The Steelers prove that they are into stability again. (01:50) Kendrick v Lebron? (06:15) The guys react to the NBA Finals so far and give thoughts going forward. (13:40) Is relocation for real this time or is Adam Silver just creating hope? (42:00)
[00:00:00] It's Monday night, the Celtics are up 2-0. Can the Mavs come back or are they buried alive? We got answers. But first, yes, you are now listening to the sound of Sports Reports As Ordered.
[00:00:30] And you see, not only are we going to talk about the NBA Finals, but we got some relocation to talk about because Commissioner Silver has dumped the table on that again.
[00:00:43] We got some get it off my chest that'll take us to the NFL and that'll take us to real wives or something. But first, let's get this out the way. We got the even kill. Born in Texas, raised in V.A., representing New Jerus.
[00:01:03] The best representative of New Jerus since the one and only Reggie Noble. He is Mr. Logical. And he only asks one thing of you. Don't bring feelings to a fact fight. Don't do it. And I am your unorthodox statistician. Gone, left so much you thought I was Southpaw.
[00:01:26] I got a couple of things that I need from you. I need you to like, review, subscribe, share and let granny know that we are live. And we're going to get this thing started with get it off my chest right about now.
[00:01:46] So I'm gonna start this this firework off. Nothing crazy for me, really. A lot of times I just we have conversations, not sports groups. I'm a lot of these group chats and things of that nature.
[00:01:58] And always like I'm trying to get like the trying to harness good sports conversation, cultivate good conversation. And it seems like no matter what happens, it can be turned negative. Now, Mike Tomlin, for some reason, been in a hot seat for the last three or four
[00:02:14] years, even though he had an aging quarterback. He had a dude named Duck throwing passes. He had Mason Rudolph getting hit in the head by helmets. But yeah, he still seems to be able to coach these guys up to, you know, never be in a boat below 500.
[00:02:30] So he gets an extension. That's the Steelers way. We went from Chuck Noll, Bill Cower to Mike Tomlin. Simple. They've been relevant every single year. Yes, you're not going to championship every year. And we know he has a long playoff drought of victories, but they make the
[00:02:47] play else a lot. They're relevant team. They're a good team. They just every once in a while, just a player away, a quarterback away. But they're normally too good to get a high quarterback traffic. They reach for Kenny Pickett at 20 and realize that's not the move.
[00:03:01] So they obviously are playing for the future. They obviously understand like, yeah, we need to make these moves. So they win got Russ and Justin Fields. So they're they're making good quality moves. And another good quality move is to keep stability in your building.
[00:03:15] A lot of people are picking the Bears to go to the Super Bowl, not realizing that it's a new offensive coordinator. It's the same coach has been on the hot seat for a couple of years with limited success.
[00:03:26] I mean, they earned the number one pick a couple of years back and traded away like that's how poor they were as a team. Most of that staff is still there. Definitely the head coach. The GM is also there.
[00:03:36] But yet because they go get a new shiny penny and a new, you know, new coordinator now, so they go in Super Bowl. But the Steelers stay consistent and resign one of the legendary coaches of this game who has coached in two Super Bowls.
[00:03:48] He's won and won in those Super Bowls. So a lot of coaches that will love the coach and multiple Super Bowls. And he's done it. But yet he gets an extension. Like you said, he's swept Baltimore.
[00:03:59] Yeah. So like my thing is when it comes to coaches and your team, would you want your team to fire coach every few years or get a coach that successful understand organization, understands the temperament of the fans, the temperament of the organization,
[00:04:13] temperament of the leadership and the ownership of ownership group, the organization and can still lead men. That's what you need. Everything else to fall in this place. You know, you need a miss field goal here. You need to tackle here, interception here.
[00:04:27] You need a miss block here, a conversion here. And you you can win these games. But before you get there, you need stability with inside the walls of your organization and structure you're building. So if you don't have that, then you might as well just get yourself
[00:04:42] hooked onto the Jets train because they're going to fire their coaches. They don't win this year. You can go and hook yourself to the Broncos train because they're going to fire Sean Payton. They don't fired Mike McCarthy down in Dallas.
[00:04:52] They don't fire Mike Zimmer only got a one year deal. You know, Mike Daniel might be out. He's had a good run as a head coach because teams and fans just don't realize like how long how much it takes to be consistent.
[00:05:04] Mike Tomlin is the pitcher of consistency. If you open up the dictionary, is Mike Tomlin saying the standard is standard. So shut it down. Congratulate that man. We want volunteers, not hostages. Come on, man. Like this stuff resonates with people, not just, you know, football fans.
[00:05:20] So shout out to Mike Tomlin who produced Virginia's own shout out. But proud of him for his extension. And it's through 2027. It's a big year for me as my son graduated high school. So I'm all for it. Yeah, this is the right year for the extension
[00:05:34] because we talked about it a couple of weeks ago. Look at that schedule. You know what I mean? And you know what I mean? I mean, maybe this is the year they get their first playoff win since 2017. No, we'll see.
[00:05:47] What a dude named Duck not throwing the football. Yo, man, name's Duck. That's ridiculous. But Joe, get it off my chest. So I had many ways that I could have took this, but I think I finally found a place to land.
[00:06:05] So, you know, I keep telling y'all about how we need to take control of our remotes. We need to take control of our TVs, our radios, so on and so forth. And I know I didn't see it all when somebody sent me a clip
[00:06:19] of Kendrick Perkins on national TV talking about how he was frustrated or, you know, LeBron James is sensitive because LeBron decided to unfollow him on Twitter. Now, part of the reason that this started is because Kendrick
[00:06:35] Perkins has been one of the few people on TV that have owned up to, hey, maybe Bronnie's not it while the other ESPN puppets are still trying to sell us that Bronnie is going to be this guy or whatever. So, OK, cool.
[00:06:50] LeBron don't like you talking about his son, even though it's in bounds because it's about basketball. He didn't attack him personally or anything like that. So grow tougher skin. But in this latest one, it was where LeBron was talking about
[00:07:04] how he missed Kyrie Irvin this plan with him and having him as a teammate and all this stuff. Kendrick Perkins turned that into here's LeBron again, making it all about him. OK, I'm with you, Kendrick. He didn't have to say that.
[00:07:18] He could have just said, hey, Kyrie deserves this. Kyrie is a great player. I'm happy for me. You just move on. Right. But LeBron knew what he was saying. He knew it was going to be the topic of the discussion because he's media savvy.
[00:07:31] This is where the problem comes in. So then somebody tags Kendrick and says, yo, you see LeBron unfollows you? And then he says, oh, well, not everybody followed Jesus. So then he gets on ESPN on first take. He starts flapping about the gums, talking about how LeBron
[00:07:49] James is sensitive and how he unfollowed him on Twitter when he could have called him. Here's a secret, Kendrick. Here's a secret, Kendrick. You made it about LeBron. You brought it to the national airwaves when we're sitting up here trying to criticize Jason Tatum in peace.
[00:08:05] And you're sitting up here trying to deviate us from that. So you could talk about LeBron James and not only that, but then you got on national TV talking about how another man is sensitive because he unfollowed you when your ass is on national TV.
[00:08:21] How another man unfollowed you. Go, Mike. Let's go. I wish I had a bell in here. I wish I had a bell like, look, you can say no. Just like I keep telling the people just like I keep telling the people, you can say no,
[00:08:40] you know to me and not have to talk about it. Sorry, you don't say you can't you can't you can sit up here and talk about LeBron in this manner on national TV when you could have called him. You talk about social media on TV. Let's go.
[00:08:59] This is a segment on a national show with high ratings in the middle of the NBA finals where we can be using this space to criticize Lucas, criticize Jason Tatum and the two hosts are getting paid well over 20 million dollars to host this show.
[00:09:16] And this is what they're talking about. Yeah, keep going. Keep going. Yeah. And so at the end of the day, you know, to me like, I don't know what else I need to say to y'all for y'all to take your remotes back.
[00:09:25] Or maybe then again, after being on social media way much more lately the last couple of weeks, maybe some of y'all like this Real Housewives shit because people because people were talking about how, oh, I have I didn't even watch game one of the NBA finals.
[00:09:41] Why you here? Why you here? Because man, I think people what I've noticed since we've been doing this and even before, I think what it is that I think I tell people, Tom, I don't like reality TV.
[00:09:54] All right. I watch sports like that's my version of reality TV. I don't watch the the married at first sight. That's not my show. Real Housewives of the Love Islands or the love paradises of the love boats, all these different shows
[00:10:10] that come on. I don't rock with that. I watch sports. It is becoming hard to discern these shows from sport because shows like First Take will call it out. They know damn well they should be talking about Lucas injuries, Prozegas injury, being listed as questionable,
[00:10:32] coming out, dropping a triple double is Boston getting lucky because everybody their plan seems to be injured. Are they are they lucky because somehow they had these trades fall into their lap when they ended up with holiday Prozegas
[00:10:46] on a team that was just off a year when they won the finals. It's like so many different storylines you can converse about on TV with intelligent people. And that's the thing is like it's not shock jock radio guys that made it to ESPN were having these conversations.
[00:11:02] Stephen A Smith talks about his record all the time is his education record. How long he's been in journalism. Shannon Sharp, the same thing. He's been in journalism a long time. Hall of Fame, you know, Titan Perk. Played a lot of years in the league.
[00:11:17] I think he has connections to people. I personally, if I had to fire someone from I don't really rock with. I don't like his cadence. So like if he wasn't on TV, it wouldn't bother him that I'm not trying
[00:11:28] to make a man lose his job, but it's like I don't really need him on TV, especially when every time you talk, you talk like you're like creating a beef with someone or trying to settle a score on TV. Like he does it all the time.
[00:11:41] Carry on. It's like say something analytically intelligent that's conducive to basketball and sport comp dialogue. That's it. That's all people need from you. I don't care what happened on Twitter. I don't care what happened on Instagram. If you think Bronte is not ready for league, that's fine.
[00:11:58] But the only reason you're talking about Bronte is because he's LeBron's son. The only reason you have a whole segment about who unfollowed you is because it's LeBron. I'm pretty sure a lot of people unfollow him in that time frame.
[00:12:09] But it's like, oh, I'm going to talk about LeBron because LeBron unfollowed me. He wouldn't talk about that Richard Jefferson unfollowed him. That wouldn't have been a segment. It would have been a segment. A whole segment. If JJ Wrenick unfollowed him, that wouldn't have been a segment.
[00:12:21] But because and on top of that is like someone told you, you should have been like, oh, you got my phone number. Hit him up. He's like, your Rich Paul called me. Cool. We don't need to know that.
[00:12:31] But you only really sharing that information because you just want you want to get like this buzz off of this man's name. It's like listening to a game verse. Don't take a shot every time games say somebody's name.
[00:12:43] Yo, that's a perfect analogy right there because all he does is name drop all the time. But yeah, so anyway, we're going to do the right thing on this show and we are going to talk about guess what? The NBA finals.
[00:13:03] We have a 2-0 series headed back to the great state of Texas on Wednesday night. Now, what I'm a little bit concerned about is that I want to pick Dallas to win game three, right?
[00:13:17] I don't have a reason to outside of the fact that they're back in Dallas. But what I'm concerned about is if Luca is truly hurt, but if I remember correctly between games three and four is the only one day break in between games.
[00:13:32] So is this going to be a matter of Luca running out of gas before his assistants can get to him? Yeah, I think they play Wednesday and then they play Friday. And then it goes back to yeah. So depends on when these guys got into Dallas.
[00:13:49] I don't know when the Dallas players left. So if they left immediately after game and get these guys back to their homes and apartments and their own beds and things of that nature. If they got that, then maybe a couple of days at home
[00:14:05] coming to the arena in their own vehicles and their own time, maybe I'll loosen them up. I think the Dallas fans would be because Dallas, if you think about it, they were down eight after being down 29 in game one off of Lucas Hot shooting.
[00:14:21] I think there was a couple of sequences where they could have cut it to six or five and then Jason Taylor came out hit the three and then Boston goes on like a 14 over on and it goes back up to 22.
[00:14:31] Hit that three at the end of the quarter. And then in game two Pridger did, they had the same little run. But they don't get that the chase down block. I mean, the second greatest chase down block in NBA finals history.
[00:14:45] If they don't get that block, they're down three and Boston maybe they fumbled an inbound or the pass. They were scrambling at that point. Yeah, we saw Indiana do it against Boston. Well, sometimes you just get the wrong guy with the ball in his hand and it's pressure.
[00:15:02] We go back to Indiana versus the Knicks and Anthony Mason just basically let the ball go and Reg Miller picks up a shoot three. So anything can happen when you're down three but being down five and the other team has the ball
[00:15:13] with 50 seconds left, then that's a different animal. So I mean, we said it before. The block was it should have been called a foul. It was bang bang. I think the push and slow motion maybe looks worse. PJ Washington didn't look like his,
[00:15:32] it didn't look like his balance was thrown off. So I don't know if it just was a matter of like because it was like every replay I saw was like slow motion with the hand on the back
[00:15:41] but it never looked like he was like off balance at all. I think if he sells it a little bit more like if he sells the push then maybe they have to call it. I saw someone on first things first. The timekeeper stopped the clock thinking
[00:15:55] the foul got called either they thought the basket went in or foul got called because they stopped the clock at 50.5 seconds for about two seconds and it started running it as Boston drove the ball. And I think even Jalen Brown reacted like he thought it was a foul.
[00:16:09] Because it was. He thought a foul got called. Right, right, right, right. I'm optimistic for Dallas in game three because imagine Luke is going to rest. Derek Jones is going to be able to like see all the blue and not the green in the crowd
[00:16:30] and play a little better. It gives them a couple of days. They have two games of film to figure out how are we getting beat on these switches because I've seen a lot of switches where Gaffer, Lively and Luca are getting caught
[00:16:43] in the pick and roll and the switch is happening pretty much almost every possession when Jalen Brown or Jason Tatum has the ball they switch they try to get one of the bigs isolated on Brown or Tatum. Unless Jason K can come up with something different
[00:17:02] to stop doing that because Gaffer is no good to you. 18 feet, 18, 20 feet from the hoop with anybody that can dribble the ball with his left or right hand. Like he just he's just too big to keep up with the shifty Brown or Tatum.
[00:17:18] He's too big to try to keep up with Derek White because they're quite small and crafty. Drew Holliday if he if that's the switch that's a mismatch and I think the same thing for Lively. Lively is athletic but I think they're using
[00:17:30] his youth against him and just putting him in bad situation where he's overplaying it and maybe getting a silly foul that's frustrating them and he's not getting that lob dunk because they're getting to his body every time he comes down for the lob
[00:17:41] because it's like I think Boston realized like these guys feed defensively off the energy they get from those lob dunks. So I've seen a lot of plays where it was like they got a lot of blocks. They also got a lot of blocks at the rim
[00:17:54] off those lob dunked attempts or they're just getting to the body and not letting them jump. He'll catch the lob but not let him jump towards the rim with it for all everybody that's trying to catch these these alley-oop passes. Attention all units attention all units
[00:18:10] we have an APB out on a Kyrie Irvin. I repeat a Kyrie Irvin this guy that people were having a conversation just a week ago about him being better than Steph Curry about him being a top five point guard in NBA history.
[00:18:26] You know about him being the one of the best NBA finals performance performers this side of Jordan all that stuff the savior was coming to bring Luca his ring and you know what I've seen in these first two games of the NBA finals.
[00:18:42] He's the third leading scorer on Dallas. He's being outscored by the aforementioned PJ Washington. Mr Irving is averaging 14 points a game in these here NBA finals on 35% shooting. He has not hit a three yet in this series as a matter of fact Luca Donchis
[00:19:04] is the only maverick that has hit more than one three pointer in these two games in this here NBA finals. Now the reason why I think it's over and by over I don't mean it's a sweep. I just mean I don't see a way Dallas
[00:19:19] wins four games against this team is last night in the first half that was probably the worst half they're going to get out of Boston in this series. Yeah you know Jason Tatum went six for 22 overall you know and here's here's a stat out there
[00:19:36] for those that like such things that last night was Jason Tatum's eighth NBA finals game small sample size but eight games in those eight games in the NBA finals. He has shot and combined 35% which is the lowest of any player since the 1979-80 season on at least
[00:19:57] 150 shot attempts in the NBA finals but he was one rebound short of a triple double last night because more than not he did the right thing. He made the right basketball play so I want to give him credit for that you know but it's just that it's
[00:20:14] okay because he's probably not going to be the guy that hits the defining shot. He's not going to hit the timely backbreaker but he can set it up he's sacrificing to some degree and I would like to give him more credit for sacrificing but he still took 22 shots.
[00:20:30] He hit six of them you know what I mean I guess I guess you gotta shoot Luca. Yeah you got to shoot because like I said they're they're putting him in a position where there's nobody on the floor that matches up with him he just
[00:20:43] has to knock his shot down. Gafford is bigger than him but can't he can create yeah yeah he can create space but the problem is he wants to create space on jump shots and like just watch what Luca does Luca shoots a lot of threes with
[00:20:58] minimal dribble effort. It's I'm gonna shoot this three from 28 feet or when I dribble I'm gonna dribble into the paint I'm gonna keep it I'm gonna keep the guy on my hip I'm gonna set up all you dominoes to where I could get my shot off.
[00:21:13] I think sometimes Tatum gets to the paint and he sees the help come in and he's like well I got a smaller guy on me I work on this turnaround jumper from 12 to 15 feet I'm gonna shoot it now versus you know what let me
[00:21:27] like Luca will hit you with that turn he'll pivot on that turnaround and pump fake and come back around and shoot like an eight foot floater off of that because he you know when you're that tall that's what I was going to bring up create that
[00:21:39] space yeah he just I was gonna bring him to the first shot. He needs a floater or he needs to get into his Kevin Durant bag and just pull up at the free throw line from time to time you know um or how about this go
[00:21:53] all the way to the basket with the intention of deliberately finishing you know yeah just go to go in there and create contact because yeah you're going to get it. The guy that's going to hit you the guy defending you is smaller than you
[00:22:06] no matter who he is unless it's lively or gaffer everybody else is smaller. Luca's not gonna Luca's not gonna defend you all the way to the rim if you beat luke off the dribble it's only might not even step up the challenging yeah but I've seen it
[00:22:19] like he he's just like you know what I'll just funnel you to gaffer I'm not going to chase you down I'm gonna let you go into the gaffer the lively or even Derek Jones but you're bigger than Derek Jones you're more likely to get a foul
[00:22:31] and and all your people out there that that are talking about Luca might deserve some final MVP votes don't forget he had eight turnovers last night too but but I wanted to ask you so we're in game two is over 2-0 yeah who is your current leader
[00:22:48] for finals MVP right now? It's fluid and as the facts change so is my opinion but as of right now I think it would be Jalen Brown for me I like I said I already picked Jalen Brown but I'm gonna I'm gonna go with what
[00:23:04] I think the voters are thinking because like I said I picked Jalen Brown for the reasons that I'm going to give now and I think the voters are probably looking at the same way I think he's involved in every major play when the when the clock when the
[00:23:20] clocks effect there from the Eastern Conference finals we hit the three the block at the end of the game where he was part of the chase down the big rebounds hitting the free throws it just feels as if like we talked about Tatum getting to
[00:23:34] 10 points in overtime in that first that game one against Indiana but he doesn't get there without Jalen Brown I think that carries over to now to where he is he has the big blocks in game one I think he had three blocks
[00:23:47] a lot of them were at the rim he had two huge dunks that kind of set the tempo along with Porzingis shooting the three so Porzingis shooting the three was getting the audience into it and then Jalen Brown comes through the dunks Tatum had a couple of dunks
[00:24:01] as well but he Jalen Brown's dunk where he took on four to five mavericks on one play like he shook Luca Kyrie or Derek Jones tried to reach in and follow him Kyrie came over from one side to try to block it
[00:24:15] Gaffer came over and he still got the dunk I think that those kind of moments are locked in with the voters because you see them and like I said so that's like the MJ switching hands like switching hands you see these moments and then you
[00:24:31] see the defensive plays the whole game one where's a blowout because you didn't get a lot of offense from him or Tatum but he got three blocks in game one and a couple of them were on like wide open dunk attempts
[00:24:42] it was like it was like they were like dope blocks and then he got to like I said he was part of chase down just along with this I think that is what's giving him the edge Jason Tatum got a lot of
[00:24:52] rebounds but he also was the only one in the game when the game was out of hand in game one like four minutes left it was him Derek White I think like Prichard Hauser and somebody else off the bench when Dallas whole star lineup was on the bench
[00:25:07] so I think Jason Tatum got three or four rebounds and essentially like mop up duty that kind of boosted his numbers because it was like the game was out the game was out of reach well he still was on the floor and
[00:25:18] Jalen Brown wasn't so I think that's another piece that if if they were paying attention to lock into Porzingis isn't gonna probably won't stay hot and he has to be hot to be effective right like he's out there but in order to be MVP level effective he has
[00:25:31] to be hot like he has to literally go eight for eight for 13 next game with four or five threes because Jalen Brown is going to get 20 shots if you want some 22 shots if you want some yeah I got uh I got Jalen Brown right now
[00:25:44] uh I think a lot of people are gonna react to last night and they would answer Drew Holiday because he had the best game in the close game we were kind of talking about this before we came on where he doesn't think it happens again yet
[00:25:58] if his 108 101 and he has 24 points to nine assists and he hits the three that puts him up seven late in the game then that'll be the number that people remember I think the voters you know unless unseen calamity happens I think they're going to give it to
[00:26:16] Jason Tien you know I think he's going to have the pretty numbers in every category I think that he's gonna I think he's going to have the like right now he's averaging 17 10 and 9 or something along those lines he needs to get he's going to have 27
[00:26:30] in next two games okay fair enough but he's got he's got to go not not just 20 but it has to be an official he has to go like 11 for 18 27 points 9 10 rebounds 6 7 assists like he has to have the game to where
[00:26:47] he has to go toe to toe with Luca for him to get the edge where he needs to display a little and demonstrate a little mamba mentality you're saying not necessarily mamba mentality I think that's the bridge too far considering like who that he's got to
[00:27:01] be more Paul Pierce than Jason Tatum okay he's got it he's got to be out there like because Paul Pierce did it with Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett on the floor I don't know how many points he had but it looked like
[00:27:14] then no average one more point than Garnett yeah but it looked like he averaged seven more like when the crowd's on their feet and he's looking about the shy clock and he needs to take the shot or he's going to the free throw line
[00:27:27] or like we talked about the Willis Reid moment when he went to the locker room came back with the leg sleeve really all he did was had to just take a shit but those kind of things work on the voters and I think Jason Tatum needs he
[00:27:39] Jason Tatum doesn't need a bad game from Jalen Brown he just needs to be the guy that answers because he answered the run and game won but it was after a timeout so they had they called the timeout when they were up eight when they came
[00:27:54] back from 29 down to eight so it kind of like looks bad on them that he allowed to get that far but then he came back out and hit the three that started the run again but he has to hit that three before the timeout he has to hit
[00:28:07] the three that causes Dallas to stagger it into the time yeah he has yeah he has to hit those he has hit that shot the layup the and one the block he has to make the play that causes Jason Kidd to come on
[00:28:21] the floor call a timeout and yell at the rest that way the camera follows him from the where he shot the three getting high fives the way Jalen Brown and Wade Drew Holiday is getting that that kind of those kind of like on-screen accolades even though he's
[00:28:35] out there those kind of moments I think voters lock into that's how I got it over stuff because that's just scoring points but Eguadala was shutting LeBron down shutting LeBron down and that that was on camera like that was like the thing people focused on was like
[00:28:51] look what he's doing they would go to commercial breaks playing replays of him getting the steal or getting a block and stuff like that so I'm trying to figure out what Dallas is trying to accomplish because like if I go back to game one
[00:29:03] Kyrie missed a lot of easy shots that you know you tell yourself like I trust Kyrie to make those shots down the road obviously that wasn't in game two but you say you say to yourself Kyrie is going to make these shots more than not
[00:29:17] um and then when you get the game too you held Boston to like I said probably the worst half they're going to play in this whole series probably the worst half they've played in these playoffs so far you know and then you still weren't
[00:29:29] able to come over the top so when I look at Dallas you know I'm like what are you trying to do like like like at some point you may have to I don't want to say change your style but you just have to have the ball
[00:29:43] and Kyrie hands a little bit more maybe you know where Luca isn't just solely trying to think because because when Luca sets people up it's not fluid it's not in rhythm you know jump passes to the corner yeah bounce pass here's another weird stat for you
[00:29:59] so here's a so here's another weird stat for you and this one is courtesy of Dan Devine he's a senior writer at Yahoo Sports um I was listening to the Goodwill with Vincent Goodwill earlier he was a guest and in these two games Boston has had
[00:30:14] 68 spot up shots so 34 in each game Dallas combined has had 28 spot up opportunities in these two games now that was odd to me when I think of Luca from the standpoint of pound pound pound kick it out shot clock whatever like I would have thought they would
[00:30:38] have got more looks like that but it sounds like and looks like Dallas is just forcing shots because a shot has to be taken but I don't think they have a problem that you talked about that in game one where everyone all the role players were getting
[00:30:51] balls on fast break off of missed three point shots and rebound opportunities and they were challenging Porzingis at the rim like right clumsily right like Porzingis no matter if he's injured or not he's still seven foot three right now he gets his hand up
[00:31:06] wherever even running backwards don't even got to jump he doesn't have to jump and you're and you're coming down the hill full speed and he's like you either you guys try to beat him off the dribble to the rim and you're not so you like you try to
[00:31:18] jump into him but like even if he jumps after you his arms are so long he's going to come down and you're going to get some wild shot at the backboard Hardy did it PJ Washington did it with Dallas and we talked about this before the series started
[00:31:33] all of their role players get their action off of Kyrie and Luca's ability to draw the defense in I think Boston is just doing a great job of playing Kyrie 101 and then funneling him to the rim and just letting Luca do Luca because Luca threw one bounce
[00:31:53] pass to Dante Exum but it was like a behind he bounced it behind two defenders and it bounced back and it just was right in the pocket was a beautiful pass for Exum he tried it again and Jason Tatum lagged off and he bounced it right into Jason
[00:32:09] Tatum's hand he got the steal turned around I think they got lay upside of that yeah eight turnovers uh-huh so like that that works every once in a while against Minnesota if they're over playing Luca because they don't want Luca to get his shine on
[00:32:24] I think Boston's kind of letting Luca play and I think they're dictating to Luca this is open and this is open it's like the Italian job when Seth Green's character was moving the armored truck around he was moving all the chains on the stop lights it's like
[00:32:39] you think you're in control that oh look at this light I got this light is moving here moved to there moved to there then boom the ground opens up the armored truck falls through and it's like now you're getting robbed I think they're doing that with Luca
[00:32:50] is because you think it's open and it really isn't like they know Derek Derek Jones is going to shoot that wing three and he was 29 percent coming into the series I'm pretty sure that's dropped at least 20 and we're not knocking them down so you're not
[00:33:04] and I don't think you said leave yet you haven't lost any reason to adjust and and I think another thing is when you don't close out on a guy who's not hitting I think that gets in his head too he's like they're not even closing out on
[00:33:16] me they're just trying to look for the rebound because he's shy he's probably shot the most wide open threes I've seen of anyone Kyrie's created space but Derek Jones has been wide open PJ Washington's been wide open in the corner and I think he's
[00:33:28] missed a lot of them and that's why I brought up PJ because the OKC series is the only series that he's played well in from that standpoint so you know as you would say the evidence doesn't support the fact that I should be concerned about PJ Washington
[00:33:45] like he may have a game so game three going back to Dallas you know he may go four for seven from three or whatever four for eight from three but that's still that one game is not enough reason for me to change what I'm doing even if
[00:34:01] Dallas wins that game and and another thing with Dallas I imagine that they're gonna have Jason K Jason K is gonna make some adjustment does that adjustment take away because he's playing a lot of green he played green exome Hardy Hardy Powell hard away
[00:34:21] a lot in the Minnesota and OKC series those guys got a lot of run they were on the floor a lot and we get a lot of opportunities watching these games is against Boston it's been very tight and I don't know if guys just aren't taking
[00:34:33] their open shot because it's been so tight and it's been like yo let Luca cook and I'm just not sure where you go like do you go back to Tim Hardaway do you you know do you start them like I mean do you just switch it up
[00:34:48] I would I'm at the point where I would sit down Derek Jones and put Hardaway in you know what I mean even if Hardaway doesn't finish the game you know just to start off with a different look the the to see if I got a spark
[00:35:01] before I go back to being garbage yeah because I will I I take that I would take Derek Jones against the second I take Derek Jones against Cole Hauser in the second unit with Kyrie running it throwing the same live passes because I think athletically
[00:35:18] he can defend Pritchard he could defend Hauser he could defend Derek White if he's running with the second unit but if Tim Hardaway is out there in the starting lineup I can see him matching up with Derek White and not being overwhelmed you give the defense something to
[00:35:34] think about you give and he's a guy that can create off the dribble I mean he's he's been kind of I won't say relegated to a spotter shooter in Dallas but I think you give him the ball he can create you know for himself
[00:35:47] and put maybe Derek White gets a cheap foul trying to guard him or something along those lines just to switch it up right because you're two guard because I guess Luke will be considered your point guard but really he's more like a small forward
[00:36:00] so if you got your small forward Derek Jones and he's he's not giving anything all offensively then you're already playing small ball so you might as well just run Tim Hardaway out there and then bring Derek Jones with the second unit you get that same energy
[00:36:13] I mean I might even run the second unit with him him and Lively you can run a second unit with him and Lively and Kyrie throwing lob attempts to the two of them I might even try to go deaf lineup on you
[00:36:23] and put PJ Washington at the five you know for a few minutes out of the quarter you know so give me Luca Kyrie Tim Hardaway jr you know at the three you know and then or I might I might I might
[00:36:38] you can't I don't think you could do that because Boston's best wing scores are big and they attack the rim Tatum and Brown are going to attack the rim without Gafferter Lively in there you it just it would be too inviting Dallas needs to be able to play
[00:36:55] under more control faster and and that's kind of the problem is that they're out of control they're out of sync so Luca is the only one that I guess can maintain his pace if you will everybody else is being sped up so
[00:37:10] if I have another ball handler out there who does Boston have to take out if they go small ball you just can't play Horford potentially but you could because I would imagine you would still leave Porzingis out there you know if they go small ball because he's not
[00:37:25] because he's not a lumbering center like Embiid yeah do I want Porzingis on Washington I mean you could but like I said just you that would be predicated on you not you're taking but you're at least right but you're also at the very least
[00:37:39] you're taking Porzingis away from the basket on defense potentially yeah but you still have a vicious on-ball defender on holiday you do and then you have look Boston is the best I mean like you gotta you gotta try something you gotta try something I would I was
[00:37:56] I'd keep a big and I'd keep I'd go small ball I would start lively maybe with the small ball and I have him because because he can move and maybe you go like I said lineup of death like you're so PJ watchton hardaway
[00:38:12] Luca Kyrie lively and try to just just out effort them yeah with you know PJ and and lively and then get to your your three point shots off with Luca Kyrie and Tim Hardaway you gotta do something yeah you just bought and do it they
[00:38:31] had they've had their bad shooting game that's the problem right like they they just had their bad shooting game the game that Miami capitalized on the game that uh cleveland capitalized on and the game that partly in the indianapolis uh you know indiana capitalized on as
[00:38:47] well but they just the end of blues and at the end you you had that game where boston was terrible from three and they had the lead at halftime and then printer hit the three at the end of the third which pushed it back up to nine
[00:38:59] which is just it's so deflating because you know it you know it's not really it's a practice shot obviously but it still has an element of luck to it well it's like that shot it's like that shot yoga shit on ad last year yeah ad was like
[00:39:15] it's like what can you do like you won't be walked in huddle in the whole four five minute commercial break all you think about is like man we would have been down four we would have been down three with the ball starting the fourth but now we down
[00:39:27] six because this dude hit this crazy three yeah and you know but so number 18 it looks like it's on the way so you know uh at adam silver came out last week being asked about expansion you know he brought up the possibility of everybody else has been
[00:39:46] tracking seattle and vancouver i'm sorry uh vegas as the next two possible locations today he went out there talking about potentially adding teams in other countries what we doing Mr logical man we just greedy it just greed because it's not entertaining this is a home like basketball is
[00:40:06] international sure indeed but the nba isn't international basketball is so i think they need to kind of understand the difference between basketball being international and a national basketball association being international because we talked about it there's people who didn't watch the nba finals who are posting on
[00:40:28] twitter and in facebook about how they wish the two worst nfl teams were on tv right now so like you got to work on you know keeping your your main thing the main thing which is your homegrown audience you can sell the nba to foreign countries as a
[00:40:46] visual as just an entertainment piece you but you can get the money home at home the money they're getting 76 billion from nbc over the next 11 years i mean how much money you think you can get from london england or stuttgart germany or munich or
[00:41:04] barcelona like are you really going to get it that much more money because like they have the sport that they love and there's so many i think i don't know if people understand how many tiers of soccer are in all these other foreign countries like multiple leagues
[00:41:24] there's like four or five leagues that get real fan-based credibility in each one of these countries overseas england has multiple leagues spain has multiple leagues germany has multiple leagues belgium has a league italy has a league then they have another tier under that that gets
[00:41:41] the same kind of clout like the show ted lasso that's a real thing avesy those kind of teams they're small teams but they get a lot of fan base they get a lot of fanfare in their region and then they have the whole ua for
[00:41:55] where all the teams come together and they play against each other they have the champions they will all the champions play together so they get so much out of that sport that it's not basketball nba basketball is not enough because first of all
[00:42:09] you're not going to send one of your marquee franchises there you're going to try doing expansion expansion teams you're not going to send one of your marquee stars you're not going to put if we looked at it right now anthony edwards lucadonchits sga hell james hardin and b
[00:42:26] jason tatum now i'm the yannis none of these guys are going to be on that team you might get a couple of guys from detroit you might get a couple of these guys up the dallas bench maybe you get a few players off of
[00:42:40] you know a few young guys that are coming into the draft because you got expanded but you're not getting any one of these guys who are primed for john moran john yamson those guys aren't going to get um those guys aren't going to be on
[00:42:54] one of these teams so now you're sending over a mediocre team a mediocre product to try to compete with an already established hierarchy in in the sports which is a completely different sport there's one thing if you're sent over another soccer team and then
[00:43:09] maybe they can compete and you can pull people in because it's soccer you're trying to compete with something that's entrenched and ingrained in their society and then it won't if you send a g league squad who knows who's on the g league teams
[00:43:22] so like i just think your best bet is to keep the money in house send move new orleans to vegas and move who else is not really moving i think mephis mephis is pretty like they already moved from vancouver you know and i think i think they're
[00:43:40] getting the draw they have john moran and john moran is big time when he plays uh you need yeah i would move new orleans to vegas just because of vegas you can sell anything like i mean most pop stars when their career is almost over they go to
[00:43:53] vegas and make 100 million dollars uh i think bruno mars out there in debt but he's getting like 58 80 million dollars a year from the mgm gran to do his residency but detroit you detroit's losing everything like there he lost like detroit needs something because if they they still
[00:44:12] got marshal matters and yeah so i would say not houston i mean phoenix is probably good i don't like the clippers aren't moving out of la maybe sacramento i know like that their fan base was basically non-existent for a few years until
[00:44:33] the aaron fox really started to turn it up but you move them up the coast to seattle hornet well i think you got to keep it well if you do that you got to move yeah you can move on hornets to seattle then you
[00:44:46] then you just move memphis to the east just move them out of the west which i think they should be in the east already so look that makes sense so you move charlotte out of from north calana up to seattle you move
[00:44:56] new orleans to vegas and then you run it from there but trying to get this international stuff is just so i think the mba got the continent right i think they got the idea wrong so the idea is to borrow to your point earlier about soccer is
[00:45:15] maybe it's time for a little bit of relegation you know and you know me and residente talked about this a little bit earlier on cups in the gang but using the g-league to get to that purpose because remember when the end season tournament first got
[00:45:30] formed that was my initial takeaway was that i was against it because it's just mba teams playing against mba teams what makes these tournaments like the uefa champions league and so on so forth so great is that you do get italian squads playing against brazilian squads
[00:45:48] so on so forth and you know what you can have your liquor games okay but uh but you know but you know but the thing is but the thing is is that you have a g-league a functioning g league so you know you take your
[00:46:02] teams like this year right the wizards in the pistons are about to be rewarded with top five draft picks off of not trying to win any games at all they try they just run successful at it they didn't try the pistons might have tried the wizards ain't try
[00:46:19] as soon as they signed jordan pool they told you what time it was but then but then again he's getting jess and jefferson money to play like that just think about that but but but when you but when you look at it you have the g-league in place
[00:46:32] you know so just you know for a second for a second you know you bring washington and detroit down to the g-league you bring two teams up and you play with that and let you know get them into free agency sign some people see how that
[00:46:46] goes for a few seasons and i know college football has even talked about that you know being an idea for down the road but trying to put a team in europe i don't know how that works because i feel that you would have to have
[00:46:59] five or six teams just over there to make it worthwhile so that way say you got the lakers and the clippers you send them over to europe you know you have a team in what london paris burland madrid or barcelona both maybe
[00:47:14] you know so you send the lakers and clippers over there for say a two-week window where that's their road trip is their plan against these european teams you know and then they come back home and maybe you give them a seven or eight game
[00:47:28] home stand after that you know but outside of that i don't know how it will work i would get rid of the the g league teams that are here locally and just send them to an nba europe league so 10 teams from the g league that
[00:47:45] generate because not like us a lot of guys get pulled up from the g league get run in the nba mac mc glung only time he gets run is the slam dun contest which he's won two years in a row
[00:47:56] but yet he can't get any burn in the nba but he was g league mvp right she was like what's the point of your g league he was on the lakers roster and the lakers told oh man we really need a guy as explosive that can score
[00:48:08] i'm like you had a guy he literally won the dunk contest two years in a row then you let him go philly is the same way like like why like i think it's just the way the nba uses the talent or lack thereof like the
[00:48:20] their use of the talent relegation is supposed to inspire like competitiveness because it's an established league and it's established teams beneath you that but it does because you're telling that you're telling me that you're going to be demoted so that's the competition or that's the
[00:48:37] competition is to stay here there's a stay here i imagine that you could do that with like the baseball has their minor league and they move players down i don't think any nba owner without i'm gonna say greedy which with the investment that they made
[00:48:54] they made a great investment is going to make them a lot of money however you got involved with an ownership group you're going to make a lot of money i don't think competition is the on the forefront of their minds
[00:49:04] i think we all need to kind of divorce ourselves the money is always going to be there the money the money the money is going to be there and the money is going to create other opportunities the the lakers need to keep their team intact because they don't
[00:49:21] have as much money as the clippers owner he is like a worth like probably like 100 billion by now with all this microsoft stuff so he can do all kinds of stuff the bus family i think they're worth whatever the lakers are worth
[00:49:35] so they need to keep making the lakers better so i think if you bought into detroit and you're part of that ownership group the value of that team is just the team i don't know if it comes away like a bunch of stars there's even you're not going
[00:49:47] to sign off they're not going to sign off on moving a team now maybe move some players down but yeah do you think there's enough talent for expansion to be getting the type of talk that it is no i don't either it's barely
[00:50:04] look at this the the boston celtics are being kind of gobsmacked that's what i say about the way people view their run through the playoffs because the other team lost one of their star players and is it all it's an easy road well if you played more guys
[00:50:20] throughout the year if you played 11 to 12 guys all year long you would know that that guy that you like gilbert arenas in his first few years leagues was on the bench colby his first few years was on the bench like and you could put these guys in the
[00:50:36] game and they're putting up 60 james hardin was coming off the bench and then he ends up dropping 60 point triple doubles when he goes to houston put these guys in the game it's the it's the it's the ownership's responsibility and the coach's staff responsibility to make
[00:50:52] their team you're the best players in the world you're the best 400 players in the world 440 i think the number is put these guys in the game stop getting these guys dressed just to sit on the bench because you're worried about the win loss record
[00:51:05] you're going to need them because when donovan mitchum goes down you need to know if this other guy who's also 6465 who plays a little bit like donovan mitchley plays a very hard in practice you need to know if he can play in
[00:51:19] the game so when it's november 15th and on tuesday night and you got caz versus magic put him in the game give him some minutes like it's 48 minutes in this game you're playing six guys 42 minutes and you got guys sitting on there just getting checks from the owners
[00:51:37] and then when one guy goes oh hey i thought we were done talking about darvin ham i said all the guys oh oh my bad my bad i thought you were talking about darvin ham's methods my bad i got i got lost i'm talking about
[00:51:48] everybody's methods every single coach every single coach is sitting out there with guys that can be in the game that they don't play and then they wonder why they go to start drafting and work out well maybe if you challenge them with another guy
[00:52:02] because like you got a team full of dudes that are six seven to six eleven it's not that many people walk around in that kind of a group some of them have to be good at the sport see and that's why i was trying to
[00:52:12] figure out like you know thinking of non-american options i was trying to think of some places that you know we're not europe that we could look at so you know like mexico city you know more people than new york the only one of the main problems that i
[00:52:27] have with trying to put a team somewhere like that is that these players are already paying taxes in the states that they play in they're already paying taxes in canada now you know you put them somewhere else they're going to be paying taxes somewhere else too
[00:52:41] you got guys living in mexico yeah playing for this team so to me that doesn't work even though mexico city is a lot closer to a lot of places than i thought it was you know like to get from point a to point b
[00:52:55] is not bad you can get to boston in five hours you know you could get to la in three and a half hours so on so forth so it wouldn't be bad for a travel line in germany all of this works for the nfl because nfl plays 17 games
[00:53:11] and they'll play like i said i got have the notes here they played what is it they played 32 games 32 regular season games outside of the united states since 2014 but it's only one game a week logistically all you got to do is sell tickets for one game
[00:53:28] aba games could be two games one week three games and next week you can have playing this stadium you can have four in a week you could be a prime time game and you gotta sell out 20 000 seat arenas you can't do that with a bunch of g-league
[00:53:45] guys that you send down to mexico city to be the mexico city manadors and hopefully that it just works out when you can just send wars i was thinking the ads but okay the mexico city mayans or you know whatever whatever historical group we want to you know
[00:54:07] name them after whatever monitor right right well realistically you gotta look at what you currently have it's like i got a bunch of shoes over here i like them all but i can't be like damn i don't have enough room for these shoes and buy more
[00:54:22] i gotta figure out like i got them stacked up against the wall now like do i need all these over here or do i need to move something else i need to get another shoe rack like i need to figure that part out before
[00:54:32] i'm like let me go get more shoes you can look at the struggling teams you have now depends on how close or how valued they are in the city like oklahoma city is is highly valued team in that city the cleveland cavaliers are highly valued there
[00:54:48] i'm not sure how much the new orleans pelicans are like entrenched into the community that is new orleans because they got lsu football from zion or just in general like even keeping zion i don't know if that's enough but if you move them to vegas
[00:55:04] vegas just in and of itself just sells and like i said if you move sacramento up to seattle they're in the same time zone and i just think i think the simplest answers are normally the best ones well i would like to i'm not sure if
[00:55:16] people in these rooms are kind of understanding that there's a conundrum you have like listen man we got people who talk sports all day long and it's like pulling teeth to get a a real lengthy basketball conversation going that doesn't involve lebron the lakers
[00:55:32] uh some mythical top 10 or who's gonna michael jordan even though he hasn't played in 21 years like that's like that's the comp that's all that's all the conversation you have going really well like i was thinking about it uh because obviously seattle has the nostalgia
[00:55:51] you know people want the supersonics back there you know iconic uniforms you know all that good stuff the space needle you know then you had um they have a team there you know vegas obviously brings in a new market the money you know we have
[00:56:07] the raiders there now in the nfl the a's are about to move there so maybe they back to be back to back to be champions or maybe vegas is the next basketball or sports town to explode but i would think but i would think
[00:56:24] from a money stand from a monetary standpoint and i could be wrong but from a monetary standpoint and just the way news and media work i would think you would want to expand eastern eastward you know from the standpoint of you know out west all you have is
[00:56:42] the lakers right now that really i guess ring bells if you will and seattle an expansion team in seattle is going to take years to become good to the point of people caring about them outside of hey cool seattle but people care
[00:56:58] about seattle as a city as a sports town you have you have mlb yeah so you have mlb you have uh wmba got the nfl all of them seem to have dope uniforms you throw the nba right there it fits right it fits right back in
[00:57:15] the cog is right back in the machine you don't you know you have to resell the area on the idea of sport you don't have to you know it sells itself right vegas is already a destination it's already a destination it's a touristy destination and it already has
[00:57:33] champions it has like oh i mean hell you got even have major league soccer and you have nhl like you have you already have your infrastructure already built as if i'm the nba all you have to do is tell new orleans you're moving after the 24 25 season
[00:57:52] and you have to do nothing else team mobile arena is brand new what is with like less than a few years if you wanted to build their own arena you could because the space you can build it right next to the raider stadium because there's nothing
[00:58:06] right there it's cross from mandalay bay like vegas is expanding you have plenty of space you can make a whole new orleans or vegas whatever you want to call them vegas blackjacks compound because it's so much space you have everything you need there like you
[00:58:21] already have the drive for people people love the sport oakland the athletics on their way there the rate is already there you already had a draft you already had a super bowl they had the pro bowl you know like they just had the f1 i know people in
[00:58:36] the city hated the f1 because it was kind of tearing it down the people who live there but the visitors loved it which is now it's on the f1 circuit so like the city is booming whereas do i take a g-league team to
[00:58:49] london to see if i can make something happen because the potential of getting the european money is higher like now get this this homegrown american green money and keep it moving that way you know i you don't have to change much like i said you move charlotte to
[00:59:02] seattle you move new orleans to vegas you move memphis to the east now you get job moran in prime time on the east coast playing against boston multiple times a year you got maybe you move minnesota to get ant man at east coast time
[00:59:15] why we need to be in these offices because but i was i was thinking about one last thing before we get out of here so um i was trying to think about it you know uh like i said i don't i
[00:59:27] don't even want to get into the europe idea uh i know a few people have brought up vancouver you know but we've already been there done that you know it failed vancouver doesn't have anywhere to build a stadium you know without renovating some
[00:59:41] old marvel of the world um but nobody ever talks about the second biggest city in canada why not montreal they already have the bell center there that sits 22 thousand people you know the nba team there yeah i mean the only problem is
[00:59:58] you know uh quick yeah i was going to say the only problem is it's still on that eastern side where toronto kind of owns that block if you will yeah because i don't know let me check the map real quick because i know montreal is only like
[01:00:12] six hours driving from here you know and i do know that at least in hockey you know montreal and boston is uh must be all in boston have the habs and bruins rivalry i mean it's it's far enough away to where i don't think it impacted it's
[01:00:31] it's a six hour drive toronto is just north of buffalo so they have like an american they have an american like they're they're close to like nagara falls right so so so correct correct that it's so close to buffalo but we're not going to put
[01:00:49] an nba team in buffalo so why not like we're not talking about no no no i'm not talking to you i'm talking to the comment i'm talking to the yeah yeah we're not talking nfl yeah toronto toronto is just north of buffalo right and montreal the thing with
[01:01:03] montreal is just north of it's north of vermont and new hampshire so getting the you don't have a lot of american fans that's not a big basketball area so i don't know how many american basketball fans are going to travel from vermont up to montreal on a regular
[01:01:23] basis where i think getting people from buffalo rochester yeah to toronto i think i think that makes us and toronto is a big city is very much like new york so just selling them on that but montreal's like from what i hear is
[01:01:38] a nice city i just don't know if it's enough if it's if their love for hockey will ever diminish when you bring an nba team there that's what that's what because we've already moved the we moved the baseball team out of montreal for that same reason is like
[01:01:53] it's not really locking in but the canadian back on the table for mlb expansion that's but they had like eight teams on there i saw one there was like eight different cities potentially i saw one and nhl expansion they have phoenix on there i'm like phoenix just lost
[01:02:11] their team and yeah so like i just think the idea of relocation just sounds good but in all actuality i think you have you've squeezed all the blood out of the stone you're going to be able to get i think all the states that have teams
[01:02:29] you're not putting a professional team in iowa we talked about virginia my home state logistically is like if you put in a richmond most of the people live an hour hour and a half two hours down the virginia beach up to richmond granted without traffic you could probably
[01:02:46] get there in an hour and a half but it's inevitable when you when you have that much water and bridges and tunnels and just traffic that's going back and forth with all the military bases just everything else is kind of like that encapsulates that entire region
[01:02:59] you're not gonna be able to put one of virginia carolinas have their team georgia has their team florida has plenty of teams texas has plenty of teams louisiana has their team so it's like alabama has their college teams i don't know what you're gonna be able
[01:03:16] to get other than well going back to the old place or going to the new place is actually booming which is vegas and vegas the other place the other place that i've heard um i didn't i wasn't really going to bring
[01:03:28] it up but since you just said the things that you just said um kansas city was another place that was brought up you know basketball yeah they have the uh team mobile center not to be confused with team mobile arena in vegas you know
[01:03:43] where they already have the big 12 basketball tournament um because i was looking at st louis as well like why kansas city versus st louis but just look at that st louis from a population standpoint over the last five years they've lost over seven percent of their people
[01:04:01] so and that was part of the reason that they moved the like the same this is the same reason that oakland wanted to move out of the athletes would move out of oakland right the rams wanted to move because it was like
[01:04:12] la needs and and never mind la needed another team so they were like we can definitely go there and that sometimes you might have to just do the retread of the more popular area i know they try to do the moving from la to st louis and
[01:04:27] bringing that midwestern ideology into sport we know that's the fallacy now it's all about what wall street thinks of your team and what investment companies think of your team and who wants to advertise with your team so you got to put them places where
[01:04:44] like i say some some of these places just like like the cubs are never going to leave chicago simply because it's chicago cubs right it may be five other places that they could have gone to over the last 20 years where it's like the cubs could have been
[01:05:00] another team in la before anaheim went there they could have gone to this area they could have been one they could have made two teams in oakland just to kind of get that you know another market but it's like you can't
[01:05:11] take the cubs out of chicago you can't take the whites on south yeah there's just certain teams that are synonymous with their cities red socks have never leave in boston right the mets no matter how poor they are to never leave in
[01:05:22] flushing you know i mean like it's just some teams are that blue blood we talk about some teams are are expendable and i think we've highlighted a few of them that are expendable and just you got to make the decision on that and said instead of this this
[01:05:38] dream of having eight more teams like listen man you can barely you're threatening blackouts for local games if the tickets don't sell enough but yet i looked up tickets for the falcons uh eagles game that doesn't happen for four months and it was 389 dollars
[01:05:55] yeah if you want relocation just pop in and be a 2k you know that's how that's what you do we already got the teams it on the internet that people created that you could play with you know saying but on that note you
[01:06:08] know said this has been sports reports disorder like review subscribe share do all the free things do all the fun things do all the great things we will be back on thursday you know which is following game three of the mba finals
[01:06:23] so this is logical yeah which which one is it going to be two one or is it going to be three oh my gut says two one my gut says two one but i'm gonna just go ahead and say three oh i'ma just say three oh because either
[01:06:37] way i think it comes back to boston three one i think it comes back to boston three one i don't know if it's two one and then boston with game four but i think i think boston closes out at home in game five yeah i could see
[01:06:51] that so yeah but we'll be back you know saying i'm sure we'll find other things to talk about in between you know what i mean remember if you got beef with me don't be unfollowing me on twitter if you ain't gonna call me
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