August 17, 2020 • 37 mins
Doug Gottlieb wonders who gets to claim they have the NBA title, the Raptors or Kawhi? The three things needed to win the NBA title this year, Ric Bucher stops by to talk everything NBA, and all the stories we missed in The Press!
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Dog gotam Show? Fox Sports Radio. It is just another
bomb track. Hope you're well. I hope you had a
good weekend. Jamal Murray had thirty six, Like that's all
you have a thirty six? Dona Mitchell had, Like have
me have fifty? What fifty seven? Damn? How are you
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have fifty seven points and lose? I mean, I guess
you guys gave up one thirty five man uh poof
oh so I mean like, look, Jamal Murray thirty six
on twenty shots, six of nine from three, nine assists
and they're like, yeah, he's all right. He wouldn't mean
all right. Well, that's because Dimenchel had fifty seven. The
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numbers are crazy. What guys are putting up right now
in the bubble. Some of it is that they're just
all about ball and they don't have any distractions. Some
of it is the defense hasn't been nearly the same,
and some of it is these guys are crazy talented. Um,
I don't take a ton of I. I think I'm
a pretty good dad, you know, like you can portray
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yourself on social media is the world's greatest dad. And
you can buy the mug and the t shirt and
they can tell you the world's greatest dad. But there
are things you have to teach your kids to do, right,
change a tire, change a tire, catch a fish, you
know you need to tell You need to teach them
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how to had a bet on a game, to teach
them the finer points of the different kinds of beer
that you like to drink, how to operate a remote control,
how to drive a car, how to swing a baseball
bat and throw a baseball. You see all these guys
that can't throw a baseball at a game, ladies or whatever.
That's just bad parenting and other things that. So I
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haven't completed all of those tasks. My kids all know
how to fish. I haven't necessarily taught them their grandpa has.
I haven't taught about a change of tire yet. But
they're not yet tire changing age. You have teached the
boy how to do that, but most of the stuff
we're getting to. Um, I've taught them the three most
important things in real estate, Johnny, you're familiar with the
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three most important things in real estate. Unfortunately, I probably
have three of them in my head, but I don't
think the probably the three year thinking, uh, real estate.
It's location, yes, yes, um, why you want to help, Yeah,
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I'll say location, location, yes, yes, yes, yes, thank you, Dan.
There are three most important things in real estate are location, location, location,
you know, and my children have learned this the hard way.
Like wait, our house in Connecticut was beautiful and it's
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worth how much in our house in California is nice?
What location? Location, location, the school that you're in, the
safety of that school, the value of the property, you know,
the safety of it cul de sac not through street,
all these different things. Location, location, location. In basketball, there
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are three things, by my estimation, that decides who wins
an NBA playoff series. And if you want to go
with well, they're just better or they just on it more.
I hate the they just wanted more. Does that happen?
I guess Occasionally teams are teams are better cohesively collectively,
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they get after them maybe, but generally it's not about
who wants it more. Generally, what it's about is three
other things. You know what those are. First, it's about matchups.
Basketball is about matchups. How do you match up with
the other team? You know. One of the flaws to
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the Calves when they were trying to take down the Warriors,
and the Warriors added Kevin Rant was the only player
on the Calves who could guard Kevin Durant was Lebron James,
and Lebron having to carry the load offensively doesn't have
the energy to bring it defensively anymore. You gotta get
as many like size hybrid defenders just throw bodies at
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him and give him different looks. And they couldn't do it,
and and and when I when I look at NBA
playoff series, occasionally there's just a matchup that gives people
problems matchups, health and conditioning. I mean, think of what
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really happened when Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neil's Lakers lost to
the Detroit Pistons. They all got hurt. Karl Alone got hurt,
Rick Rick Fox got hurt. I think Gary Payton got
hurt as well. So yes, were they at the end
of their run? Do they not get along? Sure? Did
the Pistons beat them up? And yes, okay, and the
Pistons were a better team. But what really happened was
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the matchup favored the Pistons and the health favored the Pistons.
And so when I look at the Trailblazers taken on
the Lakers, did the Trailblazers at momentum, yes, sort of,
but conditioningwise, they gotta be on fumes. They had to
play a nine games instead of eight. All of them
played at a very high level as they were trying
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to get into the playoffs, and even though they weren't
playing against the best competition because they didn't play much defense,
all of those games were a lot closer than they
should have been, and and Damian Lillard had to carry
them in order to get into the playoffs. You're on fumes,
your second best player, c J McCollum, as a broken back,
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You have a bad matchup. What what more do you
need to know? Can you tell me that three is
more than two? And they have more guys that can
shoot the three Asus Lakers. Yes, and that will be
the one part which will probably win them one game,
which is they'll shoot the eyes out of it one
game and they'll win a game. But generally defense does
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in fact win championships. Generally, bad matchups get exposed, especially
the longer a series goes, and generally you're just on fumes.
Once you played an extra game and you're playing at
a high level effort wise, because you're trying to make
the playoffs, generally your play starts to diminish because you're
so tired, and you also have more injuries because of it.
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So I completely get why people want to be in
love with the Portland Trailblazers. But the Brooklyn team that
they just survived in order to get to the playoffs
and got to the playoff game is being beaten by
the Toronto Raptors right now. When it comes to real basketball,
Brooklyn just doesn't have the horses. And it comes to
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playoff basketball, there's a bad matchup for the Trailblazers. They're
not in great shape because they're so worn down. And
while three maybe more than two, and it ain't like
Lebron James didn't show he can could hit three. Couldn't
hit threes last time? He he was out there all right?
Coming up next. So there's the three rules, right, three
rules of basketball take into account matchups. Match is a
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big injury and conditioning matchups. Injuries, conditioning home court advantage
no longer part of it, a longer part of Alright.
Coming up next, Hey uh go next, Brick Buker will
join the show. I'll get his thoughts from Orlando. What
do we think about the East? Who is the team
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in the East that could give either the Clippers or
the Lakers the most trouble? A lot of people, as
Dan Buyer said, I'm one of them, picking Oklahoma City
to beat the Rockets. If that happens, who's the next
head coach of the Rockets. Be sure to catch the
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and the I Heart Radio app Doug Olip Show Fox
Sports Radio. Call Lowry took a charge in transition of
a pass and they got the butt. That's the second
one he's taken. I actually don't like that play. Um,
I know how it's gonna be. So the the play
is this. They're up twenty two at the end of
the seventy three at the half. It's a little slightly
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different game when you're talking about in the playoffs. But man,
you would have had Fred van Bleet just missed another shot.
But being a dominant part of this Toronto team, guy
who made his way to league. What what an incredible
improvement he's had become a tremendous NBA player. Um, I
hate that play where guys take a charge after somebody passes.
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I just do. I understand the rule and that you
have the right to you know, to your own space
and if somebody runs you over, it's a foul, But
I don't feel like that's the true intent of the rule.
It's a hard one for me to watch. Yes, almost
if you're Brooklyn, are you under the impression like, hey, look,
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we're getting Durant, We're gonna get Kyrie Irving back, and
we still made the playoffs. We're in the right direction?
Is that okay? Well? I mean I think that the
question with them is gonna be who's gonna co who
can coach them to the next to the next level, right,
who can who can coach Kyrie can coach Katie and
yet get these guys that still play together and play hard.
That's a hard, that's a I don't know what the
answer that is. You know, I think if um, you
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have a GM who's originally Sean Marks, who is a
San Antonio spur right, but he's also was he he's
a Keywie. I think he's from New Zealand. Like, I'm
not sure he wouldn't rather go with with Jack Vaughan,
who is a long time Spurs assistant. But I do
think that it's going to be hard when you have
two guys that have won championships to not bring in
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a coach with some sort of championship pedigree. I guess
Jock would have it as insistent, But I don't know.
It's a hard one. But I look, I do. I
don't think like Jeff van Gunny takes that job or
once that job or you know, it's it's hard. Those
guys are hard to coach, really hard to coach. Um.
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I keep watching this, I keep watching this Toronto team,
and it is fascinating to me that no one says,
you know, the defending champions. It's just the weirdest thing
that we've all decided to do. And I'm not accusing
anyone person doing it. I'm not saying they're wrong, but
it is weird that it's never never disc almost never
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discussed that Portland is the reigning champions. I mean, ex SEVENA,
Toronto is the reigning champions, because what we were always
taught before was that that Rudy Tom jonavinc quote, which
is kind of a cliche, never underestimate the heart of
a champion, right, You're like, man, that is a great line,
and it's accurate because it once you've wanted, you've conquered
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all those demons. But because they don't have Kauai Leonard
from last year, the other pieces are relatively the same,
and many of them, the Pascal Siakams, the Fred van Fleets,
they're better than they were last year. The records essentially
the same. It's a really interesting exercise we're going through.
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Do we think they would really walk? Do it? Do
we really think that those guys would walk if those guys,
if if they came back apologetic and they're on the team,
do you do you really believe that Oliver Prez is like,
I'm thirty nine years old, I'm out, and there we
go that is a good question because it seems that
Zach please X video when he doubled down on his
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decision may have irked some of the players more. I mean,
like Oliver Prez is thirty nine years old and he's
playing a shortened season, and it money is you know,
the money is the money. But you also maybe like, man,
if I got to deal with this stuff, you know,
what's the point. I gotta deal with these idiots? So
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God bless the youth is wasted on the young, right,
And then you know it was brought up. You know,
Carlos Carrasco had the heart condition and uh or is
it cancer? He came back from cancers? Sorry, but in
Francisco Lindor this is Jeff Passon report was also very
vocal about the the players, so well, then Noor is
their best player, so um that that one would be
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a real real prob if Lindors like I ain't down
with it. On the other hand, like, look, that's two
of your starting rotation. I don't really know how you
plan to have a team if you don't welcome them back.
Problem and could also be indicative of how the players
feel about this season, you know, of what they actually
do think about it, So I don't know if that's
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I'm again like there's a lot of unknown to what
they actually mean by the boycott. I think most of
it is, like like you said about Oliver Prez, if
I gotta put up with easey idiots, this is not
worth it to me, Like I'm going through all these
safe cards and these guys just don't care that ain't
worth it to me. Ain't worth it to me, Doug
Golip Show, You're on Fox Sports Radio, Rick Buker said
to join us. Okay, so we have one playoff game
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in the books. Um it, I don't want to call
this one for the Toronto Raptors, but I'm getting close
to calling it for the Toronto Raptors up twenty two
at the half on the Brooklyn Nets. Nets just don't
have the dudes. Um there's also in addition to the playoffs,
you got some coaching news. Right, Let's see what happens
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obviously with Brooklyn. New Orleans fired Alvin Gentry over the weekend,
and I kind of joked that Alonzo Ball got Alvin
Gentry fired. I know that there's a completely new regime
in New Orleans since he was hired since Alvin Gentry
was hired, and I understand that this was a transition
year with the big trade when they trade away Anthony Davis.
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And in many ways they were just as good as
they had been with Anthony Davis. But Alonzo Ball was
so bad in the bubble that you started to try
and figure out, all right, was he just not working?
Did he not want to play? Was he just shutting down?
What in the heck happened? Because everybody I know it
likes Alvin Gentry, thinks he's a pretty good coach. But
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they did not get better in the bubble. They got worse,
and Lonzo was a big reason why. And so was Zion.
Zion's inability to stay in top shape or stay in
any sort of shape. I guess he has stayed in shape.
Round is a shape, but that's not the shape that
we were truly looking for. So Chicago's open, the Knicks
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have a coach, New Orleans is open, Brooklyn is relatively open,
although occupied by an interim coach. Like there's some pretty
big jobs available. And then you have the actual series.
Now Ramos in your bracket. By the way, you can
go check out all of our brackets Fox Sports radio
dot Com. In your bracket, Ramos, you have the Lakers
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taken on the Celtics. No, the defending champions. Okay, buyer,
who do you have in your in your bracket again,
Fox Sports Radio dot Com. Yeah, I have Bucks beating
the Clippers in the finals. Okay, I have the I
have I have the Bucks losing to the Celtics. And
I don't know why, but I just do. I don't
know why, but I just do. Maybe it's just because
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I haven't seen Mike Budenholzer's team win games of that magnitude,
you know. Yeah, you know, people forget they're up to
Old in the Eastern Conference finals last year and then
lotch the next four and they were in overtime, went
away from Game three of being up three. Oh so yeah, alright,
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I'm interested to I'm just minus minus Clippers. Well, it's
funny I talk about the Bucks because they haven't done it.
Now I'm saying I'd take the Clippers, who have never
as a franchise been passed the second round of the playoffs. Again,
it goes through Kauai, not the Raptors. Kauai is the
defending champion. The Raptors are not defending champions, any any
any questions? Does anybody have any argument with that one?
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That's really how we look at it. Where the truth
is that Kauai has been about the same guy and
the Raptors have been about the same team without him.
It's the weirdest thing I can recall. Usually team loses
the star player, they collish us. You know, maybe not
as much as Lebron's teams collapse because Lebrons teams are
so built around his skill set, but they do. They
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have a tendency to collapse and and vanish into the
vanishing the thin air. Um all right. Rick Bucker joins
us from Bleacher Report and also on Fox Sports One. Rick,
We're watching the Nets get thoroughly destroyed by Toronto Raptors,
and obviously the Raptors are, you know, they're they're kind
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of like, it's it's weird no one talks about them
being defending champions, even though they are right. Nobody treats
them with any sort of respect. Some rightfully so, some
wrongfully so. But one of the things that's been pointed
out to me is I get how good Portland's been,
But Portland's been good against the Nets, who are without
four starters. They've been good against the Sixers, who didn't
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have Simmons and MB didn't play much of the game.
They've been good against a bunch of beaten up teams. Uh,
let's start with the Blazers. How good are they actually
in our they a threat to the Lakers? Well, I
would flip that around is I'm trying to figure out
how figure out how good are the Lakers at this
point and what is going to be the prevailing What
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are the prevailing factors going to be for success in
these playoffs? Because generally defense counts for a lot. And
what I think we're seeing with Toronto against Brooklyn is
that if you can play defense and you can score
a little bit, you're going to it's going to be
a much different game. It's that you're gonna you're gonna
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win by a lot. What we saw was Denver in Utah.
Is there still some issues there defensively for teams that
we consider to be fairly good defensive teams. Uh, And
yet the shots are available. So this is what I
don't know. If it comes down to being a a
scoring race between the Lakers and the Blazers, then I
think that the Blazers. Uh can scare of the Lakers
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may even obsess them? Um? Can the Lakers get back
to playing the defense that we saw them play during
the regular season? I mean they have been flat out
awful defensively against everybody in the bubble. Are they going
to flip a switch and get back to that? And
are they going to get back to their three point shooting?
That that to me determines that the Blazers are going
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to be what they are. They're not a good defensive team.
They can't score and they can get it from a
lot of different directions, and they have a resilience. Uh
it really it's going to determine. Everything's gonna be determined
on on who the Lakers are. Are they the regular
season team and this isn't gonna be a contest. If
they're not, then the Blazers have a chance. Dou Gotli show,
you're on Fox Sport Trader. That's the voice of Rick Buker. Um.
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I can I wonder the Avery Brady thing. He has
a player option for next year. How welcome could he
possibly be in the locker room? I guess it depends
on where things go, but I I would imagine if
you make this decision, you're not planning on being there
next year. I don't see how you. I don't see
how you can be, to be honest with you. Um,
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you know, there's all sorts of circumstances that guys are
looking at the playing or not playing in the bubble
and saying hey to each his own, But considering what's
at stake for the Lakers, it's hard for me to
imagine that that he would have made that decision thinking
that he was going to come back and play for
the next year. Vlady gets gets fired with the Sacramento Kings.
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Is it as simple as how could you not take?
How could you not take Luca? No, I don't think
that's the only factor. I mean, from what I know
that there was you know that there was there was
a real um there was a real break between Vlady
and Pagia say Akovitch and other people within the organization.
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So um, if you if you look, there were moves
made every summer, and those were Vladi moves where they
would sign the Trevorer Reasas and the Dwayne Deadman's and
the George Hills, and then before the trade deadline they
would have to switch things up. And what I was
told is the summer moves were lads, and then the
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trade deadline moves or the in season moves were other
people within the within the organization trying to fix what
didn't work from the summer moves. So the big question
I I have, and I hadn't been able to answer yet,
is that you know, the vet Route Dvay, along with
most every other owner has is looking at the prospect
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of not making as much money as they normally do.
I'm not gonna say that they're losing money, but that
the profit margin is going to be the same, and
that that was going to affect making decisions. They They
just re upped both Flade and Luke Walton, so I've
been told there was a lot of pressure on Blade
to to to step down. I can only imagine that
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they got some money back somehow, some way in order
to make this happen, that they made it uncomfortable enough
to Floody decided to make that decision, because that was
the one reason I thought that they wouldn't necessarily make
a change in spite of everything, was just not wanting
to pay two GMS for the next three or four years.
Who do you who do you think the Nets hire
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in terms of their head coach. I've heard a variety
of of things, and um, you know I've heard I've
heard email Adoka is high on their list. The big
question for me is, uh, who do you get not
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to coach this team, but to coach Kyrie and k
d Um. I've heard the k D like's shock of
Van the incumbent, so that would be a point in
his face her. I've also been told they're looking for
something else than that. The Seawan marks Email Udoka relationship
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from from the San Antonio days could carry the day,
So I honestly, I don't know that I'd go with
a with with a young guy. I would roll the
dice and bringing Jason Kidd back or go for Tylu
or Jeff Van Gundi someone I'm getting someone to coach
k D and Kyrie and the only the only kind
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of coach that I can see doing that, who is
is somebody who has some sort of track record and
the ability to connect with superstar players. Doug Otla show
on Fox Sport Trader, that's the voice of Rick Buker.
What happened to Lonzo Ball on the Bubble, What happened
to the entire Pelicans or I mean team again. You know,
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one of the things that I heard and I've been
told and I haven't had this confirmed, so maybe I
shouldn't say I've put it this way. I've heard that
the Pelicans weren't in spite of the desperately wanting the
the Pelicans and Zion Williamson UH in in the postseason
and UH and playing in the bubble, that the Pelicans
organization itself was not that high on on doing it. Well.
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They certainly didn't. The players certainly didn't hide their disdained
for being there. Well, not only the players, but I
mean from a from a you know, an organizational standpoint,
that they didn't see it as whether it was the
physical risk to Zion or just the the hall that
the c pill it was that they were gonna have
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to climb to get into the playoff fixer um, that
it just wasn't worth it to them. And then which
you know, as we've now seen that there was a
disconnect between David Griffin and and Al Gentry UH. And
that's obviously UH had a result without no longer and
longer being there. But I don't think it's just I
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don't think it's Alonzo ball. I mean I think that
that entire team and and this, I guess the heart
of it is like who's your leader on that team.
You've got a mix of guys that are looking to
prove themselves, but you don't have anybody who is leading
the charge or that everybody is playing around. And I
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think that that is no matter how much talent there
is there, that's going to be an issue. And Alonso
is the kind of personality that is, you know, regardless
of what his personal approach was to the bubble, He's
a guy who's going to get lost in the sauce
when when the those circumstances exist. Okay, Rick fucker joining us?
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Who do you have in the finals of your I
don't know if you've don't we have brackets online. Who
do you like to get well? I look, I picked
up the Clippers in Toronto to get there, and as
much because I think that they have proven guys in
playoff situations, and they can shoot the three ball, and
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they're they've proven that they can be very good defensively,
and I think that they have depth and versatility, which look,
there's gonna be more injuries that impact the balance of power.
Russell Westbrook is not the last or Ben Simmons. They're
not the last guys that are going to go down
before we get to the finish line. And I think
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that those teams are most capable of weathering uh an injury,
even an injury to a main player. So I'm going
with that. But as I just said, you know, at
the very beginning, like I want to know, is this
gonna be an offensive contest? Are we going is defense
going to at some point rear its head? And with
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the lack of crowds, are we going to see role
players playing bigger roles than they normally would in playoff
situations because of the pressure of playing on the road
or playing in hospital environments? Is it going to be
different here? And I don't have I don't have answers
to that quite yet, in spite of the fact that
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we're a game and a half into the Postseus No,
it's still too really hard to tell. And how the
how the game's having one day off in between but
no travel, how that affects guys, How being in the
boat for this long effects guys. We just we don't know.
It does make it very very different, great stuff. Go ahead, Yeah,
I ask you, Look, you've got you've got plenty of
Lakers sources, Uh, what what's your what's your take on
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and and and I think they're I think they're I
think they're still they know Avery Badley was a huge piece,
huge piece, you know they And I mean between Avery
Bradley not playing well and um uh, you know, not
getting Darren Caullison the way they thought they would like,
that changed them and they kind of survived without it,
knowing that if if there was one thing that was
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going to come up, it was going to be guard playing,
lack of shot creators. But at least Avery Bradley was
making shot before he shut it down, before they shut
it down. So I think there's that. I also think, like, look,
they you know, being isolated can bring you closer, but
at some point there becomes a m a decline in
the actual quality of basketball. I don't think we've gotten
there yet because I think a lot of these guys
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are super into it. But I think for the Lakers
it would be not playing playing without two of your
top three point guards is or you know, non not lying.
Lebron James has been really hard for them, and then
you know the engagement of they finally get to a
one seed. That said, if they can get Kuzma going
the way he played well in a couple of games,
it may be able to to marginalize down on some level.
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Fair enough. Alright, great stuff, dude, Rick Buker Bleach Report
joining us The Godlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. All Right,
coming up next, Um, the NBA is already making plans
for All Star Weekend next year. When does next year start?
When is All Star Weekend? How does all come together?
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go alright? Fifty seven points for Donovan Mitchell. Still not enough.
Jazz Lowes to the Nuggets in Game one of their
playoff series in overtime, one thirty five to one. And
uh this this obviously would have been in Salt Lake altitude,
not a factor. Remember the Jazz are playing without Mike Conley,
who his wife had a baby I think yesterday, right,
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so he could return for the series, but he would
have to do quarantine for four days, so he would
miss several games. Obviously, Donn Mitchell did well with the
extra touches, but they did not do well without the
defense of Mike Conley d five points. Of course that
was overtime, but Denver did have a chance to win
in regulation as well. Yeah, some other NBA news and
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by the way, that Donovan Mitchell fifty seven, Jordan has
sixty three, Elgin Baylor at sixty one, and then Mitchell
now third all time in the highest points for one
player in an NBA playoff game. W I s HTV
in Indianapolis the first report that the NBA can't build
their contracts with local hotels for the NBA All Star Weekend,
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likely signaling either a delayer cancelation of the activities scheduled
for mid February. Also want to add on to this,
Pacers released a statement saying it appears that All Star
one is unlikely to happen on President's Day weekend, but
not much more. Um Again from that, if it's going
to be moved or if they'll just cancel it out
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right struggling. Yeah, well, we don't know when the season starts.
They can't know when the All Star Game is. There's
a chance that there's a there's a thought that you
start the season with the All Star Game, right like
as a celebration of all stars from past year or whatever.
I don't know. There's a lot of different ideas to it.
Stinks for a place like Indie, that that's that town
is built for the NFL games, for college basketball and
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for you know, all Star game, and but that's the
reality of it. And the NBA is still trying to
figure out what next season will look like as they
try and conclude this season in the bubble. N C
double A. Senior vice president of Basketball Dan Gavitt said
that they will know by mid September if the upcoming
men's and women's basketball seasons will start on time or
be delayed because of the pandemic. Yeah, they're just they're
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they're playing the delay game. Right. The longer we go,
the more likely there is to be less expensive testing
and we get closer and closer to a vaccine. My
guess is that they start they the the backup plan
is some form of bubbles, right, and these tournaments are
almost like minimum are like many bubbles anyway. So I'm
talking about those non conference tournaments and Maui, Bahamas, you know,
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you name it, they have a tournament there, and I
would guess that those tournaments will be used as some
form of bubble, and they'll use that sponsorship money as well,
so that you can come closer to breaking even than
just losing your shirt on them. So the big news
in college football today really had to do with football,
but University of North Carolina going all virtual after an
outbreak on campus after classes started. The SEC they're releasing
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their schedule for the upcoming conference the only college football season.
Most of it will be revealed coming up at seven
o'clock Eastern time, but we do know Week one, defending
national champion of l s U scheduled to host Mike
Leach in Mississippi State. These games on Saturday September. You've
got Alabama at Missouri and then Lane Kiffin's debut Florida
will come to Oxford to take on Old Miss. How
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about Old Miss without the Grove? Just bad football? I
guess right, I mean, no, Grove, no celebration. You know,
some of these schools they will have people there. You
only have like twenty people in attendants and no tailgating.
Just gonna be weird. Just giving. In regards to the
being online, I don't really understand people make an argument
that athletes can't play their sport if everybody's online. Why not?
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Why not? A lot of them are taking online classes anyway,
even before this all took place. You know, you're still
representing your school, you're still playing. You're you're actually safer
because there's more of a clear bubble if some people
go home. But yeah, I have a friend. We played
golf with a buddy of mine whose son goes to Wisconsin.
He's like, he left this weekend and then he's got
a Plan A if it gets canceled before school really starts,
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or Plan B. You know what they do if how
the semester goes. So we'll we'll see. The Kansas City
Chiefs announced plans to have fans at capacity at Arrowhead
Stadium for the start of the upcoming season. The plan
was approved by the NFL in the city of Kansas City.
They also have parking rules in place. Every car must
have a space between another, so you're gonna have a
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space up parking lot and ticket holders will have specific
eats that they're supposed to enter, and everyone will be
required to wear a mask. Why did they do? Feels random? Yeah,
I don't know. Three is like one third and the
number breaks down to about seventeen thousand was what the
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number that I saw on Twitter for what that was.
But that's what was agreed upon by the the NFL
and the city and the Chiefs, and of course at
opening night less than a less than a month away
for the Houston Texans. The Browns running back Nick Chubb
at to leave practice today to be evaluated for a concussion,
according to multiple reports, First Day and Pad you get
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a concussion? Huh? Getting after it? The Canadian Football League
canceled the season but says they will return in one
Commissioner Randy and Rosie said the league would have suffered
significant financial losses if they played. I mentioned this earlier
in the show, but the CFL it asked the Canadian
government for a thirty million dollar loan to play in
a bubble in Winnipeg. But that they said take off,
(35:02):
The said take off. How about this? Ken Rosenthal reports
of the MLB on Fox in The Athletic that uh,
the Rangers and Rockies had been interested in wanting to
have some fans at their games, but an MLB spokesperson
says the league is not considering hosting fans at this time.
They're still trying to find out if if they can
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play the playoffs in a bubble right play the that
was an option, Yeah, that's what it is. Well, I
just I I know that you're trying your best, but
after you know the situations that Major League Baseball has
had in trying to complete a season, I don't know
why the Rangers and Rockies would be like, yeah, no,
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let's just let's let more people in. You know, Cardinals, Marlins,
let's watch that game. For the third week of Phase
four testing, the NHL says they had zero positive COVID
nineteen results in more than fifty six under test administered
this past nicely done a Bostairs, but I still have
not seen don't even is not a NHL network? Is
(36:05):
that where they play NBC Sports Network? Who knew it's
on right now? Avalanche and Coyotes here, that's that's the
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Fire Coyotes an Avalanche Coyote at the Avalanche Colorado up
to one, but their score in the series but scoreless
right now. And the Lightning beat the Jackets today two
to one in Tampa. Bay's up three one in that
so they're in the game four already of the of
the playoffs. Yes, I swear to god, I had no idea.
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I didn't. I didn't know. Well, tell Roma's to get
Bloomberg off, you know, Yeah, alright, well look we got
we already have the Nuggets to can down the Jazz.
I had the Nuggets win that series Toronto. The lead
is not as big Tomorrow. We recap all of uh
Tonight's games and gets ready for tomor Night's Lakers Blazers.
People think that will be close. I do not. I
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do not, because there's three things that decide playoff series matchups,
conditioning and injuries. That's a doug outlip show.
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Dog gotam Show? Fox Sports Radio. It is just another
bomb track. Hope you're well. I hope you had a
good weekend. Jamal Murray had thirty six, Like that's all
you have a thirty six? Dona Mitchell had, Like have
me have fifty? What fifty seven? Damn? How are you
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have fifty seven points and lose? I mean, I guess
you guys gave up one thirty five man uh poof
oh so I mean like, look, Jamal Murray thirty six
on twenty shots, six of nine from three, nine assists
and they're like, yeah, he's all right. He wouldn't mean
all right. Well, that's because Dimenchel had fifty seven. The
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numbers are crazy. What guys are putting up right now
in the bubble. Some of it is that they're just
all about ball and they don't have any distractions. Some
of it is the defense hasn't been nearly the same,
and some of it is these guys are crazy talented. Um,
I don't take a ton of I. I think I'm
a pretty good dad, you know, like you can portray
(01:35):
yourself on social media is the world's greatest dad. And
you can buy the mug and the t shirt and
they can tell you the world's greatest dad. But there
are things you have to teach your kids to do, right,
change a tire, change a tire, catch a fish, you
know you need to tell You need to teach them
(01:56):
how to had a bet on a game, to teach
them the finer points of the different kinds of beer
that you like to drink, how to operate a remote control,
how to drive a car, how to swing a baseball
bat and throw a baseball. You see all these guys
that can't throw a baseball at a game, ladies or whatever.
That's just bad parenting and other things that. So I
(02:21):
haven't completed all of those tasks. My kids all know
how to fish. I haven't necessarily taught them their grandpa has.
I haven't taught about a change of tire yet. But
they're not yet tire changing age. You have teached the
boy how to do that, but most of the stuff
we're getting to. Um, I've taught them the three most
important things in real estate, Johnny, you're familiar with the
(02:42):
three most important things in real estate. Unfortunately, I probably
have three of them in my head, but I don't
think the probably the three year thinking, uh, real estate.
It's location, yes, yes, um, why you want to help, Yeah,
(03:07):
I'll say location, location, yes, yes, yes, yes, thank you, Dan.
There are three most important things in real estate are location, location, location,
you know, and my children have learned this the hard way.
Like wait, our house in Connecticut was beautiful and it's
(03:31):
worth how much in our house in California is nice?
What location? Location, location, the school that you're in, the
safety of that school, the value of the property, you know,
the safety of it cul de sac not through street,
all these different things. Location, location, location. In basketball, there
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are three things, by my estimation, that decides who wins
an NBA playoff series. And if you want to go
with well, they're just better or they just on it more.
I hate the they just wanted more. Does that happen?
I guess Occasionally teams are teams are better cohesively collectively,
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they get after them maybe, but generally it's not about
who wants it more. Generally, what it's about is three
other things. You know what those are. First, it's about matchups.
Basketball is about matchups. How do you match up with
the other team? You know. One of the flaws to
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the Calves when they were trying to take down the Warriors,
and the Warriors added Kevin Rant was the only player
on the Calves who could guard Kevin Durant was Lebron James,
and Lebron having to carry the load offensively doesn't have
the energy to bring it defensively anymore. You gotta get
as many like size hybrid defenders just throw bodies at
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him and give him different looks. And they couldn't do it,
and and and when I when I look at NBA
playoff series, occasionally there's just a matchup that gives people
problems matchups, health and conditioning. I mean, think of what
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really happened when Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neil's Lakers lost to
the Detroit Pistons. They all got hurt. Karl Alone got hurt,
Rick Rick Fox got hurt. I think Gary Payton got
hurt as well. So yes, were they at the end
of their run? Do they not get along? Sure? Did
the Pistons beat them up? And yes, okay, and the
Pistons were a better team. But what really happened was
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the matchup favored the Pistons and the health favored the Pistons.
And so when I look at the Trailblazers taken on
the Lakers, did the Trailblazers at momentum, yes, sort of,
but conditioningwise, they gotta be on fumes. They had to
play a nine games instead of eight. All of them
played at a very high level as they were trying
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to get into the playoffs, and even though they weren't
playing against the best competition because they didn't play much defense,
all of those games were a lot closer than they
should have been, and and Damian Lillard had to carry
them in order to get into the playoffs. You're on fumes,
your second best player, c J McCollum, as a broken back,
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You have a bad matchup. What what more do you
need to know? Can you tell me that three is
more than two? And they have more guys that can
shoot the three Asus Lakers. Yes, and that will be
the one part which will probably win them one game,
which is they'll shoot the eyes out of it one
game and they'll win a game. But generally defense does
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in fact win championships. Generally, bad matchups get exposed, especially
the longer a series goes, and generally you're just on fumes.
Once you played an extra game and you're playing at
a high level effort wise, because you're trying to make
the playoffs, generally your play starts to diminish because you're
so tired, and you also have more injuries because of it.
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So I completely get why people want to be in
love with the Portland Trailblazers. But the Brooklyn team that
they just survived in order to get to the playoffs
and got to the playoff game is being beaten by
the Toronto Raptors right now. When it comes to real basketball,
Brooklyn just doesn't have the horses. And it comes to
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playoff basketball, there's a bad matchup for the Trailblazers. They're
not in great shape because they're so worn down. And
while three maybe more than two, and it ain't like
Lebron James didn't show he can could hit three. Couldn't
hit threes last time? He he was out there all right?
Coming up next. So there's the three rules, right, three
rules of basketball take into account matchups. Match is a
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big injury and conditioning matchups. Injuries, conditioning home court advantage
no longer part of it, a longer part of Alright.
Coming up next, Hey uh go next, Brick Buker will
join the show. I'll get his thoughts from Orlando. What
do we think about the East? Who is the team
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in the East that could give either the Clippers or
the Lakers the most trouble? A lot of people, as
Dan Buyer said, I'm one of them, picking Oklahoma City
to beat the Rockets. If that happens, who's the next
head coach of the Rockets. Be sure to catch the
live edition of The Doug gott Leap Show weekdays at
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and the I Heart Radio app Doug Olip Show Fox
Sports Radio. Call Lowry took a charge in transition of
a pass and they got the butt. That's the second
one he's taken. I actually don't like that play. Um,
I know how it's gonna be. So the the play
is this. They're up twenty two at the end of
the seventy three at the half. It's a little slightly
(09:04):
different game when you're talking about in the playoffs. But man,
you would have had Fred van Bleet just missed another shot.
But being a dominant part of this Toronto team, guy
who made his way to league. What what an incredible
improvement he's had become a tremendous NBA player. Um, I
hate that play where guys take a charge after somebody passes.
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I just do. I understand the rule and that you
have the right to you know, to your own space
and if somebody runs you over, it's a foul, But
I don't feel like that's the true intent of the rule.
It's a hard one for me to watch. Yes, almost
if you're Brooklyn, are you under the impression like, hey, look,
(09:50):
we're getting Durant, We're gonna get Kyrie Irving back, and
we still made the playoffs. We're in the right direction?
Is that okay? Well? I mean I think that the
question with them is gonna be who's gonna co who
can coach them to the next to the next level, right,
who can who can coach Kyrie can coach Katie and
yet get these guys that still play together and play hard.
That's a hard, that's a I don't know what the
answer that is. You know, I think if um, you
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have a GM who's originally Sean Marks, who is a
San Antonio spur right, but he's also was he he's
a Keywie. I think he's from New Zealand. Like, I'm
not sure he wouldn't rather go with with Jack Vaughan,
who is a long time Spurs assistant. But I do
think that it's going to be hard when you have
two guys that have won championships to not bring in
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a coach with some sort of championship pedigree. I guess
Jock would have it as insistent, But I don't know.
It's a hard one. But I look, I do. I
don't think like Jeff van Gunny takes that job or
once that job or you know, it's it's hard. Those
guys are hard to coach, really hard to coach. Um.
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I keep watching this, I keep watching this Toronto team,
and it is fascinating to me that no one says,
you know, the defending champions. It's just the weirdest thing
that we've all decided to do. And I'm not accusing
anyone person doing it. I'm not saying they're wrong, but
it is weird that it's never never disc almost never
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discussed that Portland is the reigning champions. I mean, ex SEVENA,
Toronto is the reigning champions, because what we were always
taught before was that that Rudy Tom jonavinc quote, which
is kind of a cliche, never underestimate the heart of
a champion, right, You're like, man, that is a great line,
and it's accurate because it once you've wanted, you've conquered
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all those demons. But because they don't have Kauai Leonard
from last year, the other pieces are relatively the same,
and many of them, the Pascal Siakams, the Fred van Fleets,
they're better than they were last year. The records essentially
the same. It's a really interesting exercise we're going through.
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Do we think they would really walk? Do it? Do
we really think that those guys would walk if those guys,
if if they came back apologetic and they're on the team,
do you do you really believe that Oliver Prez is like,
I'm thirty nine years old, I'm out, and there we
go that is a good question because it seems that
Zach please X video when he doubled down on his
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decision may have irked some of the players more. I mean,
like Oliver Prez is thirty nine years old and he's
playing a shortened season, and it money is you know,
the money is the money. But you also maybe like, man,
if I got to deal with this stuff, you know,
what's the point. I gotta deal with these idiots? So
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God bless the youth is wasted on the young, right,
And then you know it was brought up. You know,
Carlos Carrasco had the heart condition and uh or is
it cancer? He came back from cancers? Sorry, but in
Francisco Lindor this is Jeff Passon report was also very
vocal about the the players, so well, then Noor is
their best player, so um that that one would be
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a real real prob if Lindors like I ain't down
with it. On the other hand, like, look, that's two
of your starting rotation. I don't really know how you
plan to have a team if you don't welcome them back.
Problem and could also be indicative of how the players
feel about this season, you know, of what they actually
do think about it, So I don't know if that's
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I'm again like there's a lot of unknown to what
they actually mean by the boycott. I think most of
it is, like like you said about Oliver Prez, if
I gotta put up with easey idiots, this is not
worth it to me, Like I'm going through all these
safe cards and these guys just don't care that ain't
worth it to me. Ain't worth it to me, Doug
Golip Show, You're on Fox Sports Radio, Rick Buker said
to join us. Okay, so we have one playoff game
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in the books. Um it, I don't want to call
this one for the Toronto Raptors, but I'm getting close
to calling it for the Toronto Raptors up twenty two
at the half on the Brooklyn Nets. Nets just don't
have the dudes. Um there's also in addition to the playoffs,
you got some coaching news. Right, Let's see what happens
(14:16):
obviously with Brooklyn. New Orleans fired Alvin Gentry over the weekend,
and I kind of joked that Alonzo Ball got Alvin
Gentry fired. I know that there's a completely new regime
in New Orleans since he was hired since Alvin Gentry
was hired, and I understand that this was a transition
year with the big trade when they trade away Anthony Davis.
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And in many ways they were just as good as
they had been with Anthony Davis. But Alonzo Ball was
so bad in the bubble that you started to try
and figure out, all right, was he just not working?
Did he not want to play? Was he just shutting down?
What in the heck happened? Because everybody I know it
likes Alvin Gentry, thinks he's a pretty good coach. But
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they did not get better in the bubble. They got worse,
and Lonzo was a big reason why. And so was Zion.
Zion's inability to stay in top shape or stay in
any sort of shape. I guess he has stayed in shape.
Round is a shape, but that's not the shape that
we were truly looking for. So Chicago's open, the Knicks
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have a coach, New Orleans is open, Brooklyn is relatively open,
although occupied by an interim coach. Like there's some pretty
big jobs available. And then you have the actual series.
Now Ramos in your bracket. By the way, you can
go check out all of our brackets Fox Sports radio
dot Com. In your bracket, Ramos, you have the Lakers
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taken on the Celtics. No, the defending champions. Okay, buyer,
who do you have in your in your bracket again,
Fox Sports Radio dot Com. Yeah, I have Bucks beating
the Clippers in the finals. Okay, I have the I
have I have the Bucks losing to the Celtics. And
I don't know why, but I just do. I don't
know why, but I just do. Maybe it's just because
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I haven't seen Mike Budenholzer's team win games of that magnitude,
you know. Yeah, you know, people forget they're up to
Old in the Eastern Conference finals last year and then
lotch the next four and they were in overtime, went
away from Game three of being up three. Oh so yeah, alright,
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I'm interested to I'm just minus minus Clippers. Well, it's
funny I talk about the Bucks because they haven't done it.
Now I'm saying I'd take the Clippers, who have never
as a franchise been passed the second round of the playoffs. Again,
it goes through Kauai, not the Raptors. Kauai is the
defending champion. The Raptors are not defending champions, any any
any questions? Does anybody have any argument with that one?
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That's really how we look at it. Where the truth
is that Kauai has been about the same guy and
the Raptors have been about the same team without him.
It's the weirdest thing I can recall. Usually team loses
the star player, they collish us. You know, maybe not
as much as Lebron's teams collapse because Lebrons teams are
so built around his skill set, but they do. They
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have a tendency to collapse and and vanish into the
vanishing the thin air. Um all right. Rick Bucker joins
us from Bleacher Report and also on Fox Sports One. Rick,
We're watching the Nets get thoroughly destroyed by Toronto Raptors,
and obviously the Raptors are, you know, they're they're kind
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of like, it's it's weird no one talks about them
being defending champions, even though they are right. Nobody treats
them with any sort of respect. Some rightfully so, some
wrongfully so. But one of the things that's been pointed
out to me is I get how good Portland's been,
But Portland's been good against the Nets, who are without
four starters. They've been good against the Sixers, who didn't
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have Simmons and MB didn't play much of the game.
They've been good against a bunch of beaten up teams. Uh,
let's start with the Blazers. How good are they actually
in our they a threat to the Lakers? Well, I
would flip that around is I'm trying to figure out
how figure out how good are the Lakers at this
point and what is going to be the prevailing What
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are the prevailing factors going to be for success in
these playoffs? Because generally defense counts for a lot. And
what I think we're seeing with Toronto against Brooklyn is
that if you can play defense and you can score
a little bit, you're going to it's going to be
a much different game. It's that you're gonna you're gonna
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win by a lot. What we saw was Denver in Utah.
Is there still some issues there defensively for teams that
we consider to be fairly good defensive teams. Uh, And
yet the shots are available. So this is what I
don't know. If it comes down to being a a
scoring race between the Lakers and the Blazers, then I
think that the Blazers. Uh can scare of the Lakers
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may even obsess them? Um? Can the Lakers get back
to playing the defense that we saw them play during
the regular season? I mean they have been flat out
awful defensively against everybody in the bubble. Are they going
to flip a switch and get back to that? And
are they going to get back to their three point shooting?
That that to me determines that the Blazers are going
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to be what they are. They're not a good defensive team.
They can't score and they can get it from a
lot of different directions, and they have a resilience. Uh
it really it's going to determine. Everything's gonna be determined
on on who the Lakers are. Are they the regular
season team and this isn't gonna be a contest. If
they're not, then the Blazers have a chance. Dou Gotli show,
you're on Fox Sport Trader. That's the voice of Rick Buker. Um.
(19:45):
I can I wonder the Avery Brady thing. He has
a player option for next year. How welcome could he
possibly be in the locker room? I guess it depends
on where things go, but I I would imagine if
you make this decision, you're not planning on being there
next year. I don't see how you. I don't see
how you can be, to be honest with you. Um,
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you know, there's all sorts of circumstances that guys are
looking at the playing or not playing in the bubble
and saying hey to each his own, But considering what's
at stake for the Lakers, it's hard for me to
imagine that that he would have made that decision thinking
that he was going to come back and play for
the next year. Vlady gets gets fired with the Sacramento Kings.
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Is it as simple as how could you not take?
How could you not take Luca? No, I don't think
that's the only factor. I mean, from what I know
that there was you know that there was there was
a real um there was a real break between Vlady
and Pagia say Akovitch and other people within the organization.
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So um, if you if you look, there were moves
made every summer, and those were Vladi moves where they
would sign the Trevorer Reasas and the Dwayne Deadman's and
the George Hills, and then before the trade deadline they
would have to switch things up. And what I was
told is the summer moves were lads, and then the
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trade deadline moves or the in season moves were other
people within the within the organization trying to fix what
didn't work from the summer moves. So the big question
I I have, and I hadn't been able to answer yet,
is that you know, the vet Route Dvay, along with
most every other owner has is looking at the prospect
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of not making as much money as they normally do.
I'm not gonna say that they're losing money, but that
the profit margin is going to be the same, and
that that was going to affect making decisions. They They
just re upped both Flade and Luke Walton, so I've
been told there was a lot of pressure on Blade
to to to step down. I can only imagine that
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they got some money back somehow, some way in order
to make this happen, that they made it uncomfortable enough
to Floody decided to make that decision, because that was
the one reason I thought that they wouldn't necessarily make
a change in spite of everything, was just not wanting
to pay two GMS for the next three or four years.
Who do you who do you think the Nets hire
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in terms of their head coach. I've heard a variety
of of things, and um, you know I've heard I've
heard email Adoka is high on their list. The big
question for me is, uh, who do you get not
(22:46):
to coach this team, but to coach Kyrie and k
d Um. I've heard the k D like's shock of
Van the incumbent, so that would be a point in
his face her. I've also been told they're looking for
something else than that. The Seawan marks Email Udoka relationship
(23:07):
from from the San Antonio days could carry the day,
So I honestly, I don't know that I'd go with
a with with a young guy. I would roll the
dice and bringing Jason Kidd back or go for Tylu
or Jeff Van Gundi someone I'm getting someone to coach
k D and Kyrie and the only the only kind
(23:30):
of coach that I can see doing that, who is
is somebody who has some sort of track record and
the ability to connect with superstar players. Doug Otla show
on Fox Sport Trader, that's the voice of Rick Buker.
What happened to Lonzo Ball on the Bubble, What happened
to the entire Pelicans or I mean team again. You know,
(23:51):
one of the things that I heard and I've been
told and I haven't had this confirmed, so maybe I
shouldn't say I've put it this way. I've heard that
the Pelicans weren't in spite of the desperately wanting the
the Pelicans and Zion Williamson UH in in the postseason
and UH and playing in the bubble, that the Pelicans
organization itself was not that high on on doing it. Well.
(24:14):
They certainly didn't. The players certainly didn't hide their disdained
for being there. Well, not only the players, but I
mean from a from a you know, an organizational standpoint,
that they didn't see it as whether it was the
physical risk to Zion or just the the hall that
the c pill it was that they were gonna have
(24:34):
to climb to get into the playoff fixer um, that
it just wasn't worth it to them. And then which
you know, as we've now seen that there was a
disconnect between David Griffin and and Al Gentry UH. And
that's obviously UH had a result without no longer and
longer being there. But I don't think it's just I
(24:56):
don't think it's Alonzo ball. I mean I think that
that entire team and and this, I guess the heart
of it is like who's your leader on that team.
You've got a mix of guys that are looking to
prove themselves, but you don't have anybody who is leading
the charge or that everybody is playing around. And I
(25:18):
think that that is no matter how much talent there
is there, that's going to be an issue. And Alonso
is the kind of personality that is, you know, regardless
of what his personal approach was to the bubble, He's
a guy who's going to get lost in the sauce
when when the those circumstances exist. Okay, Rick fucker joining us?
(25:41):
Who do you have in the finals of your I
don't know if you've don't we have brackets online. Who
do you like to get well? I look, I picked
up the Clippers in Toronto to get there, and as
much because I think that they have proven guys in
playoff situations, and they can shoot the three ball, and
(26:02):
they're they've proven that they can be very good defensively,
and I think that they have depth and versatility, which look,
there's gonna be more injuries that impact the balance of power.
Russell Westbrook is not the last or Ben Simmons. They're
not the last guys that are going to go down
before we get to the finish line. And I think
(26:22):
that those teams are most capable of weathering uh an injury,
even an injury to a main player. So I'm going
with that. But as I just said, you know, at
the very beginning, like I want to know, is this
gonna be an offensive contest? Are we going is defense
going to at some point rear its head? And with
(26:45):
the lack of crowds, are we going to see role
players playing bigger roles than they normally would in playoff
situations because of the pressure of playing on the road
or playing in hospital environments? Is it going to be
different here? And I don't have I don't have answers
to that quite yet, in spite of the fact that
(27:07):
we're a game and a half into the Postseus No,
it's still too really hard to tell. And how the
how the game's having one day off in between but
no travel, how that affects guys, How being in the
boat for this long effects guys. We just we don't know.
It does make it very very different, great stuff. Go ahead, Yeah,
I ask you, Look, you've got you've got plenty of
Lakers sources, Uh, what what's your what's your take on
(27:32):
and and and I think they're I think they're I
think they're still they know Avery Badley was a huge piece,
huge piece, you know they And I mean between Avery
Bradley not playing well and um uh, you know, not
getting Darren Caullison the way they thought they would like,
that changed them and they kind of survived without it,
knowing that if if there was one thing that was
(27:55):
going to come up, it was going to be guard playing,
lack of shot creators. But at least Avery Bradley was
making shot before he shut it down, before they shut
it down. So I think there's that. I also think, like, look,
they you know, being isolated can bring you closer, but
at some point there becomes a m a decline in
the actual quality of basketball. I don't think we've gotten
there yet because I think a lot of these guys
(28:16):
are super into it. But I think for the Lakers
it would be not playing playing without two of your
top three point guards is or you know, non not lying.
Lebron James has been really hard for them, and then
you know the engagement of they finally get to a
one seed. That said, if they can get Kuzma going
the way he played well in a couple of games,
it may be able to to marginalize down on some level.
(28:39):
Fair enough. Alright, great stuff, dude, Rick Buker Bleach Report
joining us The Godlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. All Right,
coming up next, Um, the NBA is already making plans
for All Star Weekend next year. When does next year start?
When is All Star Weekend? How does all come together?
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go alright? Fifty seven points for Donovan Mitchell. Still not enough.
Jazz Lowes to the Nuggets in Game one of their
playoff series in overtime, one thirty five to one. And
uh this this obviously would have been in Salt Lake altitude,
not a factor. Remember the Jazz are playing without Mike Conley,
who his wife had a baby I think yesterday, right,
(29:49):
so he could return for the series, but he would
have to do quarantine for four days, so he would
miss several games. Obviously, Donn Mitchell did well with the
extra touches, but they did not do well without the
defense of Mike Conley d five points. Of course that
was overtime, but Denver did have a chance to win
in regulation as well. Yeah, some other NBA news and
(30:10):
by the way, that Donovan Mitchell fifty seven, Jordan has
sixty three, Elgin Baylor at sixty one, and then Mitchell
now third all time in the highest points for one
player in an NBA playoff game. W I s HTV
in Indianapolis the first report that the NBA can't build
their contracts with local hotels for the NBA All Star Weekend,
(30:32):
likely signaling either a delayer cancelation of the activities scheduled
for mid February. Also want to add on to this,
Pacers released a statement saying it appears that All Star
one is unlikely to happen on President's Day weekend, but
not much more. Um Again from that, if it's going
to be moved or if they'll just cancel it out
(30:52):
right struggling. Yeah, well, we don't know when the season starts.
They can't know when the All Star Game is. There's
a chance that there's a there's a thought that you
start the season with the All Star Game, right like
as a celebration of all stars from past year or whatever.
I don't know. There's a lot of different ideas to it.
Stinks for a place like Indie, that that's that town
is built for the NFL games, for college basketball and
(31:13):
for you know, all Star game, and but that's the
reality of it. And the NBA is still trying to
figure out what next season will look like as they
try and conclude this season in the bubble. N C
double A. Senior vice president of Basketball Dan Gavitt said
that they will know by mid September if the upcoming
men's and women's basketball seasons will start on time or
be delayed because of the pandemic. Yeah, they're just they're
(31:33):
they're playing the delay game. Right. The longer we go,
the more likely there is to be less expensive testing
and we get closer and closer to a vaccine. My
guess is that they start they the the backup plan
is some form of bubbles, right, and these tournaments are
almost like minimum are like many bubbles anyway. So I'm
talking about those non conference tournaments and Maui, Bahamas, you know,
(31:57):
you name it, they have a tournament there, and I
would guess that those tournaments will be used as some
form of bubble, and they'll use that sponsorship money as well,
so that you can come closer to breaking even than
just losing your shirt on them. So the big news
in college football today really had to do with football,
but University of North Carolina going all virtual after an
outbreak on campus after classes started. The SEC they're releasing
(32:22):
their schedule for the upcoming conference the only college football season.
Most of it will be revealed coming up at seven
o'clock Eastern time, but we do know Week one, defending
national champion of l s U scheduled to host Mike
Leach in Mississippi State. These games on Saturday September. You've
got Alabama at Missouri and then Lane Kiffin's debut Florida
will come to Oxford to take on Old Miss. How
(32:46):
about Old Miss without the Grove? Just bad football? I
guess right, I mean, no, Grove, no celebration. You know,
some of these schools they will have people there. You
only have like twenty people in attendants and no tailgating.
Just gonna be weird. Just giving. In regards to the
being online, I don't really understand people make an argument
that athletes can't play their sport if everybody's online. Why not?
(33:10):
Why not? A lot of them are taking online classes anyway,
even before this all took place. You know, you're still
representing your school, you're still playing. You're you're actually safer
because there's more of a clear bubble if some people
go home. But yeah, I have a friend. We played
golf with a buddy of mine whose son goes to Wisconsin.
He's like, he left this weekend and then he's got
a Plan A if it gets canceled before school really starts,
(33:34):
or Plan B. You know what they do if how
the semester goes. So we'll we'll see. The Kansas City
Chiefs announced plans to have fans at capacity at Arrowhead
Stadium for the start of the upcoming season. The plan
was approved by the NFL in the city of Kansas City.
They also have parking rules in place. Every car must
have a space between another, so you're gonna have a
(33:56):
space up parking lot and ticket holders will have specific
eats that they're supposed to enter, and everyone will be
required to wear a mask. Why did they do? Feels random? Yeah,
I don't know. Three is like one third and the
number breaks down to about seventeen thousand was what the
(34:18):
number that I saw on Twitter for what that was.
But that's what was agreed upon by the the NFL
and the city and the Chiefs, and of course at
opening night less than a less than a month away
for the Houston Texans. The Browns running back Nick Chubb
at to leave practice today to be evaluated for a concussion,
according to multiple reports, First Day and Pad you get
(34:39):
a concussion? Huh? Getting after it? The Canadian Football League
canceled the season but says they will return in one
Commissioner Randy and Rosie said the league would have suffered
significant financial losses if they played. I mentioned this earlier
in the show, but the CFL it asked the Canadian
government for a thirty million dollar loan to play in
a bubble in Winnipeg. But that they said take off,
(35:02):
The said take off. How about this? Ken Rosenthal reports
of the MLB on Fox in The Athletic that uh,
the Rangers and Rockies had been interested in wanting to
have some fans at their games, but an MLB spokesperson
says the league is not considering hosting fans at this time.
They're still trying to find out if if they can
(35:24):
play the playoffs in a bubble right play the that
was an option, Yeah, that's what it is. Well, I
just I I know that you're trying your best, but
after you know the situations that Major League Baseball has
had in trying to complete a season, I don't know
why the Rangers and Rockies would be like, yeah, no,
(35:44):
let's just let's let more people in. You know, Cardinals, Marlins,
let's watch that game. For the third week of Phase
four testing, the NHL says they had zero positive COVID
nineteen results in more than fifty six under test administered
this past nicely done a Bostairs, but I still have
not seen don't even is not a NHL network? Is
(36:05):
that where they play NBC Sports Network? Who knew it's
on right now? Avalanche and Coyotes here, that's that's the
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Fire Coyotes an Avalanche Coyote at the Avalanche Colorado up
to one, but their score in the series but scoreless
right now. And the Lightning beat the Jackets today two
to one in Tampa. Bay's up three one in that
so they're in the game four already of the of
the playoffs. Yes, I swear to god, I had no idea.
(36:49):
I didn't. I didn't know. Well, tell Roma's to get
Bloomberg off, you know, Yeah, alright, well look we got
we already have the Nuggets to can down the Jazz.
I had the Nuggets win that series Toronto. The lead
is not as big Tomorrow. We recap all of uh
Tonight's games and gets ready for tomor Night's Lakers Blazers.
People think that will be close. I do not. I
(37:12):
do not, because there's three things that decide playoff series matchups,
conditioning and injuries. That's a doug outlip show.
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