The Refs Got It Right!

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You're listening to Boom, What Up America Doug Gottlieb Show,
Fox Sports Radio, coming to you from the sunny, glorious
city of Angels, where we like you watch the NBA
Finals and thought, I could that be our teams? I
couldn't that be our teams? I would love to say

(00:25):
there are other topics today, but there really aren't Game
one in the books. Um. I don't get them all right,
but I do do the self pat when I get
them right. I told you this thing that there's a
chance for a steal of a home game. Game one
was a perfect one. Warriors off just a ferocious seven
game series, brutally physical, taxing game seven series, and I'm

(00:49):
not convinced the Warriors are nearly as good as uh
public's perception of the Warriors are, especially without Andre Guadala.
All of this and Lebron James being um in kind
of some moment of zen offensively having an offense to
which you have perfect spacing around him. I gave them

(01:10):
the chick. I gave him a chance, absolute chance. The
ten point point differential at the end. I want to
know a lot of you sweating right that you're like, oh,
twelve and a half, this is in the bag. And
then you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Just one technical foul,
that's good enough. Congrats to Ryan Music, who is the

(01:31):
only one who picked I said he. I think he
said Calves by double digits. Oh, he said, well, obviously,
Warriors by double digit Excuse me. I thought would be
a close game, and we got a ridiculously close game.
I got a lot to get to, but let's start
with technology and our use of technology. First thing is,

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no matter how much Lebron James said, he read the
play better or as well as he's ever read the play,
was his quote afterwards, Right, I read the play as
well as I've ever read the play. This is Lebron.
After the game, we were told that they were viewing
if I had my feet outside the line. And when
I knew that, I was like, okay, that's gonna be
our ball. Um. I knew I was outside the charge line. Um,

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so that's that's that's what the communication was to us.
And we were all over on the sideline drawing up
a plate, um, you know, to try to execute um,
trying to go up a couple of possessions, No matter
how much Lebron said, Hey, this is that. I read
that that play defensively as well as any play I've read.
That's what the quote actually was. Um, I think that

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people who are arguing most most people Big Mike, who
works with this runs the runs the studio, He's like, oh, no,
it was it was the charge. I think most of us,
especially when you watched in the slow mo, he got
to be said before he goes into his move. He
was never said he turned his body. Uh. I think
most people, if you ask them, they would go like, yeah,

(03:03):
it kind of look more like a block. What you're
bothered by is how can you review a judgment call? Right?
Do you know they could review a judgment call? And
technically technically you can't. Only you can if you have
to review whether or not his feet were outside the line,
which leads me to believe that the officials one had

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a charge, one or maybe two had a block, and
after making the call they got together like, well, let's go, um,
everybody do the fingers together check the replay to see
if his feet were outside the lines. Oh yeah, by
the way, while we're there, why don't we going to
check on whether or not it was actually a charge.

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You gotta get every good good So whether it was wink, wink,
nod not, whether it's just some eye contact or you
got three of and believe it or not, this is
the This is the hardest statement to make. These are
actually three the best officials in all of basketball. You're like,
no way, like, yep, however you grade them, these are
actually as this is actually as good as it gets.

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That's the best the NBA can do. And you can
sit there and tell me, no, they stink and they
made mistakes last night. They made mistakes. I don't think
they stink. They made mistakes. But it also proves how
bad most other officials are. Anybody who plays basketballs like, yeah,
you're right, that's they're actually way worse. Otherway, anyone who
played overseas or you watched the Olympics, You're like, wow,

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they're awful. This is actually the best officiating you're ever
going to get your like, no way, yep. I think
we're more bothered how they got to it than whether
or not the call was right. It's a hard call, right,
I'm not denying that. Kevin Durant wasn't selfish not denying
that Kevin Durant didn't play poorly. It was a simple

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drop off past Draymond Green, who might have dunked, probably
laid the ball in. Maybe Lebron deflects the past, but
the likehood is if he simply jump stops and lays
the ball off, it's dunk, it's a layup, and we
play on. It's the process by which they got to it,

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which the officials weren't totally honest with how they corrected
the call. I know that you think that you can't
have this, you can't change judgment calls. But the fact
is you watched football which doesn't allow this type, this
type of overturn, and thought they should. That you watched

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for whether or not a catch was made or not made,
and said, hey, why can't they go back and say
that's past interference. You ever watched a play like that,
I've I have where they miss a call and then
but by rule they can't go back and change it,
and you think it's infuriating. What's the point of having
replay unless the only reason every play is to get
it right, correct, right, And this is one of the

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problems with getting it right. Here here's the best equation
I can make. Does your car have a parking sensor.
Beeeeee do you can have a parking sensor? Have parking censor?
Sometimes it's way, way too sensitive, Like I got it,

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I'm just parking the car. That's what this is. Sometimes
it's a little bit too much, but you know what,
the parking sensor stops you from doing bumping into another car.
Does your car have a seatbelt sensor? Oh that's seatbelt thing.

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I hate that seatbelt thing. You know what, you won't do,
You won't drive without your seatbelt. Technology is amazing. I
think it's amazing. I have a button in my car.
I'm gonna hate to break here that can parallel park
my car for me, I gotta stop at the right
spot and I can parallel park my car. That's crazy, crazy, right,

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Isn't that? The most nerve wracking part about taking a
driving driving test is like, I gotta the parallel parking?
Who do? Who likes parallel parking? Now? I, particularly because
I lived in work New York City, I'm actually a
great parallel parker. But the idea of having no adjecta,
no anxiety over parallel parking, like Nope, there's literally no
way that my car will crash into another car was

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parallel parking because I got this one button. I'd like crazy,
but I gotta stop it just so I gotta make
sure that it says I can parallel park. I gotta
press the button and then I gotta take my hands off.

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So you've been screaming for technology. You discussed we need
artificial intelligence here, that's what you got. You've got technology.
You've got the call right, and whether or not the
NBA is completely on and forthcoming about why they went
to review the call. Anybody who's ever played basketball knows
that sometimes the ball goes out of bounds off of you,

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but you got fouled, so you get the ball. Why
got even it up? The same thing is true here.
My guess is that they had a disagreement on the call.
One guy had charged one or maybe two had a block.
You know, we'll do let's go and check to see

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if his feet are outside the semi circle. Because the
officials know all of the rules. That's why they made
it to the NBA Finals, and they know that the
only way to overturn this call to make sure they
get it right is to review it. And after reviewing it,
it actually goes to the league office, to which they said, like,

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there's a block. And for people who say, oh, well,
you know, Steve Javvy, he had it as a charge. Like, dude,
Steve Javy, all he's trying to do is not sell
out the guys on the floor. He thought they had
a charge. A charge has never been overturned in the
history of basketball, which you saw last night is the

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first time in playoff basketball n c A tournament. I
know there's a bunch of Baylor fans who love that.
I zing Duke because a couple of years ago, five
six years ago, they they they beat Baylor on a
super controversial should have been a charge, was called a
block call or two three. But the point is, we

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have never said that has never happened before. Here's Tyler,
you know, for our team to come out and you know,
play their hearts out and compete the way we did. Man,
I mean just I mean, it's it's bad and it's
never been done before, where you know, he's outside and
restricted and then you go there and overturn the call
and saying some block. It's never been done ever in

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the history of the game. And then tonight in the
finals on the biggest stage, team play that play well
and play their ass off man, and just here's the
here's here's the problem. Okay, I thought Tyler did a
magnificent coaching job. I think everything he said is correct.
They outplayed the Warriors. They deserve to win the game.

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Was it a charge or was it a block? That
was never asked of him? Was it a charge? It
was a block? And he well, is this and that
it would never be done. I'm not disputing any of that.
But just because it hadn't been done did not mean
they didn't ultimately get the call right And oh yeah,
by the way, while we're sitting here making all kinds
of funny memes about j R. Smith not knowing the

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score and then lying about it afterwards, George Hills an
free throw shooter. He made the first, he choked the second.
He makes that free throw. There up one point with
four seconds to go. But Tyler saying, we we played
our hearts time you did, We competed, you did. We

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deserved to win you did. We did this and we
did that, and we held that and we were you did.
Nobody's arguing that was the charge? Was the block? All honesty?
They didn't call it a charge it's never been overturned before.
Wasn't a charge or was it a block? Was block
it the block? Here's k D's thoughts. Well, I could

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have bucked j R. R. I gotta do a better job.
So I'm glad we we was able to get to
win with that happening. But the block charge thing, Um,
I knew once it was thirties thirty seconds ago that
they can review that situation. I knew that. I knew
he was late on the drive and I know I
had my man beat and he came over a little lake.
So when they called the charge, I was surprised, but
I'm glad they reviewed it. You know what the other

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part is, you'll never hear anybody back up, and you're
never like, hey, we got when I got away with
one there he did kind of like I didn't. I
didn't do a good enough job box out. No, you
didn't box out at all. He didn't do a good
enough job. That's that It let me translate, you did
a terrible job. J R. Smith, who's not a rebounder,

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got an offensive rebound in the biggest situation in the game.
And you're seven people with long arms with inside position
other than that you totally nailed the rebounding things. Uh,
we will, We'll look. We'll take some calls on this.
I had fun with the calls yesterday. I know, usually

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I don't love taking calls, but I how can you
not be entertained by Lebron was I'll get to my
Lebron and me saying that Kevin Durant the better player
this season and was better last year in the finals.
How do I evaluate after one game? I'll share that
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six three six nine, what are your thoughts on last night, Doug,
I got, I got a couple of good points to
make and thanks for taking a call, Um. There were
so many more calls that were blown that weren't in
favor of the Cavaliers. For one couple of possessions before
the block charge you got Kevin Durant goes makes a drive,

(15:57):
his arms or smacked the ball comes for Cleveland Taste possessions.
But then Lebron goes down Katie, takes Katie smash it
out of his hand. All ball. They call foul. Then
we go to the JR play, So j R gets
the rebound. However, let's forget the u UM. They'd be

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blocking the back on Katie. Where he pushes Katie in
the back, he gets the rebound. However, if he goes
back up with the shot and it goes in, there
is still four point seven seconds on that clock. You
got three of the world's deadliest shooters on the floor.
No guarantee Cleveland wins that game. And lastly, I think
I've been listening to the other station all day. Gas

(16:40):
Bags just the lore. But let's go ahead and say
zero zero and over time what happens in Cleveland? Then
Lebron chokes. Here's here's the thing. I mean, Look, do
I do I think there were some calls? Do I
think Lebron gets the benefit of the doubt because he's
the aggressor, because he is big and strong, and the

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second you touched him, he gets some calls? Sure? Sure,
and and and look, Kevin Durant was not good last night.
You're just not gonna come and I'm a huge Kevin
Durant fan. You're not gonna convince me that he was good.
Do they miss some calls? Yeah, I don't think people
are even bothered by by the call itself. It's that
they had This had literally never happened before. I actually

(17:24):
think they got the call right. It's just the process
of of of which they got to getting the call right.
Was was new and was they were disingenuous because he
wasn't close to being around the semi circle. I think
they disagreed on the call. They went to review, and
upon further review, I thought it was a block. That's it.

(17:44):
Lebron was incredible. His team missed a couple of shots. Jr.
Butchered and offensive rebound, but George Hill ms a free
throw that could have given them a one point lead
with four seconds to go. That's it. That that to
me is a is a is a stab shot of
the game. Let's welcome in Ryan Hollands, who played for
a decade in the NBA. You see him on our network,

(18:06):
you see him on ESPN as well covering the NBA. Ryan,
what's let's let's start with the block charge? Was that
absolutely the deciding play in the game. No, no, that
wasn't Cleveland getting robbed two plays prior against the stat
Golden State team was the decider in the game. And

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interesting enough is that Kenny was on that baseline and
he moved a block. But he tried to give Doug
and you know this, we've had it happened all the
time since youth basketball. A makeup call, you give a
makeup call back on the other way. And when he
attempted to do the makeup call, they overruled it because
he knew how he knew, he knew he had the angle. Oh,

(18:50):
people gotta understand, there's three referees. Every referee has a
different angle, Every referee has a different story. Okay, So
he tried to help clean the game up, Kenny on
a Bay five and he couldn't do it. And then
the rule came in place, and that's why everybody's upset.
And it shouldn't even have been revealable. Wait, what what

(19:11):
play are you talking about? A couple of plays before
there is a blatant foul, A play before and then
Kevin Durant goes out abound its side sender bound. Okay,
so hey, you're Cleveland, that's given everything, every little mustard up.

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I hope you got all right to be able to
beat Golden State. You know, listen, offense is a struggle
and they could not bounce back from that, and they
worked the ball around as month. You couldn't have had
a better possession, and then they were arrived. Ryan Hollands
joining us in the Doug Outland Show on Fox Sports Radio.

(19:54):
What's about with k D? He actually have somebody of apiable?
You're available, able to hold hold on? Hold on Ryan,
hold on real quick? Hey can we get can we get?
Ryan's really good, He's got great information. I want to
get him to where he's in a good spot. Uh,

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(20:58):
be suspended for going onto the court during that little
melee they had in overtime last night in Game one
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reporting that the league reviewed the play and said Love
steps on the court when Tristan Thompson was called for
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each other, he retreated, so therefore no suspension. Kevin Love
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Let's get back with Brian Hollins, who joins us. He's
heading into work. Was in a bad kind of sell area. Okay,
so what's the matter with k D. Listen when I
say this, Cleveland now actually has a guy available to
guard Kevin Durant, a guy available. Can Lebron James card

(22:46):
guard Kevin Durant, Yes, clearly, but he's got the role
on his fleet. You gotta score fifty one and he
would have had a triple double if these guys could
have made an open three point shot, okay, or if
he wasn't fould every time that he passed the ball
out that wasn't called just green. Former teammate of Kevin
Durant has a size and athleticism, and obviously it feels

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just like practice. He's a guy who can actually guard
Kevin Durant. And when you put him in a screening
situation here, Lebron switched several times that game. But yeah,
Katie's probably a little tired. I'm sure everybody's tired at
this point. But they actually have a match up to
stay in front of them. You bring former teammate to mind. Man,
he's I mean, that's just the heck of a defender. No,

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not just that, but the other part is it Lebron
guarding Draymond gives him the opportunity, with the exception of
when he screens for Kevin Durant to catch a break,
you know, to catch his breath defensively so that offensively
he can show his superpowers. You know, they're they're playing
kind of three on five on offense, and they smartly
put Lebron James, you know, Lebron James and Draymond who

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I know he hit two last night, one and overtime,
but for the most part, doesn't even want to look
at the basket. Draymond and Green has been passing up
more shots than his rookie year and his rookie here.
He passed them up because he couldn't shoot. I'm not
sure what's going on with Dreamline, but he hasn't even
been looking at the rim. And yeah, one of my

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keys to the game, my two keys to the game,
which is disappointing, where Cleveland was pace and physicality. They
beat them up off the offensive boards. And when I
say pace, playing in Cleveland's face, not Golden States. And
you have a Lebron that's able to rest. That's that's
a key to the game. That is a that is
a blessing. That's something that he couldn't do the last time.

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It's a great point. Ryan Hollands joining us on the
Doug Gotlub Show on Fox Sports Radio. What do you
think on the I mean, look j R. Smith and
he can say afterwards he thought it was tied. But
I mean we all read his lips. He didn't know
the score. He thought they he thought they had to lead, right.
So just as basic as this, the team Cleveland got

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cheated yesterday. Those guys are upset and they essentially they're
sticking together. They're they're banding together, and they're not a
knowledge you Internally, he's getting slapped in the back of
the head a couple of times, okay, and he's kicking
himself harder than anybody else. As j R. Smith is
that type of guy. What the the Jr? That you

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see and you you think you know who he is
on the court man, he's one of the most humbled
down earth guys I've I've ever known, I've ever been around. Okay,
but he's kicking himself in the back of the head.
But I applauded Cleveland because those guys are having his
back and sticking together, and they've made a choice not
to acknowledge what happened. That's not important in Lebron. Let
me give this to you, Doug. You want the psyche
of the game. Lebron pulled this when they were down

(25:38):
three one. He actually responded to Draymond, got in Draymond's face,
I want to say, almost pushed him, and Draymond gets
to tech down three one game series play, game changing
play last night. And every time I've compete against Lebron
and we we've said things to him, We've hit him. Well,
I didn't say things, so we hit him, done everything

(25:59):
to try to knock month of the game. It didn't
work at the end of the game. Of those in
the first in the first excuse me in the in
game one, and Lebron doesn't respond. And at the end
of the game Lebron started that whole scuffle. That was
Lebron doing that, and he knew that he needed to

(26:19):
overshadow what had happened. He knew he had to overshadow
Jr's mistake. Say guys, well let's fight, let's come together,
And that's what you saw Ron James do. There was
no accident. That is probably one of the most intelligent
moves you ever saw. It because he knows he needs
j R. And Jr. Loves to fight, and everybody's gonna

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have Lebron's back. So how likely are we to have
a series? You're very likely. You're very likely because Golden
State only did what they were supposed to do, going right,
then Golden State did what they were supposed to do,
and yesterday Lebron rallies troops again. And there's a lot

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of homes in that Golden State team. I don't know
if Clay Thompson plays the next game. Don't be surprised
if he shows up on that injury report, all right,
not able to play. I have stuck world. I don't
know how he got back in that game. Okay, so
Eagle Dona, I thought he comes back firing on all cylinders,

(27:22):
a lot of wholes. We were able to execute their
game plan. And if a couple of guys on the
league down three, not that a handful of list, we
got a series. Brother. I completely agree with you. You You know,
I've I've heard people and it's it's almost it hurts
my brain sometimes it's like, well, look at all these

(27:44):
things that that had to happen, and and Golden State
still beat them. I was like, dude, Golden State shot
fifty one thirty six and miss one free throw the
entire game played at home, had to run at the
start of the third quarter, and still did a crazy
sequence of events in the fourth quarter just to you know,

(28:04):
just to beat um, just to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers
in Game one. I'm with you. I thought it was
a series before the series, and I think it's a
series now. You gotta be physical with him, and I
think the space around them. They last year they had
a bunch of dudes they can throw out Lebron James
to guard him. Now the best guy they have to
guard him is Kevin Durant, and clearly he's struggling with it.

(28:27):
It wears him down offensively. And without Iguadala, they have
no spacing. They don't have a guy to keep on Lebron.
They're all screwed up right now. They're not to mention
Kevin Durant had to start on Lebron, and now Katie's
worrying about defense and scoring. And nobody wants to give
up a bucket. You know what I'm saying. You give
up a buckett a morale loss on the other side,

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and you know, Lebron is not the guy you kind
of talked mess to. When he can, when he can
put you in the rim, it's it's gonna be it's
gonna be fascinating to see Stug gotlip show Fox Sports Radio. Ryan,
thanks so much for joining us. May all right, right,
Ryan Hollins, who uh, he's like, he's one of those
guys and I have this to where you got like

(29:11):
two or three jobs you're doing. Guys, remember in Living
Color gives me another show and Living Color music is not.
It was a it was a really it was a
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Jim Carey, as well as a bunch of other comedians

(29:34):
and actors. It was a variety show that was on.
Was it on Fox? Yeah? I think I think it was. Anyway,
they used to have this bit on these Jamaicans on
the butcher, the baker, the candlestick make on I have
sixteen job. That's what Ryan. Ryan hollen was like, Well,
he'd works for Fox. M Me said ESPN sing he

(29:56):
does a little bit of Lakers stuff, and he's that
he'd works a bunch of different jobs. Were does some returner,
he does a bunch of stuff. Um, there are some
things to which are useful stats. And again I'm not
gonna sit here and be dude analytics suck guy, all right,

(30:17):
but I want to point out that everything deserves a
bit of context. Stats do matter, but we can't always
take stats at what. Well, you know, here's the stat
plus minus, right, plus minus is what you do for
a team when you're what your team does when you're
on the floor and when you're not off the floor.
It's it's the end all be all for stats. You

(30:39):
ever heard that, right, Because that's all that matters. And look,
it's an argument that I've made million times over the
coaches I've played for. Hey, dude, yeah, I know I
can't see you, but look, when I'm in, the score
goes up. When I'm out, score goes down. It's a
good argument. Last night it wasn't a good argument. Plus,
my howes out? How would you give me a word

(31:02):
John Ramos to describe Lebron James's performance impressive? Dan Buyer,
could you give me a word to describe Lebron james
performance complete? Lebron James plus minus was minus thirteen. Give

(31:25):
me a word, John Ramos to describe Kevin Durant's performance missing? Okay,
Ryan Music, you want to give me a word to
describe Kevin Durant's performance? Bad? Good? Uh? Do you? Dan Buyer?
Could you give me a word to describe Kevin Durant's

(31:46):
performance spotty? Plus sixteen? Was this plus minus? Now we
found you got Liep. You're factoring in overtime. They lost
by tens Fine, take out the ten point in overtime.
Lebron would still be and I'm not sure. I think
he played every minute overtime, so you'd still be a

(32:06):
minus three and Kevin Durant would still be a plus seven.
Even that is not indicative on any way of how
well they played. Does it point to the holes which
I have been pointing out Ryan Hollins just pointed out
on Golden States Roster. Sure, that's that's fine. But if
you want to give me plus minus, I give you.

(32:26):
Lebron James was a minus three and painted a virtuoso.
It wasn't just like, here's what happens is everybody goes like, dude,
he had fifty one points and dude, he shot above
fifty and that's not what impressed me about Lebron. It
was it was there's two different elements to what made

(32:49):
Lebron's performance so spectacular. Yes, the sheer numbers nineteen of
thirty two, three of seven from three, remember you, Mtica
Bull in overtime, eight rebounds, eight assisted at five, turn
of one block, one steal, fifty one points in forty
eight minutes. Wow. Wow. What's more impressive to me is

(33:15):
he went through a stretcher. He hit a couple of
threes in the third quarter and he's like, dude. Then
he took a couple of heat check threes and he
missed him both. Then he missed a couple other jump shots.
And you know what he said after that with the
jump shots, dude knows when to rest, when to play hard,
when to shoot jumpers, and when to drive the basketball.
He was in complete control. And oh yeah, by the way,

(33:36):
the past at George Hill, he didn't want to, but
George Hill made a nice cut and they lost him
defensively because they were so worried and focused on Lebron,
they wanted to run at him and double and he
made him pay. So like, look, if you want to
sit there and tell me, hey, plus minus plus minus
plus minus plus minus cool. If you watch the same

(33:59):
game I watched, and I watched offense and defense, and
I'll give you that Lebron got to take more possessions
off defensively because these Garden Draymond Green. I will give
you that, But I would also point out to you
that um plus mine is not in any way indicative
of how remarkably complete was that Your word for almost complete?

(34:22):
That was buyers were buyer's word was complete. That performance
was from Lebron great word outstanding? All right? Will j R.
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white guy discussion, so listen. If you're black, it's okay.
You guys have to discussions that we can't have either. Okay,
it's a hair discussion. What happened to Kevin Love's hair?

(35:05):
Did you did you music? Did you see it? Have
you seen it? Um? It's it's so not good. It's
it's really awful. Um, Kevin Love's hair. Look. I used
to cut my own hair occasionally in college. I'll forever
kick myself because I had great hair in college, great hair.
But I used to put like a two guard on

(35:27):
and I could, I could, you know, fade the sides
and then I could blend it and whatever. It's fine.
Now I go to somebody who really knows how to faith.
The problem is that I'm covering up you know what
what my genetics are trying to, you know, take away
from me in my hair. So like a how I
spend money on a really good fade, but it doesn't
have nearly the effect it would have had when I
had good hair. Kevin Love has good hair, so I

(35:48):
I don't like look Lebron. Obviously it looks like he's
lost his hair, and then he's probably had some work
done up top. K D's got something going on up
top as well, but it's not balding. It's like he's
got almost that that ringworm type deal right where it
makes it look spotty. Kevin Love has no excuse for this.

(36:10):
He has good hair. He got a terrible fade before
the NBA Finals. That's unacceptable and I would just wonder
if he did it himself or if he used the Flowby.
He's a mber flobes any bey remember a floby fire?
You're you're a Midwestern guy. You had to know what
a floby was, right, Um A little bit? Yeah? Is
it kind of like a gosh, is it like a

(36:31):
wand sort of thing. No, it's like a clippers with
a vacuum and it would as you cut your hair,
it sucks out the hair as well. It's a flowby
and you can vacuum cleaner. Yeah, sort of. Yeah. And
it's like a nineties or you know, early century like
late late at night infomercial. Try the flowby. You know

(36:53):
this this is a listen and look. Black guys can
get bad fades too, or bad haircuts, but then a
white guy fade. Thing is It's just indescribably bad and
it's unacceptable to me. How do you not how do
you not have any friends on the team? Like yo, dude? Really,
unless he got it right before the game and there
was no time for an adjustment. That's the only thing

(37:14):
I can think of, Like, oh, man, I got a
bad haircut. All you need to see my guy like
I just have no time, okay, or if he did
it in the hotel room by himself, but I just
tweeted out a picture of it. It is awful, sag.
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show. Becky

(37:35):
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I have got psychic? It's like they use the three
setting and then zero setting. That's what it was trying

(37:58):
to do it. Yeah, that's what it seemed like. All right,
we got some psychics. So psychic. Well, last night's blunder,
make head coach Tyler take j R. Smith out of
the lineup late in future games? No, I would. I
would guess this is one of those. And and supposedly
he's made this mistake before with the Knicks where he
didn't know the score. But you know, I think, like,

(38:19):
what are you gonna you gotta roll with j R.
You're gonna play Yeah, I mean, you're gonna play Corver,
who is a better shooter but can't guard anybody. No,
I mean, I don't think any adjustments made. I I'm like,
I do think that I'm gonna be interested to see
if he makes a bunch of shots or he shook
by people's reaction to it. I do think that j R.
Just being so unaware and so kind of out of

(38:41):
it kind of helps. That's why one of the reasons
he's such a good shooter. He doesn't he doesn't yet.
In order to be a good shoot, you can't be
that smart. You gotta not think about things. You got
to not think about the ramifications of missing. I don't
want to tute my own horn, but I put a
tweet up last night. If you see the defensive Golden
State when j R. Smith is running like, they don't
even bother with j R. Smith, Clay Thompson to Lebron
who didn't even have the ball when j R. Smith

(39:03):
was running away, he wasn't even a threat. Everybody, everybody
couldn't believe what he was doing. Yeah, like, do want
to guard the guy with the ball or without? I'll
go guard Lebron. He doesn't have it. Um In fifty
three minutes of game time last night, four Warriors were
on the court forty five minutes or more in Game one.
You can guess who those four are. So psychical, Steve
Kurr allow these players to continue to play so many

(39:23):
minutes in the series. I don't think they have a choice.
And remember there's a lot of time off in between.
You got Friday and Saturday to rest. I just I've
told you guys all year this the bench for Golden
State is awful and just a precipitous decline. Once you
take any of those four out and you're already having
to start a fifth guy. Um, do I think he

(39:43):
plays them a little bit less. I think you'll see
JaVale McGee some. I think you'll see Jaja some. I
think you'll see some other dudes play. But I don't know.
I don't know if you'll take I'd say you'll see
just a slight partial. You're also not gonna have overtime,
so you're not gonna have as many minutes, so there'll
be a slight adjustment, but this is who they gotta

(40:05):
roll with, and the time off actually helps them. A
report from WOD says Michigan's John Beeline interviewed with the
Pistons yesterday for their head coaching vacancy. So psychical a
big ten coach from the state of Michigan ever leave
for a job in the NBA. I think tom Azzo
will leave if he gets offered a job. I think
you'd leave, alright. Bavado, by the way, is listed odds
and how many teams will be fine for violating the

(40:26):
NFL's new national anthem policy? Psychic? How many teams will
violate the new anthem policy? Is the over under his
set at three and a half. Oh, that's an over,
absolutely over, because I don't I I don't think now
the protest is about what the protest was initially about.
It's about Trump, and especially now the acknowledgement in a
deposition about Colin Kaepernick that these the owners got calls

(40:50):
from Trump and he said it was a winning, winning
topic for him. I think it's gonna be some of
the protests will be about the protests, some of it
will be about Trump. Uh. Final thing, it's not even
a prediction psychic. Just wanted to let you know. It's
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(41:11):
This is game time on the duck Got Leaves show
the Forces with the Dad. There will be a lot
of solo home runs. Heyo, and again a massive get
well to Teddy Lightninger Teddy Ballgame who stepping away from
his long time duties as the Padres UH radio broadcaster

(41:32):
as he's fighting cancer, kidney cancer. Lebron did something last
night we haven't seen a very long time. Tell you
what that is? Next to the Dug Gotlip Show. You're
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Fox Sports Radio. I hope you're having a great Friday,
ready to making an incredible weekend. Pretty cool. Watching Tiger

(41:55):
Woods Pollittal Golf Memorial. He's three under. Never finished at
even par yesterday, so uh, doesn't take a math whiz
to point out he's playing better today than he played
yesterday when he had to finish strong. Uh. The leaders
are nine under. So and that one is gonna spin back? Well, no, yes,

(42:16):
said Jessica. And is that live? That that that that
just happened live. You want to make sure that just
happened live. I believe that that is Uh, that's an
eagle too, isn't it for Eldrick Tiger Woods. Sorry, I
know I'm not supposed to be watching live television while
conducting a national radio broadcast, but the hell with it.

(42:37):
It's Tiger Woods, y'all. And I think he just spun
one back in from it looked looked like he's like
a hundred and twenty yards away. He is on the
eleventh hole, and that was no. I was an eagle, eagle, three,
eagle three in a par five. He has not done
why he did yesterday poorly in the par fives. Today
he's got a birdie, an eagle on the par fives.

(42:59):
That's the eleven toll. That was pretty cool. So Tiger
goes from three under to five under and that will
put him propel him all the way to seventeenth place.
So right there in the hunt at Memorial where I
trust all things. I trust Dan Byer on a lot
of things, but golf I absolutely trust him on. He

(43:19):
said he's one there three times, so this is a
place he's won. He feels good and he's one of
their five times. By are you screwed me yesterday when
you said three? Actually I corrected myself later, but you didn't.
You didn't hear that. Stop listening. He's one of their five,
he won their five times. He just and uh, that's

(43:40):
I love watching that. That's pretty cool. I mean, spun
that sucker back and Tiger Woods who said his back
was stiff yesterday and he managed even par and people
are like, yeah, whatever, And now of a sudden and
look it's Kyle Stanley, Bryson, De Shambo, Wesley, Brian Decki, Matsya,
Jason Day up there at eight under. So there is
a big name, a top leaderboard. But this is a

(44:02):
star studded tournament. But most of the stars are not
atop the leaderboard, with the exception obviously of Jason Day.
So you'd have to feel really, really good if your
Tiger putting yourself in the hunt for the weekend Tiger
being Tiger, something we haven't seen in quite a while.
Speaking of something we haven't seen in quite a while,

(44:24):
and how good was Lebron James yesterday? Now I'll point out,
and this is really important that unlike last year, he
doesn't have to expend as much energy defensively, and he's
smartly like found times to rest offensively, even though he's
really their only threat outside of Jordan Clarkson off the drive.

(44:46):
Like one reason Jordan Clarkston plays like a guy who's told, dude,
you gotta score every time you have the ball is
because they need somebody else who can make a play
and give Lebron James a breath. So Lebron catching his
breath offensively, he's really important for his success offensively, and
that's why they put him. You know, started him on

(45:09):
started Andremond Green and there's times which he just kind
of takes a break on defense. But even the most
ardent hater of Lebron James, you find an LB J
Hayter and they're having a really tough time dealing with
Lebron James complete and utter dominance. In the first four

(45:30):
quarters of action last night, he was Spectacon. Spectacon. Here's
Steve Kerr on Lebron. We're playing a great team. They've
been to the finals four years, Agrow, just like we have.
For a reason. You know, they have a guy who's
playing basketball at a level that I'm not sure anybody's
ever seen before when you consider everything he's doing, so

(45:51):
it's gonna be a tough series. It's gonna be a
tough series. There are people and this is kind of
a it's it's not a direct shot at Nick, right,
but Nick is the perfect example of this. I have said,
going back to last year's finals, like Kevin Durant, Lebron
James had a better career. Kevin Durant was the better
player in the finals last year. And you can say, well, look,

(46:15):
Lebron did this statistically, that's juststically, and I would admit
that I thought the Warriors were slightly better. But remember
last year's Cavalier's team was not. Oftentimes we complate finals teams.
Last year was not only Lebron. It was Lebron, was Kyrie,
was Kevin Love, was Tristan Thompson, was j R. Smith,

(46:35):
same team that had won a title the year before,
and they were not only beating four games to one.
Lebron was bested in the fourth quarter in every statistical category.
And it wasn't close by Kevin Durant, who he guarded
and guarded him. It was really that simple. Hey, in
the second half of the most important games, going against

(46:56):
one another, Kevin Durant was better. And then during the
regular season, like Kevin Durant was more engaged defensively. Uh,
what is a seemingly impossible cover. Why not Kevin Durant
had surpassed him as the best player in the league.

(47:19):
And my fear has always been with Lebron two things.
One his confidence can wane and his jump shot and
at some point, at some point um his athletic his
the step that he has, the athleticism that he has
at his size, He's going to lose a step he
has not as of yet, but looks look just like

(47:44):
I can say, Hey, last year, Kevin Durant in a
matchup with Lebron James was better. I'm also allowed to
say that one game in and based upon the conference finals,
which Durant was awesome the first couple of games and
then struggled at the end. It is also it's funny
we all we never point out Lebron James's struggles in

(48:05):
game one and the fact that he seemed to shut
it down in Game five and he wasn't good, right,
we would admit that, like we can say he was
awesome in game six and awesome in Game seven. We
can also say that he wasn't as good in game one.
In game five, same thing with Kevin Durant. Was awesome
in game one, in game two, game three kind of
started to struggle some Game four that's when that's when

(48:26):
all of a sudden, uh, he looked a little bit lost.
By the way, coincided with andre Iguodala not play but
one game in Lebron James the best was the best
player in the floor, and it wasn't particularly close. I'm
also watching on NBA TV the replay and in SlowMo.

(48:47):
In fast mo, I think it's a block. Do I
think Kevin Durant should have dropped the ball off? Sure?
It's also fair to say that if we would agree
Lebron James gets superstar calls, is that okay when like Leron,
James drives as he gets superstar calls. Is there any
way in which Lebron James would be called for a
charge if he was driving and Kevin Durant was taking

(49:09):
a charge. Probably not. I think they ultimately got the
call right. I think a lot of us didn't know
the process that it could be reviewed, and I think
the way the the NBA used those NBA officials used
a an unknown rule to review something that they probably
disagreed on without appearing disagreeable. Man, it's a really hard call.

(49:33):
Why don't we let secaucus decide it? And they did,
and that's why it was overturned. But Lebron playing at
an amazing level. What you shouldn't do is you shouldn't
say he's always played this amazing level in the finals.
He didn't. He didn't play this level late in the game.
Last year, there were times against the Spurs to which

(49:57):
he would question his own jump shot and he would
become passive. This was he was not always in this
moment or realm or time of zen. He just wasn't.
But last night he was spectacular. I can't even be

(50:18):
critical of the shots to which he missed in overtime
because I'm I'm guessing regulation that that that call that
the charge block was thirty six point four. He probably thought,
at that point in time, we get a bucket. This
game is over, whether it is or isn't. And then
you had George Hill missing a free throw with four
seconds ago. He makes that doesn't mean it's over, but
it puts them up one, and the Warriors got to

(50:39):
make some sort of shot off a catch and shoot
or you know, very short period of time. And even
when j R. Smith gets it, they don't call time out.
He doesn't go up and scored like all of these things.
How many times have you seen that you have a
team beat and somehow they survive force overtime and the

(51:01):
game is essentially you're kind of out on your feet
because you've expended so much energy and so much emotion
to get there. But look, we haven't seen a guy
play like this since Jordan. This is what Jordan was
like in a different sort of way. Remember Jordan wasn't driving.

(51:22):
I'm I'm watching Lebron lay the ball in to put
him up to with thirty seconds to go. And remember
when Michael Jordan played, it was a different game. You
had a center and a big guy in there, right,
you had a not just a center, but you had
a defender. So you're going you're driving in against name
the big guy. You gotta finish over those guys. In

(51:48):
addition to which, Jordan was a guard, so there's a
power forward, there's another body in there. You gotta stop
and shoot the basketball. Where's Lebron gets a running start
and he has to finish over Draymond Green. He gets
a running start and has to finish over steph Curry
or over Clay Thompson's just a completely different sport in
which the way in which the game has played that

(52:11):
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(52:32):
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Athletic Ethan, I know you haven't been listening. You've got
a bunch of other stuff you're doing. Do an outstanding

(53:13):
job covering the NBA. Um My thoughts, let's start with
the call. My thoughts in the call was like, look,
I actually think they got it right, and I think
the reason, the true reason they reviewed it is one
official had it as a charge and he made a
big show of it. The other guys are like, I
had a block on that one, and this is just
a way to get to catch a breath and to

(53:36):
and to to to let you know, New York in
on making the final call on such a call. Is
that is that a reasonable way of looking at Yeah,
And I think you're you're you weren't on the money
with that, and you're probably showing your plane experience and
something that one out that there is some old school
rapping that. Then they retroactively say it's according to rule

(53:56):
section A slash B that you know it has something
that you with the restricted area. No, they just thought
maybe they botched that one. They had an excuse to
go and look at it and then they could retroactively
correct it. And look, I'm against free play review in general.
I think it's it's bad. It's perfect is the enemy
of good, right, uh. And people want to get the
call right, but in doing that, they're screwing up the

(54:17):
flow of the game. And then there's this controversy over
is it enough to overturn? And I like the nineties, man,
I like the nineties. Back in the day, there are
some botched calls and we all lived with it and
we learned how to deal with it. Um. And I
don't think that this is the best way to go
about it. But under the rules as they are written, um,
and as we have them, then I don't see what
the big controversy is. Right, it's it was a botched call,

(54:40):
it was a block, and so it eventually got called
the block. Then then let's get to the miss free
throw four seconds remaining, four seconds remaining in the game. Um.
You know two guys who escaped criticism, George Hill, who
is a very good free throw shooter. And there's there's
a difference between missing a free throw, Hey, you miss
one around and out hits the ac rim. You know,

(55:01):
looks like it's right to leave it that short after
making your first one. That's a that's pressure, that's that's
a choke job. And then Katie doesn't box out. Now
Katie said, like, I need to do a better job
of rebounding or try and box out at all. Um.
But uh Jr. Trying to convince the world that he
thought of the time. There's not a liberator in America

(55:26):
who thinks he said, I thought it was tied. Well,
that's it's it's a situation where the more interesting mistake,
the more inexcusable mistake, then gets conflated with the uh,
the more damaging mistake. But when you look at it,
what's more damaging. What's more damaging is George Hill, who
could win the game right there. He could win the

(55:46):
game of the free throw missing the free throw. J R.
Smith is a terrible shooter within the paint, He's not good.
If he had known the actual score, then he's coming
back up with it. And Kevin Duran at seven tall,
is either going to block, everybody's gonna miss. So, yeah,
it was inexcusable. It was basketball negligence, and so we're
all going to make him the goat and mock him
rightfully so, but it didn't actually matter. I would contend

(56:09):
it didn't actually shift the probabilities that much of the game.
And yeah, you could say Lebron was open, but let
me tell you, if if J R. Smith knew the
score of the game, uh, he wouldn't have even gotten
out there and seeing Lebron. He only saw Lebron because
he ran away from the paint because he thought that
he thought the game was You thought that the Counts
are winning it's Larios. Yeah, he clearly clearly did. Um. Okay,

(56:29):
let's get to the actual gameplay. I thought. I thought
the game plan was a masterpiece from Tyler right, be
super super physical with the three scores, and then whoever's
guarding the fifth guy for the Warriors, you're in help.
And then put Lebron James and Draymond Green and dare
him to shoot the basketball. You're in help. It allowed
Lebron to catch his breath defensively and allowed and really,

(56:53):
you know, ran Golden State off the three point line.
I thought the game plan was really good. I guess
the question becomes is that replicable going forward in the series?
It was. It was a really good game plan. I'm
sorry that my infant son is taking any weird noises
in the background. It's actually it's actually amazing. What's his name?

(57:14):
His name is Asher? And how old as Asher is?
Seven weeks old? So I'm between this, oh, nine weeks
My wife just corrected me. Well, now I'm in trouble.
Uh he's nine weeks old. So between the the NBA
Finals and this, I'm not getting a lot of sleep.
But it's it's honestly, it's pretty sweet because then you're like, no,

(57:35):
I'll do the late night feedings, no problem, you go
to bed, mean while you're watching the gate exactly exactly
well on the game plan. Uh yeah, I think that
it's replicable in some ways. I gotta say the Calfs
played really well. Their shot quality those fancy metrics we
have for how how the quality of shots versus did
you make them? They got quality shots. They're offense did

(57:58):
really well, and I sometimes wonder if they're a little
to rate it. I think maybe, in order to burnish
Lebron's legacy, were exaggerating the extent to which this team
is bad. It's a lot like the old Calves teams
that we've seen in this matchup, instead of having a
Kyrie Irving an offensive guy, you've got a defensive guy
and George Hill. And yeah, I'd rather have the Kyrie
Irving iteration, but it's not altogether that much different. Uh

(58:21):
So I thought it was a good game plan. It's
a solid team at the team that gives the Warrior's
problems because they beat him up. And also on the
other side, I think the Warriors don't know quite what
to do on pick and roll action with Lebron. They
love switching everything, but you can't really switch everything against
Lebron on the way you can against a Chris baul
Or or a James Harden. It's just too much for
Steph Curry to deal with. And so that aspect is

(58:42):
also replicable where I'm not sure how the Warriors are
going to solve that particular issue. I think it's I
think it's fast thing. I thought it was going to
be a close series. I still thought the Warriors would win. Um,
what do you think you know? Coming in? What did
you think? I thought everybody was talking in five games,
and my suspicion was more towards six games. I mean,

(59:05):
I try not to do you know what I try
not to do predictions and try to be like Brian Windhorse,
because here's the thing, we writers, We have such little
esteem in the eyes of the fan. Why give them
something tangible to bash us with? Right, Why give them
just a tangible You predicted this and it was actually
that to hit us over the head with. So I
normally try to evade it. But my sense of things

(59:26):
was more in line with you, in part because I
know people will hammer home before All Stars four All
Stars were All Stars. But Andre Goodala is a really
good and he's be very important to the team. And
this is a team that, yes has an embarrassment of
riches as far as talent goes, but the whole is
not greater than the sum of its parts. It's never
really cohered in the way maybe people thought it would.

(59:47):
So not having I Goodala there does make a difference,
especially since he's their best defensive guy on that Lebron
James Fellow, who is quite important in this whole rickable
of the series. I think the other part is how
does how Cleveland bounce back from this? Right? Like I'm
I'm reading, this is a pretty good two little tweets
here and essentially says what I've been saying the entire show.

(01:00:08):
Ethan Strauss is our guest from the Athletic does a
great job, and he's also bouncing his young baby Asher
on his knee. Uh, you know, put post post feeding.
It's Doug Otli show, Fox Sports Radio. So Roussilo says,
I think when he said, uh, I think the horrible
things that people are pointing out, the calls, the only
reason the Calves lost. Make a free throw. Try not

(01:00:30):
to forget the score when playing in the game. Bill
Simmons adds on, don't give up an easy three point
play the staff up to in the last thirty seconds,
make the go ahead free throw, remember the score, and
don't completely cave in in overtime. So I guess the
question is if you feel like you had one and
then you gave it away, how do you bounce back
from it? Um Man, maybe you could better answer that

(01:00:53):
one because you've seen teams. Remember that Clippers Spurs series,
or the Clippers had just these devastating offices in that series,
and uh, they had that DeAndre Jordan's gaff right there
was almost similar to the j R. Smith gaff where
Chris Paul screaming at him, but they did come back
and they won that series because maybe you're inspired by
that frustration, um and that pain, and you still have

(01:01:16):
a chance to correct things. So we've seen, we've seen
such things happen. Now, what I would be a little
bit worried about from a Cleveland Keller's perspective is that
I think that the Warriors are seen enough evidence that
Mike causing to go away from some of the line
ups that don't work and start using the line up
to do work. They got an object lesson in you
know what works, uh the overtime with Sean Livingston and

(01:01:36):
de Andre goodalad little you know it doesn't work. Kavon
Looney in that role in the fourth quarter. I think
that's gonna be a lot tougher for the Cavs to
deal with going forward. And they got their shot against
soft to line up last night. I tend to great,
What's what's going on with k D Man. That's a
great question, now, isn't it. He has these games where
it's just perplexing. I in the Game six against the

(01:01:59):
rock cuts of the Warriors one. Yeah, the Warriors eventually
ran away with that one, but I ended up writing
just on the book fuggling first half ward, he wasn't
playing defense and where you might have attributed five three
pointers from the Rockets just fully on Kevin Durant not
matching up with guys and not getting back in transition
and and just doing the basics of the job. And
it is completely confounding. And you know, I'm glad he

(01:02:22):
admitted to it on the on the rebound, but that
that's happening in general where is getting pushed around on rebounds.
I know he's that during the Rockets series that that
p J. Tucker tends to elbow him in the back,
and that's that's part of it. But you would just
expect better as far as doing the things you almost
take for granted. He's not doing the things that you
take for granted. The superstar UH does. And I thought

(01:02:43):
that he did a very good job last Finals when
he was guarding Lebron, But I don't think he did
a good job in defense last night. Some of that
might be the pick and roll coverage that they're sussing
out and let's not switch everything and they have to
figure out the communication. But I don't have a good
theory for you on why he's not doing what he
should be doing. But he's not doing it. My theory is, look,
they're being people are being allowed to be really physical

(01:03:03):
with him. I also think, um, I think you know,
Ryan Hollands joined us earlier and I said this, Uh, look,
they got some better matchups this year. Last year, Lebron
had to guard him because of their personnel. This year,
you can put Jeff Green on him, you can put
Nance on him a little bit, you know, you can
put you can put Tristan on him. Um, and and
then Lebron King Garden as well, so you have it's

(01:03:24):
a lot like what the Cavs had last year, which
was a lot more guys that could guard Lebron. They
have They have a lot more guys that can guard
him and our physical and Jeff Green obviously knows this game. Yeah,
this is one like this is this is good. But
you actually notice and you know the game and you're
not just going by reputation. It's funny you would think, oh,
you wouldn't want Lebron to Garden. He completely torched Lebron
last year in the finals. You look at his highlight reel,

(01:03:45):
it's coming at the expensive Lebron and it's not an
indictment of Lebron. It's just Lebron cannot do everything on
offense while also playing defense at this at this particular age.
So I almost wonder if to get to get Katie going,
if they don't want to run more pick role and
try to get Lebron switched on to him. I know
that might sound crazy, uh to the casual fan, that

(01:04:06):
you would want Lebron guarding you, but I think there
could be a benefit to getting Grant going and also
tiring out Lebron. Yeah, completely, and then yeah, and then
I think, you know, and then I think off I
think that will help them on on defense as well.
And I think they're they're gonna have to start double
teaming Lebron at different points in time in order to

(01:04:26):
get the ball out of his hands, make somebody else
make a play, not just you know, not just make
a shot. He obviously will will pass into a shooter,
but but they gotta they gotta occasionally blitz him and
get the ball ahead. They got to vary some of
their coverage because it becomes all too predictable. I I
completely agree they need to vary it, but they also
need to know what they're doing when they vary it

(01:04:48):
um that's that's more or less the key key for them,
because they were not on the same page last night.
In a lot of possessions. I entered the series. I
entered the series thinking, you know, I heard Mike Wilbon
on with Dan Patrick and he said, hey, you know,
unless you know something crazy happens, there is no real

(01:05:08):
takeaway if they lose this series. Because that he expects
it to lose the series. I have a completely different
level of respect for Lebron and kind of the zen
by which he's playing the development of his offensive game.
His jump shot the first three chords last night was great.
I think there's a ton to take away from this
win or lose based upon how he plays and how

(01:05:30):
his game has evolved. Last night was a was the
type of performance I haven't seen since Jordan's What are
your thoughts on how we can change how we view
Lebron based upon how he's played, Not just the fact
that he might lose to a superior team. I think
there's something to that. It also might just speak to
the era that we're in where we we have more

(01:05:52):
of a sense now that you can play really well
and lose that you can win the CSI on without
winning a bunch of games in baseball just based on
your YR. So there's a lot to be gained from
actually coming out and performing, and we're not just going
to hang it around your neck that you lost the series.
So reputationally, Lebron could find himself in a situation where
he might win finals MVP even if he loses a

(01:06:13):
series that nearly happened when it could all have one
finals MVP in And I think that would, uh, that
would be pretty good for him in the in the
grand scheme of things. And he's kind of in a
good position. It's not a good position for winning the
series because in a good position where it's all upside
where uh, you will be credited for exceeding expectations and
not blamed if the Cols are down in flats. Okay,

(01:06:34):
a couple of things I need to get to. Um,
how happy is Javelle McGhee that j R. Smith pulled
the Javelle McGhee because otherwise replaying Javelle McGee's miss dunk
over and over over again. Oh man, it was just
it's so funny with those two guys that would happen
was almost the satire of who they are and with
JaVale it was going so well. That was the other

(01:06:56):
thing I was saying. I was watching in the media
area behind the court, um, and I was I just
kept saying to the guy next to me, Uh, this
has found money. Steve's got a pull them. Steve's got
to pull him, He's got to pull them. And I
didn't expect it. Hey, I think it might have been
plus eight on the game, or you might have had
a pretty good run in there despite that humiliating dunk

(01:07:16):
that me was was that was that fatigue? Possibly that
could have been fatigue in away or just I just
think he got lost to I just think he got
lost as to where he was in the court. I mean,
I think, I think it happens. I just think that,
you know, it just happened to happen to to Javel McGhee. Um,
do you have any idea what's going on with Kevin
Love's hair? Because that is can can we have formed

(01:07:37):
some sort of investigation? What is that is that? Hey? Man?
For all I know, that's cool? I mean, was that
a cross fade? What do we what do we call that?
It might be cool? For all I know, I'm a
dad now, I don't know what's cool, so I don't
want to hate on it. Yeah, I felt it felt
like either a Floby or it felt like yes, maybe
he went flow By. Maybe he just like, hey, I

(01:07:58):
was bored in the hotel room. He's he's watched everything
he could possibly watch on Netflix and Amazon Prime and Hulu,
and so he just started just kind of going to
work on his own hair, and he's like, damn, I
have no idea how to fade it. So I'm not
even gonna try. I'm just shocked about the flow By reference.
I I might my dad bought a Flowby back in
the day. I had a few Floby haircuts, and you
know what, that might even be an insult of the

(01:08:19):
flow But you might get sued by the makers of
flow By because of the haircut that Kevin Love has.
So uh yeah, you know, shout out flow By. UM.
I hope they're still going strong. And as far as
what Kevin loves doing with his hair, I guess just
keeping it interesting. Okay, So you started the series, UM
without really a prediction. What do you think now? I

(01:08:40):
still I still don't necessarily have a prediction because I'm
trying to be coy and I'm trying to be cool
like that. Um, But as far as what I think now,
I think the Warriors dodged a bullet. I think they're
very happy to have won a lucky one. Sometimes it's
better to be lucky than good. And I think, hey,
beyond just winning a game, it's I think it was

(01:09:02):
good for the Warriors in the sense that they when
I talked to them after the game, the coaches were
actually oddly happy. Usually they're they're mad when they mess around.
They they they squander opportunities, but they had a sense
of the first games of feel out game, we didn't
have our coverages right. So I think it's ultimately better
for the Warriors beyond just winning the game. At the
same time, I might have a little bit more respect

(01:09:24):
for Lebron the Cat's chances than this the most people
as you do. So I'm hedging like crazy. I'm giving
you a very unsatisfying answer, and I apologize for that. No,
I'm you're you're leaving it up to Hey, there's a
lot of bass. Like we all think that every basketball
game is going to be the same, and we all
completely forget that. Even last year there were some very
very close games, even at the final, Even at the
final score was four games to one. Within the context

(01:09:45):
of the series, it wasn't necessarily wasn't every they win
every game by twenty points. We say in sports where
we conflate probability with inevitability. I don't know why, but
we just skip ahead that if somebody has an eight
percent chance of doing something, we act as though twenty
is impossible. And I'm just not out of that mentality, really,
you know, I think that the calves are a long shot,

(01:10:07):
but a long shot doesn't mean that's a poor conclusion.
And I think if you look at the ratings for
this one, America agrees. America is into the series even
a lot, be as sports writers boo boo it great stuff.
Ethan Strouss, get back to caring for young Asher. Congratulations
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(01:10:28):
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Uh Dan buyer knows a lot of things. He knows
a ton about golf. Give me the update. I got
some NBA stuff I know you want to get to.
Can I get a Tiger updates? Sure? Sure, here's the

(01:10:49):
good news on Tiger from nineties. Six yards right behind
the hall, I mean right behind it spins back, has
a chase to go in for eagle, and it does.
The eagle has landed the five under four. That's bad.
That's bad. Clichead landed Tiger Woods on Syria Sex and

(01:11:15):
got him to five under par, put him five shots
back of Kyle Stanley, who leads at ten underpart now
the bad news portion of it. Play has been halted
at the Memorial because his storms in the area. So Tiger,
who hit a great shot on the par three twelve.
Following up that eagle has a birdie putt, but it's
gonna have to wait a while as storms are in
the area. In Columbus, Ohio, I mentioned that Kyle Stanley

(01:11:37):
leads at ten underpar. Other notables Jason Day and Hideki
matsu Yama at eight under Phil Michelson. Done for the
day at minus four, as is Rory McElroy, who was
even par Rory sitting on the cut line. As for
Jordan's Speth, He's not gonna make the cut, done at
plus three. ESPN reporting at Michigan's John Bee Line interviewed
with the Pistons for their head coaching vacancy. That interview

(01:11:59):
reportedly took play yesterday. There's also some more news from
the Pistons, as Wolch is reporting there's going to be
a change as GM Jeff Bauer and the team have
parted ways and back to the NBA Doug Some updates
from the Calfs and Warriors. First of all, Chris Mannos
Fox Sports radio host writes for YAH, who says Kevin
Love won't be suspended for Game two. Tyler says that Jr.

(01:12:19):
Smith will remain a starter and that Lebron's eye is
read but fine. Clay Thompson said today his leg isn't
a sore as it was last night after leaving the
game momentarily in the first half. Okay, so the term
and director at the memorial is some names Slugger White. Yes,
he's yeah, he's been on the PGA tour for a
long time. How amazing is that mustache? He high really

(01:12:42):
really good and his tie once their tie back, Slugger White,
what a great must that is an all time great mustache.
Incredible mustache. Thanks so much, Dan Vampire. Uh So Tiger Okay,
uh is tied for nineteen right now nine. But the
we saw him spend that one back hit from he

(01:13:05):
hit it, you know, one fifteen. It's spun back in
the hole place he's won five times. Doug ot Them Show,
Fox Sports Radio. Chris Carter also thinks Lebron James is
gonna win the finals MVP eat and Trouss said that, Uh,
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I feel like this show is continuing to evolve, right
Like I'm always cautious about going to the phone lines
just because you know, you just never know what you're

(01:13:53):
gonna get. But like the first time you know you
you drink alcohol, right, like you gotta earn little equity like, oh,
you can handle your beer, you can handle making sure
being an adult not drinking and driving. You guys did
a great job yesterday, So we'll keep taking some of
your calls, you know, until further notice. Eight seven seven

(01:14:15):
six three six nine, Dan and Phoenix, you're on the
Doug got Leap show. Go ahead, Dan, Hey, dog, Hey, listen.
I want to put something to rest here and make
something very simple about last night's game, the overturning of
a charge block call. I was a high school official,
high level games. And here's the thing why and people

(01:14:35):
are missing this. I'm listening to stephen A. Smith, different
guys nationally that are saying, how can you overturn that?
It was Lebron James. He's the best player in the world.
The bottom line is they got the call right. This
is what happened. The outside official Tony Brothers signaled a block.
The downwards official, um malloy or whoever it was, was

(01:14:56):
calling the charge. Neither one of them signals it with
much emphasis. They were unsure. That's why they got together
and they reviewed it. They used that whole stupid circle thing.
They should have just said. They should have just said, hey,
we're reviewing them. We got different calls, and everything would
have been fine. Well that's called a blarge. That's that's
called a blarge, which I don't think the NBA has

(01:15:17):
a large uh. But yes, it's a way of doing
the exact it's a way of doing they they it's
like legalized cheating. That's basically what they did, right, is
they did something to review a call that's that's technically
a judgment call. But they end up finding a loophole
to review a judgment call. Fair right and should and yeah,
they would have been transparent say look, we got two

(01:15:39):
officials with two different calls. We're going to review it
because we're not sure. But they can't. They can't be
that transparent. I agree with you, and that's what happened.
I agree with you. You can see on if you
look at the replay, you could see Tony Brothers. Would
you stop letting tacts? Would you loved stop with these facts? Okay,
facts are not fun, Okay, we want inspiracy theories? Is

(01:16:01):
sports radio we want, we want like this is the
NBA trying to it's the man trying to keep Lebron down. Right, yeah, right.
They did call a foul which was about on the
Warriors with four seconds to go, grabbing, grabbing George Hill,
so he would have made the free throw. I'm I'm
with you. I look, I completely agree with you. Um,

(01:16:24):
we had never seen it before, Tyron lose right, We've
never seen it before, Tyron lose Right. Take a listen,
hold on, did just listen to this Tyrone lou bite.
You know, for our team to come out and you know,
play their hearts out and compete the way we did, man,
I mean, just, I mean it's it's bad, and it's
never been done before, where you know, he's outside and restricted,

(01:16:44):
and then you go there and overturn the call and
say it's the block. It's never been done ever in
the history of the game. And then tonight in the
finals on the biggest stage on our team played a
play well and play their ass off, man, And just
it ain't right. He's right, He's right about everything other
than it ain't right. His team did play their ass off.
It had never happened before, and they used the block charge,

(01:17:08):
the circle loophole in order to in order to review
a call. But they got the I'm with you, they
got the call right, and none of all that, all
that other stuff doesn't matter. Lebron being a superstar, Stephen
a one, so is Kevin Durant, None of that matters.
It was a block. It was the right call and
we moved on. And it wasn't the last call the game,
by the way, exactly exactly, and Entyron lou is incorrect

(01:17:32):
and that it did happen this year between Oklahoma City
in Indiana the exact same call, a charge was called
and then they rolled it a block. They said he
didn't have incorrect positions. You can look at it right
on sport. You know it's online. It's it's there. It
happened just a couple It happened earlier this year in
the game, exact same situation. Dan, thanks so much for

(01:17:52):
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(01:18:13):
win MVP, just like Jerry West. If they lose this series.
I still believe Lebron. It's gonna be hard for k
D for Steph to build the top what Lebron did,
even though they did losing game number one, regardless if
it's four, if it's five. Now, the longer the series goes,
the increases Lebron's um chances of being the m v P.
But that is one of the things I'm going to

(01:18:33):
be watching going to Sunday's game. Yeah, one game in
Lebron James would absolutely be the m v P, even
though his team lost. But it's one game in right.
One game into the Celtics series, Lebron James shut it
down well that series, he was just feeling out an opponent. Look,

(01:18:57):
there's been several times at which Lebron could have been
the m v P in series that he lost. If
you want to ask me after one game, would I
be totally cool with Lebron James being the m v
P the most valuable player? Got no problem with it
because I can't find anybody outside of Steph Curry that's
even close in terms of value, and even Steph would say, yeah,
Lebron has more value than I did in that one game.

(01:19:19):
But it's just one game. In let's not go crazy.
Stug Gottlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. Pretty cool like Time
of Sports two where we have uh Tiger who bogey
three putted in the first hole, but after that has
gone on a run. He's five under rain delay. At
the Memorial. You also have the French Open, one of
the four majors, and then of course us reacting to

(01:19:40):
last night in the NBA Finals. There's a lot of
other weird stuff that we didn't talk about. There was
the Clay Thompson and and and Jr. Sliding into his leg. Right,
there's and then the Clay Thompson warming up in the
hallway running back and forth. Uh. Then there was also Jr.
Going for the steal before the half and Steph Curry

(01:20:00):
hitting a forty footer. There's a javel McGee who got
lost as to where he was on the court and
getting blocked by the by the rim in the most
javelle McGhee sort of way. If there was a shot
a playoff shacting a fool, that would make shackting a fool.
Clay Travis asked a great question on Twitter, which is

(01:20:20):
this what j R. Smith did at his job. How
does that equate to doing in our job with us?
I think in radio. I think it's not knowing the
clock and being caught mid sentence, mid sentence and a
heart out right. How would you equate it to other jobs?
This is running back, running back getting out of bounds

(01:20:41):
when all you had to do was get tackled in bounds.
We've seen that before. Remember it happened with the Bears
when they're playing the Broncos during tebow time, two different plays.
I can't remember who the running back was not. I
don't think it was Cedric Benson. Um. Yeah, this is

(01:21:02):
this is you know, not knowing it's two outs, right,
instead of three outs in the outfield, catching the ball,
running in, guy tags up and scores from home on
a short pop fly to to right field and not
throwing it instead running into the dugout or pass ball
on strike three and you don't run the first base

(01:21:24):
because you didn't know it was strike three. So let's
not act likely it doesn't happen it's just on a
stage like this to happen like that, and to happen
to j R. Smith and then for Jr. To lie
about it and go, oh, I thought we were tied. Yeah,
that's not what your lips said. If you thought you
were tired, you would have gone up and tried to
score it, or you would have called time out in

(01:21:46):
your own you would have called time out on your own.
But we can pile, we could dogpile on j R.
All we want. All we want is a bonehead play, indefensible.
But there was a series of other events which led
to the Cavaliers losing in addition to the j R.

(01:22:10):
Smith play, How do we lay blame? We'll start next
in the Doug Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Radio, Whoop, Dug
Gottliep Show, Fox Sports Radio. I hope you're having a
great day, getting ready to have a great weekend. We'll
check in with boys, find out where they got going

(01:22:30):
on this weekend. Got Tennis, Anyone, Golf, Tiger and Whoop
Sunday reacting to Hoop yesterday. Plus your wife can't get
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upcoming on the Doug got Liep Show. Ah yeah, there's

(01:22:54):
a lot to get to, a lot to dig in
on last night. Uh, I you look, when I'm wrong,
I'll tell you I'm wrong, but I'm right. I like
to pat myself in the back like anybody else. While
everyone was telling you the series won't be closed. It's
not competitive, Like, all right, have you seen the Warriors

(01:23:15):
without Andrea Goodala? It's not great? Kevin Durant kind of
in a weird space play Thompson. He makes cities great
if he misses it, but what else does he do? Uh?
And and Steph seems to have re found his form,
but we've seen Steph where he can't hide and they
make him guard Lebron James. Then, look, basketball's hard when

(01:23:37):
you're playing three on five and with Draymond Green not
even looking at the basket most of the time, and
a fifth starter who feels like, hey, just I'll just
I'll just hang out here, let me know if you
need me to make a layup. Three on five basketball
is difficult. So I guess I'm supposed to sit here
and tell you that I'm completely and totally bothered by

(01:23:58):
the NBA you using a rule to fix a call
that they weren't all that sure about. That's really what
it comes down to. Block charge happens super fast. The
thing about the NBA, the NFL and Major League Baseball
is we see it unfold from the absolute best camera
angle possible. We had the benefit of replay, but more

(01:24:22):
than anything, we have the benefit of HD cameras and
having a great sense of who's open, who's not, who's said,
who's not, and if we didn't see it, it's reviewed
for us. Officiating happens really really fast. There's no bigger
bang bang play in in basketball. Then the block charge

(01:24:42):
our charge really hard because think of the things. If
you're an official, you have to decide is he outside
the semi circle? Was he in a legal guarding position
or set before he goes into his move. It's physically
uh close to impossible, next to impossible. This is a

(01:25:05):
lot that call for him one official is a lot
like to call for a Major League Baseball umpire when
you're trying to call balls and strikes and you have
to decide whether or not a hitter made an offer
to pitch right like you're behind the plate, you're crouched over.
You're trying to watch a fastball to see if it's

(01:25:29):
a strike. Meanwhile, you have to somehow take an eyeball
and move it around halfway around the plate to decide
whether or not a guy went around. Of course you
need help from the first in the third base umpire.
Of course you do. Of course you do. So. Um.

(01:25:50):
The same thing is true with basketball. You can't look
down and see if a guy's feet are outside the
half circle and then see is he said, because you
have to keep an eye also on the player to
see when he went into his motion to shoot. It's
a really hard call in a really athletic game, and
you don't have the best camera angle like we do,

(01:26:12):
nor the use of replayers slow motion. I think we're
kind of bearing the lead here. The lead is, Hey,
you want to replay to get calls? Right. They found
a way to fix a miscalled judgment call. That's what
they did. That's what they found a way to do.

(01:26:33):
You may not like it, you may not have known
the rules, but that's what they went with. And oh yeah,
by the way, it was a two point game with
thirty six seconds to go. It was a tie game.
The Cavaliers easily came down and scored, had a two
point lead. They fouled on a three point play traditional
three point play George Hill Mr. Free Throw of four
seconds ago, and and j R. Smith didn't know time

(01:26:53):
or score when he got the offensive rebound on the
second misfrey on the misfree to Row and dribbled out
to near mid court before making a pass in the
time expired. It's okay to be upset with the call
and to not like the the overuse of replay. That's hey,

(01:27:15):
sometimes we overuse replay. That's what we do. We try
and perfect something that was really good. This is no different,
by the way, the idea of perfecting something something that's
already generally pretty good and trying to get perfect is
no different than the discussion we've had about the n
c A A. Alright, remember we've had that. It's scholarships

(01:27:36):
are for nine nine point five a great thing. Are
there moments to which, boy, you sure wish that it
was more beneficial for a guy here or more, or
a guy could profit more off of a great run
when he's a freshman, or is there a way in which, yeah,

(01:27:56):
but you're trying to perfect something which is imperfect, but
it's already really really good and really useful. That's the
same thing with officiating. You got three rats, they're gonna
make mistakes. Your choices either try and make it perfect
or make it really really good. They try to make
it perfect. If you don't like it, that's on you.

(01:28:19):
But you missed a free throw badly with an free
throw shooter in a tie game, a a almost fifteen
year NBA vet did not know the time and score
of the game, so you didn't get an additional shot
or two you could have gotten with four point two

(01:28:40):
seconds ago when you corral the rebound. You can blame
the officials all you want. You you gave a great effort,
you had a great shot to win a game, but
you also shut down and overtime. Here's Tyron LEEU on
his thoughts in the gr Smith situation. What did you
say or what did j R? Say to you in

(01:29:01):
the locker room about the play at the end of regulation?
He thought he thought it was over. I thought it
was over and now we were up on him. I
don't know. J R lied afterwards when he said he
here's JR. Smith. You know you were tired. You didn't
think you were eating. No, I've seen't. I knew it tired.
It's just who I thought it was on a call

(01:29:21):
time out because they're at the rebuild. I'm pretty sure
everybody didn't think I was gonna shoot over Katie right there.
Come on, man, he tried that these are not the
droids you're looking for, didn't he? These are not the
droid you're looking for? No way you Your own coach
said we saw your lips. You know what he tried?

(01:29:44):
Do you guys remember Eddie Murphy Raw? Do you ever
see the stand up Eddie Murphy Row? Wouldn't me? Wouldn't me? Right? Wait?
I just saw you. Girl walks in on a dude.
He's with another woman. They're both naked. She's running down
the street. He could have baby baby. Wouldn't me right?

(01:30:05):
That's what Jr. Was trying to would me? Wouldn't me not?
I thought we were I thought we were tired. I
thought we were going to call it time out because
if if that was if he wasn't gonna shoot Like
nothing about this makes sense. In addition to being able
to read his lips when he dribbled out, he didn't

(01:30:26):
look at the basket wide open Clay Thompson ran to
Lebron James or he could have could pass the Lebron
could have shot at himself. He could have gotten to
anybody else. He could have gone back up to a million.
He could have called time out himself. By the way,
you're allowed to call time out yourself. All of these things,
like Jarrd's gotta count. Just take the elements. Here's Lebron

(01:30:52):
after the game. I thought we were all aware of
what was going on. That's my view. I don't know
what Jr. I was thinking. I don't know what the
question you're trying to. I was just trying to see
if you you knew exactly what his state of mind was.
Did he think that you guys had it one? Or
did he think he was trying to make a play.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure. No, I don't know

(01:31:12):
his state of mind. Did you know if he knew
the score? Thank you? Okay? Then all right here there
got it? Like look he got he got mad Mark Schwartz.
I don't like Mark Swarts asking him a state of mind.
That's an unfair question. I think what he was trying

(01:31:33):
to get to is what he ultimately asked at the end,
did he know the score? I don't know why Mark
Swartz just didn't ask him, Hey, what did he say
to you on the floor, because he said something to
you and we all read his lips to say, I
thought we had the lead. Well, I thought we were ahead.

(01:31:54):
And look, I mean, you know you if you ever
been in those arenas, the more boards they have, the
less the harder it is to find the actual score.
I'll give you a really quick story and uh, and
then we'll get to this other crazy story in the
world of of the NBA. My um my first year
in college, I played for John McCloud. John McCloud was

(01:32:17):
the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks when Derek Harper
was their point guard, and he famously dribbled out the
clock because he thought they had a lead and they
were tied to the Lakers, and they end up losing
in overtime. And so I remember, I've never played with
the shock clock before, and so we're in college and
what back then was at second shock clock and we

(01:32:37):
used to do half core drills and we do twenty
six seconds. You know, you had to play defense and
get a stop for twenty six seconds. And so I
remember like sometimes we had the ball on offense and
the horn would go off and he would You've got
an old time in school, you know. He taught me
to constantly look when you're on defense, up at the
shock clock. On offense, up at the shock clock. Now,
this is in the mid nineties when they first put

(01:33:00):
shot clocks. They didn't put game clocks or game score
It's all up there on the shock clock now, but
it should be pointed out. In these arenas, and I
know the Oracles and Old Arena, and there are more
scoreboards in there, and lots of scoreboards. They're not always
in the same place. You do kind of have to
look around and find that. Sometimes you have to find it.
But it is something that over time you train yourself

(01:33:21):
to do. Right. First thing you do when you walk
on the court for a shoot around is where's the
score at each end? And then it becomes kind of
second nature. At the free to line, it's an unforgivable
sin to not know. Did not know, he didn't have,
hadn't just checked into the game. It wasn't in transition.

(01:33:42):
They had a they had a shot. He makes the
first free throw. You gotta look all right, four seconds
to go, and you have to think to yourself, if
he misses it, I don't want to foul. I want
try and get a rebounded don't want to foul if
I get it Like you're thinking all of these different scenarios,
but the the idea of him saying wouldn't me and
these are not the droids you're looking for. Those aren't

(01:34:05):
even good lives. Come up with a better line in that,
and with a better line in that. I thought we
had to lead. I got screwed up. I honestly think
it'd be. It would be, it would it would be dismissed,
at least partially if he just said, like, look, I
looked up and we were up. I thought we were
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Sports Radio. The headline is seventy Sixers MO Brian Colangelo's
dismissal as Twitter accounts probe focuses on his wife, h yeah,
your wife. UM. Philadelphia has seventies six Ers internal probe.

(01:36:40):
This from Agian Award Zanowski. The internal probe into an
anonymous Twitter accounts has become increasingly focused on the wife
of President of basketball Operations Brian Colangelo. Franchise ownership is
seriously considering Colangelo's dismissal, League sources told ESPN probe hasn't
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(01:37:01):
but the fallout from the report by The Ringer that
connected Twitter accounts unleashing privileged information and provocative attacks and
surrounding the Sixers left ownership flushed with embarrassment and anger
and Colangelo fighting first professional life league sources set, Yeah,

(01:37:22):
it doesn't matter A couple of things to this, Okay,
I think I think this is really good journalism. But
I also think it's really bad journalism. At the same time,
they posed a question without really an answer, and the
the likely answer they came up with was these must

(01:37:44):
belong to Brian Colangelo, and it turns out it belonged
to his wife. I wouldn't say, you know, look at
they're circling around, and that's increasingly focused, like we're all
it's his wife. Now. I guess you could ask the question, wait,
was he tweeting from her phone? But why would he?

(01:38:06):
Why would he? Um? So, the first thing is, I
do think you probably have to fire him, if nothing
else for optics, it looks really bad. This is a
lot like one of the issues that the Lakers are
running into with a Lonzo Ball, Like I don't believe

(01:38:30):
a Lonzo Ball is running home and telling his dad, Hey,
Gunner Peterson doesn't know what he's doing. Hey, Luke Walton
lost control of us as a team. Hey this, Hey that.
But because a Lonzo Ball won't speak up and say, uh,
LaVar Ball doesn't speak for me. I'm not giving him
information the team. It's It causes people to wonder, Hey,

(01:38:52):
is LaVar getting this stuff from Alonzo or is he
just making it up on his own, Which is the
same thing with Brian Colangelo's wife. Is she making this
up on her own or is she getting information from
her husband and then she's tweeting it out? My guess
would be that she's these are all secondhand conversations that

(01:39:14):
they she has had at home or listen in on,
or been a part of and just sat there and
she wants to she wants to defend Like, look, my
wife gets into this where she wants to defend me.
It happens, It does. It's not just a woman thing,
it's a spouse thing where you want to defend your
significant other, especially from people who have no idea what

(01:39:37):
they're talking about, like the Twitter spear and if you
you don't think it could cause you to get fired?
Do you guys remember when Glenn Rice was a member
of the l A Lakers. Promise you're from l A.
I remember remember why he wasn't part of the second

(01:40:00):
and third team um um, the third teams of the
three peat, Shack and Kobe team. I don't remember exactly why,
no I went. I checked this out, um, Glenn Rice's
wife Christie at the time, Christina Fernandez, Rice ripped into

(01:40:25):
Phil Jackson. That's really what happened. Now, was there probably
some discord? Sure? Uh, the discord between Rice and Jackson
went national in June. This is June of what yours
is two thousand and one. So anyway, Rice's wife said

(01:40:55):
that that Phil Jackson, Uh, that Phil Jackson wasn't treating
him fairly, she wasn't using in the right way. That
he couldn't wait to get out of there. Anyway, they
got rid of him, and Glenn Rice was like the
perfect guy for what they had. They needed a shooter,
a guy who got multiple positions, a veteran new made

(01:41:16):
shots and could play off of Kobe, could play off
of Shack. He was great. He didn't like burn being
the third wheel, and he told his wife, and his
wife told the media, and that ultimately was his undoing.
He averaged sixteen points a game with the Lakers that season.
Not keep in mind three years earlier, he had averaged

(01:41:39):
game with the Charlotte Hornets. He was the best player
in a bad team. You make him as the third
best player on a great team. And there's there's the
there's the statistical difference, and he struggled to adjust to
that role. But the fact is that his wife at
the time, I don't I don't think they're still married.
I don't think they're still married. But his wife at
the time, uh was quoted in The l A Times

(01:42:01):
saying that Jackson had a personal vendetta against Rice. She
even said that if she were in her husband's shoes,
she would be Latrell's pretty well Part two. Oops, it's
a shocker they got rid of Glenn Rice in it
really surprising. My point is, unless it's with her dad,
your wife can't help you get a job, but your

(01:42:22):
wife can help or have you lose a job. This
happened Gus balls On. His wife was, you know, outspoken
about a couple of things, and it didn't go over well.
And there was there was a reason that took Us
balls On having to go to Arkansas State in order
to get his first head coaching job in college. A
ridiculously successful high school coach offensive coordinator in the SEC

(01:42:47):
had to go to Arkansas State. Why is that because
people thought his wife would just say stuff. So I mean,
can you imagine now the question I have for you
guys by or I'd love you to get in on
this music? You two did you? I don't know if

(01:43:08):
this is a story that needed to be too. I
guess if you knew it was Brian Colangelo, then yeah,
you can tell that story. It's Brian Colangelo's wife. Is
it a story that needs to be told? Wow, I'm
I'm the one that doesn't even think he should lose

(01:43:28):
his job for it. I know that the is you
said that the optics you have to but you know
what he said some things on Twitter that maybe he
just wasn't truthful about, but he he didn't say anything
on Twitter. No, But I mean for the for the
for the sense of of of what the story was. Okay, Yeah,
I mean I don't think so, I don't. I don't
think that he should be fired even if they were

(01:43:52):
his tweets. So I definitely don't think that he should
lose his job if they were his wife's. Okay. But
my my question is more in regards to um To
the ringer shouldn't even have been reported? Should they have gone?
Because if it's if it's him, yes, but if it's
not him, it's not him, and you don't know. They said,

(01:44:16):
we don't know, but we think, we think, we think
it's him, and they got honestly, they got it wrong.
You know, if honestly, five maybe ten years ago, this
is a gossip sports story that you just look at,
I think that is. I don't think it would be
as mainstream, if you know what I mean. But now
I think that those lines have blurred a lot. Um

(01:44:38):
And I'm not trying to discredit the ringer for the report.
This would just be something that I think you would
have seen in a TMZ sort of site. Um. I
think they probably should have vetted it more. And if
they vetted it more, I think it still would have
been a story, but I think it would have been
more of a gossip story. What do you think, R Music?
I do think that it is something that probably shouldn't

(01:44:59):
have been and published. I think if you're a if
you're going to destroy somebody's career, right, yeah, you better
damn will know it's them. That That's what I That's
what I agree with. Now, I I dan and I disagree.
I do think had it come out as a proof

(01:45:19):
that coll Angelo was the one tweeting out those things.
Brian col Angelo himself. I do think he has to
lose his job just because the players within that organization
you can't ever look at him the same, right, There's
no there's no trust that I mean, like, look, I
talked to some NBA guys Dan and they were like,
you know, they're like, look the leagues about respect and

(01:45:40):
relationships and this you got. You don't respect guys who
who tweet out stuff under under a you know, with
burner accounts, and you hurt relationships when you reveal information.
I agree with that, with with with that aspect of it.
But to sit there, it's it's because he got busted
that he's losing his job, right, I mean, like that's right.

(01:46:02):
If that's the that's the like to think that this
doesn't that other gms don't have opinions of their players
that are in an unfavorable you know. But but do
they share them on social media. That's not getting busted.
That's the fact that he actually put them at the
time if it was him, which we would appears that
it was not. But if you actually put them down

(01:46:24):
on social media where you cannot once you press end,
you cannot control who sees that. Sure, I mean I
get all that, I I understand it. I just I
just don't see his bigger I mean, heck, didn't didn't
Adam Silver have a secret account? I know he wasn't criticizing,
but there's a different there's a difference between having a

(01:46:44):
Burgner account and actually criticizing your own players and uh
and sharing you know, privileged information. We we'd agree they're correct.
The Julio okafor stuff about the physical is is yeah,
I mean, yeah, that's it probably shouldn't have shouldn't have happened.

(01:47:05):
But but I just I just don't think. I just
I it's so scandalous and I think it's so juicy
that maybe we just look at it as like, oh
my goodness, and I just I don't think. I don't.
I think it's naive to think that he's the only
one that is, you know, has done something like this. Yeah, okay,
but if you're speeding on the four oh five and
you get pulled over, you can't go to the cop like,

(01:47:27):
hey there's another guy that was going five. He just
missed him, all right, so I caught you. It doesn't.
It doesn't matter, you know. But this is like, I
just my thing is with the with the Ringer is man.
We came out and this was a huge story, and
then you're like, well, actually was his wife. I doesn't
feel like that bigger thing. I think it's ultimately going

(01:47:48):
to get him fired because it's such because it looks
so bad. I just don't think the Ringer even should
have come out with it. On the on the other hand, um,
you know, I guess once they lorded the seventies six,
which was a while back, could they have investigated and
found out it was his wife then should they have
done their own investigation then maybe? I don't know. I do.

(01:48:10):
I do think it's I do think it was bad
on the Ringers part to publish that. It's it's very
difficult and this is sort of I do agree with
Dan on this where you know, it's hard, the lines
are so blurred now where like I don't really know
how would you describe the Ringer Because it's like Bill

(01:48:31):
Simmons's website and they do a lot of like podcasting things,
and so it's so much of it is what we
would consider like opinion based content. It's really hard to say,
like what type of news organization are they, Like if
this was The New York Times or even Adrian Wojnarowski
with ESPN, and he came out and was like, look,

(01:48:53):
this is what I'm reporting, and then it turns out
to be like, oh, it was his wife, Like you
are misreporting things similar to what you said with like
the Mark Schlabaugh thing with Sean Miller. He was like,
we got him on tape, and now it's all of
a sudden they had to walk it back and be like,
we don't even know if it was on tape. So
I unless you really know that it was him or

(01:49:17):
that it was his wife, it's very damaging. Even if
it's his wife. I don't think you. I don't think you.
I don't think you. You run with it as a
story if it's his wife. They left it so open ended.
It seemed a little disingenuous, like hey, we kind of
think this maybe something that's going on. But if they're

(01:49:39):
not trying to report it as fact, as like a
news organization, That's why I don't know how to categorize
the Ringer. There's something different between the CBS News in
sixty Minutes, one of them is designed for investigative pieces
to go into it CBS News is you know, and
that's that's when you see this, then you talk about
blurred lines. Maybe these entities shouldn't get into investigative pieces

(01:50:04):
because they aren't as thorough as maybe you need to be.
M David Vancouver. You're on the Doug Gotlip Show on
Fox Sports Rade eight seven seven six three six nine.
Go ahead, Dave, Yeah, I already enjoyed the program. Guys. Uh,
you know, I I stay out of trouble because I
use a rotary phone at fastened. But you know, on

(01:50:24):
the subject cure up, So you're right, Uh, I mean
under situation, I think they should have been maybe kept
uh you know, closed to a certain extent, a lot
of speculation, and I think his career obviously his older
in Philadelphia. Will you get her a job? Maybe? But yeah,
I got a question for you about the NBA game.

(01:50:45):
Now you know Lebron news the greatest player of his
error up there with Jordan's. I go back to chamber
Russell Oscar Robertson, who I tried to emulate my Hall
of Shame career, but I can't figure out with four
point five seconds left, and you're got Hill shooting at
the follow line. I've got my best two rebounders as

(01:51:05):
the number two mann for the rebound, So why is
Lebraun playing out there on the perimeter. It's good of
being as a number two rebounders because when you guys
already have pitched one points, he's got a good chance
to rebound. If he doesn't even get it, I mean,
he's going to be you know, basically followed, haptic cetera.
Maybe gets the call he wasn't getting him late in
the game. And yet nobody's ever brought that up, and

(01:51:27):
it's like no discussion on this. It's it's interesting. I
don't know, um, I mean, I would have to go
back and look, it's a great question, you know, would
you have Lebron under there to try and get a rebound?
I mean, part of it is I've actually been a
proponent for a long time of the NBA having one
and one right if you if you look, we'd all
agree to the NBA's best players, right, the best players

(01:51:49):
in the world. Their three point line is further it
you only get eight seconds to get across mid court.
They have the shortest shot clock, They have the widest
lane line. They have the deepest three point in line.
Like all of these rules are to show off the
fact that they have more skill to make it a
harder game, and yet we make it easier for them.
At the free throw line. There is no one in one.

(01:52:09):
I'd like to have one in one that said free
throw shooters in the NBA usually make their free throws
at the end of games, especially at George Hill, Like
that's the money. So I would guess it's to set
their defense right, Um, but it does. It is a
great point because honestly, if you're going to miss a

(01:52:29):
free throw, a lot of times you're and you're gonna
get off this rebound, you just smack it out and
then you want to shoot her on the perimeter. So
I don't know why, uh, why j R. Smith was
underneath and while Lebron James was out top instead of
being inside. Additionally, we'd agree that j R. Smith is
not the smartest basketball highest basketball, so he's just as

(01:52:52):
likely to foul on a on a on a misfree throw.
It's a It's honestly a really good point. You may
why was j Are even under there to begin with? Um,
I would guess they didn't have Kevin Love on the
floor because of defense, and Tristan was on the other side,
and that's why Draymond Green just face guarded and mugged

(01:53:12):
Tristan so he couldn't get the rebound. So it was
all on KD. I'd have to go back and look
at who else was on the on the floor. Yes,
Ramas just a quick question. I assume if Golden State
does get the rebound, they call time out. Is that
what they would have done? Yes? Okay, so really, if
Lebron is back to play defense in that situation, it

(01:53:33):
really doesn't matter because they get the ball, They're not
going to break down the the court. They're gonna call
time out and reset a whole defense. You would think
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four under and done for the day, not having to
deal with this rain delay. As for Rory McElroy sitting
on the cut line and even part should play the weekend,
Jordan's spee not so much. Plus three for the thirty
six holes and he will miss the cuts. How about
this golf story, Jordan's has been a mess since since

(01:54:35):
the Masters. Yeah, I've I know he was he was
good at uh at what players Championship had some you know,
decent playment, just hasn't put it together. I'm telling you
he's He's gonna ramp up and in two weeks at
Shinnecock he will be in the mix. Something will click
either either on the range somewhere, but yeah, it hasn't

(01:54:57):
been good as of like for Jordan's speak, but he's
gonna missed the cut, so a lot of time to
work on his game. Hall of Fame picture. John Smaltz
qualified for the U S Senior Open, which takes place
at the end of June in Colorado. Smalts grab the
final spot in the playoff at the qualifier in Georgia.
We were talking NBA Finals A lot to give you today,
Steve Kerr saying andre Iguodala doubtful for Game two because

(01:55:18):
of his knee contusion. Well, Klay Thompson says his leg
isn't as sore as it was last night when j R.
Smith fell on it in the first half of Game one. Tyler,
speaking of j R. Smith, says he will remain in
the starting lineup and Kevin Love won't be suspended by
the NBA for coming onto the court during that skirmish
last night. According to Fox Sports radio host Chrismannox, who writes, well,
he shouldn't have been. This is one of those things

(01:55:40):
that contacts managed. Everybody said, well, Mike Antoni's gonna be
mad because, uh, who was it was? Amari Stattemeyer and
Boris d L They came off the bench in that
series of with the spurs like look, he was already
standing up on the court after the foul. There was
no he wasn't. He didn't. He didn't get up because
of the skirmish. He was already up, and that does

(01:56:02):
in fact matter. There's a letter of the law and
spirit of the law. I didn't think they should have
suspended a mare and Boris DA back in the day.
But letter of the law and spirit of the law
they violated both. This one. He might have violated the
letter because he was on the floor, but spirit was
the spirit of the laws to keep people from hopping
up off the bench when there's a fight. And he

(01:56:23):
didn't hop up with the bench. He was already up,
already on the floor. A potential game changing injury. I'll
give you the latest next. Online shopping can be confusing,
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(01:56:44):
car buying experience. Doug Otup Show, Fox Sports Radio. I
was the golf announcer thing everybody wants to do the
I believe we're going to the US Open? Is that official?
Or did I? Did? I? Is that officially official? Fire?
Are we going to US Open? Are you going to
the US Open? Then? Yeah? Yes, Stag Tiger, Well, they

(01:57:10):
have to be quiet because they're in towers, you know,
all right? By the man that was would have been
a birdie after the eagle's the delay. Yeah, he's mad
because he wanted to put about two hours ago. Whenever
he he hit that shot, he had it going and
this stalled Tiger Woods his momentum. He is not happy. Nope, nope,

(01:57:32):
not happy at all. All right, let's get to the press.
Cars are a lot like people, right, they have eyes.
It looks like they have a nose in a mouth.
Sometimes nasty smells come out their backside. See what you
did there? You gotta have the right tools you want
to go far. Luckily, auto Zone has has a free
loan of tool program with over a hundred specially tools

(01:57:52):
to get the job done right. Stopping a day deposits
required getting his own auto Zone. Dan biot what he got?
Kind of shut up? Okay, I'm trying to talk, um, No,
I'm not you Dug I'm just talking about that guy
who said representative buyer um. Usually they become between the stories,
not when I'm starting at guy, whoever you are. Chris
Mannox Fox Sports radio host. You can hear on with

(01:58:13):
Chris and Karen Sundays here on Fox Sports Radio at
New and Eastern Time broke the news today that Kevin
Love won't be suspended for stepping on the court during
last night's game between the Calves and Warriors. That's the
right move, not. It has nothing to do with evening
up things for last night. It's just the reason that
Kevin Love was on the floor was he was already
up at the end of the game as on a foul,

(01:58:35):
he was already on the court. He didn't charge the
court and then get held back. Letter of the law. Sure,
he was on the court, speed of the law, not
violated it anyway. Some injury news andre iguodala I mentioned
a little while ago Steve curses he's doubtful to play
in Game two. Lebron's eye is okay. It's red, but
it's okay according to Tyler and Clay Thompson's like is

(01:58:56):
getting better. Yeah. Any truth to the rumor that Draymond
Green's uh like the Three Stooges. That why he did
the eye galage yesterday. It was in a pro wrestling move.
I do think in ten years or fifteen years and
we're gonna be like, remember when Draymond Green used to
blah blah blah, Oh that was so awesome. There's a mistake.

(01:59:18):
I think that's what how We're gonna look back because
I even remember being outraged. There are people being outraged.
And back in the day when players were doing stupid stuff,
Barkley and the Pistons going at it. Yeah, yeah, that stuff,
and now we look back and just laugh. Um. Some
change with the Pistons. Jeff Bauer out as the general manager,
according to WHOAJ, which also reported today that John Beelon

(01:59:40):
of Michigan interviewed for the Pistons coaching gig. Gonna be
fascinating to see what happens. And I have some friends
in that front office, and obviously they you know, it
was in bad shape and I'm not sure they made
it better. It made it worse. They do have Andre Drummond,
they do have Blake Griffin, they don't have a coach,
they don't have a general manager going to be interesting,
Brown said. Coach Hugh Jackson made it on his promise

(02:00:00):
he as he jumped into Lake Erie today following the
team's o N sixteen season after their one win campaign
in twenty sixteen, Jackson promising that that wouldn't happen again.
Well it didn't. They just didn't win a game last year.
Over one hundred team employees joined Jackson and the jump today,
donating one hundred dollars to his foundation, which combats human
trafficking across northeast Ohio, for each employee that joined him

(02:00:23):
on the jump in all, raising thirty thousand dollars with
other donations. What they jumped today, I wish somebody splashing
cold water on J. R. Smith in Cleveland's For the
month of May, things actually returned to normal in baseball,
where there were more hits than strikeouts. According to the
Elias Sports Bureau, there were seven thousand, thirty three hits

(02:00:45):
in May compared to sixty seventy one strikeouts. It was
in April that strikeouts topped hits for the first time,
with just about three hundred more. The previous low differential
was a year ago, and they're one hundred and thirty
eight more hits than strikeouts. It was close by about
sixty DOUG, but hits prevailed in having more strikeouts in May.

(02:01:06):
It is fascinating to see how baseball has changed so dramatic.
A lot of power pitching, a lot of guys not
not choking up and trying to punch one out with
two strikes, um umpires a little bit more liberal with
the strike zone, and of course the ball flying further
causes guys who want to take bigger shots. All of
it is combined for a very different era, very different
era in baseball. There could be a new era in

(02:01:27):
baseball as well. When it comes to expansion. Commissioner Rob
Manfred has made no bones about it. He'd like to
see the league have thirty two teams. Well, there could
be one in Portland, ore Agon. And if there is, yeah,
it could be the With the help of Seahawks quarterback
Russell Wilson along with his wife singer Sierra, became investors
today with a local group that's trying to bring an

(02:01:48):
MLB team to Portland. So where would the other player
other team be? Vegas? Well, Vegas is an option. San Antonio,
UM Montreal, Mexico City, New Orleans, all pot Charlotte, all
possible options to have an expansion team Charlotte. You know
it's such a hot bed for minor league baseball there

(02:02:08):
San Antonio. Yeah, I could see it. I like the
idea of Mexico City. I'm sure baseball does as well.
Um boy that it had to be a ton of security.
That is just as a dangerous part of the world.
Dangers city, even by Mexico's terms. Montreal, if they get
a new stadium, yeah, I mean, but Montreal, they had
their team. They needed a new stadium forever. I guess

(02:02:32):
I'm supposed to feel bad about it, but I just don't.
But I would give Canada a second team. Kind of
been there, done that. Finally, dug Alabama coach Nick Saban
took several Crimson Tide players out on his boat on
a lake near Tuscaloosa and then got stranded briefly when
that boat ran out of gas. TMC reporting the news that, yeah,

(02:02:52):
to uh Tagliavoa was on the boats along with He
didn't save everybody there too, did he? No. Jalen Hurts
was on the bus or the boat, but then they
dropped him off. Get out there and pressed. That was
the press. Yes, they dropped him off and then they
ran over him and said it was his fault that

(02:03:13):
they ran, his fault that they ran out of out
of gas. Right, That's kind of the way it works.
Game two is Sunday Quick Prediction, Ramos what he got.
I'll take the Warriors in this one, bigger little, I
say they is like six points music Warriors very closely. Oh,
everybody's coming around to my side. Now what you got there?

(02:03:33):
Damn By, you didn't have to say that. I was
gonna say Warriors big. I like the Warriors big. In
Game two, I like the Warriors little little. I think
it's me tight. I think we have another super exciting game,
super exciting game. Enjoy the weekend. We'll be back Monday.
I'll be hosting The Dan Patrick Show, also on Fox
Sports Radio.

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