Speaker 1: Welcome back to Eve Sports Radio. I can't believe it's
Speaker 1: June sixth, Friday. Thank god it's Friday, beautiful day outside.
Speaker 1: The rain's gonna hold off. I'm gonna have a tremendous
Speaker 1: event on Monday. There is a God. That's all that
Speaker 1: I know. But welcome back to Eves Sports Radio. Phone
Speaker 1: numbers five zero, two, five seven, one, seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 1: This is Sports Talk seven ninety wkr D. We have
Speaker 1: got Rick behind the glass. Shannon, of course, is doing
Speaker 1: a remote with Matt Jones somewhere throughout the state, so
Speaker 1: Shannon stays busy.
Speaker 2: So Rick, welcome back. Great, good to be here.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, of course. You know you've got our cast of characters.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say anything Rick, who they are. I'll
Speaker 1: just introduce them on the Young Fella first. Anthony Eves,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: How are you? Anthony?
Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: I don't hear no, I hear you now, Yes, something happened, Yes,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 4: I'm doing good.
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to I'm analyzing how you just gave
Speaker 5: us our intro cast of characters. I don't know if
Speaker 5: that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Speaker 1: It all depends. See, it just depends on where your
Speaker 1: mind goes. Your mind went to a bad place, not
Speaker 1: my faults.
Speaker 2: What he thinks.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, it all depends, Anthony, you fell into trap.
Speaker 2: Let's just see what. Let's just see what.
Speaker 1: George Williams, mister mature, George, you've been around a long time. George,
Speaker 1: how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Oh? God, slick right out right off the beginning. That's why.
Speaker 6: I thought we not go by a name.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, character slick, Slick is my name, George.
Speaker 1: I know I do have people say that and Kroger's
Speaker 1: in different stores Slick, I said, I know, I know.
Speaker 6: It's okay, George, what Hall Hall of Famer really gave
Speaker 6: you that name?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 6: You know? I mean so like should be on your birthatipicate.
Speaker 6: I think, well, now.
Speaker 3: That ain't the name you like?
Speaker 6: The college and the name he really likes it.
Speaker 3: On the radio.
Speaker 1: You can't hit on the radio. No, not the four
Speaker 1: letter words. I answered to everything when it came to
Speaker 1: Coach Beard all absolutely everything. I knew who he was
Speaker 1: talking to, just like Anthony when I said cast the
Speaker 1: characters who I was talking to. I called Antney. I
Speaker 1: got Anthony though, George, I did get it. So hey, guys,
Speaker 1: listen to me. We've been watching basketball all our lives,
Speaker 1: playing it, watching it, enjoying it. These Pacers, I'm still
Speaker 1: picking Okac. I'm staying with my prediction, George. But you
Speaker 1: must give coach Carlisle, Tyre's Halliburton and that nim hart
Speaker 1: Obi topping the entire team. It must give them credit, George.
Speaker 1: They stayed the course till the end, no matter what,
Speaker 1: and they hit more big shots down the stretch as
Speaker 1: any team I've ever seen. They hit more threes, George.
Speaker 1: They banked them in. Come on, George, big boy bank
Speaker 1: them in. It's like, you know what, when it's going right,
Speaker 1: it's going right. But I'm staying with OKAC. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw it to Anthony first.
Speaker 2: Annie. You changing your prediction. Do you like the Pacers
Speaker 2: or you staying with Okac?
Speaker 4: I know a game one turn of events, I still
Speaker 4: still want to stay with OKAC. I just think overall,
Speaker 4: in the seven game series, I think they might get
Speaker 4: the best of the Pacers.
Speaker 5: But I will say this much, I will change my
Speaker 5: opinion about one thing. It's not gonna be a walk
Speaker 5: in the park like everybody thought it was, even like
Speaker 5: how I thought it was, And I wouldn't say necessarily
Speaker 5: a walk in the park.
Speaker 4: I thought the games would be a lot more difficult
Speaker 4: for the Pacers.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Obviously, they were down fifteen and the fourth last night,
Speaker 5: so I'm sitting here.
Speaker 4: Like it wasn't difficult.
Speaker 5: It's a difficult game for the Pacers for them to
Speaker 5: come back in amount that win on the road in
Speaker 5: game one of the finals that they haven't been to
Speaker 5: in over two decades, so it was a difficult.
Speaker 4: Win at all.
Speaker 5: But this Pacers team is very resilient, and I think
Speaker 5: we've seen that throughout the last couple of playoff series.
Speaker 5: We didn't see it this much in the regular season.
Speaker 5: It wasn't as glorified as much, but in the playoffs they.
Speaker 4: Had shown to be probably the most resilient team in
Speaker 4: the NBA right now. So it makes it very difficult
Speaker 4: for teams because they.
Speaker 5: Don't give up and they keep a very level, consistent
Speaker 5: head to where they fight back, and they walked teams
Speaker 5: down in the third and fourth quarter and they beat
Speaker 5: them down the stretch. They've done it multiple times, so
Speaker 5: this could easily I think easily.
Speaker 4: Go to a six to seven game series.
Speaker 1: There you go, George, I just want to know what
Speaker 1: did Miles Turner called the bank? Did he call the bank?
Speaker 1: You know, George, we've been playing all our lives. Did
Speaker 1: he call the bank on the three? Because if he
Speaker 1: didn't call the bank, it doesn't count.
Speaker 6: I think. I think you're a looking Hughes. You're talking
Speaker 6: about Newburgh basketball when he was in the park. This
Speaker 6: is real basketball right here, you know what I mean, George. Yeah,
Speaker 6: And for you who grew up with a coaster when
Speaker 6: he first came here, that that was his his pet
Speaker 6: peek fifteen foot bank shot.
Speaker 2: Absolutely Coach Crumb all right. So I don't know why
Speaker 2: you shouted about.
Speaker 6: That bank shot.
Speaker 2: I don't know the bank.
Speaker 1: Miles Turner did not call the bank on the step
Speaker 1: back three, George.
Speaker 6: That that has had nothing to do with what he practices,
Speaker 6: had nothing to do with he practiced, And you didn't
Speaker 6: have him miked up, so if he called it, you.
Speaker 3: Couldn't hear him.
Speaker 2: That's why I asked you, George.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to know, because if he did, George,
Speaker 1: you were Anthony.
Speaker 2: You're too young, George knows old people know Anthony.
Speaker 1: When you bank come in in the old days, you
Speaker 1: had to call the bank or it didn't count.
Speaker 4: George, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't know what neighborhood you came out of, now
Speaker 6: dreed what we counted going in, Well, we kind of
Speaker 6: going in. We didn't. We didn't wear a basket with
Speaker 6: the bank or what it was that sucker went in.
Speaker 6: It was good.
Speaker 1: We didn't take that it was good last night.
Speaker 6: And you, I mean you look at you, Jared, and
Speaker 6: I heard that and say something. But I thought in
Speaker 6: the Isle was a team that was hiding and playing
Speaker 6: view that nobody wanted to give respect. Anybody kept saying
Speaker 6: that they can't keep up the pace that they're doing.
Speaker 6: That back kept saying that Halliburton is not as good
Speaker 6: as he is, and they just kept showing you we
Speaker 6: beat the best of the best, and they beat anything
Speaker 6: in the East all year long, and and these comeback games.
Speaker 6: They've been doing this all series long. You know, I mean,
Speaker 6: Halliburton doesne hit five game winners. So if we can't
Speaker 6: say that this is something that we don't think that
Speaker 6: Inn Downa should do, and that I've said when I
Speaker 6: and I didn't get to talk to you on the show.
Speaker 6: But my my thing, and people was asking me, I said,
Speaker 6: whatever point guard has the best game will win the game.
Speaker 6: And what they boil down to last night, your boy
Speaker 6: hit the game winner, you know, I mean, I think
Speaker 6: these are some exciting point guard. These are both some
Speaker 6: exciting teams. I think this is gonna be one of
Speaker 6: the more exciting finals that we have with both team
Speaker 6: keep playing like they have been playing up to now.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, No, guys, it's a series now and it's definitely watchable.
Speaker 2: And the Pacers church.
Speaker 1: They walk people down, they walk teams down now, Coach
Speaker 1: Perritt yesterday, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 6: This is the one thing that I always hear people
Speaker 6: talk about, Well, you know, in time watchable, they're not
Speaker 6: star team. But Lebron James wasn't a start to again
Speaker 6: in his first playoff. Michael Jordan wasn't a star to again.
Speaker 6: You're gonna have new stars. It's gonna recycle the stars,
Speaker 6: so you gotta get ready to crush that. The same
Speaker 6: people can't play in every series, and it's gonna be
Speaker 6: so I'm ready for change, new players to take over
Speaker 6: the NBA.
Speaker 1: George, I'm ready for the change. You never heard me say, hey,
Speaker 1: Sga is a superstar. I'm ready for a change. People
Speaker 1: didn't want to give Halliburton complete credit. But I'm so
Speaker 1: ready for a change. Never heard that from me. I'm
Speaker 1: tired of the old school.
Speaker 6: You know, if you look at the biggest shows on
Speaker 6: ESPN and stuff, they are kind of full the station.
Speaker 3: They kind of do that.
Speaker 6: You know me, well, you know they think Lebron would
Speaker 6: play forever and then they want to retime when.
Speaker 3: You don't play right.
Speaker 1: Has to be the Yankees and the Dodgers, you know, George.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to see the Astros, and you know
Speaker 1: that's just people. I want to see the better teams.
Speaker 1: And OKAC in Indiana has they have the best young teams.
Speaker 3: In the league.
Speaker 2: They're going to be vulnerable for a long time. I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I'm so ready.
Speaker 6: So you know what, for you, I got one thing
Speaker 6: I want to jef, because you know, what we're not
Speaker 6: doing is giving these coaches credit for making adjustments, doing
Speaker 6: the game and getting their players to play like they play.
Speaker 6: I mean, I thought it was some outstanding coaching as
Speaker 6: well as I thought how my man substituted is players?
Speaker 6: Uh call out for Carl out did you know, some
Speaker 6: of the starts out early so they could be rested up,
Speaker 6: so the okay sees depth and the bench couldn't overtake us.
Speaker 6: I thought it was some very intellectual moves being made
Speaker 6: by those coaches last night.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, but both teams have benches, George, both tea,
Speaker 1: I know, but have true benches. That's the deal. And
Speaker 1: you gave of course. Okay, see when eleven deep the
Speaker 1: Pacers ten deep, and they got two players injured, George,
Speaker 1: they're playing Brian. They went ten deep with two players injured.
Speaker 1: So both teams are doing what most don't. They're playing
Speaker 1: multiple players. Both teams play crazy amount of players. So
Speaker 1: here's the deal. You're nine forty two in the game,
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and you're up ninety four to
Speaker 1: seventy nine. Everyone believes that OKAC is going to put
Speaker 1: the stranglehold on the Pacers and finish this thing plus
Speaker 1: twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, and so did I,
Speaker 1: So did I. From that point on, the Pacers outscore
Speaker 1: okay see thirty one to sixty in nine minutes. Thirty
Speaker 1: one points in nine minutes. So I'm asking you all
Speaker 1: throw it back to you. Anthony, did Okay See believe
Speaker 1: it was over and stopped playing, And the same thing
Speaker 1: that happened to the Knicks and the Bucks happened to them.
Speaker 1: The Pacers just continue to stay after you, stay after
Speaker 1: you stay after.
Speaker 2: You Or did the Pacers just play well? Anthony? Which one?
Speaker 2: Was it a letdown? Or should we give the Pacers
Speaker 2: credit it?
Speaker 4: I mean it could easily play a favor of both sides.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 5: That's tough to say because I think I don't think
Speaker 5: Okay Scene is necessarily let off the gas. I think
Speaker 5: the Indiana Pacers just have that factor to him that
Speaker 5: they've done on a lot of people. They've done to
Speaker 5: the Knicks, They've done to Okay See. You know, we've
Speaker 5: seen him do it to the Boston Celtics. It's I'm like,
Speaker 5: I feel like I've been the guy that's been very
Speaker 5: critical the Pacers lately, and I feel like sometimes I
Speaker 5: don't give them enough credit as what they're doing for.
Speaker 5: And I think this is one of those things of
Speaker 5: where that they have come out there and they have
Speaker 5: proved people that they can play in competitive games. They
Speaker 5: have that resilience factor and they have that ins factor,
Speaker 5: and I find it across the board. The Pacers are
Speaker 5: a hard team to consistently stop scoring because or they're
Speaker 5: evenly distributed scoring across the board. It's not necessarily that
Speaker 5: you cut off one superstar or their team doesn't function.
Speaker 5: The team can still run other offense. They can still
Speaker 5: score without Holiberg in the game. They do it a
Speaker 5: good job with nim Hard and McConnell. We've even seen
Speaker 5: Nie Smith come down and do it a couple of times,
Speaker 5: will come down and run the offense.
Speaker 4: And other teams do that as well too.
Speaker 5: But I still think if you take Sga out the
Speaker 5: game for Oka, see it's a little bit different looking
Speaker 5: than if you take Halliburton out for the Pacers. I
Speaker 5: think that's one of the big difference makers in this series.
Speaker 1: Great point, great point. That's a great segment. So George,
Speaker 1: I'm throwing it to you. Were you disappointed in Okac's
Speaker 1: defense the last nine minutes game of thirty one points?
Speaker 1: Or is Anthony correct the Pacers We're not even talking
Speaker 1: about the MVP of the East, the Larry Bird Award
Speaker 1: winner Pascal Siakam, who had nineteen points, But we're not
Speaker 1: even talking about him because.
Speaker 2: The Pacers are such a level deep team. Which one
Speaker 2: was it?
Speaker 6: George, Well, there, if you look at in down all year,
Speaker 6: they've been a solid team all year long. They've been
Speaker 6: in open view, beating all the best teams in the East.
Speaker 6: We didn't want to give them credit for beating Boston,
Speaker 6: beating New York. I mean, they've been doing what they've
Speaker 6: been doing all year long. But what we are so
Speaker 6: hung up on. We talk about the teams that we
Speaker 6: really like and not looking at the teams that are
Speaker 6: really coming on. So, you know, I think that they've been,
Speaker 6: in playing view, doing what they're doing right now to
Speaker 6: everybody in their league. But because of the media and
Speaker 6: how we like certain players and certain teams, we gravitate
Speaker 6: to those teams. And I think that's what happened, and
Speaker 6: in playing view, they just came through and did what
Speaker 6: they do. They've been a solid team all year. I
Speaker 6: think we didn't give them enough credit and they've proven
Speaker 6: us wrong right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, they are proving everyone wrong.
Speaker 6: There's no questions and answer questions. I'm sorry, but I
Speaker 6: thought that they did what great teams do. Jet they
Speaker 6: fought to the game was over, Like you said, the
Speaker 6: game isn't over, And I'm in times of coaches sayers,
Speaker 6: and people think it just coaches how play to the
Speaker 6: game is over till you hear the Fama buther. They
Speaker 6: played to the Fama buther, and the Fama buther, they
Speaker 6: was walking away with a victory.
Speaker 1: I wonder, guys, Anthony knows better than I about the
Speaker 1: gambling piece, George, and I don't know anything about the
Speaker 1: gambling piece, Anthony. But money the largest favorite, exactly, Pacer
Speaker 1: fans won some money. Okay See was the largest favorite
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs and over twenty five years, Anthony,
Speaker 1: I told your uncle, my brother, okay See an easy win.
Speaker 1: I did, He says, I believe Indiana is just gonna
Speaker 1: make enough shots. I'm like, no way, okay See will
Speaker 1: guard them. Well, Guys, before we go to our first break,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start talking about what truly happened in the game.
Speaker 1: One thing that happened is this forty seven point six,
Speaker 1: forty six point two, seventy one point four. The Pacer
Speaker 1: shot forty eight percent from the two, forty six percent
Speaker 1: from the three, and seventy one percent from the free
Speaker 1: throw line. George, they made shots. They're the best shooting
Speaker 1: team in the league. In the playoffs. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: the league. I haven't gone all the way back to
Speaker 1: eighty two. But in the playoffs, George, they made shots
Speaker 1: that nineteen turnovers, George Williams, I'm throwing it to you first,
Speaker 1: that nineteen turnovers. That's a record in the first half
Speaker 1: of a finals game ever and one. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: so many things, George, that are abnormal. Nineteen What do
Speaker 1: you think, man, come on nineteen?
Speaker 2: What? What? What?
Speaker 6: We We watched them do that in the New York series,
Speaker 6: go down nineteen you know, we've seen it several times
Speaker 6: in this playoff with them, and watch them come back
Speaker 6: and beat the team at the end of the game.
Speaker 6: That's how they stole the game from New York. You
Speaker 6: think they would down what? Uh can I eleventh with
Speaker 6: nine seconds ago? Came back and won that game, Yes,
Speaker 6: in New York. So I mean, having a whole half
Speaker 6: the play a game shouldn't be that difficult for them
Speaker 6: if you can do it in nine seconds, you know.
Speaker 6: And so somebody else's building. So I think they built
Speaker 6: for what they do, Jaed, and they prepare itself to
Speaker 6: play to the of the game. And like I say,
Speaker 6: when you play to the end, of the game. You
Speaker 6: never know what happened.
Speaker 1: Guys, We're gonna go to break and I'm coming back
Speaker 1: with you. The Pacers are three and zero opening game.
Speaker 1: They're winning on everyone's home court. They're stealing a game
Speaker 1: we consider I consider say stealing. George may be correct.
Speaker 1: They're in playing view. They're beating opponents every time they
Speaker 1: see them. They go on the road, they're consistent, they
Speaker 1: get behind, they play from behind, and they win.
Speaker 2: Is E Sports Radio seven to twenty one. We got
Speaker 2: a lot of sports to get to.
Speaker 1: Of course, we got the super Region those Anton He's
Speaker 1: got all the national news we'll be talking about, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna stay with this game. There's so much to
Speaker 1: talk about. I'm still jealous, George Williams.
Speaker 2: You know this.
Speaker 1: The last time Anthony I was watching the Indiana Pacers closely,
Speaker 1: other than when I was playing in the league or
Speaker 1: coaching in the league, was when my Kentucky Colonels beat
Speaker 1: them in seventy five for the ABA Championship. George, I'm
Speaker 1: still man. I don't care what anyone says. Easworts Radio
Speaker 1: will be back after the break. Welcome back to EVE
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. June sixth, twenty twenty five. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: it's seven twenty five.
Speaker 2: Let's get to work. We've got to call the guys.
Speaker 2: We're gonna throw it to him. But George, if people
Speaker 2: do not know besketball, let's educate them really quickly.
Speaker 1: And Anthony, if the Pacers out rebound OKC fifty six
Speaker 1: to thirty nine, they're gonna win the NBA Championship, period,
Speaker 1: point blank. That's all there is to it. So we
Speaker 1: got a person for you, George and Anthony. I'm ready
Speaker 1: to be insulted again.
Speaker 2: Bring on Brandon to the.
Speaker 3: Show Man Radio.
Speaker 7: I'm great, a great man. Good morning, mister Eves and George.
Speaker 7: I want to I want to again really thank you
Speaker 7: for coming on the show and brightening up the writings
Speaker 7: in the day. And it is slow refreshing, George to
Speaker 7: hear a wealth of knowledge from you, and I really
Speaker 7: appreciate you coming on the air. And also good morning to.
Speaker 3: Jerry and I hope everybody's doing great today.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to say something, George. You know I
Speaker 7: heard him complaining about the bank shop going in. Yes,
Speaker 7: you know what what it sounds like to me is
Speaker 7: you know he went to the car shop the other day,
Speaker 7: and he's got an ok SE license plate now on
Speaker 7: the front of his car, and and and what the
Speaker 7: what the problem is?
Speaker 3: George?
Speaker 7: Is I thankful the guy told him that he's wearing
Speaker 7: batteries out in his car because he's got like fifteen
Speaker 7: license plates like the James hit a button and the
Speaker 7: license plates rotate, George to whoever's winning. That's who he
Speaker 7: puts on the front of his car.
Speaker 6: You know, we call him double O.
Speaker 3: Double O. That's right, that's right. And I think, what
Speaker 3: of this.
Speaker 7: Jerry's getting frustrated buying new car batteries all the time
Speaker 7: to go in front of that car he is, and uh,
Speaker 7: he's a little up that because okay, see may get
Speaker 7: beat and uh, I think he's got a problem with
Speaker 7: that bank shot. Even though George and the stat line,
Speaker 7: does it still look like a Swiss from thirty feet
Speaker 7: when if it banks in or not?
Speaker 6: I think so blended, I think so I've never heard.
Speaker 7: That call the bank that well, that's my point. At
Speaker 7: the end of the day, it goes into set buck
Speaker 7: as a Swiss on the George, yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 7: That well, that's what I was thinking, because see that
Speaker 7: tells me that's a sord grape gambler there.
Speaker 3: That Jerry's you know, acting like he don't gamble or nothing.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 7: He's he's upset, George because that licen place, He's going
Speaker 7: to burn up a battery.
Speaker 3: So that's the whole end of his deal, you know.
Speaker 6: And he just costs his brother some money trying to
Speaker 6: give him some advice on out the bet his brother
Speaker 6: and now out about thousand dollars because he talks Jay
Speaker 6: knew what he were talking about.
Speaker 7: Well, if anybody's ever listened to this show, George, you know,
Speaker 7: getting well the bet opposite of what he says.
Speaker 6: You know that that's well, his brother won some money
Speaker 6: last night. He knows that too. I'm sorry, brother, wasn't
Speaker 6: somebody last night? Thanks brother, He's like gonna buy you.
Speaker 7: Up at the end of the day, Jerry, Hey, guys,
Speaker 7: I wanted to ask you all something and all honesty here.
Speaker 3: Isn't it a shame that we don't have an NBA
Speaker 3: team here in Louisville? You know, you look, you just
Speaker 3: look at the.
Speaker 7: Pregame up there in Indiana, the excitement that generated in
Speaker 7: that town up there, and you know.
Speaker 3: We we could have had that here. We really could have.
Speaker 3: And it's a shame.
Speaker 7: It's a real shame that our city missed out on
Speaker 7: that because I don't care what anybody says. This area
Speaker 7: would have supported that because they're basketball crazy and it
Speaker 7: would have gone over. But can you imagine if Louisville
Speaker 7: would have a team right now in that championship?
Speaker 3: How good that be?
Speaker 6: Blended? Think about this? Think about this. Think about how
Speaker 6: many UK ballplayers are now in the league. You know,
Speaker 6: a back that Louisville couldn't have supported. They how many
Speaker 6: fans would have came from UK Tennessee. I mean, I
Speaker 6: mean just think where we had. If you couldn't get
Speaker 6: a ticket in uh in Annapolis, you can come to Louisville.
Speaker 6: You couldn't get a ticket in Memphis.
Speaker 3: You come to Louisville.
Speaker 6: You could get a ticket in Cleveland. You could come
Speaker 6: to Louisville. I mean, it's had so many attributes to
Speaker 6: make so much money for the city. It's I'm real, blending,
Speaker 6: you are so right.
Speaker 7: Well, the thing the thing to me that's so the
Speaker 7: thing to mean, you guys, that's so criminal is all
Speaker 7: these little businesses that that are are that are tied
Speaker 7: into the young center with that teriff or whatever that
Speaker 7: tax thing deal.
Speaker 3: Whatever it is. When they make revenue, Yah.
Speaker 2: They're called TIFFs, blending, they're called tis.
Speaker 7: Well, you know what they're called that. You don't have
Speaker 7: to get smart with me. You're just still mad because
Speaker 7: of that life and plate. I know how you operate.
Speaker 3: But but but.
Speaker 7: But the thing is, you, guys, on a serious note here,
Speaker 7: we lost out on something that can never be replaced
Speaker 7: now and it's really criminal because of the.
Speaker 3: Money it would have generated and just the excitement for
Speaker 3: the city. I mean, it would have.
Speaker 7: Brought downtown, would have been hopping last night if we'd
Speaker 7: had a game.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine that?
Speaker 1: No, I mean, honestly, George and little young Anthony, guys.
Speaker 1: People do not want to admit nor speak about around
Speaker 1: here what the leadership did. They don't And if you
Speaker 1: don't talk about it, it can repeat itself. Well, it
Speaker 1: happened in seventy five, then it repeated itself again in
Speaker 1: the two thousands. We better talk about it so that
Speaker 1: if we ever get another shot. Community, don't listen to
Speaker 1: your selfish leaders that are lining their pockets and not yours, period,
Speaker 1: point blank. George, is criminal that we do not have
Speaker 1: a professional basketball team in this city.
Speaker 6: And Jared, what makes it even more criminal. We were
Speaker 6: one of the top teams in the league when voted yes,
Speaker 6: trying to find ourselves. We were one of the best
Speaker 6: teams in the league when it folded exactly.
Speaker 1: Don't forget it was an exhibition game, I know, but
Speaker 1: the Colonels beat Butcher's Golden State team. Though Butch was gone,
Speaker 1: he was with the Knicks then he had been traded.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line, we should community listen to why
Speaker 1: we're telling you this, Jerry, because ten to fifteen years
Speaker 1: from now to second George, ten fifteen years from now,
Speaker 1: we may get another opportunity. Youm Center's not gonna be
Speaker 1: brand new, squeaky clean and one of the best in
Speaker 1: the country, but we may get another opportunity. The NBA
Speaker 1: is talking about expansion. We know Las Vegas, George, and Seattle.
Speaker 1: That's where the next two teams are going. But team three,
Speaker 1: we better start lining ourselves up to get it and
Speaker 1: not listen to these awful leaders George.
Speaker 2: Awful leadership. Go ahead, George, I'm sorry, awful leadership, like.
Speaker 6: You say, Jerry, And think about that rivalry between and
Speaker 6: Down and Kentucky Jay at that time, how big it was?
Speaker 6: I mean all to say to Kentucky, would it came
Speaker 6: for that game last night when it was the Colonels.
Speaker 6: It wasn't like U of l UK. Everybody supported the Colonels,
Speaker 6: you know, And that would have been I would have
Speaker 6: been so And we're not talking about other people coming
Speaker 6: to the game that night, just a here in the
Speaker 6: city that Rivey would have been off the charge last night,
Speaker 6: like you said, blended off the charge. The city would
Speaker 6: have been sold out.
Speaker 7: Well, and you and you know something else, George and
Speaker 7: Jerry and Anthony. There's revenue there that we lost out
Speaker 7: on that can.
Speaker 3: Never be replaced. Come on, man, and it and it's
Speaker 3: in the billions.
Speaker 7: And if you think I'm making that number up, the
Speaker 7: only thing you gotta do is is look into the
Speaker 7: Oklahoma City Chamber of Converse at their revenue stream and
Speaker 7: they'll show you the money that that team has generated
Speaker 7: since they've been there.
Speaker 6: Well, I given another building blended. Think about San Antonio another?
Speaker 3: Well, how about Memphis, George, Look at Memphis. They're no
Speaker 3: bigger than us.
Speaker 2: Guys, never won it for what it? Yes of them?
Speaker 7: Four of them guys, Hey, George, I wonder.
Speaker 1: If the Pacers Denver and San Antonio were the fourteens
Speaker 1: and we had won we the Colonels won it in
Speaker 1: seventy five and did not go first.
Speaker 2: Mistaken.
Speaker 6: That was John Brown's Blendings trying to talk to me.
Speaker 6: Could you hold up a minute.
Speaker 1: No, No has already called me. I can't even get
Speaker 1: called my dad's name.
Speaker 7: George, No, No, And real quick and closing, George, I'd
Speaker 7: like to tell you about about Jerry.
Speaker 3: One last thing.
Speaker 7: You remember when the pope got we had a new pope,
Speaker 7: and they had the white smoke coming out.
Speaker 3: Of the chimney over there.
Speaker 7: Yes, look well you know, you know, and out in
Speaker 7: Prospect they see white smoke coming out of Jerry's chimney
Speaker 7: when he's burning license plates.
Speaker 3: A king he used to lie.
Speaker 7: And all the neighbors are out walking there, little all
Speaker 7: the neighbors are walking their little dogs out there, and
Speaker 7: they see the white smoke coming out of there all
Speaker 7: the time because he's burning the Cincinnati Reds and the
Speaker 7: Cubs and and uh okay, okay, see license plates. And
Speaker 7: I hope you'll have a good day.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Blessing all was a pleasure.
Speaker 2: It's not it's not a pleasure, Anthony.
Speaker 6: Wisdom.
Speaker 2: No, Anthony, what did you do to that man? Seriously?
Speaker 3: And I didn't do it?
Speaker 4: No, No, don't blame me. Don't blame me. I have
Speaker 4: nothing to do with that.
Speaker 1: Blended is gone. He's a bruin and he's gone crazy,
Speaker 1: and everyone knows. Ladies say, you do not know if
Speaker 1: you bank it in in street ball, oh, you better
Speaker 1: call the bank or it does not count. The bank
Speaker 1: shot does not count. You can't shoot it and accidentally
Speaker 1: skip it off the backboard in and consider it good
Speaker 1: if you don't call the bank.
Speaker 2: George.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I think that was a I think that
Speaker 6: has a clock, George around the country.
Speaker 1: George, you had to you had to call the bank anyway, Guys,
Speaker 1: seven thirty four. You know it though, George, Anthony, this
Speaker 1: incredible stats. The Pacers maul them on the board, fifty
Speaker 1: six rebounds to thirty nine. The Pacers have twenty four
Speaker 1: assists to d four turnovers. George, so they negated every
Speaker 1: turnover with an assist. Okay, so he's got thirteen to
Speaker 1: six systs to six turnovers. The game doesn't make sense
Speaker 1: other than the Pacers find a way to win and
Speaker 1: we wanted to give him credit for that.
Speaker 6: What ja I think you just said it. You know,
Speaker 6: the turnover was even. But when you when you have
Speaker 6: rebounded team and the score dictated, when you have rebounded
Speaker 6: team like they did, that's why they made the difference up.
Speaker 6: That's how they would make a way to get to
Speaker 6: come back, so they dominate the I heard Bill Russell
Speaker 6: say almost for every rebound, you should give a guy
Speaker 6: at least one point. And you're talking about.
Speaker 1: What it ends team's possessions, George, multiple shots. If you
Speaker 1: all remember the Knicks almost beat the Pacers because they
Speaker 1: were rebounding the ball offensively like crazy, not last night.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: So when we come back, George, Anthony you got the
Speaker 1: national Nope, we're not going Anthony. You're got the national
Speaker 1: news hit us or we'll never get to it.
Speaker 2: What do we have today? What is going on?
Speaker 5: We got, we got, We got everything that you could
Speaker 5: possibly ask for. Obviously, we already got into the Pacers
Speaker 5: upset of the thunder last night. Even in getting into
Speaker 5: the woman's softball side. Juxas Tech did tie the series
Speaker 5: last night, and its sex is four to three, so
Speaker 5: they'll be forcing his game three for the Woman's College
Speaker 5: World Series tonight as well. We got a lot of
Speaker 5: baseball going on us is a lot of baseball, basketball
Speaker 5: and hockey time, obviously even in the high school segment.
Speaker 4: Because I still won't forget about them, we still have
Speaker 4: to throw.
Speaker 5: It in there.
Speaker 4: Trinity did beat me counting twelve to two yesterday, so
Speaker 4: they'll move on to the next round.
Speaker 3: Pr PLEA.
Speaker 1: Hold a band. They got up t and George, they
Speaker 1: had to stop the game. Trinity, the dark side was
Speaker 1: getting ready to beat them twenty runs.
Speaker 3: They got a mercy.
Speaker 2: Rule, George, they got a mercy.
Speaker 6: I'm a it's using on that sideline. Get beat like
Speaker 6: it getting me out of the.
Speaker 1: No, George, you know it's not true. You have to
Speaker 1: take the good in the bad. They shouldn't have that rule.
Speaker 1: You should have to play the entire game. George, I
Speaker 1: don't care. You have to get better. Darryl Griffiths was
Speaker 1: light years better than I was. George, you just have
Speaker 1: to keep trying. I don't like those kettle rules, but
Speaker 1: keep it going. Ay, I don't get to make the rules, George.
Speaker 6: I notice.
Speaker 1: Ay, But George, you know that we've talked about a
Speaker 1: trophy for every kid mercy, George, the.
Speaker 6: Game is supposed to be fourth quarters.
Speaker 2: It's four quarters back.
Speaker 6: I hate to cut that now, but back up, Jesse.
Speaker 6: You just sitting me a thing last night with the
Speaker 6: NCAA is trying to raise it up. Seventy six seventy
Speaker 6: age sixty nine day. That's not a participation trophy. I
Speaker 6: wanted to cut it down. I want you to have
Speaker 6: to earn to get to the NCAA Championship. You're gonna
Speaker 6: raise it up so more teams can get in. Participation trophy. Jerry,
Speaker 6: if you four, you don't need to get in.
Speaker 2: George anthy idea. That is so TRYE sent you on
Speaker 2: a clip.
Speaker 1: The NCAA is thinking about raising the teams and the
Speaker 1: men's basketball just like football. George, point will take it soon.
Speaker 1: Every team will be in. Let's just stop saying tournament.
Speaker 1: Let's just say end of the season, round robin. Because
Speaker 1: you're right, George, it is turning into a participation trophy.
Speaker 1: Everybody will I agree, Hi, George, I ston't agree.
Speaker 2: Continue Anthony with the National News.
Speaker 5: No, of course, and obviously PRP does play Corbyn to
Speaker 5: night at six pm for their first round game as well,
Speaker 5: so face PRP and then obviously we do have our
Speaker 5: super reguils.
Speaker 1: Yes, so the PRP upset Trinity last year, so PRP
Speaker 1: can get it done. So let's watch. I'm pulling for PRP.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows I'm a public school guy. I'm sorry Trinity
Speaker 1: saying Xavier, I love you, but I'm a public school
Speaker 1: guy and I'm staying there. So George, my license plate
Speaker 1: is not flippy. I'm going for PRP. Second upset, back
Speaker 1: to back here, I know.
Speaker 6: A young man on PIP. I have to go on them.
Speaker 3: Also, Jay, there you go, there you go?
Speaker 1: All right, any let's move into the super regionals. Hey, George,
Speaker 1: where's Kentucky in the super regions?
Speaker 6: George, we're building a new stadium, Jared, We'll be back
Speaker 6: next year.
Speaker 3: We gotta go homework, you.
Speaker 1: Maye, George, Let's give but let's give man the only
Speaker 1: credit he's been series he's been to the super region
Speaker 1: I mean Kentucky's last three years.
Speaker 2: You got to give him credit. You have to give
Speaker 2: him credit, just like I've gave George.
Speaker 1: You were with me, but I said that'd been after
Speaker 1: Dann McDonald and on Tuesday and Wednesday, I gave him credit.
Speaker 1: His team's in the super Regional and has a chance
Speaker 1: George defeat Miami.
Speaker 2: Advance today an advance, so you.
Speaker 6: Have to George.
Speaker 2: But they're at home against Miami.
Speaker 1: No one thought that they'd have a Super Region in
Speaker 1: Louisville when this thing started.
Speaker 2: No one.
Speaker 1: So I mean they got a legitimate chance. I'm sure
Speaker 1: the place will be a sellout, So go ahead and
Speaker 1: he finishes up.
Speaker 2: National news.
Speaker 4: Obviously we got that going on.
Speaker 5: So we do have their first round of the Super
Speaker 5: Regional that they played tonight.
Speaker 4: They played a day, they.
Speaker 5: Played Miami at three o'clock office out of Jim Patterson Stadium,
Speaker 5: as well a couple other things we do have on there.
Speaker 5: The Panthers and the Oilers do play the night at
Speaker 5: eight for their game too.
Speaker 4: The Oilers are up one to zero in that series
Speaker 4: for the Stanley Cup title.
Speaker 5: Then also the Woman's French Open Championship will be featuring
Speaker 5: Cocoa cal An Area's areas of Blink in the Night
Speaker 5: as well, so they were playing. They played earlier on
Speaker 5: the day because they're playing in a different country, so
Speaker 5: the time is a little bit different, so they'll be
Speaker 5: playing probably in a couple of hours.
Speaker 1: Blinka gets her George, I think so Blinka gets her,
Speaker 1: but I pulit for Coco without a doubt.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a tough one.
Speaker 5: And obviously, my and my dad's favorite quarterback signed to
Speaker 5: the Steelers yesterday. Aaron I had to throw it out there.
Speaker 5: He's a he's a huge fan.
Speaker 1: No, he's not going to the Cowboys. I'm sorry, guys.
Speaker 1: He is one of the top three quarterback four No.
Speaker 1: Five of all time.
Speaker 6: He's a Super Bowl hand your dad got about?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that? George?
Speaker 3: What's that?
Speaker 2: George? What did you say?
Speaker 6: What did you say? You got about a pro football team?
Speaker 6: You know what you got Cincinnata, You've got New England.
Speaker 6: I don't know who you got.
Speaker 2: I'll take my Browns back before I take I can't.
Speaker 1: But the only thing I'm saying we're going about Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is, guys, father time is undisputed. Ask Ali, Ask
Speaker 1: everyone who's tried to do it. Ask Lebron James.
Speaker 2: Father Time's undisputed, everyweight champion.
Speaker 6: That's all I'm saying. I back, you got back up,
Speaker 6: back up? Okay, you said I know five the time done, lady,
Speaker 6: and back get back. But if Lebron's doing the them
Speaker 6: young boys with Lebron doing them your boys, some of
Speaker 6: them should retire, all right.
Speaker 2: George, you can keep Lebron, you can have him.
Speaker 3: All you want.
Speaker 6: I understand it. But Jeff, you can have him all
Speaker 6: you want. You got eight old superstars and this guy's
Speaker 6: coming in and average still forty. I mean twenty one
Speaker 6: is a game, and then almost tend to sist.
Speaker 2: Come on, man, George, that one more time. I can't
Speaker 2: stand it.
Speaker 1: He flopped one more time, George, I'm gonna put him
Speaker 1: on all clown team if he flops one more time,
Speaker 1: fakes getting hit, George, I'm gonna put him on all
Speaker 1: clown teams.
Speaker 2: Don't do that, George, you're a boy and.
Speaker 6: The JA you're talking about young boys that cannot outscore
Speaker 6: on Lebron James out hold him. Come on now, man, old.
Speaker 2: Answer my question and you play.
Speaker 1: You played when you well, you were there probably when
Speaker 1: Rick Wilson hit me in the George Crawford, Jim Green
Speaker 1: Layers don't flop, George.
Speaker 2: Great players don't flop. You know that.
Speaker 6: Come on, man, Hey, hey, Ja, you you do what
Speaker 6: it takes the score?
Speaker 2: Were you going to call that?
Speaker 1: Sports Radio seven forty two, Rick, you gotta run two segments.
Speaker 1: We'll be back after the breaks. Welcome back to Eve
Speaker 1: Sports Radio.
Speaker 2: June the sixth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: It's Friday. Thank god it's Friday. We got another caller,
Speaker 1: but we got to get some news out of the way.
Speaker 1: George and Anthony. Simmons College Golf Outing is Monday the ninth. George,
Speaker 1: we are doing the show. Anthony. We're gonna do the
Speaker 1: show Monday morning. We're gonna play best of on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: I'll beat it.
Speaker 1: We'll all be tired, George. We're all gonna be at
Speaker 1: the tournament, so we'll be on Monday morning. Simmons College
Speaker 1: Golf Outing starts at eleven. Of course, we've got great guests.
Speaker 1: As everyone knows. I've got to get out, George. I
Speaker 1: had Tony Dilk called in yesterday. He put out a challenge, George.
Speaker 1: He's got Kentucky. Sure did TD MVP of the championship.
Speaker 1: The Kentucky players are gonna play the Louisville players in
Speaker 1: a golf match at Big Springs on September fifteenth. And
Speaker 1: we have Dami in Lee's golf outing in July at
Speaker 1: the Cardinal Club that we'll be announcing, so three golf classics,
Speaker 1: all trying to raise money for great causes. Now, don't forget.
Speaker 1: We have got the Belmont tomorrow. George, You've got sovereignty
Speaker 1: and journalism locked up again. So everybody be watching that
Speaker 1: on Saturday. And now we're gonna throw it to Johnny. Johnny,
Speaker 1: welcome to you, Jared. How are you doing, Johnny?
Speaker 8: Hey, I'm great in yourself.
Speaker 1: Hey, Johnny, I'm dealing with George, Anthony and Bland and
Speaker 1: so you know how I'm doing today?
Speaker 3: Oh, I know that's hard.
Speaker 8: That's hard news right there. Hey, I was listening yesterday
Speaker 8: and you're talking about Timbodeau and you say, you know,
Speaker 8: he got him fired. I think the Pacers might get
Speaker 8: another coach fired. I think the Pacers are the one
Speaker 8: getting the coaches fired. Okay, see, losing this therething might.
Speaker 2: Get rid of that guy, you think, so, oh god
Speaker 2: the mule.
Speaker 3: Will that be something now?
Speaker 9: And you also mentioned, uh, you mentioned about Worldwide West
Speaker 9: being at uh at the next What if he gets
Speaker 9: his right hand man to come up there at count
Speaker 9: Part and they just loaded up with a bunch of
Speaker 9: Kentucky players.
Speaker 2: Well here we go again. Let me explain George.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we were talking about the Knicks, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you this, Worldwide West is a connector. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I've known him when he was sleeping on Milt Wagner's floor.
Speaker 1: I'm just being honest with you. Oh guys, that's where
Speaker 1: Way and Westley got started. Okay, with college and he
Speaker 1: had Nike and Phil Knight backing him. He had a
Speaker 1: lot of influence. All I'm asking you, other than a
Speaker 1: great trade that sent one Kentucky player to Mini Minnesota
Speaker 1: and brought a Kentucky player in Towns to the Knicks,
Speaker 1: we're all these great players that everybody said would want
Speaker 1: to play and work with Worldwide West. Guys, I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you. Everybody's got money in the NBA. There is
Speaker 1: no connection, There is no favorite anymore. Everyone's going, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm George Williams said it.
Speaker 3: All that's a conspiracy theory exactly.
Speaker 2: But those days are over.
Speaker 1: Even if world Wide West left the Knicks, his influence
Speaker 1: in college is not the same. Everyone has money now,
Speaker 1: got me.
Speaker 2: He's not the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's what I meant when I was talking
Speaker 1: about Worldwide yesterday.
Speaker 6: Well, well, Jerry, I think you really on the ESSAMAC
Speaker 6: world Wide West hasn't been well in my opinion. Okay,
Speaker 6: you take a team that hasn't been to the playoffs
Speaker 6: in twenty five years. You look at all the different
Speaker 6: people helped to run that franchise. Them guys have come
Speaker 6: up in four or five years, they turned it back
Speaker 6: and they've made New York relevant again. I understand what
Speaker 6: you're talking about. Everybody's even with money, but the relevancy
Speaker 6: of what they put together up in New York is
Speaker 6: really something to be watched that I think. The only
Speaker 6: team that I think has been put together and done
Speaker 6: a great job like that is you got to say
Speaker 6: your OKAC team. You know what I mean? Because nobody
Speaker 6: wanted to go to New York had nobody and then
Speaker 6: in about four or five years, them young men have
Speaker 6: come up and made them relevant again. New York can
Speaker 6: team that we're all talking about right now.
Speaker 1: George, back to back fifty win seasons. I give them
Speaker 1: credit for that. Got me, But let me just give
Speaker 1: you the facts. Mike Woodson won fifty games with the
Speaker 1: Knicks and lost his job.
Speaker 3: Yes he did. I didn't.
Speaker 6: I didn't say that. I said world Wide West.
Speaker 2: There was no world Wide West there either.
Speaker 6: Mike fifty didn't even have back to back fifty game
Speaker 6: season leader jail. You you get this team where they
Speaker 6: haven't been in twenty five, you gotta give credit. When
Speaker 6: credit is done, you can't say, oh, well they didn't
Speaker 6: do this, but look what they put together. You know
Speaker 6: they haven't been.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them back to back. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: them back to back. I'll give them back to running
Speaker 1: for five years.
Speaker 6: So I give back to bat. But again, we got
Speaker 6: a hundred wins.
Speaker 2: So does Tippoteau have anything to do with that or No,
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 6: I didn't say that. I was talking about world Wide
Speaker 6: West and give them credit. I did Sayeau, Okay, I
Speaker 6: say I didn't think he should allowed the job.
Speaker 2: The job, Oh what gotcha? So we'll give the we'll
Speaker 2: give the pay, We'll give the next organization a little credit.
Speaker 6: That's what I'm doing a little.
Speaker 1: But what I said yesterday, George so and Johnny knows
Speaker 1: we were talking about great players in the connection. Randall
Speaker 1: left the Knicks and went to Minnesota and car Anthony
Speaker 1: Towns came. Bridges came from New Jersey, had won New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Haven't been in the playoff in life Dallas Mavericks. Yes,
Speaker 1: the young fellow Jalen went a long way with the
Speaker 1: Mavericks so came together. Yes, they gave the Mavericks. Didn't
Speaker 1: think that he could help win take a team far.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is, George, when you're talking about
Speaker 1: everyone said they were gonna get all the great Kentucky players,
Speaker 1: That's what I was talking about yesterday.
Speaker 2: I'm just naming you too, that's all. I'm saying. Them
Speaker 2: all running the Knicks.
Speaker 6: We know that can't be possible. Just the way the
Speaker 6: contracts were made up.
Speaker 1: They only had two, and we were talking about we
Speaker 1: were talking about world wide West and connection with Kentucky
Speaker 1: and what they would take when he got hired to
Speaker 1: the Knicks.
Speaker 2: Been two, that's all.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 2: So when you said about one of my rest.
Speaker 6: We get out of the credit can players we won,
Speaker 6: then we win the championship.
Speaker 2: There you go. I'm glad you said that, not me.
Speaker 3: Don't call me, I mean real j.
Speaker 6: Don't get me wrong, but you ain't gotten up. You
Speaker 6: ain't got enough players got you.
Speaker 1: So, Johnny, what do you think pacers get it done?
Speaker 4: I'm pulling for him.
Speaker 8: I'd like to see it We went to uh uh
Speaker 8: ay being a game. I guess it was seventy five.
Speaker 8: I was probably ten, and I don't remember much about it.
Speaker 8: I used to have a program from the ball game,
Speaker 8: and I don't know what happened to it over the years.
Speaker 4: But the place was packed.
Speaker 8: And we had a great time.
Speaker 4: I remember that.
Speaker 8: Uh this is a funny story, now.
Speaker 2: Any I've only got ten seconds. Hit it quick, ten seconds.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 8: I was at the Louisville Gardens and I saw the
Speaker 8: Louisville Shooters play. It was Milt Wagner, Jerome Harmon, and
Speaker 8: Barry Sumter.
Speaker 1: There you go, great call, Johnny, you have a great time. George,
Speaker 1: I'll see you Monday. Anthony, I'll see you Monday. Everybody
Speaker 1: show up at Big Spring. Eleven am is tea time.
Speaker 1: Talk to you all Monday.