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Speaker 1: Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. I'm gonna tell

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you the truth. This's going around here, by the way,

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anything goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas Show rows.

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You can clearly tell that I'm not sounding my best.

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I don't feel real good. I went to bed last

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night at eight o'clock Pacific time and got up at

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seven point fifteen Pacific time, and I was hoping to

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get like NonStop sleep, just let this thing sleep off.

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and to go to the bathroom. So I'm gonna be

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brutally honest with you. We don't have anybody as backups.

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Dan works at a four hour show. Adam and Adam

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do their four hour show. Ross need to take some

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time off, so sometimes you have to gut it out.

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And that's exactly what I'm doing today here on the show.

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I'm going to gut it out. We do have a

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lot of great guests coming up on the show today.

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We'll have a Gordy stop by at ten fifty this morning.

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We will also have a Robert Ford, the voice of

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the Astros, stop by at eleven o'clock looking forward and

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talking with him. We usually have him on opening day,

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but I wasn't working open a day because the Rockets

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were on the road and the guys were at the

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opening day plaza ceremony, so I missed that opportunity. So

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we'll talk to him. I'm sorries at eleven thirty. You're like,

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what is that? Well, if you're new to the show,

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first of all, where you have been, second, damn glad

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to have you. I'm sorry, this is where you get

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to call and apologize for anything you've done. And we

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really don't judge you very much on that. I mean,

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we can judge you a little bit, but not a

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whole lot. So I'm sorry. They're coming up at eleven thirty.

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So if you won't apologize, anybody in this world know

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that you can do it on this radio show. We'll

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have the news at noon, and then later on today

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we will have Craig Ackerman, the voice of the Rockets

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television sign we were with us at twelve thirty. He's

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and then Ema A Doka is going to join us.

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At one thirty, we'll have the non Florida stories and

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of course Helly Aeron out. So I put together a

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few things today to hopefully make it less of me

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and more about the other great people that are on

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this show. And I've got all my good friends joining

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me today on the radio program. Now I consider you

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my friends. So if there's anything you want to get

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to today and you're like Maddy, we feel sorry for you.

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And I heard your take on this, and you can't

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fight me on this because you're at about thirty percent,

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you're right. So today is a go after bat On

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Sports takes day. Like if you want to say that

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Joe a Spot is the reason why of the astros

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are five and seven, I ain't gonna argue with you.

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I'll listen, may not agree, but I'm not gonna fight

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you on it. I'm not gonna go Jamison on you

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like we have done in the past. If you want

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to get into the Jalen Peatree signing, which just happened

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within the last hour. As the Nick Cassia continues to

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spend a lot of money on the defense and took

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that money that he did not want to use towards

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Larry Tounsel and put into other people's hands. That's very interesting.

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We'll get to that as well. We will also get

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to the Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers tonight. I'm

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hoping forward to taking a nap at noon Pacific today

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to hopefully get my voice up to at least broadcast

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material for that. Rockets have two games left to go

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in the season before they get to the postseason, and

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who they're playing, I have no idea, because these things

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fluctuate literally every day. And I've told you all this before.

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Speaker 2: I have a problem, a lot of problems, but my

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number one problem is I'm infatuated by looking at the

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standings in the Western Conference, and last night it moved

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Speaker 1: Case in point. Last night, the Golden State Warriors were

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a seventh seed in the Western Conference playoffs before the

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game between Minnesota and Memphis was played. Now there's a

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thirty three. So clearly, if there is a three way

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tiebreaker between those two between those three teams, the Golden

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they're going to play, because you got games tonight, you

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don't have anything on Sunday, and then you ra Saturday,

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and then you have all these afternoon games on Sunday.

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still be obsessed with it because that's a problem I have.

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what the Rockets do as a number two seed in

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the Western Conference playoffs and whether or not they're gonna

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be taken on a Clippers team, a Minnesota team, a

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Clippers lose their last two games, that could be a possibility.

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the Rockets and how they play this up, knowing that

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they can have a hand in the decision making as

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to who they play. Does he may play a lot

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of guys tonight? Does he may set I got a

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lot of guys like he did against the LA Clippers.

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Does he? We'll go full throttle today and then back's

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offense on someday. I mean, we'll ask you ma it

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come up at one thirty. But I really think that

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as the Rockets are down the two games, and I

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hope that this city, who is lukewarm on certain things,

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especially if you don't win, can kind of get into

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the Rockets playoff vibe. I can't guarantee a series win,

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guarantee they're gonna play their ass off, and they have

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done so to finish the number two seed in the

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Western Conference because I know for a fact I didn't

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have them as a second seed. My guess is the

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Rockets didn't have him as a second seed. And you

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certainly didn't. So we'll see what kind of energy we

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have on the rockets between now and the start of

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the playoffs. We mentioned Jalen Petrick getting a new contract.

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It's a three year extension worth thirty nine million dollars.

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That's it. Excuse me, Nick, you see spend some serious money.

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Sure enough. That defense Texas football in twenty twenty five

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is we're gonna lock you down defensively. We're gonna put

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the best players out there, give them nice, long term deals,

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and then we're going to pray that our offensive line

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can keep saj Strout upright, because the one thing they

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offensive line. Now they may go do that come draft time.

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I mean I would be startled if they didn't pick

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at least two offensive linemen in the first three rounds.

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guys that you won't recognize. And let's be brutally honest,

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the Texans have spent the last couple of years reinforcing

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an offensive line with draft picks and it hasn't worked out,

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thus the mess they're in right now. But there's something

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that you can do, and that's the defensive players that

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have hit. Pay them, make sure they don't test free

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agency and get them locked in. And that's exactly what

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Nickosario has done. Astros and Angels play series tonight in

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dyke in Park, three game series with the Halos, and

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at Saint Louis early next week. So we'll get into

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some astro shato if you want to, the story of

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this show today is less of me and more of you.

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Although I sound like very white.

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Speaker 3: Did I'm not?

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Speaker 4: That?

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Speaker 5: Was that you sound amazing? That I just went to

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the cee that like the how it sounds on? Are

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you sound like a smooth la?

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Speaker 6: You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: You're The very first sound you made today was a cackle?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 1: Is that a cackle of respect? Were you legitimately laughing

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about the situation?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Do you feel sorry for me at all?

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Speaker 5: I kind of do. I'm I have a lot of pride.

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I'm proud of you for doing this, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: And I wish we had backup people at the station,

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but we don't, so it is what it is, all right?

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Seven one three, two, one two five seven Hounty. You

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get carte blanche today more than you ever have before

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in the history of this show, because again I need

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to hold onto this voice for four hours and then

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called a basketball game tonight against the Los Angeles Lakers

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seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

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one three two one two five seventy. Come in and

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say hello, I don't care if you babble at this point,

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it's your talking. You command the floor. Let's go. It's

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a Matt Thomas show without Ross today from Los Angeles

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here on Sports Talk seven ninety. It isn't anything goes Friday.

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By the way, Uh, those of you on Twitter, I

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believe I was with the strippers last night. I wish

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I was, but instead I was in my bed at

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eight o'clock Pacific time. That was the anti Well, I

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wasn't with the stripper. Put it that way, man, I

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could have been a bed to talk with the stripper,

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but that's not the here nor there. I wouldn't do that.

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Speaker 1: It is a Sports Talk seven ninety here from Los Angeles.

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We will look forward to talking with you because again,

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more of you and less of me saves my voice.

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So you're going to get as much of a leeway

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as you've ever had in the history of this show.

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So I think any of you that say, hey, I'm

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going to call and say how to Matt. I got

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a sports take I want to get to, or I

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got something about my life I want to get to,

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you can do that right now. It's seven one three

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friend Clay and Hockley at ten nineteen on seven. Hunty Clay,

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good morning to you.

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Speaker 8: Morning, Matt. How you doing that stupid question?

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that's all right, you can said

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I got a question for you about the batting coaches,

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you know, for the Asktros I understand, you know, not

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every player is like Trout, and some of these guys

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are just hitting up to their you know, their best abilities.

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the batting coaches for things like well, you know, going

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deeper in the count or not hitting them swing, having

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pitch that's you know, it's two feet outside of the

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third you know, do you think they can if that

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coaches make that much of a difference in the MLB I.

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Speaker 1: Really don't, Clay, and I've been doing this a long time.

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I think when you start attacking hitting coaches, you're just

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trying to find blame with somebody when it's really not there.

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These are athletes that have been playing professional baseball for many,

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many years. Some of them have been in major leagues

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for a long period of time. I don't think all

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of a sudden, Christian Walker crushing the ball in Arizona game,

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here to Houston and learn some bad habits and all

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of a sudden can't hit anymore. So I think it's

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the lowest of hanging fruit. And we're talking about the

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two astro hitting coaches, Alex Centron and Troy Snicker. If

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they walked into your house right now, and Clay, you

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wouldn't recognize them. So it's very difficult for me to

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attack a group of people that I don't see. What

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a if there was a prolonged team wide slump and

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things are really underperforming, Sometimes hitting coaches are the sacrificial lamp.

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you have to get rid of coordinators, and that certainly

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seen hitting coaches being fired before, and I've seen some

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they don't make any difference. Like the Astros way back

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in the day, and like going back before they were

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good ten twelve years ago, they fired the hitting coach

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Jeff was cool, but Jeff bag would excuse me. Can

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only do so much. I mean, if you're trying to

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correct Matt Domingez and make him a major league hitter,

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that's not going to happen. If you're trying to make

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Justin Maxwell on everyday centerfielder in the big that's just

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not gonna happen. So no matter what you have in

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your camp, and no matter what you think you can offer,

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it's more about the athlete. It's more about what that

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player has done in the past and adjustments he can

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make now. The good hitting coaches are the ones that

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will see something and say, hey, you're moving your left foot,

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you're your bat speed is not at where it used

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to be. What can we do to fix that? But

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the Astros offensive os would be all fixed if they

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got down to one hitting coach or they replace the

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two hitting coaches that are there there. That's just that

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Speaker 1: What you would see is if there were some issues,

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people would whisper about it. Everybody wants to whisper as

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long as you don't attach your name to it. And

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wasn't the case at all last year. And all you

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got to do is get Christian Walker going to did

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what he did last year. All you gotta do is

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get Yann ar Diez to start popping ball and Jeremy

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people thought there may be a downturn for him in

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his career. Maybe those guys have been influential in keeping

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I just can't speak to that, and certainly you wouldn't

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make a decision like that based off of a twelve

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game sample size. You just wouldn't. Thanks for the phone call, Clay,

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typically are. I mean, are we all of a sudden

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gonna tell say, Josh Millner and Bill Murphy, you guys

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are on the hot seat because Taylor Scott is not

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performing well, or that Brian A Bray, you who has

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been lights out the last couple of years for the Astros,

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all of a sudden sucks? Is that is that on you, guys.

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to the athlete more so than the coaching unless there

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is a really deep disconnect that we would hear through

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the grape vine, and that would be guys like Chilona

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Rome and McTaggart and Matt Kawakara over at the Chronicle saying, hey,

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hearing rumblings of this, this, this, and this, and I

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don't think you're hearing that at this point, and certainly

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then nobody else is making that public. And this shouldn't

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be it's twelve games. It's more sample size seven one three, two,

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one two five, seven nine. If you want to get in,

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nine zero. And again, as crazy as things are, excuse me,

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and as bad as things have been so far for

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the Astros in terms of underperforming with its bullpen and

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its offense, We're sitting here twelve games in the season.

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The Rangers are nine and four, You're three and a

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half out. I mean, that's nothing that can be made

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up in seven eight days. And I'm not gonna really

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start to settle in on what this season is gonna

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be until I watch probably the fifty game point or

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maybe the seventy five game point. I think Astros Twitter

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can't do that. I think Astros Twitter likes to go

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pounce on whoever's not performing. Won't have them fired, whether

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or the player. I just it's just it's just too

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easy and you gotta let you gotta go through the

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long stretch, Like I said, fifty seventy five games before

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you really start thinking about whether or not any staff

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changes can be made. And even so, most times that

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believe what's going on right now. Ten twenty seven on

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Sports Talk seven ninty, it Isn't Anything Goes Friday seven

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It's at Sports Empty. Excuse me. We have a Gordy

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coming up for a stop buying about twenty five minutes

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from now. Robert Ford, voice of the Astros, joins us

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in just a little bit. It isn't Anything Goes Friday

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here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross, who is

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off today. We'd like you to be a part of

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the show. And for those of you that have joined me,

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thank you for those of you that future joining me.

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I really appreciate you. Seven one three two one two

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five seven. I don't know if I've got allergies or

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just a sore throat or I had a fever last night.

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Just listen to me, bitch and moan what a baby

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I am. I'm really and I don't know if y'all are.

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I don't know who's ever a good sickie, but I'm

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the worst sickie. I want massive amounts of Oh, I'm feel.

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Speaker 6: Sorry for you.

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Speaker 1: Thatice is who I am. It's a character flaw. Back

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on the phones, we go. Let's talk to some people

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and say hi to Ronnie in Houston on the Mott

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Thomas Show with Ross at ten thirty two. Ronnie, good

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morning to you. Good morning man.

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Speaker 9: I have a suggestion for you guys, and I don't

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know if you can do it or not. First off,

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I've been a fan. I mean I've been a fan

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of yours, although I would prefer somebody else do the

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radio broadcast, just because it's not anything against you personally.

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It's just that you know, you have certain preferences, and

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I know Geen Peterson left some big shoes to fill.

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And also Mike Edmund's doing you of h broadcast. You

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probably remember him, Yeah, but I would for tonight. I

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wish you and Craig switch places. That way, you wouldn't

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have to talk as much being on the TV side,

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or even more. Uh you know, interesting would be is

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you did a simulcast with Craig.

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Speaker 1: You don't like me doing the games, is what you're saying,

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not with a.

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Speaker 9: Sore throat and the horse voice and coughing.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, we got we got time. I will rally,

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trust me, I will rally well.

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Speaker 10: But I you know, I don't.

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Speaker 9: I'll say that I'm a bigger fan in terms of

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just style, and it's all a matter of personal preference.

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It's nothing against you, because my god, I have a

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lot of respect for what you've done in radio and Houston,

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all the years you've been here, back and forth and whenever.

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Speaker 1: But I have a lot more.

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Speaker 9: I like Jeremy Brownham. I wish you could fly him

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up to LA and he could do the game instead

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of you having to rest you. You know, if we're

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going to rest some of the players, we need to

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rest Matt Thomas and get him ready for the playoffs.

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You know so, But I mean, I hope you can

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do well tonight because I don't want to try.

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Speaker 11: Well.

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Speaker 6: Thank you for the playoffs. We thank you for the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Ronnie. I think appreciate the phone call.

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I think I think I don't think he likes me.

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Speaker 12: You know, he gave you a.

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Speaker 3: Very back.

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Speaker 1: It was very backhanded, right he came.

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Speaker 12: He came like a corporate way, you know, like an

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incorporated Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: I mean I get it. I'll be ready for the playoffs,

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trust me. This two show pass. Let's go to uh

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Ryan and sugar Land at ten thirty five on seven

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Andy Ryan, good morning.

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Speaker 13: Yes, good morning. First of all, I like you guys,

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and I appreciate you guys.

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Speaker 4: Second of all, you of h game the Cougar.

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Speaker 13: I know it was this past Monday night. I was

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there in person too. We'll go We'll go down as

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one of the biggest choke jobs in he said, sports history.

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And then my second take is on the Rockets. Who

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would be a favorable matchup for the Rockets where we

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rather play the Clippers, Memphis or Minnesota. And I'll hang

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up to listen.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean all those turnovers late couldn't get shots up.

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I mean the Cougars did it to Duke and then

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Florida did it to Houston. It's painful, it's very, very painful.

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We were in our seats in San Antonio on Monday

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night and we were all sitting around, We're standing around.

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We were standing and we said, who's going to take

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the shot to win it? Do you go for a

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two pointer? Do you go for a three pointer? And

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I said, ah Man, real sharp for a win. And

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he thought about it too, except instead of doing the

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plump fake shot fake that didn't involve the ball leaving

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his hands, he let the ball leave his hands because

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he saw a Florida defender coming right at him. That

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thought was the ball was going to hit it. It

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was going to hit him and block him, and then

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he couldn't grab it because it would have been a

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travel and there was a mad scramble and the game

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is over, A ridiculously painful way to lose the game.

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Ridiculously So I don't like to use the word choke,

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But if I said it against Duke, I mean I

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guess I have to be fair that the Cougars had

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the lead with a minute left to go, couldn't take

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its shot to turn the ball over, couldn't run their.

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Speaker 12: Offense on the coaching say again, do you blame any

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of that on Sammons.

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Speaker 1: No, it's on the players. Kelvin Sampson executes everything beautifully.

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I mean, you can't, you can't. You can't give him

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his flowers when he draws up that play against Purdue

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and all of a sudden say he can't coach. I

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mean they drew up plays and even Calvin has said

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as much. So, yeah, that was indecision. That was the

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moment was too big and Franklin that it happens a

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lot in college athletics. Sixty six thousand people in the

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stadium playing for a national championship, Millions and millions and

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millions of people are watching on television. It takes something

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special to make that happen, and the Cougars couldn't do it,

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and it really hurts, you know. I will never forget

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in eighty three when the Cougars lost to North Kaliston

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and the buzzer beater. I mean, I was eleven years old,

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but I'll remember that where I was, how I watched it,

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and that will never I will. I don't think I'll

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forget this either, because I was actually in the building.

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So these are those moments that you go, oh, I

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remember where I was when these things happened. So it's stings,

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very battling, and probably stings as much for Calvin Sampson

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because of any of it, because that was the best

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opportunity for him to finally win a Final four and

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get the national championship. Now, as far as the playoffs

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are concerned, I don't like Golden State. I've told you

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that multiple times. The Rockets did beat God, excuse me,

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it be Golden State, but they still are a playoff

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savvy team, been there and done that, and maybe they're

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not as good as they were a year ago. Clearly

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that's the case, or even the last three or four years.

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Memphis one, Clippers to Minnesota three, Golden State four. That'd

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be my preference of who would want to see in

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the first round. And the reality is in it could

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be Denver two. You never know. I mean again, you've

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got two games left everybody. You've got games tonight, and

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you've got games on Sunday. So a lot of me

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just says, you know what, whatever happens happens. You can't

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really root because there's so many people trying to play

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each other and beat each other. Up that you've got

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tie breakers in play. You don't know exactly what's going

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to happen, but yeah, I would say if my teams

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that I would want to play, I want to see

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Memphis first, Clippers, second, Minnesota third, Golden State four. But

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I can be a convinced otherwise. Thanks for the phone

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call seven one three two one two five seven ninety

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if you want to jump in seven one three two

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one two five seven nine zero, If you want to

476
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reach out to me on Twitter, I appreciate that, but

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uh more opportunity for you to come in and say

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hello today. Even if you want to say that I'm

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not as good as Jeremy Brannon, Orgie Peterson or Mike Evans,

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I can live with that. Seven one three two one

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two five seven nine zero. Let's talk to my man

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Biscuit here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Biscuit

483
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can always fill up some time. What's up, Biscuit?

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Speaker 14: Who mad cougar mask?

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Speaker 6: So your call it is just called in. Uh, it's

486
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not even closed.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 15: This was painful, Matt.

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Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 14: Now it's coogle like yourself and me is painful. But

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we wouldn't even favorite going into the game. Now we

492
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had the game in our hands, but we wasn't favorite

493
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nineteen eighty three man, that was we was that was

494
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supposed to be signed field delivered.

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Speaker 1: And we and we choked it off.

496
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Speaker 14: And then that's that oiler game when they had that

497
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great lead against Buffalo.

498
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Speaker 6: Come on, man, that was that was.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, those are from at the top two they.

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Speaker 7: Got that got a team ran out of town.

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Speaker 1: Man, Oh it did it? It was you know what

502
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it was Besically it was the day the orders died, right.

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Speaker 6: Because uh, Bud.

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Speaker 14: Then budd came out on a new staying there like, man,

505
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you better get out of here. But uh, I'm a

506
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I called in Matt to to First of all, I

507
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knew somebody had to get in the portal, Matt. So

508
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you know, yeah, man, censor, he got some horses coming in, Matt.

509
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That's what I told you the other day, Matt. And

510
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you know from inn in that from Indiana, Matt, right,

511
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and I started to go down there to the Alamodome

512
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on Monday. A couple of Buddies did because my color

513
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cool color cools. But I'm telling you right now, Matt,

514
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I'm gonna meet you in Naptown.

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Speaker 3: First round gonna be on that.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Indianapolis is a great place to watch

517
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the Final four. Downtown is awesome.

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Speaker 14: Exactly, and so I'm gonna see you in that town, man.

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Speaker 13: And to the Rockets.

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Speaker 15: You still think you want to play the Lakers.

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Speaker 6: I don't know, man, the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Rockets the Lakers.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, but I mean the other day you said you did,

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I'd rather play.

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Speaker 14: Denver Memphis, and even the Timber was because the Timber

526
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was the soul streaky, you know, like you say. They

527
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don't look like it looked like it's either gonna be

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between Minnesota, Golden State, and Memphis.

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Speaker 6: One of those three probably who they're gonna play.

530
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Speaker 14: But I like the rockets chances second round though. Rockets

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and Lakers. Man, that's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 1: A lot of star power, a lot of Nationals, a

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lot of big time ABC Saturday Night games.

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Speaker 16: Right, sir.

535
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Speaker 14: I was there man in eighty six, me too, you know,

536
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right in the in the summit, back in the day.

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Speaker 3: Back in the day.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Biscuit for the phone call. I appreciate you listening.

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I missed the summit. There's a generation of Rocket fans

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that have no idea what the damn summit is? It

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was such a magical place. First of all, the name

542
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was ridiculously cool. Secondly, the roof was low, so you

543
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could you know, all the noise was really really loud.

544
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And then third you could just you could. You could

545
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pick me up, blindfold me and drop me in the

546
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summit anywhere you wanted to, and I can smell, I can,

547
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I wouldn't know where I was. It was like burnt

548
00:29:36,599 --> 00:29:39,759
caramel corn. It me and me. Some of you are like,

549
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why do I want to smell burning for charmlcorn? It

550
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was just to smell of the arena had But I

551
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loved it. I also love the fact that you didn't

552
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have to pay for parking when you were there either

553
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back in the day. How about that Now everybody's charging

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a big time parking ten forty three Sports Talk seven

555
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ninety It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Ross

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has the day off. We got a Gordy drive by

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coming up next here on Sports Talk seven ninety getting

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ready for the weekend of Astros Baseball. Robert Ford is

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going to join us in about ten minutes. Congratulations to

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Chris Gordy. He was named the programmed director by the

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Houston of the Year by the Houston Media Alliance last

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night at Big Shin Dick congratualations. Gorney, thank you, Matt.

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Speaker 17: Exciting times could know without our all of our staff

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here and our host. So you share a part of this.

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Jonathan shares a part of this. Maybe Raw shares a

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little part too.

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Speaker 1: Sure, go ahead, you gonna be What do you want

568
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to say, Jonathan, he's just time to be modest? Oh

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he isn't. Okay, he slept with it last night. He

570
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made look, he put it next to his pillow. I

571
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guarantee you.

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Speaker 17: I will say it didn't Uh, it didn't hurt to

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have our competing program director there in the building too.

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Speaker 3: Oh really, that's always fun.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what's good? Did you walk up there and say

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suck it?

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Speaker 12: Yeah? I thought about it.

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Speaker 1: Good for you.

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Speaker 12: I'm modest, though.

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Speaker 1: I don't want you acting with class and dignicky.

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Speaker 6: I don't want that.

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Speaker 12: Well you you were nominated for one of the awards

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and lost apparently.

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Speaker 17: But Adam well, it's tough because you're going to against

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like FM DJs and all kinds of other stuff. But

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Adam Clinton was there because Teresa was nominated.

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Speaker 1: She did not win.

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Speaker 17: Either, but we had agreed that if you had won.

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I told Adam that you had that he would have

590
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to go up there and accept on your behalf.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well you didn't have to worry about that. It's fine.

592
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I was nice to be nine many dime. That's all

593
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I can ask for.

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Speaker 12: You've won things in the past.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's I mean, it's good. I mean I

596
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was nice, and we recognize. I appreciate that very much.

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All Right, Gordy off day for the local nine yesterday,

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chance to lick their wounds a little bit, and the

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Angels coming in for a three game series.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, it's a weird kind of like they were on

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the road for six and then they come home for

602
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quick three gamer and then they immediately head back out

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to Saint Louis for a series with the Cardinals up there.

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But yeah, the day off is nice because with the

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Arraghetty injury, it kind of gives you a data reset

606
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things a little bit. But they're gonna go with Ryan

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Gusto on Saturday, you know, and then so it'll be

608
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run out Blanco tonight, Ryan Gusto tomorrow, and Hayden was

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Nesky on Sunday. And this is an interesting Angels team.

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I mean, they've got some firepower, they've got some pitchings decent.

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Will avoid Kakuchi in this in this series so you

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don't have to see the guy that you traded for

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last trade deadline.

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Speaker 12: But it's it's gonna be a good see. I mean,

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this is one wher.

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Speaker 17: It just feels like you got to get that bad

617
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taste out of your mouth on Wednesday and come back

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and win tonight. Because let's be real, too, run out,

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Blanco ain't been great so far, and if he struggles tonight,

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I mean the era is over nine right now. Like,

621
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if he struggles tonight, that's gonna be really big red flags.

622
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And there's really nothing you can do though, because with

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the injury at a Righetti like you're kind of stuff.

624
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Blanco has to be part of this rotation.

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, there were some warning signs about his performance

626
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in spring training. He did not have a good spring

627
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so that's he did not bring with him a new

628
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add and the new approach to Houston because yeah, every

629
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time I'd listened to the Astros, he was getting hit

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pretty hard. Yeah.

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Speaker 17: The thing you just always worry about is like, Okay,

632
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a guy like like Taylor Scott last year has one

633
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,759
of his best seasons ever ever ight and then this

634
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,839
year it's kind of the numbers have gone back up again. Okay,

635
00:33:10,039 --> 00:33:13,079
was last year that anomaly, like, you know, was that

636
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the one year you know we saw it were for

637
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Rafael Montero in twenty two, he was awesome.

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Speaker 12: You Rafael Montero was part of the reason you won

639
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the World Series in twenty two.

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Speaker 17: But we can also say that was the anomaly that

641
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he was never that good before, and it looks like

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he'll never be that good again. And that's what you

643
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worry about. Ronald Blanco amazing year last year, but that

644
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you can make a case he will never be that

645
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good again. And so you know, you look at this

646
00:33:37,559 --> 00:33:39,960
rotation and again, if Arraghetty's healthy, maybe it's not that

647
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big of a deal, you guys, the number five guy, whatever,

648
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But now you're looking at him a little cross eyed.

649
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And this is I mean, all these guys have to

650
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pitch well this weekend, but Gusta's been awesome. That's been

651
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the nice surprise so far this season. I'm excited for

652
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him to get his opportunity on Saturday.

653
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Speaker 1: Well, the reality is this, everybody has to worry about

654
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middle bullpen. I've never been around a baseball team for

655
00:34:00,799 --> 00:34:02,720
two or three years in a row that said, hey man,

656
00:34:02,799 --> 00:34:05,119
we are so locked in in our fifth, sixth, seventh inning, guy,

657
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,319
we got nothing to worry about. It's first of all,

658
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changes all the time. Second of all, you do take

659
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advantage of the one great year, you haven't turned it

660
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into money. That's where teams typically overpay for people, and

661
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:19,039
that's what the Astros did with Montero so and then

662
00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:21,960
usually it bites in the ass. I mean, the the

663
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only crazy money, Gordy I would spend on relievers would be, frankly,

664
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the closers, and I'd keep it at fair market value

665
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,079
with everybody else. But you need a dominant closer. Those

666
00:34:34,119 --> 00:34:37,000
other guys you know you could have, I mean, Taylor

667
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,719
Scott was fantastic last year, mid so far this year.

668
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You know, they change all the time, and so I'm

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I just pray that somebody catches fired that a guy

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from last year who wasn't good could be good. And

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I thought might have been Montero because he got a

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second chance, but now he's playing for the Atlanta Braves.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, I got a text for a buddy, Atlanta said, Hey,

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well it's MONTERRONI good. I said, no, no, just off

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It really was uh by. The question though, was like,

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since when does Louise? When did Louis Contreras earn you know, like, okay,

677
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he made the opening gay roster.

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Speaker 12: I feel like we didn't even really talk about him.

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Speaker 17: He made a couple appearances in the middle of last season,

680
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but like him the other I thought that was tempting

681
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,480
fate in that game on Wednesday, when you know Bennett

682
00:35:23,519 --> 00:35:26,599
Sussa got the one out and then you bring in

683
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could you know Catrera's he he gets you out of trouble,

684
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but then he comes back to start the next inning

685
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I think was at the eighth, and then he loads

686
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,039
the bases up with nobody out and then they go

687
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to Ochert and no offense to Okert. You know, he

688
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gets the next two outs before he gives up the

689
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Grand Slam. But I don't really blame Okert in that spot.

690
00:35:43,639 --> 00:35:46,639
Ochret had been lights out. Okert sitting there going, hey,

691
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if you'd have given me the a fresh, clean inning

692
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:50,760
to start, I probably would have gotten out of this thing.

693
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So I just I didn't understand the bringing Contrera's back

694
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out for another inning. And I also don't feel like

695
00:35:57,199 --> 00:35:58,920
that guy has earned the trust yet to be a

696
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,840
reliable guy to go to a big spot.

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00:36:01,039 --> 00:36:01,119
Speaker 18: Now.

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Speaker 1: My guess is again, Contreros is in a situation where

699
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his his his valuable is his high leverage situation is

700
00:36:07,599 --> 00:36:10,719
gonna flux. Right. You're gonna have to hopefully put him

701
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,000
in spots to make him look good. He's got the stuff,

702
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,639
but it's inconsistent, and I don't think anybody was like, man,

703
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,320
Luis Cancerra's now part of this bullpen. We are rock

704
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,920
and we're rolling now. So I think you just gotta

705
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pick your spots and probably minimize how much he pitches.

706
00:36:25,599 --> 00:36:28,039
I think that the extension that he gave he got

707
00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:30,239
over the weekend in that Seattle series is probably gonna

708
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be a one time thing.

709
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,039
Speaker 17: Yeah, And I guess it was a five to nothing

710
00:36:33,079 --> 00:36:35,079
game at the time, so you're probably thinking, Ah, no

711
00:36:35,199 --> 00:36:35,800
big deal here.

712
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to get length. You've been working, you've

713
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,480
been worrying, you've been wearing out your bullpen gored, do

714
00:36:39,519 --> 00:36:41,199
you know that. I mean it just they've got to

715
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,559
get some guys a day off here there, because if

716
00:36:44,559 --> 00:36:47,280
you're sitting here twelve games end of the season, worrying

717
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,280
about your leveraged bullpen. Guys you're gonna run on a

718
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,199
guess are really quick.

719
00:36:51,599 --> 00:36:53,039
Speaker 12: And I think the problem is too.

720
00:36:53,159 --> 00:36:56,159
Speaker 17: I mean, look, Hater had pitched so much already he

721
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,679
wasn't available on Wednesday that you know, I think it

722
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,239
was a little one. Like Briana Bray has been good

723
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,559
in that eighth spot, but when he's been called on

724
00:37:04,199 --> 00:37:06,039
at times, you know, to pitch the ninth that he

725
00:37:06,079 --> 00:37:08,519
hasn't been great in that ninth one the few opportunities

726
00:37:08,559 --> 00:37:08,920
he's had.

727
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,599
Speaker 12: So I mean, I don't really put it on him either.

728
00:37:11,639 --> 00:37:12,920
He just he didn't have his best stuff.

729
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,199
Speaker 17: But that that that game just sucks because we'd be

730
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,119
feeling so different about this team if they had gone

731
00:37:18,159 --> 00:37:20,360
up to Seattle take it two out of three, after

732
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,639
take it two out of three in Minnesota. It's just

733
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,400
one game, but it does it's a completely different feeling

734
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:26,199
coming into today.

735
00:37:26,519 --> 00:37:29,039
Speaker 1: Well, the reality is you want very few of those

736
00:37:29,079 --> 00:37:31,639
types of games. If you can put those types of

737
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,960
losses on one hand, you're gonna be in a good spot.

738
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,800
If you start thinking about those being ten times with

739
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,559
the Asters at a multiple run league, going to the

740
00:37:38,559 --> 00:37:40,960
eighth inning, you're going to really start working out about

741
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,840
whether or not this team can overcome everything, because I

742
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,960
think this American League West is going to be really

743
00:37:45,039 --> 00:37:46,360
really tight the entire way through.

744
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 17: It feels that way. I mean, Seattle is good enough.

745
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:51,880
The Rangers are loaded.

746
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:52,559
Speaker 3: Uh.

747
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 17: I think the surprise right now is the Angels being

748
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,440
eight and four. You know, the A's are the A's.

749
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,360
I mean they got Brett Rooker and Mason Miller. They

750
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,719
got some good players. They're not great, but you know

751
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,000
they're right there five and eight, Mariners at five and eight,

752
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,840
and you're at five and seven. So this is a

753
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,039
This is a big series with the Angels just because

754
00:38:11,039 --> 00:38:13,159
they're three up on you right now, Like you lose

755
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:14,880
two out of three or get swept by the Angels.

756
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 12: God, now you're chasing not just the Rangers, but you're

757
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:18,239
chasing the Angels too.

758
00:38:18,679 --> 00:38:21,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Mike Trott is feast or fam in five

759
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,800
home runs with batting average and just over two one hundred.

760
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,880
Gordy is here to help you with some beverages when

761
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:28,079
you get to the stadium this weekend.

762
00:38:28,159 --> 00:38:29,760
Speaker 12: Yeah. I was just looking at they're doing.

763
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,159
Speaker 17: They're back for the home stander doing that happy hour

764
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:33,840
thing start at five o'clock today if you have a

765
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,400
ticket to the gaming and get a little bit early

766
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,440
and get started on the happy hour. But when you

767
00:38:37,519 --> 00:38:40,440
get in the ballpark, no mistake. And what makes the

768
00:38:40,559 --> 00:38:42,760
feel of the ballpark even better, that's grab an ice

769
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,840
cool Crawford box from our friends at car Bock Brewing.

770
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,639
The Tequila Sunride stripes on the can and on the

771
00:38:47,679 --> 00:38:50,800
signage all over the ballpark. I like that big tall

772
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,559
Crawford back can they have behind home plate there near

773
00:38:53,599 --> 00:38:56,280
the escalators when you come in the ballpark. But grab

774
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,199
yourself an ice cool Crawford block. You're heading out to

775
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,599
the ballpark this weekend at Dyke and Park and root

776
00:39:00,639 --> 00:39:03,440
on the Astros. It just goes better with Astros baseball.

777
00:39:03,519 --> 00:39:06,000
Let's hope the Astros win two out of three and

778
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,039
enjoy Crosford box from carbuck Berry.

779
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: It is eleven oh one here on Sports Talk seven

780
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,880
Hontiy Matt Thomas with you from Los Angeles Rockets and Linkers.

781
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,719
Tonight we'll have the broadcast for you. I believe we're

782
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,599
going to kt rhnin don't I don't even know where

783
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,199
Kate Terriach or seven ninety, I don't know which one

784
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,760
it is, but we're nine thirty. The other station will

785
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,880
have the astros on, and that was where Robert Ford

786
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,000
will be and he's a longtime friend and we usually

787
00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:32,119
have him on opening Day. But I was not working

788
00:39:32,199 --> 00:39:34,880
Opening day and I'm thinking, well, with Ross being gone,

789
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,599
i gotta get the voice on here. Robert Ford, you

790
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:41,239
have already been to see Attle once you're going on

791
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,119
the road back to Saint Louis. How about do you

792
00:39:43,119 --> 00:39:45,199
even know what a linky homestand is at this point?

793
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 6: I do not.

794
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 19: As a matter of fact, I just started packing after

795
00:39:50,199 --> 00:39:54,119
getting back what Wednesday night? So yeah, that's just the

796
00:39:54,159 --> 00:39:55,159
way it goes sometimes.

797
00:39:56,119 --> 00:39:59,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. Hey, I got an interesting question earlier

798
00:39:59,679 --> 00:40:02,079
today and I couldn't answer because I'm not around the

799
00:40:02,119 --> 00:40:04,119
team like you are to the level that you are.

800
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,239
Tell me about the relationship in general with hitting and

801
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,920
pitching coaches, about nuances, about time in the video room,

802
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,079
the subtleties, because you know, I think there's the lowest

803
00:40:17,119 --> 00:40:19,199
hanging fruit is if something doesn't go right, you have

804
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:20,920
to get rid of people. And I've never believed in

805
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,880
that under any circumstance. I think it's about the player.

806
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,280
But you are an opportunity to see a little bit

807
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,000
of that behind the scenes stuff. So what can you

808
00:40:27,159 --> 00:40:29,760
tell us about at a major league level, the role

809
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,480
of pitching and hitting coaches, about just getting guys out

810
00:40:33,519 --> 00:40:35,119
of slump or making subtle adjustments.

811
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,559
Speaker 19: Well, I mean those coaches, the hitting and pitching coaches

812
00:40:40,639 --> 00:40:43,599
probably are the ones who are the busiest on any

813
00:40:43,679 --> 00:40:48,239
team in any clubhouse, whether it's hitting coaches with guys

814
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,159
in the cage looking at video, pitching coaches obviously out

815
00:40:51,199 --> 00:40:53,800
there when guys are throwing bullpens, or even when the

816
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,480
pitchers are playing catch before the game just to see

817
00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:01,159
how guys are feeling. They are constantly and constantly on

818
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,639
the move. And you're right, at the end of the day,

819
00:41:04,679 --> 00:41:08,280
it comes down to the player getting the job done.

820
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,679
And it also comes down to when a player is

821
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,840
struggling to seek out the hitting or pitching coaches or

822
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,800
seek someone out who can who can help them. I

823
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,400
think that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.

824
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,840
Who may not be around a team on a regular basis,

825
00:41:25,199 --> 00:41:27,920
is a lot of times a hitting coach and pitching coach,

826
00:41:28,079 --> 00:41:30,280
or a pitching coach can see with you know, what's

827
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,760
going wrong with someone what somebody needs to adjust. But

828
00:41:34,079 --> 00:41:38,440
if that player is not interested in listening to that

829
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:42,440
coach at that given time, there's not really much that

830
00:41:42,559 --> 00:41:44,840
you can do as a coach in those situations.

831
00:41:46,159 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 6: You can it's a.

832
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 19: Little easier with younger players obviously than it is with

833
00:41:51,159 --> 00:41:54,199
with veteran players, but really with all players, it comes

834
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:58,679
down to they have to be ready to to to

835
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,079
listen to feedback and get information. I always think about

836
00:42:02,079 --> 00:42:04,320
something Brent Strom, who of course was the Astros pitching

837
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,480
coach for a long time, something he used to say,

838
00:42:06,519 --> 00:42:07,880
and I don't think he came up with it, but

839
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,000
I always liked this expression. He always said, when the

840
00:42:10,039 --> 00:42:13,199
student is ready, the teacher appears. And I think that's

841
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,320
what it really comes down to for hitting and pitching coaches.

842
00:42:16,559 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good some good insight. Robert Ford, the

843
00:42:18,559 --> 00:42:20,039
voice of the Astros, with us here on The Matt

844
00:42:20,079 --> 00:42:23,880
Thomas Show with Ross on seven ninety Cam Smith makes

845
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:27,239
the roster coming out of spring training, wide eyed and

846
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,840
bushy tailed, excited about it, and then the numbers haven't

847
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:31,519
been great. He's had what three hits in the last

848
00:42:31,559 --> 00:42:34,239
couple of days. What's it like watching him in the

849
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:36,440
small sample size, and I look Decendels played some right

850
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:39,679
field as well, but kind of watching him learning and

851
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:41,559
going through the growing pains right now, at least for

852
00:42:41,599 --> 00:42:43,320
the first twelve games of his major league career.

853
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,199
Speaker 19: Well you said it, I mean it's growing pains, and

854
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,199
this is something that he's never really had to deal with.

855
00:42:48,639 --> 00:42:51,000
I mean, only played thirty two games last year after

856
00:42:51,039 --> 00:42:54,320
getting trafted. I mean he was at Florida State, you know,

857
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,960
this time last year, So there's a there's a lot

858
00:42:57,079 --> 00:42:58,679
that has to be learned. And then you throw on

859
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,079
the fact that he moved from the infield to the

860
00:43:01,159 --> 00:43:03,880
outfield the last couple of weeks of spring training, So

861
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:05,920
there's been a lot thrown at Camp Smith, and honestly,

862
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,000
he's handled it all about as well as you could hope.

863
00:43:10,159 --> 00:43:12,800
And I think when it comes to playing right field,

864
00:43:13,119 --> 00:43:16,239
he's looked great out there. Honestly, he's looked very comfortable.

865
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 16: And talking with Dave Clark the other day, Ash was

866
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,440
first base coach who works a lot with the outfielders,

867
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,039
he said he described Smith to me as a sponge

868
00:43:25,199 --> 00:43:27,559
was the word he used, and he said that you

869
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:29,760
tell him something once and he's got it and he's

870
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:31,440
able to implement it.

871
00:43:32,079 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 19: That's what he's seen working with him on defense. And

872
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,079
actually had a conversation with Joe Spot a few days

873
00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:37,920
ago about.

874
00:43:38,079 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 6: Cam and I just asked him. I was like, hey,

875
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,320
you know what are you seeing and he said, you

876
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:42,559
know what.

877
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 19: The thing about Smith is, Yeah, he's struggling, but he

878
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,639
hasn't looked like he's overwhelmed. He hasn't looked like the

879
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,840
moment's too big for him or anything like that. He's

880
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,519
just just trying to figure it out. But it hasn't

881
00:43:53,519 --> 00:43:56,159
been a situation where he just looks over matter, overwhelmed.

882
00:43:56,159 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 6: And that's encouraging.

883
00:43:57,559 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 19: And it certainly seemed like the last couple of days

884
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,199
after sitting for the two days before that, he started

885
00:44:03,199 --> 00:44:03,920
to swing the bat.

886
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:04,280
Speaker 6: A little better.

887
00:44:05,079 --> 00:44:07,559
Speaker 1: Paridies and Walker were built for a minute made Park

888
00:44:08,159 --> 00:44:10,199
in particular, and they neither have not had a great

889
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,400
start offensively. What are you seeing from those two guys?

890
00:44:13,679 --> 00:44:16,280
As it just missed this as I know they and

891
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,079
I don't like this stat but I hear the XBA

892
00:44:18,159 --> 00:44:20,760
is incredible. But give me your thoughts on why those

893
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,400
guys have not been able to click just yet.

894
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 19: I think the biggest thing with Christian Walker is in

895
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:30,239
the game on Wednesday in Seattle, he walked twice, and

896
00:44:30,679 --> 00:44:34,960
that's after not having walked at all before Wednesday's game

897
00:44:35,079 --> 00:44:38,320
on the season, which was the most glaring thing. I mean,

898
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,960
the strikeouts were up, but to me, the lack of walks.

899
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,519
I mean, you're talking about someone who saw the tenth

900
00:44:43,639 --> 00:44:46,039
most pitches per played appearance of the big leagues last year,

901
00:44:46,079 --> 00:44:49,360
and he hadn't drawn a walk for the first, you know,

902
00:44:49,639 --> 00:44:52,480
eleven games of the season, So I think that's encouraging.

903
00:44:52,559 --> 00:44:54,719
He also and he did strike out in that game

904
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,880
as well, but he worked a count full and you know,

905
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,639
struck out in a pretty nasty pitch. So he's starting

906
00:45:00,639 --> 00:45:02,320
to see more pitches. So I think that's good for

907
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:06,039
Christian Walker. And he even mentioned in Minnesota about how, yeah,

908
00:45:06,079 --> 00:45:08,199
when you come over to a new team, you know,

909
00:45:08,519 --> 00:45:10,719
especially in his situation as a free agent sign a

910
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,639
big contract, you you know, it's kind of natural to

911
00:45:13,639 --> 00:45:15,519
put a little pressure on yourself. You want to show

912
00:45:15,559 --> 00:45:17,719
what you can do, you want to prove that you

913
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,320
you you're worth what they're paying you. But I think

914
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,480
we saw signs that that Walker may may start to

915
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,400
be figuring some things out. As for Parades. I mean

916
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:31,119
he has hit so many loud foul balls. I mean

917
00:45:31,199 --> 00:45:34,480
he is just missing pitches right now, like just out

918
00:45:34,519 --> 00:45:37,920
in front, still seeing a lot of pitches, still having

919
00:45:38,079 --> 00:45:40,360
very good plate appearances. You know, he was number one,

920
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:43,400
you mentioned Walker was tenth Parades, was number one in

921
00:45:43,519 --> 00:45:45,559
terms of pitches for plate appearance in the big leagues

922
00:45:45,639 --> 00:45:49,519
last year, and that certainly has carried over. But it

923
00:45:49,599 --> 00:45:52,840
seems like he's just maybe just a click off. And

924
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,840
sometimes with guys like that, it takes it can take

925
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,639
one game, one swing to kind of get them back

926
00:45:58,679 --> 00:46:00,400
to where they need to be and all so like

927
00:46:00,639 --> 00:46:03,559
on the defensive side for Parades, I hadn't heard, not

928
00:46:03,639 --> 00:46:05,119
that I'd heard bad things about him, but I had

929
00:46:05,199 --> 00:46:05,800
heard great.

930
00:46:05,639 --> 00:46:08,039
Speaker 6: Things about him defensively. But he's he's been.

931
00:46:08,159 --> 00:46:09,760
Speaker 19: He's better than I thought he would be over at

932
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,719
third base, honestly, very sure handed, handles everything that he.

933
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 6: Can get to. He's been a pleasant surprise for me

934
00:46:16,519 --> 00:46:17,440
on the defensive end.

935
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,159
Speaker 1: Visiting with Robert Ford for a couple more minutes here

936
00:46:20,199 --> 00:46:23,880
on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross here from Los Angeles. Robert,

937
00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:28,480
it was such an even keeled clubhouse for all these years,

938
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,320
never too high, never too low, and look five and

939
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,920
seven is nothing in the big picture of things. But

940
00:46:34,119 --> 00:46:36,679
you don't have Tucker anymore, you don't have Bregman, you

941
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,719
don't have Presley. I mean this, there are some veteran

942
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:43,400
influences that are now elsewhere. Is have you noticed anybody

943
00:46:43,519 --> 00:46:45,599
taking that next step up? Or is that just kind

944
00:46:45,639 --> 00:46:48,000
of going to be organic? And when you start seeing

945
00:46:48,039 --> 00:46:50,239
guys be a little more demonstrative, it's maybe because the

946
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,599
season is a little more impactful and you're looking for

947
00:46:52,679 --> 00:46:54,159
guys to kind of take over and be all those

948
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:57,119
leadership roles that obviously Breggs and Tucker some other folks did.

949
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,199
Speaker 19: I've seen some little things, I mean, I think, uh,

950
00:47:01,639 --> 00:47:03,559
I mean, you know, I've noticed that, you know, Christian

951
00:47:03,639 --> 00:47:07,760
Walker has been in almost every mound meeting when the

952
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,719
pitching coach goes out there, and a lot of times

953
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,559
even when it's just a catcher who goes out there.

954
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,800
You know, it's a small thing, but I think especially

955
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:17,360
for someone who you know, has a track record but

956
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:21,360
is new to the Astros, it's certainly noticeable. So you know,

957
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,960
I've definitely noticed that. I think Peynya probably has stepped

958
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,239
it up a little bit, he's probably a little more comfortable,

959
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,840
maybe not necessarily as a as a big time vocal leader,

960
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,079
but I think certainly leading by example. I mean, he

961
00:47:34,679 --> 00:47:37,079
and al Touve to me are the hardest workers on

962
00:47:37,159 --> 00:47:39,880
this team, the guys at least that I see who

963
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,039
are out there. Not to discount anybody else, but those

964
00:47:42,079 --> 00:47:44,119
are the two guys that stand out for me in

965
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:45,960
terms of the work they put in. And then you

966
00:47:46,079 --> 00:47:49,280
just think about what Altuve has done. You know, didn't

967
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,480
he could have said you and the Astros approach him

968
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,320
about moving to the outfield. He could have just said no,

969
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:55,760
I want to say at second base, and that that

970
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,039
would have That's what would what what would have happened.

971
00:47:58,119 --> 00:48:01,480
But for him to be well to switch to the outfield,

972
00:48:02,159 --> 00:48:06,199
be willing to potentially embarrass himself, be willing to maybe

973
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,199
potentially fail more than he has in the past, I

974
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,519
think that says that speaks volumes. I mean, if that's

975
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not leadership, I don't.

976
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Speaker 1: Know what is. All right, Robert, Lastly, let's get to

977
00:48:18,079 --> 00:48:20,400
what it has been like just being with his team

978
00:48:20,519 --> 00:48:23,280
right now. Twelve games end of the season, mentioned a

979
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,039
lot of road trips so far. We're also talking about

980
00:48:26,639 --> 00:48:29,280
a situation where you've got a lot of young men

981
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:31,440
who are trying to play for playing time. Brendan Rodgers

982
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,639
probably wasn't on the radar even a month before the

983
00:48:33,679 --> 00:48:36,039
start of the season. He's playing some times at the

984
00:48:36,119 --> 00:48:38,960
Central's getting some movement. Are you as curious about what

985
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,920
the starting lineup is every day at this point or

986
00:48:42,079 --> 00:48:43,840
is that a situation where you think Joe is just

987
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,360
trying to kind of figure out what fits right now.

988
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,280
Speaker 19: Yeah, I think it's a situation where he's just trying

989
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,199
to figure out what fits, because I mean it's a

990
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,880
combination of things. One, you have a lot more turnover

991
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,360
from last year this year than the Ashers had in

992
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,519
quite some time, so a lot of guys to kind

993
00:49:03,559 --> 00:49:06,239
of figure out. And then also the team's gotten off

994
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,880
to a slow start offensively, and so not that you're

995
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,480
trying to reinvent the wheel, like he's been pretty consistent

996
00:49:11,559 --> 00:49:13,559
with the top four hitters and things like that, but

997
00:49:14,039 --> 00:49:17,679
you're trying to get guys going and figure out where

998
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:20,920
guys are most comfortable and what works best for different

999
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,480
players in terms of how much they play, we're in

1000
00:49:23,559 --> 00:49:25,920
the lineup, they are things like that, So I think

1001
00:49:26,039 --> 00:49:29,960
there's just been a lengthy period of adjustment with this

1002
00:49:30,119 --> 00:49:33,320
ball club, particularly on the offensive end, which is so

1003
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,239
many new position players compared to years past.

1004
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:38,880
Speaker 1: Robert, great hearing your boys, But man, I will be

1005
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,880
out at the ballpark when the Rockets are done. Hopefully

1006
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:42,599
we will not be for a significant long period of time.

1007
00:49:42,639 --> 00:49:44,559
And we thank you for joining me on the show today.

1008
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me and Bill Rockets.

1009
00:49:48,199 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: You get that right, thank you when I played that

1010
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,800
next Thank you, Robert Ford, boy said the astros. Whether

1011
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:56,559
it's here on Sports Talk seven ninety eight is eleven

1012
00:49:56,639 --> 00:49:59,519
twelve here on the program, Anthony and deer Park wants

1013
00:49:59,519 --> 00:50:02,039
to talk some right, because we'll get to him coming

1014
00:50:02,119 --> 00:50:05,039
up at the bottom of the hour. We need to

1015
00:50:05,039 --> 00:50:09,679
say I'm sorry. This is people who do you need

1016
00:50:10,079 --> 00:50:15,039
to apologize to? It's very simple. Who oh who is

1017
00:50:15,159 --> 00:50:18,199
owed an apology? Let us know bottom of the hour

1018
00:50:18,639 --> 00:50:27,519
seven one three, two, one two five seven niney all right,

1019
00:50:27,599 --> 00:50:34,519
eleven seventeen. Excuse me, you can't tell I'm sick as

1020
00:50:34,519 --> 00:50:39,119
a dog. The power through it. Only two hours and

1021
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:42,719
forty three minutes left. Mm hmmm, We're gonna make it.

1022
00:50:43,079 --> 00:50:44,840
Then anything goes Friday, which means you get to call

1023
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:47,880
in with anything you want, and you get as much

1024
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,159
leeway as humanely possible, because the less the more you talk,

1025
00:50:51,199 --> 00:50:54,760
the less I do. And I'd appreciate that I've got.

1026
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:56,280
I'm sorry, he's coming up at the bottom of the hour.

1027
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:57,559
What do you want me to apologize for? If you

1028
00:50:57,599 --> 00:50:58,800
get something you want to apologize for?

1029
00:50:58,960 --> 00:50:59,159
Speaker 6: Seven?

1030
00:50:59,199 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: One, three, two one you five seven And that's coming

1031
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:04,239
up at the bottom of the hour, Anthony and deer

1032
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,599
Park has been patiently waiting to talk some rockets. Anthony,

1033
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:08,440
good morning, and thank you for holding.

1034
00:51:09,119 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 11: Hey, good morning, Matt. I'm also under the weather, so

1035
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,639
I figured i'd get in here and sup with you

1036
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:15,679
for a few seconds.

1037
00:51:16,079 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 6: Thank you.

1038
00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:19,079
Speaker 11: I do want to get to the rockets, but if

1039
00:51:19,119 --> 00:51:24,159
I may, first, of all the negatives that we've seen

1040
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:28,559
from the Astros, I would just like to uh give

1041
00:51:28,679 --> 00:51:32,559
Brian King his dues. I think every time Joe Spott

1042
00:51:32,559 --> 00:51:35,039
has called on him, he's answered the bell and he

1043
00:51:35,119 --> 00:51:38,079
has been phenomenal out of the bullten for the Astros.

1044
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,039
Speaker 1: And you know, honestly, Anthony, there will be times where

1045
00:51:42,039 --> 00:51:45,039
Brian King doesn't come through. You know, Minderal relievers are cyclical,

1046
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,559
and the problem is you have one bad performance and

1047
00:51:47,559 --> 00:51:49,239
all of a sudden, the Eeri spikes up a lot.

1048
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,920
So at this point he has been a go to

1049
00:51:52,079 --> 00:51:53,960
guy and there's been very few of those mineral relievers

1050
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,519
that the Astros been able to li on. And so

1051
00:51:56,639 --> 00:51:58,280
Brian King shout out to you, it's a very good

1052
00:51:58,280 --> 00:51:59,320
assessment on your part.

1053
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,119
Speaker 4: As far as the Rockets go.

1054
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 11: I don't know if if it's the same for you,

1055
00:52:05,039 --> 00:52:10,840
but that game against Golden State, it it kind of

1056
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:14,280
changed my perspective of the Rockets a little bit. I

1057
00:52:16,159 --> 00:52:21,639
know they're they're talented enough to beat anybody, but watching

1058
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:25,159
the way that they handled that game, and that's as

1059
00:52:25,199 --> 00:52:27,519
close to a playoff game as you're gonna get without

1060
00:52:27,559 --> 00:52:31,400
being in the playoffs, and just the way Alpi stayed

1061
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,679
within himself and continue to play his game. And I

1062
00:52:35,039 --> 00:52:37,880
think the leadership of Fred van Vliet, I think this

1063
00:52:38,039 --> 00:52:41,719
team can really go and beat anybody in a seven

1064
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:44,920
game series. After watching that Golden State.

1065
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:50,800
Speaker 1: Game, here's my completely perspective on this. And this is

1066
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:54,320
because the Western Conference has been so filthy close between

1067
00:52:55,679 --> 00:52:59,440
really two and eight this year. If anybody wants to

1068
00:52:59,519 --> 00:53:01,519
do any think they're going to be foolish to do it.

1069
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,199
Anybody can beat anybody. I think I think an eight

1070
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,239
can beat a one. Well, I mean maybe, I think maybe,

1071
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:11,159
and maybe not a seven could beat a two. The

1072
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:13,280
Rockets could win the series, they could also lose it.

1073
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:15,599
Six to three is going to be a coin flip.

1074
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:17,639
Four five is gonna be a coin flip. Because again

1075
00:53:17,679 --> 00:53:20,559
we're talking about these games, these teams being separated by

1076
00:53:20,639 --> 00:53:25,199
time breakers. They're all about the same record. So yeah,

1077
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:30,840
there's nobody I'm scared of, but also there are probably

1078
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:33,079
other teams send the exact same thing about the Rockets.

1079
00:53:33,159 --> 00:53:35,119
Rockets two seed, well then they have been there before.

1080
00:53:35,119 --> 00:53:37,119
I haven't won the playoffs. They don't shoot very well.

1081
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,320
There are a lot about hustle, you know, they I.

1082
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 11: Just think I just think going into Golden State, you know,

1083
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,519
both teams have everything to play for. You know, Golden

1084
00:53:48,599 --> 00:53:51,199
State's fighting to stay out of the playing games. The

1085
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,840
Rockets are trying to wrap up the two seed, and

1086
00:53:54,199 --> 00:53:57,920
it's stampacked, it's loud. Draymond's doing what he does right

1087
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:00,960
and and the way A Men Thompson was able to

1088
00:54:01,079 --> 00:54:04,760
just completely take Steph Curry out of the game, it

1089
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:11,159
just it encouraged me because Golden State's playing the best

1090
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,079
basket I mean, some of the best basketball in the

1091
00:54:13,159 --> 00:54:15,199
NBA right now. I mean, they're they're one of the

1092
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:18,360
hottest teams in the league. And it just it just

1093
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:22,440
gave me that little sense of comfort. Now, obviously, I know,

1094
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:24,880
you know, the Rockets can also go lose the seven

1095
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:28,159
games series. It just it just showed me that these

1096
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:30,920
guys are going to be able to stay within themselves

1097
00:54:31,119 --> 00:54:33,320
in the toughest of environments.

1098
00:54:34,039 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: The reality is, Anthony, they have beaten Cleveland twice, Boston once,

1099
00:54:41,559 --> 00:54:46,119
Oklahoma City twice, Golden State twice. They have some character

1100
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,440
building wins on their resume. This wasn't not just beating

1101
00:54:49,559 --> 00:54:52,239
up on Utah, in Phoenix and Washington the entire season.

1102
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:52,639
Speaker 6: There are.

1103
00:54:55,119 --> 00:54:58,360
Speaker 11: Before I go, if I just want to hear kind

1104
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,960
of your perspective of you know, having you know, you

1105
00:55:01,119 --> 00:55:05,079
cover the team every single day. I just want to

1106
00:55:05,119 --> 00:55:10,519
hear your perspective of how important Fred van Vliet's leadership

1107
00:55:10,639 --> 00:55:13,880
and experiences to this team and take care of mat.

1108
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:15,000
I hope you get the filling better.

1109
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: Thank you, Anthony, I appreciate it. Yeah, if you guys

1110
00:55:17,519 --> 00:55:19,599
want to keep calling you save my Bacon, I would

1111
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:24,239
greatly appreciate that Fred VanVleet team missed him while he

1112
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:24,599
was going.

1113
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 6: That's for sure.

1114
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,159
Speaker 1: He is going to have a Knights where he's going

1115
00:55:29,239 --> 00:55:30,880
to shoot you into games. He's going to have Knights

1116
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,599
are going to shoot you out of games. But he's

1117
00:55:33,639 --> 00:55:37,320
a steady veteran influence. He's willing to guard anybody, and

1118
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:39,519
that may not be what you want ultimately, but he

1119
00:55:39,599 --> 00:55:41,280
can at least go against anybody. He's not a friend

1120
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:43,079
to go against the guys that are taller and bigger

1121
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:48,840
and stronger than he is. He's very calm, he's very

1122
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,159
much taking advantage of what's out there with him with

1123
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:55,400
the men Thompson and Jalen Green making trying to make

1124
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:58,400
those guys look as good as possible. He doesn't turn

1125
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:01,400
the ball over. And then the Knights where he shoots

1126
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:03,840
very really well. It's fun to see him do his thing.

1127
00:56:05,199 --> 00:56:07,480
But I don't think friend van Vliet has to make

1128
00:56:07,599 --> 00:56:09,199
five or six threes in a game in order for

1129
00:56:09,239 --> 00:56:12,079
the Rockets to win playoff series. He just has to

1130
00:56:12,199 --> 00:56:15,440
play as best he can defensively, run the offense and

1131
00:56:15,519 --> 00:56:18,639
not turn the ball over. And that's what he's done

1132
00:56:18,679 --> 00:56:22,800
for ninety eight percent of the season. So yeah, the

1133
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,239
Rockets missed Fred Vanvleem to a lesser extent, they missed

1134
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,159
Jabari Smith when he was out with that broken hand.

1135
00:56:29,159 --> 00:56:33,559
Defense matters in the postseason. It just does. And the

1136
00:56:33,639 --> 00:56:35,840
Rockets have been able to use their defense and their

1137
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:40,159
offensive rebounding to make them a team that is very

1138
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:43,760
well respected, a team that is going to be very

1139
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:46,400
physical with you. They're going to crash the offensive boards,

1140
00:56:47,079 --> 00:56:49,920
they are going to be in a situation where they're

1141
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:51,760
not going to let you have a free basket unless

1142
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:55,920
there's a defensive miscommunication. Dylan's going to get right in

1143
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,280
front of you. Alpi's going to do whatever he can.

1144
00:57:00,039 --> 00:57:00,079
Speaker 11: Be.

1145
00:57:00,199 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: The offensive side has been fun too. He's not afraid

1146
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,920
to go against Dramont, not afraid to go against Rudy Gobert,

1147
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:07,760
not afraid to go against Zaggiedy, some of those big centers.

1148
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:09,719
He has been able to go right after those guys

1149
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:10,960
and it's been fun to see him do that. And

1150
00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:14,519
he needs to continue to do that come postseason. I know,

1151
00:57:14,599 --> 00:57:15,760
by the way, the Rockets need to do a better

1152
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,519
jubber shooting free throws too. If I had hair, i'd

1153
00:57:19,599 --> 00:57:22,679
lose it again. After watching some of the Rockets miss

1154
00:57:22,719 --> 00:57:26,519
free throws and in close games it's gonna make a difference.

1155
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,719
So they've been around seventy fourth seventy three percent the

1156
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:34,719
entire year. That's a dead lass in the NBA. So

1157
00:57:35,559 --> 00:57:39,159
gotta get better at that. And part of that is

1158
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:42,119
Alpi is if you watch Alpi, he leans into the

1159
00:57:42,239 --> 00:57:44,599
shot sometimes at the free throw line and if that's

1160
00:57:44,639 --> 00:57:47,639
a nervous tick or whatever the case would be, but

1161
00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:50,440
he's not shooting it the same every single way. And

1162
00:57:50,519 --> 00:57:54,119
that's the reason why guys have troubles making their free throws.

1163
00:57:55,079 --> 00:57:57,840
Gotta make your free throws, especially in close, tight games.

1164
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:01,920
Time is at eleven twenty five here on the Matt

1165
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,039
Thomas Show with Ross Ross with the Day Off listen.

1166
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:07,639
You owe people an apology.

1167
00:58:08,719 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 8: You just do.

1168
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: I want you to call this show and say you're

1169
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:17,519
sorry to people. Seven one three two one two five

1170
00:58:17,639 --> 00:58:21,400
seven ninety seven to one three two one two five

1171
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:26,760
seven nine zero. On Twitter, it's at sports Empty. Send

1172
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:27,920
us a note there. If you want to send me

1173
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:29,559
a tweet saying you're sorry to somebody, I'll read it

1174
00:58:29,599 --> 00:58:31,000
for you. But better yeah, I read that you talk,

1175
00:58:32,159 --> 00:58:34,360
because that means lest time for me seven one three

1176
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:38,800
two one two five, seven ninety. It is a sorry Friday.

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Come in here and tell some people you're sorry. Next

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here on seven ninety. Thank you for listening to Sports

1179
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Talk seven ninety on. Anything goes Friday. So what I

1180
00:58:47,599 --> 00:58:49,559
did on the Good Morning Strippers, I went down an

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00:58:49,599 --> 00:58:51,880
octave usually go up because I figured out my vose

1182
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was gonna crack. I still gave you link on that.

1183
00:58:57,599 --> 00:58:59,280
You probably can cold that too, it's for now.

1184
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:02,119
Speaker 12: I was gonna say, hey, that was a really good

1185
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I liked it. That was nice.

1186
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 1: I figured you were happy with that.

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00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:07,599
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right?

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00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:12,199
Speaker 1: Uh seven one three two one two five, seven ninety

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00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:15,840
I went seven seventeen point two five seconds. Oh okay,

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00:59:18,039 --> 00:59:20,039
Bourbon and Baseball had me at seventeen point twenty five.

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00:59:20,079 --> 00:59:23,840
That's not terrible. I can go to I'm twenty or

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00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:24,760
twenty five I need to.

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Speaker 12: But does it sound like it?

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00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 1: Oh, you're right, you're right. I'm a sad sack. I

1195
00:59:33,559 --> 00:59:35,119
gotta be honest with you. All right, let's get to

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the news at noon. Normally Ross handles this, but he

1197
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,599
is out today, so I'm going to handle the news

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00:59:47,679 --> 00:59:50,360
at noon and the news at noon. We'll start locally

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00:59:50,519 --> 00:59:53,599
with the Astros starting a three game series with the

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00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:58,639
hated Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Renelle Blanco is going

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00:59:58,719 --> 01:00:02,400
to throw today with an ERAM nine point four five

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01:00:03,599 --> 01:00:11,280
something called Jack kochanowitch ko c h A. N o

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01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:17,639
wic Z is pitching for the Halos. He's want to zero.

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01:00:18,519 --> 01:00:22,599
He's pitched eleven innings, given up eight hits, eight strikeouts,

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01:00:22,679 --> 01:00:25,719
three walks, and who he's given up three home runs. Okay,

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01:00:26,199 --> 01:00:28,079
maybe this will be Christian Walker's nine. Maybe it'll be

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01:00:28,159 --> 01:00:31,920
Renelle Blanco getting some offensive support. I'm all four it.

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01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,840
Josel two as your home run leader with three, Jordan

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01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:39,880
Avarez has one's batting averages one ninety five. Things have

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got to change Angels and Astros tonight, all right. Also,

1211
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the Rockets are in action this evening, taking on the

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Los Angeles Lakers that'll be at the Crypto dot Com Arena.

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I expect to see many more starters play tonight than

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01:00:57,119 --> 01:01:02,679
they played against the Clippers on when Lakers need one

1215
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:05,719
more victory to clinch the three spot in the West.

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01:01:06,199 --> 01:01:08,639
The Rockets have clinched the number two spot already in

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01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,519
the West themselves, but there is a massive jumble mess

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01:01:11,599 --> 01:01:17,639
between five, six, seven, eight in the West with games tonight.

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01:01:18,079 --> 01:01:20,239
Nobody in the NBA is playing tomorrow, I don't think,

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and then everybody's playing in the afternoon on Sunday. So

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01:01:23,079 --> 01:01:25,559
games besides the Rockets and Lakers you should pay attention to.

1222
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:29,280
One of them would be the game between the Nets

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and the timber Wolves. Wolves would be heavy favorites against

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Brooklyn's mailing get in. The Grizzlies Nuggets game is going

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01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:39,559
to be very interesting. And then you have let's see

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01:01:39,559 --> 01:01:42,639
what else, Warriors Trailblazers should be interesting, and Clippers are

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at the Kings. Two games left to go in the season,

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and at this point we still have no earthly idea

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01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:51,679
who the Rockets are going to play come playoff time.

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It could be a variety of teams. It could be

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01:01:54,199 --> 01:01:55,800
as little. It could be let me tell you who

1232
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could be Minnesota, Memphis could be Golden State, the Clippers

1233
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could be Denver. I don't think it's gonna be the

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Ali Lakers. So basically, you've got five teams fighting for

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that seven that stay out of the playing game which

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01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:13,639
the Rockets will play the winner of. And right now,

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if the playoffs will start today, the seven eight matchup

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would be Minnesota at Memphis. Memphis right now the seventh seed.

1239
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Golden State, who I don't want to see the PLA

1240
01:02:21,559 --> 01:02:24,760
at all until I have to, is currently the sixth seed,

1241
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but they are tied with Minnesota and Minnesota in a

1242
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three way tie, all at forty seven wins and thirty

1243
01:02:33,559 --> 01:02:39,760
three losses. At FL news today, Jalen Petrie has himself

1244
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:43,480
a brand new contract. Congratulations to him. He signed a

1245
01:02:43,599 --> 01:02:49,320
three year contract extension for thirty nine million dollars. So

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01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:53,519
the Texans continue to spend serious cash on members of

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01:02:53,519 --> 01:02:56,400
their defense. We had Derek Stingley Junior already get his

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01:02:56,519 --> 01:02:58,960
money as well in the off season, and now Jalen

1249
01:02:59,039 --> 01:03:02,400
Petrie getting himself new extension. So Jalen Peatrie now has

1250
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:07,199
a three year deal worth thirty nine million dollars. So

1251
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:10,800
Stingley and Petrie two fourths half of your secondary are

1252
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:14,920
locked and loaded for the long term. All right, other things,

1253
01:03:16,519 --> 01:03:19,800
the Masters is being played right now, and let me

1254
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:22,840
tell you who is winning that event. Let's see here

1255
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:27,239
you've got Let's see here. Justin Rose is atop the

1256
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:30,639
leader board. He is at minus eighties minus one through today.

1257
01:03:30,679 --> 01:03:35,079
He's played fifteen holes. Bryson de Chambeau is one back

1258
01:03:35,159 --> 01:03:38,639
at minus seven. He's four under for the day. Then

1259
01:03:38,679 --> 01:03:42,679
you have in third place you have Matt McCarty who's

1260
01:03:42,679 --> 01:03:45,960
a minus six. And then you've got a player I've

1261
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:49,199
never heard of. Sung j m is also in a

1262
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:52,559
time for third. Other players you would know, Scotty Scheffler

1263
01:03:52,679 --> 01:03:55,440
today has not ted off. He is at minus four.

1264
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:58,599
He has set the tee off in about fifteen minutes.

1265
01:04:00,639 --> 01:04:04,360
Rory McElroy is minus two today through ten, he's minus

1266
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:10,400
two for the tournament. And Dickie Matsui Matziyama, I should say,

1267
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:14,039
is minus one. To anybody else you guys have recognized.

1268
01:04:14,079 --> 01:04:19,159
Freddy Couples is even. Jordan Speeth is plus one. He

1269
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:20,960
is yet the t offf He will tee off today

1270
01:04:21,559 --> 01:04:24,880
in about twenty three minutes. The projected cut right now

1271
01:04:25,039 --> 01:04:27,599
is plus one, and those in the outside looking it

1272
01:04:27,639 --> 01:04:31,960
would be Bernard Longer, Zach Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson

1273
01:04:32,079 --> 01:04:36,119
is a plus three. And that's in terms of the

1274
01:04:36,119 --> 01:04:37,840
guy that I think you guys recognized.

1275
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:37,639
Speaker 11: So a.

1276
01:04:37,719 --> 01:04:40,159
Speaker 1: Jose Maria old Thabo is a plus seven so far,

1277
01:04:41,079 --> 01:04:44,000
and there you go. There is your master's update here

1278
01:04:44,599 --> 01:04:47,079
on the radio program. All right, and that's the news

1279
01:04:47,119 --> 01:04:50,000
at noon today. Here at twelve twelve, we have Craig

1280
01:04:50,039 --> 01:04:52,239
Akerman to go to join us next and the next

1281
01:04:52,599 --> 01:04:54,440
two segments. At twelve thirty, he'll join us to talk

1282
01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:57,079
to some rockets basket. He right now is at rocket

1283
01:04:57,119 --> 01:04:59,199
shoot around and getting ready for the game against the Lakers.

1284
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:01,000
He may have it's gonna be with us at one

1285
01:05:01,199 --> 01:05:03,239
thirty today to talk some rockets with him as well.

1286
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:05,480
So a lot of rocket chatter coming up. We've talked

1287
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:07,239
a lot about the Astros so far. We had Robert

1288
01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:08,920
four with us earlier today. I hope you caught that,

1289
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:13,280
and we have uh, anything goes Friday, which means you

1290
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:15,800
get to talk and I don't get two. That's the

1291
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:18,000
blessing of it. Anything goes Friday. Say what you want

1292
01:05:18,039 --> 01:05:21,159
to say. I'll bow out because I'm holding on for

1293
01:05:21,239 --> 01:05:23,000
dear life. I got a minute, an hour and forty

1294
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:26,320
eight minutes left of this Friday edition of the show.

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01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:30,960
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

1296
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:33,800
one three two one two five seven ninety Is it?

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01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:36,599
Anything goes Friday, whether you be on a astrosm chatter,

1298
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:39,199
whether it be about the Rockets playoffs coming up. Whether

1299
01:05:39,199 --> 01:05:41,360
it be about Jalen Petri getting a new deal, all

1300
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:43,599
that is fair game here on the show. Whether it's

1301
01:05:43,719 --> 01:05:45,599
master's chatter, you can do all that if you want to.

1302
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:49,000
Between now and two o'clock, anything goes Friday seven one three,

1303
01:05:49,239 --> 01:05:53,119
two one two five, seven ninety. I politely ask you

1304
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:57,280
to please call and talk to me, because, as Joe

1305
01:05:57,480 --> 01:05:59,760
name and said once in a long time ago, I'm

1306
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:04,960
TH's reggling twelve twelve on seven ninety. All right, Craig

1307
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,519
Akerman's gonna join us in the next segment of the show.

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01:06:07,719 --> 01:06:12,480
He's twelve seventeen. We may took up with us at

1309
01:06:12,519 --> 01:06:14,880
one thirty one none full of stories at one twenty,

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01:06:16,239 --> 01:06:19,480
and then we'll say goodbye to that. Hey, I don't

1311
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,800
know how much you guys and ladies following nil stuff.

1312
01:06:23,559 --> 01:06:26,719
I don't know if you're exhausted by it, or you're

1313
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:31,199
intrigued by it, or you're sickened by it. But there

1314
01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:36,840
is a really bizarre situation going on right now at

1315
01:06:37,079 --> 01:06:42,360
the University of Tennessee. They have a quarterback named Nico.

1316
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:45,280
I am a Leva. I believe it's how you pronounce it,

1317
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:50,119
don't hold me to that, all right. Apparently this morning

1318
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:54,599
he did not show up at practice today spring practice

1319
01:06:56,159 --> 01:07:01,320
after reports of his NIL negotiations surfaced, a source with

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01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:06,079
direct knowledge to the situation telling the Knoxville News, I

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01:07:06,199 --> 01:07:08,800
am a If I'm pronouncing it right, I Am A

1322
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:12,159
Leva's absence from practice was a surprise to coaches and players,

1323
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:16,199
and it tosses the off season in terminial, especially because

1324
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:18,480
I Am A Leva's team leadership has been a focus

1325
01:07:18,519 --> 01:07:23,760
since practice. There are now questions of whether I Am

1326
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:29,519
A Leva will attend or participate in Tennessee's Orange and

1327
01:07:29,599 --> 01:07:35,280
White spring game tomorrow at Neiland Stadium. If I Am

1328
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:37,280
A Leva does not play in the spring game, red

1329
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:41,440
shirt quarterbacks Jake mer merk Linger in freshman George McIntyre

1330
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:48,679
will replace him. So apparently, on Thursday, I Am A

1331
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:52,880
Leva is negotiating a new multi million dollar NIL deal

1332
01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:56,800
just ahead of the transfer portal opening. He's like, the

1333
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:59,440
portal opens, but I don't want to go into it

1334
01:07:59,559 --> 01:08:04,840
because I'm going to get my money at Tennessee. In

1335
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:09,719
twenty twenty two, I am Aliva signed an NIL contract

1336
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:13,239
which paid him more than two million dollars per year

1337
01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:17,479
and that helped the five star recruit go to play

1338
01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:23,119
at Tennessee. But the market has now changed and now

1339
01:08:23,319 --> 01:08:27,079
you can get more than two million dollars. I am

1340
01:08:27,159 --> 01:08:30,119
a Leva, I hope I'm pronouncing it right has not

1341
01:08:30,239 --> 01:08:33,880
commented on the situation, but his absence or practice at

1342
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:39,399
Leafs give the optics of a holdout. Apparently, I Am

1343
01:08:39,399 --> 01:08:42,079
a Leva's representative is one of the nil pay increased

1344
01:08:42,119 --> 01:08:46,399
to four million dollars using the possibility of him entering

1345
01:08:46,439 --> 01:08:53,119
the transfer portal as leverage. Miami's Carson Beck, Duke's Darren

1346
01:08:53,520 --> 01:09:00,640
Mensa have gotten close to four million dollars, and apparently

1347
01:09:01,039 --> 01:09:03,840
I Am a Leave's dad has not responded for a

1348
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:05,760
request for comment to the local paper.

1349
01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:09,359
Speaker 6: He did.

1350
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:13,119
Speaker 1: The dad did put on social media more games being

1351
01:09:13,159 --> 01:09:18,039
played off the field than on the field. Nako's the

1352
01:09:18,119 --> 01:09:20,600
reporter from on three Sports called and asked me directly.

1353
01:09:20,720 --> 01:09:22,279
I told him I had no idea on what he's

1354
01:09:22,319 --> 01:09:26,079
talking about. He said, his close source that he trusts

1355
01:09:26,079 --> 01:09:28,239
with his life from University of Tennessee staff gave him

1356
01:09:28,279 --> 01:09:31,479
this information. See, y'all can ask them what's going on

1357
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:38,760
because it ain't from us. So apparently ladies and gentlemen

1358
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:45,279
to be a quarterback at I high end college like Tennessee.

1359
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:51,680
Two million dollars is not enough. And that apparently I

1360
01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:55,319
am a Leva wants four million dollars or what other

1361
01:09:55,399 --> 01:10:06,920
guys are getting. It is absolutely crazy to me. Excuse me, I.

1362
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:12,600
Speaker 17: Got you, matt Oh, thanks, gordy Ia malaiava Ili malayava

1363
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:18,760
Ia malaiyava Ela malaiava Ia Malaiova and.

1364
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:21,560
Speaker 1: Whatever I'm rearely able to sp me only be able

1365
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:23,640
to speak at this point. Okay, So what am I

1366
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:26,560
missing on this? He just wants a cash grap correct. Yeah.

1367
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:29,239
Speaker 17: When he originally signed with Texas it was A or

1368
01:10:29,359 --> 01:10:32,760
Tennessee it was a It was a deal for eight

1369
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:35,520
million dollars and I all through his junior year, and

1370
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:37,479
so he's going into his junior year, so they want

1371
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:38,520
to rework the deal.

1372
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:42,800
Speaker 6: Now.

1373
01:10:44,359 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 1: Not helping Tennessee's cause is they draw one hundred and

1374
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:49,319
ten thousand people per game? Correct?

1375
01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:50,079
Speaker 12: Yeah.

1376
01:10:50,119 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 17: And the other part of this too is he was

1377
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:54,159
a five star quarterback. He was the number two quarterback

1378
01:10:54,279 --> 01:10:56,680
right before Arch or right behind Arch, and much of

1379
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:58,520
that recruiting process he was the head of Arch.

1380
01:10:58,560 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 12: He was thought to be the number one guy.

1381
01:11:00,520 --> 01:11:03,039
Speaker 17: So I think a lot of Tennessee fans are looking

1382
01:11:03,039 --> 01:11:05,439
at it, going, yeah, we like what you've done here.

1383
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:10,800
You've been good, but you haven't been elite elite, so

1384
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,359
what are they gonna do. I think they're kind of

1385
01:11:13,399 --> 01:11:15,640
calling this bluff here. I think they're saying, look, we've

1386
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:18,880
already paying you eight million, like we're not going to

1387
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:21,760
twelve million. But this is the weird error of like

1388
01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:24,880
contract renegotiations because it's like the NFL.

1389
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:29,319
Speaker 1: Now, you know what Ross say, Gordie, it's not even

1390
01:11:29,399 --> 01:11:32,119
sort of like the NFL. It is literally the NFL.

1391
01:11:32,359 --> 01:11:36,039
Every single year a player signs a one year contract.

1392
01:11:36,039 --> 01:11:37,640
At least in the NFL, you signed four or five

1393
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:40,359
year contracts Now, granted you can get those erased and

1394
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:44,600
you can release because they're not guaranteed, but in college

1395
01:11:44,800 --> 01:11:46,880
they're worth twelve months at a time.

1396
01:11:47,079 --> 01:11:49,279
Speaker 17: Right, Well, what I mean you got to do like

1397
01:11:49,399 --> 01:11:51,399
what A and M did when they were signing kids

1398
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:54,279
to nil deals. It was like it would come out

1399
01:11:54,319 --> 01:11:56,239
and be like they gave this kid eight million, but

1400
01:11:56,359 --> 01:11:58,680
it was two million per year each year you stayed,

1401
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:00,880
so it was basically two million in a year contract

1402
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,119
the more you stay at A and M, the more

1403
01:12:03,159 --> 01:12:05,239
you guarantee that money. But if you leave, you only

1404
01:12:05,319 --> 01:12:06,680
get what you got for that one year.

1405
01:12:08,399 --> 01:12:11,399
Speaker 1: And the money is coming for him is coming directly

1406
01:12:11,439 --> 01:12:16,239
from Boosters. Correct, the VALL collective or whatever, it's a collective,

1407
01:12:16,279 --> 01:12:21,680
which is Boosters. But now what's changed is the SEC

1408
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:25,039
revenue sharing landscape. Now these schools are allowed to share

1409
01:12:25,079 --> 01:12:27,479
the revenue from the TV contracts, which the SEC. It's

1410
01:12:27,520 --> 01:12:30,800
around twenty to twenty two million per school. So he's

1411
01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:31,359
gone give me.

1412
01:12:31,399 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 12: Some of that money, man.

1413
01:12:35,159 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 1: You know what, who does have the bargaining power? Now?

1414
01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:39,880
Speaker 12: I think both sides do.

1415
01:12:40,199 --> 01:12:42,840
Speaker 1: Both sides do. Because if he wants to not stay

1416
01:12:43,319 --> 01:12:46,479
at Tennessee and there are probably ten or fifteen schools

1417
01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:48,239
that can pay him what he wants, he can be

1418
01:12:48,239 --> 01:12:49,960
a starting quarterback in any place he wants to.

1419
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:53,520
Speaker 17: Yeah, and Josh Hipel has shown he's he's worked with,

1420
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:56,600
you know, really good quarterbacks from his time at UCF

1421
01:12:56,720 --> 01:12:59,159
to what he did with Hendon Hooker at Tennessee. And

1422
01:12:59,359 --> 01:13:02,000
I think Nico on that path, but it only he

1423
01:13:02,079 --> 01:13:04,439
only continues to develop. I think if he stays with Hypel,

1424
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:06,720
I don't know if he's gonna continue to get great

1425
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:07,960
coaching if he goes elsewhere.

1426
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:10,920
Speaker 1: So obviously, this is how I deduce it is that

1427
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:15,239
this kid is seeing what other guys are getting and

1428
01:13:15,319 --> 01:13:17,720
he's like, I'm better than those guys. It's time to

1429
01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:18,079
pay up.

1430
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:21,640
Speaker 17: Yes, And that's what makes us such a blessing for

1431
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:24,479
Texas is that Arch obviously grew up in a good

1432
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:27,600
household where his family has said, you're gonna do it,

1433
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:29,800
work your bust your ass, do everything you gotta do.

1434
01:13:30,039 --> 01:13:32,960
Like it's just kind of funny to see the contrast

1435
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:36,000
because Arch has been he's getting paid, but he's being

1436
01:13:36,079 --> 01:13:38,479
diligent about it, and he's waited his turn there a Texas,

1437
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:40,960
whereas these other guys are going pay me my money.

1438
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 1: Well, but Arch is the abnomber one because again he

1439
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:45,239
doesn't have to worry about money. And there's a lot

1440
01:13:45,279 --> 01:13:48,600
of kids out there in this country that they're their

1441
01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:50,560
way to take care of their family is through these

1442
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:51,319
Unio deals.

1443
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 17: But it's also know you're worth, and his worth is

1444
01:13:54,039 --> 01:13:55,720
worth way more than he's getting at Texas.

1445
01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 1: It's true. Is this I am Alov or whatever his

1446
01:13:59,039 --> 01:14:00,399
name is, he is he worth a dollar?

1447
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:01,520
Speaker 12: I Amaliava?

1448
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:01,640
Speaker 7: No?

1449
01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:05,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. I mean if they don't play them, if

1450
01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:08,479
he transfers, where is that football program today?

1451
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:10,600
Speaker 12: Well, I think you'd have a ton of suitors call it.

1452
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 17: I mean even schools that have their starting quarterback right

1453
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:16,479
now would say, well, we'll throw We'll throw a couple million.

1454
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:17,800
I mean, you know, just throw it out, Like the

1455
01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:20,880
Florida State schools like that. They they have a starting quarterback,

1456
01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:22,239
but they're like, Nico might be better.

1457
01:14:23,319 --> 01:14:24,640
Speaker 1: I amalia how about that?

1458
01:14:25,159 --> 01:14:26,039
Speaker 12: I amaliava?

1459
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:28,359
Speaker 1: E amali ava?

1460
01:14:29,239 --> 01:14:29,680
Speaker 12: You got it?

1461
01:14:30,079 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just saw your pronunciation. Thank you for that.

1462
01:14:33,199 --> 01:14:35,920
So Tennessee's gonna go to So they're going They've got

1463
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:39,359
this money that's sitting there that if the kid doesn't stay,

1464
01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:42,119
they can pay somebody else. But man, you're really risking

1465
01:14:42,199 --> 01:14:43,680
something spending a lot of money on a kid that

1466
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:46,359
hasn't been in your camp until now. April.

1467
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:47,800
Speaker 12: Well, here's the tough part too.

1468
01:14:47,880 --> 01:14:48,359
Speaker 6: The SEC.

1469
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:50,920
Speaker 17: I don't know if they've changed the rule, but the

1470
01:14:51,039 --> 01:14:53,439
rule they've been steadfast with the last two years was

1471
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:56,079
if you enter in the spring portal, you can't go

1472
01:14:56,199 --> 01:14:58,560
to another SEC school. It would have to be outside

1473
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:00,960
of the conference, so you know, and vice versa. If

1474
01:15:00,960 --> 01:15:03,359
you're a Tennessee player or you know, if you want

1475
01:15:03,399 --> 01:15:05,560
to go play football Tennessee, you can't come from another

1476
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:06,359
SEC school.

1477
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:12,319
Speaker 1: Man, it's dirty, but it's for the enterprise. It's what

1478
01:15:12,399 --> 01:15:14,880
the into went NFL freegency is. It's just it, you know,

1479
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:16,680
it's I guess it's not dirty. It's just what the

1480
01:15:16,840 --> 01:15:21,319
NFL does. And if any school can pay for it's Tennessee,

1481
01:15:22,079 --> 01:15:25,039
because I'm sure there are one hundred and ten thousand

1482
01:15:25,079 --> 01:15:27,600
people paying crazy amount of money that want to win,

1483
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:29,920
that want to play in the National Championship with a

1484
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:33,000
super competitive SEC with all the television dollars, they can

1485
01:15:33,039 --> 01:15:35,079
afford it. And that's what he's probably saying, you could,

1486
01:15:35,279 --> 01:15:35,960
you could afford this.

1487
01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 17: Hey, maybe we shouldn't adapt that here. I just won

1488
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:40,520
the Program Director of the Year award.

1489
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:42,399
Speaker 12: Can I read? Can I ask my bosses for more

1490
01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:42,800
money now?

1491
01:15:44,880 --> 01:15:47,960
Speaker 1: Craig Ackerman joins us in a matter of moment. Thanks

1492
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:50,279
for coming in on that and saving my.

1493
01:15:50,359 --> 01:15:52,000
Speaker 12: Voice anytime SEC talk.

1494
01:15:52,279 --> 01:15:54,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, I had I figured, I just I knew I

1495
01:15:54,279 --> 01:15:55,960
was butchering the name. I know you come help me out.

1496
01:15:56,720 --> 01:15:59,800
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

1497
01:15:59,800 --> 01:16:03,359
one three two one two five seven nine zero. The

1498
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:07,359
voice television voice of the Rockets, Craig Akerman, will join

1499
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:11,880
us next year on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one

1500
01:16:11,960 --> 01:16:16,840
three two one two five seven ninety. You know, Alfie's

1501
01:16:17,039 --> 01:16:21,760
English is significantly better, I mean massively improved since he

1502
01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:24,319
first became a Houston Rocket. Was the first press conference

1503
01:16:24,359 --> 01:16:26,079
he was at, and he can speaking lick English. He

1504
01:16:26,079 --> 01:16:29,279
doesn't very well know for himself. A man who's also

1505
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:33,039
a great oratory is the television voice of the Houston Rockets.

1506
01:16:33,079 --> 01:16:38,000
He joins us from a parts unknown where the Houston

1507
01:16:38,039 --> 01:16:40,880
Rockets are shooting around getting ready for tonight's game with

1508
01:16:41,199 --> 01:16:44,359
the Los Angeles Lakers. Craig akermanist where us. Craig, I

1509
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:47,680
had a caller earlier today said they needed to winning.

1510
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:49,640
You and I needed to switch because I don't feel

1511
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:51,840
good and I would do less talking on the television.

1512
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:53,760
I went on radio, so just give me the lads

1513
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:54,079
up on this.

1514
01:16:54,159 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 6: Wow, you'd actually dumb sound all that? That great? That

1515
01:16:57,960 --> 01:16:59,520
happened pretty quickly. How I'm sorry?

1516
01:17:00,159 --> 01:17:00,319
Speaker 13: Did?

1517
01:17:00,399 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, it hit me in the last second.

1518
01:17:03,159 --> 01:17:05,600
I went to bed at eight o'clock last night and

1519
01:17:06,159 --> 01:17:10,159
got up about every seventy five minutes. Wow, I'm sorry

1520
01:17:10,199 --> 01:17:13,680
to hear that, but the show must go on, mister Ackerman,

1521
01:17:14,600 --> 01:17:17,479
go on, shoot around. Just just did wrap. It was

1522
01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:19,640
a very quick one. I'm still here on the campus

1523
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:22,640
of UCLA, so are you at the Ackerman Student Center.

1524
01:17:24,159 --> 01:17:26,520
Speaker 16: I am not actually physically in the Ackerman Student Center,

1525
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:28,840
but I can throw a rock and hit it.

1526
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. We should explain that Craig is so famous at

1527
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:35,520
UCLA that they had named a student center after him there. Yep,

1528
01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:40,479
they have all Right, Hey, are you as obsessed with

1529
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:42,239
the standings as I am or not as much?

1530
01:17:44,039 --> 01:17:44,199
Speaker 20: Oh?

1531
01:17:44,279 --> 01:17:48,039
Speaker 16: I am completely obsessed because it's just trying to well.

1532
01:17:48,079 --> 01:17:50,600
I mean, look, ultimately the Rockets won't know who they're

1533
01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:52,439
going to play. It'll be down, it'll be whittled down

1534
01:17:52,479 --> 01:17:55,279
to basically two teams here pretty soon, you know wants

1535
01:17:55,319 --> 01:17:57,600
the play in tournament starts. But yes, I am obsessed

1536
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:00,159
in terms of who's going to finish where, who where

1537
01:18:00,159 --> 01:18:03,399
they ultimately could or could not play. And yeah, I

1538
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:05,279
do kind of keep an eye on it every single

1539
01:18:05,359 --> 01:18:06,600
night and had been for several weeks.

1540
01:18:07,239 --> 01:18:10,560
Speaker 1: And that's why I told a caller earlier today Craig

1541
01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:13,640
that even though the Rockets are a two seed, no

1542
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:15,640
matter who they play, it's not going to be a

1543
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,119
significant favor. Not that we should let Vegas aside, who's

1544
01:18:18,119 --> 01:18:20,039
going to happen what, But you could be taking on

1545
01:18:20,319 --> 01:18:22,840
theory five teams that are separated by one or two

1546
01:18:22,920 --> 01:18:24,920
games that could be as high as three or four

1547
01:18:25,359 --> 01:18:26,479
and as lower seven to eight.

1548
01:18:27,359 --> 01:18:29,399
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, I pretty much think everybody outside of

1549
01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:32,520
the Lakers in the thunder and then the Mavericks and

1550
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:35,520
the Kings are still in play for the Rockets, and

1551
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:37,720
then you know whether they win or lose this game

1552
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:41,600
here tonight. I guess this one doesn't technically matter in

1553
01:18:41,720 --> 01:18:43,840
terms of some of those other teams as much. But

1554
01:18:44,039 --> 01:18:47,039
depending upon how this one takes shape here tonight and

1555
01:18:47,119 --> 01:18:50,039
the one obviously on Sunday versus Denver, still so many

1556
01:18:50,079 --> 01:18:52,800
different scenarios to take place, obviously that big game, and

1557
01:18:53,119 --> 01:18:55,239
for the Clippers and the Warriors and the regular season.

1558
01:18:55,319 --> 01:18:58,399
I mean still again, so much, so much madness as

1559
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:00,640
of right now, with so many teams within a game

1560
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:02,279
game of one another.

1561
01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:04,239
Speaker 6: And I think what.

1562
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:10,000
Speaker 16: Minnesota crushed Memphis last night, and I don't think really

1563
01:19:10,039 --> 01:19:13,079
gained any space or spots and standing or something like that.

1564
01:19:13,159 --> 01:19:15,359
Speaker 6: It was it was very strange. So again, anything can happen.

1565
01:19:16,319 --> 01:19:18,520
Speaker 1: So if ema A Dooka said, Hey, come down to

1566
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:20,239
the bus with me, let's talk about who we want

1567
01:19:20,279 --> 01:19:22,760
to play, and how much we want to play tonight

1568
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:24,520
against Lakers and how much we want to do against Denver,

1569
01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:25,680
what would you be advised to him?

1570
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:28,760
Speaker 6: What would my advice to him be?

1571
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:33,520
Speaker 16: It's a they're trying to thread the needle here obviously

1572
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:35,520
between Rest versus Rus. But again they're going to have

1573
01:19:35,520 --> 01:19:38,760
a week off anyway in between games to begin with.

1574
01:19:39,119 --> 01:19:42,439
They have to do what they feels best for their players.

1575
01:19:43,079 --> 01:19:45,399
For it hasn't been one hundred percent obviously, you know,

1576
01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:47,760
a men has the ankle thing, you got to make

1577
01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:51,239
sure you're one hundred percent okay about. And so I

1578
01:19:51,359 --> 01:19:53,800
think that the goal ultimately is just to make sure

1579
01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:56,920
that these guys are completely and fully healthy, because regardless

1580
01:19:56,920 --> 01:19:58,239
of who they play in the first round, even if

1581
01:19:58,279 --> 01:19:59,920
the two seed, it's going to be a really really

1582
01:20:00,039 --> 01:20:02,920
tough matchup because there's some there are a lot of

1583
01:20:03,039 --> 01:20:05,239
really really good teams in the Western Conference. So I

1584
01:20:05,279 --> 01:20:07,319
think they're just kind of trying to thread the needle.

1585
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:09,760
And look, I mean, ultimately, if they do go with

1586
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:12,760
the similar lineup that we saw the other night in

1587
01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:14,680
LA against the Clippers, and like the one that we

1588
01:20:14,720 --> 01:20:15,960
saw in Oklahoma City, those.

1589
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:17,279
Speaker 6: Guys played super hard.

1590
01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:20,359
Speaker 16: They gave both teams a game, and so if they

1591
01:20:20,439 --> 01:20:24,239
decided to go with that particular group again here tonight,

1592
01:20:24,439 --> 01:20:26,760
I'm sure they're ultimately going to attempt to try to

1593
01:20:27,079 --> 01:20:29,359
try to win this game the best they can, but

1594
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:31,520
ultimately it's about being one hundred percent healthy and ready

1595
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:32,800
to go for the playoffs.

1596
01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:37,039
Speaker 1: Craig Acterman, television voice on Space Sydney Home Network with

1597
01:20:37,159 --> 01:20:38,600
us for a few minutes here on The Matt Thomas

1598
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:41,159
Show with Ross from Los Angeles, Greg, was there a

1599
01:20:41,239 --> 01:20:43,079
turning point in your mind this year where this team

1600
01:20:43,119 --> 01:20:46,239
went Okay, not only are they good, they're playoff good

1601
01:20:46,399 --> 01:20:47,520
and their top four good.

1602
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:56,159
Speaker 6: There's so many big wins this year, I think you

1603
01:20:56,239 --> 01:20:57,479
know what I mean.

1604
01:20:57,560 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 16: Early on in the season, the big win against Oklaho

1605
01:21:00,079 --> 01:21:05,520
the City, it was a pretty good sign that this

1606
01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:06,239
team was.

1607
01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:08,119
Speaker 6: Legit.

1608
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:12,319
Speaker 16: The road win at Memphis as part of the NBA

1609
01:21:12,399 --> 01:21:14,560
Cup play as well kind of made me feel like

1610
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:15,319
that they were.

1611
01:21:17,319 --> 01:21:17,640
Speaker 6: Legit.

1612
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:21,720
Speaker 16: But I think ultimately, maybe the the win on the

1613
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:26,239
road in Boston against the defending champions. I know a

1614
01:21:26,239 --> 01:21:28,640
lot of people probably picked the home win against the

1615
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:31,640
Warriors in the Cup games send them to Vegas as

1616
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:33,239
the biggest win of the season. For me, I thought

1617
01:21:33,279 --> 01:21:34,800
it was the one in Boston, and I think that's

1618
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:36,680
when I kind of realized that, you know what, this

1619
01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:38,960
team does have home court advantage in the first round,

1620
01:21:40,039 --> 01:21:43,880
not just potential but probable, and so to me, that

1621
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:46,000
was the one I think where I personally was ultimately

1622
01:21:46,399 --> 01:21:48,119
convinced that everything that we had seen up to that point,

1623
01:21:48,159 --> 01:21:49,720
which was really good from this team, was going to

1624
01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:51,039
continue to be really good the rest.

1625
01:21:50,920 --> 01:21:51,239
Speaker 12: Of the way.

1626
01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:55,239
Speaker 1: Rockets Craig beat the Warriors Sunday in San Francisco. They

1627
01:21:55,239 --> 01:21:57,319
had a lot to play for. They since have lost

1628
01:21:57,359 --> 01:22:02,119
to San Antonio. We have had lot terrible times in

1629
01:22:02,279 --> 01:22:04,039
San Francisco and in Houston.

1630
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:04,279
Speaker 11: For that matter.

1631
01:22:04,520 --> 01:22:08,399
Speaker 1: Telling me, oh my gosh, was there any thing that

1632
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:10,640
you've took away from that game, going maybe this isn't

1633
01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:13,960
your mom and Dad's World's Warriors scene from five years ago.

1634
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:17,079
Speaker 16: Well, what I took away from it was that this

1635
01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:21,560
particular Rockets team is and we already kind of kept

1636
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:23,000
seen it. We saw in the second half of last year.

1637
01:22:23,039 --> 01:22:26,159
We've seen it all year round this year that they're

1638
01:22:26,239 --> 01:22:29,239
just they're not going to allow anybody just to punch

1639
01:22:29,279 --> 01:22:31,199
them in the mouth and take it that. If somebody does,

1640
01:22:31,239 --> 01:22:33,399
they're going to punch them back. And oftentimes the Rockets

1641
01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:36,239
are the ones that hit first. And that's what I

1642
01:22:36,359 --> 01:22:38,720
ultimately took away from that game. I mean, this group

1643
01:22:38,760 --> 01:22:40,640
finally got over the hump. I mean, outside of Jeff Green,

1644
01:22:40,680 --> 01:22:42,399
nobody on this team had ever beaten Golden State up

1645
01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:45,920
until the point that they won that home game, and

1646
01:22:46,039 --> 01:22:48,880
then a lot of these guys hadn't ever won in

1647
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:51,479
San Francisco either up until the game a few days back,

1648
01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:54,159
and so I think psychologically for this group, they got

1649
01:22:54,880 --> 01:22:57,159
over a couple of humps against the team that they've

1650
01:22:57,199 --> 01:23:01,359
really struggled with, especially again this young core, and winning

1651
01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:03,640
on the road in that environment with everything that was

1652
01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:06,319
going on, was again another sign that this team is

1653
01:23:06,399 --> 01:23:09,760
just not going to back down against anybody. But that series,

1654
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:11,159
if they do happen to play the war is it's

1655
01:23:11,159 --> 01:23:13,279
going to be an absolute battle. I mean, I mean

1656
01:23:13,399 --> 01:23:15,279
with with Raymond Green and all of his stuff, and

1657
01:23:15,319 --> 01:23:17,479
then playing with you know, Dylan Brooks, and the men

1658
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:19,880
Thompson and App and Changoun not taking anything and the

1659
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:22,760
Rockets punching back and everything like that. That'll be that'll

1660
01:23:22,800 --> 01:23:25,920
be an absolute war if it happened to be the

1661
01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:26,760
first round matchup.

1662
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:30,479
Speaker 1: Craig go coming with us from UCLA. Rockets are warming

1663
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:32,479
up or shooting around, getting ready for tonight's game.

1664
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:34,239
Speaker 3: What do you.

1665
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:38,199
Speaker 1: When the Rockets were making those playoff runs? Aresa had

1666
01:23:38,239 --> 01:23:42,319
playoff experience, Chris Paul did, James Harden, Dwight Howard and

1667
01:23:42,399 --> 01:23:46,199
obviously Dylan and Fred have it, uh and Steven Adams

1668
01:23:46,199 --> 01:23:47,680
has it. But there's a lot of guys, a lot

1669
01:23:47,720 --> 01:23:51,239
of key guys, a Jabbari, a jalen on a men

1670
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:53,840
that don't know Atari, that don't know what the playoffs

1671
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:56,079
are all about. What do you think that EMA is

1672
01:23:56,119 --> 01:23:58,960
telling the guys about what they're about to experience here

1673
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:00,279
starting in about ten days now.

1674
01:24:01,319 --> 01:24:03,840
Speaker 16: Well, I think what they've been prepping these guys for

1675
01:24:04,119 --> 01:24:07,840
is that playoffs. Obviously the level of intensity turns up

1676
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:09,119
a notch, But this is the team that plays with

1677
01:24:09,159 --> 01:24:11,000
that kind of level of intensity anyway, So I think

1678
01:24:11,359 --> 01:24:13,800
they've already they're already used to sort of playing in

1679
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:18,520
that kind of environment. But look that the Vets and

1680
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:21,720
these coaches have gotted these young guys along extremely well

1681
01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:24,199
over the last couple of years. But the playoffs are

1682
01:24:24,199 --> 01:24:26,800
a different animal, and I think much like as players

1683
01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:30,439
grow and learn and mature in the regular season, there's

1684
01:24:30,479 --> 01:24:33,520
no substitute for experience in the playoffs, and so a

1685
01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:35,439
lot of these young guys will be facing this for

1686
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:38,199
the very first time in their careers. I think we'll

1687
01:24:38,239 --> 01:24:40,039
ultimately have to wait and see how each of them

1688
01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:42,800
respond to that kind of.

1689
01:24:44,359 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 6: That level of intensity in.

1690
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:48,439
Speaker 16: Those situations, especially if they happen to get messed up

1691
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:51,000
against a team like Golden State that has guys who

1692
01:24:51,039 --> 01:24:52,279
have won multiple championships.

1693
01:24:52,279 --> 01:24:54,039
Speaker 6: So we'll have to see how that all plays out.

1694
01:24:54,079 --> 01:24:56,520
Speaker 16: But I ultimately, again, I think their style of play,

1695
01:24:56,600 --> 01:25:01,239
the way they approach, the way they play teams with

1696
01:25:01,359 --> 01:25:06,239
such physicality, will ultimately prepare them for a playoff series.

1697
01:25:06,279 --> 01:25:09,439
But ultimately, again for the young guys, experience is something

1698
01:25:09,520 --> 01:25:11,520
that they're just going to have to learn on the fly.

1699
01:25:11,640 --> 01:25:13,960
And well, as we all know, the playoffs are a

1700
01:25:14,039 --> 01:25:16,520
process and typically you have to go through some pain

1701
01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:19,520
to experience some pleasure in this league, and so I'm

1702
01:25:19,560 --> 01:25:22,039
sure there'll be some of that, and again, hopefully their

1703
01:25:22,119 --> 01:25:24,560
talent and again everything they've been taught and the way

1704
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:26,279
they to play with all year long can kind of

1705
01:25:26,359 --> 01:25:28,159
overcome the lack of playoff.

1706
01:25:27,840 --> 01:25:29,159
Speaker 6: Experience for so many of these guys.

1707
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:32,439
Speaker 1: Very last thing you have been excuse me, you've been

1708
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:36,119
in La all week. You took a little side trip

1709
01:25:36,199 --> 01:25:38,039
to the Joshua Tree. How was that for the audience?

1710
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:38,920
Speaker 12: People?

1711
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:39,039
Speaker 4: Know?

1712
01:25:39,039 --> 01:25:41,720
Speaker 16: It's awesome? It was awesome, No, it was awesome. Yeah,

1713
01:25:41,720 --> 01:25:44,359
we had a couple of days off, so I went

1714
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:47,239
out to Joshua Tree National Park. You know, you know,

1715
01:25:47,319 --> 01:25:50,319
I enjoy hiking, and so it was just me nature

1716
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:53,840
and the desert, and it was awesome. It was really

1717
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:55,720
cool out there. I highly recommend anybody who get an

1718
01:25:55,760 --> 01:25:58,319
opportunity to go check that place out to check it out.

1719
01:25:58,319 --> 01:26:01,319
Although I will say that basically probably the middle of

1720
01:26:01,359 --> 01:26:05,199
April would be my recommendation for the latest that you

1721
01:26:05,359 --> 01:26:07,840
ultimately want to go there if you plan on doing

1722
01:26:07,880 --> 01:26:11,039
any sort of serious hiking, because it was already ninety

1723
01:26:11,119 --> 01:26:15,720
degrees and make sure you pack and bring plenty of waters,

1724
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:17,279
and it's about to get much hotter than that.

1725
01:26:17,439 --> 01:26:20,359
Speaker 6: So it was awesome. It was a really really cool experience.

1726
01:26:20,399 --> 01:26:24,640
Speaker 16: I really do like high desert landscapes, both in California

1727
01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:27,079
and Utah and Colorado and some of the other places

1728
01:26:27,119 --> 01:26:29,000
that I've been and had a chance to go hiking.

1729
01:26:29,039 --> 01:26:30,520
Speaker 6: But it was it was really cool. You should get

1730
01:26:30,520 --> 01:26:31,159
out there sometimes.

1731
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:34,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not gonna happen. Hey, well, at least I

1732
01:26:34,319 --> 01:26:34,880
does today.

1733
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:35,560
Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen.

1734
01:26:35,640 --> 01:26:37,159
Speaker 1: Hey, thank you very much for coming out now, not

1735
01:26:37,239 --> 01:26:39,800
today for sure. Help Me'll see you later on tonight.

1736
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:44,880
And what was I gonna tell you? I was gonna oh, oh, chuck.

1737
01:26:44,720 --> 01:26:46,880
Speaker 6: Bry how many like you can take or anything?

1738
01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:50,159
Speaker 16: You know? There's a pharmacy not too far from the hotel.

1739
01:26:50,239 --> 01:26:52,399
You can start, you know, duzzling down vitamin C if

1740
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:52,680
you want.

1741
01:26:53,600 --> 01:26:54,800
Speaker 1: All right, so you're gonna pick it up for me.

1742
01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:55,960
That's nice of you to do that. I didn't think

1743
01:26:55,960 --> 01:26:56,439
you were gonna do that.

1744
01:26:56,439 --> 01:26:57,920
Speaker 6: You want me to grab you some vitamin C mat

1745
01:26:58,520 --> 01:26:59,199
Apparently one of.

1746
01:26:59,199 --> 01:27:02,000
Speaker 1: Our listeners, Bianca says, I need to take a leave.

1747
01:27:03,359 --> 01:27:07,840
What did she send me here? She sent me this

1748
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:10,000
is the definitive medicine.

1749
01:27:10,039 --> 01:27:10,119
Speaker 11: Here.

1750
01:27:10,159 --> 01:27:11,239
Speaker 6: Are you drinking any hot tea?

1751
01:27:12,359 --> 01:27:12,399
Speaker 20: No?

1752
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:15,079
Speaker 1: I had coffee this morning, I leave d sinus and cold.

1753
01:27:15,119 --> 01:27:16,960
Does that work? I'm not a big fan of over

1754
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:17,600
the counter stop.

1755
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 16: I don't know if I've ever taken that per se

1756
01:27:22,199 --> 01:27:24,600
I do like for me, and one of my go

1757
01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:27,800
tos is like accepts are cold and flu you know

1758
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:31,119
the stuff that you pop into the water and the

1759
01:27:31,199 --> 01:27:33,840
tablets and drink that down along with a lot of

1760
01:27:34,319 --> 01:27:36,760
vitamin C and then green tea with honey and linon.

1761
01:27:36,840 --> 01:27:37,680
Speaker 6: But you don't like green.

1762
01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:40,760
Speaker 1: Tea, so no, I'm finicky just like you are. Hey,

1763
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:42,600
great to hear your voice. Thank you very much. We'll

1764
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:44,119
see you on the bus litter today and good luck

1765
01:27:44,159 --> 01:27:46,319
with your car to get a nap in, get a

1766
01:27:46,399 --> 01:27:47,560
nap in before we head over today.

1767
01:27:47,680 --> 01:27:49,880
Speaker 6: Oh help me sure better? Thank you see anybody okay.

1768
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:52,399
Speaker 1: MAT's Creig Acumen, voice of the television Voice of the

1769
01:27:52,680 --> 01:27:55,600
Rockets with us here on the program. Twelve forty three

1770
01:27:55,760 --> 01:27:58,159
is our time. We take you till two o'clock today

1771
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:02,159
two one, two five seven nine. If you want to

1772
01:28:02,199 --> 01:28:04,960
jump in seven one three two one two five seven

1773
01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:08,359
ninety Emeadoka Joints is coming up at one thirty. We

1774
01:28:08,479 --> 01:28:11,439
have non flora stories at one twenty twelve forty three.

1775
01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:13,479
Come on and join us since anything goes Friday, and

1776
01:28:14,039 --> 01:28:15,880
if you join me, I'll be super nice to you

1777
01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:20,359
because I'm down the home stretch. I need you guys

1778
01:28:20,439 --> 01:28:22,319
to come through for me, and I look, I try

1779
01:28:22,359 --> 01:28:24,279
to give you guys every day that super energy, but

1780
01:28:24,319 --> 01:28:26,199
today is just not that day for me. So come

1781
01:28:26,239 --> 01:28:29,199
on in and say hello. We want to talk some Astros, Rockets,

1782
01:28:29,680 --> 01:28:31,439
a jail, and peacherre getting a new three year extension.

1783
01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:34,119
We're thirty nine million dollars. I'll take it all seven

1784
01:28:34,159 --> 01:28:38,159
one three two one two five seven ninety and we

1785
01:28:38,279 --> 01:28:40,159
are with you today until two o'clock. Then the A

1786
01:28:40,239 --> 01:28:42,479
team will take over Astros Baseball believe will be at

1787
01:28:42,600 --> 01:28:46,800
six o'clock tonight. And then we got Rockets also, I

1788
01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:48,640
believe it over on seven forty this evening, so they

1789
01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:52,800
take on the Los Angeles Lakers at nine thirty. We'll

1790
01:28:52,840 --> 01:28:57,199
have it for you over on seven forty. Rockets off Saturday,

1791
01:28:57,239 --> 01:28:59,479
and they played the two thirty game against the Nuggets

1792
01:28:59,520 --> 01:29:02,640
on Sunday to close out the season. Everybody's they're going

1793
01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:05,399
to play at noon or two thirty on Sunday, so

1794
01:29:05,479 --> 01:29:07,880
we'll know by about five thirty six o'clock on a

1795
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:10,560
Sunday night who we're playing. At least the playing game

1796
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:12,600
will be determined seven versus eight, and then we'll be

1797
01:29:12,600 --> 01:29:14,159
able to see which one of those two teams wins,

1798
01:29:14,199 --> 01:29:16,880
because they're going to play that game. I believe on

1799
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:21,239
Tuesday seven one three, two one two five seven ninety

1800
01:29:21,279 --> 01:29:22,439
is how you reach us if you want to get

1801
01:29:22,479 --> 01:29:24,279
in today, and for that, I thank you. Let's go

1802
01:29:24,399 --> 01:29:27,560
to Manuel at twelve fifty one on seven hownety manual.

1803
01:29:27,600 --> 01:29:28,880
Thank you for calling the floor is.

1804
01:29:28,840 --> 01:29:33,199
Speaker 10: Yours, hey, Matt Dot I called a savior. Help to

1805
01:29:33,239 --> 01:29:34,279
save your voice a little bit.

1806
01:29:34,359 --> 01:29:35,399
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you.

1807
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:37,760
Speaker 6: I'm out here in Soco.

1808
01:29:37,920 --> 01:29:40,720
Speaker 10: I live in Riverside, and Craig is right, man, Joshua

1809
01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:44,720
Tree is amazing. So really, I tell everybody go to

1810
01:29:44,800 --> 01:29:46,600
Joshua Tree if you ever come out here in Socao.

1811
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:51,840
It's beautiful. But I was especial like just enough fan

1812
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:54,199
and iHeart fan of the Rockets. In my humble opinion,

1813
01:29:54,640 --> 01:30:00,439
the rebuild is over. I think we're finally at least squad.

1814
01:30:00,479 --> 01:30:02,319
They're on the edge of it being an elite squad

1815
01:30:02,399 --> 01:30:04,760
and now they just got to go experience the playoffs.

1816
01:30:05,199 --> 01:30:06,159
Speaker 13: And I think this team.

1817
01:30:06,159 --> 01:30:07,720
Speaker 10: I don't know if to go with a championship this year,

1818
01:30:08,039 --> 01:30:09,920
but at least I think they can at least get

1819
01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:13,359
to second or maybe second round or even the Western

1820
01:30:13,399 --> 01:30:15,960
Conference Final. I just really believe that much in this team,

1821
01:30:16,600 --> 01:30:20,960
and I'm just really happy And just so you know,

1822
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:23,199
what I'm really happy about too, is guys like Jabbari

1823
01:30:23,319 --> 01:30:27,000
and i'm In. You know, there's no egos on this team.

1824
01:30:27,039 --> 01:30:29,520
They're all just trying to fight together to become a

1825
01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:31,880
great team. When one guy got hurt, the other guy

1826
01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:34,600
steps in. I'm in, and then Jabari got hurt, i'm

1827
01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:37,399
In steps in, and there's no fighting. When the next

1828
01:30:37,439 --> 01:30:39,880
guy comes back, it's like, okay, you take your role

1829
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:41,640
on the bench, you come off the bench. We work

1830
01:30:41,720 --> 01:30:45,960
together as a team, and I'm just loving how Vanfleet's

1831
01:30:46,039 --> 01:30:48,640
is running the whole squad together. I mean, I wish

1832
01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:51,000
you'd work on that jumper a little more and make

1833
01:30:51,039 --> 01:30:54,600
it a little more, but I mean, overall overall, I'm

1834
01:30:54,600 --> 01:30:56,760
just so excited and so happy for them. Now we

1835
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,159
have respect on our name. When I tell people Rockets

1836
01:30:59,199 --> 01:31:01,359
and they're like, oh man, You're squad is good, and

1837
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:03,720
you know, I get out here out here in so

1838
01:31:03,880 --> 01:31:06,039
call we hear is about the Lakers how great they are,

1839
01:31:06,159 --> 01:31:09,119
and Clippers a little bit. But I'm just so happy

1840
01:31:09,159 --> 01:31:12,159
to shove, you know, get w's on them, beat beat

1841
01:31:12,199 --> 01:31:15,119
teams like the Warriors and the Thunder and the Nuggets,

1842
01:31:15,159 --> 01:31:18,199
and that's so amazing. I'm just it makes me happy

1843
01:31:18,840 --> 01:31:21,039
to like tell people, yeah, I'm a Rocket stand, I'm

1844
01:31:21,039 --> 01:31:22,560
wearing my akumulij one jersey.

1845
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:24,640
Speaker 3: I'm wearing my trees and my great jerseys.

1846
01:31:24,680 --> 01:31:25,640
Speaker 1: I'm wearing my jerseys.

1847
01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:28,079
Speaker 10: And people are like, oh, yeah, we got to respect

1848
01:31:28,119 --> 01:31:30,560
them now because they're they're they're coming in.

1849
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:30,880
Speaker 6: Huh.

1850
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:33,239
Speaker 10: And they got players and we got ballders now, so

1851
01:31:33,560 --> 01:31:36,399
uh that's all I got to say. But go Rockets,

1852
01:31:36,439 --> 01:31:38,840
And I'm just so happy. I'm just happy for the

1853
01:31:38,880 --> 01:31:40,359
squad and all the fans in Red Nation.

1854
01:31:41,159 --> 01:31:43,159
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Manuel, that's a great phone call.

1855
01:31:44,079 --> 01:31:54,680
All right, see you later. Yeah, it's fun. It is

1856
01:31:54,800 --> 01:31:59,479
fun to watch this team do what they're doing. It

1857
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:02,800
is fun to see them not only make the playoffs

1858
01:32:03,159 --> 01:32:05,920
but avoid the playing game, which most people thought probably

1859
01:32:05,960 --> 01:32:07,239
if they were gonna make the playoffs, they're going to

1860
01:32:07,239 --> 01:32:11,880
be a playing game. Win totals around forty four, and

1861
01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:14,119
they're gonna be at least at fifty two. I think

1862
01:32:14,159 --> 01:32:16,760
of in the dust settles. Again, it doesn't really matter.

1863
01:32:16,840 --> 01:32:18,800
They're the two seem in the Western Conference. They will

1864
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:20,680
have won at least sixty percent of their games this year,

1865
01:32:22,439 --> 01:32:24,880
and now it's just the great unknown. The great unknown

1866
01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:28,640
is a who are you going to play? B wich matchups?

1867
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:31,279
Suit your best and see what are these young guys

1868
01:32:31,359 --> 01:32:33,000
going to do? And they have been in the situation

1869
01:32:33,119 --> 01:32:36,760
where you have to watch the playoffs with the different

1870
01:32:37,079 --> 01:32:38,800
approach to it because the whistles are going to be

1871
01:32:38,880 --> 01:32:43,000
more difficult to get. They're gonna know everything about you

1872
01:32:43,239 --> 01:32:47,680
and you're gonna know everything about them. There will be

1873
01:32:47,760 --> 01:32:51,880
no hiding in terms of drawing up plays to all

1874
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of a sudden throw the other opposing team off and

1875
01:32:57,279 --> 01:32:58,159
the rockets to be the same thing.

1876
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Speaker 6: The running.

1877
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:03,800
Speaker 1: They will scout disappoint opponent left and right. And I'm

1878
01:33:03,880 --> 01:33:07,560
anxious about it. I'm very, very anxious to see how

1879
01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:12,079
things go on this. I'd love them to win at

1880
01:33:12,159 --> 01:33:14,720
least one round. If they get two, that's awesome. If

1881
01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:18,159
they win three, if they played it with third round,

1882
01:33:18,239 --> 01:33:21,760
that's really gonna get people energized. Oklahoma City has been

1883
01:33:21,760 --> 01:33:23,640
the number one team this entire season in the West.

1884
01:33:23,680 --> 01:33:28,319
All year long, they have looked, for the most part

1885
01:33:29,479 --> 01:33:32,720
unstoppable with Shake Guild of Alexander probably gonna win the

1886
01:33:32,800 --> 01:33:35,680
MVP Award, and they've got Jalen Williams, Jena Homer when

1887
01:33:35,680 --> 01:33:39,560
he plays is good. It's a nice, really deep basketball

1888
01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:42,680
team and Shake guildess Alexander is an elite score as

1889
01:33:42,760 --> 01:33:44,680
in the case with all the thirty point games up.

1890
01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:47,680
But the Rockets have beat him twice this year. Now

1891
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:49,840
that's me putting the cart well before the horse, So

1892
01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:52,119
I want to make sure I don't do that. Let's

1893
01:33:52,119 --> 01:33:54,720
just worry about the first round opponent instead. And the

1894
01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:56,479
reality is, I don't know who that's going to be.

1895
01:33:58,119 --> 01:34:01,239
It could be Minnesota, it could be the LA Clippers,

1896
01:34:01,359 --> 01:34:04,840
it could be the Memphis Grizzlies, it could be the

1897
01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:08,000
Golden State Warriors, and a small chance it could be

1898
01:34:08,039 --> 01:34:09,680
the Lakers too. But I don't think it's going to happen.

1899
01:34:11,479 --> 01:34:11,800
Speaker 6: Hmm.

1900
01:34:12,359 --> 01:34:13,680
Speaker 1: It's going to be fun. And for those that have

1901
01:34:13,800 --> 01:34:15,720
not been around it before because it's been five years,

1902
01:34:16,279 --> 01:34:19,399
you're gonna love it. Everything's gonna be magnified everything is

1903
01:34:19,439 --> 01:34:21,800
going to have a lot more intensity to it. There's

1904
01:34:21,840 --> 01:34:25,000
no gimmes against Charlotte, there's no gimmes against Brooklyn's, there's

1905
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:29,640
no those boring games against Atlanta. These are highly intensive

1906
01:34:29,720 --> 01:34:34,520
games with a lot of animosity. And if you think

1907
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:37,079
Dylan Brooks is going to be a riled up for this,

1908
01:34:38,279 --> 01:34:40,079
definitely will be, especially at some point if they do

1909
01:34:40,199 --> 01:34:42,039
take on the Lakers, because he certainly was the last

1910
01:34:42,079 --> 01:34:45,359
time he did so in the playoffs. Let's go to

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Dave in Spring before the top of the hour on

1912
01:34:49,399 --> 01:34:51,760
seven ninety Dave, thank you for holding a good afternoon

1913
01:34:51,800 --> 01:34:51,920
to you.

1914
01:34:53,239 --> 01:34:56,279
Speaker 4: Hey, Matt, Hey, two things first, I want to congratulate

1915
01:34:57,039 --> 01:34:59,840
Jalen our safety.

1916
01:34:59,520 --> 01:35:02,560
Speaker 6: There Utah for that contract.

1917
01:35:02,600 --> 01:35:05,640
Speaker 4: I mean, local kid went to high school here, went

1918
01:35:05,680 --> 01:35:06,199
to Baylor.

1919
01:35:06,800 --> 01:35:06,880
Speaker 3: Uh.

1920
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Speaker 4: Everything you hear about him is good too. I think

1921
01:35:08,600 --> 01:35:12,800
he was our Walter Payton UH nominee for the Texans,

1922
01:35:12,880 --> 01:35:15,600
you know, which tells you he's a super community guy.

1923
01:35:15,800 --> 01:35:18,600
It's just nice to see good stuff happen to good people.

1924
01:35:18,680 --> 01:35:20,680
And he just seems like a good dude and I'm

1925
01:35:20,680 --> 01:35:22,640
happy for him. So now let me get to my

1926
01:35:23,439 --> 01:35:25,680
main point. I want to ask you about the Koogs

1927
01:35:25,880 --> 01:35:29,359
and uh, you know, we're still smarting for Monday night, obviously.

1928
01:35:29,520 --> 01:35:32,560
And I heard yesterday. I haven't listened much to him

1929
01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:34,039
and busy in and out of the car, so you

1930
01:35:34,119 --> 01:35:37,000
maybe talked about this already. But I saw where Terrence

1931
01:35:37,079 --> 01:35:41,680
Arsonos entered the transfer portal, and uh, I was wondering,

1932
01:35:41,960 --> 01:35:44,159
you think there'll be any other Cougars who might be

1933
01:35:44,239 --> 01:35:47,039
thinking about the portal. I'm a little worried about Milos

1934
01:35:47,239 --> 01:35:50,119
in particular. You know, we got a five star point

1935
01:35:50,119 --> 01:35:53,119
guard coming in next year. I assume he's happy with

1936
01:35:53,279 --> 01:35:56,439
the Kougs, but I'd hate to lose that guy. And uh,

1937
01:35:56,840 --> 01:35:59,640
you know, just your thoughts on the Kougs and the

1938
01:35:59,680 --> 01:36:02,199
poor and how it might help and hurt us, and

1939
01:36:02,319 --> 01:36:03,000
I'll just hang up.

1940
01:36:03,039 --> 01:36:05,159
Speaker 1: And they did get a point guard. It was a

1941
01:36:05,199 --> 01:36:07,319
transfer from Creighton, so they got that kid in just

1942
01:36:07,359 --> 01:36:11,279
the other day. Miles usan. I don't know. He might

1943
01:36:11,319 --> 01:36:13,000
declare for the draft, and that it doesn't mean he's

1944
01:36:13,039 --> 01:36:13,920
going to stay in the draft.

1945
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:14,279
Speaker 5: He might do.

1946
01:36:14,479 --> 01:36:15,840
Speaker 1: As long as you don't get an agent, you can

1947
01:36:15,920 --> 01:36:18,359
go do that and then pull yourself back out of

1948
01:36:18,399 --> 01:36:18,720
the hat.

1949
01:36:19,239 --> 01:36:20,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think he's ready for the NBA.

1950
01:36:21,159 --> 01:36:23,079
Speaker 1: I don't think he's ready either. Wait, the number one

1951
01:36:23,119 --> 01:36:24,720
mistake I see with all these young kids is they

1952
01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:27,760
think they're NBA ready to too soon. So I would

1953
01:36:27,760 --> 01:36:28,479
agree with you on that.

1954
01:36:29,159 --> 01:36:30,880
Speaker 4: It's like the Center on Duke. I don't think that

1955
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:33,319
guy's ready either. They talk about him coming out, you know,

1956
01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:35,600
Milosh or whatever his name is. I mean, he didn't

1957
01:36:35,600 --> 01:36:37,920
have a rebound in twenty three minutes. I don't know

1958
01:36:37,960 --> 01:36:39,399
if I'm going to, you know, be in a hurry

1959
01:36:39,479 --> 01:36:42,359
or to draft that guy in the top ten like

1960
01:36:42,439 --> 01:36:43,159
he's projected.

1961
01:36:43,720 --> 01:36:46,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's really by Cooper Flagg at this point.

1962
01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:49,199
I mean he's he's the real deal at this point. Yeah,

1963
01:36:49,199 --> 01:36:51,039
but yeah, I would do. I don't know. Arsenal I

1964
01:36:51,079 --> 01:36:54,439
think would be the only transfer. I mean, things change,

1965
01:36:54,720 --> 01:36:57,520
there's a nil situations clearly in hand here. But I

1966
01:36:57,640 --> 01:36:59,960
think Arsenal's hung on the walls, that the recruiting classes

1967
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:02,880
about to get really, really filthy, and playing time would

1968
01:37:02,880 --> 01:37:05,279
be probably not nearly as prevalent today as it would be,

1969
01:37:05,359 --> 01:37:06,840
say next year, when those players come in.

1970
01:37:07,920 --> 01:37:11,079
Speaker 4: I don't mind losing Terrence mar Allison, to be honest

1971
01:37:11,079 --> 01:37:13,119
with they don't want to be too dismissive. But I

1972
01:37:13,199 --> 01:37:15,239
always kind of when he came into the game, I

1973
01:37:15,399 --> 01:37:17,520
was always a little nervous, and when he started putting

1974
01:37:17,560 --> 01:37:21,680
up shots, my nervousness doubled. So you know, it's sort

1975
01:37:21,720 --> 01:37:25,359
of like trade Mark, remember Trayvon Mark or whatever his

1976
01:37:25,520 --> 01:37:25,800
name was.

1977
01:37:26,439 --> 01:37:27,359
Speaker 7: A guy.

1978
01:37:28,279 --> 01:37:31,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, he went Darkansas, then to Texas, and he's bounced

1979
01:37:31,359 --> 01:37:34,560
all around. I guess cash and nil checks. But I

1980
01:37:34,640 --> 01:37:36,840
didn't mind seeing him go either. So some guys don't

1981
01:37:36,880 --> 01:37:39,840
look like they fit too well with what Kelvin's trying

1982
01:37:39,880 --> 01:37:40,039
to do.

1983
01:37:40,920 --> 01:37:43,720
Speaker 1: It's part of it called great information. Thank you Dave

1984
01:37:43,800 --> 01:37:47,000
for joining us. That's part of it is that Kelvin

1985
01:37:47,159 --> 01:37:49,279
is not going to change who he is, even with

1986
01:37:49,439 --> 01:37:52,880
NIL and transfer portal. I respect that because there's a

1987
01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:55,119
lot of coaches that can't do that. A lot of

1988
01:37:55,159 --> 01:37:56,960
coaches are worried about the portal, a lot of kids

1989
01:37:57,000 --> 01:37:59,560
are worried about NIL, A lot of coaches are I mean,

1990
01:37:59,680 --> 01:38:02,159
I think it's a concern, and I think obviously Kelvin's

1991
01:38:02,159 --> 01:38:03,680
got to take care of those guys that are there.

1992
01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:06,600
But it doesn't seem like he makes him sweat like

1993
01:38:06,720 --> 01:38:09,479
other schools do. All right, let's get the final hour

1994
01:38:09,479 --> 01:38:11,520
of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross underway. Next, we're

1995
01:38:11,520 --> 01:38:13,840
gonna talk to emay a don'tt coming up. In thirty minutes.

1996
01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:15,560
James and Klim will open up with you to start

1997
01:38:15,600 --> 01:38:17,479
the final hour of the show. If you want to follow, James,

1998
01:38:17,960 --> 01:38:22,800
I would greatly appreciate that. Seven one three two one

1999
01:38:22,920 --> 01:38:26,119
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

2000
01:38:26,560 --> 01:38:29,239
five seven ninety Final hour of the Matt Thomas Show

2001
01:38:29,279 --> 01:38:36,600
with Ross. Ross is the day off. I am fighting

2002
01:38:36,640 --> 01:38:38,800
through this, got an hour left to go. Thank you

2003
01:38:38,960 --> 01:38:42,079
very much for putting up in my sickness, and thank

2004
01:38:42,119 --> 01:38:44,279
you for joining the show helping me out a little bit.

2005
01:38:44,439 --> 01:38:47,520
Appreciate that. Thanks to Craig Ackerman into Robert Ford for

2006
01:38:47,640 --> 01:38:50,920
joining us as well. We got emay a Duncker coming

2007
01:38:51,000 --> 01:38:53,640
up in a few minutes. That's a bottle with the

2008
01:38:53,840 --> 01:38:57,279
r all right. Seven one three two one two five

2009
01:38:57,520 --> 01:39:01,960
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

2010
01:39:02,079 --> 01:39:04,640
ninety Jalen Peatrie three year contract. We're thirty nine million

2011
01:39:04,680 --> 01:39:09,000
dollars renew. Blanco takes them ound today for the Astros

2012
01:39:09,039 --> 01:39:12,880
against the Halos. Six o'clock be on Deck show and

2013
01:39:13,000 --> 01:39:15,479
then we have Rockets basketball over on ktr H tonight

2014
01:39:15,960 --> 01:39:18,840
at nine thirty is a take on the Los Angeles

2015
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:23,520
Lakers seven one three two one two five seven ninety

2016
01:39:23,560 --> 01:39:26,640
seven one three two one two five seven Nati. Let's

2017
01:39:26,720 --> 01:39:29,399
go to Steven here in La on the Matt Thamas Show.

2018
01:39:29,439 --> 01:39:31,760
A Ross Steven, thanks for holding in. Good afternoon.

2019
01:39:33,520 --> 01:39:35,960
Speaker 15: Well I'm sorry to hear that you're under the weather, Matt.

2020
01:39:36,359 --> 01:39:36,640
Speaker 1: Thank you.

2021
01:39:37,760 --> 01:39:43,079
Speaker 15: You know, if you're staying in Beverly Hills, right, Oh yeah,

2022
01:39:45,319 --> 01:39:47,000
So I've just thrown it out there. There's a place

2023
01:39:47,079 --> 01:39:50,239
that's called the Pure Ivy. They have an Ivy hydration

2024
01:39:50,439 --> 01:39:54,520
drip for cold and flu. I had a cold that

2025
01:39:54,640 --> 01:39:56,960
knocked me on my ass about a month ago. I

2026
01:39:57,000 --> 01:39:59,439
took one of these hydration drips and I was playing

2027
01:39:59,600 --> 01:40:04,319
Oops by that that night. So, and they have mobile

2028
01:40:04,319 --> 01:40:06,239
services too that can come to your hotel. So just

2029
01:40:06,399 --> 01:40:08,720
just throwing it out there if you need to cure IVY.

2030
01:40:10,560 --> 01:40:13,680
Just going to cure IVY, Yes, sir, I know you know,

2031
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:15,960
no no sponsor or anything like that, but you know,

2032
01:40:16,119 --> 01:40:20,520
just throwing it out. I know you're struggling. I will

2033
01:40:20,600 --> 01:40:24,640
just run through some some weaknesses and strengths for the

2034
01:40:24,760 --> 01:40:26,800
Rockets playoffs. Just to give you a little bit of

2035
01:40:26,840 --> 01:40:28,720
a voice break. So I'm just going to go through

2036
01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:32,600
what I feel like are some strengths and weaknesses for

2037
01:40:32,640 --> 01:40:36,800
the Rockets atting into the playoffs. Obviously, you know, weaknesses.

2038
01:40:37,199 --> 01:40:39,319
I'm wondering if this team is going to struggle to

2039
01:40:39,319 --> 01:40:41,399
shoot the ball, you know, in the playoffs. That's always

2040
01:40:41,439 --> 01:40:45,199
been kind of like an achilles heel, especially their free throws.

2041
01:40:45,279 --> 01:40:47,560
You know, they especially in the playoffs, You've got to

2042
01:40:47,600 --> 01:40:50,239
make your free throws. That's the killer when you when

2043
01:40:50,279 --> 01:40:53,399
you struggle like the Rockets do sometimes. But you know,

2044
01:40:53,439 --> 01:40:56,279
as far as there there's strengths, you know, I feel

2045
01:40:56,319 --> 01:40:59,439
like this is a this is a obviously a very

2046
01:40:59,479 --> 01:41:04,000
good defense of team. They can rebound the ball really well.

2047
01:41:04,199 --> 01:41:06,520
I like the way that they can kind of manipulate

2048
01:41:06,600 --> 01:41:09,720
their lineup and either go really long with their wings

2049
01:41:09,880 --> 01:41:13,600
or they can go uh double bigs with you know,

2050
01:41:14,319 --> 01:41:18,199
uh down the stretch if if needed. And uh so,

2051
01:41:18,640 --> 01:41:22,239
uh it all depends on obviously the matchup in any

2052
01:41:22,359 --> 01:41:24,319
matchup in the West, is going to be tough, obviously,

2053
01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:27,920
but I really do think that the Rockets can win

2054
01:41:28,319 --> 01:41:31,520
the first round, maybe even the second round in a

2055
01:41:31,560 --> 01:41:34,399
seven game series. So Uh, you know, I'm looking forward to,

2056
01:41:35,319 --> 01:41:37,960
uh you know, seeing some basketball. I'm looking forward to

2057
01:41:38,159 --> 01:41:40,439
hearing your calls. And I just hope you hope you

2058
01:41:40,520 --> 01:41:40,920
get better.

2059
01:41:41,000 --> 01:41:43,560
Speaker 1: Man, Thank you very much. I appreciate it very much.

2060
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:45,600
And you killed a lot of time, great insights. You

2061
01:41:45,600 --> 01:41:47,479
didn't mess that up. You're good. You know what I

2062
01:41:47,520 --> 01:41:49,560
need today? I need a girod call. Gid where you at?

2063
01:41:50,880 --> 01:41:52,319
You say my Bacon with the Gerard call?

2064
01:41:52,720 --> 01:41:54,000
Speaker 12: Just make it fun on the last two weeks. He

2065
01:41:54,079 --> 01:41:54,640
might not call back.

2066
01:41:55,399 --> 01:41:59,920
Speaker 1: No chance, my guy, No chance. Gerard is my guy.

2067
01:42:00,079 --> 01:42:02,159
Dronic has always got carshbon. So Joran, if you're out

2068
01:42:02,159 --> 01:42:03,399
there listening today and you want to give us a

2069
01:42:03,479 --> 01:42:06,359
rocket breakdown for the playoffs, the FLOORI is yours, and

2070
01:42:06,399 --> 01:42:08,920
I mean literally the flora is yours. Let's go to

2071
01:42:09,479 --> 01:42:13,920
U jamal over in Memorial at one o seven on

2072
01:42:14,039 --> 01:42:16,600
seven ninety Jamal thank you for holding in a good afternoon.

2073
01:42:17,880 --> 01:42:18,960
Speaker 7: Hey, how's it going?

2074
01:42:19,640 --> 01:42:19,760
Speaker 11: Uh?

2075
01:42:20,039 --> 01:42:21,880
Speaker 7: First when I get to my tape, man, Matt, I

2076
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:26,000
caught a one show of yours last week. I always

2077
01:42:26,079 --> 01:42:28,359
thought you was a Maydy tree coaching.

2078
01:42:28,439 --> 01:42:28,800
Speaker 3: I didn't know.

2079
01:42:29,439 --> 01:42:32,279
Speaker 7: I didn't know you spent a little time your roots

2080
01:42:32,279 --> 01:42:35,000
are from from the Spice Lane. You caught one of

2081
01:42:35,039 --> 01:42:38,000
your shows. You were saying you back on Lane in

2082
01:42:38,079 --> 01:42:42,159
the seventies and so so, uh, yeah, I just had

2083
01:42:42,199 --> 01:42:46,399
to take a nob because I was, I grew up

2084
01:42:46,520 --> 01:42:48,560
my roots was there from the nineties. I was over

2085
01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:51,000
there on the nineties some were beginning so nice. So

2086
01:42:51,119 --> 01:42:53,880
when you start talking about Boone Elementary and all that,

2087
01:42:53,960 --> 01:42:55,520
I knew exactly where you were coming too.

2088
01:42:55,840 --> 01:42:58,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was. I was booned for I want to say,

2089
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:01,359
first and second grade, and then I moved to the

2090
01:43:01,439 --> 01:43:03,680
KT area, went to mental schools after that. But yeah,

2091
01:43:03,680 --> 01:43:05,279
I'm an I'm an og a leaf for sure.

2092
01:43:06,680 --> 01:43:09,840
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, but man, now, so on on on my

2093
01:43:10,159 --> 01:43:14,560
uh take, man, I tough loss. I went back and

2094
01:43:14,880 --> 01:43:16,840
you know, finally had a little time to digest it.

2095
01:43:16,880 --> 01:43:20,199
But I went back and and uh and looked at

2096
01:43:20,239 --> 01:43:23,960
that last play. I wanted to get your take on it,

2097
01:43:24,079 --> 01:43:26,840
because I thought it was a good design. But when

2098
01:43:26,880 --> 01:43:29,680
I went back and watched it, it looked like why

2099
01:43:29,960 --> 01:43:33,279
uh you, big guy Roberts, if you go back and

2100
01:43:33,359 --> 01:43:35,600
look at it, man, the reason why they we couldn't

2101
01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:38,600
get cried the ball on that first initial action and

2102
01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:41,880
then even with even with Sharp, while while he had

2103
01:43:41,920 --> 01:43:45,159
a good clothes, I looked like Roberts didn't. His screens

2104
01:43:45,159 --> 01:43:48,159
were kind of half lazy to where where they couldn't

2105
01:43:48,199 --> 01:43:51,000
get they you know, they couldn't get the spacing they needed.

2106
01:43:51,640 --> 01:43:54,119
Speaker 1: And then that's the reason why Sharp think about that, Jamal,

2107
01:43:54,159 --> 01:43:58,720
That's the reason why Sharp was shot faked because he

2108
01:43:58,920 --> 01:44:01,399
saw the Lord of player coming at him and if

2109
01:44:01,439 --> 01:44:03,800
you have a good numb screen there, he takes that

2110
01:44:04,239 --> 01:44:06,920
that screen, that pick and he can shoot it up flallsy.

2111
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:08,479
He was scared he was gonna get blocked. That's the

2112
01:44:08,520 --> 01:44:10,399
reason why he came down and then eventually get rid

2113
01:44:10,439 --> 01:44:12,640
of the basketball. So yeah, they yeah, it did not

2114
01:44:12,720 --> 01:44:15,199
work out very well exactly.

2115
01:44:15,399 --> 01:44:19,600
Speaker 7: And uh so here's my take. I think, So this

2116
01:44:19,760 --> 01:44:20,439
is my opinion.

2117
01:44:21,000 --> 01:44:21,600
Speaker 13: I think.

2118
01:44:24,520 --> 01:44:27,399
Speaker 7: The coach is gonna have to loosen up his He's

2119
01:44:27,439 --> 01:44:29,439
gonna have to change his philosophy a little bit. I

2120
01:44:29,560 --> 01:44:32,279
think it's it's found and everything that he's done. Their

2121
01:44:32,359 --> 01:44:35,560
perennial tournament teams as they go, I think they you know,

2122
01:44:35,680 --> 01:44:37,800
he continued to make six sweet six teams in it.

2123
01:44:37,840 --> 01:44:42,600
But I just think that heavy defense and and minimum

2124
01:44:42,680 --> 01:44:47,399
offense that and not styled in that style with getting

2125
01:44:47,439 --> 01:44:50,760
to the championship game and losing. I seen an interview

2126
01:44:50,840 --> 01:44:54,399
from the Yukon coach and he said something to the fact.

2127
01:44:54,439 --> 01:44:56,960
Don't quote me, but he was like, I'd rather recruit

2128
01:44:57,199 --> 01:45:00,600
offensive players and then teach them, you know, try to

2129
01:45:00,640 --> 01:45:04,279
teach the best defense that they could possibly have, rather

2130
01:45:04,399 --> 01:45:07,039
than have the way around. And I just wanted to

2131
01:45:07,119 --> 01:45:09,439
get to you know, And I think that's what Cavin

2132
01:45:09,479 --> 01:45:12,680
fompin a knee for. Just more offensive recruiting and then

2133
01:45:12,800 --> 01:45:15,520
don't lose a defense of our unity. But we got

2134
01:45:15,640 --> 01:45:18,239
to have more offensive there because that was brutal the

2135
01:45:18,319 --> 01:45:20,000
way they closed off that game, and just wanted to

2136
01:45:20,079 --> 01:45:20,359
get a.

2137
01:45:20,399 --> 01:45:21,000
Speaker 6: Take on it him.

2138
01:45:21,319 --> 01:45:24,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ja during the course of the year, and it

2139
01:45:24,760 --> 01:45:27,039
wasn't like they were playing the poor sisters. They shot

2140
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:30,600
much better than three, much better from the floor than

2141
01:45:30,640 --> 01:45:32,880
they ever had before with Calvin's teams in the past.

2142
01:45:34,319 --> 01:45:37,039
They just ran into a really I mean two excellent,

2143
01:45:37,159 --> 01:45:41,000
excellent defenses. Duke's defense was top six in the country.

2144
01:45:41,079 --> 01:45:45,479
I think Florida's was top ten, give or take. And

2145
01:45:46,159 --> 01:45:48,520
I think there's a combination of that. I think there's

2146
01:45:48,520 --> 01:45:51,800
a combination of is the pressure too big. Is the

2147
01:45:51,880 --> 01:45:53,560
moment too big? And I think there's part of that

2148
01:45:53,640 --> 01:45:57,319
could be put into play, certainly in Duke's case on Saturday,

2149
01:45:57,319 --> 01:45:59,680
and that National SEI semifinal game with the Cougars did

2150
01:45:59,680 --> 01:46:04,600
a month. But this is one of the highest scoring

2151
01:46:04,640 --> 01:46:08,279
teams that Kelvin ever had, shot much better than ever

2152
01:46:08,319 --> 01:46:11,520
had before. So I don't see a whole lot from

2153
01:46:11,560 --> 01:46:14,399
an offensive standpoint that I would necessarily change, except for

2154
01:46:14,479 --> 01:46:18,840
the fact that you had Uzon up and down at times,

2155
01:46:19,560 --> 01:46:23,119
you had manual sharp up and down at times, and

2156
01:46:23,199 --> 01:46:25,920
then LJ Cryer, I mean they just didn't shoot well.

2157
01:46:26,520 --> 01:46:28,800
I mean both teams who were less than forty percent

2158
01:46:28,840 --> 01:46:32,359
from the floor, and a lot of that was because

2159
01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:34,600
of I think the moment was big, and also I

2160
01:46:34,680 --> 01:46:35,880
think a lot of it was and there were some

2161
01:46:36,000 --> 01:46:38,319
really good defenses. I mean, the Cougars have the number

2162
01:46:38,359 --> 01:46:42,800
one ranked field goal defense in the country. So it

2163
01:46:42,920 --> 01:46:44,680
was going to get into a situation where it was

2164
01:46:44,720 --> 01:46:47,920
going to be a lower scoring game. You didn't want

2165
01:46:47,960 --> 01:46:49,920
to get into one eighty five eighty one game with

2166
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:51,520
Florida because that's not what you wanted to do, Nor

2167
01:46:51,520 --> 01:46:53,119
did you want to do that with Duke either, And

2168
01:46:53,159 --> 01:46:55,239
you both held those teams to under their season average.

2169
01:46:57,560 --> 01:46:59,359
I think we're just trying to find something to go

2170
01:46:59,560 --> 01:47:01,840
hot to that last fifteen seconds go down, on that

2171
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:08,000
last minute, twenty go down, and I think just screening

2172
01:47:08,039 --> 01:47:09,680
between the lines of what Calvin said. He's like, I

2173
01:47:09,840 --> 01:47:11,840
draw these plays up, we do this all the time,

2174
01:47:13,039 --> 01:47:18,680
and the guys just did not come through. And they

2175
01:47:18,800 --> 01:47:23,680
did not. They didn't, they didn't. They buckled under the

2176
01:47:23,680 --> 01:47:27,119
pressure a little bit. I guess again there was two

2177
01:47:27,600 --> 01:47:31,920
I mean having Arsenal, not Arsenal, having Manuel Sharp lose

2178
01:47:31,960 --> 01:47:36,119
it off his foot. I mean that's you you had.

2179
01:47:36,279 --> 01:47:38,840
You may have had the best play drawn up, but

2180
01:47:38,880 --> 01:47:40,960
you couldn't use it because you can kick the ball

2181
01:47:41,000 --> 01:47:45,479
at a bounds And then the shot fake, which should

2182
01:47:45,479 --> 01:47:47,239
have been a slide over as compared in the dribble,

2183
01:47:47,279 --> 01:47:48,760
as compared to putting the ball up in the air,

2184
01:47:49,800 --> 01:47:52,720
is because again he had a Florida guy coming and

2185
01:47:52,800 --> 01:47:55,479
he kind of got really nervous about what was what

2186
01:47:55,640 --> 01:47:58,479
they have to do. The right thing would have been, frankly,

2187
01:47:58,560 --> 01:48:00,600
to grab the ball. It called for travel at least

2188
01:48:00,640 --> 01:48:02,399
put a couple of seconds off on the clock, hopefully

2189
01:48:02,560 --> 01:48:04,600
come in a foul and then have some sort of

2190
01:48:04,640 --> 01:48:08,039
massive heave. But in that moment in time, that's awful.

2191
01:48:08,079 --> 01:48:10,359
Hard to tell the athlete to do that. I know

2192
01:48:10,399 --> 01:48:12,520
I wouldn't be able to do it. Good stuff, Jamal

2193
01:48:12,560 --> 01:48:15,439
appreciate it. One thirteen on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross,

2194
01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:17,520
we have non full of stories coming up at the

2195
01:48:17,520 --> 01:48:19,159
bottom and our email at Donk is going to join

2196
01:48:19,199 --> 01:48:21,560
us in eighteen minutes. We have Dean and Alex and

2197
01:48:21,640 --> 01:48:23,319
James to get to all of you as well. This

2198
01:48:23,439 --> 01:48:25,960
is Sports Talk seven ninety all right, to get back

2199
01:48:26,000 --> 01:48:27,880
on the phone, we'll talk to some people. Let's talk

2200
01:48:27,920 --> 01:48:29,800
in terms of the longest wait. Dean is with us

2201
01:48:29,920 --> 01:48:31,960
on seven ninety at one eighteen. Dean, thanks for holding.

2202
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:32,560
Good afternoon.

2203
01:48:33,640 --> 01:48:34,000
Speaker 13: Hi Matt.

2204
01:48:35,359 --> 01:48:37,439
Speaker 21: Your voice, I'm sorry you don't feel that well.

2205
01:48:37,920 --> 01:48:38,680
Speaker 1: You can just hear it.

2206
01:48:39,600 --> 01:48:42,279
Speaker 21: You're staying at the Four Seasons, correct, So they ought

2207
01:48:42,319 --> 01:48:44,680
to have something there to get your voice right by tonight.

2208
01:48:44,840 --> 01:48:47,520
I hope so you stay at the Four Seasons every

2209
01:48:47,560 --> 01:48:48,239
time you travel.

2210
01:48:48,840 --> 01:48:50,439
Speaker 1: I cannot confirm or deny that.

2211
01:48:52,640 --> 01:48:56,840
Speaker 21: All right, real quick, I know any of the teams

2212
01:48:56,880 --> 01:48:58,439
in the West are going to be pretty good.

2213
01:48:58,880 --> 01:49:00,199
Speaker 1: I would I.

2214
01:49:00,199 --> 01:49:03,640
Speaker 21: Would kind of hope for Memphis although I mean I

2215
01:49:03,720 --> 01:49:04,199
don't want to.

2216
01:49:04,359 --> 01:49:06,399
Speaker 6: I'm very happy with what the Rockets have done.

2217
01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:08,479
Speaker 21: I thought they'd make the playoffs, but I didn't think

2218
01:49:08,520 --> 01:49:12,800
they'd be a two obviously, But when you start looking

2219
01:49:12,880 --> 01:49:18,159
at matchups, they they have done pretty well against the Clippers,

2220
01:49:18,560 --> 01:49:21,640
and I'd rather play them if we if we can

2221
01:49:21,720 --> 01:49:24,960
advance a little bit later, because Harden seems to get

2222
01:49:25,039 --> 01:49:29,560
worse as the playoffs go along. That uh, that's I

2223
01:49:29,840 --> 01:49:31,560
don't I wouldn't want to play them right off the

2224
01:49:32,119 --> 01:49:34,760
right off the bat, but a bunch of that is

2225
01:49:34,840 --> 01:49:38,680
tough to pick because, like you've already spoke about, most

2226
01:49:38,720 --> 01:49:42,439
of those teams are pretty good. I would probably prefer Memphis,

2227
01:49:42,600 --> 01:49:45,479
and I think when they play I've.

2228
01:49:45,319 --> 01:49:46,239
Speaker 18: Got a couple of questions.

2229
01:49:46,319 --> 01:49:49,319
Speaker 21: In a couple of points, I think free throws are

2230
01:49:49,359 --> 01:49:51,960
going to be very important because I think, no matter what,

2231
01:49:52,560 --> 01:49:55,199
they always are, but we have some games where that

2232
01:49:55,279 --> 01:49:58,159
percentage could be extremely bad, and if we can be

2233
01:49:59,000 --> 01:50:02,479
good to very good, I think they that would push

2234
01:50:02,560 --> 01:50:04,680
them over the top. And do you think that they'll

2235
01:50:04,760 --> 01:50:08,920
play any of the double bigs? Because from a point

2236
01:50:09,359 --> 01:50:13,720
differential standpoint, it's been effective, but in the playoffs that

2237
01:50:13,760 --> 01:50:15,159
they'll play both the big Yeah.

2238
01:50:14,880 --> 01:50:16,600
Speaker 1: If they play Memphis, they'll do that because you've got

2239
01:50:16,680 --> 01:50:19,159
Zach Eding you Jaron Jackson Junior playing for Memphis, so

2240
01:50:19,199 --> 01:50:20,439
you could definitely do that for sure.

2241
01:50:21,560 --> 01:50:24,720
Speaker 21: It's kind of impossible to project though, because I mean,

2242
01:50:24,880 --> 01:50:27,359
if you're in the two seed, you got the playing

2243
01:50:27,439 --> 01:50:30,359
game and everything else, so and and they're also like,

2244
01:50:30,760 --> 01:50:33,960
you don't know where they're gonna land, right, So I

2245
01:50:34,319 --> 01:50:36,399
know it's crazy with two games left, and I know

2246
01:50:36,479 --> 01:50:39,079
you've already spoke about it, but I don't know. I'm

2247
01:50:39,199 --> 01:50:41,960
just when I'm sitting there looking at it. First round,

2248
01:50:42,279 --> 01:50:46,159
i'd be pretty happy if if it's if we draw Memphis, that's.

2249
01:50:46,039 --> 01:50:46,600
Speaker 7: Just what I think.

2250
01:50:47,800 --> 01:50:48,560
Speaker 3: They'll be pretty good.

2251
01:50:48,640 --> 01:50:51,119
Speaker 1: Thank you for the phone call, appreciate you listening. That

2252
01:50:51,199 --> 01:50:54,159
would be my preference as well. But honestly, I think

2253
01:50:54,159 --> 01:51:01,079
everybody's hoping they play Memphis, and you know, but again,

2254
01:51:02,359 --> 01:51:04,840
things could change. I mean, it all depends on who's

2255
01:51:04,920 --> 01:51:08,239
playing who's not playing. I feel like there's those teams

2256
01:51:08,319 --> 01:51:09,920
do not want to play the playing game because that's

2257
01:51:09,920 --> 01:51:12,039
an extra game and extra travel for one of the teams,

2258
01:51:13,960 --> 01:51:21,359
and the playing is dangerous. So yeah, I've said this

2259
01:51:21,560 --> 01:51:24,079
earlier in the show. And I'll say it again, the

2260
01:51:24,199 --> 01:51:27,479
teams in terms of most preferred to least preferred. In

2261
01:51:27,600 --> 01:51:29,800
my mind, it's just I'm and I'm willing to change

2262
01:51:29,840 --> 01:51:34,399
this Memphis one. Then I would take one of the

2263
01:51:34,680 --> 01:51:42,239
Clippers on, then Minnesota, then Golden State or Denver for

2264
01:51:42,319 --> 01:51:46,319
that matter. I mean, now, what is Denver gonna do

2265
01:51:46,399 --> 01:51:47,079
now with a new coach?

2266
01:51:47,479 --> 01:51:47,960
Speaker 6: I don't know.

2267
01:51:49,399 --> 01:51:51,079
Speaker 1: I don't know if it inspires them, if they're thinking

2268
01:51:51,079 --> 01:51:53,359
about mailing it in, whatever the case may be. I

2269
01:51:53,399 --> 01:51:57,279
don't know on that. Uh, but yeah, I think everybody's

2270
01:51:57,319 --> 01:51:59,399
preferred opponent because the fact that the Memphis is just

2271
01:52:01,319 --> 01:52:03,239
not played well for a better part of two months,

2272
01:52:03,239 --> 01:52:07,000
and does the reason why, excuse me, they made a

2273
01:52:07,039 --> 01:52:10,520
coaching change there too. Let's go to Alex and Conroe

2274
01:52:10,560 --> 01:52:12,880
at one seven on Alex Good Afternoon.

2275
01:52:14,159 --> 01:52:17,720
Speaker 18: Going on, Matt, a couple of things. I haven't been

2276
01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:18,600
able to listen to.

2277
01:52:18,640 --> 01:52:22,479
Speaker 22: Your show for basically all week just because of the sports, Uh,

2278
01:52:24,520 --> 01:52:27,520
the the travesties that we've been dealing with, and it's

2279
01:52:27,640 --> 01:52:30,159
just not been something I want to hear about.

2280
01:52:30,840 --> 01:52:33,840
Speaker 18: So Uh that that Cougar game, Man, that was the

2281
01:52:33,920 --> 01:52:36,680
worst ending I've ever seen. I don't understand why you

2282
01:52:36,800 --> 01:52:40,960
don't just come over half court push the ball into

2283
01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:43,279
the paint. We need two points. Push the ball into

2284
01:52:43,279 --> 01:52:46,960
the paint. Let let Roberts get in on the basket.

2285
01:52:47,520 --> 01:52:49,000
Speaker 6: And we're not shooting, you know, we're not.

2286
01:52:49,720 --> 01:52:52,199
Speaker 18: I just, you know, go for a higher percentage shot

2287
01:52:52,479 --> 01:52:53,680
is where I'm coming from.

2288
01:52:53,720 --> 01:52:56,560
Speaker 1: And that just let me ask you. Do you follow

2289
01:52:56,600 --> 01:52:57,560
the Cougars pretty tily?

2290
01:52:58,800 --> 01:52:58,840
Speaker 4: Not.

2291
01:52:59,119 --> 01:53:01,399
Speaker 18: I'm gonna be honest with you know. I listened to uh,

2292
01:53:01,600 --> 01:53:03,760
I listened everything that they're doing on the radio. I

2293
01:53:03,880 --> 01:53:06,119
catch a couple of games here and there, but I

2294
01:53:06,199 --> 01:53:07,399
definitely have been watching for.

2295
01:53:07,439 --> 01:53:10,399
Speaker 1: The last two Monestly, I would rather have taken it,

2296
01:53:10,640 --> 01:53:12,119
and not that they were going for three for the win,

2297
01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:17,920
but Roberts and Tugler, and Tugler filed out. They had

2298
01:53:17,960 --> 01:53:19,880
not had a good night in the low block. They

2299
01:53:19,920 --> 01:53:23,119
were missing everything there. The rockets are the rockets. The

2300
01:53:23,199 --> 01:53:27,640
Cougars inside the paint was about thirty two thirty three percent. Honestly,

2301
01:53:28,119 --> 01:53:30,680
I would rather have seen Emmanuel Sharp go for that

2302
01:53:30,720 --> 01:53:32,359
three pointer win the game. So I didn't have a

2303
01:53:32,439 --> 01:53:34,640
problem with the play call. I just obviously execu.

2304
01:53:34,439 --> 01:53:39,119
Speaker 18: Fair enough, disaster fair enough and then going onto the Rockets.

2305
01:53:39,279 --> 01:53:41,399
A couple of weeks ago, we played the Lakers. Yeah,

2306
01:53:41,560 --> 01:53:44,800
and uh, man, I tell you what, dude, I listen.

2307
01:53:44,920 --> 01:53:47,520
I work late, I get off work at like nine thirty.

2308
01:53:47,319 --> 01:53:47,760
Speaker 6: So I listened.

2309
01:53:47,760 --> 01:53:50,399
Speaker 8: I end up listening to a lot of national.

2310
01:53:50,119 --> 01:53:53,199
Speaker 18: Sports broadcasts as well at night. Yeah, I basically listen

2311
01:53:53,239 --> 01:53:56,119
to sports radio all day and at night, man, they

2312
01:53:56,159 --> 01:53:58,359
were talking about they were they were just making comments

2313
01:53:58,399 --> 01:54:00,720
about how you know the Lakers had it, dude. The

2314
01:54:00,840 --> 01:54:03,159
reality is if the Rockets were able to sink like

2315
01:54:03,479 --> 01:54:06,760
three three pointers because they just went super cold, if

2316
01:54:06,800 --> 01:54:09,640
the Rockets, the Rockets almost damnure won that game without

2317
01:54:09,680 --> 01:54:12,119
being able to shoot a three, Like, I don't I

2318
01:54:12,159 --> 01:54:15,199
don't know where where the delusion comes in that the

2319
01:54:15,279 --> 01:54:17,079
Lakers are that much better. But no, dude, if the

2320
01:54:17,159 --> 01:54:20,239
Rockets are even halfway on, they're gonna win. They're gonna

2321
01:54:20,239 --> 01:54:22,520
win that game. So I'm hoping tonight we go out

2322
01:54:22,520 --> 01:54:25,640
there and stomp a mudhole. And speaking of mud holes,

2323
01:54:26,119 --> 01:54:30,199
gut feeling, man, I have a feeling that the Angels

2324
01:54:30,199 --> 01:54:33,359
are about to pack it in for us. Man, They're

2325
01:54:33,399 --> 01:54:37,760
about to They've been the dogs the last what seven

2326
01:54:37,840 --> 01:54:40,760
seasons at least. I have a feeling that they're gonna

2327
01:54:40,840 --> 01:54:43,039
really put in an effort on the Astros tonight, so

2328
01:54:43,119 --> 01:54:46,239
I hope Renel can actually get get a good start in.

2329
01:54:47,359 --> 01:54:49,159
But as for the Rockets, one more thing on the

2330
01:54:49,239 --> 01:54:53,600
Rockets and Astros. This would be great after after the

2331
01:54:53,680 --> 01:54:56,760
game is over. Typically the Astras play that that my

2332
01:54:56,920 --> 01:54:58,640
Texas song or what, I don't know what it's called.

2333
01:55:00,119 --> 01:55:03,520
If we get on a streak Rockets or Astros, I

2334
01:55:03,680 --> 01:55:05,560
think it would be great for the PA announcer to

2335
01:55:05,600 --> 01:55:09,159
play that clip from Old School where Will Ferrell he's

2336
01:55:09,159 --> 01:55:11,319
at that college party and he gets all sauced up

2337
01:55:11,359 --> 01:55:12,640
and decides.

2338
01:55:12,359 --> 01:55:14,159
Speaker 6: That they're going to go streak, and he's like, we're

2339
01:55:14,239 --> 01:55:17,680
going streaking. That would be hilarious to hear on the

2340
01:55:17,760 --> 01:55:19,319
PA personal.

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01:55:19,439 --> 01:55:21,239
Speaker 1: I'll pass it along. Thank you for the phone call.

2342
01:55:21,279 --> 01:55:23,439
Real quick. Before we get to emy Adoka, let's talk

2343
01:55:23,520 --> 01:55:26,640
to James Incline on seven on me, James, what do

2344
01:55:26,680 --> 01:55:27,199
you got today?

2345
01:55:28,119 --> 01:55:30,239
Speaker 7: Yeah, the biggest surprise with the Rockets so far this

2346
01:55:30,359 --> 01:55:33,720
year is, uh, Steven Adams and Chagoon have worked together.

2347
01:55:33,800 --> 01:55:36,399
Speaker 3: I'm just amazed, Well they work together.

2348
01:55:36,880 --> 01:55:38,000
Speaker 8: I don't know how you feel about that.

2349
01:55:38,479 --> 01:55:42,159
Speaker 1: Oh, for sure. Yeah, I never thought they would work

2350
01:55:42,199 --> 01:55:44,279
together like that, but they have been very very effective.

2351
01:55:46,960 --> 01:55:48,520
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's all I really have to say. I just

2352
01:55:48,720 --> 01:55:49,840
that's the biggest surprise.

2353
01:55:50,520 --> 01:55:52,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's surprise because I would not have thought that

2354
01:55:52,920 --> 01:55:55,359
was in the repertoire. But it has worked out very

2355
01:55:55,439 --> 01:55:57,760
very well. All right, let's talk to em Adoka next.

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01:55:57,840 --> 01:55:59,600
He'll join us here on the program seven to one

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01:55:59,640 --> 01:56:03,079
to three two one two five seven ninety seven to

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01:56:03,119 --> 01:56:06,199
one three, two one two five seven ninety. Em Doke

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01:56:06,399 --> 01:56:08,840
is next. It's one twenty six here on Sports Talk

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01:56:08,880 --> 01:56:14,520
seven ninety one thirty on Sports Talk seven ninety it

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01:56:14,680 --> 01:56:17,239
is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Ross the day off,

2362
01:56:17,319 --> 01:56:19,880
Let's spend tenqulty minutes right now with the head basketball

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01:56:19,920 --> 01:56:24,920
coach of your second seeded Western Conference playoffs Houston Rockets,

2364
01:56:24,920 --> 01:56:27,640
Ema Doko with this on the show. Coach, Thanks for

2365
01:56:27,760 --> 01:56:30,880
joining me like this morning. A thought or two about

2366
01:56:31,319 --> 01:56:34,600
first of all, capturing the two seed and obviously you

2367
01:56:34,840 --> 01:56:37,039
sat out some folks against the Clippers the other night.

2368
01:56:37,119 --> 01:56:39,479
And what's it like being in a in a really

2369
01:56:39,560 --> 01:56:41,640
good spot here we can rest some guys between now

2370
01:56:41,640 --> 01:56:42,680
and the end of the regular season.

2371
01:56:44,840 --> 01:56:46,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an accomplishment.

2372
01:56:46,079 --> 01:56:49,520
Speaker 23: Obviously got more to go, but you know, our guys

2373
01:56:49,560 --> 01:56:51,800
should be proud of where we're at and the fact

2374
01:56:51,800 --> 01:56:54,760
that we earned some rest and are in a position

2375
01:56:54,880 --> 01:56:58,520
to pick our own, our own destiny and fate instead of.

2376
01:56:58,479 --> 01:56:59,640
Speaker 3: Having to rely on anybody else.

2377
01:56:59,680 --> 01:57:02,159
Speaker 23: There'll be in the late season battles like a lot

2378
01:57:02,159 --> 01:57:05,039
of teams are doing right now. So guys understand that

2379
01:57:05,159 --> 01:57:07,159
they deserve it. They put in the work to get here,

2380
01:57:07,319 --> 01:57:09,680
and now it's a chance to get healed up, rested up,

2381
01:57:10,159 --> 01:57:13,199
sharpened up and give some other guys some opportunities so

2382
01:57:13,239 --> 01:57:14,279
we can improve our depth.

2383
01:57:15,319 --> 01:57:17,079
Speaker 1: Is everybody? I mean, by the time that you guys

2384
01:57:17,119 --> 01:57:18,560
get started, you feel like if they'll be back to

2385
01:57:18,560 --> 01:57:20,199
close to one hundred percent? Is this is this off

2386
01:57:20,239 --> 01:57:22,680
time between not only these games that they may or

2387
01:57:22,720 --> 01:57:24,479
may not playing in the week off. Is that is

2388
01:57:24,520 --> 01:57:27,439
that put you as close on a hundred percent as possible? Oh?

2389
01:57:27,520 --> 01:57:30,039
Speaker 23: Absolutely, I mean other than All Star Break, you don't

2390
01:57:30,039 --> 01:57:32,560
get this amount of time off in the season at all.

2391
01:57:32,640 --> 01:57:34,680
Speaker 3: And so we got guys nicked up.

2392
01:57:34,760 --> 01:57:37,000
Speaker 23: You know, if Fred got the ankle, Jabari had come

2393
01:57:37,079 --> 01:57:39,079
off the ankle and got a little growing some out,

2394
01:57:39,159 --> 01:57:41,279
you got a little back and things here and there.

2395
01:57:41,560 --> 01:57:43,520
They could obviously play through if we needed to, but

2396
01:57:44,439 --> 01:57:46,319
a chance to get healed up. Obviously in these games,

2397
01:57:46,920 --> 01:57:49,479
don't want to be off too long, so we'll get

2398
01:57:49,520 --> 01:57:53,039
in some work in the next two games, but chance

2399
01:57:53,119 --> 01:57:55,760
to stay sharp, get rested, get healed, and at this

2400
01:57:55,840 --> 01:57:58,119
time of year, with that week off before the playoffs,

2401
01:57:58,159 --> 01:57:59,920
avoiding the playing is a big advantage as well.

2402
01:58:01,399 --> 01:58:03,199
Speaker 1: So is there gonna be a big watch party at

2403
01:58:03,279 --> 01:58:06,359
the Adoka House on Tuesday night to see who you play?

2404
01:58:08,119 --> 01:58:10,399
Speaker 3: Not a watch party, but I'll be watching alone to

2405
01:58:10,439 --> 01:58:11,920
see something like that.

2406
01:58:12,039 --> 01:58:15,399
Speaker 23: Obviously myself and the staff will be preparing for two opponents,

2407
01:58:15,439 --> 01:58:18,199
and so we'll have a step ahead regardless of who

2408
01:58:18,239 --> 01:58:20,359
it is, and then obviously focused and zero in on

2409
01:58:21,000 --> 01:58:22,720
the opponent once we figure out who it is. But

2410
01:58:23,880 --> 01:58:25,760
it's a little bit different than the years past, where

2411
01:58:26,319 --> 01:58:27,960
you may know a week before who you're going to

2412
01:58:28,000 --> 01:58:31,399
play based on the stootings. The playing brings another element

2413
01:58:31,439 --> 01:58:34,600
to that, but exciting for the fans, opportunity for other

2414
01:58:34,640 --> 01:58:35,399
teams to sneak in.

2415
01:58:35,520 --> 01:58:37,760
Speaker 3: But we have to prepare for two as if we're

2416
01:58:37,760 --> 01:58:38,640
playing each of them.

2417
01:58:39,399 --> 01:58:41,359
Speaker 1: You may have your personal favorite and I wouldn't ask

2418
01:58:41,560 --> 01:58:43,560
that of you because I have my personal favorite and

2419
01:58:43,560 --> 01:58:44,960
I don't want to give that out too much either.

2420
01:58:45,039 --> 01:58:48,199
But the point being is that you know, I've looked

2421
01:58:48,199 --> 01:58:49,680
at the standing to look at it every day. I

2422
01:58:49,760 --> 01:58:52,840
look at it fifteen times a day. I didn't anticipate

2423
01:58:52,880 --> 01:58:55,960
the Spurs beating the Warriors a couple of nights back,

2424
01:58:56,119 --> 01:59:00,600
and then they lose that game, and then Memphis loses

2425
01:59:00,680 --> 01:59:03,920
to Minnesota and that moves up the Golden State of

2426
01:59:04,000 --> 01:59:07,439
the six spot. It's incredible how tight these teams are

2427
01:59:07,560 --> 01:59:10,039
and how you try to anticipate who you might be playing,

2428
01:59:10,079 --> 01:59:13,199
and it would be frankly idiotic to do it because

2429
01:59:13,520 --> 01:59:15,439
things could just change here a lot in the next

2430
01:59:15,520 --> 01:59:16,199
forty eight hours.

2431
01:59:17,359 --> 01:59:20,319
Speaker 23: Yeah, that's why ever since, probably with ten games out,

2432
01:59:20,399 --> 01:59:23,119
twenty games out, we've worried about ourselves and wanted to

2433
01:59:23,159 --> 01:59:26,159
be in this position to solidify our seed.

2434
01:59:26,000 --> 01:59:28,119
Speaker 3: And not have to worry about anybody or get the help.

2435
01:59:28,159 --> 01:59:31,399
Speaker 23: And at this point, to your point, it could be

2436
01:59:31,439 --> 01:59:33,880
anybody changes on a nightly basis, and a lot of

2437
01:59:33,920 --> 01:59:35,800
these teams are playing each other heads up, so it

2438
01:59:35,880 --> 01:59:39,199
can change and flip flop, like you said, game to game,

2439
01:59:39,319 --> 01:59:39,880
night to night and.

2440
01:59:39,960 --> 01:59:42,119
Speaker 3: So for us, so we worried about ourselves.

2441
01:59:42,159 --> 01:59:44,479
Speaker 23: We'll figure out the opponent when it's there and not

2442
01:59:44,600 --> 01:59:47,159
try to get too cute and manipulate anything. And like

2443
01:59:47,239 --> 01:59:49,000
I said, being in the number two seed with the

2444
01:59:49,119 --> 01:59:51,159
days off and the rest is that was our goal.

2445
01:59:51,520 --> 01:59:54,199
Be healthy, be playing our best basketball, be sharp, And

2446
01:59:54,439 --> 01:59:55,319
then we've achieved that.

2447
01:59:55,920 --> 01:59:57,319
Speaker 1: You might not have said this yet, but I know

2448
01:59:57,399 --> 01:59:59,000
there's going to be a speech coming up from you

2449
01:59:59,159 --> 02:00:01,800
about what plays basketball is Like Dylan knows about it,

2450
02:00:01,880 --> 02:00:04,439
Steven knows about it, Fred knows about it, but you've

2451
02:00:04,439 --> 02:00:05,960
got a lot of young men that don't. So what

2452
02:00:06,680 --> 02:00:09,840
have you told them from your experience about the game

2453
02:00:09,920 --> 02:00:12,720
of the NBA playoffs that is unlike a regular season game.

2454
02:00:14,319 --> 02:00:15,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, that everything's heightened.

2455
02:00:15,920 --> 02:00:19,239
Speaker 23: I think we've done a pretty good job of building

2456
02:00:19,279 --> 02:00:21,439
toward that in the last ten games. We obviously our

2457
02:00:21,520 --> 02:00:23,680
last eight games, I think seven of those were against

2458
02:00:23,720 --> 02:00:27,079
high level teams, playoff contenders, and so we already had

2459
02:00:27,119 --> 02:00:30,079
our mindset around starting to shift our mentality towards that

2460
02:00:30,479 --> 02:00:31,439
preparing for the playoffs.

2461
02:00:31,479 --> 02:00:33,199
Speaker 3: So we don't have to flip a switch. But what

2462
02:00:33,319 --> 02:00:35,439
we do is what we do, and it carries well

2463
02:00:35,560 --> 02:00:35,760
in the.

2464
02:00:35,720 --> 02:00:38,880
Speaker 23: Playoffs, of physicality, the effort that we play with all

2465
02:00:38,880 --> 02:00:41,640
those things are great things going forward, but you have

2466
02:00:41,720 --> 02:00:42,920
to experience it for the first time.

2467
02:00:43,000 --> 02:00:45,239
Speaker 3: But at the same time, keep its simple as just

2468
02:00:45,359 --> 02:00:46,119
basketball and what.

2469
02:00:46,199 --> 02:00:48,600
Speaker 23: We do works and what we've done all year the

2470
02:00:48,680 --> 02:00:50,279
guys that bought into so at the end of the

2471
02:00:50,399 --> 02:00:51,640
day that will carry over.

2472
02:00:51,720 --> 02:00:52,920
Speaker 3: Well, I'll let the.

2473
02:00:52,920 --> 02:00:54,720
Speaker 23: Bets talk to the guys about experience as well, but

2474
02:00:55,079 --> 02:00:57,159
we'll share our stories. But getting out there and getting

2475
02:00:57,159 --> 02:00:58,560
a feed wet for the first time is the best

2476
02:00:58,600 --> 02:00:59,159
way to handle it.

2477
02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:02,039
Speaker 1: What do you think was more impactful and it could

2478
02:01:02,039 --> 02:01:04,319
be both. The answer to it you guys playing more

2479
02:01:04,439 --> 02:01:06,239
zone second half of the year or you go into

2480
02:01:06,279 --> 02:01:07,840
the double big lineup second half the year.

2481
02:01:09,359 --> 02:01:12,800
Speaker 23: Well, they coincided with each other, honestly, and so the

2482
02:01:12,920 --> 02:01:15,359
reason obviously, when you play a smaller lineup, we can

2483
02:01:15,399 --> 02:01:17,000
switch some things and the.

2484
02:01:17,039 --> 02:01:17,720
Speaker 3: Results are great.

2485
02:01:17,760 --> 02:01:20,000
Speaker 23: I mean we're top whatever three in the league and defense,

2486
02:01:20,039 --> 02:01:22,720
and so what we do mainly works, no doubt. But

2487
02:01:24,000 --> 02:01:25,680
when you want to play the double bigs, which is

2488
02:01:25,760 --> 02:01:28,680
really good offensively, you have to go to the zone

2489
02:01:28,720 --> 02:01:31,239
with some of those smaller lineups, and so they coincide

2490
02:01:31,279 --> 02:01:33,520
with each other. The more double big we played and

2491
02:01:33,600 --> 02:01:35,720
teams don't match it, they try to downsize. We have

2492
02:01:35,800 --> 02:01:38,399
to play some zone for matchup purposes, and our zone

2493
02:01:38,479 --> 02:01:42,159
is really good. Communication is good. We got active at

2494
02:01:42,199 --> 02:01:45,039
great activity. Feels like we are talking even more in

2495
02:01:45,119 --> 02:01:47,239
the zone than in man. And then on the offensive

2496
02:01:47,319 --> 02:01:49,560
end we take advantage. We have big bodies down there

2497
02:01:49,600 --> 02:01:52,840
getting second third opportunities and so they go hand to hand,

2498
02:01:52,880 --> 02:01:56,239
no doubt. But even when we do play with one big,

2499
02:01:56,319 --> 02:01:57,199
we do like our zone.

2500
02:01:57,279 --> 02:01:58,079
Speaker 3: The activity is good.

2501
02:01:58,159 --> 02:02:00,600
Speaker 23: Keep teams out of rhythm and part guys if they're

2502
02:02:00,600 --> 02:02:02,119
in power trouble or a little bit of rest.

2503
02:02:02,640 --> 02:02:04,119
Speaker 1: You may talk with us for a few more minutes

2504
02:02:04,159 --> 02:02:06,479
here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross you may

2505
02:02:06,520 --> 02:02:08,840
you took the Celtics to the NBA Finals and you

2506
02:02:09,000 --> 02:02:12,119
played three series and won them. What is it like

2507
02:02:13,359 --> 02:02:15,520
for the players, because look, video is a huge part

2508
02:02:15,560 --> 02:02:18,079
of it. Are there a lot of things that teams

2509
02:02:18,119 --> 02:02:20,119
will throw at you different wrinkles or is it just

2510
02:02:20,399 --> 02:02:24,279
kind of accentuate the stuff that you want to do?

2511
02:02:24,359 --> 02:02:27,199
I mean meaning, is there anything that the other teams

2512
02:02:27,239 --> 02:02:29,479
could be hiding that they have not put out until

2513
02:02:29,640 --> 02:02:31,279
the playoffs and would that surprised you at all if

2514
02:02:31,279 --> 02:02:32,920
teams would make a massive shift or is that just

2515
02:02:32,920 --> 02:02:34,159
doesn't happen in the NBA in right now.

2516
02:02:36,159 --> 02:02:37,239
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a little bit of both.

2517
02:02:37,720 --> 02:02:39,479
Speaker 23: You have to do what you do really well and

2518
02:02:39,600 --> 02:02:42,279
then obviously somebody's going to make an adjustment at some point.

2519
02:02:42,399 --> 02:02:45,199
If with what you're doing is working, obviously stick with

2520
02:02:45,319 --> 02:02:48,279
it and try to amplify that. But teams that are

2521
02:02:48,359 --> 02:02:51,159
struggling will obviously go to adjustments. And that's the job

2522
02:02:51,279 --> 02:02:53,800
of the coaching staff to have you know, plan ABC,

2523
02:02:54,000 --> 02:02:57,640
D E if you need B. And for us, I

2524
02:02:57,720 --> 02:02:59,319
think we've thrown a lot out our guys this year,

2525
02:02:59,640 --> 02:03:02,000
mixed some things to keep teams off balance, off rhythm,

2526
02:03:02,079 --> 02:03:04,479
and you don't throw it all out in a meaningless game,

2527
02:03:04,520 --> 02:03:06,560
but you save certain things that you've seen worked well.

2528
02:03:06,720 --> 02:03:08,840
And then obviously you have all your stuff in your

2529
02:03:08,840 --> 02:03:11,560
back pocket, and so if what you're doing works, you

2530
02:03:11,640 --> 02:03:14,840
go with it until need be. But expecting other teams

2531
02:03:14,880 --> 02:03:17,039
to throw adjustments if they're struggling in a certain area

2532
02:03:17,159 --> 02:03:19,079
or trying to take advantage of something. So it's a

2533
02:03:19,079 --> 02:03:21,720
little bit of a chess match, of course, much different

2534
02:03:21,760 --> 02:03:23,720
than a regular season game where you're preparing for that

2535
02:03:23,800 --> 02:03:25,600
team one time, and then you're moving on to the next.

2536
02:03:25,680 --> 02:03:29,199
It's back and forth ups and downs of a playoff series,

2537
02:03:29,239 --> 02:03:30,560
and a lot of times it comes down to.

2538
02:03:30,600 --> 02:03:33,119
Speaker 1: That in your mind and your history of being in

2539
02:03:33,199 --> 02:03:35,880
the league. Are the whistles tighter or are they a

2540
02:03:35,960 --> 02:03:37,279
little looser come playoff time?

2541
02:03:38,840 --> 02:03:41,560
Speaker 23: No, I definitely think they'll let you play more, which,

2542
02:03:41,680 --> 02:03:44,439
like I said, goes well for us. You know, we

2543
02:03:44,760 --> 02:03:46,159
want to be a physical team. We are one of

2544
02:03:46,199 --> 02:03:48,399
the more aggressive physical teams, and at times we have

2545
02:03:48,479 --> 02:03:50,199
to adjust to how they're calling it in a regular

2546
02:03:50,239 --> 02:03:52,880
season game. In the playoffs, the game slows down, the

2547
02:03:52,920 --> 02:03:55,840
physicality goes up, and I think, like I said, what

2548
02:03:56,000 --> 02:03:58,199
we do well well, we do well travels in the

2549
02:03:58,239 --> 02:04:00,439
playoff and so it's not like we're trying to flip

2550
02:04:00,520 --> 02:04:02,319
a switch and become aggressive all of a sudden. That's

2551
02:04:02,319 --> 02:04:04,680
what we've been all year, and so they let you

2552
02:04:04,720 --> 02:04:06,760
play more, no doubt. I think, like we said, the

2553
02:04:06,760 --> 02:04:08,880
pay slows down, you have to grind out possessions on

2554
02:04:08,960 --> 02:04:10,039
both sides of the ball, and so.

2555
02:04:11,520 --> 02:04:12,640
Speaker 3: It bodes well for us.

2556
02:04:12,720 --> 02:04:14,680
Speaker 23: It's in our favor to have that, and we like

2557
02:04:14,760 --> 02:04:16,560
the games that they let us play aggressive, and so

2558
02:04:16,800 --> 02:04:18,159
that's that's the case in the playoffs.

2559
02:04:19,279 --> 02:04:21,159
Speaker 1: Great stuffer is always coach. Thank you for the time.

2560
02:04:21,199 --> 02:04:23,159
We'll talk in next week prior to the series, and

2561
02:04:23,720 --> 02:04:26,600
we'll see later on tonight in the Crypto dot com

2562
02:04:26,680 --> 02:04:29,479
for the Rockets and Lakers. Appreciate it as always. Thank you,

2563
02:04:30,119 --> 02:04:31,520
We'll see you. You may dook it with us year

2564
02:04:32,039 --> 02:04:35,000
on Sports Talk seven ninety. All right, there's a few

2565
02:04:35,039 --> 02:04:38,520
thoughts about the Rockets playoff from the head coach himself,

2566
02:04:38,640 --> 02:04:42,159
and we will have those games starting up a week.

2567
02:04:42,319 --> 02:04:43,920
I think it's gonna be a week from Saturday, don't

2568
02:04:43,920 --> 02:04:45,880
hold me to that. But the first playoff game, the

2569
02:04:45,920 --> 02:04:49,359
first two games the playoffs will be in to our centers.

2570
02:04:49,399 --> 02:04:51,000
They will have the two seed and they will have

2571
02:04:51,199 --> 02:04:56,079
games one, two, five, and seven if that is needed

2572
02:04:56,439 --> 02:04:59,199
in a seven game series. All right, let's do non

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02:04:59,239 --> 02:05:01,000
Florida stories next. To wrap things up today, I just

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02:05:01,039 --> 02:05:02,399
did not do a Believe or not because I'm just

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02:05:02,479 --> 02:05:06,760
not feeling great and so thus, uh, if you have

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02:05:07,640 --> 02:05:10,279
an opportunity to listen and just relax and enjoy this

2577
02:05:10,359 --> 02:05:12,079
final segment of the show, I thank you for that,

2578
02:05:12,279 --> 02:05:15,199
because we're gonna give you some stories that every other

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02:05:15,239 --> 02:05:17,800
state in the Union can brag about, except Florida. Because

2580
02:05:18,159 --> 02:05:21,359
every other radio show in the marketplace does stories about Florida.

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02:05:21,399 --> 02:05:22,880
We do non Florida stories, and we'll have it for

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02:05:22,920 --> 02:05:25,760
you next here on the show. One forty is our

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02:05:25,840 --> 02:05:28,920
time seven one three two one two five seven nine.

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02:05:28,920 --> 02:05:30,439
If you want to jump in and say anything about

2585
02:05:31,079 --> 02:05:33,560
what Emay had to say, any thoughts about the Astros

2586
02:05:33,560 --> 02:05:36,640
weekend series with the Los Angeles Angels, all that is

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02:05:36,720 --> 02:05:39,199
fair game. Plus, Jalen Peatree signed a new contract, a

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02:05:39,239 --> 02:05:43,000
three year extension for thirty nine million dollars, and that

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02:05:43,119 --> 02:05:49,239
means that Peatree and Stingley had both been paid this offseason.

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02:05:49,279 --> 02:05:52,039
So two half of your text and starting secondary is

2591
02:05:52,359 --> 02:05:55,840
very very well compensated. Seven one three two one two

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02:05:55,920 --> 02:05:57,199
five seven nine. If you want a time in and

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02:05:57,319 --> 02:05:59,000
say hello, we got to no on Florida stories coming

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02:05:59,079 --> 02:06:02,079
up in just matter moments against seven one three two

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02:06:02,199 --> 02:06:04,760
one two five seven ninety in the eighteen will be

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with you today coming up at two o'clock.

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Speaker 20: We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of

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02:06:15,159 --> 02:06:22,760
Florida and share them with the people of Houston. It's

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02:06:22,880 --> 02:06:40,319
time for non Florida I'll time for non Florida store

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02:06:40,520 --> 02:06:49,079
on coast to coast ollgrading strange and wild, no alligator

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02:06:49,239 --> 02:06:51,760
e tails, but something that will.

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02:06:51,680 --> 02:06:52,960
Speaker 10: Make you smile.

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Speaker 20: It's time for laps from far and wha. In this

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02:07:03,479 --> 02:07:06,119
cracy world, there's no.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, and I made it down the home

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02:07:20,319 --> 02:07:25,039
stretch here on the Matt Towmas Show with Ross, I'm

2607
02:07:25,039 --> 02:07:27,159
gonna take a big nap, hopefully be in much better

2608
02:07:27,279 --> 02:07:29,000
frame of mind for the Rockets and Lakers that are

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02:07:29,039 --> 02:07:32,479
on tonight. Since Ross is not here, I'll do two

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02:07:32,520 --> 02:07:36,680
stories and Jonathan you'll do one. All right, I'm gonna

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go first. We're gonna go to uh space you okay

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with that?

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Speaker 6: Okay?

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Speaker 1: For obviously here, I'm gonna read this sentence in this

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02:07:50,039 --> 02:07:53,479
story that I saw for humanity to become a space

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02:07:53,840 --> 02:07:57,399
faring civilization, there's a lot of there is a blank

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02:07:57,479 --> 02:08:01,279
ton of problems to solve. I think i'll have you

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know what blank is. There's a blank ton of problems

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02:08:04,680 --> 02:08:07,359
to solve, one of which is how to deal with

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02:08:08,640 --> 02:08:15,079
are poop oh God, currently on the moon. I don't

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02:08:15,079 --> 02:08:16,960
know if you knew this or not. There are a

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02:08:17,119 --> 02:08:19,920
hundred plastic bags of even cramp on the Moon right

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now because the people out there, Yeah, they just wait,

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02:08:25,600 --> 02:08:26,560
you gotta go, you gotta go.

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Speaker 12: I mean, huh, it's filthy.

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02:08:31,399 --> 02:08:34,359
Speaker 1: I mean, it is what it is. I didn't realize

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it was that many. That's a hundred, that's a lot,

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Oh my god. To spark solutions, NASA has launched the

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Lunar Recycled Challenge. It is a three million dollars competition

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quote focused on the design and development of recycling solutions

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that can reduce solid waste and improve the sustainability of

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longer term lunar missions. Space Agency says that NASA's committed

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to sustainable space exploration. As we prepare for future human

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02:09:06,520 --> 02:09:08,479
space missions, there will be a need to consider how

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02:09:08,600 --> 02:09:13,279
various waste streams, including solid waste, can be minimized, as

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02:09:13,319 --> 02:09:16,239
well as how waste can be stored, processed, and recycled

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02:09:16,800 --> 02:09:18,840
in a space environment so that little or no waste

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will be needed to return return to Earth.

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Speaker 5: What the what's the problem of doing space letter? Like,

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02:09:25,399 --> 02:09:27,479
what's still the scientifical reason why they don't.

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Speaker 1: Want a hundred bags of poop up on the mood?

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So they don't want accordinate A Space Agency innovations could

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02:09:33,920 --> 02:09:36,640
also trickle down to Earth and eventually lead to technology

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02:09:36,720 --> 02:09:39,960
to help terrestrial communities eventually and safely deal with their

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02:09:39,960 --> 02:09:40,399
own poop.

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Speaker 12: I don't believe it.

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02:09:44,640 --> 02:09:47,399
Speaker 1: How can you recycle poop in space? NASA will pay

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02:09:47,439 --> 02:09:50,960
three million dollars for an answer, So if you have

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02:09:51,039 --> 02:09:53,760
the answer of how you recycle poop, it could make

2650
02:09:53,800 --> 02:09:57,520
you a very rich man. If you would have said, Matt,

2651
02:09:57,720 --> 02:10:00,479
how many bags of poop are on the Moon? I

2652
02:10:00,520 --> 02:10:05,159
would not upset one hundred? But now you know all

2653
02:10:05,279 --> 02:10:07,560
hundred bags of poop? Is it like trash bags?

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02:10:07,640 --> 02:10:08,079
Speaker 13: Or is it like?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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02:10:09,079 --> 02:10:10,039
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's a great question.

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Speaker 12: I'm having a hard time seeing that.

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02:10:11,680 --> 02:10:17,039
Speaker 1: Like well, my guess would be like maybe like Sam

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with the zip lock bags.

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Speaker 5: Maybe No way, it's gonna be like a big CBS

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02:10:20,880 --> 02:10:22,079
bag at least right.

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02:10:22,880 --> 02:10:24,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you gotta leave yourself pon in your room.

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You don't want to mess it up.

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02:10:27,399 --> 02:10:28,560
Speaker 12: We're messing somebody's lunch up.

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02:10:28,600 --> 02:10:29,039
Speaker 13: I just know that.

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02:10:29,319 --> 02:10:31,640
Speaker 1: I know there are people driving around town going did

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02:10:31,680 --> 02:10:33,800
I need to hear this right now? At one? Yes

2668
02:10:33,880 --> 02:10:37,319
you did, because that is my first nine and Florida story.

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02:10:37,319 --> 02:10:37,680
Speaker 3: What do you all?

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02:10:37,760 --> 02:10:40,880
Speaker 1: She got? All right?

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02:10:41,279 --> 02:10:46,479
Speaker 5: I got Jude Hill off Plymouth, England. She went and

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02:10:46,600 --> 02:10:49,119
traveled to Thailand a few months ago out there fire

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02:10:49,279 --> 02:10:52,920
at her home in September. Metro News reported around three

2674
02:10:52,960 --> 02:10:56,399
am on Christmas, Hill and her boyfriend that she went

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02:10:56,439 --> 02:10:59,479
and traveled with. We're seeing in the lobby of the

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02:10:59,600 --> 02:11:07,800
film Flipper Lodge Hotel and Pataya, Thailand, consummating, consummatated, consummating

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02:11:07,960 --> 02:11:09,800
their relationship on a sofa in the.

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02:11:09,800 --> 02:11:10,479
Speaker 12: Middle of the lobby.

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02:11:10,920 --> 02:11:15,399
Speaker 5: That's fine, bear, nothing just straight, you know what I

2680
02:11:15,479 --> 02:11:17,640
mean When this is said, the pair didn't tried to

2681
02:11:17,760 --> 02:11:21,840
move the glass table in action, but as they were

2682
02:11:21,920 --> 02:11:27,279
going and getting more experienced, it shattered. Quote from the lobby,

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02:11:27,359 --> 02:11:30,000
the staff lobby that was there behind the desk, not

2684
02:11:30,359 --> 02:11:32,520
when they got approached from the people says. We approached

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02:11:32,520 --> 02:11:35,119
them and they discovered they weren't even hotels counselors at all.

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02:11:35,359 --> 02:11:38,720
So we tried to usher him out, but Hill tried

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02:11:38,720 --> 02:11:40,079
to run away with her clothes as well as a

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02:11:40,119 --> 02:11:43,920
boyfriend going in going and getting detained by near a

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02:11:44,039 --> 02:11:48,000
nearby beach over in Thailand by an armed officer. The

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02:11:48,119 --> 02:11:52,800
hotel plans to plus chargers on both Hill and the boyfriend.

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02:11:53,399 --> 02:11:55,960
Speaker 1: So basically these people went to a hotel, didn't stay there,

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02:11:55,960 --> 02:11:57,279
and had sex in the lobby.

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02:11:57,279 --> 02:11:59,640
Speaker 12: Just she had her house was burnt down.

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02:12:00,079 --> 02:12:02,279
Speaker 5: They wanted to go travel, and they went in the

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02:12:02,399 --> 02:12:04,720
middle of three am, and there's just no one in there.

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02:12:04,760 --> 02:12:06,359
Speaker 12: You know how the hotels, no one's in there.

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02:12:06,800 --> 02:12:07,119
Speaker 1: It's there.

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02:12:07,600 --> 02:12:11,239
Speaker 12: Boom just went crazy and broke the table in the process.

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02:12:13,800 --> 02:12:18,359
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean love, no love knows no bounds.

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02:12:18,520 --> 02:12:20,960
Speaker 12: Correct love and Thailand, I guess I don't.

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02:12:24,319 --> 02:12:26,479
Speaker 1: Could you imagine walking into a hotel and having people

2702
02:12:26,640 --> 02:12:29,479
just having second Maybe I do. It doesn't only matter

2703
02:12:29,479 --> 02:12:31,000
if they're attractive or not, just the whole act of

2704
02:12:31,079 --> 02:12:32,239
having sex in the middle of a line.

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02:12:32,359 --> 02:12:33,560
Speaker 12: The smell is probably horrible.

2706
02:12:33,720 --> 02:12:34,920
Speaker 6: Oh my god, that's true.

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02:12:36,119 --> 02:12:40,399
Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Thailand, Non Florida story. My last norms.

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02:12:40,520 --> 02:12:42,039
My story is about a woman by the name of

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02:12:42,079 --> 02:12:48,760
Marie Pearl Zelmer Robinson. She admits she has a big

2710
02:12:48,880 --> 02:12:52,880
yawn when she opens her jaw, there was always this

2711
02:12:53,000 --> 02:12:55,640
sizable gap between her top and bottom row of teeth,

2712
02:12:55,880 --> 02:13:01,439
exposing her tongue. Okay, she tells the Ketchacanda Only News

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02:13:01,479 --> 02:13:03,680
in Ketchacan, Alaska. I've always kind of known I've had

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02:13:03,680 --> 02:13:06,439
a big mouth. I talk a lot, and apparently I

2715
02:13:06,520 --> 02:13:08,760
do have a physically big mouth, but we never really

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02:13:08,800 --> 02:13:11,039
did anything about it. I was always just kind of

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02:13:11,079 --> 02:13:13,239
a joke that I could fit two, you know, three

2718
02:13:13,239 --> 02:13:18,760
and a half jinga blocks in my mouth. Excude, Okay,

2719
02:13:19,760 --> 02:13:23,359
she can fit three and a half jinga blocks.

2720
02:13:24,039 --> 02:13:24,680
Speaker 12: That isn't that how?

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02:13:28,319 --> 02:13:33,039
Speaker 1: That's like she is submitting evidence, oh, to the World

2722
02:13:33,119 --> 02:13:36,319
Records Club that she has the largest mouth gape in

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02:13:36,439 --> 02:13:37,239
America today.

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02:13:39,520 --> 02:13:40,359
Speaker 12: She wants that title.

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02:13:41,039 --> 02:13:42,000
Speaker 1: She wants that title.

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02:13:43,079 --> 02:13:46,159
Speaker 12: Hmm, the irony.

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02:13:48,239 --> 02:13:49,840
Speaker 1: If there's any women listening to the show right now,

2728
02:13:50,680 --> 02:13:54,039
would you want that title of having the biggest mouth?

2729
02:13:57,239 --> 02:13:59,880
Speaker 5: I couldn't imagine introducing your wife. Yeah, this is my wife,

2730
02:14:00,199 --> 02:14:02,560
you know, the biggest mouth on the you know, in

2731
02:14:02,600 --> 02:14:03,119
the little world.

2732
02:14:03,239 --> 02:14:05,880
Speaker 1: There is video of this, not video, there are still

2733
02:14:05,920 --> 02:14:09,720
photos of her shoving a coke can or in a

2734
02:14:09,800 --> 02:14:11,039
soup can in her mouth.

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02:14:12,520 --> 02:14:12,800
Speaker 12: Soup.

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02:14:13,119 --> 02:14:16,720
Speaker 1: She's very proud of her record, she says. She just

2737
02:14:16,760 --> 02:14:19,720
doesn't go around showing you everyone when I do, it

2738
02:14:19,880 --> 02:14:22,720
kind of creeps people out. That's a creepy jaws, she says.

2739
02:14:24,279 --> 02:14:25,239
Speaker 12: And what's wrong with the job.

2740
02:14:26,119 --> 02:14:28,720
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with it. It's just it's big.

2741
02:14:28,960 --> 02:14:29,800
Speaker 12: She was just born that way.

2742
02:14:30,359 --> 02:14:33,840
Speaker 1: Yoh yeah? Oh no, how many jingas can you put

2743
02:14:33,880 --> 02:14:35,279
in your mouth? Can you put three and a halves?

2744
02:14:35,279 --> 02:14:37,279
Speaker 12: Is she talking about the mega zingle blocks sometimes? I think?

2745
02:14:37,399 --> 02:14:38,840
Do you think box are kind of small?

2746
02:14:38,960 --> 02:14:42,760
Speaker 1: Noah, I mean the videos, I mean the photos in there.

2747
02:14:42,800 --> 02:14:43,239
Speaker 12: She can stick.

2748
02:14:43,359 --> 02:14:45,600
Speaker 1: She can stick a lot of one hundred dollars bills

2749
02:14:45,600 --> 02:14:46,039
in her mouth.

2750
02:14:46,399 --> 02:14:47,199
Speaker 12: She can good block.

2751
02:14:49,000 --> 02:14:54,680
Speaker 1: Her mouth is seven point five nine centimeters long or

2752
02:14:54,760 --> 02:14:58,960
two point nine eight inches, So those are you playing

2753
02:14:59,000 --> 02:15:02,720
at home? Two point nine eight inches? How long her

2754
02:15:02,760 --> 02:15:03,159
mouth is.

2755
02:15:05,319 --> 02:15:05,720
Speaker 12: Vertically?

2756
02:15:06,920 --> 02:15:12,079
Speaker 1: Yes, that's her job on is positioned back near her

2757
02:15:12,159 --> 02:15:14,840
ear canal, providing her with a wider range of movement.

2758
02:15:17,199 --> 02:15:18,159
She's really proud of this.

2759
02:15:18,960 --> 02:15:22,720
Speaker 12: These jingle blocks are huge, dude, Oh my god.

2760
02:15:23,199 --> 02:15:24,760
Speaker 1: I mean, don't you think she should be on America's

2761
02:15:24,800 --> 02:15:26,880
Got Talent to do something like that? I mean, that's crazy.

2762
02:15:26,960 --> 02:15:28,920
Speaker 5: I don't think anybody on America wants to see that

2763
02:15:28,960 --> 02:15:29,640
on television.

2764
02:15:29,960 --> 02:15:30,800
Speaker 1: You're probably ranked.

2765
02:15:31,279 --> 02:15:33,159
Speaker 12: I don't even like when the musicians do the sword

2766
02:15:33,199 --> 02:15:34,319
thing in their throat and try to.

2767
02:15:34,399 --> 02:15:35,159
Speaker 6: Like, you know what.

2768
02:15:35,399 --> 02:15:37,279
Speaker 1: I've never watched one full episode of that show.

2769
02:15:38,039 --> 02:15:40,640
Speaker 12: America's Got talent. Nope, is because a Nick Cannon Is

2770
02:15:40,680 --> 02:15:41,199
that a guy that was?

2771
02:15:41,479 --> 02:15:41,520
Speaker 3: No?

2772
02:15:41,720 --> 02:15:43,399
Speaker 1: No, I just I just don't like that kind of stuff.

2773
02:15:43,960 --> 02:15:45,800
I watched American Idol the first year, but then I

2774
02:15:45,920 --> 02:15:46,399
kinda get.

2775
02:15:46,319 --> 02:15:46,640
Speaker 13: Tired of it.

2776
02:15:46,760 --> 02:15:50,199
Speaker 1: I watched the first season of Hell's Kitchen, and I

2777
02:15:50,199 --> 02:15:52,520
got tired of it. I'm not a big reality show guy.

2778
02:15:53,319 --> 02:15:56,479
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like massive chef Master Scheff. Yeah, I get

2779
02:15:56,520 --> 02:15:58,640
that because it's it's tripped. It's scripted half the time. Though,

2780
02:15:58,920 --> 02:16:00,880
Like Jerry Springer came out scripted, I was like, oh

2781
02:16:00,920 --> 02:16:02,000
my god, my childhood's a lie.

2782
02:16:02,479 --> 02:16:06,319
Speaker 1: Oh no, my poor youth. Jerry Springer coke. And that

2783
02:16:07,159 --> 02:16:10,560
is how we close out today's edition of Non Florida

2784
02:16:10,600 --> 02:16:14,000
Stories and the show today we made it. Thank you

2785
02:16:14,319 --> 02:16:16,159
very much to all of you that called the show.

2786
02:16:16,920 --> 02:16:18,800
Because I was not feeling good. You guys came through

2787
02:16:18,840 --> 02:16:20,840
for me. Thank you very much to Jonathan for his

2788
02:16:20,920 --> 02:16:24,600
hard work today who as I have pulled up the

2789
02:16:24,640 --> 02:16:26,640
four hour shift. Now I'm going to take a deep nap.

2790
02:16:26,840 --> 02:16:28,840
You can't call me, you can't text me. I don't

2791
02:16:28,840 --> 02:16:31,079
care what you want to do. I am unavailable for

2792
02:16:31,159 --> 02:16:34,000
the next two hours. Up next to entertain you for

2793
02:16:34,040 --> 02:16:39,000
the next four, it's the eight T with clann and Wexler. Next,

2794
02:16:39,079 --> 02:16:41,760
I'll talk to you for Rockets at nineteen thirty. I'm

2795
02:16:41,840 --> 02:16:44,000
seven forty good. I never