August 18, 2020 • 36 mins
Doug Gottlieb explains why there's an adjustment period in the NBA playoffs for everyone, including the refs. LeBron thinks this will be his hardest road to a title, and Doug agrees but for different reasons. Dusty Dvoracek joins the show to talk about college football in the Big 12, and we play Rank 'Em!
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On Doug Golip Show Fox Sports Radio. What Up? Everybody?
Welcome in. Doug Gotlip Show rolls on keeping her eye
on playoff basketball, which kind of strangely underway during the day.
That was the voice of my son Hayes. He's got
his entire life savings on the Bucks to win the championship.
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We teach him to gamble young and gamble big, go bigger,
go home early. Here on the Doug Gotlip Show on
Fox Sports Radio. A lot to get to. Uh. We
haven't just an outstanding show for you with some outstanding guests.
I'll give you my thoughts on something I saw last
night in the NBA that there needs to be an adjustment.
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This needs to be an adjustment in a moment um.
Let me share with you a couple of things coming
up here on the show, as we're gonna get into
continue with our discussion about college football with the players
clearly wanting to play that's because they've let it be
known in the Big Ten. We also Adam Kaplan's gonna
join us. NFL insider Dusty Dvorcei is gonna join us.
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Former college football All American at Oklahoma course played UH
for a decade in the National Football League. He'll join
us and UH. We'll also catch up with Butch Davis,
who of course is a longtime head coach back now
coaching in college and get his thoughts on this season.
Will will the SEC, A, C C and Big twelve
really be able to pull it off? So a bunch
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of things to get to. Let's let's let's start with
last night. So the Mavericks lost in their opening game
of the playoffs, and by now, you know, like, look,
you get to this time of day, I'm pretty reasonable,
pretty well aware that. Okay, yeah, you you know that score.
You probably know a little bit of the story that
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led to that score. We're keeping an eye on the
Magic who have a ten point lead over the number
one seed Bucks. Yes, it does, it does feel a
little bit like deja vu, I know to Bucks fans
or Mike Budenholzer fans, a guy who's had such success
in the regular season in the regular season, but really
a positive of success in the postseason. The Nuggets beat
the Jazz yesterday and the and the big story was
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donov Mitchell had fifty seven and lost. Jamal Murray was spectacular,
especially in over time. Raptors thumped the Nets. Celtics beat
the Sixers. Gordon Hayward sprained his ankle, he's out four
weeks or supposedly four weeks, and the Clippers came from behind,
trailing at the half. They came from behind and they
end up winning by eight. A ends the Dallas Mavericks.
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Now there's a lot of different takeaways, like look at
Luca don Check who he did have eleven turnovers, but
he did have forty two point nine assists, seven rebounds,
eleven turnovers the Yikes, but he handles the ball so much,
does everything for that team, you understand it. Kauai looked
closer to old Kauai. Leonard twenty nine, Paul George. They
get some bench steps and bench scoring. Sweet Lou Williams
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has four teen and they win. But the the story
to me of the game was the ejection of christophs
Prozingis now Persingas, who only played twenty minutes because the ejection,
and because you know, look, he he was a dynamic
prospect when he was with the Knicks. Now he's a
really good secondary weapon. Lucas the guy Persingis can shoot threes.
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He's seven for three. Uh. One would think he could
block shots a little better than he does. But coming
off of missing an entire season with the knee injury,
forcing a trade to dalla Us, I would say he's
been a little bit disappointing, a little bit up and down.
But the bigger story was he was ejected for two
technical fouls last night. And I've heard from a lot
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of people, well, he's got to know better, he's got
to know better. Well, okay, but so do the officials.
Like look, in the NBA, it all generally has worked.
Do you want the right calls to be made at
the right time, Sure, but you do sort of want
a little bit of star treatment. And that doesn't mean
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he's a superstar. But when you know, when Marcus Morris,
you know, grabs Luca don Chick and kind of throws
him around, rag dolls him a little bit, and they
get into it and guys start pushing and shoving. That's
not the time when a guy who's on the floor
should be called for a technical foul. Look, we all
have to adjust that. Everything we learned in the regular
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season kind of goes out the window for the postseason.
Case in point, the Raptors when the Nets, the Raptors
are much better than the Nets in the regular season.
You play more guys, there's not the same level of defense,
the officiating, everything is a little different, and what's real
is really what happened yesterday. But the same has to
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go for the officials. I'm not saying you don't officiate.
I'm not saying you don't call fouls. I'm not saying
you change anything about who you are or what you're
trying to do. What I am saying, and this is
really important, is we're really going to kick a guy
out over a little shove. What are we doing here?
He wasn't an instigator, he wasn't a reactor. He was
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simply protecting his teammates. And it comes to a little
push and shove and what what this is basketball? It's
like and there's a there's a definite line there, and
we'll talk about unwritten rules and things for Nano Tattoos Jr.
Hitting a grand slam, bases loaded three oh count and
HiT's HiT's a grand slam, and you know, the Rangers
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are up in arms, and the question becomes the unwritten
rule there versus unwritten rule in basketball, and the unwritten
ruling basketball as you come and you have your teammates
back and as long as you don't throw a punch,
for the most part, you're fine. The unwritten rule basketball
is if it whatever the easiest off ramp to not
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punish the best players. That's what we do because we
came to see them play. And the idea is, you know,
unless they're just dying and begging for a technical, yelling
at you that you're an mfer in your face, or
swinging and punching guy everything else, you kind of look
a little bit the other way. That's that just the
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way it works. You kind of look a little bit
the other way. And last night those officials were unwilling
to do so, and frankly, it did not give us
a great sense a great sense for you know, how
much better are the Clippers than the Mavericks. Think about that.
That's a series changing decision by an official that there
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is in no world is that worthy of an injection?
And I know what you're saying, Well, it's a set
in technical foul like your official. You have to know
how many technical fouls? How you already had one? It's
Prozinga's it's it's a physical game. It's the Clippers who
are clearly antagonizers even though they're the favorites. You almost
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gotta bite your lip. So, yeah, Prozingas, I guess he's
got to know better, although he's never been in the
plasts before. And yeah, his teammates, I guess gotta grab
him instead of him protecting his teammates and all of
that stuff sounds great. He didn't throw a punch. It's
a little soft pushing, a little little fake tough guy stuff.
They don't even square off at all. So so I
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ask you, what's really going on and what are we doing?
The purpose of these rules, the purpose of the second
technical foul, and you get ejected. The purpose of those things,
quite frankly, is to keep the peace, which by the way,
was what Perzingis was trying to do. Yesterday when he
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felt like Luca don Chick, who was dominating the game,
was getting was trying to get ragged all by Marcus Morris.
And that's what the Clippers do, and the Clippers win
two times over, they win the game. Then they won
because the ejection and now you end up kind of declining.
Perzingis to where he can never react to anything that
Marcus Morris or Patrick Beverly do, even though we all
know it gets under people's skin. All right, Coming up next, Um, well,
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we got interesting stuff to get to. That's interesting. I
like that story. Who liked the story a lot? Um.
Dusty Devoichick is gonna join us in uh ten minutes.
We'll get his thoughts on Oklahoma their new positive tests,
and whether or not he thinks the Big twelve does
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in fact play football. Um. But coming up next, Lebron
James said this could be his tough This will be
his toughest title run. What Lebron's really saying? Be sure
to catch the live edition of The Doug gott Leap
Show weekdays at three p m. Easter noon Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the i Heart Radio a app
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Doug Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Radio So tonight nine o'clock Eastern,
six o'clock Pacific, Trailblazers take on the Lakers and it
begins Lebron's first playoff experiences with the l A Lakers.
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Here's Lebron James on the difficulty this time around. This
is the championship ron for me personally from a circumstances
of just being in here, I was just locking in.
I've been locked in for the last couple of days
once on new Portland was was our opponent. And that's
the very the only thing I've you know, pretty much
been thinking about and I prepare is the same way.
Just some other things change, you know, as if he
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were different previous seasons, but as far as me being
locked in, that other change. Okay, So like let's let's
truly examine this. Is this the hardest playoff run he's
ever been on, you know, because of age. I'll give
him that. He said it's because they're in quarantine in
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the bubble, which I understand. It knocks him out of
his routine. On the other hand, it does the same
to everybody else, right, Like you're not the only one
in the bubble, and so how it affects you it
affects different people differently. Um, but I look at this
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thing and I'm I swear to myself, I'm like, wait,
this couldn't be more difficult than the year that they
lost to the Calves. On the other hand, that playoff
run wasn't difficult to start. Then they lost Kevin Love
against the Celtics, and then Kyarie went down Game one
of the NBA Finals. His last year with the Cleveland Cavaliers,
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they were like the four seed that seemed like a
difficult year. He had had trade away Kyrie Irving and
they just did not have nearly the number of dudes
and he had to carry the entire team like that one.
So what you have to do is you have to
parse what Lebron says and have some reality to it.
Do I think this is a trying time that when
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you're in a bubble and it completely throws out your
rhythm and you go and don't get to sleep in
your own bed. And sure, but he kind of has
his own wing of the hotel. So I don't think
that he's as adversely affected as some people. Maybe. Okay,
so if we take let's take him, what about not
having Avery Bradley Okay, not having played for this coach
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in the playoffs before, and the coach is not gotten
to an NBA Finals four, although he's gotten an Eastern
Conference Finals before, So there are a lot of things.
Mostly you don't have anybody outside of jr Um. There's like,
you know, basically two guys are teammates that have been
through playoff battles with him in the past two and
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they were both signed only for the bubble. So I'd
actually kind of agree with Lebron, but not for the
reasons that he presented it as such, Like if he
wants to say it's as tough as shot of getting
into the title, I'll agree with him. Like, I know
there's no Warriors because they're all banged up. I know
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that other teams like the Rockets are hurt, and the
Clippers aren't still yet aren't hitting on NL cylinders, and
the West is kind of in rebuilt mode a little
bit more reputation than ever I realized that. And and
as much as the Lakers don't have home court advantage,
neither does through the Portland Trailblazers. You know, when they
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when they play, they have the home jersey Son or
Utah Jazz, the Denver Nuggets, are the Houston Rockets or whatever.
So I agree this might be his most difficult run
this late in his career. Most of these guys have
never played in the playoffs. None of them, you know,
a bunch of them haven't played in the playoffs together,
except for like two dudes. He had a coach you
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never played for in the playoffs. You know, Lebron doesn't
appear to be fully healthy. You know, he's older than
he used to you know, older obviously, But I think
the reasons that it's more difficult are. You know, he's
without his starting point guard. He does not feel like
he's the same dude. They don't have great shooting, and
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it does feel like you know, other teams are like
the Portland Triple As they play even though I'm played defense,
they do have a shooters shot at winning, at winning
a game and winning a series. I mean, so much
of the NBA has been to become about the skill
of shooting, and Portland's clearly is more skilled shooting the
basketball from a bunch of different positions. For other parts
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of the matchup, I don't like it at all for Portland's,
but the shooting I love and if you've ever been
you've never been on a court where a team might
not be as good, but they just shoot the eyes
out of it. That can be really hard to defend.
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Doug Otlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. Um let me, um,
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this is this is challenging for me. Buy or this
is like going back to my old when I first
started a national radio My first h three years have
spen doing a show called Game Night over the other place,
and we literally watched the games and then we'd have
people on after the games after the games, so you
had to be able to do the show and watch
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what was happening and react to it. It was easier
when there are two guys, right, Chuck Wilson with me,
and Chuck would be talking and I'll be watching a
game and taking notes. Now I'm trying to talk to
you and watch Orlando has eleven point lead against Maluk.
It is you know, we do have a great job
at our job is uh, you know, a job that
a lot of people dream of. But you're right when
you're trying to do your job, the same thing that
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you think. It's a great thing, all the games on
while I'm at work, but you're trying to do five
other different things. That makes it a little a little
bit more difficult. Yeah. Absolutely. By the way, I used
to join you on the game nights at the other
place when I worked for when I worked in Madison,
and I have to call it a stringer, A stringer, yeah,
I have to you know, when Wisconsin, let's go, Let's
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go to Madison and check in with Dan Buyer. Dan,
what do you got going on that Bucks Bucks Orlando game? Well, Doug,
Devin Harris has seventeen points four Wisconsin, but that's matched
by Illinois Dee Brown and right now the top rank
fighting a line, I lead Wisconsin thirty eight to thirty
four at a half for game night. I'm Dan Buyer
back to you, Doug, Thanks so much. Dana's Dan Bayer
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and Wisconsin is a great job. Good young broadcaster's got
a chance to be something special. That's awesome. That's awesome,
that is amazing. Oh, the all the game night we had,
the game we had the game night guarantee. Uh uh um.
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Dustiny of Vorchik joins us from w w LS in
Oklahoma City. Of course, he also calls games college football
games for ESPN as a college football analyst. He was
a stud in college and a stud in the pros,
most nobably with Chicago Bears. He joins us on the
Doug Goli Show on Fox Sports Radio. Uh, Dusty, let
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me ask your confidence level as of today that the
Big twelve season ends up just starting when they wanted
to start. Uh, Cent, Doug, I mean I really think that.
I mean we're gonna find over the next couple of weeks.
I mean, I don't think videos like we saw from
Stillwater are encouraging for burns, hardness and other presidents. Um.
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You know, nine positive tests at Oklahoma, though they continued
football activities, Those aren't the positive things you want to
see even here in Big twelve country. They're tulso not
in the Big Twelve. It's also shutdown, shutdown football activities
yesterday after eight players test positive sixteen quarantine. But I
still think, I the feeling I get the people I
talked to, They're gonna continue to move forward. I think
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the biggest thing is gonna be you know, what are
the numbers we see come from these campuses over the
next two weeks. I do think presidents are going to
be very attentive to what those numbers are, and I
would say even more particular the actual numbers within the
football team once we get a couple of weeks under
our belt. But all that being said, again, I talked
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to people on a daily basis. The continued feeling I
get is they're gonna push and they expect to at
least start this season as you as you mentioned when
we started Dustin Vorchik joining us son the Doug Gotlip
Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, I mean, okay,
so if let's go back, if you were playing at
OU right now, would you play, would you opt out?
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Would you play? I would definitely play, Um, no question.
I would play both my children my eight year olds
in three sports right now, my ten year olds in
two sports. We've been having sports since May. Um. I
have allowed my son to go to camp and Canada
cook for a week back in June. So yeah, I mean, look,
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we take our precautions. We all wear match to the family,
we go out. Uh, you know, we try to do
all the things that people do, but we continue to
live our lives. Uh. And I think. You know, obviously
I would be talking to my parents, but I would
want to play football. Um, and I would definitely play football.
And I really believe this in my core, especially the
more information we have coming out. I want you to
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find me, Doug, a safer place on college campus. I
want you to find me a safer place for these
eighteen to twenty two year old kids than right there
within their football facilities. And I'm talking about primarily Power
five to Vision one football that's got the resources, that
has the money, that has the doctors, that as the trainers. Oh,
by the way, there's also added in center for these
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players to be smart to stay away from parties. Now,
you and I both know college kids, they're gonna do
what they do, but at least having a football season
incentivizes you to put yourself and as few harmful situations
or potentially contracting the virus type situations as possible. So
again like, yeah, college campus is not surprised we're seeing
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spike car all over the place. But I really do
believe that the protocols put in place, the amount of
testing that's put in place, if you do test positive,
the test for for for hard issues. This myocard diedus,
the e k GS, all the things that have been
put in place, I would argue those college football players,
those college athletes that have those resources, that's the safest
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place they could possibly be. So I say that as
an adult, I would hope that I would have the
same thought process as an eighteen to twenty two year
old young man as well. I think it's actually a
good and as you know, you're friends, like you know,
there's I think what what you are discussing is one
of the things that is often lost in the discussion
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about what players what more players need to get. I
think the college football does a terrible job of celebrating
all the things that players get. And this is the
perfect example, perfect example. You know you'll get you get
guys on social media like make more money, put it
into some locker room whatever, like yeah, because that is
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this is how you protect and give great resource to
the players, right, that's what you do that you're giving them.
It's just like now they have access to the best
medical treatment, they have access to everything while they're student athlete,
things that they never would have had access to without
college sports. And there's plenty of other students that don't
have access to it. I actually I know it's an
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aside from from the argument you're making. Uh Dusty DeVore
check our guest on the Dug Gotlieb Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Uh okay, So let me ask you a
question real quick. Doesn't ask your question because everybody is
so worried. Everybody's so worried and so fixated on college
football players. I mean, what are the discussions being had
about allowing all these college kids with not many protocols
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put in place, not testing put in place, to go
on college camp and all over the country are people why?
Why is it that everybody is so high per sensitive
and more worried about the college athlete more so than
the college student. I'm having a hard time wrapping my
head around that we don't talk about these students the
same way we talk about these athletes. Why is that? Um,
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I don't know, I don't know. I think it's because
they would be representing the cool and by representing the school.
You you know, the feeling is if somebody gets sick
and dies or god forbid the myocard that this thing
happens and they dropped, you know, the kid drops dead.
Then all of a sudden, this massive lawsuit, and you
put football. You made football more important than somebody's health.
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I think it's it's a perception thing and liability thing
more than anything. But couldn't that same student who's back,
or who goes there and they're in a dormitory or
you know, they contract the virus they're on campus. I mean,
aren't they at the same risk, I would argue, more
risk than an athletes with resources at their disposal. Um, yeah, listen, Dusty,
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you and I agree. I'm having a hard time trying
to find an argument with anything you're saying. You and
I can, we can yell and screaming each other about
other stuff I have, I got, I got nothing for you,
you know. But but we live in a world and
where there are enough doctors and scientists are like, this
is a bad idea that we're like, Okay, well do
I I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I
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feel like we were almost better when we were ignorant
when we were kids. Right when we were kids, you
turn on the TV and whenever one's on the news,
you're like, all right, well that's the news. Now it
all depends on what channel you watch, how the news
is portrayed like why is that possible. Isn't the news
the same news, Like no, no, no. If you watch Fox,
they tell you this guy is to blame. You watch MSNBC,
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you tell them this this guy is to blame, and
no one knows what the real truth is, Like that's
that's the problem. And now we have and it is
the perfect embodiment of two thousand twenty. Really that we
have half of the big teams in college football playing
and half of them not playing. It makes no like,
figure we can't figure that. No, as a country, this
is the snapshot of our country that half of the
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teams are not playing, and a good portion of those
teams want to play, whereas there are teams that are playing.
And there's some people like I'm not sure this is
a good idea, like that's that's America two thousand twenty.
I've ever seen it. There's no I give one more.
Let's let's go down, let's continue down this path of
things not making sense. Wisconsin. Very Albareth said in the
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last few days, did you see what very Alberast says?
And I love this. They're gonna continue to keep their
student athletes or football players on campus but they continue
to keep their scholarship. They're gonna go in class or
have virtual class. Do you see what else they're gonna do?
Does They're gonna have this twenty hour week rule, that's right, Okay,
have workouts. We're gonna have O. T. A is gonna
have walked throughs. Got all that without playing games? How
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does that make sense? Does so you can go through
all the preparation, all the things I can tell What
can can I tell you? What? It makes sense? We'll
just liability, I'm sure is what you're gonna say. No, no, no, no,
it makes sense to me because look, they know that
kids people need kidney structure. Yeah, they need structure. Absolutely,
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they just need structure. And that's that's what he's doing.
They're giving his team, give him structure. You don't want
the nineteen kid, Like, hey, dude, we'll see you next.
We'll see in the winter to see if you're still
in shape. Like, nah, let's use this time to be
as productive as po. I think it's great. I want
to praise Wisconsin the other schools that do that because
I agree with you. But my question would just be
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what's the difference. What's the difference, Because that's essentially you're
you're playing well, it's the it's the it's the putting
pads on and no, you're also you're bringing in you're
bringing in another team and their germs and they're you know,
they're the people they've been around. And then in addition
to which, you know, you gotta have support staff. If
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you're gonna do a game, you know, where do guys sleep,
how do they stay? How do you keep them? You know,
you're not gonna fly a team in the day of
the game to play or busting demon You could, um
back when the conferences were as they should be, where
they're close to each other, you could, but that's not
the way. You know, major college college's role. So I
I just there's a lot of other variables I think
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that come into place when you play games. Would be
what would be the answer? Dusty Dvorchik join us A
college football analysts for ESPN. Of course you hear on
WWLS the Sports Animal. Um, okay, so if we only
have those three conferences to decide a champion, Um, how
good Oklahoma going to be this year? I mean they're
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gonna have a chance to be good offensively obviously, Spencer Rattler.
He can really throw it. Uh, they just got a
lot of inexperience. I'm sure you saw the running back
Kennedy Brooks. He opted out back to back thousand yards seasons.
Now they've got as talented or more talented backs, but
they're unproven um and that kind of similar and wide receiver.
I mean, Charleston rambo is really the only guy of note.
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Is played a lot of football, made a lot of
plays that they have talent, absolutely, but it's unproven talent.
And I think the offensive line is gonna be substantially
better than where it was a year ago. Creed Humphreys
are center, probably the best, one of the better interior
offensive lineman and all of college football. And defensively, like
I really like Alex French. I loved in Washington State.
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I thought it was the right higher when Lincoln made
the hire. They made improvements last year. Uh, losing Kenneth
Murray and Neville Gallum were two guys who win the
top three rounds that won't be easy to replace. But
I'm just gonna tell you, Doug, even though it's only
the one recruiting class with with this staff, there is
a difference in the kind of player they're bringing on campus,
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So I think that, uh, you know, the future outlook
is strong. And I would say just being in this
system a second year, I know when they first took
the field, especially now that campus started, they feel that
they are light years ahead of where they were just
a season ago. So like, I think you're all the
mater is gonna be really good. I think Oklahoma State
has got a chance to win the Big Twelve this year.
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Spencer Sanders, I thought he turned a corner last year
with the turnover issues that he had to teach you
game in the game that I was on the call for,
and then he gets hurt the next week, so he
never got to really see where he was headed. But
Tyland Wallace Shuba Hubbard, those are two of the most dynamic,
explosive players in the country. Stats who Spencer Sanders is
gonna be able to distribute the ball to. They got
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ten starters coming back. On defense, That defense was just okay,
But I like especially I like the safeties and I
like the linebackers at Oklahoma State and then Texas for
me eas the other team, Like that's my top three
in the Big Twelve. And Sam Ellinger and the veteran
presence he brings, the amount of football that he's played.
I think that, especially early on in the season, that's
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gonna pay real dividends. Teams that have depth, teams that
have better and experience at the premier position. That's things
that I'm looking for as I'm heading to the season.
And Oklahoma's gonna be good, I Olahona State is gonna
be gonna make Texas. All three of those teams I
think will be buying for spot in Arlington when all
said done, if this whole thing goes off, I know
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that L s U. You know they do. They've They've
had talent for years and last year they finally had
an offense and finally had a uh finally had a
quarterback to execu that offense. The quarterback's gone the you know,
uh Brady, who's who's the was the genius behind the offenses.
Now in the NFL, you lost a ton of on
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a skill position talent um. Where is L s U
in the mix in the SEC? I think the third
in their division? Uh Coacho is a good coach. They've
got talent there. There's big time players, but clearly Doug,
I mean they they have ten players draft in the
first three rounds. Think a seven team when all of
a sudden done. That's just absurd. It's crazy. It's also
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why they were, without question, the best team in college
football last year. But I don't think they take some
massive step back. They've recruited too well. I think I
think coach O, you know, losing Brady is gonna be big,
But you gotta remember Stevensminger. He was the actual one
call in the plays. And I've talked to people that
say it was Brady on third down, crucial situation. He's
the one at the end of the day that was
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coming up with the play. But Stevensminger has been there
a while, he learned some of that offense from Joe Brady.
I think there will be a certain level of carry over.
I don't think you can expect the same. Uh So,
I think l s U they do take a step back,
but I don't think it's a you know, it's not
a big step. I look at Alabama's the best team
in that division. I like Tech today and m Alan
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You're three A Jimbo Fisher. I've always pointed to this
as the year that I thought they could really make
some noise, and then after that, I think l's use
that next team that I have probably competing with with
Auburn and Goo Nicks is a third fourth spot in
the SEC West. Awesome stuff, Dusty, listen. Let's catch up
on your show at some point in near future. We
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ranked the three most impressive players in last night's clips
MAVs Game one. I'll go Paul George three, uh Kawhi
Leonard two and Luca don check Luca was the story
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the from from the start to start to finish, and
then the Porzingis thing took over. But I do think
that it's important. You get a lot of people going like, well,
everybody missed on Luca because he didn't have a great
burst and you thought he wouldn't be able to guard anybody,
which is true, he can't guard anybody, doesn't have a
great burst. The part that I think one basketball has
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evolved some too. He's really big and strong and knows
how to use that strength. You know. It's like it's
not like he's a five eleven guard. He's six ft
seven with it, you know. So I just I think
some people have a weird misconception about exactly why a
couple of people passed on him. Doug our teammate here
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odd couple, making some waves in San Antonio and saying
that maybe Gregg Popovich isn't as great of a coach
is maybe people think he is. Doug rank your top
three coaches in NBA history and be a history. Yes.
Oh well, here's what I'm not gonna do. I'm not
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gonna go pre me, you know, because then I like,
I don't, I don't know. Um, I will go three.
I'll go uh got Riley. Tryna think if I do
Riley or or Pop, I would probably do Pop three?
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Uh um pop yeah, Pop three? And then who would
be too Pat Phil Jackson one, And then I'm trying
to thank who else I'm and then Riley to Rudy
t you know, yeah, I'll go Pat, I'll go uh,
Now I go Chuck Daily. Oh, Chuck Dailey is a
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great coach. I'm gonna go Pat Riley three, Greg pop
Vitch to Phil Jackson one and the Pop. The reason
the Pop is is their style every time they won
a championship was different. Granted they never went back to
back years, but every year like he had it wasn't.
I think Phil is a great coach, but he thought
the triangle was the way, and it would be like
if you go, like, Okay, we're gonna triangle one year
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and then highball screen the next year. That's basically what
san Antonio's done. Alright, Doug, some news from Chargers camp.
Melvin Ingram is in camp. He has reported he's on
the practice field, but he's not practicing. Reports say he
wants a new contract. So who are the three most
important chargers entering the upcoming season? Ranked them for me?
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You know, it's interesting they got that deal done kind
of quietly and early. I think it was three years ago,
right before camp, and he's been outstanding ever since. Now
it's like, now I gotta do it again. Three most
important chargers, uh, derway, let's see here. I would say
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Joey Bosa three, Derwin James two and the most this
is important charger. I don't actually think this is going
to be close. I think the most important charger is
justin Herbert, because if he can play, then they can
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pay all these guys all this money and they'll be fine,
all right. Rank the three most ridiculous unwritten rules in baseball? Oh, well,
I didn't know that you weren't supposed to swing away
three and o bases loaded when you're up that many runs,
So that would be my number one. I literally didn't know. Um.
I think the how you're supposed to the pace by
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which you run when you called cadillacing, Like who who
establishes what the proper paces for a home run trot?
I've never hit a home run I would probably like
to admire it something like, damn, I just hit the
ball a long way. So I think that's number three. Um,
I don't think it's ridiculous to not steal when you're
up steel basis, when you're up seven, Um, bunting to
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break up a no hitter. That's bunting to break up
a no hitter. I think, yeah, that there's one. All right? Five? Yeah,
thats um. I see, I've always known about the three
oh pitch and I haven't had a big you know deal.
I would say the bunting. Um, the stealing doesn't make
a lot of sense, so stealing when you're up by
uh whatever. Um, So I would have those two. And uh,
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you know the closer in a tie game on the
road is all is one where you're thinking, okay, you
want to save him for extra innings if you uh if,
if you you know, get that far, if you were
able to Craig Craig Kimberle when he was at the
Braves Dodgers. Yeah, so I think that would probably be
number three. Al Right, got finally ranked the three best
(36:15):
platforms to jump in the water from because I jumped off. Yes,
you got you know, yachts diving board. You've got a
bunch of a dock on a lake. Would like I
would say, I would say Doc is three, a cliff
is too in an old school diving board is one.
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This is game time on the duck. Got lame show. Yeah,
our friends have a boat and they invited us out
to have dinner on the boat last night. So we did.
And then they're like, you know, we just jumped when
we got hot. We just it was hot still, and
like when we hot, we just jump off. I'm like,
all right, I'll do that, like you will. Yeah, why not?
Why not
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Welcome in. Doug Gotlip Show rolls on keeping her eye
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That was the voice of my son Hayes. He's got
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We teach him to gamble young and gamble big, go bigger,
go home early. Here on the Doug Gotlip Show on
Fox Sports Radio. A lot to get to. Uh. We
haven't just an outstanding show for you with some outstanding guests.
I'll give you my thoughts on something I saw last
night in the NBA that there needs to be an adjustment.
(01:12):
This needs to be an adjustment in a moment um.
Let me share with you a couple of things coming
up here on the show, as we're gonna get into
continue with our discussion about college football with the players
clearly wanting to play that's because they've let it be
known in the Big Ten. We also Adam Kaplan's gonna
join us. NFL insider Dusty Dvorcei is gonna join us.
(01:35):
Former college football All American at Oklahoma course played UH
for a decade in the National Football League. He'll join
us and UH. We'll also catch up with Butch Davis,
who of course is a longtime head coach back now
coaching in college and get his thoughts on this season.
Will will the SEC, A, C C and Big twelve
really be able to pull it off? So a bunch
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of things to get to. Let's let's let's start with
last night. So the Mavericks lost in their opening game
of the playoffs, and by now, you know, like, look,
you get to this time of day, I'm pretty reasonable,
pretty well aware that. Okay, yeah, you you know that score.
You probably know a little bit of the story that
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led to that score. We're keeping an eye on the
Magic who have a ten point lead over the number
one seed Bucks. Yes, it does, it does feel a
little bit like deja vu, I know to Bucks fans
or Mike Budenholzer fans, a guy who's had such success
in the regular season in the regular season, but really
a positive of success in the postseason. The Nuggets beat
the Jazz yesterday and the and the big story was
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donov Mitchell had fifty seven and lost. Jamal Murray was spectacular,
especially in over time. Raptors thumped the Nets. Celtics beat
the Sixers. Gordon Hayward sprained his ankle, he's out four
weeks or supposedly four weeks, and the Clippers came from behind,
trailing at the half. They came from behind and they
end up winning by eight. A ends the Dallas Mavericks.
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Now there's a lot of different takeaways, like look at
Luca don Check who he did have eleven turnovers, but
he did have forty two point nine assists, seven rebounds,
eleven turnovers the Yikes, but he handles the ball so much,
does everything for that team, you understand it. Kauai looked
closer to old Kauai. Leonard twenty nine, Paul George. They
get some bench steps and bench scoring. Sweet Lou Williams
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has four teen and they win. But the the story
to me of the game was the ejection of christophs
Prozingis now Persingas, who only played twenty minutes because the ejection,
and because you know, look, he he was a dynamic
prospect when he was with the Knicks. Now he's a
really good secondary weapon. Lucas the guy Persingis can shoot threes.
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He's seven for three. Uh. One would think he could
block shots a little better than he does. But coming
off of missing an entire season with the knee injury,
forcing a trade to dalla Us, I would say he's
been a little bit disappointing, a little bit up and down.
But the bigger story was he was ejected for two
technical fouls last night. And I've heard from a lot
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of people, well, he's got to know better, he's got
to know better. Well, okay, but so do the officials.
Like look, in the NBA, it all generally has worked.
Do you want the right calls to be made at
the right time, Sure, but you do sort of want
a little bit of star treatment. And that doesn't mean
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he's a superstar. But when you know, when Marcus Morris,
you know, grabs Luca don Chick and kind of throws
him around, rag dolls him a little bit, and they
get into it and guys start pushing and shoving. That's
not the time when a guy who's on the floor
should be called for a technical foul. Look, we all
have to adjust that. Everything we learned in the regular
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season kind of goes out the window for the postseason.
Case in point, the Raptors when the Nets, the Raptors
are much better than the Nets in the regular season.
You play more guys, there's not the same level of defense,
the officiating, everything is a little different, and what's real
is really what happened yesterday. But the same has to
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go for the officials. I'm not saying you don't officiate.
I'm not saying you don't call fouls. I'm not saying
you change anything about who you are or what you're
trying to do. What I am saying, and this is
really important, is we're really going to kick a guy
out over a little shove. What are we doing here?
He wasn't an instigator, he wasn't a reactor. He was
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simply protecting his teammates. And it comes to a little
push and shove and what what this is basketball? It's
like and there's a there's a definite line there, and
we'll talk about unwritten rules and things for Nano Tattoos Jr.
Hitting a grand slam, bases loaded three oh count and
HiT's HiT's a grand slam, and you know, the Rangers
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are up in arms, and the question becomes the unwritten
rule there versus unwritten rule in basketball, and the unwritten
ruling basketball as you come and you have your teammates
back and as long as you don't throw a punch,
for the most part, you're fine. The unwritten rule basketball
is if it whatever the easiest off ramp to not
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punish the best players. That's what we do because we
came to see them play. And the idea is, you know,
unless they're just dying and begging for a technical, yelling
at you that you're an mfer in your face, or
swinging and punching guy everything else, you kind of look
a little bit the other way. That's that just the
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way it works. You kind of look a little bit
the other way. And last night those officials were unwilling
to do so, and frankly, it did not give us
a great sense a great sense for you know, how
much better are the Clippers than the Mavericks. Think about that.
That's a series changing decision by an official that there
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is in no world is that worthy of an injection?
And I know what you're saying, Well, it's a set
in technical foul like your official. You have to know
how many technical fouls? How you already had one? It's
Prozinga's it's it's a physical game. It's the Clippers who
are clearly antagonizers even though they're the favorites. You almost
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gotta bite your lip. So, yeah, Prozingas, I guess he's
got to know better, although he's never been in the
plasts before. And yeah, his teammates, I guess gotta grab
him instead of him protecting his teammates and all of
that stuff sounds great. He didn't throw a punch. It's
a little soft pushing, a little little fake tough guy stuff.
They don't even square off at all. So so I
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ask you, what's really going on and what are we doing?
The purpose of these rules, the purpose of the second
technical foul, and you get ejected. The purpose of those things,
quite frankly, is to keep the peace, which by the way,
was what Perzingis was trying to do. Yesterday when he
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felt like Luca don Chick, who was dominating the game,
was getting was trying to get ragged all by Marcus Morris.
And that's what the Clippers do, and the Clippers win
two times over, they win the game. Then they won
because the ejection and now you end up kind of declining.
Perzingis to where he can never react to anything that
Marcus Morris or Patrick Beverly do, even though we all
know it gets under people's skin. All right, Coming up next, Um, well,
(08:37):
we got interesting stuff to get to. That's interesting. I
like that story. Who liked the story a lot? Um.
Dusty Devoichick is gonna join us in uh ten minutes.
We'll get his thoughts on Oklahoma their new positive tests,
and whether or not he thinks the Big twelve does
(08:58):
in fact play football. Um. But coming up next, Lebron
James said this could be his tough This will be
his toughest title run. What Lebron's really saying? Be sure
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Doug Gotlip Show, Fox Sports Radio So tonight nine o'clock Eastern,
six o'clock Pacific, Trailblazers take on the Lakers and it
begins Lebron's first playoff experiences with the l A Lakers.
(09:40):
Here's Lebron James on the difficulty this time around. This
is the championship ron for me personally from a circumstances
of just being in here, I was just locking in.
I've been locked in for the last couple of days
once on new Portland was was our opponent. And that's
the very the only thing I've you know, pretty much
been thinking about and I prepare is the same way.
Just some other things change, you know, as if he
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were different previous seasons, but as far as me being
locked in, that other change. Okay, So like let's let's
truly examine this. Is this the hardest playoff run he's
ever been on, you know, because of age. I'll give
him that. He said it's because they're in quarantine in
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the bubble, which I understand. It knocks him out of
his routine. On the other hand, it does the same
to everybody else, right, Like you're not the only one
in the bubble, and so how it affects you it
affects different people differently. Um, but I look at this
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thing and I'm I swear to myself, I'm like, wait,
this couldn't be more difficult than the year that they
lost to the Calves. On the other hand, that playoff
run wasn't difficult to start. Then they lost Kevin Love
against the Celtics, and then Kyarie went down Game one
of the NBA Finals. His last year with the Cleveland Cavaliers,
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they were like the four seed that seemed like a
difficult year. He had had trade away Kyrie Irving and
they just did not have nearly the number of dudes
and he had to carry the entire team like that one.
So what you have to do is you have to
parse what Lebron says and have some reality to it.
Do I think this is a trying time that when
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you're in a bubble and it completely throws out your
rhythm and you go and don't get to sleep in
your own bed. And sure, but he kind of has
his own wing of the hotel. So I don't think
that he's as adversely affected as some people. Maybe. Okay,
so if we take let's take him, what about not
having Avery Bradley Okay, not having played for this coach
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in the playoffs before, and the coach is not gotten
to an NBA Finals four, although he's gotten an Eastern
Conference Finals before, So there are a lot of things.
Mostly you don't have anybody outside of jr Um. There's like,
you know, basically two guys are teammates that have been
through playoff battles with him in the past two and
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they were both signed only for the bubble. So I'd
actually kind of agree with Lebron, but not for the
reasons that he presented it as such, Like if he
wants to say it's as tough as shot of getting
into the title, I'll agree with him. Like, I know
there's no Warriors because they're all banged up. I know
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that other teams like the Rockets are hurt, and the
Clippers aren't still yet aren't hitting on NL cylinders, and
the West is kind of in rebuilt mode a little
bit more reputation than ever I realized that. And and
as much as the Lakers don't have home court advantage,
neither does through the Portland Trailblazers. You know, when they
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when they play, they have the home jersey Son or
Utah Jazz, the Denver Nuggets, are the Houston Rockets or whatever.
So I agree this might be his most difficult run
this late in his career. Most of these guys have
never played in the playoffs. None of them, you know,
a bunch of them haven't played in the playoffs together,
except for like two dudes. He had a coach you
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never played for in the playoffs. You know, Lebron doesn't
appear to be fully healthy. You know, he's older than
he used to you know, older obviously, But I think
the reasons that it's more difficult are. You know, he's
without his starting point guard. He does not feel like
he's the same dude. They don't have great shooting, and
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it does feel like you know, other teams are like
the Portland Triple As they play even though I'm played defense,
they do have a shooters shot at winning, at winning
a game and winning a series. I mean, so much
of the NBA has been to become about the skill
of shooting, and Portland's clearly is more skilled shooting the
basketball from a bunch of different positions. For other parts
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of the matchup, I don't like it at all for Portland's,
but the shooting I love and if you've ever been
you've never been on a court where a team might
not be as good, but they just shoot the eyes
out of it. That can be really hard to defend.
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Doug Otlip Show, Fox Sports Radio. Um let me, um,
(14:38):
this is this is challenging for me. Buy or this
is like going back to my old when I first
started a national radio My first h three years have
spen doing a show called Game Night over the other place,
and we literally watched the games and then we'd have
people on after the games after the games, so you
had to be able to do the show and watch
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what was happening and react to it. It was easier
when there are two guys, right, Chuck Wilson with me,
and Chuck would be talking and I'll be watching a
game and taking notes. Now I'm trying to talk to
you and watch Orlando has eleven point lead against Maluk.
It is you know, we do have a great job
at our job is uh, you know, a job that
a lot of people dream of. But you're right when
you're trying to do your job, the same thing that
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you think. It's a great thing, all the games on
while I'm at work, but you're trying to do five
other different things. That makes it a little a little
bit more difficult. Yeah. Absolutely. By the way, I used
to join you on the game nights at the other
place when I worked for when I worked in Madison,
and I have to call it a stringer, A stringer, yeah,
I have to you know, when Wisconsin, let's go, Let's
(15:41):
go to Madison and check in with Dan Buyer. Dan,
what do you got going on that Bucks Bucks Orlando game? Well, Doug,
Devin Harris has seventeen points four Wisconsin, but that's matched
by Illinois Dee Brown and right now the top rank
fighting a line, I lead Wisconsin thirty eight to thirty
four at a half for game night. I'm Dan Buyer
back to you, Doug, Thanks so much. Dana's Dan Bayer
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and Wisconsin is a great job. Good young broadcaster's got
a chance to be something special. That's awesome. That's awesome,
that is amazing. Oh, the all the game night we had,
the game we had the game night guarantee. Uh uh um.
(16:22):
Dustiny of Vorchik joins us from w w LS in
Oklahoma City. Of course, he also calls games college football
games for ESPN as a college football analyst. He was
a stud in college and a stud in the pros,
most nobably with Chicago Bears. He joins us on the
Doug Goli Show on Fox Sports Radio. Uh, Dusty, let
(16:43):
me ask your confidence level as of today that the
Big twelve season ends up just starting when they wanted
to start. Uh, Cent, Doug, I mean I really think that.
I mean we're gonna find over the next couple of weeks.
I mean, I don't think videos like we saw from
Stillwater are encouraging for burns, hardness and other presidents. Um.
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You know, nine positive tests at Oklahoma, though they continued
football activities, Those aren't the positive things you want to
see even here in Big twelve country. They're tulso not
in the Big Twelve. It's also shutdown, shutdown football activities
yesterday after eight players test positive sixteen quarantine. But I
still think, I the feeling I get the people I
talked to, They're gonna continue to move forward. I think
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the biggest thing is gonna be you know, what are
the numbers we see come from these campuses over the
next two weeks. I do think presidents are going to
be very attentive to what those numbers are, and I
would say even more particular the actual numbers within the
football team once we get a couple of weeks under
our belt. But all that being said, again, I talked
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to people on a daily basis. The continued feeling I
get is they're gonna push and they expect to at
least start this season as you as you mentioned when
we started Dustin Vorchik joining us son the Doug Gotlip
Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, I mean, okay,
so if let's go back, if you were playing at
OU right now, would you play, would you opt out?
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Would you play? I would definitely play, Um, no question.
I would play both my children my eight year olds
in three sports right now, my ten year olds in
two sports. We've been having sports since May. Um. I
have allowed my son to go to camp and Canada
cook for a week back in June. So yeah, I mean, look,
(18:35):
we take our precautions. We all wear match to the family,
we go out. Uh, you know, we try to do
all the things that people do, but we continue to
live our lives. Uh. And I think. You know, obviously
I would be talking to my parents, but I would
want to play football. Um, and I would definitely play football.
And I really believe this in my core, especially the
more information we have coming out. I want you to
(18:57):
find me, Doug, a safer place on college campus. I
want you to find me a safer place for these
eighteen to twenty two year old kids than right there
within their football facilities. And I'm talking about primarily Power
five to Vision one football that's got the resources, that
has the money, that has the doctors, that as the trainers. Oh,
by the way, there's also added in center for these
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players to be smart to stay away from parties. Now,
you and I both know college kids, they're gonna do
what they do, but at least having a football season
incentivizes you to put yourself and as few harmful situations
or potentially contracting the virus type situations as possible. So
again like, yeah, college campus is not surprised we're seeing
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spike car all over the place. But I really do
believe that the protocols put in place, the amount of
testing that's put in place, if you do test positive,
the test for for for hard issues. This myocard diedus,
the e k GS, all the things that have been
put in place, I would argue those college football players,
those college athletes that have those resources, that's the safest
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place they could possibly be. So I say that as
an adult, I would hope that I would have the
same thought process as an eighteen to twenty two year
old young man as well. I think it's actually a
good and as you know, you're friends, like you know,
there's I think what what you are discussing is one
of the things that is often lost in the discussion
(20:26):
about what players what more players need to get. I
think the college football does a terrible job of celebrating
all the things that players get. And this is the
perfect example, perfect example. You know you'll get you get
guys on social media like make more money, put it
into some locker room whatever, like yeah, because that is
(20:47):
this is how you protect and give great resource to
the players, right, that's what you do that you're giving them.
It's just like now they have access to the best
medical treatment, they have access to everything while they're student athlete,
things that they never would have had access to without
college sports. And there's plenty of other students that don't
have access to it. I actually I know it's an
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aside from from the argument you're making. Uh Dusty DeVore
check our guest on the Dug Gotlieb Show on Fox
Sports Radio. Uh okay, So let me ask you a
question real quick. Doesn't ask your question because everybody is
so worried. Everybody's so worried and so fixated on college
football players. I mean, what are the discussions being had
about allowing all these college kids with not many protocols
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put in place, not testing put in place, to go
on college camp and all over the country are people why?
Why is it that everybody is so high per sensitive
and more worried about the college athlete more so than
the college student. I'm having a hard time wrapping my
head around that we don't talk about these students the
same way we talk about these athletes. Why is that? Um,
(21:55):
I don't know, I don't know. I think it's because
they would be representing the cool and by representing the school.
You you know, the feeling is if somebody gets sick
and dies or god forbid the myocard that this thing
happens and they dropped, you know, the kid drops dead.
Then all of a sudden, this massive lawsuit, and you
put football. You made football more important than somebody's health.
(22:15):
I think it's it's a perception thing and liability thing
more than anything. But couldn't that same student who's back,
or who goes there and they're in a dormitory or
you know, they contract the virus they're on campus. I mean,
aren't they at the same risk, I would argue, more
risk than an athletes with resources at their disposal. Um, yeah, listen, Dusty,
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you and I agree. I'm having a hard time trying
to find an argument with anything you're saying. You and
I can, we can yell and screaming each other about
other stuff I have, I got, I got nothing for you,
you know. But but we live in a world and
where there are enough doctors and scientists are like, this
is a bad idea that we're like, Okay, well do
I I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I
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feel like we were almost better when we were ignorant
when we were kids. Right when we were kids, you
turn on the TV and whenever one's on the news,
you're like, all right, well that's the news. Now it
all depends on what channel you watch, how the news
is portrayed like why is that possible. Isn't the news
the same news, Like no, no, no. If you watch Fox,
they tell you this guy is to blame. You watch MSNBC,
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you tell them this this guy is to blame, and
no one knows what the real truth is, Like that's
that's the problem. And now we have and it is
the perfect embodiment of two thousand twenty. Really that we
have half of the big teams in college football playing
and half of them not playing. It makes no like,
figure we can't figure that. No, as a country, this
is the snapshot of our country that half of the
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teams are not playing, and a good portion of those
teams want to play, whereas there are teams that are playing.
And there's some people like I'm not sure this is
a good idea, like that's that's America two thousand twenty.
I've ever seen it. There's no I give one more.
Let's let's go down, let's continue down this path of
things not making sense. Wisconsin. Very Albareth said in the
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last few days, did you see what very Alberast says?
And I love this. They're gonna continue to keep their
student athletes or football players on campus but they continue
to keep their scholarship. They're gonna go in class or
have virtual class. Do you see what else they're gonna do?
Does They're gonna have this twenty hour week rule, that's right, Okay,
have workouts. We're gonna have O. T. A is gonna
have walked throughs. Got all that without playing games? How
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does that make sense? Does so you can go through
all the preparation, all the things I can tell What
can can I tell you? What? It makes sense? We'll
just liability, I'm sure is what you're gonna say. No, no, no, no,
it makes sense to me because look, they know that
kids people need kidney structure. Yeah, they need structure. Absolutely,
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they just need structure. And that's that's what he's doing.
They're giving his team, give him structure. You don't want
the nineteen kid, Like, hey, dude, we'll see you next.
We'll see in the winter to see if you're still
in shape. Like, nah, let's use this time to be
as productive as po. I think it's great. I want
to praise Wisconsin the other schools that do that because
I agree with you. But my question would just be
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what's the difference. What's the difference, Because that's essentially you're
you're playing well, it's the it's the it's the putting
pads on and no, you're also you're bringing in you're
bringing in another team and their germs and they're you know,
they're the people they've been around. And then in addition
to which, you know, you gotta have support staff. If
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you're gonna do a game, you know, where do guys sleep,
how do they stay? How do you keep them? You know,
you're not gonna fly a team in the day of
the game to play or busting demon You could, um
back when the conferences were as they should be, where
they're close to each other, you could, but that's not
the way. You know, major college college's role. So I
I just there's a lot of other variables I think
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that come into place when you play games. Would be
what would be the answer? Dusty Dvorchik join us A
college football analysts for ESPN. Of course you hear on
WWLS the Sports Animal. Um, okay, so if we only
have those three conferences to decide a champion, Um, how
good Oklahoma going to be this year? I mean they're
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gonna have a chance to be good offensively obviously, Spencer Rattler.
He can really throw it. Uh, they just got a
lot of inexperience. I'm sure you saw the running back
Kennedy Brooks. He opted out back to back thousand yards seasons.
Now they've got as talented or more talented backs, but
they're unproven um and that kind of similar and wide receiver.
I mean, Charleston rambo is really the only guy of note.
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Is played a lot of football, made a lot of
plays that they have talent, absolutely, but it's unproven talent.
And I think the offensive line is gonna be substantially
better than where it was a year ago. Creed Humphreys
are center, probably the best, one of the better interior
offensive lineman and all of college football. And defensively, like
I really like Alex French. I loved in Washington State.
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I thought it was the right higher when Lincoln made
the hire. They made improvements last year. Uh, losing Kenneth
Murray and Neville Gallum were two guys who win the
top three rounds that won't be easy to replace. But
I'm just gonna tell you, Doug, even though it's only
the one recruiting class with with this staff, there is
a difference in the kind of player they're bringing on campus,
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So I think that, uh, you know, the future outlook
is strong. And I would say just being in this
system a second year, I know when they first took
the field, especially now that campus started, they feel that
they are light years ahead of where they were just
a season ago. So like, I think you're all the
mater is gonna be really good. I think Oklahoma State
has got a chance to win the Big Twelve this year.
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Spencer Sanders, I thought he turned a corner last year
with the turnover issues that he had to teach you
game in the game that I was on the call for,
and then he gets hurt the next week, so he
never got to really see where he was headed. But
Tyland Wallace Shuba Hubbard, those are two of the most dynamic,
explosive players in the country. Stats who Spencer Sanders is
gonna be able to distribute the ball to. They got
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ten starters coming back. On defense, That defense was just okay,
But I like especially I like the safeties and I
like the linebackers at Oklahoma State and then Texas for
me eas the other team, Like that's my top three
in the Big Twelve. And Sam Ellinger and the veteran
presence he brings, the amount of football that he's played.
I think that, especially early on in the season, that's
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gonna pay real dividends. Teams that have depth, teams that
have better and experience at the premier position. That's things
that I'm looking for as I'm heading to the season.
And Oklahoma's gonna be good, I Olahona State is gonna
be gonna make Texas. All three of those teams I
think will be buying for spot in Arlington when all
said done, if this whole thing goes off, I know
(28:39):
that L s U. You know they do. They've They've
had talent for years and last year they finally had
an offense and finally had a uh finally had a
quarterback to execu that offense. The quarterback's gone the you know,
uh Brady, who's who's the was the genius behind the offenses.
Now in the NFL, you lost a ton of on
(29:00):
a skill position talent um. Where is L s U
in the mix in the SEC? I think the third
in their division? Uh Coacho is a good coach. They've
got talent there. There's big time players, but clearly Doug,
I mean they they have ten players draft in the
first three rounds. Think a seven team when all of
a sudden done. That's just absurd. It's crazy. It's also
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why they were, without question, the best team in college
football last year. But I don't think they take some
massive step back. They've recruited too well. I think I
think coach O, you know, losing Brady is gonna be big,
But you gotta remember Stevensminger. He was the actual one
call in the plays. And I've talked to people that
say it was Brady on third down, crucial situation. He's
the one at the end of the day that was
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coming up with the play. But Stevensminger has been there
a while, he learned some of that offense from Joe Brady.
I think there will be a certain level of carry over.
I don't think you can expect the same. Uh So,
I think l s U they do take a step back,
but I don't think it's a you know, it's not
a big step. I look at Alabama's the best team
in that division. I like Tech today and m Alan
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You're three A Jimbo Fisher. I've always pointed to this
as the year that I thought they could really make
some noise, and then after that, I think l's use
that next team that I have probably competing with with
Auburn and Goo Nicks is a third fourth spot in
the SEC West. Awesome stuff, Dusty, listen. Let's catch up
on your show at some point in near future. We
appreciate you and us on mine. Thanks for me, our
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(31:05):
to tie the east two relevant topics going on in
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ranked the three most impressive players in last night's clips
MAVs Game one. I'll go Paul George three, uh Kawhi
Leonard two and Luca don check Luca was the story
(31:29):
the from from the start to start to finish, and
then the Porzingis thing took over. But I do think
that it's important. You get a lot of people going like, well,
everybody missed on Luca because he didn't have a great
burst and you thought he wouldn't be able to guard anybody,
which is true, he can't guard anybody, doesn't have a
great burst. The part that I think one basketball has
(31:49):
evolved some too. He's really big and strong and knows
how to use that strength. You know. It's like it's
not like he's a five eleven guard. He's six ft
seven with it, you know. So I just I think
some people have a weird misconception about exactly why a
couple of people passed on him. Doug our teammate here
(32:12):
at Fox Sports Radio Rob Parker, one half of the
odd couple, making some waves in San Antonio and saying
that maybe Gregg Popovich isn't as great of a coach
is maybe people think he is. Doug rank your top
three coaches in NBA history and be a history. Yes.
Oh well, here's what I'm not gonna do. I'm not
(32:34):
gonna go pre me, you know, because then I like,
I don't, I don't know. Um, I will go three.
I'll go uh got Riley. Tryna think if I do
Riley or or Pop, I would probably do Pop three?
(32:59):
Uh um pop yeah, Pop three? And then who would
be too Pat Phil Jackson one, And then I'm trying
to thank who else I'm and then Riley to Rudy
t you know, yeah, I'll go Pat, I'll go uh,
Now I go Chuck Daily. Oh, Chuck Dailey is a
(33:19):
great coach. I'm gonna go Pat Riley three, Greg pop
Vitch to Phil Jackson one and the Pop. The reason
the Pop is is their style every time they won
a championship was different. Granted they never went back to
back years, but every year like he had it wasn't.
I think Phil is a great coach, but he thought
the triangle was the way, and it would be like
if you go, like, Okay, we're gonna triangle one year
(33:41):
and then highball screen the next year. That's basically what
san Antonio's done. Alright, Doug, some news from Chargers camp.
Melvin Ingram is in camp. He has reported he's on
the practice field, but he's not practicing. Reports say he
wants a new contract. So who are the three most
important chargers entering the upcoming season? Ranked them for me?
(34:01):
You know, it's interesting they got that deal done kind
of quietly and early. I think it was three years ago,
right before camp, and he's been outstanding ever since. Now
it's like, now I gotta do it again. Three most
important chargers, uh, derway, let's see here. I would say
(34:21):
Joey Bosa three, Derwin James two and the most this
is important charger. I don't actually think this is going
to be close. I think the most important charger is
justin Herbert, because if he can play, then they can
(34:43):
pay all these guys all this money and they'll be fine,
all right. Rank the three most ridiculous unwritten rules in baseball? Oh, well,
I didn't know that you weren't supposed to swing away
three and o bases loaded when you're up that many runs,
So that would be my number one. I literally didn't know. Um.
I think the how you're supposed to the pace by
(35:06):
which you run when you called cadillacing, Like who who
establishes what the proper paces for a home run trot?
I've never hit a home run I would probably like
to admire it something like, damn, I just hit the
ball a long way. So I think that's number three. Um,
I don't think it's ridiculous to not steal when you're
up steel basis, when you're up seven, Um, bunting to
(35:30):
break up a no hitter. That's bunting to break up
a no hitter. I think, yeah, that there's one. All right? Five? Yeah,
thats um. I see, I've always known about the three
oh pitch and I haven't had a big you know deal.
I would say the bunting. Um, the stealing doesn't make
a lot of sense, so stealing when you're up by
uh whatever. Um, So I would have those two. And uh,
(35:53):
you know the closer in a tie game on the
road is all is one where you're thinking, okay, you
want to save him for extra innings if you uh if,
if you you know, get that far, if you were
able to Craig Craig Kimberle when he was at the
Braves Dodgers. Yeah, so I think that would probably be
number three. Al Right, got finally ranked the three best
(36:15):
platforms to jump in the water from because I jumped off. Yes,
you got you know, yachts diving board. You've got a
bunch of a dock on a lake. Would like I
would say, I would say Doc is three, a cliff
is too in an old school diving board is one.
(36:38):
This is game time on the duck. Got lame show. Yeah,
our friends have a boat and they invited us out
to have dinner on the boat last night. So we did.
And then they're like, you know, we just jumped when
we got hot. We just it was hot still, and
like when we hot, we just jump off. I'm like,
all right, I'll do that, like you will. Yeah, why not?
Why not
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