Hour 3 – Nikola Jokić Setting Playoff Records, Chris Haynes

Published Apr 23, 2024, 4:28 PM

Dan talks about how good Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokić is as he eclipses the entire history of the NBA with his stat line from last night. And NBA insider Chris Haynes was courtside for the 76ers/Knicks game and he stops by with the details.

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Seventy eight end of the audience say it is super lame to blame the refs in basketball.

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Here is Lebron talking about replace center after the loss last night.

I don't understand what's going on in replay center. To be honest, I said it. I think I said it this year, last year. Whatever Delo clearly gets hitting a face on a drive. Do we have a replay center? This is going to go? That doesn't It doesn't make sense to me, makes no sense to me. It bothers me. Sorry to ask your question.

But that is like.

And then I just saw what happened with the uh sixers nickname too.

What how are we doing well?

Down twenty the Nuggets beat the Lakers at the buzzer and a wild final twenty seven seconds as the Knicks go up two to oh in the seventy six ers. You got Suns, Timberwolves, Pacers, Bucks, Mavericks and the Clippers coming up tonight. By the way, Saturday, the Premier League continues on NBC in Peacock the Battle of Survival. It's Everton looking to stay above relegation as they take on Brentford, NBC and PEACONK All right, are we changing up our pole question for the final hour of the program.

Well, we also had up there team down two most likely to make a comeback. Your options are the Magic, the Lakers, and the Sixers. Right now at sixty six percent of the both the Sixers running away with that one. Lakers are still in last place.

Okay, yeah, they've played well, but then they've also played poorly. Like you can't say, boy, they played well last night and then you blow a twenty point lead. They played well enough to get a twenty point lead, and then they played poorly enough to have that evaporate. And here is how it sounded, with Jamal Murray with the ball in his hands, dunting at the time out.

Real time.

I love it.

Don't call it tie ball game.

Worst can happen?

We go all the time, Murley, make some moms, Kevin Harlan, Reggie Miller on the call.

They didn't call a time out. They knew what play they wanted to run, which you know great teams have that you already know. All right, this is the situation, this is what we're going to do. And you could see Joker news going to be a pick and roll, probably going to have a d switch out on him. And was there going to be enough time if Jamal had to throw it back to Joker to try to get a shot off. Probably not. You know, they were going to live and die by that shot because the game was tied. If the game wasn't tied, I wonder if they would have taken that shot if they were down one, would they have somehow got it to Joker and that he would have I mean, he's not always the go to guy, but then he's just as dangerous being a passer, you know. You know Lebron is like that as well. You know that Lebron can find the open man, but he's also not afraid to take the shot. His shot selections, though, are questionable at times, Like there are times Lebron thinks he's Steph Curry and I'm going to pull up from three because people don't think I'm a great He's not a great shooter. Imagine being the all time leading scorer and you're not a great shooter because he's not. He's streaky and he'll get on a roll, but he's never going to be confused with Klay Thompson. He did have a play last night where he dunked, he got a steal and then went the distance and then dunked and it was like, all right, he still got it. But it does feel like, certainly in Denver, that you can see when Lebron does like he's thirty nine. Most of the time he does it, but there are times when you go, he's gassed, he's winded, and understandably so you're asking him to play a lot of minutes, ad a lot of minutes because Denver's going to play their stars a lot of minutes. Last night, Joker once again putting up historical numbers twenty seven to twenty and ten that's been turned in by three other players in NBA history have put up those numbers in the postseason. Wilt did it twice, Dave Cowens with the Celtics, and then Kareem did it once. I mean, these are incredible numbers, but you can watch and you almost they need to tell you what his stats are sometimes because you'll go that seems like he's got a few assists, always got ten or rebounds now a lot of offensive rebounds, a lot of offense, you know, and that's effort. You know, offensive rebounding is effort. Defense is usually just position. Know, they take the shot, you're underneath the hoop, you get the rebound. Offensive rebounding that takes effort, and then you put up, you know, once again, twenty seven points. But he can do it in a way where you go wow, like Scotty Scheffler esque, Oh wow, yeah, rare air there, yeah, where you're going, Wow, he's got some pretty good numbers there. Where do those numbers stack up? Who else has done that in NBA history?

Uh?

Wilt Kareem and then Dave Cowens did it once. Yes, Pauline, I found a weird stat, but this is confirmed. Players who played twenty or more seasons in the NBA, how many dunks did they have in their twentieth season? Lebron has over sixty dunks this year in counting the last day check it was over sixty. Who is second all time dunks in a season in their twentieth season? It's an obvious name. He played a long time, had kind of two career seaton.

Oh, Vince Carter.

Vince Carter's correct Woh, Kobe Bryant had five dunks in year twenty What about Kareem. I don't have Cream on the list. Now, that might be one of those since the nineties, because a lot of stats are since ninety six.

But Kareem played twenty years. Yes, Robert Parrish played twenty years.

I got Kevin Willis with seven dunks. Kevin Garnetta had three in season twenty okay, you donnas has them. Unfortunately had zero dunks.

No, there a.

Minutes fifty five hours until the NFL Draft. Oh, synchronize our watchers.

Fifty five We got fifty five hours.

We're waiting for something to happen. Is there gonna be drama? PAULI has an NFL draft theory. You guys can chew this up if you like theory.

I saw a lot of reports that a lot of people think that Arizona, who has the fourth pick, will trade down.

Okay, then they could.

Get a receiver or whatever it may be, and that's the spot that everyone's got to trade up. I think that the New England Patriots are waiting to see what Arizona does with that fourth pick and they want to trade out. So someone's going to trade up with Arizona, such as Minnesota, Denver, Vegas Giants, and Once the New England Patriots have that information what the prices, they're going to trade with the other team. So the first trade will be someone will trade up for the fourth pick with Arizona. And right after that, the New Yank Patriots will trade out knowing the price, and they'll aast for more.

Why don't I just trade up with the Patriots.

People will try, but the Patriots will hold because then they they will now have leverage if Arizona trades out.

Okay, what if they wait too long, then I will and they're stuck with the pick that would be. And then poor Drake May, who joins this tomorrow, has to go to New England and.

Play for that team. He would love to play there. No, he wouldn't. He's going to say that he would love to, and I.

Don't you know.

Once again, that's when a team can be to your debt, to your growth in New England.

Might be that the Jets were that.

To Zach Wilson, I still never understood that, even with the Jets mess at quarterbacking. And then I look at the Cleveland Browns. Could you make the argument Cleveland and the Jets are probably equally talented, like they're really good defense, got some skilled position guys. Cleveland lost their running back and lost their quarterback, and then they get Joe Flacco and they go to the playoffs. Like the Jets to me, were poorly coached. That yes, you lost Aaron Rodgers, but then you weren't ready just in case a quarterback who's going to be thirty nine years of age gets hurt. And then you got Zach Wilson, who you don't even want to play. And then you have Tim Boyle, who is basically Aaron Rodgers buddy. If they would have had a respectable like Gardner Minshew, like the Jets had, the talent, defense is good, had a running you got a really good wide receiver.

I just think they were poorly coached. Yeah.

More, have you ever been around a team where one side of the ball hated the other because they weren't performing like they should have.

The Ravens, Yeah, the Ravens had a real problem their defense with their offense. And I remember Ray Lewis was telling me this. He said, I remember just saying to Trent, just get his ten points, all right, just score ten points.

We'll take care of that.

The problem was they did don't give you ten point.

That's all they gave them to be like, here's ten. Hope you're happy, all right, we'll hold him to seven.

Yeah, Paul, you're right, though, the Browns won eleven games this year, and mostly because what they did with Flacco. They didn't just sit and wait and give up on the season. The Jets won seven games basically without a quarterback.

Yes, I mean it's inexcusable, it's malpracticed.

Though.

I thought Robert Sala did a poor job, and you know, and then he's there's leaks in the organization and they want to find them.

I mean, it was a mess, really was a mess.

Rogers. Aaron Rodgers as a GM did a poor job. Robert solid as a head coach did a poor job, and they should have been a playoff team, or they should have been a ten to eleven win team. If Joe Flacco is the difference. I that says a lot about coaching. And Kevin Stefanski did a great job, and the Jets could have had Joe Flacco. I think that's where he wanted to go, but that is sort of lost in all the Aaron Rodgers drama. It was just poorly coached team. Yeah, I'm Marv sorry.

Going back to the Ravens, they lost three straight games. They lost to the then the Redskins ten to three. They lost to the Titans fourteen to six, and he lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers nine to six.

You could see why they were a little frosty, little frosty. Andrew in Vegas joins us, Hey, Andrew, what's on your mind?

Hey?

DP five ten, one fifty. I may have heard this wrong, but did Mannick say joker over bird then throw his.

Head into host?

Yes?

Yeah, somebody needs to.

Take the hat and then just throw it right back at him.

All right, thank you, Andrew. Yeah, Chris Mannis threw his name in the hat to be my successor. I've had two people reach out that I think people would be interested in. But once again I've said this, I don't know what the dan nuts are going to do when I retire. I don't know what they want to do. And then I would say to these guys, who do you want to work for? And then what if to say they'd like to work for that person, and two for that person? Then I got to come in and cast the vote. That's not fair. So this might be I put you guys in a jury room and you guys are not coming out until we have a verdict. You're going to be sequestered.

Yes, it's funny.

I just, I guess mistakenly assumed that has some autonomy over my future wants to show.

You do, but I don't know.

You can walk away if you want, but if you stay, then you guys would have to vote on who you would want as a successor, right right, So you do have autonomy over yourself if you want to walk away.

Or do they have to buy a building and stuff tour? Is it just in this one?

And then you like all Lisa, I won't make you guys, that's a good idea a different place. So if somebody comes in and Ross Tucker wants to come here and you know, be the host everything, then it'll it'll be I've got my garage, it'll be here that whoever would come in would have to come in here.

Yes, Mar would you.

Call it the Dan Patrick Show featuring Ross Tucker, Tyler.

Perry, Yes, yeah, I would, it'd because it'd be Dan Patrick's Ross Tucker Show.

Yeah, Ruth's Chris, Yeah, The Dan Patrick Show featuring Ross Tucker and the Dan nuts and their tuckers.

H Hyler, Perry, Paul.

In Florida, high ball idea in that stituation, then media, that'd be Todd.

It's going to be you hosting Dan. You're just going to be dressed up as a cat. You know it's not I'll be dressed up as a woman. Paul in Florida, Good morning, Paul. How can we help you?

Hey, Dan?

Get into your best teams ever? Surprised nobody hit on the Miami Hurricane football program eighties and nineties, fifty eight straight home victories, which was gonna be a while before somebody even touches it. I think Georgia is currently at twenty seven.

Well, we were talking basketball.

There's a thirty for thirty documentary on the U, so I don't think they're forgotten. There's two documentaries on the U, so there nobody forgot about Miami that we were talking basketball teams, college basketball in the NBA.

TJ and Charlotte. Hey, TJ, what's on your mind?

Hey Dan? I know this is a group of guys that likes to laugh at others teams. So I have a funny story from last night. I had a fifteen leg parlay and the first four The first fourteen had already hit, and this would pay out thirty thousand dollars. The last leg is for Austin Reeves to hit over one and a half threes. He gets one in the third quarter, and then in the fourth quarter, it's about a minute fifty to go. He gets a wide open look and when he shoots it, I swear the ball stays in the air for about four hours before it clangs off the back of the room and I lose my parlay right there. And I was hoping Jamal Murray miss so I got five extra minutes, but of course he didn't watch that happened.

Well, congratulations on the fourteen that did hit. If it's just the final one that didn't, lost thirty.

And that's a pretty safe one to take.

Austin Reeves over one and a half threes, that's not that's not crazy.

I don't how many games did he have of two made three pointers this year?

I don't know, but I know if I saw that number, I'd be like, take it.

Yeah, why not? Well, I mean, what do you go what if he stopped at thirteen? Why do you got to go to the fourteenth?

I don't know, because that's that's why when you do parlays, the odds are stacked against you.

We love parlays, so does Vegas. Yes, yes, Paul.

Austin Reeves for the Lakers average one point nine threes.

Made again this year. Okay, but that's not two. However, it is over one and a half.

In the playoffs, he's outing one point five threes made.

You're right, it's not. It's over one and a half, but it's still not two. Last night he had one point nine. He had one nine threes. Yes, all right, let me take a break. Good buddy, Chris Haynes. He was on the sidelines. He was the court side reporter NBA on TNT at the Garden last night. We'll get his thoughts on that back after this Dan Patrick Show.

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From if you miss last Hour. We had Chris mannigs on. He covers the NBA for Sports Illustrated and I said, is the Joker already above Karl Malone on the all time list? And he said yes, and then throw out some other names, and then I said, what about surpassing Larry Bird? And he said yes, and I went, uh oh, that could be blasphemous. Chris mannis, but you know, with three MVPs, if he would happen to win another title. Now, all of a sudden, you start to go into a whole different category. There to be continued there. Chris Haynes was on the sidelines. I saw him last night, all decked down, Bleacher Report, NBA Insider, court side reporter. He was there at the garden and got a chance to witness it all. Listen to it all. Give me what the environment was like with a minute to go in the garden, Chris.

Thanks for having me on DP. It was an incredible experience.

That was my first Nick playoff game working as a Sidelum reporter, so I was very interested in seeing how that turnout was going to shape out.

But it was incredible.

But that last minute my seat, I have a seat directly behind the Sixers, bitch, and a minute left into that game, you know, you're just seeing the Sixers. They're they're you know, they're pounding their chests, they're they're excited. They believe they got this game. They believe they're about to finish this game. And you know it was the fans. They were they were down in somber. It looked like we were going back to Philadelphia on one in one and then it happened.

And when I say.

It, a lot happened, I mean it was it just turned that place upside down. They're look, I know the call, the controversial non call holding of Tyrese Maxi and the Sixers have asked the league to review that. They founded, you know, found a complaint on that. I don't think anything is going to come of that. But with that being said, take that away. The Knicks crash the boards off his rebounds. Uh dove on the ball, I mean dove on the floor to get the ball.

They wanted it. They they really wanted it.

And that's the thing when I look at this, when when I look at this matchup, I believe talent wise, I believe Philadelphia has the better team talent wise. But the Knicks they got some dogs. They got some dogs over there. Josh hart Hartn's thing. Uh Dante difference, I can't I don't want to mess with his name. Different will always have a hard time saying that, I only stay with Dante. They got some dogs over there, and so I think ultimately that's what's that's what's putting them in favor and putting them ahead as of right.

Now, should be favored.

Now you gotta you gotta stay the Knicks. I mean they took they took care of home court advantage. This is my if I'm a Sixers fan, my concern going into Game three is that.

They might not be over Game two, just the way that it ended and the complaints that they have valid complaints. Valid complaints.

You can obviously see Jalen Brunson kind of pulled that Tyrese Maxi's jersey.

Valid complaints.

But you know, there's a time where you have to kind of move on and you can't let that settle in.

And I'm not saying that's the case, but you.

Could see a scenario play out in which Game two might have been the game that broke the series down.

I don't know Philly still has.

You know, they got home court now for the next two days, two games, I should say, but that that was a brutal loss for sure.

Why didn't Philly take a timeout?

Well, Nick Nurse was actually calling the timeout. The ref looked like he didn't see him or he ignored them. So you could see on the sideline Nick Nurse trying to get the ref's attention, but also Kyle Lowry, who's inbounded that ball. He could have they would have seen him if he would have called a timeout, you know. So I think it was a situation where the ref was they were looking at the players, and it's that environment was loud like DP. It was one of the better playoff environments I've been in in a long time, so it was loud, so I can I guess I can see that the ref probably didn't hear Nick Nurse on the sideline trying to call a timeout, but they would have saw the players. If Kyle Lowry would have signal for a time out, I think they would have got it.

Yeah, but I'm looking at it right now. It's like Nick Nurse wants to call the timeout. He hesitates a little bit there, and then the ball is loose, so you can't call that timeout if the ball is loose. So I think he missed the op opportunity to call the time out.

Yeah, I mean.

And also like Kyle Lowry, you know he'll being a veteran, being a champion like he, I believe he knows they still have a time out left, like he has to.

He has to feel it, you know, he has a tick. You know, he has a ticking clock in his head.

He understands, you know, it's about to be close to being a five second call, like he has to. He has to know understand the time as well. So I don't know what happened right there. Maybe the players didn't know they had a time out. I don't know, but that was an unfortunate situation.

He's Chris Haynes NBA on TNT Courtside Reporter. Next up, he'll have the heat in the Celtics series for the next three games. Also check out his basketball podcast with Mark Stein hashtag This League Uncut. We had Chris Mannis on last hour and we were talking about Joker. You get three MVPs in four years, you get a title, and at what point does he start to get into the conversation of all time greats? Not a top ten, certainly, not yet. But is Joker in that top twenty player category all time? Let's say top top twenty in your opinion.

Top twenty. Look, I will say this, and I'm gonna ask you a question. I'm not gonna dip from it, Okay, but I heard, you know, I heard Manics say that he's already better than Karl Malone.

Yeah, right, would you say Carl Malone is top ten, top fifteen.

He's not top ten, maybe top fifteen, maybe top fifteen.

Okay, So I think talent wise, Joker is a top ten, maybe even hmm, maybe even top eight seven. I don't maybe talent wise, but as far as we're talking career, you know, That's where like I kind of I'm a little bit hesitant on the malone because I know the championships in the MVP, I get that, but it's the longevity. It's still something to be said about, you know, having longevity in this league. But with that being said, top twenty, yeah, I would put him in the top twenty right now, top ten. I want to see more. I want to see more because you know, it's like I used to make this, you know, when Bo Jackson was playing, probably you know, people at the time were saying he was arguably the best running back ever just in that timeframe, in that window that he had, and you can still make the case like pound for pound, you know, arguably being the best or one of the best running backs period, but he didn't have that longevity. So with Joker, that's you know, I want to see more time and window. But talent wise, we're talking just talent. Talent wise, he's.

Among the greats.

Is it a good thing that the best players in the game are from other countries?

I don't think it's a bad thing. I Mean, this is what David Stern wanted.

He wanted the NBA to branch out and to become a global game, and it has. The world has caught up, and I think it's good to have different styles of basketball and different people of different countries and races ethnicity representing this game.

So I don't I don't see it as a bad thing at all.

And I think if you're an American, if we're complaining about it, we'll just put you, put your work in and get out there and try to take them down.

But I would love to see the US versus the world at the All Star Game. I do think that might have a little more country pride and you know, then maybe there's a little bit more to it. I mean, we're at the point now where there's not many other options to dress this up and make it seem like it's an actual game.

Okay, let me say this, DP, you may ask you. This sounds cool, sounds sounds like a good idea. I've heard it before. But the world does the world have fifteen twelve to fifteen European All Stars? Legitimate All Stars? Are we at that stage yet?

Well? They get Canada too?

Yeah?

Still are we at that stage?

Well? I know I've got the honest joker.

You can't you can't consider MB on the world team anymore. He's playing for the US national team. So you got the joker Yannis. Uh shake Jose Alexander when by Yamama? Uh let me see.

Yeah, Laurie Marknen, now you grasping now, Okay?

All I know is I like my starting five better than you're starting five.

Okay, Okay, Well, I think I think the US has to.

Beth Uh, Chris tops porzingis.

You still.

Rudy, Rudy Gobert, Rudy Gobert.

You throw Rudy in there, you throw in there.

But you know, Josh, all right, before I let you go, you're running the Warriors. What do you do in the off season.

I'm checking in with Clay to see what his asking price is to stay. It's a reasonable price. You bring him back. I think that's the fair move. My concern would be that Clay may feel that he can get more on the open market.

But with that being said, uh, you gotta check with Steph.

If Steph wants the team back in place, you gotta kind of run with that. But you also have to bring in more younger guys. And I think they did a good job of incorporating cominga and you know, they had the big man. The big man came through at the center spot, gave him a just an aerial threat. And then you have Brandon Vezinski, defensive guy hard. Those guys a doll. So they did a good job and incorporating some young guys. But I still think ultimately you got to check in with Steph to some of what he wants. If he feels like you want to bring those three back, excuse me, Draymond and Klay Thompson back, I think you kind of kind of you gotta lean that way. But with Clay, you definitely have to figure out the pricing situation.

Okay, would you ask Steph if he would like to play elsewhere?

I don't even think I asked that Q. I can't ask that question. I can't ask him that question. The reason I can't why I can't ask him that question because I think he would think that you guys are thinking about let me go now.

I know I would just say, out of respect for you winning a championship, if you feel like you can win a championship here, then you know we can bring everybody back. But if if it's important to you with everything you've done for this franchise, if it's important to win another championship and you feel like you have a better chance else where, then we would try to accommodate that.

This is why I say I wouldn't.

I wouldn't ask him that question because there are three players that I've known that I've covered. I won't name, but I've covered them throughout their career. Management propose that question or ask that question, ask them that question, and they took it as management or ownership is starting to look in a different direction, and they took it as.

A site all right.

So that's the reason why I said I wouldn't ask them that question. I think for a player of that caliber, if that player is still now, I think you could ask that question. If you know the star player is on a downhill and even like, you know what, we'll keep because of what you've done for this organization, but you know, are you you know, are you willing to go elsewhere?

You know? They can take it a different way. But I would let that player. I would let that player bring that to the table.

Hey what about Yakadal?

Excuse me?

The All international team? I got.

There, you go DP. That was my response.

That's my thing, because if we want to go to the world versus the United States. Then you're going to have some United States players that feel snub because you're given eight or nine All Star spots to players in the world who aren't of that caliber yet. So that's that's the discrepancy, and that's the controversy that I can see happening.

How about the.

No, Okay, we want to we want to have a game. That's fine, But I'm telling you right now, there's a lot of players who have to have bonuses. You know, they make an All Star team, and now you're you're you're taking away fifteen spots to have the world versus the United States. So I'm just I'm hey, do it, do it at your own risk, Adam Silver and Deep.

I do love my starting five though.

Hey that's a good start to find, but it's about dip.

All I know is I got Joker, I got Luca, I got one Byana, I got Janis, I got Shay Gilgess. You can bring whoever you got. We ain't afraid. And you know what, they're playing the entire game. No bench, I'm giving you the rest of the roster spots for the players from the US. I got my five my five's on the floor.

Epte.

Good luck trying to convince their respective coaches but letting him play.

All don't be a buzz kill. Don't be a buzzkill.

Come on.

Back in my day, we played every minute. Hey, safe travels there. Thanks for joining us as always, buddy, Thank you for having me one of our favorites. Chris Haynes NBA on TNT Courtside Reporter. He's going to be covering the Heat and Celtic over the next three games and is podcast with Mark Stein hashtag this league uncut? All right, last call for phone calls? What we learn once in store tomorrow We're going to try to accomplish all of that next.

Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. Drake May set to join us tomorrow in the program get Ready for the NFL Draft on Thursday night. Still waiting for one of those bombs to go off. There's a news element here. Something's gonna happen. It's too quiet. Don't trust these gms. Chris and Huntington Beach. Good morning, Chris, how can I help you?

Good morning dan first time, longtime five So a suggestion for when you retire. We love you, we love the dan Attes. We'd love to see the show continue. Instead of bringing in a new head lead, why not let each Danette lead the show for a month and then rotate the next month so each one gets a chance. We'd love to see it continue.

All righty, well, thank you, thank you, Chris. I'll take that under advisement. Being a Danette and being a host is a little bit different. And I don't know if anybody has aspirations to host a show for three hours, five days a week, but I mean it takes like mentally, there's a lot going on that you have to be kind of in charge of. And at the end of the show, I couldn't do four hours. And I even said to the dan autes last week, let's make this show two hours. Feels like two hours would be awesome.

We all seemed very receptive to me.

You did.

Yeah, it was more money, less work. To quote Dustin Johnson going to the live tour. Hey, that's great, less golf, more money. This day in sports history, Pauline.

Got a couple for you.

Here Dan in Chicago, Illinois, the first baseball game at Wrigley Field took place.

Not the Cubs though.

And let's see Hank Aaron in nineteen fifty four with the Milwaukee Braves hit his first major league home run. Here's my favorite. Nineteen sixty four. You remember this guy, Ken Johnson of the Houston Astros through the first no hitter for a loss. The game was one zero and he lost to Cincinnati Reds. He was throwing a no hitter. They walked Pete Rose. They threw over to keep my first base error another era, Pete Rose scores. A guy loses but throws a no hitter.

That's it.

Did Britt Burns throw a no hitter and lose? White sonks pitcher? Does that sound right.

Checking? Okay?

Fernando Tattoos on this day hit two grand slams in one inning, both against Chanaho Park. Ouch And uh, is it Wegman Field or Wegman Field. It's Wegman that used to be Wrigley Field w E E G H M A N. So it's Wegman Field now Wrigley Field. And that was the first baseball game. Oh, by the way, Connor McDavid Connor McDavid had five assists last night. That hasn't happened in a playoff game since nineteen and nineteen ninety eight.

Five assists, Yes, Marv.

Is Connor McDavid, the joker McDavid of the NHL, where he's playing his way into the top ten all time.

Man, he's he's as close to Gretzky. I think I know that Sidney Crosby, you know, people looked at him as he was the next Gretzky. But Connor McDavid, he's on great He's on a great pace. Here win some cups though. Let's see Aerican Oklahoma. Hi, Eric, what's on your mind today?

Hey?

What's Dan? How are you great?

Great?

Hey?

I was listening earlier about the European or international player debate, and I was curious for this example. I want to use soccer and basketball, you know, seeing as two global games. Why is it when Europeans or international players come over to play in the NBA they have great success, But we send American players to European leagues and they're great. I mean, they're fine, but they're not top of the world success. Is it the fact that they don't get professional experience? As early as Europeans do. Wanted to kind of hear your thoughts on the whole year international VERSUS American player debate in different sports.

Well, I think how they're teaching basketball players in a lot of European foreign countries is you learn the fundamental that they teach you ball handling. If you're a seven footer, ball handling, footwork is really important. I think that they're more skilled at a younger age, or at least they're at least taught that way to understand the fundamentals of basketball. A lot of the problems with basketball over here is aau that you're just out there firing away, and I think it's probably a little more structured in a lot of these countries of going to academies and teaching you how to play basketball, because a lot of these players who come over are well rounded, and I think that's probably the difference. It's not like, hey, you're going to be one dimensional. They want you to be able to be an all around player. Seeton, why do you think the US born soccer player maybe doesn't succeed the way the European players in basketball succeed over here.

Because we don't know how to develop soccer players here mostly, but I think that they you're brought into a different environment in Europe and you're taught fundamentals at a very early age, and you're focused on that. In the United States, if you're not the biggest, strongest kid, you're thrown off the team immediately in favor of the bigger, stronger kids who might be faster, they might be running hard, they might whatever.

But saying.

In soccer, you might have more technical ability with the ball, meaning you're better at the ball at your feet, you can move it better. You might just be undersized a little bit because of development, and here those kids are usually shown the door in favor of Yeah, but that kid can run fast. He can't do anything with the ball at his feet, but at least he's faster.

Yeah, I just go by what I remember Dirk Davitsky talking to me about this, because he said, you know, we're taught fundamentals early Luca. When you saw Luca as a fifteen or sixteen year old, he's playing with grown men, but it's because he knew how to play basketball fundamentals. Yes, right, Yeah, So I think they don't say this is position, this is what you need to learn to do. It's position less in how they teach you.

We reward athleticism here much more than just like effort or work on the ball.

You know, final results of the poll question. Let me see here, we got a couple of them.

Here are you which team down zero to two it's most likely to make a comeback? Sixers still got that one, and most people believe a large majority this might be a Lebron bias. Blaming the refs in basketball is super lame. That's at eighty percent. Yeah, nobody ever credits the referee. Never, No one goes after the game.

Hey, before we get started, I just want to say the refs called a great game.

Nice job.

That was totally traveling, because if you say it, I'm sure the other team's gonna go.

Man, the referees were crappy.

It feels like they swallowed their whistle though so far during the NBA playoffs, Todd, would you learn today.

We got a double bang from Mike Breen or Codunthie's even gento game win.

Or Leftie loved h see. Yeah, the rare double bang. It's like a double rainbow in the sky. It's fantastic.

Marvin Mannics put his name in the hat. Yeah, yes he did, Paulie.

It's very hard to unbust yourself.

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