The Rockets Are Embarrassing Themselves

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He is both a an NBA analyst, a college basketball analyist,
and a part owner of the Atlanta Hawks, will ask
him about the officiating in the NBA. If I am,
what's for Tita's first name? Tillman for Tita. Great name,
by the way, and Tillman for Tita is a remarkably

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successful man. Tilman for Tita. If you know Mastro's Steakhouse
for example, like that's his chain, upper end steakhouses, restaurants,
high end stuff, and he and his family have absolutely
killed it, so much so that their reward was probably
overpaying for the Houston Rockets, right, like a two billion

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dollar price tech. And if I'm Tillman Fritida today, I've
reached the point of embarrassment. I'm not upset, hey, um
in the in the the reactions that we have, you know,
in the different reactions that we have to things that

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go wrong, the stages of grief, if you will. Today,
I'm embarrassed and maybe maybe a little ticked off. But
not the officials, Not I'm Adam, not at Adam Silver
who runs the NBA, not another owners, not the Warriors
or Steve Kerr for kind of clowning the idea of
the flop. I'm ticked off at my own management team.

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I paid two billion dollars for a championship ready franchise,
one that has the league's m v P and James Harden,
one that has Mike D'Antoni, who several times has knocked
on the door of being an NBA Finals team but
as yet to kick it in. I bought into the
whole plan. I bought into the idea of analytics basketball.

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I bought into all the things that I thought were
this close from winning the whole thing. What I didn't
buy into is this senseless, mindless crap, which is, let's
use a portion of the two billion dollars I spent
the money that I used to fund this franchise, and

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let's go back and look at last year's footage of
Game seven and try and great out what was and
what was not a good call. Don't get me wrong,
reviewing the past to help your own future is good business.
It's the same reason we should watch tape, we should

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listen to audio here in our business, right, you should
listen to yourself when you conduct an interview, when you
go on an opening ren what could I do better?
Called listing session? That's great to help you, but the
idea of let's let's start with the premise that we
got screwed and then have confirmation bias and use our

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analytics department to determine just how badly we got screwed
is a laughable embarrassment. And oh yeah, by the way,
this story just happens to get out right when they
happen to play against the Golden State Warriors, and Scott Foster,
who had been put on Game two well before the
series ever began, just so happens to be officiating tonight's game.

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I was born at night, just not last night. These
things just don't happen. They're not just coincidences. This is
the Rockets trying to do what Phil Jackson would do
for years, what pat Riley had done for years, and
Jeff ben Gundi, Greg Popovitch a little bit which, but
they have taken it to the inth degree. Not only
we're gonna bitch and complain about past calls, We're gonna

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go a year in the past and use analytics department. Look,
the major flaw in it is there's something called the
butterfly effect in sports and in life. If this one
thing doesn't happen, then a litany of things may not happen.
In succession. So the idea that a missed call stands

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on itself and you can judge each miss call and
grade some sort of numerical value for it is the
worst possible use of analytics. And it's a total lie
that's told to the public because there is no true
control group. There is no reality to it. But do
you mean to tell me that if, in fact, they
did review game seven of last year's Western Conference Finals

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where they did not have Chris Paul, which is fair.
They also missed twenty seven consecutive three point shots and
oh yeah, by the way, the Golden State Wars didn't
have Andrea Guadala. There's a lot of other factors that
go into who wins and who doesn't win a game.
But you mean to tell me that they didn't have
this information for the last year. Again, I was born

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at night, not last night. And now I'm telling Fatita,
and now you you force the NBA and the NBA's
officials into a corner whatever you're intent game. Look, dude,
you have somebody who led the NBA in free throw attempts, who,
by the way, had fourteen free throw attempts the other night.
It wasn't like he didn't go to the line. I

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was like, man, James Harden, he's getting roughed up here.
Your success has benefited from the officials, even in the postseason,
and yet you have the goal. You have the the
Yiddish words hutzpup, which means bulls, the lower Intestine affortitude

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to put out some report the day before what could
be a defining game. I'd be embarrassed if I'm tilborn
for Tita. This is this, you know, this reminds me
of This reminds me of the Democratic Party that can't
get out of their own way. They keep tripping all
over themselves about how they lost the election of Donald Trump.

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Instead of figuring out how you in the next election,
they're still trying to figure out and point fingers as
to why Russia or she didn't go visit Wisconsin or
this or that, or we pick some dope Virginia because
he was bilingual to be the vice president, or dude,

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you lost. Figure out how to get better for the
next time around, right, I mean that's the whole thing
about the about the Golden Golden State Warriors or or
the Houston Rockets, Like if you're the Rockets, you should
have said us out there and go like, all right, well, hey,
maybe we should have mixed in a two point shot
every now and again. Can we get a post up,
can we figure out a way to to get have

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a more sustainable offense instead of just chucking and ducking,
Because while the numbers will tell you ultimately you'll start
making these threes, the reality of sports is that when
you start missing shots, it's like the fluid spreads to
the whole team. And when you start making him same thing.
That doesn't work out mathematically, That doesn't work out in
in a in the analytics department. But the reality of

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sports is hot streaks do happen. Cold streaks do happen.
Analytics guys will tell you if there's no such thing
as protection in the batting lineup, but human nature tells
you absolutely there is. Absolutely there is. If I got
Aaron Judge sitting on deck wherever's in front of him,

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I'm gonna throw strikes to you know why, I don't
want to have Aaron Judge hit a ball so far
that the concession man in the top rows like, damn,
that needs a stewardess. I don't want to be a
two or three run jack. So the point is this
that you're you're telling for TEENA you invested in a
team that wanted to win and lose by analytics, which

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is smart. Like the rest of the NBA has taken
what the taken, what the Rockets have used, and go
like that's really smart, just like they've taken what the
Golden State Warris are done with small ball and go
that's really smart. Points per possession of low post scoring
low post shots post up shots is like point seven seven.

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That's a low percentage shot. That's why nobody post up anymore.
On the other hand, when he got Kevin Durant and
he's guarded by a guy four inches smaller than him,
and he's one of the elite shot makers in all
the sport, guess what the Warriors do when they need
to bucket occasionally they post up. Because the analytics, though right,

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also don't necessarily focused on the elite players and on
specific players who in specific shots actually have a high
points per possession in the low post area. It also
causes defense to rotate into sag and to help, which
opens up shots for other people. I'm not saying analytics
is stupid, not at all. I think it's smart. I

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think it's useful. I'm not even saying that breaking down
the officiating and showing it to the public is is stupid.
It's not. It's the timing of it. It's the of
a reliance on it. It's the whining of it. It's
a team that benefits from officiating throughout their the entirety
of of their of their march towards prominence. And they

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are a prominent team on what was the eve of
and now the day of a huge playoff game where
they had to know the officiating crew had won change
and two would have Scott Foster's respected official. Otherwise it
wouldn't be officiating these games. There is zero accountability. This
is and and by the way, it's a bad look

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for us as adults. This is my biggest challenge as
a youth coach. I coached my son in football and
baseball and basketball. And the thing I do not allow
my son or anybody else on our teams to say
is oh the raths, because I tell them just like
I would tell Do you really think that an official

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who is getting at most fifteen dollars a game gives
a damn about whether or not you win or the
opposing team wins. They might if you bitch and complain
about every call, because they'll sit there and go like,
f that kid, he's a brat. You know. It becomes
a self fulfilling prophecy. If you believe the refs are
out to get you, the refs will then be out

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to get you. Because you're a jerk and you act
like the refs are out to get you. This is
a victor We become a victims society. Oh everybody did
be wrong or make a shot? Take a better high
quality shot? How many times did James Harden push off
to get open to create that space that was then
closed up on somebody went underneath him? Oh yeah, by

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the way, we need shoot a jump shot. Yeah, you
need your landing zone, but you also should land slightly forward.
How do we adjust that? And this is as I
pointed out yesterday, this is how officiating has always been
in every sport. In the NFL, they call it a
super Bowl call, which is you don't call close past
interferences in the Super Bowl. You just don't. You don't

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why because there's sixty million people that are watching the
game that never watch football, and you won't have to
explain to them what what is and what is in
past interference? Did you catch it? Did he not catch
It's pretty easy to tell. The same thing happens in baseball.
The strike zone for the regular season is different than
the strike zone at the end of the season. The
in the neighborhood rule doesn't work in the playoffs, and

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in the NBA it has not sometimes it has always
been a much more physical game. Men win in the playoffs.
And if your style is dependent upon calls, just like
the Atlanta Braves right fourteen years in a row or
something to night playoffs that won one World Series. Remember
their style was based upon the fact that the strike

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zone seemed to be a little bit wider for Greg Maddox.
Get to the playoffs. Now I got the real strikes.
And as great as Maddox was, power pitching wins in
the playoffs because you're not gonna get the just off
the black call. You don't. You gotta throw it over
the white. The reason that the Seahawks were so good

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on their march to the Class War, they were super
They would force you to throw a penalty flag sometimes
the backfire, but that was their style. It was made.
It was created for the Super Bowl. Physical teams win
in Super Bowl. That's what happened this year in Super
didn't you not watch? It wasn't like the Rams suddenly
had no offense. You ask any Rams player or any
Rams fan like they were mugget us, they were hold us. Yeah,

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that's what happens in the Super Bowl. And if you
go back to the Jordan rules, since people don't seem
to properly understand or articulate what happened when Michael Jordan's
finally won a championship. Michael Jordan couldn't get past the
Detroit Pistons because every time he would drive in the lane,

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they would mug him because they knew he wasn't did
not trust his teammates. He would not pass the basketball.
And when they put in the triangle offense, it was
because they were so brutally physical with Michael Jordan's he
would be forced to pass the ball and then try
go offense. Give him proper spacing so his teammates could
make shots. And that one of them six championships. And

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just like we don't call the fifty fouls in the NBA,
we don't. We didn't call the push off on Michael
Jordan's when he scored over Brian Russell. Did we of
course not. And if you want to call the in
the neighborhood rule, if you want to call the running
under me rule, that's fine. We're gonna start calling all
the travels and the pushofs as well. But if I'm

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tilman for Tita, an incredible businessman who was within a
whisker of getting to the NBA Finals last year and
his four wins away essentially from getting to an NBA
finals this year, I know it's only the second round,
but we all look at this as the Western Conference finals.
I'm not just embarrassed by the depth of the report

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and by the amount of resources that were expended for
this report, the timing of it makes it even worse.
It makes you seem like whiners and people who are
not accountable for the fact that you couldn't make a
jump shot and you kept taking them. I'd be embarrassed today.

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I'll tell you what I feel like I was ahead
of it. I know, Calherd's big, big proponent of Chris

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Boward and what he's doing with the Colts. Remember there
was talk about Ballard, you know, spending some of their
equity that they had in the salary cap on Levy,
on Bell and I was like, I just don't I
don't buy it. I don't buy it. Um. Today they
announced they have signed Spencer Ware where's twenty seven years old.
He rushed for um yards, love and touchdowns in his

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four NFL seasons. Solid guy with the Chiefs, can catch
it out of the backfield, super super versatile and um.
I mean, look, I just think if you look at
what they're doing, the culture doing, they're spreading that money
around and spending smartly. I mean, I get former cults
trolling the poor Titans at the draft made you almost

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feel bad for the Titans. But dany I like what
the culture doing. I really like what the culture doing.
I just think smart pickups, spending smart money. Now, remember
there's there's also and I saw some lists out of
you know, the and Dominicansos of the world and the
core Legits and some of the other players that are

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still unsigned. I believe May seven is the day where
there's an adjustment made to the compensatory More on that.
Let's let's welcome and Jason lack Camphora, Jason, I got
I got bigger topics to get to. But I looked
at this list of unsigned currently unsigned free agents, and
I was like, Wow, that seems like some big, big names.
But isn't there a reason that teams are waiting before

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they go and get some of these guys? Yeah, in
many cases now, doug Um, after teams have kind of
got most of the meat off the bone in free agency. Hey,
you're you're waiting it out and waiting for bargains. B
you never know exactly what you're gonna come out of
the draft with. So um, there's some Paull's there. And
then see a lot of these teams now already looking
forward to and they know the free agents they've lost,

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and they know the free agents they've signed, and nobody
knows exactly the super double top secret equation that goes
into awarding compensatory picks. But people have a pretty good
idea and a lot of these teams are like, if
we give you fair market value. Now we're going to
lose a potential third or fourth round pick um, depending
on the individual circumstances for signing you. And we really

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want you what we really you may eighth because then
we could tell you what we think you're worth and
what you think you're worth, and it won't cost us
a draft pick um. It's kind of a byzantine uh system.
It rewards teams for being frugal. The rich tend to
get richer. No one has exploited this system more than
New England, and we all know that they win more
than anybody else. But other teams have caught on and

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and now that you can trade compensatory picks, which they
changed a few years ago, they're worth even more because
you have that same flexibility with those picks come draft
night as you would with any other So that certainly
is playing a role in this and it's it's become
really all the rage. I wrote a column one in
a few months back, Um, you know, kind of like

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letting people know that a lot of these cats are
not going to be signed, and it's not necessarily through
any fault of their own at this point. It's just
the way that teams are playing the game, they're exploiting
the market where they're able to. And at this case,
you know, it's it's that that third round pick that
those are gold. You just saw how many trades were
made second day, you know what I mean over the weekend,

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Like that's where you can really make a lot of
make a lot of Hey, um, I want to get
back to the NFL in a second, but there's something
that came came to mind. I was kind of I've
kind of been on this, hey, educating people as they
watch the NBA. The NBA playoffs are officiated differently than
the regular season. And I remember Sean Payton when he
didn't get the call in the NFC Championship game against

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the Rams. You could hear him saying, that's a that's
a super Bowl call. That's a super Bowl call. Tell
me if I'm wrong. But isn't is it very well
known in the in NFL circles that in the Super
Bowl they almost never want to call defensive holding or
pass interference, uh, to kind of slow down and muddy
up the game. Is that is that fair? I mean,
I think the bigger the game, the bigger the stage. Um,

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the closeness of the game, the lateness of the game.
I mean, officials are human beings. I mean, I think
in in you know, we we we tend to think
that holds true. And and I don't think it's a
football specific thing. I think sports in general, right, the
magnitude of the game and the stakes that high let
them settle it on the field, you know what I
mean interpret things maybe a little looser than you might.

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You know, week two on a you know, one pm
Sunday game, with nine other games going on around the league,
there's probably something to that. The case though, of this play,
I mean, that was so egregious, you know, I mean
that that wasn't a football no, no, I I just
I understand, but I'm just I'm relating that it's one

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of those things like the Patriots in the Super Bowl
this year. We're super super physical with the with the
Rams wide receivers, and people in the league like, yeah,
that's how the super boy is. They don't like to
call penalties, yeah, and they don't like to call in
toront of them, and um, you know, I think we've
seen we've seen that play itself out in big game
situations some time to time. Sure. Okay, So let's start
with the Daniel Jones pick. I know what people on

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TV and fans how they're freaking out. What what are
people in the NFL saying about what Dave Getleman's done.
I mean, it's it's a reach. I mean, there's no
doubt about that. It doesn't mean it's wrong, um, but
it's a reach. And the idea that there were two
teams dying to get in front of them at seventeen

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for Daniel Jones, I just don't think that's true. And
I don't know anybody who does think that's true. And
maybe that's what Dave Gentleman's intel was telling him, but
that's not what anybody else is intel did the Skins
wanted because the Skins everybody said the Skins were split.
You know, there's there's two people who matter in that organization,

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and one of them is Dan Snyder and the other
ones Bruce Allen, who push comes to shove, will do
whatever Dan wants. And and Dan has been aware of Haskins,
his kids were in high school with him at Bullis.
I mean, he's been on the radar and you saw
the story he wrote for the Bulls School newspaper. I
mean that probably made its way to Dan Snyder's desk. Okay,
so his mentor is Shawn Springs. Sean Springs is pretty

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close with Dan Snyder. No, no, no, I understand. But
what about the rest of the organization. They like Daniel,
they like Daniel. I I didn't say it mattered and
that they would have drafted. Here's how Redskins personnel meetings go.
Bruce Allen sits at the end of the table, and
guys make their reports, and they stake their case and
he looks at them stoically and he scribbled some things down,
and then they move on. There's no quorum, there's no

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uh back and forth, there's no engagement, there's no give
me five reasons why you really love them. You set
your piece and they move on it. And when when
Shanahan was there, it was much more um give and take.
It was much more um asking guys to stump for
players and trying to form a consensus. That's just not
how the process works there, especially not when we're talking

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about first round quarterbacks. Jason Lucan forward joining us in
the Doug Gotlip Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Um,
there's there's other teams everybody's talking about, but you know
the Ravens inside and out. And this is the first
draft without Ozzie Knewsom, and they took Hollywood Brown, who
free talent, great speed, But I don't how does that
fit with Lamar Jackson, a guy who's not an accurate

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tower does have a big arm, but not an accurate thrower.
And he seems like a guy a wide receiver who
would require a high amount of volume like that. That
just it's not that he's not a good player, is
not that he's not talented, but it sure it feels
like it doesn't fit what they would need. Well, I
think they feel like they saw how the Chargers defended
them and pretty much everybody else. And if you've got
an eight eight and a half nine man box, all

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it takes is two over the top. I mean, I
don't really think it's volume. I think it's it's quality
um and not so much quantity. I think the volume
will be screen passes to the kid Hill. I think
the volume will be the two tight ends, Andrews and
Hayden Hurst. Andrews more moving the chains and Hurst more um,
you know, as that true motion tight end um you know,

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I think what we sneed is volume. I think this
kid is take the top off. Forced them to be
more honest than how they defend us. And when things
break down, you're run down the sideline and he throws
at sixty five yards and you get there first. I mean,
I think it's it's that element. And if they flash
it and it clicks a few times early, you better

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dan believe people are going to change the way they
defend this team. This was an outfit last year that
went six and one down the stretch and did some
dynamic things in the run game. But they did all
that with time Montgomery and you know Gus Edwards and
Alex Collins and Michael Crabtree and John Brown. That that

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is now turned into you could have a formation with
mark Ingram and Hill both back there um with you know,
in the backfield with Lamar with Hollywood Brown coming across.
You don't know. If it's a jet streep, you don't stream,
you don't sweep, you don't know. If it's an end around,
you don't know. If it's a pitch play you can
and they run misdirection off of that. I mean, if
they were able to run the ball like they did

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last year with just a scheme, a dynamic quarterback, and
a bunch of dudes. I'm very intrigued to see what
Greg Roman can do with a group of four or
five super twitchy four three four or four guys now
to play around with. That is the antithesis of what
they were a year ago. Why did no one seem
to want Josh Rosie right if the the is it?
I mean, like, look, um, I get that he was

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on the market and it perked up your ears when
you just drafted a guy, but that was a late
second round pick for a guy who issues, you know,
supposed to issues aside everyone thought looked like a pro
quarter starting quarterback. He had no offensive line last year,
no scheme. There's no way he's the fifth best quarterback
in this draft. Okay, So why was he just giving away?
Timing and mismanagement and lack of leverage and hubris on

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the part of the Cardinals and you know, wasting three
months with this BS charade that you've got this monster
decision to make, thinking and hoping against hope that somebody
is going you're somehow going to create this leverage for Rosen.
I mean, they should have just come out of the combine.
And this is a Monday morning quarterbacks, you should have
come out of combine. So you know what Kyler Murray

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measured all we could hope for. He's fits our system.
We're all over business at one. If somebody wants to
trade up, never say never. But we're gonna do right
by Josh Rosen. We're gonna trade him in the next
seventy two hours. They shouldn't could have done it before
free agency, but you wait till after free agency, and
you wait till teams have already evaluated other quarterbacks and
fallen in love with them, and then you try to
make a trade like that. Um, going into day two.

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I mean, should more teams have been interested? Absolutely to me,
Cincinnati first and foremost they take a developmental risk tight
end in in round two. I mean, I would have
traded that pick for Rosen all day long. And and
that's by the way, that would have been classic. And
I know Marvin Lewis is in the coach there. That
was classic Marvin Lewis back in the day. Right, That's
how they became good was they got guys that for

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pennies on the dollar, right, drafting guys issue that cost
you anything. He's a better fit in Zach Taylor's offense
right now than Andy Dalton, and you're only renting Dalton
at this point. I think some teams were shortsighted. I
think other teams were already had their eyes you know,
like like the Raiders towards and seeing what they could
do there, and and looked there was historic quarterback movement

(29:07):
a year ago, historic trades, historic signings, cousins, you know,
eighty three million guaranteed, fully guaranteed, UM and and just
historic number of quarterbacks taken in the first round. Supply
wasn't going to meet demand. So I don't know how
the Cardinals didn't see it coming, but um, at the
end of the day, other teams already saw kids on

(29:27):
the clock who they were willing to take. And if
you you know, no one was going to bail them out.
No even Miami was able to trade down, pick up
you know, extra picks, which was genius and get them
even lower in the second round. They had no leverage.
Jason lckham Ford joining us in the Doug Gotlip Show
here on Fox Sports Radio. Who's the team that when

(29:48):
you talk to your NFL source, as they say, you
know what, those guys did a really good job. There's
a number of them. You know, this was there was
a lot of kudos going around. Um, you know what
New England was able to do and continuing to trade
down and just get value, value value, John Schneider turning
four picks before the Frank Clark trade into like ten afterwards.

(30:11):
Not everyone loved the pass rusher he took in the
first round, but you know, hey, maybe they know something
other people don't. And you know, they obviously did it
for a reason, but they were able to address things
across the board. I think people, I mean Baltimore in Arizona,
if you're gonna go with that type of quarterback, then
you better give him plenty of dudes who who run
like him and twitch like him and and they both

(30:32):
did that. Now it doesn't mean that it will work out,
but you understand the science behind it. You know a
lot of people were enamored, um with that. I mean,
those are a few of the teams that come to mind.
And Jason lacking Forward joining us on the Dug Outluck
Show what people think of the job? Mayo, did you
know the first pick obviously shocked a lot of people. Um,
it's safe in that that players, you know, relatively safe.

(30:56):
But you know, I don't. I don't know that. You know,
Cleveland Farall is going to be a top ten sack
guy the way Josh Allen might be a lot of years.
But but he he fits their mold and they got
him for a bunch of different reasons. Um, they loved
Josh Jacobs and they were able to get him without
having uh to move around. They took a couple of
thumpers along the way who they like. Um, you know,

(31:20):
I I think, I mean again, we we nobody knows
how I mean this is going to turn out. But
they stuck to their guns and made some smart moves.
I think if you compare to what they did a
year ago at this time, which people conveniently often forget,
you know, trading a three from Mark Tavis Bryant, you know,
the trade down at a ten. You know, they probably
could have handled that situation maybe a little better in hindsight,

(31:42):
you know, running around finding Jordy Nelson doing some of
the stuff they were doing. Uh, this certainly seems more
sound than that. It definitely does. Last thing, Am I wrong?
But what happened with the Kancer Chiefs on Thursday might
have been, um, the biggest thing to affect the NFL
this year. I hope you're right. I'll believe it when
I say it, you know, I'll believe it when I

(32:05):
see some sort of stance or change or corrective measures
coming from it. It should, um, But the league's on
network didn't address it during how many however many how
many hours were they live during the draft? I mean
and ungodly amount they never talked about it, right, Not
that I'm aware of, Wow, not a whole lot the league.

(32:25):
So you know, Roger Goodell, we're gonna keep looking into it.
I mean, you know, well, well, guess what I mean.
The d A reopened the case and there's audio of
of a young man who to this point no one
has said, is not this this this this um, this
three year old who's endured this abuse, saying Daddy did it?
And you know the moment the state steps in and says, right,

(32:45):
something a crime was committed here. We can't prove it
right now, but we're going to give mom supervisor visitation.
We're gonna give dad no rights whatsoever to see this
child under any circumstances like you might think that was
the threshold for your cut. We'll worry about your status later.
You know you're not gonna be playing football for a

(33:06):
long time, but we're not there yet. And Frank Clark
got a hundre million dollars from the same order within
you know, within what twenty four hours of the audio
coming out Thursday. Jason, great stuff. Thanks for your passion
and thanks for your information. Appreciate you got my pleasure.
Thank you. Let's get you to Dan Buyer. Find out
what else going on over the sports stand. What's up
the game to Tonight's Celtics Box eight Eastern Rockets Warriors

(33:27):
ten thirty Eastern Time some news from that series. Referee
Scott Foster will be officiating Game two between the Rockets
and Warriors. James Harden publicly criticized Foster after a game
on February twenty one, saying that Foster is a bias
and should never work another Rockets game. Well, he will
tonight in Game two of the Western Semifinals. Spursited coach
Gregg Popovich have reportedly come to terms out a new

(33:49):
three year contract. According to es Piano, that means next
season will be Popovich is the Spurs head coach a
new College Football Bowl games coming to Fenway Park after
the season. The STADIU reports the gable feature teams from
the a c C and American Athletic Conference Champions League
semi finals. Boston College, by the way, that's what that? Yes,

(34:10):
that would be a great That seems like a perfect
December seven game, you know where it's not close to
New Year's and it's but it's in advance of the
week and maybe gets its own window. I X up
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of their Champions League semifinal one nil if you will
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that the Houston Rockets should have as they faced the
Golden State Warriors. Okay, from three to one. Least important
and most important? Okay? Um three? Scott Foster being vengeful

(36:43):
against them to Kevin Durant continue to run aut here
and one. Has anybody noticed that James Harden's in a slump?
Guess not, They're too busy complaining about the officiating. Interesting,
all right, here he's in a slump. And where's k
d Since he said, I'm Kevin Durant, you know who
I am? Averaging forty a game, shooting forty and ninety

(37:05):
it's pretty good. I am. I'm Kevin Durant. Well, I
know who I am, Kevin Durant. That's a great lead
into our next question. Ranked the three best players in
the NBA playoffs so far this postseason. So far this postseason,
We'll go with Damian Lillard at three, kaw While Leonard
at two and Kevin rant at one. Yeah, it was

(37:25):
It's funny on how those three have kind of separated themselves. Yeah,
I would say Yokich is right there last night help
but he he was exhausted at the end of the
Spurs series. He frankly almost lost them game seven as
opposed to winning them game seven. So this is kind
of where we take everything involved. Sites, uh, the the city,

(37:45):
the atmosphere ranked the three best places to host a
college football bowl game. And the reason that this appears
in rank them is we found out that Fenway Park
will be hosting a bowl game after the season. L
A is to get a bowl game as well at
the new stadium, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina getting a bowl game.
But the three best sites with everything included doug City,

(38:08):
the venue. All of that three best sites to host
a college football bowl game, I know, I know the
top two I'm trying to think of the um Man's
is hard. I'm still gonna go with Miami at three,
just historically. I know the stadium is not essentially located whatever,
not walking distance anything. I think. Can I count the

(38:31):
New l A one? No? No, I get Rose bowls
one and super Dome is two. And you could, you
could talk, you could switch those whichever you want. The
Rose Bowl is great for tailgating and the sunset and
the mountains. The Sugar Bowl or the what has the
Mercedes been? Superdome is perfect because of the local, the

(38:52):
proximity to the quarter and also history and the dome.
It's all. The weather is always fine. Those are the
top two, and I would I guess I put in
Miami s three. Doug, you've seen the new Avengers movie.
John Ramos is gonna see it tonight. Not just based
off this movie, but overall. Rank your three favorite Avenger characters,
but no spoilers because John has not seen it yet.

(39:16):
Avenger characters, yes, yeah, Avengers. Your three favorite Avengers be
just just your adventurers. Um I'm gonna go. Let's see here.
One is iron Man, two his store, and I'm only
gonna spots well a little bit. Captain Marvel is big

(39:38):
time in this flick, and Captain Marvel is you know,
we've gone there's some huge PC moments. They're like, Okay,
I get it, it's two thousand nineteen in the movie,
But I have no Captain Marvel. I like, look, I
like Spider Man a lot. I'm gonna go with Captain Marvel.
I do have a question, guys, and I hope this
doesn't give anything away. Is Captain Marvel like the leader

(39:59):
of them all? Or they're all even they all have
like Captain Marvel is a new discovery, isn't isn't she John?
I mean, I don't she's new in the movies, but
she's she's been a part of the Avengers time frame
for a long time. Just kind of new and now
kind of introduced now. So she doesn't wait wait, wait, wait,
waita wait is mind wait? I got let me change.

(40:19):
I want Black Panther three. My son loves loves Black Panther.
I thought maybe Captain Marvel had the sea on her
chest and when police comes, he's the one to talk
to them. She has decided she has to sign the
coin toss start of the movie, like, all right, we're gonna,
we're gonna We're gonna do this from a home We're
gonna be the home home team in Uh, finally, rank
your three favorite months. We are transitioning from April to May.

(40:44):
He has three favorite months, Doug, Um, October is my
favorite month of the year. October is my favorite month year. October, Um, March,
and then uh, I will go with May. I will

(41:04):
go with I'm a fan of May as well. And
I think you and I are in the same boat
where we have January birthdays and you normally take January.
But man, it's cold. It's just the weather, like it's
hard in Calife, even California, though the weather is not
great in January, and that's and we're complaining about sixty
degrees in rainy but yeah, I mean, and the weather
is bad other places. Yeah, I'll go October because you

(41:26):
got baseball, you got uh, you know, the beginning, all
the other sports, the quality college football, and the weather
I think is the best on the East Coast and
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Right first day of school. The hardest thing to decide

(42:32):
first day of school was and stick with me. If
you're of my generation, you get the new T shirt?
Do you wash the new T shirt? Or do you
wear brand new? If you wear brand new, it's technically
brand new, but it usually has that fold line right
down the middle so everyone knows it's a brand new
T shirt. On the other hand, is there anything wrong
with being the first guy to wear a brand new

(42:52):
T shirt? I'm this, I'm more asking than telling you me. Generally,
I prefer the wear a brand new T shirt. My
wife anytimes she gets new clothes, she washes them, which
I don't understand. I don't understand. Um, I think brand
new T shirt should be worn brand new, especially now.
I mean, of all the breakthroughs we have in technology,

(43:16):
soft cotton might be the best breakthrough in the last
I don't know, half century, all right, I'll give you
cell phone technology is number one, but soft cotton T
shirts are very close number two. People say it's the
best thing since sliced bread. We wouldn't figure tearing off
bread is is fine, But the difference between the hard

(43:36):
cotton rough shirts that used to kind of shape our
chest and the soft cotton we have now night and day,
night and day, it's like this. It's like the stretchy
denom now as opposed to the old school five oh
one blue Jeane denom, which is just rough and would
chafe every different part of your leg. And you're growin

(43:57):
right anyway. I used to have the new backpack, the
new trapper keeper, the new socks, the new shoes, and
the new T shirt along with the new stubby shorts
from the Stubbies. You guys, I have a Stubbies or
Jimmy Z Jimmy's or were they Jimmy's or jimmy z
They Actually this is California stuff. I don't know how
many of you guys like it was like velcro to

(44:18):
hold your shorts up. It's pretty cool back in the day.
And for me, a fake surfer skater can't skateboard, not
particularly good surfer. I could get away with rock and
the gear until I realized, like, let's just wear some
Nike stuff and get get after it. But first day
of school you got all the new stuff, You're on
your best behavior, and whatever reputation you had from your

(44:39):
previous school year, you could make it up and just
say I'm matured in the in the summer changed. When
you go to a new place of business, you do
have to make the cognitive choice, am I gonna lay
am I gonna lay down the laws that this is
who I am? I'm gonna try and evolve and understand
there is some negativity to who I I was and

(44:59):
grow into who I want to be. People are judged
by their actions, not their words, right, I mean, look
no further than the National Football League. Dave Gentleman can
tell us all he wants about Eli Manning is their guy,
but they just a draft a guy number six in
the NFL draft. He's going to play sooner rather than later.

(45:19):
That's the nature of the business, right. The same is
true for players. Odell Beckham Jr. Can tell us he's
all about winning, But what gives you a better likelihood
of winning when you're on the same wavelength as your
quarterback and you're constantly together, constantly running routes where you

(45:40):
can finish each other sentences, or when you just show
up when it's time to show up and then you
go play. What's even worse is he knows what his
reputation is and he's living down to not up to it.
Even worse as Lebian Bell. Levian Bell hasn't played football
in more than a year, and while I won't hold

(46:01):
the drug tests against him, it was weed. It's more
stupidity and arrogance than there's any sort of severe drug problem.
Here's the guy who's missed time because of suspensions, miss
time because of injuries, taken a year off, seemed to
be overweight, didn't get the money he wanted, but one

(46:23):
team decided, Hey, we're gonna give you a huge contract.
It may not be the contract that he wanted. But
let it be known, that's a lot of money that
he's set to make from New York chets, and how
does he reward them? Doesn't show for O t S,
doesn't show for Tis. Here's two guys that are stars

(46:45):
in the NFL that need an absolute reality check. There's
a book. It's called The First ninety Days. Friend of
mine gave it to me four years ago, five years ago.
Excuse me. I was two years into my deal at CBS,
and I thought to myself, boy, this would have been
good before I took this job, you know. And I'm

(47:07):
not gonna give you the cliff notes version, but I
will tell you generally, generally, some of the ideas are,
you know, you show up, you're everybody's friend, and you
figure out the places culture and before you trying to
change and evolve their culture to fit some of your
own beliefs. Maybe some of those cultural beliefs that you
were brought into help. And still you've gotta understand how

(47:29):
everybody works and why everybody is how they are. You know,
you can't do that. Can't do that in Los Angeles
when your team is training in Cleveland. Can't do that
in Miami when your team is training in Floral Park.
If you want to be a star, you have to

(47:50):
do the little things. You have to do the extra workouts.
You don't just have to be there. You've gotta be
first in last out. Take Josh Rosen for example. Rosen
knew who's gonna be traded. He knew that Cliff Kingsbury
didn't want him. That this is not a surprise. What
did he do during o t a s first one in,
last one out. What's he gonna do in Miami. It's

(48:12):
gonna be first one in, last one out. He's gonna
likely learn from some of his past mistakes. He's not
gonna be able to reshape himself because he's just not
some dynamic leader that guys are going to get behind.
He's not a raw rock guy. That's not who he is.
On the other hand, he is going to be there
as often as possible because the more you're around somebody,

(48:33):
the more you like their qualities and you accept their flaws.
But instead Odell Beckham Jr. Has decided, Hey, man, I'm
a superstar. I don't need any of that stuff. But
you've been in the NFL for four years when you're
on the field, you're really good, but you have been
on the field consistently missing at least half of one

(48:54):
season and and chunks of two of the other three.
In addition to the fact that you're playing with a
new quarterback in a new system, with the unproven head coach,
with a bunch of new players, and you're gonna show
up and wing it. It's not the way it works,
you know. For a guy who liked to spend time

(49:16):
with his teammates on a boat the week before the playoffs,
it seems odd that you've probably made your teammates feel
like we're not fun to hang around. Cleveland's not a
cool city to be around right now. Your time and
your guys and your workouts are more valuable than us.
These is actions, not words. This is no different than

(49:39):
little kids. Kids say they want to be the best.
Are you willing to put down the video game and
go outside and shoot shoot hoops for an hour? The
lack of discipline in Odell Beckham Jr's life and understanding
that he has judged from the moment he got to Cleveland,

(50:01):
He's gonna be judged. I want to clean slate. You
got one your first opportunity to make a good impression,
you chose to bail. Your time is more valuable than
time with us. And if there's eight six thousand, four
hundred seconds in a day and you spend zero of
those seconds on your teammates in Cleveland while they're out
getting to know each other and working towards a common goal,

(50:22):
how do you think they're gonna view you. The giants
saw through his words and saw his actions. He had
three months of good behavior and then he reverted to
being all about o comer. It doesn't mean that he's
a bad guy, doesn't mean that he's out doing bad things.
It just means the best way to be effective is

(50:44):
to be around guys more often. And while you could
sit there and say, hey, tom Brady, miss otis last
year he did first time he's ever done it, tom
Brady also has spent eighteen previous years at O t
A S. System is not new to him. Other guys
have to learn the system. And when you're at his age,

(51:04):
you don't want him throwing that much because you don't
want him to get rubber arm late in the season,
which you got anyway. That's actually the opposite is the
problem with the Saints and the Chargers, and with the Steelers,
and with the with the Patriots where they have older quarterbacks,
they actually don't want those guys that throw throw as much.
But this idea that O T A s aren't useful.

(51:27):
You have to practice less now in the regular season
and in the preseason than you ever have previously, and
so you got to soak up every single amount of time.
And it's not like you're you're at the facility for
fifteen hours a day. I oh yeah. By the way,
the training you're doing in Los Angeles is the same
training you'll be doing in Cleveland. The only difference is

(51:48):
the proximity to your teammates and your coaches and your fans.
So I just think, I mean, the levy On thing
is completely inexcusable. Dude, you ain't played football in a
year and a half and you're gonna miss any workout
when they gave you a deal and nobody else was
going to in the these guys don't get it category.

(52:13):
I give you levy On Bell and Odell Beckham Jr.
No one has ever said neither have talent. They have
prolific talent. They have Hall of Fame caliber talent between
the two of them. Leviyan Bell is that dynamic and
Odell Beckham Junior I don't have to tell you how
good he is. But there's a reason that both of

(52:35):
their previous employers allowed them to walk out the door.
And this is the reason. Ethan Strouss from the Athletic
joins the show up coming next. What does he think
about the revs favoring the Warriors? What does he expect
to see in tonight's game? And is it as simple

(52:55):
as Kevin Durant announcing his presence with nuclear LuSE like authority?
Is the best player in the league any chance, Katie stays,
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Athletic Pomb on Twitter at Sherwood Strouss. Check out his
latest piece, Churism Part two. The Warriors aimed to punish
James Harden uh from the jump in game one. Ethan,

(55:07):
It's interesting that lost in all of the discussion about
the officiating is the sudden slump that James Harden is
going back to the past series um For people who
don't can't get behind the paywall, have not yet, what
is your article entail about? What what Steve Kerr planned
for James Harden. Yeah, so I like doing this because

(55:28):
Kurr has often talked about as far as playing with
Joy is concerned, and I think locally there's more frustration
with what he does because they have such a talent
advantage that if they don't win, then it has to
be about the coach, But I would pause it. And
this isn't saying that he's perfect. I would just put
it out there that Steve Kerr knows a thing or
two about winning. I would just put that out there

(55:49):
because he's you know, honestly, there is no more overstated
thing that that is not a reality. Then how talented
the Warriors are? They? Really? I believe it now. Look,
I think they have uh two, two definite Hall of
Fame players, two great players. I love Clay Thompson, but look,

(56:10):
he's one of the all time great shooters. I'm not
willing to say he's a Hall of Famer yet. And
I think Draymond Green is the perfect blue guy for
what they are. UM, but he's not a star in
any other team. I'm not sure Klay Thompson is a
star on any other team. They just fit together. But
the rest of the roster is average at best. UM,
And you know, so, I don't think there's some huge

(56:31):
talent advantage. Do I think they have the three best
shot makers in a shotmaker's lead? All right, I'll go
with that. UM. Anyway, I would say that they've got
a big edge. They've got a big edge, and so
there's scrutiny, but there's also an underpinning philosophy, and it's
not just about playing with joy, the moving the ball
around and everything else. I think a lot of Steve
Kurr's philosophy is rooted in the idea of what, in

(56:53):
his estimation, wins a playoff series. You know. I think
that there's this idea of, hey, you do seven rock
papers Iszars, and if you get the four first, then
you win. That's how you win a playoffs series. I
think Ker would say, no, you're wrong, that's not how
you win a playoff series. You win a playoff series.
It's when the other guy falls down, it doesn't get
back up, and you see his control. That's how you

(57:14):
win a playoff series. And we've seen serious decided like this.
It happened to the Warriors after they pushed themselves to
win seventy three games. They fell down around game five
and they had the Draymont suspension. You had Bogan getting hurt,
you had I Goodala with the back injury, and the
Fresher Cavaliers eventually at the very end overtook them in
that series. So it's all about that. A lot of

(57:35):
it is about fatigue. A lot of it is about
trying to outlast these players who are going to fatigue themselves.
James Harden I believe is dribble the basketball thirty five
thousand more times the cord An NBA stats than Clay
Thompson has this. You know, Kerr believes that dribbling stabs
you of energy. That when you're out there, you're making

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your moves, you're pounding the ball on the floorboards, you
get tired. So a lot of the focus is trying
to cut the head off the snake and trying to
tire Harden out. If you notice the last game, the
first eight plays they ran, they all targeted, hardened, and
with players you wouldn't expect because they hide him on
the least severe of offensive threats. So they we'll put
Harden on somebody like Andre or somebody like Draymond, and

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the Warriors said, fine, it's not the most efficient option
for our offense, but we're having Draymond post hardened up,
and we're having a Goodala who's not normally driving in
the half court in the half court driving at him.
It's all to soften him up, to fatigue him for
the final coup de gras, which is at the end
of the game when they're too tired to play kick

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and roll defense in a way that even uh prevents
the switch switching Harden on Kevin Durant. And you saw
how helpless he was against Kevin Durant down the stretch
of that game. That is how that game went. That's
how that game went according to the plan. And all
to talk about the refs I think is going to
obscure from that. It also, interestingly, is a little bit
of philosophy that other people used to have with Steph Curry, right, yes,

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oh it's been done to them certainly. Yeah, they you know,
I remember David Griffin, who is now the GM of
the Pelicans, but was the GM of that Calvs team said, look,
we we we had a rule which is when screening,
get a touch on that m effort every time. That's
what they called it. That's what the cows would say.
And nothing dirty, you know, not trying to hurt him,
but just make make him feel you, make him feel you.

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And eventually, and you you know this because you played
at the high level, the cumulative effect can wear a
guy out. These are not robots. They feel it after
a while. And so the Warriors want to make James
Harden feel it. They want to wear him down so
they can overtake the series eventually. Darryl morri has come
out and said that Steve Kerr is a hypocrite, that
he complains about the officiating when he loses, and now

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all of a sudden he's making fun of the Rockets
complaining about the officiating. I feel like it feels different,
like we're gonna have an analytics department go through an
old game and then wait until the NBA playoffs and
point out that there are miscalls in Game seven that
they should have won the series. Like, it feels different
to me. But you've been around these teams, through these

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matchups and covered the Warriors for a long time. Is
it in fact different or Steve hypocrite? Well? I think
there's that phrase such a difference in degree, that it's
a difference in kind, right, And that's what you're talking about,
where if you're now making this huge memo and it's
data driven and you're talking about how you were robbed
because a foul wasn't called on on your guys and

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Looney then got the rebound and then kicked it out
to Durant for a three pointer, so you were robbed
in that respect. I think at that point it gets
a little bit silly. Now, is Kura hypocrite? I don't know.
I guess. I mean, we're all hypocrites. I think this
is what we do on the internet all day. Now,
we just it's two people calling each other hypocrites. It
doesn't change the reality of whatever is happening in the present.

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In the present, the Rockets are being pretty ridiculous. Whether
or not Steve Kerr is a hypocrite, the Rockets are
being a little bit ridiculous, and they're being ridiculous, but
it could have an effect. Squeaky Wheel gets the grease.
Now everybody's gonna talk about landing area. It's gonna be
hard not to notice the feast of shooters, and it
could work to their advantage. But it's been done in
a way that's a little bit absurd. How long have

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these teams known that Scott Foster is gonna officiate tonight?
How long have they known about it? You're saying, yeah,
I don't know. I don't know how long they knew
about it. I don't know when they got the word.
I know that the Rockets seem to have more of
an issue with Foster. I know in two thousand fifteen,
the Warriors thought that Foster had it out for them.
Now they've had a good record in recent games of
Scott Foster. But for whatever reason, it might be his manner,

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teams think that that he has it out for them,
and it just might be he has a bad bedside
manner with everybody. Nathan's trous joining us got lip show
Fox Sports Radio. Um, okay, so let's talk about Katie's
run here. I saw a stat today where our serious
of stats since he said, I'm Kevin Durant, you know,
I am shooting fifty five from thee from three ninety

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from the line, averaging forty points a game. Is it
just as simple as he decided to show everybody's the
best player on earth? He might be that good, you know,
he might be that good where it's just attitudinal where
he has the talent to just turn it on like that,
where um, maybe he was going a little bit half
speed and then he really went full throttle and there

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you know, there are people around the team to say,
he feels like he can do that whenever he wants. Now,
Canny maybe it's a little easier for people to assume,
uh and just project and say because he's six eleven,
he can do it. But I think what's clear is
if he gets the ball above his chest, you're done.
You can't do anything about it. There's just nothing you
can do. And the Clippers didn't have any defenders really
skilled enough, maybe a little bit Beverly who was too

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small to get the ball away from him. It seems
like the Rockets and know that they're afraid of that,
and they're trying to strip him whenever they can. And
that is the next reffing controversy I think is are
those trips fouls? Are they not fouls? Because that is
the desperation play. They don't want Durant to even get
it over his chest. They want to take that risk

(01:03:08):
when it's lower. That's what they're going to go for.
And that is definitely something to watch because with the
tear this guy is on, I mean, you don't have
a chance if he gets a new shooting motion at
this point. Um lost in that is that Steph Curry,
though he hit the big shot kind of the dagger
against the Nay, hasn't been as effective of late. Um,
there are years in the past where there was a
rolled ankle. He did roll his ankle or limped after

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what was that Game six of the Clippers. Is it
simply he's not healthy or is it that people are
targeting him and trying to take him away from what
the Warriors are doing. I don't know if he looks off.
I think some of it's been a little bit of
stepping back with the tear that Durant has been on.
I think that there's especially in that Game six against
the Clippers, where when he hasn't cook him like that, Uh,

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do you really want to disrupt it? And especially when
he's getting these switches on players who are so overmatched.
And I think in the in the postseason crucible, they
can be a little bit more deliberate and it's not
as much of that Steph Curry game of move the
ball around. Instead, it's more of a game of whack
a mole, of finding the defender you want to get
at and try to whack him. Uh. Durant, I think
it's a little better suited to that than Steph Curry is.

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I think Curry will certainly have his moments he did
against at the end, there Um, but in this series,
especially with no Trevor Reason this time around, it's probably
more of a Kevin Durant series. Yeah, it really is.
I mean that's this is where you know, this is
where you needed you needed him p J Tucker. But
PJ also can hurt you defensively, and there's only one
p J. Tucker. Whereas a reason was that he couldn't

(01:04:37):
make a shot in Game seven, but he was so
valuable against KD and he got the respect of the
officials as well, where some of those weren't called against him.
Oh yeah, and you see what happens when the guy
to replace Trevor Reason Daniel House. Whenever Daniel Houses on
Kevin Durant, he was launched, he had no shot. And
that's I mean, you can lose on those. You can
lose on those little mini runs that happens. If that

(01:04:59):
was Trevor Reason, uh in that space instead of Daniel House.
The Rockets, I mean I might even favor them in
this series. It's such a tremendous loss that they had
over the last season. How have they been able to
do this without a starting center? I mean that was
like it was a big problem last year. Um and
I know it's never been a part of their Hampton
five lineup, but you know you mentioned I still think
Boget going down in the series against the Cavaliers when

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they have three games, the one is the least discussed
major impactful injury maybe in the history of the NBA Finals. Um,
you know last year they survived when they didn't have Iguadala, right,
I mean Iguodala was a major factor and he didn't
play late in that Rockets series. How they've been able
to do this without DeMarcus Cousins. I think some of it' said.
Cavan Louney is good. I mean he comes off the

(01:05:43):
bench a lot of the time and he doesn't usually
play over twenty minutes. Maybe they worry about his body
breaking down, but Cavan Luney is a good basketball player.
He's very smart. He's probably the best among the bigs.
Or maybe he'sn't just on the team at contesting those
hardened step backs. He's law enough and he just gets
right to the side. He doesn't even get into that
landing area for the most part. Um, and he's somebody

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who always follows the game plan. This is the behind
the scenes stuff we don't often realize why things get
screwed up. But there are guys who follow the game
plan and there are guys who don't follow the game plan.
Kevon Looney, the assistant coaches will tell you is going
to do exactly what he's supposed to do. He's going
to know what the scouting report completely and he will
not deviate from that. And I think his ability to

(01:06:28):
step in and be a valuable role player as a
backup center who sometimes is essentially the starting center as
allowed them to do what you're talking about in the
absence of a name center. Last two um, we started
by talking about current his plan against James Harden. Do
they make an adjustment last game? It was challenging in
front of his face. Do they do what other teams do?

(01:06:49):
What are they run by his side tonight? I don't
think running by his side is necessarily the best option
for them because of what you mentioned actually, which is
you're more comfortable running behind him like the Jazz we're
doing when you have Rudy Gobert waiting for him, because
he's obviously going to run into the lane and he's
gonna try to get that floater off or obviously get
to the rim. I don't know the Warriors necessarily have

(01:07:12):
that level of rim protection. Maybe you'll see it when
Bogan is in. If Boga gets in the game, I'm
not sure if he will, but it just seems to
be a far more viable strategy for for the Jazz,
and I think the Warriors feel pretty good about how
they defended overall. So I don't expect I don't expect
a major adjustment yet on that end. It's gonna be
a nasty, kind of vicious atmosphere. It's gonna be great.

(01:07:33):
I love the whole thing. I love the ugly basketball too,
as much as everybody was complaining, I don't need fireworks
to playoff basketball. I like that that that crucible of fatigue,
that war of attrition, that's that's that's what it's about.
Where every basket feels meaningful and it feels like the
ninety nineties and you have the bloodthirsty crowd. It's gonna
be great. You know, I think well too. I don't.
I just don't like the following on everybody falling on

(01:07:54):
the floor. That that part's trash. I agree with that part,
but you know, take you you can't at Sherwood strousse
s t R a U S. S Ethan Strouss. Great job, Ethan,
Thanks so much for join us. Look forward to your
next piece in the athletic Thanks for having me. It's
good to damn buy or find out what's going on
the world sports. But you have Rockets and Warriors expecting
the tip at ten thirty Eastern time tonight in their

(01:08:16):
game two. Prior to that, Celtics and Bucks at eight
o'clock Eastern time in Milwaukee. Did you see your but
your Bucks are seven half point favorite tonight? All right? Good.
I actually think that if they just don't get frustrated
for what's not happening on the offensive and and have
it carry over on the defensive end, they'll be okay.
But Game one was was bad and it kept on

(01:08:37):
compounding throughout the second half. They they were extremely frustrated.
There's no way Boston should have shot as well as
they did fifty, and I think Milwaukee's frustrations on the
offensive end really carried over and killed them on the
defensive end. Teams do yeah, like the Celtics. You're listen.
You are completely right, and that's what happens in sport,

(01:08:59):
in basketball specie, when you get frustrated on offense, hurt
your defense. Now if you're if you're a tough minding
your veteran team and elson, you can't buy a bucket
now you dig in defensively, just a mentality. Greg Popovich
is gonna stick around San Antonio for a while longer,
ESPN saying he's going to get a three year deal
to remain as the coach of the Spurs. So next
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for the Boston Globe. He's kind of spend some time
with this here on the it's the day of the game,
or get closer and closer to tip off in Milwaukee.
The Celtics have a one game NUN lead. They re
took home court advantage in just the first game, but

(01:10:06):
now they're a seven and a half point dog in
game two. Adam, let's let's go back to game one. Obviously,
first quarter defensively couldn't have been any better, I mean,
just a virtuoso But as Dan Buyer, who's noted Milwaukee
Bucks fan point out Celtics did, I mean you got
Kyrie making fade aways, you got Gordon Hayward come about
the bench giving them buckets. How much of that was

(01:10:27):
just a one game heater and how much of that
is a quality matchup for the Celtics. Yeah, I don't
necessarily think it's the one game heater, because that's what's
kind of a like reason doing that his whole career basically,
and Gordon Hayward really, I think honestly the reason they're
playing so well as Gordon Hayward's like reinvention. He was
really bad at the start of the year. So not
only did you not have All Star Gordon Hayward, you

(01:10:47):
had a bad player who was still playing thirty admits
the game. Now he's not quite All Star Gorden Hayward,
but he's really good. And to do that big flip
and have his playing time raised a little bit with
that has changed everything for them. Obviously. Game one is
like the focus on Janie. They're throwing walls and walls
the defenders at him that they have the length, they
have the versatility and athleticism to kind of frustrate him,

(01:11:07):
and they did. I don't know how long that will last,
but they certainly did in Game one. Yeah, let's let's
get back to Hayward. I think it's a it's a
bunch of things that you have to understand. Here's the
guy who you know, he's not the son of the coach,
but you could you could say like, well, you know,
like well, you know, he's the only playing because he
played for because he played for Brad Stevens. You know,
the hater would say that. Plus he had the big contract,

(01:11:29):
he was playing more minutes than he probably deserved, and
they were they were playing the long game right, the
Celtics like, eventually he'll get back too close to old Gore, theywood,
but it also hurt that. My point was, I think
it hurt the chemistry of this team for a good
portion of the season that he was getting so many minutes.
It cuts down other guys shots, no matter how much
he wants to facilitate. And since he's now kind of
re earned the respect of his teammates, that's helped their

(01:11:51):
chemistry combined with Honestly, I don't think it hurts some
that Marcus smarts out because there's more minutes and more
shots for everybody else. Yeah, I think that's fair to
say about the chemistry early on because guys like who
thrived in the playoffs last season, guys like Terry Rosie
or guys like Jalen Brown, they really had reduced roles.
And if you're a player, you know you played dog

(01:12:11):
like you're looking up and you say this guy, like
is playing really poorly for us? Like why is he
still in there right now? And there were fans asking
and people asking, But like you said, the Celtics new
to help him get back to the player they needed
him to be and wanted him to be he would
have to get this time and work his way back.
He wasn't gonna get better by watching or having used
role reduced significantly. And now it seems to be paying off.

(01:12:33):
It isn't just like a one game thing. He's been
really good for about a month. Now. What's the adjustment
that they think the Bucks are going to make? That's
what's funny. It's like, you know, the Bucket come out
said over and over, we're not We're going to kind
of stick with what we do. We're not gonna change
what we're doing after one loss that type of thing. Obviously,
you have to make some changes. But Brad Stevens talked
of that this morning a little bit. He said people
tend to overreact two changes during a playoff series. Sometimes

(01:12:57):
they're needed. For the most part, you just need to
play well. Um, the Celtics are expecting to change up
the pick and roll coverage a little bit. You know,
that's something they had some struggles with, But ultimately, I
think it's going to be a matter of Milwaukee getting
back to what kind of got it six He wins
this season does feel a little bit like the Celtics
should go for the jugular right like push. I know

(01:13:18):
so many teams like, well, you know, we we win
one game, that's what we intended to do. But the
Celtics win tonight's game. Series, Oh is over? I can't
like just feels over? Uh? Is that is that fair?
The Celtics no know what they say and how they act.
They want this one bad to almost almost ended. Yeah,
I mean they played great at home. They play specially

(01:13:39):
gre at home during the playoffs. I think the one
reason it wouldn't necessarily be over, and I think people
aren't talking about it enough. Malcolm Braden had like a
sensational year and you know he went through shoot around today.
He practiced a little bit yesterday, like if he's the
guy who can come back and be the difference maker
to space the floor for your honest you know that
right now when you're putting that contents, throwing brown guys

(01:14:01):
like that out there, it's not scaring the Celtics at all.
When you throw a guy out there like Malcolm Brogden,
who average sixteen points a game and can do so
many things, that is, he is kind of like a
series changing player. If he can come back for a
game through lasting any change in the level of buy
in with Kyrie. I mean, I think Brad has had
some really good games in the playoffs. Any sense that

(01:14:22):
that because they're playing so much better and it seems
to be operating so much more smoothly, that that that
Kyrie's more about into staying. I think that's fair. I
think this is his most not just in the playoffs.
And I wrote about a little bit today like this
is his most prolonged period of outward happiness, like to
to the media, like just seeing him, just seeing the

(01:14:43):
way he's interacting with his teammates, being positive. It's been
an up and down the year for cars, up and
down year for the Celtics, but really an up and
down ere for Kyrie, and the Celtics follow his lead.
Like when he was grumpy or when he wasn't in
a good mood, or when he was frustrated, like that
rubbed off on the other players. But he's been in
a good place now pretty much since about a month
left in the regular season through these playoffs, and it's

(01:15:06):
it's showing and showing on the court, showing the way
the players interact with him. You know, I think if
you were to ask me two months ago, see coming
back I would say I would think so, but I'm
not certain. Now I've definitely leading towards most likely awesome stuff.
Adam Himmel's box covering the Boston Celtics for the Boston Globe. Adam,
great stuff. Enjoy tonight's game, look forward to reading your
work on it. Thanks again, alright. Chris Carter thinks the

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We treat you like you'd treat you. Here's Chris Carter
on First Things First, which is Mornings on Fox Sports One,
talking about what he saw from the seventies six ers
win on the road against the Raptors last night. Jimmy
Butler and the press conference talked about how the game
plan was to go through him and he was going
to run the offense. And this Philly team is best
when Jimmy Butler is running the offense and very very

(01:16:41):
aggressive Joel embad it was amazing in the Brooklyn series.
Joel em Bead is out, then Ben Simmons emerges. The
other players, Tobias, he gets starts, starts to get his
offensive game going. So it's kind of a weird thing.
The third best player if he's injured out not acent.
Seems like the offense has more flow to I tend
to agree with you that it does have more flowing.

(01:17:02):
The big thing is that Ben Simmons struggles to have
flow because you don't guard him. It should also be
pointing out though, that Ben Simmons showed his intrinsic value
by guarding Kawai leonard Um. All of these things kind
of point to while the the Sixers have a really
good group of starters, they're still trying to figure out

(01:17:23):
exactly what they are and who they are in the playoffs.
That that doesn't mean that they can't win the series.
That doesn't mean that they can't beat the Celtics or
the Bucks in the next series. It does, though, limit
them in terms of the belief that they can win
you know this and then two more series after it.
They just haven't had enough time to know where to go,
what to do, and how to react. That's the only
thing experience can bring you. And to Jimmy Butler's point,

(01:17:47):
Jimmy Butler has the most experience. He should make most
of the plays down the stretch. By the way, there
was that really weird back and forth between Jimmy Butler
and Brett Um Brett Brown, who's his head coach. So
Brett Brown walks into the press conference, walks in and
sits down, and in an effort to give credit to

(01:18:11):
Jimmy Butler, he actually said that Jimmy Butler that that
wasn't Jimmy Butler, that was James Butler what he said.
And he's like James Butler, he was the adult in
the room. So Brett Brown, what he was doing was
he was giving a compliment to Jimmy Butler. He was

(01:18:31):
a compliment saying, you're the adult in the room using
your full name. You know, it's like he's the adults
in the room. That's like perspects, like calling somebody doctor
when they're not doctor. And it's the idea that there's
a guy who's a grown up. He's been there before.
He knew what to do, he knew how to react.
So Jimmy Butler is like, actually, my name's James. My

(01:18:53):
name is not James, it's Jimmy. It's actually just Jimmy.
Which it was funny and ironic. Um, but that wasn't
really the point. Jimmy Butler can't even he didn't even
understand how how that works, right like that even that

(01:19:13):
to him, he doesn't understand that his coach was simply
giving him a compliment and to sometimes let it go.
Sometimes let it go. It's like when people mispronounced my name,
tries my wife crazy. Sometimes we were in Oklahoma. Somebody
say like, hey, Gartlip. She's like, why do they not
pronounce her name? Gottlieb. It's on the back of everything.

(01:19:34):
It's I E B. There's no P in it. There's
no I, there's an I E. It's pretty easy. I'm like,
who cares? They at least know who you are. Right,
That's the problem with Jimmy Butler, Like he's so caught
up in trying to get people's respect and to have
people get it right, they didn't realize Brown was actually

(01:19:54):
giving him respect. Um, what do you guys have social media?
Last night? Did you do you see that that all
of a sudden Lebron James was talking about answering questions
on social media. Fellas, I think we've gotten the point where,
Lebron James board, We've got to that place where like,

(01:20:15):
if you had all the money in the world, all
the fame in the world, you got a couple of kids,
you could travel. You don't have to work for another
five months. Lebron James, you have, You've been to the
finals eight straight years. Now you can go go wherever
you want, do whatever you want. He chooses Twitter on
a Monday night. All right, like like I don't have enough.

(01:20:42):
I don't have enough time. You know, last night, yesterday
I got home my son and he hit. He wanted
he has a game to day. You want to hit
some baseball, hits some baseballs. Ah practice fielding. Wants to
play little catcher night left handed, not really a catch
up position, but he wants to play it all right, Well,
le him play little catcher nine. When to practice little bit?
Then we had basketball practice. Then I get home and

(01:21:03):
we had dinner. We watched some of the game. I
helped move some furniture in the house. Get the in
laws in town. Like I have no time. Here's the
dude with the most time ever and all kinds of
money and a family, and he's in laws. It's not
like there's nothing to do. So la, You're like, watch
takes some Twitter questions. There's a guy who loves attention.

(01:21:25):
It's exactly what you think, and we've all kind of
been part of it. But you often think, like, well,
it's Lebron. He's got to be tired of the attention
because everywhere he goes it's something. He took the first
round off, didn't hear from him, was on vacation then
he goes to his son's au tournament over the weekend,
does whoop it up a little bit and does some

(01:21:46):
push ups. And as much as you want to say, nah,
Lebron doesn't want attention, then you see him tweeting ask
him for questions, and you're like, I guess he does.
You're worth a billion dollars the Monday night. You got
three kids, a wife, and you live in Los Angeles.
I don't know. I could think of fifty thousand things

(01:22:07):
that I would rather do other than answer people's questions
on Twitter. But he's bored, which is why he should
appear on Inside the NBA on t NT right now.
He should wait until the conference finals to do so,
but he should definitely do it. That. Definitely definitely do it. That. Ah.
I want to like the Rockets, but not only do

(01:22:30):
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from New York Post or Daily News. I think he's
Daily News, Daily News. A coach in the NBA playoffs

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told I Sola that there's a lack of respect by
officials towards coaches. It's out of control. That includes my
own team at time. League needs to do something about it.
No rush BacT, which is interesting because Scott Foster is
gonna officiate tonight's game. And I think we're looking at

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this completely the wrong way. Look, I think what Tim
Donegie did was one of the worst crimes on sports
that has ever been done. It's the exact same way
I feel about Barry Bonds. Here's why Barry Bonds does
not belong in the Hall of Fame. Okay, this goes
to any of my sports media brethren. I want you

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to record this, I want you to play this for them.
Rama's you're rolling on this one. Good here's why Barry Bonds,
what he did was sinister, no no, no evil to baseball.
Anytime somebody hits a bunch of bombs ruin and see
you see what Christian Yellen she has been doing. You
guys seen what if you guys, you guys know these
home run numbers if you paid attention early baseball home runs.

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I saw this that. Um, the Baltimore Orioles have already
given up seventy three home runs this season, little context.
Last year, this time they've given up fifty, which is
the most in the league. But here's the problem with
what Barry Bonds did to baseball. And he's not the

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only one. Other stars at the same time, others that
got caught did the same thing. Cody Bellinger's got fourteen,
Christian Yelling, she has got fourteen as well. Fourteen home
runs already. I'm not sure if you're aware, but the
l A Dodgers have played thirty one games. Go ahead,
feel free to pro rate that and be like damn.

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And anytime somebody goes on a ridiculous run or gets
near fifty home runs, or oh gets near sixty home runs,
and of course nobody gets near seventy home runs where
Barry Bonds was what do you automatically think stories H
G H doing something legal? Do you know why? Because
what Barry Bonds did was gross. It took away magnificent

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achievements of future players and sullied them because the assumption is, well,
Barry Bonds, who was one of the great players in
the history of the game, only got to that level
of home run efficiency by using every steroid known to man.
And if you believe the I don't know what I
was taken, then you are the dumbest human being on Earth.

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She's taking a horse steroids and he looked like it.
And that's what happens when great players take steroids, they
become superhumans. The stuff works. The same thing is true
with Tim donaghee. Tim donaghue is trying to fix the games,
trying to make money, but he's so violated the core

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ethics of officiating that now every time there's an officiating
discrepancy or they're like, well the refs, that gotta be
a donegy thing, gotta be a donicky thing. Fixes in
the evil man doesn't allow us to appreciate um the

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talent we have Major League Baseball yellowches and the Bellingers
are magnificent years and others, and it doesn't allow us
to appreciate the fact that NBA officials have a really
hard job. And oh yeah, by the way, if you
are an NBA official and people think that the Donaghy
thing is a real thing with you, people think that

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the NBA somehow want certain teams to advance. And and
then that now you're sitting at home and you're watching
all these guys flop left and right, you'd come to
work Piste off too, because what happens when James Harden
in Game five of the previous series acts like he
gets hit in the throat and he doesn't, and you

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make a call that didn't actually happen. You look like
a fool, John Romas. Do you like somebody to tell
you you're a fool? The I do not know. I mean,
the two things you don't want to be called in
this world are dumb and a liar. Right, don't be
come dumb. Don't be called liar. You want to you
want to start a fight with somebody, right, like, how

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many Westerns have we seen? You're calling me a liar? Right?
Don't be called dumb. Don't be called a liar. And
basically that's what we've done with officials. We've called them dumb,
and we've called them liars. And you know what, if
I'm a ref and every time I make a call
you question it, I'm gonna be piste off too. I
don't blame those guys, and I don't think they're great,

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and I do this sometimes. I think they should check
their egos. But they're also human beings. And when you
complain and fall down and flop every time you dry,
it's not just every time you shoot. Watch when they
drive you jerk your head back like you got hit.
Every time you drive into the body of the defender,
and then you jerk your head back and you act
like you got crushed. You do that enough, you're gonna

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take off these guys. You're not gonna get any calls
and they're gonna say, yeah, f you. And then and
then you do what the Rockets have done. All right, guys, Uh,
we think we got scrolled Game seven last year Western
Conference Finals. Let's take our analytics department. Let's watch every
call and graded out, give a point total for every foul.

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Will we have gotten three free throws or two? Let's
go back and see if we would have won the game.
And then you sit on the information and wait for
it and allow it to leak the day before game two,
when you're gonna have an official, you already have a
problem with officiating the game. I'm that's just embarrassing. What

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are you doing? What are you doing? You know what
you're doing. You're allowing the Warriors who beat you in
Game seven at home when you missed seven straight free
throws to beat you again. This is the rule in sports.
Don't let one one loss become too don't let a
team or officials get into your head. But they have.

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They've become that team there, they become The officials screwed us, guy,
the officials screwed us. And look, I'm I'm not sitting
here in denial of the idea that the officials can
make a call that can make or break a championship game. Romeal.

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Robinson on a phantom foul, made two free throws within
a National championship for Michigan. That happened. You know, Duke
was playing Wisconsin in the National Championship game and all
of a sudden, officiating got super tight in the second half.
But Duke also made a bunch of shots, Like, I'm
not denying that it could happen, but the idea that
you're gonna employ your analytics team and put together research

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that comes up with a finite and definitive point total
that you would have made had these fouls been called.
Do you look like the biggest winer complainer? Frankly, I
can ever remember in sports des Bryant caught a football.

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Now they was on fourth down, they went for it.
They threw a football Tobe It caught it. It was
an amazing catch, and then he tried to get up
and run for it and ultimately dropped the ball and
then recovered it again, and they called it an incomplete pass.
It was a play that you could say this sited.

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Who would go to a super Bowl? I know the
Green Bay went and lost the next week to Seattle
after having a huge lead on the road. But you're
Tony Romo and you finally have a super Bowl caliber team.
You just survived some some some of your own officiating
that was bad that went your way against Lions. Do

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you remember them concocting an analytics department to find out
how many calls were missed in Green Bay? The Green
Bay Packers go on the road and lose to Seattle.
They don't feel an non side kick and Russell Wilson
runs around, throws the ball up in the air and
somehow comes down with a two point conversion. Remember all
those plays. Do you remember your Green Bay Packers having
a no. I'll tell you this. This feels like when

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Seattle couldn't get over not giving them all to Marshawn Lynch.
It's one of the interception. That's what feels like with Houston.
They can't get over Game seven last year. They were
at home though they didn't have Chris Paul. The Warriors
weren't healthy either, Andrea Goodala didn't play, and they were
at home and they had what they thought was the
best player in the best shot maybe they'll ever have,

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and they lost the game. And they miss twenty seven
straight free throw for three pointers, which goes against anything
math will tell you should happen. And they can't get
over it, you know, I'll just I don't. Saints may
never get over their miscalled. All right, it's a miscall.

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Should be pointed out that the Saints still had opportunities.
They actually had the lead, could have gotten stopped and
got the ball to start overtime and turn the football
over like these things happened but instead, but let's bringing
the refs. All became about the refs, which is what's
happening here. It's a lot like I hate going to
use sporting events when people get onto the officials, like

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there's a there's a right way. Now when I when
I when I coach my kids basketball games, I will
usually come over and like, I think that wasn't a travel,
but whatever, that's how I talked to him. Now, if
my own kid says something to the ref, I'll take
him out. I kicked my son off the bench last
year because he I said, if you say something about
the refs one more time, you're off my bench. And

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he did. Five minutes later, go sit over in the stands.
He's over in the stands crying with the other parents,
like what did you do wrong? Come stelling my wife.
Take me on the bench, I said, because he's telling
me that there was the REVS fault, the rest fault,
dribbled into a double team picked up the ball, went
turtle into a shell. I can't have it, can't have
my kid complain about the refs. We're not doing that.
We're not complaining about the outside pitch that I like.

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I don't like the youth umpires. They call the outside
pitch a strike, and they call the high strike a strike,
but not the low strike. You want kids to throw
it low and hit it low, because that's what's gonna
be called a strike as they grew older. The high
strike they can't catch up to. And you don't want
pictures throwing high because that's what gets tattooed out into
the parking lot once they get to be a real baseball.
But I don't argue with the umps. Once they established

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a strike shone, that's a strike zone. That wasn't a strike,
Yes it was you know high. Now because he did this,
that wasn't a vowl, Yes it was you know, I
know he blew the west and called a foul. How
have the oldest and best players become the least mature players.

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I would be embarrassed if I'm Tillman for Teeter today.
I got a championship caliber team, got a championship caliber coach.
I got an envy be caliber player who shoots more
free throws than anybody else on the planet and shot
four teen in that game. And yet all we hear
about is the officials, and then of course they leaked
this information, which was something that they spend a lot

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of time, a lot of resources on and had for
a long time. We're gonna send a memo to the NBA.
So you're either calling refs dumb or liars. How would
you feel if somebody called you dumb or called you
a liar? Frankai Solo says, there's a lack of respect

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for revs in the NBA today. It's out of control.
It includes my own team at times. The league needs
to do something about it correct and I think they did.
Oh you don't like it? Put Scott Foster in Game two?
See how you like it that? Grant Hill, Hall of
Famer NBA analysts joins us, what does he think about

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the Rockets using analytics to say we got robbed in
Game seven? And does he think Scott Foster has it
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those like, man, what's the guy with a long guitar? Dude,
Like that's the bass guitar? Is she? Where is she?
She like in the middle. She just starting and she
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She has a class at her school called garage band,
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up piano because, um, I have any friends with our
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very cool jazz flute. That's a that's a that's a joke. Um,
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All right, we'll get to Grand Hill in a moment.
He'll join us. Let's some let's do this. Let's do
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We can probably do that first checking with Dan Buyer.
What else is going on the world sports? Dan? When
he got Doug a bunch of news from the NBA,
well at least telling you tonight that the Celtics and
Bucks are going to be playing in Milwaukee eight o'clock
Eastern Tom Celtics up one oh and the best of

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seven series, then the double head of the Nightcap, if
you will. Rockets and Warriors ten thirty Eastern Top Warriors
up one game to none, and the officials for tonight
will include Scott Foster, who James Harden once said that
he should never work another Rockets game that was on
February twenty one. Well, Foster will work tonight in Game
two of the Western Conference Semifinals. Spurs and head coach

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Craig Popovich ever reportedly come to terms on a new
three year contract this recording to ESPN, Popovitch will enter
his twenty fourth season as the Spurs head coach next season.
The Padres likely putting short stuff Fernando Tatis Jr. On
the ten day injured list because of a hamstring injury.
Brewers keeping Christian yellow sh Out of the lineup again
tonight as the outfielder is dealing with lower back discomfort.

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They faced the Colorado Rockies. A new college football bowl
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first leg. I X topped Tottenham Hotspur today by a
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in every state. Dan got a second. I know you're
you're too busy there. You know. Oftentimes teams in the
NBA and and sometimes I realize that the things they
say they just say because you got to say something positive.
But when you win one of two on the road,
you're like, well, we we got we came here for right,
we got home court advantage. I feel like the Celtics

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think about how much better they have been at home
in the playoffs. I feel like the Celtics, this is
so everything you have at winning this game. You look
historically at the numbers two games to none, plus you'd
have home court advantage by two games. And this is
a go for the jugular game, is it not? Yeah?
I've always felt that there's no there's no Okay, we

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got one, we can rest in game two. If you
get game one, will go for game two. I mean,
I've never understood like, if you lose, you can always
say that's the silver lining, you gotta split. But if
you take game one, yeah, why not win game two?
That's pretty much over with. I just told these guys
it's the biggest Bucks game and eighteen years tonight? Uh?
What was that was? Eighteen years ago? The last Eachtern

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Conference finals? Grant who who they had? They had big
Dog right, that's Sam Cassell the y out as well, Yes,
Tim Thomas. Tim Thomas was Irvin Johnson their center? Who
is there? Yes, Scott Williams came off the bench as well. Yeah. Wow.
Grant Hill joins us in the Doug Glip Show on
Fox Sports Radio. Where were you during that when when

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the Bucks were in the Eastern Conference Finals? Do you
remember who you're playing for them? Was that? Were you
with the since now I was with Orlando? I think
that was was it two thousand, one thousands, so I
was in Orlando. It was our first year there. I
was hurt, and we played them in the first round
and we actually beat them, I think, I think in

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game two in Milwaukee we beat them, and then they
came back I think and beat us in four um
in Orlando's when Tracy McGrady just went off and totally
outplayed Big Dog. But they had ray Allen sam because
said all those names you guys mentioned certainly brings back
good memories. Those were guys from my time. And uh,

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and May of course went on to that Eastern Conference finals.
So uh that that was a long time ago, but
that that team is back and uh they got a
tough one here coming up here at game two. Can
I ask you about Team Mac? Like he until he
was was really late in his career, and we'll give
him credit for being with the Spurs, but he never
got out of the first round. And I looked, I

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it's a team game, but and I know he had.
Yeahmin got hurt a couple of different times and there
was some bad luck. But how how do you never
get out of the first round? Yeah, I mean I
don't know. I mean, you know, I was part of
that pad luck too in Orlando. Um, and as talented
as as he was, and I wish, I wish I
could have just been right and healthy at least one

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of those years. Um. But yeah, I mean it's just,
you know, I don't know, It's just I think it
was tough circumstances. Uh. I know one of those years,
I think two thousand and three with the Magic, they
were up three games the one against the Pistons, and uh,
and the Pistons came back and won three in a

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row and ended up, you know, getting to the Eastern
Conference finals themselves, I believe. Um. But yeah, I mean
it's talented as a player we've ever seen, and certainly
during that generation, and just uh, you know, just for
whatever reason, bad luck, um, you know, just circumstances, whatever
the case, maybe was not able to get out of

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that first round until, you know, until he was in
a more of a reserve role at the end of
his career, coming off the bench and limited minutes with
the Spurs. Grant Hill joining us in the Dug Gallop
Show on Fox Sports Trading. I want to get back
to the NBA stuff in a second. I want to
talk about Uh, what you're doing, because this is uh,
this is an incredible campaign. It's really really important. It's
called Choices Matter, and it's it's having an open conversation

(01:43:24):
about the opioid epidemic that's plagued our country. I would
throw all your surgeries. I would assume that you were
given opioids after each one of these procedures. Right, Yeah,
that's a that's a fair assumption. I was, uh, Doug.
I had eleven surgeries during my career, and um, you
know everyone until the last one, the last surgery, uh

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at the end actually when I was done playing, after
my I retired on my knee. Um, that was the
first time that I was introduced to this long acting
numbing medication. And uh, and so my post surgical process
or recovery, there was no op opioid use. And thankfully

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all that exposure I had, I never, you know, never
developed any type of addiction to them or anything like that.
But I just didn't like the way they made my
body feel. And that was the part I dreaded, was
always immediately after surgery, managing your pain and having to
take these pills to do that. And so having gone
through that on my last surgery. I was like, wow,

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like this is amazing and and so really what we're
doing with Choices matter. It's just exposing patients to this
particular procedure and letting them know that there's an there's
an alternative. Uh, there's an option there that you don't
have to expose yourself a self to opioids. We have
a prescription over prescribing issue in our country. Um, and people,

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I think one in three people who are considering surgery
or worried about taking opioids. So here's an alternative, no medication.
Take it from someone who's had plenty of surgeries, Um
that this is by far, in terms of recovery, the best.
And so I appreciate you giving us your platform at
least talk about it. And um, you know, people can

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go to the website to read up more about about that. Yeah,
it's playing against Plan Against Pain. Plan p l a
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the website. So wait, it's a it's another medication. It's
a procedure so you don't need it, so you don't
feel the pain. Like, how does it how does it work? Yeah,

(01:45:38):
I mean it's it's it's it's kind of like it's
this numbing thing, uh, numbing medication uh that basically numbs
the paint and it does it for for four days
post surgery, so you know, that's the period of time
where you have the most paint. And usually after four
or five days the pain subsides, and you know, you
can you've been giving all these pills and you're kind

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of like, we'll manage it, and you know, and you
end up taking them longer than you should. And so
I know when I had a surgery on my knee,
and after four days, as the numbing medication wore off, um,
I didn't feel anything and I didn't have any pain,
and I was like, wow, like this is I wish
this was around a few years ago when I when

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I had more surgeries. But UM, so yeah, I mean
I experienced it. I felt it. I went through it,
and and I didn't feel that the way that the
opioids make you feel. You know, I didn't have that
just headache and my stomach hurting. I didn't throw up
or you know, not to be graphic, but I didn't
get sick. And um, you know, and as athletes, you're

(01:46:44):
you're very much in tune with your body, and all
of a sudden, you're putting something in there that that
that's essentially poison, your body's going to react a certain way,
and it certainly did with me. Um So I was
relieved by it. I couldn't believe it. And uh and
then years later, obviously, the opportunity to to work with
with Sam on on getting this out here on this
Choices Matters campaign is something that I'm I'm excited to

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be a part of. It's playing against pain dot Com,
all the famer, Grant Haill joining us dou gotlip show
here Fox Sports Radio. What do you make of Houston's
not just complaints about the officiating. We've seen that before,
but they actually use their analytics department to reportedly go
back and look at game seven and and and give
them points for fouls that were not called in their

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in their favor. As the guy who played in this
league now an owner, a partial owner of a team
in this league, and an analyst for this league, what
do you think of their reaction to some of the
miscalls in Game one? Well, you know, initially done, I
thought it was like, as you said, posturing the gamesmanship.
We've seen it time and time again. Year after year
where a game happens and maybe a coach goes to

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the press conference and complaints about the officiating, maybe gets fine.
The same with players. So that's nothing new. Um, but
I think taking a step further with the analytics, I
guess it shows you you can always, um, you know,
you can always sort of justify your your your case
or your point or your position with with numbers and analytics. Uh.

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Not that I'm against analytics. I embraced analytics and they
play a role. But UM, the thing I worry about
with Houston, they played really well. They played well enough
to possibly win that game. Um, you can't do anything
about it now, and you know you have to sort
of move on and get yourself ready and prepared for

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that next game. And you just get the sense that
they haven't let it go, and you worry is that
going to be too much of a distraction for them? Uh?
You know, we always know that, you know, game one
on the road, you can always try to steal that game.
We also know that Golden Stages came off of a
pretty tough series against against l A. I do worry

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are they gonna be mentally focused and prepared here for
game two. Um, one, the Warriors are gonna be I think,
maybe better. But all this talk and just not you know,
not moving forward and getting themselves in the right frame
of mind. So look, I've been wrong before, and they
very well could use that as fuel and go out
and have a great game. But I think it's a
little bit too much. If you ask me, I would

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I would agree with you. Um, what's your take on
how k D is playing? Um, you know, I've I've
thought he's the best player in the game for a
couple of years now. Most people, many people have rebuffed
that instead of it was still Lebron maybe until this year.
It's hard because Lebron is not playing now, but it
feels like he's taken the challenge of the early Clippers
games and just showing us, uh, how how good he is.

(01:49:41):
What's your sins for Kevin Durant and what's happened over
this last kind of four or five game stretch. Yeah,
I agree, I mean, you know, I think I think
he's the best player. I mean, and respectfully to Lebron,
I think Lebron dominated in a different way. I mean,
I think Lebron was you know, he's Lebron. You know.

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I mean, he's versatile, he does everything. But I don't
know if there's a player that's that unguardable. Um. I mean,
and I've guarded all these guys and obviously Durant when
he was a little bit younger and maybe not even
as good as he is now. But you know, he
can put it on the floor. He can he can
shoot over you. He can you know, off the dribble,

(01:50:22):
get to the basket, get to the free throw line.
You know, he doesn't post up, you know, because he
has a wiry frame and um, and that's the one
area of domination that he hasn't um really developed. But
everywhere else. Um, he was that one guy that I
know years ago when I guarded him when he was younger,
you could do everything right and play perfect defense, and

(01:50:46):
because of his length and his quick release, I mean,
he would just shoot right over you and and there
was nothing you could do about it. And um, but yeah,
I mean, right now, he's playing as good as I've
ever seen him playing. He's efficient. Uh. Um, he's sort
of mastered their system and figuring out his spots and uh,

(01:51:07):
he's just he's playing with confidence and they're and they're
writing him, And uh, it's really a lot of fun
to watch if I let you rewrite go ahead, I'm sorry,
I say it's fun to watch. If if if you're
not a fan of the team he's planning, no question,
if I let you write the rules on on playoff
basketball in terms of landing area, and how would how

(01:51:27):
would you what do you think is fair? Because you've
been the shooter and you've been the defender, right like
you were a two end player and a really good
one at at both. Obviously, if you could rewrite the rules,
I just said, Grant Hill, he knows the game. He's
he's an you know, he's a partial owner, he's an analyst,
he's a player. He's played against all of the best
of the best of the best. He knows all the

(01:51:48):
tricks to the trade at both ends of the floor.
What's the fairest way to officiate a game? Well, I
mean it's tough. I mean I'm I'm okay with the
rules as they are now. Um, the question and is
is is you know it is enforcing those rules? And
and there was a lot of commotion and look, officials
are you know they're not going to get it right

(01:52:08):
all the time. I thought, Um, I thought that last
shot was a clean play, and UM, you know, look
I'm sensitive. I had issues injuries. Um, you jumping up
somebody purposely putting their feet under you, like, that's a
dirty play and and that is uncalled for. I don't

(01:52:29):
think that was on any of the plays even throughout
the game. Was the intent? I think you look, you've
got a great player in heart, and you're trying to
contest him and distract him from from scoring. Um, but
you want to protect the shooter in those cases. Um,
you know, I think you have to be consistent. I
think you know that. You know, if you want to
give the officiating crew that night credit, they were consistent

(01:52:50):
and not calling that. Um. But I think you want
to protect players, particularly really good ones who you know,
if if Harden gets hurt on a play like at then,
uh you know that that that's just a bad look
for everybody, uh involved. We want James Harden playing and
playing at his best in the playoffs, as fans, as owners,

(01:53:12):
as as as everyone associated with the NBA. So, UM,
I don't mind the rule. I just think you gotta
enforce it. And I didn't think that they were consistently
Uh calling that throughout the game. And look, Houston has
a valid point, but you gotta move on, you know.
And uh, I do think playoff basketball in general, I
don't mind it being a little bit more physical. I

(01:53:35):
don't mind. Actually, I don't mind in general the game
getting back to being more physical. And I think back
in the nineties, uh, it was tough to watch because
it was too physicals. But I think the skill level
has increased tremendously. Uh since then. That was my radar detective.

(01:54:03):
I'm sorry about that, but I do believe that the
skill level overall and the shooting and the scoring is
so much better than what it was odd years ago.
And at almost it's like it's it's too much of
a disadvantage to the defense. So I think, you know,
maybe putting in or allowing for a little bit more physicality,

(01:54:26):
um might be a good thing, because I think it's
maybe gone a little too far where it just gives
all the advantage to the offense and you're almost penalized
if you're trying to play good defense, no question, because
you get to go like I would I picture you
now if you were playing now, you'd be like, in
a honest type of role right like you had not
yet at that point be developed in you know, even

(01:54:47):
in your prime is a great three point shooter. But
somebody would have smartly given you the ball played point
powerful point forward and put five four shooters around you
and the lane is wide open. I mean, think of
think of the straight line drives that you'd be able
to or get by guys with when there's no power
forward and center in the lane. And if anybody touches you,
it's a foul. I mean, it's really really kind of

(01:55:07):
Everyone talks about it being a shooters game, but if
you have shooters and you have a great ball handling
athlete like yourself or Lebron or Janice, like those guys
are really hard to guard because you can't put a
hand check on the slow down. No, that's it. I mean, look,
I thought about that. I played in sort of multiple errors,
and you know, I remember trying to guard Michael Jordan's

(01:55:27):
and being allowed to to use my size and and
and and what little strength I had to try to
stop them. And then I also remember guarding you know,
Kobe Bryant and Lebron and Carmelo and all those guys.
At the end of my career, you couldn't touch them
and uh and so uh not an indictment on players
today versus players back then. Um, but I just think

(01:55:49):
I think, um, it's different. It's different in a lot
of ways. And I sometimes like, wow, if if if
when I'm my Slasher days and attacking the rim and
and then you know, middle mid range game to be
able to to play now where if you just breathe
on somebody, you get you know, you get called for
a foul. Um I would have you know, I'm salivating

(01:56:10):
thinking about it. Um So, but yeah, I mean it's
a different game. You see, it was your honest I mean,
look last year he had a really good year, and
was it was you know, maybe in the m v
P consideration. Um, But now you bring in you know,
you bring in Bud and you spread the floor and
you shoot more threes, and you're bringing the big guys
like Meritage and Lopez and now this quarters really space

(01:56:30):
with shooters and you can't touch him, and so it
just it puts the defense at a disadvantage in more
ways than one. And and I'm not opposed to that. Um,
I just I don't know, I just feel like it's
it's gotten a little bit out of balance. It was
too too in favorable of the defense back in the nineties,
and now I think it's too two in favor of

(01:56:51):
too in favor of of the offense now. And then
they kind of try and level back out in the playoffs,
and that's when guys struggle to react, like, hey, the
whole season, it's been a different way than than than
it is now. Grant, I appreciate not just joining us,
but what you're doing with choices matter. Again, that's playing
against Paine dot com. Thanks for joining us. Good to
catch up. Let's catch up in person sometime soon. Let's
do it. Thanks for having Grant Hill. Keep it what

(01:57:14):
you guys, go for four miles over the speed limits?
That general of the rule. Right under nine you're fine.
Let's just under nine, you're fine. Can you imagine being
the guy who pulls over Grant Hill right? Talk about
the car plank? How is that, Grant Hill? Than you
got back in the car? Keep it under nine, you're fine. Thanks,
Grant Right. I did like he's got his old school

(01:57:38):
get a radar detector. You have a radar detector before,
but school I had. I actually had a car and
had a radar detection one too was amazing. Amazing they
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(01:58:41):
Let's start throughing the NBA Spurs and ed coach Gregg
Popovitch closing in on a three year contract for Pop.
The new deal would keep him around, well we think
for another three years, but really going by a year
to your basis. According to ESPN, he's the highest paid
coach in the NBA, making around eleven million dollars per season.
Makes sense. There was him talk of him retiring. Obviously

(01:59:01):
his wife died going back over a year ago. Terrible,
terrible news. But uh, he seems invested in the process,
and I don't think he wants to end his career
on a game which his team should have fouled down
four points in Game seven. Right. Absolutely. According to sports Net,
New York, free agent forward Carmelo Anthony was asked if
you would consider a return to the Nix syst Nix
next season, and he replied, quote, I'd have to see

(01:59:23):
what's going on end quote, not putting it out of
the possibilities. Huh, Well, don't they have to want to
happen as well? Well? Like no one employed him this year.
I mean, look, you can say whatever you want, but
Oklahoma City felt better about their chances this year simply
having cut him right, sent him to Atlanta, who who
bought him out. Then he goes to Houston. He lasted

(01:59:45):
all like a month there, and they didn't have James
Harden anyone. They weren't winning. He couldn't fit in the Houston, Like,
I just I don't understand how he fits in anywhere.
Speaking of the Thunder, general manager Sam Presty did say
yesterday that he expects to bring Billy Donovan back for
a fifth season five Well he's he said I anticipated

(02:00:07):
him returning, which was really weird. Wasn't that? Did you
find that weird at all? When he said, like he
didn't say like he's going absolutely gonna be back next year,
like I anticipate him returning next year. It's just a
weird maybe simply a formal way of saying it. Um,
But look, at some point, Russell Westbrook has to look
in the mirror and say this is not working. I
have to improve as a shooter. I had become a

(02:00:28):
better teammate, and they have to look in the mirror
and go, like, we gotta put more shooting around him.
How many times can they keep doing the same thing
and get the same resulting and not feel like they're insane?
An interesting report from the NFL forty ownership coach Kyle
Shanahan denied reports there could be a riff between him
and general manager John Lynch. He told NBC Sports Bay
Area the report is quote complete bs end quote. He

(02:00:52):
used a different word, I used the initials. I would
just say this. I've heard reports of of a bunch
of gms having issues with their coaches and whatever, competitive
guys in in a boardroom. Yeah, you know, I had.
I had a great conversation with a basketball coach on
friends with and he goes, look, one of the things
we don't have on my staff is we don't have
guys challenging other people's ideas. Like that's a good thing.

(02:01:14):
That doesn't mean when we leave the office we want
to still be mad at each other and argue each other.
But we need people that challenge others ideas. We're gonna
be competitive, except for when we're meeting and making a
decision that doesn't make any sense. Competitive people will argue.
So I believe this is a disconnect generally between people
who are are not privy to how relationships this certain
relationships work. We have another one day contracts signing. Yes

(02:01:43):
six ten sports Radio in Kansas City says Jamal Charles
will do it with the Kansas City Chiefs, the team's
all time leading rusher. I think he's got a pretty
good case. Yes, more so than Priest Homes. I think
Priest Tolmes was more dominant over a shorter period time. Yeah,
I was gonna say that that, Um, Jamal Charles leaves

(02:02:05):
as their leading rusher, and so I think that there's
a consideration. I agree with you, by the way, on
Priest Holmes, I think my biggest start, one of my
biggest arguments have been that running back that can do
both the running end receiving, Ricky Waters, Warwick done, Tiki Barber.
Those guys don't get as much consideration. Um, but yeah,
I think that he's got a decent, decent case. And man,

(02:02:27):
Kansas City on the running backs, I yikes, you met
your Priest Holmes and we know Kareem Hunts gone. Larry
Johnson was in there between. Yeah. Absolutely, Barry Word came
in for that season, Barry Word. They all had Richardson
blocking for him, right, All those guys had what's his
name which Richardson's first name? Tony. Tony Richardson is the

(02:02:49):
fullback he blocked for like seven straight thousand yard rushers.
He's pretty amazing. Guy in his own right. Big yoga guys,
get out there and the pressns your Celtics and night
buy Are you feeling good? I'll go with the Bucks.
Will they win and cover seven half point favorite? I'm
not gonna go that far. Yeah, I think Celtics cover,
Bucks win. What about the nightcap? Give me the Warriors?

(02:03:10):
Who do you like music? I'll go with Dan's Bucks
and the Warriors. I like the Warriors bigly, and I
like the Bucks to win. The Celtics to cover music.
Uh Ramos is gonna be a nap. He's got Avengers
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