WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:21.519 Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man, 2 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:26.679 I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I 3 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:29.280 put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and 4 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.479 laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go 5 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.159 out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football. For everybody, I think 6 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:40.119 this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from 7 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:44.600 yesterday. Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same 8 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:49.280 thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You 9 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:56.320 play to win the day. You don't play to just play it. That's 10 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:00.520 a great thing about sports. You play to win, and I don't care 11 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.400 if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you 12 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:10.400 start telling me it doesn't matter if you retire, get out for the matter 13 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:23.040 morning. Everybody. Welcome on a Monday, May thirteenth. Hope you enjoyed 14 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:27.599 your Mother's Day, and I hope you enjoyed the weekend. Appreciate Dennis fifty 15 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:33.120 and my friends filling in on a Friday. I was off on a destination 16 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:42.400 wedding. You ever been on those those are those are interesting, aren't they? 17 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:49.359 Maybe destination might be a little strong. It's one of those. The 18 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:55.439 people are from here, everybody, for the most part, the primary people 19 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:00.680 invited are from here. But the folks you got married someplace else. No, 20 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:05.079 it wasn't a Ruba, it wasn't Hawaii, it wasn't California, it 21 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:07.919 wasn't Florida. But it was still you shake your head just a little bit 22 00:02:07.919 --> 00:02:12.719 and you're like, really, I mean, you can't. So the cost 23 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:16.240 to fly there, to stay there, to rent the car there, to 24 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:20.919 do all the different things you have to do, it's basically it's basically a 25 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:25.439 weekend for you. Now locally, you go to a wedding boom, you're 26 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:29.479 there, you go to the reception boom, you're back, you're driving back. 27 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:34.400 No, not this case. It's an entire weekend. Spent a lot 28 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:39.439 of money doing that. But that's where I was. Good to be back 29 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:44.240 and good to be back with you on ex'es and bros. Monday through Friday 30 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.520 six till nine throughout the great state of Michigan. Again, hope you had 31 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:52.280 a great weekend. Tigers did not. They lose two out of three to 32 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:57.479 Houston Astros win that series thanks to twenty three win. Yesterday, they pounded 33 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:02.360 out eighteen hits. Just In Verdlander, with stellar yet again, throws seven 34 00:03:02.439 --> 00:03:08.000 scoreless, allowing two hits, and he struck out eight. He retired the 35 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:14.560 first fourteen hitters he faced. I don't think players feel this way, but 36 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:20.719 I think fans feel this way. There is an intimidation factor, even with 37 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:28.520 a guy like Justin Verlander. I don't think the Tigers digging the box and 38 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:31.719 go oh, I got no shot. But after a while, once a 39 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:37.199 guy starts throwing in seeds and starts picking him up and putting him down, 40 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:42.680 and then it gets to fourteen, there's something to be said there. He 41 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:47.039 now has three thousand, three hundred sixty five career strikeouts that is twelfth all 42 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:53.319 time, two behind Max Scherzer, six behind Greg Maddox. He's a Hall 43 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:59.879 of Famer, there's no doubt about that. And in seven career starts against 44 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:04.520 the team that drafted him, Verlander is four and three with the two point 45 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:15.000 three to five ere Tigers looked overmatched, didn't they Sure seemed like it didn't 46 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:19.199 matter who it was. You try to get to the bullpen when a guy 47 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:24.879 is really good on the bump. When a starter is really good, the 48 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:29.360 goal is to make him throw as many pitches as possible to try and get 49 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.759 to the bullpen because you want him out of there. Couldn't do that soon 50 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:41.079 enough for the Tiger's sake. Unfortunately. It's just one of those things where 51 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:46.120 it seemed like it's not that he I've got their number, No, it's 52 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:53.120 they just looked over completely overmatched. Look, they got a nice win, 53 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:58.439 and Houston looked over matched against Trek Sueble Schooble the other day. That's great, 54 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:03.360 Verlin through ninety five pitches. It took them ninety five pitches to get 55 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:10.079 through seven good, bad, and different. It's okay, and then you 56 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:14.000 get to the bullpen just a little bit, but by then the game is 57 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:15.160 over. I said in eight three It's night was nine to three. My 58 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:19.279 apologies, thanks, Ben. So you get that situation and you're like, 59 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:26.560 what are you gonna do? So team Houston that had been struggling massively, 60 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.360 Look, they're better than their record would indicate. Is that fair to say? 61 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.680 You think they're better than a fifteen and twenty five team, don't you? 62 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:39.399 Absolutely? When you have guys like Kyle Tucker and Jeremy Panya and Jordan 63 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:45.319 Alvarez and Alex Bregman and jose L two Va. They are better than that. 64 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:51.439 Those guys are all better than what the Tigers have to offer, and 65 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:57.639 yet the Tigers have more wins. Fair enough, Okay, I think so 66 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:08.800 too. Detroit's bullpen is starting to get a little thin. Could Jack Flaherty 67 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:12.920 pitched pretty well? Three runs, seven hits, six and two thirds innings. 68 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:20.920 The bullpen allows six runs on eleven hits. That's a problem. Tough 69 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:24.759 to be teams that way. The good news, here's the good news, 70 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:28.759 all right, I said this last week. Don't want to focus so much 71 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.360 on the negative, do I Come on, man, It's easy to be 72 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:38.240 negative in life, but especially in sports radio. Easy to be negative. 73 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:45.360 Here's the positive. Arguably the worst team in baseball is coming to town. 74 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:55.399 Miami is in town for a series. It's a Miami team that is second 75 00:06:55.480 --> 00:07:01.959 to last and run differential in all of baseball. They are a minus eighty 76 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:09.040 nine. Only the White Sox, who have one fewer win, have a 77 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:15.920 worse run differential at a minus ninety. I'm sorry they have one more win, 78 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:19.879 I said, one fewer win. Miami is eleven up and thirty one 79 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:25.839 down. They've traded one of the best, if not the best, contact 80 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:31.720 hitters in all of baseball in Luis Raise to San Diego. But here's what 81 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:40.639 I would remind you. This is what happens. This is what we've been 82 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:44.560 talking about for the last couple of weeks. Sparky Anderson used to say, 83 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:48.839 what, give me forty games before you judge. Okay, they're at the 84 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:55.720 forty game point now. I don't know how much you take into account in 85 00:07:55.759 --> 00:08:00.199 that regard. All right, maybe you're not a believer in that. Just 86 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.839 because Sparky Anderson said it doesn't make it right. Like I disagree with Jim 87 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:09.040 Leland on team chemistry. He and I have talked about that numerous times. 88 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:13.160 Pretty good debate. That's fine. I mean, one person believes one thing, 89 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.439 somebody else believes another. So maybe you don't buy into that. Maybe 90 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:22.319 you're like, screw the forty games. When's enough for you to get a 91 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:28.639 determination on what a team is. I'll be honest with you, personally, 92 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:37.919 forty games to me not enough. Sixty Yeah, I think you get a 93 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:43.000 pretty good indication. So I'm willing to give him a little leeway here. 94 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:50.559 I try not to overreact, especially in baseball because it is such a long 95 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:58.960 season. But they are twenty and twenty, they are underwater at home, 96 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:07.720 they have not played very good baseball. The offense is still a problem, 97 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:11.360 and then it starts to leak over in to a little bit of the pitching, 98 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:20.039 including the bullpen as of late time to get right. Look, you're 99 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.679 four and a half back. Who cares Cleveland's off to a really good start. 100 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.039 Give him credit Minnesota at one point one twelve games in a row. 101 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:33.799 Kansas City's probably playing above their heads. I say that with confidence. On 102 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:37.799 the other hand, who says Detroit is not playing where they're supposed to be. 103 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:41.320 Who says the Royals aren't better than what we thought they would be coming 104 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:50.960 into the season. So there's deep concern and for some legitimately so when it 105 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:56.159 comes to the tigers. Meyer hotline for you is eight six six eight three 106 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:58.360 eight forty eight forty three. He text the program sports radio to twenty one 107 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.279 thousand more sports news. On the other side, this is Exis and Bros. 108 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.159 On the Michigan Sports Network. 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Hey, 126 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:03.519 back with you again. Hope you had a good weekend. Happy related 127 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:11.200 Mother's Day to all the wonderful strong moms out there, so important to the 128 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:16.200 household, vital to the community. Hope you enjoyed your day because you deserve 129 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:20.759 it. Hey, Pistons are gonna pick fifth again. I know. I 130 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:26.159 just I shook my head too. I was like, are you kidding me? 131 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:30.559 In the NBA draft, Here's the thing that I tried to keep an 132 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:33.759 open mind going into the draft lottery. I said to myself, look, 133 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:39.720 it's supposedly not a great draft anyway, like many are saying it's among the 134 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:46.519 worst they have seen. That whatever you get at one, you could easily 135 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:56.720 get at eight in terms of an impact player. So knowing that I tried 136 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:03.120 to I tried to keep an open mind and say, all right, it 137 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:09.559 doesn't truly matter where the Pistons pick one, two, three, four or 138 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:16.679 five. It really doesn't matter. And yet they drop to five again. 139 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:20.879 It's a team fifty four wins over the last three years, thirty wins over 140 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:28.799 the last two years, a league worst in a franchise worst fourteen wins a 141 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:37.480 year ago. When people say that you've got a tank in a lottery system, 142 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:46.320 it's idiotic. It is it's just dumb. There's no guarantee that you're 143 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:50.159 going to get the number one overall pick. And by the way, this 144 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.080 year's number one overall pick who You and I have no idea who it is? 145 00:13:54.519 --> 00:14:00.519 We all we don't know what it's going to be. And of the 146 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:11.679 names that you see, how many do you recognize? Honestly, because there's 147 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:20.399 a more and more people who are struggling to follow college basketball and trying to 148 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:26.080 figure out certain names of certain players. And you know, who is Donovan 149 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:37.039 Klingon? Who is Castle? Who is Holland? Who is Rob Dillingham and 150 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:39.960 Holland Ron Holland isn't even in college? It was a G League guy? 151 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:45.240 Who's Reed Shepherd? Who's Dalton connect Who's Cody Williams? Did you see Cody 152 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.600 Williams play in Colorado? Or Dillingham and Shepherd play at Kentucky? Right? 153 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:56.600 So that's kind of my point. But the bottom line is it's not supposed 154 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:58.720 to be a great draft. So what these are the things that we're going 155 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:03.360 through my head while I see this, and yet it still frustrates the hell 156 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:09.720 out of me. The Detroit picks fifth for another year, fourth year in 157 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:18.039 a row, they've got a top five pick. This is a team that 158 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:30.000 misses out on Paulo Bonkerro, they miss out on Victor Webbin Yama, and 159 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.120 now I don't know if it's going to matter that they miss out on Alex 160 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:39.960 Sarr from Australia seven to one to two O five, I don't but just 161 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:46.279 the fact that they had the best odds to get one and yet the team 162 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:50.399 with the worst odds, Atlanta, who had a three percent chance, gets 163 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:56.320 it is frustrating. They go Atlanta, Washington, Houston, San Antonio, 164 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:03.399 then Detroit. San Antonio's got two top ten picks. Here's my other question. 165 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:12.519 As I look at the Pistons landscape, I ask myself, who's making 166 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:21.759 the pick? Honestly? But who's making the pick? Right now? I 167 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:25.759 know what the rumors are, We've heard them. James Edwards came on, 168 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:34.360 talked to us last week in a good interview. Who's gonna make this pick. 169 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:41.440 There's no president of basketball operations right now. You're going to allow Troy 170 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:48.919 Weaver and Monty Williams to make the pick because they're the ones with their team, 171 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:56.759 their front office doing the homework. Now, perhaps the person you have 172 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.320 in line, whoever that may be, no doubt, is also in the 173 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:07.359 homework. But what if it doesn't align with your general manager and your head 174 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:15.680 coach. What kind of inter strife might there be taking place if something like 175 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:22.440 this happens. So you don't have a president of basketball operations, you get 176 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:30.039 the fifth overall pick. You got a general manager who, even though they 177 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:36.200 should be understanding no doubt, is got to be thinking in the back of 178 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:42.440 his mind is my job safe? How much power am I going to have? 179 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:48.039 Slash lose? Right? And you've got a head coach who, according 180 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:55.519 to James Edwards last week, anything could happen with him too because they just 181 00:17:55.559 --> 00:18:02.000 won fourteen games. That's it. I mean, you talk about a tough 182 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:07.240 situation, tough situation on the floor, and then with all that said, 183 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:15.720 seeing the unrest, that's what it is. It's unrest. Right now you 184 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:18.279 have to be worried a little bit, maybe more than a little bit, 185 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:27.119 about Cad Cunningham and his mindset about your organization. We all are making impressions 186 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:33.000 on people all the time, are we not. If you are and you 187 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:37.640 believe in that philosophy, and I do, I strongly believe in it, 188 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:41.640 you're sending quote unquote messages right, Well, if that's what it is, 189 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:47.359 then hey, folks, what's the message being sent to a guy like Cad 190 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:56.440 Cunningham with this type of quote unquote unrest? Quite a bit? Speaking of 191 00:18:56.480 --> 00:19:00.279 basketball, Pacers beat the Nicks one twenty nine. That even the series two 192 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:08.039 wins apiece, second biggest playoff victory in franchise history for Indiana, fourth greatest 193 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:15.920 loss in Knicks playoff history. Tyres Hal Burton has at twenty points six Sports 194 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:19.920 five. It'sists New York had the fewest points in a quarter fourteen fewest points 195 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:25.240 and a half forty one. They've gone from a two to nothing series lead 196 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:30.680 and now it's tied to two. Game five is Tuesday at MSG. Things 197 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:37.200 can change quickly, can't they. Indiana felt like they owned game two. 198 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:45.279 I don't know how much it would have mattered. You know, if they 199 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:48.319 win game two, do they win Game three? Do they win Game four? 200 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:52.799 I don't know, but they were at more often times than not. 201 00:19:52.839 --> 00:19:57.799 They were the better team in Game two as well. If you look at 202 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:04.599 it as a whole synopsis of the entire series, you would agree, I 203 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:11.440 would assume if you've been following it closely, you would agree that Indiana has 204 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:18.119 been the better team. Fully expect New York to respond. Game five tomorrow 205 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.480 night, Denver beats Minnesota one fifteen, one oh seven. Just when you 206 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:29.960 think this is why it's tough to immediately be that first one in I remember 207 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:34.319 early on in my broadcasting career people used to say, be right, not 208 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:41.599 first. It's obviously changed throughout the years because everybody wants to be first. 209 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:47.000 Now I told you so, But are they willing to go back and say, 210 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:52.319 but I was wrong? How many people rode off Denver because Minnesota owned 211 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:55.559 the first two games. Well, the Nuggets have been dominant in the last 212 00:20:55.559 --> 00:21:00.200 two, although one fifteen one oh seven wouldn't necessarily say that when you have 213 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.000 Nicola Jokic scoring thirty five getting seven at seven. To add to that, 214 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:10.319 the series is now tied. It too. Hockey on the other side, 215 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:14.000 almost at the bottom of the hour on a Monday morning on Exies and Bros. 216 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:18.039 Glad you're with us across the great state of Michigan. Huge Here for 217 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:22.599 the Michigan High School Athletic Association. 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First, the NHL Panthers come back to beat the Bruins 243 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:29.920 and lead at three to one. Did you see this game? By chance? 244 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:34.680 Florida scored twice in the third to win Game four three to two, 245 00:24:34.920 --> 00:24:37.960 so they're up three to one in the series. But they won Game four 246 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:45.440 three two. The game tying goal was reviewed and for good reason. Picture 247 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:51.160 this if you haven't seen it. Jeremy Swayman is the goalie for Boston. 248 00:24:51.839 --> 00:25:00.519 He shaded to the left of his net with puck pressure on that side. 249 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:07.440 On the backside of that, Sam Bennett is there and he shoves Charlie Coyle 250 00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:14.440 into Swayman. Swayman can't move left to right, he can't get the push 251 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:22.759 he needs to move left to right as the puck rotates there and Bennett slaps 252 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:30.720 it home and perhaps saying the puck rotates there is a little unfair. It's 253 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:37.519 quickly fed over there with the loose puck. Bennett slaps it home. No 254 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:42.799 problem there to tie it at too. It was a massive goal, and 255 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:51.440 now Boston's in a massive series. The hole that goal right there, that 256 00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:56.440 goal was big to tie it to. Florida would then shortly thereafter score and 257 00:25:57.200 --> 00:26:06.119 win the game three to two. Boston appealed. They looked at it in 258 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:11.279 New York and they decided it was a good goal. No dog in the 259 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:18.000 fight. I don't see how anybody can see that's a good goal. When 260 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:26.279 Bennett shoves Charlie Coyle, the defenseman into his goalie, disallowing that goalie to 261 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:37.920 move into a position freely, it's clearly goaltender interference didn't go their way, 262 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:44.240 and neither has any other series they have ever played when trailing three to won. 263 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:51.079 In the history of Boston Bruins playoff hockey, they are zero. In 264 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:57.839 twenty five when trailing three games to one, Vancouver edged Edmonton for to three. 265 00:26:57.880 --> 00:27:02.039 Canucts lead to two games too and when Connor McDavid had his ten game 266 00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:07.640 playoff point streak snapped. And then Rory McElroy comes back to win the Wells 267 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.880 Fargo Championship. He shot a six hundred sixty five, playing the final eleven 268 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:15.680 holes at six under, closing at seventeen hundred five for the tournament. He 269 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:22.000 beats Xander Shaffley by five shots. It's the twenty sixth career PGA Tour win 270 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:27.519 for McElroy and a record fourth at Quail Hollow. When I saw this immediately 271 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:37.960 I thought, did McElroy win it or Xander Schaffley lose it? Because Shaffley 272 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:47.480 was not great. Now these guys are I love watching golf. I think 273 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:49.880 it's one of those sports that you and I not that we're like this, 274 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:55.599 don't take it out of context, but we can truly relate to We go 275 00:27:55.720 --> 00:28:03.079 out there and we play similar courses, but recognize just how good they are 276 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:10.000 because we can't hit it as far, shape it as well, lag putted 277 00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:17.160 as perfectly. We just can't. Not the people I know, And even 278 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:22.200 though you may be a champion at your club, you are nowhere near what 279 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:30.440 these guys do. However, with that said, Shoftley led the final round 280 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:40.000 by two and failed time and time again to take advantage of opportunity. She 281 00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:45.960 shot a seventy one, a one hundred seventy one. It would be easy 282 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:52.480 for me to say, you've got to go low on Sunday, but because 283 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:59.160 I can't shoot a sixty five, just can't. I'd love to, but 284 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:03.400 I don't possess that type of putting talent or chipping talent. I can get 285 00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:06.759 it down the middle of the fairway, I can get it back on the 286 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:10.519 green. I can do that old man's stuff on in two, but then 287 00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:14.960 I always end up two putting or maybe three putting more oftentimes than not. 288 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:18.680 So I can't do that. It's easy for me to say, why don't 289 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:21.680 you go you got to go low on Sunday. Well, I'm not playing 290 00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:27.039 Quell Hollow. I'm not looking at a course or playing a course that is 291 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:33.039 seventy five hundred yards closer to seventy six hundred and a par seventy one. 292 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:37.200 By the way, it was a par seventy one. Showfley shot an even 293 00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:41.920 par in the fourth round, shoots a sixty four and round one, sixty 294 00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:48.839 seven in round two, and then the weekend comes and he's just there. 295 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:56.720 So I couldn't help. But wonder did Showfley lose it as much as McElroy 296 00:29:56.839 --> 00:29:59.799 won it. I know it's not always fair to think that way, but 297 00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:04.880 I couldn't help it. So let's get back to this lottery. There are 298 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:11.319 Do you believe in jinxes? Do you believe in jinxes in sports? Here's 299 00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:18.480 why I ask. Remember when the cub let me rephrase that you've read, 300 00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:25.039 you've read about the Cubs and they're jinks back in nineteen forty five, right, 301 00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:29.559 they're playing the Tigers. Guy shows up with a goat, a billy 302 00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:36.440 goat at Wrigley Field. Crowd wants him gone. Because the Billy Goat stinks 303 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:42.000 so badly. What he was trying to do is promote his business with the 304 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:52.240 Billy Goat. He curses the Cubs. They don't win another title until twenty 305 00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:56.839 sixteen. Now, they didn't win in forty five. Tigers beat them, 306 00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:02.160 as you know, second World championship for Detroit out of four. Way too 307 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:11.000 few. But that's the way it is. And the Cubs struggle in mediocrity, 308 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:15.039 if that at all, until twenty sixteen when they win the World Series 309 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:22.480 championship. So people believed they're there, right, there was a Jinks. 310 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:32.880 Let me fast forward nineteen fifty eight. Believe it or not. At one 311 00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:40.279 point, the Detroit Lions were the best team in football. They'd won the 312 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:48.960 championship in nineteen fifty seven with Bobby Lane. Nineteen fifty eight comes Game two. 313 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:55.920 What do they do. They trade Bobby Lane to Pittsburgh. As he 314 00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:04.880 leaves the Detroit Lions clubhouse or locker room, what does he say, this 315 00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:10.799 team won't win again for another fifty years. Well, I'll be damned. 316 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:16.799 They didn't win. They still haven't gone to the Super Bowl, let alone 317 00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:22.920 won one. Right, here's another jinx. If you believe in them. 318 00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:32.759 Since nineteen sixty, the Masters Championship has had a par three contest. The 319 00:32:32.839 --> 00:32:39.240 winner of that par three contest has never won the Master's Tournament. That might 320 00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:45.359 be a stretch, but I had to throw it in there. Do you 321 00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:50.200 believe something has happened? I don't know what it would be. Do you 322 00:32:50.240 --> 00:33:05.440 believe something has happened that has jinxed the Detroit Pistons anything at all? I 323 00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:07.519 know, I can't think of it either. Here's the only thing I've come 324 00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:15.799 up with. When's the last time the Pistons had a winning record? Been 325 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:22.519 any idea I do? Twenty sixteen? Oh, okay, okay, they 326 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:30.000 were forty four and thirty eight twenty sixteen. When's the last time they played 327 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:38.680 at the Palace of Auburn Hills twenty sixteen. Since they have gone to Little 328 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:45.880 Caesars Arena, they have been one of the worst teams in all of basketball. 329 00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:50.920 That's the only thing, and I know I'm reaching the only thing I'm 330 00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:58.839 coming up with. There's some type of bad luck. It was a massive 331 00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:09.079 shock that the Atlanta Hawks bucked the trend three percent odds at getting the top 332 00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:16.639 pick, and yet they got it. Atlanta Washington then Houston via Brooklyn, 333 00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:22.480 then San Antonio, who got the number one overall pick a year ago, 334 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:30.239 and then Detroit. Now again, I'll reiterate, just because you get the 335 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:37.719 number one overall pick doesn't mean that you're suddenly getting the best player, because 336 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.000 there is no Victor Webinyama, there is no Anthony Edwards, and from what 337 00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:45.119 I can tell, there is no Polo ban Caro coming out. So who 338 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:52.159 Atlanta takes it one, Let's just say it's Alex Sar compared to who the 339 00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:59.079 Pistons may get Mantas Bzellos might be completely different. I don't know, but 340 00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:05.719 you look at my drafts and that's what you're seeing. That the Pistons would 341 00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:07.880 take a guy from the G League. Ignit. Let me read you what 342 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:13.840 his bio or here is what the scouting report is on the six nine, 343 00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:20.480 two and fifteen pounds forward. That's what he is. It's hard not to 344 00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:24.239 bet on a player like Bzellos at the NBA level, with his length and 345 00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:30.920 how well he finishes above the rim. That sounds that promising, doesn't it. 346 00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:36.960 Yeah, the Pistons following to number five gives them options to add length 347 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:43.360 and defensive versatility because he can play multiple positions. Look, that's great. 348 00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:51.360 Here's here's what I would like to see for the first sentence for Detroit's first 349 00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:59.519 round pick, Sky can shoot. His shooting translates to the next level. 350 00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:09.000 Dead eye from the outside, clean stroke can create. Those are the things 351 00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:14.480 that I would like to hear, with all due respect, not about length, 352 00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:19.239 not about finishing at the rim. I don't want to sound disrespectful here. 353 00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:23.000 If you can't finish at the rim and you're six' nine, there's 354 00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:29.480 a problem, right. The Scotty report says he struggled from the outside this 355 00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:36.480 year with the Ignite, but showed a lot of improvement defensively guarding multiple positions. 356 00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:46.360 Immediately, my thought, so what, honestly, so what? Defensively? 357 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:52.199 It's this team's not going to make the big jump. They're just not. 358 00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:59.280 It's not going to go from fourteen wins to fifty four. Okay, 359 00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:02.920 you're not making a forty game improvement. All I want, all I would 360 00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:12.159 like to see them do is improve incrementally in certain areas, and one specific 361 00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:16.960 area in an offensive minded game is to be able to shoot the damn basketball. 362 00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:24.559 When you and I looked at this team, let's take first of all, 363 00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:29.760 let's take you and I out of it. When scouts, okay, 364 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:37.639 when NBA scouts and analysts, you know, past players, when they looked 365 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:45.000 at this team, what do you think they viewed as this club's biggest deficiency? 366 00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:54.960 Shooting? Right? Yes, you know what this team shot from the 367 00:37:54.960 --> 00:38:04.559 floor this year, forty among the worst in all of basketball. You know 368 00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:12.119 what they shot from three thirty five percent, and I'm rounding up among the 369 00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:20.960 worst in all of basketball. Those are the things I look at and I 370 00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:27.840 think, how do you fix that? How in the world are you going 371 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:34.800 to go about drafting a guy who's going to help improve those statistics, because 372 00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:42.639 they're important statistics. This team averaged one hundred ten points per game. There's 373 00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:52.480 only three teams who averaged less, Charlotte, Portland and Memphis. You need 374 00:38:52.599 --> 00:39:00.880 guys who can score. So this is not an indictment on the Pistons this 375 00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:07.599 year or coming up for this year, I should say, because we don't 376 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:10.880 know who they're taking just yet. So I'm not going to sit here and 377 00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:17.880 get all pissed off about a team taking the wrong guy because it's defensive abilities 378 00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:25.000 when they need offense. Because defensively, they weren't very good either. They 379 00:39:25.039 --> 00:39:29.679 allowed one hundred and nineteen points per game. Only Washington, Utah, Atlanta, 380 00:39:29.679 --> 00:39:31.679 and Indiana were worse. Indiana and you're thinking right now, well you 381 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:37.280 have but wait a minute, cheb Indiana is even with New York in the 382 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:39.840 second round of the playoff. Yeah, but they also average one hundred and 383 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:49.000 twenty three points per game. Let me read you some of the teams who 384 00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:58.559 are the best offensive teams in basketball Indiana, Boston, Oklahoma City, Milwaukee, 385 00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:07.039 Lake, Mavericks. What do they have in common? That's right, 386 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:12.199 they made the playoffs. Now you could you could probably do the same thing 387 00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:20.719 defensively. Minnesota, New York, Miami, Orlando, Boston, Denver, 388 00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:24.440 Cleveland all made the playoffs. New Orleans, Philadelphia, Yeah, they all 389 00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:31.280 made the playoffs. Clippers, Oklahoma's top eleven defensive teams in the league all 390 00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:36.719 made the playoffs. But you have to be able to score the ball. 391 00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:40.199 You have to be able to threaten to score the ball. And teams are 392 00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:46.519 not worried about the Detroit Pistons when they have the basketball in their hands because 393 00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:53.159 they know how deficient they are on that side of the court. 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