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we'll be on the Eric's right.
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Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Backs, it's been what a month? Well we do an
hour and a half. Oh you do ninety I thought
ninety minutes for home games and this is the first
time obviously the Vikings have been home in a month, right,
I mean they haven't played since that Bengals game at
US Bank, and I uiceed to have a noon game again,
So yeah, run from nine thirty to eleven on Sunday morning.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Head coach of the.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Soon to be a Big Game World champion in Minnesota Vikings,
Kevin O'Connell just had his midweek news conference live from
the New Winter Park aka T.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Show Performance Center.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Second question was asked about who's going to start, you know,
the quarterback situation. He said, same answer I gave you live.
He was he was not happy. You could tell he
was annoyed by it. Well, he's expecting it, but then
why is he annoyed by it?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Well, I don't know if he's annoyed by it, but
he just he cut it off and then he went
into more details. I'll discuss with you right now about
JJ and working with him the last week. I until
he announces his decision. And I think many of us thought.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Do you think it's a game time decision? No, I
think he'll announce it before that.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well you think they'll make an announce you, Well, I
don't think they'll just wait till all of a sudden
they out.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
To this ball. But I don't. I don't. I don't
think he's going to play that game.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, and uh Tenna laying it out in the contexts
for people who think that we got to start JJ,
I mean no, they don't. And there's nothing. It's not
a reflection on his future, his presence. It might be
just who's going to give you the best chance to
win on Sunday. End of story.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But most of the fans, and they're all over me.
They're like, we don't care about this season. We're not
going anywhere this season.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
We need this spot. We need to see what we
have in J. J. McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They want to see McCarthy no matter what he does.
He could throw four picks in the first half and
they're going to go, well, maybe we'll only throw three.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well there, there's always gonna be.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Fans are fans and that's that's what makes them fans,
and that's great. I mean, I love passion of fans.
We've been arguing and disagreeing. That's the beauty of sports
and that's why we have hopefully have.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You seen the look don chich by the way.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
We've been hard. We's hard all day. Have you seen
him play?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Not?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Just I have not. I don't.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Season basketball is like watching paint dry. I don't watch sports.
I am a sports fan. And the head coach of
the Celtics said, at best, it's like I'm not I
mean I I've watched two minutes of it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
No, I I.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
When the season starts next really really sure?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You don't even watch him in the regular season.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It looks better than he's ever looked. What I saw, well,
he saw all the basketball player. Let's not get off
the topic.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But he's a young fun now it.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Next April this time, all right. I mean he's a
hell of a player. There's no denying that. As far
as a quarterback thing. This is what I want to
say is if if went starts Sunday, it doesn't mean
that JJ is not going to This is the last
time I looked. I think the fightings are three and two.
I'm gonna do meat sauce math. They play seventeen games,
so they have twelve left. Is that right? That's a
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lot of football left. Plenty of football.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Plenty of football.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And it's not to suggest that JJ McCarthy number one,
we don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I think you're hearing something. I think you know that
they're hearing. No, because you've been you've been a big
got to play McCarthy guy up until well, I've wanted
to play him, but let me finish.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
So I want to say here, I we don't know
how healthy Number one J. J. McCarthy's ankle is. And
it could have been more of a significant injury. And
he's back out practicing. That's a good sign. And they
didn't they didn't put him on you know, four week
injured reserve. All that's a good sign. But he hasn't
played much football this year. Of course, he didn't play
at all last year, and so there's the physical aspect
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of it. And then listening to Koc right now, I
if you didn't know that that news conference his answers
were in the middle of October. Those answers could have
been pulled out of a news conference he had the
second week of training camp when he talked about the
mechanics and what he's been working with with JJ McCarthy.
You know what I'm saying, I don't know that. I
don't have the answer.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, they I think they're be fuddled by his inability.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Well, but he continues to work with them and doing
this and he said he at the end, you talked
about how much more time he spent with him, his
quarterback whisper. Then then he did with that kind of
what he normally does. And we've watched him walking all
over the field, which a lot of coaches do.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So that's the way of thinking that you can't.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
This is not experimental time to work on, you know,
the fundamentals. If you're into a game out of first
let's go. Well, I'm saying you can't and I'm not.
And if JJ McCarthy gets to start, great, I always
find it and I hope he's really I do too,
but I'm just saying that he's he O'Connell is talking
about McCarthy in terms of I think it's a combination
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of I think there's got to be some concern about
that ankle and and also the mechanics of how it's
affecting him. And listen, Wentz has got a bad left shoulder,
but I think that I think he's certainly in a
position to play through it. He'll they'll put a brace
on it, and you know he'll he'll figure it out
and try to, you know, just work through it. But
you know, it's it's an interesting answer to hear, and
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he's not the first time. We've heard it from Kaosi
about the mechanics of J. J. McCarthy in the middle
of October, and I think, well, this isn't like you're
working with somebody's golf swing or or.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I'm trying to think of another another shit.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Starting to come around in my way of thinking, well, no,
but again I'm not And I'm a big proponent of
wanting to see JJ alkire. Everybody does, but I don't
want to put him in a position to fail. And
I have that thing kind of backfire on him if
he's not number one physically ready, and that means he
wouldn't play. I mean, he could play well enough if
he has to go in there if something happened to once.
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I mean, Brozman is the other quarterback. We all know that,
but we're spending so much time talking about this who's
going to be the starter? I think the bigger picture
is who's going to be the finisher. Like a month
from now, month and a half in now, the last
seven games of the season, I hope J. J. McCarthy's
playing in him and that's that's that's the bigger issue,
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because at some point you've got to get this kid ready.
If he's the quarterback of the future. Of the future
is now you got to play him.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They got Jackson coming back, they got O'Neill coming back.
Brandell looks like he's a pro center Tide Canada. So well,
he was really good. So you got that going for yourself.
Well you got you got Cashman's coming back this week.
I mean, the team is starting to get some of
the players out. The team that won fourteen and three
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of less. I can't believe all the quitters we have
for I give up on I'm as I'm actually shocked
by it, because generally sports fans always have some hope.
They're all saying, this is a terrible team and we're
not going anywhere. They watched so that went fourteen and
three last year. It didn't really eliminate anybody. They added
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to the team. They added to the interior of the
offensive line.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Engine.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You do that because you think you can win. Now,
it's not because you're thinking, well, we're really not very good.
We're not a playoff team. What are the people watching.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Well and the team that's playing your Sunday, I think
everyone agrees they're they're they're fractured a little bit. They
have some they have injury issues like most teams do,
but they're not hitting on all cylinders. There's some infighting
going on. They're not running the ball well. And that
doesn't mean that Saquon Barkley isn't all of a sudden
going to turn into the All Pro running back that
he is and could run for one hundred and fifty
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on Sunday. But the point of matter is the Eagles
are a point and a half favorite.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
They're not.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
They're not seven point favorites here, They're not whatever they
that's a toss up game almost or oh, that means
that the Eagles would be faired by four if they
were playing in Philadelphia this week. Look at the NFL
everyone we talk about it all the time, look at
week to week trying to predict dames that we do
and everybody else does.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
It's a prime example my club.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yes, you basically after week one said their window was closed.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I did say that.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Then all of a sudden, they win four in a row,
The Power rankings them as the best team in pro football.
Then they lose to Kansas City and they look bad
and losing to them, they were just absolutely dominated in
that game. And now everybody things the lines are City.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I didn't feel they were dominated by him. Kansas City
was desperate team. They played. Holmes was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
They were they were dominated in that well, line scored
half the amount of points they normally score.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, that's well, that's true.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
But if Kansas City rolled up thirty points against them,
so they went from being they lost to the Packers.
They they're missed, their coordinators are gone. They're never going
to be any good again. They win four in a row,
everybody thinks they're the best team in football, and then
they now they lose the Kansas City Bridge word, that's
just the nature of the league.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It is the nature of the league.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
And that if you look at the NFC West and
you pick your favorite team San Francisco with their backup
quarterback and what Sammy Darnold's doing in Seattle, I mean,
and in the East, it's it's like all of a sudden,
the people are jumping on the Giants a little bit. Washington,
even though they lost to the Bears the other night, right,
you know, they're still you know, they went to the
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championship NFC Championship game last year.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It's just it's a week by week.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Thing, and it's just you don't know, Phil, You if
you still agree that Eagles are the team to beat, well,
they're not the same. And it's it's not unusual teams
that it's really hard to repeat. It's hard to get
back to that place. And that's why I kind of
say that about the Lions, that that I think Eagles
might be a little bit more of fat and sassy
than the tripe because he tries still got that real
hunger to get to a place that they should have
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been in the especially two years ago. But you just
it just can't predict this stuff. I think the biggest
thing is figuring out at some point when McCarthy's going
to get in there. But there's a Sunday or two
weeks from now, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Here's here's a text man that says coach is stressed
by the decision. He sounded like Zimmer answering that question.
Maybe he is, maybe could it be this? Could it
be this you talked about? He's talking about mechanics. Do
you think he's already thinking himself? The kid that I've
hand picked that I'm whispering to can't even get the
mechanics straight right now?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Wentz did play pretty well, We're three and two? What
am I going to do? Could the coach be stressed or.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I think I think stress is part of the contract
with being a head coach of an NFL team, But no,
I don't think. I don't think his answer about the
quarterback situation was a way of being that chirped. It
was a short answer because I think he basically he
knew it was coming. At the same time, he didn't
have anything to add uh that that he said.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
The other day.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So that was crry Zimmer like it was. But he
was like an eight word answer and he hasn't changed anything.
Where'd you find Zimmer press conferences when Chris Thomason was.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Zimmer was the best one? Zimmer would just say, I
love cranky Zimmer. Who is the quarterback that said? What
do you think about Josh Freeman?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Josh and he I seem in practice every day.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's that's all you need to just being honest. You
actually are terrible in practice, and so why would we
want to.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Put them in the game. No, No, he's not U Zim.
Let's take him break, We'll come back. We got more
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Speaker 1 (12:23):
Do you know Dave Campbell associated? Of course?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Dave is a sports reporter for AP based here in
the Twin Cities. He wrote a piece I think it
was yesterday or the day before headline Anthony Edwards embraces
the boring pursuit of greatness as timberwol seek a more
complete player, and I only bring it up. One of
the reasons I bring it up mostly is is because
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I was criticized by many many people over the past
couple of years that I didn't fully embrace Anthony Edwards
as the wonder can and the savor the frand guys
and the best player in the league and this and that,
because there are always things I saw in his game
that I did not think were quite where they needed
to be. And everybody else told me, mind your own business.
(13:10):
He's aunt, he can do whatever he wants. But when
you read through this story and he realizes it, and
I know he's young, and this and that and the
other thing. But Finch said, we've talked a lot about consistency,
and the consistency of habit is one of the areas
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of improvement. No matter what it pertains to Aunt has
got to measure up here. We might do different things
with matchups that put him in more high leverage situations,
which we know he can do and he enjoys. It's
an NBA mantra that if you do so much on offense,
you're allowed to not play defense.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The best teams don't do that.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
They do what's necessary as much as they possibly can,
telling him they need you. We've talked about this. They
had a meeting colmly others have talked to him about
you need to play, you need to become one of
the top defensive players of the year. The next piece
says being there every night, being that every night player.
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There are plenty of finer points of playing offense that
Edwards can elevate too. He worked hard on ball handling
during the summer, a skill he acknowledged has often been
skipped because of the discomfort certain drills can create on
his lower back. That ought to help him improve his
performance in the clutch time situations that frequently hampered the
Wolves last season. Another way he can be more consistently
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double teams is to not allow the opponents to get
to that point by pushing the pace and running and
transition more often, recognizing ways to keep the offense better
space than the half court two can help. Sometimes players
has talented as Edwards also simply need to find new
ways to stay motivated during the regular season. And this
is what I was saying about him for so long,
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and everybody has piled on me and said, I don't
know what I'm talking about. They say, oh, he lives
rent free in your head, Well, maybe he does. It's
just when you are the franchise player, when you're paid
that kind of money, when they when everything is invested
in you, you got to grow up quick, and you
got to be mature, and you got to play a
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full forty eight minutes and you got to play start
to finish. And maybe this is the beginning of him
doing that because we know he's immensely talented.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Anybody that's watch would know that.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
But this is what I have been waiting for, and
hopefully it comes to fruition and he is the kind
of player that he can become because he's really really good.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
But to get to next level.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I asked you the question last week or maybe was
earlier this week. Does he have to play at an
MVP level in order to take the Wolves to the
next level? You said yes, and I agree he needs
to get to that level. And a lot of that
is just the want to and the desire and the
you know, he even mentioned here, how can he stay
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more engaged? He said, try to get a career high
in points. I think that's what I'm going to try
to do, So I don't know if that's the right hand,
So that's it's an individual accolade, but trying to stay
and gain because we've seen him at times he'll be
like missing an action in the first half, you know,
one bucket, maybe only taking a shot, then all of
a sudden the second half he goes off and scores
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twenty five or thirty. But I think they need a
more and if they do, the team could be very dangerous.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Right, Yeah, there are good points to be made about
all of that. And I think you know, at his
age now, just having been he's twenty four now and
having seen the league and where he sits in the
in the context of other stars in this league, there's
been an immaturity about him that has surfaced, sometimes at
the worst possible time, both on and off the court,
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where you know, you've got to take your craft very seriously.
I think his relationship with Chris Finch is very important.
They do have a very solid relationship. He has a
great deal of respect for his head coach, and Chris
understands the mindset I think of Anthony Edwards. But he's
also a quick to criticize when necessary and about those
exactly those things where he has those not just moments,
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I mean every n NBA player. You know, I've watched
Lebron for how many years? Well, sometimes, for lack of
a better word, coast through the first quarter and get
his teammates involved with the other you know, in the
flow of the game and then kind of take things over.
But as a mindset that I think this year is
probably more important than any other because the Wolves have,
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you know, whether you want to look at the addition,
they didn't add a lot of players, but you're hopeful
that Terrence Shannon in particular, that Finch is going to
extend his bench a little bit and it's not going
to just be you know, living and dying with Ant's
performance on a nightly basis. That they have enough other
supporting people, but in order for him to take that
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next step, and I do believe I think that gold
medal experience, the experience he had of the Olympic team
when he was around the best of the best, had
a positive effect on him in terms of seeing the
work ethic, that the what it takes to be at
that level that those guys for the most part don't
take off. So I mean, also what you said, they're
all valid points and if Edwards is going to take
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that next step, but it can't just be when he
feels like it, And I agree, and I think, you know,
CON's been pushing on him. A lot of guys have,
and I think Edwards has been pretty tough on himself
by by all accounts, especially this summer and getting ready
for this season.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Well, let's hope. So yeah, let's hope. So yes.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
The last thing Finch said in the Dave Campbell p says,
just continue to be that every night player at a
high level that we know he can be, which is
what you need to do if you.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Want to be an m v P in this league.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I certainly think he's got the DNA for it and
he just has to really fully embrace it and maybe
this is the year he'll do that.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Well, let's uh. For the Walls, let's hope, so because
there they need that kind of game. When you talk
about the best players, you just mentioned Don Sich and uh,
you know Wemby and the players that he goes. You know,
every single night in the NBA, you're going up, for
the most part against a really good player and not
necessarily a superstar, but you know, a couple of unfortunately
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have serious injuries and aren't going to be playing at
the beginning of the year. But Ant faces the best
of the best, and especially in the Western Conference, which
is that's why I mean, I guess my watching the
preseason game with with Dallas or something. No, but when
the regular season starts, I'll definitely be watching a lot of.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Dallas was awfully good. Donic was seven for nine from
the floor. He was very very good.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Last well we'll have that, and he's I'm not going
to argue with you about the capability of Luka Donsage.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
He's one of you and everybody else is because he
was pudgy and he got traded.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, I think I think I think that was everybody.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I think he literally looked in the mirror and said,
I got to improve my conditioning. That's he you can't
get you know, you can't get by on talent, Anthonys
for talent alone. Would you trade you know, that's Anthony
Erards for Luka Doncic. That's a that's a tough one.
Donsige is how old right now? Not that old? Twenty
eight something like that. Probably the best overall player in
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the league. I take one, Nyamata, I know you would, well,
I know you're of the general managers. He is a talent.
He's definitely a talent, that is for sure. Well, it'll
be a fun season.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
We'll start October twenty October twenty seven, the first game
in Portland.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, then off and run for eighty two. My god,
it's just so long seasons. You like this club a lot? Well?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I like yeah, I mean, I like the fact that
that Chris Finch is talking about extending his bench a
little bit more that I hope that.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
We've been begging him to do that for ver.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Well we have what it was what he did was
it's it's always.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
What's that phrase do you always use?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
You know, like in the NFL, it's always what's what's
what's hot right now?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Or what's that I'm looking for? Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
The the the the flavor of the week is right
looking for a flavor of the week is They've always
played ten deep in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
That's what they do.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
They play ten deep. Well, they play them all. They
play ten guys. They play him every game because you
got to have everybody ready to play, and you have
guys that this way also, guys can play harder for
longer stretches, get a blow, bring somebody in.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh, you brought in somebody who's used to playing.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It seems to me it's so elementary and I get
there are coaches like TIBs and I think Finch and
others that they don't trust those guys. They realize that
if they don't have winning teams, they won't have their
job for very long either.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So you're in to win.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
But I think, I think if if you have until
you play some of these guys longer stretches, you don't
know if they if.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I think Shannon and Dillingham are going to be the
two guys in particular, and my guy Clark are going
to those two in particular. Shannon and Dillingham are going
to get extended playing time. And I'm excited to see
Terren Shannon kind of do his think because he's an
explosive player. We saw more than glimpses of it last
year in Dillingham, He's got to use his skills to
do the things that he does best, and it opens
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up everything else for everybody on this basketball team.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
It's possible you might be in better shape than Luga
Doncich was last year.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
It's possible because it's impossible. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
You look pretty good, thank you, But with the fitness,
with the fitness game, that's what.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It was funny.
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Final segment of the Grom, Final segment of the gram
for me for the week.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I'm taking a couple of days off well deserved too.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Ten, it's cherlod so yourself. Yes, I don't mind saying
so myself. And I don't mind saying so myself. The
Ten of Fitzgerald set sail Friday, Thursday and Friday at Dude,
I will make an appearance tomorrow. Unlike when you're gone,
you just get you just tell teneb what your what
your I'm gonna call.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I was on a plane when that was happening, so
I couldn't really call. There was no phone on the plane,
so I was, uh, we hadn't landed yet.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Okay, I guess I have to take your word because
I don't know what your flight schedule you're not going
to see it, Yeah, because you weren't on plane resting
pool side.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
The pool side of rain all weekn't got a beautiful
Charleston so there before it was nice.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Uh. You know, we even discussing debating best players in
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Who are they? You know, top ten?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Who's the very best? Would you trade this guy for
that guy? I was reading a piece on my extensive
preparation for my show from specbasports dot com just talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
S g A and just this first paragraph just kind.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Of it's it's hard to argue when you read that
SGA put together one of the all time great individual
seasons for an NBA star in the twenty twenty four
to twenty twenty five season, when he became the first
player to win the league's scoring title, MVP Finals, MVP
and a championship in the same season since Mike Jordan
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pulled off the same astonishing feet in ninety seven ninety eight.
Now think about that, I mean, that hadn't happened since
Mike Jordan did in nineteen ninety seven, ninety How many
years is that? That's a long time in SGA was
able to do that.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And the story is best for last year. He absolutely did.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And the story goes on to say, and yet despite
producing the season we haven't seen it almost thirty years,
sga Is is not in the top spot of the
best one hundred players in the NBA going into this season.
That continues to be least the CBS Sports guys they did,
they do. They have their eight or nine writers that
do NBA and so they make their little list and
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it's because most people have the Joker there. And as
the story goes on to say, that's because jokers busy
rewriting history books himself, and he is a more than
worthy candidate for that number one position.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The three time MVP produced.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
The bestest statistical season of his career last season, averaging
a monstrous triple double twenty nine point six points, twelve
point seven rebounds in ten point two assists, in doing
so on outrageous efficiency sixty.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Six point three percent true shooting. To get to, be.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Regardless as the best player in the league, you got
a lot of competition. And those are two astonishing seasons
in the same season by two of the best players
in the league. And that's why a lot of these
players are You know again that I'm not saying that
ant is one of the best players. But when you
have when you have your aunts and your wemen yamas,
and your and and and your Greek freaks and all
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these players and and you know, even some of the
older guys that probably wouldn't I don't think you put
Stephan that conversation anymore or durantel Lebron because they're while
they're still very good, I wouldn't say they're the best
players in.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
The league anymore. They're among them, but they're not goes
to the numbers these guys are putting.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
It speaks to the the expansion of international basketball, how
the scouting has expanded the talent level internationally, where the
US used to just dominate no matter who they played,
and now whether you're talking about France, Slovenia, Italy, what
I mean, it's it's such a you know, an international
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game and we're seeing the best of the best players
come to the NBA. I mean, I thought that we
were in the kind of the Golden Age not that
many years ago, with the kind of talent level we
saw you talk with the Jordan era, and we know
that you know, whether you're watching them go, you know,
head to head against Utah and Stockton them alone, and
obviously the Lakers had, you know, their bevy of stars,
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and the Celtics always you know with Michale Parish and
Bird and you know, I thought, man, we ever going
to see a time like this in in basketball? Again, well,
we're seeing it. And then you know, go through the
whole thing with what the Golden State Warriors did with
with the you know, they're still hanging on and maybe
and then some I'm with Steph Curry and and of
course Klay Thompson's in Dallas now, and but it's it
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keeps getting better, and I think that's you know, a
reflection on how international the game has become and how
much talent there is in the world.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Here are some other numbers from SGA last year. He's
scoring fewer than twenty points in a game one times
during the regular season. That was an eighteen point outing
in the fourth game of the season, while scoring thirty
or more on forty nine occasions. In the playoffs, he
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had three outings below twenty points while scoring thirty or
more and fifteen of the thunders twenty three playoff games
en route to the title. Even while struggling with his
three point shot against defenses trying to force anyone else
to beat them. That's how good he is. And I
know he's a flopper of azation and this and that
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and the other thing, but he's brilliant.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
He does he does sell it and many times you know,
ends up with you know, burns floor burns from being
on the floor as much as he is. But and
that many times he earns it too.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
And then listen to this, It says for as much
as we discuss joke or orchestrating everything for the Nuggets,
Sga serves as an serves as an equally important engine
for OKC. His thirty four point eight percent usage rate
last season was third.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
In the league behind LaMelo Ball in Ante.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Takoumpo, with the key difference being Sga was doing so
on the league's.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Third best offense.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well and Koompo's bucks were tenth and Ball's hornets were
twenty ninth. It's exceedingly rare for a team as successful
inefficient as the Thunder to rely so heavily on one
player for creation. But that's a testament to SGA's abilities
as both a score and facilitator. He pulls all the
strings of the thunder and has learned how to tow
the line between being an elite scorer and individual creator
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also keeping his teammates involved and engage, and that's what
he does and as a point guard, that's why it's
so important.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
That's why he is. He is so so talented. He's
definitely worth the price of mission, as they say.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, and I think that's that. And because he has
a very nice supporting cast, he has a hell of
a coach, and they're coming off a championship. It's hard
to repeat. We know that it's really difficult, but I
think that's why they're the odds on favors because of
what he's able to do.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Have no longer to be one of the best. They
have an opportunity to try to. It's hard to it's
in this league. It's for you know, injuries and everything
else and staying motivated with the money they're making and
to grind your way through an eighty two game season
then it starts over again for another three months. Basically
that you have to be at your best, and we
saw the best of OKC last year and well deserved championship.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
It's Wednesday. That means one thing around here. Oh, it's
a Wild Wednesday. Rock Talk, Rock Rank Wild Wednesday. Your
shot at Wild.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Take We love that.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
One's tickets to see Minnesota play Utah. Eleventh caller right now,
one eight hundred three to two zero fifty three twenty six,
One eight hundred three to two zero fifty three twenty six.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
You want a pair of tickets to see.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
The Wild take on the Utah Mammoth to take on
the Woolies October twenty fifth, Call right now and be
the eleventh call, and the tickets are yours. Uh, Dodgers
did it again? Ya, I'm a moto. I think he
gave up opening pitch. You gave up a home run.
From that point, give up two more hits. The rest
of the game is a complete game. And I can't
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remember what I read, but it's like the first complete
game and postseason in eight years. Wasn't think about years,
And well that's just the way they pitched. Now they
take pictures because they have so much money invested in
those arms. They don't dare they don't want to take
that chance. But he pitched a complete game loss. And
so that's two performances back to back where Snell goes
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eight innings, gives up one hit and strikes out ten.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
The bullpen, the Dodgers' bullpen is.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
A weakness apparently this year, and I think maybe that
was another reason why they went to distance of the
Yama motive, because the Brewers had a chance to win
that they could. They almost stole that game in the
bottom of the ninth the other day, but they did
not game one. They almost stole it. What I'm saying
is that's I think why they probably Yama motive go.
That is is they didn't want to give it back
to that bullpen again because it was still a close game.
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But you know, that's where you know, I remember TK
used to do the old if you pitch some play
d friends and give yourself a chance to win the
ball game. And I think everybody that knows, I mean,
you know, there are times when the best pitchers in
baseball are having an off day and a good hitting
team can get to them. But more times than not.
I don't know if you agree with me here, but
if you if you told me, I want one of
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the best pictures on the mound in a postseason game
rather than one of the best offenses in baseball. And
they ali will take the best picture, because when when
when they're on and have it going, it's the things
they can do with I mean, I think Royce wrote
a piece about a week ago.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
It was really nice.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Was it was about the way pitching is as has
progressed over the years and morphed and changed and evolved,
and how you know there used to be fastballker ball,
sinker and that was about it right right now you've
got slurves and swerves and all these different pitches and
throwing as hard as you can and in all the
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different ways to to and then you you know, when
when you use your sabermetrics and analytics, which can be helpful.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
We've talked about that.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I'm not I still think I'll just go with the
guy with his cunning and gone more than said.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
But but when you know what.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Pitchers, catchers or a hitter's tendencies ares and such like that,
if you've got a good.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Guy on the hill man, it just makes all the difference.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
In one we've seen, they have a two zero lead
against the Brewers, had the best record in Major League Baseball,
going a very talented club with a pretty good pitching
staff on their own. But what they add was a
team that they could hit the long ball to win games.
They did it in postseason. They can go long and
win games. They can play small ball to win games.
But when you're facing the best pitching in baseball, nothing that.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Yeah, Momoto took the air out of that building last night.
There was after Milwaukee scored in the bottom of the
first with the home run, think, oh, this is they're
going to give it a run here Dodgers scored two
right away in the top of the second, and you know,
still it's two to one game, no big deal that
they didn't score again until the sixth inning. And then
it just kind of you could just feel it, and
and you know, the fans were kind of you know,
they were they were anticipating something big happening, but they
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never really got a chance to cheer, and they they
really got a chance to get the you know, the
Brewers never gave their chance out, a chance to kind
of get into the game.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
And now they got to go back to l A.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
And you know it, it certainly looks like they're just
punching their way right, you know, right to the World Series.
And I you know, I think most baseball fans if
you're watching it all. I mean, I I love the
city and I have I've talked about a million times.
I love the city in Toronto, love the people, love
you know, I like what they you know, what they
stand for.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
But I think you know, you're.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Not recognized there, which is another which is refreshing.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
But I'd like to see Seattle. Uh oh yeah, I'm
on to you know, Seattle's got a fun team to watch.
You know, they talk about hitting the ball out of
the park, not just cal Raley and and what they've
done in our guy Polanco. That would be hopefully a
fun World Series and Seattle's never had a chance eliminated.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I don't care really try to Seattle. Dodgers to Seattle.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Is fun to me.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Like I said, Seattle's turned into a great story this year.
But I don't know if anybody can be the Dodgers.
I mean, it's just they're they're playing every day lineup. Yeah,
they're just there's no weakness and uh it's it's a they're.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Not afraid to spend money, and I know there's a
well no, they're more available to them. But every owner
major League Baseball if they really want I mean that
what the San Diego guys done and the Mets guy
they spend their own personal fortunes. They hasn't want it
for him yet. But as a fan, do you really care?
I mean, there was there was a quote from I
don't remember.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I have it somewhere I saved it where.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
One of the baseball owners said something infect he goes,
fans don't care. They just want a winning team, so
they don't care if I'm spending my own money or whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
It comes from.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
So like he's basically saying, there are no excuses either
field a winning team or you don't you know, and
if if, if, if, if you're in a smaller market
and you bought the club, you know the rules. You know,
there is no sin now that may change or may
eventually be a salary cap and a floor, but right now,
if you want to compete, you have to spend some
of your own personal fortune.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
That's just how it works.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yeah, And whether they end up with a lockout another
year from now remains to be seen. But you know,
in the meantime, the Dodgers keep, you know, humming along,
and they're probably going to be on the verge of
winning their second straight World Series title and that's they've
had a.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Few of them.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
And in LA that's you know, they care about the Dodgers.
They they care about USC football. They don't much care
for the you know, the Ram. When the Rams play
the forty nine Ers, that so far was it was
it the Rams were the Chargers. There were three fourths
the stadium was filled with forty nine Er fans and
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it's like, oh I can pay attend. Pro football is
almost an It's an afterthought in Los Angeles, has been
for a long time.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
That's why you know, they you know, they stole it.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
You know, Saint Louis moved there, of course, but in
the Chargers moved from San Diego. So they got two
teams there that weren't even from there. And now they're
kind of just going through the motions and they got
a damn good football team there too.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Is today the fifteenth, Yes, two days ago, the Associated
Press released their top twenty five men's college basketball polls
we get Ready for the college basketball season. Purdue number one,
followed by Houston, Florada, Yukon and Saint John's rounding out
the top ten. Duke Michigan BYU Kentucky, Texas Tech, and Louisville.
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Other Big Ten schools would be Illinois at seventeen, Michigan
State at twenty two, in Wisconsin at twenty four. Others
receiving votes the Gophers aren't included.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I would be.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I'm very curious. I think everybody is when you have
a new coach and a new program in a new direction,
and there are I think there are only two players
that were on last year's goal forers.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Have I read that right? That are on this year's
Gophers team.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
He has went out, he's done the transfer portal, He's
brought player you know, I think he's got at least
one or two kids from where was he at Colorado State?
Was it?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
He brought them along with him, and a lot of.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
If I saw it right too, I think there's a
lot of seniors on the team, guys with the experience
now how quickly they can meld together basketball as a
team game. But I think everybody's curious, you know. Look,
I think I had is much fun in nineteen ninety
seven as I ever had watching college basketball, and the
Golfers made the run of the Final four. We know
all about the cheating scandal and all that, but the
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athletic the academic cheating scandal. But it's well, it's like
what I talk about in football as well. Why college
football generally isn't on my radar other than now Deuces, Alm,
the Waters in Nebraska, Pizza Ohouse State. So I've watched
more college basketball this year that I've watched in the
past ten years, combine in college football. But if your
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local team is and you know, if your local team
is involved, and they're considered one of the better teams
the country, at least a top twenty five team, it
makes it to me more attractive to pay attention. And
I'd love to see is it Medved? Is that his
name in Eco Medical? I'd love to see him do
a right job. He's he's sure, he's he's light fleck
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in this way, everywhere he is everywhere test was prior
to Minnesota, he had winning records and Medved's done the
same thing as well. Whether he can transfer that to
the Big eighteen, I don't know, but.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
We hit the optimum word transfer. I mean, you have
to get the right transfer kids in here, and and
you know you're going into college basketball season and compared
to what it used to be, it wasn't even that
long ago. I certainly could name one star basketball player
in college basketball right now.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
I have no idea, And yeah, I'll take time.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
And you're we're paying attention if you're a college fan
right now, you're watching more college football and you know
some of the some of the players that are going
to be drafted next year. The Indiana quarterback, he's already
being mentioned as potentially number one draft pick overall in
the NFL. And what a great story that continues to be.
And though that head coach probably be gone, they're going
to maybe penn State will offer him, you know, eighty
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million dollars to come and coach them, which Indiana.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Oh yeah, coach, that's possibility. Yeah, he's an interesting character.
But the part.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
There's there, there there's a there's a tie between Matt
Ruhle and the athletic.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Right Oh yeah, oh absolutely rules. Uh, he'll be here
of course Friday night. Got a lot of ties to
pen you know, to Pennsylvania in that area. But yeah,
just as far as the players go, because you know,
it's the one and Don's and you don't have those
kind of teams anymore, even the last couple of years.
It's been harder for me, as it was a big
college basketball fan to kind of get into it till
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March because it just in. The golfers haven't been good obviously,
so it's pretty hard to get all riled up about,
you know, watching them play. Even on those winter nights.
It used to be so much fun at Williams Arena.
You hope that that changes and it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
They miss you at the barn.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
There is a time where you used to you never
miss you would be at the barn a lot.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, I'd be right in those front rows. They miss
the way you go back there again.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
I hope, so you know, I mean, uh they go
for women's basketball team is going to be I think
pretty good this year.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Mar Brough maybe going.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
There, Yeah, I got I got Uh, we've gone to
a couple of games. I've gotten more women's games and
men's games lately.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Be honest with you. So we'll see you there probably. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Karen likes to go, so we'll go. Yeah, I like
to you. Yeah, I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Wouldn't miss it. Well, you have yourself a wonderful couple
of days.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
We're gonna have a good time. Yeah, we'll miss the property,
several golf courses. Going to be a lot of fun.
You'll call it for spread spring tomorrow. Oh yeah, I
missed my tea time, so I'll tune in about one thirty,
get one for the it off, and then yeah, I
suppose as I'm tapping in for birdie on one and
walk into uh this second tea box, I'll do it again.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Talking and hitting golf shots has never been a problem
for you.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
You are correct. I will see you next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Yeah, I'll be interesting.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
We have a lot to talk about, tennebe.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Thanks for having me. Hey, great time you as well.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Enjoy your next two days Thursday and Friday with the
ten of Chris Gerald. I'll talk to you on Monday
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
I think they called it, that is correct?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You Ronnie Johnson is Brendon ron Johnson, Benny Lieber, yep
and Pete Bursch join you along with Dohn Mitchell and I.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
You're going to sort it?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yes, correct et Yeah, helly show, Thank you, I appreciate it. Yeah,
we'll be on the Eric's right.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Backs, it's been what a month? Well we do an
hour and a half. Oh you do ninety I thought
ninety minutes for home games and this is the first
time obviously the Vikings have been home in a month, right,
I mean they haven't played since that Bengals game at
US Bank, and I uiceed to have a noon game again,
So yeah, run from nine thirty to eleven on Sunday morning.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Head coach of the.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Soon to be a Big Game World champion in Minnesota Vikings,
Kevin O'Connell just had his midweek news conference live from
the New Winter Park aka T.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Show Performance Center.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Second question was asked about who's going to start, you know,
the quarterback situation. He said, same answer I gave you live.
He was he was not happy. You could tell he
was annoyed by it. Well, he's expecting it, but then
why is he annoyed by it?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Well, I don't know if he's annoyed by it, but
he just he cut it off and then he went
into more details. I'll discuss with you right now about
JJ and working with him the last week. I until
he announces his decision. And I think many of us thought.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Do you think it's a game time decision? No, I
think he'll announce it before that.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well you think they'll make an announce you, Well, I
don't think they'll just wait till all of a sudden
they out.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
To this ball. But I don't. I don't. I don't
think he's going to play that game.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, and uh Tenna laying it out in the contexts
for people who think that we got to start JJ,
I mean no, they don't. And there's nothing. It's not
a reflection on his future, his presence. It might be
just who's going to give you the best chance to
win on Sunday. End of story.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
But most of the fans, and they're all over me.
They're like, we don't care about this season. We're not
going anywhere this season.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
We need this spot. We need to see what we
have in J. J. McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
They want to see McCarthy no matter what he does.
He could throw four picks in the first half and
they're going to go, well, maybe we'll only throw three.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well there, there's always gonna be.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Fans are fans and that's that's what makes them fans,
and that's great. I mean, I love passion of fans.
We've been arguing and disagreeing. That's the beauty of sports
and that's why we have hopefully have.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You seen the look don chich by the way.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
We've been hard. We's hard all day. Have you seen
him play?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Not?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Just I have not. I don't.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Season basketball is like watching paint dry. I don't watch sports.
I am a sports fan. And the head coach of
the Celtics said, at best, it's like I'm not I
mean I I've watched two minutes of it.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
No, I I.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
When the season starts next really really sure?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You don't even watch him in the regular season.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
It looks better than he's ever looked. What I saw, well,
he saw all the basketball player. Let's not get off
the topic.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But he's a young fun now it.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Next April this time, all right. I mean he's a
hell of a player. There's no denying that. As far
as a quarterback thing. This is what I want to
say is if if went starts Sunday, it doesn't mean
that JJ is not going to This is the last
time I looked. I think the fightings are three and two.
I'm gonna do meat sauce math. They play seventeen games,
so they have twelve left. Is that right? That's a
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lot of football left. Plenty of football.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Plenty of football.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And it's not to suggest that JJ McCarthy number one,
we don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I think you're hearing something. I think you know that
they're hearing. No, because you've been you've been a big
got to play McCarthy guy up until well, I've wanted
to play him, but let me finish.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
So I want to say here, I we don't know
how healthy Number one J. J. McCarthy's ankle is. And
it could have been more of a significant injury. And
he's back out practicing. That's a good sign. And they
didn't they didn't put him on you know, four week
injured reserve. All that's a good sign. But he hasn't
played much football this year. Of course, he didn't play
at all last year, and so there's the physical aspect
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of it. And then listening to Koc right now, I
if you didn't know that that news conference his answers
were in the middle of October. Those answers could have
been pulled out of a news conference he had the
second week of training camp when he talked about the
mechanics and what he's been working with with JJ McCarthy.
You know what I'm saying, I don't know that. I
don't have the answer.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, they I think they're be fuddled by his inability.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Well, but he continues to work with them and doing
this and he said he at the end, you talked
about how much more time he spent with him, his
quarterback whisper. Then then he did with that kind of
what he normally does. And we've watched him walking all
over the field, which a lot of coaches do.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So that's the way of thinking that you can't.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
This is not experimental time to work on, you know,
the fundamentals. If you're into a game out of first
let's go. Well, I'm saying you can't and I'm not.
And if JJ McCarthy gets to start, great, I always
find it and I hope he's really I do too,
but I'm just saying that he's he O'Connell is talking
about McCarthy in terms of I think it's a combination
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of I think there's got to be some concern about
that ankle and and also the mechanics of how it's
affecting him. And listen, Wentz has got a bad left shoulder,
but I think that I think he's certainly in a
position to play through it. He'll they'll put a brace
on it, and you know he'll he'll figure it out
and try to, you know, just work through it. But
you know, it's it's an interesting answer to hear, and
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he's not the first time. We've heard it from Kaosi
about the mechanics of J. J. McCarthy in the middle
of October, and I think, well, this isn't like you're
working with somebody's golf swing or or.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I'm trying to think of another another shit.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Starting to come around in my way of thinking, well, no,
but again I'm not And I'm a big proponent of
wanting to see JJ alkire. Everybody does, but I don't
want to put him in a position to fail. And
I have that thing kind of backfire on him if
he's not number one physically ready, and that means he
wouldn't play. I mean, he could play well enough if
he has to go in there if something happened to once.
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I mean, Brozman is the other quarterback. We all know that,
but we're spending so much time talking about this who's
going to be the starter? I think the bigger picture
is who's going to be the finisher. Like a month
from now, month and a half in now, the last
seven games of the season, I hope J. J. McCarthy's
playing in him and that's that's that's the bigger issue,
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because at some point you've got to get this kid ready.
If he's the quarterback of the future. Of the future
is now you got to play him.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
They got Jackson coming back, they got O'Neill coming back.
Brandell looks like he's a pro center Tide Canada. So well,
he was really good. So you got that going for yourself.
Well you got you got Cashman's coming back this week.
I mean, the team is starting to get some of
the players out. The team that won fourteen and three
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of less. I can't believe all the quitters we have
for I give up on I'm as I'm actually shocked
by it, because generally sports fans always have some hope.
They're all saying, this is a terrible team and we're
not going anywhere. They watched so that went fourteen and
three last year. It didn't really eliminate anybody. They added
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to the team. They added to the interior of the
offensive line.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Engine.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
You do that because you think you can win. Now,
it's not because you're thinking, well, we're really not very good.
We're not a playoff team. What are the people watching.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Well and the team that's playing your Sunday, I think
everyone agrees they're they're they're fractured a little bit. They
have some they have injury issues like most teams do,
but they're not hitting on all cylinders. There's some infighting
going on. They're not running the ball well. And that
doesn't mean that Saquon Barkley isn't all of a sudden
going to turn into the All Pro running back that
he is and could run for one hundred and fifty
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on Sunday. But the point of matter is the Eagles
are a point and a half favorite.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
They're not.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
They're not seven point favorites here, They're not whatever they
that's a toss up game almost or oh, that means
that the Eagles would be faired by four if they
were playing in Philadelphia this week. Look at the NFL
everyone we talk about it all the time, look at
week to week trying to predict dames that we do
and everybody else does.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
It's a prime example my club.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yes, you basically after week one said their window was closed.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I did say that.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Then all of a sudden, they win four in a row,
The Power rankings them as the best team in pro football.
Then they lose to Kansas City and they look bad
and losing to them, they were just absolutely dominated in
that game. And now everybody things the lines are City.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I didn't feel they were dominated by him. Kansas City
was desperate team. They played. Holmes was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
They were they were dominated in that well, line scored
half the amount of points they normally score.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, that's well, that's true.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
But if Kansas City rolled up thirty points against them,
so they went from being they lost to the Packers.
They they're missed, their coordinators are gone. They're never going
to be any good again. They win four in a row,
everybody thinks they're the best team in football, and then
they now they lose the Kansas City Bridge word, that's
just the nature of the league.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
It is the nature of the league.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
And that if you look at the NFC West and
you pick your favorite team San Francisco with their backup
quarterback and what Sammy Darnold's doing in Seattle, I mean,
and in the East, it's it's like all of a sudden,
the people are jumping on the Giants a little bit. Washington,
even though they lost to the Bears the other night, right,
you know, they're still you know, they went to the
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championship NFC Championship game last year.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
It's just it's a week by week.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Thing, and it's just you don't know, Phil, You if
you still agree that Eagles are the team to beat, well,
they're not the same. And it's it's not unusual teams
that it's really hard to repeat. It's hard to get
back to that place. And that's why I kind of
say that about the Lions, that that I think Eagles
might be a little bit more of fat and sassy
than the tripe because he tries still got that real
hunger to get to a place that they should have
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been in the especially two years ago. But you just
it just can't predict this stuff. I think the biggest
thing is figuring out at some point when McCarthy's going
to get in there. But there's a Sunday or two
weeks from now, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Here's here's a text man that says coach is stressed
by the decision. He sounded like Zimmer answering that question.
Maybe he is, maybe could it be this? Could it
be this you talked about? He's talking about mechanics. Do
you think he's already thinking himself? The kid that I've
hand picked that I'm whispering to can't even get the
mechanics straight right now?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Wentz did play pretty well, We're three and two? What
am I going to do? Could the coach be stressed or.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I think I think stress is part of the contract
with being a head coach of an NFL team, But no,
I don't think. I don't think his answer about the
quarterback situation was a way of being that chirped. It
was a short answer because I think he basically he
knew it was coming. At the same time, he didn't
have anything to add uh that that he said.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
The other day.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So that was crry Zimmer like it was. But he
was like an eight word answer and he hasn't changed anything.
Where'd you find Zimmer press conferences when Chris Thomason was.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Zimmer was the best one? Zimmer would just say, I
love cranky Zimmer. Who is the quarterback that said? What
do you think about Josh Freeman?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Josh and he I seem in practice every day.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's that's all you need to just being honest. You
actually are terrible in practice, and so why would we
want to.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Put them in the game. No, No, he's not U Zim.
Let's take him break, We'll come back. We got more
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Speaker 3 (12:19):
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Speaker 1 (12:23):
Do you know Dave Campbell associated? Of course?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Dave is a sports reporter for AP based here in
the Twin Cities. He wrote a piece I think it
was yesterday or the day before headline Anthony Edwards embraces
the boring pursuit of greatness as timberwol seek a more
complete player, and I only bring it up. One of
the reasons I bring it up mostly is is because
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I was criticized by many many people over the past
couple of years that I didn't fully embrace Anthony Edwards
as the wonder can and the savor the frand guys
and the best player in the league and this and that,
because there are always things I saw in his game
that I did not think were quite where they needed
to be. And everybody else told me, mind your own business.
(13:10):
He's aunt, he can do whatever he wants. But when
you read through this story and he realizes it, and
I know he's young, and this and that and the
other thing. But Finch said, we've talked a lot about consistency,
and the consistency of habit is one of the areas
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of improvement. No matter what it pertains to Aunt has
got to measure up here. We might do different things
with matchups that put him in more high leverage situations,
which we know he can do and he enjoys. It's
an NBA mantra that if you do so much on offense,
you're allowed to not play defense.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
The best teams don't do that.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
They do what's necessary as much as they possibly can,
telling him they need you. We've talked about this. They
had a meeting colmly others have talked to him about
you need to play, you need to become one of
the top defensive players of the year. The next piece
says being there every night, being that every night player.
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There are plenty of finer points of playing offense that
Edwards can elevate too. He worked hard on ball handling
during the summer, a skill he acknowledged has often been
skipped because of the discomfort certain drills can create on
his lower back. That ought to help him improve his
performance in the clutch time situations that frequently hampered the
Wolves last season. Another way he can be more consistently
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double teams is to not allow the opponents to get
to that point by pushing the pace and running and
transition more often, recognizing ways to keep the offense better
space than the half court two can help. Sometimes players
has talented as Edwards also simply need to find new
ways to stay motivated during the regular season. And this
is what I was saying about him for so long,
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and everybody has piled on me and said, I don't
know what I'm talking about. They say, oh, he lives
rent free in your head, Well, maybe he does. It's
just when you are the franchise player, when you're paid
that kind of money, when they when everything is invested
in you, you got to grow up quick, and you
got to be mature, and you got to play a
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full forty eight minutes and you got to play start
to finish. And maybe this is the beginning of him
doing that because we know he's immensely talented.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Anybody that's watch would know that.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
But this is what I have been waiting for, and
hopefully it comes to fruition and he is the kind
of player that he can become because he's really really good.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
But to get to next level.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I asked you the question last week or maybe was
earlier this week. Does he have to play at an
MVP level in order to take the Wolves to the
next level? You said yes, and I agree he needs
to get to that level. And a lot of that
is just the want to and the desire and the
you know, he even mentioned here, how can he stay
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more engaged? He said, try to get a career high
in points. I think that's what I'm going to try
to do, So I don't know if that's the right hand,
So that's it's an individual accolade, but trying to stay
and gain because we've seen him at times he'll be
like missing an action in the first half, you know,
one bucket, maybe only taking a shot, then all of
a sudden the second half he goes off and scores
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twenty five or thirty. But I think they need a
more and if they do, the team could be very dangerous.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Right, Yeah, there are good points to be made about
all of that. And I think you know, at his
age now, just having been he's twenty four now and
having seen the league and where he sits in the
in the context of other stars in this league, there's
been an immaturity about him that has surfaced, sometimes at
the worst possible time, both on and off the court,
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where you know, you've got to take your craft very seriously.
I think his relationship with Chris Finch is very important.
They do have a very solid relationship. He has a
great deal of respect for his head coach, and Chris
understands the mindset I think of Anthony Edwards. But he's
also a quick to criticize when necessary and about those
exactly those things where he has those not just moments,
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I mean every n NBA player. You know, I've watched
Lebron for how many years? Well, sometimes, for lack of
a better word, coast through the first quarter and get
his teammates involved with the other you know, in the
flow of the game and then kind of take things over.
But as a mindset that I think this year is
probably more important than any other because the Wolves have,
(17:23):
you know, whether you want to look at the addition,
they didn't add a lot of players, but you're hopeful
that Terrence Shannon in particular, that Finch is going to
extend his bench a little bit and it's not going
to just be you know, living and dying with Ant's
performance on a nightly basis. That they have enough other
supporting people, but in order for him to take that
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next step, and I do believe I think that gold
medal experience, the experience he had of the Olympic team
when he was around the best of the best, had
a positive effect on him in terms of seeing the
work ethic, that the what it takes to be at
that level that those guys for the most part don't
take off. So I mean, also what you said, they're
all valid points and if Edwards is going to take
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that next step, but it can't just be when he
feels like it, And I agree, and I think, you know,
CON's been pushing on him. A lot of guys have,
and I think Edwards has been pretty tough on himself
by by all accounts, especially this summer and getting ready
for this season.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Well, let's hope. So yeah, let's hope. So yes.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
The last thing Finch said in the Dave Campbell p says,
just continue to be that every night player at a
high level that we know he can be, which is
what you need to do if you.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Want to be an m v P in this league.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I certainly think he's got the DNA for it and
he just has to really fully embrace it and maybe
this is the year he'll do that.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Well, let's uh. For the Walls, let's hope, so because
there they need that kind of game. When you talk
about the best players, you just mentioned Don Sich and uh,
you know Wemby and the players that he goes. You know,
every single night in the NBA, you're going up, for
the most part against a really good player and not
necessarily a superstar, but you know, a couple of unfortunately
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have serious injuries and aren't going to be playing at
the beginning of the year. But Ant faces the best
of the best, and especially in the Western Conference, which
is that's why I mean, I guess my watching the
preseason game with with Dallas or something. No, but when
the regular season starts, I'll definitely be watching a lot of.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Dallas was awfully good. Donic was seven for nine from
the floor. He was very very good.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Last well we'll have that, and he's I'm not going
to argue with you about the capability of Luka Donsage.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
He's one of you and everybody else is because he
was pudgy and he got traded.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well, I think I think I think that was everybody.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I think he literally looked in the mirror and said,
I got to improve my conditioning. That's he you can't
get you know, you can't get by on talent, Anthonys
for talent alone. Would you trade you know, that's Anthony
Erards for Luka Doncic. That's a that's a tough one.
Donsige is how old right now? Not that old? Twenty
eight something like that. Probably the best overall player in
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the league. I take one, Nyamata, I know you would, well,
I know you're of the general managers. He is a talent.
He's definitely a talent, that is for sure. Well, it'll
be a fun season.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
We'll start October twenty October twenty seven, the first game
in Portland.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, then off and run for eighty two. My god,
it's just so long seasons. You like this club a lot? Well?
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I like yeah, I mean, I like the fact that
that Chris Finch is talking about extending his bench a
little bit more that I hope that.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
We've been begging him to do that for ver.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Well we have what it was what he did was
it's it's always.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
What's that phrase do you always use?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
You know, like in the NFL, it's always what's what's
what's hot right now?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Or what's that I'm looking for? Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
The the the the flavor of the week is right
looking for a flavor of the week is They've always
played ten deep in Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
That's what they do.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
They play ten deep. Well, they play them all. They
play ten guys. They play him every game because you
got to have everybody ready to play, and you have
guys that this way also, guys can play harder for
longer stretches, get a blow, bring somebody in.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Oh, you brought in somebody who's used to playing.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It seems to me it's so elementary and I get
there are coaches like TIBs and I think Finch and
others that they don't trust those guys. They realize that
if they don't have winning teams, they won't have their
job for very long either.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So you're in to win.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
But I think, I think if if you have until
you play some of these guys longer stretches, you don't
know if they if.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I think Shannon and Dillingham are going to be the
two guys in particular, and my guy Clark are going
to those two in particular. Shannon and Dillingham are going
to get extended playing time. And I'm excited to see
Terren Shannon kind of do his think because he's an
explosive player. We saw more than glimpses of it last
year in Dillingham, He's got to use his skills to
do the things that he does best, and it opens
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up everything else for everybody on this basketball team.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
It's possible you might be in better shape than Luga
Doncich was last year.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
It's possible because it's impossible. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
You look pretty good, thank you, But with the fitness,
with the fitness game, that's what.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It was funny.
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Speaker 3 (22:52):
Final segment of the Grom, Final segment of the gram
for me for the week.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
I'm taking a couple of days off well deserved too.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Ten, it's cherlod so yourself. Yes, I don't mind saying
so myself. And I don't mind saying so myself. The
Ten of Fitzgerald set sail Friday, Thursday and Friday at Dude,
I will make an appearance tomorrow. Unlike when you're gone,
you just get you just tell teneb what your what
your I'm gonna call.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
I was on a plane when that was happening, so
I couldn't really call. There was no phone on the plane,
so I was, uh, we hadn't landed yet.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Okay, I guess I have to take your word because
I don't know what your flight schedule you're not going
to see it, Yeah, because you weren't on plane resting
pool side.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
The pool side of rain all weekn't got a beautiful
Charleston so there before it was nice.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Uh. You know, we even discussing debating best players in
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Who are they? You know, top ten?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Who's the very best? Would you trade this guy for
that guy? I was reading a piece on my extensive
preparation for my show from specbasports dot com just talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
S g A and just this first paragraph just kind.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Of it's it's hard to argue when you read that
SGA put together one of the all time great individual
seasons for an NBA star in the twenty twenty four
to twenty twenty five season, when he became the first
player to win the league's scoring title, MVP Finals, MVP
and a championship in the same season since Mike Jordan
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pulled off the same astonishing feet in ninety seven ninety eight.
Now think about that, I mean, that hadn't happened since
Mike Jordan did in nineteen ninety seven, ninety How many
years is that? That's a long time in SGA was
able to do that.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And the story is best for last year. He absolutely did.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And the story goes on to say, and yet despite
producing the season we haven't seen it almost thirty years,
sga Is is not in the top spot of the
best one hundred players in the NBA going into this season.
That continues to be least the CBS Sports guys they did,
they do. They have their eight or nine writers that
do NBA and so they make their little list and
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it's because most people have the Joker there. And as
the story goes on to say, that's because jokers busy
rewriting history books himself, and he is a more than
worthy candidate for that number one position.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The three time MVP produced.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
The bestest statistical season of his career last season, averaging
a monstrous triple double twenty nine point six points, twelve
point seven rebounds in ten point two assists, in doing
so on outrageous efficiency sixty.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Six point three percent true shooting. To get to, be.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Regardless as the best player in the league, you got
a lot of competition. And those are two astonishing seasons
in the same season by two of the best players
in the league. And that's why a lot of these
players are You know again that I'm not saying that
ant is one of the best players. But when you
have when you have your aunts and your wemen yamas,
and your and and and your Greek freaks and all
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these players and and you know, even some of the
older guys that probably wouldn't I don't think you put
Stephan that conversation anymore or durantel Lebron because they're while
they're still very good, I wouldn't say they're the best
players in.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
The league anymore. They're among them, but they're not goes
to the numbers these guys are putting.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
It speaks to the the expansion of international basketball, how
the scouting has expanded the talent level internationally, where the
US used to just dominate no matter who they played,
and now whether you're talking about France, Slovenia, Italy, what
I mean, it's it's such a you know, an international
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game and we're seeing the best of the best players
come to the NBA. I mean, I thought that we
were in the kind of the Golden Age not that
many years ago, with the kind of talent level we
saw you talk with the Jordan era, and we know
that you know, whether you're watching them go, you know,
head to head against Utah and Stockton them alone, and
obviously the Lakers had, you know, their bevy of stars,
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and the Celtics always you know with Michale Parish and
Bird and you know, I thought, man, we ever going
to see a time like this in in basketball? Again, well,
we're seeing it. And then you know, go through the
whole thing with what the Golden State Warriors did with
with the you know, they're still hanging on and maybe
and then some I'm with Steph Curry and and of
course Klay Thompson's in Dallas now, and but it's it
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keeps getting better, and I think that's you know, a
reflection on how international the game has become and how
much talent there is in the world.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Here are some other numbers from SGA last year. He's
scoring fewer than twenty points in a game one times
during the regular season. That was an eighteen point outing
in the fourth game of the season, while scoring thirty
or more on forty nine occasions. In the playoffs, he
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had three outings below twenty points while scoring thirty or
more and fifteen of the thunders twenty three playoff games
en route to the title. Even while struggling with his
three point shot against defenses trying to force anyone else
to beat them. That's how good he is. And I
know he's a flopper of azation and this and that
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and the other thing, but he's brilliant.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
He does he does sell it and many times you know,
ends up with you know, burns floor burns from being
on the floor as much as he is. But and
that many times he earns it too.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
And then listen to this, It says for as much
as we discuss joke or orchestrating everything for the Nuggets,
Sga serves as an serves as an equally important engine
for OKC. His thirty four point eight percent usage rate
last season was third.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
In the league behind LaMelo Ball in Ante.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Takoumpo, with the key difference being Sga was doing so
on the league's.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Third best offense.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well and Koompo's bucks were tenth and Ball's hornets were
twenty ninth. It's exceedingly rare for a team as successful
inefficient as the Thunder to rely so heavily on one
player for creation. But that's a testament to SGA's abilities
as both a score and facilitator. He pulls all the
strings of the thunder and has learned how to tow
the line between being an elite scorer and individual creator
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also keeping his teammates involved and engage, and that's what
he does and as a point guard, that's why it's
so important.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
That's why he is. He is so so talented. He's
definitely worth the price of mission, as they say.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Yeah, and I think that's that. And because he has
a very nice supporting cast, he has a hell of
a coach, and they're coming off a championship. It's hard
to repeat. We know that it's really difficult, but I
think that's why they're the odds on favors because of
what he's able to do.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Have no longer to be one of the best. They
have an opportunity to try to. It's hard to it's
in this league. It's for you know, injuries and everything
else and staying motivated with the money they're making and
to grind your way through an eighty two game season
then it starts over again for another three months. Basically
that you have to be at your best, and we
saw the best of OKC last year and well deserved championship.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
It's Wednesday. That means one thing around here. Oh, it's
a Wild Wednesday. Rock Talk, Rock Rank Wild Wednesday. Your
shot at Wild.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Take We love that.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
One's tickets to see Minnesota play Utah. Eleventh caller right now,
one eight hundred three to two zero fifty three twenty six,
One eight hundred three to two zero fifty three twenty six.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
You want a pair of tickets to see.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
The Wild take on the Utah Mammoth to take on
the Woolies October twenty fifth, Call right now and be
the eleventh call, and the tickets are yours. Uh, Dodgers
did it again? Ya, I'm a moto. I think he
gave up opening pitch. You gave up a home run.
From that point, give up two more hits. The rest
of the game is a complete game. And I can't
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remember what I read, but it's like the first complete
game and postseason in eight years. Wasn't think about years,
And well that's just the way they pitched. Now they
take pictures because they have so much money invested in
those arms. They don't dare they don't want to take
that chance. But he pitched a complete game loss. And
so that's two performances back to back where Snell goes
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eight innings, gives up one hit and strikes out ten.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
The bullpen, the Dodgers' bullpen is.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
A weakness apparently this year, and I think maybe that
was another reason why they went to distance of the
Yama motive, because the Brewers had a chance to win
that they could. They almost stole that game in the
bottom of the ninth the other day, but they did
not game one. They almost stole it. What I'm saying
is that's I think why they probably Yama motive go.
That is is they didn't want to give it back
to that bullpen again because it was still a close game.
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But you know, that's where you know, I remember TK
used to do the old if you pitch some play
d friends and give yourself a chance to win the
ball game. And I think everybody that knows, I mean,
you know, there are times when the best pitchers in
baseball are having an off day and a good hitting
team can get to them. But more times than not.
I don't know if you agree with me here, but
if you if you told me, I want one of
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the best pictures on the mound in a postseason game
rather than one of the best offenses in baseball. And
they ali will take the best picture, because when when
when they're on and have it going, it's the things
they can do with I mean, I think Royce wrote
a piece about a week ago.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
It was really nice.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Was it was about the way pitching is as has
progressed over the years and morphed and changed and evolved,
and how you know there used to be fastballker ball,
sinker and that was about it right right now you've
got slurves and swerves and all these different pitches and
throwing as hard as you can and in all the
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different ways to to and then you you know, when
when you use your sabermetrics and analytics, which can be helpful.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
We've talked about that.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I'm not I still think I'll just go with the
guy with his cunning and gone more than said.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
But but when you know what.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Pitchers, catchers or a hitter's tendencies ares and such like that,
if you've got a good.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Guy on the hill man, it just makes all the difference.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
In one we've seen, they have a two zero lead
against the Brewers, had the best record in Major League Baseball,
going a very talented club with a pretty good pitching
staff on their own. But what they add was a
team that they could hit the long ball to win games.
They did it in postseason. They can go long and
win games. They can play small ball to win games.
But when you're facing the best pitching in baseball, nothing that.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Yeah, Momoto took the air out of that building last night.
There was after Milwaukee scored in the bottom of the
first with the home run, think, oh, this is they're
going to give it a run here Dodgers scored two
right away in the top of the second, and you know,
still it's two to one game, no big deal that
they didn't score again until the sixth inning. And then
it just kind of you could just feel it, and
and you know, the fans were kind of you know,
they were they were anticipating something big happening, but they
(33:53):
never really got a chance to cheer, and they they
really got a chance to get the you know, the
Brewers never gave their chance out, a chance to kind
of get into the game.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
And now they got to go back to l A.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
And you know it, it certainly looks like they're just
punching their way right, you know, right to the World Series.
And I you know, I think most baseball fans if
you're watching it all. I mean, I I love the
city and I have I've talked about a million times.
I love the city in Toronto, love the people, love
you know, I like what they you know, what they
stand for.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
But I think you know, you're.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Not recognized there, which is another which is refreshing.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
But I'd like to see Seattle. Uh oh yeah, I'm
on to you know, Seattle's got a fun team to watch.
You know, they talk about hitting the ball out of
the park, not just cal Raley and and what they've
done in our guy Polanco. That would be hopefully a
fun World Series and Seattle's never had a chance eliminated.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I don't care really try to Seattle. Dodgers to Seattle.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Is fun to me.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Like I said, Seattle's turned into a great story this year.
But I don't know if anybody can be the Dodgers.
I mean, it's just they're they're playing every day lineup. Yeah,
they're just there's no weakness and uh it's it's a they're.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Not afraid to spend money, and I know there's a
well no, they're more available to them. But every owner
major League Baseball if they really want I mean that
what the San Diego guys done and the Mets guy
they spend their own personal fortunes. They hasn't want it
for him yet. But as a fan, do you really care?
I mean, there was there was a quote from I
don't remember.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I have it somewhere I saved it where.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
One of the baseball owners said something infect he goes,
fans don't care. They just want a winning team, so
they don't care if I'm spending my own money or whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
It comes from.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
So like he's basically saying, there are no excuses either
field a winning team or you don't you know, and
if if, if, if, if you're in a smaller market
and you bought the club, you know the rules. You know,
there is no sin now that may change or may
eventually be a salary cap and a floor, but right now,
if you want to compete, you have to spend some
of your own personal fortune.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
That's just how it works.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Yeah, And whether they end up with a lockout another
year from now remains to be seen. But you know,
in the meantime, the Dodgers keep, you know, humming along,
and they're probably going to be on the verge of
winning their second straight World Series title and that's they've
had a.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Few of them.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
And in LA that's you know, they care about the Dodgers.
They they care about USC football. They don't much care
for the you know, the Ram. When the Rams play
the forty nine Ers, that so far was it was
it the Rams were the Chargers. There were three fourths
the stadium was filled with forty nine Er fans and
(36:26):
it's like, oh I can pay attend. Pro football is
almost an It's an afterthought in Los Angeles, has been
for a long time.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
That's why you know, they you know, they stole it.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
You know, Saint Louis moved there, of course, but in
the Chargers moved from San Diego. So they got two
teams there that weren't even from there. And now they're
kind of just going through the motions and they got
a damn good football team there too.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Is today the fifteenth, Yes, two days ago, the Associated
Press released their top twenty five men's college basketball polls
we get Ready for the college basketball season. Purdue number one,
followed by Houston, Florada, Yukon and Saint John's rounding out
the top ten. Duke Michigan BYU Kentucky, Texas Tech, and Louisville.
(37:13):
Other Big Ten schools would be Illinois at seventeen, Michigan
State at twenty two, in Wisconsin at twenty four. Others
receiving votes the Gophers aren't included.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I would be.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I'm very curious. I think everybody is when you have
a new coach and a new program in a new direction,
and there are I think there are only two players
that were on last year's goal forers.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Have I read that right? That are on this year's
Gophers team.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
He has went out, he's done the transfer portal, He's
brought player you know, I think he's got at least
one or two kids from where was he at Colorado State?
Was it?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
He brought them along with him, and a lot of.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
If I saw it right too, I think there's a
lot of seniors on the team, guys with the experience
now how quickly they can meld together basketball as a
team game. But I think everybody's curious, you know. Look,
I think I had is much fun in nineteen ninety
seven as I ever had watching college basketball, and the
Golfers made the run of the Final four. We know
all about the cheating scandal and all that, but the
(38:24):
athletic the academic cheating scandal. But it's well, it's like
what I talk about in football as well. Why college
football generally isn't on my radar other than now Deuces, Alm,
the Waters in Nebraska, Pizza Ohouse State. So I've watched
more college basketball this year that I've watched in the
past ten years, combine in college football. But if your
(38:45):
local team is and you know, if your local team
is involved, and they're considered one of the better teams
the country, at least a top twenty five team, it
makes it to me more attractive to pay attention. And
I'd love to see is it Medved? Is that his
name in Eco Medical? I'd love to see him do
a right job. He's he's sure, he's he's light fleck
(39:06):
in this way, everywhere he is everywhere test was prior
to Minnesota, he had winning records and Medved's done the
same thing as well. Whether he can transfer that to
the Big eighteen, I don't know, but.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
We hit the optimum word transfer. I mean, you have
to get the right transfer kids in here, and and
you know you're going into college basketball season and compared
to what it used to be, it wasn't even that
long ago. I certainly could name one star basketball player
in college basketball right now.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
I have no idea, And yeah, I'll take time.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
And you're we're paying attention if you're a college fan
right now, you're watching more college football and you know
some of the some of the players that are going
to be drafted next year. The Indiana quarterback, he's already
being mentioned as potentially number one draft pick overall in
the NFL. And what a great story that continues to be.
And though that head coach probably be gone, they're going
to maybe penn State will offer him, you know, eighty
(39:59):
million dollars to come and coach them, which Indiana.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Oh yeah, coach, that's possibility. Yeah, he's an interesting character.
But the part.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
There's there, there there's a there's a tie between Matt
Ruhle and the athletic.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Right Oh yeah, oh absolutely rules. Uh, he'll be here
of course Friday night. Got a lot of ties to
pen you know, to Pennsylvania in that area. But yeah,
just as far as the players go, because you know,
it's the one and Don's and you don't have those
kind of teams anymore, even the last couple of years.
It's been harder for me, as it was a big
college basketball fan to kind of get into it till
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March because it just in. The golfers haven't been good obviously,
so it's pretty hard to get all riled up about,
you know, watching them play. Even on those winter nights.
It used to be so much fun at Williams Arena.
You hope that that changes and it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
They miss you at the barn.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
There is a time where you used to you never
miss you would be at the barn a lot.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yeah, I'd be right in those front rows. They miss
the way you go back there again.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
I hope, so you know, I mean, uh they go
for women's basketball team is going to be I think
pretty good this year.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Mar Brough maybe going.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
There, Yeah, I got I got Uh, we've gone to
a couple of games. I've gotten more women's games and
men's games lately.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Be honest with you. So we'll see you there probably. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
Karen likes to go, so we'll go. Yeah, I like
to you. Yeah, I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Wouldn't miss it. Well, you have yourself a wonderful couple
of days.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
We're gonna have a good time. Yeah, we'll miss the property,
several golf courses. Going to be a lot of fun.
You'll call it for spread spring tomorrow. Oh yeah, I
missed my tea time, so I'll tune in about one thirty,
get one for the it off, and then yeah, I
suppose as I'm tapping in for birdie on one and
walk into uh this second tea box, I'll do it again.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
Talking and hitting golf shots has never been a problem
for you.
Speaker 3 (41:41):
You are correct. I will see you next Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Yeah, I'll be interesting.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
We have a lot to talk about, tennebe.
Speaker 1 (41:47):
Thanks for having me. Hey, great time you as well.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Enjoy your next two days Thursday and Friday with the
ten of Chris Gerald. I'll talk to you on Monday
at twelve noon. Stick around big ticket and j G
there next cheer on the Fame and good.
Speaker 4 (42:00):
Night open and good night missus Calabash.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Where have you YadA?
Speaker 5 (42:10):
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