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Hour 2 - A Hasty Retreat · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom shacka Laca. It's our numb bird too. Our number
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Speaker 1: two is ready for you. And here in hour number two,
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Speaker 1: it's all about the Warriors and the Rockets. Something that
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Speaker 1: you don't see very often in professional sports, a coach
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Speaker 1: giving up on a playoff game.
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Speaker 2: But it happened, and nobody seems upset about it.
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Speaker 1: We don't understand why did coach Steve Kerr make the
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Speaker 1: right call by conceding a playoff game for the Warriors
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Speaker 1: even though Golden State got back into the game. They're
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Speaker 1: geting blown out and got back into the game, and
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Speaker 1: Steve Kerr said, I don't want the game, I don't
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Speaker 1: need the game. I'm not gonna take the game. Also,
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Speaker 1: have the eme Udoka Rockets figure it out something with
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Speaker 1: the Warriors as they get the easy win and away
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Speaker 1: from that playoff series. We're hearing the Milwaukee Bucks and
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Speaker 1: Giannis Adenta koombo Or scheduled to meet to discuss both
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Speaker 1: his future and the future plans of the organization. What
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Speaker 1: does all of that mean. We'll try to figure it
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Speaker 1: all out. Right now, get ready for our number two.
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Speaker 2: A hasty and I do mean hasty retreat.
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Speaker 1: show'db So our lead this hour from pro bouncy Ball.
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Speaker 2: We'll get back to.
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Speaker 1: The decommissioning of Lebron and Hookah Luca. Good news for
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Speaker 1: those running hookah bars around La. Luca's got nothing to
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Speaker 1: worry about other than just enjoying himself. The Lakers are done.
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Speaker 1: Minnesota has advanced. But our lead this hour is from Houston.
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Speaker 1: And it's not Houston we have a problem. It's Golden State,
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Speaker 1: we have a problem. That was the playground in Texas
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Speaker 1: for Game five of the first round playoff series between
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Speaker 1: the Rockets and the Warriors. Now Stephen Curry and Golden State.
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Speaker 1: My media elites cover the NBA told me that they
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Speaker 1: just know how to win. They just know how to win.
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Speaker 1: They are just more savvy, more savvy than the Rockets.
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Speaker 1: So if they won Golden State, they would have advanced Houston.
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Speaker 1: They won, they would have continued on. If they lost,
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Speaker 1: that's it. It's over. That was the setup. This was
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Speaker 1: the early game on the card. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you saw this or not. You can't watch everything.
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Speaker 2: I get it. We have no excuse.
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Speaker 1: So we watched fred van vlate Fred Van vlate twenty
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Speaker 1: six points. I'm and Thompson with twenty five the Rockets,
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Speaker 1: putting the Warriors into the shredding machine, the paper shredder,
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Speaker 1: one thirty one to one sixteen.
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Speaker 2: In the game that was not that close.
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Speaker 1: They stave off, stave off elimination, and they go thumper
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Speaker 1: on Golden State as they win by a large margin.
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Speaker 1: Game six will be Friday night in northern California. Now
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Speaker 1: Dylan Brooks the test. Dylan Brooks, he had twenty four
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Speaker 1: points on a night when all five Houston players in
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Speaker 1: the in the starting line up. There they scored in
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Speaker 1: double figures. Five Houston players in double figures. The better story, though,
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Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. So that is where
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Speaker 1: we are going to begin this diatribe. In a stunning
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Speaker 1: juxtaposition from what many of us were taught growing up.
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Speaker 1: You never give up. You compete to the end. You
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Speaker 1: never want to stop the competition, right, You play to
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Speaker 1: win the game. It's growing, it's exhausting, it might look blake,
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Speaker 1: you could be frazzled, but the tradition of sport is
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Speaker 1: you keep going.
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Speaker 2: You keep going.
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Speaker 1: Unless you're coached by Steve Kerr, then not so much so.
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Speaker 1: The Warrior coach shockingly threw in the towel. He threw
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Speaker 1: in the towel early in this one, well not too early,
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Speaker 1: but early enough, and said that's it.
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Speaker 2: We're good.
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Speaker 1: After a layoff by Fred van Vliet midway through the
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Speaker 1: third quarter, with about eighteen minutes to go in the game,
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Speaker 1: it was ninety three to sixty four. Did not look good.
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Speaker 1: It did not look good. So Steve Kerk called the
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Speaker 1: time out, and he took all of his good players
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Speaker 1: and put them on the bench. He took all of
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Speaker 1: his garbage players and put them on the court and said,
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Speaker 1: all right, let's get the garbage in there, and here
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Speaker 1: we go. We'll put you in there and have your way.
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Speaker 1: All right. So let us discuss the question. Did coach
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Speaker 1: Kerr make the right call by conceding a playoff game which, oh,
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Speaker 1: by the way, the Warriors' backups actually got within a
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Speaker 1: manageable number in the fourth quarter. Did Steve Kerr make
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Speaker 1: the right call by conceding this playoff game for the Warriors?
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Speaker 1: So my observations, I've got Yetti, Ernest Hemingway, and RoboCop,
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Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these random things together
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Speaker 1: and we are going to make the Gabba gool we're
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Speaker 1: gonna make the Gabba gool, all right, So numb burn?
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Speaker 1: Can I get a numb burn?
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Speaker 2: This one is a head scratcher to me.
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Speaker 1: I admit, the game seem over and I don't even
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Speaker 1: have a problem taking the starters out at that point.
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Speaker 1: My issue is not putting them back in when the
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Speaker 1: game was a workable number. That is a felony, that
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Speaker 1: is inexcusable. That is malfeason by Steve Kerr, And there's
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Speaker 1: really no defense to it, all right, So he doesn't
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Speaker 1: put him back in. The Warrior Scrubs had cut the deficit.
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Speaker 1: I believe the number was down to thirteen or fourteen
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Speaker 1: with about six minutes ago in the fourth quarter. It
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Speaker 1: was a manageable deficit with a three point shot. You
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Speaker 1: close out that game and you get some extra rest.
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Speaker 1: You get extra rest. Steve Kerr like, what are you
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Speaker 1: doing all right now? Kurt mentioned that he took the
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Speaker 1: council of Draymond Green, so apparently Kerr doesn't actually coach
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Speaker 1: the team. Draymond Green coaches the team. Here's Draymond on
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Speaker 1: the decision to sit the starters on their ass. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen.
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Speaker 3: I mean it is what it is obviously it's not
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Speaker 3: ideal to play that mon minutes because since we're winning
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Speaker 3: play way more. But yeah, we had a quick conversation.
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Speaker 3: He was just saying, ooh, I don't think we should check.
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Speaker 3: I said, cool, we'll give it five or six minutes.
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Speaker 3: We can't turn it fast and pull the plug.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, here's Draymond Green on getting the ass kicked
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Speaker 1: by the Rockets.
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Speaker 3: At this point in our careers, We've seen it all,
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Speaker 3: had all the experiences, so you got something to draw
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Speaker 3: back on. But yeah, they played a good game, whether
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Speaker 3: they went by one or fifty. It's a playoff series.
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Speaker 3: It cons is one win.
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Speaker 1: Oh I didn't know that, Thank you. I don't have
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Speaker 1: that experience, Draymond. So I didn't realize that. Anyway, Let's
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Speaker 1: get back to Steve Kurerr. So Steve Kerr again, he
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Speaker 1: said in the media post game, He's like, well, I
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Speaker 1: talked to Draymond. We had a conversation. Draymond's like, it's
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Speaker 1: a quick conversation. Steve Kerr needs a YETI cooler, he
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Speaker 1: needs the Yeti he needs a YETI cooler filled with medello.
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Speaker 1: And because they're lacking the fighting spirit. That was a
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Speaker 1: betrayal of the competitive spirit. It undermines integrity. Am I
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Speaker 1: being too dramatic? I don't think I'm being too dramatic.
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Speaker 1: And the reason I think what Steve Kerr said is
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Speaker 1: bull crap is because on the TNT broadcast, for some reason,
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Speaker 1: I had the audio up. I usually don't because the
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Speaker 1: broadcasters annoyed me. Other than Kevin Harlan and a couple others,
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Speaker 1: most of them annoyed me. But I had the audio
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Speaker 1: up and they were saying it was like the second quarter,
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Speaker 1: and I swear to god I heard this, and you
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Speaker 1: can back me up on this if you were watching
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Speaker 1: the TNT broadcasts.
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Speaker 2: I don't even know their names.
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Speaker 1: They were like, well, yeah, we talked to Steve Kerr
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Speaker 1: before the game and he told us that if the
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Speaker 1: Warriors fell behind in the game, he would be willing
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Speaker 1: to pull people from the game early. So that was
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Speaker 1: like the mindset, Like the mindset was we're gonna toss
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Speaker 1: away a playoff game because because why we were gonna
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Speaker 1: prioritize rest. What are you a Mama, Luke? Like, seriously,
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Speaker 1: what is the message? That was the pregame message to
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Speaker 1: the teams, Like well, you know or you know to
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Speaker 1: give up if things don't go really good early and
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Speaker 1: all that. They keep in mind, you don't play back
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Speaker 1: to back in the place. You have a day off
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Speaker 1: between games, and people talk about the grueling travel. I
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Speaker 1: got to live in that world a little bit many
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Speaker 1: years ago. I traveled with a baseball team. You are
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Speaker 1: on chartered flights, chartered buses, You're staying at five star hotels.
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Speaker 1: It is not waiting online for group B at Southwest Airlines, okay,
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Speaker 1: and having people that haven't showered in months, that have
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Speaker 1: horrible body odor and just horrific breath.
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Speaker 2: You know you're dealing with that.
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Speaker 1: Okay. You're sitting on a plane. You can sleep, you
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Speaker 1: can be on your phone. They've got the Wi Fi.
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Speaker 1: It's not exactly the most taxing thing in the world. Okay,
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Speaker 1: if you travel for business, you've got more problems than
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Speaker 1: a professional sports team traveling. You just do. And so
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Speaker 1: he said, well, we got to get the rest. They
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Speaker 1: don't play back to back. So essentially, what Steve curR
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Speaker 1: saying is that my team is soft. But I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to tell you my team is soft. I'm just
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Speaker 1: going to do things that indicate the Warriors that are soft.
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Speaker 2: They should still win.
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Speaker 1: Now the other part of this page two, have the
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Speaker 1: e may Udoka coached Rockets figured out something with the Warriors.
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Speaker 2: It was a domination situation, So.
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Speaker 1: I'm not willing to go that far that the Rockets
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Speaker 1: have figured out some things. Things are looking up. Houston's
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Speaker 1: strategy yere of smothering Stephan Curry with physicality and forcing
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Speaker 1: turnovers and using their size and their youth advantage. It
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Speaker 1: has worked for stretches in these games and Curry the
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Speaker 1: last couple of games, Curry is shooting forty percent from
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Speaker 1: the floor, twenty nine percent from three point range, the
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Speaker 1: greatest shooter in the history of the sport is shooting
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Speaker 1: five of seventeen from beyond the arc over the last
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Speaker 1: couple of games. And the Rockets, I would say they
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Speaker 1: are still on the innocent side of things here. They're energetic,
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Speaker 1: they're bright eyed, bushy tailed.
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Speaker 2: All that.
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Speaker 1: But as Ernest Hemingway famously wrote back in the day,
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Speaker 1: one of the Hemingway quotes, all things truly wicked start
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Speaker 1: from an innocence. So the Rockets overwhelmed the Warriors.
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Speaker 2: In this game.
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Speaker 1: The Warriors had the mindset, well, we're probably gonna quit anyway,
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Speaker 1: Golden State mailed it in, which is something you should
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Speaker 1: never do, and they did. They were just going through
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Speaker 1: the motions. But Houston they win big, and yet they
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Speaker 1: still have not really gotten Jalen Green going. He had
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Speaker 1: another suck bag games, just eleven points in this game.
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Speaker 2: On three of eight shooting.
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Speaker 1: He is, as my friend Tony Bruno would say, strapper
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Speaker 1: Jalen Green. He is a regular season, has been great. Playoffs,
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Speaker 1: he's been mostly in embarrassment. He had that one big game.
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Speaker 1: Other than that, bad, bad, bad, bad bad. The Rockets
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Speaker 1: are playing at this point with house money. Even though
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Speaker 1: they're the higher seed. They are supposed to lose. But
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Speaker 1: it really seems like it comes down to a one
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Speaker 1: game situation here. The Warriors should win at home, but
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Speaker 1: it's Steve Kerr and the Warriors who are messing with
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Speaker 1: the basketball gods by flushing away Game five again pulling
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Speaker 1: the starters.
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Speaker 2: That's not the biggest sin in the world. But then when.
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Speaker 1: The bench mob gets you back in the game and
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Speaker 1: you don't put the starters back in, that is the violation.
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Speaker 1: That is high crimes and misdemeanors. That is a war tribunal.
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Speaker 1: That is that what are you doing all right. Final point,
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Speaker 1: we head now away from the NBA playoffs, we go
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Speaker 1: to Milwaukee where we are hearing now the Bucks and
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Speaker 1: Giannis A Dentacumbo are scheduled to have a pow wow
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Speaker 1: to discuss his future and the plans of the organization. Question,
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Speaker 1: what does that mean?
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Speaker 2: What does it mean?
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Speaker 1: That's what Normally this happens a postseason when you are eliminated.
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Speaker 1: Every player meets with the organization. So it's not new,
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Speaker 1: it's not outraged. It's a little different when you're the headliner,
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Speaker 1: so that part of it is different. But if you
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Speaker 1: use your brain on this one and look at all
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Speaker 1: of the evidence. We've talked about this in previous episodes,
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Speaker 1: if you go RoboCop and use your cyborg X ray vision,
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Speaker 1: read the room. Like the Bucks have had three consecutive
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Speaker 1: first round playoff exits, bye.
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Speaker 2: Bye in the first round. There's all kinds of rumors swirling.
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Speaker 1: That the Rockets, who are in this series we just
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Speaker 1: talked about with the Warriors, they're going to make a
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Speaker 1: run at Giannis. The Warriors are going to try to
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Speaker 1: throw some players together. Oklahoma City that's got every draft
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Speaker 1: pick for the next thirty years, is going to try
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Speaker 1: to trade some of those and they're all going to
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Speaker 1: make big offers, multiple first.
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Speaker 2: Round picks, young players, all that stuff. So the Greek
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Speaker 2: freak will under cover ask.
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Speaker 1: To enter the portal.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be like, I'm okay, I want to kind
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Speaker 2: of go to the.
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Speaker 1: Portal, and he'll do it subtly like it's kind of
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Speaker 1: like that response he gave the other night when Giannis
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Speaker 1: was asked if he thinks he can still win championships
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Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, and rather than saying yes, I think I
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Speaker 1: can win championships with the Milwaukee Bucks or no, I
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Speaker 1: don't we have to get better, Yannis gave a non
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Speaker 1: answer answer.
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Speaker 2: He said, quote, I'm not gonna do this.
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Speaker 1: Whatever I say, I know it's going to translate. I
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Speaker 1: don't know, man, I wish I was still playing. So
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Speaker 1: he is correct. Whatever he said would be used, and
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Speaker 1: that was used, okay, and it is used, and it
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Speaker 1: is fair. It is red meat. He didn't say yes.
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Speaker 1: He wanted to. He wanted to say no. However, he
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Speaker 1: refused to take the bait. He just said I don't know,
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Speaker 1: which is a way of saying no. And how has
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Speaker 1: Doc Rivers not been fired? Wouldn't that be the if
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Speaker 1: you own the box, wouldn't that be the first That's
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Speaker 1: the easiest move, that should be the first move you make.
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Speaker 1: You just say bye bye and you get rid of
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Speaker 1: Doc Rivers, Like why does that not happen?
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Speaker 2: Like what are you waiting for?
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Speaker 1: What bother? Going through the charades with Doc Rivers? He stinks. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's the most replaceable part of professional sports is coach
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Speaker 1: in basketball or hockey.
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Speaker 2: So just get rid of him.
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Speaker 1: That's it. See you later, Osta Lavista, Bye bye, get
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Speaker 1: playoffs here. We'll get back to it right now, but
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Speaker 1: we will get back to it. And the Golden State
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Speaker 1: Warriors conceding a game, not putting the starters back in
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Speaker 1: even though it was a workable number in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 2: And if you win that game, you don't have to worry.
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Speaker 1: About rest because you're resting up until the next round
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Speaker 1: of the plus, meaning you win that game and you're
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Speaker 1: good to go, as opposed to having to rest to
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Speaker 1: play the game on Friday night. But that was not
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Speaker 1: the strategy that they chose. Also, next hour, we are
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Speaker 1: so we look forward to that. Shane and the Moys
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Speaker 1: says a plus on the male of the monologue as usual,
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Speaker 1: as consistent as the Lakers choking in the playoffs, Nature
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Speaker 1: Boy says, who could hate a smiley faced emoji? Answering
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Speaker 1: the call to the Wild Eugene in Chicago where the
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Speaker 1: Pizza's Deep Dish and the Takes or Not says the
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Speaker 1: Greek Freak should play in San Antonio. Mad Jack writes
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Speaker 1: and says, I've been told I look like Steve Kerr
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Speaker 1: or he looks like me. Either way, I stopped outside
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Speaker 1: of a target. He says, I was stopped outside of
20:26
Speaker 1: a target for my autograph. Alas I digress my look
20:32
Speaker 1: alike mismanaged that game. We should really wake Arnie Spanier up.
20:35
Speaker 2: He's hanging out in Vermont.
20:36
Speaker 1: We should call Arnie and say, hey, Arnie, that's your
20:39
Speaker 1: old high school buddy Steve Kerr, Like, what's going on
20:41
Speaker 1: with that? What are you doing? Arnie? Pour some maple
20:48
Speaker 1: syrup out on that one. Nature Boy says, I missed
20:51
Speaker 1: our number one. Did you happen to discuss the Lakers collapse? Well,
20:54
Speaker 1: I was very measured, Nature Boy. I did not take
20:56
Speaker 1: a strong opinion. You know, as a talk show host
20:58
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to have strong as because someone could
21:01
Speaker 1: be offended. So I was very measured with my commentary
21:03
Speaker 1: on the Lakers. And you can go back and download
21:06
Speaker 1: the podcast. It'll be up in a little bit. Now
21:08
Speaker 1: we have some grumblin We have some grumblin here. Steve
21:11
Speaker 1: Kerr postgame, and he started out rather light and delicate
21:18
Speaker 1: regarding how the Rockets are defending Steph Curry.
21:22
Speaker 2: But when you break down.
21:23
Speaker 1: Word for word what Steve Kerr said among the quote,
21:26
Speaker 1: he said, on every release, Steph's getting hit.
21:30
Speaker 2: This is how the league wants it right now, he said.
21:33
Speaker 1: He also said, I know we got thirty coaches who
21:36
Speaker 1: all think it's just idiotic that we allow this. He
21:41
Speaker 1: complained and grumbled and said that that's why Steph Curry
21:46
Speaker 1: is missing shots, which am I wrong to interpret it
21:50
Speaker 1: this way? That this is an admission that Steph Curry
21:55
Speaker 1: could not have played in the nineties, that Steph.
21:58
Speaker 2: Curry is a product modern basketball.
22:01
Speaker 1: That the fact that they are in his face defensively
22:06
Speaker 1: and they're defending Steph Curry with lockdown defense, that he
22:10
Speaker 1: is getting physically defended and the league is allowing that,
22:16
Speaker 1: and Curry can't make shots consistently. That this is an
22:20
Speaker 1: admission by Steve Kerr subtly that Steph Curry is not
22:26
Speaker 1: a player that's a general meaning, not a player who
22:29
Speaker 1: could have played in the previous generations where they did
22:32
Speaker 1: have defense in your face and in that kind of thing.
22:35
Speaker 1: So anyway, all right, let's go to the phones, and
22:40
Speaker 1: who do we have here?
22:41
Speaker 2: Eeny Meani miny mode.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to E Dog in New York.
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Speaker 2: Hello, E Dog, Welcome, Hey Ben.
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Speaker 5: Now how's it going, buddy?
22:50
Speaker 1: What's going in? What's going on in your world? E Dog?
22:53
Speaker 6: Okay?
22:53
Speaker 7: First of all, if Towns plays Rando in the finals,
22:57
Speaker 7: and the great accomplishment for both of them because they're
23:01
Speaker 7: playing on some good teams.
23:03
Speaker 5: But I gotta ask you a question. Okay, now listen
23:06
Speaker 5: to this. I have three dates coming up and the
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Speaker 5: next week I have Melissa, Christa and Elizabeth. Who do
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Speaker 5: you think I should take?
23:17
Speaker 1: I thought you were dating Melissa. I thought that was
23:19
Speaker 1: the girl you were dating her.
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Speaker 7: We just became friends again. And Chris and Elizabeth like
23:27
Speaker 7: me too.
23:27
Speaker 5: So I don't know what to do.
23:29
Speaker 1: Well, then if you're in the friend zone, you gotta
23:31
Speaker 1: once you're going the friend zone, you don't go out
23:33
Speaker 1: of the friend zone.
23:34
Speaker 5: He dog, so literally second base, you know.
23:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're you said, Melissa is in the friend
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Speaker 1: zone territory, right, that's a friend zone.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, right now, right now.
23:44
Speaker 5: Yeah.
23:45
Speaker 7: We brothers a good guy too, he's gonna he We
23:50
Speaker 7: went out for bagels one time, you know, with locks
23:52
Speaker 7: and everything. That was pretty good. He's a great guy.
23:56
Speaker 5: Also.
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Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what are you talking about?
23:58
Speaker 1: We were talking about which you're going to date and
24:01
Speaker 1: then you what did you say?
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Speaker 7: I said, back in the day when I was dating Melissa.
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Speaker 5: Her father, Bobby Goldberg, took me out to eat at
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Speaker 5: the Bangel Shop.
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Speaker 1: Oh well that's big. I mean that's great.
24:14
Speaker 5: Fathers always loved me because I cheat that woman.
24:17
Speaker 6: The daughter's beautiful.
24:19
Speaker 1: Yeah sure, and.
24:21
Speaker 5: Melissa, Melissa said, her father likes me because I'm the
24:26
Speaker 5: only son he ever had.
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Speaker 2: But you're you're not You were never his son. I mean,
24:32
Speaker 2: you didn't marry Melissa.
24:35
Speaker 5: So no, so she did. Also back in the day
24:41
Speaker 5: when I was in partial hospitalization.
24:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, well why why hospitalized?
24:50
Speaker 5: I had a little bit of depression.
24:54
Speaker 1: Oh okay.
24:55
Speaker 7: Anyway, So there was these two girls there that that
24:59
Speaker 7: worked there, and they one was Sonya and one was Jill.
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Speaker 5: So I said to different Dave, who's pretty as Sonya
25:04
Speaker 5: and Jill? And he goes Sonya. I go why and
25:08
Speaker 5: he goes ya. Sonya had a little bit of meat
25:10
Speaker 5: on her. Anyway, I got something.
25:13
Speaker 7: I got a bone to pick with Lorena.
25:15
Speaker 1: If I may, Okay, Lorena e dog has a bone
25:20
Speaker 1: to pick.
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Speaker 3: With you, all right, pick it?
25:23
Speaker 5: Okay? Now, I mean who am I game?
25:26
Speaker 7: She picked Sequille O'Neill.
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Speaker 6: Right, that is correct, now, Sequilla and Neil never had
25:32
Speaker 6: a free vesicle percentage over like forty percent, so it
25:37
Speaker 6: could be him.
25:39
Speaker 1: Well, it was a field The question was field goal percentage,
25:41
Speaker 1: not free throw.
25:42
Speaker 7: Percent You only never had a good field goal percentage anyway.
25:45
Speaker 1: But all he did was dunk.
25:48
Speaker 2: He didn't do anything. You have any other offensive game
25:51
Speaker 2: other than.
25:51
Speaker 7: Don't like like Mitchell Robinson the same same type of guy.
25:55
Speaker 1: Yes, it's very similar Mitchell Robinson in Shaq, very similar player. Correct.
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Speaker 7: Okay, well you should be lucky.
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Speaker 2: I didn't say Felix the Cat. Okay, what's wrong with that?
26:05
Speaker 2: Felix the Cat's got a car dealership in l A.
26:07
Speaker 1: What's wrong with that? You know?
26:09
Speaker 7: Seeing one guy told me he he sell used cars.
26:14
Speaker 1: So here we got here. You got a story for everything,
26:17
Speaker 1: he dogged, you got a story about I mentioned Felix
26:19
Speaker 1: the Cats selling cars.
26:20
Speaker 2: He said, I got a guy in the car business.
26:24
Speaker 5: Yeah.
26:24
Speaker 7: Anyway, So what happened was my grandma story is this.
26:29
Speaker 7: My grandmother took my mom and her girlfriends on the
26:33
Speaker 7: basement and.
26:34
Speaker 5: Said something in Yiddish and if it was over, they said.
26:37
Speaker 7: They said to my mom, what did what did?
26:40
Speaker 5: What did?
26:40
Speaker 7: What did she say? And she said, no sex before marriage?
26:45
Speaker 5: Now I'm gonna go lay Keppie.
26:46
Speaker 1: All right, okay, all right, thank you, go away.
26:51
Speaker 8: But I'm curious why everyone.
26:53
Speaker 2: Was being you know, where that call was hold on?
26:55
Speaker 1: He that call was for takda.
26:57
Speaker 2: That was what that call was. Yes, that's you know
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Speaker 2: what that means.
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Speaker 1: No, I'll tell you later. Yeah.
27:05
Speaker 2: And he's a Schmendrick.
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Speaker 1: You see that, e dog. You're a Schmendrick, is what
27:08
Speaker 1: you are. I did I learned yet? My grandfather was
27:13
Speaker 1: spoke the Yiddis squad. But let's go to MGM John,
27:16
Speaker 1: who's in vags now. We have not talked to MGM
27:19
Speaker 1: John on a regular basis in a long time. I
27:23
Speaker 1: see that name up there, I'm like, this is a
27:24
Speaker 1: classic caller. It like, this is one of the guys
27:28
Speaker 1: from the old days. Hello, MGM. John, Welcome, Pokey.
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Speaker 9: Pokey pokey, mister Ben Mallor. It is a great day
27:36
Speaker 9: for the Clipper Nations. The People Team, that's a Laker
27:40
Speaker 9: historian era has finally ended. No more of Lebron James,
27:46
Speaker 9: no more hearing we're gonna win the title. Nope, We're done.
27:51
Speaker 9: The People Team will finally win our title this year
27:55
Speaker 9: and this year only.
27:57
Speaker 2: You know why it's hit the clip.
27:59
Speaker 1: That's why it's hip two clip. That's why exactly.
28:05
Speaker 9: We're gonna win Game six, We're gonna win Game seven.
28:08
Speaker 9: We're gonna upset the Thunder, and we're gonna be whoever's
28:11
Speaker 9: in the Conference finals, and we're gonna be whoever's in
28:13
Speaker 9: the Eastern Conference. And that one title will invalidate the
28:18
Speaker 9: twelve titles that these Laker historians claim they won fairly.
28:23
Speaker 1: No, we do not believe that is that is correct?
28:26
Speaker 9: They want?
28:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right now. All it takes is one Clipper
28:29
Speaker 1: championship and it erases everything that the Lakers have done,
28:32
Speaker 1: and that as one hundred percent correct. That's a great take.
28:35
Speaker 1: You know what, you get a golden take it, you get,
28:37
Speaker 1: a golden take it you get. I would assume you're
28:44
Speaker 1: not working at night anymore. M MGM, John, you're not
28:47
Speaker 1: working at night anymore.
28:48
Speaker 2: Right, you're done with that?
28:50
Speaker 9: No, No, I'm slow. I'm working niceful like I haven't
28:52
Speaker 9: had the time to call into the show.
28:54
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well, it's good to hear that you're
28:56
Speaker 2: still out there. I hope you still listen. You know,
28:59
Speaker 2: it's good to hear you.
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Speaker 1: So oh.
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Speaker 9: I try to listen every night.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I appreciate that.
29:04
Speaker 2: We'll be in Vegas at some point, probably in July.
29:07
Speaker 1: We don't have a date on that yet, but we're
29:09
Speaker 1: gonna do a Malord meet and greet sometime in the summer.
29:13
Speaker 1: Gonna wait till it's like one hundred and thirty degrees
29:15
Speaker 1: in Vegas and then we'll go hang out for for
29:18
Speaker 1: a night. Have a great time. Bam Bam cam right,
29:22
Speaker 1: since says, I believe what you are saying, Ben, is
29:24
Speaker 1: that Steph.
29:25
Speaker 2: Curry is soft. No, I didn't say, you know what
29:29
Speaker 2: we need on this show.
29:30
Speaker 1: We need the play of the day is what we need,
29:35
Speaker 1: and yes we do. Who does not enjoy the play
29:40
Speaker 1: of the day. So here's what we're gonna do. We're
29:41
Speaker 1: gonna go back to that Laker Minnesota game and Rudy
29:46
Speaker 1: go Bear, Rudy go Bear.
29:49
Speaker 2: Listen up, kids, this guy was.
29:54
Speaker 1: Possessed by the gods of basketball.
29:58
Speaker 2: It is the tai Iraq play of the day. And
30:02
Speaker 2: here it is.
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Speaker 4: Ran along the run, bumps into reason, bangs him out
30:05
Speaker 4: of the way, he floats up the shot.
30:06
Speaker 1: No good slam follow Rudy gobear?
30:09
Speaker 2: What the game for?
30:10
Speaker 1: Rue? He is having a monster night ferocious on the glass.
30:17
Speaker 2: There it is, And that is a guy that I
30:20
Speaker 2: know that used.
30:21
Speaker 1: To work here, part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association,
30:24
Speaker 1: the great Alan Horton. Holy crap, he's in his seventeenth season.
30:29
Speaker 2: Is the radio play by play voice of your Minnesota Timberwolves.
30:32
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm getting old. But he used to
30:35
Speaker 1: fill in for me back in the day, and he's
30:36
Speaker 1: done great called a lot of bad basketball games over
30:39
Speaker 1: the years there in Minnesota. But it's nice to see
30:41
Speaker 1: the Wolves are good. And so that is the call
30:44
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's wild man.
31:15
Speaker 1: I do not believe he's been there seventeen years now.
31:18
Speaker 2: It seems like he's only been there a few years.
31:20
Speaker 2: But seventeen years.
31:21
Speaker 1: FERG Dog Right since sys great call by MGM John,
31:25
Speaker 1: the Clipper fans are so much more reasonable and smarter
31:30
Speaker 1: than the Faker fans. Joe the Ghost Hunter says the
31:33
Speaker 1: new worst caller of the year is e Dog, And
31:37
Speaker 1: yet Bill says that that caller was eloquent. He was
31:40
Speaker 1: eloquent that I don't know about that, not so much,
31:45
Speaker 1: not so much anyway. It is the Ben Mather Show.
31:48
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention this.
31:48
Speaker 2: Now, Dylan the chillin villain, Dylan Brooks of the Rockets.
31:54
Speaker 1: He was asked postgame on he said the war He
31:58
Speaker 1: was asked the question saying the Warrior broadcaster were claiming
32:00
Speaker 1: that he was intentionally targeting Steph Curry's thumb. Steph Curry's
32:04
Speaker 1: got a mangled thumb. Now, Dylan Brooks responded, He said, quote,
32:08
Speaker 1: if I had an ankle injury, I would attack that
32:11
Speaker 1: ankle every single time.
32:13
Speaker 2: So whatever they're.
32:14
Speaker 1: Saying on the broadcast, they can keep saying it close quote,
32:19
Speaker 1: which is his way of saying he is absolutely targeting
32:23
Speaker 1: Steph Curry's thumb.
32:25
Speaker 2: Does anyone have a problem with that?
32:28
Speaker 1: I don't. That isn't that how it works? Like that's
32:30
Speaker 1: why you try to keep that stuff on the down low.
32:33
Speaker 2: And you're like, all everything's fine, And.
32:36
Speaker 1: I think in hockey, you know, they got rid of
32:39
Speaker 1: the hockey guy on the show.
32:40
Speaker 2: But in hockey, they won't even say if you have
32:42
Speaker 2: like a knee or an ankle injury. They'll say you
32:44
Speaker 2: have a lower leg injury.
32:46
Speaker 1: They won't even get specific because in hockey they'll just
32:48
Speaker 1: take the stick and whack your knee.
32:49
Speaker 2: If you've got a bad knee, I don't care.
32:52
Speaker 1: And in basketball, in any sport, like you're a football
32:56
Speaker 1: player and you got a bad ankle, somebody's gonna step
33:00
Speaker 1: on your ankle. That's just kind of how that works.
33:03
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Mallard to the third degree. Malard of
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Speaker 1: the third degree. We'll get to that coming up here
33:08
Speaker 1: in a moment time now though for the insta trivia,
33:12
Speaker 1: and we'll go back to pro bouncy ball one more time.
33:15
Speaker 1: Houston's Amen Thompson is just the fifth player in NBA
33:20
Speaker 1: history to have twenty five or more points, five or
33:22
Speaker 1: more steals, three or more blocks in a playoff game.
33:25
Speaker 1: He joins Rockets legend Akeem Elijahwan.
33:29
Speaker 2: Who was at that game.
33:30
Speaker 1: He did it twice the round mound to rebound, Charles Barkley,
33:34
Speaker 1: Elvin Hayes, and Blank as the only players to do it.
33:38
Speaker 1: Amen Thompson just the fifth player in NBA history to
33:42
Speaker 1: have twenty five or more points, five or more steals,
33:44
Speaker 1: three or more blocks in a playoff game.
33:46
Speaker 2: He joins a Keem Elijahwan, who did.
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Speaker 1: It twice, Charles Barkley, Elvin Hayes, and Blank as the
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Speaker 1: only players to do it in the postseason. That is
33:55
Speaker 1: the Insta Trivia. The answer, We'll get to it. We'll
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Speaker 1: do it next.
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34:44
Speaker 1: Time now for the always popular Insta trivia where we
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Speaker 1: And here is the Insta Trivia question of the hour,
35:20
Speaker 1: and we'll get to Mallard of the third degree. We
35:22
Speaker 1: go to pro Bouncy Ball one more time, where Houston's
35:25
Speaker 1: I'm and Thompson is just the fifth player in NBA
35:28
Speaker 1: history to have twenty five or more points, five or
35:30
Speaker 1: more steals, three or more blocks in a playoff game.
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Speaker 1: He joins Akeem, Elijahwan who did it twice? Charles Barkley,
35:37
Speaker 1: Elvin Hayes, and blank. That is the Insta trivia What
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Speaker 1: is the answer, And let's see does anyone know the answer?
35:46
Speaker 1: We go to the Great Unwashed here and I forty
35:51
Speaker 1: Ian says sweet Judy blue Eyes Judy Collins, who is
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Speaker 1: eighty six today? That's incorrect. Stee me, Meatball's a name.
36:02
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is? Bay City Tony going
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Speaker 1: with Allen, not Alan Horton, but Tito Horford as his answer. Well,
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Speaker 1: that did shock me that he's been there seventeen years
36:12
Speaker 1: as the voice of the Wolves. Holy crap, where does
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Speaker 1: the time go? Oh my Charlie d Emilio TikTok Dancer
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Speaker 1: who is twenty one today from the Late Night You've
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Speaker 1: never heard of?
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Speaker 2: Is she famous? A TikTok dancer?
36:26
Speaker 1: Really? Alf the Alien Ol Pinter is going with lee Ilia.
36:29
Speaker 1: We have to play the lee Ilia tape at some
36:32
Speaker 1: point here at the anniversary of the greatest rant in
36:34
Speaker 1: the history of rants. Bobby and Florida's going with Brian Bosworth,
36:39
Speaker 1: Lucas Allen from Johnny Q, Tyreek Hill from Ozzi Waz
36:44
Speaker 1: stealing in his new movie Tony's En Dahas from mad Jack.
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Speaker 2: All right, Lorraine, do you have an answer? Lorraine?
36:52
Speaker 1: Yes, my guest was going to be mister Elvis Presley,
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Speaker 1: Elvis the King.
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Speaker 2: All right, is it Elvis?
36:58
Speaker 1: Question? Still alive?
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Speaker 5: Though?
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Speaker 1: Elvis Presley, he's working at a bo Jangles somewhere in Tennessee. No,
37:06
Speaker 1: that is incorrect. The correct answer is Rick Barry Very.
37:13
Speaker 1: That's a basketball player.
37:14
Speaker 2: He used to play for the Golden State Warriors back
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Speaker 2: fifty years ago. Here we go here, how about that?
37:20
Speaker 1: To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets Grillo.
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Speaker 8: So the San Francisco forty nine ers gave star tight
37:30
Speaker 8: end George Kittle a four year extension that makes him
37:32
Speaker 8: the highest paid tight end in the league. Ben, do
37:34
Speaker 8: you think this extension has any impact on brock Purty's extension.
37:39
Speaker 1: No, it's it's apples and oranges. You're talking about a
37:41
Speaker 1: tight end versus a quarterback, and the fact that brock
37:44
Speaker 1: Perty hasn't signed a contract yet indicates they're far apart.
37:48
Speaker 1: And if the Niners are smart, and I hope they're not,
37:51
Speaker 1: I hope they're dumb.
37:52
Speaker 2: But if they're smart, they'll just.
37:53
Speaker 1: Go year to year with brock Purdy, franchise, tag him,
37:56
Speaker 1: and then dump him.
37:57
Speaker 2: But the two things are unrelated.
37:58
Speaker 1: Although the fact that George Kittle is there helps brock
38:02
Speaker 1: Perty because brock Perty's he doesn't make players around him better,
38:06
Speaker 1: They make him better, which is not the normal quarterback
38:09
Speaker 1: teammate relationship. But in terms of the finances, it doesn't matter.
38:13
Speaker 1: It's a different position.
38:14
Speaker 2: Next.
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Speaker 8: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver spoke to the media on Monday
38:18
Speaker 8: and said that the league wants to fix the All
38:19
Speaker 8: Star Game by adopting a similar format as to what
38:22
Speaker 8: the NHL did with their four Nations face off.
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Speaker 1: Ben, do you think this will fix the All Star
38:26
Speaker 1: Game for the NBA? No, it's Adam Silver stealing off
38:31
Speaker 1: Gary Bettman's paper is what he's doing. The problem with
38:35
Speaker 1: the All Star Game is nobody in the All Star
38:38
Speaker 1: Game cares about the All Star Game. It's a nusance,
38:42
Speaker 1: like it's the weirdest thing in the NBA. Because like
38:44
Speaker 1: the players love going to All Star Weekend. It's like
38:46
Speaker 1: a big deal. There's a lot of parties all Star
38:48
Speaker 1: Weekend in the NBA. It's a great social event. But
38:51
Speaker 1: playing in the game is an annoyance. And it doesn't
38:55
Speaker 1: matter whether it's representing countries or not.
38:58
Speaker 2: It's not gonna the needle.
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Speaker 1: Now in terms of fans support, people love the flag.
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Speaker 1: They love wrapping something themselves in the flag, so that
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Speaker 1: part of it people will be into it. But if
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Speaker 1: the players aren't into it, it's not gonna matter. If
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Speaker 1: the players are just going through the motions, which they
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Speaker 1: always do, they always do now in the NBA, the
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Speaker 1: players are soft.
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Speaker 8: Next, Travis Hunter has the early lead on rookie jersey
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Speaker 8: sales over cam Ward. Now, Ben, do you think Hunter
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Speaker 8: still leads all rookies and jersey sales by the end
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Speaker 8: of the season.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's it's going to be an offensive player, right,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's neither one of those teams is a
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Speaker 1: national team.
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Speaker 2: The Titans are not. They're a regional team.
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville's even more regional than the Tennessee Titans are. It's
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Speaker 1: just there's no one there other than those two, Like
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Speaker 1: who else Shulder.
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Speaker 2: Sanders was a fifth round pick.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, at this point, Travis Hunter is going to
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Speaker 1: get a fair amount of opportunity with Jacksonville.
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Speaker 2: So I say that will hold.
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Speaker 1: How did we do that is a put on. I've
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Speaker 1: won more
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Speaker 2: Times than anyone else that Mallardy with where the game