Bill's Dad
Appearances
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Uh, they are, they are Jesus.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Mm-hmm.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yes, I think. I'm just watching it because she's been peeing on the floor all morning. Oh, good. Yeah. Actually, last night was good. She got up at 2 o'clock. She did her business, went back to bed, woke me up at 7.30. She's only 10 weeks old. Sounds great. Yeah. I mean... Like you said, my wife Molly can bring the puppy when she's 10 years old to the nursing home to visit.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
It's gonna work out great.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
A couple things. It's the best team I've seen all year come into the Garden in person. And they seem to have 20 players that they just rotated in and out. I didn't know half the names of the players on the team. They just came in. They played great defense, whoever it was. They got rebounds. They passed well. They didn't settle for the three.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
They only took the three when it was open and they had no lane to the basket. But they went to the basket a lot. I don't know if you saw the free throw disparity there. They had over 30 free throws left yesterday. And they earned them. They went to the basket. They were physical. Meanwhile, we were terrible. We just settled for three-point shot after three-point shot.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Nobody wanted to go to the basket. Jalen Brown had one of those horrific games that he occasionally has. Fouled out, which is so unusual. But he made dumb fouls. And on top of it, it was my least favorite referee crew. So when I saw who the refs were, I was thinking, you know, this is a big game for the NBA. You know, do you think they could have brought in a good crew? And...
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah, it couldn't have just been me. The whole game, the Celtics were complaining. I know we complain a lot. The Celtics complain a lot on the floor. But there were some really horrendous calls last night. And the disparity. You're the home team. Even though you're not going to the basket, you should get a few calls, right?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah, it was so ironic after watching what a good job Brown did in the previous game on defense. And in this game, he not only did a poor job on defense, Dorff killed him. He's built like a linebacker. He really out-muscled him. I know everybody's talked about what great shape Jalen Brown is in from working out all summer. He is a pretty big guy, but Dorff made him look small.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
It was a frustrating game for everybody.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
This is my 51st year.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah. He's, he's in the top 10, obviously. Um, I've not seen him in person because I didn't go to the game last year against OKC. He was unstoppable. And also, he's fluid. He goes to the basket, looks like he's going to be contained, and gets the shot up somehow. He has a lot of tricky shots, too. And they all go in. If I'm a defender, I'm really frustrated trying to guard that guy.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
He was really good. I already mentioned that he has my MVP vote.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
I thought because I was in the documentary, I got a vote this year.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Well, I will have a caveat though. He goes to the basket frequently. I mean, he has a very nice, obviously a good outside shot, made a couple of threes, but his game is going to the basket.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah. Porzingis would have made a difference in the middle. We got... out-remounded, out-hustled. They played a two-big lineup, and our two bigs were Horford and... Yeah, Luke Cornett. Luke Cornett, and we just didn't match up very well. But it wasn't just that. They're a driving team, and they had a lot of layups. And I know Porzingis would have made a difference out there.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
I agree. I was just reading. He's missed seven of the last eight games. And the one game he did play, he was limited minutes. And it's very mysterious. He has this virus that they can't find out what it is. He was at the game last night, all dressed up, sitting on the bench. He looked great, but he wasn't playing the game.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Too many threes. They get three happy at home. They don't seem to. That's one thing. They don't go to the basket as much. The other thing that I've noticed is that they always start slow. It's like they didn't wake up yet. Last night was a prime example. It was 9-0, and they took a timeout. Now you have nine points you have to make up. And what did we lose by? I think we lost by seven or eight.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
I don't know why the slow starts. I don't know whether... I don't know what's going on there. You know, if you noticed last night, our first 10 shots were three-point shots. If they're not going in, that leads to a defensive rebound, a fast break by the other team, and suddenly they're scoring. And we don't work the ball inside when Porzingis isn't there.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
The guy in front of me, Mike, said to me, it was almost the end of the first quarter, he said, you know, we haven't taken or made a two-point shot yet. Every shot was a free or a free throw. you can't win against a team like OKC playing that kind of basketball. It's, you know, it's hit or miss.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
I feel I agree with you. He's gone up a notch. It's the best season he's had that I've seen him play. He's he's like a general out there. He controls all of our offensive action. You know, it's every game he takes three or four shots. You kind of wish you didn't take that maybe. And I don't know whether. You know, too many times going to the basket, you know, you don't want to be hit.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
every time you go in there, but it seems like every time he goes to the basket, he can score.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
It's been unstoppable the last month or so, but he doesn't do it that often. He'll more often settle, he'll be out three-point line, and all of a sudden I look up and the shot clock's at six seconds, five seconds, and he takes that fall-away shot
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
pretty long three-point shot and it's hit or miss he doesn't have a good percentage on that yeah i'm not i'd love to see him go to the basket more you know maybe if porzingis was out there opening the lane up a little bit uh okc really clogged the lane with their bigs there wasn't a lot of room to drive which i understand from you know why they took so many threes but
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
You would have been frustrated sitting at that game.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
There's a couple of other trends that I noticed. It was the fourth quarter, middle of the fourth quarter, and Jalen Grant had four points and five fouls. That's your highest paid player. You can't get that out of that guy. You trying to light a fire under Jalen Brown right now? I didn't understand his game last night. The other thing, you and I have talked about it. Their bench.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
OKC's bench was terrific. Our bench wasn't. I know when you have a starter out, everybody moves up a little bit, but I love Pritchard and I love Hauser, but in really big games against really good teams who have a good defense, they shut him down.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
OKC did something else that the teams that are beating us seem to be doing. They're picking us up almost at half court.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah, and pushing us out, pushing us out further and making us... And by doing that, when you look up at the shot clock, it's 10 seconds to go.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah, that's why Brown was so effective against Luka, against the Lakers. Brown was on Alexander last night quite a bit. But he's a different kind of player than Luca.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
In person, he's very slight. You don't expect... him to be, you know, he gets a lot of rebounds. He's, he, he slid it slowly through the lane. Like very few players I've seen. Um, and Brown couldn't stop him.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah. Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Right now I would. Yeah, I would too. Well, for kind of a different reason. I know that OKC, the Williams kid didn't play last night, but Cleveland is 100% healthy usually this year. And you and I talked about it. I thought they made a couple of great additions for their bench. Yeah, we like Hunter. I always loved Hunter. And I always, when Jerome was on OKC,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
I thought he's a great guy off the bench. Yeah. So who gets them both? Cleveland. Right. I know they had cap room, but, and that's like you said earlier, that's where we have a difficulty when our six players make so much money at the top.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Well, I think people like the additions.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
With the exception of, why haven't we signed a receiver and why haven't we signed an offensive tackle? And, uh, like the paper today that Cam, I don't, I can't say I've ever seen Cam Robinson play, except he is a left tackle and maybe a plug him in for a year.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
All right. 20 million. Let's give him a chance. Yeah. A Cooper cup from, uh, The Rams? Do you think he's done?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
I agree with you. It seems like there's two sure things, Hunter and Carter. And it would be fabulous to have Carter on a defensive line with the additions we've made. Otherwise, trade back.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Trade back. And maybe take one of the other tackles at 10 or 11 or somewhere in there.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
And there's two quarterbacks sitting there. I'm not going to be at all surprised if we don't see the Giants take the quarterback. They have no quarterback.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah. I hate the way the Bruins... let our 16-year veteran captain of the team just walk away somewhere else, especially to an archenemy team, the Panthers.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Well, the other thing is they gave a crazy amount of money to Lindholm. Yeah. The forward or center forward. And he's terrible. So we know Marchand gives 110%. Yeah. He's our second leading scorer. Was our second leading scorer. Pony up some money.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
It's the part of sports that I hate.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Well, it's not even a first. It's a second round.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah. I just think that Marchand was not the guy you traded. you, you work it out or you let them, you let them stay here until the end of the year. We're not, we're not going anywhere. Um, his cousin, Brian.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
The irony is I think within the two weeks that they traded Marchand, they identified next year's ticket prices, which they raised quite a bit. So the timing was terrible. Don't you think that Neely and Sweeney are on thin ice in terms of where we're headed and the moves we've made over the last five years?
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Right.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
For me, it was two dogs ago.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
The four left. Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
When they looked at a lengthy write-up in the Boston Globe about that, it doesn't look like anybody has the means to pay for this team without a lot of backup support.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
And it's a building that's going to be 30 years old soon.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
I remember almost 30 years ago after we'd had our tickets in the old garden, 20 years plus. them taking me into this new garden to pick a seat 30 years ago now. And I know they've done as much as they could refreshing it, but it is what it is. It's not like the new arena. Like you've been talking about the Clippers place, how spectacular it is.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
But you know Boston as well as I do. There's no land.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah, and that really worries me. It's like the year John Y. Brown came in from Kentucky. People come in outside of Massachusetts. They come in with different ideas.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Well, the other thing we've talked about it, if they don't have deep enough pockets, um, Brown's probably on his way out the door.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
It is crazy.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
They've already, we just got our packages a couple of weeks ago for season tickets for next year. Significant increase in ticket prices.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah. And I understand, you know, maybe to wire you some money. I just wanted to mention it. All right, I'll flag it. I'll talk to my guy. I read online yesterday that you signed a new contract.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Uh, it's a good, each seating area has a different percentage, but, uh, I just wanted to mention it, you know, as long as we're talking.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
$4.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah, so there's no one price for the seat for one game. You come in and you see Dallas now, one of the terrible teams, or New Orleans. It's a totally different price than the Lakers, for example.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
It's understandable that they raised the prices. On the Bruins' end, it's not understandable for the product they're putting out and the fact that they let their captain go.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah. Big bird with the sun. Yeah. All the regular Mary in front of us, all the regulars. There's a new group of very nice people. Yeah. It's a different group. There's still some old timers there though. Yeah, there are.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Well, they mistakenly say that this season took a hold of his tickets 55 years, but he got them from his brother who passed away.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Yeah. I mean, I consider that the same way the Lakers count the Minnesota titles. Yeah. Right. It's the same thing.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
They're not going to say that. Yeah, I think it's crazy. I guess, were they the Minnesota Lakers? Minneapolis Lakers. Minneapolis Lakers. So that's what they hang their hat on, I guess. You live out there. I mean, you should have an argument with some people about, they probably have 12 titles.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
So when Zoe's date shows up at the front door with a Luca Jersey on it,
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Okay.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
I still can't, I still haven't hired an agent.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
Minnesota’s Coming, OKC’s Here, and We Can Save the NBA Season With Kirk Goldsberry and Bill’s Dad
Okay.