David Pivnick
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231 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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almost at the start of a rebuild, which is unfortunate when they should be probably in year six or seven.
Correct. I mean, I think he's a nice complementary piece. I think he could be a great bench big or potentially – a great effort and defense big on a contender with a lot of scoring around him, but he certainly wasn't, he didn't develop into what they were hoping for when they took him forth overall a few years ago.
You know, the comparison I'm going to make, which is far more complimentary to Jimmy Butler than Dennis Rodman, but it's problematic because he's Jimmy Butler, is I think he's got the mentality of Michael Jordan, but he's not Michael Jordan. So he goes to all of these teams and he's done it at every team he's been to. He's elevated the level of play of his teammates. He's elevated the team.
He is a singular talent. I mean, the guy is an excellent basketball player, but it's just clear he's not able to work within a team structure and turn off his own competitiveness and his own attitude to work with his teammates. And I think Michael Jordan had two main differences. I think he was wired in the same sort of competitive killer instinct way.
But one, Michael Jordan was the best player ever. So I think there was a layer of tolerance there. for the folks around him in leadership, coaching staff, general manager, and teammates, that you had to take a little bit of grief because you were playing with the best ever, and he could get away with punching a Steve Kerr, allegedly, in practice or things like that because he was Michael Jordan.
Jimmy Butler had the grace on his teammates, coaches, management alike, and I don't think he has that same level of grace. And then the second part of it is, ultimately, I think Jordan recognized that he was the elephant, he was the guy, but that his teammates were really, really important. And I think there is an element where Jimmy Butler views Jimmy Butler as being most important.
And the notion that he's offended at comments Pat Riley made last summer about his contractor, that he's now effectively rejecting trades and trying to force himself only to Phoenix. I just find stuff like that is somewhat off-putting when he's getting paid, you know, the better part of $60 million a year to play basketball.
The heat of putting together what could be a contending team, if Jimmy was playing like he frankly has the ability to play, then he demands a trade and they try and ship him out, and now he's going to try and control where he's going and be difficult on that front as well.
A hundred percent. I mean, that's, Jimmy Butler has always viewed it as my way or the highway. That's been how he's been from day one in the league. He is definitely a very talented player. And I think he's a guy you could build and win around, but he is difficult in the way that he expects everything to be done his way.
And sometimes that can be good where you're picking up your teammates and getting them all to play at the same level of excellence that you bring to the table. And I think that could sometimes be an asset. But I think in his case, there's also some negative where he does wear his welcome more quickly than the average NBA player.
And it seems like he's certainly a little bit difficult to work with as well.
um so i i have to pick the e i have to pick the chiefs sorry not the eagles um i i don't see a different way around it i i'm not betting against patrick mahomes period if he loses uh he loses but i'm not betting against him and it's one of those things as you know i was at the bill's chiefs game and was quietly and not so quietly hoping the bill's would get it done.
I have some loyalty to the Bills, having grown up in Toronto and a lot of my friends are Bills fans. But when the Bills got the ball back with three minutes to go, you know, I wasn't sitting there certain Josh Allen would get the win. But if the Chiefs are down three on Sunday and they get the ball back,
I'd be happy to bet anyone, whatever they want, that the Chiefs are winning that game because I just don't see Mahomes not getting it done when the Chiefs are down and the game's on the line. And so with Mahomes, who I think is the best player in the game, I think they're going to win. I do think Saquon Barkley is a major difference maker for the Eagles. I don't think he should be taken lightly.
And what he's done this year is frankly incredible. But between the fact that I just think so highly of Mahomes and I frankly hate the Eagles. So maybe there's a bit of my heart in it as well. I am certainly pulling for the Chiefs and frankly think the Chiefs are going to win. And to your question about, you know, where Mahomes fits.
in the greatest of all time discussion, I think the gap between Tom Brady and him is much closer than many people would like to acknowledge. And if Mahomes gets it done on Sunday, so he's got four titles and the first ever Super Bowl III, Pete, I think those scales are starting to look pretty even and Mahomes is likely going to pass it.
I mean, statistically, if you look at their first, you know, eight years in the league, 10 years in the league, whatever Mahomes has been in the league, he's already far surpassed Brady statistically. It's not even close. The league's a little different. Maybe he's got some better talent, but it's not close.
So if he starts stacking up the wins just as well, and he's already got three, and this could be a three-peated four in a very short tenure, I think it's hard not to have him legitimately in that discussion.
Critically important. I think it is critically important. Coaching, just like having good executives, good leadership in a successful business is important. It's not the whole ballgame. You need to have a good team, but it's critically important. Coaching in the NFL is absolutely important. Some of it is just the confidence factor.
Some of it is understanding that the guy on the sideline making decisions is going to have your back, is going to make good decisions, is not going to cost your team the game with questionable decision-making. I think going out there every week and fully trusting in your coach is critical for a team. So even beyond the talent, just having a coach that instills that confidence
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