January 9, 2025 • 35 mins
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On this Crunchy Grooven Thursday, we are about halfway through
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live guy. Birthday of the Day. A big thank you
to David Vasse who joined us in the last segment.
He will be around for Dodger talk tonight at seven o'clock,
and the Dodgers did do a few things, so that
is something to discuss now dawn tomorrow. Yes, we're going
to talk about this in a moment. We have Ucla
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at Maryland tip off at five on AMFI seventy. Ucla
still ranked number twenty two, probably not going to be
number twenty two when the next week starts. And like
we said, the Ram game, as we anticipated, I guess
since earlier today, has been moved to Cardinals Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
Probably a wise move, gonna cost Kronky some money, but
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the NFL has made that choice. Rams Vikings in the
playoffs moving to Arizona on Monday night, no playoff in LA. Saturday,
Chargers at Texans. That's where Matt is headed. And we'll
talk to him in Houston tomorrow and we do the
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happens if the Clippers play against the Hornets. The one
tonight got canceled or postponed.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
They played Monday again too. They play Saturday Monday. We
will push forward and try to do our best. Now,
last hour we started with the college football whip around,
and that is because the game is kind of on
right now, so I didn't want to kind of program
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myself by talking about a game that's already on.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, you know what I mean. So we change things
and we will call this the word of the day.
His words the word of the day. Today's word of
the day is history repeating, just like that propeller Head song.
And I have to say that it's kind of interesting
to me. Now, Donya are a lot closer to this
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and understand it a lot better. But Mick Cronin very
frustrated the other night with his basketball team, did what
he normally does after the game, and which is attacked
Josh Lewin and then attack the players and his staff
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and to Ben Boltch and guys like that. And we
played it yesterday. And of course we always have a
lot of fun with how candid Mick is, because as
angry as he is, it's hard not to find it
kind of funny, you know, especially if you're not one
of his players. I mean, it's it's awesome. But he
is an animated guy. And I don't know. I mean,
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you you watch. I remember being the SEPA guy for
whatever it was, ten years and seeing different coaches and
their styles, and you know, when you're down there on
the table, you you hear everything, you know everything, and
you and you watch people coach and you learn about
the college basketball game. At least that's how I did.
And Mick Cronin's pretty demonstrative. I mean he's at the
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I mean, if there's a level ten, I mean, he's
probably that level of demonstration. I mean, never seen him
throw a chair, but well here's here's a little action
from the other nightsoft.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So don't tell me you want to win. Like, just
don't tell me you want to win. So don't just
don't tell me you want to win. It's crazy, you know,
And it's every day. I'm tired of it. I have
the most energy of all of anybody at practice.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Every day I have.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I'm upset with everybody in that locker room, my assistant
coaches and my players.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I mean, I don't need to do anything else. I
almost got five hundred wins.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I'm only fifty three.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I mean, it's a joke. It's a joke.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
But yet I come in and I have more passion
and energy and pride than everybody in. That's the problem.
So what the truth of it has been, it's really
hard to coach people that are delusional. The hungry dog
gets the bone. We got guys that think they're way
better than they are. They're nice kids, they're completely delusional
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about who they are.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Bang. So that was Mick the other night. And then
and I pointed out yesterday, like, wait a minute, doesn't
this happen every year? At some point you around January,
Cronin goes buck Wilde. Some national shows are like, well
this car is just too much, and then the team
digs their way out, responds to the coach. And even
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Ben Boltch picked up on that throw back to when
Mick Cronin did the exact same thing he did after
the Michigan loss his first season when the Bruins. With
the Bruins, what happened next to UCLA one to eleven
of the last fourteen and then COVID shut everything down?
Remember that you were here a pac twelve tournament. Here
he is in twenty twenty, around the exact same time
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of the year. Coach Cronan is kind enough to join us.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
And I know not great circumstances, coach, but we appreciate
you coming out.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What was your assistant loss to staff for tonight?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
We were outclassed, simple as that. Unless you have vision issues,
you ever watch a basketball game, and we were out classed.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Lewin just wears he walks right into a fist.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
They shut fifty thirty nine percent.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Uh do you ever see that name about the UFC
chick that's all beat up like smiling, that's Lewin, you know,
after interviewing Cronin after a loss.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Uh, here's what I like about Mick. You know what
you're gonna get. You know what the expectation level is
for him and for him being the head coach at UCLA.
So this isn't like some newsflash like, oh, Mick Cronin
lost his mind and went off on a team in
the in the press conference.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
You know that, Like the guys that came to play
for him, know that.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That's what I'm saying, Like, you know that when you
sign up to play at UCLA, you're gonna get challenged
in practice, You're gonna get challenged in the games, and
if you're not ready for that, then maybe you should
play somewhere else. And I think that's what Mick's saying, Like,
you know what I expect. You know what I expect
in practice, you know what I expect in the games,
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And when you're not providing that, I'm gonna call you
out on that because that's what I expect. And you know, oh,
that's what I expect. So, like you said, the national
people can go, well, it's a little much, and so no,
you know what it is.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You know how Mick Cronin is.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
There's a lot of different ways to skin a cat,
and in coach basketball, this is how he does it now,
so right or wrong, you know this is how he
does it. So why is anyone surprised?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I don't know. Two things I'd want to ask. Number One,
every year he does this, it seems, or every year
there's some frustrating moment where he calls out the team.
I'm sure it's kind of a Phil Jackson kind of
thing where he's trying to get a response from them.
Do you think this team will respond? I do? I do?
They seem to always do it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Look, they've had a lot of success this year, maybe
more success than people thought. Like they're exceeding the expectations,
winning an Oregon, beating Gonzaga. Like, I don't know if
people thought that before the season started or not, but
I think this was a reset for him. They've lost
two in a row now, they lost in Nebraska on
the road to Michigan the other night, and so he
is now saying we need to get back to what
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made us good to start the year, and this is
how he does it. I got zero problem with it.
And again, if this is how you think the best
way to motivate your team is, then that's how you
do it. Some people don't believe that's the best way,
doesn't matter how this is how Mick Cronin's done it.
He's been coaching for a long time. This is how
he motivates his teams. I bet you the next time
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they play Pee, I think it's tomorrow at Maryland, right, yes, correct,
right here on a station, they are going to respond.
I would bet a lot of money on that that
they will respond based on what they heard in that
press conference.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Another interesting thing is done and maybe it's not different
at all, because Mick is Mick. Do you think it's
very different because these guys are getting paid. I mean,
they're all getting paid.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I think this along. We could go on for an
hour about this. I think that coaches don't. Well, everyone's different,
but I don't think coaches like the fact that they're
paying these players and then not getting maximum effort. Right,
Like NBA players have always gotten paid, so that's just
part of the gig, and that's always been the case
and whatever. But now college players are getting paid. So
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is there more expectation from the coaches in performance and effort?
I think there is. I'm not I don't know. I've
never talked to Mick about that, but I get the
sense in talking to coaches around college basketball that they
don't they expect more from their players because now they
are giving them this much money.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I mean, if you think about it, right, I mean,
you've been in different college programs over the years in
our era, eighteen year old seventeen and a half year
old freshman half ass in a workout because he's tired
and he just had to study.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Take I'm paying you four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, wake up a whole yeah, you know, now you're
like a fourteen year old Romanian gymnast. Get your ass up,
you're a professional. I mean, how often do you hear
quote unquote student athlete anymore? Right? I mean we don't
hear that, you know what? The other thing that really
trips me out, and no one talks about it, no
one unless you're like talking to the coach at Stanford
and he's full of it too, not that particular guy,
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but you know what I'm saying, when was the last time?
And it was so prevalent in our day, when was
the last time? And it just went away without anybody
ever saying anything? When was the last time? They were like, gosh,
we can't get this guy in school, he don't have
the grades, or wow, you know, we just this guy's
this guy didn't go to class, he's under the GPA,
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he's ineligible for this game, or he was cheating on
a paper like that happened at USC when I was
there and they suspended players, Like does that? When did
that go away? Like there's no more academic standards at
all for these guys anymore. It feels like, could.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
You imagine you pay a guy half a million dollars
and he can't play because he's not academically cleared.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But he's supposed to be in school, right, so you're
paying him to not play. Yeah, And I mean, you
can't be eligible regardless of the nil money and all that.
I believe, I'm one hundred percent positive. I think, what's
not that's oxymoron. But you got to be twelve units
or over to be eligible to play, to be a student, right,
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just to be there, to be in the uniform. Right,
So they are taking classes allegedly, you know what I mean? Though,
Like when did that go away? Was it ten years ago?
Was it?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Like?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I can't remember the last time. We're like, yeah, this
guy's just not getting it done in the classroom.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Well, what's funny, you say, is that happened all the time.
I was just thinking about the games I've done so
far this year in December, and there wasn't one mentioned
by any of us about finals and how that used
to affect. Oh, you're playing before or after they got
finals coming up? So maybe I don't remember even mentioning
that this year.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
The great Brady Quinn, who's a friend of the show,
you know, was on the other end. They got a
big game, Notre Dame coming up and all that, and
Matt asked a really good question. And Brady sometimes gets
a little briskly, but Matt asked like, hey, why can't
we do this earlier? Like it doesn't seem like this
time off is serving anybody at this point in college football?
And the playoff is going to stretch you, you know, deep
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into the new year anyway like you want it to.
So you know, why do we have to have two
three weeks off? And Brady was like, well, these guys
have stuff to do, you know, they got finals and stuff.
I was like, it's the last When was the last
time I heard anybody say anything like that? You know,
a Notre Dame. You know, they're pretty self important. But
and maybe he's right, maybe that's what they say to themselves,
But when was the last time you ever heard anything
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academically about anything in college sports?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You know, the malls, I hear pee and you hear
is portal in Nil. That's all that's talked about, Portal
Nil incessantly.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And a tunnel walk, you know, wearing something cool. Here's
my number number of the day.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Number of the day pe is fourteen. The NFL today
sent an email to the fourteen playoff teams reiterating the
importance of sportsmanship, another word we don't hear very often anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Unless it's unsportsmanlike.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Sportsmanship in the playoffs, in the playoff games that start
this weekend, sportsmanship like what do you mean like Perry Fewell?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Fewell, not Perry Farrell from James oh.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Not from James Addiction. The league's SVP of Officiating Administration,
sent the memo to gms and head coaches and said,
at this level of competition, emotions will run high, but
no amount of emotion should give way to demeaning and
offensive words, taunting, or other non football acts. No one
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wants a penalty or a player ejection to determine the
outcome of a game.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
So basically, they're saying, we will bang you like they
bang this Laker game tonight and ruin your playoff game.
If you do something and demonstrate like a fool or
like you know, like a guy who's out there fighting
for his life, you can't do.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
The gun sign or the slitting of the throat sign, Like.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
What about the shotgun to the face like the LSU
guy did. They're the USC guy the early.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Fines for on field acts have gone up from last season.
In twenty twenty three, the NFL issued four hundred and
nineteen finds during the regular season in playoffs. This season,
the NFL has issued four hundred and eighty four finds
through the first seventeen regular season weeks. In week sixteen
and seventeen alone, the NFL issued ten fines for taunting
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or violent gestures.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
What I don't understand, don is that okay taunting violent gestures,
But if you get a fumble, it's okay for like
twenty guys to run into the end zone and pose
on the camera. But that's cool. We like that. That's
like a social media moment. But doing like a double
shotgun first down is yeah. I mean, at a certain point,
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it's like, hey, NFL, your sport is gigantic, violent. Mind
people running into each other and being violent. They're they're
gonna be a little emotional out there, guys. I think, yeah, well,
let's not have too much, all right, Colin, You're doing
such a great job. Time of the song of the day.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
This is the song of the day.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Today's song of the Day is a Real Hero by
College and the Electric Youth, a special Thank you to
the firefighters, law enforcement and first responders battling the various
wildfires in LA. We continue to pray for them as
well as all the people affected by these fires, and
that's a.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Great job from Colin. You will be right back with
the top story of the day as The Petrosen Money
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UCLA is in Maryland Saturday. The Clippers are taking on
the Hornets. We don't know the status of that game,
but the Lakers and Hornets has been canceled tonight. Kawhi
Leonard not with the Clippers even though they're here in
LA and Don like we were talking about the Los
Angeles Rams, Minnesota, Viking Wildcard playoff game has been moved, Yes,
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moved to Arizona as anticipated on Monday night. Just too
much going on around town and sporting events are being
canceled like prom dates during COVID. It is happening fast.
So that's what's going on with the Rams. That's moved
to Monday night. They're still going to play, but it's
gonna be in Arizona. But as we have said throughout
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the day, we are here to provide a little bit
of a respite for people in the world of great sports.
Talk and talk about sports. Try to keep it light
as light as we can with a really fun and
airy guy. Yeah, Don McClain found the right guy for that. Yeah,
just a real like sometimes it's like is he is
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he a hoops player, an analyst or is he a comic?
You mister personality here on the phone. I don't know,
get cup check on the line, but really I'm a
threesome and so let's call this the top story. There's
tough story of it. You know. We talked to James
Worthy every week on the show, and like you do
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with the Clippers, he does the studio work for the
Lakers and monitors that team. Very closely, and he said
something pretty interesting. Now, obviously circumstances are pretty wild right
now in town and all of that, but he said
that the Lakers loss to Dallas without Luca and without
Kyrie the other day really erased a lot of the
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good feelings that he had leading up to that moment,
Like it really was a bad moment for the team
here in mid January or early January. Can that happen
to a basketball team where you have a loss and
it kind of it takes away all the momentum well
that you created, how bad.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Was Well it can. And it's interesting because you know,
I'm not going to speak for James Worthy, but James
Worthy has a championship level expectation. You know, he won championships.
I think because he's been such a big part of
the Lakers franchise for so long, that's the expectation. And
I think if he if he's talking about, you know,
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where where his team's level was at when they were
winning championships. You just wouldn't lose a game like that
and lose how you lost. I mean, they got blown out,
And so I think that's what he's speaking to the
first time.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
This year, right yeah, kind of look like they've given
up out there.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
He's speaking to you know, what what a championship level
team should look like. And look, you're gonna lose games,
nobody wins them all. But when you have a team
that's depleted, as the Mavericks are and you get blown out,
it kind of speaks to where you know that level
that he's talking about is. And I just think that,
you know, defensively, there's just too many lapses when you
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watch the Lakers, they are just they're not bought in
consistently enough to where you're sitting there saying, I'm watching
a team that could get to the finals.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You just you're not.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I mean, Lebron's greatness is still there every night ad
when he's playing, but it's just there's too many lapses
in what they're doing. And you know, look, you're going
to run into two teams or games during the season
that you know you're you'd have to play really well
to win, like going to Cleveland or going to OKC
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one of those. But when you have Dallas team without
Luke and Kyrie, like, those are the games you have
to win in case you don't win those tough games
that I was just talking about. So I'm not surprised
he said that, but we'll see how they react moving forward.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Something I thought you've always done a great job with
as an analyst and a former player is not run
your mouth about people's locker rooms and what it's like
in that locker room. You always you never know, you say,
I don't know, I'm not in their locker room, which
is the right answer. And in a basketball situation, you know,
there's less people than what some of us are familiar
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with that come from the football world and all of that.
But I do have a question because you know, when
you have a team that faces kind of like an
identity crisis moment, like it seems like that was for
the Lakers, and it's not the first time this year,
as we mentioned. I mean, you're familiar with how basketball
used to be, and we talked about it recently, about
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how hard everybody used to play and some of the
competitive nature of it that you feel like maybe doesn't
exist as much anymore. But you know, in a locker
room back in the day, I talk about like maybe
those worthy teams or these different teams, like these guys
had to hold each other accountable, you know, I mean
any championship.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Team, because they were championship level teams, Pee, And that's
that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Look, I was on a lot of bad teams, and
it was worse than like the media knew that the
that the public knew if you were if you were
a crazy Washington Bullets fan, like you think you knew
the team. But unless you're in that locker room, you
have no idea. There could be fighting going on, there
could be guys not speaking to each other, there could
be guys that you know, slept with someone's girlfriend and
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other There's all kinds of stuff that happens that no
one knows about. So when you when they when you
go out on the court, you think you're watching something pure,
Like you read the newspaper about what's happening in practice
and this and that, Like you have no idea what
could be happening, and you know, with the fabric of
that team inside that locker room there, I mean, Pete,
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there is crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I played in the league almost ten years and there's
stuff you're like, even me and I'd been in the
league for a while, You're like, Wow, that's really happening right.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Now, And It's funny because we all think that we're
watching something pure. You don't think about it in the
context of your own life, right, and how complicated your
own life is and whatever you're dealing with. And that's
the other thing.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Pe these players, they're human beings as well, right, they
have stuff going on, and forget if there's infighting on
the team or stuff going on that guy could be
you know, you know, his mom sick or who knows
what could be going on that's affecting how he's playing.
And so that's what always strikes me with all these
people that have blogs and all this stuff. They really
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think they got the pulse of the team. They haven't
figured out they think they are right on the pulse.
They have no idea.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
What's interesting to me though, in the context of this
conversation is the modern day NBA where guys literally have
stylists styling them for their walk from their car. They're
three hundred thousand dollars car to the locker room. And
we're not talking about the superstars either, talk about role players,
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you know, on the team. Does the structure still work
the same as it used to? I mean, are these
guys able even on bad teams, good teams, championship teams.
Are they able to hold each other accountable in the
same way.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yes, the teams that win pee, the teams that really
win do. And I think what's fascinating is watching the
development of this OKC thunder team because they are young.
They got a lot of young dudes, but they're leading
the Western Conference and they don't seem to be slowing
down at all. They lost to Cleveland last night, but
Cleveland's the best team in the East. But watching their
progression and how Shay Gildess Alexander has become one of
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the best players in the league but also seems like
one of the best teammates in the league. Like he's
he's a good leader for all those young players. And
I just get the feeling watching them play that they
are bought in together, and based on what I just
said a minute ago, I have a feeling there isn't
a bunch of crap in their locker room. It kind
of just feels that way when you watch them play,
that they're tied together and they're unselfish, and they know
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Shay's the leader and they're not, you know, they don't
mind that that because he seems to be gracious with them,
and so you know, it can be done. And I
think the teams you know that have good leadership above that,
not even the head coach. Above the head coach like
Sam Presty is arguably, maybe not even arguably the best
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GM in the league. And I think it's because he
identifies talent, but he also identifies character, identifies who would
be a good fit in their system or in their program,
and that's how he developed it. Now they haven't won yet,
but they look like they're close to winning it, and
so I guess what I'm saying is it can be.
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It can be directly tied to the franchise from the top.
In that that saying has been around for one hundred years.
You know, it starts at the top, and I think
with the OKAC Thunder, it starts at the top. That
Boston Celtics seem to have great leadership. And so when there,
when there isn't that you have to you can look
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at the locker room, you can look at the coaching,
you can look at the front office, you can look
at the ownership and say, you know, how is it?
You know, is it starting there? In trickling down or.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
What feel great about the Lakers? The great Don McClain.
Talk a little basketball with Don McClain because he has
a basketball analyst. It feels like the crap and the
Clippers locker room. It's just that they never have They
just they're stampy healthy, they're superstars, never there, you know,
and and of course you know with the circumstances in
Los Angeles, it's very different. And you would expec Kawhi
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Leonard to be back. But how hard of a job
is this for ty Lou? I mean, it feels like
we've been asking the same question for years.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Well this year is a little different because Paul George
is gone and the expectation dropped some because of that,
and you know, now it's just Kawhi. Kawhi just started
playing again. But I think, ty Lou, it's been a
really difficult job. I think it was a difficult job
because of the expectation and then you know there's this
injury after injury in the playoffs. That's why they never
got over the hump and got to a finals. But
(26:57):
I think now it seems like he's doing an even
better better job because there isn't much expectation. But they're
exceeding those expectations this year without Kawhi for the most
part until now, and so we'll see what happens. Is
is Kawhi gets more reacclimated with the team and starts
playing more minutes in the effect he'll have on this team.
(27:18):
But they've done a great job with what they've had
so far this year of where they're at in the West.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
What about the adjustment period when the guy comes back,
you know, I mean he's not like a I mean,
he's not as bald dominant as like, hey, Lebron's back,
you know what I mean, It's not like it doesn't
feel like that. But how big of an adjustment is it,
because you've seen him come back so many times, you know,
on this team.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Well, I think what it does is is, look, Norman
Palell is established that he's probably going to be the
leading scorer on this team. James Harden is established that
he's gonna he has to score more now with PG gond,
but he also has to be a facilitator. Well, now
you throw Kawhi in there, just takes more pressure off
of Pale and Harden and some of the other guys
(28:00):
as being Now you know, the main guy. But I
still think Powell will lead them in scoring this year
just because of how that's all played out. But certainly
Kawhi's two way ability as well his defense, his ability
to guard multiple positions will be a big factor to
an already really good defense under Jeff Van Gundy. So
(28:22):
we'll see. You know, he's on a minute restriction right now.
We don't know how long that's gonna last, but I
think the goal is by March, heading into April, towards
the end of the regular season, that this thing is.
He's back incorporated, there's no minutes restriction, and he's made
them a lot better.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
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Welcome back everybody. The Petro Sayd Money Show on M
(29:23):
five seventy La Sports, your home of the Dodgers. We
talked to David Massey last hour. We just had some
impactful NBA talk with Don McClain. A big thank you
to Eric Allen, who was really fun to talk to
about the Raiders, and Mantitao who was a really great guest.
Manti Tao from the NFL Network. Of course, the legendary
(29:44):
Notre Dame linebackers. That game rages on right now and
a lot of people displaced, not only in our town obviously,
terrible things going on. Where you can get the latest
on KFI, our sister station, but also the in the
sports parlance, the RAM game, the Rams Vikings game has
(30:04):
been moved to Phoenix. As they said that they were
maybe going to do, they have moved the Ram Viking game,
same time, same everything, to Phoenix for Monday night. They
are not going to It's a shorter commute for Fred,
but other than that, they are not going to play
it here, which is a huge loss for Cronky and
(30:27):
everybody involved there. So we will be monitoring things as
we go on. But right now it's time for some
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A fine brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers,
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don what is it other than peace and on earth
and you know, some calm in our area. We want
listener interaction. Yeah right, these are things that we've talked about.
We're not experts. This says seawater, you know, for the
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Scooper planes is the last They don't like using it
because the saltwater corrodes the aluminum water storage in the aircraft.
Still I would say, put out the fire.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah, yeah, we can replace the aluminum.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Can we I don't know. It doesn't feel like we
can do much. Maybe it's just the high winds. Where
the hell is money during all of this Petrosen money
show is the civic failure show of record, and Matt
Muney Smith is the ultimate town crier of local government ineptitude.
He would have the biggest angriest boner right now, Yes
(31:37):
he would, But he is on the way. He's in Texas,
in Houston with the Chargers, probably a great place to be.
Everybody who's out of town probably feeling pretty good about it,
unless you know your house is in danger. Because not
an easy time to be in the city. For a
lot of reasons. This says your story about firefighters putting
(31:58):
on a fire with their boots on Catalina. When I
was about nine, my neighbor friend Bob Pedrotti, with our
dads went hiking up in the local Arcadia foothills, the
Shantry Flats. I got a hold of my dad's matches
and lit some brush and boom, it goes up in
a second. The dads were heroes that day. They threw
(32:20):
our picnic blanket on the flames and saved us. Fire
scares me sometimes what I do or things around me
scare me. I also just got that evacuation warning. Yes,
the evacuation warning is false everybody, you don't have to
evacuate unless you do. But the one that they set
(32:41):
out to the entire county, yeah, it was seemed to
be a mistake. I don't know if the local government's
made any mistakes in the last few days, but that
is one of them if they did. Hey, Pete, catch
it up in the podcast. Don't let anybody deter Matt
and tell him this please. I love when Matt washes
up the Chargers. I've been a fan since the late eighties.
(33:03):
Wash Up the Chargers wash up the Chargers. You know,
when the Chargers win, Matt become very positive toward the Chargers.
He does, like really positive and in some you know,
some people, Raider fans, Ram fans, Jacksonville Jaguar fans. You know,
we got them all in town. You know they get
rubbed the wrong way. Yeah, this says Mick Cronin is
(33:23):
a national treasure. And he stays giving the Petrosen money
show and the people of the city to see you
don hilarious content. God bless him. But Mick's not trying
to be funny, is he. No, he's just coaching.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
There are times he's trying to be funny. But that
press conference wasn't one of them.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Copy that hipee. The weather here in Houston tonight sucks
thirty nine and raining all night. I can't imagine Matt
money Smith is having very much fun. Jack in Willis, Texas,
doesn't fine brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
We make it.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I mean, I still think you know, being in Houston, probably,
and Houston's a tough town to have fun in. Was
the last time you were in Houston, Texas?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
While ago, while ago.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Before the Texans were there. Was it still a Houston Oilers.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I don't know if it was the Oilers, would I
would say the last time I was in Houston was
two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Nolan Ryan still pitching for the Astros.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Thousand and two. Maybe yeah, the Astrodome they were still
playing there for Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Oh for sure. There you go. All right, we will
have a whole other hour. We're going all the way
till seven tonight. We will have fun fact quick, kits
down and alive. We'll chop it up with Don McClain's
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On this Crunchy Grooven Thursday, we are about halfway through
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and basketball analyst, fun Fact, Quick Kets Dead and a
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live guy. Birthday of the Day. A big thank you
to David Vasse who joined us in the last segment.
He will be around for Dodger talk tonight at seven o'clock,
and the Dodgers did do a few things, so that
is something to discuss now dawn tomorrow. Yes, we're going
to talk about this in a moment. We have Ucla
(01:42):
at Maryland tip off at five on AMFI seventy. Ucla
still ranked number twenty two, probably not going to be
number twenty two when the next week starts. And like
we said, the Ram game, as we anticipated, I guess
since earlier today, has been moved to Cardinals Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
Probably a wise move, gonna cost Kronky some money, but
(02:04):
the NFL has made that choice. Rams Vikings in the
playoffs moving to Arizona on Monday night, no playoff in LA. Saturday,
Chargers at Texans. That's where Matt is headed. And we'll
talk to him in Houston tomorrow and we do the
show tomorrow. Show starts at two o'clock. That is a
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we enjoy flexing back just to make sure we get
all the information. Yes alert, and Saturday we'll see what
(02:48):
happens if the Clippers play against the Hornets. The one
tonight got canceled or postponed.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
They played Monday again too. They play Saturday Monday. We
will push forward and try to do our best. Now,
last hour we started with the college football whip around,
and that is because the game is kind of on
right now, so I didn't want to kind of program
(03:16):
myself by talking about a game that's already on.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, you know what I mean. So we change things
and we will call this the word of the day.
His words the word of the day. Today's word of
the day is history repeating, just like that propeller Head song.
And I have to say that it's kind of interesting
to me. Now, Donya are a lot closer to this
(03:39):
and understand it a lot better. But Mick Cronin very
frustrated the other night with his basketball team, did what
he normally does after the game, and which is attacked
Josh Lewin and then attack the players and his staff
(03:59):
and to Ben Boltch and guys like that. And we
played it yesterday. And of course we always have a
lot of fun with how candid Mick is, because as
angry as he is, it's hard not to find it
kind of funny, you know, especially if you're not one
of his players. I mean, it's it's awesome. But he
is an animated guy. And I don't know. I mean,
(04:19):
you you watch. I remember being the SEPA guy for
whatever it was, ten years and seeing different coaches and
their styles, and you know, when you're down there on
the table, you you hear everything, you know everything, and
you and you watch people coach and you learn about
the college basketball game. At least that's how I did.
And Mick Cronin's pretty demonstrative. I mean he's at the
(04:44):
I mean, if there's a level ten, I mean, he's
probably that level of demonstration. I mean, never seen him
throw a chair, but well here's here's a little action
from the other nightsoft.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
So don't tell me you want to win. Like, just
don't tell me you want to win. So don't just
don't tell me you want to win. It's crazy, you know,
And it's every day. I'm tired of it. I have
the most energy of all of anybody at practice.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Every day I have.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I'm upset with everybody in that locker room, my assistant
coaches and my players.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I mean, I don't need to do anything else. I
almost got five hundred wins.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I'm only fifty three.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I mean, it's a joke. It's a joke.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
But yet I come in and I have more passion
and energy and pride than everybody in. That's the problem.
So what the truth of it has been, it's really
hard to coach people that are delusional. The hungry dog
gets the bone. We got guys that think they're way
better than they are. They're nice kids, they're completely delusional
(05:47):
about who they are.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Bang. So that was Mick the other night. And then
and I pointed out yesterday, like, wait a minute, doesn't
this happen every year? At some point you around January,
Cronin goes buck Wilde. Some national shows are like, well
this car is just too much, and then the team
digs their way out, responds to the coach. And even
(06:13):
Ben Boltch picked up on that throw back to when
Mick Cronin did the exact same thing he did after
the Michigan loss his first season when the Bruins. With
the Bruins, what happened next to UCLA one to eleven
of the last fourteen and then COVID shut everything down?
Remember that you were here a pac twelve tournament. Here
he is in twenty twenty, around the exact same time
(06:34):
of the year. Coach Cronan is kind enough to join us.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
And I know not great circumstances, coach, but we appreciate
you coming out.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What was your assistant loss to staff for tonight?
Speaker 4 (06:44):
We were outclassed, simple as that. Unless you have vision issues,
you ever watch a basketball game, and we were out classed.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Lewin just wears he walks right into a fist.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
They shut fifty thirty nine percent.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Uh do you ever see that name about the UFC
chick that's all beat up like smiling, that's Lewin, you know,
after interviewing Cronin after a loss.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Uh, here's what I like about Mick. You know what
you're gonna get. You know what the expectation level is
for him and for him being the head coach at UCLA.
So this isn't like some newsflash like, oh, Mick Cronin
lost his mind and went off on a team in
the in the press conference.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
You know that, Like the guys that came to play
for him, know that.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That's what I'm saying, Like, you know that when you
sign up to play at UCLA, you're gonna get challenged
in practice, You're gonna get challenged in the games, and
if you're not ready for that, then maybe you should
play somewhere else. And I think that's what Mick's saying, Like,
you know what I expect. You know what I expect
in practice, you know what I expect in the games,
(07:54):
And when you're not providing that, I'm gonna call you
out on that because that's what I expect. And you know, oh,
that's what I expect. So, like you said, the national
people can go, well, it's a little much, and so no,
you know what it is.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You know how Mick Cronin is.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
There's a lot of different ways to skin a cat,
and in coach basketball, this is how he does it now,
so right or wrong, you know this is how he
does it. So why is anyone surprised?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I don't know. Two things I'd want to ask. Number One,
every year he does this, it seems, or every year
there's some frustrating moment where he calls out the team.
I'm sure it's kind of a Phil Jackson kind of
thing where he's trying to get a response from them.
Do you think this team will respond? I do? I do?
They seem to always do it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Look, they've had a lot of success this year, maybe
more success than people thought. Like they're exceeding the expectations,
winning an Oregon, beating Gonzaga. Like, I don't know if
people thought that before the season started or not, but
I think this was a reset for him. They've lost
two in a row now, they lost in Nebraska on
the road to Michigan the other night, and so he
is now saying we need to get back to what
(09:05):
made us good to start the year, and this is
how he does it. I got zero problem with it.
And again, if this is how you think the best
way to motivate your team is, then that's how you
do it. Some people don't believe that's the best way,
doesn't matter how this is how Mick Cronin's done it.
He's been coaching for a long time. This is how
he motivates his teams. I bet you the next time
(09:27):
they play Pee, I think it's tomorrow at Maryland, right, yes, correct,
right here on a station, they are going to respond.
I would bet a lot of money on that that
they will respond based on what they heard in that
press conference.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Another interesting thing is done and maybe it's not different
at all, because Mick is Mick. Do you think it's
very different because these guys are getting paid. I mean,
they're all getting paid.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I think this along. We could go on for an
hour about this. I think that coaches don't. Well, everyone's different,
but I don't think coaches like the fact that they're
paying these players and then not getting maximum effort. Right,
Like NBA players have always gotten paid, so that's just
part of the gig, and that's always been the case
and whatever. But now college players are getting paid. So
(10:10):
is there more expectation from the coaches in performance and effort?
I think there is. I'm not I don't know. I've
never talked to Mick about that, but I get the
sense in talking to coaches around college basketball that they
don't they expect more from their players because now they
are giving them this much money.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I mean, if you think about it, right, I mean,
you've been in different college programs over the years in
our era, eighteen year old seventeen and a half year
old freshman half ass in a workout because he's tired
and he just had to study.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Take I'm paying you four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Yeah, wake up a whole yeah, you know, now you're
like a fourteen year old Romanian gymnast. Get your ass up,
you're a professional. I mean, how often do you hear
quote unquote student athlete anymore? Right? I mean we don't
hear that, you know what? The other thing that really
trips me out, and no one talks about it, no
one unless you're like talking to the coach at Stanford
and he's full of it too, not that particular guy,
(11:05):
but you know what I'm saying, when was the last time?
And it was so prevalent in our day, when was
the last time? And it just went away without anybody
ever saying anything? When was the last time? They were like, gosh,
we can't get this guy in school, he don't have
the grades, or wow, you know, we just this guy's
this guy didn't go to class, he's under the GPA,
(11:26):
he's ineligible for this game, or he was cheating on
a paper like that happened at USC when I was
there and they suspended players, Like does that? When did
that go away? Like there's no more academic standards at
all for these guys anymore. It feels like, could.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
You imagine you pay a guy half a million dollars
and he can't play because he's not academically cleared.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But he's supposed to be in school, right, so you're
paying him to not play. Yeah, And I mean, you
can't be eligible regardless of the nil money and all that.
I believe, I'm one hundred percent positive. I think, what's
not that's oxymoron. But you got to be twelve units
or over to be eligible to play, to be a student, right,
(12:08):
just to be there, to be in the uniform. Right,
So they are taking classes allegedly, you know what I mean? Though,
Like when did that go away? Was it ten years ago?
Was it?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Like?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I can't remember the last time. We're like, yeah, this
guy's just not getting it done in the classroom.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Well, what's funny, you say, is that happened all the time.
I was just thinking about the games I've done so
far this year in December, and there wasn't one mentioned
by any of us about finals and how that used
to affect. Oh, you're playing before or after they got
finals coming up? So maybe I don't remember even mentioning
that this year.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
The great Brady Quinn, who's a friend of the show,
you know, was on the other end. They got a
big game, Notre Dame coming up and all that, and
Matt asked a really good question. And Brady sometimes gets
a little briskly, but Matt asked like, hey, why can't
we do this earlier? Like it doesn't seem like this
time off is serving anybody at this point in college football?
And the playoff is going to stretch you, you know, deep
(13:00):
into the new year anyway like you want it to.
So you know, why do we have to have two
three weeks off? And Brady was like, well, these guys
have stuff to do, you know, they got finals and stuff.
I was like, it's the last When was the last
time I heard anybody say anything like that? You know,
a Notre Dame. You know, they're pretty self important. But
and maybe he's right, maybe that's what they say to themselves,
But when was the last time you ever heard anything
(13:21):
academically about anything in college sports?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You know, the malls, I hear pee and you hear
is portal in Nil. That's all that's talked about, Portal
Nil incessantly.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
And a tunnel walk, you know, wearing something cool. Here's
my number number of the day.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Number of the day pe is fourteen. The NFL today
sent an email to the fourteen playoff teams reiterating the
importance of sportsmanship, another word we don't hear very often anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Unless it's unsportsmanlike.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Sportsmanship in the playoffs, in the playoff games that start
this weekend, sportsmanship like what do you mean like Perry Fewell?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Fewell, not Perry Farrell from James oh.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Not from James Addiction. The league's SVP of Officiating Administration,
sent the memo to gms and head coaches and said,
at this level of competition, emotions will run high, but
no amount of emotion should give way to demeaning and
offensive words, taunting, or other non football acts. No one
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wants a penalty or a player ejection to determine the
outcome of a game.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
So basically, they're saying, we will bang you like they
bang this Laker game tonight and ruin your playoff game.
If you do something and demonstrate like a fool or
like you know, like a guy who's out there fighting
for his life, you can't do.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
The gun sign or the slitting of the throat sign, Like.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
What about the shotgun to the face like the LSU
guy did. They're the USC guy the early.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Fines for on field acts have gone up from last season.
In twenty twenty three, the NFL issued four hundred and
nineteen finds during the regular season in playoffs. This season,
the NFL has issued four hundred and eighty four finds
through the first seventeen regular season weeks. In week sixteen
and seventeen alone, the NFL issued ten fines for taunting
(15:14):
or violent gestures.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
What I don't understand, don is that okay taunting violent gestures,
But if you get a fumble, it's okay for like
twenty guys to run into the end zone and pose
on the camera. But that's cool. We like that. That's
like a social media moment. But doing like a double
shotgun first down is yeah. I mean, at a certain point,
(15:37):
it's like, hey, NFL, your sport is gigantic, violent. Mind
people running into each other and being violent. They're they're
gonna be a little emotional out there, guys. I think, yeah, well,
let's not have too much, all right, Colin, You're doing
such a great job. Time of the song of the day.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
This is the song of the day.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Today's song of the Day is a Real Hero by
College and the Electric Youth, a special Thank you to
the firefighters, law enforcement and first responders battling the various
wildfires in LA. We continue to pray for them as
well as all the people affected by these fires, and
that's a.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Great job from Colin. You will be right back with
the top story of the day as The Petrosen Money
Show continues on am II seventy LA Sports, your home
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(16:40):
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(17:02):
UCLA is in Maryland Saturday. The Clippers are taking on
the Hornets. We don't know the status of that game,
but the Lakers and Hornets has been canceled tonight. Kawhi
Leonard not with the Clippers even though they're here in
LA and Don like we were talking about the Los
Angeles Rams, Minnesota, Viking Wildcard playoff game has been moved, Yes,
(17:23):
moved to Arizona as anticipated on Monday night. Just too
much going on around town and sporting events are being
canceled like prom dates during COVID. It is happening fast.
So that's what's going on with the Rams. That's moved
to Monday night. They're still going to play, but it's
gonna be in Arizona. But as we have said throughout
(17:43):
the day, we are here to provide a little bit
of a respite for people in the world of great sports.
Talk and talk about sports. Try to keep it light
as light as we can with a really fun and
airy guy. Yeah, Don McClain found the right guy for that. Yeah,
just a real like sometimes it's like is he is
(18:04):
he a hoops player, an analyst or is he a comic?
You mister personality here on the phone. I don't know,
get cup check on the line, but really I'm a
threesome and so let's call this the top story. There's
tough story of it. You know. We talked to James
Worthy every week on the show, and like you do
(18:25):
with the Clippers, he does the studio work for the
Lakers and monitors that team. Very closely, and he said
something pretty interesting. Now, obviously circumstances are pretty wild right
now in town and all of that, but he said
that the Lakers loss to Dallas without Luca and without
Kyrie the other day really erased a lot of the
(18:48):
good feelings that he had leading up to that moment,
Like it really was a bad moment for the team
here in mid January or early January. Can that happen
to a basketball team where you have a loss and
it kind of it takes away all the momentum well
that you created, how bad.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Was Well it can. And it's interesting because you know,
I'm not going to speak for James Worthy, but James
Worthy has a championship level expectation. You know, he won championships.
I think because he's been such a big part of
the Lakers franchise for so long, that's the expectation. And
I think if he if he's talking about, you know,
(19:31):
where where his team's level was at when they were
winning championships. You just wouldn't lose a game like that
and lose how you lost. I mean, they got blown out,
And so I think that's what he's speaking to the
first time.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
This year, right yeah, kind of look like they've given
up out there.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
He's speaking to you know, what what a championship level
team should look like. And look, you're gonna lose games,
nobody wins them all. But when you have a team
that's depleted, as the Mavericks are and you get blown out,
it kind of speaks to where you know that level
that he's talking about is. And I just think that,
you know, defensively, there's just too many lapses when you
(20:07):
watch the Lakers, they are just they're not bought in
consistently enough to where you're sitting there saying, I'm watching
a team that could get to the finals.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
You just you're not.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I mean, Lebron's greatness is still there every night ad
when he's playing, but it's just there's too many lapses
in what they're doing. And you know, look, you're going
to run into two teams or games during the season
that you know you're you'd have to play really well
to win, like going to Cleveland or going to OKC
(20:37):
one of those. But when you have Dallas team without
Luke and Kyrie, like, those are the games you have
to win in case you don't win those tough games
that I was just talking about. So I'm not surprised
he said that, but we'll see how they react moving forward.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Something I thought you've always done a great job with
as an analyst and a former player is not run
your mouth about people's locker rooms and what it's like
in that locker room. You always you never know, you say,
I don't know, I'm not in their locker room, which
is the right answer. And in a basketball situation, you know,
there's less people than what some of us are familiar
(21:14):
with that come from the football world and all of that.
But I do have a question because you know, when
you have a team that faces kind of like an
identity crisis moment, like it seems like that was for
the Lakers, and it's not the first time this year,
as we mentioned. I mean, you're familiar with how basketball
used to be, and we talked about it recently, about
(21:34):
how hard everybody used to play and some of the
competitive nature of it that you feel like maybe doesn't
exist as much anymore. But you know, in a locker
room back in the day, I talk about like maybe
those worthy teams or these different teams, like these guys
had to hold each other accountable, you know, I mean
any championship.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Team, because they were championship level teams, Pee, And that's
that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
You know.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Look, I was on a lot of bad teams, and
it was worse than like the media knew that the
that the public knew if you were if you were
a crazy Washington Bullets fan, like you think you knew
the team. But unless you're in that locker room, you
have no idea. There could be fighting going on, there
could be guys not speaking to each other, there could
be guys that you know, slept with someone's girlfriend and
(22:20):
other There's all kinds of stuff that happens that no
one knows about. So when you when they when you
go out on the court, you think you're watching something pure,
Like you read the newspaper about what's happening in practice
and this and that, Like you have no idea what
could be happening, and you know, with the fabric of
that team inside that locker room there, I mean, Pete,
(22:42):
there is crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You know.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
I played in the league almost ten years and there's
stuff you're like, even me and I'd been in the
league for a while, You're like, Wow, that's really happening right.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Now, And It's funny because we all think that we're
watching something pure. You don't think about it in the
context of your own life, right, and how complicated your
own life is and whatever you're dealing with. And that's
the other thing.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Pe these players, they're human beings as well, right, they
have stuff going on, and forget if there's infighting on
the team or stuff going on that guy could be
you know, you know, his mom sick or who knows
what could be going on that's affecting how he's playing.
And so that's what always strikes me with all these
people that have blogs and all this stuff. They really
(23:23):
think they got the pulse of the team. They haven't
figured out they think they are right on the pulse.
They have no idea.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
What's interesting to me though, in the context of this
conversation is the modern day NBA where guys literally have
stylists styling them for their walk from their car. They're
three hundred thousand dollars car to the locker room. And
we're not talking about the superstars either, talk about role players,
(23:50):
you know, on the team. Does the structure still work
the same as it used to? I mean, are these
guys able even on bad teams, good teams, championship teams.
Are they able to hold each other accountable in the
same way.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yes, the teams that win pee, the teams that really
win do. And I think what's fascinating is watching the
development of this OKC thunder team because they are young.
They got a lot of young dudes, but they're leading
the Western Conference and they don't seem to be slowing
down at all. They lost to Cleveland last night, but
Cleveland's the best team in the East. But watching their
progression and how Shay Gildess Alexander has become one of
(24:26):
the best players in the league but also seems like
one of the best teammates in the league. Like he's
he's a good leader for all those young players. And
I just get the feeling watching them play that they
are bought in together, and based on what I just
said a minute ago, I have a feeling there isn't
a bunch of crap in their locker room. It kind
of just feels that way when you watch them play,
that they're tied together and they're unselfish, and they know
(24:49):
Shay's the leader and they're not, you know, they don't
mind that that because he seems to be gracious with them,
and so you know, it can be done. And I
think the teams you know that have good leadership above that,
not even the head coach. Above the head coach like
Sam Presty is arguably, maybe not even arguably the best
(25:11):
GM in the league. And I think it's because he
identifies talent, but he also identifies character, identifies who would
be a good fit in their system or in their program,
and that's how he developed it. Now they haven't won yet,
but they look like they're close to winning it, and
so I guess what I'm saying is it can be.
(25:31):
It can be directly tied to the franchise from the top.
In that that saying has been around for one hundred years.
You know, it starts at the top, and I think
with the OKAC Thunder, it starts at the top. That
Boston Celtics seem to have great leadership. And so when there,
when there isn't that you have to you can look
(25:51):
at the locker room, you can look at the coaching,
you can look at the front office, you can look
at the ownership and say, you know, how is it?
You know, is it starting there? In trickling down or.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
What feel great about the Lakers? The great Don McClain.
Talk a little basketball with Don McClain because he has
a basketball analyst. It feels like the crap and the
Clippers locker room. It's just that they never have They
just they're stampy healthy, they're superstars, never there, you know,
and and of course you know with the circumstances in
Los Angeles, it's very different. And you would expec Kawhi
(26:27):
Leonard to be back. But how hard of a job
is this for ty Lou? I mean, it feels like
we've been asking the same question for years.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Well this year is a little different because Paul George
is gone and the expectation dropped some because of that,
and you know, now it's just Kawhi. Kawhi just started
playing again. But I think, ty Lou, it's been a
really difficult job. I think it was a difficult job
because of the expectation and then you know there's this
injury after injury in the playoffs. That's why they never
got over the hump and got to a finals. But
(26:57):
I think now it seems like he's doing an even
better better job because there isn't much expectation. But they're
exceeding those expectations this year without Kawhi for the most
part until now, and so we'll see what happens. Is
is Kawhi gets more reacclimated with the team and starts
playing more minutes in the effect he'll have on this team.
(27:18):
But they've done a great job with what they've had
so far this year of where they're at in the West.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
What about the adjustment period when the guy comes back,
you know, I mean he's not like a I mean,
he's not as bald dominant as like, hey, Lebron's back,
you know what I mean, It's not like it doesn't
feel like that. But how big of an adjustment is it,
because you've seen him come back so many times, you know,
on this team.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Well, I think what it does is is, look, Norman
Palell is established that he's probably going to be the
leading scorer on this team. James Harden is established that
he's gonna he has to score more now with PG gond,
but he also has to be a facilitator. Well, now
you throw Kawhi in there, just takes more pressure off
of Pale and Harden and some of the other guys
(28:00):
as being Now you know, the main guy. But I
still think Powell will lead them in scoring this year
just because of how that's all played out. But certainly
Kawhi's two way ability as well his defense, his ability
to guard multiple positions will be a big factor to
an already really good defense under Jeff Van Gundy. So
(28:22):
we'll see. You know, he's on a minute restriction right now.
We don't know how long that's gonna last, but I
think the goal is by March, heading into April, towards
the end of the regular season, that this thing is.
He's back incorporated, there's no minutes restriction, and he's made
them a lot better.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Don McClain, Ladies and gentlemen, Basketball expertise from the greatest
basketball expert in town, at least, at least on the
West Coast, probably nationally top five. Billy Packard's still alive.
Can't email, let me, won't email. He only got the
(29:03):
answering machine. Oh he's done. We'll be back with more
great sports talk on M five seventy LA Sports. We'll
have a secret text. So so Rodeo Aroundo coming up next.
Welcome back everybody. The Petro Sayd Money Show on M
(29:23):
five seventy La Sports, your home of the Dodgers. We
talked to David Massey last hour. We just had some
impactful NBA talk with Don McClain. A big thank you
to Eric Allen, who was really fun to talk to
about the Raiders, and Mantitao who was a really great guest.
Manti Tao from the NFL Network. Of course, the legendary
(29:44):
Notre Dame linebackers. That game rages on right now and
a lot of people displaced, not only in our town obviously,
terrible things going on. Where you can get the latest
on KFI, our sister station, but also the in the
sports parlance, the RAM game, the Rams Vikings game has
(30:04):
been moved to Phoenix. As they said that they were
maybe going to do, they have moved the Ram Viking game,
same time, same everything, to Phoenix for Monday night. They
are not going to It's a shorter commute for Fred,
but other than that, they are not going to play
it here, which is a huge loss for Cronky and
(30:27):
everybody involved there. So we will be monitoring things as
we go on. But right now it's time for some
Secret textis holds.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
The Secret Text does.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
A fine brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers,
we make it easier. If there's one thing we want today,
don what is it other than peace and on earth
and you know, some calm in our area. We want
listener interaction. Yeah right, these are things that we've talked about.
We're not experts. This says seawater, you know, for the
(30:57):
Scooper planes is the last They don't like using it
because the saltwater corrodes the aluminum water storage in the aircraft.
Still I would say, put out the fire.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yeah, yeah, we can replace the aluminum.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Can we I don't know. It doesn't feel like we
can do much. Maybe it's just the high winds. Where
the hell is money during all of this Petrosen money
show is the civic failure show of record, and Matt
Muney Smith is the ultimate town crier of local government ineptitude.
He would have the biggest angriest boner right now, Yes
(31:37):
he would, But he is on the way. He's in Texas,
in Houston with the Chargers, probably a great place to be.
Everybody who's out of town probably feeling pretty good about it,
unless you know your house is in danger. Because not
an easy time to be in the city. For a
lot of reasons. This says your story about firefighters putting
(31:58):
on a fire with their boots on Catalina. When I
was about nine, my neighbor friend Bob Pedrotti, with our
dads went hiking up in the local Arcadia foothills, the
Shantry Flats. I got a hold of my dad's matches
and lit some brush and boom, it goes up in
a second. The dads were heroes that day. They threw
(32:20):
our picnic blanket on the flames and saved us. Fire
scares me sometimes what I do or things around me
scare me. I also just got that evacuation warning. Yes,
the evacuation warning is false everybody, you don't have to
evacuate unless you do. But the one that they set
(32:41):
out to the entire county, yeah, it was seemed to
be a mistake. I don't know if the local government's
made any mistakes in the last few days, but that
is one of them if they did. Hey, Pete, catch
it up in the podcast. Don't let anybody deter Matt
and tell him this please. I love when Matt washes
up the Chargers. I've been a fan since the late eighties.
(33:03):
Wash Up the Chargers wash up the Chargers. You know,
when the Chargers win, Matt become very positive toward the Chargers.
He does, like really positive and in some you know,
some people, Raider fans, Ram fans, Jacksonville Jaguar fans. You know,
we got them all in town. You know they get
rubbed the wrong way. Yeah, this says Mick Cronin is
(33:23):
a national treasure. And he stays giving the Petrosen money
show and the people of the city to see you
don hilarious content. God bless him. But Mick's not trying
to be funny, is he. No, he's just coaching.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
There are times he's trying to be funny. But that
press conference wasn't one of them.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Copy that hipee. The weather here in Houston tonight sucks
thirty nine and raining all night. I can't imagine Matt
money Smith is having very much fun. Jack in Willis, Texas,
doesn't fine brought to you by your so called Toyota dealers.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
We make it.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I mean, I still think you know, being in Houston, probably,
and Houston's a tough town to have fun in. Was
the last time you were in Houston, Texas?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
While ago, while ago.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Before the Texans were there. Was it still a Houston Oilers.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I don't know if it was the Oilers, would I
would say the last time I was in Houston was
two thousand and one.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Nolan Ryan still pitching for the Astros.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Thousand and two. Maybe yeah, the Astrodome they were still
playing there for Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Oh for sure. There you go. All right, we will
have a whole other hour. We're going all the way
till seven tonight. We will have fun fact quick, kits
down and alive. We'll chop it up with Don McClain's
a wild time in the city. But great sports talk
is here for you on am FI seventy LA Sports.
You could podcast the show. You can go back and
(34:54):
relive it all on the iHeartRadio app for your smartphone.
A big thank you to calling Ye our engineer, Tim
Kates at Tim Kates, our executive producer. I'm gonna be
like Mantito and wash up all the guys I work with,
say all their names. The great Don McLain in the
house for us. We're grateful we have another hour of
(35:17):
sports talk for the people and try to be a
little bit of a diversion as we head till seven
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