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Hour 2 – Face The Pace · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Omaha, o maha, omaha. It's our number to hour two.
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Speaker 1: We start out with the second round of the pro
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Speaker 1: Bounceball playoffs and the Pacers and Calves going at it.
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Speaker 1: Can you explain what the heck went wrong for Donovan
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Speaker 1: Mitchell on the number one seated Cavaliers as they take
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Speaker 1: it on the chin in game one? Do the Calves
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Speaker 1: get a mulligan because of guard Darius Garland's injury he's out?
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Speaker 1: And what did Tyres Halliburton and the Pacers really accomplish
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Speaker 1: in game one as they have the early lead in
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Speaker 1: this series. We'll talk about all that and more right
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Speaker 1: now here. It is having great Monday. It's our number two.
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Speaker 1: It is all about that pace of play, the pace
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Speaker 1: of play, if you will, or just the pacer of play.
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Speaker 1: shaking their head because it was not supposed to go
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Speaker 1: down like this. That would be the game number one
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Speaker 1: the Lidlifter Here Eastern Conference second round matchup. You had
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Speaker 1: Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers traveling party that long three
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen mile trek from Indianapolis to Cleveland, a
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Speaker 1: playdate with Spider. You should never play with spiders, Spider
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Speaker 1: Mitchell and the Cavaliers. And this was the undercard, the
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Speaker 1: undercard on the main event, the Game seven, which went
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Speaker 1: to the team from the Bay Area, the Warriors, eliminating
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Speaker 1: the Rockets. So I don't know if you saw this
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Speaker 1: or not, were watching or paying any attention to it?
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Speaker 1: Maybe you were not. We watched it. It's our good
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Speaker 1: Mitch of the day. And how did that turn out?
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Speaker 1: How did this game be? Was surprisingly good? Surprisingly good?
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Speaker 1: Now I have no skin in the game. I don't
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Speaker 1: I didn't bet on it.
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Speaker 2: I didn't.
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Speaker 1: I don't particularly care about the Calves or the Pacers.
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Speaker 1: I just watched as a neutral arbiter, a neutral party
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Speaker 1: watching the game. Just give me something to talk about.
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Speaker 1: That's my mindset watching these games. Just give me something
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Speaker 1: good to talk about. And we got that. Tyrese Haliburton
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Speaker 1: over rated the most overrated player in the NBA, as
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Speaker 1: voted by his peers.
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Speaker 2: Tyrese Aliburton went out. How did he do?
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Speaker 1: He had a key basket, a three pointer midway through
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and as the Calves had made a
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Speaker 1: furious push to get back into the game, it was
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Speaker 1: not enough because the team from the Hoosier State put
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Speaker 1: on the after burners after that, and the Pacers were
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Speaker 1: able to get it done. The Calves left stupefied as
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Speaker 1: they were losers one twenty one to one twelve the final.
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Speaker 1: As Indiana takes game one and Haliburton at twenty two
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Speaker 1: points thirteen assists departure to the pear Tree and Andrew
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Speaker 1: nebhard Nemar with twenty three points, five three pointers, five
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Speaker 1: three pointers for the Pacers, who are the number four seed.
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Speaker 1: They're the number four seed. Look at that live number
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Speaker 1: four and to game two. I know you're already counting
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Speaker 1: down the minutes. You have a timer on your phone there.
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Speaker 1: Game two will be Tuesday night back in Cleveland. So
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Speaker 1: the better story is in the losing locker room. So
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Speaker 1: that is where we will begin to let us discuss.
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Speaker 1: Can you explain? Can you explain what went wrong for
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Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell and the top seeded Cavaliers. So I've got
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Speaker 1: Glenn Ivy, hot springs, Belagio, and candlelight, and we will
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Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
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Speaker 1: to make a corn beef sandwich is what we're going
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Speaker 1: to make, all right, So numb burn.
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Speaker 2: I get a number, so number one. Let me just
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Speaker 2: want it.
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Speaker 1: This was not a traditional upset. It wasn't upset, but
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Speaker 1: not a traditional upset. Traditional upset is not where you're
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Speaker 1: dominating the game. This was a domination situation. I want
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Speaker 1: a blowout domination. But Indiana led for most of the game,
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Speaker 1: like it's not like they were trailing, and they snuck
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Speaker 1: up late in the fourth quarter and stole the game
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Speaker 1: away from Cleveland. Now, the Pacers were ahead for the
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Speaker 1: balance of the game. They had a twelve point lead
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Speaker 1: in the first half. They had a twelve point lead
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Speaker 1: in the second half. Cleveland was frazzled. They were being
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Speaker 1: draggled by the pace of play from appropriately the Pacers.
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Speaker 1: That's what stood out to me, uh and Kenny Atkinson.
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Speaker 1: Cleveland won a bunch of games, they were the top
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Speaker 1: seed in the East and all that.
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Speaker 2: Whoopte damn do congratulations.
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Speaker 1: But this team, on this particular day, the Cavaliers throughout
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Speaker 1: the game, it's like they the coach Kenny Atkinson, had
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Speaker 1: taken the team on a field trip to glenn Ivy
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Speaker 1: Hotsprings for a.
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Speaker 2: Bath in mud club mud.
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Speaker 1: They were they were just off, just off enough because
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Speaker 1: at home number one seed, all that better team, blah.
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Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: They were immersed in a pool of mud, the Cavaliers here.
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Speaker 1: And if that didn't do the trick, they just grabbed
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Speaker 1: fistfuls of mud and then shoved it right in there
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Speaker 1: in their mouth, is what they did. You had a
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Speaker 1: corner coopia of defensive breakdowns by the Cleveland Cavaliers, terrible shooting,
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Speaker 1: a questionable decision making down the line, down the line here,
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Speaker 1: and if you want to circle individual. We love naming names,
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Speaker 1: naming and shaming and blaming and all that and the
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Speaker 1: finger of shame. You've got three names, three of them.
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Speaker 1: You've got Spider Mitchell. Ohbody here, thirty plus points. I'll explain.
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Speaker 1: But Spider Mitchell, Jared Allen and and Ty Jerome who
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Speaker 1: had been so good in some games earlier in the
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Speaker 1: plus But those are the three that I jotted down
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Speaker 1: on the notes app on my phone. That are the
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Speaker 1: three villains for the Cavaliers in game number one. Now
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Speaker 1: the individual situation. Now, Spider Mitchell, you see a lot
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Speaker 1: of stories out there. Oh yeah, it's not his fault.
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Speaker 1: He had thirty three points, you know.
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Speaker 2: His shots.
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Speaker 1: He took thirty shots. Thirty shots to get thirty three points.
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Speaker 1: In what world is that an efficient performance? In what
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Speaker 1: world is that a good performance? Thirty shots to get
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Speaker 1: thirty three points. You gotta be joking. That was not
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Speaker 1: a good performance. And he took eleven three point shots,
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Speaker 1: one of eleven for Donovan Mitchell from behind the arc.
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Speaker 1: That's my computer like brain tells me nine point one
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Speaker 1: percent from three point range. And then on the defensive side, now,
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Speaker 1: Jared Allen did not shoot the ball. That's enough, he's
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Speaker 1: seven shots in the game. But the other issue here
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Speaker 1: is that he was targeted multiple times not to get
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Speaker 1: two into the minutial of basketball. But they did the
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Speaker 1: old switch aroo and Tyrense Halliburton treating him like a
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Speaker 1: piece of clay and not just manipulating the situation here.
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Speaker 1: And so they would switch and Alburton would zoom past
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Speaker 1: Jared Allen. But on offense he was underutilized because the Pacers'
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Speaker 1: interior defense blows and yet he only had seven field
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Speaker 1: goal attempts.
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Speaker 2: Who goofed, I've got there, and then he got tied
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Speaker 2: Jerome who.
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Speaker 1: Actually kind of liked this guy, but man, he'd suck
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Speaker 1: in this particular game, he runs around. He liked the
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Speaker 1: Tasmanian devil out there on the court, bouncing all over
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Speaker 1: the places, hitting big shots. But he was reckless with
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Speaker 1: his shot selection there and made some bonehead decisions for
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Speaker 1: the Cavaliers who were down most of the game, down
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Speaker 1: most of the game. Now, page two, do the Cavaliers
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Speaker 1: get a mulligan? As a listener from Ohio, I believe
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Speaker 1: Mike is his name. He's in the Cleveland area, but
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Speaker 1: not actually in Cleveland. He's in the where the rich
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Speaker 1: people live. Mike wrote in he said, well, Ben, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna probably rip the Cavaliers tonight, but make sure you
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Speaker 1: mentioned Terrus Garland. Okay, so there you go, Mike, I
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Speaker 1: mentioned it, So I'll phrase the question this way. Do
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Speaker 1: the Cavaliers get a mulligan? Because guard Darius Garland did
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Speaker 1: not play in this game because of injury and I'm
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Speaker 1: shaking my head.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm shaking my head.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: Garland has a toe problem. Oh my aching toe. He's
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Speaker 1: got a sprain tow and he's missed a few games.
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Speaker 1: Didn't affect the Cavaliers when they played Miami because Miami
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Speaker 1: pretty much gave up and there's no structural damage. The
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Speaker 1: reports as all NBA injury reports. Every player that's gotten
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Speaker 1: hurt in the NBA, you think is on their deathbed
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Speaker 1: the way it's reported by the NBA media, they're about
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Speaker 1: to die. There's a clergyman coming in to give the
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Speaker 1: last rites. You're convinced every time one of these guys
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Speaker 1: gets hurt. And so it's like swelling and pain and
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Speaker 1: all that nonsense going on and on and on. Now,
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Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson called Darius Garland's situation. He said, his status
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Speaker 1: is up in the air, but not everywhere, because we're everywhere.
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Speaker 2: He's just up in the air. We're up in the
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Speaker 2: air everywhere. He's not up in the air everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Now, spoiler, Alard, spoiler. Here is my general position when
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Speaker 1: it comes to injuries. Right, My position when it comes
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Speaker 1: to these injury situations is the last I checked, they
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Speaker 1: don't shut the train down because somebody got hurt. The
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Speaker 1: whole point of this is it keeps moving down the
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Speaker 1: tracks and all that, and it is a war of attrition.
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Speaker 1: Next man up, and you're supposed to handle the adversity,
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Speaker 1: and if you're good enough, you're going to overcome that.
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Speaker 2: That other players will rise up.
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Speaker 1: And Garland is a fine playmaker, averaged almost eight assists
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Speaker 1: per game during the season, and he is able to
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Speaker 1: create a lot of open shots. But he's not there,
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Speaker 1: so someone else needs to step up, and nobody else did,
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Speaker 1: and you lose the war of attrition to the Indiana
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Speaker 1: Pacers in this game. But you think of it like
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Speaker 1: going to the Blaggio and playing poker. Now you're playing
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Speaker 1: poker and you just deal with the cards that you're
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Speaker 1: given and you just kind of figure things out as
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Speaker 1: you go. Cleveland was a sixty four win team, So
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Speaker 1: are they a one man team? Is it all Darius Garland?
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Speaker 2: That's it?
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Speaker 1: There's nobody else on the team, and you look around.
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Speaker 1: These guys did not adjust, They did not adapt to
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Speaker 1: the situation. And the Pacers exploiting the defensive side of things.
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Speaker 1: The offense was an issue. What about the defensive side
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Speaker 1: for Cleveland? If I'm not mistaken, the Pacers shot sixty
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Speaker 1: seven percent in the second half. Are you even trying
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Speaker 1: at that particular point, and they said, well, too much
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Speaker 1: time off, they were flat. Make all the excuses, but
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Speaker 1: it's an embarrassing situation. You've lost home court. Now Cleveland's
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Speaker 1: more than capable of going to Indiana and winning a game.
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Speaker 1: So it's not like, oh, it's a horrid situation, but
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Speaker 1: final point, all right, final point here putting the bow
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Speaker 1: on the So what did Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers
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Speaker 1: accomplish by winning? And I would argue not dominant, but
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Speaker 1: not just barely winning fashion somewhere in the middle there.
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Speaker 1: What did Tyrese Saliburt and the Pacers accomplish there in
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Speaker 1: game number one? So they what they did is they
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Speaker 1: took a candle out and they lit the candle, little candlelight.
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Speaker 1: They set the mood, right, they set the mood. They're
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Speaker 1: not gonna be a bunch of pushovers in this series.
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Speaker 2: And all that.
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Speaker 1: And they turned on some romantic music, so they kind
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Speaker 1: of set the vibe that the whole thing going there.
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Speaker 1: It was a nice opening act. It was a nice
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Speaker 1: opening act. And that's it. It's you could still lose
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Speaker 1: the next four games. They're still capable of going out
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Speaker 1: and losing the next four games to Cleveland. But this
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Speaker 1: was not a mistake. The way they played was not
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Speaker 1: a mistake. It's a more enjoyable team to watch. Is
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Speaker 1: that a incorrect statement? I don't have a problem watching
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Speaker 1: the Pacers. I like the way that they play. They're
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Speaker 1: a high tempo, they get up and down. It's nice
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Speaker 1: to watch Cleveland little choppy. Now they didn't have Garland five,
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Speaker 1: but they watching the team's play. Cleveland without Darius Garland
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Speaker 1: was exposed, right, They were exposed, especially in the late
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Speaker 1: stages of the game.
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Speaker 2: So Garland, who knows, he might not come back. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe this guy's gonna miss the rest of
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Speaker 2: the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: It is the NBA, after all, So on a positive
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Speaker 1: note for the Cavalry, I'm gonna be Benny bright Side.
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Speaker 1: There is no such thing as momentum, so just because
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Speaker 1: the Pacers won this game will have no bearing on
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Speaker 1: what happens on Tuesday. There is no continuation from one
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Speaker 1: game to the next that does not not happen. But
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Speaker 1: the famous cliche, we can now check the box. A
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Speaker 1: playoff series does not start until the home team loses.
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Speaker 1: talking most things pro ball here just chatted about the
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Speaker 1: Pacers taking Game one over Cleveland ferg dog rights since,
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Speaker 1: says Ben, how sad is it that while US Clipper
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Speaker 1: fans are out living our best lives, all the haters
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Speaker 1: are miserable and letting the Clippers live rent free in
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Speaker 1: their heads?
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Speaker 2: One hundred listen.
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Speaker 1: It is a powerful position that the Clippers matter so
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Let's go to Jeff in Denver.
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Speaker 1: Hello Jeff, welcome, you are next up on the Ben
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Speaker 5: Well, hello, Ben, I was wondering if you were going
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Speaker 5: to talk after your Lakers took the proverbial throw up there.
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Speaker 1: My Lakers, Yes, my Lakers went out there, My Lakers. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you said Lakers. You made a mistake right away, you said, Lakers.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's just as you think of when you think La.
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Speaker 5: You don't think Clippers.
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Speaker 1: Well, apparently not, based on the reaction of the people
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Speaker 1: that are taking joy. The Clippers matter, they move the needle.
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Speaker 5: So how about your playoff Harden? I thought you got
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Speaker 5: his game out of the way. His bad game. He
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Speaker 5: was eight shots and only seven points.
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Speaker 1: Well, well, the good news is next year, Hardens, he
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Speaker 1: had two bad games, two out of three bad games,
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Speaker 1: So that means he should have like twelve good games
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Speaker 1: in a row based on the math.
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Speaker 5: When it comes, when it matters, though, he disappears. That's
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Speaker 5: what you've always hated about him. Now he's on your.
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Speaker 1: Team and you yeah, no, listen, seen he defend James Harden.
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Speaker 1: That was gutless. That was pathetic. If I owned the Clippers,
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Speaker 1: I would get rid of him. I wouldn't even allow
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Speaker 1: him to fly back on the team plane. I was
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Speaker 1: to get your ass out of here. We're going to
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Speaker 1: get you a greyhound bus ticket, okay, and then knocked
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Speaker 1: yourself out take a bust back to LA. That was embarrassing.
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Speaker 1: It was pathetic and is nothing he did well. He
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Speaker 1: looked scared. I get rid of him.
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Speaker 2: I send him. I don't know where you can send him,
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Speaker 2: but my god, is he horrific.
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Speaker 5: Talked him up. You were thinking you got this bad
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Speaker 5: game out of the system.
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Speaker 1: Well, he did have a bad game. And if you
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Speaker 1: look at the mat, I did the math all right.
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Speaker 1: Based on the math in his playoff career, he had
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Speaker 1: ten percent of the time. He had had a bad
19:28
Speaker 1: game in ten percent of his playoff games. So if
19:32
Speaker 1: you based it on the math, he got the bad
19:34
Speaker 1: game out of the way. And it turns out the
19:37
Speaker 1: math wasn't mathing. That's the problem. It wasn't Malard Man.
19:42
Speaker 2: It was actual math. I used real math.
19:44
Speaker 1: I looked at the games he had been inefficient on offense.
19:48
Speaker 1: Based on the games he had been effective or at
19:50
Speaker 1: least passable. That was even passable. That was terrible. But
19:53
Speaker 1: I wouldn't feel too good if I was. I was
19:55
Speaker 1: you because the Nuggets didn't impress me. The Clippers should.
19:58
Speaker 1: The Clippers gave two games away, the overt on game
20:00
Speaker 1: in Game one, and then that fluke dunk. The Clipper
20:03
Speaker 1: should have won anyway, even with James Harden, they should
20:05
Speaker 1: have beaten the Nuggets.
20:07
Speaker 5: But we had a thirty five point lead at one
20:09
Speaker 5: point in that game.
20:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you gave it all back to the Clippers.
20:12
Speaker 1: You gave it all back to the Clippers, and they
20:15
Speaker 1: you needed Nicola Yogis to miss about as bad as
20:18
Speaker 1: you can miss on on a shot attempt, and then
20:21
Speaker 1: a fluky thing happened with the dunk at the end.
20:25
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be I wouldn't be feeling too good. You
20:27
Speaker 1: got a nerd coach, you got the net Bo nerd coach.
20:30
Speaker 2: Good luck.
20:35
Speaker 5: We won by nineteen points the other night.
20:38
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter the Clippers even try. I wouldn't celebrate
20:40
Speaker 1: that if the other team doesn't compete, how how do
20:44
Speaker 1: you celebrate that? That wasn't a game, That wasn't a competition.
20:48
Speaker 1: The team quit, The Clippers quit, There was no competition there.
20:52
Speaker 5: Why do you back a team that? Why do you
20:54
Speaker 5: back up team A quitters?
20:55
Speaker 3: Then?
20:56
Speaker 1: Well, because I know the owner's gonna get rid of
20:59
Speaker 1: those guys and he's gonna put up with this. So
21:01
Speaker 1: enough is enough. How embarrassing is that Balmber Balmer chartered.
21:04
Speaker 1: I know he's got more money than God, but he
21:06
Speaker 1: charted a flight with all the real Clipper fans. By
21:09
Speaker 1: the way, if they charted a flight with real Laker fans,
21:11
Speaker 1: there'd be nobody on the flight.
21:13
Speaker 2: But they flew real Clipper fans there, and.
21:15
Speaker 1: Then they showed up to lose by they were down
21:18
Speaker 1: by thirty something points or whatever.
21:20
Speaker 2: It was ridridiculous.
21:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, what about what about a Westbrook?
21:25
Speaker 1: Well, I don't care if Westbrook sucked as a clip,
21:27
Speaker 1: you gonna have him. He'll break your heart, He'll kill you.
21:30
Speaker 1: You know that's fine. I have no issue with Westbrook
21:32
Speaker 1: not being on the team. The guy's garbage and he
21:34
Speaker 1: made some shots. Fine, he's not the reason the Nuggets
21:37
Speaker 1: won the series. And I promise you he will break
21:41
Speaker 1: your heart. He will break your heart, Jeff against Oklahoma.
21:44
Speaker 2: City, he will kill you.
21:47
Speaker 5: Better than Harden.
21:49
Speaker 2: Now they're the same, they're they're the same.
21:51
Speaker 1: Westbrook plays harder than Harden, so i'll give him that,
21:55
Speaker 1: But he's just as inefficient, he'll miss layups, he'll he'll
21:59
Speaker 1: keep shooting three points and missed most of them. That's
22:01
Speaker 1: why it was so shocking. He made shots because he's
22:03
Speaker 1: the Clippers did the same thing every other team does.
22:05
Speaker 1: Leave him wide open, and he actually made some. But
22:08
Speaker 1: it's not it's not like he's made them his entire career.
22:12
Speaker 2: He usually misses them.
22:14
Speaker 4: So no, but.
22:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, listen, je have you your team won
22:19
Speaker 1: the other Congratulations that Clippers decided.
22:21
Speaker 2: To give you the win.
22:23
Speaker 5: Where oysters?
22:26
Speaker 2: Well, again, there's no there was no wager.
22:27
Speaker 1: We know that I've already I've already eate I've already
22:31
Speaker 1: eaten Rocky Mountain oysters.
22:33
Speaker 2: I ate them. There's video I ate them. What four
22:36
Speaker 2: years ago, whatever it was four or five years.
22:38
Speaker 5: Ago, we've had this discussion.
22:40
Speaker 2: You ate jerky, and what was the jerky made them?
22:43
Speaker 3: So?
22:43
Speaker 2: What was the jerky? Testical? He was made of testicles? Okay,
22:45
Speaker 2: I ate I.
22:46
Speaker 1: Ate the jerky and it was made out of Rocky
22:50
Speaker 1: Mountain oysters.
22:52
Speaker 5: Jerky can be flavored up.
22:54
Speaker 2: It was not flavored up, sir. It was not. All right?
22:57
Speaker 2: Are you done?
22:59
Speaker 4: All right?
23:00
Speaker 1: We'll have this opression next year to you Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we'll have I know, I can't wait.
23:04
Speaker 2: Thank God. How lucky are we.
23:05
Speaker 1: Let's go to dan uh Dan is in Cleveland and
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Speaker 1: Dan is next. Hello Dan, welcome, Hey Ben, this is
23:13
Speaker 1: our said, Oh I remember you.
23:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a minute.
23:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to talk about the Cavs. Well, first
23:21
Speaker 3: I heard Fox Sport Radio talking about the shows. A
23:25
Speaker 3: commercial talking about different shows. Overnight show. This is the
23:30
Speaker 3: most entertaining show on radio period. No rivals the old
23:35
Speaker 3: Art Bell Show.
23:37
Speaker 2: Oh wow, it's very kind. Art's the legend. He Art Bell,
23:40
Speaker 2: the greatest ever to do overnight talk radios. It's very
23:42
Speaker 2: kind of.
23:43
Speaker 3: You, mister know it all here. He did a great show.
23:48
Speaker 3: The show rivals his show.
23:50
Speaker 1: There you go see look at that. It's a high
23:52
Speaker 1: praise from you.
23:54
Speaker 5: Thank you.
23:56
Speaker 2: No, he wasn't talking about you. It's teamwork, Oh does it? Teamwork?
24:01
Speaker 2: Is it? Teamwork makes the dream work? Is that the phrase?
24:03
Speaker 3: I'm just a superstar leader. It's the whole team. Anyway,
24:09
Speaker 3: I've been watching the Calves. I got tired of basketball,
24:12
Speaker 3: but since they were doing good, I gave him a shot.
24:15
Speaker 1: They sucked you back in. They sucked you back in.
24:17
Speaker 1: Our said you were thinking about moving on, but they
24:19
Speaker 1: you're back.
24:21
Speaker 3: I saw them last week or two weeks ago, six
24:25
Speaker 3: times down before the other team took the ball from
24:29
Speaker 3: the top of the key, drove to laid the ball
24:32
Speaker 3: in off the glass. No one got near them, no
24:36
Speaker 3: one touched them. What are what the hell is this? Flag? Basketball?
24:42
Speaker 2: That's how pretty much everyone plays.
24:43
Speaker 1: So it's not just the calves, it's the entire sport
24:46
Speaker 1: of basketball.
24:47
Speaker 2: That's usually how the games go.
24:48
Speaker 3: There's unbelievably boring. We had a great team here in
24:53
Speaker 3: the nineties, and of course Detroit overshadowed by being violent
24:59
Speaker 3: and aggressive. We had a bunch of passive, great basketball players,
25:05
Speaker 3: but they couldn't beat Detroit because Detroit punched them in
25:09
Speaker 3: the jaw.
25:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
25:11
Speaker 1: It is amusing though, Like there are guys around your age.
25:14
Speaker 2: They loved that the Mark Price Brad Doherty.
25:18
Speaker 1: Calves of the like the eighties in the early nineties
25:21
Speaker 1: or so like that is a romantic era.
25:26
Speaker 2: As opposed.
25:26
Speaker 1: But yet they actually won when they had Lebron But
25:29
Speaker 1: yet the love affairs were like the craig Elo Calves.
25:33
Speaker 2: Even though they didn't win.
25:34
Speaker 3: Well, they got rid of Harper because he used to
25:38
Speaker 3: go out the bars at night.
25:40
Speaker 1: They had, Yes, God forbid, if you got rid of
25:43
Speaker 1: every player in the NBA they went to bars and
25:45
Speaker 1: chased women, there'd be no one left in the NBA.
25:47
Speaker 2: There would literally be no one on the court.
25:49
Speaker 3: They had a Bible belt owner at the time, and they, Oh,
25:52
Speaker 3: we got to get rid of the sky parties at night.
25:54
Speaker 2: Well that worked out.
25:55
Speaker 3: Well, that was a big mistake. Anyway, I was gonna say, I, uh,
26:02
Speaker 3: I never mentioned this. I used to hit seventy four
26:05
Speaker 3: percent of my NFL college picks Pro picks football picks.
26:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, well what are you doing in Ohio?
26:14
Speaker 2: You should be in Vegas or something like that.
26:16
Speaker 3: Right, Well, that's a long time ago. I did it
26:19
Speaker 3: from the time I was fifteen to above forty.
26:24
Speaker 1: Oh, you should be super rich if you made If
26:25
Speaker 1: you hit seventy four percent of your picks, you should
26:28
Speaker 1: be loaded.
26:30
Speaker 3: Well, I have a house in the Florida and two
26:33
Speaker 3: up here.
26:33
Speaker 1: No, look at this guy, he's loaded. This guy's loading
26:36
Speaker 1: showing up. Look at you are, said, little flex there? Huh,
26:39
Speaker 1: do a little pirouetta on catwalk?
26:41
Speaker 2: What's that?
26:42
Speaker 3: The thing is I worked for Generous Motors, Okay, Yeah,
26:47
Speaker 3: I used to buy and sell silver and gold. And
26:50
Speaker 3: I used to drive the office.
26:52
Speaker 2: And all right, well send me an email.
26:54
Speaker 1: Give you some financial tips because I'm not getting rich
26:57
Speaker 1: doing the overnight show.
26:58
Speaker 2: I know that.
26:58
Speaker 1: All right, thank you are said, I got to Oh buddy,
27:00
Speaker 1: all right, there's the great oars, said, I han't heard
27:03
Speaker 1: from him.
27:03
Speaker 2: In a while. Random call in here. So some horsey play.
27:07
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, they had the one hundred and fifty
27:10
Speaker 1: first running of the Kentucky Derby.
27:13
Speaker 2: And how did that go?
27:16
Speaker 3: Well?
27:16
Speaker 1: It did very well, did very well, and we had
27:18
Speaker 1: the winner of the equine pick him, although she did
27:21
Speaker 1: not watch a second of the race. I was working,
27:25
Speaker 1: I sent out immediately after the race. I sent a
27:28
Speaker 1: text message. I said, wow, you found your calling here.
27:31
Speaker 2: And she was.
27:34
Speaker 1: The Raina who picked the winning horse in the Kentucky Derby.
27:38
Speaker 2: But it was Sovereignty.
27:40
Speaker 6: Great job, great job.
27:42
Speaker 2: And why did you pick sovereignry? I like the name,
27:44
Speaker 2: you liked the name? Okay?
27:45
Speaker 1: So that broadcast seventeen point seven million viewers, the most
27:49
Speaker 1: watched edition of the Kentucky Derby since nineteen eighty nine. Wow,
27:56
Speaker 1: before I was alive, nineteen eighty nine. Unbelievable.
27:59
Speaker 2: We were alive.
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Speaker 1: No, yeah, no, no way before I was left eighteen
28:05
Speaker 1: point five million back then. So the question is why
28:09
Speaker 1: all of a sudden did this thing kick major tail?
28:13
Speaker 1: Why look at listen the ratings have been pretty good
28:17
Speaker 1: and you know, around the same number, and then you
28:19
Speaker 1: have the highest rating. It wasn't like this was some
28:21
Speaker 1: magical edition of the Kentucky Derby. But they they claim
28:26
Speaker 1: the race portion of the broadcast, they just absolutely killed it.
28:31
Speaker 1: They peaked at twenty one point eight million, And to me,
28:34
Speaker 1: this is like the perfect event.
28:35
Speaker 2: That's impressive.
28:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the perfect event because it's two minutes.
28:38
Speaker 1: It's two minutes, and then it's a it's a reporter,
28:41
Speaker 1: a little reporter, little person on a horse interviewing the
28:44
Speaker 1: little person, the jockey that won the race. And that's
28:47
Speaker 1: that's it. You just get out on that. I don't
28:49
Speaker 1: think you can say little people anymore. Ben, I know
28:51
Speaker 1: I can't say the other the M word. I've been
28:54
Speaker 1: told I can't say the word. The free can say that.
28:57
Speaker 1: You go ahead say it.
28:59
Speaker 2: I'm good, you know, man man, little man, miniature man.
29:04
Speaker 1: There you go. Munchkin, right, you can do munchkin, miniature munchkin.
29:08
Speaker 1: Like what was it the Jockey seven. It is snow
29:13
Speaker 1: White and the seven Dwarfs.
29:14
Speaker 2: You could do Jockey fellow. Yeah.
29:17
Speaker 1: Anyway, So did you watch that breed? Did you watch
29:19
Speaker 1: the Kentucky Derby?
29:20
Speaker 2: You know what?
29:21
Speaker 1: I was asleep.
29:23
Speaker 2: It was late in the What are you doing? I
29:26
Speaker 2: have an overnight?
29:26
Speaker 6: I just I do it too, Okay, but I had
29:28
Speaker 6: to work at the following overnight.
29:30
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I don't take I'm an. I don't
29:32
Speaker 1: take naps.
29:33
Speaker 6: Oh you're I'm jealous of you, man.
29:35
Speaker 2: Okay, teach me your wings. Yeah.
29:37
Speaker 1: Anyway, it is the Ben Mallard Show, and we were
29:40
Speaker 1: gonna have Mallard to the third Degree by the Kentucky Derby.
29:44
Speaker 1: Massive audience, the highest ever over there. I know all
29:48
Speaker 1: my friends over at NBC are all excited about that
29:50
Speaker 1: because that is a huge deal, huge deal.
29:54
Speaker 2: Of thirty four percent from last.
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Speaker 1: Year on the streaming included in that all right, straight
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Speaker 1: at Mallard of the third Degree.
30:02
Speaker 2: Ton out for the Insta Trivia And here it is.
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Speaker 1: Golden State's Buddy Healed tied Blank for the most three
30:10
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30:13
Speaker 1: Hill at nine three pointers that tied Blank for the
30:15
Speaker 1: most three balls in a game seven.
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30:21
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Speaker 1: pay off the always popular Insta Trivia and we had
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Speaker 1: a historical shooting performance in game seven for Golden State.
31:28
Speaker 1: Buddy Heel tied blank for the most three balls in
31:32
Speaker 1: a game seven in NBA Playoff is with nine three pointers.
31:37
Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? Listen, does
31:41
Speaker 1: anyone know the answer? Count Tracula from Donkey Sausage, Brian
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Speaker 2: Who else?
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Speaker 1: Buddy Ebsen from BP Andrey Drummon or Arnold Drummond from
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Speaker 2: Who else?
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Speaker 1: Buddy Bianca Lana guess by Chip and the Cues. Hul
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32:41
Speaker 2: All right, what say you are?
32:44
Speaker 6: Uh breeze future husband Kyle Kerver.
32:48
Speaker 1: Corver, it's Corver, but no, it's a Dante Devincenzo with
32:57
Speaker 1: the Knicks last year at nine.
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Speaker 2: Here we go, Here we got oh, here we go,
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Speaker 2: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.
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Speaker 4: To the third degree.
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Speaker 1: This is Ben gets great and making a rare and appropriate,
33:11
Speaker 1: rare and appropriate appearance.
33:13
Speaker 2: Here in the producer's chair. We say hello our friend, Brie, Hi, Ben, Hello, Okay.
33:18
Speaker 6: Our report came out late last week that Lebron James
33:21
Speaker 6: suffered an MCL sprain in his left knee and the
33:23
Speaker 6: Lakers Game five loss against the tar Wolves. Ben, do
33:27
Speaker 6: you think this is actually a new injury or something
33:29
Speaker 6: fabricated as another excuse for an embarrassing first round?
33:33
Speaker 1: Actually, here's a deal, Bri. We've been around this so
33:36
Speaker 1: long enough. It's paint by numbers.
33:38
Speaker 5: Right.
33:38
Speaker 1: Lebron his team underachieves, he does not live up to expectations.
33:43
Speaker 2: That's the first part.
33:44
Speaker 1: The second part is the people around Lebron cook up
33:48
Speaker 1: some kind of bull crap excuse, whether it's the coach's
33:51
Speaker 1: fault or a teammate's fault or Lebron's got an injury.
33:54
Speaker 1: It's absolute crap ola. I don't want to hear about it.
33:58
Speaker 1: You're never, You're never. You're gonna get anywhere near Michael
34:01
Speaker 1: Jordan's level, So just stop.
34:02
Speaker 2: Next, on a.
34:03
Speaker 6: Recent podcast NFL Legend, Warren Moon says should Or Sanders
34:06
Speaker 6: needs to act like a quarterback and be more respectful. Quote,
34:09
Speaker 6: you can't act like a quarterback when you're playing quarterback.
34:12
Speaker 6: Quarterback is a humble position. You got to be respectful.
34:15
Speaker 6: That's what he has to understand. Unquote, Ben, do you
34:17
Speaker 6: think he has a point?
34:18
Speaker 1: No, because you can be a schmuck and an egomaniac.
34:21
Speaker 2: You got to be good.
34:22
Speaker 1: The problem, war Moon, what he's really saying there is
34:24
Speaker 1: should Sanders is not good? Like if you if you're
34:27
Speaker 1: going to be a marginal talent, you have to be
34:30
Speaker 1: respectful and all that stuff, and should Sanders is not
34:35
Speaker 1: is not that there are quarterbacks who are complete schmucks,
34:38
Speaker 1: but they're really really good, so it doesn't really matter.
34:40
Speaker 2: You don't have to be humble.
34:41
Speaker 1: You don't have to be humble if you're good.
34:44
Speaker 2: He's not good. That's the problem.
34:45
Speaker 6: Right Next, but the news of a head coach Greg
34:48
Speaker 6: Popovich retiring from coaching, This first hired assistant coach Mitch
34:51
Speaker 6: Johnson as their new head coach. Do you think this
34:53
Speaker 6: is the right movement instead of someone with a little
34:55
Speaker 6: bit more experience?
34:55
Speaker 2: I don't even know who. I don't even know who
34:57
Speaker 2: that is. It's I don't know who Mitch shots it is.
35:00
Speaker 2: I have no idea experience. I've never even heard of
35:03
Speaker 2: Mitch Johnson. All right, So what am I supposed to
35:05
Speaker 2: say about miss jun?
35:06
Speaker 6: Listen?
35:06
Speaker 1: One thing I do. Look at the Nuggets. They got
35:08
Speaker 1: dork Nepo coach, and they beat the Clippers in the
35:11
Speaker 1: first Nulf. It doesn't matter.
35:12
Speaker 2: These teams.
35:13
Speaker 1: It's like a self driving car. It's like a tesla
35:15
Speaker 1: that drives itself. These NBA teams right.
35:18
Speaker 2: And they is everything. They take care of it. It
35:20
Speaker 2: doesn't matter.
35:21
Speaker 1: Wemby, if he's good enough, he'll make this guy a
35:23
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame coach.
35:24
Speaker 2: There it is. How did we do as I want?
35:28
Speaker 3: You? Right?
35:29
Speaker 4: Up? Good job?
35:31
Speaker 2: Dad? Are you sure I don't sense the sincerity in that?
35:34
Speaker 2: I don't? She let you in, oh Man,