Speaker 1: It is the Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point
Speaker 1: one The Eagle. Thank you for hanging out with us today.
Speaker 1: So many different things to talk about. We got so
Speaker 1: much on our plates, and of course this is the
Speaker 1: home of Dallas Mavericks Basketball ninety seven point one The Eagle.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the game in Memphis tomorrow. More tomorrow,
Speaker 1: we'll get into all that. This segment right here is
Speaker 1: brought to you by Rollertown Beer Works. That's the brewery
Speaker 1: in Salina, Texas that Ben and I are partners in.
Speaker 1: And Ben, I'm so excited for the Sumo crawl that
Speaker 1: is going down in the prosperous Aalana area Saturday night
Speaker 1: to get us ready for the big sumo event that's
Speaker 1: happening happening next weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm so proud to be a part of Rollertown.
Speaker 3: You and I obviously investors in that brewery, and that
Speaker 3: brewery sponsors this segment. But things like you know, releasing
Speaker 3: a Japanese lagger and reaching out to the Japanese embassy
Speaker 3: here to find out culturally appropriate ways to celebrate Japanese
Speaker 3: culture and Louve celebrating this new beer is so cool
Speaker 3: and so yeah, We've been hosting the sumo tournament at
Speaker 3: Rollertown now for a couple of years. People flying from
Speaker 3: all over the world to be here at this proper
Speaker 3: sumo tournament. So we thought, it's not this weekend, it's
Speaker 3: the following weekend. So this weekend we reached out to
Speaker 3: Corey of the Dallas Sumo Club and said, hey, what
Speaker 3: if we rented a limo bus from Alba Limousines and
Speaker 3: packed a bunch of sumo wrestlers in it, and Skin
Speaker 3: and I went on a little pub crawl at four
Speaker 3: of the bars and restaurants that support us around the
Speaker 3: Prosperous Lina area. So we're going to Mike Pettis's Gin
Speaker 3: on Broadway and prosper Then we're gonna go down to
Speaker 3: the Tavern on Broadway, which is an awesome new bar
Speaker 3: over there. Those are great bars and restaurants. Then we're
Speaker 3: gonna go to the Nook, which is in light Farms,
Speaker 3: and then we're gonna go to Heyday, a new cocktail
Speaker 3: bar fairly new that's on the square in Salana. All
Speaker 3: four awesome places, and so we're gonna spend about fifteen
Speaker 3: or twenty minutes at each place. We're going to buy
Speaker 3: a bunch of Rollertown beers. While we're there, you can
Speaker 3: come take pictures with the sumo wrestlers. We're gonna be
Speaker 3: passing out flyers promoting our big sumo weekend. But we're
Speaker 3: just gonna stop at each one of those places, and
Speaker 3: then we're gonna end up on Saturday night at Rollertown
Speaker 3: where Brand New Funk's throwing down.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's gonna be amazing, and I love the concept
Speaker 1: of a sumo crawl, So come be a part of it.
Speaker 1: Roller Down Beer Works. We'll see it this weekend and next.
Speaker 1: But right now it's time board this kill.
Speaker 2: This thing's big.
Speaker 1: It sure is, Cynthia, it sure is. So the Mavericks
Speaker 1: won last night. It was one twenty to one oh six,
Speaker 1: and it was nowhere near that close, at least not
Speaker 1: after the first quarter. Second quarter floodgates open, primarily because
Speaker 1: of Klay Thompson, and then Anthony Davis got going, and
Speaker 1: then the Mavericks just never looked back. I think they're
Speaker 1: up twenty three at half, as I believe what the
Speaker 1: total was, and their defense from the second quarter on
Speaker 1: was pretty suffocating.
Speaker 3: Man, this is exactly what I needed and I didn't
Speaker 3: even know I needed it going into that game. You know,
Speaker 3: I mentioned this earlier in the show. I didn't even
Speaker 3: know how to feel. I didn't even know what I wanted.
Speaker 3: I didn't know if I wanted them to win or
Speaker 3: if I just wanted this abysmal season to be over with.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know if I was still going to
Speaker 3: be a MAVs fan moving forward, like just flooded with
Speaker 3: all this emotion. But when once the game got going,
Speaker 3: of course, I'm a MAVs fan. I have been since
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty and so there I was rooting for the
Speaker 3: Mavericks and hoping they could pull it out, and then
Speaker 3: being super stoked to see the way that they were playing.
Speaker 2: And I gotta be honest, I needed it.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know, Like we've all been surrounded by
Speaker 3: so much negativity with regard to the Mavericks and such
Speaker 3: an upevil that man, it was great just to settle
Speaker 3: in and watch a MAVs victory and at you know,
Speaker 3: a meaningful win or go home victory. It had a
Speaker 3: pretty big impact on me. I was surprised.
Speaker 2: Yeah you can. It's just so easy to drown in
Speaker 2: the negativity. I get it.
Speaker 1: I saw a pretty funny Tim Kallashaw tweet today and
Speaker 1: it was something to the effect of it was like, so,
Speaker 1: let me let me get this straight. We made this
Speaker 1: move to get better, and here we are is the
Speaker 1: ten seed. And I'm paraphrasing, but it was like mission accomplished.
Speaker 1: And the thing that there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: Nico said and that you know, private press conference that
Speaker 1: came out in the form of you know, articles and transcripts.
Speaker 1: One of the things he said that I have believed
Speaker 1: this whole time, but it's just you have to use
Speaker 1: your imagination. And but it's the idea that if the
Speaker 1: team hadn't had all the injuries, it would be a
Speaker 1: really great team and people would be pulling for them
Speaker 1: to a much bigger degree, and the angst and the
Speaker 1: resistance over the trade, which everybody feels, even if you're
Speaker 1: still a Maverick fan, would not be to the degree
Speaker 1: that it is because it's just exacerbated by all the
Speaker 1: injuries and all the negative things that have happened for
Speaker 1: the Mavericks. And so last night was a representation of
Speaker 1: guys that you still care about playing at a high
Speaker 1: level and giving you some basketball excitement. The whole thing
Speaker 1: could suck tomorrow night, Memphis could run him out of
Speaker 1: the gym, and then you go back to your your
Speaker 1: negative feelings. But for one night, it was basketball that mattered,
Speaker 1: and the Mavericks played at a really high level. And
Speaker 1: as a basketball fan and someone that is a Dallas
Speaker 1: Maverick fan and has grown up in Dallas, and obviously
Speaker 1: it's to a different degree I work on the broadcast,
Speaker 1: it was very satisfying for me to watch that game
Speaker 1: and to be able to jump out of my chair
Speaker 1: and go, hell yeah when Brandon Williams is making threes.
Speaker 1: Brandon Williams, who wasn't even for sure going to play
Speaker 1: in that game, just had a phenomenal game. And Klay
Speaker 1: Thompson hit big. Those two guys, I mean, obviously Ad
Speaker 1: played great, Pga played great, but those two guys just
Speaker 1: carried the offense during different stretches and couldn't miss. And
Speaker 1: it's a shot making league, right, I know that's generic,
Speaker 1: but if you're gonna come out and hit a bunch
Speaker 1: of three pointers, you got a chance against anybody. They
Speaker 1: were making their shots, but man, that did a lot
Speaker 1: I need. That was chicken soup for my Maverick soul.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that cures all. I'm just saying, man,
Speaker 1: I needed that it and it was comforting to know
Speaker 1: that I still care, because honestly, I didn't know.
Speaker 4: There's a fun little note on the broadcast. It sucks
Speaker 4: we didn't get a local broadcast, but I agree. I
Speaker 4: forgot who the sideline reporter was. But they were talking
Speaker 4: about how the Mavericks have Jorge already packed for eight
Speaker 4: games here or for eight days here right there there,
Speaker 4: and it's reminded me of the finals, honestly, yeah, which
Speaker 4: is stupid, but it did. And I was like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: you're right when and then Friday night, Man, I'm going
Speaker 4: to a concert tomorrow night, so I'm pretty much gonna
Speaker 4: miss the game.
Speaker 2: Where are you going? Man?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: The long word ballroom see soul coughing? I heard spot
Speaker 4: Christina has been running. Are you going Christina to the
Speaker 4: Soul Coffin concert?
Speaker 2: Of course?
Speaker 4: I am Devin toured in twenty five years. Did you
Speaker 4: watch the game last night?
Speaker 2: I watched the first quarter, and what's funny is we did.
Speaker 4: Mike just kind of sarcastically said they're killing them, and
Speaker 4: I was like, do you watch, they probably will and
Speaker 4: they did.
Speaker 2: They get nervous a few times.
Speaker 4: I got out to fifteen, you know, about eighteen minutes
Speaker 4: left in the game.
Speaker 2: Oh we uh.
Speaker 1: So we did that podcast crossover with follow Wellham de Maris,
Speaker 1: and one of the things Demis said was like, look,
Speaker 1: neither one of these teams shoot a lot of threes,
Speaker 1: but you can't let them beat you at the three
Speaker 1: point line. I mean, I don't know what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: Friday night. I'm gonna say I don't expect the Mavericks
Speaker 1: to hit fifty percent of their threes, but to go
Speaker 1: fourteen of twenty eight from three and then also dominate
Speaker 1: them in the paint.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they dominated them in the paint. Dude.
Speaker 3: It was really fun to watch where And again I
Speaker 3: was so naive to this, admittedly because I was like,
Speaker 3: what they traded Luca Brady, We've already got the two
Speaker 3: best sinners in the league. I was unaware of the
Speaker 3: whole storyline where he wants to be a power forward, right,
Speaker 3: and now I get it, because it's amazing you work
Speaker 3: around one of those trees and you're you know, you're
Speaker 3: an offensive player playing the Mavericks. You get around one
Speaker 3: of those trees, it ain't clear sailing. I mean there's
Speaker 3: another badass shot blocker just hanging out, man, and you're
Speaker 3: not even sure where they are. Yeah, and it was
Speaker 3: cool seeing guys on Sacramento come through the lane and
Speaker 3: not even think about shooting now because it was dangerous.
Speaker 1: That's dangerous. And then also just to add PJ. Washington
Speaker 1: Junior and yes too.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I think the other thing that was super critical
Speaker 1: is for the most part, the Mavericks played a playoff
Speaker 1: game without a point guard. Yes, and when you look
Speaker 1: at the fact that they didn't turn the ball over
Speaker 1: a bunch that that's pretty impactful. Man.
Speaker 2: They you know, because you worry about that. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: know what.
Speaker 3: I was surprised Dinwoody wasn't really in the rotation. I
Speaker 3: was like, where did this come from?
Speaker 1: I think you know they, I know that they had
Speaker 1: really dialed in on we want Nanjie to play point
Speaker 1: guard so we can play really big defensively. And I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest, those first two or three possessions when
Speaker 1: he was dribbling around at mid court and I was like,
Speaker 1: we're not going to be able to get into any
Speaker 1: sets are we.
Speaker 3: That's what I was thinking too, because if you're Sacramentaroy,
Speaker 3: You're like, they don't have a real point guard.
Speaker 2: Let's attack him defensively.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Kean Ellis is a good, you know, defensive
Speaker 1: point guard. But you know that was really key for
Speaker 1: them to not have a bunch of turns and overs
Speaker 1: and to get some stuff. And really, you know, the
Speaker 1: first quarter had been flowed for both teams. Mavericks got
Speaker 1: a quick burst early and then Sacramento came back. But man,
Speaker 1: from the second quarter on, they absolutely destroyed them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Brandon Williams playing with a messed up a bleak or
Speaker 3: whatever he's dealing with and like getting knocked to the floor,
Speaker 3: get up, hit those free throws.
Speaker 2: What a great story he is.
Speaker 3: He's a great he can play man. I like him,
Speaker 3: and you know they're gonna be without Kai. And the
Speaker 3: story comes out last night that Kai could be ready
Speaker 3: in January. Yeah, that was Shams, that was reporting that.
Speaker 3: By the way, did y'all see that Schams reported that
Speaker 3: Nico didn't want to do the press conference in Dumont
Speaker 3: made him. I thought that was pretty interesting, Yeah, because
Speaker 3: you're sitting here going all right, so did Nico tell
Speaker 3: shams by the way, did you see and uh oh,
Speaker 3: the GM said that too. The Bob Myers, Yeah, Bob
Speaker 3: Myers was saying that too, which was interesting. Yeah, man,
Speaker 3: did you Every time they showed Nico in the stands,
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, Number one, he can't sit in the
Speaker 3: stands at a home game, right And number two, he
Speaker 3: looks miserable like he is, you know, just not having fun.
Speaker 2: Obviously he didn't. He never emoted I don't even want
Speaker 2: to be around.
Speaker 3: That has to be an incredibly stressful situation. But yeah, man,
Speaker 3: I just, uh, it restored me in a lot of
Speaker 3: ways that I wasn't expecting.
Speaker 2: I didn't know how badly I needed that.
Speaker 1: I was very and we've said this, but I was
Speaker 1: just so happy for Klay Thompson for so many, you know,
Speaker 1: different reasons, because you know, the last time he was
Speaker 1: in that building, he had a really bad experience for
Speaker 1: oh for ten and then missed his first couple of shots.
Speaker 1: He's oh for twelve and you know, and so and
Speaker 1: then he just took off. But there is you know,
Speaker 1: he was interviewed after the game for radio and then
Speaker 1: it went on and it ended up being on Scott
Speaker 1: Van Pelt, and then I saw this locker room interview
Speaker 1: with him and one of the things he said that
Speaker 1: was so interesting to me. That just kind of puts
Speaker 1: everything in the frame for what this group of guys
Speaker 1: are going through and how they're really just playing for
Speaker 1: one another and they feel like they're playing for one another.
Speaker 2: They don't really feel the support of Dallas. I mean,
Speaker 2: you could.
Speaker 1: Say they're not you could say whatever you want, but
Speaker 1: I'm telling you they're feeling like they're by themselves. And
Speaker 1: he said it was really fun tonight because you could
Speaker 1: just be fully immersed in the experience. Think about what
Speaker 1: that means. Klay Thompson, who's been a part of what
Speaker 1: four championships, said it was fun to go on the
Speaker 1: road so we could be immersed in the experience of
Speaker 1: a playoff game and not have to deal with what's
Speaker 1: going on in our own buildings.
Speaker 2: Sounds like you watched a game it cause them and
Speaker 2: that's how you into radio. He is Kevin Kerner.
Speaker 1: He's a complete badass, and I'll never forget the time
Speaker 1: he looked Nico Harrison dead in the eye.
Speaker 4: He said, well, I just think in these times, I
Speaker 4: think it's really important that we all consider everything when
Speaker 4: it comes to the world we're living in.
Speaker 2: That's free and that's what led to the trade. You
Speaker 2: didn't have to pay for that.
Speaker 1: Christina is going to stick around play some tunes right
Speaker 1: hereund ninety seven point won the eagle.
Speaker 2: There you going, well, I'm gonna get my sack backed, dude,
Speaker 2: God bless Jesus.