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his five hundred and first win of his career.
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Oh, that'll be as celebrated on air as the five hundred,
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dumb dumbs have mystery flavor always intriguing when you looked
at that that dish of lollipops? Do I want the
certainty of cherry or cream soda? Or am I feeling
a little uh, well, a little Kelly Stafford ish?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Well, I bet you if if you got the cherry there,
it's gonna be pretty hard to turn that down, right.
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But here's this thing, Mystery Flavor. What a mystery?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
If you're Kelly Stafford, you're up for an adventure in
Cleveland exactly?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
There is no mystery. Turns out, Mystery Flavor is just
two combined batches of suckers because it's the end of
one flavors run on the production machine in the start
of another, and instead of cleaning it out and wasting
ingredients in order to maximize profits and production, they just
start the next line, and the ones that are mixed
before it is entirely the new flavor they decided to
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label Mystery Flavor.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
That seems like a pretty good use of Yah. Yeah,
excuse me, Oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
No, I mean I feel like I feel like that
everybody involved is pleased with that.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I mean, what did you think it was?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yeah?
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They mix it all up. It's a mist tick, mix
it up. It's a mystery mix up. The mix, mix up,
the mix. Come on down. Now here's the address. It's
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Quick, y'all.
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Korean's coming to protest us.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
The Dodgers today Salt River Fields taking on the Rockies.
What a game, Dodger Talking seven. David Masse will have
Jose Mota, Mark Pryor, and Keith a Hernandez all on
the show. Back to back to back, like you said,
Matt a Stack show Freddie Freeman, who's beloved by the
city to see you. Dodd went one for three with
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a line drive single and two flyouts today in his
first Cactus League game. He said on our broadcast that
he hopes to play first base on Sunday, so look
forward to that and we will have spring training on Saturday.
Like Matt said, the Lakers are playing to the Lakers
win it well tonight you think they might have a chance, Well,
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they're playing the Clippers, who have been swooning. Tomorrow. They
host the Minnesota Tea Wolves tonight. They've won three in
a row, eight of the last ten. They're in the
five spot in the West. Reddick is a surly genius
this week, and the Tea Wolves are in the seventh
spot in the West. So it should be a very
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exciting contest between Lebron, James, Luca and his hookah and
of course the Minnesota Tea Wolves, who a lot of
people like I.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Would have appreciated you acknowledging their net efficiency ratings. I
feel like you just glossed right over that. Who's talk
about that? You know, Lakers number one net. I don't
even know what that is, nor do I, but I
just like saying it. You know, number one net defensive
efficiency since January one and number eight net offensive efficiency
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since Jen one. So you know, I just think I
think you start in there, you know, because the people
know what we're talking about when we say it, Rose, well,
that's how you know they're playing good basket.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
They pretend and nod their heads.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
At least.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
A lot of talk about Luka Doncic and his drinking
and is hookah smoking. Here's Colin Cowherd weighing in on
hookah smoking. Because if there's one thing I think about
with Colin cowhard he's like emerging from a Glendale bodega
having smoked a hookah for hours and hours, Like he's
walking out of a matinee. You know, the sun is
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out and he's like squinting his eyes. Here's Colin in
his very cool counterpart, talking about what's.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Cool houkah dantac that whole idea that the MAVs are
now leaking it that you know he likes hookah. Everybody
likes hukah. I mean unless you're like a social conservative,
which most people in LA aren't. But who doesn't like hukah?
If you've never been to a hookah bar in New York,
go it's a good time.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Now a.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Number one, How in God's name could you ever ever
try to categorize people in this town and sit there
and act like you know where and how people are.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Everybody likes hukah, every well, everybody in LA.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
He's not very social conservative unless you're like a social conservative,
which most people in LA aren't.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
But have you met call of yee?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
So wait a minute, how does social conservatism prevent you
from sucking a hooka? Talking on a freaking hookah?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I don't know, Like what is he?
Speaker 6 (07:18):
I only sucked a hookah at there was used to
be like this Armenian guy that owned a bar in
San Pedro called the Copper Room. I used to go
with my wife when we were a young couple in
San Pedro, very happy times, and we would smoke the
hookah every once in a while just because he said,
come smoke my hookah. And they didn't want to be rude. Yeah,
but does that make me some kind of degenerate beyond
what I already am?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Everybody likes houkah.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
It's a hookah.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
When I was Woodland Hills in the valley, was flipping
to Persian well, of course, yeah, extraor n Amber was
they were Persians and they invited us over right when
they moved in. Here's the hookah. You know, my wife's
a social concern. She looked at me, and our relationship
has never been the same.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
Unless you're like a social conservative, which most people in
La aren't. But that's how I started smoking pole who
doesn't like houkah? Because somebody was like, hey, just put
this hookah in your mouth and I closed.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
My eyes and it was a pool. You've never been
to a hookah bar in New York, go it's a
good time in New York. Is that the only place
you've never been to a hookah bar in New York?
Good talking about in New York? In New York? Who
doesn't like hukah? But everybody likes hukah? Can I just
go to Lahabra?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
You idiot?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
You've never been to a hookah bar in New York.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Stop Clippers are thirty two and twenty six. They head
back to Cryptude amorrow night take on the Lakers. Clippers
are in the sixth spot on the West and they
sock as Matt would say, do you guys like anything
on our station?
Speaker 8 (08:44):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Everybody likes anything? No, no, no?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
How many times is waky on today? Four? Uh? The
NFL combine's going on Indy. Matt did a very thorough
dissertation of the three teams of interests in Southern California.
Chargers Rams Raiders position workouts are underway. Five Bruins are
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an Indy led by linebacker Carson sweashing her and hopefully
his stock is rising because we like him.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, he's got a lot of heat on him for
good heat on.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Sweat. What do you call him? Captain America?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, that's probably do you see you Twitter? Captain America.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Do you call him Captain America? Is not the nickname.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
That's what I call him.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
That's all you.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Uh No, Probably one of the the fastest rising prospects.
Some people think he may even claw his way high second,
maybe even back into.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
The first round. For the person swashing, I gotta picture
him smoking a hook on venture.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Everybody likes hookah.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I gotta picture him smoking a hook on venture And
it's not gonna head the not gonna end well for him.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Who doesn't like who family? Socially conservative? Who doesn't like hookah?
Except here in La?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
The social conservative?
Speaker 7 (10:07):
I mean, unless you're like a social conservative, which most
people in LA aren't.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
But so I started smoking poles. It's kind of a
gateway drug for smoking pole to be honest, guys suddenly speaking.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
If you wrap your lips around that thing.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
Yeah, speaking of pole smokers, Travis Kelsey says he's coming
to act to play in twenty twenty five. Ah, he
hasn't listened to enough Taylor Swift music to put him
in a good mood.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
So he's got a return to the chief.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh that's a nice thing, is he can he can
pick his mood, you know, like whatever mood I'm in,
I have Taylor's got a flavor for Let's go, chee,
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
The NFL says there's no tampering issue with the meeting.
The did or didn't happen between Matthew Stafford and Tom
Brady and Montana on the slopes because there was no
drone on the slopes to hear what they were saying,
and because the Rams gave their permission because the Rams
are tired of Kelly Stafford, which means it's fairga to
talk to any team or for any other team to
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meet with Stafford.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Hey, Matt, it's it's Tom Brady. I got a little
chale up and whitefish. You want to come up and
join me?
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Come out here, chom some wood, bring it, I raise
some things by. You bring your terrible wife. I'll bring
my model girlfriend. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I mean, we could probably just have this conversation in
La if you want, or you know what, we can
just do it right here on the phone. I think
a trip to the chalet is what's in order.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
I want to see how your body responds to the
very cold temperatures. Uh UCLA, Matt, you know all about
the Big ten they're taking on a big black steam train.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Produce struggling former top ten team has lost four in
a row. Mackie Arena one of the loudest, most intimidating
college basketball venues in America. It's gonna be on a
eleven fifty. It is the John Wooden game. Of course,
John Wooden historic UCLA basketball coach, but he played at Purdue.
His number is retired and obviously a statue outside of
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Mackie Arena as well. So you got that little combo going,
which is awfully exciting.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Yeah, you got that little cowboy thing going. It's working
for you. Matt, gene Hackman was found dead in his
house in New Mexico, and his wife and one of
his dogs were with him, which is quite odd, but yeah,
it happened. Please say that deaths are suspicious, but that
will happen if you get carbon monoxide poisoning. We'll wait
(12:29):
for the autopsis. Matt, Just like a Kates keeps hitting
refreshed on the Epstein files. But gene hackmandn't start in
many Manna. Get you rid the f JFK's coming tomorrow.
He was the guy with the driver. Gene Hackman started
many movies, including Hoosiers, and he taught us how many
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times we're going to pass the ball before?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
How many times you're gonna pass before we shoot? How
many more?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
Or also matt uh. He told us, you know, if
there's only four guys on the floor, that's that's how
we're gonna do it.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Coach, need one more? My team is on the floor.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yeah, are you trying to do something more?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
People Hickory don't like that. No.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
I don't know if it'll matter none, but I feel
it's about the time I'll start playing some ball.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I don't know if you'll make any change, but I
figure it's time for me to start playing ball.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
For got HD oft him, he's the onely thing I play.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Coach days, he goes, I go, yeah, we have a vote.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Vote? What was the vote? What's a count?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Now?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Look?
Speaker 9 (14:08):
Wait, the coach is dismissed by a vote of sixty
eight to forty five.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I think we should vote again.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
Called revote all those in favor of the coach staying, say.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Those of posed punts. Coach stays, yeah, the eyes have it. Well,
we'll be right back.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
We will hear from Don McClain about all the exciting
basketball action in Purdue and otherwise, and then we will
get to Dodger Talk after the Dead and a live
guy Birthday of the Day. David Vassi has got a
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Speaker 2 (15:08):
Dodger spelled to the Rockies earlier today. Just ahead them
when we hit the air at three o'clock, they will
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Laker game, so that's gonna tip off at seven. We'll
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eleven fifty. Both games. Certainly, we'll have the eyes of
our next guest on.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Yes, our next guest, the real hero, chopping it up
with Tim Kats on the phone right now.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Thanks Tim.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
It is the one and only Don McClain, Ladies and
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Speaker 10 (16:29):
P h You mentioned c that's heating up right now
in terms of who we're getting and all that stuff.
And so I'm trying to like finish the TV season,
but yet I'm on the phone constantly with what's about
to start April one. So it's kind of a crossover
right now.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Real.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, they got you caught in a little crossfire. How
you like that? What I understand?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Don?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
I understand you. I'm a very busy guy too, you
know my friend. Yeah, all my phones ringing, ringing, off
the hook. Yeah, just people want me for all kinds
of stuff. You couldn't believe it anyway, Don Mick Cronin
got his five hundred win, which I guess, I mean
it is a big milestone, but is that. I mean,
they had balloons out and all that as Dad was
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sitting there waiting while they slowly blew it to Minnesota,
and you had that call and you prophesized that things
weren't going well, that it looked like the USC game.
Do you think that's getting out from under something for
that team, just getting that out of the way, the
expectation of doing that for coach or or are players
just oblivious to that stuff.
Speaker 10 (17:35):
I think it's part of it. I mean, I think
every player is different in how they feel about the
head coach, you know, in terms of playing for him,
and you know what that milestone means. I do think
that UCLA, you know, has a lot bigger fish to
fry in terms of finishing this regular season. Maryland opened
the door for him last night to get into that
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top four, to get a double buy in the Big
Ten tournament, which to me is a huge especially if
you're going to try and win it. And so they
got Purdue tomorrow night, which they're tied with Purdue and Maryland,
so a gigantic game tomorrow night. And I would guess
that they were all happy for Mick, and I was happy.
I'm sure you guys were too, But I just feel
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like they're in the middle of something bigger right now.
And even though that was a nice thing and it
was a great Milestoney hit, I would bet that they're
a little more focused on, you know, finishing this regular season.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Yeah, you know, it's a good one. I mean it's not,
it's a great one. You think about the way these
two teams play and obviously produced struggling having lost four
in a row. They have been able to figure it
out without a big man in the middle since they
lost their freshmen in that that week two. But just
kind of these two teams done to me look like
two teams that can absolutely win the Big Ten. And
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whether or not it's important as someone who's played it
and toward the end of the year when you're in conference,
kind of do these games take on more meeting when
when you think about, hey, I'm probably gonna see this
team again in about two weeks.
Speaker 10 (18:58):
Well, it's the there's a lot of prongs too. And
what I like and what we've been talking about a
lot now with the big with the Big Ten Tournament
and finishing this regular season is there's a race at
the top, there's a race in the middle, and there's
a race at the bottom now because three teams don't
make the Big Ten Tournament. So some of these games
that normally if everyone was making the Big Ten Tournament,
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like Rutgers at Washington last week, I had nobody, we wouldn't.
I don't know what we would have talked about in
that game. But there's a race to stay out of
the bottom three. And I think finishing the regular season
for UCLA and Purdue. I said it earlier that top
four is a big deal. You only have to win
three games to win the Big Ten Tournament if you
get in the top four, and so if you don't,
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you in your five through nine. Now you got to
win four games to win the Big Ten Tournament. We
know how hard that is. So I think perdue. I
don't know what's happened with Purdue because I had them
earlier in the season twice and they look like they
were they were the team to beat. And you know,
Braden Smith, you know, is arguably the best player in
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that league. Terrey Kaufman Renz having a really good year
stepping in for Edie. I'd be curious to know and
talking to Matt just what has gone wrong and how
they've lost four in a row. But I will say this,
the Big Ten, you know, I didn't It's not that
I didn't know anything about it, but being involved in
it now and seeing it every night, just how competitive
it is and how hard it is to win on
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the road, and so, you know, with no clear cut
favorite in the conference, I just think it's that everybody's
pretty good and they're beating up on each other.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
The one and only.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Don McClain, speaking of not knowing who's the best at UCLA,
who takes the last shot, who's emerged as a leader
on this team? I remember heine Hawk as kind of emerging,
you know, during his career at UCLA. Is daily that guy?
I mean, is there somebody that's on that team that
if you think UCLA is going to make a run
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and the matchups work for them in the Big Ten
and then the NCAA tournament, who do you think that
guy would be on the team?
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Don?
Speaker 10 (20:57):
That's a great question, Pete, and I think and look
early on like Billideo, you know, they were playing through
him a lot, and they've kind of gotten away from
that a little bit. They're not posting and mid posting
him as much as they were. You know, they've given
the ball to Mac at the end of games in
tight games here Late Minnesota knew they were giving it
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to Mac and the guy stepped in and took a
charge on him. So I don't know. The reason I
said that's a great question, Pee, is that I think
it's important, Like where do you go or do you
just have a bunch of different options to keep the
defense guessing? But sure, it sure seems like the really
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really good teams by this time of the year. No, okay,
it's a tie game with ten seconds left, here's who
we're going to. And I've done enough of UCLA's games.
The fact that I don't know the answer to that,
I'm not saying as a problem, but it would be
better if they did know the answer.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
To that.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Last one down on college before we shift to the
Lakers and Clippers. I was talking to someone on Sunday
about this. I was out doing the Indiana Purdue game
and watching Trey Galloway have that game. He's a grad student,
he's making some nil money. I heard kind of what
the numbers being thrown around for Braden Smith next year.
It might be coming in for him, Like is there
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like there's this portion of the nil thing that's pretty
great that these guys are all still staying in school,
because it's if people I didn't just think of the NBA,
but person I was talking to, like, yeah, this guy
could be making a million bucks overseas right now, you
know if it's not like if that's he could leave
as a junior or a sophomore, go overseas and start
making big cash. But they're staying now. So I think
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it's kind of the watching that game with those older guys,
like you said, Braden being the best player in the
Big Ten and Trey Galloway in this fifth year, like
at least that's kind of one of the good things
about this, right is that these guys are staying longer,
and it makes college basketball maybe a little bit more interesting.
Speaker 10 (22:54):
Some of these guys would take a pay cut to
go overseas. Matt, Like, I had a meeting today with
a dad of a player at a mid major who's
having a really really good year. He's going to make
at least seven figures going to a high major next
year at least, And so yeah, it's that the issue becomes, well,
what's going to change next year is the COVID year's
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done now, so you're not going to see the six
year guys anymore. It's going to be the fifth year
grad guys. But I think what it's done is has
changed how recruiting works. Freshmen, and I know this firsthand.
Freshmen aren't arnes what's the word arnes desirable right now?
Because the portal is way more important than high school recruiting.
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But the thing I don't like, and I don't know
if I said this on the show or somewhere else,
what I don't like is that good coaches could lose
their jobs, not because they're good coaches, but because they
don't have the NIL resources. And I think that we're
going to start to really see that the haves and
have nots in terms of NIL. This guy can really coach,
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but he's not winning because his school can't provide the resources.
Now that ruling in April may change everything. The twenty
two million per school or whatever that thing is right,
but for now it's just you're you're paying this money
and like, But there is examples on the other side,
like Washington paid the kid Osibor allegedly two million, and
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they're the last team in the Big in the Big Ten.
So I guess what I'm getting at is, yes, I
guess it's great that some of these veteran players are
staying and they're getting paid, But how does that change
the culture of your program? Like Matt Paynter, and that's
a great example, Brayden Smith, Matt Painter doesn't do the
transfer portal. He recruits high school guys, he develops him.
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I think he's had two transfers in the last five
years or something like that. Players don't transfer in, players
don't transfer out. Now, you may cycle a little bit
and have a down year or not as good year,
but at least you have a culture that you buy in,
buy into and stay and develop and produe wins games.
So it's hard to wrap your head around how to
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do it, but I think the way Painter and a
few other coaches do it is the way. Instead of
seven eight to nine new players every year, we got
to figure out how we're going to get enough money
to get really good seven eight or nine players. That's
the hard part.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Hundreds of ways to cook a chicken. The great Don
McClain as our guest. We're always proud to have him.
It feels like the Lakers have found something right now
with Luca and Lebron. How sustainable does it look to you?
And do you think that they'll continue and really be
a contender with this group that they have.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
Well, I didn't realize there are only two games out
in the lost column of second place right now. They're
in fifth place in the West, but only two games
in the lost column behind I think Memphis. So the
question is, are you still in the euphoria stage of
the Luca trade and that's kind of carrying you and
carrying the crowd and carrying everything that everybody's just so
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ecstatic and happy that Luke is here, or is it
really working already? I think it's too soon, and I
think that once you get to the playoffs it becomes different.
But the good news is the Lakers have some time
before the playoffs to keep implementing him and tweaking and
playing with how they're going to not only do the minutes,
but how Lebron and Luca are going to play together.
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But it's certainly working for now, and I just think
it's going to be interesting what this Laker team looks
like and what they've done once we get to April.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Down the big kind of push from the talking heads
on the Lakers is all about the defense, that this
is the number one defense defensive efficiency ranked team since
January first, and JJ Reddick has kind of got them
playing and he is figuring things out and how to
maximize that. Do you think because you look at the
and look at they played Denver on Saturday a little
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under a week ago and it was exceptional. But then
you look at kind of the rest of the schedule
and they're about to get into a real top stretch.
We'll see if that holds. But have you noticed some
like does this look like the number one defensive team
in the NBA? Like they have the pieces to be
able to do that.
Speaker 10 (27:14):
I don't think it's out of the question. Again, I
think once you get to the playoffs in seven game series,
things change because you can manipulate, you can attack, you
can attack certain matchups, which you know what I'm talking about.
That they're going to go right at Luca like everybody does.
And so does that become an issue or not? Last
year for Dallas it was in the finals. So but
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I have been saying and I think I'm right, and
you know he's back, But Vanderbilt is a big deal
for the Lakers. He is because of his ability to
guard multiple positions. He's long, he's athletic, he affects the
game defensively, So him being back, I think is a
major factor for them. Look, JJ's done a good job
because whether you believe they're the best team, best defensive
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team in the league since January won or not, at
least you're having that conversation right now if they are
or not, And so he deserves credit for that. I
just I want to see it once it gets to
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
The you know, just build on that if you don't mind, Doc,
because you were one of the you know, when a
lot of us were taking shots at JJ because we
didn't necessarily like his online personality and stuff. You were
complimentary of that, you knew his work ethic, You had
a feeling of what this might look like. So what like,
what is he doing to put him in Because he's
in the conversation as well, they're not just talking about
Luca and Lebron and Austin Reeves. JJ's name is coming
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up a lot now as someone that's doing a heck
of a job coaching this team.
Speaker 10 (28:37):
Look, Matt in simple terms, the job of an NBA coach,
any NBA coach, is to get your guys to play hard,
and get them to play together, and get them to defend.
If you can do those three things, no matter what
your personnel is, you're probably going to win some games.
And I think JJ, you know, being a first time
head coach, probably had to figure some things out early,
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had to gain the trust of the players and the
and I think the players are trusting him now that
he knows what he's doing and that he's capable of
leading this team to where they.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Want to go.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
And you know that's hard to get, especially as a
first year head coach. You know, Greg Popovich, pat Riley,
those guys get trust the second they walk in the building.
And so I think JJ took a little bit of time.
But look, the proof is in the pudding. If they finish,
you know, in the top three or four in the
West and go deep into the playoffs, it's it's kind
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of the same team except for now Luca being in
there as it was before, and now they're winnings. Before
they weren't. So he's got to deserve some of the credit.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
At least some The great Don mcclainy gets all the
credit on the Petrosen Money Show. Nobody better have a
great weekend, Don, and we will talk to you soon.
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (29:49):
Okay, guys, see it.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Don McClain prophetic and wonderful as always. Patrick Somebody show
continues on this Crunchy group Thursday. We'll wrap it up
with your dad and a live guy burtdwn of the
Day and then give it over to David Vassa, who's
got a stacked Dodger Talk. Tonight we're you're Home of
the Dodgers AMFI seventy LA Sports. All right, that is
(30:20):
it for us. Dodger Talk coming up next. David Vassa
has Keike, Hernandez and prior on the show, so enjoy that.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
You don't want to miss that.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Going all the way till eight o'clock live from campmel
Back Ranch. And the next spring training game here on
AM five seventy is Saturday versus the Colorado Rockies. Just
like today, first pitch at twelveh five, and tomorrow we're
only on for three hours because of a big basketball
badouche going on here in LA.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Everybody knows when there's a badouche, you're gonna want to
make sure to remember a ointment listening of a Douche
between the Luka, Doncic, James Harden Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
If you leave out some food, Steffouche might show up.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
To three Dogs Clippers at Lakers. So it's a seven
pm tip a six pm prex three to six show.
But yes, the big clip Lakers showdown first time. Donciic
is a Laker against the Clippers. And as you mentioned,
also play by play as we double up on AM
eleven to fifty U CLA g and a tip off
on our sister station, AM eleven fifty at five pm
(31:31):
against Purdue.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
A guy that built the board in there. Jesus all right,
let me tell you say your dead doctor. Birthday of
the day. Matt is a guy named Erwin Shaw. He
would have been one hundred and twelve years old today.
Author and playwright, screenwrider. Born in the Bronx Erwin sham
(31:54):
Froff what is his real name? Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine,
went to Brooklyn College, home in the mid card Jobbers
because of the Brooklyn Brawler actually the Bulldogs. Started his
career writing screenplays and stuff like that. At the age
of twenty one, in nineteen thirty five and thirty nine,
(32:14):
he married an actress, daughter of a silent film star.
He worked in film for the army during World War Two,
wrote some war stuff. He wrote in radio Dick Tracy.
Speaker 5 (32:32):
That's a big one.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I mean, we think it's so cool to have an
Apple Watch, but Dick Tracy had it so long ago,
talking watch, Shut me out. I'm on my way.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
His first novel was his most impactful, Matt nineteen forty eight's.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
The Young Lions.
Speaker 6 (32:50):
And no, this is not a song or excuse me,
a movie or a book about Bobby Miller's tattoo. It
was based on his experiences during the war in fifty eight.
Ten years later, the movie The Young Lions came out
(33:11):
and it was a huge success, starring Marlon Brando, Dean Martin,
and Montgomery Cliff.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
It did well. He did not like it.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Congratulations on this film doing well. I don't like it.
I do not like it.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
He wanted it to show the good and evil of
everybody involved, kind of like the book did. But here's
a scene from the movie where Dean Martin's in a
New York Manhattan apartment Albougie talking to his check saying basically,
he doesn't want to get shot.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
He doesn't want to go to war.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Yes, Margaret, I hear you're being drafted. I'm not being drafted,
mister Ackerman says you are. Mister Ackerman doesn't know what
rabbits can be pulled out of a hat in Washington.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Whooh, Okay, I'm not a hero and I'm not a pigeon.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
The pigeons can do.
Speaker 10 (33:58):
My fighting for me.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Oh, Michael, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 8 (34:02):
I think I hate you with something you're trying to
get out of it.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
I don't, really, I don't.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
Anything you do is okay with me, but you start
to feel guilty about it, and then we start having
fights and you take it out on me.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I don't feel guilty.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
It's just that I'm against warn this whole drummed up,
super patriotic atmosphere.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
You just don't want to get shot.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
Nobody wants to get shot, so you stop trying to
convince yourself.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Forget it.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
I got a six show on my hands, that is
The Young Lions.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
His second novel, The Troubled Air, was about McCarthyism and
the Red Scare in its rise, and yet you guessed
it Matt. That got him blacklisted as a communist, and
he moved to Europe for twenty five years twenty five
years Paris and Switzerland, and he successfully wrote there. He
wrote rich Man poor Man, not rich Dad poor one,
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like or any other rich relative that we may or.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
May not know of, Oh, rich uncles.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
He also wrote.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
The sequel to rich Man, poor Man, beggar Man Thief,
and that became a big ABC minise.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
The Other side of the Coin.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
His last book, slash movie Top of the Hill, was
about Lake Placid TV movie starring Sonny Bono. He wrote
stories for all the big mags, Matt, Playboy, Esquire. Irwin
Shaw died in Switzerland as an expatriot in nineteen eighty
(35:49):
four at the age of seventy one.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Remarried his acts right before. Oh wonderful, what a beautiful,
well beautiful in Switzerland. Yeah, I'm sure it was very pestle.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Oh yeah, you had HBO, you had Cinemax, you had
the movie channel. It is truly one of my earliest
memories of a film that really hit me pretty freaking heavy.
Baldwin plays the bodyguard of Little Cliffy act out there
getting punked by Matt Dylon Baldwin, not Alec Baldwin. No,
Adam Owen is our a live guy. Birthday of the Day,
(36:22):
Adam Baldwen, you'll remember when we get to the clip here. Yes,
Matt Dylan is the bully. So our man Cliffy asks
Linderman played by Baldwin, the biggest kid in school, one
who's got a lot of mystery around him to be
his bodyguard. They form a friendship. It's super heavy, it's
really great, and it was Baldwin's first ever film role
(36:43):
because he was a local kid born in Winnetka Neutrier
High School, just outside of Chicago. My Bodyguard took place
in the city. So Baldwin had the right look, the
right accent, and he was cast and he was really good.
He was seventeen when he did it. After that in
high demand, he got ordinary people.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
And then and right after that, pe he gets d C.
Cabb as you hear in the background with our our
Pbo Bryson playing the old d C.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
Cab theme.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
There huge fan of first name mister, we love people,
middle name period, last name Ta. And then Kubrick tabbed
him as Animal Mother, one of the greatest characters in
a non film. Ever, let's get that Animal Mother case.
Speaker 9 (37:25):
You're a photographer.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
No, I'm a combat correspondent. Oh you've seen much combat.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
I've seen a little on TV.
Speaker 9 (37:45):
You're a real comedian.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Well, they call me the joker.
Speaker 9 (37:53):
Well, I got a joke for you. I'm gonna tear
you a new well Pilgrim, only.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
After heath the peanuts out of my.
Speaker 9 (38:14):
You talk the talk?
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Do you walk the walk?
Speaker 4 (38:25):
You might not believe it, but under fire Animal Mother
is one of the finest human beings in the world.
All he needed somebody to throw hand grenades at him
the rest of his life.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Animal Mother was also star in another cable classic, Next
of Kin, Liam Neeson, Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Swayze, Stiller
and our Man Baldwin. Is that piece of crab Joey
Rosaline awesome final scene. I do believe it was on
almost every Worst of the Year list.
Speaker 10 (38:58):
But Hey.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Got into sci fi Jane Cobb and Firefly, and that
led to him probably showing up a comic con every
single year to sign autographs.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Was in X Files, Stargate SG one, all that.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Oh, I'll starget SG one. Man, you can't just fly
on that, I know right.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Last year was in an episode of Swat and nine
one one ome. He lives in Texas. He does a
lot of vos for video games these days. Married, three kids,
animal mother, Linderman, Adam Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Matt, you could pull a character actor out of your colo,
like there's no tomorrow, oh my god.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
But no relationship to no relationship to Alec or Billy
or any of those Baldwines.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Not one of those Baldwins. A New Trier High School, Winnetka, Illinois,
now in Texas.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Baldwin, Well, we'll be.
Speaker 6 (39:54):
Back on tomorrow for a three hour show before the
big Laker Clippers shutout. We hope you're having a great week.
We hope you remain safe. Don't forget Vassa has got Prior,
Mota and Hernandez.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
It's just stuck show tonight, tald your talk, Good night everybody.
We'll be back on to month. We're telling me back
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