You're listening to the downbeat on ninety respecting Jason Kidd to call in in four
or five minutes, Mike, he wanted to tell you something that just happened
to me and kat and the wanted yeah, so weed. No, we
went to the men's room together because we had to, you know, relieve.
Yeah, and there's two urinals and we always you know, stand side
by side. One of them had a sign on it that said temporarily out
of order. No, she had to make an axe. Well, I
had to get there first. I got there first, so Katie had to
go into one of the stalls to to urinate, right, and then you're
hearing the water and you're hearing his water pressure and judge consciousness, so much
judgment. But I thought it'd be funny to put a sign in one of
the toilet the commodes and dump like a tray of brownies in it, and
had a sign on it that said permanently out of order, Like there's not
a plumber on the face of the planet that can fix this. I can
carry himself giving this, which makes makes me question, isn't temporarily just implied?
Can't you just say out of order? I mean we get it.
I mean, if it was permanently out of order, you just have it
removed. Yeah. Out of going there? Who went longer? I think
I went longer and longer. I got there first. Yeah, what kind
of head start you give him? I got there during the halftime show though,
So okay, full Sandy. Did you aim for the side of the
bowl so he couldn't judge your p s I No, I went straight splash,
really right in the middle, straight shot. Ye, look at this
young buck. Yeah, I drink on the water man cheers, drink a
lot of water? Hydrat or Didreton high intensity? Golden row hopes hitting hitting
the water? What were some of the other names for Mavericks broadcasters based on
chicken puns from the Chicken Explosion story, Mark foul A, Well, okay,
that's great, that was very good. Thank you. Tex. You
didn't really need to do anything to Chuck Cooper Stein. What about Cluck?
Because think about it, Coop is already in That's the point. It was
a two for one combo. I did you didn't? I wouldn't have said.
If I wouldn't have said what cluck, you would have said Cluck Cooper
Stein. No matter what his last name. My last name was Schworts.
You still would have said cluck. I did two for one. When I
did a two for one, it was poultry in motion. You've been sitting
on there, and then he's been sitting on that for because you know what
else I've been sitting on. I let it slide. I thought about it.
I thought about it, but the time had passed. We're kind of
moving on. But Danny was doing the story about the Kansas City murders,
okay, and I had a foul play line ready to go, but saved
it because I didn't want to get judged by all the people out there who
don't like puns. Puns are fine. I like puns. Puns are good.
Puns are a safe play. Dan Campbell hates puns. Okay, makes
a lot of bad decisions. He hates puns are fine. It's a safe
play now. I think puns have made a comeback in recent years back alvins
Well Local News has kept puns alive. Dad jokes, though, don't if
use dad jokes and puns. They do to do a lot of puns that
you're more puns than dad jokes. Maybe that's all they do, all right?
Showtime, JJ right on time. Look at that. We are UH
ninety seven on the Freak. We're the home of the Dallas Mavericks and also
inside Sports Medicine with doctor TiO. Sorry El and uh. We are these
games and we're proud to do it. And it also gives us access to
big name guests, and we have one right now. It is time to
talk to the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, mister Jason Kid. We
got your coach my birth day brother. Oh you guys are birthday brothers March
twenty third, Me and Jay Kid. He's in far better fitness than you.
Okay, thanks, what's up coach? Coming off a nice victory just
last night at the AAC one nine over the Orlando Magic. I got to
start with one fastball, Derek Lively. Is this nose broken? A good?
Great question? I don't think so. He took a nice hit to
the nose. He had to cut shot big free throws for us. He
was a big part of our success last night coming back. So I'm going
to go and say it's he has a nice bump on his nose, but
not broken. Okay, because I saw him with the free throw line and
it looked like there was that bump that you mentioned, And I don't know
how many how those bumps pop up when it's not broken. But he's see
a tough, tough kid man, as he's proven to be all year.
But he goes in with the Kleenex up the nose and kind of gets the
alley. You've dunk. That sort of ice is the game. How how
happy are we with the evolution of young Derek Lively. We're very excited,
just understanding at the beginning of the season, just you know, the unknown
nineteen year old kid play at Duke, just understanding that could he pick up
things quickly? He's answered that question. Could he, you know, play
with Luca and Kai. He's answered that question. So he's been a big
part of our success. And again I think we're very fortunate to be able
to get him in the draft. He's a stud, no doubt. It
was a great one, great third quarter. And I saw you on the
podium last night, and I don't want to say a problem with the scene,
but it's a roller coaster. Man. Some days you guys look like,
you know, you should be title contenders, and some days the defense
just isn't there. How hard is it, because you said last night the
defense is determined by effort and energy, How hard is it to get a
modern NBA player to maintain the level of effort required to you know, to
play great defense in the league, which I do think this team is capable
of. Well, I think it's it's hard. I think for any professional
athlete, it's hard to be consistent. And I think that's what we all
fight for as coaches, as players, is to be consistent. It's there's
a human element to to sport. And right now, with the health of
our team, you know, we've been hit with a lot of injuries.
We have guys that are playing a lot more minutes that they normally would not
be playing, and so we're stretching guys and we're asking guys to do more
until we can get healthy and so uh but again also with age, we
have we have player a few young players, uh, you know, who
are trying to learn what it takes to be consistent. And and again,
the more time they're going to be on the floor, the better chances of
of learning how to do that. And right now, with the injuries,
we've got a lot of young players playing. Coach Kidd of the MAVs joining
us here on a ninety seven to one coach Is there a level of expectation
going into a game like last night when you're facing a team that statistically is
the worst three three point shooting team in the league and they come out and
just light it up from beyond the arc? Is there an amount of kind
of surprise or shock that, oh, my gosh, how are these guys
doing this? Now we have to adjust, maybe face them up a little
bit tighter beyond at the perimeter. Is that kind of maybe what got you
guys in a little bit of trouble in the first half. Or Am I
completely off base? No? I think one. Orlando is a team that
doesn't shoot the three well, but for whatever reason, right now, we
seem to pick a player and they're shooting thirty something percent, and they seem
to make them all when they shoot them. And I think last night's game
plan was to make them shoot threes. We were in the same situation in
Orlando again. The game plan is to make them, you know, shoot
threes, and they made them in Orlando in the first half, and we
asked the guys to trust the game plan came out in the second half and
then again took control of it. It's kind of the same thing that happened
last night. We believed that the analytics will you know, match our game
plan, and it did in the second half. Well, we held a
team to twelve points. They shot the ball well in the first half.
But there's a thing called not panicking, and I thought the group didn't panic.
They made shots. We continued to keep playing and eventually they came back
to earth in that third quarter where they didn't make those shots in the second
half and we did. And so again we took full advantaces a third quarter
of puss in a position to win that game. Maverick's head coach Jason Kidd
joining us on the downbeat coach last night, I was the celebrity guest for
MAVs karaoke cam, so and that happened. Uh. You know, right
after a big run, you can really feel the energy rising in the building.
I don't know what you get more credit for the big run in the
second half. Would it be my karaoke camp performance or your halftime adjustments and
uh, and maybe any type of halftime speech that you might have given the
team. No, I think the players are gonna say, you're karaoke?
What was the reason why we went on that big run? So you might
have to do it again on Saturday. I'll be there. Uh mill,
oh, yeah, I can handle that. Saturday I was Milwaukee. I'm
in Yeah, I'm curious about that. We were talking because Kevin did you
know he was on the jumbo tron last night representing the station. Have you
had a situation where you're in the team huddle, you got the whiteboard on,
you know, on and trying to draw up a play and you see
one of your guys that's you know, rubber neck and around looking at the
jumbo tron watching some feature that he's part of, and you have to go,
hey, lively head on the whiteboard. Does that ever happen to you?
Uh? Yeah, it happens a lot. You know, guys can
lose, you know, their focus if something's funny it's happening on a jumbo
tron. You just make sure that they understand what the play is or they'll
ask as they get up, hey what's the play? What am I supposed
to do? So you know then that they were paying attention to something on
the jumble on the jump to tront It just shows that they're no matter how
old they are, they're all just big kids. And if it's Hey,
that's me, that's me on TV, that's awesome. All right, last
thing from last night that I got some fun stuff for you. But part
of the job, obviously is quick decisions that you do and don't make,
and sometimes they work and don't work. Last night, two timeouts in the
pocket, Tim had the ball, we didn't call one, and Tim and
Luca kind of in the heat of battle obviously pretty fired up. Do you
think is it something in hindsight you think a timeout should have been called there?
Yeah, you know, this is the beauty of a game of basketball.
I think we talked at some point in Cyo or in high school or
in college that when you know you have timeouts, that you can burn one
anytime that you're in trouble. Unfortunately we didn't. We didn't do that last
night. Again, at the highest level, we are teaching the rules of
the game, and unfortunately that happened last night. But again no one panicked.
We found a way to come back from that mistake and won the game.
But there's always teaching moments I've given the guy, especially late in the
game. You see players get fouled Orlando, give them credit. They didn't
foul. Timmy traveled, and so yes, we could call the time out.
Yes, the guy who had the ball could have called the timeout,
and so it didn't. So we'll learn from that, and the next time
we're in that situation, we'll take a time out quick two parter to follow
up on that. In that number one, in that instance, whose responsibility
is it ultimately to make the call for the timeout? And number two since
it even though it wasn't called, you were probably pretty thankful to have the
two considering the difficulty you were presented by getting those inbound passes at the end
of the game. Yeah, I think to be able to you know,
understand late game, you know you're gonna get fouled, and so give Orlando
credit. They didn't foul. Timmy lost balance And the best part of it
is he ate the ball. He didn't throw the ball where they can get
an easy basket, so they had to take the ball out and then sometimes
there is a difficulty of getting the ball in. But I thought we did
a good job of getting the ball to our best free throw shooter and he
had a rhythm, and that was Luca, but understanding. You know,
in Atlanta we had the same situation. We throw the ball into the stands
late in the game, we missed layups. You know, it happens,
and so I think instead of being a negative, we learn from it,
and as the season goes on and the game become a little bit more important,
we'll be better in those situations. Coach tell us about seventy three points,
and if you've ever seen anyone who's gifted offensively as young Luka Doncic,
Yeah, when you talk about what he did in Atlanta, a lot of
us have never seen anything like that or been a part of that. You
know, when you talk about Kobe or you know, players like MJ going
for fifty to fifty five or sixty three. To see it in person,
to be a part of it, it looked like shoot around. It was
very you know, seamless and easy. There was no stress involved in what
he was doing, and you could see early on he was going to go
and so for us it was a matter of, you know, how can
we get him rested, how can we use him on the floor to get
someone else to carry some of the low But he clearly it was a bounce
back game at a very very high level. How much of that performance do
you think was Luca hopefully or maybe subconsciously silencing all the noise that happened that
that came forth from the Phoenix game and some of the negative reaction that he
had by getting the fan thrown out, and how much of it was just
all planets aligned in the right way. He was absolutely on and and it
was just one of those crazy wild nights that just adds to to the resume
of this kid. Yeah, I think any time he's questioned or you know,
if there's something that is not positive, I think he's always responded in
a positive way. I've said this before and I'll say it. You know,
for as long as I'm here, you can't take this young man for
granted. He's better than Derek. He's in the in the in the atmosphere
of MJ the best to ever do it, Lebron on Kobe, and so
just to appreciate what this young man is doing at Dage at twenty four is
something that Dallas has never seen. And that said this, internally, he
is he's better than Dirk. He does things that Dirk could never do.
And now it's you know, the opportunity of getting the right people around him
to ultimately win a championship. But he plays the game the right way.
He gets double team the most in the league, and he relies on his
teammates. He trusts his teammates, and so again, to be able to
have the opportunity to coach one of the best players in the world is an
honor. And right now we're just trying to make sure that we don't we
don't kill him. I mean, we're playing him forty six minutes forty three
minutes last night. We got to get healthy, and we got to get
you know, back to getting him out of the game so that he is
strong going into the fourth course. You just said two times that Luca is
better than Dirk. Dirk won a title and had been to two Do you
feel comfortable saying that on a guy that has not made the even made the
finals yet? Yeah, MJ is the same way. MJ didn't make it,
didn't didn't make it into his thirties. This young man is twenty four
and is breaking all the records that standing in front of him, and he's
a winner and his ultimate goal is to win a championship, and he will
get there and not just you know, win one, but he will win
multiple on when it's all said and done. And so our job is to
put him in that position and also put his teammates in that position to help
him achieve that goal. He's a pleasure to watch. I know he racks
up some teas because he gets worked up with the reps. But part of
me thinks, no one touched and change anything about Luca. So I don't
even think if he's not running hot, maybe it doesn't lead to these performances
that are just breaking records every time he takes the floor. I know you
talk to him about that managing his emotions, but is that even dangerous to
even threaten to change anything about you because he's playing so good? No,
I think, you know, I agree. You know, sometimes the emotions
get the best of all of us, and you know, and I think
sometimes we can channel our emotions to help us in the dog days, or
we're fatigued, we're trying to get us going, we're trying to draw someone
into a confrontation. Sometimes he uses the officials. But I think when Luca's
playing his best is when you see him smiling. I said it after the
seventy three points in Atlanta. He was smiling and he was having a good
time he you know, and when he is smiling, he is at his
best and he's happy and he's not worried about those three the guys out there.
When you talk about the officials, and sometimes he does, you know,
get into it with the officials. He you know, he's one of
the hardest players too, official because he has the ball ninety eight percent of
the time he does get hit. It's kind of like Lebron and Shack.
You know, when you have the ball that much, it's hard for the
officials to call a foul every every time. And you look at last night,
he shoots over twenty three throws and so I think, you know,
as he gets to understand the balance of when calls are going to you know,
help and when to just let things go, I think that's again when
he's going to get even better at what he's doing. We talk about that
all with Michael Parsons, like he rushes the passer every time and a lot
of Cowboys fans like it. He never gets they never call holding. It's
like, well, the rats aren't going to call it every time because he's
rushing the passer on almost every play. Last question before we let you go
and get on with your day, coach, how close are we to getting
Kyrie back? That's a great question. Hopefully so. Uh. You know,
we traveled to Minnesota this afternoon, so we'll see where he stands with
his help. But I think with the rehab everything, he had a great
workout last night, so hopefully it's this week. All right. We appreciate
the time this morning, and we'll be at cheering you on obviously all of
our games there on this station is where the home of the MAVs. And
if you ever need me for some karaoke cam magic, you know, just
let me know. Happy to make it happen. We'll come Saturday if you're
coming back Saturday. Yeah, that's the plan you want to know. With
with Kevin on karaoke, I'm gonna keep this on. Who knew that's all
it took. All right, coach, have a great day and good lucky
Minnesota tomorrow night. I appreciate you guys. Thanks all right, thanks coach
Jason Kidd there he goes, Wow, I mean Dirk's, I mean Luke's
better than Dirk. That's hot. Said he doesn't think the nose is broken,
despite being all bent up. Said, I looked at a picture of
him at Duke and His. He had a lovely nose from the side,
a beautiful schnozz. Can you have a nose that has a giant lump,
not a lump even like a like a rigid lump that he had dwelling Typically
a nosebreak as sideways it goes, makes your nose all crooked. I don't
know. You guys hit him with the fastballs. I came in with the
karaoke, came the levity. It is incredible. It was incredible. Man,
We're good tomorrow. That is your headline. Luca is better than dirt.
He said it twice. It gave him a chance to back back away
from it because no championships, not even an appearance in the finals. Not
only does he go on to double down on it, he says, when
it's all done, Luca will win multiple championship. What the hell, Pi
kay, you're getting that at the ticket tomorrow morning. We'll be back at
six am with so much more, big stories, all of it. We
gotta get us calling in at nine ten again Big nine ten interview series this
week, including back Door teen Mom on Thursday. Mm hmmm, so coach
Kate all of our credibility, No, it doesn't. Went into that red
River by your house with the car wash detergent say what we want. You
know, we have guests on, but now thank you to the Mask for
scoring not only me, some karaoke cam action and having Jason Kidd on the
show. We really appreciate that. Ben and Skin with Christina and Steve is
next. We'll be back tomorrow morning, six am on ninety seven one The
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