with his manager. He goes, I'm fine, I can
go with thin. He goes, no, we need to rest
your wrist. No, I can play. And they thought about it.
And to me, whether you like one soda or not,
and the diva that he can sometimes be in searching
for the last dollar possible. I love the fact that, yeah,
I'm making seven hundred and twenty five million dollars, but
(11:23):
I'm never going to miss a day. To me, that
is a player I can respect a lot more than
a guy that says I'm making four hundred million, but
I'm going to take twenty days off. All right, let's
talk about Sharon Moore coming up next in the uh
the saga that's going on in inn Arbor. That's next.
It's the Andy Everage show. On the ticket
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