The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Swider Webs Stand Up!

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

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of Brandon Ingram. Let's try to have a rational level conversation about Brandon Ingram, if that is indeed the pivot. Brandon Ingram's career to me, I understand where he can help the Miami Heat, they need scoring in the half court, he gets buckets. To me, his resume and his general approach does not scream fit for the Miami Heat, but the aforementioned Lamar Odom did not scream fit for the Miami Heat, but the aforementioned Lamar Odom

did not scream fit for the Miami Heat when he came in here, and maybe there are parallels, very similar games too. Well, I mean, I'll be perfectly frank with you. So Lamar Odom played in an era where they had the three-strike rule. If you test positive for marijuana once, they don't say anything,

they just quietly put you in a program. The second time, you're suspended for a number of games and it is publicly announced. The third time, you're done for life. You're kicked out, that's it, right? Lamar Odom got his first two strikes his rookie year in LA. And mind you, this is like, they tell you,

yo, testers are cut, like, there's every opportunity to not mess it up. So, he actually played the rest of his career with two strikes, and managed to manage around it. Good for him, by the way. Yeah, that's very difficult. Obviously, if you get two strikes quick, you're fouling off a lot of pitches.

Choking up. Yeah, he actually stopped smoking marijuana. That was what happened. Shorten if you get two strikes quick, you're fouling off a lot of pitches there. Choking up. He actually stopped smoking marijuana. That was what happened. Shorten the swing. Is that what happened? No. But I say that to say that any kind of aspersions towards like, hey, Brandon Ingram kind of has a look

in his eye or whatever. Brandon Ingram also, I don't know if he's cleaned it up recently, I guess, because I haven't seen it on social media. He also takes one to no one, huge anger problem. That dude was down to scrap often. He was a very emotional player, which surprises you because his general demeanor outside of that stuff

is pretty chill. Chill, yeah. You say that, Mike. You know what I hear? He's fiery. He doesn't let anyone push him around. So is Brandon, is Brandon Ingram an actual pivot that would make sense for Miami, even as a placeholder? Maybe get Brandon

Ingram in your camp and a lot like Lamar Odom, use him as a chip for another deal down the line. Are you team Rock with what you have or are you team Let's Kick the Tires on Brandon Ingram? Man like my belief is always you got players you figure out what you can do with said players and then keep yourself in a space where I can pivot off of that. He can score no doubt. He could he can score he can defend. He's very long. he's long, he's versatile, right? He could make some plays as well. I think he's a guy that he may not be Mr. Right, but... He's Mr. Right now. He could be a hell of a Mr. Right now, right? A hell of a Mr. Right now. And so when... I would like their chances better with my whole initial response to Brandon Ingram

is like, I will concede Yes, that is a talent upgrade No doubt. He's an all-star He does all the things that mean just mentioned. It's just I It's way too soon to talk me into Brandon Ingram given where the expectations and the hopes have been over the last few years with Superstar Jason the problem is like the alternative is a name that Jeremy said and that Chris just whispered in my ear. Now all you guys are in on this is Zach Levine. Now Zach Levine. I'd rather Brandon Ingram than Zach Levine.

Right, like Zach Levine isn't the defender that Brandon Ingram is. Zach Levine isn't as big as Brandon Ingram is. Zach Levine doesn't have as good of a track record as far as being an elite player in this league as Brandon Ingram does. Zach Levine and his coach haven't seen eye to eye. If you thought Billy Donovan was a little too much,

like wait till you get a taste of what's down here. Zach Levine is under contract for two years and a player option at 43, 46, and $49 million. They're probably gonna have to staple something that Zach Levine can't take on. That has been the reporting. And that's what's had me sort of trying to convince myself into that one, talk myself into it,

is you'd be acquiring a player who for five straight years averaged 24 or more points per game, shooting 45% or higher from the field, who can play a little bit of defense, and if you're, no, if you're trying to convince yourself of, hey, you need some type of upgrade, if you're attaching a pick and making a move

for a player like Zach Levine, it can be an upgrade from a talent perspective, but the further question is, Brandon Ingram, who is a more talented, longer player, who could contribute to you right now and is an expiring contract. So someone who you could acquire and then puts you in a position to have some salary cap relief.

The question is what does a package for him look like? Because the reporting thus far on what the Sacramento Kings who were reportedly the front runner for Brandon Ingram, what their package would center around would be Kevin Herter and Harrison Barnes. And that's not exactly overwhelming So what could the heat move for Brandon Ingram and potentially keep a couple of their younger players? I don't know the answer to that and and those are the things that we'll see play out now over the next days for the podcast

The summer for the podcast listeners Mike looks like he just smelled a fart. I How about new plan? Let's just suck for a little bit Cooper flag nicks here Mike looks like he just smelled a fart. How about a new plan? Let's just suck for a little bit. Cooper Flagnick's here. It's gonna be impossible. They're not gonna be bad. With the development of Jaime Hotcakes Jr. That's the part. Putting him next to Jaime,

I feel like will help him so much, bro. Cause Jaime had to do so much in the playoffs for the team and which he was doing. He was scoring, he was rebounding. I think that he would just help the further the development of Jaime. Plus keep an eye on Cole Swider. Led the G League in threes last year.

He's working hard. You've seen him off and working hard. He's gonna have a big summer league, I'm telling you that right now. Keep an eye on him. Swiderweb stand up. Swiderweb. Yo, you know what's funny?

Is that, I know Billy's doing a tongue in cheek thing, but it's like, no Billy? It's catching on sweaterwebs But like he might be right because like how many times have we seen this the guy that was on the roster that was like Yeah, what's he gonna do? Oh, and then the next year is like oh shit this guy's in the rotation and he's pretty good What grief step is sweaterwebs? Hey, man. We're in the sages of grief right now We're ready with Brandon Ingram, Zach Levine, and now we're at Cole Swider.

You're two years away from convincing yourselves to give Cole Swider a max. Oh no no. Just so you're aware. I was there with your seven. Yo, someone put the tag on it. What's today, July 2nd, right in the big suey, right? Swider with max deal.

Billy called it. I just, I look around, I see the lay of the land in the Eastern Conference. Lay of the land for me. It's, I'm an NBA champion in Boston. I got one over, we beat you in the first round, you have all these hopes on Jimmy Butler. You're hoping he stays healthy.

Boston's great. He's not gonna say healthy. Boston's great, what else? Move on, next one. If I'm a Philadelphia 76er, I'm super excited. I got Paul George. I made that happen in the face of a lot of people telling me that can't happen. I have Maxey locked in.

No one said that can't happen. The only reporting was that they didn't want it to happen. By the way, they wanted it to happen, then they didn't want it to happen, and then, oh, well, I guess we'll settle for Paul George. That's kinda how it worked. First of all, they had maximum cap space, number one. Well, they made it happen and they got better.

Did they not get better? Our guy, Jake Fisher, told us yesterday, this was the plan going back as far as when they traded Hardin there to begin with. Well, they needed another guy and they got their other guy in Paul George. But, now having said that. Questions remain about him, but they got their guy.

Remain about him, remain about Joel Embiid as well, and also remain about the rest of the roster because this is so far what they've done. They said, I'm getting Eric Gordon's old ass. Ah, Darryl Morey. Andre Drummond, who's best known for trying to steal Tory Craig's self alley-oop, right? And then bringing back Kelly Oubre, who played-

Which is a big one. That's the big one. He played well for him. He played well for him. But I like, everyone keeps saying, what do you think the Sixers land in the East? I'm like, I gotta see the rest of their roster, because right now, it's like, all right,

you got three really good players. One of them gets hurt all the time. You're doing a good job of poking holes in it, but I think most people would say Sixers and their fan base feeling better today than they did a week ago. Sure, sure. But like, I'm just saying, it's like,

don't fast track them too. But they've gotten better. OK. We're taking inventory of they've gotten better. Okay. We're taking inventory of these right now. Okay. New York Knicks. Heart, iHeartRadio, man. You missed your iHeartRadio app.

That is, they're gonna miss Hartenstein, but they got Bridges. They were really excited about that. Have you seen Mitchell Robinson? That looks like he added a little weight, man, and not in the good kind. He'll get into shape, but they're feeling better. I don't know.

They're feeling better. They're feeling better because they're doing the dice thing. Like, oh, here we go, I'm feeling it all. Even inside your own division, Orlando's feeling better. Orlando should feel better. Orlando is better. So those are the teams that you're really competing against. Yes.

Milwaukee, Tread and Water. Same thing? I think Milwaukee's gonna be better. Okay. I think full camp and. But they haven't done anything to the roster have they to get better? No, they added Dillon Wright. I don't know how big of a thing that was for you. Wasn't. Okay. Wasn't. So you have the same teams that you have to worry about. Let's just say Milwaukee is Treading Water. We're welcoming Orlando into that conversation formally, division champs, and we're saying Boston and Philadelphia

and New York, they all got better. Miami's move is bringing back Kevin Lowe. Indiana's move is bringing back everybody. Yeah, and I think that you're feeling good if you're a Pacer fan too, because you're on an upward trajectory, and you got these younger guys, the Hawks. The Hawks move was to give away pennies on the dollar for DeJante Murray.

Yeah, I'm not worried about the Hawks. I guess we could, while we welcome the Orlando Magic to the conversation, we formally close the door on the. It's funny we haven't mentioned the Milwaukee Bucks. We did. We just did. Yeah, we have. Steve Martin.

Steve Martin, also. On me, was trying to do some research. We did, he mentioned Dillon Wright. On me, big move. That's where you were going. Yeah, so this is why I'm disheartened. Disheartened radio? No heart radio.

This is not good. This is really bad. We all concede this is really bad. So we just said that the Heat are basically like a sixth seed right now. No, I think they're playing team again. Playing? No.

OK, I'm going to read you the teams from the bottom. I'm playing the last few years. Is that an insult? Mike, I'm going to read you the teams from the bottom. I me. I'm playing the last few years. Is that an insult? Mike, I'm gonna read these teams from the bottom. I'm asking genuinely. Is it an insult to say that a team has been been a play in the last two years? A sixth seed is just one spot out of me. We're doing Samantha. No, I understand. And that's where the argument is if Jimmy Butler says healthy, you change your seeding. I don't actually think that matters because of runs like the Miami heat two years ago and the

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I just see it like that. That's a tier that Miami's operating in. Atlanta and Chicago? That's scary. Absolutely not. Mike, everyone looks at the heat above those teams. Everyone naturally. Even if you're putting them in the same boat, talent-wise, you're putting the heat above. I'm putting them at the top of that second tier. I'm putting the magic at best. You can maybe group the magic in Miami's tier.

If you want to expand the tier and not say Orlando is just there yet. Oh, Cleveland, forgot about Cleveland. Cleveland's gonna be better. They're better. Dude, this is a playing team right now. But why are they better? Why are they better, Mike?

Because they brought their guys back and they got a new coach. They're better because they're running it back. Like I will say. But they're running back a better team. A team that was better by two games. And they got a new coach. A team that was healthier all year long.

Kenny Atkinson, I don't know why it took, I'm sorry, why did it take Kenny Atkinson so long? It didn't. Charlotte offered him the job and he took it and then he realized that they were gonna do the Charlotte way and he said nevermind. Yeah, because he had a nice start to his coaching career over in Brooklyn. and he took it and then he realized that they were gonna do the Charlotte way and he said nevermind. He was back to work. Yeah, because he had a nice start

to his coaching career over in Brooklyn. I think that's an upgrade. No, it is. I think he's gonna help them. They'll be better. So all these teams are doing something to improve their team. But I would also say that again,

these are all marginal improvements. These aren't like massive. Look, Paul George has the potential to be a massive improvement. Guys, four games separated eight seed and two seed last year. I'm aware. You're banking on a healthy Jimmy though.

Like Jimmy, the most he's ever played for the year. Well hold on. He has 64 games. Thank you Billy. He doesn't. That's a decision. Like there's a difference between load management and being injured.

And I think that that is what you heard from Pat Riley in his post-season press conference. But how do they bridge the gap? If you're continuing. Jimmy Butler reportedly playing for a contract, his last contract. If you don't think that contract years mean something to the NBA and to every other league,

look at every star player in their contract year in the way that they play. Jimmy Butler showed you in moments last year, he had his most efficient season. He didn't play a ton of games, he didn't take over quite as many games as you anticipated, but he still had the ability to make that impact. And if he and the rest of this group are healthy,

it's not to say that they shouldn't be trying to make moves to improve the roster, but I think that their line of thinking is the continued development of the young players and a little bit of health changes by five or six games, no different than KCP might do it for Orlando or anybody else. You say he didn't play a ton of games,

he only played four games fewer than the season before, he just doesn't play that much. And in that year, they were also in eight seed, right? If he played more games, which is what Pat Riley has been arguing with, with Jimmy's agent and Jimmy for the last couple of seasons, which is why it boiled over in his post-year press conference, and the main guy he was calling out was not Tyler Hero,

was not Baybara Bayo, was not anybody else on the team. It was Jimmy Butler, because he views it that his star should be out there, particularly when he saw Boston have all their guys play all year long and the Knicks overachieve because those guys played so many minutes. That's just not what he does though. Like he hasn't played more than 70 games except twice in his season.

The last time was in 2016. He just doesn't play that many games. It's a risky plan putting all your eggs in. Jimmy's just gonna be better at his age with all those minutes and with the recent... I don't disagree on that. What's the number of games that Jimmy has to play to be a successful season? Seventy one! Seventy, maybe?

He hasn't... He's only played 70 games twice in his career. He's in a contract here. I don't know what to say. So he's going to play 80 games? These are all variables. I'm not discounting what he's saying. But these are not tangible things,

whereas all the other teams have tangible things that you can stack against. That's right. Change in personnel, change in staff, and markers along the way that at least signify improvement. We're just hoping on, maybe Jimmy decides that he wants to play a little bit harder and better. Also congrats, you don't have 40 games of Kyle Lowry on your roster this year.

Why is Jeremy wearing sunglasses? Oh, my eye doctor told me that I need to stop staring into light so often, because my vision's getting significantly worse. Your eye doctor said that to you. Yeah, my eye doctor told me, so she asked like, hey, can you wear sunglasses if there's light all the time? Look, these lights are terrible.

This is a reasonable thing. It's happening, I'm sorry. It's cool, but you weren't wearing glasses until the news of Donovan Mitchell extending broke. You were fine yesterday, today. I've been, whatever. I kind of feel like John Hammond in Jurassic Park in that I brought all these allies here to cheer me up

and the only one on my side is a bloodsucking lawyer because Billy and I totally aligned here. Wait, what? Am I a lawyer? You're the bloodsucking lawyer on this scenario. You're a bloodsucker. Is he good or bad? Because Billy and I like totally aligned here like I don't wait Scenario Everyone else is supposed to be excited about Jurassic Park Billy. He's the guy that gets eaten. He dies on the toilet Yeah, he's the one on a toilet. He's the one wearing the suit and he's in the car with the kids He's in the he's in the toilet hiding from the from the t-rex But he's taking a dump while he's doing it because his pants are down.

I would have held it at that point. Are his pants down or are they just flesh colored shorts? Can we look at that up? Because his outfit was he was wearing a suit, but with shorts. So let's look that up. Imagine the shit chat. Imagine the shit chat.

Hey. I can't believe this. Can you believe this situation? I have found myself in. I'm in the middle of Costa Rica. I am presently hiding. Like a screenshot of like the... I am presently hiding in a porta potty next to the T-Rex paddock. Oh, man. I think I'm safe.

No, that's not a porta potty. That's an actual toilet. Shorts on. Flesh colored shorts. There you go. I recently saw Jurassic Park. That's why. Also in this scene, it makes no sense because the car, remember when the T-Rex pushes the car over, it falls off of this cliff, and it's sense, because the car, remember when the T-Rex pushes the car over, it falls off of this cliff,

that T-Rex just stepped right over the thing. That was ground level, where did this cliff come from? Spielberg, what are you doing? The T-Rex's ability to get the shack off of him without getting him off the toilet, it was just very impressive. Yeah, and if you slow it down frame by frame, you see Jeff Goldblum, Dr. Malcolm, flying off the toilet. It was just very impressive. Yeah, and if you slow it down frame by frame, you see Jeff Goldblum, Dr. Malcolm,

like flying through the air. You know where he messed up, by the way, the lawyer? If you're going to hide. Is shitting then? Well, no. Why, he evaded the kids. If you're going to hide in a toilet, you've got to lift your feet up so that the T-Rex doesn't see you.

So the T-Rex doesn't see you. The T-Rex is like, is he in there? Like, no, I don't see any feet on the ground. This is why I don't trust pre-fab construction, too. Speaking Like no, I don't see any feet on the ground. This is why I don't trust pre-fab construction too. Speaking of construction, I don't think we talked about this on the show that happened over the weekend. Bronny James to the Lakers. Like what's the over or under? You feel me? Slow report. What's the over or under of him actually getting burned this year? Like do you guys think that he's going to get minutes, two, three minutes two three minutes here or there or is gonna be blowout central

but Ronaldinho Yeah, Ronaldo breaking those pity minutes pity minute pinnits Yeah, I also think don connect that pick rock and believe he failed to the Lakers That's a pick that I think will prove to them and be effective instantly because he's an older guy And I feel like in the tournament it was him going against Zach Eady. Welcome to Memphis by the way, we can get to that. I love that.

You do? You do? I love that for Memphis. That's really confusing. Ashim the Beat part two? Yeah. And the beat goes on. One quick shout out to the flesh colored

short suit wearing lawyer in Jurassic Park. He said something that is basically a fundamental life principle to those kids. What's that? Is it heavy? Then it's expensive, put it down. Like if you have kids, I'm recycling that line time and time again.

But you like the Zack Eaddy thing? It's heavy, it's heavy. It's not boring, I think that this will prove, cause John Moran is coming back I think that this will prove, because Ja Morant is coming back this year with something to prove because he saw the rise of Ant-Man and he's the face of the league, quote-unquote. Yeah, he missed an opportunity it felt like. He was right there. We were all ready to crown him. No, it was his. I feel like what better system for Zack

Eady to go into the crime house. I would argue what worse. Here's why. When I think of Ja Morant and I think of the Memphis Grizzlies, I think fast pace. We're running up and down the floor. I would venture to say that Ja Morant can run up the floor and back down the floor to at least the three point line, maybe free throw line, before Zach Eadie makes it down the floor once. I thought you were going to say, I would have had him. He's going to at least do that and then be halfway up the court, maybe beating Zach Eady before he gets like... Yeah, I had two and a half. Yeah. Like two full and then two to the half court. One, two, and then coming back up court. Honestly, like it's not outside the realm of possibility.

If we have a race and you tell John Moran, you got to make it up and down. And you just tell Zach Eady, you got to make it up. Yep. I think John... I would love to see the line on that. I think we're doing a big disservice. I know that he... He's a professional athlete, but... Right, because I think that in doing a big disservice. I know that he's a professional athlete.

Right, because I think that in practice, this is where all this is going to get ironed out. He's going to have to go to practice every day with these folks. And Bane and all those tough Brian Clark, bruh, Brandon Clark, my bad. I think that they're going to whip him into shape, no pun intended. I think he's going to be better than he was at Purdue

in this system. Can you teach him? Can you teach him? Granted, he's going to maybe lose some weight to get faster. I guess that's one practical way. But his feet don't come off the ground. I don't know how you teach this. But also, aren't you taking away what makes him special?

Is that like a slim him down? That's like now I'm taking away like, oh, here he is running. We got him running at the combine. Can we? Woo! Oh, come on. He runs like a guy from happy Gilmore, dude if we I feel if we do the rich eyes and if we do the rich eyes and in dress shoes running the 40 next to him Pulling away. Well, he gonna have to do all of that though. He's gonna be sitting sitting next to John Moran high-fly

He gonna have shooters around him, but I think he is gonna have to do that because he is sitting next to Ja Morant Are they gonna play are they gonna have like a four on five and Zack Edie's just gonna be hanging back like you guys got This right he was a top pick in the NBA draft I feel like the Memphis Grizzlies organization have a plan for Zack Edie and I can't wait I'm gonna tell you I know it's not the same from office juju But a decade and a half ago they took Hashim to beat and we were like, what the f*** are you doing? We was in the war room in Phoenix and I swear to God, the conversation we had before the

draft was, if Hashim to beat falls to our second round pick, do we take him just on principle? Because we just looked at, and this is 15 years ago, we were like, the way the NBA is going, there's no place for a guy like that if you aren't this incredibly skilled dude. And so, imagine our surprise when we saw him go number two overall, over James Harden, over Steph Curry, over Ricky Rubio.

But I say all that to say, Zach Eady, one of the things I look at, I'm reminded of watching him play, what was the kid, Daly Locifor at Duke. And it's the same thing, it's like, you're big, you survive on being bigger than people. How skilled are you? Can you step out a little bit?

Can you shoot? Are you a good passer? And it was like, no, no, no, I'm just big around the basket. And I'm like, okay, but that's not good enough. Are you a dominant defensive player? Second, he's got more to work with than Tobeat does offensively. Oh, then Tobeat, yes, but I'm saying,

Jaleel Okafor was a good, a great college offensive player. But it's like, in the NBA, the things that you're good at aren't as important. I definitely don't understand what you mean. Doesn't it go against the bill that they kind of already have with John Moran where they need spacing, they need him to get to the floor, to get to the basket. And then all of a sudden you've got an eight foot guy standing in front of the basket.

There's like a scenario in which Zach Eadie can be a pro, I think. I, that was just like, if you asked me, what's the strangest landing spot for Zach Eadie, the one that makes the least sense, I would have said Memphis. So I don't know if it's gonna work. I looked up to, by the way, the Carton show is on on one of our TVs, and I looked up hoping that I'd see some soccer coverage.

This is a Euro partner there. And I did see soccer coverage. It wasn't Greg Berhalter, because I would love to know what Plaxico Burress thinks about all of this. But the lower third said, yes, Ronaldo's the best player in the world, but missing a PK and crying is a bad luck.

Miss me with like the first four words of that, lower third, what are we doing? What are we doing with Ronaldo's the best player in the world, like right now? I did get a lot of joy out of him missing that penalty. It was like he, it was a great save by Oblak. Oh, by the way, secret of great saves. Slovenia, three in a row?

Three? I've never seen that in my life. It's a real, they had a defenseman taking the second one. I've never seen a team play for PKs and then not have anyone that's able to make one. Like if your game plan going into it is we're gonna go to PKs on this one and then anything can happen,

you're at least like semi-okay at it. I've never seen that, not even in middle school soccer. I've not seen at any level, at any stage in my life, we're gonna do PKs. The first three, we gonna get stoned? I think you're more likely to cycle through the entire roster twice and have everybody make them including the goalies than what we saw miss three at the hockey games.

Three in a row. Like, they did not make it. They got shut out in a PK. Ronaldo best player in the world as well. Yeah, we know, man. He doesn't know. That's like saying, like, Michael Jordan's the best player in the world. He's alive, technically.

Well, not technically. He's very much alive. So until he dies, he is the best player in the world. It's like technically, well not technically, he's very much alive. So until he dies, he is the best player in the world. It's like saying LeBron still is, no? It's like a pretty good comp. Not exactly. Well LeBron isn't the best player in the world right now. That's what I'm saying. It's like saying that right now. It's like someone saying he's definitely the best still.

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