0:00 - It took a bit longer than you'd hope, but the Broncos got all their rookies signed! They're all ready to roll before training camp kicks off on Friday.
15:28 - We've all been assuming that DaRon Holmes is going to be a game-altering rotational player. We're all acting like it's a done deal. Holmes is gonna enter the lineup and be a world beater. We hope that's the case! But it might take him a while to crack the rotation, even in the Post Malone era.
32:29 - One PGA golfer improved his game by leaving golf to **checks notes** become a Buddhist Monk, then returned to golf. Also, can we finally buy Lakers stock? They're making moves in the offseason. Should they be considered a threat now?
15:28 - We've all been assuming that DaRon Holmes is going to be a game-altering rotational player. We're all acting like it's a done deal. Holmes is gonna enter the lineup and be a world beater. We hope that's the case! But it might take him a while to crack the rotation, even in the Post Malone era.
32:29 - One PGA golfer improved his game by leaving golf to **checks notes** become a Buddhist Monk, then returned to golf. Also, can we finally buy Lakers stock? They're making moves in the offseason. Should they be considered a threat now?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is six in the Morning with Brett Caine on demand.
Check out Brett weekday mornings at six on Altitude Sports
Radio ninety two five and on the Altitude Sports Radio App.
All right, so there was a hope it's just my
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headphones and LA I sound like I'm echoey. No, I'm good. Okay,
Well there's something going on in my head. So here's
the situation. Broncos get all of their draft picks sign
thank god, they need as many reps as humanly possible.
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Getting John A. Barn signed a little about a week ago.
But RJ Harven, you know, it's kind of what we
all thought. If you have the notifications turned on for
a Adam Schefter or Tom Pellissero or Ian Rappaport, you
saw the same thing that I saw, which is the
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first domino to kind of fall in the second round
pick thing just led to everybody else going. And you
think about it this way. Second round picks they provide
I think as much value as a first If you
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draft somebody in the second round, that person's a starter,
or at least she should be. Really, no matter what
the position is. You take a second round quarterback, maybe
that guy incubates and cooks for a little bit, but overall,
you draft somebody in the second round, that guy's gotta play.
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And I have high expectations for A. J. Harvey. I
know that we haven't seen him do anything in a
Broncos uniform yet, but there's just been a common theme
to me when it comes to the running game and
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the tie the thing that I believe will separate the
Broncos from anywhere from taking a step back to mediocrity
to taking a step forward in continuing the successful train.
And really, I think you can pin that almost a
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direct one to one correlation on the running game in R. J. Harvey.
Maybe not him specifically, Maybe we can talk about a. JK.
Dobbins and them being a sort of two headed monster
in the backfield. Fine, but the point is this, I
don't see the Broncos reaching the level of success that
they have to without RJ. Harvey in that running game
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being a success. And I'm gonna die on this hill
and we're gonna find out this year. But this little
question between committing to a run game or not, or
do you like to run the football or not will
get the ultimate answer because they've made the giant investment.
There's not much more you can do. You spent high
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end draft capital on a running back, You spent a
decent amount anyway of money in the offseason on a
veteran running back, and you've already invested all this cash
in the offensive line. You either want to run the
football or you don't. And I think that Sean Payton
does if nothing else, he wants to run the ball
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because it really helps your passing game. It opens that
up to an avenue of where play action is actually real.
You actually get a secondary, a defense on their heels
a little bit. Every time that you put the ball
in the belly of the running back and then your
quarterback turns makes a huge difference. But I think it
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comes down to one thing, and one thing only. Do
you get the running game that going or not? And
with R. J. Harvey, I think it's a one to
one boom boom. This is what it's going to look like.
If you're gonna have success. The defense I think will
take care of itself. You know, I always say the
outside of injury thing that applies to every team, But
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outside of injury, the defense has not only talent in
the starting eleven but some depth in some places now too,
where you have the ability to trust the people around
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If you I have a Riley Moscow down with an injury,
it doesn't seem like it's going to be as a
devastating this year because that happened quick. For all the
good numbers at the Broncos defense put up last season,
and they did put up a lot, there was a
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I think pretty considerable drop off towards the end of
the year of how that defense performed. That a lot
of the things numbers wise, got skewed back in their
favor with a shutout the last game of the season
against a Chiefs team that just was waiting for the
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playoffs to start. I mean in the last I would
say month to five weeks of the season, this Broncos
defense that wasn't giving up points to really anybody. We'll
just start in November. So the last couple months forty
one ball the moor, gave up thirty two to Cleveland,
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gave up thirty four to Los Angeles, thirty to Cincinnati,
and then they had the shutout four different games, giving
up at least thirty points in the last two months.
So I think once you were dealing with a little
bit more injury stuff towards the tail end of the year.
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The depth of the defense got exposed in a way
where I think that both George and Sean Payton recognized
that and said, I know that defense is probably not
what people are looking for us taking in the first
round of the draft or committing too early in free agency,
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but if that's going to be our strength, then damn it,
let's make it the strength. And so that's how you
end up with Ufanga Greenlaw, John A. Barn All. Those guys,
your highest end of capital, whether it's free agency, money wise,
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or your number one draft pick, all got invested on
the defensive side because I think they recognize that. So
question about the open For those who watched, it's pretty
amazing that after the second round, me and my body
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looked at each other when we saw the final holes
being wrapped up in day two and said, well, this
thing's all of our Scheffler's winning. It's that easy. And
I don't know how many people have really gotten to
the place that Scotty Scheffler's at, which is the impending
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doom sort of thing that if he's around you, he's
like the what is the thing that the Grim Reaper has,
is it a sickle or a size scythe, A scythe.
He's got a scythe, and he's going to cut your
head off, and he's going to do it in a
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way that he's not even he's not even looking like
he's enjoying it, Like he is every bit as dominant
as I think Tiger kind of was with a much
different following behind him. Like Tiger did this for years,
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and I think Scott He's got a ways to go
in that category. But as far as always in a Major,
if he's close, he is going to bury the competition. No,
he's making par saves. He did one on like the
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seventh hole when he was six strokes ahead. Didn't matter
if he bogied or not. But he makes his par
save and he gives this giant fist pump and he's
really For years people have tried to force this issue.
Basketball was fortunate enough that right kind of like right
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the time that Jordan left, they had this Lebron thing.
Come back in to whether whether you think Lebron and
Jordan are on the same page or not doesn't matter.
The point is they had like this greatest dude who
left the game, and there wasn't even like a breath between,
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like who's gonna be the next image? It was like
Lebron should have immediately and was able to kind of
take that for twenty years, took that mantle where once
he's done, which you would think would be soon, they're
gonna have that question again. And my guess is it's
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not gonna be that easy, Like it's not just gonna
be like, hey, Cooper, flag, here you go. I don't
think it's gonna be like that. Golf has been looking
for the next Tiger forever, and God, they tried to
make so many different people that they tried to make
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it speak. They tried to make it Rory, they tried
to make it. I mean, there's a handful of different
people that would win a couple of tournaments and then
they would just try and like really shove them in
your face, and Rory's like, really good, Rory's not Tiger.
Never been close. I'll tell you who is close, Scottie Scheffler,
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the run of dominance that he's on, and it just
doesn't seem that way, you know. Again, the NBA, they
were so fortunate because Jordan was that and had a
cult like following behind him, and then Lebron became the
next guy and had another cult like following behind him.
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Tiger was able to win all of these tournaments while
being incredibly popular and the reason people tune in. I
don't know if Scott's that, and I don't think he
cares to be, but I do know this, as far
as pure ability, nobody's been closer.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Despite what he said last week, I guess he found
what inspires him. It must be the money, because remember
he said, I'm not out here to inspire the next generation.
When you win one event, then everybody says you just
got to win the next one. No one's ever satisfied.
And he was talking about what drives him or what
doesn't guess he found it.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I suppose, Look he's I don't know what he meant
by that. If you guys missed it from last week,
he was just kind of like he was getting very
existential or I guess esoteric with the way he felt
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about golf, saying it's not fulfilling to him. Here's the
thing I was, I don't know if Scotti Scheffler has
ever had a job. So everybody feels about their job. No,
unless you're doing like charity work for like you're helping
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with cancer research, or like little kids or something like
everybody's job. You think. You go to construction, you hit
the jackhammer all day, You're like, wow, my life and
my job has a bigger meaning. Now you're punging in,
punching out until you go get to see your wife
and kids again. Everybody has that battle, and I just
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thought it was weird. It's like, the guy's got the
job that people would die to have. You get to
play golf for a living and be good and be
rich at it. That's why I don't say that about
my I'm sure a bunch of people would love to
have my job. I'd never so I don't know what
was going on there. I think he was just having
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a moment that we've all had and our jobs in life,
which is like, yeah, I don't really know what I'm doing.
But what you could do, Scottie? Make all that money
and then you could do something fulfilling with this. Here's
all the cash from the open There's a lot of
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fulfilling things you could feel like you could do with that.
You know what's fulfilling to me? Firing up like sixty
four's God, that'd be fun and of course like that. Sheesh.
By the way, uh is do you know Nelly? Is
Raj back today? Is he on after us? Let me
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check the master schedule? Is Raj still on assignment as
he was there at Royal Port Rush? Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
No, he is no longer DFAD. He will be back
on the morning sprint after US.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Man. I wonder if he was there yesterday. That's always
a risky play. You want to be one of those
guys that takes it, like especially a trip across different
time zones, long flight, and then show up to work
the next day. Risky. I'm sure Raj will have a
lot to as he was there for it with the
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morning Sprint right after US. Can always watch the show
on Twitch, Twitch dot tv. Search out to Tudeaths are
in the search bar of the Outstitute TV simulcast coming
up at seven o'clock. But few different things. In trades,
you can get really lucky or really unlucky. We just
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witnessed a trade that set up the Oklahoma City Thunder
for years where they were given an MVP and like
seven different first round draft picks. You might have not
to that extent, but you might have seen one that
kind of played out the same way that I'll explain next.
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So in a bit of I would say, not irony.
I don't think that's the right word for it. Maybe poetic.
Damian Lillard is returning to the Portland Trailblazers on a
three year deal. So the risk in the move that
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was made when he went to Milwaukee that was kind
of twofold. One was Dame wanted a chance to win somewhere,
and two was trying this thing again of trying to
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pair superstars together and let them figure it out. And
both of those things failed and failed pretty miserably. And
now Dame is suffering what probably is going to end
up being a season ending injury this year, and he goes,
you know what, I'm going back home, going back to Portland,
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and I start thinking about things like this, like how
much did he want to leave in the first place.
You start thinking about legacy. And one of the things
I've respect for with him is that he never really
ring chased. You know, he went to Milwaukee in part
because Portland was like, we're starting over, and there's really
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no plays of a Damian Lillard when we start over, like,
how do you start over while still having a superstar
like that? Because they gave up everybody. Remember those Portland
teams that were pretty good, you know, four or five
years ago, with him and CJ. McCollum and uh who
else was there. They had sort of this rotational cast
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of like decent role players that would come through Portland.
The point is they didn't have room, and they said, look,
I think it's better for both you and us if
you go find somewhere else to try and win. He goes,
all right, fine, I'll team up with you, honest, and
it just never looked right. You know, I don't know why.
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But when he wants to come back now, I want
you guys to take this into account. So remember Dame
was traded to Malwak and it was a deal in
which they got for Dame to Monti Kamara and Drew Holiday,
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who the Blazers then traded to Boston for Robert Williams,
Malcolm Brogden and a first round pick and the right
to swap two other first round picks with the Bucks.
And now two years later, the Blazers have Damian Lillard,
Drew Holiday, Robert Williams, Kamara and the first round pick.
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Still like, all the guys that they used in this
trade are now back on Portland, including the original dude
that made it all work to start with, nailed It.
I mean, think about you trade. You're one of your
best players in franchise history, so you get a boatload
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of stuff in return, and two years later he's back
on the roster regardless. Pretty nice, you know. I don't
see Portland as like a feared team or anything like that.
Texter says Portland looks desperate, like trying to get pregnant
to keep the relationship desperate. I don't know if they're
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desperate as much as it's just want to come back.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I don't think Portland has these grand ideas of what
they think they're going to be heading into next season. Remember,
Dame isn't gonna play. I mean, he's hurt, and I
just don't feel like they have the necessary stuff to
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really get after people in a honest, competitive way. You know.
I still think they're looking for maybe Skewed Henderson to
be a lot better than what he's been there. I mean,
this is a guy who barely shoots forty percent from
the field in his career. Through two years. They had
way higher expectations for that. But I think this is
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just a matter of sure, why not Dame One's back
at this point, when he gets back healthy, perhaps will
be a little bit more competitive and YadA, YadA YadA.
So I think that sort of stuff makes sense. But
it's just wild that you get, you trade him, and
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then he ends up coming back a couple of years later.
Nuts three h three, five, four nine two five, shop
Mazda text line, one price, one person, one hour, or
so few other things. As the Nuggets summer league wraps up,
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there there's this feeling surrounding Doron Holmes and I don't
know what to do with it, And you guys tell
me how you feel. So, first of all, they have
committed to Curtis Jones's We were all kind of wondering
what's happening with that last roster spot that the Nuggets have,
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and they have given Curtis Jones a two way.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
He was the.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Undrafted player out of Iowa State that was signed after
the draft along with Tamar Bates. But in doing that,
I have been wondering about what Doron Holmes is going
to be for a long time. I mean, we kind
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of go back to last year and say, well, a
big part of your plan was missing when Doron Holmes
got hurt. And I always wondered the assumption that's being
made there is Doron Holmes is going to be a guy,
and it's an early assumption, like we kind of talk
about Doron Holmes as if he's this guy who was
drafted in the top ten who wasn't. Ron Holmes was
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a late first round draft pick that, yes, seems to
have some promise. I'm very hopeful for what he can be,
but I watched summer League and here's what I found out.
He can shoot, and I don't know how much more
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he can do from here. No, we do have Nelly,
if you can dig it up. When we talked to
John Wallace, he gave us his sort of plan of
what he feels like Doron Holmes can be for the Nuggets.
But I think just making this assumption that he is
absolutely going to be a guy who's in the rotation
to start season is to me a little bit early.
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He's six foot ten but doesn't play a very like
big style game, and I think you're gonna have to
need at least a little bit of that he doesn't
need to be a backup five to be, although they've
thrown out that idea before. But here's John Wallace from
what he told us last week and his plans for
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or their plans for drawn Holmes.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I think he's going to be a little bit of
a backup five, stretch five. I think he can. He's
we're trying to get him and to the point of
guarding some fours as well and possibly some threes. But
I talked to his agent yesterday and we were sitting
his group. The biggest thing, we just wanted him to
come out here and play, just to kind of get
the anxiety of having to go through a full year
rehab and kind of trusting his body again in the
game setting. So we're not putting too much expectation on
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him right now per se. It's just getting back out
and getting to the flow with just enjoying playing basketball
once again.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And I get that you don't want to throw too
many expectations on him because I would be unfair. And
Doron Holmes had times where he looked pretty good and
at the same time it just looked like he was
trying to get his feet under him. He was a
little bit, I would say tentative for a few of
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those games. Now, in the final game of Summer League,
that's the one where Curtis Jones just had a really
good performance put up twenty two points nine to sixteen
from the field. Doron Holmes did not play in that game.
I don't blame him. They know he's going to be
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on the roster, but then it's just sort of a
matter of how do you implement him moving forward. And
I think that if you think it's just going to
be a total change from what Michael Malone's thoughts were
as opposed to what David Adaman is going to be,
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I don't think it's gonna be just like we're gonna
throw the rookie out there and he's going to play immediately.
He's gonna have to earn his way on next question, man.
But I think there's gotta be a little bit more
of a physicality to his game. I'm not saying he's
gonna post people up and start hitting baby hooks around
the rim, but I think he's just got to be
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a little bit more sturdy Before you really jump into
that end of the pool and say, you know what
this guy is going to be in the rotation. Like,
here's to me, what's going to happen with the Nuggets,
at least initially to start the year, They're gonna go
out there with the same starting five from last season.
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Swap Cam Johnson for MPJ, and then the people who
will play right away Bruce Brown or Tim Hardaway and
Yonas Valanciunas, those are gonna be immediates. You're gonna play
Peyton Watson, and maybe initially those are the only guys
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that are every day rotational dudes. Is those four, then
you can start to talk about your Doron Holmes's and
Strawther's and Pickets and Zeke Nases and guys like that,
because I don't think any of those that I mentioned
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right there are like guaranteed to get playing time out
of the gates. If the Nuggets had a four man
rotation that you trusted, if it's the four that I
just talked about in Bruce Valanciunas, Hardaway and Peyton Watson,
having four guys to cycle in and out of the
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game is like, it's a huge, huge advantage, especially compared
to what they were before. What we're talking about is
the dron Holmes in Julian Strather's and Pickets and everybody
else of that bench, if one other guy could step
up to be a consistent rotational piece, then you have
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legitimate championship style depth. So that's where I put my
eggs in the basket of I don't need everybody to
do something, but of the others, if you give me
a Julian Strather becomes a bona fide rotational guy, or
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Jalen Pickett becomes a legitimate backup point guard, or hew
zeke Nase he finally plays the position properly and a
four as opposed to a five and does well, or
Doron Holmes steps up and plays like if you're asking
one of any of those dudes just to be one
guy who steps up, that is incredibly doable. Now probably
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goes back to the things that Ben Ten'ser and John
Wallace talked to about when they first got here, Remember
before all of free agency in the wild moves the
Nuggets made, when they said, a lot of this is
going to come from inner development. It's going to come
from inside the organization. They're gonna have to work with
guys in the offseason to get better. I think that's
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what they were talking about, and then yes, opportunities arose.
They took advantage as they should have, and god, am
I glad they did by bringing in actual veteran talent.
But let me tell you right now, the greatest thing
that I think could happen is a guy like Julian
Strawther plays so well that they limit Tim Hardaway's minutes. Like, honestly,
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I think it's the best thing you could have because
it shows that the young talent is superseding the veteran
depth and you can keep the young talent around for
a while. Hardaway's thirty three. If you tell me twenty
three year old Julian Strather is playing better and is
forcing thirty three year old Tim Hardaway on the bench. Good,
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but Hardaway feels like insurance in case that doesn't happen,
or insurance because of injury. You know, you could roll
out there with Jonas valanionas being your real only backup
big But God, wouldn't it be nice if Doron Holmes
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ers ig Nasey was playable, right, And I think that's
what you're looking for. Everybody's under the assumption that these
guys have to be really, really good. No, you don't
you just need to be fine. The one thing I've
begged for for what going on six years now with
Jokic is that when he goes to the bench, I
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don't need you to extend a lead. I just need
you to keep it level. And can you give me
a five man rotation with Jokic on the bench that
doesn't tax other starters like keeping Jamal in ag and
when Jokic is out, because I don't think that helps
a lot either. You're just tiring those guys. Can you
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give me a bench rotation of five guys that in
seven minutes that Yokic is on the bench, you're down.
You're a minus two as opposed to a minus twelve.
Jokicic leaves the first quarter with a ten point lead,
You put in that rotation to start off the second quarter,
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and by the time Jokic comes in, it's an eight
point lead. That's it. To quote a great philosopher, Uncle
Baby Billy. I'm not asking for the world here. I'm
asking you to keep it level when Jokich goes to
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the bench. I'm just asking for a mall and two
million dollars. That should be the idea in the plan
moving forward three oh three five O four nine two
five shop maz The text line one price, one person,
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one hour. So there's one thing that I saw that
blew me away. I mean a really, just a I
don't think this is a sports story that's happened before,
so I want to get there in a couple of minutes. Also,
a very basic question. Whenever we talk about teams in
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their off season, what's the AVS, Nuggets, Broncos, whoever, there's
always a wondering eye that monitors the rest of your
division or conference, because once you're competitive, this is exactly
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how people have to think. Who is surrounding me in
the moves I'm making? Does it supersed what somebody else
has done. I'm just curious if there's another one of
these teams on the quote enemies list that you're worried
about or are you done with it. We'll get to
that in just a couple of minutes. Instagram all right,
First of all, two members of the field in the
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open one. I don't know if you saw this story.
Nelly was a man from Thailand and I still don't
know how to say his name. Saddam kawik Ayana drogged
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Big Don Bagne I tried. But the story about this.
He's a twenty seven year old qualifier. He won a
tournament in Korea which was part of the Open Qualifying Series. Nelly,
He's a monk. He's a Buddhist monk. He said, I
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was cut off from the world when I was ordained.
That made me feel more calm. I was able to
concentrate more, which helped me improve my game of golf.
Being a monk and then playing in the Open is
a pretty wild way to go about life. So he
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took a hiatus from professional golf in twenty twenty three
to live as a Buddhist monk in practice meditation, and
since has come back and at least competed in this tournament.
That's just one of the two people I want to
talk about for They're like, what is my past life
life leading up to this. Imagine if I just went
to Thailand, I became a Buddhist monk, Nelly, and then
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a year later I showed up on this show. Yeah
I'm bad. H.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Well, the thing is that makes sense for golf, because
for golf you need to be zen, you need to
be one with the ball, one with the universe. But
for you to go to a profession where you're silent
and you don't speak at all, and then come back
after a year and go, yep, I'm ready to crack
this mic.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Baby, I'm a monk. Well, let's take that to the
opposite route. It's a talented golfer who turned pro at
the age of nineteen, but he got burnt out when
he was twenty one. He joined a motorcycle gang called
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the Rebels in Australia, went to prison, had a five
year prison sentence for serious assault at Hikeya Prison in
Western Australia's name is Ryan Peak, and he qualified for
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the Open. From prison, they would let him out to
go play golf tournaments. He would come home and sleep
in prison, and while doing that he qualified, which gave
him the qualifier to go play in the Open. Two
of the craziest stories either, I guess one of two things.
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If you want to play at the Open, the best
prep that you can have is one join a biker
gang or two be a monk. I'm gonna be on
the spread.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
I didn't really pay attention to anything golf related this
weekend because I was too busy going to a strip
club with the president of the NFLPA in a player
engagement event, right, So that's why I was occupied, of course,
which I didn't have to pay for because we expensed
it to the players Association since it was an outreach.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I mean, yes, of course, it is right.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I don't know if you saw that story, by the way,
but that is that is crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
So that is insane. I'm not shocked by it. So again, Nellie,
if you got the story up, just go ahead and
give a cliff notes version as I'll try and pull
up the full article to get this ready. But yeah,
I was.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
They were talking about it on I listened to it
on the drive in. Brady Quinn was talking about it
on Fox Sports Radio. But the president of the NFLPA,
Lloyd Howel, Lloyd Howell, he stepped down over the weekend.
Among there was already this scandal right where the league
was investigating owners colluding against giving players guaranteed money. Yeah,
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and amongst this investigation, it came out that a couple
of years ago, I think it was in once in
twenty twenty three and then once back in February, Lloyd
Howell he went to a couple different strip clubs for business,
for business, and expenced it to the players Union and
said that they were player outreach programs.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You charged the union seven hundred and thirty nine dollars
on one receipt and another twenty four hundred during a
separate strip club visit. And who hasn't I know every
couple of Fridays, me and Nelly, we take off at
ten thirty in the morning, go to the strip club
for a couple hours, and we use the company guard.
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It is a way to keep your employees happy.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Yeah, Destiny with three e's really helps with with some
team building.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Let's put it that way. Here's the other thing. It's
keeping tabs on people that are surrounding you. And I
want to know. You know, the the Lakers have gotten
like these small little additions to their team over the
course of the offseason. They get another one. They got
Marcus smart In, who's taking a contract buyout from the Wizards.
Is anybody worried about the Lakers or the Lakers something
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that's just so far in the rear view in your head?
What is it? No, he's all be honest, I'm not either.
I just I just think that part of me should
have a bigger fear than I do, just because Luca
is really good and he's taken a team to the
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Western Conference Finals before. He's done it with a little
bit of help, but not a ton but Luca Lebron. Now,
whatever you think of DeAndre Ayton, him, Marcus Smart, they
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wanted depth on that team. They got a little bit
of it. Just are you over the Lakers stuff? Because
I am, and I feel like there's a part of
me that says, maybe I should be a little bit
more worried than I seemingly am putting on right now.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I feel like the Lakers are like they're kind of
like the Cowboys in the sense that no matter who
is or isn't on the roster, there are people who
are always gonna pick them to win because they're the Lakers. Sure,
and especially as long as Lebron's there, everybody's gonna go, oh, well,
Lakers always in the mix. And I feel like the
Dallas Cowboys or I don't know, pick any of these
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died in the Wolf Sports franchise, the Boston Red Sox.
There are teams like that where you'll always say, oh,
they have a chance to win because they are the Yankees,
so they're always gonna be in it, and that's what
it is like with the Lakers. I could be their
starting point guard and Steven Asmith would be talking about
how their title contenders because they're the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
And that's why I don't want to feel like I'm
on the opposite side of that, because there's certainly a
bunch of people out there that look at them and say,
you know what I think on shows like that, it's
more about, let's ask can the Lakers win a championship
just to fill fifteen minutes? But how I look at
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it as this on paper that seems like a pretty
good team. It really does. And if these moves were
made by the Nuggets, if the Nuggets instead of getting
Yonas Valanciunas, they had DeAndre Aid and they got Marcus
Smart in the offseason, would you be happy? I think
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we probably would be, like you to look at that, like, hey,
two veteran players that have gotten a real experience can
step in and play well, Like I think we'd be
happy with it. So I just want to I don't
want to just poo poo the moves that hastily, because
I feel like if the Nuggets did that, you'd be
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happy and at the same time, I just don't have
a fear of them. But Luca Austin, Reeves, Ruey Lebron,
DeAndre Ayton backups are Marcus Smart and Dalton connect and
Gabe Vincent and Jared Vanderbilt and Jackson Hayes. It's not
like they don't have anyone, but it's I've been this
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way since kind of the final sort of touches on
the offseason were made. I think part of it is
I am so bullish and so optimistic about the Nuggets,
where I mean, I've said it already, all of this is,
of course, barring health. I really think they're the best
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team in the league. Like you've got a team that
features the best player in the world. I think at
minimum the Cam Johnson MPJ thing as a wash, and
I would imagine Cam Johnson can bring a few things
Supporter couldn't to the table. And now you have a
Nuggets team that's had what they've never had before, which
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is legitimate depth. Never have the Nuggets under Jokic had
depth like this, not even when they won the title
the first time. And so part of me I think
I just think I'm so beyond excited about what this
Nuggets roster. Is that really nobody? I don't want to
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say nobody, but very few teams across the league give
me fear. Okay, see does just because they're running it
back with the exact same roster and that exact same depth,
And you're like, all right, that makes sense. You should
fear them. They just won and they didn't lose anybody.
But Lakers. AM not scared. Like this this thing that
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the Clippers are doing, where they're trying to do the
let me just find every big name possible, put them
on the floor at once and see if that works.
History has proven that doesn't. I mean, the place Bradley
Beal was just at did that experiment and failed miserably.
So I'm not scared of that. I'm not scared of
the Lakers. You know. I think maybe I should be
(43:09):
more scared than I am, but I'm not. But all
of that is surrounding the confidence that I have and
the team that was just kind of put together. You
know what we were talking about earlier, Nelly, it was
can one of Doron Holmes, Julian Strather, Jalen Pickett, Zeke Nase,
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that group, Can one of those guys step up? And
be in every game rotational dude. In years past that
was like they have to or else you won't have
anybody to play. So just a big separation between maybe
what we were talking about last year as opposed to
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this year. Like last year, Doron Holmes was a giant
piece of your offseason, despite the fact he hasn't played
minute in the NBA this year, you're like, it would
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All right, so there was a hope it's just my
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headphones and LA I sound like I'm echoey. No, I'm good. Okay,
Well there's something going on in my head. So here's
the situation. Broncos get all of their draft picks sign
thank god, they need as many reps as humanly possible.
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Getting John A. Barn signed a little about a week ago.
But RJ Harven, you know, it's kind of what we
all thought. If you have the notifications turned on for
a Adam Schefter or Tom Pellissero or Ian Rappaport, you
saw the same thing that I saw, which is the
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first domino to kind of fall in the second round
pick thing just led to everybody else going. And you
think about it this way. Second round picks they provide
I think as much value as a first If you
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draft somebody in the second round, that person's a starter,
or at least she should be. Really, no matter what
the position is. You take a second round quarterback, maybe
that guy incubates and cooks for a little bit, but overall,
you draft somebody in the second round, that guy's gotta play.
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And I have high expectations for A. J. Harvey. I
know that we haven't seen him do anything in a
Broncos uniform yet, but there's just been a common theme
to me when it comes to the running game and
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the tie the thing that I believe will separate the
Broncos from anywhere from taking a step back to mediocrity
to taking a step forward in continuing the successful train.
And really, I think you can pin that almost a
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direct one to one correlation on the running game in R. J. Harvey.
Maybe not him specifically, Maybe we can talk about a. JK.
Dobbins and them being a sort of two headed monster
in the backfield. Fine, but the point is this, I
don't see the Broncos reaching the level of success that
they have to without RJ. Harvey in that running game
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being a success. And I'm gonna die on this hill
and we're gonna find out this year. But this little
question between committing to a run game or not, or
do you like to run the football or not will
get the ultimate answer because they've made the giant investment.
There's not much more you can do. You spent high
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end draft capital on a running back, You spent a
decent amount anyway of money in the offseason on a
veteran running back, and you've already invested all this cash
in the offensive line. You either want to run the
football or you don't. And I think that Sean Payton
does if nothing else, he wants to run the ball
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because it really helps your passing game. It opens that
up to an avenue of where play action is actually real.
You actually get a secondary, a defense on their heels
a little bit. Every time that you put the ball
in the belly of the running back and then your
quarterback turns makes a huge difference. But I think it
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comes down to one thing, and one thing only. Do
you get the running game that going or not? And
with R. J. Harvey, I think it's a one to
one boom boom. This is what it's going to look like.
If you're gonna have success. The defense I think will
take care of itself. You know, I always say the
outside of injury thing that applies to every team, But
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outside of injury, the defense has not only talent in
the starting eleven but some depth in some places now too,
where you have the ability to trust the people around
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If you I have a Riley Moscow down with an injury,
it doesn't seem like it's going to be as a
devastating this year because that happened quick. For all the
good numbers at the Broncos defense put up last season,
and they did put up a lot, there was a
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I think pretty considerable drop off towards the end of
the year of how that defense performed. That a lot
of the things numbers wise, got skewed back in their
favor with a shutout the last game of the season
against a Chiefs team that just was waiting for the
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playoffs to start. I mean in the last I would
say month to five weeks of the season, this Broncos
defense that wasn't giving up points to really anybody. We'll
just start in November. So the last couple months forty
one ball the moor, gave up thirty two to Cleveland,
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gave up thirty four to Los Angeles, thirty to Cincinnati,
and then they had the shutout four different games, giving
up at least thirty points in the last two months.
So I think once you were dealing with a little
bit more injury stuff towards the tail end of the year.
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The depth of the defense got exposed in a way
where I think that both George and Sean Payton recognized
that and said, I know that defense is probably not
what people are looking for us taking in the first
round of the draft or committing too early in free agency,
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but if that's going to be our strength, then damn it,
let's make it the strength. And so that's how you
end up with Ufanga Greenlaw, John A. Barn All. Those guys,
your highest end of capital, whether it's free agency, money wise,
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or your number one draft pick, all got invested on
the defensive side because I think they recognize that. So
question about the open For those who watched, it's pretty
amazing that after the second round, me and my body
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looked at each other when we saw the final holes
being wrapped up in day two and said, well, this
thing's all of our Scheffler's winning. It's that easy. And
I don't know how many people have really gotten to
the place that Scotty Scheffler's at, which is the impending
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doom sort of thing that if he's around you, he's
like the what is the thing that the Grim Reaper has,
is it a sickle or a size scythe, A scythe.
He's got a scythe, and he's going to cut your
head off, and he's going to do it in a
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way that he's not even he's not even looking like
he's enjoying it, Like he is every bit as dominant
as I think Tiger kind of was with a much
different following behind him. Like Tiger did this for years,
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and I think Scott He's got a ways to go
in that category. But as far as always in a Major,
if he's close, he is going to bury the competition. No,
he's making par saves. He did one on like the
(09:02):
seventh hole when he was six strokes ahead. Didn't matter
if he bogied or not. But he makes his par
save and he gives this giant fist pump and he's
really For years people have tried to force this issue.
Basketball was fortunate enough that right kind of like right
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the time that Jordan left, they had this Lebron thing.
Come back in to whether whether you think Lebron and
Jordan are on the same page or not doesn't matter.
The point is they had like this greatest dude who
left the game, and there wasn't even like a breath between,
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like who's gonna be the next image? It was like
Lebron should have immediately and was able to kind of
take that for twenty years, took that mantle where once
he's done, which you would think would be soon, they're
gonna have that question again. And my guess is it's
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not gonna be that easy, Like it's not just gonna
be like, hey, Cooper, flag, here you go. I don't
think it's gonna be like that. Golf has been looking
for the next Tiger forever, and God, they tried to
make so many different people that they tried to make
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it speak. They tried to make it Rory, they tried
to make it. I mean, there's a handful of different
people that would win a couple of tournaments and then
they would just try and like really shove them in
your face, and Rory's like, really good, Rory's not Tiger.
Never been close. I'll tell you who is close, Scottie Scheffler,
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the run of dominance that he's on, and it just
doesn't seem that way, you know. Again, the NBA, they
were so fortunate because Jordan was that and had a
cult like following behind him, and then Lebron became the
next guy and had another cult like following behind him.
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Tiger was able to win all of these tournaments while
being incredibly popular and the reason people tune in. I
don't know if Scott's that, and I don't think he
cares to be, but I do know this, as far
as pure ability, nobody's been closer.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Well.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Despite what he said last week, I guess he found
what inspires him. It must be the money, because remember
he said, I'm not out here to inspire the next generation.
When you win one event, then everybody says you just
got to win the next one. No one's ever satisfied.
And he was talking about what drives him or what
doesn't guess he found it.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I suppose, Look he's I don't know what he meant
by that. If you guys missed it from last week,
he was just kind of like he was getting very
existential or I guess esoteric with the way he felt
(12:22):
about golf, saying it's not fulfilling to him. Here's the
thing I was, I don't know if Scotti Scheffler has
ever had a job. So everybody feels about their job. No,
unless you're doing like charity work for like you're helping
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with cancer research, or like little kids or something like
everybody's job. You think. You go to construction, you hit
the jackhammer all day, You're like, wow, my life and
my job has a bigger meaning. Now you're punging in,
punching out until you go get to see your wife
and kids again. Everybody has that battle, and I just
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thought it was weird. It's like, the guy's got the
job that people would die to have. You get to
play golf for a living and be good and be
rich at it. That's why I don't say that about
my I'm sure a bunch of people would love to
have my job. I'd never so I don't know what
was going on there. I think he was just having
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a moment that we've all had and our jobs in life,
which is like, yeah, I don't really know what I'm doing.
But what you could do, Scottie? Make all that money
and then you could do something fulfilling with this. Here's
all the cash from the open There's a lot of
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fulfilling things you could feel like you could do with that.
You know what's fulfilling to me? Firing up like sixty
four's God, that'd be fun and of course like that. Sheesh.
By the way, uh is do you know Nelly? Is
Raj back today? Is he on after us? Let me
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check the master schedule? Is Raj still on assignment as
he was there at Royal Port Rush? Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
No, he is no longer DFAD. He will be back
on the morning sprint after US.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Man. I wonder if he was there yesterday. That's always
a risky play. You want to be one of those
guys that takes it, like especially a trip across different
time zones, long flight, and then show up to work
the next day. Risky. I'm sure Raj will have a
lot to as he was there for it with the
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morning Sprint right after US. Can always watch the show
on Twitch, Twitch dot tv. Search out to Tudeaths are
in the search bar of the Outstitute TV simulcast coming
up at seven o'clock. But few different things. In trades,
you can get really lucky or really unlucky. We just
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witnessed a trade that set up the Oklahoma City Thunder
for years where they were given an MVP and like
seven different first round draft picks. You might have not
to that extent, but you might have seen one that
kind of played out the same way that I'll explain next.
(15:28):
So in a bit of I would say, not irony.
I don't think that's the right word for it. Maybe poetic.
Damian Lillard is returning to the Portland Trailblazers on a
three year deal. So the risk in the move that
(15:51):
was made when he went to Milwaukee that was kind
of twofold. One was Dame wanted a chance to win somewhere,
and two was trying this thing again of trying to
(16:14):
pair superstars together and let them figure it out. And
both of those things failed and failed pretty miserably. And
now Dame is suffering what probably is going to end
up being a season ending injury this year, and he goes,
you know what, I'm going back home, going back to Portland,
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and I start thinking about things like this, like how
much did he want to leave in the first place.
You start thinking about legacy. And one of the things
I've respect for with him is that he never really
ring chased. You know, he went to Milwaukee in part
because Portland was like, we're starting over, and there's really
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no plays of a Damian Lillard when we start over, like,
how do you start over while still having a superstar
like that? Because they gave up everybody. Remember those Portland
teams that were pretty good, you know, four or five
years ago, with him and CJ. McCollum and uh who
else was there. They had sort of this rotational cast
(17:23):
of like decent role players that would come through Portland.
The point is they didn't have room, and they said, look,
I think it's better for both you and us if
you go find somewhere else to try and win. He goes,
all right, fine, I'll team up with you, honest, and
it just never looked right. You know, I don't know why.
(17:49):
But when he wants to come back now, I want
you guys to take this into account. So remember Dame
was traded to Malwak and it was a deal in
which they got for Dame to Monti Kamara and Drew Holiday,
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who the Blazers then traded to Boston for Robert Williams,
Malcolm Brogden and a first round pick and the right
to swap two other first round picks with the Bucks.
And now two years later, the Blazers have Damian Lillard,
Drew Holiday, Robert Williams, Kamara and the first round pick.
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Still like, all the guys that they used in this
trade are now back on Portland, including the original dude
that made it all work to start with, nailed It.
I mean, think about you trade. You're one of your
best players in franchise history, so you get a boatload
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of stuff in return, and two years later he's back
on the roster regardless. Pretty nice, you know. I don't
see Portland as like a feared team or anything like that.
Texter says Portland looks desperate, like trying to get pregnant
to keep the relationship desperate. I don't know if they're
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desperate as much as it's just want to come back.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
I don't think Portland has these grand ideas of what
they think they're going to be heading into next season. Remember,
Dame isn't gonna play. I mean, he's hurt, and I
just don't feel like they have the necessary stuff to
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really get after people in a honest, competitive way. You know.
I still think they're looking for maybe Skewed Henderson to
be a lot better than what he's been there. I mean,
this is a guy who barely shoots forty percent from
the field in his career. Through two years. They had
way higher expectations for that. But I think this is
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just a matter of sure, why not Dame One's back
at this point, when he gets back healthy, perhaps will
be a little bit more competitive and YadA, YadA YadA.
So I think that sort of stuff makes sense. But
it's just wild that you get, you trade him, and
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then he ends up coming back a couple of years later.
Nuts three h three, five, four nine two five, shop
Mazda text line, one price, one person, one hour, or
so few other things. As the Nuggets summer league wraps up,
(20:59):
there there's this feeling surrounding Doron Holmes and I don't
know what to do with it, And you guys tell
me how you feel. So, first of all, they have
committed to Curtis Jones's We were all kind of wondering
what's happening with that last roster spot that the Nuggets have,
(21:21):
and they have given Curtis Jones a two way.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
He was the.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Undrafted player out of Iowa State that was signed after
the draft along with Tamar Bates. But in doing that,
I have been wondering about what Doron Holmes is going
to be for a long time. I mean, we kind
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of go back to last year and say, well, a
big part of your plan was missing when Doron Holmes
got hurt. And I always wondered the assumption that's being
made there is Doron Holmes is going to be a guy,
and it's an early assumption, like we kind of talk
about Doron Holmes as if he's this guy who was
drafted in the top ten who wasn't. Ron Holmes was
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a late first round draft pick that, yes, seems to
have some promise. I'm very hopeful for what he can be,
but I watched summer League and here's what I found out.
He can shoot, and I don't know how much more
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he can do from here. No, we do have Nelly,
if you can dig it up. When we talked to
John Wallace, he gave us his sort of plan of
what he feels like Doron Holmes can be for the Nuggets.
But I think just making this assumption that he is
absolutely going to be a guy who's in the rotation
to start season is to me a little bit early.
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He's six foot ten but doesn't play a very like
big style game, and I think you're gonna have to
need at least a little bit of that he doesn't
need to be a backup five to be, although they've
thrown out that idea before. But here's John Wallace from
what he told us last week and his plans for
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or their plans for drawn Holmes.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I think he's going to be a little bit of
a backup five, stretch five. I think he can. He's
we're trying to get him and to the point of
guarding some fours as well and possibly some threes. But
I talked to his agent yesterday and we were sitting
his group. The biggest thing, we just wanted him to
come out here and play, just to kind of get
the anxiety of having to go through a full year
rehab and kind of trusting his body again in the
game setting. So we're not putting too much expectation on
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him right now per se. It's just getting back out
and getting to the flow with just enjoying playing basketball
once again.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And I get that you don't want to throw too
many expectations on him because I would be unfair. And
Doron Holmes had times where he looked pretty good and
at the same time it just looked like he was
trying to get his feet under him. He was a
little bit, I would say tentative for a few of
(24:23):
those games. Now, in the final game of Summer League,
that's the one where Curtis Jones just had a really
good performance put up twenty two points nine to sixteen
from the field. Doron Holmes did not play in that game.
I don't blame him. They know he's going to be
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on the roster, but then it's just sort of a
matter of how do you implement him moving forward. And
I think that if you think it's just going to
be a total change from what Michael Malone's thoughts were
as opposed to what David Adaman is going to be,
(25:06):
I don't think it's gonna be just like we're gonna
throw the rookie out there and he's going to play immediately.
He's gonna have to earn his way on next question, man.
But I think there's gotta be a little bit more
of a physicality to his game. I'm not saying he's
gonna post people up and start hitting baby hooks around
the rim, but I think he's just got to be
(25:26):
a little bit more sturdy Before you really jump into
that end of the pool and say, you know what
this guy is going to be in the rotation. Like,
here's to me, what's going to happen with the Nuggets,
at least initially to start the year, They're gonna go
out there with the same starting five from last season.
(25:47):
Swap Cam Johnson for MPJ, and then the people who
will play right away Bruce Brown or Tim Hardaway and
Yonas Valanciunas, those are gonna be immediates. You're gonna play
Peyton Watson, and maybe initially those are the only guys
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that are every day rotational dudes. Is those four, then
you can start to talk about your Doron Holmes's and
Strawther's and Pickets and Zeke Nases and guys like that,
because I don't think any of those that I mentioned
(26:32):
right there are like guaranteed to get playing time out
of the gates. If the Nuggets had a four man
rotation that you trusted, if it's the four that I
just talked about in Bruce Valanciunas, Hardaway and Peyton Watson,
having four guys to cycle in and out of the
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game is like, it's a huge, huge advantage, especially compared
to what they were before. What we're talking about is
the dron Holmes in Julian Strather's and Pickets and everybody
else of that bench, if one other guy could step
up to be a consistent rotational piece, then you have
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legitimate championship style depth. So that's where I put my
eggs in the basket of I don't need everybody to
do something, but of the others, if you give me
a Julian Strather becomes a bona fide rotational guy, or
(27:35):
Jalen Pickett becomes a legitimate backup point guard, or hew
zeke Nase he finally plays the position properly and a
four as opposed to a five and does well, or
Doron Holmes steps up and plays like if you're asking
one of any of those dudes just to be one
guy who steps up, that is incredibly doable. Now probably
(27:57):
goes back to the things that Ben Ten'ser and John
Wallace talked to about when they first got here, Remember
before all of free agency in the wild moves the
Nuggets made, when they said, a lot of this is
going to come from inner development. It's going to come
from inside the organization. They're gonna have to work with
guys in the offseason to get better. I think that's
(28:19):
what they were talking about, and then yes, opportunities arose.
They took advantage as they should have, and god, am
I glad they did by bringing in actual veteran talent.
But let me tell you right now, the greatest thing
that I think could happen is a guy like Julian
Strawther plays so well that they limit Tim Hardaway's minutes. Like, honestly,
(28:45):
I think it's the best thing you could have because
it shows that the young talent is superseding the veteran
depth and you can keep the young talent around for
a while. Hardaway's thirty three. If you tell me twenty
three year old Julian Strather is playing better and is
forcing thirty three year old Tim Hardaway on the bench. Good,
(29:10):
but Hardaway feels like insurance in case that doesn't happen,
or insurance because of injury. You know, you could roll
out there with Jonas valanionas being your real only backup
big But God, wouldn't it be nice if Doron Holmes
(29:31):
ers ig Nasey was playable, right, And I think that's
what you're looking for. Everybody's under the assumption that these
guys have to be really, really good. No, you don't
you just need to be fine. The one thing I've
begged for for what going on six years now with
Jokic is that when he goes to the bench, I
(29:56):
don't need you to extend a lead. I just need
you to keep it level. And can you give me
a five man rotation with Jokic on the bench that
doesn't tax other starters like keeping Jamal in ag and
when Jokic is out, because I don't think that helps
a lot either. You're just tiring those guys. Can you
(30:19):
give me a bench rotation of five guys that in
seven minutes that Yokic is on the bench, you're down.
You're a minus two as opposed to a minus twelve.
Jokicic leaves the first quarter with a ten point lead,
You put in that rotation to start off the second quarter,
(30:41):
and by the time Jokic comes in, it's an eight
point lead. That's it. To quote a great philosopher, Uncle
Baby Billy. I'm not asking for the world here. I'm
asking you to keep it level when Jokich goes to
(31:03):
the bench. I'm just asking for a mall and two
million dollars. That should be the idea in the plan
moving forward three oh three five O four nine two
five shop maz The text line one price, one person,
(31:25):
one hour. So there's one thing that I saw that
blew me away. I mean a really, just a I
don't think this is a sports story that's happened before,
so I want to get there in a couple of minutes. Also,
a very basic question. Whenever we talk about teams in
(31:50):
their off season, what's the AVS, Nuggets, Broncos, whoever, there's
always a wondering eye that monitors the rest of your
division or conference, because once you're competitive, this is exactly
(32:11):
how people have to think. Who is surrounding me in
the moves I'm making? Does it supersed what somebody else
has done. I'm just curious if there's another one of
these teams on the quote enemies list that you're worried
about or are you done with it. We'll get to
that in just a couple of minutes. Instagram all right,
First of all, two members of the field in the
(32:36):
open one. I don't know if you saw this story.
Nelly was a man from Thailand and I still don't
know how to say his name. Saddam kawik Ayana drogged
(32:56):
Big Don Bagne I tried. But the story about this.
He's a twenty seven year old qualifier. He won a
tournament in Korea which was part of the Open Qualifying Series. Nelly,
He's a monk. He's a Buddhist monk. He said, I
(33:21):
was cut off from the world when I was ordained.
That made me feel more calm. I was able to
concentrate more, which helped me improve my game of golf.
Being a monk and then playing in the Open is
a pretty wild way to go about life. So he
(33:43):
took a hiatus from professional golf in twenty twenty three
to live as a Buddhist monk in practice meditation, and
since has come back and at least competed in this tournament.
That's just one of the two people I want to
talk about for They're like, what is my past life
life leading up to this. Imagine if I just went
to Thailand, I became a Buddhist monk, Nelly, and then
(34:06):
a year later I showed up on this show. Yeah
I'm bad. H.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Well, the thing is that makes sense for golf, because
for golf you need to be zen, you need to
be one with the ball, one with the universe. But
for you to go to a profession where you're silent
and you don't speak at all, and then come back
after a year and go, yep, I'm ready to crack
this mic.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Baby, I'm a monk. Well, let's take that to the
opposite route. It's a talented golfer who turned pro at
the age of nineteen, but he got burnt out when
he was twenty one. He joined a motorcycle gang called
(34:47):
the Rebels in Australia, went to prison, had a five
year prison sentence for serious assault at Hikeya Prison in
Western Australia's name is Ryan Peak, and he qualified for
(35:08):
the Open. From prison, they would let him out to
go play golf tournaments. He would come home and sleep
in prison, and while doing that he qualified, which gave
him the qualifier to go play in the Open. Two
of the craziest stories either, I guess one of two things.
(35:29):
If you want to play at the Open, the best
prep that you can have is one join a biker
gang or two be a monk. I'm gonna be on
the spread.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
I didn't really pay attention to anything golf related this
weekend because I was too busy going to a strip
club with the president of the NFLPA in a player
engagement event, right, So that's why I was occupied, of course,
which I didn't have to pay for because we expensed
it to the players Association since it was an outreach.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I mean, yes, of course, it is right.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
I don't know if you saw that story, by the way,
but that is that is crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
So that is insane. I'm not shocked by it. So again, Nellie,
if you got the story up, just go ahead and
give a cliff notes version as I'll try and pull
up the full article to get this ready. But yeah,
I was.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
They were talking about it on I listened to it
on the drive in. Brady Quinn was talking about it
on Fox Sports Radio. But the president of the NFLPA,
Lloyd Howel, Lloyd Howell, he stepped down over the weekend.
Among there was already this scandal right where the league
was investigating owners colluding against giving players guaranteed money. Yeah,
(36:42):
and amongst this investigation, it came out that a couple
of years ago, I think it was in once in
twenty twenty three and then once back in February, Lloyd
Howell he went to a couple different strip clubs for business,
for business, and expenced it to the players Union and
said that they were player outreach programs.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
You charged the union seven hundred and thirty nine dollars
on one receipt and another twenty four hundred during a
separate strip club visit. And who hasn't I know every
couple of Fridays, me and Nelly, we take off at
ten thirty in the morning, go to the strip club
for a couple hours, and we use the company guard.
(37:27):
It is a way to keep your employees happy.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Yeah, Destiny with three e's really helps with with some
team building.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Let's put it that way. Here's the other thing. It's
keeping tabs on people that are surrounding you. And I
want to know. You know, the the Lakers have gotten
like these small little additions to their team over the
course of the offseason. They get another one. They got
Marcus smart In, who's taking a contract buyout from the Wizards.
Is anybody worried about the Lakers or the Lakers something
(38:05):
that's just so far in the rear view in your head?
What is it? No, he's all be honest, I'm not either.
I just I just think that part of me should
have a bigger fear than I do, just because Luca
is really good and he's taken a team to the
(38:27):
Western Conference Finals before. He's done it with a little
bit of help, but not a ton but Luca Lebron. Now,
whatever you think of DeAndre Ayton, him, Marcus Smart, they
(38:51):
wanted depth on that team. They got a little bit
of it. Just are you over the Lakers stuff? Because
I am, and I feel like there's a part of
me that says, maybe I should be a little bit
more worried than I seemingly am putting on right now.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
I feel like the Lakers are like they're kind of
like the Cowboys in the sense that no matter who
is or isn't on the roster, there are people who
are always gonna pick them to win because they're the Lakers. Sure,
and especially as long as Lebron's there, everybody's gonna go, oh, well,
Lakers always in the mix. And I feel like the
Dallas Cowboys or I don't know, pick any of these
(39:34):
died in the Wolf Sports franchise, the Boston Red Sox.
There are teams like that where you'll always say, oh,
they have a chance to win because they are the Yankees,
so they're always gonna be in it, and that's what
it is like with the Lakers. I could be their
starting point guard and Steven Asmith would be talking about
how their title contenders because they're the Lakers.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
And that's why I don't want to feel like I'm
on the opposite side of that, because there's certainly a
bunch of people out there that look at them and say,
you know what I think on shows like that, it's
more about, let's ask can the Lakers win a championship
just to fill fifteen minutes? But how I look at
(40:12):
it as this on paper that seems like a pretty
good team. It really does. And if these moves were
made by the Nuggets, if the Nuggets instead of getting
Yonas Valanciunas, they had DeAndre Aid and they got Marcus
Smart in the offseason, would you be happy? I think
(40:32):
we probably would be, like you to look at that, like, hey,
two veteran players that have gotten a real experience can
step in and play well, Like I think we'd be
happy with it. So I just want to I don't
want to just poo poo the moves that hastily, because
I feel like if the Nuggets did that, you'd be
(40:53):
happy and at the same time, I just don't have
a fear of them. But Luca Austin, Reeves, Ruey Lebron,
DeAndre Ayton backups are Marcus Smart and Dalton connect and
Gabe Vincent and Jared Vanderbilt and Jackson Hayes. It's not
like they don't have anyone, but it's I've been this
(41:18):
way since kind of the final sort of touches on
the offseason were made. I think part of it is
I am so bullish and so optimistic about the Nuggets,
where I mean, I've said it already, all of this is,
of course, barring health. I really think they're the best
(41:40):
team in the league. Like you've got a team that
features the best player in the world. I think at
minimum the Cam Johnson MPJ thing as a wash, and
I would imagine Cam Johnson can bring a few things
Supporter couldn't to the table. And now you have a
Nuggets team that's had what they've never had before, which
(42:03):
is legitimate depth. Never have the Nuggets under Jokic had
depth like this, not even when they won the title
the first time. And so part of me I think
I just think I'm so beyond excited about what this
Nuggets roster. Is that really nobody? I don't want to
(42:25):
say nobody, but very few teams across the league give
me fear. Okay, see does just because they're running it
back with the exact same roster and that exact same depth,
And you're like, all right, that makes sense. You should
fear them. They just won and they didn't lose anybody.
But Lakers. AM not scared. Like this this thing that
(42:46):
the Clippers are doing, where they're trying to do the
let me just find every big name possible, put them
on the floor at once and see if that works.
History has proven that doesn't. I mean, the place Bradley
Beal was just at did that experiment and failed miserably.
So I'm not scared of that. I'm not scared of
the Lakers. You know. I think maybe I should be
(43:09):
more scared than I am, but I'm not. But all
of that is surrounding the confidence that I have and
the team that was just kind of put together. You
know what we were talking about earlier, Nelly, it was
can one of Doron Holmes, Julian Strather, Jalen Pickett, Zeke Nase,
(43:32):
that group, Can one of those guys step up? And
be in every game rotational dude. In years past that
was like they have to or else you won't have
anybody to play. So just a big separation between maybe
what we were talking about last year as opposed to
(43:52):
this year. Like last year, Doron Holmes was a giant
piece of your offseason, despite the fact he hasn't played
minute in the NBA this year, you're like, it would
be nice to have that. So you can always watch
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