GUESTS:
315 ADAM CAPALAN
-GRUDEN TOO HARD ON CARR?
-NE WEATHER
-GAMES THIS WEEKEND
-TO IN THE HALL? OR MOSS KEEP HIM OUT?
JIMMY G LONG TERM?
420 - 5 PM WARRIORS:
-COULD DURANT BE THE MVP? HE'S BETTER THAN HE WAS IN 2014 --IF HARDEN IS OUT A WHILE --HEARD 6 WEEKS POSSIBLE
-=WHEN HEALTHY -- HOW BIG OF A THREAT ARE ROCKETS TO WARRIORS?
-With Harden sidelined by a Grade 2 left hamstring strain, the Rockets (27-9) throttled the struggling Orlando Magic 116-98. Houston led by as many as 28 points in its wire-to-wire victory and recorded consecutive victories for the first time since their win streak concluded Dec. 20.
Harden missed a total of 15 games over his first five seasons in Houston and participated in all 35 games this year before sustaining his injury inside the final minute of the fourth quarter Sunday night against the Los Angeles Lakers.
CURRY: The Warriors survived a similar stretch without Stephen Curry, who poured in 32 points and a game-winning 3-pointer Wednesday night in a 125-122 victory over the Dallas Mavericks. It marked the second game back for Curry after an 11-game hiatus due to an ankle injury. He scored 38 on Dec. 30 against Memphis with his 10 treys proving the down time wasn't a detriment.
- he Rockets have lost their last six home games against the Warriors. Houston hasn't lost seven consecutive home games to a single opponent since dropping 13 straight to the Lakers from 1980-81 to 1985-86.
-CAVS
-ROCKETS
-CELTICS
-SPURS
-CURRY IS SO UNDERRATED
505 STEVE YOUNG
49ERS RECAP
JIMMY LONG TERM
NFC WEST
HOLIDAYS
REPLACING GRUDEN
530 SEAN SALISBURY
GAMES THIS WEEKEND
GRUDEN/CARR MARRIAGE
JIMMY G
6 PM DENNIS RANAHAN -
TOPICS:
-I DID NOT FEEL AN EARTHQUAKE
TOP 5 BAY AREA ATHELTES POWER POLL - POPULARITY GO....
1. CURRY
2. JIMMY
3. DURANT
4. POSEY
5. GREEN
OTHERS: LYNCH, BUM, KLAY, JOE THORTON
NFL: SUPER BOWL PREDICTIONS
NEW ENGLAND AND.........
-COULD MINNESOTA PLAY AT HOME WITH WENTZ OUT?
49ERS:
-HOW ARE PEOPLE FEELING ABOUT THE ORGINIZATION NOW? (THE DISGRUNTLED FANS)
-LYNCH IS GOOD: SAVED US FROM DARMOLD OR RODEN---I THINK NETHER IS A SURE THING AND IT TAKES AT LKEAST A YEAR TO BE GOOD ---49ERS COULD CONTEND NEXT SEASON
TO HAS TO GET IN THIS TIME - LIST OF HOF WIDE RECEIVERS
RAIDERS:
WILL GRUDEN BREAK CARR? (PFT)
Per a league source, there’s a real concern that Carr won’t be able to put up with Gruden’s style for very long. Gruden will ride him and needle him and yell at him and criticize him and ride him some more. Carr will have to learn how to deal with that, or Carr won’t last.
And that’s ultimately the concern: Carr, given the way he’s wired, may not make it with Gruden.
“Jon Gruden is not easy to deal with,” PFT Live co-host Chris Simms told me by phone on Thursday. “He’s in your face, he’s blunt, he’s extremely honest. At the same time, he’ll be extra hard on a quarterback if he knows the kid has talent. The quarterback has to remember it’s only because he wants him to be better and knows he can be better. . . . If he wasn’t yelling at you, that’s the bigger concern. It’s all for the greater good. It’s only going to make you a better quarterback.”
Simms explained that Gruden regards his offense as an expensive sports car that he has loaned to the quarterback.
“You’ve got the keys to his red Lamborghini,” Simms said. “When there’s a lane to go to 100 [miles per hour], you’d better go 100. But you’d better not scratch it, either.”
Simms said that, in the end, the haranguing is “all to make you better,” and that Carr will “learn more football under Gruden than he’s learned in his entire career.”
If Carr can handle it.
GIANTS:
WHY7 SUCH A SLOW MARKET? - LUXURY TAX IS A SALARY CAP
-DO YOU AGREE WITH KRUKOW - GIANTS SHOULD GO FOR IT?
Longoria cost the Giants four players — Denard Span, Christian Arroyo, and two other prospects — and it’s expected that McCutchen, who was the 2013 MVP and a five-time All-Star, will come with a similar price tag. Nonetheless, Mike Krukow told Murph & Mac on Thursday morning that the Giants should continue their all-in mentality, even if it means giving up any of their top prospects.
“If you have an organization that goes for it, from a player’s perspective that’s all you want,” Krukow said. “Your best years as a player, you don’t want to waste them in a rebuild. That’s that one thing with an organization that goes for it every year, players don’t need to worry about that.
“Worry about 2019 and 2020 then.”
And thanks to their 98-loss season in 2017, the Giants are well-suited to refuel their farm system in the case that trading for McCutchen takes away several of their top prospects. With the second selection of each round in this year’s MLB Draft, the Giants can restock their farm system without skipping a beat.
“This year they’re going to get some good draft picks,” Krukow said. “You’re going to assume, based on the history of this franchise and the number of players that have come in out of the organization that they’ve raised in their farm and helped win championships, that they’re going to be able to do it again. I say go for it, and if you lose a prospect go get another one.”
Granted, there’s always some hesitation when giving up promising young talent, and a common assumption is that to have a healthy farm system, a team needs Major League-caliber talent overflowing at every level of the minor leagues. However, when Krukow was with the Chicago Cubs from 1976-1981, he once asked the team’s farm director, “if you’re a healthy organization, how many prospects, big-league prospects, do you need to call yourself a loaded organization with prospects?”
His answer: Only five.
“If you have five out of 125 or 130 you’re in a high cot,” Krukow said. “That’s kind of the way it goes. You’ve got one or two players in your system that you forecast to be in your everyday lineup or in your rotation, you’ve got a good farm system.
“You can get well in a hurry. Look at these teams that have been rated in the bottom five of baseball for a few years. Then all of a sudden, you make a few deals and land a couple of young prospects, and we’ve watched organizations do this, then next year you look up and they’re ranked in the top five. That’s how fast that can turn around
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