Hour 3 – John Smoltz, Reggie Miller

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: All right, all right, little enthusiasm there. I appreciate that. More phone calls coming up eight seven to seven three DP show. We'll talk to John Smoltz. Smoltzy on the call for the World Baseball Classic and the championship game coming up tonight. Also, Reggie Miller will stop by a little bit later on with his thoughts on the NBA the Association Lakers over the Rockets last night. I was watching that and they're now a game and a half ahead of the Rockets for third place in the Western Conference, and they won six in a row. By the way, the Spurs won their fiftieth game of the season last night. They haven't won fifty games in a season since twenty sixteen. And watched a little bit of Jalen Brown putting up forty one last night eighteen in the fourth quarter as Boston picked up the win against the Suns. And this is something I did not know. Steve Kerr got his six hundred that's six hundredth career victory. And there's only one other coach in NBA history who has six hundred wins as a player, six hundred wins as a coach. The only two people in NBA history who won at least six hundred games as a player six hundred as a coach Marvin pat Riley.

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Speaker 4: No, Todd pil Jackson. No, that's a good guess.

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Speaker 2: This guy had a one of the stranger jump shots. Not a big time player, played for a great team, played for a great team. Don Nelson, Nelly as they like to call him, playing for the Celtics, of course, legendary NBA head coach. All right eight seven to seven to three, DP Show operator Tyler sitting by O take your calls. Good morning if you're watching on Peacock or the NBC Sports networker listening on our radio affiliates around the country, including iHeartRadio and Fox Sports Radio. John Smoltz on the call with Joe Davis. Last night, World Baseball Classic the Semifinals Venezuela against Italy Team USA playing for the title tonight on Fox at eight eastern against Venezuela. You know, the atmosphere is what surprised me probably the most. John, I don't know if I said, what's the one thing that you were surprised at so far with the Classic?

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Speaker 5: Is what?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I would say, first of all, the star factor of the amount of players have bought in and play, especially with TEAMSA, that's probably the most we've ever had. You know, a lot of guys want to dip their toe in. You got to be all in or not. And that is what I've always seen from the countries that have gathered their stars, because that is the most important thing that to them. The intensity and the passion has gotten more and more and the loudness. Of course, the where we are in Miami helps because a lot of the people live here that represent those countries. So that to me has been single handedly very very obvious and very apparent who they're rooting for and how many people's out. It outweighs the American fans, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: How do you build a team like this not sure who's going to play. Maybe the countries it's a little bit easier for them to build their team.

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Speaker 4: But for Team.

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Speaker 2: USA, how do they go about, you know, putting the roster together in future World Baseball Classics.

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Speaker 5: It starts a year in advance. That's the hard part. There's all kinds of restraints and handcuffs. I don't know why you'd want to be a manager. First and foremost, there's absolutely no upside unless you want to manage in the big leagues. And it starts with a star player buying in. I think the more these tournaments have been played, you can dislike a lot of things that come along with it, and I do, But from a tournament standpoint, you don't have the freedom to do whatever you want, so you've got to take what you get. So if you get a star like Aaron Judge who's bought in and he starts talking to players and Bryce Harper, that's how it works. And look what Schemes has done at his age. The stock has gone through the roof. I just can't even imagine. You know, when it starts happening like that and you get pictures to buy in, then all of a sudden you get to showcase what you have, and then the US pressure to win it gets better because they're more equipped to win it with the players they have.

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Speaker 2: You kind of sounded ominous with Paul's schemes, where the way he throws, how he throws, you know that it's it's kind of inevitable. It feels like that he's gonna break down at some point. Is that summarizing what your thoughts are with him?

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Speaker 5: No, I mean that's the summarization of what we now come to get used to. Nobody's escaped it. He might be an outlier. Shoot, he carries a tank on his back when he's warming up, a lot of things. I like that he does because he's so big and he has such great opportunity to dominate a baseball game. But what I'm more impressed is the mentality of what he's doing and how he's doing it that in and out of himself can get you away from the epidemic of injuries that we're seeing in pitchers. Because he's different, he's unique, he's six five, sixty six whatever. I don't think buying into the narrative that it's going to happen. Now. We as broadcasters and former players, we report that this is happening at an alarming rate and it's not connected to the World Baseball Classic. I know that's what a lot of people want to say. It's like, well, why would I want to put my player through a World Baseball Classic when the injury rates are they are. The reason is because we've never even addressed it. So if you don't address it, and I've been banging that drum for years, I'm glad to see players come into this event and say I'm in. I want to play for my country. I'm gonna pitch the way I possibly can, to be the best that I can and deal with the mental toughness that you got to have because there's all kinds of noise, Dan, you can buy into a million of theories if you let yourself. And I think when I've seen this Team USA, they're not doing it and they know they have a mission. They know they need to win because they're expected to.

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Speaker 2: He's John Spoltz to be on the call with Joe Davis tonight. It'll be on Fox Team USA playing for the title against Venezuela.

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Speaker 5: Hew threatening is Venezuela. Well, they've got a lot of star part of themselves, but they also have a ton of emotion. You can play in a tournament like this with that kind of emotion because it's condensed. You can't do it in the rever season. You'd be wiped out. And so their ability and their belief. Look, they're trying to do something they never done, and for this tournament history, it's been kind of dominated by Japan. The US has a chance to get their second. But what it would mean for the country of Venezuela and everything that had gone through and all the people that live here. You can't help but be infectious about how they are just gravitated towards that emotion. This look I had about ten twelve years ago, I.

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Speaker 6: Probably would be bothered by this.

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Speaker 5: Winning of World Baseball Classic is more important than winning a World Series. I get it now, though. I get it for the country. I get it for the players to come from that country. Totally understand why their passion and the importance of this weighs a little bit higher than an ultimate goal in Major League Baseball when in.

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Speaker 4: A World Series, how do you make this bigger?

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Speaker 5: I think you make it bigger when you do it in the middle of the season, shut down for a week. I really I've been saying that for years. I think it's the perfect spot to showcase the international talent. You'd have everybody wearing that uniform. They'd be in mid season form. There'll be no restrictions. You truly get to see the goliath going against the goliath without them coming out and throwing a million arms. I don't know that we'll ever get there. I hope we do. Hockey did it last year. I didn't miss one second of it. I was glued to it. Is the most incredible event that I've ever watched. When you see what those players were doing for that country, and it was much more condensed. We could do the same thing. That's how you make it better. You can allow what this tournament has done has accomplished its goals. In Italy, baseball is going to be thought of differently.

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Speaker 7: There.

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Speaker 5: You've got all other countries that are bringing baseball in the forefront when other sports were really kind of marquee and king that has worked. Is it the perfect timing? No, his spring training and all these clubs think about managing Team USA. You got thirty bosses. You got thirty bosses telling you what their players can and can't do. It's a very difficult situation. But given the circumstances. This has been an EPI year. It's probably the best tournament we've seen in a long time.

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Speaker 4: Have you talked to the commissioner about this idea?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, many years, many times. Absolutely. I just think it's a no brainer. But we got the Olympics, We've got other things that are that are probably getting away right now. But the international flavor in our game is so good. Even if you just did an international World versus USA, you can't come up with a roster that wouldn't be epic either way. And people, look, I think our All Star game is still the best all Star game of any sport. It's the only one worth watching. We play it closer to the regular season and everyone's still trying to figure out how to spruce it up. Well, this is how you win.

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Speaker 2: That would be great, though, Just do like the NBA did with the USA versus the World.

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Speaker 5: Yep, and you could do two games the wrong If you shut the game down for a week and give everybody the break they need. Is the season is long, you could you could do so many things to promote within that week and own that week, not to mention, and I told you this before, and the weekend of that week off have the Hall of Fame so that everybody can be aware of past, the present and be connected.

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Speaker 4: Did you fill out your bracket yet?

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Speaker 6: Not yet.

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Speaker 5: I don't even know.

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Speaker 4: I didn't even know today was Saint Patty's Day.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't even know.

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Speaker 5: I've been on a two week road trip and I haven't even looked at one thing. I do know that the bracket that my team I root for is in the hardest bracket.

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Speaker 6: Go figure.

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Speaker 5: But that's just the way it is.

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Speaker 2: But you have supreme confidence in tom Iszeld in Michigan State.

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Speaker 5: Supreme confidence. I only wish I could go to Buffalo and watch it in person, but I can't get there.

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Speaker 4: Have fun tonight, John, we'll do. It's going to be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: That's John Smoltz. He'll be on the call with Joe Davis tonight. That'll be on Fox. They started eight Eastern Team USA versus Venezuela. All right, some phone calls in here. Then it feel like everybody throws. Now, get used to be if you got to ninety five and then everybody was thrown ninety five.

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Speaker 4: Now it's one hundred.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: See, I just saw a video sometime in the last like two weeks on social media of a kid in high school. He was like fifteen sixteen years old hitting one hundred and one yea, god, that is.

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Speaker 4: Crazy if you threw.

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Speaker 8: I remember we faced one kid in high school that threw ninety miles an hour and he uh, he went to college, but eventually like blew his arm out and it was like seeing a unicorn or like a meteorite just fell from the earth, Like.

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Speaker 4: Holy crap, you see how fastest gets throwing.

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Speaker 2: I told the story, and I just knew his last name was Nagel, and not Danny Nagel, but Nagel. And when we were growing up, it was like we knew if we were gonna get through and go far with our team, you had to get through this left hander. And I remember that we ended up with two hits and we ended up beating him one to nothing. So I tell this story and next thing I know, John Harbaugh he sends me a text and he says, Hey, I got a couple of friends I went to college with they would like to come to your studio. I go, okay, they're going to be in the area. They're from Cincinnati, and I go, oh, Okay, next thing, I know, three guys walk in. One of the guys says, I'm Nagel. I go, you're Nagel. He goes, yeah, I said, we beat you one to nothing. And I'm like, what are the odds that John Harbaugh knows the guy that we were playing against facing a couple of times when I was growing up, and he went and he pitched at Michigan and I think he ended up hurting his arm. But it's one of those where you go, Galilee, that guy is throwing some serious cheese here.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Paulie, I was looking up the stats. Mason Miller, the great relief pitcher for USA. He's already thrown thirty five pitches of a one hundred or over.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thirty five.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, he doesn't really throw that many under one hundred.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Skeens, I mean, Skeens is a big guy. But there it feels like they're all destined to have Tommy John.

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Speaker 4: You just are.

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Speaker 2: But it used to be a rotator because I had rotator and labor damage. Now it's Tommy John's surgery.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Paulie, Mason Miller are throwing thirty five pitches over one hundred. The rest of the teams in the WBC have thrown thirty four over one hundred. That's every other pitcher why heikes.

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Speaker 2: But at what point does it become normal for the hitter to see one hundred? Because I remember when I saw ninety and it was like, that's different. And then if you would go to the batting cage and dial it up to ninety five, and you're like, it would take you probably twenty pitches to be able to time it, to catch up to it, just to put it in play. And then you know they're throwing ninety five, but they're not throwing ninety five right down the middle, or they're throwing breaking balls or sliders or whatever. And now, but you know, these guys will hit one hundred miles an hour. If they know where it's going to be, they'll hit it. But it's the other pitches that are the difference between being an All Star, being a Hall of Famer, being a cy Young winner. And you know that's where hey throw one hundred down the middle and major league kidders are going to crush it because they've seen a hundred. We have it like you if you get in the batter's box and just watch somebody throw just ninety and you hear that ninety and then you tack on ten miles more and then you hope to see it like it's it's a different experience when you're like, damn, and if.

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Speaker 4: You get hit, that thing really hurts.

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Speaker 2: Rob Dibble hit Tim Tuffle in the back when Dibble was with the Reds and he hit tofle and Timmy was this second baseman for the Mets, and I remember Rob Dibble telling me the story that I don't know what Tuffle did or somebody with the Mets did, but you know, Dibble came in one of the Nasty boys and he threw a pitch and he said it hit Tim Tuffell in the back and actually stayed there. Momentarily, it hit him in the back and stayed and then it dropped down to the ground, and then there was this big altercation there.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Pauling, I went back and watched the video.

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Speaker 9: Tuffell wants to run out hit Dibble, but he's like, yeah, like three seconds.

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Speaker 2: Denver Broncos just picked up Jalen Waddell for the Miami Dolphins. According to chef Die what Yeah, gave up their first round pick this year and I think a fourth or a fifth round pick in the future. But boy, the Dolphins rebuilding and that's a great pick up for the Denver Broncos to get Jayalen Wattle. That's bringing Reggie Miller. Reggie on the call for the Warriors Nicks on Sunday tonight. He's got cabs at the Bucks eight eastern on NBC and he what do you remember about your March Madness experience.

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Speaker 6: I think my senior year going against in the first round Dan Marlen. I believe it was Central Michigan beating them and then thinking that we were gonna have a clear cut sweet sixteen berth because we played good old best name Finnis Dimbo in Wyoming, thinking Okay, we're gonna run through them, and then we were gonna get the matchup that everyone wanted to see because we never played one another. It was a great anthony and you and LV and those high octane running rebels. That was the matchup we overlooked. Finnis, he cooked us, he cooked me, and we lost the Finnis Dimbo in one and the Cowboys. That's probably what I remember most of my senior year.

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Speaker 4: But how does that work?

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Speaker 2: Explain that experience that here's Finnish Denbo, who wasn't a good NBA player. You became a Hall of famer, but on that day he was a hall of Fame player against you guys.

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Speaker 6: And that's the beauty of March Maddys. When it doesn't matter what seede you are. Remember you're playing on neutral sites, you're not playing at home, and everyone is somewhat equal because of these neutral sites, and we overlooked Wyoming and this was a blockbuster game for them. And the Finnish Devo punched his ticket to the NBA from that game. And it was a disappointing loss for my ruins.

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Speaker 2: How long does it take to get over a loss? Well, that was your last game.

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Speaker 6: It was I fouled out, I didn't play great. It's difficult, but you dust yourself off and move on. But it's one of those losses that you hope you grow from. And sometimes when you have losses like that, that's your best teacher. Yeah, and you learn from it and you move on.

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Speaker 2: Better team in your opinion, more talented running rebels or the Fab five?

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Speaker 6: Wow, very similar in terms of how they approached the game. Now are we talking about the one U and L the team that went undefeated and won the championship versus Duke Because that team was unbelievable? Were Grandmama, Stacey Hogben, Greg Anthony? I mean they were loaded. But in terms of culture, right, I mean, you've got to think of the Fab five. I know they didn't win a championship, but they changed the landscape and how we thought with Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, my boy, Jalen Rose. So culture wise, I'll go with the Fab five. But I mean you got to remember those running Rebels teams. They did win a championship.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but more talented. If I go starting five Fab five against the starting five at UNLV, I.

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Speaker 6: Would probably more talented would be the Fab five.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I would say the same thing. I mean, Larry was great. I thought Stacey was gonna be even better.

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Speaker 6: He was good. He was good, but because of his length, you thought at six eighty six nine, yeah, seven foot two wingspan, but he was good in the NBA. He wasn't great, he was. He was good. Greg Anthony had a good NBA career. But let's face it, those that Fab five team, Jayden Rose was great. We know about seweb Juwan Howard had a long NBA career now coaching. So yeah, I think career wise, you go with the Fab five.

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Speaker 2: Talking to REGGI Miller, the Hall of Famer, you know, I don't go out of my way to talk about the Lakers, but when they do something and they're winning, and they're you know, a game and a half up on Houston, So now you know, if they get into the top four, now you know, maybe maybe there can be a magical run here. But I don't know what's different in the last you know, two weeks or so, they won six in a row, and we've seen Lebron almost embrace that third wheel of you know, I'm going to defer, I'm going to pass, I'm going to let these two guys. Is it that simple, because they still have to play defense.

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Speaker 6: It's that simple, And you're right, at the end of the day, the defense will either do them in or that'll be the defining moment for them. And I think they're starting to understand how the roles will be situated because Lebron was out for those few games, that's when they started this win streak, and between Austin Reeves and Luca, they were them Offensively. Let's give Marcus Smart a lot of credit. He's not getting enough. People aren't talking about what he's doing at both ends of the floor. Defensively, he's been unbelievable for them. And on top of that, because of all the double team you know, Luca and when h Reeves drives and penetrates him knocking down big time three point shots, you know, when he was with Boston and when he was winning defensive player. He's he almost is reverting back to that Marcus Smart. So I think guys are starting to understand they're getting something out of deandurry Ayton in the middle, something that we hadn't seen all season. So guys are starting to figure it out. But at the end of the day, Theodore, the Lakers are going to be judged by their defense and last night how they played defensively in that when on the road in Houston in a huge game with you know, there's only a half game, a game separating them. I know they play again on Wednesday, which will be another big time game, But the Lakers are starting to There's always expectations with the Lakers, just like with Boston. There's always going to be expectations to win. And we dissect every single thing they do. Because one has eighteen championships, the other one at seventeen. That just comes with the territory off playing with one of these blue blood NBA franchises.

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Speaker 4: The SGA. Foul baiting.

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Speaker 2: You know, some players have brought this up as a player who did this and you know openly admits that he did it. What does the NBA do about the way SGA plays.

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Speaker 4: If anything, I don't get it.

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Speaker 6: I don't understand what foul beating is. We didn't say this about MJ, and MJ went to the line ten plus times. James Harden was in that same category, went to the line ten plus times. Yann Is is he. I don't understand this. You play the game and you try to take advantage of whatever rules or how they're calling the game. Games changed from night to night. I know there's a general consensus of how you're supposed to play, but you have different officials each and every game. He is not would you call it rage.

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Speaker 4: Baiting and great foubating falbating?

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Speaker 6: Every single night he's attacking the defense. Are some calls questionable, absolutely, But I just don't get it. Why he gets called out all the time. Last night, Jalen Brown's been, you know, calling this out all the time. He shot twenty one falls last night.

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Speaker 4: Well maybe he's learning from SGA how to bate.

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Speaker 6: Then thank you learn and adapt, Learn and adapt, that's what you've got to do.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 2: I brought this up and I got some criticism that I thought that maybe SGA is kind of a younger Damar DeRozan. Now Demarta Rosen has almost twenty seven thousand points. Yeah, not exciting. Yeah, methodical, consistent gonna get you twenty at least, which is what SGA gives you and future Hall of Famer. Yes, yes, Now we don't talk about anything else with SGA except for his scoring. Nobody brings up passing, nobody brings up defense, nobody brings up any of that. It's just he is a bucket. He is going to score on anybody. And I thought Demarta Rosen has been doing this. Now he hasn't done it for great teams. Maybe not that you know, anywhere near the level of SGA is an MVP. But is that a fair offensive comparison between Demarta Rosen and SGA.

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Speaker 6: It's fair, But I will say this, He's just not a bucket SGA. He's been top five in steals, so he does play the he is a two way player.

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Speaker 5: And.

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Speaker 6: He leads his team and assists, so he does distribute the rock. But why is he getting all this hate?

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Speaker 5: To me?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's not a hate, that's not hate. I'm just saying we always look at a comp. I don't know who the comp is for SGA. We do that for all of these players. Now, certain players there isn't a comp like Joker, there is no comp Giannis, there is no comp.

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Speaker 6: Well, if Damar de Rosen is the comp to SGA, and I'll just ask you this, if you flip flop them and you put Damar on that OKAC team, do they win a chip? Are they fifty four wins right now? If you just flip them right now? Are even making a younger Damar because Damar is a little bit older. Are they still winning the chip with Jamar and his SJAA and his Sacramento better.

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Speaker 2: Well, they would be better, but they're not winning any thing. But if Jamorrow was in OKAC, I think that OKAC team is that good that he wouldn't be You know. Another thing is SGA is a great closer. I mean we haven't seen DeMar Derouzen in games where you go.

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Speaker 6: Oh dear is a great closer too.

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Speaker 4: Well, he just had it.

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Speaker 2: He hadn't played in big games where we noticed it. With SGA we did see it. So maybe it is a it's men as a compliment, but it's just because they're mid range. They can get to the hoop. Nothing fancy, just it's kind of like they just.

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Speaker 6: They just go about their business and both our bucket gears. Don't get me wrong, people need to understand remember Jamarga Rosen when he was in Toronto. When he was in Toronto, he was a straight bucket gear and again the whole trade for Kawhi and they would he he just hasn't been on the national stage long enough for people to understand that. But remember twenty seven thousand points in the NBA. Yeah, no, people need to remember that, all right.

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Speaker 4: Who surpasses at a Bio? Yeah, Bam. Out of Bio's eighty three points, who can?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 2: How many players do you think could get eighty four points or more?

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Speaker 6: I think Luca could. I believe ant Man could. I believe a Jason Tatum could. But things will have to fall into place. And again I know you and I were probably gonna go there on this conversation with Bam, I talked about this Sunday night about Spolstra and Bam. The criticism kind of taken for how they got to the eighty three. You're a shooter, you were a scorer, Theodore and I want Paul as I'm talking to look this up. If you got thirty one at the end of one, if you got forty three at halftime, I believe he had seventy early in the fourth? Am I correct on that, Wally?

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Speaker 4: And sixty four after three.

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Speaker 6: Yet sixty four after three seventy with l nine or ten minutes left in the fourth, are you kidding me? You have to at least attempt to go for it by any means necessary.

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Speaker 2: Well, at that point you can't accidentally get sixty four. You can't do it in a gimmicky way. Right, he didn't do that, and that he didn't.

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Speaker 6: There was no gimmicks to the sixty four. So now from sixty four to eighty three, that's where he gets a little murky or muddy. But I do not care. I know in the fourth he was only like one of six from the field, and most of those points came from the free throw line.

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Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, I have no problem with you know, the Wizards are the ones who should be embarrassed.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, not Bam out.

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Speaker 6: Of bio, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Now I did asking this.

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Speaker 2: I said, did you think about stopping at eighty one because your idol Kobe had eighty one? He said no, No, because Kobe would want me to k for now I was reversed Kobe's blowing by eighty one.

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Speaker 6: And people think, you know, when I said that that I was hating our cod I would never hate on Kobe and his accomplishment. It uplifts that performance to me. It uplifts what Kobe did him getting eighty three. I mean, that's unbelievable for them to be one two. We're not gonna look at Kobe's eighty one and forget about it. It was two totally different games. Kobe needed every one of those eighty one. Yeah, in that performance versus Toronto Vams was a little different. But in five ten fifty are we even gonna be talking about that. We're just gonna look at the stat sheet and say, oh my god, damn that a Bio had eighty three kudos eighty three?

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Speaker 2: I know, come on, But as he said, he goes, look, I didn't fit the agenda because I said, why does it feel like you have to apologize for getting eighty three? And he said, because you don't expect me to get those numbers, and therefore people have a problem with it, like he had to do it in a gimmicky way.

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Speaker 6: Right, And that's why you should almost reverse that. We should be celebrating him, like, oh my god, a guy that never ever gets the shine. It's been a great defensive player, a great team guy, rebounded defender, has one of gold at the Olympics for our nation. We should be celebrating Bam, like this is great. I don't care how you got it, Bam, congratulations because you'll probably never ever have. His career high was what forty one time? Once? Yeah, so why can't we celebrate I don't care how he got it.

00:31:52
Speaker 4: He got it, Okay, but celebrate that too.

00:31:55
Speaker 2: I always thought if you were going to beat Kobe's you had to be able to shoot the three. It had to be ball dominant, you had to be able to create your shot, and the game had to be close, had to be competitive. And so I see Luca as a guy who could go for that.

00:32:13
Speaker 5: I can't.

00:32:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he's got the talent to do it.

00:32:17
Speaker 6: Ant like Tatum shoots enough threes.

00:32:20
Speaker 2: Like, but you have to want to do that. You have to have a coach who lets you do that. You don't go out on the floor and go I'm putting up seventy tonight. You just get into a rhythm where you go, all right, I got a good game going.

00:32:35
Speaker 6: Look and also too, and I saw this. You know, Kobe at one time had a sixty point through three and was up big, and he set out, sat out ye play. Thompson had the same thing. He has sixty through three and was sat out. I think a young Stephan Curry, a twenty eight year old Stephan Curry, not thirty eight. I think a twenty eight year old Stephan Curry in today's game, the way everyone's shooting, you know, how he the way he approached the game, could get eighty four.

00:33:10
Speaker 4: It's just crazy.

00:33:11
Speaker 6: It is crazy. It's crazy.

00:33:14
Speaker 2: But you look at the point totals. Reg teams get one thirty and lose.

00:33:19
Speaker 6: Do you remember in the nineties and early two thousands, coach is saying, we can't give up thirty point quarters. Thirty point quarters, that's you got four minutes left in the.

00:33:29
Speaker 4: First that's what standard practice. Now standard now, well, for a while was first team to one hundred, our first team to ninety.

00:33:37
Speaker 6: Lawler's law, right, let's do one hundred.

00:33:40
Speaker 4: That was that was banned.

00:33:41
Speaker 6: Now it's nothing.

00:33:43
Speaker 2: It's a nightly Basis Calves and the Bucks eight Eastern on NBC and Peacock. Thank you, Reggie. Good luck to your UCLA Bruins in the tournament. Let's go men's and women for the Bruins.

00:33:58
Speaker 6: Men and all right, let's do it.

00:34:02
Speaker 2: That's Reggie Miller, the Hall of Famer. We'll take a break, last call for phone calls. What we learned, what's in store tomorrow after this.

00:34:09
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00:34:21
Speaker 2: Man, that's pretty good food, pretty good, you know. Dylan just whipped it up. The bangers and Cole Cannon, get us soda bread and Irish Jesus.

00:34:31
Speaker 4: Who hasn't better than we do? Danny boy oh Lan the pipes, the pipes. Let's see, let's see.

00:34:47
Speaker 6: What you know.

00:34:48
Speaker 2: The Jalen Wattle trade that just went down about forty five minutes ago. Adam Schefter reporting Wattle traded from the Dolphins to the Broncos. And uh, this is what's when I said, I hope Malik Willis doesn't go to the Dolphins if they're going to basically rebuild, Like why, why are you spending the money on Malik Willis when I would have had Quinn Ewers be the starting quarterback. He doesn't cost me anything, and I wait until maybe next year to get a quarterback. Why am I now? Malik Willis isn't costing you a lot. He's you know, less than twenty five million dollars. But you're bringing in a guy who is ready to win.

00:35:28
Speaker 4: He I mean, he wants to prove himself.

00:35:32
Speaker 2: I don't understand the philosophy there new coach new GM and my philosophy would have been I would have traded Jalen Waddle last year if I could have, Like, you can't sort of half asset.

00:35:45
Speaker 4: You got to like, what are we doing here?

00:35:47
Speaker 2: And if you're going to start trading away your marquee guys, you're gonna cut you know, Tyreek Hill and get it rid of Tua And okay, you're not winning with Jalen Waddle.

00:35:59
Speaker 4: Trade him.

00:35:59
Speaker 2: I think it's smart. It's just like Max Crosby with the Raiders. It's nice to have him. You're not winning anything. He can help you get draft picks and maybe they still trade him. Maybe somebody is willing to give you a similar deal than what the Ravens backed out on. But the Jalen Waddle deal to Denver, that's a great pickup.

00:36:18
Speaker 4: Yes, Marvin, hopefully he doesn't fail his physical.

00:36:20
Speaker 2: Ooh yeah, all right, too soon, so sorry, all right, let me see Meg in New York. Him, Meg, what's on your mind today?

00:36:32
Speaker 10: Hey, first time, long time, five six and let's leave it at that. I have a take on birth dates. I say, holiday birthdates or notable birthdates can actually be really great, but like you said, Dan, it really has to do with the date itself. So my mom's birthday Dowentime's day, someone, my sister in law's tax day not fun. And mine is April Fool's Day, so that could kind of go either way. But I like the attention. So it's been a fun date for a birthday. No one's ever really done a great prank, but that's okay. I'm happy April fool turn of fifty seven in a couple of weeks, and I'm cancer free, so you guys, you're all.

00:37:16
Speaker 4: Right, alrighty more important? All right? Meg?

00:37:20
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, Meg, alrighty, thank you, Meg, thank you for sharing. Let's see Jay and Syracuse. Hi, Jay, what's on your mind?

00:37:30
Speaker 7: Howdy Dan, Howdy Dan?

00:37:32
Speaker 11: Nuts?

00:37:32
Speaker 7: And how do you do the brgs? I what's up to Meg? Because my birthday is also April Fool's Day, taking aduce my whole life, but I'll take it.

00:37:46
Speaker 2: It's okay, all right, Well, thank you Jay. Brian in Indiana, Hi Brian.

00:37:52
Speaker 7: Hey Dan, five eleven, two fifteen high mootor early hips.

00:37:59
Speaker 6: All right?

00:37:59
Speaker 7: Say we had the ABA ball and the break and uh, there's a great doc on Prime called Soul Power that'd be right in your wheelhouse about the ABA and I think you'll love it.

00:38:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, I watched it already, but thank you Brian. That's why I got to the topic of that ABA ball. The NBA should adopt that. And we had a listener who sent in an ABA ball, the official ABA ball, and it's gorgeous. Plus if you want to learn to shoot, learn rotation, having that red white and blue ball, it's great for that.

00:38:31
Speaker 12: Yes, Mark, you should bring us up to the commissioner. They should do an a BA night, a red white and blue ball. Maybe the Nuggets versus the Spurs to ABA teams or the Pacers against the Spurs a B A a BA ball old school.

00:38:45
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you a blue bloop bloop bloop on that. That's really I think that'd be awesome to have an ABA night.

00:38:51
Speaker 4: It's a quad bloop yeah, boop bloop bloop. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a rare quad. Yeah.

00:38:58
Speaker 2: You put me You're the you know you're quad one win, You're the quad god. Yeah, thank you. I love that.

00:39:08
Speaker 4: Jeff and Dayton, Hi, Jeff, what's on your mind?

00:39:12
Speaker 7: Hey?

00:39:12
Speaker 6: Dan?

00:39:12
Speaker 13: First time long time I will be at the first four games in Dayton tonight. Not the playing games. These guys have earned the right to be there. This time of year always brings a twofold question for me. First, why does the max swax Nacs of the world bother with the conference championship tournament? I can't believe they're making much money at it and they end up sending their fourth or fifth best team instead of their first they's been.

00:39:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you run the risk of that now. I always talk about these conference championship whether it's football, where you know you might not be sending your best team because they don't win the conference championship. Certainly in basketball, but it you know, it has to make money or they wouldn't be doing it. Broncos are getting Jalen Waddle. Denver gets Wattle the Dolphins fourth round pick in this year's draft. Miami receives the Broncos first round pick, along with their late third and fourth round picks in this year's draft. All right, so Denver paid and hopefully Miami can do something with that. Is there this day in sports history, Paul.

00:40:17
Speaker 9: One of your favorites Dan two thousand and five MLB players spoke at a steroid committee hearing the House Government reform. Mark McGuire, Jose Canseco, Sammy Sosa, and Raffie Palmarow participated.

00:40:29
Speaker 2: Mike McGuire, Sammy Soussa, Todd. Would you learn today?

00:40:34
Speaker 11: Carlos Boozer told us with two hip replacements, coach k Once came into the Duke locker room doing a summer assault to motivate his team to attack.

00:40:40
Speaker 4: It's a wild story, Seaton. What did you learn today?

00:40:43
Speaker 7: Yeah?

00:40:43
Speaker 4: That house was Carlos Boozer's first big purchase.

00:40:45
Speaker 12: Yeah, Marvin John Smoltz was the WBC that be held mid.

00:40:50
Speaker 4: Season, Paul nnis Dembo Todd, What did I learn today?

00:40:54
Speaker 11: Daryl Chicago believes Justin Field will be a superstar someday and he can't wait to say I told you so it Everyone.

00:40:59
Speaker 2: Go to dan Patrick dot com you can take part in our bracket challenge. Have a great day, everybody, for Fritzie, Seat and Marrow. Paula yours truly talk to you tomorrow