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Speaker 4: Before I get to this Jason Kidd thing, I do
Speaker 4: want to read something real quick because the NBA Finals
Speaker 4: start tonight. I'm excited, dude. Yeah, PACER's Thunder. We'll see
Speaker 4: if it's good or not.
Speaker 1: They're fun team, they're both I know that some tiny
Speaker 1: markets and no one watches them. These are fun teams
Speaker 1: to watch play basketball.
Speaker 4: So the athletic put out a poll about it's like,
Speaker 4: do you like the Thunder? Just that's that's all it was,
Speaker 4: how do you feel at the thunder?
Speaker 1: What do you think about inclement weather?
Speaker 4: Thirty four percent said I like them? Yeah, thirty percent
Speaker 4: said I don't like them. Okay, that's pretty normal, pretty even.
Speaker 4: Eighteen percent said not, but I like watching them. Fifteen
Speaker 4: percent of neutral. I think they're pretty neutral. Finals here
Speaker 4: with a Thunder and the Pacers, the great Midwest NBA Finals.
Speaker 4: But then they asked if you don't like them, why not?
Speaker 1: And I guess yes, Shay Gilles Alexander gets all these
Speaker 1: floppy calls.
Speaker 4: Uh forty nine percent, they get an uneven whistle, Yeah,
Speaker 4: forty SGA's free throws.
Speaker 2: It's just he is a free throw merchant. You know,
Speaker 2: he's a foul hunter. And it's just I hate it.
Speaker 2: I hate watching it. I I just I do not
Speaker 2: like watching them at all. They're one of my least
Speaker 2: favorite teams in the league. And part of it may
Speaker 2: just be the dark cloud hanging over me and knowing
Speaker 2: that they're going to be good for the next decade.
Speaker 2: They're so good now and this is just the beginning
Speaker 2: of their window and then they have all these assets
Speaker 2: to stay good and right. But I don't like him,
Speaker 2: and its specifically I hate Lou Dort. I think he
Speaker 2: is a linebacker playing in the NFL, Like I don't
Speaker 2: even think he's a basketball player. He's so physical. He
Speaker 2: just fouls the hell out of everybody. So you watch
Speaker 2: him brutalize people, and then you see Shay somebody wish
Speaker 2: spur on him and he goes to the free throw line.
Speaker 3: I hate it.
Speaker 1: He is perimeter Draymond. There's no doubt next year you
Speaker 1: will see fewer whistles for Shay Gildess Alexander. I'm willing
Speaker 1: to bet strong money on that.
Speaker 2: Really, why the NBA is like, we know this is
Speaker 2: a problem.
Speaker 1: Because what happened. This happened with James Harden. You know,
Speaker 1: James Harden was a foul merchant. But it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, once they start really looking at this stuff
Speaker 1: and seeing he's getting all these calls where he doesn't
Speaker 1: deserve to get it, then they start pulling back the
Speaker 1: whistle because it's like, okay, like when they're calling it,
Speaker 1: it looks like a foul to them, and he's a
Speaker 1: great player that people can't stay in front of. But
Speaker 1: when they go back and look at the replay, they
Speaker 1: go oh, and so then they start pushing it back
Speaker 1: to it. Dude, Harden used to shoot like twelve free
Speaker 1: throws a game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he initiates the contact and elbow's, you know, shoulder
Speaker 2: somebody just to create space to get a shot off,
Speaker 2: and they call the foul on the defender. I'm like,
Speaker 2: he just knocked the guy down with his shoulder. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was not a foul the defender.
Speaker 1: Harden used to hook the defender and get the call,
Speaker 1: and then they started calling it. It's the way that
Speaker 1: these things go. But one thing I do really like
Speaker 1: about him, and I understand what Ben saying. I love
Speaker 1: a smothering defensive team, and it's one of the greatest
Speaker 1: defensive teams I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: The other reasons they didn't like them that they were
Speaker 4: stolen from Seattle, they're corny, and that they're this good
Speaker 4: and have all these draft picks.
Speaker 5: The corn this.
Speaker 4: Comment, it's corporate basketball. It's like a manager calling pitches
Speaker 4: from the dugout. The sideline interview crap is exhibit A.
Speaker 4: It feels workshopped and focus group tested, totally inauthentic. I
Speaker 4: don't know that I feel that way, but I will
Speaker 4: be watching closer Game one. Let me also say this
Speaker 4: because I've seen it. I was standing ten feet away
Speaker 4: from it. That coach is a genius. I like that.
Speaker 1: I have seen him tell the officials where they were
Speaker 1: wrong and watch them reverse the call after they spoke.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing. There's not a single thing that
Speaker 1: is anywhere in that playbook, anywhere in that rule book
Speaker 1: that he cannot instantly recall and hold over an official's head.
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Speaker 5: And I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that
Speaker 5: I know or even think that Jay Kidd wants out
Speaker 5: of Dallas. That would be going way too far. What
Speaker 5: I can comfortably say is there certainly have been decisions,
Speaker 5: major franchise decisions that have been made that he was
Speaker 5: not on board with, one of which includes the firing
Speaker 5: of Casey Smith, who J Kidd has been extremely tight
Speaker 5: with since his second tenures of player in Dallas, who
Speaker 5: is now running the health and performance group for the
Speaker 5: New York Knicks, which Tom Thibodeau praised up and down
Speaker 5: on a regular basis.
Speaker 4: Okay, we go, So you get the point there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, too much win Hurst there. Yeah, so that makes sense.
Speaker 1: So we're connecting dots here. That's that's an accurate dot though.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Casey goes back to J Kid.
Speaker 1: I believe to the Phoenix days.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 1: I think I could wrong on that, but I think
Speaker 1: when JA Kid was in Phoenix, I think that's Casey's
Speaker 1: wow first four into the NBA. I know it's for
Speaker 1: sure Olympic team before JA Kidd got to the Mavericks,
Speaker 1: like they go way back, and when JA Kidd was hired.
Speaker 1: Casey was one of the people consulted on that.
Speaker 2: Well. So I think of Jason Kidd. I've always heard
Speaker 2: this that he is you know, he plays a chess game, right,
Speaker 2: He's playing a chess match. He's manipulating the situation. And
Speaker 2: I see him using this as leverage to get more
Speaker 2: power here or if he does really want to get
Speaker 2: out of here. If he doesn't, maybe he didn't want
Speaker 2: the Luca trade. I have no idea, but if he
Speaker 2: wants to get out of here, now would be a
Speaker 2: good time he could. Either way, this is very beneficial
Speaker 2: for this rumor to be out there, very beneficial to
Speaker 2: Ja Kidd.
Speaker 1: And and to your point, been beneficial to the Mavericks
Speaker 1: because they have two guys on their bench that are
Speaker 1: coveted next NBA coaches and Sean sweet Sweeney and Jared Dudley.
Speaker 1: And if Ja Kid doesn't want to be here, which
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he doesn't, it does or doesn't, but
Speaker 1: I'd love to get an asset out of New York
Speaker 1: to let him go there. If you have two coaches
Speaker 1: that you feel like could run the team. But that's
Speaker 1: been draft picks draft picks player. It could be a
Speaker 1: lot of different things, Uh, but we shall see. It's
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