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Chapter 1: What are the initial thoughts on Erik Spoelstra's coaching?
Greg, you're a words person. You choose the right words. You are precious about words. Where are you on the following? Because I have not been able to correct something. When somebody who I love says the wrong word, I will correct them in order for them not to do it in the future. But the response has been on a couple of different occasions, don't be an asshole.
You know what I meant, and if you know what I meant, you're being an asshole if you correct me. But I'm not correcting them to make them feel smaller in that moment. I'm assuming that they don't want to keep doing that around people who don't love them so they don't make that mistake. Yes.
Chapter 2: How do the hosts feel about correcting others in conversation?
And so where are you on this? Can you lend a verdict on this?
Yeah, that's a tough one because I've been in that situation. Like if somebody says a non-word like irregardless ā I want so much to correct them and just say regardless, not irregardless.
No, that's a word. That's 100% a word.
It is a word.
Look at where you're at. Look at where you're standing. Look at where you drove to. Irregardless, absolutely a word. Okay, okay.
I don't think it is.
So I don't say, I don't correct them. I don't say, it's not irregardless. It's regardless. But if it's the misuse of a word that I just can't abide, then now I'll give you an example from yesterday's show. You referred to Jaws. As a horror movie. I would argue Jaws is not a horror movie.
It's the number one horror movie of all time according to people who classify horror movies.
But I disagree with them.
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Chapter 3: What is the debate around hard-ass coaches vs. player's coaches?
I think we need more of it. I think you correcting me and me getting it wrong is an absolute winning position for everyone but me, which reminds me... But you're in power. Yeah, but, you know, this is a good time for men in power to be disabused of that power. This is a good time for you.
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
I would like a verdict here from Zazz and Greg Cody about how I'm supposed to feel. And I'm specifically asking you to because you're longtime veterans of the market and you know what the navigations are around relationships when you cover people that you respect, but you also have to be critical of them over the years. This show has gotten me in trouble with the Miami Heat.
because it sounds, the way that it was aggregated, like I was the first to suggest in this market ever that Eric Spoelstra and Pat Riley should be in some trouble. That is not something I've ever suggested, but given Mike's general rise in the media business, Don Lemon shouted him out the other day after going after Boomer Esiason. Excuse me?
Don Lemon shouted out Mike Ryan because he's like, did you see what Mike Ryan of the Levitard Show did to Boomer Esiason? And now I've got aggregated headlines in this market making it seem like I'm turning up the heat on Pat Riley and Eric Spolstra when that's not what happened yesterday. That was Mike Ryan turning up the heat on it. That headline says that that's what happened.
How am I supposed to feel about this?
It says Dan Levitard Show. Read the sub headline. Read it out loud. You can't see it. After another underwhelming season, Dan Levitard is looking to turn the heat up on Miami Heat head coach Eric Spolker. Pretty straightforward.
Unfair. I like that mid is now being used in that form. Like, huh, look how far we've come. There you go.
That's not coming far. I don't want, like, what am I supposed to do with that? Answer my question. What am I supposed to do with the fact that words are being attached to me because they were said on this show? Even though I was pretty strong in saying no one in this market has ever said that about Spoh and Riley and no one in this market ever will say that about Spolster and Riley.
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Chapter 4: How does Dan Levitar feel about the media's portrayal of him?
The Bulls now are tanking, yes.
But it's not just tanking. It's that they're running around in uniforms for no discernible purpose. So how many teams are there? Is it 10?
Because if 20 are going to get to the play-in game, then all of a sudden you're allowing every team that's trying into the playoffs, and if the Heat make it there, it's no accomplishment, even if they make it there and then beat Giannis and get all the way to the finals because they make it there by being not good enough. They're a benefit...
They're a benefactor from a playoff system that is remarkably generous. The Panthers would be in the playoffs if hockey did it this way. The Panthers would not be disappointing season, not Paul Maurice clearly on the bench, you know, being a very nice man, but... We're going to play that sound for you in just a second.
But if the Panthers, and plenty of teams make the playoffs in hockey too, but if basketball did it the way, if hockey did it the way that basketball does it, you'd have the Panthers right now as two-time champions with a chance to do something in the playoffs.
In the NBA, there's nine teams that are absolutely tanking. The Bucks are the one of the teams that are not in the playing right now that are probably still playing because Giannis is still around. But there's nine teams that just have no chance whatsoever.
But do you realize how irrelevant you've made the regular season when that's what it is? When everyone's load managing to get to the playoffs and all 20 teams that are trying are going to have playoff equivalent games with a play-in.
But wasn't the play-in tournament created... in part to prevent tanking, because it gave eight teams who otherwise might be tanking a reason to win.
I mean, maybe it's semantics. I wouldn't say that it was created to prevent tanking. I think it was created just so that more teams late in the season, more fan bases are involved, have a chance. So maybe you want to call that preventing. I think it's just more about having more fan bases involved.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Panthers' current performance?
I think it's been pretty obvious for weeks.
You say that, but he did have it first. I put my name on it. He put his name on it, and he said, put it on the scroll. I'm reporting it before all the insiders. And now people are reading tea leaves. Let's show people what social media is mad about these days, because Tua's birthday was a couple of days ago, and we didn't celebrate it properly around here.
And let me see if I can find the happy birthday.
Happy birthday to him. I don't care. Good.
We've already done more than the Dolphins. A lot of people noticed that the Dolphins did not wish Tua happy birthday, but they did wish Willie Gay Jr. happy birthday.
A couple weeks ago.
And what do you make of that, Greg? Because a lot of people are using that to confirm the Zazzler report from weeks ago. Oh! They are using the circumstantial evidence to say, well, that's clearly a sign. Once you're not wishing him happy birthday, clearly he's gone.
Yeah, how many more signs do we need before we all agree that they're going to part ways? How many more signs do you all need?
I didn't need any more. If you're them, though, don't you just wish him a happy birthday to avoid all this dialogue?
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