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Hour 1 - Out of Body Experience · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals Game number one, the Pacers and the Thunder,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a dinger of a finish, a surprisingly
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  Speaker 1: good game one. Even though Oklahoma City led ninety nine
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  Speaker 1: point nine percent of the game, they end up losing
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  Speaker 1: on a Tyrese Haliburton jumper who is the biggest donkey
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  Speaker 1: for SGA's thunder.
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  Speaker 2: Also, what does that game do for Halliburton?
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  Speaker 1: And what does that game do for the Pacers as
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  Speaker 1: they snatch game one while Adam Silver. Adam Silver, dismissing
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  Speaker 1: the idea of shortening the NBA season, says, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really see the benefit. What is he really saying. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about that and much more right now. Give it
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  Speaker 1: up for our number one. Something you normally only see
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  Speaker 1: in football, but it's happening right now in front of
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  Speaker 1: us in pro bouncy ball, the out of body experience,
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  Speaker 1: and we're witnessing it night in and night out. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of another night of the Ben Malor Show.
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  Speaker 1: so our lead this hour, and that's how you start
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  Speaker 1: in NBA Finals game number one right there in Oklahoma City,
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  Speaker 1: and our lead story the opening act. The curtain went
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  Speaker 1: up on the twenty twenty five Finals and as the
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  Speaker 1: Pacers were massive underdogs, how big everywhere I looked, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be a four games, gentlemen, sweep four
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  Speaker 1: game series. Pacers just can't keep up. They cannot keep up,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why they play the games. But they rolled
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  Speaker 1: into Pettycoat Junction there play date with SGA and the
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  Speaker 1: Thunder And I'm gonna assume the position you are not watching.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume the position that you maybe tuned over
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, but you weren't watching the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: So the NBA's most overrated over right it player, Tyree
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  Speaker 1: Saliburton hits down, hits now the thunderer down by a
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  Speaker 1: point he or the Pacers rather down by point Tyreuse
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  Speaker 1: Halliburton a twenty one foot jumper doagger with zero point
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  Speaker 1: three seconds left, and that gave Indiana their first and
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  Speaker 1: only lead of the game. They trailed almost all the
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  Speaker 1: way from soup to nuts, but the three point shot
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  Speaker 1: or the jump shot by Halliburton there put them up
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  Speaker 1: by one. The Pacers end up stunning, leaving Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 1: mesmerized one eleven to one ten to the final in
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  Speaker 1: game number one there of the NBA Finals, a whacky
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  Speaker 1: to backie kind of a comeback to Pacers turned the
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  Speaker 1: ball over twenty five times. You can't win the game
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  Speaker 1: if you turn the ball over twenty five times, to
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  Speaker 1: broadcaster said, trailed by fifteen points in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter, it's a pit of vipers playing
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  Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City, a team with the top home record
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  Speaker 1: in the entire sport.
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  Speaker 2: And the Pacers could not slough. They could not stop.
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  Speaker 1: SGA the MVP, who had thirty eight points to lei
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  Speaker 1: the way and None of that mattered. None of it
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  Speaker 1: mattered because Halliburton, his basket was the great eraser on
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  Speaker 1: the chalkboard there as Pascal Siakam led the Pacers with
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  Speaker 1: nineteen points. Obi Toppin I had jotted down, this is
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  Speaker 1: not a good night when I keep seeing Obi Toppin
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  Speaker 1: hit shots. But it turned out to be a good night.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna mock Obi Toppin having seventeen points, but
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  Speaker 1: in the end it worked.
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  Speaker 2: The formula worked.
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  Speaker 1: Myles Turner had fifteen and Tyreese Halliburton a very quiet
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  Speaker 1: fourteen points. Andrew Nemhart also had fourteen. So the Indiana
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  Speaker 1: Pacers now three wins away from the championship.
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  Speaker 2: In Game number two.
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  Speaker 1: Is back in Oklahoma City on Sunday night. The better
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  Speaker 1: story is in the losing locker room, so that is
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  Speaker 1: where we're going to direct our focus. That's where the
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  Speaker 1: raw emotion is. You end up losing like this, it's
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  Speaker 1: rather embarrassing. So let us discuss and we have some audio,
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  Speaker 1: little flavor flav for you.
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  Speaker 2: It'll taste of this.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Sga, the MVP of the NBA, commenting and says
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  Speaker 1: that there was a lesson learned for the thunder Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. It happened so fast. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: we got matched. He got down going right, pulled up
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  Speaker 3: from the midi and knocked down the shot. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't feel like anything crazy. He just he just
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  Speaker 3: made a play. With the time winding down, we had
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  Speaker 3: control of the game for the most part of it.
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  Speaker 3: Now it is a forty eight minute game, and they
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  Speaker 3: teach you that lesson more than anyone else in the
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  Speaker 3: league the hard way.
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  Speaker 2: Did it the hard way, but not that Tim Hardaway.
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  Speaker 1: Here's more from the MVP of the NBA, SGA, who says,
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  Speaker 1: even though it says NBA Finals and there's no other games,
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  Speaker 1: these are called island games because they are the only
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  Speaker 1: game in town in that sport.
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  Speaker 2: But SGA says his mindset is that's all the same.
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  Speaker 3: As much as we can, we just got to treat
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  Speaker 3: it like every other game, every other situation we've been in. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: we haven't been in the situation, but it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: our character has a change or what we did last time.
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  Speaker 3: It's still basketball, still the game of basketball that we
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  Speaker 3: grew up playing. The rules don't change it just because
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  Speaker 3: we're in the finals. So it's like we've been in
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  Speaker 3: a situation before and the other situation we handled it.
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  Speaker 3: We handled it well. We were better for game two.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the goal.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the goal.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about the goal.
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  Speaker 1: So it's all about well the Thunder coach Mark Dagano there,
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  Speaker 1: he talked about the fact.
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  Speaker 2: That, eh, you just you just rinse it off and
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  Speaker 2: move on.
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  Speaker 4: Take a listen in games in series, if you make
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  Speaker 4: it this are you have to endure to do that,
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  Speaker 4: and it gives you rich experiences that you can draw on.
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  Speaker 4: So the biggest experience we've had is understanding that every
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  Speaker 4: game is a new game. The most important game in
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  Speaker 4: this series is always the next one, regardless of the outcome.
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  Speaker 4: We would have liked to win tonight, but tonight was
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  Speaker 4: a starting point, not an end point. There's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of things we can improve on. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: things I'm sure Indiana thinks they can improve on. And
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  Speaker 4: now the series starts to evolve. So I would have
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  Speaker 4: liked to get the game, but you know, need to
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  Speaker 4: be a better team in game two.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's my philosophy, right, I'm the most important
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  Speaker 1: monologue is the one I'm doing right now. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about next hour. I'm certainly not thinking
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  Speaker 1: about hour three or hour four. You think I'm worried
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  Speaker 1: about the Sunday and the Monday monologue or the podcast
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  Speaker 1: I have to do later today, or maybe the podcast
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  Speaker 1: I have to do on Sunday or the Saturday pot. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm focused. I'm in the moment. I am in the
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  Speaker 1: moment right now. So let us discuss the question as
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  Speaker 1: I do the monologue right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not worried about game two. I'm worried about this game.
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  Speaker 2: So who is the biggest donkey for SGA's thunder the
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  Speaker 2: Thunder from down Under?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So my thoughts on this. They've got Brazilian
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  Speaker 1: butt Lift, Quick Trip and Netflix, and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are gonna make
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  Speaker 1: the Gobba Ghul. We're gonna make the Gobba Gool. Alright. So,
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  Speaker 1: a Oklahoma city didn't have one donkey, they didn't have
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  Speaker 1: two donkeys.
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  Speaker 2: They had a herd.
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  Speaker 1: Of donkeys from up fifteen nine forty two to go.
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  Speaker 1: You nurse that like a baby. Fifteen point lead, nine
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  Speaker 1: forty two to go. Good teams don't blow fifteen point
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  Speaker 1: leads with nine to forty two to go. So let's
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  Speaker 1: get a team wide dunchcap. These guys all like to
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  Speaker 1: take photos together when they win, right when they lose?
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  Speaker 1: Do they all stand around and stare at the camera
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  Speaker 1: and throw towels around it? Only when they win? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So the autopsy of a gag, the autopsy of a pratfall.
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  Speaker 2: This was a vaud villion vaudevillian choke job.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll mention the three stooges here, Jalen Williams, Loud Dort,
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  Speaker 1: and Chet Holmgren, the pilot and the co pilots of
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  Speaker 1: that's right, the vomit comet.
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  Speaker 2: They were right there in the cockpit on the vomit comet.
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  Speaker 1: Now, as the thunder closed the game, they were again
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  Speaker 1: up fifteen. They were outscored in the final nine minutes
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  Speaker 1: and forty two seconds thirty two to sixteen thirty two
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  Speaker 1: sixteen at home by the Pacers in the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: And how did the pilot and co pilots do well?
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  Speaker 1: Williams and Dort and also Homegren combined to go zero
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  Speaker 1: for seven. I didn't play in the NBA. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's particularly good. Oh, you're being too difficult. What's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with you, man, what's wrong with you? You're being
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  Speaker 1: a hater. Okay, Well they had two points. That's it,
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  Speaker 1: two points in the final nine to forty two barf City. Now,
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  Speaker 1: do you think I'm going to give a pass to
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  Speaker 1: SGA that he's fine? He had ten He did have
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  Speaker 1: ten of the final sixteen points for Oklahoma City. Nope,
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  Speaker 1: because he.
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  Speaker 2: Visited the brick house.
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  Speaker 1: If you watch the end of this game, Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 1: had the ball, they had the chance to put the
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  Speaker 1: game on ice. SGA took a jumper, little baby jumper
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  Speaker 1: and it was a brick house. Could have sealed the
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  Speaker 1: game right there. And then Haliburton came down.
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  Speaker 2: And said, daer.
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  Speaker 1: He said, day, of course, I'm happy about this outcome out.
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  Speaker 1: I want to I want to see Indiana win this series.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I have any skin in the game here,
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  Speaker 1: but this game one validated several of our long standing
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  Speaker 1: hypothesis on sport that stats tell you what has happened,
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  Speaker 1: not what's going to happen. Now, for reference, the thunder
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  Speaker 1: I kept eating different articles, different stories online about Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City and people's giving their opinions and the general consensus
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  Speaker 1: by people that claim to be smarter than you, and
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  Speaker 1: I is that this particular Oklahoma City team was so stacked.
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  Speaker 1: It was like they went out and they got the
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  Speaker 1: Brazilian butt lift. I mean, they were just I mean, man,
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  Speaker 1: they were in charge. They were strutting down the catwalk,
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  Speaker 1: shaking their tukas their badunka dunk, and they went out
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  Speaker 1: there a Godzilla sized favorite, Godzilla sized favorite. Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 1: thirty six and one at home with a fifteen point
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  Speaker 1: lead this season, thirty six and one when they went
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  Speaker 1: up by fifteen and you're in the NBA Finals, you.
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  Speaker 2: Had SGA your MVP home.
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  Speaker 1: Cooking, and none of it mattered. None of it mattered
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  Speaker 1: at all. Also, most games are lost, not one. You
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  Speaker 1: have to finish the race. The thunder didn't get her
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  Speaker 1: done down the stretch and they sucked any time you
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  Speaker 1: cannot suck, and so they lose. Now turning the page,
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  Speaker 1: So what does this game do for the Pacers and
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  Speaker 1: what does it do for individually? Tyrese Halliburton, as he
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  Speaker 1: was the guy playing hero ball at the end. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll start with Halliburton. Why not? So this is another
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  Speaker 1: pillar building the pillar of a legend who was the
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  Speaker 1: most overrated player, as voted by his peers, not the media,
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  Speaker 1: not the coaches, by his fellow players. They thought he
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  Speaker 1: was overrated. And now he's gone out there and he
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  Speaker 1: stopped at the quick trip. It's classic myth making, raising
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  Speaker 1: your Q score up, up, up, and you think of
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  Speaker 1: some of the great folk heroes in America. Johnny Appleseed
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  Speaker 1: comes to mind here. Now it's Tyrese the Terrible, the
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  Speaker 1: cold blooded assassin in clutch time as he has gone
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  Speaker 1: to in and out Burger and he has gotten a
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  Speaker 1: four by four. That's four game winning baskets in four
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  Speaker 1: playoffs series. Haliburton hit the game winner in the final
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  Speaker 1: one point one second of every round in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: He did it against the Doc Rivers, Bucks, the Spider,
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell Calves, the Jalen Brunson Knickerbockers, and now the SGA Thunder.
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  Speaker 1: And you take a couple of steps back. So what
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  Speaker 1: does it mean for Indiana, Well, it's no playoff series
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  Speaker 1: truly begins until the road team wins. And so okay,
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  Speaker 1: we checked that box done. And what it does is
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  Speaker 1: it puts the pendulum on and really the choke hold
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  Speaker 1: on Oklahoma City because the Pacers have now set the
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  Speaker 1: tone and all these people who were writing these wonderful
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  Speaker 1: stories just licking the toes of Oka. See, the Pacers.
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  Speaker 2: Went out there and did trail for ninety nine point.
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  Speaker 1: Nine percent of the game. But it doesn't matter. All
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  Speaker 1: you remember is the outcome of the game, and it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You don't get like half a win if
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  Speaker 1: you led most of the game. And Indian went out
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  Speaker 1: there and had a nice candlelight dinner, and they had
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  Speaker 1: the mood lighting and everything was good, good vibrations, and
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  Speaker 1: they went out there and they win the game of
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  Speaker 1: the end. All right, Now, last word to the State
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  Speaker 1: of the League address. As the NBA Finals were underway,
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Adam Silver, he represented the Lizard People, and he
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  Speaker 1: spoke to the assembled NBA media, Adam Silver making it
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  Speaker 1: clear that he has no interest, none, in taking a
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  Speaker 1: machete and shortening the eighty two game regular season, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really see the benefit. I don't really see
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  Speaker 1: the benefit, Silver said, the reducing the number of games.
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  Speaker 1: He went on to say, people used to say you
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  Speaker 1: should reduce the number of games because it will lead
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  Speaker 1: to a reduction of injuries. If that were the case,
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  Speaker 1: you'd think you'd have more injuries in April than in October.
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  Speaker 1: We don't see that. Silver continued his diatribe. He said,
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  Speaker 1: or you'd think you'd see more injuries in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: than you do in the regular season, but we don't
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  Speaker 1: see that either. Post quote. Okay, So Adam Silver just
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  Speaker 1: dismissing the idea of shortening the NBA season, saying, again,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really see the benefit. What is he really saying?
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  Speaker 1: You know what he said, but what was he really saying.
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  Speaker 1: So he's saying it does not compute. The math ain't
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  Speaker 1: mathing here. So he's talking about cold hard cash, those
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  Speaker 1: crispy new fresh hundred dollars bill, that's what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: This is all about those sweet, sweet television dollars. And
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver is like running a production company for Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: There it's an eighty.
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  Speaker 2: Two episode docu series with sneakers, load management.
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  Speaker 1: The series, it goes on and on and on. So
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  Speaker 1: if you were to take that aforementioned machete and chop chop, chop, chop,
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  Speaker 1: chop and chop away, I don't know ten games, So
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  Speaker 1: you now have ten fewer items to sell. Your inventory
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  Speaker 1: has gone down and so okay, that's fine, that's ten games.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get money from ESPN, NBC, Amazon or whatever
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  Speaker 1: the other streaming service they come up with here.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the benefit he doesn't see because it hurts what.
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  Speaker 1: The bottom line. It's all about the bottom line. You
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  Speaker 1: can do all the charity you want, you can be
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  Speaker 1: the wokest of the woke, but ultimately you're not that
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  Speaker 1: woke when you have a product and you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to cheapen the product because you want to make that money.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA regular season, in so many ways, it's like
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  Speaker 1: it's like watching c SPAN, you know, on Congress it's
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  Speaker 1: c SPAN, like, you know, it's millionaires. Most Congress people
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  Speaker 1: are millionaires, taking days off, not voting, not showing up
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  Speaker 1: to their work, you know, for month after month after month.
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  Speaker 1: And Adam Silver knows also, and this is actually something
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  Speaker 1: I truly believe in here, Adam Silver knows that you
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  Speaker 1: cannot chop chop enough games off the schedule because of
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  Speaker 1: load management. It's baked into the DNA. The players are soft.
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  Speaker 1: The players are told to be solid. They're raised that way.
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  Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter whatever the number is. You could
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  Speaker 1: shorten the season to sixty games, get rid of twenty
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  Speaker 1: two games. Snip snip. That done with twenty two games.
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  Speaker 1: So from eighty two to sixty, you could give the
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  Speaker 1: players weekly massages and acupuncture and they'd still sit out
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  Speaker 1: half of those games. They now play thirty games instead
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  Speaker 1: of right now the eighty two game schedule, the players
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  Speaker 1: play maybe you know, fifty five games or so, or
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  Speaker 1: fifty games somewhere in that area, or sixty even. But
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  Speaker 1: if it doesn't matter. You can't go low enough, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't trust the players. You can't because whatever the
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  Speaker 1: number is, even if they say, okay, you give us
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• 21:39
  Speaker 1: am I Game? It's where we pretend to be somebody else,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: as we call it, the who am I Game? A
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: lot of reaction flowing in here, and uh, ferg Dog,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog says Ben. I believe we are witnessing the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: most clutch player of all time right now in Tyre's Halliburton, Clutcher,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: then Steph Clutcher, then Lebarbie and far Clutcher than Kobe,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: who was lucky to even draw iron on his many
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: failed game winning attempts. But the gold standard had been
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: had absolutely been Robert or from that generation. I think
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: already Tyrese Haliburton, He's only played a couple of years
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, He's already more clutch than Lebron James.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know anyone that would disagree with that. Lebron
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: is the least clutch player in terms of a player
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: that's considered an all time great. Has Lebron had four
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: game winning baskets in the final one point one seconds?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: He's played in a thousand playoff games, it seems, over
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: his career, and Tyrese Haliburton has already done it. And
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the thing about Lebron is he would often not shoot
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the ball if the shot.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Was going to end the game, meaning if the.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Shot would would tie the game or they were over,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the game was tied, he didn't mind shooting him.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah you And then if the game it was a case.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Where the team he was playing for, Cleveland or whatever's
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: down by one. He didn't really like shooting it in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: that situation and very rarely made it, very rarely made
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: it in that situation. Fred in Nebraska rights and he says, Man,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I won't pay the money to watch an NBA game
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: on cable or streaming because it just isn't worth the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: massive amount they want. And you can't get ESPN streaming
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: online unless you also subscribe to a cable TV service
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that includes their channel, which I don't. He says, he's
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: rambling here, Fred, And besides, all I need to do
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: is look at the box score on the interweb. It's
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: updated with every basket. That's all I need. If I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: am even interested in that, Well, you're good to go.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: You don't need you find Fred, don't worry about it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Shane in de Moin rites since says ten point zero
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: on the opening Mallard monologue. Then he says, Edmonton will
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: choke this away this series. I'm glad that you said
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: ten point zero on a basketball monologue. To give a
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: hockey take, Thank you, King, Rory writes In says, this
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: is the fourth time in the Pacers playoff run to
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: overcome astronomical odds to win a game. King Roy says,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: something smells fishy and it ain't blind Scott, there is
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: more to this, either Indiana using some black magic, which
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I find highly unlikely, or more likely, the NBA is
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: rigging these games. Time out, King Roy. First of all,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: let's look at this objectively. How would one rig a
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: game this way? It's one thing to rig a game
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: where the officials. That has happened, right, Tim, Donnie, I
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: believe other games have been thrown Scott Foster, my opinion gains.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Sue me. To my opinion, there's some funny business going
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: on with that guy that said though, okay, if you're
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: just gonna have a lopsided foul situation or get certain
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: players in foul trouble, that's how you can rig a game.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: In terms of this, what do you put a magnet
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: in the basketball?
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Is that?
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: How deep you want to go?
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: King Roy? He's like, page two is all right, Halliburton's
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: been making these shots. So is there some kind of
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: magnetic field that drives the basketball through the net with
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: one point one seconds to go? Is that how that's
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: gonna work? Tony writes and says Oklahoma City and SGA
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: choking looking like Lebron James in a big game. Absolutely correct, Tony,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: good take by you. Truck Stop Fungus writes in says
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: both the NBA and the NHL need to shorten the season.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Well that's a hot take from truck stop Fungus. He says,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: it's June, for Chripe's sake. Where is their ice? Well,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: you'd have to go very far north. And I was
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: watching the Stanley Cup final game the other day and
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: according to the ratings, I was the only one and
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: it looked like beautiful weather in Edmonton. No no snow.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Although when I was in Vancouver last week I did
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: see on the mountains above Vancouver there was snow.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: So take that, truck stop Fungus. You gotta go to.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Vancouver, there's snow. Josh writes in The Long Suffering Bears
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Fan who lives in Nebraska. He says, I didn't watch
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the NBA finals. I watched a regular season Cubs win
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: over the Nationals. Go Cubbies, go there you go, he says,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: But then we have Aaron Rodgers News. Yeah, we will
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: get to that. It's a four hour talk show. It's
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: not a one hour show. It's not a thirty minute podcast.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: It's a four hour show. Nature Boy writes in, says,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: great on manly monologue, when Halliburton had the ball down
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: by one, you could see Oklahoma City fans mouthing Oh
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Sward like a ship. Loved it, loved it, said the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: nature Boy. Nancy writes in says, who didn't know Rogers
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: was going to Pittsburgh? Purposely misspelled? I cannot believe I
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: used to like that guy, but he really is a
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: nut job or a huge ego.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: Well, who's the woman.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Her name's Nancy. That's her name, and here's the Nancy.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: If you can't support athletes that have huge egos, you
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: might as well not watch sports because they all have
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: huge egos, all of them, every single one. I'll tell
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you somebody. They didn't think Aaron Rodgers is gonna go
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh. Angry Bill, that's who. Now. I don't know
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: what's going on with him. He hasn't called in a while.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe he's sick or something like that, or he just retired.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I have no idea, but he's he called up, and
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Ah Rogers is not going to Pittsburgh and all that,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and another bad take by Angry Bill. He's had so
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: many it's hard to keep track of them all. It's
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: very difficult to keep up with that. Spox Weed rights
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: in from the Oregon Trail. He says, I can feel
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: it coming in the air tonight. Oh lord, the one,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the only, the Vomit comet shining brightly and beautifully over
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the skies of Oklahoma City, lit up the sky for
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: nine minutes and forty two seconds, fifteen point lead gone.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Even Slim Tim the proud cheese head, It's like, wow,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that was bad. And he set up for the all
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: night party, absolutely all night party, no question about it.
• 28:07
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• 28:10
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• 28:14
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• 28:18
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• 28:33
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• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Here it is the tire Iraq Play of the night.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Rebound Indiana eight seconds to go.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: The pacers are not going to call the time out.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Caddleburton has it with three driving, with two pulling up
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: the head.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Heading with three tenths of a.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Second to go.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: How many more times can this team do that?
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Soweets baby, Well, they only have to do it three
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: more times? And how come he didn't say dagger? I
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: would have said dagger.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: That was a dagger.
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• 29:31
  Speaker 1: The Pacers radio on the call to Tyreese Halliburton turned
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: out to be the game when he shot. It was
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: point three seconds left and he nailed it absolutely. Mister
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Irrigation writes in from deep in the heart of Texas
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: in Houston. He says, so the NBA has started using magnets.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Sounds like they took a page out of the NFL.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: And then he says the NFL is rigged. That's that's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: his claim. It's a hot take. There a lot of
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: we got a lot. No, we got a lot of Listen,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not beyond thinking some of this stuff might be true.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not. Uh, let's go to the phones and let's
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: say Hello, Let's go to John, who's in Sacramento, and
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: that is a town Tyrese Haliburton used to play in
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and they got rid of him.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Hello, John, welcome.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Hey, we come on, man, it's Jeff.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: You can come to King Dingling.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: If you want whatever. Okay, all right, joh just throw
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: up five.
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: And they got the beamlet for Haliburton.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Oh they did. Is that right? They celebrated their incompetence.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Is that right? Jeff? Jeff? Are they gonna if the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Pacers do end up winning this, which I you know,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: still a long shot. But if they win the series,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: will Halliburton be brought back? Like if I was doing
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: one of the local sports radio shows, I would invite
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Haliburton back.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: And have like a Tyrese Haliburton Day.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I'd give him like the key to Sacramento, have a
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: parade through downtown right by the capitol there. They got
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: to bring him back if they win, come on to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: celebrate Haliburton. So why not?
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: Why not?
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: We have a who's another guy that played in the NBA,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the mayor of secondmun He was he's got a day too,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Oh did he? I don't know, I know who you're
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: talking about.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: But yeah, going back real quick daunts with the guy
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: that we were going to pick up in the draft
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: but we end up picking vaguely dead.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh he's you know, he's a good he's a
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: good teammate, you know, vaguely can't play.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: But is he even in the NBA anymore?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I don't like it, so I don't I don't recall.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, if he is, he's a backup, he's not playing,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: he's not a Oh he.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: Doesn't play for Second Mount, so probably not.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well exactly, all right, Well, thank you, Jeff. They
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: lit the beam up corning, Jeff. I think he's kidding,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: but I don't think he's celebrate. Yes, I don't think
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you want to promote that, just you know whatever. Let's
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: go to Andre. We haven't heard him Andre in a while.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: He's in the Commonwealth. He's gonna break it down. Got
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the x's and o's out, and he's gonna get the
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the then diagram. Hello Andre in the Commonwealth. It's been
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: a minute.
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been too long, Ben, and certainly as the
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: school year winds down, I'm looking forward to getting back
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: to my regular attendance and duties as a private in
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: the mal In Militia. Okay, we got under ten days
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: left here in the Commonwealth. The bright you know, the
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: weather is improving, sun is shining, so cross the t's
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: and got in the eyes. But I'm looking forward to
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: getting to getting back to duty here. Listen, in terms
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: of x's and o's, in this game, we saw Oklahoma
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: City had the game in hand. Indiana having real problems
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: with the perimeter defense that Okat can throw at them, right,
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: coach going small, putting shed at the five, you know,
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: and those wing defenders Cassan Wallace lou Dort really had
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: Indiana in hand. The bottom line is I had this
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: series going seven. I got no problem, you know. Okay, See,
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: you know it's not the sky is falling because they
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: were the better team, just like my New York Knicks
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: were the better team in Game one of the Conference finals.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: You know, before you know, he Halliburton, you know, with
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: that sky shot that he hit. But Indiana encouraging to
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: see Rick Carlisle his leadership. What I'm getting at is
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: he just has guys coming off the bench that is
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: just and that can do different things. McConnell attacking the basket,
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: Obe topping with the threes, Nie Smith with the three
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: they score even though they might not be talents of pounds,
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: talented and kind of you know, put fear in your heart.
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: Rick Carlisle has been and continues to be an elite coach,
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: and he has really you know, all this stuff about
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: tips and how I'm not gonna get into it, you know,
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: how he was unfairly treated, so on and forth. But
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: Rick Carlisle has a number a lot of different ways
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: that he can attack teams with people coming off the bench.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: And you you know, it's not anything in conclusion. If
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: guy's gonna come off the bench, Nie smiths tough and
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: and you know, Miles Miles Turner hit a couple threes,
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: you know, and hit those driving kick threes. There's really
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: no defense against that if the team is going to
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: make them. So bottom line, Calliburton who was supposed to
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: be overrated, right his fellow peers you know, had a
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: problem with him. Uh And so I think that narratives
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: you're gonna have to go the way to the Dodo Bird.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: You know, after what we've we've seen in this playoffs,
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: win or lose, but this bad boy's going seven. Uh
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: just you know, like how the game?
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, somebody, somebody though, had a Somebody sent me a message.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this right now because I have to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: find it. It was I thought it was a great take.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: It was who had it here? I think it was
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Uh William William wrote it. He said, Tyrese Halliburton is
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: doing the NBA version of an Eli Manning playoff run,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: which you know, that's that's a solid take. I'd give
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: that an eight out of ten as a solid take
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: by William. It's a good job by you. As far
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: as the better team, one thing I have learned from
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: being a degenerate gambler over the years is that the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: better team does not always win.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: In fact, how often do we get upsets?
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: So there was a study done in the English Premier
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: League and they tracked you know, and there's talent gaps.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not a not a soccer guy. Our buddy Nico
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: is a big soccer guy and he listens to the show.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: But the English Premier League they did a study a
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago They said, underdogs win about twenty
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: to twenty five percent of the time in matches despite
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: clearly a universally agreed upon mismatch and talent. If you
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: look at a depth chart on a computer or a tablet, whatever,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: they're outmatched. But yet there are upsets twenty to twenty
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: five percent of the time. Now, why is that? Injuries?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: People don't show up to work. You know, you're thinking
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: about I gotta buy milk after the after the game,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: or whatever, my dog's sick, you know, whatever that might be.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: And you're not the team. The better team's not there,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and so there is unpredictability. And that's why you watch
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: the games. Now, once we get robots, once saw these sports.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Just put robots out there, then I guess there will
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