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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: In all weekends. Basketball Poloser I was like one or
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  Speaker 1: two DC games. Welcome in the beginning of another week
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  Speaker 1: of the Ben Mahler Show. We are in the air
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  Speaker 1: everywhares we rub elbows, and boy do we rub them
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  Speaker 1: from the theater of the mind, coast to coast, border
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  Speaker 1: the border, and beyond on the vast in tantalizingly powerful
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  Speaker 1: microphones of FSR emmating live from inside the greasy spoon,
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  Speaker 1: frying up, piping hot sports takes under the cover of
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  Speaker 1: darkness from the Fox Sports Radio studios as we hang
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  Speaker 1: out side by side, and we begin the festivus of
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  Speaker 1: talk here with the last game that was played, and
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  Speaker 1: it was eastern night. Now still on the west, it's
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  Speaker 1: still eastern night, but the end of Day two of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA card And I don't know if you were
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  Speaker 1: watching all this, maybe a es she's do something else,
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  Speaker 1: but I checked it out. I consumed the product. It
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  Speaker 1: kind of goes with a job. So we watched it
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  Speaker 1: so you would not have to to comment to comment
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  Speaker 1: on the events that took place over the weekend. So
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  Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball. If you hate pro bouncy ball, you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna like the next couple of months because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pro bouncy ball. But we do have the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Draft which is coming up later this week, which
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  Speaker 1: is which is a good NFL draft, So we have
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  Speaker 1: that to break it up. But we're gonna start in
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  Speaker 1: the lone Star State where the number two seeded rock
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  Speaker 1: Cats we're playing host to the Stephen Curry numbers seven,
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  Speaker 1: number seven. We don't have a seven. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: a button. We don't have it. We need a set.
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  Speaker 1: We need the ones, the twos, the trees, the fourth,
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  Speaker 1: the five, the sixth, the seventh, the eights, and the nines.
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  Speaker 1: We need. If we have all of those, we're good.
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  Speaker 1: So we can have random listers just call up and
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  Speaker 1: just start singing different numbers and then we have every number,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're gonna need the a's, the b's, the c's,
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  Speaker 1: the d's, the e's. The end, we'll go through the
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  Speaker 1: whole alphabet and we'll have a letter and we'll have
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  Speaker 1: a number for everything. But anyway, I don't saw the
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  Speaker 1: game or night. It was the last game they played
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  Speaker 1: end not too long before we cracked the microphones here
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  Speaker 1: on on FSR. So the Warriors tray for very little,
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  Speaker 1: like none. They dominated, I mean early, very early in
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  Speaker 1: the game, but the wars led by as many as
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  Speaker 1: twenty three points, and then there was, as it typically happens,
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  Speaker 1: Houston snaked their way back into the game a little
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  Speaker 1: bit down by nine entering the fourth quarter. I never
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  Speaker 1: got the feeling that the Rockets were going to actually
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  Speaker 1: win the game, and that turned out to be the case.
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  Speaker 1: My premonition was accurate. Now Stephen Curry twelve of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: from the four, did not hit a three point shot
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  Speaker 1: for a while, but then ended up five of nine
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  Speaker 1: from three point land, and Jimmy Butler getting her done
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  Speaker 1: there with twenty five points, seven rebound, six assists, five steals,
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  Speaker 1: and a partridge in a paar tree. As a game
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  Speaker 1: two will be played next month. No game two will
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  Speaker 1: be Wednesday, because you know it's very difficult to play
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  Speaker 1: games more than two days apart. My god, So the
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  Speaker 1: next game will be on Wednesday there and in Houston,
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  Speaker 1: so they will continue. Now you know the way it
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  Speaker 1: works here. The better story is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: And so let us discuss the events that took place
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  Speaker 1: there in Houston. Who gets the blame bowl of tex
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  Speaker 1: mechs for the Roquets as they lose home court advantage
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  Speaker 1: in their first game out in this particular series. So
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  Speaker 1: I have brand ambassadors, sandwich board, and hall pass, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to make a wonderful, delicious plate filled with
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  Speaker 1: banana cream pie. Right, say a little dish there with
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  Speaker 1: banana cream pie. All right? So a the Sins watching
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets, and the Rockets are a physically talented team.
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  Speaker 1: They're a younger team. They won a bunch of games
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  Speaker 1: actually tried during the regular season, and so you racked
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  Speaker 1: up a lot of wins and all that stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: it's great. The way you look at these things, it's
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  Speaker 1: OCAM's razor. The most obvious is usually the right answer.
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  Speaker 1: On these things, and I mean people overlook the obvious
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  Speaker 1: to try to find more complex explanations for the outcome
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  Speaker 1: of events. I don't believe it's that deep. It's just sports.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that deep. And it's right in front of
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  Speaker 1: your schnaz right in front of your schnaz. Here when
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  Speaker 1: you look at it, you got Jalen Green on one
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  Speaker 1: side and Fred van Vliet on the other side. High
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  Speaker 1: crimes and misdemeanors for these two. Who stinks well those
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  Speaker 1: two right off the top. Now it was like an
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  Speaker 1: urban legend playing out in the NBA playoffs right in
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  Speaker 1: front of Ryse. And now normally it's just the vanishing hitchhiker
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  Speaker 1: that just gets in the car and then you don't
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  Speaker 1: know where they went and what happened, And or you
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  Speaker 1: see them off in the distance, you get closer, they're
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  Speaker 1: not there. You don't know. But these guys Green and
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  Speaker 1: Van Vliet were brand ambassadors for preparation age. They played
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  Speaker 1: like they had hemorrhoids and watching them, you thought you
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  Speaker 1: had Hemorrhoy's how bad was it? It was so bad.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Green three of fifteen from the floor aer four
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  Speaker 1: from Downtown. Van Vliet who's got playoff experience from the
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  Speaker 1: stays in Toronto four of nineteen from the floor. So
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  Speaker 1: if you do the math, the Rockets starting backcourt was
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  Speaker 1: outscored by twenty eight points by Golden State, just backcourt
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  Speaker 1: to backcourt, Mono Amano, the Warriors starting backcourt shot fifty
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  Speaker 1: three percent from the floor. The Rockets starting backcourt attempted
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  Speaker 1: a total of thirty four shots and they made seven
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  Speaker 1: of them, which sucks anywhere you go. The rest of
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  Speaker 1: the team, the Rockets, if you take the back court
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  Speaker 1: out right in the Gifson Botts, Candy Nuts, the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the back court or the rest of the front
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  Speaker 1: court and everyone else outscored the Warriors by eighteen. How
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  Speaker 1: about on the other you've got Stephen Curry and how
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  Speaker 1: is he feeling? How's Golden State feeling right about now?
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  Speaker 1: After this performance in Game one? So this is the blueprint.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of clear that this is the blueprint, right
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  Speaker 1: and nothing radical. This is why they went on got
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, playoff Jimmy, as the legend goes Jimmy Butler.
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  Speaker 1: It was a prototypical type performance and fortunately the NBA
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  Speaker 1: giving the Warriors lots of time off in between games,
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  Speaker 1: so they don't they don't have to worry about that.
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  Speaker 1: They'll rest and relaxation, enjoy Houston to go back out
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  Speaker 1: and play on Wednesday. Now to the dust Bowl. A
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  Speaker 1: game that was so bad? How bad was it was
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  Speaker 1: so bad? We need to mention the number one seed
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  Speaker 1: in the entire NBA Oklahoma City in the Western Conference.
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  Speaker 1: There they put on a clinic and it wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: a click. I don't believe that does justice to what
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  Speaker 1: happened in this particular game, the smashing of the grizz
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  Speaker 1: in Memphis. Memphis is completely torn to bits in Okay,
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  Speaker 1: see now, a fifty one point margin. An NBA team
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  Speaker 1: that made the playoffs, granted they were in the plane,
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  Speaker 1: lost a game by fifty one points. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: how bad one has to play to lose a game
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  Speaker 1: by fifty one points? And it's just stunning. And now
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  Speaker 1: John Morand attempted to reassure the fan base that things
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  Speaker 1: are going to be okay, that it will never get
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  Speaker 1: this bad again. Let's go to the audio tape, take
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  Speaker 1: a listen.
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  Speaker 2: We'd never no play about it again. Defensive intensity, they
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of easy looks, which pretty much getting
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  Speaker 2: you know wherever they wanted on the floor and offensively
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  Speaker 2: taking care of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive intensity. I think my fat ass could have played
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  Speaker 1: better defense than those guys. There was no defensive intention
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  Speaker 1: all right, So Ja moran, they're not real confident. As
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  Speaker 1: he attempted to reassure the fan base that everything will
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  Speaker 1: be okay, and he said that money quote, we will
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  Speaker 1: never play that bad again. Is that strong enough? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that was a rhetorical question. Of course, it's not strong enough. No,
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be the franchise player here. I am
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  Speaker 1: a franchise were here. I'm talking about a game, a
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  Speaker 1: playoff game, a playoff game we lost by fifty one points.
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  Speaker 1: My god, fire the coach again. Where's Taylor Jenkins? Fire
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  Speaker 1: him again? Not the coach? Fire him again. You've lost
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  Speaker 1: a playoff game by fifty one points. And I flashed
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  Speaker 1: back years ago when I started out and radio, I
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  Speaker 1: covered the NBA regularly and one of the people he's
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  Speaker 1: long gone now, Bill Fitch. It was a Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame coach, and he explained to me that no matter
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  Speaker 1: how bad one team is compared to the other team
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  Speaker 1: in terms of talent, per see the perception of talent
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  Speaker 1: He explained to me, if the lesser team plays with
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  Speaker 1: the proper effort and energy and plays the fundamentally sound
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  Speaker 1: way of basketball, they will not get blown out. That
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  Speaker 1: if you just put the effort in that you can
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  Speaker 1: the gap the talent gap. UH. And I watched, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: whoa that is? I thought. I thought maybe my phone
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  Speaker 1: had glitched when I looked at the score, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, ah, no, I must not be right. I
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  Speaker 1: mean maybe somebody hacked the uh, the website that I
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  Speaker 1: used to look at the score, and then I turned
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  Speaker 1: it on and I was like, oh my god, what
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  Speaker 1: a monstrosity. This is unbelievable. I mean, holy Canoli. This
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  Speaker 1: is not the vomit comment that the vomit commet is
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  Speaker 1: not strong enough here. This is somebody needs to be
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  Speaker 1: court martialed. There needs to be a court martial here.
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  Speaker 1: Naming and shaming. I'm talking about sensing multiple people and
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  Speaker 1: you can go down the list. There's like seven or
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  Speaker 1: eight prime suspects here who need to wear the sandwich
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  Speaker 1: board and walk outside the arena, and the sandwich board
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  Speaker 1: can point out how they violated, uh, the the tenants
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  Speaker 1: of basketball competition and all that, and they're guilty of
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  Speaker 1: dereliction of duties. Man, That is what does a game
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  Speaker 1: by fifty one points? I mean, oh, Oklahoma City's great,
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  Speaker 1: They're not that much greater than Memphis, Mike got all right.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Last word to Boston we go, where the Celtics were
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  Speaker 1: trailing midway through, but in the end they dominated when
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  Speaker 1: they they pulled away there in the second half and
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  Speaker 1: they d up winning. Jason Tatum though the story here
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  Speaker 1: not the game with Orlando. The story is Jason Tatum.
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  Speaker 1: Was it a snap crackle pop situation? Tatum? He came
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  Speaker 1: down tumbling down on his wrist. Oh, my aching wrist,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll postgame X ray situation for Jason Tatum. He
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  Speaker 1: said of his right wrist, it was clean, the X
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  Speaker 1: ray said, he said, was clean, and he was all right,
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  Speaker 1: all right, he said. He came down there in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. As Jason Tatum ended up playing, he had
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  Speaker 1: seven seventeen points eight of twenty two. Didn't do much
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  Speaker 1: anything early in the game, played nearly forty minutes of
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  Speaker 1: game time here. The injury happened with eight twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: to go in the fourth quarter, and he was driving
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  Speaker 1: for a dunk attempt at the rim and ow aUI
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  Speaker 1: aUI Kazawi. I think that's the actual sound aUI Kazawi's
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  Speaker 1: what he said. Possibly not. So question do you believe
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe Jason Tatum when he says his wrist
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  Speaker 1: is all right, and he also said the X rays
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  Speaker 1: were cleaned? You believe? Do you believe all that? So
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  Speaker 1: my position on this is whether the X ray was
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  Speaker 1: clean or not. I assume it was, and him saying
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  Speaker 1: he's all right, my position on that is it's not cracked.
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  Speaker 1: It's not cracked. However, Tatum now has something very valuable
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  Speaker 1: for the next three or four games, possibly longer than that.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a Hall pass. He starts clanking up missus,
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  Speaker 1: he's got well, you know, it's in my wrist, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to fight through it, trying to fight through
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  Speaker 1: the wrisk problem. And he's got the immunity papers. If
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  Speaker 1: he starts making a brick house the old brick house there,
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  Speaker 1: clanking jumpers right and left and just not being very efficient.
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  Speaker 1: So this this has the makings of what a gentleman's sweep,
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  Speaker 1: as they like to call it, in the playoffs, where
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  Speaker 1: you end up winning the games at home. You lose
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  Speaker 1: Game three, and then you bounce back and win the
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  Speaker 1: next couple and winning five, and that's that the Celtics
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  Speaker 1: flipping the switch in the second half of that game,
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  Speaker 1: and so they end up winning by a comfortable margin
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  Speaker 1: at home against Orlando.
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  Speaker 1: All dressed up for a dud, welcome in not beginning
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  Speaker 1: of another hour of the Ben Malor Show. We are
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  Speaker 1: provide the pulse of the night. There is still a
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  Speaker 1: I know JJ in Renton loves to ring bells unless
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't. But here we are hanging out together again
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  Speaker 1: this hour and our lead to begin the hour, we
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  Speaker 1: continue our in depth team coverage from Pro bouncy Ball,
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  Speaker 1: Round and Round and Round. Now we talked about the
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  Speaker 1: games that were played on Sunday, not too much to
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  Speaker 1: dissect there. Lopsided everywhere pretty much, I mean nothing. They
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  Speaker 1: came down to the bitter end in that. But we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna turn our focus to what happened on Saturday over
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  Speaker 1: the week, and we'll pick apart the games on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Get back to the conversation here. We'll start out on
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  Speaker 1: skid row. That's where the Lakers found themselves, appropriately enough,
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  Speaker 1: because they played like they were on skid row as
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota tim Wolves mollywopped. That was a mollywopping is
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  Speaker 1: what it was by Minnesota against the Lakers. A beat
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  Speaker 1: down in La La Land. How great was that to watch?
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  Speaker 1: How sweet was that? God? I loved it? Man was
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  Speaker 1: at a great game? Beautiful? Need to package that, need
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  Speaker 1: that every day. Can we get three more of those
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  Speaker 1: from Minnesota? Three more of those games? Anthony Edwards did
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  Speaker 1: not lead the way. He was not the person driving
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  Speaker 1: the train, the locomotive. No, no, no, he was in
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  Speaker 1: the middle. It wasn't like a box car. He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: leading the way. He did flirt with a triple w
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  Speaker 1: He had twenty two points and Jaden McDaniels mcmagic for
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota twenty five points, eleven of thirteen He took thirteen
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  Speaker 1: shots in a playoff game on the road, a hostile
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  Speaker 1: environment with all those Hollywood celebrities there ready to boo him,
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  Speaker 1: and he only missed two shots eleven of thirteen nine
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  Speaker 1: rebounds for the Minnesota basketball team. The Lakers were completely emasculated.
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  Speaker 1: How masculated was it for the pathetic Lakers on their
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  Speaker 1: home floor in game one of a playoff series? Even
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  Speaker 1: Magic Johnson, by his standards unloaded. Magic took to social media.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, he doesn't actually use social media. What he
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  Speaker 1: does is he calls someone who does know how to
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  Speaker 1: use social media and then they put the message out verbatim.
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  Speaker 1: So he'll like say, hey, here's here's the deal. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like in court, you know, have that person
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  Speaker 1: with the typewriter. They're typing out everything right there, going is,
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  Speaker 1: Magic calls someone up and they type it all out.
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  Speaker 1: So Magic ripped in to the Lakers there. They were
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  Speaker 1: the only home team to lose on Saturday in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and they end up losing that game by twenty something points.
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  Speaker 1: But Magic said it was one of the Lakers' worst
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  Speaker 1: performances this season. Well, that's a bull take. Nobody else
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  Speaker 1: has that take. He said, they were flat, they had
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  Speaker 1: no energy, and they played like it was a regular
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  Speaker 1: season game. W Actually, if they played like a regular
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  Speaker 1: season game, they would have won, because that's usually what
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  Speaker 1: they did in the regular season. But wait, there's more.
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  Speaker 1: Magic also took shots at podcaster JJ Redick, who's pretending
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  Speaker 1: to be a basketball coach. Where's all those basketball media
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  Speaker 1: guys that were licking Reddicks toes? Now after that game,
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  Speaker 1: that's my commentary, not Magic's. Magic said, coach JJ Reddick
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  Speaker 1: did a great job all season, but he didn't do
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  Speaker 1: a good job in game one. Oh, that's that's harsh.
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  Speaker 1: Magic wrote, the Lakers stood around on offense, played too
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  Speaker 1: much one on one basketball, and he meeting Reddick, did
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  Speaker 1: not did not make any necessary adjustments. All right, let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question how much trouble are the Luca
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  Speaker 1: Huka Luka Doncik Lakers in after Game one of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got nineteen nineties rock monster, truck and torts
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  Speaker 1: not torta torts, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we're going to make a giant cookie.
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  Speaker 1: There's a box full of giant cookies. This is a lemon. Lemon.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna make a lemon cake cookie because that looks
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  Speaker 1: really good. All right, So numb bur I get a
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  Speaker 1: numb burn. Yeah. Malar scale of concern, which is the
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  Speaker 1: measurement that matters more than all other measurements. Now it
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  Speaker 1: goes one to ten the Malar scale of concern. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and be some kind of
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  Speaker 1: shock jock and say it's like a thousand. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna do that. But on the Malar scale of concern,
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  Speaker 1: one to ten, with ten being you're cooked. You're cooking
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  Speaker 1: seven point five, seven point five for the Lakers. On
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  Speaker 1: the Mallard scale of concern, put do in your pipe
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  Speaker 1: and smoke it. Seven point five, seven point five for
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers, you've already lost home court. Check all right,
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota set the mood. It was like a nice candlelight dinner,
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  Speaker 1: and they enjoyed themselves in your own arena. There for
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: all the hype, all the build up, everything, you went
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: out there and you pitdled down your leg is what
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: you did. You were flaccid, and the whole world saw
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the whole world saw it right. It was a surgical takedown.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: You should have stopped the game when it was six
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to nothing. After that, all downhill, all downhill. Uh, And
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: it did appear. Now maybe this is just my interpretation.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: What do I know? It looked like Minnesota was playing
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: at a different speed. You know, it's like the varsity
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: versus the junior varsity. Minnesota was just quicker. They were
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: all over the place, and it appeared they had extra
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: players on the court at certain points, like it's like
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: there's just moving around and the yin and the yang
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: was poetry in motion to watch that. And then you
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: had Lebron James out there lumbering around. He took eighteen
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: shots to get nineteen points. So I didn't play in
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the NBA, but that blows eighteen shots to get nineteen points.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: And the combo of Lebron and Luca turned the ball
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: over nine times combined. And that was really one of
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the stories here, the points off turnovers giving Minnesota easy opportunities.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: But all those pointing out that Hukah Luca Luka Dancik
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: his first playoff game here his kryptonite. When we talked
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: about this during the course of the season, all the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Lakers are not a very good defensive teams. Oh, everything's fine,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: they won. I think twenty of twenty four at one point.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: But here we are playoff game game one, and all
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: of those critiques that you said, oh, you're just being
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a hater, you know what you're talking about. Yeah, it's
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: like nineteen nineties rock out their limp biscuit. They were limp.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: They were limp out there on the court. And the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: most staggering of all, most staggering of all statistics, Minnesota
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: was twenty one of forty two on three pointed shots
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: in game one. So, well, it's not done. It's not
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Gradman chuck well, but fifty percent. But when you dig
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: even deeper, the nerds listen to the nerds. So the
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: nerds broke it down. Of the forty two three point
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: shots that Minnesota attempted, how many of them were classified
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: as wide open shots? You gotta guess, how about twenty
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: seven of the forty two wide open, meaning the only
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: thing that will likely stop that shot from going in
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: is the air conditioning in the gymnasium. There's no defender
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: in sight. It's you versus the rim, man versus rim.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty seven wide open three point shots white open. A
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: professional basketball team allowed another team to have twenty seven
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: wide open shots. All right, Well, so well that's a lot, okay, right,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: how many were classified as open? How about fifteen classified
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: as wide open? So you do the math on that,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that gets you to forty two. That means that were
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: there was not a single three point attempt that Minnesota
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: took that came against a tight defensive presence by the Lakers.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: This is what we were talking about. They blow They're done,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: they are so screwed the Lakers. Oh my god, that
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: is a stagnation situation. Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible. And the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Lakers had it was playing eight on five. They had
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the referees yet again, as they always do, right, the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: NBA always looks out for the Lakers, And that didn't
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: even help. It was eight on five. Minnesota won a
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: game eight on five, eight on five, unbelieve, outside of
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: taking the fouls late garbage time game over, Minnesota was
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: whistled for twenty one personal fouls. The Lakers had six,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: a plus fifteen foul advantage and a team got blown
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: out in their own gym. How much the Lakers sucks
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: so much more? I mean, I can't put into words
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: how bad this team is right now? Horrible? All right,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: now'll pitch you, I will address the Komodo dragon of
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the room in the Mile High City. The Denver Nuggets,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: who barely came back, had to go to over time.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: The Nuggets sucked so much they couldn't even get a
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: shot up at the end of regulation. They could have
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: won it in regulation. They're so inept, the Nuggets. They
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: couldn't get a shot up at the end of regulation,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: but in the end they did pull it out in
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: over Zion. I mean, it really wasn't a case where
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the Nuggets played all that well we'll get to that
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in a second. But the Nuggets. Some people pointing out, well,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook in a big three point shot, and of
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: course I guess they overlook the fact that he didn't
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: even get a shot up at the end of regulation
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and all that. But would you mind sharing your point
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: of view on the Kawhi Leonard Clippers vibe as they
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: lose Game one on the road in Denver. So surprisingly,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the Clippers are actually in much better shape than the
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Lakers are for multiple reasons. I can break this down
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: for you. I don't know if you know ball or not,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: but I know ball, and we can break this down.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: But if you think that the one thing here the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Clippers did and the Nuggets didn't really beat them. The
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Clippers beat themselves, and when you beat yourself, that's easy
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: to clean up. It's not like there's like the Lakers
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: cannot think they're in good shape because Minnesota just clocked them. Right.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: The Timberwolves looked like they were playing a different sport
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: than the late the Clippers. The Nuggets aren't even that good.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: It was because of self inflicted They did the old
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Plexico Buris thing here. They stopped driving the monster truck.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: They were driving the monster truck the grave digger. They
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: dug their own grave in this game. And it wasn't
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: because of great Denver defense. If you know ball, you
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: know that the Clippers gave the game away and just
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: don't give the game all. You'll win. You're better than
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the Nuggets. Everyone knows that you're better than the Nuggets.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: They're gonna win the next game. Denver outscored the People's
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: team by plus twenty because of Clipper mistake Clipper turnovers.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard had an egregious mistake late in this game,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: but seven turnovers by him. He hasn't had that many
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: in four years, which is probably like seven games because
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: he doesn't played that much. But you take away the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: fact that the Clippers were eighteen points better head on,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: meaning not points off turnt, straight up without the turnt,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: with the self inflicted mistakes by the Clippers, the Clippers
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: outscored the Douglas by eighteen points. Holy crap, they sucked.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: The Nuggers blow plus eighteen belly to belly, shoulders, shoulder,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: face to face, and ask for Russell Westbrook. Let Russ cook,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: as they say in the NFL. I know this is basketball,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: but that's the guy you want. You want Russell Westbrook.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: You leave him wide open. And if this guy makes
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: more shots at the end of games, fine, the guy
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: sucks and everyone knows it. He's not a clutch player,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook. If he beats it, that's all right. He
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: is the worst volume three point shooter in NBA history,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook. And it's really not close. We saw him
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: fail to even get a shot up at the end
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: of regulation. And we'll see how this goes. But love
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the clips, bet your mortgage, bet your mortgage. Clips coming
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: back Game two, that'll be going with the clips now,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: final point to New York. We go we're Jalen Brunson
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: scored thirty four points and he was hobbling. Oh the drama.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: These guys are all Thespians. Oh my leg's gonna fall off,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: My arm's gonna fall off. Jayaln Russon had thirty four points.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Campaign had eleven of his fourteen in the fourth quarter.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: The Knickerbockers storm back down big. They come back twenty
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: one to nothing run. How do you do? Twenty one
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: nothing run? And they rally get an eleven point win
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: at the Mecca. There the crowd forming a mosh pit
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: in Manhattan after the game. The long suffering nick fans
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: do not know that it's only the first round of
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Rather embarrassing. There you go, so first round.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: The Pistons. Their NBA record losing streak goes on and
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: on and on. Now, at fifteen games in a row
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the Pistons have lost in the plus, last time they
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: won a playoff game was seven teen years ago, Game
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: four of the Eastern Conference Finals in eight so it's
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: been a minute since the Pistons won. Now there are
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: factions of the basketball media that have to write these
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: nice little stories on these pay websites and then the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: general theme is that the reason the Pistons lost that
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: game was because of inexperience, that they're not an experienced
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: playoff team and that's why they lost the game. And
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that is to that, I say, nonsense. Did Cade Cuttingham
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and the Pistons lose because they lacked playoff experience? I say,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: phoey is what I say, phoe phoe pooey fooy fooey
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: phooeye is what I say. Absolutely not Detroit. What they
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: did here it had nothing to do with experience and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: any of that stuff. They pulled the torts, not a torta.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: They pulled the torts. They sucked from head to toe
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of that game. But it wasn't
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: because the Knicks were this amazing lockdown team. It was
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: not because of a lack of experience. Knicks don't have
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: that much experience either. What do we do not success?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: When I think of kat Karl Anthony Towns from his
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: days in Minnesota, I think of him flopping around the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: court as a loser in many big situations where he vanished,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: for example, and Detroit one of the players that was
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the worst of the worst, the most egregious for the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Pistons was Tobias Harris who had a big first half
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: you saw the game, and then did almost nothing after that.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: And that guy's played in over sixty playoff games. So
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: what's his excuse when he wrote the vomit comet at
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the end of that game. So we'll see what happens
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: in that. But the Knicks twenty one nothing run. Just
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: don't check out for six seven minutes and you're you're
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: in fining ship.
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• 29:58
  Speaker 3: So ahead of the Pistons against the Knicks, longtime Pistons
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: announcer George Blaha Blah had nothing but praise for the
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: former number one pick Kid Cunningham, saying that the Pistons
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: have a chance down the road to win a championship. Now, Ben,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: despite losing game one, do you think that Detroit has
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: finally entered a new era of legit competitiveness?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Do I think they're gonna win a championship anytime soon? No?
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Do I think they could be a playoff team in
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the East every year for the next couple of years. Yes, absolutely,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: But blahas on the payroll. What do you expect Blaha
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: to say? He's literally in the tank for the Pistons next.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: With Arch Manning set to take over for the Longhorns
• 30:37
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• 30:39
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• 30:42
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• 30:45
  Speaker 3: you expect Arch to lead Texas back into the college
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: football playoffs?
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: No, here's what I expect. I expect the hype for
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six NFL Draft Arch Manning top pick
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: in the draft. They'll be teams tanking right and left.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: That's what I don't. I think Texas is going to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: be back in the playoffs. But Arch Manning. You can
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: hear nothing but Arch Manning stories from college football for
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the next you know whatever. The season begins here in
• 31:10
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• 31:17
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• 31:19
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• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I'm not taking a running back in the top
• 31:25
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• 31:27
  Speaker 1: just looks like a good player. I just wouldn't do it.
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• 31:38
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  Speaker 1: The sky is falling in Luca Land. The Lakers were
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: gobsmacked by the Timberwolves in Game one, a domination situation.
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota led by as many as twenty seven points in
• 32:39
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