WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:08.880 You're listening to the Downbeat on ninety seven one to Free. Mike tells me 2 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:15.080 that we've been moved to the bigger theater at Alamo Draft House for the next 3 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:20.879 Tuesday night screening of step Brothers. Yeah, let's freaking chill our big movie 4 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:24.199 party that we have in partnership with Almo Draft House. It's at the theaters. 5 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:29.359 Next Tuesday night is the Downbeats turn to party. And we're watching step 6 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:32.600 Brothers together. And they had us in one of the medium sized theaters and 7 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:36.520 we had that thing three quarters full and they said, you know what, 8 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:41.320 big boy theater. So now we just had three huge rows in the back 9 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:44.880 all open up. So that's a good I don't know, one hundred seats 10 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:47.920 probably down one hundred, but fifty seats, I don't know. I'm not 11 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:51.960 counting all these white dots. Yeah I wouldn't at once too. I'm not. 12 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:55.799 I will count them if you want me to. All right, here 13 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:59.920 we go, one, two, three. There's a lot of seats. 14 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:03.759 And once Mikey gets done counting the seats in the theater live on the air, 15 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:08.480 we'll once again run over the Dodgers lineup that for opening day. Later 16 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:14.719 off it's two to one. Padre's beating the Dodgers, the first official MLB 17 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:17.640 game of the season, which had been played right now, Beautiful while you 18 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:22.319 were sleeping in Soeoul, South Korea, show he Otani's debut as a member 19 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:25.120 of the LA Dodgers. Two to one Padres, we're in the bottom of 20 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:27.799 the sixth Dazio for three with three strakehouts. No, he's got a hit. 21 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:30.200 He's got one of the few hits for the Dodgers. He's one for 22 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.799 three. Tickets are at ninety seven one in the Freak dot com. You 23 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:38.000 can also go to k E g L dot com, which works, and 24 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.280 also draft house dot com. It's the Cedars. It's Tuesday night. Come 25 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.000 on, come on and see us. We're gonna have a good old time. 26 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:51.239 I think it's seven pmsh start time. Yeah, and we usually go 27 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.400 and have a maybe meet up in the bar and get a little drink before 28 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.640 something like that. Yeah, drink, and we get in front of everyone 29 00:01:56.680 --> 00:01:59.159 to a little comedy. Oh my god, stand up. I always forget 30 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:00.599 that till we get there. Oh god. I got to come up with 31 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:04.280 something, you know, because don't want to be fully disappointing. I usually 32 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:08.400 get up there and just say Kevin Yeah, and then I kind of mumble 33 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:14.000 into the mic and hand it to Danny. Sorry, back in my chair. 34 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:16.439 Yeah, Danny sings one of his hit songs. I sing Beans and 35 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:21.960 hand the microphone back to Mikey. You guys want to hear beans almost just 36 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:28.319 smattering of applause, and just say one word, right and beans, And 37 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.919 then I hand the microphone to Mikey. Like the crowd, there's a hush 38 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:36.439 and you can feel the anticipation. And then Danny says beans and oh my 39 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:40.479 god it Mikey shakes his head in disgust, receives microphone, and then starts 40 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:46.439 pointing people in the direction of theater four see a different movie. Boy, 41 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.319 we do it too. It's not like a standard uh hey everyone, uh, 42 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:52.479 you know, like we have a little fun with it. We don't 43 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.159 want anyone to be obnocious, clearly, but you know, a little funny, 44 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:58.879 funny quips. Yeah, if you want to yell something, it's fine, 45 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.759 Yeah, it's you. No, don't nothing you know hateful. Yeah, 46 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:07.240 no, hate speech will be tolerated. The downbeat movie of the Month 47 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:12.759 Step Brothers, Come Out Tuesday, Come Out Tuesday Night. Play tickets, 48 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.680 and if you get your tickets earlier, it looks like we filled them better, 49 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:16.960 and that looks good for us. It looked great yesterday's we had a 50 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:20.800 smaller theater. Now we have a massive theater. There are a lot of 51 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:23.319 seats available, so please get These are the best seats in the house. 52 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:28.319 Last three roads are people who judge us on this stuff. Look, they're 53 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:31.639 not gonna realize it's they're not gonna care that we filled up the medium theater. 54 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:36.039 They're gonna just look at the seats. And these guys are stupid. 55 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.039 Yeah, that's what the that's what they think about us. Your seat ratings 56 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.560 aren't very good, So get the tickets please for us. For us, 57 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:58.800 let's do sports at seven. No and now Sports at seven are an hour 58 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:02.719 away from a wild mystery ride. Now, I don't know should I tease 59 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:06.960 it better than how have been teasing? Teasing? It was just eight o'clock, 60 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:10.439 don't miss it. I don't know that I should. I think eight 61 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:14.879 o'clock don't miss it is good enough. Eight o'clock don't miss it. More 62 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:16.199 specific, I don't know it could be. I don't want to be too 63 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:23.160 predictable here. Eight o'clock. Have fun. Okay, Diga's morning news in 64 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.879 thirty minutes. Yeah, we're moving it up. This is the early edition 65 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:28.839 of the news today. Yeah. Well, because we want to keep our 66 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:32.160 listeners on their toes. Yeah, that's right, right, you never know 67 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:36.399 the unexpected. Just like on CBS's hit reality show Big Brother every summer, 68 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.639 these people, these people all think we're going to do part three of the 69 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:46.079 Big d Bracket today. Not happening. No, no, we will start 70 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.160 out in the world of sports. I do have the audio that we need. 71 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:54.000 Let's do Mads real quick. MAVs. Yeah, topple the Spurs barely 72 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:58.759 last night. It was a first when things first Spurs uniforms. What do 73 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:02.399 you think? Okay, almost tweeted something about these. They looked like they 74 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:09.480 were designed by the marketing team that created Mexican TV dinners in the seventies. 75 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:13.680 Okay, that's which I kind of love. Okay, I loved them, 76 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:18.680 it really did. They had a cool seventies Mexican throwback to a Mexican food 77 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:23.839 restaurant throwback. Yeah, I thought I was watching the Flint Tropics from the 78 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:27.920 movie Semi pro It looked at Aba uniforms. Yeah, it was great, 79 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:32.000 it was super cool. Are those and someone's gonna texting if you know if 80 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:36.800 those are? Are they made to look like throwbacks or did they ever actually 81 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:40.439 do anything? It was? I mean they used to. They were an 82 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:45.079 Aba team, right, I'm reading up on it. Go ahead, though, 83 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.560 it's well, we can't go because we don't know Viva Spurs. Okay, 84 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:54.600 it is the three twenty four city takes them back to the nineteen sixty 85 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:59.319 eight hemisphere, okay, Oh designed sort of in that vibe? Or did 86 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.240 they actually wear these jerseys? Does inspired by the sights and sounds of the 87 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:09.160 nineteen sixty eight World's Fair? Yeah? I don't know what the World's Fair 88 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:13.360 was, but that's what I have on that. I've never seen him before. 89 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:17.720 Was this the day beating before? I've seen them before. I've never 90 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:21.680 seen them play the MAVs. In those there's just kind of nondescript it. 91 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:26.399 It looked like a sign that would be over an old Mexican restaurant. They 92 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.600 just said San Antonio and I love I like the font, love the font, 93 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:34.000 the colors, all of it, kind of that soft orange. Hm. 94 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:36.120 I guess I don't even know. I'm sure they have some cool name 95 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:42.399 for it inspired by earth toned fashion trends of the late sixties, uh terra 96 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.839 cotta pink, sunflower yellow, and succulent green. And they the court. 97 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:50.439 The court design kind of mirrored, you know, the whole motif. They 98 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:55.360 got away from whatever their normal black and silver. I guess I liked the 99 00:06:55.439 --> 00:07:00.959 old spurs, you know, court that had the the purple and the almost 100 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:04.360 aqua and that light orange, yeah, you know on it, so like 101 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:06.480 you know, I know, they used to incorporate that a little bit, 102 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:10.839 not really on their jerseys, but the black and soil are now they're full 103 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:13.600 black and silver. But last night I thought that was cool. I don't 104 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:15.680 mind it for a couple of games at a time. I think it's it's 105 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:19.319 very weird when people make the full shift over and do it all the time. 106 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:24.920 Boy, those sleeves were saffron orange and brown. That was cool. 107 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:27.399 I like the font I don't thought. I thought they looked pretty cool, 108 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:30.199 did you Okay, how did you guys consume the game? I had to 109 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:34.920 stream it on my computer and cast it to the TV, so I got 110 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:42.319 some pirated feed, so you get and thankfully I got the local announcers, 111 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:48.000 but you get, you get insight to what happens in between during commercial breaks. 112 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.399 As it doesn't go to commercials, it just stays on the court. 113 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:53.959 You get to see all of the stuff that goes on. They're in house 114 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:58.800 production, interaction with their fans, the games that they play, and I 115 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:03.319 just love how Latina know centric, the whole vibe is in that arena, 116 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:11.120 the music that they play, the I mean yeah, and the vast majority 117 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:16.720 of fans there are Hispanic. Yeah. And I don't know. I'm not 118 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:22.120 one of those people that bags on other Texas cities because I think Houston's badass. 119 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:26.199 I think San Antonio is awesome. I love going to San Antonio. 120 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:28.639 I haven't been there in a while, but I think San Antonio Antonio is 121 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:33.279 incredible. It's got a cool vibe to it. Say what you want about 122 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:37.960 the Riverwalk, but the Riverwalk is incredible. It's awesome. Dude, we 123 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.120 don't have anything like that. But I don't know, there's just something about 124 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:46.679 the what it must be like to live in San Antonio where your only professional 125 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:54.600 sports team is the Spurs, and you have been so lucky and so fortunate, 126 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:58.399 you know, back in the two thousands, early two thousands to win 127 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:03.639 as many champsampionships and just to have that that communal thing, you know, 128 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:07.720 with a culture. And I think it's soretty cool. It's almost got kind 129 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:11.200 of a collegiate feel to it. Yeah, I like watching the feed where 130 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:18.320 you can see the other It's great because it is a nationwide epidemic that everyone 131 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:22.759 wants a T shirt more than anything in the world. It's crazy what these 132 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:26.159 people do for T shirts. Well, it's crazy. I think that thought 133 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:31.759 is more of the people that are shooting T shirts into the crowd because they 134 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:37.799 act like they're firing in bags of gold. And it's some you know, 135 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.240 fifty sponsor, not the artists, but they cost fifty cents to make and 136 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:46.279 it's got some sponsor logo on it. This bigger than the Spurs logo. 137 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.039 But yeah, I don't know. The vibe in San Antonio is awesome and 138 00:09:50.159 --> 00:09:54.440 I was I was thinking of pop too during that game, because I think 139 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:56.200 that twice we beat them, but they were really close games this year. 140 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:00.200 I don't know, probably had a close one in the first half and then 141 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:01.720 we ended up blowing them out right. Okay, last time we played, 142 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:05.120 well, this game is close as hell last night and they could have won 143 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:09.879 it. Yeah, no doubt. But I was just thinking about Pop and 144 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.919 I don't know, in like a different city. I mean it's almost very 145 00:10:13.919 --> 00:10:16.120 Belichick, you know, like in a different city, Oh my god, 146 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:20.440 you had three bad seasons. This guy's old. He's done. But I 147 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:24.399 think down there it is like, okay, just wait, give us another 148 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.039 couple give us another couple of years, and Pop will have us where we 149 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:31.240 belong. Like I don't know, I don't know that anyone's yelling into the 150 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:33.840 radio in San Antonio. Fim, we're not good right now. It is 151 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:39.480 fascinating to me, and I love Pop for this is he could have left 152 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:48.519 in with full accolades, in a blaze of glory and retired and gone out 153 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.120 with that class, those guys that that core team that all pretty much left 154 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:56.000 within a couple of years of each other, when you know, jenob Lee, 155 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:01.480 Parker Duncan. But he didn't. He stuck round to kind of go 156 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:05.159 through the rough times and shepherd in this new group, you know, of 157 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:11.720 spurs to what they might be in a couple of years. And I think 158 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:15.679 it's really cool that you know he's stuck around and that they led him. 159 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:18.679 I mean, what better option do they have? No, he's great, 160 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:22.840 but they know it. Yeah, and you're gonna win the coach brain battle 161 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:26.080 every single night, and all you have to do is give him the weapons 162 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.919 to win the actual game. They'll get there. Man. Twenty eight seasons, 163 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:33.720 twenty eight seasons of coaching. Yeah. He joined the Spurs as an 164 00:11:33.720 --> 00:11:39.600 assistant coach in nineteen eighty eight, and then he a brief assistant with the 165 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:43.840 Golden State. They returned to the Spurs as GM and VP, and he 166 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.879 made him He fired Bob Hill and made himself coach in ninety six. Do 167 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.159 you think he's ever paid for a meal at me, Tierra? I don't 168 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:54.720 they Nope. This will be six straight years of not making the playoffs. 169 00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:00.279 Yeah, and that's a long run. And hell maybe some idiot is like, 170 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:01.559 oh, it's the coaching, but I don't think so. No. 171 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.159 I mean, I think part of it was tanking, yeah, I know, 172 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:09.759 of course, and then the Wemby thing was just a shot of relevance 173 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:15.320 right into their veins. That fast forward. You're I just rebuild. I 174 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:16.639 don't know if it's a rebuild though, I don't know, just trying to 175 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:22.200 get the trouble getting people to stay though, whether it be DeRozan. Kawhi 176 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:24.200 Leonard is the famous one show you how cool he was. Oh, when 177 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:28.440 fans were booing Kawhi earlier in the year, and he goes up to the 178 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:31.399 scores table, grabs the microphone and said, stop booing. We don't do 179 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:35.399 that here. Might not we don't boo here, but like, let's like 180 00:12:35.960 --> 00:12:41.279 act like it. Basically went full Samash. He said, you're not Rockets 181 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:43.360 fans, You're Spurs fans. We're not booing here. Don't do that to 182 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:48.840 him. And uh, I don't know this. The MAVs winning that game 183 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:54.399 despite Luca not playing good, I would say his good sign. Did Luca 184 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.519 end up with a triple double? Yep, he did. Was that last 185 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:03.960 buzzer on a meeaningless shot. Essentially, it's the worst I think I've ever 186 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:07.080 seen Luca play and he's still got a triple double. I mean, he 187 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:11.000 could not buy a bucket. I think I'm pretty sure that's the worst shooting 188 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:16.120 game of his career. Twenty two percent right, six of twenty seven, 189 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:22.200 six of twenty seven, Yeah, twenty two point two of eleven from three. 190 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:26.320 Nothing was dropping for him. No, Kyrie couldn't make a three either. 191 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:28.919 Oh five but Kyrie was scoring. I mean, that's the story of 192 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:33.039 that game, is Kyrie taking over on offensive defense. Is fine. Kyrie 193 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:39.120 did one drive left right under the basket and the whole jump and then double 194 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.759 clutch reverse lay in, spinning the ball yes to get it to get the 195 00:13:41.799 --> 00:13:46.639 right english off the glass. And it was almost a photo copy of like 196 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:52.039 one of the Michael Jordan's most famous highlights where he uses the rim as a 197 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:54.720 as a as a barrier against the defense. Yeah, basically, but it 198 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:58.679 was necessary for Kyrie. Jordan didn't need to do that, yeah, you 199 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.519 know, and the one you're talking about it that it's that's one of the 200 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:05.039 Jordan classics. And Kyrie didn't like, Oh beautiful verse lay in for Kyrie, 201 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:07.720 like, and that's kind of it. It's like, well, that 202 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.879 looks exactly like the one I've seen a thousand times because Michael Jordan did it 203 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:16.399 and Kyrie does it, and I guess just makes it look easy and so 204 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:20.440 it's not a big deal. That good. Well, also, that's back 205 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:30.200 to back games where Joekitch and now Wimby your bigs had well below average games. 206 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.960 Yeah, twelve points for Wimby and Wimby has been putting up twenty plus 207 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:37.080 and easy big rebound games he had. I mean, he gets his boards 208 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:41.919 every night. Clearly looked at him. It's ridiculous. He was well defended 209 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:46.559 last night. He was. And that's like that gives me a little Okay, 210 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.240 Yeah, runningto Minnesota, Yeah, run into Denver, even like I 211 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:54.200 don't want to play in Denver a lot. I do think Denver's probably better 212 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.840 than us, But it gives you a little hope, like you can slow 213 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:58.879 him down a little bit. These bigs, I agree, gotta change. 214 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:05.440 They They are competitive with anybody in the league. I'm not saying they're the 215 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.399 best team in the league, but in a seven game series, they're They're 216 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:13.919 very capable of winning a seven game series against anybody in the league as they're 217 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:20.200 composed or as they're comprised. Right now, dude, Wemby was was he 218 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:24.639 three for thirteen? Okay, so Luca was twenty two percent. Wemby was 219 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:28.759 twenty three percent. And that's a seven foot four monster. That's about as 220 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.240 bad as you'll see those guys come. Never well, yeah, but at 221 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:35.440 least Luca ball handles and shoots a bunch of weird stuff. And you know, 222 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:37.320 Wemby still shoots the ball from all over, but a big man that 223 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:41.840 size, you don't see him shoot twenty three percent that says by far his 224 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:45.159 lowest of the season, and twelve points. He's only been held to the 225 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.399 less than twelve points once since the calendar flipped to twenty twenty four, So 226 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:50.639 this is good. We get a little bit of a break tomorrow night. 227 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:56.279 You get the Jazz at home, and then you're to the Jazz next week 228 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:00.919 on a twenty fifth, and then a back to back Sacramento, who you're 229 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:06.080 currently tied with. Those are the six huge games against the sad Sack Kings. 230 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:11.960 So take care of your business against Utah twice and then two against Sack 231 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:15.679 and then things will kind of clear up a little bit for what you need 232 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:18.279 to do to get in. I don't have to the top six. I 233 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:22.559 don't have the exact stats in front of me, but I'm sure we all 234 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:27.039 saw it last night when follow Well they put up the graphic of what their 235 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:33.879 defensive numbers have looked like since the trade, and it's night and day. 236 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:37.639 Yeah, it is absolutely dude. This team is so different than they were 237 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:40.759 last year. Their number, I think they're six in the league in fast 238 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:45.200 break points, which what a team led by Luka Dancic, which plays at 239 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:51.039 about a third of the speed is everybody else, is now elevated themselves to 240 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:55.480 six And a lot of that is greatly due to the court long passes that 241 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:59.840 he that he's embraced this year. But defensively, the numbers that they have 242 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.759 posted, their their way up in blocks, their way up and rebounds. 243 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:08.240 I mean, every stat that matters to to that element of their game, 244 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:14.720 which we felt they were lacking so much, is just flipped. It's completely 245 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:18.079 flipped. I don't know how many dudes in the league dunk harder than Daniel 246 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:23.319 Gafford And geez, just a monster when he throws down is gorgeous. I 247 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:27.720 love this man so And then Lively comes in and you know, it's funny 248 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:32.559 that when Danny Gafford's in there, he starts, but he's only in for 249 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:37.880 about four minutes and then they bring d Live off the bench. It's really 250 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:42.799 wild. Jason. Yeah, the way coach Kid has kind of orchestrated their 251 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:47.720 their their lineup changes and how they do it. And one more thing real 252 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:51.440 quick that I wanted to say, I remember a lot and and look I 253 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:55.599 may have been one of these people. But when you saw how the Kyrie 254 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:59.480 Luca experiment, if you want to call it that, at the end of 255 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:03.359 the season, and how the maps just absolutely collapsed, and there were some 256 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:11.480 people that were doubting whether they should re sign Kyrie. I may have been 257 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:17.559 one of those. But can you imagine what this team would be like without 258 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:22.000 him? We've seen it. It's a lot of Luca, and if lucas 259 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:26.200 not playing above his head, then they lose. I mean, it's amazing 260 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:34.079 to have Luka Dancic as your superstar undisputed leader of this team. And if 261 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:37.319 he didn't show up one night, which is rare, or if he's injured 262 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:45.039 or doesn't play, you have zero drop off. Yeah, with the step 263 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.039 in leader of the team, which is Kyrie, is becoming kind of the 264 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:51.960 vibe or the heartbeat of the team too. And Kyrie seems super chill, 265 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:55.839 and I wouldn't happy Seim is super chill as the vibe. But I think 266 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:59.920 he's the coolest dude in school. And he doesn't have to tell you I'm 267 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:02.839 the coolest guy in school. You just figure it out when he comes to 268 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:06.640 school every day and you're like, well, he's nice and he's good and 269 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:11.000 I really like him, and he's chill. I keep going back to that 270 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:15.079 Grant Williams video on the bench looking at his phone, singing into his phone 271 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:19.440 and Kyrie looking at him like what you doing? Man? Like I'm just 272 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:26.240 saying, getting rid of Grant Williams changes everything. Obviously getting something for him, 273 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:30.640 there's a ton but like I think a bit of a no nonsense along 274 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:33.359 with the chill vibe. You know there's something good about that. Now we've 275 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:41.359 talked about his Ramadan situation. Yeah, where we think he doesn't eat well, 276 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:42.960 he doesn't eat when the sun is up. Yeah, Ramadan, you're 277 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:45.880 not supposed to eat or drink anything while the sun is up, so you 278 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:51.720 gotta eat. I guess a lot at night or right now, I'm good. 279 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:52.880 I just had some water. I just want to let you know that 280 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:56.200 I'm good. Crush a full right now? Should we, in honor of 281 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:07.480 Kyrie, do one day of Ramadan? One day disrespectfully wacky morning show? 282 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:17.680 Do that and with the down bean win pussy for tickets what I don't know 283 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:22.240 what you could win? Puss it for dickeys, Ramadan for a day with 284 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:29.720 a down beat with Primus with so like right now, the sun's not up 285 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:34.400 and he's eaten. He's awake somewhere. Yeah, I think probably having a 286 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:41.240 delicious omelet or some low mane. Yeah, who knows. So. Brian 287 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:45.079 de Meris was with Coop last night on the broadcast here on ninety seven to 288 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:49.759 one The Freak and listen to a little insight that Demris had about this Ramanon 289 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:53.759 situation with Kyrie. The Mavericks are going the extra mile forward. You know, 290 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:56.920 he likes it here. He feels really comfortable in Dallas, and the 291 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:03.279 organization is making a comfortable for They're flying a personal chef in for him, 292 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:07.079 and he's getting his vegan meals right when the sun goes down so he can 293 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:11.680 be ready to get food and water in him to play as effective as he 294 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:18.079 can. So sneaking it in before games, he said, before the sun 295 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:22.000 goes down. Yeah, I didn't say before games. Okay, okay, 296 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:26.000 yeah, but sun would still be up at seven home games are normal normally 297 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:32.400 seven thirty sons still up now, okay? Yeah? Before did he say 298 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:34.359 before games or before the sun goes He said before the sun goes Okay, 299 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:40.759 Well that means obviously talking about you know, non night game nights okay, 300 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:44.319 okay, okay, yeah, or non night game days whatever. This hour 301 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:48.960 kills him too, this problem, yeah, daylight and that happened like March 302 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:51.799 tenth or something. Right, So, okay, I didn't know he was 303 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:56.200 vegan. I didn't either, plant based diet in twenty seventeen. I mean, 304 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:00.160 that's no, that's nothing that comes from animals, like no milk, 305 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:06.680 no cheese, right, beans, A lot of beans? Hey, yeah, 306 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:08.640 there you go, a lot of beans. I didn't know that beans. 307 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:12.359 We should have known that. So he's vegan. And now Ramadan where 308 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:17.599 he doesn't eat when the sun's up? Can you play that one more time? 309 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:25.079 Last? A lot like us? He's nothing like us, is the 310 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:27.039 last part. Right when the sun goes down, so he can be ready 311 00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:30.279 to get food and water in him to play as effective as he can, 312 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:34.319 right when it goes right when the sun goes out, Yes, he doesn't 313 00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:38.039 even the sun's up. Right when the sun goes down, he probably feasts 314 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:44.160 and drinks walking. So the sun goes in at eight thirty Yeah, yeah, 315 00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:47.759 well, I mean I wonder if does the sun completely have to be 316 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:56.799 down or just the bottom of it touches when it touches the planet rules. 317 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:00.359 I don't know what it touches the planet. He's scarfing down food at halftime 318 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:04.160 because the suntime I got a big plays. I bet he has like a 319 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:10.680 bento box at halftime, a vegan bento. Okay, you're absolutely right. 320 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:14.480 He probably eats at halftime. His first meal of the day is at halftime, 321 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:19.200 halftime, just a mountain of tofu lentils and he's just looking out the 322 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:26.960 window waiting for the sun to touch the planet. It's fascinating. That is 323 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:32.079 crushing water. Like think of us if one day, Oh, we're idiots. 324 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:33.440 We're idiots, but we don't do and we don't do anything. We 325 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:38.920 only eat junk. I eat junk all day. Actually down, so he's 326 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:44.920 definitely hydrating during the games. I don't think once the sun goes down, 327 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:47.599 Okay, yes, yeah, So if the sun goes down it's middle of 328 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:49.640 the second quarter or whatever. I mean, he's over there down in goblin 329 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:53.920 water. But imagine from right now, within a couple of minutes, the 330 00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:56.920 sunrise, right, you don't at the top of the sun. Yeah, 331 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:00.319 once the top of the Sun comes out of out of the planet, you 332 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:06.720 just can't see it from that moment. You don't have another sip of this, 333 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:11.440 right, and then tonight you have to play warm up, play an 334 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.839 NBA half, not a sip of water. I'd be so much I mean, 335 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:22.119 that level of a pro high performance machine that you've created as an athlete 336 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:26.000 is so tested. I mean just the fact of no not protein, but 337 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:33.160 no meat. Meat, it's tricky ground beef. Uh fascinating. I'd be 338 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:37.599 so moody. It was like cranky three pm, I can't eat, and 339 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:42.039 you're in San Antonio, tempted by chreiso quesadillas at every corner, and he 340 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:47.599 just walks on by to the reef fried beans. Well, get you, 341 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:56.759 ab MAVs beans. It's a game that they probably formerly would have lost without 342 00:24:56.880 --> 00:25:02.359 Kyrie and without the the mid season act positions. For sure, texter five 343 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:06.240 to one two. I don't know if that's San Antonio Spurs fan here. 344 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:08.400 Nobody's calling for Pop's job. He's Pop. He owns the city of San 345 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.839 Antonio. And that's what I assumed. I mean, I know that I'm 346 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:14.200 not. Oh, I don't think I've said that. He also said in 347 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:17.319 a year or two, the rivalry between the Spurs and MAVs will be more 348 00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:21.160 fun, that's ever than it's ever been. That's maybe a good call. 349 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:23.799 Someone also texts, welcome to the Rama down beat. The Rama down beat. 350 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:29.160 That doesn't feel very respectful. It does not, and we will not 351 00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:34.559 do it to legit journalism respected resources. It's in for Dingo's morning News. 352 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:40.640 Late night strip clubs take a loss with the US Supreme Court.