June 28, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason and Steve react to another big stage embarrassing loss for USMNT. The Lakers selecting Bronny James with the 55th pick in the 2nd round of the NBA Draft. And the guys weigh-in on the Paul George-to-the-Warriors rumors!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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And yes, Harmon off for the next few nights in London.
Still en route to London right now on vacate. He
gets back the end of next week and I leave
for London. We'll move past each other.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So that's how he's celebrating American independence from England.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah he's Yeah, Well, I'm actually landing on fourth of July.
So I could land and go, Hey, what's going on today? Anything?
Anything going on? Are you celebrating the fourth in a
red coat? I could just see armed dressed up revolutionary
ward doing one of those beefeater hats, marching in front
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of the palace, running with the gun that's got the
that's got the stabbing knife at the end.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, mister bayonet.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh, I could just see that. So yeah, no, happy
be landing on Hey, fourth of July? What's going on today?
Do you guys commemorate the day at all? Anything? Do
you guys there anything done here? Is there any special
any Fourth of July sales anywhere? Do you guys?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So Meanwhile, what we are going to be we thought
we would be celebrating as far as America was the
men's soccer team after the game today and they wind
up losing, and then correct me if I'm wrong. You
and I happen to be on Monday night as the
schedule works out, and we're going to be on during
the second half of that film.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Really, we'll be on for the last day. It was
Greg Burhalter's tenure as head coach of the US MNT.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, you're mount to God's ears.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Look, the United States lost State of Panama and it
was so unbelievably frustrating. Panama is not a great team,
you know. I mean I go through times when I
go as a youth coach. I understand strategies, and how
does Greg Burholter not be able to to to manifest
a defense against it? Like, Panama is not a good team.
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You knew they were going to come in and they
were going to try to be physical, and because that's
you do. A team that's not talent enough is going
to try to.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Make expansion hockey team. So I've always done it, just
clutch and grab because you can't outscore them.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And this is another reason why Burholter needs to be replaced. Right,
sometimes you just need a new voice because the players
tune you out. But you know, but I don't know
going in, was there even any time where they said, hey, listen,
don't get frustrated. Don't if they hit you, don't get frustrated.
Because what happened there was a big play early on
Matt Turner, the keeper who got hit was a dirty
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play and the ref blew it by not giving a yellow. Right,
that was a big thing because that was a really
dirty play. Forced the US keeper out of the game
by halftime. Yes, so that that needed to be adjudicated better. Okay,
don't go crazy, don't don't, don't get emotional. And what
did Tim Waya do? He punched one of the players
from behind and got an easy red card. The referee
walked out. You could see it from behind when they
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showed the angle. The referee walked over. He was he
stood at the replay the replay booth for three seconds,
saw what happened, walked right over and said that's a
red card and you're out of the game. And now
the United States had to play the rest of the
game seventy minutes with ten men, right, you know, going
in they're going to be physical. Don't fall victim to them.
Let them get penalties, let them get fouls, let them
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do this and play our game. But instead the United
States got caught up in that the entire way and
they played right into Panama's hands. Another reason where you
can forget about strategy and is Greg burrowalter this is
he that is he's starting the right players? Is he not?
That's always going to be disagreed upon, but something like
that that's something that stands out. How are you not
ready for a team You know how they're going to
come in, you know what they're going to do in Still,
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you wind up making so many mental mistakes and you
wind up giving a game to the other team.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And that was all that was said in the various commentaries,
print and television about what kind of game this was
going to be very physical? Why for the exact same
reason you mentioned that a team that doesn't have the
talent to play with you is going to muck up
the game. And the total fouls in this game US
four fouls Panama nineteen.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
But you can't foul out in soccer.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
So unless you actually hand out a yellow card for
running over the goaltender in mid air, for example, which
he did not, you're not. I'm not saying that would
have changed the game. I want to be careful not
to say that. But that was the twelfth minute of
the game when the US goalie got injured and tried
to play through it. The rest of the first half,
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there were multiple times when the referee just wasn't up
to snuff to call this type of game as physical as.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It was going to be.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Start to finish, and you saw by the time we
had to the last five ten minutes a game, there
was a karate kid style sweep the leg on Christian
Polisic that could have literally injured him. Yea that he
got up quickly and went after the guy that kicked him.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But at least they made that a red card. Then
there was a play a couple minutes later when Robinson
was coming up the field and he was there was
nobody in front of him, and it was the same
exact play and it was just a yellow. I'm like, wait,
it's the same thing I know on the brug as well.
It's not quite No, it's the exact same thing as
what Karasquila did to a politic. So that's got to
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be a red as well. I mean, come on, I mean,
you gotta adjudicate this thing properly.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The NBA analogy is, what if you have somebody that
literally can't guard a guy on defense and he's blowing
past you to the lane all the time, and so
defense he either trips the guy on the way by,
pulls the jersey, shoves him down. You can do that
all day, all game in soccer until he actually develops.
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You know, one yellow card and then two he's out
or a straight red like we saw against the American
guy for the punch. But this is exactly what Panama
did from the start for ninety minutes tonight, and they
get rewarded because the US didn't react.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's a strategy that should not have worked. That the
best teams overcome. And if you think you're one of
the best teams, we have, all the talent we do,
you overcome this pretty well, right. You needed to get
a draw. You didn't even play for that. It was
a complete epic fail by the United States today. And
again this is something that falls under the umbrella for
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Greg Burholter. I mean, just to take it away from
strategy that you're always going to disagree with, Well, who
should be the striker up tops we Balligan who had
a great game today. That's gonna be something that no
matter what happens, if the United States loses, that decision
will be wrong, right, no matter what it is. But
when you look at things that need to be taken
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care of and buttoned down, and I see a team
coming in with a strategy you knew what was gonna happen,
and you still allow it to get to them. That's
the head coach. That's on the head coach to make
sure this is where we're at mentally for this game.
I get that they're all professionals, but this is what
the coach needs to do. And there's many instances of
things that I don't understand why the United States still
struggles on things. Is it because they just don't listen
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to Burhalter? Is it because they tune them out? Is
it because his ways? They just don't they when the
game gets going, they just kind of do their own thing.
Whatever the answer is. Whatever the answer is is there's
too many mental mistakes that the United States makes, whether
it was that or whether it was not knowing who
to mark on the final goal of the game for
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Panama when again defenders got to know where you're marking
your guy. You have to know at that point, and
there's still confusion with that. When there's mental mistakes that
keep happening like that, I mean, that's okay, you know what, Yeah,
you can blame the players, but this is what the
coach takes care of. This falls under the category of
this is this is my culture, this is my brand,
this is this is what our our our strategy is
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this is who we are, and we're not gonna be
a team that makes these mental mistakes and continues to
do these things. But yet that's exactly what the United
States keeps doing. That's why they need a new voice.
So somebody else is coming that maybe they can set
a better culture and maybe we can find out what
our identity is because I still don't know what our
identity is. It's get the ball to policic. Hey, that's great. Again,
as a youth coach, I can tell you, get the
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ball to policit, great strategy, get the ball to our
best player. That's still what we wind up doing.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
And we're not just talking about tonight, and we're not
talking about the fact that everybody in the world could
blow the doors off Bolivia, but we only got them
to nothing, thanks in part to that great early goal.
After that, we did very little offensively against a team
that's not even ranked top eighty in.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
The world, you know. And that's and that's the one
thing that gets me because if you said to me
or to not be all, you know, Greg Borhalter must go,
even though we must uh. The one thing the United
States has done for a deckca Gate now is they
come out in games really strong right off the bat.
There's very rare where you come out and see the
United States get dominated and they give up an early goal.
It's always the United States that gets that early goal
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that carries the play the first fifteen to twenty twenty
five minutes and they play electric. And there's times I
think Sunday, how many teams that are like this can
can beat us in the world. We play this, but
then we get a lead, we get a goal, and
then everything goes away and we don't play like that
for the next sixty minutes and we wind up tying
or losing the lead. Again. That falls under the umbrella
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for the head coach. But we usually start out and
I give them that we start out really strong. How
do we not keep that up? How do we not
keep it up?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And we're talking about years. The through line for these
problems is the coach that you not only had for
the entire World Cup cycle going into when they played
in the World Cup a year and a half ago,
but for some reason actual letting his contract expire and
going with an interim the guy you wound up rehiring is.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
This guy all over again.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
So what's the US win loss record for the US
Men since October five, five and one, and that includes
a five to one loss to Columbia in a tune
up match this month when you had to play an
actual opponent, and now that they're not going to win
this group. Even if they can sneak in and somehow
get a result on Monday that puts them into the quarterfinals,
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it might be US Brazil and then you're out quickly.
It's just things have gone this way for too long.
So some people to get your hate watching phrase.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
In here, everybody's hate watching on Monday.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I'm hoping for the long term.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
If this what gets the coach out so we can
actually create something to be proud of for the next
World Cup, which we are co hosting in two years,
then great sacrifice Monday night, change it all around. Have
two good years and look, I'll tell you this, You
will be able to tell Monday night what the team
really thinks and how much they want for Alter to
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be their coach. Because if they come out Monday night
against a really good look Uruguay's pretty good team, if
they come out and look like they're okay, all right,
maybe they like playing for Burholter but if they come
out flat and it's a bad game and they lose
or they tie, and it's it's uninspired and they miss
chances and they make mental mistakes, you know that there
has to be a change that Burholter is just not
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getting through because at this point they know, Okay, our
coach is likely going to get fired on Monday, depending
how we play, and we could also get knocked out
out of the Cope America if they come up flat.
This tells you we want a new coach. We need
somebody else with you, new voice to come in. We
need it to happen.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I mean that you'll you'll see, you'll know in the
first twenty because like I said, they normally come out
pretty fast. You'll know in the first few minutes what
kind of team we're going to get and how and
how they're going to be motivated, if they're motivated to play.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
And that game in Kansas City on Monday night, it's
going to be on FS one in Kansas City. Whether
it's due to be warm, it's due to be windy,
the heat index will be up even though it will
be a night game. And the opponent Uruguay, will they
beat Panama three to one in the opener, and Eruguay
won five nothing in their game in New Jersey tonight.
Uruguay is ranked top twenty in the world, just like
Colombia's ranked top twenty in the world. And I mentioned
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we lost to Colombia five to one.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Now, to get away from Berhalter for a second, talk
about the game winning goal. We've talked about how look defense,
they just didn't know who they were marking. You can't
let guys run free in the box without knowing what
you're doing. Both their goals were because one guy had
the ball and there were three players standing around not
doing it.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Tim Reim Anthony Robinson did not have good games on defense.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But I will say this, Ethan Horrovav has to make
that save. Yeah, the backup goalie he got in. He
got knocked over by the ball. Okay, you can't come on, man,
you can't get knocked over by the ball. That's a save.
That is one of those plays where the keeper stands tall,
gets his hands out and bats that ball back or
somewhere else. He put his hands up and backed away
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and the ball knocked him into the net. I mean,
come on, man, I mean just got to stand right there,
put your hands up and be strong. And instead it
was here comes the ball. I mean it was I
was in back watching that replaccid. How did that ball
get into the net. He was right on his hands
that I mean, that's a place where any other team
gets that. And it's you hear bat bat because it's
hits the hits the keeper's hands and bounces back to
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the turf and bounces somewhere. And instead it bounce and
hit him and bounced over him because the ball knocked
him down. I get it was a close in shot,
but come on, man, stand there and and that's that's
your job. You're you're the keeper. Your job. Get there,
be strong, be big, get your hand, get your fists
out so you can deflect the ball.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And also remember he very early in the second half,
and he came on as a sub at halftime in
as the US goalie. Early second half, he kind of
was able to get two hands on a deeper shot
and shove it away. But it was a rocket, but
he had more time to react. This was a quicker shot,
a close in shot, and it kind of went through him.
And it's not just surprising on the nuts and bolt
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soccer level with in the game, but also generally goalkeeping
position has been the US strength historically.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Oh timpowered was great for so.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Long, sure Casey Keller, Brad Friedel on and on. We've
had essentially two starting goalies at a time many eras
in United States soccer. And now we're getting two goalies
that are playing professionally in England but really not playing.
So when we brought our sub as a goalie for
the second half tonight, that was literally the first game
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he had gotten into for a club or his country
in almost.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
A couple of months. Yeah. Well, because lookcause Matt Turner's
still trying to get going because he lost his job
with notting him for he wasn't starting anymore. But I
like Matt Turner. Matt Turner's a pretty good goalie.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
He's he's been good in this in this cycle of
the last.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
He would have made that save. I mean it's hard
to say, you know, because because the goals look like
sometimes they're, oh, how who's going to make that save?
Who's going to make that? But Turner probably makes that safe.
He probably should have made the save on the first
goal too. Maybe he got screened a little bit but
you know when that's a rass cutter and that that
gets under your arm. Yeah, different, you gotta make that.
But that's it. That's it. That's a that's a ball
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that Matt Turner saves, and likely we get out of
there one one and just need to tie on Monday
to be able to move on. So yeah, we talk
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Show is Steve De Sagarin for Mike Harmon day two
of the NBA Draft. You know, Harmon was really nervous
about being off today, like like like off the second
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day of the draft, the Browny day. It's a big day.
And I said, yeah, you no, no, it's fine, toying with
the idea of texting him and going, hey boy, they
really needed you in today. Really, there's so much stuff happened, man,
I can't even tell you because he's in London. He's
in London. Now, hey gotta go back, I gotta fly back.
You're girls, stay here for Taylor Swift. I'm flying back.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Guessing not a lot of people were watching today, and
it probably wasn't just the start time for a round two.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Well, I was doing the back and forth because the
beginning of the Copa America the United States Panamas, right,
they were at pick fifty two, So my last button
was getting a workout. I'm like, okay, here, I watch
this for thirty seconds. Go back, the pick is in.
I'm going back. The pick is in. I'm going back. Okay,
Bronny gets picked. All right, great, I go back and
I go I missed a disallowed goal. Come on, man,
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come on.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You have done what some of us did. Just DVR
the one. You can see the complete both.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I didn't need it, no, you know what. That would
have taken up too much time. I wanted to just
ride the lightning back and forth. And then I only
had to go back and look at this allowed goal, and.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I was like, I get fifty five. The news was
done there.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You could wait, wait what DV already have up? Hey
a serie, please DVR pick fifty five.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Well, the NBA actually remember this.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It started early the draft today and so it wasn't
actually in the TV guide that it would still be
on at this hour. So I was really just saying
DVD this half hour show, which was a different title,
and that made it much easier.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Instead of NFL Live. It was day two of the
NBA Draft.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, exactly. It wasn't like some five hour you know
what I'm talking about, Like when you try and tape
NFL Network and then you get all seven hours for
I'm never going to be able to go through this.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I felt like every time they went to the Deputy
Commissioner to make the announcement, like they was all on tape.
Like he made the announcement and we're just gonna roll
with it, because he would say he would smile and
he would say, with the sixteenth pick in the second round,
the New York Knicks select, and then he would smile. Cut.
Everything was exactly the same smile cut, Like did they
tape this right before? We have to worry about going live.
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We're just gonna roll the tape and they go, let's
go to the deputy commissioner for the selection, and he's
got it right there. He reads it more.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Fun So it's really like the Old Letterman Show used
to do, where they could pre tape that part and
then just add some live voiceover right, the cover up
the mouth so you don't see him say Kirsten Polisic.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Or any name with the sixteenth pick in the NBA Draft,
the New York Knicks select Oh crap, we didn't edit that. Oh,
we've got to put that name in there. Oh, I
can't believe we didn't.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Be Well, Bronny James was taking fifty fifth out of
what would normally be sixty selections, two total rounds. But
we haven't heard of most of the guys drafted before
or after him.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
So I repeat, you didn't.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Miss anything, because that was the only thing newsworthy in
the coverage.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And look, there's a lot of different angles to this
because this is the one story of the draft. And look,
we've talked about the You know, you gotta stop hating
on Lebron for being the dad. Any dad would try
to get his son the best job he could get
if he could, You would use your influence. Is it
going to be a big deal? Know, the the the
furor over this will calm down in a little while.
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But well, the one thing I don't think the Lakers
and Lebron and Bronny have really thought through, right, They've
thought about, hey, okay, what what do we want? We
want Bronnie to play with La all right, Rich Paul
does his thing and tells teams don't draft Bronni or
he'll play in Australia. Okay, fine, we weren't doing it anyway.
What's it going to be? All right, we know that
you're gonna spend some time in the G League. Yep, Nope,
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that's fine. You'll play a little bit up here in
the preseason, Yep, that's fine. Maybe you're on the roster.
We give you one way. You're not going to see
regular minutes. No, I understand that. Okay, great, But I
don't think they've understod They understand that this could go
sideways for them so incredibly fast. Because this is in
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the end, it still is a polarizing selection of taking
Lebron James's kid, Lebron James, who if it was Kobe's kid,
people would have loved that. Are you kid? They're go,
oh my god, we got Kobe's kid. This is phenomenal.
Oh we're gonna win coming because Kobe had Kobe or
Shaq's kid or whoever. But Lebron still is an arm's
length superstar with the Lakers and their fan base. There's
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still as many people that want him out as want
them to lead the Lakers to a title. So now, okay,
now we drafted his kid, so now there's a large
number of fans. Why do we do this? Why do
we count out to him? And there's more reason to
dig in and say, oh, Lebron is not a real Laker.
I can't believe we're doing this form. We should get
rid of him. If things don't go well for the
Lakers this year, you know how quickly it's gonna be
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on Lebron and Bronny is just gonna catch all the
strays because of it. And we drafted his kid, and
his kid stinks, and his kid can't be on the team,
And have we drafted anybody? They'll pick somebody in the
second round that's getting some kind of minutes and hit
it in, scoring like nine a game, and say why
did we get him? We should have had him. He's
gonna trend every night on Twitter no matter who it is.
He'll trend to every just like Alex Caruso would trend
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every night on Twitter when he left the Lakers. Oh,
the Lakers shoul still have Alex Caruso. Whoever that player is,
is gonna trend, and things can get sideways really bad,
and the anti Lebron movement can get pretty loud, really fast,
and Brony's gonna get caught up in it, and it's
gonna be an every single day thing of the Lakers
fighting this perception because you know, Lebron loves social media.
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All young players love social media. They're not gonna want
to go on They're not gonna want to see the
hate They're gonna get on there because that's what's gonna happen.
Because if the Lakers don't have a good year, and
this is a year where you're starting out with a
new head coach, a rookie head coach who last time
he coached was coaching fourth grade a year ago, this
can go sideways for you really fast, and it can
be a really negative energy surrounding the team. And I
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don't think that Lebron and Bronny and everybody have thought
about that part of it. That because Lebron is so polarizing,
you are ratcheting up the stakes this year. And if
that doesn't happen, look out, this is gonna be a
wave that hits you.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
The other part of the formula, though, is you just
spent a draft choice on someone who averaged less than
five points a game, and didn't play a full season,
and was not a top ten prospect coming out of
high school, and was not the best player on his
high school team. So all of these are true, and
that's who you took, and we know why you took him.
So there's reason on a basketball sense for some backlash
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to come. But then when you throw in the fact
that I'll use examples, there have been other famous players
in various sports who then had sons come into the game.
Notably Bobby Bond's kid was a product a superb product
in his sport on his own. Or Ken Griffy senior
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son was a number one pick on his own. He
didn't need help or nepotism to forge his own career.
This is completely different from that. So a lot of
the discussions that had over this draft choice, and we're
well aware that a lot of first rounders don't pan
out much less second in the NBA. Nonetheless, a lot
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of the questions that are being raised are legitimate about
this look.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I understand that the Lakers are in a win now position,
and you drafted the kid as a favor to Lebron. Right.
And if you hear a lot of people that that
deal with the NBA every day and report it, they say, listen,
people do favors like this all the time. Gms do
favors for kids.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
For the ultimate was the Mike Piazza draft choice as
a favorite.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Of seventy eighth round pick. We're gonna draft Mike Piazza. Look,
that's awesome, so you see it. So I'm okay with that.
I'm okay with all of it, honestly, because it's not
like they took Browny in the first round, where hey,
you really could have taken a player that could contribute
to you, whether it's something and I'm not saying someone's
gonna come to be an All Star, but someone who
someone was a score like or can be in your
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rotation and be a crucial part of your eight man
rotation that plays fifteen or eighteen good minutes a night,
right like that would be a problem. But the second
but the second round to pick fifty five, I mean,
he's on the board around there. You know, all the
analysts had y know, hey, look right around here, you
could take him shure, sure, because the NBA draft is
all about potential, right when you see someone the potential
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and Bronni the one thing about him is that they
know is that he's smart and he plays defense. So okay,
it just seems you don't know what d Yeah, but
you don't know what kind of player he's gonna because
you don't know is he gonna be Can he hit
a jumper? We don't know, Like is he can he
be stronger with the hoop? We don't know. But we
know that he's smart and he plays defense. That's what
you've heard from every analyst. And so is that someone
you can take a chance on. Yeah? Absolutely, So I'm
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okay with all of it. It's just knowing that the
strings that were pulled just to make sure you got this.
You have to understand the backlash if this doesn't work.
And not if this if Ronnie could be g League
back and forth not playing, but if the Lakers aren't winning,
this is going to be the story. And we drafted
Lebron's kid, and we drafted his kid, and we drafted
his kid. I know how it goes. I've been doing
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this for five minutes. It's not It's going to be
a season the Lakers did not see coming. If they
lose right away, it's gonna the backlash is going to
be instantaneous. You saw the reaction on social media today.
For as many positive tweets as there were about Lebron
and drafting brob when you knew this was coming, there
was five that was ready to hate this. And again,
you know how big a deal social media is with players,
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and you know what they're gonna feel like when they
log onto Twitter or Instagram or something else and they're
gonna see this, and it's gonna be an overwhelming dialogue
and an overwhelming opinion. And I don't think the Lakers
are ready for what happens if this goes sideways.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And my negative reaction towards this specifically today is, for example,
how the ESPN Studio show treats this draft choice, like
Bronnie James just accomplish something. Now, when he got on
the court at USC after the health scare, Yes, that's
an enormous accomplishment. We are past that. He didn't accomplish
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anything being drafted. He had a famous dad, That's why
he got drafted.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I am for us. I'm happy because I'm happy that
it's a great storyline for us to talk about. Sure,
And it was great seeing the video of Ken Griffy
and Ken Griffy Junior and Ken Graffy Senior today online.
It was really fun because I realize we haven't had
something like this. You realize how rare it is. And
I appreciate that from the story angleve it too, because boy,
it was kind of it was kind of weird. We
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haven't seen something like this in sports in thirty years, right,
And you know, seeing the one my favorite video that
I remember of Ken Griffy Senior playing left field for
the Mariners and juniors playing center field. Look a favor
done to get Ken Griffy Senior to play with the
son a fly ball hit that looks like Ken Griffy
Senior is gonna get and Junior just cuts in front
of him, Dane, and you see him smiling going in
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and Griffy Seniors like you son of as such and
suff like that's such a fun moment. I watched that.
I'm like, I forgot how funny that part.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
When they home are the same game and they're sitting
on the bench together.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
And I mean each other.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
It's it's great for us, and it can be a
great It can be it can be something great depending
on how things go. But it doesn't necessarily doesn't mean
it's gonna be great for the Lakers. And that's an
angle of it that, hey man, you don't have a
team right now, that's suddenly, hey, we expect to be
in the top four of the Western Conference. This is
if we're gonna be out of the playing round, we
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need to make moves. We gotta make sure we get
Colin Sexton or Zach Lavine or wherever else we're gonna
go after. Like, that's what we have to do, because
if we go into next year with the same team
we had this year and we're struggling to get in
the playing round, I mean, just play out what that
regular season is gonna feel like. Right. It's one thing
when they had a difficult this year this year, coming
off the Western Conference finals a year ago, right, the
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upset of the Golden State Warriors going up against the Nuggets,
and everybody had Lakers fever and woll loog of this
and a very competitive sweep at the hands of the Nuggets.
It's one thing to come into this year and say, okay,
a little bit hangover from that. They added a couple
of pieces, let's see where they're at. They'll be playing
their best basketball in the playoffs begin and everything's gonna
be fine. And now they're out in the first round.
So now they're not coming off of the season with
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a lot of good vibes, coming off a season of Hey,
this stunk, man, this really stunk. And now we got
a new coach that half the fans love and half
the fans don't thinking coach, and now you brought in
a player that half the fans are excited, half the fans.
I mean, you've decided, let's let's continue to up the
ending on polarization of fans and media and the city
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and that. You know, that's a hard that's a hard
needle to thread.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Imagine if Lebron hadn't won a ring as a Laker
in that run in the bubble, because that was the
best year, full year that the Lakers have had since
he arrived, and the Laker franchise the last decade plus,
they have one year that year where they've had a
fifty win type season, a six hundred winning percentage type season,
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you talk about polarizing. If he hadn't won that one title,
look at all the seasons plural, that would be bad
in his Laker tenure.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah. But and to be fair, just to give a
little bit of a silver lining on that, is that
that championship should have resonated more. I get it was
the bubble. I thought it would resonate more because we
were excited about seeing basketball again. But you're talking about
a team that was the best in the Western Conference
when the season ended and they wound up winning the championship.
And now I didn't win the championship. They won the
championship without the benefit of home court advantage, which is
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why you play to get those red So you get
game seven at home, you get four out of seven
on your court, and you got none out of seven.
You had to go play in a neutral court, which, hey,
this helps everybody, right, this helps even the playing And
you still want so they should get more credit for
that title, right they should. I've given you that one
hundred percent. But since then, it's been Wow, what have
we done the last four years? Really? What have we done?
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And now we're just gonna continue to gamble that this
year is gonna be We're gonna gamble. The coaches good,
We're gonna gamble. We can draft the star's kid. We're
gonna get And I'm telling you it's it's really it
can get bad fast, really really fast. Right now, speaking
of getting bad really fast, gonna tell us about the
US men's national team today.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I thought that was the injury for me. You were
referenced the last four years the Lakers. You are, you
are the Matt Turner of the show. So I'm injured.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, you leave, You leave in an hour, and somebody
else comes in that doesn't do as well as you.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
The last four years for the Lakers was first round
playoff exit, missed the playoffs entirely, have about a five
hundred record and make a run and then first round
exit again. You referenced the US goalkeeper Matt Turner. He
had to leave it halftime in Atlanta tonight with a
bruised leg after an early collision against Panama. No card
was given on the play. Eventually the loss in relief
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to Matt Horvath as the Americans gave up a goal
in the eighty third minute, lost in their Copa America
tournament game two to one. To Panama in front of
fifty nine thousand fans. Panama had seventy four percent of
the possession as American Tim way I got a red
card in the eighteenth minute, so the US played ten
on eleven for most of the game. After Wayas punched
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to the back of an opponent's head, US got outshot
thirteen to six. The fowls were there, as predicted from
the Panama side. They add nineteen fouls to four, if
you want to call it that. The US seemed to
score in the fifth minute, but it was taken away
after offside was seen on video review. The US did
score shorthanded twenty second minute, but Panama answered, tying it
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less than five minutes later. It was one one at
the half. Two to one Panama the final. Now, the
US will likely need to beat first place Uruguay a
tie not good enough on Monday night to advance. That'll
be on FS one from Kansas City. Uruguay, which beat
Panama three to one and at an opener well they
won five nothing over Bolivia in New Jersey tonights Uruguay's
two to zero. The Lakers did draft Bronnie James in
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the second round tonight, WNBA late game at Seattle went
to the home team eighty nine seventy seven over Indiana,
whose Caitlin Clark did have fifteen points. Clark was seven assists,
six turnovers. Among tonight's NHL Award winners the MVP, Colorado's
Nathan McKinnon. The late MLB game in Anaheim went to
the Angels over Detroit five nothing. The Tigers offense was
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four for twenty nine. Losing pitcher La Area native Jack
Flaherty allowed three homers to the Angels in the first
five five innings. On f as one, Kansas City was
a two to one winner over Cleveland. Cincinnati won eleven
four at Saint Louis, victories for Baltimore and Toronto. Wins
for Miami and the White Sox in Harmon's Honor got
a solo homer from Luis Robert and beat the Braves,
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and Chris Sale won nothing. Sale had been ten and two.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Is Louise Robert hitting two hundred because of that home run?
Is he up to two hundred?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Yet that's pretty much half the lineup. It's like the a's,
a's or white socks. I haven't heard of them either.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Back to you, thank you, Steve The Jason Smith Shows
Teave de Sager in for Mike Harmon. We have more
NBA coming up next because it looks like one big
name is going to be a free agent after Saturday.
Who is it? They drafted Browny? He's saying, oh, okay,
that would be a great move. Though, Hey, Lakers got Broddy.
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That's great. I'm leaving, by the way on a jersey.
I'm leaving. Yeah, I might be right.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
I got to look up the NBA bylaws for thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
But who is it? We'll tell you next right here,
this is Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We already be sure to catch live editions of The
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Speaker 1 (34:09):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is Steve Desager
in from Mike Harmon. And now as we get closer
to NBA free agency, we got big decisions coming. The
NBA Draft is over, Brownie's a Laker. Will up more
on that coming up in a few minutes. But late
breaking story out of Los Angeles tonight that it doesn't
look like the Clippers are going to re sign Paul
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George before Saturday. The two sides have been talking. Paul
George apparently wants a four year deal. The Clippers and
George been in contact on a deal that could be
as much as three years and fifty million a year Paul,
So Paul George can either opt in to the lasture
of his contract at forty eight million, or become a
free agent. If he does become a free agent, Clippers
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hopeful to resign him at any event. Lawrence Frank, the
Clippers president of basketball operation, said, Matt respect for Paul George.
We'll see how it plays out. Now. I understand that
the Clippers feel like they have a good thing here.
Right the names of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, James
Harden and Russell Westblack. If you're looking at the back
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of basketball cards, man, wow, this looks impressive.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
And these are mostly local, well, these are all local guys.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
That yes, man, Yeah, I look, Paul George is from Palmdale, right,
so you know he there. Clippers are hoping he wants
to stay close to home. But I look at the
Clippers the last few years and I go, how many
more years do you have to go? With Kawhi and
Paul George and adding older players and failing in the
playoffs before you realize and then we need something else,
and maybe maybe we need something else. I get, Hey,
(35:46):
you feel great about that. We won fifty one games.
It was terrific, od but you lost in the first
round to the Mavericks. Oh, but maybe if Kawhi Leonard
was healthy. Kawhi Leonard hasn't been healthy the entire time
you had him, and you still sign him for three
more years and fifty million dollars a year like you were,
you were, You're like what Harmon likes to say, I'm
quoting him that he's gone him insane, He's hope is
(36:07):
not a strategy, But yet I feel like that's what
the Clippers have done the last few years. It's been well,
we hope that the guys are healthy because when they're healthy,
we think they can win. You know, that's not a strategy,
especially when you see the history of the Clippers, and
that is ka why can't stay healthy? Paul George is
thirty four. Russell Westbrook's not what he was, James Harden's
not what he was. You were good enough to get
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out of the first round of the playoffs last year.
Everybody's a year older, they're not gonna stay healthy. You
really want to be locked into Paul Georgian age thirty five,
thirty six, thirty seven for fifty million dollars a year
or more. The Clippers have to know, you know what, Yes, yes,
they're afraid that if they move on, they're gonna fall
into a relevancy and we're not gonna win, and we're
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gonna be the bottom of the barrel, and we're not
gonna make great decisions and suddenly our team is gonna
be where there was when Donald Sterling on the team.
But if you're trying to win, that's the toughest decision
to make. But you gotta make that. You got to
understand that. Okay, this core we have sounds great, and
there were times they played great last year, but again,
you lost in the first round to two guys. You
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lost to Donsi and Kyrie Irving, and you lost the
two your four guys lost to two guys. It's not
gonna suddenly get better. You don't have money to go after,
free to have any you don't have draft pic like,
I don't know what's gonna what's gonna force the Clippers
to finally understand, Okay, we have to start pivoting a
little bit. They resign Kawhi nothing to do. But he's
the youngest guy that they of their core at thirty two,
(37:29):
youngest ten years on paper. Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm sure
his knees are sixty, but he's thirty two. But at
the same time, I say, there's you know, you can
sign and trade if you lose Paul George. It's okay,
you can bring something else in that. Maybe is something
else that you need to compete in the West, because
I know how the season's gonna go for the Clippers.
If they bring back Paul George next year, there'll be
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a forty two to forty eight win team. They'll lose
in the first round of the playoffs, and we're gonna
asking the same questions next year. You have to know
that when you have a group for four years and
you haven't won, it's time to get to that next
group of guys. And in town we.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Were talking about the Lakers earlier. Going back about thirteen years,
the Lakers have had about one season with a winning
percentage of six hundred or better. The Clippers nine times
in the last thirteen years, just not getting over the hump,
and you have to remember the bigger picture for the franchise.
They move into their own arena across the street near
(38:26):
lax across the street from the La Rams Football Stadium
is going to be the basketball arena that the Olympics
are going to use in la in four years. The
Clippers move into that this year, and you get the
feeling that maybe part of the equation is we've got
to sell. We've got we're not renters anymore. This is
our building, we built it, our franchise. We got to
pack it all the time. And it's kind of like
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when and again with Harmon not here. I'll give a
Chicago analogy. Do you remember when the Cubs were always
on WGM and whatever it took to re sign Mark
Grace and Ryan Sandberg, and if they had nothing else,
they could market Grace and Sandberg. And this is what
you're gonna get on WGN games. The Clippers got a
name middle of last season. They give all that money
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to Kawhi Leonard. Although he's not been uh, he's been
great on the court, he's not been reliable to be
on the court. And I think in the back of
their minds maybe this is part of the equation.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
What you got Frostburg, He's Kawhi is expected to fully
participate with Team USA. By the way, he's ready to go.
Fully participate for Kawhi, Leonard is he's out for a month.
That's what it means to be fully the Clipper season's Oh,
I don't have to play for them. I'm feeling great.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
It's like Joel emb he had some extra time off
in the postseason. He'll be at Team USA camp.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Look at my knees. He's jumping up and down. I
jump high, higher than I ever have before. I have
to worry about the don't jump up and down. Don't
even jump about that. Wait till the games. I mean,
I mean I it's the Clippers have They're always fighting
because they're the second team in the city, and they're
always fighting for relevant and see, but you need to win,
you know, when the Rams and the Chargers camera, I said, Okay,
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whoever's gonna get the advantage first is a team that
wins first. That's how simple it is. And the Rams
won first. Okay, that's kind of how it goes. When
you're the Clippers, you're always gonna be too. You gotta
win and you've tried this now, you've tried it for
a long time. I don't know if the changes you
make are gonna be good enough, but I know what
you've had so far. Isn't so the fact they want
(40:25):
to keep going down this road, I'm like, you can't
just keep expecting well, maybe next year, maybe next year,
maybe next year. You said that five.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Years insanity quite literally, and it's odd that that exact
argument is what we were talking about with US Soccer
about the men's coach.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
We've seen what you have. Why are you going down
this road?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
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And yes, Harmon off for the next few nights in London.
Still en route to London right now on vacate. He
gets back the end of next week and I leave
for London. We'll move past each other.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So that's how he's celebrating American independence from England.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah he's Yeah, Well, I'm actually landing on fourth of July.
So I could land and go, Hey, what's going on today? Anything?
Anything going on? Are you celebrating the fourth in a
red coat? I could just see armed dressed up revolutionary
ward doing one of those beefeater hats, marching in front
(01:26):
of the palace, running with the gun that's got the
that's got the stabbing knife at the end.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Yeah, mister bayonet.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh, I could just see that. So yeah, no, happy
be landing on Hey, fourth of July? What's going on today?
Do you guys commemorate the day at all? Anything? Do
you guys there anything done here? Is there any special
any Fourth of July sales anywhere? Do you guys?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So Meanwhile, what we are going to be we thought
we would be celebrating as far as America was the
men's soccer team after the game today and they wind
up losing, and then correct me if I'm wrong. You
and I happen to be on Monday night as the
schedule works out, and we're going to be on during
the second half of that film.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Really, we'll be on for the last day. It was
Greg Burhalter's tenure as head coach of the US MNT.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah, you're mount to God's ears.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Look, the United States lost State of Panama and it
was so unbelievably frustrating. Panama is not a great team,
you know. I mean I go through times when I
go as a youth coach. I understand strategies, and how
does Greg Burholter not be able to to to manifest
a defense against it? Like, Panama is not a good team.
(02:36):
You knew they were going to come in and they
were going to try to be physical, and because that's
you do. A team that's not talent enough is going
to try to.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Make expansion hockey team. So I've always done it, just
clutch and grab because you can't outscore them.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And this is another reason why Burholter needs to be replaced. Right,
sometimes you just need a new voice because the players
tune you out. But you know, but I don't know
going in, was there even any time where they said, hey, listen,
don't get frustrated. Don't if they hit you, don't get frustrated.
Because what happened there was a big play early on
Matt Turner, the keeper who got hit was a dirty
(03:08):
play and the ref blew it by not giving a yellow. Right,
that was a big thing because that was a really
dirty play. Forced the US keeper out of the game
by halftime. Yes, so that that needed to be adjudicated better. Okay,
don't go crazy, don't don't, don't get emotional. And what
did Tim Waya do? He punched one of the players
from behind and got an easy red card. The referee
walked out. You could see it from behind when they
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showed the angle. The referee walked over. He was he
stood at the replay the replay booth for three seconds,
saw what happened, walked right over and said that's a
red card and you're out of the game. And now
the United States had to play the rest of the
game seventy minutes with ten men, right, you know, going
in they're going to be physical. Don't fall victim to them.
Let them get penalties, let them get fouls, let them
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do this and play our game. But instead the United
States got caught up in that the entire way and
they played right into Panama's hands. Another reason where you
can forget about strategy and is Greg burrowalter this is
he that is he's starting the right players? Is he not?
That's always going to be disagreed upon, but something like
that that's something that stands out. How are you not
ready for a team You know how they're going to
come in, you know what they're going to do in Still,
(04:14):
you wind up making so many mental mistakes and you
wind up giving a game to the other team.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And that was all that was said in the various commentaries,
print and television about what kind of game this was
going to be very physical? Why for the exact same
reason you mentioned that a team that doesn't have the
talent to play with you is going to muck up
the game. And the total fouls in this game US
four fouls Panama nineteen.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
But you can't foul out in soccer.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
So unless you actually hand out a yellow card for
running over the goaltender in mid air, for example, which
he did not, you're not. I'm not saying that would
have changed the game. I want to be careful not
to say that. But that was the twelfth minute of
the game when the US goalie got injured and tried
to play through it. The rest of the first half,
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there were multiple times when the referee just wasn't up
to snuff to call this type of game as physical as.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
It was going to be.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Start to finish, and you saw by the time we
had to the last five ten minutes a game, there
was a karate kid style sweep the leg on Christian
Polisic that could have literally injured him. Yea that he
got up quickly and went after the guy that kicked him.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
But at least they made that a red card. Then
there was a play a couple minutes later when Robinson
was coming up the field and he was there was
nobody in front of him, and it was the same
exact play and it was just a yellow. I'm like, wait,
it's the same thing I know on the brug as well.
It's not quite No, it's the exact same thing as
what Karasquila did to a politic. So that's got to
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be a red as well. I mean, come on, I mean,
you gotta adjudicate this thing properly.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
The NBA analogy is, what if you have somebody that
literally can't guard a guy on defense and he's blowing
past you to the lane all the time, and so
defense he either trips the guy on the way by,
pulls the jersey, shoves him down. You can do that
all day, all game in soccer until he actually develops.
(06:11):
You know, one yellow card and then two he's out
or a straight red like we saw against the American
guy for the punch. But this is exactly what Panama
did from the start for ninety minutes tonight, and they
get rewarded because the US didn't react.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's a strategy that should not have worked. That the
best teams overcome. And if you think you're one of
the best teams, we have, all the talent we do,
you overcome this pretty well, right. You needed to get
a draw. You didn't even play for that. It was
a complete epic fail by the United States today. And
again this is something that falls under the umbrella for
(06:43):
Greg Burholter. I mean, just to take it away from
strategy that you're always going to disagree with, Well, who
should be the striker up tops we Balligan who had
a great game today. That's gonna be something that no
matter what happens, if the United States loses, that decision
will be wrong, right, no matter what it is. But
when you look at things that need to be taken
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care of and buttoned down, and I see a team
coming in with a strategy you knew what was gonna happen,
and you still allow it to get to them. That's
the head coach. That's on the head coach to make
sure this is where we're at mentally for this game.
I get that they're all professionals, but this is what
the coach needs to do. And there's many instances of
things that I don't understand why the United States still
struggles on things. Is it because they just don't listen
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to Burhalter? Is it because they tune them out? Is
it because his ways? They just don't they when the
game gets going, they just kind of do their own thing.
Whatever the answer is. Whatever the answer is is there's
too many mental mistakes that the United States makes, whether
it was that or whether it was not knowing who
to mark on the final goal of the game for
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Panama when again defenders got to know where you're marking
your guy. You have to know at that point, and
there's still confusion with that. When there's mental mistakes that
keep happening like that, I mean, that's okay, you know what, Yeah,
you can blame the players, but this is what the
coach takes care of. This falls under the category of
this is this is my culture, this is my brand,
this is this is what our our our strategy is
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this is who we are, and we're not gonna be
a team that makes these mental mistakes and continues to
do these things. But yet that's exactly what the United
States keeps doing. That's why they need a new voice.
So somebody else is coming that maybe they can set
a better culture and maybe we can find out what
our identity is because I still don't know what our
identity is. It's get the ball to policic. Hey, that's great. Again,
as a youth coach, I can tell you, get the
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ball to policit, great strategy, get the ball to our
best player. That's still what we wind up doing.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
And we're not just talking about tonight, and we're not
talking about the fact that everybody in the world could
blow the doors off Bolivia, but we only got them
to nothing, thanks in part to that great early goal.
After that, we did very little offensively against a team
that's not even ranked top eighty in.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
The world, you know. And that's and that's the one
thing that gets me because if you said to me
or to not be all, you know, Greg Borhalter must go,
even though we must uh. The one thing the United
States has done for a deckca Gate now is they
come out in games really strong right off the bat.
There's very rare where you come out and see the
United States get dominated and they give up an early goal.
It's always the United States that gets that early goal
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that carries the play the first fifteen to twenty twenty
five minutes and they play electric. And there's times I
think Sunday, how many teams that are like this can
can beat us in the world. We play this, but
then we get a lead, we get a goal, and
then everything goes away and we don't play like that
for the next sixty minutes and we wind up tying
or losing the lead. Again. That falls under the umbrella
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for the head coach. But we usually start out and
I give them that we start out really strong. How
do we not keep that up? How do we not
keep it up?
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And we're talking about years. The through line for these
problems is the coach that you not only had for
the entire World Cup cycle going into when they played
in the World Cup a year and a half ago,
but for some reason actual letting his contract expire and
going with an interim the guy you wound up rehiring is.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
This guy all over again.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
So what's the US win loss record for the US
Men since October five, five and one, and that includes
a five to one loss to Columbia in a tune
up match this month when you had to play an
actual opponent, and now that they're not going to win
this group. Even if they can sneak in and somehow
get a result on Monday that puts them into the quarterfinals,
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it might be US Brazil and then you're out quickly.
It's just things have gone this way for too long.
So some people to get your hate watching phrase.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
In here, everybody's hate watching on Monday.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I'm hoping for the long term.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
If this what gets the coach out so we can
actually create something to be proud of for the next
World Cup, which we are co hosting in two years,
then great sacrifice Monday night, change it all around. Have
two good years and look, I'll tell you this, You
will be able to tell Monday night what the team
really thinks and how much they want for Alter to
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be their coach. Because if they come out Monday night
against a really good look Uruguay's pretty good team, if
they come out and look like they're okay, all right,
maybe they like playing for Burholter but if they come
out flat and it's a bad game and they lose
or they tie, and it's it's uninspired and they miss
chances and they make mental mistakes, you know that there
has to be a change that Burholter is just not
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getting through because at this point they know, Okay, our
coach is likely going to get fired on Monday, depending
how we play, and we could also get knocked out
out of the Cope America if they come up flat.
This tells you we want a new coach. We need
somebody else with you, new voice to come in. We
need it to happen.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I mean that you'll you'll see, you'll know in the
first twenty because like I said, they normally come out
pretty fast. You'll know in the first few minutes what
kind of team we're going to get and how and
how they're going to be motivated, if they're motivated to play.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
And that game in Kansas City on Monday night, it's
going to be on FS one in Kansas City. Whether
it's due to be warm, it's due to be windy,
the heat index will be up even though it will
be a night game. And the opponent Uruguay, will they
beat Panama three to one in the opener, and Eruguay
won five nothing in their game in New Jersey tonight.
Uruguay is ranked top twenty in the world, just like
Colombia's ranked top twenty in the world. And I mentioned
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we lost to Colombia five to one.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Now, to get away from Berhalter for a second, talk
about the game winning goal. We've talked about how look defense,
they just didn't know who they were marking. You can't
let guys run free in the box without knowing what
you're doing. Both their goals were because one guy had
the ball and there were three players standing around not
doing it.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Tim Reim Anthony Robinson did not have good games on defense.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
But I will say this, Ethan Horrovav has to make
that save. Yeah, the backup goalie he got in. He
got knocked over by the ball. Okay, you can't come on, man,
you can't get knocked over by the ball. That's a save.
That is one of those plays where the keeper stands tall,
gets his hands out and bats that ball back or
somewhere else. He put his hands up and backed away
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and the ball knocked him into the net. I mean,
come on, man, I mean just got to stand right there,
put your hands up and be strong. And instead it
was here comes the ball. I mean it was I
was in back watching that replaccid. How did that ball
get into the net. He was right on his hands
that I mean, that's a place where any other team
gets that. And it's you hear bat bat because it's
hits the hits the keeper's hands and bounces back to
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the turf and bounces somewhere. And instead it bounce and
hit him and bounced over him because the ball knocked
him down. I get it was a close in shot,
but come on, man, stand there and and that's that's
your job. You're you're the keeper. Your job. Get there,
be strong, be big, get your hand, get your fists
out so you can deflect the ball.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And also remember he very early in the second half,
and he came on as a sub at halftime in
as the US goalie. Early second half, he kind of
was able to get two hands on a deeper shot
and shove it away. But it was a rocket, but
he had more time to react. This was a quicker shot,
a close in shot, and it kind of went through him.
And it's not just surprising on the nuts and bolt
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soccer level with in the game, but also generally goalkeeping
position has been the US strength historically.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Oh timpowered was great for so.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Long, sure Casey Keller, Brad Friedel on and on. We've
had essentially two starting goalies at a time many eras
in United States soccer. And now we're getting two goalies
that are playing professionally in England but really not playing.
So when we brought our sub as a goalie for
the second half tonight, that was literally the first game
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he had gotten into for a club or his country
in almost.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
A couple of months. Yeah. Well, because lookcause Matt Turner's
still trying to get going because he lost his job
with notting him for he wasn't starting anymore. But I
like Matt Turner. Matt Turner's a pretty good goalie.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
He's he's been good in this in this cycle of
the last.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
He would have made that save. I mean it's hard
to say, you know, because because the goals look like
sometimes they're, oh, how who's going to make that save?
Who's going to make that? But Turner probably makes that safe.
He probably should have made the save on the first
goal too. Maybe he got screened a little bit but
you know when that's a rass cutter and that that
gets under your arm. Yeah, different, you gotta make that.
But that's it. That's it. That's a that's a ball
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that Matt Turner saves, and likely we get out of
there one one and just need to tie on Monday
to be able to move on. So yeah, we talk
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about being off today, like like like off the second
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day of the draft, the Browny day. It's a big day.
And I said, yeah, you no, no, it's fine, toying with
the idea of texting him and going, hey boy, they
really needed you in today. Really, there's so much stuff happened, man,
I can't even tell you because he's in London. He's
in London. Now, hey gotta go back, I gotta fly back.
You're girls, stay here for Taylor Swift. I'm flying back.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Guessing not a lot of people were watching today, and
it probably wasn't just the start time for a round two.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Well, I was doing the back and forth because the
beginning of the Copa America the United States Panamas, right,
they were at pick fifty two, So my last button
was getting a workout. I'm like, okay, here, I watch
this for thirty seconds. Go back, the pick is in.
I'm going back. The pick is in. I'm going back. Okay,
Bronny gets picked. All right, great, I go back and
I go I missed a disallowed goal. Come on, man,
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come on.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
You have done what some of us did. Just DVR
the one. You can see the complete both.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I didn't need it, no, you know what. That would
have taken up too much time. I wanted to just
ride the lightning back and forth. And then I only
had to go back and look at this allowed goal, and.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
I was like, I get fifty five. The news was
done there.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
You could wait, wait what DV already have up? Hey
a serie, please DVR pick fifty five.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Well, the NBA actually remember this.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It started early the draft today and so it wasn't
actually in the TV guide that it would still be
on at this hour. So I was really just saying
DVD this half hour show, which was a different title,
and that made it much easier.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Instead of NFL Live. It was day two of the
NBA Draft.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah, exactly. It wasn't like some five hour you know
what I'm talking about, Like when you try and tape
NFL Network and then you get all seven hours for
I'm never going to be able to go through this.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I felt like every time they went to the Deputy
Commissioner to make the announcement, like they was all on tape.
Like he made the announcement and we're just gonna roll
with it, because he would say he would smile and
he would say, with the sixteenth pick in the second round,
the New York Knicks select, and then he would smile. Cut.
Everything was exactly the same smile cut, Like did they
tape this right before? We have to worry about going live.
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We're just gonna roll the tape and they go, let's
go to the deputy commissioner for the selection, and he's
got it right there. He reads it more.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Fun So it's really like the Old Letterman Show used
to do, where they could pre tape that part and
then just add some live voiceover right, the cover up
the mouth so you don't see him say Kirsten Polisic.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Or any name with the sixteenth pick in the NBA Draft,
the New York Knicks select Oh crap, we didn't edit that. Oh,
we've got to put that name in there. Oh, I
can't believe we didn't.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Be Well, Bronny James was taking fifty fifth out of
what would normally be sixty selections, two total rounds. But
we haven't heard of most of the guys drafted before
or after him.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
So I repeat, you didn't.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Miss anything, because that was the only thing newsworthy in
the coverage.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And look, there's a lot of different angles to this
because this is the one story of the draft. And look,
we've talked about the You know, you gotta stop hating
on Lebron for being the dad. Any dad would try
to get his son the best job he could get
if he could, You would use your influence. Is it
going to be a big deal? Know, the the the
furor over this will calm down in a little while.
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But well, the one thing I don't think the Lakers
and Lebron and Bronny have really thought through, right, They've
thought about, hey, okay, what what do we want? We
want Bronnie to play with La all right, Rich Paul
does his thing and tells teams don't draft Bronni or
he'll play in Australia. Okay, fine, we weren't doing it anyway.
What's it going to be? All right, we know that
you're gonna spend some time in the G League. Yep, Nope,
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that's fine. You'll play a little bit up here in
the preseason, Yep, that's fine. Maybe you're on the roster.
We give you one way. You're not going to see
regular minutes. No, I understand that. Okay, great, But I
don't think they've understod They understand that this could go
sideways for them so incredibly fast. Because this is in
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the end, it still is a polarizing selection of taking
Lebron James's kid, Lebron James, who if it was Kobe's kid,
people would have loved that. Are you kid? They're go,
oh my god, we got Kobe's kid. This is phenomenal.
Oh we're gonna win coming because Kobe had Kobe or
Shaq's kid or whoever. But Lebron still is an arm's
length superstar with the Lakers and their fan base. There's
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still as many people that want him out as want
them to lead the Lakers to a title. So now, okay,
now we drafted his kid, so now there's a large
number of fans. Why do we do this? Why do
we count out to him? And there's more reason to
dig in and say, oh, Lebron is not a real Laker.
I can't believe we're doing this form. We should get
rid of him. If things don't go well for the
Lakers this year, you know how quickly it's gonna be
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on Lebron and Bronny is just gonna catch all the
strays because of it. And we drafted his kid, and
his kid stinks, and his kid can't be on the team,
And have we drafted anybody? They'll pick somebody in the
second round that's getting some kind of minutes and hit
it in, scoring like nine a game, and say why
did we get him? We should have had him. He's
gonna trend every night on Twitter no matter who it is.
He'll trend to every just like Alex Caruso would trend
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every night on Twitter when he left the Lakers. Oh,
the Lakers shoul still have Alex Caruso. Whoever that player is,
is gonna trend, and things can get sideways really bad,
and the anti Lebron movement can get pretty loud, really fast,
and Brony's gonna get caught up in it, and it's
gonna be an every single day thing of the Lakers
fighting this perception because you know, Lebron loves social media.
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All young players love social media. They're not gonna want
to go on They're not gonna want to see the
hate They're gonna get on there because that's what's gonna happen.
Because if the Lakers don't have a good year, and
this is a year where you're starting out with a
new head coach, a rookie head coach who last time
he coached was coaching fourth grade a year ago, this
can go sideways for you really fast, and it can
be a really negative energy surrounding the team. And I
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don't think that Lebron and Bronny and everybody have thought
about that part of it. That because Lebron is so polarizing,
you are ratcheting up the stakes this year. And if
that doesn't happen, look out, this is gonna be a
wave that hits you.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
The other part of the formula, though, is you just
spent a draft choice on someone who averaged less than
five points a game, and didn't play a full season,
and was not a top ten prospect coming out of
high school, and was not the best player on his
high school team. So all of these are true, and
that's who you took, and we know why you took him.
So there's reason on a basketball sense for some backlash
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to come. But then when you throw in the fact
that I'll use examples, there have been other famous players
in various sports who then had sons come into the game.
Notably Bobby Bond's kid was a product a superb product
in his sport on his own. Or Ken Griffy senior
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son was a number one pick on his own. He
didn't need help or nepotism to forge his own career.
This is completely different from that. So a lot of
the discussions that had over this draft choice, and we're
well aware that a lot of first rounders don't pan
out much less second in the NBA. Nonetheless, a lot
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of the questions that are being raised are legitimate about
this look.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I understand that the Lakers are in a win now position,
and you drafted the kid as a favor to Lebron. Right.
And if you hear a lot of people that that
deal with the NBA every day and report it, they say, listen,
people do favors like this all the time. Gms do
favors for kids.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
For the ultimate was the Mike Piazza draft choice as
a favorite.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Of seventy eighth round pick. We're gonna draft Mike Piazza. Look,
that's awesome, so you see it. So I'm okay with that.
I'm okay with all of it, honestly, because it's not
like they took Browny in the first round, where hey,
you really could have taken a player that could contribute
to you, whether it's something and I'm not saying someone's
gonna come to be an All Star, but someone who
someone was a score like or can be in your
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rotation and be a crucial part of your eight man
rotation that plays fifteen or eighteen good minutes a night,
right like that would be a problem. But the second
but the second round to pick fifty five, I mean,
he's on the board around there. You know, all the
analysts had y know, hey, look right around here, you
could take him shure, sure, because the NBA draft is
all about potential, right when you see someone the potential
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and Bronni the one thing about him is that they
know is that he's smart and he plays defense. So okay,
it just seems you don't know what d Yeah, but
you don't know what kind of player he's gonna because
you don't know is he gonna be Can he hit
a jumper? We don't know, Like is he can he
be stronger with the hoop? We don't know. But we
know that he's smart and he plays defense. That's what
you've heard from every analyst. And so is that someone
you can take a chance on. Yeah? Absolutely, So I'm
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okay with all of it. It's just knowing that the
strings that were pulled just to make sure you got this.
You have to understand the backlash if this doesn't work.
And not if this if Ronnie could be g League
back and forth not playing, but if the Lakers aren't winning,
this is going to be the story. And we drafted
Lebron's kid, and we drafted his kid, and we drafted
his kid. I know how it goes. I've been doing
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this for five minutes. It's not It's going to be
a season the Lakers did not see coming. If they
lose right away, it's gonna the backlash is going to
be instantaneous. You saw the reaction on social media today.
For as many positive tweets as there were about Lebron
and drafting brob when you knew this was coming, there
was five that was ready to hate this. And again,
you know how big a deal social media is with players,
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and you know what they're gonna feel like when they
log onto Twitter or Instagram or something else and they're
gonna see this, and it's gonna be an overwhelming dialogue
and an overwhelming opinion. And I don't think the Lakers
are ready for what happens if this goes sideways.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
And my negative reaction towards this specifically today is, for example,
how the ESPN Studio show treats this draft choice, like
Bronnie James just accomplish something. Now, when he got on
the court at USC after the health scare, Yes, that's
an enormous accomplishment. We are past that. He didn't accomplish
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anything being drafted. He had a famous dad, That's why
he got drafted.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I am for us. I'm happy because I'm happy that
it's a great storyline for us to talk about. Sure,
And it was great seeing the video of Ken Griffy
and Ken Griffy Junior and Ken Graffy Senior today online.
It was really fun because I realize we haven't had
something like this. You realize how rare it is. And
I appreciate that from the story angleve it too, because boy,
it was kind of it was kind of weird. We
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haven't seen something like this in sports in thirty years, right,
And you know, seeing the one my favorite video that
I remember of Ken Griffy Senior playing left field for
the Mariners and juniors playing center field. Look a favor
done to get Ken Griffy Senior to play with the
son a fly ball hit that looks like Ken Griffy
Senior is gonna get and Junior just cuts in front
of him, Dane, and you see him smiling going in
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and Griffy Seniors like you son of as such and
suff like that's such a fun moment. I watched that.
I'm like, I forgot how funny that part.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
When they home are the same game and they're sitting
on the bench together.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
And I mean each other.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
It's it's great for us, and it can be a
great It can be it can be something great depending
on how things go. But it doesn't necessarily doesn't mean
it's gonna be great for the Lakers. And that's an
angle of it that, hey man, you don't have a
team right now, that's suddenly, hey, we expect to be
in the top four of the Western Conference. This is
if we're gonna be out of the playing round, we
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need to make moves. We gotta make sure we get
Colin Sexton or Zach Lavine or wherever else we're gonna
go after. Like, that's what we have to do, because
if we go into next year with the same team
we had this year and we're struggling to get in
the playing round, I mean, just play out what that
regular season is gonna feel like. Right. It's one thing
when they had a difficult this year this year, coming
off the Western Conference finals a year ago, right, the
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upset of the Golden State Warriors going up against the Nuggets,
and everybody had Lakers fever and woll loog of this
and a very competitive sweep at the hands of the Nuggets.
It's one thing to come into this year and say, okay,
a little bit hangover from that. They added a couple
of pieces, let's see where they're at. They'll be playing
their best basketball in the playoffs begin and everything's gonna
be fine. And now they're out in the first round.
So now they're not coming off of the season with
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a lot of good vibes, coming off a season of Hey,
this stunk, man, this really stunk. And now we got
a new coach that half the fans love and half
the fans don't thinking coach, and now you brought in
a player that half the fans are excited, half the fans.
I mean, you've decided, let's let's continue to up the
ending on polarization of fans and media and the city
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and that. You know, that's a hard that's a hard
needle to thread.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Imagine if Lebron hadn't won a ring as a Laker
in that run in the bubble, because that was the
best year, full year that the Lakers have had since
he arrived, and the Laker franchise the last decade plus,
they have one year that year where they've had a
fifty win type season, a six hundred winning percentage type season,
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you talk about polarizing. If he hadn't won that one title,
look at all the seasons plural, that would be bad
in his Laker tenure.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah. But and to be fair, just to give a
little bit of a silver lining on that, is that
that championship should have resonated more. I get it was
the bubble. I thought it would resonate more because we
were excited about seeing basketball again. But you're talking about
a team that was the best in the Western Conference
when the season ended and they wound up winning the championship.
And now I didn't win the championship. They won the
championship without the benefit of home court advantage, which is
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why you play to get those red So you get
game seven at home, you get four out of seven
on your court, and you got none out of seven.
You had to go play in a neutral court, which, hey,
this helps everybody, right, this helps even the playing And
you still want so they should get more credit for
that title, right they should. I've given you that one
hundred percent. But since then, it's been Wow, what have
we done the last four years? Really? What have we done?
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And now we're just gonna continue to gamble that this
year is gonna be We're gonna gamble. The coaches good,
We're gonna gamble. We can draft the star's kid. We're
gonna get And I'm telling you it's it's really it
can get bad fast, really really fast. Right now, speaking
of getting bad really fast, gonna tell us about the
US men's national team today.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I thought that was the injury for me. You were
referenced the last four years the Lakers. You are, you
are the Matt Turner of the show. So I'm injured.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah, you leave, You leave in an hour, and somebody
else comes in that doesn't do as well as you.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
The last four years for the Lakers was first round
playoff exit, missed the playoffs entirely, have about a five
hundred record and make a run and then first round
exit again. You referenced the US goalkeeper Matt Turner. He
had to leave it halftime in Atlanta tonight with a
bruised leg after an early collision against Panama. No card
was given on the play. Eventually the loss in relief
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to Matt Horvath as the Americans gave up a goal
in the eighty third minute, lost in their Copa America
tournament game two to one. To Panama in front of
fifty nine thousand fans. Panama had seventy four percent of
the possession as American Tim way I got a red
card in the eighteenth minute, so the US played ten
on eleven for most of the game. After Wayas punched
(31:50):
to the back of an opponent's head, US got outshot
thirteen to six. The fowls were there, as predicted from
the Panama side. They add nineteen fouls to four, if
you want to call it that. The US seemed to
score in the fifth minute, but it was taken away
after offside was seen on video review. The US did
score shorthanded twenty second minute, but Panama answered, tying it
(32:11):
less than five minutes later. It was one one at
the half. Two to one Panama the final. Now, the
US will likely need to beat first place Uruguay a
tie not good enough on Monday night to advance. That'll
be on FS one from Kansas City. Uruguay, which beat
Panama three to one and at an opener well they
won five nothing over Bolivia in New Jersey tonights Uruguay's
two to zero. The Lakers did draft Bronnie James in
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the second round tonight, WNBA late game at Seattle went
to the home team eighty nine seventy seven over Indiana,
whose Caitlin Clark did have fifteen points. Clark was seven assists,
six turnovers. Among tonight's NHL Award winners the MVP, Colorado's
Nathan McKinnon. The late MLB game in Anaheim went to
the Angels over Detroit five nothing. The Tigers offense was
(32:53):
four for twenty nine. Losing pitcher La Area native Jack
Flaherty allowed three homers to the Angels in the first
five five innings. On f as one, Kansas City was
a two to one winner over Cleveland. Cincinnati won eleven
four at Saint Louis, victories for Baltimore and Toronto. Wins
for Miami and the White Sox in Harmon's Honor got
a solo homer from Luis Robert and beat the Braves,
(33:16):
and Chris Sale won nothing. Sale had been ten and two.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Is Louise Robert hitting two hundred because of that home run?
Is he up to two hundred?
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Yet that's pretty much half the lineup. It's like the a's,
a's or white socks. I haven't heard of them either.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Back to you, thank you, Steve The Jason Smith Shows
Teave de Sager in for Mike Harmon. We have more
NBA coming up next because it looks like one big
name is going to be a free agent after Saturday.
Who is it? They drafted Browny? He's saying, oh, okay,
that would be a great move. Though, Hey, Lakers got Broddy.
(33:50):
That's great. I'm leaving, by the way on a jersey.
I'm leaving. Yeah, I might be right.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
I got to look up the NBA bylaws for thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
But who is it? We'll tell you next right here,
this is Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We already be sure to catch live editions of The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is Steve Desager
in from Mike Harmon. And now as we get closer
to NBA free agency, we got big decisions coming. The
NBA Draft is over, Brownie's a Laker. Will up more
on that coming up in a few minutes. But late
breaking story out of Los Angeles tonight that it doesn't
look like the Clippers are going to re sign Paul
(34:32):
George before Saturday. The two sides have been talking. Paul
George apparently wants a four year deal. The Clippers and
George been in contact on a deal that could be
as much as three years and fifty million a year Paul,
So Paul George can either opt in to the lasture
of his contract at forty eight million, or become a
free agent. If he does become a free agent, Clippers
(34:55):
hopeful to resign him at any event. Lawrence Frank, the
Clippers president of basketball operation, said, Matt respect for Paul George.
We'll see how it plays out. Now. I understand that
the Clippers feel like they have a good thing here.
Right the names of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, James
Harden and Russell Westblack. If you're looking at the back
(35:17):
of basketball cards, man, wow, this looks impressive.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
And these are mostly local, well, these are all local guys.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
That yes, man, Yeah, I look, Paul George is from Palmdale, right,
so you know he there. Clippers are hoping he wants
to stay close to home. But I look at the
Clippers the last few years and I go, how many
more years do you have to go? With Kawhi and
Paul George and adding older players and failing in the
playoffs before you realize and then we need something else,
and maybe maybe we need something else. I get, Hey,
(35:46):
you feel great about that. We won fifty one games.
It was terrific, od but you lost in the first
round to the Mavericks. Oh, but maybe if Kawhi Leonard
was healthy. Kawhi Leonard hasn't been healthy the entire time
you had him, and you still sign him for three
more years and fifty million dollars a year like you were,
you were, You're like what Harmon likes to say, I'm
quoting him that he's gone him insane, He's hope is
(36:07):
not a strategy, But yet I feel like that's what
the Clippers have done the last few years. It's been well,
we hope that the guys are healthy because when they're healthy,
we think they can win. You know, that's not a strategy,
especially when you see the history of the Clippers, and
that is ka why can't stay healthy? Paul George is
thirty four. Russell Westbrook's not what he was, James Harden's
not what he was. You were good enough to get
(36:27):
out of the first round of the playoffs last year.
Everybody's a year older, they're not gonna stay healthy. You
really want to be locked into Paul Georgian age thirty five,
thirty six, thirty seven for fifty million dollars a year
or more. The Clippers have to know, you know what, Yes, yes,
they're afraid that if they move on, they're gonna fall
into a relevancy and we're not gonna win, and we're
(36:47):
gonna be the bottom of the barrel, and we're not
gonna make great decisions and suddenly our team is gonna
be where there was when Donald Sterling on the team.
But if you're trying to win, that's the toughest decision
to make. But you gotta make that. You got to
understand that. Okay, this core we have sounds great, and
there were times they played great last year, but again,
you lost in the first round to two guys. You
(37:07):
lost to Donsi and Kyrie Irving, and you lost the
two your four guys lost to two guys. It's not
gonna suddenly get better. You don't have money to go after,
free to have any you don't have draft pic like,
I don't know what's gonna what's gonna force the Clippers
to finally understand, Okay, we have to start pivoting a
little bit. They resign Kawhi nothing to do. But he's
the youngest guy that they of their core at thirty two,
(37:29):
youngest ten years on paper. Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm sure
his knees are sixty, but he's thirty two. But at
the same time, I say, there's you know, you can
sign and trade if you lose Paul George. It's okay,
you can bring something else in that. Maybe is something
else that you need to compete in the West, because
I know how the season's gonna go for the Clippers.
If they bring back Paul George next year, there'll be
(37:51):
a forty two to forty eight win team. They'll lose
in the first round of the playoffs, and we're gonna
asking the same questions next year. You have to know
that when you have a group for four years and
you haven't won, it's time to get to that next
group of guys. And in town we.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Were talking about the Lakers earlier. Going back about thirteen years,
the Lakers have had about one season with a winning
percentage of six hundred or better. The Clippers nine times
in the last thirteen years, just not getting over the hump,
and you have to remember the bigger picture for the franchise.
They move into their own arena across the street near
(38:26):
lax across the street from the La Rams Football Stadium
is going to be the basketball arena that the Olympics
are going to use in la in four years. The
Clippers move into that this year, and you get the
feeling that maybe part of the equation is we've got
to sell. We've got we're not renters anymore. This is
our building, we built it, our franchise. We got to
pack it all the time. And it's kind of like
(38:48):
when and again with Harmon not here. I'll give a
Chicago analogy. Do you remember when the Cubs were always
on WGM and whatever it took to re sign Mark
Grace and Ryan Sandberg, and if they had nothing else,
they could market Grace and Sandberg. And this is what
you're gonna get on WGN games. The Clippers got a
name middle of last season. They give all that money
(39:11):
to Kawhi Leonard. Although he's not been uh, he's been
great on the court, he's not been reliable to be
on the court. And I think in the back of
their minds maybe this is part of the equation.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
What you got Frostburg, He's Kawhi is expected to fully
participate with Team USA. By the way, he's ready to go.
Fully participate for Kawhi, Leonard is he's out for a month.
That's what it means to be fully the Clipper season's Oh,
I don't have to play for them. I'm feeling great.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
It's like Joel emb he had some extra time off
in the postseason. He'll be at Team USA camp.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Look at my knees. He's jumping up and down. I
jump high, higher than I ever have before. I have
to worry about the don't jump up and down. Don't
even jump about that. Wait till the games. I mean,
I mean I it's the Clippers have They're always fighting
because they're the second team in the city, and they're
always fighting for relevant and see, but you need to win,
you know, when the Rams and the Chargers camera, I said, Okay,
(40:05):
whoever's gonna get the advantage first is a team that
wins first. That's how simple it is. And the Rams
won first. Okay, that's kind of how it goes. When
you're the Clippers, you're always gonna be too. You gotta
win and you've tried this now, you've tried it for
a long time. I don't know if the changes you
make are gonna be good enough, but I know what
you've had so far. Isn't so the fact they want
(40:25):
to keep going down this road, I'm like, you can't
just keep expecting well, maybe next year, maybe next year,
maybe next year. You said that five.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Years insanity quite literally, and it's odd that that exact
argument is what we were talking about with US Soccer
about the men's coach.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
We've seen what you have. Why are you going down
this road?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Exit? How about a fresco of The Jason Smith Show
with Steve Desager in from Mike Carbon Live from the
ti iraq dot com studios. Coming up next, we get
back into the biggest story of the day. Bronnie James
is a Laker. But is there something that goes along
with that story that's even more interesting? There is? We
got it for you next right here, Jason smiths Stephen
(41:05):
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