April 15, 2024 • 38 mins
Doug lays out what the NBA Post-season looks like as the NBA regular season has come to an end, and he asks an important question about the Lakers and whether or not they should lose their first play-in game on purpose. Doug and Dan Beyer give their biggest takeaways from The Masters. Doug welcomes FSR NBA Insider Ric Bucher onto the show to talk about the NBA's final weekend of their regular season and how the play-in games stack up. Plus, Dan takes Doug through a game of "Big Deal, Little Deal or No Deal?".
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the masters. And we'll talk about this a little bit
more later. But isn't there a way in which tonight's
the WNBA draft and rightfully we're going to make a
huge thing over Caitlin Clark into the w NBA. But uh,
don't we very much run the risk of you know,
like Tiger finished dead last yesterday, of the of the
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guys that made the cut, and you know, it's hard
to see a path to him winning a major, especially
with at as at elite afield as you'll see at
the Masters, no matter how well he knows and has
played that course. But what's left is scottis Shuffler is
(01:30):
an amazing golfer, like an amazing, unflappable golfer, And yet
most mainstream were like, eh not, Tiger don't care and
it reflects as much in the ratings, And I think
that's what's gonna happen in college women's college basketball. Did
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did golf grow because of Tiger, Yes, but it didn't
grow to a sustainable It was unsustainable the popularity there
for a while, and it does not feel like there's
any sort of next wave of that anytime in the future.
Let's get to the NBA, though, because it was a
(02:11):
wild weekend. Friday Night gave us some results that made
Sunday seem like can't miss TV, and the Pelicans went
from the sixth seed to the seventh seed. Now playing
the playing game. And oh yeah, by the way, the
team that play in the playing game was the team
that just smoked him yesterday in the Lakers. The Lakers
have this interesting kind of conundrum, right, if they win, Say, so,
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here's how it works for the playing game. If you're
the seven or the eighth seed. If you win that
first game, you don't have to play a second game.
You win, you're in. Whereas the Kings and Warriors, they
have to win two in order to get in two.
So the Lakers lose and they still get another opportunity,
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and that if they win, the congratulations, you get the
Denver Nuggets. And because the Oaklahoma City Thunder, how they
you know, because of how it all went down, they
end up getting the one seed, So the Nuggets get
the two seed, so the seventh seed, the seventh seed
gets the Nuggets. But if they lose and then they win,
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they get the one seed, which is the Thunder. And
everyone knows they match up better with the Thunder. Plus
the Thunder young haven't done the playoffs, and the Lakers
are team built, and we're on their size. The size
and physicality will likely affect the Thunder more in the
playoffs than it does the Nuggets, who are a bigger
team anyway. They start six ten, six ten seven foot
across the front line. So what do you do, right
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if you're this and this does come down to what
type of person you are. If you're risk averse, you're like,
let's go out beat the Pelicans again, get to the playoffs.
We'll worry about the Nuggets when we're in it. But
if you don't, it's crazy. You have a very likely
better chance of advancing out of the first round and
who knows how far else because you don't know right now.
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We believe the Nuggets will be at full strength for
Game one and have Jamal Murray back, but as games
get played, then there's the opportunity for them to get injuries,
You to get injuries. Anything can happen. So it is
different to play than Nuggets in the in the conference
finals than it is to play the Nuggets in the
first because you might not play the Nuggets in the
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conference finals, but you might not get to the playoffs
if you lose the first game. That's a hard one.
That does come down to are you are risking. If
you're a risk adverse person, you just go for it,
go all in and win Tuesday night. If you're not,
you roll the dice and look, there is some of this,
Some of this is not really up to your discretion.
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Some of it is to the Pelicans decide, hey, we
don't want to win or we want to go get
this thing. I think normally I would do everything in
my power to avoid the Nuggets in this scenario because
you have an older team, you want to play less games.
I win that first game, make sure that I'm in.
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Make sure I'm in, Jay Stu, what would you do?
You're in this situation of the LA Lakers. If they lose,
they can play and play for a chance to play
the one seed as the eighth seed and take on
the oaklham Sea Thunder. If they win, they just get
the Denver Nuggets who dominated them last year. And common
conception is the dominat begin this year. What do you do?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I'm going to pull you, Doug, and I'm gonna I'm
going to say a coiner phrase and I don't know
where it came from, and I frankly don't even know
what it means, but I'm going to just say it.
Maybe it applies. I never devil into the I never
whisper into the devil's ear. You know what that means?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I think I do. I think it means, Okay, I
think it means why would I take the risk of losing,
of not making the playoffs because I want to avoid
somebody who's in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, saying something out loud or overtly trying to do
something to try to gain a result, I think is
just a dangerous way to do it in sports and
in life.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Okay, what about you? What about you there? Sam? What
would you do? Oh? And Dan Byer you too?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Sam? You're gonna go ahead and you want me to
take this all right, it's gonna allow me to pass
the hot potato. I just play it out as it
is to If that's Jason's point, Listen, there's a lot
of things that have to go right for the Lakers
to be able to make a run. And if you
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start trying to set it up in a way where like, okay,
we win here, we'd lose here. It's just it's not
going to work out. Take your medicine, try to win
the game. If you got Denvert, you got Denver. But
I would I would not try to try to game
any system for what you feel would be a quote
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unquote better matchup.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Sam, where are you on it?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
What Dan said?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So everybody's in the going for a thing, right, go
for it? Go win the game. I think the problem
is you fear the Warriors and the Kings as much
as you fear the Pelicans, because if you want to
get out of the playoff, you want to get out
of the first round of playoffs. The Nuggets are not
the path. So it is a little bit of damned
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if you do, damn if you don't. But I definitely
try and win that game knowing that the second game
would not be just if the second game was it
was a cinch. If it was the Hawks without Trey Young,
then yeah, absolutely. But those those other those two teams
are good and they present a very different matchup. They're
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better than the Warriors, but the Warriors are still the Warriors.
And you know what would the league do? Like, imagine
if you have Lebron and Steph facing off, the loser
goes home, like the league? If the league, you're like,
is the way we can create more playoff spots. I
think it's smart to whisper in the devil's ear. I
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just think in the context of this particular one, because
the Lakers are older, they need less games. You know,
I don't think they have a particular I do think
they have a shot again, Oklahoma City. But man, is
that risky and they may end up there's a chance
that Pelicans win that game anyway, and then if they win,
you can just play it off and go like, Noah,
we weren't trying. We were waiting for the next game.
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Speaker 2 (08:54):
One of Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. Rick Buker
in a couple minutes, so The Masters was this weekend? Okay, buyer,
please don't be alarmed at our answers. And I bring
it up because Dan is he's more than an avid
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golfan like he is. He loves this stuff and follows it.
Plus he has a Sunday show too, so I know
he's watching on Sunday. Jay s dou how much did
you watch of the Masters?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Exactly zero. I followed The Masters on Twitter, so it
was like after it happened. I think the handshake by
Tiger and vern one Quist was made into an amusing
meme because you couldn't see vern behind the tree, so
Tiger was shaking the hands of the tree. Yes, And
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the most comical meme of the weekend was some kind
of a reference to the tree that he hit with
his car, which is dark humor.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But I loved it was Well, nobody was killed. Tiger
was hurt pretty badly, but nobody's killed, right, So I
like that. That's it's acceptable. Dark humor, acceptable, dark humor. Okay, Iowa, Sam,
how many minutes of The Masters did you watch?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Probably about ten to fifteen minutes via highlights?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
So you didn't watch any of the Masters not live? No, Okay,
you see what he tried to do there, Guys, you
saw that, right.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I mean I saw footage of it, So it's not
like I you know that.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That again, just so you know, Sam, that is like
if you have a layover in Salt Lake City, you
can't say I went to Utah.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah no, no, right, no I didn't. I didn't watch
it live.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Go to Dallas over the weekend?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Really, what you do?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I had a layover in Dallas and I was on
my way.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
To you know.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
That's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It's the same thing, totally fair by your most memorable
part of the Masters, the twenty twenty four Masters.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
As what Scottie Chef's shot on nine, second shot on nine.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That really kind of made it. Then it was like, oh,
Scotti Scheffler's winning this thing. I was watching it on
my phone and all of a sudden, all my friends
who are avid golfers were texting me like, all right, boys,
what are we doing the rest of the afternoon? Because
it felt like that was right around nine, ten eleven,
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That's when it became all right, this thing's over. In
comparison to the other Masters years and other Master's moments,
will Scotty Scheffler stand up the test of time?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Dan Byer, I don't think that his story is finished.
I don't think that he will be done after two
Masters victories. I think he could win another. I think
he could possibly win two. I don't think this one
will stand the test of time.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, ye.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Did.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Look the juxtaposition of Scotti Schffler, who is dominating, and
Tiger Woods, who is struggling, And yet the attention and
the energy we spend to Tiger. Some of it, obviously,
this is greatness, but a lot of it is you
know that we're just trying to, you know, just trying
to figure out who we can next turn our attention to,
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and do we even take the Tiger Woods thing seriously anymore?
But it is go ahead, I.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Know, I because I've got I got a lot to
say about what happened with Scheffler and what happens with
the Masters. But I also think there's a whole separate
Tiger conversation, So we could go down the Tiger conversation,
if you will. What I thought happened with Tiger was
what Tiger had at stake this past week was breaking
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Fred Couples and Gary players consecutive cuts made streak at
Augusta National. At the Masters, they all were tied with
twenty three straight cuts. Tiger is like a lot of
the field were affected by the weather on Thursday, but
Tiger had to come back and play five early holes
on Friday morning when we were in for Dan Patrick.
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Tiger was on the course at that time, then had
about an hour turnaround and had to go and play
eighteen holes, which he made the cut comfortably, very comfortably.
But what I think happened Doug was the main goal
for Tiger this week. Who again he's teed it up
once in twenty twenty four. That was at the Genesis
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where he had to withdraw because he was ill. I
think Tiger put everything he had into making the cut
and making sure that he was there for the weekend
and having the additional five holes. I don't think was
ideal with him, but I don't think that's like the
ultimate game breaker, game changer. I think his ultimate goal
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was to make the weekend, to have the record by himself,
because we're not going to remember him shooting in the eighties.
What we're going to remember is that now Tiger Woods
holds the Augusta record for most consecutive cuts made at
twenty four. And I think he put everything that he
had into it to make sure that he played the weekend,
and then because of his lack of reps and where
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he is, he didn't have anything to show for it
when you played on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, it's a great It's a great, great way looking
at it. I think again, I think that as a
super in depth and interesting way of looking at that
you and I are interested in. I think the Jason
Stewarts of the world, and Jason, if I'm speaking out
a turn, you let me. Know, it's like I used
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to be in a Tiger. Now there's just a bunch
of guys. And then every time I hear that a
guy is going to be the next guy, he's not
the next guy. You know. That is so I'm not
really that super into golf. I was super into Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I'll tell you this much. I typically watch Sundays. I
typically watch a good portion of the leaders on Sunday,
and once Tiger had that Saturday, it took away my
interest in watching on Sunday. And I think I'm not
alone on that one.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
As far as the Casualhi, No, I think that, I
think I think you're You're completely not alone. I think
that you nailed the issue. And it's not to say
that like Cheffler's been awesome and and this is I
mean baseball has the same thing as well. Obviously basketball
has it, but I mean, how many players out there
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are incredible young players in the NBA, but like we're
still paying attention to Steph and and to Lebron, you know,
and they're still playing, but if they're easily like watch
what happens with the NBA's ratings when one of those
two gets eliminated in the play, and like it's going
to be different.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
You know, I I know, like if we talk about
it as a whole, and I'll just say, I'll say
this about The Masters. We all have a favorite TV show,
right right, we all Doug Seinfeld. I think the Cheers,
you know.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Pure Cheers, actually mine cheers than Seinfeld. But you're you're,
you're on it.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
What's you?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
What's yours?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
King of Queens, it's probably my all time favorite. And
there are some episodes of King of Queens that I
absolutely love, and there are some that I'm like, all right, Okay,
I don't need to watch this one again. And I
would feel that it's the same thing with with Cheers.
Every episode is not going to be the magnificent, drop
dead funny one. Some are better than others, and I
think that I think that that is that is the
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case with this Masters. It just is one of those that,
all right, maybe it's not as good as it was
in ninety seven or or in other great years. It
will fall into the to the role of that. I
do think that there are bigger problems. But it's not
just with Tiger Woods. It has to do with live
It has to do with Scotty Scheffler's personality. It's got
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to do with a lot of it, and it's it's
funny on how like we've gotten to this point because
I think there's been live is not a paper cut.
But if you want to take the splitting of live golf,
even just away from this, I think there have been
other paper cuts along the way that have ended up
hurting the sport and not allowing us to be as
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involved as maybe we once would be if Tiger Woods wasn't.
I mean Jordan Speith and Justin Thomas. Justin Thomas was
like seven over par in his final four holes to
miss the cut. Speith was all over the place, he
didn't make the cut. They're not like cashing in on
their ability to capitalize on their stardom. The rival the
Scotti Scheffler is in live golf. The guy that gave
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him the green jacket yesterday, Rory was mediocre over the weekend. Like,
there's a lot to go with to go with it
as well. I would even say this if you remember
back when Phil won the PGA Championship at Kiowa, and
this was in twenty twenty one, This was before the
whole live thing happened, and we've touched a little bit
about this on Friday, but you know what else was
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going on aside from Michelson winning the Masters when he
was fifty, brooks Kepka was a badass. Brooks Kepka couldn't
stand Bryce and de Shambo because bryceon de Shamba was
trying to be the hulk okay and trying to do everything.
All of those stories were actually interesting. We were watching
bay Hill because Deshambo was trying to drive the par
five sixth hole, cutting over ninety percent of a lake
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like that was interesting. He's not into that anymore. There's
no rivalry between him and brooks Kopka, and if there was,
we wouldn't know about it because it's at Live like
there are all these things that could have gained interest.
John Rahm may not move the needle for everybody, but
if he was a rival to Scotti Scheffler and he
had the two the world's best going at it, I
think that would be very, very compelling. And instead you
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had Scotty Scheffler, who's hohum, Ludwig Oldberg who's playing in
his first Masters and as a you know what, twenty
one to twenty two year old Swede Colin Morikawa doesn't
oose flashiness. It's a lot of this stuff that is
added up and played in because I thought a lot
about it, because I I saw I did this weekend
is you know, watch all of this. But I think
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a lot of that stuff is what plays into it
if live, and I think live is huge because if
Live doesn't come along, we're still like familiar with these guys,
and cam Smith and Bryson de Shamble, we're on the
leader board. We probably didn't care as much because kind
of forgotten about them, and Bryson isn't the bad boy
that he was three years ago, and there isn't the
rivalry with Brooks. There's so a lot of that stuff
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has kind of fallen by the wayside, and golf's never
going to be the same, and it hasn't had a
lot of momentum, and I think people were hoping that
the Masters was going to save that and try to
bring that back, and I'm not sure if it did.
This past weekend, I.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Didn't think it brought it back. I agree with you
on rivalries. I honestly agree with you on it's not
just rivalries. It's like the the infighting within the family.
As much as it's a bad look, you know, maybe
throughout year it would be a good look at the
end of these tournaments if we had live versus PGA
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and they would embrace that. But the nice plane Jane, guys,
it's really hard sure.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Can I tell you the one problem with the rivalry
of the live versus the PGA Tour is that the
live players because we don't care and I don't think
that there's enough like there. It's just it's different of
being on that tour. If they were all on the
PGA Tour and battling week in and week out, then
we've got something. But here they go away for three
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or four weeks, then they show up again. Then they're
all together, and they go away for three or four
weeks and they show up at the US Open. There's
just no way to get momentum, there's no way to
carry anything over. It's just it it's really fractured the game.
But there were other issues with it as well, and
I just yeah, it's it's it's really too bad. I mean,
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as a golf fan, as much as it pains mean
to have people comment on the masters who don't comment
the other three hundred and sixty four days of the year.
I also don't like to hear people being like, yeah,
I didn't watch, I didn't care, you know, like that
actually stinks. That's not good. I think there's a lot
of reasons for it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I would say the difference for me is I watched,
but I was I was. I wasn't to the level
of Jason Stewart where I was completely turned off when
Tiger didn't win. But it was not it was no
longer appointment sitting down on my cach viewing. It was
on my phone while doing some other things, while having
a nice other day that I happened to watch it,
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and I saw the turn of events in the middle
of you know, right at the turn, and I was like, yep,
gonna be Scotty Scheffler. And then I just started kind
of indulging a little bit on Scotty Scheffler info and
why he's been so good and where it turned his
career and all that all that other stuff. It's the
Dog Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. So pleased
to be joining Eric Buker, Foxsports dot Com and Fox
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Sports One, and of course only is now on Fox
Sports Radio. Uh buke, it was a wild and kind
of confusing last weekend between the Friday games and the
Sunday games. Put together for me, what happened this weekend, Well.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
We had a little bit of jockeying, I believe certainly
the Cleveland Cavaliers looked like they did that. And then
we've just had some questions raised about exactly who is what,
starting with the Golden State Warriors and home loss to
the New Orleans Pelicans that they clearly very much hoped
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to win to avoid having to now win what two
road playoff games in order to h to make the playoffs. So, uh,
it's what. It's why I love the play in to
be honest with you, because I think it's one it's
done a great job of curbing tanking, and two it's
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I mean, we'd be looking at the prospect of what
the Warriors and the Lakers and the Sixers and the
Heat all already having been eliminated, and so now we
have this intrigue of young teams that showed what they're
capable of in the regular season, but we're still waiting
to see exactly, you know, can they take the next
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step in the postseason, and we have some veteran teams
that are now in position to still test that and
see if they have one more run in them. So,
you know, the short answer is like, there were a
few things that were settled over the weekend, but there
was there's more that's still yet to be to be
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settled in the next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You know what, It's so okay, Will the Lakers lose
in the first playing game to avoid the Nuggets.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
I have a hard time leaving that they would do
that for a couple of reasons. One, they're they're the
early game, so they don't know whom they would be
playing in the second game, and they got what. They
went zero to four against the Sacramento Kings during the
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regular season and lost by an average of eleven points. Now,
I know the playoffs are different, but the fact of
the matter is they have not looked like they're capable
of competing with the Kings, getting up and down and
playing their style. And I would still think that that
would give you second thoughts about dropping a game against
the New Orleans Pelicans, and even against the World the Warriors,
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they lost, I'm correct, they lost three or four, So
I just think it's a dangerous, dangerous proposition. I understand
the idea that you're going to you haven't had a
whole lot of success against Denver, and you would be
avoiding them, But it's not as if the Lakers have
been some unbelievable juggernaut and injury was just the only
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thing that kept them from being, you know, a fifty
five win team or whatever. I just you're gonna have
to face if you if you think of yourself as
having a chance at winning a championship, you're going to
have to face Denver Nuggets at some point. And it's
not I mean, I just I do not believe in
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this idea that let's find a road where we can
avoid them for as long as possible and extend our playoffs,
when you're in no way guaranteed that that's actually going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
All Right, Phoenix comes from the play in to swoop
in and grab that six spot. How do they match
up with Minnesota?
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Ah? What interesting interesting matchup because obviously Minnesota has the
size that I don't know how Phoenix is going to
handle that. But in talking to execs and scout out
upset potential after the Milwaukee Buck. The feeling was the
Minnesota Timberwolves, where uh the next likeliest top team among
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the top three in either conference that was susceptible to
to getting upset. So I that's a tough one, I
would be. I'm I'm thinking of the Phoenix Sun are
are on a little bit of a role here and
are going to uh that their their experience, uh and
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their firepower is going to win out. But they're going
up against the number one defense in the league for
a reason. And my my question is this Minnesota, Like
I'm not a believer that Anthony Edwards is the anointed
star that everybody is making him out to be. I
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think he's got a great, great talent, but he hasn't
demonstrated to me that he's ready to be the go
to player on a team that goes to the next
level in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, no, I hear you. Dallas and the Clippers. Wow.
I mean, I don't know anybody's playing better than Dallas,
but there have been times when the Clippers look like
the best team league and one of them is going
to be home after the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Yeah, yeah, I'm I am. I got off the Clippers
train at the beginning of the season, and there's nothing
that has happened during the course of this year that
conced has convinced me to get back on it, because
they'll question of Kawhi Leonard and his health. But I
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just when things go a little sideways, who are you
relying on to steady the shift? Certainly not Paul George.
I just I've been just appalled at how talented he is.
And yet you see in need situations they'll turn over
the ball not once but twice, forcing things that aren't there,
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and that's been just a regular occurrence. No, there's been
no evolution there, and so and I can't. I don't
know what I'm gonna get from James Harden on night
to night. I just I don't. It's the same reason
that I have questions about the Boston Celtics, for as
great as their regular season record is, It's like, who's
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the leader, Who's the guy, who's the who's the player,
Who's the person who studies the ship, who says this
is you know, let's go, this is what we have
to do in this particular situation in order to get
through it. I don't see that player. I mean, I
would say, you like, who's the leader of the Los
(28:46):
Angeles Clippers, who's the leader of the Boston Celtics. I
don't really know who that is. I know who people
say it is, but I don't know who it is.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, I know it's It's an incredible question. Incredible question. Okay,
So who's who's actually? Uh? Uh? Who do you think
gives the Nuggets the toughest time.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
I actually think that the Phoenix Suns have the capability
of giving them the toughest time because of the matchup
with uh with nurk and And and Jokic, he's the
one He's the one body, the one guy who has
the familiarity with him and I think we've seen this
in a couple of matchups during the regular season that
(29:31):
can at least make him work a little bit. What
I've really liked about Jokic and and one of the
reasons why he's going to be at the top of
my MVP ballot ballot for the first time ever this year,
is because I've seen him impose his will. I've seen
him bully people, I've seen one of one of the
you know, one of the classic plays they have is
(29:53):
is he just pounds his way to the middle of
the paint, draws that second defender, and then he's just
thrown up a lot for for Aaron Gordon to finish.
I didn't always see him do that consistently in the past,
and I always thought it was there for him to
do it, and I thought that would just wilt opposing teams.
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Not only that, but just take it out of front
lines of the opposition. Nurk is the one guy who
is able to deal with that at least a little bit.
And then obviously you have all that all that scoring
on the perimeter. I still think that they, you know,
they need a It'd be better if they had a
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true point guard somewhere on that roster. But just in
terms of matchups, the Phoenix Suns can present some wrinkles
that forced the Denver Nuggets to make adjustments to their
game in a way that I'm not sure that anybody else.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Does great points that's actually a really good yeah. The
question with the Phoenix Suns is can they stop anybody?
And can they get there to even play play the
Denver Nuggets in the meantime? Man, it's yaps.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
I mean, so much of this playoffs is going to
be who you see and when when you see them.
And it's why the whole question of the Lakers avoiding
Denver has come up. I understand why it's being posed.
I just I don't think the Lakers are so good,
so much better than everybody and anybody that they would
face in manipulating this situation.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Sure that it's worth the role.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Of the dice.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Sure that makes that makes complete sense? Great stuff. Can't
wait to see what happens with the playing games. We'll
talk again next week. Thanks for being our guest on Fox.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
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But first let's get to a game.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
This is game time. Sig on The Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
All right there, Dan Byer, what's the game today, my friend.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Doug, the game is big deal, little deal, no deal?
All right, big deal, little deal or no deal. That
NBA attendance was up more than one percent from last year,
with the league saying that seventy one percent of their
games were sellouts.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I don't know how that cannot be a big deal.
You know, we make it a big deal when their
ratings are down. Why can't we make it a big
deal when their tenants are up? So yeah, I think
that's a big deal.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
All right, big deal, little deal or no deal. That
the Suns will pay the highest luxury tax next season
after signing Grayson Allen to a four year extension.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I think it's no big deal because one, you got
a new owner that comes in. He's now the number
one mortgage guy in the country, so he's printing money
off the backs of everybody else. Secondly, that's what it
stands as of now. But they can. I'm sure there's
some adjustments that can be made in the off season,
but they're going for it. This is how they believe
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in going for it, how it affects the coaching staff,
how toffect the roster moving forward, that's interesting, but I
think that's what it signifies, not the luxury tax.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
We do need clarification because it is big deal, little
deal or no deal, and no big deal has this
kind of scratching our heads where that actually falls. I
would say, then then that would be a little deal.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Wet'll do.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I'm okay, all right, okay. If you combine the two,
it's yeah, all right, big deal, little deal or no deal. Doug,
how Kentucky welcomed Mark Pope and how Pope returned the
favor yesterday, I.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Thought it was a big deal, and I thought how
big deal. How he would return to favor was a
big deal as well, coming in with all of his
teammates from the ninety six National Championship and holding the
National Championship trophy or plaque whatever they give him. That
was really cool and the cell that was really cool.
And what it does is it shows you that it
doesn't mean you don't pay attention to Twitter or X
(34:20):
whatever you want to call it. But if you make decisions,
you're making decisions based upon fringe people, sports people and
the fringes that's who you know, and reporters and the fringes.
That's who's on X and making comments. So it's pretty
obvious that though there's some apprehension over his hiring, not
so much so the big Blue Nation and show up.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
For on their own. Yeah, that was that was crazy,
even when they did the jersey when he says, you know,
usually the coach and the ad hold up a jersey,
and this time so he brought out his ninety six
jersey I think is the denim one that they held.
So that was pretty cool too. A huge win for
(35:02):
Mark Pope in Kentucky, especially considering or that fan base
was two weeks ago. To see them just living it
up and loving it pretty crazy. All right, big deal,
a little deal or no deal that the Kansas City
Chiefs are allowing or is she ris to take part
in their virtual meetings?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
That feels like a big deal, you know. I mean,
luckily nobody died with his street racing, but isn't it
like thirty three phlonies He's facing.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Something like that, and.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
There's like video of him racing the car into the crash.
So yeah, it feels like a big deal.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Feels like it didn't I read down or were like
a couple of the people were assuming him for a
million bucks apiece.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
I wouldn't doubt if that was the case. I know that.
I mean, he was charged late last week with the
aggravated assault and other charges, but I don't have the
total number, but I would assume that he would probably
face civil litigation as well aside from whatever the authorities.
You know what the authorities are bringing against him? Question,
big deal, little deal or no deal? That the New
(36:04):
York Jets unveiled their new uniforms, which are basically their
old uniforms with a shiny helmet, going with the throwbacks
and what I like to call the Ken O'Brien Jets
logo Freeman McNeil, Mark Gastino, however you want to look.
But the Jets releasing their new unis today, Doug, big deal,
little dealer, no deal.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
I'm looking at him right now. I think it's a
big deal because the Jets, it's gonna be another Aaron Rodgers.
And everybody likes some sort of throwback uniforms.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Those white uniforms look so generic, but when you see
that font of the Jets with the Finn, you know
that's it's all nostalgia. But I like the white uniforms
are just so basic, the ones that they wore in Rogers'
first game in only game last season. All right, big
(36:59):
deal like him.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
But I mean maybe that's what's in. Maybe that's what
like the New York Yankees new Nike uniforms, that's what's
in Just basic, I guess.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
And they said they listened to their fans. I think
more teams should do that instead of trying to blend
old with the new. Just listen to your fans. A
big deal, little dealer, no deal. Doug Max Holloway's knockout
of Justin Getchee with one second left at the end
of their bout at UFC three hundred.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
It was a big deal because Gatechee was gonna win
and he didn't have to scrap like that, and he did.
I mean, it's part of what makes UFC so awesome,
but part of what it makes so you know, it's like, dude,
if you just stay clear of trouble, you're fine.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
There.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
You win, you win it. But it was a big deal.
Plus it's just I mean, one punch and the whole
thing turned. Yeah, it was a big deal.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
That's game time.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Game This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
It is the Doug Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
Wait to year what Tiger Woods said about his week.
We'll get you ready for a draft that we had
never thought of preparing anybody for previously. We got a
little Scotti Scheffler talk, we got the press up coming.
But coming up next we call it love and Hate.
What from the weekend did you love? What from the
(38:13):
weekend did you hate? I know, I know lots of
things that Jason Stewart hated, but what about the rest
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(00:47):
the masters. And we'll talk about this a little bit
more later. But isn't there a way in which tonight's
the WNBA draft and rightfully we're going to make a
huge thing over Caitlin Clark into the w NBA. But uh,
don't we very much run the risk of you know,
like Tiger finished dead last yesterday, of the of the
(01:10):
guys that made the cut, and you know, it's hard
to see a path to him winning a major, especially
with at as at elite afield as you'll see at
the Masters, no matter how well he knows and has
played that course. But what's left is scottis Shuffler is
(01:30):
an amazing golfer, like an amazing, unflappable golfer, And yet
most mainstream were like, eh not, Tiger don't care and
it reflects as much in the ratings, And I think
that's what's gonna happen in college women's college basketball. Did
(01:51):
did golf grow because of Tiger, Yes, but it didn't
grow to a sustainable It was unsustainable the popularity there
for a while, and it does not feel like there's
any sort of next wave of that anytime in the future.
Let's get to the NBA, though, because it was a
(02:11):
wild weekend. Friday Night gave us some results that made
Sunday seem like can't miss TV, and the Pelicans went
from the sixth seed to the seventh seed. Now playing
the playing game. And oh yeah, by the way, the
team that play in the playing game was the team
that just smoked him yesterday in the Lakers. The Lakers
have this interesting kind of conundrum, right, if they win, Say, so,
(02:36):
here's how it works for the playing game. If you're
the seven or the eighth seed. If you win that
first game, you don't have to play a second game.
You win, you're in. Whereas the Kings and Warriors, they
have to win two in order to get in two.
So the Lakers lose and they still get another opportunity,
(03:00):
and that if they win, the congratulations, you get the
Denver Nuggets. And because the Oaklahoma City Thunder, how they
you know, because of how it all went down, they
end up getting the one seed, So the Nuggets get
the two seed, so the seventh seed, the seventh seed
gets the Nuggets. But if they lose and then they win,
(03:24):
they get the one seed, which is the Thunder. And
everyone knows they match up better with the Thunder. Plus
the Thunder young haven't done the playoffs, and the Lakers
are team built, and we're on their size. The size
and physicality will likely affect the Thunder more in the
playoffs than it does the Nuggets, who are a bigger
team anyway. They start six ten, six ten seven foot
across the front line. So what do you do, right
(03:48):
if you're this and this does come down to what
type of person you are. If you're risk averse, you're like,
let's go out beat the Pelicans again, get to the playoffs.
We'll worry about the Nuggets when we're in it. But
if you don't, it's crazy. You have a very likely
better chance of advancing out of the first round and
who knows how far else because you don't know right now.
(04:10):
We believe the Nuggets will be at full strength for
Game one and have Jamal Murray back, but as games
get played, then there's the opportunity for them to get injuries,
You to get injuries. Anything can happen. So it is
different to play than Nuggets in the in the conference
finals than it is to play the Nuggets in the
first because you might not play the Nuggets in the
(04:31):
conference finals, but you might not get to the playoffs
if you lose the first game. That's a hard one.
That does come down to are you are risking. If
you're a risk adverse person, you just go for it,
go all in and win Tuesday night. If you're not,
you roll the dice and look, there is some of this,
Some of this is not really up to your discretion.
(04:53):
Some of it is to the Pelicans decide, hey, we
don't want to win or we want to go get
this thing. I think normally I would do everything in
my power to avoid the Nuggets in this scenario because
you have an older team, you want to play less games.
I win that first game, make sure that I'm in.
(05:14):
Make sure I'm in, Jay Stu, what would you do?
You're in this situation of the LA Lakers. If they lose,
they can play and play for a chance to play
the one seed as the eighth seed and take on
the oaklham Sea Thunder. If they win, they just get
the Denver Nuggets who dominated them last year. And common
conception is the dominat begin this year. What do you do?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I'm going to pull you, Doug, and I'm gonna I'm
going to say a coiner phrase and I don't know
where it came from, and I frankly don't even know
what it means, but I'm going to just say it.
Maybe it applies. I never devil into the I never
whisper into the devil's ear. You know what that means?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I think I do. I think it means, Okay, I
think it means why would I take the risk of losing,
of not making the playoffs because I want to avoid
somebody who's in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, saying something out loud or overtly trying to do
something to try to gain a result, I think is
just a dangerous way to do it in sports and
in life.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Okay, what about you? What about you there? Sam? What
would you do? Oh? And Dan Byer you too?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Sam? You're gonna go ahead and you want me to
take this all right, it's gonna allow me to pass
the hot potato. I just play it out as it
is to If that's Jason's point, Listen, there's a lot
of things that have to go right for the Lakers
to be able to make a run. And if you
(06:47):
start trying to set it up in a way where like, okay,
we win here, we'd lose here. It's just it's not
going to work out. Take your medicine, try to win
the game. If you got Denvert, you got Denver. But
I would I would not try to try to game
any system for what you feel would be a quote
(07:07):
unquote better matchup.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Sam, where are you on it?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
What Dan said?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So everybody's in the going for a thing, right, go
for it? Go win the game. I think the problem
is you fear the Warriors and the Kings as much
as you fear the Pelicans, because if you want to
get out of the playoff, you want to get out
of the first round of playoffs. The Nuggets are not
the path. So it is a little bit of damned
(07:35):
if you do, damn if you don't. But I definitely
try and win that game knowing that the second game
would not be just if the second game was it
was a cinch. If it was the Hawks without Trey Young,
then yeah, absolutely. But those those other those two teams
are good and they present a very different matchup. They're
(07:56):
better than the Warriors, but the Warriors are still the Warriors.
And you know what would the league do? Like, imagine
if you have Lebron and Steph facing off, the loser
goes home, like the league? If the league, you're like,
is the way we can create more playoff spots. I
think it's smart to whisper in the devil's ear. I
(08:18):
just think in the context of this particular one, because
the Lakers are older, they need less games. You know,
I don't think they have a particular I do think
they have a shot again, Oklahoma City. But man, is
that risky and they may end up there's a chance
that Pelicans win that game anyway, and then if they win,
you can just play it off and go like, Noah,
we weren't trying. We were waiting for the next game.
(08:39):
Give us your thoughts at Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
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Speaker 2 (08:54):
One of Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. Rick Buker
in a couple minutes, so The Masters was this weekend? Okay, buyer,
please don't be alarmed at our answers. And I bring
it up because Dan is he's more than an avid
(09:14):
golfan like he is. He loves this stuff and follows it.
Plus he has a Sunday show too, so I know
he's watching on Sunday. Jay s dou how much did
you watch of the Masters?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Exactly zero. I followed The Masters on Twitter, so it
was like after it happened. I think the handshake by
Tiger and vern one Quist was made into an amusing
meme because you couldn't see vern behind the tree, so
Tiger was shaking the hands of the tree. Yes, And
(09:49):
the most comical meme of the weekend was some kind
of a reference to the tree that he hit with
his car, which is dark humor.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
But I loved it was Well, nobody was killed. Tiger
was hurt pretty badly, but nobody's killed, right, So I
like that. That's it's acceptable. Dark humor, acceptable, dark humor. Okay, Iowa, Sam,
how many minutes of The Masters did you watch?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Probably about ten to fifteen minutes via highlights?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
So you didn't watch any of the Masters not live? No, Okay,
you see what he tried to do there, Guys, you
saw that, right.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I mean I saw footage of it, So it's not
like I you know that.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That again, just so you know, Sam, that is like
if you have a layover in Salt Lake City, you
can't say I went to Utah.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah no, no, right, no I didn't. I didn't watch
it live.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Go to Dallas over the weekend?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Really, what you do?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I had a layover in Dallas and I was on
my way.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
To you know.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
That's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It's the same thing, totally fair by your most memorable
part of the Masters, the twenty twenty four Masters.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
As what Scottie Chef's shot on nine, second shot on nine.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
That really kind of made it. Then it was like, oh,
Scotti Scheffler's winning this thing. I was watching it on
my phone and all of a sudden, all my friends
who are avid golfers were texting me like, all right, boys,
what are we doing the rest of the afternoon? Because
it felt like that was right around nine, ten eleven,
(11:25):
That's when it became all right, this thing's over. In
comparison to the other Masters years and other Master's moments,
will Scotty Scheffler stand up the test of time?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Dan Byer, I don't think that his story is finished.
I don't think that he will be done after two
Masters victories. I think he could win another. I think
he could possibly win two. I don't think this one
will stand the test of time.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, ye.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Did.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Look the juxtaposition of Scotti Schffler, who is dominating, and
Tiger Woods, who is struggling, And yet the attention and
the energy we spend to Tiger. Some of it, obviously,
this is greatness, but a lot of it is you
know that we're just trying to, you know, just trying
to figure out who we can next turn our attention to,
(12:19):
and do we even take the Tiger Woods thing seriously anymore?
But it is go ahead, I.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Know, I because I've got I got a lot to
say about what happened with Scheffler and what happens with
the Masters. But I also think there's a whole separate
Tiger conversation, So we could go down the Tiger conversation,
if you will. What I thought happened with Tiger was
what Tiger had at stake this past week was breaking
(12:47):
Fred Couples and Gary players consecutive cuts made streak at
Augusta National. At the Masters, they all were tied with
twenty three straight cuts. Tiger is like a lot of
the field were affected by the weather on Thursday, but
Tiger had to come back and play five early holes
on Friday morning when we were in for Dan Patrick.
(13:09):
Tiger was on the course at that time, then had
about an hour turnaround and had to go and play
eighteen holes, which he made the cut comfortably, very comfortably.
But what I think happened Doug was the main goal
for Tiger this week. Who again he's teed it up
once in twenty twenty four. That was at the Genesis
(13:31):
where he had to withdraw because he was ill. I
think Tiger put everything he had into making the cut
and making sure that he was there for the weekend
and having the additional five holes. I don't think was
ideal with him, but I don't think that's like the
ultimate game breaker, game changer. I think his ultimate goal
(13:53):
was to make the weekend, to have the record by himself,
because we're not going to remember him shooting in the eighties.
What we're going to remember is that now Tiger Woods
holds the Augusta record for most consecutive cuts made at
twenty four. And I think he put everything that he
had into it to make sure that he played the weekend,
and then because of his lack of reps and where
(14:15):
he is, he didn't have anything to show for it
when you played on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah, it's a great It's a great, great way looking
at it. I think again, I think that as a
super in depth and interesting way of looking at that
you and I are interested in. I think the Jason
Stewarts of the world, and Jason, if I'm speaking out
a turn, you let me. Know, it's like I used
(14:41):
to be in a Tiger. Now there's just a bunch
of guys. And then every time I hear that a
guy is going to be the next guy, he's not
the next guy. You know. That is so I'm not
really that super into golf. I was super into Tiger Woods.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
I'll tell you this much. I typically watch Sundays. I
typically watch a good portion of the leaders on Sunday,
and once Tiger had that Saturday, it took away my
interest in watching on Sunday. And I think I'm not
alone on that one.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
As far as the Casualhi, No, I think that, I
think I think you're You're completely not alone. I think
that you nailed the issue. And it's not to say
that like Cheffler's been awesome and and this is I
mean baseball has the same thing as well. Obviously basketball
has it, but I mean, how many players out there
(15:32):
are incredible young players in the NBA, but like we're
still paying attention to Steph and and to Lebron, you know,
and they're still playing, but if they're easily like watch
what happens with the NBA's ratings when one of those
two gets eliminated in the play, and like it's going
to be different.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
You know, I I know, like if we talk about
it as a whole, and I'll just say, I'll say
this about The Masters. We all have a favorite TV show,
right right, we all Doug Seinfeld. I think the Cheers,
you know.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Pure Cheers, actually mine cheers than Seinfeld. But you're you're,
you're on it.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
What's you?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
What's yours?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
King of Queens, it's probably my all time favorite. And
there are some episodes of King of Queens that I
absolutely love, and there are some that I'm like, all right, Okay,
I don't need to watch this one again. And I
would feel that it's the same thing with with Cheers.
Every episode is not going to be the magnificent, drop
dead funny one. Some are better than others, and I
think that I think that that is that is the
(16:32):
case with this Masters. It just is one of those that,
all right, maybe it's not as good as it was
in ninety seven or or in other great years. It
will fall into the to the role of that. I
do think that there are bigger problems. But it's not
just with Tiger Woods. It has to do with live
It has to do with Scotty Scheffler's personality. It's got
(16:56):
to do with a lot of it, and it's it's
funny on how like we've gotten to this point because
I think there's been live is not a paper cut.
But if you want to take the splitting of live golf,
even just away from this, I think there have been
other paper cuts along the way that have ended up
hurting the sport and not allowing us to be as
(17:17):
involved as maybe we once would be if Tiger Woods wasn't.
I mean Jordan Speith and Justin Thomas. Justin Thomas was
like seven over par in his final four holes to
miss the cut. Speith was all over the place, he
didn't make the cut. They're not like cashing in on
their ability to capitalize on their stardom. The rival the
Scotti Scheffler is in live golf. The guy that gave
(17:38):
him the green jacket yesterday, Rory was mediocre over the weekend. Like,
there's a lot to go with to go with it
as well. I would even say this if you remember
back when Phil won the PGA Championship at Kiowa, and
this was in twenty twenty one, This was before the
whole live thing happened, and we've touched a little bit
about this on Friday, but you know what else was
(18:00):
going on aside from Michelson winning the Masters when he
was fifty, brooks Kepka was a badass. Brooks Kepka couldn't
stand Bryce and de Shambo because bryceon de Shamba was
trying to be the hulk okay and trying to do everything.
All of those stories were actually interesting. We were watching
bay Hill because Deshambo was trying to drive the par
five sixth hole, cutting over ninety percent of a lake
(18:23):
like that was interesting. He's not into that anymore. There's
no rivalry between him and brooks Kopka, and if there was,
we wouldn't know about it because it's at Live like
there are all these things that could have gained interest.
John Rahm may not move the needle for everybody, but
if he was a rival to Scotti Scheffler and he
had the two the world's best going at it, I
think that would be very, very compelling. And instead you
(18:45):
had Scotty Scheffler, who's hohum, Ludwig Oldberg who's playing in
his first Masters and as a you know what, twenty
one to twenty two year old Swede Colin Morikawa doesn't
oose flashiness. It's a lot of this stuff that is
added up and played in because I thought a lot
about it, because I I saw I did this weekend
is you know, watch all of this. But I think
(19:06):
a lot of that stuff is what plays into it
if live, and I think live is huge because if
Live doesn't come along, we're still like familiar with these guys,
and cam Smith and Bryson de Shamble, we're on the
leader board. We probably didn't care as much because kind
of forgotten about them, and Bryson isn't the bad boy
that he was three years ago, and there isn't the
rivalry with Brooks. There's so a lot of that stuff
(19:29):
has kind of fallen by the wayside, and golf's never
going to be the same, and it hasn't had a
lot of momentum, and I think people were hoping that
the Masters was going to save that and try to
bring that back, and I'm not sure if it did.
This past weekend, I.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Didn't think it brought it back. I agree with you
on rivalries. I honestly agree with you on it's not
just rivalries. It's like the the infighting within the family.
As much as it's a bad look, you know, maybe
throughout year it would be a good look at the
end of these tournaments if we had live versus PGA
(20:05):
and they would embrace that. But the nice plane Jane, guys,
it's really hard sure.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Can I tell you the one problem with the rivalry
of the live versus the PGA Tour is that the
live players because we don't care and I don't think
that there's enough like there. It's just it's different of
being on that tour. If they were all on the
PGA Tour and battling week in and week out, then
we've got something. But here they go away for three
(20:35):
or four weeks, then they show up again. Then they're
all together, and they go away for three or four
weeks and they show up at the US Open. There's
just no way to get momentum, there's no way to
carry anything over. It's just it it's really fractured the game.
But there were other issues with it as well, and
I just yeah, it's it's it's really too bad. I mean,
(20:56):
as a golf fan, as much as it pains mean
to have people comment on the masters who don't comment
the other three hundred and sixty four days of the year.
I also don't like to hear people being like, yeah,
I didn't watch, I didn't care, you know, like that
actually stinks. That's not good. I think there's a lot
of reasons for it.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I would say the difference for me is I watched,
but I was I was. I wasn't to the level
of Jason Stewart where I was completely turned off when
Tiger didn't win. But it was not it was no
longer appointment sitting down on my cach viewing. It was
on my phone while doing some other things, while having
a nice other day that I happened to watch it,
(21:35):
and I saw the turn of events in the middle
of you know, right at the turn, and I was like, yep,
gonna be Scotty Scheffler. And then I just started kind
of indulging a little bit on Scotty Scheffler info and
why he's been so good and where it turned his
career and all that all that other stuff. It's the
Dog Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. So pleased
to be joining Eric Buker, Foxsports dot Com and Fox
(21:58):
Sports One, and of course only is now on Fox
Sports Radio. Uh buke, it was a wild and kind
of confusing last weekend between the Friday games and the
Sunday games. Put together for me, what happened this weekend, Well.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
We had a little bit of jockeying, I believe certainly
the Cleveland Cavaliers looked like they did that. And then
we've just had some questions raised about exactly who is what,
starting with the Golden State Warriors and home loss to
the New Orleans Pelicans that they clearly very much hoped
(22:38):
to win to avoid having to now win what two
road playoff games in order to h to make the playoffs. So, uh,
it's what. It's why I love the play in to
be honest with you, because I think it's one it's
done a great job of curbing tanking, and two it's
(23:00):
I mean, we'd be looking at the prospect of what
the Warriors and the Lakers and the Sixers and the
Heat all already having been eliminated, and so now we
have this intrigue of young teams that showed what they're
capable of in the regular season, but we're still waiting
to see exactly, you know, can they take the next
(23:20):
step in the postseason, and we have some veteran teams
that are now in position to still test that and
see if they have one more run in them. So,
you know, the short answer is like, there were a
few things that were settled over the weekend, but there
was there's more that's still yet to be to be
(23:43):
settled in the next couple of days.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You know what, It's so okay, Will the Lakers lose
in the first playing game to avoid the Nuggets.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
I have a hard time leaving that they would do
that for a couple of reasons. One, they're they're the
early game, so they don't know whom they would be
playing in the second game, and they got what. They
went zero to four against the Sacramento Kings during the
(24:18):
regular season and lost by an average of eleven points. Now,
I know the playoffs are different, but the fact of
the matter is they have not looked like they're capable
of competing with the Kings, getting up and down and
playing their style. And I would still think that that
would give you second thoughts about dropping a game against
the New Orleans Pelicans, and even against the World the Warriors,
(24:40):
they lost, I'm correct, they lost three or four, So
I just think it's a dangerous, dangerous proposition. I understand
the idea that you're going to you haven't had a
whole lot of success against Denver, and you would be
avoiding them, But it's not as if the Lakers have
been some unbelievable juggernaut and injury was just the only
(25:03):
thing that kept them from being, you know, a fifty
five win team or whatever. I just you're gonna have
to face if you if you think of yourself as
having a chance at winning a championship, you're going to
have to face Denver Nuggets at some point. And it's
not I mean, I just I do not believe in
(25:23):
this idea that let's find a road where we can
avoid them for as long as possible and extend our playoffs,
when you're in no way guaranteed that that's actually going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
All Right, Phoenix comes from the play in to swoop
in and grab that six spot. How do they match
up with Minnesota?
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Ah? What interesting interesting matchup because obviously Minnesota has the
size that I don't know how Phoenix is going to
handle that. But in talking to execs and scout out
upset potential after the Milwaukee Buck. The feeling was the
Minnesota Timberwolves, where uh the next likeliest top team among
(26:12):
the top three in either conference that was susceptible to
to getting upset. So I that's a tough one, I
would be. I'm I'm thinking of the Phoenix Sun are
are on a little bit of a role here and
are going to uh that their their experience, uh and
(26:33):
their firepower is going to win out. But they're going
up against the number one defense in the league for
a reason. And my my question is this Minnesota, Like
I'm not a believer that Anthony Edwards is the anointed
star that everybody is making him out to be. I
(26:53):
think he's got a great, great talent, but he hasn't
demonstrated to me that he's ready to be the go
to player on a team that goes to the next
level in the postseason.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, no, I hear you. Dallas and the Clippers. Wow.
I mean, I don't know anybody's playing better than Dallas,
but there have been times when the Clippers look like
the best team league and one of them is going
to be home after the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Yeah, yeah, I'm I am. I got off the Clippers
train at the beginning of the season, and there's nothing
that has happened during the course of this year that
conced has convinced me to get back on it, because
they'll question of Kawhi Leonard and his health. But I
(27:41):
just when things go a little sideways, who are you
relying on to steady the shift? Certainly not Paul George.
I just I've been just appalled at how talented he is.
And yet you see in need situations they'll turn over
the ball not once but twice, forcing things that aren't there,
(28:03):
and that's been just a regular occurrence. No, there's been
no evolution there, and so and I can't. I don't
know what I'm gonna get from James Harden on night
to night. I just I don't. It's the same reason
that I have questions about the Boston Celtics, for as
great as their regular season record is, It's like, who's
(28:24):
the leader, Who's the guy, who's the who's the player,
Who's the person who studies the ship, who says this
is you know, let's go, this is what we have
to do in this particular situation in order to get
through it. I don't see that player. I mean, I
would say, you like, who's the leader of the Los
(28:46):
Angeles Clippers, who's the leader of the Boston Celtics. I
don't really know who that is. I know who people
say it is, but I don't know who it is.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, I know it's It's an incredible question. Incredible question. Okay,
So who's who's actually? Uh? Uh? Who do you think
gives the Nuggets the toughest time.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
I actually think that the Phoenix Suns have the capability
of giving them the toughest time because of the matchup
with uh with nurk and And and Jokic, he's the
one He's the one body, the one guy who has
the familiarity with him and I think we've seen this
in a couple of matchups during the regular season that
(29:31):
can at least make him work a little bit. What
I've really liked about Jokic and and one of the
reasons why he's going to be at the top of
my MVP ballot ballot for the first time ever this year,
is because I've seen him impose his will. I've seen
him bully people, I've seen one of one of the
you know, one of the classic plays they have is
(29:53):
is he just pounds his way to the middle of
the paint, draws that second defender, and then he's just
thrown up a lot for for Aaron Gordon to finish.
I didn't always see him do that consistently in the past,
and I always thought it was there for him to
do it, and I thought that would just wilt opposing teams.
(30:16):
Not only that, but just take it out of front
lines of the opposition. Nurk is the one guy who
is able to deal with that at least a little bit.
And then obviously you have all that all that scoring
on the perimeter. I still think that they, you know,
they need a It'd be better if they had a
(30:38):
true point guard somewhere on that roster. But just in
terms of matchups, the Phoenix Suns can present some wrinkles
that forced the Denver Nuggets to make adjustments to their
game in a way that I'm not sure that anybody else.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Does great points that's actually a really good yeah. The
question with the Phoenix Suns is can they stop anybody?
And can they get there to even play play the
Denver Nuggets in the meantime? Man, it's yaps.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
I mean, so much of this playoffs is going to
be who you see and when when you see them.
And it's why the whole question of the Lakers avoiding
Denver has come up. I understand why it's being posed.
I just I don't think the Lakers are so good,
so much better than everybody and anybody that they would
face in manipulating this situation.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Sure that it's worth the role.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Of the dice.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Sure that makes that makes complete sense? Great stuff. Can't
wait to see what happens with the playing games. We'll
talk again next week. Thanks for being our guest on Fox.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
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(32:15):
But first let's get to a game.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
This is game time. Sig on The Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
All right there, Dan Byer, what's the game today, my friend.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Doug, the game is big deal, little deal, no deal?
All right, big deal, little deal or no deal. That
NBA attendance was up more than one percent from last year,
with the league saying that seventy one percent of their
games were sellouts.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I don't know how that cannot be a big deal.
You know, we make it a big deal when their
ratings are down. Why can't we make it a big
deal when their tenants are up? So yeah, I think
that's a big deal.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
All right, big deal, little deal or no deal. That
the Suns will pay the highest luxury tax next season
after signing Grayson Allen to a four year extension.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I think it's no big deal because one, you got
a new owner that comes in. He's now the number
one mortgage guy in the country, so he's printing money
off the backs of everybody else. Secondly, that's what it
stands as of now. But they can. I'm sure there's
some adjustments that can be made in the off season,
but they're going for it. This is how they believe
(33:27):
in going for it, how it affects the coaching staff,
how toffect the roster moving forward, that's interesting, but I
think that's what it signifies, not the luxury tax.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
We do need clarification because it is big deal, little
deal or no deal, and no big deal has this
kind of scratching our heads where that actually falls. I
would say, then then that would be a little deal.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Wet'll do.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I'm okay, all right, okay. If you combine the two,
it's yeah, all right, big deal, little deal or no deal. Doug,
how Kentucky welcomed Mark Pope and how Pope returned the
favor yesterday, I.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Thought it was a big deal, and I thought how
big deal. How he would return to favor was a
big deal as well, coming in with all of his
teammates from the ninety six National Championship and holding the
National Championship trophy or plaque whatever they give him. That
was really cool and the cell that was really cool.
And what it does is it shows you that it
doesn't mean you don't pay attention to Twitter or X
(34:20):
whatever you want to call it. But if you make decisions,
you're making decisions based upon fringe people, sports people and
the fringes that's who you know, and reporters and the fringes.
That's who's on X and making comments. So it's pretty
obvious that though there's some apprehension over his hiring, not
so much so the big Blue Nation and show up.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
For on their own. Yeah, that was that was crazy,
even when they did the jersey when he says, you know,
usually the coach and the ad hold up a jersey,
and this time so he brought out his ninety six
jersey I think is the denim one that they held.
So that was pretty cool too. A huge win for
(35:02):
Mark Pope in Kentucky, especially considering or that fan base
was two weeks ago. To see them just living it
up and loving it pretty crazy. All right, big deal,
a little deal or no deal that the Kansas City
Chiefs are allowing or is she ris to take part
in their virtual meetings?
Speaker 2 (35:18):
That feels like a big deal, you know. I mean,
luckily nobody died with his street racing, but isn't it
like thirty three phlonies He's facing.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Something like that, and.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
There's like video of him racing the car into the crash.
So yeah, it feels like a big deal.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Feels like it didn't I read down or were like
a couple of the people were assuming him for a
million bucks apiece.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
I wouldn't doubt if that was the case. I know that.
I mean, he was charged late last week with the
aggravated assault and other charges, but I don't have the
total number, but I would assume that he would probably
face civil litigation as well aside from whatever the authorities.
You know what the authorities are bringing against him? Question,
big deal, little deal or no deal? That the New
(36:04):
York Jets unveiled their new uniforms, which are basically their
old uniforms with a shiny helmet, going with the throwbacks
and what I like to call the Ken O'Brien Jets
logo Freeman McNeil, Mark Gastino, however you want to look.
But the Jets releasing their new unis today, Doug, big deal,
little dealer, no deal.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
I'm looking at him right now. I think it's a
big deal because the Jets, it's gonna be another Aaron Rodgers.
And everybody likes some sort of throwback uniforms.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Those white uniforms look so generic, but when you see
that font of the Jets with the Finn, you know
that's it's all nostalgia. But I like the white uniforms
are just so basic, the ones that they wore in Rogers'
first game in only game last season. All right, big
(36:59):
deal like him.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
But I mean maybe that's what's in. Maybe that's what
like the New York Yankees new Nike uniforms, that's what's
in Just basic, I guess.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
And they said they listened to their fans. I think
more teams should do that instead of trying to blend
old with the new. Just listen to your fans. A
big deal, little dealer, no deal. Doug Max Holloway's knockout
of Justin Getchee with one second left at the end
of their bout at UFC three hundred.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
It was a big deal because Gatechee was gonna win
and he didn't have to scrap like that, and he did.
I mean, it's part of what makes UFC so awesome,
but part of what it makes so you know, it's like, dude,
if you just stay clear of trouble, you're fine.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
There.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
You win, you win it. But it was a big deal.
Plus it's just I mean, one punch and the whole
thing turned. Yeah, it was a big deal.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
That's game time.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Game This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
It is the Doug Show here on Fox Sports Radio.
Wait to year what Tiger Woods said about his week.
We'll get you ready for a draft that we had
never thought of preparing anybody for previously. We got a
little Scotti Scheffler talk, we got the press up coming.
But coming up next we call it love and Hate.
What from the weekend did you love? What from the
(38:13):
weekend did you hate? I know, I know lots of
things that Jason Stewart hated, but what about the rest
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