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want. We'll pick some of the best ones and play those. At nine thirty ish, it is seven o'clock. We're gonna talk some sports. Now sports at seven. Start mabbies. Let's start mabvies. No, y'are know what? Yeah, I'll start mabviies. What was that noise? Yeah? No, I was just saying no news on the Cowboy front. They did finish their interview with Dan Quinn. They finished their interview with Ron Rivera. Uh. They I'm sorry with Mike Zimmer and Ron Rivera and Dirday, who's
in house. They interviewed him for the defensive coordinator job. They have to hire one more minority candidate in order to acquiesce the Rooney rule in interview. Yes for coordinators African American, it's got to be two now for coordinators. If you remember, famously, for the head coaching job, when they hired Mike McCarthy, they gave a call to Marvin Lewis first. Yeah, because it lasted about as long as your called in to that casino. Last segment.
Yeah, to the call to Sam's town. Oh you're live on the radio. Is that okay? Nope? All right, I have a great day, is it? Uh? Am? I wrong to think that Marvin Lewis should just like stop doing that and bailing teams out. Seriously, I would just like get an unlisted number, change my number. So when when it comes to hiring season, he's not just getting blown up, right unless he really thinks they're trying to hire him. I reckon, we need to
call Marvin. He's the Raiders assistant head coach. They just call him. This is your offensive coordinator call, then this is your defensive coordinator call, and then head coach. There's three consecutive calls. Knock them all out. See, we did it, we did it. We passed the rule. We're progressive. MAVs win last night one nineteen one oh seven and looked damn good. Yeah that was fun. It's weird that well, like Luca can
hang thirty five eighteen and nine and we're probably gonna talk Kyrie today. Yeah, you know, thirty five eighteen and nine eighteen rebounds. Yeah, it was stupid. I saw that. I mean, he's they mentioned it. Do you watch the national broadcast? I watched TNT. Okay, yeah, so did I, which we were uh our Jason kid thing was featured in the beginning ninety seven won the Freaks. Yeah they pluralized us. That's fine, but they got the downbeat and quotations. It's just kind of cool.
In the graphic. I wanted shock to read that. Yeah, awesome, But anyway, that was featured the beating. I watched the TNT coverage and one of the things they they mentioned as Luca is just ripping rebounds and is he's top ten in the NBA and defensive rebounds. He's number nine right now, and I don't know, like we always he's a point guard. Yeah,
he's a freaking point guard. Yeah. And the guys in front of him, Listen, you have Sabonis, you have Anthony Davis, Nicola Jokic, Rudy Gobert, Jannis Joel Embiid, bam Adebayou, like they're all the giants of the league. And that absolutely nowhere at number nine is little Luka Doncic, and then after him is when Banyama, you know, MVP type stuff. Man, It's just but and also you want to bitch about Luca's defense, which why the hell, do we pick things in bitch about him?
About Luca? I don't think we do necessarily, but some people do. You highlight negatives, and you know, defense sometimes he gets blown by I get it, But should we probably throw defensive rebounds? Being ninth in the NBA in the overall pile of Luca's defensive performance, I don't know if that's normally done and when you judge what a defender he is, but he's ripping rebounds, That's part of it. I think a lot of his rebound
success stems from he makes up for what he lacks in height. It was kind of like that that Dennis Rodman knows for the ball, where he just knows when the shot goes up. It's like he's so skilled at trajectory and placement that when the shot goes up, he probably knows where that it's going to miss, how it's going to miss, and where it's going to end up. And you combine that with the fact that the guy is sneakily huge, yeah, and that big old booty of his can just get positioned and
block you out. He's he doesn't have to go for rebounds. He's always in position where they just land in his hands. Yeah. I saw that happen one three trips down the court last night where Brooklyn had misshots, and all three times the rebound just fell right in his hands because he was in the perfect place to get it. Yeah, instincts. Yeah, incredible, And that could apply to steels too. I mean, had a couple of steels last night where he can, you know, anticipate where the ball is
headed. And I don't know, he's I don't think you can just blanket him a bad defender, No, I don't. And he can crank it up pretty good, you know, and be an average or maybe even a good defender. But I mean he's eighth in the league in steels too, that's true. Yeah, he made a couple of great defensive plays last night that was just like, yeah, okay, that was a great play. And he appeared to be tired at the time. I do agree he's not
done, probably a little too much. What's caveat here. Brooklyn's pretty terrible. So they're decimated last night too. For this team to win, and win fairly big and to kind of just handle it and stave off a couple of runs at the end, yeah, I mean, yeah, they run by twenty three, and then it seemed like once they got to that point, the rest of the game was, let's exchange twelve runs for the next three quarters. You see a little healthier Kyrie back finally, like just let
it all happen for a minute. There are a couple like plays that happened last night. And I think stan Van Gundy's who I was listening to when he said this on the TNT call, was like, look, he goes. The Mavericks have to start playing better when Luca is doubled, and he's got to trust and make the right basketball play. And I think he's been
doing that, and I think the guys just haven't been coming through. But now Jayden Hardy's starting to shoot the ball a little bit better and set the world on fire for two from three knocked him both down and he was good. On Monday night, Tim Hardaway was okay, like Josh Green again, just kind of there. Maxie able to make them three like okay. So
now we're starting to get the nucleus back together here. If you remember the year went to the Western Conference finals, Maxi was pretty terrible, and then we got to the playoffs and he destroyed Utah at Round one because he was open and they were leaving him open. And that's what this all comes down to, guys knocking down shots when they're left open. That's why we lost to the Clippers that year too. It was like, well, they're guys
like Luke Kenard were making threes and things like that. So like, Luca and Kyrie are gonna make the smart basketball play and on nights like last night, when they both give you plus thirty, I don't need twenty from Josh Green like I needed on Monday night. I don't need twenty from someone else cause you can kind of and four out of five games I've at Luca and Kyrie are going to carry the offense far enough to get what you need.
You kind of had a feeling that that's how last night was going to go. Though, when Kyrie comes out and just without question sets the tone for what his night was going to be for the rest of the night, and you know he had a little bit of something to prove. I'm thinking playing in that that arena, Yeah, against the team I guess a year to
the date that he was traded. Yeah. I listened to the Ben and Skin Show as I do every day and Skin basically twice they're not bad in their hoop segments said, uh, he's going for forty and I'm like, you know what, He's absolutely right. And I went on prize Picks and his over under was twenty five and a half points and I'm like, dude, Skin's absolutely right and he damn near had it in the first half over Yeah, bumming up with what thirty six? Yeah, thirty six, Luke
had thirty five. I mean, just pick your poison with those two are healthy, Pick your poison. I would hate to be the opposing team if I was a perimeter defender knowing that I've got to make a not only you got to give max effort, You've got to play them a lot tighter than maybe you would another another player running point. And it's and you've got to be smart too, but it is pick your poison. Okay, So am I gonna double Luca? Well, that frees up Kyrie. Both of them
are three level. They can score from all three levels. You know, each both of those guys can can effectively finish consistently at the rim. They're both good mid range, mid range shooters. And we saw Luca last night. What do you call it a shot from Logo Land? I hadn't heard that one before. That was good. That yeah, Logo Land, Logo Land, that's pretty good. Yeah. Boy, they both just were at threes last night. Yeah, seventy one points and moralizing threes, Mikey,
I know that. Yeah was it? When was it into this third quarter? I don't know. Whenever they went on some crazy run and god, they're just couldn't miss. But almost more importantly, when I got a little sense of last night, was that those two falling in love. Yeah, they super period to be getting along. Great, dude, Kyrie hit one. Dude, are you talking about the lu well that? Yes, the alley was amazing. That was the play of the night. Yes, I didn't. I know. He's an athletic man, Oh he can yet if
he needs too. But you don't see that all about it. I did the double take. Oh my, oh my god, crap. But Luca's joy of a couple of those threes that Kyrie hit where Luca's kind of dancing and doing the arms up and then they hug and laugh. I'm like, yes, more more love. Well, that's that could go a long way. You don't see it because we just haven't seen enough because he's missed a
lot of time. But Kyrie's missed what a good chunk of these games now, And there's part of me that's going someone's gonna be fresh down the stretch here. Now, thirty games up the regular season, then you you hope you play twenty games in the playoffs, right, So, like, does he have fifty games left in the tank? You know, I don't know. Oh, but this team can That sounds stupid, right, sounds crazy?
Can you? Oh? It just beat the nets by twelve, but this team went all together and then get Lively back to help the defense a little bit. They can get hot and they can go on a run. And what does this on a run mean? I don't know, man, I'm sure conference finals they're gonna win it all. I don't know. It's like, it's all you can make a trade for Kyrie to put him with Luca for this reason. We've seen it enough now. We didn't have time to see it last year and then it was tank time. Yeah, Actually,
to get Lively, you've seen enough this year. I think of them together when it works to go this. When we were talking about this at the beginning of November like this can work. I think it can too. The thing that is a little concerning is that I don't feel the MAVs can be competitive in the playoffs for an extended run unless they are one hundred percent and healthy. They've got to have Lively, they've got to have Exum and and everybody else that's been coming back. You know, a Maxi you mentioned
Josh Green has man elevated his play. I think obviously Kyrie. But it's like it's like, even if you lose one of those dudes, you're you're just house of cards. Yeah. Yeah, it really feels that way. And I just don't think that they're they're that next man up mentality really applies to this particular Maverick team. You do need them all. I think two things. I think it's we always say, hit threes, you're a good team. Miss threes, you lose, and you're a bad team, no
doubt. I mean, it's kind of it. And then you talk about all this other stuff after the game and you look back, O, they hit their threes, and that's just kind of the way they design They've welcome to the NBA. Maybe it's every team. I just don't watch the other games, Like I do this team, I mean, and they were forty four percent last night hit threes. We win. We're a good team. Miss threes, Oh no, this seems a mess. We can't beat anyone.
I think the difference in how you feel about Josh Green. If Josh Green can hit open threes, you're like, Okay, I don't trade you because the little things you do. But then like, if he's not making threes, he drives you insane, you know, because he's just like, you know, dribbling the ball off his kneecap and things like that. Yeah. Sham Sharnia from The Athletic reported the MAVs are interested in Andrew Wiggins from
Golden State. Mark Stein tapped the brakes on that yesterday, saying no conversations have happened there, or at least not yet. So the MAVs targets that they've been in on that would be a power forward type. PJ. Washington from Charlotte, who's a good player. Kyle Kuzma, who's a good player. Two guys who could really help. But you would have to give away a young piece a Josh Green or a Jaden Hardy, plus probably your first round pick in twenty twenty seven, and I don't know if the MAVs want
to do that. I think they probably want to keep that pick just in case. I know, I it's there only one left. You know that they can trade for a while because they've traded so many first for you know, the Poring porsicois deal, in the Kyrie deal. But you know something by two pien tomorrow they will do something they always do. It's the MAVs way. They're not going to just sit there, and it may be something really small, but I don't see them sitting still. Oh, I think
they'll do something. But again, it's funny listening to Skin yesterday and Ben even Saturday's like, you know, just listen closely to the skin, he said. I don't. I don't expect anything that's gonna move the front of your pants in the next day, which I don't ever expect movement in the front of our pants. Make Anny, Oh, sweet Danny, me neither, Danny. Yeah, I expect it. I'm just summon it somehow, like a snake charmer or a nice and a flute. A flute lift open
the laptop to pirates. Yeah, that could work, I guess of a wicker basket, you lift the top of the laptop, start playing your flute. Oh, wait for the baby cobra. Oh one more transition here, go ahead, want something too? It's more on like the Luca Kyrie falling in love thing, which I don't know if we're quite there yet, but at a moment last night. And it's stupid because it's been a year and Kyrie's had tons of incredible games, but maybe it takes a year if you're
as good as Luca is. But I feel like there was a moment last night where Luca almost did a double take, looked at Kyrie and said, wait, he's magic too. Yeah, he's also made a magic like I am. You know, because Luca, when he lays his head down, I'm sure you know, is a probably a great teammate. I mean, he feeds the hell out everybody, but he knows he's the best player and
all this stuff. But I almost feel like there was a moment last night where and maybe Luca's realizing it, like wait, not to say he's as good as I am, but I think he's also a magician. He's also we have another wizard. He knows magic, right, He knows that the arts the dark arts that I know Luca's simple, beautiful reaction to the Kyrie llyu where he just cup the ball between his hand and his forearm and jammed it big ups Lucas. Luca's reaction was priced right. That's disbelief, that's
quick, and it's that's a genuine reaction. Wow. There's also a play where Kyrie took it to the rack and just got annihilated and stood up and almost did like a uh to the ref It was like the anti Luca reaction to getting absolutely slammed. And I almost think Kyrie is so cerebral that he wants to lead by example and without telling Luca, dude, chill, stop bitching at the refs. He's just going to keep doing what Kyrie does and
trust that Luca's gonna notice. And there was that was the play where I think Luca would have lost his mind because Kyrie did get found and they should have got it, you know, a call. And I just think he's quietly and slowly leading by example. When you do that quietly and slowly, it takes a while for people to realize it and get on board. I just think Kyrie might be doing a lot of things like that that he's leaving Luca no choice but to notice in a longer spectrum of time, which maybe
he's starting. He's noticing. Now that's a really good observation. It's kind of like, uh, Luca's with Kyrie on the floor and you know, involved in playing and them and tandem together. It's almost like this kind of like a thing where lucas on maybe a little bit better. Maybe not his best behavior, but better behavior. Kind of like when you act differently when maybe somebody else is in the room when the coolest guy in school, Yeah
he's hanging around. Yeah, it gonna be a little more measured. You're one real quick thing that they brought this up last night, going back to Kyrie and the Brooklyn experiment, I do not realize that that whole time where they tried to make that thing work with Kad and Harden and Kyrie, that they only played nineteen games together. It was a ridiculous. Nineteen just weren't healthy because Katie was coming back from the knee thing or the achilles, and
then Kyrie missed a ton of time. It was a weird time, man. But Brooklyn's gonna boo him when he gets introduced. That that makes a lot of sense. His Monday night tweet after the game was I gotta stay poised. His tweet after last night's game, thank you for everything, God, I gotta stay poised to the chaos and hate the next generation is watching. He's talking about staying poised. Those are Kyrie's tweets las Monday and Tuesday's
game. But stay poisoned. I'm just sitting there, everybody, what's the one thing we've been begging Luca to do? Stay poised through these times, like just don't lose it first quarter. He knows I'm sending a little, uh, you know, little message maybe or maybe he's always been sacked tweeting I gotta stay poised. I haven't been checking this post game tweets lately because he hadn't played much, So you know, real quick, this is thirty
seconds. Clayton Kershaw was debating between Rangers and Dodgers, and he chose the Dodgers last night, no surprise, so he will sign with them. He can't pitch on the second half of the season. I didn't have a ton
of interest anyways. And then he's got a player option for twenty twenty five for him and Otani, could you know, hypothetically be in the same rotation in twenty twenty five if he's even a starter anymore at this point, Like, I don't even know what to think about Kershaw, so I didn't have a ton of interest in that anymore, although it would have been cool if happened. He's a good dude, So good luck with the Dodgers, buddy.
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