Speaker 1: Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten away down.
Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to a Wednesday edition Matt Thomas
Show with Ross, And we are here to entertain the
hell out of you, maybe create a few arguments, take
subtle jabs at each other for the next four hours.
Maybe not so subtle. So yeah, okay, should be fun.
Got a busy day today, I mean we do. I
gotta get like a mega nap in oh after the show.
Late start eight forty two tip it could be eight
forty seven. No, it's just like they call in the
business that boy boys sliding. So it's the latest they get.
The NBA sends us a timing sheet on national television game. Okay,
and we are tipping off. If everything works according to
plane at eight forty two, it won't. There is a
potential over for a five minute slide. Guys fly anymore
than next Okay, only five minutes. So it's eight forty seven.
They've gone. They've done eight fifty before that was in
playoff time. They're not gonna bump it for this late.
So that's good for Calves Lakers on a Thursday. And
the reason why the game is being bumped is not
because the games get a lot of fouls or a
lot of challenges. They extend all the breaks they do,
and they just don't plan enough. Like you go to
the guide and it says the game's gonna take two
hours or whatever. It never takes two hours. No, Well,
the game is usually a seven to ten start, which
is a normal. First of all, they should do it
like the like basketball baseball guests go when it says
seven to ten, first pitch the pitcher is says seven teen.
No basketball, they should say seven to ten. We're usually
out of there at the earliest nine to thirty, the
latest about nine forty nine forty five. When you say
give or tank yep, then wex goes about thirty six minutes,
and then I'm on about ten oh six. Now when
Clinton does it, it's how long, actually, Clint. Honestly, Clinton
tries to act like he goes short. He doesn't go
as short as he thinks he does. Oh really, just
saying that that's a little inside baseball team. I'm just
being in I'm just being impatient because I'm like, let's
get this rockets wrap started. The game ended thirty minutes ago,
and I want to talk to callers yeah, yeah, imself,
I do believe postgame shows in general, and I will
and I give Robert and Steve a lot of credit
on the Astros.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: Now. The only thing I would tell Robert, and I've
told this to his face before, because I'm saying, I
said lovingly fashion when the Astros lose eleven and nothing,
he runs through the eleven runs they're giving up. I
don't think you want to do that. In the fourth
this happened. Yeah, in the sixth Aaron Judge his first
home run, in the eighth he had a second home run,
and the ninth he had his third. Yeh, yeah, I'm
good actually in that case though, I'm okay sitting through
those because I want people to cool off so I
don't have to hear it take fifteen calls about how
they should bunt more to win the eleven nothing game.
Uh so, uh so, yeah, needless to say, uh the
NBA doesn't do itself in a favorite College basketball is
running themselves in a problem. They used to schedule two
hours like you'd have a ten to twelve, but now
these games are going like two fifteen, two twenty, so
they're what they're doing is they're sending people to these
like if you're going to watch your let's say University
Houston was on FS one and the games are started two,
well they'll push it to two ten, they slid a
five minutes in the game, stills, and then they wind
up putting it on FS two or on their FS app.
I don't think these networks are doing themselves any favors.
They should either do one of two things, shortened the brakes,
which they're never going to do, or two just gap
two and a half hours in between so you don't
piss off your audience. I don't know why they continue
to pretend, because yeah, in nineteen seventy eight the game
took two hours. We're in and out of there. It
doesn't happen anymore. In this day and age. You have
you have challenges, and you I mean, as you mentioned,
the breaks are longer, the games are different, and then
you have challenge challenges in every sport. Yeah, it's when
I Haven't forbid an NBA again gets flagrant review. After
Hen't Forbid the Rockets and the Pistons are playing, you
get five flagrate reviews. That was a great game, good
game game. It's like, come on, I mean, when you
go to a game, you get to see people throw
hands on multiple occasions. Yeah, but also yeah, the timeouts tonight,
I got I want to say, like three fifteen, three
twenty something crazy like that. Mm hmm. I remember during
the college football season sometimes when the Cougars would play,
they'd have the fancy little timeout indicators with a little
you know, they would carry this little thing around that
showed how Yeah, they would have three fifty breaks, three
minutes and fifty seconds. Let's go, you got you got
a jam as many insurance companies that are ripping you
off into one break. Frankly, what you're doing is the
long we look. We we have to worry about this
on our radio side too, we try not to take
super super long breaks. We do have people that want
to advertise in a show, and for that we love them.
I mean advertising make the girl go or go around. Oh,
we love advertising. But if you had these mega, mega breaks,
you have a chance of somebody flipping the channel. Unless
you're a diehard team of you know, they probably have
some kind of science to back up. Oh, I'm sure
that we do. Yes, we do. You know, everything is
measured and there are analytics to it and those analytics
are very important because that doesn't directly impact business. So
we appreciate you keeping it right here Sports Talk seven.
Now you know what there's I mean, let me tell you.
Let's be brutally honest. The rest of the competition out
there sucks. God, it's uber boring, uninteresting, droning on and on.
At least you're gonna get a little bit of everything
with us. Let's see, we're more knowledgeable, funnier, and more entertaining.
That's what four hours should in the middle of day.
Let's go breaking down you know, second tier defensive linemen.
No or investigating what free agency that Nick Cassira may
sign on a one year deal in it to the
manuche Yeah, all right, So Rockets and Spurs tonight it'll
be matchup number three of four huge Rockets, Spurs just
played what we can change ago? Uh huh? Are the
Spurs fans caravaning down here again? Had a pretty decent section,
Did they know they had a bunch at the I mean,
what do you call it? Behind the basket? Not end zone?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: In zone seats? Yeah, okay, I was I was asking
the XP. I don't know, I don't what they call
them baseline upper base. A lot of people in the
end zone Spurs fans, and they're a during free throws
like they were loud. Let me tell you that's that's
nothing compared to San and then they were the whole time.
They lay thousands of people. Really yes, okay, I'll say
it because you can't. It's a bunch of a bunch
of Mexicans. That's my people. They like basketball San Antonio
Spurs basketball, Yes they do. One thousand and one. I
was in that building. All right, have you been to uh?
Have you been to a brown guys with wispy frost
Bank Center?
Speaker 1: Have you been?
Speaker 2: Have you're been there for a game? I have not. Well,
it's I've been. Well uh uh, it's the same building,
same building if it's like a T and T way
like yao. Ming was playing and this was when the
Rocket the Spurs only had I don't know, two or
three championships, so I was talking a lot of I
was a young and a little more rabble rouser. I
also went into the building with a a coke bottle
with whiskey in it, and the Rockets pulled out the
wind and you felt really good. I was starting a
Houston Rockets chant with my fellow Rockets fans. My favorite
of all time is we had a listener trip to
San Antonio in nineteen ninety five for the Western Conference Finals.
We took five buses of listeners. Five buses. Five buses,
so that's about two hundred people, give or take some
of those. You know, you didn't want to have school buses, no,
like charter bus prison busses. No, not prison charter like
regular air conditioning charter buses. All right, I'll lets you
see all the time, ross I got you. Okay, So
we had like two hundred people go and we got
into the upper deck at the Alimal Dome for the
night that David Robinson got his MVP award, and then
Elija Won schooled them for two and a half hours,
torched them. It was so much fun, such amazing. Yeah,
you can really do that if you want, if you
want to do a day trip Santornio, because here's the thing.
The arena of the Frost Bake Center where the Spurs
play is actually on the east end of San Antonio.
So you're not going all the way into the city.
You're actually going a little bit shy of it. Yeah,
I've busted san Antonio. It's not bad. No, you should.
You could guess why it runs with roll Well, that's
don't they have like a special colored seat which is
your name on it? Right, that's rude. Like there's like
fifty seven thousand seats in the Alimal Dome and that
all blue. And yes, there's been a lot of Alimal
this place reserved for Ross. He's here every year. They
haven't been in years, mostly because of the conference to
say you're not in an affiliation anymore. Uh So it
is a late night uh where three of us are
going to get a little child after the show today
and I'll still have a chance to go back into
my car and take a massive, massive nap after. You
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Instagram every time I land in a city, Oh wow,
I'm going to put the lights of that city, and
I'll put a song that I think matches either the
tenor or the city, or the state or the mood
I'm in. Okay, but you're going to skip Sacramento. Why
I'm not going to sacrament anymore this year. Now tonight
I'll be landing in Atlanta. So if you are on
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the morning, I will be sending you a video out
about three am with the city of Atlanta. Okay, I
would go with Wheels of Steel by Outcast. You could
go Georgia, Ray Charles, Oh, welcome to Atlanta, Ludacris. I
don't know that song. Okay, I know welcome to my house?
What well him to my Okay? Why don't you should do?
Because you like Rick Flair Rick Flair Drip by the Migos. Really, yeah,
you don't think Ray Charles have been classier in a
a better way. I think it doesn't get any classier
than Rick Flair Drip. Yeah, Jonathan knows.
Speaker 3: Some time.
Speaker 2: I think I might be Actually I was gonna say,
is that unk stuff because you're young?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, okay, good it is though kind of
rights by the way fresh do at sports empty the
kids call it and you say a cut, And dude,
what are the kids call it? Got cut? There's a
cuts getting cut? N telling me today's kids not reinventing
a verb for using a going together? Gotta be something else.
I don't know. It looks like I got a LinkedIn
photo shoot today or something. Man looking nice. I was
thinking about Matt this morning. I had this haircut and
there was so much breeze on my head. I don't
know how he does it, no stuff or nothing.
Speaker 3: I was like.
Speaker 2: Being so serious too.
Speaker 4: I was like, dude, we gotta get you a scar
from you to these northern O Can I see why
you get cold?
Speaker 2: Man looking fresh? By the way I looked in the
mirror this morning, I don't do a lot of this
because I mean, why, oh, nobody is buying that. I'm
getting more gray in my beer than I arrived before.
It makes me sad. It's okay, I'm grayer than you are.
I know you are, but that's maybe because of your
family situation, right, I mean, what do you hows out
there much stress you had in your life to be
this great at your young age? All right, things I
never thought I would say. Are we, as a country
sports fans sympathetic towards Bill Belichick? We'll discuss that next
ten to twelve on Sports Talk seven ninety ten eighteen
on Matt Thomas Show at Ross. I don't hear Rick
Fleury yet. Where's the drip?
Speaker 4: Go on the drill the jails?
Speaker 2: He's in the music video? How old is this song?
I don't know, maybe eight years or something. I've interviewed
I don't think I've ever interviewed Rick on the radio.
I've met Rick before. I have a picture and old.
This is from twenty seventeen. Oh you're not getting old.
That was only nine years ago. Oh yeah, twenty nine.
It feels like it was two or three. I overrested
that I was overestimating when I said seven. All right,
I wish you loved wrestling like I loved wrestling when
I was a kid. Because every Saturday night on TBS
it was World Championship Wrestling with the NWA wrestlers. I
watched it a little, My god, it was so good.
The what they call promos meaning they go in then
of the microphone and they just yell and scream at
each other. It was just the promos. Actually, I was
good with like because when I was come and when
I was like a teenager, it was Prime Still and Cold,
Steve Austin and The Rock, which I was a fan
of too. But I but I was getting a little older,
so I didn't have a chance to watch it. Like
when I was watching Rick Flair in the Four Horsemen
back in the eighties, it was I was religiously watching
every Saturday. I couldn't do that as a younger adult,
and I used to play the wrestling video game with
my cousin Rico on the N sixty four. But I
didn't really get into why watched it. I'm like, it's
I'm sorry, go ahead, You've said it for years. It's
it's so forced and the acting is so bad. Well,
I mean, when I was thirteen, it didn't matter to me. Well,
it mattered to me, Matt, And now as an adult,
I listened to the podcast because these guys are now
in their sixties and seventies and they talk about the
stuff they did when they were back when they were competing,
and it's yeah, very fast. Mostly steroids and cocaine. Well,
I mean, you're not completely wrong. A lot of steroids,
cocaine and baby oil and partying. Yeah, oh yeah. Seeing
who can drink the most beers? That Rick Flair thirty
for thirty was incredible. It wasn't like I respect. I
respect the guys and what they put their bodies through.
I just didn't find it entertaining. Yeah, I just did.
I just I found it fascinating. I believed it not
until I got until I was later adult realizing it
was fake. But as a kid, I didn't. I didn't.
I knew. I didn't think it was fake. I nobody knew.
Nobody ever talked to me about it being fake. So
all right, you know, I grew up. Maybe it was
the Internet age. That's all we did talk about, right,
I fink it was. That's right, that's it's different time
as it was. It was, all right. So yesterday they
have a committee where you can vote people into the
Pro Football Hall of Fame, and I guess it takes
what forty one or forty to get in. I don't know.
There's so many different committees and subcommittee. He had a
fifty votes. I believe forty out of fifty, and Bill
Belichick was up for enshrinment into the Pro Football Hall
of Fame and he did not get in, not getting
the prerequist at fifty votes. Now there is somebody by
the name of Bill Paulding and a former Patriot, I
mean a former Indianapolis cult executive, a former Buffalo Bill's executive,
and by the way, a large longtime rival of the
New England Patriots that apparently Bill Pollian has been accused
of leading the brigade through the back channels of saying, hey,
Bill Belichick is a Hall of Fame coach, but we
need to punish him for Spygate. And the easiest way
to punish him, to make an everlasting ending to the
Bill Belichick pro football coaching career is to make him
sit away at before you get wait a year before
he gets in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: Then you have on top of that, you've got some
crusty media who don't like the way that Bill Belichick
treated him for all those years as a member of
the meeting that like, you know what, we're going to
get you back too. So I'd like to say Rossie
I'm completely surprised that he didn't get in on the
first time, but I'm not totally surprised. When I first
heard about it, I was shocked, But then the context
you just provided I and I said, ah, it makes sense.
And honestly, I'm gonna have an unpopular opinion. I don't
have a big problem with it. Damn it. Oh no,
write it down. Ross agree, here's the reality. Know if
ANNs or Butts, Bill Belichick should be in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame. Agreeable? Okay, agreed? So eight when
his account coordinators as a coordinator, so his resume is
not going to change. Nope. We do this every time
with Baseball Hall of famers. Either you're good enough to
get in or or you don't get in. Yeah, and
this could very well be impactful to the Astros down
the road. I mean, Jose Ol two bag guilty by association.
You could find himself in this exact same situation. Well,
mastermind Carl's Beltran is in. So hopefully we're fine. I'm
I'm I'm just not shocked. Now, would I do it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: But I know who the types of people are that
have these votes. They're crusty, they're old, they're holier than thou.
They're holding grudges, holding grudges. And I don't think under
any circumstance that Bill Belichick did this for a prolonged
period of time. But there was one season in which
he didn't try to steal the defensive signals for the
New York Chants. That was a concerted effort to try
to anticipate what the other team was calling. So he's
gonna get in next year. But you add the Spygate,
you add the fact that he was as cantankerous and
as unapproachable and frankly rude to people that have the
votes in their hand. Got I'm gonna and maybe I'm
cop I have a cop out on this, but I'm
not totally surprised by this. I'm not totally surprised, and
I'm fine with it if these people within the NFL fraternity,
because Spygate was a major scandal that we kind of
just sweep against under the rug because they continued to
win afterwards. There was there was a long period after
those uh, those Patriots didn't win at all, the twenty
seventeen undefeated Patriots, where it took him several years to
get back into the Super Bowl and win one. If
people forget like narratives around that time, where where Bill
Belichick and Tom Brady ever went again? Or was this
only because of Spygate?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: They needed to flake gate? Shortly after that, the flate
gate happened as well. I mean, how long was he
cheating and doing these things before getting caught? We really
don't We never know the length of time, and we
don't know. There was no there was no report, there
was no investigation, I mean except for the fact that
they did catch him. Yeah, and they and they gave
a check of fine. So if you want to keep
him out for a year because of a major scandal,
I'm okay with it. But here's why I'm a conundrum
on this, gang And maybe y'all can help us out
here on the show with calling it if you'd like.
Everybody on social media is losing their minds over this, yes,
and so I'm trying to think maybe I'm in the
wrong on this. Well, See, this is the thing, because
I was. I wasn't outraged, but I was shocked when
I first read it because I couldn't wrap my that
was gonna be like and I just don't get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But then, like like you said, I read, Oh, it's
like a light bulb went on. Oh, spygate. That makes
sense because here's the thing. I as a diehard of
an Astro fan as I am, I'm still in horror
over what the Astros did in twenty seventeen. But I'm
also and I guess I'm trying not to say, well,
it's what's your team, You've got different roles. I don't
want to be that I'm saying the Astros cheated, but
I I'm also saying that a lot of other teams
got cheated too, and that the Astros had had somebody
inside the in the room, they had a mole, they
had somebody that was that was squirming. So other teams
were doing it. Doesn't make it right, but other teams
are doing it. The Asters just had to be the
first ones to get caught. And then secondly, it was
only a handful of people, and it wasn't the manager
trying to create this. It was two or three guys
or four, we wouldn't know the exact number, but there
were not everybody that was a participant in the twenty
seventeen Astros was partaking in this hoseelity it being the
number one, and he's been obviously the guy has been
feeling it more. But when you have a coach who
orchestrates a plan to try to steal the signals of
another team, that if you are a team and you
know what's coming, that's going to be eighty percent of
the battle in the NFL that you set your defense
that way, you set your offense that way, you know
where the pass is being thrown, you know where the
play call is. That is strict. That's stealing, and that's
intelligence stealing. It's what that is that that is integral
to the plays of an NFL game is a what
is the defense call? What is the play call on offense?
That's pretty damn serious. So again, maybe somebody needs to
walk me through this because again he is a Hall
of Fame coach. He will get in next year. M
But I'm trying to go, man, what's wrong with me?
Because I'm thinking, you know what, you did do something
very serious. You're not gonna not get in. You are
not considered the great, you are still considered the greatest
coach of all time. But you got a blemish on there,
and sometimes you got to pay a year. I mean
this one situation where he wasn't getting in at all,
then I would have a much bigger problem with this.
But he's gonna get in next year because he has
become a sympathetic figure in twenty twenty six. And I
don't know how in the world that Bill Belichick could
ever be sympathetic to anybody, but he is. You got
everybody in their mother tweeting about this. Yeah, Lebron James
tweeting about this. Really, Yes, that's funny. Well, he's not
gonna get in. He's to pay his penance and he's
gonna get in. And in ten years we're not even
gonna talk about this. That's another thing too, like this
is just a one year Yeah, it's it's honestly, it's
a slap on the wrist. But I mean the outrage, oh,
Bill Bill polling doesn't do himself any favors because he
to see, as he said yesterday or the last twenty
four hours, he doesn't remember it not voting for Bill Belichick. Yeah,
which was which is that's a lie to.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 2: I was just like, you know what, I don't remember
who I voted for for the Hall of Fame. If
you're allowing media to determine this. This is not right,
but it's just the way things have gone in all sports.
If you're an a hole in the media and they
get to hold a Trump card in front of you,
like President Trump a trump card in general, they may
use it sometimes, and I think you add spygate, and
you add media frankly rudeness. Combo says, you probably said
not a year, and so he will also. I believe
it's a situation where there was you could only vote
for There was like five guys who were up for it,
and you can only vote for three, kind of like
in Major League Baseball, which is ridiculous too. I mean,
you know, if a guy's eligible, you shouldn't have a
minimum maximum a lot in there. But that's a different issue.
So I'll just say again, I don't know how much
this resonates for Houston sports fans listening to our show
right now, especially ten o'clockers, But tell me, I mean,
if I'm wrong, please explain it to me, because it's
he's going to get in next year. He's going to
get in next year. But you're telling me that ten
a holes out there that have votes aren't going to
use this as a as a grudge. I'm not surprised.
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two one two five seven any other We we have
two bits of breaking news, one on the local level
and one on the national level. It is a Matt
Thomas shold Ross seven to one three two one two
five seven. Honey, hit the sounder please, that's one. That's
what we'll stay with. Okay. The Texans, actually, Demiko Ryans
has fired a coach Demiko Ryans has fired a coach.
Jamiko Ryans has fired a coach. Uh, offensive line coach Popovich?
You know he is here? Okay, I don't know. According
to Jonathan m Alexander the Houston Chronicle, the Texans have
fired tight Ends coach Jake Morland. Uh, it'd be I'd
have been two or three if you'd have said if
it was Nick Cayley, so I knew it wasn't him.
If you would have said Matt the Texans fired Jake Morland,
my first reprise would have been, who is Jake Morland? Okay?
I would have thought of maybe a trainer water boy.
Let's cousin discuss. Who wants to get down on this,
Jake Morland?
Speaker 1: Let's go?
Speaker 2: How did the Texans fired Jake Morland? Seven one three, two,
two five seven ninety coffee kicked in?
Speaker 3: Sorry?
Speaker 2: Are you okay? I'm fine? You want to you don't
want to cuss and discuss this? Why they fired Jake Moreland?
What are you doing wrong? Dallas? What done? Dallas? What's
his name?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Tight End? Dalton, Dalton Schultz. I was going Dallas Schultz,
Dalton Schult's been great, incredible and maybe they're unhappy with
the development of cade Stover Brevin Jordan, Well, I got hurt.
That's not Jake a That a guy named Jake Moreland. Yeah, sure,
why not? We should call Jake Morland. You wanna call him,
you wanna get some dirt. You know we had to do.
We had to try to getim on Facebook. We're not
gonna burn any bridge. You're gonna talk to him on Facebook?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why not about politics? No, that's what you talk about
on Facebook. I don't talk politics on Facebook. Hey, man,
we don't know each other. But sorry, man, losing your job,
you were robbed. Call him the show and give us
some more dirt. Okay, Well you are the Texans insider.
You don't already have contact info? All right? Maybe I do? Oh,
here we go. So look, we are not involved in
the inner workings of the Texans organization. But that was
that was not on my Bingo car, the Jake Morland firing. Again,
I didn't have Jake Moreland on my Bengo car when
I woke up this morning. No, I didn't know he exists.
I mean, I guess I knew that coach. I didn't
know what his name was. His Titan could have been
Stanley Gebloski and it would have been fine. You know, yeah,
I'm wishing he and Stanley the best on your endeavors.
Maybe's assistant time. Maybe My guess is there's a philosophical difference.
Clearly who knows with what tight end, block and run
your routes? Yeah? Hey, by the way, uh, your position
group has the number two receiver on the team. Go,
Dalton Schultz has been good second half of the season.
Maybe Dalton Schultz didn't like him. Oh really, dal't's call
him the shots, so get his ass out of here.
You don't think Josh Allen had an intimate role in
deciding that Joe Brady made coach of the Buffalo Bills. Stop. Well,
he shouldn't have had a big say no one, he
had a huge number two. Dalton Schultz had had very
little to any say any firing or hiring of coach.
No no, Dalton, I got the inside nose. Dalton Schultz
goes in the room, Yes, slammed the door and says,
I I want Jake Moreland out as my physician. Morland
out of here. Yeah, just like when JJ Watt went
and said get Bill Bill O'Brien the hell out of Houston.
There was a player revolt there. Insider had it wait
for everybody else? Okay, man, all right, now that that's
not going to carry the show, would you like the
national bit of news headlines? Yes, the Milwaukee Bucks are
now officially entertaining offers to trade Giannis Atentakupo out of Milwaukee. Hm.
Speaker 3: Hm.
Speaker 2: Where is he gonna end up? I've said this over
and over again. Yes, I think he goes east. Okay,
if he goes west, it could be San Antonio or
Golden State. But I really believe at the end the
day he's going east. Golden State for the for the
reboot makes sense Santonio, because you've got a lot of
trade chips, a lot of assets. Can we can we
just keep him out of the West. There needs to
be some kind of embargo set up. How do you
how's that going to work? I want you to explain.
Whimby ended up in the west. Lebron got traded to
the west. Luka Doncic got traded from west to west? No, No,
why don't he go to like the Charlotte That Why
can't anybody go to the east? You know why? You
know what? Why can't he go to the Orlando Magic,
because think about this, if you're a team in the East,
you make this move, you skyrocket, And if you're a contender,
you go from contender to dominant leader in the clubhouse.
You're your point right there. Just just made me think
that he's going to stay in the East. Somebody's going
to overpay the East. That's my gut feeling right now
that he just formulated. Okay, I'll accept that, because, as
you said, the East, it's not wide open. I mean,
the Pistons are looking really good. But if the number
two team is the Celtics with Jason Tatum out with
a torn achilles, don't forget about the Nicks. They've always
been rumored to have him. I mean they're good. Yeah,
with the honest they would be incredible. The number two
seeded Celtics would be the number five seed in the West. No,
you know what we do this every year. I know, Gosh,
the West is so tough. Keep him out of the West.
You think Darryl Morriy can make a move, Yes, yeah,
they have very a really great asset for us as
a defensive player and scoring thirty points per game. I
think Daryl can do it? Would you trade VJ. Edgecumb
for him? Ooh? Probably a top three Rookie of the
Year candidate the year candidate.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, Daryl likes star hunting. He've we've seen that firsthand
many years in Houston and Philadelphia is in the playoffs,
but they'd be a low six, seven, eight somewhere that
range that bumps them up high. The question is that
if he goes anywhere, does that team need some sort
of assurance in a couple of years when you have
it becomes a free agent that he's going to stay
in that city or does it really even matter depending
on what you what you have to give up and
return to get him, it's going to cost a haul.
I mean, how many first round picks? Was Desmond Bane?
I believe that Orlando doesn't have a first round pick
until I have grandchildren. Well, that could happen anytime, that's true.
A male rephrase twenty fifty one, Oh Grandpa, Thomas, I
like that. Oh god, no, let's let's relax on that
a little bit. You brought it up, I know I did. Yeah,
four Desmond Bane to the magic four first round picks
and Contavious Carwell of Pope and Cole Anthony Caseyp's just
a throwing though. Four first round picks for Desmond Bane.
What's the maximum amount of a first round picks?
Speaker 1: Is there?
Speaker 2: This's got to be a max. Well, I believe you
cannot do him over consecutive years. There's gotta be a
little bit gap in between. I think something like that.
How do you want to track this? This is Giannis,
This is a in This term is used way too much,
but it is a general. He's a generational player. He
is I mean, he's he's two time MVP. How many
there's probably like ten two time MVPs and NBA history,
So I go look it up. Seven years. You cannot
trade a first round pick more than seven years into
the future. But then you can do it consecutively if
you can circumvent this via swaps and protections or by
acquiring extra picks. Okay, just for my own mental health, Rossie,
let's keep him in the Eastern Conference. That's all I
would have to say. Please. Ten the West is ridiculous.
Yeah yeah, yeah, but again, san Antonio could do it.
San Antonio has picks and they have players. Actually the
Rockets have picks, but they also have high. I just don't.
There's too many protectables. Fifteen players ever in the history
of the NBA have won multiple MVPs. Yannis is one
of them. But it doesn't bother that Jannis can't shoot
free throws. I guess it didn't bother when Shaq was playing.
Speaker 3: I get it. It doesn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, it bothers me, but it doesn't bother me
enough to say, can't get that guy who's top three
in the Defensive Player of the Year every year dropping
thirty shooting from three point range this year probably twenty
three percent or so. He's also taking a lot fewer.
I was surprised. How a few three point shots? I
mean he's given that up as part of his game. Yeah,
he's also hurt right now, right, I don't know. I
think he's hurt. I think John moran'st We knew this
was coming when he bowed his own fans, right, didn't
we predict this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: When you give your when you do a big boo
and two tombs down to your own fans, be here
on your way mill walk, You sucked. What did you say, Yannis?
You heard me?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: He is shooting thirty nine and a half percent from
three this year, but he's only taking one point three.
I was gonna say that percent that's a good percentage,
but it's just not career twenty eight point six. It's
his free throw percentage of fifty five point eight this year,
career sixty nine. He is a wonderful He's the best
downhill player I've seen the NBA in the last fifteen years.
But boy, you get him the free throw line and
you got to punch his chance.
Speaker 3: You just do.
Speaker 2: He's been All NBA First Team seven years in a row.
How old is he seven years in a row? He's
thirty one or thirty thirty one? You just turned thirty one.
He's got a last remember, probably three or four years
of prime Jhanna's left in him. Probably now. He hadn't
played over He's only played seventy games more than seventy
games once in the last seven years. But you know what,
you're not worried about that. You're worried about him playing
sixty regular season games and playing twenty playoff games. If
you're going to get him, you're going, you know, arrest
and make sure he gets he's prepared for a long
April Megan June stretch his MVP finishes the last seven
years one one, four, three, three, four to three. He's
the Big City Wings of the NBA. Oh on MVP.
I see where you're going with this. Thank you very much.
More breaking news on the Matt Thomas showing Ross.
Speaker 4: This is it.
Speaker 2: Cleveland Brown's hiring Todd Monkin as their head coach. You're like,
who the hell's Todd Monkin? He was Leo Todd Monkin.
He was the Ravens offensive coordinator. Oh, your favorite team
m losing its key offensive coach. He was already gone.
He was supposed to be on John Harball's staff with
the Giants. Yeah, and now John Harball has got to
be looking for an OC. And if I'm Todd Monkin,
I probably would just rent in Cleveland. He's gonna be
sixty years old or no, I guess he's fifty nine now.
Never been a head coach anywhere I can recall. So
it's like the David Kelly at Cleveland. It seemed like everybody.
I don't know what the Cleveland Browns are doing there,
but it seemed like they were scaring everyone off. Yeah,
they have a GM who what is very into analytics
and as you know, Matt. Sometimes analytics nerds aren't really
good on the personal side. Oh you think so apparently.
I mean the reports had been like that, Mike mcdannel
with Drew. There were some other guys that Withdrew because
they were making them fill out some kind of questionnaire
like like, I've never done this before. What are you
asking me for? Yeah, like, hey, I've been coaching for
thirty years. I don't need to fill out your little questionnaire.
Andrew Barry, Oh, I do believe that, just like anything,
you can if if you are one of those I'm
seeing eye guys, you're gonna behind the curve. But I
think if you are super analytical, you're also going to
not have a feel for a franchise. I think part
of that's why Daryl Morey's not had the run is
because he has been so analytically driven with everything, and
I don't think if that's not necessarily reading the room.
But analytics cannot give you chemistry cannot give you the
vibe of what a locker room or a culture is like.
And I think the best coaches in the world can
mix them both. I am no longer the belief that
the seeing eye guy knows it all. Yeah, And I've
never been a belief of well analytics guys never lied,
that's true. So you have toun of good mix of
course and anything. But I think also in football, just
because of the nature of the sport how violence, I
mean violent and testosterone fueled. And I mean if I say,
if I say which major American sport has the most
meat heads on the team, we're going football. Yeah, So
there you got to get You got to motivate the
guys properly. You have to lay things out or you're
not gonna have a I mean, not a lot of
Rhodes scholars. So let me take the line. I don't
know how analytics is used in football as much as
I think I know what it is in baseball. In basketball,
for instance, in basketball, I can give you how a
player is reacting after he's played a certain number of minutes.
I can watch his steps, I can take a look
at where he's taking his shot selection. I can tell
at certain points of the game where he's more efficient
than he is at other parts of the game. In baseball,
analytics is so cruel, crucial to telling you where the
ball is going to be hit next, or the percentages
of placing your infielders, placing your outfielders situational for individual players. Football,
to me, I'm sure has it, because every team does
have an analytical department, But I would think of the
three major sports that to me, analytics would be not
nearly as important in FOOTBA as it is either too.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm just throwing that out. I
think it's definitely, of course a decision making as far
as fourth down decision making and and kick and that
type of stuff. As you said, player performance tracking players,
they're they're seeing when guys are getting tired and all
that stuff, and seeing, uh, you know, who needs to
come out for a couple of snaps or whatever. Sorry,
As far as workloads, but after that, yeah, I don't
know either. I don't know how much is Nick Kayley
using or even any play caller Andy Reid when he's
drawing up plays, what is he using. I mean, we
have basic analytics that if you run on uh you know,
if if you run on first down, you'd play action
success rate and that type of stuff, So I guess
that does kind of factor in, yeah, roll for but
I just yards per play, average yards pretend all that
other stuff like adjusted yards per attempt. There's a lot
of analytics in football. I think if you're a coach,
if you don't use it and it's not provided to you,
you're doing yourself at disservice. But I think sometimes the
analytical nerds, and I'm sorry that that's a term. It's
put together in the same year, calling people nerds, and
it's fun't there should be analytics, experts nerds. Why have
to be nerds because they generally are They're not. They're
not They're not the midders at a party. They're what
they're nerds, But that's what they're. Analytic nerds. Analytic nerds
are running every major organization Baseball, most analytical nerds they
won six games in the last three years. Well, they
have a lot of injuries. Matt, oh, that it is, okay?
How about this analytics? Is this city sucks? They swung
for the analytics, probably said sign him and trade for
three first round draft picks. I don't know. I'm not
as anti analytics as I may sound like. I'm just
saying you are. No, no, no, that's not fair. You
have to call them nerds, okay, and dorks. Remember Pro
Football Focus experts full of analytics. Yeah, what's your problem?
There's exceptions every rule ross there just is. Yeah, they
call the office the Chicken ranch. They do not call
it that. They're not having toga parties on the teams
in the road, like I know the rock, it's analytic department.
They're not having a they're not busting kegs while we're
out of town tonight. They're not playing They're not bringing
a bunch of hot girls over the practice facility and
playing pick up basketball a three o'clock in the morning
when we're flying to Atlanta. Why not? I mean, I
guess they could. Yeah, that makes me pretty crazy, wouldn't it. Hey,
the teams out of town, let's bring let's bring the
girls over and analytic guys like what it expert? What
is a girl?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Second hour of the show coming up in about matter moments. Hey,
we've got some news that probably isn't great if you're
a fan of Rutgers University and I don't know what
to do with it, except I'm not a big fan.
So you're saying Tony Soprano wouldn't be very happy? Is
he the most famous person attached to most fictional character? Yes,
just like Rocky was a Philadelphia Sure? Why not?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Shut your boy? Mess up? Is coming up at a
half an hour, Emeadoka at one thirty plus Ross believe
it or not? Today at one fifty, what is the
today's topic?
Speaker 3: I don't know?
Speaker 2: Todd Munkin, Sure, why not? That doesn't sound particularly entertaining.
It's monk and time. Do you understand? People that call
and play the game want to be entertained by the questions?
So you think when he enters a room he says
it's monk and time. I don't believe he does.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: I think he's fifty nine years oldgoing, who are these
analytic nerds in this room with me? I guess I'll
have to listen to it. He's getting along with him?
Sign that contract. Let's talk to folks about sixty years old?
How's his energy? He's The mac Thomas Show with Ross.
I gotta pull question up on the official Twitter account
of The bat Thomas Show with Ross. I say, it's
my account, it's not Ross's. It's at Sports empty.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 2: The question is are you mad Belichick is getting snubbed
this year? Three options are yes, he deserves to wait
one year or I don't really care, and the votes
are at fifty four percent, I don't really care. Wow,
Because again it's if we were in Boston, it would
be topic number one for days and days and days. Yeah. Frankly,
our Aunien is probably curious some more about the twenty
five year old husband Doug in Dorchester, Dorchester mask Doug,
what do you think about this Belichick thing?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I could be spending quite a bit of time up
there in the next four years. Am I gonna come
back with an accent? I don't think so. That'd be funny.
I don't know how. I remember when you first started here, Matt.
Now we're talking like you know, that is not even true?
That is that is not Oh. I love the Houston Oilers.
It's really pretty good. I don't think people are catching
on what you're talking about, but I'm gonna give you
credit for that. Sometimes I just try to entertain myself
or you. Well, you're Jonathan Jonathan' out there today. He's
chilling now he keeps taking selfies with this new dude. Man,
I've been taking selfies all show. Are you working on
your snapchat over there? What's that going on over there?
See those who don't know. We can't directly see Jonathan.
We only see him through a television, through a camera. Froze,
My bad, I'm here. Ah there he is to make
sure are you still vested with us? You see, I'm
think about leaving us. Are you anytime soon? You're still
good for lunch at two o'clock. I'm good. Let's dog,
I'm in teget right now. All right, So make sure
because we usually sense this with cleaning themselves up, get
the photo shoot, as he asked me to edit his resume. Yeah,
come on, now that's what check something. Man got something here. Yeah,
we appreciate you. We're trying. We're trying to get some
more money and put Matt down as a reference. Yeah,
seven on three, two, one, two, five, seven auties. So
the main headlines today, We've got Jannis potentially being traded
for Milwaukee, that Milwaukee's listening to the offers. We have
that Bill Belichick is not getting in to the Pro
Football Hall of Fame. And we have the Houston Rockets
against the San Antonio Spurs tonight eight forty two or thereabouts.
I can feel my eyes WinCE as you said that
postgame show. We'll get on about midnight. So in the
the NBA circles, and I'm not speaking out of school
on this, there are a handful of games. You look
at the calendar and go, that's probably gonna be a loss.
And think about this. So the game tonight gets started
eight forty two rockets. Let's say they win the game.
It's gonna be emotionally charged game. It's San Antonio's arrival.
Its burs why not. The game ends about eleven to fifteen. Okay,
the guys will get in the shower, they'll do the
interviews and whatever. We'll probably leave the Tota Center at
about twelve twelve fifteen maybe give or take. It's about
forty minutes of Intercontinental, so that's twelve fifty five. Gotta
put the bags on, gotta put everything on, the equipment
and whatnot. So you're looking at about, at earliest about
a one forty five departure time out of Intercontinental. Okay two,
our flight to Atlanta is three forty five quick flight.
Then you gotta unload everything, get to the hotel. So
looking we're looking at about a four thirty am I
right about this four point thirty Houston time arrival in
the Atlanta and the Atlanta hotel and then you can
get twelve hours of sleep and go to the game.
Have you actually that's true for NBA players, that they
can sleep very well. Yeah, it's a big part of it.
But sometimes you think you're gonna lose one games like
the Rockets we played in Detroit. The next time, you're
losing the tough game to Philadelphia overtime, right, and we
beat the Pistons. See that's what I'm saying. So so
we got to stop talking about walking into losses. Well
we I'm just talking about the behind the scenes kind
of stuff. Okay. I think some teams do say, okay,
this looks like the chance you got a disadvantage. Yeah,
I mean you're at a disadvantage. It's not going to
prevent you from winning, but certainly you can be at
a disadvantage and maybe it gonna be but difficult to
give your best. And I don't think Drian Phinney, Smith
and Tarry Eastern are playing back to back, So the
question would be do you sit one or both of
them out tonight and play the other one tomorrow against
Atlanta Atari tonight. I would be shocked if he doesn't
play against one. Oh, you're telling me national television he
wants that part of that. Well, I don't care about that.
I'm just talking about it, you dope. His decision. Yeah,
and we'll talk to Ima coming up about that and
see what he has for a line of oh this
afternoon when he joins us. Also, speaking of the NBA,
oh oh, there was a little bit of trade rumors
out there about the Rockets being involved potentially in a
guard Kobe White. Is the name ring a bell to you? Yeah?
I mean I know who he is, North Carolina, Chicago Bull. Yeah.
And apparently although these are and these to me are
largely aggregators, meaning people that don't organically come up with
stuff they don't know. You're not reading the Sporting News again,
are you?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: I had to block somebody yesterday because they put out
a report saying that, uh, Anthony Davis was traded. So
that was not the case. I've started blocking those people.
Doesn't catch in that in that area. But they're saying
that according to this report, and again not that Rafel's
called me saying, hey man, that's true, where that's not true?
From whom a legian hoops something like that, a legion
they're aggregator that Tarr Easton is untouchable in a potential trade,
which Easton and who no, just you said at this
point he's untouchable. That would be that would be that
would mean that you cannot call thee's about Tar Easton interesting.
Here's the thing about Tari He's shooting as good as
well as he ever has before from three point range,
top five in the NBA in three point shooting, it
gets a lot of wide open looks. Well, okay, you
still got to knock him down right, yeah, steals the
ball incredibly athletic. Has become a better finisher than he
was saying early in his career. Not an elite finisher,
but a better finisher, and defensively he is. I don't
mean to make you all squeamish over there. I'm sorry.
I just it made me every time he's on a
fast break, I'm pair the first year dude, Dude, I
used to have hair, Jonathan, when Tarry Easton was on
a fast break. That was in the nineteen nineties. It's
better now, say ask yourself. It's like a what's try
to predict what's going to happen every time Tarry Easton's
on a fast break. I mean, look, I love Tarry
Easton is not touchable. I don't understand that he's not. Well,
I will say probably probably because like, yeah, he's untouchable,
probably putting that out there. Well, here's what that plays hard.
It's funny that a player would be untouchable. I'm not
I'm just talking about it in the in the not
necessarily target but in the context he's a free agent
at the end of this year. It's hard to say restricted.
It's restricted, which means the Rockets can match any off
that somebody else gives him. But it is weird that
a guy who would be a pending free agent would
be considered untouchable by a team. Yeah, I don't know.
I first of all, he's not untouchable. I mean he
could come over in a like a potential Giannis Steel
or whatever. Yeah, nobody's untouchable, probably except Kevin Durant on
this team, like one untouchable depending on Like we're talking
about Superstar Superstar Luka Doncic wasn't untouchable, although that was
a big, huge folly by Nico Harrison. He wasn't untouchable.
But yeah, Tarry Easton is getting better. Finishing at the
rim still can be an adventure when he's on the
fast break. But but at least he's giving the ball
much more than last year. Every box you want as
a role player. He can shoot, he can dribble a
little bit. He can I mean, he's a great defender.
His minutes are going up again. I still think they're
very fairly hesitant about back to backs, although that could
certainly change as he continues to get back from a
variety of things. Energetic, offensive rebounder. He's got great You
don't normally say this about the NBA player, but he's
got great hands, like poking the ball away and deflecting
and causing havoc. He interprets passes. He he is a
pass deflector. He anticipates things. There's a high basketball cue.
He'd be a great ten table tennis player or something like.
His hand eye coordination is very good. Yeah, poking the ball.
Normally you're like, stop reaching. You don't like reach ins. Yeah,
when I see somebody reach in, you're like, oh, come on,
like Aubrn shing guns reaching in on everybody. You're like, hey,
stop that, you're racking up fouls. Tarry Easton's really good
at that Men Thompson as well. Yeah, all right, so
we got that to get too. We got some college
football stuff. I want to get to big picture stuff.
It's about one university, but it will not be just
about one university ultimately, when more reports come out, I'll
tay more about that as one school in the Big
Tennis and some serious financial peril because of the athletic department.
Eleven thirteen, shut your bomb ass up, coming up in
about fifteen minutes. Seven one three two one two five
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So yeah, Look, we're not in the mediast part of
the sports year, so sometimes it takes some more macro
looks at things in sports.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Is very interesting to me that an audit of Rutgers
athletics got out according to NJ dot com, which is
New Jersey in public school, Yeah, state school. It's the
State School of Pennsylvany of New Jersey. Okay. Since joining
the Big ten Rutgers has lost five hundred million dollars. Okay,
that's statement number one one that I find very hard
to believe. Not that I'm saying that people are lying, huh,
but you can certainly gut the numbers up a little bit, right,
I mean tell me, because anything that loses five hundred
million dollars, how and that was twelve years ago, they've
lost six on average of about forty million dollars a year.
Uh huh, you would stop that, correct, I mean, there
are sunking costs into things. I don't think I would guess,
but I mean you have, you have budgets, you have
a public budget has lost means just not profitable. But
does that mean like they owe that money? I don't know.
So the past calendar year twenty twenty four to twenty five,
the fiscal year Rutgers announced, or that NJ dot com
found out that they lost seventy eight million dollars. Now
I'm trying to do the dollars and cents on this.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Look, it costs money to fund scholars ships for a
variety of sports facilities. You have to turn the lights on.
You have to, I mean you, I mean, I think
everybody with the signer my voice knows what it would
take to run an athletic department from facilities to employees,
to travel, to compliance, to academics to sports medicine to facility.
I could say it's running a small, little, good sized
company when you're trying to run a department of a school.
But you're telling me in one year that Rutgers lost
seventy eight million dollars even with all that crazy Big
Ten money that's coming in. And my guess is they're
full fledged members of Big Ten. They're not having to
take a partial share of because they're a relatively new school.
They've been the league for twelve years. I don't know
how much of that Greg Chiano contracts. I don't know,
But is this the start of things? Oh, we're gonna
start hearing more about other schools in this same situation,
because look, I know, Rutgers is not a primo Big
Ten school. Didn't they have two lottery picks and basketball?
Speaker 3: You do?
Speaker 2: We're going to see what them tonight. As a matter
of fact, Ylan Harper, I mean to a point.
Speaker 4: A couple of years back, Clemson had to almost cut
their men's track team because the institution and programs were
just losing too much money just to Yeah, and you know, just.
Speaker 2: The other sports as well, but you gotta have a
certa number off, don't you have a certain number of
school of programs to match up to be athletic primate title?
Power four? Yeah? Or not a power forwards to tunnel
that he's talking about. Do you have to have a
number a number of sports to be a pawer for
I guess maybe maybe you do have me a certain number.
I mean it's both before the same three. Right, you're right,
you're correct. If I'm the state of New Jersey and
I'm in charge of Rutgers, Uh, we gotta do something
about this. We you can't lose forty when you're in
the Big ten and you lose forty million, eight million
dollars with all the television money, now, would think, here's
my point on this, if you filled up Rutgers Stadium,
that wouldn't make that wouldn't cut into it, because look,
you know East Coast football is for the most part
non existent. Yeah. W Retckers has been rarely, if ever
relevant football and anything for that matter. Yeah, I mean,
to be brutally honesty, they have never been relevant in
much Yeah what I and look, we don't have time
for a deep dive on the basketball stuff and not
that are expected to. But if you have a power
for school in a major metropolitan city, I mean the
biggest of them all. I mean Piscataway, New Jersey, just
a suburb of Frankly of New York City, and they're
dropping seventy eight million. I mean, imagine with other schools
that that are you know, what is How's Illinois doing it?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean don't we have books on this because
they're all public schools? Yeah, freedom information that this New
Jersey website that's the newspaper got a hold of the numbers.
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it salaries? I don't know how you lose seventy
eight million dollars in one year. That makes no sense
to me. To me, it comes down to your schol
your your scholarship members. You can't you're not make enough
enough money in the scholarships because you were if let's say,
how much as it cost to go to student school
at Rutgers are you talking of? Is it seventy five
thousand dollars a year six thousand times at times seventy
players that's four million dollars just in scholarships. M I
don't know if it's so worthy of a deep diver
or not. I just wanted. I just saw the note
yesterday and I was like, God, how does this happen?
Haven't we had issues where A and M in Texas
have I had to be a little leaner when it
comes to stuff over the years. I don't know, not
that I've heard of. No, they pretty cash flush.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what did it. What did Trev Abberts
do As soon as he got the job at A
and M he fired a bunch of people. Now that
was to pay off the Jimbo contract. Yeah, you gotta
pay Jimbo. And maybe that's part of it too. If
he doesn't help, you have bad contracts that you'll get,
you'll never get the dollar of value back on that.
It was just now Again, I don't even know if
New York Sports Radio and WFN talk about Rutgus football
uh in athletics and I'm again, I apologize for doing
a horrific accent, but.
Speaker 3: I just like.
Speaker 2: Seventy eight million dollars in one year. I understand banning
green being a financial difficulty. I understand even a Tulane
or a Memphis or A. This sounds like Grossmiths management,
Small South, Florida. I mean, I don't want to say
the mafia is funneling funds out of Rutgers, but it
just doesn't seem like it adds up. I'm gonna go
to Google AI right now. Okay, promote something while I
do this. Why is Rutgers? You got to follow me?
You know what, I'm gonna follow you back up until noon.
If you follow me on Instagram. At Sports RV, I
would appreciate it. We just posted a video of us talking.
I'm promising we're going to lunch after the show. I
will post some pictures of that. I normally just post barbecue,
some sports talk. Let's see what else. I need two
more likes for one hundred on my on my Astros
fan fast pick, So I'd appreciate that too. At Sports
RV on Instagram, I'll follow you back. Okay, follow me
on sports Instagram. At sports you give us the news.
The news is the reason. Google AI says massive spending
on coach salaries, hang off debt and facility upgrades design
to compete in the Big ten A facility upgrades, those
can't be cheap. I could I could see that being
an issue, but I mean, if you're a Rutgers you
don't turn down the Big ten, right, you can't. No,
why would you? Well I have a reason why. Well,
maybe they're running a deficit now and the profits will come. Matt,
was that right? Okay? I don't know. If you build it,
they will come fill up the Wreckers Stadium of fourteen
thousand to see Rutgers play America. They were getting a
lot of recruits. Somebody out there is dropping cash on
nil for records. Well, how do you have two five
top five guys in the NBA draft from one basketball?
They didn't make the tournament?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: How do you have two top five guys you don't
make the tournament? That sounds like something Texas Basketball would do.
It's unbelievable. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninty seven to one three two one two five seven
nine zero. Let's go to my phone system is uh,
I have a little trouble here. Let's go to line
to Rossie and so how do Scott and River Oroke?
Scott wants to talk about Bill Belichick? Hi, Scott, what's
going on?
Speaker 6: Guys?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: So the Bill Belichick situation. Let me just start here.
So there are two types of sports fans in my opinion.
So there are fans who are fans of their city
right so they may become an Astros fan during playoff
times they love what it represents, or a Rockets fan
when they're doing well text and so on and so forth.
And then there are other fans you know of their
teams in the sports. And yes, I'm a huge Astros,
Rockets and Texas f but I'm a fan of the
game as well. So over the years, and I'm thirty
one years old. Although all my favorite players are you know,
who I grew up rooting for are from the city
of Houston.
Speaker 3: I gain an.
Speaker 5: Appreciation for the players that we the players and teams
that we competed against. So if you were to ask
me who my favorite players are outside of the city
of Houston, I would give you names such as the
first one that comes to mind is Albert Polhols, Kyton Manning,
Kobe Bryant because I remember battles with them and them
meeting something to me when when you know I was
growing up learning to love sports, I don't remember a
time where something happened travesty like this happening to another
city irritated me this much. Not only is this a sham,
I mean there's so when people when I was watching
clips on this last night and people were even explaining
Belichick's resume to articulate how much of a travesty this is.
That's almost insulting. He is just the go to munk
goats where it's it's something that shouldn't have to be
even talked about. I'll submit this. This is how where
I stand with it. Two facts that have happened, give
or take, within the last year, and which one is
more egregious the Mavericks trading Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis
or Bill Belichick not being a first ballot Hall of Famer.
I would submit that Bill Belichick not being a first
ballot Hall of Famer is a more egregious act. I know,
They're not really comparable than what the Mavericks did to Laker.
That is how ridiculous it is, and it ruins the
credibility of future Hall of Fame inductions if something like
that is to happen.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: They really tick me off on track, don't yeah, we
have don't hang up because I want I actually called
for people like yourself. So I'm gonna repeat what I
said about an hour ago. He as a Hall of
Fame coach, he is going to get in. You have
old so dodgy media. That's just part of That's just
who votes, Okay, it is what it is, you know,
and sometimes media guys have agendas and that's not the
right answer. But I'm just speaking to you in real life,
real talk. But the point is, should there have been
a punishment for a guy who was found guilty of
trying to steal signs from another sports from one of
his opponents. He got fined five hundred thousand dollars and
was found complicit. We don't know how severe it was,
how long it was, but there was impropriety involving the
New England Patriots trying to signs deal from the New
York Jets.
Speaker 5: My response to on that would be if we take
into consideration that that was the only reason in time
period that he found a level of success, then potentially
the man was considered to be the greatest coach during
his time in the NFL over a span of two
decades one eight and now here I am explaining his
credentials again. Sure, six super Bowls, as a head coach.
And I was listening to someone talking about last night
his two Super Bowls as a defensive coordinator of the Giants.
He gets massive credit apparently that Bill's offense was unstoppable
that year and the job they did to them in
the Super Bowl, and he would he received all the
credit for that. He I mean, it's it's the same
answer I would give as us as Astros fans when
people ask, is that's the reason we won? Us as
fans know in our heart of hearts that twenty seventeen
through twenty twenty, that was one of the more talented
rosters put together, left, right and center. Didn't matter if
we were at home, didn't matter if we were on
the road. We had high caliber players at every position.
And we can say with a relatively high confidence that
with or without cameras, we were going to win a
lot of baseball games during that era. We feel confident
in saying that absolutely.
Speaker 2: But so, but if George Springer is going to the
Hall of Fame, he's going to have to wait. If
Carlos Peltron can he did get in the Hall of Fame.
He did. Yeah, it Wasanna's first ballot on that I no,
I don't think so. I hope LZL tube is not
gonna have to wait because I don't think jose was involved.
That's just me. Maybe I'm being biased. You might have
to but.
Speaker 5: Okay, I so should Tom Brady have to wait a year?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Why not? I mean that we're in the room.
Speaker 5: You would not vote Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: I would. I would have voted Bill Belichick. That's not
what you asked. I mean, he broke the rules. It
was a major scandal. This this is not some great travesty.
And we're also not saying that he's not gonna ever
going to get in. But there may be some people,
and again this is I'm just trying to think to
the other person's perspective. If you have someone who has
this incredible resume Scott, which obviously Bill Belichick does, but
there is a blemish, asterisk, scar, whatever you want to
call it, next to it. There may be ten people
in Wire fifty that say, you know what, we appreciate
everything he's done. He's one of the greatest coaches of
all time, if not the greatest all of of all time.
But there is something that that has marred his career,
and spy Gate was a pretty significant part of a
huge five year and you know run during the NFL.
It wasn't it was just it wasn't a It wasn't
just a one off in terms of oh, well, you know,
I'm in terms of think of something minor. It was
a It was a very major offense when it happened. Yeah,
it was talked about for a long period of time,
and then there were allegations throughout his career. It was
a major scandal. I mean, they got the draft pick
taken away, he was fined five hundred thousand dollars. This
was I know it was twenty years ago at this point,
but it was a major, major scandal.
Speaker 5: So this is the last thing I would say on it.
So if the point is that his career has a
blemish on it because of that, which I guess in
some degrees is fair, why I think it makes me
so upset is that they are saying that the last
twenty years of football have a blemish to it because
they were the most dominating force over that twenty year period. Yeah,
they're taking credibility away of the last twenty years of football,
and I'm not willing.
Speaker 2: To accept that that that that's most and most people
are not. But to found ten people that.
Speaker 5: Were, Yeah, I appreciate you talking to you.
Speaker 2: Thanks, yeah, and again I wish I could come to
you and go, this is the greatest Travis I've ever
heard of in my life. And maybe again, I think
maybe you and I are maybe on the wrong side
of this because I'm looking at all the different TV shows,
Bill Belichick, how can this possibly happen? It happened because cheated.
He cheated. He happened because he cheated. And this is
the thing. He's not been banned for life, He's not
kicked out of the NFL for good. He's gonna have
to wait one year, even a game, a grossover reaction
by people. He'll be in next year and it'll all
be hunky dory. Some owners or whoever are pushing for
him not to make it, and the owners in that
fraternity maybe have us are feeling a certain type of way. Also,
my understanding is there were five candidates and everybody could
only vote for three. Is Robert Krafft can't remember everybody else,
but whoever else is is gonna make it, and he'll
be in next year. In a case, I guess the
argument is if he's gonna get in, why y'all being petty?
And the question is is it patty? It's a very
easy reason he cheated, And yeah, I'm I don't want
Josel Tubad have to wait a year. He might. I
don't know, he might, he might, I don't know. We'll
see he's got my vote. Bill Belichick would have my vot.
I don't hate Bill Belichick. No, I respect the hell
out of him. If I'm sitting there with a vote,
I'm voting him, I'm voting him in as well. But
I could see the other side of it. We are
super late for a break. We gotta tell the people
to shut their bull masses up. Maybe some people won't
tell us shut up, shut our bum masses up. Seven
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three two one two five seven ninety eleven thirty four
It's Thatt Thomas Show with Ross. If you want to
tell somebody to shut their bum mass up, or ain't
nobody got time for that? Call us now seven one
three two one two five Sevenatti again again, again, Damp
again again. All right, here we go. Eleven thirty eight
Sports Talk seven ninety time for you to tell someone
just shut their bumb ass up, mane shit, so bum
ass up man. And if you got somebody in your life,
it is just giving you this long story about how
their hash brown cast role just didn't come out right
this past weekend. Really, anybody got time for that? Hey,
nobody got time for I thought it was delicious, Matt,
Thank you very much. You're a keto good hashbron castroles.
Putting corn flekes a very top, that's true, it is.
It gives a little crunch factor to it. Okay, just saying,
all right, Jonathan, uh, any problems at the barbershop, you
get anyone you want to tell somebody to shut their
bumb mess up. You're pretty happy with your cut there,
you know. Uh No, I was surprised. I cut myself
this last night. Oh you did yourself. This is all me.
Oh wow, uh you charged your to you yourself a
good tip man.
Speaker 4: But you know, actually speak on that back. I feel
like when I was a kid. YouTube you can go
and get a toorial. It'll be a little two minute
tatorial and you know what you're doing. It's very fast,
very educational. Now you have these ten minute intros of
who it is and you got sponsors and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm just trying to figure how to cut my hair.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: Anybody got to talk quick man? Pretty fun. People on Twitter,
we just said two minutes ago, jose A two Bay
I believe was not involved in this. Oh, are you
getting attacked?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: I just said, GJ if you all are okay with
keeping Belichick out, would you feel the same about jose
Tuoba when it becomes eligible. We just said it's gonna happen.
Nothing wrong. Come on, people, wake up, wake up, listen
to the show. Hi Ross scared? Are you scared about nothing?
It's not passionate I got. I just gave you some passion.
That's all I gave you. You did nothing wrong, didn't.
Has joseel Tube been implicated in any of this? No,
he was not involved in spygate. What are we calling
ours trash gate to sign stealing scandal? There you go. Yeah,
he might be held out for a year. And this
is again again, I don't know that that I've had
a problem with. You know why, because he's not He
was not every one of the investigations. Yes, JOSEL two
Bay was not complicit. He was not the Yeah, if
we're talking about Alex kra the apples and apples would
not be jose Al Tuovay, You're talking about a player
versus a coach who was the mastermind of the scandal,
not a player that didn't participate in the scandal. It's
two different things. And another thing. Look, I understand like
for everybody and look it's it's literally like JJ watt
and Pat McFee did he get a new Uh? Is
JJ watway lesson if we get a new facelift? Is
JJ watwaing lesson?
Speaker 7: Too?
Speaker 2: Hundred punds like how thin he looks?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 2: I think McFie got a new facelift?
Speaker 8: All right?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Anyway, that's fine, I mean he looks great. Can we
stop acting like Bill Belichick is never gonna make the
whole of fame ever, they held him out for a
year because it was as again there was a draft
pick taken from the Patriots. Bill Belichick was fined five
hundred thousand dollars. How many games? So, JOSEL. Tuove suspended?
Speaker 8: How many?
Speaker 2: How much? Fine? How much did you have to go
in front of people and say I did this? None?
He did none of that. The Patriots were fined two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Bill Belichick was the mastermind
of it. Plus there was the Flategate, Plus there was
Josh McDaniel's accusing them of taping them in like twenty ten. Like,
this isn't just a one off thing. It was a
major targeted scandal that they possibly could have been doing
for years. And so if you think it is the
greatest travesty in the history of football that he's got
to wait one year to get into a Hall of fame,
hut your boass up, chut jo cho, bum ass up. No,
listen to our show. Shut your bo mess up, shut
cho bum ass up. Man, I got time for you
just to create your own storylines. Hey, nobody get ten.
Thanks for listening. By the way, we appreciate you. Yeah,
we love you. I mean it happens. It's radio, it's
live radio. Sometimes people misconstrued things we say. I think
we were very I think I I'm the king of prefacing.
I prefaced too much. You know they do call you.
Did I not say that? George Springer if he was
gonna know the Hall of Fame, which I don't believe
he's going, he gonna have to wait. He was gonna
have to wait? Did I not say that? Yeah, he's
a borderline case. If I think Carlscorey is gonna have
to wait, I don't think he gets in eitherline case
ozel two eight. Not a borderlink, not a borderline case.
Doesn't have to wait. Didn't do anything. He might have
to wait. Now he's now he might have to wait.
Gets guilty by association, Yeah, I get that he'll get in.
Heasy gonna get in, I think, but not guilty. But
Bill Belichick's not guilty by association. He's guilty by being guilty.
Seven one three two one two five seven out seven
one three two one two five seveny g oh seven
hoty geo, what's the matter with you? All right?
Speaker 9: Man?
Speaker 3: I have to bag a ross.
Speaker 9: Everybody crying about better check not getting in there. It's
such a bum man. So if he's gonna get in,
just be patient.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 9: They had to slap him on the wrist one time.
Speaker 2: It's all good. Yeah, mass up man.
Speaker 9: So, as you guys know, I might have mentioned a
couple of times.
Speaker 2: I drive trucks.
Speaker 9: I dropped throughout the city all day every day, making
deliveries and pickups and whatnot.
Speaker 2: In the eighteen.
Speaker 9: Where So today I'm on the Hardy Toe Road and you,
as you know, Hardy is sixty five miles an hour,
that's speed limit. I'm in the middle lane and there's
this woman in a Cadillac, and I guess, for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: She.
Speaker 9: Forgets that her exit is coming up. So ms bright
eyes here stops dead on almost cause the power up
on the Hardy Toe Road, just so she can go
over another lane and then another lane to.
Speaker 2: Get in her exit.
Speaker 9: Man, woman, look, ain't nobody got time for you not
paying attention?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 9: Do not cause a big old wreck. Just pass up
the exit, add an extra two to three five minutetarian commute,
and just take the next exit, right. Ain't nobody got
tough for these dumb drivers.
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody got for that? I got one. So Craig
Akerman and I took on our trip to Portland, which
was a few weeks back, took an uber from our
hotel to the arena. Okay, how long was it? Ten
minute ride? At most? Okay, well, this wound up being twenty.
We get in the car and we start heading towards
the arena and we're going kind of the backwards route
there's usually a direct route and there's the back trails.
Oh that's right. This is the guy you yelled at
and got one star. So he's got us heading on
I five north towards Seattle, and Craig is like, sir, sir, sir,
you're going the wrong way. The arena isn't the right
so he stops on a dime, which is not great
in the freeway, goes all the way over, and he's
taken us to the very back of the arena when
there was pretty easy. The direction, say, like, the name
of the street where we want to get off is
called directs or drive name after Clyde Drects. Oh really yeah,
So so a normal ten minute drive at tops took
twenty two to twenty three minutes. I gave Hims five stars,
but I I did not give him a tip because
I was not pleased with the fact that he was
about to send us to Seattle. Chattle's lovely, but I
wasn't going there for a basketball game. I was going
to call a game in Portland. My my uber dropped
from four point nine zero to four point eight nine
because of him not giving me a five stars. So
to you who got lost in Portland and got pissed off.
I didn't give you a tip. Shit your bumass up, mate, Shit,
your bum ass up. Man. Maybe you were rude, Matt.
I don't know. Maybe that's rude for a reason. Oh wait,
now you don't get five stars. You're being rude, Matty.
Wait a minute, you're you want a tip after going
the wrong direction. I didn't say that, you're implying it. Hey,
nobody get tapped that. Thank you, Jonathan.
Speaker 4: Oh, Matt, I wouldn't even get him the five stars. Man,
you better than me.
Speaker 2: I gave him five stars. No tip. Suck it be
dropping me from four point nine zero to four point
eight nine. That's a shame. I mean, Craig's out of
this story. Oh, he would back me up. He was
actually more ter. I was going to say, he probably
be more angry. Oh, he was like, sorry, Do you
feel like that's bad etiquette? If it's not your uber,
don't get the editude. No, because I'm I'm trying to
keep my star rating up. That's what I'm saying. No,
that's what I'm saying. It's not you. I'm all right.
I was okay with it. No, man, if you're acting
up in my Uber. I'm gonna be mad at you though.
That's what I'm saying the wrong direction. My stars are
on the line. You got to keep you no you
know what, Joe Bomas, No way, So you'd rather drive
to say I don't keep your star rating up?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Say that. I'm saying, if it's your uber, it's your
The onus is on you to say it because your
stars are on the line. I think I was so
stunned you to start acting crazy and then socking the
driver in the mouth when it's not your stars on
the line. Would you like to tell me if well,
I'll have a hilarious story. Tell you about fighting an
uber driver? No how we got one of our coworkers
of the rockets uber rating dropped the whole point. Oh yeah,
you told me about I think you did talk about
this on airon Okay, you're very rude. I wasn't rude.
It was the story of all stares. It's gonna say,
I got some mouber stories for you. I know you
drove for a little while. I'll say if we can
get you another, I would actually pay you just to
dry uber. Could you give us some great uber stories?
Don't worry. What do you mean, don't worry it. That'd
be too long. Stop. You're not going anywhere you would
be for life seven one three, two one two five
seven udies. I'm gonna tell you how funny our business
is a little bit here. So we mentioned earlier today,
we're going to the phones in the second bid way
if you want to tell somebody to shut there by myself.
By the way, I'm walking. I'm watching the the uh
TV version of the Pat mcafe show. He's got like
fifteen people on his show. No wonder, he's got all
these top life mystery let me changes, yeah, change. They're
trying to find some soccer. But you know what it is.
Let me tell you about our show. And while we
love our show, it's me, it's Ross, it's Jonathan, that's
and Gordy helps us out, that's it. And Kevin Harlan.
We get good guests, but we book our own guest.
That's true. We don't have like nineteen producers like Dan Patrick.
Well good, Charles Parking command well yeah, because you're eighteen guests.
Bug him to death, National Radio. Shut your bum ass up,
you hit all that man? All right? Back to my sleep,
all right? Last night. No unrelated question. Let me just
tell you. I'm just charged. I'm charging life. Okay, let's
talk you about the Texans time search.
Speaker 3: Coach.
Speaker 2: Who is gonna be? Do you don't care? Do you
have any candidates for the Texans? Your name is Hey,
what is his first name? Okay? What's his last name?
I can't no, Okay, So we get this this service.
This dude named Jimmy Shapiro, I've known for a long time.
He sends us out these odds and he wants us
to publicize. Hit the website that's promoting these odds, Like,
you can mention the website. If I'm not taking the odds,
we're not going ahead. I mean, we're using them. That's
his fault. You're using them for content. So I feel
like that's a courtesy. You could mention the web. No,
I'm not courteous. Here we go. He has the odds
on the Jannist Kupo joining his next team. The favorite,
according to this website is the Houston Rockets at two
to one. Really stop stop eleven thirty nine. That email
came out, Okay. Tim McMahon ESPN ten minutes ago, says
the Houston Rockets will not be pursuing jan the Gonfo. Yeah,
that makes sense. They're gonna stay with their core of
Kevin Durant, Aman Thompson and now brin Chinggun. My guess
is the Bucks would want Shingoon and Thompson's part of
the trade. Yeah, they're gonna want. Yeah. If you're Milwaukee,
you're not training just for draft picks. You are looking
to get stockpol current players. O Brinch, Shingoon, Milwaukee Buck
fifteen to seventeen from the FLOIDA to night right was
a fourteen to six alien missed two. You had thirty
three points. Santi al Dama cooked. I think you and
I could score against southe Aldama. I don't think I could.
You don't try? No, all right seven one three two
one two five seven dotty seven one three two sevendi,
I said, ross. Finding some sports on he found a
replay of the Fordham Rams versus Virginia Commonwealth University. This
is live. Oh it's live women's basketball. I don't know
why Fordham VC is playing right now? Oh no, it isn't. No,
look it's live right there. Oh it is live. Yeah,
that's true. Shut Joe mass up. So are you gonna
watch Pat McAfee or no, I don't watch any part
of Matt McAfee. Zero zero zero zero zero zero baron
pet back and Pat McAfee. Let's go to uh James
on seventy James, what's the matter with you? Yeah, there's
someone in this town that has the audocity to say,
if this isn't my team, I don't have a team
in the NFL.
Speaker 6: Do you have a team in the NFL? By default
you have a major sports radio station. You don't have
that choice.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no no no no no, no,
no no, that's not true at all. That's not true
at all.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: I have a team that I have to talk about
and enjoy talking about. Absolutely. I have a team to
talk and thank god I do, because Rossie I did.
About five years we didn't have a team. It's pretty
damn miserable. I think he's saying a fan, let the
Oilers go, Matt, No, I have let them go. I
have no team. I don't want to be a fan
of any team. I want to be an observer. Yeah,
and frankly, for y'all, I need to be your insider.
And there I've been battle red Ross for three years. Now,
are you enjoying it? I'm not gonna stop, but are
you enjoying it? I would say mostly yes. I like
having more skin in the game. It's more fun to
watch the game and be more invested Because I was
like you, and I was like, I don't care. I
used to honestly, frankly root against them. See y'all put
ords in my mouth. I didn't say I didn't care.
I just don't have a rooting interest. Yeah, you're I
absolutely care about the Tell your Texans hater, Matt, No,
I'm not on Texas realness, Matt. Okay, y'all need me.
I don't need you. Yeah, the city because you have
enough people blowing the team over there. I mean, it's ridiculous.
But I can be a fan of team of a
team and still talk about them, Jeff, you can do it.
So you need us observing talking about relevant guests. Do
not getting into backup tight ends or tight end coach talk.
We can, we can, We can discuss the team responsibly.
Am I a fan of the Astros? Yes? Am I
a fan of the Cougars? Yes? Am I a fan
of Rockets? Yes? My fandom can only go so deep
and I'm very comfortable in that. Okay, but I have
we have a great, great passionate listeners that are fans
of that team, and it's my responsibility to talk about
your team when the time is appropriate, and that's why
we were doing Okay, But I don't need to be talking. No,
I don't. You don't want me to come on the
radio and go there's no postable tell you that uh
CJ Stroud could be worse than the divisional playoff. That's
never gonna happen. That's my guy. Let the people that
are fired YouTube employees do that, okay, not me? H
what nothing? Hey, nobody get that for dead? Jonath, can
you respect this or you don't want to tell me
to shut my bomb ass up?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I can see aside, though, thank you. I got enough.
Let me tell about I got a heartbreak. I got
forty years of University Houston heartbreak. Oh they got all
the great final four runs man, exactly. I ain't got
no ring. I got uh Well, I mean I've been
a Rocket fans in some and then in the eighties,
I had numerous playoff losses. I've had Damian Lillard to
shove down my throat when it comes to those last
second shots. Excuse me. I had Larry Bird in the
eighty six Celtics. I had Seattle super Sonics in nineteen
eighty three, beating my squad in seven. We'll already have
We'll always have the magic sweep. We got, we get
the magic sweep. We got the two championships, but I
want more, and I'm Thurston for more championships. I got
the astros are. We were in clinical depression mode when
they were tied for the last Waldguard's body couldn't get in.
The Texans will get there, okay. If they do, someday
I will root. I will be with you. Someday our
super Bowl will come. What year twenty thirty six? Case
you're saying that, if you're a Texan fan, all you
do is wait ten more years? Yeah, what's ten more?
You've already been through twenty? All right? We got the
news at noon. Next it is twelve o'clock on Sports
Talk seven.
Speaker 1: Ninety's the Matt Thomas Show with.
Speaker 2: Ross twelve o seven on Sports Talk seven anywhere. I
hit brakes on time, and that's my fault. I'll take
the loss on that one. Thank all of you for listening. Yeah,
we're somewhat charged on the show today, but that's okay.
ROSSI is busy in the newsroom giving us what we
like to call every day at twelve oh seven of
the news at twelve o seven, and with that we
go to the don't hurt yourself. I was just taking it.
I can't even think of the name of the anchors
of the World News today anymore, like David Muir, Maybe sure,
why not? I don't wantch the news. Go ahead. You
know what you are. You're you're the uh, there's the
latest murder happening. You're the Wolf Blitzer of Houston Sports News.
I'm to bury my head in this end, because ignorance
is bliss when it comes to the news. That's fair, Hi, Ross.
Speaker 9: Hey.
Speaker 2: Matt Bell Belichick not a first ballot Hall of Famer.
According to reports, he fell short of the forty out
of fifty votes needed for induction into the Pro Football
Hall of Fame during his first year of eligibility. Four
sources have told ESPN he received a call from a
representative on Friday with the news he would not be
inducted in Canton, Ohio this summer. Bill Pelichick, according to
sources asking an associate six super bowls isn't enough, of course,
one two more as a defensive coordinator of the New
York Giants. Another associate saying, what does a guy have
to do? A source familiar with Belichick's thinking said politics
kept him out. He doesn't believe this is a reflection
of his accomplishments. Well, no, deah, a guy with eight
super Bowls isn't first ballot Hall of Fame. Of course.
Sounds like there could have been some freezing out. And
Bill Pollian mentioned as a member of a guy as
somebody who was the leader of the Freezer Committee, leader
of the freezou Committee, encouraging people to not vote him
in because of Spygate. Of course, lest we forget the
flight Gate allegations by the Buffalo Bills in twenty ten,
allegations by the Cincinnati Bengals in twenty nineteen, there was
a pattern of activity. Now, if he would have not
gotten in because he's a jerk, that would have been different. Agree,
because there's a lot of jerks that get in right down,
I Brik Jeff Kent. But no, this was to me
was more about there's some blemishes, not sores, but blemishes
on the resume because of the things you just discussed,
and I am maybe do you think part of it
is people are afraid to say what you and I
are saying that we get it for a year that
maybe they know because I can't find it's universal and
the passion for people on this is incredible. I mean Lebron, James,
Pat Mahomes, all sorts of people. Look, I do want
to tell you that Bill Belichick is the greatest coach
of all time. Yes, the sixth Super Bowl absolutely is.
But and I guess the question then becomes is everybody's
resume is supposed to be perfect to be a first
ballad guy. I think if he was to have several
ten lost seasons, that wouldn't preclude me from saying he's
the best coach. Ever, I do believe if you're involved
in spygate that does kind of make it a little
bit of a difficult. Oh my god, he's perfect. It's
a blight on the resume. It's a blemish, it's a blemish.
It's a big blemish. Honestly, as I said, people forget
because I know it's been twenty years, have a major scandal,
and then for years they didn't make a Super Bowl,
and people thought that was the reason why there are
reports that up to forty games, possibly they were doing
this spygate stuff. And I'm not ready to say that
because there's no evidence of that, but there has certainly
been implications. And look, we know the NFL likes to
hide stuff. They don't want their charmed NFL franchise with
this charmed coach being involved in this, then they're gonna
put some things under the rug. All I'm saying is
he's getting in. He's fantastic. I wouldn't have done it,
but I could see ten people in a room of
fifty saying, yeah, not great. I'm gonna make a way year.
And it has nothing new with jose Al two bay
because in my mind, and maybe I'm wrong because I
wasn't in the clubhouse shut. I know what's going on
with the doors was shut. But from everything that has
been chronicled over the last handful of years about this
entire thing, there's been one name that has not been
associated with the spy except for the stupid buzzer thing,
but that was more about John Boy. It was Joseel Tube.
So Josel Twoba should not have to wear this like
Bill Belichick, cleoly should wear this. Comparing a head coach
and a player who didn't participate in a scandal is
two different things. And also Moselle Tuove might have to
wait a year or who knows how long. We'll sound
it mad and I'll be mad. But I don't want
you guys call and say you guys are hypocrites because
there's a difference.
Speaker 3: There is.
Speaker 2: There's absolutely a difference. And also the threshold is higher here.
He Bill Belichicks needs eighty percent, jose Al tuv needs
seventy five. So different different votes, I mean a lot
more voters, et cetera. Yeah, what else you got elsewhere
in the news?
Speaker 1: Mad?
Speaker 2: The Browns have hired Todd Mounkin, young age of fifty
Wait what Yeah, he'll turn sixty in a week. He
is the new head coach of the Cleveland Browns. He
was the former Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator. He was supposed
to be the offensive coordinator under John Harbaugh, who is
with the New York Giants. However, he has been hired
away by the Cleveland Browns. We've been looking for a
coach for a while. A number of marquee names bowing
out of the running, and now they go with Todd Mounkin. Interesting,
Todd Mounkin, good offensive coach. They couldn't find anybody seems
like it. I mean, where are the Raiders looking? I mean,
this is the thing, though, if you're firing seven coaches
a year, there's not seven head coaches who are going
to be the next big thing. It's just not possible.
And you're turning it over and over and over. So
you're talking about every two years you're looking for like
ten to twelve new head coaches. How many of those
guys are going to be the next great thing and
be highly successful? And when Super Bowls, No, this badge
of turning is probably gonna be four, five will be
fire within two or three years. You're just gonna keep
churning and churning and churning and churning and churning and
looking for that next big thing. Yep. Iman Cleveland Browns
have been part of that. They fired a two time
AP Head Coach of the Year, Kevin Stefanski, got immediately
hired by the Atlanta Falcons and hates Baker Mayfield. Actually,
he didn't want to call out Baker Mayfield. He said,
I wish Baker the best. That's what he said publicly anyways.
And one more thing. According to Sham Sharania, Matthew Yannas
Attento Koumpo is ready to exit the Milwaukee Bucks. He
is ready for a new home. This is according to
Shams in the article. Several teams have made aggressive offers
to the Milwaukee Bucks, who are starting to listen. League
sources have told Sham Sharania and ESPN multiple teams have
received a sense that the Bucks are more open than ever.
Two offers for Yanas the Kumpo so seven seasons in
a row, Matt First Team All NBA, thirty one years old,
Tim mcmahony ESPN says Rockets not interested in making such
an acquisition. Golden State might be involving Jimmy Butler, John
than kaminga and a I'm sure a plethora of draft picks.
Bobby Marx has put out an article with ESPN and
say outlining every team in what they could possibly offer
for you, honess, Oh, this is interesting and we'll have
that when we come back. Twelve fifteen. Matt and Ross
with you em Doka at one thirty. This is sports
talk seven ninety Matt and Ross with you here. At
twelve twenty, Ross found us another game to watch, Miami
of Ohio women's basketball leading Northern Illinois forty three to
twenty seven. Yeah, I would make a dollar bet, but
it's uh, it's looking like Ohio's gonna take this one.
The RedHawks. Heice little arena. I mean it's not folder's
like seventy five people there, but it's nice. A lot
of bleacher seats there at Northern Illinois. You've aged Broya
the way taken on the hated TCU Hornfrogs tonight over
on nine fifty Cougars horn Frogs basketball. It's fine. Dropped
the Cougar dropped a number ten hoskm palm treating us.
By the way, how did they drop the ten?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Because they want a tech? Yes? How I mean, look,
tech's good. It was it was in Lubbick. We should
all right, mister kin palm hater a week ago.
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 2: What do we got? They got him seven and say seven? Okay,
I'll take seven. That's too seen the tournament. I'm okay
with that. Yeah, that's good. Reservation Stiller, So I gotta
find a hotel room next thirty six. Baby, they're in
the fifties earlier in the year. You gotta get to
twenty five or higher. No, they don't. Well, problem is
not problem. The good thing is SEC is going to
give you a bunch of the Every game you play
is gonna be a great quality with Dog's at Auburn
today tonight that game not here on seven, honey, obviously
because we have the we have the rock ktr H
or something. Because you said the Cougars are playing Cougars
are nine fifty's probably want ktr H for the Rockets tonight.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We got Craig Way on Sonny. I think I believe
Craig is up with doing the game with Rod Ryan
on ninety four point five of us. That's awesome, all right,
So Chile, I believe there's well Chili is doing. So. Yeah.
We crack ourselves up, all right. Anyway, we're not very funny.
We understand it. We understand that. If you if you
want to criticize the show saying these guys think they're funny,
I know, speak for yourself. Texas thirty seven of twenty nigh.
All right, so, uh, you had a member of the
ESPN team tell us what every team would have to
give up to get Giannis. Yes, Bobby Marks wrote an
article and outlined all twenty nine teams what can they
offer and he also rated the difficulty of getting a
deal done between one and ten. For example, Pistons, he
put the Pistons out of two out of ten. They
have a bunch of contract picks, et cetera, et cetera.
So for a difficulty for the Houston Rockets, he said
it is a seven out of ten, as in, it
would be pretty difficult for the two teams to make
a deal. Rockets have a valuable twenty twenty seven swap
with Brooklyn unprotected first round pick from Phoenix. While the
draft picks are enticing, Bucks would almost certainly circle amen
A men Thompson as a player they can build around
in the wake of losing Atento Kumbo. So they mentioned
the first round picks and just kind of outlines the
contracts and says a Men Thompson and probably picks would
be have to be part of the deal. Seven out
of ten. Difficulty of the deal getting done with the
Houston Rockets. Let me tell you this, and look, you've
been around the team. You know when the trade winds
are blowing. I feel like we do that with the
Astros that you have to sometimes read the context clues
that Dana Brown would give you. Now, now Dana speaks
a lot more than Rafel. The revel is very few interviews,
not that he wouldn't do him. It just you don't
go to a general manager for basketball as much as
you go to a general manager in baseball because that
twenty six man roster is constantly changing with updat call
ups and injuries and injured list football general managers, some
guys are really forthcoming and talk a lot. Some guys
don't talk at all. Our general manager for the baseball
team does a weekly segment. So I mean it's it's
just so when I hear Dana speak, I kind of
get the vibe of, well, he doesn't sound like he
wants to do anything, or man, he's really looking to
do something. It's hard to read the room on on
Rafel because he doesn't do a lot of those interviews.
And I generally speaking, when you hear Rafel speak about
the team, he likes what he has, he does, and
they also don't have a whole lot of wiggle room. Yeah,
as they're I think it's under a Actually it says
it here. Let me go back. They're one point twenty
five million from the apron, so I mean the the
wiggle room, uh is one point two five million below
the first apron hard capped. That's what it says for
apron status for the for the Rockets. And if you'd
like to know what an apron status means, I listened
to the A team with Wex and Clinton don't want
to be near the apron. Let's just you split that way.
It's a heavy tax, it's a big mess. So it
doesn't seem like it's likely. And then you mentioned Tim McMahon,
who has been pretty good reporting Rockets. Teems good. Yeah,
I would trust him. Yeah, said that, Uh, they're not
interested involving getting involved because they know that either Opera
or men would be a part of it. Now, there's
another trade out there that has says the Rockets will
be kicking the tires on Kobe White and apparently Tarre
Eastan's on their radar, and the Rockets have said no
to that day. You know, sometimes you just like your
guys and the question is do you have enough in
the regular season Oklahoma City is going to be the
number one seed on pace for that. Its again, but
there are some people in the basketball world, whether you
trust them or not. And it's not me saying it,
it's other people that are saying that are saying that, Hey,
if there's any team that's built for a long series,
because playoff series are more physical and more half court
and not run up and down mcfort up and down,
it might be the Rockets of a better chance of
being a team like Oklahoma City or Denver than maybe
anybody else in the West. And that could be just
because you're a Rocket fanboy and you're looking at Rocket
based websites, or it could be the case of, hey,
just because you make a trade doesn't necessarily get you
over the top, especially for giving up stuff, because if
you go get Yiannis, you're giving up something that has
helped you get to twelve games about five hundred a
one for one swap this year because picks in the
future and all that other stuff don't matter. I know,
we love him in Thompson, but your team is way
way better. You have no point guard though, if you
trade him in. Jannis is a point guard. Nis is
more of a point guard than amn Thompson is I
would disagree with that. Who's got more? Let's check their
assist numbers. I don't need the assist numbers if I
want dribbling up the ball up the floor, Yiannis or
a man? I'm gonna take a man? Really? Yeah? Now
does Giannis have more of an offensive game? Is he
moving the ball around? Yes? Is he scoring? Is he downhill? Yes?
You're not. You're not. You're not bringing thee You're not
bringing you out of their turnover numbers, uh, Jannis is
at three point three turnovers, okay, five point seven six assists.
I thought he'd be higher than that. No, I no,
I can't know. There would be no, it would be
it would be this. This team is already people are
climbering for Fred van Vlee because the rocket On have enough.
I mean, you'd have to if you did that, you
did to move, reed Shepherd of sorrying lineup. A Men
is at two point five turnovers, so fewer turnovers and
slightly fewer assists five points. Who's just bringing the ball
up more in a game? Giannis or a men? I
don't know. I don't know. I meant can bring up,
we can bring up. But Yeah, Gianis can bring the
ball up farve youre a number of times, though the
more chances, the more susceptibly are to turnovers, and he's
got a lower turnover count. I mean, look, I love Giannis,
but Yannis is not going to bring up the ball
up and down the floor fifty times a game. He's
been the de facto point he was the de facto
point guard on their championship team because a men is
not a true point guard either. Both of them are
not a true point guards and one of them scoring
thirty points per game and one is scoring eighteen. Again,
I'm not trying to compete. I'm not putting the same
category in terms of offense, but in terms of ball handling.
Not that Giannis is bad. I'm just putting that pressure
on him. You're telling me I got to put the
ball in his hand, bring up down the court over
and over again, and score thirty two points for me.
Again him, that's what he's the other Dogsander does that.
That's about it. Who who is the great point guard
on the current Milwaukee Bus was Drew Hollida during their
championship run, right, yeah, but he? I mean, who is
it now? I don't I don't know. I don't even know.
Not Kyle Kuzma. No, no, these are this is a
good conversation. I'm not I'm not arguing his value. You
can initiate offense with Giannis just as much as with
Amen Thompson. I don't have a problem with that. I
don't see because you've got Alprin shinggun and Kevin Durant
bringing up the ball too. It's not like he's gonna
be It's not like he's gonna be floor Jennery and
I asking to be Fred van Vleet. You're asking to
be a piece of the puzzle. Who's who's gonna guard
really talented point guards? Uh, I don't know. I guess
you could we go with Tarry. Yeah, this is you know, Frankly,
I think Rossie, this is mute mood. I just they're
saying that I'm interested and a man is this And
I know you and I have argued about this before.
I think a men's the closest untouchable as Rocket franchise has.
I would agree with you if you can shoot three pointers,
it's only needs because you know it's turnover counts. Dropping
it is let's take a time out. Come back and
take to some phone calls. We'll go to Caeso and
Frank twelve thirty Here on Sports Talk seven ninety twelve
thirty three, Matt in Ross with you. We're gonna eat
Man Dooka coming up at one thirty ROSSI and I
will be down in spring training in about three weeks,
give or take Little West Palm Action Astros twenty twenty six.
I still think they got to get rid of the
infielder spot, but man, those trade winds are certainly very
quiet right now for the extra infielder. I hope, I
hope that that's what they want to do. Everything that's
been told is if they're gonna move e SoC Predas,
which will be the easier the two components to move,
and as compared to Christian Walker, they wanted ready made
player to win this year, as compared to going to
get prospects. You're not treating east Sock Predas for a
couple of high end REDS double A players. It's a
very difficult line to tow for Dana Brown when now,
oh by the way, build up the farm system. Oh
by the way, stay as much as you can as
a luxury tax. A difficult job I think, honestly, he
probably has a little a little bit. I think it's
got way more pressure than Joe does. Dana. Yeah, really, yeah.
I think they're both on the hot I mean they're
both a warm seat. They're not on hot seats. So
let's put this well. But I say both are warm
because clearly, in the last year of a contract, I
think Dana's is warmer. I have them equally warm because
I think I think because of what I just outlined,
I think Jim knows what Dana is being asked to
do is very difficult because Jim is stepped in and said, hey,
make this Verlander trade. As far as we know, right,
we don't know for a one hundred percent fact, but
Jim has basically stepped in and said, hey do this, Hey,
go ahead and trade away these prospects for Jason justin Verlander,
go ahead and do whatever you can to get a starter.
And you say, Kakuchi, go whatever, do whatever you can
to make all these other deals at the trade deadline.
But you're also sings he's saying I'm protecting you and
he's not. And Jim's one I'm not saying he's protecting
But if if Jim makes the call, he needs to
be giving some sort of semblance of protection. Let me
take you if he says trade You ever heard of
a boss make a decision at the office saying, man,
if this is a workout, I get it, I got you. No,
that changes all the time. It happens not very often.
We're making this decision putting you in this spot. We
think it's the best, and if it doesn't work out,
we'll put you back. No, I think guys lose jobs
that I want Verlander back at all costs, and if
it costs us a little bit, I'll take care of you.
Because it hasn't been a disaster. He doesn't taking he
didn't take care of yet it was gonna extension. How
many lads true? I mean, I know, yeah, I don't.
I don't think Jim works that way. I just think
it's and then it's a tough. Then you know what
you're asking, Dana do would do an impossible job. If
you're saying we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, I'm gonna
force you to trade away all these prospects and then
I'm gonna hold your feet to the fire. When the
farm system is enupsis enough. I think that's ridiculous. It's
a tough ask, but the reality is how I mean
teams fire both their general manager and their manager in
their same year. That's rare. It's happened rare, but I
don't have an example. I think it would be if
Dana was to lose his job, bring a new general
manager and let him evaluate how his relationship with Joe
and then make the decision after that. Frankly, I like
them both. I don't want look Joe and I we
all get along. Gravy a great visit with him on Saturday,
and whether we have great visits or not, as a
matter off, it's a performance. But I think both of guys.
I think Dana tries to be as forthcoming as he can.
That doesn't mean that's the job requirement. I think.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think Dana outlast Joe will good feeling, I will
flip it foot fire turn. I feel like I'm mile
of there for a second. Let's go to the phone.
You don't have to bet on this, right. I love
them both. We got so many bets. I want them
both here for decades, and selfishly I want them both
to be here. Yes and that's and I don't and
it's uncomfortable for us to talk about a person's future.
Yeah on the air. I just think it is a
question people will talk about. In general. General managers are
going to get more time than man and in your
to back your point a little bit, you did ask
him to go improve the system, and then every time
you went to try to improve the system, you had
to go back to the system. Uh Yanik has to
eventually be the catcher of this team pretty damn soon.
Rice Matthews needs to be a major leaguer. All your
top prospects are recent Dana Brown draft picks. But also
it's not like your stuff. I think I think Baseball
America had zero in the top one hundred for the Astros.
It's terrible. Okay, so good afternoon, friend, what's going on?
Speaker 6: Good afternoon, guys. I just wanted to quickly brush up.
Only you guys are talking about between me and my friends.
Everyone knows I am a noted Janni's hater, sending back
to the Harden days and even goes into the Milwaukee
and the Milwaukee haters. Nothing cool about Milwaukee or Wisconsin.
Would never want to go there. And if you take
a look at their roster. Who would have think it'd
be a good idea to have. I mean, I'm not
gonna deny Janna's star capability, but why would anyone think
having KPJ, Kyle Kuzma, sending Damian Lillard home, eating that contract,
and then oh, also hiring Doc Rivers would be a
recipe for success.
Speaker 2: They're a joke. It's a joke.
Speaker 6: Franchise. John Horse is a terrible GM. Everything that they're getting,
I'm super stoked that's happening to them. And that brings
me to my point with the Rockets.
Speaker 2: They don't need this bum.
Speaker 6: They need someone that can space the floor and shoot
and not turn the ball over.
Speaker 3: Ross.
Speaker 6: I know Jannis is a great player.
Speaker 2: Yes, we need some one that can that can handle
the rock They can space the floor like a Men
Thompson and space is the floor like Alprin Shod Good's
great three point shooting.
Speaker 6: I'm saying, why do we need to add more people
like that? We need to add people that can actually
dribble and shoot the ball. I hope they don't do it.
I don't think they'll do it.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna do it.
Speaker 6: Ultimately, Ultimately, they need a spacer, and God bless John's
wherever he goes.
Speaker 2: I know he's gonna do great in his new city.
I'll holler at you guys, thanks all right, thank you?
Uh yeah, probably I would. I would figure they would have.
First of all, it's probably not gonna happen. I mean,
you already had Tim mcmhon saying it's not gonna happen.
He's very reliable. But it would probably be in lieu
of either of alprinching gun or a men Thompson. And
both of those guys are not three point threats, so
it would be a zero some game in terms of
worrying about clogging up the paint. You're not adding them
with a men Thompson and alprinching gooon on the floor.
It's not Josha Kogi for a Men Thompson. That's that's
not happening. I mean, Jay Shontata's value, but you're not
training the honest to me from Milwaukee for you, Jake,
he's probably one of those. I bet you Milwaukee's asking
for both, but that's not happening. This is why this
is not going to happen. But the so the spacing
issue to me is a one for one, you're getting away.
Watch how everybody backs off of a men Thompson. Watch
how everybody backs off of Alprin Shingoon, but they feel
still find a way to score. And Giannis is finding
a way to score twenty eight points per game, and
he's hyper efficient, more than both of those guys. He's
shooting sixty four point five percent from the field. All
that talk about not shooting and not all that stuff,
and he can't, uh, he can't make a three. First
of all, he's shooting thirty nine percent from three this year.
Second of all, he's shooting sixty four percent from the field.
That's higher than than Alprin or a man ever in
their career. The most attractive thing about him, and I've
said this from multiple times, is he gets the ball
at the top of the key, He's going to score.
To your to the numbers there, sixty four percent of
the time little of a shot are inside the are
inside the arc. You have no jump shot, and you're
scoring sixty four percent of the time. How that's crazy,
all right? Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine
zero Frank Is with his son seven howety Hello, Frank, Hey.
Speaker 3: What's going on with fellas?
Speaker 2: You tell us?
Speaker 8: Hey, Matt, why are you arguing with somebody that uh
LSU support? You don't know nothing aboudy Houston?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? But anyway, uh, who are
you talking about? Frank?
Speaker 8: You're your co host and he a LSU guy?
Speaker 2: Are you an LSU guy? Ross? Hi, Frank, my name
is Ross and I am last time. What happened last time? Yeah,
you got mad? I called you dumb and then well
now I'm not gonna call you dumb because I don't
want to make you mad. Frank, but I have never
supported l s U. I am from Houston, Texas, and
I'm a Texas Longhorn supporter.
Speaker 8: Yes, okay, hey, but look here, Matt. We need a
point guard, so why don't we uh get he had
got some two or three guards up that we could use,
and mainly the one we want.
Speaker 3: Is the kid that played the uba.
Speaker 8: He ain't getting a lot of man time up there
because the new board, so we could wouldn't have to
give up much to get him. You know, you could
think now if I was gonna trade anybody to get
somebody like uh uh, the other guy I would go
get Fox.
Speaker 2: The Aaron Fox, who's San Antonio right now, who's very happy, who,
by the way, is fighting with the Rockets for top
two or three C in the West. What Yeah, but
you mean yeah, but there's no Yeah, but there's nothing
to it. Yeah, but yeah, the Spurs are.
Speaker 8: That's the same thing they see it about.
Speaker 2: Uh, Katie, no, we got you didn't say that, all right,
thank you, Frank? Right, No, no, nobody when Katie was
being was being talked about, they did mention the Rockets
trying to be nice. It is Frank. I think I
called him dumb and then he threatened me physically. So
we don't need that. I don't want to get my
as but I mean, if we gotta throw, we gotta
throw hands, and got throw hands. But I don't want
to get I'm a lover, not a fighter. The only
guard the two guards have been mentioned in trade conversation,
and again that's just whispering. That's what trades to do.
Is what does what agents do to float players out?
This is what teams do. Kobe White from the bull
from the Bulls and Jose Alvarado from New Orleans trades
come out of nowhere. All the time that we we
weren't didn't have our our radar, especially with a team
like the Rockets, who keep things pretty close to the vest,
really close, which you know, I've always talked about this
with you for all these years of work together. I
like secrets. I I don't, Yeah, we know. I like
I like to be surprised by things. And when you know,
Shams Shams puts out a tweet or some of the
Rockets and it surprised us. It gives us some excitement.
So if they do nothing, I'll be Okay, they make
a move, I'll be please pleasantly surprised. I will be
shocked if there's a nerth shattering move. Little Kobe White,
litt Jose Alvarado, Okay, Kobe can score though he's about
seventeen points a game, so he would be a much
additional at scoring punch with the Rockets. All right, he
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with love it. So I'm doing some prep on tonight's
Rocket Spurs game. And I'm not accused of fan bowing
too much, but I have fanboy over a handful of
people that have been on this show. I have fanboy
with people I've been around in my life, Earl Campbell, Noan,
Ryan a Chem, Elijah on All the Kid the Legends
that I grew up watching it in my Logan Van
Why Logan Van? Why was not on there? Who else
would not be on the list? Casey Candell never never,
Fanny Rogers, No, Brendan McCarty, Brendan McCurry on. I don't
think we had him on the But I have fanboy
for Kevin Durant. And it wasn't like I was anti
Kevin Durant, but I just I appreciate him from a distance.
I didn't say he sucked or he was horrible or
about a human being. He was definitely out of bounds
in the one Rocket playoff game, and I called it
out and couldn't lose in my mind because the officials
let him stay in bounds when he had both feet
will be on the sideline. But that's a different notchue
for a different time. But he is about he's thirty
seven years of age. Mm hmm. He has thirty straight
point thirty or more points and three straight games he's
averaging thirty four points a game. He is playing ROSSI
thirty seven minutes a night in the NBA. A thirty
seven year old playing thirty seven minutes. Uh, they want
to lower that load. They're gonna have to lower that load.
And yeah, I mean he may dook is a competitor
because you know he'll be and he'll comes on these
airways like, hey, we gotta get it down. But you
know when when for lack of a better term, bullets
are flying, that's not really won. But when you're under fire,
you know what I'm saying. Yeah, when you're in the
heat of not battle, when you're in the heat of
a basketball game, you just can't find the right time.
Help me out here. No, I'm good, you're doing to
leave you on this island. Probably when he's in the
middle of a basketball game and you're you really want
to win the game, so he plays some extra minutes.
I totally under I totally said that, ornight. I get
paid sick money. I need to do this. Yes, and
you want to win the games. Every game matters in
the Western Conference. So yeah, you have Dorian Photney Smith
still on minutes restrictions. Tarry Easton can't play back to backs.
I mean, Steven Adams is out, not like that, it's
a one for one, but just the rotation as a
whole gets a little bit bogged down and it's not
where you would like it to be. So it's a
tough spot. Betty's fantastic handling it. He's amazing and he's thoughtful.
I've had him on the postgame show three times, most
recently on Sunday. It's great, that's Sundy. What is today?
I'm gonna say something, and you tell me if I'm
how biased I'm being hold on home out what day?
Speaker 3: It was?
Speaker 2: Today's Wednesday? When we played last Monday? I go ahead.
I've argued this kind of but I felt like it
was an argument. Now to me, it's more true than
I've ever thought just seeing him every game. Second greatest
shooter ever behind Steph Curry. No disrespect to Ray Allen,
Klay Thompson, Larry Bird. I'm going Miller. I'm going to
push back on it because second greatest. When I'm sorry shooter,
how much damage would be done for me beyond the
yark now his volume wise, Reggie Miller, Ray Allen, I
bet you, I bet you he's had a better three
point percentage than Reggie Miller all the time without looking,
But yeah, I could go with that. And who's taking
more contested ones? Reggie Miller would coming around like fifty curls.
You're six eleven, how can you be contested? Okay, I'm
sorry people in his space, that's true. It's difficult with
how tall he is I bet you Ray Allen might
have a better three point percentage career. Can I give
you a different accolade? Go ahead, the greatest stretch four
in the history of the NBA. Okay, you don't like that,
I'm the going second greatest shooter. What's up? He's at
thirty nine point one percent. Ray Allen's at forty and
especially end of his career, Ray Allen is just popping
in the corner from Lebron and d Wade like Durant's
creating most of his threes. And that's why Steph Curry
to me, I don't even know who's the highest percentag
The highest percentage might be like Mark Price or Steve
Kerr or somebody. Steph Curry is number one because of
those contested threes and how deeply he can shoot them
from like thirty five feet. There are so many outstanding players.
I mean, I can't go Mike Ross. I told you
you could push. I told you coul push to push.
I'm just I told you you could you can fight me.
To me, I think perimeter. I think how much damage
you doing for me outside the three point line and
outside the ark? And he's great at that too. I
don't know if I can do that. Second greatest of
all time, Kevin Durant. I'm standing on it. You're not stuttering, area,
I'm not stuttering. Forty three percent last year, forty one
percent the year before, forty point seven percent. He's getting
older and he's shooting better, and these are not. He's
not standing in the corner just popping up threes. I'm
sticking with it. Okay, I'll let you do it because
I respect your basketball acumen. Thank you, Matt. All right, Uh,
we got one house the Easy Money Sniper. See the
thing is, I've called him Kevin on the air, Katie
easy money Sniper. Go Can I call him easy money
to his face? Throw sniper in there? I don't know.
I don't want to call him their human being a sniper.
What's like if I called you sports MT it's his
handle easy Money Sniper or mister Texas. Okay, that's now you.
You've not said much today, but when you've come in
with just the perfect amount of commentary, and now he's
getting in on. She's trying to troll me. You're trying
you're trying to incite my in the gospel. I'm not
gonna let it happen. He is the worst mister Texas
candidate of all time. I'm moving on. How about mister Houston.
I guess that's better. I like the whole state. Your
list of qualifications are that you went to Lubbock a
couple of times. Like it's this very flim necadocius. No
cowboy boots, no cowboy hat. You don't stay outdoors ever.
Texas is all about the outdoors. Never been deer hunting.
You don't even you like beans and your chili? You don't.
You don't like to hold on. I love chili in general.
I don't have to have beans. I'm just because I'm
mister Texas. I will accept all different types and varieties. Okay,
you don't like the malis. You don't like the malis
inci Ladas. I don't like Aldean. Why don't you like Aldie?
It's a little scary of there. It's fine. You sure
I didn't get shot once? That you know of straight
bowld in the back. It's like going anywhere. Just follow
the don't start none, won't be none doctrine. You can
be all right. Final hour the Matt Thomas Show at Ross,
including a visit with Im a dook in thirty minutes.
Here on seven ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Somebody Instagram says Alding is fine, even though I did
get shot once. But other than that, it's pretty cool.
To all the brand new Instagram followers of the show,
I need to give you all somehow out Here we
go in no particular order. Brandon shout out to you,
saving truth. The Queens of King started following me. Lafayette
Watts Senior. That sounds like a good old fashioned Harlem
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Lafayette Watts Senior. I'm gonna go with the curly Neil
Uh Caleb Hallatta shout out to you. Kevin Fensky, Ryan Heine,
what the heck? Larry James, Kelly, Cupssted, Blake Signs, Nathan Showstack,
Chris Hall, Chance Milford, Gus Powell, Chris Chavez. I love
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mis mentioned your Instagram until I started doing it. That's
not true. You're such a fraudulent human being. No, I'm
not fraudulent. That's fine. Follow the show as long as
you're following somebody, all right? Who else has been outraged
in the last hour about the fact that Bill Belichick
did not make the Pro Football Hall of Fame. No,
everybody's upset again, not human tragedy. I would have voted
him in. It's not up to me. He'll get in
next year. Don't be involved in like five different scandals.
I'm sorry four Bill's accused him of stealing signals. Bengals
accused him in twenty nineteen, spygating twenty seventeen to Flake
Kate in twenty twelve draft picks taken five hundred thousand dollars. Fine,
so you wait one year in the Hall of Fame.
Doesn't seem that unfair. It does not. But I have
never seen you would think it's funny. I really do believe,
and not that we're sitting here going ooh good for him.
It makes me, frankly, no difference whether it got it
or not. But I'm wonder if like Florio's not saying
anything and uh a Schefter's not saying anything, like this
is an out room. You got all these celebrities coming in.
You know what a part of it is I think
is that I think that and This is maybe a
good sign for the world that we all understand that
we're all not perfect, and that you are allowed to
have a blemish, whether it be a big one or
a little one, that life, that you can't live a
perfect life. I think it will make mistakes. And if
you're allowed a one time mistake, and this is not
a repeated performance, we don't don't know so far, only
got caught once when he was coaching there, that people
allowed to make mistakes and get past it, which is
a good sign for anybody that's involved with that. Twenty
seventeen has tros. I think it's more of it just
twenty years ago. I mean, if this happened five years ago,
it would be more on people's minds and they would
be like, you know what, yeah, get them out, keep
them out. I think you would see a lot more
division between people are arguing about whether or not he
should have to sit out here, not sit out a year,
because that's not just not getting it voted in as
a first ballot. If this happened like five years ago,
it happened to almost twenty years ago. In time, heals wounds,
just like I think a lot of these guys and
the steroid here are going to eventually find their way
closer to acceptance, not a hall of fame. Some of
them are done. Is Barry Bond's done? Clemens is done, right,
Clemons is done. I think Sammy Celsis done so maah,
not the same. It was the first battle hall of
Famer to begin with.
Speaker 6: Um.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to have this conversation, you know, five
years after Jose al tuov is done, and we're going
to be debating about it because there are gonna be
people that, even though the Jose's name has been not
been brought up as a guilty party of the twenty
seventeen season, he's gonna say, They're gonna say guilt by
association and there's nothing that. And here's the thing. As
much as you and I believe that we don't know
without absolute certainty that JOSEEO Tuobe is not involved, I
don't know. I mean, we don't know who's uh how
many of these old writers are gonna be died off
by then? I will say this, if we ever found
out that Jose was not involved, it would crush me
to multiple levels. One we found out that he was involved,
that he was involved, it would crush me to multiple levels,
because one, I think he's the greatest aster of them all.
Number two, he has been widely regarded as one of
the most popular asters of all time. Nobody if it's
a bad thing about joseeo Tube ever, he's just sweet
human being. But I mean, there's just now he's just
a decent human being. And has it really changed from
who he is from the time he was just barely
in a major league rosters and now we're he is?
But number three, I will have spent a lot of
my life as a sportscaster defending a man's honor. M
And that will hurt because I don't know if it's
ever happened to me as a sports talk host before.
But I'm thinking, is there's something I've defended, betrayed, not betrayed,
defending someone for so long as judging of character, that's true.
You were always carrying the torch for Deshaun Watson. How
great of a community man he was. Well, I'll say this,
I'm kidding. When Deshaun Watson all that stuff first came out,
it was because he thought Jackieasabree was a crook and
col was an idiot, And I defended that I didn't blame.
I can remember vividly you and I talking about I
don't blame Deshaun, want to get out of here. This
is a it's a toxic organization. I remember that I'm
bad coach Jackie Esbrey trying to cut people off all
the time. Cal playing video games. I mean, Cal still
playing video games, but at least he's got better people
around him, and obviously Hannah is much more involved. And
then he got slapp with twenty five loss and then
so that's not necessarily a I'm I'm mad that I
died on the vine for that. I just understood why
Deshaun was upset because the contract he signed in an
organization he thought he was playing for was being run
by different people and being run in a very poor way. Now,
it'd be different if I came on the radio show
and said there's no way de Sean didn't get a
rub and tug, and there's no way that all these
messuses and all that twenty five of them are lying,
you know what I mean? That would be different. Did
I never said that? Yeah, it was more OJ. You
were defending then. I was not defending OJ. People. People
have selective hearing. They're gonna be thinking, Matt, Hi, my
name is Ross, and I'm just kidding correct, I'm trying.
I mean, I gotta think about this. Is there somebody
in my in sports that I've talked about and you
defended them and defend them, whether it be as a personality,
whether it be about drug use, whether it be about cheating.
I've been defending CJ. Stroud. He let me down in
the division. Round to you that a lot of people
did that. We should go bookmark people's tweets from like
two weeks ago, three weeks ago, I was defending Arch
Manning and he let me down. The beginning of the
season he rallied. Some people thought he would transfer out
and not even say at Texas who would do that?
This is a bad guy feeling. I didn't put my name,
I did it. I didn't mention. I don't know. I
don't think I put my name. I don't even know
what you're talking about. What's believe it or not? Today
I'm only worrying you have even started yet. We got
an EMA coming up, and you're gonna want to get
your voice in the EMA conversation because you're gonna be
replaying it during the Rockets launch replaying. You know, there's
a little snippets here and there of great information from
our coach who gives us wonderful straight answers. He's glib.
I'll give him that credit. Transparent. Yeah, I mean, he's
not a cliche machine as much as others. So here's
here's here's how it worked. Mike D'Antoni didn't like doing it,
but he did it. I don't even know if Ema
is a big fan of it, but Mike was way
more cliche filled than e May I was talking about.
This was our producer Jassee. I was like, Mike, give
you five second answers. I do think, I felt. I know,
look at the clock going. I gotta ask him eight
more questions to get to two minutes. I don't know, Matt.
And then we had Steven Silas on and I loved him,
but the team sucks. Yeah, but he was mister soliloquy.
I like Steven Silas sound bites just personally for as
a launch pad and joyer. It's always about you, isn't it.
I think I don't even know where Steven's I think Stevens,
I think Silas. By the end honestly, And I said
this again to her. I think he was filipbustering. I
think he knows. Like man, if they asked me the longer,
I talked a fewer questions, I have to answer about
Christian Woods defense. So let me go ahead and give
a three minute answer about everything. And eventually we got
to get out of here. I love Scoot, but man,
he's a time bomb. I was scooted doing.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's back up in Milwaukee. That's good. I guess.
I don't know. Let me tell you something. He remember
he left and there was a beating the girlfriend, all
that kind of stuff. All that. I mean, it could
have really gone south for him. He had to go overseas, right,
m Or am I thinking of somebody else? I think
you're think of somebody else? All right? It is one
thirteen in the Matt Thomas Show. Coming up in the
bottom of the hour, we have Emai Duck is going
to join us.
Speaker 5: Ross.
Speaker 2: What's the next segment of the show going to be?
What do you think Kevin Porter Junior talk. I don't
think we're gonna do Kevin Porter Junior talk. Okay, yeah, yeah,
he played in Uh, he played in Greece. Then he
came back to the NBA, got his uh second, I
guess third chances he was a cavalier for a while.
Now he's with the Bucks, all right. Uh, speaking of
the Bucks, Yannis, if he goes west, are we going
to be really freaking out to be sad? We'll talk
about that coming back if you want to get into
anything else. We've talked about the day. We've talked about
Bill Belichick. We've talked about our Houston Cougar's knocking off
TCU Tonight Rockets and Spurs, Jannis being traded.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And by the way, congratulations to the world of social media. Ross,
it's now day three without any c. J. Stroud memes
out there. Maybe we're forgiveness is coming into play, Thank
goodness seven one three, two, one, two, five, seven, eight
what eighteen On Sports Talk seven ninety it is the
Mount Thomas Show with Ross Hemye Doka coming up. At
the bottom of the hour, Tom Brady chiming in saying
it's completely ridiculous that Bill Belichick's not getting the Hall
of Fame. Of course, secretly, deep deep down, he's like, well,
let me ask you this. I don't equate spygate to
the flight gate, although it is again trying to get
a competitive iantage because you like the size of the
football to be as be careful on that, like the
size of the balls. So you're saying you're trying to
avoid saying you said it, not me, So clip that
for Friday?
Speaker 3: Uh huh?
Speaker 2: Is he worried that he might be in this similar situation?
Maybe I don't think he is. First of all, it
could be disputable that Belichick's the greatest coach of all time.
I don't think it is, but some could dispute it
because somebody could say, well, Vince Lombardi or Don Shula,
you know, I mean, you could put them in that
really super verified here in terms of the number of
victori it's not even close in terms of Super Bowl victories.
But people could go back and say, well, what would
Belichick do with Tom Brady was in his quarterback? Tom
Brady's the greatest quarterback in the history of the NFL,
And as much as I love so many other quarterbacks
of his ilk, he's the greatest quarterback of all time.
He just is. I don't think the flakegate gets some
ding to year, And maybe I'm being hypocritical on this.
He did get suspended four games. It was a cheating situation.
It was the biggest knock on that whole situation for
me for Tom Brady is that he destroyed his own phone.
You were trying to investigate him and figure out if
he were doing something wrong, and he destroyed his phone.
I don't know if he did that because he didn't
want to sell see in his text or what. I
don't have the reason why he destroyed his phone. But
if you're completely one hundred percent innocent, nothing to hi,
You're not destroying your phone. Giselle was busy with her
Brazilian jiu jitsu, Sorry, I got that, making sure they
were grappling exercise. They were grappling, all right, He kept saying,
forget it. So I don't think that dings him because again,
let me, if you think the Belichick hatus, people will
find out who didn't vote for Tom Brady in the
first go round and they will be uh trd and feathered. Basically,
don't care. I get it. At first, I didn't get it,
but once we we factored in the spygate and all
the other stuff. So is that a bit of hypocrisy
on my end that I'm like Tom deflated the balls
or had the balls deflated and he got suspended. Why
am I not holding him to the same sort of
uh sanctimony when it comes to Bill Belichick unto the
flight Gate I think, I think videos. I think videotaping
an opposing team illegally for for allegedly up to maybe
multiple seasons, is a more egregious offense than taking a
little air of the ball so you can get a
better grip on it. I would agree with that, like
I think steroid injection is worse than doctoring or baseball
this because yeah, there's different lowls, like a misdemeanors versus felonies. Yeah,
or slap on the wrist, I get a little fine
or you need to be in jail for taming. That's
the one thing about his degrees, And that's the one
thing that people don't do in sports when you break
these things down, is you people tend to believe it
all crimes are created equal. Yeah, there's the degrees of
many things, if not everything, Because I would, honestly and
maybe again, I think the concerned effort to steal signals
for another team is every bit as egregious. What the
Astros did in twenty seventeen I put on the same
level I did. That's another thing, too, is that the
Astros are both trying to gain a competitive advantage through
communications and through anticipating what is coming, when that's not
the essence of what a sport is. I think it's
funny because if we asked one hundred baseball fans name
a team that cheated, Astros would come up first. It's like, Okay,
the Yankees were punished for it too. The Red Sox
had multiple scandals. It was the JT. Watkins Alex Cora thing,
and then it was also the Apple Watch thing, and
yet they just became the face of it and it
was very widespread. And that's another Do we know that
every was every team filming every other teams walked throughs
to steal signals? I don't know. I don't think. So
we hadn't heard anything about that. Let's see. Yeah, there's
a little nuanced discussion. For sure, it's not apples to apples,
but the Astros did break the rules. Alex Bregman, well,
he's borderline case if at best. Right now, anyway, and
here comes the Astro fan of me for a second. Okay,
I've always said this, and you know I've not changed
my tune on this. I've said if for Mike Fires,
if Mike Fires would have got a brand new contract,
it would have been welcome to the Astros. He'd been
getting shelled by them when he was at the age. Yeah,
he would have been more than happy to keep his
mouth shut. There wasn't this. This wasn't this sweet innocent
for the essence of the game and to keep the uh,
the integrity going. He was doing it. He was a
bitter a hole and was mad at the Astros. And honestly,
if this was going on with a lot of other teams,
which I truly believe it was, if Mike Fires were
in Toronto Blue Jay gear and that happened to him there,
he would have probably exposed the Toronto Blue Jays wrong
person to piss off for a guy who didn't deserve
to be back on the team, and the wrong team
Mike Fires a since had he read he could have
done it there. It's just as easy as the Astros.
I will fall on the greatest baseball sort of all
time saying that if you took if you went into
the locker rooms of thirty different clubhouses, thirty different and
Major League Baseball teams, I would safely tell you that
twenty five of them were doing about the same exact
thing as the Astros are doing. Is it it Josh
Reddick or somebody has said Mike fires is one of
the ones banging on the trash can like he was
one of the ones helping out. Yeah, so don't give
me this this thought of well, it was just the Astros.
I will never believe that because we have Boston, we
have the Yankees, and we have the last decade Rossie.
We have people saying over and over again players, oh
it was happening in our clubhouse too. The Astros just
having to get caught first, and it's scared everybody, and
sometimes it takes one team to be the fall guy
in order for everybody to be scared about it. Yeah,
just look over here, Rob Banford says, Astros, Astros, Astros,
And honestly, I'm telling you this, and I don't we'll
hopefully not bring this up a whole lot more than
the rest of our life here. But in my mind,
the Astros are lucky they didn't get the World Series trophy.
Taken from him. I they would have gotten I think
Jim Crane would have filed the lawsuit. They would ye.
I mean, I'm saying it could have been a whole
different level of courtroom conversation. I think they would have
gotten slapped with a lawsuit. Red Sox eighteen title could be.
I think it was got a whole can of worms
that did. Rob Banford didn't want to open up. All right,
let's talk. Yeah, let's talk to em DOCA next one
twenty six here on the Matt Thomas Show with Raw
seven one three, two, one two five, seven ninety Do
you do Bill Belichick believe it or not? Today? You
know what going the archives? I know we gotta we
gotta find one that'd be the worst thing. Rossie up next,
you made Doka here on seven ninety. Let's spend ten calling.
I mean it's right now with the head basketball coach
over your Houston Rockets. He may a Doka Rockets taking
on the Spurs tonight eight thirty, which could be either
eight forty two or eight forty seven depending on TV.
Then tomorrow night will be in Atlanta to take on
the Hawks. Coaches with us here, do you get the
guys prepared ever sold differently because of the late start
or is it just the naps go a little bit
longer in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: No, we try to keep the schedule pretty much the same.
We don't push back, shoot around or anything. I think
guys are in their routines and more than anything, to
your point, that gives it as the next hour or
so to relax and get ready.
Speaker 2: Uh, talk about routines. What is the one thing that
does bother a team you've coached on how long enough
you were a player, you were an assistant coach. What
makes routines I guess for anybody important, But why NBA
players are so fixated on on an hour by hour basis.
Speaker 3: I think you've once youve been doing it for certain
amount of time, you just get in that mode of
you know when to wake up, when to take your nap,
when to eat, and kind of everything set, especially on
game days, first day, specific times and uh, you know
that's the game game day routine that a lot of
guys stick by. And when you get thrown off, whether
it's that time or something happens in the afternoon, a
lot of guys rhythm and timing and clock gets kind
of thrown off, so you try to keep it as
much as similar as possible, and that's why we didn't
move anything around, even though we're starting a little bit
later tonight.
Speaker 2: My assumption is that Alpi didn't go to you directly
before the game and say, Santi al Domini's going to
guard me, so let me have the ball as much
as I can. Because that was as efficient as he's
been as a Houston Rocket.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they did the same thing last game.
You know, a lot of teams want to put bigger
bodies on I'm in and so Jared Jackson Junior guarded him.
Alpi was guarded by Aldam Alaska, and we saw some
things that worked well in Memphis. But you know they're
going to try to plug lane with Jared Jackson being
the weakside help. And you know, Alpert made great passes
but also got the ball a really deep scoring position
before the double team could get there.
Speaker 2: You mentioned a man career high and assists he had fourteen.
Scoring numbers have dropped a little bit coincidental or has
it become a little bit of Hey, he's becoming even
better facilitator than he was, maybe even before the start
of the season.
Speaker 3: No, he's definitely grown in that area. I think he
missed some shots he would usually make. You know, he
went three for ten there, but you know, honestly could
have Tony assist if we if we knocked down some
open shots earlier in the game before we finally started
making them later. But I think him getting downhill, he's
starting to see the court better. He had some really
nice passes, you know, one to Kevin on the back door,
a drop off or two to Alpie and then you know,
some some kickouts off of penetration so you see in
the floor better. You know, that's a balance that he
has to strike all year, is when to be aggressive,
get down hill and get to the basket, or when
he has to read and make plays. And like I said,
Jared Jackson Junior sitting back clogging the lane off of him,
he ate up a lot of that space. They help
still came and then he made the right play.
Speaker 2: Rocket Tech coach Imadoka was here on Sports Talk seven
ninety Tari Easan just tell us how well obviously he's
been shooting well from three and the things you like
that you're seeing from him keeping him in the starting lineup, so.
Speaker 3: You know, a big part of it was him coming
off the injury restrictions with the ankle, and so we
want to ramp him back up. He's got those games
under his belt now, and you know, it doesn't take
a lot to see how effective he was and we
were when he was starting before he went out with
the ankle, and so like to have two really good
night dy defenders out there, him and I'm in or
that Josh is that when he's out and Dorian getting
his way back in now. So I think they're formidable
as far as that. They did a really good job
on Spencer and Coward, you know, two young guys who
were really playing well for Memphis, and so you see
their numbers across the board, and we'll look for them
to do the same thing tonight with the Spur guys.
Speaker 2: What is it like playing the Spurs? It's not like
you just played them but not too many games ago.
Is there a little bit of cat and mouse game
with game planning tonight or is it kind of stick
to the same.
Speaker 3: Well there back and forth. We saw some things we
really did well against Webbyama specifically, you know, to hold
him to five for twenty one is a great job.
We took away his space. We're very physical, denied a
lot of his catches, got him off the spot, and
so that was a full team effort and everybody else
to kind of be on board with that. And then
you and then a men did a really good job
off Fox. Jabari was exceptional on Castle. You know, only
one free throw forer guy that is a really good salvator,
and forced him into eight three pointers, which is not
necessarily his game. And so I think across the board
we did well to think we're going to have to
obviously do his account for Champagnee much better. You know,
he got up ten threes in the first half, made
six of them, and then Miselle being back now they're
very similar as far as that, so he had another
shooters in the mix.
Speaker 2: Emil, I love the term falbator. It's just so good.
It's just the truth. I mean, we compared to when
you were playing, how many how often you said that
phrase when you're like, I gotta go against this guy.
These guys were searching for foul shots.
Speaker 3: I mean, there was one or two guys maybe in
the league, maybe three. It seems like there's one or
two guys on every team.
Speaker 2: Now team, Yeah, there's no sixty.
Speaker 3: Really really it's really different. I mean the physicality of defense.
Back then, if the rules were the same, you would
have fouled out every game for sure. And so a
guy that really stands out to me is Kevin Martin.
Great at great first step and great had drawing that
foul if he drew a little contact, and so playing
against him a bunch and then played with him briefly
and Sacramento saw how good he was with that. But
back then it was you know, one or two guys,
and now it's a little bit of everybody. So something
you have to prepare for, and keeping guys off the
line is a major key to their success and our
team success.
Speaker 2: Any final decision about who's going to sit tonight or
maybe tomorrow or is that still going to play things
out how things go against the Spurs before you figure
out who's going to sit and stay.
Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, the only guys we really talk about
are the guys that can't play it back to backs
yet and we're holding Tarry out and tomorrow they'll both
play tonight.
Speaker 2: Okay, very good. A lot of back to backs, I
don't I don't know, you're not much of a calendar looker,
because every time I ask you about who's playing, You're like, well,
we're only like two opponents ahead. But is it kind
of a race to the All Star break to give
guys as much going as you can and then you know, look,
you can get that rest and that we're about the
calenter once that mid season break starts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think. You know, for us, it's back to
back each week the rest of the way, and so
you know, we didn't have a lot early, but you know,
had the have the Philly Detroit. Now we have these
two and then next week it will be the same thing,
and then we finish with the Clippers back to back
at home, and so for us, it's finding that balance,
you know, a bunch of games three and four nights
of back to backs. But you know, getting guys back healthy,
getting guys off minute restrictions definitely helps. And they're relying
on your depth. You know, obviously, Kevin and I'm in
their shouldering the load with the minutes, but I want
to save those down as much as possible. Anytime you
get a chance to wrestle those guys get a comfortable win,
it would definitely be beneficial.
Speaker 2: I love the Detroit game because it was a back
to back, it was a win, tough flight, whatever the
case be, getting in midl of the night. There. How
many times are you going to see a team like
Detroit over the course of the season. And I don't
know if it's necessarily East versus West, because there's some
physical teams obviously in the West. But that was kind
of a little bit more of an old school approach
to playing a basketball game, where it was not necessarily
a fifteen round boxing fight, but it was certainly, even
in the perimeter, a very physical contest. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've established ourselves as the most physical, if
not one of them, in the last few years, and
so we want to maintain that identity while growing and
improving in other areas and understanding the success that's brought
us over the last years. And then Detroit has somewhat
done the same thing. The personnel is definitely that and
I think bigger staff is kind of getting those guys
on the same page as far as that. But you
look at Duran, you look at Stewart, you look at
some of their guys, their natural physical guys and defenders,
and so they bought into that and it's been successful
for them as well out on the East, and so
you knew that game was going to be somewhat that.
I think both teams enjoy that, enjoy playing that way,
and we got the better them this time. They got
the better of us early at home this.
Speaker 2: Year, one week and change away from the trade deadline.
Of course we know Steven Adams out for a link
of time. Are you in content constant contact with Rafel
as far as regards to trades or more focus on
what's happening on the court.
Speaker 3: No, we definitely talk, and you don't meet with you know,
every few days a week, especially around this time, and
so more so than anything, you know, people are checking
in and very interested in a lot of our pieces,
and so it's more adapt than anything. I think he's
just touching base with people, and obviously people are reaching
out with a lot more interest in us than we
do in other people.
Speaker 2: Do you ever respond back new phone?
Speaker 3: Who is? And I don't get the calls anyway, Like cal.
Speaker 2: Rafel, I ain't got time for you. Hey, you may
thank you for the time. Good luck tonight and we
will see at the arena for the game against his
purs looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, you got it.
Speaker 2: He may a doker with us here on the show.
Maybe it's better, it's a better question for new phone.
Who is Yeah, I like that. That's very very interesting insight.
Teams more interested in the rockets pieces than maybe they
are in theirs. And I'm gonna be honest with you,
It's kind of felt that from the jump. Yeah, I've
never got even with the Fred van Vleet injury, did
I ever get the sense of, man, what we're gonna do,
how we're gonna replace? Because remember Fred was playing ROSSI
about thirty seven minutes a game. I mean, you were
missing production as a true point guard, as a perimeter threat,
and he was also playing a lot of minutes. My
first thought was when this happened, they loved to read
Shepherd for a reason two years ago. Is a number
three pick. They're like, read, this is your time, We're
gonna give you more minutes, and now we're gonna definitely
give you more minutes because we need you to step
up and fill up some of that role. Uh did
I read this correctly? Was he zero for seven from
three in the last game? Yes, he was. He is
unfortunately one for his last fourteen. But that's gonna change tonight. Yeah, okay,
the bright lights. Let's go. You put your name on it.
The game is so bigger putting it on KTRA tonight.
Well we're going, George, listen to us in Mexico City.
Let me tell you some We got people all over
the southeast listening to it. I know, Alexander Louisiana. Yeah,
I know, Matt. Don't get nervous for your big call.
Oh you know what it reminds me plug your Instagram. Oh,
thank you, Matt. I appreciate it. I will follow you
back between now and two o'clock. If you follow me
at Sports RV on Instagram, I will follow you back,
and then before the end of the show, I'll give
you a shout out to all Right, I gotta see
if I'm on Sports RV. Let's see if I'm the
national radio call tonight on Sirius xm Oh, okay. That
gives me a little more nervous too. Let's does it.
You don't matter when the when the game's in there,
in the middle of the game, you're not thinking about it,
are you. I'm on the main I'm on the main channel,
National radio let's go baby mister world wide. Now, normally
can get every game on serious, but there's some channels
that are more easily defined that Yeah, Spurs Rocket's got
to be featured. Yeah. The first game is Lakers Cleveland, Okay,
and then we're the second game right after that.
Speaker 3: Oh.
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to ray j Text for the follow and uh laughy
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It's about anybody knew in the last few minutes. Oh
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what we need your am I doing this? Uh it's
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I don't care. Nobody asked. He could not He could
not have been nicer. Yeah. Way, Clinton hates Wemby and
he's not working the game with me tonight. Oh you
don't get to hear him complain or when he goes.
He's got two to six tonight, So don't worry. That's
good to East is gonna get physical with him. Everybody's
gonna get up and hey, hey, Adam. Uh, Wemby doesn't appen.
Does some mind going against Wemby? No, he destroys him.
Have you seen Wimby's Wimby? Have you seen Vicky's record
against the Rock's Vicky? I have not.
Speaker 7: Why can't I shorten his first name when everybody else
shortens his last name? That's all I'm doing. I've figured
it'd be Vick. I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 7: If a man named Victory, why at the end of
Wimbin Yama, it's Wimby. Why don't you go to the
I start calling you, Addie, No, we're not doing that.
I could go home, eat dinner comfortably, and then get
to the game with plenty of time.
Speaker 2: As stupidly late as it is, I hate the NBA
for doing that. ESPN National Cachet. Maybe let's get what cachet.
By the way, have you guys discussed at.
Speaker 7: Length Victor wimbin Yama's stance on political issues today?
Speaker 2: No, we've not. Yeah, and guess what it we'll not
discussed because we got five minutes off to go on
the show. What should he thinks? People shouldn't be murdered
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We'll start with Jerry and Tomball. Jerry, you're on seven.
Nt you ready to play Believe it or not? Jerry? Jered?
All right, Jerry, here we go. Todd Monkin was an
All American quarterback at Knox College in Galasburg, Illinois. Believe
it or not not? He was How did not have
his roster in front of it? Knows that fifty eight
enrollment currently there? How's the fraternity and sorority scene? He
was like a beta FATA something or other. Yeah, it
was probably just limited would have been a properate answer.
Tim on seven pointy, Tim, You're ready to play. Believe
it or not?
Speaker 3: Believe it.
Speaker 2: Counting colleges and NFL teams, Todd Monkin has had twelve
different stops as a coach. Believe it or not? Twelve
believe it? That's right, same number two for the win.
Todd Monkin was the offensive coordinator at Georgia when they
went back to back national championships in twenty twenty one
in twenty twenty two. Believe it or not.
Speaker 3: Believe it? There you go.
Speaker 2: Congratulations Michael in spring, Michael, your favorite part of today's
ten to two radio show, All of It, Matt, thank you.
Todd Monkin was the head coach Southern miss for three years,
where he posted a record of thirteen wins and twenty
five lawsuits. Believe it or not? Believe it, Yes, same
number two for the way Todd Monkin got his first
coaching job as a graduate assistant at his alma mater,
of course, Knox College. Believe it or not not, that's right. Congratulations.
You try to be tricky on that one lost. Good
for you. Let's go to h Kevin on sevenintie Vin,
You're ready to play. Believe it or not? Believe it.
Todd Monkin's brother Jeff is the head coach for the
Army Black Knights. Believe it or not not, that's a
believe it believe it?
Speaker 3: Did? I right? Brother?
Speaker 2: Yeah, his brother Todd Monkin's brother Joe. It's his cousin.
But I mean he is at Army. I must I
miswrote that, then, judge as you, Oh man, that's tough.
Clenten says you lose anyway. Sorry, Sorry, Mike on seven Nintie, Mike,
your favorite part of today's ten to two radio show,
I Hate Fires. On season eighteen of HBO's Hard Knocks,
it was revealed that Tom Monkin is a heavy user
of chewing tobacco. He dips over ten times per day.
Believe it or not.
Speaker 3: Believe it?
Speaker 2: No, he never does it. He's anti dipping. Roger on
seven ninety Roger, You're ready to play Believe it or not?
Your Tom Monkin's son Travis is on the offensive coaching
staff at Purdue. Believe it or not? Believe it? Yes,
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