June 7, 2024 • 51 mins
On today's Dan Patrick Show, DP recaps Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Are the Celtics too much for the Mavs? Plus, ESPN's Dave McMenamin discusses the environment at the Boston Garden, and Brian Scalabrine explains why he wouldn't take the Lakers job if he were UConn's Dan Hurley.
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stat of the Day, All of that coming up. Dave McManamon,
(01:12):
ESPNNBA reporter was at Game one last night. He will
join us, as will the Celtics analyst former Celtic player
Bryan Scalabrini. Celtics roll the Mavericks one oh seven to
eighty nine looked like it was over in the first
quarter as they built up a seventeen point lead. Dallas
made it interesting, cutting it to eight later on, but
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it was all Boston all the time. The eighteen point
win matches the biggest Game one win of an NBA
Final since twenty seventeen. That's when the Warriors taught the
Cavaliers one thirteen ninety one.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Whoa stall of a day? Stanta day, stataa day Stanavaday.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
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overreact every sport when something like this happens to you.
Go God, I just don't see Dallas winning four games
against the Celtics team. Now, I picked Boston, but I
don't want to overreact and say this can't go six
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or seven. The X factor Christops Porzingis was great last
night the X factor for Dallas, Kyrie Irving was not.
And Kyrie well kind of gave an open invitation to
the Celtics fans to welcome him in Gain two.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You know, being in this environment, you know, I'm used
to it at this point. You know, early in my
career there was a different relationship that I had with Boston,
just being able to come here, be settled with a
veteran group. Now I'm here as the veteran over the
past few years, just experiencing the playoffs here, even regular season,
it's been the same thing. I thought it was gonna
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be a little louder in here, but I'm expecting the
same things going on. It's a game too crowd trying
to get me out of my element, my teammates out
of my element. But again, the energy's got to be
focused towards the game.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, don't encourage them. And if I'm a Celtic fan,
I'd be cheering for him. He's helping you win a title.
The way he played last night, Luka Doncic had one assist.
Now I had thirty, had ten rebounds, but one assist.
They didn't even have double digit assists last night. Now
this is where you can overreact, say they can't stop Boston.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, maybe they can't.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You know, Boston, if they're going to play great defense
like this, they are going to win the title. Their
offense was historically great this year. Now you throw in
the defense, that's what makes them so dangerous. Here you
got perimeter defenders, Brown and Tatum are you know long,
you know threes, and they're able to defend inside and outside.
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Throw in Porzingis as well Al Horford. They're a good
defensive team, but the offense. The offense is what's historically great.
As for Dallas, you probably look at this and go, Okay,
they can't be this bad in game two, which is true.
They can't be this bad unless they are, and then
they're in real deep trouble. Luca's going to get his points,
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but if he doesn't get his assist, now that it's
not his fault. He only had one assist. You have
to make the shots if you get the ball, and
they didn't shoot well last night. But it was Boston
and Boston early and often, and I would expect the
same kind of game plan that they had. They know
Luca's going to score. The question is can you keep
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everybody under wraps so nobody gets squirrely and puts up
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Speaker 3 (04:43):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
If you're watching on peacock, thank you for downloading the
app poll question today. By the way, Dan Hurley is
on his way to Los Angeles. According to ESPN's report,
he will be meeting with the Lakers later today Rob
Polinka and owner Jeanie Buss trying to finalize this.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
At least that's what WOJ is saying.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
After yesterday, Danny Hurley did meet with his team, met
with executives the administration at Connecticut just to give them
a heads up exactly what is going on. But going
out there and everything is pointed to Danny Hurley in
you know, inside the Lakers organization, we never heard any
of this, and that WOJ is saying basically all the
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interviews they did that was kind of due diligence. Hey,
we're going to interview JJ Reddick, We're going to view
these guys, this guy, this guy, these guys. So, I mean,
this broke twenty six hours ago and now all of
a sudden, it's front burner and it is hot. But
I don't think Danny Hurley's going out there just to
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go out there. I think he's already made his point.
If Yukon is not going to up the ante, I
don't know if this is a leverage play. I did
wonder that does he want to stay? Canny stay? They
afford him to stay. And even when you start to
look at the landscape of college basketball, I mean, it's
basically become the pros. So why not coach the pros.
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You've got to deal with nil, you got transfer portal,
and he's the reason Connecticut has won those national titles. Now,
the players were great, but you turn over your roster
and you still win another title, and you're even better
this past year than you were the year before. And
they're going to go into preseason as the number one team.
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There's no other faces in college basketball. I mean, you
could say Bill's self, but everybody else is gone. Maybe
Tom Izzo, but the legends are gone. Everybody's out. Danny
Hurley is the face of college basketball. Does he want
to continue to be the face of college basketball? This
is the jumping off point. You got a chance to
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coach the Lakers. You're gonna make money, You're gonna get
guaranteed money, and you got Lebron at the end of
his career. Now, that to me is not I don't
know if that's advantageous for him to take the job
and go, Yeah, I get to coach Lebron. It's trickier
with Lebron, but you're not going to get this opportunity.
Maybe in two years when Lebron retires or three years.
(07:16):
You got this moment. I expect him to take the
job unless it was a leverage play and then all
of a sudden he comes back home and says, I'm
not leaving Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
But I was flattered.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I thought, I know, out of respect that I needed
to talk to the Lakers in person. Have they been
talking via zoom? Haven't heard anything of Danny Hurley leaving
the East Coast after the season ended. I'm assuming you
probably had those kind of meetings, conversations, preliminary conversations. Maybe
it's an agent talking to the Lakers. You just never
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got out. And as Geno Arima said yesterday, the Yukon
women's coach, I have the same agent as Danny Hurley.
I don't know what's going on, but the fact that
Gino the night before leans over to Danny Hurley at
an event and says, you could win championships with the Lakers,
And he said, I didn't know that the Lakers were
going to offer him the job, because Hurley didn't say anything.
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He just smiled and nodded back. Okay, we did reach
out to see if Danny Hurley could join us, and
we were politely told now he wouldn't be available, which
I certainly understand. But that didn't stop Todd from reaching
out because that's what Todd does.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
What's poll question today? Their seatonel counter last night? Was
an anomaly or this series?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Is that the way this rest of the series is
going to go? Where the Celtics just roll? Or was
it just one of those nights for the Celtics. Well,
I think this is how Boston plays.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Now I got to find out how Dallas is going
to play against Boston.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
This is what Boston does.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They have so many different offensive weapons and they play
really good defense. They played really good defense last night.
Do I think Dallas will be better?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And I don't want to overreact and say they may
not win a game. I still see Boston winning this.
They're a better team, but that doesn't mean Kyrie can't
have an unbelievable night. And with Luca and PJ. Washington,
you know, then they're role players. But it's going to take,
you know, a total team effort to beat Boston. And
you know, here's the other thing. Tatum and Brown didn't
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have to do much last night. It was really about
Christops Porzingis coming off the bench giving them an offensive lift.
He had three block shots that to me, I'd be
you know, you can say, well, Dallas, look, Kyrie didn't
play well and Luca had one assist. Tatum and Brown
were like, okay, you know, we're just kind of going
through layup lines here.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Well, Tatum, for sure, Jalen Brown was phenomenal last night.
He was playing out of his mind. Jason Tatum was
sort of out there.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
But numbers wise, when they scored twenty two, Brown score
like twenty two points, So it wasn't anything where you go,
oh my gosh, he put up forty.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Yeah, but he had some monster blocks, He had some
few He had a hell of a night for himself. Now,
if I'm the Mavericks, I'm looking at like, is Kris
tops perzingis really going to be this hot again and
beat us?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Probably not, No, But then you're gonna have somebody else
who can you know, can he be? And I would
run him as much as I could. Whoever he's guarding,
I would run him and just see, you know how
healthy he's going to be for the entire series. You know,
same thing with Luca. I don't think Lucas one hundred percent.
I think that knee is bothering him. So I would
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do the same thing, different defenders on him, different looks
on him, and be prepared, you know, because I think
what happens in Game two is really going to set
the stage for you know, how long this series goes.
We'll get phone calls coming up here. Is Chris tops
porzingis talking about coming off the bench last night.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
From day one, I came here and I said, like,
I'll do whatever it takes to help the team win.
Right then, I think it was this situation, you know,
it made sense and and I didn't care.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I didn't care.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
I knew I could prepare to come off the bench,
which is something different from me. And that's what I did,
and stepped into that role and embraced it and had
a good game.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
All right, we'll get to some phone calls here each
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Buddha in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Hi, Buddha, how are you today? Buddy? Yo, buddy, what's up?
Speaker 8 (11:27):
DP?
Speaker 9 (11:28):
What's up? Boys? Happy Friday?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
DP?
Speaker 9 (11:31):
What a clutch clutch interview yesterday with Gino. I mean,
I thought it was timely obviously. I thought it was
revealing and another example of you doing your thing, Dan,
Well done son onto the Lakers DP. You have to
understand how exhausting it is to be a Lakers fan.
I mean all of the hoopla that comes with Lebron
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and now his son and now Dan Hurley. I mean, like,
let's go. I mean I love that, but I think, like,
what a great get, But what does that really look
like for Dan Hurley's future?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Dan?
Speaker 9 (12:06):
I mean, I mean honestly, like, give me the Nick
Van Exel, Eddie Jones, George Lynch, Lakers. I'd take that
in the second. Right now, Dan, I'm like, this is exhausting.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Thank you, Buddha. Have a great weekend. And people are
mixed on this. I think it shows you know, some
thinking out of the box on behalf of the Lakers
and instead of having somebody in there that you can
get rid of or you don't respect. You know, Darvin
Ham gets you to a Western Conference finals and then
he's out of a job. Frank Vogel wins a title
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and then he's out of a job. Luke Walton, I mean,
you've had these guys. Now you're getting the face of
college basketball develops players. Certainly has passion, energy and it's
a different voice, and I think that's what you need.
I mean, when you look at the NBA, there aren't
great coaching candidates there. I think we think, oh my gosh,
(13:03):
Pat Roley's going to be walking in I mean Doc
Rivers went kind of kicking and screaming to coach the Bucks,
and then even coaching them was like what am I doing?
You know, Pop re signed in San Antonio, He's got
Victor Wembenyama. But you start to think, like Mike Budenholzer.
I mean, come on, Monty Williams. I don't know who's
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a great coach anymore. Spolster is great, maybe the best
coach in the NBA. But you have to have consistency there.
If you have a bad year or something happens in
the playoffs, you can't go, oh, we got to blow
this up. And that's the you know the owners nowadays,
front of office, it's like, oh my gosh, we got
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to do something now, But you don't if you truly
believe in that person. That's what I would want to know.
If I'm Danny Hurley, do I have any say? I
don't have to have, you know, the final say or
total autonomy. I have to have some input here if
I'm going to do this. This is what I want
the number of years I want to get paid and
(14:05):
I want to have a voice here. And if that's
the case, then I understand it. But the days of oh,
do you want to go for a three peat? Three peats?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Nice? I mean, okay, do you have a three peat? Okay?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Now what Oh well stay for a four peat? Maybe
you're the next John Wooden. Well, basketball has changed so
much now. John Wooden had the same people, same players,
staying for four years. Coach k for the most part
of his career, had the same players staying for three
or four years. It doesn't happen anymore. It's tougher, and
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I think if Danny Hurley is interested in let me
challenge myself in his early fifties. Go get him. He
can always come back to college basketball. Whatever it's going
to look like when he comes back. Yes, if it
was a different team, like forget it's the Lakers with
Lebron James. Yeah, what if the Celtics don't win the
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title and there could be an opening there for the
Celtics just you know, just I mean, you got a
factor in all of this. If Joe Missoula is not
able to win a title here, do they just Brad
Stevens go, Hey, you know what, I'm gonna go get
me a college coach. I'm gonna get Danny Hurley.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
Yes, Marv, I have the pen for Dan Hurley to
sign right now with the Boston Celtics. There's no way
you could pass that up the Boston Celtics easily.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, but he might not get that opportunity because he
might be taking the Lakers job today.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I don't even know if he's going to take the job.
I just thought of it last night that there's so
much pressure riding on Boston and if you don't win
the title, do they go you know what, we need
to blow this up, or we need to change coaches here.
I wouldn't do that, but I don't, you know, I
don't know what Brad Stevens would be thinking anybody else
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or the ownership there. If I'm the Lakers, if he's
your guy, everybody's in on it. You're excited about this,
then go go get him. Don't let him come back
to Connecticut without the title of head coach of the
LA Lakers. If he comes back, that's when I would
start to doubt this a little bit.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
There.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
All right, we'll get phone calls. It's a meet Friday.
Glad you're part of the program. Dave mcmanhamon, who covers
the Lakers primarily for the Mothership. He was there at
Game one last night. Was that just a one off
or a maybe a deeper indication of who's going to
win the NBA Finals. We'll take a break. We're back
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We'll settle on our poll question coming up more phone
calls as well as we welcome in Dave mcmanhamon the
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ESPN NBA reporter who joins us from Boston. Give me
the proper reaction to last night's game.
Speaker 12 (17:59):
I think you should be in pressed with the Celtics
and it was a reminder that despite not being battle
tested through the first three routes, because they based opponents
that were missing their stars, that they were the number
one team throughout the regular season for a reason. And
if Dallas is going to be in this series, it's
going to have to look like it did in the
third quarter, which was ferocious defensive effort and Luke at
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the conscience being otherworldly.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
But they got to be able to extrapolate that over
forty eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Can they.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
I think they can.
Speaker 12 (18:31):
I don't think we're going to see every game being,
you know, just a passing clinic from the Celtics on
one end and them thwarting everything Dallas tries to do
on the other, as we saw for most of the
first half, and certainly in that fourteen ozer run that
the Celtics responded with in the third after Dallas cut
it to eight. But I think there was a statement
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type of win for them in Game one. And I
talked to some of the guys on the team leading
up to the Game one and it was a really
competent group.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
You know.
Speaker 12 (19:06):
I ran into Sam Coussel the night before Game one
out in the North End and he was saying.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Like, we're rested, We're ready.
Speaker 12 (19:15):
We don't necessarily have to have any guy be great
to win this series, whereas they kind of need Luca
and Kyrie to be great to have a chance against us.
It's a group that feels like this is their moment.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
What did you make a Kyrie's performance or lack thereof
last night?
Speaker 8 (19:36):
I was surprised to see it, quite frankly.
Speaker 12 (19:37):
I mean, obviously he was the storyline coming in because
of his history with the Celtics, and he was great
in the Western Conference Finals, but it was mostly in effective.
Even when he got into the paint, they seem to
find ways to siphon him off.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
And I was interested in his postgame comments where where
you know, he was kind of taking a thirty.
Speaker 12 (20:02):
Thousand foot view in terms of, well, we're good to
get this finals experience under our belt, for maybe showing
his hand a little bit where he thinks this could be,
you know, kind of a tough learning series for his
team that they may have to build on in the future.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, I'm watching last night and I marvel at Boston's offense.
I think it is I mean, it's been historically great,
and then you throw in the defense, you know they're
not going to be beaten. Dallas can win this series.
I don't want to overreact to it. I have Boston
winning this. I just think that offense is really really
difficult to try to stop. And now you bring Porzingis
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off the bench, is he going to come off the bench?
Is that his role going to be in the in
the finals?
Speaker 8 (20:50):
You know, well, Joemy Willis said there would be no
minutes restriction on him.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
Obviously it worked the rotations that he was getting against
Dallas personnel, and so I would imagine at least for
Game two that would be the plan.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
But you know, it, quite frankly didn't necessarily matter.
Speaker 12 (21:08):
As great as Perzingis was twenty points eight for thirteen, shooting,
six rebounds, three blocks, he was just one part of
the cog. Now, I will say his initial energy got
the crowd into a tivy and it was a sight
to behold.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
I think when we talked about the annals.
Speaker 12 (21:28):
Of NBA history and in the future, and we talked
about a guy coming back from an injury and not
skipping a beat, this will be the example a that
we point to of Christops. Perzingis performed thirty eight days
missing because that calf strain, and you know, was as
confident as any play on the court.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Talking to Dave mcmanhamon the ESPN NBA reporter, I know
you primarily cover the Lakers. Danny Hurley is reportedly headed
out to Los Angeles to meet with the front office.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Here.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You know, we're what twenty six hours into this, at
least publicly into this. What do you expect is going
to happen when Danny Hurley gets to LA and meets
with Jeanie Buss and Rod Polinka.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
I think he's going to wow them and validate the
reason why they've been so interested in him, or I
can say it's.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Been longer than twenty six hours.
Speaker 12 (22:24):
But Adrian Windardowski, you know, he has all the details
and the reporting, the guy that is intense but also has,
you know, a sense of humor and a relatability.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
But does he have to sell himself, Dave to the
Lakers or the Lakers selling the Lakers to Danny Hurley.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
It's a great question.
Speaker 12 (22:49):
Dan, You're trying to pry a guy from maybe one
of the most stable positions in a wildly unstable at
CBLA right now. You know he can write the stickt
as the mayor of stores Connecticut for years to come
because of the back to back titles. So yeah, the Lakers,
I think financially will have to come with a real
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package and also longevity.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Wise, come with a real package.
Speaker 12 (23:18):
But Danny Hurley, as Woljes has reported, is interested in
the challenge of the NBA, and you know, as a
tree of the Hurly family coaching ming branch of the
Hurly family coaching tree that has been such an in
vital part of the game of basketball for forty fifty
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years now, they want to branch out.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Into the NBA.
Speaker 12 (23:46):
It's not just for him, but it's for Bobby, it's
for his father as well. And what better you know,
franchise other than maybe the team that's up one zero
in the finals, than to coach the Lakers. So you know,
the sense I get is Danny is already very intrigued here,
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and you know, obviously the Lakers aren't here to waste time.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
So I think it's kind of a mutual.
Speaker 12 (24:14):
Do we both have the same feeling and when we
sit in the same room, does it still feel the
same as when we dreamt it up over the last
few days in our minds? And I think if that
feelings there, the Lakers are certainly as Wolsh is reported
prepared to come with a massive offer.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Okay, but what's he walking into here? Is this a
desirable job? I know it's the Lakers. You get to
coach Lebron, but you're coaching Lebron at the end of
his career. You have to factor in the Browny situation.
AD's future there, the role players there. The West is stacked.
Danny Hurley is walking into what.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
You could look at it that way.
Speaker 12 (24:57):
You also look at it as a team that was
the seven in the West that finished the second half
of the season twelve games over five hundred, a team
that played the defending champion Denver Nuggets to a close
battle in all five games in the first round, and
a team that is playing in an NBA that doesn't
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in all due respect to the Celtics, but there's not
like an unbeatable juggernaut out there right now. And so
with buy in from a roster and you know, some
assets that the team has in the cupboard in terms
of those three first round draft picks that they could
attach to some of the salaries they have right now
to retool a bit. I think there's opportunity that he
(25:44):
should be seeing and certainly if what we've seen from
Lebron James publicly on social media in terms of praising
Dame Hurley's fastball acumen, if he's going to be there
with buy in, I don't think there's to me that
sounds like a good basketball situation step into not a
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bad one.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I'll leave you with this.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
The commissioner talked about expansion yesterday with this State of
the Union address to the media. What cities do you
believe are in play and what do you think the
timeframe is going to be for expansion.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
I believe this for a long time that the cities
at the top of the list would be Seattle in
Las Vegas.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
Adam threw us for a loop, just slightly bringing up
the idea of international expansion, mentioning Canada again. Obviously, Vancouver
once had a market before, and the league has played
expisient games in Mexico City. Obviously, proximity wise, you're not
really thinking about international expansion to Europe, you know, or
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Asia right now, unless they were to open up an
entirely different division. But you're talking about probably a year
into the TV deal, you know, maybe it's six twenty
seventh season. We could be looking at a team and
that certainly would give a new franchise. Well, obviously there's
already an arena in Las Vegas, but they were given
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you a new franchise time enough to kind of build
up all their infrastructure from the ground up.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Thanks for joining us as always, Dave, we appreciate your time.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Great to see it, Dn.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
That's Dave McManaman, the ESPNNBA reporter. Once again.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Danny Hurley is reportedly en route to Los Angeles to
meet with the front office there with the Lakers. A
couple of phone calls in here Andrew and Washington. Hey Andrew,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 13 (27:39):
Good morning, Dan, Denned's happy meet Friday, and thanks for
taking my phone call. As I expect Danny Hurley to
be announced to La Lakers new head coach after five
o'clock today The five o'clock Friday News, Dum, I'll fishly
welcome Marvin to Laker Nations. So Marvin come with us
from Yukon to the Laker Nation. Congratulations. But about last
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night's game, Dallas just didn't look like they were ready
for it. They had their lowest assist all playoffs in
a game at nine. They had their second lowest three
pointers made and second most three point percentages, which is
the Boston defense, so they only had seven threes at
twenty five point nine percent. I see this as a
gentleman's sweep five games Boston wins. The reason being is
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it seems like Boston just they have a game where
they just don't shoot well, and usually it's game two,
so they I'm looking for them to lose next game
and then win three more for the title, and I
think Boston will win it. But Kyrie, I think they'll
time up most of the series. He might have a
good game, but I just don't see Kyrie and Daunchik
solving this defense of the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, it's underrated. We focused on their offense. Thank you, Andrew.
I have a good weekend. You know, Kyrie had open
looks too. It's it's sometimes when you're watching you go, boy,
that defense is really great. Every shot is contested. He
had open looks too, just didn't make them. But you know,
they got out and they were overwhelmed down by seventeen.
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They did come back made it interesting there. Down by
eight and then two back to back traveling calls, which
has probably never happened in the history of the NBA
Finals in a game back to back traveling calls.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Yeah see, I know, you know when you're watching the
game and it's clear that, I mean, the Celtics are
just destroying the Mavericks, it's not even close. But then
they cut it to it got to about like sixteen.
You're like, dang, this is way too close. And then
they then they cut it to eight. They're like, this
is two shots, and they're right. I mean, they were
already right back in this game. I don't feel like,
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if I'm the Mavericks, I don't look at that game
as the worst thing in the world, because there's no
way Perzingis is going to be that hot again, while
Kyrie is also that cold. And even with this absolute
punishment of a game that you're taking, whether you lose
by thirty or you lose by five, it's still just
a loss.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I don't know we were able to cut it.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
They were destroying If I'm the Mavericks, they were destroying us,
and we still cut it back to eight.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, but it takes so much energy to fight back
to cut it to eight. And that's where you see
teams like, man, they're making it close. But they've expended
so much energy to get to we're down eight. You
can't be down by seventeen or twenty. You just can't
to a team like that in Boston.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Well, the energy level between the two teams right from
the beginning was apparent. It was like the Mavericks have
no idea what they're doing. It's like they didn't even
realize the game started yet, and the Celtics were already
throwing lobs and like it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, it's like, wait, I thought we were just shooting
around the game started. Yeah, it started like fifteen minutes ago.
Hey you what's your name?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Jones? Hey you gotta play? What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Yeah, Marv and Jalen Brown had a nasty dunk going
down the lane, and it felt like those two points
felt like eight points, just because he got the crowd
into it. And then the lead even got bigger than
it already was.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And in case you're watching on Peacock, Marvin has a
T shirt. If you're not watching on Peacock, Marvin has
a hammer MC hammer T shirt from your childhood days
that your mom found yesterday.
Speaker 10 (31:09):
Yes, she called me yesterday, Marvin. I found that shirt
you've been looking for.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
It fitted pretty well.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Yeah, and it was an Excel. I was like, I
don't remember being that big. She was like, I remember
being eighteen dollars.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
How big were you in nineteen yeah, eighty nine?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Like, were you a little heavier than you were leading on? No? No,
you were in Excel at nine.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
No, no, no, it's Marvin.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
No.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I don't think they had any kid shirts. Oh oh,
is that what it was?
Speaker 10 (31:39):
That's that's my story, all right. Sure, on the back
of everybody.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
You were you Husky back then?
Speaker 10 (31:45):
Yukon Husky you were.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, you're Yukon Husky now. Jared in Georgia, Hi, Jared, Welcome.
What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Hey Dan?
Speaker 14 (31:55):
Hey Dan, that's Friday to y'all. I've got two things.
One's a question with a little recently biased probably, but
it's the Celtics do n't win championship and Jalen Brown
plays well? Could that help overtake the number one position
in the Celtics over Tatum or if the two of
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them are together, still will Tatum just always be the
number one option? And my second thing is today is
my birthday. I turned the Big three zero. If I
could get a big, happy birthday. I would appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
All right all together.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
For Jared, I don't know if it matters who's the
number one option or number two option. It's nice to
know that you could have two different number one options
there and they would acknowledge that. Kyrie has said he
knows he's a complimentary figure to Luca. Jalen Brown should
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not take a back seat to Jason Tatum and vice versa.
You should want to be the goats. You need to
have that mentality, and we haven't seen that consistently from
them on the big stage. But look, Jalen Brown was
the Larry Bird Eastern Conference Finals MVP. He should have
every thought in his mind that hey, I can be
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the finals MVP, and I wouldn't be surprised at that.
But I wouldn't be surprised if Jason Tatum is going
to be that. And I think the odds on favorite
are still Jason Tatum and then Luca the two best odds.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, Paul, has there ever been an.
Speaker 15 (33:32):
NBA team where the two stars were considered equals. There
was never a time when Kobe and Shack were equal.
It was Kobe was the lesser player early and they
kind of took over from Shak. I'm sure they're equal
some point, but like Jordan was always way better than Pippin.
Steph Curry I think is noticeably better than Klay Thompson.
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These guys feel like they're pretty equal right now.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Stocked in In Malone, Yeah, that's good, probably equal, obviously
doing different things.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yes, Todd, that's what I was thinking to Malone in Stockton.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
Okay, Marvin Malone is Stockton the words out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Okay, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
We're forgetting Jordan Pippin.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
No thanks, see yeah kidding.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I mean you go back to Elgin Baylor and Jerry
West were probably similar. But that's a long long time ago.
Speaker 9 (34:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
And I'm looking at championship teams.
Speaker 15 (34:30):
Because it feels like Jalen Brown is catching up quickly.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah, I think he's there. I just think we don't
recognize him because we I don't know. You keep saying, no,
it's Jason Tatum's team. I don't know whose team it is.
I guess it is his. But if I'm Jalen Brown,
I don't go. Hey, I'm just going to take a
step back. I'll react to whatever you're doing Jalen Brown
played wonderful Eastern Conference Finals, and he played great again
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last night. Yes, mar Garnett and Paul Pierce.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, yeah. Oh wait, Wade and Lebron.
Speaker 15 (35:03):
When Lebron first got there, Wade was still a pretty
good player.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, he was a good player when Lebron left. Yeah,
I'd probably say those two were kind of equal. All right,
let me take a break. We'll get to more phone
calls coming up. Brian Scalabrini, he's the Celtics analyst. He'll
join us coming up a little bit later on morphone
calls as well. Back after this.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
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Speaker 2 (35:36):
After an eighteen point win in Game one, the Celtics,
according to DraftKings, now an overwhelming favor to win the
NBA title. I got odds to win the NBA Finals
next year. DraftKings already put him out. Celtics are the favorites.
Who do you think has the second best odds to
win it all next year? Marvin Clippers, PAULI Nuggets, Nuggets?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
It is? How about third? On the list might surprise you.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Todd Thunder Blue Blue, and then the Timberwolves, the Bucks,
and the Maps. And in case you're wondering, since Danny
Hurley is en route to Los Angeles to talk to
the Lakers, I got the Lakers. There one, two, three,
four or five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. There's ten
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teams with better odds to win the NBA Finals than
the Lakers. Bryan Scalabrini, Celtics analyst for NBC Sports Boston
and co host of the Starting Lineup on Sirius XM,
won a championship back in eight with the Celtics. What
were you expecting last night in Game one?
Speaker 4 (36:47):
I mean I probably was expecting what we saw like
a lot of energy by the Celtics. I don't think
that they haven't been bothered by the long days off.
They did a great job against Miami Game one, great
job against Cleveland Game one. I thought they struggl against Iniana,
found a way to win. But you know, I think
more than anything, the Celtic not their top four defenders.
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Take Holiday, White, Brown Tatum out of the mix. Horford,
Porzingis and Sam Houser did a really good job in
isolation situations. And I think that was a big difference
maker in that game.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I think they're a great team.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
But it's dangerous when you say somebody is a great
team and they don't win a title, they've been a
great team. Well can you say that somebody is a
great team and they don't win a title.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Yeah, I mean the Warriors were a great team that
lost to the Cavs. I mean those are circumstantials. So yeah,
you could be a great team, but not an all
time great team. You're right about that, And I'm not
saying the Celtic team is an all time great team,
but it just looks on paper like the discrepancy between
like their roster and the next best roster, it's a
massive gap. You could argue the Denver Nuggets. I heard
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you just talking about those odds. I like the Denver Nuggets,
but it seems like if you want to win a
defensive versatility, rebounding across the board, and shooting from six
or seven guys, it's really tough to stop in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah, and this is a great offense, I mean, historically
a great offense this season. Oh yeah, who's the best
player on the team.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Jason Tatum he received, and don't you don't have to
ask us Dan like or yourself, don't looking to have
an opinion, just ask coaches that are preparing. Yeah, teams
are still gearing up to stop Tatum, putting their best
defender on Tatum and putting like the rim protector, sort
of spying what Tatum is gonna do. Tatum's done a
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good job of getting off the ball, so you know,
like there you remember the Golden State Warrior. I don't
know if you talked about every made big news. They
literally did not guard Jalen Brown to start the game,
just let him shoot. Pretty disrespectful for a guy like
Jalen Brown. But teams are still geared up to stop
Jason Tatum. Does that switch in the future, It hasn't
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switched so far. I've only seen it happen Dan twice
all year where the best defender and the team started
keying in on Jalen Brown and he was having a
monster game.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's a great opinion because I'm looking at it feels
like that Jalen Brown is moving up. Like the confidence
level of Jalen Brown, I can see that. It's it's
almost tangible when you're watching him out there.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Yeah, and Dan just like being involved in all those
shoot rounds. It's amazing how much you focus on the
main player. It's amazing how much energy you put. You
talk about their sets, talk about their actions, what they
do when they have the ball here, what do they
do when they're getting right and going to the right,
going to their left. And then there's also like and
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don't forget this guy, like when you play the Miami
Heat with Lebron d Wade in Bosh it was Lebron
Lebron ninety percent, and they watched d Wade when he,
you know, takes the ball and rips it. Baseline. You
got to make sure you're squeezing that baseline. Watch Bosh
on this isolation. Now let's go back to talk about Lebron. Right,
So your whole defenses are there to stop, to stop
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the best player. And that's just my experience of going
through you know, all this gout of reports and all
the times of gearing up against teams. We clearly as
a team always knew where we wanted to put our
energy and emphasis.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
How would you guard? Don shoud I like what they did?
Speaker 4 (40:23):
I really do. I thought they did a good job.
Here's how I would not guard him. It's all about
staying connected. Dan. If Luca does something and he gets
some separation, you're screwed because what's gonna happen is the
big is gonna get a better angle. Luca's gonna put
you on his hip, and then he's gonna drive you
and get to where he wants to go. But I
thought Holiday and Brown did a really good job of
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staying connected during those picking rolls. And if Luca does
not have space, I mean you see the step back
to the right, to the left to step back, pump
fake to the step through is like all those things
are all based off when he gets separation. You got
to do the best job you can of staying connected.
But the fact that I'm not going to help off
on a bunch of people and let Luca beat you
with the past. That seems to be the Celtic game plan,
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and they executed that you know pretty well in game one.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Yeah, I know he's going to get thirty.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
I don't want him to get you know, ten or
twelve or fourteen assists because if he gets that and
then we're in trouble and he had one assists last night,
we're talking to Brian Scalabrini, the Celtics analysts for NBC
Sports Boston. You went in on the Dan Hurley bet.
Does he stay?
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Does he go?
Speaker 4 (41:25):
I mean, like my understanding of the NBA and Danny Hurley,
which is not I don't know Danny at all. I
just know his father from back when I played with
the Nets. I used to go to the St. Anthony Games.
It doesn't seem like he would want that job. If
you're Danny Hurley, can't you get any job in the world.
The Laker job doesn't seem like a great job, but
it is La. It's you know, it is Lebron James.
I guess you would go for that. But if Danny
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Hurley wanted to throw his hat in the ring, why
didn't he do it earlier? Why are you waiting until
now when they're on the you know, like the last hour,
about to hire JJ Reddick, and all of a sudden,
Dan Hurley comes in.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
I will say this, okay, but let's say Boston was open. Hypothetically,
there's a lot of I mean, I'm not gonna you
know what.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
I don't want to do that because I don't want
to like pin another coach and saying that this guy
is gonna get fired, right or anybody out there.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
No no no about him taking a job.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
The specialness of the Lakers job and the Celtics job,
and I guess you could include the Knicks that there
aren't a lot of jobs in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Did Darvin hamfield that way?
Speaker 7 (42:25):
Like?
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Does he think it was special? Frank Vogel won.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
A championship when he got hired, he thought it was special,
not when he got fired.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Man, Listen, I'm all about the historic players and the
franchise and all that stuff. Dan, I want a good
roster with some draft picks where they're not talking about
drafting Brownie. I don't want to do I wouldn't want
to deal with Danny Hurley. Danny Hurley, he wants to
deal with that. Like I said this two years ago,
it's amazing. It's like they gotta have JJ Reddick. You
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gotta be on JJ Reddick's podcast for people to know
he's a good coach. Just watch him coach two years ago.
He's calling out actions secondary action and his team is
going through it with aggression and yet checking off, going
to second, third, fourth, fifth, options. That is insane. I
said it two years ago, and yet it only happens
when he's on a podcast. This guy's I don't understand
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how the NBA things work, Like, if Danny Hurley is
your guy, why was he not your guy four months ago,
three months ago? Why is it just now that he's
your guy? It makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Dan plus JJ Reddick has Danny Hurley on his podcast
and then asking questions about what Hurley runs at Connecticut,
and then the Laker Brass and Lebron hear the podcast,
and then they realize JJ's not the guy. Dan Hurley
is the guy. Like Reddick did himself a dissert. He
took himself probably out of the running here because an
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Hurley on so.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Billion dollar organizations are making decisions based off a podcast.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Okay, would you rather have Reddick or Hurley Hurly all day?
Speaker 4 (44:01):
I might think Curly over twenty NBA coaches. The guy's
nasty as a coach, elite, elite at what he does.
I just don't understand how it works. Dan, that's it.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Oh so you will say, if you're Hurley, you'd stay
at Connecticut instead?
Speaker 4 (44:16):
Yeah? Okay, oh yeah, yeah, give me another one. I
go for a try to win another Championship and then
just inform everybody that you're interested in going to the NBA.
Then really good teams that are looking to get over
that hump would hire you at that point. Don't do
it like this. This is like a like a it's
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like a rash judgment. Don't take that. He could do
whatever he wants. Is Danny Hurley, he's the man.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
But what was Reddick asked about the Lakers job last
night by any members of the media.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
I don't think so. I think that's like I even
saw JJ. I'm not going to ask him about that.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
I feel like, I no, no, But I mean publicly, like,
did anybody say, hey, I want to interview Reddick and
ask him about this?
Speaker 5 (44:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (44:59):
I mean you hear that thing where Shams has tweeted
out that he'd send their targeting or they're they're zeroing in,
and then JJ Reddick basically said that that's not actually true.
So I don't know what's going on with the whole search.
But I mean, like JJ Reddick, that's a good job
for JJ Reddick. He's just starting out. Its high profile. Like, fine,
you'll get to coach Lebron, you'll probably have some success.
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You don't know. Even going to the second round might
be a good year for you. I just think that's
beneath Danny Hurley.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Yeah, I wondered if this was a leverage play with
Danny Hurley. Hey, I'm going to listen to you, and
then all of a sudden, now I'm flying out to
meet with you. And now Jeff Goodman college basketball reporter
says Yukon is preparing a big contract offer to Danny Hurley.
I think he thought he was going to get taken
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care of earlier at Connecticut. Maybe that's where you start
flirting with somebody and all of a sudden you're flirting
and you go, well, wait a minute here, and then
you start to do that job search in your mind, like, uh, hun,
would you like to live in Los Angeles? What schools
and money? Where could we live? What's the right you know,
all of those things. Now you get in a little
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deeper and you're like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
If he doesn't come back with a contract from LA,
then I wonder if he's going to take that job.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
Yeah, I don't It doesn't make sense to me. But
it doesn't mean like that, you know, Malcolm Gladwell's tipping point, right,
you don't want to do something, and then you listen,
and then you don't really want to do it, and
next thing you know, you're like picking out a house
and deciding if you need to live in Manhattan Beach
or work right on the water in Malibu. So you know,
you never know where the tipping point happens. But if
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it was, if I was Danny Hurley, Like, I don't
know Danny Hurley that well, but if I was Danny Hurley,
go back to Yukon and then let everybody know that
you are interested in going to the NBA because there
are some really really good jobs out there, and I
think that some presidents owners gms would bend over backwards
to get Danny Hurley and he might be able to
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pick his job.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Good to talk to you, Brian, thanks for joining us
as all. That's Brian Scalabrini, Celtics analyst and co host
of the Starting Lineup on Sirius XMNBA Radio.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
I want a title and eight with a Celtics. Wow.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
He brought a little passion there about Danny Hurley, like
what are you doing? And look there is a loud
minority that's talking about this, like what are you doing? Like,
don't do this, don't go in and you have to
deal whatever lebron is going to do. And then you
have to deal with Bronnie. And then can you get
ad to play as many games as he did last year?
What are you doing with the roster? How much of
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a voice will you have? You're an East coast guy?
Do you want to go West coast? Once again, it
comes down to what he wants to do, not what
we think he should do. It's what does he want
to do? What do you want to accomplish? Is this
a leverage play? Do you want to stay at Connecticut?
Do you even want to be the face of college basketball?
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What he did is not easy to do because he's
getting kids that are transferring or recruiting and they're not
big time recruits, but he makes them work in his system.
And the fact that you're turning over your roster in
college basketball and he won another title and did it
in an even more impressive manner, you know, can you
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continue to do that? How sustainable is that? It's like
any of these jobs, how sustainable is it? You look
at Belichick? How sustainable? Greg Popovitch how sustainable. These are
the greatest coaches in their sports and they had dips.
Greg Popovitch hasn't won anything in a long time, but
he's on scholarship there. But when you go to the Lakers,
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you're not on scholarship. And Brian saying, well, you know,
maybe you get to the second round, second round, you
don't keep jobs.
Speaker 3 (48:56):
Not in LA.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
I mean for Vogel, that's Darvin Ham, Bickerstaff, everybody. I
mean the coaching turnover at the top of the game,
teams that go to the finals. It feels like just
about every team in the last ten years, one of
the two teams have got to the finals eventually will
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replace their head coach. I get just Nick Nurse, like,
all right, Nicky, you want it tight on Toronto? That
should be Hey, you coach her as long as you want. Hey,
can we give you a statue and a pink slip?
Speaker 3 (49:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (49:34):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (49:35):
That's a nice parting gifts here. I mean it is.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
It is pretty quick the hook, and that's what would
make me nervous going into the NBA. Do I think
college is basically a pro league minor pro league? Yes,
I do, And I don't know what it's going to
evolve or devolve into and do you want to be
part of them. Look at some of these coaches who bounce.
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I mean Jay Wright, he was at the top of
his game. He said, no, I don't want to deal
with this anymore. Nick Saban, I don't want to deal
with this anymore. I don't know what's going to happen
with college athletics where you say, well, there's so much
security here, or man, this is great. You would think
Danny Hurley back to back titles. Hey, coach as long
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as you want, until you're not coaching up to a
high level. But what I stay probably so if the
money is going to be close and I still love
coaching kids and you get that opportunity, I would opt
for that. But then I always opted for staying at
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a place. I thought it was tougher to stay at
a place and sustain greatness. Then I'm going to jump around.
And so I mean that's the way I viewed ESPN.
I stayed there for eighteen years, had opportunities elsewhere, but
I believed in sustaining something. He might think the same way.
But I also go back to what are his roots,
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his core. It's being a teacher. That's what he does,
that's what his dad did, and you get that opportunity
still in college basketball.
Speaker 3 (51:13):
All right, Well, take a break.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
When we come back, the Commissioner talks about expansion and
the new TV deal and what that means for inside
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stat of the Day, All of that coming up. Dave McManamon,
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ESPNNBA reporter was at Game one last night. He will
join us, as will the Celtics analyst former Celtic player
Bryan Scalabrini. Celtics roll the Mavericks one oh seven to
eighty nine looked like it was over in the first
quarter as they built up a seventeen point lead. Dallas
made it interesting, cutting it to eight later on, but
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it was all Boston all the time. The eighteen point
win matches the biggest Game one win of an NBA
Final since twenty seventeen. That's when the Warriors taught the
Cavaliers one thirteen ninety one.
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Speaker 2 (01:57):
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overreact every sport when something like this happens to you.
Go God, I just don't see Dallas winning four games
against the Celtics team. Now, I picked Boston, but I
don't want to overreact and say this can't go six
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or seven. The X factor Christops Porzingis was great last
night the X factor for Dallas, Kyrie Irving was not.
And Kyrie well kind of gave an open invitation to
the Celtics fans to welcome him in Gain two.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You know, being in this environment, you know, I'm used
to it at this point. You know, early in my
career there was a different relationship that I had with Boston,
just being able to come here, be settled with a
veteran group. Now I'm here as the veteran over the
past few years, just experiencing the playoffs here, even regular season,
it's been the same thing. I thought it was gonna
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be a little louder in here, but I'm expecting the
same things going on. It's a game too crowd trying
to get me out of my element, my teammates out
of my element. But again, the energy's got to be
focused towards the game.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, don't encourage them. And if I'm a Celtic fan,
I'd be cheering for him. He's helping you win a title.
The way he played last night, Luka Doncic had one assist.
Now I had thirty, had ten rebounds, but one assist.
They didn't even have double digit assists last night. Now
this is where you can overreact, say they can't stop Boston.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, maybe they can't.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You know, Boston, if they're going to play great defense
like this, they are going to win the title. Their
offense was historically great this year. Now you throw in
the defense, that's what makes them so dangerous. Here you
got perimeter defenders, Brown and Tatum are you know long,
you know threes, and they're able to defend inside and outside.
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Throw in Porzingis as well Al Horford. They're a good
defensive team, but the offense. The offense is what's historically great.
As for Dallas, you probably look at this and go, Okay,
they can't be this bad in game two, which is true.
They can't be this bad unless they are, and then
they're in real deep trouble. Luca's going to get his points,
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but if he doesn't get his assist, now that it's
not his fault. He only had one assist. You have
to make the shots if you get the ball, and
they didn't shoot well last night. But it was Boston
and Boston early and often, and I would expect the
same kind of game plan that they had. They know
Luca's going to score. The question is can you keep
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everybody under wraps so nobody gets squirrely and puts up
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Speaker 3 (04:43):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
If you're watching on peacock, thank you for downloading the
app poll question today. By the way, Dan Hurley is
on his way to Los Angeles. According to ESPN's report,
he will be meeting with the Lakers later today Rob
Polinka and owner Jeanie Buss trying to finalize this.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
At least that's what WOJ is saying.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
After yesterday, Danny Hurley did meet with his team, met
with executives the administration at Connecticut just to give them
a heads up exactly what is going on. But going
out there and everything is pointed to Danny Hurley in
you know, inside the Lakers organization, we never heard any
of this, and that WOJ is saying basically all the
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interviews they did that was kind of due diligence. Hey,
we're going to interview JJ Reddick, We're going to view
these guys, this guy, this guy, these guys. So, I mean,
this broke twenty six hours ago and now all of
a sudden, it's front burner and it is hot. But
I don't think Danny Hurley's going out there just to
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go out there. I think he's already made his point.
If Yukon is not going to up the ante, I
don't know if this is a leverage play. I did
wonder that does he want to stay? Canny stay? They
afford him to stay. And even when you start to
look at the landscape of college basketball, I mean, it's
basically become the pros. So why not coach the pros.
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You've got to deal with nil, you got transfer portal,
and he's the reason Connecticut has won those national titles. Now,
the players were great, but you turn over your roster
and you still win another title, and you're even better
this past year than you were the year before. And
they're going to go into preseason as the number one team.
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There's no other faces in college basketball. I mean, you
could say Bill's self, but everybody else is gone. Maybe
Tom Izzo, but the legends are gone. Everybody's out. Danny
Hurley is the face of college basketball. Does he want
to continue to be the face of college basketball? This
is the jumping off point. You got a chance to
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coach the Lakers. You're gonna make money, You're gonna get
guaranteed money, and you got Lebron at the end of
his career. Now, that to me is not I don't
know if that's advantageous for him to take the job
and go, Yeah, I get to coach Lebron. It's trickier
with Lebron, but you're not going to get this opportunity.
Maybe in two years when Lebron retires or three years.
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You got this moment. I expect him to take the
job unless it was a leverage play and then all
of a sudden he comes back home and says, I'm
not leaving Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
But I was flattered.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I thought, I know, out of respect that I needed
to talk to the Lakers in person. Have they been
talking via zoom? Haven't heard anything of Danny Hurley leaving
the East Coast after the season ended. I'm assuming you
probably had those kind of meetings, conversations, preliminary conversations. Maybe
it's an agent talking to the Lakers. You just never
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got out. And as Geno Arima said yesterday, the Yukon
women's coach, I have the same agent as Danny Hurley.
I don't know what's going on, but the fact that
Gino the night before leans over to Danny Hurley at
an event and says, you could win championships with the Lakers,
And he said, I didn't know that the Lakers were
going to offer him the job, because Hurley didn't say anything.
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He just smiled and nodded back. Okay, we did reach
out to see if Danny Hurley could join us, and
we were politely told now he wouldn't be available, which
I certainly understand. But that didn't stop Todd from reaching
out because that's what Todd does.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
What's poll question today? Their seatonel counter last night? Was
an anomaly or this series?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Is that the way this rest of the series is
going to go? Where the Celtics just roll? Or was
it just one of those nights for the Celtics. Well,
I think this is how Boston plays.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Now I got to find out how Dallas is going
to play against Boston.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
This is what Boston does.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They have so many different offensive weapons and they play
really good defense. They played really good defense last night.
Do I think Dallas will be better?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
And I don't want to overreact and say they may
not win a game. I still see Boston winning this.
They're a better team, but that doesn't mean Kyrie can't
have an unbelievable night. And with Luca and PJ. Washington,
you know, then they're role players. But it's going to take,
you know, a total team effort to beat Boston. And
you know, here's the other thing. Tatum and Brown didn't
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have to do much last night. It was really about
Christops Porzingis coming off the bench giving them an offensive lift.
He had three block shots that to me, I'd be
you know, you can say, well, Dallas, look, Kyrie didn't
play well and Luca had one assist. Tatum and Brown
were like, okay, you know, we're just kind of going
through layup lines here.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Well, Tatum, for sure, Jalen Brown was phenomenal last night.
He was playing out of his mind. Jason Tatum was
sort of out there.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
But numbers wise, when they scored twenty two, Brown score
like twenty two points, So it wasn't anything where you go,
oh my gosh, he put up forty.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Yeah, but he had some monster blocks, He had some
few He had a hell of a night for himself. Now,
if I'm the Mavericks, I'm looking at like, is Kris
tops perzingis really going to be this hot again and
beat us?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Probably not, No, But then you're gonna have somebody else
who can you know, can he be? And I would
run him as much as I could. Whoever he's guarding,
I would run him and just see, you know how
healthy he's going to be for the entire series. You know,
same thing with Luca. I don't think Lucas one hundred percent.
I think that knee is bothering him. So I would
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do the same thing, different defenders on him, different looks
on him, and be prepared, you know, because I think
what happens in Game two is really going to set
the stage for you know, how long this series goes.
We'll get phone calls coming up here. Is Chris tops
porzingis talking about coming off the bench last night.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
From day one, I came here and I said, like,
I'll do whatever it takes to help the team win.
Right then, I think it was this situation, you know,
it made sense and and I didn't care.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
I didn't care.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
I knew I could prepare to come off the bench,
which is something different from me. And that's what I did,
and stepped into that role and embraced it and had
a good game.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
All right, we'll get to some phone calls here each
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Buddha in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Hi, Buddha, how are you today? Buddy? Yo, buddy, what's up?
Speaker 8 (11:27):
DP?
Speaker 9 (11:28):
What's up? Boys? Happy Friday?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
DP?
Speaker 9 (11:31):
What a clutch clutch interview yesterday with Gino. I mean,
I thought it was timely obviously. I thought it was
revealing and another example of you doing your thing, Dan,
Well done son onto the Lakers DP. You have to
understand how exhausting it is to be a Lakers fan.
I mean all of the hoopla that comes with Lebron
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and now his son and now Dan Hurley. I mean, like,
let's go. I mean I love that, but I think, like,
what a great get, But what does that really look
like for Dan Hurley's future?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Dan?
Speaker 9 (12:06):
I mean, I mean honestly, like, give me the Nick
Van Exel, Eddie Jones, George Lynch, Lakers. I'd take that
in the second. Right now, Dan, I'm like, this is exhausting.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Thank you, Buddha. Have a great weekend. And people are
mixed on this. I think it shows you know, some
thinking out of the box on behalf of the Lakers
and instead of having somebody in there that you can
get rid of or you don't respect. You know, Darvin
Ham gets you to a Western Conference finals and then
he's out of a job. Frank Vogel wins a title
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and then he's out of a job. Luke Walton, I mean,
you've had these guys. Now you're getting the face of
college basketball develops players. Certainly has passion, energy and it's
a different voice, and I think that's what you need.
I mean, when you look at the NBA, there aren't
great coaching candidates there. I think we think, oh my gosh,
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Pat Roley's going to be walking in I mean Doc
Rivers went kind of kicking and screaming to coach the Bucks,
and then even coaching them was like what am I doing?
You know, Pop re signed in San Antonio, He's got
Victor Wembenyama. But you start to think, like Mike Budenholzer.
I mean, come on, Monty Williams. I don't know who's
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a great coach anymore. Spolster is great, maybe the best
coach in the NBA. But you have to have consistency there.
If you have a bad year or something happens in
the playoffs, you can't go, oh, we got to blow
this up. And that's the you know the owners nowadays,
front of office, it's like, oh my gosh, we got
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to do something now, But you don't if you truly
believe in that person. That's what I would want to know.
If I'm Danny Hurley, do I have any say? I
don't have to have, you know, the final say or
total autonomy. I have to have some input here if
I'm going to do this. This is what I want
the number of years I want to get paid and
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I want to have a voice here. And if that's
the case, then I understand it. But the days of oh,
do you want to go for a three peat? Three peats?
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Nice? I mean, okay, do you have a three peat? Okay?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Now what Oh well stay for a four peat? Maybe
you're the next John Wooden. Well, basketball has changed so
much now. John Wooden had the same people, same players,
staying for four years. Coach k for the most part
of his career, had the same players staying for three
or four years. It doesn't happen anymore. It's tougher, and
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I think if Danny Hurley is interested in let me
challenge myself in his early fifties. Go get him. He
can always come back to college basketball. Whatever it's going
to look like when he comes back. Yes, if it
was a different team, like forget it's the Lakers with
Lebron James. Yeah, what if the Celtics don't win the
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title and there could be an opening there for the
Celtics just you know, just I mean, you got a
factor in all of this. If Joe Missoula is not
able to win a title here, do they just Brad
Stevens go, Hey, you know what, I'm gonna go get
me a college coach. I'm gonna get Danny Hurley.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
Yes, Marv, I have the pen for Dan Hurley to
sign right now with the Boston Celtics. There's no way
you could pass that up the Boston Celtics easily.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yeah, but he might not get that opportunity because he
might be taking the Lakers job today.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
I don't even know if he's going to take the job.
I just thought of it last night that there's so
much pressure riding on Boston and if you don't win
the title, do they go you know what, we need
to blow this up, or we need to change coaches here.
I wouldn't do that, but I don't, you know, I
don't know what Brad Stevens would be thinking anybody else
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or the ownership there. If I'm the Lakers, if he's
your guy, everybody's in on it. You're excited about this,
then go go get him. Don't let him come back
to Connecticut without the title of head coach of the
LA Lakers. If he comes back, that's when I would
start to doubt this a little bit.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
There.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
All right, we'll get phone calls. It's a meet Friday.
Glad you're part of the program. Dave mcmanhamon, who covers
the Lakers primarily for the Mothership. He was there at
Game one last night. Was that just a one off
or a maybe a deeper indication of who's going to
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We'll settle on our poll question coming up more phone
calls as well as we welcome in Dave mcmanhamon the
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ESPN NBA reporter who joins us from Boston. Give me
the proper reaction to last night's game.
Speaker 12 (17:59):
I think you should be in pressed with the Celtics
and it was a reminder that despite not being battle
tested through the first three routes, because they based opponents
that were missing their stars, that they were the number
one team throughout the regular season for a reason. And
if Dallas is going to be in this series, it's
going to have to look like it did in the
third quarter, which was ferocious defensive effort and Luke at
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the conscience being otherworldly.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
But they got to be able to extrapolate that over
forty eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Can they.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
I think they can.
Speaker 12 (18:31):
I don't think we're going to see every game being,
you know, just a passing clinic from the Celtics on
one end and them thwarting everything Dallas tries to do
on the other, as we saw for most of the
first half, and certainly in that fourteen ozer run that
the Celtics responded with in the third after Dallas cut
it to eight. But I think there was a statement
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type of win for them in Game one. And I
talked to some of the guys on the team leading
up to the Game one and it was a really
competent group.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
You know.
Speaker 12 (19:06):
I ran into Sam Coussel the night before Game one
out in the North End and he was saying.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Like, we're rested, We're ready.
Speaker 12 (19:15):
We don't necessarily have to have any guy be great
to win this series, whereas they kind of need Luca
and Kyrie to be great to have a chance against us.
It's a group that feels like this is their moment.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
What did you make a Kyrie's performance or lack thereof
last night?
Speaker 8 (19:36):
I was surprised to see it, quite frankly.
Speaker 12 (19:37):
I mean, obviously he was the storyline coming in because
of his history with the Celtics, and he was great
in the Western Conference Finals, but it was mostly in effective.
Even when he got into the paint, they seem to
find ways to siphon him off.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
And I was interested in his postgame comments where where
you know, he was kind of taking a thirty.
Speaker 12 (20:02):
Thousand foot view in terms of, well, we're good to
get this finals experience under our belt, for maybe showing
his hand a little bit where he thinks this could be,
you know, kind of a tough learning series for his
team that they may have to build on in the future.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Yeah, I'm watching last night and I marvel at Boston's offense.
I think it is I mean, it's been historically great,
and then you throw in the defense, you know they're
not going to be beaten. Dallas can win this series.
I don't want to overreact to it. I have Boston
winning this. I just think that offense is really really
difficult to try to stop. And now you bring Porzingis
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off the bench, is he going to come off the bench?
Is that his role going to be in the in
the finals?
Speaker 8 (20:50):
You know, well, Joemy Willis said there would be no
minutes restriction on him.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
Obviously it worked the rotations that he was getting against
Dallas personnel, and so I would imagine at least for
Game two that would be the plan.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
But you know, it, quite frankly didn't necessarily matter.
Speaker 12 (21:08):
As great as Perzingis was twenty points eight for thirteen, shooting,
six rebounds, three blocks, he was just one part of
the cog. Now, I will say his initial energy got
the crowd into a tivy and it was a sight
to behold.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
I think when we talked about the annals.
Speaker 12 (21:28):
Of NBA history and in the future, and we talked
about a guy coming back from an injury and not
skipping a beat, this will be the example a that
we point to of Christops. Perzingis performed thirty eight days
missing because that calf strain, and you know, was as
confident as any play on the court.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Talking to Dave mcmanhamon the ESPN NBA reporter, I know
you primarily cover the Lakers. Danny Hurley is reportedly headed
out to Los Angeles to meet with the front office.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Here.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
You know, we're what twenty six hours into this, at
least publicly into this. What do you expect is going
to happen when Danny Hurley gets to LA and meets
with Jeanie Buss and Rod Polinka.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
I think he's going to wow them and validate the
reason why they've been so interested in him, or I
can say it's.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
Been longer than twenty six hours.
Speaker 12 (22:24):
But Adrian Windardowski, you know, he has all the details
and the reporting, the guy that is intense but also has,
you know, a sense of humor and a relatability.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
But does he have to sell himself, Dave to the
Lakers or the Lakers selling the Lakers to Danny Hurley.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
It's a great question.
Speaker 12 (22:49):
Dan, You're trying to pry a guy from maybe one
of the most stable positions in a wildly unstable at
CBLA right now. You know he can write the stickt
as the mayor of stores Connecticut for years to come
because of the back to back titles. So yeah, the Lakers,
I think financially will have to come with a real
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package and also longevity.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Wise, come with a real package.
Speaker 12 (23:18):
But Danny Hurley, as Woljes has reported, is interested in
the challenge of the NBA, and you know, as a
tree of the Hurly family coaching ming branch of the
Hurly family coaching tree that has been such an in
vital part of the game of basketball for forty fifty
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years now, they want to branch out.
Speaker 8 (23:45):
Into the NBA.
Speaker 12 (23:46):
It's not just for him, but it's for Bobby, it's
for his father as well. And what better you know,
franchise other than maybe the team that's up one zero
in the finals, than to coach the Lakers. So you know,
the sense I get is Danny is already very intrigued here,
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and you know, obviously the Lakers aren't here to waste time.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
So I think it's kind of a mutual.
Speaker 12 (24:14):
Do we both have the same feeling and when we
sit in the same room, does it still feel the
same as when we dreamt it up over the last
few days in our minds? And I think if that
feelings there, the Lakers are certainly as Wolsh is reported
prepared to come with a massive offer.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Okay, but what's he walking into here? Is this a
desirable job? I know it's the Lakers. You get to
coach Lebron, but you're coaching Lebron at the end of
his career. You have to factor in the Browny situation.
AD's future there, the role players there. The West is stacked.
Danny Hurley is walking into what.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
You could look at it that way.
Speaker 12 (24:57):
You also look at it as a team that was
the seven in the West that finished the second half
of the season twelve games over five hundred, a team
that played the defending champion Denver Nuggets to a close
battle in all five games in the first round, and
a team that is playing in an NBA that doesn't
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in all due respect to the Celtics, but there's not
like an unbeatable juggernaut out there right now. And so
with buy in from a roster and you know, some
assets that the team has in the cupboard in terms
of those three first round draft picks that they could
attach to some of the salaries they have right now
to retool a bit. I think there's opportunity that he
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should be seeing and certainly if what we've seen from
Lebron James publicly on social media in terms of praising
Dame Hurley's fastball acumen, if he's going to be there
with buy in, I don't think there's to me that
sounds like a good basketball situation step into not a
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bad one.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I'll leave you with this.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
The commissioner talked about expansion yesterday with this State of
the Union address to the media. What cities do you
believe are in play and what do you think the
timeframe is going to be for expansion.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
I believe this for a long time that the cities
at the top of the list would be Seattle in
Las Vegas.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
Adam threw us for a loop, just slightly bringing up
the idea of international expansion, mentioning Canada again. Obviously, Vancouver
once had a market before, and the league has played
expisient games in Mexico City. Obviously, proximity wise, you're not
really thinking about international expansion to Europe, you know, or
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Asia right now, unless they were to open up an
entirely different division. But you're talking about probably a year
into the TV deal, you know, maybe it's six twenty
seventh season. We could be looking at a team and
that certainly would give a new franchise. Well, obviously there's
already an arena in Las Vegas, but they were given
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you a new franchise time enough to kind of build
up all their infrastructure from the ground up.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Thanks for joining us as always, Dave, we appreciate your time.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
Great to see it, Dn.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
That's Dave McManaman, the ESPNNBA reporter. Once again.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Danny Hurley is reportedly en route to Los Angeles to
meet with the front office there with the Lakers. A
couple of phone calls in here Andrew and Washington. Hey Andrew,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 13 (27:39):
Good morning, Dan, Denned's happy meet Friday, and thanks for
taking my phone call. As I expect Danny Hurley to
be announced to La Lakers new head coach after five
o'clock today The five o'clock Friday News, Dum, I'll fishly
welcome Marvin to Laker Nations. So Marvin come with us
from Yukon to the Laker Nation. Congratulations. But about last
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night's game, Dallas just didn't look like they were ready
for it. They had their lowest assist all playoffs in
a game at nine. They had their second lowest three
pointers made and second most three point percentages, which is
the Boston defense, so they only had seven threes at
twenty five point nine percent. I see this as a
gentleman's sweep five games Boston wins. The reason being is
(28:24):
it seems like Boston just they have a game where
they just don't shoot well, and usually it's game two,
so they I'm looking for them to lose next game
and then win three more for the title, and I
think Boston will win it. But Kyrie, I think they'll
time up most of the series. He might have a
good game, but I just don't see Kyrie and Daunchik
solving this defense of the Boston Celtics.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, it's underrated. We focused on their offense. Thank you, Andrew.
I have a good weekend. You know, Kyrie had open
looks too. It's it's sometimes when you're watching you go, boy,
that defense is really great. Every shot is contested. He
had open looks too, just didn't make them. But you know,
they got out and they were overwhelmed down by seventeen.
(29:06):
They did come back made it interesting there. Down by
eight and then two back to back traveling calls, which
has probably never happened in the history of the NBA
Finals in a game back to back traveling calls.
Speaker 6 (29:18):
Yeah see, I know, you know when you're watching the
game and it's clear that, I mean, the Celtics are
just destroying the Mavericks, it's not even close. But then
they cut it to it got to about like sixteen.
You're like, dang, this is way too close. And then
they then they cut it to eight. They're like, this
is two shots, and they're right. I mean, they were
already right back in this game. I don't feel like,
(29:39):
if I'm the Mavericks, I don't look at that game
as the worst thing in the world, because there's no
way Perzingis is going to be that hot again, while
Kyrie is also that cold. And even with this absolute
punishment of a game that you're taking, whether you lose
by thirty or you lose by five, it's still just
a loss.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I don't know we were able to cut it.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
They were destroying If I'm the Mavericks, they were destroying us,
and we still cut it back to eight.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah, but it takes so much energy to fight back
to cut it to eight. And that's where you see
teams like, man, they're making it close. But they've expended
so much energy to get to we're down eight. You
can't be down by seventeen or twenty. You just can't
to a team like that in Boston.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Well, the energy level between the two teams right from
the beginning was apparent. It was like the Mavericks have
no idea what they're doing. It's like they didn't even
realize the game started yet, and the Celtics were already
throwing lobs and like it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, it's like, wait, I thought we were just shooting
around the game started. Yeah, it started like fifteen minutes ago.
Hey you what's your name?
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Jones? Hey you gotta play? What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (30:45):
Yeah, Marv and Jalen Brown had a nasty dunk going
down the lane, and it felt like those two points
felt like eight points, just because he got the crowd
into it. And then the lead even got bigger than
it already was.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
And in case you're watching on Peacock, Marvin has a
T shirt. If you're not watching on Peacock, Marvin has
a hammer MC hammer T shirt from your childhood days
that your mom found yesterday.
Speaker 10 (31:09):
Yes, she called me yesterday, Marvin. I found that shirt
you've been looking for.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
It fitted pretty well.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Yeah, and it was an Excel. I was like, I
don't remember being that big. She was like, I remember
being eighteen dollars.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
How big were you in nineteen yeah, eighty nine?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Like, were you a little heavier than you were leading on? No? No,
you were in Excel at nine.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
No, no, no, it's Marvin.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
No.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I don't think they had any kid shirts. Oh oh,
is that what it was?
Speaker 10 (31:39):
That's that's my story, all right. Sure, on the back
of everybody.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
You were you Husky back then?
Speaker 10 (31:45):
Yukon Husky you were.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, you're Yukon Husky now. Jared in Georgia, Hi, Jared, Welcome.
What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Hey Dan?
Speaker 14 (31:55):
Hey Dan, that's Friday to y'all. I've got two things.
One's a question with a little recently biased probably, but
it's the Celtics do n't win championship and Jalen Brown
plays well? Could that help overtake the number one position
in the Celtics over Tatum or if the two of
(32:18):
them are together, still will Tatum just always be the
number one option? And my second thing is today is
my birthday. I turned the Big three zero. If I
could get a big, happy birthday. I would appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
All right all together.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
For Jared, I don't know if it matters who's the
number one option or number two option. It's nice to
know that you could have two different number one options
there and they would acknowledge that. Kyrie has said he
knows he's a complimentary figure to Luca. Jalen Brown should
(32:55):
not take a back seat to Jason Tatum and vice versa.
You should want to be the goats. You need to
have that mentality, and we haven't seen that consistently from
them on the big stage. But look, Jalen Brown was
the Larry Bird Eastern Conference Finals MVP. He should have
every thought in his mind that hey, I can be
(33:16):
the finals MVP, and I wouldn't be surprised at that.
But I wouldn't be surprised if Jason Tatum is going
to be that. And I think the odds on favorite
are still Jason Tatum and then Luca the two best odds.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, Paul, has there ever been an.
Speaker 15 (33:32):
NBA team where the two stars were considered equals. There
was never a time when Kobe and Shack were equal.
It was Kobe was the lesser player early and they
kind of took over from Shak. I'm sure they're equal
some point, but like Jordan was always way better than Pippin.
Steph Curry I think is noticeably better than Klay Thompson.
(33:52):
These guys feel like they're pretty equal right now.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
Stocked in In Malone, Yeah, that's good, probably equal, obviously
doing different things.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Yes, Todd, that's what I was thinking to Malone in Stockton.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
Okay, Marvin Malone is Stockton the words out of my mouth.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Okay, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (34:13):
We're forgetting Jordan Pippin.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
No thanks, see yeah kidding.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I mean you go back to Elgin Baylor and Jerry
West were probably similar. But that's a long long time ago.
Speaker 9 (34:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
And I'm looking at championship teams.
Speaker 15 (34:30):
Because it feels like Jalen Brown is catching up quickly.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Yeah, I think he's there. I just think we don't
recognize him because we I don't know. You keep saying, no,
it's Jason Tatum's team. I don't know whose team it is.
I guess it is his. But if I'm Jalen Brown,
I don't go. Hey, I'm just going to take a
step back. I'll react to whatever you're doing Jalen Brown
played wonderful Eastern Conference Finals, and he played great again
(34:54):
last night. Yes, mar Garnett and Paul Pierce.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
Yeah, yeah. Oh wait, Wade and Lebron.
Speaker 15 (35:03):
When Lebron first got there, Wade was still a pretty
good player.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, he was a good player when Lebron left. Yeah,
I'd probably say those two were kind of equal. All right,
let me take a break. We'll get to more phone
calls coming up. Brian Scalabrini, he's the Celtics analyst. He'll
join us coming up a little bit later on morphone
calls as well. Back after this.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
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 w APP.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
After an eighteen point win in Game one, the Celtics,
according to DraftKings, now an overwhelming favor to win the
NBA title. I got odds to win the NBA Finals
next year. DraftKings already put him out. Celtics are the favorites.
Who do you think has the second best odds to
win it all next year? Marvin Clippers, PAULI Nuggets, Nuggets?
Speaker 3 (36:03):
It is? How about third? On the list might surprise you.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Todd Thunder Blue Blue, and then the Timberwolves, the Bucks,
and the Maps. And in case you're wondering, since Danny
Hurley is en route to Los Angeles to talk to
the Lakers, I got the Lakers. There one, two, three,
four or five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. There's ten
(36:28):
teams with better odds to win the NBA Finals than
the Lakers. Bryan Scalabrini, Celtics analyst for NBC Sports Boston
and co host of the Starting Lineup on Sirius XM,
won a championship back in eight with the Celtics. What
were you expecting last night in Game one?
Speaker 4 (36:47):
I mean I probably was expecting what we saw like
a lot of energy by the Celtics. I don't think
that they haven't been bothered by the long days off.
They did a great job against Miami Game one, great
job against Cleveland Game one. I thought they struggl against Iniana,
found a way to win. But you know, I think
more than anything, the Celtic not their top four defenders.
(37:09):
Take Holiday, White, Brown Tatum out of the mix. Horford,
Porzingis and Sam Houser did a really good job in
isolation situations. And I think that was a big difference
maker in that game.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
I think they're a great team.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
But it's dangerous when you say somebody is a great
team and they don't win a title, they've been a
great team. Well can you say that somebody is a
great team and they don't win a title.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
Yeah, I mean the Warriors were a great team that
lost to the Cavs. I mean those are circumstantials. So yeah,
you could be a great team, but not an all
time great team. You're right about that, And I'm not
saying the Celtic team is an all time great team,
but it just looks on paper like the discrepancy between
like their roster and the next best roster, it's a
massive gap. You could argue the Denver Nuggets. I heard
(37:54):
you just talking about those odds. I like the Denver Nuggets,
but it seems like if you want to win a
defensive versatility, rebounding across the board, and shooting from six
or seven guys, it's really tough to stop in the NBA.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah, and this is a great offense, I mean, historically
a great offense this season. Oh yeah, who's the best
player on the team.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Jason Tatum he received, and don't you don't have to
ask us Dan like or yourself, don't looking to have
an opinion, just ask coaches that are preparing. Yeah, teams
are still gearing up to stop Tatum, putting their best
defender on Tatum and putting like the rim protector, sort
of spying what Tatum is gonna do. Tatum's done a
(38:38):
good job of getting off the ball, so you know,
like there you remember the Golden State Warrior. I don't
know if you talked about every made big news. They
literally did not guard Jalen Brown to start the game,
just let him shoot. Pretty disrespectful for a guy like
Jalen Brown. But teams are still geared up to stop
Jason Tatum. Does that switch in the future, It hasn't
(38:59):
switched so far. I've only seen it happen Dan twice
all year where the best defender and the team started
keying in on Jalen Brown and he was having a
monster game.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's a great opinion because I'm looking at it feels
like that Jalen Brown is moving up. Like the confidence
level of Jalen Brown, I can see that. It's it's
almost tangible when you're watching him out there.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Yeah, and Dan just like being involved in all those
shoot rounds. It's amazing how much you focus on the
main player. It's amazing how much energy you put. You
talk about their sets, talk about their actions, what they
do when they have the ball here, what do they
do when they're getting right and going to the right,
going to their left. And then there's also like and
(39:45):
don't forget this guy, like when you play the Miami
Heat with Lebron d Wade in Bosh it was Lebron
Lebron ninety percent, and they watched d Wade when he,
you know, takes the ball and rips it. Baseline. You
got to make sure you're squeezing that baseline. Watch Bosh
on this isolation. Now let's go back to talk about Lebron. Right,
So your whole defenses are there to stop, to stop
(40:07):
the best player. And that's just my experience of going
through you know, all this gout of reports and all
the times of gearing up against teams. We clearly as
a team always knew where we wanted to put our
energy and emphasis.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
How would you guard? Don shoud I like what they did?
Speaker 4 (40:23):
I really do. I thought they did a good job.
Here's how I would not guard him. It's all about
staying connected. Dan. If Luca does something and he gets
some separation, you're screwed because what's gonna happen is the
big is gonna get a better angle. Luca's gonna put
you on his hip, and then he's gonna drive you
and get to where he wants to go. But I
thought Holiday and Brown did a really good job of
(40:45):
staying connected during those picking rolls. And if Luca does
not have space, I mean you see the step back
to the right, to the left to step back, pump
fake to the step through is like all those things
are all based off when he gets separation. You got
to do the best job you can of staying connected.
But the fact that I'm not going to help off
on a bunch of people and let Luca beat you
with the past. That seems to be the Celtic game plan,
(41:06):
and they executed that you know pretty well in game one.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Yeah, I know he's going to get thirty.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
I don't want him to get you know, ten or
twelve or fourteen assists because if he gets that and
then we're in trouble and he had one assists last night,
we're talking to Brian Scalabrini, the Celtics analysts for NBC
Sports Boston. You went in on the Dan Hurley bet.
Does he stay?
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Does he go?
Speaker 4 (41:25):
I mean, like my understanding of the NBA and Danny Hurley,
which is not I don't know Danny at all. I
just know his father from back when I played with
the Nets. I used to go to the St. Anthony Games.
It doesn't seem like he would want that job. If
you're Danny Hurley, can't you get any job in the world.
The Laker job doesn't seem like a great job, but
it is La. It's you know, it is Lebron James.
I guess you would go for that. But if Danny
(41:47):
Hurley wanted to throw his hat in the ring, why
didn't he do it earlier? Why are you waiting until
now when they're on the you know, like the last hour,
about to hire JJ Reddick, and all of a sudden,
Dan Hurley comes in.
Speaker 3 (41:57):
I will say this, okay, but let's say Boston was open. Hypothetically,
there's a lot of I mean, I'm not gonna you
know what.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
I don't want to do that because I don't want
to like pin another coach and saying that this guy
is gonna get fired, right or anybody out there.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
No no no about him taking a job.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
The specialness of the Lakers job and the Celtics job,
and I guess you could include the Knicks that there
aren't a lot of jobs in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Did Darvin hamfield that way?
Speaker 7 (42:25):
Like?
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Does he think it was special? Frank Vogel won.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
A championship when he got hired, he thought it was special,
not when he got fired.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Man, Listen, I'm all about the historic players and the
franchise and all that stuff. Dan, I want a good
roster with some draft picks where they're not talking about
drafting Brownie. I don't want to do I wouldn't want
to deal with Danny Hurley. Danny Hurley, he wants to
deal with that. Like I said this two years ago,
it's amazing. It's like they gotta have JJ Reddick. You
(42:56):
gotta be on JJ Reddick's podcast for people to know
he's a good coach. Just watch him coach two years ago.
He's calling out actions secondary action and his team is
going through it with aggression and yet checking off, going
to second, third, fourth, fifth, options. That is insane. I
said it two years ago, and yet it only happens
when he's on a podcast. This guy's I don't understand
(43:19):
how the NBA things work, Like, if Danny Hurley is
your guy, why was he not your guy four months ago,
three months ago? Why is it just now that he's
your guy? It makes no sense to me.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
Dan plus JJ Reddick has Danny Hurley on his podcast
and then asking questions about what Hurley runs at Connecticut,
and then the Laker Brass and Lebron hear the podcast,
and then they realize JJ's not the guy. Dan Hurley
is the guy. Like Reddick did himself a dissert. He
took himself probably out of the running here because an
(43:51):
Hurley on so.
Speaker 4 (43:54):
Billion dollar organizations are making decisions based off a podcast.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Okay, would you rather have Reddick or Hurley Hurly all day?
Speaker 4 (44:01):
I might think Curly over twenty NBA coaches. The guy's
nasty as a coach, elite, elite at what he does.
I just don't understand how it works. Dan, that's it.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Oh so you will say, if you're Hurley, you'd stay
at Connecticut instead?
Speaker 4 (44:16):
Yeah? Okay, oh yeah, yeah, give me another one. I
go for a try to win another Championship and then
just inform everybody that you're interested in going to the NBA.
Then really good teams that are looking to get over
that hump would hire you at that point. Don't do
it like this. This is like a like a it's
(44:37):
like a rash judgment. Don't take that. He could do
whatever he wants. Is Danny Hurley, he's the man.
Speaker 2 (44:42):
But what was Reddick asked about the Lakers job last
night by any members of the media.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
I don't think so. I think that's like I even
saw JJ. I'm not going to ask him about that.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
I feel like, I no, no, But I mean publicly, like,
did anybody say, hey, I want to interview Reddick and
ask him about this?
Speaker 5 (44:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (44:59):
I mean you hear that thing where Shams has tweeted
out that he'd send their targeting or they're they're zeroing in,
and then JJ Reddick basically said that that's not actually true.
So I don't know what's going on with the whole search.
But I mean, like JJ Reddick, that's a good job
for JJ Reddick. He's just starting out. Its high profile. Like, fine,
you'll get to coach Lebron, you'll probably have some success.
(45:21):
You don't know. Even going to the second round might
be a good year for you. I just think that's
beneath Danny Hurley.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Yeah, I wondered if this was a leverage play with
Danny Hurley. Hey, I'm going to listen to you, and
then all of a sudden, now I'm flying out to
meet with you. And now Jeff Goodman college basketball reporter
says Yukon is preparing a big contract offer to Danny Hurley.
I think he thought he was going to get taken
(45:47):
care of earlier at Connecticut. Maybe that's where you start
flirting with somebody and all of a sudden you're flirting
and you go, well, wait a minute here, and then
you start to do that job search in your mind, like, uh, hun,
would you like to live in Los Angeles? What schools
and money? Where could we live? What's the right you know,
all of those things. Now you get in a little
(46:07):
deeper and you're like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
If he doesn't come back with a contract from LA,
then I wonder if he's going to take that job.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
Yeah, I don't It doesn't make sense to me. But
it doesn't mean like that, you know, Malcolm Gladwell's tipping point, right,
you don't want to do something, and then you listen,
and then you don't really want to do it, and
next thing you know, you're like picking out a house
and deciding if you need to live in Manhattan Beach
or work right on the water in Malibu. So you know,
you never know where the tipping point happens. But if
(46:40):
it was, if I was Danny Hurley, Like, I don't
know Danny Hurley that well, but if I was Danny Hurley,
go back to Yukon and then let everybody know that
you are interested in going to the NBA because there
are some really really good jobs out there, and I
think that some presidents owners gms would bend over backwards
to get Danny Hurley and he might be able to
(47:01):
pick his job.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Good to talk to you, Brian, thanks for joining us
as all. That's Brian Scalabrini, Celtics analyst and co host
of the Starting Lineup on Sirius XMNBA Radio.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
I want a title and eight with a Celtics. Wow.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
He brought a little passion there about Danny Hurley, like
what are you doing? And look there is a loud
minority that's talking about this, like what are you doing? Like,
don't do this, don't go in and you have to
deal whatever lebron is going to do. And then you
have to deal with Bronnie. And then can you get
ad to play as many games as he did last year?
What are you doing with the roster? How much of
(47:38):
a voice will you have? You're an East coast guy?
Do you want to go West coast? Once again, it
comes down to what he wants to do, not what
we think he should do. It's what does he want
to do? What do you want to accomplish? Is this
a leverage play? Do you want to stay at Connecticut?
Do you even want to be the face of college basketball?
(48:00):
What he did is not easy to do because he's
getting kids that are transferring or recruiting and they're not
big time recruits, but he makes them work in his system.
And the fact that you're turning over your roster in
college basketball and he won another title and did it
in an even more impressive manner, you know, can you
(48:25):
continue to do that? How sustainable is that? It's like
any of these jobs, how sustainable is it? You look
at Belichick? How sustainable? Greg Popovitch how sustainable. These are
the greatest coaches in their sports and they had dips.
Greg Popovitch hasn't won anything in a long time, but
he's on scholarship there. But when you go to the Lakers,
(48:49):
you're not on scholarship. And Brian saying, well, you know,
maybe you get to the second round, second round, you
don't keep jobs.
Speaker 3 (48:56):
Not in LA.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
I mean for Vogel, that's Darvin Ham, Bickerstaff, everybody. I
mean the coaching turnover at the top of the game,
teams that go to the finals. It feels like just
about every team in the last ten years, one of
the two teams have got to the finals eventually will
(49:19):
replace their head coach. I get just Nick Nurse, like,
all right, Nicky, you want it tight on Toronto? That
should be Hey, you coach her as long as you want. Hey,
can we give you a statue and a pink slip?
Speaker 3 (49:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (49:34):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (49:35):
That's a nice parting gifts here. I mean it is.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
It is pretty quick the hook, and that's what would
make me nervous going into the NBA. Do I think
college is basically a pro league minor pro league? Yes,
I do, And I don't know what it's going to
evolve or devolve into and do you want to be
part of them. Look at some of these coaches who bounce.
(50:00):
I mean Jay Wright, he was at the top of
his game. He said, no, I don't want to deal
with this anymore. Nick Saban, I don't want to deal
with this anymore. I don't know what's going to happen
with college athletics where you say, well, there's so much
security here, or man, this is great. You would think
Danny Hurley back to back titles. Hey, coach as long
(50:21):
as you want, until you're not coaching up to a
high level. But what I stay probably so if the
money is going to be close and I still love
coaching kids and you get that opportunity, I would opt
for that. But then I always opted for staying at
(50:43):
a place. I thought it was tougher to stay at
a place and sustain greatness. Then I'm going to jump around.
And so I mean that's the way I viewed ESPN.
I stayed there for eighteen years, had opportunities elsewhere, but
I believed in sustaining something. He might think the same way.
But I also go back to what are his roots,
(51:03):
his core. It's being a teacher. That's what he does,
that's what his dad did, and you get that opportunity
still in college basketball.
Speaker 3 (51:13):
All right, Well, take a break.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
When we come back, the Commissioner talks about expansion and
the new TV deal and what that means for inside
the NBA on TNT right after this
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