Sean Brace and Sam Oshtry talk the punishment for the prank call to Shedeur Sanders during the #NFLDraft, #Lakers eliminated by #Timberwolves, and more.
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Got a lot more to discuss with that.
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Let's talk some NFL draft. Let's put a bow on
this bad boy. Let's talk some quarterbacks. Let's talk about
the Eagles. Dude, I haven't heard his thoughts as far
as the NFL draft class is concerned, and shame on me,
but I said it yesterday to Sean Maynard. We're super
Bowl champions, man, Yeah, you know, when you're Super Bowl champions,
you're just like, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
It's also not only we're super Bowl champions, it's also
that we have the best general manager in the league,
and everyone kind of universally has said that we trust
that guy that so, like, whatever happens, we'll see the
product on the field. But everyone universally is like, all right,
this guy is the best at what he does, not
just in the NFL, maybe in all of sports right now,
So we trust the guy.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
That is pretty like, that's spot on, Sam, and I
don't really think I have. I've put that a put
two and two together. When it comes to maybe that
had something to do with it. I was tuned in.
We were together on Thursday night. We watched it together. Yeah,
we loved it. We didn't go to the bars until
Shador Sanders got picked, and it never happened.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I was more focused on Nick Pistons. Yes, you were,
and you.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Know Shador Sanders gets the phone call.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, heard the prank one or the real one? Prank one?
All right, good luck?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Way is that a crime? I'm kind of confused right now.
Is pranking someone a crime? Because everyone's seeming seemingly making
out to be like it's he committed a felony based
on the reaction to a prank call.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
A prank call, the.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Old man makes one point six million dollars. Uncle Sam
gets his cut, right, yep, got fined one hundred grand.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Yeah, and wow, it's not really clear how it came out,
but it's I doubt his dad gave it to his son, like, oh,
here's his number.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
His son went in and found laying around and took it.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Probably, Yeah, it could have happened to anyone. His son
just made a mistake and it costs his dad a
boatload of money.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
We do have the apology from from Albright uh Ulbrick.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Is that how you say his name was the interim
head coach for the job? I know he was, I
know he was, And you know what's crazy, it's like
the defense went down with him. Yes, yeah, and now
he was. He literally is one of the top ten
defense coordinators paid in the NFL right now.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
And he was parently consider a pretty good DC. I
love head coaching. Once he had to go to the
head coaching role.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Probably special teams though before he took over for Salah,
was he not or no?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
No, because Sola was head coach. He was a DEFENSEI player. Yeah,
I believe he was. All right.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Well, since we you know, tiptoed into it, this is
Jeff Olbrick apologizing yesterday.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
So I made the Falcons aware of the situation, and
then our next course of action was to try to
get a hold of the Sanders family. Still we could
apologize on that person, which we were able to do.
The Sanders family should Or and Coach Sanders were amazingly gracious,
more gracious than they needed.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
To be in a moment like this. That doesn't surprise me. Yeah,
that doesn't surprise me one bit.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Right, Dion has been through a lot. He's seen a
lot twenty one year old kids, a twenty one year
old kid. I'm not making excuses. I actually feel bad
for him at times. I do you know, like, if
you are the old man, how do you punish him?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Make him pay for his own college, Make him get
a job, cause I'm sure he's not paying for that
ole miss degree. Make him get a job, pay for
his own college, ground them all summer.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I don't know. I'm not the person ask for parenting advice.
That's you.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
But I will say you'd think Chador was the only
one that got a prank call right, Like it didn't
happen to kuper Jen last year. It didn't happen to
like ten more prospects this year.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Can I ask you how easy it is to get
these people's numbs it.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
We're obviously really easy.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You know, it's interesting, Adam, Well, the league sends out
This is interesting because Adam Schefter is talking about it.
The league sends out agent's numbers to every single team
because every single team is going to call the agent
and the agent's going to put the prospect on the
phone for when they want to draft them. So every
team and probably a boatload of team personnel have these numbers.
Shador Sanders represented himself. He didn't have an agent, so
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Shador Sanders number went out to every single team and
probably hundreds of team personnel or dozens of team personnel.
So it wasn't an agent, it was Sanders direct number.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So that's how they got access. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, I did know that, but I didn't connect the
dots as far as with Sanders being his own agent,
his own acting.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, that's why the numbers out there.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But again, like you said, McCord talked about it, we
know about Cooper dejen The list goes on, but no
one else is getting penalized.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
There's no investigation, no one else is getting penalized. How
those got leaked, you won't know why, it's because it's
not shad Door Sanders.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Nah, yes, And you know a why people know about it,
and so it's because sir Door Sanders was live streaming
his entire draft party.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
His whole draft party is being live stream on Twitch
by his They were putting on an entertainment show instead
of folks on the draft, so they were live shooting
for party. Get those clicks, sure, but then that's that's
why he got embarrassed like that because it was on stream.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Other guys just got prank calls. You don't necessarily see
it and doesn't become huge, but it's shud Door Sanders.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
And so that's why the NFL is investigating because it's
the Sanders family. And that's just part of the Sanders
experience of maybe why a lot of teams didn't want
to draft the guy because everything that happens with this guy,
it just heightened media attention where it's like these other
guys got prank called. There's no investigation into how those
numbers got leaked. I don't mind it where you're going.
I think there is some truth to it. I do
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think the fine is egregious.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, like three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, what are
we doing here. You want to find the team, that's fine,
but the head coach or the guy the father that
was a little odd. But uh, anyways, I digress. We
do have other fish to fry, big fish.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Because last night the LA Lakers one two three, kikoon, the.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Clock winding down and the horn sounds here in La
and the Timberwolves have defeated the Lakers one oh three
ninety six. They close out the series in five games,
and for the first time in franchise history, the Timberwolves
have advanced to the second round of the NBA Playoffs
in back to back season.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, this is another type of vibe I'm getting with
the t Wolves and with the Pacers, and both teams,
of course, had great success last year and we're able
to advance and nobody gave him an opportunity Minnesota timber
Wolves in Round one last two NBA postseasons, if you're
wagering on the t Wolves, you've been cashing in big Lee.
Wolves were underdogs in both series versus the Suns last
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year and the Lakers eight and one straight up and
ATS four and one straight up. ATS as an underdog,
how about that, Sam Austri Where do you want to
start from last night big picture or do we go
with the Rudy Gobert. Rudy Gobert game of his life?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Of his life?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I mean, what are performance the punching bag of the NBA.
This guy gets clowned by everyone and anyone every opportunity
people get to take shots of them. They do, and
sometimes it's deserve it, like Luca obviously has him on island,
hits a huge shot over him.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
He's talking smack to him.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
He gets benched in the Olympics for France, like the
country he's representing. He gets benched in the Olympics. He's
been played off the floor certain times throughout the playoffs
for as much as what he brings or doesn't bring
offensively as he does some of the problems that he
has defensively. But last night he was I mean, he
was a college kid playing against middle school kids. Like
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that's what it looked like in terms of the height
and size and strength and physicality disparity that Rudy Gobert
exhibited against the Lakers because they had to go small. J. J.
Redick made a decision and I don't disagree with the decision.
But he made a decision. We don't have a center
that's dependable all on our roster, so we're not playing
any center. We are going small, even if it's the
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death of us, and it was the death of them
because Rudy Gobert was awesome. The Wolves are feeding him
in a way they don't really do that much. Where
he was ceiling in the post on Luca had an
awesome bucket for Luca to get a second foul. He
was crashing the offensive glass and the Lakers had no answer.
So what a game for Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, the punching bag of the NBA is pretty interesting
when you put it like that. He is a guy
that people love to take shots, very outspoken, very different minded.
We'll leave it at that. Of course, he was the
idiot with the COVID situation. He brought that out himself.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
But you know, Rudy.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Gobert, and and the fact that he's been paid a
lot of money. H wins the Defensive Player of the
Year a war win. That's a lot of people's problem. Yeah,
a lot of people didn't think he should have won
it last year, specifically you know me included. But at
the end of the day, Like, I don't know if
we're given the proper respect to the Minnesota Termberwolves that
they deserved.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Oh, no one ever does, because they always play Like
last year against the Suns, they played these superstars and
that's why everyone's everyone's on Kevin Durant and Devin Booker.
And this series obviously was miss price and I miss
calculated too. I had the Lakers winning in seven, but
still the Lakers winning, and I miscalculated the star impact
of Austin Reeves and Lebron James and Luka Doncca. I
thought those three guys, their core, was going to get
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it done. But the Wolve's best players. It really came
down to this. The Wolve's best players in this series
were better than the Lakers' best players, and that includes
Julius Randa, who has a horrible playoff rat some somewhat undeservedly.
What do you have last night twenty Yeah, he was phenomenal.
He shot awesome from three all series as a decision
maker was great. He was making Luca.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And didn't make of three last night from that misake
was over eleven from three.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
But I actually thought Ant didn't have that bad of
a game because he was pretty good when they're throwing
doubles at him. He's been a really good decision maker
and passer out of doubles and just always knows when
to make the right play.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
And also was interesting last year.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Against the Nuggets when the Wolves won that series in
the second round in Game seven, Ant was really bad
that game too. He had sixteen points on six for
twenty four shooting. So in two elimination games. Now that
the Wolves have won or series clinching games, Ant hasn't
been great, but his teammates have lifted him up. And
Julius Randall, Nasri Jada McDaniels, Rudy Gobert. Last night, all
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those guys, those two through five were way better than
the Lakers two through five Lebron. He had pretty good
scoring outputs some games. He was exhausted last night. That
was pretty evident. Austin Reeves did not have a good
series at all, and he owned up to that yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And Luca was an absolute cone out there. I mean,
that was worse.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
His defense in this series was way worse than it
was against the Celtics. When everyone started kind of really
started getting national attension for how bad he is defensively,
it was worse this series, and part of because Lakers
don't have the roster or the personnel to hide Luca defensively.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
And that's the next step for the Lakers. It's to
build a roster around Luca. Yeah, look, Luca's got to
look himself in the mirror. You know, he got traded.
I'm sure that it wasn't the easiest. He had some
really great games in the Lakers uniform. But man, there
wasn't one second in that game last night that he
wasn't like wincing. You know, he looked like he was tired.
(14:25):
I get it. But man, you're a professional ballplayer. Dude,
you're getting a ton of money. You're being discussed as
one of the greats in the game. Like am I
allowed to say, Like where's the pride? Get inside the gym?
Could you shed a few pounds? Like what's going on there?
And I want to be fair too, because he was attacked.
That's another thing that when we talk about the Minnesota
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Timberwolves and maybe somewhat the Pacers, because the Pacers had
the attitude against the Milwaukee Bucks. They didn't back down.
They were ready to bully him. You want to talk
your talk, We're gonna go right back at you. Chippy
loved it. The Tea Wolves are fowls. Didn't matter. They
talked their trash, they backed it up, and that's all
on all it comes back to do you win, right,
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and that's you know. I love what Shannon Sharp was saying.
I think that's funny, and Aunt was having fun with that.
You know, Lakers, I heard from Shannon a little bit.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, he's still doing that nightcap.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Sure, I see. I wonder what the viewership is on that.
I'm sure it's pretty good. It might be up there
with Schador Sanders's Twitch show as well. Look, I just
think the Tea Wolves, for my money. It's hard to
sit here and say because I was saying we need
the Lakers to win, we want them in that next round.
But you know, throughout the course of that series, it's
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not about the Lakers. It needs to be about the
Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
No, you're right, because I think I under estimated just
the Wolves' size impact. I mean, they out rebounded in
the series the Lakers by over twenty rebounds. Yes, in
terms of offensive boards, they got sixty five offensive rebounds.
Second chance points dominated Well, it was just they just
killed them on the glass, and then defensively, the Lakers
had no answer, and they're awful defensively, and it's towards
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and ends with Luka Dancic, who they just tried to
get in action every single time, whether it's for Anthony
Davis or Anthony Edwards, whether it's for Julius Randall, like
Luca as the primary defender on Anthony Edwards, he gave
up forty one points to Anthony Edwards, a series, thirty
five to Jada McDaniels, twenty two to Julius Randall, and
thirteen to Nasri.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
He could not guard anybody. Whoever he was guarding.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Was an absolute mismatch and just an advantage for the Wolves.
And Lebron had some good moments defensively, but he's obviously aging.
Austin Raves is not a great defender, and they don't
have any rim protector on the back line, so like
Lebron or Ruey was playing the center most of the time.
So it was just you can hide Luca defensively if
you have the roster that the MAVs had last year,
which is a rim protecting center like a Daniel gaffer
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like a Derek Lively, and also awesome perimeter defenders wing
three and D types like PJ.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Washington and Derek Jones. That's when you can hide Luke
a little more.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
And why the MAVs defense was good last year and
good enough to get to the finals. This roster was
not build for Luka Doncis, and especially for offensively. It
was not built to hide Luka Doncis offensive defensively, and
he was a disaster and absolute code out there, and
part of its effort, like, yes, he absolutely needs to
get in better shape this summer and get properly conditioned,
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but part of it is also he's just a bad defender.
Even when he puts in effort, he looks lost out there,
and for such a cerebral smart player, sometimes it's shocking
to watch.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
All right, Well, t Wolves send the Lakers packing, And
of course we did have another game with the Rockets
and Warriors, and that game where that series got extended.
Head him back to the Bay Area with Golden State
up three to two. We'll talk a little bit more
about that game coming up here. Of course, it was
a blowout. There's a lot to discuss Houston battling back,
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will find out if Sam thinks that Houston could send
it to a game seven. We also have two great
games going off this evening. But forgive me, like unfortunately,
the Lakers are the Lakers, and they got to talk
about they do have good walking points for us to
get into. Specifically, it starts with JJ Reddick for me,
should it though, should it be more about Lebron James
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and him coming back next year? Should it be more
about Luca and what to expect? I get the roster
construction absolutely, but that will take somewhat care of itself
over these next few months. We don't know who will
be available, We don't know what who's gonna force themselves out.
But JJ Reddick, for my money, I thought coached his
ass off this year. I thought he was a good coach.
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Like we talked about that Lakers coaching spot as funeral,
you're not gonna you're not gonna have success there, You're
hired to be fired. Did JJ Reddick have a good
rookie season as a head coach.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
In your mindset? And so Tauda, Yes, okay, he had
a good rookie season. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
I thought he did a good job for a first
year head coach, no doubt, he also deserves some criticism
for this sea and look, he will grow as a coach.
But JJ Reddick sat on ESPN last year and he
came at Doc Rivers hard, hard for not his coaching,
but for not taking accountability correct and.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
He said, you make excuses.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
I'm sick and tired of listening to Doc Rivers not
take accountability for when he makes mistakes. Then JJ Reddick
decides to play all five guys in the second half
in Game four without sitting them once for the first
time in NBA history, twenty four straight minutes for five guys,
not a single sub was made.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Lakers blow at ten pointly in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Those guys, obviously, Lakers lose the game, and then they
lose the Game five.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And eventually the series. JJ Reddick doubled down on that.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
So when he's calling for other people as a media
guy to take accountability as a coach, where's your accountability?
Like the three hardest words to say for anybody is
I was wrong. Nobody ever say that. Nobody can say
I was right.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I say it a lot at my house. Yeah, I
do what you have to do. I don't. My wife
never says never she's wrong.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Love who does Yeah, And JJ Reddick certainly doesn't want to.
So it's a little bit differ when you're in that
coaching seat. When he was criticizing Doc Rivers as Immdia guy,
but he had a bad series from playing not using
your bench at all. So yesterday on the broadcast, Reggie
Miller was talking about the fact that JJ Reddick looked
seemed rattled in the pregame meeting, like he was still
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thinking about his decision from last game and kind of
the criticism that came with it. It's like, you have
to flush that and move on. It's like you're coaching
in a game five now. And I thought the decision
to put Maxi Kleber in yesterday, who hadn't played basketball months,
hadn't practiced, let alone played once with the Lakers, was
just an awful decision. I get it from a size perspective,
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and I don't mind them not playing Jackson Hayes or
any five because those guys are unplayable too, But to
play Maxi Kleeber and then bring him back into the
game with five minutes left in a two possession game,
they brought Maxi Kleeber back again. Maxi Kleber had not practiced,
let alone played with the Lakers once this season. He
just got cleared the day before off of after being
injured for months. And JJ Redick puts them in and
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then puts them in in a crucial moment with five
minutes to go. It's just it was, There's no other
way around it. It was dumb coaching. And JJ Redick is
a brilliant basketball mind. He's a smart dude. He will
be a successful head coach for a long long time
in this league. But he got out coached by Chris Finch,
and he was He wasn't the reason why they lost.
They were the worst team, but he certainly contributed to.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, I'm not going to go far as Kendrick Perkins
way too much. Kendrick Perkins on.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
ESPN, You mean to tell me ESPN the worldwide leader
can't get another NBA mouth out there to fill it.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Like, come, they let everyone else go, They let Zach Logo,
they let all the good ones go so they can
keep Kenjack Perkins like. It's also you kind of get
a feeling of how some people felt about J. J.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Riddick based on how they're talking about him. People are
killing Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Look with Kendrick Perkins included who him and JJ if
want Yeah, race, it wasn't just about basketball.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Those guys got into it.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But yeah no, and you're right and they're gonna get
their shots and that's fine. And I think JJ would would.
I don't know what JJ is going to say. A
matter a clip will play it for you. He evaluates himself.
He spoke today again he's I thought that was him
that steff I apologized nowhere near. But with that being said, JJ,
I thought, in totality coached well for the Lakers organization
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with all those egos, dealing with Lebron James and the
Sun and everything that has come with it that huge trade.
Like for me, I think JJ will improve the roster.
He knows what they need. If they can get him
what they need to help out as far as a
big size players with some size rim protection, so on
and so forth, that's only gonna help things for Luca.
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I think the future is pretty bright with the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I really do.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Regardless of what Lebron James brings to the table next year,
I would assume he's going to retire.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Have that as well, but we'll see you assume Lebron
James gonna retire next year.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
After next year, James, you see his comments where you
put pressure on the front office, do you have those
of that?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
He said with Anthony Davis answered the question next thing
he was fired. Are traded?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah, Like come on, like, Lebron, how are you piling
on your front office right now? Like you you acknowledged
that this was a good trade. How are you criticizing
your front office like you're in the position of that
Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis was in Lebron, your organization just
got a life raft. You had a drowning organization with
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you and Anthony Anthony Davis at the helm drowning. I
mean they were in above a seven seed the last
three seasons. They had one nice Western Conference run. It
was not working with those two guys, both guys on
the wrong side of their careers. You were a drowning organization.
The MAVs give you a life draft. It's not just
a life raft. They had a life raft that brought
them to a beachfront property that they're going to stay.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
At for the next decade.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
And Lebron is insinuating that he's on the chopping block
if he kind of makes comments about the roster situation
and he's saying like, oh, like we traded Anthony Davis
because he made those comments. You didn't trade Anthony Davis
because of those comments. You traded Anthony Davis because he
got a much better player, not to for the short term,
but for the long term too.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
How this is why people don't like Lens. It's like,
why are you making those comments? Remember last year when they, oh,
I don't know, I might retire, Like we does that everything.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
He wasn't going to do that last year, and people
still ran with him like, oh, we gotta give him
the proper praise because he deserves it. Lebron James will
get the career send off.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Every spot wants. And you know what, he deserves it. A.
He deserves it.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
And B.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I think it's good for the game, Yes, for the
league itself this guy.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Yes, if we're going if we're not gonna do for
Lebron James.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
And it needs to stop, especially as a Laker because
Kobe got it when the Lakers were horrible in twenty sixteen.
But everyone was watching Lakers games, especially road games, especially
towards the end because it was this guy's end of
his career, a legend. If you haven't been paying attention
for the last two decades, if you think Lebron's not
going off without.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
A massive secon and he deserves it, but he wants it. Oh,
could you imagine what that's gonna be like?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Completeland. Oh yeah, I don't know, maybe like a ten minute.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Tribut sit here taking as somewhat of a shot at
the idea.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I got goosebumps.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Oh, it's gonna be aweso unbelievable to think like Lebron
James goes into Cleveland and his final season as an
NBA player, It's like, dude, yeah, if we're not going
to do it for that guy, and everybody needs to
follow sue, get in line and just understand that this
is good for the league and he deserves it. With
that being said, enough of Lebron, because he's coming back
JJ Reddick though, let's move over to him again evaluating
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himself after the season, and here's what he had to say.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
I'll use my own thoughts to evaluate myself, and I'll
use what my players say and what my coaching staff
says to evaluate. But you know, I know I can
be better, and I know I will get better. I
don't necessarily take any satisfaction from how the year went.
(25:52):
That's not to say I'm not proud of what the
group was able to do and how we're able to
figure things out on the fly and put ourselves in
a position to have home court in the first round.
But there's always there's always ways to get better, and
I can I can get a lot better.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Oh that's that's got to go on the back of
the baseball card. Give us first round playoffs.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Come on, dude, anyways, that's JJ and and look, these
guys have to they lose. It's tough, Like Giannis deserves
a lot of credit. Gets out there and the microphone
speaks about it. Honestly, I love what he said a
couple of years ago or two years ago or whatever
it was, when he said, man like, we can't play
a full season and say it's a complete loss if
we don't win the championship, right like.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I love that answer.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Love what he did yesterday talking about the old man
Halbert and all that. You know, So I just want
to be fair about that. But JJ is smug, JJ's arrogant.
JJ's Duke.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
He's an absolute arrogant yeah a hole. Yeah, Like that's
probably why a lot of people Espen didn't like him
or taking their shots. Now, that's why a lot of
people are rooting against them in a way.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
But how many coaches are arrogant? But they are.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
JJ Reddick a college basketball elegend, NBA player, a media
guy who was on the rise. So it's like there's
a lot of people who don't like him, So there's
gonna be a lot of people to pile on him
when he makes poor decisions and struggles like he did
in this series because he was completely out coached. But
JJ Reddick is also a brilliant basketball mind. He's a workhorse.
He will get better and he will be a great
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coach in this league.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, and one more because I did see everyone's getting
their clicks, everyone's getting their takes, and and that's great.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Now at the time, pile one get what you can.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I did see somebody out there saying like, and this
is why JJ Reddick didn't deserve the opportunity, didn't earn
the opportunity to be a head coach in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Come on, man, can we put that to bed? Like
he played how.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Long in the NBA had un Like, you mean to
tell me JJ Reddick wasn't deserving of an opportunity to coach.
Come on, man, if Jason Kidd's a coach, you know,
I get it. What did Jason Kidd do some G league?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I know he was an assistant coach for a little while. Sure,
but JJ Reddick, come on right, Like, that's part.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Of people's problem is that he didn't coach at any level.
That's sure than pee wee basketball. He looked pretty good
to me. But look at Steve Nash didn't coach at
any level, and he was a shaster. That wasn't all
his fault. It was a lot on the players. But look,
you get those opportunities if you were that good of
a player, and you can articulate how great of a
basketball mind you are.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
All right, We're gonna hit on a little bit more
from the Rockets and Golden State Warriors perspective. We do
have some comments coming and get involved in the conversation
with our show. Sam on acts how to don't connect,
not get any minutes. Sam Austrey doesn't deserve anything, Okay.
He also said ant Man is the truth. Wolves are
unreally physical and very well coached. Curious how the Warriors
(28:42):
matchup will go. Is it already to Warriors or we
just don't with the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
I think it'll be the Warriors, and I hope it's
the Warriors because there's will be nothing better than Rudy
gober and Draymond Green. And we're talking about Rudy Gobart
being the punching bag of the league. Draymond Green has
made him the punching bag of the league. I mean,
Draymond Green has genuine hatred in his heart for Rudy Gobert.
So because Draymond's gonna be the five. So yeah, the
Wolves have the size advantage. If it is the Warriors,
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the Wolves will have the size advantage for sure.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
But Draymond is also not a typical small ball five.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
He can get physical, he's a great rebounder as a five.
So that'll be a really interesting series. I don't know
it's gonna be favorite exactly. They'd probably lean the Wolves,
but assuming it's the Warriors, that'll be a good one.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Warriors right now minus four to fifty to win their
series against the Houston Rockets, plus three fifty for the
Houston Rockets. Little line movement yesterday with the Cavs and Pacers.
Pacers are now down to plus three ten. I think
they were as high as plus three fifty yesterday. We
do have two pretty big games going off this evening,
and we're gonna spice things up Round two with the
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Knicks and Pistons, actually Game six, but round two between
Sam and Sean Bernard. We're gonna get a nice little
wager for tonight, friendly wager. Looking forward to getting Shawn's
take on that one. He's back in the Detroit Pistons
and Sam is all over the Knicks. And I think
this goes back to MSG for seven. Really, Yeah, I
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don't fix I think you can flip a coin. It
could go either way, just like every other game in
this series. But I'm gonna give the Pistons a little
love here. I think it goes back to a lot
of smack, a lot of it, all right. Malie Beasley
today was talking the day of the game. Yeah, well
that's when he did a little president grief, all right.
Julia Lllo's good to joints on the other side from
DraftKings sportsbook, folks. At three fifty five, I'm gonna give
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Speaker 5 (30:45):
I'm more of a birdie guy usually. I played my
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Speaker 4 (30:49):
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I played a scramble with my boys. We're gonna play.
It was ugly, birdie or bogie.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
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and of course all things NBA Playoffs with Julian Elo
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Speaker 4 (02:32):
Folks were giving away a pair of tickets.
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Starting next week. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I did DM page, she did, She didn't get back
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I shouldn't know how to say her last name. It'd
be great to have her, but it doesn't seem like
that that's going to be the case Wednesday for the Creator,
she's a host. She's on the Uh she's on the course,
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nice shop.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah, she is on the course.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So uh.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
She's doing a really good job with that Creator Classic
on Wednesday as well. Oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
All right, we have a lot to get to. Of course,
Sam's in studio. Julian Edlofrom DraftKings Sports Book at three
point thirty four o'clock giving away those tickets to the
truest championship PGA Tour coming to Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Got a lot more to discuss with that.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
We will be live next Friday, live from a PGA tour.
Stuff unbelievable to gambler rolling out the red carpet. Can't
wait to be all a part of that. Of course,
with swinging and ding it. Moose, Mays and Danielle will
be in attendance. A lot of fun will be had,
that's for dang sure. And then four thirty Mark he Reginia,
(03:48):
Let's talk some NFL draft. Let's put a bow on
this bad boy. Let's talk some quarterbacks. Let's talk about
the Eagles. Dude, I haven't heard his thoughts as far
as the NFL draft class is concerned, and shame on me,
but I said it yesterday to Sean Maynard. We're super
Bowl champions, man, Yeah, you know, when you're Super Bowl champions,
you're just like, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
It's also not only we're super Bowl champions, it's also
that we have the best general manager in the league,
and everyone kind of universally has said that we trust
that guy that so, like, whatever happens, we'll see the
product on the field. But everyone universally is like, all right,
this guy is the best at what he does, not
just in the NFL, maybe in all of sports right now,
So we trust the guy.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
That is pretty like, that's spot on, Sam, and I
don't really think I have. I've put that a put
two and two together. When it comes to maybe that
had something to do with it. I was tuned in.
We were together on Thursday night. We watched it together. Yeah,
we loved it. We didn't go to the bars until
Shador Sanders got picked, and it never happened.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I was more focused on Nick Pistons. Yes, you were,
and you.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Know Shador Sanders gets the phone call.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah, heard the prank one or the real one? Prank one?
All right, good luck?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Way is that a crime? I'm kind of confused right now.
Is pranking someone a crime? Because everyone's seeming seemingly making
out to be like it's he committed a felony based
on the reaction to a prank call.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
A prank call, the.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Old man makes one point six million dollars. Uncle Sam
gets his cut, right, yep, got fined one hundred grand.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Yeah, and wow, it's not really clear how it came out,
but it's I doubt his dad gave it to his son, like, oh,
here's his number.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
His son went in and found laying around and took it.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Probably, Yeah, it could have happened to anyone. His son
just made a mistake and it costs his dad a
boatload of money.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
We do have the apology from from Albright uh Ulbrick.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Is that how you say his name was the interim
head coach for the job? I know he was, I
know he was, And you know what's crazy, it's like
the defense went down with him. Yes, yeah, and now
he was. He literally is one of the top ten
defense coordinators paid in the NFL right now.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
And he was parently consider a pretty good DC. I
love head coaching. Once he had to go to the
head coaching role.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Probably special teams though before he took over for Salah,
was he not or no?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
No, because Sola was head coach. He was a DEFENSEI player. Yeah,
I believe he was. All right.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Well, since we you know, tiptoed into it, this is
Jeff Olbrick apologizing yesterday.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
So I made the Falcons aware of the situation, and
then our next course of action was to try to
get a hold of the Sanders family. Still we could
apologize on that person, which we were able to do.
The Sanders family should Or and Coach Sanders were amazingly gracious,
more gracious than they needed.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
To be in a moment like this. That doesn't surprise me. Yeah,
that doesn't surprise me one bit.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Right, Dion has been through a lot. He's seen a
lot twenty one year old kids, a twenty one year
old kid. I'm not making excuses. I actually feel bad
for him at times. I do you know, like, if
you are the old man, how do you punish him?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Make him pay for his own college, Make him get
a job, cause I'm sure he's not paying for that
ole miss degree. Make him get a job, pay for
his own college, ground them all summer.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I don't know. I'm not the person ask for parenting advice.
That's you.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
But I will say you'd think Chador was the only
one that got a prank call right, Like it didn't
happen to kuper Jen last year. It didn't happen to
like ten more prospects this year.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Can I ask you how easy it is to get
these people's numbs it.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
We're obviously really easy.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You know, it's interesting, Adam, Well, the league sends out
This is interesting because Adam Schefter is talking about it.
The league sends out agent's numbers to every single team
because every single team is going to call the agent
and the agent's going to put the prospect on the
phone for when they want to draft them. So every
team and probably a boatload of team personnel have these numbers.
Shador Sanders represented himself. He didn't have an agent, so
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Shador Sanders number went out to every single team and
probably hundreds of team personnel or dozens of team personnel.
So it wasn't an agent, it was Sanders direct number.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So that's how they got access. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, I did know that, but I didn't connect the
dots as far as with Sanders being his own agent,
his own acting.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, that's why the numbers out there.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But again, like you said, McCord talked about it, we
know about Cooper dejen The list goes on, but no
one else is getting penalized.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
There's no investigation, no one else is getting penalized. How
those got leaked, you won't know why, it's because it's
not shad Door Sanders.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Nah, yes, And you know a why people know about it,
and so it's because sir Door Sanders was live streaming
his entire draft party.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
His whole draft party is being live stream on Twitch
by his They were putting on an entertainment show instead
of folks on the draft, so they were live shooting
for party. Get those clicks, sure, but then that's that's
why he got embarrassed like that because it was on stream.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Other guys just got prank calls. You don't necessarily see
it and doesn't become huge, but it's shud Door Sanders.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
And so that's why the NFL is investigating because it's
the Sanders family. And that's just part of the Sanders
experience of maybe why a lot of teams didn't want
to draft the guy because everything that happens with this guy,
it just heightened media attention where it's like these other
guys got prank called. There's no investigation into how those
numbers got leaked. I don't mind it where you're going.
I think there is some truth to it. I do
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think the fine is egregious.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah, like three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, what are
we doing here. You want to find the team, that's fine,
but the head coach or the guy the father that
was a little odd. But uh, anyways, I digress. We
do have other fish to fry, big fish.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Because last night the LA Lakers one two three, kikoon, the.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Clock winding down and the horn sounds here in La
and the Timberwolves have defeated the Lakers one oh three
ninety six. They close out the series in five games,
and for the first time in franchise history, the Timberwolves
have advanced to the second round of the NBA Playoffs
in back to back season.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, this is another type of vibe I'm getting with
the t Wolves and with the Pacers, and both teams,
of course, had great success last year and we're able
to advance and nobody gave him an opportunity Minnesota timber
Wolves in Round one last two NBA postseasons, if you're
wagering on the t Wolves, you've been cashing in big Lee.
Wolves were underdogs in both series versus the Suns last
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year and the Lakers eight and one straight up and
ATS four and one straight up. ATS as an underdog,
how about that, Sam Austri Where do you want to
start from last night big picture or do we go
with the Rudy Gobert. Rudy Gobert game of his life?
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Of his life?
Speaker 5 (10:28):
I mean, what are performance the punching bag of the NBA.
This guy gets clowned by everyone and anyone every opportunity
people get to take shots of them. They do, and
sometimes it's deserve it, like Luca obviously has him on island,
hits a huge shot over him.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
He's talking smack to him.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
He gets benched in the Olympics for France, like the
country he's representing. He gets benched in the Olympics. He's
been played off the floor certain times throughout the playoffs
for as much as what he brings or doesn't bring
offensively as he does some of the problems that he
has defensively. But last night he was I mean, he
was a college kid playing against middle school kids. Like
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that's what it looked like in terms of the height
and size and strength and physicality disparity that Rudy Gobert
exhibited against the Lakers because they had to go small. J. J.
Redick made a decision and I don't disagree with the decision.
But he made a decision. We don't have a center
that's dependable all on our roster, so we're not playing
any center. We are going small, even if it's the
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death of us, and it was the death of them
because Rudy Gobert was awesome. The Wolves are feeding him
in a way they don't really do that much. Where
he was ceiling in the post on Luca had an
awesome bucket for Luca to get a second foul. He
was crashing the offensive glass and the Lakers had no answer.
So what a game for Rudy Gobert.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah, the punching bag of the NBA is pretty interesting
when you put it like that. He is a guy
that people love to take shots, very outspoken, very different minded.
We'll leave it at that. Of course, he was the
idiot with the COVID situation. He brought that out himself.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
But you know, Rudy.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Gobert, and and the fact that he's been paid a
lot of money. H wins the Defensive Player of the
Year a war win. That's a lot of people's problem. Yeah,
a lot of people didn't think he should have won
it last year, specifically you know me included. But at
the end of the day, Like, I don't know if
we're given the proper respect to the Minnesota Termberwolves that
they deserved.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Oh, no one ever does, because they always play Like
last year against the Suns, they played these superstars and
that's why everyone's everyone's on Kevin Durant and Devin Booker.
And this series obviously was miss price and I miss
calculated too. I had the Lakers winning in seven, but
still the Lakers winning, and I miscalculated the star impact
of Austin Reeves and Lebron James and Luka Doncca. I
thought those three guys, their core, was going to get
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it done. But the Wolve's best players. It really came
down to this. The Wolve's best players in this series
were better than the Lakers' best players, and that includes
Julius Randa, who has a horrible playoff rat some somewhat undeservedly.
What do you have last night twenty Yeah, he was phenomenal.
He shot awesome from three all series as a decision
maker was great. He was making Luca.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And didn't make of three last night from that misake
was over eleven from three.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
But I actually thought Ant didn't have that bad of
a game because he was pretty good when they're throwing
doubles at him. He's been a really good decision maker
and passer out of doubles and just always knows when
to make the right play.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
And also was interesting last year.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Against the Nuggets when the Wolves won that series in
the second round in Game seven, Ant was really bad
that game too. He had sixteen points on six for
twenty four shooting. So in two elimination games. Now that
the Wolves have won or series clinching games, Ant hasn't
been great, but his teammates have lifted him up. And
Julius Randall, Nasri Jada McDaniels, Rudy Gobert. Last night, all
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those guys, those two through five were way better than
the Lakers two through five Lebron. He had pretty good
scoring outputs some games. He was exhausted last night. That
was pretty evident. Austin Reeves did not have a good
series at all, and he owned up to that yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
And Luca was an absolute cone out there. I mean,
that was worse.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
His defense in this series was way worse than it
was against the Celtics. When everyone started kind of really
started getting national attension for how bad he is defensively,
it was worse this series, and part of because Lakers
don't have the roster or the personnel to hide Luca defensively.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
And that's the next step for the Lakers. It's to
build a roster around Luca. Yeah, look, Luca's got to
look himself in the mirror. You know, he got traded.
I'm sure that it wasn't the easiest. He had some
really great games in the Lakers uniform. But man, there
wasn't one second in that game last night that he
wasn't like wincing. You know, he looked like he was tired.
(14:25):
I get it. But man, you're a professional ballplayer. Dude,
you're getting a ton of money. You're being discussed as
one of the greats in the game. Like am I
allowed to say, Like where's the pride? Get inside the gym?
Could you shed a few pounds? Like what's going on there?
And I want to be fair too, because he was attacked.
That's another thing that when we talk about the Minnesota
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Timberwolves and maybe somewhat the Pacers, because the Pacers had
the attitude against the Milwaukee Bucks. They didn't back down.
They were ready to bully him. You want to talk
your talk, We're gonna go right back at you. Chippy
loved it. The Tea Wolves are fowls. Didn't matter. They
talked their trash, they backed it up, and that's all
on all it comes back to do you win, right,
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and that's you know. I love what Shannon Sharp was saying.
I think that's funny, and Aunt was having fun with that.
You know, Lakers, I heard from Shannon a little bit.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, he's still doing that nightcap.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Sure, I see. I wonder what the viewership is on that.
I'm sure it's pretty good. It might be up there
with Schador Sanders's Twitch show as well. Look, I just
think the Tea Wolves, for my money. It's hard to
sit here and say because I was saying we need
the Lakers to win, we want them in that next round.
But you know, throughout the course of that series, it's
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not about the Lakers. It needs to be about the
Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
No, you're right, because I think I under estimated just
the Wolves' size impact. I mean, they out rebounded in
the series the Lakers by over twenty rebounds. Yes, in
terms of offensive boards, they got sixty five offensive rebounds.
Second chance points dominated Well, it was just they just
killed them on the glass, and then defensively, the Lakers
had no answer, and they're awful defensively, and it's towards
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and ends with Luka Dancic, who they just tried to
get in action every single time, whether it's for Anthony
Davis or Anthony Edwards, whether it's for Julius Randall, like
Luca as the primary defender on Anthony Edwards, he gave
up forty one points to Anthony Edwards, a series, thirty
five to Jada McDaniels, twenty two to Julius Randall, and
thirteen to Nasri.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
He could not guard anybody. Whoever he was guarding.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Was an absolute mismatch and just an advantage for the Wolves.
And Lebron had some good moments defensively, but he's obviously aging.
Austin Raves is not a great defender, and they don't
have any rim protector on the back line, so like
Lebron or Ruey was playing the center most of the time.
So it was just you can hide Luca defensively if
you have the roster that the MAVs had last year,
which is a rim protecting center like a Daniel gaffer
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like a Derek Lively, and also awesome perimeter defenders wing
three and D types like PJ.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Washington and Derek Jones. That's when you can hide Luke
a little more.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
And why the MAVs defense was good last year and
good enough to get to the finals. This roster was
not build for Luka Doncis, and especially for offensively. It
was not built to hide Luka Doncis offensive defensively, and
he was a disaster and absolute code out there, and
part of its effort, like, yes, he absolutely needs to
get in better shape this summer and get properly conditioned,
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but part of it is also he's just a bad defender.
Even when he puts in effort, he looks lost out there,
and for such a cerebral smart player, sometimes it's shocking
to watch.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
All right, Well, t Wolves send the Lakers packing, And
of course we did have another game with the Rockets
and Warriors, and that game where that series got extended.
Head him back to the Bay Area with Golden State
up three to two. We'll talk a little bit more
about that game coming up here. Of course, it was
a blowout. There's a lot to discuss Houston battling back,
(17:46):
will find out if Sam thinks that Houston could send
it to a game seven. We also have two great
games going off this evening. But forgive me, like unfortunately,
the Lakers are the Lakers, and they got to talk
about they do have good walking points for us to
get into. Specifically, it starts with JJ Reddick for me,
should it though, should it be more about Lebron James
(18:08):
and him coming back next year? Should it be more
about Luca and what to expect? I get the roster
construction absolutely, but that will take somewhat care of itself
over these next few months. We don't know who will
be available, We don't know what who's gonna force themselves out.
But JJ Reddick, for my money, I thought coached his
ass off this year. I thought he was a good coach.
(18:29):
Like we talked about that Lakers coaching spot as funeral,
you're not gonna you're not gonna have success there, You're
hired to be fired. Did JJ Reddick have a good
rookie season as a head coach.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
In your mindset? And so Tauda, Yes, okay, he had
a good rookie season. Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
I thought he did a good job for a first
year head coach, no doubt, he also deserves some criticism
for this sea and look, he will grow as a coach.
But JJ Reddick sat on ESPN last year and he
came at Doc Rivers hard, hard for not his coaching,
but for not taking accountability correct and.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
He said, you make excuses.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
I'm sick and tired of listening to Doc Rivers not
take accountability for when he makes mistakes. Then JJ Reddick
decides to play all five guys in the second half
in Game four without sitting them once for the first
time in NBA history, twenty four straight minutes for five guys,
not a single sub was made.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Lakers blow at ten pointly in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Those guys, obviously, Lakers lose the game, and then they
lose the Game five.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And eventually the series. JJ Reddick doubled down on that.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
So when he's calling for other people as a media
guy to take accountability as a coach, where's your accountability?
Like the three hardest words to say for anybody is
I was wrong. Nobody ever say that. Nobody can say
I was right.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I say it a lot at my house. Yeah, I
do what you have to do. I don't. My wife
never says never she's wrong.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Love who does Yeah, And JJ Reddick certainly doesn't want to.
So it's a little bit differ when you're in that
coaching seat. When he was criticizing Doc Rivers as Immdia guy,
but he had a bad series from playing not using
your bench at all. So yesterday on the broadcast, Reggie
Miller was talking about the fact that JJ Reddick looked
seemed rattled in the pregame meeting, like he was still
(20:16):
thinking about his decision from last game and kind of
the criticism that came with it. It's like, you have
to flush that and move on. It's like you're coaching
in a game five now. And I thought the decision
to put Maxi Kleber in yesterday, who hadn't played basketball months,
hadn't practiced, let alone played once with the Lakers, was
just an awful decision. I get it from a size perspective,
(20:38):
and I don't mind them not playing Jackson Hayes or
any five because those guys are unplayable too, But to
play Maxi Kleeber and then bring him back into the
game with five minutes left in a two possession game,
they brought Maxi Kleeber back again. Maxi Kleber had not practiced,
let alone played with the Lakers once this season. He
just got cleared the day before off of after being
injured for months. And JJ Redick puts them in and
(21:01):
then puts them in in a crucial moment with five
minutes to go. It's just it was, There's no other
way around it. It was dumb coaching. And JJ Redick is
a brilliant basketball mind. He's a smart dude. He will
be a successful head coach for a long long time
in this league. But he got out coached by Chris Finch,
and he was He wasn't the reason why they lost.
They were the worst team, but he certainly contributed to.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Yeah, I'm not going to go far as Kendrick Perkins
way too much. Kendrick Perkins on.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
ESPN, You mean to tell me ESPN the worldwide leader
can't get another NBA mouth out there to fill it.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
Like, come, they let everyone else go, They let Zach Logo,
they let all the good ones go so they can
keep Kenjack Perkins like. It's also you kind of get
a feeling of how some people felt about J. J.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Riddick based on how they're talking about him. People are
killing Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Look with Kendrick Perkins included who him and JJ if
want Yeah, race, it wasn't just about basketball.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Those guys got into it.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But yeah no, and you're right and they're gonna get
their shots and that's fine. And I think JJ would would.
I don't know what JJ is going to say. A
matter a clip will play it for you. He evaluates himself.
He spoke today again he's I thought that was him
that steff I apologized nowhere near. But with that being said, JJ,
I thought, in totality coached well for the Lakers organization
(22:17):
with all those egos, dealing with Lebron James and the
Sun and everything that has come with it that huge trade.
Like for me, I think JJ will improve the roster.
He knows what they need. If they can get him
what they need to help out as far as a
big size players with some size rim protection, so on
and so forth, that's only gonna help things for Luca.
(22:38):
I think the future is pretty bright with the Lakers.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I really do.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Regardless of what Lebron James brings to the table next year,
I would assume he's going to retire.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Have that as well, but we'll see you assume Lebron
James gonna retire next year.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
After next year, James, you see his comments where you
put pressure on the front office, do you have those
of that?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:54):
He said with Anthony Davis answered the question next thing
he was fired. Are traded?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah, Like come on, like, Lebron, how are you piling
on your front office right now? Like you you acknowledged
that this was a good trade. How are you criticizing
your front office like you're in the position of that
Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis was in Lebron, your organization just
got a life raft. You had a drowning organization with
(23:20):
you and Anthony Anthony Davis at the helm drowning. I
mean they were in above a seven seed the last
three seasons. They had one nice Western Conference run. It
was not working with those two guys, both guys on
the wrong side of their careers. You were a drowning organization.
The MAVs give you a life draft. It's not just
a life raft. They had a life raft that brought
them to a beachfront property that they're going to stay.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
At for the next decade.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
And Lebron is insinuating that he's on the chopping block
if he kind of makes comments about the roster situation
and he's saying like, oh, like we traded Anthony Davis
because he made those comments. You didn't trade Anthony Davis
because of those comments. You traded Anthony Davis because he
got a much better player, not to for the short term,
but for the long term too.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
How this is why people don't like Lens. It's like,
why are you making those comments? Remember last year when they, oh,
I don't know, I might retire, Like we does that everything.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
He wasn't going to do that last year, and people
still ran with him like, oh, we gotta give him
the proper praise because he deserves it. Lebron James will
get the career send off.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Every spot wants. And you know what, he deserves it. A.
He deserves it.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
And B.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I think it's good for the game, Yes, for the
league itself this guy.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Yes, if we're going if we're not gonna do for
Lebron James.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
And it needs to stop, especially as a Laker because
Kobe got it when the Lakers were horrible in twenty sixteen.
But everyone was watching Lakers games, especially road games, especially
towards the end because it was this guy's end of
his career, a legend. If you haven't been paying attention
for the last two decades, if you think Lebron's not
going off without.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
A massive secon and he deserves it, but he wants it. Oh,
could you imagine what that's gonna be like?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Completeland. Oh yeah, I don't know, maybe like a ten minute.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Tribut sit here taking as somewhat of a shot at
the idea.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I got goosebumps.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Oh, it's gonna be aweso unbelievable to think like Lebron
James goes into Cleveland and his final season as an
NBA player, It's like, dude, yeah, if we're not going
to do it for that guy, and everybody needs to
follow sue, get in line and just understand that this
is good for the league and he deserves it. With
that being said, enough of Lebron, because he's coming back
JJ Reddick though, let's move over to him again evaluating
(25:27):
himself after the season, and here's what he had to say.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
I'll use my own thoughts to evaluate myself, and I'll
use what my players say and what my coaching staff
says to evaluate. But you know, I know I can
be better, and I know I will get better. I
don't necessarily take any satisfaction from how the year went.
(25:52):
That's not to say I'm not proud of what the
group was able to do and how we're able to
figure things out on the fly and put ourselves in
a position to have home court in the first round.
But there's always there's always ways to get better, and
I can I can get a lot better.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Oh that's that's got to go on the back of
the baseball card. Give us first round playoffs.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Come on, dude, anyways, that's JJ and and look, these
guys have to they lose. It's tough, Like Giannis deserves
a lot of credit. Gets out there and the microphone
speaks about it. Honestly, I love what he said a
couple of years ago or two years ago or whatever
it was, when he said, man like, we can't play
a full season and say it's a complete loss if
we don't win the championship, right like.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I love that answer.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Love what he did yesterday talking about the old man
Halbert and all that. You know, So I just want
to be fair about that. But JJ is smug, JJ's arrogant.
JJ's Duke.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
He's an absolute arrogant yeah a hole. Yeah, Like that's
probably why a lot of people Espen didn't like him
or taking their shots. Now, that's why a lot of
people are rooting against them in a way.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
But how many coaches are arrogant? But they are.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
JJ Reddick a college basketball elegend, NBA player, a media
guy who was on the rise. So it's like there's
a lot of people who don't like him, So there's
gonna be a lot of people to pile on him
when he makes poor decisions and struggles like he did
in this series because he was completely out coached. But
JJ Reddick is also a brilliant basketball mind. He's a workhorse.
He will get better and he will be a great
(27:22):
coach in this league.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, and one more because I did see everyone's getting
their clicks, everyone's getting their takes, and and that's great.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Now at the time, pile one get what you can.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I did see somebody out there saying like, and this
is why JJ Reddick didn't deserve the opportunity, didn't earn
the opportunity to be a head coach in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Come on, man, can we put that to bed? Like
he played how.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Long in the NBA had un Like, you mean to
tell me JJ Reddick wasn't deserving of an opportunity to coach.
Come on, man, if Jason Kidd's a coach, you know,
I get it. What did Jason Kidd do some G league?
Speaker 1 (27:56):
You know?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I know he was an assistant coach for a little while. Sure,
but JJ Reddick, come on right, Like, that's part.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Of people's problem is that he didn't coach at any level.
That's sure than pee wee basketball. He looked pretty good
to me. But look at Steve Nash didn't coach at
any level, and he was a shaster. That wasn't all
his fault. It was a lot on the players. But look,
you get those opportunities if you were that good of
a player, and you can articulate how great of a
basketball mind you are.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
All right, We're gonna hit on a little bit more
from the Rockets and Golden State Warriors perspective. We do
have some comments coming and get involved in the conversation
with our show. Sam on acts how to don't connect,
not get any minutes. Sam Austrey doesn't deserve anything, Okay.
He also said ant Man is the truth. Wolves are
unreally physical and very well coached. Curious how the Warriors
(28:42):
matchup will go. Is it already to Warriors or we
just don't with the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
I think it'll be the Warriors, and I hope it's
the Warriors because there's will be nothing better than Rudy
gober and Draymond Green. And we're talking about Rudy Gobart
being the punching bag of the league. Draymond Green has
made him the punching bag of the league. I mean,
Draymond Green has genuine hatred in his heart for Rudy Gobert.
So because Draymond's gonna be the five. So yeah, the
Wolves have the size advantage. If it is the Warriors,
(29:07):
the Wolves will have the size advantage for sure.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
But Draymond is also not a typical small ball five.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
He can get physical, he's a great rebounder as a five.
So that'll be a really interesting series. I don't know
it's gonna be favorite exactly. They'd probably lean the Wolves,
but assuming it's the Warriors, that'll be a good one.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Warriors right now minus four to fifty to win their
series against the Houston Rockets, plus three fifty for the
Houston Rockets. Little line movement yesterday with the Cavs and Pacers.
Pacers are now down to plus three ten. I think
they were as high as plus three fifty yesterday. We
do have two pretty big games going off this evening,
and we're gonna spice things up Round two with the
(29:42):
Knicks and Pistons, actually Game six, but round two between
Sam and Sean Bernard. We're gonna get a nice little
wager for tonight, friendly wager. Looking forward to getting Shawn's
take on that one. He's back in the Detroit Pistons
and Sam is all over the Knicks. And I think
this goes back to MSG for seven. Really, Yeah, I
(30:02):
don't fix I think you can flip a coin. It
could go either way, just like every other game in
this series. But I'm gonna give the Pistons a little
love here. I think it goes back to a lot
of smack, a lot of it, all right. Malie Beasley
today was talking the day of the game. Yeah, well
that's when he did a little president grief, all right.
Julia Lllo's good to joints on the other side from
DraftKings sportsbook, folks. At three fifty five, I'm gonna give
(30:26):
up the contest line number. We got two lines that
will be open. If you are looking to win a
pair of tickets to the Truest Championship coming to the
Philadelphia Cricket Club next week, you need to get in line.
We're gonna play Birdie or bogie.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
You like that? Love it?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Do you?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I'm more of a birdie guy usually. I played my
first round this past weekend.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
How'd you do like? Ten eleven birdies? Not kidding? Horrible, horrible.
I played a scramble with my boys. We're gonna play.
It was ugly, birdie or bogie.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Three questions, Students, You got to get two out of
the three right, and you could be winning a pair
of tickets to the Trust Chimpship coming up next week
at the Philadephia Cricket Club. We'll talk more about that
and of course all things NBA Playoffs with Julian Elo
more Daily Tickem sam Astriy from the Score.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
I'm Sean Bracepacker for this.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
The NBA Playoffs are here and nobody has you covered.
Like the Gambler Gang, we don't just watch the playoffs,
we bet the hell out of them.
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