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good morning DJ and PK it’s 975 the zone welcome in on a Monday morning a game day we got game five of the NBA finals coming up tonight it’s Indiana it’s Oklahoma City it’s tied at two games apiece after the Thunder came from behind in the fourth quarter and one i know there’s been a lot of complaining about the refereeing man the fouls were 27 to 26 the freeze throws were 38 to 33 i think you need something bigger than that and I do get it no calls can be as important as calls so maybe one team had more fouls this is never going to change in basketball there’s so many calls that are gray they’re in a subjective area people are always going to complain and if you want to see a conspiracy if you stare hard enough you can probably find something but man 27 26 on the fouls 38 33 on the free throws now I will grant you that’s a lot of free throws but Scott Foster clearly likes the camera and likes the attention you can’t be surprised if he calls a lot of fouls and he also likes to irritate people you can’t you can’t be surprised if he pisses people off this is He’s Scott Foster this is not breaking news the Pacers only 17 points i think for a team that’s missing that many point that many shots uh they got to do better on the offensive boards they got to out rebound at 12 to seven that just isn’t good enough it isn’t 17 points in the fourth quarter not good enough 76% at the free throw line not good enough they were 25 of 33 meanwhile Oklahoma City was a very impressive 34 of 38 90% i don’t think it was a big differential there was one but it wasn’t a big differential in free throws but the fact Oklahoma City really cashed in on it they only missed four i mean that that says something right there as well having said that it’s still a best of three series and anything can happen i think the Thunder will win but we’ve got a long series now guaranteed six and we still might get seven so game five tonight now the other thing is interesting here as the Jazz continue their rebuild are they going to have company what is Memphis doing trading Desmond Bane didn’t see that coming this weekend we didn’t mention that last week at all that one surprised me now a couple things happen here one they move Bane two they take Contavius Caldwell Pope and yes he’s won before and maybe they want some championship DNA and all that stuff but that’s not what it looks like looks like the start of a rebuild and we’ll see what they do you know what are they going to do with Jiren Jackson Jr what are they going to do with John Morant and Kavis Koval Popa has been a good player not a great player but a good player an important player an important role player um and won a championship right so or or two depending on Well we won’t let’s not get into the bubble so maybe there’s something there but it really looks like here’s a couple first round picks for Desmond Bane and here’s another first round pick to take in Davis Caldwell Pope’s contract and get him out of here so the Thunder look like they could well be and and we’ll see may maybe there more moves coming maybe they’ll be competitive and they’ll be good and they’re just retooling on the fly but it could be the start of a tear down could be we’ll see what they do and you know Desmond Bane’s a good player and he’s moved to the other conference so I suppose if the Jazz start rebuilding that’s a positive right depending on uh on what moves they make we’ll have to see and a big trade in baseball as well with Raphael Des who uh I mean he produced that’s why you get a $300 million plus contract he gets signed for a decade but then they need him to move positions and then they want him to move again and he didn’t like the first time and he didn’t like the second time and they’re a loggerhead so they move him to the Giants that is a big trade and for a Giant team that’s in front of the Padres’s and only uh what like a game behind the uh Dodgers actually maybe now two games behind the Dodgers uh but right on the Dodgers heels and the Dodgers have not looked like world beaters man I I can’t blame the Giants if they think hey let’s make this move and see if we can win the West yeah they lost yesterday so they are two back now dodgers are two games in front of the Giants three in front of the Padres’s giants are in a battle for a wild card they’re in a battle for the division uh you know really anything can happen so hey make the move i like it for the Giants i don’t love it for the Padres’s but I like it for the Giants why not all right DJ and PK it’s 975 the zone that was an awesome US Open jj’s spot well let me take that back it was not an awesome open but it was an awesome finish to the open i personally prefer the Masters because I like two three and four shot swings and when two guys are standing over the ball in the fairway and I have no idea if they’re going to make bogey or make par or make birdie I love that and so one guy can have a two-shot swing but if his partner has a two-shot swing it go for I mean it’s just the Masters so explosive whereas at the open I was just watching guys back up i was just watching guys hit it in the rough and then they couldn’t get it out of the rough i don’t think I’ve ever seen a tournament so many guys went rough to rough right you’re in the rough and you’re still in the rough i think there were four or five of those that were televised on the back nine yesterday just the leaders just the key guys can’t imagine how many times that happened across the tournament um but JJ Spa man what a story a walk-on in college out of Sand Deis High School and he goes to San Diego State and when he gets out of there yeah he’s a good college golfer but he’s got to go to Canada so that he can get on the web.com tour he needs the Web.com tour so he can get on the PGA tour and then he loses his card and then he gets his card back i mean that guy’s really battled and considered giving up golf but he hangs in there and he wins the US Open great story great putt his putter was on fire after that rain delay clearly his life changed for that which he said you know that I mean he bogeied five of the first six holes he had a 40 on the front nine but coming home he was making putts everywhere just unbelievable so anyway all right DJ and PK the other thing happened over the weekend rsl got the win they beat DC United not a good team not having a good day but Johnny Russell scored in the first half xavier Goozo in the second russell’s 35 he gets his first goal for RSL and the next game in two weeks will be at Kansas City his old team here’s Johnny Russell with the media after the game that that scenario was on so many times tonight they played a really high line uh we just were a little bit the final pass just wasn’t quite there but great turn from the yogo great ball and it just opened up so much and and I mean you’ve watched the league you know enough it’s it’s a position I find myself in a lot um and yeah it was all about just obviously getting getting into that position and getting the finish away uh I think they were all kind of expecting it to go far post um but decided did last minute just to to cut back on it and you know went through his legs and caught the keeper off guard as well so delighted to obviously get my first goal and my first start here um but to get the three points as well as was huge uh especially after the sort of recent run of games we spoke about what we’re going to have to do leading into this second half of the season 10 games at home i spoke to you about that we wanted to take maximum points that’s the first one and that’s that’s all you can do take care of business on the first one and then you move on from there i sort of expected your first go to RSL to be a thunderbolt instead you hit like an offspe pitch yeah took everyone off balance how does that feel for you personally knowing that SKC deemed you surplus to requirements and some people have questioned your age and what you can still bring old guy still got it i was trying I was trying to tell everyone that um but yeah it’s like yeah I mean I made no secret about it i wanted to stay in KC i felt that I had done enough there i had still enough to give to deserve to be there they wanted to move on and I mean that’s the business we’re in they wanted to try something different there’s no hard feelings i still I still love it there it was it was home for me for seven years um but yeah it’s good to it’s good to obviously get back out there in my first start and and show that I’ve still got it i knew I still had it um that was that was never a question and you know you you get to this age in this sport and people start writing me off but that’s that’s fine that’s I’ve been given a chance here one that I’m hugely grateful for um and and hopefully that’s the start start of paying it back um it’s actually really nice to run to that side and not get any abuse it was actually that was that was uh that was appreciated um but no it’s I came here to help came here to score goals create goals and and help the the younger guys as well that was what I was brought here to do um and then hopefully that’s the start of me repaying that since you mentioned it you’ve played in some pretty loud environments how did the riot compare for you it was great it was and like I just said it was great to have them on my side for once um I’ve been on the receiving end here many times so it’s they were they were great throughout the game um and they have been great not just this game you know the whole time that I’ve been here I’ve only I’ve only experienced it a few times at home um but they they they were huge um and especially when things aren’t going your way aren’t going as well as you would like to have them still behind you and still backing you that’s that’s a huge credit to them thank you no problem man hey Johnny congrats on the Golden Night the win um how do you like you’ve broken hearts here so many times how do you now heal that relationship with the fans not tonight yeah you know it’s I think like I said I joke about it that I’ve I’ve taken some abuse here but I think guys could could appreciate what I bring to the team that I’m on um and I was in Casey for 7 years and you know I done well here um and I said when I first came here that you know I have to show that same sort of hunger that same sort of quality and and hopefully turn that opinion around so you know that’s that’s what I’m I’m here to do i’m no matter where you go you’re not going to please everyone but it’s like I said it’s I’m here to to help the team in any way I can on the field off the field um and you know it’s it’s huge to get my first start tonight get my first goal get myself you know back in it um and then we just carry on from there and you know my throughout my career I’ve been a very sort of streaky scorer when I score I I tend to to sort of hit the ground running and continue that so I’m hoping that’s the start and yeah if I keep doing that then I’m I’m sure then that’ll that will soften the blow a little bit yeah it it was nice for me to win in past I I would see you get on the ball you know as a Salt Lake fan to see terror in my own heart and it was great to see it flipped around and be excitement this time around um tell us about uh any injury you good to go or you just came off at halftime no I’m good there was just uh there was just like a a sort of slight bit of tightness um I haven’t played in so long i think the last time I started the game was October so that sort of tells you where that is at but no it was it was more of a precaution you know we’re already down numbers from guys being away so we didn’t want to take any chances but there’s it’s not anything that I’m worried about um we’ve got a break now take care of it and get ready to go again when we come back jonah congrats on the win what do you feel like changed for this team mentally and tactically to break that winless streak for you guys um yeah the performances have been there um we just in certain moments of games we’ve lapsed in concentration we’ve switched off a little bit and it’s cost us uh I think tonight coming back home it just seemed to be maybe not our best performance on the ball and creating chances but I feel like it was a complete performance in everything that we done um and yeah it was like I said we we’ve had a since the LA game the probably the two weeks of training we’ve had especially last week when I spoke to the boys about it that it’s so difficult when you don’t have something to aim for you don’t have a game to keep those standards high and it was probably the best week of training we had last week it continued again this week i just I feel like the way we enter the game um we we know that you know time runs out very quickly in this league uh so we know that we’re not in a position that we want to be we should be and we have to change that no one else is going to help us do that we have to do it and tonight was the start of that we need to continue that we need to keep it rolling um and we know we’ve got ground to make up but with the talent that we’ve got with the mindset that we’ve got in there I’m I’m more than positive that we can do that and then next result next game for you guys is in two weeks of course against Casey what are the feelings what are the emotions for you and Willie going back to a place that you guys are very familiar with yeah I mean it’s it’s a weird one because it’s one that obviously I’ve been looking forward to to go back um I’m sure it’ll be I’m sure it’ll be emotional leading up to it i’m an emotional guy uh I spent seven years there i was captain there for 4 years i’ve got so many friends there i love the team i love the city you know it was it was a second home for me um and like I said earlier I never wanted to leave there uh so I’m I’m sure it’ll be I’m sure it’ll be sort of mixed mixed emotions there’s some people that I’m really looking forward to see but genuinely during that 90 minutes I don’t care who they are and they know that and the fans know that that I will do whatever I can whatever it takes for my team to win and right here I’m I’m at RSL um and I want to go I want to go there and win they know that we can be friends again after the game um but no it’s it’s one that I am looking forward to but I’m sure it it will be it will be strange to go in there um as an an opposition player but I’m I’m excited like I said it’s I’ve got I’ve already got a bunch of people since I signed here who have marked that game and have been asking for tickets so that’s probably unless I can get some favors that’s going to cost me a little bit of money but um but no it’s it’s one that I really I really am looking forward to and like I said I’m I’m just looking forward to getting back there’s Johnny Russell with the media after the game when we come back Pablo Masti after the game stay with us good morning DJPK proudly presented by our title sponsor Black Desert Resort Utah’s premier golf resort all right time to hear from Pablo Mastroni after RSL snaps a sevengame winless streak and beats DC United 2-nil here’s RSL’s head coach got the win and you also got a clean sheet on Nick Romano’s uh day here in in honor of him perhaps um what are your memories of Nick Roando and then what did it mean to get the clean sheet tonight yeah you know I started my career with Nick Romano yeah I was in Miami and and uh he we started our essentially started our careers together and to see the trajectory of his career and the impact that he had as a long-standing me member of this club and and had a lot of success and then went on with the national team um it it’s it’s it’s it was it was an amazing career and I think it’s only um fitting that uh his name will go up on the stadium and um you know he’s he’s he was he was a teammate but more importantly he’s a friend and I think he was that was one of his um great attributes as a teammate is that he knew when to lighten it up knew when to be hard but uh above all else he was just a fantastic goalkeeper so I’m super proud of Nick and then u as far as the goal score tonight you get him on opposite ends of the age spectrum you get Johnny um who’s who’s in his 30s then you get Goza with his second at 18 years old uh what does it mean I guess to just have that balance on your team to have both a veteran and an upcoming guy that can make a difference in a game like this yeah no I think uh both those players played extremely well um you know I think Johnny um you know that moment is is is what we thought he could bring to our group and obviously he’s been working on his fitness um and you know I thought we were going to score when he got the ball in that moment i’m assuming their team thought this is a really dangerous moment as well and so um just really happy for him to really grind these last couple weeks months or couple months um and get himself in position to be able to to start a game and and make a huge difference you know and so stepped out with a little bit of a a groin um and again these are part of him getting back to full fitness but and then go on the other side just again what I keep saying about Go is while he’s he’s sharpening his tools he’s contributing a lot on both sides of the ball and so I think it’s really fitting for him um to find that goal um difficult finish but took it really calm and so again the more he sees these reps the quicker he makes these actions very second nature but um what what I think what I’m really proud of the group is is is how we exploited their back line and and again I thought early in the year we were very east west and we wanted to keep the ball we’re never dangerous tonight was um how I want our attacks to look is just threatening goal getting getting in behind um you know and and it was great to have Diego back i thought he played a fantastic game um so um whilst again we were missing a few uh key players I think the guys that that stepped in there today both that started and came into the game had really good performances in a collective uh team effort tonight pablo congrats on the win how do you keep this momentum after going after snapping that winless streak work harder on Tuesday you know I think when you’ve suffered as much as we have this year uh and what I really liked about this game is the last 12 minutes of the game where um there was a mindset shift where we still wanted to get pressure on the ball and we won a bunch of balls higher up the field to create more chances um but defensively in the back we were getting pressure on the ball rarely were we sitting in a low block one of the areas that we really focused in on to to be able to get pressure on the ball to create the kind of chances we did tonight so I think again it doubled down on on the hard work um obviously the guys are going to have 5 days off which is really important to go into the break with a with with a good result but uh just reminded the guys that um this didn’t happen by accident i feel like last week and and the week before we’ve had um our best training sessions and and not only just the soccer part but the mentality part um so uh you know I hope this is a a step forward and and a new standard that we set for ourselves and the guys come back hungry ready to work and grind and um you know keep moving up the uh table and then the energy from the crowd tonight seems to lift the team a lot how big of a role did the home support play in tonight’s listen there’s one thing that that that you can guarantee every every game is that we’re going to have the best supporters in the league you know and um I think tonight uh the guys played to the level um that that validates our fans coming out every weekend um it was exciting it was it was it was uh it was some really good stuff so um super happy for the for the fans for the players for the club to be able to put forth a good performance like this with a packed house congrats on the win Pablo um talk about the play of your two pivots both guys hungry to play there but both guys not starters typically yeah I thought they were really good um you know I think Nelson and Pablo both bring um different aspects to their game um I think their passing was really good tonight um but I also like the grittiness of of winning some duels in the middle of midfield um and also bringing calm to the game when it was hectic they’re both really comfortable on the ball and and that was really good so um you know I I think the the more they play with each other the more comfortable they they’ll get and obviously Pablo at the end there uh was dealing with a cramp hamstring and I think that’s because he hasn’t been playing a lot of minutes but he’s he’s definitely difference maker in that final play where he he jumped the press and and stole the ball you know I’d like to see him finish that i think he’s deserving of that uh but again selfless teammate that that tried to make a play with Ari but again I’m just really proud of the guy the way the guys responded again there’s there’s um there’s a lot of pressure on the guys to to continue to get results and at times that pressure can break you but tonight um it was a privilege and then uh DC seemed to play a pretty high line and there were times where you it seemed like you were pressing to get more balls in over the top yeah that was on purpose yeah yeah we do the scouts and we had a good idea as to how they want to get we thought they were going to be a little bit more man-to-man but they kept a high line with and not always had a lot of pressure on the ball which is always a dangerous combination and and again I think this whole week we really focused on thirdman combinations playing behind the defense runners um and and the guys executed the plan and uh unfortunately we didn’t put a couple more in the back of the net but but again I think that’s the that’s the way I like to see the game that’s the way I think fans want to see the game you want to constantly threaten the goal um and it means at times being a little bit more vertical especially when you have a higher back line on hey Pablo congrats on the win thanks we spoke a lot about Diego in training earlier this week one of the things that I saw and I’d love to get your opinion on was Rafa sprinting the length of the pitch after his hold up play and pass for Johnny Russell what does that mean for you as a coach it’s amazing and again I’ I’ve been kind of trying to articulate how much belief and and how good of a leadership group we have and for me Rafa is is the guy with the most experience um if you were in the locker room um before the game I mean it was worthy of of cinematography i mean it was so inspirational and you know he’s not used to going through this type of difficult moment but for him to really stand up and and and and challenge the guys week in and week out um and again you know Diego’s been through a tough time with the injury and not being with the group and um words from your peers will always impact your soul much greater than anything from a coach and and from my standpoint I’m I’m just blessed to be able to work with a guy like Rafa who who cares uh so much more for the team than he even thinks about himself can you tell us what he said um or or if not specifics was he was he challenging or was he uplifting no no I think it was just a moment i I think when people speak from their souls they’re not words that you’re hearing it’s energy that you’re feeling and you know his his his talk with the group um you know and he had he had a a stick and says “If we if we try to do this as individuals and he breaks up the stick it’s really easy.” And he had he had a roll of those sticks and he says “As a team nobody can beat us we are talented we’re full of belief we’re hungry let’s go.” You know and so again I wanted to put my shining guards on and and and and go back and go out there again um so again I think that’s just a little microcosm of what happens on Monday through Friday with with our group and and his leadership and his impact on the team so again super blessed to have a player like Rafa um to to really um impact the psyches and the mentality of the group and in in a difficult time thank you for sharing that what were you going over on the board with Willie in about like the 41st minute when Baji was down in the box yeah um the so again I think anytime there teams are going to high press and we use Rafa it asks real questions and often times both pivots will release to put pressure on the ball because they’re a man down that they’re used to just playing against the three but the way we use Rafa asks real questions of the opposing team’s pivots so if they want to get tight there’s always going to be an entry ball into the 10 usually between the two pivots so we were finding um Willie in that position but the hold up play wasn’t really good one of the strengths of Diego is being able to turn real tidy in that moment so again just wanting Willie to play off the back shoulders of their center backs so when when when Diego gets on the ball it’s just it’s a it’s a through ball every single time and and again when you’re playing off the shoulders it’s really hard for center defenders if they come in too deep then you play it on the outside if they come in tight then you play it on the inside so it was just a little tactical tweak uh to allow Diego to get on the ball in very tight spaces so that we can advance the ball and then last one for me uh it was exciting to see Tyler Wolf out he’s been balling out with the Monarchs uh what did you think of his play and what about the the kind of class we got to see from Hezarkani tonight yeah you know I think again like I said earlier I think the guys um that came in uh made made a big difference in the group and it’s something that we haven’t had this year um and you know I thought Aiden had had some really really good moments and defensively he was just solid and and he created that one play on the sideline that was a nifty little action to get a corner um and and uh you know Wolfie you can play him in numerous positions you know that you’re going to get you know the one thing that is still evading Wolfie is that is that goal because he’s putting himself in great positions today he was selfless in putting that ball across um so again I think the you know the reason why we utilize the Monarchs is to get game like reps and and I think you know with Wolfie he’s in a great run of form this week he he was really really bright and so for him to go out in the field and contribute the way he did makes me super proud sometimes I wonder if we see what we want to see or we see what really happened and it looks sometimes and we’re all on the fourth floor but it looks sometimes like you can see the adrenaline flowing through Go when he gets in behind and has an opportunity but on the goal it looked like he slowed down opened up his body you know and had time to think it through do you feel like maybe something’s clicking with him he’s getting enough reps yeah again I I think who knows when it’s going to become when when it’s just going to be the standard right and I think in every young player’s career development is always it depends on you know he’s just coming back from national team camp which is confidence builder the fact that he started after being not not being here all week but landed is a boost of confidence and then I think you know the you know the the hardest thing for a young attacking player is to slow down in moments that are fast and you rightly I think you articulated it really clear that his his body was moving forward but his brain was calm and and I think that’s the hardest thing so once you get into that mode it becomes it becomes instinctual that that will be it and then also because he’s so fast if you slow down often times he’ll just run over the back of you as well like on on the breakaway that he had a couple minutes before so he’s making great progress um and and and doing a great job and again another young player that’s just super happy to see him continue to progress in the manner that he is diego had the uh the hold up play and there were two defenders there he could have gone down absorbed the foul probably gotten the whistle but he fought it off and turned and found that and played perfectly weighted ball for Johnny and I’m just curious when stuff like that happens you know why you know obviously there’ve been a little bit of conflict you guys had to talk about that and is it that is it that he’s sick of hearing it from fans on social media is it just a coincidence that this happened sometimes you scream the universe into the sky after a goal why does this after everything that happened why does it happen like this and he sets up that first goal right again there’s only there’s just one answer and that’s Diego’s mindset that’s it there’s no secret sauce here he made a commitment to himself to to train the way he has in the past 10 days super sharp in training and and and again I these things aren’t a secret the way you approach the training week you already know who’s going to have a good game you you you just know cuz it’s again you when you get on the field everything is going to be instinctual you don’t have time to think about what you did in training right so we try to automate behaviors during the week and get reps and reps and reps hoping that either now or in a week or two or a month or 6 months whatever it is that these actions become automated dieago is a fantastic technician he’s got an eye for goal the pass that he made uh uh today was reminiscent of the six or seven passes he made during the the the training week and put players in on breakaways so for me it’s not an accident and I can only attribute it to his mindset and his mentality in in difficult moments and so I think we learned a lot about um his his his willingness um to continue battling his his quality on the ball and how he can help continue to help our team win games you uh played as a defensive midfielder so you probably really appreciated center backs who clean things up behind you and you know it’s just a moment of the game it doesn’t really become a story and you commented when Justin Glad was out and the game didn’t go well and you said we probably missed Jay Glad tonight was he quietly really effective especially early in the game so that they didn’t get a goal didn’t He was top he was top i mean if I go back over the years um you know when Jake Glad’s not on the field it just doesn’t feel the same you know and I think the amount of plays that he makes whether it’s his positioning or actually interventions they’re they’re they’re so important not just from that play but the level of confidence that it gives the pivots to be able to really get after the ball right because everything is just your your your emotional state is dependent on on on the previous play and when you got a center back in the back that can clean things up and Ver did a really good job as well and and those two have teamed up in the last couple years to to to be a formidable uh back line and and the one tweak that we made um is is making sure that we’re aggressive from the front line pivots moving and often times and and I don’t know if you realize this from from our previous games very rarely were we in a low block tonight it was it was press and then clean up it was press and clean up and so again those are things that we worked on this week getting back to the the type of mentality the type of defending we want to help spur on our our attacking side of the game along those lines did Palasio have one of his better games for RSL in the time you’ve been here i I think so and again I think there’s there’s um you know with with with again younger younger pivots maybe that that don’t get a lot of reps um you never know when the moment is going to be where a a silly decision costs the team a game and I think tonight Nelson played a complete 90-minute performance right and so again that’s a step in the right direction um and that’s contributing to the to the to the result tonight i I thought he was excellent um and really managed the game i just saw moments defensively as well where often times he’d try to go in and and get the ball and the guy would turn and now he’s running but like tonight I kept the game in front of him won a couple DS in the middle midfield to start attacks really proud of his performance tonight there’s Pablo Mastone Rel’s head coach a reminder don’t miss your chance to win big every week on the zone this week on Win Ticket Wednesday you could win tickets to the Monster Jam World Finals July 4th and 5th at Ricycle Stadium don’t miss the biggest Monster Jam event of the year with the finals coming to Utah for the first time tickets on sale now ticketmaster.com listen to the zone all day Wednesday for your chance to win all right DJ and PK coming up next matt Babcock NBA draft analyst what does he expect from the draft the draft is now nine days away can you believe it well nine and 10 days 9 days to the first round 10 to the second matt Babcock next stay with us dj and PK it’s 975 the zone we are joined now by Matt Babcock NBA draft analyst for Babcock Hoops matt good morning hey good morning how are you matt I’m doing well how are you i’m great thanks thanks for having me well here’s the deal uh I didn’t know this i thought your name sounded familiar i didn’t know why and PK said “Well yeah I think there’s a we got to dig it up i think there’s a bunch of Babcocks who’ve worked in the NBA.” So sure enough it wasn’t hard to dig up because you wrote a comprehensive family history and you put it right on your website for us and it turns out you’re talking to a guy who grew up in San Diego and a guy who grew up in Phoenix so we’re all about it look at us we’re practically family oh that’s great yeah small small world that’s great to hear who’s Pete relation to you uh Pete yeah Pete is my my uncle so there there’s uh uh Pete Rob and Dave uh Dave’s my dad so all of them have worked in the NBA for a really long time so yeah you’re absolutely right grew up in it and uh very lucky to uh have had the exposure you know in the NBA pretty much my whole life yeah I went to high school in Phoenix uh a school called Thunderbird and right at the same time a school called Greenway opened and they were our bitter rivals so I hated your father even though I never knew him or your uncle excuse me your uncle Pete yeah that’s great the point so let’s get right to it the NBA draft the Utah Jazz are drafting five one and two have been very predictable everybody’s figuring that Cooper Flag goes one and then Dylan Harper goes two that’s pretty much etched in stone but are three and four written in ink at this point even if the order might flip is Ace Bailey going to hold on to that third spot and is V VJ Edgecomb four unless they flip of course all this matters because Jazz fans want to know who’s off the board before they pick at five no sure i I think the one that that is the wild card here is is Philly at three u I mean all all season I mean Ace Bailey was sort of pencled in as is one of you know the top three or four prospects um you know and he’s he’s an interesting player i mean he’s got he’s got just about as much upside as anybody in the draft but there are some question marks about his maturity uh you know is he gonna be able to kind of tap into that upside uh fully uh and you know and there’s been rumblings that Philly could look to trade that pick they’re sort of an interesting spot uh with their two star players uh with Joel Embiid and Paul George you know aging stars that that have battled injuries and they’re they’re set to make a ton of money and so really not clear what’s going to go on at three which uh could create some interesting domino effects and and like you mentioned I mean could really affect you know team you know picking right after them i I heard through some some folks here with the Jazz aren’t particularly high on Ace Bailey u and maybe like this Fierce kid out of Oklahoma but obviously you got Edgecomb you got the kid from Texas uh if you are picking or maybe just aside from that of the players that I just named who do you like the best i mean I love Jeremiah Fears i I think you know probably what is being discussed internally right now obviously you know the big big shakeup with with Austin coming in um you know I I I think the the question internally would be okay how how committed are we to Isaiah Collier you I thought he did really well towards the end of the season and he’s a young guy um I mean are they are they penciling him in as the point guard of the future um and and if so Jeremiah Fears doesn’t make much sense uh even though I think Fears is a higher level talent that that’s something they needed the side uh as a group uh but I I do love Jeremiah Fears i think he uh had a terrific season you know 63 6’4 on ball point guard terrific in the pick and roll which translates to the NBA very well uh and keep in mind he he’s only 18 years old he he reclassified up similar to Cooper Flag uh he should have been just a senior in high school this year it was absolutely terrific for Oklahoma what’s the problem with having too many guys though if they’re really good uh there are stories other times i think the Phoenix Suns right in your backyard and PK’s backyard once upon a time had three awesome point guards so you make a trade and you get something you you can’t pass on somebody because you already have somebody at that position can you uh it it just depends i mean I think you know there’s an argument to be made yeah take the best player available uh but I I you know I’m a believer that there there does need to be a pathway uh for that player to have success or the level of success that you want him to uh you know having you know having two point guards is definitely doable i I I do see both of them as you know primary on ball point guards i mean Isaiah Coller is on the smaller side um so it’s not it’s not like a seamless fit uh but you’re right there i mean there’s a lot of teams playing multiple ball handlers to say more so than they they did in the past even uh but you know I think you know just you know as as Austin you know looks to kind of create a new vision um I mean it’s these things they need to decide it but yeah I mean I think I think fears will will be in play there i think Trey Johnson can be an option for them uh and he you know from a style of play standpoint he’s a better fit he’s an offball uh shooter you know big big wing um and so I mean he he would be a better fit uh you just got to you figure out what you’re trying to do charlotte drafts fourth what do you anticipate them doing knowing that it’s somewhat of a guess here yeah I mean again it goes back to the the third pick what you know what who who’s available uh my my expectation right now is if VJ Edgecom is there I I think I think they would take him uh I think that would be a guy that’d be hard to pass on uh just an extreme athlete plays so hard and has already shown flashes of being able to shoot the ball um I think he’s got star potential but you know he could go three i mean if Philly trades I I could see a team targeting VJ Edgecom at three so again let’s see uh let’s see how it falls you know Colin Canipple at Duke uh I mean he can shoot it but is he really in that group that’ll be top five or is that the kind of guy who’s better off as a seven eight nine pick yeah personally I would probably have him more of like a mid to late lottery uh his name has come up uh with some of these picks as an option and I think with him he he’s he’s a safe pick i mean you know what you’re getting uh I think he his game translates very well i mean he’s you know offball shooter high IQ um I I don’t know if his upside is quite as high as some of these other guys we’re talking about uh but you know a guy that’s 66 that that you know shoot the lights out uh you can plug and play a guy like that pretty much anywhere and so I do think there’s safety in him uh and so I mean again with these teams discussing things internally how how much are you valuing that safety uh and that’s I think everybody will kind of value it a little differently jagor Denim for BYU it was a crazy situation he comes over and new everything is brand new right kevin Young and his staff come in and we saw some moments where thinking “Oh my gosh this guy how could he even possibly be a first round pick let alone a lottery pick?” And then he got better as things settled down the team got better and then we hear in the off season we talked to Travis Hansen i’m sure you know of Travis that he’s his advisor and the shooting has improved in these workouts travis was saying to us that he thought Jaor would go anywhere between 7 and 12 what’s your assessment of that young man yeah that that sounds spot on um and you know I followed him closely this year i was at that opening game in in Provo and uh I mean that first month of the season he he he was unbelievable and uh we we all jumped on the bandwagon um and then you know it just very up and down he got he got hurt really struggled there in January when they got in the conference play finished strong and then the pre-draft process has absolutely helped him i was at his pro day in Chicago at the NBA draft combine he looked great i mean he’s add he’s already added some strength shooting the ball really well uh and you know I think one thing too the way way I see him long term you know BYU they played him as a primary point guard uh I I see him more as a Swiss Army knife where he’s sort of like a positionless uh creator and I I think not having the ball in his hands all the time will take a little bit of pressure off of him uh and long term I I think he can end up being a really really good player and so yeah that that mid to late lottery I think that that’s exactly where he should go matt Babcock joining us nba draft analyst for Babcock Hoops now there’s all this hype around every draft probably a little more around this one and you listen to people it seems like the first five picks are going to be Hall of Famers the next five are going to be all stars the next five are going to be starters for playoff teams and we know it’s not going to work out like that so who are the lottery picks where you think there’s just a big old red flag and teams ought to be careful and go find somebody else because uh this just isn’t likely to work yeah I I don’t see anybody with with total red flags i mean I think Ace Bailey has become the most polarizing prospect at least you know at the the higher higher level picks um and his upside is very high it’s just again there there’s there’s questions there and you know I think depending on who you’re talking to how confident are you that he’s going to be able to address those question marks and so I would say Ace is probably the most polarizing but yeah I wouldn’t I wouldn’t say as strong as necessarily having red flags how about the Duke big man i I’m intrigued by him because I I I watch him you we watch him a lot for what it’s worth you know obviously Flag got all the publicity and and was the man and all that so I was wondering how good he is because I’m hearing better things about him as we get closer to the draft yeah i mean he’s got some things you just can’t teach i mean f first of all he’s huge uh and you know he’s 71 72 huge wingspan and he moves fluidly and so I think the the role he played at Duke they they didn’t ask him to do a whole lot offensively uh but I mean it’s easy it’s easy to envision him being a starting five in the league uh for a long time just as a defensive anchor rim runner uh but you know also in some international play before he got to Duke he shown some flashes to shoot the ball from outside and so I do think there’s probably a little more upside offensively than than some people would realize and so yeah I think you know his name is has been brought up too is as high as number three um I I I I’m having a hard time actually believing he will go that high but um probably after you know Utah 6 seven eight nine I think he’ll probably you know have a good chance of being in that range have you heard anything about who Austin might like or is that one of the advantages for coming from Boston where nobody was worried about who they were drafting late in the first round and suddenly uh he’s going to be in charge of making the fifth pick yeah I’m not I’m not quite sure i mean we’re at this point we’re we’re we’re sort of uh just sort of estimating you know the projections right now uh these these last couple weeks uh guys like myself and NBA personnel a big part of what we’re doing is is just working the phones and trying to gather intel of figuring out who’s doing what um but yeah know that that that process is really kind of kicking kicking in full gear uh right about now they also have that 21st pick speaking of the Jazz and I’ve identified three or four names and who knows you know how it’s going to flush out when it comes time to pick what do you think at that spot you know I think a lot of it depends on what they do with that first pick i mean I I’d say chances are they probably wouldn’t take guys that that are too similar to one another uh and then you know also keep in mind I mean he he learned how to do this from his dad who who’s not afraid to to wheel and deal uh I mean always the possibility of them moving around in the draft as well you get later uh it seems like there’s some foreign guys maybe not at 21 but soon after that who will get drafted uh we watch a lot of college hoops but the foreign guys are still largely a mystery although we can go search him out on YouTube and other places any foreign guys you really like who might be a good late first round pick yeah sure uh one one guy that comes to mind is Yon Behringer who played in Slovenia this year um young guy he’s he’s huge 6’11 stud athlete moves well uh I I I don’t know if he’ll be there at that point but if he were I think that would be a slam dunk pick i assume that you can speak a little bit about uh next year’s draft and in particular BYU’s got Debonsa coming in and you know we’ve never seen such excitement as far as BYU basketball uh what do you think that he needs to do to solidify himself as the top pick in the 26 draft when he’s in college this coming season yeah no he’s a terrific prospect i’ve seen him quite a bit i’m actually going to see him this next week uh he’s going to be at the U19 USA basketball event in Colorado Springs and uh just a you know very very exciting prospect he just checks so many boxes he’s got size athleticism uh well-rounded skill set and u you know as far as solidifying himself as the number one guy uh keep in mind there’s another player uh you know coming in college this this upcoming season darren Peterson going to Kansas uh he’s right there too s sort of like a Dwayne Wade type type player uh but yeah I’m ve very excited about both these kids i think they’re top top tier prospects do you expect these top tier prospects to have a big impact on college hoops because we saw this year teams that had these guys and set Duke aside because they had four of them including you know the number one guy was a generational talent but if you put one high draft pick on Texas one high draft pick on Oklahoma you end up with an NBA bubble team excuse me NCA bubble team no no sure it uh Yeah I mean the the landscape of college basketball obviously you know continues to change so so much with the transfer portal uh these college teams are they’re a lot older more experienced and honestly just better better teams and so I I do think there’s less impact uh of you know one and done guys but I mean you look at Cooper Flag this past year i mean he was terrific for Duke i I I don’t I don’t know if there’ll be a ton of freshman making a huge impact i would expect AJ and Darren Peterson uh to to to make some waves though you think Dylan Harper is a franchise changing player he’s got a chance you know I think I mean I think he’s ready to play right away and contribute at a high level again with all these guys you know I mean we’re we’re able to identify who’s got the potential who’s got the upside and time will tell if they’re able to kind of fully maximize that potential but I I do think you know as far as this group of top prospects Dylan Dylan is more polished and ready to go more more than others a lot of these guys I mean we can watch their talent but they’re being drafted based on these interviews and interacting with them and talking to their coaches and who really has the drive to improve because everybody’s got to get a lot better when you’re working in the world of mock drafts and how much access do you get to these guys how much can you factor that in you know you know with all your family across the NBA how important that stuff is but how much access do you get oh we get a lot of access and in some cases our access is better uh at least early in the early stages because I mean we’re able to to network with the players with their parents and their handlers whereas the teams have to wait till the pre-draft process and keep in mind I mean it does catch up because I mean they they’ve got so many resources and they get full access during this time but throughout the year I mean this it’s it’s a huge part of what I do is is sort of uh you know I’m traveling going to games a lot and and I’m dealing with everybody and so that’s definitely an advantage of of not actually working for a team and having the red tape with with rules and whatnot so set the uh set all the you know who’s got the wingspan and all that aside is there someone who with their poise and maturity has really impressed you as man when I was 19 I was nowhere near that um yeah you know I think this draft as a whole it does seem like a lot of really good kids i I mean I remember when I first started doing this you know 15 20 years ago uh there was a lot more guys with with with red flags and character issues i I think I’m not sure exactly what the reason is but uh yeah not not not as much negative intel as as there used to be and yeah just a bunch of bunch of good kids honestly there’s Matt Babcock when we come back what is trending the headlines are next it’s time to get your morning started with the news you need to know news of a day this is what’s trending with DJ and PK #NBA it’s a dog fight every time you step on the floor on both ends of the floor they make you work and we like to make teams work so uh whoever imposes their will the best of the series will come out on top uh and that’s our goal there’s SGA the NBA’s MVP he showed his stuff fourth quarter PK put him on his back i mean they were defending and they only gave up 17 points everybody played a part in that but his hitting buckets down the stretch and they win game four tied up 2-2 we got game five tonight sga came through again well just like you said Scott Foster was going to set that up right that’s what you told me you told me on Friday didn’t you i told you that he was a lightning rod of an official with a rep for putting his fingerprints all over big games and then although he did I mean they called a lot of fouls and a lot of free throws it was fairly even it was 3833 on free throw attempts fouls were 2726 oh I don’t worry about that stuff i mean it’s a lot of him i only worry about the game i don’t I don’t worry about the refereeing i’m not concerned about any of that stuff you know so many games come down to who shoots the three better and that one did not oklahoma City shot the three very poorly but they attack the they attack the hoop a lot that that’s only for the regular season when nobody cares i I I I I don’t see it making a big difference you have to hit big shots whether they’re threes or twos or ones in this case if you go to the line all those types of things i think this is more about who plays well in the moment who plays well down the stretch because these games have been pretty tight 17-point fourth quarters not usually going to get it done down the stretch and it didn’t for I mean the Pacers had a 10-point lead going in the fourth quarter yep but that’s really nothing there’s plenty of time with 12 minutes to go and Oklahoma City I’m still pick I’m picking them to win every game and they’ve lost two i’m going to pick them again tonight i want to pick them to be the first team to get to four game five tonight in Oklahoma City it’s on ABC at 6:30 big NBA trade the Grizzlies send Desmond Bane to the Orlando Magic in exchange for Cole Anthony Contavis Calwell Pope four unprotected first round picks and a pick swap would be a fifth one if they exercise it this one catch you completely off guard orlando getting their hands on a guy who can shoot 41% for three for his career and he’s can score 20 points a game yeah the should have been Jazz guy desmond Bane has had a nice career he’s carved out a nice role i think the bigger thing that you know Orlando’s in the other conference so they don’t really relate to the Jazz and and if they want to do what they want uh if they do what they want to do then those picks obviously would be later down the line in the first round so they felt like that was winning the thing that jumped it out at me is man they were talking about it yesterday on television uh that uh Memphis are they going to go into rebuild mode as Morant Jiren Jackson Jr available and then the thing that really stood out to me well if that’s what you got for Bane what can the Jazz get forin because I think Markin’s a better player i mean nothing against Bane he’s a nice player for sure and late round pick late first round pick uh Markin is just more talented can do more things and he’s way taller obviously and not that height is the driving factor but if you have the skill that he has combined with the height boy the Jazz ought to be able to get at least that I would think and maybe more what they have in common is uh how long they’re signed for they’re they’re both signed for a long time and what is now a This is crazy what is now a reasonable number put yourself in that $40 million category mark makes a little more money but they’re not the 50 $60 million player so there’s that so there’s that but you got to find a really motivated buyer and Oh obviously and Orlando was really motivated i mean do you want to win or not i mean I I don’t think finding a motivated buyer is an issue oh really i think there’s a line of teams waiting to give up four picks or five well I don’t know they may You need to get equal value you don’t need to get literal value you need two people who are motivated so you can have a little auction because if they do that then the what you’ll what you’re saying becomes true well who wouldn’t want market in it’s just a question of what you have to offer get the best deal it’s like Durant wants to be traded to the Texas teams and somebody else maybe uh but the Suns say “Yeah we’ll trade you but we’re not going to accommodate you simply to accommodate you we’ve got to get the best deal that we can get.” Same thing here and now we’ll see if there going to be more trades are they going to try to flip those draft picks and rebuild their team or are they getting ready to move Jiren Jackson Jr or John Morant or both that’s what I said tear it all the way down rockets are retaining Steven Adams he gets a three-year $39 million contract extension and the Knicks are set to interview former Kings coach Mike Brown and former Grizz’s coach Taylor Jenkins as their hunt for a new head coach continues dj and PK #NFL [Music] cincinnati Bengals and star pass rusher Trey Hendrickson have reopened negotiations on a new deal to keep Hendrickson with the franchise after he led the NFL in sacks last year 17 and a half sacks as an allp pro defensive end [Music] now can they get a defense around him well first I guess they have to retain him then they can try to get the defense around him missouri governor signing a legislative package on Saturday that’s already been approved by the Missouri lawmakers that includes hundreds of million dollars of financial aid intended to persuade the Chiefs and Royals to remain in the state despite overtures from the state of Kansas for a move across the state line so you don’t know how to pronounce Mike Kho’s last name as I mean I probably could have pronounced it but nobody wasn’t that hard anywhere Missouri governor whatever sign it Mike first time I’ve ever heard of his name yeah and if they do move to Kansas it’s not that big a deal that city sits right on the state line it’s 20 minutes it’s not that big of a deal to you it isn’t 20 minutes for the fans to get to one game 20 minutes to get to the other down the freeway but add in an extra hour and all of a sudden it was a huge deal when the Chargers No that’s a different city this is a different state it’s the same city it’s completely different it is i agree so the people who live in South Orange County North San Diego County you got to drive an extra 45 minutes no no no you blew it no it’s it’s going to Sacramento that’s a different city it’s an hour and a half it’s a different deal it doesn’t matter you just talked about the drive you talked about the commute right so now they got to drive an extra 30 minutes that’s a big deal it’s the exact same amount of time from downtown if the Chargers have moved to Escanido I wouldn’t have said anything do you need two shovels or just one if they’d moved to Escanido I wouldn’t say anything they moved to LA it’s no big deal cuz it doesn’t involve me no oh man i What about Oceanside yeah I’d have been fine with Oceanside it’s still San Diego they moved to LA done and you know an hour and a half that can be four hours easy yeah on Sunday you’re right yeah oh the freeway’s on Sunday oh I know i live there getting getting through Delmare you’re just parked suppose you live north of Delmare and you don’t even have to worry about it tj and PK # college football espn reporting that Texas State is the heavy favorite to join the Pack 12 as their eighth football playing team and be the ninth school overall $5 million buyout before July 1 it goes to 10 million after that the Sunb Belt reportedly targeting Louisiana Tech out of Conference USA as a replacement it never stops does it PK no i The food chain it’s there and you I saw the Sunundevils in baseball they needed some reinforcements so they took uh UVU’s best player and they took the guy who had the second highest batting average at Utah and then Utah will go down and take somebody and Yes it’s a It’s a food chain so Texas State assuming they’ll be in the Pack 12 they’ll be in the same league with Utah State that’ll be the Well I mean this is an obvious they want to be big time i told you you may think Lynon Bates Johnson is their biggest alum but I happen to think it’s Paul Goldmid there it is so sure and they want to be bigger they’ve got visions like uh who was it sack State’s got visions or is it Davis one of those two up there they both do actually oh yeah sacramento State is pushing forward on going to D1 FPS yeah right i mean so this is what they want the presence in Texas down there in San Marcos of course it’s a no-brainer DJ and PK # Major League Baseball the man here is Rafio Skywoman deep in the left field this thing is way back and it is oh gone over the red line it is out of here for Devs an opposite field homer it barely got over the red line deers launches and it is two nothing Red Sox swing to the 1-1 and he rocks it left center field doesn’t have enough at the wall goodbye put it in the drake gary Sanchez with a grand slam the Orioles got it in flight got it out of here and deliver the knockout blow oh what a pitch that one is swung on and hammered deep to left field it’s heading back toward the wall and he’s gone a threerun home run andy PZ with home run number 13 and he flips the score over and the Dodgers now lead it five-3 and the Dodgers end up winning the game five to four the final score also in there you heard Raphael Devers homering for Boston solo shot red Sox beat the Yankees two zip they sweep the series and then he gets traded to San Francisco i think that was just a uh file video audio as they say i don’t think De’s actually played in the game uh but uh he’s on his way to San Francisco yeah and he’s a big- time player for them uh but they signed Bregman out of Houston and he didn’t want to play uh first base or DH he wanted to play third so do you think they just got sick of the drama it was just too much yeah on and on it went yeah oh yeah reporters come out this morning he requested a trade back in spring training it’s hardcore it’s not not what I think it’s uh what everybody’s been talking about but the interesting thing is the Giants have Chapman over there at third base that they signed for uh in the offseason till 2030 so how’s this going to be any different yeah I I don’t know he’s injured right now so you don’t have to look up the box score you can trust me no he he homered in the game i want to see if you looked it up well it was in the highlights last night so I assume that that was not trying to throw you a curveball see if you looked it up just making stuff up i wanted to distract you while we talk baseball okay so you didn’t tell us about Andy Pages uh so he’ll play third in the in the short term but what’s he going to do in the long term when Chapman comes back because Chapman is a outstanding player on his own and they have a huge financial investment there uh and the Boston people are furious because then they turn around and sold uh or sent Harrison the pitcher to the minor leagues so they’ve already sent him they already assigned him i don’t know that i don’t know if they still do Paul Tucket or where their AAA is but and Hicks throws hard but he’s bounced around a little bit so Boston diehard folks in Boston they they’re going to be outraged I would think their fans not competing shipping stars out money dumps it’s not It’s not progress back to being where they want to be you know how they are they they are fairly intense and they’re used to the Red Sox winning and they’re not winning at the clip they want yeah they’re okay but Yeah you’re right and then I mean they did they essentially did this salary dump with Mookie Betts a few years ago and when you’re the Red Sox you’re not supposed to do salary dumps you’re supposed to be on the other end of it reds beat the Tigers ellie de la Cruz working his magic three ribbies scored three times reds win again bees get swept by the Las Vegas Aviators lose all six games got a sevename losing streak now s uh they will play off tonight and then Tuesday Sacramento will be in town and then Show supposed to make his pitching debut tonight padres’s and Dodgers and Show Hayes on the hill they said end of July well this is not the end of July this is mid June yeah I hope they’re doing it right it’s awfully valuable with that blue bat that he had yesterday uh so we’ll see how it goes man dj and PK # RSL out to midfield great hold up play by Diego looked like he was held gets away finds a channel plays the ball for Johnny Russell down the right side into the attacking third into the area russell onto his left foot his shot and a goal johnny Russell hits him with a change up rsl in possession cabraw sends the ball to midfield good older play by Agata or excuse me by Ple pole back to Katranus katranos over the top for Go go into the area go again his shot yes for a panel rail Salt Lake snaps a seven match winless streak they shut out DC United get a couple of goals johnny Russell scores for the first time and they get the win that was not a good DC United team and it wasn’t dialed in and it looked like they rolled over about an hour through that game but when you haven’t won in a month who cares that’s their problem get the W it’s not your problem that’s for sure that is not your problem it is their problem what’s the four panel far panel oh hit the side panel on the net opened up good goal for once it looked like he’s always seemed to be in a hurry the adrenaline is pumping and he really seemed to kind of slow down and opened up and goalkeeper had to protect the near post so went to the four well your adrenaline was flying man i could feel it there it was yep and now they’re off for two weeks before they go to Kansas City and they will play uh Johnny Russell’s old team they used to have a timeout before they go two weeks off they had time off for an international date and yeah they got another one here now there’s a lot of international stuff going on this month they had a game scheduled in there um and it got moved to September cuz is that why there has been talk of moving the schedule that is a one of the big driving factors that they don’t like taking the time off they don’t like playing they don’t like playing without their star players that’s another one but because the rest of the world is on the calendar they’re on the international games fall in June right and so they’re stuck here you know what do they do and the other reason they don’t like it is because the biggest moves they make are in the summer and so you you give a guy a three-year contract but what you’re really getting is half a season two full seasons and a half not always but most of the time I think people feel like well those half seasons are wasted you know because if you bring like they brought Chichu in he wouldn’t good those but it was really like 12 games one half a season but they had to pay him right and then Andre Gomez left mid-season cuz that’s the window so they want to line up the contracts and they don’t want to have their schedule messed with in June apparently one of the things they’re looking at though because there is no there is no 100% right answer here would be a long Christmas break which they do in Germany because of the weather i guess they take six or weeks or eight or something they take a long break there so they would do something like that here maybe starting when well that all to be determined but probably some probably December and January or January and February would be off yeah there’d be some kind of break in there where they’d be off so when would the season start the season would start October i think what they’ll do is like put the open cup and the leagues cup in July and August and then mid August start the season play through November take their break come back finish the season so like April May is that what or February no they have to play in March and they finish in February i meant I meant March i’m I’m sorry i meant March oh I they have to play before March they’ll certainly be playing in March but I think they’ll be back in February i’m just trying to think of weather so it’s about how much do they cheat how much can they go to the teams that play in the better weather and in domes oh okay and say “Hey everybody you know we’ll we’ll try to put all the games Yeah I got you there.” And then you got Texas teams going “We’re not warm weather.” And Chicago saying “Well you’re warmer than us.” They’re like “Well it freezes in Texas it’s going to be hard for our fans too.” You know and Toronto’s like “Yeah we don’t want to hear about.” So they got to iron all that out yeah okay they got to iron all that out but it’ll look something like that all right DJ and PK #golf to win the US Open at Oakmont one of the hardest if not the hardest test in major championship golf for the win jj Spawn ball up and over the ridge it’s on a very good line this could go in jj Spawn makes it it’s the biggest moment of his career jj Spawn conquers Oakmont and is your 125th US Open champion jj Spawn started with a disaster finished in style he bogeied five of the first six holes said the weather delay as the rain flooded the course and lightning and they were squeegeeing water off the course but that was a delay he needed to reset and he came down the stretch with three birdies and a bogey and he wins the tournament jj Spawn and that’s you love the guys who scramble PK Sand Deus High School walk- on in college goes to San Diego State pretty good golfer in the Mountain West but has to go to Canada and play there on that tour so he can qualify for the web.com tour here so he can make it to the PGA where he loses his card and then has to get back on the PGA tour almost gave up golf at one point that’s your kind of guy that’s a grinder right there there’s like no part of that story was easy he lives in Scottsdale and he is in the same neighborhood as Max Homa and so he was relating a story that Max Ho also lives in Scottsdale obviously there was talking that Tiger told Max and Max told JJ hey hey don’t do anything crazy this is the US Open and just stay within yourself and just keep focused and things can break your way and he recited that story in great detail and sure enough that’s exactly what happened what Tiger told Max and Max told JJ Max or JJ was thinking about that during the round during the delay and sure enough it comes to pass that the philosophy and the advice that Tiger got or Max got through Tiger relayed to JJ is what he’s thinking about and then he’s calm enough to do that and then of course the bomb that he hits from the other side of the fairway practically to win it he only needed a two putt so yeah he could have won it with two thing was to get the speed right and he did it’s all about distance in that case and sure enough he sinks it and you got to feel really happy for the I know he’s not a big name but I don’t care the replay angle from behind him showed how much break was in that putt i mean he started that thing way left of the hole right it’s hard breaks are hard to see on television yeah uh but yeah that was incredible throws his putter in the air i for all of us who get up and go to work every day which I think is the majority of the people who are listening to us we’re not millionaires and all that stuff this has to resonate awesome by JJ Spawn uh one other cool story I read about him and it made me think of you because you probably know this so there was somebody on social media random person right just a random golfer who said “I root for JJ Spawn because I went to the driving range at Scottsdale’s Scottdale MUN and Spawn is there and I knew who he was.” So I talked to him said “Dude what why are you here you’re a PJ tour golfer it keeps him.” And he said “It keeps him grounded.” And the guy finished the thing with and for those of you who don’t know Scottsdale Mun is best described as a goat track yeah it’s a range yeah it’s so Yeah yeah I saw that yeah that’s a hilarious story that’s just a great story i chuckled when I read that great story i DJ NPK #N NHL shot near circle walks in a wrist shot blocked and it’s picked up by Bennett and he scores and the Panthers take a two nothing lead that first shot was blocked and went right to Sam Bennett and he doesn’t miss from there the Panthers double their advantage inside two minutes to play in the first it’s two nothing and it’s playoff Sam again broken up marian in past Wman marian and he scores marian went to the backand he sneaks it down low pass Pickard what an individual effort for Brad Marian and the Panthers have taken a three nothing lead here in game five the Florida Panthers up three games to two after a 5-2 win Saturday over the Oilers are we going seven or can Edmonton win game six didn’t go didn’t go OT no idea i can’t make heads or tails of this thing here man and I hope it goes seven that’s fun to watch more and then it’s over for a few months but uh yeah this is Drop that thing and then whatever is going to happen is what happens dj and PK that’s what’s trending it’s brought to you by Shamrock Plumbing there’s no job too big or too small and get the personal touch with Shamrock Plumbing all right Mike Fulta Utah Mammoth radio voice will join us coming up at 8:30 perhaps he’ll be able to tell us what’s going to happen in game six because otherwise it looks like a mystery and just when you think everything’s going to overtime even that game didn’t go to overtime so there you go we are joined right now by Ryan Ericson ryan you got us out of Thanksgiving Point on a glorious day way to order this up it’s a beautiful day dj and PK thank you so much for being here with us today uh you’ve got a golf tournament going you’re working for kids and uh keeping them on the move kids on the Move tell folks what that is about you are the chief operating officer correct i am and yeah Kids on the Move this is the first inaugural Hope in Motion Invitational we’re so excited to have it here at Thanksgiving Point with RBM as our title sponsor we couldn’t be happier kids on the Move has been around for 40 years it’s a nonprofit organization that has been helping children with different abilities is the way I like to to phrase it for over 40 years we help children that have autism or any other kind of delay that’s what we’re here for we we have 256 employees we have over 3,500 volunteers every year um and we we help about that same amount of kids every year and continuing to grow this Hope and Motion Invitational is about helping even more children and and taking that message across the country and across the world we’ll actually be out in Peru uh we fly out tomorrow to start our entity tomorrow out in Peru so we’re excited to to be here and and have your guys’ support i’m surprised you’re here you got to pack Peru that’s a big deal well I’m a guy i don’t need a pack i throw stuff into a bag and I’m good to go i like you even more my wife and I she wants to pack two hours before we leave yeah I’m almost ready to start packing at an hour yeah exactly right and somehow they have way more bags than we do right we’ve got one bag they’ve got two or three you never know so I was that was my next question but you kind of answered i wondered if you were local statewide regional national but you’re national going international or you’ve been international for a while we’re statewide right now but we are moving out into those other areas because the we’ve been around for 40 years so we have a lot of history a lot of knowledge of how to help children and as we have gone out to Peru and Argentina and other countries we we see them how the United States was 40 years ago of how they handle those children with different abilities and and the resources that they have so we’re excited to to take this message and our expertise uh to across the world and help as many people as we can so today what will people be doing aside from raising money also raising interest i mean you need people talking about your organization connecting to different people’s networks absolutely the best thing people can do that is listening today is go to our website kotm.org and at our homepage on the top right hand corner is a little tab called hope in motion that open motion page tells everybody about what it is that we’re trying to do to because we strongly believe that every child no matter what their ability is has a chance to thrive and be successful and sometimes they need help and their parents need help and so today it’s about getting that message out there even more on each hole we have a sponsor and we also have a story about a child or or something or something very similar to that to help people understand and a lot of ways to donate as well so the more the more success we have at this tournament and the other things we do the more children we can help because at the end of the day that’s what it’s about helping as many kids as we can all right well Ryan thanks for having us out here today and uh good luck with the tournament we’ll talk with you again later in the show thank you very much ryan Ericson joining us chief operating officer for Kids on the Move we’re at Thanksgiving Point for their golf tournament dj and PK we’ll take a break be back the question of the day is coming up there’s a chance we might have a BYU football coach you know we’re going to see stick around dj and PK it’s 975 the zone ladies and gentlemen may I present this is JJ and Alex joining us on the program right now John Wilner college football writer for Mercury News what are some of the issues and concerns about that 5 plus 11 model that gives a lot of people pause well I think that it gives the selection committee an immense amount of power they’re picking 11 spots there are a lot of reasons to be wary of the selection committee i mean your state is one of the big ones right but I think uh BYU got totally hosed that is a sentiment a lot of people feel could get repeated every year if the committee is allowed to pick most of the field one corner is distrust of the selection committee another corner is the need for more money because of revenue sharing and the third corner is that ESPN isn’t on the hook to pay more if they expand the playoff so they can’t just get more money by extending the playoffs catch JJ and Alex afternoons from 3 to 6 presented by G2G bars on 975 the KSL Sports Zone alltime point guard list Magic Steph Curry Isaiah Thomas Jason Kidd Chris Paul anybody missing yes and then you follow it up with NBA Finals 22 how much do you think the refs are influencing what’s going on and then you got the Memphis trade on top of that yeah I think the Memphis trade obviously supersedes that we can get to those others at a at another time uh particularly as it relates to the Jazz because uh you know we know that salaries like it’s like real estate is the house next door to you selling you want it to sell for as much as possible right because that sets the market so does this trade set the market for the 25 off season that the Jazz have an opportunity to be a significant part of and Austin H uh wants to make his mark and he’s going to make his mark i think he’ll make an excellent mark over time but at the same time you can keep your draft picks and now we’re the draft is next week so yeah for a slow time this is busy it’s not the same as some January night when there’s five different teams playing at the same time and you’re trying to watch them all yeah it’s a different kind of busy though it’s a different kind of busy right and that’s that’s what makes this job awesome is that we don’t really focus on one particular thing we’re not a beat writer we’re not beat writers like I was for so many years and I focused on the youths or I focused on the Cougars i even covered the Aggies for one season when I was working for the Tribune and that’s what you do and you get so up to your eyeballs in that we got to do it all which is one of the there’s about 500 reasons why I love this gig and that’s one of them is that we get to do it all and we get to experience and get to talk about it all and this is an exciting time and yesterday the US Open and I’m gripped on that watching this who some people might say a no-name dude uh you know I knew a little bit about him but not enough to where I even consider picking him obviously uh but and that was fun to see him do his thing and that’s what that’s what sports is about man is the you know you you we love the like show is going to take the mound tonight and is he going to strike out 10 guys or something and you know he’s a superstar so we like that and that’s 24 hours after JJ Spawn sort of a nobody comes out of almost nowhere and he’s been on the tour so not totally nowhere but he wins the US Open where he’s the only one under par it was awesome man and you got water there and with uh Sam Burns casual water i think he should This isn’t casual water this is casual lake it is and they didn’t give him uh an opportunity to move the ball you got to be kidding me he step on it and his foot feet would sink and you’d literally see puddles and they made him hit i mean everybody had to do it as Adam Scott said i get that so it’s not like uh the rules were different from one versus another but that’s the world of sports man and you got all this stuff that was going on over the weekend and that that’s life and all and y’all can do whatever you want and think whatever you want over there i don’t really care about that uh what you think anyway uh but here this is the fun stuff of life and it was a fantastic weekend and now Jazzer you’re on the clock man the trade was established what are you going to do not that you need to do it by Thursday or next Wednesday or whenever when the draft concludes on Thursday and they’re saying Kevin Durant’s gonna be traded this week yeah we’re fans of this stuff what is going to happen with KD yeah it’s got it’s there’s got to be draft picks involved i was hearing with him and I think with the Jazz it’s more clear-cut with Durant if he’s traded to San Antonio or realistically even to Philadelphia we know what’s going to happen at two and three we know who’s going to be available so there’s some shy and then if it’s anybody else it’s like well let’s hold on and see you know if it I mean it’s not going to be the Jazz but if it were you don’t know at five or six or seven who’s going to be on the board what do you mean it’s not going to be the Jazz well I don’t think they’re Kevin Durant’s going to be trading oh you’re talking about Durant okay yeah but the the point is if you’re you you’re we pretty much know how the top couple of picks are going to go right if you traded with Philly right now if they did a deal with Philly the third pick well you can have anybody you want except those two guys because those two guys are going to go one two I’ll take that yeah so if a Philly deal could get done any other deal they might have it mostly done and then have to wait until draft night to finish it and announce it so we may not hear anything till draft night i thought the thing about the Bane trade with the four picks going is number one the my immediate reaction is man that’s a lot of picks and then you think okay but Orlando’s young and good if they’re healthy that’s a lot of picks in the second half of the first round and we talk about first round picks but the fact is these these people all have this all scoped out there isn’t that much value in the second half of the first round they trade those picks relentlessly on paper on paper yes on paper I mean everyone knows you can hit but everyone knows it’s really difficult ironically you’re trading those picks for someone who went in that range right yeah but it’s it’s like if you look the picks outside the lottery like 10 of the 16 have been traded i think some of them have been traded three and four times so there’s just not as much value and they’re more willing to part with those but the thought that Memphis you know one year Orlando could have injuries and could plummet and they could get a top five steel they could get a top 10 pick and so you roll the dice on hey we might get lucky they might be bad by the last pick there might be an injury and they might have one bad year in the meantime and we might hit on a pick at 20 or 23 or 28 wherever it ends up being i also think too there’s a better chance to get better players later in the draft because I think the quality just the sheer number of quality players has increased now of course that’s just going to rise up the superstar is going to be that much more valuable if the level of play rises across the board the superstar then becomes that that much more valuable because he’s still better you could have in one year you may have 100 quality players and in 25 years you’ll have uh 200 say like was you make this example in the WNBA that league gets better and better right but the value of the superstar then increases you see what I’m saying yeah that make sense i I think the thing they have to think with these draft picks they’re getting is there’s very little chance that they’re going to get a star understood but you can get a quality player that’s the thing can you get it what are the odds you get a rotation player what are the odds you get a starter your your third fourth or fifth best starter and I think those odds increase because I think the quality of play literally around the world is getting better yeah and Joe Engles is a great example of that now you got to you got a player has to be willing to make that move and some people may not we see guys who are drafted in Europe and never want to come over but there are good players all over the world and how much do they want to get better and and we see players who are in the US who go play in Europe and then come back so I still think that was a a surprise that they gave up that many picks for I was I was not that they gave up that many picks but they gave up that many picks for Bane i was surprised that Bane moved too i was surprised on multiple levels i think Memphis has had enough and they’re just going to start over they fire the coach right at the end i mean so the So John Morance signed for uh three years I think and he can get an extension for two is his head ever gonna be on straight and well it’s not when they tell him they’re not giving him an extension if they tell him that i mean if they give him an extension then I wonder why they traded Bane but because they traded Bane I’m thinking well they’re not going to give him an extension they’re going to tear this down and start over i mean just a couple years ago it seems maybe they flip them and try things get in the way yeah well and I think there’s offc court stuff too but then there’s onc court like he’s a smaller guy and he plays up in the air and gets beat up and misses games and that’s one thing now but what’s it going to be like going forward two years four years sure plus the off the court stuff and they might just figure hey maybe we flip him and we reup Jiren Jackson Jr we got these draft picks and we keep going and maybe they use these maybe they don’t use these draft picks maybe they flip them to get somebody have they named the coach did they promote the interim guy uh I gotta look that up oh I’m not sure uh yeah watching the playoffs I wasn’t following me what Memphis was doing well I didn’t care what Memphis was doing but uh they did elevate they did they gave the interum the job iselo I believe that’s what I thought i thought they they that’s what they did there uh much like Denver did they both fired their coaches at the end of the season and then basically promoted the interim guy uh yeah I I for me I put everything how it relates to the Jazz because that’s how I make my money talking about the Jazz turns out we do local sports and uh so I thought okay double A there’s your there’s your field there’s your market there’s the expectation the barometer has been set i think market is a better player than Desmond Bane and if you want to move him I can argue that John Collins is a better player based on the season that John Collins had ston probably not uh but he’s still valuable kesler extremely valuable is he going Kesler’s going into his fourth year right he is uh so he’s arguably uh ready to take off he took off pretty good this year so they got all these moves available to them and and plus the draft picks and DoubleA’s talking about how yeah we’re we’re most likely going to keep the draft picks i get that but there’s also a bunch of other moves you can make and still keep the draft picks as I’ve been saying they’ve never had this many options the amount of options they have it’s almost to the point of endless you can get ridiculous at some point and so you don’t want to go there but so much that they can do to make this team better and I caught the thing that Winhorse was saying that the Western Conference even the Jazz are looking to turn it up yeah I saw that because they are i think Double A made that abundantly clear he said he only said we won’t do that i think that was his literal quote asked about are you going to you know the tanking we won’t do that that’s a short sentence that had a meaning that goes into multiple levels he said it so quick it was so easy it was hard so definitive it was so definitive that it was clearly something that was talked about and settled on as he was getting hired he wanted to know well what are you doing what are your expectations and they want to know how do you plan to build the team so that’s the kind of thing that’s got to be hashed out and because it’s hashed out in detail at length man when he gets a question he knows what the answer is we’ve been over this ground we’ve moved way past this oh yeah you don’t respond like that without even hesitating yeah that was obviously a researched discussion that had been had during the hiring process it’s interesting as all these picks move and this is one thing they have to decide as they make trades it’s like so the landscape trade changes right i mean there’s only 30 teams so everybody’s talking to everybody at some point and at some point they’ve talked to Orlando they must have and now suddenly all those picks are in Memphis so now a conversation with Memphis takes on a different tone if you’re going to reup Jiren Jackson maybe you want Markin to go alongside him the standard has been set yeah and now you got these and now you got the pick so now we can talk to you in a way we couldn’t talk to you last week because you didn’t have that and the same thing whenever Durant goes picks are going to move so then you’re going to have somebody new to talk to right so all right DJ and PK it’s 975 the zone with us and now a look at traffic from the KSL traffic center [Music] got a little bit of slowing eastbound I80 in Summit County near Kimble Junction up in the Park City area but in the valley freeways moving uh well overall no problems on Legacy Banganger or Highway 89 currently if you’re traveling on any of those major thorough affairs this update is brought to you by the Whipple Service Champions your cooling heating plumbing drains and electrical specialist whipple that away with Whipple Service Champions with your KSL traffic update i’m Jay Catch here on 975 the KSL Sports Zone this is Hance Olsson and Scotty eric Wed kind enough to join us you find out you’re up for the College Football Hall of Fame what’s your first thought when uh you get that phone call just humbled by it all quite honestly I think I have a real shot is the College Football Hall of Fame i don’t think I have any shot at the NFL Hall of Fame so when I look at the College Football Hall of Fame I think yeah I belong there at some point whether it’s now or 10 years from now like I think I belong as one of the best college football players to have played the game so whenever it happens or if it happens like you guys know me I I live life to the fullest it’s not going to change whether I fall asleep at 10:00 or midnight i got many other things that are on my mind but it’s really humbling and and truly honored obviously and know that it took coaches players faculty family wife kids like it doesn’t happen alone catch Nan Scotty weekdays from noon to 3 on 975 the KSL Sports Zone dj and PK it’s 975 the zone we are joined now by BYU football coach Kehlani Satake who is dressed to golf he is ready to go here at Thanksgiving point uh we should say off the top that um we know everybody wants to hear about the quarterback position and Jake Rhett’s laugh but Kehani’s got an army of lawyers over one shoulder and an army of administrators over another shoulder he can’t talk about that right now so we’re going to have to set that aside there’ll be a time that uh more questions can be answered and we all look forward to that so let’s go to another really difficult question that people want that you can talk about because you don’t have the army of lawyers and administrators the house settlement has come i’ve talked about uh now there’s going to be an NIL clearing house and we have all wondered how is this possibly going to work is this going to be challenged by lawyers right away how are coaches recruiting when the way NIL has worked the last couple years is now out the window how are you adjusting all this on the fly how are the kids and parents adjusting to all this on the fly how’s the industry handling this it’ll be fine i mean it’s just it’s uh the uh that was such a lavel answer you had such a ll answer right there i’m actually glad that you took a while to to to speak because it gave me a chance to recover from walking up the two flights of stairs and I had to get to to come and hang out with you guys so no I I um yeah I think the game itself is an amazing game um so I have great um you know following alto together in college football there’s a lot of people that are interested in it the the playoffs are improving um every time that they they take a look at it and they adjust so uh I think this adjustment it just that’s that’s what the game is i mean whether it’s the rules or the way we hit or or um when we can recruit when we can sign um can we play play c uh pay the players or how does that payment come through is is it a a revshare or a NIL i mean um as we go through it I think everyone’s trying to figure it out i I just know that you have to be ready to adapt in this game and and so I’m I’m you know it was interesting cuz um looking at the roster spots and everything we’re under the impression that we had to cut our roster to 105 and now you’re realizing that that’s pro probably not the deal but it seems like some schools cut the rosters down and others didn’t so some were in the no and some weren’t so we obviously have to adjust to all that that’s that’s the game um the game is uh coaches are required to to learn the rules and and every every um year they change and and they’re trying to improve the game and as long as they there’s excitement and there’s a a great following I think we can we’ll be fine we’ll just find ways to make it better and I think the game is getting better and but it’s it’s never going to be perfect right away but we we’ll get there i think the bigger point coach is that Brian Santiago taking over as athletic director succeeding Tom Homo and now he’s speaking more from an authoritative standpoint since he’s got the title is that the message that he’s sending whatever the rules are and however they’re implemented and wherever whatever changes are there BYU is ready to adapt and ready to try to win at the highest level that’s what I take in just a short time as he’s has his administration has gotten going respond to that yeah I think um Brian I I’m excited about Brian being the athletic director and I’m excited to follow his leadership i think it was amazing uh seeing Tom um usher us into the Big 12 and and the changes that that’s happened i mean when I got here we were an independent team and which I’ve never been a part of that before so when I uh got here Tom and I discussed and and and he said “Hey we have to operate as if we’re going to be a P P5 team at the time.” And um so I said “Well the best way to do it is we just got to get some competition and see where we stand match up with these guys.” And um luckily I have some experience when I was at Utah with A-Rod and Jay and those guys so and with Kyle and and so I was like “Okay if we want to be able to match up we got to see how our team is and the depth the talent.” And so we did that and and um had some difficult uh schedules and we had to be creative with it because most of our schedules were front-loaded and um but but I think it allowed us to to see where we need to improve on and there’s a lot of different areas and so um with the hopes that we would get in the Big 12 or or or a power conference and then we end up doing it and and then I think it’s like it’s kind of like Tom’s ready to b pass the baton to someone else to to I mean he’s ready to hang out and put his toes in the sand and relax and play some golf and and uh you know I think Brian’s ready and he’s he seems um excited at the opportunity and I think he’s been chomping at the bit for a while now and and this is going to be exciting to see him roll but I think he understands the game and how different it is even from from basketball to football to to volleyball um soccer things like that it’s just it’s a a different of a different time so uh he he has the skills and the ability to to lead us and I’m excited about what we can do as a football program there were a lot of unknowns when you joined the Big 12 obviously and half the league is changing membership do you feel like you have your arms around the league and you know what it is now or is that another thing that’s constantly evolving and changing you just got to figure it out on the fly as you go yeah I mean I I I think uh you know the more I’m I’m around it the more I just realize how how and and you know we’ve had some new coaches in the conference come in and uh it’s just it’s just going to be difficult everybody’s got a good team and everyone now has has the the money and is able to pay players things like that so we have to find our our competitive advantage and our niche and what’s going to make us unique and different than everybody else and and that’s the uh exciting part about it I think uh when you put things together the strategy the uh the scheme the the culture everything that that goes into building a program for me that’s what’s exciting and seeing if we can how we match up and if we can get this this point where we can win a Big 12 championship that’s the goal we know the returning players and you got a lot of them i wanted to hit you up on some of the transfers you got the Gentry Kid offensive lineman and then here just recently you got a couple of animals you got Baron Tiger coming to your program bachmeire ones a receiver graduated from Stanford in two and a half years well it took me double that to graduate from ASU so you know my level of intelligence compared to his and then Bachmire the quarterback the youngster you’re talking to some guys in your program and they’re super excited speak to the transfer class as far as who you think that you brought in to be able to help your team this very season first of all ASU um uh degree goes a long way just so you know so I have a lot of great friends that have graduated from that university and so uh that’s not an easy task either so I mean overall the having the guys join our program and and honestly we we had connections to all of them from before even you know whether whether uh the ability for us to get them at the first time i I’d rather get sign them right out of high school sure but um the fact that we’ve been given the transfer portal means that we get a chance at at getting them back again and and uh when when they enter the portal um we have to go you know we have to go as strong as we can to get our team better depthwise but the key is that we know that they are a good fit from them as a as a as in on the personal side and so um same thing with Tonavasa yeah yeah i mean those guys I mean it’s it’s we just knew that there was a connection already on a personal side and whatever the reason was before why they didn’t come um that’s really more on their side than ours i mean we we’re we’re we’re at the point where we just want to get as many guys that fit our program and fit what we’re trying to get done on the football field and off and so I think that having the opportunity to recruit guys again I mean I I when I it’s all said and done I want to do it the first time i’d rather just skip the the portal and let let them be here the entire time but the the hard part is that the portal is is available and it is out there uh I just don’t want to make a huge living on it you know what I mean but I I love having these guys there and and it we we it’s good to be to confirm that we were right that they are a good fit for the for the locker room and for what we’re trying to do as a mission of of our team there’s so many kids in the portal how many people do you have to add to your staff just I mean five years ago this isn’t a thing and now it is yeah there kids coming from 130 schools you’ve gotten kids from Wever State so that’s another 100 schools at the FCS level you have people watching film nonstop so you’re prepared the moment the dam breaks and the portal opens how many people do you have doing that yeah i mean and and I think we’re trying to figure it out i think I think we need a lot more i mean that’s the part of getting the the right resources making sure that we have all the bodies in the right spots but you know I I just want to make sure that the focus is on these young men still getting their degrees i think as everybody starts to transfer to different schools uh the good number of our guys that that are coming in are in are on track to get a degree within the four or five years um but the problem is when when um kids transfer multiple times not all the not all the uh the credits transfer with them and so many of them have to That’s why it took me 5 years cuz I went to NAU first or else I would have got it done in four colani I was about to say that was that was the next sentence I was going with but no that but you’re you’re right it’s just when you take all these classes not all of them transfer for some reason i I mean I think that’s just more on the school and maybe a little bit of their pride in it uh the the goal is still get a degree for these young men and and so we want to make sure that um all their their progress is working towards that because that’s that’s the one thing we can definitely control we can’t control uh what the next level and opportunities are going to happen there now you are pulled in a thousand different ways as the head coach and you chose to be here today why well normally um our vacation would start Friday of last of last weekend right but um now that we have official visits in June we kind of have to hang around for the next two weeks and so we have our final recruiting weekend coming this next upcoming weekend uh for the summer and so we got to hang around for a little bit so I I decided you know this last week we should make it a golf week so if there’s golf tournaments we want to push them to this week that we want to participate in and if our guys aren’t in golf tournaments and they’re probably playing golf somewhere on our staff uh this entire week in the morning so I hope they can get tea times and stuff like that but you wanted to support this cause i want to support this cause because it it runs deep to me i mean I I first of all I love the people that are involved and I love the cause and and just uh being able to to um help uh you know families that that have young ones in autumn and just having being able to just uh help i I just I you know our our daughter is on the spectrum and so we’re trying to find ways to communicate and trying ways to get better and and so um I I can’t imagine so what all the other parents are out there and how hard it is and when you’re when you care about your child and it’s hard to communicate um I I’m going to support people that that want to make lives better and help families and so if it means that I have to come out here and make a fool of myself on the golf course so be it i just want everybody to know that I don’t ever practice which is why I don’t expect to ever be good in this game but but you can always count on me to to be someone that you can beat and uh and definitely win if I if if our force of wins is not because of me it’s probably because Fessie fessie yeah he’s the ringer i was trying to think who’s the best golfer on the staff it’s Fessie then than Jay Hill probably that just go for the golf team get a ringer get an ex Cougar golfer or something get a ringer i’ve heard other coaches no no he ain’t like that coach up there well we can definitely do that but it’s always going to cost something you know okay all right there’s always a price to pay yeah no but the goal is have fun and then just be I mean guys I I love being around people it’s It’s good to see you guys face to face i know many times we’re on on the radio and on the phone and stuff like that so I it’s just I I just like connecting with everyone we’ll be there next week and I’ll be in in Texas in about two three weeks yeah it’s going to be a lot of fun and I just like the the interaction especially after what we experienced in co so anytime I can get out and see everybody and hug people I’m going to do it well they want you on the course Colani we could talk to you for a while but uh you got to go hug somebody down there don’t watch the group that’s going to be starting on hole two right now we’ll ignore we’ll ignore whatever happens on the second T- box yeah well if you think I’m I I’m horrible at golf wait till you add like four or five people watching me so if there’s a camera watching me swing the ball might spray right or left but I’m going to look forward like it just went this perception is reality you told me that time at Pebble on the first te oh yeah when everybody was watching me and I’m like and then your second shot you piped it well yeah i Yeah I topped it and went like five yards in front of me and everyone’s kind of like moaning and then I got on the green because I was just what else do I have to lose i can’t make any more fool of myself so got it right i mean got on the green and then four putted so that was awesome thanks Colani appreciate it guys all right BYU football coach Kehani Sitakei joining us dj and PK it’s 975 the zone we’re broadcasting live from Thanksgiving Point Kids on the Move with their inaugural golf tournament here and we are joined now by Rachel Rutherford she is the CEO of the Kids on the Move and you just heard Keelani got to be good to have him out here today that gets everybody fired up absolutely we’re so grateful to have him here and all of the golfers that have come come out today to support Hope in Motion and Kids on the Move so tell us about Hope in the Mot Hope Hope in easy for me to say tell me about Kids on the Move and this Hope in Motion golf tournament and why it means so much to you absolutely well Kids on the Move we support children with special needs um children that have disabilities or delays and we have been in Utah for over 40 years and Hope in Motion is a movement it’s a global movement where we can rally around children with special needs and provide support and services to their families and really as a community get involved and see how you can help be more inclusive and also help us with our cause which is to build a new campus it’ll be a first of its kind in the world a 25 acre campus where we will have many different types of services that will support children with special needs well you picked a great time and a great opportunity to be out here how has the community responded it looks like it’s pretty good yeah we’ve had um a really great response we have a lot of golfers a lot of companies that are sponsoring today and coming out it’s a really great cause and it’s really important you know Kids on the Move has been around for a long time and we’ve really built a name here in the community we’re really well known for the wonderful staff that we have the volunteers that we have that provide services for families and so it’s just great to see the community rally around us what’s your golf handicap oh my gosh I don’t even have one because I don’t even golf so I wish I could say I I have one but I don’t the um the tournament brings a lot of people together here uh for the people in their cars and can’t be here and want to know more about this what what’s one or two things you want them to know and what can they do to learn more yeah so a couple of things that um first of all they can always go to kotm.org that’s our website and you can learn more about Hope in Motion and our organization there as well as um I just published a book with Forbes called Chasing the Impossible and it’s a really powerful book because it really sheds a light on the many challenges that families face um also the blessing of having a child with special needs how they can bring so much love to the community and they have special gifts that only they can bring and I really um make a clarion call to the community to leaders to business owners entre entrepreneurs to either get involved financially get involved in your community through service through support and sometimes as simple as being a friend to a neighbor um inviting their child over to you know hang out with your children and really be more inclusive in that way i’ve I’ve heard from parents where you know maybe they have a child with autism and their a their autistic child is throwing a tantrum maybe in a grocery store and they’ve expressed how how wonderful it would be if just someone stopped and said “Is there something I could do to help you?” You know often times we can easily judge someone else not understanding the dynamic or we’re thinking like maybe that’s not a very great mom or maybe that’s a difficult child and we don’t always know all of the circumstances around that and so one thing that we can all do is just when we see a parent that has a child that they’re struggling with maybe just ask them if you can help in some way and I think something as small as that um can just be very supportive she’s Rachel Ruford CEO of Kids on the Move it’s kotm.org online if you want to learn more rachel thanks for stopping by for a few minutes thank you so much for having me dj and PK it’s 975 the zone dj and PK the artist of the day is Tupac born on this day in 1971 brought to you by Live Nation for all live concerts events in 2025 check out livenation.com dj and PK it’s 975 the zone just had Khani Sitakei here the countdown’s on for football you were recounting dates for him it won’t be long now no hanging out with the media a lot yeah they have their annual uh which I think this is a great idea it’s not media day because they can’t have media day that’ll be in the uh first uh full I think like the 8th and 9th something 9th and 10th whatever that Tuesday and Wednesday is down at the Cowboys facility the KSL Sports Zone will be there all day broadcasting myself Alex and Hans are going to be there and obviously we’ll have uh all the coverage kslsports.com we’ll have all the coverage and then next week they do a little thing uh golf media thing where you have an opportunity to interview some of the players and coaches and then the coaches scatter for uh two three weeks vacation and then they come back and camp starts and then it’s on man it’s on hey you know the Reds left thing is going to hang over the program until they get it resolved but uh you know they got a season to prepare for whether he plays or not doesn’t doesn’t matter in terms of preparation for the season obviously it impacts the season but the they’ve got to prepare for it and they’ve got other quarterbacks in there so if he’s unavailable the season is going to go on and they’ve got to win ball games and I think they’re capable of winning ball games that’s all that matters is what you do uh whoever’s available and whoever isn’t available that’s the way it goes and he’s got his legal situation and the university’s got to do what they do and see what happens there but I do think they’ve got quarterbacks on the roster that can help them win games that’s the most important thing those games are only uh nine or 10 weeks away i’d have to do math on that but it’s basically we’re mid June now and by mid August August 23rd well I I saw a thing that said the last uh we only have 10 more Saturdays with no college football okay and one of those is gone now it’s over and it’s never coming back dave when did you read that on like Friday i don’t remember okay maybe Saturday it’s a little more than two months yeah cuz today is June 16 and August 23rd is the week zero Iowa State Kansas State Armageddon and and I get my my adrenaline just pumps as we get closer and closer it always does and it has for every year and I know the game who I was listening to Chris Peterson and he was being interviewed by somebody i think it might have been I might have been driving home Friday by your boy the herd it was because I heard him too oh and he and I always love talking to him he’s the one who said “Is there a dumbest dumber group in America than young 18 to 22 year old?” And he made a statement he said “You know this game is screwed up but gosh darn it every Saturday morning I wake up excited.” That’s me that’s me to a te i think that Keelani’s attitude is just really healthy since it’s screwed up and since it’s going to be screwed up for the rest of Kehlani’s career right we can do the math whether he coaches 10 or 20 years he’s starting his 10th year isn’t he right so yeah you 5 10 15 20 years however long you know he before he retires right it’s going to be messed up at that point so it’s just kind of like all right what’s the latest curveball you’re baseball analogy guy when you get in the box you know you’re going to get someone’s going to throw you a curve so be ready to hit it it’s coming right and don’t get all crazy about it that’s what I’m taking from BYU with Santiago taking over is that he’s been emphasizing we’re going to try to win at the highest level and whatever changes they make and maybe there might be some thing that just says okay for we’re out but that doesn’t seem conceivable right now and doesn’t for the foreseeable future so they’re going to be in it to win it and that’s what your fans want to hear and see what happens there as far as winning it and I think they’ll win they’ll be competitive this year no matter who takes the first snap colani seemed to like the playoff format changes from 12 to 16 teams that opens up another potential birth it opens up four but you assume you know the Big 10 are going to get I I like it djpk it’s 975 the zone mike Falter radio voice of the Utah Mammoth joining us next stay with us this is Jake Scott and Ben Anderson there’s problem solvers i’m not one of them i’m a problem creator well yeah yeah right i call it the challenging group think but really I’m just I’m an instigator see I’m more of a problem pointer outer doing it wrong exactly which I’d probably rather be than a problem creator sure it’s better but easier than problem solver and neither help no nothing neither fix anything no i mean my living is to pop on the microphone and say “Hey that team really stunk out there.” Well how do they make it better i don’t know not my problem don’t you get paid to figure that out boy that team stinks why do they stink well I could give you a number of different reasons how do you fix it well it doesn’t matter it’s your problem not up to me i missed the part where that’s my problem i love this job here Jake Scott and Ben Anderson every day from 10 to noon on 975 KSL Sports nominate the youth sports volunteer that you know for the Hercules here of the week submit your nomination at kslports.com/contest listen every Thursday afternoon to JJ and Alex for the winner help us celebrate the efforts of those volunteers making an impact with the Hercules hero of the week and it’s sponsored by Hercules First Federal Credit Union and Beehive Meals tjpk it’s 975 the zone we are joined by Mike Fulta radio voice of the Utah Mammoth mike good morning good morning guys sorry if you hear the uh jackhammers going off in the background a lot of work going on at Delta Center with the renovations underway but uh we’re in the middle of a Stanley Cup finals right now so getting ready to wind down the hockey season but just like that you guys are talking about um you know the college football season revving up here nhl season will be firing up shortly after that which is crazy to think about and uh then we’ll be off and running in the first year for the Utah Mammoth in the rebrand so a lot of exciting stuff coming down the next couple weeks here have you been able to figure out what is going to happen next in the Stanley Cup finals or is it just one gigantic mystery and you just uh turn the game on and then just let it happen i don’t think anybody has any idea i think the one thing we do know is that for the Edmonton Oilers Conor McDavid and Leon Dryidle two of the best players in the world we know that those guys are not going to go down without a fight um they have been searching for that cup for a couple of years now this is their second straight year in the finals against these Florida Panthers and the Panthers are are that good they might be the they are the best team in the the league from top to bottom at least they’re putting that case together right now uh they added Brad Marshand in uh via a trade which looks like a crazy deal now uh because Marian has been incredible for the Panthers um he was formerly with the Boston Bruins and Boston gave him away for a bag of magic beans essentially but now Florida is uh is looking pretty scary but it’s time for it’s time for a legacy game from Conor McDavid and and Leon Dryidle uh because they have their backs against the wall and they they play tomorrow night down 3-2 in Florida and if you’re gonna be one of the great ones if you’re gonna put together a magic kind of storybook here this season and win the cup gotta win this game we look at Florida and maybe they’re have a little bit of a dynasty tampa before that it’s crazy to think that the NHL power resides in the state of Florida of all places although I heard somebody say “Hey I’m sick of that that storyline most of the guys are for K are from Canada anyway so what difference does it make?” But anyway uh what do you see in Florida and how the team has been built that could translate to what the Mammoth can do yeah I I think that that’s a great question and one we’ve been kind of circulating amongst our our the broadcast team the last couple uh last couple of weeks like man what uh what does Florida have that that we want Utah to have i think one element that you see with Florida that every team wants to have is size and team toughness up front with their forwards and I think the Utah Mammoths have that degree of toughness uh there were some of I think they were third Utah was in fights last year so you got guys that are willing to stand up for each other and and mix it up uh you had Clayton Keller taking a puck to the face getting 12 stitches popping right back out onto the ice uh and not missing a game uh so we’ve seen that toughness but Utah maybe lacks some of that size up front and we see that make such a difference in the playoffs when over the course of you know a a playoff that span a couple months if you have guys that are big and mobile that will really wear on a team over the course of a seven game series and you also you know it helps to be big to be able to withstand all the hitting and the physicality that happens in um in the playoffs as well you got to be able to take the hits not just give them and so I I think Utah has you know that toughness like we said but maybe looking for some size to add and in free agency or via trade here this summer i think as people uh hear this and try to get familiar with you know some more nuances of the game when you talk about size physical toughness and that I mean fights are an easy stat so it’s one way to measure it i get why you bring that up but when you’re watching a game do you notice more the big hit in the corner and the ability that gives you to win the puck back do you notice more uh someone who’s big enough and physical enough to put a body on someone who’s you know the rush is on and you can just kind of push a guy just kind of ride him a little towards the boards a little worse angle and give your goalie a little bit of help the crunching hit at mid ice i mean where does that physicality really matter that it starts to translate to goals or goals prevented and wins win yeah it it’s there’s an intimidation factor but there’s also a practical factor with the physicality and you see the practical factor uh play a factor over the course of the series and that’s why the physicality is so important because you’re playing the same team up to seven times that when those defensemen go back to get a puck in their own end and they know that they have some lunatic streaming down their neck going to run them through the wall that affects their decision making and by the time you get to game five six and seven those defenseman are tired of getting hit and they might try to get rid of the puck sooner or or make a snap decision that they shouldn’t because they know that they’re going to get hit and so that’s where it’s kind of a a battle of attrition a little bit where maybe in game one you’re you know you’re hitting guys you’re finishing your checks you’re establishing a hard for check but you’re not necessarily seeing the the fruits of your labor but throughout a series you’ll start to see more of those turnovers as defenseman know the um they know the hits coming and things like that so I I think just because of the nature of playoff because they’re series that’s why you see it the the game is a lot more physical than uh the regular season which is still very physical but you have less time you only have 60 minutes in a regular season game to establish a tone and to put the fear of God in those defensemen whereas in a series you you’ve got potentially seven games when you brought up that uh 12 stitches and coming back I recalled one of the greater quotes I’ve ever heard from Bill Armstrong well he came back after having the the facial uh injury but that’s what we do we bleed on the ice and that was just awesome well and he’s and he’s a a scary guy himself Bill Armstrong i mean back in the day he was um you know he was using other teams as you know human speed bags so he’s uh he’s no stranger to to bleeding on the ice but uh he he values that toughness Bill Armstrong and like I said I’m pretty sure Utah was I want to say second or third in most fights a lot of that thanks to Spicy Tuna uh Jack McBain also uh dropped the gloves quite a bit fighting is is you know is just one element of the game it’s not necessarily a true indicator of how maybe tough your whole team is you could just have a couple guys that that fight a lot but um Utah did have plenty of guys who were willing to defend their teammates and and that matters because if you’re going to go out and deliver hits sometimes you’re going to have to answer the bell i’m wondering now with the draft coming up here in a bit you spoke of that size and not so much the toughness we saw some of the guys that they’ve signed already massive dudes 65 six I think two guy one 66 what do you think they do as far as beefing up that size now it could be you know you take these guys and it takes a couple years or something or do you think they might make a trade yeah at the fourth spot uh in this upcoming draft which is where Utah is after winning the draft lottery uh you they’re just taking the best guy available so they’re probably not looking to necessarily fill that um to to fill that size void that I was talking about um they’re probably just looking at who’s the the best guy that we feel like in this spot because there’s probably a bit of a drop off after the eighth pick in this draft so if you’re in that top eight you’re getting a really really good prospect we pretty much know who we think we know who the first two picks are going to be uh and then the draft kind of starts at three with uh Chicago and then Utah at four we’ll have that there will be in a really interesting spot where they could go a lot of different ways but the good news for Utah is that there’s a bunch of uh big centermen who will be on the board in that four spot uh more than likely and the center is a it’s a premium position uh not quite like quarterback but but still very valuable think of it maybe like a an edge rusher or something like that in the NFL draft it’s a it’s an extremely valuable position and um to to get one of those guys to improve the spine of your core moving forward would be huge uh but again there’s a good chance we don’t even see that guy for a couple of years you mentioned um PK the the 65 and 66 guy they just signed two guys from Russia and these guys are machines they’re mammoths truly is what they are you have Dimmitri Simichev who was former sixth overall pick he’s I think 20 years old 66 defenseman got great hips an elite skater uh and then Denil Boot who uh is 6’5 a power forward that’s kind of what Utah needs right now someone with size who will go right to the net and add that scoring touch they’ve both been playing over in the top rushing league the KHL um for the last couple years so they’ve been playing against men and it sounds like they’re not it’s not going to be a huge adjustment I don’t think for them to uh play against other professional athletes here in training camp and things like that in Utah the biggest adjustment for them will be I think the rink size uh just because it’s a smaller rink here in North America and you have to make decisions a lot quicker than what you do uh on those bigger ranks over in uh over in Europe and Russia so uh really excited to get Simichev and Boot over because those guys we don’t know a ton about them because they’ve been over in Russia but we know that they’re good uh the the team has invested a lot of draft capital in them and they’ll have a a chance to make the team in camp i’m curious how they handle uh these players as they come in you know I mean we’re obviously going to relate everything to the NBA and we’ve seen where really young players have been put on the floor a young point guard gets put on the floor with four starters so he’s not asked to do much now I don’t know that you’d want to put somebody on the first or second line right and then as a player gets better his stats get worse because he gets left out there with the backups cuz now the coach trusts him and he just has the backups play together because he doesn’t feel like you have to prop him up with starters how does that get handled as far as what line or or who you partner with someone as a defenseman or what line you put them on if they’re attacking yeah it’s it’s a great question uh and it’s been interesting for Utah because the team has been so young that there’s really no place to hide those those young guys right u I think of Logan Culie who was Utah’s number one centerman for large parts of this year and he’s going up against you know he’s going up against Conor McDavid he’s going up against uh Alexander Barov’s line barov is the best defensive forward in the league he’s with Florida in the Stanley Cup finals right now and those are the matchups that 20-year-old Logan Kulie is getting so there there really is no place to hide him and that’s kind of what makes me so excited about guys like Kulie is that as he gets older he’ll handle those matchups better and better and we he he took a big jump statistically from year one to year two and I expect the same thing from year two to year three um and that’s why Bill Armstrong brought in some of the veterans he did last year to help with those those matchups especially on defense he brought in Ian Cole who’s a a Stanley Cup champion who uh took a lot of tough minutes male Sergeev I mean he’s not he’s not a rookie or even close to that he’s 26 27 years old and he was out there on the ice against every team’s best player but that’s that’s what those top players or top players have to do is get matched up against the other teams best which is why um I think for Kulie in particular he’s the name that jumps to mind when I think of that question and the name that I get excited about so if those Russians if they’re able to make a dent um in the in the or they’re able to crack an NHL lineup this summer it will be interesting to see how they’re deployed a lot of times you’ll see coaches um kind of split up the best players so that they can handle those matchups a little bit better um and not put all their good players on on one line but kind of disperse them throughout the lineup i have no idea who the the Russians would would play alongside but typically on defense you you like to put a rookie with an experienced older hand who uh can kind of steady the ship in case the the rookie wets the bed a little bit now you being an Indiana guy is your face going to be painted navy blue and gold tonight guys you know what I say you know what the whole state says in 49 states it’s just basketball but this is Indiana it’s a way Indiana it’s a way of life i’ll be I’ll be uh eating my pork tenderloin watching Hooers and painting my face yes golden and navy blue so I’m all in on these guys they’ve been so much fun to watch and um it’s funny to hear the national media talk about the superstardom of of Hallebertton or SGA like the Pacers are just a good team right can we just give credit to like Charle and the coaching staff and the team as a whole i mean it is a team game but it’s taken the whole team to get to the point where they are they’ve needed TJ McConnell they’ve needed Benedict Matherine they beat Miles Turner it’s not all It’s not all Hallebertton but uh they’ve been so much fun to watch and um I hope there’s a lot of you know seventh grade coaches out there that are taking the Pacers style of play and trying to implement it my hero with the Indiana Pacers is Herb Simon now he’s the owner he is 90 years old and his wife the former Miss Thailand is 56 now Mike that is a 34y year age gap yeah Herb I’m just gonna leave it at that miss Thailand yes Miss Thailand i kid you not Mike there there’s a joke to be made here i’m not sure if I have the the strength to make it that That’s fantastic um just a classic Indiana love story right nice Mike good rally you’re you kind of you know you’re a little worried and I get why you were you were right to be worried and you adjusted good side adjustment certainly on one side it is Payton Manning side adjustment man that was solid a dream come true for at least one side wow that was great all right Mike good luck with game five guys thank you go Pacers and uh and toughs up as well which way are you guys throwing the toughs up are you doing like the Texas horns up thing or the the tus near the face what’s what’s your what hand thing are you going with oh I’ll give you a hand signal but I can’t do it here okay good you’re ranked number one though just leave it at that depends on how they play thanks Mike thanks Ed all right there is uh Mike Fulta the radio voice of the Utah Mammoth a Purdue Boiler Maker he is from the great state of Indiana and he is all in on game five of the finals tonight we are broadcasting live right now we are at Thanksgiving Point the kids on the move it’s their inaugural golf tournament and they’ve ordered up awesome weather how have you done this Ryan well he had it in June he didn’t have it in in March no March no July either it’ be a little bit hotter this is perfect weather for you guys right now i’m loving it so explain to folks what you’re doing here today and who you are trying to help yeah so Kids on the Move is all about helping children with different abilities anyone who is struggling or has a delay that’s what we’re there to help these children out and help the families out because it starts with the families as well a lot of these families that when they have a child a son or a daughter and then they get diagnosed with something or they come out it’s an adjustment for them they don’t know what to do sometimes it’s their first child sometimes it’s in the middle we’re in Utah so a lot of people have even more kids so it could be anywhere in there but it’s so important to work with these kids at an early age because brain development happens so quickly in those first years it’s so important to to see progress there and so that’s what we’re about and this golf tournament is all about raising more money to help more kids autism is one of the strangest things man i mean you the level they call the spectrum obviously it it can literally be from A to Z and it is it and I’ve seen some of it and it’s so baffling to me which is not unusual i understand but to try to get a handle on it it seems so hard which means you need these types of organizations that can provide that level of assistance absolutely we’ve been doing it for a long time and we’re really good at what we do and it’s all about uh having those plans that are individualized for each of the children because as you said it could they could fall anywhere on the spectrum and so really taking a look at where they’re at what they need to work on and then developing a plan where they can have one-on-one ABA therapy with them is so crucial and I’ve been with this organization for four years and just the progress that I’ve seen these kids make and all the kids that we help is is inspiring and is amazing so I want to let you guys know we had Kehani on earlier and he was talking about how he’s not a good golfer he his first T-OT was right down the middle probably about 270 yards wow he did pretty good promise low deliver high right yeah that’s right promise low deliver high i think for parents especially firsttime parents you know it it’s it’s difficult there’s no manual i first time I was a parent I realized how much my parents lied to me they acted like they knew what they were doing they had no idea what they were doing yeah and so but then to have something when there’s already so much going on and so much stress and then have to figure out something and and maybe people have some kind of medical background and and they have some experience with autism with a family member or friend but for other people they don’t have any so how do they how do parents get information if they think there might be something going on something they need to know more about yeah so you’re you’re so correct one it’s hard having kids as it is no matter what the situation is but in the areas that we support we we have great partnerships with a lot of doctors and a lot of specialists so when when these children are born and when they’re starting to show signs of any kind of delay uh they’re referred to us we also do a lot of outreach in the community and other areas to make sure that people know who Kids on the Move is and how we can help because as I said earlier the earlier you can get with these children the more the more they can progress because it’s for us it’s all about preparing them for the next phase of their life whatever that is so that you know the founders of this organization 40 years ago had two children with Down syndrome and back 40 years ago the solution that the doctors and everybody gave them was just take them home and love them they’re not really going to progress or you can institutionalize them can you imagine that that’s that’s crazy but those two moms said “No we’re not going to do that we we know that our children can thrive and succeed.” And so they started this this organization 40 years ago meeting with other families their children are now in their 30s and they’re thriving and they’re doing amazing things and I love to share that story because it just shows that when you have parents who are so committed to helping their children and they have those parents have the support the sky’s is the limit for these kids yeah don’t have to imagine it because uh my wife’s sister is autistic and is in a group home in San Antonio where she’s thriving she’s been there a long time and she does really well and there’s turnover there but there there’s so many things going on there’s so many she she’s also deaf um and so you know communication is a fact there there’s so much to learn and there’s so much to know and I’m coming to it as an adult and much more peripherally you know than a parent who’s driving down the road today thinking is this something I need to call somebody about you know just trying to figure out what’s going on yeah and for us it’s about changing perspectives not just helping these parents and these children but overall in our communities and in the world changing the perspective so that everybody understands that no matter what the ability of a child is they have an opportunity to succeed and to thrive and I can tell you honestly my perspective has changed since I came to work at Kids on the Move i used to you know if I was in a grocery store or somewhere else and I saw a kid misbehaving I you know you you have those thoughts of well why is that kid misbehaving or something like that and the more I’m around these parents the more I’m around these children and our specialists that do such a great job my perspective has changed and I look at it in a much different view and I think that’s what it is is we can instill the reason why this is called hope in motion is because it’s so important to instill hope in these families yeah once you can have hope and they see hope and they see a better future they’re going to take action and they’re going to move and that’s why hope in motion is so critical to us and why we’re taking it not only in the United States but around the world joe Engles came on our show every week for eight years and he wasn’t married and didn’t have kids when it started and at the end you know we knew his kid had autism we heard a lot of the story there and he always talked about um the the sense of community and the support he got as people learned and knew more and how important that was and it may not seem like much to us to to inquire or to say something supportive but he talked about how important it was to him all the time and to his wife yeah and if you’re I encourage anyone if they’re in a grocery store or if they’re out in the community and they see a child that is struggling and you you look over and you look at the mom or the dad that’s with them the best thing we can do is just say “Hey how can I help?” And that you’d be shocked how many times that doesn’t happen for these families and when someone does take the time to just say h “How can I help?” It makes a world of difference for those parents and for those children ryan thanks a lot we appreciate it kotm.org right kids onthemove.org kotm.org check us out all right thank you Ryan dj and PK it’s 975 The zone ladies and gentlemen may I present This is JJ and Alex so now Phil Steele is doing the uh I’ve got three people tied at first place don’t you love these and he’s got BYU and TCU tied for seventh oh BYU fan just drove off the freeway very middle of the conference tied for first at the very top of the conference iowa State Baylor also tied at first the University of Utah i can’t totally knock this list the place where you’re going to get the biggest flip I think is that TCU Texas Tech BYU middle of the conference i think that’s exactly right i think Texas Tech TCU BYU could finish one two three sure do you have a problem with him putting Utah at number one okay what was the problem last year for the Youths was it their defense no no their defense was amazing their offense they had seven rushing touchdowns total can Devin Dampier with the same offensive coordinator he had success last year with they were the fourth best offense in the country at New Mexico catch JJ and Alex afternoons from 3 to 6 presented by G2G bars on 975 the KSL Sports Zone to win the US Open at Oakmont one of the hardest if not the hardest test in major championship golf for the win JJ Spawn ball up and over the ridge it’s on a very good line this could go in jj Spawn makes it it’s the biggest moment of his career jj Spawn conquers Oakmont and is your 125th US Open champion jj Spawn with a putt we’re not going to forget soon that is the Chevy Strong play of the game know it today after 3:00 Alex and JJ will call for it you know what it is you’re the right caller and you will win fabulous prizes so PK Championship winning putts how many do you recall where you can name and say “Oh yeah yeah that guy that tournament that putt.” Gaspond goes on that list it’s not a long list masters phil Mickelson downhill at the Masters from at 20 ft three-inch uh vertical he had he jumped exploded and almost got off the ground pay Stewart at the US Open to beat Phil Mickelson yes you just did the fist pump right there larry My wasn’t a putt there’s a chip i was in Jonesboro Arkansas watching that one oh yeah yeah bored out of my mind either watching golf or playing golf i watched all day i watch every second there’s nothing going on huh yeah sure uh I mean he didn’t need it but still whereas Phil is another story right no he had a one shot lead does a birdie putt he just had to get down in two yeah it was dramatic yeah it was fun fun to have a a kind of a no-name guy get up there and shock the world the golf world anyway that was fun it was fun to watch i felt really happy for the young man tg&pk we’re broadcasting live at Thanksgiving Point the Kids on the Move rachel is here from Kids on the Move kotm.org right yeah correct nice so what is the number one goal today if you walk away from here with one or may not have one but one or two things you really accomplish and you think it was a good day what will it be yeah I think a couple of couple of the goals I’d have for today is one we want everyone to have a great time so have having the community to come together rally around Kids on the Move you know first and foremost have a great day secondly we want to create more awareness of what the needs are in our community and not just here in Utah but also beyond Utah kids on the Move has been embarking on a mission to change perspectives globally not just here in Utah and we have recently been to Argentina to Peru i just came back from France i’ll be headed to Peru um next week and we are collaborating with different governments and organizations um nonprofits as well as businesses in those countries about looking at services that they could provide in those countries they’re about 30 to 40 years behind us and so one of the reasons that it’s important for us to build this campus is it’s really going to be an international lighthouse for the world to come and see how do we nurture care for and and help children with special needs grow to their fullest potential and having them see what is possible are there do you have anything like this in other states or is Utah really the hub for this yeah Utah’s really the hub for this um what we have found in other states they may have one or two components of what Kids on the Move offers but we are really unique in the nation as far as offering multiple services in one location under one umbrella and and that’s really why that campus approach of offering therapy as well as education and family support services that three-prong approach is really important to us for people want to know more where should they go they need to go to kotm.org or you can also purchase a copy of my book Chasing the Impossible it’s published by Forbes and you can get that on Amazon or today in the room i just saw Yes today on every chair all right Rachel well good luck with the rest of the day and thanks for having us out here thank you dj and PK it’s 975 the zone dj and PK it’s 975 the zone pk ah big trade in the NBA huge man desmond Bane Memphis sends a guy who scores 20 points a night a guy who shoots 41% from three a guy who’s signed for the next four years yeah but his arms aren’t going to get any bigger in the next four years made such a big deal about that coming out of I think it was TCU wasn’t it well a lot of teams a lot of teams passed on him that wish they hadn’t passed on him yeah the first round the odds are out now because Memphis is going to do something this is just the start you don’t just do this and then doesn’t make any sense to trade Cole Anthony and Pope and go on no yeah so odds are out uh the Jazz they’ve got odds on them acquiring John Morant and Jiren Jackson Jr guess what the odds are on JJ he’s a very good player if he could stay healthy i would say 25 to one yes nice yes it’s a shot in the dark literally i got lucky nails it now how about uh John Morant longer there that’s risky for multiple reasons i’m going to say 100 to one 16 to one oo oh so they think it’s actually a better chance they go get Shawn Morance yes if you want to bet on that i just called my bookie right now there’s onc court and offc court issues there that’s sports.ag everything comes down to the price right i mean you take the risk you know miamiy’s three to one is the favorite right and uh then bunch of teams miamiy’s a favorite for Jaw jaw yeah okay and then who else but beyond three to one uh Brooklyn four to one uh Sacramento uh 5 to one and I John Morant said one thing uh about that trade he’s already been quoted about going to Sacramento you know what he said you’re going to make this up what no Kings i knew you had a line i just didn’t know what it was rockets six to1 Hornets nine to one and then starts so the Jazz are actually well up the track bunch of teams in yeah they’re about middle so what about Jiren Jackson then a 25 to1 Jiren Jackson Lakers three to one Pistons four to one Philly nine-2 Warriors 7 to1 so again the Jazz are well at the track not really expecting again well yeah they’re towards the bottom on uh so it’s really interesting like you know Austin brings a different perspective than Danny but how different and like right now he hasn’t really shown any of his cards so it’s hard Well we’ll see his card soon enough i I agree and I can’t wait but I right now I agree with you i agree with you on that right now I don’t have a real feel for if he’s thinking hey let’s build this out it’s going to take three or four years or hey let’s let’s get aggressive and get somebody and speed this along you know well I think both speed it along but the idea of being a contender it’s what I’ve been saying all along you can’t just sneeze at oh say forget that this won’t make us a a a title contender you got to walk before you go sprinting down the court so they’ve got to get way more competitive the room to grow just to get to 40 wins is enormous yes it is i think they can get to 40 pretty quickly the thing is getting to 40 and still having room to grow to get to 4550 who’s played on a 40 winning a 40 win team on his team nobody i I think it was already a 30 I think it was a Yeah probably it was a 30- win team yeah but you’re just I I think I can dumped a lot of games you go ahead and dismiss it but I believe they dumped a lot of games but that’s just opinion well that’s not No not that’s I’m not That’s not what I’m dismissing you’re You’re assigning a win total that is impossible to quantify it wasn’t in qu it’s not impossible to quantify that they dumped a lot of games that didn’t mean they were going to win those games you’re assigning wins that they didn’t earn i agree right so I agree that’s just pie in the sky i could say “Hell no they’re a 25 win team just as easily.” I think the more dismissive thing to say is “Yeah you’re right they can get to 40 but what do you get for that the real prize is getting well beyond that.” But you’ve got to get to 40 before you get to 50 they’re not going to go from 30 to 50 maybe they can that would be awesome i hope they can i wouldn’t think so but that kind of stuff well first off they’re not Well I mean we I guess we could agree they’re at 30 but they’re not at 30 uh the fact is they’re not the only team to have dumped games on purpose and those teams don’t usually improve by 35 wins overnight and end up on 52 wins so that’s just not that’s probably not in the cards so let’s see about a way to start getting in playoff contention i want as soon as possible what Quinn Sch Snyder’s group did and getting to the 500 mark then go and then they win one playoff series lit this town on fire one one playoff series win let’s get that it was it was because there was one and there was a thought that there would be more now there didn’t turn out to be more but there was a thought there’d be a conference final sure and to me that’s the that’s more reasonable and more doable you know a championship a super team can get in your way and you can’t control some stuff and the Jazz have certainly Jazz certainly Jazz fans have the ones who’ve been here a long time have seen and felt that over time and some stack team gets in your way but you can get to a conference that’s very rare that a stack team got in their way more often than not they lost when they had equal chances to win well I mean I think the D will occur group a stack team got in the way that was the last time they were there um Oh I would say I would say the Warriors actually with Hayward and the other Oh okay that’s a good point yeah the Warriors in the second round that was a stack team um yeah I mean if you go way back certainly you know they had a 10-point lead in game five at home win the dang game let’s just win the thing come on right um their championship was lost in 94 95 it wasn’t lost in 97 and 98 yeah 94 they were really outclassed 95 though they got beat and they lost it they could have could have would have should have but anyway it’s all a long way in the rearview mirror so now they got to get better but they got to get better and as they get better there has to be hope that there’s more levels beyond this jen give yourself hope yep get it done i know right this is not some cosmic thing here what’s that trade going to be i think it’s going to be a series it’s going to be a series of trades draft picks and internal development that’s how they’re going to get it done that is double A’s charge and that’s what he’s working on all day many moves away yes but they have many options to make moves i wonder what the price tag is for Jiren Jackson well I mean it’s been said you’re not going to get less it’s going to be four it’s going to be the Desmond Bane price tag well it doesn’t have to be literal that’s what I said earlier it’s the quality has to match you may get three but get better players than Pope and Anthony so how does that work before uh have uh maybe you get a team that isn’t as good and they don’t give you as many picks but your chances of moving up in the draft when those picks come are better than what they perceive Orlando to be or it’s not picks it’s players that’s what I’m saying you know it’s it’s more quality of package if it’s Jackson for Markin then which player three years from now is much better and which player is the same or which player is playing 50 games or that’s the last thing Markin needs to go to another crappy team and sit the bench the guy’s been in the league forever and he gets the earliest vacation time he’s a part-time player in that way come on man so that establishes his price so maybe they get him for less who gets what everyone whoever’s trying to acquire him can you He’s a part-time player that’s all you get for him can they well that’s up for DoubleA to sell it differently i know heck no he’s the critical piece you need you fool i’m helping you out and you don’t want to take my help what’s wrong with you he’s an allstar we sat him he could have played yeah i mean that’s an easy sell uh so they have these opportunities here unlike anything that they’ve had and they’ve got to get it going you don’t tell me you’re are you going to tank we won’t do that or you won’t see that and then just go ahead and and lose another 55 games that could happen that’s true anything could happen yeah 20 27 to 55 i said they were 31 team that’s not that far away you don’t know if you’re going to It’s time for guys when you’re in your third year in the league it’s time for you to go okay we’re done babying here and playing these psychological games either you can play or you can’t and if you can’t move along because now it’s got I don’t want to invest in somebody uh contractwise if I’m not sure George has what it takes 100% on that 100% on that and that’s just got to be such a refreshing message for Will Hardy yeah i mean he he sat in front of the cameras and the microphone after the game and went out there and tried to be upbeat and say the right things but you could just tell the last 20 games or so it’s like this is just getting so old all these people say he’s a great coach they extend it i’d like to actually see it manifest in the win loss record quit telling me how great he is i I don’t have to be told if I can see it myself i want to see it don’t tell me about it i’m tired of being told how great of a coach he is and maybe he’s the best coach they’ve ever had great but let’s start to see some of it we’ve had Let’s see he’s been here three seasons and it’s nothing against him that we haven’t seen no I think he’s been I’m not criticizing him i think he’s been allowed to go for it for half of the first season half of the second season and those went reasonably well fine and then and then it was always foot off the gas let’s see an entire season cut loose let it rip and whatever happens happens but once he gets and hopefully he gets to that point uh when they’re winning 50 plus regularly then they won’t have a press release and they won’t tell us “Oh you we really believe.” No they didn’t say “Well every time Jerry Sloan came back we really believe in him.” No it spoke for itself we didn’t have to keep hearing about it hearing about it does nothing for me the only thing that I want you to hear is us on the radio that’s it the other stuff I want you to see how good they are and so you don’t have to keep telling us and you don’t have to keep oh man there’s no quit in these guys they really tried hard okay by about Christmas I’m done with that i’ll take that the first few weeks because I’m in a good mood because we got college football but once college football ends and we focus most on the Jazz and now we got hockey thank goodness i don’t want to keep hearing “Ah man they really tried hard.” Great i tried hard too and in one year they make what I’m going to make my whole life and I tried just as hard good for them you tried hard way to go how many more times I got to pat you on the back for trying hard three four i want to pat you on the back for winning and that’s and Austin H has an exact attitude he’s sitting right now driving to work saying “You go PK.” Yeah more of that i don’t think he’s driving to work this late i didn’t mean he was driving to work the first time he’s now going out and doing something else he’s been working since 5:00 a.m what are you talking about he’s going out for a break right now okay now you’re talking cappuccino don’t you have lattes it’s old school back you’re back in middle school too i’ve never had a lot of latte it’s nutrition break now yeah and that’s the new thing man get with it i know don’t be Oh listen to you man just because your kids go to private schools you don’t have to just weew wee on public education the UC Santa Barbara grad is going to wee wee on public education yes you just done did by making fun of nutrition breaks that doesn’t have anything to do with public paycheck is why I live in Utah you send your kids to private school good you save the school 600 grand 600,000 rest of us got to go to public school and I’m dang proud of it you’re the one who went to private school i went to public school i went to private school because I was a troubled kid nice pivot that was good he’s over here busting me for being a private school kid i went to public school K through 12 and they kicked me out and you went to private school cuz they were the only ones who would take me okay now you’re talking how have you built this built this bogus image of being the guy next door very carefully i know you i’m telling you man i’m bringing you truth and I believe Jazz fans want to hear truth they want to see it they don’t want to be told about it they want to be on the business end of the Desmond Bane trade that’s an exciting trade okay and I think they have the opportunity and I can see in Orlando right now not that we care a lot because they’re in Eastern Converse but they got Paulo Bancer you put Bane next to him who’s a proven thing they have several other young guys vagner it’s spelled Wagner but I’m supposed to pronounce it Vagner what is that the East is looking wide open hey look what Indiana’s doing we could do that in the next well you know Orlando is a good example of what the Jazz should do because Orlando’s had a ton of first round picks in recent years it’s go time for Orlando right obviously the difference is they had a number one pick and got a guy who looks like a pretty good player you got me there to what degree you know we’ll see but not all the really good players go number one as we’ve seen in the finals this year and as we’ve seen in the finals in previous years so find somebody along the way whether that’s trading for somebody who’s undervalued or finding somebody who’s undervalued in the draft whatever and not all number one picks are created equally either absolutely not they I don’t know that they got a great one but I think they got a good one and time will tell possibility of getting there yeah possibility of maybe he’ll be a great one in the long run yeah we’ll we’ll see he’s He’s still got a ways to go chapters to write yeah yeah well he’s Yeah and playing alongside Bane that this could be a this could be a nice step forward and Jazz the Celtics being down presumably with Jason Tatum’s injury it looks like the door is open right the door is open if the Pacers have done it there have got to be a handful of teams saying “Why not us?” They got to say that in Cleveland they’re saying in New York and now they’re saying I thought they could get more for Bane but nevertheless Yeah I did okay no no well I Excuse me let me back up i thought that if Orlando is making that trade they would get a player better than Bane is what I mean does that make sense oh yeah okay yeah yes that’s where I went with That’s where I went i think the thing But this is what they made so be it yeah he He’s a really good player but he he’s a secondary guy he is he’s a second or third best guy yeah and were they going to go out and get the best guy and make Van Carol be but maybe they feel ease like their horn maybe his DJ and PK it’s 975 the zone we are out here at Thanksgiving point this morning kids on the move kotm.org if I’ve learned nothing else this morning Ryan I have learned that good job so you’ve talked a lot about autism and it feels like that’s a core constituency for this group and and parents who are working with kids who are somewhere on the spectrum and maybe just trying to figure it out early on you’re definitely working with them but it does seem like maybe you’re working with other groups as well other kids what exactly is the range of kids you’re you’re trying to partner with and help here yeah that’s a great question and thank you for allowing me to clarify that because yes autism is a big part of what we do one of our programs is that but we have many other programs that help children with any type of delay or disability we have amazing physical therapists speech therapists occupational therapists nurses all all that are helping out in a lot of different ways some of our programs focus on children age 0 to three our autism goes from birth all the way up to through high school but a lot of our programs not only do we help children with disabilities but we’ve got an early head start program that helps those families that are below the poverty line that need some help to get a jump start and we’ve got we’ve got some classrooms at our facility that allows their children a zero to three to come into our space so that the parents can work and and get a job and and so yeah it’s a it’s an amazing stuff that we do at Kids on the Move and so our our therapists our specialists can really help with any child that has any kind of delay we’ve been around for 40 years so we’ve seen quite a bit um and so we’re excited to help in any way we can these kids you’ve got uh you got a lot of celebrities out here you got Khalani Saki thank you P i thought you were talking about PK but I I was How do you connect with people like this do people find you because of what’s going on in the lives in their lives or in the lives of their loved ones or in their friend circle uh you know it’s a good question we we connect in a lot of different ways a lot of people have a special place in their heart for these children with disabilities it’s also the connections and and things that I have and other people with inside the organization uh Kehani we’ve we’ve uh known for quite a long time my son uh plays college football and was at Utah for a while and he’s somewhere else now but um yeah so I’m connected in a lot of ways there and uh we just love any support we can and and you guys being here really helps us out a lot too um when I was on Hans and Scotty earlier this uh last month or I can’t remember when it was it was sometime in the last few weeks that was a great help for us too you guys do an amazing job and have a good network of people so that helps and so for people who want to know more for parents who are thinking hey maybe we have an issue maybe we need some help where do they go what do they do it’s really simple they can go to kotm.org which you know that very well now um and that there they’ll be able to get all the information that they need to uh and contact us we’re we’re here to help out and and so yeah I encourage people whether you have a child that has a delay go to that website kotm.org and you can contact us there if you’ve got a soft spot in your heart to help these children which they really need the help go to kotm.org/donate and you can donate everything that we receive goes directly to these children and helping these children out because that’s what it’s about all right well thanks for a few minutes thanks for having us out here and kotm.org for people want to know more DJ&MP gates 975 the zone accessing this is Hance Olsson and Scotty G eric Wedle kind enough to join us you find out you’re up for the College Football Hall of Fame what’s your first thought when uh you get that phone call just humbled by it all quite honestly I think I have a real shot is the College Football Hall of Fame i don’t think I have any shot at the NFL Hall of Fame so when I look at the College Football Hall of Fame I think yeah I belong there at some point whether it’s now or 10 years from now like I think I belong as one of the best college football players to have played the game so whenever it happens or if it happens like you guys know me I I live life to the fullest it’s not going to change whether I fall asleep at 10:00 or midnight i got many other things that are on my mind but it’s really humbling and and truly honored obviously and know that it took coaches players faculty family wife kids like it doesn’t happen alone catch and Scotty weekdays from noon to 3 on 975 the KSL Sports Zone tgpk 9:00 a.m slacker Radio headlines brought to you by Trade and Wealth call Trade and Wealth today your local trusted financial fiduciary 801899-7600 or visit the website at trajewealth.com game five tonight PK Thunder Pacers will the Pacers shock us and retake the lead in this series they won game one to go up they won game three to go up are they going to win game five and go up or will the Thunder finally get in front yeah I pick the Thunder every game so I’m two for four so I Yeah I don’t care where it’s played that had nothing to do with it obviously I picked up both times in Indiana uh I feel like they’ve got the better team but it’s why they play the games well they’re back home maybe the role players will go off we’ve seen role players come up big in this series but you never know which one when where how what’s going to happen well that the role players that I’m interested in in order for OKC to win right now I think they’re role players they have an opportunity to be better than that as they progress in their NBA careers it’s Williams and Holgren those two guys I still put them in a role player category but they’re high level role players obviously and I think SGA will continue to do he seems so smooth and so slithery that and it gets the line a ton reminds me of James Harden in that way a little bit when Harden was younger and with that in mind he’ll do what he does and if they get great games out of Holgrren and Williams I think they win i think I it’s more about the role players for Indiana what can they do because when they’ve played really well that has been a big- time boost because I don’t think Indiana has somebody that they can count on night after night play off playoff game after playoff game to be a big time player so they need the role players are more critical because SGA can go out and get you 45 he’s had multiple 30-point games as anybody on Indiana so they really need everybody whether uh McConnell in his 15 to 20 minutes he has to play as well as he can in those minutes sakum the same sakum and Hallebertton obviously are at the top level on that team but they Miles Turner i can go down the list i can just name you guys so they all need to to really do that when they do that then they’ve got a shot jaylen Williams scoring and rebounding totals have been improving every game in this series and he is capable of going berserk and he’s starting to turn in some pretty strong numbers so that would suggest that they’re in a pretty good place with him if he’s fighting out yeah that’s why they’re they need those two guys right and if you get the those three and then get your usual contributions I think that they’re good enough whereas Indiana needs very good contributions from seven guys yeah yeah williams scoring has gone 171 19 26 27 the rebounds have gone four five six seven so just keep it have more of an impact he shot it much better in games three and four than he did and he’s still young enough to be able to grow in his game no question he’s 24 years old and he’s in the NBA finals for the first time so if he’s figuring it out that’s no surprise and Homer’s younger isn’t he he is yeah and with the chronological age but you also have to subtract the year he missed where he sat the whole year and didn’t play well yeah he only had one year of high or college and then he missed the first year right and he’s 23 right he just turned 23 right so he I think to me five years from now he’ll be better than Williams well that’s awesome news for OKC if they can afford to pay i think it will be yeah if everybody’s on the team yeah yeah and that’s taking nothing away from Williams because his development in this league has been startling and he would have gone much higher than 12 I think it was if we would have if they would have known that but credit for credit to the uh Thunder for taking the pick and having him go way to go hopefully his younger brother can approximate what he’s been able to do obviously the younger brother Cody Williams playing for the Jazz cruso’s coming off another 20point game it’ll be interesting to see if he can crank it up again i mean he’s a roll guy and expect him to be up and down but he’s had a couple of really good games and here’s a shocker they’ve won them yeah i think Caruso will give you that strong minded presence the offense is gravy in a sense i think he needs to be continue to be opportun opportunistic because I don’t think they’re running any plays for uh Caruso anytime soon right uh but get out get some easy buckets and do it put backs whatever it might be and look at him man he’s another player you know on his own not so much put him in here have him be this junkyard dog extremely valuable and that’s what I like i love these guys that find their niche and fit the role that they’ve been asked to do and then flourish in that role that’s why this is a team game for sure he scored 20 points in both wins while shooting 65% from the floor he shot about 38% and averaged nine and a half points in the losses so if you’re looking for a weather vein for the Oklahoma City team through four games in this series he’s been the guy but Williams keeps getting better cruso has a good game then the Thunder are in a great spot because SGA seems like you can count on him and I think they are I think other big NBA story I’ve been talking about is Desmond Bane memphis going into rebuild mode i suppose there’s an argument that I don’t really buy that they could take those the draft picks and flip them and get somebody but are they really going to get somebody better than Bane and that’s the missing piece it feels more like this is the start of taking the whole thing apart that’s what people around the league are anticipating so I’m sure Memphis is getting all sorts of calls the key for here for for them is Morance’s got three years left on his deal but he’s eligible for a two-year extension if they give it to him they’re on the hook for five years we know about the offc court issues they’ve also been onc court health issues that’s just a lot of money and a lot of years to guarantee but if they don’t where does Morance’s attitude go so in a way it feels like the the collective bargaining agreement rears its head again the fact that now is when they can give him the extension they either do or they don’t it impacts his attitude and so it’s uh push the chips to the middle of the table and decide you’re all in on him or you’re all out on him and I guess that’s why Vegas is issuing odds that you shared earlier this morning because they expect a deal there too and people will gamble on anything including the Grizzlies next trade or two yeah my cousin Vinnie we’ve already been talking on what we’re going to do on this oh yeah i got a meeting at 10:02 yeah we’re going to we’re going to Zoom because we we need to be face to face we can’t literally be face to face but he needs to see my facial expression okay because I got retirement to think of bigger trade Desmond Bame or Raphael Devers well Devers is a multiple all-star so just on the individual level I think he’s a better player than Bane uh but he winds his way out of Boston and ends up in San Francisco and they man and and my goodness gracious Buster uh Posey should be a absolute lock for the Hall of Fame as a player and then here taking over as a as an executive this team is really good they’re 10 games over 500 they’re two games behind the Dodgers they’ve just added the arrow is up they’re in front of the Padres’s the arrow they’re the toughest division in baseball and look at them in front of the Padres’s that’s their level of accomplishment now well it’s good that they passed him they weren’t picked to finish in front of him that’s not their end goal they’re ready i mean the Giants are all about beating the Dodgers i think they’re about winning the World Series myself that would be nice and this is a great move to put him in there with Chapman being down uh when he comes back you he those are two third baseman endeavors wanted to play third he didn’t want to DH he didn’t want to take grounders at first and blah blah blah because they signed socks signed Bregman out of uh Houston all those years uh so they they had reached an impass and they had to do something and this is what they felt they could do i would have thought they could have got more for the guy but they didn’t over a $300 million deal he might not have that much money left on the deal he’s a couple of years into it now but he’s got over a quarter of a billion left on the deal so maybe they just feel good about getting out from under that i don’t know how else they rationalize that the mookie bets comparisons abound yeah I don’t think that’s a big deal in baseball what worried about the contracts they got the money they just roll through it i mean they’re not dealing with the second apron i mean they all got the money no uh market like Boston try to get a ticket to their game you know i mean iconic stadium massive population generations of interest it’s what they do in the summer uh so you’ve been there you know what I’m talking about i do so everybody does everybody I was surprised when I went there i thought it’d be more baseball cathedral but they have the in-game marketing down and there was always a video on the board and people were always singing it felt like a big karaoke night out there sweet Caroline on the list right so there was something every seventh inning sixth inning that was I think that’s in the seventh or eighth i’m not positive but they there was something literally every half inning i mean it really did catch my attention and people were up and singing like well especially in those cold weather cities where you’re just stuck inside literally months at a time that’s the time to get out and uh you know you didn’t grow up that way but I did it’s one of the reasons why I got into baseball is because I could be outside yeah and it signaled the arrival of finally maybe having some nice weather yeah this is the swimming and all those things that go with it this is the coldest environment uh that I’ve lived in so it’s given me a taste of it but I work with somebody from the Midwest for a long time and they are always like you don’t know one do Milwaukee and get back to me like a Milwaukee winner you say this this is the coldest environment for me this is actually the warmest environment I’ve ever lived in no you lived in Arizona no well let’s see that’s the hottest okay now you’re talking all right so there’s some of the big news oh wait what about that US Open thing that was kind of big news this weekend jj don’t call me Warren Span hey for all you college walk-ons out there anything is possible sand Deus now that’s not uh that’s not right next door to Pedro so I don’t know that you ever went to Sand Deus no but I worked with guys who who were from there yeah yeah I’m sure brian Patterson who is the prep editor of the Orange County Register he probably wandered around Sand Deas at some point a big sand oh yeah i’ve been there yeah uh that’s where he played high school golf and then went on to San Jose State as a walk-on and then made his mark on the tour and grind grind grind made his mark on multiple small tours smaller tours well I mean he had the playoff with Rory and the players here a little so I mean he made a mark yes on the PGA tour now he’s made a huge mark he said I I looked it up the guys knew who he was he’s not coming out of nowhere for them i’d have to go back i maybe it was four top 10s this year i mean it’s like Yeah he’s not nobody but nonetheless to get here at 33 it’s been a lot of hard work and heavy lifting yeah I think it is for everybody uh but especially him and I read a thing where his mother was the golf uh advocate and she got doctor’s permission to be able to golf while she was like eight months pregnant with him oh really yeah and you got to have somebody who’s going to introduce you to you just probably don’t decide on your own and he had that and I love the story that he told scottsdale resident Max Homer lives in the same area as he does in Scottsdale and Tiger told Max “When you get in these tournaments it is all about grinding.” And and we know he uh spawned five of the first six BS and he’d had the lead earlier and just stay within yourself don’t he he kept saying “Don’t do anything crazy.” And he he now he made a couple of putts that were crazy but he felt like this is what I needed this is my focus and so Tiger tells Max Max because he’s a neighbor of JJ tells him and he’s thinking about that Sunday during this round and that’s helping him keep his focus and it’s really just an awesome story there were so many guys in that tournament in the back nine back to Tiger Point you know where guys are 20 30 yards off the green but they’re in that rough and then man they just take a full swing and and the ball goes like eight yards and they’re still in the rough there are three or four guys who took bogeies or double bogeies because of that and that opened the door he’s hitting fairways and greens and making birdie putts and they’re backing up and that was his mindset and then he drove was on 17 he drives it and makes birdie as an eagle putt so he needed to grip it and rip it on that one and he did and that put him in a position to calm his nerves even more so and it seemed like he was very calm throughout the bogeies didn’t ru uh what am I looking for didn’t bother him rattle was the word I’m looking for didn’t rattle him and stayed he stayed the course no pun intended and I didn’t mean that but that that’s what you need to do you need to have that singular focus and he did it’s awesome dj and PK it’s 975 the zone stay with us your feedback next and it’s all over almost here don’t go nowhere business owners gather around the radio i got great news for you do you want growth in your business of course you do well I’ve got just the way for you to do it let me help you i want to endorse your product absolutely all you got to do is text PK to 57500 and our sales staff sales staff will take care of the rest here’s what you do let’s get together me and you let’s have a relationship text PK to 57500 and the money will flow unto you i promise dg&pk it’s time for your feedback memphis got four first round picks a pick swap and two rotational players and trading Desmond Bane to Orlando what can the Jazz get for Lowry Markin we heard from a Mavericks fan how about that cooper flag Brandon i thought I was done being pissed at Nico but this just opened that wound again oh for the Donich desmond Bane brought a lot more than Donsuch and that bugs him yeah I get that brian says if they don’t get a star in return then why pull the trigger who who’s they the Jazz yeah if they’re going to trade Mark and get a star in return or why make the deal he doesn’t want to get younger scott they’ll probably get nothing the Jazz will want to be greedy but potential trading partners knowing the Jazz want to go young and try their luck in the lottery again won’t be willing to give up as much value as the Jazz demand and no trade will happen he thinks Markin is here h it could happen yeah but did uh Oklahoma City Thunder fans rejoice when they gave up Paul George for SGA no are they rejoicing now yes there you go they are two games away from some serious rejoicement and you can argue they’re just getting started they are young enough that that could be very true right nate says “We’ve had some really stupid trades lately why can’t the Jazz ever be on the good side of one it’s never going to happen ever okay just take their hope away PK well I know they’re taking it away themselves come on uh BB gun 42 stop trading our players for picks we’ll never use to get better the fans are tired of sucking so bad that’s five O’s is there any way we can get the Millers to buy the Jazz bag and get us in the playoffs no there’s not this is the path forward there’ll be no going back so they don’t really Well they have playoff series in soccer who will win one next relax who wins in the postseason next interesting there’s a decent chance that it’s none of above for a little while but we’ll see soccer next is next whenever next comes yeah soccer can change really fast too yeah and you know talking to Pablo I’m going to write about this uh that they’re super excited to have the Millers have the team and the Miller Steve Miller I went back and looked he’s talking about the stability that we can bring based on all the evidence that I can show you about stability and now all of a sudden things the the team right now is still a transitional year but it looks like they believe they’ll have a better future because of this it it looks like they have some pieces of the puzzle but they have such a glaring hole if you fill that one glaring hole then maybe things change really quickly so and there is a in this league teams go up and down you know there’s a team that was above RSL last year and won it at all that’s now in last place in the LA Galaxy so certainly this uh you know this happens i just saw a crime committed against golf right over your shoulder Rachel you think he swung and missed he definitely swung and missed well it’s a chip shot those those can be dangerous took a massive divot that I could see from here i got to give him credit though he repaired his divot which a lot of people don’t you sure he because then he just hit a good shot that’s actually He did hit a good shot that’s actually cheating you don’t get two shots yeah that’s because if you swing and miss if you intend to hit the ball and you don’t that counts as a swing i thought it was a swing and a miss so I did too that’s what I thought you know what rachel’s not going to turn around she’s not interested in crimes committed against golf as long as awareness is created and funds are raised and the mission moves forward focused on the mission what does a divot between friends really mean so that book the title of her book I thought she wrote a golf book what’s the title of your book chasing the Impossible there you go yeah so how did you write this golf book what why did you Not a golf book but for some people golfing is chasing the impossible that’s what I’m saying i think pretty much for everybody or maybe you didn’t see Rory Mroy throwing clubs yesterday no I didn’t beating up a tea box well you would have looked at him and thought that can’t be good it wasn’t if you accomplish one or two things today is it is awareness the number one thing because with awareness then a lot of stuff that you need can probably flow from that absolutely i think awareness is an important important thing raising funds is too always important and really what I hope is that we we get more involvement next year and so as people learn about the great time that we’re having here at Thanksgiving Point they learn about our cause and our mission that they get involved i was I was an individual 12 years ago that was asked to be part of the Kids on the Move board that’s how I became introduced to Kids on the Move and maybe similar to a lot of the listeners I didn’t have a direct connection with children with special needs i didn’t even have any nieces or nephews that had special needs so when I was invited I thought to myself you know I don’t know if I can contribute i don’t know if I could add value to this organization but I decided to get involved and that’s really my my rally cry to all the listeners is you may not have a direct correlation with someone that has special needs or someone in your family even though the likelihood that you know someone or there’s a a friend or family member is a high probability this is a cause that we should all um be engaged in and support these families that have children with special needs i put awareness over money because I think if you get the awareness the money follows i agree if you get the awareness if people know the stories PK always talks about we’re in sports we really love the stories the stories are you know the guy won the US Open what a great story it was a college walk-on nobody wanted to give him a college scholarship and now he’s won the US Open and he had to play on three tours to get there and you look at what some of these families and and and some of these kids are going through and you think well if they get help they can get an education if they get an education they get a job be self-supporting and they but if they don’t get that help and they don’t get that education then then where does it go and I think when people dig down and realize the story and have that awareness then they want to start to help in whatever way they can absolutely and when you think about those parents that you know they come back and one of the questions I asked when I was interviewing I interviewed over 23 families and about 90 minutes for each family and I would ask them “What was the the the first feelings that you had when you realized that your child had a disability or a delay?” And a lot of them grieved for a couple of days or longer and um really had to come to terms with what does this mean there’s just so many unknowns that they didn’t know what their their child you know would be able to do one one father said you know I thought my son was going to be able to play ball with me and now I don’t know what to look forward to in the future because it was unknown and one of the things I love about about Chasing the Impossible the book that I wrote is it gives hope to families they can see a child make progression and they can see the hope in other parents that have gone before them and as a community we can see how we can support and how we can help and one parent commented you know it’s not that they’re not going to have a future it’s just going to be different than what the future I had planned for them but they can still have an amazing future so people want to get involved and they’re not at the golf tournament today obviously they’re listening to us on the radio what should they do they should come to our website kotm.org or at kotm_utah is our Instagram page or you can come to our Facebook page as well but learn more about Kids on the Move and how to donate how to get involved and we have over 3,500 volunteers that come and volunteer come volunteer involve your children participate in the many different activities and events that we have and and come see what we’re all about all right kotm.org kotm.org thanks for having us out here today we appreciate it Rachel thank you for having me kotm.org learn more about Kids on the Move we’re out of time jake and Ben are coming up next right here on the zone
The entirety of DJ & PK for June 16, 2025:
HOUR ONE
• Johnny Russell, Real Salt Lake
• Pablo Mastroeni, Real Salt Lake
• Matt Babcock, Babcock Hoops
HOUR TWO
• What is Trending
• Hot Takes or Toast
• Kalani Sitake, BYU Football Coach
HOUR THREE
• BYU football dealing with college football curveballs
• Mike Folta, Utah Mammoth Radio Voice
• JJ Spaun wins the U.S. Open
HOUR FOUR
• What could the Utah Jazz get for Lauri Markkanen?
• Slacker Radio Headlines
• Feedback of the Day
