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On today's Dan Patrick Show, DP shares his thoughts on all the action from the weekend. Did we overreact to the Timberwolves early success over the Nuggets? Plus, Wally Szczerbiak shares his takeaways from the Knicks performance on Sunday afternoon.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Rumor has it there were two basketball games yesterday. I
remember seeing one. Welcome to the program. I hope you
had a great weekend. Everybody, gangs all here, ready to go.
The Nuggets had won back to back games in Minnesota.
After Minnesota one back to back games in Denver. That
series tied to two games apiece, and the Pacers won
two in a row over the Knicks. That series tied

(00:26):
it two games apiece. Tonight, Calves and the Celtics. With
the Celtics up two games to one, the Celtics are
getting eight and a half against the Caves. Oklahoma City
is getting one and a half against the MAVs. The
MAVs up two games to one at the Thunder stat
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(01:06):
All of that forthcoming. Wally Zerbiak, former NBA player now
an analyst for the Knicks, will analyze exactly what happened
yesterday in Indianapolis. Not much so maybe Wally only joins
us for a couple of minutes, other than to say,
you know what, I'm going to rest up as well
for Game five because the Knicks did as well. So

(01:27):
Wally will join us coming up, Seaton, what's poll question
from the first hour. By the way, good morning if
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Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yes, Seaton O'Connor, is home court advantage real?

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Or no?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Oh didn't?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
We have a professor and I don't know what his
professor degree or whatever is doctor it was in, but
I think it had to do with the psychological aspect
of a home court advantage.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yes, point, yeah, we discussed this long time ago.

Speaker 6 (02:00):
I think we're discussing football, and we had a professor
at a big college send us a note that said,
there are some studies that say the facts say it's real.
Where like the results of the game, say it's real,
but how do you get there? And it says like
it's almost like a placebo effect if you believe something's
going to happen at will. We're so conditioned, at least
in American sports, to believe that it's going to be
easier because we're at home. You play looser, and vice

(02:24):
versa hostile environment, you play tighter, and thus perception becomes
reality with the results of those games. Also, there's a
professor at Yale University who went step by step, sport
by sport and found out which sports had the most
home field.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Advantage and which sports do Who wants to guess the
best home court advantage.

Speaker 6 (02:47):
And think of all sports, not just maybe NFL, and
be a little hint there.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I'm going to go hockey, soccer. I'm going to go sock.
Soccer is correct, Dan, I'm gonna go saki.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
Saki is correct.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
That's soccer and hockey combine.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
In basketball, NBA teams win sixty two point seven percent
of their home games. In baseball it's only fifty four percent.
Big difference.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Okay, that sounds like a stat of the day, Marvin.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
Stat of the day. Stat of the day.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Come on, let's go now, come on day, not the
weekend anymore.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Bub here it comes that what stat of the day?

Speaker 7 (03:25):
Alrighty, yes, is that real or is it a mental thing?
Like Paul is saying, well.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I think there's a mental aspect, but there still has
to be the physical aspect of actually going out and
playing performing. You know, you got players like Minnesota's at
home and they lost both of those games. You had
the defending shams came in there and almost amped up
even more because on the road they have to win.

Speaker 8 (03:51):
Well.

Speaker 7 (03:51):
It is interesting, though, to say that it is mental,
because so much of sports is mindset and is mental,
you know, right, yes, aside from the physical part of it,
which is obviously a big one, but the mental part
of his massive.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, I think you have to be at a certain
level talent wise to get to be a professional. Then
you factor in the other things of your approach, you know,
the mental aspect of this. We're on the road or
you're playing against certain players a certain team. So yes,
there's a lot of thinking that goes in before you
start to perform, because usually when you start to perform,

(04:24):
you're not thinking as much the preparation going into a game.
Do you prepare more because you're on the road. Do
you prepare more you're at home?

Speaker 8 (04:33):
You know.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
I always liked, you know, just the backdrop when you're shooting.
When I was at home playing a home game, just
the backdrop, it was comfortable. A lot of times you'll
go to an arena or a gym and you'll go
depth perception wise, or if you're playing in a big
arena or a dome, in just that background. You know,
football field, certain fields feel different, look different. I remember

(04:57):
going to Green Bay the first time and I was
amaz that they painted grass on the dirt, you know,
towards the end zone, and you know, just location of stands,
the fans, you know. So I guess there's a lot
of things that you could factor into this. Indiana going home,
I'm not surprised they won both of those games. Minnesota
going staying at home, and Denver comes there and they

(05:20):
lose both of those. I was surprised at that. Denver,
you know, this is what we expect out of Denver.
You're supposed to win games, big games, and they prove that.
Dallas going to Oklahoma City, I'm not surprised they've won.
An Oka see Oka see still understanding learning how to
play in these big games. And I also think you
have to factor in the experience that players have, coaches

(05:42):
have when you go into these games. How many times
have you been in this, you know, the number of
times that you're you know, involved in something and then
you do it again, and then you do it again.
It's like the first time we did our Super Bowl
show in Miami, I'm like, oh my god. You know,
we're on the road. I have no idea what's going
to happen. It's rain in Miami, we're outside, what guests

(06:03):
are showing up? You know, just the comfort level now
when we go to the Super Bowl, like you know Vegas. Now,
you know what you're doing, what to expect, and everybody
else does. So even though you're on the road, you
try to create that kind of home feel there.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, Pauline.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
This Yale study was from a few years ago, goes
step by step through the conditions for home field advantage
and they said, surprisingly weather teams don't do better, like
Green Bay has no statistical advantage by playing at home
over other teams. They this is good, they used. They
said the biggest factor for home field advantage is wants

(06:38):
to guess it the biggest factor where they could prove
it with statistics referees. They said it's a fact and
it's a proven fact that you get more calls at home,
you also get more calls in tight situations at end
of games. They said this was pervasive in all sports soccer, hockey, basketball, football.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Any coach complaining about the officiating over the weekend felt
like that's what everybody was doing prior to the weekend.
Rint Carlyle Okay, I did, Now, if I'm Rick Carlile,
I say hey, you know, we won those games, but
we noticed there were twenty nine calls that we want
the league to see, like, don't stop. Like you won,
don't stop. I would go wire to wire and just say, hey,

(07:18):
we're going to single out. You know you're going to
get more calls. As I said, they'll go home and
we won't hear anything about this. Maybe hear something about
it from the Knicks and you know, Thibodeau, I think
after game three did say something. Yesterday had no room
to say anything. By the way, eight seven seven three
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(07:40):
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better Mother's Day, as we always do every Monday, best
and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you
liked you didn't like? Eight seven seven three DP show
what other pole Ques students? Do you have their seaton?

Speaker 7 (08:01):
Which two two series in the NBA is really tied? Meta,
it's not all of those losses feel the same.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well, the Knicks can't keep this up. We've said this before,
even when they're winning, that you don't have six players.
Now they don't even have that. I mean they basically
raise the white flag at halftime. I mean, you just
got that feeling. Indiana was up. Indiana is a better team.
That doesn't mean the better team always wins. But now

(08:32):
you know, just the injuries and the attrition here for
the nixt it'll be really difficult to beat this team
in seven games. It will be and the fact that
og A Nanobi not able to play in these games.
Really they don't have any depth. Minnesota. Now you go
to Denver, Denver wins that game. I think most of

(08:56):
us are going to think that Denver is going to
win this series, and this was, you know, coronation.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Steven A.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Smith said he wouldn't be surprised that Minnesota sweeps Denver
like slowed down. He's been covering the NBA long enough
to know it's really hard to beat somebody four consecutive games,
especially a team that's not in the playoffs very often
in you're facing the defending champs, like defending champ. When's
the last time a defending champ was swept in a

(09:24):
series the following year? But yes, stephen A was quick
to proclaim, you know that all of a sudden, Minnesota
they're here.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yes they are.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
That doesn't mean they're ready to win, or that doesn't
mean that Denver is ready to lose. Like you got
a factor that in as well, and Joker played well.
Murray played well. In fact, Murray right before halftime, and
here's the call.

Speaker 9 (09:49):
Edwards tossed the ball with a turnover most Denberty cover
at the other road other times, and he kits.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
It to go in the clock Courtland.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
That's inter.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Shot Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller on the call as
Jamal Murray right before the buzzer, and give credit to
the Nuggets played well start to finish. And if you're Minnesota,
Anthony Edwards gave you forty four. This series isn't about
Anthony Edwards. It's about everybody else. When everybody else plays

(10:33):
well offensively, defensively, then they can beat Denver. Anthony Edwards
by himself will not beat Denver, but give credit to Denver.
You go to Minnesota and you win an impressive fashion there.
Now you go back home, supposed to take care of
business in game five? All right, any other poll questions there,
I'm gonna start hour one with those. We'll keep it

(10:54):
in the NBA.

Speaker 7 (10:54):
We also have which team up to one makes you
most nervous. The MAVs are the celt.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
All the maps they do, Yeah, yeah, because I don't
know how a healthy Luca is And you know, maybe
Okac starts to figure this out a little bit, what
they're supposed to do when they're supposed to do it.
But I mean Boston, Boston has one of these games,
sometimes two of these games, and they've had their bad game,

(11:21):
they've had their embarrassing moment there. I would be surprised
if Cleveland wins another game.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
But Dallas, Yeah, that's going to be a little bit
more challenging. It will be.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
We'll get phone calls best and worst of the weekend
and while he Zerbiak will join us coming up. I
gave you the points spreads for tonight. Congratulations to the
Detroit Pistons. You're bad, but you're not good enough to
be bad enough to win the number one overall pick.
And in a year where the WNBA had an unbelievable draft,

(11:53):
the NBA looks like on paper it's going to be
very boring. And you're Atlanta Hawks. Come on down, you
got the nonumber one pick. Yeah, yeah, what.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Are you going to do with that? Say hello to
Anthony Sar.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
He is the odds on favored according to DraftKings, to
be the number one pick. Leave it to the Hawks
that they get the French guy after the French guy
from last year. Hey, we got our French guy. Oh
he's not like Victor Wembayana.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
No he's not.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
But Anthony Sar expected to be number one the first
American player, Reed Shepherd out of Kentucky. Also Donovan Klingen
from Yukon also thrown in there as well. I don't
know if the now this is what happens. This could
be one of those drafts where the best player is

(12:44):
taking tenth overall. Maybe your early picks aren't great players,
but there's gonna be a couple of players where you go, God,
they could have gotten him with the thirteenth pick. That's
going to be a guy. Yeah, sure, at least one.
There will be one of those guys. But the Pistons,
they had the worst record. You know, one of these
years the Lions are going to have more wins than

(13:05):
the Pistons, feels like. But when they have fourteen wins
and then you don't have the number one overall pick,
you're picking number five here and Atlanta had like a
three percent chance of winning the lottery.

Speaker 6 (13:17):
Yes, Paul, you're saying this draft doesn't have a lot
of star power. Oh okay, okay, yeah, nice single.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Early it's early baseednot base not.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
I was also curious over unders in case you're curious,
Sga over under and uh Luca over under for the
big game coming up tonight, have that for you as
well as Donovan Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell, you can pretty much
pencil him in for thirty plus. So we'll take a
break while the Zerbiak will join us, a former player

(13:49):
and a Nicks analyst, and your phone calls are always welcome.
Best and worst of the weekend. We will get to
those coming up shortly back after this Dan Patrick show.

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Speaker 2 (14:39):
We'll talk to former Minnesota Timberwolve while he's Zerbiak, he's
a Knicks analyst and he'll join us. Coming up here
momentarily as the Knicks didn't put up a fight yesterday,
and it was one of those damned if you do,
damned if you don't. Social media was saying, I can't
believe Timbs is giving up already, and then the other
part was, Hey, now's the time to take out your

(15:01):
starters and let them rest. And I'm thinking their starters
are their bench, and their bench is their starters, So
just get Brunson out of there for the most part
and hopefully no more injuries.

Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah, Pauline, you know, I saw a couple of people
on sports media said the Nicks quit at one point yesterday,
And we're really hesitant about saying stuff like that with
pro players, But is there dis quit and realizing today's
not your day? Because that's what it felt like at
some point. I think they realized this is not happening.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, this wasn't the example I would use and say
they quit. I just don't know if they ever got started.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
Yeah that, Yeah, I don't have any problem with that
kind of thing, Like are we going to really try
to climb this mountain of a comeback right now? Or
should we just call this one a loss?

Speaker 3 (15:43):
See again?

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Game four, Yeah, they need to rest. Game five, Yes,
they need to rest Game five. Wally Zurbiank, the Knicks
color analyst, former Timberwolf great, joining us on the program.
All right, how would you describe the Knicks effort yesterday?

Speaker 11 (15:57):
Wally Well Josh charts that you know, they didn't have
the energy required to compete yesterday. And this team, you know,
they don't make excuses. Tom Thibodeau doesn't make excuses. Obviously,
they're decimated with injuries for three starters and four impact
front court players not in the lineup. When you look

(16:18):
at Bogdanovich, Julius Randall, Mitchell Robinson, and now Ognanobi, who
is a key piece obviously this team on both ends
of the floor, especially defensively guarding Pascal Siakam. At the
same time, the team realizes that's to two. They had
a big time opportunity to pull off that win in
Game three, and that slipped out of their hands. They

(16:40):
missed a couple layups and transition, they missed a couple
free throws, and then them hard hit a thirty five
footer to ice that game away, and they had an
opportunity to go up three to zero, and then on
the quick turnaround in afternoon game, you know, with all
the minutes those guys have been playing, I think it
kind of caught up to him yesterday and they didn't
have the adrenaline and the emotional energy to compete. At

(17:03):
the same time, it's a three game series and two
out of three are at the world's most famous arena,
MSG where the Knicks are playing great basketball.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Who has the advantage, Well, it looks like the momentum
has definitely swung in the PACER's way.

Speaker 11 (17:18):
The Knicks are going to have to show early on
in that game that they're there to compete. I think
the next still at the advantage because home court is
huge and Indiana hasn't proven that they can win in
that building in this series. But at the same time,
with the way the Knicks are dealing with the injuries
they're dealing with, they're going to have to come up
with a heroic effort to win Game five.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
His home court advantage real in the NBA.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
Absolutely, especially in the playoffs.

Speaker 11 (17:47):
We're not seeing it in the Denver series in the
Minnesota series, But at the same time, it's tough to
win on the road in the regular season, and then
it carries over even more in the playoffs. Like that
crowd at Indianapolis yesterday was electric. I mean the emotion,
the energy, the momentum that they gave their players, especially
early on in that game. That's what home court advantage

(18:08):
can do. And the Knicks fans have been crazy, you know,
they've been awesome. They're actually going to need that emotional
support and that lift. They're going to need that adrenaline push.
But quite honestly, if Jalen Brunston doesn't play well, then
the Knicks are not going to win. You know, he
struggled the last two games. He's dealing with that foot injury.
When he plays well, that's when all the role players

(18:30):
fall into place. If he doesn't play well, the Knicks
just don't have enough creative scoring to create good shots
on the offensive end of the floor to compete with
the high octane offense of the Pacers.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
But then you have to factor in officials.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Why is it it feels like officials favor the home team.
It's a fact that you're going to get more calls
when you're at home.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
Yeah, that's the case.

Speaker 11 (18:55):
I always found the best officials that ever I ever
worked with were the ones that didn't let the crowd
affect their calls.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
Guys like Steve.

Speaker 11 (19:02):
Javvy, you know, Minnie McCutcheon, guys like that, they just
were solids.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
You know.

Speaker 11 (19:08):
Scott Foster is another one that comes to mind, where
he makes the right call no matter what. He's not
influenced by the fans. He's not influenced by the momentum
and the emotion of the game.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Uh.

Speaker 11 (19:18):
They just make the call, and they make the call
when they see it. So you know, that's what the
NBA is trying to get to. At the same time,
you know, sometimes you can't hear yourself think in certain
moments in those games. It's so loud in those arenas.
So maybe officials, you know, they see things one way,
but the noise and the and the and the and
the crowd is making things their mind's foggy. Then they

(19:41):
might get it calls wrong. Listen, their jobs are tough.
You know, those l two m's when they come out,
you know, you see those blades in real time and
then once you dissect them over and over and over.
I think that's the only reason maybe they get some
of those calls wrong. I think the officials are doing
as much as they can to get the calls right.
They're the best official in the business that I've seen

(20:01):
in any sport, at any you know, level of basketball.
So there is some element of human error and you
have to just go by with what they say.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Okay, you're not to mention any names. I mean you can,
but an official where you go, you know what, he's
favoring this player for this team.

Speaker 11 (20:20):
There's not in my experience, there's never been any officials
that are like that.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Wait, you never thought like Jordan was getting too many
calls Kobe never.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
No, honestly phantom phantom calls where you're going, Wait a minute,
nobody touched him.

Speaker 11 (20:39):
No, Like you know, I played ten years in the NBA.
I think I got five technical fouls. I just believed
that the officials the NBA, you know, gets the best
in the business.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
You know, they're trained, you know, to the highest of level.

Speaker 11 (20:54):
I will say one thing about when I played compared
to now, I think there are a lot of there's
a lot of turnover and officials. So some of the
officials are not as experienced, so they haven't been in
big moments like some of the more experience, Like experience
is the most important thing an official in my opinion.
But I used to go out there and trust their judgment.

(21:14):
I used to play the game, you know, I used
to you know, not be a flopper. I used to
believe that. You know, you go out there and you
just play your game. You know those guys that complain
all the time to the officials. If I put myself
in an official shoes, I would be like, just leave
me alone, let me do my job. Like, you're not
going to influence me one way or another by just
every time I blow the whistle running over to me

(21:37):
and needing to have a conversation with me.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
I don't need that.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Were you trying to get cacorated by being a nice guys?
What you're saying?

Speaker 2 (21:43):
So you you took the opposite approach, like I'm going
to suck up to these guys, Hey, Scott, nice call
there and you pat them on the rear end.

Speaker 11 (21:52):
Yeah, you like if you notice a lot of European players,
this is one thing. My dad played for Real Madrid
in Europe. So when he got called for a foul,
he would raise his hand. He'd be like that that
fouls on me. You look over the scorers table and
try to help out the scorers table. That was his
his his attitude, like, these guys have a really tough job.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
Okay, obviously these calls, some of them can go fifty
to fifty.

Speaker 11 (22:15):
There's a reason why we have replaying challenges, which I
think is a great addition to the NBA.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
I think we should.

Speaker 11 (22:22):
Add more challenges for the coaching staff because it's so
tough to get those calls right, and you have to
get those calls right in a close game with so
much on the line in these playoff games. So my
attitude was that, you know, I think officiating has been
you know, suspected times, but for the most part, it's
as good as you're going to get. It an an

(22:42):
emotional game, in a physical game like that, and you
got to live with the decisions of those officials.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
We're talking a while the Zerbiyank, he's the next color analyst,
former Minnesota Timberwolf sixth pick overall, I believe in the
nineteen ninety nine draft, Explain to me who has the
advantage with the Nuggets and the Timberwolf.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Now, it's definitely the Nuggets.

Speaker 11 (23:03):
They just stomped their foot on the tim Wolves and
said we're the reigning champs for a reason. You came
in our building. You stole two wins, but we are
not going anywhere. And I've said I think they're the
favorites to win back to back and win the NBA Championship.
I've said that all season long. I think Michael Malone
is the best coach in the NBA. And I'm not

(23:26):
going to say it's not even close, but that guy's
just a flat out great coach. He knows how to
motivate his guys. He's got the best player on the
planet in my opinion, in Nicola Jokicic on that roster,
and then he's got great pieces around that around him.
The way Aaron Gordon shooting the basketball, the way Iron
Gordon's playing, the athleticism that he has. This team looks
pretty focused to go back to back and they're not

(23:48):
going to go out by you know, losing their first
two games at home. They came back and showed what
they're made of championship medal.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Are you okay with the comparisons with Anthony Edwards and
Michael Jordan.

Speaker 11 (24:02):
I am, Listen, He's not you know, in that conversation yet,
but as far as his attitude, his killer instinct, you know,
it's all about winning.

Speaker 5 (24:12):
For him, he's only twenty two years old.

Speaker 11 (24:14):
The athleticism, you know, just the durability that he's showing
at an early age. There's a lot of comparisons that
you can make, very similar to Kobe Bryant, like in
order to be in that conversation. Listen, nobody's maybe ever
going to reach you know, Michael Jordan's the greatest of
all time in my opinion, and it's you know, a

(24:34):
big number two is way behind him. It's just because
of the mental aspect his mind. It's just he never
lost when he he never lost in the biggest moments.
And you know, Anthony Edwards is trying to get to
that point where it's just all about winning when it
matters at the most crucial moments. And the way he

(24:55):
played last night, he was outstanding. And you know his
teammates got a kind of follow that lead and help
him out because his theories is going to be interesting
the way it's.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
Going to end up.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
And you were a rookie in nineteen ninety nine, what
was your welcome to the league moment? Who who welcomed
you to the NBA.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
Welcome to the league moment?

Speaker 11 (25:13):
I would say it was the first time we played
the Utah Jazz and I tried to take a charge
and call him alone, and he brought his knee right
into my solo plexism I sternam and it was the charge.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
I got the charge, but it did not feel good.

Speaker 11 (25:31):
And he stood over me just laughing like, welcome to
the NBA.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
I'll never forget that.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Did you ever posterize somebody on a dunk?

Speaker 11 (25:43):
Yeah, you know when I was younger, you know, I
used to catch a few dunks here and there. I'm
trying to I caught Tim Duncan once late in my career.
I caught Tjerk Nobitzki once. A few highlights rolling around
on YouTube if you want to check them out. You know,
I had a few sneaky dunk moments when I got
that one handed Stef Liberty going. So there's a few
out there back in the day.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
That's pretty good. Hey, great to talk to you again.
As always, Thank you, Wally.

Speaker 11 (26:09):
My pleasure. It's always great to come on and let's
go next. Let's see if think a bounce back.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
That's Wally Zerbiak.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
He's the NIXT color analyst and he would remember the
All Rookie team he was an All Star in two
thousand and two. It's always nice, you know, when YouTube
can bring back some of those highlights, because I wouldn't
think that Wally Zerbiak would be a guy who would
be dunking on Tim Duncan of all people, and Dirk Novitsky.
But you also have those moments where somebody will say, oh, man,

(26:35):
I dunked on that guy, and it's basically a guy
wasn't guarding you, and then he went over to try
to help and got over there too late, and then
you dunked on him. But as far as I'm dunking
on you, the best in well, there's two best in
game dunkers. Doctor j was spectacular, and I remember watching
him in the ABA against the Kentucky Colonels who had

(26:56):
a big front line, and he would just kind of
pick up a rebound and go right back up and
throw it down in Dan Issel's face or Bobby Jones.
And then Dominique Wilkins was as good of an in
game in traffic dunker that I've ever seen. And Mike
of course is always going to be in that conversation,
but Dominique usually didn't dunk one handed.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
He dun't.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
He did a tomahawk dunk, and he was going to
hurt people if you were gonna go up and try
to get it. But Doctor Jay had that big paw
that he would just grab the ball and he'd go
up and he'd throw it down. But in game, it's
a whole lot different. A lot of guys can dunk,
a lot of guys can dunk, and you're a second
late getting over.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
But when it's you and it's.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Me and I'm coming and you know it and then
you dunk, that's when you get people's attention.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yeah, PAULI a.

Speaker 6 (27:44):
Couple more in game dunkers. They only did it really
the first half of their career. Blake Griffin, Young Blake
Griffin went at everybody you know you kind of forget,
and young Sean Kemp they were going for the dunk
before everything else. I'd say those two.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Yeah, Sean Camp.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
I remember the NBA Finals against the Bulls, and I've
said it before, and even a couple of Bulls acknowledged this.
Michael did not that Sean camp was the best player
on the floor in a couple of those games, Like
you're watching me, you're going damn.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (28:13):
Mark there's one big omission that we're missing. Vince Carter.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yeah yeah, I mean his biggest dunk was in the Olympics.

Speaker 9 (28:23):
I mean he didn't dunk on someone. He dunked over
some eyes. Yeah, he jumped over someone.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
In the game. Yeah yeah, but it was Frederick Weiss and.

Speaker 9 (28:31):
He dunked on the Tumble's rookie year. Oh, he's got
some in my house.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
By the way, defending NBA champs swept in a series
the following year. This happened in twenty twelve. If you
said the Dallas Mavericks, you would be correct. They got
swept by OKCO.

Speaker 10 (28:52):
Stand the day Stan Dayta day outa day.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
This is stat on the Nest.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Just out of the day, brought to you by a
Panini American. The official trading cards for the Dan Patrick Show.
Happened to the Lakers in twenty eleven. The Mavericks swept them.
Happened to the Miami Heat. That was in two thousand
and seven. The Bulls swept them in the first round.
Go back to the Rockets. Nineteen ninety six, Seattle swept them.

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The Pistons in nineteen ninety one, the Bulls swept them.
The Lakers that was the NBA Finals nineteen eighty nine,
Pistons swept them.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
The Lakers.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
They were swept by the Sixers in the nineteen eighty
three NBA Finals. So it's happened. It's not going to
happen with the Denver Nuggets this year. But Stephen A
saying that Minnesota was going to sweep Denver, it certainly
looked like that. But he's been around long enough to
know it's really really difficult to pull something like that off.

(29:56):
How about a couple of phone calls here, Best and
worst of the weekend, Doug in North Carol is back, Doug,
welcome back.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Best and worst?

Speaker 4 (30:04):
Well, my best is your friends at Pro Football Talk,
perhaps inspired by your show this on Friday, they dropped
an article on former NFL receiver Devin Funches. Do you
remember Devin?

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Yes, Do you have any clue what he's doing now?

Speaker 3 (30:19):
No?

Speaker 12 (30:20):
He is the first.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
Former football player to sign a professional basketball contract. This
was a big part of your conversation. He's playing with
some team in Columbia. And I think if your argument
is that more NBA players can make it into the NFL,
I agree with that, but it's not because necessarily they're
better athletes. I think it's just because there's more places
they could plug into. Any NBA player could play a

(30:45):
role on special teams. But for the first time, you
have Devin Funches, who is playing with some team in Columbia,
South America, who is the first time trying it the
other way.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Thank you, Doug. Yeah, I think I saw the article.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
I didn't read the article, and it was somebody who
was going to play basketball overseas who had played in
the NFL.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
So thank you for giving me details.

Speaker 6 (31:05):
Yes, yeah, fun just had a nice pro career in
the NFL. He, according to the article, made a promise
to his grandfather that he would play win a Super Bowl,
play professional basketball, and then become a farmer. So he's
on leg two of this and it's the Caribbean Storm
of the Professional Columbia Basketball League. Good squad. Yeah, oh there,

(31:25):
Juggernaut Cariban Storm. Yes, that will run punch you in
the face. Oh okay, I'm gonna go with that. I'm
gonna I'm gonna tours hem.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Yeah, tourism. Uh.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Kevin in Lake Tahoe, keV. How's the snow out there?

Speaker 12 (31:45):
Oh, it's finally melting a little bit.

Speaker 13 (31:47):
But you know, a little two foot storm two weeks ago,
gotten a nice little potter day to end the year.
So but thank you for taking it guys.

Speaker 12 (31:55):
Good morning.

Speaker 13 (31:56):
My beast of the week is Roy McElroy double game
number eighteen to seventy second hole, yet still winning by
five after starting from behind to start the day. Pretty
impressive and means to say there. And then my worst
of the week is the NBA and just generally the
parody me planning my evenings to go watch these games

(32:19):
and I flip them on and they're they're they're near unwatchable.
So may have to keep the playoffs off. Except for
the Timberwolves Minnesota, maybe this week could look pretty fun,
but the rest of the series are are almost unwatchable
until he gets to the finals or at least the
seventy five.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Well, I think you're being a little rough on the
NBA there. I thought that there was still some pretty
good basketball. You know, the next game wasn't good at all.
Just the fact that Minnesota goes home and Denver goes
in there and takes both of those games, and you
got to see Aaron Gordon was great. He made his
first ten shots, he didn't miss until three and a

(32:56):
half minutes left in the game, when you have that
Jamal Murray and then you have the joker that's going
to be a CounterPunch to anything Minnesota puts up there.
If Anthony Edwards is the only guy really putting up
any scoring and he had forty four, all right, we'll
take a break. Got our play of the day coming up.
More phone calls. We know the first game of the
NFL the regular season that Thursday night. I think they

(33:20):
could have picked a better opponent for the Chiefs. We'll
talk about that coming up next.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAPP.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
It's It's the final hour on this Monday, Best and
Worst of the weekend.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
Once again. Belated, Happy Mother's Day.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
If you took part in Dan's deals, hopefully it brought
a smile to mom's face. Glad to take part in
that ourselves, be a part of your mother's day. Cavs
Celtics coming up tonight, MAVs at the Thunder. In case
you're wondering for entertainment purposes, Celtics are giving eight and
a half. Oklahoma City is getting one and a half
action over the weekend, well, very little action with the Pacers.

(34:05):
The last game Game four against the Knicks as they
dominate nugget surprise surprise, two wins over Minnesota in Minnesota.
That series now tied to two games apiece. Here is
their head coach, Michael Malone on you people who doubted us.

Speaker 14 (34:21):
I think when we were leaving Denver A lot of
people I don't think in Denver, but a lot of
people were, you know, understandably. So SANDA series is over,
and you know to come up here and even it
up on the road.

Speaker 5 (34:32):
We've played good basketball.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Okay, if you say it's over, you don't know basketball,
because you still have they have to beat you two
more times. I mean, they're the defending champs. Yes, it
was ugly in Denver, but you have maybe the best
basketball coach in the NBA, and you still have the MVP,

(34:55):
and you have a good supporting cast. Yes, you're going
against Anthony Edwards. I don't worry about Anthony Edwards from
the standpoint of I know he'll produce. I worry about
the other players. Can you produce when you have to
produce and they didn't last night. Give credit. They did
what they're supposed to do. And here's their head coach again,
Michael Malone.

Speaker 14 (35:16):
Rudy t is right, man. Never underestimate the heart of
a champion. I mean, like they were quick to write
us off, you know, but these guys, we won a
championship a year ago.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 14 (35:25):
We went into Miami won two games in a row.
Like this team has been tested time and time again,
and we found a way to solve whatever's been thrown
at us.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Yeah, here's Anthony Edwards on the Timberwolf side of this,
and this is series.

Speaker 15 (35:39):
I mean, we won two games, but we didn't think
it was gonna be easy. I mean, this is like
I always say, these are the defense. I said it
after Game two. They're not gonna lay down. They're gonna
punch and we're gonna punch back. And they beat us
up tonight. The last two nights, they beat us up
in the fight. And that's okay. You know, we'll be
all right and bounce back, figure it out next game
and we'll be ready again.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Right, Well, you weren't ready last night. At least your
teammates weren't I don't worry about him, he's bringing it.
I worry about the other players, Karl Anthony Towns, the
guy who's changed the game.

Speaker 9 (36:13):
Yes, Marvin, I love Anthony Edwards's He's my new favorite player.
He was like, well, he just said right there. He
sounds like one of those kids where he got beat
up and his mom said, all right, get up and
go fight him again.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
Yeah, and don't come home until you Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
As far as the Knicks, the Fife and drum Bugle Corps,
I mean, they came in limping and undermanned and they
got blown out.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Here's Jalen Brunson on the Knicks.

Speaker 8 (36:40):
I mean, we can talk about fresh legs and we
can give us all the pity that we want. Yeah,
we're short handed, but that doesn't matter right now. Be
hap we'll we have and we need to go forward
with that. There is no we're short handed. There's no excuse.
There's no excuse whatsoever. Now we lose, we lose.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Well, they are shorthanded, they've got injuries, and there will
be excuses, gitimate excuses. They're not a better team than Indiana.
They played better the first two games. Now all of
a sudden, you got to see the Pacers plight. Now
keep in mind in Game three, Knicks could have won
that one. But you've got to wear down Jalen Brunson.
You've got to have two or three different defenders, different sizes.

(37:18):
You either body him or you know, you try to
speed him up, have somebody who's quick enough to stay
with him or at least close by, and then sometimes
you have a bigger guy to be physical with him.
That's where it starts. That's where it ends. If you're
able to control Brunson where he doesn't get his thirty
five and ten, then you'll beat this too. They just
don't have the man power there. And the Pacers are

(37:41):
a good team, balanced team, they have depth. They should
win this series. Now, when the Knicks won the first
two because Brunson was unbelievable, I thought, wow, can they
pull this off? And I even said is it sustainable?
And I don't think it is. And I did say,
if it's sustainable in this series, it won't be for
the next series. And that's the case. You don't have

(38:02):
a lot of players. They're playing a lot of minutes
and it's not a question of if. But when somebody
breaks down we'll get to some phone calls. Paulie said,
we have a new hot pole question.

Speaker 6 (38:14):
It's so good. I send a seat in last hour
and don't remember what.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
It is, Seaton, do you remember?

Speaker 4 (38:20):
Well?

Speaker 7 (38:20):
I received two from paul in the last hour. Let's
guess what and one's not okay?

Speaker 3 (38:28):
His career.

Speaker 6 (38:28):
Would you want.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
What Shacks was or what Jokich's will be?

Speaker 5 (38:35):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (38:36):
Knowing everything about Shaq, his prusonality, the whole shebang.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Well I would take Shack over Jos's future. Yeah, yeah?

Speaker 7 (38:46):
Or another pole question? Most recognizable human on Earth Taylor Swift,
Lionel Messi, Shaquille O'Neal.

Speaker 3 (38:54):
Other.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Okay, this is the most recognized thele person yes, right, okay?

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Is Messi in his soccer uniform?

Speaker 7 (39:07):
Nope, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 6 (39:09):
Jeans and a T shirt.

Speaker 7 (39:10):
You seen when that dude goes out to dinner, fifteen
thousand people show up. Well, that's because they know that
he's going to be there. Yeah, because everybody knows where
he is all the time. Well, somebody probably tells somebody. Yeah,
he's probably one of those guys that tips off the
paparazzi himself.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah, he wants fifteen thousand people in really like, Oh,
I just can't go anywhere. I just want to be
with my family.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
I remember talking to a photographer and actually it was
a husband and wife, and they would talk about how
they would get phone calls from celebrities to let them
know they were going to be at a certain place.
So the husband and wife they their day started at
night and then they would go out, you know, like
eight o'clock, and then they'd stay out till two or

(39:52):
three in the morning so they could get all these
photographs for publication. But they said famous people, or they
would have a person on behalf of a famous person saying, hey, uh,
you know such and such is going to be at
this restaurant at around this time, or going to be
leaving this place with this person that they want you
to film them with. And I was because I kept thinking, Man,

(40:15):
these these photographers are awesome. They know where everybody is.
All of a sudden, you're getting a heads up, yeah, Paul.

Speaker 6 (40:21):
So for this pole question, the rationale is if they
walked into a grade school, they walk into a you know,
a mall, wherever they would walk into visually, who's the
most famous person on Earth?

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Well, Shack would be. I think just because of his size.

Speaker 6 (40:34):
Yeah, And I think Taylor Swift is recognizable to if
you're six or you're eighty. I think she's that famous.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
Now.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Well, but let's say I had her have her hair
underneath a hat and sunglasses and she's just walking around.

Speaker 6 (40:47):
Right, she can hide a little bit. That's different.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Shack can't hide. Yep, MESSI could hide. Shack can hide. Uh,
the most famous.

Speaker 6 (40:56):
Person visually, like we're recognized.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Yeah, well then would be. Yeah, just because there's nobody
like him on the planet.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
Is that wild?

Speaker 2 (41:04):
There are a lot of people Messy's size. There are
a lot of people who look like they, you know,
Taylor Swift. Yeah, there's nobody looks like sk.

Speaker 12 (41:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
So i'd say Shank most recommended face. Yeah. Not everybody
knows Joker all over the world.

Speaker 6 (41:25):
That's what this is, my show, not chunks. I wonder
Shaq would love to move to a town that has
all seven feet people where you could just blend in.
I don't know if there is a small town like that.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
I don't I don't know if there's a town that
leads the leads to the league in seven footers.

Speaker 6 (41:39):
He's great, Like he's medium sized.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Well, when he stands next to Yao Ming, Yao Ming
is the biggest man on the planet. Like when you
see Shaq, you go there's nobody who's bigger than him,
and you see him next to Yao Ming, and you go, ah.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
Like, Yao Ming is way bigger than yes, way big.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Which is it's preposterous to think somebody could be bigger
that much bigger than Shaq, But Yao Ming is, yes,
ton that's ridiculous.

Speaker 16 (42:04):
I remember seeing a picture once and then you got
like seven inches six seven inches on him.

Speaker 9 (42:08):
He looks like he's about.

Speaker 16 (42:10):
Half a foot towe of it have been some of
those pictures.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Did you want me to call on you? I don't
think I raised my hands give you. We're trying to
salvage it, so I respect that.

Speaker 6 (42:18):
I do have the picture of Shaq and Yao Ming
the hotel lobby, and Shaq looks like a six to
five guy standing next to Shack or a six '
four guy standing next to Yao Yeah, yeah, he like
what a six y five guy next to check? Is
him next to Yao's It's pretty wild.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yeah, hawks won the lottery, yay kay if we only
could have won it, last year, but Alex Sar is
expected to be the first overall pick. Reed Shephard out
of Kentucky. Uh, maybe the third pick. Donovan Klingen out

(42:58):
of Connecticut. He's got the same odds. Uh, there's a
Nicola topic. He's supposed to be up there as well.

Speaker 9 (43:07):
Yes, Mark, there's a lot of gritty and gutty guys
in this draft this year.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
White guys.

Speaker 9 (43:11):
Yeah, I mean, I'll just say gritty and gutty.

Speaker 6 (43:13):
Dalton Connect.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yeah. Yeah, Well that guy can shoot.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
That guy's six seven, six eight and he he was
lighting up teams in the SEC, lightening them up. Yeah,
Tennessee sharpshooter. He transferred from like Northern Colorado or.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Something like that. But he's a bucket. He can score.
A good player.

Speaker 6 (43:35):
Yes, we're discussing the difference of our night between American
born white guys and European white guys in this draft.
Dalton Connect not German. He's actually from America.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Yes, yes, yes, he played at Tennessee then Cooper Flag
next year.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
I know.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Renaissance, Yeah, renaissance.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
Okay, really good year.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
We are us, all right, Shepherd, Yeah yeah, Donovan Klingon
Yeah yeah, yeah, Baby, come on.

Speaker 6 (44:11):
It was clinging with Umlote the number one.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Yeah, yes, yeah. He was from Germany. Oh he's another
Dirk Novitzky.

Speaker 6 (44:20):
Was from Holland. He'd be making a zillion.

Speaker 9 (44:21):
He had Greeny video. Oh my god, you see this guy, man,
Ricky Rubio had just the vhs. They were like, oh
my god, did you see that? One day to pass.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Well, Chris Mannix bought into Ricky Rubio so bad. And
I remember watching Ricky Rubio overseas and I remember Mannix.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
Was like, oh man, this guy's unbelievable. I said he
can't shoot.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Oh you know, he'll he'll learn to shoot, you know,
I said, he can pass, he can't shoot. And Ricky
Rubio went his entire career not being able to shoot,
which is impressive. But shooters, no shooters. Mannix isn't a shooter.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
He's a writer. But yeah, Ricky Rubio, who is the
other guy that?

Speaker 12 (45:03):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (45:03):
Dante ExHAM, oh my god, never forget, Oh my god.
And Emmanuel Moodaia he was a big fan of Yes.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
I remember him just saying, you know, Dante Exam, I go, no, no, Dante.
I'm telling you, I said, no, Dante ExHAM. He's not
a good player. He might play, but he's not a
good player. Yes, Ma, man loves hard Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
no when he falls in love.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
Yeah yeah. Dante Exham's still in the NBA.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
Yeah, he's uh coming off the bench for the Maps. Okay, serviceable?

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Yeah, I mean I give him credit. I mean he's
probably had a ten year career. A couple more phone
calls in here, Alan in La Hi, Allen, what's on
your mind?

Speaker 13 (45:47):
Good morning, Dan. I have a poll question for you
and the dan ats.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
Okay, there are fours.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
There are four cities, Dallas, Denver, New York, and Boston.
They all have teams in the NHL and the NBA playoffs.

Speaker 16 (46:01):
Is any team any city gonna pull off a double
double this year?

Speaker 3 (46:07):
Well, let's see Dallas.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Dallas can get to the Western Conference finals. Maybe when
the then you have the Stars, So you have Boston.
I have my Panthers winning that series. I have the Celtics,
though they'll go to the NBA Finals.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Denver. I don't know where things stand with Denver. Do
we have Yeah?

Speaker 13 (46:37):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
I don't have an update on where we stand with
the hockey here to be able to answer that question.

Speaker 6 (46:43):
The Avalanche are down to one of Dallas in the series.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Okay, so the Stars beat the Avalanche Saturday to take
a and the Hurricanes edge the Rangers. I don't think
the Knicks are going to win, m Now, I don't
think so. I don't think we'll have a city pull
off a double double. Yes, Marma, it could have.

Speaker 9 (47:11):
Been almost nineteen eighty four. Again if John Starks didn't.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Go well, No, it wasn't officially that.

Speaker 9 (47:21):
In my story, he was one.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Yes, Larry in Illinois, Hi, Larry, went's on your mind today?

Speaker 12 (47:27):
Yeah? First time, long time, six two fifty five things.
Rudy Gobert obviously didn't learn his lesson, like you said,
finding these guys won't do anything. He did the money
sign again, he just kept his hands close to his body,
but they weren't going to see it so he wouldn't

(47:48):
get in trouble. And talking about going out with professional superstars.
My brother graduated high school jim Tomy, and we went
to see him out in Baltimore, went out to eat
with him, and people started coming up to the table
asking for his autograph, and he was I mean, Jimmy's

(48:10):
one of the nicest guys you ever wanted to meet.
He goes, you know, I'll be with you after I'm
done with my friends here eating. By the time we
were done eating, there was probably thirty to forty people
waiting in a line inside the restaurant waiting to get
his autographed. So we left and he sat there and signed.

(48:30):
Everything went right down the line and we took off.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Well, they're probably not used to much star power wherever
you were, because Jim Tomay is a nice player, Hall
of Famer, one of the nicest people. But I don't
know if I'm going did you Jim to me who
Marissa Tomy I would show up for?

Speaker 6 (48:54):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yes, yes, before the devil knows you're dead. Tone man,
Yes it is, yes, Todd.

Speaker 16 (49:03):
If you tell one of these celebrities, we'll a celebrity,
tell someone I'll take carey after dinner, you know they're
going to end up telling other people or the other
people gonna come up to them, And then don't you
have to kind of sign everybody's at that point. Even
though you may have just told that one person I'll
take care of after dinner, the word gets out there
he's signing autographs after dinner.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Well, it depends on who it is, but yeah, they
most people will when they get up. You know, you
don't want to be getting up, sitting back down, getting up,
sitting back down. I always say, if I'm out to
dinner with my family, when I'm done with the meal,
you want me to sign something that I will or
take a photo. Not that there are people waiting to
find me, but if there are then, you know, back

(49:39):
in the mid nineties, then yeah, I would say just wait,
let me wait till I get done with this.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Yes, Paul, I.

Speaker 6 (49:48):
Mentioned this before, but it's so good I have to
tell it again. Fifteen years ago, when this actress was
at the peak of fame, Julia Roberts, one of my
brother in law saw her at a restaurant. Not only
did the interrupt her for a picture, the picture wasn't
so great. He was smiling like crazy, and she wasn't
really smiling because it was not a big moment in
her life.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Hmmm.

Speaker 6 (50:08):
He actually went back up to he and ask her
for a second picture, where because she wasn't smiling in
the first. I heard the story. See I heard the story,
and I'm like, well, that can't be true. No one
would bother Julia Roberts twice.

Speaker 7 (50:20):
That takes a pair to walk up and just go
you know you didn't. It's not a good photograph, a
stunning I don't even have the words to put into
what the audacity isn't even the right word.

Speaker 6 (50:33):
It's like, yeah, just.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
A shocking lack of you know, you're not very photo Jenny.
Could you try a little harder?

Speaker 12 (50:41):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (50:41):
You weren't smiling in this picture?

Speaker 6 (50:42):
Oh my apologies?

Speaker 3 (50:44):
What time? What do you say?

Speaker 9 (50:45):
Look at it the other way? Wow, you've got guts.
I can't believe you did that. Let's do it with
another one. You had the no that you would come
back and.

Speaker 16 (50:52):
Say that I respect that that you felt comfortably asking
me again.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
No, you respected.

Speaker 16 (50:58):
Audacity is the right word. But I could see someone's like, wow,
that takes a lot of you know what to do.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
That because I'm now bothered. You got your picture. Now
you're going to say I didn't like the way you looked,
and you're gonna.

Speaker 6 (51:10):
Like that A way to say no, way to not
say yeah?

Speaker 2 (51:14):
How about you don't say it? There's no way you
walk up to Julia Roberts.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
And go, man, you know you got some piece.

Speaker 16 (51:23):
First one pretend to be excited.

Speaker 6 (51:25):
Yes, I will bring you in the picture plural and
you can look at the first one of Julia Roberts
and say, would you go up and ask for a
second one based off this one?

Speaker 8 (51:34):
No?

Speaker 2 (51:34):
If she takes a bad picture, it's so awkward this story. Yeah,
more phone calls coming up. Best and worst of the weekend.
What would be the worst game the NFL could provide
us for opening weekend?

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Well, take a look that.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
We already know that it's going to be the Ravens
and the Chiefs on that Thursday night, So we have
Thursday night, then you have the Eagles game that's in
Brazil on Friday night, and then there's a game on
some night.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
I'm trying to keep up with this. Does that sound right?

Speaker 6 (52:05):
Any Sunday games here?

Speaker 3 (52:08):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Yeah, well Thursday night that's in Kansas City. Let me
see what's the game in uh Brazil? The Eagles host
the Packers. That'll be Friday and uh okay, yeah, I
think that's right. Is it Thursday, Friday, Sunday or the
I don't know what the Sunday night game on NBC is,

(52:31):
but NBC will have or no, is that going to be?

Speaker 3 (52:34):
Is that Peacock on.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
So I think it's NBC Thursday Opening Night, Peacock Friday,
and then Sunday night NBC will have another marquee game.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
I believe that's.

Speaker 7 (52:44):
I hope that the Packers send just planeloads of people
from Wisconsin to Brazil for that game.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Just to let them get a load of it, because
they're the friendliest bare We sure traveled a long way
for this one.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
Sure is nice down a little humid. But is that
your Milwaukee ice.

Speaker 17 (53:01):
I'd love to hear that, Piackers, the Ackers, Jackers Rio, huh, yeah,
this is it? Yeah, yes, Marvin, which one of these
games are we going to? Oh, we're not going to dannyhow.

Speaker 9 (53:14):
Equally none of them? No, no, no, they're all on Peacock.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
When are you getting a new job?

Speaker 6 (53:19):
And then if that job is going.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
There, then yeah, all right, let.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
Me take a break. More phone calls coming up. We're
back after this