Chris “Mad Dog” Russo: How Kyrie Irving Could Impact Western Conference Finals | The Rich Eisen Show

Chris “Mad Dog” Russo: How Kyrie Irving Could Impact Western Conference Finals | The Rich Eisen Show

as for the Western I’m intrigued with the Kyrie reinvention I said to earlier in the show it’s kind of like he’s got this Madonna likee ability to reinvent now he’s Mr dependability in Dallas what do you think about that situation of him and donic playing together and kind of Kyrie becoming this Kyrie 3.0 yeah done a very good job and he played very well in the second half in game six against Oklahoma City they’re gonna need his offense in this next series because you got to remember you got to figure donic and Anthony Edwards going to cancel each other out and I think that Minnesota’s offense could be a little shaky you know they need Anthony towns and call and naasri to make threes and Kyrie could score 40 any game so I think that’s the Maverick’s advantage in this series is you know their offense in the back court uh I could see Minnesota at times struggling to put the ball in the basket um you know listen I’m not a huge Irving fan but he won a championship for Cleveland with LeBron with that jumper that he made in game seven an unbelievably tough shot he’s a great great player you know he’s weird but he’s a great player um and he’s got a chance here to get to a final after some you know uncharacteristic issues in New York where he didn’t play with the covid no vaccine uh they lost with Durant and everything else he was not good in Brooklyn he got a second life as you said 3 0 um he’s done a good job and he’s dangerous he’s a great offensive player he puts the ball in the basket when when you have to put the ball in the basket you play enough decent enough on defense he’s a great player and you know give him credit too he went to Dallas and him and Dage have done a good job of understanding each’s role and blending in with one another when they’re both kind of Al for males so he gets credit for that too so give them credit and they got a chance to win that series I mean you know they’re a slight Underdog they’re plus 140 which you know no they’re a little more than that they’re plus 165 more than a slight Underdog they’re a moderate Underdog I tell I think that’s worth it you know taking Dallas at a plus 165 that’s going to be a long series that might be worth it give the Mavericks a chance here a fighting chance against Minnesota and then there’s the whole world is flat routine too as well but yeah I mean you can’t yeah you can’t take him serious he’s nuts you can’t take I can’t listen to him the World is Flat that was funny doesn’t take the vaccine shot hurt his team Miss 29 games listen I wouldn’t want to have a dinner conversation with him but as far as his basketball playing ability he’s a player who are the players that have driven you nuts the most in your career nuts like a like an Irving kind of thing yeah I can’t even take it you know Marcus strowman has a lot to say and I’m not a big fan of him he’s a good pitcher though he’s a good competitor uh that would be one um boy who is up and down you know the the thing that drives you crazy are the are the players who are up and down you know you can’t count on them on a game in game out basis you know Larry Bird was a trash talking he was a tough son of a gun but you knew what you were getting and then he delivered so you liked it Pippen sometimes drove me crazy couldn’t score in the fourth quarter of the big game which always uh drove me nuts um you know uh I don’t like players who talk a lot and then can’t back it up that always drives you nuts from that perspective um I don’t know if there’s anybody in particular who I can think of top of my head who I just can’t deal with Irving is a perfect example um you know I like to see Durant take ownership of firing all these coaches Atkinson vogle Nash if he wanted to keep vogle he could have made sure that vogle stayed same with Nash and Atkinson with Brooklyn that drives me crazy and the funny thing is I remember at the time and I was one of them 81 when magic got West head fired with the Lakers everybody killed magic and Magic did not back down he says you know I don’t want him coaching me uh he this is not the right coach for this team and Magic you know took it all on himself they brought Riley in and they turned out they had you know it was a great relationship they won all those championships that if you want to fire somebody as you know come out and say it a lot of these coaches a lot of these great Stars they don’t want to play for a coach but they don’t want blood on their hands when franchises get rid of the coach you know look at plat with LeBron and Cleveland look at you know vogle in LA with LeBron now you throwing hand they by their actions and how they play and by their silence they tell you they don’t want the coach when in fact in certain situations they could keep the coach because obviously a team isn’t GNA fire a coach who their big star wants to play for um and Magic is one who told everybody I don’t want to play for West head they fired him they were rally and they won all those championships so I give magic credit for that in the long run catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku Channel 12:00 to 3 Eastern for free

Chris “Mad Dog” Russo and Rich Eisen Show guest host Suzy Shuster discuss the how Kyrie Irving could impact the Dallas Mavericks vs Minnesota Timberwolves Western Conference Finals series.

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