Speaker 1: Sometimes they're hot, sometimes they're not.
Speaker 2: Let's relive the thrill of victory and the agony of
Speaker 2: defeat in the Zone is back with the best and
Speaker 2: worst takes from the weekend.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we're on the money. Sometimes we couldn't be more wrong.
Speaker 3: Either way. We come back on Monday to face the music.
Speaker 3: Best and worst. I We'll start with both. I think
Speaker 3: I have an all in one here. I said that
Speaker 3: Game sevens are overrated. I said that playing the game
Speaker 3: was just a formality and that this should have been
Speaker 3: wrapped up in six talking about the NBA Finals, of course,
Speaker 3: but OKC messed around in game six, look their foot
Speaker 3: off the pedal, and then I said in game seven
Speaker 3: it would be a waste of everybody's time. It was
Speaker 3: a lot of fun in the build up. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: had the chills as they're doing the OKAC player introductions.
Speaker 3: I'm all locked in. And my wife, who I had,
Speaker 3: I had gone on a similar rant with her about
Speaker 3: Game sevens as I did on the air. She looked
Speaker 3: at me and she goes, I thought you didn't like
Speaker 3: Game sevens, and I'm like, all right, just relax, okay,
Speaker 3: I was all out. The hype of it was you
Speaker 3: got to you gotta be with a woman that keeps
Speaker 3: you honest. The hype of it was there, but the
Speaker 3: game itself was a waste of time, and it turns
Speaker 3: out it was even worse than that. Not only did
Speaker 3: we get the exact result we all truly in our
Speaker 3: heart of hearts expected, which was a double digit ok
Speaker 3: See win, but now Tyre's Halliburton's basically out for all
Speaker 3: of next season. Good for Magic fans, but bad for
Speaker 3: the NBA. We don't want to see players go down
Speaker 3: like this, So way to go Game seven, You've struck again.
Speaker 3: That is a best and a worst from the weekend
Speaker 3: for you, yours truly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can fall into that bucket as well, because
Speaker 2: we both had Oklahoma City and five or six to
Speaker 2: wrap this up, and Indiana was able to push it
Speaker 2: to a game seven. And this game, so Tyree Taliburton
Speaker 2: goes down seven minutes into the game and it's clear
Speaker 2: right away that he is going to be out for
Speaker 2: the remainder of the game, but Indiana stayed pushing. I mean,
Speaker 2: it wasn't until the third quarters where it kind of
Speaker 2: cracked wide open. It was thirty four to twenty in
Speaker 2: the period to Oklahoma City's advantage, but up to that
Speaker 2: point it remained competitive, and even in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: Indiana kind of went on some runs and showed a
Speaker 2: little bit of life and it seemed like they could
Speaker 2: have used the best finisher that we had in the
Speaker 2: NBA this season, or at least in the postseason and
Speaker 2: Tyrese Halburton to aid that attack. So even shorthanded, the
Speaker 2: Pacers still were able to deliver on keeping Game seven
Speaker 2: remotely competitive. It wasn't this twenty thirty point blowout that
Speaker 2: we've seen in some other Game seven through the postseason
Speaker 2: in the NBA as well as across the across the
Speaker 2: sports landscape when it comes to the postseason.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: We both had the thunder to win it heading into
Speaker 2: the series, However, neither one of us thought that it
Speaker 2: was going to get to a Game seven.
Speaker 3: Shout out to TJ McConnell, though, go get yourself a
Speaker 3: TJ McConnell listening to this. That guy is so good.
Speaker 3: One of my best of the weekend. We said that
Speaker 3: Kevin Durant that he would be traded that wasn't exactly
Speaker 3: rocket science, but that it would be cheaper than the
Speaker 3: Desmond Bane deal, and we nailed that one on this show.
Speaker 3: Jalen Green the tenth overall pick and a handful of
Speaker 3: second round picks, which means pretty much nothing unless you're
Speaker 3: really good at taking them. Some teams are not exactly
Speaker 3: the war chest of firsts that the Grizzlies got from
Speaker 3: the Magic and I don't disagree with it. It's all
Speaker 3: about age, contract longevity. Kevin Durant is a better player
Speaker 3: than Desmond Bane, but there's more that goes into it
Speaker 3: than that. Both deals to me seem reasonable, but that
Speaker 3: was the read on the situation going in and we
Speaker 3: were spot on this show in breaking that down.
Speaker 2: So tell me this BK, because I actually have this
Speaker 2: trade mocked up as a worse for me personally, and
Speaker 2: not because of the deal itself. I'm not shocked by
Speaker 2: any of the parts of the deal of Green and
Speaker 2: Dylan Brooks and the tenth pick in the five first
Speaker 2: heading over to Phoenix in return for Kadi going to Houston.
Speaker 2: Houston seemed like the most likely landing spot for Kevin Durant,
Speaker 2: so we are on the money with that.
Speaker 1: But here's where I would maybe call it a worse
Speaker 1: was I.
Speaker 2: Know I said it on the show last week and
Speaker 2: talking to friends and family the last week or so,
Speaker 2: it really since that Bane trade, it was going to be, oh,
Speaker 2: my goodness, Magic Twitter is going to explode when they
Speaker 2: see this Kevin Durant trade because you just gave up
Speaker 2: four first round picks for a Desmond Baine, who is
Speaker 2: an all Star caliber player about twenty points a night,
Speaker 2: but not an All Star yet in his career. Where
Speaker 2: you just saw Houston get Kevin Durant in a trade
Speaker 2: that involves just one first round pick. Better players being
Speaker 2: in Jalen Green, a rising star at former second overall pick,
Speaker 2: even Dylan Brooks. You can't overlook it, and you get
Speaker 2: another lottery pick with a tenth.
Speaker 1: But I thought that magic Twitter was going to explode.
Speaker 2: You're telling me that we gave up four first for
Speaker 2: Desmond Bain and we could have gotten Kevin Durant for one,
Speaker 2: and I frankly haven't seen that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've missed it. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've seen a BK.
Speaker 2: But I thought that magic Twitter was going to be
Speaker 2: far more upset about the Kevin Durant deal than what
Speaker 2: it has been.
Speaker 1: So I applaud that. I applaud the fans out there.
Speaker 3: I think the I think the fans have had enough
Speaker 3: time where the negative and the positive have all settled.
Speaker 3: The choppy waters of phantom online has settled to the
Speaker 3: point where everybody's eventually gonna come around on the team
Speaker 3: that exists, and there's enough to be excited about with
Speaker 3: Desmond Bain. And it doesn't hurt at all that a
Speaker 3: lot of the national pundits that talk NBA, even some
Speaker 3: that you wish never talked NBA, everybody's been pretty complimentary
Speaker 3: of this Desmond bin deal. So I think even for
Speaker 3: those that were negative about it, they've had time to
Speaker 3: be convinced of at least softening that stance. I can't
Speaker 3: say I'm surprised, but let me give the let me
Speaker 3: give the Magic front office the best of the weekend.
Speaker 3: If this is true, because this is reported from Locked
Speaker 3: on Bulls, I have no idea how plugged in these
Speaker 3: people actually are, but you know they're doing daily work
Speaker 3: and this it's not nothing. The report that I read
Speaker 3: over the weekend was that the Magic offered Cole Anthony,
Speaker 3: Jonathan Isaac, and two first round picks to the Bulls
Speaker 3: for Kobe White. Actually now that I've read that out loud.
Speaker 3: Let me give a best of the weekend to the
Speaker 3: Chicago Bulls because I like Kobe White. We are big
Speaker 3: fans of Kobe White on this show. Desmond Bane is
Speaker 3: a much better player overall, so and that deal would
Speaker 3: not have allowed you to make the Desmond Bine trade.
Speaker 3: So that thank you, Chicago. I like Kobe White, but
Speaker 3: Desmond ban has All Star potential.
Speaker 2: Desim Main has All Star potential. And how about this
Speaker 2: for sticking on it with Chicago. I think Kobe White
Speaker 2: has All Star potential, but it wouldn't come with the
Speaker 2: Orlando Magic. I think Kobe White can be an All
Speaker 2: Star with the Chicago Bulls and down the line if
Speaker 2: that does happen, it isn't a knock on the magic
Speaker 2: that this is a guy that fans were calling for
Speaker 2: for so long. And look now he's averaging twenty six
Speaker 2: at night with Chicago and he's coming off of the
Speaker 2: bench in the All Star Game and this year, next year,
Speaker 2: whenever that might be. Because I do think that there
Speaker 2: is that Kobe White upside. However, it's all about the situation.
Speaker 2: It's all about does Palo Bank Caro thrive as much
Speaker 2: as he is in Orlando. If he is elsewhere, I
Speaker 2: still stand that Jamar Smith Junior would be a heck
Speaker 2: of a lot better with Orlando than what he is
Speaker 2: in Houston.
Speaker 1: So you can kind of play that game around the league.
Speaker 2: Just because you are getting twenty six points from Kobe
Speaker 2: White in Chicago doesn't mean that it would translate here
Speaker 2: to Orlando.
Speaker 1: So the Desmond Baine deal, it is the better deal.
Speaker 1: He is the better player.
Speaker 2: He is, in my opinion, the better fit of what
Speaker 2: was available for the Magic. So I applaud everyone involved
Speaker 2: for the Magic making the right deal, as well as
Speaker 2: Chicago seeing the potential that they have in Kobe White.
Speaker 3: Wait, we turned on Kobe pretty fast, all right, worst
Speaker 3: of the weekend. I was really buying it in to
Speaker 3: Coastal Carolina. I was buying what they were selling. The
Speaker 3: more I looked into this team, I became a big
Speaker 3: fan of the chant of clears, the winning streak, the bullpen,
Speaker 3: the recent history of success, their ace. I did end
Speaker 3: up betting LSU in Game one, but I thought for
Speaker 3: sure that this one would at least be played into
Speaker 3: tonight for Game three. Kind of bummed that it ended
Speaker 3: as quickly as it did. Because the College World Series
Speaker 3: final is a ton of fun. But that was a
Speaker 3: swing an a miss on my part, unintended. Those are
Speaker 3: my best and worst of the weekend. You got anything, I'm.
Speaker 1: Right there with you.
Speaker 2: On Coastal, I thought that we are going to get
Speaker 2: that elimination game tonight for the College World Series. But
Speaker 2: I mean the fireworks were out even though the chance
Speaker 2: clears weren't able to get it done yesterday afternoon. How
Speaker 2: about the headman and the first base manager first base
Speaker 2: coach both getting tossed in the first inning. I mean
Speaker 2: that kind of came out of field. I wasn't able
Speaker 2: to watch this game live. It was all recapping from
Speaker 2: it and kind of looking looking at what happened after
Speaker 2: the fact. But it seemed like something came out of nothing,
Speaker 2: and boy did it explode. So head manager for Coastal
Speaker 2: and the first base coach getting toss in the first inning,
Speaker 2: they certainly put up a fight five three score and
Speaker 2: the manager's a couple of coaches getting kicked out.
Speaker 3: So that was I don't know if that helped. I
Speaker 3: don't know if that helped the whole situation, but kind
Speaker 3: of a flop by the umpire to fall backwards the
Speaker 3: way that he did. Yeah, oh, I was not a
Speaker 3: fan of that, of that ejection.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll pat myself on the back. This is
Speaker 2: the last thing that I have for best worse. And
Speaker 2: so Raphael Devers last Sunday hits a home run a
Speaker 2: member of the Boston Red Sox to extend the lead
Speaker 2: over the rival, the.
Speaker 1: New York Yankees.
Speaker 2: The Red Sox go on to win two oh so
Speaker 2: on to the Red Sox, who to celebrate, they trade
Speaker 2: Rafael Devers out to San Francisco to the Giants for
Speaker 2: back of baseballs later that night, and and so then
Speaker 2: I knew the Red Sox were heading out west, and
Speaker 2: sure be it, they were heading out to face the
Speaker 2: Giants for a weekend series. Where Roth failed, Devers was
Speaker 2: going to be suited up at number sixteen for San Francisco.
Speaker 2: So we're looking at it at the weekend. How is
Speaker 2: this going to play out? The Giants got two out
Speaker 2: of three on the weekend series. First series of the
Speaker 2: Red Sox have lost in a couple of weeks. But
Speaker 2: we were talking about Devers. Is he going to hit
Speaker 2: a hit a home run? How many will he hit?
Speaker 2: And when will it come?
Speaker 1: And bk nailed it.
Speaker 2: It was Saturday, after an for five appearance on Friday
Speaker 2: night and his debut against the Red Sox, Devers went
Speaker 2: yard on Saturday off of Brian Bao, which is exactly
Speaker 2: what I called on the.
Speaker 3: Weekend BeO winning.
Speaker 1: Bao was the best pitcher that he was going to see.
Speaker 1: But you look at the splits righty versus lefty.
Speaker 2: He has the worst batting average against righties on the season,
Speaker 2: two eighty eight down to two fifty five. But he's
Speaker 2: more explosive against those righties. Fifteen more hits, six more
Speaker 2: home runs, five more doubles, thirteen more RBIs, higher on
Speaker 2: base percentage, higher slugging percentage. He faced the worst pitchers
Speaker 2: on Friday and Sunday, but it was written on the
Speaker 2: wall for him to get a homer in the series,
Speaker 2: and it made sense that would come against a better
Speaker 2: right handed pitcher appost to the lefties. So raphaeled Evers
Speaker 2: goes yard on bail on Saturday, standing ovation for Tyler Karen.
Speaker 3: I'm glad that we saved that one for last, because
Speaker 3: that was the best of the best and worst right there.
Speaker 3: Kind of thought his first home run would be out
Speaker 3: in the Bay I think a lot of boats were
Speaker 3: docked out there waiting to get that first Giants home
Speaker 3: run ball. But it was right over the left field porch.
Speaker 3: That's the way it goes. But good call by you.
Speaker 3: More in the zone next