David Samson Spars With Senator Chris Murphy | Hour 2
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This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stukas Podcast.
You get a double dose of Samson today. He will be appearing later in the show on Pitch Clock as we continue around here to segregate baseball. Jeremy and Samson are both very good on baseball. You should listen to Samson on baseball and business. Nothing personal, Chris. Nothing personal.
Thank you.
Jeremy and Samson will be doing Pitch Clock later in the show. And Nothing Personal is the name of Samson's podcast, which I continue to tell you at every turn has an assortment of terrain that he covers that I simply do not see other people covering. We will get to him in just a second. I do want to put in front of you another prediction, though. I made the prediction yesterday that at some point during that Spurs-OKC series, things are going to continue to escalate and it's going to appear like the Thunder are going to be trying to hurt Wemba Nyama. Something else that's going to make an appearance at some point during this postseason is the ridiculousness of the Spurs last night. Used their challenges in the first half to keep Wemby out of foul trouble.
Used them correctly, got them both right, and then lost their challenges. At the end of one of these games, one of these teams isn't going to have a challenge. They would have been right both times. and not late in the game been able to reverse something because the officiating was so bad. That's going to be a thing at some point. We're not going to keep getting away with doing this this poorly where the officiating is poor and your system is also shitty, and it's going to cost someone a game because the Spurs, I think, in the second quarter were out of challenges, and they got them both right. Like, what is that, Zaz?
That's asinine. I don't remember. I know what the second challenge was. What was the first challenge called? They got it right.
No, but the reason I ask is... It was Wemby's foul. It was Wemby's foul. That was the second one, for sure. I think both of them were to keep Wemby out of getting fouls.
But my question is because a lot of these coaches, they'll use a challenge in the first quarter. It's like, why? Why are you doing that? His head on the ball. That's all.
Sampson is with us now here. How did you experience, David? We've talked before about the fact that when you were younger, you would go to Madison Square Garden and you were a heckler. You love this basketball team. You are an actual Knicks fan as opposed to Jeremy accusing me of being a Knicks fan. How did you experience game one?
As a foreigner, I wanted to, we were a part of history. Teams were zero and 643 down 20 with seven minutes to go in the playoffs. And all of a sudden it's one and 643.
How does David Samson feel about the Knicks' recent performance?
That should have been the highlight of my sporting life. It was game one of the conference finals and I felt nothing. I was like the chorus line, man. I don't know why that happened, but I've been thinking about it ever since because it bothered me, Dan, terribly. I should have been jumping up and down. I should have been schvitzing. I should have been pacing. And I just wasn't doing any of those things. I was saying they're going to have to start hitting shots. They're laying bricks down. for three and a half quarters. They're gonna have to make some shots, aren't they? And then they did. And then I was just waiting for Kenny Atkinson to get fired. And I guess I was thinking if I were running the Cavaliers, I may have stormed the court and fired him right then and there on the court at the final buzzer.
I heard Cleveland radio host Tony Rizzo yesterday say that Atkinson should be fired ahead of game two and they should hire Jason Kidd.
He should be the coach tonight. It was an unbelievable coaching malpractice to continue allowing the pick and roll switch to happen. You can coach that to not happen. You don't have to have the switch off where Harden takes it. And they kept running the same play again. It's like in football, I was thinking if you're running the same play every time, eventually the defense is going to catch up to it and change the way they defend it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:44
2
How does David Samson feel about the Knicks' recent performance?
2:44–5:48
3
What predictions does David Samson make about the NBA playoffs?
5:48–7:55
4
Why does David believe Kenny Atkinson should be fired?
7:55–10:37
5
What insights does David share about the impact of private equity on youth sports?
10:37–12:15
6
How does David describe his interview with Senator Chris Murphy?
12:15–14:39
7
What are David's thoughts on the current state of sports media?
14:39–17:19
8
What lessons does David learn from watching a recent documentary?
17:19–39:24
Speakers
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