The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 05/12/2021 - HOUR 2 - Schedule, Lakers

Episode Date: May 12, 2021

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hour two. It is such a pleasure to have you in. NFL schedule release tonight on FS1. You better be watching. Wherever you may be however you may be listening. Iheart Radio, Fox Sports Radio, FS1.

Joy Taylor is joining me. It's very exciting. Love when the schedule gets released. Feels like the NFL season. There is no NFL off season. June is the only month when it feels like the NFL says, all right, you guys just go hunting fishing,

go hang out with your family, we'll catch you back camp in mid-July. That's it. It really does. And by the way, they've moved around things to make sure they cover every month. They move free agency. I will also say they have leaned into free agency, especially at the quarterback position. Yeah. Which I've been saying for some time now was a good idea.

Yeah. And it is. It doesn't mean you're giving up any. control players don't run the league. Some of the best players in the league have a little more say. And we can't stop talking about it. This is great. Yeah. So anyway, the USA Today yesterday, this was a barnyard musical.

They came out with this quarterback tier thing. It was just a hot mess. They had like 32 categories. And I made fun of it all day yesterday. It was bad. Listen, new rule. No more quarterback tears. here's the new rule.

We're going to view quarterbacks in two camps. You can pull a roster or you get pulled. You're a truck or a trailer, as Bucky Brooks says. A truck can pull a bad defense to the playoffs. A truck can pull a bad GM. I mean, Andrew Luck got to the AFC championship with two pro bowlers and a bad GM that got fired and a coach that got fired. That's a truck.

There's five or six trucks at quarterback. Let's simplify this. You're a truck or a trailer. Here are the trucks. They can pull bad GMs, goofy coaches, Tom Brady, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rogers, Russell, Wilson, Deshawn Watson, and I don't know Deshawn's future. Everybody else is a trailer. Now, what about Lamar Jackson? No, he needs a defense.

He's not really great playing from behind. He's not right now going to win shootouts, but he's close to it. Everybody, Derek Car, Matt Ryan, they're good. Nobody's denying it. But they can't overcome bad defenses. Baker Mayfield, the Browns better when he throws fewer times. Those are the trucks. Six in the world.

Now, now, I think there's four people to keep your eye on, young people, we don't know yet. Justin Herbert and Kyler Murray look like potential trucks. I think they may be. Joe Burrell, I don't think he is, but give me 10 more starts. Trevor Lawrence feels like the first quarterback since Andrew Luck, and you know how much I loved Andrew Luck at Stanford, Trevor Lawrence feels like he could overcome some problems. I talked to Davos Sweeney last night on the podcast, and I asked him, I said, you recruit all these guys. You recruit all these guys. I said, what was Trevor Lawrence like?

He goes, I went to the first practice. And David Shaw, the Stanford coach, came out to me and said, coach, I don't know who your quarterback is, but I know who's going to start next year for you. That's the best high school quarterback I've ever seen. And David Shaw had Andrew Luck. So I think Trevor Lawrence, let's wait and see how it plays out. But those four, I don't think Burrow is, but I want to see 10 starts. Herbert and Kyler Murray looked like, yeah, I think we got something. And I do think Trevor Lawrence, who I saw as a junior in high school live in San Diego, he just, against the other five-star quarterbacks looked like a college quarterback at 17.

So none of this nine tiers of quarterbacks. And everybody's trying to get a truck. Almost everybody ends up with a trailer. Heard brought to you by Jersey. Mike, subs, be a sub above. You know John Fox, this is interesting, former NFL coach. He has the highest winning percentage in Broncos history. He won 72% of his games.

And I didn't know that. He also led the Broncos to four straight AFC West Division titles. only head coach in Denver history to have never missed the playoffs. But that tells you how tough the NFL is and how it treats its coaches. The NBA and the NFL are tough on coaches. I mean, Belichick 20 years runs the league, has his first losing season, and all of us, myself included, I think it was Brady. You know, Bill, I don't know.

What is Bill now? John Fox now joining us live. One of seven coaches. to have multiple teams in the Super Bowl. Yeah, the NFL is that, you know, they're not always kind to you guys, John. They're pretty rough on you guys. Definitely is a tough way to earn it. Yeah.

So I will start with this. I said this yesterday. When you take over a team, you're not just building a roster, you're building a culture. I don't love the message Tebow to the Jags sends. I don't think he's going to put his hand in the dirt. He's taking a job away from somebody. I don't think he can put his hand in the dirt and block a 265. pound guy trying to put food in the table.

He has a baby daughter. He's been around the league for three teams. He looks at Tebow and he goes drive right through him. I don't love the message to the Jags. Am I wrong on that or you tell me what you think about it? Well, again, I haven't seen Tim in 10 years. When I had him in Denver, Colin, he definitely has the right mindset and the right kind of message he wants to carry in that locker room. You can't deny him that.

Now, I don't know what he's been doing other than I've seen him play baseball a few times in those last 10 years. I know it's not been on an NFL roster, you know, at least recently. So that's hard for me to predict. But I will say this. He's as competitive as a guy. He's going to do things as right as can be done, whether it's in the offseason, whether it's in season.

whether it's in the building or out of the building, I think he's going to, I think he'll carry the right message that Urban Meyer wants. And, you know, I think Urban realizes this. He knows that's his guy. He won the Heisman trophy for him at the University of Florida. You know, and Tim's going to have to earn a spot that's not going to be given to him. I can assure you that. Yeah, by the way, tight end, it's funny about this.

You know, John, 15, 20 years ago, tight end, just block and don't drop passes. The position now is where you often put somebody who you think, you know, Travis Kelsey's the number one target. I mean, Kyle Pitts is going to have 80 catches. Antonio Gates, these guys are not just, I mean, they are literally game changers. And maybe 15 years ago, Tim worked. But I look at it now and I think, I'm just not sure he's, I'm not sure 6-2, he's athletic enough to be a tight end in in the NFL.

Thoughts on that? Well, I think really, you know, they have what they call it, H receiver and that can be a second tight-in, that can be a third wide-out. It depends on what personnel group you're in college. You can put a faster guy, a little bit bigger guy that can block not as good as a Y tight-end. I'm talking about a 6-4, you know, a 270-pound tight-in versus Tim sides, which is more like a full-back and H-back. Some people call up the F-back. But I think, you know, you've got to be smart, you've got to be tough. And I think Tim is both those things. Again, I haven't seen him in 10 years on the hoof, so I can't speak to that. But,

you know, he weighed 236 pounds when he was with me in Denver and played quarterback. So it's interesting. When you look at Chicago goes and gets Justin Fields and San Francisco goes and gets Trey Lance and New England gets Mack Jones. And now in some instances, Zach Wilson's got to play day one. That's not ideal. But even for a team like San Francisco or Chicago, who has a veteran quarterback that, It's made the playoffs and won games. Tell me what it's like. Like in Chicago is a prime example.

You're in a division with Kirk Cousins. You're in a division now with Aaron Rogers. You can't wait forever. You're four in four. Middle of October. I mean, John, you're two weekends from being in big trouble. Kind of your guess on how Matt Nagy will use Justin Fields in Chicago. Because as you know, if Aaron Rogers gets off to a 6-0 start,

and you're three and three, you don't have a lot of time to waste or you're out of work. How do you think the Justin Fields thing in Chicago works? Well, I think they'll definitely bring them along slowly, and I'm really hoping for their sake that they, you know, have a full set of OTAs. They have great participation in those.

Obviously, rookies are on a little bit of a set of rules, but as far as, you know, having to be there, and Justin will have to be there. I mean, it's a lot to take over an NFL, offense and it really doesn't matter what the offense is. There's just so much more verbiage. It's way more complex. Coaches aren't telling you what to do from the sideline. You know, you're noticing college. They look over and boom. The coaches are telling them, you know, what to shift to. You know, the quarterback has to control and communicate that. And that's why it's

so hard early. So I'm looking at ideally about the first quarter of the season. So the first four games Andy Dalton running it and you know how soon Justin Fields comes in is going to depend on what that record is after four games you coached in Denver for a while you

you had the Tebow situation the Peyton Manning you had it was a lot to put your arms around the Green Bay situation with Aaron Rogers it's a mess I mean Aaron's can be prickly to begin with he's not real happy the GM rolled the dice on Jordan Love said yesterday is a long way

from playing. You sit there, the guy I feel sorry for is actually Matt Lefleur, not Aaron Rogers. The coach is sitting there thinking, I just want my quarterback. As a coach, if you coach Green Bay to temper the situation, to take the fire out of it, what would you do if you were Matt LaFleur today? Well, I think right now he doesn't have much choice because I think, you know, this is business part of football.

And coaches don't particularly like that. I mean, it's a necessary evil, but, you know, you try to distance yourself from that. So this is really about the GM Goodkins and really Aaron Rogers, whether it's player selection, whether it's, you know, how they've handled their salary cap, who they paid, who they paid, including Aaron Rogers. So, you know, I think a lot of that is the business side,

which, you know, I think most coaches would say it's not their favorite part of the NFL ball business. So I think it's still salvageable. I really do. Just because there's a comfort level and sometimes the devil you know is better than devil

you don't know. So you know, we'll kind of see how it goes through. Colin, I honestly think it'll work out and I can promise you Coach LaFloor is rooting for it. By the way, finally, John, the NFL schedule comes out tonight. I admit,

I'm kind of a schedule nerd. I love the draft. I like the architecture of the league. I like building stuff. So I see that schedule. You know, I'm sitting there, loss, loss, win, win. As a coach,

are there times you've looked at your schedule and gone, Jesus, good. We didn't get a break on that. Or, oh, boy, our buy comes at the perfect time. Do you look at that schedule? Does it matter to you as a coach? Yeah, it definitely does. But at the end of the day, Colin,

there are no cupcakes in the NFL. You know, this is not like college football where you're going to show up, and you might be better than, you know, six out of the 11 teams you play that year, just physically. You don't have that national football league. Everybody's got players. They're good players. They're well-coached players.

I think really the key is is the start of the season, especially if you're trying to build a new program, build a new culture, you know, winning cures a lot of ills. And then when you can get off to a good start, especially when you've got a football team that's maybe not used to win in or trying to build something. I think that's really critical. That's one of the things I always look for.

I think the buy is another example. You know, you'd like to have it in the middle. But I've been a part of teams where it's been late and it's actually been a blessing. By the way, Denver historically is great at home in September. My guess is the altitude that teams come up, they're out of camp. They're not in great shape. did you think that when you were coaching the Broncos, did you feel like first two weeks of September at home,

we got an advantage? Well, most definitely. You know, I coached in a lot of different cities as a head coach in three different ones, but there was no doubt that was the best home field advantage in the national football league because you can't train and prepare on an NFL work week for altitude. I mean, you can for heat, you can for humidity,

you can for cold, but the bottom line is, is there's no way to train for the altitude, you know, on an NFL work week. Yeah. John Fox, great seeing you again. Look like you're in good shape and happy, and I appreciate it. Well, my pleasure, Colin. Anytime.

All right. Yeah, no, Denver, there's three or four things in the NFL. New England's worst month is September. Andy reads unbeatable off a buyer in September. You don't want to play Denver first two or three weeks. in Denver, mile high city. Those are the guarantees.

Also, now the pandemic, not that it's over, but you'll have fans. New Orleans on Sunday night, they like to lubricate with alcohol. There's something about those Monday night, Sunday night games in New Orleans.

It feels, it's like Baton Rouge. It feels like they've been drinking from about 10.30 in the morning. Well, it's New Orleans. I always feel like, another thing, another thing to throw at you is that Miami in September, it's a swamp.

I remember, Miami against the cold weather teams late. Patriots usually struggle down there. They have, I remember a Steeler team a few years ago, went to Miami, and the players, multiple players throwing up

on the field in Miami. Like they'd clearly gone out on Collins Avenue. It's also Miami. And then you have the humidity the next day. Hangover in humidity. And Pittsburgh. cold weather team goes to Miami. It's the last time they're going to see the sun for three months.

They all go out and party on Ocean Drive, and they were throwing up on the field against Miami. It's not a fun mix. Not great. Chris Cooley, former Washington football team tied end. His thoughts on Tebow later today. One more herd? The herd streams 24 hours a day, seven days a week,

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stars are missing. But in the playoffs, everybody plays hard, so you lose that advantage. So the Knicks are really the classic Tom Thibodeau team. Play their butt off, good foundation, play hard. It reminds me a little bit of Rex Ryan's teams. They play hard. You win a lot of games doing that. But there's a ceiling because Rex was never good with quarterbacks and Thibodeau's not great with Tibido's not great with offenses. So the Knicks just don't have a lot of juice. They have to win one way and that's defensively. The Lakers, meanwhile, have both. They can lock you down. They were the number one defensive team in the league early this year. They were a dominant defensive team in the finals last year in the bubble. They can win a lot of ways. But last night was

classic. No LeBron, no Dennis Schrooter, Alex Caruso out, AD Hurt, still beat the Knicks. So, I mean, the Lakers are really built to win a championship, which is they can be missing players. It doesn't matter. They have a bunch of guys who can drop 20 on any given night. Nicks can win one way. Lakers can win a lot of ways, and that's the key in the playoffs. Can you win a lot of ways? Milwaukee, what's been their liability, the last few years, they kind of win one way.

They're not good trailing late with Janus, right? Like they couldn't win it. It's a little bit like the Baltimore Ravens. kind of feel like there's a way a recipe to win. Kansas City has trailed playoff games 24 to nothing in one. Kansas City, there's a lot of ways they can win. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a lot of ways they can win. Certain teams, the Baltimore Ravens, they feel like there's kind of a way, the Knicks.

There's kind of a way they have to win. And I kind of feel that with the Knicks, but listen, the foundation's great. You're going somewhere. but I thought last night was actually not just a win for the Lakers, but it kind of shows you why, if LeBron's healthy, they're a handful. They locked down defense last night. They had guys out. They hit big shots.

I mean, they're on like their third point guard. They're making it up late and they found a way to win. Joy with the News. No, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the Herd Line News. Sponsored by Mercedes-Bets, the best or nothing. Well, just as the Lakers argue,

hearing up for the return of LeBron. They might have another superstar on the bench. Who, let me guess. Anthony Davis suffered a groin injury late in last night's 101-99 overtime win over the Knicks, which leaves his status for tonight against Houston up in the air. Now, it is Houston, though. Not sure about tomorrow, I mean, I'm going to get treatment and see how I feel.

Nah, I want to say I'm going to play, but it was really bothering me tonight. But we'll see how I feel tomorrow. and then later on in the day it's a very strong possibility to fight through it in place since the next day is off day but also don't want to have this lagging and then now I'm out for a couple games

He was noticeably limping in about three minutes to go in the game but as he said he didn't want to come out it's a very important game for them. Good news is though they get a scheduling break. They do. LeBron is expected to return tonight. They're currently seventh in the West. They have three games left.

They are one game behind the fifth season. Blazers and the six seed Mavs and they would face the Warriors in a play-in game. I'm not going to bet against LeBron, but that's it. It's just LeBron. Like, that's all I'm concerned about. I don't think the Lakers can make it very far in the playoffs without LeBron and AD healthy. I wouldn't be concerned about them in a playoff or a play in game if they have LeBron healthy. But it's just, this has been the story all season long.

it's back and forth with AD and LeBron and once again, AD is banged up. Listen, the story in the West could end up being Jamal Murray's injury. If Jamal Murray doesn't get hurt this morning, I'd take the nuggets in the finals. I really would because I don't, I can't, there's a lot of good in the West. There's not a great. Denver, that altitude advantage at home, Yokic, Jamal Murray, Michael Porter. if that Jamal Murray injury really open. They don't have chemistry issues.

Aaron Gordon. They have the ability to put up big offensive numbers. They can win multiple ways. That Jamal Murray injury, I mean, again, we talked about it for about two days, could end up really altering the West. If he's healthy today, I'd just take Denver and say, it's just not the Lakers year. Nobody can stay healthy. Yeah, it was a devastating injury.

Speaking of injuries in the NBA, James Hardin, been out for a while. with a hamstring injury, but according to Malika Andrews, he could return as early as tonight. She said after missing five weeks with the hamstring injury, that star James Hardin return is expected to be a game time decision before Brooklyn faces San Antonio on Wednesday night. Sources told ESPN, Hardin is expected to gauge his readiness along with team officials ahead of the Nets return to Barkley Center

in Brooklyn on Wednesday, sources said. He is what last played on April 5th. Yeah, I tell you, when this first came out, I rolled my eyes and thought, oh, give me a break on this. I guess it was a real injury. It was definitely significant. He never gets hurt. He doesn't, which is why your theory wasn't that far-fetched because it's not, you know,

it's like, oh, kind of matching up and KD is back. But yeah, he clearly has been dealing with this and it's lingering. They're in second place. There are two games behind the sixers with three games left to play. But now they're talking about Hardin coming back. Kyrie's status is up in the air because he was hit by Vous, Vucevich's elbow last night and had to leave the game against Chicago. So he cleared concussion protocol, but he'll have a second x-ray today.

So his status is questionable right now. Again, they've only played seven games together, Kyrie Hardin, and KD. I think they have enough offensively to make it far. But if they're going to win the big games deep into the playoffs, they're going to be able to overcome adversity, and you just can't figure those things out in the playoffs. It's been the story of injuries. for the teams with big stars this year.

And I mean, you like the Bucks in the East. I do. I do. I like Milwaukee. I feel, I think they match up with everybody. I think they added Drew Holiday and PJ Tucker, who have been in these playoff games. They're tough guys.

You know, first of all, we had a condensed schedule. So you knew a lot of stars were going to take more games off. And you probably have a few more injuries. I think we tend to blame all the injuries on the condensed schedule. It's like, let's slow down a lot. little guys do get hurt. But it's, you know, the bucks have been healthy. There's no noise.

We dismiss them. Nobody's talked about them. They're just sitting there in that third spot. Nobody's paying attention to Milwaukee. It does feel like at the very least a no pressure season for them. Yeah. So finally, Tampa knows they're in a great position to return to the playoffs. And one reason for that is, of course, Tom Brady.

GM Jason Light was on the Rich Eisen's show. Instead, when it came to the draft, he knew how important it was to keep his star quarterback in the mix. Bruce and I did mention. to them leading up to the draft that we might take the quarterback. We would do that with any great quarterback, but yet alone the goat. He almost responded as if you have, I appreciate you let me know. You didn't need to let me know, but I appreciate it. And whatever we have to do to make the team better.

Must be nice to deal with that. Just a little communication, just a little time. A little heads up. A little TLC. It's all anybody ever asks for. And then it just spirals and then small things become big things. None of this is really complicated. I know.

Talking. It's all just relationships. He also said that he'd be fine with Brady playing until he's 50. Oh, come on. And he thinks that could be a possibility. So if he does that, Cal Trask is never going to see the field during his rookie contract. But who cares?

I don't have a problem with organizations drafting quarterbacks. Give him a heads up. I think you have to give him a heads up. And if you're drafting a quarterback in the first round, then not only should the starting quarterback have a heads up about it, but there should be a significant. reason. You should know that the fan base and media

aren't going to have a significant reaction to that move. If you are a situation like Green Bay, so obviously what we're talking about, you have to gauge, right? Like have conversations with people outside of your circle. What do you think about if we were to draft a quarterback?

Why would you need a quarterback? Okay, thanks. I'll take that note. I'm not saying you have to listen to other people's advice, but take the pulse of the run. room and communicates. Like, how do you blindside your Hall of Fame quarterback in his prime? And this is a perfect example of that.

Now, maybe if Tom Brady had not had that reaction, they would have considered, hey, like maybe we dropped the quarterback in later rounds, or maybe this isn't the year because Tom clearly feels like he has a couple more years and then we don't want to upset him. But there's ways to do it. It all just comes down to communication. Joy with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by.

The herd lie news. You know, one of the things, I used to talk about this all the time. I don't talk about it as much. But nothing against fans, but networks make their money on television. They don't make it on in-game seats. That's not where leagues make their money. Hockey, baseball, football, it's nice to have fans, especially baseball. You have so many games.

But all these teams are still making money right now without fans going. You get paid by the television networks. So it's incumbent upon you as a commissioner to understand your television shows. Your profits are not tied to sodas programs and Joe in the upper deck. You make more money per television viewer than consumer sitting in a stadium. Now, that's not to say that Mark Cuban doesn't want the arena full. It's additive. But the TV money is why people buy sports teams and don't.

sell them very often. The NFL, more than any other league, has always understood to television show. And they work with Fox and CBS and the NFL and they construct the schedule and they work all the time with their schedule. And this is a prime example. The NFL has just moved their chess pieces for years and years. A prime example. Think about this, how smartly the NFL has built the calendar.

So let's go through the months. January, the NFL does the playoffs. So they own that month. February, the Super Bowl in the first week, they own that month. Then they sneak the combine in the last week. March is free agency. That's all we talked about this year. April's the draft.

That's all we talked about. Then the beginning of May, you still talk a little draft, but it's the schedule release planted right in the middle of a week. Wednesday, so we talk about it. June is the one month they just give everybody off. They give the NFL front offices off, the team front office. July's training camp starts, August preseason, September, December, regular season. 11 months. They think about when they hand out their awards, what days they give those awards out on.

It is an 11 month season. And they've moved free agency. They've extended the draft. They've moved the schedule release. They've moved camps. They just added another game. So now the Super Bowl, when they added another game, you know what that means, right? Like that means we're going to talk until mid-February, not the first week of February,

about football. So they'd pushed another week, that week 17, they didn't put it on Labor Day because they already own that space. What they did is they pushed it on the back end. They added another playoff team to give us. another week or two in the back end to talk football. They think about everything. They get it. Sometimes baseball drives me nuts.

You're a television show. Nobody can hit. Solve the issue. You're much better in baseball to have a defensive problem than an offensive problem. If nobody could catch, it'd be fine. But when nobody can hit, you've got a problem. You're a TV show. Longer games, tighten them up.

So it's just, I just, when I look at the NFL, it is just such a smart, even their schedule release today. Biggest brand cowboys against the Super Bowl champions and Brady Bucks, first game of the year. Of course, that is. Just how they roll. NBA playoffs start next week. I mean, we're going to be into these things, right? And there's some really interesting matchups. They really are. Rick Buecker around the corner. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific. on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the IHeart Radio app.

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stories. As hard as the Nick play, Nick's play, it showed me their limitations offensively, and it showed me the Lakers with LeBron out, Schrooter out, Caruso out. You're sitting there thinking, this is why they're going to work. they just figure out, they got a multitude of Kuzma last night was carrying the team. And I thought it was more than a regular season game. It showed you why I would buy a little lottery ticket with the Lakers in the playoffs and not the NICS. Your thoughts?

I'll go with you as far as favoring the Lakers over the NICS. I'm not going to take it so far as this demonstrated that the Lakers are everything that they have been in the past. I think this was more a referendum on the NICs, as you said. It was either your go-to guys and really go-to guys in isolation situations were either Julius Randall or Derek Rose. It demonstrates you that Julius Randall is having a very good season. But is he the go-to guy on a championship contending team? No. And it also shows you that Tom Thibito would have been a great NFL coach because he doesn't care about next week.

He doesn't care about last week. It's all about right now. He played Derek Rose, 22 straight minute. 32-year-old, multiple knee surgeries. Derek Rose, practically 22 straight minutes at the end of that game. Derek was absolutely gassed. He got one 20-second reprieve when Frank Nilakina came in, and that was it. And I'm thinking, in big picture,

if you have any hope of doing anything, you need to keep Derek Rose healthy because for all that Julius Randall has done, what the Knicks have done this season has been a reflection of their bench and their depth as well as anything else. So you're spot on in terms of this is what the Knicks are. They're a lot like the Spurs the last few years

in terms of they play close to their margin on a nightly basis. And that will get you a lot of regular season wins and get you a nice regular season record. But can you go above that? And the Knicks just don't have that capability at this point. So enjoy this Knicks fans. You've got a team that has a winning record. It's going to be in the playoffs again. You're going to get a look at RJ Barrett and quickly and some of the young players to see how they operate in the postseason. But don't expect that their seeding is a reflection that they are going to make some sort of a deep playoff run because they're just not built for that. You know, there are stats.

I tend to say, I listen to analytics. I'm more into analytics, which is you're dealing with human beings, alpha males. Don't turn them into code. Don't turn them into numbers. Take the numbers. Use them in baseball, football, basketball, where it makes sense in the red zone or where it makes sense, and the games. But there are stats you look at and go, whoa, that is a problem. The clippers are atrocious with four to five minutes to go in the game.

Their clutch stats are awful. and they're one of five really bad teams at the end of games. The problem is the other four are just bad teams. They're a good team that's awful at the end. And I watched them against the Knicks. Now, the Knicks play real defense. But it's the third or fourth time I've watched the Clippers, and I'm like, they would be the classic NFL team.

Good roster, no quarterback late. I think Rondo should just take over, but maybe this is the downside to having Kauai, a superstar, who's not overly communicative. Clippers are bad at the end of games. Can you solve that in the next three weeks? Actually, I believe that you can. Once you get to the postseason and you decide this is the way we're going to play

and this is who we're going to have on the floor in certain situations, I think you can streamline that. And there's something about the regular season where everybody gets to indulge what they want to do, what they want to try. There's none of that in the postseason. Now, there still is the question about the chemistry. And what, because of the pandemic and Zoom and the inability to get really close to these teams right now, it's hard to determine how good that chemistry is and ultimately how much say does Rajan Rondo have.

If he says, this is the way we're going to go, this is what we're going to run, is Kauai going to fall in line and not only fall in line, but play just as hard at the defensive end when he's not being featured in a certain situation. So that's the element we don't know. But I'm with you. My greatest concern, and it has been a question all year, is how are they going to close? And while I love Kauai's mid-range game in needing to get a bucket because he can work his way physically to good spots to take high percentage shots, I don't like playing through him because it's Kauai or nothing in those circumstances. He's not a great playmaker.

So figuring that dynamic out is going to be the real riddle as to whether the clippers can make good on all the talent that they have. By the way, I hear a lot of this, oh, you don't want to play the Warriors. And I'm like, yeah, I do. They're tiny. They're dependent on one guy hitting threes. I don't buy the Warriors at all. You're in the Bay Area. Do you? I don't buy them.

terms of being a threat in the playoffs? Do I see them as a team that could be a threat for, say, the Lakers in a play-in game? I'm not, by no means am I saying that the Lakers should fear the Warriors, but they damn well better respect them because I've seen this iteration a couple times with the Warriors. And it is the magic of Steph and Dremont. First of all, the connection that they have and the way that their two skill sets and their personalities, mesh so seamlessly and the confidence that they've created in these young players. Jordan Poole thinking, yeah, I can hit a big three. Wantedosco Anno Anderson thinking, I can hit a big three.

Andrew Wiggins finding a role that he's never had before. So look, I don't think they're a danger to do anything significant, but on any given night, they have nothing to lose. And their chemistry is just something special. The ability of Steph and Dremond to infuse confidence in younger players is as good as any combo that I've seen. And in a one-game situation, who knows? In a seven-game situation, I know how it's going to play out. All right.

I still have the Bucks winning it. What do you make of that? I don't have a problem with that. This is what makes this postseason really intriguing. And I put the Lakers in the same camp. They are the defending champions. their defense without question. If they are healthy, they're the team to beat, but they're not healthy.

Alex Caruso went down last night. Anthony Davis is limping again. We don't know the condition of LeBron James. And so as a result, it is wide open on both sides. I don't like the Brooklyn Nets in particular. I do like the Philadelphia 76ers, but I have questions. I have questions for every single team. We touched on several of them.

in this conversation. And so it makes it intriguing because I, really, if you asked me to pick a favorite from each conference, I could, I could do it, but I wouldn't do it with any degree of confidence. Rick Buecker, Fox Sports NBA analyst. Good to see you, buddy. Good to see you, Colin. Yeah. NBA's fun now. Yeah, it's really interesting. Like, Billy Bean was the A's executive. And Billy Bean didn't want to watch all the games. Jerry West, same deal. Jerry West didn't need to see all the games. You know, Jerry would sit in the tunnel.

There is something to be said about you don't get the same effort in the NBA regular season to the playoffs. So, ooh, I sat and watched all the regular season games. It doesn't mean anything. Like the bottom line is if LeBron's healthy, Lakers are going to win the West. It doesn't matter how many games you watch. The New York Knicks are a fun regular season watch. But if you're watching all the games, you're getting emotionally tied to the best. them, they're a totally limited team offensively.

So the idea that mass consumption is the right answer. In baseball, you look at these Theo Epstein and these Billy Beans and these analytic wizzes, they want to see numbers. They don't care about body shape forever and ever, you know, eye candy, too many scouts fall in love with that. Can you play? What are your numbers? Do you get on base?

That's the one thing I do like about analytics. Just give me the numbers. Who can play? I don't want my eyes to sway me and my emotional state to sway me. Because you can watch a guy and you just go, look at that body. Jadavian Clowny. Whoa, did you see that hit? Look at the numbers on Jadavian Clowny.

This is literally what's happening with Tebow. Right. People get their emotion, their feels into Tebow. He's not an NFL tied in. So the idea that I've always said this college basketball is a great example. Don't watch December and January. because that's all those one and done NBA guys. You have no, in college basketball, the best teams have no chemistry in December and January.

Watch college basketball, February 15th on, then you can see who's playing well. I mean, UCLA. You got, the bottom line here is when you watch the Knicks, you get too emotionally, viscerally connected to them, they have a total ceiling. But they're fun, a good story. But don't talk yourself into their championship team. They're not. Hour three next.

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