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"They're not good enough to have like 75% LeBron just being like old man, big Jason Kidd out on the perimeter directing traffic. They need LeBron to be to do what he's been doing this season to really have a chance, but I do think your initial tendency when you get news like LeBron's saying on the court I heard a pop is it's over. The Lakers are toast, that's it. They can't win without Iran. Then you start to think about it more, and this is what I've been saying on a week. It's like, I think they're gonna hang in the 9 ten race. I think top 6 is gonna be gone. 7 and 8 right now are Dallas and Minnesota. Those teams are just better than the Lakers, they're healthier than Lakers. They should hang in at 7th and 8th. 9th is Utah, they're one game under, traded some guys with the deadline. Tenth is pelicans. They're a game ahead of the Lakers. They just ended a long losing stretch. Zion's coming back, maybe. Maybe. But then the Lakers come, they're already ahead of Portland. They're already out of OKC and I just think they're going to be able to scrounge enough wins and all these other themes half of them lose every night because they're not good and be they all play each other. I think they're going to, if delo and AD come back soon, I think the Lakers have a pretty decent chance to get in the 9 ten bracket. I do think that's their ceiling though and to get in from there, you got to win twice and you're not going to have home court in the playoffs and you're not going to have home court in the last play in game and maybe not in the first one. It's an uphill battle, but I think they can stay right there and get in the 9th or tenth spot still. If those guys come back soon. I believe they can. Obviously depends on the bond, how he comes back and AD if he can stay healthy and just stay aggressive. AD just got to get that mentality where he just can't go a quarter and only take two shots. Especially with LeBron out, but that's just his demeanor as well. You can unselfish player to a fault. And you can't be that way when you have your other guy that you run with, you know, injured. Now, the Angelo Russell is capable of putting up huge numbers. And so hopefully he can come back for them. And then help them in that area. But I got said, if I'm at the top, I'm not too excited about having to deal with them. Or Golden State, or the clippers. I mean, any of those teams can fall down. I mean, and so based on how they play lately, Golden State seems to be kind of solidified and Kirby is going to be your back here soon. Yeah, it's going to be interesting, man. Zion comes back. We know how good the pelicans are when Zion is in that lineup. It's tough. I mean, it's going to be, this is going to be interesting. The west was like looking like the second graded conference. Most of this year, now they're the best again. And I just think it's from top to bottom is going to be very competitive. Yeah, how the seating shakeout is going to be really fascinating. A lot of teams have more late season kind of questions in additions than you're used to for teams that are kind of of this quality, but it's going to be fun. Eddie Johnson, SiriusXM radio, Phoenix Suns games, just the joy to listen to you and the broadcast team and you and Justin are just fantastic. It's good to see you. And I'm going to be, we're going to be watching a lot of Phoenix games. So we're going to hear your voice a lot. Hey, I'm back on the map again. That's how I look at it. Thank you, Eddie.
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"Double. And those are the ones they're going to double off of. If you're going to get all these open shots, you've got to work on your open shots. You don't even need a defender in practice. You don't need to dribble and you don't need nothing. You need to just go play. And the great thing about Joshua kogi and Tori is that they both are tremendous rebounders. And so it just with Katie and a lineup now, it gives those guys an opportunity to do damage against guys that stare size. Whereas Tori has had the guard bigger players. And now he does it. And now he has the advantage against smaller guys. And so that's going to be the change for them. So Zach, this watch, how much this bench looks better than what people thought. Interesting. Because of it. A kogi, I found this stat last week, a kogi, I've always had a soft spot for him because he just played so hard and he's such a good defender. He just hasn't been able to make enough shots. He and Craig have added this offensive rebounding element to the suns this year. I found this last week, a kogis on pace to be the first player 6 four or shorter to have an offensive rebounding rate higher than 10%, which means he gets at least 10% of Phoenix as misses when he's on the floor in 33 years. Like he's having the best guard offensive rebounding season in a long, long time. That said, you could see obviously teams are gonna try to funnel shots to him or Craig or whoever the 5th guy is. And you go through their bench. Deandre is gonna be the 5th guy. And that's why Deandre is gonna be like a kid in the Christmas. He better feast, man. He better. He is the second one. Like, 'cause they're not gonna leave Chris Paul. I don't care what they say, Chris Paul come out there two man game at 12 feet, please. I mean, you could argue he's their best 12 foot jump shooter, you know, off that pick and roll. He had to shot the ball well. At times this year. But he is devastating. If he's got wide open, looks off a little 12 foot jumper. So they can't do that. It's going to be Deandre trying to help off him and Deandre's got to know, man. He's going to get so many easy buckets this year. We think it is. What is the relationship between the key players and Deandre from your perspective? And Monty Williams and Deandre, from your perspective, because you know that you hear all this buzz about, you know, they kind of run hot and cold on him. The Monty stuff got well publicized. Is he going to be the guy that goes out in these trades and they have all these, you hear about people in Phoenix have qualms about him? I'm like, I get all that. He fades from contact. I wish he got to the free throw line more blah blah I'm like, I watch him play and I'm like, I think this guy's pretty good. I've been eating buyer and I understand all the qualms and all the hesitations. Some of which you're closer to than I am, which is why I'm asking you, but like, this guy averages 18 a game, you can make a jump shot and he's one of the only centers who can, you know, defend a pick and roll 30 feet from the basket and like play jokic one on one in the post and it's not an emergency, but being around the team, like what is the 8 noise? What is it about? They're motivating him. Codfish Simmons told me when I was a 23 year old. And I was getting my second 30s, I'm getting 20 points a game and getting about 6 rebounds. And he looked at me. He said, you satisfied with that? He said, if that guy over there was doing that, I'd be happy. I know that's his limitation. But you can give me 40 point games. Like, you can go give me 30. You can give me ten, 8, 9, rebound. Why are you settling? And that was impactful for me. And so if a non jumping guy like Eddie, you have a coach is telling him that, right? You look at Deandre. Deandre is flexible as any player in the league. Almost doing splits in warmups, okay? I mean, I'm telling you run the floor, he is a walking double double. And what they're telling him is, are you satisfied with just getting 13 rebounds? Are you satisfied with just 24 points? Oh, man. You should be going for 40. You should be going for 20 rebounds. That's why they're pushing them. He has the ability, and he had a 20 rebound game, I think this year. And he had a stretch of two games where he had in the 30s and like 1918 rebounds. That's what he can do. Like, that's his ceiling. And they're pushing them to get to a ceiling. That's all they're doing. They love Deandre. Deandre is one of the most fun loving guys when we travel. You see them. They all got along. They all get along. No, everybody thoroughly in their own way. But no, these guys love him. So I laugh when people say, oh, he's a problem and money doesn't like, look, money, Williams loves everybody, man. You know, he's never cursed roasted. He loves his relationships, but he sends messages to God. He's sending one to TJ Warren right now. Hey TJ, we
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"Like, they're gonna have to beat those teams eventually, but these clashes were talking about between, you know, the co favorites in the west. Like Denver Phoenix is on course right now to be this a second round series. In the playoffs, which is interesting, but I want to go back to last night we only have one game that we've seen them play was against Charlotte and undermanned Charlotte at that. I watched it and a lot of it was like you said, expected. Like Kevin Durant is the most fit able, malleable superstar in the history of the NBA. There's no anxiety about we only have one ball. How are we going to? No, did you do anything with him? And you saw them go through some of the screening combinations and set pieces that he makes possible for them. There was, you know, on one side of the floor, you have Chris Paul and Durant running a pick and roll at the same time, Booker comes around a double pin down on the other side. It's like, what the hell am I supposed to do with that? If I switch on one side, Kevin Durant's got a mismatch if I'm peeking at that, Devin Booker's popping off for an open three, you can use Kevin Durant as the ball handler. All their Spain pick and roll stuff, they're stack pick and roll stuff that they do. It's all there. I thought they kind of, they looked slow to me last night, not in a way that they're slow, slow, but they're kind of kind of figuring out like, all right, let's try this. Let's try that. Let's see how this looks. When they just start playing and they start playing fast, like they looked guard able to me last night, really good, but gardel, I think when they add a little juice to it, it's gonna look spectacular. Yeah, without a doubt, I think it was more so the guys just really hesitating and focusing on KD. That's what happens when you get a player of his magnitude come to your team that you want to make sure you get them involved right away. And Katie has been clear to everybody he's telling them go for it. So the best thing to me that came out of last night, Zach, was Devin Booker took 20 something plus shots. Because that let me know that Devin was going to still be devil. And I think that was key for devil. You know, and I think KD is telling him that. Look, it doesn't matter. And the beautiful part about both of those guys, like I said earlier, if they get 30 minutes, they're both going to score a big number. even about who gets the most shots looking for about two, three possessions. It doesn't matter. They're going to wind up with bit points and then big stats that's going to help this team win. And yeah, they did look slow, but I think it was more so because they were just thinking. And I think they will enjoy. And they were enjoying like, I remember when I in the middle of the season, I got moved to Houston. I went there and signed with them because I got bought out during the middle of season and I signed with Houston and, you know, I go to that locker room and I saw a king, Charles and Claude. Kevin Willard. And I was just like, kid in the Christmas. I was like, wow. You know? And you tend to just slow down. You tend to not want to mess it up. And I just think they just felt like, you know, last night, they were going to win the game. And they just kind of just went slow as you said. Trying to make sure everything worked well. But I think we're going to start to ramp it up here as KD, you know, gets more minutes and because he's obviously healthy and the way he was moving. So it's just about him getting more minutes. The thing that, you know, you go when a trade like this happens, you go through sort of all the ways the team's gonna change and you anticipate all these things and one of the things that I anticipated, but seeing it, it was a bigger change than I anticipated. They have a real power forward now in Kevin Durant. Like his length in his size on defense made them look much bigger than they have looked before. And you knew they were a small team like cam Johnson's playing the four, sometimes the bridges play in the four craigs play in the four. You knew they were a little undersized, but to see, okay, now they got a 7 footer with a wingspan. He's just like throwing shots back from Mark Williams. His size, he's not a great rebounder, but he's big and he's a good rebounder. That's gonna change their look and feel. I think more than I anticipated. You notice that too? Oh, without a doubt. Because it opens up everything for the guys that I know a lot of people are saying, the sons of top heavy and all of that. And I'm saying to myself, they're gonna find out. Like, Josh, kogi, that's played extremely well this year. Tori, Craig, extremely well, this year. Do they replace Michael who's an all world defender, a cam Johnson with a shooting? Probably not. With KD, pretty much covered those two with their scoring. Now all they need to do, toy Craig, Joshua kogi, Damien Lee. Go out there, work hard, hustle, and get ready to enjoy being in the
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"Depicts matter, the young talent out the door matters, but I think the sons are betting a, Devin Booker's 25, or whatever he is. Deandre ayton's even younger than that. We are not at risk of falling into this like Brooklyn Nets post cagey, Paul Pierce trade, hell, where we're just in a valley of nothingness. And B, we can win the title with this group and that's the whole point of this, and the present team we had wasn't gonna win the title. The theoretical team where we just keep it together and do nothing and have all our draft picks. That's unlikely to lead to a title, too, because every path is unlikely to lead to a title. So let's just go for it. And I think my take on it was I'd like to hear your take. The health makes me a little hesitant to just say they're clearly the favorites in the Western Conference. I have a lot of respect for Denver. I think the warriors could be heard from the clippers could be heard from the grizzlies could be heard from, et cetera, et cetera, but I said this, I think I would put them slight favorites over Denver, at least co favorites because I think they're pull up jump shooting. This is the greatest collection of pull up jump shooting we've ever seen. Maybe the greatest collection of three pick and roll ball handlers on one team we've ever seen. I think that's gonna be a tough matchup for Denver, Denver will present certain matchups that are tough for them, although ayton has handled jokic about as well as, I mean, no one handles you. But he does okay. I think I'd put them slight favorites over number, but I don't think they're no brainer favorites in the west. Let alone over Milwaukee in Boston, but maybe you disagree. Yeah, you said to keep thing initially though, you said Devin Booker 25 Deandre ayton 22. Right? So you talking about two guys, Devin Booker right now my estimation is the best two guard in the game. Deandre ayton, when he is, when he is focused and he's in the rhythm, you can fight for the third best center in the game behind obviously. Whoever you can put there. I don't think that's talent. Talent wise? He should be three now, right? The only reason he's not there is the inconsistency, right? But you got two guys that if you're Kevin Durant and you're in your Chris Paul, you want to hit your wagon to very good dynamic young players because they will extend your career and you won't have huge responsibility of carrying and you'll still be able to be productive. That's similar to what LeBron has tried to do, right? I mean, with Anthony Davis. So I think they're in a perfect position for them. And I think that's why Kevin Durant wanted to be here. And I think that's why Chris Paul decided to come here, is that when you're around guys like that, they can extend your career. And I think that's where it sits now with them. And so they're the pristine situation. Like I said, Kevin Durant heals better than anybody because he works on this game and he comes back and he's always shown us when he does come back from injury as he did last night. He is right back to being Kevin Durant. And you're right, look, I'm saying Denver is the best team right now on the west because they've shown it. I'll be a hypocrite if I do anything different because last year, when the songs were winning a ton of games, 64 games, I said they were the best team. And look, you look at the Cola jokes, we might get his third MVP. If you're gonna win MVP three straight year, you better damn well be right now the best team when you're healthy. And they're healthy, pretty much with Murray and with Michael Porter junior up and down. But still, they are in Gordon playing the way he's playing. They pick up Reggie Jackson, they have one of the deepest teams in the league. So they should be the favorite team. They have the best record in the west. That's the way it should be. But if this son's team had Kevin Durant, beginning of the year, I don't think it'll be close. That's how good I think they can grow. So it's up to them to really bond and heal together because they still have ways to go. I don't think Devin Booker's where he wants to be. And Kevin Durant obviously is not, but if they can stay healthy, I can't see anybody beating them. But I'm going to still say Denver is the favorite because that's depression, Zach, that we put on all time greats. And jokic is like an all time great winning three MVPs. I'm not gonna let them off the hook. Yeah, 'cause Giannis is making a run without him beads making a run. And it beads making a run. Yes. The interesting thing about making a huge trade like this at the trade deadline. And people say mid season, it's not mid season, there's 20 games left in the season, is a, you know, in the summer, they'll have a chance to sort of retool their bench a little bit that they don't have now. And B, obviously there's not a lot of time left. So you look at the suns, they're four games out a third in the lost column, with 19 games or whatever left to go, that's a lot to make up even for a team that just got to Kevin Durant. They might be stuck in the four or 5 bracket, which is for them, they probably don't care. It's like we have Kevin Durant 7 Brooklyn Chris Paul. We don't care. But that might mean like Golden State first round, Denver, second round.
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"All right, let's jump to the Western Conference where maybe the most significant encourage event or at least encore debut of the year happened last night in Charlotte, Kevin Durant debuted for the Phoenix Suns in a, I don't know what the final score was. I think one O 5 91 a victory of some kind that was not that interesting for Phoenix. They traded four first round picks one swap, the only swap they could trade. Mikhail bridges, cam Johnson, Jay Crowder, for Kevin Durant, Eddie Johnson, 19,202 career points in the NBA, host of co host with Justin termy of MBA today for SiriusXM, color analyst for the Phoenix Suns, local broadcast with the great K ray and sometimes a.m. Myers throwing in there. Eddie Johnson, what say you? How'd you think of what did you think of the first game together? Katie didn't play as many minutes. We're going to see him play, but we saw the new starting file with Joshua kogi as the 5th guy. I thought it was going to be Tori Craig. Then what Joshua kogi? Either or fine with me, we saw some CP Booker Durant 8 minutes, a lot of decent amount of the big four. What'd you think? I wasn't shocked. I don't think you were either. I mean, we've seen enough of Kevin Durant in how he plays basketball. To know that he fits into anything. Right. And seamlessly, because he's an unselfish basketball player. He's a guy that can play off the ball. If you give him minutes, he will score. Scores always had that mentality. Like for me as a player, I would tell the coach. I don't care what you want. All I want is minutes. I'll get my numbers. And that's why KD has looked at as an old old soul in regards to basketball. He knows how to play it, the old school way, and he knows how to devastate you to new school way. And so I had no hesitation, no thoughts of anything going south because the guys always in shape. He returns from injury better than most players we've seen. And I just knew in the sun's offense that he would be fine. Take me back to the trade deadline itself because the sons have obviously had an up and down season, but they had started to catch a little bit of rhythm before the deadline with Booker coming back and Chris kind of playing a little better. There were rumblings that maybe they were going to go a different way and say, hey, can we maybe bring another good player in here to add to our core? Keep bridges, keep cam Johnson and the name that came up was John Collins and that's a path you would have taken if you thought that seems good enough to win a championship with Chris Paul at age 37. When you heard those rumblings and you heard the KD rumblings, are you surprised at all that the KD version of this all in for one guy won out? Did you think that that other version of the team had enough upside to be worth looking at or was this just a no brainer? It's Kevin Durant. Go get Kevin Durant. No, it's a no brainer. You go get Kevin Durant. And the reason you go get them is not because he's an all time great. He's an all time great that if you trade for him in the middle of the year, especially he will fit into your offense seamlessly. That he won't disrupt. That he just knows how to play basketball. And he's a champion. And so that's why you would do it. And the sons had no hesitation in doing it. They had some heavy hearts. We gave up Michael bridges and we gave up cam Johnson. And you talking about two first class professional individuals that was hard to do, I didn't too much think about the draft picks because as some kid in middle school somewhere, we just don't know how that's going to turn out. So I'm not one of those guys that, you know, just say, oh, you got to keep your draft picks. I would like to win now. Not like I got a lot of time left on this earth. I want to see the sun with a championship. And so I was happy. I was ecstatic about it. We were in New York. I had like 1 o'clock in the morning, I believe. Nobody in New York. I think we went Atlanta somewhere. I don't even remember, but it feels like 1 o'clock in the morning. And when I saw that come across my phone, I just jumped up and down. It was just like, this is what this team needed. And they got them. And yes, gave up a lot, but it's worth the role of the diets. Yeah, I've gone over it enough now. I think they correctly concluded with Chris at 37 and this year having kind of an up and down year where he was not able to carry the team when Devon was hurt. I don't think they were going to win the championship with their core as it was, even with the west a little muddled this year. And the risk is the risk is there. I mean, Kevin's 34 coming off any injury, Chris is 37, injured in the playoffs almost every year seemingly.
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"The best top 7 in the NBA. That's the best, that's the best top 7 in the league. I think they're the most complete team in the league. Williams is a the Williams at center lineups are a totally different look than the Horford at center lineups. It was interesting last night against Cleveland that grant Williams didn't play. I was, I didn't know then I see something postgame that said he had played every single game last year. Obviously, you know, critical stages in the playoffs. And played every game he was available for this year, I think, 60 of 61. And I was like, wow, what happened there? And I heard Joe's comments postgame. You think it's a non story? I think it's a story. His minutes have been declining in the last two months. There were even some trade rumblings about him that I frankly didn't believe because restricted free agency, which they're going to have on him is a very powerful cudgel. And while Cleveland may not be a great matchup for him, he spends a lot of time guarding embiid when the Celtics play Philly and he spends a lot of time guarding Giannis when the Celtics play Milwaukee. And so I just think even if he becomes the 8th guy and not quite a luxury but something close to it, that's you win championships with guys who are maybe luxuries. It's like Bobby portis didn't play against the nets in the playoffs when the bucks won the title and then becomes a critical piece going forward. But I do think Boston's depth is kind of a Rorschach Rorschach Rorschach test. You know those little blotchy things that one person could look at and see like an old lady's face and another person could look at and see a goblet or something. Like they go 7 deep, we know their top 7 is amazing. Last night, they kind of stopped at 7, like Hauser and muscala played 20 minutes combined. Will those guys be in the playoff rotation maybe sometimes maybe not always grant Williams doesn't play in Blake Griffin doesn't play Luke cornett doesn't play Peyton Pritchard. And you're like, is this team deep or not? And then they have a game where all their stars sit in like Hauser has 31 and Blake Griffin does stuff. You're like, oh, they're deep look how deep they are. But I think they are still the most complete team in the league. The play of Derek white has ridiculous. It's been so good. You know, he is one of those guys, you know, you can play them, and he doesn't have to take a shot for 5 minutes, and it's never going to diminish his effort, you know, might get beat off the bounce, but get to backside block. The flying in from 15 feet to get an offensive rebound. He's a possession creator possession saver. Dog it on the defensive end, can explode offensively. We've seen that enough. There's been a lot in the Boston media Zach about how he, you know, two games ago. I think was plus 26, the highest plus minus ten doesn't play in the fourth quarter or final 5 or fourth quarter and over time. And you hear Joe talk all the time about humility. You know, I'm talking about the vibes of New York. You know, we've been to Boston's practice facility several times, just like the air around the guys who don't play so Blake, you constantly say, I'm always paying attention to the benches and are people really happy if they're not playing. Like, that's hard. And Blake always in the year of Peyton Pritchard or just you feel, you don't feel weighted down by the guy's not playing. That's significant. That has an effect on the feel and the vibe of the locker room. And so, you know, those will be interesting choices for Joe Missoula. And I find Joe absolutely fascinating in this way. You know, he was talking to us pregame. I hope I'm not giving anything away. He can yell at me if I do. But we're talking to a pre game yesterday. And he said, you know, sometimes I do wonder about my own demeanor and my two, yeah, I want to say, I can't remember the word he used, but does he need to change his cadence at all as a head coach? And you marvel at how he's reacted at 34 in the circumstances faced. But what I always think is he's always thinking ahead. Where can I be better? What do I need to do? Am I giving this group what they need? So much made about the lack of time out to Joe. Well, tell you where it helped to have the time outs down the stretch of that game was that Philly game, right? He had one Philly doesn't. They execute a play. Same play they had tied to game against Cleveland with earlier at that time though Jason goes and dunks on Jared Allen. I just think there's a lot to like about him as well. The only reason to time out thing became a thing, is that it's something anyone can see. Like to actually analyze the X's and O's and the rotations and the lineups, you have to really pay close attention to the game and understand what's going on. Anybody can see like, oh, he didn't call time out there. He doesn't call time out. It was just like the lowest hanging fruit possible. It's a dumb to dumb thing. On white and Brogdon, I mean, there's an alternate universe where they're like a good, they're like the starting backcourt of a 38 win pacers team or something like that. And they're coming off the bench for the Celtics, both of them. And Brogdon Brogdon plays a different style that you have brown and Tatum who are the scoring stars of the team. They're the fulcrums of the offense. They get to hold the ball, they get to do all the star stuff. Everyone else is kind of a quick mover cutter screener doesn't hold the ball, doesn't over dribble. Except Brogdon. Broad didn't kind of stands out as the only deliberate non star on the Celtics. He has the highest pick and roll volume on the team. Per possession, higher than Tatum higher than brown. He has the third highest usage rate on the team by far behind those two guys. And I know that that's been,
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"Injury, his straight double doubles. He never misses because he just dunks, but that's not a bad thing. He has so much gravity going into the lane that their shooter is going to be open all the time. Defensively, he's reached a totally different level. This team is more dynamic, more diverse than the team that made it two years ago. I will say though, you nailed their identity. I think the reason why them being 5th on offense is surprising and there will be questions about how sustainable it is is because it's everything but shot making that's driving the offense. They don't take a lot of threes, they don't take a lot of shots at the rim. They are a bad shooting team almost across the board 21st and three point accuracy 27th in restricted area shooting. But their 9th and free throws, they never turn the ball over and their second and offensive rebounding. They all the marginal stuff, all the not sexy, not shooting. They're like the anti warriors on offense. And I don't see, we go through this. We went through with Memphis last year who's a transition offensive rebounding team like, oh, is this sustainable? Is this going to work in the playoffs? My thought, you're going over those things. And I'm thinking the Memphis first list. They're winning the possession game. And you know what? The grizzlies did find in the playoffs last year. They lost to the warriors, ja was hurt. The more I watched these teams and the different styles. And I do think the playoffs are different than the regular season that's clear. Certain things become more important in the playoffs than in the regular season. Certain parts of offense are harder to get to in the playoffs than in the regular season. All that's true, but the more I watch these seams, the more I'm like, if you're good at what you do, you're just good at what you do. And you're gonna be good at what you do in the playoffs. I think the Knicks are gonna be a really dangerous playoff team. I couldn't agree more. And you know, it's the variance in shooting from our J Barrett. I remember when he came out and we were doing some early games and I love Seth Greenberg on college basketball and I'll hit him up at some relief person information and he saw me cover index game and RJ was struggling to shoot it and he's just like this is real and he's got he's got to figure it out and there's such like he just goes up and down. I just, you know, how much would he elevate that group if he could consistently knock down shots because of the, you know, what Julius and Jalen bring to the table. But I love Mitchell Robinson. This guy, I feel like the upside is still there and it's funny, you know, the wrist injury as opposed to the injury that hurt him the last time he talked about all he did was run and the time he was off. He looks so well conditioned, Zach, and that was something he could not do now. You can extend his stints, stretch out those minutes that he plays in succession and yeah. I remember when he was younger, I write a column every preseason in my 6 most intriguing players for the season and years ago, he was in it. And I talked with him about said, hey Mitch I watched a lot of filming you play defense like a lot of times when you're in the pick and roll. You know, you got a guard too. Your arms are down at your sides. Like if the coach has talked to you about that and you laugh in my memory at least I'd have to go back and look at it, but we definitely talked about it. And he and people around him were like, yeah, you don't realize like, that's hard work to get your arms out there every single possession takes effort. You watch him now, his arms are everywhere. He's in a stance. He's got the proper angle. DB, they are plus ten per 100 possessions with mature. It's not on the floor, and dead even when he's on the bench. And resetting that center rotation so it's him and hartenstein and Jericho Sims is a luxury. Is a big deal. Can I tell you my favorite Nick stat of the year right now? Of course. It's new. It's fresh. It's fresh. That's why I like it as fresh. In 97 minutes, just 97 minutes with Brunson quickly and heart on the floor. And that's quick, that's becoming tibbs little pet, you know, perimeter threesome. He likes those three together. You can tell, they close games. So Brunson quickly heart. 97 minutes, the Knicks are plus 60 in 97 minutes with those. Like, that's not even a real. That's not even possible. You could play 5 on four and not be plus 60 and 97 minutes. Wow. They are killing it. And quickly, I haven't done the deep awards dive yet. I've heard the quickly 6 men of the earbuds, like how he's in the conversation. I think he is in the conversation. He's been that good and the shooting has gotten back up to where you expect it to be is at 36% from the impact he's having defensively. Oh my God, you can't screen them. You can't. He's around every screen. He's got super long arms. Long arms, you know, you can get skinny. He gets his top foot up. He's up and over. He's fast. Yeah, I mean, that's really interesting. I love how Josh Hart like he's been there 5 seconds, and the crowd loves this guy. And I love the facial expressions of this too. Like the technical fall of the opponent. I don't know. There's a vibe about him that I love. There's a little, there was a cute little exchange on Twitter with Jalen and Josh Hart. I don't know. As Fred said, the vibes feel immaculate, winning obviously solves a lot of things. Ten times, they've held their opponent below a hundred points. Like, I feel like that's increasingly difficult to do in this day and age, isn't it? Like keeping a team under a hundred feels like an impossible task anymore. I think they're and the heart thing, you knew he was gonna take deuce McBride's minutes, right? Like you knew and you wonder like they can't trade a first round pick just to replace two smic brides minutes and it was clear immediately, oh, he's gonna take some Grimes minutes? And some Barrett minutes and that's gonna put pressure on those guys to perform because if they don't, he's gonna be there breathing down their neck and that's been the case and he's been he's been outstanding. I feel like let's do 5 minutes on Boston if you can spare it. I feel like I just haven't talked too much about Boston because they're just top of the east all year long. Now they've slipped a second. They've had some injuries like Marcus smart was out for a bit. Robert Williams has been in and out, jaylen Brown. Missed a few recent games. Tatum comes out of the all star has three abysmal shooting games. And everyone panics, we have to do the obligatory like, what's wrong with Jason? It turns out nothing. Nothing's wrong. It's the most boring possible answer is nothing. He was going through a slump he's probably used to score 41 points tonight, 41 points. I asked him, I asked him the day before the game, I saw him. Hey, listen, you know, this is what you're shooting 20 for 60 something. I said, you're all right, physically all right. He goes, you know, I've been through this before, right? I said yes. Like he couldn't have been, I mean, I know his temperament is steady and even anyway, but I was like, yes, I'm fine, and then as you said, he erupted last night, which is fun to watch. Their third in offense, fourth in defense, the only team in the top 5 in both. First in that rating. Favorites to get the number one seed in the east and thus the number one overall seed. There are top 7 smart Brown Tatum Horford Robert Williams in the starting 5 and Derek white and Malcolm Brogdon off the bench. The best top 7 in the NBA. That's the best, that's the best top 7 in the league. I think they're the most complete team in the league. Williams is a the Williams at center lineups are a totally different look than
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"Slash POST zip recruiter, the smartest way to hire. I have to talk about what's happening in New York. Knicks. Mike green's New York Knicks. Spike Lee's New York Knicks are 37 and 27. They are, and I had to check this ten times to make sure my computer wasn't broken. Because we think of it Tom Fitbit O team as a defense first team and this team is physical and tough and rugged. They're 5th in offense. A 119 points per game in this little streak just about a 180 .8. 5th. 5th and offense. I looked at him like, is that how is that even and 13th in defense now, since December 1st, they are 27 and 15, fourth in offense, 7th in defense, third best net rating in the league, they are one game behind the calves. They now currently have the tiebreaker over the calves. They have a much harder schedule than the Cavs, so they are a big underdog to catch them for the fourth seed, but it looks like we are heading toward the Donovan Mitchell bowl in the first round of the playoffs. The team that got them in the team that didn't. We're delicious. What a delicious storyline in the playoffs seriously. And I'm telling you, Doris? I'm in on the Knicks. I was high on them to start the season. I did not see this coming. I thought like 7th and 44 wins. Whatever the over under was I was telling people bet the over. I think they could be Cleveland in the playoffs. I'm not sure I would pick, but I think that's an even matchup. I think they could beat Philly in a playoff series. And I can't, I can't go to the Milwaukee Boston stratosphere quite yet with these guys. But I think something real is going on. And this team is just really you must you must be having a blast watching this. So you mentioned, you know, I think whatever date you mentioned, I don't know if that was when Tom thibodeau decided to shorten the rotation, but the numbers look really good from that point. Their record against plus 500 teams over their last ten games. I wonder, like, so last year has felt like such a rough year. Julius was fighting with everybody. It didn't feel good, right? Where I was, I think it was Fred Katz from the athletic covers and said something like the vibes are immaculate, which is terminology, whatever in this day and age in the locker room. And whenever you have a Knicks game, one thing talks about is when Jalen Brunson showed up, he went immediately to the practice facility and then ten other guys reported shortly thereafter. And you think about what Jalen brings as a basketball player. The number of times jaylen will step in front of a massive body coming downhill to take a charge. How quickly does he move it Zach? If you start to last night, he goes off in the first half and I haven't had a chance to watch that. But he's going off in the first half double team comes and he moves it quickly. All of those little subtle things and the willingness to be coached because Steve is going to coach you. The willingness to be coach. I mean, I don't want to give all of this massive credit. But I feel like there was this narrative they've overpaid them. And that's ridiculous, given what we've seen. And what a season for him, what a season for Julius. And they know who I said, the bucks know who they are and how they win. They get to the offensive window. They get to the free throw line. They play hard as hell. You add Josh Hart, we now helped Quentin Grimes deal with really difficult wings. Do I love everything that's going on? Of course I do. So Jalen Brunson was never overpaid. I don't want to get into the summer commentary. I called it when it happened. I said, this is fine. It's a B it's a B deal. This is not some overpaid. This is a fine contract. It's turned into an a plus. And my favorite thing about Jalen Brunson, it's not the charge taking. It's not the flopping and the flailing, and he does it. You just gotta admit it, you love gel and Brunson and say, flops, that's fine. It's not the ridiculous one on one scoring and he's quicker than you think. People are like, oh, it's all footwork and trickery. It's a lot of that, but his first step is quicker than you think. It's the sense he has for in an offensive is pretty no disrespect intended. It's pretty basic. Like there's not a lot of complex movement and it's a lot of one on one stuff. They're the second heaviest ISO team in the league, I think. Yeah, behind Dallas. And they're about to catch Dallas for the number one spot. And he's a great isil player. He just has this sense for when someone needs a touch. Like Barrett hasn't gotten a ball in a while. You know what, RJ comes screen for me 'cause I think they're gonna switch and if they switch, you'll have a good match up or I think they're gonna trap and if they trap, I'll hit you on the role. You know what Julius? I feel like I've taken a lot of shots. You come screen for me. They'll switch. I'll dump it to you in the post. He just has that point guard since for how to keep the ecosystem humming. Now, you just nailed it on the Knicks. It's already starting. We've talked about it on an MBA today a bunch this week. As it becomes clear that they're going to be a playoff team, we're now going to revisit two years ago when they were a paper Tiger and they got exposed in the playoffs. And people are going to say, well, they're going to have to prove it. Remember, last time they played the hawks and it was like Julius Randle going one on everyone and it didn't work. This is not that team. This is a totally different team. Jalen Brunson completely changed this team quickly has made not just a leap, a mega leap off the bench, heart has a different dimension, and Mitchell Robinson
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"Get the context of the coach's perspective, but what growth you've seen from Jayson Tatum. And I don't mean that just between the lines. There's just a confidence and an understanding of what's coming at him nightly. That's pretty special. Well, I do feel like we are on a clash and Philly's gonna have something to say about this a couple other teams, including a team near and dear to your heart that we're gonna talk about shortly. We're gonna have something to say about this. I just still think Milwaukee and Boston are the two best teams in the east. And then there's a drop off in Philly has an upside, maybe not equal to those teams but close enough that if they beat them four times in 7, I wouldn't be that surprised, but Philly's issue has always been how consistently can we hit our upside and can we hit it when it really matters when the chips are down. So I think Milwaukee Boston is still the safe bet for the Eastern Conference Finals. Can I just add something on Philly? Absolutely. Should hear the dialog I have on my own head about the Philadelphia 76ers because Doris, this has been 6 years for me. I go to bed and I'm like thinking about Tony wrote and markelle fultz and wait, what did they give up for Jimmy Butler and how is he not on the team anymore? And then at my wife is like, will you stop tossing and turning so we can go to fucking sleep? Stop thinking about the sixers. Even she knows I'm thinking about the sixers. Yeah, but they have these moments where they show you a level that you go, oh yeah, they could beat those two teams in the 7 game series. And I've heard you discuss this on your podcast, how unstoppable James and Joel are because Joel will just two points you to death in that little slot free throw elbow area. I love that phrasing Doris because there aren't that many guys anymore who can two point you to death and he is one. Oh, he'll two point to the death. This jumper is so silky. And it's funny because, you know, they have that moment where they started to ascend the standings in the east and in the whole time I'm watching them and I'm not catching every game, but I live here, so that's my home broadcast. And I'm watching on the scent that I'm still thinking, well, I don't even think they've reached their peak. And so there's climbing and I'm going, there's more to get to, but then I watch Philly Boston, and I'm nitpicking them a little bit. I am nitpicking here. But it's Philly Boston. They have command game changes in the fourth Al Horford starts raining threes. What's the little subtle moments? And I think it might have been Kyle. There's a couple guys you know that dude just an incredible job covering them. Somebody tweeted something like, and this is why they won't win or they don't sustain it hard enough for long enough, and there were two moments in the Boston game. You know, transition opportunity, Joelle, is running back in transition, but Robert Williams is three steps behind him. Dead sprint to the rim, Jalen puts the bounce pass. Beautiful pass. Dunk, dunk. And then James Harden was the lone guy back. I think it was bad floor balance, maybe after a turnover, whatever the situation was. It's James Harden. That was the finger roll by Jalen. And I'm like, this is what I'm talking about. And I know I'm nitpicking those moments. And every team goes through it, but this is where I have that dialog in my head. Damn it. Run harder. Well, transition defense was an issue for them at the beginning of the season like a horrible one. They cleaned it up a little bit. It's still a little bit of an issue, but you're right. There's a minute, a combined minute, every high stakes Philly game in the regular season, when you're like, well, this is why I can't quite trust these guys. And some of his transition defense some of it is like harden embiid switch and harden just decides, oh, you have a guard on you. I don't get out of my way. I don't care. I'm gonna be James Harden from 2018 and you're like, can you just give the ball to Joel embiid? Now sometimes it's okay to be James Harden from 2018 against the big guy 'cause you'll hit your step back three, you can still get to the rim. I don't know, but I do think Philly is in the inner circle of contenders, but Milwaukee Boston is the cream of the crop in the east. And if you remember last year, Doris, last day of season, Milwaukee has a chance to claim the number two seed and home court advantage against Boston. They punt the game. They parked the game. They sit everybody except drew holiday who I think had a bonus on the line so they played him for 8 seconds and he fouled and they took him out. They lose. They flipped to the three seat and all of a sudden they have game 7 on the road in Boston. They regretted that at the time once it became clear where GameStop was going to be that there was going to be one that, oh my God, they regretted it since I think this is going to be a real fight for the number one seed. Boston by the projection systems is still a slight favorite to get it because they have an easier schedule and I think maybe one extra home game compared to the bucks. They have one head to head game left. But I think that's gonna be interesting, but you know, you can sit here and tell me it doesn't matter if the bucks are fully healthy if the Celtics are fully healthy, it doesn't matter where the games are. They didn't have Middleton last year. I just, to your point about drew and it's toughness and Giannis, there's just a certain hunger with this group coming off last year that has stuck with me since they lost that series. And now you look at their team.
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"eddie johnson" Discussed on The Lowe Post
"Listen, when they were scuffling and I'll even go back to their championship season, Jacques because you correct me if I'm wrong, but that whole run to the championship it felt like their half court offense was sketchy, we know what they do defensively, but now all of a sudden their offense is humming and you know Matt Williams are great research guy. He sends out that email every morning at some obscene hour, but what he did say in the bottom piece of his little wrap up about the bucks. And I found it interesting after reading Yanis comments, he said the box in their half quarter basically playing faster. So their half court sets have gone from taking almost 16 seconds to about 14 and a half. So they just feel different offensively. And one thing I would say, and I'd hope all of a sudden, because mister Perkins has said some interesting things, the MVP conversation is getting testy again. We have to start looking at Giannis. I mean, there are 7 and 5 without them. Yes, I know that he's missed 12 games. But what he's doing, I didn't realize he has the opportunity to become the first person in history to average 31 points, 12 rebounds, and 5 assists. If my note is correct, that's never happened. He's closing that gap. And if he stays healthy and on the floor, that should be a hell of a race. You know, we might, we might get to Tatum for a second later because I do want to talk about Boston for just a second. He's averaging 30 points, 9 rebounds, four and a half assists, and I don't want to say he's become an afterthought in the MVP. But it's like 39 and four and a half and it's like, hey, I might put him fourth 5th. Maybe Luca will be ahead of him. It's insane. Yeah, Giannis is 31, 12 and 5. And Milwaukee to be clear, they are still 19th in offense. They've been better lately. They were like 23rd. They're 19th and they're 19th and a half court. I agree with you that they are surging. They've started to make threes. Ingles has helped with his passing off the bench. And the stat that just is even though I know intuitively why this is, Giannis, Middleton and holiday, there are three best players have only played a 123 minutes together the entire season. And with Middleton coming off the bench, there are some games where he only plays like two minutes with those other two guys in the Middleton Giannis pick and roll has been their go to play since they came together really, drew has picked up a lot of that slack this year, but I kind of Chris looks ready to me in recent games to he looks more like himself in terms of his lift, his confidence is kind of snap on his jump shot. When they start playing those guys together more and with the added depth and looks, I think their offense will be good enough, their defense, I mean, so they're allowing for the season a 109.1 points per hundred possessions. That's number one in the league. When they have holiday, Giannis and Lopez on the floor. If there is not a better threesome defensively, on earth. Not on Mars, not in the Milky Way on defense in those three guys. That number drops to 105.6. I mean, it's like a joke how good they are defensively. And that's where they've always hung their hat and that's where they're gonna hang their hat. We're big, we're physical. You are not getting to the rim, their weakness was always they gave up too many threes. Well, now they're giving up the fourth twos, threes the fourth few shots at three. They have no weaknesses on defense. That's been the critical change. And I remember asking, my gluten holes are immune. I talked about this when we visited earlier in the year. When I asked him when I had him, I think, in the preseason. I said, why are you making the tweak? Is it simply because the Celtics and that huge disparities like, listen, the three point shooting has just gotten too good. You know, it feels like there's every team that's multiple guys that can space you out. And honestly, Zach, you know, some of this is what you said, you know, the things brook Lopez can do defensively. The way he can man the pain, his communication skills, almost liken him to a catcher who's calling out everything he sees in front of him. I always think of one of the most undervalued skills as a defender as how much talking are you doing. I'm a big believer in talking defensively on big believer and body language. There's continuity there. They know who they are and how they win. And you know what? It's interesting reading Mike budenholzer and some of his teammates comments. You know, drew's been there a bit, Zach. And yet when you read the comments, there's still marveling at what this guy does. You know, they play they went against the sun. They play Miami. I think Miami is a game Giannis goes out in the first quarter. You know, Miami is always going to be belligerent and cranky. And I mean that the best possible way. Belligerent. I don't like that. They are belligerent. Belligerent in the best possible way cranky and tough and no matter who's on the floor and they're going to just keep coming at you. And it gets a little shaky and then drew all of a sudden says, nope, nope, this isn't happening. We're winning this basketball game. He's been absolutely fantastic. The bucks are impressive. Do you think I'm out of line on the Yanis MVP? And that's the other thing I wanted to ask you is why do you think in the season Jayson Tatum is having he's getting so little run as MVP candidate? Because Giannis is averaging 31, 12 and 5 and the bucks have at least temporarily passed Boston and the standings and jokic is doing what he's doing for the number one team in the west. So the sort of the early Tatum thing was, well, the best player on the best team is supposed to get the MVP. That's how this works. It's less clear at least record wise that Boston is the best team. I think Boston is still the most complete team in the league. But record wise, it's neck and neck with both Denver and Milwaukee or the current number one seeds Milwaukee is currently the number one. Overall seed. And then embiid is unbelievable and defensively, I think, is when he dials it up is with the honest right there is the biggest defensive force.
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"And now, the low post. Welcome to the low post podcast on a Thursday afternoon. It's gloomy. It's foggy, the snow we had for two seconds is melting there are 12 sleds in my yard. It's a graveyard of neighbor kid sleds and it's time to talk about the Eastern Conference. And when I think ESPN and I think east, I think, born in Long Island, Jersey Shore reveler back and back in her glory days, big east basketball star current northeast resident and like all of us semi frequent visitors over the years to Cleveland and Milwaukee two of the other teams are going to be talking about today. Hall of Famer, just the absolute best in every sense. Someone who makes me smile every time I interact with her Doris Burke, it's so wonderful to see her face. How are you? I am superb, and I'm just going to say this about all the sleds in your yard. You want to be the house as the parent that the kids come to. That's a good thing. Let those sleds pile up with the bikes pile up in your yard. That's a very good thing. You know, we have a little downslope in our backyard. That's perfect for sledding for anyone like age three to ten. By ten you want the steeper hill, even my daughter who's 8 wants to super hill, but it's cool that everyone comes to her house. But let me tell you, the amount of hot chocolate going on. The amount of journeying my wife has to do from outside to inside and inside the outside, the house is all wet and disgusting. But I'll tell you what I'm a lead at doors work. I'm gonna lead sweater and as the heaviest guy in the household, I am the track setter. I'm the one that's gotta get out there and sit my father on the sled and carve the path. That's so great. I was one of my favorite things. I remember pie in both my kids for one Christmas like snowboards and anything fast that would go down the hill. Thank God I had my children young because I could still send my balance on a small hill. I love that stuff. To this day, I love that stuff. I don't ski, I don't know. I don't want, I don't want to ski. People are trying to get me to ski and I'm just like, I'm like Larry David and Kirby enthusiasm. I don't want to do it. It's too much stuff, but I will sled. Doris Burke, you have on Saturday, Milwaukee Philly. In Milwaukee, I believe, right? It is, yeah. We must start this podcast and I say this after having done 15 TV shows in the last ten days where the segment is always, well, what are the Lakers? What are the latest? Do you think the Lakers can get in? Can the Lakers go on a run? There is a team with maybe the greatest basketball player in the world. Who has won 16 consecutive games of professional basketball. We can't even get them on TV other than a highlight package. DeMille walkie bucks, I picked to win the championship at the beginning of the year. They are up to now first in defense with a bullet. They have taken over from Cleveland and Memphis number one spot in defense. Chris Middleton is back. Coming off the bench still. I was too curious about that. I was going to ask you about that knowing we were talking to Milwaukee watch he's 20 games in now up being back. Now I'm not sure if that's consecutive, but whatever. I was going to ask you, why you think they're continuing with that? Well, his health has been so precarious over the last two years and to start and stop of his comebacks every time something seems to set him back. I think they've been very cautious. It has extended long enough than in the past couple of days I've asked people there, I thought I kind of thought this was going to be over by now, like is he just going to be a 6 man and the response I get is like laughing emojis and no, he's going to start again soon ish soon ish, maybe, but that's the suit inch is what I've been hearing for a month now. But yes, there are number one in defense. They just acquired J Crowder, they're starting 5, I think, when they get serious, is going to be holiday, Middleton, Giannis. I think they'll keep Grayson Allen in their for his shooting. I might try Connaughton, but I think they'll have Grayson Allen. And Brooke Lopez, their next three off the bench are Connaughton and that scenario, Bobby portis, who's back, Jay Crowder, just acquired, and that's before you get to Joe ingles or javon Carter who are probably 9 and ten and both offer, I think, important skills for them. All of a sudden, they look deep, they look versatile, they can play lots of different lineup types. And I don't know if it's just that they're in Milwaukee if it's that Middleton's been injured for a lot of the year. If it's their 19th on offense and people are like, well, that's weird. But it's just not getting enough attention. Where do you they're not 19th and offense anymore. They're averaging a hundred and almost a 124 points per game in this stretch. And Giannis was talking last night after the win about, you know, the ball's moving and we're getting multiple drive and kicks and it's flying around and yeah, I can't wait to go back and watch it and he said, we're playing with force.
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"eddie johnson" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"They don't know. Well, Larry Bird used to love playing against you. He told me. He loved the scoring forward, so we're more offense to defense in the west, the Western Conference swing had a few of those guys. He loved that trip. The perfect short, all those guys. People don't realize how good Kiki was. Oh my God. They don't understand how good Alex is a score. It was so many scores back then. And that's why people say, man, you scored 19,000 points and you didn't make an all 13. That's why. You had Mark McGuire. I mean, you had Larry Nance. You had Mike Mitchell, now in San Antonio, you know, James worthy. And all guys who had different types of games. And weren't really three point shooters, even you who were like a quote unquote, three point shooter. You probably averaged like, what? One a game at your point. 'cause you didn't take them. No. No. But now you'd be like, now you would have been, I think, three a game. I think you want to take a look. Oh my God. I'm making about 40 meals. 50 mil. I don't know how much this Duncan Robinson make. I make the I'm thinking joke. Joe Harris and Duncan Robinson are like 17, 18 a year. You're easily making that. Yeah, you're 20 million a year. You're bouncing around. All right, you got to go through your show. I want you to come back on when it really gets going with the sons because I think the sense are going to be around for a while in these plants. I've been trying to tell people the sons aren't losing. Unless somebody gets hurt, they're making the finals. Make your golden staircase, your Memphis case, whatever, but we are going to see the suns in the finals unless there's an injury. We're good, man. We can stay healthy. I never been around a team that has been disconnected ever. And I'm not just saying that loose. I've watched these guys all year. They are the real deal. It regards to being a team. And then this beautiful thing is. Well, you got to ask Monte. Deep down kind of happy to take that Lakers drop, right? Now, he said it was never offered because Phoenix just jumped the gun and they just offered him and they took him. He knew what he wanted. He knew he wanted to be able to control his environment. He knew he wanted to be able to do all the things that he probably didn't do when he was in New Orleans. And he wanted that second chance with a group of guys, young guys that would listen to him. And that's why he's here. And they're listening to them. He's like their dad, man. Bad granddad, all of the above. And coach. Well, I voted for him coach of the year. So I did have one. At least I did that. All right, I'm popping on your show at some point, but I'm glad we did this. I'm bringing you back later in the playoffs. Good to see you Eddie Johnson. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right, that's it for the podcast. Thanks to wild's thanks to Eddie Johnson. Don't forget to check out the prestige TV podcast if you like winning time. We have a really good episode that's going up. We watch what's coming on Monday as well. Enjoy the weekend. I will see you on Sunday. When we saw that said I don't have if you ever swear. The wayside on the first level I don't have to ever hear.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"eddie johnson" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Booker MVP bandwagon thing for a long time. I had them forth. I really I appreciated how special that suns team was really you were one of the first people I heard talking about it. Like, hey, it's not just that they're beating teams. They're toying with them. They are laying on these 20 to 5 runs in these 25 to three runs and stuff like that. When do you think it shifted for Booker this season? I think it really shifted for them to be quite honest Bill when Ricky Rubio came. And making Rubio, I think, taught him to trust him that he didn't always have to have the ball. It's almost similar to what Phil Jackson did with Michael Jordan was starting pivot. And I think, you know, Ricky Rubio and Monty convinced him that it doesn't matter how many touches you get, the touches that you do get are going to be tremendous. And you're scoring average is going to be good. And you're going to win games. And I think Devin bought into it because he was tired of losing. He knew he could school anybody. And he just said, okay, I'm going to give that a shot. Matter of fact, he told money. I want to be coast. That was exact words to my team with Martin took the job. He said, I want to be coast. And that's what he's done. And Devin has adhered to it. And it's turned out to be a tremendous run for him. And I think that's when it turned around. And then Chris Paul just took it to a new level. Well, that's the thing. You talk about young players, right? So he gets Rubio in there who's unselfish as a vet gets Monty Williams who easily could have gone to the Lakers and boy would he be miserable right now. And then you get Chris Paul who's one of the great unselfish teammates of his generation. A little difficult to play with if you're the wrong guy, I think for Booker, he just wants to play with people who are wired like Chris Paul, Booker is. So it gets these three people. What happens if he doesn't mean any of these people? What happens if he's just on Phoenix and let's say they're the Sacramento Kings with what's happened with them or they're just to bring them more lottery picks in. It never works. The coach keeps changing. The GM keeps changing and bookers just basically the deer and fox in the situation. Does he still have an ascent? What does it look like? I think he probably would have been gone. And that would any player, right? I mean, if they find that things aren't going to work out, you know, and they don't think they're going to be able to get guys in there to help raise them to a new level. They start thinking about leaving that particular team. And that was my fear. Because I know how good he is. From the first moment, people the son's uniform and Jeff holder said was like trying to delete inevitable and starting and him being the guy. You can just tell in a few minutes that he got that this kid is going to be special. And so this organization needed Chris Paul Bill. They needed Chris Paul to just balance Devin and show him the other side of success and not chasing it just based on your numbers. And it's taking him to a great level. It's funny when you know early with the young guys because Tatum was like that for the Celtics. It would just became clear, pretty quickly. Like, oh, this one, this.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"eddie johnson" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Smile and then Tom Cruise stands by it. It takes pictures. That's kind of what Ben Simmons looked like in that green outfit two days ago. He's just there. He's frozen with this look on his face. I don't know, I would be very cautious. The time lord thing is different because I think he had the best version of that surgery. I think one of the reasons they wanted to play Brooklyn other than they just think they're better is that they thought he might be coming back. And as you said, they have a really big sample size now. This is a 15 week sample size of the Celtics like taking huge leads in the first half on teams of being really, really elite defensively of Tatum, who I think is going to make first team all MBA. It looks like it's not like they don't have good players. So. I was going to say, I think the Minnesota Memphis series goes 6 or 7, I like that series. I just think it's going to be a back and forth just really young athletic fun to watch 6 or 7 on FanDuel's plus one O 6. Boston Brooklyn go in 6 or 7 is minus one 90 T you can partly those together for plus two 13. And then I let gold state in 5 for plus two 90 is a flyer. Those are my faves. We'll see. What was your Toronto Philly thing? That feels like the biggest upset that you just kind of like, oh, I got Toronto over Philly. Well, there are plus one 54. Yeah, plus one 54, which isn't that big of an upset, but I think if you go raps in 6 plus four 90, you'd think if they're down fairly down three, two. No title for game 6. You're in Toronto and you have hardened whose legacy of that game. Probably the worst in the league. And give and be 37. Give MB 37 a game in this series. I still think Toronto could beat them. It's going to be harder. They need hard and in this series, I trust him the least of any good player we've had the last ten years. I think that is a brilliant strategy of, hey, let me let's give him, let's pencil and beat in for 45. And let's not let harden get anything. And watch him just self destruct. We saw pop. Pop did this with Nash in 2005. He was like, Nash? Knock yourself out, man. You can 35, 40 a game. Good. Go for it. Nobody else is, we're staying home on everybody else. You get yours. And Nash talked about it. We talked about it on my podcast. It fucked with his head. Because he wanted to get people involved. Because then embiid would start fourth like how hard and you get and beats a nice guy and wants everybody to eat. Well, interesting. The other thing with embiid, and he was in good condition this year, and I thought he finished games better than he has at any other point in his career, but these playoff games are also the really intense, they feel like a game and a half in the kind of bird and he's going to have in a series like this. You know, they don't have, if harden doesn't get going. They don't have that kind of random key check guy other than maxi. The question for me is, are they just going to, are they going to let Maxie drive the car or is it going to be like a James side? Did you see Jalen had one of the best bits I've seen in a while from him? The concert thing? Yeah. It.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"eddie johnson" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Like they're just bargain shopping. I do understand the Patriots. I do understand the patriot Sally cap. The Patriots salary cap is very much like the cash I have in my wallet. Like, oh, I have $20. I bought a coffee. That was $17. If I get two for sandwich, it's like, okay, now I'm done. There is no good news, everybody. We got tyron Matthew. And we were paying him $12 million a year. Like, oh, great. It just feels very, it feels very almost seems like it almost seems like the NFL salary cap is a credit card in college. That you can either go nuts with or be responsible with. And it seems like the Patriots are just super responsible. We don't want to do this. It could hurt us down the road. The part I don't get is, they have a quarterback on a rookie contract who's picked in the middle of the first round, which is the biggest asset you have. You have everybody else is like, Derek Carr. I don't know, $40 million a year extension, right? Every good team that they're competing against is paying somewhere between like 20 and 50 million for their quarterback. And the Pats have a quarterback probably making like three or four, and they're like. Two rich for our blood. I think I followed the salary cap guy on patriot Sally cap on Twitter. I like that one. And excellent. I think we're going to have a ton of money next year. Preseason. I don't like to be in the preseason talking about next year already. Two years. Back to the clippers. They didn't really from a salary standpoint, get crushed. The first two years. But this year's team, which went 42 and 40, Paul George played 31 games Kawhi played zero games. $166 million payroll. $83 million luxury tax bill. The team cost $249 million. I guess the bigger picture thing for the clippers, it wasn't just a gamble on winning the title. It was a gamble on trying to own basketball in LA. It was bombers belief that he could build an LA basketball team that could either rival or surpass the Lakers. Right down to the fact he's building this multi-billion dollar basketball arena in Inglewood because he doesn't want to be tied to Lakers in any way. He's going to, we're going to beat these guys. And they get Kawhi and they get Paul George, Kawhi made first team on VA last year. Paul George made 13. So two of the best 15 guys in the league. So I still think it's defensible. It's just kind of amazing how bad the luck was with the Kauai injury when it happened. To have somebody heard his ACL in round two of a playoff series that they're probably about to win. But then it's a 12 month injury and it brings it to the next so it's almost like you somehow lose two playoffs with the same injury, which is almost endeavor, I guess, has a little bit of this with Jamal Murray, but that to me, that gets into some weird clippers cursed shit, which I was writing about 2009 about pulling the team away from buffalo and all the weird shit that happened. This is among the weirdest thing that's happened to them. I love that you were a wonderful mix of in depth analysis and then just talking about curses..
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"eddie johnson" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Dives next week. We're gonna do a winning time the rest of the way. We have Barry coming with a very special guest on that one. We have, we crashed season finale. We have we own this city coming up into April, which is basically the spiritual successor to the wire and then the offer, which I'm really excited about. I've seen the pilot of, it is about the making of The Godfather. So all of that is coming. It is going to be a loaded feed the rest of the way. So please check it out because if you like the rewatchables. And he likes some of our pop culture stuff. I would recommend the prestige TV podcast coming up on this podcast, old Frank Kevin wilds. We're going to talk, we talk all kinds of MBA stuff and he's going to do some half baked ideas. I am going to give my playoff picks. And last but not least, the great Eddie Johnson. Longtime NBA player, you can hear him with just the term on serious NBA show. A show that I really like and he's going to tell us about the sun, Devin Booker, talk about life in the 80s, a whole bunch of stuff. I really had fun with that one. This is a good podcast. It's on that first project. All right, by old Frank Kevin wild this year, we used to work together a million years ago. He is on first things first on FS1. He is the master of the half baked ideas. He is somebody who is on my side as.
The Dan Patrick Show
"eddie johnson" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"Is katie better than lebron. We can discuss that but man scotty once a year has he says something. It's i mean this goes back to the documentary. Michael did not do scotty justice. I mean he he mentioned. The negatives was scotty his contract. And how stupid contract that. He signed that he held out. And but this is a new generation. Saw all of this. And that's that's why a lot of people didn't even know about this. I mean kevin durant was how old he was a child. When scotty took himself on a game he didn't know anything about it until we saw the last dance. And of course you know. Katie was firing away on social media. As well recap it next. We'll take a break here. We'll talk to eddie johnson the suns broadcaster on what he saw last night. And how big of an issue is this. Going to be for devon booker playing with that mask. It's eighteen after the hour. We'll get phone calls. Settle on a poll question. Back after this got the trigger fired up and the official menu. Here is pickle brine. Hot chicken sandwich grilled corn with honey butter and smoke so dang. That's what tyler. The chef is cooking up on the trigger chef tyler. This is the summer of tyler. Tyler tyler savon a pretty good year right now. We're halfway point and i would say might be. Mvp of the back room guys might be might be and bbr g. m. v. the halfway point yes h p. Yeah but remember. Lebron started out and he was going to be the mvp and then he fell to the wayside. Tyler's had a pretty good first half of the season the club. Yeah and then yokich lots in the first round. Okay the traeger. I mean if tyler can do it anybody can do it. And it's actually their motto. Twenty one i think. That's what what triggers says. You don't even know who. Tyler is but if tyler can do it you can do it. The traeger app in fact tyler is at his desk. He can monitor the traegergrills with the traeger app with a wildfire technology. They've got it all. You can do it. 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Why the clippers one. What would you say dan first of all. Thanks for having me you know you. You've been my hero and radio favor. So i'm not just saying that. What was your first question. I got all discombobulated happy to be here we on the golf course. Yes i am. Okay all right i. I won't take it too much of your time then. Okay if you're gonna pinpoint what what's the reason. Why the clippers won this game. It was game three when you think about it then it out to historically that game three is always toughest game It's an embarrassing the game if they lose that game. They're not coming back into series. No team has ever come back from three. Oh so you expected them to come out and play like the life was on the lot and that they had to do everything to win the game. So the suns didn't come out with the energy that that matched. what the clippers. Desperation and the clippers won the gang. I'd never thought this would be asleep. Although the sunset one nine in a row you had to feel like they were going to run into a mini wall and that wall happened last night. Devon booker playing with that mask on. I don't know if you've ever played with a mask on but guys will talk about. It's just uncomfortable. And so i. I'm gonna guess that had something to do with a subpar performance but but but how dare you bring that up right because you know historically you know people there. They're very careful with guys. That are very good at certain things. For instance. patrick. Beverley is known as a tremendous defendant. And so after game one did you. Any quotes that devon booker. Whoa out that beverley. You didn't hear any quotes. All you heard was devon booker had a great game. So patrick beverley is protected and so now when patrick mun devon booker struggles everybody says oh fast families and unlike hold up now. It doesn't work that way. What about devon booker was just all because devon booker faces intense defense every night every night. The building their defense to stop him. There's nothing unusual. He's just been off the last two games and he has to get better. yes i think. The mass presented a problem for them but as always said about offense the players and thousand offensive player. Nobody ever stopped me. They made me work harder but they stopped me. I thought my office is overcome their defense. And i think the sons got a little lax last night. I think devon has to really find his creases better Did he did in the first game. And they'll be fine but give the clippers credit. I mean we know defensively. They can turn it up as a team and i thought they did. Energy was there Endeavoring can't say whoa is me. I mean you know this. This thing with the mass. He's gotta find a way to get over it as chris all over his shoulder in the first series against the lakers. I mean you just can't let that bother. You don't think devon is this. he has been off. The last two games could be fatigue could be you know just to lift of the playoffs. And it's run but he'll be fine. I i guarantee you he can he..
Conspiracy Theories
Frozen Envelope Draft of 1985
"The early nineteen eighties. We're filled with connick basketball stars. Magic johnson larry bird and kareem abdul-jabbar are just a few legends. That played during this era celebrity players. Thrilled fans with their incredible skills on the court but some behavior was not worth celebrating on august twentieth. Nineteen eighty the la times reported on multiple accounts of cocaine abuse by nba athletes. The general manager of the utah jazz even speculated that there wasn't a single team in the league that didn't have a drug problem new york knicks star. Micheal ray. Richardson had five. Documented stays at rehabilitation clinics new jersey nets. Forward bernard king had been arrested for cocaine. Possession has had hawks guard eddie johnson. Some estimates claimed seventy five percent of all. Nba players drugs. These habits culminated in the death of shooting guard. Terry furlough furlough died in a fatal car accident. In nineteen eighty an autopsy found ballum and cocaine in his blood. Substance abuse also made players vulnerable to all sorts of criminal activity f. b. i. File suggest that during the nineteen eighty one eighty two season at least three new york knicks players were indebted one of the largest drug dealers on the east coast. These debts lead the knicks to participate in point shaving or intentionally missing shots in order to get a particular score this way. Their drug dealer could place a bet on that score and because of the players cooperation he was guaranteed to win. It was the players way of paying him. Back drugs also wreaked havoc on the players. Mental and physical health stimulants like cocaine can increase in violent behavior. And in this era many players had an extremely physical style of play
The Lowe Post
NBA Playoffs: Phoenix Suns Beat Los Angeles Lakers in Game 1
"Lakers phoenix suns with an emphatic. Ninety nine hundred game one win that they control from start to finish and you know what when we talk about the lakers. We usually get a lakers perspective. Someone from l. a. No two sons one game one. Let's get someone from phoenix. The first person. I thought it was the one and only eddie johnson. How are you sir day. I mean that's not being in the playoffs the so long. I can't even remember zach and i wake up this morning and we're gonna win the series. They can't be any better than this house. The arena. You know what i watch it on. Tv to be quite honest with you. I work i work so much is like when i get an opportunity to just listen to somebody else. Do a gain the replays. And everything i just feel like you know is so much more up close and personal for me but when i heard about buddies told me said it was just unreal eighteen thousand although they listed there's about ten six but it seemed like it was eighteen thousand so it was packed. Ready and people were partying outside so fun. Time right now saying we haven't experienced this long time. So we had a kerfuffle and ejection. Chris paul hurting his shoulder and and using a jump shot form. That was clearly not his normal form will have to monitor that going forward so it was an eventful game. The sun's sort of told the world. Hey we're here drayton. i'm here. i'm the. I'm the biggest guy in the floor. Andre drummond bigger than me. But i'm gonna play like the big sky devon booker. i'm ready you're gonna have to double me straight up hard double me like luka doncic. What surprised you about game one. What was something that stood out that maybe you didn't expect surprise me about the suns team. This is a team that i've been seeing all year long. I've been trying to convince the on. Tell them they are real deal. They are team. Personify one to fifteen. Every one of those guys are prepared. Money is a great job with them. They have confidence. they did. Not surprise me.
Bob Sirott
Chicago officer sues former police chief Eddie Johnson for sexual assault
"Police superintendent, responding to sick sexual assault and harassment allegations filed against him by former member of his protective detail against David Jennings. Has Johnson stayed been reads The allegations of sexual assault and harassment made by Miss Donald never happened or accusations are not only patently falls. They're egregiously dehumanizing towards true victims who were truly suffered sexual assault and harassment in the workplace. The claims are an affront to everything I believe in and stand for. I pray Verma's Donald's wellbeing and look forward to the opportunity where the facts Khun B. Presented David
John Williams
Former Chicago police superintendent accused of sexual assault
"A 14 year veteran of the Chicago Police Department has filed a civil suit against a former police superintendent Eddie Johnson and the city. Cynthia Donald, claims she was repeatedly sexually assaulted and harassed for more than three years by the former superintendent after first time sexually assaulted me in his office at CPD headquarters. He told me that I belong to him. He referred to me as his girl. At times when I was able to avoid his sexual advances, he would tell me you got away this time. Johnson issued a statement late yesterday, saying the allegations of sexual assault and harassment made by Miss Donald never happened or accusations are not only patently false. They are egregiously dehumanizing towards true victims who have truly suffered sexual assault and harassment. In the workplace.
WGN Programming
Former Chicago police superintendent accused of sexual assault
"Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson, responding tonight to a sexual assault lawsuit filed against him in civil court by one of his former subordinates in the department. He's released a statement that says, in part, the suit's allegations never happened that Officer Cynthia Donald's accusations are patently false and egregiously dehumanizing towards true victims suffered sexual assault and harassment in the workplace. Johnson goes on to say in his statement, he's praying for Donald's wellbeing and looks forward to the opportunity to present his defense.
America's Truckin' Network
Police: 'Multiple shootings' in downtown Indianapolis amid protests; one person killed
"Across the country protest continuing with some turning violent even deadly more from ABC news less police reporting multiple shootings downtown one person killed in protests tonight that is demonstrations have turned violent nationwide over the police death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in New York City once again but for just a moment things absolutely in this area what looked like the crowd was dissipating and then suddenly a police vehicle was on fire and then another one was on fire block away and then a third was on fire a block away from that and I was standing in the news section three different directions the ceasefires in the chaos of the situation you have these crowded in GST streets of New York City A. B. C.'s Trevor all former Chicago police chief Eddie Johnson weighing in on the national unrest in a fortunate part about this is it's painted the whole law enforcement profession with a band brush
Steve Cochran
Chicago police and fire overtime continue to surge
"Chicago taxpayers spend two hundred ten million dollars on police and fire overtime last year despite orders to rein it in WGN's James Sears has the numbers the sun times reporting the city spent one hundred thirty one million dollars police overtime the same as the year before mayor Lightfoot had played a hold former superintendent Eddie Johnson accountable but he was fired personnel are now sweeping in and out of work the fire department spent nearly seventy nine million dollars on overtime of sixteen percent from the previous year and six times as much as in twenty eleven that's being blamed on four hundred fifty six
Reset with Jenn White
Chicago's homicide rate decreases for the third straight year
"Three years ago Chicago saw a record number of shootings in two thousand sixteen more than four thousand people shot more than seven hundred fifty killed. That was the most the city had seen in two decades. Both Chicago in two thousand nineteen on a more hopeful note. Preliminary number I show a steep drop in shootings and homicides. WBZ reporter Patrick Smith has been following the stats and updates us on the new numbers and puts it all in perspective breath so there were four hundred and ninety two people murdered in Chicago so we talk about progress but still almost five hundred people murdered there. Were Twenty six hundred shooting victims terms and about twenty one hundred shooting incidents so that you know they're incidents where more than one person is shot so twenty six hundred people shot four hundred. Ninety people murdered both all of those numbers though are are better than than last year. I'm put that in context for us when we look at the past few years. Two thousand eighteen two thousand seventeen and then of course that big jump in two thousand sixteen right exactly so twenty twenty sixteen we had this historic increase. Since then. We've been coming down this year's numbers it's about ten the shootings down about ten percent compared to last year the doubt about thirty thirty five percent compared to two thousand sixteen so we are were were just about back to where we were before that two thousand sixteen spike in violence so that's the macro macro level but when we look at the neighborhood level and where we're seeing significant changes. What can you tell us about that? Well you're going to hear me say this a lot which is like comparing things to twenty sixteen and looking at that. Because we're we're seeing the biggest decreases on the west side of Chicago like The Austin Police District which covers most of the neighborhood of Austin on on the west side that had an almost twenty percent reduction in murders last year for twenty nine eighteen the other westside neighborhoods west areas had thirteen fifteen percent reduction then shootings the west side is what got hit the hardest in two thousand sixteen. It's where the violence was the worst in two thousand sixteen end for the first couple years after that twenty seventeen two thousand eighteen. Even there was some sort of stubborn violence levels. Were still remarkably high and some of those areas so we saw the biggest reduction on the west side their parts of the south side that also had reductions most of the south side and the north side had reductions in violence although there are a few neighborhoods that are still suffering. You know well not just all. There are many neighbors the city that are suffering from violence still but most of the the city saw. Sr Reduction in shootings here Turley back the interim superintendent of CD. How a New Year's Eve press conference releasing the numbers and here's what he had to say about why he? I thought this was happening. Some of the things that have allowed us to to make these reductions I've talked about Particularly our partnerships with faith based community and our partnerships with street outreach workers workers and our partnerships with community based organizations those are really important but also technology has aided Chicago PD okay so he's talking about partnerships and technology starting with the partnerships. What do we know about how? CD's approaching community in the shootings. Well one thing we know is that this this year You Know Actually Mayor Emanuel created it but then now mayor lightfoot invested more in the city's Office of gun violence prevention people are calling for her to do to invest a lot more money anything then what she has to sort of get us on par with New York and Los Angeles. But that's this office that suppose to give a comprehensive approach gun violence prevention. So it's not just about policing you know there was a lot of philanthropic dollars that went into gang outreach street outreach after two thousand sixteen and we actually heard you know I heard from Eddie Bocanegra. Who Works for Heart Lennon runs this outreach program called ready Chicago that that works with people who are closest to gun violence? He gave a lot of credit to two former Chicago. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. WHO said that He? We really worked really closely with street. Outreach workers that there were district level commanders who worked with them at and coordinated with them and that it wasn't all you know police in law and order. I obviously the police are there to maintain law and order but that they knew that there were better and maybe other ways to approach gun violence besides just just going as hard as you could it at people when you say street outreach. What does that actually mean? So that that's a really good question so there are kind of different versions of that the sort of the version that maybe people are most familiar with. Is something like ceasefire. cease-fire what's called cure violence now where you have people who are former gang members people who are close to gang members who go out and just mediate conflicts and try to prevent people from shooting shooting at one another another Eddie Bocanegra who. I just mentioned. He used to do that. What he says what they're doing now and there are a few different organizations? That are doing this. You're just outreaching to say. Hey don't shoot each other you're saying don't shoot each other and we'd like to give you a job or we'd like to get you some therapy or we'd like to give you something we're not just saying don't shoot we're saying here's an alternative and so there has been more investment in that from from the private sector from philanthropic groups in the last few years. What's really but people have been pushing for the city to start investing more and paying for that to happen and so that you can give give people an outlet in an alternative to to you know violent crime so we hurt the interim superintendent they are also talking about technology? What role is stop playing? Yeah so that's something like the police in the last few years or put something called shot. Spotter which is supposed to use sound to detect. When there's been a shooting so they don't have to wait for nine one one call so police can can respond more quickly to them? There's also they've got more cameras that they've got these strategic support centers in the districts. That's supposed to combine all the different tech- technological the logical options. They have to sort of make response quicker and get more street level information to the police. You know that's something that University of Chicago really helped pilot. They've done research. It is their program program. But they've done research on their own program to say that they saw reductions in the district where they put that technology in their Beyond that you know. We have more police officers than we did. A few years ago there was this is pushed one thousand more police officers under Mayor Emanuel. That happened And then I think one thing that Charlie Beck is not going to talk about is just regression to the mean. Statistically we we had this huge spike horrific by two thousand sixteen were You know statistician might tell you that we're just sort of coming back to normal. I think the big question is going to be are. Are these reductions things where we can keep making progress and actually get back. Get back to a better place get better than we were before. Two Thousand Sixteen rather than just sort of getting back to what is honestly an unacceptable level level of violence five hundred murders a year. No one's going to tell you that. That's okay so we're we're we're back down about five hundred. The question is can we take that next step and actually see real reductions and not. Just get back to where we were before two thousand sixteen and put these numbers into context when we look at other big cities like New York or La. Well New York had a slight increase in its murders this year. La I believe leave state about flat. We still have a lot more murders here in Chicago Than New York and Los Angeles. It used to be that we had more murders than New York. Combine that's not exactly true. That's not quite true this year however they had If you put them together there at about five hundred fifty murders for this year they have millions and millions more people in New York in Los Angeles so as far as murder rate were nowhere near them we had about you know we had about fifty fewer murders in Chicago than New York and Los Angeles together so these are just preliminary numbers we should say a The official figures will come out after the FBI does their audit. How much of a change could we see between the numbers that are being reported right now by C. p. d. and the numbers that come from the FBI not a huge change For Murders for instance you know I think in two thousand seventeen the changes about seven murders from from when they preliminary members to what they actually sent to the FBI. So you'll see that change. I mean sadly that that some of that has to do with a person who shot on December thirtieth and then dies a few days later and that changes inches from shoot a shooting incident to a murder. Obviously all of this is very tragic. So you'll see some changes in the numbers but nothing that's going to throw off these percentages or the big picture takeaways Geico as well in a press conference earlier this week Interim Chicago Police Superintendent Charlie back and we have to stress here he is interim he. He's made very clear that he's not interested the permanent job but he laid out what he hopes to achieve while he is in office. What did he say? Well one thing that I thought was really interesting. He spent a lot of time talking about clearance rates. You know this is how detectives detectives do solving murders and he said that the CPT had a fifty three percent clearance rate this year. That's the highest. It's been in nine years you should look at. WBZ's chip Mitchell's is reporting to to see sort of diving into those numbers more. Not not this year but in the past of how they calculate those clearance rates. I won't get into it but it doesn't mean that they solve half of the murders that happen this year either way. It's great if they're at a nine year high. There was a report that came out earlier this year that really criticized the the detective division homicide Detective Division Chicago. Charlie Charlie back said he's going to be implementing things that were recommended there. I think that that's a big priority for him for his time. Here is getting our detectives to get to a better solve rate solving thing. More murders which increases trust in in in the department among residents and hopefully prevents future violence. So we have to again remind people that CBD's operating under a consent consent decree right now. Charlie Beck let the LAPD through its own consent decree at least part of it. How much power will he have to? Maybe implement some of the changes that are recommended in that decree. Well I think he has a lot of power of making it clear whether or not it's a priority and I wanna be clear that that what I've heard from people is that Eddie Johnson the former superintendent. This was a priority for him. Two people did believe that he truly believed in the changes but there are also problems where they said. There's not enough resources to this. Not everyone in the department is totally buying in. I think Charlie back with with the experience that he has might know what resources are needed to to get a higher level of compliance with the consent decree and make that a priority. I certainly heard from people who were hopeful about him. As interim because of his experience in Los Angeles as you mentioned that he'll make consent decree compliance a real priority of his interim administration and really quickly any word on the search for a permanent superintendent for CD. I have not heard any word. I mean the the applications I believe are due by the end of this week. Maybe next week I I expect that the police board will Abbas recommendations by March or April that's WBZ criminal justice reporter Patrick Smith Patrick. Thanks
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