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Tuesday night screening of step Brothers. Yeah, let's freaking chill our big movie
party that we have in partnership with Almo Draft House. It's at the theaters.
Next Tuesday night is the Downbeats turn to party. And we're watching step
Brothers together. And they had us in one of the medium sized theaters and
we had that thing three quarters full and they said, you know what,
big boy theater. So now we just had three huge rows in the back
all open up. So that's a good I don't know, one hundred seats
probably down one hundred, but fifty seats, I don't know. I'm not
counting all these white dots. Yeah I wouldn't at once too. I'm not.
I will count them if you want me to. All right, here
we go, one, two, three. There's a lot of seats.
And once Mikey gets done counting the seats in the theater live on the air,
we'll once again run over the Dodgers lineup that for opening day. Later
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I think it's seven pmsh start time. Yeah, and we usually go
and have a maybe meet up in the bar and get a little drink before
something like that. Yeah, drink, and we get in front of everyone
to a little comedy. Oh my god, stand up. I always forget
that till we get there. Oh god. I got to come up with
something, you know, because don't want to be fully disappointing. I usually
get up there and just say Kevin Yeah, and then I kind of mumble
into the mic and hand it to Danny. Sorry, back in my chair.
Yeah, Danny sings one of his hit songs. I sing Beans and
hand the microphone back to Mikey. You guys want to hear beans almost just
smattering of applause, and just say one word, right and beans, And
then I hand the microphone to Mikey. Like the crowd, there's a hush
and you can feel the anticipation. And then Danny says beans and oh my
god it Mikey shakes his head in disgust, receives microphone, and then starts
pointing people in the direction of theater four see a different movie. Boy,
we do it too. It's not like a standard uh hey everyone, uh,
you know, like we have a little fun with it. We don't
want anyone to be obnocious, clearly, but you know, a little funny,
funny quips. Yeah, if you want to yell something, it's fine,
Yeah, it's you. No, don't nothing you know hateful. Yeah,
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Let's do Mads real quick. MAVs. Yeah, topple the Spurs barely
last night. It was a first when things first Spurs uniforms. What do
you think? Okay, almost tweeted something about these. They looked like they
were designed by the marketing team that created Mexican TV dinners in the seventies.
Okay, that's which I kind of love. Okay, I loved them,
it really did. They had a cool seventies Mexican throwback to a Mexican food
restaurant throwback. Yeah, I thought I was watching the Flint Tropics from the
movie Semi pro It looked at Aba uniforms. Yeah, it was great,
it was super cool. Are those and someone's gonna texting if you know if
those are? Are they made to look like throwbacks or did they ever actually
do anything? It was? I mean they used to. They were an
Aba team, right, I'm reading up on it. Go ahead, though,
it's well, we can't go because we don't know Viva Spurs. Okay,
it is the three twenty four city takes them back to the nineteen sixty
eight hemisphere, okay, Oh designed sort of in that vibe? Or did
they actually wear these jerseys? Does inspired by the sights and sounds of the
nineteen sixty eight World's Fair? Yeah? I don't know what the World's Fair
was, but that's what I have on that. I've never seen him before.
Was this the day beating before? I've seen them before. I've never
seen them play the MAVs. In those there's just kind of nondescript it.
It looked like a sign that would be over an old Mexican restaurant. They
just said San Antonio and I love I like the font, love the font,
the colors, all of it, kind of that soft orange. Hm.
I guess I don't even know. I'm sure they have some cool name
for it inspired by earth toned fashion trends of the late sixties, uh terra
cotta pink, sunflower yellow, and succulent green. And they the court.
The court design kind of mirrored, you know, the whole motif. They
got away from whatever their normal black and silver. I guess I liked the
old spurs, you know, court that had the the purple and the almost
aqua and that light orange, yeah, you know on it, so like
you know, I know, they used to incorporate that a little bit,
not really on their jerseys, but the black and soil are now they're full
black and silver. But last night I thought that was cool. I don't
mind it for a couple of games at a time. I think it's it's
very weird when people make the full shift over and do it all the time.
Boy, those sleeves were saffron orange and brown. That was cool.
I like the font I don't thought. I thought they looked pretty cool,
did you Okay, how did you guys consume the game? I had to
stream it on my computer and cast it to the TV, so I got
some pirated feed, so you get and thankfully I got the local announcers,
but you get, you get insight to what happens in between during commercial breaks.
As it doesn't go to commercials, it just stays on the court.
You get to see all of the stuff that goes on. They're in house
production, interaction with their fans, the games that they play, and I
just love how Latina know centric, the whole vibe is in that arena,
the music that they play, the I mean yeah, and the vast majority
of fans there are Hispanic. Yeah. And I don't know. I'm not
one of those people that bags on other Texas cities because I think Houston's badass.
I think San Antonio is awesome. I love going to San Antonio.
I haven't been there in a while, but I think San Antonio Antonio is
incredible. It's got a cool vibe to it. Say what you want about
the Riverwalk, but the Riverwalk is incredible. It's awesome. Dude, we
don't have anything like that. But I don't know, there's just something about
the what it must be like to live in San Antonio where your only professional
sports team is the Spurs, and you have been so lucky and so fortunate,
you know, back in the two thousands, early two thousands to win
as many champsampionships and just to have that that communal thing, you know,
with a culture. And I think it's soretty cool. It's almost got kind
of a collegiate feel to it. Yeah, I like watching the feed where
you can see the other It's great because it is a nationwide epidemic that everyone
wants a T shirt more than anything in the world. It's crazy what these
people do for T shirts. Well, it's crazy. I think that thought
is more of the people that are shooting T shirts into the crowd because they
act like they're firing in bags of gold. And it's some you know,
fifty sponsor, not the artists, but they cost fifty cents to make and
it's got some sponsor logo on it. This bigger than the Spurs logo.
But yeah, I don't know. The vibe in San Antonio is awesome and
I was I was thinking of pop too during that game, because I think
that twice we beat them, but they were really close games this year.
I don't know, probably had a close one in the first half and then
we ended up blowing them out right. Okay, last time we played,
well, this game is close as hell last night and they could have won
it. Yeah, no doubt. But I was just thinking about Pop and
I don't know, in like a different city. I mean it's almost very
Belichick, you know, like in a different city, Oh my god,
you had three bad seasons. This guy's old. He's done. But I
think down there it is like, okay, just wait, give us another
couple give us another couple of years, and Pop will have us where we
belong. Like I don't know, I don't know that anyone's yelling into the
radio in San Antonio. Fim, we're not good right now. It is
fascinating to me, and I love Pop for this is he could have left
in with full accolades, in a blaze of glory and retired and gone out
with that class, those guys that that core team that all pretty much left
within a couple of years of each other, when you know, jenob Lee,
Parker Duncan. But he didn't. He stuck round to kind of go
through the rough times and shepherd in this new group, you know, of
spurs to what they might be in a couple of years. And I think
it's really cool that you know he's stuck around and that they led him.
I mean, what better option do they have? No, he's great,
but they know it. Yeah, and you're gonna win the coach brain battle
every single night, and all you have to do is give him the weapons
to win the actual game. They'll get there. Man. Twenty eight seasons,
twenty eight seasons of coaching. Yeah. He joined the Spurs as an
assistant coach in nineteen eighty eight, and then he a brief assistant with the
Golden State. They returned to the Spurs as GM and VP, and he
made him He fired Bob Hill and made himself coach in ninety six. Do
you think he's ever paid for a meal at me, Tierra? I don't
they Nope. This will be six straight years of not making the playoffs.
Yeah, and that's a long run. And hell maybe some idiot is like,
oh, it's the coaching, but I don't think so. No.
I mean, I think part of it was tanking, yeah, I know,
of course, and then the Wemby thing was just a shot of relevance
right into their veins. That fast forward. You're I just rebuild. I
don't know if it's a rebuild though, I don't know, just trying to
get the trouble getting people to stay though, whether it be DeRozan. Kawhi
Leonard is the famous one show you how cool he was. Oh, when
fans were booing Kawhi earlier in the year, and he goes up to the
scores table, grabs the microphone and said, stop booing. We don't do
that here. Might not we don't boo here, but like, let's like
act like it. Basically went full Samash. He said, you're not Rockets
fans, You're Spurs fans. We're not booing here. Don't do that to
him. And uh, I don't know this. The MAVs winning that game
despite Luca not playing good, I would say his good sign. Did Luca
end up with a triple double? Yep, he did. Was that last
buzzer on a meeaningless shot. Essentially, it's the worst I think I've ever
seen Luca play and he's still got a triple double. I mean, he
could not buy a bucket. I think I'm pretty sure that's the worst shooting
game of his career. Twenty two percent right, six of twenty seven,
six of twenty seven, Yeah, twenty two point two of eleven from three.
Nothing was dropping for him. No, Kyrie couldn't make a three either.
Oh five but Kyrie was scoring. I mean, that's the story of
that game, is Kyrie taking over on offensive defense. Is fine. Kyrie
did one drive left right under the basket and the whole jump and then double
clutch reverse lay in, spinning the ball yes to get it to get the
right english off the glass. And it was almost a photo copy of like
one of the Michael Jordan's most famous highlights where he uses the rim as a
as a as a barrier against the defense. Yeah, basically, but it
was necessary for Kyrie. Jordan didn't need to do that, yeah, you
know, and the one you're talking about it that it's that's one of the
Jordan classics. And Kyrie didn't like, Oh beautiful verse lay in for Kyrie,
like, and that's kind of it. It's like, well, that
looks exactly like the one I've seen a thousand times because Michael Jordan did it
and Kyrie does it, and I guess just makes it look easy and so
it's not a big deal. That good. Well, also, that's back
to back games where Joekitch and now Wimby your bigs had well below average games.
Yeah, twelve points for Wimby and Wimby has been putting up twenty plus
and easy big rebound games he had. I mean, he gets his boards
every night. Clearly looked at him. It's ridiculous. He was well defended
last night. He was. And that's like that gives me a little Okay,
Yeah, runningto Minnesota, Yeah, run into Denver, even like I
don't want to play in Denver a lot. I do think Denver's probably better
than us, But it gives you a little hope, like you can slow
him down a little bit. These bigs, I agree, gotta change.
They They are competitive with anybody in the league. I'm not saying they're the
best team in the league, but in a seven game series, they're They're
very capable of winning a seven game series against anybody in the league as they're
composed or as they're comprised. Right now, dude, Wemby was was he
three for thirteen? Okay, so Luca was twenty two percent. Wemby was
twenty three percent. And that's a seven foot four monster. That's about as
bad as you'll see those guys come. Never well, yeah, but at
least Luca ball handles and shoots a bunch of weird stuff. And you know,
Wemby still shoots the ball from all over, but a big man that
size, you don't see him shoot twenty three percent that says by far his
lowest of the season, and twelve points. He's only been held to the
less than twelve points once since the calendar flipped to twenty twenty four, So
this is good. We get a little bit of a break tomorrow night.
You get the Jazz at home, and then you're to the Jazz next week
on a twenty fifth, and then a back to back Sacramento, who you're
currently tied with. Those are the six huge games against the sad Sack Kings.
So take care of your business against Utah twice and then two against Sack
and then things will kind of clear up a little bit for what you need
to do to get in. I don't have to the top six. I
don't have the exact stats in front of me, but I'm sure we all
saw it last night when follow Well they put up the graphic of what their
defensive numbers have looked like since the trade, and it's night and day.
Yeah, it is absolutely dude. This team is so different than they were
last year. Their number, I think they're six in the league in fast
break points, which what a team led by Luka Dancic, which plays at
about a third of the speed is everybody else, is now elevated themselves to
six And a lot of that is greatly due to the court long passes that
he that he's embraced this year. But defensively, the numbers that they have
posted, their their way up in blocks, their way up and rebounds.
I mean, every stat that matters to to that element of their game,
which we felt they were lacking so much, is just flipped. It's completely
flipped. I don't know how many dudes in the league dunk harder than Daniel
Gafford And geez, just a monster when he throws down is gorgeous. I
love this man so And then Lively comes in and you know, it's funny
that when Danny Gafford's in there, he starts, but he's only in for
about four minutes and then they bring d Live off the bench. It's really
wild. Jason. Yeah, the way coach Kid has kind of orchestrated their
their their lineup changes and how they do it. And one more thing real
quick that I wanted to say, I remember a lot and and look I
may have been one of these people. But when you saw how the Kyrie
Luca experiment, if you want to call it that, at the end of
the season, and how the maps just absolutely collapsed, and there were some
people that were doubting whether they should re sign Kyrie. I may have been
one of those. But can you imagine what this team would be like without
him? We've seen it. It's a lot of Luca, and if lucas
not playing above his head, then they lose. I mean, it's amazing
to have Luka Dancic as your superstar undisputed leader of this team. And if
he didn't show up one night, which is rare, or if he's injured
or doesn't play, you have zero drop off. Yeah, with the step
in leader of the team, which is Kyrie, is becoming kind of the
vibe or the heartbeat of the team too. And Kyrie seems super chill,
and I wouldn't happy Seim is super chill as the vibe. But I think
he's the coolest dude in school. And he doesn't have to tell you I'm
the coolest guy in school. You just figure it out when he comes to
school every day and you're like, well, he's nice and he's good and
I really like him, and he's chill. I keep going back to that
Grant Williams video on the bench looking at his phone, singing into his phone
and Kyrie looking at him like what you doing? Man? Like I'm just
saying, getting rid of Grant Williams changes everything. Obviously getting something for him,
there's a ton but like I think a bit of a no nonsense along
with the chill vibe. You know there's something good about that. Now we've
talked about his Ramadan situation. Yeah, where we think he doesn't eat well,
he doesn't eat when the sun is up. Yeah, Ramadan, you're
not supposed to eat or drink anything while the sun is up, so you
gotta eat. I guess a lot at night or right now, I'm good.
I just had some water. I just want to let you know that
I'm good. Crush a full right now? Should we, in honor of
Kyrie, do one day of Ramadan? One day disrespectfully wacky morning show?
Do that and with the down bean win pussy for tickets what I don't know
what you could win? Puss it for dickeys, Ramadan for a day with
a down beat with Primus with so like right now, the sun's not up
and he's eaten. He's awake somewhere. Yeah, I think probably having a
delicious omelet or some low mane. Yeah, who knows. So. Brian
de Meris was with Coop last night on the broadcast here on ninety seven to
one The Freak and listen to a little insight that Demris had about this Ramanon
situation with Kyrie. The Mavericks are going the extra mile forward. You know,
he likes it here. He feels really comfortable in Dallas, and the
organization is making a comfortable for They're flying a personal chef in for him,
and he's getting his vegan meals right when the sun goes down so he can
be ready to get food and water in him to play as effective as he
can. So sneaking it in before games, he said, before the sun
goes down. Yeah, I didn't say before games. Okay, okay,
yeah, but sun would still be up at seven home games are normal normally
seven thirty sons still up now, okay? Yeah? Before did he say
before games or before the sun goes He said before the sun goes Okay,
Well that means obviously talking about you know, non night game nights okay,
okay, okay, yeah, or non night game days whatever. This hour
kills him too, this problem, yeah, daylight and that happened like March
tenth or something. Right, So, okay, I didn't know he was
vegan. I didn't either, plant based diet in twenty seventeen. I mean,
that's no, that's nothing that comes from animals, like no milk,
no cheese, right, beans, A lot of beans? Hey, yeah,
there you go, a lot of beans. I didn't know that beans.
We should have known that. So he's vegan. And now Ramadan where
he doesn't eat when the sun's up? Can you play that one more time?
Last? A lot like us? He's nothing like us, is the
last part. Right when the sun goes down, so he can be ready
to get food and water in him to play as effective as he can,
right when it goes right when the sun goes out, Yes, he doesn't
even the sun's up. Right when the sun goes down, he probably feasts
and drinks walking. So the sun goes in at eight thirty Yeah, yeah,
well, I mean I wonder if does the sun completely have to be
down or just the bottom of it touches when it touches the planet rules.
I don't know what it touches the planet. He's scarfing down food at halftime
because the suntime I got a big plays. I bet he has like a
bento box at halftime, a vegan bento. Okay, you're absolutely right.
He probably eats at halftime. His first meal of the day is at halftime,
halftime, just a mountain of tofu lentils and he's just looking out the
window waiting for the sun to touch the planet. It's fascinating. That is
crushing water. Like think of us if one day, Oh, we're idiots.
We're idiots, but we don't do and we don't do anything. We
only eat junk. I eat junk all day. Actually down, so he's
definitely hydrating during the games. I don't think once the sun goes down,
Okay, yes, yeah, So if the sun goes down it's middle of
the second quarter or whatever. I mean, he's over there down in goblin
water. But imagine from right now, within a couple of minutes, the
sunrise, right, you don't at the top of the sun. Yeah,
once the top of the Sun comes out of out of the planet, you
just can't see it from that moment. You don't have another sip of this,
right, and then tonight you have to play warm up, play an
NBA half, not a sip of water. I'd be so much I mean,
that level of a pro high performance machine that you've created as an athlete
is so tested. I mean just the fact of no not protein, but
no meat. Meat, it's tricky ground beef. Uh fascinating. I'd be
so moody. It was like cranky three pm, I can't eat, and
you're in San Antonio, tempted by chreiso quesadillas at every corner, and he
just walks on by to the reef fried beans. Well, get you,
ab MAVs beans. It's a game that they probably formerly would have lost without
Kyrie and without the the mid season act positions. For sure, texter five
to one two. I don't know if that's San Antonio Spurs fan here.
Nobody's calling for Pop's job. He's Pop. He owns the city of San
Antonio. And that's what I assumed. I mean, I know that I'm
not. Oh, I don't think I've said that. He also said in
a year or two, the rivalry between the Spurs and MAVs will be more
fun, that's ever than it's ever been. That's maybe a good call.
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