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Yes, please, Kevin, but right now, let's do this the
music and now sports and seven. You know, things look good in the
first half, and then the Mavericks found a way to well things look get
in the first or Mavericks came out We're knocking down threes, had a good
double digit lead for a bit there, and then the Sons came storming back
outscored the MAVs by twenty three and the third quarter Sons ended up winning by
twenty three. Kyrie did not play and tough loss at home last night for
the MAVs on National TV. There and I couldn't help. But look at
the line from the starting lineup, Luca thirty four points and the rest of
your starters Grant Williams eight, Derek Jones Junior sixth, Derek Clevely eight,
Josh Green eight. Luca needs help. Let's start before we getting a Luca,
because we could do that forever. Yep, because we've had Jason Kidd
as a both potential guest and you know, we're dancing with it. We're
probably gonna have him soon, assuming he's the Mavericks head coach. Yeah,
I know, which we'll get into all that. But one thing I wanted
to ask him because if you watch that game, they everyone on that court
was salty. It was really fun and they it doesn't happen very oft in
the NBA, but like I was ready for the throwdown, Like it was
pretty close to popping off into an actual word swinging fight that would have made
national you know, big news, all this stuff, and that's exciting,
and that creates a cool, like tense environment. I'm not got old man
saying, you know, you gotta hate each other, you know, like
I get it. It's a modern sports We're gonna smile and exchange jerseys and
hug after heartbreaking losses for a fan like it's just not what it used to
be. But man, every now and again you get those games where there
is legit I don't want to say hatred, and maybe that's too strong,
but and I wonder what happened in a lot, like did they talk about
this or they just know it's Phoenix We're gonna have one of them nights,
because that thing felt different. Grant Williams started at Real early, and now
two games in a row or two out of three, he's had a near
h dust up with the other team. I mean, if nothing else,
I like that he's at least a bit of an enforcer and bulldog type guy
and doesn't give a blank Like I like all that. But I wonder if
Kid tells him beforehand, like break out of this, you know malaise that
I guess you're sort of playing with and fight somebody. Not literally, but
man, it was close to popping off. And that was a very contentious
first half, specifically until it got out of hand and then everyone just wanted
to go home. Yeah, when Grant Williams got his second technical, that's
when I went uh oh, Like when great Williams get is like everything changed
real quick, especially that third quarter. They were at the second quarter when
the Suns came fighting back, and then the third quarter of the matter just
didn't show up. And I don't know, you have the thing Kyrie missed
because of the right thumb sprain. Did you feel better about that game if
Luca and Kyrie are in there, Absolutely you do. But I don't know
if that makes much of a difference, because the Mavericks weren't getting much help
from anywhere else and same problem. First half was fine and then second half
it's like what happened? We can't even play a full game anymore. And
I don't know if that's preparation. I don't know, if it's just the
lack of physicality. I don't know what it is. There's a lot of
questions about this team right now. And your star player is unhappy, so
happy that he's chirping with a fan, so unhappy that he's chirping with a
fan in the second half and points to the ref to try to get him
ejected, and he was. Now reports from the media will tell you that
all the guy said was that Luca needs to get onto the treadmill. You
look, you look tired, Luca, get on the treadmill. Hit your
ass on the treadmill, now, Luca, very mild as you will hear
acceptable if that's all I want. Yeah, And it was a guy who
his sons fan. They was sitting behind some of the media members there where
they were sitting the Tim McMahon's of the world. Who you will hear here?
This is from a postgame. It's you're gonna hear a little Tim mc
mahon. You might hear a little Brad Townsend for the Dallas Morning News,
Tim McMahon of ESPN and Luca. And it got a little tense right after
the game. Look, what were you frustrated about the second quarter when you
get that technical? I know I saw you when you said about the ten.
You know that was not a true all that was not the only thing
he said. But I knew you would be the first one to point out
something like that, because I'm not gonna say what he said, but I
knew you were going to be the first one to put out something like that,
So I just saw it. Man. It's just funny. You always
seem to be the first one to put some bad stuff about me, first
of all, nine percent of stuff I've written about who's been good? Oh,
I don't know. I was sitting two rows behind us, all right,
So it was the only thing he was that time he said something.
The only thing that was what you reacted to. Yeah, I was hearing
the whole first half. Right, Oh, you didn't hear anything. Act
you put out something that was just the only thing. But what was the
final was the thing. It's not the issue. I'm just seeing you seems
to be the first one to always put something bad about me. It's fine,
it's all over. Why did you ask for the fan to be ejected
because he was cursing me the whole first half too. Why didn't you ask
ejected in the first half, because son ever would eject a fan, they
pay for tickets. But I had enough, you know, it's a little
bit of frustration. You turned your head and looked over at him after he
said that. That's I mean, that's what we saw. Fun the guy
the bad guy in the media. Right, it's all right. You fairly
portrayed of the media. No, oh, oh a lot there. First
portrayed poorly in the media in Dallas, Texas. Trust me, this is
as soft as it'll ever get for you, dude, no matter where you
end up. Well, yeah, I agree with that, but then the
cowboys say they have it worse than anywhere, and you know, like nothing's
like being a Dallas cowboy. I just don't know where the line is between
Dallas media and national meet whatever. Yeah. I was always remember that what
English is Luca's fifth language, So anytime there's like that sort of verbal sparring,
not to say that he's, you know, bringing a knife to a
gunfight, but it's a little unfair for him to eloquently deliver the possible nuance
of his anger and all that when you're being teamed up on I guess by
the local media. I'll also say I like Tim McMahon. I think there
needs to be more media bulldogs that aren't scared to ask hard questions, and
he's one of the few around here, specifically with the Mavericks. The last
tough stuff. And when you get embarrassed on National TV, yeah that might
be a time when I got some questions that you don't really want to hear.
Third thing, maybe ten minutes is it when between when you leave the
floor to when you're on that podium, enough time to look at Twitter,
enough time to check Twitter. First thing you jumped out to me, check
your social media's look, find out what the story is and bring that to
your podium. Because McMahon tweeted a short video of the game and the point
where Luca asked for the fan to be removed, and McMahon also included text
denoting what the fan said at that time, which was the you look slow
out there, get your ass on a treadmill. Ucas saw that, and
he took exception with that is the only thing that you're saying that. He
said, I've spent the whole first half. This guy's cursing me out.
Now. McMahon didn't deny that. He said, yeah, he was very
he was very vocal, or however he phrased that when Lucas said, you
know, he was, you know, drawn at me the entire first half,
and I don't want to get a fan thrown out. Well, you
did, you know what you did it once the straw broke the camel's back.
And I don't think it was what the guy said. I think it's
how your team and you personally were performing in the third quarter watching that thing
turn into an absolute route and yeah, he was frustrated. So he's Look,
he's prone to tantrums. We know what his emotional agility is like,
and it ain't great. He's not a measured man when it comes to handling
stuff like that. He's also very very very young. Yeah, but none
of this is it's not a good one look for anybody, really, Well,
there's a there's a fear I think. I think there's a fear that
runs throughout the organization of we can't piss him off. Yeah, and that
is where you have to go. Now. I moved my scope more away
from Luca usually because whatever happened after the game, Luca is the only one
that performed last night. You know, Luca carries this team on his back
to a twenty four and twenty record. He's carried them to that, and
he's beat up and he's like he got drilled yesterday. You see the second
half he had and one where he got you know, they slapped his arm
and it flipped his whole weight over. He lands straight on his COCKSIX.
I was like, oh my god, that's you're not getting up from that,
And then he did. He gets up and drills the free or actually
I think he missed that free throw, but he gets he does get hammered.
Now, I don't know if he gets hammered anymore than other stars,
and maybe a style of play, and he's a bruiser and he takes it
to the rack, you know, as much as anybody. And I understand
his frustration, but good god, dude, it's out of control. The
body language is awful, all of his body language. And I don't know
if he hates his coach or is fed up with his coach or the franchise.
I mean, this is not looking good at all. And yes,
he has reason to we frustrate, especially when you're getting smoked in the second
half and you feel like you're the best basketball player in the court and there's
nothing you can do. I get all the frustration. One of the national
announcements don't know who was yesterday was like, it's not just like he's he
yells at bad calls. It's constant. Yeah, there's almost no break from
his reactions to the referees. It's muscle memory for him. It never stops.
It is just a simmering, constant anger at everything the referees are doing.
And yeah, you get banged with and you got a stupid tech at
the end of the His tech came after play in the second quarter, and
the announcers everyone's like, oh God, here it comes. And he just
can't stop even their play is walking off the court and and hardaway or somebody
tries to grab me and he's like, no, I have to say one
more thing and then go ahead and get your tech, which is gonna lead
to missing a damn game because of the text that you're mounting. I look,
I've never had a dude who's on a team that I liked, and
I I love the dude. He's incredible. He's maybe the best athlete this
city's ever seen, like relative to everyone else. Yeah, in the sport,
like he's right highest level. But dude, how what do you do?
I don't know? And is it there's no one he listens to and
is because the whole franchise is so scared of him maybe making a decision.
But it's almost like, I'm sure there's a great saying for it. I
can't think of him. It's like what you want to happen least everything you
do you try to make sure that won't happen, and then everything you do
leads to that exact thing happening, Like you're he's losing it. I will
say this, and just a moment ago, I was maybe critical of his
emotional agility. Let's put it. Let let's make a relative discussion here,
because I think if you put any one of us in his shoes, I
can't say we'd handle it any better. If the things that we're seeing are
true. He's getting banged up all the time. He's not getting calls that
he probably should. He's kind of because he is so good that the referees
kind of give him the benefit of the doubt because he does finish plays anyway
with dudes hanging on him. Well, he made the layup, so no
foul. You know. It's like like we talked about with Drew Pierson,
who was it we were talking with that about the other day. Yeah,
with Campo No, the Micah Parsons, the Shack rule, all of that
about how you yeah, yeah, because yeah, blanding, because you are
so good and you finish. They that's all they're seeing is the beauty in
the completion of the play and not the actual stuff that would get called on
maybe another player. I can't say that I would handle it any more maturely
than he does. I can't say that my frustrations wouldn't hit a boiling point
where I'm lashing out at fans and writing referees asses all the time. But
the problem is is we had two decades me okay before I move on.
Did Dirk get this any worse than Luca's getting it right now early in his
career? No, No, No referees, fans riding him, the media
ripping this guy. Oh my god, another euro bust, another big white
stiff. I mean that guy got murdered early on in his career. He
did pre Twitter. Yeah, that's true, but don't get a lot of
that stuff to the refs too, But not as constant as No, not
anywhere close to it, because Dirk was better equipped, and I don't know
how, but he had a little more emotional maturity to handle these situations.
So what I'm saying is because Dirk raised the bar so much on what you
can be capable of taking in and enduring in a basketball game. From officials,
from other players, from the media, from fans, you know,
you kind of have that expectation. It's like, well, dude, yeah,
Luca I know it's hard out there, but ah, there's a template
here, man, and it can be done well. And one thing about
Dirk is he when he got here was unsure he belonged here. He didn't
have the confidence that Luca brought with him here, Luca walking here. I
guess. I don't know if he got off the plane and said watch this
NBA, because I think he's admitted the stories that training can are those practice
games before training camp. Well, no, but it was he wasn't.
Everyone else was like, Wow, this dude's really good, and he was
realizing, yes, this translates. But he's even said that he's surprised how
easy scoring came in the NBA relative to how he scored in Europe. But
anyway, he knew he was the man. He knew he was good,
and he had a lot more confidence than Dirk did. Dirk felt like a
newborn giraffe in the NBA for a couple of years. He didn't come in
thinking I'm a superstar. I get superstar calls. Luca started with that,
and I thought it would lower with his maturity. It's worse than ever right
now. And a Texter just said, when we're gonna stop seeing you a
kid. He is one month away from me twenty five. I looked at
the NBA technical foul leaders. Trey Young is second with him. They're tied
for second in the league with nine. Dylan Brooks has eleven. He's a
known technical getter. But then it's like Jason Tatum, he's a star.
He's like there a couple of big names that do get a lot of technicals,
but nine does seem excessive. We see him complain every night. I
think if you didn't watch the map, maybe you watch the MAVs two,
three, four times a year on national TV, you would go, God,
he's bitching a lot because it is every game. It is non stop.
First of all, let me go at this. So I have a
hard time being hard on Luca, who puts up thirty easily every night,
gets a triple double nearly every night. We need to talk about the coach.
He even said before the game. The Bucks fired Adrian Griffin their coach
at thirty and thirteen because they weren't vibing well, and Jason Kidd said before
the game in the pregame press conference, this puts of every coach in the
league on Hiler, that no matter what your team's record is, you can
be fired. That's how coaches should take it. Jason gets here because the
committee appointed him. Cuban, Niko was involved, Dirk was involved, Michael
Finley was involved, but also see as a guy who could work with Luca.
Are we in a coddling situation because we're scared Luca is gonna want to
get out of here? Is that what's going on? I kind of think
it is. Well, that's not a way to operate an organization where everybody
around Luca that makes decisions is constantly walking on eggshells and living in fear that
he's going to bounce. That's what I said earlier. That will lead to
him bouncing. Yes, it's accident. Everything you try to do to make
sure that doesn't happen is leading toward making it happen because it enables him to
continue on with this stuff. There's no boundaries for him. I mean,
he's setting boundaries for Luca on this team. Mark Cuban, the head coach
at GM like no one. Carlisle known as a hard ass, though it
didn't work there either. Being hard on him didn't work either, But it
works and he was really good he's still silver all NBA. Yeah, I
know, Like that's the constant is youbot be better now if you don't watch
games and just stare at box scores, You're like, this is the you
know, top three player in which he is. And I don't want to
equate it to like a father figure relationship, you know, coach to a
twenty four year old man, but it's it looks like Luca doesn't respect his
head coach because you know, Kid has had these conversations and maybe not that
many. I mean Kid says he tells them all the time. You know,
you got to be levelheaded, do this, it'll all come to you.
But Luca's he has these brat tendencies and he's not seemingly listening to anyone.
And you're right, maybe he's enabled by the entire organization and maybe we're
the biggest idiots ever. Do whatever the hell you're doing, Luca, because
you're hanging a triple double every night. Yeah, one thing that's kind of
sucks for Luca and we see it every day, you know, where news
outlets will include social media comments into the body of their stories. You know,
it's just a weird world that we live in. People are saying,
but there are there. I guess because of the world we live in and
the way we've you know, evolved to this that social media comments, I
guess they matter now by all metrics. This is horrible for Luca because if
you did, you know, search like I did last night before I went
to bed, the Luca McMahon whatever, and you're seeing all the videos and
you're seeing the people comment on it. The vast majority of people that are
reacting to this are not in support of Luca and and often it is tagged
with what a whiney little bitch. Luca's a whiney little baby. Oh most
opposing fan not most, because again, ticket prices skyrocket when the MAVs go
there, because people want to see Luca. I mean sure, no doubt
everyone respects his games. Both of those things can be true. I looked
at after the McMahon thing and kicking the fan out, one hundred of them
soft soft, And I don't know if I mean he's emotional. I don't
know that he's soft. No, he's not well, not on the floor.
No, he ain't soft the furthest thing. But he right there and
you asked him, and you're like, what the hell, Luca would say,
are you you wires? Anyone yelling at me? Are you kidding?
I do everything? Most half this team does very little. Hey, guess
what. They're not good at basketball on the NBA level. Luca's like,
you're your spotlight's pointed at me. I'm killing myself out there. I should
take a week off, and then I limp out there and I do everything.
So yeah, I get a little frustrated, like and I do get
that side, understand that. But we've just never seen anyone bitch like he
does. It's it's it's more than anyone we've ever seen. It's it's incredule.
And he goes home and the first thing he hears is, hold this
baby. I've been working all day too. You hold the bat. It's
your turn. He went to he went to school to learn how to change
diapers. And did you know that he admitted to that to that class.
I don't know. It was a literal class, That's what he says.
Some other wife had to give him a quick class. I would imagine.
I'm not saying any took a semester at rich. No, he know somebody
had to teach him how I could do this all morning because we just tipped
the icebird with kid. I'm glad I said this last week even and yesterday
before. Now, I mean not that everyone's everyone's been saying it, but
what the hell? What do you bring? Why do we win games because
of our head coach? I don't know. Is it because Luca's so calm
and forming into the perfect weapon that he's already is? I mean, maybe
their relationship leads to Lucas corn a triple double every night. Maybe when Luca
runs hot is when he performs at this level. Maybe, but I don't
know what you're what Jason Kidd does to quate to wins for the Dallas Mavericks,
And he doesn't chures hell doesn't know what to do when they're on a
forty to ten run on the wrong side of it like we were last night.
And maybe we don't as constituted belong on the same floor as the Phoenix
Suns or the Boston Celtics. Fine, and maybe when they get healthy they
win a bunch of games. And there's that rational part. It's almost like
the retaining McCarthy part of my brain, which is like five days after the
loss, Oh yeah, maybe that was the best decision. You know what
happens when Luke and Kyrie are able to play every single night and Grant Williams
is healthy and they got exum back last night and Derek Lively has been hurt,
Like what happens when you get them all healthy? Like there's so many
questions and you would play that, but you did just get blasted by the
Celtics, who are a better team than you, even when the matter are
healthy. And they were both on the floor and they were they were healthy
good. They didn't dominate the game, but they were both good looking and
Kyrie, but are we sure Jason Kidd knows how to manipulate the joy of
having two of the best players in the sport on the same team. And
I think Kyrie, who's been a you know in interviews, seems like the
vibe is perfect. I think he kind of sits back on ice like last
night and just goes, the hell's going on with these people? He's been
seventeen out of forty four games. No, Yeah, that hurts. That's
that's tough. Man. After the game, he was walking off the floor
and everyone's I feel like Kyrie is just like, oh my god, I
wish they're all e fing crazy that. Yeah, I'd love to know what
advanced basketball minds see from a strategic standpoint, because it makes me kind of
further the question. I mean, does Jason Kidd even know how to create
lineups on the floor for the MAVs that set them up for their best their
best chance at winning? Does he know how to use Luca and Kyrie together?
Does he know what to do when one of them's out? I just
I don't know what Rick Carlichael, Rick Carlichael, Rick Carlisle definitely was a
master strategic mind when it came to the art of basketball. I don't know
if Jason Kidd is that. I know that he's liked I know that Luca
likes him, right, don't we know? Is he his friend? Yeah?
Is? I don't know what he's here for. I don't know this
because Luca respect him, like part of me. In that game last night
was like, take Luca out number once in the third quarter, you're down
twenty five whatever it is, and they came back to make it eighteen whatever
it was. Yeah, but it's like, you're just gonna get another tech
And I'm glad he didn't or you're gonna get hurt even further, like take
him out. But I don't know if kid has the balls to take Luca
out of his standard rotation on a day when Luca is playing, you know
what I mean. Well, let's get into this more later, because it's
gonna be this is gonna be a big topic all day long. Let's get
in this more later. I want to work the phones on this too.
I texted Tim McMahon to see if he'll do the thing to him a pain,
So we'll see if he can get him to Collins. Well, maybe
we'll have Skin jump in at nine thirty five too, they'd have a take
on it. He'll take some phone calls a little bit later as well.
Because I'll tell you this, we've been in a damn holding pattern to get
Jason Kidd on now for almost two weeks. Because we can't get him on
unless they win a game. That's true, we might not hear from me
till March. That's also not there. That's not on them. I've actually
offered that as almost like a you know, good faith here, Thank hell,
let's get him back for a win. Yeah. I would love to
have had him on today. Yeah. No, I mean that's something I
can you know, we could ask. I guess he would have declined today.
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