June 27, 2024 • 34 mins
Jason and Mike give their big takeaways from Night One of the NBA Draft. Jason explains why the USWNT made the tough but right call leaving Alex Morgan of the Olympic roster. And a great idea for Hollywood movie!
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way tire buying should be. So the NBA Draft, we
are steaming towards the end, just a handful of picks left,
and still Kyle Philipowski is still on the board. Maybe
if no one ran into him in that game, he'd
have been taking already. Is that a did that put
him on the board. Did that come up in the medicals?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Now, look Jason, real quick, do you think they're holding
JJ Reddick back at the facility right now, he's trying
to draft him.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Trade the duke, trade whatever we have, move up to
get him. Trade whatever we have, Trade fifty five. I
got it. We need that pick for Brownie. I don't
care trade it.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I gotta say this though, we watched a lot. I mean,
we've seen in the first round, right final, couple of
picks coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Not a lot of war room.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Shots right of Hey, let's look at the executives working.
But boy, that was a really good camera angle they
had for the Lakers drafting.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, JJ Reddick a lot of times, and they took
Dalton connect. Yeah sure, and I love it. Oh yeah,
JJ's all tatted up. I forgot his whole left art.
It's like tyshirt. His whole left arm is all tatted up.
I forgot about it. And his character got a good
run again and clip this week. Yeah, yeah, I don't
know it was a good run. Was a knock on.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I've been talking about the other one for a couple
of weeks now, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Shows it's got some stuff. Make the shot, No he's
not in there yet. No, he's not there. Jim Belushi
plays j Moore actually in this now. Yeah, No, he
was not in the shot of the warlod either. I look,
though I did not say, but I saw he was
in the other war room. I saw. I saw JJ
Reddick shaking hands, and I saw Jay Moore on the
phone with Drew bledsoe uh at the end like he has.
(02:31):
Why don't we have a relationship like that? Now, really
quick before we get in good because I can help
everybody who's wondering what kind of player did my team
get in the NBA Draft? But first things first. So
I'm driving and I'm listening to ESPN radio coverage of
the draft. Right, listen to the coverage of the draft locally.
They didn't even bother, No, no, we was gonna take
a national draft. So I'm listening, and two things in
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the first four picks. I'm stunned. And you know, I
always am because I think about the the status of
radio and how important it is and what it's like,
and you think about certain companies and what they do,
and I'm listening to them, and the first thing I
see is that, Okay, they missed the announcement at number three,
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missed the announcement completely because they were interviewing researche, right,
so they are they miss the announcement. So they're talking
to him, he's answering questions, and you hear in the
background Adam Silver with and I'm like, are you really
missing the pick? All right, Well that's a mistake. Obviously,
that's not gonna happen again. Nope. When the fourth pick
came up for San Antonio, when they were interviewing Sheppard,
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you hear Adam Silver saying with a select I'm like,
you've got to be catching you miss Shepherd and Cat
biggest names. Yes, but it's a vet radio, right.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
This isn't a hey, a little bit of grab ass,
there's something going on in the background.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No, No, this is the event. I'm like, how are you
missing the picks? That's what you have to get. Maybe
it's a new thing. Maybe they don't care about the
picks because people don't know who a lot of these playoffs.
Let's talk to him, Okay, but I'm gonna get to
that interview in a second. So I'm sitting here saying
this is the only thing that people want to hear.
They want to hear the announcement of the teams and
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the picks. It's a big no matter if you've heard
of the players or not. When you hear that, and
you look and the commissioner speaks with the fifteenth pick
in the NBA draft, like, you don't know what it's
gonna be. And even though you know it's somebody that
you know you're not gonna hear of. Maybe there's a trade,
but you sit there and go, what is it? It's drum.
It's the one thing that will always get you to
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turn to stop what you're doing. Oh, the pick is in.
I want to see what this pick is. No one
talks over the pick. No one's going And they miss
two out of the first four picks. Can you imagine?
Can you imagine the NFL draft? Here comes a team
picking at three. Oh, we got four good quarterbacks on
the board. What happens? And with the third pusier quarterback? Wait,
who got taken out of his stack? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I mean that happens Day two, day three, certainly not
in the in the first five picks, not in the lottery.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And and here's and here's the thing. When they didn't get
to the third pick, right. They're in their interview recochet
and obviously it's a language thing, and they're trying to
ask him. They asked him, I'm not lying. They asked
him three times if he'd ever seen Boris DL play, right,
like Boris DL. And he says, uh, well, and clearly
maybe he didn't know who Boris D. But he's trying
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to give an answer, right. I feel bad for the kicks.
He's trying to give an answer, and they boris, did
you see Boris DL playing? I'm like, oh my god,
I know he's French, but come on, dude, you can't
And they ask him again, like, dude, BORI, it's not like,
did you ever see Michael Jordan play? Did you ever
see Boris d L play? People live at the average
NBA fan it's listening right now, goes, who the hell
is Boris d L? I remember he was a guy
that came off the bench and the big Spurs Sons
(05:44):
fight that that gave the Western Conference to the Spurs,
and and and and and dun David Stern.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
It doesn't would have been eight or nine years old.
Now you maybe you've got maybe you've got the legend
of Boris D. You know, it's like one of those guys.
It's a guy I heard about. Now, how do you
move on for that?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I mean, I don't know. I'm coming here listening and
I'm are you really asking him again? Why are you
say bor I'm thinking, Okay, there's got to be some
kind of link. There's got to be some kind of
sam bring it up or whatever. Did you see Boris?
Like we were told to feed him alone? About Boris?
Like he was Wilt Chamberlain back in the day. Did
you guys get to.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
See him playing?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
But that's it right in the gym. I don't understand
why this yours growing up. I mean because I look
because Carlesimo's on the show, and I'm like, are they
just talking about players they've coached? Like, hey, you see
Boris deal? Yes, Boris d how was French? I get it.
You could have asked him about it. You could have
asked about Tony Parker. You can ask him about Wemby
yea brother. No, but Boris Dia. What's what's the answer
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that he's gonna give this? Boris had a hell of around,
don't get me wrong. Like he came in with Lebron
in two thousand and three two thousand and four, and
he played what fifteen years in the in the league.
But once it's and answered, and and the why are
you asking me about bors? Yeah, because I can only
imagine the visual and the freak is you have the audio.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I have the audio, and I can only imagine the
visual and visual of him kind.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Of throwing up his hands like what do you want
me to sell me? The thing is is that like
he's got to because DL runs the Mets ninety two.
I call it Me's ninety like the Metropolitans, which is
team right, No, the Mets do we're beating the Yikes soon.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
No, No, But the Mets ninety two. I think Wemby's answer
they hold it as soon as he left, so he's caught.
But I'm sitting going, do you really did you see
Boris DL play?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Like? What? Like that's like a question, Like that's like
if you're a basketball coach and you're you're having wings
at Chili's and you want to talk about some random
players you've coached over I'm like, this is the third
pick of the draft we're talking about. Did you see
bords d L?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
This is where it gets down to the the end
of Field of Dreams?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Is that him?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
That?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's not him? Dad? Who did you get to see
play when you were a kid, Well, let me tell you.
I'm sorry, eight man out. I got this. I got
to see Boris d O play? Who Boris di O?
Who's Boris Dio? Is that his last name?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Boris and his last name is di O? Oh okay, Grippa,
I'm going to bed. All right, I'm going to bed.
I've done Grappa. Uh so again shocking, I'm going this
is wow. This is incredibly missing those Yeah, is just different.
I don't know how you.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Missed two picks. The Knicks just got like fifteen second
round picks and we turn for that twenty six.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, the nicknaxt to five and look again, these picks
the Knicks will after because they're gonna suck. They're going
to watch them off to charity because they obviously don't
need them, because they have the best top eight in
the NBA. They don't know they do. No two has
a better roster one through eight than the next right now, nobody. Now,
the roster could change. The roster could change a little
bit because if Mitchell Robinson gets dealt or something, else,
but right one through eight, nobody's got a better nobody.
(08:53):
You can't anybody and nobody available. He only have to
play twenty five minutes a night now, man, Guys don't
have to play playoff games. Play Guys don't have to
play forty five minutes a night now anymore, because we
have enough depth that if guys get hurt, we're not
throwing out Bogdanovitch or Alec Burks.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I just can't fine now, Yeah, Frostburger, I push you
a little bit. You got you got a little bit
of anger there because you can see the dark side. Oh,
it's where everything here is positive because you know what
I think is really causing it, and I think this
we're now playing psychologist on the radium. It's the angst
over the upcoming Jets season and what's gonna happen with Roger.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Come on, man, that's.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Bleeding even your nick stuff they eat it with all
the positivity. You know, the dark side is there, pails
from the dark side.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Even if the Jets and it's not gonna happen because
actually going thirteen and four, number one seed in the ABC.
But even if something happens, I have the knicks at
the end of October. It doesn't matter I have a
title or but one of my teams is a title
or bust team. You've been saying for the right Come on,
don't saying that. One year the Mets tried to get
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into the title. Last year you did well. They all
got hurt. They all got hurt. I'm sorry they got
hurt you.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
He never responded when I sent him that picture of
Matt Harvey being at the Yankees Mets game.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So I'm glad he's there and we're beating the Yankees
eleven to two right now. Another home run for Harrison Bader.
He should come to every game. Not pitch, but you
come to every game and watch. You're gonna watch his games.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You didn't even respond yesterday it was Dark Knight you
had for years.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I had to listen to. Oh dude, I had Harvey
da Man, all the crazy ass funk go bobbleheads every
single day. Look at this. Look when I found here,
Look when I found here, Look when I found Look
at this baseball card that is of of of ken
landrou from nineteen seventy nine. He had good money. His
socks are Oh that's great enough to do? Is you
(10:49):
send me all this stuff that was full hair, mutton
chops and the greatest Stashey, if you're gonna be in
London tomorrow, you're gonna start sending pictus of all these
great London So it was great English soccer players of
years back. I got a Michael Owen autographed rookie card
right here. I got a blade of grass from the
two from the nineteen ninety eight World Co seventeen.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I know most of what I said to you is
actually story related that isn't nicks or mets. You're trying
to force something else in. And here's a show that
isn't about.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Here's a Spice Girls card with posh spices. I've never
said that it's gonna happen tomorrow. You're gonna be in
London tomorrow. You're sending that to Mark?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
You ever said that You're absolutely to stop outing my whereabouts. Absolutely,
people are gonna go rob me because of you. How
do you know that Harmon's in London?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Who else is? We're in purple in London, Grimace, Yeah,
Grimace and Harmon. So there you go. I did pack
my purple short. Uh. Now, look, this draft has been
a very difficult draft to break down because plenty of
the players you haven't heard of. Some of the players
that you did, we saw during the tournament. Players don't
stay in school for very long. The draft has become
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more and more difficult to break down. We have big
star players when it's web year. Ay, everything is different,
but you want to know if the guy your team
took is going to be any good to be excited
about it. There are two things that every team is
looking for right now in the NBA. And it changes
because there's different genres, different years, different styles, different copycats.
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But there are two things that every team is looking
for right now. You can go and look at a
player's ratings and look at what it is, and there's
like seventeen eighteen things. Do they do this well? Do
they pass well? Do they do this off? They play well?
Off the ball? What's their attitude?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Like?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
All these things? But there are two things and if
your player, if the guy your team drafted can do
one of these two things, it's really good. If he
can do both of these two things, you got a
great pick. Again, It's why I like Steph Castle. Right now,
every team, every player coming in has to be able
to shoot. There can't be any players coming in that. Hey,
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we'll work on it. Will work on your range. We're
gonna work on your mid range. No, everybody, he's got
to come in and shoot. Look at how exciting it
is for people come in. Oh man, we got dilling
Ham att number. He is the best pure shooter in
the draft. Hey, that's awesome, right, This is way it is.
Everybody's got to come into the league and be able
to shoot. You don't learn to shoot in the NBA.
So if you got a guy that can shoot, awesome,
you can figure things out. If you got a guy
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that can play really good defense, awesome. Everybody needs that
defensive stopper. You need somebody you can put in the
other team's best player. You need a couple of those guys.
But in the draft, you can get somebody that can
play defense. That's what it is. Great one on one defense,
especially out on the wing. But if you get somebody
that can do both of them, you got a great pick. Again,
why like Steph Castle. But if you get someone that
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can shoot and can play defense and be that lockdown
type defender, you got a great pick. That's what you
look at. If your guy, if you got if you
drafted somebody that can't shoot or is not a great defender. Sorry,
not much I can say for you. But if he
can shoot or play defense, good, If you could do both, great, well.
The old NFL rule of that was well, if we
get him into our system, we can develop. Now that's
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not anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
But also with the the NBA draft today, I don't
know that I've ever really seen the delineation of a player.
No longer is it guard or forward, it's wing. Right,
that's now a position. Yeah, because instead instead of less.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
NBA, how do we how do we not say shooting
guard slash small forward slash so wing, I was just
calling him a wing. It's like, so what does he do?
Where does he go?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And then we get some video highlights and we passed too.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
But but certainly, yeah, I mean, with the proliferation of scoring,
if you've got a guy that can go out and
one on one, uh, I mean you watched it with
Boston right that that you didn't have to commit double
teams and what happened frustrated the hell out of Luka
doncic Uh and Kyrie Irvings.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
So yeah, that's the that's the blueprint. For going forward.
How you want to build a squad? Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I laugh because the just real quick. The one video
I had fun with last week was John Moran playing
with his daughter and she's down at a defensive stance
and the first comment, wow, look at the wingspan I
heard four.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
They're scouting her already. Yukon's already offered her a Scottari
just had her arms Down's like wow, all right, out
of wingspan. She's going to yukonnor Ight cluk class of
twenty thirty seven. Here you go right there, exit out
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Sure that puts another runner on here in the eighth,
but we'll get back to the NBA Draft coming up
in a few minutes. One of the most difficult coaching
decisions was made earlier today. It's a big it's a
big shock, or it's a big headline. Alex Morgan will
not be on the US women's national team when they
play in the Olympics later on this summer, and the
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Hayes brand new women's coach finally finished up at Chelsea,
came over, She's coached a handful of games and has
decided she is not going to one of the players
they are taking to the Olympics. Alex Morgan put out
a statement saying she was disappointed in the decision, but
she will still root on all of her teammates as
they go to try to bring home the gold medal.
This is a really difficult decision, but I'm gonna tell
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you right now, I get it, and I agree with it.
It's hard to see a US women's team without her,
considering she's gonna wind up walking away as the most
decorated women's player ever. Right with the World Cups and
the Olympics. She went from the first invention of the
team with Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy and and and
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to go on into the Mbi Wombach Hope solo. And
then when it was her and Meghan Rappino. I mean,
she's been the one when she was in her early twenties,
thirty five years old. But look, let's be honest, Alex
Morgan is not the same player.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
No, it's her Rapino and and all like, look I
get it, Tom gets us.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
And there's probably the first thing I'm gonna say is
this is part of this, probably Emma Hayes saying I
had to put my stamp on the team here because
this is my team. You can say, look, because Crystal
Dunn is still going, she's gonna play forward now and
not be a defense. There's still some player, but this
is a star player. This is someone who is a
big voice and a big member, and so is part
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of it. Probably Emma Hayes wants to put her stamp
on the team. Yeah, I don't think that part did
Alex Morgan any favors. I don't think this well, you know,
I really this needs to be my team, and is
it's still my team? If Alex Morgan is there. People
are talking about the former era of the States women's
national team and we need to show that we are
starting over again. But this is where we're at right now.
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This is the new group. Lindsey Horan is our captain.
We have younger players. The average age of the team
now is twenty six. It's not older like it was,
so that's part of it. But quite honestly, she's not
the same player. I thought potentially they would take her
and she would be in the Raupino role of where
if they needed a goal, she'd come off the bench
and play the last twenty twenty five minutes. Like I thought,
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that's kind of what her role would be because the
number one thing the United States women's team needs what
they need goals, right, That's what you saw them in
the World Cup going. They don't have scorers, right. The
young players that have come up have not been what
the young players are in the past. And I understand
people thinking, well, when you hear Trinity Rodman and so
Fia Smith, well they're just going to be great, just
like all the other younger players, because all those players
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have been great for fifteen years. But they're just not
Trinity Robbin's a big name, so Fia Smith is a
name you've heard. But they're not great players. They're not
difference makers. They're not players who come out and say,
look at where they are. They're players who are Okay,
they're good. But the United States has went from the
dominant team in the in the world to now one
of the five best teams in the world. They've taken
a step down. They need someone who can fill the net.
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And you watched Alex Morgan play and it was very difficult.
She's off sides all the time. She's lost a step,
which is probably why she was supposed to. That's why
she's off every day, absolutely right, and you're gonna, I mean,
how many how many off sides she get called for?
Can you stay on side? Alex Morgan? She can't dent
the back of the net like she used to. She
looks like someone when when watching her play that her
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time has just come right. And sometimes you can play
till your late thirties, you can extend that a little bit,
but sometimes it comes when you're thirty five and again
the whole Hey, moving on to Emma Hayes. That didn't
do her any favorites. Maybe she would have been able
to stay on the team again and play in that
rapena role. You don't play every game, but if we're
tied late in the last twenty five minutes, we could
go to overtime in penalties. We need you on the field.
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I thought that, but that again, that didn't do her
any favorites. But I can't disagree with this because she's
not the same player. We talked about this going into
the World Cup. The biggest question was is Alex Morgan
still an elite goal scorer? Because if she's still an
elite goal scorer, the women's national team is going to
be really good. Right, I'm fine about it, but we
saw she's not and there's nobody there because Mallory Swanson
was injured. There's nobody on that team to take that up.
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And we had a lot of trouble trying it, so
we couldn't score in shootouts. We were we were just
mentally shot during the shootouts, and we got knocked out
of the tournament. So I watched this and I go,
this is it for Alex Morgan. And you don't go
from you don't go from not getting picked for the
Olympic team at thirty five to getting picked for the
World Cup team at thirty seven and a half. It
doesn't happen. So this is the end of her run.
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This is the end of her international career. And it's
said because it's such a great run for But it's
time and just watch the games, go back and watch Tate,
watch video and see her. She's not as fast, she's
not the same goal scorers she was. She didn't when
she got the ball in the box, she didn't have
the same smoothness. She'd have the same level of execution.
And it was really tough watching it, Like I knew
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she's near the end, Like she's really near the end.
She can't play these minutes. She can't do this. She
keeps she keeps getting off sides because she's too slow,
which is part of the United States's problem was that
we were way too slow in general. So hopefully they're
faster now as we get into the Olympics this summer.
But you know, it's a tough day. But I absolutely agree,
and I think it's just the end for Alex Morgan.
I wish you would have made a retirement statement instead
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of saying, hey, I'm disappointed to not get picked because
you're not getting picked for something else all. I mean,
really I would have just I know it's a tough
decision to make, but that's where you say, hey, i'm
retiring from international play. I'll still play in the NWSLT
whatever you're gonna do. But this is where it's like
your best player that you owe so much to it
has to walk is walking away saying I'm disappointed to
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not get picked. Should have ended a little bit differently.
They could have could have done a little bit differently.
But I agree she's done and you need to go
to the younger players. But that's the question of you know,
how was it communicated to her right? Was was there
something that didn't sit right in the way the conversations
went and discussing a potential role for this this run
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of things. I mean, only they're gonna they're gonna know.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
But when I saw the statement come out this morning,
I mean, there was no surprise to it, right, changing
of the guard.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Look, as much as you can say we took a
step back, the rest of the world caught up.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
That's the other part for the international women's soccer game,
and we're watching it with women's sports.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
In a in a lot a lot of venues of
you know, you're you're seeing competition to where maybe you
once had a bit of distancing and now there's other
nations that are at the table here. It's gonna be
curious with Smith and Rodman that you mentioned Macario coming
back because she'd been injured, so she missed some a
lot of games and a lot of time. But you're
(23:43):
trying to find the speed you know heran how how
many times did we we wonder you know, in terms
of too much soccer? Did she need some time off
whatever where she didn't have the same pace of play,
But you still have a few of the holdovers in
her hand in rose leavel and familiar names, and that
might have been where you had Alex Morgan stay not
(24:07):
to where it's ceremonial, but a little bit because it's ceremonial,
right of you could still be here. But you need
a striker, but you need a striker that has the
extra push. Yeah, versus the roster decisions as they've been
laid out, we're more we need at least some versatility
because if you're not gonna be great at what you
were ones great at, I need you to be able
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to do some other things, and that's not where Alex
Morgan is in her career and in her play right now.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
And it's it's always tough.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
It's always tough to say goodbye to players in any sport,
coaches in any sport that have had a long, long run.
Even at the end, you know, Beheim, it was time,
but it's still hurt.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
We watch guys walk away and like, wow, twenty years
made Nick Saban this fall, it's gonna be weird watching
him on television.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But he walked away like this is weird. It's like, hey,
I'm telling you your career is over, and I think
you have to understand that when your career is over
given the option, I mean, I don't know along behind
closed doors, but how did it get to that point
where you're not getting taken and I'm upset that you
didn't take me? I mean, that's that's but it's still
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
You're you're not gonna agree with the decision, right, I
Mean plenty of folks get walked off a job in one.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Way or for it. But you know, if you're not
making this team, you're not making the World Cup. Team,
you're not getting picked up for another team. But in
the end, you know, it's the old you got.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
You gotta think for how many seconds before you say something, and.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Certainly a little bit longer.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Don't hit send, right, the old don't don't send button
that needed to be there in terms of, you know,
conveying your frustration.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And in this case, I'm gonna go out and let
and say she was.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Quite okay with However people want to interpret her disappointment
here that she felt she still was good enough.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Is good enough to earn a roster spot? You know
the thing though, But if that is a reality right,
but gets you in the face sometimes. But they've gone
all in on Emma Hayes as their coach. Right. If
this was Adonofsky was near the end, maybe you would
have picked her. Some dog you might have picked her.
But if this was someone who was ending, you know,
I'll be like, okay, hey, you're not picking me. The
team might not win. The next coach coming in is
(26:16):
gonna pick me. Emma Hayes is in for the next
world shop. She doesn't pick you now, Oh no, you're done,
you know, I mean it's not so. But I didn't
see anybody else that could score. So, hey, guess what,
Alex Morgan, I'll come back to you. That's not happening.
I mean, since just not happening.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I While I agree in the moment, you're you're talking
about the initial shock and disappointment and frustration of this.
You're you're not tweeting and sending out statements about two
years from now, recognizing the end. You're You're you're hot,
You're fired up right now, right hot take nonsense in
terms of our business, right, You're red. React in the
(26:53):
moment you read a tweet calling you an idiot that
you don't like, you respond to it in the moment.
And in this case, she got notified. She was pissed.
I can't do it, you know, and and and the
and the thing. No, I'm not turning my back. It's done.
She's done.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We talked about it. She was done. She's done that.
She's done that. Look, nobody talks soccer like we do,
so listen to us. Uh. The one thing I will
say is that in this hey, the United States really
needs somebody who can score. Is that now that Mallory
Swanson's back, this may be the big thing that flips
(27:34):
the team because she was the best scorer they had.
Remember she missed the World Cup with that horrible injury.
She's just getting back now. She was the up and
coming next best score of the United States had she
had everything. She had the the the the the tracking,
she had the training for it, she had the little
bit of of of competition that she had with the
US women's team when she was younger. Hey, back when
(27:56):
she was Mallory pew Right, she was gonna be terrific.
And now how was her time? Missing that World Cup
was huge because she's the one that would have been
out there, that would have been Hey, this is the
one that's gonna dent the back of the net force.
This is the one that's gonna put to put the
ball in the net force instead of having to worry
about can we get a goal from Lindsay Heran? Can
can we get can we get an oh, by the
way goal from Sophia Smith? Can we find a way
(28:17):
to score off a corner? You know? Can Rapino come
off the bench in the last twenty minutes and score?
Like the addition of Mallory Swanson could be what flips
the United States from Hey, we're one of the top five.
Maybe that's an over the top move because she is
that good a score. That's what's gonna rely on. First off,
Sophia Smith. Swiping, swiper, No swiping, don't try to hide
the ball. It's a bad move. It just doesn't work.
(28:41):
And you're on tape. There's cameras and everything.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
The second part, and I will contend this other than
the ghost Runner, penalty kicks are the worst thing in sports, man.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Let's decide a game that you killed yourself for on
the pitch of the ack.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You know, well, you can't play forever? Yeah you can't.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
That keeps going? Is the game still going? Look? I
had to wake up at three o'clock in the morning
to watch that. But you can't go on forever. Man,
It's got to end it at some point. It's five thirty.
I want to go back and need a natural land.
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Speaker 4 (30:08):
I mean, I sent you a picture, you know, all
those things that you you tell me are useless, and
then I send your picture of the Mets connect hat
that had that fuchia thing going on.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Grimace is purple. Yeah, Grimace is purple.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Point I mean yeah, But but just in general, the
future didn't work like lean into the purple even before
grimm a little more purple. But certainly in.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
The what is it the the a g era after
Grimm after Grimace, you can never go fuh, it's a
little more purple color of royal. It's a little bit
of royalty. You need a little more purple. But let
me just say this before me. I mean, I'm part
of that holy triumpher opening up the diet Doctor Pepper.
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Drink of victory and a sponsor. Yeah, not a sponsor
that tastes like victory. Victory tastes like Yes, tastes like
diet Doctor Pepper's fantastic one more. You're drinking that like
it's it's the best man diet Doctor Pepper's cracked a
water bottle and said that water bottle, you have to
(31:15):
drink water first, drink there's water in here. There's water
in the Doctor Pepper. There's water and there's no water.
There's water in there. Then what's in there? What's it
made out of? It's what you don't want to know.
What is it? Sweat and rosin and and and and
and lotion and like what like what is it?
Speaker 5 (31:32):
What?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Probably left over liftia mind and leftover battery charges? Who
knows for battery charges? You're going to become iron man.
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coming up in a few minutes, because it's mainly about
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who didn't get drafted. But let me tell you this, right,
I was thinking about this today. The movie Draft Day
has become a big staple in pop culture, right but
it's been a few years now, it's been a while.
It's on all the time. Even though there's a lot
of faults to it, there's a lot, it's still so
enjoyable to watch, and it's fun, and the cast is
great and they have a lot of different storylines going on.
(32:14):
Draft Day has become a classic, right but now it's
been fifteen years. Hollywood likes to reboot things. What if
we rebooted Draft Day, but it's around the NBA Draft.
Not quite the same storyline obviously, not a guy trading
a first round pick and then get him all back
and everything else. But you could borrow, for instance, say, hey,
you have a coach who gets the new job with
a team and he wants to draft players that he
(32:34):
coached in college, kind of like make it, make it
like the Knicks, and you have him fighting with a
GM who wants to do something different. You can follow
some of the players on the way to the draft.
I mean, I think that's a huge idea. They have
to go, but would love you have to go live
in Lithuania for a year.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Oh, there's definitely a scene where a coach has to
go see somebody in a foreign land and it looks
like Bora and someone's training like their Rocky and Rocky
floor play basket game. Guy, he jumps out of the gym.
How does he? How does he get the leg strength?
Watch this these what is that?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
This is my sister? She is number three ranked basketball
player in all of Lithuania. Uh, I think that that
that's a that's an idea. If you reboot and the
draft day, make it NBA Draft, and you follow a
bunch of different storylines, you get a big cast going on.
That can be a big hit.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Can it be an offshoot of the movie that we
talked about yesterday with the Kansas City Chiefs. Oh, those
are Hallmark movies, but but those are homework. I mean,
it's a love story. The guy, you know, get okay
because the scouts and the coach have to fall in
love with the player.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
It takes me all so it takes a lot to
get him to that team. It takes me all of
forty five seconds to come up with a full Hallmark
movie plot line a little bit longer for draft day
in the NBA. I'm just throwing that out there. Hey,
borrow from the next Hey, we have a team that
they wanted. He wants to draft the players that he
played with in college. He's got a great relationship with them.
The GM tells him, some of these eyes aren't worth it.
We gotta take different players. There's your eternal conflict, external conflict.
(34:04):
You follow some of the players getting ready for the draft.
I mean, I think it's made. Or of course, you
have to have some kind of craziness. I mean, we
have to have some knuckleheaded family members. Oh yeah, that
are getting on social media. We have to pour the
ashes out today for today today. It's gotta be so
we got we gotta get that in.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Okay, Great, somehow we get the GM that doesn't know
what he's doing, you know, the bulls.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Or the uh why did no one go to you
with the nets? Why did no one go to your
graduation party like that? You know, but you could make it.
I mean that that's a night. I think that's a
that's a huge idea. He only went to one year
of college, So that's why. No anyway, so it's all right,
that's bad Intel. Who the hell's giving me this Intel?
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way tire buying should be. So the NBA Draft, we
are steaming towards the end, just a handful of picks left,
and still Kyle Philipowski is still on the board. Maybe
if no one ran into him in that game, he'd
have been taking already. Is that a did that put
him on the board. Did that come up in the medicals?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Now, look Jason, real quick, do you think they're holding
JJ Reddick back at the facility right now, he's trying
to draft him.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Trade the duke, trade whatever we have, move up to
get him. Trade whatever we have, Trade fifty five. I
got it. We need that pick for Brownie. I don't
care trade it.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I gotta say this though, we watched a lot. I mean,
we've seen in the first round, right final, couple of
picks coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Not a lot of war room.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Shots right of Hey, let's look at the executives working.
But boy, that was a really good camera angle they
had for the Lakers drafting.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, JJ Reddick a lot of times, and they took
Dalton connect. Yeah sure, and I love it. Oh yeah,
JJ's all tatted up. I forgot his whole left art.
It's like tyshirt. His whole left arm is all tatted up.
I forgot about it. And his character got a good
run again and clip this week. Yeah, yeah, I don't
know it was a good run. Was a knock on.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I've been talking about the other one for a couple
of weeks now, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Shows it's got some stuff. Make the shot, No he's
not in there yet. No, he's not there. Jim Belushi
plays j Moore actually in this now. Yeah, No, he
was not in the shot of the warlod either. I look,
though I did not say, but I saw he was
in the other war room. I saw. I saw JJ
Reddick shaking hands, and I saw Jay Moore on the
phone with Drew bledsoe uh at the end like he has.
(02:31):
Why don't we have a relationship like that? Now, really
quick before we get in good because I can help
everybody who's wondering what kind of player did my team
get in the NBA Draft? But first things first. So
I'm driving and I'm listening to ESPN radio coverage of
the draft. Right, listen to the coverage of the draft locally.
They didn't even bother, No, no, we was gonna take
a national draft. So I'm listening, and two things in
(02:54):
the first four picks. I'm stunned. And you know, I
always am because I think about the the status of
radio and how important it is and what it's like,
and you think about certain companies and what they do,
and I'm listening to them, and the first thing I
see is that, Okay, they missed the announcement at number three,
(03:15):
missed the announcement completely because they were interviewing researche, right,
so they are they miss the announcement. So they're talking
to him, he's answering questions, and you hear in the
background Adam Silver with and I'm like, are you really
missing the pick? All right, Well that's a mistake. Obviously,
that's not gonna happen again. Nope. When the fourth pick
came up for San Antonio, when they were interviewing Sheppard,
(03:35):
you hear Adam Silver saying with a select I'm like,
you've got to be catching you miss Shepherd and Cat
biggest names. Yes, but it's a vet radio, right.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
This isn't a hey, a little bit of grab ass,
there's something going on in the background.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No, No, this is the event. I'm like, how are you
missing the picks? That's what you have to get. Maybe
it's a new thing. Maybe they don't care about the
picks because people don't know who a lot of these playoffs.
Let's talk to him, Okay, but I'm gonna get to
that interview in a second. So I'm sitting here saying
this is the only thing that people want to hear.
They want to hear the announcement of the teams and
(04:14):
the picks. It's a big no matter if you've heard
of the players or not. When you hear that, and
you look and the commissioner speaks with the fifteenth pick
in the NBA draft, like, you don't know what it's
gonna be. And even though you know it's somebody that
you know you're not gonna hear of. Maybe there's a trade,
but you sit there and go, what is it? It's drum.
It's the one thing that will always get you to
(04:35):
turn to stop what you're doing. Oh, the pick is in.
I want to see what this pick is. No one
talks over the pick. No one's going And they miss
two out of the first four picks. Can you imagine?
Can you imagine the NFL draft? Here comes a team
picking at three. Oh, we got four good quarterbacks on
the board. What happens? And with the third pusier quarterback? Wait,
who got taken out of his stack? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
I mean that happens Day two, day three, certainly not
in the in the first five picks, not in the lottery.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And and here's and here's the thing. When they didn't get
to the third pick, right. They're in their interview recochet
and obviously it's a language thing, and they're trying to
ask him. They asked him, I'm not lying. They asked
him three times if he'd ever seen Boris DL play, right,
like Boris DL. And he says, uh, well, and clearly
maybe he didn't know who Boris D. But he's trying
(05:22):
to give an answer, right. I feel bad for the kicks.
He's trying to give an answer, and they boris, did
you see Boris DL playing? I'm like, oh my god,
I know he's French, but come on, dude, you can't
And they ask him again, like, dude, BORI, it's not like,
did you ever see Michael Jordan play? Did you ever
see Boris d L play? People live at the average
NBA fan it's listening right now, goes, who the hell
is Boris d L? I remember he was a guy
that came off the bench and the big Spurs Sons
(05:44):
fight that that gave the Western Conference to the Spurs,
and and and and and dun David Stern.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
It doesn't would have been eight or nine years old.
Now you maybe you've got maybe you've got the legend
of Boris D. You know, it's like one of those guys.
It's a guy I heard about. Now, how do you
move on for that?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I mean, I don't know. I'm coming here listening and
I'm are you really asking him again? Why are you
say bor I'm thinking, Okay, there's got to be some
kind of link. There's got to be some kind of
sam bring it up or whatever. Did you see Boris?
Like we were told to feed him alone? About Boris?
Like he was Wilt Chamberlain back in the day. Did
you guys get to.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
See him playing?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
But that's it right in the gym. I don't understand
why this yours growing up. I mean because I look
because Carlesimo's on the show, and I'm like, are they
just talking about players they've coached? Like, hey, you see
Boris deal? Yes, Boris d how was French? I get it.
You could have asked him about it. You could have
asked about Tony Parker. You can ask him about Wemby
yea brother. No, but Boris Dia. What's what's the answer
(06:47):
that he's gonna give this? Boris had a hell of around,
don't get me wrong. Like he came in with Lebron
in two thousand and three two thousand and four, and
he played what fifteen years in the in the league.
But once it's and answered, and and the why are
you asking me about bors? Yeah, because I can only
imagine the visual and the freak is you have the audio.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
I have the audio, and I can only imagine the
visual and visual of him kind.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Of throwing up his hands like what do you want
me to sell me? The thing is is that like
he's got to because DL runs the Mets ninety two.
I call it Me's ninety like the Metropolitans, which is
team right, No, the Mets do we're beating the Yikes soon.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
No, No, But the Mets ninety two. I think Wemby's answer
they hold it as soon as he left, so he's caught.
But I'm sitting going, do you really did you see
Boris DL play?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Like? What? Like that's like a question, Like that's like
if you're a basketball coach and you're you're having wings
at Chili's and you want to talk about some random
players you've coached over I'm like, this is the third
pick of the draft we're talking about. Did you see
bords d L?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
This is where it gets down to the the end
of Field of Dreams?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Is that him?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
That?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's not him? Dad? Who did you get to see
play when you were a kid, Well, let me tell you.
I'm sorry, eight man out. I got this. I got
to see Boris d O play? Who Boris di O?
Who's Boris Dio? Is that his last name?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Boris and his last name is di O? Oh okay, Grippa,
I'm going to bed. All right, I'm going to bed.
I've done Grappa. Uh so again shocking, I'm going this
is wow. This is incredibly missing those Yeah, is just different.
I don't know how you.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Missed two picks. The Knicks just got like fifteen second
round picks and we turn for that twenty six.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, the nicknaxt to five and look again, these picks
the Knicks will after because they're gonna suck. They're going
to watch them off to charity because they obviously don't
need them, because they have the best top eight in
the NBA. They don't know they do. No two has
a better roster one through eight than the next right now, nobody. Now,
the roster could change. The roster could change a little
bit because if Mitchell Robinson gets dealt or something, else,
but right one through eight, nobody's got a better nobody.
(08:53):
You can't anybody and nobody available. He only have to
play twenty five minutes a night now, man, Guys don't
have to play playoff games. Play Guys don't have to
play forty five minutes a night now anymore, because we
have enough depth that if guys get hurt, we're not
throwing out Bogdanovitch or Alec Burks.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
I just can't fine now, Yeah, Frostburger, I push you
a little bit. You got you got a little bit
of anger there because you can see the dark side. Oh,
it's where everything here is positive because you know what
I think is really causing it, and I think this
we're now playing psychologist on the radium. It's the angst
over the upcoming Jets season and what's gonna happen with Roger.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Come on, man, that's.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Bleeding even your nick stuff they eat it with all
the positivity. You know, the dark side is there, pails
from the dark side.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Even if the Jets and it's not gonna happen because
actually going thirteen and four, number one seed in the ABC.
But even if something happens, I have the knicks at
the end of October. It doesn't matter I have a
title or but one of my teams is a title
or bust team. You've been saying for the right Come on,
don't saying that. One year the Mets tried to get
(10:02):
into the title. Last year you did well. They all
got hurt. They all got hurt. I'm sorry they got
hurt you.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
He never responded when I sent him that picture of
Matt Harvey being at the Yankees Mets game.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
So I'm glad he's there and we're beating the Yankees
eleven to two right now. Another home run for Harrison Bader.
He should come to every game. Not pitch, but you
come to every game and watch. You're gonna watch his games.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You didn't even respond yesterday it was Dark Knight you
had for years.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I had to listen to. Oh dude, I had Harvey
da Man, all the crazy ass funk go bobbleheads every
single day. Look at this. Look when I found here,
Look when I found here, Look when I found Look
at this baseball card that is of of of ken
landrou from nineteen seventy nine. He had good money. His
socks are Oh that's great enough to do? Is you
(10:49):
send me all this stuff that was full hair, mutton
chops and the greatest Stashey, if you're gonna be in
London tomorrow, you're gonna start sending pictus of all these
great London So it was great English soccer players of
years back. I got a Michael Owen autographed rookie card
right here. I got a blade of grass from the
two from the nineteen ninety eight World Co seventeen.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I know most of what I said to you is
actually story related that isn't nicks or mets. You're trying
to force something else in. And here's a show that
isn't about.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Here's a Spice Girls card with posh spices. I've never
said that it's gonna happen tomorrow. You're gonna be in
London tomorrow. You're sending that to Mark?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
You ever said that You're absolutely to stop outing my whereabouts. Absolutely,
people are gonna go rob me because of you. How
do you know that Harmon's in London?
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Well?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Who else is? We're in purple in London, Grimace, Yeah,
Grimace and Harmon. So there you go. I did pack
my purple short. Uh. Now, look, this draft has been
a very difficult draft to break down because plenty of
the players you haven't heard of. Some of the players
that you did, we saw during the tournament. Players don't
stay in school for very long. The draft has become
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more and more difficult to break down. We have big
star players when it's web year. Ay, everything is different,
but you want to know if the guy your team
took is going to be any good to be excited
about it. There are two things that every team is
looking for right now in the NBA. And it changes
because there's different genres, different years, different styles, different copycats.
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But there are two things that every team is looking
for right now. You can go and look at a
player's ratings and look at what it is, and there's
like seventeen eighteen things. Do they do this well? Do
they pass well? Do they do this off? They play well?
Off the ball? What's their attitude?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Like?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
All these things? But there are two things and if
your player, if the guy your team drafted can do
one of these two things, it's really good. If he
can do both of these two things, you got a
great pick. Again, It's why I like Steph Castle. Right now,
every team, every player coming in has to be able
to shoot. There can't be any players coming in that. Hey,
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we'll work on it. Will work on your range. We're
gonna work on your mid range. No, everybody, he's got
to come in and shoot. Look at how exciting it
is for people come in. Oh man, we got dilling
Ham att number. He is the best pure shooter in
the draft. Hey, that's awesome, right, This is way it is.
Everybody's got to come into the league and be able
to shoot. You don't learn to shoot in the NBA.
So if you got a guy that can shoot, awesome,
you can figure things out. If you got a guy
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that can play really good defense, awesome. Everybody needs that
defensive stopper. You need somebody you can put in the
other team's best player. You need a couple of those guys.
But in the draft, you can get somebody that can
play defense. That's what it is. Great one on one defense,
especially out on the wing. But if you get somebody
that can do both of them, you got a great pick. Again,
why like Steph Castle. But if you get someone that
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can shoot and can play defense and be that lockdown
type defender, you got a great pick. That's what you
look at. If your guy, if you got if you
drafted somebody that can't shoot or is not a great defender. Sorry,
not much I can say for you. But if he
can shoot or play defense, good, If you could do both, great, well.
The old NFL rule of that was well, if we
get him into our system, we can develop. Now that's
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not anymore.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
But also with the the NBA draft today, I don't
know that I've ever really seen the delineation of a player.
No longer is it guard or forward, it's wing. Right,
that's now a position. Yeah, because instead instead of less.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
NBA, how do we how do we not say shooting
guard slash small forward slash so wing, I was just
calling him a wing. It's like, so what does he do?
Where does he go?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And then we get some video highlights and we passed too.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
But but certainly, yeah, I mean, with the proliferation of scoring,
if you've got a guy that can go out and
one on one, uh, I mean you watched it with
Boston right that that you didn't have to commit double
teams and what happened frustrated the hell out of Luka
doncic Uh and Kyrie Irvings.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
So yeah, that's the that's the blueprint. For going forward.
How you want to build a squad? Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
I laugh because the just real quick. The one video
I had fun with last week was John Moran playing
with his daughter and she's down at a defensive stance
and the first comment, wow, look at the wingspan I
heard four.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
They're scouting her already. Yukon's already offered her a Scottari
just had her arms Down's like wow, all right, out
of wingspan. She's going to yukonnor Ight cluk class of
twenty thirty seven. Here you go right there, exit out
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Sure that puts another runner on here in the eighth,
but we'll get back to the NBA Draft coming up
in a few minutes. One of the most difficult coaching
decisions was made earlier today. It's a big it's a
big shock, or it's a big headline. Alex Morgan will
not be on the US women's national team when they
play in the Olympics later on this summer, and the
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Hayes brand new women's coach finally finished up at Chelsea,
came over, She's coached a handful of games and has
decided she is not going to one of the players
they are taking to the Olympics. Alex Morgan put out
a statement saying she was disappointed in the decision, but
she will still root on all of her teammates as
they go to try to bring home the gold medal.
This is a really difficult decision, but I'm gonna tell
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you right now, I get it, and I agree with it.
It's hard to see a US women's team without her,
considering she's gonna wind up walking away as the most
decorated women's player ever. Right with the World Cups and
the Olympics. She went from the first invention of the
team with Mia Hamm and Julie Foudy and and and
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to go on into the Mbi Wombach Hope solo. And
then when it was her and Meghan Rappino. I mean,
she's been the one when she was in her early twenties,
thirty five years old. But look, let's be honest, Alex
Morgan is not the same player.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
No, it's her Rapino and and all like, look I
get it, Tom gets us.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
And there's probably the first thing I'm gonna say is
this is part of this, probably Emma Hayes saying I
had to put my stamp on the team here because
this is my team. You can say, look, because Crystal
Dunn is still going, she's gonna play forward now and
not be a defense. There's still some player, but this
is a star player. This is someone who is a
big voice and a big member, and so is part
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of it. Probably Emma Hayes wants to put her stamp
on the team. Yeah, I don't think that part did
Alex Morgan any favors. I don't think this well, you know,
I really this needs to be my team, and is
it's still my team? If Alex Morgan is there. People
are talking about the former era of the States women's
national team and we need to show that we are
starting over again. But this is where we're at right now.
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This is the new group. Lindsey Horan is our captain.
We have younger players. The average age of the team
now is twenty six. It's not older like it was,
so that's part of it. But quite honestly, she's not
the same player. I thought potentially they would take her
and she would be in the Raupino role of where
if they needed a goal, she'd come off the bench
and play the last twenty twenty five minutes. Like I thought,
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that's kind of what her role would be because the
number one thing the United States women's team needs what
they need goals, right, That's what you saw them in
the World Cup going. They don't have scorers, right. The
young players that have come up have not been what
the young players are in the past. And I understand
people thinking, well, when you hear Trinity Rodman and so
Fia Smith, well they're just going to be great, just
like all the other younger players, because all those players
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have been great for fifteen years. But they're just not
Trinity Robbin's a big name, so Fia Smith is a
name you've heard. But they're not great players. They're not
difference makers. They're not players who come out and say,
look at where they are. They're players who are Okay,
they're good. But the United States has went from the
dominant team in the in the world to now one
of the five best teams in the world. They've taken
a step down. They need someone who can fill the net.
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And you watched Alex Morgan play and it was very difficult.
She's off sides all the time. She's lost a step,
which is probably why she was supposed to. That's why
she's off every day, absolutely right, and you're gonna, I mean,
how many how many off sides she get called for?
Can you stay on side? Alex Morgan? She can't dent
the back of the net like she used to. She
looks like someone when when watching her play that her
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time has just come right. And sometimes you can play
till your late thirties, you can extend that a little bit,
but sometimes it comes when you're thirty five and again
the whole Hey, moving on to Emma Hayes. That didn't
do her any favorites. Maybe she would have been able
to stay on the team again and play in that
rapena role. You don't play every game, but if we're
tied late in the last twenty five minutes, we could
go to overtime in penalties. We need you on the field.
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I thought that, but that again, that didn't do her
any favorites. But I can't disagree with this because she's
not the same player. We talked about this going into
the World Cup. The biggest question was is Alex Morgan
still an elite goal scorer? Because if she's still an
elite goal scorer, the women's national team is going to
be really good. Right, I'm fine about it, but we
saw she's not and there's nobody there because Mallory Swanson
was injured. There's nobody on that team to take that up.
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And we had a lot of trouble trying it, so
we couldn't score in shootouts. We were we were just
mentally shot during the shootouts, and we got knocked out
of the tournament. So I watched this and I go,
this is it for Alex Morgan. And you don't go
from you don't go from not getting picked for the
Olympic team at thirty five to getting picked for the
World Cup team at thirty seven and a half. It
doesn't happen. So this is the end of her run.
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This is the end of her international career. And it's
said because it's such a great run for But it's
time and just watch the games, go back and watch Tate,
watch video and see her. She's not as fast, she's
not the same goal scorers she was. She didn't when
she got the ball in the box, she didn't have
the same smoothness. She'd have the same level of execution.
And it was really tough watching it, Like I knew
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she's near the end, Like she's really near the end.
She can't play these minutes. She can't do this. She
keeps she keeps getting off sides because she's too slow,
which is part of the United States's problem was that
we were way too slow in general. So hopefully they're
faster now as we get into the Olympics this summer.
But you know, it's a tough day. But I absolutely agree,
and I think it's just the end for Alex Morgan.
I wish you would have made a retirement statement instead
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of saying, hey, I'm disappointed to not get picked because
you're not getting picked for something else all. I mean,
really I would have just I know it's a tough
decision to make, but that's where you say, hey, i'm
retiring from international play. I'll still play in the NWSLT
whatever you're gonna do. But this is where it's like
your best player that you owe so much to it
has to walk is walking away saying I'm disappointed to
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not get picked. Should have ended a little bit differently.
They could have could have done a little bit differently.
But I agree she's done and you need to go
to the younger players. But that's the question of you know,
how was it communicated to her right? Was was there
something that didn't sit right in the way the conversations
went and discussing a potential role for this this run
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of things. I mean, only they're gonna they're gonna know.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
But when I saw the statement come out this morning,
I mean, there was no surprise to it, right, changing
of the guard.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Look, as much as you can say we took a
step back, the rest of the world caught up.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Right.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
That's the other part for the international women's soccer game,
and we're watching it with women's sports.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
In a in a lot a lot of venues of
you know, you're you're seeing competition to where maybe you
once had a bit of distancing and now there's other
nations that are at the table here. It's gonna be
curious with Smith and Rodman that you mentioned Macario coming
back because she'd been injured, so she missed some a
lot of games and a lot of time. But you're
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trying to find the speed you know heran how how
many times did we we wonder you know, in terms
of too much soccer? Did she need some time off
whatever where she didn't have the same pace of play,
But you still have a few of the holdovers in
her hand in rose leavel and familiar names, and that
might have been where you had Alex Morgan stay not
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to where it's ceremonial, but a little bit because it's ceremonial,
right of you could still be here. But you need
a striker, but you need a striker that has the
extra push. Yeah, versus the roster decisions as they've been
laid out, we're more we need at least some versatility
because if you're not gonna be great at what you
were ones great at, I need you to be able
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to do some other things, and that's not where Alex
Morgan is in her career and in her play right now.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
And it's it's always tough.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
It's always tough to say goodbye to players in any sport,
coaches in any sport that have had a long, long run.
Even at the end, you know, Beheim, it was time,
but it's still hurt.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
We watch guys walk away and like, wow, twenty years
made Nick Saban this fall, it's gonna be weird watching
him on television.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
But he walked away like this is weird. It's like, hey,
I'm telling you your career is over, and I think
you have to understand that when your career is over
given the option, I mean, I don't know along behind
closed doors, but how did it get to that point
where you're not getting taken and I'm upset that you
didn't take me? I mean, that's that's but it's still
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
You're you're not gonna agree with the decision, right, I
Mean plenty of folks get walked off a job in one.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Way or for it. But you know, if you're not
making this team, you're not making the World Cup. Team,
you're not getting picked up for another team. But in
the end, you know, it's the old you got.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
You gotta think for how many seconds before you say something, and.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Certainly a little bit longer.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Don't hit send, right, the old don't don't send button
that needed to be there in terms of, you know,
conveying your frustration.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
And in this case, I'm gonna go out and let
and say she was.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Quite okay with However people want to interpret her disappointment
here that she felt she still was good enough.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Is good enough to earn a roster spot? You know
the thing though, But if that is a reality right,
but gets you in the face sometimes. But they've gone
all in on Emma Hayes as their coach. Right. If
this was Adonofsky was near the end, maybe you would
have picked her. Some dog you might have picked her.
But if this was someone who was ending, you know,
I'll be like, okay, hey, you're not picking me. The
team might not win. The next coach coming in is
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gonna pick me. Emma Hayes is in for the next
world shop. She doesn't pick you now, Oh no, you're done,
you know, I mean it's not so. But I didn't
see anybody else that could score. So, hey, guess what,
Alex Morgan, I'll come back to you. That's not happening.
I mean, since just not happening.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I While I agree in the moment, you're you're talking
about the initial shock and disappointment and frustration of this.
You're you're not tweeting and sending out statements about two
years from now, recognizing the end. You're You're you're hot,
You're fired up right now, right hot take nonsense in
terms of our business, right, You're red. React in the
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moment you read a tweet calling you an idiot that
you don't like, you respond to it in the moment.
And in this case, she got notified. She was pissed.
I can't do it, you know, and and and the
and the thing. No, I'm not turning my back. It's done.
She's done.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
We talked about it. She was done. She's done that.
She's done that. Look, nobody talks soccer like we do,
so listen to us. Uh. The one thing I will
say is that in this hey, the United States really
needs somebody who can score. Is that now that Mallory
Swanson's back, this may be the big thing that flips
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the team because she was the best scorer they had.
Remember she missed the World Cup with that horrible injury.
She's just getting back now. She was the up and
coming next best score of the United States had she
had everything. She had the the the the the tracking,
she had the training for it, she had the little
bit of of of competition that she had with the
US women's team when she was younger. Hey, back when
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she was Mallory pew Right, she was gonna be terrific.
And now how was her time? Missing that World Cup
was huge because she's the one that would have been
out there, that would have been Hey, this is the
one that's gonna dent the back of the net force.
This is the one that's gonna put to put the
ball in the net force instead of having to worry
about can we get a goal from Lindsay Heran? Can
can we get can we get an oh, by the
way goal from Sophia Smith? Can we find a way
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to score off a corner? You know? Can Rapino come
off the bench in the last twenty minutes and score?
Like the addition of Mallory Swanson could be what flips
the United States from Hey, we're one of the top five.
Maybe that's an over the top move because she is
that good a score. That's what's gonna rely on. First off,
Sophia Smith. Swiping, swiper, No swiping, don't try to hide
the ball. It's a bad move. It just doesn't work.
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And you're on tape. There's cameras and everything.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
The second part, and I will contend this other than
the ghost Runner, penalty kicks are the worst thing in sports, man.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Let's decide a game that you killed yourself for on
the pitch of the ack.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You know, well, you can't play forever? Yeah you can't.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (29:00):
That keeps going? Is the game still going? Look? I
had to wake up at three o'clock in the morning
to watch that. But you can't go on forever. Man,
It's got to end it at some point. It's five thirty.
I want to go back and need a natural land.
Let's go to three on Three've been trustish up tonight.
I don't drinking coffee since two thirty. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next.
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You want a great NBA draft idea for you? I
got one. Might not be what you think it is,
but I got one.
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Welcome to the sweep. The Mets hit a thousand home runs.
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The Yankees are back to five hundred and twelve twelve
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Now it's the Mets. Look. Really is kind of a
big deal.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I mean, I sent you a picture, you know, all
those things that you you tell me are useless, and
then I send your picture of the Mets connect hat
that had that fuchia thing going on.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Grimace is purple. Yeah, Grimace is purple.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Point I mean yeah, But but just in general, the
future didn't work like lean into the purple even before
grimm a little more purple. But certainly in.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
The what is it the the a g era after
Grimm after Grimace, you can never go fuh, it's a
little more purple color of royal. It's a little bit
of royalty. You need a little more purple. But let
me just say this before me. I mean, I'm part
of that holy triumpher opening up the diet Doctor Pepper.
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Drink of victory and a sponsor. Yeah, not a sponsor
that tastes like victory. Victory tastes like Yes, tastes like
diet Doctor Pepper's fantastic one more. You're drinking that like
it's it's the best man diet Doctor Pepper's cracked a
water bottle and said that water bottle, you have to
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drink water first, drink there's water in here. There's water
in the Doctor Pepper. There's water and there's no water.
There's water in there. Then what's in there? What's it
made out of? It's what you don't want to know.
What is it? Sweat and rosin and and and and
and lotion and like what like what is it?
Speaker 5 (31:32):
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Probably left over liftia mind and leftover battery charges? Who
knows for battery charges? You're going to become iron man.
I am drinking from the diet Doctor Pepper Victory a
lot of sponsor. The NBA draft in the books will
have more on the draft of itself. What happened tonight
coming up in a few minutes, because it's mainly about
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who didn't get drafted. But let me tell you this, right,
I was thinking about this today. The movie Draft Day
has become a big staple in pop culture, right but
it's been a few years now, it's been a while.
It's on all the time. Even though there's a lot
of faults to it, there's a lot, it's still so
enjoyable to watch, and it's fun, and the cast is
great and they have a lot of different storylines going on.
(32:14):
Draft Day has become a classic, right but now it's
been fifteen years. Hollywood likes to reboot things. What if
we rebooted Draft Day, but it's around the NBA Draft.
Not quite the same storyline obviously, not a guy trading
a first round pick and then get him all back
and everything else. But you could borrow, for instance, say, hey,
you have a coach who gets the new job with
a team and he wants to draft players that he
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coached in college, kind of like make it, make it
like the Knicks, and you have him fighting with a
GM who wants to do something different. You can follow
some of the players on the way to the draft.
I mean, I think that's a huge idea. They have
to go, but would love you have to go live
in Lithuania for a year.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Oh, there's definitely a scene where a coach has to
go see somebody in a foreign land and it looks
like Bora and someone's training like their Rocky and Rocky
floor play basket game. Guy, he jumps out of the gym.
How does he? How does he get the leg strength?
Watch this these what is that?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
This is my sister? She is number three ranked basketball
player in all of Lithuania. Uh, I think that that
that's a that's an idea. If you reboot and the
draft day, make it NBA Draft, and you follow a
bunch of different storylines, you get a big cast going on.
That can be a big hit.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Can it be an offshoot of the movie that we
talked about yesterday with the Kansas City Chiefs. Oh, those
are Hallmark movies, but but those are homework. I mean,
it's a love story. The guy, you know, get okay
because the scouts and the coach have to fall in
love with the player.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
It takes me all so it takes a lot to
get him to that team. It takes me all of
forty five seconds to come up with a full Hallmark
movie plot line a little bit longer for draft day
in the NBA. I'm just throwing that out there. Hey,
borrow from the next Hey, we have a team that
they wanted. He wants to draft the players that he
played with in college. He's got a great relationship with them.
The GM tells him, some of these eyes aren't worth it.
We gotta take different players. There's your eternal conflict, external conflict.
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You follow some of the players getting ready for the draft.
I mean, I think it's made. Or of course, you
have to have some kind of craziness. I mean, we
have to have some knuckleheaded family members. Oh yeah, that
are getting on social media. We have to pour the
ashes out today for today today. It's gotta be so
we got we gotta get that in.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Okay, Great, somehow we get the GM that doesn't know
what he's doing, you know, the bulls.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Or the uh why did no one go to you
with the nets? Why did no one go to your
graduation party like that? You know, but you could make it.
I mean that that's a night. I think that's a
that's a huge idea. He only went to one year
of college, So that's why. No anyway, so it's all right,
that's bad Intel. Who the hell's giving me this Intel?
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