WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:04.360 And we continue on Fred Rogan, Rodney Pete, and special 2 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:07.919 guest Eric Dickerson today on five to seventy LA Sports. 3 00:00:08.359 --> 00:00:10.320 We got the NFL Draft starting here in a couple 4 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:15.160 of hours. Rams and Chargers do have first round picks, 5 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.839 Chargers twenty two in the Rams I think around twenty eight, 6 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:20.280 but there's talked that they may make a deal with 7 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:23.120 the Giants, so we'll see. Okay, Eric, before the break, 8 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:25.120 you said you wanted to talk draft, so let's do it. 9 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.760 Yeah, twenty six for eight, Rams got twenty six six. Yeah, yeah, 10 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:33.119 So what you're saying, I mean, I guess we talked 11 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:34.560 about the draft. I mean I think one thing is 12 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:37.000 when I look at the Rams football team, I mean 13 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:38.320 I got to say this year and I said at 14 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:40.240 the end of the season, I said it doing the season, 15 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:42.399 I did not see this coming. I did not see 16 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:45.000 him being that good. I didn't see that defense being 17 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.320 that good at one point. I mean, I got to 18 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:50.880 say that Jared Verse and Kobe Turner, I mean they 19 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:52.960 did a great job that they did a great job 20 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.200 on that defense. The whole defense did as a unit. 21 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:59.920 At times they had breakdowns, some big breakdowns, especially against 22 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:03.960 for you, but I didn't see them winning after they 23 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:04.799 went eleven. 24 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:05.959 Games with to put the playoff again. One of the 25 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:08.439 eleven games or ten eleven games, I didn't see that. 26 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:10.879 I think this year, I think people are expecting even 27 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:13.239 more out of the Rams. I think the big question 28 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:16.719 is is how long much long can Matt Stafford play? 29 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:19.719 You know, can is he the guy that can can 30 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:21.799 lead this team back to the super Bowl again? 31 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:22.560 Uh? 32 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:25.840 Do they have a young quarterback someone that possibly can 33 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:30.359 can take his spot if something happens to him? And 34 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:31.920 I know we won't get killed one. I know we 35 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:33.359 won't get a chance to cam Ward. I think he 36 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:36.239 probably be the first pick that yeah was the Shadil 37 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.120 Sanders won't We won't get him even Jackson Dart from Mississippi, 38 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:42.159 you know, none, none of those guys. So I think 39 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:44.400 if we do have a quarterback, it's gonna have to 40 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:48.000 be someone that a young quarterback is going to be like, Wow, 41 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:50.560 this guy, he just came out of nowhere. 42 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:51.079 Uh. 43 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:52.680 And I think I think that to me, I think 44 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:56.159 the quarterback and an offensive line is the position. And 45 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:59.439 also cornerback. You know, they got some quarnerback issues that 46 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:03.599 they need to to really kind of tighten up, you know, 47 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.239 on on this football team. But you know, I think 48 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:08.360 this year, I think I think a lot of Ram 49 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:12.879 fans are expecting more out of them, how to say, 50 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:15.560 because of last year. And you know, right now, you 51 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:18.000 notice as well as I do, it comes down to injuries. 52 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:21.439 It comes down to you know, guys staying healthy, how 53 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:25.840 they're playing, how they mesh together. You know, you know, 54 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:28.199 we got to live out there, Adams. You know, how's 55 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:28.919 that going to work out? 56 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:29.080 You know? 57 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:29.400 Missing? 58 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:31.840 I mean, I just don't even understand the Cooper Cup thing. 59 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:34.159 I just don't get that. I really don't deal with 60 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:36.319 it when it happened. I just don't get it. 61 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:36.599 Man. 62 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.879 It's almost like, you know, I got to say, it 63 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:41.840 almost remind me of myself the way they did me. 64 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:44.120 You know, just just just wrong. 65 00:02:44.319 --> 00:02:44.479 Man. 66 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:46.120 It was just to me, it's just wrong. I mean, 67 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:48.319 I just didn't like it and I don't like the 68 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:50.360 way it's handled. But you know, I don't work in 69 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.120 the front office, so you know McVeagh and les Need 70 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:54.719 has done a good job. But I just didn't like 71 00:02:54.719 --> 00:03:00.680 the way that went down. Yeah, but that's football, that's football. 72 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:07.400 Yeah, Unfortunately, it is the business side of football that 73 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:12.039 that not even I mean even for US players we 74 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:16.719 don't always understand or agree with. And yet it goes 75 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:21.879 down and it happens, and you know, they're they're banking on, uh, 76 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:23.719 this is the way it is and in the long 77 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:26.120 run is going to work out the best for the team. 78 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:29.639 But sometimes, you know, you look up and go, I'm 79 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:30.319 not so sure. 80 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:32.719 I'm not sure this works out for the best for 81 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:34.479 the team, you know, I mean, we got to we 82 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:38.080 got a cat that is delivered for us. We're not 83 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:40.319 you know, we're not talking about somebody else, you know, 84 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:43.039 off the street. We're talking about a cat that that 85 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:48.599 delivered for us. That was Super Bowl MVP, right, you know, 86 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:50.879 he's a Super Bowl MVP. You don't just you know, 87 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:54.360 replace a guy like that, and you do with everything 88 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:56.599 everything it takes to keep it. And I think that 89 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.199 that that kind of is the thing that rubs at 90 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.840 least it rubs me with a lot of people. 91 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:04.000 Players. 92 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:07.840 Players, Yeah, yeah, players. 93 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:09.000 Wise you know you in that locker room. 94 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:14.680 Yeah, he didn't you know, like, wait, we didn't sign who, right, 95 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:15.840 we didn't. 96 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:17.199 We didn't bring who back. 97 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:20.319 That's exactly that's exactly how it sounds about you saying 98 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:21.720 it right, just perfect. 99 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:25.879 What we did, what we signed, why we signed him. 100 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:30.240 He can't play. I'm serious, I'm red. That is exactly 101 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:33.319 riding is right on. I've been I'm like, what the 102 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:34.920 hell we doing getting him? 103 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:36.399 He a bum? 104 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:38.800 Or while we while we cut. 105 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:41.040 Him and money? Man, you know how these teams are. 106 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:42.639 You know it's all about the money, you know. I 107 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.839 just it's so frustrating because I'm not thinking about it, 108 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:48.120 like you just said, right, and he was h the 109 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:49.240 MVP of the super Bowl. 110 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:52.639 Yes, and it's gonna it's gonna be a while. 111 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:55.560 I guarantee you he's gonna have a bad tation as 112 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:57.319 my about the Rams for a while. 113 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:59.199 I would I mean I did. I mean, I was 114 00:04:59.240 --> 00:04:59.560 that guy. 115 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.879 Man, I hated the Rams and I left then, but 116 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:04.720 the way they did me, I mean I hated them, 117 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:08.639 I mean, and then met with john Shaw and we 118 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:10.720 just kind of I just kind of forgave everything after 119 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:12.639 he said, I'm gonna tell you that was my fault. 120 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:15.560 It should have never happened, and you will always be 121 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:17.720 a Ram to us for life. So I just want 122 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:20.439 to let you know that. And yeah, that that that 123 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:22.560 made me feel better because I'm like, man, I gave 124 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:23.639 my heart and soul for. 125 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:24.560 This football team. 126 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:27.680 I mean, and I feel I feel that Cooper finally 127 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:30.000 feels the same way. I mean, it's like and it 128 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:32.120 just to me, they just I don't know, maybe maybe 129 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.199 I'm wrong, like except I'm not on the inside, you know, 130 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:36.920 But to me, they just didn't put a forurth enough 131 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:37.959 effort to try to keep it. 132 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.519 You know, that's just yeah, that's it. That's it, d 133 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:45.160 that's it. It's like one thing. It's one thing to say, 134 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:49.519 you know, we letting them go and just like well whatever, 135 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:53.680 But when guys feeling guys know players, no locker room 136 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:58.839 knows when you don't you don't exhaust every effort to 137 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:01.480 try to keep him. You know, if it's a money thing, 138 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.720 it's a money thing, and you know, you know, people 139 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:06.439 can deal with that. Guys can deal with that. We're 140 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:09.319 all we're big boys. We got our big boy pants on. 141 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:13.639 We can understand that that. You know, money, money sometimes 142 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:15.959 doesn't it doesn't come out the right way, and you 143 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:18.800 gotta do what you gotta do. But if you feel like, 144 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:22.959 you know, the team didn't do everything they could or 145 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:26.639 or maximize the effort that they could to keep a cat, 146 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:30.279 that everybody liked and that one, you know, one day 147 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:33.319 right of the Super Bowl for you, and you didn't 148 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:36.279 really go out and fight for him. That's it, right, Eric, 149 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:42.000 You didn't fight for him. You ain't fight for him. Man, Man, 150 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:45.519 that that's I damn sure. No, they ain't fight for me. 151 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:47.600 They ain't gonna fight for me. 152 00:06:51.079 --> 00:06:53.040 So that's exactly right. 153 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:54.959 For me. 154 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:59.000 No, they ain't gonna fight for me. So I'm you know, okay, 155 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:01.879 good Brittons, I'm out by. I ain't got no you know, 156 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:05.319 I'm done with y'all because there's you know, we're talking 157 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:07.839 about lord Y all you want. But man, if you 158 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.879 don't fight for this cat, how you gonna fight for me? 159 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:14.399 And why should I fight for you going forward? 160 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:15.759 That's it. 161 00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:19.040 When john Shaw told you that, er, Eric, when john 162 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:21.120 Shaw told you that, despite the fact it was john 163 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:24.680 Shaw that made the move to move you, I mean, 164 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:26.800 and you don't you know you made me feel better 165 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:30.279 because you feel better. I go, john go screw yourself. 166 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:38.040 You did that and you and then all that my bad? 167 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:42.439 Really yeah, I mean, that's that I thought. That's all. 168 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:44.040 That's all he could do. That's all he could say. 169 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:45.000 That's all he could say. 170 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.560 I mean, because look, John Shaw back in those days, 171 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:49.680 and a lot of the Jim managers. Now, let me 172 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:50.920 tell you a lot of these guys, they don't know 173 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:51.680 the hell they're doing. 174 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:54.040 Fred. They have no clue. I mean, they really don't. 175 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:56.519 They guess they have these jobs because of you know, 176 00:07:56.560 --> 00:08:00.160 they've been through the organization, or a buddy, or they 177 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:02.199 got a rich friend, or I'm gonna take care of you, 178 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:02.480 you know. 179 00:08:02.839 --> 00:08:03.600 Get passed down. 180 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:05.079 A lot of these guys they don't even know what 181 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:07.319 it's like to get hitting them out playing football, have 182 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:10.639 no clue. So when John John was a numbers guy, 183 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:15.319 John was an attorney and a accountant. John was all 184 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:17.399 about the numbers. I will never forget. John made a 185 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:19.839 statement to someone. They told me said, John, y'all says 186 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:24.199 this about football players, They're like horses. You open the gate, 187 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.560 they're going to run, which is true. Think about that. 188 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:30.720 If you put us on the field, we're gonna play hard. 189 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:32.399 I mean, cause, when I can tell you it was 190 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:34.960 times I was so mad at them, but I got 191 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:37.039 that I can't let my team down. I mean, and 192 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:39.639 I'm not gonna I'm not gonna luwer myself to play 193 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.000 sloppy because I'm mad at them because I have a standard. 194 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:45.519 I have a standard to playoff too. And yes, I 195 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:47.600 mean that's all I got. I got like I was. 196 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:52.120 And it's gonna look on you, not not anybody else. 197 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:55.120 It's gonna look upon you as a guy that didn't 198 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:56.879 didn't try to do whatever. 199 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:01.320 It's all gonna be on you. Nobody cares that way. 200 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.840 And like this, I think the thing for me, No, no, 201 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:06.320 they don't care. 202 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:06.600 The thing. 203 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:08.320 I think they got me and I think, you know, 204 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:10.000 like I said, I don't know, it's the Cooper situation. 205 00:09:10.519 --> 00:09:14.559 But you know, for me, especially back then Fred, they 206 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:19.159 vilified me. I was a bad guy. Nobody liked me. 207 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:21.639 They made that. See, nobody liked me. I was not 208 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:25.639 a good teammate. I was selfish, I was arrogant. And 209 00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:28.679 that's what man. My mother hated the rams. He hated football. 210 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.159 She said, I hate that crap, he said, because I 211 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:33.559 know how we raised you very Those are all a 212 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.840 bunch of lives. And you know, it's just it's sad 213 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:39.120 when when when the team don't stand up for the players. 214 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:41.639 But hey, man, like I said, this is football, I 215 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:43.799 got somebody you know what is that I do? You 216 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:47.919 know how they are. But you know, I you know, 217 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:51.200 thing against me is sometimes they keep guys I call them, 218 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:53.440 you know, I call them they keep their booty liquors. 219 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:58.120 The guys who are right, but Kischers keep them. I'm like, 220 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.639 well they give me old booty liquors. Yeah, keep keep you. 221 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:04.320 All right. 222 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:08.039 Our visits with eg I brought to my fordard is 223 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.960 offer employing pricing and all Ford you pay what Ford 224 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:16.000 employees pay. Get your Southern California. Ford dealers take advantage 225 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.200 pricing while you can Ford from America for America. 226 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:22.399 Eat is. Thanks for hanging today, man, it was great. 227 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:27.039 All right, man, I love you, We love you brother. 228 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:32.759 All right, when we come back to Clippers, back at 229 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:34.559 it tonight, try to grab a two one lead over 230 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:36.679 Denver and the salty a will join us. 231 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:49.159 They are Yeah, he left that fast. 232 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:56.000 Get oh, come on, it is so back Thursday on 233 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:00.919 Rogan and Rodney, Rodney, Pete, Fred Rogan, come on, let's 234 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:01.600 go Freddy. 235 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:05.519 All right, we've got the Clippers and Denver. They're at 236 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:08.799 the Intuit Dome tonight pre game here in the radio 237 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:11.519 station at six, the game at seven. On his way 238 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:15.399 to the Intuit Dome. Right now, the salta, Adam Auslin, Adam, 239 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:16.159 good afternoon. 240 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:20.120 I may be a little bit more salty, guys, because 241 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:23.080 I'm stuck in traffic. So the A and the salty 242 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:25.120 A may not stand for Adam, if you know what 243 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:25.480 I mean? 244 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:26.679 Oh, where you stuck at? 245 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:27.840 Where are you? Adam? 246 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:33.080 Well, I'm about to get I'm on the one ten South, 247 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:35.320 about to get on the one oh five west. I 248 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:37.919 believe it's like going to Lax when you're leave going 249 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:41.000 from Burbank to into it Dome thinks about an hour 250 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.720 to get there. But at night after the game, I 251 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:45.679 can get home in twenty eight minutes. Believe it an hour? 252 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:47.799 Yeah, of coursolutely, Yeah. 253 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:51.279 It depends on if you And what's crazy about La? Right? 254 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:56.519 You can you can leave five minutes on either side 255 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:01.879 of your your your nation, you or your departure. You 256 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.559 leave five minutes on one way or another, and that 257 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:07.039 will cost you another thirty minutes. 258 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:11.440 Just because of where LA is. And it's incredible that way. 259 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:13.600 He's not gonna know. I got you know, I don't 260 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.320 have to leave right now. I got five more minutes. 261 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:17.519 I can leave in five minutes, but that five minutes 262 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:20.879 will turn it into thirty minutes if you don't leave 263 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:24.080 at the appropriate time. It's just a it's just a 264 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:27.559 deal of living in La. What is the into a 265 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:29.879 Dome gonna feel like tonight. 266 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:33.919 Adam, Well, there's a little bit of something extra going 267 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:37.879 on tonight that has Clipper Nation amped up and fired 268 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:39.519 up for this ball game. I don't know if you 269 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.159 guys heard it or playing it on the show, but 270 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:45.759 David Adelman yesterday seemed to take a shot at into 271 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:49.879 a Dome, calling the wall kind of a high school thing. 272 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:53.159 He said it was cool, but then he also talked 273 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:56.679 about how they're pumping in sounds and he seemed to 274 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:00.480 be implying that they had fake crowd noise there. He 275 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:02.960 compared it to a situation a couple of years ago 276 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.360 when they were playing Phoenix in the second round, and 277 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.240 so Clipper Nation is gonna take offense to that is 278 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:13.039 the first ever playoff game there tonight, obviously it's their 279 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:16.399 first ever home I say they're gonna be ready to 280 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:19.200 go and have a little something extra. For David Adaman 281 00:13:19.240 --> 00:13:22.440 who said, you know, it's different the wall, he wasn't 282 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:24.919 giving it too much credit, even though back in I 283 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:27.879 don't know, December, when they first played their Denver they 284 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:31.679 went ten of nineteen at the Charity Strikes. So teams 285 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:35.600 all year long when they shoot against the wall, they 286 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:39.120 shoot their lowest free throw percentage in the league. It 287 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:42.919 has been extremely effective. They have a home court advantage. 288 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:46.919 And David Adaman also said is it gonna survive? And 289 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:49.559 he seemed to be infered that is the NBA gonna 290 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.039 take it away? Is it too much of an advantage? Then, 291 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:54.919 I'm pretty sure when they built this thing they knew 292 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:57.919 exactly what they were doing. They cleared everything with the NBA, 293 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:00.559 and if anything, Commissioner Adams still that's where I think 294 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:02.720 likes it because it just makes it such a unique 295 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:05.360 place to be at. So there is going to be 296 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:08.399 some more juice tonight add into it. Though when it 297 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:11.000 comes to the crowd and the cheering and the booing 298 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:15.759 for the Denver Nuggets and David Adelman, well, I. 299 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.600 Can't believe he would even suggest that it would go away, 300 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.759 because he didn't say it did very much to him. 301 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:25.240 That's interesting, that is what he said. I mean, I 302 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.159 think I'd be more concerned about the fact that the 303 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:29.960 Clippers are a better team. That's what I think I'd 304 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:30.440 worry about. 305 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:30.840 David. 306 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:33.159 I don't think I'd worry about the wall, and if 307 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.840 the NBA likes the idea, I think I'd be more 308 00:14:36.919 --> 00:14:38.960 concerned about the fact that the Nuggets kind of look 309 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:40.039 out a sink at him. 310 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:43.960 I do like David Adelman, and he said all the 311 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:46.240 wrong right things so far, but this may have been 312 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:48.720 the wrong thing. This may have been his first rookie 313 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.440 mistake as a head coach. And he knows better because 314 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.960 obviously as dad Rick Adelman, he remembers Phil Jackson back 315 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.480 in the day inciting the Kings fans and saying it 316 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:01.480 is a cow town and so they brought the cow 317 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:04.759 bells there at Arco Arena. David Adaman was there for 318 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:06.960 all of that, and he just had this little tongue 319 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:10.440 in cheek just trolling going on yesterday where it just 320 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:12.720 seemed like he was poking fun at it. He had 321 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:15.039 a little bit of a grin on his face. But 322 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.320 him saying that they were pumping in artificial sound there 323 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.440 that has fans going. But yes, his team, they don't 324 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:24.840 have the momentum right now. It's all with the Clippers 325 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:26.639 after what they were able to do in Denver in 326 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:30.519 Game two and just the other worldly performance by Kawhi 327 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:34.320 Leonard guys, going fifteen of nineteen from the field in 328 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:38.440 that Game two and responding after he had seven turnovers 329 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:42.879 in Game one. That was his second best playoff game 330 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.840 ever as a Clipper. He had a forty five spot 331 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:47.960 in the must win situation of the first round in 332 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.360 Dallas in the Lions, then against Luka Doncis and the 333 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:53.679 Mavericks back in twenty twenty one. But outside that, this 334 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:56.279 was just Pete Kawhi Leonard. And I know a lot 335 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:59.080 of people are saying, look, he hasn't been this good 336 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:01.679 or he hasn't looked this good and so long. Well 337 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.600 that's not true. When he's healthy, he looks this good. 338 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:07.679 Last season he was playing some of the best basketballs 339 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:10.919 of his career and then a month before the playoffs started. Unfortunately, 340 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:14.480 as de Flerida like, he has always been able to 341 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:18.279 come back and look like the same player he eventually 342 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:20.879 gets there. And the way they have done this where 343 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:23.879 you know they've held him back. He wanted to play earlier, 344 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:26.559 but they wanted to be overly cautious because of all 345 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:28.960 the NI issues going on the last few years. So 346 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:31.240 now he's at thirty nine games right now, he has 347 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:33.840 played so far this season, and he's right in that 348 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:37.600 sweet spot hopefully where he is good to go and 349 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:40.240 peaking at this time of the year as they're in 350 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:42.320 a playoff series, because that's what it looked like on 351 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:43.519 Monday night in Game two. 352 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:46.080 Yeah I did, Yeah, I did. 353 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:51.279 And he's a tremendous talent as you mentioned, when he 354 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:56.360 is healthy, and the same goes for James Harden. I mean, 355 00:16:56.399 --> 00:17:00.440 we talked about it before the series started, who who's 356 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:04.640 got the pressure on them to to play to play big? 357 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:07.119 You know, and we we went to the local guys. 358 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:10.519 Is it is it James Harden? Is it Luca Dantage, 359 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:15.119 is it Lebron James? And a lot of folks believed 360 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:18.839 it was James Harden as the one guy that's got 361 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:23.000 the most amount of pressure on him to perform, because 362 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:26.640 you know, he he is a guy that hasn't wherever 363 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:29.279 he's been, there have been teams that he's been on 364 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:31.359 that you know, blew three to one leads. 365 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:33.480 Uh, he hasn't come up big. 366 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.599 So in that respect, Adam, do you believe that there 367 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:43.960 is more pressure on James Harden than any any other 368 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:47.119 star in this town in terms of the playoffs and 369 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:50.680 going deep or is it or is the pressure off 370 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:55.240 of James Harden, because it's not really necessarily him. It's Kawhi, Leonard, 371 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:58.240 It's Lebron and Luca, So James Harden is more of 372 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:02.839 an after thought. I tend to believe that James Harden's 373 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:04.559 got a lot of pressure on him to. 374 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:08.640 Prove that he is he is the guy or is worth. 375 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:12.720 All of the attention and everything he's getting from the 376 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:13.720 Clipper and Clipper Nation. 377 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.079 Yeah, I think there's definitely plenty of pressure on him. 378 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:21.359 Kawi does alleviate it to a degree because he is 379 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:23.839 the batman on this team, and you just saw it 380 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:27.400 in Game two. But James Harden hasn't been good enough 381 00:18:27.440 --> 00:18:30.519 in elimination games specifically, that's where a lot of his 382 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:34.680 shortcomings have been. In the playoffs. We're not there yet. 383 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:37.759 When that time comes, there will be more pressure on 384 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:41.319 him to perform to either close out a series or 385 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:45.079 stay alive in a series against Denver. But up to 386 00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:47.240 this point, he's been very good. He's averaged twenty five 387 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:48.400 points through two games. 388 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:49.200 He had he was. 389 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:52.000 Sensational in Game one. Had they won Game one, which 390 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.880 they should have up by fifteen he would have been 391 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:57.240 the best player on the court for the Clippers. Obviously. 392 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:59.519 I think he had thirty one points eleven assists is 393 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.559 just too turnovers. That game wasn't on him. He did 394 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:06.039 his part. It's funny in this series, both teams can 395 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:09.119 make the argument the game they won they actually played 396 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:12.119 worse it. The Clippers won a game where it was 397 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:15.079 pretty much just Kawhi Leonard and some big shots from 398 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:18.359 Norman Powell lay that pulled them through, and Denver ended 399 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.519 up having twenty turnovers. But Denver overall, they played really 400 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:25.039 well in that game outside of the turnover issue. They 401 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:28.400