1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Sports Change and Evolve as Time Moves On: May 6th

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America, a 93-7-a-ticket and the ticketfm.com. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, brought you by Canopy Street Market. Hey, yo, that one, it's Susan. Caracers with the family celebrating, and so we swapped lunch hours. he'll be back tomorrow Wednesday, Thursday, Friday for Caraker here on the

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gorgeous, gorgeous Tuesday. 70 plus for lunchtime could get as high as 79, 80. The picture window has been busy and active today. Folks are out. The sun is out. The weather's great. Folks are dressing accordingly. Lincoln downtown is pretty, pretty.

There's a good definition for it. Lots to cover in the hour. And I wanted to spend some time. there was an opportunity to dive into several pools. First shout out to WW last night in Omaha. Great crowd, great show, great content. Bach was just, you know, yelling from the rooftop about Paul Heyman's promo last night. And I thought it was a series of great promos.

He was one of two that I thought at some point. that they were going to have difficulty catching their breath. It was interesting. Seamus made his return, and I thought there was a moment where Seamus had to gather. Like he was, he was gas, man.

He was gassed and had to get through it. But there were several wrestlers that had that sort of, Paul Heyman had it and Jay Husser with the line of the night. Bro, you okay? But what's up with the spray tans? Yeah, I don't know. Braun Breaker, especially.

What? Like, bro, we know who your parents are. are you doing? You look orange. Well, him and Paul Heyman. I was like, Heyman, bro. I know you want to be a part of the bloodline. I know you want to be, but calm down. Of course, the great text from Kevin Owens. Hey, man.

Seth, you're going to spray tantu to be like, is it like a brute thing? Is that what you're doing? But a great night, nonetheless. And of course, a great weekend of combat sports here in Lincoln with a fantastic dynasty combat. that card at PBA, an incredible card at the complex with Tommy Arceaga. Great, great crowd, great promo, great events all the way around. A great weekend in Lincoln.

And again, Husker softball doing its thing, setting itself up for a high seed in the Big Ten tournament. They will play the winner of Penn State and Iowa. Penn State and Iowa play Wednesday. Huskers will play the winner of that at 11 o'clock Thursday. And then Husker baseball with an opportunity tonight to get above 500 against the blue evil empire. And I think it's a huge say.

But I was listening to Austin and Nick in their show last night. Pretty good baseball roundup of what's going on where the Huskers are. and what they so that has stepped in as um tom chattel takes a break from his uh six o'clock monday show those two will take you through baseball season uh in that time slot pretty good very informative um and point out a thing that you know nick had to say um you need husker baseball needs a three in one week and i'm on the side that as a baseball coach i i'm going one and no four times. I need to find a way going into the Big Ten tournament to learn how to win games,

no matter situation and circumstance. And Husker softball has an opportunity. I mean, this is an opportunity with Jordan Ball. Jordy gives them an opportunity to be in every game, in every series, and every matchup, and they have an opportunity. And I don't think it's them sneaking into the Big Ten.

I think it's an opportunity they have a chance to win the Big Ten. getting matchups. And tournament play is about who's playing well in that matchup and it's a big week. But there's also tons of stuff to go on. Yeah. Kavskir, you're right. It's his Shabish return and I missed it.

They're going to bring back the League of Nations. Ruseb, Seamus, Del Rio signed. Yes, he did. Right? And then, yeah, they could. they could. Rusev had his first match on Rahn five years too last night.

But what do you, what do they do? Like, I don't know what that is. I don't know what, because if you let Braun-Strauman go and you keep Otis and then you resign Roussev and Jack Orio, that'd be interesting too. You bring back Jack Dorado. Alberta.

Alberto, not Rio. I don't know. I'm always intrigued by the, the, the, the roster the decisions and there's stuff that goes on behind the scenes and I know that. Well, they don't, that's the interesting thing and coming from the, you know, the obviously territorial days and especially, you know, going into the 90s, it was always the big men on the roster. They don't really have a big, they have omas, but they don't use him. They don't have a giant right now. Well, which is another story. Because he went over to Japan and showed out.

They made him a champion over there. And then you, you pulled him back, made them give up the championship and then not used him. like it's just like okay it's it's the stuff that goes on beyond and you go okay um it'll play out and i try not to be that much of a mark that uh i have to go on the emotional roller coaster with them uh but you know fair enough fair enough um i thought that last night's NBA playoffs and NHL playoffs were as good as any that i've seen in a long time uh box Celtics did not have the desired result. But I thought the game added so much more intrigue to the, to the postseason.

Because to have both road teams figure out a way to win against the high seeds was good for TV ratings. But the quality of basketball was better, the style of basketball. This was a physical NBA East. conference semifinal basketball game. That nothing was given, everything earned, several different runs, several different swings, style of play, contrast of play even within the game. Right?

They went from the up and down three point shooting to we're going to get physical in the box and beat each other up. Now we're going to close out and put bodies on. Rebounding became a big part of it. Defensive stops. And, of course, ending the final. possession in overtime with an absolutely grown man defensive play to just roll up, close out, and grab the, just snatch the ball from an elite score.

I thought it was spectacular. And in the Nuggets game missed free throws being such a part of it. I thought it was interesting to watch it play out because I kept wondering why you were continuing to say, we're just going to make free throws and keep you from shooting threes. Like, we'll turn this into a free throw shooting contest. Except there is a school of thought, Bach,

that if I have the lead late, two-point lead, and you can tell me where you stand on it, but would you rather have to make a series of stops, free throws, and plays, or make one stop. You as a player, you as a coach, making that decision. You're up by two. You do not want them to shoot a three,

but if they shoot a three and miss, the game's over. Instead, you turn it into a four-possession game. And ultimately, on the fourth possession, you miss two free throws, they come down and a Hall of Fame point guard makes a Hall of Fame point guard play, and they knocked down a game-winning three. Yatsi. Where do you stand on the series of free throw marches back and forth

or stopping them one time and defending a three? I would say stop them one time and defend the three, just because that's what you're kind of looking for almost in any game is give me a chance to win. Don't, you know, let's play it out. One stop. One stop. but you literally allowed them to just continually do the march.

And the assumption of free throws, well, they made their free throws and you did. And you put somebody, you had somebody on the floor who, if you're not going to play for one stop, why are they on the floor? You need your best free throw shooters on the floor. If you're just going to file anyway, right? It would have made sense. But they know their team. they know their players.

It plays out, but that's the beauty of the series. And then I'm not sure I've ever seen in an NHL playoff where a team gave up four third period goals and still won. I don't know. I don't know the metric on that. But to give up four goals in the third period and still win the game is just exceptional. Right?

Yeah. Exceptional. just, you know, well, no, here's the thing. Denver had the ball four times, got filed on three of them, made the two free throws on each of those trips, kept extending the game. When at 13 seconds, they would have held for one shot and tried to shoot a three,

they make or miss the three, it's much easier to defend a set-up defensive scheme versus a missed free throw transition three. It's much easier for me to call a timeout and set up three-point defense rather than two miss free throws, the wrong people lined up outlet to an explosive point guard who makes the right decision

and makes a blistering cross-court pass right when a two would have would have would have would have done as well but he made the choice i don't understand the idea of turning into a free throw contest like i i i i don't um huskope says this and i i've paid attention to huskope on the text line uh for several reasons and again i don't have to agree with folks um to go through it but the point being made that there were 97 three-pointers in the soltics game now The game has transitioned. This has come from a time in sports where, as we communicate this,

that no game that is being played is the same as it was played previously. Games are cyclical, and we know that the up and down game is now today's game. NBA, college, or otherwise. Basketball is played differently now than it was 15 years ago. And that was played differently than it was the previous 15 years. and that game was played differently than the 15 years before that. As the evolution of the athlete happens, the style of play has to evolve with it.

And it's interesting that you have to do the math and the metrics behind it, that if I get 10, three-point shots, that is potentially 30 points. If I shoot them at 40%, I've done a pretty good job. I know that's 12 points. If I take 10, two-point shots, I'm maxed out at 20 points.

Most teams aspire to shoot in that 45 to 50% range from the field. Inside two, that would give me 10 points. Biggs no longer are just post-only. Bigman. Why? Because spacing equals offense and offense equals spacing. So having bigs longs,

who can shoot threes, create space. And it's much more difficult to defend 90 feet than it is 45 feet. Or 30 feet, 20 feet, 10 feet. The closer you get,

the more difficult is, it's easier to defend in space the closer in offense is. If you spread the five out offense exists for a reason. Because that means you have to have five people on the floor. Bach can tell you it's much more difficult if you make him run the floor defensively in transition, get to the apex of the front of the rim, and then close out to a corner three.

If I ask him to make that close out twice in a possession, Bach will tell you that is not a game I want to play. I don't want to have to defend that. Bach would much rather meet you at the top of three-point line. Defend the three-point shot. Have some help if you decide to penetrate. Today's athlete is a different athlete. The game has to be played differently.

Same thing for baseball. Different weapons, right? We have different technology. We understand it. Guys throw the ball harder. I can tell you when I was a senior high school, if somebody threw 90, he was the dude. He threw hard and everybody else.

If you throw 90 now, you're a soft toss. You're a Fidesse pitcher. You're a location pitcher. If we had dudes who were hitting the ball 434 feet on a regular basis, we didn't have any 6'4-6-Aaron judges out there. We didn't have any Shohei Tatis. The athletes have evolved, so the games have to evolve with them. But we can say it.

I mean, it's, I don't recall many Teddy Pajaskas back in the pipeline days. Doesn't mean they're better. It just means they're different. quarterbacks have to play. They have to have a different skill set. There's a wonderful feature in the athletic today about Randall Cunningham and his career and his post career. He talked about him and as an athlete that as a quarterback.

The league had not seen a Randall Cunningham before. The league has five or six Randall Cunningham's now. I still don't think any of them was good as Randall Cunningham was because he played in a different era. But the passing game is different in pro football. passing game is different in college football. The running game is different. We don't run the wishbone anymore.

There. Triple option football? Wait, with the basketball, though, I don't think the argument is not that it doesn't need to change or like don't understand the analytics. Is it as aesthetically pleasing of a product? And when the Celtics or whoever it is, the Celtics, again, won a championship doing this.

It's not whether it's successful or not. It's whether it's a pleasing game to watch. And when you miss a bunch of shots, when you're shooting that poorly, it can be difficult for a standard fan to come in. You know, you go, you want to see some big time dunks or some athleticism. You just see a bunch of guys missing a bunch of threes.

We had the same conversation about dunks 20 years ago. We had the same conversation 30 years ago about the physicality, the malice and the palace and the bad boys of the Pistons and New York Knicks with Yuling. We had the same. But, The conversation evolves because the game and the athletes evolve. We don't play the same kind of baseball that I played in college.

It's a different game. It's a different. Baseball is a different game. Football is a different game. Basketball is a different game. The fans, you look, Bach, you're not going to be the same. You're not the same fan today that you were 15 years ago. You have different aspirations.

I would think that looking at three-point shooters, I'm not sure artistically there's anything more beautiful than a well-shot three-point shooting game up and down. A well-shot one's great. Well, but you can't have light without dark. You have to know what the contrast is. But the problem with the modern era and then the shooting, and listen, I'm a shooter. I'm more thankful than ever that the golf games evolved this way. Then I can argue that I'm doing something spacing when I'm not doing anything.

But the most part. Right. But the problem is, again, is just, you know, when a lot of these games, and thank God, that's why last night and these first couple games of game won, not just because the road teams have won, but they've been close games, is that you get this problem. You lose, you know, we've seen 50 point losses in the playoffs already because one team's having a hot shoot night, one's not. Bach, when we weren't shooting throughs, we had 50 point blowouts in the NBA playoff. 40 point blowouts, 30 point blowouts. When Wes Henson and Elvin Hayes were banging people off. up back in the 70s, you still had mismatches.

You had good shooting nights and bad shooting nights. They exist. They exist. We're in Lincoln, Nebraska. We watch a basketball team. We can't even figure out how the same team can shoot 31% from three one night and then 47% from three the next night. Why?

Human beings. Human beings, different environment, different defense. We like what we like. But are we trying to watch Pleasantville basketball where every three goes in? Is that the expectation? No. That's how sports works, especially, especially at the highest level. It doesn't work.

I've had teams that were great shooting teams all the way through the state championships, to get the big building and the backdrop changes and the shooting eye changes and we shoot 32% and lose. but are we not going to do what we're best at? It's great to have an alternative plan, right? Can we dribble drive and get buckets in the mid-range game? But most coaches in the NBA have eschewed the mid-range game and tell the players, look, I'd rather have you shoot a three because I think the likelihoods you'll make that much more easily

than you will the mid-range pull-up. I would tell you, two-thirds of NBA coaches will tell you that they consider that a bad shot. Shoot your shot. and if I get Jake Bach over to now have to pump fake dribble drive and get to the middle of pain and throw it up over a six foot seven big my chances are pretty good against Bob. You don't know about my teardrop game.

Yeah, get them, right? Right? That's what it is. I drive to pass. I'm just kidding. Right? Look, I got my scatner report. We'll try to break more one and what we'll come back to the thing.

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