Thanks for listening to The Herd podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday from twelve to three eastern, nine to noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and FS one. Find your local station for The Herd at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Herd you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Played in the NBA for over a decade, won a championship with the Celtics. He could shoot, always looking for a shot. Eddie House in the house today for us. Okay, So I like the Kevin Durant move. But you are what you trade for and you are what you trade away. So Mchaale Bridge is a very good defender. He's gone, Here comes Durant. My guess is they'll have nights when they're really special. But I do worry about are they as good defensively? The Warriors are deep, the Clippers are deep, Memphis is deep. How do you view k D and the current Suns going forward? I think it was a great splash. It was like the biggest splash that you could think of that happened. I ge're like, wow, the Suns just got them. Pair him with Devin Booker pair him with Chris Paul and DeAndre Ayton. Man, how fantastic it's gonna be and fun to watch. But when you kind of get past that, and remember Chris Paul is aging, he's been injured, Devin Booker has been injured with hamstring injuries, and those things pop back up anytime, right. DeAndre Aden has been questioned about his motor. To me, I look at it like it was. It looks good, but the depth of that team. You just named four teams and that's not even including the Eastern Conference teams that I feel that are deeper than the Phoenix Suns. It looks good, but they're gonna It's all gonna come down to CD. Where do they that first round, second round matchup? Can they get to the conference finals? I think they can, but I don't think that they'll be able to win the championship with the team constructed. And I said this yesterday, I think the most pressure is on James Jones and Monty Williams because they have to make it work. There's new ownership. When you inherit guys as a new owner, you inherit the GM, You inherit that that coach that's not hand picked guys for you. So now, if this doesn't work, you gotta look at they'll probably be looking to replace these guys. Maybe Money Williams could stay. But I believe that James Jones is definitely on the hot seat right now, and I love James. You know, Golden State, I said this, there's so much intellectual basketball capacity on that team. The Draymond, the Curves, Steph Clay, so many big games. It just it reminds me of the Patriots. They could stumble in September, but three months later they'd figure out problems. Smart teams. You played on a Celtic team, smart veteran players, they figure out their issues. It takes. It's a lot of plane flights, it's a lot of playing together. But I watched Golden State in the last two weeks. They figured their bench out, cominga now playing pools now a gamer, lamb deefencenzo. I look at Golden State. I still think they're the favorite in the West. What say you, yeah, I think you gotta go through Golden State. To me, you got to dethrone the champions to become the champions. And I think once they get healthy, that's been the issue for them. The only question that I have Colin will be like their road record, how they play on the road, you know, and I think that there has been a disconnect with that team on the road. At home, everybody's at their own house. They're eating their own foods, sleeping in their own bed, not forced to have to hang out with each other. When you go on the road, you are forced to hang out with each other or be loaners. And it looks like when they've been playing on the road lately and me all season long, they have kind of been loaners. Right, It's like clicked up. This team has kind of clicked up. You got the youngsters and then you got the ogs, and those guys are are hanging with each other, and I don't know if they're mixing too much, and I think that's the reason why you see them not play particularly with on the road. But at home they're phenomenal. And when Steph Curry comes back, they're gonna get even better. I never will count the Golden State Warriors out because of their championship pedigree, their championship coaching staff, and just the fact that they have Steph Curry is a total game change. Were you surprised the Clippers brought in Westbrook when you look at his previous three or four stops where he's kind of lost. He kind of lost, I would say, you know, a step defensively. He's never been an elite shooter. He's a big personality, a big presence to bring into the trade deadline. You don't have a camp to work some things out. It's not working right now. Were you surprised by it? Well, I was surprised that in this regard that they needed guys that could space the floor, and he's not a floor spacer. Right. It was the same situation when he was in La with the Lakers, and he just is not a floor spacer. He's a guy that's trying to get to the basket. Nobody's going to really guard him out at the three point line. They got to figure out ways to make him be effective without having to take as many shots or take as many threes. How can you do that? I think put him in the second unit. Let him play with the second unit and not with the first unit. Paul George needs space to work. He likes to work in the mid range. We know Kawhi needs space to work. He likes to work in the mid range. And if you have a guide that's on the court that's not accounted for beyond the three point line, then there's gonna be a lot of help defense and a lot of a lot of bodies that and gaftered are gonna be plugged. Last night we seed it with Draymond Greene. How he was sagging off and at that point, if you're Russell Russell Westbrook, you say, Okay, if I'm not making the shot, how can I still be effective? Well, swing the ball real quick and go right into a ball screen. You set the screen, the guy will come off naked because the defense is all the way in the paint. He'll be able to get a wide open shot or be able to get downhill with the defender on his heels because he's so far back. So it's just ways that they're gonna have to try to tweak their offense. I would like to see him coming in with that second unit like he was with the Lakers. I thought he was much more effective that way. But the Clippers have much more problems than Russell Westbrook. Yeah, they can't stop anybody. They can't stop anybody, and that's a problem when you're supposed to have two of the top two way players on your team and they're not. They're not giving you on the defensive end. What do you do now? I said I would have moved a D before the season. I think he peeked about three years ago. I think when biggs get banged up, they don't get healthier as they get older. Some of this is, you know, he's a commodity and you got to know sometimes when to move on with players, when to move into him, when to move out of them. So now Lebron has gotten to a point where you're gonna get about fifty games with Lebron. He probably should be playing about twenty six minutes a night, but the Lakers have leaned on him to play much more because often a D is gone. What do you do at the end of the season if they don't make the playoffs? What do you do? If you're like, yeah, I agree with you, where I would have been moved off Anthony Davis. You got the championship from him. You got that championship, and now why you got to strike while the iron was hot? His value was a lot higher. I think last year and the year before, I would have looked to get off because he just can't stay healthy. And the one thing we know, we say availability, reliability is all the most. That's the best ability in sports, and to me, he's just not there. And then seeing him sit out the other night, even though they got that win, knowing that you have to win games, but you're still low management doing the low management thing, and Lebron is out, it's really your team. I just I don't trust his health and that's it. He's a phenomenal player when he's healthy, but he's just not healthy that much. I don't. I don't think he's played eighty games or seventy nine games his whole career. Finally, Jay McK and I disagree on this um. I think if you're nine eighty five percent as an NBA player, if I get Steph Curry for eighteen minutes, that's better than not playing. Now, Steph's had some injuries, he's older. There are players you know that that you worry about. But the other night a d came in, he was reportedly pain free, and they didn't play him in a must win road game. And you know, Jmax thing is, guys are playing longer now because you know they don't play every night. And my takeaway is, well, then shorten the season. But I think you got to gut it out and give me fourteen minutes. I just think it's good for camaraderie. I think I think Kawhi Leonard's hard, hard on a coach and hard on the staff. He'll call up at four o'clock and say I'm not playing. I think that's hard on teams. What do you do with load management? Where are you on that? I'm not a fan of load management at all. I think, you know, coming from when I played and how we played, it was a badge of honor to try to get eighty two games. And nobody's gonna be a one hundred percent healthy once the season starts, you're gonna have something that's bothering in you. I'll go back to when I was in college. You know, I got an elbow in my jaw, broke my jaw. I didn't miss a game. I missed maybe two practices, but I didn't miss a game. Like players play, you're supposed to go out there and play and try to play through it. If you are not injured. It's different from being hurt and being injured. If you are injured, then that's something different. Then you got to heal that injury and get right. But if you're hurt, we're all dealing with nagging injuries. We've seen Kobe with his finger popped out of socket, pop it back in. I see many guys do that. I see guys separate their shoulder, pop it back into place, and then go out and play. So I mean it's just a want to do is do you love this game and it's this game? Does it mean that much to you? And I'm not questioning some of these guys love for it. I'm just saying that the sports medicine and everything behind it, to training staff, they have just debated to where now now it's easier for you to sit out because they could say, well, look, this is the data that we have on if you play like this, then maybe we might not have you late. Well in the Lakers case, they might and I might not be a next time or late. You know, they might not make the playing game. So every single game matters. If you're not hurt, you are healthy, you're able to go out there and play. I think guys should be playing And I don't know what. I don't know what I just believe that this collective bargain is going to be a whole lot. We might be looking at a lockout coming up. Yeah, Eddie House, you look great. Love hearing from you. We'll talk sooner. Man, thank you. I have a good one. So he doesn't. He's worried about the Suns. And by the way, I do think you make that move the deadline for a year and a half. I love the Suns, but it's a lebron thing. Kadi and Chris Paul getting older. Now, if you could go to Kevin Durant and say we're gonna play at twenty seven minutes a night and that's what we're gonna play you, but I don't think they have the depth to do that. You can do that, by the way, the Warriors now can go to Steph Curry and say twenty four minutes a night because Jordan Pool and Clay and Defenceenso, I mean, you can see what Golden State's doing. They're building this thing so they don't have to play Clay. They can play him fifty five. They'll play him home games, but they won't play stuff on the road. They'll pay him twenty four minute. If you looked at how deep the Warriors are at guard now Defenceenzo pay in a month, Clay, don't forget about the Pool party. By the way, you didn't talk about him enough last night. How electric is he with the Beast? Which fun? He's more than fun. Yeah, this guy is excited. I love watching Jordan Pool Like. I don't know if you want to play with him because he's very bullhoggish, But watching that guy go to work like it's tough to guard him. Man, you can't say in front of him, no, he's good. He's like you, except he makes the shots. Oh. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd Weekdays in neuon Easter nine am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeart Radio APPA. Somebody fed that garbage sea. That's not true, Jay Mack with the News. No, No, this is the Herd line. I cannot take people off the off the bounce at my age or at any age. Really, it's just not having catch it. Choo baby. Let's start with the NFL. Trevor Lawrence and his breakout season Jacks get to the playoffs first time since twenty seventeen. They got a dub in the postseason. Doug Peterson deserves a lot of credit. Here's what he had to say about what he wants to see Trevor Lawrence approve on. I think the next step for Trevor um is just another step in in the leadership role, right, you know, last year, but it was probably about you know, learning, learning a new offense, learning to play this game, learning a bunch of different aspects of playing quarterback in the National Football League. But we just we just build on that. That's the next step. That's the challenge for him again to take as great as he was and as good as he was at the end of the year, he can be better. Yeah, I mean it's it's Cincinnati feels like Burrough's franchise, Kansas City feels like Mahomes franchise. It's time for Jacksonville to not feel like Doug Peterson's team. It's Trevor's franchise. I mean, I think that that is that's the difference to me, is I feel like the top two or three guys in the league, you know, it's their franchise. So they franchise tagged Evan Ingram. You saw that. That's good million bucks. He's worth every Penny. He's a good title of the depth chart. Christian Kurt solid, he's more of a two, not a one. Mark Marvin Jones. We like Zay Jones, but they got Calvin Ridley. No, no, no, no, Atlanta, you were on him early. They're gonna be a multiple win playoff team. I think we'll remember they play in an awful division where two of the teams don't have quarterbacks, and I don't think we love Ryan tim they don't have. This could be an eleven win team next year. Oh, I think it could be a twelve thirteen win team in that division. The Colts don't have the firepower. I don't know if Tennessee does a very good football team. I mean, listen the team. They played twice this year, and we're outclassed the Chiefs. Take the Chiefs off their schedule. They lost twice. We're outclassed both times. By the way, they're still in that sort of semi rebuilding mode. Well, I think they covered the spread once the playoff game, right did they come? They lost the game? I gave out first half. That's the only reason I know I hit that one. Not everybody bets the game. Everyone bets, all right, Next up Ohio State QB CJ. Stroud. It's expected to be one of the top five ten guys in the draft. Shrouds athleticism surprised some people in that playoff loss to Georgia, but the Buckeye QB considers himself to be a ball placement specialist. Here's what he said discussing his athleticism and accuracy. If you turn on the film, you really watch what I do, and you really look at film game the game. I have used my athleticism. I'm not only just in a Georgia game, but I did it a lot. I've done it in every other game. And I'm not trying to do to my own horn. But I throw guys open, and that's something that I think is rare because at the league, dudes aren't wide open, and I think I've done that in my career work. Guys aren't wide open, but I try to throw them that way. I try to throw them down, I try to throw them out. I try to throw it over his shoulder or things like that, because separations are not always going to be there. So that's something that I pould myself on. Could I say this though, and it's not a concern, it's a reality. Ohio State has become the number one wide receiving school in the country. I think they've surpassed Alabama their receivers last year. They have They have I think a freshman Seattle who was amazing Harrison, Marvin Harrison's kids insane and the other kids a first round pick he barely played with the hamstring injury. Smith Jijigba. Yeah, they are. And by the way, I think it's because Brian Hartline, the former Buckeye and NFL guy, is on their staff. He's like the best recruiter in the country. Their wide receiving talent is better than half the NFL. So so let me ask you that does that? Ding Stroud A, Well, he's just talking about throwing open to Marvin Harrison eight. Why don't you go to h Harrison's the best. If Harrison was available in this draft, I'd drafted him number one right. If C. J. Stroud is playing for pick A team, is he as highly thought of? Harris Johnson is going to be a top Listening to his credit, he got the ball to him, so he is. He was accurate before Harrison. He's been accurate for three years. That's not the issue. But I will say this, it's like these Alabama guys. All these Alabama guys are like Alabama for about a four year stretch was like, became wide receiver you and saving first got that it was cornerback you than wide receiver. Ohio State now wide receiver. All they do is get five star guys and about four out of five of them hit. So it's not a knock on Stroud, but I mean that receiving car is significantly better than New England's today. Yeah, like not even close. It's weird. If you put on that Georgia tape, you can't convince me that you would take Bryce Young over c. J. Strout. That's how good he was. You can't convince me Georgia was better than Ohio State. Ohio State outplayed him. They could not guard Ohio State's wide receivers. Nobody could. Well. The kid Ringo, who is a fringe first round pick for Georgia, he struggled. I mean, he had penalties and Harrison ate him up until the injury to Harrison. Harrison is Harrison would be the number one pick this year if he's available, receiver number one. Oh I think he's a sensational all times. Did you see the Will Anderson numbers? If I was the Chicago Bears who need a receiver, I would take Harrison in one second over an edge rusher. Harrison's Harrison sixty five catch. I need to give it more thought. But you're right, Jamar Chase kind of tilted to feel like, how early can you take a receiver there is? There's not a great receiver this year. Harrison is. He's great, he is all time potentially great. All right. Finally, Anthony Richardson, we talked about him earlier. He's slaying interviews as the kids say, slay Former Gators QB. Richardson dealt with some accuracy issues to put him mildly in college yea, But overall his ceiling is massive. You know why because he played twelfth games in his college career. Basically, now, if he can perform well in workouts, does he get consideration? Up top, here's Richardson talking about which MVP quarterbacks he models his game after. Growing up, it was always Cam Newton for me, but then when I got to high school, just saying how dynamic Lamar was. I tried to implement both of those guys in my life. I started calling myself Cam Jackson and Levin Grade, you know, just trying to make big plays, you know, so I just Cam doing enmoise eys. Look at the shoulders on there. No, I mean he's that's are you doing the shoulder workouts? He's doing. He There's a lot. There's a reason why Seattle if if Strout or Bryce is gone, Seattle has to Yeah, I mean I don't. I think he struggles on the easy stuff. Um, isn't that fixable? I know not. Well it was what Josh Allen so yeah, but but but if you don't have to plan for two years, is he worth the risk? Seattle doesn't have a ton of needs. I mean they really don't know. Let's not act like they were a super Bowl. They made the playoffs with Gino Smith. They did that in a pretty tough division. I would say loses the Niners by night game. Well, Niners are away better ers have nine Hall of Famers. Niners good players are all veterans, almost Seahawks good players are all kids mostly So that was like an unfair fight. That's fair. But they defensively, they need a lot in the trenches. They need an edge rusher, defensive tackle. They can't stop the rush. Shelby Harris is good. They needed they need they need edge rush. They could use a little more. They could use another corner. Their safeties are great, linebackers are capable. Jamal Adams is back for them. Remember that guy I don't know kid? Remember like Jamacle the news? Well that's the news. And thanks for stopping by the Herd line to be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays and noon eastern a Empacific. This is Steve Cavino and Rich Davis, and together we are Cavino Enriched, Cavino and Mitch. Thanks, buddy, that's right. 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Have you heard of that? Oh yeah, for the kids. Super cool. You get to smash stuffy sledgehammer, baseball bat very Storth of July is my favorite holiday. Oh, flow stuff up? Love it all right, we call it tomorrow's headlines Today, let's start Lakers. What's the headline after the Lebron injury. It's just so disappointing, right, I mean, we know the Clippers stink, They're not fun. Now the Lakers don't have Lebron, the headline will be purple and golden goose egg. Lakers can't crack the playoffs, Colin, it's just looking bleak. We looked at the schedule yesterday with Lebron out, like, there's so many guys ahead of them in the standings that they have to pass. So like tonight must win against Minnesota. They're Minnesota ahead. You gotta beat him. And then Sunday Golden State comes here, you gotta beat them. They're ahead of you, and Curry's back. Colin, I don't see a path to the playoffs for the Lakers, and I know this. We're gonna jump start some Anthony Davis chatter here about whether or not he's a Laker next year. A D can't get them to the playoffs. De Angelo Russell's injury look at bleak for LA hate to be a year ahead of stuff, but I would have moved off a D before the season started. Tomorrow's headlines today Warriors help Steff return. Sunday, what's the headline gonna be for mister Curry. Well, you know, my favorite player in all the sports is the chef Curry. So the headline, well, b Steph Boyard Curry opens up a can on LA. Colin Curry's turn in thirty five this month, but he's still having an incredible season forty two percent on three pointers, one of the best of his career and his injury was a bit of a blessing in disguise. As you noted, they're getting a lot of minutes for DiVincenzo. Pool is playing with guys that he usually had not played with. Their bench is deepening thanks to Curry. I think you're right. They ease him back in slowly. I think he has the nice game this weekend in La Come on, Stars are gonna be out Sunday. I tried to get tickets to this, but I didn't think Curry was gonna play. And now I'm missing out, and I think Curry has a big game. And if you missed out on the Warriors, that's probably the best team in the NBA. Yeah that I watched that third quarter last night. They are They're a great third quarter team. Tomorrow's headlines today, I love the move. I'm not so sure with you, Sons, ad k D boy. Yeah, I'm looking at that path in the west. Very difficult, Devin Booker, Kevin Durant up, But what about the point guard? The headline will b c P three No Sons, Stars lose the war Look at that Kevin Durant with the Princess Leiah buns. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not buying this team. Colin. The Stars rise in the playoffs, right, we know this historically they dominate. What happened to Chris Paul last year, Colin, what happened totally faded all of a sudden. He just turned into garbage against the Dallas Mavericks and lost in Game seven. He was the reason they went down. And now you're relying on Chris Paul, by the way birthday coming up in May, which would be like the Western Conference finals. He's gonna be able to carry this team because we know what defense are gonna do. They're gonna load up on Booker, they gotta load up on Durant, and they're gonna say, oh yeah, Joshua Kogee, We'll give you all the shots you one. DeAndre Ayton gonna be unhappy he's getting the ball. I'm just I can see problems for Phoenix. You know, I like to look around corners, as you like to say, it ain't gonna be pretty for Kevin durd You know, it's interesting. We feel like the East has two great teams at the top, and then Sixers Cleveland, New York. They're they're kind of fun, right is the West may not have a great team after the Warriors, but man, there's a lot of Denver Memphis's. I mean, Sacramento can't defend this microphone, but man can they score? All right? Tomorrow's headline today we got NFL news the headline for Giants quarterback Daniel Jones. A lot of talk today. We're seeing reports a contract with the four to start with his Daniel salary, which has sent you into spas sticks over here is that if that's even a word. I don't think he stays with the Giants too much chatter. The headline will be are you serious? Bucks? Don't Nickel and Dime captain Daddy Colin. I was looking at the salary cap. I know some people around the league close to the Bucks. They got like six free agents. On the defensive side, They're gonna cut their left tackle, Donovan Smith, he's a huge cap that he struggled. They'll move worfs to left tackle. They are going to be able to free up money, and you know they need a quarterback badly. Todd Bowles rough year last year. He knows if he stinks, he's probably gonna be out on his keyster. You cut ed Mike Evans or trade him. You can free up a lot of cat face. You need a quarterback. They had nothing behind Brady. They cannot go into the next season without a quarterback. Daniel Jones goes down to Florida save some money on the taxes. We know the Florida taxes te versus the taxes in New York or Jersey. I think Daniel Jones and Tampa keep an eye on it as we head into US. I totally disagree. But if you've been on this for four months, if this happens, it will be your greatest victory. I don't think there's any chance he's anywhere except New York. But you have been on this for four months. Brian Dable is too smart to know that. I can't pay this guy forty million dollars a year. Come are you kidding me? That's like Dak Prescott, Patrick Mahomes money. Come on, It's ridiculous. I think. So does he elevate anybody? We beat the Vikings? You know twice? What did Damn do? Yeah? No, he was. If you take the Viking games out, it's a pretty were like a twenty fifth rated pass defense. And he also was a guy that played a ton in college and he and a ton. I mean, Kenny Pickett played a ton in college, but it felt like his last six seven starts. You're like, Oh, Kenny Pickt a light went on. It's weird. Kenny Pickett arrow up on the rookie deal, Daniel Jones forty mill arrow down. Sorry, that's a good segment. Next week. Uh, finally Tomorrow's headlines today. I think he's the most talented quarterback in the draft. I have some concerns. What's gonna be the headline for Bryce? You know, we saw a coach earlier in the show talking about, well, he is tough. We're not gonna be drafting high again. You know, it's good to get a quarterback. Guy by the name of Jared Goff has had a good run, but his cap hits coming up. The headline will be hakut, I'm a trade up Lions reach for start King. Lion King. One of my kids favorite movies. Bryce Young in Detroit is a grand slam colin in that dome? Are you kidding me? With that offensive line? I think this makes more sense than Houston by a mile. Obviously we discount Chicago. Indianapolis is okay, but I actually think that there's a much better infrastructure in Detroit with this offensive coordinator, the receivers. You get Bryce Young on that team, maybe you wait for him. He gave some weight and works off. It is interesting. Goff would have a market you can move. Goff has a more of a market certainly than like a Daniel Jones. Absolute Goff you like him is like what a top fifteen quarterback in the league if you can move off of him and you insert Bryce Young in there. Colin, I'm telling you the Detroit Lions become a legit contender because then you can spend money in free agency. Do we want to add DeAndre Hopkins? We could do that. We've got a quarterback on the rookie deal. You're talking me into it. But I like golf. But it is fascinating. I'm not anti Goff. I just think the salary that he commands and what level he is of quarterback. Listen, if you reset the clock for the Lions. They don't have the old lines. Great, yep um. They probably need a one receiver, but they're good Brown. I don't know, like they have two backs. I like they have an edge rusher. They need interior defensive line help and they need another corner Aiden Hutchinson last year. It's good, credible. Yeah, you've got options when you've got that RAMS pick from Stafford, you know, yeah, and I just mentioned Stafford. I know we did the headlines, but not a lot of talk about what's going on with the Rams? Have you noticed that a lot of teams you hear a lot of chirps from reporters. The teams you want to think about, Colin are the teams that reporters are not talking about about the Rams about I just know they're not talking offline about this Stafford McVay stuff. Yeah, he's not redoing his deal, and the RAMS want Stafford to redo his deal. If I was covering the Rams right now, I would be asking all the questions now. I haven't heard much from McVay lately. Have you interesting all the coaches that are talking a lot? It's lip service the stuff. The people that are not talking, that's who you need to focus on. Something's going on with the Rams. I don't know what it is, but they they don't have a path to success next year college. We gotta move Jalen Ramsey get a one in the five. By the way, remember last week, Jalen Ramsey was like a big topic anything this week, crickets on the Jalen Ramsey front. He ain't getting the first. You're gonna owe me a steak dinner. By the way, did we better steak dinner? I'm almost certain week did. It doesn't two seconds? Two seconds does not equal the first. No, I don't know. I like seconds. Um, all right, very interesting show this week. Eddie House and lanzerlines Bull stop by. We went to the combine and they went to Eddie House's house and uh so tonight I really didn't think the Warriors second half last night. You can see it coming, you really can. They've figured out, They've figured out sometimes injuries help and Steph Curry out. This backcourt now they got that's the deepest backcourt I ever remember seeing. And they've got a defensive guy in Peyton, the greatest shooter Clay Thompson, catch and shoot. They've got like six different things they can do in the backcourt. From a TV viewing perspective, Odier would love a Warrior's Celtics, Warriors Sons Western Conference finally d versus. I think they're gonna get it, and then they would want a Celtics, Bucks right in the East. Yeah, yeah, I think. I think Milwaukee's done a big market, but I think NIS and also it's going to be a seven game series. I would take the Bucks over the Celtics, and I would take the Warriors over the Suns, and then I think Milwaukee beats Golden State in the final. Although I hate to say it, how about a Denver Memphis Conference Finals? I think the basketball be fun. I don't think it's going to get a number, but it'd be fun to watch. But you're not fired up like Game three. I gotta put plans all with my friends because I gotta watch Denver Memphis Game three. We know three teams are going to be around in the end, Buck, Celtics, Warriors. That we know. We can argue about the rest. Those three are going to be around. All right, We'll see you Monday. Great stuff live in LA. It's the hurd

Thanks for listening to The Herd podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday from twelve to three eastern, nine to noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and FS one. Find your local station for The Herd at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Herd you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Played in the NBA for over a decade, won a championship with the Celtics. He could shoot, always looking for a shot. Eddie House in the house today for us. Okay, So I like the Kevin Durant move. But you are what you trade for and you are what you trade away. So Mchaale Bridge is a very good defender. He's gone, Here comes Durant. My guess is they'll have nights when they're really special. But I do worry about are they as good defensively? The Warriors are deep, the Clippers are deep, Memphis is deep. How do you view k D and the current Suns going forward? I think it was a great splash. It was like the biggest splash that you could think of that happened. I ge're like, wow, the Suns just got them. Pair him with Devin Booker pair him with Chris Paul and DeAndre Ayton. Man, how fantastic it's gonna be and fun to watch. But when you kind of get past that, and remember Chris Paul is aging, he's been injured, Devin Booker has been injured with hamstring injuries, and those things pop back up anytime, right. DeAndre Aden has been questioned about his motor. To me, I look at it like it was. It looks good, but the depth of that team. You just named four teams and that's not even including the Eastern Conference teams that I feel that are deeper than the Phoenix Suns. It looks good, but they're gonna It's all gonna come down to CD. Where do they that first round, second round matchup? Can they get to the conference finals? I think they can, but I don't think that they'll be able to win the championship with the team constructed. And I said this yesterday, I think the most pressure is on James Jones and Monty Williams because they have to make it work. There's new ownership. When you inherit guys as a new owner, you inherit the GM, You inherit that that coach that's not hand picked guys for you. So now, if this doesn't work, you gotta look at they'll probably be looking to replace these guys. Maybe Money Williams could stay. But I believe that James Jones is definitely on the hot seat right now, and I love James. You know, Golden State, I said this, there's so much intellectual basketball capacity on that team. The Draymond, the Curves, Steph Clay, so many big games. It just it reminds me of the Patriots. They could stumble in September, but three months later they'd figure out problems. Smart teams. You played on a Celtic team, smart veteran players, they figure out their issues. It takes. It's a lot of plane flights, it's a lot of playing together. But I watched Golden State in the last two weeks. They figured their bench out, cominga now playing pools now a gamer, lamb deefencenzo. I look at Golden State. I still think they're the favorite in the West. What say you, yeah, I think you gotta go through Golden State. To me, you got to dethrone the champions to become the champions. And I think once they get healthy, that's been the issue for them. The only question that I have Colin will be like their road record, how they play on the road, you know, and I think that there has been a disconnect with that team on the road. At home, everybody's at their own house. They're eating their own foods, sleeping in their own bed, not forced to have to hang out with each other. When you go on the road, you are forced to hang out with each other or be loaners. And it looks like when they've been playing on the road lately and me all season long, they have kind of been loaners. Right, It's like clicked up. This team has kind of clicked up. You got the youngsters and then you got the ogs, and those guys are are hanging with each other, and I don't know if they're mixing too much, and I think that's the reason why you see them not play particularly with on the road. But at home they're phenomenal. And when Steph Curry comes back, they're gonna get even better. I never will count the Golden State Warriors out because of their championship pedigree, their championship coaching staff, and just the fact that they have Steph Curry is a total game change. Were you surprised the Clippers brought in Westbrook when you look at his previous three or four stops where he's kind of lost. He kind of lost, I would say, you know, a step defensively. He's never been an elite shooter. He's a big personality, a big presence to bring into the trade deadline. You don't have a camp to work some things out. It's not working right now. Were you surprised by it? Well, I was surprised that in this regard that they needed guys that could space the floor, and he's not a floor spacer. Right. It was the same situation when he was in La with the Lakers, and he just is not a floor spacer. He's a guy that's trying to get to the basket. Nobody's going to really guard him out at the three point line. They got to figure out ways to make him be effective without having to take as many shots or take as many threes. How can you do that? I think put him in the second unit. Let him play with the second unit and not with the first unit. Paul George needs space to work. He likes to work in the mid range. We know Kawhi needs space to work. He likes to work in the mid range. And if you have a guide that's on the court that's not accounted for beyond the three point line, then there's gonna be a lot of help defense and a lot of a lot of bodies that and gaftered are gonna be plugged. Last night we seed it with Draymond Greene. How he was sagging off and at that point, if you're Russell Russell Westbrook, you say, Okay, if I'm not making the shot, how can I still be effective? Well, swing the ball real quick and go right into a ball screen. You set the screen, the guy will come off naked because the defense is all the way in the paint. He'll be able to get a wide open shot or be able to get downhill with the defender on his heels because he's so far back. So it's just ways that they're gonna have to try to tweak their offense. I would like to see him coming in with that second unit like he was with the Lakers. I thought he was much more effective that way. But the Clippers have much more problems than Russell Westbrook. Yeah, they can't stop anybody. They can't stop anybody, and that's a problem when you're supposed to have two of the top two way players on your team and they're not. They're not giving you on the defensive end. What do you do now? I said I would have moved a D before the season. I think he peeked about three years ago. I think when biggs get banged up, they don't get healthier as they get older. Some of this is, you know, he's a commodity and you got to know sometimes when to move on with players, when to move into him, when to move out of them. So now Lebron has gotten to a point where you're gonna get about fifty games with Lebron. He probably should be playing about twenty six minutes a night, but the Lakers have leaned on him to play much more because often a D is gone. What do you do at the end of the season if they don't make the playoffs? What do you do? If you're like, yeah, I agree with you, where I would have been moved off Anthony Davis. You got the championship from him. You got that championship, and now why you got to strike while the iron was hot? His value was a lot higher. I think last year and the year before, I would have looked to get off because he just can't stay healthy. And the one thing we know, we say availability, reliability is all the most. That's the best ability in sports, and to me, he's just not there. And then seeing him sit out the other night, even though they got that win, knowing that you have to win games, but you're still low management doing the low management thing, and Lebron is out, it's really your team. I just I don't trust his health and that's it. He's a phenomenal player when he's healthy, but he's just not healthy that much. I don't. I don't think he's played eighty games or seventy nine games his whole career. Finally, Jay McK and I disagree on this um. I think if you're nine eighty five percent as an NBA player, if I get Steph Curry for eighteen minutes, that's better than not playing. Now, Steph's had some injuries, he's older. There are players you know that that you worry about. But the other night a d came in, he was reportedly pain free, and they didn't play him in a must win road game. And you know, Jmax thing is, guys are playing longer now because you know they don't play every night. And my takeaway is, well, then shorten the season. But I think you got to gut it out and give me fourteen minutes. I just think it's good for camaraderie. I think I think Kawhi Leonard's hard, hard on a coach and hard on the staff. He'll call up at four o'clock and say I'm not playing. I think that's hard on teams. What do you do with load management? Where are you on that? I'm not a fan of load management at all. I think, you know, coming from when I played and how we played, it was a badge of honor to try to get eighty two games. And nobody's gonna be a one hundred percent healthy once the season starts, you're gonna have something that's bothering in you. I'll go back to when I was in college. You know, I got an elbow in my jaw, broke my jaw. I didn't miss a game. I missed maybe two practices, but I didn't miss a game. Like players play, you're supposed to go out there and play and try to play through it. If you are not injured. It's different from being hurt and being injured. If you are injured, then that's something different. Then you got to heal that injury and get right. But if you're hurt, we're all dealing with nagging injuries. We've seen Kobe with his finger popped out of socket, pop it back in. I see many guys do that. I see guys separate their shoulder, pop it back into place, and then go out and play. So I mean it's just a want to do is do you love this game and it's this game? Does it mean that much to you? And I'm not questioning some of these guys love for it. I'm just saying that the sports medicine and everything behind it, to training staff, they have just debated to where now now it's easier for you to sit out because they could say, well, look, this is the data that we have on if you play like this, then maybe we might not have you late. Well in the Lakers case, they might and I might not be a next time or late. You know, they might not make the playing game. So every single game matters. If you're not hurt, you are healthy, you're able to go out there and play. I think guys should be playing And I don't know what. I don't know what I just believe that this collective bargain is going to be a whole lot. We might be looking at a lockout coming up. Yeah, Eddie House, you look great. Love hearing from you. We'll talk sooner. Man, thank you. I have a good one. So he doesn't. He's worried about the Suns. And by the way, I do think you make that move the deadline for a year and a half. I love the Suns, but it's a lebron thing. Kadi and Chris Paul getting older. Now, if you could go to Kevin Durant and say we're gonna play at twenty seven minutes a night and that's what we're gonna play you, but I don't think they have the depth to do that. You can do that, by the way, the Warriors now can go to Steph Curry and say twenty four minutes a night because Jordan Pool and Clay and Defenceenso, I mean, you can see what Golden State's doing. They're building this thing so they don't have to play Clay. They can play him fifty five. They'll play him home games, but they won't play stuff on the road. They'll pay him twenty four minute. If you looked at how deep the Warriors are at guard now Defenceenzo pay in a month, Clay, don't forget about the Pool party. By the way, you didn't talk about him enough last night. How electric is he with the Beast? Which fun? He's more than fun. Yeah, this guy is excited. I love watching Jordan Pool Like. I don't know if you want to play with him because he's very bullhoggish, But watching that guy go to work like it's tough to guard him. Man, you can't say in front of him, no, he's good. He's like you, except he makes the shots. Oh. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd Weekdays in neuon Easter nine am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeart Radio APPA. Somebody fed that garbage sea. That's not true, Jay Mack with the News. No, No, this is the Herd line. I cannot take people off the off the bounce at my age or at any age. Really, it's just not having catch it. Choo baby. Let's start with the NFL. Trevor Lawrence and his breakout season Jacks get to the playoffs first time since twenty seventeen. They got a dub in the postseason. Doug Peterson deserves a lot of credit. Here's what he had to say about what he wants to see Trevor Lawrence approve on. I think the next step for Trevor um is just another step in in the leadership role, right, you know, last year, but it was probably about you know, learning, learning a new offense, learning to play this game, learning a bunch of different aspects of playing quarterback in the National Football League. But we just we just build on that. That's the next step. That's the challenge for him again to take as great as he was and as good as he was at the end of the year, he can be better. Yeah, I mean it's it's Cincinnati feels like Burrough's franchise, Kansas City feels like Mahomes franchise. It's time for Jacksonville to not feel like Doug Peterson's team. It's Trevor's franchise. I mean, I think that that is that's the difference to me, is I feel like the top two or three guys in the league, you know, it's their franchise. So they franchise tagged Evan Ingram. You saw that. That's good million bucks. He's worth every Penny. He's a good title of the depth chart. Christian Kurt solid, he's more of a two, not a one. Mark Marvin Jones. We like Zay Jones, but they got Calvin Ridley. No, no, no, no, Atlanta, you were on him early. They're gonna be a multiple win playoff team. I think we'll remember they play in an awful division where two of the teams don't have quarterbacks, and I don't think we love Ryan tim they don't have. This could be an eleven win team next year. Oh, I think it could be a twelve thirteen win team in that division. The Colts don't have the firepower. I don't know if Tennessee does a very good football team. I mean, listen the team. They played twice this year, and we're outclassed the Chiefs. Take the Chiefs off their schedule. They lost twice. We're outclassed both times. By the way, they're still in that sort of semi rebuilding mode. Well, I think they covered the spread once the playoff game, right did they come? They lost the game? I gave out first half. That's the only reason I know I hit that one. Not everybody bets the game. Everyone bets, all right, Next up Ohio State QB CJ. Stroud. It's expected to be one of the top five ten guys in the draft. Shrouds athleticism surprised some people in that playoff loss to Georgia, but the Buckeye QB considers himself to be a ball placement specialist. Here's what he said discussing his athleticism and accuracy. If you turn on the film, you really watch what I do, and you really look at film game the game. I have used my athleticism. I'm not only just in a Georgia game, but I did it a lot. I've done it in every other game. And I'm not trying to do to my own horn. But I throw guys open, and that's something that I think is rare because at the league, dudes aren't wide open, and I think I've done that in my career work. Guys aren't wide open, but I try to throw them that way. I try to throw them down, I try to throw them out. I try to throw it over his shoulder or things like that, because separations are not always going to be there. So that's something that I pould myself on. Could I say this though, and it's not a concern, it's a reality. Ohio State has become the number one wide receiving school in the country. I think they've surpassed Alabama their receivers last year. They have They have I think a freshman Seattle who was amazing Harrison, Marvin Harrison's kids insane and the other kids a first round pick he barely played with the hamstring injury. Smith Jijigba. Yeah, they are. And by the way, I think it's because Brian Hartline, the former Buckeye and NFL guy, is on their staff. He's like the best recruiter in the country. Their wide receiving talent is better than half the NFL. So so let me ask you that does that? Ding Stroud A, Well, he's just talking about throwing open to Marvin Harrison eight. Why don't you go to h Harrison's the best. If Harrison was available in this draft, I'd drafted him number one right. If C. J. Stroud is playing for pick A team, is he as highly thought of? Harris Johnson is going to be a top Listening to his credit, he got the ball to him, so he is. He was accurate before Harrison. He's been accurate for three years. That's not the issue. But I will say this, it's like these Alabama guys. All these Alabama guys are like Alabama for about a four year stretch was like, became wide receiver you and saving first got that it was cornerback you than wide receiver. Ohio State now wide receiver. All they do is get five star guys and about four out of five of them hit. So it's not a knock on Stroud, but I mean that receiving car is significantly better than New England's today. Yeah, like not even close. It's weird. If you put on that Georgia tape, you can't convince me that you would take Bryce Young over c. J. Strout. That's how good he was. You can't convince me Georgia was better than Ohio State. Ohio State outplayed him. They could not guard Ohio State's wide receivers. Nobody could. Well. The kid Ringo, who is a fringe first round pick for Georgia, he struggled. I mean, he had penalties and Harrison ate him up until the injury to Harrison. Harrison is Harrison would be the number one pick this year if he's available, receiver number one. Oh I think he's a sensational all times. Did you see the Will Anderson numbers? If I was the Chicago Bears who need a receiver, I would take Harrison in one second over an edge rusher. Harrison's Harrison sixty five catch. I need to give it more thought. But you're right, Jamar Chase kind of tilted to feel like, how early can you take a receiver there is? There's not a great receiver this year. Harrison is. He's great, he is all time potentially great. All right. Finally, Anthony Richardson, we talked about him earlier. He's slaying interviews as the kids say, slay Former Gators QB. Richardson dealt with some accuracy issues to put him mildly in college yea, But overall his ceiling is massive. You know why because he played twelfth games in his college career. Basically, now, if he can perform well in workouts, does he get consideration? Up top, here's Richardson talking about which MVP quarterbacks he models his game after. Growing up, it was always Cam Newton for me, but then when I got to high school, just saying how dynamic Lamar was. I tried to implement both of those guys in my life. I started calling myself Cam Jackson and Levin Grade, you know, just trying to make big plays, you know, so I just Cam doing enmoise eys. Look at the shoulders on there. No, I mean he's that's are you doing the shoulder workouts? He's doing. He There's a lot. There's a reason why Seattle if if Strout or Bryce is gone, Seattle has to Yeah, I mean I don't. I think he struggles on the easy stuff. Um, isn't that fixable? I know not. Well it was what Josh Allen so yeah, but but but if you don't have to plan for two years, is he worth the risk? Seattle doesn't have a ton of needs. I mean they really don't know. Let's not act like they were a super Bowl. They made the playoffs with Gino Smith. They did that in a pretty tough division. I would say loses the Niners by night game. Well, Niners are away better ers have nine Hall of Famers. Niners good players are all veterans, almost Seahawks good players are all kids mostly So that was like an unfair fight. That's fair. But they defensively, they need a lot in the trenches. They need an edge rusher, defensive tackle. They can't stop the rush. Shelby Harris is good. They needed they need they need edge rush. They could use a little more. They could use another corner. Their safeties are great, linebackers are capable. Jamal Adams is back for them. Remember that guy I don't know kid? Remember like Jamacle the news? Well that's the news. And thanks for stopping by the Herd line to be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays and noon eastern a Empacific. This is Steve Cavino and Rich Davis, and together we are Cavino Enriched, Cavino and Mitch. Thanks, buddy, that's right. 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Have you heard of that? Oh yeah, for the kids. Super cool. You get to smash stuffy sledgehammer, baseball bat very Storth of July is my favorite holiday. Oh, flow stuff up? Love it all right, we call it tomorrow's headlines Today, let's start Lakers. What's the headline after the Lebron injury. It's just so disappointing, right, I mean, we know the Clippers stink, They're not fun. Now the Lakers don't have Lebron, the headline will be purple and golden goose egg. Lakers can't crack the playoffs, Colin, it's just looking bleak. We looked at the schedule yesterday with Lebron out, like, there's so many guys ahead of them in the standings that they have to pass. So like tonight must win against Minnesota. They're Minnesota ahead. You gotta beat him. And then Sunday Golden State comes here, you gotta beat them. They're ahead of you, and Curry's back. Colin, I don't see a path to the playoffs for the Lakers, and I know this. We're gonna jump start some Anthony Davis chatter here about whether or not he's a Laker next year. A D can't get them to the playoffs. De Angelo Russell's injury look at bleak for LA hate to be a year ahead of stuff, but I would have moved off a D before the season started. Tomorrow's headlines today Warriors help Steff return. Sunday, what's the headline gonna be for mister Curry. Well, you know, my favorite player in all the sports is the chef Curry. So the headline, well, b Steph Boyard Curry opens up a can on LA. Colin Curry's turn in thirty five this month, but he's still having an incredible season forty two percent on three pointers, one of the best of his career and his injury was a bit of a blessing in disguise. As you noted, they're getting a lot of minutes for DiVincenzo. Pool is playing with guys that he usually had not played with. Their bench is deepening thanks to Curry. I think you're right. They ease him back in slowly. I think he has the nice game this weekend in La Come on, Stars are gonna be out Sunday. I tried to get tickets to this, but I didn't think Curry was gonna play. And now I'm missing out, and I think Curry has a big game. And if you missed out on the Warriors, that's probably the best team in the NBA. Yeah that I watched that third quarter last night. They are They're a great third quarter team. Tomorrow's headlines today, I love the move. I'm not so sure with you, Sons, ad k D boy. Yeah, I'm looking at that path in the west. Very difficult, Devin Booker, Kevin Durant up, But what about the point guard? The headline will b c P three No Sons, Stars lose the war Look at that Kevin Durant with the Princess Leiah buns. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not buying this team. Colin. The Stars rise in the playoffs, right, we know this historically they dominate. What happened to Chris Paul last year, Colin, what happened totally faded all of a sudden. He just turned into garbage against the Dallas Mavericks and lost in Game seven. He was the reason they went down. And now you're relying on Chris Paul, by the way birthday coming up in May, which would be like the Western Conference finals. He's gonna be able to carry this team because we know what defense are gonna do. They're gonna load up on Booker, they gotta load up on Durant, and they're gonna say, oh yeah, Joshua Kogee, We'll give you all the shots you one. DeAndre Ayton gonna be unhappy he's getting the ball. I'm just I can see problems for Phoenix. You know, I like to look around corners, as you like to say, it ain't gonna be pretty for Kevin durd You know, it's interesting. We feel like the East has two great teams at the top, and then Sixers Cleveland, New York. They're they're kind of fun, right is the West may not have a great team after the Warriors, but man, there's a lot of Denver Memphis's. I mean, Sacramento can't defend this microphone, but man can they score? All right? Tomorrow's headline today we got NFL news the headline for Giants quarterback Daniel Jones. A lot of talk today. We're seeing reports a contract with the four to start with his Daniel salary, which has sent you into spas sticks over here is that if that's even a word. I don't think he stays with the Giants too much chatter. The headline will be are you serious? Bucks? Don't Nickel and Dime captain Daddy Colin. I was looking at the salary cap. I know some people around the league close to the Bucks. They got like six free agents. On the defensive side, They're gonna cut their left tackle, Donovan Smith, he's a huge cap that he struggled. They'll move worfs to left tackle. They are going to be able to free up money, and you know they need a quarterback badly. Todd Bowles rough year last year. He knows if he stinks, he's probably gonna be out on his keyster. You cut ed Mike Evans or trade him. You can free up a lot of cat face. You need a quarterback. They had nothing behind Brady. They cannot go into the next season without a quarterback. Daniel Jones goes down to Florida save some money on the taxes. We know the Florida taxes te versus the taxes in New York or Jersey. I think Daniel Jones and Tampa keep an eye on it as we head into US. I totally disagree. But if you've been on this for four months, if this happens, it will be your greatest victory. I don't think there's any chance he's anywhere except New York. But you have been on this for four months. Brian Dable is too smart to know that. I can't pay this guy forty million dollars a year. Come are you kidding me? That's like Dak Prescott, Patrick Mahomes money. Come on, It's ridiculous. I think. So does he elevate anybody? We beat the Vikings? You know twice? What did Damn do? Yeah? No, he was. If you take the Viking games out, it's a pretty were like a twenty fifth rated pass defense. And he also was a guy that played a ton in college and he and a ton. I mean, Kenny Pickett played a ton in college, but it felt like his last six seven starts. You're like, Oh, Kenny Pickt a light went on. It's weird. Kenny Pickett arrow up on the rookie deal, Daniel Jones forty mill arrow down. Sorry, that's a good segment. Next week. Uh, finally Tomorrow's headlines today. I think he's the most talented quarterback in the draft. I have some concerns. What's gonna be the headline for Bryce? You know, we saw a coach earlier in the show talking about, well, he is tough. We're not gonna be drafting high again. You know, it's good to get a quarterback. Guy by the name of Jared Goff has had a good run, but his cap hits coming up. The headline will be hakut, I'm a trade up Lions reach for start King. Lion King. One of my kids favorite movies. Bryce Young in Detroit is a grand slam colin in that dome? Are you kidding me? With that offensive line? I think this makes more sense than Houston by a mile. Obviously we discount Chicago. Indianapolis is okay, but I actually think that there's a much better infrastructure in Detroit with this offensive coordinator, the receivers. You get Bryce Young on that team, maybe you wait for him. He gave some weight and works off. It is interesting. Goff would have a market you can move. Goff has a more of a market certainly than like a Daniel Jones. Absolute Goff you like him is like what a top fifteen quarterback in the league if you can move off of him and you insert Bryce Young in there. Colin, I'm telling you the Detroit Lions become a legit contender because then you can spend money in free agency. Do we want to add DeAndre Hopkins? We could do that. We've got a quarterback on the rookie deal. You're talking me into it. But I like golf. But it is fascinating. I'm not anti Goff. I just think the salary that he commands and what level he is of quarterback. Listen, if you reset the clock for the Lions. They don't have the old lines. Great, yep um. They probably need a one receiver, but they're good Brown. I don't know, like they have two backs. I like they have an edge rusher. They need interior defensive line help and they need another corner Aiden Hutchinson last year. It's good, credible. Yeah, you've got options when you've got that RAMS pick from Stafford, you know, yeah, and I just mentioned Stafford. I know we did the headlines, but not a lot of talk about what's going on with the Rams? Have you noticed that a lot of teams you hear a lot of chirps from reporters. The teams you want to think about, Colin are the teams that reporters are not talking about about the Rams about I just know they're not talking offline about this Stafford McVay stuff. Yeah, he's not redoing his deal, and the RAMS want Stafford to redo his deal. If I was covering the Rams right now, I would be asking all the questions now. I haven't heard much from McVay lately. Have you interesting all the coaches that are talking a lot? It's lip service the stuff. The people that are not talking, that's who you need to focus on. Something's going on with the Rams. I don't know what it is, but they they don't have a path to success next year college. We gotta move Jalen Ramsey get a one in the five. By the way, remember last week, Jalen Ramsey was like a big topic anything this week, crickets on the Jalen Ramsey front. He ain't getting the first. You're gonna owe me a steak dinner. By the way, did we better steak dinner? I'm almost certain week did. It doesn't two seconds? Two seconds does not equal the first. No, I don't know. I like seconds. Um, all right, very interesting show this week. Eddie House and lanzerlines Bull stop by. We went to the combine and they went to Eddie House's house and uh so tonight I really didn't think the Warriors second half last night. You can see it coming, you really can. They've figured out, They've figured out sometimes injuries help and Steph Curry out. This backcourt now they got that's the deepest backcourt I ever remember seeing. And they've got a defensive guy in Peyton, the greatest shooter Clay Thompson, catch and shoot. They've got like six different things they can do in the backcourt. From a TV viewing perspective, Odier would love a Warrior's Celtics, Warriors Sons Western Conference finally d versus. I think they're gonna get it, and then they would want a Celtics, Bucks right in the East. Yeah, yeah, I think. I think Milwaukee's done a big market, but I think NIS and also it's going to be a seven game series. I would take the Bucks over the Celtics, and I would take the Warriors over the Suns, and then I think Milwaukee beats Golden State in the final. Although I hate to say it, how about a Denver Memphis Conference Finals? I think the basketball be fun. I don't think it's going to get a number, but it'd be fun to watch. But you're not fired up like Game three. I gotta put plans all with my friends because I gotta watch Denver Memphis Game three. We know three teams are going to be around in the end, Buck, Celtics, Warriors. That we know. We can argue about the rest. Those three are going to be around. All right, We'll see you Monday. Great stuff live in LA. It's the hurd