00:01Doug Harst, Scott Anderson, 97-1.
00:06Champ and Chubb, get those votes in on this Monday.
00:09Michigan fans, what's your number one concern going into tonight's national championship game
00:14against the University of Connecticut?
00:17Additionally, we're talking some Red Wings.
00:20This frustration is perhaps peaking here in Detroit.
00:24It takes a lot.
00:26We get it.
00:27It takes a lot to have people want to move on from a legend.
00:33But there's not as many people calling up to support Steve Eisenman as there once was,
00:39and it's a shame, and that's one of the risks you run.
00:42I mean, Joe Dumars built a championship team,
00:45and yet I feel like that was an uncomfortable end to an era in Detroit.
00:51He couldn't build another one.
00:54And I feel like what he did for this organization as a player and then an executive
01:01should be nothing but praised.
01:04And it's almost like people think winning a championship is easy.
01:07I think building a team over the course of as many years as I've been to the chart
01:11that can make the playoffs is relatively easy.
01:16But, I mean, you know, half the league makes the playoffs.
01:20Yeah, it's strange how things go in the NHL.
01:24And, right, if his name wasn't Steve Eisenman, would he still be on the job?
01:28Probably not.
01:29I can admit that.
01:32And part of me feels like if they were to part ways,
01:34if they don't make the playoffs and they part ways with him,
01:37part of me feels like within two years we're going to be talking about
01:40some of the draft picks that he made that are making this team a really good team.
01:44Because we've done it a bit with Avila.
01:46We've done it a bit with who was the previous GM of the Pistons?
01:51Troy Weaver.
01:52Yep.
01:53We've seen some of the fruits of their labor pay off.
01:55But you have to build.
01:56But you've got to do something.
01:58You don't get forever.
01:59No, and it's just frustrating all around to see this team struggle as they have.
02:05With the Dumars thing, I was thinking of this too.
02:07Because you and I are both huge Joe fans.
02:10Yeah.
02:11And I think when people boo him or talk ill of him,
02:16how quickly they forget how he built the championship team.
02:19Now, once they had to take it apart, it was a real struggle for Joe.
02:23And I got it.
02:25But I'm not going to forget that he built a championship team
02:27and played for two championship teams.
02:29And now that his team is really good,
02:33I feel like it's a great time for Joe to come back
02:36and get his flowers from the crowd.
02:38He would deserve a standing Ovation.
02:41I would imagine the fans would really say,
02:43okay, we got it.
02:44You're good.
02:45It's always forgotten.
02:46It's in the past.
02:47And we're going to recognize that you won
02:49and GMed your way to another championship.
02:53Let's get back to your open line calls.
02:55We've got a Mitch who's next on 97.1.
02:57Hello, Mitch.
03:00Hello.
03:01This is Pitch with a P.
03:02Oh, sorry.
03:03Hi, Pitch.
03:05How are you doing, guys?
03:06Good.
03:06Or should we say, hi, Pitch?
03:10That's a new one.
03:11I hadn't heard that one.
03:13Just passing Ann Arbor on my way to Indy.
03:16Excited for the game, but very wary of UConn.
03:20They're really tournament tested.
03:23They aren't going to back down.
03:25They're never going to quit.
03:26I think we need to keep our boot on their neck the whole game for 40 minutes,
03:30or we're not going to win.
03:32Well, I mean, I would imagine that after coming this far,
03:36and given the sense of urgency that needs to be cranked up,
03:40everyone on that roster, given the uncertainty with Yaks,
03:44if Yaks were healthy, maybe they'd be more prone to being overconfident,
03:50but they have to be wondering themselves, how is his leg going to respond?
03:56And keeping the boot on the neck, like if you get off to a quick start,
04:00don't let them, I mean, try to do what they did against Arizona.
04:03I thought Michigan was, the way they played defense,
04:06they were going to beat Arizona.
04:07It turned into a blow because Arizona couldn't make open shots,
04:11and so it went from being maybe probably an 8- to 12-point game
04:15to being what it turned out to, a 20-point game.
04:18UConn's got shooters, and they make you work so hard on that end of the floor.
04:22You've got to run through screens.
04:24I don't know who's going to guard Caravan, how they're going to approach that,
04:27because I normally would have thought it would have been Yaksal,
04:29but yeah, Mitch, do you have tickets already?
04:34Yeah, I meet my son there.
04:36He's working from a hotel.
04:37He can work from anywhere, and he already has tickets for us.
04:40Nice.
04:40Nice.
04:41Well, there you go.
04:42Son's an asset, right?
04:45Yeah.
04:45Oh, yeah.
04:46He's a big grad and a big fan,
04:48and our whole family's pretty much true blue,
04:50except for one lone Sparty in the house.
04:53Gotcha.
04:54How's the lone Sparty doing?
04:57She's fine.
04:58She's not that into sports,
04:59and her husband's polite enough to be quiet about it.
05:05Mitch, thank you.
05:05Appreciate it.
05:07Pitch.
05:07Sorry.
05:08Hi, Pitch.
05:08Pitch.
05:09Hi.
05:13You're unbelievable.
05:15My dad did say,
05:17another check in the asset column.
05:18Yeah.
05:19Yeah, I got another check in the asset column.
05:20You should have gotten that.
05:21Even after you freaked him out,
05:23thinking he was going to have to.
05:24Standing room only tickets?
05:25Yeah.
05:26I told him that on April Fool's Day, early in the morning.
05:31Hey, yeah, I had just one issue with the tickets.
05:33They're standing room only, but you should be good.
05:35There's screens everywhere, and $500 each.
05:39Here's my Venmo.
05:41Then radio silence for about an hour and a half,
05:44and I texted my mom and said,
05:45does dad know it's April Fool's Day?
05:47I was kidding.
05:48She's like, oh, my God.
05:49So I could just picture him stewing for an hour.
05:53You could see that, right?
05:54Let's go to Rico and Romulus.
05:56You're next.
05:56What's up, Rico?
05:59I just said something,
06:01and, of course, I have confidence in Michigan,
06:05but I noticed something when I watched the last game.
06:09One of the opposing players stood on Yaxl Lindbergh's foot,
06:16and then another player pushed him.
06:20That created that ankle injury that he has.
06:23Would you comment on that or no?
06:25I don't think it's true.
06:26No, he clearly stepped on the Arizona player's foot.
06:35Okay, well, I thought he stepped on.
06:39And, okay, let me ask you this while I'm on the phone.
06:43All right.
06:44How in the world did Lindbergh hurt his ankle?
06:48Well, he stepped on the other player's foot.
06:50He turned the ankle.
06:51I didn't know he hurt his knee at the same time,
06:54but apparently it all happened in that one play where he was driving down the lane
06:57and stepped on a player's foot.
07:03I think it was Krivas' foot.
07:06Did you watch the game, Rico?
07:08No, I think it was the other way around.
07:09Well, did you watch the game?
07:12Yeah, I did.
07:12And it looked like somebody stood on Lindbergh's foot.
07:18Rico, all due respect, I don't know.
07:20Maybe you just need to go back and Google the injury
07:23because I thought they showed it ad nauseum from several different angles
07:28that show that Yaks stepped on the guy's foot,
07:31and it was not intentionally.
07:33I mean, it's just how it is, and that's how you'd roll an ankle.
07:35I think it was a bad luck basketball play.
07:37I'm looking at it right now.
07:38His left foot comes down on Krivas' foot,
07:42like the toe of Krivas' foot turns his ankle outwards,
07:47and apparently the knee got hurt at the same time,
07:50but that looked like a bad luck injury more than anything.
07:54Now, they say that he's responded well to treatment.
07:56All the MRIs came back.
07:58Well, the scans came back clean, which is huge.
08:00Yep.
08:00Now it's going to be a pain management thing,
08:02although lateral movement is not likely to be ideal.
08:05Well, that's the thing.
08:06When I talk about matchups,
08:08I thought a Yaks on Karaban was the matchup.
08:11Now it's probably Mara or Merez Johnson
08:14that would be chasing him through the labyrinth of screens, the maze,
08:19and that's a tough matchup.
08:21And then somebody else is going to have to guard Terrace Reed,
08:24who's just an absolute tank down on the low block.
08:26But, yeah, I didn't see anything intentional about that.
08:29Ray is in commerce next on 97.1.
08:31Hi, Ray.
08:33Good morning, Doug.
08:34Good morning, or good afternoon, rather.
08:35What's up?
08:35I've been on the road all day.
08:37All good.
08:37Yeah, I just wanted to get my champ and chump votes in.
08:40First of all, champ Michigan.
08:42That was one of the best games I've ever watched as a fan,
08:46just complete dominance.
08:48So hats off to that organization.
08:50But, you know, I have to jump to NCAA, Lucas Oil Stadium,
08:54or whoever was in charge of getting Yaks held to the locker room.
08:58Why in the world do you have them walking all the way with an ankle injury?
09:01You know, we've got golf carts for football players,
09:04and we can't do that for a basketball player?
09:06So they have a tent set up in the walkway out,
09:09so you didn't have to go all the way to the locker room.
09:11But, yeah, I mean, I'm sure they have wheelchair access,
09:13or if anything like that, if a player needs it.
09:16Kick and go.
09:16But I'm going to guess here, Ray, that he could walk on his own
09:21and was fine with that.
09:23You know, sometimes you turn your ankle.
09:25But, yeah, I don't think.
09:26Yeah, he felt bad for the player.
09:27Yeah.
09:27No, don't worry.
09:28I think he was fine.
09:29I think he could walk fine.
09:31But they do have a tent.
09:33They literally have the blue NFL tent set up right,
09:37like halfway to the tunnels underneath.
09:40So he doesn't have to go all the way there.
09:42But, yeah, I don't know it's any different than any other places.
09:47248-539-9797.
09:48Get your championship boats in.
09:50Michigan fans, what's your number one concern tonight?
09:52The biggest challenge that UConn presents?
09:56Additionally, what it might cost to move up for the Lions?
09:59What they could get for moving back?
10:01Two interesting trades I want to talk about.
10:03We'll get to that at 1235 on 97.1.
10:06We'll get to that at 1235 on 97.1.
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