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  Speaker 1: me so our lead. This hour is from the Hoosier
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  Speaker 1: State That was the stage for Game three of the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals. Once a generation the Pacers play in the finals,
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  Speaker 1: and I was there the last time many years ago
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  Speaker 1: they played in the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 4: But they were back home. Game there.
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  Speaker 1: Jay yogis Alexander leading the Thunder into Indianapolis for a
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  Speaker 1: battle with Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers. Where are you watching?
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  Speaker 1: Of course you were not watching based on the ratings crickets,
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  Speaker 1: but don't worry. We watched so you would not have
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  Speaker 1: to the life of a mensch. Are good mitzvah of
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  Speaker 1: the day, And it was a secondary actor that took over.
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  Speaker 1: Benedict Mathern twenty seven points off the bench. The Dagger
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven points off the bench, played well in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Tyrese Halliburton had twenty two and eleven nine
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  Speaker 1: rebounds and a partridge in a paar tree and the
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  Speaker 1: upstart Pacers, who were given less than a ten percent
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  Speaker 1: chance of winning this series. Well, right now, they're in
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  Speaker 1: good shape as they retook the lead in the NBA
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  Speaker 1: Finals slithering pass the thunder by nine in Game three
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night. As now Indiana two wins away from
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  Speaker 1: having a parade, two wins away from a championship, and
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  Speaker 1: one of the great players on this show, a man
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  Speaker 1: that has been immortalized by our friend Marcel and Brooklyn
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  Speaker 1: Pascal Siakam got to make sure I say that right.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty one points for Indiana. So the Pacers who lost
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  Speaker 1: Game two and a route or root a non competitive
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  Speaker 1: Game two, and then had about seven weeks off, they
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  Speaker 1: come back, they will get to win. So they improve
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  Speaker 1: now to ten and oh ten and oh since mid
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  Speaker 1: March in the game following a loss. So if they
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  Speaker 1: just do that, if they just win every other game
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  Speaker 1: since they won Game one using malor math, they are
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  Speaker 1: going to be crowned the champions of the NBA. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Game four, shockingly will be played on Friday night. I
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  Speaker 1: hope the players can deal with that having only one
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  Speaker 1: day off between the games. With The better story is
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  Speaker 1: where have I trained you like Pavlov's dogs? Yes, the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room. So let us discuss the question who
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  Speaker 1: wears the shame bell? For SGA's OKC team that.
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  Speaker 4: Did have a small lead, a small lead.
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  Speaker 1: Going to the fourth quarter, and they blew it a
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  Speaker 1: five point lead going to the fourth quarter, and they
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  Speaker 1: were outplayed by a wide margin by Indiana in Game
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  Speaker 1: three of the finals. So who wears the shame bell?
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  Speaker 1: I've got house keys, booster, and lecture, 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 cotton candy because that's what I saw from
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City in the fourth quarter. They played like cotton candy.
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  Speaker 4: In terms of the shame bell.
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  Speaker 1: And there's one thing we love in overnight sports radio
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  Speaker 1: is pointing the finger and giving the shame bell. The
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  Speaker 1: head of the snake is the problem here.
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  Speaker 4: Where have you gone?
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  Speaker 1: SGA? A thunder nation, whatever that means, turns his lonely
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  Speaker 1: eyes to you, as Shay it was right there. We'd
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  Speaker 1: like to say on this show, when you play bad
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  Speaker 1: in a big game in a key moment, you've written
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  Speaker 1: the vomit comet and there he was. He disappeared. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like when you're when you're looking to leave
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  Speaker 1: the house and you forgot where you put the keys,
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  Speaker 1: and you're kind of digging around the junk drawer and
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  Speaker 1: you can't find the house keys that you know they're
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  Speaker 1: in the drunk the drunk drawer, the junk drawer, and
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  Speaker 1: you can't find them. Right, You're like, what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: How bad was he? All right, I'll answer the question.
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  Speaker 1: So okase mentioned they had they had a small lead,
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  Speaker 1: a bite sized lead going to the fourth quarter. Now
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  Speaker 1: we know that that's not that big an advanced five points.
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  Speaker 4: However, you are the MVP.
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  Speaker 1: You have been compared in columns, online posts, glowing reports
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  Speaker 1: from fun boys. You have been compared to Michael George
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  Speaker 1: and Kobe Bryant. Yes, I know it's ridiculous, but you
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  Speaker 1: have it. Yeah, this good player, but it seems a
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  Speaker 1: little much. So anyway, what did SGA do to add
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  Speaker 1: another chapter to his book of legends?
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  Speaker 4: Don't ask.
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  Speaker 1: He grabbed a pillow and a blankie and he took
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  Speaker 1: a nap.
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  Speaker 4: Shay's fingerprints were all over this one.
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  Speaker 1: He had a very ugly stat line as Shae Jogis
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  Speaker 1: Alexander three points, one rebound and had as many assists
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  Speaker 1: as you and I had none and one turnover in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. He was not the player that he
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  Speaker 1: had been getting the calls, getting the separation, the everything
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  Speaker 1: was a little off, and that became problematic as Indiana
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  Speaker 1: was able to take advantage there in the Pacers get
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  Speaker 1: her done. And let's hear from the man of the
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  Speaker 1: hour SGA here pointing out that, hey, the other guys
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  Speaker 1: over there, they were scratching and clawing a bit.
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  Speaker 4: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they were aggressive, they were hiring the pick and rolls.
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  Speaker 5: They really were just like Courts said, more aggressive, more forceful.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we gotta starts with me, but we gotta apply
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  Speaker 5: that pressure back.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're you're the MVP, a three hundred million dollar guy,
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  Speaker 1: you're all that.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, you gotta get it done.
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  Speaker 1: All right? Well, what about game number four? That's the
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  Speaker 1: next game here? Do you have any thoughts on that
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to share with the class.
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  Speaker 5: It felt like they won all the fifty to fifty plays.
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  Speaker 5: They executed on both of the both ends.
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  Speaker 1: Of the ball.
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  Speaker 5: You're still going when you give those two things up,
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  Speaker 5: and no matter what quarter, you're probably gonna lose the quarter,
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  Speaker 5: especially and then it goes back to especially on the
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  Speaker 5: road in the hostile environment and their crowds behind them.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, we got to take care of those things.
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  Speaker 5: If you want to come out a game forward a.
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  Speaker 1: Dub okay with the dub All right, very nice, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So here we go again. He sucked at a time
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  Speaker 1: you cannot suck, and you can't do that in the
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  Speaker 1: finals and all that stuff. This is a legacy situation
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  Speaker 1: and he was a bird without wings, unable to take
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  Speaker 1: off there in the fourth quarter. But in general, Oklahoma City,
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  Speaker 1: as was mentioned here, it was just out hustled. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to be an NBA coach or some kind
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  Speaker 1: of high falutin insider to know. You just have to
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  Speaker 1: be able to know ball.
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  Speaker 4: We know ball.
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  Speaker 1: Do we not know ball? Come on, we know ball.
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  Speaker 1: We are experts at ball. So in general, Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 1: was just bad all the way around. Late in the game,
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  Speaker 1: but thanks to Indiana backup. As we mentioned the star
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  Speaker 1: of the show Benedict Mathern. The math was math in
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  Speaker 1: there twenty seven points. The Thunder outscored by thirty one points.
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  Speaker 1: I believe if my math is correct, it was twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: It was a lot.
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  Speaker 4: It was a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was thirty one. Anyway, it was like
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  Speaker 1: a lot of bench points, most of it from Mathron.
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  Speaker 1: A huge advantage there in the bench point, it was
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  Speaker 1: forty nine to eighteen. Now page two, So let's go
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  Speaker 1: to the winning locker room, which is not as good
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  Speaker 1: as story, but we'll go there anyway. So you have
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  Speaker 1: a two to one lead in the NBA Finals. You've
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  Speaker 1: got home court advantage. If you just win the home games,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to win the championship. So dude, Tyrese Haliburton
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  Speaker 1: and the Indiana Pacers have a stranglehold on the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: So if you look at the comps on this, they
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  Speaker 1: are a hitter batting eight hundred at this point. The
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  Speaker 1: comps say, the analytics say, you are an eight hundred hitter.
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  Speaker 1: You're not Tony Gwyn, You're not Ty Cobb. You're an
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred hitter. That's Beer League Softball history says the
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  Speaker 1: Pacers are in control. In the forty one previous NBA
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  Speaker 1: Finals that were tied at a game apiece, the team
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  Speaker 1: that won Game three got to get that shiny hunk
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  Speaker 1: of metal thirty three times. That's an eighty percent winning
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  Speaker 1: clip eighty point five percent. So clear advantage to the Pacers.
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  Speaker 1: But as we often point out, what do we say
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  Speaker 1: here the disclaimer? As the great Dick Stockton, legendary sportscaster
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  Speaker 1: taught me, He said, ben stats tell you what has happened,
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  Speaker 1: not what's going to happen. This is clearly a booster
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  Speaker 1: shot for Indiana, and unlike some of those booster shots
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  Speaker 1: we had to take a few years ago, these actually work.
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  Speaker 1: So can Benedict Mathern bottle this up and do it again?
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  Speaker 4: Does he even have to do that again?
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  Speaker 1: It is a game Indiana won with Tyrese Haliburton, who
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  Speaker 1: is known as the closer, and he was not the
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  Speaker 1: closer in terms of big shots fourth quarter. He was
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  Speaker 1: one of four down the stretch in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: and had just three points.
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  Speaker 4: So this is an.
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  Speaker 1: Exhale situation for Indiana and they're in good, good shape.
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  Speaker 4: But are they really?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't lose it home, So it's like
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  Speaker 1: you gotta win these home games. If you just merely
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  Speaker 1: win the home games, you don't have to win another
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  Speaker 1: game in Oklahoma City, you don't have to worry about
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  Speaker 1: that where SGA seems to get every call now, last word,
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of people in the NBA that
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  Speaker 1: are freaking out. They're running around trying to put out
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  Speaker 1: fires here because no one's watching the finals in comparison
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  Speaker 1: to years gone by, it's just a bad product. People
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  Speaker 1: aren't into it, and the people have spoken, and so
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  Speaker 1: everyone's trying to come up with rationale. Adam Silver has
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  Speaker 1: pulled seven muscles trying to manipulate the numbers. We Lebron
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  Speaker 1: James has entered the chat. Of course, Lebron, you know
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  Speaker 1: who he's blaming for the lack of an audience for
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 4: Did you see this?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 4: All right, Lebron James is blaming the media.
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  Speaker 1: It's the media's fault, the lack of emotion, the lack
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  Speaker 1: of interest by Joe Schmoe, Joe sixpack doesn't care. The
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  Speaker 1: Hoy PELOI is not watching the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron says that the media is not telling enough stories
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  Speaker 1: and they're not doing their homework. He says they're failing
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  Speaker 1: the fans. Is he right? All right? So let me
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  Speaker 1: begin with this. This is a the word I will
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  Speaker 1: use is ridiculous. Capital r capital are ridiculous. The basketball
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  Speaker 1: media are a bunch of lightweights. They are not the problem. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they are not the problem. The Thunder and Pacers. The
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  Speaker 1: Thunder in particular a great team right regular season, great
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  Speaker 1: team and all that they tried to win the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: The Pacers ever since, like January, played very well. The
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  Speaker 1: issue is they don't have star power. And that's the
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  Speaker 1: secret ingredient, which is not so secret that people search
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  Speaker 1: out the casuals.
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  Speaker 4: That's what they look for.
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  Speaker 1: And usually you have at least one headliner in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA finals, whether it's Steph Curry or Lebron who people
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  Speaker 1: love to hate. So you don't have that. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have curR, you don't have Lebron, you don't have an audience.
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  Speaker 1: And the media, the evil media. I have read a
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  Speaker 1: number of glowing think pieces, stories about the magic of
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  Speaker 1: Shay Jogis Alexander and the mythical superpowers of Tyresse Halliburton. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: those guys don't make the public tingles. Not my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: it's a fact. Okay, sorry, not sorry. It's nice of
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  Speaker 1: media expert Lebron James to lecture the rank and file
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  Speaker 1: on storytelling. This is classic Lebron. Is This not perfect
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  Speaker 1: for Lebron. He's always got to control the narrative and
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  Speaker 1: make everything about him. Now, I have done a TV
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  Speaker 1: show the last couple of years with a guy who
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  Speaker 1: does that too, makes everything about him, and I hate
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  Speaker 1: people like that. What are the basketball media types supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do if the public doesn't are they gonna force
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  Speaker 1: them to care? Where are they gonna make a cooking
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  Speaker 1: documentary with Pascal Siakam cooking his favorite dish, pasta prima era, Like?
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  Speaker 1: What are they gonna a deep dive on Tyreese Halliburn.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he collects Pokemon cards or not,
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  Speaker 1: but it looks like he might be the guy that
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  Speaker 1: collects Pokemon cards.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not judging.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying there's no amount of storytelling, none that
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  Speaker 1: can replace star power, and that is the real issue.
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  Speaker 4: You're starting out.
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  Speaker 1: It's like starting a race and you're behind by a
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  Speaker 1: couple of lengths at the race because the market size
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  Speaker 1: the big metropolis is where you have enough people that
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  Speaker 1: do care and are passionate, and then the other people,
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  Speaker 1: some of them a percentage of those people, well we
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  Speaker 1: a communal thing. And even if that same effect happens
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  Speaker 1: in a place like Oklahoma City or Indianapolis, the size
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  Speaker 1: thing is the issue. That's the that's the rubs, as
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  Speaker 1: As the Pacers and Thunder play a Barnberger in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals and Indiana winning that game. Thanks getting wacky
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  Speaker 1: for the team that the Pacers beat in the Eastern
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  Speaker 1: Conference Finals. Now, if you have not heard, perhaps not,
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  Speaker 1: the New York Knicks have now been denied permission to
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  Speaker 1: speak with Chicago Bulls head coach Billy Donovan about the
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  Speaker 1: head coaching job in Gotham. And if that sounds familiar
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  Speaker 1: it should we have learned now the Knickerbockers have been
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  Speaker 1: rejected by everyone.
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  Speaker 4: By everyone.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the coaches include Jason Kidd, Chris Finch, Quinn
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  Speaker 1: Snyder in Atlanta, Billy Donovan, as we mentioned, emy Udoka,
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  Speaker 1: They've all said we want no part in that. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I even rejected the Knicks. They contacted me. They said, no,
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  Speaker 1: my brother lives there. I don't want to live there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question, what have we learned
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  Speaker 1: about the New York Knicks with this episode playing out
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  Speaker 1: the last forty eight hours, that they have been turned
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  Speaker 1: down by everyone since they made the coaching change.
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  Speaker 4: What have we learned about the Knicks?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got fun zone, bonfire and supply chain shortage,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 4: A couple slices of bread.
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  Speaker 1: There, all right, So numb Burrow, I said, numb Burrow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what we have learned about the Knicks since the coaching
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  Speaker 1: change that the move to fire Tom Thibodeau was a
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  Speaker 1: knee jerk reaction as we anticipated it was at the
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  Speaker 1: time by James Dolan. This was owner rage, embarrassed by
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  Speaker 1: losing to the upstart Pacers. So he's get the cooling
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  Speaker 1: off period, the Knickerbocker owner and sent Tom Thibodeau to
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  Speaker 1: the coaching electric chair and said, begon, Tims, begon. Now
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: this was not supposed to happen. This was not part
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: of that. How do we know that? In the big
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: industrial complex of professional sports, the way it works is
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and it also works like this in radio. When you
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: get rid of someone, you already have the replacement ready
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to go. It's all semantics. You already have the person
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: to replace the coach ready to go. It never works
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: this way. It's not supposed to work this way. And
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: now James Dolan, the owner of the New York Knickerbockers,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: finds himself in a fund zone called the Puzzling World.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Now this amusement park, come one, come all fun for
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: all ages. Only one ride. Though the ride is amazed.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: You're stuck in a maze. There is no exit, just
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to some twists and turns and a whole lot of confusion.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: That is the Puzzling World, the fund zone of the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: New York Knickerbockers. How many coaching rejections does it take
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: for the Knicks franchise to get the message that they
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: are painfully out of touch and it's not a great
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: job and people don't want to go there because if
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: you are keeping score at home or at work, or
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: wherever you might be, they have now been told no
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: by Jason Kidd of the Mavericks, Chris Finch in Minnesota,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Quinn Snyder in Atlanta, Billy Donovan in Chicago, and e
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: May Udoka in Houston. That is the big five, a
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: five pack of denials, a five piece nugget, five doors
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: slam shut, thanks but no thanks. Now, I did some
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Mallard back of the napkin math. I believe I'm right
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: on this. So let's do it out. We'll do the algebra,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: we'll play it out right now. So if you take
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: away the Suns, the Grizzlies, and the Nuggets, who all
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: just hired coaches, so why would they let their coach leave?
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: The Sons, the Grizzlies, and Nuggets just hired their coaches,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: you'd also take away the Pacers and Thunder because their
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: coaches are in the NBA Finals. You then of course
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: take the Knicks off because they're the team looking for
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the coach.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: So there's thirty teams originally in the NBA.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So I just eliminated by my math there, I eliminated
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the Sons, the Grizzlies, and the Nuggets. That's three, the
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Pacers in Thunder that's five, and then I also eliminated
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the Knicks, so that's six. So there's twenty four other
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: teams available, and the math is like twenty percent. Twenty
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: percent of the available coaches have rejected rejected the Knickerbockers,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and so the Knicks. It's like an old school telemarketing thing.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: The Knickerbockers are now so clueless they are cold calling coaches.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: It's like, hello, Jason Kidd. Yeah, hey Jay, Jason, Yeah,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: this is James Dolan, owner of the New York Knicks.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: How you doing today? Okay, good? How's the family?
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Hey, if I could show you a way to coach
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers at the Mecca, would you be interested in
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: learning more about the Knicks coaching job?
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Click? Yeah, that's what it's like.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: The Knicks fancy themselves as a world class destination, right.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Premiere franchise big city, r most famous arena, world's most
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: famous arena. However, five of the successful coaches, some of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: them are even not that successful, have said no, and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: make no mistake, Well, the teams have denied it, and
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the Knicks will say, well, the teams didn't want the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: coaches go. Knowing the way this works, if Jason kids like,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I don't want to coach the Mavericks, I want to
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: coach the Knicks, the Mavericks will say, Okay, we don't
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: want to coach that doesn't want to be here, so
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: we'll work something out with the Knicks. It's on the coach.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: If the coach does not want the job, that's fine.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: But if the coach one of these guys, the five
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Emai Udoka, I don't know why he'd want the job,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: but he's in Houston. They got a young team that's
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: on the comm as. They in gambling, and so he's like, hey,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: maybe I want to go to New York. I got
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you know, some actress I want to hook up with there. Whatever.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know. So he said, okay, well the Rockets
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: will work out of trade. But he didn't want to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: do that.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: So here we are.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Here we are No. No, interest in the franchise has
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: been a factory of dysfunction for decades. And the Knicks
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: walk around like they've got all this machiesem and they've
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: got all this pull and yet they just bathe in
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: dirty water.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Those dirty water dogs, that's what they bathed.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the team's rejecting them, and the next thing, they
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: must show up to these meetings with like a dunce
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: cap on. At this point, right, he just laughed at
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: laughed out of the room.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Every single time.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Not one of these coaches wanted the number one media
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: market in America. They all said I'm good. Embarrassing, capitally
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: capitally embarrassing. And see James Dolan being rejected more than
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a college applicant fresh out of college who sent their
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: their resume around. They're applied for jobs and they misspelled
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: their own name on the application. Right, He's like, well,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: that's that person's probably not a person to hire. And
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: now now they're searching at the discount rack. They can
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: hire some cheap upstart assistant coach you've never heard of.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: And the Knicks, if you're a championship contender, you don't
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: normally hire a starter coach. And the available coaches. You
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: have to go now to unemployed coaches. Michael Malone of
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the Nuggets, late of the Nuggets, Taylor Jenkins, he's out there.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Frank Vogel, who's coached a bunch of teams.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: He's a vagabond coach. And so the knickser is like, well,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: we got to fake it till we make it. At
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: this point, now, speaking of the Knicks and former Nick coaches,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: page number two here, as we move on, former Nick
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: coach Tom Tibbet taking a full page ad out in
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the New York Times the Old Gray Lady to thank
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: the fans. So, how does that one hit you? TIBs
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: taking out a full page ad? How does that one
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: hit you? So it hits me like a bonfire, a
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: full page ad. And then I was like, well, maybe
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: maybe I'm in like some kind of parallel dimension and
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I'm going back in time. I said, is it really
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five?
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: No?
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: No, I can't be.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five, Like, no, no, it's nineteen ninety seven.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: You wake up, you grab your cup of coffee, you
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: flip through the newspaper. It's got to be the year
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven. It can't be twenty twenty five, and
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: then I was like, well, no, it's twenty twenty five.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: You talk about having a beachside bonfire with Chris banknotes.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: If you're Tom Thibodeau, let's do some malor math on this.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: So full page ad New York Times at least one
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I don't think I'm wrong
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: on that, at least one hundred fifty thousand dollars, probably more,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: probably more. I'm probably I'm I'm probably going low. And
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: for what a one page ad with a photo to
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: say thank you a update. Hey, Tommy, coach Tibbs, you
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: could have just sent that out on social media and
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: saved yourself one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I know
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: you're rich and James Dolan's gonna pay you a bunch
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: of money out may you Still you could have recorded
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: a thirty second video and posted it on Instagram. It's
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: been great, Thanks, it's been fun, But I gotta run.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: But no, no, no, no, no.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: TIBs had that old school Now I'm a dinosaur.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I'm an old head, as the kid say, and he
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: wanted to make sure every one of those woke retirees
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: in New York and across the country that read the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: New York Times. They saw his heart felt farewell right
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: while reading what the stock market? And then they read
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the obits see who died? Good luck, good luck on that.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I get the classy move coach Tibbs way
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: to go. And that's one of those things that should
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: be completely gone, but is not. The full page newspaper
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: ad when a star player gets traded or a coach
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: loses his job, and for some odd reason it continues.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: It's very bizarre. It's very bizarre.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: But if you're actually honest, complete waste of money, complete
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: waste of money, should have spent that money on overnight
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: talk radio advertising.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: That would have been a better use of that money.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: All right, now, final point, So Adam Silver, the Lizard
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: person commissioner of the NBA.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: My opinion, So Adam Silver Royalty.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: He did an interview this week, He did a bunch
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: of interviews, but he said that that ESPN has always
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: been more hardcore basketball than TNT. Now the implication that
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: that is a positive thing. Like the way that I
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: interpreted what Silver said was that, hey, that's a good thing.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: They're hardcore basketball. And TNT is no longer going to
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: be in business with the NBA, but they were more
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a bunch of goofs. Do you agree or disagree with
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the premise of Adam Silver that it's actually a good
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: thing to be more hardcore basketball as opposed to the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: coverage that TNT provided. So my thought on this, I
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: wrote down one word here and I wrote down the word.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: It starts with an M capitol M malarkey. This is malarkey.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: ESPN's coverage blows. I can't watch the Finals with the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: audio up ninety percent of the time because of Doris Burke.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: She's unlistenable. I can't watch the halftime because it's terrible.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: TNT wiped the floor with ESPN when it comes to
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: basketball coverage. And the reason why is the very thing
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: that Adam Silver referenced as a positive for them at
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: ESPN as opposed to TNT. And the issue is this,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. There's a supply chain shortage of
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: hardcore basketball fans.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: And Adam Silver is learning.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: That as the NBA Finals go on and fewer and
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: fewer and fewer people are watching every one of these games,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: he's learning that the hardcore basketball fan might exist in
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: corners of social media. Yeah, with all due respect, I
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: think some of that's just bots and a lot of
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: fake accounts. There are some people I've talked to them
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: who are hard oh basketball people, and they love the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: nerd stats and all that. The issue, though, is that
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the flotsam and jetsam do not want to be lectured
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: on x's and o's. It is, after all, when everything
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: is said and done, a TV show and it's supposed
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: to be entertaining, and TNT always nailed that, and they're done.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: That's it. Charles Barkley, he'll suppose to do stuff at ESPN,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: will see how that goes.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: But Barkley is the ring master of the circus of fund.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: He just is.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: He's the ring master, personable, silly, charming, debonair, goofy, he's
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the life of the party, all those things, all those things.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: The NBA product on court often sucks. It just does.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: It's the stuff on the periphery that is more interesting
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: than the actual product on the court. And you can
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: say that's not right, that's wrong, bah blah blah blah blah.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: That's the real world. Okay, that's not the let's sugarcoat
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: it That's the way it is. The peripheral stuff is
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: more interesting, the off court drama, the front court speculation,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the trade rumors, the debates yapp a about legacies and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: all that.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: What generations the greatest fans.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Are not tuning in because they care about hardcore basketball.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: And if Adam Silver, I think he's lying when he
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: says it, I don't think he deep down he knows.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: That's the case. They're turning in for a sporty soap
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: opera that is packaged as basketball. They're not tuning in
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: to hear Doris Burke break down the x's and is
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: in an NBA game. They don't want to hear about that.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: They'd like to hear Charles Barkley bust balls. That's what
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: they would like to hear. That's why they would like
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: to tune in period, hard stop.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: That's the way that it is.
• 31:11
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• 31:29
  Speaker 6: All right, Kirk Cousins seems to be coming to terms
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: with the fact that he has no longer started in
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: the league, telling reporters on Tuesday, I'm not going to
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: dwell on things that aren't reality in terms of that's
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: not the situation I'm in. Ben With a trade no
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: longer seeming like a possibility, do you think a Michael
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: Pennis junior injury is the only way Cousins starts again, No.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Because what's going to have He's playing good cop publicly.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: He's like these politicians. They'll tell you whatever you want
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: to hear to get your vote, and then they'll do
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: whatever they really want to do whoever pays them off
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: once they get to office.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: So Cousins is just gonna.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Sit back and wait, and he's gonna wait for someone
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: to go snapcrackle, pop and get hurt and then he's
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: going to be traded. No reason to complain about it
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: right now. He'll start for somebody, but he's gonna have
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: to wait for an injury next.
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: It's basically a yearly tradition at this point. But Trey
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: Young's name is coming up in trade talk to yet again,
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: this time with the Sacramento Kings. Then do you think
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: the Hawks actually pull the trigger this time around.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, Trey Young going from Atlanta to Sacramento. That
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: he'll be in a worse situation, all right, So why
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: would you want to put that voodoo on Trey Young?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: The Kings have no idea what they're doing. They have
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: a nice light show outside the arena. That's about it.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Like the team blows. Tyree's had two point guards. They
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: got head of both of them, Tyrese Haliburton and de
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Aaron Fox.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: Next, it seems reports of Juan Soto's demise were premature.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: Over the last ten games, Sotos looked like his old
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: self and the Mets are thriving. Ben are the Mets
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: the most dangerous team in the majors?
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Well, the Dodgers are in a class by themselves, and
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the Mets are good. And Soto is finally playing like
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: we thought he was going to play at today. Yes,
• 33:09
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• 33:11
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• 34:07
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• 34:13
  Speaker 6: I know, what's his new name. He's got his full
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: name on there for some reason. Really, yeah, but.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: He's very formal.
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: He's a five year veteran of the podcast Ward.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: He wants to know, what is the dumbest thing You've
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: ever spent money on?
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, now, I usually am pretty these days.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I don't spend my money on much. I only save it.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: I guess, so when I die someone.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Will get a lot of money. I mean, it was
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the dumbest thing. Well, I did buy a house. I
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: don't own it the government. I pay taxes and all
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: that said, but I put a big payment down on
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: a house at the advice of my real estate advisor
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Tom Looney right before the housing market crashed seventeen years ago.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Terrible investment, horrific investment. So that would be the wor
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: thing financially, the worst thing. But I mean I bought
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: other dumb stuff, but not recently. What about you, Lorena.
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: A carry on bag that could have fit underneath the
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: seat in front of me? Like, just such a waste
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: of money.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: You bought a carry on that was not able to
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: fit on the plane?
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: Wow?
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: Okay, I think she paid for carry on and it
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: and it could have it could have fit under the
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: seat as.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: A personal Oh you check it in?
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Okay? Oh yeah, yeah, Well isn't isn't the hack?
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Usually you don't check your bag in and then they
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: say does anyone want to check their bag in? And
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: then you that's it ready to gate. You do it
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: at the gate. You save money that way.
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: No, yeah, no, that's the way to do it.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: But yeah, cool.
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: Uh you know it's probably uh NFL direct TV and
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: NFL Sunday ticket for the However, many like fifteen years
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: that I did that, yeah, God, thousands of dollars to
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: direct TV and.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Watch to watch the Broncos lose games.
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: I guess yeah. And by the way, YouTube TV raise
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: their prices for Sunday ticket this year. It's now like
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: five hundred and twenty dollars for Sunday ticket with red zone.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: You're a high You're a big spender.
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I'm gonna do it this year.
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: That's just that's just a little bit too far from me.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: You're gonna do it. You'll see some stories about the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Broncos being good this year.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: You'll do it.
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna try to figure out some some loophole.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, talk to Eddie he might know away.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: All right, what is next year's ask? Ben? Your questions
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: are a damn it the rest of the hour. Damn
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: it is not a question.
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: I wish I had seen it. I wish i'd seen
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: this before I read that, because I just saw another,
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: a better question from from blind Emmett.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: But well, we'll give this people give people question in
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, we can't just have blind Emitt Bogart the show.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: All right, let's do a question here from a donkey sausage.
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: I'd he wants to know, have you ever been I'm
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: assuming this is just for you, but have you ever
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: been too scared to head home after a show?
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, because of the craziness in the world. Uh no, No,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I do get Sometimes I take the one oh one
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: freeway here in LA through downtown. I often am worried
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: that some lunatic protesters will jump on the freeway, and
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: I'm like, what will I do? You know, because that.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Does worry me.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: But other than that, I know, I'm not I don't
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: really live my life like that. You know, if something happens,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: that happens. But uh, that's not the only thing like that?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Is that only for me? Next? All right? Uh?
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Josh the Bears fan, he's in Nebraska.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but he would like to know would you rather
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: go on a cruise or a bus tour?
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: So I've never been on a cruise. I have some
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: people in my circle that love cruises. They say it's amazing,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: it's all inclusive, you can eat whatever you want. Other
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: people say it's terrible. It's you know, it's it's old people,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: and it's people that you don't want to hang out with.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: So I've never done that. And the idea of being
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: on a bus where it's a bunch of other people
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: on the bus that have body how about none be above.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: If I had to choose, I guess i'd.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Go bus because I've never done the cruise thing, so
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I've heard mixed reviews. What about you, Lorena, Oh.
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: I love both them.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Cruises are great because you know, you got the all
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: inclusive food and you can just sit by the.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Pool all day.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: But the bus tour is nice because you can actually
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: walk around and get off and look at different things
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: around the cities.
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: And I love that.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and well they say those they do the
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: My friend Jerry's a big boat guy and they go
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: to different cities and you go, yeah, you can.
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: You can get off the cruise ship too. I love cruises.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: I think they're awesome.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: If you're all about the cruise.
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you don't mean. It might be a
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: bunch of old but you don't have to interact with them.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: You go with the people that you want to spend
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: time with, and then.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: Hate old people.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I just I just.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, what's next?
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Where are we have to ask? Ben?
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Your questions are answered?
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: The King Rory would like to know what is more
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: annoying burning your tongue while eating or biting yourself while eating.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: Well, I've done both.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I did a week of radio. I had a lisp.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I sounded like this old Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I ate pizza. It was hot, and I ate it
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: too fast, and I burned my tongue. I also bit
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: my tongue. I am such a klutz and the result
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: is you sound terrible. So I'd say the burn is
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: worse than the bite. I'll go burn Lorena.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's got to be the bite for me. When
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: I get the inside of my lip or the cheek.
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, then you get it again because it's swollen.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just wait till you burn your tongue. What about you.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: The burn is so much worse because then you can't
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: taste things for a while.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Oh it's horror, and it's just it's you. Oh you
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: have to you can't get it rid of. The tongue
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: is involved in everything you need. I mean that sounded bad,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: but it is. I mean, it's a central part of
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: what you do, talking, eating other things.