Dan Patrick Doesn’t Agree With Jason Kidd Comparing Luka Doncic To The Game’s Greats | 01/31/24

Dan Patrick Doesn’t Agree With Jason Kidd Comparing Luka Doncic To The Game’s Greats | 01/31/24

I’m watching all these numbers in the NBA and yes I’m one of those get off my lawn guys but you start to it’s almost like oh he only had 43 oh he only had 37 like it’s weird you start to look at these numbers Steph Curry had 37 and the

Warriors went over the 76ers so that’s 83 points in his last two games most productive two game span of his career okay uh uh Jaylen Brunson has scored 30 or more points in 18 games this year that’s the most by a Nick through the first 48 games since uh dick

Barnett at matches Bernard King there’s no I don’t think there’s any scoring night with a team or a player where you go okay or oh my God like Luca goes for 73 and I go yeah he could have had 80 I don’t know when it changed because every gener ation talks about their

Generation is oh man you wouldn’t get away with that when we were playing I mean these guys nowadays think man these guys get away with murder on defense you know they’re pushing us around they they got tough guys there no no you don’t but

Go back to the 80s go back to the 70s go back to the 60s the game was played differently and I think you know you can do the get off my lawn because well back in my day you know they would knock you to the floor which they would and uh

Even when we were talking about you know we talked to Jamal Crawford yesterday one of the great scorers in NBA and he said you know you can’t put your hands on anybody back then you could put your hands and your legs your entire body on people and that was just part of the

Game but I’m looking at these numbers and the reason why I think I’m bringing this up is Jason kid was talking about Luca donic and uh he had this to say yesterday yesterday comparing Luca to Dirk nitzki I’ve said this uh before and I’ll

Say it you know for as long as I’m here is you can’t take this young man for granted um he’s better than Dirk uh he’s in the in the in the atmosphere of MJ the best ever do it LeBron uh Kobe um and so just to appreciate what uh this

Young man is doing at the age of 24 is something that Dallas has never seen um and and I’ve said this internally he is better than than Dirk um he does things that Dirk could never do and now is you know the opportunity of getting the right people around him to to ultimately

Win a championship you just said two times that Luca is better than Dirk Dirk won a title and in had been the two do you feel comfortable saying that on a guy that has not made the even made the finals yet yeah uh MJ is the same way MJ

Didn’t make it until his 30s this young man is 24 and is break all the records uh that stand in front of him um and he’s a winner and uh his ultimate goal is to to to win a championship and he he will get there not just you know win one

But he will win multiple uh when it’s all said and done all right that’s the Mavs head coach Jason kin that’s courtesy of uh 971 the freak I understand head coach compliments his player don’t put him in there with Michael Jordan don’t put him in there with Kobe be fair to him now

You can say similar start to Michael Jordan’s career but of course you can’t put him in that category until he wins something gets to an NBA Finals you can’t put him in there with LeBron LeBron took a horrible Cleveland team to the finals Luca is a wonderful

Talent and Jason kid says well don’t takeing him for granted it almost feels like Dallas is taking him for granted because here you have this Transcendent player are you surrounding him with the right talent to be able to win a championship because at some point you

Know now we start to put the heat on him just like joeel embid like we did Giannis like we did the Joker hey uh how about we uh play for a championship here if you want to put them in that category first of all if he’s just saying scoring

Okay I get that um because he doesn’t play any defense and and you know Kobe played defense Mike played defense uh Lebron used to play a lot of Defense at least come up with a lot of steals but I mean you’re you’re adding even more pressure to him by saying all these nice

Things about him he’s a wonderful talent but you know do I want him to focus on winning a championship and what does that mean because Michael Jordan was a scoring machine averaging 37 a game and what happened they eventually said to himou know maybe we need to surround you with some Talent

Here yeah and Mike deferred his you know I mean he took less money in his salary I think at one point he was the fifth or sixth highest paid Chicago Bull and they went out and got talent and Jerry Crown did a wonderful job in bringing in players the right players role players

If Mike doesn’t win a title Mike’s like Allen Iverson like man was he awesome Vince Carter Dominique winning a championship is what changes people in how they view you I mean Mike may not feel different winning championships as he did putting up you know 63 on the Celtics but our image of

Him changed if Bill Russell doesn’t win 11 titles if he wins one he’s not a top 10 15 player but he won he’s the greatest winner of all time I mean that’s the magic Elixir Luca is is just a great score that I mean ball dominant where it

Doesn’t matter how many times you shoot doesn’t matter how many threes you take doesn’t matter how many turnovers you have today’s game is about volume hey put up 50 I mean I’m surprised that we don’t have it on a nightly basis now where somebody puts up 50 and it used to

Be when you got to 50 it was like damn did you see who had 50 now it’s like oh 50 h okay yeah how about 60 and 20 rebounds okay all right that’s pretty good these are these are like video game numbers that these guys are putting up

But for Jason kid to say that about luk uh and look I don’t know if you need to bring in Dirk in here that he’s better than Dirk Dirk won a title Dirk got to two NBA finals I’m going to take Dirk over Luca certainly if I’m taking Luca’s you know

The resume that he has now I’m taking Durk now Luca when he’s 30 what do you have on your resume that’s what I would be curious here or is he a guy who’s not going to be winning a championship and maybe that’ll be some of his fault but maybe it’ll be the

Fault of the Mavs and what they surround him with remember like Jaylen Brunson and Luca man I like that a lot they let Jaylen Brunson go like Kyrie Kyrie’s in and out oh can you bank on him as wonderful as he is I mean Kyrie at least has a title and

Hit the game-winning shot but I keep waiting for Luca to graduate to Joker status Giannis status Joel embiid has got to get there and embiid hurt his knee last night yeah Pauling if you want to compare Luca donic to Dirk nitzki you have to be give perspective to it Luca

Takes way more shots at the same age Luca donic this year is averaging 34 points points and eight rebounds and he takes 24 Shots a game 10 threes a game Dirk davitz at the same age Aver 25 points a game he took 18 shots a game

That’s six fewer he took five threes a game that’s half the amount once you put those numbers together if Dirk nitzky took 24 Shots and 10 threes he’d average 36 a games dones is 35 yeah he would actually have a point more so it’s volume it’s about volume and ball

Dominancy and also you got to be fair to to Durk Durk changed the big man uh you know more so than probably any other big man with being able to go out to the three-point line being able to post up he had the signature you know turnaround jumper with his leg up right

Near you know sternum um I I know Jason kid went overboard with Luca but I don’t I don’t know if you needed to I mean you can say look you know he’s he’s there he’s starting out the way Mike did scoring a lot of points now we got to do what the

Bulls did for Michael Jordan and and that is surround him with the right players and make sure that we compete for a championship yes Mark did Jason kid mean he’s more talented because you could say that about Jerry Rice and Randy Moss he’s not better like moss

Isn’t better than Jerry Rice but he’s more talented is that what he’s saying there because like the resume you got to do some more to be in Dirk’s category I would think so you know Luca is a you know obviously a better passer rebounding he’s sort of right there I

Mean he’s averaging close to a triple double he’s averaging like you know nine rebounds nine assists something you know somewhere in there and and he makes it look easy I was just surprised that when you bring up Michael Jordan you immediately have people going wait what and you putting Kobe in there

And LeBron he’s not in their category not yet doesn’t mean he won’t but I think we get caught up sometimes with you know right now I mean Dirk was a great player for a long time yeah ping when Michael Jordan was 24 years old he averaged 37 points a game without

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You by our home away from home next week Las Vegas the city where spectacle and celebration are woven into the fabric of that Community Las Vegas where conventional challenged unexpected embraced it’s not just celebrating it’s celebrating with an edge I do love arguing Generations even though it’s not

Fair to argue Generations just like with quarterbacks if I looked at what you were required asked to do a quarterback back in the 60s or 70s you’d go wait that was for a game he threw that many yards no oh wait is that first half no

No no an entire game you know threw the ball 14 times you know completed nine and they ended up winning you were just asked to do different things back then or basketball what you were asked to do back in the 60s or 70s 80s 90s today’s game is different everybody has followed

The uh philosophy of the NL more scoring more scoring more scoring NHL you got all these great offensive weapons we need more scoring in there football got to have more scoring in there baseball got to have more runs more home runs and basketball’s the same how do we get

More offense I think the NBA has a scoring problem I do scoring too much yeah Satan in today’s game is it easier to get to the hoop or hit a three I would say both because the the floor is spread you should be able to get to the hoop right if you because

They’re not double teaming you that’s why that Jordan number to me is like doesn’t mean anything like he averaged 37 without hitting any threes it’s like yeah if you could pick 50 players right now in the NBA who could do that if they stopped taking threes and just got to

The hoop yeah I keep wondering but everybody is in love with the three that’s not changing anytime soon right where half of your shots are threes sometimes more than that I mean certain players are like ooh icky I don’t want to shoot a two I want

To shoot a three yes mid-range ill yeah um was Michael Jordan LeBron as far as anybody playing his position nobody was as fast as he was cuz all those early highlights I told you pre- Rings Jordan was so impressive it seemed like he was getting to the hoop at will sorry Danny

Ang isn’t staying in front of me you know Adrien Dantley and staying in front of me whoever that is was he like that level of athlete oh yeah yes yeah the NBA hadn’t seen that no they they hadn’t having seen that in person his his R

Year and you could tell by the guys who were guarding him or in the game like they were entertained now they would probably deny that but you just watched and they would be like talking to each other like oh my God you know you didn’t want to give credit to him because back

Then it was like oh this rookie is coming in oh he’s going to have his own shoe who’s he think he is you know this was when the NBA was tough and Mike took a beating you know you know nowadays it’ be like the

NBA would go out of its way to kind of put you know foam padding every time Mike fell have somebody to slide it in there so whenever he fell yeah Paulie I’ve got Michael Jordan’s rookie game log with the bulls by the way his first seven games were not sellouts they

Didn’t it wasn’t a big deal his third game of his career he had 37 points without taking a three he didn’t take a three until the second month of his career it was not even a concept shot for nonsp Specialists back then and I wonder though if he would have bought

Into the three now if he’s Air Jordan because Air Jordan was about attacking the hoop and dunking on people uh bird would have taken far more threes I mean Reggie Miller in today’s NBA his his abil Pia stoyanovich I mean there’s so many guys if you gave them the green

Light it was almost like an emergency shot hey uh all else fails if you got to take the three now your strategy is get the three how do we get more threes yeah Marv our guest coming up Jim Jackson that dude would have been a bucket even

Even more so than he already was like well you know what I think I’mma score 60 tonight cuz he was that level of shooting guard

Dan Patrick reacts to comments made by Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd comparing Luka Doncic to some of the NBA’s all-time greats, such as Michael Jordan and Dirk Nowitzki