Hour 3 - Ric Bucher
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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NBA analyst Ric Bucher joins the show in studio to explain why Duke's Cooper Flagg could be better than Jayson Tatum
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| 0:24.3 | You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:29.1 | Covering the NBA since the early 90s, Fox Sports NBA analyst, our friend Rick Buecker. |
| 0:36.4 | You know, I read a really interesting story the other day in The Athletic. |
| 0:41.8 | A writer I did not know, but I thought it was an interesting point. |
| 0:44.5 | He said March has always been a bad time. |
| 0:47.5 | Late March is bad for the NBA because college basketball is playing with all this passion and intensity. |
| 0:53.8 | And NBA teams that aren't in the playoffs are like Pelican Sixers last night. college basketball is playing with all this passion and intensity. |
| 0:58.4 | And NBA teams that aren't in the playoffs are like Pelican Sixers last night. |
| 1:00.0 | Who are these guys? |
| 1:01.8 | I had talked about this earlier. |
| 1:04.7 | Load management, most of the young guys like playing. |
| 1:06.0 | Tatum and SGA. |
| 1:06.6 | They want to play. |
| 1:08.9 | A lot of the old guys like Yonis want nights off. |
| 1:09.3 | I get it. |
| 1:28.5 | I think you can, as they tweaked it with the award, 65 games. You can tweak load management. I do not believe watching Bill Simmons, Celtic City with Larry Bird last night. Bad team, get Bird, great team. I don't think you can control it. It's the unsolvable problem. We knew two years ago. Three years ago, Cooper Flagg was good. |
| 1:30.6 | Four years ago, Wembe was. |
| 1:32.6 | Teams plan, a three-year plan by Popovich to get Wembe, you can argue, and they didn't |
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