00:00Okay, we'll get back to your phone calls in a moment.
00:04I'm rattled by that story in The Athletic, I've got to be honest.
00:08I think you're easily rattled.
00:09It may be true.
00:14The questions, Duren's work ethic, which is not what I want to hear.
00:19Are you ready for bold-ass predictions?
00:21I am.
00:21All right, so we each have three bold-ass predictions.
00:23Do you have more than three?
00:24No, I have three.
00:25Three bold-ass predictions.
00:27This was harder than it usually is.
00:30Are you ready?
00:30We do this all the time at the start of season.
00:32Yep.
00:33This is the start.
00:34The Red Wings play tonight.
00:35They're the opener to the season.
00:37It's at home against the Rangers.
00:40Yeah.
00:40No Dylan Larkin, no Simon Edmondson.
00:42Here we go.
00:43My first one is the Red Wings will finish last and lose the lottery.
00:47Worst-case scenario and end up with a third pick.
00:50And I want to point out to everybody, their worst-case scenario,
00:54if they finish last, is the third pick.
00:57We've got people saying it's the fourth.
00:59This is probably the most popular bold-ass prediction,
01:01is that they'll be the worst team in the league
01:03and drop as far as they can in the lottery.
01:05The worst the first-place team or last-place team can drop
01:09is to third, not fourth or fifth.
01:11So we'll adjust that as necessary with the ones that come in.
01:14Yeah.
01:15Rookie defenseman Anton Johansson,
01:17don't confuse him with Albert Johansson,
01:20will lead the Blue Liners in assists this season.
01:23Wow.
01:26Simon Edmondson will play for Fralunda
01:29and help them hoist the Lamont-Poakalin Cup.
01:34I love when you do research.
01:36Yeah.
01:36That's what it is.
01:37The Lamont-Poakalin.
01:39Michael Branzig-Negard will score 23 goals this season.
01:46My final bold-ass prediction,
01:48for the first time ever,
01:50I will only have two real bold-ass predictions.
01:56My final bold-ass prediction.
01:57That one's already come true.
01:59Yeah, good job.
01:59It's already come true.
02:01Easy.
02:02My final bold-ass prediction,
02:05Brock Aller.
02:06Are you familiar with Brock Aller?
02:07No.
02:08He's the vice president of basketball
02:10and strategic planning for the New York Knicks.
02:12He will be named the new general manager in April.
02:17All about analytics, dog.
02:19Good Lord.
02:19The Knicks just won the championship.
02:21Exactly.
02:21Good job.
02:22Good pedigree.
02:23Thank you, gang.
02:24Here's what's coming in from Schwartzy.
02:26I predict Tom McClellan will be bald
02:28by the end of December
02:29and miss significant time in January,
02:30recovering from a botched Turkish hair transplant.
02:33Wow.
02:35That would take a lot.
02:36The guy's, he's got hair.
02:38From M. Dez,
02:39the Wings finish second to last in the NHL this season,
02:42but they win the draft lottery
02:44and take Landon DuPont number one overall.
02:49Unnamed texter,
02:50Red Wings bold-ass prediction.
02:51This is the year the Red Wings finally move up
02:53in the draft lottery
02:54and end up with the number two pick.
02:57Another unnamed texter,
02:58here's my Red Wing bold-ass prediction.
03:00Eisenman will become GM of another team
03:02and turn them into a Stanley Cup contender
03:04within a couple of years.
03:07And from Scott,
03:08the Red Wings' next captain will be named Dave.
03:17Get him in.
03:18Red Wings bold-ass predictions.
03:192, 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 97, 97.
03:22It is a bleak outlook
03:24as we get set for another season.
03:25Let's go to Chris in Garden City.
03:27You're next.
03:27Hi, Chris.
03:29Guys, last season,
03:31Dern was the best player on that team,
03:3325 to 30% of the games,
03:35and we have a quote-unquote MVP candidate on the team.
03:39This guy is 22 years old.
03:41We won 60 games.
03:42There's been a lot of Dern bashing,
03:44and I get it's a lot of money,
03:45but let's look at Cade
03:47and talk about off-season training.
03:49That dude's never lifted a weight in his life.
03:51So, Dern's a good piece
03:54that Metro Detroit,
03:55let's just stop bashing him
03:56and realize he was a major part
03:58of a really good team last season.
03:59Had a poor playoff,
04:01but he has plenty of opportunities going forward.
04:04Chris, you don't think Cade Cunningham lifts weights?
04:06Have you seen his arms, Cater?
04:08Yeah, have you seen his arms?
04:09Absolutely no definition at all.
04:11Well, hold on, hold on, hold on.
04:13The veins aren't broken up.
04:15I like the way you defend Dern
04:17and say don't bash Dern
04:18by bashing Cade.
04:21No, I'm not bashing him, Bob,
04:23but if it's an issue for you,
04:25you just gotta look over at the leader.
04:26What I'm saying, too, is
04:27Cade's a sexy Lamborghini,
04:29and Dern's like this Yukon,
04:32and everyone's just like,
04:33hey, man, we don't need the Yukon.
04:34We got that Lambo over there.
04:36Look, man, the kid was awesome last season,
04:38and he played great,
04:40and I don't know where all this bash has come.
04:42It's time to get paid.
04:43We're a crap franchise,
04:44and you gotta overpay
04:45in the city where the taxes are wild.
04:48So, yeah, we actually, you know what?
04:50We got a steal on Dern.
04:51The kid's awesome.
04:52All right, let's go to Bernard in Detroit.
04:55You're next.
04:55Hello, Bernard.
04:57I disagree with everything
04:58that last guy said.
05:00I mean...
05:01Everything.
05:02See, I think people think
05:04it's a given that you're gonna get better.
05:06It's not a given
05:08that you're gonna get better.
05:09It's hope you get better.
05:10Most people don't get better.
05:13That's why it's so much time
05:14over in the NBA.
05:16No, in doing this,
05:17the one guy said,
05:18well, he got better,
05:19and he didn't.
05:20I was 13 his first year.
05:22He went down to 20.
05:23He went up to 19,
05:25where he is now.
05:26So, trending,
05:27he's probably gonna be down.
05:29John Cobbins
05:30is gonna take away
05:31a lot of his goals.
05:33He's not gonna stop.
05:34Bernard,
05:35we're kinda,
05:35I don't know if you're not
05:36talking into your phone,
05:37but it sounds like
05:37you're underwater
05:38all of a sudden.
05:39I'm sorry,
05:40but you know what I'm saying.
05:41John Cobbins
05:42averaged 19.5 points a game,
05:44but when he took away
05:45the lob,
05:46he went back down to 16.
05:47And I think the same thing
05:49that's gonna happen to Dorian,
05:50he's gonna go back down to 16.
05:52I mean,
05:53just because he's young
05:54don't mean
05:55he's gonna be
05:56a perennial all-star.
05:58No, Bernard,
05:58there's no given.
05:59You're right about that.
06:00There's no given.
06:01The potential is there
06:02for a 22-year-old
06:03who made a big jump
06:05from year three
06:06to year four.
06:06The potential's there
06:08for him to continue
06:09to get better.
06:10I do not like that story
06:11in The Athletic
06:12about there being
06:13legitimate concerns
06:13about his work ethic.
06:15I hope he answers that bell
06:16and that criticism.
06:18But if you look at
06:19Dorian numbers,
06:20right,
06:20he only,
06:21he averaged 27 minutes a game.
06:23He's probably one of the only
06:25center starters in the NBA
06:27that averaged under
06:2830 minutes a game.
06:29He only averaged
06:30in 27 minutes now.
06:31He got benched a lot
06:33because of poor performance.
06:35And then they're gonna
06:35turn around
06:36and pay this guy
06:37$200 million.
06:38It don't make any sense.
06:39Well,
06:40it does if you look
06:41at it relative.
06:42That point that there are
06:4249 other players
06:44that make more money
06:44than him in the NBA
06:45I think is a pretty
06:46important one.
06:47That money sounds massive,
06:50but...
06:50It is massive.
06:51Well,
06:51it is,
06:52but relative to the rest
06:53of the league,
06:54he's not...
06:55You know,
06:56there's what,
06:57five,
06:57six,
06:57seven,
06:57I don't know how many,
06:58I haven't counted the centers,
07:00but there's a bunch
07:00of centers ahead of him.
07:02This isn't a break
07:03the bank
07:04relative to everybody
07:05else in the league
07:06kind of move.
07:07And you can say,
07:08all right,
07:09is Jalen Dern
07:10in the top
07:1050 players in the league?
07:12If you don't,
07:13if you're not comfortable
07:14with that,
07:14what,
07:1450,
07:1560,
07:1575?
07:15If you start...
07:16He's third team
07:17all NBA.
07:18I know,
07:19dude.
07:19But it's as a center,
07:20right?
07:21There's,
07:21you know,
07:21there...
07:23I'm just saying.
07:24Black at East Point
07:25here on 97.1.
07:26Hello,
07:26Black.
07:28Okay.
07:31Let me go back to it.
07:32Bold prediction.
07:33Bold.
07:34The wings will make
07:35the playoffs.
07:36Wow,
07:36that is bold.
07:37we're writing it down.
07:38That's bold.
07:39And the reason
07:40bold is
07:40they're way
07:41up under the radar.
07:42Way up under the radar.
07:44They are way below it.
07:46You're right on that.
07:47And nobody's
07:48counting on them.
07:49you know,
07:50before,
07:50you're like,
07:51man,
07:51they're going to make playoffs.
07:52They're going to make it this year.
07:53This year,
07:54there ain't nobody
07:54saying that.
07:55So I'm like,
07:55they might be out there
07:56a little loosey-goosey now.
07:58And,
07:58you know,
08:00they might go
08:00playing the radar.
08:01I mean,
08:01I'm serious.
08:02I really think
08:03this time,
08:04there's no expectations.
08:05We're just out here playing.
08:07So that's my bold prediction.
08:08But let me say this.
08:10Now,
08:10y'all giving the pass.
08:11And this is what I heard
08:13and I think it's true now.
08:15They said in the locker room
08:16after game seven,
08:18they undressed
08:21Durham
08:21about his weight
08:22and how slow he was moving
08:23and all that.
08:24And they got on him.
08:25They basically
08:26belosed him.
08:26And that's why
08:27it became personal.
08:29And hearing them saying
08:30that the guards
08:31had to step in
08:32because Langdon
08:33was done
08:33talking to him,
08:34that's why I think
08:35it got personal.
08:36And I think
08:37the money that he asked for,
08:38he didn't really want
08:39to be mad.
08:40He probably did want
08:41out of here
08:41because,
08:42you know,
08:42in today's society,
08:43you cannot undress
08:45young kids.
08:46Back in the day,
08:47you could do it all.
08:47Okay,
08:48it's not personal.
08:49But today,
08:50you cannot talk down
08:52to them.
08:52They will take it personal.
08:53And I said,
08:55it's something personal going on.
08:56When I heard it about,
08:57he undressed him
08:58about that weight.
08:58They put that weight clause in it.
09:00You're not moving good enough.
09:01You're overweight.
09:02That's why we lost
09:03his seven-game series.
09:04But let me say this.
09:05He is 22.
09:07Pump the brakes.
09:08And y'all,
09:09give him the pass
09:10to that general manager,
09:11which all the general managers
09:12get a pass.
09:14He's done nothing.
09:15Well,
09:15hold on.
09:16Hold on.
09:16Hold on.
09:16Hold on.
09:17Hold on.
09:17Hold on.
09:17Hold on.
09:18They won 60 games last year.
09:20They advanced further
09:21than the year before.
09:22I would not call that nothing.
09:25What has he brought in,
09:26Doug?
09:27What is it?
09:28Oh,
09:28you reshape this roster.
09:30They're completely reshaping
09:31what their identity is going to be.
09:32I love the addition of Isaiah Joe,
09:34and I really like the addition
09:35of John Collins.
09:38I mean,
09:39the changes they made,
09:40this is on Trajan Langdon
09:42to see,
09:42you know,
09:43what this team is going to be
09:44for the next couple of years
09:45because he has changed it
09:47dramatically.
09:48Or as we like to say,
09:49dramatically.
09:50We talk Lions next,
09:5297.1.
