00:02dungar scott anderson carl and mylan says just for fun i would like to see mitchell get called
00:08for flopping well if they started calling flopping in the nba
00:16shea gilgis alexander would not see a second half of an nba game
00:22uh what i would like to see more of this piston game and less uh less back-to-back missed
00:27shots
00:27they'll go on little spurts and missing shots allowing their opponents to get back in the game
00:32one thing i thought they did really well in game one is i thought they were very patient with their
00:36offense i don't think they rushed through anything we didn't see you know a ton of hero ball or any
00:42of that it was just they passed the ball around they worked the clock reasonably well i and they
00:47end up it ended up being a winning formula all right i mentioned before the break the question
00:54that uh the athletic put to the players and we did a little bit of this yesterday i guess they're
00:59they're releasing results in in waves here uh today the question is if you were commissioner for a day
01:05with broad power to push through any change what change would you make to the league
01:12so nba players asked they can make any single change what change would you make if you have broad
01:20power for a day i'm intrigued to hear what the fans have to say because i think between the people
01:27that love the league and the people that hate the league there are answers so if you could change
01:34one thing about the league what would you change and the players actually offered up 153 players i think
01:43responded the players offered up 10 different responses wow so yeah 153 players 10 different
01:50responses i'm not going to tell you what the responses are but this is almost like a who's
01:54on top gotcha yeah see if you want to change yeah and the fans answers i suspect are going to
01:59be
01:59different than the players answers but uh what would you say would be the number one thing you do
02:05would change i i don't know how you do it it's it's the tough it's probably the number one thing
02:09that
02:10needs to change and it's the hardest thing to to figure out how to do it and that is stop
02:13tanking
02:15how do you prevent tanking from happening in the nba because obviously you get to the second half of
02:20the season you've got the haves the half nots and those half nots go right into the tank so how
02:25do you
02:25how do you stop that from happening that is not one of the 10 answers really yep players give zero
02:33f's
02:34about the tanking apparently hmm hmm i mean that and and 153 players responded not one does that
02:44surprise you a little bit because i i think there's going to be a lot of that okay from the
02:49surprise you um there's a lot to complain about the nba and i'm an nba fan so i'm trying to
02:56think
02:56does that rank in my top 10 i guess you're right doug and first of all i answer the question
03:01yes do you
03:02think that would rank in the top 10 for you the tanking for me i guess maybe it's connected to
03:07something else you know which is load management so i don't know that you know what i mean so i
03:11have
03:11load management ahead of tanking but it's it's right there it's a solid complaint interesting when you
03:17consider this doug and you're bringing it up it's players responding it's not fans responding i think
03:22fans would respond differently than players because for fans i think the load management is there and
03:27like king says it's tied to tanking um but players if they can get paid the same thing they get
03:34paid
03:34to play less so they're in favor of it load management not on the list yeah see it's a player
03:40thing right players right they probably enjoy the load management is caviar on the list more caviar
03:47games i wonder like my guess doug would be i haven't seen this list would be flopping they hate the
03:56flopping it would change the flopping like they would not call fouls and maybe call more for flopping
04:03instead of calling the you know defensive foul not on the list wow so this is i thought more players
04:10would hate that than do like it it's fascinating because their perspective you guys just named three
04:18things that i would expect our phones to blow up with how about this hold on hold on okay i
04:22want to
04:22leave it out there for the listeners if you want to write something down you can but i think we
04:26should
04:26leave some options out there for the listeners these are the number one now if you've seen the list
04:30that's fine i guess but we're actually just asking you what's the number one thing you would change
04:37and if you've if your thing has already been suggested what's then what's number two because
04:41we suggested three things so far none of them are on the top 10 list of what nba players say
04:47they'd
04:47change shows where the players priorities are yep 248-539-9797 tony in detroit what's up tony
04:56hey i will still go with the flopping yeah but uh i just feel like that's something they don't
05:03necessarily have to give them files but if they got turnovers for them and then if you had a
05:09certain amount of uh uh flops that you had during the season like shea gildress you can't get you
05:17can't win awards so oh i like this if you and now are you coming up with like a specific
05:27rule like
05:28if you flop a certain amount of times in the course of a season you're not eligible for postseason awards
05:33exactly so then that makes them want to play like they're supposed to play because like donovan
05:38mitchell he doesn't flop you know but james harden flops you know so it just now say gildress
05:49is not in the top contest um yokich doesn't flop really you know so it just kind of will change
05:55the
05:56game just to where everybody start playing a lot more tougher you know
06:01and not try and search for them files so now i just want to make one thing clear thank you
06:06tony
06:07for the phone call these are the top 10 responses certain things did get mentioned outside the top
06:1310 and the bulk of the story says one player suggested year-long suspensions for flopping
06:18but it only got one vote so it didn't make it into the top 10 i i kind of think
06:24that that probably
06:24wouldn't fly with the players association a year-long suspension but a certain amount of
06:29flopping calls if you got if they actually called it and then if you exceeded a certain number not
06:35being eligible for postseason awards i think that would curb it because players have incentives players
06:41like that stuff got to think like a player in this poll if you're if you're trying to guess what's
06:46in the top 10 i mean because we got two separate things here going i guess one is if you
06:50got this
06:50the question was for nba players if you were made commissioner for a day and you can make one
06:55sweeping change and you you it was up to you what would you make we've asked fans that questions what
07:00we're trying to see is if they align with what the player said trying to guess with what the player
07:04said is kind of a different question but you could do one of either you can either guess what you
07:07think
07:08the player said or you can give what your number one change would be 248-539-9797 let's go to
07:17ken
07:17next on 97.1 hello ken hey how's it going guys what's up so i got the number one thing
07:24i know it
07:24well hold on do you know it because you saw it or you know it because you think no i'm
07:29just i'm just
07:29driving okay and and i know because of i watch a lot of podcasting and their number one gripe all
07:35the
07:35time is back-to-backs and three out of fours that's their biggest gripe that's what i have number
07:40one on my list that i think the players that say back-to-back games it is tied for first
07:44tied for first
07:46i mean that you hear them complain about it all the time so that's you know do you really what
07:51do they i mean do they just say it's too hard well they it's it's a it's that's why a
07:56lot of
07:57players like kawaii and other players like that don't always play back-to-backs because it's like
08:01you know they get they get 40 minutes one night or 36 minutes and then you know to play that
08:06back-to-back
08:06even if it's a travel and you're now you're traveling you got to go through the airport you got
08:10to go through all of that stuff and then you know it's just a it's just it's it takes a
08:14toll they
08:14said and there's a lot of three out of four nights they hate that too it's that's that was my
08:19guess
08:19so two things about that one is i don't think they have to go through the airport i think they
08:24pull up
08:25on a charter bus to a hangar they walk through the hangar directly up onto the plane and it's wheels
08:29up
08:29five minutes later so they're it's not they're not they're not going through airports is it would this
08:36be the number and what would this be your biggest complaint ken what would your number one thing be
08:40i think i think my biggest thing would definitely be the flopping i mean that's that's it gets out
08:47of control i mean the foul baiting stuff like that it just takes away from the game thank you for
08:53the
08:53phone call 248-539-9797 mark is next hi mark hey good morning what's up um start calling traveling
09:01do you think that would be a issue that the fires would uh go for or not no i think
09:06they love the
09:06freedom of being able to roam wherever they want to it bothers you though oh it bugs the heck out
09:12you know it's four steps from the free throw line i think it probably bothered me for my first five
09:17or
09:17six years watching the nba and now i've just been i've like given up the cause they actually call it
09:22now i mean when we had calls the other night it was like wow oh they just that that just
09:26happened i think
09:27there's been two traveling calls in the last two piston games or two of the last maybe two in the
09:31last three games which is almost unprecedented yeah why do they call it away from the basket you know
09:37it's a saint you know i can't stick three steps out by the you know the midcourt it's crazy yeah
09:42i mean
09:43the players don't care i will tell you it did not make the top 10 of their complaints 248-539
09:48-9797 if
09:49you were nba commissioner for a day what would be the one sweeping change you would make
09:54the players answers don't align with what the fans have said so far although one of the ones
10:02that tied for first has been mentioned what do you what's your biggest issue and what else do you
10:07think the players kind of two questions here what is your biggest issue that you would change
10:11and what do you think the number one issue the players want changed uh top 10 list only one has
10:17been mentioned so far 248-539-9797 we'll get to some tiger stuff gotta are you gonna eat that in
10:23the
10:23noon hour here on carson anderson on a thursday big game two tonight 97 one
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