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00:00Why don't we give, everybody gets 30 to 40 seconds, what was your answer to how do you fix
00:09the exhaustion slash load management slash blah blah blah in the NBA without using the answer
00:20fewer games? Well for me it's twofold. One is the schedule and I've already advocated that you
00:26insert a bye week. Love it. And every team would just get a week off and you could do it starting
00:31in around January or February and you just get a week off. No basketball, no practice, nothing. Go
00:36to Cancun, do whatever you need to do. The other piece, and I'm playing off of Steve Kerr saying that
00:41pace, the pace is too fast. How about you change the shot clock rule back to what it was? You get
00:48the offensive rebound, you get a fresh 24. I think that would incentivize teams to, if you want, you
00:54could play a little slower. As it is now, you get the rebound, you got 14 seconds, you're most
00:59likely going to kick it out and shoot another three-pointer. So I know there's other things
01:03that Grandy will highlight. Those are kind of my two unique ones that I'm going to go with. Yeah,
01:07I don't think that's bad at all. My answer real quick is really to not change anything basketball
01:13related at all. It's all scheduling and with apologies, I have not done some sort of a deep
01:20dive with a pen and a legal pad and written this all out, but I don't really have a problem
01:25if you start the season a week or two earlier, institute your bye weeks, and what I would love
01:31to see is much more creativity in travel schedules. And so when you hit the East Coast, let's do
01:40that. Let's do fewer back-to-backs, but get on a better pace of every other night. And when
01:46we're in that area of the country, let's take care of all of those games. Let's do all of
01:51that in eight days. Then when you come home, let's stay. The Warriors come home and they're
01:57here for 36 hours and then they leave again, even if it's just to LA or whatever. Get to
02:03an area of the country. More of what we saw in San Antonio last week. Stay and play. When
02:09you're going to go play someone on the road, you play that team, and that's the only time
02:13you're going to that city that year. And just handle all, get more creative in that way
02:18and take some of the bouncing around the country off of the guys' plates.
02:23Yeah, just looking ahead at the schedule, and I love that. They do have two stay-in plays
02:27this year on the road. This is the road trip that I'm sure is going to bug you. They go
02:32to New York, to Washington, to Boston, to Detroit, to Atlanta, to Dallas.
02:37Dallas and New York are not close.
02:38Neither is Atlanta and Dallas. No. And you go from Detroit up top down to Atlanta, then
02:44you swing up Dallas on the way home. And they were just in Texas for three days. Right.
02:49Do Texas. I'm with you. Let's do two in San Antonio, two in Houston, two in Dallas, and
02:56then we come home. Thanks, Texas. Bye. We'll see you next year. Maybe in the playoffs, but
03:01yeah. That's it. I like that.
03:02Grandy, what did you say?
03:04Well, I threw out a lot of things.
03:06Yes, you did. You were like, the court was a triangle. What the hell was happening?
03:12I wrote an essay, is what I wrote.
03:13You did. I was very impressed by your energy.
03:17Similar to dibs, if we can't shorten the regular season, we're taking that off the table, in
03:22my mind, the way to lighten the load on these players is to kind of try to change the way
03:27the game is played, make it easier physically to get through a game, and maybe that sounds
03:31weak. I think that's the reality of the situation.
03:34The one that I think is most realistic, because I don't think any of the things that I threw
03:38out there would ever happen, but it's eliminating the corner three and extending the three-point
03:44line out to make the three-point shot more difficult, because part of why the pace and
03:49the space is an issue is because teams just run to the three-point line, and so many players
03:54are so proficient shooting the ball that you just have so many quick possessions back and
03:58forth, back and forth, back and forth, and teams have to defend all the way out to the three-point
04:02line. If you kill the corner three, that becomes almost a dead area of the court, because deep
04:08twos are incredibly inefficient, and you make the other threes more difficult, you are going
04:13to get more teams just kind of packing the paint and willing teams to shoot some of those
04:18outside shots, because it's a less percentage shot, and as a result, I think you will have
04:22less of a physical toll on these players.
04:24You know, I mean, I don't want to poo-poo any ideas. Where my mind goes when you say
04:30that, though, is like the next generation of players who will try to compare themselves
04:35to the greatest shooter of all time. There goes that chase. Like, they'd be playing a
04:41completely different game as far as the three-point shot. And so, I think...
04:47Not if you just extend the corner, and that's what I would say.
04:50Well, he said to do away with it.
04:52Do away with the three.
04:53With the corner three.
04:54The corner three.
04:54I think you'd make the corner three 23-9, like the rest of it.
04:57Does your foot fit?
04:59Well, the court would be widened, would be the point.
05:01Okay, I see what you're saying. Okay. Okay. Well, now you've got, in theory, more court
05:06coverage, though.
05:07Right, but I just...
05:07Which is part of what Steve Kerr keeps worrying about.
05:10I think that if you had an extended three, if the corner three went away, you wouldn't be able
05:15to just put somebody in there knowing they're going to shoot 38 or 40 percent, you'd have
05:20to have an actual basketball player.
05:22Yeah.
05:22And you wouldn't have to necessarily close out on everyone if the three-point shot was
05:25tougher.
05:26Lucas, you want to give us your 30 or 40 seconds?
05:31Thanks for being ready. Hi.
05:32Hey, fired up over here.
05:33Okay.
05:36Oh, boy. It's all falling apart.
05:38It's okay.
05:38Um, my, my change was, I was more in line with you because I was just reacting to what
05:45Grandy had to say and some of the on-court stuff.
05:48I mean, I don't, this, what the NBA has right now is it is a fan base that loves to consume
05:56highlights.
05:57And I think a lot of the, the changes that have, you guys have discussed here would like
06:03pay space, all of that.
06:05That is how you get the massive dunks and the threes over like game-winning threes.
06:09Like that is how you create these highlights.
06:12Now it's a double-edged sword having that as your consumer, someone who loves highlights
06:18because that doesn't mean you're watching these games from tip to final buzzer, but it like,
06:24it's still increases popularity from TikTok and social media and all these things.
06:28You still get the popularity.
06:29Um, and I, I think if you make those changes to the game, then you're cutting out a lot
06:35of that.
06:36And I don't think that's good for the game either.
06:38I don't love the idea of changing the game at all.
06:41Here's one other thing I want to say real quick that I don't, that I don't love, which
06:44always comes up in this conversation.
06:45And then we'll go to the phones, but this just came in on the Boxer and Gerson work injury
06:49attorneys text line.
06:51And, um, listen, I, I, I, I totally get it and, uh, super, super duper, uh, uh, appreciate
06:58everybody listening, but look at this take from nine to five, no more fully guaranteed contracts.
07:03If you want to trick off games and not take the regular season seriously, then good for
07:08you.
07:08You don't get paid that kind of cynicism to this whole thing.
07:12I actually feel we've gotten to a spot where it's counterproductive.
07:16I don't think the players don't give a rip.
07:20I don't want to be one of the people who blows off what they're trying to tell us.
07:25It, you, you brought up what I thought was a brilliant piece of information last week.
07:29When we're talking to Steve Kerr, we're back in the late eighties and early nineties, the
07:34number one paced team, they were called Showtime.
07:38I'm looking at it right now, Mark.
07:40The number one, change the game, Jerry bus, form club, all of that stuff.
07:46Would today by a significant margin be the slowest team in the entire NBA that tells you
07:56what these guys are talking about.
07:58They're playing a different game.
08:00They are running like no one's run before.
08:03We are seeing Achilles injuries like we've never seen before.
08:07Yep.
08:07I want to avoid calling the players a bunch of wimps who don't care.
08:13I just don't buy it.
08:15I don't buy it.
08:15I think part of that too, is you've got so much data now and so much science that these
08:21doctors and these physicians and all the other training staff, they know when a player is
08:26more susceptible to injury.
08:27So then they just sit them down because we didn't have that back in 1975 when the Warriors
08:32were winning the whole darn thing.
08:33You just played, you played until your knees gave out and there wasn't knee surgery like
08:37that back then.
08:38And then your career was over.
08:39So the science now has made it so that we optimize performance.
08:43But I do think that there are little things you could tweak to slow the pace down a little
08:48bit.
08:48And then the game becomes a little bit more nuanced.
08:50I find all of it very, very interesting because if we do just put what we're seeing right
08:54now on a track, right?
08:56In other words, like, it's only going to get worse, right?
08:59We're not putting toothpaste back in a tube.
09:01At what point, a few years from now, our team's just not able to field a roster?
09:07Like, we just can't do it.
09:08And then everything feels like the Niner season does field this year.
09:11You just can't.
09:11I'm sorry.
09:12We just can't do it.
09:12Well, then you look at the OKC model, which when they rocked the Warriors, they were missing
09:17three players, three rotational players.
09:20But if you can have a deep team, one through 12, that's really good, you're less bothered.
09:25But you have to draft your butt off.
09:26You have to make brilliant moves.
09:28And you have to have a bunch of players in their 20s who are all ready to cook at the
09:33same time.
09:34And it's very, very difficult to do.
09:35Like, that's, I think everyone's trying to do that.
09:38Well, Boston kind of did that a couple years ago.
09:40They had a few vets, but they had a couple guys at their peak.
09:42But I think that they're, it's a multi-pronged approach to how you're going to fix it.
09:47All right.
09:48We've got a bunch of people to want to weigh in.
09:50This is awesome.
09:50888-957-9570 is the number.
09:53How, what would you do to help out load management and apparent exhaustion on some levels for
10:02NBA teams and players, but we're taking away the answer of fewer games.
10:07Because owners are going to be like, thanks for your input.
10:10You can put that in the suggestion box in the corner, and we'll read it 18 years from now.
10:15Just call Steph and tell him he's got to give $6 million back.
10:17Yeah.
10:18Because we're cutting 10% off the season.
10:19I mean, you're all, like, that point, you all understand you've arrived at Jerry Maguireville.
10:25You're all going to write a big, a big essay on, you know what we need to do, everybody?
10:31Less money!
10:32That's right.
10:32No.
10:33No.
10:33For everyone.
10:34Right.
10:35You're going to end up out on the street with a fish.
10:37And you get a pay cut.
10:38And you get a pay cut.
10:39No.
10:40No.
10:40Who's with me?
10:41Nobody.
10:42Nobody's with you.
10:43All right.
10:43Marty and Sam Bruno lead us off.
10:45Hi, Marty.
10:45Thanks for the call.
10:46Hi, I think the most obvious answer would be, well, to make the season longer.
10:55Instead of shorter, you make it longer.
10:56So, instead of the season ending in April, it ends in May.
11:00Or instead of it ending in June, it ends in early July.
11:03Not everybody likes to watch baseball.
11:05So, it gives basketball fans more opportunity to tune in.
11:08So, yeah, that's my take on it.
11:10Yeah.
11:11I mean, Marty, I think that that's obviously a simple start.
11:14But I think there's something to it.
11:16Grandy brought up the point earlier.
11:18It's already, in all of American pro sports, it is the longest season.
11:23I think there are ways to play with that that wouldn't need to extend it much.
11:26But we've long talked about, like, do you really need to be battling football that hard in October and November?
11:33What if you started it way later and then you just took on baseball?
11:37Just take on all of baseball season.
11:39Like, July and August, just sit there.
11:42And a lot of sports fans are like, let's go to Cancun.
11:45Like, you just turn the TV off and re-meet my family.
11:47And I do think that's a lot why basketball would want to stay where it is.
11:51Because you get to the summer and kids are off and there's vacations.
11:55You're not as locked in, yoked in on sports.
11:58I mean, baseball's there.
11:59Yeah, the mid-summer classic, everybody.
12:01I don't know if you'd want an NBA finals then.
12:04And also, I would bet the players, they probably like their summer.
12:07I would argue that the NBA finals are already during school's summer.
12:13And I would argue that in the summer, that's where kids can go to more games.
12:20I am way more willing to take my kid to something that starts at 7 o'clock in the city in the summertime
12:28than I am on a Tuesday in November.
12:31I'm not like, no, we've got to go to bed.
12:34But in summer, no problem.
12:36We could be in the city until 10 o'clock.
12:38No problem.
12:39I'm just looking at the 1998 schedule.
12:42It started October 31st, and it was 169 days start to finish.
12:48This year, it starts on October 21st, so they're actually moving it in the other direction.
12:52And it's 173 days long, the season.
12:56So, not much has changed in 30 years.
12:58Not a lot.
12:58Not a lot.
12:59Carrie in Scottsdale.
13:02Hi, Carrie.
13:03Thank you for the call.
13:03What's up?
13:04Yeah, good afternoon.
13:06Thanks for taking my call.
13:08I have a little solution here, and then also a comment.
13:11The solution would be to change the rule where the players have to be in the visiting city in the morning of the game.
13:20Players need to sleep.
13:21And I know that there's potential weather, but why can't they fly the same day so they can get a full night's sleep in the existing city that they were in for the back-to-backs?
13:31That's that comment.
13:32The one other comment is, how in the world could Steve Kerr commit malpractice by not having Jimmy or Curry on the floor for one of the games?
13:45Why do they all have to sit out in the same game?
13:48Couldn't they play Curry one game and then play Jimmy Butler the other game?
13:53You have all your top guys out at the same time?
13:56Why?
13:57That's just malpractice.
13:58Okay, Carrie, thanks.
13:59Two comments.
14:00Let's start with the second one.
14:02I don't find it to be malpractice.
14:04I think it's a mathematical equation that actually makes a whole lot of sense.
14:08You've got a hell of a lot better chance.
14:10If you're trying to win one game in that scenario, I'm going to throw my absolute best pitch in one of those games and then bail on the other one.
14:19It didn't work, but to me, that is the better option, your better chance.
14:23As opposed to half-stepping.
14:25So you play Steph in the first one, you lose, and then you sit him and you play Jimmy and you lose,
14:29and now neither one of them gets the full rest.
14:32And yeah, there's going to be some games you're just going to punt.
14:34And then you also have no game to build any continuity with each other.
14:39Those are their two most important players.
14:40They need to play together.
14:42So that.
14:43Now, the original thought of why don't you let them wake up and then fly to the game,
14:49I don't know how they would even feel about that.
14:53The only way I can answer it is how do you feel on the first day of vacation on the day that you flew
15:00versus how you feel the next day.
15:03Yeah, it depends how far you went.
15:04When you woke up.
15:06If you fly to Orlando to Disney World, and your whole day is spent in the air and you're traveling,
15:11that first day is going to be hopefully kind of a take it easy, maybe a half day at Epcot.
15:16You're supposed to go to your hotel.
15:17What'd they tell us in Die Hard?
15:18Take your shoes off and then rub your toes around on the carpet there in the hotel room.
15:23I don't want to go anywhere.
15:24I don't want to go hard.
15:25So I don't know that that would help.
15:27But interesting thought.
15:29Yeah, I like your thought about more staying plays and even centralized road trips where,
15:35all right, it's going to be a six-game road trip and we're going to focus on the southeast.
15:40We're going to hit you in Charlotte.
15:41You'll get Atlanta.
15:42You'll get Miami and Orlando.
15:44And we're going to keep you down in that general area.
15:46So even if you have to fly, they're hour and a half flights.
15:49It's not going to be as bad as what some of these are.
15:51I would try to make road trips like literally all that.
15:55Like you are, we're doing the southeast trip and we're going to do Miami and Orlando and
16:02the Hawks and Charlotte and we're going to do all of that.
16:05New Orleans, that's it.
16:07That's the whole trip.
16:09Not this thing where they're like, well, they're on the east coast.
16:11So they go from New York to Miami and then, you know, hit Dallas on the way back.
16:15And then, no, then you're creating these three and a half hour flights almost every other
16:20day and then, and then limit the back-to-backs, man.
16:24Like you got to stop with all the back-to-backs.
16:26Yeah.
16:26I was surprised when I did the length of season start to finish.
16:29I thought it would be a lot longer, but they replaced four games in five nights with just
16:34a bunch more back-to-backs for everybody.
16:36Which is like, look, what are we looking at tonight?
16:39You think, you think these two teams tonight in the NFL are going to throw their best pitch
16:42or, or, or might, has anybody noticed Thursday night football looks kind of sleepy sometimes?
16:48It can.
16:48Yeah, absolutely.
16:49It's back-to-backs are the same thing.
16:51Especially at this point in the year.
16:52They're not ready.
16:54Right.
16:54And for the Warriors, I mean, they got all these back-to-backs, five of them so far early
16:58in the year, and maybe a younger team would have handled it better, but that's still a
17:02lot of back-to-backs more than any other team in the association.
17:04Okay.
17:05Love all the calls.
17:05We got a bunch more to get to, and we're going to do that next.
17:08Ramona is still 20 minutes away.
17:10So let's see.
17:12Everybody who's here.
17:13Okay.
17:13Greg and Matt and Sheo and Tom, stay right here.
17:17Get online.
17:17How would you fix this load management problem, but we're taking away the answer fewer games.
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