The Russell Westbrook Problem and JaVale McGee

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You're listening to Fox Sports Boom Up America, Doug Gottlieb Show,
Fox Sports Radio, coming to you from beautiful, cloudy, overcast
Los Angeles, California. The NFL Draft is concluded. Give you
some of my thoughts, go my takeaways. Team that have
everybody scratching their head and the team that has everybody

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nod in their head. That upcoming, Plus Chris Sims will
join us, who give us the fits that he likes,
the fits that he doesn't like for all these quarterbacks
that were drafted. Remember that when the Patriots were gonna
draft your parent to uh to Tom Brady. Yeah that
didn't happen. That actually did not happen, But lots to

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get to with. Chris Sims is gonna join us. Chris
Mannix will join us next hour. Celtics sixers. This is
basically how you know if you're over thirty five years old.
If I say Celtics sixers, you like, and I say
Classic Celtics sixers, you think Antoine Walker and Isaiah Thomas, Right,
You're like, No, I mean, I'm not Antoine Walker and

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Al and Andre I mean and Antonine. Let me check that.
Part three. Antoine Walker and Alan Iverson, You're like, oh yeah,
oh yeah, like no, no, no, Classic Celtics Sixers is
Bobby Jones is the Doctor, Doctor, the Doctor, Julius Ving

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Moses Malone to Charles Barkley, I mean you you go
through the Classic, and then of course with the Celtics,
DJ Ange the Big Three inside Cornbread Maxwell. I mean,
it's just that's ninth earlyies basketball. Sixers Celtics was amazing.

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But I want to go back to Friday Night and
and this it's really important. Okay, these two things or
three things can all be true even though you could
make them in the contradictions of themselves. Like it's fair
to say that no one else on the Oklahoma City

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Thunder seemed to step up and want the basketball, But
it's also fair to say that forty three shots from
Russell Westbrook is too much of one guy wanting the basketball.
I'm here to declare that the Oklahoma City Thunder are
in bad shape, bad shape, an incredibly run franchise that

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two years ago had a three games to one leading
the Western Conference Finals, and they have made a series
of of errors, even though they are errors to which
like chances that most people would probably take again if
they could. But the big guest issue with the Oklahoma

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City Thunder is their best player is their hardest to
play with. The greatest players of all time in NBA
history are all people that make others around them better
and Russell Westbrook doesn't do that. And what is bizarre

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to people who like Westbrook and I like what I
respect Westbrook and I like parts of his game, and
parts of his game just blow me away with the athleticism,
with the good to get where he wants, to get
the shots he wants. But it also confounds me because
if he can get where he wants and gets the

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shot he wants, why does he take all those shots
that he shouldn't take? Right? But Russell Westbrook being hard
to play with is a lot like when guys say
their ex wife is crazy. Like, stick with me for

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a second, ex wife is crazy. Guy. Now do I
think that women are crazy in a general sense? They
see the world a lot differently than we do. Not
all of them see the world the same, but you know, uh, Like, look,
women can be ruthless. They just can't. They can be

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absolutely ruthless, they can struggle. Like one of the things
with that people never talked about in the broadcasting industry.
I have several friends that are very well regarded women
in the business, and they will tell like, the makeup
room when it's for women is just brutal. They just

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crush each other behind each other's back. Guys like, look,
we get l we get envious, we get jealous. We
want other people's paycheck, we want other people's success. But
there's there's not the hattiness, there's not the cold shoulder,
there's not the pettiness to the level that you see
with women. On the other hand, women can go the

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opposite way and be incredible friends to one another and
to you and me, like they're just women and men
or well, I think we all agree whired differently. But
what happens a lot of times in the divorces, Oh,
she's crazy, she's paranoid, she's this, she's that right where

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you know you act ask the guy like, what's what
do you mean your X wise parents? Well, you know,
she's just paranoid, just always thinks about capting around. She's
just well, yeah, but didn't she catch you cheating on
her and that's why she left you? Like yeah, but
you know, like I wouldn't left her, Like no, no,
you made her crazy. God, we you. We have to
take some ownership in this as men. Women are crazy.

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But one of the reasons, the biggest reason they're crazy
is because they have to deal with us. That's the truth, right,
Like they're catty and they're petty, and they get on,
they gonna they talk bad about each other behind their back,
about how they look. But the reason that it's important
how they look is because of how we judge them
based upon how we look. You do understand that, right,

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It's not true. Stop it. We make women crazy because
the things that are important to us aren't important to them.
We are we are wired, many of us to think
of ourselves first, in them second. But more than anything,
the ex wife, who, man, she's crazy. Yeah, you probably

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made her crazy. The things that you did, the way
that you treated her that made her crazy or made
her act in a way in which like, she doesn't
know are you all in or or all out? She
doesn't know how you truly feel. Because men, many of
us struggle to express the way we truly feel at
the moment. That's why she's left kind of foundering. I

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don't know how this other person really feels because the
only thing we feel is how quickly can we get
from point A to point bedroom. Right, every guy wants
to say that women are crazy. I'm sitting here as
a guy to tell you probably right, But we're probably
a huge part of the reason why. Between the way
we treat them, talk about them, talk to them, and

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the things we do while we're with and while we're
not with them, you'd be crazy too. How's that right
relate to Russell Westbrook? Very simple? Yes, Paul George couldn't
seem to figure out a way to get his game going.
And yes, Raymond Felton turned down shot after shot, and yes,

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Steven Adams kept getting offensive rebounds but kept kicking it
out hot pitaining that basketball. No one else seemed to
want the ball. But why is that? Because they've lived
with Russell Westbrook. He has a team that lacks confidence
in itself, a team that they're they only leave, whether

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on the surface level or the subterranean level. They only
believe they can succeed if Russell Westbrook carries them. They
may not say it, they may not feel it, they
may feel some anks towards him, but the truth is
the way they play, they just keep giving it back
to him. So, yeah, the team lacks confidence. The team

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doesn't want the ball Russell Westbrook does. But it's because
of how Russell Westbrook has treated them the entire year,
going back to last year, where everybody celebrated his statistical successes.
Even the assists he have, those are passes that lead
directly to a basket. We can't even succeed unless Russell

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Westbrook creates a shot for us. My point is that
Oklahoma City has fostered this sort of behavior with Russell Westbrook,
just like we as men foster that sort of behavior
with women we do. And look, I think Oklahoma City

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at the time, it's going back to last year, man,
they were just happy that any star want to call
okay See home. They want to do whatever it takes
just to have him. And then he did something historic
and averaging and triple double, so they simply want to
embrace it, just like we as guys, like we don't
know what we do, right, Like we're not trying to
objectify women when we talk about their looks. Were just

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trying to say, like, hey, I think you're hot, right,
and we say it in ways it was like you're beautiful,
I love the dress, man, you look incredible, right, you
always have to you mention it. I'm like, well, why
are you mentioning my looks? Why are you like? I
just because I didn't mean anything by it. I just
I thought somebody want to know they look good. We
don't know what we're doing. We're just being us. But

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by being us, we make them crazy. Trust me, and
Oklahoma City has created this culture that's in environment to
which everything is about Russ. They didn't mean. They didn't
mean for it to come out this way, didn't mean
for a guy to have forty nine shots, didn't mean
for them to be totally beholden to one guy to

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taking and making shots. They just want to Russell Westbrook
to know they like, appreciate him, think he plays hard,
happy that he's there. Hope to god, he doesn't want
to go home to l A or go to New
York City, where you know, all his fashion would be
even more embraced and sell even more like They just
I just want to keep our guy. This is what happens.

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Here's Russell Westbrook when he was asked about Paul George
his future after the game. Um, and the game just
finished thirty minutes ago. Uh, We're gonna relax, Um, look
at this season as a whole, and then you know
we go from there. You've said, when you've been asked
before that the postseason is what would keep Paul here. Um.
Do you that crossed your mind that you know that

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an early exit could affect his mentality? We're not just
We're not just say to him, but it's a different question.
Would I just say to him that you're going to
think about it? But I'm asking that's the next question.
Here's Paul George Um asked about his free agency plans.
It was an amazing season. Amazing season, really a learning

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experience playing off for us, playing off Melow, Steve, Oh,
you know, seeing what potential was like, having Dre out there.
It was it was great. It was a lot too
to be happy about. You know, I would love to
remain a Thunder, but you know that's what this summer
is for. So you know we'll dressed that in the summer.

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There's a butt there, right, Like I I do love
this whole, this whole thing with like, well, you know, listen,
he's gonna take some time and take some thinking out. Like, look,
if you want to stay with Thunder all you gotta stay?
Is I want to stay with thunder? Very simple, go
back to the man, the woman and that woman's story,
Like you want to stay married, I like to stay married.

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But whoa well what excuse me? They can offer you
a max contract, right, we all know what the what
the figures are? You want to stay, you don't want
to stay? Not really any other questions. Um. I also
think the overuse of the word amazing. That was that
was that season was a lot of things. I don't

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think amazing would be the word interesting. I learned a lot, fascinating, eventful, exhilarating,
maybe even is a still positive word. I don't think
anyone would say a team that was really were they
the four seed? The four seed? I think I don't

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think anyone would say, like, that's amazing, Wow, you guys
amazing and look, you know, Paul George is not a dummy.
But they went forty eight games. They tied for the
same number of wins of the Jazz as the Pelicans,
one win above the Spurs, who didn't have Kawhi Leonard,

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and one win above the Minnesota tin Wolves, one win
behind the Portland Trailblazers. There's a lot of words I
could use to describe Oklahoma City's thunder Oklahoma City thunders
season amazing would not be in the top five. The
Rockets win sixty five games, that would be amazing. The

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Philadelphia seventy six finished the season on a sixteen game
win streak, fifty two and thirty over under was forty.
I would say that's amazing, impressive, amazing. Um to have Carmelo,
Anthony Russell Westbrook, the reigning m v P, and Paul
George on the same team and finished forty eight and

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thirty four five your last ten games, and then being
beaten in six games by the Utah Jazz, who did
not have their point guard last game and a half,
I would not characterize that season is amazing. But if
you wanted to stay there, he wouldn't have said, but
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Doug Gotlive show Fox Sports Radio Let's bring him in,
does a great draft of Blazer Boort. He's playing the NFL.
You have won a Super Bowl. Covers the NFL for
NBC Sports. He's Chris Sims. He joins his on the
Doug Gottlieb Show. He did some NFL Power rankings after

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the NFL trapt Still have the Browns at thirty two,
so Chris um some interesting picks at one and four.
We can talk about the rest of the draft and
what the Browns did. What's your reaction now? On a
Monday after the NFL Draft concludes. Well, I think the
thing that that jumped out to me about the draft
more than anything, of course, the quarterback, uh, was the
quarterback situation was was awesome to watch just where they

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were gonna fall, what teams were gonna make trades. Uh.
But I really I think this this draft just the
quality of players that had to be drafted in the second, third,
fourth round. You know, I did the first two rounds
picked by pick live streaming on bleacher Report, and it
was hard for me to give teams too many bad
grades because I just felt like, Wow, there is maybe

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not a ton of superstars in this draft, but a
lot of good football players. They are going to help
out rosters right away in Week one. I think that
was one thing that jumped out to me. All right,
let's start with Mayfield, right right pick? Wrong pick? Well,
for me, it's the wrong pick. I mean, I'm never
gonna be sitting here and just go, oh, I'm mad
at a team for picking the guy who had the
number one rated quarterback on their board. I understand that,

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but man, I would have a hard time picking the
quarterback six one, you know, fifteen eighteen pounds that ran
a four or eight, five and has a twenty vertical
with the number one pick of the draft. I would
I wouldn't. I don't think I could have pulled the
trigger in the top five or somebody like Baker Mayfield.
That like Baker Mayfield. But you know, the other thing
I questioned too is just man Cleveland. You know their

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sources and you know, I mean, everybody kind of knew
that if the Jets had the option, it was gonna
be Donald one, Rose and two. They could have got
Baker Mayfield at four for by all accounts, That's the
only thing I'll say. But regardless, I can't be too
maut of though if that was their guy and they
went and got him. Okay, so the Giants goes Sae
Kwon Barkley, then they get an absolute road grader with

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with their second pick, do you Dave Gettleman obviously saying like,
look where I understand that the league is trending differently.
The league is about you know, your back seven and
it's a passing league. Uh, But they want to run it.
They want to protect Eli Manning by running the football
and using sake Kwon Barkley. What do you think about
the Giants? Did too. The Giants. I mean the Giants
I thought killed it in the draft. I mean Dave Gettleman.

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He talked a big game, but he liked delivered big
time man. And yeah, Barkley at two. Barkley is as
good at running back because I've seen come out and
since Adrian Peterson, and I mean I think he's more.
He's even more made for the NFL than he is
for college football. Doug he is gonna be a game changer.
If you told me he's the best offensive player in
football next year, I'm gonna go, oh, yeah, Okay, that's

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that's what kind of player he is. He's special. The
Giants have the two most explosive offensive players in the
NFL on the same field at the same time. It's
gonna be incredible combination for defenses having to try to
figure that out. And let's not forget they got a
first round pick and Evan Ingram at a tight end
from last year along with Sterling Shepherd. So the Giants
are a team. When you look at their roster, I

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really expect them to be back in the playoff conversation.
They're just too talent that there's too many stars on
both sides. Of the ball. All right, let's let's go
to the Jets at three. They kind of luck into
this thing, right, Like, they trade up and they still
could have could have gotten the third the third guy
on their board, but they end up with Sam Donald. Um,
what's it likely he gets on the field this year?

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I mean, I think he's definitely gonna get on the
field at some point. And now the Jets team is
a little bit better, I think than people give a
credit for. And Josh McCown, you know, it's gonna be
all about how they get off to starting the football year.
If they start off three and oh, and Josh McCown's
is starting quarterback, of course they're not gonna ben him.
But if they're two and three, two and two, uh,
you know, I do expect them to be on the
field somewhat early. And if he shows it in a

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preseason and training camp that he's mentally capable of of
you know, understanding everything, and then this game is not
to above him at the age of twenty. Let's not
forget that he's twenty years old. This is where I
pushed back Doug with the whole Sam Donald conversation. Throughout
the draft, everybody kept telling me, Oh, he's the safest pick.
Why because he had a Southern California trojan on his

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helmet and he's handsome. I just didn't understand that you
can't tell me he's the safest pick when he's the
most raw guy. He has a kind of a flawed
throwing motion. He led college football and turnovers. He doesn't
have great feel in the pocket. So that my argument
with Sam Donald is he's definitely one of the best
players in the draft, but it's gonna be a little time.
He's still raw and there's things that he needs to
catch up on. As far as just some of the

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schematics in the NFL. Um Buffalo trades up to get
Josh Allen, you're gonna need a big arm to throw
through that kind of weather. On the other hand, you're
gonna need to be accurate. They have a j McCarron um,
So I guess he doesn't have to play right away.
Everybody I talked to you said, look, Alan's only shot
is if he kind of red shirts for a year.
What are your thoughts on on the fit with Buffalo

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and Allen? Well, I don't really see it that way.
I mean, the Bills got to the playoffs yost year
with less than adequate quarterback play. Well, why can't they
do that again? I mean, Alan is raw, but Alan okay.
From what we saw at the Combine, his pro day, uh,
the Senior Bowl, he fixed some of the little mechanical
issues that we were all worried about watching on film

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where yeah, the ball, he lost control of the ball
at times. No, he is an elite talent the Josh Allen,
and I think he's the most likely to get on
the field the quickest, really, because what's gonna happen up
there in Buffalo is they're gonna see him on the
field to a JM next to a J McCarron and go,
oh my gosh, this guy's big. Oh my gosh, he's
really athletic. Oh my gosh. His arm is unbelievable. And

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that's where it's gonna be almost undeniable as long as
he can handle the mental gymnastics, which I think he can.
Because he played in a post style offense. He got
the highest wonder Lick school out of all these guys.
And this is what impressed people the most about Josh Allen.
The friends I talked to around the NFL just said
when you meet him in person, and the meetings and
the and the chalkboard sessions, they were off the charts.

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I mean, so I do think he's a little bit
more ready than people are giving him credit for. He
played in Wyoming. If you watch some of the games
on film with me, Doug, you'd laugh at how windy
and how bad the weather is. There was the worst
offensive talent around him. They aggressively threw the ball down
the field. You know, Sam Donald got to throw twice
as many screen passes as he did this year. Baker

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Mayfield got to throw four times as many big screen passes.
If he got to throw those screen passes, his completion
percentage would have been in the mid sixties. And this
would not be a conversation Chris Sim's Bleach Report joining us,
Doug Gottlieb show, Um like, look, you played for Gordon,
and I think you respect Gordon, And I thought, hey,
here's the guy. It's great to sit up there in
the booth and to run the Gordon quarterback camp because

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he's truly invested in it and he has an incredible
knowledge base having covered the NFL draft. But then I
watched in Brandon Parker. You know, he trades get they
get Brandon Parker. They don't need offensive and help, but
they get one. He's got injury concerns. In the third round.
P J. Hall was considered most to be a fourth
round or he goes in the second round. Art and
Keys got got off field issues. And Maurice Hurst. I

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get that. It's a fifth round pick, so somebody would
say it's a wasted pick. But he got a heart issue.
That's why no one else wanted to touch him. It
feels like Oakland taking a lot of chances. Is that
how it feels to you? It does exactly that. I mean,
I think you you hit the nail on the head
exactly right. They reached with everything, you know, even like
Colton Miller, their first round pick. I like Colden Miller.
He was he was definitely the second best left tackle

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in the draft, like true left tackle. But you know,
was he worth pick number fifteen? Probably not. But I
think they felt like this was a desperate need for
their football team, just the fact that some of their
old lines getting up there in age. Donald Penn's come
to the end. But I'm with you with the rest
of them. Uh, they were all a little bit of
a reach for me. Yes, And I'm always a little
scared to take the small school guys. Small school guys,

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especially especially when it's interior guys, because they're just not
going up against anything realistic like in the SEC or
the A c C that's got a ton of NFL
offensive and defensive lignment, So that scares me. The best
thing I think the Raiders did in the draft was
the fact that they trade for Mark Davis Bryant. That
would probably be the number one move I look at
and go, wow, that can really change their football team.

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Him on the outside, with the Marie Cooper on the
other side, and then Jordy Nelson kind of the jack
of all trades guy is gonna be pretty dangerous. You know,
that looks good. The only problem is he's one blip
away from exactly It's like you said, they're all they
all have a risk factor. Everybody you mentioned there was
there was one little problem with every one of them. Well,
nothing ever goes wrong in Oakland too, so that you
know that's that's the good news. And then you know

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if you're if you're around the team long enough, you
get to go to Vegas and nothing ever bad happens
happens in Vegas. Chris Sims joining us on the Doug
Gottlieb Show. Um, we were told by so many, Hey,
Patriots gonna find a replacement of Tom Brady. That's what
they're gonna do. They're gonna use this draft. And that's
why Brady is not an O T S because he's mad,
because they're gonna they're gonna find a replacement to him. Um,
that that isn't what they did in the first four round.

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What's your reaction to the past draft? The Patriots? That
the Patriots, the Patriots that they don't panic. They're not
gonna be told by the national media what they need
to do or what they have to do. They trust me.
If there's one team out there that does not give
a damn what anybody else in the world is saying,
it's the New England Patriots. So they did their due diligence.

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I know that they really like Lamar Jackson and there
was thought there, but I think they just felt like
it wasn't quite the right fit and they had other
needs on their football team and they're gonna wait for
the appropriate time. It's no big deal. Again. I think
Brady at least plays this year, maybe two more years,
but they'll make the move when they got to. They
had a good draft. Their first three picks were game changers.

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Isaiah Win other than McGlinchey, was the next better man
Nelson the two Notre Dame games. Notre Dame guys. Isaiah
went from Georgia. Was the third best offensivelignment in the draft.
Sony Michelle is a game changer. And then this Duke
Dawson they got in the second round out of Florida Man.
He was one of the best corners in the draft.
They got their Malcolm Butler Replacedn't there. But the Patriots
will make that move when they find that there's a

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guy that truly fits the mold and which they like.
I know they love Josh Allen. That's why you saw
the Buffalo Bill steak. Josh Allen, Brian day Ball. He
worked up in New England. He's the new offensive coordinator
for the Buffalo Bills. They have a certain formula in
which they like at the quarterback position, and out of
this draft, I really think Rosen and Josh Allen were
really the only two guys that kind of fit that mold.

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I want to ask you that Rosen the second, but
you mentioned son of Michelle for people to know Chris
because a Halftimes NBC Sports for the for the Notre
Dame broadcast. You're you're on the field for Georgia versus
Notre Dame. Uh, Sony Michelle, how does can hear? Is
he a replacement for Dion Lewis? Is he different? What
do you when obviously they had a two back system

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and he was better, especially since Chubb hurt his knee.
What's your thoughts on son of Michelle and how he
fits in with what they want to do. Oh, he's
He's a perfect fit for them. I mean he's a
little bit Alvin Kamara ish, but yet he's probably got
more power running between the tap goals. I mean he
is a he's got some set of legs on him.
That's the first thing I always look at the running
back position. He's got incredible quickness, incredible acceleration and really

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for his size at two orger and fourteen pounds, his
power is pretty and phenomenal. To listen, Doug, it didn't
take a rock science with Sony Michelle. Right, you watched
the College Final four? When you when you basically get
ten carries a game and go for under over a
hundred and fifty yards in each of those games against
some of the talent that was on the field in
those game, a lot of NFL players. Man, you're a baller,
and he did it consistently. Uh, he'll be a jack

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of all trades for that New England offense. They're gonna
move him around and let him do everything. How does
it worked with Rosen? You know, you got Bradford there,
you got Glennon there, and I look, I know that
nobody respects Glennon, but like he was, he was in
your spot. He was the starting quarterback of Tampa and
then you know, they draft over him, and then he
goes to then he goes to Chicago, they draft over him.
Now he's the backup. But it's saying Bradford no, when

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thinks Bradford can make it through a whole season. How
do you think that plays out with those three in Arizona? Yeah, Well,
this is the thing I find interesting. I mean, I
really Josh Rosen was my second favorite quarterback and he
was the safest pick of the draft at the quarterback position.
I mean, he's just the most consistent the best within
the pocket, the best thrower, whether his decision making or

(28:12):
accuracy or when to you know, put the pedal to
the metal throwing the football. He can do it all.
So from that standpoint, he's phenomenal. Yeah, we talked about
he's a little less than the athlete you want in
two thousand and eighteen, I'm gonna be interested in that
situation at Cleveland because I look at Cleveland and Arizona
and go like this, here's the first pick of the draft,

(28:32):
Baker Mayfield. He's gonna go on the field the first
few days in Cleveland and the team is gonna see
him next to Tyrod Taylor and go, well, man, Tyrod
Taylor is the same size, Tyrod Taylor is a little faster.
Tyrod Taylor has a stronger arm or every bit of
strong arm. And we picked this guy one. And I
look at Arizona and going, listen, I know Rosen's the
man of the future. But at the same time, he's

(28:54):
kind of built just like a Mike Glenn and a
Sam Bradford, paulor lankier guy, not a huge frame. Sam
Bradford was the number one pick for a reason, and
it's because he can really throw the ball too. I
just find it interesting. I think people are gonna go
on the field there and go, damn, what's the difference
between Bradford and Rosen. I think that's gonna be another
interesting thing to talk about here as we go into this.

(29:14):
But Rosen, at some point, I do think year one,
he would be the type of guy I would look at.
If you're ready to go, and you feel comfortable with
his mentality and how he's coming along physically and training camp,
I make him the starter from day one and let
him go because I do think he's He's pretty polished,
played in the pro offense, and like I said, he's
got all the tools that make it happen all right.
Check out his stuff on Bleacher Report. You can also

(29:35):
see him NBC Sports Network. He's worked during the season.
NBC is fantastic. Chris Simms, Chris, thanks so much for
joining me in High to the Family YouTube. Doug be
good Man having a good week, Chris Simms joining us.
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(30:02):
I could have done it myself as fine, let's get
Dan Buyer. We could have done it together. We all could. Hey, listen,
how is your gardening? Um? You know what? It didn't
get to where I needed to. Would you plant for
people who are just joining us? Like? Why are you
talking gardening with Dan Buyer? He's supposed to give my
sports update because we found out Friday that Dan Gardener
Dan Buyer's got a green dub. Yeah. What ended up happening,

(30:23):
Doug is I got half of the work done. I
throw out all the old plants. So that's basically where
we are right now. My mom's coming into town in
a couple of weeks, so I'm thinking that what I'll
do is I'll get newer plants next week and then
they'll all be ready for when she arrives. So you
and your so you're you and your mom will plant
the plants together. No, I'll have them planted when she arrives.

(30:44):
So everything is in bloom and fresh. That's pretty cool. Yeah,
she's coming out for Mother's Day. Um, yes, yes, actually
she is, so Yeah, so looking forward to the old
is I'm a can No, that's all right, but I
will say it's your birthday tomorrow, So happy birthday, Thank you,
Mrs buyer Us, Thank you very much. We will celebrate
by watching the NBA playoffs when she comes out here.

(31:05):
You know, why is that? Are you trying to transition
or is she a big hook that? No, that was
actually a transition. So maybe maybe we'll be able to
watch like Game seven of the Sixers and Celtics if
it goes that far. Game one is tonight, eight o'clock
Eastern time, Eastern Conference Semifinals. Celtics card Jalen Brown doubtful
for tonight's game because of a hamstring injury. Some news
from the NFL and Raiders tackle Donald Pannon and his

(31:27):
wife are denying reports he physically assaulted or during an
altercation last night in Los Angeles. The couple did say
there was a verbal altercation. TMZ reports the l a
p D is investigating the matter. Cowboys apparently tried to
get Seahawk safety Earl Thomas, but not for a first
or second round pick. A report from one H five
point three FM and Dallas as the Cowboys called when
they were on the clock in the third round to

(31:49):
see if Seattle would be interested in giving up Thomas
never heard backs to the Cowboys made the pick instead.
You were just talking quarterbacks with Chris Sims. No surprise, Doug.
That Bill's GM. Brandon Bean said that Josh Allen is
third on the team's depth chart, behind A. J. McCarron
and Nathan Peterman. Yeah, hell Peterman, Yes, out of Burma, Yes,

(32:13):
the Anne mar Yeah. So Nathan Peterman and A. J.
Mccarroen right now, one to ahead of the yoming rookie.
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you were you a Friends guy? Did you like Friends?
Were about the same? Absolutely? Okay, Romo's did you like Friends?
Enjoyed Friends? Yeah? I mean notly your favorite show of
all time, but a good show of it? Ton you
still watch it? Brian music is like Friends. Ross and
Rachel just get it over with her. Yeah, I mean
it wasn't one of my favorites, but certainly well aware of. Okay,
so here's what I did. Here's what my wife and

(32:55):
I did last night. And we didn't necessarily do it
as the exercise that it became, but it became a
great exercise. So we watched the pilot for friends, so
you know, you can do that when you in your
chord on DVR, like all the different and so it
just happened to be where we had the last two
episodes and then it started again and it had the

(33:16):
pilot and then the next couple of episodes and the
pilot it was not very funny, but did have a
couple of interesting parts to it and a couple of
really good scenes. And so she asked me after where
she's like, wow, it's really amazing, really amazing how it became,

(33:36):
you know, a decade long, historically great show that And
you know, we started with the talk of isn't it crazy,
Like I'm sure you're filming this pilot and your Joey
or your chand or being or you know, you know,
or your Ross and this became and many of them Ross,
for example, David Swimmer um, he's a voice on Madagascar.

(33:57):
He several other voices. They've been in an other movies.
Jennifer Andersen's one the biggest stars on earth, and she
hasn't really done much of any Along came Polly's probably
your biggest hit right after in terms of movie. They're
all known for this show, and yet if you watch
the pilot one, it wasn't great. And too they actually
changed some of the characters. And you know, like Joey's
hair is completely different from the first episode of the

(34:19):
second one. Same thing with Jennifer Inison first Jennifer first one,
she runs away from her wedding. She she's in a
wedding gown the entire first episode and her voice is
very whiny. And at the end they cut up her
daddy's credit cards whatever, and she they said, welcome to
the real world. Right, you're gonna hate it. You'll hate it,
that's all. You'll love it. Right. So anyway, I look

(34:40):
at it and it's a lot like NFL teams or
NBA teams. I remember the thunder when they lost to
the Lakers in the playoffs. This is like almost a
decade ago, and you're like, you know, if they tweaked
this here and change this there. That can be a
team that's super dangerous. And I thought the name of
the seventies sixers, but I feel like this is still friends,

(35:04):
Like there's something there. I just don't know if it's
ready for primetime, ready for the NBA Finals. That is
that fair? Is that a fair analogy? Bios? Yeah, that's
very very unique. Yeah, that there. It may not have appeared,
but yeah, there's something maybe under the surface that could
be gold. It could be the uh, the Motherload somewhere
under there. But again, in your favorite sitcoms of all time,

(35:27):
give me the give me the three that you like
the best. King of Queens is my favorite. Um, I'm
a huge King of Queen's fan. Seinfeld probably number two. UM.
I like Seinfeld more now than I did when it
was actually on air. My the only one there. I
feel like Seinfeld has a little bit of um, what's

(35:47):
his name? That does Ricky Bobby and uh will Will
Ferrell movies right where. The more I see it, the
more I like it. As opposed to the first time.
I'm not sure I was as into it, Like I
almost walked out of Ricky Bobby and now I watched
and I loved Tall Day Nights. I just okay, So
the second one with Seinfeld was third. Yeah. Um, you
know I was a big eighties you know, and you
mentioned Friends. Uh. I was a big Growing Pains fan

(36:08):
growing up. So when you had Chandler, who actually was
Sandy Carol's boyfriend in episodes of Growing Pains, that's where
I remembered him from when Friends came on. But yeah,
so we'll say that those top three ramos. What's your
top three? Um, I would have to say Happy Days,
Three's company and what was one of the eighties It

(36:29):
was a family ties with Michael you are you were like,
you're kind of dating yourself, but all three of those
yourself my my family. We go cheers one, cheers one,
I would say, and and by the way, to anybody
with the Bill Cosby stuff is like, no, I never
like Cosby Show. I didn't love Cosby Show, but apparently
millions and millions of people did it. Right, just because

(36:49):
he appears to be a creton doesn't mean that doesn't
mean at the time, at the time you like the show.
It would be top five for me. Before that little
kid came on. Oh, the little little raven S. Yeah,
Cheers one Seinfeld too, and uh, I would say Friends

(37:13):
is probably a third because that's a lot of my
a lot of a lot of college high school in colleges.
Was that the Celtics are without one of their young
stars tonight. Big deal, a little deal or no deal.
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(37:54):
all right, Dan buyer, what game is it? The game
today is big deal, little deal, no team? All right?
A good Monday tradition, Big deal, a little deal or
no deal. That the Celtics are likely to be without
Jalen Brown tonight because of his hamstring injury against the
seventies Sixers in Game one. Ah, that feels like a
big deal. It feels like a big deal. You know. Look,
not only is he one of their best players, but

(38:16):
he's a hybrid defender. I know they were able to
beat the Milwaukee Bucks without him. That was at home
in Game seven, Terry Rogier played out of his mind.
I think it's a big deal. How about this, Doug
from the Pacific Northwest? Big deal, A little deal or
no deal? That King five out of Seattle is saying
that the last game played in Key Arena will feature

(38:37):
Kevin Durant and the Golden State Warriors. This would be
a preseason NBA game. It would be the last game
in the arena. Is they're likely to tear it down
and build a new facility that could be home to
an NHL team. I said, a little deal. It's a
preseason game, preseason game, not even real basketball game that
that they get. Um. I hope Kevin Durant does play.

(38:58):
I don't know which Golden State Warriors do play. I
do think it's interesting, much like the we're on in
both Seattle and in San Diego. Look, man, I'm not
saying they're great deals. But I will tell you this,
if you don't build a stadium and you don't build
an arena, they're going to leave. Figure it out. It
happened in Seattle. Do those does Oakloma said? Did they
steal a franchise from Sure? Sure, you can't even start

(39:20):
the conversation of getting one back into you have an arena.
Same thing with San Diego. Can't start the conversation getting
a football team getting a college football playoff game? Do
you have a stadium, have an arena? But this is
a little deal, acaxilient preseason game, maybe maybe fitting that
the former Sonic will be playing in the last game.
They're big deal, a little deal or no deal? At
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts benched outfielder Cody Bellinger for a

(39:42):
lack of hustle during their loss to the Giants yesterday. Um,
I think that's no deal. I like it. Like the
Dodgers have underachieved to date this season. If this is
what gets them going even better? Big deal, a little
deal or no deal? Doug that Austin Texas five star
Wars receiver Garrett Wilson shows Ohio State over the Longhorns,

(40:03):
adding to Rivals dot Com this quote quote in the end,
I've watched a lot of people go to Texas with
a ton of ability and maybe not achieve what I
thought they could. I didn't want to be one of
those guys. End quote. That's why he chose the Buckeyes
over the Longhorns. I think it's I think it's fascinating.
I think it's probably dead to right accurate, but I
think it's the last thing a high school kids should say,

(40:25):
especially if you really want to get down to it.
Tom Herman was at Ohio State when they won a
national championship. His offense throws the ball a whole hell
of a lot more So, I think it's a little
uneducated in terms of it, but he's not. He's not
wrong to think it or say it with his folks,
he's definitely wrong to say it publicly. Finally, Doug, big deal,
a little deal or no deal? That not only are

(40:46):
there twenty nineteen NFL mock drafts available, walter football dot
Com has a twenty twenty NFL mock draft available for
your viewing. It's no deal to me. I know the
nineteen one has a bunch of dudes from Clemson and
Nick Bose, Yeah right, and then the quarterback from a
zoo that that's about it. That's all I care about

(41:07):
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He scored seemingly at will in the first three quarters.

(41:28):
What if I told you there was a reason that
he was doing exactly what the Pacers wanted him to
do and it nearly worked. Next to the Doug Gotlip Show,
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(41:49):
guys see the intentional of the flagrant foul called on
Land Stevenson? Yesterday? Lebron James drove by him and Stevenson
hit him on top of the head trying to block
the shot, and Lebron held, you know, held his head
like he's, you know, gonna die or whatever. They I

(42:09):
think sometimes the league doesn't even do Lebron favors. But
Lebron was magnificent after that at the end of the game.
What if I told you he was magnificent statistically for
a reason and the reason was other than he's just awesome. Uh, well,
we'll get We'll get to that in a second. Uh.
NFL draft was good, man. The people I talked to

(42:32):
in the league overwhelmingly have said one of the deals
that they did one of the teams that they just
didn't get with the Raiders taking a lot of chances,
a lot of chances you trade for Mark Tavis Bryant
who has never achieved what his skill set would lead
you to believe he can achieve, and you know he's
one failed test away from being banned forever, you know,

(42:56):
from another year's suspension in the NFL. Like man, that's
a risk. And then I don't know. You just look
around their picks and and and many of them have
either injury concerns or character concerns. And there is a
parallel there. John Lynch, he took Reuben Foster last year
and thought I got a middle linebacker for the next

(43:18):
ten years. And Reuben Foster there's a possibility that never
played football again, let alone for the San Francisco forty niners.
So a lot of stuff going on. Can I tell you,
can I have one pet peeve for you? One pet peeve?
Have you guys seen these videos of front office people,
general managers calling players. Do you guys see the video

(43:40):
of John Dorsey calling Baker Mayfield and tell me he's
number one? Um, Yeah, there's a video out there. John
Dorsey Collum Baker Mayfield tell him he's number one. First,
he's he's talking and he's walking, which I'm totally okay with.
He's not going bluetooth in the year, right, It's not
like he's multitasking or he's on the is on the

(44:00):
toilet and he's he's got the bluetooth. Like, why is
there an echo in there? Mr Dorsey? No reason, no
reason at all. Press is mute, but Dorsey has There's
two things in one that are pet peeves of mind.
One people that walk around with it on speaker phone. Right, Yeah,
you're holding it in your hand and you put it

(44:21):
on speaker phone. I hate that it gets all the
ambient sound in, you know, I want to hear just you.
And the second one is passed the phone off. Guy,
I don't know if you guys are into this here,
talk to my head coach, who had no part in
the decision. Real quick, pass the phone off, guy, my dad,
you used to do it all the time. Here, Say

(44:42):
hi to Jim. He really wants to meet you. It's
like it's on the phone. You're not really meeting anybody.
Just say hi to Jim. Okay, Hi Jim. This is
Bob's son, Doug. Yeah, good to meet you. You're not
actually meeting somebody on the phone. Can I get an amen?
Do you actually meet somebody? Meeting? Saying you somebody when
you spoke to them on the phone is a lot
like saying you visited somewhere when you just had a

(45:05):
lay over there. All right, More on the draft to come,
Chris Manno is gonna join us in twenty minutes. We'll
talk about the Celtics. We'll talk about Victor Oladipo. Oladipo's
trainer made him a hero. But I just I don't know.
I'm a little torn on the older. You guys know,
the Oladipo trainer thing. Oladipo's workout guru. Apparently he's in

(45:28):
the locker room. They lose Game seven to the Calves.
He texted him or maybe I gat him Instagram message him, Hey,
when can we get back to work? I want to
when can we get in the gym? I want to
take this to the next level. All right, that's all
he wants to do. And there's a couple of other
quotes in that that are really good. I'll play for Mannix.
The only thing is I like that his his trainer

(45:50):
texting showed us that and tweeted that out. But does
that mean that if he ever text another guy he
works with is like, yo, dude, I just need like
a month of way. I don't even like basketball right now.
We're gonna see that on Twitter as well. Uh Lebron
James statistically was magnificent yesterday. Magnificent had a big cut

(46:10):
for a layup in the fourth quarter and statistically again
he was off the charts good, off the charts good.
And I'll stay statistically good because he only made two
field goals in the fourth quarter. He looked when did
he looked? Frankly, just he looked tired. He was gasping

(46:32):
for air, He wasn't moving well defensively. They actually took
him out in parts the third quarter and the team
was stable was fine without him. Um after losing the
third quarter of thirty to the Pacers. In the close game,
Lebron had forty three points, nine rebounds, seven assists, had
four steals as well. Only four turnovers should be pointed

(46:55):
out as plus minus was minus two. As you guys
see that plus if I was actually minus too. Here's
Lebron after the game. I'm burned right now. I'm not
thinking about Toronto right now. Un said tomorrow. I'm ready
to go home. Can we I'm tired. I'm gonna go home.
What if I told you that was the game plan
at halftime of the game, Paul pierces like, I don't

(47:17):
understand the game plan. They're not double teaming Lebron James.
It's like they want him to go one on one
and score all the time. And I'm sitting at home
going yep, That's exactly what they want him to do.
That's exactly what the Golden State Warriors did last year
in the finals. Remember, Lebron would have a crazy first
half and then have nothing in the tank in the

(47:37):
fourth quarter. That's what happened in this series. I heard
Cowherd talking about the clutchness of Lebron. Yes, he played
well in game seven, but he was either too tired
or unable to get a step on anybody in many
of the fourth quarters in this series, because that's what
the pacers were trying to do. They're allowing to allow

(48:01):
him to exhaust himself. It was you know what it
was like when Mayweather fought McGregor. How much of the
fight do you remember, Like you remember the start when
McGregor seemed to be getting punches in and Mayweather wasn't
throwing any punches. Do you guys remember that Mayweather had

(48:21):
his hands up, Like, here's one of the greatest defensive
fighters we've ever seen in the sweet science of boxing,
and he's got his hands up, he's being defensive. Meanwhile,
Connor McGregor is just wiling away at his arms. Snuck
in one one clean punch in the first round. Some
people had him winning the first couple of Do you

(48:42):
guys remember that fight? That was exactly what Floyd Mayweather wanted,
because Floyd Mayweather knew that in a boxing match, Conor
McGregor had no chance with one exception, and this is
the one exception. Everybody talks about that one punch walking
into a left hand uppercut or left hand hook of
Connor McGregor was the one thing that Floyd Mayweather, who's

(49:05):
now a little bit longer than the tooth, a little
bit slower, hadn't been in the ring for a while.
The only thing that could have beaten him was a
full power left hook or left uppercut from Connor McGregor,
or a straight left from conn McGregor. Right, So what
do you do? He took away all of his power
because it's a lot like if you've ever played a
video game holding down the turbo button, then you press

(49:28):
the turbo again and there's nothing there. There's nothing there.
That's the philosophy with Lebron James, the Raptors, much like
the Pacers, they don't have a good matchup. In order
to stop Lebron James, you gotta have two or three

(49:48):
or four guys. Daddy has Young is a guy that
you could probably say like he could he could guard
him because he has a lengthy has his strength. But
you can't do with one because the guy gets in
foul trouble because they called every thing on the ruck.
So you rotate a bunch of guys and when he
gets the basketball, you stay home. And if he has
thirty in the first half. You're like, yeah, it sucks,

(50:08):
but okay, he's not gonna have thirty in the second half.
He just doesn't. He doesn't have that in the tank.
And what you have to do is stay with it
and either he comes out of the game or when
he starts to tire and stays in the game in
the third quarter, in the fourth quarter, that's when you pound.
That's what Floy Mayweather did. Floyd Mayweather, I don't think

(50:33):
he had stopped to fight. The fight hadn't been stopped.
Since I'm just Dan buyer Buyer note would would know more.
He's better with numbers and stats. I think it was
two thousand eight. I think it was like two thousand
eight was the last time that Floyd Mayweather had a
fight stopped. Geez, I'll if you give me a minute,
and you could, if you could. I mean, that's my

(50:55):
point is that here's Conn McGregor, Okay, who's tougher than
the two dollar steak, and he's got nothing left. And
not that flay Me was gonna knock him out, but
he could have. He had, He just couldn't. He was
so tired, couldn't put his hands up couldn't protect himself.
And so the working philosophy, it was from Flay Medlow.

(51:16):
And this is why Floyd Mayweather just like he never
takes a fight that he can lose. Don't take a
fight to take a fight that you can lose. And
so the only way to lose the conmcgregor was to
walk into a left hand. Let's just take away all
the power that he has any possibility that left hand,
and then after the third round we'll start to box

(51:38):
him and he gets exposed as being a fighter not
a boxer. Eleven Victor Ortiz knocked him out, and then
Ricky Hatton in two thousand seven. No, but I mean,
I mean, I meant Floyd Mayweth the last time he
stopped to fight, I'm sorry, like he like he had
a knockout or he had a t KO. That was

(52:00):
It has been seven years since he had had a
fight stopped. And suddenly Connor McGregor, who we all like,
we can question his boxing acumen, but we'd all think
McGregor was tough, right the reason physically couldn't keep his
hands up. And if you even if you go back
and remember and and and Ramos apologize for asking this

(52:23):
on the fly, but if you go back and pull
the down. McGregor afterwards was like, yeah, I just got tired. Yeah, dude,
that's exactly what he wanted you to do. You played
right into his played right into everything he wants you
to do, which is exactly what the Calves did and
exactly what the Raptors are gonna do. I mean, like, look,

(52:47):
this is how this this is how we beat the
the British Army. Right, You're not gonna beat the British
Army in a full frontal attack. Line up, you line
up ten rows of soldiers and they ryan line up
ten twenty rows of soldiers. Nah, you gotta out flank them,
you get outsmart him. You gotta pluck them off from

(53:12):
the side. That's how you beat lebron He's going full
frontal attack. He's gonna run out of gas. That's what
they Mayweer did. That's what the Pacers did. That's what
the Raptors will do, and frankly, that's what the seventy
sixers to do, and if the Warriors of the Rockets,
whoever face them, that's what they'll do as well. Go ahead, Laurn,
have your thirty in the first half, you're gonna tire.

(53:34):
Don't believe me. Le Bron James himself just said I'm tired.
I'm burned right now. He had two buckets in the
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I think they had Kobe Bryan on yesterday, didn't they?
Or is that next week? Next week? I'm I'm telling you,

(54:42):
I'm gonna have to ask him. Chris Mannix's uh NBA
and centered for y'all who sports? He is a show
with Karen Butler. I fall Karen on Instagram and Karon
Butler said they're gonna have Kobe Bryant on Was that yesterday?
Is that next weekend? It could be make six? So
next weekend? All right, So next weekend Kobe being grant, Uh,
he's going to join you. It's a good get um

(55:03):
good good good. Guess that should be that should be
a lot of fun. Um. All right, let's first start
with Lebron. I understand that he was great statistically, but
wasn't that the game plan from the Pacers, right, like,
make him score everything in the first half, not double
team him, and I hope he runs out of gas.
He did run into gas. They just couldn't rebound or
have enough offense of their own. Yeah, it's been the

(55:26):
game plan all series to single cover Lebron with Boogdanovich
or thaddyous Young or somebody and and kind of dare
somebody else step up and beat them? Now? Last time
I didn't account for a couple of things. One was
I mean Tristan Thompson just coming out of the weeds
to to play the way he did, especially in that
first quarter, he really set the tone for the rest
of the game. And you know, Kevin Love, who has

(55:48):
been like the fourth or fifth best big all series long,
he had that stretch in a close game into the
third start of the fourth when Lebron was out. They
swelled that lead, and he had a lot to do
with it. So, I mean, they were, you know, the
I don't think played poorly, but a couple of things
came back to pipe so um. The Oklahoma City Thunder
lost on Friday night. And I'm not one of these

(56:10):
guys that think that Paul George is gonna come back
because he didn't shoot well in Game six. I think
it's more Paul George looks around and goes like, this
is just not that much fun. This has a ceiling.
They can't get rid of Melow's contract. I don't know
who takes on that mellow contract um, And I don't
know what. I think. Oklahoma City is screwed because they've
created this monster in Russell Westbrook to which he's sort

(56:33):
of coachable but kind of not coachable. You can play
alongside him, but you're not necessarily playing with him. Like
I feel like Oklahoma City is in a worst place
now they were last year? Am I crazy? You know?
I I don't think you're crazy. I don't know if
they're in a worst place just because as we speak,
they do have that that that asset that is Paul George.
I mean if if they don't, then it could be

(56:55):
even more problematic because they don't have any any tricks left,
you know, up their sleeve here. I mean, last time around,
you know, they could dip into the well of prospects
and trade Nola Depot and a Saponus. This time around,
there really aren't any good young players. There aren't any
draft picks. So if Paul George walks um, you know,
this team will probably still either be a playoff team
or a team that could fight for the playoffs because

(57:16):
of Westbrook. But that's it. I mean, this is that,
this really is, you know, Paul George and his decision
really will define Russell Westbrook's next few years in Oklahoma City,
the prime years for Russell Westbrook at Oklahoma City. What
do you think Paul George does? I don't know, it's
you know, he's he's a different guy, and I know
you know him a little bit and he's just he's not, uh,

(57:40):
you know, a nightlife type of guy. From what I've
gathered writing about him over the years. You know, he
loves fishing, he loves the quiet of a lake. Um,
what I don't know is how deep down he feels
about Russell Westbrook, how deep rooted his feelings are towards
playing in l A. And there's always a wild card,
isn't there, Dug. I mean, you know, the last couple
of years, when somebody something big happens, there's always a

(58:03):
backstory to it, whether it's Draymond Green recruiting Kevin Durant
all season, or you know, Lebron chatting up Wade and
Bosch the two thousand Olympics too, that was a precursor.
I don't know who's talking to Paul George. I don't
know who's in his ear right now or has been
in his ear talking about next season. So there are
just way too many variables to make any kind of
accurate predictions. Alright, fair enough, Doug Gotlie Show, Fox Sports Radio.

(58:26):
Let's let's uh, let's get to the Golden State Warriors.
Steph Curry is gonna likely play here in in Game two?
Do we change how we look at the Warriors after
watching them in Game one against the Pelicans, Well, I mean,
it reaffirms just how great they can be offensively, and
you know, when they do flip that proverbial switch, just

(58:46):
what they are and and they're dominant, and the way
they beat up on the Pelicans, who have been playing
incredible basketball. I mean, that series win they had over
the Blazers was you know, arguably the best series win
of the entire first round, given the type of team
they play, defense that they played and that serious and
Golden State just rolled right over them. I don't know
how much better it's gonna get from New Orleans, you know,

(59:07):
over the rest of the series. I just don't think
they match up well at all with with with Golden States.
So I mean, for me anyway, it just it just
kind of just, you know, reaffirmed the fact that when
this team, you know, has it going, beating them four
out of seven seems improbable at best. What about what
about Houston. I when I watched Houston play the Jazz,
I realized that the Jazz probably overachieved in beating Oklahoma City.

(59:31):
And it feels like that that series is non competitive.
Now I should point out that they didn't have Ricky Rubio,
that it was a quick turnaround. But I think a
lot of it was the matchup. A lot of it
was a lot of it was Oklahoma City, you know,
playing down, you know, not playing down to the level
of of the Utah Jazz more so than the Jazz
just being all that good. Is there any chance we

(59:52):
have a series with the Rockets. I don't think so.
I mean, you're right about Rubio. I mean, would he
have dramatically changed the outcome of that game. I don't.
I don't think so. Um, but he would have made
them better than what they had to roll out there.
I think the difference though in this series is the
impact that a guy like Gobert can have. I mean
against Oklahoma City, where you have guys that have played

(01:00:13):
mid range and go to the basket and having a
rim protector like Gobert is critical. And the series against Houston,
which just bombs away from the outside, it's it's less. So.
So you know that this team has been defined, especially
since mid January, we knowing that that search in the
second half of the season, they've been defined by their defense,
and Gobert has been you know, the biggest piece of that.

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And when when your best defender is sort of taken
out of the game because of the style the opposing
team plays, it's it doesn't bode well for the rest
of the series. Historically, You've got Sixers in Celtics and
it starts reeking of you know, DJ and Ange and
Bird and Michale and Parish against you know, the same

(01:00:54):
of these six Ers and Dr J even even predating
Ange with Moses Malone, etcetera, etcetera. Truck. But I'm just
trying to I'm just trying to figure out present day,
how the Celtics keep doing it right. Jalen Brown gets hurt,
doesn't matter they win Game seven. Terry Rougier plays out
of his mind. Um you know, I mean I looked,
they're playing without their best two players are out for

(01:01:16):
the season, Yet here they are in the second round
of the playoffs. I guess I guess it it catches
up to them here against the Sixers. Yeah, I think
it does. I mean, winning that first round series was
was incredible. I mean, Milwaukee they need a new coach
and they need to do some things differently there because
it was embarrassing to lose to a Celtics team that

(01:01:36):
was so undermanned. I mean I was watching I'm watching
games seven, Dugan, I was at the game, and I'm
looking on the floor and I'm actually Devin to double
take to see it, make sure I'm seeing at Jason Terry,
Shabaz Bahammad, and Matthew Della Padova, you know, lineup out
there on the floor. And I just couldn't really understand
what Joe Pernty was going with in the second half
of that game when the game was there for the

(01:01:56):
taking with with Jalen Brown out. That being said, I
think the Bucks aren't the six are a better coach
team and just have more talent. And in the postseason
seven game series, talent always wins, unless there's a major
injury or some kind of mitigating factor, Talent wins out.
We saw what the Sixer did against Miami, which is
another terrifically coached team that that plays hard, It defends

(01:02:17):
pretty well. I think they're gonna have the same type
of series against Boston. What somebody and whether it's Rogier
or uh, you know, Al Horford plays even better. I mean,
the Selfish are playing above their heads here and and
even if they do that again, I just don't think
they have the firepower to match up with the Billy.
I want to read you something that John Wall said
after they lost in Game six to the Toronto Raptors. Chrispannick,

(01:02:39):
FRO Yahoo Sports and Fox Sports Radio joins us his
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Star Kran Butler. From John Wall quote, I don't put
the pressure on everybody else. I put the pressure on
myself because I'm the franchise guy. I'm that that franchise guy.
I'm the guy that has to be the leader of
the team, has to get everybody better, everybody better than

(01:03:00):
the team. At the same time, I'm doing my part.
The other four team guys my team have to do
their part at getting better every year, just being true
to the team. Our problem is a lot of times
guys don't understand their role and respect their role. Translate
for me, well, I mean it sounds like a lot
of what you hear from them all season long, which

(01:03:21):
is I mean it kind of is what he's saying
that the guys on that team maybe aren't willing to
fit into roles on that team. Now, guy like March
and Gor tott Is is a good example of that.
I mean, Gor Todd I think that is better off
just with that team as a screener, as a rebounder,
as somebody that will defend. Uh. He's a guy that

(01:03:41):
wants the ball though, and and wants to be heavily
involved in the offense. You gotta keep him happy. Um,
you know, I think he could be talking about a
guy like Mark Keith Morris as well, with you know,
his insistence on being more involved in the offense. I mean,
there's a lot of ways he can go with that.
But the bottom line with it all is that job
Wall need to stop saying stuff like this. You know,

(01:04:02):
John Wall. The first part of it was great, like
take it all on you. You are the franchise player,
you're a max player. You know when you lose, it
reflects poorly on you. But and the sentence you know there,
don't don't deflect onto your teammates. Have those conversations with
Ernie Grunfeld with you know, Scott Brooks behind closed doors
airing dirty laundry like that. Number one, it's not good

(01:04:24):
for the culture of your team and number two. If
there are veteran players that are out there, they're thinking about,
you know, taking a short money deal to play for
a contender. I don't see why they want to consider
Washington given the environment that that it exists down that
great stuff by Chris Mannix. Check him out, check his
stuff out Yahoo, fall him on Twitter, and of course
let's do on Fox Sports Radio. Mannix, I wish the

(01:04:44):
playoff games are out here instead, you get all those
home games back East. Thanks so much for joining us, man,
you gotta do. Chris Mannox joined us. He is an
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(01:05:06):
get a home game with the Celtics, but the entire
Eastern Conference playoffs are in the Eastern time zone. Not
that that is truly anything crazy, but for instance, the
Calves and Raptors are going to play a six o'clock
Eastern time start game later this week, so a little
bit earlier with more more of the teams in the
Central and Eastern time zones here in this NBA Playoffs,

(01:05:27):
the Warriors, they're the only team in the Pacific time
zone and they're gonna get Steph Curry back. It looks
like four. Tomorrow's Game two against the Pelicans upgraded too
probable for that game to match up. He was questionable
going into Game one but didn't play, And if Curry
does play, which is very likely tomorrow, he won't be
on a minute's restriction. According to head coach Steve Kerr.
Curry hasn't played since March twenty three because of a

(01:05:47):
knee injury. Prior to that, he was out a couple
of weeks because of an ankle somebody Sixers and Celtics Tonight,
eight o'clock Eastern Time, Eastern Conference SEMIS Game one. No
Jalen Brown for the Celts tonight, doubtful for the game
because of a hand string injury. Brown's picked up the
fifth year option on the contract of corner to Marius Randall.
While Buccaneers team security is investigating a threatening tweet that

(01:06:08):
was directed at GM Jason light This according to the
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during the NFL Draft, when Final Note Raiders tackle Donald
Pann and his wife are denying reports he physically assaulted
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the l a p D is investigating the matter. Uh.

(01:06:34):
Tom Brady made this announcement while speaking with Jim Gray
at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday, adding that
he might play several more years as well. He also
gave some brief insight into relationship with Bill Belichick. He
said quote Tom Brady says he'll definitely be playing next season.

(01:06:54):
Tom Brady said he wants to play in his mid forties.
Deals with Belichick Lukewarm's sport Lukewarm support, right. I mean,
you can love your boss, you know, and and look,
some of this is some of this is good. I
had a great lesson that I've learned from previous stops,

(01:07:17):
previous stops and I have for the record, and it's
not because my boss is listened. They might be listening
by us Monday. I don't know if they'll, you know,
but it's just it's true. I actually do like who
I work for here it's a it's a bonus. It
is not in all Canador it's it's it's not the
sole reason for my employment at Fox Sports. But it

(01:07:40):
doesn't hurt. That said, I still work for them, right,
I still work for them. I think they deal with
me as a human being. I think most of my
boss I've ever worked with. There's like one who I
felt like I was just god. It looked at me
as as a as I don't know if a number

(01:08:01):
is not fair, but not necessarily as a human being.
But for the most part, most of my bosses have
been fair in that. Listen to you. I'm a dad
um I was, I'm a son I was, I'm a brother,
you know, I whatever age I am, I work different
places part of my upbringing. You gotta understand like the

(01:08:22):
makings of me as a human human and what I'm
going through in order to understand how it can relate
to my performance positively or negatively. And only one person
I can think of I've ever dealt with did not
have any didn't care. I didn't care. For the most part,
they all care. That said, never lose sight of the

(01:08:42):
fact you will work for them. I give things go bad.
They are going to take care of themselves first, as
will you. And that sounds really selfish. It does. It
sounds awful to say, But the way it was described
to me from a really good friend is, Hey, guess what.

(01:09:04):
They're not your friends. Your friends are your friends. People
say like, oh, my boss, which is one of my
closest friends, Like not if he's really if your boss,
it shouldn't be one of your closest friends. That will
not end well. You'll lose a job and a friendship
over it. They're not your friends. And so I think
what happens is we think they're supposed to be this

(01:09:27):
incredible bond, this tight um type group working together for
the common goal between Belichick and Brady and his offensive staff,
but especially Belichick and Brady. They've been through so much together.
The damn it, they're gonna go down together if, if,

(01:09:48):
if they ever go down. That's just not realistic. They're
not your friends. Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are not
friends and don't have to be friends, and honestly they
probably shouldn't be friends. So who's the Bill Walsh is
widely considered out. Before Belichick, Bill Walsh was considered the

(01:10:11):
greatest football coach in modern football history. Remember he traded
away Joe Montana. Now friends now your friend because your
friend wouldn't trade you, your friend wouldn't cut you. You know.
I talked to somebody in the front office of the Santy,
the santyoy, I keep saying, the l A Chargers, And

(01:10:33):
I don't know if you guys saw this announcement. On Friday,
they announced Antonio Gates was not going to be resigned.
Santonio Gates his contractor was up, so they didn't have
to release him, but they're not gonna resign. I did
actually play well. You think he had fifteen catches last
two games this season. So people see it, they're like, well,
he's still got something to tank, and maybe he does.
But he chose not to retire. They chose not to

(01:10:54):
resign him, and that's where they were. And but I
was told, like the charges they were like, man, we
really like him. He's a great dude. He's this, he's that.
I was like, it's time. It's time. So you may
be friendly with your boss generally friends and if Tom
Brady is friendly but not friends with Bill Belichick, Okay,

(01:11:21):
you know Eli Manning is friends with the moraw family.
It's why they changed offensive coordinators two and a half
years ago. It's why they hired his offensive coordinator as
head coach, excuse me be three and a half years ago,
why they hired his offensive coordinator as head coach two
and a half years ago, and why they fired the

(01:11:43):
GM and the head coach last year because they're too close.
You know what this is like Belichick and Brady. People
want them to sit next to each other in the
movie theater and they leave a spot in between. That's
really what this is like. There's the perfect analogy. You know,

(01:12:06):
you sit next to your wife, Just put a seat
in between you and your bud. Don't you see them
between your bud? Heard good things about adventures? Have not
seen it yet Ramo's Does that any part of the
John Ramos show. I'm gone, I'm gonna try to go
this week the weekend it it didn't really need mine
or Ryan's money this weekend. I can tell you that. No, no, now,

(01:12:29):
now if I'm if, I'm gonna take my daughter to
the Avenger, one of my daughters, actually, all of my
kids say they want to go, and I've heard really
good what are the superhero movies? I need to see
that beforehand. Okay, so that was my problem. Is the
reason I can't see right now is because I'm behind.
I think you have to see Black Panther, which I
haven't seen. They've seen Black Panther and they really liked it,
although it's very violent. I've been told that's the number one.

(01:12:55):
And I also haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy too.
I haven't seen in the Galaxy one that you see
one as well. Oh, I think so Ramos, what do
you think that's a better movie, by the way, the
first one, But yeah, you should see both of them. Okay,
anything else, Well, what else haven't you seen? I mean
pretty much any Marvel movie I've seen. I've seen. Um,

(01:13:18):
I've seen almost all the Spider Man. That the most
recent Spider Man. I've seen iron You're probably I've seen
three Iron Man. The last Spider Man is more continuing
with this one. The previous ones aren't, so he doesn't
need to watch the previous ones. No, you need to
see the last one. But the last one good? Yes, yes,
it is good. Uh is it? What if it's a
nine year old? Oh? Yeah, yeah. The vultures in it

(01:13:40):
and be kind of scary. I guess, but he's nine.
I think your son, I think he's above that for
this type of movie. Sure, I guess we're gonna find
out what. Okay, So what about what the Spider Man
is that? Um? I'm writing this down? Which Spider Man ramos?
It's the last one with Tom Holland as the I
can't remember if it's amazing Spider many tiny? Yeah? He

(01:14:01):
plays Peter Parker the best of all of my belief,
does he? Yeah? Because Peter Parker is like sixteen seventeen
and real light in the comics, and he's more close
to that. Dan, what else I had to anti movie?
I just didn't know if they had any hints in
this new one about the Golden Sorcerer coming up? Is
there anything John in this? Okay? Why do you have
to be such a buzz killer? Here's the problem with Dan, Right,

(01:14:27):
he's got this great laugh, a great guy, but then
he's got this, he's got a little a hole in
him because he's anti movie guy. He's like, like, he
has too many things going on in his life for
for movies, and all of us are idiots for spending
all this. I went to a random Iron Man two movie.
I had no idea about any iron Man is awesome,

(01:14:48):
iron Man two is really good, iron Man is is
an awesome movie. I didn't realize you had to stick
around to the end. So like I'm like, all right,
let's go, and like the lights aren't up and nobody's leaving,
and I'm wondering why we are sitting there. And then
at the end, like there's the scene, you know, which
I understand, like sometimes there's like added stuff, Doug, like
you know, like maybe outtakes or clips like they had

(01:15:10):
in the Hangover movies. I get that, But nobody was
leaving like wondering, and then there was a hammer and
then everybody just went nuts. And so apparently that was
leading into Thor. Is that the same? I don't know.
Did I have to I haven't seen any of the Thors,
So John, Well, the Infinity Stones are part of all

(01:15:31):
of the movies, So you know, you kind of have
to kind of grasp at least a couple of you
got a lot of movies to watch. It sounds like, Doug,
I know, I've gone through this. My kids, we had
we had a chance. My son and I we watched
two movies over the weekend at home, we were gonna
go to the theater and we're gonna watch and I
was like, I don't think we should watch Avengers. Dude,
you haven't watch Spider Man and and so I wanted

(01:15:53):
to get kind of I want to get up to
speed with all of my kids. And we go and
we watch. We really enjoy it. Um. But we watched.
Here's two really good kid movies that you will laugh at. Okay,
Captain Underpants is legit funny, funny, and Ferdinand is a
great little sweet little tip. Ferdinand is also good. I

(01:16:13):
laughed at, but I thought both of them were outstanding.
I watched both of them. Yet, last two days I
watched movies with my with my guy, and I'm cool
with it, Like, you know, I think it's great, but
I we we do. My kids said they want to
see the Avengers this coming weekend, and I was like, man,
I think we gotta watch some movies before you watch
the Avengers. They're like, okay, So online car shopping can

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We call it Bail has had this to save it
the Browns this coming season. If he sees fit to
throw Baker Mayfield into the game one fire and just
let him go. I believe he will not shrink under
the pressure of living up to being the number one
overall pick. And I believe the Cleveland Browns would turn

(01:17:43):
into the surprise team of the National Football League. I
could see them going seven and nine. It's five point
five is the over under on how many games seven
and nine. I definitely would see Must see TV because
I'm gonna watch every Brown's game. If Baker Mayfield starts
from the start, I could see an offense that will rival,

(01:18:05):
at least rival Atlantis for the most exciting bombs away
offense in football. Yeah, okay, I mean, look I personally,
I know I like Skipp from from the aspect of
he's from Oklahoma City, so he's a big old you fan,
so he watches Oklahoma and um, he talks about that

(01:18:29):
region to country way far more so than anyone else
in any of those debate shows. But like, let's be
honest here, you've got a head coach who's kind of
it feels like he's dead man walking. Um. I do
think they've added better weapons, you know, Jarvis Landry improves things.
But what's this thing that they're gonna have the type

(01:18:52):
of offensive line of protection. You lost Joe Thomas for
the forever, like he's retiring, so you have to replace
Joe Thomas. And once he went down, their offensive line
was They didn't win a game last year, so they
increase by the way, be a seven increase, but it's
actually there is no percentage increase because they had zero wins. Right,

(01:19:14):
they have seven more wins than last year. If you
win seven and nine um. But but it's in an
interesting time because the Bengals seem to underachieve last year,
the Ravens seemed to they just missed the playoffs last year.
And the Steelers, I don't think they were as good
as some of their star players reputation wise would lead

(01:19:36):
you to believe. And so it's not out of the
realm of possibility that the Browns are decent decent. The
thing with Baker Mayfield is I do think that he's
more likely to play early than many of the other
quarterbacks that were taken in the first round. But the
limitations on Baker are based upon can he play in

(01:20:00):
the pocket? Is he a guy that with inferior talent
can do as well as he did with superior talent
superior play calling in college. He's always gonna be little.
There will be questions about how he deals with with
the with the speed and quickness of the NFL. In
the NFL, there's an expression, you don't get faster everybody

(01:20:21):
else does. And for Baker Mayfield, when you watch him
against George in the National semifinals, he appeared to really
struggle with staying in the pocket, with making those reads
quicker with making those throws with more zip. So I
think he could do very well initially. But r G
three did well initially, Vince Young did well initially. It's

(01:20:42):
what you do long term and long term, I think
Donald's a better prospect. I think Rosa would be a
better procesct, not for some of the attitude stuff and
the injury stuff. But I'm intrigued to see what Baker
can't accomplish with the Browns because he's definitely different and
trying to do it the same way over and over
again doesn't seem to be working. The road ahead is

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I hope you had a great weekend unless you're a
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projected to lose a hundred games this year in Major
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show to point out throughout the World Series, even predating

(01:22:56):
the World Series, and definitely after the World Series, that
tanking works. Believe me. Check out the astros and what
they did for years. Now, I know this is what
happens in our business. Right. We have guys that go like, well,
I'm a football guy, why did you play football? Did
you coachball? Like? No, I like football. Okay, I'm a

(01:23:17):
baseball guy. Why did you like Did you play football?
Did you coach baseball? And I just like baseball. Same
thing with basketball. Having played basketball, part of a basketball family, brother,
being a coach, doing some coaching in my own and
covering basketball. Some of you are thinking he was a
basketball guy. But when you do this for fifteen years,
you better be able to talk football, college and pro.

(01:23:38):
Developed relationships with college and pro pro coaches, in front
office people, and also some of the top people major
League Baseball. And I do love baseball, and I love
that baseball. Some of the trends of every sport can
be used in any other sport. Right. The hybrid positions

(01:24:00):
we talked about this last week, Basketball is about multi
positional guys. Gotta be able to play defense on multipositions,
play offense boltip positions right, play with without the basketball.
A lot of switching defenses that's no different than what
they're doing in the NFL. The NFL, it's no longer
about just see you know. I got this note from
a front office friend of mine that basically said, like, hey,

(01:24:20):
you're right on something I talked about last week, which
is rush yards doesn't really matter. It doesn't really matter.
Some of the best run defenses, the five best run
defenses last year in the NFL, didn't make the playoffs.
The five best yards per attempt defense, four of them
made the playoffs. The other one was the Chargers. We've

(01:24:40):
talked about the Chargers should have been in the plaffs.
They had a field goal kicker at all, right, so
there's a different way of looking at stats. Baseball has
been ahead or I don't know if they are ahead
or behind. We've seen other sports have the tanking, but
it's pretty crazy now. The Marlins, of course, got rid
of an All Star of outfielder all star outfielders, and

(01:25:01):
the one free agent deal they had this offseason was
a three point two million, one year deal for Cameron Mayban. Right,
they were trying to be bad. The Royals are seven
and twenty on their way to forty two and one twenty.
That's how it projects out. You do the math. Seven

(01:25:22):
and twenty a team that and their bullpen which they
have sold off or lost, you know, way Davis of course,
with the Cubs bullpen heading into Sunday was six point
six six Baltimore Orioles horrible, just awful. Obviously they still

(01:25:45):
have any Machado who has been great, but the team
is awful. And they're eight and twenty with a minus
fifty four run differential. That's non competitive. Dodgers and Nationals
are bad, but we don't think they'll be bad for
that long. Both both have series coming up. With the
Padres and the Padres everybody knows they're playing for next
year or the year after that. The Padres are tanking

(01:26:07):
because all their all their futures based upon Fernando Tatis Jr.
Or Luis Urayas. They had eighteen They had eight eighteen
year old position players in single A, like they're playing
for next or the following year. Tons of Latin American players.
The Rangers, the White Sox are awful, the Twins are awful.

(01:26:29):
Seven teams projected to lose a hundred or more games.
Nationals and Dodgers won us. And what is that? We
have a trend we've seen in the NBA. We're seen
in baseball. We saw it some in football as well.
Teams trying to be bad so they can load up
on young talent, build out their farm system in baseball

(01:26:51):
under club control for six years. That's the way to
win baseball games. It happened with the Rangers, and everybody copies.
All right, let's get to the Thunder. This from Fred
Kats It is a very good job for a paper
called The Norman Transcript, the small paper that covers Yokoma
City Thunder. Carmelo Anthony today is the day. You know
they lost on Friday, but I think today was the

(01:27:15):
day they had the exit interviews for the Thunder. Carmelo says,
the player they wanted me to be and needed me
to be was for the sake of this season. Everything
was just thrown together. It wasn't anything that was planned out.
It wasn't no strategy. Me being here, me being part
of an actual system, what type of player and things
like that. As far as being effective at that type

(01:27:36):
of player, I don't think I can be effective as
the type of player that type of player. I think
I was willing to accept the challenge in that role,
but I think I bring a little bit more to
the game as far as being knowledgeable and what I
can still do as a basketball player. Do you want
to translate that for you? That's the old Allen Iverson.
I don't know any m v P to come off

(01:27:58):
the bench. This is the most discussed part. If you
go to I play pick up all Sunday morning and
I played Saturday morning as well. This is the most
disgusting in basketball right now? What do you do with
Karmelo Anthony? Because if you say, hey, look you just
have Carmelo play off the bench, it would be smart
for Carmelo to accept this is the Dez Bryant question.

(01:28:20):
All these guys are the same. They're all the same.
They're not as good a They're still pretty good empirically.
Karmelo Anthony is still a good basketball player. But would
you accept like it's just so much ego in it.
Derek Jeter wouldn't move off of short stop? He never

(01:28:41):
very good range? Should play second base? Why? Because I
don't move from short stop. Kobe Bryant, you could never
get anybody to play with him. And obviously Kobe is
better than Carmelo, better than Dez Bryant. As Derek Jeeter
better than Carmelo and Data, but the the parallel is
still the same. As you you start to get older,

(01:29:01):
will you be willing to take a lesser role for
to extend your career and for the betterment of your team.
But it's really hard because what you'd ask Karmel Anthony
If you said, Karmela, we're gonna bring you off the bench, Yes,
he'd be playing against inferior players, per se. Right, you'll
be playing against your bench guys aren't as good as starters.
Otherwise matters, right, That's kind of the way it works.

(01:29:25):
That's why they come off the bench. So you'd be
playing against lesser players. But you'd ask Mellow, who's always
been a go to score. Hey, look, man, we want
you to shoot a better percentage with fewer shots for
a fewer minutes. You're gonna be playing with inferior players,

(01:29:50):
and we want you to play superior basketball. It sounds
really good on paper. It's like des Bryant, Like, wait,
why can't des Brian be If Fitzgerald Dees is strong,
he should be a great blocker. Why won't Derek Jeter
moved to second base? Why wouldn't Kobe Bryant work well

(01:30:11):
with another superstar where he could just I mean, actually
says something about Chris Paul that he's willing to go
and play a secondary role to the James Harden, or
something about Tim Duncan that he's willing to want to
bring in the Marcus Aldrich and others, or Steph when
he brought into Rant granted different parts of their career.

(01:30:33):
But this is Carmelo saying, I ain't coming off the bench.
I still got plenty in the tank. Carmelo is the
only guy who doesn't know he can only be effective
if he plays the four. You'n only be effectively if
he plays the four because you have to have somebody
guard the rim because he's so bad defending the ball,

(01:30:55):
and he's become a catch and shoot jump shooter. Look,
Mellows great post a midpost post up player, but nobody posts.
Very few tip teams post up anymore. If you post up,
you actually post up to pass, not to score. He's
from a foregone era, you know what he reminds me of,

(01:31:16):
And and gas prices are creeping up. Carmelo Anthony is
an H two A hummer, right, have you ever seen
a hummer? Like what I'd like. I'd kind of like
to have a Hummer as a car in my garage.
I just don't want to drive a Hummer every day.
I mean they're beasts. They look big. It feels like

(01:31:39):
like if you scratch something, like, ah, the hummer fine.
But when hummers were big, gas prices were like two
dollars a gallon. They just by and by the way.
Hummers at the time when they're made, everybody thought like,
oh man, these are so well made. They're like tanks.
Until they went over to Iraq and it turns out,
you know, it's like a tank, a tank. There's other

(01:32:03):
made terribly for war. Oh man, they're made good for
the War of the four oh five, not good for
the War of well war. Anyway, a Hummer was awesome
in the late nineties, early century, two thousand two, two

(01:32:23):
thousand three. You get a hummery be like, damn, pimped
that out with some tires, big boy, and you're rolling.
Now you have Hummy, Like, dude, what a what a
dB got a Hummer then gets like five miles of
the gallon. Would you have your Hummer as your primary
car if you're driving an hour to work? No, would

(01:32:46):
you have Carmelo Anthony as one of your go to
players for an eight two game season plus the playoffs. No,
the NBA used to be about isolation, finding a mismatch,
throwing it into him in the post, and playing off
of that. The NBA now is about ball movement and
three point shooting and skill your ball mover or a

(01:33:09):
ball stopper, and defensively, hybrid guys being able to guard
a bunch of different positions. Mellow Mellow is well, he's
a hybrid. He can't guard any position. He's just a hummer.
And until he realizes that the world has moved on
from gas guzzling overpriced SUVs that don't really can't you

(01:33:33):
can't get the kids into, and the bikes and the
cars or whatever that look cooler than they are in
terms of practicality, he is who he is. Mellows a hummer.
I don't think I've ever even written it hummer there.
Maybe they used to be made Indiana. I don't think
I think now it's a mg owns hummer, don't they

(01:33:53):
now or something like that? No, No, they went bankrupt.
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I got some advice from the guys on movies I
need to see before I see Avengers. It's very confusing,

(01:34:59):
very confusing. Solo comes out when here and the end
of May. End of May. I'm in on that and
on that. One of the reasons I'm so backed up
is I watched sports on TV all the time, all
the time, and the NBA playoffs have been really, really good.
I will point out that Game one of the Warriors

(01:35:21):
and Pelicans was not particularly good. It was it was
fun when they have seventy five at the half. Think
about this, the Pelicans hit a uh, a buzzer beater
at the end of the first half, like a seventy five.
They're still down twenty. Then they had a buzzer beater
at the end of the third quarter like in those

(01:35:41):
fifty fifty things that usually gets you beat. That's five
points that they stole and it still was not competitive.
Javelle McGee of the Golden State Warriors joints us on
the Doug Gottlieb Show. Um, how indicative Javell of the
rest of the series? Do you think Game one was?
I definitely think it's important. Uh, especially on our part

(01:36:02):
the fact that we did blow them out. I don't
think that's actually a good thing. And in turn, because
when you blow teams out in the first game, you
tend to relax the second game, and uh, that's where
you go wrong. So we definitely have to come out
with the same intensity because this team isn't gonna give up. Um,
They're gonna come out and play as hard as they can.
So we definitely have to go out there and do

(01:36:23):
our thing and make sure that we're we're sound defensively
and uh get everybody that needs to bail the ball. Now,
it does look like Steff is gonna be back for
game two. How hard do you think that is? Though?
It's it's one thing to not having played, and I
know he's practiced with you guys some and hop into
a game. It's a whole other thing to hop in
during you know, during the playoffs at a different level
of intensity. How tough do you think that will be

(01:36:43):
for Steff? I don't think it'll be tough and off him.
Uh he's been doing it, uh so, and he's been
working hard. I've been seeing grindum behind closed doors, so
I think he's gonna fit right in when he gets
in there. All right, hold on for a second, Javelle,
we'll try and fix fix the phone. Javelle McGee joining
us from from the Golden State Warriors. Here's something interesting.

(01:37:07):
I want to get to this with Javelle as soon
as we get him back on. Do you guys know
he has a new sixteen track album and he works
under the pseudonym as a producer Pierre. Shouldn't you work
under a pseudonym that people don't know it's you. I
think that's really interesting, right, I mean not that to me.
He's got his own YouTube series and he's got a

(01:37:28):
super funny personality. But everybody knows, you know, his pseudo name,
so he does. Everybody knows that. What's the story of
music with his You're gonna call us back from a
different line? Yeah, he he was cutting out there, so
we're all a where he was cutting out. So I'm
seeing if you can get a different phone and wait
for him to call back. That wasn't one of those
three way things for somebody wanted to listen in. And
that's how bad was it. Well, I did talk to

(01:37:49):
his manager previously. I don't know if she was on
the other line, if that's what it was called, causing
it to be a problem. But we'll see if he
calls back here, and why do the people do that?
We're not gonna ask got you questions? Right, We're just
not all right. I see the phone line ringing. Let's
hope that's Javelle McGee. We'll join us. Yeah, he's uh,
you know, it's got it's got trap music on, it's

(01:38:09):
got R and B music on it. It's got techno,
it's got hip hop. Um also, you know, like I
just fascinated by when you work on this stuff, when
you work on this stuff. But Javelle McGee joined us,
rejoins us on the Doug Gottlip Show. All right, so
you got this new album out? How long has this
project been going on before Team I decided to put it.

(01:38:35):
I decided to put out two months before that. Um.
I just felt like it was time to get my
music out and it would be a great time right
before the playoffs, so I wouldn't have any distractions. So
does uh do the guys on the team like it? Oh? Yeah,
getting me pretty good. Most of people are surprised that
is as good as it was. So who who likes

(01:38:58):
it the most? And who clowns you the most? Um?
No one plus me on the music? You know, I
don't know who really likes it the most? Like but uh,
I mean Clay Clay b uh play some some place
where I said a lot and uh some of the
trading staff tend to play it during the during workouts
and stuff like that. Why the studo name, Pierre? How

(01:39:21):
did you come upon that? I'll have beer for at
least five six years now, and uh I always went
by that. Uh one time I was out eating and
I told somebody my name and then I watched them
go to the side and searched me on Google, and
I was just like, that's weird. Like, so I started
telling people my name is Pierre, just so people wouldn't

(01:39:44):
have like a pre preconceived notion of me, like Jabelle
is a basketball player. Like if you don't know me
as a basketball player already and know me as who
I am, so so who? So what do you want
people to know? Because look, i know there's a different
side of you, and I've I've heard all the conversations
about you know, Shack Neil fool and how that that
that bothers you because it's like, look like I get it,

(01:40:07):
I've made some mistakes whatever, but I'm I'm not the
person that a highlight would portray me to be. What
is Pierre, Like, what is the real personality of you?
Like off the floor? Um, I mean the real personality
is just I'm just me, a very clever, hilarious, goofy person. Um.
But I mean I'm a serious person also, and I'm

(01:40:29):
not really into being the butt of Uh. If anyone's jokes, Um,
I'm also made if anything, So, I mean, you got
to respect me like I respect everybody else. And that's
all it really is. Javelle McGee joining us in the
doug Out Lip Show. Do you think it would have
been different? Do you think? I mean, like, look, it's
gonna end up working out for you in the end,
right in terms of NBA titles and financial success and
the ability to do all of these things. But I

(01:40:50):
remember when you left college after your first year, everybody
thought you had the potential. Do you think it would
have been different how ready you were for the NBA
in terms of, you know, in terms of being kind
of a grown up when you first got the league.
Had you spent another year in Nevada. Um, No, I
don't necessarily think it would have been different. Uh. I
feel like I feel like maybe my surroundings and the

(01:41:13):
people around me could have could have moded a younger
me better. But I also feel like I grew up
in the age of of like my NBA career, I
grew up in the age of social media and like
the rise of the spike of social media, and no
one really knew what social media could affect you, or
how it could affect you. So the fact that there

(01:41:35):
were videos of me flowing around everywhere going viral, of
me doing dumb stuff that every NBA All Star has done,
it just makes it seem everyone's a certain way, you
know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, no, I I totally
get it right, and you didn't. And probably at the
time you didn't realize the image that people were getting
of you were only based upon those things, and they
hadn't seen it from other people, so they think, well,

(01:41:58):
he's just silly, he's just goofy, he's just mature. When
lots of people previous to you had done that, they
just didn't have and you didn't understand the ramifications of
putting it out on social and and then me seeing
that made me made me hesitant to talk to the media,
so I didn't say anything to the media to back
it up or defend myself. I just would go cold

(01:42:20):
on the media. So it didn't help that either. So
when did you When did you feel like you figured
it out? I figured out more. I decided to, I guess,
defend myself and to just be and to accept who
I am and do whatever I want to do because
being in a situation where it's where it's always a

(01:42:41):
microscope for you to do something wrong, not even like
oh you did something right, like just can't the first
to do something wrong. It kind of gives you an anxiety,
I guess, so like, oh, I just everything's got to
be perfect when it doesn't. Yeah, And that's and and
it's kind of that's kind of one of the things
that you guys were able to do in Golden State,
isn't he kind of yourself, you know, within the within

(01:43:02):
the realm of of of the team, But you're still
I think Steve allows you a lot of freedom is people,
doesn't he you? Definitely he he knows. He knows that
basketball is only one fascinating of everyone's imagination and job.
So uh, he accepted the fight that everybody has their
own side thing if they do or anything that they do,
they accepted as long as it's not interfered with basketball. Um,

(01:43:25):
and it's final, all right, So what's up with the
last month of the season. You guys were awful. You
guys finished seven ten And it wasn't just that you
weren't playing. Uh, you know, and I know that I
know that some of it was they didn't want to
play Sean or Andre starters minutes, even though they would
play starters minutes without Steph in the playoffs. But you know, like, look,
whether it was effort or whatever was you guys just

(01:43:45):
weren't playing well. Now a sudden we see in the playoffs,
it's like a different team. What was really going on? Um,
I mean a team who has been in the in
the playoffs and in the final of the past four
years in a row. I just feel like you've get
bored and that last month of the season, we weren't
fighting to stay in second or we weren't fighting to

(01:44:06):
go to one. So I just feel like guys were
just kind of stagnant and kind of satisfied, like bridges
waiting for the playoffs, like we're not trying to We're
not really like like there's no you know what I'm saying,
there's a really we're not going up or down. So
but as soon as the playoffs came on, even our
practices were were ramped up, like it was just it

(01:44:26):
was just crazy. Everybody's mentality just changed. And we all
knew that that was gonna happen. But we're we're sad
that we didn't we uh at the last month any
it like that. But I mean, as long as these
playoffs work out, that's song that really matters. Russell Westbrooks
said that that that Utah fans. I don't know if
he said they're the worst, but he said, especially in Utah,
they say things about your family things that he's not

(01:44:48):
down with. Who's been the toughest on you personally? Um
like fan wise? Yeah, uh man, I mean not really,
It's not really nothing people can really say about Like
most of the stuff that people say is just checking
the schools. That's it. And I'm just like, okay, Google
person like, it's really not that's all people really say

(01:45:09):
to me. And I'm you know, I'm just like, wow,
Like you're really taking your time out the conversation with
me about this. You could have said anything in the
world to an NBA playing that you will never see again,
and you wanted to say that. So I'm just like,
all right, Uh, it is it is. It is interesting
what people say and then and then how when you
confront them then they get super nervous and maybe ask

(01:45:31):
for a selfie or for or for autographed stuff like that.
Give me the give me the adjustment you think the
Pelicans make. NBA teams make massive adjustments in between games.
You said to start this that, hey, the first time
blow out, that means we could let our guard down.
And this is a really good team. What do you
think the adjustment they make from game one to game
two is? Um, yeah, you know that means we can't
let our guard down. But uh, it's I mean, I

(01:45:53):
don't know what the adjustment they're gonna make, but but
it's expect one because it's definitely gonna gonna gonna sit
in with us and we're gonna have to at least
come in that first and third quarter as strong as
we did last game, so we should be good. Yeah,
I would say try not to run with you guys.
Running with you guys seems like a really bad proposition.
That's they try to play up tempo and that's probably

(01:46:14):
not the best formula for beating the Golden State worse.
Javelle is great stuff. Look forward if you're hearing all
sixteen tracks in the new album, and we appreciate you
joining its best of like Insta pels and we'll talk
to you the very near future. Pleasures mind Javelle McGee
joining us on the Doug Gotlip Show on Fox Sports Radio.
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You know, it's interesting. I saw, obviously Javelle play in college,
called his games in college, but um, also you know
his mom, Pam McGee was an incredible player, an incredible player,
one of the great women's basketball players of all time. Um,
and it's just interesting on how he felt like he

(01:46:58):
wasn't prepared for the pro is in he's only thirty
years old. Like, here's a good three or four years
of of of good javel left. Absolutely, the UH and
the Warriors would like some of those good minutes to
come up. I don't know, maybe tomorrow night against the
Pelicans or throughout the playoffs. Um. The Warriors also getting
Steph Curry back tomorrow, so that's also gonna help. So

(01:47:19):
if you have Jimmy jam JaVale McGee, see I'm having
trouble with it as well. If you have his good
minutes and you have Steph Curry back. Everything is great
for the Warriors. Steph Curry is probable to play in
tomorrow's Game two against the Pelicans with Golden State up
one oh won't be on a minute's restriction if he
does play, according to head coach Steve Kerr, Curry hasn't
played since March twenty three because of a knee injury.

(01:47:41):
Game one Eastern Conference Semifinals sixers in Celtics Tonight eight
o'clock Eastern Time. Celtics card Jalen Brown doubtful for tonight's
game because of a hamstring injury. The Cowboys reportedly tried
to acquire Seahawks safety Earl Thomas on Friday during the
NFL Draft. A report from one oh five point three
FM and Dallas said that the Cowboys, when they were
on the clock in the third round, called the Seahawks

(01:48:02):
to see if they were interested. Seahawks weren't there, so
Dallas ended up making the pick. Brown's picked up the
fifth year option on the contract of cornerback da Marius Randall.
Vikings corner Terrence Newman, who will turn forty in September,
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I know a lot of stuff, but I don't know everything.

(01:48:23):
You know who does? Hey, we don't know everything, but
we know people that know what you want to know.
You know, sounds like you meet a guy. I got
a game, Let's go to Cleveland. Joe Gabriel covers the
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(01:48:45):
Joe ge Joe Lebron clearly tired and rightfully so, after
carrying the Calves to UH four victories and seven games
over the Indiana Pacers. But wasn't that by design? It
was not what the Pacers wanted? You know, him go
one on one, try and tire them out and hope
that he doesn't have anything left in the tank for
the fourth quarter. Well, I don't know if that was

(01:49:09):
it was? Alright? Hold on a second show. Is it
possible that our phones all suck? Is it possible? That's
not anybody else. It's like we've become that guy who
thinks everybody who calls us man, I got four bars.
I got four bars. It seems to work. Now, we
do have a landline, and we do have UH, we

(01:49:32):
do have the great John Ramos working the board. So
I don't think it's anything technical with us. But is
it possible that our phone lines are the ones that
think that we're four bar? We're a four bar but
nobody can hear us? Guy? Is that possible, Ramos? Anything's possible, Doug.
Frustrating thing. We're like that dead spot on on any freeway.
Everybody knows a road, a route to work to which

(01:49:52):
they call or somebody calls them, they get a drop call.
That's what we've become at Fox Sports Radio. Man. I
don't like that. I don't like being that spot. We're
gonna effort and get back. Um, We're gonna effort and
get get Joe Gabriel back stug Gotlick Show, Fox Sports Radio.

(01:50:15):
He didn't know if that was I think what he
was saying was he didn't know if that was the
game plan, but that's the way it played out. I
think that's what he was saying. Maybe I should interview myself.
I do know that it would come across on a
clear line. But I do know that, so I'm very
very very confident. You do. We do take it for granted.

(01:50:36):
This is a lot, you know. I've also become like,
I've become guy on the plane who doesn't have WiFi
complaining about not having WiFi in the plane. What do
you mean this plane doesn't have WiFi? Like, dude, be
happy that you're playing. Can go from point A to
point B. All right, let's bring back in Joe Gabriel.
All right, Joe, So you were saying you don't know
if that was the game plan, but but I think,

(01:50:59):
like I said, I think they were probably seeing if
lay Hey, let's let's see if these other guys can
beat us. And uh, like I said, they almost got
away with it. Uh. You know, Lebron obviously carried the series.
He had a hundred and sixty more points than the
next closest score, so it was pretty one sided. Yeah, no, no,
I I think actually they didn't want to make let
anybody else beat them. I didn't they want to make

(01:51:20):
Lebron beat them in the fourth quarter. He only had
two buckets in the fourth quarter. That that said. You know,
he even said like I'm really tired afterwards. And I
know that Lebron sometimes can play things up, but I
think I believe him based upon how he played, how
he moved in that fourth quarter. I believe he was tired.
How hard is it gonna be to bounce back and
go to Toronto and play game one? Well, I mean again,
it's not just the physical I mean that that took.

(01:51:42):
I think it took a lot out of emotionally and
just spiritually that it's hard to carry a team for
for a seven game series. By the same token, Indiana
was a really tough matchup for us and had been
all season. So I don't know if if it's going
to come down to Lebron in this series. You know,
this is a much better matchup for Kevin and some

(01:52:02):
of the other guys. So I don't know if lebrid
will have to carry us in the series. But but
we'll see. Why do you think it's a better matchup?
I mean, I'm not, I'm not disagreeing with you, But
for people who haven't seen these teams matchup, why is
it better for Kevin Love? Well, the Pacers were the
only team they have a winning record against the CALVS
Eastern Conference team this season. keVs took two or three

(01:52:23):
versus Toronto. The thing about Kevin Love is, as far
as Thaddius Young, Dandy's Young is a really tough match
up with him and Kevin started its center I think
in uh six of the seven games, uh having a
cover of Miles Turner who beat him up on one
end and then Kevin had to deal with Daddy's young
on the other end. Uh, He'll I think this is

(01:52:44):
a much more favorable matchup for him and this way
as far as having a big center to chase him around,
that's that's really what we're looking for, is that kind
of mismatch. So you know, hopefully that'll you know, that'll
play through in this series. George Hill also played really
l late. Um how does how does he match up
with the Toronto backcourt? Well, you know, again, the Toronto

(01:53:07):
backcourt is look, they have a superior backcourt to us
that there's no way around it. But George Hill did
have a really nice second half after missing three games,
So you know, again I think he you know, he's
a much better matchup than Jose really would be at
this point. And again, you want to take Lebron off
the ball because when the guys playing forty plus minutes,

(01:53:29):
you hate to have him do that and run the
point guard at the same time. So getting Lebron off
the ball, we'll be big Heaven, George Hill back, Joe
Gabriel Calves beat writer calvs dot Com. Joe, thanks for
calling us back. We really appreciated the second line was
a good one in the future. Let's call him on
that one off, ellis that one's probably on all of us.
We're the bad cellphone reception guy. Thanks Joe. Okay, no problem, Doc,

(01:53:52):
I got a game man. Mark Rogers, host from eleven
to two on w w LS with Dusty Davorceek. I'm
sure he's discussed under at nauseam, but don't know Mark.
If you saw these quotes from Carmelo Anthony, Um, let's
see here he said, Uh, it wasn't no strategy for
me being here, me being part of an actual system
and what type of player and things like that. As

(01:54:13):
far as me being effective and that type of player,
I don't think I can be effective as that type
of player. I think I was willing to accept the
challenge in that role, but I think I bring a
little bit more to to the game as far as
being more knowledgeable what I can still do as a
basketball player. Translate that for me. I think that he look.
I think when he came to Oklahoma City, everyone even
though Oklaoma City thunder people thought he was going to

(01:54:35):
be the quote Olympic Mellow right. The stretch for that
was gonna shoot. He was gonna get some great, wide
open three point opportunities and you know, play the four role.
But he didn't play the four role very good this
year and it didn't work out. His numbers are down,
he didn't get as many shots, and I think that
that's just him living in the past, Doug. I just
don't think that he's the kind of player anymore that

(01:54:57):
you're gonna set up an isolation situation and get multiple
shots a game on a team or Russell Westbrook is
basically the CEO H and he's not handing out the
shots to Mellow to do that. All right? Can I
tell you who Karmelo Anthony reminds me of, sure, An
H two Hummer. I mean, back back in two thousand
to two thousand three, when you and I host a

(01:55:18):
radio show together, Hummers were pretty sick, right. I mean,
we have one wrapped at the television station I worked for,
and it was it wasn't a bad deal. You know,
it was cool. It was cool, but it didn't matter
if you've got ten miles the gallery. Like you look cool.
It was sport utility could run over stuff right, Like
you look tough. You look like you just topped out
of an army movie. But now you're like, he's an
io guy. The NBA, for the most part, isn't isn't

(01:55:39):
ISO centric. Uh, It's it's about ball movement. It's also
about being able to guard multiple positions. He can't guard
any position. Um, it feels like he's a player from
a foregone era and un and he doesn't want to
accept a subservient role. So what do you do with
twenty eight million dollar guaranteed deal. Well, here's what I
would do if I was Oklhoma City next year, I
would I would buy, I would negotiate. And when I

(01:56:01):
heard him say that he's not a backup, he's not
coming off the bench, I'm doing a high celebration in
my office if I'm Sam Presti. Okay, Well that means
that we're gonna be able to buy him out. Whether
is it gonna be a twenty million or is it
gonna be twenty two, I don't know. But he wants
to go someplace else and see if he can play.
So that's the deal. Hey, mellow, you know what, we
agree you're a starter someplace. It's just not gonna be here.

(01:56:21):
So buy it. Take the Hickey in one year, and
then maybe with the Thunder in two years. You can
try to compete for a championship if you can get
some pieces to fall into the right place. But they
have to buy him out. It has to happen, abe,
you know, Doug, I trust your inside. I think that
it's going to be tough for him to come back
and sign here. But I think he had one very
telling quote in his ex interview that just says, if

(01:56:43):
I can get on the same page with Sam Prestie,
Billy Donovan and Russell going forward, then this would be
an option and the first option to discuss. So I
think that means if there's some subtle changes to the
way the offense was run, if if there's maybe Paul
George having the ball in his hand a little bit
more and Russell playing off the ball, than would be
a palatable situation to him. But there's gonna be some
other teams out there, like Utah has got some money,

(01:57:05):
Philadelphia can have some money, and those are two teams
that are closer to winning a championships in Oklahoma City
is right. Now. Well, well, but y'all said, Russell playing
off the ball. And look, I know the guys in
that front office and they've often said, hey, we were
at it. We went to the NBA finals. James Harden
was our point guard in the fourth quarter, not Russell.
They know it, but no one's willing to tell Russ that.
And if I'm Paul George and you can say it

(01:57:25):
could be lift service, like, yeah, Russ is gonna play
off the ball. So I'm like, that's great. But there
are times in the fourth quarter no one else even
touched the ball. He didn't look for anybody else. He
just comes down and goes into his Russell thing. Well,
I think sometimes it may take an off season. I mean, look,
the this isn't a little bit of an indictment on
Billy Donovan. They had a whole season to get this
worked out. Okay, I mean it didn't work in the
beginning of the year because Russell was too passive. Then
it kind of changed, and then you know, they got

(01:57:47):
Mellow to buy in, and Mellows did a decent job
of buying in. He just didn't complain about until the
season's over. Season's over. And if Paul George talks to
Russell and he says, now, you know what, I'm not
willing to do that, or I don't see it that way,
then I think that tells you that he's going someplace else.
For sure. I think he might anyway, but I think
that's what he's referring to what he says. Can I
give him the same pain paid with Russell? Billy Donovan
and Sam Presti. Mark Rogers from w w LS The

(01:58:08):
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Curry probably the play in tomorrow's Game two against the Pelicans.
Head coach Steve Kerr said as much today had said

(01:59:14):
that if Curry plays, he will not be on a
minutes restriction. I'm excited to see what Steph has. Obviously,
um uh, they're not having a minute restriction. Tells you
that he's further along than anybody would lead you to believe.
I just I would bring him off the bench. The
one thing about bring him off the bench, though, is
you want a guy coming straight at warmups. The difference
those NBA. You warm up and then you got the

(01:59:36):
long introductions. You know, so you do cool off and
he can you know, there's a practice court, there's a bench,
there's a bike you can go hop on. I'm not
sure matters. I'd like to see him play, uh a
little bit later on in the first quarter, then right away,
but we'll see what he does. Provado, by the way,
still has the Warriors listed as the favorite win the

(01:59:58):
NBA title. What is of out here, Doug is the Raptors,
according to Bravada, our favored to win the East. But
when it comes to NBA title odds, the Sixers actually
have better odds than the Raptors. So so the idea
is that if the Raptors could get if the Sixers
could get by the Raptors, they're a better matchup. They're

(02:00:20):
more likely to win the finals than the Raptors are,
which I would agree with and I think, but I
don't think either team is winning a championship. Heat president
pat Riley says he has no plans to leave the
team until owner Mickey Harrison tells him it's time to go.
He also says no player on the current Heat team
is untouchable as far as those roster moves go. This offseason. Well, look,
this is the second year after a guy leaves, you know,

(02:00:43):
after you have some departure this tends to happen. Remember
Portland this year seen as underachieving right after last year,
they were surprising this year, the Pacers a little bit
better than we thought after Paul George gets traded away.
That second year is really hard. There are a couple
of years removed now from Bosh and Wade both being gone.
Last year they made that surprising push with all the
injuries they had, and this year they were a bit

(02:01:05):
disappointing the playoffs. There were some reports last week, but
nothing official from the NFL that the Browns could be
the front runner to appear on HBO's Hard Knocks this summer. Doug,
Maybe an official word coming this week. Are they one
of the teams? They are one of the teams under consideration. Yes,
who else have we seen the Browns in our lifetime?
Trying to think? I don't think so. I don't remember that.

(02:01:26):
I remember the Bengals, but I remember the Browns. Yeah.
And former quarterback and now broadcasters, No, we're we're past
Cleveland now. Sorry. Former quarterback and now broadcaster Tony Romo
won't be qualifying for US Open shout a five over
par seventy seven today in the local qualifier in Texas.
Here's what is. Tony Romo is a very very very

(02:01:46):
good golfer for one of us. But those guys are
pros for reason, and he's just not a pro. By
the way, Tony Romo just coming up post so short
is the most Tony Romo thing ever? Right, bag it
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(02:02:12):
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But for a reason. Women can be really neurotic. But
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it to foster and fester. Same thing with Oklahoma City.
They've created this for Russell Westbrook and now they got
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