May 14, 2024 • 53 mins
On today's Dan Patrick Show, Detroit Lions Beat Reporter Dave Birkett joins the program to discuss the Lions' decision to extend quarterback Jared Goff and what advantages may come with the team extending players early. NBA Hall of Famer Reggie Miller stops by to address his viral comments regarding NBA stars pointing fingers and break down the importance of taking advantage of free throws during the playoffs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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couple of game fives tonight, Pacers and the Knicks. The
Pacers are two and a half point underdogs in the
Garden Timberwolves Game five in Denver. The Timberwolves are four
(00:29):
point underdogs. In that game, Celtics handled the Cabs. They're
up three games to one. No Donovan Mitchell, and I
think that injury might be a little more serious than
first thought. And I wonder if Donovan Mitchell plays again
in this series. Thunder over the MAVs, make your free throws, Dallas.
That series tied to two games apiece SGA went for
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thirty four. I don't understand this. And here's the analogy
I'm going to give you. If you go out on
the basketball floor, what are you going to do? Probably
shoot a couple of mid range jumpers and then you're
gonna go start jacking threes, right nobody goes to the
free throw line.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's no fun at the free throw line.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
If we go to the driving range and there's also
a putting green, what are you gonna do. You're gonna
pull out the driver and bang drivers. You're not gonna
go to the putting green. Nobody wants to go to
the putting green. It's boring, it's not any fun.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You want to ring the big boy out, big stick out.
You want to shoot threes, you want to bring out
the driver. Well, what do you do if you need
to win, what do you need to do? Make a putt,
make a free throw. That's the comparison I would use.
Dallas went twelve of twenty three from the line. They
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shot fifty two percent.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Luca missed a crucial free throw with ten seconds to
go that would have tied it.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oklahoma City, by the way, twenty three to twenty four,
ninety six percent. Guess who won free throws? Boring, right,
You got to go to the line.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You got to practice going to the line because in
the game, that's what it's going to come down to,
one or two makes or missus. It's not the three pointers.
You got to make your free throws. You can vomit
three hundred and fifty yards Rory McIlroy. But if you're
going to win, you got to make your putts, which
he did this past weekend. Scotty Scheffler is the best
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player in America, in the world. What does he do
extremely well?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Putts?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Tiger Woods change golf. What did Tiger do from six
feet in? He made every put Some of the greatest
players of all time are some of the greatest free
throw shooters of all time as well. Welcome to the program.
I'm already fired up.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, I hate to see that. It's really really simple.
Get into a rhythm under Steph Curry has a drill. Now,
Steph Curry's different than everybody else. But here's the point.
Steph Curry will shoot free throws and he has to
make ten in a row. They can't touch the rim.
Try it ten in a row. It's really difficult to do.
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But you get to the point. And also, here's another
thing that we used to do. We would run sprints
and then you'd stop, and then the coach would say
you shoot a free throw, because that's what happens in
a game. You don't go to the line and go
I'm gonna shoot ten in a row. Here it's you
shoot two and then you get off the line, you
run and up and down a couple times, and then
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you go to the line.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Your heart is still beating out of your chest. Yes,
that's what happens. That's real.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Not I can go out there and make eight out
of ten, no problem. I make six out of ten
with my eyes closed. But in a game, it's different,
and that's what happens. There's no excuse for pros to
shoot fifty two percent from the line.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Cloma City went twenty three at twenty four. There's the difference. Dallas.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
If they lose, they may look back on this and say,
we should have won that game. We're at home, win
this game. Luca has not been one hundred percent, but
he's really been a detriment to them turnover wise. He's
taken a lot of shots. Kyrie didn't play well. I
mean they were in that game. Imagine stealing that game
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because you made your free throws and they could have
done that. Twelve to twenty three, eight seven seven to
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to play the day stat of the Day poll question,
all of that coming up. So basketball tonight, basketball last night.
Not sure the status of Donovan Mitchell. It's a calf
injury and it might be more serious than just a
temporary absence from that game last night. But the Celtics
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are up three to one, probably only going to be
one more game. And the question is can you put
Donovan Mitchell in? Does he want to go in? Does
he want to try to push this? Canny even push this?
Is this something a little more serious? The Lions locked
up Jared Goff four years two, one hundred and twelve
million dollars one hundred and seventy million guaranteed. Okay, And
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we did wonder about this, I think last week because
they wrapped up Penney Sewell. They're a great offensive lineman,
a'man Ross Saint Brown. They're a great wide receiver, and
I'm thinking, all right, Jared Goff got one more year
left on his deal, and I was wondering if he
would get into that Baker Mayfield area. That's a nice
neighborhood because is Jared Goff a top ten quarterback? Probably not,
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But he's been to an NFC Title Game, he's been
to Super Bowl. Yes, he got kicked to the curb
by the Rams. That's another thing. A lot of times
we go, well, who won or who lost that trade.
That's a situation where there were both winners with the
Rams and the Lions. Because you get Matthew Stafford, he
helps you win a Super Bowl. And granted, golf, it's
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a it's taken a little bit of time for him
to get re acclimated with his second career here now
in Detroit. But you know those draft picks. They got
Jamiir Gibbs and Sam Laporta, so they did pretty well.
I got golf and he's still young. I got two
players who contributed, actually three, They got the linebacker out
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of Iowa as well, Campbell, so they got three guys
who contributed to that team that went to the NFC
Title Game. So he gets that new contract you know,
the Rams won their Super Bowl and Detroit is you know,
one of the favorites here to you know, win the
Super Bowl this year. In fact, I have them fourth
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best odds right now according to DraftKings. I'll run down
the odds by the way. Kansas City they open up
the season and that'll be against the Ravens. Their next
game will be AFC North. The Cincinnati Bengals get used
to seeing a lot of Kansas City Chief games this
year after last year the ratings, You're going to see
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a lot of Kansas City this year. Well, you've seen
a lot of Kansas City the last few years. All right, Seaton,
what's paul question for hour one?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Which game are you most interested in tonight? Nick Pacers, Timberwolves, Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Fever Sun.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Caitlin Clark makes her WNBA debut in Connecticut. I'm probably
more interested in the start of this, maybe the first
fifteen minutes, just to see how it goes, See how
she's playing, how you know, does she get roughed up
a little bit? Are they more physical? It's going to
be a sellout, be a big deal. Be a big deal.
(08:00):
And I would like to look back and remember when
she made her.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
W NBA debut. I'd like to be able to watch that.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So I would say that one to start Denver is
going to be later tonight. The NIXT that's pushed a
little bit. They want to try to get as much
of that West Coast offense audience as possible here. But
the uh, I would say, the Indiana fever versus the
Connecticut son that's fun. Yeah, it's a it's a fun
it feels like an event, yes, yes, and I think
(08:30):
it will be presented that way. I think it's all
hands on deck for the mothership. They're going to roll
out the coverage, have all the analysts there. I mean,
it's it'll be a big deal.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
You don't get these a lot, no, no, but you
know I was.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I was in Dayton, Ohio for Bill Walton's debut and
that was preseason game and it was against Kareem, So
I'm thinking, oh, wow, bringing Bill in and you gotta
you gotta face Kareem and uh and Bill look like
a rookie that night against Kareem, as you would expect.
But it was pretty cool to see that and actually
(09:05):
be there watching that.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I'm trying to think of any other you know, I
remember Lebron's debut, the fact he was in Sacramento, Like, what,
why would you crazy? Like you're going, Okay, we got
this guy who's supposed to be the next great player,
or you gonna have him make his debut in Sacramento,
doming up the NBA season. Who was the commissioner back then, Hey, Marvin, Yes.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
David Starr said, what a Sacramento? Yeah, I Kim at
Sacramento too, Yes, Christi Vladi diva.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But why the Kings were good at that point?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I know, But why there were a lot of teams
that were good. You want to showcase Lebron and you
send him to Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
So where would you have to put him?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Either he put him in the garden or at home
or in the Boston gardens.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
So not the Knicks, just at the garden.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, no, the Knicks would be there too. Yeah, people
play at the garden. They don't face the net. They
play at the garden. Now, I would put him on
display East Coast time zone, so everybody got a chance
to sample, and you put him in Sacramento. I don't
know if I was this outrage back then, but I
am now For some reason, By the way, who was
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courtside Cavaliers last night?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Back home?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, Lebron and his wife Savannah.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Was there looking at schools, big hat.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, and you know that there's something going on here,
because here's another thing. Lebron comes in. Now, he's not
there when the game starts. He comes in like midway
through the first quarter, so everybody gets to see him
and his wife coming. Nothing to see here, right, didn't
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he do this when he was with the Miami Heat.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yeah, when he went back to Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, and he flew from Chicago to Cleveland. When zadrunas
Ilgaska was getting his jersey retired, it was a night off.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Pat Riley wasn't happy.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Lebron goes back to Cleveland just for this event, big
Z getting his jersey retired. And then how much longer
after that did Lebron join the Cleveland Gamliers. Nothing to
see here, no leverage play here from Lebron.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Play it play it? Oh yeah? Yeah. Now do I
think that he's could go back to the Caves, Yes,
I mean I have to.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I have to be realistic that there is a chance. Hey,
what if they draft Browning? Plus your path to getting
back to an NBA Finals is a whole lot easier
in the East than it is in the West. So
I could put together.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Some bullet points, connect the dots, and you go all right,
all right, I might buy into that.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Yes, don I heard they were just going to go
to the movies and at the last minute they decided
to go to the basketball Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Come, I do you have sources to Okay, alrighty stop
that the palaver?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yes, yes, I saw Lebron sitting there and he had
like a little mini bar between his legs. He had
a bottle of water. Whoa, I'm mean literal I figured it.
Oh he had a bottle of wine for himself.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, he's been doing that.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
But is it n babe, b yo b I've never
brought my own booze to a sporting event. Oh, actually
that's not true, but I usually don't front row.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, he did it right in front of it. Well,
who's going to tell him no?
Speaker 5 (12:29):
But that's pretty gutsy just to bring your own bottle
of wine.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Once again, if you can, you do. Yeah, he's a
big wine guy. But yeah, you know, all of a
sudden he's sipping wine there.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I was waiting for a cheese tray ip shark couterie,
chark couterie.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Who came up with that name? Shark couterie the French
of French.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I mean it's I'm not knocking it when I get it,
but it's just when you order it, it always sounds like,
can I have the charcuterie.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Charcuterie is a branch of French cuisine devoted to prepared meats, bacon, ham, sausage,
et cetera, etc.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Etc. We just call it a grazing board.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Now, yes, this justin Lebron is also a big wine
guy around the officials.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
So let's just okay, all right, you didn't believe in
that joke at the fourteen minute. I don't think you
sold that.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I think you you delivered and then you realize you
might get roughed up a little bit, but I'm getting I'm.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Gonna give you a blue.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I thought there was pseudo clever.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, wine thing.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I think part of being a great comedian, I mean
not that you are, but great comedians they commit to
the line like they it's it's going to be funny.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
You're now it's on you. You're trailed off at the end.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Yeah, it's like a little I lost confidence in the
last couple of syllables of the officiaty.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Get your head up. What else do we have there?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
See?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Well, uh, you know big quarterback signing. Okay, there's a
bunch of quarterbacks who are up next to be signed
dot dot.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, let's say that. Let's say that. You know what,
let me take a break. You know, it's a funny
observation too.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Am I gonna laugh? Probably not? Okay, but I just
noticed this.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Good.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Granted I don't pay much attention to this kind of thing,
but the w NBA team names.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yea overwhelmingly are singular.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
The Atlanta Dream, Chicago Sky, Connecticut Sun, Indiana Fever, New
York Liberty Aces.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
You're more attractive, that's plural.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
But the Seattle Storm, Phoenix Mercury, Minnesota Lynx, they're all singular.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
That funny.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
No, it's like a whole league of there's out of
the twelve teams in the league, there's only one, two, three,
four that have like a plural name, whereas it gets
the New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, they're all plural.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I wonder if that was deliberately done.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Guess I think that's interesting.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Actually, that why they did it that way to, you know,
try to stand out and not be too much like
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, Paul, if you're on the Indiana Fever, do you
say I'm a fever? I have the fever? Like I
was great being a fever all these years. It was
great having the fever.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, there's certain bands though that right, we're not sure
how to say because it's not plural, right, what's the
the who?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
The whom would be better?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, yes, whom they would not have been big if
they were the whom ye know, ladies.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
And gentlemen, the teenage ways. Yes, we've had that problem
with the heat also, Yes, yes, yeah, am I a heat?
I'm proud to be a heat. We are a heat.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I'm a jazz.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Okay, now we're getting someplace here. All right, let me
take a break. All the quarterbacks who are in the
on deck circle. After Jared Goff's contract, and I was surprised.
I didn't think Jared Goff had leverage here. I reached
out to Mike Florida Pro Football Talk, and he said,
maybe Golf would have held out of OTAs, but other
than that, why do I have to pay him that
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amount of money? And you know, it's like Kirk Cousins,
what leverage did he have? By the way, Kirk Cousins,
I think is joining us Thursday.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
It's correct.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Okay, all right, I like that. Get a couple of
questions in there. All right, let me take a break,
just getting started, settle on our poll question. And the
NFL schedule is released tomorrow. But it's starting to trickle
out a little bit here. I think the Jets open
up with the Niners and Kansas City's got AFC North
back to back games.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Yes to why does anyone leak that?
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Like, like, why would a team or a league to
get gain more interest? People are interested in whether we
find out. If we find out beforehand, will be less
interested in tuning in tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Yes, yes, the reason you leak it is that it's
a topic for four or five days instead of an
hour on Wednesday Night.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
This will give everybody in New York a chance to
talk about the Jets and the Niners before the schedule
is released.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Therefore, you get even more attention on shows.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Okay, if Todd ran the league, he'd want less attention.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Well, no, I mean think of it.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
If you if you don't know the Jets and Niners
are going to be playing in Week one. Then you're
not talking about it now that we know it. Now
all of a sudden, okay, Jets, people can talk about
the Jets and the Niners, and you get a chance
to talk about that before the schedules every day before.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
The NFL Draft, here's the first round for you.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
The biggest.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
But that's not what we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
But if anything that gets leaked up with.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This schedule is already you already know who you're playing.
I just don't know what we You don't know who's drafting.
You already know who your opponents are. The question is
in what order?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I guess that was an extreme exam.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It was, and you've been known to do that. You
started off well first fourteen minutes. Four hasn't gone well.
We take a break. Like I said a couple of
minutes ago, we take a break.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
You're actually show.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
I guess you got to call when we burn.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
It's your show.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Back after this.
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DraftKings has the betting lines the Piecers getting two and
a half against the Knicks and the Timberwolves are getting
four against the Nuggets. Kind of surprised the Timberwolves only
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getting four. I thought that might have been six six
and a half. Anthony Edwards over under is the same
as the Jokers twenty nine and a half. The key
will be Karl Anthony Towns. He's at eighteen and a
half over under Jamal Murray over under twenty one and
a half and Jalen Brunson over under thirty two and
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a half. So some of the betting lines of Reggie
Miller will join us. Coming up next down, let me
see Tom in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Tom, Welcome to the program, adp Ayman.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
Yeah, I think we can correctly assume that the Dallas
and Detroit are probably going to be in the next
two high profile games to be released. Okay, So I'm thinking, well,
I'm actually wondering how Tom Brady could actually play in
that because not playing the game, but actually be involved
(20:12):
in maybe the decision because Tampa plays at Dallas and
at Detroit.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh okay, so the schedule released with Tom Brady's first
game will be the Cowboys and the Browns for Fox.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
That'll be interesting.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, I'm curious how he sounds.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I keep hearing that he's preparing. And nothing prepares you
until you go and do a game like the crowd,
the noise. You got to get used to that. Wearing
a headset and you know your your partner there, the
play by play guy. Just getting used to the ambiance
is really going to be the difficult part using a telestrater.
Do I watch the screen, the monitor, do I watch
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the game? All of those things? Now, then you start
to settle in. But it'll be a learning experience for
Tom this first year of just understand because you can
be in a booth calling a game, but it's sterile
when you get out there and all of a sudden
there'll be a crowd down below yelling at you while you're,
you know, doing your job. You know, this is what
happens the Detroit Lions. I looked at the odds, according
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to DraftKings, odds to win the Super Bowl, Chiefs, Niners, Ravens.
Then it's the Lions and the Bills. Dave Burquette, Lions
beat writer for the Detroit Free Press, what do you
think of those odds?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Now? The expectation level just ramped up a little bit here, Dave.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
Yeah, I like them.
Speaker 12 (21:33):
Dan.
Speaker 13 (21:33):
You know, I walked away from that first day of
the draft. You know, I was taking my son to
school the next day and I told them, maybe it's
a little draft euphori out of them getting a really
good cornerback, but I think they might represent the NFC
in the Super Bowl next year. A really complete roster,
one of the best in the game and really good
coaching staff that developed some young players. So tougher schedule,
but I like what they've done.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
And they signed up they're star players, I mean, Penny
Swell and i'mon Ross Saint Brown. And then we knew
Gone was going to get paid, or at least we thought,
what did you make of the contract that he got?
Speaker 13 (22:05):
Yeah, you know, four hundred and forty four million dollars
to their three best players this offseason Jared Goff, I'm
and Rossaint Brown, Pine Suwell, three pillars of what they
hope to accomplish here. Plus they resigned Dan Campbell and
Brad Holmes two extensions, So no real surprises keeping that
group together. And look the money for Golf, I don't
think it's much of a surprise. You know, maybe I
(22:25):
expected closer to fifty million, But the reality is the
Lions would not be where they are without him. You
know that trade that they made a couple of years ago, Jared,
he didn't play great when he came. The Lions weren't
a great team that first year, but he's been really
really good since in the Lions offense has been really
really good since and without him, without that offensive line,
without I'm in Ross Saint Brown, I don't think this
(22:46):
team is as high in those odds as you talked
about earlier.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, I was just wondering that you look at Goff's
contract and he didn't have any leverage here, did he?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
No?
Speaker 13 (22:58):
I mean, look, he was going to be entering the
last year of his deal. You know this this year
was going to be the last year of his deal.
But I think it was a situation from the Lions standpoint,
like they've got a really good thing going right now?
Speaker 11 (23:09):
Why upset the apple cart? You know, they they wanted
to get it done.
Speaker 13 (23:13):
As Brad Holmes said this week or last week, you know,
Jared is deserving of an extension, and certainly the way
the cap has gone up, I don't think this money
will hamstring him or hamstring them. And in terms of
what they want to do in the future.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Well, when's the last time the Lions had this kind
of expectations?
Speaker 11 (23:31):
Not in my lifetime.
Speaker 13 (23:32):
I mean, you know, maybe nineteen ninety one, ninety two, Right,
they were coming off that nineteen ninety one season, they
made the NFC Championship game. Barry Sanders at the top
of his game. You know, they were certainly one of
the best teams.
Speaker 12 (23:43):
Like that year.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
But you look at that offseason.
Speaker 13 (23:45):
You know, they had lost Mike Gutley the end of
the season before Eric Handelsack, another offensive lineman, died that
offseason in a tragic x and outside his home, So
there wasn't I don't think any offseason has really, you know,
measured up to this one in terms of coming off
a really good year and then then seemingly taking the
next step at least doing the right things in the
draft by locking up key players. Even in free agency, Dan,
(24:08):
you know, they maybe they're a little thin at receiver,
but look they they made an upgrade on the defensive line.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
You know when they signed DJ Reader.
Speaker 13 (24:16):
They they stayed at least even on the offensive line
when they added Kevin Zeidler to phil Jonah Jackson's use
at Garden. So really complete roster, good young guys that
are still developing. I think this team is is for
good reason, one of the considerabent of the best.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Uh Any worries about the Packers.
Speaker 13 (24:34):
Yeah, look, I mean the schedule is going to be tougher.
They play a first place schedule. The Division is going
to be tougher. I think the Bears are going to
be better this year. Certainly the way Green Bay finished
last year and the way Jordan Loves has played in
his you know, first season as a starter. It's not
going to be a cakewalk for the Lions. And you know,
if you're if you're looking at some of those odds
and who represents the NSC in the Super maybe.
Speaker 11 (24:55):
The Lions are living team division winner and that.
Speaker 13 (25:02):
So maybe maybe that's something.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
That Dave good to join us.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Thank you for joining us, and uh, we'll talk to
you once season get started.
Speaker 11 (25:12):
Got anytime.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
That's Dave Burquette, Lions beat writer, Detroit Free Press. Uh,
the wind. He was outside, so just in case you
were wondering joining us from outside time.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Yeah, he's got some work done inside his home. Was
interested in that.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah, oh like installation. Do we have any details?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Do we have it? Is there a general contractor there?
Speaker 8 (25:35):
I think there's a few people. There's some trucks in
the bucket line right in front of the hut exterminator.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I thought he was joining from Lions camp or something,
or you know, outside the Lions building there. I thought,
all right, I like this, and then I realized that
he was. There wasn't anything in the background other than suburbia.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, he does.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
That's all land, A few acres there.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
That's.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Oh yeah, Paul at NFL network is playing replaying a
lot of playoff games from last year, an important games.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, because they have no other programming on there.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
No, that's basically it.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
What happened to my NFL network.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
It's like MTV, they just replay old stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
God.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
I watched back the fourth quarter of the Detroit Lions
versus San Francisco playoff game. They had it. I mean,
if I were Alliance fan, I would have borderline been
shopping for tickets to go to the Super Bowl. At
one point in fourth quarter, it looked like they were going,
Oh man, that's a hard one.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Yeah yeah, Mark, look going through the Las Vegas airport
seeing people with Detroit Lions gear on. Because I'm sure,
just like you, PAULI those fans at halftime, Oh, we're
going to Vegas, especially Vegas. Yeah, like the first of
ball was in Vegas. And just see the look on
their faces. I felt bad.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Barry and Sena fet Good morning, Barry, what's on your mind?
Speaker 12 (26:55):
Good morning? Fellows. Good morning, check Bro, Happy pre birthday Dan.
I have a little intel, have a little intel on
the Neili Young show. You're gonna go see. I saw
him in Phoenix a few weeks ago, the old solb
to rock Still. However, just be prepared that all the
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songs are crazy horse songs. So it's no Southern Man,
no Alabama, no Ohio, no Sugar Mountain, and be prepared
for jams. But it was still a great show.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I think he opens up with a like a fifteen
or seventeen minute jam Cortes the Killer. I'm not a
jam band guy, but it is Neil Young. My wife
got me tickets, so I'm going to go get to
get to see him.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Still fun. Yeah, I mean it's Neil Young. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I saw Crosby Stills in Nash, but I didn't see
Crosby Stills Nashing. Yeah, Neil had gone off on it
on his own. But he really very very sharp guy.
I've I've seen like a solo like acoustic up in
his hometown in Canada. Did that and it sounded great.
(28:07):
You know, it's just a unique sound that that he
has that ability to write music, and you know, he
had the sweet Home Alabama like he had his Southern
Man when he took a shot at Lyonyard Skinnyard and
I checked and Leonard Skinnard actually was a warm up
band for Neil Young at some point on one of
his tours a long, long, long time ago. And then
(28:29):
Neil put out Southern Man, and then they came back
with sweet Home Alabama that you know that we don't
need you around any anyhow with Neils.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yeah, yeah, it was a dis track by this truck.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, by Leonard Skinner hardcore, yes, yeah, very oh yeah, yes.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Yes, since it's southern, be more of like a dis
truck Yeah, okay, southern with it.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah. I got you?
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Who opened for who on that one? Who opened for who?
Leonard Skinner opened for Neil Young?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah? Jonathan in Texas?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Hi, Jonathan, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (29:06):
Dan?
Speaker 14 (29:08):
Coincidentally enough, I drive a truck. Thanks for the shout out, Polly,
but no second time, medium time, uh five nine and
three quarters in fifteen.
Speaker 15 (29:22):
No.
Speaker 14 (29:23):
I just had a hypothetical update for the caller yesterday
about the dad and whatnot. And you know, I just
had a thought that if if if she showed up
and she said, Hi, I'm your daughter, and he's like, no,
I don't have a daughter. Todd would be like, we
weren't even sure she should have shown up.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Showed up, Wow, Jonathan, nice callback.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
And he may have been on hold for quite some
time miche got there.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
No, he was on hold for sixteen minutes. Don Marvin,
if you found Ton, he.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
Wasn't even sure if he should have shown up. I
just got my braces on on that day.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I don't know what was going on.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Now, that's when you said you guys edited that. I go, No,
we didn't.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
I was very frightening to hear that. Even to hear
it again, now that's frightening. Yes, sounds like I'm having
some kind of episode.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Let me hear it again.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
He wasn't even sure if he should have shown up.
That's like more than a speech of pediment. That's like, Atrod,
you did you have your retainer? It sounded like I
had some kind of orthodontal domkic work done.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Any relation to Luca don Ja Luka.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
The job that's terrible. That should never sound.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Like that's his brother ortho orthodonic. Sure, let me hear
one more time.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
Mark.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
He wasn't even sure if he should have shown up
stunning to listen back to.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
You need to have a spit bucket.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
We've gotten so much joy out of just that one.
I don't know, I don't know, but it makes me
laugh exactly who we are, Yes.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
It is.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
That would be in a nutshow.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Funny, but it's disturbing too. Yeah, it sounds like there's
a medical issue.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Disturbingly funny, that's us, Yes, it does.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
That was about two ish years ago, and it does
seem like Todd's avoided those situations the past year. So
it's like he's improved as a game and.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
That well, I think he's choosing words differently.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
I gotta be more cognitant, eve it. And you remind
me about fifteen times a day you make that noise
in and out.
Speaker 12 (31:33):
Of the studio.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Yeah, in and out of the studio is a sneaky
line there.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
He wasn't even sure if he should have shown.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Up all those essays at once.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
I know, I cannot believe that wasn't doctored in somewhere
in the back.
Speaker 12 (31:50):
It was.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
That's the frightening part of it.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
It was not you need to be doctored I do.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
I should a schedule appointment as soon as possible.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Listening to that Eric in Virginia, Good morning, Eric. What's
on your mind today?
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Hey?
Speaker 16 (32:03):
Good morning Dan.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
How are you big? Great great great? Good?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 16 (32:06):
No, I actually just wanted to weigh on the Seinfeld thing.
First of all, thank you for not liking Seinfeld. That
show is one of That show drives me crazy. Seinfeld
is one of the most overrated comedians ever. I will
also like to add that I love Curby Your Enthusiasm,
(32:28):
which is one of the greatest shows ever. The biggest
difference between Curby Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld is there's no
Jerry Seinfeld.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Thank you, It's just people will use it everyday life.
That reminds me of a Seinfeld episode. I mean, it
was such a huge hit. I just I didn't really
watch it because I was doing Sports Center and then
you know, I would see, you know, be recorded for me,
and I'd watch and I'd go, okay.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I mean the characters.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
I thought.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
What Jerry did that was brilliant was the show's named Seinfeld.
He made everybody around him funnier than him. He allowed
them to be funnier than him. I mean, Kramer and George,
I mean Elaine. They were funnier than him, or at
least the show was written that way. Now he does
(33:18):
get all the credit because it's like Johnny Carson The
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. If you're funny on The
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Johnny still gets credit even
though you were hysterical. But Seinfeld, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
He's good. He just not my kind of comedian. Yes, yes,
I see.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Not comparing everyday life situations to a Seinfeld episode. It's
like a habit you have to break. You have to
consciously be aware of I'm not going to do that anymore.
Because the show applied to so many different situations that
five times a day you could be like, oh, that's
like that time in Seinfeld when you have to actually
consciously say, I'm not going to.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Be that guy. I'm not going to do that anymore.
Don't do that, just remove it out of your vocabulary.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, and it's hard even watching that movie. What is
it Unfrosted? Is that the story about pop tarts? And
I started watching it, but you still see Jerry Seinfeld.
I mean it's I mean, it's an indelible mark that
he left in TV history. So when you see him,
you see an episode of Seinfeld, which is what it
feels like. I haven't gotten through that movie. I'm like
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twenty five minutes in. Although I did like Jim Gaffigan
a lot. Yes, sometimes if.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
You're on a show like that, you're basically stuck with
that show the rest of your life. You have one
monstrous hit. But Julia Luis Dreyfus with VIEP, she topped herself.
I mean, that show was she was the focal point
of VIEP and she was fantastic. I don't know how
many awards she won, but that's as good as anything
I've ever seen.
Speaker 12 (34:52):
That team.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Well, that's as good at writing as I've ever heard
on a comedy show.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Veep has layers like you you might get a line
and then they already got another line in there, and
you're like, wait a minute. You almost have to be
able to rewind just to be able to get all
the lines. Veep is spectacular, Like that level of comedy
and that writing and the timing her delivery awesome, awesome,
(35:18):
All right, let me take a break, get some more
phone calls coming up. Reggie Miller will join us. Did
Reggie take a shot at Lebron James the other night
in the Minnesota timberwolvescin Well, ask Reggie about that back after.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
This, 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.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
WAP Reginald Aluisius Miller Junior the third He'll be on
the call with Kevin Harlan, Jamal Crawford, Ali Lefores. Tip
off ten thirty Eastern on TNT tonight, game five in Denver.
Before we talk about that, help me understand the Dallas
Mavericks shooting fifty two percent from the free throw line
(36:01):
last night, and Jason Kidd says, hey, you know what,
we'll we'll address that coming up. They haven't been good
all year. So how do you address bad free throw
shooting at this time of the year.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
I don't think you can address it.
Speaker 15 (36:16):
It's all about your mental approach to the free throw line.
They are called free throws for a reason.
Speaker 11 (36:25):
And it's all about your approach.
Speaker 15 (36:28):
And you can practice them all you want, become game time,
you've got to go up there and knock them down.
There's no excuse for shooting fifty two at home. You
could make a case on the road the nerves, you know,
the hostile environment. Maybe maybe, But at home there's no
(36:50):
excuse with a chance for your team to take a
stranglehold of a series and go up three to one.
It's sad that it can down to basically free throws,
you know, because that was the difference.
Speaker 11 (37:04):
Both teams didn't shoot the ball particularly well.
Speaker 15 (37:07):
It felt like it was, you know, a nineties type game,
all about defense, low scoring, and it came down to
some of the most simple things, and that is free throws.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah, okay, she was twenty three to twenty four, Dallas
was twelve of twenty three. But how do you put
yourself in the mindset of practicing a game like situation.
How did you do it because you're one of the
great three throw shooters of all time.
Speaker 15 (37:32):
Well, you prepare and you put yourself in the same
environment of when you're going through your usual game time
prep and you're taking your normal shots. I think a
lot of people neglect freak throws because they think it's
just a simple task.
Speaker 11 (37:50):
But I always like.
Speaker 15 (37:51):
To put pressure on myself assuming that the game is
on the line and you you know, the same way
you're doing the three.
Speaker 11 (37:57):
To two to one for a last minute shots.
Speaker 15 (37:59):
You've got to put yourself in that same environment when
you're shooting free throws, especially for me on the road,
in a hostile environment, I assume at home, because it's
almost like you see in football when it's you know,
fourth and inches on the goal line and the quarterback
comes up.
Speaker 11 (38:17):
At home, everyone's quiet, you know, on the road, it's.
Speaker 15 (38:21):
A little bit more voiceous and a hostile environment, and
you've got to prepare your mind for that.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Yeah, I'm just surprised.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
You know, Denver's not a good free throw shooting team,
but in the playoffs they've been a good free throw
shooting team. So that says something about sort of the
mentality of when games are on the line, and that's
what you know, great teams do they step up?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
What do you?
Speaker 15 (38:43):
I think you have to address the elephant in the
room as well. And if Jason Kidd knows they're not
a great tree throw shooting team, you do have to
address that in your pregame speech. Guys, go to the line,
concentrate my pacer team's Dale Davis wasn't a great free
throw shooter. Worked tiresly on his free throws during practice.
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And you know, I even heard Shocks say this too.
He made them when it counted. And that's what kind
of what you kind of fall back on. You can practice,
practice them all you want. Become game time in a
real time setting, when there's consequences to be had, you know,
you see who has it and who doesn't.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Speaking of the elephant in the room, here is Reggie
during the game last game, possibly taking a shot at
Lebron James.
Speaker 15 (39:33):
Oh, come on, we've got a certain veteran status in
our game. A lot of people with Mount Rushmore the
like to deflect and point figures that other.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Here's a twenty two year old saying, this is my meaning.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Get some mind, Paul, who are you taking a shot at?
Speaker 11 (39:50):
I'm talking to taking a shot in general.
Speaker 15 (39:53):
I'm trying to give credit and creed to a twenty
year old, twenty two year old because I want to
put myself in his shoots, right, And I remember when
I was twenty one two. I don't know if I
could have gotten in front of a camera with the
world watching and said this is on me. And I
know a lot of people want to think and assume
(40:14):
it's Lebron I'm taking shots at because look, I've been
in those locker rooms when certain veterans shy away from that,
and it's quick to always pile on Lebron. If it
was Lebron, I would have said Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
But you said current players Mount Rushmore, so you.
Speaker 11 (40:33):
Just assume it's Lebron.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Well, who else is it going to be? It could
only be Katie or Steph. Those are the only possible
guys who could be on the current mount current Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 11 (40:46):
It's more so.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
But you gave ant Man credit, which I'm fine with.
You just brought in another portion when you said the
current Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 15 (40:57):
Well, I've seen a lot of guys deflect those criticisms
when here's a twenty two year old step it up,
taking responsibility.
Speaker 11 (41:08):
So you could take it either way you want.
Speaker 15 (41:12):
Is it a shot at Lebron, Absolutely not, because I've
seen him do the same thing at Man has done too.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Okay, is there a player in your head then if
you say it's not Lebron, because you know what you
did say this about the coaches got fired, but the
players either last week or the week before, So you
were saying that you got coaches fired in Phoenix and
Los Angeles where players maybe don't take.
Speaker 15 (41:40):
What I said was the coaches, unfortunately, are always the
first to go because the players have guaranteed contracts. Yes,
so coaches are always the first to go, which is unfortunate.
I said, we need to look more so at the
players and more so who's putting the rosters together.
Speaker 11 (41:57):
Theodore.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Okay, but do you have a play in mind because
you said current Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
If it's not Lebron, I will leave it up to interpretation. Yeah,
but that's part of the problem. Now we bring in
all these other people. So you took it.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
You took a shot at maybe Lebron or Katie because
they didn't take ownership or blame for the coaches getting
How about you just nod your head?
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Was it Lebron?
Speaker 11 (42:28):
Stop?
Speaker 3 (42:31):
I thought that. I thought, I thought.
Speaker 15 (42:34):
Every one things that everything evolves around Lebron.
Speaker 11 (42:37):
Not everything does not evolve around Lebron.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Guys it I felt that I felt that you were
saying Lebron because the only other player current on the
Mount Rushmore would have been Durant because Steph has had
Steve Kerr as his coach, and.
Speaker 15 (42:55):
Steph no Steph, Lebron, kt whomever. I'll leave it up
to your interpretation, or I'll just.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Do this, nod your head, okay to whoever you're you're
thinking of in your hit. Okay, tell me what was
happening with lebron showing up in Cleveland last night? Because
he doesn't accidentally do things.
Speaker 11 (43:20):
He does it.
Speaker 15 (43:22):
No, he's from Akron. He he's won a championship for
the Cleveland Cavaliers. A guy can't go out and enjoy
a playoff game.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
You're not reading anything into that.
Speaker 11 (43:37):
No, I'm not not at all. He's from Akron. He
won a championship there, their only championship.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
He came in halfway through the first quarter. I don't
know the bot wine.
Speaker 15 (43:51):
I don't Maybe he was in one of the streets.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
I don't know when.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Why would you show up to see the Cavaliers play
the Celtics.
Speaker 11 (44:01):
He's from the area.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
He lives in LA.
Speaker 11 (44:07):
For the season.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
He's not vacationing in Cleveland.
Speaker 11 (44:11):
I'm not saying he's I guarantee he still has a
home there.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
You don't think that there was more to that?
Speaker 15 (44:18):
Okay, Now let me ask you, what do you think
there's more too?
Speaker 2 (44:23):
I just think there is because it's Lebron. Lebron is past.
Speaker 11 (44:29):
So what I don't come back to maybe if you
were gonna if you were.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Going to get to the Eastern Conference to let's say
you're gonna play uh for another championship, you got a
better chance in la or Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
That's why he was court sided last night. Right.
Speaker 15 (44:51):
Well, I don't know, because I think Cleveland has a
lot of questions they need to answer to with Donovan
Mitchell going forward to is Mitchell still in the here?
They do have a nice young core. There's a lot
of things that play here. Why can't a guy just
go out and enjoy a playoff game? Why does everything
have to be so controversial with Lebron?
Speaker 2 (45:13):
It's not it's not it's he doesn't do things without thought. Now,
if if he says, hey, I just I was in
the neighborhood, and why not take in.
Speaker 11 (45:24):
A neighborhood is right down the.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Road, he's in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 15 (45:30):
Oh, during the season, they've been out, they've been.
Speaker 11 (45:35):
Going all right, he let him go enjoy a game. See,
everyone always wants to pile on Lebron.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
I'm not piling on I'm saying I'm I'm looking at
this and going is there something more at play?
Speaker 15 (45:52):
Keep in my mind, would this be the only this
would be the place you would think he would want
to come back to you.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Well, you could bookend your career. Maybe you know they'll they'll.
Speaker 15 (46:02):
Booked by winning them a championship. I think everything going
forward for Lebron.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
He's playing house money if he goes back there.
Speaker 15 (46:11):
Yeah, everything going forward for him is in LA. He's
in the entertainment business now, he's making movies.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
I know he's produced.
Speaker 11 (46:21):
Everything going forward for Lebron is in LA. I don't
but not.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
A title, but not a title. Everything's in LA, but
a title.
Speaker 11 (46:33):
Didn't you win a title there?
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Well, they want in Orlando and that's a few years ago.
Speaker 11 (46:39):
As well as Cleveland a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Yes, okay, do you remember when Lebron was with the Heat.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
They were they were retiring Zudreunis Olgaskis Jersey, and he
flew to Cleveland and pat Riley was not pleased. And
then what happened. Lebron went back to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
So maybe maybe there's nothing here, Maybe there's nothing to see.
Speaker 11 (47:04):
I can if this death come happen.
Speaker 15 (47:06):
We've got to read good this conversation you and I had,
because this is breaking news.
Speaker 11 (47:12):
I would just thinking a.
Speaker 15 (47:13):
Guy was coming out to a place that he loves,
had a lot of great memories, want a champion, their
only championship, and I'm sure he's still cool.
Speaker 11 (47:25):
With a lot of people in the front office.
Speaker 15 (47:27):
I think that was a cool gesture to have the
greatest player of their generation at their game.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
The last thing you would want to do is go
watch a basketball game after you just went through this
season you did with the Lakers, like you don't go
you know what, Hun, I'm really jones in for some
more basketball here, all right. Reggie Miller will be on
the call tonight in Denver Game five with Kevin Harlan
and Ali LaForce and also Jamal Crawford. What do you
(47:54):
expect now? I got Minnesota a slight underdog going into
Game five, which will in John what or Whom?
Speaker 11 (48:04):
For Minnesota?
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Either one with the game hinges on what or whom?
Speaker 15 (48:09):
Minnesota Carl Anthony Towns has to play at an elite level.
Speaker 11 (48:16):
I think he's forcing things.
Speaker 15 (48:18):
But I give Denver a lot of credit because they're
playing him with smaller defenders, and they are baiting him
to try to play bully ball down low and it's
just not working. And if he continues to shoot how
he's been shooting, this series will be over in the
next two games. So he's got to find a way
(48:39):
to be more efficient, Like we saw the response from
Anthony Edwards with his forty three forty four points here
in Game four. But Karl Anthony Towns has to be
much better for Minnesota and for Denver.
Speaker 11 (48:56):
I've been saying this all along.
Speaker 15 (48:58):
As great as the MVP is Jokic and Murray his shooting,
when Aaron Gordon plays like this, they're a different team
at both ends of the floor because he can play.
He can defend multiple positions guarding Karl Anthony Towns and
he's guarding Anthony Edwards. But when he's shooting the ball
(49:18):
like this, now he's shooting threes. Now he's making threes.
He gives them that X factor.
Speaker 11 (49:23):
So when Gordon plays like this, really Denver is unbeatable.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
In my opinion, Should Shaq have told the Joker that
he voted for Shay gilgis Alexander for MVP.
Speaker 11 (49:36):
You know this is a.
Speaker 15 (49:36):
Tough one because Shaq for one, he wears his heart
on his sleeve.
Speaker 11 (49:45):
But when a guy is waiting on a call like
this and you.
Speaker 15 (49:48):
Have your family around, and this is supposed to be
a moment of you know, to celebrate a winter three
times in four years, maybe it's not the right time,
but Shack should.
Speaker 11 (50:00):
This is what makes our show unique. Our guys tell
the truth. They have no filter.
Speaker 15 (50:09):
But let me say this, if there's a there's no
bigger supporter of Jokice than Shaq, and it's that big
man alliance and Shack is he said it, He said
it so many times that Nikola Jokic is his favorite player.
Speaker 11 (50:28):
Was it the right time to say that she should
have won it?
Speaker 15 (50:31):
Maybe not, But Shaq's talking to hold bat and that's
what's made him great. That's what made him great as
a player, and certainly that's what made him great for television.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
Well, Shannon Sharps said it was jealousy.
Speaker 11 (50:44):
I don't. I don't think so Shaq.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
Shack had one MVP, which is still amazing, it is,
and I.
Speaker 11 (50:52):
Thought he certainly should have had three himself.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
Should have had one of Steve Nash's.
Speaker 11 (50:58):
Look, that's that's people voting, that's out of his control.
Speaker 15 (51:02):
Yeah know this, Shack, you are and trust me, I
know very well because I've had to go through you
so many years. Trust me, the most dominant player at
his position maybe ever, and I'm including Wilton that So,
I mean, come on now, I mean, Shannon can say
(51:22):
jealousy all he wants. Shack is arguably one of the
most dominant men basketball players ever ever.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
Uh, before I let you go, it feels like Tom
Thibodeau is getting credit and getting criticized because of the
minutes that his players were playing in the playoffs, given
that they had already had injuries they have to play
now they're breaking down. So where do you stand on
Tibbs and the minutes his players play and how he's
(51:51):
gotten to this point where he's got a pretty banged
up team going into tonight.
Speaker 15 (51:57):
Theato You've been around this game a long time, and
you know how playoff basketball goes, and you know how
coaches operate.
Speaker 11 (52:04):
They shorten the rotation. It's always been like that.
Speaker 15 (52:08):
Is this a little bit to the extreme, maybe, but
it's no different than what any other coach is doing
right now there he has shortened his rotation to the extreme.
Speaker 11 (52:20):
Now the injuries kind of highlight the issues of doing that.
Speaker 15 (52:25):
But you know, now Burks is back into the rotation
now and he played well those two games in Indiana,
and they're gonna need his his shop making. But you
can't criticize him, you know, for something that was working,
you know against Philadelphia, Right, that's short that's shortened rotation
(52:46):
won them that series.
Speaker 11 (52:48):
It's just unfortunate. The injuries are starting to comeound.
Speaker 15 (52:52):
But last time I checked, Marvel loved Pacers have to
win a road game for them to win the series.
So they can lose all the the road games they
want in this series and still win it. So this
is a pivotal game tonight. Game fives are always fun
when it's two two, and it's always it's even funner
(53:13):
when the two teams really don't like one another.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Well, we got a great rivalry. Tonight, Reg will be
on the call. Game five. It'll be Kevin Harlan, Jamal
Crawford and Ali Deforce. Tip Off is at ten thirty
Eastern on TNT. Thanks for fighting the good fight, Reg,
have fun tonight.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
Thanks for joa to revisit this.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
If you know something that will you don't know anything,
talk to you so talk to you soon, Talk to
you soon.
Speaker 3 (53:43):
Reggie Aloysius Miller Junior, the third
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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couple of game fives tonight, Pacers and the Knicks. The
Pacers are two and a half point underdogs in the
Garden Timberwolves Game five in Denver. The Timberwolves are four
(00:29):
point underdogs. In that game, Celtics handled the Cabs. They're
up three games to one. No Donovan Mitchell, and I
think that injury might be a little more serious than
first thought. And I wonder if Donovan Mitchell plays again
in this series. Thunder over the MAVs, make your free throws, Dallas.
That series tied to two games apiece SGA went for
(00:49):
thirty four. I don't understand this. And here's the analogy
I'm going to give you. If you go out on
the basketball floor, what are you going to do? Probably
shoot a couple of mid range jumpers and then you're
gonna go start jacking threes, right nobody goes to the
free throw line.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's no fun at the free throw line.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
If we go to the driving range and there's also
a putting green, what are you gonna do. You're gonna
pull out the driver and bang drivers. You're not gonna
go to the putting green. Nobody wants to go to
the putting green. It's boring, it's not any fun.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
You want to ring the big boy out, big stick out.
You want to shoot threes, you want to bring out
the driver. Well, what do you do if you need
to win, what do you need to do? Make a putt,
make a free throw. That's the comparison I would use.
Dallas went twelve of twenty three from the line. They
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shot fifty two percent.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Luca missed a crucial free throw with ten seconds to
go that would have tied it.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oklahoma City, by the way, twenty three to twenty four,
ninety six percent. Guess who won free throws? Boring, right,
You got to go to the line.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You got to practice going to the line because in
the game, that's what it's going to come down to,
one or two makes or missus. It's not the three pointers.
You got to make your free throws. You can vomit
three hundred and fifty yards Rory McIlroy. But if you're
going to win, you got to make your putts, which
he did this past weekend. Scotty Scheffler is the best
(02:24):
player in America, in the world. What does he do
extremely well?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Putts?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Tiger Woods change golf. What did Tiger do from six
feet in? He made every put Some of the greatest
players of all time are some of the greatest free
throw shooters of all time as well. Welcome to the program.
I'm already fired up.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, I hate to see that. It's really really simple.
Get into a rhythm under Steph Curry has a drill. Now,
Steph Curry's different than everybody else. But here's the point.
Steph Curry will shoot free throws and he has to
make ten in a row. They can't touch the rim.
Try it ten in a row. It's really difficult to do.
(03:11):
But you get to the point. And also, here's another
thing that we used to do. We would run sprints
and then you'd stop, and then the coach would say
you shoot a free throw, because that's what happens in
a game. You don't go to the line and go
I'm gonna shoot ten in a row. Here it's you
shoot two and then you get off the line, you
run and up and down a couple times, and then
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you go to the line.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Your heart is still beating out of your chest. Yes,
that's what happens. That's real.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Not I can go out there and make eight out
of ten, no problem. I make six out of ten
with my eyes closed. But in a game, it's different,
and that's what happens. There's no excuse for pros to
shoot fifty two percent from the line.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Cloma City went twenty three at twenty four. There's the difference. Dallas.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
If they lose, they may look back on this and say,
we should have won that game. We're at home, win
this game. Luca has not been one hundred percent, but
he's really been a detriment to them turnover wise. He's
taken a lot of shots. Kyrie didn't play well. I
mean they were in that game. Imagine stealing that game
(04:24):
because you made your free throws and they could have
done that. Twelve to twenty three, eight seven seven to
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to play the day stat of the Day poll question,
all of that coming up. So basketball tonight, basketball last night.
Not sure the status of Donovan Mitchell. It's a calf
injury and it might be more serious than just a
temporary absence from that game last night. But the Celtics
(05:10):
are up three to one, probably only going to be
one more game. And the question is can you put
Donovan Mitchell in? Does he want to go in? Does
he want to try to push this? Canny even push this?
Is this something a little more serious? The Lions locked
up Jared Goff four years two, one hundred and twelve
million dollars one hundred and seventy million guaranteed. Okay, And
(05:34):
we did wonder about this, I think last week because
they wrapped up Penney Sewell. They're a great offensive lineman,
a'man Ross Saint Brown. They're a great wide receiver, and
I'm thinking, all right, Jared Goff got one more year
left on his deal, and I was wondering if he
would get into that Baker Mayfield area. That's a nice
neighborhood because is Jared Goff a top ten quarterback? Probably not,
(05:57):
But he's been to an NFC Title Game, he's been
to Super Bowl. Yes, he got kicked to the curb
by the Rams. That's another thing. A lot of times
we go, well, who won or who lost that trade.
That's a situation where there were both winners with the
Rams and the Lions. Because you get Matthew Stafford, he
helps you win a Super Bowl. And granted, golf, it's
(06:19):
a it's taken a little bit of time for him
to get re acclimated with his second career here now
in Detroit. But you know those draft picks. They got
Jamiir Gibbs and Sam Laporta, so they did pretty well.
I got golf and he's still young. I got two
players who contributed, actually three, They got the linebacker out
(06:41):
of Iowa as well, Campbell, so they got three guys
who contributed to that team that went to the NFC
Title Game. So he gets that new contract you know,
the Rams won their Super Bowl and Detroit is you know,
one of the favorites here to you know, win the
Super Bowl this year. In fact, I have them fourth
(07:02):
best odds right now according to DraftKings. I'll run down
the odds by the way. Kansas City they open up
the season and that'll be against the Ravens. Their next
game will be AFC North. The Cincinnati Bengals get used
to seeing a lot of Kansas City Chief games this
year after last year the ratings, You're going to see
(07:22):
a lot of Kansas City this year. Well, you've seen
a lot of Kansas City the last few years. All right, Seaton,
what's paul question for hour one?
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Which game are you most interested in tonight? Nick Pacers, Timberwolves, Nuggets.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Fever Sun.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Caitlin Clark makes her WNBA debut in Connecticut. I'm probably
more interested in the start of this, maybe the first
fifteen minutes, just to see how it goes, See how
she's playing, how you know, does she get roughed up
a little bit? Are they more physical? It's going to
be a sellout, be a big deal. Be a big deal.
(08:00):
And I would like to look back and remember when
she made her.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
W NBA debut. I'd like to be able to watch that.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So I would say that one to start Denver is
going to be later tonight. The NIXT that's pushed a
little bit. They want to try to get as much
of that West Coast offense audience as possible here. But
the uh, I would say, the Indiana fever versus the
Connecticut son that's fun. Yeah, it's a it's a fun
it feels like an event, yes, yes, and I think
(08:30):
it will be presented that way. I think it's all
hands on deck for the mothership. They're going to roll
out the coverage, have all the analysts there. I mean,
it's it'll be a big deal.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
You don't get these a lot, no, no, but you
know I was.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I was in Dayton, Ohio for Bill Walton's debut and
that was preseason game and it was against Kareem, So
I'm thinking, oh, wow, bringing Bill in and you gotta
you gotta face Kareem and uh and Bill look like
a rookie that night against Kareem, as you would expect.
But it was pretty cool to see that and actually
(09:05):
be there watching that.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I'm trying to think of any other you know, I
remember Lebron's debut, the fact he was in Sacramento, Like, what,
why would you crazy? Like you're going, Okay, we got
this guy who's supposed to be the next great player,
or you gonna have him make his debut in Sacramento,
doming up the NBA season. Who was the commissioner back then, Hey, Marvin, Yes.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
David Starr said, what a Sacramento? Yeah, I Kim at
Sacramento too, Yes, Christi Vladi diva.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
But why the Kings were good at that point?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I know, But why there were a lot of teams
that were good. You want to showcase Lebron and you
send him to Sacramento.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
So where would you have to put him?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Either he put him in the garden or at home
or in the Boston gardens.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
So not the Knicks, just at the garden.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, no, the Knicks would be there too. Yeah, people
play at the garden. They don't face the net. They
play at the garden. Now, I would put him on
display East Coast time zone, so everybody got a chance
to sample, and you put him in Sacramento. I don't
know if I was this outrage back then, but I
am now For some reason, By the way, who was
(10:19):
courtside Cavaliers last night?
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Back home?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, Lebron and his wife Savannah.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Was there looking at schools, big hat.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, and you know that there's something going on here,
because here's another thing. Lebron comes in. Now, he's not
there when the game starts. He comes in like midway
through the first quarter, so everybody gets to see him
and his wife coming. Nothing to see here, right, didn't
(10:49):
he do this when he was with the Miami Heat.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yeah, when he went back to Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yeah, and he flew from Chicago to Cleveland. When zadrunas
Ilgaska was getting his jersey retired, it was a night off.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Pat Riley wasn't happy.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Lebron goes back to Cleveland just for this event, big
Z getting his jersey retired. And then how much longer
after that did Lebron join the Cleveland Gamliers. Nothing to
see here, no leverage play here from Lebron.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Play it play it? Oh yeah? Yeah. Now do I
think that he's could go back to the Caves, Yes,
I mean I have to.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I have to be realistic that there is a chance. Hey,
what if they draft Browning? Plus your path to getting
back to an NBA Finals is a whole lot easier
in the East than it is in the West. So
I could put together.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Some bullet points, connect the dots, and you go all right,
all right, I might buy into that.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Yes, don I heard they were just going to go
to the movies and at the last minute they decided
to go to the basketball Oh.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Come, I do you have sources to Okay, alrighty stop
that the palaver?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yes, yes, I saw Lebron sitting there and he had
like a little mini bar between his legs. He had
a bottle of water. Whoa, I'm mean literal I figured it.
Oh he had a bottle of wine for himself.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, he's been doing that.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
But is it n babe, b yo b I've never
brought my own booze to a sporting event. Oh, actually
that's not true, but I usually don't front row.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, he did it right in front of it. Well,
who's going to tell him no?
Speaker 5 (12:29):
But that's pretty gutsy just to bring your own bottle
of wine.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Once again, if you can, you do. Yeah, he's a
big wine guy. But yeah, you know, all of a
sudden he's sipping wine there.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I was waiting for a cheese tray ip shark couterie,
chark couterie.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Who came up with that name? Shark couterie the French
of French.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I mean it's I'm not knocking it when I get it,
but it's just when you order it, it always sounds like,
can I have the charcuterie.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Charcuterie is a branch of French cuisine devoted to prepared meats, bacon, ham, sausage,
et cetera, etc.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Etc. We just call it a grazing board.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Now, yes, this justin Lebron is also a big wine
guy around the officials.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
So let's just okay, all right, you didn't believe in
that joke at the fourteen minute. I don't think you
sold that.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I think you you delivered and then you realize you
might get roughed up a little bit, but I'm getting I'm.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Gonna give you a blue.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I thought there was pseudo clever.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, wine thing.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I think part of being a great comedian, I mean
not that you are, but great comedians they commit to
the line like they it's it's going to be funny.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
You're now it's on you. You're trailed off at the end.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Yeah, it's like a little I lost confidence in the
last couple of syllables of the officiaty.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Get your head up. What else do we have there?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
See?
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Well, uh, you know big quarterback signing. Okay, there's a
bunch of quarterbacks who are up next to be signed
dot dot.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, let's say that. Let's say that. You know what,
let me take a break. You know, it's a funny
observation too.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Am I gonna laugh? Probably not? Okay, but I just
noticed this.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Good.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Granted I don't pay much attention to this kind of thing,
but the w NBA team names.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yea overwhelmingly are singular.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
The Atlanta Dream, Chicago Sky, Connecticut Sun, Indiana Fever, New
York Liberty Aces.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
You're more attractive, that's plural.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
But the Seattle Storm, Phoenix Mercury, Minnesota Lynx, they're all singular.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
That funny.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
No, it's like a whole league of there's out of
the twelve teams in the league, there's only one, two, three,
four that have like a plural name, whereas it gets
the New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, they're all plural.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I wonder if that was deliberately done.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Guess I think that's interesting.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Actually, that why they did it that way to, you know,
try to stand out and not be too much like
the NBA.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, Paul, if you're on the Indiana Fever, do you
say I'm a fever? I have the fever? Like I
was great being a fever all these years. It was
great having the fever.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, there's certain bands though that right, we're not sure
how to say because it's not plural, right, what's the
the who?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
The whom would be better?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, yes, whom they would not have been big if
they were the whom ye know, ladies.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
And gentlemen, the teenage ways. Yes, we've had that problem
with the heat also, Yes, yes, yeah, am I a heat?
I'm proud to be a heat. We are a heat.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I'm a jazz.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Okay, now we're getting someplace here. All right, let me
take a break. All the quarterbacks who are in the
on deck circle. After Jared Goff's contract, and I was surprised.
I didn't think Jared Goff had leverage here. I reached
out to Mike Florida Pro Football Talk, and he said,
maybe Golf would have held out of OTAs, but other
than that, why do I have to pay him that
(16:08):
amount of money? And you know, it's like Kirk Cousins,
what leverage did he have? By the way, Kirk Cousins,
I think is joining us Thursday.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
It's correct.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Okay, all right, I like that. Get a couple of
questions in there. All right, let me take a break,
just getting started, settle on our poll question. And the
NFL schedule is released tomorrow. But it's starting to trickle
out a little bit here. I think the Jets open
up with the Niners and Kansas City's got AFC North
back to back games.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Yes to why does anyone leak that?
Speaker 8 (16:40):
Like, like, why would a team or a league to
get gain more interest? People are interested in whether we
find out. If we find out beforehand, will be less
interested in tuning in tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Yes, yes, the reason you leak it is that it's
a topic for four or five days instead of an
hour on Wednesday Night.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
This will give everybody in New York a chance to
talk about the Jets and the Niners before the schedule
is released.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Therefore, you get even more attention on shows.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Okay, if Todd ran the league, he'd want less attention.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Well, no, I mean think of it.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
If you if you don't know the Jets and Niners
are going to be playing in Week one. Then you're
not talking about it now that we know it. Now
all of a sudden, okay, Jets, people can talk about
the Jets and the Niners, and you get a chance
to talk about that before the schedules every day before.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
The NFL Draft, here's the first round for you.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
The biggest.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
But that's not what we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
But if anything that gets leaked up with.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
This schedule is already you already know who you're playing.
I just don't know what we You don't know who's drafting.
You already know who your opponents are. The question is
in what order?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
I guess that was an extreme exam.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
It was, and you've been known to do that. You
started off well first fourteen minutes. Four hasn't gone well.
We take a break. Like I said a couple of
minutes ago, we take a break.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
You're actually show.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
I guess you got to call when we burn.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
It's your show.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
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DraftKings has the betting lines the Piecers getting two and
a half against the Knicks and the Timberwolves are getting
four against the Nuggets. Kind of surprised the Timberwolves only
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getting four. I thought that might have been six six
and a half. Anthony Edwards over under is the same
as the Jokers twenty nine and a half. The key
will be Karl Anthony Towns. He's at eighteen and a
half over under Jamal Murray over under twenty one and
a half and Jalen Brunson over under thirty two and
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a half. So some of the betting lines of Reggie
Miller will join us. Coming up next down, let me
see Tom in North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Tom, Welcome to the program, adp Ayman.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
Yeah, I think we can correctly assume that the Dallas
and Detroit are probably going to be in the next
two high profile games to be released. Okay, So I'm thinking, well,
I'm actually wondering how Tom Brady could actually play in
that because not playing the game, but actually be involved
(20:12):
in maybe the decision because Tampa plays at Dallas and
at Detroit.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh okay, so the schedule released with Tom Brady's first
game will be the Cowboys and the Browns for Fox.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
That'll be interesting.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, I'm curious how he sounds.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
You know that.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I keep hearing that he's preparing. And nothing prepares you
until you go and do a game like the crowd,
the noise. You got to get used to that. Wearing
a headset and you know your your partner there, the
play by play guy. Just getting used to the ambiance
is really going to be the difficult part using a telestrater.
Do I watch the screen, the monitor, do I watch
(20:52):
the game? All of those things? Now, then you start
to settle in. But it'll be a learning experience for
Tom this first year of just understand because you can
be in a booth calling a game, but it's sterile
when you get out there and all of a sudden
there'll be a crowd down below yelling at you while you're,
you know, doing your job. You know, this is what
happens the Detroit Lions. I looked at the odds, according
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to DraftKings, odds to win the Super Bowl, Chiefs, Niners, Ravens.
Then it's the Lions and the Bills. Dave Burquette, Lions
beat writer for the Detroit Free Press, what do you
think of those odds?
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Now? The expectation level just ramped up a little bit here, Dave.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
Yeah, I like them.
Speaker 12 (21:33):
Dan.
Speaker 13 (21:33):
You know, I walked away from that first day of
the draft. You know, I was taking my son to
school the next day and I told them, maybe it's
a little draft euphori out of them getting a really
good cornerback, but I think they might represent the NFC
in the Super Bowl next year. A really complete roster,
one of the best in the game and really good
coaching staff that developed some young players. So tougher schedule,
but I like what they've done.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
And they signed up they're star players, I mean, Penny
Swell and i'mon Ross Saint Brown. And then we knew
Gone was going to get paid, or at least we thought,
what did you make of the contract that he got?
Speaker 13 (22:05):
Yeah, you know, four hundred and forty four million dollars
to their three best players this offseason Jared Goff, I'm
and Rossaint Brown, Pine Suwell, three pillars of what they
hope to accomplish here. Plus they resigned Dan Campbell and
Brad Holmes two extensions, So no real surprises keeping that
group together. And look the money for Golf, I don't
think it's much of a surprise. You know, maybe I
(22:25):
expected closer to fifty million, But the reality is the
Lions would not be where they are without him. You
know that trade that they made a couple of years ago, Jared,
he didn't play great when he came. The Lions weren't
a great team that first year, but he's been really
really good since in the Lions offense has been really
really good since and without him, without that offensive line,
without I'm in Ross Saint Brown, I don't think this
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team is as high in those odds as you talked
about earlier.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, I was just wondering that you look at Goff's
contract and he didn't have any leverage here, did he?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
No?
Speaker 13 (22:58):
I mean, look, he was going to be entering the
last year of his deal. You know this this year
was going to be the last year of his deal.
But I think it was a situation from the Lions standpoint,
like they've got a really good thing going right now?
Speaker 11 (23:09):
Why upset the apple cart? You know, they they wanted
to get it done.
Speaker 13 (23:13):
As Brad Holmes said this week or last week, you know,
Jared is deserving of an extension, and certainly the way
the cap has gone up, I don't think this money
will hamstring him or hamstring them. And in terms of
what they want to do in the future.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Well, when's the last time the Lions had this kind
of expectations?
Speaker 11 (23:31):
Not in my lifetime.
Speaker 13 (23:32):
I mean, you know, maybe nineteen ninety one, ninety two, Right,
they were coming off that nineteen ninety one season, they
made the NFC Championship game. Barry Sanders at the top
of his game. You know, they were certainly one of
the best teams.
Speaker 12 (23:43):
Like that year.
Speaker 11 (23:43):
But you look at that offseason.
Speaker 13 (23:45):
You know, they had lost Mike Gutley the end of
the season before Eric Handelsack, another offensive lineman, died that
offseason in a tragic x and outside his home, So
there wasn't I don't think any offseason has really, you know,
measured up to this one in terms of coming off
a really good year and then then seemingly taking the
next step at least doing the right things in the
draft by locking up key players. Even in free agency, Dan,
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you know, they maybe they're a little thin at receiver,
but look they they made an upgrade on the defensive line.
Speaker 11 (24:15):
You know when they signed DJ Reader.
Speaker 13 (24:16):
They they stayed at least even on the offensive line
when they added Kevin Zeidler to phil Jonah Jackson's use
at Garden. So really complete roster, good young guys that
are still developing. I think this team is is for
good reason, one of the considerabent of the best.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Of the NFL.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Uh Any worries about the Packers.
Speaker 13 (24:34):
Yeah, look, I mean the schedule is going to be tougher.
They play a first place schedule. The Division is going
to be tougher. I think the Bears are going to
be better this year. Certainly the way Green Bay finished
last year and the way Jordan Loves has played in
his you know, first season as a starter. It's not
going to be a cakewalk for the Lions. And you know,
if you're if you're looking at some of those odds
and who represents the NSC in the Super maybe.
Speaker 11 (24:55):
The Lions are living team division winner and that.
Speaker 13 (25:02):
So maybe maybe that's something.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
That Dave good to join us.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Thank you for joining us, and uh, we'll talk to
you once season get started.
Speaker 11 (25:12):
Got anytime.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
That's Dave Burquette, Lions beat writer, Detroit Free Press. Uh,
the wind. He was outside, so just in case you
were wondering joining us from outside time.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
Yeah, he's got some work done inside his home. Was
interested in that.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Yeah, yeah, oh like installation. Do we have any details?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Do we have it? Is there a general contractor there?
Speaker 8 (25:35):
I think there's a few people. There's some trucks in
the bucket line right in front of the hut exterminator.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I thought he was joining from Lions camp or something,
or you know, outside the Lions building there. I thought,
all right, I like this, and then I realized that
he was. There wasn't anything in the background other than suburbia.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Yeah, he does.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
That's all land, A few acres there.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
That's.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Oh yeah, Paul at NFL network is playing replaying a
lot of playoff games from last year, an important games.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, because they have no other programming on there.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
No, that's basically it.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
What happened to my NFL network.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
It's like MTV, they just replay old stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
God.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
I watched back the fourth quarter of the Detroit Lions
versus San Francisco playoff game. They had it. I mean,
if I were Alliance fan, I would have borderline been
shopping for tickets to go to the Super Bowl. At
one point in fourth quarter, it looked like they were going,
Oh man, that's a hard one.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Yeah yeah, Mark, look going through the Las Vegas airport
seeing people with Detroit Lions gear on. Because I'm sure,
just like you, PAULI those fans at halftime, Oh, we're
going to Vegas, especially Vegas. Yeah, like the first of
ball was in Vegas. And just see the look on
their faces. I felt bad.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Barry and Sena fet Good morning, Barry, what's on your mind?
Speaker 12 (26:55):
Good morning? Fellows. Good morning, check Bro, Happy pre birthday Dan.
I have a little intel, have a little intel on
the Neili Young show. You're gonna go see. I saw
him in Phoenix a few weeks ago, the old solb
to rock Still. However, just be prepared that all the
(27:17):
songs are crazy horse songs. So it's no Southern Man,
no Alabama, no Ohio, no Sugar Mountain, and be prepared
for jams. But it was still a great show.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I think he opens up with a like a fifteen
or seventeen minute jam Cortes the Killer. I'm not a
jam band guy, but it is Neil Young. My wife
got me tickets, so I'm going to go get to
get to see him.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Still fun. Yeah, I mean it's Neil Young. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I saw Crosby Stills in Nash, but I didn't see
Crosby Stills Nashing. Yeah, Neil had gone off on it
on his own. But he really very very sharp guy.
I've I've seen like a solo like acoustic up in
his hometown in Canada. Did that and it sounded great.
(28:07):
You know, it's just a unique sound that that he
has that ability to write music, and you know, he
had the sweet Home Alabama like he had his Southern
Man when he took a shot at Lyonyard Skinnyard and
I checked and Leonard Skinnard actually was a warm up
band for Neil Young at some point on one of
his tours a long, long, long time ago. And then
(28:29):
Neil put out Southern Man, and then they came back
with sweet Home Alabama that you know that we don't
need you around any anyhow with Neils.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Yeah, yeah, it was a dis track by this truck.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, by Leonard Skinner hardcore, yes, yeah, very oh yeah, yes.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Yes, since it's southern, be more of like a dis
truck Yeah, okay, southern with it.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah. I got you?
Speaker 5 (28:55):
Who opened for who on that one? Who opened for who?
Leonard Skinner opened for Neil Young?
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah? Jonathan in Texas?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Hi, Jonathan, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 10 (29:06):
Dan?
Speaker 14 (29:08):
Coincidentally enough, I drive a truck. Thanks for the shout out, Polly,
but no second time, medium time, uh five nine and
three quarters in fifteen.
Speaker 15 (29:22):
No.
Speaker 14 (29:23):
I just had a hypothetical update for the caller yesterday
about the dad and whatnot. And you know, I just
had a thought that if if if she showed up
and she said, Hi, I'm your daughter, and he's like, no,
I don't have a daughter. Todd would be like, we
weren't even sure she should have shown up.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Showed up, Wow, Jonathan, nice callback.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
And he may have been on hold for quite some
time miche got there.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
No, he was on hold for sixteen minutes. Don Marvin,
if you found Ton, he.
Speaker 8 (30:02):
Wasn't even sure if he should have shown up. I
just got my braces on on that day.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I don't know what was going on.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Now, that's when you said you guys edited that. I go, No,
we didn't.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
I was very frightening to hear that. Even to hear
it again, now that's frightening. Yes, sounds like I'm having
some kind of episode.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Let me hear it again.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
He wasn't even sure if he should have shown up.
That's like more than a speech of pediment. That's like, Atrod,
you did you have your retainer? It sounded like I
had some kind of orthodontal domkic work done.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Any relation to Luca don Ja Luka.
Speaker 8 (30:38):
The job that's terrible. That should never sound.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Like that's his brother ortho orthodonic. Sure, let me hear
one more time.
Speaker 12 (30:48):
Mark.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
He wasn't even sure if he should have shown up
stunning to listen back to.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
You need to have a spit bucket.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
We've gotten so much joy out of just that one.
I don't know, I don't know, but it makes me
laugh exactly who we are, Yes.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
It is.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
That would be in a nutshow.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
Funny, but it's disturbing too. Yeah, it sounds like there's
a medical issue.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Disturbingly funny, that's us, Yes, it does.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
That was about two ish years ago, and it does
seem like Todd's avoided those situations the past year. So
it's like he's improved as a game and.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
That well, I think he's choosing words differently.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
I gotta be more cognitant, eve it. And you remind
me about fifteen times a day you make that noise
in and out.
Speaker 12 (31:33):
Of the studio.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Yeah, in and out of the studio is a sneaky
line there.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
He wasn't even sure if he should have shown.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Up all those essays at once.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
I know, I cannot believe that wasn't doctored in somewhere
in the back.
Speaker 12 (31:50):
It was.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
That's the frightening part of it.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
It was not you need to be doctored I do.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
I should a schedule appointment as soon as possible.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Listening to that Eric in Virginia, Good morning, Eric. What's
on your mind today?
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Hey?
Speaker 16 (32:03):
Good morning Dan.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
How are you big? Great great great? Good?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 16 (32:06):
No, I actually just wanted to weigh on the Seinfeld thing.
First of all, thank you for not liking Seinfeld. That
show is one of That show drives me crazy. Seinfeld
is one of the most overrated comedians ever. I will
also like to add that I love Curby Your Enthusiasm,
(32:28):
which is one of the greatest shows ever. The biggest
difference between Curby Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld is there's no
Jerry Seinfeld.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Thank you, It's just people will use it everyday life.
That reminds me of a Seinfeld episode. I mean, it
was such a huge hit. I just I didn't really
watch it because I was doing Sports Center and then
you know, I would see, you know, be recorded for me,
and I'd watch and I'd go, okay.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
I mean the characters.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
I thought.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
What Jerry did that was brilliant was the show's named Seinfeld.
He made everybody around him funnier than him. He allowed
them to be funnier than him. I mean, Kramer and George,
I mean Elaine. They were funnier than him, or at
least the show was written that way. Now he does
(33:18):
get all the credit because it's like Johnny Carson The
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. If you're funny on The
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Johnny still gets credit even
though you were hysterical. But Seinfeld, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
He's good. He just not my kind of comedian. Yes, yes,
I see.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Not comparing everyday life situations to a Seinfeld episode. It's
like a habit you have to break. You have to
consciously be aware of I'm not going to do that anymore.
Because the show applied to so many different situations that
five times a day you could be like, oh, that's
like that time in Seinfeld when you have to actually
consciously say, I'm not going to.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Be that guy. I'm not going to do that anymore.
Don't do that, just remove it out of your vocabulary.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, and it's hard even watching that movie. What is
it Unfrosted? Is that the story about pop tarts? And
I started watching it, but you still see Jerry Seinfeld.
I mean it's I mean, it's an indelible mark that
he left in TV history. So when you see him,
you see an episode of Seinfeld, which is what it
feels like. I haven't gotten through that movie. I'm like
(34:31):
twenty five minutes in. Although I did like Jim Gaffigan
a lot. Yes, sometimes if.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
You're on a show like that, you're basically stuck with
that show the rest of your life. You have one
monstrous hit. But Julia Luis Dreyfus with VIEP, she topped herself.
I mean, that show was she was the focal point
of VIEP and she was fantastic. I don't know how
many awards she won, but that's as good as anything
I've ever seen.
Speaker 12 (34:52):
That team.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Well, that's as good at writing as I've ever heard
on a comedy show.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Veep has layers like you you might get a line
and then they already got another line in there, and
you're like, wait a minute. You almost have to be
able to rewind just to be able to get all
the lines. Veep is spectacular, Like that level of comedy
and that writing and the timing her delivery awesome, awesome,
(35:18):
All right, let me take a break, get some more
phone calls coming up. Reggie Miller will join us. Did
Reggie take a shot at Lebron James the other night
in the Minnesota timberwolvescin Well, ask Reggie about that back after.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
This, 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.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
WAP Reginald Aluisius Miller Junior the third He'll be on
the call with Kevin Harlan, Jamal Crawford, Ali Lefores. Tip
off ten thirty Eastern on TNT tonight, game five in Denver.
Before we talk about that, help me understand the Dallas
Mavericks shooting fifty two percent from the free throw line
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last night, and Jason Kidd says, hey, you know what,
we'll we'll address that coming up. They haven't been good
all year. So how do you address bad free throw
shooting at this time of the year.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
I don't think you can address it.
Speaker 15 (36:16):
It's all about your mental approach to the free throw line.
They are called free throws for a reason.
Speaker 11 (36:25):
And it's all about your approach.
Speaker 15 (36:28):
And you can practice them all you want, become game time,
you've got to go up there and knock them down.
There's no excuse for shooting fifty two at home. You
could make a case on the road the nerves, you know,
the hostile environment. Maybe maybe, But at home there's no
(36:50):
excuse with a chance for your team to take a
stranglehold of a series and go up three to one.
It's sad that it can down to basically free throws,
you know, because that was the difference.
Speaker 11 (37:04):
Both teams didn't shoot the ball particularly well.
Speaker 15 (37:07):
It felt like it was, you know, a nineties type game,
all about defense, low scoring, and it came down to
some of the most simple things, and that is free throws.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah, okay, she was twenty three to twenty four, Dallas
was twelve of twenty three. But how do you put
yourself in the mindset of practicing a game like situation.
How did you do it because you're one of the
great three throw shooters of all time.
Speaker 15 (37:32):
Well, you prepare and you put yourself in the same
environment of when you're going through your usual game time
prep and you're taking your normal shots. I think a
lot of people neglect freak throws because they think it's
just a simple task.
Speaker 11 (37:50):
But I always like.
Speaker 15 (37:51):
To put pressure on myself assuming that the game is
on the line and you you know, the same way
you're doing the three.
Speaker 11 (37:57):
To two to one for a last minute shots.
Speaker 15 (37:59):
You've got to put yourself in that same environment when
you're shooting free throws, especially for me on the road,
in a hostile environment, I assume at home, because it's
almost like you see in football when it's you know,
fourth and inches on the goal line and the quarterback
comes up.
Speaker 11 (38:17):
At home, everyone's quiet, you know, on the road, it's.
Speaker 15 (38:21):
A little bit more voiceous and a hostile environment, and
you've got to prepare your mind for that.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Yeah, I'm just surprised.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
You know, Denver's not a good free throw shooting team,
but in the playoffs they've been a good free throw
shooting team. So that says something about sort of the
mentality of when games are on the line, and that's
what you know, great teams do they step up?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
What do you?
Speaker 15 (38:43):
I think you have to address the elephant in the
room as well. And if Jason Kidd knows they're not
a great tree throw shooting team, you do have to
address that in your pregame speech. Guys, go to the line,
concentrate my pacer team's Dale Davis wasn't a great free
throw shooter. Worked tiresly on his free throws during practice.
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And you know, I even heard Shocks say this too.
He made them when it counted. And that's what kind
of what you kind of fall back on. You can practice,
practice them all you want. Become game time in a
real time setting, when there's consequences to be had, you know,
you see who has it and who doesn't.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Speaking of the elephant in the room, here is Reggie
during the game last game, possibly taking a shot at
Lebron James.
Speaker 15 (39:33):
Oh, come on, we've got a certain veteran status in
our game. A lot of people with Mount Rushmore the
like to deflect and point figures that other.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Here's a twenty two year old saying, this is my meaning.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Get some mind, Paul, who are you taking a shot at?
Speaker 11 (39:50):
I'm talking to taking a shot in general.
Speaker 15 (39:53):
I'm trying to give credit and creed to a twenty
year old, twenty two year old because I want to
put myself in his shoots, right, And I remember when
I was twenty one two. I don't know if I
could have gotten in front of a camera with the
world watching and said this is on me. And I
know a lot of people want to think and assume
(40:14):
it's Lebron I'm taking shots at because look, I've been
in those locker rooms when certain veterans shy away from that,
and it's quick to always pile on Lebron. If it
was Lebron, I would have said Lebron James.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
But you said current players Mount Rushmore, so you.
Speaker 11 (40:33):
Just assume it's Lebron.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Well, who else is it going to be? It could
only be Katie or Steph. Those are the only possible
guys who could be on the current mount current Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 11 (40:46):
It's more so.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
But you gave ant Man credit, which I'm fine with.
You just brought in another portion when you said the
current Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 15 (40:57):
Well, I've seen a lot of guys deflect those criticisms
when here's a twenty two year old step it up,
taking responsibility.
Speaker 11 (41:08):
So you could take it either way you want.
Speaker 15 (41:12):
Is it a shot at Lebron, Absolutely not, because I've
seen him do the same thing at Man has done too.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Okay, is there a player in your head then if
you say it's not Lebron, because you know what you
did say this about the coaches got fired, but the
players either last week or the week before, So you
were saying that you got coaches fired in Phoenix and
Los Angeles where players maybe don't take.
Speaker 15 (41:40):
What I said was the coaches, unfortunately, are always the
first to go because the players have guaranteed contracts. Yes,
so coaches are always the first to go, which is unfortunate.
I said, we need to look more so at the
players and more so who's putting the rosters together.
Speaker 11 (41:57):
Theodore.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Okay, but do you have a play in mind because
you said current Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
If it's not Lebron, I will leave it up to interpretation. Yeah,
but that's part of the problem. Now we bring in
all these other people. So you took it.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
You took a shot at maybe Lebron or Katie because
they didn't take ownership or blame for the coaches getting
How about you just nod your head?
Speaker 3 (42:26):
Was it Lebron?
Speaker 11 (42:28):
Stop?
Speaker 3 (42:31):
I thought that. I thought, I thought.
Speaker 15 (42:34):
Every one things that everything evolves around Lebron.
Speaker 11 (42:37):
Not everything does not evolve around Lebron.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Guys it I felt that I felt that you were
saying Lebron because the only other player current on the
Mount Rushmore would have been Durant because Steph has had
Steve Kerr as his coach, and.
Speaker 15 (42:55):
Steph no Steph, Lebron, kt whomever. I'll leave it up
to your interpretation, or I'll just.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
Do this, nod your head, okay to whoever you're you're
thinking of in your hit. Okay, tell me what was
happening with lebron showing up in Cleveland last night? Because
he doesn't accidentally do things.
Speaker 11 (43:20):
He does it.
Speaker 15 (43:22):
No, he's from Akron. He he's won a championship for
the Cleveland Cavaliers. A guy can't go out and enjoy
a playoff game.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
You're not reading anything into that.
Speaker 11 (43:37):
No, I'm not not at all. He's from Akron. He
won a championship there, their only championship.
Speaker 2 (43:45):
He came in halfway through the first quarter. I don't
know the bot wine.
Speaker 15 (43:51):
I don't Maybe he was in one of the streets.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
I don't know when.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Why would you show up to see the Cavaliers play
the Celtics.
Speaker 11 (44:01):
He's from the area.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
He lives in LA.
Speaker 11 (44:07):
For the season.
Speaker 3 (44:09):
He's not vacationing in Cleveland.
Speaker 11 (44:11):
I'm not saying he's I guarantee he still has a
home there.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
You don't think that there was more to that?
Speaker 15 (44:18):
Okay, Now let me ask you, what do you think
there's more too?
Speaker 2 (44:23):
I just think there is because it's Lebron. Lebron is past.
Speaker 11 (44:29):
So what I don't come back to maybe if you
were gonna if you were.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Going to get to the Eastern Conference to let's say
you're gonna play uh for another championship, you got a
better chance in la or Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
That's why he was court sided last night. Right.
Speaker 15 (44:51):
Well, I don't know, because I think Cleveland has a
lot of questions they need to answer to with Donovan
Mitchell going forward to is Mitchell still in the here?
They do have a nice young core. There's a lot
of things that play here. Why can't a guy just
go out and enjoy a playoff game? Why does everything
have to be so controversial with Lebron?
Speaker 2 (45:13):
It's not it's not it's he doesn't do things without thought. Now,
if if he says, hey, I just I was in
the neighborhood, and why not take in.
Speaker 11 (45:24):
A neighborhood is right down the.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Road, he's in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 15 (45:30):
Oh, during the season, they've been out, they've been.
Speaker 11 (45:35):
Going all right, he let him go enjoy a game. See,
everyone always wants to pile on Lebron.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
I'm not piling on I'm saying I'm I'm looking at
this and going is there something more at play?
Speaker 15 (45:52):
Keep in my mind, would this be the only this
would be the place you would think he would want
to come back to you.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
Well, you could bookend your career. Maybe you know they'll they'll.
Speaker 15 (46:02):
Booked by winning them a championship. I think everything going
forward for Lebron.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
He's playing house money if he goes back there.
Speaker 15 (46:11):
Yeah, everything going forward for him is in LA. He's
in the entertainment business now, he's making movies.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
I know he's produced.
Speaker 11 (46:21):
Everything going forward for Lebron is in LA. I don't
but not.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
A title, but not a title. Everything's in LA, but
a title.
Speaker 11 (46:33):
Didn't you win a title there?
Speaker 3 (46:35):
Well, they want in Orlando and that's a few years ago.
Speaker 11 (46:39):
As well as Cleveland a few years ago.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Yes, okay, do you remember when Lebron was with the Heat.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
They were they were retiring Zudreunis Olgaskis Jersey, and he
flew to Cleveland and pat Riley was not pleased. And
then what happened. Lebron went back to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
So maybe maybe there's nothing here, Maybe there's nothing to see.
Speaker 11 (47:04):
I can if this death come happen.
Speaker 15 (47:06):
We've got to read good this conversation you and I had,
because this is breaking news.
Speaker 11 (47:12):
I would just thinking a.
Speaker 15 (47:13):
Guy was coming out to a place that he loves,
had a lot of great memories, want a champion, their
only championship, and I'm sure he's still cool.
Speaker 11 (47:25):
With a lot of people in the front office.
Speaker 15 (47:27):
I think that was a cool gesture to have the
greatest player of their generation at their game.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
The last thing you would want to do is go
watch a basketball game after you just went through this
season you did with the Lakers, like you don't go
you know what, Hun, I'm really jones in for some
more basketball here, all right. Reggie Miller will be on
the call tonight in Denver Game five with Kevin Harlan
and Ali LaForce and also Jamal Crawford. What do you
(47:54):
expect now? I got Minnesota a slight underdog going into
Game five, which will in John what or Whom?
Speaker 11 (48:04):
For Minnesota?
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Either one with the game hinges on what or whom?
Speaker 15 (48:09):
Minnesota Carl Anthony Towns has to play at an elite level.
Speaker 11 (48:16):
I think he's forcing things.
Speaker 15 (48:18):
But I give Denver a lot of credit because they're
playing him with smaller defenders, and they are baiting him
to try to play bully ball down low and it's
just not working. And if he continues to shoot how
he's been shooting, this series will be over in the
next two games. So he's got to find a way
(48:39):
to be more efficient, Like we saw the response from
Anthony Edwards with his forty three forty four points here
in Game four. But Karl Anthony Towns has to be
much better for Minnesota and for Denver.
Speaker 11 (48:56):
I've been saying this all along.
Speaker 15 (48:58):
As great as the MVP is Jokic and Murray his shooting,
when Aaron Gordon plays like this, they're a different team
at both ends of the floor because he can play.
He can defend multiple positions guarding Karl Anthony Towns and
he's guarding Anthony Edwards. But when he's shooting the ball
(49:18):
like this, now he's shooting threes. Now he's making threes.
He gives them that X factor.
Speaker 11 (49:23):
So when Gordon plays like this, really Denver is unbeatable.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
In my opinion, Should Shaq have told the Joker that
he voted for Shay gilgis Alexander for MVP.
Speaker 11 (49:36):
You know this is a.
Speaker 15 (49:36):
Tough one because Shaq for one, he wears his heart
on his sleeve.
Speaker 11 (49:45):
But when a guy is waiting on a call like
this and you.
Speaker 15 (49:48):
Have your family around, and this is supposed to be
a moment of you know, to celebrate a winter three
times in four years, maybe it's not the right time,
but Shack should.
Speaker 11 (50:00):
This is what makes our show unique. Our guys tell
the truth. They have no filter.
Speaker 15 (50:09):
But let me say this, if there's a there's no
bigger supporter of Jokice than Shaq, and it's that big
man alliance and Shack is he said it, He said
it so many times that Nikola Jokic is his favorite player.
Speaker 11 (50:28):
Was it the right time to say that she should
have won it?
Speaker 15 (50:31):
Maybe not, But Shaq's talking to hold bat and that's
what's made him great. That's what made him great as
a player, and certainly that's what made him great for television.
Speaker 3 (50:40):
Well, Shannon Sharps said it was jealousy.
Speaker 11 (50:44):
I don't. I don't think so Shaq.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
Shack had one MVP, which is still amazing, it is,
and I.
Speaker 11 (50:52):
Thought he certainly should have had three himself.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
Should have had one of Steve Nash's.
Speaker 11 (50:58):
Look, that's that's people voting, that's out of his control.
Speaker 15 (51:02):
Yeah know this, Shack, you are and trust me, I
know very well because I've had to go through you
so many years. Trust me, the most dominant player at
his position maybe ever, and I'm including Wilton that So,
I mean, come on now, I mean, Shannon can say
(51:22):
jealousy all he wants. Shack is arguably one of the
most dominant men basketball players ever ever.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
Uh, before I let you go, it feels like Tom
Thibodeau is getting credit and getting criticized because of the
minutes that his players were playing in the playoffs, given
that they had already had injuries they have to play
now they're breaking down. So where do you stand on
Tibbs and the minutes his players play and how he's
(51:51):
gotten to this point where he's got a pretty banged
up team going into tonight.
Speaker 15 (51:57):
Theato You've been around this game a long time, and
you know how playoff basketball goes, and you know how
coaches operate.
Speaker 11 (52:04):
They shorten the rotation. It's always been like that.
Speaker 15 (52:08):
Is this a little bit to the extreme, maybe, but
it's no different than what any other coach is doing
right now there he has shortened his rotation to the extreme.
Speaker 11 (52:20):
Now the injuries kind of highlight the issues of doing that.
Speaker 15 (52:25):
But you know, now Burks is back into the rotation
now and he played well those two games in Indiana,
and they're gonna need his his shop making. But you
can't criticize him, you know, for something that was working,
you know against Philadelphia, Right, that's short that's shortened rotation
(52:46):
won them that series.
Speaker 11 (52:48):
It's just unfortunate. The injuries are starting to comeound.
Speaker 15 (52:52):
But last time I checked, Marvel loved Pacers have to
win a road game for them to win the series.
So they can lose all the the road games they
want in this series and still win it. So this
is a pivotal game tonight. Game fives are always fun
when it's two two, and it's always it's even funner
(53:13):
when the two teams really don't like one another.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Well, we got a great rivalry. Tonight, Reg will be
on the call. Game five. It'll be Kevin Harlan, Jamal
Crawford and Ali Deforce. Tip Off is at ten thirty
Eastern on TNT. Thanks for fighting the good fight, Reg,
have fun tonight.
Speaker 3 (53:30):
Thanks for joa to revisit this.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
If you know something that will you don't know anything,
talk to you so talk to you soon, Talk to
you soon.
Speaker 3 (53:43):
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