The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - Caitlin Clark is must see TV

Episode Date: April 16, 2024

Colin gives high praise to basketball star Caitlin Clark labeling her appointment television in today's society where attention spans are short QB J.J. McCarthy seems to be moving up the NFL draft   Guest: Daryl MoreySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We are live in Los Angeles NBA playoff start tonight. It's the herd, wherever you may be, and however you may be listening. Thanks for making us part of your day. I have got some thoughts on J.J. McCarthy. I finally figured out J.J. McCarthy. the dream team would clobber the men's basketball Olympic team that's going to Paris. I'll get into that. But Caitlin Clark, she sold out WNBA jerseys in one hour on Fanatics.

I thought they had an endless supply. She sold them out in an hour. They got a thousand people to the draft last night. Those tickets sold out in 15 minutes. Wow. So, I mean, it's amazing. You never know where stars are going to come from. Like in Los Angeles, I think it was in the 80s, Fernando Mania.

Oh, that's right. It was unbelievable. Who would it guess that? And I want to start with that. Is that Caitlin Clark got me to a TV last night. I'd never watched the WNBA draft. And I watched the first 45 minutes of the WNBA draft. You know you have pull.

You have it. When you get me to a television set and I know what's going to happen. I always said, Titanic's a great movie. I watched it three times. I knew the boat sank. I knew the ending. I knew what happened. You read the books.

It still got me to a movie theater. That's power. You never know where the stars come from. The highest compliment you can pay anybody in this frenetic, distracted world, entertainment, iPhones, tech talk everywhere. The greatest compliment you can get somebody, me last night, to sit down in front of the world. a TV and watch something I don't normally watch when I knew the outcome. I knew how it was going

to end. Caitlin Clark goes number one. And I recognized many of the top 10, 12 picks. I'm not going to recognize many of the top 12 NBA draft picks. The NBA draft has become like the Oscars. A lot of stuff that won't get me to a theater. I'll take your word for it. Those foreign films are great. I don't know exactly why Caitlin Clark is this popular. I mean, she's great. There's so many great athletes. She's non-controversial. She plays women's college basketball.

But I think a lot of it is in a world where all these sports leagues are trying to siphon more money out of you. I mean, you watch the Yankees. They're on six different streaming services. This channel, that channel, this channel, where's baseball? Where's the MLS? March Madness. Iowa Hawkeyes, little flashy, likable player, has really good range. She gives me what I know.

I've said this about the NFL. It's the only league. I say, when do you watch the NFL, you not only give me the day Sunday, but you give me the times you watch it. Mission Impossible, Tom Cruise, they're on their eighth Mission Impossible. Taylor Swift, Caitlin Clark, March Madness numbers, NFL numbers up. all mostly domestic, all things we've watched for years. The crazier the world gets, the more global it gets.

And I think the NBA's got more great players than ever. Globalization. Caitlin Clark is what you know. Iowa, little underdog, March Madness, broadcast television mostly, or cable. It's just fascinating to watch. The things that get me to a TV in a theater, I know it's getting big. figure out there and the streaming services and I got to have this plus and that plus and that streaming and I find myself seeking simple, seeking dependable, seeking traditional.

And I'm watching last night and I'm like, oh, I know that player, I know that player, I know that program. I watch that program. Comfort food. That was like comfort television last night. I'm busy. I'm distracted. I don't want to pay for another cable channel. I don't want to pay for another streaming service. March Madness ratings up. NFL ratings up. I mean, I'm trying to explain the unexplainable. Well, she's a really good player.

Her ratings were bigger than everything except the NFL. Iowa women's basketball. Dependable, traditional, non-confrontational, fun, easy to consume, likable, and I've seen it before. The Big Ten and March Madness. got me to a television set last night. Here's Caitlin Clark after. When you're kind of just sitting at a table waiting for your name to be called, I think that really allows the motions to feed you,

and you're with your family. Like obviously playing a basketball game, I'm not out there with my family. So sharing that moment with them and enjoying it and people that have really had my back and believed in me more than anyone is super special. You know, I'm 22 years old, and I don't have all the answers in the world.

This is something new to me. This is a new challenge. And that's something I'm excited. for? So I always try to find out, and there's no, you're always looking for a common threat in the NFL. How do you know what quarterback's going to hit? And so there was a story this morning that J.J. McCarthy, the Michigan quarterback,

that scouts, many agree that he is not a first round pick, but yet he may go in the top 10. I told him the first time I watched him, I thought, Hammondegger, he's okay. It's Harbots, Michigan, the old line, the run game, the defense. I don't get it. And so there's a lot of different opinions right now on him. And so we're always trying to figure out, and so are NFL teams. What's the common thread?

How do we predict to a higher level who's going to make it? Who's not going to? So I went to the last 10 drafts. And there are 12, we can argue, but 12 quarterback hits in the last 10 draft. C.J. Stroud, Mahomes, Josh Allen, Herbert, Burrell, Lamar, Jalen, Jordan, Love, Kyler, Murray, Trevor Lawrence, Dak, Prescott, Jared. got franchise guys franchise guys the school clearly doesn't matter because josh allen went to wyoming jared goff went to cal jordan love went to utah state i mean lamar jackson went to louville

that's an okay program so the school doesn't matter size is mostly overrated kiler murray small josh allen's a giant you'd rather be bigger than smaller but lamar jackson came in really spindle and Josh Allen didn't, and Patrick Mahalms, the greatest maybe ever, is average size, 6-2. The franchise history can matter, but it doesn't matter that much. Trevor Lawrence got the Jags to the playoffs.

Kyler Murray did the same to Arizona in a division with Pete Carroll, Kyle Shanahan, and Sean McVeigh, and Joe Burrow got the Bengals to a Super Bowl. So what over the last 10 drafts of the 12 quarterback hits? Now, hit can be Mahal. It can be Goff.

A hit can be Josh Allen. It can be Kyler. But they're hits. They're franchise guys. The only criteria that I have found that I can depend on, it's one of two things that gives you a higher probability to be a franchise guy, a high-end franchise guy. Number one, you either in college elevated an average or a weaker roster. Lamar Jackson, Gough, Dach, Josh Allen, Mahomes, Jordan, Love,

Justin Herbert had Penae Sewell at left tackle, but no other great NFL player on offense. So seven, eight of the guys elevated at the college level. They took a college roster that was okay, and they elevated it to a Rose Bowl, a big bowl. Or the second criteria that becomes an NFL hit in the last decade, that you're on a stacked team, but you're in sensitive. productive. Jalen Hertz at Oklahoma, 52 total touchdowns is last year. Joe Burroughs last year at LSU, 65 touchdowns. Kyler Murray, Oklahoma, 5,300 yards, 54 touchdowns. So you're either one of two. You elevate an average college roster or a weak one or on a stacked roster, you're Superman.

J.J. McCarthy's neither. Yet average stats. on a stacked roster. He's neither. That's my issue. If you go to the last decade, we get about 1.3 quarterbacks per draft that hit. We have six,

four for sure, maybe six first round quarterbacks. You've got to either show me in college that you took a Wyoming, a Texas Tech, a Mississippi State, an Oregon roster, and took it to a different level, a Rose Bowl, a Big,

game, you took it to a different level. Or you're on one of these traditionally stack rosters in Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, but you put up crazy numbers. You jumped through the television set. With J.J. McCarthy, not the first one and

not the second one. He had 24, 25 total touchdown last year on a team that blew out a lot of people. He had one 300-yard game. So when I push back on J.J. McCarthy, I've been trying to figure out what is it?

I mean, he's 6-3s, tall enough. He won a bunch of games, but he didn't elevate a team that had average players, and he didn't put up rip-roaring, crazy, productive numbers like all the other guys that are hits in the NFL. So his mission experience is not an NFL experience, where you will go to a crappy team in the top 10 and have to elevate an average roster, or maybe you go to a stacked roster on a great team in the NFL, but that's very rare. Most of those great teams already have great quarterbacks.

So there's my answer. There's my answer on J.J. McCarthy. Jason, much higher on him than I am, that's okay. I'm a little higher on Bo Nix than everybody else. That's okay. But I think our biggest argument, because you love all these new, NBA players and although I do think the league is never been more talented the

team USA has finalized the roster for Paris stop it thank God LeBron Stefan KD showed up otherwise what an indictment of AAU basketball woo you're coming in hot on a Tuesday stinker how many beverages did you have last night not well half of one beer. You are fired up. Watching the WNBA draft. I'll say this. The J.J. McCarthy take was a good one. That made me think. I did not just... Like, we saw him. We watched him. Game

manager, if you will, right? Did what was asked of him. Didn't make a lot of mistakes. Very Alabama like. I feel bad for pushing him as a top ten guy in like November. Well, he may still end up there. He's great value at like 22. Great value.

Imagine plug him into the Miami offense. Or or the Minnesota offense later in the first round. Yeah, but how about start for New England, game one? Oh, stop. Come on. Start for the Giants. Come on, that's.

That's what everybody tells me. I mean, I went back to 10 drafts, and I found the 12 hits. And you may not like Kyler Murray, but if you can take Arizona and that circus to the playoffs in that division, you're a hit. So, Dak Prescott, I may be critical. He wins 12 games a year. Dak is a hit. I think, was it your buddy Shreger that had the Giants trading up for JJ

McCartney or something like that in his mock draft. Somebody texted me something about that. Trading up for him. Yeah. All right. We've got a lot of stuff today. I'll just, I got to have my say on the Paris Olympic team. We're going to need an hour for that topic alone.

It's going to get heated because it's, it's not a discussion. The dream team would get the 92. Are you talking about the competition for the 92 dream team? I'm talking about this team USA if you took LeBron, Stefan Durant off it. Why would you do that? Why would you take three off? Three of the top, I don't know. Fifteen players in the history of the sport.

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A college basketball, when a Tim Duncan would stay in school, a Patrick Ewing for three or four years, men's college basketball was absolutely better. And so was our domestic product in the NBA, our domestic stars, who went to high school and then college. Now it's A-U nonsense. So they announced the Team USA final roster. I think they have one more player to add. Take LeBron James and Steph Curry off this roster. Yikes.

Bamadabaiu has once in his career averaged over 20 a game. On the Dream team, David Robinson averaged over 23 without the benefit of a three-point shot. seven times. Look at the dream team. Let's make a comp here. Magic, MJ, Baird, Malone, Stockton, Drexler, Ewing, Barkley, Robinson.

That team was so good, Reggie Miller didn't make it. Isaiah Thomas didn't make it. Dominique could average 28 and a half the same year. Didn't make it. I got, I can do it all, Charles Barkley. Score down low.

Perimeter transition. You get score only, Devin Booker. I get the greatest shooting guard ever. MJ, you get 22-year-old Aunt Robinson. I get two titles, David Robinson. You get never made it past the second round, Joel M. B'd. I get Killer Instinct Magic and MJ. You get, hey, you take the shot this time, Jason Tatum. This is an indictment of what's happening to our basketball culture. AAU, no hard high school coaching, maybe a G-League, leave to make money, don't play in college

basketball, take out Stefan LeBron, that era and it's ending. Think I'm wrong. Go back. I get the greatest point guard ever and the greatest leader, MJ, you get Tyrese Halliburton. He's a good player.

But go back. The basketball culture in America is a mess. The AAU culture. Our domestic stars, the best players in this league are all international. Number one draft pick, probably a French shooting guard coming up. Probably. I went back to the Tokyo Olympics, 2020, Tokyo Olympics.

Look at the Team USA basketball roster. No LeBron, no Steph. Javail McGee, Chris Middleton, Zach Levine, Keldon Johnson, Jeremy Grant. Nothing against those guys. But you take out the old school stars in the NBA right now. I'll throw in KD, Steph, LeBron. Look at our team. That's what AAU basketball has created.

Not getting hard coaching in high school. Not getting dependable coaching in high school. Not going to college anymore. First great coaching you get is often your second or third coach in the NBA. Because all those top players go to bad teams that cycle through coaches. So I know everybody loves, everybody loves the new stuff. And I mostly do. But that dream team would take this team apart at the seams.

all players in their prime. This team is old LeBron or 22-year-olds. That team was 27, 28, 29 in their prime, championship players, best in the world ever at their position. Wildly competitive. Didn't grow up with AAU basketball where you play 16 games a weekend, and it's not really about winning games. Those guys, you turn the lights off,

you put a dream team guy in a room with a current guy here, who's coming out? One guy comes out. One guy survives. The AAU guy or MJ? Or Magic, or Barclay, or Malone, or Stockton. I'm sorry, but I look at that. That is an indictment on what American basketball cultures become.

Thank God for Stefan LeBron. Take them off that team. It's 22-year-olds. It's a bunch of kids. By the way, last five or six MVP's going to be another one this year, Who are the MVP candidates this year? Luca, Yokic, SGA. Last year, Embed.

Janice, got a little trend. Got a little trend going on. LeBron will be 40 this summer. That's our team USA savior. Can you imagine it? The NFL didn't have college football as a feeding system, had some sort of A.U football thing. And Tom Brady, not Mahomes, not Alan.

Tom Brady, at 44 was our savior. if we had Olympic football. I'm just saying, maybe I'm being an old guy at the hardware store yelling. I'll take that dream team, 27, 28, 29-year-old competitive guys in their prime. Their practices have made documentaries. They do documentaries on like the dream team and how hard the practices were. Jay Mack with the news. Turn on the news.

This is the herd line news. This is one of those mornings where I was actually talking to the folks down. downstairs and I was like, oh, wouldn't it be great to just like not have to work some days and just like just chill out, go have fun? But then you come in with this nonsense take it. I'm just so excited to be talking about sports all day. Ah, it's so fun. That dream team, that dream team was something else. I'm going to pace myself. I'm not going to touch it here. The fact that Reggie, Dominique and Isaiah, they're like not good enough.

By the way, Shaq. Well, no, no, Isaiah wasn't not good enough. Michael Jordan refused to let him on the team. And I love that. a jerk. No, because that's how competitive those guys were. No, because Isaiah iced him out before at the All-Star break like eight years earlier. I mean, it was

nonsense, but don't get me. This is a good topic. This is a really spicy topic. Unfortunately, you're on the wrong side. This whole that David Robinson average more points. Colin, it was a back-to-the-basket era. They fed him the ball, pounded it down, little baby hooks.

When he faced other back-to-the-basket physical bigs and everybody had a forearm. I love David, I love the Admiral. I love Patrick. I love all those guys. Bam out of bio or David Robinson. They would be pick and roll to death by Steph Curry and these guys. David Robinson could not guard on the perimeter.

You see how Rudy Gobert plays the drop defense and Jalen Brunson eats him up in the mid-range? Except against Curry and all to Halliburton, it'd be threes. Because Robinson would get annihilated in the pick and roll. Bam out of bio can guard anybody on the court. Anybody put him on Jordan and lock him up.

In a league in a league where team score 124, he's averaged 20 points a game one time. Because it's an offensive wing 3 and D League and he's just a rim running center who's awesome at defense. Oh, geez, cowherd, let's just go to the Dallas Cowboys. Oh, man. According to Adams, Jester, listen, things are getting sideways in Dallas pretty fast. CD Lamb is not expected to attend their offseason voluntary workout program. Lamb, who's been a regular attendee in the past, is entering the

final year of his rookie deal. So you start compounding that with Micah Parsons, not in attendance. That story got leaked. You've got McCarthy, lame duck coach. Dak, we've been waiting for the extension, waiting for, doesn't sound like it's happening. There's a lot happening in Dallas. I may have been a little too light on them, and you've been kind of harsh saying it's all crumbling. It's been an incredibly loud offseason. A story gets leaked to make Micah Parsons look bad.

Who leaked that? Somebody inside the Cowboys. CD Lamb, I'm out. Remember what the reaction was when they lost to Green Bay, and you had, cousins and friends of star players ripping DAC. Cowboys aren't paying DAC. They're becoming the Jets last year. The noisiest off-season team.

It's not good news. Okay, so last season, Zach Martin held out a training camp and was able to sign in a guy to contract, got his deal. So maybe this is some posture. Maybe this is Jerry Jones and his guy saying, yo, we got snacked by the Packers. That's unacceptable.

Nobody's getting paid. Not the coach, not the quarterback, not CD. Nobody. Hold firm. guys talk about it, work on it, and we'll pay you later. But we're not just going to cough up the money early. Maybe Jerry's a little ticked off still, salty, that they got waxed at home by the Packers. And I don't hate this.

I just, I wonder if you start looking at Dallas Cowboy Unders this season. Or is that too much of an overreaction? I don't think it's an overreaction. I think noise equals losses in the NFL. Maybe not in other leagues. We've got a, we've got, who got really noisy? Last year it was Arizona got really noisy. They had made the playoffs with college.

and they got really, really noisy. Disaster. Green Bayes last year with Aaron, super noisy. Didn't make the playoffs. Jets last year, super noisy. By the way, New England, when Brady left, became a noisier franchise. Matt Patricia,

Mac Jones, stuff leaking, people dogging Belichick, all the leaks that never came out of New England. Noise equals losses. Buffalo bills, noisy? They've been very noisy. By the way, the Chiefs had an ugly situation. with Rishi Rice. Not noisy. Happened.

Unfortunate. Go to camp. Unfortunate. I mean, unfortunate. Yeah. I mean, but again. Put it mildly. Nobody's asking for a perfect roster.

Nobody's asking for perfection. But when you have issues, you close camp, you close ranks, you take care of it. It stays quiet. There's not a lot of leaks. Everybody faces nonsense in this league. These are kids. These are 24-year-old NFL players with a lot of money, a lot of freedom in time. They're going to make mistakes.

No. Human beings. got to keep it quiet. Let's get to the Niners. They made the Super Bowl, took the L, but the offseason's been kind of good for them, but in an appearance at the Masters, George Kittle was asked

about the Niners' offensive continuity. How can it help them to be even better in 2024? And he said, we were fortunate enough to keep our entire offense so far. Clearly so far is related to Brandon Ayuk's contract situation. You and I both agree, and we both love Brandon. Ayyuk. But there is a time and a place for everything. With Debo and McCaffrey and Kittle,

I think it's time to move off Ayyuk, and I love him and get a first or two seconds or a first round pick. I think he's a great player. But I do think in that offense, which is really about Shanahan's brain, Christian McCaffrey and Debo Samuel's versatility and on third down kiddle, I don't think you can justify Brandon Ayyuk because he's just not as valuable or going to get the touches that a Justin Jefferson would get in Minnesota. There are some receivers that they're the centerpiece of the team. And as good as Iyuk is, Debo and McCaffrey can hog up a lot of the, to be honest, if you ask Kyle Shanahan the perfect game, McCaffrey would have 22 carries. Kid will have six catches. Debo would have four carries. I think he's a great

and infrequently a great player will be expendable. And I think Iyuk is that. So we're, I think we have an edge in talking about stuff like this is we have been business owners. When I was with the big lead, you know, I saw this hot shot guy online, he's funny, he's witty, good writer, let's bring him all board. Within like six months you realize it's not a good, he doesn't really want to grind.

We just got to move off. Let's scrap it and move on. I see this Brandon Ayuk situation. You could see it coming a mile away. The chirpiness, the off and I get it. That's how the games play. But you know what? I would just, I would cut bait, I would move on and then just get the ball rolling with a draft pick or whatever. When you have

seventh round quarterback who's not getting paid, it sort of empowers the receiver. If you had a star quarterback, receivers generally, Brady never had problems, Peyton never had problems, Lamar doesn't have problems. I mean, you notice very quick, Mahalms doesn't have, when the quarterback's a star, everybody gets in line. When the quarterback's Brock Purdy, it empowers players to think, I'm more, by the way, in New York, a lot of chirping. Players don't respect Daniel Jones. It's nothing against Purdy. But when he's a seventh round pick, he's not making any money. And the sense in the room is it's about Kyle and us. It makes it more difficult. I think it just gets in the way of Purdy. I move him, get picks. This is a stacked roster.

They have the means and the expertise in the room to move off him. And it's a receiver-rich draft again. Yeah. Final story is the Warriors and Kings are the late game tonight in a play-in matchup with the loser's season being over. They have a great history. This regular season, they They played three games decided by one point each time. And last year they had the heated seven-game playoff series where your buddy, Draymond Green, stomped Sabonis while he was on the ground. Here's Draymond Green on the matchup with the Kings. As always a playoff type game.

Like you feel that. You go into their arena. Their fans want to light the beam and see us lose and beat the crap out of us. And they come in here, we want to beat the crap out of them. A lot of familiarity. amongst the two organizations even beyond just us going out and playing the money games that we've played against each other over the past couple years but you know for us it's another game you got to go win it's not just another game in the sense like oh it's just any other game it's another game that we have to go win and we got to go get it done so in half an hour i'll give you my five bold NBA playoff predictions we went four for five last year five bold predictions i have one of them on this so it's a tough one no line Likes leaked out now, Kings are two-point underdogs at home. Again, no Malik Monk, no red velvet, the bench is short.

For me, it'd be Warriors or pass. I don't, I'm not going to bet them here, but I just, you know, I love Fox and Sabonis, like the beam, blah, blah, blah. This is a tough one for me. Short bench, Curry's rested. I don't, I don't see it for the Kings. You may not be wrong. Warriors have to win.

They've got to win twice. Yeah. So even if they win tonight. They still have to beat the Pels or the Lakers. Okay. Don't like that. We're paying attention to this one. This one's going to be intense.

All the stars play major minutes. Then you've got to play the Lakers. Who you just dogged or the Pelicans? Weird matchup. Uphill Battle. Warriors uphill battle. J-Mack with the news. Well, that's the news.

And thanks for stopping by. The Herd-Ly News. So you were looking, you said you were looking for a day off today? No, no. I just, I have a buddy who, how do I put this politely? He is his own boss all the time and, you know,

he's like, hey, Jay, do you want to go for a run this morning? And I was like, I got to go to work, you know? It's a nice morning. Does he get free smoothies at his work? Because I got a free smoothie. I don't think money's an object to him. But anyway, I like the spirited back and forth. We have fun here.

You and I, the banter. I'm just saying, I tend to be with a, dream team. I tend to be new stuff is better. But I've been on this thing now for two or three years. AAU basketball, Steve Kerr acknowledges it. It's not helping our domestic product. I don't disagree with that. I don't think anyone does. And if you take out, you know, guys

that play it on high school basketball teams like Steph Curry and LeBron James, you take the out the old school guys. This is a, this parish team is an AAU team. That's fine, but Kevin Durant, LeBron, and Curry are on the team. Yeah, but I'm saying, take the old guys off. I mean, LeBron certainly

doesn't have to play. He's been talked into He wants to play. He'll sell shoes. I get why guys go to the Olympics. By the way, do you know that the Canadian basketball team has more NBA guys that were in the entire 92 Olympics outside of team USA? That's how stacked the world is. Now, we can thank the 92 Dream Team for that. But go look at the Canada roster. Eight NBA players on that team. Yeah. I mean, the world is way better at basketball. Go look at their player efficiency in the NBA. And we're way worse. Well. It's a convergence of things.

League is better, way better. But yes, the younger American basketball players are taking longer to pop. It's not a great thing, but, listen, capitalism, right? You have kids who play youth sports. When you can rent a gym and have games going around

around the clock and make a lot of money? You're going to do that. Why would you run a practice? You could play six games in a day? Practice. Practice doesn't mean anything. It does. You know what it does? In Lithuania. In Serbia. Yeah. By the way, that's players come over here. They've been skilled.

You're spot on. Not just playing games with their buddies. I don't disagree with any. You make a lot of money with A.U. Tony Tracksuit makes a lot of money. Never get like real grown-up coaching high school or college. You're not getting in the G-League. But what is the solution, Colin? Let's hear the solution. We know the problem. Fix it. Oh, I've got a lot of those. I don't have enough time. Oh, yeah, sure. Of course.

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And I do think a lot of it has to do with the iPhone and the TikTok and the distractions. We are a distracted society. There's more noise. There's more, there's more platforms. And so people to get them to a TV, it's Sundays, it's March Madness, it's Caitlin Clark, it is predictable, it's Barbie, it's Mission Impossible, to get people to theaters and games. And I've never been a fan of seven-game first-round NBA playoffs, but I like the plan. The urgency, I'll be watching tonight. Are you a fan of it, or can it punish in teams who maybe had an injury and kind of snuck in but you know they're better. So for a fan perspective, you're preaching to the choir, I think one and done and I think I even got in trouble by saying I would be one and done in the NBA playoffs because to

your point, people tune in based on how important the game is and how uncertain the outcome is. And one and done, you know, the quality of the product doesn't even have to be, doesn't have to be very good. But if people know that it's win or go home, it's a big thing. I would do it more. I would have the first two seeds get a buy. I'd have the next two get traditional home court. I'd shorten the series.

And then I'd have everyone play in for four to six. I wouldn't even have eight make the playoffs. I'd make the regular season worth more. Then the regular season's worth more. The top seeds that do it get a buy. And there's a huge play in to be the five or six to play in the first round. I think that would be massive ratings. I love it.

Now, right now as an executive, I hate it. I really wish we were just playing the two-seed and didn't have to play in. But for the league, I think it's a tremendous thing. So I think the Sixers match up very well with the Knicks, and I would take you in that series. I don't know if you can beat Miami. The coach, style, you know, you're an interesting team.

You're a good team. M. Bede makes you potentially great. he leaves you struggle he comes back you go on a heater I always say late season NBA winning streaks be careful some of the bad teams they don't mind losing some of the good teams are resting stars what do you make of your winning streak at the end of the year what do you make of it should I buy into it

yeah I think so I mean I think look we did have a couple games in there that you would call like late late season teams not trying to win but we also had quite a few good wins in there Orlando being one we beat Miami in this streak in Miami so I look to us it's really not about the eight game winning streak it's how we're playing and and Joel has come back strong we did hold them out precautionary here in the last game so that he could go into the playoffs you know as fresh as he's ever been and yeah we we like how we're playing we've got a couple injuries that you know just like almost every team

going in. I know the heat have some injuries. Look, the heat are a tough out. We know that, we know that for a fact. But look, I mean, this is why we're here. This is why we play. Our guys are ready. And I really think besides Joel, this will be, you know, Maxie's coming out party for the NBA. You have always been a mile ahead of people on analytics. You tend to see around corners better than most. I have been critical. I think Adam Silver's excellent. But I do think he sort of marginalized college basketball. And I think there's value in good coaching and Tom Izzo and Coach K and Jay Wright.

And I like college basketball. It microwave stars. Only reason I know who Zion is is Duke. And I think sometimes I'll watch a Jalen Green. And I think, God, the first two years I'm not, he's finally getting coaching. And he's a remarkable talent. So international players come in. They play against older players.

The games mean more when they come up. It does appear international stars and international basketball has taken sort of a lead role in the development of players. The MVP, is that a fair criticism by me? Are there things about the domestic culture that bother you in basketball? I mean, we're still the number one team in the world. Our team will be the favorite. In the Olympics coming up, we'd be the favorite in any tournament. I love how the international game has caught up

and it makes sense that some of the elite players are coming from international. There's just more players. I mean, I wouldn't be shocked that there will be a top player from India and not too long. They now are the most populous country on earth. So I think it makes sense

that you're getting this variance and getting these elite players. But I do think the American game is overly criticized. We're still developing, the best players in the world. I think you can nitpick some things, but I'm still very pro U.S. basketball. Do you feel your organization

because of the lack of ability to win a second playoff series? Do you guys feel some heat? Do you feel personally some heat that you've got to start stacking some playoff wins? We know you're good. We know MBE's MVP. We know all that stuff. We know Maxi can play. We know the roster has length and stars. But people are saying

we want more Ws in the playoffs. Do you sense that pressure? Yeah, no, I think. I think, I think heat I don't think is the right word whatever you're good at this the hyperbole it's your business but I would say look this is the whole reason I'm here Elton Brands here Nick's here Joel's here this is a look every year is critical and the whole point we're here is to win the championship we we have a little bit of heart of road mostly because of injury this year but it's set up

there for us to do it and the job is to do it so yeah the the heat is very very high as it should be yeah by the way joel mbid you've dealt with stars in this league what is it like having joel m bead is your star what is he like as a personality wonderful super super intelligent um like though thanks the game that's one thing i've had pretty consistent with the stars i've worked with so i don't think it's an accent they're not only elite physical talents but they're also elite basketball IQ and work ethic um joel adding stuff to his game every year even at age 30 now coming up or maybe just turned I think is pretty remarkable you know I would say just I've I've worked with a bunch of amazing players but at his peak I just don't see anyone

who's had the two-way impact of Joelle that I've worked with so I've been blessed yeah to work with him he's a joy with coach nurse he he loves the strategy he loves sitting with coach nurse and talking how to beat teams he yeah he's a joy All right, tonight, the Warriors Kings tomorrow. It's heat at the 76ers. And that is, I think both those teams match up very well with the Knicks. Cannot wait to see how you, you know what? Being home matters for that game.

That helps. It much, no question. Yeah, so we played the heat early in this eighth game, Winstreet going in, and we pretty much knew we had to win it to avoid the plan. That didn't work. But we absolutely knew we had to win it to avoid going to my game. Miami. Look, a lot of respect to Spolstra and Jimmy Butler and Bam and all their great players. I mean, this is not a team that we're going to have to go out there and win the game.

Like, they're not going to beat themselves. And they're, yeah, it's a tough road. But, hey, this is what the plus are for. We can't beat the heat. We're probably not going to win the title. Darry, 76ers will be watching. Great to see you. Thanks for making time for us.

We appreciate it. Yeah, thanks, Colin. Appreciate it. I'm having me on. You bought Darry. So they're in a little bit of a heater. The Sixers, by the way, are 31 and 8 this year. 31 and 8 when Embed plays.

So I think they'll beat Miami. I think they match up very well against the Knicks. The Knicks have been a fun story, but in the playoffs, boy, they're Jalen Brunson reliant, aren't they? Yeah, I'm taking the Knicks in that. You should have asked Mori. What do they do? If they lose to the Knicks, does Joel Embed

ask out of Philadelphia in April or Maine? I mean, I like the Knicks in that series. I'm taking them. Over the Sixers. Assuming the Sixers beat the heat, we don't even know if that's a lock. I think they will. They're 31 and 8 when Ambide plays. And now he's rested.

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