Latest / The Sean O'Connell Show / Gordie Chiesa Hour on the Utah Jazz and NBA, Do the Jazz have go-to players (?), Title contenders + more
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Peace out.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Let's get the latest on the Utah Jazz with former
- 0:07Speaker 2: Jazz assistant coach Gordy Chiasa. He's forgotten more about the
- 0:10Speaker 2: NBA than any of us will ever know.
- 0:12Speaker 1: That's not that crazy.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Come for the hoops talk, stay for his list of
- 0:16Speaker 2: the day My list today. Here's oc with basketball saban
- 0:20Speaker 2: Gordy Chiasa on the Sean O'Connell Show.
- 0:24Speaker 3: So I'm actually gonna cheat here. Gordy. First of all, welcome,
- 0:27Speaker 3: how are you?
- 0:28Speaker 1: I am doing fine? Sean, thank you.
- 0:29Speaker 4: I'm actually going to cheat in that my first question
- 0:32Speaker 4: for you is not going to be about basketball at all,
- 0:36Speaker 4: while it does apply to the NBA and it's something
- 0:39Speaker 4: that we've kind of touched on in the past.
- 0:42Speaker 3: Morgan scally he coached the bowl.
- 0:43Speaker 4: Game for the University of Utah last year, right to
- 0:48Speaker 4: great success, big win over Nebraska in the Vegas Bowl.
- 0:52Speaker 4: He's been coaching all this, you know, winter conditioning, spring
- 0:56Speaker 4: football and all that. But now he's true, truly taking
- 1:00Speaker 4: the reins the first time in his career. He is
- 1:03Speaker 4: the head coach of his beloved University of Utah, the
- 1:07Speaker 4: alma mater. He's a Utah man, always have been ever
- 1:11Speaker 4: will be. That's his thing. But this is his first
- 1:16Speaker 4: real season, right and while I don't think there's any
- 1:19Speaker 4: doubt he's been groomed for this, I don't think there's
- 1:22Speaker 4: any doubt that he is philosophically prepared for this. My
- 1:27Speaker 4: first question for you is what are the growing pains
- 1:32Speaker 4: actually like for a first time a head coach? Because
- 1:34Speaker 4: you got to work alongside some head coaches, probably some
- 1:38Speaker 4: first time head coaches along your path, what's it actually
- 1:42Speaker 4: like taking the reins and handling all of it, player personnel,
- 1:47Speaker 4: coaching personnel, making the boosters happy, talking to the university president,
- 1:52Speaker 4: all these duties that didn't exist for him previously. He's
- 1:56Speaker 4: heading into this twenty twenty six campaign with high expectations
- 2:00Speaker 4: and a whole new workload.
- 2:01Speaker 5: The biggest thing is delegation. Is that you can't do
- 2:04Speaker 5: it by yourself. And so what you do is that
- 2:07Speaker 5: you delegate to the coordinators, which he was once was
- 2:10Speaker 5: defensive coordinator, and that you let them run with it
- 2:13Speaker 5: and all the other things. In other words, you've got
- 2:17Speaker 5: to be able to focus on football as far as
- 2:20Speaker 5: decision making. You're a head coach in high division one
- 2:24Speaker 5: end or NBA or NFL. Really you oversee the whole
- 2:29Speaker 5: big picture and you're in charge of every part of it.
- 2:33Speaker 5: But the the coordinators and the assistant coaches and all
- 2:37Speaker 5: the periphial staff, they're the ones in charge of a
- 2:39Speaker 5: certain thing, and that you let them run with it,
- 2:42Speaker 5: and then you coordinate everything with them, and that you're
- 2:45Speaker 5: the final decision of it. And it's overwhelming, and that
- 2:49Speaker 5: suddenly you're the ones gonna go for a field goal
- 2:52Speaker 5: showing or you're gonna go for the first down. You're
- 2:54Speaker 5: gonna will it with your team, and it's it takes
- 2:57Speaker 5: a lot of you're confident in it, but you haven't
- 2:59Speaker 5: done yet, and that's the ability to do it and
- 3:03Speaker 5: also understand that you're not a coordinator, you're the final
- 3:08Speaker 5: decision maker.
- 3:09Speaker 1: And it's overwhelming.
- 3:10Speaker 4: So that final we were kind of philosophically going through this,
- 3:14Speaker 4: all right, what is the real difference, and you just
- 3:18Speaker 4: mentioned it. It's making those decisions and you got to
- 3:21Speaker 4: do them in game. You have to have you know,
- 3:24Speaker 4: the right script for all of it. You have to
- 3:25Speaker 4: be as prepared as you could possibly be. But there's
- 3:29Speaker 4: going to be several moments this year where every single
- 3:33Speaker 4: person in a stadium and most importantly, the one hundred
- 3:37Speaker 4: and fifty ish guys that you work with every day,
- 3:39Speaker 4: player and coaches, They're gonna look at you and they're
- 3:43Speaker 4: gonna say, are we going for it?
- 3:45Speaker 3: Here? Are we kicking the field goal? Are we gonna
- 3:48Speaker 3: run a fake button?
- 3:49Speaker 6: Here?
- 3:49Speaker 3: Are we going to take a risk? What are we
- 3:51Speaker 3: doing here? Now?
- 3:52Speaker 4: That is Morgan Scally's job. Now, previously, I'm sure he
- 3:57Speaker 4: would say, I want to do this, We should be aggressive. Here,
- 4:01Speaker 4: here's something I think we could do. Hey, coach, I'm
- 4:04Speaker 4: in the headset, I'm in your ear. This is where
- 4:07Speaker 4: that certain player, that certain blitz packers, this is where
- 4:09Speaker 4: it could work for us, is where the punk block
- 4:11Speaker 4: is why we put it in. But ultimately you're the
- 4:15Speaker 4: one who has to say, all right, we're calling the
- 4:17Speaker 4: time out. Now, all right, we're doing this now. I
- 4:20Speaker 4: mean that is for even for people who've been around
- 4:23Speaker 4: football for their entire lives like he has, it's new duties.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Yeah, very much.
- 4:28Speaker 5: And also as far as decision making, is that from
- 4:31Speaker 5: a player's point of view, that you have to have
- 4:34Speaker 5: confidence in the players. And so again with that, let's
- 4:39Speaker 5: say showing the field goal kicker, all right, what is
- 4:42Speaker 5: his distance and what is his rhythm and nuances of
- 4:46Speaker 5: his personality and so much Again is managing personalities of
- 4:51Speaker 5: gur besides the coaching staff, but also the players that
- 4:55Speaker 5: you've got to get them confidence, yet you got to
- 4:58Speaker 5: understand about out winning the game. It's that unbelievable fine line.
- 5:03Speaker 5: So example shown in basketball, a player that you really
- 5:07Speaker 5: have confidence in is struggling. He's zero for eight during
- 5:11Speaker 5: the cost of a game. The question is what's his
- 5:16Speaker 5: personality if you take him out or tell him those
- 5:19Speaker 5: awful words? Think about at this moment now thinking about
- 5:24Speaker 5: when you're free, keep shooting, but at what cost? Though
- 5:28Speaker 5: sure I always takes all the time Sean, is that
- 5:31Speaker 5: when you tell a player in basketball or trying to
- 5:34Speaker 5: create the football, you tell a field goal kicker you take,
- 5:39Speaker 5: you take him out, or you go you go for
- 5:41Speaker 5: a first down versus field goal because he missed three
- 5:43Speaker 5: in a row. Hypothetically is that the day the person's
- 5:47Speaker 5: born on his gravestone and the day he dies in
- 5:50Speaker 5: his gravestone. Also next to it is what the day
- 5:53Speaker 5: you told him don't shoot or don't kick shoun the
- 5:58Speaker 5: day you told him don't shoot in NBA? Today he's
- 6:01Speaker 5: born nineteen ninety something, the day he passed away lud Willing,
- 6:05Speaker 5: you know, twenty ninety something, and the day you told
- 6:08Speaker 5: him as a head coach not to shoot or not
- 6:10Speaker 5: to kick.
- 6:11Speaker 4: Well, we talked about that exact example yesterday. Oh you did,
- 6:15Speaker 4: because we were bringing up the kicker, right Utah's got
- 6:18Speaker 4: this kicker, Okay, who was a five star athlete in
- 6:20Speaker 4: high school, and he was like the number one kicker
- 6:22Speaker 4: in the nation in high school and as a freshman
- 6:25Speaker 4: he was nails on his extra points. But there was
- 6:28Speaker 4: a time, an important juncture of the season where the
- 6:32Speaker 4: head coach didn't walk up to him and say, I
- 6:36Speaker 4: don't trust you, but the play calling said I don't
- 6:39Speaker 4: trust you in this spot correct and asking an eighteen
- 6:43Speaker 4: nineteen year old kid who comes in with a lot
- 6:46Speaker 4: of fanfare to deal with that.
- 6:48Speaker 3: That's what you're talking about. That's that weird balance.
- 6:51Speaker 5: Very much, and it affects the whole group. Though sure,
- 6:54Speaker 5: hey we love you dog. However we're gonna go for
- 6:56Speaker 5: it right now. Yeah, or hey we love you dog,
- 6:59Speaker 5: Okay said. But in the NBA Finals, showing a long
- 7:01Speaker 5: time ago pat Rally, who's a Hall of Fame coach
- 7:06Speaker 5: John Starks, who later played for the Jazz. Later on
- 7:09Speaker 5: in nineteen ninety four, in the famous OJ Simpson Final game,
- 7:14Speaker 5: He's chased down that on the highway with Al Cowan
- 7:17Speaker 5: and it was playing the Rockets. Stalks goes two for
- 7:21Speaker 5: eighteen in game six, including for eleven. Pat Rally says.
- 7:26Speaker 5: Pat Rally says his all time out loud and also
- 7:29Speaker 5: in his books that I should have took him out
- 7:31Speaker 5: because in the big picture it affected the whole franchise sure,
- 7:35Speaker 5: versus giving one player what a free reign.
- 7:39Speaker 4: So give me a couple of guys, if you're willing
- 7:42Speaker 4: to name names, who you could say they had the
- 7:46Speaker 4: right mentality to say, hey, not right now, and they
- 7:50Speaker 4: were going to react to that properly. And maybe the
- 7:52Speaker 4: other end of that where you had to be careful
- 7:55Speaker 4: because if you say, I'm not drawing up this final
- 7:58Speaker 4: play for you you're cold, or or I don't want
- 8:01Speaker 4: you shooting right now, you're cold or whatever, it was
- 8:03Speaker 4: going to become a problem for that person because the
- 8:07Speaker 4: spectrum is all over the place right very much. There's
- 8:09Speaker 4: a bunch of guys hitters in baseball, pitchers in baseball,
- 8:13Speaker 4: shooters in basketball, kickers, I mean quarterbacks, right, how many
- 8:18Speaker 4: times have we seen a guy where he just gets
- 8:22Speaker 4: the yips for a game or whatever, he can't place
- 8:24Speaker 4: the ball where he needs to place it.
- 8:26Speaker 3: There's you tough fans that'll tell you.
- 8:28Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, Cam Rising comes back after
- 8:31Speaker 4: so long away Arizona State injures his ankle on the
- 8:35Speaker 4: second down of the game, and the coaching staff were like,
- 8:38Speaker 4: we're gonna ride or die with him, even though it
- 8:40Speaker 4: was clear he couldn't keep going.
- 8:42Speaker 3: It was clear he couldn't throw the football right.
- 8:45Speaker 4: He's the kind of guy that if you pull him
- 8:47Speaker 4: out and say we're pulling you out because you're hurt,
- 8:49Speaker 4: not because we don't trust you, I think he would
- 8:51Speaker 4: have been Okay, that felt like the wrong decision.
- 8:54Speaker 3: It goes all over the place, all up and down
- 8:56Speaker 3: that spectrum.
- 8:57Speaker 5: And to this so also in basketball, Scottie Pippen Hall
- 9:01Speaker 5: of Famer. Sure, all right, Michael Jordan is playing baseball,
- 9:05Speaker 5: so dy're in the playoffs. There's the big pitcher now
- 9:07Speaker 5: in the playoffs. Phil Jackson again the most winningest coach
- 9:11Speaker 5: in the NBA as far as titles is eleven championships.
- 9:16Speaker 5: He doesn't diagram a play for Scottie Pippen in a
- 9:19Speaker 5: playoff game. In the last few seconds, Scottie Pippen sulks.
- 9:24Speaker 5: He sulks about it. The play goes to Tony Kuk Coach,
- 9:28Speaker 5: who makes the winning jump shot makes the jump shot
- 9:31Speaker 5: to win the playoff game for the Bulls without Michael Jordan,
- 9:35Speaker 5: and Michael was there. It's cutting dry. He's getting the
- 9:38Speaker 5: ball hopefully in space, all right, but now it's the
- 9:43Speaker 5: Jordan's in baseball. So Pippen thinks the Bulls should go
- 9:46Speaker 5: to him, but Phil Jackson makes a decision to go
- 9:50Speaker 5: to Coup coach. As far as the set play he delivered,
- 9:53Speaker 5: Scotti Pitpen didn't refuse to go in the game.
- 9:56Speaker 3: That's crazy, crazy, it happened.
- 10:01Speaker 5: It happened because you're dealing with what players human behavior
- 10:05Speaker 5: at that moment. I'm sure they regretted weeks, months, decades late,
- 10:11Speaker 5: they regretted what was I thinking? I was being Philip Blankson,
- 10:14Speaker 5: all right, but at that moment, think about only one
- 10:17Speaker 5: thing themselves.
- 10:18Speaker 4: And to circle it back to the original conversation. That
- 10:21Speaker 4: is also something that a head coach has to deal with,
- 10:24Speaker 4: right personalities, because you know your position, coach, your shooting
- 10:28Speaker 4: coach or whatever, coach, your bench guy. At the end
- 10:31Speaker 4: of the day, they're not going to be able to
- 10:34Speaker 4: grab up Scottie Pippen and say, hey, knock this off,
- 10:38Speaker 4: or we're gonna deal with you a certain way.
- 10:39Speaker 3: Only the head coach can handle that very much.
- 10:43Speaker 5: And so it's different that it's different being a head coach.
- 10:46Speaker 5: In the NBA, I was starting the late great Jerry Sloan.
- 10:51Speaker 5: He had this unbelievable fear that in the fourth quarter,
- 10:54Speaker 5: we're not going to score a point. Really, I said
- 10:56Speaker 5: them all the time. Really, we're going to score the
- 10:58Speaker 5: next possession. And this is Jerry saying to me thousands
- 11:04Speaker 5: of times, we can't score in the fourth quarter. Really,
- 11:07Speaker 5: give the ball the alone, I'm sure we can score.
- 11:09Speaker 5: I'm positive of that. All right, give the ball to Boozer.
- 11:12Speaker 5: I'm sure we can score, meaning Cols Booser. So these
- 11:15Speaker 5: are all things that every head coach has. Certain what's
- 11:19Speaker 5: the word fear is in a positive way or anxiety?
- 11:23Speaker 5: Anxiety is a good thing. Bill Russell, the world's greatest winner,
- 11:28Speaker 5: used to throw up every playoff game. Before a playoff game,
- 11:31Speaker 5: you threw up. It's documented all the time when it happened.
- 11:34Speaker 5: The team was so happy knowing that Bill Russell was
- 11:38Speaker 5: ready to play in a playoff game of either one.
- 11:41Speaker 5: He won eleven championships, So it happens.
- 11:44Speaker 4: One of the best players I grew up with. Love you,
- 11:48Speaker 4: Kevin Freestone. Shout out to the whole Freestone family.
- 11:51Speaker 1: This is football, now football, Okay, great.
- 11:53Speaker 3: He would throw up in the huddle, Gordy, here you go. Okay,
- 11:55Speaker 3: not because he was.
- 11:58Speaker 4: Over exerting or whatever, but the nerves of the competition.
- 12:01Speaker 4: You would throw up right there in the huddle. Le'
- 12:05Speaker 4: be dripping out of his face mask. And he played well,
- 12:08Speaker 4: he was great. He was the best player on the team.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Okay.
- 12:11Speaker 4: And then you know he go get down in the stance. Yeah,
- 12:15Speaker 4: the opposing team would be looking at him. He'd be
- 12:17Speaker 4: throwing up, he'd be finishing dry heaving right before the snap.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 12:21Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. It's so funny how people's minds and
- 12:24Speaker 4: bodies work together.
- 12:25Speaker 5: Very much, and so as a head coach in charge
- 12:27Speaker 5: of so many different personalities, that's what makes it so unique.
- 12:32Speaker 5: And there's circumstances of what happens again on the team bus,
- 12:37Speaker 5: on the charter flight the day before the walk and
- 12:41Speaker 5: during the walk through the day of the game, the
- 12:42Speaker 5: day before practice sessions, who's injured, who's could play through
- 12:46Speaker 5: an injury, who's not gonna play. There's so many different dynamics,
- 12:50Speaker 5: and that's why it's so important to be on top
- 12:52Speaker 5: of that, and you have to delegate authority at that moment.
- 12:56Speaker 5: You cannot be the heavy all the time, or you
- 12:59Speaker 5: can't be the good guy even some of the time
- 13:03Speaker 5: when you're a head coach. But you could be a
- 13:05Speaker 5: world class listener. Most great, great head coaches at every level.
- 13:09Speaker 5: I call him the world class listeners. They listen to
- 13:12Speaker 5: the assistant coaches, the people on staff, they listen to
- 13:15Speaker 5: the to the veteran players on their team, and they
- 13:18Speaker 5: listen to the young people of what they're going through
- 13:21Speaker 5: and then they make a decision. So the question with
- 13:24Speaker 5: the Morgan Scali is he a world class listener? What
- 13:27Speaker 5: do you think, Sean?
- 13:29Speaker 3: I think he is great? Okay.
- 13:30Speaker 4: I think one of the great things about Morgan Scally
- 13:35Speaker 4: is his communication is a beauty. His ability to communicate
- 13:38Speaker 4: with every style of communication.
- 13:41Speaker 3: Right.
- 13:42Speaker 4: He's got the gregariousness and energy to meet even like
- 13:46Speaker 4: the most extroverted person on their level. But He's introspective, thoughtful,
- 13:52Speaker 4: uh spiritual enough that he can really dig in with
- 13:56Speaker 4: the introverted person who doesn't want to have that common
- 14:00Speaker 4: I think his communication style and skill is going to
- 14:03Speaker 4: be one of the things that when the book is
- 14:05Speaker 4: written someday about Morgan Scalley, that's what people talk about.
- 14:09Speaker 5: And so that's uniqueness of it, and that's his personality.
- 14:12Speaker 5: And usually speaking, the team takes the personality of the
- 14:16Speaker 5: head coach, just generally speaking, right, with the exception outlier
- 14:21Speaker 5: truly being an exception. So in jazz basketball, I trust
- 14:24Speaker 5: when I say this, the Utah Jazz and Yesterdya took
- 14:27Speaker 5: the personality of their head coach.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Sure, I'm absolutely positive of that positive.
- 14:32Speaker 3: So what does that look like now?
- 14:35Speaker 4: Because Will Hardy's personality for these last several years has
- 14:41Speaker 4: unfortunately been muted because he is, like every head coach
- 14:45Speaker 4: in the NBA, a hardcore competitor. Obviously we've seen the
- 14:50Speaker 4: little viral clips. He can be pretty fiery, right, he
- 14:55Speaker 4: has not been allowed, because of the machinations behind and
- 15:00Speaker 4: the scenes, to be the competitor he wants to be,
- 15:03Speaker 4: to be the winner he wants to be. So what
- 15:05Speaker 4: does that look like now that the chips are all
- 15:08Speaker 4: on the table. Now that you take the governor off
- 15:11Speaker 4: and you say all right, go do your thing, how
- 15:14Speaker 4: much will we see Will Hardy and the personality of
- 15:18Speaker 4: the coach and the team as a reflection of him
- 15:20Speaker 4: change now that he can go out and win, will.
- 15:23Speaker 5: A chance tremendously answers be front and center, and from
- 15:26Speaker 5: that very first day of the meeting, the opening meeting
- 15:30Speaker 5: of this is what the rules are, this is what
- 15:32Speaker 5: we're going to do accomplished, especially on defense. Again, as
- 15:36Speaker 5: the Jazz go forward, they just have talent, is that
- 15:39Speaker 5: they have to get better tremendously defensively. And it starts
- 15:44Speaker 5: both any sport, on ball, off ball. It affects everything
- 15:49Speaker 5: you do. So the ability to guard on ball and
- 15:51Speaker 5: the ability to play help to help a defense. And
- 15:54Speaker 5: Will Hardy and his coaching staff, which are really talented people,
- 15:58Speaker 5: they're going to change the look of the Jazz as
- 16:02Speaker 5: far as playing defense and competing on both sides, especially
- 16:06Speaker 5: on especially on when it's a gritty game. But sometimes
- 16:10Speaker 5: Sean things don't go correctly offensively, your team is struggling,
- 16:14Speaker 5: they can't make a layup, they missed four straight foul shots,
- 16:17Speaker 5: but your defense keeps you in the game until why,
- 16:20Speaker 5: there's an awakening of your offensive abilities. Suddenly what you
- 16:25Speaker 5: get three straight stops in the game instead of being
- 16:28Speaker 5: down eight, you only down two because you got you
- 16:31Speaker 5: guarded them. And now your offense, now there's a reappearance
- 16:36Speaker 5: of it led by what by dribbled drive to the basket,
- 16:39Speaker 5: kick it out for that rhythm corner three. And that's
- 16:41Speaker 5: how teams win Sean most road games and especially road
- 16:46Speaker 5: playoff games. The games are ugly, and I call it
- 16:50Speaker 5: ugly is beautiful because she won a player. So when's
- 16:53Speaker 5: the last time in the NFL playoff game when the
- 16:56Speaker 5: team couldn't score but they won?
- 16:58Speaker 1: And what they evance on?
- 17:01Speaker 5: We couldn't score, but our defense what and special teams
- 17:03Speaker 5: they kept us wide in the game ian a punt
- 17:06Speaker 5: they win the game first.
- 17:07Speaker 4: Hypothetically, that's kind of what playoff football becomes. Absolutely, playoff
- 17:13Speaker 4: basketball becomes very much.
- 17:15Speaker 5: It's gritty, it's a science. There's nothing regular about playoffs
- 17:20Speaker 5: in the NFL or the NBA. Nothing regular. It's always gritty.
- 17:24Speaker 4: We talked about this a little bit yesterday after we
- 17:27Speaker 4: had you on. Tony Jones joined us and he's obviously
- 17:29Speaker 4: in Philadelphia. Now he's covering the seventy six Ers, that
- 17:33Speaker 4: team that lebron chose to be on. And I asked him,
- 17:35Speaker 4: because I'm asking everybody about Joel Embiid and about the
- 17:39Speaker 4: health questions around Joel Embiid, and his response was, Look,
- 17:44Speaker 4: as long as you can keep Joel Embiid healthy for
- 17:47Speaker 4: the playoffs, when you actually need that inside presence, when
- 17:50Speaker 4: you actually need the defensive presence, the shot blocking, the
- 17:54Speaker 4: inside scoring. They could probably make the playoffs without him
- 17:57Speaker 4: at all during the regular season. But if he's ready
- 18:01Speaker 4: to go in shape and healthy when you get to
- 18:03Speaker 4: the playoffs, now we're talking. And I was like, first
- 18:06Speaker 4: of all, what a luxurious position for the Philadelphia seventy
- 18:10Speaker 4: six ers to be in where you might not need
- 18:12Speaker 4: one of your four best players for a regular season run.
- 18:15Speaker 3: But it's more pointedly.
- 18:18Speaker 4: About how the style of basketball in the playoffs changes.
- 18:22Speaker 4: And we saw that with the Spurs last year, we
- 18:24Speaker 4: saw that with the Knicks last year. We saw the
- 18:26Speaker 4: way that you know, Oklahoma City thrived two years ago
- 18:30Speaker 4: and even into this year's playoffs with that stylistic shift,
- 18:34Speaker 4: being able to accommodate it, being able to take it
- 18:36Speaker 4: and you know, win that kind of basketball without having
- 18:40Speaker 4: to be pretty.
- 18:41Speaker 1: Yeah, very much.
- 18:42Speaker 5: And so usually in most playoff games and every sport,
- 18:45Speaker 5: the game slows down that it's more of a half
- 18:49Speaker 5: court or in football, a ball control offense. So defense
- 18:54Speaker 5: absolutely rules, and that's when you need somebody to score
- 18:59Speaker 5: a point. We call chaos scoring. Where can Joel Embiid,
- 19:02Speaker 5: which he can, He can score in chaos, and so
- 19:05Speaker 5: can Lebron James scoring chaos where the defense is so
- 19:08Speaker 5: good and legally physical that they can dry through it.
- 19:11Speaker 5: And Joel Embiid, let's not forget, he averaged twenty seven
- 19:14Speaker 5: points a game in his career in the playoffs when
- 19:17Speaker 5: he's healthy, and that makes it so unique right now,
- 19:20Speaker 5: last year, Joel Embiid, unfortunately he only played six executive
- 19:24Speaker 5: games in the regular season before either sitting down injury
- 19:27Speaker 5: or they set him down to quote rest them as
- 19:30Speaker 5: far as his legs and stuff. So but playoff basketball
- 19:33Speaker 5: is different. There's no rest involved and you've got to
- 19:36Speaker 5: be able to perform. And that's the factor. In the Sixers.
- 19:38Speaker 5: They feel that they can go after the Knickrobockers and
- 19:42Speaker 5: the upstart Detroit Pistons, and they think also they can
- 19:45Speaker 5: hold off the Cavaliers to get a quantum leaf as
- 19:48Speaker 5: far as getting the getting to the NBA Finals for
- 19:52Speaker 5: the first time since two thousand and one, which will
- 19:56Speaker 5: be then twenty six years in twenty twenty seven. And
- 19:58Speaker 5: the last time they want to checkchampionship was nineteen eighty
- 20:01Speaker 5: three with that Doctor j and that crew and Bobby
- 20:05Speaker 5: Jones and Andrew Tony and all those guys.
- 20:09Speaker 3: Eighty three a great year for the world.
- 20:11Speaker 5: That year you were born, correct, Yes, really, Sean is
- 20:14Speaker 5: Sean is a very young cat. He's young. And James
- 20:18Speaker 5: Peterson is another young cat. He's young, and then showing,
- 20:21Speaker 5: and then there's me. I am truly not young, to
- 20:24Speaker 5: say the least. I'm an ulster well but young at heart. Gordy, Yeah,
- 20:29Speaker 5: I am no, thanks, I appreciate that.
- 20:32Speaker 3: I try to be.
- 20:32Speaker 1: I tempt to be.
- 20:33Speaker 4: So I want to circle back to something we were
- 20:35Speaker 4: talking about early in this segment, where you know, Will
- 20:39Speaker 4: Hardy's style is going to change a little bit now
- 20:42Speaker 4: that he's allowed to win. The communication that you have
- 20:46Speaker 4: to master over an entire roster as a head coach
- 20:49Speaker 4: and managing the personalities of like, all right, who's gonna
- 20:53Speaker 4: be able to handle the criticism. Who's going to be
- 20:55Speaker 4: able to handle not being told not to shoot? Who's
- 20:58Speaker 4: gonna be able to handle Hey, we're gonna draw play
- 21:00Speaker 4: up for you when we're down two and we need
- 21:02Speaker 4: a three pointer with one point eight seconds left? How
- 21:06Speaker 4: important is it to establish who those guys are for?
- 21:10Speaker 4: Will Hardy on this roster? Because look, we all love
- 21:13Speaker 4: what Kiante George has done. I don't know that anyone's
- 21:16Speaker 4: ready to say game on the line. Give the ball
- 21:18Speaker 4: to Keyante George and you're gonna be okay.
- 21:20Speaker 3: Same with Ace Bailey.
- 21:22Speaker 4: Lowry marketing, I guess maybe. But the players are gonna
- 21:27Speaker 4: have to know who that guy is. The coaches are
- 21:29Speaker 4: gonna have to know who that guy is. We get
- 21:31Speaker 4: to find out at some point during the season who
- 21:33Speaker 4: that guy is, or maybe more pointedly, who that guy
- 21:36Speaker 4: is not.
- 21:37Speaker 3: How does that process work?
- 21:39Speaker 5: He works in practice where the time they call it
- 21:42Speaker 5: the time and score game, where the exact scenary describe
- 21:46Speaker 5: you did three point shot one point eight seconds.
- 21:49Speaker 1: Here's the situation.
- 21:50Speaker 5: We're gonna run as far as the play formation, the
- 21:53Speaker 5: defense will not cooperate, and again, you have to be
- 21:55Speaker 5: able to score a basket out of I mentioned before,
- 22:00Speaker 5: but also we call it out of nothing. And so
- 22:02Speaker 5: Larry Markin, who's such a great foul shooter. Also, so
- 22:05Speaker 5: I would assume that right now and a lot of
- 22:08Speaker 5: times the defenses they switch. So Larry Marking at seven
- 22:11Speaker 5: foot if for some reason the defense did try to
- 22:14Speaker 5: exchange and go against him, he can shoot over the top.
- 22:17Speaker 5: So as we speak right now, probably it's gonna be
- 22:21Speaker 5: Larry Marking in one, Jaron Jackson two again because they
- 22:26Speaker 5: as a big guy, they do play switch defense, he
- 22:28Speaker 5: can shoot over the top of them. And then three
- 22:32Speaker 5: it's gonna be Kiante George and four Darren Peterson because
- 22:38Speaker 5: Peterson has the ability as a young fella to create
- 22:40Speaker 5: his own shot off the dribble and once he elevates,
- 22:43Speaker 5: he can get up in the air. And he's also
- 22:45Speaker 5: a good foul shoot eighty four percent. And so those
- 22:48Speaker 5: are probably the guys that have it. Then off the bench,
- 22:50Speaker 5: let's not forget Bryce censer ball. Sean is a guy
- 22:54Speaker 5: that he can shoot and censer balls in the game.
- 22:57Speaker 5: You love to have him with the ball in his
- 22:59Speaker 5: hands on the sho short clock because he has supreme
- 23:02Speaker 5: confidence and I'm sure that the coaching staff has it
- 23:05Speaker 5: in him, and I like sense of Ball who's vastly underrated,
- 23:08Speaker 5: and so they have some different options. But I'm gonna
- 23:11Speaker 5: go one step further. The Jazz have to get to
- 23:14Speaker 5: that point. They've got to play defense and have defensive
- 23:16Speaker 5: playmakers and Sean, we haven't talked about this in a
- 23:19Speaker 5: in a while since a few weeks ago, but the
- 23:22Speaker 5: Jazz admitted a very smart, simple contract with josh Okogi.
- 23:27Speaker 5: Josha Kogi is a guy that plays really superior defense
- 23:31Speaker 5: on perimeter that had a career year last year from
- 23:34Speaker 5: three point range, shooting thirty eight point seven percent from threes.
- 23:38Speaker 1: But he can play, he can guard.
- 23:39Speaker 5: So Josha Koji off the bench is gonna help the
- 23:42Speaker 5: Jazz as far as trying to slow down the other
- 23:45Speaker 5: team's wing scorers, as far as either not a starter
- 23:49Speaker 5: but as a second unit guy. If he just play
- 23:52Speaker 5: against the starters in the beginning of the third quarter
- 23:55Speaker 5: or the fourth quarter, he's gonna try to make them
- 23:58Speaker 5: uh I call it ruble defensive player, where he's going
- 24:01Speaker 5: to go after them and make him shoot, make him
- 24:03Speaker 5: feel uncomfortable. And so it's going to help the Jazz
- 24:06Speaker 5: as far as doing that. Also, they added a guy
- 24:07Speaker 5: named Mobamba who was on the team last year, and
- 24:10Speaker 5: he'll give them a shot blocking presence again off the bench.
- 24:14Speaker 5: So the two guys that Jazz added not as far
- 24:16Speaker 5: as draft wise, but they're both defensive minded and that
- 24:20Speaker 5: is good. So that tells me that the Jazz recognized
- 24:23Speaker 5: that some of their shortcomings and they're going to try
- 24:26Speaker 5: to uh to try to accelerate it as far as
- 24:29Speaker 5: getting better defensively. And that's it sounds so simple, but
- 24:33Speaker 5: it gets hard showing every every NBA practice that's been
- 24:36Speaker 5: element of what we call it hurt feelings because without
- 24:40Speaker 5: without hurt feelings and practice, you get mixed results in
- 24:43Speaker 5: the game. The criteria's this don't make hurt feelings and
- 24:47Speaker 5: the hard feelings where you can't go back to the player. So, Sean,
- 24:51Speaker 5: I'm sure that your best coaches that that tooted you
- 24:55Speaker 5: sometimes you didn't like them, sometimes like them. Yeah, I
- 25:01Speaker 5: think that's good, perfectly normal.
- 25:03Speaker 4: It's kind of like a parent. You shouldn't always be
- 25:05Speaker 4: popular with the children.
- 25:07Speaker 1: Oh, very not, not at all. You agree with that?
- 25:09Speaker 5: I agree sometimes, Yeah, Matt, I know I know the
- 25:14Speaker 5: feeling very much. And that's The reason why is that again,
- 25:18Speaker 5: hurt feelings is good in every practice, but just don't
- 25:22Speaker 5: make the hurt feelings into what hard feelings whether player
- 25:25Speaker 5: doesn't want to talk with you and likewise you towards
- 25:28Speaker 5: the player. So it's that fine line. It's your body language,
- 25:31Speaker 5: it's your voice diction, how you raise your voice at
- 25:33Speaker 5: a certain thing, or the words you use, and it's
- 25:36Speaker 5: all part of coaching ability to get players to usually
- 25:41Speaker 5: sean overperform. A lot of times players don't know their
- 25:45Speaker 5: own ceiling. They think they have a ceiling, but it's
- 25:48Speaker 5: way beyond that. And your job as a coach in
- 25:50Speaker 5: the NBA or the NFL or Division one football, your
- 25:54Speaker 5: job is to bring the best out of the players
- 25:56Speaker 5: individually but also as a collective group. And that's that.
- 25:59Speaker 5: That's the goal of every successful team and coach.
- 26:03Speaker 4: That's Gordia chas that we've got him for the whole
- 26:05Speaker 4: first hour here, this is his final hit of the offseason,
- 26:09Speaker 4: and then once NBA season rolls back around, will have
- 26:12Speaker 4: Gordy on on a regular basis because we love picking
- 26:15Speaker 4: his brain. All right, we know this, you cannot you
- 26:19Speaker 4: and I a normal person, even a really really well
- 26:22Speaker 4: off person, you can't afford to buy into the primary
- 26:26Speaker 4: NBA product, What about though a G League team, or
- 26:30Speaker 4: what about something like an NBA Europe team. The price
- 26:33Speaker 4: point on that is starting to be established, and we're
- 26:36Speaker 4: gonna talk about it with Gordy next because Hole Lee
- 26:40Speaker 4: Cow Conversations with Gordiya Chas. That brought to you by
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- 26:47Speaker 4: the Shot O'Connell Show on ESPN seven hundred and ninety
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- 27:03Speaker 3: AM, Welcome back.
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- 27:46Speaker 4: We'll get Eric Weddle back on regularly. Jeff Schwartz is
- 27:49Speaker 4: gonna be joining us every week. It's gonna be a
- 27:51Speaker 4: lot of fun. We got Gordon Chiaza here in studio
- 27:53Speaker 4: with us today as his final hit before we head
- 27:57Speaker 4: into the NBA official offseason, which is not not as
- 28:01Speaker 4: long as these players and coaches and personnel guys need
- 28:04Speaker 4: it to be, but that's the way things go. Before
- 28:07Speaker 4: the break, I teased the price point being set on
- 28:12Speaker 4: these hypothetical totally hypothetical so far NBA Europe, NBA Global
- 28:19Speaker 4: expansion franchises. The first, the most appealing of these, right,
- 28:26Speaker 4: are your big cities NBA London, NBA Paris, NBA Rome,
- 28:32Speaker 4: NBA Berlin.
- 28:33Speaker 3: Like these big, big.
- 28:34Speaker 4: Cities, right, The NBA London one was considered kind of
- 28:38Speaker 4: the crown jewel. And remember this is not an NBA franchise.
- 28:43Speaker 4: This is not like we've talked about with the NFL,
- 28:45Speaker 4: where maybe Shad Cohn will take the Jaguars over to
- 28:49Speaker 4: play in London. This is a triple A team effectively,
- 28:52Speaker 4: Is that the right way to characterize this cording?
- 28:54Speaker 1: Yeah very much?
- 28:55Speaker 4: Yeah, Okay, absolutely so I'm asking all of you out there, Hey,
- 28:59Speaker 4: how much would it call me to buy a Triple
- 29:01Speaker 4: A team, not a Major League Baseball team, not an
- 29:05Speaker 4: NBA team. How much would it cost me to get
- 29:08Speaker 4: into this even if it was in London. Well, so far,
- 29:14Speaker 4: what has come in is a billion dollar offer from
- 29:18Speaker 4: Nikesh Aurora, who's a Silicon Valley tech CEO who's diversifying
- 29:23Speaker 4: his portfolio. He already bought a cricket forty nine percent
- 29:27Speaker 4: of a cricket team in London. He's of South Asian descent,
- 29:31Speaker 4: he has London roots. He's a guy who wants to
- 29:34Speaker 4: build up the sporting infrastructure in London, the American sporting
- 29:39Speaker 4: infrastructure in London. And a billion dollars is what he
- 29:43Speaker 4: is willing to pay to be the owner of the
- 29:46Speaker 4: NBA London franchise should it come to pass, which is
- 29:49Speaker 4: still a question.
- 29:50Speaker 1: Yeah, very much.
- 29:51Speaker 5: Also, and that's a billion dollars just to buy the team.
- 29:55Speaker 5: It's not salaries, and it's not the personnel people and
- 29:59Speaker 5: all the marketing apparatus you need to grow the business.
- 30:03Speaker 5: There just the privilege to acquire the asset of a team. Now,
- 30:08Speaker 5: the problem is showing that alluding to I think called FEB.
- 30:12Speaker 5: Feber has their own teams in Europe and it's flourishing.
- 30:17Speaker 5: And the question is can the NBA go into Europe
- 30:21Speaker 5: and have their own league with conjunction with FEB with
- 30:26Speaker 5: their teams or do the teams merge with the As always,
- 30:30Speaker 5: the biggest sticking point is the METEA rights the broadcasting
- 30:35Speaker 5: of it, who gets the percentage of it? And then
- 30:38Speaker 5: let from an NBA point of view, the players' union,
- 30:41Speaker 5: you mean to tell me we're gonna have our clients
- 30:45Speaker 5: go over to Europe and not be compensated even more
- 30:48Speaker 5: than playing in the States. And as there's so many
- 30:51Speaker 5: things that work out, but they're trying to least start
- 30:55Speaker 5: of either a single person buying a team or a
- 31:00Speaker 5: group of people buying a team.
- 31:03Speaker 1: For the for the NBA in quote Europe.
- 31:06Speaker 5: Well, we'll find out shown in next two or three
- 31:08Speaker 5: years if it plays either or not.
- 31:11Speaker 4: More than one hundred and twenty prospective investors submitted what
- 31:16Speaker 4: they call declarations of interest in the first round when
- 31:19Speaker 4: the NBA was kind of like, you know, putting out
- 31:22Speaker 4: feelers here. The proposal is sixteen teams twelve would be
- 31:27Speaker 4: licensed by the NBA and then they would do four
- 31:30Speaker 4: on the European model of promotion relegation, right, you could
- 31:34Speaker 4: earn your way up and down NBA Europe, Yeah, up.
- 31:37Speaker 5: And down based on your what you reckon the year before.
- 31:41Speaker 5: So it's an incentive right now. Let's put it in
- 31:43Speaker 5: context also with the possible expansion by the NBA of
- 31:48Speaker 5: Las Vegas and Seattle when it does happen, for the
- 31:52Speaker 5: privilege for those ownership groups, whoever they are, they're still
- 31:55Speaker 5: bidding on there's still I'm sure bidding on it. It's
- 31:57Speaker 5: going to cost roughly a billion dollars for the expansion fee,
- 32:03Speaker 5: and it will cost for operation operation of budget roughly
- 32:09Speaker 5: between seven and nine billion dollars to get the whole
- 32:14Speaker 5: operation up. So we're talking basically roughly eight to ten
- 32:18Speaker 5: billion dollars shown for an expansion team to be an operation.
- 32:23Speaker 5: So I know there's a lot of billionaires, usually in
- 32:26Speaker 5: Northern California with a venture capitalist about a whole.
- 32:30Speaker 1: Bunch of money.
- 32:32Speaker 3: There's a lot of dough, a.
- 32:33Speaker 5: Lot of money, and that just shows you the power
- 32:35Speaker 5: of sports. And again it's all driven by media rights.
- 32:38Speaker 5: Everything is based on broadcasting partners and that's the catchword,
- 32:43Speaker 5: the partners of what they're willing to pay for live programming.
- 32:47Speaker 5: And now it's obviously the streaming services everybody's involved in
- 32:50Speaker 5: trying especially and as great as the NBA is as
- 32:53Speaker 5: far as viewing it, the NBA is really second fiddle
- 32:58Speaker 5: to the NFL because the NFL is absolutely incredible rules
- 33:03Speaker 5: as far as television and Sean, what what is Tony
- 33:08Speaker 5: Roma thinking?
- 33:08Speaker 1: Sean, Tony Roma, what is he thinking?
- 33:11Speaker 3: It's an unfortunate situation, right.
- 33:13Speaker 1: I know, what what was it? What's he thinking? I know?
- 33:18Speaker 5: So CBS will make a tough decision about his future.
- 33:22Speaker 5: I'm sure to show between now and the first game,
- 33:24Speaker 5: which is right roughly what six weeks from now.
- 33:27Speaker 4: The plan for now is that JJ Watt is going
- 33:29Speaker 4: to be going to take his spot, yeah on those
- 33:31Speaker 4: broadcasts for now for now, so we'll see. Yeah, if
- 33:36Speaker 4: you want to buy into NBA Paris, NBA Milan, NBA London,
- 33:41Speaker 4: just you know, Madrid, Madrid, flip the flip the couch
- 33:44Speaker 4: over and uh see if you can find a billion
- 33:47Speaker 4: bucks or so in the cushions.
- 33:48Speaker 5: And speaking of couch right now shown also the couch
- 33:51Speaker 5: though next week is going to be in Springfield, Massachusetts,
- 33:55Speaker 5: which is the home of the of of basketball, the birthplace.
- 33:59Speaker 3: The Basketball Hall of Fame.
- 34:00Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 34:01Speaker 5: So here's the twenty twenty six Nasmiths Hall of Fame inductees.
- 34:05Speaker 1: I just gave you some of them.
- 34:07Speaker 5: And it's next Friday, August fourteenth and Saturday August fifteenth.
- 34:11Speaker 5: Amaras Stodemeyer is being adducted. Six time All Star and
- 34:15Speaker 5: the presenter's going to be Grand Hell and Steve Nash,
- 34:19Speaker 5: and the presenters is somebody ready in the NBA that
- 34:23Speaker 5: it's in the Hall of Fame. So two former teammates
- 34:27Speaker 5: are going to present him. Next guy Mike D'Antoni, two
- 34:30Speaker 5: time NBA Coach of the Year. He is going to
- 34:34Speaker 5: be presented by, also by Steve Nash and Bob McAdoo.
- 34:40Speaker 5: Doc Rivers, longtime NBA coach and the sixth winning coach
- 34:45Speaker 5: of all time with one thousand one of ninety five victories.
- 34:50Speaker 5: He's going to be presented by Kevin Garnett and Paul
- 34:55Speaker 5: Pierce mark Few, the longtime great head coach of the
- 34:59Speaker 5: Gonzaga Bulldogs. He's gonna be presented by John Calipari and
- 35:04Speaker 5: John Stockton. Oh wow, yeah, interesting. And then this is
- 35:08Speaker 5: my favorite Sean who said that I don't like referees.
- 35:12Speaker 5: Who said that over the years, that Gordy Chaser and
- 35:15Speaker 5: Jerry Sloan and Phil Johnson, all the Jazz coaches didn't
- 35:19Speaker 5: like referees.
- 35:20Speaker 1: Well, here we go.
- 35:21Speaker 5: We love this guy showing me if I say his name.
- 35:23Speaker 5: This guy was fearless in playoff games where he controlled
- 35:28Speaker 5: the game and more importantly, he let the players be stars.
- 35:32Speaker 5: He didn't call any cheap fouls in a playoff game,
- 35:35Speaker 5: because in playoff games you call a foul on every
- 35:38Speaker 5: possession of every down the floor. I'm talking about Joey Croffin,
- 35:44Speaker 5: legendary referee for thirty nine years. He was involved in
- 35:48Speaker 5: so many Jazz playoff games. He's being presented by Danny
- 35:52Speaker 5: Crofford no relation, and by Rod Thorn. And in the
- 35:56Speaker 5: last one is Candace Parker from who is a two
- 35:59Speaker 5: time w NBA All Star MVP who's now a NBC
- 36:05Speaker 5: Peacock analyst. Does a great job. She's She's been presented
- 36:09Speaker 5: by Alan Iverson. He's presenting Kennas and Cheryl Miller, who's
- 36:15Speaker 5: Reggie Miller's older sister. And Reggielways talks about all the
- 36:19Speaker 5: time and he was growing up the sister used the
- 36:21Speaker 5: elbow in the face all the time at pickup games.
- 36:24Speaker 5: He said he got tough based on his sister. So
- 36:27Speaker 5: that's going to be that some of the people inducted.
- 36:29Speaker 5: What about in jazz yesteryear, there's five jazz people that
- 36:33Speaker 5: are in the NBA there the Hall of Fame meeting Natesmith.
- 36:37Speaker 5: They are Pete Marrabage inducted in nineteen eighty seven, John
- 36:42Speaker 5: Stockton in two thousand and nine, Jerry Sloan in two
- 36:46Speaker 5: thousand and nine, Adrian Dentley in two thousand and eight,
- 36:51Speaker 5: and Cal Malone in twenty ten. And Frank Layton to
- 36:56Speaker 5: former Great Jazz president, j manager and head coach and
- 37:03Speaker 5: really the prime driver of Utah Jazz basketball. Frank lab
- 37:07Speaker 5: was deducted in Hall of Fame and twenty fifteen as
- 37:10Speaker 5: a contributor. So shout out and kudos the people inducted,
- 37:14Speaker 5: and also just and yesteryear, all these people that were
- 37:18Speaker 5: grateful that these people touch Utah Jazz basketball.
- 37:22Speaker 3: Time to get some more in the Hall of Fame.
- 37:24Speaker 4: Let's go does young crop of fellas Darren Peterson, Larry Marketing.
- 37:30Speaker 5: They have enough again, Face Bailey, they have enough talent
- 37:33Speaker 5: again So the question is show is always is you
- 37:37Speaker 5: have talent which is commendable, and now the question is
- 37:41Speaker 5: can you help a team win and do great things
- 37:44Speaker 5: in playoffs because your legacy is based on playoff sports.
- 37:49Speaker 4: Is it harder now to get into the Hall of
- 37:51Speaker 4: Fame or easier because you're compared to everyone who's already
- 37:57Speaker 4: in the Hall of Fame. Now, back in the day,
- 38:00Speaker 4: you didn't have to have some of the gaudy points,
- 38:02Speaker 4: totals and things like that. So what would you say,
- 38:05Speaker 4: is it harder to get in now or is it
- 38:07Speaker 4: easier to get in now than.
- 38:08Speaker 3: Let's say, thirty years ago.
- 38:09Speaker 1: Harder?
- 38:10Speaker 5: Okay, but in baseball is the ultimate hard to get
- 38:13Speaker 5: in baseball a guy is incredible these numbers and they
- 38:17Speaker 5: only picked the three or four guys a year. It's
- 38:19Speaker 5: the most amazing. I feel bad for the baseball players.
- 38:23Speaker 4: You could be a multiple time league MVP Dale Murphy
- 38:27Speaker 4: and not get into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 38:28Speaker 3: You know, dumb, that is correct. That is so stupid.
- 38:32Speaker 1: You got it.
- 38:34Speaker 5: And the reason why because baseball baseball writers they're so
- 38:40Speaker 5: old school and again in a bad way, that they
- 38:45Speaker 5: don't they nitpick if a guy didn't talk to him
- 38:49Speaker 5: in the locker room for three years, and they won't
- 38:53Speaker 5: vote for him forty years later. They still have a grudge,
- 38:56Speaker 5: which is absolutely juvenile and ado less since and get
- 39:01Speaker 5: ridd of these guys then, Meaning what the writers.
- 39:03Speaker 4: It's wild when you look at the Pro Football Hall
- 39:05Speaker 4: of Fame too, the standard, how much the standard has
- 39:08Speaker 4: shifted and changed over the years. Right, there's quarterbacks. I mean,
- 39:12Speaker 4: Joe Namath is the most famous one. Joe Namath threw
- 39:15Speaker 4: more interceptions and touchdowns and he's in the Hall of
- 39:17Speaker 4: Fame like you can't you can't even sniff like a
- 39:24Speaker 4: franchise Ring of Honor for those kind of numbers anymore.
- 39:28Speaker 4: But but Joe, he belongs in there because you can't
- 39:31Speaker 4: tell the story of the NFL without Joe Namath.
- 39:35Speaker 1: Either, So way much what is.
- 39:37Speaker 4: The what is the criteria for getting into a Hall
- 39:39Speaker 4: of Fame? For me, it's can you go year by
- 39:42Speaker 4: year and tell the story of the league without mentioning
- 39:44Speaker 4: that guy's name. If the answer is no, he has
- 39:47Speaker 4: to be in the Hall of Fame.
- 39:49Speaker 5: And do you realize that Joe Namath in the nineteen
- 39:52Speaker 5: sixty nine Super Bowl and the fourth quarter Sewan didn't
- 39:56Speaker 5: throw a pass the whole quarter. Wow Sean. He gave
- 40:01Speaker 5: the ball to Emerson Boozer and Matt Snell. Joe name
- 40:04Speaker 5: it did not throw a pass in the Super Bowl
- 40:06Speaker 5: game in the fourth quarter. Talk about ultimate ball control.
- 40:09Speaker 5: And the next thing about Joe Montana never threw a
- 40:12Speaker 5: deception in the Super Bowl game. Never Joe Montana Sewan,
- 40:16Speaker 5: which we know is almost impossible to do. Unbelieva the defense,
- 40:20Speaker 5: how great it is that level? So Joe Willie also
- 40:25Speaker 5: shown he got banned by the NBA for owning a
- 40:27Speaker 5: bar in New York City back in the nineteen seventies
- 40:30Speaker 5: where there's too many let's say, unsavored characters.
- 40:34Speaker 3: Look it up Sewan, the bookies and such.
- 40:36Speaker 1: Yeah, now other other type of hooligans.
- 40:39Speaker 4: Uh, all right, all right, go to ESPN seven hundred
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- 41:00Speaker 4: We've got Jerem Jordan joining us in about fifteen minutes.
- 41:03Speaker 4: We've got Gordy for about fifteen more minutes. He's got
- 41:07Speaker 4: his list. We're gonna close out the hour. It's the
- 41:09Speaker 4: Sean O'Connell Show on ESPN seven m.
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- 41:49Speaker 1: One.
- 41:49Speaker 4: That segment here with Gordy Chip before we send them
- 41:52Speaker 4: off to a like a month and a half vacation,
- 41:55Speaker 4: not too long.
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- 44:01Speaker 4: Gordy Chiasa, you tease me and James, you said, I
- 44:05Speaker 4: got a great.
- 44:05Speaker 5: List for you guys today, very much. This list today
- 44:09Speaker 5: is summertime movies, all right. So this is a selective
- 44:12Speaker 5: top ten basketball movies. And later I'm going to ask
- 44:16Speaker 5: Sean and James about what are their favorite all time
- 44:22Speaker 5: sports movies.
- 44:23Speaker 3: All right.
- 44:24Speaker 5: This is basketball number ten, Space Jam Michael Jordan playing himself.
- 44:28Speaker 5: You remember the theme song I Believe I Can Fly? Yes, absolutely,
- 44:35Speaker 5: It was a great song by the now disgraced R.
- 44:37Speaker 3: Kelly. But great song, very much.
- 44:39Speaker 5: Number nine Hoop Dreams William Gates and author ag about
- 44:45Speaker 5: two kids from Chicago that travel ninety minutes to commute
- 44:49Speaker 5: every day to go to a Catholic high school to
- 44:52Speaker 5: try to try to get a better life for themselves
- 44:55Speaker 5: and play college basketball.
- 44:57Speaker 4: This is before thirty for thirty, This is before I'm told,
- 45:02Speaker 4: this is before all of those like series of documentaries.
- 45:06Speaker 4: It was like one of the first really high quality
- 45:09Speaker 4: examinations of that behind the scenes, sort of gritty look
- 45:12Speaker 4: at what it takes to succeed love Hoop Dreams.
- 45:15Speaker 5: I was nineteen ninety four, all Right, Number eight, The
- 45:18Speaker 5: Fish That Saved Pittsburgh a comedy in nineteen seventy nine
- 45:22Speaker 5: starring Julius Irving and Jonathan Winters, and it was about
- 45:26Speaker 5: about comedy about doctor j and John a comedian, and
- 45:31Speaker 5: they were all the different things, the highjinks they did
- 45:33Speaker 5: as far as doing it next to one A seven
- 45:35Speaker 5: to Get Paris nineteen ninety five, romanct In comedy about
- 45:40Speaker 5: a life of an NBA referee starring Billy Crystal and
- 45:44Speaker 5: his love interest was Debret Winger. Number six in my
- 45:48Speaker 5: estimation Glory Road two thousand and six, starring Josh Lucas
- 45:54Speaker 5: playing head coach Don Haskins. True story drummer about the
- 45:58Speaker 5: nineteen sixty six Texas Western NCAA Championships which is now
- 46:03Speaker 5: Texas Ol Pass though that was the situation where that
- 46:08Speaker 5: five African American players started for the first time ever
- 46:14Speaker 5: in an NCAA game, and they were the ones that
- 46:17Speaker 5: really truly were the first ones ever to do that,
- 46:21Speaker 5: and it really changed the society as far as looking
- 46:24Speaker 5: at about different lenses about college basketball. Number five All
- 46:28Speaker 5: Time Coach Carter two thousand and five starring Samuel L. Jackson,
- 46:32Speaker 5: a true story about a high school coach in Richmond, California.
- 46:37Speaker 5: Number four Hoo'sius nineteen eighty six drama starring the late
- 46:42Speaker 5: great Gene Hackman and also Dennis Hopper, about a high
- 46:46Speaker 5: school coach in Hickory, Hickory, Indiana, about winning the state championship.
- 46:52Speaker 5: Number three All Time He Got Game drama nineteen ninety eight,
- 46:57Speaker 5: Denzel Washington with Ray Allen and Denzel playing Ray's father
- 47:02Speaker 5: at Jake Shuttleworth and Raped starring as Jesus Shuttleworth. Number
- 47:08Speaker 5: two All Time nineteen ninety four. Blue Chips starring Nick Nolty,
- 47:14Speaker 5: also Young Shaquille O'Neill and Penny Hardaway about high school
- 47:18Speaker 5: recruiting and sean my number one basketball movie of all time.
- 47:23Speaker 1: It's a comedy. White Man Can't Jump.
- 47:26Speaker 3: It's a great movie.
- 47:26Speaker 5: By Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. The love interest was
- 47:31Speaker 5: Tyra Farrell and Rosie Perez, where both Wesley and Woody Harrelson.
- 47:36Speaker 5: There were two basketball hustlers, trash talking, making trying to
- 47:40Speaker 5: pick up games to make money. Thus that's my list
- 47:44Speaker 5: of today of the ten, in my opinion, greatest ever
- 47:48Speaker 5: basketball movies. But Sean, I have a question for you
- 47:51Speaker 5: and James, tell me some of your greatest sports movies.
- 47:55Speaker 1: Of all time.
- 47:56Speaker 4: Okay, Friday Night Lights amazing, Rudy amazing, even though all
- 48:01Speaker 4: of those articles have come out and told you that
- 48:04Speaker 4: it's not accurate at all and that Rudy was actually
- 48:07Speaker 4: kind of a whatever, Still a very inspiring, an incredible movie.
- 48:13Speaker 4: Any given Sunday. Awesome movie the program. Did you guys
- 48:17Speaker 4: ever watch the program? But basically a fictional Florida State University?
- 48:21Speaker 4: Gotta watch it? Really really excellent, Uh, because I'm in
- 48:26Speaker 4: the combat sports world. Cinderella Man Awesome, All the Rockies Awesome, Warrior,
- 48:35Speaker 4: the one with with Tom Hardy, the brothers that are
- 48:40Speaker 4: reunited through an MMA tournament actually really really good. It's
- 48:43Speaker 4: the only MMA movie that's been well done. They've tried
- 48:46Speaker 4: a few of them. You didn't like Never back Down
- 48:48Speaker 4: and Never Back Down. Shout out to Never Back Down
- 48:52Speaker 4: for going straight to red Box with all of its sequels.
- 48:55Speaker 1: Redox. I love it.
- 48:56Speaker 3: But no, uh, those are Those are a couple of
- 48:58Speaker 3: examples for me.
- 48:59Speaker 5: What did out Raging Bull? Raging Bull's so good? Robert
- 49:03Speaker 5: den Arrow nineteen eighty.
- 49:04Speaker 3: Field the Dreams Love Feel the Dreams bit.
- 49:07Speaker 4: I have played baseball in Dyersville, Iowa, on the Field
- 49:10Speaker 4: of Dreams before it became like a big sports complex.
- 49:14Speaker 3: Dragging camp going. Yeah, that's awesome.
- 49:16Speaker 4: I was probably seven years old. My parents are both
- 49:20Speaker 4: from Iowa. So how about The Natural The Natural so good?
- 49:24Speaker 3: Love the Natural? Uh? Perfect?
- 49:27Speaker 6: Or for the Love of the Game, a good Kevin
- 49:30Speaker 6: Costner movie. I wrote down a bunch here. As a kid,
- 49:36Speaker 6: I loved the Mighty Ducks movies and also a kid Airbud.
- 49:41Speaker 6: Those are all kids cric kids centric, but they don't
- 49:46Speaker 6: belong on the on these lists. But but as far
- 49:48Speaker 6: as kids movie sports movies go amazing. Also Space Jam
- 49:51Speaker 6: that you mentioned Gordy Remember the Titan.
- 49:54Speaker 3: Remember the Titans so so good.
- 49:56Speaker 6: I love that you mentioned Cinderella Man next to Rocky.
- 49:59Speaker 6: I think the best boxing movie that that's ever been made.
- 50:04Speaker 6: How about Air Up There Kevin Bacon basketball movie. Yes,
- 50:08Speaker 6: about recruiting the huge African guy to play at his
- 50:12Speaker 6: small college. Absolutely, and he learns about tribal customs and
- 50:16Speaker 6: they have to win a game. Basically, he has to
- 50:19Speaker 6: play a game to let them take him to the
- 50:21Speaker 6: United States.
- 50:22Speaker 3: A great, great movie. What was the one?
- 50:24Speaker 4: The recent one Netflix movie Adam Sandler. Uh was about
- 50:30Speaker 4: European scout.
- 50:31Speaker 3: I still haven't watched that. Actually really good, but former.
- 50:35Speaker 6: Jazz man Wancho hern and Gomez in that right, it
- 50:39Speaker 6: did a great job.
- 50:40Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 50:41Speaker 4: Uh. Category for versus Ferrari, the newer ones, the racing movies,
- 50:47Speaker 4: Days of Thunder. They're doing a sequel. By the way,
- 50:49Speaker 4: Days of Thunder is awesome. The racing ones. You can
- 50:51Speaker 4: get some really great racing movies. I like racing movies
- 50:54Speaker 4: more than I like watching racing. I feel the same
- 50:56Speaker 4: way about horse racing.
- 50:58Speaker 3: Good.
- 50:58Speaker 6: There's been some great horse racing movies. Don't really care
- 51:01Speaker 6: to watch horse race.
- 51:03Speaker 5: I changed se What about quickly? About your iconic movies
- 51:07Speaker 5: of all time? Like no crit Cherry, but iconic.
- 51:11Speaker 4: Braveheart is the best movie in the history of the planet.
- 51:14Speaker 4: Number one, and then there's a pretty significant gap.
- 51:16Speaker 5: For me.
- 51:17Speaker 4: Man on Fire is my second favorite movie starring Denzel Washington.
- 51:22Speaker 4: I love that movie. Shout out to the late Great
- 51:26Speaker 4: Scott the director. Ridley Scott's brother directed that movie. He
- 51:30Speaker 4: also directed Days of Thunder If I'm not Mistaken, Love Me,
- 51:34Speaker 4: Forrest Gump, Okay, Gladiator, The Lion King, Lion King five.
- 51:40Speaker 6: All right, this is just totally different category of the
- 51:44Speaker 6: rest of your TI.
- 51:45Speaker 3: That's amazing.
- 51:47Speaker 6: No category, I have one other tongue in cheeks sports movie,
- 51:50Speaker 6: nic Tale.
- 51:52Speaker 3: No, it's the Joustick movie.
- 51:56Speaker 1: It's my movie.
- 51:57Speaker 4: Iconic Okay, Gordy's list of iconic Fie The Dark Knight,
- 52:02Speaker 4: awesome movie. Right, yep, we love some Christopher Nolan, right, exactly,
- 52:06Speaker 4: great director.
- 52:07Speaker 6: Drew movie, all right, very very much, Next Nights Tale,
- 52:10Speaker 6: and also Christian Bale all right, Oppenheimer recently twenty twenty three,
- 52:15Speaker 6: that was really good, Pulp Fiction nineteen ninety four, Okay, seven,
- 52:20Speaker 6: Prying Ryan nineteen ninety eight, and number one, The Godfather
- 52:25Speaker 6: nineteen seventy two.
- 52:27Speaker 5: He's the last category because show I know, shown you
- 52:29Speaker 5: a romantic got hot you and James, what is your
- 52:32Speaker 5: favorite romantic comedy?
- 52:34Speaker 3: Love Actually? Okay, you guys know, Love Actually? Christmas movie? Yeah,
- 52:39Speaker 3: I watched that movie every single year. Love it.
- 52:43Speaker 4: It's a It's a great holiday movie. And a great
- 52:46Speaker 4: romantic comedy. Also The Holiday.
- 52:48Speaker 3: Yeah, very good.
- 52:49Speaker 6: Knew that was coming to once you said great holiday movie,
- 52:52Speaker 6: which I agree with you on the Holiday. I'm not
- 52:55Speaker 6: as big a fan of love.
- 52:56Speaker 1: Actual I love How are You?
- 52:58Speaker 3: James rom Ca a recent one, The Other Woman is hilarious.
- 53:04Speaker 3: I haven't seen it. You should. Okay, it's all right.
- 53:08Speaker 6: One of the hardest, like hardest I've laughed in theater
- 53:10Speaker 6: at a at a rom com.
- 53:12Speaker 3: Okay, what about you?
- 53:14Speaker 5: I'm going to go to school nineteen ninety three with
- 53:19Speaker 5: Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.
- 53:21Speaker 3: Sleepless in Seattle. Yeah, correct, the Great Male which one?
- 53:25Speaker 5: Yeah, they were both both. So this is this is
- 53:29Speaker 5: a last show, Sean and I of the year. And
- 53:32Speaker 5: I wanted to this summer time, and I wanted to
- 53:35Speaker 5: bring out the movies. And there's no right or wrong,
- 53:38Speaker 5: but it's really movies are such an important factor in
- 53:41Speaker 5: our society and shown. I'm so glad that you love
- 53:46Speaker 5: romantic comedies.
- 53:47Speaker 3: I do. I actually love romantic comedies.
- 53:50Speaker 6: Well, we're both in the Pitch Perfect too, which is
- 53:52Speaker 6: kind of a rom com. Hitch is also a good
- 53:56Speaker 6: rom com. Yes, Gordy, just a movie recommd for you.
- 54:00Speaker 6: If you haven't seen it yet. I recently saw it.
- 54:03Speaker 6: I'm late, but I got I got a baby at home,
- 54:05Speaker 6: so late. Get into the theaters now the Odyssey saw it.
- 54:08Speaker 6: It's incredible. I haven't seen it yet.
- 54:11Speaker 1: I will this weekend with Chris Nolan director.
- 54:13Speaker 4: Yeah, Gordy's gonna go see The Odyssey this weekend. I've
- 54:17Speaker 4: still got to find a time. I gotta go see it.
- 54:19Speaker 4: I've been looking forward to the release and now it's
- 54:22Speaker 4: old news. I'm gonna get spoilers. No spoilers for the Odyssey.
- 54:27Speaker 3: Okay.
- 54:27Speaker 6: I don't want to sell see anything about the story,
- 54:30Speaker 6: this news story.
- 54:33Speaker 4: I want no plot points revealed on the thousand year
- 54:35Speaker 4: old story that we've all seen adapted many times.
- 54:38Speaker 3: Okay, Gordy, love you man, thanks for being here.
- 54:41Speaker 1: Thanks Sean, peace out.
- 54:42Speaker 3: That's Gordy.
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