Speaker 1: It's the Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one
Speaker 1: The Eagle. One of the things that we have been
Speaker 1: tracking incredibly closely is this zebra story. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean the Chris Arnold fuel Fuel City zebra. I mean
Speaker 1: the one that's running around in the wild. Is that
Speaker 1: in Tennessee? Where is that thing Kevin called the Ridge Mountain?
Speaker 1: What's it called, Murphysboro, Tennessee. Murphy's bro called the city Hall.
Speaker 1: We've got resolution on that and we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: it here in about eighteen minutes or so.
Speaker 2: But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 3: Mountains around the sports k t queints as all the
Speaker 3: sports huge softball game tonight, the College World Series softball game. Fine,
Speaker 3: oh we're not doing that, Okay. Game one of the
Speaker 3: NBA Finals last night. It is actually good Texas and
Speaker 3: Texas Tech. Texas Tech just gave their pitcher who's gonna
Speaker 3: pitt for the third night in the Road to Night,
Speaker 3: another seven digit in IL deal for next year. Wow,
Speaker 3: So she's kind of it is kind of interesting. Patrick
Speaker 3: Mahomes is there and not a stuff who cares? So
Speaker 3: NBA Finals got kicked olf last night, yep, and it
Speaker 3: went off and you know, I was at halftime kind
Speaker 3: of a little boards as a little nervous, as kind
Speaker 3: of how the series is going to be.
Speaker 2: But we should have known by now.
Speaker 3: Don't you sleep on the Indianapolis Pacers.
Speaker 2: The Indiana Pacers.
Speaker 3: Don't you sleep on them, because they got the juice
Speaker 3: and they may not have the best player in the league,
Speaker 3: and they may not have this future dynasty going on,
Speaker 3: but they have the juice and that outweighs anything.
Speaker 2: Right now, it's happening. It's like the hot goalie in hockey.
Speaker 3: This feels meant to be. Dude.
Speaker 1: You know, my wife asked me going into this series,
Speaker 1: who are you pulling for? And I think I've told
Speaker 1: you guys this before. Generally, if I have no attachment
Speaker 1: to the teams, all I want is I want it
Speaker 1: to be exciting, and then I'll find whatever whatever I'm
Speaker 1: pulling for will just happen naturally. It's not something i'll
Speaker 1: go into and decide. I get caught into the emotion
Speaker 1: of whatever it is. And I realized last night at
Speaker 1: the So basically, if you didn't know anything about the game,
Speaker 1: Indiana had nineteen turnovers in the first half. They played
Speaker 1: twenty four minutes of basketball and had nineteen turnovers. Nineteen
Speaker 1: turnovers in a game is terrible. They had nineteen and
Speaker 1: a half and they were sitting there down twelve on
Speaker 1: the road at halftime, and I was like, how does
Speaker 1: this even possible? And then during the third quarter, I
Speaker 1: was having a conversation phone conversation with Ben and I'd
Speaker 1: paused it, so then Ben and I, you know, hung up,
Speaker 1: and I kind of got caught up. There was some
Speaker 1: moments in the third quarter where Indiana kind of got
Speaker 1: it to eight or nine, but they never really broke through.
Speaker 1: And then at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City built up big lead, got it to fifteen, and
Speaker 1: they were hooting and hollering and lou Dortz was draining
Speaker 1: threes and I was like, yeah, that sucks, man. I
Speaker 1: wanted this to be a better game. And then suddenly
Speaker 1: you look up, it's like, okay, it's an eight point game.
Speaker 1: And then suddenly Miles Turner hits a three and you're like, uh,
Speaker 1: it's a five point game. And then what happens is
Speaker 1: everything that's gone on during this playoff run, in which
Speaker 1: they've had a huge comeback win against Milwaukee, a huge
Speaker 1: comeback win against the Knicks and a huge comeback win
Speaker 1: against Cleveland. They're this like team of destiny and you
Speaker 1: start sitting there going.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's gonna happen again. It's gonna happen again.
Speaker 1: And dude, there was a moment with about I think
Speaker 1: a minute and a half or two minutes to go
Speaker 1: and Tyrese Haliburton goes in the lane. They're down four,
Speaker 1: and he kicks it out to Miles Turner for a
Speaker 1: wide open three and he breaks it and Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: goes down and scores, and you're like, Okay, they had
Speaker 1: their chance. Then it got back up to eight, and
Speaker 1: you're like, all right, they had their chance. It didn't happen.
Speaker 1: But I'll be damn man, this team.
Speaker 2: Does not give up.
Speaker 1: So many wild things happen, and they got a stop
Speaker 1: down one with eight seconds to go. Rick doesn't call
Speaker 1: it time out and Halliburton just dribbles down and hits
Speaker 1: a game winner. Again.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I I was picking my wife up from the airport
Speaker 4: and she goes, is there some big game happening right now?
Speaker 2: I was like, why she goes?
Speaker 4: The airport just erupted And it was right after that
Speaker 4: shot was made by Haliburton, and I was like, dang
Speaker 4: it because I chose not to watch that game because
Speaker 4: I was convinced it wasn't going to be close.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm now on the Pacers bandwagon. It's it's it's.
Speaker 3: This feels like the Raptors a couple of years ago too, though,
Speaker 3: And you know the Raptors lost. That's good, that's good,
Speaker 3: but it feels like this is kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this could happen. And because one guy's playing otherworldly and crunch.
Speaker 1: Time like Kai and you know who was on that
Speaker 1: team helped me Outam?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, that Wasam's third year and he was talking the
Speaker 1: other day about Man, I thought I was going to
Speaker 1: go to the finals every other year that was new
Speaker 1: in the league, and we won this championship and I didn't.
Speaker 1: So he's soaking it up. And man, it's what I
Speaker 1: realized watching last night's game is that I was like,
Speaker 1: Indiana is not gonna be back here. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: maximized this team, dude. Now the East is pretty wide open,
Speaker 1: but I would be surprised that they got back there
Speaker 1: and a lot of it.
Speaker 2: Did you guys see the clip going.
Speaker 1: Around as Steve Nash and Lebron James talking about Indiana's offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really fun.
Speaker 1: And so I was watching that last night and I
Speaker 1: didn't have a rooting interest going in, and then as
Speaker 1: the game was getting tight, I started pulling for Indiana
Speaker 1: and I didn't have to think about It's just what
Speaker 1: I wanted to happen. And I realized last night after
Speaker 1: the game, I was like, Man, I'm pulling for Indiana
Speaker 1: because Oklahoma City is going to be back.
Speaker 2: Here, be around Bend.
Speaker 4: I Mean, one one thought I had was, Man, I
Speaker 4: want Oklahoma City to win, because once your belly's full
Speaker 4: of that championship sports meet, it's hard to stay hungry.
Speaker 4: And I know they're gonna be good for so long
Speaker 4: that I thought maybe it would be hard for them to.
Speaker 2: Go back to back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I just I hate them, and so I'm
Speaker 4: rooting against them in every possible way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just can't stand lou Dort way too physical and
Speaker 4: I just feel like Sga is a free throw hunter.
Speaker 4: I'm just not a fan. I don't like him and
Speaker 4: I hate him because they're a huge rival and they're
Speaker 4: gonna be good for a long time.
Speaker 2: It's one of the things that's insane too, is just
Speaker 2: the evolution of Rick Carlisle.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's truly a basketball genius. He adapts to
Speaker 1: any period of time, any movement in basketball, he adapts
Speaker 1: and he gets ahead of it, like he was coaching
Speaker 1: Pacer teams that were winning games eighty six to eighty.
Speaker 1: I remember when we got him, and at the time,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't know that much about him, but
Speaker 1: I followed the Pacers, and one of the reasons we
Speaker 1: got him is because Avery's offense was so stagnant. And
Speaker 1: I remember my commentary at the time we were on
Speaker 1: the ticket. My commentary was, we got Rick Carlile to
Speaker 1: open up our offense. We're fed that guy's the biggest
Speaker 1: control roll freak. Every single possession he calls a play.
Speaker 1: This is not going to be a free flowing offense.
Speaker 1: But dude, he adapts to whatever the moment is in basketball.
Speaker 1: And I don't know that a team has ever played
Speaker 1: as wild ass as the Pacers play.
Speaker 2: It's like fun, it's fun and frenetic.
Speaker 1: And he is okay not calling a timeout on the
Speaker 1: road for a game winning play.
Speaker 2: Go do it, tyres. I mean, that is an evolution.
Speaker 2: Rights to just go do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and every time he does something great, I'm like, Man,
Speaker 4: the whole league voted him most overrated player, Isn't it great?
Speaker 1: I went back and watched the clip last night of
Speaker 1: when they asked him about it at the press conference,
Speaker 1: and he handled it great. He handled it wonderfully. Man,
Speaker 1: it's fun. It is a fun, fun series in his own. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's do a little Wildlife new shall we?
Speaker 2: Coming up next?
Speaker 1: What's the latest on that zebra on the loose right
Speaker 1: around the eagle