00:00Doug Karsh, Scott Anderson, 97.1.
00:03Open lines, 248-539-9797.
00:07Champ Lucas Raymond, or sorry, Chump Lucas Raymond
00:10for fanning on three breakaways.
00:12Champ, also Lucas Raymond for the shootout goal.
00:15He's off to a slow start in terms of goal scoring,
00:18and he's getting snake bit a little bit,
00:20and I'm sure he's feeling it.
00:22But him scoring in the shootout,
00:25hopefully that gets him going
00:26because it was a heck of a goal.
00:28They needed it.
00:29It got him the win.
00:31That and Gibson, his play in net was incredible
00:33against the Sharks, both in regulation
00:36and in the shootouts.
00:38But the Red Wings have won back-to-back games here,
00:41and they've gotten points in the last four games.
00:44So they're playing a better brand of hockey,
00:46a better defensive brand of hockey for sure.
00:48They've gotten great goaltending,
00:52and we'll see what happens.
00:54There are reports.
00:55Bucci Grass had a report on Friday on his podcast.
00:57It said he's heard.
00:59We'll play it.
01:00Okay?
01:00Well, we'll get to that later.
01:01Yes.
01:02Yeah, but you can finish the sentence.
01:03It basically says that he expects Larkin to be traded
01:06the next seven to ten days,
01:07and that was as a Friday,
01:08so he expects to be traded this week.
01:10Refresh Twitter.
01:11Refresh Twitter.
01:12Johnny and LaPierre, champ Tommy Carr for coming in
01:15and having the poise and not letting the game get too big.
01:17Hope he stays a starter and can finish the season strong.
01:19Chump Indiana for letting the suck eyes off the hook
01:22go blue sweep the leg.
01:25Yeah, I mean, again, I had that game on,
01:27and I've DVR'd it,
01:28and I always watch the next opponent as much as I can,
01:31so that's Indiana and Indiana-Ohio State.
01:34It looked to me like Ohio State did a pretty decent job
01:37with Hoover,
01:39and Hoover maybe didn't have his best game,
01:41the Indiana quarterback,
01:43and Ohio State might have some challenges moving forward
01:46because it looks like Julian Sainz is going to be out for a while.
01:49Yeah, he got absolutely crushed in that game.
01:54Shoulder in a sling is a bad...
01:55It's a bad look.
01:56Yeah, it's usually a bad diagnosis.
01:59That didn't look so good for him.
02:03But I would also say that if you watched it,
02:08that Indiana did a heck of a job against Jeremiah Smith,
02:14save for one play,
02:16which was just heave it up down in the end zone
02:19and see if he can make a play,
02:21and of course he did because he's the best player in the country,
02:23but otherwise they defended him pretty well.
02:25From Scott,
02:26is Sauce Gardner now available with the firing of Chris Ballard in Indy?
02:29Chris Ballard, the general manager, fired today.
02:32Does that make players more available?
02:34I don't know if it makes them more available or less available.
02:36Who's in charge,
02:37and what are their instructions from ownership?
02:40Is ownership...
02:41My guess is ownership will be in favor of a rebuild,
02:45but if you're looking for general managers,
02:48you want the general manager,
02:50the new general manager,
02:51to make the job as attractive as possible for him,
02:54so you don't know what that person wants to do,
02:57and so I don't know, Scott.
02:58That's a great question.
03:00Certainly call on everybody.
03:02Chump, C.J. Gardner-Johnson for spitting.
03:04No need for that.
03:05And Champ is Tommy Carr.
03:09Yeah, that's not a good look.
03:10He got thrown out of the game,
03:12has issued a public apology.
03:14Other players are going to social media saying
03:16it's not the first time, but...
03:19Okay, Kang.
03:21Look, I was surprised with this take
03:25just because it sounds like something I would do.
03:29Uh-oh.
03:31What, you're not doing it anymore?
03:32You matured?
03:33I'm trying not to,
03:34but this is a little different.
03:36I got burned
03:39kind of back-to-back piston draft picks
03:42with summer league results.
03:46Got way too excited
03:48over what I was seeing
03:49in the summer league
03:50because neither Stanley Johnson
03:52nor Henry Ellenson
03:53really panned out, did they?
03:55But, Kang,
03:57you surprised me today.
03:59Well, yeah.
04:00We're show prepping
04:01before the show
04:02talking about
04:03what happened over the weekend
04:04and things like that.
04:05And I brought up to you,
04:06have you watched the Pistons?
04:09Have you seen Okori?
04:11Have you seen Asar Thompson?
04:14Have you seen Jalen Duren play?
04:15Hey, no.
04:17And I preface this by saying
04:18what we all will all say
04:19and everyone that texts in
04:20and calls in is going to say,
04:22yes, I realize it's the preseason.
04:24And in Okori's case,
04:25he's playing like the last
04:26eight minutes of the game
04:27against guys who probably
04:28aren't even going to make the team
04:29from the other roster, right?
04:30Well, tune in for those
04:31last eight minutes.
04:32Yeah, exactly.
04:33Because he's cooking
04:34those last eight minutes, man.
04:35Am I wrong, Gator?
04:36Come on.
04:37You are not wrong.
04:38All right?
04:39He looks really good.
04:40So, Okori is different
04:41because there's probably
04:42a reason why he's only
04:43getting in the last
04:44eight, ten minutes of the game.
04:45They probably don't expect
04:46a lot from him this year.
04:48And I get that.
04:49Still don't understand
04:50why he's only playing
04:50the last eight minutes
04:51of preseason games,
04:52but whatever,
04:52they have a reason for it.
04:54They're sticking to it,
04:54which tells me they're not
04:55going to play him a lot this year,
04:56at least to start.
04:57But with Thompson and Duren,
05:00I see a definitive difference
05:02so far in preseason
05:04of their offensive capabilities.
05:08Now, Jalen Duren's
05:09first game back,
05:10what he did in the first
05:11half in 15 minutes,
05:1224 points,
05:13and it wasn't just like
05:13the dunks.
05:14We get that.
05:15It looked different.
05:16He looked lighter on his feet.
05:18He made a little
05:18mid-range shot
05:19on the baseline.
05:20There it is.
05:22He did things that we were
05:25asking him to do last year,
05:26especially during the playoffs.
05:28Open up your offensive skill set.
05:30Show us more than just dunks
05:32and rim running, right?
05:34With the star, Thompson,
05:35he's hitting mid-range shots.
05:38He's actually got more handles
05:40than he did last year,
05:41and this team needs someone
05:42who can handle the ball
05:43besides Cade Cunningham.
05:44Take that pressure off him.
05:46If,
05:46big capital I,
05:48capital F,
05:49if these guys are progressing
05:50and opening up their
05:51offensive game,
05:53this is the secondary scoring.
05:55This is the ball handling
05:56that the Pizzins needed
05:57and didn't really necessarily
05:58get this offseason.
05:59They got a couple
06:00three-point shooters,
06:01but they didn't get
06:01the Robin, right,
06:03to Cade's Batman.
06:04And I'm not saying
06:05they're exactly Robin yet,
06:06but if they're better
06:07than we were last year,
06:08that's a help.
06:11Hopefully they're better
06:12than the band of hoodlums
06:13that would go around
06:14the special guest villain
06:15in the Batman show.
06:17Those that just get
06:18a bunch of guys
06:18and they get beat up
06:19all the time.
06:20I hope they're better
06:21than that.
06:22Me too.
06:22But can they be,
06:24are you saying,
06:24can they be Batgirl?
06:26Is that what you're saying?
06:27I don't want to overreact,
06:28Doug,
06:28but just watching basketball,
06:31I don't even care
06:32if it's preseason,
06:32I don't care who
06:33they're going against.
06:33Watching Asar Thompson
06:35be able to dribble the ball,
06:36hit a floater,
06:38pull up,
06:38hit a mid-range,
06:39wave a guy off
06:40because I got this
06:42one-on-one.
06:43I didn't see that last year.
06:45It's a crack of the bat.
06:46It sounds louder,
06:47doesn't it,
06:47off his bat?
06:48They look like
06:48he's in the best shape
06:49of their lives.
06:50They do.
06:52Kangs,
06:52way too early fall takes.
06:57Okay.
06:58So he shows me a highlight.
06:59He goes,
07:00look what Asar does here.
07:02And he shows me this
07:03waving people off,
07:05going one-on-one
07:06and pulling up
07:06and hitting a mid-range jumper.
07:10Chandling is in
07:10or Rip Hamilton.
07:12And,
07:12and,
07:12and,
07:13and,
07:14he didn't do that last year.
07:15He just didn't do that last year.
07:16He wouldn't even think about
07:17doing that last year.
07:18Everyone always wonders,
07:19well,
07:19why does he work on his free throws?
07:20Why does he work on this?
07:21They work on this stuff
07:22all the time.
07:23It's whether it can translate
07:24into a real game or not.
07:25Now there's levels to this.
07:26Don't get me wrong.
07:27It's one thing to do it
07:28on one-on-one
07:29in the offseason.
07:30It's another thing to do it
07:31in preseason.
07:32And then it's another thing
07:34to do it in the regular season.
07:35And then the ultimate is,
07:36can you do it in the playoffs?
07:37Right?
07:38And so there's levels,
07:39like I said,
07:39and I just like what I see so far.
07:41Now,
07:41will it translate
07:42into the regular season?
07:43I'm not sure.
07:44When you're going up against,
07:45you know,
07:47starters,
07:48not guys that are going to get cut,
07:49but I see the development
07:51and people ask for it all the time.
07:53I don't want to get too excited,
07:54but Doug,
07:55I see that maybe
07:56what Trajan Langdon saw,
07:58you know,
07:58like,
07:58hey,
07:59don't forget,
08:00our guys can get better too.
08:01We don't have to go out
08:02and make the big splash necessarily.
08:03they are young.
08:04They're very young.
08:05Well,
08:06we've all talked about Duren's age,
08:07but yeah,
08:08Saar's only 23.
08:10Like,
08:10this is a point in their career
08:12that you could see a step forward.
08:17And,
08:17you know,
08:17there's,
08:18the organization knows better
08:20than anybody else
08:21how hard those players are working
08:24and,
08:24and they know better than anybody else
08:26how committed they think they are
08:28to be able to,
08:30you know,
08:32continue to develop.
08:33So,
08:33I give them,
08:34the people on the inside,
08:35the benefit of the doubt
08:36when it comes to extending players.
08:38You don't extend somebody
08:39you think is lazy.
08:40You don't extend somebody
08:41that doesn't put in extra work.
08:43You don't extend somebody
08:44that you don't see
08:47addressing
08:47the deficiencies in their game.
08:49I do want to point out
08:51that the highlight Kang showed me.
08:53He was one-on-one
08:55with a player
08:55and that player was
08:57undrafted rookie
08:58Namari Burnett
08:59from Michigan.
09:00Hey.
09:02It wasn't,
09:03you know,
09:04who's,
09:04isn't he?
09:05It wasn't Giannis?
09:07So,
09:07I,
09:07Kawhi Leonard?
09:08It was,
09:09it was a player
09:10that is going to,
09:11you know,
09:11struggle to make the roster
09:12and I assume,
09:13although I'm not following
09:14the Raptors closely
09:15to make that
09:17comment with authority.
09:18but Kang,
09:19this is not like you
09:20and,
09:21and so,
09:22it's one of two things.
09:23It's one of two things.
09:26A,
09:26you got sucked through the vortex
09:28and just got,
09:28we're getting way too excited.
09:30Or B,
09:31you're right.
09:34You could be right.
09:35Like I said,
09:36obviously,
09:36I know who he's going up against.
09:37I just watch
09:38at the confidence
09:39that maybe it's,
09:40he had confidence
09:40because it's Burnett,
09:41right?
09:41But the fact that he's able
09:43to handle the ball,
09:44pull up,
09:45and the way he shoots the ball,
09:47the touch,
09:47all that stuff.
09:48Like last year,
09:49you didn't see that.
09:50And they're so young.
09:51I hate,
09:52the fact that everyone just says,
09:53oh,
09:53he's young,
09:53he could develop.
09:54Everyone's young.
09:55But when I actually see it
09:56on the court,
09:58you know,
09:58translate from practice
09:59to a live game,
10:01then I get excited about that.
10:02That I feel I can get excited about.
10:04Like when you say,
10:05Dern's only 21.
10:06So what?
10:07But when you show me,
10:08hey,
10:08Dern's only 21 or 22
10:10and he did this,
10:10then I'm like,
10:11okay,
10:12I see what you're talking about now.
10:13And I don't know
10:15what's going to happen this year,
10:17okay?
10:17But I've always said,
10:18I always thought that
10:19Asar Thompson actually has
10:20a higher offensive ceiling
10:21than Jalen Dern.
10:22Like I feel like
10:22Jalen Dern's offensive ceiling
10:23was kind of like
10:25regular season during last year.
10:26He can put up the points,
10:27but a lot of them
10:28are close to the rim
10:29and whatnot.
10:30Asar is so athletic
10:31that you would just feel like,
10:33hey man,
10:33you can do more offensively.
10:35Like you're just not
10:35an elite defender.
10:36You can be a threat
10:37on the offensive.
10:38And besides just being a lob guy,
10:40if he develops
10:41a mid-range jump shot,
10:42that's big.
10:43Look at this guy.
10:43Who's with him?
10:442, 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 97, 97.
10:47My goodness.
10:47We'll get to more
10:48of your phone calls
10:48and feedback next.
10:49Champion jump votes as well.
10:50It is Karshan Anderson
10:52here on 97.1.
