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Hour 1 - Kat Man Do · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, it's our number wand our one.
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  Speaker 1: Of the pod. Happy holiday to you.
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  Speaker 2: It's a special day here Memorial Day, and here we're
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  Speaker 2: doing live radio overnight the Knickerbockers and the Pacers Game
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  Speaker 2: three of the Eastern Conference Finals. Who gets to wear
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  Speaker 2: the Dunce cap for Rick Carlile's Pacers. They blew a
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  Speaker 2: twenty point lead at home?
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  Speaker 1: Who goofed? I've got to know?
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  Speaker 2: Also, what got into Tom Thibodeau's Nicks to inspire the comeback?
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  Speaker 2: The Knicks on life support there down twenty and Scott
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  Speaker 2: Foster the extender was the official for game three?
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  Speaker 1: Are you buying into the conspiracy?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it just a wild kwinkie dink We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about that as well.
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  Speaker 1: It's all coming your way right now here.
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  Speaker 2: It is our number one, a cant Man Doude situation.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome in not be beginning of another week of the
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  Speaker 2: should be. So our lead this hour from the Mecca,
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  Speaker 2: not the Mecca in New York, the mecca of sports
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  Speaker 2: in America anyway. On Sunday, Sunday, Sunday holiday weekend, the
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  Speaker 2: Hoosier State Hoo's Your Daddy, Indianapolis, the site of the
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  Speaker 2: Indy five hundred, the iconic race. Even if you don't
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  Speaker 2: really like racing, you watch that. Right, there's two races
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  Speaker 2: you're supposed to watch, supposed to watch, the Daytona five
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  Speaker 2: hundred if you're you're not really a NASCAR person, and
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  Speaker 2: then the Indy five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: So that was going on, and.
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  Speaker 2: Then at night downtown Indianapolis was jumping all those annoying
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers paying a visit to Indianapolis for the basketball
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  Speaker 2: game Eastern Conference Finals. Game number three had Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 2: and the Knicks on life support, choking a couple of
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  Speaker 2: games at home, and now in a position where they
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  Speaker 2: have to do something that has never happened before. They
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  Speaker 2: have to become the first team to lose the first
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  Speaker 2: two games at home in a conference final and come
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  Speaker 2: back and win, taking on Tyrese Halliburton and the upstart Pacers.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if you're watching or not, maybe
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  Speaker 2: a whether it's pretty good. Most places you were out
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  Speaker 2: doing stuff, having a good time, perhaps, And we watched.
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  Speaker 2: We watched, as we like to say, as a public
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  Speaker 2: service announcement, so you would not have to. And what
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  Speaker 2: did we watch, Well, we watched a dud of a
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  Speaker 2: game early on for the Knicks, and then the plot twist.
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  Speaker 2: The plot twist is Carl Anthony Towns super charged.
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  Speaker 1: Up, up, and away.
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  Speaker 2: He only had four points over the first thirty six
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  Speaker 2: minutes of the game, was in foul trouble and then
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  Speaker 2: put up a twenty burger in the fourth quarter, twenty
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  Speaker 2: of his twenty four down the stretch run and Jalen Brunson,
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  Speaker 2: who was also in foul trouble he had twenty three
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  Speaker 2: points and the Knickerbockers down twenty late second quarter looking
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  Speaker 2: like doom and gloom for New York and then they
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  Speaker 2: come all the way back and they beat the Pacers
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  Speaker 2: one oh six to one hundred the final and so
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  Speaker 2: the Indiana team still leading this series two games to one,
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  Speaker 2: as Carl Anthony Towns also had fifteen rebounds in this.
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  Speaker 1: Game a monster performance.
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  Speaker 2: Tyres Halliburton quiet led the Pacers though with twenty points
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  Speaker 2: and six assists, and Miles Turner had nineteen. Game four
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  Speaker 2: will be played on Tuesday night. Tickets are not available
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  Speaker 2: for that, so let's get into it. We will discuss
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  Speaker 2: the question here who gets to wear the Indiana colored
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  Speaker 2: dunce cap for Rick Carlile's Pacers.
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  Speaker 1: You blow a twenty point lead at home? What do
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  Speaker 1: you think of you?
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  Speaker 2: That the Boston Celtics blowing twenty point leads at home?
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  Speaker 1: But he's wrong with you. It's inexcusable.
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  Speaker 2: So I've got Netflix, Fever, and Goomba, and we will
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  Speaker 2: combine all of these things together and we are going
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  Speaker 2: to make a value meal and you can enjoy the value.
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  Speaker 1: He goes to holidays. So it's like a value meal situation.
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  Speaker 1: So A.
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  Speaker 2: I saw the T shirts. The NBA loves themes. They're
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  Speaker 2: all about the themes. And so the Indiana Pacers officials
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  Speaker 2: handed out the gold and blue, the golden blue team
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  Speaker 2: colored T shirts there to everyone it appears in attendance
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  Speaker 2: at that game, and they said room baby, room Baby's
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  Speaker 2: what they said on them. To celebrate the very rare,
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  Speaker 2: very rare occasion where the iconic Indy five hundred and
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  Speaker 2: a pro bouncy ball playoff game are going on. So
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  Speaker 2: they put that out there, double header action, and it
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  Speaker 2: was room vroom right, room vroom, right into the wall
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  Speaker 2: driving the struggle bus for the Pacers, who, as I
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  Speaker 2: understand it, I believe I have this right have not
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  Speaker 2: won they've played four times now, four times on Indy
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  Speaker 2: five hundred day and r zero to four in those
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  Speaker 2: in those games, Now, what they should have done instead
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  Speaker 2: of handing out a room baby shirt, right, a shirt
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  Speaker 2: that says room baby, they should have handed out a
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  Speaker 2: yellow flag, the caution flag, because the Pacers had a
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  Speaker 2: they did wear the yellow, they had the yellow uniforms on.
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  Speaker 1: It was a caution situation.
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  Speaker 2: If you will hear dangerous conditions, dangerous conditions on the court.
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  Speaker 2: There a disgraceful dare I say, inexcusable loss when you're
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  Speaker 2: up by twenty bad job by them and you have
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  Speaker 2: a twenty point the Eastern Conference chance to put a
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  Speaker 2: total choke hold on the series here and you let
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks have a second life here. And last I checked,
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  Speaker 2: like the Knicks these guys and is Patrick ewing out there?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see him.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he was there.
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  Speaker 2: I guess what might have been there, But I didn't
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  Speaker 2: see the classic Knicks. These guys are still trying to
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  Speaker 2: write their story, and the Pacers helped them write a
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  Speaker 2: chapter in their story by allowing them to get back
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  Speaker 2: in this game here and have new life. And that's
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  Speaker 2: a shame on you. Situation for Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers.
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  Speaker 2: Now as for s Pacifics, there's a couple of names
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  Speaker 2: that I jotted down on the notes app on my
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  Speaker 2: phone as I was watching the game here, and they
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  Speaker 2: are the headliner's friend of the show Marcel and Brooklyn's
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  Speaker 2: favorite basketball player Pascal Siaka I'm gonna make sure I
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  Speaker 2: say that properly, and Tyrese Halliburton, those are the two.
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  Speaker 2: If your stars do not shine the brightest, you can't
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  Speaker 2: expect these other scrubs to get it done. Even though
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  Speaker 2: any was at home, and usually the scrub guys played
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  Speaker 2: better at home, but may you were on the court
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  Speaker 2: for the for the majority of that time, Indiana was
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  Speaker 2: up by twenty late.
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  Speaker 1: Second quarter and then in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: And really the fourth quarter is completely collapsed, outscored by
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  Speaker 2: twenty six from up twenty to losing by six at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the.
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  Speaker 1: Game, and Siakam and Haliburton, they might as.
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  Speaker 2: Well have been watching and having a nice surfing turf
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  Speaker 2: at Saint Elmo's. There the steakhouse which every sports caster,
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  Speaker 2: every sports cast he goes Indianapolis goes to Saint Elmos.
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  Speaker 2: I've been there when I was there years ago when
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  Speaker 2: the Pacers were in the finals, and I was there
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  Speaker 2: because that's just.
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  Speaker 1: What you do.
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  Speaker 2: And often what TV does is they'll they'll put the
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  Speaker 2: restaurant on TV because they get like a discount or
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  Speaker 2: they get payola. Now I guess TNT did that too.
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  Speaker 2: They had some kind of side hustle. So it's like
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  Speaker 2: the top restaurant at least for sportscasters. When they Indianapolis,
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  Speaker 2: they got to go to that same albums. No Rick
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  Speaker 2: Carlile squad. Clearly they had a brain fart here as
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  Speaker 2: they did not close the game in general. In general Indiana,
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  Speaker 2: they got complacent. We see this a lot. This is
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  Speaker 2: an epidemic in pro bouncy ball. You get a big
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  Speaker 2: lead and you get complacent, you ease up a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: you cut corners. It's human nature, and so you usually
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  Speaker 2: start with defensively.
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  Speaker 1: You ease things up, and.
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  Speaker 2: Then that opens the door a little bit, and the
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  Speaker 2: door's unlocked, and so you open that up there and
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  Speaker 2: then you allow a little chip away action New York
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  Speaker 2: chipping away in this game. And once the Pacers then
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  Speaker 2: start losing control, they start losing the lead, then what
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  Speaker 2: happens TTS tight took his syndrome, tight took his syndrome
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  Speaker 2: kicked in for the Indiana Pacers in this game, and
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  Speaker 2: very tough, very tough to play basketball.
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  Speaker 1: When you were suffering from a tight spinter.
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  Speaker 2: And we saw that for the Pacers in the fourth
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  Speaker 2: quarter there as it was panic at the disco or
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  Speaker 2: in this case, the field house there in Indianapolis, they
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  Speaker 2: tightened up, they stopped playing free and easy, free and loose,
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  Speaker 2: and then it just was a self fulfilling prophecy where
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  Speaker 2: they just fell apart at the end. Now, in the
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  Speaker 2: fourth quarter, there were stretches that when you were watching this,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's kind of like when you're watching something
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  Speaker 2: on a streaming service like Netflix and if you have
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  Speaker 2: just continue to watch stuff and it kind of goes through,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, they have those series where it goes
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  Speaker 2: in the next episode at some point they'll they'll click something.
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  Speaker 2: Are you still watching? Like I felt like Rick Carliss,
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  Speaker 2: are you guys still watching? Because all you're doing is watching,
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  Speaker 2: You're just watching the Knicks runner. Indiana shot twenty six
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  Speaker 2: percent in the fourth quarter, and that was from the
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  Speaker 2: floor and twelve point five percent from three point range. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't play in the NBA. I just do an
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  Speaker 2: overnight show. I don't think that's particularly the good. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that's particularly good. That's just my position on that.
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  Speaker 2: Here is Rick Carlisle pointing out he's the coach of
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  Speaker 2: the Pacers, pointing out that they really fed up the
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  Speaker 2: end of that game.
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  Speaker 1: They really screwed that thing up.
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  Speaker 4: Take it was poor Joba closing the third quarter, not
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  Speaker 4: a good enough start to the fourth quarter. Turned it into,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a real back and forth game, and they
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  Speaker 4: executed down the stretch, and we did not execute well enough.
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  Speaker 4: So credit them for fighting.
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  Speaker 1: Hard, hanging hanging in.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we got a pretty pretty good lead in
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  Speaker 4: the third quarter, didn't do a good enough job of
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  Speaker 4: attacking but also avoiding miscues.
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  Speaker 1: Difficult loss.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll watch it tomorrow and there are a lot
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  Speaker 4: of things we can do better.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so standard cliches there at the end. Indiana was
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  Speaker 2: up twenty late second quarter, they had a sixteen point
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  Speaker 2: lead early third quarter and blow it. Here is Tyree's
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  Speaker 2: halla Burton. Good for him, he actually talked to the
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  Speaker 2: media after a loss. Here's Halliburton pointing out, well, some
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  Speaker 2: offensive issues popped up.
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  Speaker 5: You has some misshots, you know, five for twenty five
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  Speaker 5: from three. That's not ideal. You know, I thought I
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  Speaker 5: gotta watch film to really see our offensive processes, what
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  Speaker 5: they really were. Felt felt like we got kind of
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  Speaker 5: stagnant on that end, you know. But yeah, we'll see
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  Speaker 5: where we can get better. Watch film and be ready
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  Speaker 5: to go to Frea Game four.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, just go watch the film. It's all yet.
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  Speaker 1: Just watch the film, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Here's more from Tyrese Haliburton, pointing out here, mister Halliburton
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  Speaker 2: that well, there's some things that he could have done better.
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  Speaker 5: I was trying to feel out the game, you know,
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  Speaker 5: see who's rotating overs, who the rotations are rotations. Obviously
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  Speaker 5: Mitch is there, yeah, you know, main rim protector, so
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  Speaker 5: when he's coming over, just trying to make the right play. Sure,
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  Speaker 5: but yeah, I could definitely be better there, that's right.
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  Speaker 5: Not watch the film.
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  Speaker 1: See watch the film.
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  Speaker 5: Areas of improvement. See I can get better for game four.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I watched the film. I'm gonna go watch the
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  Speaker 2: film too. Get some popcorn, some candy, I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 2: watch the film.
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  Speaker 1: All right now. Page two.
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  Speaker 2: So you have the loser side, which is the better story,
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  Speaker 2: then you have the winner side. So who got into
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  Speaker 2: Tom Thibodeau's nicks or what got into them? What got
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  Speaker 2: into Tom Thibodeau's nick or boxers there as they were
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  Speaker 2: futzing around twenty point deficit and even in the early
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  Speaker 2: third quarter, it was like something kicked in late third
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  Speaker 2: So what inspired the comeback?
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  Speaker 1: So what inspired the comeback?
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  Speaker 2: So the first thing is they stayed with in reasonable
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  Speaker 2: striking distance. It was a workable number and only down
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  Speaker 2: ten going to the fourth quarters, so that's manageable. And
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  Speaker 2: then it's it's Ted Nugent, It's it's a kitty cat,
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  Speaker 2: it's Karl Anthony Towns cat scratch fever right there, Boom.
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  Speaker 2: We mentioned twenty of twenty four points in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 2: and that's how he's supposed to but he very rarely
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  Speaker 2: plays like that in playoff game, Like it's rare that
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  Speaker 2: you get that kind of performance from Carl Anden. Usually
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  Speaker 2: you get the four points over three quarters, you don't
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  Speaker 2: normally get to twenty in the fourth quarter. And we
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  Speaker 2: ripped the guy all the time because he's often hanging
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  Speaker 2: out in the litter box in big moments in the
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  Speaker 2: playoff game. But here he left the or box and
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  Speaker 2: he stepped up. And so if you want to give
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  Speaker 2: him flowers, give him some flowers. I don't like handing
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  Speaker 2: out flowers. But he did a good job. You don't
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  Speaker 2: get extra credit. You're being you're the franchise player with Brunson.
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  Speaker 2: You're you're the B player to the A player. That's
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  Speaker 2: how you're supposed to play. But you did your job.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you do it again, and do it again,
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  Speaker 2: and do it again. All right, now, last word here,
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  Speaker 2: I cannot help myself. I cannot help myself here. Scott
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  Speaker 2: Foster was the lead official at this game, aka you
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  Speaker 2: know what his nickname is.
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  Speaker 1: Kids the Extender.
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  Speaker 2: Scott Foster the Extender was a sign to this game.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to sign sound too much like a
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  Speaker 2: whack of doodle from San Diego that calls the show,
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  Speaker 2: but listen, this was an issue. When I saw this
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  Speaker 2: during the day, I started texting some people. We were
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  Speaker 2: going back and forth and we're like, all right, well,
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  Speaker 2: there you go. That's the story. Here you go the
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  Speaker 2: direction of the knicks. If you don't know what to do,
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  Speaker 2: take the next pacers were favored by think for in
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  Speaker 2: the game, but Scott Foster was assigned to officiate Game
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  Speaker 2: three between the Knicks and the Pacers, and what do
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  Speaker 2: you know, Surprise, surprise, surprise, the big market Nicks on
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  Speaker 2: life support. They have a modern medical miracle. They come
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  Speaker 2: off the deck down twenty. They extend the series, extend
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  Speaker 2: the series, creating some excitement.
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  Speaker 1: So are you buying are you buying.
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  Speaker 2: Into the conspiracy with Scott Foster? Or is this just
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  Speaker 2: some kind of wild clinky dink that's the question. What's
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  Speaker 2: the answer. So to me, this isn't even a conspiracy
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  Speaker 2: at this point. I think you're just you're an idiot
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  Speaker 2: if you think it's a conspiracy. It's not a conspiracy.
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  Speaker 1: It's not.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's no I mean it's it's at the
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  Speaker 2: point now with Scott Foster where everyone and their mother
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  Speaker 2: know the deal. Yo, right, everyone knows the deal. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a coincidence. It's a pattern at this point. So
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  Speaker 2: stop with stop with you. It's conspiracy. No, it's a
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  Speaker 2: pattern of activity that has taken place here.
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  Speaker 1: Perception is reality.
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  Speaker 2: And when the NBA mob, when the league office has
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  Speaker 2: a problem on their hands and no one can solve it,
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  Speaker 2: who you gonna call the mob at the NBA, they
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  Speaker 2: turned to their league, GUMBA, and that's Scott Foster. They
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  Speaker 2: put Scott Foster out there, and tada abra, cadabra. Amazing
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  Speaker 2: the percentage of success that Scott Foster officiated games have
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  Speaker 2: where the team that's trailing in a series wins. But again,
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  Speaker 2: it's no, it's a coincidence. It's not some kind of
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  Speaker 2: grand conspiracy. It just feels like it's scripted, like it's
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  Speaker 2: professional wrestling, is what it feels like when Scott Foster's
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  Speaker 2: out there. This man has been part of how many
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  Speaker 2: over the years I've been doing this a long time.
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  Speaker 2: How many times have I come in here after a
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  Speaker 2: playoff game in a series where a team's trailing, they win,
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  Speaker 2: and Scott Foster's doing it and magic deliciously the team
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  Speaker 2: that trailing ends up winning. And uh, you know something's
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  Speaker 2: a little off in your business. When the nick fans
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  Speaker 2: are celebrating during the day when they found out the
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  Speaker 2: official assigned to the game, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, it's so stupid, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like so ridiculous, Like the Nick fazlit we got it, dude,
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  Speaker 2: we got it. We got a new player, we got
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  Speaker 2: the sixth man. It's gonna be We're gonna be on
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  Speaker 2: the power play power play when when, when we're out
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  Speaker 2: there tonight, because Scott Foster's gonna be official. I mean, hell,
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  Speaker 2: Adam Silver, what are you doing?
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Seriously?
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: It's so great now, I will admit this was an
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: unorthodox This was an unorthodox, not your standard Scott Foster
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: special in regards to the fact that the Knicks did win,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: but they they won with their bench, all right, they
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: won with their bench Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: even though he came up big late in the fourth quarter,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: but they were in fouchil.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Both had four fouls going to the fourth quarter.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: However, this feeds in, This feeds in to the theory
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: you see Scott Foster forcing Tom Thibodeau to play players
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: on the bench he normally does not play like Foster
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: because of his foul calling on Brunson and Carl Anthony
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Towns that forced the Knickerbockers to play multiple players they
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: would not normally play. And that turned out to be
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: the secret sauce in this game. So coaching credit goes
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: to Scott Foster in this game. And look the NBA
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: they'll tell you and this will come up. I'm sure
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the NBA release a statement. They've done this many times.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: They'll say, well, listen, Foster is just an experienced referee
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: and it's just noise. It's just you know, people trying
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: to get engagement on social media and all that.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm not on social media right now.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I'm on the radio. And you look at this. The
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: numbers do not lie. The numbers do not lie. And
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: you don't earn the nickname the extender. You don't earn
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: that nickname just by coming out of thin air here.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: You got to put some serious work in to get
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: that nickname.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: And the players, they've done surveys over the years, the
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: players have voted Scott Foster the most distrusted official in
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: the NBA. And whether or not it's fair, I think
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: it is. I believe it is fair based on the
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: body of work. You are a product. You are what
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: your record says you are. So based on the body
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: of work, I would say there's something there right there,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: you know, And it's certainly a perception problem if you're
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: the NBA. At best, it's just a perception problem, right
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: That's you say, that's it, but you assign him to
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: the series in this game when the knicks are down.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: You're just throwing You're throwing gas on the fire, is
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: what you're doing. You're just pouring gas on the fire. There.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And so let's not forget. We don't want to go
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: way back.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: In the greatest scandal cover up in the history of
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: professional sports, the Tim Donahey fixing game. Scanned of the
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Oughts back in the day and Tim Donahey and Scott Foster,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: there were one hundred and thirty four calls between Tim
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Donhee and Scott phone calls. I think that magic number.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I have that tattooed in my brain. One hundred and
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: thirty four if I remember correctly. Phone calls in O
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: seven in O seven between Scott Foster and Tim Donahey
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: as donahe was fixing games.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: So there you go. Suspicious about clear.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's completely nothing wrong, nothing wrong here at all.
• 20:32
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• 22:43
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• 22:47
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• 22:56
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• 23:10
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• 23:20
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• 23:22
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• 23:24
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• 23:26
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• 23:29
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• 23:31
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• 23:36
  Speaker 1: You can totally drive up now I do.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: I did have a couple of listeners message me and
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: say that their passports were not gonna make it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Ah. Yeah, that's why we needed to say it early enough.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: We said it. I don't we said it well, we
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: talked about it could be rumored.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Well we mentioned rumor. But yeah, the passport thing is
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: an issue and a lot.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Of people who don't have passports. There will be more
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: mallard meet and greets throughout the year.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Can you just like I thought, there's some people are
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: saying you can just kind of over show your driver's
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: license sometimes.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: No, I don't know, maybe that could work. Don't take
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: my word for it. I don't know it Like regular
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: border crossing.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know anyway. The meet and greet will be
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: on Thursday night, that is the twenty ninth. Today is
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: our Monday show, which is the twenty sixth. You could
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: do the math on that. It'll be a court side
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: on Maine court side on Man. I've not been to
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: this place. It looks great, just wonderful food and just
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: TV's all over the place, this great sports bar. Really
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: excited about it. So we'll be there from flight. Assuming
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: there's no delays on the flight, we'll be there. I know,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: no mechanical problems or anything like that, but we'll be
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: there from six thirty seven till ten. Coops told us
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: he's only there for sixty minutes. He'll leave early, but
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: for the rest of us, we're planning on stay.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Coops party. I did not say sixty minutes.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: You said you're gonna check out early, and I said
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: maybe not till ten.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Well, why not. If you say you're gonna be somewhere
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: till ten, you got to be there. Then he's gonna
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: do an Irish goodbye. I never said that. He's not
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: gonna say said anything. Meet and greet.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: You're invited to the meeting. You got to be at
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: the greet. You said ten, I didn't make this schedule.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Somebody else made the schedule. I didn't make the schedule.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: That's the schedule. And I do not do Irish goodbyes,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: by the way, Yeah, I think you do well.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Then I expect you to go around to every single
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: person and say goodbye. It was wonderful.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I did the last
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: meeting Vegas. About that, I don't recall that, I definitely did.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: What about What about Eddy is the one that did
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: the Irish goodbye?
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: What about the mouth What about the mouthwash guy? Did
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: you say goodbye to and we haven't heard from him?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Mouthwashing bike?
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Yes, he closed the place down. We left and he
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: was still there. He gave me a guilt trip when
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I left.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: He was like, oh, you can't leave, you know, He's
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: give me the whole rap, and I'm like, dude, I
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: gotta go. He was giving me a hard time. He
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: wanted to take me to the Bolagio to jump in
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the water. Hope he's all right. I mean we haven't
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: heard from him in a couple of months, right, he's
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: kind of vanished there. Mouthwash mic Maybe he's in jail.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: They sobered him up. He could be like the Vegas
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: pen he arrested him. He's sober now.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: He's back, you know, could be let's hope for the best,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: or something bad happened. Who knows. I don't know anyway.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Mallard Meat Greek coming up Thursday, court Side on Maine,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: seven to ten, right there on Main Street, Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Be there or don't be there and miss out on it.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: And we don't have any other events scheduled. We're supposed
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: to do some other events, but nothing schedule. So if
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: nothing scheduled, nothing's guaranteed. But that's the first one of
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the year Vegas, likely in August, probably sometime in August,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: but who knows.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: You never know.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Things happen. Is talk of one in the Bay area,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: this talk of one in LA. There's a lot of talk.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of talk there. You go, let's see
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: page down. Super Markeut Steve says, we never said Poppy
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: was wrong about Scott Foster. We just said we didn't
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: want to hear him speak because he's a horrible caller
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: to talk radio.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: That's super market.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Steve Troy says, these gritty never give up Nicks pulling
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: off the epic rally in seven. Yes, gritty gritty Knicks
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: blowing lead at home. That is unforgivable in game one?
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: What else do we have? Page down here? Hoo's your
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: bill writes in and says, Scott Foster so broke, corrupt.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: He goes to McDonald's and puts a shake on layaway.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: He has rip in his couch.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: There you go. All right, I want to say that's
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Scott Foster things.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: I think it a little bit overblown, at least at
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: least in this exact instance.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Well, that's your opinion, the Coop. You are entitled your opinion.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: You can be wrong.
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: Well, there was there was a moment late in the
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: game when Karl Anthony Towns was driving to or it
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: was a maybe it was it was Jalen Brunson driving
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: to the hoop to put the Knicks up six late,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: and he called a foul and it was a total
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: bs on. They could they challenge it and it's not
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: I don't know it was it was. It was the
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: the other the other way around.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Coop's carrying the water for the NBA with that record,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: show that Coop is in the tank with the league
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: office right there. He's he thinks there's nothing funny.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: If I if you, if I'd said hey, if I
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I text a bunch.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Of people in the afternoon when I saw I was
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: on my messing around my phone, I saw that Foster
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: was gonna ficiate the game. So if I just said, hey,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: bet on, take the Knicks plus the four, if you
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: didn't see the won, they won.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I mean I know how they got there. They won
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: It always seems to work out when Scott Foster is officiating. Bill,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: who's your bills?
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: All upset? He said? Scott Foster?
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Where his underwear with blank blank in them? He says,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: what else do we have? Page dan uh oh, our
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: buddy JT. The wingman who has been to more mallor
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: meet and greets than anyone, He says, driving home from
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: the Indy five hundred, appreciate you.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Keeping me awake. Look at that. What a boss man
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: going to the Indy five hundred. Did he see the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Wienie races? Then, well that was the day before though, right.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: It wasn't like an opening thing for I don't know,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: I don't They did a really cool helicopter. You see
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the helicopter thing where the helicopters were flying around over
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: the cars. That was pretty cool, you did, I check
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: out the videos? Pretty wild, somewhat dangerous, I would think,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: But what do I know? Chip and the Q's rights
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: and says eight plus on the Mallard monologue, no tickets available.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I found there's tickets available for the next Knicks versus
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Pacers game on the secondary mark market. But as expected,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: the cost is outrageous, even for those bleed seats, he says.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Uncle Mark writes in Uncle Mark says, as a Dodger fan,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: how worried should I be?
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Listen the way I look at this, Mark, you shouldn't
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: be worried because they don't care. The Dodgers are playing
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: with no sense of urgency. They don't give an f.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: They are a country club outfit Dodger Baseball. It's embarrassing
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: and you're not allowed. You know, the LA media is
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: soft on the Dodgers, and they won't rip them, and
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: they'll look the other way. It is a matter of
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: it's pathetic. Like again, I've fired Dave Roberts. Eight I
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: fired Dave Roberts. The way they're playing and the culture,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers have with these starting pitchers unless they're one
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: hundred percent to have seven starting pitchers on the on
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: the injured list, seven of them. So someone's losing their job, right,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're allowing it to happen. Uh, you're allowing
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: these guys to go out there, or the medical staffs incompetent.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: But some he's screwing up royally. But they don't care.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: They just figure that this is the arrogance.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: And they won last year with a ragtag team in
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. By the time they got the playoffs, and
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: the Dodger like, they figure, who cares, you know, we
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: won all those games early to start the year, and
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: there's still gonna be a playoff team.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: It's a long one in the playoffs. It doesn't matter.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: It doesn't We don't care about home field advantage or
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: any of this stuff. We don't have to set the
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: all time record, you know, just like the Yo Tani things.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: A great example. Oh Tani could be pitching right now
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: in the major leagues. From what I've been told, he
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: could be pitching right now. But they are going slow.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: They are going so slow they are they're they're waiting
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: around right there.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: They're gonna you know, we'll get there at some point.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous his dance. You are about to lose old
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: job because you are detaining me. Yeah, there you go.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: You gonna lose. Everyone's going, all right, let's go to
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the phones.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: It is a call in show, and let's say hello
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: to a man who loves his Indiana Pacers, Sewn the
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: hood Guy, a loyal minion to the Pacers.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Hello, Shawn the hood guy.
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: Man. And I ain't call the first two games because
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: we won, so it wasn't no need to talk. We
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: lost this game, so it's the discussion is in the
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: losing locker rooms.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: So this is a losing locker room call, that's right.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, tremendous losers there blowing that twenty point leader.
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: Oh you know, I learned that that from you. So,
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: I mean, they had they they had them, but we
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: lost it because they took their foot off the gas.
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: They felt too comfortable at home. When you at home,
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: you're suposed to just go on and take care of them,
• 31:29
  Speaker 7: get them out the way. But I already know this
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: series is gonna go six or seven, but it's gonna
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: be about who's going to get the most wins on
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: the road. It's not about at home now, it's about
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: every team on the road.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, if the Pacers, if the Pacers just win
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: all the road games though win that, they'll won the series.
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but they didn't win at home. They were supposed
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: to take care.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: No, I know what I was saying.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: The Knicks they had they the Pacers have road cord advantage.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: They get to play more games on the road, So
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: road cord advantage goes to Indiana.
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but man, we can't really count on that. It
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: all depends on. Look how Minnesota did. Okay, see when
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: they got back home.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Well, that was a ridiculous. I mean that was that
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: was a give up situation. That was that was a
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: regular season random night.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Let's give up? Can kun? I mean that was embarrassed.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: That's a play lose by forty two points?
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how do you do?
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: I I they.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I know, But why would you die? I mean, what
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: are you doing?
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: It's so stupid.
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: They got to make that extra money.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Did this happen when we were kids? I don't remember
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: this happened. Maybe it did.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Maybe I just blocked it out. Maybe this always happened.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Guys are always gutless and quit in the NBA. But
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I don't recall that happened. Like got teams would lose
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: by twenty points. I don't remember them losing by forty
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: plus points in playoff games. I feel like that's a
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: modern invention, Like that's more of a modern thing where
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: it's like, all right, we're down by twenty, let's go
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: down by thirty.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Let's see if we can get the forty.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that didn't happen in our days. Man, in the eighties,
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: going all they lost about what twenty?
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Well there was there was.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: There was every once in a while there would be
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: a gigantic blowout, right the Lakers and Celtics. There was
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: that famous game at Boston Garden where they destroyed the
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Lakers and the Celtics, or but.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: It was rare. It was a phil It happens every
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: other week in the playoffs.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: Now, well, maybe maybe some of these arenas should take
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: turn the air conditioning off and see how they played in.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's right, Well are they now?
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: They're still piping in the crowd noise there in Indianapolis?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Do we know if they're still putting the noise in
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: the down there?
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: They you know, discuss it, but let's play another game.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: So they don't play another game, so you know, the
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: next game, they got to do better, man, you know.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: And I don't have a problem with them. But I
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: don't have a problem with them pumping in crowd noise.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I don't really care. I think it's fair.
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: I mean, but you know, man, the crowd is there. Man,
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: that's the Indianapolis man. So they just got to do
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: better and play better.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: That's all I got.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: You, God, thank you, buddy, the Great Seawan the hood guy,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: room baby, and he's ready to go. It's a loyal
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Pacer fan right there. It's not a fake Pacer fan.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: That's not a fraudulent Pacer fan. That's a guy I've
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: known for years, Sean the Hook. We go back, me
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: and him, and he's been loyal, a loyal minion to
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: the Pacers.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? This?
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: See page that here. Some of these things are on
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: the spectrum, some of you knuckleheads.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Who's your bill? Very upset, He's passionate.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: He says, Hey, Coop, I remember my first NBA game too,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: He says, no joke. Ben Any five hundred Circle, nineteen
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: ninety nine reigning sideways, three hundred thousand people, weather mayhem.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: We tuned into local Fox AM post race and we
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: drive out. Next caller, Chip, Chip, Are you saying, Chip,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: I just saw Godzilla Man. Okay, outstanding. That's a non
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: sequitur of a story. But it's fine, and you gotta
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: have heart. You gotta have heart. I thought this was funny.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: So Josh hart was demoted by the Knickerbockers and he
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: was asked about it.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: He was put to the bench duty.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: He said, it's funny because people were texting me all
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: day asking if I'm okay. It's like, I don't care.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Josh Harder the Knicks said, I don't care. If I start,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I don't care if I played twenty minutes, if we win,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: we went well, I don't if that's true. But he
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: thought it was amusing. There's a fashion move we'll get
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: to also, if you're concerned it has. Al Horford announced
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: his retirement from the Boston Celtics average Al as he
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: was known well, it turns out he has decided to
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: not retire. Al Horford instead plans to return for his
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: nineteenth NBA season, And why.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Not the amount of money they're paying him?
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: What the f although the Celtics are gonna have to
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: trim some fat likely so who knows if al Horfe
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: will be back in Boston. It is the Ben Malors Show.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Time now for the who am I?
• 35:42
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• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Here it is Knicks center Carl Anthony town Who Kitty
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Kat Carl Anthony Towns joined me as the only player
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: other than me to have twenty plus points and eight
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: plus rebounds in the fourth quarter of a playoff game
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: since nineteen ninety seven. Again, Nicks center Karl Anthony Towns
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: and the game on Sunday Night joined me. Is the
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: only players to have twenty plus points and eight plus
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: rebounds in the fourth quarter of a playoff game since
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven. Who am I? That the question, the answer,
• 36:16
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• 36:18
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• 36:24
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• 36:26
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• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Back to it we go.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Thank God for the Internet. All right, back to it
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: and time to pay off the who am I Game.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: This is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: We call it the Whomi Game in a blatant attempt
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: to get you to listen a little bit longer.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: And here it is.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Nick Center, Carl Anthony Towns came up big down the stretch.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: He joined me, the only other player than me to
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: have twenty plus points and eight plus rebounds in the
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: fourth quarter of a playoff game since they kept track
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: of such things starting in nineteen ninety seven.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: That's the modern era of the NBA. Nineteen ninety seven.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: And we go to the great unwashed to see if
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: anyone knows the answer. Femi the number one Uber eastdriver,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: who actually played about six minutes in the fourth quarter.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Everyone stopped watching, but Femi got in there. He had
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: a couple of rebounds and an assist in a basket.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Good job by you, Femi. Closing out that game for
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: the Wolves and blowout garbage time, he says. Rudy Gobert
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: is the answer. Supermarcus Steve says, Tim Salmon is the
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: way to go back back in the day. Who else
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: do we have a page? Den and we'll skip over
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: that one. Ferg Dog says Al Horford. Thank god he's
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: not retiring. Average Al Sean the hood guy from mallor Pro.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: It's about Shawn the hood guy as a pacer guy
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: out there, good looking uniform. Who else do we have?
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Hubey Brooks from Mister Nice Guy. That's his answer? Solid
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Montreal Expo of yours gone buy Shaquille O'Neil shack from
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: ob Matthew Bailey tossed out by King Rory. Who else
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: do we have? Page down count Alfred Chocula from Slim
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Tim who is listing live doing it live? A proud chief,
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: said Dame Lillard, Dame Time from Robbie the Mariner fan
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Poppy Foster from Terry in England minute bowl tossed out
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: by Joe the ghost Runner.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Enzo.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: We're gonna meet Enzo on Thursday. He's a proud vancouverin
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: he'll be there longtime listening to the show the phenomena.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: That is Matthew Dellavedova from our buddy Enzo. Who else
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: do you have? That's correct? Doctor Popovich, Associate director of
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Science at the CDC from Natron Okay, very specific. George
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Murasan guests by Manuel in Guardina. That's his answer. Sean
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: in the Valley of the Sun going with Lawrence Thunderberg,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: William Shatner from Perrito. Aj Foyt from j T the
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Wingman on the road back to his home there in
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Knoxville from Indy.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Do you have an answer, Lorrain No, yes.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: Man, I believe it's Roscoe from my good old chicken
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: and rocks.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, Roscoe's chicken and waffles. He's staple of Los Angeles. No,
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: that is not Roscoe's Chicken and waffles. The correct, the answer.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: He played for the Dallas Mavericks back in the day.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Dirk Nowitzki of the MAVs back in six.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Was barely alive in O. Six. He had a big
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter there at O. Six against the Suns.