Doug Gottlieb Reacts to Paul George Joining the Philadelphia 76ers

Doug Gottlieb Reacts to Paul George Joining the Philadelphia 76ers

uh Paul George now a former Clipper is apparently a Philadelphia 76er that was the that was the late breaking news by Adrian wowski at 11:30 on the west coast I saw East Coast guy going 2:30 in the morning like hey dude guess what guy lives in Cali probably pretty good sense the deal was the deal was consummated in California nonetheless it changes a lot of things obviously we’ll get to the Clippers angle he was um the the guy the choice a of the Golden State Warriors and now he becomes the second option I would guess or maybe third option with the Philadelphia 76ers and before we get into the Sixers in terms of will it actually work to win them a championship the most important uh point to point out is if you look at the downfall of television ratings in the NBA okay the there ‘s there’s a couple different things one it’s obviously been hurt by the rise of the National Football League the NFL is incredibly popular it is a successful freight train that is basically out of control whatever they want whatever they do whatever they put on TV draft xmission game game you put it on on uh a streaming service you put it this year they’re going to do a Friday night game uh to to start the to start the season right with the Eagles and the Packers like whatever they do is successful So that obviously has been part of it U the post Jordan era right when Jordan leaves that’s when we saw a dramatic downturn and then it turned around a little bit once they got scoring back and you got Steph Curry and LeBron James and Kevin Durant so some of it is that Steph Curry and LeBron James not only their fatigue with LeBron James he’s been doing it for so long but they’re also West Coast and and one of the things I learned when I was at ESPN for 10 years was something that was Data driven and they would tell you that 66% of sports television viewers are in the Eastern Time Zone and then you look at the direct correlation and what’s happened to the NBA’s ratings and it’s not that hard to see that when the Knicks became bad the Celtics went through a bad stretch the Sixers have gone through stretches right they were irrelevant when they were trusting the process and though the Sixers are better now and the Knicks are better now now you can see based upon what the Knicks have done this offseason what the Sixers are doing in this offseason and of course what the Celtics have done in the season and in the postseason and winning a championship you give me Boston you give me Philly you give me New York and this is a I’m not going to say it’s going to save the league the league wasn’t in the process of dying but man is it a shot in the arm because again data tells you 66% of sports television viewers are in the Eastern Time Zone there’s a different level of intensity different level of passion hatred if you will and when you bring Paul George in and you have a big three no matter how successful is like look they’re going to be in the playoffs they’re in the playoffs this year they’re they’re going to push the you know push the envelope of how good they can be it’s better for Philadelphia to be good than for Cleveland to be good sorry that’s just the reality to it it’s better for New York to be good than Boston or Philly and definitely then Cleveland will be good and they are and the Boston and Celtics are the model and everybody is chasing that model I woke up in a good place today but no one W woke up in a better place than Adam Silver because there’s nothing artificial about it he had nothing to do with it we still have the different tax aprons which go into go into play here as we learned the salary cap yesterday we learned the apron numbers yesterday but the NBA is tracking when you have quality teams in Boston and New York in Philadelphia in Los Angeles and we’ll get to the Lakers and what it means for the Lakers you’re in a good place it doesn’t mean that small Market teams can compete Oklahoma City’s not going anywhere Milwaukee should be better look do I think they’re a championship caliber team probably not I think Damon Lillard has not only peaked but he’s been exposed especially for what he does on a real Championship caliber team it doesn’t mean that those those teams can’t compete but for the for people to watch them has nothing to do with the quality of the team like Minnesota’s got dudes but they’re in Minnesota they just they’re not a draw the Knicks are a draw the Sixers are a draw the nuggets are not and then you turn around and you look at the Clippers and I saw a pretty good quip you know they have a picture of Paul George with a hard hat on visiting the in it dome back when the Clippers did it turns out he wasn’t that into it I liked it I liked it I I did I liked it I chuckled I I didn’t chle but I chuckled but has there ever been a franchise that has had more Coulda Shoulda would have than the Clippers I mean honestly they they’ve done most things right here um since they changed ownership groups it it doesn’t really matter but they’ve done most the right things I mean tyo is a Fabulous Coach he’s really really good does he get a little too caught up in ISO ball sure but it worked for him with the championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers so you know you fall back on the things that you you’ve won with but they could never with Lob City have be healthy right it was always Blake Griffin and then Chris Paul just unhealthy at unlucky moments and then when the NBA changed and became about you know offensive dexterity ity and ball movement they were still stuck in kind of that old era of Chris ball overh handling the ball but out of necessity because they didn’t have other guys that were dominant ball handlers Blake Griffin went from a dominant Force to as he aged but also as he became a lot more about pace and space and skill between DeAndre Jordan and and Blake Griffin he didn’t work in the new era and Chris Paul could never stay healthy then they f it and changed and went all in on Paul George and Kawhi Leonard winning bitty Wars over everybody and move mountains to get Paul George and then either kawhai wasn’t healthy or Paul George wasn’t healthy and they just couldn’t get over the hump the Coulda and Shoulda and would have there was a a stretch of time in each of the past two seasons where by my estimation the Clippers were the best team in the NBA but it wasn’t the stretch of time that mattered in the playoffs and between Kawai just not being healthy either of the last two years this is what you got this is what you got and and obviously like look I understand the popular perception is that big threes don’t work and you know Daryl mury loves his big threes the the question is do we think Houston didn’t work because they didn’t win a championship or because of style of play or both right what what was it 26 28 consecutive Miss three-point shots they were pretty darn close they couldn’t get over the hump you know I I look at in many ways I do look at Mor’s time in Houston much like Billy Bean in Moneyball when they were in the playoffs and couldn’t get over the hump just because they didn’t win didn’t mean it didn’t work it got them to new heights it got them to a level that their Norm that their overall Talent shouldn’t have gotten them to so I like this one I mean I think in talking NBA people will tell you that Joel embiid Luca donic and and Joker are the three best players in the league embid can be the most dominant and now to Tyrese Maxi you add Paul George that’s that’s pretty good it’s not just and I know you’re sitting there going like hey the the Suns had all these scores yeah but the Suns had a bunch of Wings they didn’t have a big they didn’t have a point guard it’s not the case with the Sixers and now you give the Sixers a versatile weapon who can guard and is probably better off being the second best or third best player on a team I like it more than most people do and I love what the Knicks have done and the Celtics are really really good I mean I guess the question is who’s the fourth starter and what’s their bench actually look like but we’ll get to that in the meantime Paul George is the Philadelphia 76er it it’s good for the league it’s good for the Rivalry with New York it’s good for rivalry with uh the Celtics and now we’ll see what they are able to put around you know they got Kelly UB back as well uh but what are they able to put around those four players to form a team

DOUG GOTTLIEB SHOW – Doug Gottlieb reacts to Paul Geroge reaching a 4-year max contract to leave the LA Clippers for the Philadephia 76ers.

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